Lash's pov
Days have passed, and we're in the bahamas, in search of the emeralds while chris and martin explore the expansive sealife. Although my fear of water feels like it's never going to pass, i do slip around buildings, but with no emeralds showing up on land, error and silver volenteer to search underwater, and i remain in the boat while i wait for them. I sigh as i sit in the boat, i should've brought a book or even a drawling pad. I look around and i notice a massive grey boat and Zach Varmitech standing on the top of the bow. I growl and i tap my comm, calling aviva." Hello lash, whats up this time?" " y'know the Licorice stick dude with the V shaped robots? He's here, Error and Silver are diving in this area cause we know there's an emerald here. Could he be looking for the same thing?" "From what you've told me about these gems, i wouldn't be suprised, but error's signal is down, if he was with silver." " oh no, ok, i need to go talk to him, i'll keep the call open." Aviva nods as i pull the string to start the engine, and i drive over to Zach's boat." Hey Licorice stick! I wanna ask you about something!" He looks over the side as i throw out the anchor, before leaping into a spindash, slamming into the wall, and using my spines to climb up to his level and i uncurl, landing on the railing," what do you want you blue rat!" " Hedgehog, first off, second. I'm looking for two other hedgehogs, one white with gold bracelets, the other being black with gold stripes, happen to see them around?" I keep my voice cool and smooth, just as rouge had taught me, lightning sparking along my quills as i talk, my iris edges becoming bright blue." No i haven't, and if i had, what do you think i would do with them?" " your just like another Problem of mine, just less extreme, i'd wager you would be preparing mind control devices for them" he tenses, i've gotten under his skin, good," how did you know that?" " because Robotnik tried, but with a different friend, it utterly failed. Error would destroy your device!" " oh really? Oh Hedgebots!" A gold blur grabs me by the throat, lifting me off the railing. No, error, not again. I squirm, before i focus, channeling all of my energy into lightning and i feel silvers grip, i can't move, thats ok, i don't need to. I focus all of my power, channeling it all into a blast and i say," sorry -aviva, this is gonna cause quite the blackout. CHAOS BLAST!" I launch out all my lightning, it killing all devices within a mile, including my comms, and zack's robots and devices, and i watch them fall off of error's and silver's head, error gasps as he sees he had a spear aimed at me, ready to kill me, and silver holds me still, as i pant heavily, just trying to catch my breath as silver's grip drops when the device does and i scream, reaching out, i grab the railing, barely. I try to pull myself up, but i don't have the strength, error comes over and pulls me up." YoU Ok?" His voice glitching like crazy, every glitch showing his fear and i nod, leaning against my brother with exhaustion." Don't say anything lash, we got you." Silver says and i feel error lift me up and say to Silver."lEt's gEt bacK to thE toRtuga, i hAve tHe sTupId HUmaN's EmEraLd, hoLd oNto Me." I see error hold up the purple emerald, yelling," ChaOs ConTrol!" Before feeling the rush of teleportation and slipping into darkness.
Error's pov
I see lash pass out and i sigh as i lay her in her hammock and i set the emerald on her, knowing it would help her." What happened? Why is lash unconsious? Is she-" " No, She'S oK, shE jUst uSed AlL oF HEr eNErgy tO blAst oUt thE MInd cOntrOl DeviCes." " mind control... Zach actually controlled you both?" I nod sadly and silver says," that man caught us when we were searching his boat for the emerald, since it wasn't underwater. Error tried to break us out, but the man put a device on me first. It's all fuzzy after that." I nod, it being pretty much what i could remember," nOt eVEn rOboTnIk uSed MiNd CoNtrOl oFteN, aNd iF hE dID, it wAsn't ThRouGh a SiMple DeviCe." The whole crew nods and martin says," well at least everyone is ok, nobody got hurt, although trouble seems to just follow you two." I shake my head, and i say," i nEed a Run, iF lAsh wAkeS uP, MaKe sUre ShE dOeSn'T rUn fOr AWhIle, hEr eNErgy iS tOo wEak tO hAnDLe a SuStaiNed Run, ShoRt DasHes mAybE, BuT shE nEeDs rEst aFtEr uSiNg CHaos BlaSt." I zoom off, in desperate need to think.