Sonic X – Journey to a New World

Chapter Two: Chaos Control Troubles

"Blaze, how was I supposed to know you were still tinkering with it?!" Frieda heard Ash say as she and her brother argued all the way past Emerald River, where Big the Cat was lazing fishing as well as trying to take a nap. "We're not even going that fast! We'll never catch up to the others!"

"Hey, we're lucky this thing runs at all," Blaze shouted, revving his bike up more as he pushed his foot on the gas petal to make it go a little faster. "I told you it wasn't done yet. Hang on!"

Recognizing the purple cat next to a little frog, Frieda looked up from where she was holding onto Ash on the back of the cycle as it roared past them, the sound of the engine not even disturbing him as Big's fishing pole bobber only rested in the river.

"That was Big … Guys!" Frieda started to say, before they all three heard the blaring yet muffled alarms going off in the distance. "Those are coming from Eggman's base. Sonic must be already in there!"

"He is. Tails and Amy just dropped him close in," they all heard Knuckles say as he appeared suddenly right beside them and kept expert pace with Blaze's bike, breathing ever so slightly as he looked them each in the eye. "Sonic told you guys before to stay back there. Why didn't you guys listen?"

"Knuckles!" Blaze exclaimed, surprised to see him not where the others were as he willed the bike to slow down a bit, much to Ash's annoyance. The base alarms got even louder as all of the lights of the base came on, Frieda noticing the base just behind the trees from her seat on the bike. "Don't look at me!"

"We wanted to help!" Ash said, levitating up just enough to look into the distance with her night vision as all of them heard wind of the gunfire just a few yards away. "I can't even see Sonic!"

"Ash, he'd be moving so fast you couldn't see him," Frieda said, launching her own self off of the bike as she consciously unfurled her twin tails, too, and took to the air to rise even higher, hearing the Tornado's engine rise right as she circled back around to grab Ash and right her descend as they both touched back on the ground, where Blaze was waiting for them to hop back on as he sped ever closer to the base. However, with Knuckles racing just ahead of them, he knew something was going on that they didn't see before.

Sheltering their faces where dirt came flying up into their faces, the Tornado soared over past them as Frieda saw her brother bravely in the cockpit as he took off, not even seeing them as he pushed the plane to go even faster, Amy screaming, "Hurry, Tails!"

"Blaze, don't wait on me!" Ash said, surprising her brother enough as she launched herself off the bike and pushed the power orbs on her gloves, letting herself fall to her feet just enough to take off with static-enhanced speed, a speed that didn't surpass Sonic's but was just enough to get her to the scene a little faster and was enough to rush past Knuckles. Only watching them as they raced ahead, Knuckles only shook his head in mild amusement as he kept his eyes on the sky and ran, too.

In front of the base now, Ash screamed from where she had skidded to a stop in front of the base and saw how Sonic was launched into the air only to nearly crash into one of Eggman's defense bots, E-12 Behemoth. Falling just in front of him, Sonic tensed up right as the robot punched him so hard in the face that it sent their blue leader flying as he screamed, "Uaaaaaaaaah …!"

"Sonic!" Tails called over the engine, arriving on scene just as Frieda and Blaze arrived, too, seeing that the base had spotted the plane as it shot gunfire at it as it came flying in in a lower stride.

Seeing the damage, Frieda looked straight at Blaze as he got off the bike and said, "Blaze, I need to get up there. Can you give me a lift?"

Seeing the plane backfire with flames, Amy shouted, "Tails, the plane's on fire! What are we going to do?!"

Not any hesitating, Tails looked back at Amy and said, "We're going to save Sonic!" Pulling the lever, Tails released a ring missile that shot straight at where Sonic was going down. As the plane swerved a bit with the release, Tails didn't look back as he tried to control the plane, not even aware that Blaze had twirl-launched her with a powerful throw that allowed her grip the tail-end fin of the plane right as it was going down and faltered. Feeling a hand on her own, Frieda looked up to see Amy staring at her with a concerned smile as she pulled her into the seat with her to keep her from falling off, all the while Tails fought to keep the Tornado level.

