Chapter 52: Not so sneaky sneaking
JetStream sighed, 'I'll wait until there's no things in sight if I have to...' JetStream decided to look for the nearest building, there was one straight across from them, a couple lights were turned on inside so he might as well start there, 'Right, now all I have to do is wait, for the right moment...' as the night time shone true, the light posts were glowing there damp orange to yellow color, and JetStream didn't know whether to decide that if it was good or bad, his train of thought was ruined as he saw the vision before him, for a good five seconds there were no things roaming around, JetStream collected the breath he needed and headed for the doors of the target building. The sphere around him thanks to the Emeralds allowed him to escape and head quickly to the double doors, "Oh! No no no no no no nono..." he quietly screamed to himself as him trying to avoid looking at other robots getting to the doors. As soon as he reached them, he slam them opened and rushed through, he turned around and closed them, he was breathing heavily by the time he finished, "... Yes..." he managed to celebrate. He turned around to look behind him, he suddenly caught his breath, as he saw tons of ponies crammed into the bottom room, "Oh, uh... It's a little, uh... bad out there..." almost all the ponies gave him a weird look.
"Excuse me, coming through..." the pony looked mighty disheveled, "Where did you just come from?" JetStream's eyes bolted back and forth.
"Uhh..." he pointed his hoof toward the door, "... Outside...?" he answered unsure, and as you wouldn't notice, the pony facehoofed.
"No no, we all know you would've had to come from some other building before you got here. Which one did you come from?" the ponies seem to desperately await JetStream's answer, he swallowed hard.
"Well, I actually I woke up on the street, the transportation I was in to get here was apparently shot down, I ended up waking in a sphere." the pony was shocked entirely, so were a few behind it.
"Wait, wait. You woke up, inside those spheres? How in the world did you pull that off?" JetStream knew he'd regret it showing them off to the wrong pony at any given moment, but he pulled the white Chaos Emerald out of the one of the bags.
"These... I was surrounded in a sphere just like the grey ones, except this actually helped..."
"That gem helped you?" JetStream cringed.
"It's not a gem..." he mumbled to himself, he now understands why Knuckles was so intolerant of ponies or whatever saying gems, or basically anything that wasn't Chaos Emerald or Emerald.
"... Oh right! I got to find my friends." JetStream made slow progress as he looked around for the way up stairs, as he saw them, "Wait..." he took a moment to figure something, "Deja vu... Oh that's it!" JetStream remembers this place, "This is the hotel we spent our couple of days in Canterlot, I should be able to find the stairs easily." he smiled firmly. He was just about to continue heading up the flight, but a hoof fell upon his shoulder, JetStream looked back, "Wha- What is it?" it was the same pony.
"What's your name anyway?"
'Oh, should I? What if I do and they praise me for some sort of rescue, or they end up turning me in... Well, I might end up where Sonic and his friend are...' after a second thought, he answered, "My name's, JetStream." he smiled as he turned back to the stairs, all he heard behind him was gasps, as the whole place could've been littered with ghosts. Hearing this nerved him, made him uneasy about his, capture, if he put it right, 'Is that true?' he asked heading up the stairs, 'Could I possibly be up for capture?' he felt his breath freeze using that word, something about it made him shiver. Although it would end up to be just unfair bounty, he would know the reasons behind it, 'Gonna go to my floor, and did exactly what I did before to get onto the roof.' He stopped climbing on his floor and went to the same room, what surprised JetStream was that there was six ponies up in there, "Excuse me I'm going to the balcony." Somepony stopped JetStream, and he looked up to this adult mare.
"Wait, don't go out there, you remember what they told you, stay in, or else." JetStream yanked himself free anyway.
"Just tell them I didn't get the memo." he smiled. He shut the door behind him as he looked toward the castle, same balcony, same view, 'By the time something gets done, that may not be a castle.' he looked directly on, his ear twitched, there was a robot examining the alleyway, its spotlight went upward toward the balcony, 'Eek!' JetStream ducked below the rail guarding. As soon as it was gone, JetStream continued to hop onto the rail, he grabbed the pipe, which was a lot louder than you remember, 'Ah!' "Hurry hurry!" he rushed himself. He ended up making it to the roof faster than he expected, "Ha! Just like last time, alright..." he assured himself, he then sighed of the masses of roofs he sees before him, "I'm starting to think that the streets would've make it faster than the rooftops..." he shook his head, "Oh well, I might as well..." he looked over to the castle, "But where do I go now?"
~~~Chapter End~~~