Its a kind of magic part 1 1 2

Author note: The first episode is posted in two parts, as it is almost 40 pages long The story features primarily characters made by me and . If you don’t like fan characters, don’t read this story. Everyone else happy reading!!!


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Finally I got this chapter finished


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Its a kind of magic: part 1
Jacks bad fur day (1-2)

A soft wind hits his face, weak he opened his eyes. His vision was blurred and all he could see was grey-blue and grey-yellow, he shuts his eyes again as he was very tired. In the distance he could hear seagulls and the wind which was increasing. He lets out a small sigh and falls asleep once more. But he didn’t get much rest until something wet and bad smelling hits his face.

“Aaargh!” He growls and opens his eyes and now stares directly into a pair of dark brown eyes.
“Your owner should do something about your breath, because it stinks!….” He wrinkles his nose and tries to look away from what turned out to be an ordinary Labrador dog, which had been licking his face. The dog turns around and picks up a dirty, sand covered stick which it dumps in his head.

“Beat it Fido I am not in the mood.” He snarls at the animal and closes his eyes and rests his head. When he is relaxed he could all of sudden feel the substance which he was resting his head on giving in to the weight. However he was way too exhausted to pay it any attention. He yawns and falls asleep, but again to be disturbed.

“Eeew what is that smell!!!” He opens his eyes again and looks around, to see the dog now checking on its `work´, only a meter away from him.

“Aargh! Gross!!” He shouts, and then realizes he had nausea and headache. He grinds his teeth as the pain now was pounding, while at the same time struggling not to puke. The wind increases and the intensity of the smell from the dog´s excrements became more intense. He couldn’t hold it back anymore, he vomited. After emptying his stomach, he tries desperate to get away from the animal as it again takes aim for another round, but to his horror he couldn’t move. He looks down at himself for the first time and realizes he was buried in sand and it was only his head that wasn’t covered. He wanted to scream but if he did it would make his head explode. He starts to struggle to get free, but the intensity of his headache made him hold back. He gives up and rests his head again in the sand. The dog walks up to him and starts to lick his face to his great dismay. In the distance the faint sound of a whistle is heard and the dog runs away. He lets out a sigh of relief. The only thing he now had on his mind was to rest, and try to get away when he had regained some of his strength.
All of sudden he could hear his cell phone´s ringing very faint. He takes a quick look around, all his belongings was scattered around him and his beloved hat was tied to a shovel behind him. His heart sank in his chest as the hat gets lose! But to his luck the wind carried it right next to him. He lets out a sigh of relief and tries to grab the hat with his teeth, but the wind intensifies and the hat gets airborne again and flies away.

“AAAAAAAARGH!!!” He screams the loudest he can of frustration, violently he tries again to get out of the sand. After struggling for a long while he gives into the pain and rests his head in the sand in defeat, while growling.
All of a sudden things turn dark and something brown made of thick fabric landed on his head.

“Wow! A perfect match in first try! I am quite impressed if I may say that myself….” A hoarse female voice sounds, which seemed quite familiar to him. He tries to look up but the object is covering his sight.

“Who’s there?” He asks as he wrinkles his head to move the object away from his eyes.

“Dude, It’s me your best pal….” The voice sounds again. The object gets removed from his eyes and he was now starring into a pair of sunglasses.

“Hey Jackie boy, hows it hanging bro.” A red female mobian with dark messy blond hair in an upward ponytail, grins and kneels down in his height, she was wearing a military uniform, on her black cap there is written G.U.N.

“Ember…. “ He growls displeased.

“In the flesh!” She replies cheerful with a grin.

“How come you always show up when something unpleasant happens to me…..” He mumbles to himself.

“How in the world did you end out here? This is the middle of nowhere! If the world had an end we would be on the wrong side of the border buddy….” She said in wonder to the green mobian who is stock in the sand, as she takes off her glasses and reveals her Turkish blue eyes.
“No wait…. Don’t tell me….. You pursued Cowline the Cowgirl out here didn’t you?” She giggles a little before he gets a chance to say anything.

“If I did…. Why does that amuse you….” The green raccoon sighs tired.

“Jack… she is um….. How do I put it?…. She is to the other side…. Lets just say that someone here in this beach, had something going on with her bi-sexual girlfriend last weekend, and it wasn’t me… “

The green mobian looks at her puzzled.

“Do you remember that light brown puddle mobian, with dark brown hair, and eyes like amber, the chick you scored last weekend? I think her name was Coco Candyfloss. A fabulous looking girl indeed and great singer too, but she really should do something about her hairdo… I mean what is it with that huge 70s like fro and those pink plastic earrings?…. Anyway, that was Cowline´s girlfriend…. Lets just say that Cowline is very possessive and jealous, she is not known for being good at forgiving… and um… she has a cruel sense of humor too by the way.” Red mobian grins a little.

“Hmmm…” He simply replies.
“Then what are you doing out here? Don’t tell me you, and the boys in army green, are out here doing some exercises…”

“I was actually out here looking for you. You must have been very, VERY drunk, since you left a quite interesting trail after ya.” She laughs and grabs the shovel.

