"I will protect the future!"

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#[It's the Future Boy] - Silver's art tag

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There was one place they have yet to check: an abandoned clothing shop that was still intact. If Willo isn't anywhere in there, they'd have to check another location. Silver hoped the Wisp was hiding in there. He just wants to let her know he's not mad at her for what she almost did earlier. She was under the influence of some terrible anon magic. He didn't blame her.

Once they enter, Cobalt was hit with a bad vibe, putting the Chao on edge. Something about this place didn't feel right, but they wanted to find Willo more than they wanted to leave.

Silver himself also has a bad feeling about this clothing shop, enough of a bad feeling to make his quills stand on end. "Stay close, Cobalt. Something about this place feels... wrong."

No need to tell Cobalt twice. They were practically glued to Silver as they both cautiously checked the place out, making sure to check every room thoroughly for their Wisp companion while on high alert.

"Willo! If you're here, please come out! I'm not mad at you! It's not your fault you acted like that! Just come out so we can go home!" Silver shouted, making sure to be loud enough for Willo to hear, if she was around. "I know you're feeling guilty, but I don't blame you for what you've almost did! Come out! Please..."

He waits for a response, but got nothing. Not even a whimper. Willo must not be here then... "She's not here, Cobalt. Let's go."

While the Chao was glad to finally be leaving this eerie place, they were disappointed they couldn't find Willo...

However, as they were leaving, Cobalt thought they saw the back of Willo turn a corner. Without letting Silver know, they take off after her.

Silver sighed after exiting the building. "Man, that place gave me the creeps. Glad to finally be outta there. What about you, Cobalt?"

"Cobalt?" When Cobalt didn't respond, he checked behind him, only to find the Chao missing. They were behind him just a moment ago...

"Aw great." He goes back into the creepy building to find Cobalt. Why would the Chao come back in here? They were just as freaked out as Silver was during the search.

Unless... Cobalt saw Willo and forgot to let him know?

Something catches his attention after a few moments of searching:

A door that was not there before...

And it was ajar... Could that be where Cobalt went..?

As he approached the door, the bad feeling he had earlier got worse. He felt he shouldn't go in there, but if Cobalt wandered in there, then he had to go in. He's not leaving them behind.

Silver opens the door wider.

"What the..?" He stepped through the doorway, then scoped around.

"Is this supposed to be some sort of... backrooms?? But where are the clothes..?" He wondered aloud.

"Cobalt! Are you in here?!" He calls out, but no answer came. "Cobalt! Come out!" Still no response...

"They must be further in..." As Silver moved away from the doorway, he sees how much more vast these backrooms were. There were more hallways than he originally thought.

"How big is this place?! No way Cobalt could've wandered that far!" At some point, he stops feeling the breeze behind him.

Silver turned around, and to his horror, the door he just entered through is completely gone, replaced by an outline of where the door once was. "The door!" He rushed back to where the door was and started feeling for it, as if the door turned invisible and didn't just straight up disappeared.

"No no no no no no! It should still be here, right?? No way a door just vanishes in thin air like that!" But that was exactly the case. It's gone, as if it ceased to exist...

"How is that possible..?" Silver was silent for a while, then sighed. "Guess I have to figure out another way out..."

"(Chao... want go home to friends...)" The Time Stone glows, then shortly after, a time portal opens up.

"You did it!"

"(Ooh! Cool!)" Cobalt shouted.

"You can go home now!" Silver noted the Chao making no attempt to jump through the portal. "Chao?"

"(... Chao scared...)"

"Scared? But the portal should lead to your home."

"(What if it lead back to cold place?)"

"It shouldn't. I can promise you that."

"(... Come with Chao..? Just in case it don't..?)

Silver smiles. "Sure, I can go with you."

"(I come too!)" Cobalt piped up.

"No Coby, you have to stay here."

"(No! I coming too! I wanna see future!)"

"Cobalt, you can't. Taking you with me could cause some consequences in the timeline."

Cobalt gives him sad puppy eyes. "(Pwease Dada..? I promise I be good Chao...)"

