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// Equestria and the Mysterious Stones-Chapter 73 
// Story: Equestria and the Mysterious Stones 
// by LunicStream1105 
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Chapter 73: Preparing the portal


Tails looked at the ground to buy himself some time, and then looked up, "What do you mean, create our own, Twilight?" Twilight looked back between all of them in her excitement.

"We could use the Chaos Emeralds, they should have the power to make one." Tails looked at Sonic.

"You know what Sonic, I think she's got a point. You, Knuckles, and I all know about Chaos Control." Sonic leaped forward in getting all of this together.

"Oh, saying that we can make a portal with Chaos Control, it's not bad. But here's the problem, buddy. How're we going to get it pin-pointed on to our world?" Tails just sank whenever he heard it.

"That's what I thought, so we need to figure that out." he stated as he held his index finger outward.

"I could help you three on getting back to your home world." everyone turned around to see it was Celestia.

"What? What do you mean by that, Celestia?" Twilight asked her mentor. She giggled, "I do have the magic you know, and I would really like to help on your journey back." she ended with a warming smile.

"Really? That means a lot, Princess." Tails thanked. Knuckles shifted.

"Alright then, I'm ready to get this thing open." Celestia nodded.

"Alright, but as much as I know you three want this portal opened, I would rather not succeed inside the castle walls." Tails snapped his fingers.

"... Oh! I see what you mean... Come on, we'll go outside first." Exteeled and the pony next to her started walking for the door.

"Hey..." Eggman noticed he was still in the cell, "Oooo! What about me!? I'm still in here!" Exteeled turned around and winked at Eggman.

"Don't worry now, we'll get you out when they're ready..." Tails and his friends started moving with JetStream, and Twilight and Celestia were walking side by side to the right of them. JetStream looked at the pony next to Exteeled.

"You know, I never caught your name..." the pony snickered.

"I guess you haven't. My name is, Compass Dialect." JetStream closed his eyes in a happy way.

"Well, then it's nice to meet you, Compass Dialect." he laughed.

"Call me, Compass if you want to." JetStream nodded.

"Yeah, I'll see if I'll let myself up to it." JetStream smiled at Compass before he moved back to Tails and his friends.

"So where are we stopping?" Tails asked.

"Right up here, Tails." it surprised him to hear his name from her, like always.

"Okay then." he responded. As soon as they reached a top of a hill, not to far away from castle. Where they prepared to get ready. Sonic was moving his arms around like he was stretching.

"Are we ready to get it started..." Tails looked around as he face-palmed.

"We're going to need the Chaos Emeralds first..."

"They're back at the castle, I'll get 'em." JetStream responded rather quickly. And took off at the fastest speed he could. Even Celestia had to look herself.

"I wonder how he's able to gallop at such speeds..." she thought to herself aloud. Sonic pointed a thumb at himself.

"He learned from the best." Tails shrugged, shaking his head.

"It's always never different with you is it, Sonic?" Sonic nodded.

"I would rather not confuse myself than confuse the enemy." Knuckles gave a hardy laugh.

"Now that is the Sonic I came to know." Sonic looked at Knuckles and winked, just before JetStream showed up with the Chaos Emeralds, Sonic looked toward him as well.

"You know, JetStream, where were the Chaos Emeralds anyway?"

"They were behind the throne..." he responded settling the saddlebag on the ground, "But for some reason he never took them out from here..." he stared at it for while, then finally looked back up, "I guess we're ready then?" JetStream asked, as he started searching through the right bag, he settled the Chaos Emeralds out of the bag like a foal with their toys.

"What makes this achievable, is that Shadow and I can make Chaos Control with two, but now we have all seven. There's a definite answer to all of this." while Celestia was looking through the skies, she realized something.

"I obviously thank you for all the help, can I suggest we open this portal elsewhere?" JetStream stopped in the process of taking the Emeralds out.

"Like where?" Tails asked.

"Why don't you three do it where you all started, I'm sure it will bring great feelings along with you." she stated as her way of persuasion, Tails turned to Celestia.

"You know what, I think it is sort of nostalgic to do it back in your hometown, JetStream." he stood back up from the saddlebag.

"Really?" he asked.

"Yeah." Tails nodded. Celestia smiled, but as her way of things unfolded, her smile disappeared once again, and suddenly and without anyone realizing, her horn started glowing, and the glow covered everyone except herself.

'I'm sorry for this...' she thought as she could prevented this after all, or just have not done it at all, 'None of you will remember this, when the time is right...' she looked upon the crowd with her eyes half open.


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