It was around noon on the weekend. Gizmo, working hard in his basement, had just finished repairing one of his inventions. After setting it aside, and looking over it happily, He began to think of what project he should work on next. He walked beside the table, where all of his creations were set on display, quickly browsing through each one of them. It was when he set his sights on the Power Crystal, that he stopped. "...To think an accident would bring me something so useful..."He said to himself. "It's rather amazing. I can't count the times I've had to rely on these crystal shards...Yet, if I'd have known the machine that made it was going to be a failure, this would never have came to be." Reminiscing on the past events, reminded him of something peculiar.
'Speaking of which...What was that weird message I got?' He stroked his chin as he pondered about it.
'The Power Crystal reacted to Kyla's necklace..I never got a chance to investigate further because of Speedy's cousin's birthday party, but that was months ago..I should still have some notes I took lying around somewhere.' He began to search the shelves and cabinets of the basement, thoroughly.
It was a nice sunny weekend for them. Which meant that Kyla had another one of her races, she had started training months ago and now was ready for her first race. She had been training so much she had totally forgot about what happened with the necklace. As she did a last check on her newest bike her thoughts drifted to Gizmo, who she hadn't gotten a chance to visit and see him in awhile. Kyla sighed as she made sure the fuel tank was full "I do miss him..maybe after the race I can see him...if he isn't gone or busy." Now all she had to do was wait for them announce to go to the starting places.
'Ah, Here we go.' He thought as he found the notes in a drawer. He sat down at a desk on the other side of the room, and turned on a small lamp on the side. Setting the notes down, he began to read over them. "Hmm..." As he read them, He gradually remembered the details of what happened that day. However, he the notes abruptly stopped. It seemed that there should have been another page, but there wasn't. "Hmm..I remember writing more here...I'm missing a page." He mumbled to himself. He then leaned back in his chair, looking up at the ceiling. "One thing for sure, I remember just how confusing the whole thing was. But somehow, I feel like it's a lot more understandable...Not sure why." He shook his head. "Speaking of which..Because of all that's been going on, I haven't been able to get in contact with Kyla in a long time...Sure hope she's alright." He sat up straight.
'Still..There's one thing that's bugging me. Exactly why did Kyla's necklace react to the Power Crystal of all things?' He wondered. He set his elbows on the desk and rested his head in his palms.
'...All the Power Crystal's got is Chaos Energy..Not even a lot of it...Would that mean that a Chaos Emerald would have a similar effect?'Soon they called out for the racers to get to their starting places. Kyla headed out to her spot with her bike and helmet. She slowly pulled up her hair into the helmet as she put it on. "I have to focus...can't lose this race for sure...otherwise they may want to kick me out.." she thought as she got onto the bike and started it up like every time she has in the past. The flag person gets ready, now all needed to be done was wave it. Kyla took one last look at the crowd before clearing her mind of everything.
'The only way to tell is if I bring a Chaos Emerald to her. But if it does react..No. Kyla had a bad reaction to the Power Crystal. I'm not taking any chances.' He shook his head.
'But this whole thing..too curious for me to just shrug off...' He looked over the notes again, still wondering about the events. Suddenly, the TV turned on behind him. He turned his head to look at it. "Huh?..Oh right."
'I got so caught up in this I forgot I set the TV to automatically switch on whenever the news is on.' He turned his chair and looked at the report. It was talking about the next motorbike race ready to start.
'Ah, hmm..Whateve-wait a minute. Kyla. Kyla competes in these races.' He suddenly became interested again, scanning the screen for any signs of her. He could see her from her normal racing outfit. All covered so no exposed fur. Her bike having a chao painted on it that looks very familiar almost like it was Kitty on it. Kyla took off when the flag waved and a shot was heard. Already making it to second place as the race started. She kept her eyes on the drivers around her and on the track as she went to the first jump. She speed up and as she went into the air she did a few tricks before landing perfectly. Nervous she laughed to herself about how she made it while thinking "It has been too long..but yet these jumps come at ease for me"
Gizmo squinted at the picture of the cat chao on the bike. "Heeyy...That's Kitty!" He exclaimed, soon laughing afterwards. "That's
definitely her, alright." He watched as the race started, and was amazed by the trick she did in mid-air. "Wow...She's good."