"Don't give me those eyes." Try as he might, Silver couldn't bring himself to keep denying his Chao. "Ugh, fine, but you better stay close to me, and don't wander off. Understood?"

Cobalt instantly perked up. "(Okay!)" They fly up and cling to Silver's back.

"Want me to hold you too?" He asks the Chao.

"(Chao can walk fine. Mmm... maybe... just to be safe...)"

Silver scooped up the other Chao. "Alright, here we go. Hang on tight, both of you." Into the portal they all go.

Near instantly, they all arrived to their destination.

"This should be it, but you're the judge of that." He told Chao as he set them down.

Chao scanned the area slowly, making sure this is the right place. It was very familiar, but they weren't so sure. "Chao hope this right place...)"

"(Chao?!)" A voice familiar to Chao called out.

"(Chao back??)" Asked another voice.

"(Chao is back!)" A third voice called out.

Soon, a bunch of Chao came running and surrounded Chao.

"(Chao! You back!)"

"(You okay!)"

"(We so worried, Chao!)"

"(Where you go, Chao?! You disappear in hole!)"

Chao wanted to cry. "(Chao explain later. Chao really happy to be home with friends again.)"

"(We happy you home too, Chao!)" Chao is hugged by all their friends. Silver smiles, while Cobalt wanted to cry from the scene. He gives them pats to calm them down.

"(Who fluffy guy, Chao?)"

"(He look soft!)"

"I'm-"

"(Dum-Dum.)" Chao answered while smirking. "(He Dum-Dum.)"

"That's not my name! It's Silver, not Dum-Dum!" He counters.

"(Silver?)"

"(That a cool name!)"

"(Name sound familiar...)"

The Chao speak one after another.

"(Yeah! Dada name Silver! Not Dum-Dum!)" Cobalt piped up as they hovered down from Silver's back

The Chao speak amongst themselves once more.

"(Dada?)"

"(That Chao look just like him!)"

"(He good guy if that Chao is Hero Chao and look like him!)"

"(So cool!)"

Silver's initial plan of heading back as soon as Chao was dropped off fell through when Chao's friends were now crowding around him and Cobalt, forcing them to stick around longer than what was planned, but neither had a problem with it. They both stuck around and played with the Chao of the future for a while.

Even when Silver wanted to stay for a little longer, he knew he couldn't. Willo flew off somewhere, and he had to go back and find her. Chao somehow sensed this and came over. "(You going home now?)"

"Yeah. I'd love to stay longer, but I have a missing friend to search for in the past."

"(I understand.)"

Silver takes out the blue Time Stone to give back to Chao. Chao put their nubs up. "(No, you keep that.)"

"Really? You sure?"

"(Chao is sure. Time rock only caused trouble. No want to go back to cold place again. You keep it. It better with you.)"

Silver smiled. "(Alright then.)" He puts it away.

Shortly after putting away the Time Stone, Chao gave Silver a hug. "(Thank you very much for helping Chao, Silver.)"

"Heh." He hugs back. "You're welcome, Chao."

"(You visit Chao's home sometime, okay? Cobalt can come too, and maybe your other friend when find them.)"

"Alright, I will." Chao lets Silver go as he stood up. "Cobalt! We're heading home!"

Cobalt stopping chasing a Chao they were playing tag with. "(Awww, can't we stay longer, Dada?)"

"I'd love to stay too, Cobalt, but we have to go home to Willo."

"(Okay... Bye-bye, new friends.)" Cobalt waved to the Chao before heading back to Silver.

Silver waves to the Chao. "See you later, little Chao! And you too, Chao!"

"(Bye-bye, Dum-Dum- I mean Silver!)" Chao shouts as they waved too.

Silver gave them a look before playfully rolling his eyes. He takes out his own Time Stone and opens up a time portal to home. Him and Cobalt wave one more time before going into the portal.

There are soon back home, and whether it was the anon magic wearing off while they were in the portal or the weird temporal nature of the time portal itself, Silver's fur and markings along with Cobalt's have returned to their normal colors.

"So, Cobalt, what did you think of the future Chao Garden?"