Post by Control on Oct 27, 2009 9:12:38 GMT -5
(The Dark Emerald is my first Sonic Fanfiction I wrote. It is split into three parts.
The first part is simply 'The Dark Emerald' which involves most of the Sonic crew, Eggman, Team Inferno, Havok, and a mysterious Black Chaos Emerald that the good Doctor has created.
Next is the smaller fanfiction that introduces my character Radom and the demon Oblivion.
Third is still in work, also known as 'Unleashing the Tyrant Emerald'. It will introduce my character Control, the demons Darkness and Hatred, as well as the introductions to the three gods. All this is considered to be events that happened before 'Chaos Unleashed' and plays in heavilly to the site's overall plot.
Here is the first part for you all to read.)
Sonic the Hedgehog
~The Dark Emerald~
Prolog: My Latest and Greatest Invention
The whirring of machinery ran through the busy factory. Not an inch of this grey and red workplace was not moving as robotic arms busily worked at mass producing the bulk of the Eggman empire. In the center of it all, only a few arms were working at fine tuning the relatively small form standing unactivated. A door slid away to permit the sole human in this wide area of land entrance into this room. This man, standing tall had a strange egg shape to his body. He wore a red long sleeve coat, black one piece pants and boots, he had armless glasses on as well as a set of goggles pulled up on` his forehead. He had no hair on the top of his head, but had a large orangish brown mustache and his face was the symbol he put on everything he created. Doctor Ivo Robotnic was the world infamous scientist Doctor Eggman.
Eggman stepped up to his computer and typed in something and a moment after a robotic female voice spoke out "Initiating Memory Supply". One more robotic arm descended from the ceiling, connecting to the almost finished machine in the center. On screen flashed the images of a grinning blue hedgehog. The images then began to rapidly change, a two tailed fox, a red echidna, a black hedgehog... It changed from beings to gems and then machines as data was rapidly transferred from the computer. Eggman smirked as he walked closer to his latest masterpiece, hands crossed behind his back.
"For far too long I have been the underdog in these wars." He spoke out loud to himself. "That speedy little freak is always getting in my way. Not to mention when my own creations betray me and aliens invade this world! This is my empire to rule, it all belongs to me! No longer will I let renegade robots, invading aliens or any damn hedgehog get in my way again!" He slammed his fist down hard on the keyboard, hitting a large button.
Robotic arms set down a steel box with the words "warning" written on it in bright red letters. Opening up the box they pulled out a sparkling white gem. The chest of the robot in the center was opened and the gem placed inside.
"If a single Chaos emerald can power my entire hidden base, imagine what it can do for this one robot!" Eggman laughed evilly as the chest of the robot closed shut.
In the black lifeless eyes of the robot, green eye like lights lit up. As the robotic arms let go of its body, it left suspension and fell to the ground on its feet. This robot resembling a red hedgehog looked around, taking in its surroundings before he came up to it's creator. Its body was red with green streaks in its "hair" spikes, as well as green streaks on its arms and legs. His fingers were claws and very easily could be used as weapons. On his back was what seemed to be a dark golden cloak. Located on the bottom of his shoes were boosters that could carry him at amazing speeds.
He looked up at the egg shaped scientist, robotic eyes emotionless, along with his unmoving face. "Standing by for orders." It spoke out in a monotone voice.
The doctor laughed loudly, he rose up one hand in exclamation. "Oh orders that is very simple." He turned his back to the metallic hedgehog, the laughing stopped. "I want you to destroy that blasted hedgehog Sonic!"
Angel Island, the guardian of the Master Emerald, Knuckles sat on the steps of the Emerald's alter. His breathing was even and low, signaling that the red echidna was asleep soundly. Behind him on the top of the alter was the magnificent green gem known as the Master Emerald, even in the light of day it seemed to glow it's green hue. The Emerald itself was full of power, a power that was meant to negate that of the Chaos Emeralds and even held this island floating in the air.
But the glow of the emerald started to darken, its beautiful green surface seemed with an inky blackness that spread through the entire gem, it's glow turning dark and evil. There was a flash of this bright darkness and a sound like that of an explosion. Knuckles woke with a start to see the being standing next to the gem, just as the gem went to it's normal glow and color. This being seemed to be made of crystal blue water, it was the true guardian of the Chaos Emeralds and the Chao gardens, Knuckles had met Chaos before. He recalled the battle all that time ago when the god of destruction had slowly devoured the Chaos Emeralds one by one before he became perfect Chaos and nearly destroyed the world if Sonic hadn't obtained his super form to stop him. Since then Chaos had let go of the evil in his soul and had went back to protecting the Chao.
Knuckles smiled when he saw the water being, he stood up and walked over to the Chao guardian. "Were you worried I wouldn't be able to guard it because I fell asleep?" He asked Chaos, the watery aberration didn't answer him though, it just made a wet bubbly sort of sound. Knuckles crossed his arms and turned around. "Well you don't have to worry, I have trained myself so completely that I can tell instantly if a new life form steps foot in-" He stopped short when he turned around to find the Master Emerald not there any more. "Chaos, did you see where-" He started up really quickly but stopped again when he saw the watery being was not there any more. "They're both gone..." He muttered quietly.
The whole island started to shake and Knuckles threw himself to the ground to avoid a falling tree. "The whole island is going to collapse again!" He yelled out loud as he stood up again. "I've got to go find the Master Emerald, but I can't even sense it any more!" He looked around and fell flat on his back again as the island stopped after splashing into the ocean. "I've got to find Sonic!"
Chapter 1: New Players Get into the Game
Station square, in a pleasant plaza set up with tables, chairs and nice sun parasols, not to mention a variety of stores and fast food restaurants, a group of three sat in one of the tables. An odd group of three, they seemed in the middle of an argument.
The loudest of the tree was a hedgehog with burning red fur and yellow eyes, he also had black fur on his chest and his hair spikes were all pointed up. He work black and red gloves and shoes that were spiked and each one embedded with exactly one red ruby. He slammed one fist hard on the table, ignoring the cracks starting to form in the plastic. His other hand swiped a piece of paper from the female hedgehog across from him. "There is nothing wrong with this note here! Haven't you heard? The poor sap is the most gullible thing on earth!" The red hedgehog was known on police records as Inferno, or to the rest of the world the Infamous Bounty Hunter Inferno the Hedgehog. Bounty Hunter was just a title he took, he wasn't working with the law to capture fugitives, more accurately he was a hit man who either killed or captured the enemies of those who hired him. he was known for his amazing destructive powers, and the fact that he could never be captured because of these powers so he would never give the names of those who hired him. The only drawback was that he would likely leave nothing of those who were cheap in hiring him.
The one across from him was a black fur hedgehog female. She wore jeans and a long sleeve shirt almost as black as her fur and soul. Strapped on her back was the sheath for a long and probably sharp Katana. She wore black gloves and tall black boots. Her eyes were misty grey, sometimes fading to the point they couldn't be seen. "No, that's Knuckles you're thinking of. Besides, even a moron like that wouldn't fall for this!" The police had records of this one who worked alongside Inferno, but they didn't know what her name was. Her name was Ember and she was known for her skill with that blade on her back and her skill at always seeming to be able to disappear at just the right time. She was very deadly and in the battlefield was completely serious and silent at what she did, but here when not in battle, she couldn't help but argue with Inferno and was almost as loud as he was.
The third was an echidna that remained silent while the other two had their shouting contest. This white echidna has a misty white fur, though with small and almost unseen streaks of light grey. He strangely resembled, even being an echidna, Knuckles. He had almost the same gloves as the echidna Knuckles, though his were black and spiked like Inferno's, and his shoes were a dark green with spikes. His eyes were white and pupiless like Ember's. Haze was known by the police, while not being as powerful in the ability to cause sheer destruction like Inferno, nor possessing the sheer agility that Ember could execute. Once Haze got going, he could go at amazing speeds and smash through almost anything in his way. While like Ember, he believed that Inferno was hot headed and didn't always think things through, but he was zealously loyal to the red hedgehog.
Inferno looked at the note, an invitation to the world's fastest being, Sonic the hedgehog, to come to station square plaza to meet a news group for an interview. He looked down at the page, at the very bottom where it said "PS: this is not a trap." Inferno shrugged and stood up, putting the note into a letter and then into a mail box. "Whatever, if I say it's going to work than it's going to work." He said to Ember. "We mail this to that Tails kid who always follows him around on adventures, and the kid passes it onto Sonic. Sonic comes here, we get to work and our investor gets his money worth and we get that money!"
Ember shook her head, sitting back in her chair with her arms crossed. "You really think this will be that easy? Even if he does fall for the letter, this guy has saved the world some amount of times. He's fought things that could spread more destruction than you ever will!" When she said that, Inferno's fist slammed hard into the table as he let out an angry yell. It split down the middle and was smashed to pieces, causing quite the amount of odd and worried looks from the few other people in the area. Ember smirked slightly, "Congratulations, you smashed a table. But doing that to Sonic might be some amount harder."