“You were looking for me? Okay….. But if we are where I think we are. How on earth DID YOU find me?!” He asks the red female mobian who has started digging.

“Oh I asked around in the bar, the guys said you had left the bar very drunk on a tractor along with Cowline. I searched for her address on the internet. When I arrived at her home, I was meet by her very upset human foster father, who claimed some mobian of unknown specie, presumably a fox because of the bushy tail, had been sleeping in his car. He, Cowline and his sons had been chasing it to this very beach…” She explains simple and puts the shovel aside.

“Do you know anything about it?” Ember asks and rests her hands on her hips.

“Just keep digging….” Jack growls. The red skinned mobian picks up the tool and continues.

“Why are you looking for me?” He asks her after a while.

“Why? Is it illegal to care about your friend’s wellbeing?” She replies simple and digs the shovel in the sand.

“You have never shown that kind of interest before, unless of course the times at the bar when the other guests turns a bit violent. Something is sticking under….” He looks at her suspicious as she puts the shovel aside.

“As the matter of fact there is one thing.” She replies as she grabs his skin in the back of his neck and pulls. Jack grinds his teeth as it was painful, not in the skin but because his headache was pounding. When the upper part of his body is free she lets go and grabs his shoulders and pulls again, in a split second he is free. Very wobbly on his legs, Ember supports him and helps him to a nearby parking line where her rusty van is parked, not so far from the old vehicle there was a bench which Jack sat on.

“Thanks… I owe you one….“ He says as Ember hands him a small bottle of water from one of her large pockets on her pants

“My you are one dirty raccoon, if you weren’t ill I will give you a much needed bath…” Ember says and waves her hand in front of her nose.

“What is holding you back sweetie?” Jacks asks with a grin.

“I don’t think you would like my approach….” Ember simply replies and fuzzles his hair a little.

“And why do you think I wouldn’t?” The raccoon asks her in a flirting way, the red female mobian returns the smile and moves her hand away from him.

“I don’t suppose you would like to be tossed in the sea in that condition. Unless of course you are feeling better, it can be easy arranged.” She says and reaches out for him.

“Yeah you are right, maybe some other time…” He leans away from her. She chuckles a little before she runs back and gathers his items.

“Don’t you have a cellphone Jack?” She asks after searching for a while. The green nods and looks a little uneasy. Ember picks up her own phone and dials his number. Not so far from her the sound of Jack´s phone echoes.

“Aah” She grins and digs her hand in the sand and picks up a sand covered item.

“I would probably get this cleaned…” Ember says and shows him his cellphone which was all wet and covered in sand. She throws it to him and he catches it in the air, he brushes it a few times before putting it away.

“All right spit it…. What is it you want?” He asks tired when she returns with his stuff and he rubs his face a little before he opens the bottle and starts drinking.

“Well as you have presumably guessed I am not on exercise today… I have been assigned a mission…” Ember explains to her comrade in green.

“On a Monday? But! You refuse to work on Mondays…. It is Monday today right?” He asks her.

“True, but they offered to pay me the double since my dad wasn’t available. Plus it was very urgent…” She explains.

“I see, but what does that have to do with me? I don’t suppose you want me to come along and back you up…” Jack says.

“It is something of much more importance. I want you to look after my sister….”

“Your WHAT!!!” The green raccoon chokes.

“It will only be for the rest of the day. She is a well-mannered kid, I promise she won’t cause you any trouble.” Ember tries.

”No Way!!! I aint gonna babysit!” The green mobian raccoon shouts.

“Jack…” The red mobian sighs.

“Why don’t you go bother Stanley, or Fiona for that matter?!” He asks.

“They are both occupied… The reason why I ask you is I don’t have others to turn to I can trust.” The red skinned mobian says with her rusty female voice.
“May I remind you, you owe me a favor or two?” She says as she learns up against the old vehicle with crossed arms.

“Favors?” The green raccoon looks doubtful at her.

“Well there was the time, where I beat you in that drinking contest… Then there was the time, not so long ago in fact, were I pretended to be your girlfriend to scare off some crazy biker chicks. Where you by the way forgot to inform me about their violent temper! And while I fought them, you just stood by and watched! I still have a scar on my neck from when the monkey-spiderwoman bit me!” She says annoyed and lifts up her dark blonde hair and shows the raccoon the marks.
“You could have helped me.”

“Yes I could, but to tell the truth I think I would have been in your way. You seem to me like a girl who can handle that kind of things with your arms tied to your back.” Jacks says.

“Yes I could, but they are your problem not mine, at least they wasn’t my problem to begin with…. Anywho, pretending to be your girlfriend is gonna cost you my friend! And it is gonna be expensive!!!

“True I owe you one…or two… but it aint gonna be today, I am tired, I am trashed, I am covered in sand, I smell like crap and I have nausea… I have a date with a couch back home.” He says.

“Jack… this is kind of important… It is not fair…. I thought I could count on you...” The red mobian says disappointed.

“Life isn’t fair my dear.” He says and starts walking.

“And how do you plan on getting home? There aren’t any buses driving, the next couple of hours and the nearest stop is 1 miles the opposite way….”

