Chapter 44: The Time Eater's attack
In no time Knuckles was pulled, Myriad stumbled backwards and JetStream fell. Knuckles fell to the ground, he instantly grabbed his head, "Wha-?" he stood up, "Where'd it go!?" JetStream walked up to him.
"Knuckles!" he realized them there, so were his parents.
"JetStream... How'd you help me form that?" JetStream sort of kicked the cobblestone.
"Well, actually my Dad helped me too, all we did was pull you from... that." he pointed toward the grey blob. Knuckles went right for it.
"Sonic, Tails!" "Wait, Knuckles!" just before he punched a hole in it, he turned toward him.
"Be careful with that, if you're not, then you'll get stuck in whatever that is again..."
"Alright..." he bumped his fists together.
"What're you doing now?"
"You said you and your Dad pulled right?" JetStream nodded and walked to Tails as Knuckles walked to Sonic.
"Be careful trying to grab them by the hand, you don't want to slip."
"How come? If they're floating like that, what's the worry?"
"This isn't the worry about us, it's the worry about your patience." Knuckles rolled his eyes as Corolla leaned toward Myriad.
"That's so you." Myriad rolled his eyes in the same direction.
"Ready, JetStream?"
"Of course!" they went in and tried to grab their hands, Knuckles reached Sonic's first, he soon started tugging. JetStream finally got Tails's hand, and pulled, "Nice and easy..." he hoped that Tails was easier to pull out of this sphere, and it seemed to be true. Although Knuckles got to Sonic first, JetStream ended up pulling Tails out first. He started slipping out, "Tails!" it woke him up.
"Wha- How did we get out of that? I remember that being shot at us..."
"I pulled you out." JetStream answered.
"That-that's all you had to do?" he gaining his breath back as he pulled out his PDA.
"What are you going to do with it?" JetStream asked, as Knuckles pulled Sonic out. It wasn't the best landing.
"See if I can find out what this material is... And searching..." Sonic got back up and shook his head.
"What was the year on that monster..." ignoring the ominous pun.
"You alright?" Sonic laughed.
"Just fine..." he smile dropped, "What about Tails?"
"Over here and just fine." he assured.
"What about your plane, Tails?"
"Hmm..." he looked at it stuck in mid-air.
"I'm afraid it will be staying there."
"That's too bad." JetStream looked at it with worry.
"Well, it's not too bad of a loss anyways..."
"If you say so." Sonic looked around, "So what's the current situation?"
"We're getting chased by something called the Time Eater..." All three were shocked to hear, "What?" they all looked up, discovering the sky has changed, "How long were we in there exactly?"
"Well, from when you all flew off... About thirteen minutes... Why?"
"Why? Because once we got shot, we're all saved by you guys instantly."
"Could have it stopped time?" Myriad asked.
"It could be possible... Oh dang... It's not picking anything up from these." he put the device away, Corolla walked up to it.
"So these grey spheres have no time progression inside?" she asked.
"That's what I'm concluding." there was another explosion-like sound somewhere near them, Myriad turned around.
"We better get going."
"Right." they all went forward in order to hide from the monstrosity, Myriad turned left and the others followed.
'I guess it's time for a game of follow the leader...' JetStream thought as the stress was building as they covered more area of the town, who knows when they could run into the Time Eater. A time explosion erupted to the path across from them, but it was big enough that it crossed into the run they're moving on.
"Let's rush this!" Myriad yelled, they all seemed to go faster in an attempt to get passed the expanding sphere, luckily making it all the through.
"Where are we going anyway?" Sonic asked.
"We're heading back to our home!" Corolla replied.
"Why don't we just leave and get help!?" JetStream suggested.
"Not now..." Myriad replied.
"Until we have no choice but to, then we will." Knuckles shook his head, frowning. Closer and closer they got to their destination, and the closer and closer they felt to being caught. They were now in the open, there only cover were short buildings. Soon enough they reached it, they went through the front door as fast as they could.
"Hurry, hurry." Myriad said in a soft tone, motioning them to come in, looking around. After they all entered, Myriad circled around the door to enter, closing it shut hard. The Time Eater looked around, just before Myriad closed he could see him closing it. Myriad looked toward the group.
"JetStream."
"Yeah?"
"I want you and your friends to check outside."
"Myriad... Shouldn't you and I do that?"
"No, don't worry Mom, we got it! Com' on." JetStream preceded to the back door.
"Hurry up you guys." they all exited and started looking around, JetStream closed the door and galloped to them, "You see it yet?"
"J-JetStream! Behind you..." Sonic, Knuckles, and JetStream all looked back, they were all shocked to see him there.
"Mom! Dad!" as he started to gallop closer, the Time Eater was ahead of him as he already shot the sphere.
"No...!"
"JetStream!" Sonic called out just before he zipped over to stop JetStream from getting into it.
"JetStream stop! It's already been done!" he now knew what having your heart shattered felt like, Sonic ran to the end of the backyard.
"JetStream, please get us to the Glassed Hill." despite the sudden loss of his parents, and a couple tears in his eyes, he turned around and prepared to go underground with the Glassed Hill, where there wouldn't be anyway of getting them there.
~~~Chapter End~~~