Ch 5: Mysterious Savior
May is sitting on her front deck looking at the hazy morning. The grass still has dew on it and the sky is a peachy color. It's a cool morning so May is wearing a sweatshirt. Tails is still sleeping on the couch from the night before. There is a small stream nearby with fish jumping around in it. The birds are chirping in the forest that surrounds the house.
"I hope Tails will tell me how he feels about me soon, I can see right through his expressions", said May. Then she let out a big sigh. She grabbed her tail and started to brush it. "I gotta make sure I look extra good today." She also brushed her hair. She thinks about Tails some more and she starts blushing a lot. Her face is really pink.
"Good morning may...," says Tails after he yawns, "what's wrong...why is your face so pink?"
"I was coughing from my allergies to the birds,"lied May. Tails looked at her, and then at the birds over in the trees.
"But, those birds are way over there." Tails points at the trees. May was franticly thinking of another lie.
"A bird flew onto my shoulder, if you don't mind".
"Okay, whatever,"said Tails. May jumps off the porch and lands next to the hoverboard.
"C'mon Tails, were going to Ace's house". Tails jumps on the hoverboard with May and they jet through the woods. They are on a road by the beach and May suddenly stops. Tails gets off the board and looks around.
"Why did you stop?". May grabs his arm and they run down the beach. They stop at a crater in the middle of the sand. "What is this crater doing here?"
"This is where I found you, you were unconscious, maybe there is something here". Tails starts looking around in the sand. He doesn't find anything. He motions May to move over. Tails turns around and starts spinning his tails rapidly. He is holding on to the ground so he doesn't fly away. The sand starts blowing away. A red gem flies out of the sand and lands next to May. Tails picks up the strange gem.
"This looks like its a shard of a chaos emerald".
"What is a chaos emerald?". Tails turns on his compu-watch and shows May a diagram. It shows seven gems of different colors. They are in the colors of red, yellow, light blue, dark blue, silver, green, and violet. "Wow, those are pretty," she said.
"They're not just pretty, they have unlimited energy that can power anything forever. If you collect all 7 of them a miracle will happen. But, this thing looks weird." Tails examines the gem closely. He pushes a button on the watch and a small beam of light scans the jewel. "So it's not a chaos shard...I don't even know what it is."
"How can you tell?"
"My computer scanned it, there was no data on the shard." Tails gave the shard to May since he has no pockets. "Okay, lets go."
They get back on the board and zoom off. After about 5 minutes of the shore line they enter a small forest with fog covering the treetops. They stop at a huge red tree that goes up above the fog. The branches have no leaves and there is a door on the front of it. A sign on the door says 'If thou shall enter, thou shall die', Tails gets scared by this. "Um...maybe we should go...back to your house..."
"It's not real, Ace wrote that to keep away enemies."said May. They enter the house after the door opens by itself. Tails is really scared now. He's being pulled by May into the house. The house is a mess of many gadgets and boxes. It is pretty well lit in the house. "HEY, Ace it's me May, I just want you to meet someone."
"I'm in the freaking bathroom, hold on...GOD...STUPID TOILET...", said an unknown voice. BLAMBLAMBLAM. A gun goes off in the bathroom. The sound of rushing water is coming from the bathroom. "I'm gonna frickin' destroy this toilet...where's my welder...ah there it is." A frying sound is made, then the water stops spraying. The floor under the door is soaking wet. The door emerges and a fox emerges. His fur and clothes are soaked. He is an average looking fox with red fur and a green cap. He is wearing gray jeans and a blue t-shirt. His cap is backwards with tree clumps of hair poking out. He also has a ponytail coming out from under his cap, it looks just like a fox tail.
"Hey Ace, wassup?",said May.
"Oh, nothin', I was just trying out my new toilet...I think I should've bought one instead of making one." Ace looks over at Tails. "Heh, you got yourself a boyfriend ,huh May?"
"I'm not her boyfriend, I don't even know her that much," snarled Tails in embarassment.
"Ooh...touchy, okay then, where are you from?"
"Another planet." With that Ace breaks out laughing. He hits the ground on his back. Ace gets back up with tears in his eye from all the laughter.
"Ha, that's a good one, no really, where are you from?" May grabs him by his arm.
"It's true Ace,"whispered May. He looks at Tails like he seen a ghost. His jaw is dropped.
