I got back to the great fox not long after Jay did. Peppy and Pigma were waiting.

"What's up with Jay?" Pigma asked.

"Where'd he go?" I asked though I probably knew the answer already.

"Probably to his room." Pigma returned.

I started to head there but I stopped when Peppy spoke.

"What happened down there?" Peppy asked sounding a bit worried.

"I don't know. Jay ran off before I could ask him anything."

I continued down the hall. I knocked on the door. He didn't answer. I knocked again but this time more forceful. No answer. Was he even there? I left and searched the rest of the ship not finding him. I went back to his room and knocked again. I tried the door and it wouldn't open. I had decided to leave him alone for a while. He didn't exit the next day so I went back to his door with Peppy after explaining the situation. I knocked again but to no avail so I tried the door again. The door still refused to open. I forced it open with the help of Peppy. Jay was examining the stones. He looked like he had been up all night or something. He probably was for all I knew. His room was more like a research study or something along those lines rather than a bed room. Someone entering it for the first time would probably say some thing like 'Someone lives here?!' or something along those lines.

"Jay."

He continued to ignore me like he did my knocking. I walked over and pulled him away from the desk.

"What!?" He shouted at me.

I was taken aback by his sudden out burst. He seemed different but I couldn't figure out what. Was it the blood that was on him? No it wasn't something that you could physically see.

"...What are those stones? Y-"

"I don't know yet." Jay interrupted.

He turned back to the desk where the stones lay. His voice had a hint of anger to it.

"What's wrong?"

He didn't answer for a while and I thought he wasn't going to. I opened my mouth to say something else but closed it when he finally spoke. He spoke rather slowly and there was a few seconds delay between each word like he had to think about the next word before he said it.

"I...don't...know."

Jay walked back to the desk and hesitated to continue with whatever he was doing before.

"Maybe you should take a break." I said calmly.

He didn't answer. He just stood there. I want so badly to be able to read his mind. He took in a breath and set his hand on the desk.

"...Wish I could." He whispered.

"What do you mean?" Peppy asked cautiously watching him closely. He could tell something was up too.

"...I feel like I need to figure this out I guess you could say." He said as his voice lowered until there was almost no sound. "I need to know where these came from."

I wasn't exactly sure what to say to that though I wished I had stopped him then. I shoul've.

"You can figure it out later. You need to eat and take a break. I can tell that you've been at it all night."

"I'm not hungry."

"Jay-"

"Just go. I'll be fine."

We hesitantly left the room. I walked the hall with Peppy.

"Maybe we should't have left."I stated.

"Maybe we should give it another day. See how it turns out." Peppy reasoned.

"Alright." I agreed.

I along with Peppy went back to Jay's room the following day. The door opened with ease this time. I was pretty sure he still hadn't slept or eaten anything since like

what two days ago now?

"Jay-" I started.

"These stones have extraordinary amounts of power in them."

"What?"

"There's no wonder how they gained so much power. If I could harness this power I could use these for machines and ships. They could give them such a power boost. I can just about see all of the possibilities."

He sounded so excited.

"So-"

"That city... That's where they're getting these stones. I have to go back there."

Jay turned and started out. I gripped his shoulder to stop him.

"What the hell are you stopping me for?!" He snapped.

"You need to rest. You can go search later."

"Fuck do you suddenly care for?"

"Wh-"

"I need to do this! Now move!"

Him interrupting me all the time was really starting to piss me off. But I was his friend and yelling at him about it now wouldn't work out very well. I grabbed his arm to stop him. He seemed about ready to strike me but I spoke before he could complete the action that was running though his head.

"I'm coming with you then."

His hostile expression softened. I followed him out and we rode our Arwings down to the planet's surface and out to a wooded area.

"What are we doing here? I thought."

"The stones are this way."

"How do you know?"

"I can feel their pulses."

"Huh?"

Jay started out and into the woods. I followed. I followed him to what looked like a dark cave that lowered deeper into the ground. Jay slid down and I like a good friend followed so he wasn't alone. It wasn't long before we found the black stones. They lined the walls of the cave. Jay broke a large chunk off.

"Yes. Perfect. I can totally use these." He said more talking to himself than to me.

Jay later had added the stones to his Arwing and tested it out. It had just about tripled it's power. Jay had started eating and sleeping again which I was glad for but he spent all his time in his room or in the hanger. He only talked to us when absolutely necessary and he was always wearing a thick pair of sunglasses that completely blocked his eyes from view. He also seemed to be spending more and more time at that cave. It was about a couple weeks later that the general had noticed the... well I guess increased strength of our ships. I had told him about the stones that Jay and I had discovered. How they had a lot of power inside of them. Then after that can you guess what happened? They wanted to use the stones as power source as well. Jay had gone back to Corneria for a while to teach them how to hook them up I guess which ment leaving us without a mechanic. That almost killed us. Never underestimate the usefulness of a mechanic. I never knew how much our team depended on him until he left. He came back with a large smile plastered onto his face like he had really accomplished something.

"What's up with you?" I asked.

"Oh nothing. Just really happy."

There was something in his voice that made me uneasy. He just about skipped back to his room that day. The ships with the power boost from the stones did help us and everyone else with missions. It was great for a while but then. Well the unthinkable happened. Something that I on some level expected but would catch everyone else by surprise.