A/N Hello peoples, having fun reading this? I hope so I'm enjoying writing this.

As a side note in the last chapter Fiona joked that Tails is a lady killer. That was something my brother and I kinda came to a conclusion of recently. Next to Sonic Tails seems to have the most girlfriends through out the shows and comics and games. I mean if you look it over, he's liked Fiona, Barby liked him possibly, he had a crush on Li Moon. All in the original comics. So far he's had no romance in the newer ones cause he's 8 again though. In Sonic x they started him and Cream then abandoned it for Cosmo later. And finally in Sonic Boom(Yes I know why am I brining this up) he might actually be dating Zoey currently and in another episode he seemed to attract another woman, I forgot her name though. So yes, I believe he's a lady killer.

Also I feel like I keep brining up past events like I'm trying to prove I know what I'm talking about. Cause when I started I mentioned I knew near nothing about the comics and that I had to learn more…. I think I'm subconsciously mentioning events and stuff to let you guys know I am learning.

Anyway on with the show!

Time continued on and Tails had his mom decrypt the memories the team got on their missions. Most were useless, some gave minor information. To his surprise the most recent batch held something interesting.

"Tails, honey?"

"Yes ma?" he asked typing away.

"I think I may have found something?"

The fox looked up at the screen "What is it?"

"I don't know, it's an incomplete data file" Rosemary said puzzled.

Tails hummed in thought "Ok, any idea what it's for?"

"I can't tell at this time, but there's one other thing, among the fragmented data is frequencies"

"Frequencies to what? Are they complete?" He asked interested now.

Rosemary explained "I think so, if what I'm getting is correct these frequencies should lead us to several other eggbots who will have the other parts of these files"

Tails smiled "Good, see if you give me locations, work on that alright?" he knew it would be slow considering how little they had but given time his mom could figure out where they were.

"Of course"

Elsewhere…

In the rec room Silver was sitting across from Blaze, both staring at a chessboard.

Blaze moved her knight and smirked "Checkmate"

"Dang it" Silver sat back in defeat "Third time in a row" he crossed his arms in annoyance.

Blaze just smirked proudly "Perhaps you will get me one day"

"Maybe" he shrugged finding her way of saying it a little ironic.

A short delay took place before Blaze asked "So I've been wondering, when did you learn you had powers?"

"Why do you want to know that?" he asked raising an eyebrow at her question.

"Well be cause it took me awhile to learn I had powers, just wanted to know if you discovered them late or early or something" Blaze explained.

Silver thought and said "Well… I think I've known since as far as I can remember"

Blaze looked puzzled "What do you mean by that?"

"Well back at the orphanage I lived at the caretakers knew I'd have powers, so they told me when I was young and advised I keep it under wraps for a bit" he expected the follow up question she'd surely ask.

"How did they know?"

"When I was dropped at the orphanages door when I was two the only thing on me was a note" he reached down into his boot and slipped out a piece of paper "This one to be exact"

She looked at the paper and waited for him to explain further.

"On it explained why I couldn't be taken care of. My mom died during childbirth and my father said he couldn't take care of me. He also wanted me to grow up in a safer place than where he was. He said that if he had any other choice he'd have kept me but it just wasn't possible. He also wanted to let me know that he and my mom loved me more than anything and wanted me to keep this letter. Finally it explains that I will have powers and that my name is Silver" he put the letter away finishing his depressing story.

Blaze looked to him frowning "I'm sorry, it must be hard knowing he loved you so much that he wanted you to be safe"

Silver frowned as well and nodded "The one question I have is how'd he know for certain I'd have powers"

Blaze just hummed in thought but Silver took the opportunity to learn about her.

"So what was home like for you?"

She debated whether speaking to him about it was ok but shrugged and said "Well I originate from the Sol universe as it's called. I am the guardian of the Sol emeralds and the princess of my realm"

He nodded waiting for more details.

"My world ironically is more water than land" he laughed at that.

"I have a friend named Marine back there, she's one of the few people I actually trust enough to see regularly. She is a young raccoon and very energetic. I employ her a lot to get me around my world. She's one of my closest friends" she frowned missing her.

"I'm sure she misses you too" Silver smiled.

"I hope so"

"So what's the difference between the chaos emeralds and the sol emeralds anyway?" Silver asked.

"Well instead of chaos energy the sol emeralds have rule over fire. I am partially connected to them allowing me to use pyrokinesis. It functions a lot like your powers except with fire. I can use the sol emeralds much like your chaos emeralds. They can increase my powers and when together they give me a super form like Shadow and Sonic. Except instead of gold, I'm pretty much on fire" she explained.

"Well, wouldn't want to mess with a pissed off, invulnerable fire cat" he chuckled.

"No you wouldn't" Blaze smirked.

Silver tried to think of something else to talk about as they reset the board.

"So did you have any hobbies when you weren't being the sol emerald guardian?"

