Happy new years everybody! Hope you guys have a happy new year and to start off the year 2006 here's the 5th chapter to the story!

Chapter 5

Knuckles and Kiara were in the bridge and Knuckles was showing her some of his hand to hand combat moves. Kiara stood smiling watching him as Tails walks up and stands beside Kiara and they smile at each other. Just then they heard a huge explosion and everyone came into the room and Tails sat down in a seat in front of the computer. "What was that?" Sonic asked racing in. Tails pressed a few buttons and Eggman's ship appeared.

"I'm not sure." Tails said. "But it looks as if Dr. Eggman's ship is under attack."

"What's that?" Knuckles asked pointing at something that jumped out of the ship

"It looks like a person...and it looks like he's hurt."

"Do we need to go get him?" Kiara asked him.

"Not sure. He could be on Eggman's side."

"Then why is Eggman fighting him?" Chris asked.

"Good question. Let's just bring him in. I'll go get him in the X-Tornado."

"I'll go with you, just in case we need to use the new cannon." Kiara said looking at her mom as if asking for permission. Gabbriella and Knuckles looked at each other and then back at her.

"Just...please be careful. Both of you." Gabbriella said. Tails nodded.

"I'll look after her." Tails said as he grabbed Kiara's wrist and pulled her out the door to the X-Tornado.

--in the plane room--

Tails helped her into the X-Tornado and then jumped in. "Engine's engaged. Thrusters on. Lift off sequence begin. Ready Kiara?" Tails asked.

"Ready!" Kiara said very excited.

"Alright. Take off time!" Just then the wall in front of them opened and the X-Tornado blasted into space. Tails looked back at Kiara, she was looking out at space, and smiled at her.

"There he is!" Kiara pointed at the almost lifeless body floating out in front of them.

"Right! Prepare to bring him in!" Tails pressed a button and the window above them opened and Kiara stood up with some type of gun in her hands and she pointed it at the boy. "Don't fire till I tell you to! Steady...steady...fire!" Kiara pushed the trigger and the gun shot and the bullet turned into a net and it surrounded the boy.

"Got 'em!"

"Great job, Kiara!" Tails said as Kiara pulled the boy into the X-Tornado. He was unconcious. Tails pushed another button and the window above them closed and the X-Tornado headed back for the Blue Typhoon.

--later that day--

Tails stood beside the boy in the recovery room on the Blue Typhoon, checking his moniters and all that. The boy was a cat. He was a black cat with a white fur mark on his chest and tail. He was flinching a little but was still a little knocked out. Outside the Blue Typhoon, Sonic and Knuckles were fighting off Eggman's ship. Sonic kept turning into his sonic ball and hitting the ship and Knuckles continuously punched the side of the ship. They didn't look as if they were doing much harm to the ship. Just then on the top of the ship, Shadow rose up out of the ship and glared at them. Sonic and Knuckles didn't realize he was there. "Get away from the doctors ship! Chaos Blast!" Just as Sonic and Knuckles looked at him, a huge blast came out of Shadow and hit Sonic and Knuckles knocking them into the Blue Typhoon.

"Chris!" Tails yelled as he ran into the bridge. "I need to go help Sonic! Can you watch after the boy in the recovery room for me?"

"Sure Tails." Chris said running out of the room.

"I wanna go!" Kiara yelled.

"Not this time." Tails said shaking his head. Tails ran out of the room and headed for the chamber in the top of the ship. When he got up there he opened the hatch and he stood up on the top of the Blue Typhoon. When he got up there he saw Kiara. "I thought I told you to stay there!"

"Tails, you should know by now that I don't do what I'm told."

"You could get hurt!"

"So..."

"You definately got that from Knuckles." Tails laughed. "Ok, but hold on tight." Tails grabbed Kiara's hand and Tails' tails flew them over to where Sonic was. "Sonic!" Tails threw Kiara towards Shadow and she punched him and Shadow fell.

"Why you little..." Shadow stood up and glared at the little 7yr old. "I've been waiting to fight you again." Sonic and Knuckles were still a little weak from the Chaos Blast, Tails flew up to them and landed right beside Sonic.

"Are you guys alright?" Tails asked.

"Yeah..." Sonic said painfully. Knuckles used the last of his strength to stand up.

"Don't worry! Me and Kiara will take care of Shadow!"

"Kiara?" Knuckles asked. "Where is she?"

"She's fighting Shadow right now." Tails answered pointing to the top of the ship.

"Please...don't let him hurt her..."

"Don't worry bout a thing!" Shadow was able to punch Kiara several times. Right before Tails got up to the rescue, Shadow shot her with something that stung her. She passed out.

"Shadow!" Dr. Eggman called from inside the ship and Shadow dissapeared. Tails flew up to her quickly.

"Kiara! Are you ok? Kiara!" Tails yelled.

--later that day in the recovery room--

Both Kiara and the boy were laying on separate beds in the recovery room. Knuckles and Gabbriella sat on the couch and Knuckles tried his best to comfort her. Tails looked sadly at Kiara and then turned to Knuckles. "I think she'll be ok. I think she's just stunned."

"That's good." Sonic answered for Knuckles.

"Poor little Kiara." Amy said as she walked up to her and next to Sonic. She looked at Sonic. "I want one." Sonic cringed and his eyes got wide.

"How much longer will she be knocked out?" Chris asked ignoring them.

"Hard to tell. I'm not sure exactly what happened, when I got up to her, Kiara was laying on the ground and Shadow had dissapeared." Tails told him.

"I hope she'll be ok." Gabbriella said quietly looking at Knuckles. Knuckles smiled at her and gave her a big hug.

"Me too." Knuckles answered as he layed his head on top of hers.

Well, there you go! Don't worry it's not over! Gots alot more to cover first! Haha.