Chapter 1

Memories, dreams forever lost

It was a dark night as planet earth was rule by Malpercio and his demons. All the humans were destroyed but the remaining ones that lived were torched and worked as slaves. But there was one group the echidnas, who rebelled against Malpercio and fought against him. They fought threw many battles and survived but that was all going to change.

"She's beautiful, what should we call her"

"How about kital?"

"No I think Tikal is a much better name" the mother said as they looked at each other and agreed by nodding their heads and said Tikal at their baby girl. Then they heard noises outside people screaming, dying, injured and fires all over the place. "Take the baby and hide" said the farther as she gave her the baby and put her in another room, he went to the door to lock it. Then a tall shadow figure broke through the door and grabbed him by the neck and started choking him. "Where is your daughter?!" the shadowing figure demanded "you'll never get your hands on her she will stop you". The figure started growing with anger and choked him harder until he heard his neck break and threw him against the wall which made the lamp fall and a fire started as the mother saw what was happening. Tikal started crying "my baby!" the mother said as she grabbed her and try to make her quiet so they wont hear her. She gave Tikal to a friend hedgehog she knew which came after he saw the fire. "Here take care of her never tell her what happen until it's the right time" "I'll take care of her but what about you?" the headhog said "don't worry about me, now go!" "Farewell" the headhog said as he jumped out of the window and started running. Then the figure burst through the door "where is she!" "You're too late she will destroy you!" The figure stares at her and shoots her with his laser beam, as he turns around he sees the headhog holding Tikal "kill him and the girl " he says to his two demon dogs beside him. The headhog ran through the streets making turns as he saw the few people that were not slaves but hiding, using oil cans to make fire and hiding when ever they hear a noise or someone coming. As he continues to run he hears a growling sound, he turns and sees the two demon dogs the tall figure had send. He ran faster and faster panting as he was getting tired, he used his power lifting broken pieces of concrete, boxes even empty oil cans and threw at them to slow them down but they kept catching up. He reaches a dead end and as he was about to turn around he got corner by the demon dogs. They circled around him going clockwise. They had green eyes, with sharp teeth to ripe the skin and flesh out of someone sockets, claws to slices peoples body parts off when they were on top of their foe and a long slithering tail to help them keep balance when they jumped on there prey. One of them jumped but he dodged it by moving to the side which the demon dog landed on the other one. He ran to a building and started climbing the fire rail. When he got to the top he was going to jump over to the next building but the gap was too far apart. By the time he went to find another way the demon dogs corner him at the edge of the building watching him closely ready to spring on him ready to taste new flesh blood. One jumped at him opening his jar, he manage to grab hold of his neck using his arm holding him from biting him as the dog swings his head side to side opening and closing his moth to get a bit on him. He hears Tikal crying as he figures out he let go of Tikal. As the other demon dog approaches Tikal lifting his claw getting ready to slashe her inside out. "no!" the headhog yells as he uses his other arm to lift a broken pipe and send to the demons dogs heart which impacts on him as piles of blood start gushing out and some left on the pipe. He push he demon dog away, as he was going to grab Tikal the demon dog jumped with his mouth open and his right arm claw raised, he layed down on the floor, lifted his legs against his stomach and kicked him off the building, he looks over and sees him falingl through wooden ledges, broken pipes and glass. When the demon dog hits the ground he looked at the headhog with a sharp look as large pieces of glass fell and stabbed his stomach and brain. When he made sure he was dead he looked at where her parents had died and looked at Tikal, then his face turn to a monstrous face, open his mouth and eats Tikal.

Tikal woke up shocked in horror of the dream she just had. She gets off of bed and goes outside for some fresh air.

Max: "nightmare again wasn't it, about your family"

Tikal: "yes couldn't sleep, these dreams wont go away"

Max went and held her in his arms trying to comfort her. "come on try to relax get some sleep tomorrow everything that you had will go away"

Tikal: "alright"

"Still having the nightmares I see" a figure said behind him "I'm afraid so" Max responded. "You know she will find out one way or another if she keeps having those dreams"

Tikal: "Max do you know if ohh hey Silver"

Silver: "hey Tikal how you doing"

Tikal: "fine I guess except having those nightmares"

Silver: "try to sleep you got a big day tomorrow"

Tikal" good night"

Max; "Tikal weren't you going to ask me something?"