Inferno growled and turned away from her, crossing his arms. "Once we take out this joker, I get that Chaos Emerald promised along with the money. That's one step closer to the power that belongs to me." He reached inside a bag set down alongside the smashed table. Pulling out a light blue colored gem, "This is just one, there's only seven right? Chances are this Sonic might even have another one. It won't be long till we have them all."
Haze looked over from Inferno to Ember, he said nothing but Ember knew instantly he was siding with Inferno.
Her eyes narrowed and she sighed. "Fine, if you two really want to go through with it this way than that's your choice... I'll stick around but only to watch what your reaction is when he never actually shows up.
A dark forest, the leaves were just growing again as the snow and ice melted away. The ground was still dry and hard, covered by layers of frozen leaves. In one area a pile of leaves started to be pushed upward by something underneath. Then as they started to settle down again, something burst out of the ground. A blue clawed and metal hand gripped at the ground and tried to pull itself out. Digging hard around the leaves and ground around it, it started to widen the hole to pull itself out. After it was wide enough another hand pushed up to help the other out, then a head, a body and red shoes. Red glowing eyes lit up and it scanned its surroundings, this blue metal hedgehog began limping down the covered over forest path. Its body seemed badly damaged, a chunk of its outer armor was even missing from its head, circuits and computer parts showing.
It slowly felt its "memory" returning to it. Fighting a being of flesh and blood that looked exactly like it, being nearly being destroyed by this living version of itself. It was buried under the ground, winter must have come, and it had been months since air went over its metallic skin. A month since it had been able to move. Not it was free again, but for once in its life, it had no purpose. If it couldn't kill the one that looked so much like it, then what was he supposed to do?
Shadow's eyes narrowed as he looked down from the Space Colony Arc, looking out the airtight window at the blue earth. In his hand he tossed up a Chaos Emerald, only for it to fall back into his hand so he could toss it up again. This Chaos Emerald was the only of the seven that was actually green as emeralds were supposed to be. He often came here to the arc, to think and ponder on things in his life. He often had a lot to think about, about his past and what his future was going to be.
Shadow, the ultimate Life Form created by Professor Gerald Robotnic using the blood of the alien Black Doom. The military, once having learned that Shadow was meant to gather and collect the seven Chaos Emeralds for the alien, killed the professor, his grand daughter Maria and every scientist aboard the arc. Shadow was then hidden away because they feared him. Some fifty years later, a very relative of Gerald Robotnic, Ivo Robotnic, set Shadow free from that imprisonment, and Shadow promised him the power the scientist wanted in return. After running into the blue hedgehog a few times, as well as teaming up with the treasure hunter Rouge the Bat, they had gathered the seven Chaos Emeralds to activate the Eclipse Cannon. Shadow was about to get what he wanted, the destruction of all the humans for the death of Maria. When the pink hedgehog girl reminded her of what Maria had really said, that Maria wanted him to help the people of the world. He had fought the ultimate Life Form prototype and then fought it again using the true power of the chaos emeralds to battle it again when it attempted to carry out the earth's destruction.
After that Shadow was not sure what had happened. He had lost his memory and grouped up with Rouge, though he remembered not who she was at the time, and an Eggman robot Omega. They sought out Eggman and ended up battling a crazed robotic version of the hedgehog, Sonic, that seemed to look like him so much. Then when the alien Black Doom attacked the planet, through those events, Shadow learned of his true past.
Shadow opened his eyes again, looking down at the blue earth. He had been created for evil, even if his creator had wanted him for good. He was split between memories, the death of Maria, but also what she had told him. Was he to carry out her wish for him, or avenge her death. He clenched a fist with his free hand, a snarl on his lips. Why must every thing be so uncertain? He thought to himself. Why can't I ever see the path I'm meant to take? Then something came to him, perhaps it had been in front of him all along. Gripping the Chaos Emerald tighter, he raised it above his head. "Chaos Control!" And in a flash he was gone...
"Just keep going, you have a strong lock on that chaos emerald, with the signal moving that fast it has to be Sonic." Came the doctor's voice in his head. The red metal hedgehog continued forward at a speed just as fast as the signal, the boosters on his back taking him forward without his feet even touching the ground. He went over all the data he was permitted to see from Eggman's network. Havok was the latest in the line of robotic Sonic copies. Most were classified as Mecha Sonic or Silver Sonic and lasted only one fight before they were completely trashed. Havok's predecessor was called Metal Sonic and easily lasted the longest of them all. The last recorded data of this metal sonic was just after the ordeal when he impersonated Eggman, changing his own form and absorbing the DNA of the ultimate life form and the being Chaos. Metal Sonic had set after Sonic again, and had never been sighted since.
Havok himself was designed after the form metal sonic had taken, classified in Eggman's network as Neo metal sonic. So Eggman had not just made a metal sonic capable of taking the data of other's into itself, but was already programmed with the data of Sonic, Shadow and Knuckles to name a few, as well as he was set with a safety program set by Eggman to make sure he never betrayed the doctor and he couldn't remove it.
Havok found it odd though, why Eggman would give him a free will and the ability to think for himself if he was just going to install a safety program. Havok thought and could act like a true living being, he just couldn't go against the doctor's orders. Being made to be so close in being to Sonic and Shadow gave him a personality, though he had to hack into the Internet to look up such words and feelings, he was gradually learning of the world and history. He had learned just how evil and hated his creator was, knowing that the one he was to hunt, Sonic, was working for good. Yet Havok knew that this was his purpose he could not pass by. He would do what was right if he could, yet he was incapable of disobeying the doctor.
Havok stopped abruptly, swinging his feet forward to slow himself before turning the boosters off entirely. Before him was a being he did not recognize at first, he was not human or animal. A being entirely made of water, with but a nucleus, it was classified in Eggman's network as Chaos. An enemy for betraying Eggman and taking all seven emeralds for itself when they had an alliance… Chaos just seemed to stand there watching Havok back, it seemed neither of them had a reason to move. Havok saved speech as he knew that Chaos was incapable of it.
Both just stood and faced each other, neither taking a first move, Havok knew not whether the Chao guardian was here to battle. Havok was prepared though, aware of Chaos' abilities and that with none of the Chaos emeralds he would be slow and no match for Havok's abilities.
Then, with speed Havok thought not capable in the watery being, Chaos went at Havok. The robotic hedgehog braced himself as Chaos slammed into him with a powerful smash. Havok felt himself slide back exactly an inch, but stayed standing.
Havok span around looking for Chaos, but it was nowhere in sight. Scanning the surrounding area for a sign of the guardian, but found nothing. Then he scanned his system, looking or damage. Everything was at 100% and undamaged, Chaos had not even scratched the surface of Havok's skin. Havok felt no choice but to follow after the chaos emerald signal again, but what was the purpose of that attack?
Chapter 2: The Beginning of a War
Through the hot and sandy dessert, hardly a creature stirred, barely moving. Only one such being kept up any speed, and it was going faster than anything else in the world. Sand and dust stirred up and trailed behind it, almost looking like it was chasing this one hedgehog. Sonic the Hedgehog, world renowned hero and also known as the blue blur, ran at the speed he was famous for. If one could track him, that is to say be next to him going at the same speed, he would see that Sonic was even running backwards, reading a letter in one hand.
The letter was just a piece of paper, written to him that Tails had passed on with a warning. It read about how some journalist group wanted to interview him on recent times of stopping the evil doctor Eggman's evil schemes. At the bottom was written "PS: this is not a trap". That last part was what Tails had warned him about, even Sonic could see it obviously was a trap set by Eggman, in order to take over the world he would have to stop the speedy Hedgehog always getting in his way.
A grin spread on the blue blur's face as he quickly thought this over. "So Eggy wants to go another round huh?" He turned around and ran right way round, going even faster then before. "Well if he wants a fight then he'll get one, I can't refuse such a nice invitation. He'll get his chance." Heading for Station Square the renown hero, Sonic the Hedgehog, was running right into a trap that even he knew was there.
Knuckle's feet hit the ground softly as he landed in front of the oddly structured building set in the mystical ruins. Tail's factory was a small building with a larger garage next to it and a runway that led off the edge of a cliff. Tail's plane, the Tornado, was in the runway right now with the two tailed fox working adjusting something underneath it.
"Tails!" Knuckles shouted as he ran towards the plane. Tail's jumped in surprise and hit his head on the hull of the Tornado. Groaning, the two tailed fox came over to greet the Echidna.
"Knuckles, what's up?" Tail asked as he rubbed his forehead, it would bruise there soon.
"No time Tails, where's Sonic?" Knuckles growled quickly, he was very twitchy and seemed agitated. The guardian of the Master Emerald would be when it went missing, not to mention that he couldn't sense it's power any more.
"He was here just a bit ago." Tails answered him. "He said he was headed to station square... I was just about to head out after him, he got this letter you see and I think it's to lead Sonic into a...
Havok could feel the presence closer now, his system had hacked into a satellite signal from Eggman that Sonic had been spotted in central city. He was getting closer to his goal...
