Hiya, people, sorry it's been so long since i updated, i've had a lot of things going on that have been distacting me.

Chapter 12

Tails stood silently with his mouth wide open. Kiara looked at the floor ashamed. "Whatd'ya mean? You...you're staying with Eggman?" Tails finally asked. Kiara didn't say a word and didn't look at him. "But...what about Sonic? What about your parents? What...what about me?" Kiara closed her eyes and looked at Dr. Eggman.

"You're doing the right thing, Kiara. They're all liars, who knows, maybe even Tails is in on it." Dr. Eggman told her. Kiara finally looked at Tails, but looked a little angry.

"You can't honestly tell me, you actually believe him?" Tails asked her surprised to see the love of his life turn against him.

"I'm sorry..." Kiara finally said as she extended her arm towards him. "I can't trust you anymore." Her hand began to glow purple and a bolt of electricity shot out at Tails knocking him out of the room.

"You're making the right choice, you can't trust anyone but me. I can help you. I can help you discover your purpose. And in time...maybe I'll make you my partner. There's only one thing I want you to do. Destroy Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends." Dr. Eggman patted her on the head.

back on the Blue Typhoon

"Kiara has been gone an awful long time." Gabbriella said as she looked at Knuckles. Everyone but Sonic stood in the bridge and looked at each other worriedly. "She should've been back by now." Sonic dashed into the room.

"Tails is gone and so is the X-Tornado!" Sonic shouted. Gabbriella and Knuckles looked at each other.

"We've got to go find them." Knuckles told everyone.

"But we can't," Amy started, "Tails is the only one who knows how to operate the Blue Typhoon."

"...I probably can." Chris told them. "Tails was starting to teach me anyway. I might not be able to make us go very fast but I at least can help find them."

"I think we should trust Chris."

"I can help." Gabbriella said. "I'm the only one who can understand how the controls work."

"All right. Let's go find them!" Sonic said.

back on Eggman's ship

Tails lingered back to the X-Tornado with tears streaming down his face. 'How could she? Doesn't she know that Sonic and the others love her? Doesn't she know that...that I love her? I have to go back. But I can't face her on my own.' Tails thought. He began to get angry. "I need to find Sonic." Tails jumped in the X-Tornado and blasted off of Eggman's ship and headed for the Blue Typhoon. Kiara stood sadly by Eggman's side in the bridge. Bocoe and Docoe sat in the control seats. Eggman had an evil smile on his face as he watched the X-Tornado start to fly away.

"So he thinks he's gonna get away does he? Lock on to his ship. We'll blast him down and teach him that he can't get away that easy." Docoe nodded and pushed a big red button and a missile headed right for the X-Tornado. Kiara closed her eyes and cringed when she heard the explosion. A single tear ran down her face. "Hm mm mm mmm, that outta teach him a lesson." The X-Tornado was in pieces and Tails was no where to be seen.

on the Blue Typhoon

"Set coordinates for the X-Tornado's location," Gabbriella started as she sat in the controler chair. "If we find the X-Tornado then we find Tails and Kiara."

"Setting coordinates for the X-Tornado, roger." Chris repeated.

"Do you think we can find them, Sonic?" Amy asked. Sonic didn't say a word.

'I have a funny feeling about this.' Sonic thought.

"Preparing Blue Typhoon for hyper speed. Knuckles, you ready?" Gabbriella asked. Knuckles stood in the Engine room where the Master Emerald was.

"Ready." Knuckles replied.

"Alright Knuckles, you know what to do."

"Right. Oh Master Emerald! We need your power!" The Master Emerald glowed bright. "We're all ready Gabbriella."

"Right. All right everyone, here we go." Gabbriella pulled a lever up and the Blue Typhoon blasted off into space.

in a room on Eggman's ship

Kiara sat on a couch and cried. She tucked her legs into her chest and buried her face there. Shadow stood slilently in the corner of the room. "You know..." Shadow started and startled Kiara, "...crying isn't going help you. I should know. I know what you're going through."

"How could you? I cared about Tails. You probably have never cared about anyone! Now he's gone and I'll never see him again." Kiara cried even more.

"I do know how you feel. You feel angry, confused, sad and you know you would do anything to get that person back, no matter what." Kiara looked at him and for the first time, Shadow actually looked sad.

"H...how'd you..."

