Disclaimer: I don't own anything as you all have heard so many times from others.
Well, no questions for the last chapter, so i'm just going to go on with the story, but first...
REMEMBER! Swift and Sable STILL look like normal baby Chao.
Swift sat on the rooftop, his eyes closed and his legs crossed. His mind was pondering, the strange yet familiar behavior Sable had.
"Where have I met him before?" Swift whispered, exhaling with slight disappointment.
"Met who?" Swift bolted upright; staring at the curious face of Cheese, for once, his look of play seemed to be gone for a look of seriousness.
"Um….If I tell you will you tell the others?" Swift's voice was hoping for Cheese to say he wouldn't, and Cheese understood that. Cheese nodded and sat crossed legged across from the younger Chao.
"It's just that….I'm getting these flashbacks, but they aren't about me." Swift tried to explain to the shocked Cheese. His emotion sphere changed to an exclamation point quickly, his eyes were huge.
"…What are these memories about?" Swift smiled, closing his eyes and skimming his mind.
"Robots, robots just like Eggman's, but also this strange hedgehog…."
Cheese looked at the slightly smiling Swift.
"….He….It's hard to explain, it's almost like I'm in a plane and looking out of the window at him. He's black, and is kinda grouchy I think….he has these red eyes that can see right into your heart."
Cheese's head snapped up so fast it startled Swift's open. Cheese had a sad look in his eye, a small sad smile on his lips.
"I know that hedgehog." He whispered, drawing Swift in with his open mind.
"His name was Shadow, Shadow the Hedgehog, his creator was Gerald Robotnic, and he was the Ultimate Life form."
Swift gasped, eyes going into tunnel vision as something else took his place.
"I finally found you faker!" Swift shouted, apparently he was on a slightly muddy clung of earth covered with jungle grass. The black hedgehog stood on a thick vine a little ways up off of the ground.
"Faker? Hah! You aren't even good enough to be my fake!"
Swift growled, his anger rising as he tensed for battle.
"I'll make you eat those words!" Swift shouted, curling up into a ball and dashing towards the hedgehog with high speeds. The hedgehog dodged, sending yellow beams of light at Swift, which he easily avoided.
Swift blinked, clearing the haze from his vision.
"-ft, Swift, Swift, Swift." Cheese continued in a persistent mantra, annoying Swift easily.
"Cheese, I'm right here you know." Cheese blushed and looked away.
"You got a glassy look in your eye, did you remember something?"
Swift hesitated, he didn't want to say, he shouldn't say.
"No, I'm just tired right now."
Cheese nodded, getting to his feet.
"Call me if you need something." He offered, flapping away and down to the ground far below. Swift frowned, looking up at the clouds, once again imagining space, or maybe he had actually been up there? He didn't know anymore, it was too confusing.
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Swift sat on the table, saliva dripping down from his mouth as he spotted the feast before him.
Ella and Chris knew that Swift had a thing for Chilly Dogs, a good way to get rid of the extra storage in the two freezers. But when Swift said he wanted a snack, he didn't mean he wanted a food court.
"Go Swift! Chug them! Chug chug chug!" Cheese cheered on, Swift raised an eyebrow.
"Cheese, you can only chug drinks."
"Oh…." Swift grinned and grabbed the first Chilly dog, ramming it down his tiny throat, his eyes widened as it hit his tongue, nothing tasted this good.
Within minutes, almost all of the Chilly dogs had been eaten by the starving Chao, it was easily seen that he was in the spawning Season. Tails had a look of shock on his face after witnessing the Chao munch all of the spicy foods to bits; it was strange he could even hold it down.
"I'm afraid to know what you look like when you spawn a cocoon." He muttered, tinkering with a small tracking device. Swift gave a cheesy grin and jumped down, staggering slightly as he did so, he blinked twice before lumbering towards the door, already digesting the food.
"Swift! Cream is taking us to the Chao Gardens! Isn't that great?" He bubbled, grabbing Swifts arm to do a little 'happy dance'. Swift yelped and twisted out of his grasps, already bolting away, slower in his bloated state, but still faster than Cheese.