Down below, Ash's limited telekinesis, due to being drained earlier, reached out to the robot with a shimmery blue aura that momentarily lifted the robot off the ground. Showing signs of over-exertion, Ash hollered out, "Go on, you big bully! Try to get away! Make my day!"

Noticing this, Blaze knew his sister's ability wouldn't last long as he said, "Ash, hold on!" So, clenching his knuckles, Blaze made a fist and hit it with a hard front knock that sent the robot tilting backward and into another one close by. However, both siblings looked right up as they heard the familiar ring-emitted spin dash of Sonic come spinning at full force as he played pinball with some nearby defense guns, making them blow up with one powerful spin-dash bump.

"Sonic!" Ash called, faltering as her telekinesis dissipated and she started to fall back.

"Gotcha!" Picking up his sister as she sighed tiredly and her strength faded, Blaze ducked them both out of the way as Sonic bashed into the bigger Behemoth robots with an assault so strong that it belted them back like a domino-effect as he went straight them all with a ring-infused barrel roll. Spinning so fast in his Super Spin Mode, Sonic couldn't stop as he briefly noticed Blaze carrying Ash away from the scene. Almost missing it, he was able to avoid being smashed by a Behemoth right it brought it arm down, only for him to erupt straight up off of it and to crash through one of the base lights as a way inside.

Meanwhile, back on the plane, Tails was trying to bring the plane in low enough for them to make a bumpy landing, saying, "Hang on, Amy!"

Seeing the rock in the path, Amy forgot about Frieda being there for a second as she exclaimed, "Ahh! We're going to CRASH!"

"I KNOW!" Tails said, now seeing the shield form around them as he looked back to see Frieda trying her best to erect a subtle force field to ease their collision. "Sis!"

"Hold on!" Frieda cried, all of them screaming now and starting to brace for the plausible impact.

Hearing something being punched, Frieda felt her eyes shut right as the plane slid a little to the right and finally stopped, Frieda's shield fading with the bumpy swerve. When the dust settled around them, Frieda rose up her head when she heard Tails gratefully call out, "Knuckles!"

Connecting her eyes with his own, Frieda breathed out in relief as she said, "Thank You!"

"Hmph!" was all Knuckles said as he turned back toward the base location, seeing all of the destruction, dust, and smoke left behind by Sonic's assault of his attack.

"What's the matter with him?" Amy said, despite Frieda having an idea of what was going through his mind.

"Overkill," was all Knuckles could say, clearly annoyed and stubbornly vexed. "Just like always."

"Do you think Sonic is alright?" Amy said after a minute of silence between all three of them and she hopped down, Tails meanwhile looking back at his sister in thought as she remained seated in the plane. Taking his hand off of the side of the plane from where he had climbed out to check the wing's damage, Tails connected his eyes with his sister as she looked back at him.

"Hmph," was all Knuckles said, muttering something quieter about Sonic's knack for handling things.

"Is the Tornado 2 okay?" She asked, knowing he wasn't concerned about that right now as his eyes shifted down in thought. "Miles?"

Knowing his sister was the only one on the team that still secretly called him Miles instead of his nickname, the younger blonde fox only sighed as he gave a nod of his head. Changing the subject, though, he asked her, "Why did you …?"

"We all wanted to help," Frieda said, counting herself, too, in the mix as she told him about all three of them following them there. "Ash felt terrible about what had happened. After I had Blaze launch me towards the plane, they …"

"Wait a minute! They were in there?!" Amy exclaimed, she and Knuckles both looking at the smoking base now as the whole building started glowing with a white auric glow, both she and Tails noticing it, too, with a drop of their jaws. Amazed at it, she asked, "What is that?"

