A/N Hey guys and thanks for reading along this, been a bit of a lul, I'm hoping to get out of it. I feel like we've done enough of this character building by talking. So I'm hoping to get things going.
Anyway one other thing is I finally updated the story description to have Silver, Shadow, and the Tails and Fiona pairing. Not to mention I changed the angst to romance. I'd have added Scourge but you can only have four listed characters. This is how I wanted it the whole time, but I didn't feel like showing off everything. I mean how anti suspenseful would it have been if you went into this story reading TailsxFiona with Romance in the description and the first few chapters be Tails wanting to kill her. It'd kinda ruin it wouldn't it?
So to anyone wondering that was my reasoning, but I think that's all in the past now(maybe) and it's clear that I'm making them friendly again. So I think the secrets out now.
So with that over let's go.
The four mobians didn't do much. Tails kept going out to see if Eggman had sent scouts but continued to find nothing. He mostly took Silver because the young hedgehog was getting restless and complaining that he was bored. Letting him outside made him be quiet.
The ivory hedgehog also tended to take a rock or two, he found some amusement in playing with them with his powers. Shadow started commenting that he was starting a collection.
Tails was trying to figure out a way he could find the plants Eggman must have had. He used to be connected to the satellite network but they'd gone down, or the fat man himself was using them now. The only answer he had was getting lucky and downloading the information from eggbots.
Fiona had continued to pester him about helping out around the place. The most he could think of was having her assist him in repairs. She knew it wasn't much but she did the more simple stuff to save him a few minutes.
Shadow stayed by himself. He spent his own time either silently being by himself or being with Silver.
Today Tails and Silver were walking around outside.
"Hey this looks cool" Silver picked up and admired a small rock, it was shiny smooth and after a quick look turned out to be more than just a rock. Looked like a small gem.
"Definetly keeping this" he smiled placing it in his pocket.
"Keep up" Tails growled.
"Sorry"
They climbed up a small incline, Tails was slightly in the lead. Silver almost made it to the top when Tails ducked down and forced the adsent minded hedgehog down as well "Look" he ordered peaking over the last piece of the incline.
Off about a hundred meters away were a group of eggbots. Some were average ones but a couple were larger and one massive bot with a cannon arm seemed to be the leader.
The average ones were simply the fat orange ones with small weapons, the larger ones were less fat and broad shouldered. Their weapon connected to their arms freeing up their opposite arm for a powerful fist.
The largest leader bot was massive, Tails could easily stand on the back of it's shoulders to get to it's head. The shoulders were lined with spikes and it's footsteps shook the ground. A quick inspection explained what the arm was capable of, a massive laser cannon. The other arm ended in an average sized hand for its size and the gauntlet had some spikes on it as well. It's heavy armor meant only the strongest of weapons or attacks that bypassed it would damage it.
"Guess you were, right, that's not a normal patrol" Silver quickly surmised peaking over as well.
Tails saw the opportunity to finally get on with the plan he and Fiona had made up and turned to Silver.
"Just how big of objects can you carry? Can you control their movements or hold them still?"
Silver looked to him oddly not sure why he'd ask such a question "I guess I could, it'd be hard to control and entire person, lifting is easy. Just focus on a spot and control that, but arms, legs, head and other parts. Not for long, especially if it's heavy"
"How long could you hold that large one? Roughly"
"Maybe a minute… I guess" He never tried so he wasn't sure at all.
"Good, we're attacking them. Save your energy, I'll need you to do to the big one" Tails prepared to activate his stealth suit and activate his weapon when Silver asked
"Wait why?" has wasn't even sure he and the fox, who had no powers like him, could take on such a large and powerful group.
"I need to download his memory" the foxes mask went over his face and stealth activated, now don't die"
Small dust kicked up as he ran forward and Silver cautiously followed trying to stay out of sight.
He got as close as he dared and looked around for any sign of Tails. He quickly ate one of his snacks to keep him ready during the fight and peaked over the rock he was behind.
All the bots were facing semi away from him so he quickly chose a target and waited for Tails to make his own move.
Personally Silver had no idea why Tails wanted to download the things memories but he always had a reason. He guessed the big one would have to stay functional.
"This is insane" he mumbled.
Moments after a small object appeared from thin air and flew in between the front of the group of robots consisting of the basic robots. Silver quickly hid behind his rock fully as an explosion went off followed by metal parts scattering everywhere. A few bounced off his rock making him sigh in relief from hiding, but now was time to fight.
Popping back out of the cover he quickly grabbed a bot and tossed it at another. He would have crushed it but he promised to conserve his energy.
