Chapter 25: A flight mentation
"Hey, Tails, why don't you use your thing? The only places I know are Here, Altamare, and Ponyville." Tails pulled his PDA out.
"This? It's Miles Electric. But yeah, I guess I could. I haven't used it since... well since before were ever ended up here." they all got in their seats, JetStream sat in last, and put his saddle-bag near him.
"JetStream, here..." JetStream toward Knuckles only to realize he tossed the Emerald, luckily he caught it.
"What!?" JetStream exclaimed as he held the object with his hoofs, he looked in the right saddlebag and opened it, "Where did we find it?" Sonic laughed.
"We actually have no clue." JetStream's eyes widened.
"What!?" he laughed nervously, "You got to be kidding..." he opened the flap to the right bag and put the fifth Chaos Emerald in it, JetStream noticed that the saddlebag's weight was almost balanced, and yet he sighed knowing it would be more weight to carry, "Thanks, Knuckles." he gave him a slight nod.
"Everyone, it's packing up a signal." JetStream expression rapidly changed.
"Really? Awesome." Tails suddenly went very silent.
"... It's the ones we already have..." Tails stated discouraged. Everyone slumped down and Sonic fell as Tails scratched his head, "Hang on, let me adjust it to greater distances... Ah-ha! We got it." Tails pointed north, "They seem to be from the north. And it's quite the distance away." Tails hopped in his seat, "Alright then, lets get going." the plane's front propellers started to turn and accelerate for their second flight. JetStream felt like he'd never get used to the take off, although it was worth the view afterward, the plane was already high in the sky near the castle heading north. Soon after, cloud passing another cloud, things start to get quiet. It's just the wind and the ambience of the plane for now. JetStream consciously thought to himself and knew he wouldn't be doing much talking. Knuckles would just drift off into sleep. But Tails and Sonic on the other hand, they'd go on like they had an adventure, which JetStream thought that it may be usual for them anyway.
'Just how long have they known each other?' JetStream stared off into the blue sky, 'And that ring Sonic has, what is it?' he remembered the turquoise ring Sonic wore on his glove, and that's exactly where he looked, 'Then where is it now? It it's not on his glove...?' JetStream looked at his saddlebag, and opened the left flap. The book was still there, JetStream's eyes widened. The ring was under the book he got from the library tree, 'He must've put that ring in here when he grabbed a saddlebag for me...' he went ahead and grabbed the ring, making sure the book wasn't visible, 'I wonder if it fits me too.' JetStream's childish curiosity kicked in as he decided to put the ring on and wear it, '... It's a little tight...' he decided to take it off and put it back on top of the book and closed the flap again, 'I wonder where he got it from...' JetStream dragged his mind away from one thing to another, 'That Eggman character obviously poses great danger. But can I trust all of them? Of course, that's pretty obvious as well... I'd just ask them... Would they answer, teamwork... or co-operation? But what if those two are the same? Then how will they answer that...? They're not bad characters... it's just... well...' JetStream looked over toward Knuckles, 'Being aggressive is one thing... And evil is nothing nopony should deal with, but even if they do, it's just got to be for peace in the near future...' JetStream smiled, he was finally able to relax, but his smile faltered, 'But what is the evil...?' his thoughts took him back to Altamare, at the Bell Tower specifically, and what Twilight said before, 'Is it really getting stronger? I'm sure I have no idea, but we're going to need to keep an eye on it... If we can.'
"JetStream, we're half way there." JetStream snapped to reality.
"Oh, okay." Sonic ended up staring at him.
"You seem off, JetStream..." JetStream looked at the ground miles below him.
"Hmm, yeah..." Sonic smiled.
"Burn off all of your excitement, JetStream?" as soon as JetStream was starting to crack a smile, he turned his head, when he suddenly felt stiff, as in a full body cast. Tails looked around.
"Uh, did it just get colder?" Sonic stood still.
"Yeah, I guess you're right..." JetStream felt heavy for a moment, his breathing was heavier, "Well, it does say that temperatures do get colder up here, being north and all." JetStream tried to nod as he was gaining his strength back. JetStream decided not to think of anything to pass the time, because it was too difficult to pull off. Soon enough Tails announced what JetStream wanted to hear.
"Alright, we have arrived." Knuckles snorted and slowly woke himself up.
"The-there already?"
'It was a 45 minute flight... sleep works in mysterious ways...' JetStream thought. He looked at the place they'd be landing in, it automatically surprised them all.
"No wonder it picked up the Emerald here, everything shines!" JetStream pointed north-east their direction.
"Hey... Look over there!" JetStream pointed toward a tall crystal in the middle of the city.
"That crystal's colossal." Sonic got Tails's attention.
"How about we land there, Tails."
"Alright." they landed on the inside of this city near the edge. Knuckles was the first to jump out and Tails was the last as they all looked at the lustrous landmark before them, "Well, are we ready to go?" Sonic pointed his thumb toward JetStream, who was still trying to grab his saddlebag.
"He's not." JetStream grabbed it, but once he pulled , he fell off the plane and onto the ground where his saddlebag plopped next to him.
"R-ready..." JetStream frailly responded. Tails and Sonic gave a good sigh.
~~~Chapter End~~~