Just watching as it grew brighter, Knuckles only remained stoic as he replied, "It used to be Chaos Control."

'Chaos Control?' Frieda thought inwardly as they watched as the white void expanded over the whole base and continued. Staying silent, Frieda remembered what they had briefly read about the power of Chaos Emeralds being a total mystery. Thinking she saw them in the fray for a moment, Frieda only said their names as she saw the entire base engulfed in the white light, "… Blaze … Ash."

Watching worriedly as the void expanded ever further beyond the base, Frieda shielded her eyes as the white light enveloped them and the Tornado 2, too, to which she felt a small hand reach up and grip hers as she gently squeezed it back, feeling the slight yet nervous hand of her brother as his eyes also closed from the blinding light. What happened next was truly amazing as everything just flashed in white and everyone disappeared.

Hearing something in the distance, Frieda felt herself laying on something hard that wasn't the Tornado. 'I don't remember getting out of the plane,' she thought to herself as she pushed herself up with one hand and brought the other up to rub at her temple, where she left a small brush of dirt across her brow from where she brushed her fur and bangs out of her eyes.

Opening her eyes, Frieda heard something else too as she looked around to see that everything around her was almost dark, except for the line of street lights that illuminated the grass where she was sitting in. Looking up, she also saw a cluster of trees surrounding her on all sides. "That's normal," she said, reaching out to feel the trunk of one of the trees as she heard another array of sirens that were so loud that she held her hands over her ears. "More alarms? Wait, those sound different somehow," she muttered, looking to see that she wasn't on familiar ground anymore. 'Where am I? This isn't home! Wait, there's that sound, again.'

Perking up her ears, Frieda stood to her feet to where she heard something shaking in the underbrush just a couple of steps from her. Remembering how timid her brother's grip was on her hand, she remembered Tails as she quietly called out, "Miles! Is that you?"

Poking her head through the small bushes, she pushed through them as a little white bunny came nose to nose with her enough for her to back up suddenly, watching as it hopped out of sight as she smiled, thinking, 'She kind of reminds me of Cream.' Deciding to go forward through the brush to see if anything lied beyond it, the sight of the propeller of the plane caught her eye as she gasped. "The Tornado!" The rest of the plane caught her view, too, right as she heard her brother moan.

"Miles!" Frieda called, flapping her tails hard to fly up and get a better view. Switching to his nickname, she called, "Tails, where are you?"

"Over … here," she heard her brother say right under the plane as he emerged, holding his head a bit as he shook his head, Frieda immediately flying over to ease him out from under the plane before he could bump his head. "Frieda?"

"Yes, Tails, it's me," she said, watching him gratefully open his eyes as he looked up to see the sky. "What is it?"

"Where are we?" Tails asked, still trying to clear his head as his gaze relented off the sky and thought aloud. "It feels like home, but … Chaos Control … Sonic …" he murmured.

"I know," Frieda said gently, seeing him look better as he stood to his feet and put his hand on the Tornado 2. "I haven't seen him."

"The Chaos Blast consumed everything from the base in a wide mile radius and kept going," Tails said, remembering the vivid image clearly as he and Frieda each leaned up against the plane in deep thought.

"Until it included us, too," Frieda said, picking up the obvious with a sigh. "Wait a minute! We have the Tornado 2."

"Yeah, of course," Tails said, not getting it. "It's right here …"

"Tails, it sent us here!" Frieda said, getting excited. "Chaos Control!"

With Tails' eyes growing ever larger, both siblings connected their blue eyes as Tails smiled, "Do you think Sonic was … What's that?!"

Sirens once again caught their ears as they both stuck their heads out of the underbrush. Seeing a familiar blue blur streak down the street, both of their expressions turned to shock as a squadron of police cars followed suit, all announcing the same report, "Attention all units! Attention all units! A blue hedgehog is headed north on Central Street. Shut down all thoroughfares that lead into and out of Station Square …"

"Sonic!" they both exclaimed, jumping into the air.