Tails was in the air firing the same projectiles he used to destroy the wall around Silver and Shadows old home, the bombs stuck to the armor blowing them away in a matter of seconds.
He had to reload so the other bots fired at him. Most missed but the big one aimed it's arm cannon and powered up the laser beam that would instantly disintegrate the fox if it hit him.
Right before he fired though Silver used his powers to push it's arm slightly to the right making it miss it's shot. The bright blue beam cut through the air inches from Tails who dodged to the left before it could aim again. By then his stealth activated again.
With him gone the eggbots turned to Silver and trained their sights on him and opened fire.
"Ah!" he yelped pulling up a barrier to protect himself.
Luckily for him Tails was around and appeared right behind the furthest robot so none of the other saw him and touched it with one of his electrical fists. It instantly shut down and he moved to the next expending the second charge from his other glove on the next.
He then quickly ran to the next jumping on its back. His ripped off a panel on the back of the head as it flailed around trying to get him off. He punched into it destroying the inside and destroying it instantly.
The other robots notice him finally as he hopped off the falling robot. He quickly counted and found only four left including the large super bot.
Silver took the advantage and grabbed the last three and slammed them all together leaving only their final target left.
"Alright now!' Tails yelled pulling out a small device from his pocket.
Silver took a deep breath and glowed entirely green exerting all his power. The massive robot glowed green and froze in place almost about to fire on his fox friend.
The fox flew up and to the back of the head and yelled "How long do I got!?"
Silver was already breathing hard "I don't know"
Tails went to work as fast as he could connecting his device to the back of the head. He could already feel the robot shifting slightly and slowly over powering Silver.
"Come one. Come on" he mumbled using the devices screen and control pad to navigate through the hardrive.
He knew he didn't have time to download it all so he hoped looking through individual file names would work out.
The giant robot lurched shifting to grab Tails only to be stopped halfway. Silver clearly losing his focus for a second. Tails tried to ignore it focusing on his objective.
As he searched he pulled something from his pocket and planted it on the back of the head. If things got bad this would be his emergency button.
Finally he found some promising files under encrypted code and started downloading them all.
"Just a little longer Silver!" he hoped letting him know would keep him going but he was clearly about to give out.
The arm slowly got faster as it reached back to grab him, he couldn't break the connection yet or he wouldn't get another chance. Silver was too tired to try again and odds are the robot was already deleting it's memory just to stop him.
"Almost there" he mumbled to himself at about ninety percent through.
Silver yelled "Can't hold on!" he collapsed to his knees and the glows from both him and robot ended. The robots hand swung backwards intent on grabbing the fox.
He barely dodged to the left feeling the thumb graze his tail. With all the sudden movement he nearly fell over on the shoulder spikes but a quick spin his tails pushed him back.
"Ninety-five" he growled "So close"
He got gutsy and left the device attached to the robots head and ran over the to the front of the face seeing the hand fly by again.
He pulled out his grapple gun that he used before feeling the arm follow him.
Fox jumped off the chest turning quickly to fire the grappler at the robots hand. Using his tails to push him forward he flew through its legs. His momentum and weight of the hand allowed him to pull it threw causing it to nearly trip and staggering it. The line broke from the pressure and Tails flew back up behind it and noticed the device at one hundred percent.
He quickly ripped out the cord and took off again the hand grabbing where he was half a second later.
With a smirk he pulled out a small controller and with a smirk watched as the eggbot turned and aimed its laser cannon.
He made a short wave goodbye and hit the button.
The eggbot convulsed from a spike of electricity from the device he planted on the back of its head. The circuits inside snapping loudly from the current. When the current stopped it lurched forward and fell kicking up tons of ash and making a loud thud.
The young fox smirked at his own handy work and pocketed his equipment and flew down to check on Silver as the ash cloud dispersed.
Inside the cloud Silver was coughing from the ash, Tails was immune his mask filtering it out. He was still on his knees gasping for air from tiredness only to make the ash make him cough more.
Tails ran to him and quickly grabbed him and pulled him away so he wouldn't choke. Once clear of the cloud his mask lifted and let the ivory hedgehog sit and cough all the gunk out and catch his breath.
The fox waited for a moment helping him sit up before asking "You alright?"
He hacked a bit before barely saying "Ya… just tired" then coughed out some more.
"Just chill out for a second" he stood up and approached the wreck. He walked on the things back and tried to find a hatch to get inside. When he found none he pulled out a portable fusion cutter and his mask lowered to protect his eyes.
