A Jurassic trip to Mobius
Chapter 2: where's Jess? And settling in.
"Jess? I'm here!" Nima answered as she let herself and her daughter Atlanta in her friend's house, no answer "Jess?"
"Jessica?" Atlanta asked as she walked into the kitchen but Jess wasn't there.
"Jessica?" Nima asked as she looked in Jess's room but she wasn't there.
"Jess? You in here?" Atlanta asked as she looked in the dining room but she wasn't there either.
"I can't find her anywhere" Nima said as she entered the dining room "I wonder where she is!"
"Do you think something happened to her?" Atlanta asked her mother.
"I hope not" she replied as she got her phone and dialed Dr. Harding's phone number.
"Hello?" he asked on the other end of the line.
"Hello Harding" she replied.
"Hello Nima" he said "are you at my house?"
"Yes but Jess isn't here at all" she said.
"What do you mean? She should've been home by now!" he said "did you and Atlanta check every room in the house?"
"Yes and she's not here!" she said "I'm afraid that something very terrible has happened to her!"
"I'll call the police" he said "you and Atlanta get a few people and do a search party in the town!" the two adults continued to gather plans about finding Jess while Atlanta got out her phone and texted Jess to see where she was.
Meanwhile…
"No!" Shadow said as Sonic and Tails tried to let him to have a heart and let Jessica Harding stay with him and Maria on the ARK but he wouldn't budge "and that is my answer Sonic!"
"But Shadow!" Sonic whined "she has nowhere else to stay!"
"She'll die if you don't let her stay with you!" Tails said.
"Fine by me" Shadow grumbled.
"Why can't she stay with you and Maria?" Sonic said.
"First, all the extra rooms were destroyed during the ARK raid 50 years ago" Shadow said "and secondly, me and Maria need alone time for our relationship".
"But Shadow" Maria said from the other side of the room with Jess "I don't mind having a guest here! She can stay in my room!"
"Then where you sleep Maria?" Shadow asked with his arms cross.
"In your room!" Maria replied, Shadow nervously blushed while Sonic gave him a thumbs up and chuckled a bit.
"Disturbed" Tails said.
"Please Shadow? Please?" Maria and Jess the lynx asked together as they got on their knees and gave him the puppy dog eyes, the ultimate life form tried hard to look away but it was hard to when their puppy dog eyes got bigger until he finally gave in.
"Alright fine!" Shadow said as he threw his arms up "she can stay!"
"Great!" Jess and Maria said "thank you Shadow!" the two rushed over to him and gave him a bone crushing hug that even he couldn't withstand.
"Girls…Can't….Breath" he gasped.
"Sorry!" Maria said as they let go.
"Thank you very much Shadow" Jess said "thank you!"
"Whatever" Shadow said as he turned to Sonic and Tails with an angered expression "don't you two have somewhere to be?"
"Actually yes!" Sonic said "me and Tails are going to the abandoned mines zone today!"
"See you guys later!" Tails said as he spun his twin tails around and began to fly out of the room while Sonic ran out of the room.
"Now then, let's get you to feel like you're at home" Maria said as she guided Jess to her room "so what's it like for you on earth?"
"Oh, I just try to lead a normal life" Maria said as she looked at her arms "before I turned into an animal that is".
"Anything you like to do on earth?" Maria asked.
"I love football and hate shopping" Jess said "but I can't find a boyfriend".
"I'm sure you'll find someone" Maria said.
"Like who?" Jess asked "I can't date an animal on this planet, not to mention someone like Sonic, Tails, Knuckles or Silver!"
"I'm sure someone will be interested in you when you get back to earth" Maria said "so did you go on any exciting adventures on earth?" Jess suddenly stopped in her tracks with Maria looking at her with confusion.
"Nothing out of particular" Jess said as she continued walked again "if you count and island full of dinosaurs as nothing".
"An island full of dinosaurs?!" Maria asked her "but dinosaurs are extinct! How could they have survived?!"
"It all started with a company called InGen" Jess said as she started her story until her phone rang and she grabbed it to see a text from Atlanta.
Hey Jess! Me and mom can't find you! Where are you? Love Atlanta: the text read.
"Oh man! I forgot!" Jess said.
"Forgot what?" Maria asked.
"Nothing" Jess said as texted something to Atlanta and put her phone away "where was I?"
"InGen?" Maria asked.
"Oh right!" Jess said as she continued her story "that company clone dinosaurs and me and my dad were invited there because he was hired to be the veterinarian but something happened to the security defenses and the dinosaurs went wild!"
"That's awful!" Maria said.
"That's not the worst part" Jess said "I lost three of my friends to the dinosaurs" a moment she said that, a tear rolled down Jess's cheek "if only I could go back in time and save them".
"I'm so sorry for your lost Jess" Maria said "but time can decide what will happen to someone's lifespan".
"I guess your right" Jess said, the two had reached Maria's room and Maria pressed down on a button to open the door…
"EEK!" Maria said as she and Jess saw a robot lying on the floor with almost twenty cans of oil with him, it was clear that the robot was drunk from all the oil.
"Hello organic species" the robot said as he tried to get up but fell back down.
"Omega, what are you doing here?" Maria asked the robot.
"A mission went wrong in G.U.N. and Shadow and the commander gave me all the oil I could drink if I did not talk of the accident" Omega said as he finally got up and walked towards the two "I could not refuse the offer they gave me".
"And that proved to be a wrongful decision" Maria said before introducing Jess "oh Omega, this is Jess Harding the lynx".
"Hello Omega" Jess said.
