Chapter 48: To leave one's family
Seconds passed as the whole world literally started turning white and black, the world was loosing its color. Sonic couldn't focus on anything else, he's never seen anything like this, "Knuckles, you seeing this too?" upon hearing this, Tails glanced up, noticing the changing world beyond them, he sniffled. Soon after, Tails thought he was hearing things.
"... Is he gone?" without hesitation he replied.
"Yeah, Eggman's gone." Tails suddenly popped up.
"JetStream?" Sonic and Knuckles looked back curousously.
"Thank you, I couldn't stand like that forever..."
"JetStream?" he turned his head, and faced toward Tails.
"That was too close... I'm glad it missed..." JetStream took a deep breath. Tails was stood up confused.
"It missed?"
"Yeah, that wind was the last thing I thought I'd hear..." JetStream started to walk around it the grey sphere.
"So you only stood still like that so Eggman wouldn't get suspicious?" JetStream nodded.
"Yeah... I'm sorry for always keeping you guys on edge like that..." Sonic went around to check what he meant by, missed, " But still, if I acted just the tiniest bit later, I guess I wouldn't have been so lucky..." Sonic noticed upon looking that the sphere landed too early, what they saw was only a perspective illusion, "Can the Emeralds react again? I need to save my Mom and Dad." JetStream was fully in wonder. Sonic continued to pull one out.
"No, doesn't look like you can..." as all the Emeralds appearances where black like the one before, "Oh, dang..."
"Wait..." Sonic pulled the white Emerald out.
"How come this one still shows its color?" JetStream thought through past events.
"Well, while I was using the Emeralds to figure a way out, every single one except that Emerald glowed... one more thing..." JetStream wondered.
"Then what is it?" Sonic asked.
"Since how long ago was that happening?" Sonic looked toward the pointed out ground.
"I don't know, but we'll obviously have to find a way to stop it..." Tails walked up to Sonic and JetStream.
"I bet it's the grey sphere that the Time Eater have been sprouting." Sonic looked at him.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Well, there's so much sudden change in certain spots, it's probably all going to stop if we don't help it." Knuckles walked up behind Tails.
"Then it's pretty obvious by now that we're going to stop it... But, eh... How?" Tails backed down.
"Yeah... that's the difficult part..." JetStream jumped up suddenly, surprising everyone.
"What if we got help from Celestia?" there was a pause, Tails looked like he'd consider.
"That's interesting, a good authority figure as well."
"I was in her castle before, there's tons of books." Knuckles put his gloves down to his hips.
"So, you're assuming that you'll find an answer in one of those books?" suddenly JetStream's consideration didn't seem to great, but Sonic decided to stand up for it.
"Well, it wouldn't hurt to check it out with them... And heck, maybe they do know something." Sonic looked directly at Knuckles. Tails jumped up.
"Alright, then it has been decided, we're all going to Canterlot once again!"
"Okay." JetStream already sounded pump.
"We should all know where the plane is right?" Tails turned to JetStream.
"Of course! ..." JetStream tilted his head at the sudden pause, "... Oh right, if we can get it out..."
"Yeah." Tails responded.
"What if we use the Emeralds, like before?"
"You should know you've drained all except one of its energy..." Sonic recalled.
"Remember about the one in the Tornado!" Tails stated, Sonic snapped his fingers.
"Oh, that's right. You have the cyan one in the tornado, maybe if we can raise its energy as well we could get the Tornado out..."
"Right." Tails started running toward the city.
"Wai- wait up, Tails." JetStream went his way around the sphere to get on the path, it wouldn't be the same it he galloped his way through the grass. Just before he started making his way, he looked back toward the house. Suddenly thinking of leaving with out some sort of good-bye wouldn't be very good. He started to tear up, his breathing pattern started to crumble. But instead, he stood up straight, grit his teeth and delivered the words he wanted, "... We'll fix this and free all of you as soon as possible..." he closed his eyes and turned to gallop toward the plane, suddenly to where a tear launched toward the sphere. It hit it and stuck and that exact spot, JetStream didn't see it, he was already yards away by the time it hit. He looked left and right, seeing one sphere full of immobile figures, it was awful to look at, "I hope I didn't lose them..." JetStream thought it through, 'It's a big town... What if there was a, quick, way to use my Aura...' he tried to just scratch the surface of his Auric side, and doing so would end up him finding ponies and objects Aura's like before, but in some sort of way to where it'd be useful in dire situations, especially in these. Once he felt the cold wave flow over him like he always ends up with, he quickly opened his eyes instead up keeping it up, he instantly saw a couple outlines in the center, just a little bit to the right. His fur seemed to tingle as well, he suddenly shook it off, "Never felt that before..." he ignored it and continued to where he saw their Auras.
~~~Chapter End~~~