Kyla kept her second place spot until the very last lap after pulling tons of tricks around the track off and on. On the final lap pulls off a really good one and lands in front of the other drivers. "Now to finish in first..." She thought as she still had half the track to go. She starts to feel weird a little as she notices the driver trying to come closer to pass her has a chaos emerald attached to his helmet. A worried look shows on her face as the announcer even comments on it. "Something isn't right..I feel weird.."
Gizmo watched the race excitedly. But as the final lap was coming along, the announcer's comment got his attention. He looked behind Kyla at the other racer, gradually closing in on her. An unusual gleam from the rider's helmet caught his eye. "What in the...That can't be right." He mumbled. Upon taking a closer look, He
knew the way his helmet was shining was wrong. "What kind of helmet is that..?"
Kyla started to panic as she felt her arms start to go numb. "What is this..? I can't steer very well now.." she tried to turn at the corner and just barely kept from wrecking. Her necklace under her outfit started to glow reacting to the chaos emerald. She just gets past the finish line before wrecking hard into the wall from her whole body going numb. Screams of shock were heard as it happen.
Gizmo gasped in horror as he saw the wreck. "K-Kyla...!" In that instant, he nearly knocked over his chair as he leaped towards the long display table. He yanked his Jet Board off the wall, and ran through the door that led to the garage. Stopping at the large door leading outside, Gizmo jammed a key into the hole and twisted it. He grabbed the handle and threw the door up over his head, sliding it into the ceiling. Without wasting another second, he charged outside and ran down the road. Pressing a button on the bottom, his Jet Board activated before he jumped on top of it. In the next instant, he was speeding down the road towards the Station Square.
Kyla could barely move as her bike burst into flames on top of her. Shaking her head ready to scream as she felt her fur and skin trying to change into crystal yet again. Her necklace burning hot to the touch. People all crowded around her trying to find a way to get the burning bike off of her.
Gizmo knew that if he just simply took the roads, he'd never get there in time. He started taking short cuts; Speeding through alleyways, cutting across people's yards, until he finally got on the main road heading for Station Square. With a clear, straight path ahead of him, he put the board into full throttle, blasting off at nearly 300 mph. The sudden boost almost made him fall off, and he held onto the board's front with both hands. The road to Station Square being somewhat short, made this a quick trip. He crossed the city boarders in no time. However, with all the traffic in front of him, Kyla wouldn't be the only one to have a flaming wreckage. Gizmo screamed and tilted the board upwards to try and fly over the cars, only to shoot straight up into the air like a rocket. He was holding onto the top for dear life. Some random passerby's stopped to watch the rocket blasting off. Gizmo pulled the top downwards, soon having the board over his head. Although this was unorthodox and clearly dangerous, he could at least control the board better. From this height, he could see the stadium clearly. He aimed the board directly towards it, and started speeding down towards the ground at an even higher speed, and rapidly accelerating. "Whoooaaaaaaaa!!" He cried out. He swung himself side to side, rocking back and forth until he was able to perform a cartwheel like trick to get back on top, just in time to reach the ground. He tilted the board upwards so that it wouldn't nosedive into the ground, and burst through the stadium doors. People around him screamed in fright from him suddenly flying in super fast. He took many hard twists and turns, trying not to hit anybody as he got to the track.
Kyla could just barely heard people screaming as the bike was pulled off her. She laid there as the guy with the chaos emerald got too close to her asking if she was alright. Her body started shaking and faintly glowing as she screamed in pain and tried to move even more but remained motionless other then the scream. Sounds as if someone was killing her from the type of scream. Her eyes closed so she didn't know Gizmo was there or coming towards her.
The screams nearly froze Gizmo's heart as he flew out onto the track and sped past the finish line. He slowed down as he saw Kyla lying down screaming. He swerved away from the group, and jumped off as his jet board flew off without him, soon stopping several feet away. He ran towards her, pushing past the group of people. "Kyla! Are you alright!?" He cried out. He fell to his knees beside her, soon noticing a glow coming from her. Her body shook violently, and he could hear a slight sizzling sound. This couldn't possibly be due to the wreck.
'This..She's having a reaction to something..! This is just like what happened when she came in contact with the Power Crystal!' He thought. He scooped his arms under her and set her in his lap. "Everyone, back away!" He said. He soon noticed the guy with the Chaos Emerald attached to his helmet. His eyes widened at the sight of it.
