Chapter 36: With alternate exits
"Why are they angry!?" Tails stared in awe.
"JetStream!" he suddenly fell forward on his hands and knees, "I did it..." Sonic looked over to Tails.
"You okay, Tails?" he quickly nodded.
'I have to get the saddle-bag away...' he looked up to Sonic, "Sonic! Grab the saddlebag from JetStream!"
"What?" Sonic was confused, JetStream slightly looked to the left, "Why?"
"There's no time!" that sent Sonic dashing toward JetStream, he jumped over him, swiping the bag from his back and ran back around toward Tails.
"Why do you need this?"
"I don't, JetStream does..." Sonic scratched his head.
"Is this more of your, technical talk again?" Sonic sighed, " You know I don't understand that."
"No, it's not that, it's just... well. I used Chaos Control to fix something..." Sonic stepped back.
"What!? What did you fix?"
"I guess JetStream was outraged by something, he transformed, and he even got you and Knuckles to go after and search for me because I left with the Chaos Emerald he needed."
"Wow..." Sonic paused, "I know I use Chaos Control a good amount of times, yet I'm never able to make a story like that... fake or not..." he laughed, and stopped, looking like he was starting to think, "... How do you know you've fixed it?"
"We'll just see..." they watched as the Time Flower was continuing its rich history, the ponies were currently trying to break the door open, JetStream saw everypony's expression , especially the pony next to him.
"Why are they doing this?" the pony sighed.
"It's all my fault, I'm sorry my King... I have, failed you..." JetStream turned toward him.
"A King? What?" Tails shook his head.
"Yeah, things are going differently..." Sonic sighed in relief, "But it's not in the ways I expected..." he stopped himself midway through drying his forehead.
"What do you mean by that?" Tails asked.
"The pony never said that before last time..." JetStream answered.
"Coincidence?" Tails shrugged, partially worried. JetStream was worried for the pony.
"Won't he grant you forgiveness?" Knuckles landed near Sonic.
"I've see they already made it..." Sonic pointed to the door.
"Them? Yeah..." the pony went into a defensive stance. When the pony suddenly spoke.
"To whom who activates the Time Flower and sees this, you are seeing what truly happened!" Tails shook his head again.
"He didn't say that either...." and his horn started to glow, JetStream's Aura showed visible, it was a soft goldish-yellow. Tails stood higher, 'This did happen before... so is it alright for it to go on like this, did I actually change its course?' the pony's glow grew brighter, as did JetStream's Aura, except it was more vivid and clear. As the pony waited for the right moment, and fired his magic, containing an iris purple colour. JetStream was too unsure of anything by now.
"What spell is that... is it even a spell?" Sonic was shocked.
"Is he pulling his own fate?" suddenly the ponies all crashed through the door and continued charging toward him, JetStream recoiled.
'What is he going to do?' in all horror, the pony finally shot as it was completely ready. JetStream fell to the ground, as it felt like he was hit with a massive heat wave, "... Ah...! That hurt!" Sonic ran to JetStream.
"You okay?" JetStream was tearing up from the pain, he had no idea where it was possibly coming from, or why he was feeling it in the first place, gritting his teeth and breathing intensively.
"I don't k-know..." he could hardly make his speech out, and his Aura violently changed red. The pony fired his magic, and JetStream cringed, they all watched as the impending doom could happen before their own eyes. The beam of magic shot the first pony on the head, and instantly exploded right then and there. JetStream felt pain all around his body, to the point of it's full extent, as soon as the pony using the magic was engulfed the explosion as well. He couldn't see anything, as if it was blinding him.
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But it was different for, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles... what they saw, was something beyond comprehension, almost something they've never seen before...
Seeing those ponies disappear, fizzling into thin air... Dying...
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Sonic was nearly speechless, "What did he do?"
"I don't know." Tails responded.
"Something doesn't feel right about it either..." Knuckles responded. They saw JetStream stand up, he was motionless afterward. Tails was relieved about that as he walked up to him.
"JetStream, did you gain your strength back?" his Aura went back to gold. Sonic and Knuckles were finally relieved at seeing that. The dust of the explosion settled, as the blind of it disappeared, their surroundings were visible again. Knuckles sighed.
"I'm glad it's finally over." Sonic and Knuckles looked at JetStream, only to notice that the top of his Aura where it usually seemed to go invisible, turned black, like a fire with its spark. Sonic tilted his head.
"What now?" Knuckles was motionless.
"Tails, are you alright?" it looked like he touched something contaminated, knowing his immediate fall was afterward.
"I-is that... even you... JetStream?" Sonic walked over looking over the side.
"What do you mean?" he looked at JetStream, getting ready to wave his hand in front of his face, "JetS- Whoa!" Sonic looked like he has seen a ghost. JetStream's iris and pupils were white, all you saw was the whites of the eyes.
"JetStream?"
"..."
"JetStream!?"
"... ... ..." Tails started to tear up.
"No..."Sonic slowly looked at Tails, "No!" Knuckles grimaced, for being one tough son-of-a-gun, he couldn't bare to see this any longer. He'll just wait, for them to continue... when ever they're ready.
~~~Chapter End~~~