Here's chapter 73.
The mobians were still talking over the communicators with Jack's chief. The striped rabbit had logged out of comm five minutes ago after having noted down the things that were needed for the new communicator. As he had mentioned before, they wouldn't be hard to get items. The mobians were about to log off, when the head of the agency got a call from the agency mechanical vixen. The female mouse could see from the expression on her face that something important had just happened, so she asked her what had just happened. Hopefully this could involve the mobians taking advantage of the fact that they are still connected at the time.
"Chief, what we saw in the master emerald a few days ago happened again. I can see the silhouettes of more mobians in it. There's even more than last time," Skye said.
"Thanks for letting me know agent Winters, I'll go there right now" she said closing the communication with the vixen.
The mobians, who listened to that brief conversation, looked a little anxious to know what was being shown in the green colored jewel now. The female mouse told them that she was going to go to the room where the master emerald was to see what was happening and she would show them to them.
While they waited, Sonic went to look for the children, since this was something that concerned them as well. They were still watching TV, although now they were broadcasting a different program than the one they had seen a few minutes ago.
"Kids, I need you to come with me" Sonic said.
"Is something wrong, Dad?" Speed asked.
"No, not at the moment. But I need you to come with me, it's because of something we need you to see."
Hearing that, the purple hedgehog turned off the TV, then everyone got up from the couches and went to the other room following the blue hedgehog wondering what they wanted them to see, although at least they knew it wouldn't be bad.
Being in the room and all the mobians gathered, they could see through the communicators that the female mouse was already reaching its destination. Most of the children wondered where she were going. Because since they hadn't been to the detective agency, they didn't know what to expect.
"She is going to where the master emerald is protected" said Locke II and Pachacamac II in unison.
The other children were surprised by what the echidna twins said, since they had told them what they saw through the emerald the time they went to the base. Now they were beginning to wonder what would appear next. They even wondered how many people they knew were going to show up or what they were doing at that moment. Since they wanted to have more news about the planet Mobius, even if what they could see was not so just hoped it was good news and that nothing bad was happening on their home planet.
Once being in the base room where the great green jewel was, the female mouse asked the vixen who worked as a mechanic what she had seen in this period before she arrived, she replied that the jewel began to shine more than normal like last time. There could already see certain silhouettes that were still a bit difficult to decipher, Skye told her boss that when she arrived, the silhouettes had just appeared. So it would be a matter of seconds to be able to see who was there, if they took time to decipher like the previous occasions. Although the little that was noticed is that there were more than on previous occasions, they couldn't clearly see how many, but it was a fact that there were several, so they could soon see the number of mobians that would surely be reflected over there.
After that, the chief of the agency took a control that she was bringing with her and turned on some screens that had been installed in that room that same morning. So that the mobians could better see the emerald from different points of view, since it would give them a better view than from a small communicator. Skye was surprised to finally see all the mobians together, since sometimes she saw some, but not all together, without the presence of Eggman and his robots, she saw that in total there were sixteen mobians present between parents and children. She though she was completely ignorant about the true origin of Shadow, since he had been created in the version of the planet earth from which Eggman came. If she knew that, she would be left with many questions about why Shadow has a mobian aspect, if in the earth from which Eggman comes, that species was not heard of until 50 years later, apart from the fact that Shadow didn't age at all in those 50 years.
Once the mobians were witnessing everyone, they could better see the emerald as if they were in that place at that time. For most, except for Knuckles, Tikal, Locke II and Pachacamac II, seeing the silhouettes was somewhat surprising, even for Shadow, although the latter was the one who showed the least emotions about it. Everyone was intrigued about who would appear on this occasion, because of what the echidna family told them a few days ago, Chaos, the oracle of Delphius, Aleena, Amadeus, Locke and Pachacamac were in the image. Now everyone was wondering if they would show up again, if someone else would show up, or if they would show up with more of their acquaintances. This was kind of exciting in a way, as they could see what they were doing apart from confirming if it was okay or not. Even if they were only silhouettes, seeing their forms would be enough for them for the time being, at least until they could find some kind of direct communication with them.
After a few seconds the silhouettes became clearer. Once again the Oracle of Delphius and Chaos were present. They were standing side by side. They seemed to be looking straight ahead. After that, the other silhouettes began to clear up and these were the relatives of the mobians that were on their planet of origin. Unlike the previous silhouettes, they were able to recognize that all their relatives were alive.
On the side of Sonic, Amy and Speed were: Aleena, Chuck, Jules, Bernadette, Sonia, Manic, Miranda, Espio, Mina, Erick, Camilla, Melody, Paulie, Brenda, Penelope, Anita, Rob, Skeeter, Mari-An, Charlotte and John.