Sonic stopped in the center of the Plaza, he smiled when he saw all the people stop to stare in wonder at him, and waved back to those that did wave or try to get his attention. They all knew who Sonic was, he was a world renowned hero after all. No one was coming any closer though, most people knew he often had to speed off again at super sonic speed at any time.
Then there was a scream and Sonic spun around in time to see people running, and the table headed right at him. The blue hedgehog grinned and moved about five feet to the left in the same time it would take a normal human man to make one side step. The table smashed into the ground where he had been only an instant ago and kept sliding right into another table.
Once the crowd disappeared, Sonic could see the shape of a red hedgehog as the only other one there. Picking up another table and lifting it over his head with strength Sonic had only ever seen in Knuckles before.
"Hey!" Sonic shouted as surprise caught up with him. "You're not Eggman!"
"No..." The red hedgehog said quietly. "I'm not." Then the second table was thrown through the air at Sonic. The blue hedgehog leaped up into the air and right over the table, this time the thrown object smashed into a car. The car's side being smashed in just by the sheer force the table was thrown, it's alarm ringing throughout the plaza.
Sonic's feet came back within contact with the ground in time to see the red hedgehog charge at him. Sonic ducked under the red hedgehog's punch and then twisted, kicking this unknown attacker in the stomach and sending him onto his back a few feet away.
Sonic stood tall and waited as the red hedgehog steadied himself. "Well, you're certainly a cup of joy, why are you after me?"
The red hedgehog stood, grinning evilly and he held his stomach with one hand, his other to his side. "My name's Inferno. And don't worry, it's nothing personal. There's just a pretty gem in exchange for your head!" He shouted the last two words and his hand at his side spontaneously caught on fire and he charged at Sonic again.
Sonic jumped, only going a hair's width above the flames of Inferno's punch. He went over Inferno's head and turned around, doing a back flip to avoid another fiery punch from Inferno's other hand. "Well Flamey, nothing personal but I'm not going to... UGH!"
Sonic grunted in pain as a new punch hit him in the stomach and sent him back flying. He rolled up in a ball to get himself on his feet again to have a countering kick against a new attacker. Sonic's foot contacted the face of a misty grey Echidna. He saw the echidna recover in midair and land standing beside Inferno. Sonic saw he was in a fight two to one with Inferno and this Echidna that looked so much like knuckles. There was a hard kick in his back and he had to roll again to get away from this black female hedgehog coming at him with a sword!
"Damn it Ember! Don't use that thing, we need to have the body recognizable!" Inferno shouted as he saw her run after the blue hedgehog that had just rolled into the actual mall.
Inferno and Haze went after her into the mall, they came inside and up to Ember who was just standing there looking down the long hallways. "I lost him..." She muttered lowly.
"You lost him!" Inferno shouted at her. "Damn it, do I have to hand walk you through everything!"
"Inferno, shut up." She snapped at him, her eyes were glowing red, showing they were full of anger. "One, he is called the fastest thing alive for a reason. Two, you can stand here yelling at me or you can do something to our advantage!"
Inferno growled as his fists caught fire and he slammed the ground hard, chunks of ceiling falling behind them to seal the doorways, then pointing his hands at nearby stores, blasts of fire shot out and caught everything in the stores alight. "He can't come back out this way, spread out and seal other exits. We'll burn this place down on top of him if we have to!"
Ember rolled her eyes. "Oh yeah, then the body will be recognizable." She said sarcastically and went off, the fires were already spreading and smoke filling the halls. This would make things hard to see, which was a disadvantage to Sonic.
Knuckles looked over the side of the Tornado at the mall catching on fire, he knew that's where Sonic had to be. Police had sealed off the entire area around it and fire fighters were desperately trying to put out the seemingly unstoppable spreading fire.
As another sudden explosion came from the dead center of the mall, Knuckles pointed there. "My bet's Sonic's in there. Fly over, I'm going in to help him out." Knuckles told Tails and the two tailed fox nodded, bringing the plane in closer.
Knuckles plowed right through the roof of the building and landed in a smoky hallway, everything in stores were on fire and so were a few decorational trees. The smoke was so thick he could hardly see anything other than the flames and the floor at his feet, luckily the hole he had made in the roof was sucking away most of the smoke in this area.
Knuckles turned around as the hall became less smokey and almost felt his heart stop when he saw the grey Echidna. Besides his clothes and fur color, he resembled knuckles exactly. The red echidna slammed his fists together. "All right, you're going to tell me who the hell you are!" He snapped, getting over shock.
Sonic jumped back going over a burning fist, he kicked at Inferno but the red hedgehog blocked his attack with his elbow. Sonic coughed and did a few back flips to put some more space between him and Inferno. The smoke was growing thicker, it was getting harder to see and breath, but that didn't bother Inferno. He had to get out to clear air soon, or he wouldn't even be alive to finish fighting Infer-
Tails went through the hole Knuckles had entered in, the red Echidna was nowhere to be seen, even if it wasn't that smoky in this specific part of the mall. He heard a shout in Sonic's voice and went running down a hallway, he didn't even here the sound of metal sliding out of leather...
Sonic felt the wall crumble behind him as he flew backwards, smashing through a second wall, landing and sliding in the, sorta, fresh air of the city outside. He coughed a few times and pushed himself onto his knees. He was aware of Inferno slowly walking out of the building through the path Sonic had made.
"Well Sonic." Inferno said with a smirk as he came closer. "This is where your adventure ends. You had a good run though." His right hand was on fire and he broke into a run at Sonic. "Give my regards to the devil!" He shouted as he came within a few feet of Sonic and swung his fist.
Sonic braced himself, closing his eyes, getting ready to roll out of the way the moment he felt the heat of the flame on his fur, but it never came. Opening his eyes and looked up he saw a familiar black hedgehog with red streaks in his hair blocking the flaming punch with one hand.
"Shadow!" Sonic shouted standing up. The black hedgehog looked back at him with a slight smirk on his face before delivering a painful blow to Inferno's stomach which caused the red hedgehog to roll up into a ball in pain. Sonic stepped up beside Shadow, "Thanks for your help, but what are you doing here?" He asked the black hedgehog.
Shadow was silent for a moment, but then turned to Sonic with arms crossed. "I came for that Chaos Emeralds I sensed here. I need to find all seven."
Sonic blinked and pulled out the yellow gem he had, the chaos emerald shined in the light of the sun. He watched as Shadow revealed the green Chaos emerald he had. "You said you sensed two other Chaos Emeralds here, right?" Sonic asked Shadow.
Inferno stood and backed away from the two other hedgehogs, his own hands held the light blue chaos emerald.
Shadow nodded. "I sensed three emeralds here, discounting my own. If the red hedgehog, and you each have own, there is one more. But..." Shadow turned to face Inferno, he pointed at the emerald in Inferno's hand. "I have need of that gem. Relinquish it and I will leave you unharmed."
Inferno growled, his fingers clenching the sacred emerald even tighter. "I'm still good to fight, you won't be taking this from me. But I think I will take both of yours and that third one wherever it is." Inferno's free hand caught on fire, the light blue emerald reflecting its glow.
Sonic could see Shadow's eyes narrowing. "You are stupid to consider challenging me red hedgehog. Sonic, you stand back. I will finish this hothead, then I expect that you will hand over your emerald." Shadow went into fighting stance.
Sonic shook his head and shrugged. "Ok Shad, I will be helping you and we can talk about why you should get this emerald after. You still haven't told me a thing."
Shadow glanced over at Sonic and did a flip to get an even distance from both of them. "No Sonic. If you won't stand down, and quietly hand over your emerald, I'll have to make you surrender too."
Now all three hedgehogs were standing in a triangle, none of them going for the first move. They all seemed to know that if they went after one, then the other two could possibly go after them.
Tails flew up out of the hole that had been made by Knuckles when he threw the misty grey Echidna through a wall. Sunlight was outside and he could see where the other echidna had landed, Tail's went right at the Echidna while it's back was turned and prepared a flying kick. He was caught by surprise when the grey echidna turned around with an amazing speed and grabbed Tail's foot before it could hit him. He pulled Tail's to ground and grabbed the Fox boy's arm before Tail's could throw a punch. "Relax Tail's our fight is over for the moment." He told Tail's in a very calm and cold voice. His voice was like Knuckles' was, only frozen over instead of constantly angry.
"What do you mean it's over?" The black female hedgehog snapped as she came out of the hole, sword still in hand. "You hold him there and we'll end this. There was nothing said that we couldn't hurt Tails and Knuckles beyond recognition."
"Tails!" Knuckles shouted as he burst through the wall and ran at Haze.
The red echidna punched at Haze but the grey echidna blocked the blow with the hand he had originally used to block Tail's kick. This grey Echidna must have been pretty strong to block a blow from Knuckles.
Haze pointed to the triangle the three hedgehogs had made just down the path. "Our fight is over, there's has started. Let them finish this."
Sonic grinned at Shadow's challenge, it seemed like a fun idea. "All right, but you have to catch me first Shadow." He said and with only a moments start was zooming down the street and into the city.
