Welcome one and all to my latest chapter!
Quake awoke, his vision was fuzzy, but all he could see was the color brown in all directions. "I could have sworn the other side was white…" He got up, staggering forward. As his vision became a bit clearer, he saw a large silver wall in front of him. "Eternity has a wall? All sorts of surprises today…"
He continued walking, his vision becoming clearer every few minutes. The wall appeared to be made of interlocking plates of metal. "I know that looks familiar…" He mumbled to himself. Finally getting close enough to touch it he tapped it once with his fist, it made a hollow sound. "Darn it, why does this seem so familiar!"
The ground seemed to tremble underneath him, and the wall began moving! Backing up, Quake began to see more silver rise up, like some primeval behemoth from the dawn of time, when it finally stopped rising, the mouse saw blue at the top, and did a face-palm. "No dip Sherlock… Kayla. That means I didn't fail!" then added more solemnly "Or we're both dead." Tapping the button on his megaphone collar, he called up. "Hey Kayla, down here!" after waiting, she didn't seem to notice, looking down he saw the large scratch in the metal piece. "Shit… it's busted. Now what am I going to do?"
Cupping his hands to his mouth he tried again. "Kayla, LOOK DOWN!" Kayla's head turned for a moment, but nothing more. "Damn… need to get to higher ground. But how?" Looking around, he noticed a brown wall to his left, walking over he grasped it, and found it pliable. Grabbing a hold on it, he began climbing. About mid-way up the surface he called out again, the same thing as before. Only this time it had an effect, looking around Kayla tried to spot her friend.
"Quake? Where are you?" She said softly.
"Look to your right and down!" He yelled, his voice still a little hoarse. She obliged and smiled, seeing him hanging there. Like the hand of some god the wolf reached out and plucked her friend up, depositing him on her other hand.
"I was so worried! I was scared that you were… dead!"
"Nah, takes more than that." Quake said. Kayla smiled and pulled Quake into a gentle hug. "Ummm… okay?"
"I'm glad you're ok Quake." She said softly
"And I'm glad that you're ok." The mouse replied
Apollo's head poked in from the kitchen. "Did I miss a touching moment?"
"Stay in here longer and the only touching will be my fist into your face." Kayla said, serious.
"Glad to see you healthy." Apollo grinned, going back into the kitchen. "But break my face and I won't be able to eat all the delicious scoff I'm cooking while Bolt's out!"
"I could defiantly use some food." Quake said.
"Me too, been a long few days." Kayla agreed, walking into Bolt's kitchen where the aroma of egg's and bacon wafted through the room.
"Though, what are we going to do about the mega-collar?" Quake asked suddenly.
"Guess ill have to fix it, and you'll have to go without it for a few days." Kayla answered.
Lucky me, I get to stay closer to you. Quake thought to himself happily. Apollo was already dishing out food on plates, normal sized portions for Kayla and Quake, and a triple for him.
"Good thing Bolt's out with his girlfriend getting rations, he's going to need them." Apollo said offhandedly.
"I kind of feel like we're taking advantage of his hospitality." Kayla confessed as she sat down, Quake jumped off and landed near his plate. There was no use for him to talk; he wouldn't have been heard anyway.
"He doesn't seem to mind, we can always reimburse the fellow." Apollo replied.
"Yeah, I guess we could." Kayla said more confidently, taking a bite of the eggs. Quake was halfway done eating his, the exact reason why he could eat at the speed of a normal person still shrouded in fog and mystery (AKA the author hasn't quite figured it out yet)
There was an audible creak as the door to the woodland cabin opened; the opener was the houses owner, Bolt, along with Ren and Tails. Each of which was holding a few bag of groceries.
"I'm back! And you've already helped yourself to my kitchen…" the green wolf said in mock severity.
"I couldn't let these two good people jolly well starve could I?" Apollo defended.
"Oh, so the two sleepyheads are finally up and about?" Bolt asked.
"You were out for hours!" Ren exclaimed
"You should have called Sonic and the rest of us; we could have helped with your ship." Tails added in.
"It was something a captain has to do." Kayla replied.
"Well you should let me take a look at it, I'm good with mechanics!" the fox said.
"Wow, that's really good to hear!" Kayla said.
"Do you work cheap?" Apollo asked.
"When I get to work on an intergalactic starship, you betcha!" Tails exclaimed.
"Woohoo!" Apollo said, jumping for joy.
"You'll have to excuse Apollo; there aren't many cheap places where you can get ship repairs… If you're talking legal of course." Kayla explained.
"Legal?" Tails said quizzically.
"Black market parts. When you work in the bounty hunter core, you meet a few reliable contacts." Kayla explained. Bolt shrugged. "Whatever works."
Tails nodded in agreement. "hey, why's Quake been so silent?"
"Oh, his megaphone broke. He could be talking, but you wouldn't be able to hear him." Kayla explained. "Now if only we could do that to Apollo..."
"Hey! Offensive! Bottom marks miss." Apollo defended indignantly. Quake nodded, chuckling to himself.
"So, how do we even move your ship?" Tails asked.
"We figured that out a long time ago, there's a special chamber in the center that Quake can use to make it his size, easily carry-able " Kayla answered.
"Then lets get going!" Bolt interrupted, turning and walking out the door. Kayla picked up Quake and followed, Tails walked out, and Apollo was last. He picked up a few pieces of bacon for the road. As they walked, Bolt fingered one of his Lighting Shards. "I could go ahead you know."
