Edbi was now in the control room, where the chaos and master emeralds were. He had finished reading the list through, so now he had to go back in time to make those events happen. He took a deep breath, as if to inhale the emeralds power.
"You know, General Vincent, this will be the seventh time I've changed history to fit what G.U.N. wants." He said as a mater of factly. "And once again, half of the commands are undoing things I did last time." He thought to himself, he already knew that on the eighth time they'd tell him to stop the forest from burning, but why argue, he liked going back in time.
*****
Ehbe was close. The security was the only thing in her way. "How do we get in?" She asked Lexi in a hushed voice. Lexi did have some experience in sneaking into G.U.N. bases.
"There are two ways. We could sneak in through the ventilation," Lexi whispered.
"That would take too long!" She semi-whispered.
"Or we could smash through with full force. Either way we're counting on luck." She was about to continue when she discovered Ehbe was already at the door of the base, taking her chances. Lexi sighed. "But one way we have the element of surprise…"
Ehbe was smashing through the robots that got in her way. Green-glowing spikes appeared on her fists and her arms, piercing any robot that she came in contact with. She started panting, her stamina low from running. She grabbed two SWAT bots by the "shoulders" and did a headstand, using the robot's "shoulders" to hold her up. Sparks flew out of the SWAT bots and covered her body in electricity, she absorbed it right out of the two bots, they fell, and she was back to full power. She started fighting with her "arm-blades" again within seconds.
Lexi sighed. Ehbe had one thing in common with Nixi, they were both impatient. "Wait for me!" She ran over to catch up with her very powerful "friend".
They found there way to the control room within minutes, alarms and people were screaming and the room flashed red. Edbi leaned against the master emerald and looked at his counterpart, smirk still painted on his face. "Hello, sister dear." He said passively.
Time seemed to slow as the events took place. Edbi started to say "Chaos control" as Ehbe jumped in and touched the red chaos emerald. Lexi ran in and took hold of the blue chaos emerald, there wasn't time to think, just do.
"CHAOS CONTROL!" They all said at once. A white flash enveloped them, the base, the plains, and it just seemed to keep on going. Then, as soon as it had started, it was over. The base still stood, same place it had ever been, but the control room was empty.
General Vincent looked at the scene. His soldiers were still there, but Edbi, Ehbe, Lexi, and the emeralds were gone without a trace. He cursed.
*****
Ehbe woke up. "Uhg… How long have I been out?" She opened her eyes, only to find a blazing sun, she turned her head away. "Wh-where are we…? Lexi?" Her eyes adjusted to the light and she looked around. Lexi was still out cold. Edbi, on the other hand, was leaning against the rock and staring at her, smiling even now.
"Lexi, as you can see, is still unconscious. She's not very good with chaos energy, the trip hurt her more than you and I." He said. "Congratulations, you have successfully stalled me." Ehbe tried to get up, but as soon as she was on two legs she discovered she was almost completely out of energy. She kneeled down. Using the last bit of energy she had on a fight would be suicide. She looked around a little more; they were in a desert, sand as far as the eye could see, near Edbi was a cave. Nothing to take energy from in miles, she was doomed.
"LIGHT! I SEE LIGHT AHEAD!" A voice shouted from the cave. She gasped.
"Sounds like this planet isn't barren after all." Edbi remarked. "Lexi may even be able to survive." Ehbe got a headache as thoughts of a forest was pushed into her mind.
"Ow." She said.
"And they're even telepathic. Well, if they're hoping for a forest they're going to be quite disappointed."
"This is as far as I go! The light of day is harmful to trolls!" A different, gruffer voice grumbled.
"Trolls? What is this? Fiery land?" Ehbe wondered.
"We elves are night creatures too, but sun doesn't frighten us." Another voice said, this one younger and calmer.
Ehbe now looked confused. "Tolls and elves? For the love of Chaos, where are we?" She wondered.
"Cutter! Come on! Come see the new land!" The voice that first spoke said.
"In a moment, friend. Treestump! Guard this crafty one until we make certain old Greymung didn't lie!" The third voice, whom Ehbe guessed was Cutter, commanded.
"Pity you if you've led us astray, mud grubber!" Yet another voice said.
"Sounds like they're coming out, sister dear." Edbi commented.
"Don't call me that." Ehbe growled lowly.
"S-so bright!" Cutter mumbled, they must have been just behind the entrants, she could hear them, but she still didn't see them.
"…Hurts! Can't see!" The first voice said. Ehbe wondered what she could do if they attacked her.
"Wh-where are we…?" Cutter asked.