"I know. I lost someone long ago that I cared about. Her name was Maria and she was killed because of me. If it wasn't for me she probably would still be alive. I don't remember much of her or much of anything for that matter but that's all i know. I cared about her and it was all my fault she died. Now...I don't know what I'm doing anymore. I don't know who I am or where I'm going or what i'm doing for that matter. Nothing seems important anymore." Kiara gazed at him and was surprised that the person that had been attacking her and her friends and whos she thought was heartless actually did care for someone.

"Is that why you're always angry? Because you know it was your fault." Shadow didn't say anything, all he did was close his eyes. Kiara saw that Shadow had a lot of pain and she grabbed his hand. Shadow looked at her. Kiara smiled and for that moment and for that moment only, for the first time Shadow smiled. "Just because it was all your fault doesn't mean you have to beat yourself up about it. You don't have to feel bad, you really think that wherever Maria is, that she wants you to feel sorry for yourself..." Kiara thought over the words she just said for several minutes. "What am I doing?" Kiara said softly. Kiara ran out of the room and left Shadow by himself. Once more, Shadow replaced his smile with a frown. The Blue Typhoon finally reached the location of the X-Tornado. Unfortunately, Eggman's ship had already left without a trace.

"Oh no." Sonic said as he looked at all the pieces of the X-Tornado. "I sure hope that Tails and Kiara weren't on the ship." Knuckles walked into the room and Gabbriella looked at him sadly. Knuckles' expression didn't change, he just walked up to the glass and looked at the once X-Tornado. He scanned the pieces for Tails or his daughter.

"Look." Knuckles pointed to a small yellow figure. It didn't look like part of the ship but it looked like it was moving. Sonic, Knuckles and Gabbriella put on jet packs and flew out to see what it was. It was Tails! Gabbriella picked him up while Knuckles flew up to look around, Sonic flew beside Gabbriella to see if his friend was ok. Gabbriella listened in his mouth, he was still breathing.

"I better take him to the recovery room." Gabbriella flew back to the Blue Typhoon with Tails in her arms. Sonic looked around for Knuckles, when he saw him he flew up beside him. Knuckles had stopped looking around and was looking straight ahead. He still had the strong, determined look on his face, but a small tear fought its way down his face. Sonic looked around and didn't see Kiara, then he looked back at Knuckles.

"Aw, I'm sorry buddy." Knuckles closed his eyes and clenched his fists tightly, harder than he ever had before.

"Eggman did this. I just know it." Knuckles said through his teeth.

"How do you know?"

"I can feel it. He's been here."

"Are you sure?"

"YES! SONIC THIS IS NO TIME FOR GAMES! Eggman killed her. Kiara's not coming back and Eggman's not going to get away with it. He thought he was scared of me before, he better be scared now." Knuckles flew back to the Blue Typhoon. Sonic looked the direction Knuckles was looking and then lowered his head. After a few minutes Sonic flew back to the ship.

back on Eggman's ship

Kiara stomped into Eggman's bridge where he, Bocoe, Docoe and Bukkun already were. "Well, if it isn't my little Kiara." Eggman said happily.

"I want you to take me home."

"What? But you are home."

"No I'm not! I want you to take me back to my mommy and daddy!"

"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I can't do that. You see, you've already agreed to work for me and when you agree to me, you're a permanent resident whether you like it or not." Eggman pushed a button on the chair he was sitting on and a glass covered cage surrounded her coming up from the ground.

"HEY! Let me out! I want my daddy!"

"Bocoe, Docoe, please take Kiara to her new room. I'm sure she'll be nice and cozy in there and make sure she doesn't get out." Kiara shocked the cage and all it did was shock her back. "Oh, and don't waste your energy, that's just not any glass you know. Every time you shock the cage it just shocks you back, hahaha!" Bocoe and Docoe pushed the cage out of the room as Eggman laughed evily.

Once again sorry it's taking me so long to review. I bet you can feel it now, this story's coming to a close. But don't fret, when one door closes another one opens. And for those of you people who are like me and don't understand what that meant, i've already planned a sequel and it's gonna rock. I'll tell some details about it later. But let's just say, Shadow discovers his purpose and some more of his memory about Maria and a secret that everyone has been wondering about. Actually, i'm the only one who knows that secret and i've been wondering about it myself. Anyway the main storyline is about Shadow and Gabbriella, and it's gonna rock. Not to mention all the new characters that will be coming in. Amy gives birth, new hitchhikers, a new enemy and a new ally, which confidentially doesn't really do anything and all that crazy stuff. I sure hope i can fit it all into one story, haha!