“I knew that, I was just testing you…” He growls, he starts walking the other way, but after a while he stops, the headache is tormenting him again. He rest his head in his hands

“Then there was the time were you had been sleeping with Stanley in my van…” She says with a sly grin, the green raccoon freezes on the spot.

“You wouldn’t!!!” He says as he tries to remain cool.

“Life isn’t fair...” She replies simple.

“Grrrr!” He growls as he turns around and returns to her.

“Let me get this straight… you want me to babysit your 6 year old sister, while I have a mayor hangover?” He asks her while looking straight in her eyes but she simply nods as a reply.

“You are a nice guy. I am sure she will like you. Besides she is a sweet kid, she won’t cause you any trouble. Compared to your own siblings, this would be a walk in the park for an experienced babysitter like you.” She says as she gives him a firm pat on the shoulder.

“This is black mail!!! I want a layer!” He growls at her.

“Stop whining and get in!!! I believe there is a small heal unit and strong pain killers in the glove compartment, there are also plastic bags as well, in case you want to empty you stomach.” She says as she opens the car door.

“I hate you so much right now… If I am going to puke, I refuse to use the bag.” He growls and jumps in on the passenger side of the old beaten up van.

“You will be fine sweetie.” She laughs and closes the door after him with a laud slam.
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A couple of hours later, in the front yard of the Robotnik residence…

“Now sweetheart… You be a good girl and listen to Uncle Jack.” Ember says while giving her little sister a tight hug.
“Don’t call me that…” The green raccoon growls in the background.

“When will you be home again Ember?” The little golden orange mobian girl asks her older sister.

“Sometime early tomorrow I suppose, but I can’t promise anything.”

“What is your assignment this time?” The little girl asks worried.

“I can’t say much, other than I am supposed to protect some, not so popular, politician from a foreign country.” Ember explains to her little sister and gives her another hug.

“Is that who I think it is?” The green raccoon asks and the red skinned mobian girl gives a simple nod.
“Ha! I am so glad I am not in your shoes!” He grins.

“Please be careful…” The little girl begs.

“Don’t you worry about me sweetie, I am immortal remember. They can’t do me any real harm…” She says ensuring.

“But you are still receptibal to pain, and you can get knocked out… Oh… and anastetics doesn’t work on ya, if you get shot you have to remove the bullets while you are fully awake.” Jack coughs behind her.

“Hush!” She hushes at the raccoon and lashes out, but misses him.
“I have to go now. Jack will take good care of you, he is a real nice guy.” Ember says and kisses the girl on the cheek and lets go of her.

“I by the way have a little something for ya.” Ember whispers in Jack´s ear as she passes by him and hands him a tiny card.
“It is Coco´s visit card, she told me you could give her a call if you needed company. You can could give her a call when I return, I am pretty sure you would be much more presentable tomorrow.” The red mobian blinks.

“Just do as Jack says and everything will be perfectly fine.” She shouts over her shoulder and jumps in her van.
“Love you Airy!” She shouts out of the door before she closes it and starts the noisy engine.

“Bye!” Airy calls back and waves intensely after her sister, who disappears in a dust cloud further down the gravel road. When she is gone, Airy turns her attention to Jack.

“So what are we gonna do now?” She asks uneasy the green raccoon.

“For starters, we could go inside…” He yawns and stretches.

“Okay” The little girl responds, she hesitates a little but follows him inside.
“I can give you a tour if you like…” She asks him after a moment of awkward silence.

“Sure… It would be nice to know where the toilet is…” Jack sighs as the girl grabs his hand and pulls him into the living room.
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Few moments later, in Airy´s bedroom…

“And this is my room!” The little girl introduces to the trashed raccoon as they enter her bedroom. At first glance, it looked like an ordinary little girl´s bedroom, with light purple walls and lots of stuffed animals, “my little pony” figurines and colourful furniture and pictures, most of them with butterflies. However, when he looked closer, he realized that there were lots of things that there were way of. There were small planet figures on the ceiling, a huge plasma ball next to her bed, newton’s balls on her desk and books! Lots of them, and not just fairytales and fiction, there where books with technical literature. Everything from plants, sewing to chess.

“The great bible of chess for pro players… You play chess?” He asks surprised as he grabs the large book with chess pieces on its cover and studies it.

“Aha.” She replies proud and grabs his hand and leads him to her desk where she points at a small ribbon in a frame on the wall.

“You won first prize in a contest?” Jack asks her, the girl smiles all over her face.

“The average age was 10, I was the youngest to participate in the contest…” She says excited.
“Do you wonna play with me?”

“Play what?” Jack yawns and rubs his eyes.

“Chess of course.”

“Oh well… one little game then.” He says and makes an effort to smile a bit.

“Yay!” She exclaims excited and shows Jack where to sit.
“Hmmm… That is weird… were is Cindy?”

“Cindy?” The green raccoon asks as he fights with the tiny wooden chair.

“Cinderella. My tarantula, she usually comes and greets me when I come home.” Airy says as she looks around.
“Oh well… sooner or later she will show up when she gets hungry…”

“Cute… The girl has a rubber spider as an imaginary pet….” Jack mumbles to himself and finally sits right in the small chair.

