Author Note: Another improvment! I should probably continue the fanfic rather than improving the already made chapters...Well i try to improve it within my knownledge! No beta readers sorry! :(
Sonic couldn't help but to grin, it was certain victory. As soon as he felt the chaos energy pulse through his body of the seven emeralds, he knew, Eggman knew. It was over.
Now you would think that a man with IQ of 300 would admit defeat. But the pride of the scientist was even greater than his intelligence.
"Why don't you just give up already!?" The man yelled and launched the oversized robot fist at the golden hedgehog. Instead of countering it by a mere punch sonic dodge it in a speed of light. Why end the fight so soon, it wasn't every day you turned super. To be the most powerful unstoppable being for a short time was a moment to enjoy.
The emeralds had ensured victory, if the gems hadn't been available in this time of crisis he would have lost. Eggman Empire would have taken root and forever ruled the planet. Such thoughts did strike Sonic but the worry never hit him.
Knuckles would call that naive, the gems had its limits and letting down the guard in such powerful form was still not assuring.
But who would worry after saving earth countable times? Or better yet the galaxy.
"Give up? Isn't that my position to ask."Sonic chuckle and allowed himself to levitate above the floor.
"Give me your best shot egghead."He taunted as he clenched his fists.
"Be careful of what you wish for rodent!" Eggman shouted before commanding his robot to fire out its missiles. Same this time Sonic dodged with ease. Instead of hitting the target it collided with the walls. The explosion wasn't pleasant, the walls couldn't even support the roof anymore and caved in. Not that this bothered the hedgehog, another time he do escape the area. Instead it was brushed off as little to no danger, reckless might be the word for it. But the seven emeralds certainly wouldn't allow the wielder to perish by something so trivial nor would the hog.
So with a cocky smirk he faced the looming ceiling that was crashing down and delivered countless of punches sending the roof into million pieces. The particles almost seemed to shimmer in the natural light that now entered the battlefield.
The humans jaw dropped down to the cockpit floor upon witnessing the power of the seven emeralds that should be considered as monstrosity. The man grew outrageous knowing the hedgehog was holding back.
"Looks like I saved your ass egghead. Oh and you should learn how to aim that." 'Oh yes rub it in' Sonic mentally chuckle as he saw the scientist boil in anger.
"Fire!" The man yelled without warning as more missiles shot at the glowing hedgehog. Sonic shake his head with an amused grin before evading it.
As expected they hit anything but the target. The empire started to violently rumble, it was falling apart.
"What have you done!?" The man asked in shock as if it wasn't his doing.
Sonic couldn't help but chuckle once more at the question.
"Sir,the building is falling apart I suggest we retreat. "Orbot pointed out.
"I already knew that you piece of junk!" Eggman yelled at his robot getting little to no reaction from it. Either used to the treatment or programmed not to care.
"Time to bail!" The doctor said before he took off ditching the destructive weapon with the egg mobile. Sonic sighed as the fun was over and he had once again saved the world. He teleported out from the falling empire and appeared several feet above the building.
"Sonic 999 egghead 0" he chuckled and looked down to the area below.
He frowned, there was no signs of his friends. Sonic clenched his fists and felt the amazing power charge in them. He looked down at it and sighed. The form would be available until he either power down or naturally fade away.
"Heh, I will just enjoy it while it last" the glowing hedgehog decided before he took off in the sky. The hedgehog passed tropical countries to snow covered land to cities before he landed on a mountain with great view of station square. He sat down and chewed on his chillidog he bought along the way. After satisfying his belly he laid down on the soft grass.
It didn't take long before his tense muscles relaxed and could get a further control of the super form. This was a practice the hedgehog repeated with the spare energy he managed to keep after battle. Sonic wasn't the one to meditate but he couldn't deny that knuckles advice of doing so helped. It improved the endurance and hardness the power he gained from the gems even if he only possessed one.
It became a second nature and the hedgehog was sure that in time would master the power better than the echidna himself. Although sharing those thoughts would enrage the guardian.
Sonic chuckled as he recalled the refusal of this meditating method. How knuckles convinced him otherwise was beyond him. But for once was glad he listened to the hotheaded guardian. A genuine smile spread on his muzzle but soon faltered as a raindrop hit his forehead.
The ruby eyes revealed only to spot the once blue sky covered in dark clouds. The drizzle soon increased and eventually poured down to his dismay.
Sonic let out a loud groan, he had quite a history with water. And it certainly wasn't improving anytime soon. Especially when it came to a large body of it that required the ability to swim. Something he still hadn't gotten a good grip on. In other words caused more harm than good. The weather soon got worse and poured down soaking his royal blue fur further.
