Jade didn't remember much of the escape. She remembered falling, though, and landing on something, and hitting her head. The last thing she heard was the word "Charmy." Now, looking around, she found herself on a bed in a unknown home.
From the corner of her eye she saw a purple curtain move. It separated this room, a room with three beds, from another one. An alligator appeared, probably checking in on her. He smiled when he saw she was awake.
"Good, you're awake! That must mean you're okay."
She nodded, cautious about talking. From behind him she could see a small bee peek out from behind his legs. He had a crutch in one hand. Slowly he approached her and she could see the damage. Jade flew to the ground in front of the bee.
"Oh no, I didn't do that, did I?" She asked the bee.
"It's okay, this is nothing." He lied in a boyish voice.
Jade shook her head. "No, let me help you. Hold still, okay?" Everyone seemed alarmed when she grabbed the boy's knee but the alligator backed off when her body started to glow. She was used to the surprised reactions by now. Her brothers and sister and master were still surprised when she fixed a broken ankle or a scraped knee.
When the glowing stopped she looked up at the bee. He was even more surprised by her eyes. "Try walking on it now." She insisted.
Hesitantly, he did. With a smile the boy jumped in the air. "It's healed!"
"That's amazing!" Jade looked up to find the voice belonged to a chameleon. "How did you learn to do that?"
Should she trust these people? She put her finger to her lips and winked, "That's a secret." In the chameleons eyes it told he could tell she was guarded but didn't ask why. "What are your names?" She finally asked. "And where am I?"
The Alligator spoke. "You are at our detective agencies HQ. The boy there next to you is Charmy the Bee. The quiet chameleon is Espio. And I am Vector, their handsome leader."
"And a bossy one too," Charmy whispered to Jade.
They all stared at Jade in silence. Finally the human girl understood, she was probably being rude. "Oh, sorry, I'm Jade. Thank you all for helping me."
"There's breakfast in the kitchen, come on!" Charmy tried pulling her by the hand. She let herself be led by the boy bee to the couch. It was a little more comfortable than the floor was but she still preferred to be sitting on the earth on the Hex. Once she was settled Charmy gave her a plate full of food and a fork.
She stared at the food.
"Well, go on, eat!" Charmy insisted while everyone else sat around the room.
Slowly she ate. The food here wasn't unlike the food on the Hex. But it was still different.
"What happened to you?" Espio finally asked when she was finished.
"Honestly, I don't remember much." She admitted sheepishly. Zik always taught her to close her eyes and think back as far as she could and retrace events that happened to remember. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes. Under her eyelids she could see herself with the Chaos Emeralds in Eggman's ship. "I was kidnapped by Eggman and I escaped when I had the chance using the Chaos Emeralds." Like a movie, she saw herself flying in the air, a gold tint flew off of her. "Then I heard 'scatter' and I fell…" She snapped her eyes open and she looked at Charmy who perched next to her. "I must have fallen on you."
Charmy nodded. "Good detective skills there. You did fall on me. We were walking back home when you came out of nowhere."
Espio chimed in, "You were unconscious and we heard the sounds of robots not too far away so we decided to bring you with us and run home before the robots could see us."
"Why would Eggman kidnap someone like you?" Vector turned red suddenly realizing how rude he was. "I-I mean not that he wouldn't, that's a really neat ability you have but-"
"But I still don't trust you three." Master Zik always taught her to be honest in some situations. Although this put a dark look on the boys face, she needed to be honest about her feelings toward the detective team. "I'm sorry but I'm reluctant to give up any further information until comes a time I can fully trust you."
Vector seemed to open his mouth to say something but Espio interrupted his friend, "I understand fully. However, we do need to know where you come from so we can escort you home."
"R-really? You guys would do that?" Jade's breath was taken away by the proposal. "Thank you all! Really. There are a few people I need to find and they can take me back home. I need to find Sonic the Hedghog. Or Tails."
Zavok was unsteady on top of the red plane the fox called "Tornado-1". How Sonic could stand next to him with arms folded was beyond him. They flew to the sight the Hedghog found the robots. In the air they didn't find anything.
"Where did you say they came from?" Tails called from over the propeller's sound.
"South!" Sonic called.
Tails shifted the plane with a single stick. Zavok couldn't wrap his head around how a single stick could maneuver such a big aircraft! He didn't ask either, there were no time for questions like that. The only question he needed answered right then and there was 'where is Jade?'
In the distance he could hear engines in front of them and a little red dot that slowly got bigger as they headed toward it. Some robots appeared in front of them from what seemed like nowhere. Sonic's muscles tensed up, ready to fight, but there was no need.
"Save your strength, Sonic." Zavok said and as he spoke the robots flew out of the way.
"That's right," Tails mused aloud, "you guys can control magnetic fields."
"So basically Eggman's robots are useless against us!"
"Still, I'd be on guard, you two. Eggman's stupid but he isn't a complete idiot. He does learn from his mistakes from time to time." The fox cautioned.
Somehow, Zavok found that unlikely but what did he know about Eggman? The only time he's encountered the fat man was when he had the conch. The conch. The Zeti still couldn't shake the pain from his head sometimes. If Eggman had another one it would mean the search and rescue for Jade was a total failure. If he saw it he would have to run, whether he liked it or not, and possibly leave Jade behind.
The thought made Zavok fume. Zeti didn't run away! Not even for their life! But he wasn't just a Zeti, he was also a big brother rescuing his little sister. He didn't care about what happened to Sonic or Tails. As soon as he could find Jade and rescue her he could take her back home. Nothing was going to stop him from his mission.