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10. Title: Chase a Dream
Fandom: Earthbound
Rating: K+ (spoilers, implied Jeff/Tony)
Word Count: 689
Summary: Jeff's journey from Winters to Threed in the Sky Runner.
Jeff looked out of the small portholes of the Sky Runner as it lurched precariously towards its destination. The motion made him want to regurgitate the Picnic Lunch he had swiped from the Cave Boys around Stonehenge he had been fighting earlier, but at least it gave him a clearer idea of where he was going. He hadn't been sure himself even though he was the one describing where he needed to be. His father had needed to piece together where it probably was from what Jeff had seen in the background of the dream and what the girl had described when she sent the urgent telepathic plea for help. They knew it was in Threed, that the rumours of the dead rising again as zombies were reality, and that the girl and her companion had been captured while trying to fight the undead horde. They were being held in a dank, strangely phosphorescent cave, somewhere in the network of catacombs under the graveyard.
That was, if he could believe a girl he had talked to in a dream. He was fairly certain he could. It had been a very vivid, specific dream, not the sort of thing he normally thought about at night (Tony wasn't in it even once). His father had also been fairly convinced. According to the scientist, such telepathic phenomena were well documented and had been increasing in frequency lately, a factor probably related to the other unusual incidents such as the animals in Winters becoming hostile, the extraterrestrial sightings and the prehistoric people around Stonehenge. If it gave him an opportunity to find out what all of this actually meant, his father had convinced him, he should take it. He could do with a holiday anyway, a chance to see the world outside the boarding school. Jeff suspected that his father's primary motivation was the opportunity to test out the Sky Runner, his new ultra-efficient flying machine that ran on entirely clean energy. It wouldn't be the first time that the scientist had forgotten the difference between family members and test subjects.
The damn thing was impossible to control - its flight path was pre-programmed and Jeff was sure it wasn't supposed to be flying that close to the ground. Every lurch made him flinch, expecting to crash, or maybe sink beneath the ocean, at any time. Occasionally it would spin around or even turn end over end, making Jeff sure it had been knocked off course, but it always seemed to know where to go. At least, he was fairly sure Threed was in this direction. He had already flown over Fourside - such a massive city, with its towering skyscrapers, could only be Eagleland's capital - and was now touring the baking sands of Dusty Dunes Desert, with its herds of buffalo, fields of cacti, bleached bones and famous endless traffic jam. He was learning a lot about the world, even if it was mostly hurtling past him in several different directions at a sickening speed. He could at least confirm that there really were UFOs. A small fleet of them had opened fire on the Sky Runner. Its armour was surprisingly effective against laser beams, although it was taking a few dents from the several times now that it had bounced off the ground at high speed.
The cross-continental journey still took a while, even in such a fast-moving craft, so he had time to rest. The dreams came back, the girl's voice returning, more urgent this time but also clearer, louder, closer, until finally he was interrupted from sleep by a blaring alarm, then a loud crash. When he regained consciousness, the first face he saw was hers, a look of concern on her own face for once as her companion used some sort of psychokinetic healing technique on him. The Sky Runner was a mess but it could be repaired over time, and at least he was relatively intact, he had believed in his dream and he had turned up in time to save them all.
He finally had something to impress Tony with when he got back home.
Fandom: Earthbound
Rating: K+ (spoilers, implied Jeff/Tony)
Word Count: 689
Summary: Jeff's journey from Winters to Threed in the Sky Runner.
Jeff looked out of the small portholes of the Sky Runner as it lurched precariously towards its destination. The motion made him want to regurgitate the Picnic Lunch he had swiped from the Cave Boys around Stonehenge he had been fighting earlier, but at least it gave him a clearer idea of where he was going. He hadn't been sure himself even though he was the one describing where he needed to be. His father had needed to piece together where it probably was from what Jeff had seen in the background of the dream and what the girl had described when she sent the urgent telepathic plea for help. They knew it was in Threed, that the rumours of the dead rising again as zombies were reality, and that the girl and her companion had been captured while trying to fight the undead horde. They were being held in a dank, strangely phosphorescent cave, somewhere in the network of catacombs under the graveyard.
That was, if he could believe a girl he had talked to in a dream. He was fairly certain he could. It had been a very vivid, specific dream, not the sort of thing he normally thought about at night (Tony wasn't in it even once). His father had also been fairly convinced. According to the scientist, such telepathic phenomena were well documented and had been increasing in frequency lately, a factor probably related to the other unusual incidents such as the animals in Winters becoming hostile, the extraterrestrial sightings and the prehistoric people around Stonehenge. If it gave him an opportunity to find out what all of this actually meant, his father had convinced him, he should take it. He could do with a holiday anyway, a chance to see the world outside the boarding school. Jeff suspected that his father's primary motivation was the opportunity to test out the Sky Runner, his new ultra-efficient flying machine that ran on entirely clean energy. It wouldn't be the first time that the scientist had forgotten the difference between family members and test subjects.
The damn thing was impossible to control - its flight path was pre-programmed and Jeff was sure it wasn't supposed to be flying that close to the ground. Every lurch made him flinch, expecting to crash, or maybe sink beneath the ocean, at any time. Occasionally it would spin around or even turn end over end, making Jeff sure it had been knocked off course, but it always seemed to know where to go. At least, he was fairly sure Threed was in this direction. He had already flown over Fourside - such a massive city, with its towering skyscrapers, could only be Eagleland's capital - and was now touring the baking sands of Dusty Dunes Desert, with its herds of buffalo, fields of cacti, bleached bones and famous endless traffic jam. He was learning a lot about the world, even if it was mostly hurtling past him in several different directions at a sickening speed. He could at least confirm that there really were UFOs. A small fleet of them had opened fire on the Sky Runner. Its armour was surprisingly effective against laser beams, although it was taking a few dents from the several times now that it had bounced off the ground at high speed.
The cross-continental journey still took a while, even in such a fast-moving craft, so he had time to rest. The dreams came back, the girl's voice returning, more urgent this time but also clearer, louder, closer, until finally he was interrupted from sleep by a blaring alarm, then a loud crash. When he regained consciousness, the first face he saw was hers, a look of concern on her own face for once as her companion used some sort of psychokinetic healing technique on him. The Sky Runner was a mess but it could be repaired over time, and at least he was relatively intact, he had believed in his dream and he had turned up in time to save them all.
He finally had something to impress Tony with when he got back home.