“Let the game begin. You start Jack.” The girl says and sits down on the other chair,
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5 minutes later….

“Checkmate!!!” The little mobian girl shouts and tips the king with a pawn.
“I know you mean it well Jack, but you don’t have to let me win to make me happy. I would much rather have some real challenge.” The girl says disappointed and puts the pieces back on the board.

“I was actually trying for real…” The green raccoon growls low to himself, and tries to sit better on the pink miniature chair.

“Do you want a rematch?” She asks him but he shakes his head.

“Maybe some other time Kiddo, when I don’t have headache.” He sighs.

“Do you want some painkillers? My dad has some pretty strong ones.” She asks him concerned.

“I am fine Shorty. How about we go downstairs and watch some cartoons?” He says as he stands up and pulls the chair off his butt.

“But there are only reruns on the cartoon channels… Fine…” She says disappointed and follows his example and stands up. Behind Airy, something black emerges from one of the toy boxes. Jack lets out a loud gasp when he realized it was a huge spider.

“Airy look out!” He shouts and picks her up. He lifts his foot and takes aim to step on it.

“No! No! It is just Cindy!” The little girl wriggles herself free from his grip. She picks up the repulsive animal from the floor and starts cuddling it like it was a hamster. On the sideline Jack watches the scene, totally flabbergasted.

“That is your pet?!” The green raccoon asks her shocked. The young girl nods and puts the tarantula in a small terrarium.
“A spider?!!!”

“Yeah it is kind of a funny story…” She scratches herself behind the ear, well knowing that it was quite unusual for a little girl to have a pet tarantula.
“When I wanted a pet, I originally I wanted a kitten… but…you see… I got Cindy instead. My mother uses venomous animals for her NIDS research. Cindy couldn’t be used because of her lack of poison, and was to be put down, so I adopted her since nobody else wanted her.” Airy explains and finds a small transparent box with dead crickets from a nearby closet. She takes one and hands it to the large tarantula. Jack makes big eyes as he witnesses how the beast brutally eats it from her hand.

“I see…” The green mobian responds after a moment of awkward silence.
“And here I thought Ember was the crazy one…” He mumbles to himself as Airy gives her pet a few more crickets.

“Well should we get downstairs and get some sleep…eh, I mean watch some TV?” Jack tries, Airy hesitates a little but nods as respond and follows him downstairs.

Down in the living room Jack takes a seat in the couch and lays down and turns on the TV. Airy jumps up next to him and leans up against him, to Jack´s dismay. He grabs the remote and start zapping. He stopped at the first and best cartoon channel and falls asleep. Airy sits for a while and watches, but the show bored her as she had seen it before.

“Cant we do something else Jack? “She asks him and turns around to realize he was sleeping.
“Someone here has a high ping…. I better let him sleep, he did seemed a bit sick.” She says concerned and covers him with a thick blanket, and hands him a teddy bear before she heads towards the door to the outside and exits.
Few moments later Jack wakes up from his slumber, he looks around and then flies out of the sofa when he realizes Airy is missing.

“Airy?” He calls, but there is no respond.
“AIRY?!” He shouts the loudest he can, but still nothing.
“No silly games Airy, I am not in the mood.” He starts searching the living room.
“Where the heck are you?” He begins to get worried and looks under the sofa and other furniture in the room, but she wasn’t to be seen, he then rushes to the upstairs but she wasn’t there either. He runs downstairs again and heads to the backyard of the farm. All this activity was definitely not good for his head, the pain had increased, and it was now pulsing. He grinds his teeth when he gets outside, he takes a short break and rest his forehead in his hands and lets out a sigh. He peaks his ears when his sense of hearing picks up something, he looks around and in one of the large garages he sees something moving, he walks up to it.

“Airy?” He asks.

“Jack? I thought you were asleep.” The girl´s head peaks out of the door, she looks at him with her magenta coloured deer like eyes, with an all innocent expression while holding a pile of duct tape in her hands.
“What is the tape for? What are you doing?” He asks her confused and points at the duct tape rolls.

“Oh that? That is for the boat I am building.”

“Your boat?” Jack asks her questioning.

“I am building a duct tape boat. I am all done with the metal frame, now I am covering it with tape. I am over the half way. Come, I will show you.” She says and takes his hand and leads him inside.
On the floor inside the garage a tiny boat shaped object was seen, Jack makes eyes.

“Let me get this straight, you are building a boat out of tape?!” He asks and studies the odd object.

“Aha” Airy smiles proud.

“You don’t intent to sail it do you?”

“Actually I am.”

“But that can’t be done, you will sink Kiddo.” Jack says worried.

“I saw someone sailing a boat of tape on TV, and if they can built it so can I.” She simply responds as she grabs another roll of tape and continues working on the small boat.