'That's..a Chaos Emerald! That proves that my theory was correct! But more importantly, Who the heck is this guy and why does he have a Chaos Emerald...on his HELMET!?'
The screams stop the moment the guy with the chaos emerald helmet is far away enough to give her space. Kyla finally regain the ability to move again as she hugged Gizmo tightly. "Gizmo! How..how did you get here!?" The necklace stopped glowing so much along with her fur and skin turning normal. She threw off her helmet letting her now long hair down. "I was so scared..I couldn't move..at all..." she said to him as she wouldn't let go of him.
Gizmo was startled by her sudden recovery, but then ended up hugging her back. "It wasn't easy, I'll tell ya. Are you alright? I was really worried."
"I don't know..I really don't..I don't even know what happened...all the sudden my arms were getting numb then by the time I got across the finished line I couldn't move at all...my necklace..got hot again..very hot.." Kyla replied as she closed her eyes, her fur puffing up from how scared she was.
'Yeah..that confirms it..' He thought, as he held her close while trying to calm her down.
'This is what happened when she came in contact with the Power Crystal. Only worse.' "There's something I need to talk to you about later." He said, softly. "But now, making sure you're alright is all that matters."
"
Gizmo..." She smiled at how even now he could always make her heart beat like a humming bird. She slowly checked herself before saying. "I think I'm fine..shockingly..nothing broken..tail is still attached..arms..legs.."
He smiled warmly at her, letting out a sigh of relief when she said she was okay. "That's good. Can you stand?" He asked.
She nodded before slowly getting up on her own. She started to dust herself off but stopped as the guy with the emerald helmet started to come over to them. Her eyes widen at the numb feeling coming back. "G-Gizmo..i-it's..coming back..the numb..feeling..." Kyla said as she fell to her knees weakly.
Gizmo took her hand as she stood up, and held it tightly as she began to fall. "Hang on, don't try to stand yet.." He said as he let go. He walked in front of her towards the man with the chaos emerald helmet. "Excuse me. But who exactly are you?" He asked. He had a serious look on his face.
The guy stared at Gizmo before slowly removing his helmet. A cat with a scar over his left eye continued to stare at him before suddenly throwing the helmet at Kyla as he said "I'm the one who will make sure that crystal freak dies like the rest of her alien people and sell the crystal of her body for money around the galaxy!". Kyla started screaming loudly in pain as the helmet lands right next to her. Her body shaking in convulsion.
"W-Wh-WHAT!?" He cried out in shock. He could only watch as the helmet flew past him and landed next to Kyla. Hearing her screams again caused that same feeling in his heart to show up. He glared at the helmet down next to Kyla and sprinted towards it, soon giving it a good kick as if it were a soccerball.
The helmet went flying far enough from Kyla and Gizmo to make the effects of it's presences go away. When Kyla finally regain her breath she looked for the male cat only to see he was gone. She looked at Gizmo still slightly panting but otherwise unharmed. "Why...why would anyone want me dead?" she asked him, fear showing in her eyes.
Gizmo whirled around to face the cat, only to see that he was gone. Kyla could hear him growling in frustration, but then sighing. "I don't know..There are people in this world that only care for money, and themselves." He said, still glaring in the direction the cat was in. "I can't believe, though, that someone would go to such lengths for it." He closed his eyes and shook his head, before turning to face her. He held out his hand to her. "Are you alright?"
Kyla shakily took his hand with hers and slowly stood up with his help. "I think so..just..hurt a lot.." she said as she slowly wrapped her tail around his. Frowning as she tried to remember if she saw that guy ever enter a race before now or not.
"Well, don't worry. You'll be fine from now on." He said. He slightly blushed when her tail wrapped around his.
'Eheh...It's really been a while.' He thought. "Speaking of money...I think you have a reward waiting for you?" He smiled at her. "Even if you did have a nasty crash, and were attacked by chaos energy, You still won the race."
She smiled and giggled at him. "I guess I did win. My poor bike though..I had your chao painted on it.." Kyla said before removing her
tail from him and going up to the stand where the price money was at along with cheering fans. She looked back at him to see if he would follow or not. Gizmo did actually follow, holding her hand until they reached the stand, where she would take her prize money. His smile turned into a grin as he watched the award ceremony. Kyla smiled as she accepted the prize money while keeping Gizmo by her side. She left with him as the stage started to clear out along with the track. "I'll have another bike to fix yet again..how have you been Gizmo?" She asked still smiling.
