Knothole Village

[Vanessa Blue]

"Ghost? Were!?" Vanessa sprung up to grab Gerald's shoulders. Her poofed hair settling down finally. "I want to see the ghost, show me!" Just a case of Vanessa being her old self.

[Gerald Robotnik]

Gerald put his face into his hand. “ Miss, he’s speaking metaphorically-” he began, his voice still filled with worry. “-which means that the look on my face is as though I had seen a ghost.”


“What I mean is a –lot – of things. First off, you’re powers are in-tuned with this.”

He held out the shard that was still showing a faint glow.

“This…this is a –shard- of a mysterious jewel known as the Chaos emeralds. There are seven in all and they hold an endless about of energy, because it has the ability to turn thoughts into power…”

He sighed heavily his expression getting worse.


“But this is a –shard- of it. The emeralds themselves are quite big gems, and to see this little sliver of it does not mean good things….”

[Chadin]

My eyes widened in alarm when Gerald produced the Chaos shard. I could only vaguely remember hearing about them from the other MFF fighters. From what I heard they usually were only found in alternate Zones. I knew they were supposed to be incredibly valuable, but if what Gerald says is true; that they possessed limitless power...

"What do you mean...?"

[Vanessa Blue]

Vanessa was left scratching her head while the 'adults' talked. SH ended up sitting idly on the ground, poking a stick into the dirt. "Stupid boring Thinker, no ghost, now boring crap." Vanessa wasn't one for talking about things aside from food/fighting.

[Gerald Robotnik]

He slid his palm to the top of his head with a look of agitation. “ It means some idiot created a paradox! That’s the only explanation for something like this to happen. Somehow, they created a paradox of an enormous magnitude that it started to affect the dimension parallel to that. And in a way you could say that the emeralds act like an anti-body for dimensions, worlds, ect.. But for some reason, there wasn’t enough time for the emeralds to put things right and instead they did this!”


He out stretched his hands as though he was trying to point everything. “Instead of just putting the dimensions back together, they overloaded and just got rid of the major paradoxes, which with me being here we can assume it was a same-person. It could have been something else, but that’s not the worst of it.”

He swallowed as he began to continue as though he was panicking. “If that statement is true, and my theory is correct then we are in a DEEP state of affairs. Right now the only reason we haven’t all been chaos controlled into oblivion is because something was using a large amount of positive energy. Even though as of right now were are currently living in a stable environment, it’s not going to last long if the Chaos Emeralds are in pieces! Which means inevitably, we’re all going to get chaos controlled into destruction anyways! And the WORST of that is I can’t ever possible fathom how long that stability will last. We could have five minutes. Hell, we could have a hundred years! But I don’t know for certain.”


After swallowing his expression turned to a somewhat dumbfounded one.


“….Maybe I shouldn’t of said that allowed….”

[Chadin]

I'm not going to lie and say I understood all of that... I couldn't even say I understood MOST of that. But what I DID understand left me with my ears drooping limply to the sides, my eyes bugged out as though a pair of headlights were shining in them and my mouth hanging wide open in the most twisted and horrified look on my muzzle as I had ever possessed in my life.

[Vanessa Blue]

Vanessa perked up. Pounding her fist into her palm in an 'ah ha I got it' sort of way. "Ok, so they are mystery gems! What are we going to do about them?" she asked, providing her can do attitude.
She stood next to the deer. Griping him around the shoulder.She was unwittingly trying to comfort Chadin. "Who's ass do I have to kick to make the emeralds work, Thinker?"

[Gerald Robotnik]

Gerald faintly smiled, despite her bad langue.

“Anyone who stupidly tries to use these shards for the wrong purpose.” He replied fairly calmly. [b[“If we can gather all the shards then I could easily put them back together. The best way to start off is for me to make a um, scanner of sorts. Of course I’ll need a computer and a link to a satellite…But if I have those then I’ll surely be able to use the shard I have to find more.”[/b]

Gerald pondered as he finally stood up, dusting himself off. “I would also think about searching around the cave where I found this, there could be more. And they more we have the easier we’ll be able to find other shards.”

[Chadin]

By now I had come back to my senses and a sly grin was spreading across my muzzle. "Well, if you need computers, I know just the place. Robotropolis has all kinds of computers. We can hack one to gain access to whatever satellite network Robotnik might have, or we can just outright steal one or whatever parts we need from one of Robotnik's factories. Either way, we put a dent old Blubberbut's operations."

"Then again, maybe Solenna has some computer technology we can use." I shrugged. Personally I preferred any option that would hamper Robotnik and his plans. Come to think of it, after all this time, I had no idea what Robotnik might be up to. He could be up to his old tricks again already for all I know, so a raid into Robotropolis could also give them some valuable intel on their enemy's plans.

"By the way, Gerald, how do you know my powers are tied into that shard?"

[Vanessa Blue]

Vanessa's eyes lit up. "We can go back to the city?!" She grabbed Chadin's hands and started twirling around with him "Meat and hot water, meat and water here we come!" She paused for a second. "Maybe we'll meet Tancer too!" she continued rejoicing with the deer.