Well here's chapter 5. As I mentioned in the previous chapter here it will be revealed where Shadow and his family are in this chapter and the news of what happened in Japan will fly everywhere. Hope you like.
The group appeared in a luxurious apartment that had large windows in which you could see much of the city, there was a large amount of furniture and paintings that looked quite expensive. It was also large enough for the entire group to fit in the living room.
"Wow, nice place" Finnick said being the first to speak.
"I agree, it is just as luxurious as the hotel where we are staying," said Nick.
"What hotel are you staying at?" Gori asked.
"It's not far from here," Judy said looking through the windows at the exact place where the hotel was located and she could see it from there.
"It's near the Carrier Man Trading Co." Jack finished.
"Wow, that's amazing," said Ookami.
"Why?" Finnick asked
"We work there," Haida said, pointing to himself, his wife, and his friends.
"What a coincidence," Judy said.
"If it's true, what you say about that hotel and compare it to this place, both places would be the same as Thorndyke mansion" said Amy.
"Thorndyke Mansion?" Fenneko asked.
"It is the home of the Thorndyke family, it is in Station Square city in the dimension that Dr. Eggman came from" Tails replied.
"Tails, Amy and I lived there for several months at the time chaos control sent us to that planet 22 years ago," said Sonic.
"That is a story I would like to hear," Retsuko said.
"We could tell you if you want, but at another time, because if this is like last time, we might stay in this dimension for a while," Knuckles said.
"Well, first of all, I think we should plan how to locate the other beings that were brought to this city by chaos control" Tikal said.
"Yes, but first, I think we should not involve their children in this plan, since at their age and without any skills to defend themselves they would be in danger of being caught by Eggman" said Cosmo.
"I agree with that, it would be better for them to maintain their normal lives, but since they cannot be left alone, it will be a good idea that their respective children take charge of protecting them," said Washimi.
Sonic and the others looked at each other and nodded.
"Children, you can come closer, I want to tell you something" said Sonic to the nine children.
They approached Sonic, who began to observe Koka, Hana, Nicole and Jerry.
"What if while we are in this universe all of you could be friends with my son, and the children of my friends?" he said pointing to Speed, Flora, Alex, Locke II and Pachacamac II. "They know many play that you will like."
The children were excited to hear that, even their tails began to move from one side to the other.
"If you want you can play in the other room" said Gori leading the children to a door.
Once they were in the other room, Gori closed the door so the children wouldn't hear the rest of the conversation.
"Well, now yes. It's already a bit late to try to locate Eggman or the series that were teleported here by chaos control, but we can agree to do it tomorrow" said Tails taking two items from his tool belt.
One was a gray device that had a screen where you could see the chaos emeralds that the fox and his friends would have, and the other was a metal box.
"What is that device?" asked Jack, in all his time as a secret agent he had not seen anything like it and he was interested in seeing that device.
"It is a locator for the chaos emeralds, it was thanks to him that we were able to get to where you were when you were being attacked by Eggman" replied the fox.
"Interesting, can you give it to me for a moment" asked the striped rabbit.
Tails handed it over to him and Jack began to ask him various questions about the device and its functionality, but they spoke in technical language that none of the others in the room could understand. Even Nick, Judy and Finnick who had known Jack for several years didn't know that side of him when it came to technology. Everyone lost track of time listening to that conversation.
It took about 20 minutes, when they finally finished talking about the chaos emerald tracker, but after that Jack pointed to the metal box.
"Oh this. It is a box that I invented where we keep the chaos emeralds, when they are inside they cannot be detected neither by the tracked, nor by any device that Eggman can build, let me show you" said the fox.
Tails took the cyan emerald and put it in the box, then closed it. When Jack saw the tracker he saw that the emerald had disappeared. Then Tails beckoned Sonic and Knuckles to pass him the other two emeralds and when he put them in the box they disappeared from the radar too.
Again Jack asked Tails several questions about that box which would last a long time, so the others decided to watch television for a while while they waited for them to finish talking, they could not get ahead with the others since they would have to return later to give the same explanation twice.