“Oh dear lord…. If this continues she will grow up to be the weirdest weirdo the world has seen. She would only be able to score nerds and other desperate losers, she would never get herself a decent boyfriend… A real child is not supposed to read technical literature, play chess or waste their youth building silly constructions, real children play, watch TV, play videogames, climb trees and eat bugs, like my own siblings….” He thinks to himself as he observes the little orange golden hedgehog girl who puts the roll aside and rushes to the cabinet in the backstage and pulls something out of it. She comes back with a large fabric, and when she is back to the boat, Jack realized it was the sail made out of duct tape too.

“Her creativity is indeed admirable, but I gotta do something to help her before this goes horribly wrong.” Jack thinks for himself worried.

“There.” She says with a wide grin.
“It is done!”

“So, are you gonna name it?” Jack asks her.

“I think I will name it Ducky, because it is made of duct tape. If I remember correct it was originally called duck tape, because it is water resistant like a duck.” She explains to Jack, who deep down really didn’t care.

“Cute….” Jack mumbles to himself.

“I cant wait to get this baby in the water! Lets try it right away!” The girl says excited and grabs the small boat.

“Don’t you think it should wait till Ember gets home? I am pretty sure she wouldn’t miss this.” Jack says, as he tries discreet to lead her attention away from the construction.

“Gosh you are right Jack! She and Gyro are my sponsors for this project, it wouldn’t be fair testing it without them.” She says and lets go of the boat.
“But what are we gonna do now?” She asks him after a moment.
“I know! I could start working on…”

“Don’t you have a park or something nearby? Perhaps a playground?” Jack interrupts her. Airy silences and turns thoughtful.

“I will give an ice cream.” Jack tries.

“Yay!!!” Airy exclaims excited as she grabs her bag and jacket on the floor nearby.

“We play first and then eat, ok?” Jack asks her, and she nods.

“Where is the nearest playground?” The green raccoon asks.

“The nearest is 30 minutes walk that way she points at the road where Ember left by earlier.

“Oh… That is a little further then I had expected….” The green raccoon sighs tired.

“Not to worry! We can use my ride.” Airy says and gives him sign to follow her.

“That is really cute, but I am not gonna ride your tricycle.” Jack growls for himself.

“Tricycle? What are you talking about?!!! I mean a real ride!” She says as she opens a door on one of the garages. Jack’s jaw drops when he sees it.

“That is yours?!!!” He says baffled when the vehicle is revealed, which was a red sports car with no wheels.

“Aha.” The little girl says with a wide grin.

“Oh my god!!!” The raccoon exclaims excited.
“Wait… How come you own a car? Aren’t you a little too young to drive it?”

“Yes… Yes I am too young. But my brother is working on an artificial intelligence for it, so it can drive me back and forth from school on its own. When my mother was expecting me, a father to one of her NIDS patients, who also happened to be the designer of this car, gave her the car as a baby shower gift. To show her his gratitude for saving his son´s life.”

“Wow…. But why isn’t she using it? It is a nice ride! If I had had one of those… oh boy! The chicks would be swarming around me like flies around manure!!! Like I need a car for that… But still.” He says and dries the drool off his face.

“She already has a car she is quite fond of. She is not that much into bling and the fancy stuff.” The girl shrugs.

“Eh? Where is the wheels?!” Jack asks puzzled after studying the car.

“It has been modified, it doesn’t need wheels anymore since it is now a hovercraft. It makes it faster and more nimble, and it can go off road. It can by the way fly too for a temporally period of time.” Airy explains to her companion in green who looks more amazed.

“Ah I see…. Cool… Um… Do you have the keys?” The green raccoon asks.

“Thought you would ask…” She digs her hand in her back bag, which was a hollow teddy bear with handles, and picks up the keys. She pushes the button on the key and the car gives a couple of bips.
“Shotgun!” Airy jumps onboard on the passenger side.

“Yeaaah!!! Let’s rock!” Jack follows her example and takes the drivers place.

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“No Jack! I aint climbing that tree!!!” The little girl shouts and as she clings herself to the trunk of a large tree.

“Come on Kiddo, all healthy children climb trees, it is good for you.” Jack tries, but Airy refuses to let go.

“Dad says it is dangerous! I could fall down and break something!!! I once heard this horror story that there was this girl, who was wearing a ring while climbing a tree. When she felt down, her ring got stuck to a branch and her finger was pulled of!”

“Another reason for not wearing a ring…” Jack mumbles to himself and tries to wrinkle her free from the tree.

“I aint gonna eat a worm or bug, even if it makes me one of the cool kids. Have you ever seen an insect under a microscope?! They are filled with bacteria’s and parasites, I could get very sick from it. My dad said so!” After struggling for a while, she starts all of a sudden to gasp for air and loses her grip, Jack falls back on his tail with Airy on his lap. All panicked she grabs her teddybear bag and digs her hands into it and picks up an anti-asthma spray. She places it at her lips and inhales the medicine. The green mobian raccoon looks at her worried, not sure what he is supposed to do. He had definitely not seen this coming, that she was asthmatic.

“Please don’t make me do this, I don’t want any trouble.” She gasps and looks at Jack. After a moment he sighs disappointed, as she starts to inhale the medicine again.

