Look, I'm sorry about the horrendous delay, but here's chapter 7!

Also, I've added the new theme song to the start of the story!

Chapter 7: Do I belong here?

"You ready?" The two-tailed fox asked from the cockpit of the X-Tornado.

"Totally!" Sonic's voice echoed out of Tails' morpher.

"All right, then!"

Tails pulled a lever and the plane roared into life. The door of the holding bay opened and the plane began to make its way down the runaway. The X-Tornado lifted off the ground. Within seconds, the plane was at least 200 feet of the ground. Tails looked out the window. Sonic was flying alongside the plane, using his control over wind to keep himself airborne.

"You know the rules, right?" Tails asked.

"Yep. First one to Solleana City and back wins. Loser does the dishes for a whole month. 3-2-1-GO!"

Tails slammed the accelerator and the X-Tornado zoomed off. Tails relaxed slightly. There was no way that Sonic could beat him in the air...or so he thought. Tails heard a tapping noise at the window and he turned to see what the cause of it was. Tails' eyes went very wide. Sonic the Hedgehog was tapping at the window. Sonic smirked, pulled a face and flew off again, leaving Tails to take in what just happened. After a few seconds, Tails was able to pull himself back together.

"I have seriously underestimated his flying capabilities..." Tails muttered.

Tails pulled another lever and the X-Tornado went full throttle, at least 300mph. He was now coming up to Soleanna, the beautiful city of water. Tails squinted, trying to see where Sonic was.

"Now where could he be?" Tails asked himself.

There was a flash of Blue outside the cockpit window, travelling in the opposite direction at an extremely fast rate.

"Damn it!" Tails yelled. He groaned and turned the plane back towards South Island, where sonic would surely be waiting for him.

"Great. Now when Sonic needs a fast air-lift to somewhere, he won't even need me." Tails put his head back for a moment.

"I'm not even sure if I belong on the team. Sonic, Amy and Knuckles have all proved themselves worthy of wielding the Shinobi Medals, but have I? Could the creators of that scroll...made a mistake? Am I the true Sonikku Yellow?"

All these questions, along with dozens more similar ones went through the young Fox's mind.

"Sure, my technology is brilliant, but..."

He was cut off from his train of thought as he saw South Island slowly coming back into view.

South Island.

Sonic was waiting in the X-Tornado's hangar, tapping his foot impatiently. Then he saw the X-Tornado coming in to land. Soon after it landed, the cockpit opened and Tails stepped out, a solemn look on his face.

"You ok, little bud?" Sonic asked, walking up to him. Tails ignored him.

"Hey-" Sonic tried to put his hand on his best friend's shoulder, but Tails shrugged it off and walked out of the room.

"Tails!" Sonic called, he was now becoming worried about him. Sonic pulled open the door just in time to see Tails storm down the corridor, Pushed Knuckles and Shahra aside and walk into his room, slamming the door behind him. Knuckles stared at the door, bewildered for a few moments before turning to Sonic, who had an equally shocked look on his face.

In Tails' room...

Tails lay on his bed and stared at the ceiling, a million thoughts racing through his head all at once.

"I'm just not sure that they need me. They could do just as well without..."

He could hear Sonic's voice inside his head, saying;

"Tails, of course we need you here, if there's one member that's proved himself, it's you. Without you, we wouldn't of made it to the Egg Carrier, we wouldn't have made it to the core of the Eclipse Cannon in time, we wouldn't of destroyed the Metarex Army..."

"Yeah, the Metarex. Remember the sacrifice needed, though?" Tails asked himself, looking over to the windowsill, where a small potted plant was positioned.

Cosmo. The only one he truly loved, even more than he loved Cream. She sacrificed herself to save them all. And the worst thing about it? He had been the one to pull the trigger (well, lever) that killed her. None of the others truly understood what he felt none of them had killed the one they loved...

And a little seed was all had left of her...which had by now blossomed into said potted plant.

Tails got off the bed and walked over to the plant and sighed sadly.