Shadow clenched a fist and went after Sonic, the flames coming from the bottom of his shoes acting like skates that took him at a speed just as fast.
Inferno was just left staring as the two were out of sight. He put his emerald away and his now free hand also caught on fire. "Damn it, Sonic, Shadow. I can't run as fast as you." He started running after them, at a speed that was impressive even if it wasn't their speed. Then flames burst from his hands, acting like jets, and in a burning fury he was after them.
Shadow followed the signal of the Chaos emerald, using it to locate the blue hedgehog. He could sense the other signal behind him and looked back, seeing the red Hedgehog Inferno just behind him. He gripped his light green Chaos emerald and felt it's energies flowing inside of him. "Chaos Control!"
Inferno blinked, seeing the black hedgehog Shadow just disappears, he screeched to a stop and looked around franticly for a sign of him. Then, almost all at once, he felt blows land all over his body. They just kept coming from an unseen attacker, and he couldn't block one area because another would just be hit. His eyes blazed brighter and he had flames shoot out in literally every direction, this whole street was engulfed in flames that melted the glass off windows. When he turned to the left he saw the black hedgehog just standing there, smirking evilly at him. Inferno felt his temper rise once more. He would show this Ultimate Life Form that Inferno the Hedgehog was the ultimate killing machine.
Sonic screeched to a stop when he saw that Shadow wasn't after him any more, turning around and heading back immediately, he could see from here the fiery explosions just up ahead.
Shadow bounced off the side of the sky scraper, landing on top of a street post, over to on top of a black Volkswagen Bug. Then again jumped off that to back on the street, moving at this speed to avoid the fireballs the crazed red hedgehog was just lobbing at him. Shadow did not want people to get hurt, but luckily people had cleared out of the streets and most were inside already, he felt sorry for those who may have been inside that building the red hedgehog launched a fireball through.
Shadow snapped his fingers, "Chaos Control!", and everything around him seemed to slow to the point of everything almost frozen on the spot. The fireball headed directly at him was going at a snails crawl. He looked over at the blue hedgehog running Shadow and Inferno's way, he seemed to be going only a bit faster then that fireball. Shadow walked forward and at his own pace stepped around the fireball, going up to Inferno he kicked the red hedgehog in the face, then went over to Sonic and punched him in the stomach before moving away from the both of them and the fireball before returning to time's normal pace. He crossed his arms when the fireball smashed into merely pavement and both of the other hedgehogs were brought to their knees. Shadow had used up a lot of energy on both those Chaos controls, but after they had fought each other earlier, they were in an even worse state.
"I don't want to kill either of you." Shadow warned them both. "I need those Chaos Emeralds, hand them over to me." He said as he gripped his own again, he was ready to finish both of them.
"Located target." The metal hedgehog announced to itself as it looked down from the sky scraper to the blue hedgehog way down on the street below. He looked from the blue hedgehog recognized as Sonic to the black one with red streaks. "Target classified as Shadow, Orders? Remove target Shadow if he interferes with primary mission." He looked from the hedgehog known as Shadow to the red hedgehog down with them. "Target unknown, orders? Eliminate if target gets in the way." The metal hedgehog then walked to the edge of the building and jumped off.
Inferno gasped for air as he raised himself up onto his feet again. He felt weak, but he could still fight. He could never give up, he would never let another be stronger then him. Air was all he needed, oxygen fueled flame and fueled his hate and anger. "I am not finished!" He snapped as his hands caught fire. At the same time Sonic stood up and it looked like all three of them would have to go another round. Then that was when something smashed right into the top of a lone car on the street. The car was crushed flat and the ground around it cracked and broke up, dust stirred from the ground to everywhere, blocking all sight and putting out the flames Inferno had started.
Something whirred in the dust and lights were seen. One flickering yellow light and two yellow eye like lights and then they were moving. Inferno had only seen Sonic and Shadow move at this speed, he did his best to keep track of the lights. There was the sound of Sonic yelling in pain and then a grunt from Shadow. When the dust settled down he could see Sonic crouched down, Shadow no where in sight, and this red metal hedgehog standing in front of Sonic.
Sonic looked up at the hedgehog standing in front of him, he had felt something metal slam into him just a second ago and now knew why. This hedgehog was completely metallic over his body. "Metal Sonic?" He asked, not believing it. "Hey, you're not metal..."
The red metal hedgehog just watched him back, a piece in his chest flipped around to reveal a TV screen with the doctor's grinning face. "Hello Sonic!" The doctor greeted him in a jolly, but still evil, voice.
The blue blur stood up, seeing now that this metal hedgehog towered a whole foot over him unlike Eggman's past creations. Sonic could also see the green streaks on the metal hedgehog's head spikes and it's general resemblance to metal Sonic in their battle that few years ago.
Eggman on the screen laughed out loud at Sonic's silence. "No quips or insults? That kick must have hurt then I first thought. I would like to introduce to you my latest and greatest creation. A new model in my line of robotic hedgehogs, I took ideas from the last Metal Sonic and my Shadow Androids to create something better then ever. I introduce to you Havok, this will be the one who brings you down."
Inferno growled lowly and clenched a fist. "Hey! Eggman! I have a lot of money on me killing this hedgehog. You can have your turn with him after I've collected my money!" He snapped at the scientist on the robot's chest.
Havok turned to face Inferno and Eggman seemed to get a good look at him. "Ah yes, you're Inferno, that hedgehog who took up my challenge of killing Sonic. Well now that I have Havok finished, your services are no longer required.”
Inferno's eyes narrowed and his fist caught on fire. "What!" He growled, he seemed about to snap.
Sonic grinned and crouched low. "Hey Eggy!" He called out. As soon as Havok turned to him again, Sonic rolled up and shot out at the metal hedgehog. Spinning right into his chest, the spikes slicing up to the computer screen and destroying it. Sonic rebounded a good ten feet away from Havok and saw that the metal creature had not moved an inch.
Havok's eyes changed from yellow to red lights. "Destroy Sonic!"
Shadow held his arm as he sat down behind the overturn car just down the street. "Damn it." He growled to himself, that metal hedgehog's speed had surprised him. Shadow had tried to take the dust to advantage and attack the metal hedgehog when he struck at Sonic, but the robot had spun around so quickly and struck Shadow in the arm with knife like claws.
Shadow moved away his hand to look at the tree bleeding cuts on his arm, he may have been an android created by Professor Gerald Robotnic, but he still had blood. Blood of a now dead Alien ruler, Black doom. Shadow was the Ultimate Life Form, and he would not let this metal hedgehog prove himself stronger then himself.
Shadow pulled out what seemed to be a magnum, that 'Havok' robot also had a Chaos Emerald and it belonged to The Ultimate Life Form.
Havok raised his arm to block a punch thrown by the red hedgehog that was now classified as 'Inferno'. As he fought against the hedgehog, Havok tapped into satellite signals to look over the Internet information on this being. He found information on crimes this hedgehog had committed and his unexplained fire powers. Slowly gaining information on this hedgehog's fighting records and styles. Inferno then aimed a fist at Havok's head and the metal hedgehog grabbed this fiery fist, twisting the hedgehog's arm and making him land hard on his back. Havok let go and backed away, letting Inferno get back up. "Your fighting style intrigues me, Inferno the Hedgehog. You use your raw strength to your advantage but it is flawed, your raw anger makes you blind and allows others to exploit this weakness."
"Oh great, it talks now!" Inferno snapped as he rushed at Havok again, this time the metal hedgehog was dodging his fists. "I liked robots when all they could say was 'beep'!"
Havok jumped back, the fire that came out of his feet, like that in Shadow's shoes, stopped him from touching the ground and then went strait at Inferno, his metallic skull connecting with Inferno's stomach, sending the red hedgehog back into a car.
Havok moved left to dodge the blue hedgehog Sonic's sudden assault on him, rolled up the hedgehog aimed for Havok, but upon missing rebounded off the ground, off the side of a building and back at Havok, who simply dodged out of the way again, knowing Sonic's fighting strategy well already, then Sonic rolled right up the side of the building and to the top, Havok flew up after him.
Sonic reached the top and then kept moving to the other side of the building, watching the edge of the edge he went over, waiting for the metal hedgehog to follow him. For a few seconds all was silent and still, then there was blinding pain in his back.
Havok spun Sonic around and a metal fist smashed into Sonic's jaw, he started to fly back but the metal hedgehog yet again held him in place and a foot connected with Sonic's stomach.
Havok's fist uppercuted, hitting Sonic under the jaw just before his fist again his him in the side of the head.
Punch's and kicks came rapidly, never allowing Sonic an opening to move away or try and protect himself. Punches and kicks came faster and faster before Havok finally let Sonic drop to the ground of the building's roof. Sonic did his best just to breath as the metal Sonic's hand lifted Sonic up by his neck and lifted him into the air, over the edge of the building. Sonic could only grip the metal monster's arm to lessen the pressure on his throat, his legs dangled uselessly beneath him and he stared into the red eyes of this metal Sonic, who was right at the climax of his purpose. Sonic though, refused to feel the fear even if his life was about to come to an end.