“Then how about we built something in the sandbox? After seen you crafting a boat you can possibly make something extraordinary. It isn’t that long ago it has rained so the sand has the best consistence.” Jack says and lifts her to a nearby sandbox where there sat a couple of other kids at her age.
“And there are someone you can play with.” Jack encourages her and puts her down next to the other children, in hope she could entertain herself while he could rest. But she jumps out as quickly as she got there.
“What?” Jack asks her.

“I don’t want my cloth get messy, besides this is a public sandbox, who knows how many cats who has visited this place…” She says uneasy.

“And this is the daughter of the ultimate lifeform…” Jack face palms.

“I guess that means no ice-cream huh…” She says disappointed.

“How about we play soccer instead? I saw in the shop you could buy cheap plastic balls. We could just kick the ball to each other, it couldn’t possible provoke an asthma attack, or would it?” The green raccoon suggests after a moment of thinking. The orange/golden hedgehog nods in respond and they both go to the shop and buy a red ball.
A moment later they are both seen playing on a small football field. Jack stood in the goal while Airy tried her best to get the ball inside of it.

“You are doing great little buddy, keep trying!” The green mobian encourage her, but sighs a little to himself.
“Man that child sucks…. Can it really be that hard kicking a ball?!” Jack mumbles to himself in all silence, as the ball flies by the goal. He quickly looks around and spots a small group of 6 young mothers with their small children, half of them mobians. One in particular studied them with great interest. A milky-white rabbit with sapphire blue eyes, light yellow markings and hair. Jack grins a little to himself as she was quite good looking.
If he played his cards right, he could perhaps get something good out of this unwanted position. Women can’t resist a man who is good with kids.

“How about we shift, so you can try stand in the goal?” Jack asks Airy, hoping she would be better at catching the ball, so he could look good in front of the young mother. The little mobian hedgehog girl hesitates a little, but nods and goes to the goal.

“Ready?!” Jack asks her.

“…Yeah….” She responds, sounding a little nervous.

“All right here we go!” Jack shouts and kicks the ball; Airy jumps to the side to catch it.

“ARGH!” She cries when the ball hits her in the face, she crumples on the ground and sobs. This scenario caught the attention of all the mothers and now they are all look angry at Jack. Jack gulps and rushes to Airy side.

“Airy? Are you all right kid?” He asks her uneasy and removes her hand from her face, her whole face was covered in blood and she was gasping.

“Oh shit!” Jack thought to himself. He quickly grabs her anti-asthma-spray from her teddy-bear-bag. After having inhaled it a few times, her breathing gets stable and he grabs a hanky from his pocket and dries the blood off, which came from her nose. He couldn’t help but notice that her blood wasn’t like her sister´s. Ember´s blood had a light tone of red and it was thicker than ordinary blood. Airy´s was thin and dark like his own and other mobians…. She starts to gasp for air again, Jack acts quick and gets her anti-asthma spray, which he hands to the young girl.
As Airy inhales the medicine, Jack quickly glances at the young rabbit girl, but she scowled at him like the rest of the group of mothers.

“Here went my chance….” He thinks for himself disappointed, and turns his sight back at the young girl.

“I am sorry Jack. I should have been more careful… It doesn’t take much to make my nose bleed.” Airy apologies after a moment, still with blood all over her face.
“I guess that means no ice-cream…” She says disappointed and inhales more medicine, Jack sighs a little and gently strokes her hair.

“I think you have deserved a big one, you gave it a try, that counts.” He smiles at her and dries her face again as there were still blood running from her nose.
Airy smiles all over face, her teeth had got a red tune as some of the blood had entered her mouth.

“Wow!... You are quite a charmer….” Jack chuckles and dries her face for the last time, as the bleeding finally had stopped

Jack found it hard to believe that Airy and Ember were actually biological siblings. Ember was tough and rocksteady. If the world got nuked, she would along with the cockroaches be the only ones who could walk away from it. Airy on the other hand was very fragile, delicate and cautious of nature. It doesn’t take much to break her.

He clearly remembered that day where he had introduced Ember to his friends. Both Fiona and Matthew found it hard to believe that she was actually immortal, especially the young porcupine Matthew.

“Yeah right…. There is nothing in this whole damn world that is indestructible!” He said to her, after she had tried to convince him.

“No way I am that gullible! Sorry sister but I don’t buy it.” He said to her with crossed arms.
After his little speech, Ember told him to follow her outside; at first he hesitated but came along. Stanley stayed behind, as he knew very well what she was going to do. Fiona too followed them out of curiosity, as well as Jack himself, as he believed they would most likely need some kind of crisis counseling, after Ember´s upcoming act.
Out on the parking line, Ember told them to wait and not get any closer to the tall building, afterwards she went inside again. Few moments later she appeared on the roof.

“You might wonna close your eyes.” Jack instructed his friends.

“Huh? Why?” The sheep mobian asks her friend in green a little insecure.

“Yeah why Jack? It is not like she is gonna jump or anything.” Matthew says sarcastic to the green raccoon.

“Suit yourself.” Jack responds simple and takes another step away from the building. Both Matthew and Fiona looked puzzled at him, and turned their sights back at Ember, who waved at them and walked to the edge. Fiona let out a loud scream as the red mobian girl jumped from the roof, and landed on the ground on her belly. The concrete cracked from the impact, and there were some blood from Ember´s body. For a while she laid all still…

“Oh my goodness!!!!” Fiona shouts in horror, but as she takes a step closer to the red mobian girl, Jack grabs her arm, and holds her back.