"Oh man, I have too low energy it's not enough to fly down." He muttered to himself as he leaned forward to get a better view of the situation. His palms clenched the edge of the cliff as an uncharacteristic frown appeared on his muzzle.
The height was undoubtable dangerous and jumping down was out of the question. Then again he had fallen down from higher heights. However now the surface was soaked with water plus the only thing his eyes could spot was the thick canopy of trees. If it had been an open field he would risk it. His legs weren't made of glass and running at the speed of sound and beyond proved that.
His eyes moved its attention from the forest to the station square that was further ahead. He would have to turn around and get down the old fashion way. And to make it all worse WALK! The grass was now wet and slippery and a concrete road wouldn't be found in the forest. The cobalt hedgehog groaned once more as he didn't wish to go through the same "running on wet grass" experience. Crashing into a tree was preferable avoided.
With a sulk he moved away from the edge and crossed his arms as the energy was at its limit.
"I wish I could remain in super form that would make this easier." He muttered as his yellow fur was about to return to its normal blue hue. But instead of dissolving a powerful light struck him out of nowhere sending an indescribable agony along with it. Before his mind could register what happened he lost conscious.
Unknown amount of time passed before sonic finally regained awareness. Everything was a blur as his emerald eyes slowly opened to scan the surroundings. His head was pounding painfully while a spreading ache coursed through his limbs.
The once pouring rain had turned into a drizzle that sent a cold shiver on the fallen hog. Sonic groaned as he felt an unfamiliar exhaustion dominating his usually energetic form. It didn't take long before he perceived the situation but couldn't judge the reason of its occurrence. His vision eventually recovered and could get a better view of his body. What caught him off guard was his fur, it was still yellow! But it wasn't glowing like it should! Something was wrong definitely wrong!
Sonic forced himself to sit up and looked around, the mountain was almost completely wiped of woodland. The only thing that remained from the now flatland was a few bushes that hadn't gotten a directly hit. A fire burst must have occurred while he was unconscious judging on the black thick mass of dust covering most of the land.
Sonic however was untouched by this phenomenon to his relief. But what fire could possibly survive this weather?
Before he could speculate further into it he gasped as he spotted the seven chaos emeralds around him, they were completely drained. Their once beautiful color now looked dull and lifeless. He couldn't feel any connection to the emeralds whatsoever.
"But I am still in super form.." Sonic murmured and took a closer look at his golden fur. The energy was just as powerful as super form if not stronger but where did it come from?
Before he could inspect any further his eyes caught something odd. It was awful dark which shouldn't be possible near a presence of a city. He turned his attention to the station square that was now completely dark.
"Power-failure?"
Before he could investigate further a spike of chaos energy appeared behind him.
"Nice for you to show up...Shadow" Sonic grinned before he turned around to see the ebony hedgehog.
He didn't answer but observed his counterpart before his ruby eyes turned to the lifeless emeralds.
"What have you done?" He asked before he approached to the gems and picked one up.
"What I have done!?" Sonic frowned not so pleased of being accused of the state of the now drained emeralds without good reason.
"I had to use the emeralds to take Eggman down! where were u anyways?!"
"None of your business, so why are you still in super form without the emeralds?"
"I am not going to answer that if you won't answer my question first." Sonic grinned as shadow frowned and tighten the grip of the chaos emerald.
"I was not allowed to interact unless you lost. Orders from the higher up, they prefer you to save earth than me. Besides they don't trust me. Now answer my question." Shadow crossed his arms and glared at the other hedgehog. Not only was Sonic surprised that his rival gave him a full answer. Especially with more than two sentences!
Was this a new stage of improvement between them? In a different occasions Sonic would point it out adding a few taunts. But riling up his rival would end with a brawl which his already exhausted body didn't desire.
The thoughts of the answered question brought him back to reality. Sonic was semi disappointed that Shadow turned to work for G.U.N. Not only because of the past experience and history the dark furred hedgehog shared with them. The hero didn't quite understand the benefits but didn't dwell into it.
What he didn't appreciate was that Shadow wasn't allowed to help him from time to time. Like G.U.N was chaining him down. But then again during the whole alien incident Shadow had occasionally changed sides from Sonic to Eggman and Black Doom himself. After that fiasco it was understandable that a lot of people didn't trust him. Sonic shrugged it off and grinned to his rival.
