Chapter Fifteen:
Heart Attack
"Jessy!"
The panicked cry rose up through the dust and debris of the wrecked Hunter robot.
"Jessy!?"
The dust was stirred up as something ran from one side to another of the wreck.
"Sis!"
The dust swirled up again as the form ran around the outer rim of the mess, twice.
"Where are you?!"
"Stop running around like a chicken with its head chopped off and look under this stuff to find your friend." A second, and female, voice rose up from somewhere within the dirt cloud, drawing the male anthro's attention to the other as she couched and looked under one of the outer armor plates that had shattered as the Hunter's main body had lose power to its subspace generator and now looked like a bloated lump of scrap.
"Where- Jes'?" Sonic froze mid-step, the blue and brown hedgehog's ears curving up and forward as he listened intently. Did he just hear her?
"Over here!" Amy said, another anthro hedgehog, but with pink fur and a light red dress and sandals. She was crouched down near the center of the wrecked robot, having climbed up on it, her head lost to sight under a flat chunk of metal that was sticking up at an angel.
Not even a second later the blue anthro was pushing into a gap, nose first. Sonic's ears tipped up again as he heard his adoptive sister's voice.
"Jessy?!"
"Hey Sonic."
The anthro relaxed at the sound of the human's words for the first time since he realized that he had destroyed the giant robot, with Jessy inside of it... The hedgehog nearly had a heart attack after Amy had screamed that the other women had fallen in before that last, final attack.
"Are you alright? Are you hurt? Anything broken?" Sonic pressed, pushing in a little more.
"Yes, kinda but not a lot and I don't think so. Ow..." Jessy's voice drifted up from somewhere under him in the darkness, "You're not going to believe what I -Ow!- found in here! The poor thing..."
Sonic's brows knitted together and he shifted to look back at Amy, who was frowning slightly too. "Jes'?"
"Get your big head out of the light and help me get this kid out of here!" the woman called and both anthros' heard her moving closer and a few coughs. Amy moved back out of the way as Sonic started to as well, but he shifted and leaned forward into the blackness, reaching out. He pulled Jessy up some but stopped.
"Oh my God Jessy, where did he come from?!" the blue hedgehog blurted out gracelessly while looking down at whatever the human was holding. The other fowned, confused as she almost grabbed Sonic's legs, but remembering how fast he could move, Amy changed her mind.
"I found- ouch- him in a stasis thing but, ah, here take him I can't use my other hand, did something to it."
Sonic moved, blocking Amy's view for a minute. Then he backed up holding something that was bundled up tightly in Jessy's riding jacket. Sonic stood and jumped a good distances away from the wreck and Amy scrambled over after, catching a glimpse of a golden brown tail sticking out of the improvised blanket.
"Take care of him for a minute." Sonic said reaching out and grabbed Amy's hand. Ignoring her half blush and confused look he pushed the female hedgehog down beside the bundle. He leapt back to the wreck and pushed himself into the small cubby hole again to help the human out.
Amy stared after for a moment, wondering, before looking down and carefully pulling the jacket (that now seemed too large) away from what, whoever was inside it. "Oh, oh, oh!"
Amy's felt her heart tighten in sympathy as she looked down at the young, unconscious anthro. She looked the fox kit over with even more care, checking for any injuries or blood marring the still fluffy, golden-brown fur.
"Ow!" Jessy yelped as her bugled left wrist was bumped a little too hard as Sonic maneuvered them free of the pile of now scrap metal. After Jessy had pushed something out first that had to be set aside.
"Sorry sis... what's that?" Sonic blinked down at the large, red stone Jessy was clinging to with her good hand.
"No clue. I found it above the kid." Jessy said glad that her hedgehog brother had picked her up, with arms around her torso to support as soon as he had more room. She was shaken up again. With no more adrenalin in her veins the mechanic was more than certain that she'd fall flat on her face if she took two steps on her own. She winced again as her wrist bumped the stone and Jessy quickly moved her arms so her bad one was safely tucked into her chest as the blue anthro picked her up fully for a moment.
