Tails pov
The alarm continued to ring as both sonic and tails both snapped out of their trance. "What does that mean?" Asked sonic confused. "It means red alert," answered tails as he began quickly hitting buttons. A screen came up showing an overview of the forest they all lived in. There were lots of red dots slowly moving in from the outside. "Sonic were under attack! We need to warn everyone else before Its too late!" "Stay here tails ill find out what's going on," said sonic quickly and before tails could object sonic was out the door like a bullet. "Maybe I don't want to stay here, batman never told robin to stay put," huffed tails. He couldnt believe sonic had just left him like that. Tails hated feeling useless especially to his hero. All he wanted was to help why couldn't sonic see that? He ran out to try to catch up to sonic, still angry with his friend for underestimating him. His frustration fueling his speed making him move almost as fast as his hero. He was determined to prove himself today.
Sonics pov
Sonic ran in the night to each of his friends houses quickly waking everyone up and warning them of the coming danger. As he ran thoughts raced through his head. Why had he told tails to stay put. Hhis ability to fly could have been helpful in alerting everyone and seeing what they were up against. He knew how much tails hated being left behind but there was a new feeling he had for the kitsune which made him want to protect him. He knew it was cruel but he couldn't help it. He would apologize later after the threat had been dealt with.
Tails pov
Tails was flying higher than he had ever flown before trying to spot out the force coming towards them. He spotted a giant drill and a mech with eggman's face painted on them coming from the north and tons of robot forces coming from the south. They intended to flank them but tails knew what to do. He spotted his friends all gathering in a clearing and came down to land by them. As tails arrived he could hear the last part of sonic giving a speech. Knuckles saw tails arrive and looking right at him asked sonic, "why tails couldn't just fly me in and I could just punch the robots into the ground from the ait. Sonic turned to tails his face flashed from surprised to angry. "Tails I told you to stay put I don't want you getting hurt in this." Snapped sonic. Tails couldnt take it he was already angry. "But you would let amy, a girl, fight along side you? Am I not good enough to be a sidekick?" Sonic was lost as to how to respond. He did consider tails as kind of a sidekick that's true and he hadn't acted like this in the past. "Tails just please go home ill explain later." "No," was the short answer he recieved. Sonic became frustrated "Tails please we can handle this its just a few of robotniks bots." Tails didn't want to correct him he just had an Idea of how to prove himself. "Fine sonic." He said as he ran off toward the secret forces approaching from the south. When he stopped the flank they would see he wasn't useless.
Tails stayed on the ground running, he didn't want the enemy to see him in the air before he arrived. If he could surprise the flank force he could easily win the fight. He heard explosions in the distance and figured the others must have started their own battle.
Sonics pov
"Its too tall!" yelled knuckles. Once again failing to scale the mech due to its many defensive attachments. "I can't get halfway up it before i get hit with like 20 lasers!" Sonic realized how grim this fight had become. The robots were both well designed. The drill had been a simple task of using knuckles digging skills to get underneath where it was weak and spin dash up through the machine. However the second they realized would be much harder. Its cleae weak point was at the top but it proved near impossible to reach with all its lasers. Sonic groaned, 'tails would have been perfect for this' his logical side told him. "No I couldn't risk losing him," he muttered out loud. "What was that?" Yelled knuckles as he dodged one of the mech's stomps. "Nothing! We can beat this!" Yelled back sonic. He became determined to prove he didn't need tails help. He sprinted up a tree to the side of the machine, flipped off it and began running up the side of it dodging missles and lasers as he went. As he reached the top he jumped rolled into a ball and dashed straight towards the things head. As he was about to collide he was suddnly hit hard and flung far away from the fight, the robot had swatted him out of the air like a fly. He slammed into the ground and slid till his head came in contact with the base of a tree and he was knocked unconscious.
Tails pov
After surprising the force of robots it wasnt a hard task for tails to zip between them and begin tearing them apart. His attack fueled by his rage he was getting closer and closer to losing control of himself without knowing. After an hour the only thing still standing was a sweaty panting tails covered in machine oil. The explosions in the distance had stopped meaning his friends had probably defeated the big robots. He began making his way back to their meeting spot at the clearing. On his way he began thinking about how they would react when he arrived. Would sonic be angry? Surely the others wouldn't. Tails decided he didn't care, he would have to stand up to sonic even though it hurt him to argue with his best friend.