"I'm sorry I haven't found a way to bring you back, Cosmo. Maybe I am worthless after all..." he whispered to the plant. He stared at it expectantly for a moment, privately hoping that it had heard him somehow. After a few moments, however, it became clear that Tails wasn't going to get a reaction of any sort from it. Tails sighed sadly again, and lay back down on his bed. He stayed awake, staring at the ceiling for a few minutes, before drifting off into a very restless sleep.

Tails dream:

"Go! We don't need you here! And we don't want you here, either!" Sonic was shouting.

"But-"

"Get out, you worthless little runt! Now!" Knuckles yelled.

"But-"

"We said we didn't want you here, didn't we? If it wasn't for you, Cosmo would still be alive!" Amy shrieked.

"NO!"

Back in the real world:

Tails sat bolt upright in bed, sweating and panting. It took him a few minutes to calm himself down. He then checked his bedside digital clock.

"2:47AM?! Now I'll never be able to get back to sleep! Not that I really want to after that..."

The next morning...

"Look, I don't know what's up with Tails!"

"You keep on saying that, but I think you do."

"Will you two please stop it?!" Asked Amy.

Sonic and Knuckles stopped bickering, but continued to glare at each other.

"Thank you" Amy muttered.

"Now, what we need to do is-"

She was cut off by the beeping of their morphers. "Another one of Doom and Djinn's monsters is in Station Square. This guy looks like a mutated computer!" Blaze explained. They all groaned.

"I'll go get Tails" Sonic muttered, exiting the kitchen and heading toward Tails' room. He knocked loudly.

"Tails? Tails, you in there?" No answer.

Deciding that Tails must already be heading there, Sonic headed back downstairs.

Tails was staring out of his bedroom window.

"Let them go. They don't need me. They can handle him on their own." He thought to himself, watching the others run towards the city.

Station Square Centre

As Blaze had said, a new monster had decided to make an appearance. This one did indeed look like an overgrown mutated computer. It's chest was shaped like a computer monitor, it's legs were in the shape of computer towers and its feet were shaped like computer mice. Also, the hands of the monster were covered with computer keys and the arms looked like giant packs of CDs. And on top of all this, his head was in the shape of a speaker system.

"Ah, Station Square. Time to show this place why the Black Arms are the best!" the monster shouted.

As soon as he spoke, he was hit by a blue laser.

"Agh! Who did that?" he asked. Then he looked up and saw Sonikku Blue, Red and Pink standing on a ledge, staring down at him.

"Man, did Microsoft strike a deal with Black Doom or something?" Amy asked.

"Nah, he's too useless. Even by Microsoft's standards." Sonic replied, and the Sonicangers laughed.

"Grrr! I'll show you who's useless! You will never defeat me, Compatson, the world's smartest and strongest Supercomputer!" Compatson yelled angrily.

"You know, if you're the world's smartest Supercomputer, the others must be REALLY stupid." Knuckles commented.

If Compatson could of cringed, he would of.

"Why you four – wait a minute!"

Compatson counted up the Sonicangers,

"One, Two, Three – where's the yellow one?" he asked.

"Learned to count, have we?" Sonic asked, his cocky smile surfacing under his helmet.

Compatson's face WOULD of been burning up with Embarrassment and Humiliation by know, but seeing as he was just a computer, this wasn't possible. So instead, Compatson summoned up a sword, shaped like a desktop computer arrow and charged towards the three heroes, slashing them numerous times, causing them to fall to the ground.

"Wow, I didn't even see that coming, and I'm supposed to be the fastest thing alive!" Sonic exclaimed, getting back up.

"Well, my download speeds ARE the fastest things around!" Compatson cried happily.

"What do download speeds have to do with using a sword?" Amy asked.

Compatson thought for a minute.

"Err...Take this!" he cried, slashing them all again.

Knuckles got back up.

"I'm not done yet! Dirt Axe!" Knuckles said, lifting up his massive axe.

"Right! Metal Hammer!" Amy yelled, lifting it.

The two then attempted to charge Compatson, who simply summoned up a small cloud of Mini-Arrows and sent them at the two, knocking them both down.

"You two Ok?" Sonic asked, running over to them.