“She is fine….” He assured the horrified sheep mobian. Jack turned his sight at Matthew who was totally frozen, he had definitely not seen this coming.

All of a sudden Ember starts to move. She sits up, and as she does that they could see one of her legs was totally deformed. Without hesitation the red mobian puts the limb back together, but they could tell by her face expressions that she did experience some pain, as she grinded her teeth. Matthew dropped his jaw as he saw with his naked eye that her wounds healed in super speed in front of him. Within a minute all her bruises and marks where gone. She stood up with open arms.

“Look not a scratch! Some things in this damn world are indestructible!” She chuckled.

No sane person would cause him/herself that kind of agoning pain. Ember clearly didn’t care, for her the pain was only temporally. Once she had put herself back together, she was as good as new. Being immortal had made her careless about herself, she had in general an absurd relationship to her own body.

Ember had done this trick before, for some of the recruits at GUN. There was once this guy who had a thing for her, and wanted to impress her and protect her. Fearing he would do something stupid out on the battle field, Ember had given him and the other recruits a similar demo.

Ember pulled out a small container from her pocket, and started to spray the area where she had landed. When the liquid got in contact with the blood it acid it away, and there was no evidence left of what had happened, only the small cracks on the ground remained.

“Wow… do it again! Do it again!!!” Matthew shouted excited.

“I think it will only be a one timer little bro. Even though Ember is immortal, it is for the best that she keeps her blood and organs inside of her body…. Right Ember?” Jack said and the red mobian girl nodded.

“Are you alright Fio?!” Ember asked worried the sheep mobian who was all pale in her face.

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Few moments later at the icecream shop.

“Aaaah… Just what I needed.” Jacks sighs content after eating the last of his icecream.
“My nausea is gone and my headaches are almost.” He sighs relieved and leans back on the bench, which he and Airy where sitting on.

“Thanks Jack, that was a great idea!” The little girl says with a wide grin.

“It is nothing...” The green raccoon smiles and enjoys the warmth from the summer sun.

“No really Jack. Thanks, it means a lot to me.”

“Why is that a big deal kid? It is just an ice-cream.” The green raccoon says.

“Well… I don’t have that many I can share ice creams with, except my family...” The young mobian girl says sad.

“Why? Don’t you have a lot of friends?” He asks the young girl, but she shakes her head.

“No… I don’t… I am not like the others 6 year olds…”

“Aww come on, most people thinks themselves as different at some point in their lives. True it is an unusual family you come from. But take me for example, I have 8 younger siblings! How different is that? You don’t meet that many who has a large family like that.” Jack says, trying to ease the mod of the young child, but she shakes her head a bit.

“I am not referring to my parents or my heritage…. I don’t have any superpowers and I am neither ageless or immortal, apparently I am just a regular class 1 mobian like you… But… “ She sighs a little.
“My parents and the teachers say that I am more mental developed then my peers… I have a mind like a 10 year old…” She explains.
Jack hadn’t really thought about it, but when he came to think of it, she was quite eloquent and mature taking her age in consideration. Most of the day, he had been too busy struggling with his hangover and not to do something inappropriate in front of her, to notice it.

“I don’t fit in with the other kids in my class, and the kids who are 10 don’t wonna play with someone as young as I am…” She says and fights hard to keep the tears back and looks the other way.
“So… I don’t have any real friends…except Cindy.” She says and rubs her eyes a little still not looking at him.

“Don’t you worry… You will find a good friend soon enough. Who knows… Maybe she or he is just around the corner, or perhaps it is a person you have already met, but haven’t spoken much to yet.” He says and rests a hand on her shoulder.

“Do you really think so?” She asks him.

“Positive. If it is of any comfort, I first meet my friends as adult” He gives her an ensuring smile.

“Thanks Jack.” She smiles a little.

“So… Is it time to return to the base?” Airy asks him and finishes her ice cream.

“I don’t know… What do you wonna do?” He asks her.

“Well I was thinking perhaps we could play tea party, or ponies?.” She suggests, but Jack wrinkles his nose.

“I was thinking a little bigger. Isn’t there place you wonna go? Perhaps a park?” He tries.

“Well… there is one place I would like to go…” She replies a little insecure.

“Spit out Kiddo, I am here for you. What is it?” He encourages her.

“Well… I would like to see the great Master Emerald, for real. I have read all the myths and legends about the magnificent stone, and I would like to experience its glory and power at first hand. Neither my parents or siblings will take me there for some unknown reason…” She sighs sad.
“I guess that is a bit too big wish, isn’t it?”

“Hmmm…. Can the car fly?” The green raccoon asks her.

“Yes it can…”

“Then jump on, next stop Angel Island!!!” Jack jumps onboard the car and gives Airy sign to follow.
“Now how do I makes this thing fly?” The green raccoon asks after studying the dashboard.