"I don't know" Shadow growled at the lack of answer and took a tight grip on the golden hedgehog and pulled him up to his legs. Shadow tried to hide the shiver as he felt the strong energy affect his body. It gave him a pleasant sensation, it caused him to remain silently by Sonics side enjoying the flow of energy. It was different not the same as the chaos energy. 'What is this..' Shadow thought as he closed his eyes slowly.
"Shadow?" Sonic asked as the ebony hedgehog seemed to fall into trance. His eyes snapped open and released the hero.
"Where is this energy coming from!?" Shadow asked or more like demanded.
"I don't know! I already told you! There was this light then I woke up like this that's all I know!"
Shadow became silent completely absorbed with his thoughts once more and crossed his arms.
"Shadow you told me that you only interact when ordered pretty much right?" The ebony hedgehog hesitated but nodded.
"What is your mission?" Shadow sighed and turned around to look at station square.
"The whole station square along with a couple of other cities have a power failure my mission is to find the reason for it." Sonic tried to keep his laughter down but failed.
"Is that what kind of missions you get!" Sonic burst into a laughing fit and put his hands on his stomach as it started to ache. "And what's next? Clean up the ruins of the empire?"
Shadow gritted his teeth, it wouldn't annoy him if it wasn't true. His main mission had been to clean up the mess of the once empire but Sonic didn't need to know that.
"Stop joking around it's serious! You are the reason this happened!"
Sonic became quiet and scratched his muzzle in wonder.
"How?"
Shadow facepalmed and groaned as he had to explain such obvious fact.
"Whatever happened to you caused the whole town and more to shut down. An unnatural shockwave stole all energy and the loss was so great that it won't be restored anytime soon."
"No more chillidog?"
"No more chillidog." Shadow frowned as sonic started to run around in circles like it was the end of the world.
Ebony ears perked as he heard a swooshing noise. 'Helicopter' his eyes widened in realization before he tackled down his rival and pinned him down.
"What are y-"
"Quiet faker."
The helicopter came to view but they manage to stay hidden behind a bush. Thanks to shadows fur he manage to cover up the golden hedgehog as well.
Shadow lightly groaned at the body contact again. 'That energy I want it...' was the only thought that repeated in his head. The lust for power was a trait from his alien side. But he was made by chaos energy and the mix of this new version set off a hunger he never felt before.
The helicopter got closer and the armed men jumped down. "Sir the energy seem to come from that direction"
Shadow shut his eyes and was completely unaware of the surroundings. 'I can take it...but it's faker...that pathetic Mobian...but I want it...'
"Shadow" Sonic whisper and groaned as his energy was drained by the older mammal.
The ebony hedgehog shiver as the new energy mixed with his chaos energy.
Sonic panted as he was drained and the blue fur returned. He didn't feel weak with the lack of super form just normal again.
"Sir the energy is gone false alarm." One of the humans said. "Return to the base" was heard from the speakers.
"Roger that" after that said they were gone.
"They are gone now Shadow...Shadow?" Sonic gasped as he heard the ultimate life form purr. Sonic lightly pushed the other off him and took a closer look. Shadow was indeed purring but not only that but smiling too!
He had never seen Shadow smile before but it suited him. What could have possibly caused the ultimate life form smile?
But even Sonic soon enough solved the puzzle.
Shadow finally recovered and opened his eyes I confusion.
"What happened?" He asked while still feeling an pleasant energy flow inside his viens. He blinked when he saw Sonics blue fur.
"You are normal again.."
Sonic grinned at shadows reaction and chuckled.
"Well….you drained me. You took enough energy to turn me normal again."
Shadow was speechless but it made sense he felt very powerful and excited, maybe even pleasured. He shook his head at the last part.
"You liked it" Sonic grinned and got a punch as reply. The cobalt was thrown a few meters away but skid a halt.
"Ah, hit a spot did I?" Sonic continue but it ended there as Shadows communicator activated.
"Agent Shadow...Agent Shadow come in."
The ebony hedgehog gave the hero a last glare getting no other reaction than a wide grin.
"Yes what is it."
"New orders return to your original mission"
"Roger that"
Sonic blinked as he realized that the emeralds was gone.
"G.U.N..." The hero groaned and caught Shadows attention.
"Yes they most likely took the emeralds, which is thankfully completely drained so it shouldn't do any harm...yet."
Shadow started to walk away to the direction of his mission he certainly didn't want to do. This wasn't a mission for his standards, the ultimate life form clean up mess. And not just any mess the mobius well known hero mess!
"Wait where are you going!?"
"I have some work to do" and with that said he was gone.