In the distance... a far off distance, there appeared to be some disturbance occurring.

That's when multiple things happened at once.

The highway lights had just turned red, but a car had kept moving. At the same moment, a soccer player, had kicked a ball into the road, trying to chase it down. Luckily the cars had stopped because he didn't look both ways (don't try that...ever). But unfortunately, he came to a ball on the other side, but it was moving the opposite direction he had kicked his.

With that, he picked up the ball, thinking "What the heck, I'll kick this over to the other side." So with a large grin, he kicked the ball as hard as he could, watching it, and almost running to it, but-

The lights turned green.

In mid air, the boy felt a wave of stupidity, and could have sworn he had heard a mosquito version of a car horn honk, in the air. He noticed the ball he had kicked, landed right onto a car's windshield, and bounced off. But that alone, had shocked the driver as he pulled to one side of the road, leading the person behind him having to jam on the breaks, ending up fender to bumper with the car in front of him. The ball had rolled, and bounced, until it landed into a stream of water, where by coincidence, the soccer ball had landed, and fell on top of that, bouncing right out again from the ball's buoyancy.

Is this bad?

After seeing the ball rolling uncontrollably, the boy watched in awe, as the same ball he had kicked almost one minute ago, was still making a journey all around him. Ending with a quite amazing finale.

The ball rolled back into the road of many rushing cars, as one was at an instant's momentum away from crushing it under it's tires. However, it never happened. Sucked right under the car, and from such speed, gained height into the air. It dodged every possible car, and passing motorcycle. But, managed to bust a flashing police siren light, leaving a cop baffled while investigating a recent accident.

Is it bad yet?

As a last result, it seemed to have caught on a low hanging wire under a currently repairing power line, and swung onto the wire, circling the pole, and constructing a tether ball looking effect, getting tighter and tighter around the power pole, even higher and higher, sparks flying several directions. The yellow and blue slivers shattering the cord made. Any moment, going to tighten at the top of the pole, causing a miraculous electric jolt of blue.

How about now?

The next thing that happened was so, "Shocking" that it shot the ball from it's placement on the pole, that flashed blues and an indigo color of sparks, and rays. It seemed that lightning had struck the pole, causing it to glow amazingly as the wire was destroyed in the process. With such a force of light, the pole seemed to give in, and once the jolt had ceased, at least 3 wires snapped out of place, sparking yellows. And with that, the ground was touched, and the dead grass burst into a flame of the same color, spreading throughout the field.

Okay, if it's not bad by now, you need to reconsider, because the next thing...IS.

The pole didn't have to collapse to cause an effect. The wires had lost all live and power, causing every link to shut down. That alone spread fast into the city, and faster than a speeding bullet, every single source of light had burned out, from every building. Salt Lake had a blackout.

The boy gawked wide eyed and mouth opened at what he saw...er couldn't see now. But there was no question, his lucky soccer ball, wasn't lucky anymore.

Seeing almost nothing that just occurred, a hamster that had been occupied inside that same ball tried to recover from the sensation of action he had just experienced. At the same time, hoping that his mission had succeeded in anything. He exhaled a sigh of relief, and unsatisfactory.

"Whoa." He sighed, looking around skeptically. He didn't know which direction he had come from when he was thrown violently, but it was apparent that he had gotten dizzy and needed a sort of respite. In a few moments, Rhino managed to recover, while he laughed it off. He dusted his chest from some imaginary dirt, and rolled on, as if nothing had happened.

***

Mittens had seen it.

Distant lights going out, causing anything but the moon to go black. She knew something was up, and began a frozen pawed pace toward where the city lights had gone out. In her heart, she couldn't imagine what had caused such a thing. But she knew that down where the unseen lights where...is where a road is.

And where there's a road, there's a way.

And where there's a way...there's no telling where she'd end up.

Mittens took the chance though, and headed down the slope, blindly. She could only hope deep down that somehow she'd be able to find more than a road. But at the thought, she froze where she was, almost litterally.

She looked back, as a shiver seemed to shread off her coat of fur. She knew that Bolt was still back there, that he didn't know where to go.

She looked back at the direction she was heading, only feeling guilty at a chance to find a place like New York again, if she goes back, she'd never be able to find the path she took. She'd never get to the kife she had before...

She had to make a choice...between freedom...or friends.


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