Chapter 4 Discovered

"Are you ready Chel's?" I asked Chelsea rashly but nicely by the edge of her closed door to her room. No reply. Hopefully she was almost done getting dressed. I then sighed and laid against the middle of the door, with both hands behind my back.

After spending two days at my house to recuperate, I then said my farewells and goodbyes to my family during our next morning. Since then, we've been teleporting to house to house so that my friends will get ready and say their goodbyes to their families as well. Unlucky for Chelsea, her family wasn't here at the moment, but when I looked at her, she didn't look bothered by that. She was in her usual bubbly cheerful self. Maybe she's excited because of the upcoming adventure that we were about to have. But who knows?

In her living room, was a couple of couches and chairs, all circled to a coffee table in the center of the room. When looked ahead, there was a normal-squared TV on a cabinet, along with a satellite system and a DVD player. Dylan and Trevor were sitting on one of the couches, starting a conversation. As I turned to Sonic and Shadow, they were already having one. I saw Sonic snickered to Shadow about something, and pointed at Chelsea's piano that was left-bottom corner of the living room. Shadow made a shrug and walked to the piano, and sat on a short chair next to it.

Within seconds, a sweet tune started to play. Even though I was surprised that Shadow knew how to play the piano, but I was surprised by the music he was playing. It sounded familiar…

Till I finally figured it out, Chelsea quickly opened her door, and it lead to me to falling backwards onto her floor in her room. The music stopped playing, and I saw everyone was looking at me in shock.

"Oh my gosh Court! I'm so sorry!" Chel's yelled out in apologize. Then she bent down to help me and gotten me on my feet again.

"I'm really really sorry!" She apologized more. "You alright?"

I laughed as I rubbed the back of my head. "Its fine Chelsea, I knew something like that was bound to happen."

"If you say so…Hey! Who was playing the piano?" Chelsea then questioned the people in the room after her focus was off me. She then turned to Shadow, who was the nearest to the instrument.

"It was me." Shadow answered her question without any guilt. "I was just playing what was on the music sheet. I hope that didn't upset you."

Chelsea widened her eyes, and shook her hands at him while shaking her head as well. "Oh no! Not at all! I'm just amazed that you could play that! I've been trying to learn that song on the piano for weeks."

"What? This?" Shadow questioned her as he played the soft tune on the piano again, but only using one hand.

"Oh my gosh! Yes!" Chelsea burst out in happiness. "Homage for Inuyasha!"

It was the same song that I figured out. It was a tune that came off from a show called Inuyasha. It was an anime that Chelsea, Ellen, and I cherished a few years ago. We thought it was the coolest show of all time back then, till we eventually gotten tired of it, and moved on with other interests.

"I'm glad that you enjoyed me playing this piece." Shadow chuckled afterwards. "And all I was doing was proving this Faker that I can play the piano." He then pointed to Sonic, who had a mean look on his face.

"Do you want me to continue on playing it?" The black hedgehog smirked at Chelsea, knowing that could make Sonic even more ticked.

Then an angry cough occurred, of course coming from Sonic. He was standing there pouting, with crossed arms and his right foot tapping in extreme speed, just like with his running. Chelsea ignored him and answered Shadow with a nod.

"Shadow, Chel's, we don't have time for this. Remember we still have to go to our school and explain why we won't be there for the next few weeks. And Chel's, do you even want to see your other friends before you have to leave?" Dylan interrupted and looked at Chelsea when he spoke his last sentence. "You won't be seeing them for about a month or so."

"Well duh! Of course!" Chelsea loudly replied to him. "I have to see Tay Tay, Kimi, Michelle…"

We all grouped up together, then Shadow raised up his glowing green Chaos Emerald in his hand, shouted 'Chaos Control', and then all of us teleported to the entrance of our high school. And Chelsea was still naming all of her friends. I could see that Dylan was getting a little annoyed by this.

"Court, I don't know how you can put up with her annoyingness." Dylan whispered to me while we walked to the entrance of the school. I giggled.

"I find it funny, actually." I said. "Plus, she's happy. I rather have her in her cheerful and peppy mood than any other mood, y'know?"

Dylan opened the door for me, as I quietly said a 'thank you'. I waited for his response.