The first part is simply 'The Dark Emerald' which involves most of the Sonic crew, Eggman, Team Inferno, Havok, and a mysterious Black Chaos Emerald that the good Doctor has created.
Next is the smaller fanfiction that introduces my character Radom and the demon Oblivion.
Third is still in work, also known as 'Unleashing the Tyrant Emerald'. It will introduce my character Control, the demons Darkness and Hatred, as well as the introductions to the three gods. All this is considered to be events that happened before 'Chaos Unleashed' and plays in heavilly to the site's overall plot.
Here is the first part for you all to read.)
Sonic the Hedgehog
~The Dark Emerald~
Prolog: My Latest and Greatest Invention
The whirring of machinery ran through the busy factory. Not an inch of this grey and red workplace was not moving as robotic arms busily worked at mass producing the bulk of the Eggman empire. In the center of it all, only a few arms were working at fine tuning the relatively small form standing unactivated. A door slid away to permit the sole human in this wide area of land entrance into this room. This man, standing tall had a strange egg shape to his body. He wore a red long sleeve coat, black one piece pants and boots, he had armless glasses on as well as a set of goggles pulled up on` his forehead. He had no hair on the top of his head, but had a large orangish brown mustache and his face was the symbol he put on everything he created. Doctor Ivo Robotnic was the world infamous scientist Doctor Eggman.
Eggman stepped up to his computer and typed in something and a moment after a robotic female voice spoke out "Initiating Memory Supply". One more robotic arm descended from the ceiling, connecting to the almost finished machine in the center. On screen flashed the images of a grinning blue hedgehog. The images then began to rapidly change, a two tailed fox, a red echidna, a black hedgehog... It changed from beings to gems and then machines as data was rapidly transferred from the computer. Eggman smirked as he walked closer to his latest masterpiece, hands crossed behind his back.
"For far too long I have been the underdog in these wars." He spoke out loud to himself. "That speedy little freak is always getting in my way. Not to mention when my own creations betray me and aliens invade this world! This is my empire to rule, it all belongs to me! No longer will I let renegade robots, invading aliens or any damn hedgehog get in my way again!" He slammed his fist down hard on the keyboard, hitting a large button.
Robotic arms set down a steel box with the words "warning" written on it in bright red letters. Opening up the box they pulled out a sparkling white gem. The chest of the robot in the center was opened and the gem placed inside.
"If a single Chaos emerald can power my entire hidden base, imagine what it can do for this one robot!" Eggman laughed evilly as the chest of the robot closed shut.
In the black lifeless eyes of the robot, green eye like lights lit up. As the robotic arms let go of its body, it left suspension and fell to the ground on its feet. This robot resembling a red hedgehog looked around, taking in its surroundings before he came up to it's creator. Its body was red with green streaks in its "hair" spikes, as well as green streaks on its arms and legs. His fingers were claws and very easily could be used as weapons. On his back was what seemed to be a dark golden cloak. Located on the bottom of his shoes were boosters that could carry him at amazing speeds.
He looked up at the egg shaped scientist, robotic eyes emotionless, along with his unmoving face. "Standing by for orders." It spoke out in a monotone voice.
The doctor laughed loudly, he rose up one hand in exclamation. "Oh orders that is very simple." He turned his back to the metallic hedgehog, the laughing stopped. "I want you to destroy that blasted hedgehog Sonic!"
Angel Island, the guardian of the Master Emerald, Knuckles sat on the steps of the Emerald's alter. His breathing was even and low, signaling that the red echidna was asleep soundly. Behind him on the top of the alter was the magnificent green gem known as the Master Emerald, even in the light of day it seemed to glow it's green hue. The Emerald itself was full of power, a power that was meant to negate that of the Chaos Emeralds and even held this island floating in the air.
But the glow of the emerald started to darken, its beautiful green surface seemed with an inky blackness that spread through the entire gem, it's glow turning dark and evil. There was a flash of this bright darkness and a sound like that of an explosion. Knuckles woke with a start to see the being standing next to the gem, just as the gem went to it's normal glow and color. This being seemed to be made of crystal blue water, it was the true guardian of the Chaos Emeralds and the Chao gardens, Knuckles had met Chaos before. He recalled the battle all that time ago when the god of destruction had slowly devoured the Chaos Emeralds one by one before he became perfect Chaos and nearly destroyed the world if Sonic hadn't obtained his super form to stop him. Since then Chaos had let go of the evil in his soul and had went back to protecting the Chao.
Knuckles smiled when he saw the water being, he stood up and walked over to the Chao guardian. "Were you worried I wouldn't be able to guard it because I fell asleep?" He asked Chaos, the watery aberration didn't answer him though, it just made a wet bubbly sort of sound. Knuckles crossed his arms and turned around. "Well you don't have to worry, I have trained myself so completely that I can tell instantly if a new life form steps foot in-" He stopped short when he turned around to find the Master Emerald not there any more. "Chaos, did you see where-" He started up really quickly but stopped again when he saw the watery being was not there any more. "They're both gone..." He muttered quietly.
The whole island started to shake and Knuckles threw himself to the ground to avoid a falling tree. "The whole island is going to collapse again!" He yelled out loud as he stood up again. "I've got to go find the Master Emerald, but I can't even sense it any more!" He looked around and fell flat on his back again as the island stopped after splashing into the ocean. "I've got to find Sonic!"
Chapter 1: New Players Get into the Game
Station square, in a pleasant plaza set up with tables, chairs and nice sun parasols, not to mention a variety of stores and fast food restaurants, a group of three sat in one of the tables. An odd group of three, they seemed in the middle of an argument.
The loudest of the tree was a hedgehog with burning red fur and yellow eyes, he also had black fur on his chest and his hair spikes were all pointed up. He work black and red gloves and shoes that were spiked and each one embedded with exactly one red ruby. He slammed one fist hard on the table, ignoring the cracks starting to form in the plastic. His other hand swiped a piece of paper from the female hedgehog across from him. "There is nothing wrong with this note here! Haven't you heard? The poor sap is the most gullible thing on earth!" The red hedgehog was known on police records as Inferno, or to the rest of the world the Infamous Bounty Hunter Inferno the Hedgehog. Bounty Hunter was just a title he took, he wasn't working with the law to capture fugitives, more accurately he was a hit man who either killed or captured the enemies of those who hired him. he was known for his amazing destructive powers, and the fact that he could never be captured because of these powers so he would never give the names of those who hired him. The only drawback was that he would likely leave nothing of those who were cheap in hiring him.
The one across from him was a black fur hedgehog female. She wore jeans and a long sleeve shirt almost as black as her fur and soul. Strapped on her back was the sheath for a long and probably sharp Katana. She wore black gloves and tall black boots. Her eyes were misty grey, sometimes fading to the point they couldn't be seen. "No, that's Knuckles you're thinking of. Besides, even a moron like that wouldn't fall for this!" The police had records of this one who worked alongside Inferno, but they didn't know what her name was. Her name was Ember and she was known for her skill with that blade on her back and her skill at always seeming to be able to disappear at just the right time. She was very deadly and in the battlefield was completely serious and silent at what she did, but here when not in battle, she couldn't help but argue with Inferno and was almost as loud as he was.
The third was an echidna that remained silent while the other two had their shouting contest. This white echidna has a misty white fur, though with small and almost unseen streaks of light grey. He strangely resembled, even being an echidna, Knuckles. He had almost the same gloves as the echidna Knuckles, though his were black and spiked like Inferno's, and his shoes were a dark green with spikes. His eyes were white and pupiless like Ember's. Haze was known by the police, while not being as powerful in the ability to cause sheer destruction like Inferno, nor possessing the sheer agility that Ember could execute. Once Haze got going, he could go at amazing speeds and smash through almost anything in his way. While like Ember, he believed that Inferno was hot headed and didn't always think things through, but he was zealously loyal to the red hedgehog.
Inferno looked at the note, an invitation to the world's fastest being, Sonic the hedgehog, to come to station square plaza to meet a news group for an interview. He looked down at the page, at the very bottom where it said "PS: this is not a trap." Inferno shrugged and stood up, putting the note into a letter and then into a mail box. "Whatever, if I say it's going to work than it's going to work." He said to Ember. "We mail this to that Tails kid who always follows him around on adventures, and the kid passes it onto Sonic. Sonic comes here, we get to work and our investor gets his money worth and we get that money!"
Ember shook her head, sitting back in her chair with her arms crossed. "You really think this will be that easy? Even if he does fall for the letter, this guy has saved the world some amount of times. He's fought things that could spread more destruction than you ever will!" When she said that, Inferno's fist slammed hard into the table as he let out an angry yell. It split down the middle and was smashed to pieces, causing quite the amount of odd and worried looks from the few other people in the area. Ember smirked slightly, "Congratulations, you smashed a table. But doing that to Sonic might be some amount harder."