Gizmo scratched the back of his head, grinning sheepishly. "Well ever since I went to my friend's cousin's birthday party, there has never been a dull moment. Other than that, I've been pretty good." He looked over at her. "Besides today's incident, how have you been doing?"
"Oh just been working on my shop, making new paint jobs, fixing bikes. I have a bike I bet Kitty would love to see." Kyla said as she grinned thinking of the bike that is colored the same as the chao with pictures of him painted onto the bike.
"Oh really? That sounds pretty cool!" He said, sounding pretty excited to see it. "Eh, unfortunately though, Kitty's attending to a little family reunion." He said. "Although it's a rather small one.."
Kyla's ears went down slightly hearing that. "Oh..well when he gets back we'll have to surprise him huh? I've missed you and him both." She walked towards the exit with him as she knew her stuff would already be in bags on her bike that she drives, way different then her racing bike.
Gizmo nodded. "And we missed you, too. Kitty really loved having you around." He said. As he saw her bike, he just remembered about his Jet Board. "O-oh wait, I forgot something." He said. "I'll be right back!" He turned around and ran back into the stadium.
Kyla waited by her bike for him. She felt tensed and uneasy now that he was gone. "
I still don't understand what is going on..but now I can't help but wonder if I will be in danger from now on.." She thought before looking around to make sure she was alone.
Gizmo ran back into the stadium and stopped somewhere past the finish line. He found his Jet Board lying on the ground, unscathed. As to be expected. He picked it up, and held it under his arm as he turned around to leave. He suddenly stopped.
'...It wouldn't be wise, to leave that Chaos Emerald here.' He thought to himself.
'If that guy gets it again, it could mean trouble.' He began to walk towards the direction where he kicked the helmet to see if it was still there. It was still there but it had turned gray. The chaos emerald was really a fake emerald, yet it had still given a bad effect to Kyla. It was stuck in the helmet. Gizmo knew immediately that the emerald was a fake. He bent down to pick the helmet up, and took a good look at it. "Even I can feel the chaos energy. But why...I don't understand..." He said quietly to himself. He looked up, and then threw the helmet as far away as he could. It landed somewhere in the high, empty stands where the audience used to be. 'I'd better hurry back.' He thought before turning around and running back to the entrance.
Kyla was waiting for him with her helmet on. She held a second one in her hands which was for him. Her tail swishing side to side in a lazy manner. She looked up when he came out and waved smiling. "What is that? Is it how you got here so quick?" she asked pointing to the Jet Board.
Gizmo looked somewhat relieved to see her still there waiting for him. He smiled and held up the board, as he walked towards her. "This? Yep, I used this to get here." He said. "This is my Jet Board." He then activated it, letting the jets fire up a bit but not strong enough to propel it anywhere.
Kyla grinned as she study the broad. "Wow..you know this reminds me of those air broads..Oh! I didn't tell you now did I?" She grinned more as she handed Gizmo the helmet. She seem to have recovered from the episode earlier with the chaos energy.
Gizmo took the helmet, grinning. "Oh, do you mean Extreme Gear?" He asked. "I had to study those things to help me learn how to make this." He said as he strapped the helmet on.
'This is actually a pretty nice helmet.' He thought.
"Yes. I just signed a contract a few weeks ago. I will start using those to race instead of motorbikes." Kyla slowly got onto her bike and waited to see if he would join her on it or use his jet board.
Gizmo tilted his head to the side. "That's great and all, but then it wouldn't really be too much of a bike race, would it?" He asked. He then looked at the motorbike. "And, er..Is there somewhere I can put this board? I don't want it to get in your way.."
Kyla smiled and gently took the board from him. She slowly strapped it to the back of the bike. "There that should work. Also I will still do bike races..they just think I'll do better on something other then bikes. I can't say I blame them with how popular they are."
Gizmo tested it's sturdiness, and confirmed that it was on tightly. "Yep. Thanks." He said. "I see..Well, I really can't argue there. They're really popular all around. If you need any help learning how to use them, though, I could teach you with the Jet Board. It's not exactly the same, but it's similar."
