Chapter 8
Once I heard Lily's voice in my head with all its southern drawl, I could tell the others were confused when I said "cousin's voice". "Well, Ah'm sure glad that ya got me with the emerald o' wind, cousin! I'm retreating into your mind to play some more, see ya'll later," she smirked as I stopped hearing her voice and I breathed a sigh of relief. "My cousin has a southern accent that wears on you after awhile," I explained to the group with a nervous smirk. "She's real sweet when you get to know her, but she is really obnoxious at times."
"I can tell," Tikal smirked back. "Now how about we go ahead and I teleport us back to base?" I smiled. "Okay then. You'll need to focus and tell your mind to warp all of our group back to the Mystic Ruins," Tikal explained. "Okay..." I said as I tried to talk to my brother. "Jake? Can you teleport me and my friends to the main area of Mystic Ruins?" I asked him in thought. "Sure enough. Just be careful of what comes next," he warned. "Got it," I said back as I felt my body completely leave the area I was at and I reappeared at the lake area of Mystic Ruins, my friends close behind me.
"Whoa! That felt cool!" I smiled at the power. "Just don't do it again for about 3 hours or so, or you'll pass out," Tikal warned. "Alright," I smiled at her.
But then I heard some footsteps from nearby and I looked behind me to see a sight that I really didn't want to see right now. Especially since I had both emeralds in my possession. "Hey, Knuckles! What's up?" Tails asked with a smile, that is until Knuckles tried to punch me and I had to dodge out of the way.
"Whoa! What's the big idea, red? I didn't do anything," I said to him with a frown. "Like I'd believe that! You have pieces of the Master Emerald and you were there when it shattered! Now give me those pieces or I'll force them off of you!" Knuckles exclaimed at me. "If you want to point any fingers, bub, blame my television for sticking me in that damn jewel. If that would've never happened, I wouldn't be here right now," I growled at him as my hair began to stand up on my tail. I kept forgetting I had one, honestly.
Knuckles frowned and didn't listen, immediately rushing me and trying to snag the emeralds, both of them staying in my grasp and neither of them falling out of it. "Hey! These aren't even Master Emerald pieces, brother! They're Chaos Emeralds!" Tikal exclaimed at him, her words looking to have finally gotten through to him. "Chaos Emeralds?... And what do you mean 'brother'?" Knuckles asked. "I mean that I was the original creator of the Master Emerald, as well as one of your ancestors. I can sense it in you... the power to control the Chaos!" Tikal frowned.
Knuckles finally gave up then and there, but then I felt something come up from under me. Something watery.
Before I could even think, a giant hand reached out from the pool of water underneath me and snagged the 2 emeralds out of my hands! "H-HEY! NO FAIR!" I growled as I saw that the liquid under me then retreated into the pond area and she then began to rise from it.
"Peh. You really are all idiots, just like the doc said, ain't ya?" Chaos asked as she absorbed the 2 emeralds into her body and she did another transformation. This time, her legs completely vanished, she got a dorsal fin on the back of her body, and she now had a large spike coming out of her forehead. She was now Chaos 4! "Dammit! Why do you always have to keep barging in like this, Chaos?! I have half a mind to-" I was about to say, until I felt something in my cleavage.
It felt like the egg. The egg I put in there while we were in Ice Cap! I immediately reached into my bra I had on and felt around, finding a small bit of pudgy cuteness scuttled underneath my boob and sleeping. I smiled and gently picked it up with two fingers, Chaos now looking confused by my actions. When I finally pulled out the little Chao from my bosom, she looked shocked beyond all compare.
"I-Is that... a Chao?" Chaos gawked at it, just as Eggman appeared from out of nowhere, ruining any kind of good moment that we could've had. Chaos immediately tried to look tough in front of her 'boss', but I could still sense her confusion and awe at me having a baby Chao. "Well, Chaos! I see that you managed to transform again! You have 4 emeralds now! How great!" Eggman smiled at her creepily, only then turning his attention to us, where I hid the baby Chao into my bra again, who was still asleep.
"Now why don't you stall these cretins until the Egg Carrier comes around?" Eggman said as he pushed a button and we heard some thrusters from somewhere. It was the Egg Carrier taking off from the inner area of the Mystic Ruins. "Hmph. Why don't you stall them for a change?" Chaos frowned, looking at me with a stern gaze. I could already read her mind. "Consider this your only safe bet with me, half pussy," I heard her voice say in my head, almost as if she were thinking it specifically to me.
"Why would I want to do that? You're the one with the emeralds, now go!" Eggman frowned. "And you're the one that I found to help me. I don't answer to you, you answer to me. Now you deal with them. I'm going to try and find out where my damn tail went off to. See ya for now," Chaos frowned, disappearing into a puddle of water and rushing off in puddle form over the mountain and through the tunnel for the train.
"Why that insolent little brat! She works for ME! Nobody orders Doctor Robotnik around!" Eggman exclaimed angrily as we saw a shadow come over on top of us, which was caused by the Egg Carrier. "Behold! The Egg Carrier, my greatest achievement in aviation! I'd love to stick around and chat, but I need to retreat now. So long, pests!" Eggman smirked as he pushed another button and he then got beamed up to his ship, which shocked Tikal greatly.
"Well, at least we have one ace up our sleeve. So long as we have a baby Chao on us, Chaos won't try to attack," Sonic frowned. "Yeah, but we have two people to chase after now. You and Tails can handle chasing Eggman using whatever that machine is I sense under your workshop, while Penny and myself chase after Chaos. We'll meet up in Station Square after it's all said and done," Tikal said. "Sounds like a deal. By the way, it's my plane, the Tornado 2," Tails frowned. "We're off to our assignments, then. But what of our little friend?" I asked Tikal specifically.
"We'll take him to a Chao Garden nearby. I'll show you where it is," Tikal smiled as she led me over to a mine cart that looked ancient. "They are perfectly able in Chao Gardens, so we'll take small breaks to find them every time we have a Chao hatch," Tikal smiled as we jumped into the mine cart and, upon us entering it, she pulled a lever inside of it and we were off to the Chao Garden.