Blaze smiled thinking back and said "I actually enjoy knitting a bit, not often but it helped me relax"

"Why knitting?" the white hedgehog asked.

"Well I always liked yarn, but that's kinda obvious considering I'm a cat, plus it was one of the few times I could create something instead of burn someone to death" she explained smiling, yet saddened she couldn't do that.

"Ya, sometimes I wonder what I could do with my powers in a normal life"

"You could lift tons of heavy stuff, I'm sure construction crews would love you, or help with rescue efforts during disasters" naming off just a few.

"Ya? You think so?"

"Yes I do"

"Thanks, means a lot"

He suddenly asked "So what was Shadow like before this whole mess?"

"Not too different to be honest, he was always a 'get the job done' kind of guy. He was also very quiet and secluded from people and only spoke when he felt he had to. With the help of Amy, she and I broke him one time though" the cat smiled remembering how hard they tried to convince him, seeing him with that guilty face was all worth it.

"How, doing what?" Silver asked interested.

"Shadow was sent by GUN to steal one of my sol emeralds, he brought his old friends Rouge and Omega with him for the mission. Things didn't go quite right and someone had stolen one from me already and I teamed up with Amy and the rest of team Rose to get it back. We sort of raced and worked together with team dark, his team, and soon after some events he ended up with the emerald" The cat explained going back to better times.

"The entire time Amy and I had been talking to him trying to convince him that not only was it wrong to steal the emerald from me but that I could protect it…. Guess I was wrong in the long run" she frowned but continued "When it was all over he handed the emerald over to me, Rouge wasn't too happy about that, Omega?... I think he saw both sides and had no opinion"

"He's a tough nut to crack and I think he likes me, you know as a friend and stuff. But he's hard to read a lot of the time so maybe I'm just another guy to him" Silver shrugged, he didn't feel special or privileged, he never had that feeling, infact after talking to Shadow so long he grew the idea that maybe being a hero wasn't all it was cracked up to be. He once said to him that all heroes sacrifice at some point and that he'd yet to truly sacrifice yet.

"He does like you, it's why he kept you around. He's your teacher and a friend, as much as he doesn't show it" Blaze smiled hoping that'd make him smile.

Silver did and they got back to their game.

Elsewhere…

Scourge had figured out how to use the game console Tails had behind the tv and was playing something alone. He preferred that, nobody trusted him and he was forced to trust them for his own safety. No point getting to know them or even liking them if that was the case.

Although one of the team was a little curious of Scourge and watched him for awhile before walking over.

"What?" the green hedgehog didn't look over but could tell someone was next to him.

"I was wondering what you are up to" the soft polite voice gave away that it was Nicole.

"Playing games" he hoped that would make her go away.

"What, may I ask?"

"You got digital eyes, use em" the irritation in his voice as he realized she wouldn't leave.

He was playing some kind of third person shooter that took place in Mobotropolis, he was currently hiding from authorities in an early part of the story.

Nicole wasn't surprised by his choice, it felt kinda obvious he'd choose such an infamous game, of killing, stealing, and grand theft.

"So you gonna leave?' she had stood there for another minute quietly watching.

"If you want me to, but wouldn't you rather have company?"

"Nope" was his simple answer.

"Do you not enjoy people around you?" she asked.

Scourge paused and rolled his eyes and finally looked to her "Listen holo chick, what makes you think I like any of you. I'm here because I have nowhere else to go, no home to go back to, no ring to send me back to Moebius and surrounded by people who either don't like me or know I'm a bad guy. So no I don't care for my current company"

Nicole paused; she never flinched nor showed any worry for his anger. He couldn't hurt her if he wanted to as she was using the projectors.

"Have you considered the idea that spending time with them will change their views of you and maybe gain trust of them?"

"Nope cause that's stupid. Three of you I've spent time with and one of them is you. I left behind Fiona cause I panicked and I betrayed you and pipsqueak so why don't you leave me the hell alone" he snarled looking back to the tv intent on getting back to his game but Nicole continued.

Nicole shook her head and asked "Do you miss the trust we all had in you before Sonic revealed who you truly were?"

"What the hell does that have to do with anything?" Scourge sighed, he was incredibly annoyed now that she wouldn't leave him be.

"Because I believe you don't believe you can gain it back"

"Why would I want it back anyway?"

"You are apart of this team"

"Ya cause I have to" he growled again repeating himself.

"You are not being forced to do anything, you could have stayed in the cell after Blaze and I's rescue but you didn't. You stayed out of it" Nicole smiled knowing his reaction already.

"Ya cause I don't want to be locked up all day in some small ass room" he felt that was obvious.

"Yes but even you have common sense, you would have gone back in during the night, but you didn't. You took one of the cots"

"And your point to this is?" he growled.

