A Change of Heart

Disclaimer: Leo belongs to SonicLover, Mak is owned by me (no stealing unless you give credit & Email/PM me). Everyone else is owned by Sonic Team unless otherwise stated.

Chapter 7: Barrier Barrage

Flashback:

I fell to the ground with a soft thud. "That was a portal…" I murmured.

Mak's POV

I shook my head after crashing to the ground. The fall was kinda painful. Tails and Leo ran into the room. Leo's feathers went everywhere. "What happened?" They asked, urgently. They had a look of fear on their faces. I sat there, still rubbing my tail-bone. (AN: I couldn't think of what to put there, tail, or tail-bone :P)

I felt a little dizzy after the fall so, I didn't respond the first time that Leo and Tails spoke. They asked me what had happened, again, and I looked at them with a dazed expression on my face. "I dunno," I said, groggily, "I somehow made some kind of portal an ended up here…" I then collapsed on the ground asleep.

I awoke shaking and sweating in the morning. I shivered and got back under the blankets, still breathing heavily. I couldn't help but think of the nightmare that I'd had. I was running from this strange, bird-like robot. I managed to stab it with some kind of transforming sword. A few seconds after it being defeated, I got stabbed straight in the middle of my chest by the robot. Its final program…

I got out of bed after three hours of thinking about the nightmare. I had come to the conclusion that it was a vision and not a nightmare. The very thought made me weak-kneed. I eventually shook it off and prepared to make breakfast. The delicious smell of baking cinnamon rolls brought Leo and Tails out of bed. They saw me baking and preparing breakfast and, they sat down at the dining room table, talking. After the cinnamon rolls were done, I grabbed one and sat down at the table, finally noticing Tails and Leo.

I sighed and began to speak. "Tails, Leo? Is it possible to have visions in the form of dreams?" I asked. Tails nodded, yes, with an inquiring look on his face. "I had a strange nightmare. I battled a giant bird-like robot but, I managed to deactivate it using some kind of transforming sword. After about five minutes of staring at the robot, it stabbed me, square in the chest." Speaking of the nightmare made me come close to sobbing. I managed to hold back the tears. After eating, I stood up, to walk out of the front door. "I have a bad feeling that something is going to happen.

Tails ran up to me with some kind of strange sword. It had a metallic gleam to it. "Take this. Your dream was a vision because; you described the very sword that I was designing for you." He patted me on my feathery back. "Good luck. And, come back safely." He said. I nodded, tears visible in my eyes as I walked out of the door. Leo just sat there with a stunned expression. He then stood up about ten minutes after I had left.

"I know what is gonna happen. He is gonna find that robot to take it down. He won't be alone. He will not DIE!" Leo screeched before walking out the door. Tails told Leo that he would come too. "Tails, you're right. He needs us." He explained, walking out of the door, Tails behind him.

Mak felt like he had been walking for hours, crossing the desert. He tried to drink some water from a canteen that he'd bought. A lone drop of water fell in his mouth. He cursed under his breath. "If I transport now, I may be derived from me path. But, wait! I have an idea!" Mak slammed his hands onto the sand and created a portal. Inside of the portal, he saw the middle of a reservoir. He dipped his canteen into the portal, filling it up with water. He used a small purifier that he had brought with him to clean the water. He drank, happily.

Tails and Leo walked around the very same desert, not to far away from Mak's current location. Tails was staring at his tracking device, trying to find Mak. Leo had just asked for the millionth time about how the tracker worked. "Leo, for the umpteenth time, the sword that I gave him gives off a special signal that I can track with this device. Understand it now?" He asked, more than somewhat annoyed at Leo's inability to understand. Leo shushed him as soon as he was about to explain some more. He then pointed dead south.

"There he is! I see him!" Leo shouted. I was about One-Hundred yards away from them. Tails and Leo ran over to him, yelling for me to wait up. I didn't even see him. Leo then flapped his red wings and took to the skies. He flew over to where I was, right above him. "Mak!" He shouted again. Leo saw me glance up at him with no expression on my face. It was just a piercing stare. It was one of those 'If looks could kill' expressions.

I kept on walking until he came to a strange town. Tails consulted a map and, he told Leo that it was abandoned. He wondered why I was going there if no one even lived there. I just kept on walking into the town. Just before walking in, I slammed into an invisible barrier. I grinned as I took flight, hovering about one hundred feet into the air. I shot some feather knives at the barrier. Nothing happened; they just ricocheted off and lost their momentum. Leo shot up behind me. He nodded and we both sent some feathers at the barrier, rapidly. We eventually saw that some of the feathers went threw! Before the barrier could close, Tails, Leo, and I flew trough the hole.