"If you put it that way, then yeah. I rather have her happy."

As we entered, all of us looked around. We saw that everything in the school looked normal, as if nothing happened. All of it looked normal, except the huge broken windows that Eggman broke on the other side of the building. I saw a few men were working on it to get them repaired, and replace the glass.

We went into the office, and all of us separately told the ladies that were at the front desk that we weren't going present because of emergencies. And as we had hoped, they believed us.

When I turned around to head back, I noticed that Sonic and Shadow weren't here. It was then that I rushed out of the office and looked around the entry of the commons. They weren't there either. This would be the perfect timing for me to panic, but then again, I wore the necklace again today.

"What's wrong Court?" Dylan asked me in a worried tone. I quickly turned to him.

"Sonic and Shadow aren't here. Could they—" Trevor's laugh suddenly interrupted me.

"Court, they told me that they're going to stay outside and stay hidden. They'll track huge crowds if they did come in. Remember? They're fictional video game characters."

I made a facepalm. "Yeah, I forgot…everyone will spaz out like I did whenever I first encountered them."

All four of us stood around and talked till the bell rung shortly for lunch. Soon, all the people rushed down the stairs and hallways and headed for the tables and lunch lines. This was our cue to start looking for friends. But as we walked around to try to find somebody I knew, they found us instead.

"Trevor!" Trevor's girlfriend, Brittany called to him. He turned around and her arms were already chained around him. After their reunion, they quietly talked to each other, a sign for me to leave them be.

I looked over to my left side to see if Chelsea found anybody. But she disappeared. When I looked further away, I saw her chatting among with her girl pals. Talking endlessly to them in an excitedly and bubbly mood, like normal.

When I then turned over to Dylan, I saw many of his friends shouting his name, running to and giving him hugs. Soon more people started to crowd around him, and eventually I gotten swallowed up by the mob. Before it had gotten bigger, I squeezed my way though, and gotten back to free space.

"Dylan, is all this true? All of what happened back at the dance? Is Sonic real?" I heard that one of his best friends, David, ask him within the crowd.

"Yeah! And I also heard from somebody that you can make fire come out of your hands! Is that true too?" His friend Montana asked next, and soon it was followed by more questions.

After not hearing any responses or answers from Dylan, I tried my best to get a look above the crowd to see how he's doing. But I was keep getting pushed by more people trying to get into the mob. This was getting ridiculous…

After a few more pushes and shoves, I just unleashed my violet sphere and pushed most of the people out of the way, trying my best not to harm them in any way.

But after I made the barrier disappear, thinking that'll solve my problem, half of the mob came straight to me, asking me questions. Now I know why Dylan hasn't answered.

Before more people started squeezing around me, I heard a loud crash of glass nearby, and it was lead by screams of teenagers.

The people that were crowded around me saw what had happened, and then they started heading towards the front doors, panicking and screaming like the other teenagers of the school. Same thing of what happened to Dylan's crowd, but some of his closest friends stayed beside him. I saw Dylan look ahead and stared at the scene with shocked eyes.

As I looked ahead to what had happened to make everyone panic, I saw twins of big Eggbots busting through the windows on the other side of the school building. It was like the same occurrence that happened last Saturday. A déjà vu.

But these mechs weren't as big as the Egg Giant though, but even if they are different size, they were big enough to cause destruction to the people and the building itself.

"I guess that answers my question." I heard David say to Dylan, shocked at well. I rushed to them.

"Dylan, what are we going to do?" I asked my best friend, never giving a sign of panic in my tone. Dylan looked at me, and then looked at the robots, which were slowly coming right at us.

"We'll destroy them." Dylan answered simple and quickly. "It's no different that what we did back then, or at the dance. But first off…" Dylan turned to David and the rest of his friends.

"You guys have to evacuate. I thank you for not betraying me at a time like this, but I want you all safe." He told the rest of his friends.

They all looked at him confused. "But Dylan…" they started to mumble and beg at different times. The Eggbots were getting closer.

"I'll be alright! Go now before they hurt you!" Dylan yelled as he pointed towards the front doors. "I'll explain everything later!"