He cut a large hole and kicked it in waiting for the metal to cool before looking inside.
He quickly found what he wanted and dropped inside. His helmets light turned on so he could see and walked towards it through the exoskeleton and wires.
He reached it and was glad to see what he found was still intact and undamaged by his eletro trap.
"This core will help keep things running" he said happy to be getting another prize along with the information.
He proceeded to gently disconnect it from the body and pulled out the football sized object. He then proceeded to scrounge around for other stuff, like useful metals and wires. It was so big he'd have to visit again to get it all but he was satisfied with what he had for now.
He climbed out with all the new material and found Silver waiting, still a little tired looking but standing.
"Feeling better?"
"Ya, those were some good moves" Silver smiled impressed by the fox, but frowned "Sorry I couldn't hold on"
"You made it long enough that I could make a quick distraction, nobody died. It's fine" Tails said walking passed and shoving some of his looted materials into the hedgehogs arms.
Silver just smiled, it didn't sound like much but he wasn't angry and that meant he did good, atleast on Tails' standards.
He followed and asked "So what is all that?"
"Supplies, wire, metal and a power core. I'll need to visit again, there's tons of other stuff here I can use from the other bots too" he smiled, it was nice to finally have something else to do.
"That's great!... So what did you download?"
Tails broke from his trance thinking about all the supplies they scored and shook his head "Fiona and I thought of a plan to mess with Eggman again. If I'm lucky we got the info to know where to look"
Silver looked confused "But what exactly will be doing? And why?"
Tails briefly explained the plant theory to him and by the end Silver understood perfectly.
"So if we're lucky you downloaded locations?"
He nodded in confirmation "Sadly with that patrol down we're gonna see a lot more now"
"Finally on the offensive" Silver smiled smirking.
"If we're lucky" Tails reminded. Afterwards both stayed quiet.
They arrived back home and once inside Tails noticed Silver was greyer than normal and patted his back. Ash exploded off it and Tails said "Please go take a shower before you track that around here"
"Sure" he said quickly walking away.
Tails looked down at the settling ash and sighed remembering to clean it later.
As he walked to put his new supplies into the workshop Fiona intercepted him "Any reason why you have all that stuff and Silver is entirely showered in ash?"
"Found a patrol today, we were able to destroy. I salvaged all this stuff but more importantly I downloaded some of it's hardrive"
"You did! Awesome" she cheered, surprised how easy that was, atleast from her perspective.
"I don't know what's on it and Silver and I didn't have time to download it all so I got what I thought was the most classified stuff. So we'll have to see… and probably decrypt it" he warned giving her a realistic view at there chances instead.
She frowned and slouched "Oh… what's that" the power core catching her eye.
"Something to power stuff with, Eggmans cores are surprisingly very well made, every core able to last years, some even more advanced one renew their own energy while active. I'm sure that's what Omega has… or had if he's deactivated by now"
"What'cha gonna use it for?" she asked following him inside.
He placed it down on the very desk the had their talk a few days ago and thought "Well I could try to make a robot and power it with this…. But unfortunately I don't have the resources for that right now. I could use the other robots to get the materials. Or I could spread it out for other smaller stuff" the fox was mostly thinking aloud.
Fiona listened but her eyes drifted to the book she'd found Tails' great secret in. She wanted to talk about it, learn if that's how he felt now. He was still mumbling to himself about his plans. Her heart pounded opening her mouth to speak only to close it again then try again, and fail again.
"… God what should I use it for" he growled to himself finding it hard to choose. He had so many projects ready to go, a lot of which only required a power source since he had everything else.
All the while Fiona was having a mini freak out behind him.
Tails wouldn't ask her opinion of this, in the end he had to do what he felt would help the most, no offence to Fiona but he didn't feel she had the fore-sight for that. He sighed giving up and said "I'll figure it out" turning to face the fox.
He was a little surprised to see her looking worried and in deep thought, she didn't even notice that he had turned around.
"Fiona?... Fiona… FIONA" he yelled making her jump back.
"You alright?"
"Ya, I'm fine, I was also trying to think of what to do with that thing" she quickly made an excuse but Tails felt it was a lie. She was nervous so he pressed on not liking secrets.
"Don't lie to me Fiona, what's on your mind?" he crossed his arms sternly staring her down.
"Don't worry about it" the female tried to make a quick exit and avoid him but he caught her wrist making her inwardly curse.
"Fi" his tone surprisingly soft saying her nickname that she hadn't heard in years. It quickly went back to his deeper tone "Something is wrong, what is it?"
