Here's chapter 12. This chapter focuses on a search, but not from beings of different universes/planets/city, but the search for the master emerald. This chapter runs at the same time as the four previous chapter.
As additional information if you remember the conversation between Judy and Tails in chapter 8, seen from Judy's point of view, this time you will see it from Tails's point of view.
I also hope you like the cover of the fic, you can see it in a larger size on my deviant art account: ameth18.
Sonic, Amy, Tails, Cosmo, Knuckles, Tikal, and Jack were watching through the windows as the four groups went their separate ways. They watched as Nick, Haida, and Ookami went north; like Judy, Retsuko, and Fenneko went south; as Washimi and Gori went east; and how Finnick was going west. They hoped that all of them would be lucky in their search, since the city was quite large. At least three of those groups had inhabitants of that city, so it would be a bit easier for them to try to find beings from other universes. Finnick deciding to go alone would be more difficult, since it was his first time in that city, although Jack knew Finnick very well and knew that he would somehow manage to find things in unexpected ways. Having watched them all disappear from sight the further they got from the building, they decided to focus on their own.
Tails took out his emerald tracker and turned it on. He wondered how far Eggman could get the base from him and even Sonic's idea that he had created a container to prevent the emeralds from being located seemed to be a great possibility. At that moment the two-tailed fox turned off the tracker and took from his tool belt what he needed to do what he had in mind with the device.
"What are you going to do?" asked Jack.
"I'm making some minor adjustments," Tails replied.
"So that?" asked the striped rabbit.
"Well, the tracker is set up to locate the chaos emeralds found in that city. But if the emeralds are far away he will not be able to locate them. For this reason I am configuring it so that it can locate them if they are in more distant places" replied the two-tailed fox.
After a few seconds. He tucked the tools into his belt and turned the radar back on. Everyone present began to look more closely and saw that the radar began to detect something outside the city. Everyone was glad it had worked. They began to look carefully to where they were what they believed could be the emeralds that Eggman had stolen. But more were surprised that what they had actually detected was a larger, green emerald.
"It's the master emerald!" Tikal said quite surprised.
"That means it also came to this dimension with us," Knuckles said.
"It seems so, but there is a problem," said Tails.
"What is the problem?" Amy asked.
"Did something wrong happen to it?" asked Cosmo.
"Well, the master emerald appeared under the ocean," Tails replied.
"It just can not be. Why did she have to appear there?" Sonic said reflecting a look of terror on his face that everyone noticed.
"Is something wrong with Sonic?" Jack asked Amy in a low voice.
"Oh, Sonic can't swim and that's why he's terrified of being near the ocean," Amy replied in a low voice.
Jack was shocked, for a hero who can run at the speed of light, take on a large number of robots and destroy missiles without blinking, this new information left him speechless.
"But since we will get there, we don't have any ships at our disposal at the moment," Cosmo said.
"Yes, we don't have X Tornado or Blue Typhoon with us. We won't be able to get there easily" said Amy.
"Excuse me, if it's not a problem with you, I can take care of the transportation part," said Jack.
"Seriously?" Sonic asked.
"Yes. As I'm a secret agent, I have several vehicles that can be of assistance in various missions, both air and underwater. Just give me 5 minutes to contact the agency I work for to send one of my vehicles, "replied Jack.
"It's fine!" Sonic said answering for everyone.
Jack went to the corner of the apartment and took the com from him.
"Oh, you are Agent Savage. Something of vital importance happened" asked the female mouse through the communicator.
"Yes, we have located the master emerald" replied the striped rabbit.
"That is splendid news."
"Yes they are, but we have a problem, since it is under the ocean. And as you already know, it is an emerald bigger than the others. I need him to send me one of my hybrid vehicles that has space for 7 people and has a compartment to transport the master emerald".
"Well, you are lucky. Agent Winters had a repair done on one of those vehicles and he's ready for any mission. I can send it to you right now."
"Thanks a lot. And thank Agent Winters for me."
"I will, Agent Savage. I'll have the vehicle land on the roof of the building it's on. Give me your coordinates."
Jack pressed a few buttons on his comm and sent the coordinates to his boss.
"Well coordinates received. The vehicle will be there in 20 minutes. Over and out".
Jack returned to the Mobius heroes side while he said "Everything is ready, it won't take long for our transport to arrive."
"That's great. We better let the children know that we will be leaving for a while. But let's get back soon" said Amy.
"It's true, so they don't worry about our absence," Knuckles said.
"Children can come a moment, we need to tell you something" said Tikal.
At that moment Speed appeared carrying Jerry on his back, Alex carrying Nicole on his back. Flora who was holding Koka and Hana's hands. And in the end Locke II and Pachacamac II who were behind everyone else.
"Something happens?" the children asked in unison.
"Well, we have located the master emerald. And we have to go find it" said Sonic.
"Wouldn't you mind being alone for a few minutes?" asked Jack.
"Don't worry, we can stay alone, we were planning to play a video game right now," said Speed.
"Besides, we weren't planning to get out of here until the others got back," Alex said.
"So we will be fine," said Flora.
Seeing that things would be under control, they were able to lift a load off their shoulders, although Jack was concerned that his son Jerry and Nicole (whom he also saw as a daughter, despite not having a blood bond with her) would feel alone with him also leaving. But he knew they had to go because if Eggman got the master emerald first it would be dangerous.