"What do you think?" Knuckles muttered.

Sonic stared Compatson straight in the eye and pulled out the Sonic Striker.

"Take Thi-" but before Sonic could fire, he was blasted back by another cloud of arrows.

"Muahahahaha! Looks like I win!" Compatson exclaimed happily.

South Island

Tails was still in his room, thinking about what could be happening in the battle.

"I'm sure the others are handling the monster well enough without me." He thought.

Then, his morpher started beeping frantically and Sonic's voice could be heard.

"Tails, I don't know where you are or what you're doing, but we need you down here NOW!"

Then the message ended.

Tails looked once again at Cosmo's plant and told himself;

"All right, I guess it's time to see if they really do need me."

He then lifted his morpher above his head and chanted;

"Ninpuu! Shinobi Change, HAA!"

A yellow light was emitted from his morpher and a second later he was Sonikku Yellow. Then he was gone.

Back to the battle...

Meanwhile, Compatson was starting to form another cloud of arrows in an attempt to finish off the Sonicangers.

"This is the end for you!" he exclaimed.

But before he could complete the attack, he was knocked down by a strong blast of water.

"Tails!" the Sonicangers yelled. And there was Tails, standing on a ledge above them.

"Agh! I'll get you for that, you Twin-Tailed yellow rat!" Compatson yelled, sending Tails a cloud of the arrows.

Tails was able to leap of the ledge to avoid the attack and struck Compatson with his sabre before he had a chance to realise what was going on.

"Go Tails!" Sonic yelled.

"You can do it!" Amy yelled.

"Show him what you're made of!" Knuckles added.

"So, they really do need me here." Tails thought, taking out his Sound Blaster and hitting it dead on, close range. The strange sound waves ripped through Compatson's body, causing sparks to fly (literally!).

"Now, guys!"

Sonic, Knuckles and Amy pulled out their sabres and successfully struck Compatson while he was down, sending him flying through the air.

"All right, let's finish this now! Sonic Cannon, Booster Mode!"

They combined their weapons into one huge cannon.

"Locked-On!" said Amy.

"Charged!" said Knuckles.

"Ready..." continued Sonic.

"Fire!" Tails pulled the trigger, sending a blast of energy at Compatson, blowing him into tiny pieces.

"All right, we did it!" Tails exclaimed happily.

"YOU did it, Tails." Sonic corrected.

The celebrations didn't last long, as Compatson was resurrected and had now grown to a monstrous size.

"What did you expect? He wasn't going to get smaller, was he?" Knuckles asked.

"I suppose not. Shinobi Machines!" Tails called.

As he spoke, the Falcon, Tiger, Shark and Deer appeared and the Sonicangers leapt into the cockpits.

"Sonpujin Fury!" the Sonicangers cried together and the four machines combined to form one.

"Powerdisk!" Tails inserted his Shinobi Medal into his cockpit's Powerdisk slot. The chest of the Sonpujin opened, and Karakuri Ball No.3 came out. It opened up to reveal a large laser gun.

"Power Laser!" cried Tails.

"That's not going to stop me!"

"Sure it's not. Fire!" Knuckles cried, and the Sonpujin blasted Compatson with the laser, sending him crashing down to the ground.

"It'll take more than that! Here!" Compatson summoned up more arrows and sent them flying towards the Sonpujin.

"Oh no you don't! Rapid fire!" Tails called, and the Sonpujin shot down EVERY SINGLE ARROW.

"W-What?! Impossible!"

"Nope!" said Amy.

"Let's finish this!" Sonic said and the others agreed.

The Power Laser began to glow a mixture of Yellow, Blue, Red and Pink.

"FULL POWER!" they yelled together, and Compatson was obliterated as soon as the Super-Charged laser hit.

"All right!" Amy exclaimed.

"Tails?" asked Sonic.

"Yeah?"

"Mind telling us why you were so upset earlier?"

"Well..."

Aboard the Black Comet...

"So, another one of our monsters has been destroyed." Black Doom said.

"Yes, but Project P.A is almost finished." Erazor Djinn replied. "And soon, this planet will be ours for taking!"

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