Edbi was mildly amused, that was the exact phrase she said. "How amusing this will be." He thought. Then the tunnel started to rumble.
"The tunnel! It's collapsing!" Cutter shouted. The elves jumped out, along with wolves. Ehbe was dumbstruck at the sight. The elves were no taller than a teen-aged mobius, or a human child. She almost thought them children until she saw their ears and eyes those definitely were not human. And the fact that the wolves walked on four legs instead of two didn't help either.
Before the elves could put their attention on the "aliens", a golden-haired female elf turned to the cave. "Father!" She exclaimed. There was a groan from the cave entrance.
"Probably Treestump." Ehbe noted.
"Treestump!" A male golden-haired elf shouted. Ehbe was surprised to notice that was Cutter's voice. "What happened?! Where's Picknose?"
"…Don't know…" Treestump mumbled. "He just touched the wall and the stones came down like rain!"
"Those lying trolls had it planed from the start! Picknose knew he could trigger a cave-in any time he chose!" Cutter said.
"But why, Cutter? There was no need for them to do this!" The golden-haired female elf said innocently.
"There was no need to make a monster like Edbi either, yet here he stands." Ehbe thought.
Cutter walked out again. "No need but revenge… For Greymung's injured pride!" He paused. "Only… I didn't think he'd go … so far!"
"You'd be amazed how far people go for vengeance. I was created for vengeance!" Edbi added silently.
"What now, lad…?" Treestump asked. Cutter was quiet.
Edbi pushed himself off the wall. "Now we get introduced." He said. "I'm Edbi." Cutter jumped back, his wolf snarled and got between him and Edbi protectively.
"Well, that killed any chance I had of going unnoticed." Ehbe sighed. "And the best part is I'll go unconscious in a few moments."
"Hm-hm. And the one that just spoke is Ehbe." Edbi said calmly. Cutter was still unsure of what to do.
The golden-haired female elf was the first to react. "What are you?" She asked.
"A mobius, from the planet mobius. A mobius echidna, to be exact." He said. "Also, if I wanted to kill you, you'd know." Lexi moaned. "And it seemed your tagalong is waking. Guess that means this place has oxygen. Though under these conditions, neither of you will last long." He told Ehbe, still smiling.
"You know, if it wasn't for the fact I'm about to go unconscious, I'd be fighting you right now." Ehbe said.
"And loosing at that. But think of it this way, at least you stalled me." He smiled. Lexi started to get up, but stopped and grabbed her head.
"Remind me never to help you again." Lexi said before looking around. She stood up and brushed the sand off her pants. "Okay, I give up. Where are we, and who are you guys?" She looked around to see Ehbe down. "And please tell me that you're kneeling for courtesy." Ehbe collapsed. "Great… Just great… I'm dead, aren't I?"
"If by dead you mean vulnerable and useless, then yes, completely." Edbi said.
Cutter finally interjected. "What are you?"
"As I said, mobius. And also, before you ask, a planet is a different world. We're from far away, not close to walking distance from here." Edbi said.
"And I'm Lexi, a mobius cat. And you are?" Lexi said wile digging through Ehbe's backpack.
Cutter put his sword away. "Cutter." He said.
"Ah-ha!" Lexi said before pulling out a taser. She quickly zapped Ehbe on the arm, Ehbe jumped up.
"Ow! That thing doesn't just zap, you know." Ehbe said, rubbing her arm. Lexi pulled the batteries out of it and tossed them to Ehbe.
"You went unconscious, you needed some sort of energy." Lexi said before turning to the elves. "Okay, you're Cutter, and the rest of you are?"
"I'm Dewshine, this is Scouter, Treestump, One-eye, Clearbrook, Redlance, Nightfall, Skywise, Strongbow, Moonshade, Dart, Woodlock, Rainsong, Newstar, Wing, and Pike." The golden-haired female elf said, she pointed to each one; some greeted this more than others. During this time, Ehbe was pulling out batteries, absorbing their electricity, and putting them back in her pack.
Lexi looked around. "Something tells me you guys don't live here, do you?"
"No. We came from the woodlands, humans burned it, and trolls tricked us." Cutter said, his wolf was now by his side.
"Well, it doesn't look like you have anywhere to go, and I can guess we have a lot of explaining to do." Ehbe said, walking forward.
"Can we talk in the cave? It's hot out here." Lexi said. Pike snickered a little and the mood was lightened, if only for now. They walked into what was left of the cave; questions and answers were passed back and forth.
Authors Notes: Okay, next chapter will have OCs! So give me some to put up!
Cutter: Why would OC's go in the next chapter, why not this one?
Me: Cause I said so!
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