Inferno growled and turned away from her, crossing his arms. "Once we take out this joker, I get that Chaos Emerald promised along with the money. That's one step closer to the power that belongs to me." He reached inside a bag set down alongside the smashed table. Pulling out a light blue colored gem, "This is just one, there's only seven right? Chances are this Sonic might even have another one. It won't be long till we have them all."
Haze looked over from Inferno to Ember, he said nothing but Ember knew instantly he was siding with Inferno.
Her eyes narrowed and she sighed. "Fine, if you two really want to go through with it this way than that's your choice... I'll stick around but only to watch what your reaction is when he never actually shows up.
A dark forest, the leaves were just growing again as the snow and ice melted away. The ground was still dry and hard, covered by layers of frozen leaves. In one area a pile of leaves started to be pushed upward by something underneath. Then as they started to settle down again, something burst out of the ground. A blue clawed and metal hand gripped at the ground and tried to pull itself out. Digging hard around the leaves and ground around it, it started to widen the hole to pull itself out. After it was wide enough another hand pushed up to help the other out, then a head, a body and red shoes. Red glowing eyes lit up and it scanned its surroundings, this blue metal hedgehog began limping down the covered over forest path. Its body seemed badly damaged, a chunk of its outer armor was even missing from its head, circuits and computer parts showing.
It slowly felt its "memory" returning to it. Fighting a being of flesh and blood that looked exactly like it, being nearly being destroyed by this living version of itself. It was buried under the ground, winter must have come, and it had been months since air went over its metallic skin. A month since it had been able to move. Not it was free again, but for once in its life, it had no purpose. If it couldn't kill the one that looked so much like it, then what was he supposed to do?
Shadow's eyes narrowed as he looked down from the Space Colony Arc, looking out the airtight window at the blue earth. In his hand he tossed up a Chaos Emerald, only for it to fall back into his hand so he could toss it up again. This Chaos Emerald was the only of the seven that was actually green as emeralds were supposed to be. He often came here to the arc, to think and ponder on things in his life. He often had a lot to think about, about his past and what his future was going to be.
Shadow, the ultimate Life Form created by Professor Gerald Robotnic using the blood of the alien Black Doom. The military, once having learned that Shadow was meant to gather and collect the seven Chaos Emeralds for the alien, killed the professor, his grand daughter Maria and every scientist aboard the arc. Shadow was then hidden away because they feared him. Some fifty years later, a very relative of Gerald Robotnic, Ivo Robotnic, set Shadow free from that imprisonment, and Shadow promised him the power the scientist wanted in return. After running into the blue hedgehog a few times, as well as teaming up with the treasure hunter Rouge the Bat, they had gathered the seven Chaos Emeralds to activate the Eclipse Cannon. Shadow was about to get what he wanted, the destruction of all the humans for the death of Maria. When the pink hedgehog girl reminded her of what Maria had really said, that Maria wanted him to help the people of the world. He had fought the ultimate Life Form prototype and then fought it again using the true power of the chaos emeralds to battle it again when it attempted to carry out the earth's destruction.
After that Shadow was not sure what had happened. He had lost his memory and grouped up with Rouge, though he remembered not who she was at the time, and an Eggman robot Omega. They sought out Eggman and ended up battling a crazed robotic version of the hedgehog, Sonic, that seemed to look like him so much. Then when the alien Black Doom attacked the planet, through those events, Shadow learned of his true past.
Shadow opened his eyes again, looking down at the blue earth. He had been created for evil, even if his creator had wanted him for good. He was split between memories, the death of Maria, but also what she had told him. Was he to carry out her wish for him, or avenge her death. He clenched a fist with his free hand, a snarl on his lips. Why must every thing be so uncertain? He thought to himself. Why can't I ever see the path I'm meant to take? Then something came to him, perhaps it had been in front of him all along. Gripping the Chaos Emerald tighter, he raised it above his head. "Chaos Control!" And in a flash he was gone...
"Just keep going, you have a strong lock on that chaos emerald, with the signal moving that fast it has to be Sonic." Came the doctor's voice in his head. The red metal hedgehog continued forward at a speed just as fast as the signal, the boosters on his back taking him forward without his feet even touching the ground. He went over all the data he was permitted to see from Eggman's network. Havok was the latest in the line of robotic Sonic copies. Most were classified as Mecha Sonic or Silver Sonic and lasted only one fight before they were completely trashed. Havok's predecessor was called Metal Sonic and easily lasted the longest of them all. The last recorded data of this metal sonic was just after the ordeal when he impersonated Eggman, changing his own form and absorbing the DNA of the ultimate life form and the being Chaos. Metal Sonic had set after Sonic again, and had never been sighted since.
Havok himself was designed after the form metal sonic had taken, classified in Eggman's network as Neo metal sonic. So Eggman had not just made a metal sonic capable of taking the data of other's into itself, but was already programmed with the data of Sonic, Shadow and Knuckles to name a few, as well as he was set with a safety program set by Eggman to make sure he never betrayed the doctor and he couldn't remove it.
Havok found it odd though, why Eggman would give him a free will and the ability to think for himself if he was just going to install a safety program. Havok thought and could act like a true living being, he just couldn't go against the doctor's orders. Being made to be so close in being to Sonic and Shadow gave him a personality, though he had to hack into the Internet to look up such words and feelings, he was gradually learning of the world and history. He had learned just how evil and hated his creator was, knowing that the one he was to hunt, Sonic, was working for good. Yet Havok knew that this was his purpose he could not pass by. He would do what was right if he could, yet he was incapable of disobeying the doctor.
Havok stopped abruptly, swinging his feet forward to slow himself before turning the boosters off entirely. Before him was a being he did not recognize at first, he was not human or animal. A being entirely made of water, with but a nucleus, it was classified in Eggman's network as Chaos. An enemy for betraying Eggman and taking all seven emeralds for itself when they had an alliance… Chaos just seemed to stand there watching Havok back, it seemed neither of them had a reason to move. Havok saved speech as he knew that Chaos was incapable of it.
Both just stood and faced each other, neither taking a first move, Havok knew not whether the Chao guardian was here to battle. Havok was prepared though, aware of Chaos' abilities and that with none of the Chaos emeralds he would be slow and no match for Havok's abilities.
Then, with speed Havok thought not capable in the watery being, Chaos went at Havok. The robotic hedgehog braced himself as Chaos slammed into him with a powerful smash. Havok felt himself slide back exactly an inch, but stayed standing.
Havok span around looking for Chaos, but it was nowhere in sight. Scanning the surrounding area for a sign of the guardian, but found nothing. Then he scanned his system, looking or damage. Everything was at 100% and undamaged, Chaos had not even scratched the surface of Havok's skin. Havok felt no choice but to follow after the chaos emerald signal again, but what was the purpose of that attack?
Chapter 2: The Beginning of a War
Through the hot and sandy dessert, hardly a creature stirred, barely moving. Only one such being kept up any speed, and it was going faster than anything else in the world. Sand and dust stirred up and trailed behind it, almost looking like it was chasing this one hedgehog. Sonic the Hedgehog, world renowned hero and also known as the blue blur, ran at the speed he was famous for. If one could track him, that is to say be next to him going at the same speed, he would see that Sonic was even running backwards, reading a letter in one hand.
The letter was just a piece of paper, written to him that Tails had passed on with a warning. It read about how some journalist group wanted to interview him on recent times of stopping the evil doctor Eggman's evil schemes. At the bottom was written "PS: this is not a trap". That last part was what Tails had warned him about, even Sonic could see it obviously was a trap set by Eggman, in order to take over the world he would have to stop the speedy Hedgehog always getting in his way.
A grin spread on the blue blur's face as he quickly thought this over. "So Eggy wants to go another round huh?" He turned around and ran right way round, going even faster then before. "Well if he wants a fight then he'll get one, I can't refuse such a nice invitation. He'll get his chance." Heading for Station Square the renown hero, Sonic the Hedgehog, was running right into a trap that even he knew was there.
Knuckle's feet hit the ground softly as he landed in front of the oddly structured building set in the mystical ruins. Tail's factory was a small building with a larger garage next to it and a runway that led off the edge of a cliff. Tail's plane, the Tornado, was in the runway right now with the two tailed fox working adjusting something underneath it.
"Tails!" Knuckles shouted as he ran towards the plane. Tail's jumped in surprise and hit his head on the hull of the Tornado. Groaning, the two tailed fox came over to greet the Echidna.
"Knuckles, what's up?" Tail asked as he rubbed his forehead, it would bruise there soon.
"No time Tails, where's Sonic?" Knuckles growled quickly, he was very twitchy and seemed agitated. The guardian of the Master Emerald would be when it went missing, not to mention that he couldn't sense it's power any more.
"He was here just a bit ago." Tails answered him. "He said he was headed to station square... I was just about to head out after him, he got this letter you see and I think it's to lead Sonic into a...
Havok could feel the presence closer now, his system had hacked into a satellite signal from Eggman that Sonic had been spotted in central city. He was getting closer to his goal...
