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Chapter 4

Kiara sat in the plane room working on the X-Tornado alone. Just then Sonic walked into the room. "Kiara, what are you doing?" Kiara jerked her head toward him cuz he scared her. "You're not supposed to be messing with Tails' ships!"

"But..." Kiara started but Sonic cut her off.

"No buts."

--a few minutes later in the plane room--

Everyone, except Tails who was inside the X-Tornado looking for what she did, was gathered around Kiara and she looked a little ashamed. "You know better than to mess with Tails' things, especially when its one of his rockets that could hurt someone if something went wrong." Gabbriella told her. Knuckles didn't say a word, but he did look angry. He stood beside Gabbriella with his arms crossed and his eyes closed. "Now...go to your room for the rest of the day!" Kiara looked as if she was going to say something and then stopped and did as her mother told her. Tails looked at the inside of the X-Tornado to see what she did. He saw something different in the back.

"What's that?" He took a closer look at it and then a few minutes later came out of the ship.

"What's the damage?" Sonic asked.

"Absolutely nothing! In fact, it's better than before!" Tails told them. "She did make changes to the ship, but they'll help us. She installed a new cannon that is powered by her power and is just as powerful as the Sonic Cannon. She also made it so that the X-Tornado can be camouflaged into any background and she installed an auto pilot system with an automatic tracking device!" Gabbriella and Knuckles looked at each other. "I think we owe Kiara an apology."

"What do you mean we? I owe Kiara the apology, getting onto her for something she didn't do." Gabbriella said sadly.

"Me too, that must have been what she tried to tell me earlier, but I didn't listen." Sonic said shyly. Gabbriella and Sonic started toward the door.

"Wait!" Tails shouted making the two stop. "Maybe there's a better way to do it." Tails put his hand to his chin and thought.

--later that day in Kiara's room--

'Why did they get on to me?' Kiara thought as she laid on her bed and stared at the ceiling. 'I didn't do anything. I was only trying to help.' Kiara sighed and sat up. "Ah, who'm I kiddin', I'll never be good enough for those guys. I'm useless, every time I try to help it ends up blowing back up in my face." Kiara said as she sighed again. Just then she heard a knock on the door. She stood up and opened the door. No one was there! She looked both ways down the hall and only saw a strange shadow walk into the bridge. Kiara then walked down the hall with a determined look on her face and her fists clenched tightly ready to fight when needed to. She walked slowly down to the bridge and the door opened automatically. The lights were turned off, but that didn't stop Kiara from finding out who that guy was. She flicked up the lights and everyone, except Tails, popped up.

"SURPRISE!" Everyone yelled.

"Wha? What's all this for?" Kiara asked.

"It's...to say...we're sorry..." Gabbriella started, "And to say thank you."

"Tails found the improvements in the X-Tornado and he thought it would be a good idea to throw a party."

"So...you guys did this?" Kiara said looking at all the beautiful decorations around the bridge.

"We didn't." Knuckles started.

"Tails did." Gabbriella finished for him.

"Where is he?" Kiara asked.

"He's getting the rest of the decorations, he told us to go ahead and bring you in."

"Where is he?" Kiara repeated.

"He's in the plane room, why?" Sonic asked.

"I'll be right back." Kiara walked out of the room and everyone looked at each other and shrugged. Kiara walked into the plane room and saw Tails. He was on the other side of the room carrying a few too many boxes and he was about to fall over with all of them. Right when he was about to fall, Kiara caught them all with one hand, but Tails fell anyway without them. He looked up at her and smiled as she helped him up. "You ok?" Kiara asked.

"I think so." Tails said as he started to dust himself off. "Thanks." Kiara set the boxes gently on the floor. "What are you doing in here, you should be in the bridge."

"I wanted to thank you...you know...for the party."

"Thank me? I should be thanking you! Do you know how long i've tried to try to put a tracking system in the X-Tornado?"

"Oh, that was nothing."

"Are you kidding! You could save us one day for that!" Tails yelled with excitement.

"Yeah." Kiara chuckled a blushed a little, making Tails do the same.

"I was wondering..." Tails said very slowly as he scratched the back of his head looking at the ground. "You know...the meteor shower's in a few days and I was wondering...if...uh...you'd...like..to go...with me?" Kiara looked surprised. Tails didn't normally act this way, he was normally all shy and here he is just coming out in the open. Kiara smiled and nodded. "Really?"

"Well...yeah." Tails laughed. After a few minutes of silence Tails grabbed 2 of the boxes.

"Could you get the rest for me?" Kiara picked up the other 2 and followed Tails back to the bridge.

--in the bridge of Eggman's ship--

"So...how are we going to get her to join us? Her father's Knuckles and for sure he would kill us if we even thought about kidnapping Kiara." Bocoe told Dr. Eggman.

"And with Gabbriella and Sonic backing Knuckles up, we would certainly be in big trouble!" Docoe said quivering.

"Oh, keep your bolts on!" Eggman shouted at the two robots. He turned back around to a large container. Inside was a black cat in some kind of green liquid. On his chest was a triangle shaped fur mark and a white tip on the end of his tail.

"What is that, doctor?" Docoe asked.

"This is my greatest invention ever! His name is Loki and he will help us get Kiara." Eggman told them.

"How will he do that?" Bocoe asked.

"He can protect us with his great power and is clever enough to lure Kiara away right from under their noses. But I have to finish first, and I can't very well do that if YOU TWO KEEP TALKING!"

"Sorry doctor." The two said simultaniously.

--in another room on Eggman's ship--

Shadow sat on the couch with his feet propped up on the table in front of him with his eyes closed. 'How could she have done that? No one has ever gotten that close to beating me before! If the doctor didn't step in, I probably would've been killed. How could a seven year old come so close to beating me? The ultimate life form!' Shadow thought. Shadow sighed and opened his eyes. Just then Rouge walked in.

"Still thinking about that fight with Kiara?" Rouge asked.

"Yeah...I don't understand. How could someone so little...so young...posses so much power? Even Sonic himself hasn't gotten that close to defeating me...that was her first time in a real fight and it was against me! And she nearly beat me..." Shadow looked a little dissappointed.

"Don't worry about it...I'm sure lots of people come close to almost being defeated by a 7yr old!" Rouge said sarcastically.

"Shockingly, this isn't making me feel any better."

"Oh, quit being such a jerk! Just because you're a little embarrased cuz you nearly got your butt kicked by a 7yr old, does not mean you can take it out on me!" Shadow looked surprised. No one had ever yelled at him before. He simply closed his eyes and lowered his head. Rouge turned right around and walked out the door. Shadow sighed again.

--back on the Blue Typhoon--

Kiara was exploring part of the ship she had never seen before, alone. She saw a room that said 'Engine' on it. She opened it slowly and was amazed! Right there in the center of the room was the biggest jewel she had ever seen! "What is that thing?" Just then her father walked into the room to check on the Master Emerald and saw her.

"Kiara! What are you doing in here?" Knuckles asked. Kiara turned quickly.

"I was just...uh..." Knuckles sighed.

"I guess I should tell you, huh?"

"What is this thing, daddy?" Kiara turned back toward the Master Emerald.

"Well...It started back a long time ago. Back on my homeland, Angel Island..."