"Wings?" asked Tails, dubbing her nickname, too, to her curiosity.

"Yeah?"

"Get in the plane," Tails said, already hopping into the pilot seat and turning on the Tornado 2. Hearing it churn a bit from the last fight, Frieda was at least glad it was operable enough for her brother to fly it. "I'll do a full repair job later, but we got to see if we can catch up to Sonic."

Getting in the second seat behind her brother, she asked, "Wait, aren't we going to look for the others, too?"

"Honestly, we'll see a lot more from the air," Tails said, starting the propeller. "We'll look for the others at the same time. Hang on!"

Leaving the clearing where they found themselves, Frieda felt the wind from the propeller's turbine ripple back her auburn hair as they took off into the sky. Flying after the cars up Station Square, Frieda saw the sirens on the back of the cars as the sound of the Tornado drowned them out as she said, "Tails, those sirens were what I was hearing before! Sonic must have been among them to stir up this much commotion."

"Then, they might lead us right to him," Tails said, clicking a switch just above the panel to quiet the engine a bit. "Let's just hope they don't look up."

Sensing something else in his words as they whirred right past them a little shakily, Frieda asked, "Tails?" Nothing her brother's silence, Frieda found her eyes wandering down a bit pass the plane's side as she noticed something blue atop one of the cars just ahead. "Look, there he is!"

They weren't close enough to hear what Sonic said or for him to hear him over the police clamor all below them, but they were close enough to see him take off a couple of seconds later down the road as he leapt off and continued down the strip at high speed. By the stunned looks on the policemen's faces, Frieda knew they were more surprised to see a talking hedgehog than anything else that went over their heads as Tails took them both higher into the clouds to hide in the night sky a little better.

"Tails, what is it? What's wrong?" Frieda asked, once again, looking at her brother as he struggled with the plane as it started to shake. "The plane …"

"It's the abrasion damage from Eggman's defenses, the injury before Chaos Control sent us here," Tails said, looking towards his right to see the lingering smoke from the right side of the Tornado's impaired wing. "I can fix it, but I'm going to have to land somewhere over night to …"

"Tails, look out!" Frieda called out, just in time for them both to see a police helicopter coming up right behind them as they both screamed. "Tails, pull up!"

"Right!" He said, pulling back on the throttle that caused to them to fly up and over the helicopter as they barely avoided it, both looking back to see it zooming past them as they heard someone say from inside, "What was that?"

"What?" the police helicopter pilot said, continuing down over the street.

"I thought I just saw a plane … A biplane with two passengers." the other one said, looking out again and seeing nothing. "Where did it go?"

"Must've been one of those fancy news copters, they're always after a story," the pilot dismissed, then forgot all about it as he overheard over the radio that the others lost their target. "They were in hot pursuit and it got away?! Can't those clowns even catch a hedgehog?!"

Spotting Sonic again, the other said, "There he is!"

"They didn't see us," Frieda whispered in her seat as she and her brother watched them fly on after Sonic. Meanwhile, Tails was struggling to steady the plane as the abrasion on the wing left them flying at a limp angle.

"That's a good thing," Tails said, flipping a couple of switches on the plane as it shook slightly and descended a little over the water, just to the south of the city. "I need to fix the plane before we do anything else, and they probably would have … Uh oh!"

Watching the plane's propeller come to a stop, both of them tensed as the plane then swerved down into a dead dive, straight towards the water below them.

"Wings, I'm ... Huh?" Tails started to say, feeling two hands grip underneath his arms as he felt his sister pull him into the air and out of the plane. Flapping her twin tails hard, she held her legs tight together as she felt the wind ripple her blue skirt a bit, revealing that she released the harness on her belt to allow her dress to wrap around her legs a bit more securely.

"Now's not that time, Tails," Frieda said, knowing that he was blaming himself for the damage on the Tornado 2. "Grab a wing!"