Tikal: "oh its nothing don't worry about"

Sivler: "I'll be back I have to check on something take care of her"

Max: "haven't I always'

After Silver left and Max went back inside the house Tikal couldn't sleep still thinking of her nightmare trying to figure out what it means. "I have to find out what it means one way or another"

Silver walked and enter into a dark alley waiting for a visitor to arrive. "I see you arrived early as always a figure" said hidden in the shadow.

Silver: "I see you're stubborn as ever, anyway any news on what Malpercio is planning?"

"not much but I'll keep you posted all I know is that he's been searching for your camp site 24/7 since you guys first hidden and keep a close eye on Tikal she could mean trouble"

Sivler: 'I will"

"Until we meet again" the shadow figure said as he walked back into the dark hallway and disappears. Sivler made sure no one is watching him and runs back to the rebellion camp not knowing he's being watch by Metal Sonic. "So this is where the rebellion hides like cowards". As everyone is guarding and doing about their business Tikal waits in bed until everything is quiet and hears Max talking with another echidna telling them to get the army ready we attack at dawn, she open's the window jumps off and heads for Malpercio palace hoping she'll find some answers. When she gets to the entrance she's sees two demon dogs guarding the front gate walking back and fourth as humans waking by being tortured and slaughtered for not doing there job. She climbs on the wall and enters through the ceiling. When she gets inside she walks to the throne room, as she walks to the throne room she hears two guards coming at her position one was a demon dog and the other was an angel demon with angel wings and holding a staff in his right hand, she hides behind a wall hoping they don't find her. As they walked pass her she steps on a rock and makes a popping sound, the demon dog turns back where the noise was and stiffs the air to see what it was. As they get closer and closer Tikal starts sweating as her heart beats faster and faster never ending as she see the head of the demon dog turn to the left he starts turning where she is he sees a mouse crawl by. The dog eats it and walks away thinking it was the mouse that made the sound. She continues walking and notices that she was one floor above the throne with Metal shadow on his side, metal tails fighting with metal knuckles practing their attacks and two angel demons guarding the door, she sees the door open and Metal Sonic walks in.

Malpercio: "I want that rebellion camp found now!"

Metal shadow: "we will find it my lord in time, be patient"

Malpercio: "if you don't have something good to report then I suggest you leave" he said to metal sonic as he was charging a dark energy ball in his hand

Metal Sonic: "I have found the rebellion camp site its only 100 yards from our position"

Malpercio: "excellent"

Malpercio shot an energy ball at the ground which exploded into tiny drops, when it hits the ground it started forming demon dogs. "no" Tikal said to herself as she moved back a bit but as she moved dust fell and landed on Metal shadow head. As he looked at Tikal she started running "an intruder after her!" Metal shadow yells at to the two angel demons that were guarding the door, as he was going to follow her he was stop by Malpercio.

Malpercio: "wait Metal shadow I want you to lead the army, now go to the rebellion camp wipe them out all of them I want to see their bodies on the ground and I want there blood spreading all over the ground and Metal shadow find Tikal and if you find her destroy her"

Metal shadow walked as an army of demon dogs followed by his command.

Max: "did anyone see where Tikal went? she's not in her room"

"No I haven't in fact I haven't seen Silver either"

"Sir an army of Malpercio minions leaded by Metal shadow are coming this way!"

"We need Silver without him we're done for"

Max: "how long before they make it here?"

"Less than five minutes"

Max: "alright we can't wait for him any longer get the women and children to safety the rest of you we will fight to the end or die trying"

Sarah: "what about you? what are you going to do?"

Max: "don't worry about me honey ill be fine just get yourself to safety and make sure the kids are safe"

Sarah and Max kissed each other one last time and departed as Max saw her following the other women and children. they grabbed weapons that they train themselves with, some were practicing their punches while waiting for everyone else as women and children ran to safely and as Max looked at the horizon he sees Malpercios army coming closer with Metal shadow in front. "There be here in two minutes" an echidna said. Max looked at the army one more time and screamed a war crying sound as other did the same.

Tikal started heading for the roof as he looks back she sees the two angel demon and two demons coming from the corner chasing after her. She sees a stair case and heads for it but a guard blocks her, she makes a quick turn nearly being hit by his staff the angel demon swung. She runs to another stair case and gets blocked again but this time she runs full speed dodges the swung staff and kicks him in he face and climbs upstairs. When she makes it to the rooftop she almost falls off the edge from running too fast as she looks at how high she is her arm begins to hurt, she looks at it and notices the cut that the staff had left when she kicked the angel demon in the face thinking she dodge it. She hears wings and growling sound, turns around and sees they corner here. The angel demons runs at her point his staff at her getting ready to stabbed her, Tikal doges and pushes him off the building while hanging onto his body. The angel demon started flying higher and higher but Tikal blinded his eyes and guided him making go where she wanted to go. As she almost touch the ground she jumped off and as he was able to see by the time he could move he smacked the building head first and slided down against the wall, she continues running toward the camp site "have to warn the other" she said to herself.