"Hmm..maybe..but for now I'd much rather relax after I get you home. Day is still young thankfully." Kyla said as she got on her bike and started it up. She waited for him to put on the helmet she gave him and to get on the bike while letting the bike make a purrish sound.
"Sounds fine to me. I didn't mean right now, anyway." He said as he strapped his helmet on. "Whenever you're ready, of course." He then sat down on the back seat of the bike. "Ready!" The bike took off at a race pace as soon as he said ready. She passed by cars and other vehicles without slowing down, the bike allowing her to squeeze past with no trouble. Grinning she wrapped her tail around his waist to make sure he wasn't going anywhere. "Whoa!" Gizmo cried out as she boosted off. He held onto her shoulders, excitedly. With the way they were racing down the street, He was hoping they didn't get stopped for speeding. But he enjoyed it while it lasted, It was thrilling.
Kyla just smirked as she pulled off a trick before speeding off out of the city. She soon started to slow down once they were closer to Gizmo's home. "How do you like that for driving?" She grinned loving how the feel of the bike.
"That..was...AWESOME!" He cried out. He would have thrown his hands up in the air if they weren't still driving. "You're definitely the best. It's no wonder you keep winning those races!"
She smiled. "I'm the fastest thing alive...on wheels" Kyla giggled at her little joke as she pulled up to Gizmo's house and stopped in front of it. She turn parked then turned off the bike.
Gizmo laughed. "And soon to be the fastest thing in the air." He added as he got off the bike. "Thanks for the ride."
Kyla smiled softly at that as she took her helmet off. Letting her hair fall down to mid back showing how much she let it grow out. "Of course, besides gives me an excuse to spend more time with you"
Gizmo took off his helmet and smiled. "Heh, Nice one getting that past me." He chuckled. "Of course, I'd accept any old excuse from you."
"Of course" Kyla giggled as she got off her bike and put the helmets up. She starts to unstrap his board off her bike "How have your parents been?" she asked.
"They've been pretty well." He said as he took his jet board and held it under his arm. "Dad's paycheck recently came. I took it by the look on his face that he must've gotten a bonus or something." He chuckled. "And by the fact that he took Mom out to a "Romantic Dinner", I'm assuming it was, at some fancy restaurant." He looked up, thinking. "What was the name of that place? Something spicy..I think it was "Jalapeno Palace"."
Kyla thought for a moment on the name "I think I've been there before. With a group of the racers." She started to move her bike out of the way "So what have you been inventing lately?" She asked as she grinned.
Gizmo grinned. "Well, Lets head to the basement and I'll show ya!" He said. He really looked enthusiastic about it.
She got by his side once her bike was out of the way. "Lead the way." Her tail slowly wrapped around his.
Gizmo blushed slightly, feeling his tail wrapped around her's. He looked forward, hiding his now half pinkish face from being seen. "This way." He tried to maintain the confident tone of voice as he marched forward.
Soon, they came to the bottom of the staircase, leading into the basement. Gizmo reached to the side and flicked on the lights. "Whelp, This is it." He said. "I went and spruced the place up a bit. All my completed works are in glass cases now mounted onto the wall." He explained. "And stuff like that, you have no need to worry about." He pointed towards two chaos emeralds, and the Power Crystal shards all in three separate glass cases. "Those cases are specially designed to keep their energy from escaping. They could damage some of the equipment in here if left out for too long."
Kyla looked nervously at the glass cases not very sure if she should get near them anyway after what happen just a bit ago at the race track. She slowly walked around and looked at the other glass cases first after unwrapping her tail from his.
Gizmo watched as she walked around, browsing his items. "There had been a lot going on in the past, so a few of these things you see here are weapons." He explained, mainly referring to the two glass cases in which contained his Hand Cannon he'd fixed up earlier and a pair of gloves with retractable claws.
"I see...so amazing..your creations I mean." Kyla said as she turned to look at him smiling once again. Noticing just now much she missed him when they hadn't talked to or seen each other for awhile. She slowly wanted back over to him. "When will Kitty be back by the way? I want to show you and Kitty the bike at the same time." she asked.
He slightly blushed "Hehe, Thanks. Kitty and I work hard on them all." He scratched the back of his head with a grin. He stopped to think when she asked him about Kitty. "Hm. He usually gets back either in the evenings or at night." Gizmo replied, stroking his chin. "Though considering the occasion, he'll probably be back tonight." He looked back at her.