"Cheese, Swift! We're leaving!" Cream called, giggling as Cheese landed on her shoulder while Swift just walked beside.
Mr. Tanaka had a black car already running for the three, Cream slid into the backseat and Swift jumped in also, closing the door behind him.
Cheese giggled, leaning back at ease against the bench seat. Swift took the tiny armrest and watched as all of the trees passed, he enjoyed looking at new things.
"Mrs. Cream, where do you plan on going?" Mr. Tanaka asked, Swift rolled his eyes and looked out of the window, zoning out quickly….
Colors raced by, blues, greens, browns, and even some yellows. Slowly shortening his stride, he slowed, looking around the scenery.
He was on the top of a cliff, a forest just below the rocky outcrop he stood on, and the glittering bay in the distance. A few hawks circled high above, but Swift could take the credit for himself, no human had ever been here before…
"Swift! We're here!" Cheese squealed, practically throwing his buddy out of the door, luckily Swift right sided himself before the hard impact.
"Come on! I need to say high to a few of my friends!" Cheese vanished, flying towards two hero flying Chao. Swift looked around, his belly recovering and now he was ready to burn off some of his energy.
"Is that you? Oh! You've grown so much!" Swift grunted as he was knocked over by a giggling Aqua. Her eyes bright and personality bubbling. Swift gave a small grin, attempting to get up, and succeeding to Aqua's surprise.
"Look at you! You're going to be spawning soon right? I can't wait to see your new form! Oh you'll be so cute! I'm thinking yellow; yeah I think you'll be yellow with these little orange stripes!" He babbled, not really noticing as Swift slowly inched away, before turning in a full out sprint that left Aqua gaping.
Swift recognized the area he was running towards, well; honestly it was more like a jog for him.
He spun, skidding to a halt just under the sitting form of an adult Chao, at first glance, you would think it specialized in no abilities, but the slightly pulled back teardrop shape was familiar.
Zinc looked down, tilting his head slightly as he didn't recognize the Chao below him.
"Hello, can I help you?" He asked, jumping down from his rock, Swift grinned, and with a pang Zinc recognized him.
"B-Bolt? You're so big! Dang, looks like I'm going to have competition." Swift raised his eyebrows and crossed his arms.
"Hey Zinc. My raiser named me Swift, sure fits, huh?" Swift spun around, showing off his appearance, Zinc shook his head laughing.
"Sure does, long time no see huh?"
"Got that right, hey, are you up for a little race?"
Zinc's eyes widened in response, he never expected his little 'Bolt' to challenge him.
"Sure, but don't cry when you lose!"
With that, Zinc dashed off, Swift on his heels. Zinc was shocked; shocked that Swift was actually keeping pace with him, and almost passing him!
Zinc grunted and picked up the pace, taking longer strides, soon he was a light teal blur. Swift laughed loudly and his legs moved faster and faster, moving more frequent than before.
"You call that speed?" He laughed, his outline becoming a dark blue blur as the two raced, little sweat drops formed on Zinc's head as he grunted again, getting closer to the finish line.
"You've seen nothing yet!" Swift laughed, not knowing why, but he did something that made Zinc gasp.
Swift jumped, tucking in his body and his emotion sphere, and rolling. Spinning with extreme speeds that caused him to overtake Zinc with ease.
Zinc skidded to a stop, looking up at a rock high above him, looking at the only Chao that had ever overtaken him in speed. Zinc was panting, but Swift only was smirking, a faint dark blue aura seemed to surround him, and only Zinc could see it. He gasped as the aura was thing but covered Swift's entire body.
"You can't beat the fastest thing alive!" Swift laughed, the aura seemed to be in the shape of a Chao, the thing that made Zinc gasp were the misty emerald green eyes that were focused right over Swift's blue and white ones. His voice was deeper, but at that moment, the aura vanished as did the voice, leaving only a smirking Chao.
"I like you; it's nice to have compition." Zinc smiled, walking towards the still smiling Chao.
"I know that you'll be spawning soon, here, I know a few fruits that'll help with that…"
The two Chao walked away towards the forests…