As the echidnas fought back punching them in the face and swing their weapons cutting their heads off as green blood sprayed out onto their faces, blinded them by popping their eyes and knocking out some of there teeth while the demon dogs used their claws to slice pieces of their body parts off and as echidnas screamed from the pain they jumped on them bite their faces peeling the skin from their face and eating their insides. Metal shadow killed anyone that stood in his way breaking their necks, chopping there body parts off using there weapons and turning them into ash with his red energy ball he shot from his hand. Metal shadow pointed at the houses telling the demon dogs to kill anyone in side, they broke into the houses breaking everything in sight but found nothing until they found a secret basement in one of the houses underneath the couch. They teared it open and as they were about to kill them "no!" Max yelled as he killed every single one of them, "Get out of here!" Max yelled as he wiped off the blood from his forehead. As he looked at them he saw they were too startled to move" what are you still doing here get uh" he said as he got rammed against a wall by a demon dog as he held his sword against the demon dog s body from getting on top of him . "Go while you still have a chance!" he cried out. They woke from being startled and startled running out the door they turned into ashes one by one and as Max saw with his own eyes his wife and children turn to ashes Metal Shadow came from the corner saying: "this is all too easy" "I'll kill you!" Max said as he stabbed the demon dog at his heart and ran towards Metal shadow swinging his sword side to side and Metal shadow dodging his attacks, he grabbed his sword looked at Max in the eye and said "pathetic" and pushed him to the ground raises his arm about to stab him in the chest then he got pushed by Silver. "Am I late" he said joking around as he helped Max up on his feet. "Look out!" Max yelled as a piece of the roof fell on him as he pushed Silver aside. "Max Max can you hear me" Silver said while he put two fingers on his neck to feel a pulse. He felt his pulse knowing he was still alive but unconscious. He sees a concrete coming at him; he punches it to pieces only to see Metal shadow was the cause for the roof coming down.

Silver: "you'll pay for that"

Metal shadow: "it's been a long time Silver since our last match; I'll never forget what you did to me the pain I had to live through, the suffering"

Silver: "what was done was done but you don't have to do this you don't have to serve"

Metal shadow: "oh how sweet, so heart broking you almost make me laugh" he said as he shot an energy ball at him but Silver use his power to deflect and shoots two more.

Metal shadow "you almost make me laugh protecting that little echidna, what is he like you're farther or something or maybe he's your long lost friend"

Silver: "that not any of your concern"

Metal shadow: "you're right you're my main concern, it's been"

Silver: "what was in the past was in the past there was nothing I could do"

Metal shadow: "you liar!"

Silver: "listen to me you don't have to do this you don't know what your getting yourself into, stop serving him help us destroy him then we could figure out a way to"

Metal shadow: "no things can ever go back the way they were, you left me to die I'll make sure you don't see the daylight again"

Silver: "you don't know what you're doing"

Metal shadow: "I know what I'm doing getting rid of you!"

Metal shadow flies towards Silver as Silver does the same, when they meet they start throwing punches and kicks as they fly at each other at fast speeds. As Silver laid the first direct punch, Metal Shadow started shooting dark energy balls, and as Silver dodge his attacks he shoots light blue energy spears at him. Metal shadow charges a giant ball and launches it at him; Silver puts his hands together side by side and shoots an energy beam at the energy ball making it explode. Silver tries to see as the smoke disappears but gets rammed in the stomach and hits the side of a wall, Metal shadow flies at him with his hand glowing with the dark energy he stored but Silver put a shield around him and when they impact Metal shadow gets bounce off. "I see you learn some new moves since we last encounter" he said as a tail started coming out from his back hiding it from Silver. Silver gets ready to guard himself again but hears something to the side the turn but sees a rock move. "Silver behind you!" max said waking up from unconscious. Silver turns around and three demons jumped from behind, he tried to free himself but couldn't. Metal shadow walked toward look at Max and kicked him in the face then turned to Silver. "don't kill him not yet" he punched him in the stomach and face and kicked him a few times then let the demon dogs started cutting his skin with there claws. Metal shadow looked at Max though of killing him but no he let him live wanted him to see him suffer, watching his kind die. He walked away from Silver raises his hand, pointed at the house without looking back shot a energy ball, the house came tumbling down on Silver as Max looked as the structure collapse on him seeing no chance of surviving and Metal shadow laughing.

