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// Equestria and the Mysterious Stones-Chapter 35 
// Story: Equestria and the Mysterious Stones 
// by LunicStream1105 
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Chapter 35: What would a fox do?


Tails flew over as many houses he spotted, finally landing before he could be spotted. He ran toward the door, and without warning he opened it and walked in, quickly closing the door behind him. He turned around to see one of the Crystal ponies staring at him, "I'm sorry for barging in like this... I needed a good place to hide..." the crystal pony jumped.

"I don't mind, but..." she looked through the blinds, "What are you hiding from?" Tails paused as he slowly caught his stamina.

"... JetStream, the pony out there, has... uh, somehow taken control of my friends from our universe, this is why I'm hiding..." the pony nodded and took a good look at JetStream.

"Although that may be his appearance, I have a feeling it's not your friend at all..." Tails turned toward her, accidently dropping the Emerald he carried.

"What? ... Whoops..." she tilted her head with a raised eyebrow as Tails went to pick it up from the floor.

"Uh, what's that?"

"This? It's a Chaos Emerald. They're from my universe... this is what, JetStream's after." the fact that his friend wasn't exactly who he seemed to be shook him. The pony stopped for a second and looked past Tails, a cold wave went down Tails's spine.

"Who're they?" Tails looked around, as soon as he realized he started backing away from the door, hiding the Chaos Emerald behind his back. The pony's mouth was slightly open during this, looking back and forth between him and the door.

"Those are the one I'm hiding from!"

"Don't panic..." Tails voice sounded like that didn't help at all.

"How!?" she opened her wide window, and pointed her hoof outside. Tails's eyes widened

"Really? Alright..." he rushed to get out so Sonic and Knuckles didn't see him. Tails ended up sitting next to the house on the outside, just below the window. A moment passed, the crystal pony jumped down as well, with Tails surprised to see this, he stood back up once he saw her, "What are you doing?" Tails whispered as she finally slipped out of the window and landed next to Tails smiling.

"I'm going to help you, if that's what you want." Tails eased up, pulling his index finger close to his muzzle.

"Wait, how come you are acting like this?" the pony looked to her right.

"Uh, do what?"

"Well, every Crystal pony I have ever met so far, was either bummed out, or just too shy to show themselves..." she lightly shook her head.

"That's not entirely important now, is it?" Tails raised his index finger in protest, but then decided to put it back down, and she giggled.

"You are so cute I must admit, what's your name?" he sighed.

"My name's, Tails." he unenthusiastically smiled.

"Well hi, Tails. My name is, Bias Faith." Tails nodded, "So, Tails, you plan to do anything about this?" that question only worried Tails further.

"I don't know..." he looked toward the top of the Empire, 'What about the other Emeralds...?' he looked at the one he was holding, and then turned sharply toward her, "Actually, Bias, I need to get up there." he pointed toward the top, and she nodded.

"Alright, I'll help ya with that." Tails nodded, and started running to the Crystal Tower, Bias Faith followed behind him, "I'm right behind you." Bias watched Tails as they slowed down. She thought of something, and consciously decided to offer it, "Hey, Tails, why don't you hop on? I bet you're tired from that hiding you said you were doing..." Tails was about to collapse, he had to hold himself up with his knees.

"You're okay with that?" she motioned him to get on.

"Sure." Tails went ahead and leaped onto her back, and she grained a smug grin, "Hold on tight." Tails knew he was doomed.

'To what?' but before it was too late as she started galloping as fast as she could, "Wahh!" she laughed considerably hard.

"Told ya didn't I? ... Oh, you might want to keep quiet..." Tails suddenly stopped himself.

"Oh, uh, yeah..." they were approaching fast, but when they finally reached it, Sonic and Knuckles were around the Crystal, searching for him, "We got to get up there, and fast..." she nodded.

"Right on it." her horn started to glow.

'I didn't realize she had a horn, did she have it covered?' Tails looked curiously, her horn was glowing an iris colour.

"Okay, get ready."

"Yeah." Tails nodded before the glow formed around them, as they both seeminglessly started rising toward the top of the Crystal Empire. Tails looked a little loose, as if he was going to lose consciousness, "I will never get used to magic for as long as I live..." she snickered.

"Don't worry, we're almost there." after what seemed like forever, she got the both of the mover the edge, and onto the roof. Bias Faith landed softly as she could, yet Tails looked a little drowsy as he recovered.

"There it is, the saddle-bag." they both started walking toward it, Bias looked at it curiously.

"What's in it?" Tails lifted his arm, showing the same Emerald.

"Five more of these."

"Really? How much is there?"

"Seven." she considered the math.

"So you only have one to go?" Tails felt confident in that statement, he picked up the saddle-bag as they reached for it.

"Yeah, but then we'll have to go back home..." they both gained a somber tone. Bias looked at the Emeralds carefully.

"So what are you going to do with them?"

"I know what I will do, but I'm not sure if it's going to work... I'm not sure if I can do it correctly..."

"Do what?" Bias Faith asked. Tails looked at her.

"Perform Chaos Control." she looked very confused.

"What's that all about?"

"Well, I'm don't know for certain, but it's got to do something with time... I'm want to use Chaos Control so I can hope that what happened to JetStream doesn't..." Tails grabbed all the Emeralds from the bag and placed them around him, with the white one in his hand, he somberly looked down, "If this works, there's a good chance that I won't end up meeting you..." she gave a firm smile.

"As long as I helped." Tails nodded.

"Yeah, thanks about that." Tails then did what he'd see Sonic or another person would do it, he lifted the Chaos Emerald above his head, "Chaos Control!" and before she could react, Tails vanished, as did everything that went with it.


~~~Chapter End~~~