"OH MY GOD!" He grabs a weird device and scans Tails with it. Tails takes it away from Ace.
"Hey, don't scan me with that thing, I'm just like you," yelled Tails.
"Sorry, I get a little carried away, so...what planet?"
"Earth, why's it matter?" Ace looks even more stunned. Tails looks back at him. He gets tackled by Ace and is pinned down. He tries to get the scanner from Tails. They're both wrestling with eachother.
"Let...me...go!", says Tails as he struggles. Tails rotates his tails while he's on his side for a brief moment. They both go flying into a wall and break through it. They come flying back into the room and crash into a box.
"STOOOOP!",screamed May. They both stop and look at her. Tails has a hold of Ace's ears. Ace has his two tails. They both let go of eachother slowly. May is looking at them with an evil eye.
"Uh...I...just wanted to-". SNAP. May breaks the scanner with her foot."Hey that was-". CRASH. She throws it at his T.V. and breaks it.
"Now...are you gonna say anything else, or do you want me to break more of your stuff?" Ace looks at her and then looks at Tails.
"Look, Uh..Tails, sorry for trying to scan you, I just get crazy when I discover new people from other planets." He looks back at May and sees she is not angry anymore. "So...I see you got two tails, that's pretty cool."
"Your...not freaked out?", said Tails. "Uhhm...sorry about the mess, I'll help you clean it up." Tails, May, and Ace are all cleaning up the debris from the fight. Tails grabs the scanner out of the broken T.V. "I'll fix your scanner right now."
In 5 minutes the scanner is good as new. "WOW, that was fast, your amazing, It would've took me at least an hour to fix it." Ace went up a stairway to an upper level of the house. Tails and May followed. They entered a small room that had a bed hanging from an iron beam that was hanging off the ceiling. On the other end of the beam was a T.V. hanging in a box. The T.V. was on with a news report showing. "...today, five people died in a plane crash on Sunny Island. It is suspected that King Cinos of the Darlan Federation has sent his troops to destroy the plane. The plane had the President and his family on it. President John M. Tenneco, his daughter Nessa, his wife Tillaraly, and his two sons Joe and Doug, are all dead...".
"That's...no way."said May. Ace looked at the T.V. with anger in his eyes.
"I"M FREAKING SICK OF THIS DAMN WAR!" He turns off the T.V. "Tails, May, come with me, I have to show you my latest invention." He was just about to get in the elevator when his cell phone rang. "Hello...WHAT!...Don't do anything yet I'll be right there!"
"What happened?", said May.
"Yeah, what's up?", said Tails.
"We've got big trouble down near the river." Ace gets something of the table and straps it on his waist. It's a small jet pack the size of a spray paint can. The jet is pointing away from Ace. He runs out the door and Tails and May follow him. They are all outside now. Ace pushes a button on the belt and the jet activates and he speeds off. May follows on her hoverboard. Tails is flying behind Ace.
They are all going at least 80 mph. through the woods. They make it to the road and take it to the river and cross a bridge. They stop suddenly. Tails lands right behind Ace and May. Just up ahead there are three figures. There is a blue-grey old fox standing behind a female grey fox. There is a green robot with a gun for an arm and a shield in the other hand. He is aiming right at the female fox. "Give me the old one, NOW!",yelled the robot.
"Tell me what you want with him first!", said the girl.
"That is classified information. Now give me him or else I'll set fire to the whole village, including the children and their school."
"HEY!", said Tails,"You think you can threaten innocent people just because your a robot."
"You dare speak to me like that, you little whelp!" Tails jumps over to the robot and lands in front of him, he then springs off the ground and flies straight up into the sky. In a few seconds he comes down like a rocket and smashes right into him. Tails lands away from the robot. The smoke clears and the robot is standing like nothing even happened. "Now you die!" He fires a huge ball of fire that's heading right for Tails. In a flash of light another figure appears. It is somebody in a black hooded robe with only his eyes showing. The hood is irregular shaped in the back like something is on the back of his head. His legs are showing also. They are black and a red stripe goes up the back. In an instant he puts his hand out and disintegrates the fireball. He then charges at the robot and kicks it very high. He jumps back and gathers energy in his hand and fires a big yellow/golden beam of light. It hits the robot in the sky and makes a huge explosion that darkens the sky for a brief moment. The robot is completely gone. The hooded figure is gone in an instant. Tails wonders about his savior as he looks into the sky.