"Greetings life-form Jess" Omega said as his eyes went dark again and he fell down, the two animals looked at each other and shrugged as Shadow walked down the hall.
"Ignore Omega being drunk on oil!" he said as he walked away "me and Rouge will invite Tails over to fix his systems later!"
"Okay…" Maria said as she showed Jess to her room before turning back to Shadow "but why was he in my room?"
"Can't hear you! Going to Mobius to get milk!" Shadow said as he grabbed his emerald and teleported himself to Mobius.
"He's not going to get milk is he?" Jess asked.
"No" Maria replied "he only does that to get out of a situation in case I blame him for something he did" the hedgehog and lynx began to laugh while Omega kept falling down.
Meanwhile…
"Have you seen this girl?" Nima continuously asked people on the street of the city while handing out flyers that had Jess's picture and info on them but all she got were no's and a few shook heads, Atlanta was busy putting out flyers on trash cans and store windows while Gerry phoned the police for an immediate search for Jess.
"She's 14 years old, she has pigtails and her clothing is a blue t-shirt, gray pants and boots" Gerry said to police.
"Have you seen this girl?" Nima asked a man wearing a coat, the man took a flyer and shook his head "okay, thank you anyway" the man nodded and silently walked away, Nima looked around crowds of people but no sight of Jess "oh where could she be?"
Meanwhile…
"Are you ready?" Sonic asked Jess as she, Sonic and Silver stood on top of a large hill in the green hill zone.
"I'm not so sure" Jess said as she looked down at the immense depth "I don't really like the idea of-" Sonic and Silver already whizzed past her "this, wait for me!" she ran down the hill with impressive speeds while Sonic and Silver kept their first place.
"You're too slow!" Sonic said as he turned his head to her.
"Hey! I can't help it if I'm a lynx that can't run very fast!" Jess said as she tried to catch up, her legs suddenly felt as though they had catch on fire but she didn't care! She felt so free by running around a place that was new to her and her mind was racing along with herself "I feel so alive!" she was now running at the fastest speeds that she couldn't believe, she even whizzed past Sonic and Silver!
"Woah! Look at her go!" Sonic said.
"She's unstoppable!" Silver said.
"She's impressive!" Sonic said.
"She's mine!" a voice called out, the two hedgehogs turned to see Metal Sonic hovering above them.
"Metal Sonic! What are you doing here?" Sonic asked as he got into a fighting stance.
"Eggman was using a machine to find a chaos emerald and he found one near her!" Metal Sonic said as he pointed to Jess as she ran "it is located in her pocket!"
"Well, we're going to get it first!" Silver said as he flew towards her and Sonic ran to her, Metal Sonic started his rocket chest and flew to her.
"Jess! Run for your life!" Sonic shouted as he caught up to her.
"Run for my life? Why?" she asked.
"Metal Sonic is after you!" Sonic said.
"Metal Sonic? Who's Metal Sonic?" she asked, Metal Sonic suddenly grabbed her by the back and carried her up into the sky, she became very afraid while Metal Sonic laughed evilly "what do you want from me?" she asked, a little scared.
"Give me your-" he suddenly stopped when he saw her face, her goldish hair gleamed in the sunlight while her eyes shone big and beautiful, Metal Sonic suddenly felt his cold heart melt "chaos emerald", his red eyes suddenly blinked at her and he felt his components feeling weird before he started to short out.
"Are you okay?" she asked.
"I'm fine" Metal Sonic said as he hovered to the ground and released her, Jess instantly became confused by this, this robot was about to take her chaos emerald and now he was hovering on the ground and…Releasing her?
"Why are you letting me go?" Jess asked.
"I…Uh…Just remember that I have to go and…Do some housework! Okay bye!" Metal Sonic said quickly as he flew away, leaving Jess feeling a little more confused.
"Jess! You're okay!" Sonic said as the two hedgehogs ran to her, the blue blur looked at her back and saw that Metal Sonic had dug his claws into her back and she was bleeding badly "oh man! Metal Sonic clawed his hands into your back, we better get you to Amy and have her bandage you up".
"Huh? Oh, okay" she said as she snapped out of her trance and turned to Sonic, she started to follow the two hedgehogs while thinking about what the robot just did, he said he wanted a chaos emerald from her but he suddenly placed her on the ground which made her very confused about him.
Meanwhile…
"What is going on with me?" Metal Sonic asked himself as he flew to Eggman's base "it must have something to do with that lynx!"
"Metal Sonic! Come in!" Eggman called onto Metal Sonic's communicator.
"Reporting" Metal Sonic replied "what do you need this time?"
"Did you get the emerald?" Eggman asked, Metal Sonic's mind went blank as he looked for an excuse to try and make Eggman think that something happened on his mission without the doctor knowing he felt strange around a lynx "Metal Sonic? Are you still there?" Eggman asked.
"Yes" Metal Sonic replied "I couldn't get the emerald because Sonic hid it before I could get it".
"Oh well, guess we have to find it later on" Eggman said "prepare the fleets when I say to find the emerald".
"Yes master" Metal Sonic said as the transmission ended, Metal Sonic went back to thinking why he felt weird around the lynx and why he stopped in his tracks until he realized it was something completely horrific to him "oh no, I like her!" Metal Sonic screamed so loudly that it was heard all over Mobius with many of the inhabitants trying to figure out where the scream came from.
"Hey, do you guys hear that?" Jess asked Sonic Silver.
"It sounded like a scream of terror!" Silver said "I think someone just realized that desperate house bats got cancelled".
Chapter 3 coming soon…