Hearing the old nickname suddenly scared her, why was unclear to her and she defensively growled ripping her hand away from his normally strong grip. She pushed him back not even thinking about how he could easily over power her if he wanted to. Even more surprising was the younger fox didn't even retaliate. He rubbed his chest.
"There's nothing wrong with me, I'm fine, you are the one with problems. You need to talk about them!"
"What are you talking about Fiona? We know I have problems. We talked about this, I'm trying to get better" he got aggressive in his confusion.
"Not all of it, you have something else going on in your mind" she softened a bit "You don't need to be angry at yourself"
"What?" he stood confused staring at her having utterly no idea what to say or do. He didn't even know what she meant but on a deep level felt like he did.
In his confusion Fiona took the opportunity to leave him and the tense situation and made a quick sigh of relief having got out.
While breathing heavily she tried to think about what happened, her reaction to the old nickname, and how he said it. It threw her off so much she ended up pushing him away and remind him how messed up he was.
It was pretty obvious that she felt terrible for saying that to him, but then nearly told him what really was on her mind. It scared her to no end that if he found out she snooped in his private stuff he might get angry and make her leave.
"Why did you have to look through that damn book, he was getting use to you. He was starting to be nice to you and now he probably thinks you have a problem with him" she mumbled to herself.
Her hands curled into fists and said "No it doesn't matter. He wanted you dead, like he really feels that way. Besides… he doesn't need me… I've only hurt him, whatever happens when this is all over I'll be gone"
With that she decided to protect Tails from herself. Like he said, she was a teammate not a friend, let alone anything more.
Wanting to let off some serious stress the fox went to the recreation room and proceeded to beat into a punching bag for half an hour.
In the workshop…
Tails still stood confused as hell and tried to figure out what she meant, what did she know, or think she knew? He pinched the bridge of his nose in deep thought, he could feel it on the tip of his tongue always losing it right before he could see it.
"Dammit" he cursed and took a long sigh.
He had something else to get to anyway and pulled out the device he'd used on Eggmans big robot and walked to his control room.
He sat down and transferred the memory into his computer. Like he suspected it was encrypted so he got Rosemary to start trying to decrypt it. He expected her to finish fairly quickly.
With all that done Tails leaned back in his chair sighing again thinking of Fionas words again.
"What happened?"
"Don't bug me mom" he hoped that would be enough but knew she wouldn't just stop seeing him in distress.
"Miles, she looked confused and terrified leaving the workshop, tell me what happened"
Tails groaned rolling his eyes "We got into a fight alright?"
"No, not alright. You didn't hurt her?"
"No! I mean we yelled at eachother"
"I'm sorry, what did you two say?"
The fox was utterly confused by it all and in desperation decided to tell her "I was thinking of how to use the core I brought back but gave up and turned to her and she looked nervous like something were on her mind" he started to fidget a little.
"Then she exploded and yelled at me telling me nothing was wrong with her and that it was I who had the problem. I mean…. I do have problems, but we talked about it and I promised her I was trying hard to get passed them. Then she told that I shouldn't hate myself" he frowned, it felt true but he couldn't remember why.
"That's all?" his mother asked.
"That's it? She yelled at me and told me not to hate myself, what did you expect, more? His sarcasm clearly defensive.
"What did you say?"
"I… I wanted to talk about what was wrong, she tried to avoid it so I grabbed her wrist and tried again and that's when she went off on me, after that I just stupidly questioned everything she said until she mentioned my hate for myself. I froze up after that" he mumbled the last part not liking that he had to admit that.
"You know she's vigorously attacking a punching bag right now"
"She is?" he asked leaning forward and opening up the camera feed. Like his mother had said she was releasing her frustration on the inanimate object. already a few holes in it.
"You were right, something is bothering her" his mother spoke again as he watched the camera feed.
The fox rubbed his chin in thought glad he wasn't going crazy "What is she hiding?" he thought to himself.
The camera feed went away to another screen and Rosemary said "I'm sorry but I finished decrypting the information"
"That was fast" he expected no less though, he put every bit of his knowledge into her as he could.
"I think you'll be happy to find that your hunch was right, we have one location" If she could smile she would.
"Excellent, call the others here" Tails smirked.
"It's time to go on the offensive"
Ok so this chapters ending almost turned out a bit different, but I decided again it. Also I'm a little swamped by work lately and it's really holding me back but I'm still here and working. Like I said I was gonna get the plot train movie and there we're about to get going.
So for now I don't have much to say besides that so let me know what you think if you got the time and live long and prosper.
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