Sonic landed as lightly as he could but still ended up in a half crouch beside Amy. He protested when Jessy wriggled free, only to get that glowing stone shoved into his chest as both females once again looked the fox kit over. Jessy managing one handed. The blue hedgehog did a double take as he put the stone into a special pocket on his back, under his quills.
Sonic leaned over his human sister, one hand on her shoulder. "Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing?"
"Two tails?"
"For some reason, this isn't as surprising as it might have been if this was a few months ago." Jessy shook her head, looking pointedly at Sonic, then glanced at the strawberry colored hedgehog anthro. Then mindful of her sprained wrist, re-wrapped her jacket around young anthro and pulled the small kit into her arms.
Both Sonic's and Amy's ears came up and they locked to the east, hearing faint sounds of what might be another Hunter Robot.
"We should go." Sonic said pulling the other two up to their feet.
"Wait," Jessy turned back to the remains and pointed to that part she had given Sonic as best she could with a living armload to support, "Go grab that first, then we book it."
"We should leave right now." Amy scowled up at the human, jumping a bit as Sonic vanished beside her to retrieve the part.
"And we are," Jessy grinned as she started to walk in the direction of the bluff, where the rest stop was. "But we need to live too."
Amy bit her lower lip, shifting her grip on her hammer staff. She sighed and nodded, looking at the remains of her car, "Right." She looked at Jessy and the kit before darting over to it.
On the way Amy hit the long limbed robot out of spit and make sure it wouldn't get up for sure.
The hedgehog female extracted her bag from the little silver compact car, stuffing it with everything in the glove box. Making sure there was nothing personal left behind, as well as putting her purse in the duffle and trying to get one of the three food bags in. Amy had been on her way back from home visit friends, bringing gifts and some sensualized food treats that weren't around at home.
Just before leaving, when Sonic was using his speed to bring bags, part, and kit up to the road before the girls. Amy pulled out her cell phone and started to take pictures, getting a few different angles as Jessy kicked the larger mech's remains. She made sure to get images of her car, the other five, and the plates before what looked like cages.
Amy swallowed, blue eyes wide as she kept taking pictures.
"Over here fuzzy," Jessy called, motion Amy over with her good hand and pointed to one of the openings from the inside matching with the outside after Jessy had pulled power from the subspace generator. "You might want to get inside, there's emblems too."
"Good idea." Amy came over, leery but there was no movement. "I'm Amy," She said after getting another bunch of shots inside of those stasis tubes, excepting a piece of scrap from the woman that had that same emblem.
"Jessy," The taller woman said, not giving her clan name, or saying she was a nomad. She couldn't help remembering that night still only a few weeks ago where her family, or rather she and Sonic were attacked. "The blue pin cousin is Sonic."
Said blue pin cousin blurred back into focus as he arrived back. "Okay who's next?"
"Go ahead and take Amy," Jessy smiled as she saw the inside of female hedgehog's flush and tilt back to try and hid the anthro style blushing.
Sonic flashed her a brilliant smile, his own ears standing up at attention as he out right scooped up the girl. "Hi there Amy. I'm Sonic!"
Jessy waited until Sonic took off at his lope with Amy before laughing. She knew he wasn't moving as fast as normal, but then it was likely that Sonic tired from moving so fast for a long deration. She knew it wasn't what Sonic was used to, not his steady running rhythm.
In the minute that she had, Jessy moved around the Hunter robot's remains to the head, and with what knowledge she did have of robotics, took one of the rods of a scrap metal and leveraged an opening in the 'neck.' Jessy stripped the insides of the power stones as well as the data crystals inside the head and the opening to the body that could be reach. She stuffed them into her pockets and held one of the larger power stones to her wrist as Sonic returned to help her up.