Sonic stopped in the center of the Plaza, he smiled when he saw all the people stop to stare in wonder at him, and waved back to those that did wave or try to get his attention. They all knew who Sonic was, he was a world renowned hero after all. No one was coming any closer though, most people knew he often had to speed off again at super sonic speed at any time.
Then there was a scream and Sonic spun around in time to see people running, and the table headed right at him. The blue hedgehog grinned and moved about five feet to the left in the same time it would take a normal human man to make one side step. The table smashed into the ground where he had been only an instant ago and kept sliding right into another table.
Once the crowd disappeared, Sonic could see the shape of a red hedgehog as the only other one there. Picking up another table and lifting it over his head with strength Sonic had only ever seen in Knuckles before.
"Hey!" Sonic shouted as surprise caught up with him. "You're not Eggman!"
"No..." The red hedgehog said quietly. "I'm not." Then the second table was thrown through the air at Sonic. The blue hedgehog leaped up into the air and right over the table, this time the thrown object smashed into a car. The car's side being smashed in just by the sheer force the table was thrown, it's alarm ringing throughout the plaza.
Sonic's feet came back within contact with the ground in time to see the red hedgehog charge at him. Sonic ducked under the red hedgehog's punch and then twisted, kicking this unknown attacker in the stomach and sending him onto his back a few feet away.
Sonic stood tall and waited as the red hedgehog steadied himself. "Well, you're certainly a cup of joy, why are you after me?"
The red hedgehog stood, grinning evilly and he held his stomach with one hand, his other to his side. "My name's Inferno. And don't worry, it's nothing personal. There's just a pretty gem in exchange for your head!" He shouted the last two words and his hand at his side spontaneously caught on fire and he charged at Sonic again.
Sonic jumped, only going a hair's width above the flames of Inferno's punch. He went over Inferno's head and turned around, doing a back flip to avoid another fiery punch from Inferno's other hand. "Well Flamey, nothing personal but I'm not going to... UGH!"
Sonic grunted in pain as a new punch hit him in the stomach and sent him back flying. He rolled up in a ball to get himself on his feet again to have a countering kick against a new attacker. Sonic's foot contacted the face of a misty grey Echidna. He saw the echidna recover in midair and land standing beside Inferno. Sonic saw he was in a fight two to one with Inferno and this Echidna that looked so much like knuckles. There was a hard kick in his back and he had to roll again to get away from this black female hedgehog coming at him with a sword!
"Damn it Ember! Don't use that thing, we need to have the body recognizable!" Inferno shouted as he saw her run after the blue hedgehog that had just rolled into the actual mall.
Inferno and Haze went after her into the mall, they came inside and up to Ember who was just standing there looking down the long hallways. "I lost him..." She muttered lowly.
"You lost him!" Inferno shouted at her. "Damn it, do I have to hand walk you through everything!"
"Inferno, shut up." She snapped at him, her eyes were glowing red, showing they were full of anger. "One, he is called the fastest thing alive for a reason. Two, you can stand here yelling at me or you can do something to our advantage!"
Inferno growled as his fists caught fire and he slammed the ground hard, chunks of ceiling falling behind them to seal the doorways, then pointing his hands at nearby stores, blasts of fire shot out and caught everything in the stores alight. "He can't come back out this way, spread out and seal other exits. We'll burn this place down on top of him if we have to!"
Ember rolled her eyes. "Oh yeah, then the body will be recognizable." She said sarcastically and went off, the fires were already spreading and smoke filling the halls. This would make things hard to see, which was a disadvantage to Sonic.
Knuckles looked over the side of the Tornado at the mall catching on fire, he knew that's where Sonic had to be. Police had sealed off the entire area around it and fire fighters were desperately trying to put out the seemingly unstoppable spreading fire.
As another sudden explosion came from the dead center of the mall, Knuckles pointed there. "My bet's Sonic's in there. Fly over, I'm going in to help him out." Knuckles told Tails and the two tailed fox nodded, bringing the plane in closer.
Knuckles plowed right through the roof of the building and landed in a smoky hallway, everything in stores were on fire and so were a few decorational trees. The smoke was so thick he could hardly see anything other than the flames and the floor at his feet, luckily the hole he had made in the roof was sucking away most of the smoke in this area.
Knuckles turned around as the hall became less smokey and almost felt his heart stop when he saw the grey Echidna. Besides his clothes and fur color, he resembled knuckles exactly. The red echidna slammed his fists together. "All right, you're going to tell me who the hell you are!" He snapped, getting over shock.
Sonic jumped back going over a burning fist, he kicked at Inferno but the red hedgehog blocked his attack with his elbow. Sonic coughed and did a few back flips to put some more space between him and Inferno. The smoke was growing thicker, it was getting harder to see and breath, but that didn't bother Inferno. He had to get out to clear air soon, or he wouldn't even be alive to finish fighting Infer-
Tails went through the hole Knuckles had entered in, the red Echidna was nowhere to be seen, even if it wasn't that smoky in this specific part of the mall. He heard a shout in Sonic's voice and went running down a hallway, he didn't even here the sound of metal sliding out of leather...
Sonic felt the wall crumble behind him as he flew backwards, smashing through a second wall, landing and sliding in the, sorta, fresh air of the city outside. He coughed a few times and pushed himself onto his knees. He was aware of Inferno slowly walking out of the building through the path Sonic had made.
"Well Sonic." Inferno said with a smirk as he came closer. "This is where your adventure ends. You had a good run though." His right hand was on fire and he broke into a run at Sonic. "Give my regards to the devil!" He shouted as he came within a few feet of Sonic and swung his fist.
Sonic braced himself, closing his eyes, getting ready to roll out of the way the moment he felt the heat of the flame on his fur, but it never came. Opening his eyes and looked up he saw a familiar black hedgehog with red streaks in his hair blocking the flaming punch with one hand.
"Shadow!" Sonic shouted standing up. The black hedgehog looked back at him with a slight smirk on his face before delivering a painful blow to Inferno's stomach which caused the red hedgehog to roll up into a ball in pain. Sonic stepped up beside Shadow, "Thanks for your help, but what are you doing here?" He asked the black hedgehog.
Shadow was silent for a moment, but then turned to Sonic with arms crossed. "I came for that Chaos Emeralds I sensed here. I need to find all seven."
Sonic blinked and pulled out the yellow gem he had, the chaos emerald shined in the light of the sun. He watched as Shadow revealed the green Chaos emerald he had. "You said you sensed two other Chaos Emeralds here, right?" Sonic asked Shadow.
Inferno stood and backed away from the two other hedgehogs, his own hands held the light blue chaos emerald.
Shadow nodded. "I sensed three emeralds here, discounting my own. If the red hedgehog, and you each have own, there is one more. But..." Shadow turned to face Inferno, he pointed at the emerald in Inferno's hand. "I have need of that gem. Relinquish it and I will leave you unharmed."
Inferno growled, his fingers clenching the sacred emerald even tighter. "I'm still good to fight, you won't be taking this from me. But I think I will take both of yours and that third one wherever it is." Inferno's free hand caught on fire, the light blue emerald reflecting its glow.
Sonic could see Shadow's eyes narrowing. "You are stupid to consider challenging me red hedgehog. Sonic, you stand back. I will finish this hothead, then I expect that you will hand over your emerald." Shadow went into fighting stance.
Sonic shook his head and shrugged. "Ok Shad, I will be helping you and we can talk about why you should get this emerald after. You still haven't told me a thing."
Shadow glanced over at Sonic and did a flip to get an even distance from both of them. "No Sonic. If you won't stand down, and quietly hand over your emerald, I'll have to make you surrender too."
Now all three hedgehogs were standing in a triangle, none of them going for the first move. They all seemed to know that if they went after one, then the other two could possibly go after them.
Tails flew up out of the hole that had been made by Knuckles when he threw the misty grey Echidna through a wall. Sunlight was outside and he could see where the other echidna had landed, Tail's went right at the Echidna while it's back was turned and prepared a flying kick. He was caught by surprise when the grey echidna turned around with an amazing speed and grabbed Tail's foot before it could hit him. He pulled Tail's to ground and grabbed the Fox boy's arm before Tail's could throw a punch. "Relax Tail's our fight is over for the moment." He told Tail's in a very calm and cold voice. His voice was like Knuckles' was, only frozen over instead of constantly angry.
"What do you mean it's over?" The black female hedgehog snapped as she came out of the hole, sword still in hand. "You hold him there and we'll end this. There was nothing said that we couldn't hurt Tails and Knuckles beyond recognition."
"Tails!" Knuckles shouted as he burst through the wall and ran at Haze.
The red echidna punched at Haze but the grey echidna blocked the blow with the hand he had originally used to block Tail's kick. This grey Echidna must have been pretty strong to block a blow from Knuckles.
Haze pointed to the triangle the three hedgehogs had made just down the path. "Our fight is over, there's has started. Let them finish this."
Sonic grinned at Shadow's challenge, it seemed like a fun idea. "All right, but you have to catch me first Shadow." He said and with only a moments start was zooming down the street and into the city.
Shadow clenched a fist and went after Sonic, the flames coming from the bottom of his shoes acting like skates that took him at a speed just as fast.
