Sonic: Adventures of Areion

Episode 61: Bridging Gaps and Healing Scars

"So how is it looking so far?" Nico asked as she is currently with Areion in a small forest clearing, away from both the Freedom Fighters' HQ and New Mobotropolis for safety precautions with what they're doing right now.

Areion was carefully painting seals on one of the Warp Rings and making sure there weren't any ink smudges before drying up "So far so good, from what I know about. A Warp Ring basically punches a hole through space and time and formed a portal from one place to another. It's like my grandpa's Hiraishin seal formula but the execution is different with him utilizing customized Kunai rapidly and multiple times." He recalled seeing his grandfather creating the kunais when he was 12 years old.

"From what we have learnt, a normal Warp Ring can only create portals with a dimension except charged up with Chaos Energy from a Chaos Emerald. But the issue would how can we pinpoint our own dimension over an infinite number of others?" Nico asked.

Areion smiled in response "That's were fuinjutsu comes into play, I've inscribed a variant of the Hiraishin formula onto the Warp Ring then charge it with a decent amount of my own Chaos Energy into it. This will lock-on to the other Hiraishin seals which I placed back on Earth."

"So will it work?"

"We're about to find out plus I prepared a message for the others back home, if it works then I'll be able to finetune it tot he pint that we can cross between dimensions freely besides the energy costs."

Emerl just snorted with arms crossed "Like that's possible, you're like a walking energy plant."

"Fair point, can't deny that." Areion thought before speaking "Alright then, let's give it a shot and hope for the best."
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Back on Earth in the Freedom Fighters' HQ, Sally and the others were currently in the Command Center trying to find ways to get in contact or at least communicate with Areion and Nicole but to no avail much to their growing disappointment and worry.

"Still nothing on Areion and Nicole?" Sonic asked as he was rapidly tapping a toe on the ground rapidly.

"We're trying everything we can Sonic, but we're coming up with nothing." Tails said as he hyped away on one of the consoles."

"I sure hope they're okay, Milla, Cream, and Wendy are getting more worried." Lilac said, the trio often ask about them every time she and Carol come home.

Suddenly, a large golden ring with a swirling portal of energy appeared form out of nowhere, surprising everyone and putting them on alert as they had seen this before when something fell through the ring and clattered onto the floor before the ring itself disappeared from sight.

Rotor cautiously approached the item which turned out to be a plastic casing containing a CD-ROM with a sticky note on it. He took a look and gasped upon reading the note before turning to the others "This is from Areion!"

Everyone powered up upon hearing this with Carol being the most vocal "Well don't leave us in suspense, skip the disc in so we can see what's in it." Rotor was already inserting the disc into a slot and a video began playing with the large monitor displaying Areion and Nicole standing next to each other while the Chao flew above their heads in a forest area.

[If you guys are playing this recording then it means that the attempt was a success.] Areion said with a smile.

"Sounds like his found way to get back to us." Sally said thoughtfully.

Nicole then spoke up next [We are currently situated in a parallel dimension with several similarities as well as differences....] she went on to talk about the teams' counterparts, the history as well as the recent events which they had gotten themselves involved.