When he arrived he found no one waiting for him. Confused he began looking around for signs of his friends. "Maybe they already all went home," he thought, "its not like they were expecting me." Just then he hears a groan from somewhere in the bushes. As he moved through he spotted a large crater in the ground leading up to a tree with a blue form underneath. He immediately recognized the form of the unconscious, and bloodied echidna he loved.
Sonics pov
Slowly he opened his eyes. He recognized his room and scanned his eyes over it seeing no one else. He tried to sit up but immediately was hit with a sharp pain in his back and saw stars. His vision blurred as a serious headache came to him. He reached a hand up and felt bandages on his head. Suddenly he got really scared. "Tails?! He yelled. He didn't know why but he just assumed the worst had happened. When tails finally entered he breathed out a sigh of relief. "Tails what has happened?" He asked immediately. Tails ran to him, crouched down, and held one of his hands in his own. "Sonic you lost the fight, robotnik kidnapped everyone else. He wants you to give yourself up or watch them die." Sonic groaned. "You see why I told you to go home?" He said offhandedly. He regretted it the second he saw tears well up in tails eyes. "Yes but I didn't! I fought the invading force from the south sonic, I was trying to help you even though you didn't want me to! If we had only worked as a team.. But, no, you had to blow me off like I'm some kind of worthless tag along. After all we've been through sonic I just can't believe you would try to push me out of the group!" Tails was furious sonic could tell but he was also hurt and there was something else sonic could sense. "Tails listen ok. I'm sorry." Tails still wasn't letting it go. "Your sorry? Sorry doesn't bring back our friends! Sorry doesn't fix what happened to them." Sonic was hurt by his words but he had to tell him. It was now or never. "Tails!" Sonic practically screamed. It hurt his head to do so but he had to get his attention somehow. Tails looked down at him shocked by his outburst before he put on a couldn't care less face and asked, "what?" Sonic tried to form the next words in his mind before he said them. "Tails I... you don't unserstand. I'm not trying to push you out or ignore you. I don't think your weak or that your a bad sidekick. Tails lately I've been confused and its been driving me crazy. All my relationships feel empty and meaningless. I can't find a reason to press on in life as long as... well..." tails was suddenly very interested, "as long as what sonic?" He surprised himself with how softly he asked this when he had been yelling just a minute ago. Sonic decided to just let it rip. He sighed before answering, "as long as I'm still hiding my feelings for you, your the only person I truly feel love towards tails. Your the only one that makes sense to me even when everyone else thinks I should be with amy." Tails sat next to him with a look of surprise on his face. Sonic went to say more, "its ok if you dont feel the same tails, I just needed to say it to get it off my chest, I know your with cream and..." he couldn't finish suddenly tails was kissing him!
Tails pov
Tails couldn't handle this sudden confession. He was taken back. His mind began racing. He knew he had to take advantage of this situation now or sonic would brush this off as a moment of weakness but what could he say to him? He just leaned in and made a leap of faith. What he didnt expect was for sonic to begin licking his teeth for entrance. Tails was more than happy to oblige and let out a moan into his lovers mouth as he allowed sonics tongue to begin roaming around. They sat there tasting one another and living in the moment, only finally breaking it apart for air. "Tails..." sonic asked softly as if asking for reassurance. Tails couldn't help but give him a quick kiss before saying, "sonic I love you too, cream is merely my friend and the only one ive ever told that I'm gay. You however are the person I've always loved and wished I could be with. The reson I make all these things for you is because I only want to be close to you. I thought you would never return my feelings so I just became as close to you as I could and tried to make myself important In your life. When you began pushing me out of the fights i got scared and have to understand that before I met you I had nothing to live for." Tails stood up away from the bed. "I'm going to make us some food but our talk isn't over." Sonics stomache growled and tails stated simply "thats what i thought," He left sonic to think about what his friend had just told him.