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Meanwhile on the other side of the world it was already night. In the city of Zootopia, Bogo and Clawhauser were at the police station, they were the only ones who were there. The reason why they were the only ones in the station is because they knew about the existence of the 5 beings that were with them in Bogo's office; the cape buffalo was talking to a black hedgehog and a white bat, while the cheetah was in the company of an 18 year old red echidna, a 14 year old silver hedgehog and a 2 year old black bat watching tv with them to distract them of the conversation as they ate a bowl of cereal despite what time it was.
"So, let me understand this. You come from another dimension, you were teleported here because of what you call chaos control, you have been here three months, and you need to find the chaos emeralds to return to your world "said the Cape Buffalo.
"Exactly" said the black hedgehog in front of him.
"Well, it's a hard story to believe, Mr. Shadow and Mrs. Rouge. But seeing what you can do Mr. Shadow, I guess I must believe you. But there is something that worries me, if as you say the chaos control brought you here, then that means that your enemy is also in this universe" said Bogo.
"Yes, but we don't know where it might be. It can be anywhere in the world right now and we don't know" said Shadow.
"It is true, when he does not want to be found he knows how to hide, he has already done it several times, there was an occasion that he was hidden for 6 months, but sooner or later he will appear" said Rouge.
"I think it will be sooner rather than later, Mrs. Rouge," Clawhauser said as he saw that the television program that was being broadcast had been interrupted to broadcast a story about something that had happened in Japan. "If that's Dr. Eggman you're talking about, he's on TV right now."
Shadow, Rouge, and Bogo headed to where Clawhauser was with the younger mobians.
"An hour ago a restaurant was attacked in the city of Saitama in Japan, for what seems to be a being of unknown origin, according to the security cameras we were able to capture that he had a small group of hostages" said the voice Peter Moosebridge on TV.
Bogo and Clawhauser, seeing some of the hostages, recognized them.
"But they are Officer Wilde, Officer Hopps, Agent Savage and Officer Wilde's friend," Bogo said in surprise.
"The children are with them too," Clawhauser said in a voice that reflected fear.
"Apparently the being wanted a type of jewelry that the hostages had and once he forced the children to be the ones to hand them over, he tried to destroy them all. It would have ended in tragedy if it weren't for a group of unknown heroes who appeared to confront this being, giving the hostages the opportunity to flee the scene. So far the hostages and the heroes haven't reappeared, but we will keep you posted on any news," said Fabienne Growley's voice on TV.
After that she returned to regular programming on the TV channel.
"It seems that Eggman has already appeared, as I said once years ago, Eggman is too vain not to be seen for long" said Rouge.
"At least we already know where to go" said Shadow.
"Wait a minute, you can't go there alone," Bogo said with a cold tone, it seemed that he was not going to allow them to leave the city, but it was not like that. "They are not going to leave without our help. There are certain preparations to be made, but Clawhauser and I can take them without revealing that you are coming with us."
"That is ok? Won't they have problems with work?" asked Rouge
"Of course not. We would just say that we are going to Japan to find out that our officers are in good condition. In the end we owe it to you, after what you did for us last night, "said Clawhauser.
"Well if that's the case, we have to hurry, the faster we get to Japan, the faster we will end this problem" said Shadow.
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Right then and there, back in Japan, Tails and Jack had finally finished their cycle of questions and answers.
"Wow, a brilliant mind like yours would be a good help to the agency I work for. There we gather the brightest minds that with their ideas could build devices that would serve to save the world. You would even get along with many of those who work there" said the striped rabbit.
"Well, maybe I can help while I'm here. At the end of the day I like to use my inventions to help" said the two-tailed fox smiling shyly.
When they turned around to see the others they were distracted from their conversation by watching a movie.
Seeing that Tails and Jack had finished their conversation, it was time to discuss the other part of what they were going to do, but before they could turn off the TV, the transmission of the film was suddenly cut to show a news of last minute.