On Tails, Cosmo, Flora and Alex's side were: Amadeus, Rosemary, Merlin, Isabella, Ash, Mina, Saffron, Manic, Melody, Swift, Galaxina, Emerl and Sadie (Mina, Manic and Melody were part of the respective families of Sonic and Tails, but differently between both families being Manic Sonic's triplet brother and Tails' cousin in law, Mina being Sonic's sister in law and Tails's non-biological cousin, Melody being Sonic's niece and non-biological second niece of Tails)
From the Knuckles family, Tikal, Locke II and Pachacamac II were: Spectre, Sojourner, Thunderhawk, Janelle-Li, Athair, Sabre, Isabel-Le, Locke, Lara-Le, Kneecaps, Dimitri, Luger, Julie-Su, Ralph, Eli-Za, Holmes, Remington, Amanda-Su, Henry, Jaker, Pachacamac, Gala-Na, Gae-Na, Rykor, Gabor and Demi-Na.
From the family of Shadow, Rouge, Rutan, Silver and Jewel were Dimitri and Ruby (Dimitri part of the were part of the respective families of Knuckles and Shadow, but in a different way between both families being a distant great-uncle for 16 generations of Knuckles, and was the great-great-great grandfather of Shadow's adopted son. Aside from distant relatives of Knuckles, Locke II and Pachacamac II are biological family of Rutan)
Their friends were present there as well. It was easy to tell that Cream and Charmy were there with Vector and Vanilla, also Nick and Lorraine, and the chao Cheese and Chocola. They were also able to recognize Big, Shade, Small, and Froggy along with Nestor, Wendy-Lu, Twilight Cage Pirate, Teri-Lu, Matthew, and Jani-Lu.
Seeing all of them gathered together made them realize that they couldn't be in the oracle's cave, since such a large group wouldn't have been able to make a long journey to a faraway place, so it seemed more like they were gathered in Green Hills. It was the place where most of the families gathered, since they themselves, except for the Knuckles and Tikal families, lived on Angel Island. Although they were all together and gathered, and from what they saw they were fine, there was still the question of why they were all gathered. Something would have happened and that's why they all preferred to stay together, or were waiting for something to happen. It was quite ambiguous due to how little they could witness. They just hoped everyone was okay with them.
Just then they could see the oracle beginning to move his hands above his head. And above him a kind of cloud began to form. The cloud was not very big at first and was in the shape of any cloud that they have seen. But it started to change shape and they suddenly started to form… Letters? Although they weren't surprised that the green-colored anteater could do that, since some of the mobians had already made it do fantastic things in the past, they wondered what it was trying to do with what they were witnessing at the moment. It was a bit strange, but at the same time interesting to watch. They only had to wait a few seconds before realizing that this was the situation they were witnessing.
Everyone was moved by the words that formed the clouds with letter shapes, although of all of them Shadow was the only one who didn't show it openly as expected. They were messages of affection and good wishes from all their relatives in Mobius. They didn't know how they found out that they could be seen or in what way they were seen, but to send these messages, they could see them. Perhaps somehow Chaos and the Oracle of Delphius found out and that's why they sent the messages for them. And there were several. Both of his family and friends. There were messages like "We miss you", "We look forward to your return", "Hopefully they come back safe and sound" and many similar things could be seen in the clouds formed above the silhouettes. They only hoped that the master emerald could show them through the screens and that their loved ones could see them. This definitely made their day.
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Meanwhile at one of the hotels, Jack was talking to Nick, Judy, and Finnick about offering to fetch the mobians some things they needed to build a new radar, which would be used to try to locate Eggman's base through his ship. He mentioned to them that he would go the next day to look for the pieces, he wouldn't know how long it would take to return.
"Well, I'll go with you," said Judy.
"Are you sure?" Jack asked.
"Of course I do, anyway this has to do with helping the mobians" replied the gray rabbit.
"Okay" said the striped rabbit, then he looked at the red fox and the fennec fox to ask you "And you?".
"I'd like to, but I already have plans with Haida," Nick replied.
"Really?" asked the gray rabbit, the striped rabbit and the fennec fox.
"Yes, I managed to convince him to teach me how to play the bass, and we agreed to meet tomorrow," said Nick.
The two rabbits wondered how Nick could so easily convince people he barely knows.
"For my part, Zorori called me a few minutes ago, he invited me to hang out with some of his friends in the castle where they are staying."
The castle thing surprised the red fox and the two rabbits, since they didn't know that there were castles in the vicinity of the city of Tokyo. And the fennec fox hadn't mentioned that to them before.
"Well, if that's the case, then I guess the kids will be with Nick's mom, and Judy's parents," Jack said.
Seeing how Nicole and Jerry were having a happy time with their grandfather and grandmothers, they assumed that they wouldn't notice their absence the next day.
So far the chapter. I hope you liked it.