Lash's pov

The elevator opens up to reveal Knuckles, Sans, Papyrus, Frisk, and a few other mobians i don't reconize and Frisk nearly knocks me clean over as she chirps in chao language, a red rope grabbing error and pulling him into it too and i giggle," hello there Frisk, we're sorry we were gone so long. What's happened while we were away?" She grabs my arm and tugs tightly, and i wince as she then flutters her wings as she half drags me to the control console. She hits several buttons and a video pops up, a black furred jackal with a silver mask covering his face, a strange red jewel covering his chest fur and i ask." Guys, who is this?" Sans shakes his head," we've lost so many mobians to him, nobody's told us his name, but he's about as strong as error." I nod," let me know as soon as he pops up, what can he do?" Papyrus answers," not sure, but every time that jewel pulses, people that you've fought before will show up, or your worst fear." " illusions" i say off the bat, reconizing the signs." The jewel must be the power source. If we can destroy it, he'll become powerless against us!" And knuckles nods," Couldn't have said it better myself. One problem, we don't have nearly the manpower we need to keep fighting Eggman and attack this strange jackal." I sigh," then we'll just have to find more people, but for now, us 3 hedgehogs can keep him at bay. Everybody, meet Silver, he was trapped in the alternate dimension we landed in, we'll explain the details of that at some point. But for now i think we all have bigger fish to fry don't you think Team?" They all nod and i say," so i guess show us around and we'll slowly start figuring out this mess." Knuckles nods to follow him and he shows us around, showing us to where we're staying and he tells the other two to go on ahead and get some food, even pointing them to the cafeteria. I knew i was in for trouble when i locked eyes with knuckles." What happened on that world? Why do you reek of humans?" " well there was really alot that happened on the other world, but we were living with a group of animal scientists-conservisits, called the Kratt brothers and friends, they helped us find the emeralds." " then why did it take you 3 months to find the last 2?!" " that long? It was only a day, once i woke up anyways." He sighs, having punched a wall, red sparks flying down his quills. Some recruits rush past at seeing the burly echidna angry, and i sigh," trust me, i'm beating myself up about this outcome. I hate being forced to live underground in war, always tense and ready to fight for what we love. But there is hope too, error and i are back, and gained the favor of others in another world, wait, we're's Rainbow Dash?" " she was called home by Twilight. Said she needed her help." I nod as i pull at the choker i wear, my symbol carved on it, showing Knuckles what i mean." Ok, anyways, these are homing devices, i'll have Sans make more for our team, so that if that other world happens to pop up again, we have somewhere to go." He nods, relaxing a bit and removing his fist from the wall, and i smile." Get that to sans, he'll be able to help us stay together using them" i smile and nod, saluting knuckles before running out with a small burst, stopping with sans and i ask him," heya sans, i got a project for you" i pull off the necklace," a friend in the other world gave these to the three of us, they're homing beacons, i figured you could use mine to make even more of those. In case we happen to cross paths again, you guys will be safe." Sans smiles brightly and laughs," wow, why didn't i ever think of that?! I only need the signal, it'll be a pinch to make them into your guy's communicators, but you 3 can use the necklaces, here, let me pin it down" he analyzes my necklace and laughs," got the signal wavelength, i'll rig it to our comms for all of us that don't have the necklaces, and i've added my own signal so you can use yours to allow us to track you." I nod and i pull it on," thanks Sans, let me know if any signals pop up like the one i gave you, those people were nice, but they've never dealt with Eggheads ferocity. They had a robot maker there, called Varmitech, but they're paper compared to eggmans weakest drones." Sans nods," why are you worried they'll land here? During all of this?" " i dunno, just this feeling deep inside me, telling me that the Kratts aren't quite done with Mobian culture yet. I'm gonna go on a run, i need to see just how bad Eggheads trashed our home." Sans says quickly," careful, our scouts are reporting that eggmans conquered just about everything, unless it's getting survivors out, we won't be able to help much if you run into trouble." " ok buddy, i got it, i won't be gone long." I step onto the elevator and it goes up, opening out into the cave and i zoom out, my feet hitting harder in every second, becoming miliseconds as i burst into a blur, searching the planet and i stop to see a city in ruins. Gentle smoke filling the air, but any engulfing flames had been snuffed out. All that was left was abandoned and destroyed buildings, and the embers that had once burned gloriously. I follow my senses through the destroyed city, moving at a jogs pace for me, and i come to a stop as a city square comes into view, strange energy still fluxed in the air, i put my hand to the ground, it wasn't the Chaos energy from below. This must be a work of that illusionist, not even a single freaking soul, i grip some of the dust, and i focus on the energy. The trail leads onword. Good, it's time this illusionist and i met. I burst into a run, following the strange, hypnotic energy, parkoring through the desolate and decimated streets, coming out to Mystic Jungle, i steel my nerves, and lock my senses in, i can't afford to be distracted by illusions, if i happen to cross his path.