"Good afternoon, Saitama City. We interrupt the regular programming to give you the news of an attack that occurred today at a local restaurant. The security cameras were able to capture the images of a being accompanied by an army of robots attacking the premises. Most of those who were there were able to escape safely with the help of a group of four unknown beings who appear to be an echidna, a two-tailed fox and two aliens; but a small group was caught as hostages, after the children were forced to deliver some strange emeralds to the attacker, he almost was going to destroy them all, but a group of heroes formed by what appear to be three hedgehogs, another two-tailed fox and three other echidnas saved them. But after the attacker and his robots escaped, these beings left. The last hostages left the restaurant, but their whereabouts are unknown, and the police are currently searching for them. But the most mysterious question for this reporter is why most of these heroes don't wear clothes or are semi-naked. Questions that don't seem like they will have answers. Meanwhile here we will leave you the video taken by the security cameras so that you can see what happened" said the reporter.
While the surveillance video was being played, each of the residents became concerned for various reasons. Those from Japan and Zootopia because when their family, friends or acquaintances saw that video they would be worried and would start calling them on the phone and would ask them questions that they could not answer, and if they took to the streets they would be surrounded by a large number of reporters. In the case of the inhabitants of Mobius, that their anonymity has disappeared before the public eye as it happened years ago when they were on planet earth, they only hoped that they would also be accepted in this dimension.
"And so, this is something that I'm sure no one asked, some for not being rude and others because they felt uncomfortable doing it, but because you guys are not fully dressed, while the girls are" asked Fenneko directly surprising her husband and friends.
"Oh well, on our planet it is normal for male beings to not wear clothes while female beings do. There are very few exceptions that if they dress completely" answered Sonic.
"But that didn't seem strange to them" Fenneko asked again.
"No, what's more, that has been something that has always happened in our plant even since I was born 4000 years ago" Tikal replied.
"4000 years ago!" the inhabitants of Zootopia and Japan said in unison.
But before they could say more, the cell phones of almost everyone in both cities started ringing (except Finnick's) And when they checked them, they got text messages on their social media as calls. They assumed that their acquaintances saw the news, which apparently was broadcast around the world. In social networks Retsuko, Fenneko, Haida and Ookami had received messages from their co-workers such as Kabae, Komiya, Anai, Tsunoda, Manumaru, Resasuke and Inui, as well as from some friends such as Puko, Tadano, Manaka, Migi, Hidarin and Hyodo. Both Retsuko and Haida also received both messages and calls from Retsuko's parents and grandmother, which is strange since they didn't know that Retsuko's grandmother knew how to use a cell phone in the first place. Fenneko and Ookami received calls from Fenneko's parents. Washimi received calls from her sister Washiko and strangely enough she seems from her ex-husband. Gori received calls from her parents. Nick got calls from his own mother. Judy got calls from her parents Stu and Bonnie. Jack received calls from the boss he had at the agency he worked for.
They all answered their phones at the same time, and the only thing that could be heard were phrases like "We are fine", "Nothing serious happened", "Don't worry, everything is over", "The children are fine and healthy"; and in Jack's case "I'm sorry I didn't report it, but some things happened that you should know."
"Well, I think it would be better to leave you talking for a while with your relatives, but if it is okay with you, while we can agree on who will be in charge of helping you find the chaos emeralds and the beings that come from other dimensions" said Finnick.
"Well, I agree, we'll update you later, as we can't put this off any longer," Sonic said.
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Meanwhile, back at his base, Dr. Eggman was placing the chaos emeralds that he had obtained in a container, where they could not be located, while he was checking something important on a tablet that he carried in the hand of he.
"Well, the emeralds are hidden. Now we need to find three more emeralds, and the master emerald" said the Dr.
"But sir, we don't know if the master emerald made it to this universe as well," Decoe said.
"As far as we know, it could have stayed on our planet," said Bocoe.
"It seems to me that the Dr. knows something that we don't," Bokkun said.
"Nonsense, I just discovered its whereabouts, and it is in this universe, but it is not near this city, and apparently Sonic and the others do not know where it is, so it will be our opportunity to take it" said Eggman showing in the Den monitor the exact position where the emerald is.
So far the chapter, in the next chapter we will distance ourselves a little from the adventure and we will see a little of the home life of the Aggretsuko characters after the experience of having met Sonic and his friends. And the confusions of the Zootopia characters with their relatives and acquaintances after having gone through the same experience.
As the year 2021 has started, I wish you all a happy new year who have a good time with your families and loved ones.