Inferno was just left staring as the two were out of sight. He put his emerald away and his now free hand also caught on fire. "Damn it, Sonic, Shadow. I can't run as fast as you." He started running after them, at a speed that was impressive even if it wasn't their speed. Then flames burst from his hands, acting like jets, and in a burning fury he was after them.
Shadow followed the signal of the Chaos emerald, using it to locate the blue hedgehog. He could sense the other signal behind him and looked back, seeing the red Hedgehog Inferno just behind him. He gripped his light green Chaos emerald and felt it's energies flowing inside of him. "Chaos Control!"
Inferno blinked, seeing the black hedgehog Shadow just disappears, he screeched to a stop and looked around franticly for a sign of him. Then, almost all at once, he felt blows land all over his body. They just kept coming from an unseen attacker, and he couldn't block one area because another would just be hit. His eyes blazed brighter and he had flames shoot out in literally every direction, this whole street was engulfed in flames that melted the glass off windows. When he turned to the left he saw the black hedgehog just standing there, smirking evilly at him. Inferno felt his temper rise once more. He would show this Ultimate Life Form that Inferno the Hedgehog was the ultimate killing machine.
Sonic screeched to a stop when he saw that Shadow wasn't after him any more, turning around and heading back immediately, he could see from here the fiery explosions just up ahead.
Shadow bounced off the side of the sky scraper, landing on top of a street post, over to on top of a black Volkswagen Bug. Then again jumped off that to back on the street, moving at this speed to avoid the fireballs the crazed red hedgehog was just lobbing at him. Shadow did not want people to get hurt, but luckily people had cleared out of the streets and most were inside already, he felt sorry for those who may have been inside that building the red hedgehog launched a fireball through.
Shadow snapped his fingers, "Chaos Control!", and everything around him seemed to slow to the point of everything almost frozen on the spot. The fireball headed directly at him was going at a snails crawl. He looked over at the blue hedgehog running Shadow and Inferno's way, he seemed to be going only a bit faster then that fireball. Shadow walked forward and at his own pace stepped around the fireball, going up to Inferno he kicked the red hedgehog in the face, then went over to Sonic and punched him in the stomach before moving away from the both of them and the fireball before returning to time's normal pace. He crossed his arms when the fireball smashed into merely pavement and both of the other hedgehogs were brought to their knees. Shadow had used up a lot of energy on both those Chaos controls, but after they had fought each other earlier, they were in an even worse state.
"I don't want to kill either of you." Shadow warned them both. "I need those Chaos Emeralds, hand them over to me." He said as he gripped his own again, he was ready to finish both of them.
"Located target." The metal hedgehog announced to itself as it looked down from the sky scraper to the blue hedgehog way down on the street below. He looked from the blue hedgehog recognized as Sonic to the black one with red streaks. "Target classified as Shadow, Orders? Remove target Shadow if he interferes with primary mission." He looked from the hedgehog known as Shadow to the red hedgehog down with them. "Target unknown, orders? Eliminate if target gets in the way." The metal hedgehog then walked to the edge of the building and jumped off.
Inferno gasped for air as he raised himself up onto his feet again. He felt weak, but he could still fight. He could never give up, he would never let another be stronger then him. Air was all he needed, oxygen fueled flame and fueled his hate and anger. "I am not finished!" He snapped as his hands caught fire. At the same time Sonic stood up and it looked like all three of them would have to go another round. Then that was when something smashed right into the top of a lone car on the street. The car was crushed flat and the ground around it cracked and broke up, dust stirred from the ground to everywhere, blocking all sight and putting out the flames Inferno had started.
Something whirred in the dust and lights were seen. One flickering yellow light and two yellow eye like lights and then they were moving. Inferno had only seen Sonic and Shadow move at this speed, he did his best to keep track of the lights. There was the sound of Sonic yelling in pain and then a grunt from Shadow. When the dust settled down he could see Sonic crouched down, Shadow no where in sight, and this red metal hedgehog standing in front of Sonic.
Sonic looked up at the hedgehog standing in front of him, he had felt something metal slam into him just a second ago and now knew why. This hedgehog was completely metallic over his body. "Metal Sonic?" He asked, not believing it. "Hey, you're not metal..."
The red metal hedgehog just watched him back, a piece in his chest flipped around to reveal a TV screen with the doctor's grinning face. "Hello Sonic!" The doctor greeted him in a jolly, but still evil, voice.
The blue blur stood up, seeing now that this metal hedgehog towered a whole foot over him unlike Eggman's past creations. Sonic could also see the green streaks on the metal hedgehog's head spikes and it's general resemblance to metal Sonic in their battle that few years ago.
Eggman on the screen laughed out loud at Sonic's silence. "No quips or insults? That kick must have hurt then I first thought. I would like to introduce to you my latest and greatest creation. A new model in my line of robotic hedgehogs, I took ideas from the last Metal Sonic and my Shadow Androids to create something better then ever. I introduce to you Havok, this will be the one who brings you down."
Inferno growled lowly and clenched a fist. "Hey! Eggman! I have a lot of money on me killing this hedgehog. You can have your turn with him after I've collected my money!" He snapped at the scientist on the robot's chest.
Havok turned to face Inferno and Eggman seemed to get a good look at him. "Ah yes, you're Inferno, that hedgehog who took up my challenge of killing Sonic. Well now that I have Havok finished, your services are no longer required.”
Inferno's eyes narrowed and his fist caught on fire. "What!" He growled, he seemed about to snap.
Sonic grinned and crouched low. "Hey Eggy!" He called out. As soon as Havok turned to him again, Sonic rolled up and shot out at the metal hedgehog. Spinning right into his chest, the spikes slicing up to the computer screen and destroying it. Sonic rebounded a good ten feet away from Havok and saw that the metal creature had not moved an inch.
Havok's eyes changed from yellow to red lights. "Destroy Sonic!"
Shadow held his arm as he sat down behind the overturn car just down the street. "Damn it." He growled to himself, that metal hedgehog's speed had surprised him. Shadow had tried to take the dust to advantage and attack the metal hedgehog when he struck at Sonic, but the robot had spun around so quickly and struck Shadow in the arm with knife like claws.
Shadow moved away his hand to look at the tree bleeding cuts on his arm, he may have been an android created by Professor Gerald Robotnic, but he still had blood. Blood of a now dead Alien ruler, Black doom. Shadow was the Ultimate Life Form, and he would not let this metal hedgehog prove himself stronger then himself.
Shadow pulled out what seemed to be a magnum, that 'Havok' robot also had a Chaos Emerald and it belonged to The Ultimate Life Form.
Havok raised his arm to block a punch thrown by the red hedgehog that was now classified as 'Inferno'. As he fought against the hedgehog, Havok tapped into satellite signals to look over the Internet information on this being. He found information on crimes this hedgehog had committed and his unexplained fire powers. Slowly gaining information on this hedgehog's fighting records and styles. Inferno then aimed a fist at Havok's head and the metal hedgehog grabbed this fiery fist, twisting the hedgehog's arm and making him land hard on his back. Havok let go and backed away, letting Inferno get back up. "Your fighting style intrigues me, Inferno the Hedgehog. You use your raw strength to your advantage but it is flawed, your raw anger makes you blind and allows others to exploit this weakness."
"Oh great, it talks now!" Inferno snapped as he rushed at Havok again, this time the metal hedgehog was dodging his fists. "I liked robots when all they could say was 'beep'!"
Havok jumped back, the fire that came out of his feet, like that in Shadow's shoes, stopped him from touching the ground and then went strait at Inferno, his metallic skull connecting with Inferno's stomach, sending the red hedgehog back into a car.
Havok moved left to dodge the blue hedgehog Sonic's sudden assault on him, rolled up the hedgehog aimed for Havok, but upon missing rebounded off the ground, off the side of a building and back at Havok, who simply dodged out of the way again, knowing Sonic's fighting strategy well already, then Sonic rolled right up the side of the building and to the top, Havok flew up after him.
Sonic reached the top and then kept moving to the other side of the building, watching the edge of the edge he went over, waiting for the metal hedgehog to follow him. For a few seconds all was silent and still, then there was blinding pain in his back.
Havok spun Sonic around and a metal fist smashed into Sonic's jaw, he started to fly back but the metal hedgehog yet again held him in place and a foot connected with Sonic's stomach.
Havok's fist uppercuted, hitting Sonic under the jaw just before his fist again his him in the side of the head.
Punch's and kicks came rapidly, never allowing Sonic an opening to move away or try and protect himself. Punches and kicks came faster and faster before Havok finally let Sonic drop to the ground of the building's roof. Sonic did his best just to breath as the metal Sonic's hand lifted Sonic up by his neck and lifted him into the air, over the edge of the building. Sonic could only grip the metal monster's arm to lessen the pressure on his throat, his legs dangled uselessly beneath him and he stared into the red eyes of this metal Sonic, who was right at the climax of his purpose. Sonic though, refused to feel the fear even if his life was about to come to an end.