When the two mechs were about two and a half yards from us, it was then that Dylan's friends started running away towards the entry doors to escape. They never left their eyes off Dylan till they reached the outside. As I looked around the commons more, I saw that most of the people had evacuated. The only ones who stayed were Chelsea and Trevor. They were both looking at Dylan and I as if they should stay, or escape to the outside like everyone else. I gave them a serious stare and turned my head towards the doors. They nodded and followed my instruction.

After we checked that everybody was gone and safe, we now noticed that both of the robots stopped, and that they were now in front of us. They then shot out a beam of red from their eyes, scrolling the light down at the both of us. They were scanning.

"Scanning complete." The left robot had said in a computerized voice after the beam vanished. "Courtney and Dylan. Enemies of Dr. Eggman. Courtney holds a power source. Retrieve it. Destroy Them."

Both of the robots begun to raise their arms at us, and transform their humanized robotic hands into four dangerous guns. They glowed at the ends, getting ready to shot their blasts. Dylan already went ahead and ran away from the target area, while I just stood there, completely calm, confused of what the Eggbot said to me.

Me…? I don't have a power source…I don't have-

The robots fired.

"Court!" Dylan screamed at me, trying his best to get over to me in time before he and I would've gotten hit. But in a blink of an eye, a blue blur grabbed me in time before the bullets had hit me.

"Sonic." I said his name when he screeched to a stop behind the robots. He looked at me with a worried yet funny expression.

"You know better than just to stand still around those things. What's up with you?" He let me go as I looked at him. I was still confused.

"Nothing." I said. "It just…I'll tell you later. Let's go ahead and destroy these mechs." I said as I headed back to Dylan.

"Fine by me!" He laughed. Then he sped me up, and then started out by hitting the right robot with several homing attacks. When I met up with Dylan again, and quickly thought up a plan, we'd decided to give it all our all by using the powers we held. Since I didn't have a power that couldn't cause harm to another, I went ahead and tried that I could still do a homing attack. It turns out that I can!

The Eggbot was almost close to beaten. But before I did another attack to finish it, the robot grabbed me by surprise and used his other hand to grab something on my neck. Before he'd ever gotten the chance to touch me, I used my force field to protect myself, thus destroying the hand he held me on. Another déjà vu from Saturday night.

Since the robot wasn't tall enough for me to have a nasty fall; I landed short on both feet perfectly.

"Mind if I finish him?" Dylan asked me tempted with two huge fireballs in his hands. He also made a series of evil giggles.

"Go ahead." I winked.

After two hits of being slammed by fire throws, the robot lost movement and fell down to the hard ground and broke apart. A few seconds later, it was lead by another crash by the second robot. After that happened, Sonic walked to both of us, giving us a thumbs-up.

"You guys were awesome back there!" He told us with a grin. "You guys are just as good as you were back in my world!"

"Yeah! Kinda hard to believe though…" He answered Sonic, then he went over to me. "What was the mech trying to grab from you, Court?"

I looked at Dylan, then looked down at the jewel that I was still wearing around my neck. I took it off, and examine it once more. It just an ordinary jewel. It reflects light and sparkles like normal jewels do. It doesn't glow like one of the Chaos Emeralds, or the one that Eggman processed. Maybe the Eggbot made a mistake?

"Is that what the mech was trying to take from you?" Sonic walked to me and asked. I made a nod.

"Yeah, it was the same thing that left me confused. The robot said I held a power source, and then tried to take this away from me. I wore this for a few days now and there's nothing powerful about it. It's just an ordinary jewel."

Sonic looked like he didn't believe me. "Can I see it?" He handed his hand over to me. I looked at the jewel one more, placed the necklace in his palm, and he gripped it by the chain. He examined the jewel, dangling there, till he decided to touch it. When he did, he was amazed.

"What the—wow…When I touched it, all of my worries seemed to drop dead. Now, I feel calmer. A lot calmer."

"Really? So, it does it to you too?" I asked, making sure.

"Well yeah! I feel completely relaxed at the moment. You felt that way when you were wearing it?"

"Yes, but…I thought it was only my imagination."

Sonic let the jewel dangle on the chain again, sparking everywhere from the reflecting sunlight. He was more amazed than before. "Now I feel my worries again…Guys, do you know what we just found…?

Dylan and I both exchange glances, and then looked back at the smirking blue hedgehog.

"A Harmonic Iridescent."