Twirling his twin tails fast, Tails got on the left of the plane and held taut to it, right as Frieda positioned herself over the right side of the supporting plane wing and concentrated a shield hold around the plane to help them ease it back into a steady position, to which it started to work right as Frieda, too, added her grip on the plane to make it lift back up with a hard tug of her own.

"What now?" Tails said, feeling the plane aloft in the air with the engine still purring, despite the damage done and the barrier shield now helping to keep it place. "The engine sounds fine, but with the propeller out …"

"Tails," Frieda said, the strain on her expression plain as she strengthened the barrier platform around the plane. "Will it take long to fix the abrasion damage once we're on the ground?"

"No," Tails said, looking full on at his sister in awe. "I have what I need to fix it in the cockpit. We only need to land it."

"Got it," Frieda said, looking around for a flat area of land just past the highway strip that was solitary and away from the highway bridge. Seeing another small area of park just above the water and next to a couple of houses, Frieda closed her eyes and raised her head in concentration, feeling the shield around her start to give way with the weight of the plane.

"Wings?" Tails said, watching her open her eyes as she made herself, Tails, and the plane disappear in a sudden and unexplainable burst of light. Feeling the plane's weight settle on the ground, Tails opened his eyes slowly to see where they were, only to see that they were back on the ground and Frieda nowhere in sight. "Frieda!"

"I'm here, Miles," he heard her say weakly, turning in mid-air to see that she was in the passenger seat in the cockpit, tiredly pulling out the repair kit in the back in of the seat. "Here's the kit."

Flying over to take it, Tails only scratched his head in puzzlement as he asked, "Do I want to know how you were able to …?"

"You can thank Uncle Merlin for that trick," Frieda managed to say as she took a moment to put a glove to her brow and closed her eyes unknown to Tails' confusion, taking a breath as she sat back. Then looking up to watch Tails open the kit and see him getting his smile back, she smiled as she asked, "Do you want a hand?"

"No, I got it from here, thanks," her little brother said, giving his sister a caring smile. "You just rest … for now."

"Putting me to work?" She teased, seeing him chuckle warmly just.

"Once you get on your feet, no hurry though. I got it!" He said, whirling to the side of the plane where the damage was most done and got to work. However, it was no more than a minute they heard something that made them both look up.

"Whoa, cool!" a little child said, a few feet away from them as Frieda look up in time to see a young boy rush back inside his back door. "Mom, there's a plane outside, with two yellow cats in it."

"Yes dear, you left your toys out again," Frieda heard his mother say as she picked him lovingly and kissed him. "If it will make you happy, I'll leave some leftover turkey and milk out for the cats tonight. But now, it's time for you to go to sleep …"

"Did she just call us cats?" Tails whispered, looking up to see Frieda laughing lightly. "What's so funny? We are clearly what …"

"… We are, Tails, I know," Frieda said, looking back to see the young woman do just what she had said she would. "They don't understand who or what we are. They went after Sonic because they never saw anyone like him, which means they've never seen anyone like us before."

"What about Eggman?" Tails asked, looking up from his work in shock. "Sis, what are you doing?"

"Eggman's different, he shares our world. This one, however, is another," She said, sliding down from the cockpit. Surprising Tails enough for him to watch her go up to the house to retrieve the plates of food and milk glasses for them as she came back, she also said, "She did say these were for us."

Looking unsure and tired at the same time, Tails took the plate only to say, "Frieda …"

"Miles, it's late and you need your strength. Please," she said, trying to get her brother to eat, to which he eventually did. "Good, now tell me what you need me to do. We got some work to do."

"Ok," was all Tails said as they both got to work.

Here's Chapter 2. I know it's a bit longer than the first one, but I hope you guys like it. This is Frieda's first solo chapter and her POV following the events of Sonic X, Episode 1. Another side of this story will be written following Ash's POV as my friend, too, writes her side in also. I hope you guys enjoy and until next time, thanks for reading!