“Here!” Airy says and pushes a big blue button. In the same moment it is pushed down the vehicle flies straight few meters up in the air.

“Argh!” Jacks gasps and holds tight to the stearin weal.

“How do I steer it?” He asks her as the car stands still up in the air.

“Like in an airplane you use the steerin weal to move around. Push it left, we go left, right to go right, push it forward to go down, move it back to go up. Like a car you use the speeder to fly in the desired direction and the break to fly backwards... Just start out easy… It can be a little sensitive” The girl explains.

“Eh… ok” Jack responds uneasy and pushes the steerin weal to the sides and gently steps on the speeder.

“Oh I get it! The steering is made in the same way as in video games. Cool!” Jack exclaims excited and steps harder on the speeder. After flying in circles he moves the steerin weal a little forward. The car gives a great jerk and flies down in high speed.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!!!!” They both scream.
“The break! The break!” Airy panics. Jack lets go of the speeder and hits the breaks.

Feverishly Airy digs her hand in her teddy bear bags, pulls out her anti-asthma- spray, and inhales the medicine.
“You have to be careful with how much throttle you give it. The up and down mechanism is still not perfected and is quite sensitive, especially when you go down.” She gasps and inhales more of her medicine.

“And you tell me that now!” Jack gasps with his heart pounding in his chest.

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An hour later…

“Oh my god! There it is!!!” The little mobian girl exclaims excited when they emerge from a thick cloud, which surrounds the floating island.

“Hold on! I will try landing this thing.” Jack says and tries his best to land on the bare area around the shrine where the stone was held. The car lands with a loud bump in the grass and dirt flies in all directions.

“Considering this is the first time I fly, I think it went pretty well, don’t you think Shorty?” He asks her.

“Well… As my brother Gyro always says: Every landing you can walk from is a good landing.” Airy says and jumps out.
“Oh my… it is, so huge!” She says amazed as she sees the stone on the shrine.

“So did my last date say.” Jack grins.

“Eh what?” The girl looks puzzled at him.

“Nothing kiddo, carry on.” Jack waves with his hand a little, giving her sign to go closer to the stone.

“It’s beautiful…” She whispers as she studies the large gem from afar.
“I gotta have a photo of this for my scrapbook!” She says as digs her hand in her teddy bear bag and grabs a small magenta cellphone. She hands the bag to Jack and starts taking photos. While she does that, Jack takes a quick look around to make sure the old guardian wasn’t around. To Jack’s relieve Knuckles wasn’t to be seen anywhere.
All of sudden Jack’s own cell phone starts ringing; he turns his back to Airy and answers it.

“Hi Tammy Babe!... Doh! I mean Katrine…. Sorry… I thought you were my sister.” Jack apologies. While he talks on the phone, Airy takes the stairs to the top of the shrine, and gets up close to the great gem. She takes a walk around it and lets her hand slide on the smooth and shiny surface. She stops when she realizes the stone is glowing where she touches it. She tries a few times tapping on the surface and leaves more glowing marks. She lets out a small gasp when her own reflection all of sudden divides in two, one them turns into a white version of herself with a gentle smile, the other one turns black with a sly grin.

“Wow… That was awesome!!! It is like the stone is alive! Jack did you see that? It is amazing!!! This is the best day ever!!!” She exclaims and looks back at Jack who is still talking.
“Oh… I think I just tell him when he is done…” She thinks to herself and shrugs. The stone starts to glow more and the surface gets a liquid like consistency. Curios, she learns a little closer to have a better look, but all of sudden the hands of her reflections break through the surface and grab her arms and begin to pull her towards them.

“AAAAAAARGH!!!” Airy screams and tries to break free, but it was useless.

“Huh? Hold on Kate…” Jack lowers the phone and looks back. He lets out a big gasp when he sees what was going on.
“I’ll call you back!” Jack shouts in the phone and hangs up as he rushes to Airy´s aid.

“JACK HELP!!!!” She screams as most of her arms had been swallowed by the stone.

“Hold on Kiddo! I am coming!!!” The green raccoon pants as he runs up the stairs, in the last moment Jack grabs one of her feet, but it was too late...

“Please don’t let go Jack. I don’t wonna die…” She cries as her whole body disappears into the emerald, leaving Jack on the other side with a tiny snicker.

“AIRY!” Jacks shouts, she was still visible on the other side.

“I am not feeling so good…” The little girl says scared and floats around inside the gem, which now had turned solid again.

“NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NOOOOO!!!! How the hell did you get in there?!!! I am so F%cking screwed!!!” He yanks his own ears, and looks helpless at Airy who was just as scared. He starts to knock and kick the stone a couple of times with no result, feverishly he walks back and forth, completely clueless how he was going to save the young girl. It gets foggy inside the stone and it starts to glow even brighter, Jack squints his eyes to avoid being blinded. He attacks the stone again, and then hears an unpleasant crack. One of the supporting stones in the shrine gave in to the force and the Master Emerald was now tipping! The green raccoon tries to grab the stone but the surface was too slippery, he couldn’t get a grip.

“NOOOO!!!!” Jack shouts when the emerald hits the ground and shatters into hundreds of pieces.
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