(I don't own Sonic and the gang. SEGA and Sonic Team do.)
(Oh um, this may have taken a little while cuz I haven't been feeling very well and I threw up last night. I probably jinxed myself by putting in the steaffle. Gag.)
"I blame you. You gave her that sauce."
Breeze said glaring.
"Yeah, well maybe you didn't hear me but I just said the steak sauce didn't do it."
Shadow said.
I didn't like it when my friends argued over me.
I mean literally, over me.
"Then what did do it, Mr. I know everything?"
Breeze yelled.
It just hit me.
I got out of the bed and walked out the door.
"Maria?"
They all said.
They followed me.
I went into Tails workshop.
I touched the Onyx.
I could feel something was out of order.
Shadow touched my shoulder.
I knew something was wrong.
There was a power out there that had too much control.
I couldn't grasp what it was.
I let go of the gem.
"D-did you feel that?"
Shadow stuttered.
"Yeah, did you?"
I looked at my hands.
Everyone looked at me funny.
"Agh!"
Breeze grabbed her head.
"Breeze!"
I held her up.
"I have a headache."
She moaned.
"You too!"
I looked at Shadow.
"Do you think this is being caused by the gem?"
He looked back at it.
"Yes."
I picked Breeze up and got her to her room.
"I didn't feel that the fist time I touched it. Why am I reacting now?"
I asked Shadow.
"I think it's cuz of that fit you had."
"But… that means there's some connection between the gems and us."
I looked at Breeze.
"The process seems to be quickening."
He pulled me up a chair.
"What happened when you blacked out?"
"I was inside a room with walls of pure red stained glass. Light shined on the room and it shined right through me."
I touched my stomach to make sure it was still there.
"Maybe you were inside the gem?"
Shadow suggested.
"Nah. It was red. Besides, I would've been the gem. Not been in it."
"Well, there are probably other gems. If this one is powering one of those giant leaf blowers than what's powering the others?"
He looked at Breeze.
"I'm gonna hurl."
She moaned.
I handed her a bowl.
"She's gonna splurk."
I said looking away.
"Splurk?"
Shadow asked.
"Yeah. Doesn't splurk just sound like a throw up word? My stomach feels splurkish. I gotta splurk."
"I um, guess so."
Shadow looked back at Breeze.
SPLURK!
"Ugh. So splurky."
I gagged.
"So, how many of these gems do you think there are?"
I shrugged.
"I felt like something was terribly wrong. As though there was a large imbalance that just annoyed the heck out of me. Like, I just had to do something about it."
Shadow nodded.
"Yeah, me too."
I heard a large object heading towards the house.
No, wait, several large objects.
I ran outside.
Shadow ran in my wake.
I saw the largest debris storm that side of the Milky Way.
They were right in front of me when they stopped.
"You guys, come look!"
Tails screamed.
I cracked open all the leaf blowers.
I found there was a different color for all the leaf blowers.
"Maria, Shadow, Breeze! Get in here!"
Tails shouted.
"YOU GET OUT HERE, PUNK!"
I hollered.
Tails came out.
"Holy…"
He whispered.
I saw a red one that seemed to be garnet.
It caught my eye.
I ran up and touched it.
"Alpha…"
It was a short message this time.
Breeze came outside apparently feeling better.
The turquoise caught her eye.
There were thirteen jewels, counting the onyx inside.
The unlucky number.
Everyone moaned in unison.
Breeze and I turned around and saw that everyone was sick.
She and I looked each other.
Shadow had been right.
The process was quickening.
A few people threw up and they all had passed out within five minutes.
I cleaned up the splurk while Breeze went around spraying everyone with water to wake them up.
Once they were all awake I went over and picked up the garnet.
I put it down next to the ship.
I told Shadow to go get the onyx and bring it out.
Breeze got what I was thinking and brought the turquoise over.
I told the people that if there was a gem that attracted their attention to pick it up and bring it over with the rest of ours.
When I was done there was one left.
I called Tiavinah.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Tiavinah, it's Maria."
"No! It can't be! You guys are all gone! I finally have a day off! The house to myself!"
"Sorry. I need you to come to Earth."
"Tch, whatever."
She hung up.
"Teens."
I growled.
Tikal and Rouge studied the gems.
"They seem to have an attraction to our elements."
Tikal scratched her head.
"They seem a lot like the chaos emeralds, except each one has an individual care taker rather than all of them protect by an incompetent teen."
Rouge put her hands on her hips and looked around at all of them again.
Knux gritted his teeth.
Tiavinah showed up.
"Ugh. I had this horrible feeling just before I came here. I had a horrid headache and I passed out. At that point I freaked out and came here. Ooh, pretty!"
She ran up and looked over the lavender gem.
"Can I have it?"
She looked back at Breeze and me.
"Sure just move it to the place with the others."
I was growing impatient with her.
"So, if it's like the chaos emeralds than there has to be a Master Gem."
Tikal looked around.
"But, who has that?"
"Something tells me Alpha does. He was controlling these some way."
I pointed at the leaf blower shells.
"He must. But then. Why did they come to us?"
She looked at me awkwardly.
"Well, we do have elements. I doubt that's very common. The gems tend to reflect our powers. Mine is red, Shadow's is black, and Breeze's is turquoise. Doesn't it seem a bit too much to be a coincidence? Besides, mine whispered to me."
I touched it again.
I ran my finger down its smooth surface.
"Mine too."
A few of us said.
"Alpha…"
I whispered to the gem.
"What is so important about Alpha?"
I whispered.
The gem glowed a bit.
"Dictation…"
The gems hummed.
"What about dictation?"
Breeze asked hers.
"Dictation…"
They hummed again.
"How is he controlling you?"
I asked, though mainly speaking to myself.
"Dictation…"
It seemed that that was the only answer.
Dictation…
Rule over all.
Alpha had taken over several planets.
But, I didn't understand.
What did they mean?
Dictation…