After saying goodbye to the children, the seven of them went to the top of the building, fortunately there was no one in the corridors so the heroes of Mobius could go unnoticed.
Already being at the top of the building they only had to wait for the rabbit's vehicle to appear.
"And then, how long will it take for our transport to arrive?" Sonic asked.
"Not much. My boss said it would take 20 minutes to get there. And it's already been 10 minutes since the call. So it will only take another 10 minutes" replied Jack.
"Well, at least it won't be long," Amy said.
"Tell me, do you not have vehicles for this type of situation?" asked Jack.
"Yes we do. But unfortunately we hadn't brought them to Eggman's base during the rescue mission so they are still in our dimension," Knuckles replied.
"They are two flying vehicles that belong to me: X Tornado and Blue Typhoon" said Tails.
"But both have their drawbacks for this situation," Tikal said.
"The X Tornado only has room for 4 of us and has nothing to carry the master emerald. While Typhoon Blue is too big not to attract attention, and apart it only works with the power of the seven chaos emeralds or with the master emerald "said Cosmo.
"Well at least they have me to help them in that part," said Jack.
"And we thank you for that" said Sonic.
After that, they talked for a few minutes until they began to hear a sound that a vehicle was approaching their position. They realized that their transport was arriving. Right at that moment they felt the wind caused by the vehicle as it landed in front of them. Although what seemed most strange to them is that it was invisible.
Jack pressed a couple of buttons on the communicator he used to communicate with his boss and suddenly the vehicle became visible. It was shaped like an ordinary helicopter, which had room for all seven of them to enter.
"Please board," said Jack.
Sonic, Amy, Cosmo, Knuckles, and Tikal entered the helicopter in the back.
Before Tails could go to get on, Jack stopped him.
"You wouldn't like to be my co-pilot on this mission" asked the striped rabbit.
"Seriously? Are you sure?" asked the two-tailed fox.
"Of course, if it is true that your turning capabilities are the best, I will need you to be able to control this vehicle in case I cannot."
"Then I accept."
Finally Tails and Jack got into the front of the helicopter.
After everyone was on board the doors closed. All 7 of them put on their seat belts. Jack pressed the buttons on his comm again to turn the helicopter invisible. After that the striped rabbit and the two-tailed fox took the controls and the vehicle began to rise into the air beginning to move away from the building and finally leave the city.
"And then Tails, it's easy for you to control this vehicle" asked Jack.
"Yeah, it's nothing from the other world, although there are some functions that I don't understand yet," Tails replied.
"Oh well, those functions will not be necessary at this time. They are only for emergencies in mission where there is a lot of danger".
"I suppose all your vehicles have emergency functions the same as this one."
"Of course, the agency implemented these functions in all vehicles since..."
The striped rabbit stopped suddenly remembering something from the past while he said that phrase. That worried the two-tailed fox a bit.
"Did something bad happen Jack?" Tails asked.
"Don't. I just remembered something sad that I don't like to talk about" replied Jack.
"If you want you can tell me. I promise to keep the secret".
The striped rabbit looked at the two-tailed fox, for some reason he had a need to tell someone about this, as it was so painful that he could never even tell Nick, Judy or Finnick. Only the members of the agency he worked for knew, but not because he told them. He stared at the rear only to see that Sonic, Amy, Cosmo, Knuckles, and Tikal were busy with another conversation that he couldn't hear from where he was.
"Well, the truth is that my parents were secret agents and they worked for the same agency that I work for. Due to the nature of their work, they went out very often and I stayed home alone. Due to the nature of their work, they never told me what they were doing so that I wouldn't worry and grow up like a normal child. And since they weren't at home for long, that made me become independent when I was little. But one day when I came back from school I had the worst news I could receive and it was that my parents had passed away. It was there when I found out that they were secret agents and that they died after completing a mission where a bomb was placed in the vehicle in which they were returning to the agency. After that event, the agency puts in all vehicles, whether land, air or underwater. But that didn't bring me back to my parents, and even though the other detectives at the agency took care of me, I was never my old self again. I didn't show any more emotions or anything like that, at least until I made friends with Nick, Judy and Finnick" said Jack as he let a few tears escape from his eyes.
Tails was about to say something when his communicator began to ring and as he watched it he realized that Judy was calling him.
"Hi Judy, what's up? Really? That is good news. We left the city. We managed to locate the master emerald and went looking for it. Could you take them to Gori's apartment so that when we get back we can talk to them? Can you also tell others to do the same? Great. Goodbye".
"What was Judy saying?" Jack asked after the tears had dried.
"She told me that she, Retsuko and Fenneko already found a group of beings that were teleported to the city by the chaos control" Tails replied.
"Well, let's hope our mission to retrieve the master emerald doesn't take long."
"Me too," Tails said, looking at the chaos emerald locator. "We are almost there".
"Great. Then it won't be long before we switch to underwater mode".
"Sonic, Amy, Cosmo, Knuckles, Tikal, we've almost reached our goal so be prepared," said the two-tailed fox through the communicator.
...
A few meters away, Dr. Eggman came in his flying vehicle accompanied by Decoe, Bocoe and Bokkun.
"It appears that they also located the master emerald. Well, it would be better if they were there to see me snatch them out of hand. Otherwise, it wouldn't be funny" said Dr. Eggman and then began to laugh maliciously.
And here the chapter ends. Originally I planned that the plot of this chapter would be a single chapter, but as the ideas were lengthened I decided to divide it into two chapters. So stay tuned for the continuation.