Nicole smirked "You want our trust, you want to prove yourself. Had you gone back to your cell it would tell me you have no intention of helping us further but like I said you didn't. This leads me to believe you want to help, you want our trust, or at the very least you want Fionas trust again"

"Ok smart lady, if what you say is true why do I want you to leave me the fuck alone?" his tone getting louder near the end.

"Because you, like Shadow, you cast out the idea that you want to be alone or avoid attachment but in reality you scream out for it, you just have too much pride to do it"

"I've been compared to Sonic but I've NEVER been compared to Sonics other double" he laughed mockingly.

Nicole rolled her eyes at him and shrugged "Well needless to say after all I've learned I trust you'll make a good teammate and I trust you will make the right decisions"

He simply rolled his eyes with a 'pfff' sound and got back to playing games. Nicole smiled and quietly left him alone to think about what she said.

Elsewhere again…

Tails had left his mom to figure out those codes. He had pretty much healed up and was moving normally but he felt bad knowing Fiona was still down for now. So he decided to go see how she was doing.

He found her reading the very same book from before. Nearby was Shadow napping so he stayed quiet and walked over.

"How ya doing?"

She looked up "Oh, I'm fine, thanks. Any news?" she closed the book to pay attention.

"Found a bot with an incomplete file but has a full frequency on it. Mom thinks it will lead to the rest of the data and I have her scanning for an approximate location"

"Sounds good, hope it leads to something good" she smiled "Hopefully not too soon, I'd hate to miss it" she lifted her foot a little.

"I'm sure you'll be fine by then, the cast is off after all" he looked over, she had it taken off yesterday, she had a noticeable limp still but as long as she didn't put too much pressure on it, it would heal fine.

"Still hurts to walk a bit" she sighed.

Tails hadn't seen her foot since his mom had taken it off her foot in the morning in the med room.

"How'd it look when you got it off?"

She shrugged "Pretty normal, cleaned up the foot from the blood that dried on the fur and then painstakingly put my boot back on"

"I was gonna ask to see it but if it was that hard to put it on I won't" he smiled.

Fiona rolled her eyes "Tails you don't need to baby me and watch over my every move. I'm fine. Worry about yourself"

The male fox frowned "Why is it a crime now?"

Fiona growled "Remember what we talked about? All I'll do is hurt you?"

"Do you truly believe that, do you not trust yourself?" he asked his tone more serious now.

"Well… I…. Why do 'you' trust me, after I hurt you. I left you and everyone else for Scourge, what makes you believe in me now?" she needed to know this.

He was quiet and looked into her eyes and sighed "You came looking for me remember? You wanted this so much you went out for help"

"That's not what I mean Tails, why do you want me to stay if we make it out of this?"

He looked away sighing again "Fi…." She melted hearing her old nickname yet again.

"I trust you because I trust that you'll know what you've done and won't go that way again. I can see it, you want to help people. You're doing this not only for revenge, but vengeance, vengeance for everyone who died. I can see you want to make this all right just like I do, and walking away when we're done isn't gonna help anyone. Without rules from Eggman there will be people who will want to take advantage and we will be there to stop them…. Right?"

She looked away pleading for his blue eyes to just leave her alone, they melted through her. The hard stare he had when they met again in the waste was gone and she could finally see who he was truly was. The boy that had a crush on her and plead his heart out for her to stay. She hardly noticed he had crouched down next to the bed so he could be level with her as he spoke.

"Dammit Tails…. How can you pull off those eyes after all these years!?" she suddenly got angry trying to defend her choice, she wanted to leave him and keep him safe from her but he needed help and she might be the only one who could stay.

"Please Fi, if not for me, for the people. How about that?" his voice was soft again, she could see into his very soul through his sky blue eyes. The color so foreign to her, so used to grey. Seeing the bright shiny blue gems in front of her made her curse and finally give in.

"Fine…. I'll stay…. Keep the peace, alright you got what you want?" she tried to ask like she was being forced but he was right, she was here to save this planet and end Eggman once and for all and finally end his tyranny.

"I'm not forcing you to do anything Fi, it's your choice"

She looked away, she felt it really wasn't, but damn could he melt her defenses away. That's why she slapped him so long ago, he had been that close to making her come back and in a panic she hit him. It forced her to leave, there was no coming back after that.

She sighed and noticed he was still there and said "I promise that I'll stay if we make it through this"

He nodded and smiled "Ok… now heal up fast, gonna need you next mission"

Despite how conflicted she was, the idea of taking her frustration out on some eggbots and personally attack Eggman made her smirk "Wouldn't miss it for the world"

Ya so it's a little shorter than normal, but I wanted to get out a bit more stuff and set up how things were gonna get going again. So I apologize for two character chapters in a row to anyone who finds it annoying but I promise next chapter will get on the move. Thanks reading.

One question to you guys, Tails isn't changing too quickly do you think?

Can ya guess what Mobius-afide game Scourge was playing?

Live long and prosper

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