"No point to it. What are those things anyway?" Kayla asked.
"Lighting Shard, and it's a bit hard to explain. Lets just say it makes me go fast." Bolt answered.
"Can I look at it?" She asked, Bolt tossed it over. "I wouldn't mess to much with it, I'm the only one who can use it and not be on the ground unconscious."
Kayla stared intently into the yellow, glasslike object, then smashed it in her hand. There was an immediate effect, she glowed intensely for a brief second, then disappeared, re-appearing at the front. Quake, who was standing on her shoulder, was looking a bit green.
"Please don't do that again..."
"Sorry Quake! Looks like you were wrong Bolt, worked fine to me." Kayla said.
Bolt was staring wide eyed. "But... How?"
"How should i know?"
"I suppose..." Bolt was now looking at Kayla in a new light, that light being suspicion, there was something not right about her... They continued their walk through the forest, finally coming up to the clearing that the crashing starship had created. Bolt noted the ice all around, Eggman had already removed his robots.
"Wow, this place had a number done on it!" He exclaimed.
"I know..." Kayla said darkly.
"Best not bring it up again chap." Apollo whispered to Bolt.
"Ill keep that in mind." Bolt whispered back. They walked up to the hatch, which wasn't budging under all of them combined, it was frozen shut!
"Shit... Frozen." Kayla muttered.
"Language missie!" Apollo objected.
"Can it Apollo! There's more than one way to skin a cat, and i know plenty." The angered wolf fired back. Bolt stepped up, appearing to examine the hatch.
"I know exactly what this needs!"
"What?" Kayla asked, getting madder by the second.
"Why, dynamite of course!" Bolt replied, holding up a now lit stick of the said explosive substance.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!!?!" Kayla screeched.
"Opening the door, I would stand back if i was you, just a suggestion though." Bolt chimed in, backing up slowly at first before diving behind cover, which Apollo had already disappeared behind. Kayla shook her head in dismay, but held on to Quake and leapt away from the explosion.
As the dust and smoke cleared, a large gap where the hatch used to be stood out like a sore thumb. "There. Opened." Bolt announced triumphantly. Kayla was ready to rip his head off, but managed to JUST barely restrain herself enough to walk up and go inside. The overall interior of the ship wasn't harmed, just a bit cold from the onslaught that took place outside a day before.
The hatch led to a simple, short, stark silver hallway. The end was clearly a view of a kitchen, framed by the hall. The rest followed behind Kayla into the ship, she led them down into the kitchen area. It was small, just what appeared to be an oven, a microwave, a refrigerator, and a sink. On either side of the kitchen was a hallway. Apollo was almost immediatly upon the fridge. "I forgot that we still had tucker in the ole larder!"
"Get out of there Apollo!" Kayla ordered, the cat stiffened for a moment, before coming back out with a mousetrap on his nose.
"Why would you have a mousetrap in your fridge? Isnt Quake mouse sized?" Tails asked.
"Because Quake, isnt dumb enough to stick his face in there." Kayla answered.
"Sounds good enough to me, lets get going." Bolt replied. The blue wolf gave a curt nod, before turning and taking the hallway on the left. The hallway was still a plain gray, but halfway down it were 3 doors, two on the right side of the hallway, and one on the left.
"the barracks." Apollo explained.
"Rooms..." Kayla translated. Bolt couldnt help himself, and opened up the door on the left, inside was what looked to be a supply closet with a mat and 2 candles. As Bolt peered in, Quake said into Kayla's ear.
"Get him out of there before he hurts himself please."
Kayla nodded and grabbed Bolt by the scruff of his green neck, hauling him out. "Will you get out of Quake's room?"
"It's a closet." Bolt defended.
"No, its a room, if you are not blind, you can see he doesnt need a lot of space."
"saves us a lot of cash on ship rennovations for a new room!" Apollo added. She nodded and continued on, at the very end was a window, and three doors.
"Storage, engine, brig." Apollo listed off.
"Whats a 'brig'?" Tails piped up.
"Jail, just in case we have a prisoner." Kayla answered. She took out a key from inside her suit and opened the center door between the windows, as the door opened it revealed what seemed to be an empty room with pipes going everywhere. Before any questions could be asked, Kayla walked up to the center and set Quake on the floor, to everyone else it looked like he was tapping the floor, to him, he was hitting buttons under a panel in the floor. After his coding was complete, a large pneumatic hiss came as a large section of the floor lifted up, revealing a clear dome holding a medium sized glowing ball of silver.
"What is it...?" Tails had to ask. "It glows just like a Chaos Emerald!"
"It's the energy source of our ship, tech Quake got from his home planet, a siphon core." the armor clad wolf answered. "It takes energy from the things around it, but not in a way where it steals the energy and makes things die. It will take energy from an atomic level even, steller dust, antimatter, solar, doesnt matter."
"That's amazing!" Tails exclaimed, his expression was almost as if christmas came early, no wonder Eggman wanted the ship! He wouldn't need to steal Chaos Emeralds to make his machines work! Quake dropped through a small hole in the top of the glass dome, he tapped the glass once, and suddenly his voice became magnified.
"Im going to start the process, your going to need to leave."
Kayla nodded, grabbed Apollo, who was staring into the light, and walked out. Bolt and Tails quickly followed suit. The took the same path that was led them into the ship to get out, quickly shutting the hatch. The ship seemed to start glowing with an eerie light, radiating from within the metal itself.
"Alright... Unless you want to end up the size of a football, i suggest you backup." Kayla cautioned.
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