Chaos Uncontrolled

Chapter 19

"I don't think I'm going to be able to track the other emeralds... whatever Eggman did to hide them before must still be in effect." Tails sighed. The fox had touched them down on the mainland not long after they'd left Angel Island.

"That's fine bud. We can just go for plan b then." Sonic pat the fox on the head.

"Dare I even ask what plan b is?" Shadow crossed his arms and shot Sonic a weary look.

"You won't like it." Sonic nodded as he closed his eyes. "But unless we wanna take forever it's our only option."

"Wonderful." Shadow grumbled as he turned away.

"Super? You gonna behave? We kinda need you to track down the other emeralds." Sonic thought, not opening his eyes.

"Yeah fine, but if he makes a move first I'm not sitting there and taking it." Super warned.

"Fine. I can give you that much." Sonic relented, as he opened his eyes. "Alright since I don't really wanna spook anyone right now, Super's gonna be taking over. He can track the emeralds down for us."

"Is that a good idea?" Knuckles asked as he crossed his arms.

"Don't worry about it Knux. Like I said, if he'd wanted to take off with my body he could have done it days ago." Sonic put his hands behind his head and sighed. "I know it's... hard to believe but he has been behaving more or less."

"I feel like I should take offense to that..." Super grumbled.

Sonic decided to ignore the comment. "Look, the more time we spend discussing this the more time Eggman has to plan something new. We're doing this, and no-" He looked at Shadow. "-you can't change my mind." Shadow huffed but said nothing. Sonic closed his eyes again. "Alright Super you're up." He thought.

Super's eye twitched as he could feel Shadow's stare on his back. It was hard enough to concentrate on finding the emeralds when he wasn't being distracted. He sighed in frustration and spun around to glare at Shadow. He smirked in satisfaction at the way the hedgehog flinched in surprise. "Do you mind? It's hard to concentrate with you staring holes into my back." He twitched an ear as he frowned.

"I-" Shadow cut himself off and looked away.

Super stared at him for a moment before it was clear he wasn't going to say anything else. He turned back around and tried to focus on finding the other emeralds again. Admittedly he wasn't actually sure he could do it; he'd never tried after all. Though why shouldn't he be able to? He came from them... technically. Why wouldn't he be able to track them down? "Just take a deep breath dude. You can do this." Oh right. Sonic could very much hear his thoughts or at least sort of understand his feelings. Ugh, stupid self doubt. Stupid extra emotions he shouldn't even have... "Calm down, your breathing is getting kinda hard."

Super paused as he realized that. He glanced over at Tails who was shooting him a concerned look. He didn't even want to know if the other two had noticed. "I'm fine." He growled in his head.

"Sure dude. Sure." Sonic replied, but he didn't try and force the issue.

With Sonic finally deciding to be quiet he started to focus again. It was hard to pick out the other emeralds from the two they had with them. Eventually though he was fairly certain he could feel them. It was a faint feeling, but it was unmistakable. "I got em." He said quietly, opening his eyes and looking at Tails.

The fox nodded and smiled. "Good job. I knew you could do it." He walked over to Super. A quick glance at the other two revealed just how tense they were at that. Though Tails didn't seem to pay any attention to that. The kid really did trust him huh? Super really thought that was a bad idea, but he couldn't deny it felt kinda... nice? To be trusted like that. He grimaced as he felt the smugness from Sonic at that. "Shut up." He grumbled. Based on the way Tails faltered for a moment he realized he must have said that out loud.