Tikal could see the cliff leading to the campsite, as she looks at the horizon she sees smoke and a field of fire as her heart aches from seeing what she saw hoping that they survived and won.

Malpercio was sitting on his thrown waiting impatient for Metal Shadow to come back and report, he killed one of his guards so time can pass by as he was tired of waiting he was about to go to the campsite himself until Metal shadow walked in.

Malpercio: "I hoped you succeeded from making me wait this long"

Metal shadow: "sorry I took long, we destroy the rebellion then Silver interfere but I took care of him"

Malpercio: "did you find Tikal"

Metal shadow: "no my lord we search everywhere but couldn't find her"

Arrg Malpercio screamed in anger as his power started going out of control as the wall, ground, and ceiling started cracking and shaking.

Tikal saw blood, bodies cut in half, face torn apart, demon dogs hearts on the floor sliced in half and stabbed and traces of people belonging they wore left after they were turn to ash by Metal Shadow, demon dogs heads on the floor eyes ripped from there sockets and teeth scattered around. As she walked she saw Max underneath a roof top.

Tikal: "farther are you hurt?"

Max: "I'm fine"

Tikal: "that's good but where's mom and Silver"

Max: "there're gone, I tried protecting her but I wasn't strong enough and Silver helped me fight back but he didn't make it"

Tikal: "no" she said as a tear fell out from her eye

Max: "I'm sorry we tried but we were over whelmed I'm sorry"

Tikal: "don't say anything like that as long as you're still alive that all that matters, here let me help"

Max: "okay help get this roof off of me on three 1... 2... 3 uh!" they yelled as Tikal try to lift the roof and Max helped with one arm and the other tried crawling out.

Tikal: 'I wish I came here sooner"

"No, I'm happy you didn't because if you did I would have lost you like I lost your mother, I'm just glad you're alright" " he said as they hug each other. As they were hugging a demon badly wounded with some of its teeth out, blood dripping from its mouth, its tail half chopped off tail, one eye in its socket while the other dangling, his legs shaking as he was walking toward them he saw them in his vision there bodies glowing red then normal then red like blood and seeing their insides and hearing their heart beat. As they were finishing hugging Max sees the demon dog leap for Tikal, Max push Tikal aside grabbed a sword that had an echidnas hand attach to it and stabbed him as the demons dogs mouth bite him on the shoulder and cut is leg open with his claw and as Max got the demon dog off him he hears him moaning as it die and he falls on the floor as blood comes out from his mouth. "Max no!" Tikal screams as she goes next to him. "Tikal" he said as he was trying to speak as he cough and more blood came out every time he said a word.

Max: "Tikal…forgive me I think this is one of those time that… I won't be lucky"

Tikal: "no don't say that you'll be alright I'll take care of you until you feel better just please… don't die please" she said as she started crying

Max: "don't cry Tikal… you're our last hope, destroy Malpercio no matter what it takes… you must stop him, I'm just happy I got the chance...to see you one last time"

Tikal: "you're going to make it"

Max: "no not this time, I just wish I told…you sooner, it's a secret I kept… since you were small, Tikal i...i...im…"

Tikal: "farther! Don't leave me."

Tikal looks at her farther as his eyes closed and tears came down her cheeks and in anger as she stared to glow like an angel she said "Malpercio you'll pay, I swear to Max, Silver, Sarah and every echidna that died I swear I'll destroy you". Tikal walked to the front gate at Malpercio palace. The two demon dogs charged at her, but she two yellow beams at them and they disappeared, she blasted the door down and continue with her memories of her farther, Silver mother and every other echidna nothing stopped her. As she continues walking she got surrounded but they couldn't stop she created a shield around her and it got bigger destroying the demons that surrounded her. When she made it to the door that Malpercio was in she told herself "this is it" and opened the door with great force that it fell on the two guards guarding the door. Malpercio looked and gave a grin as Metal shadow, sonic, knuckles, and tails got in position to protect him but he told them to step down. As he walked down the steps of his throne Tikal looked at him in the eye "you're going to pay for all the people you killed and suffer" she said as she blasted him with an array of yellow light. "Not bad but let me show real power" he shoots a beam of pure dark energy at Tikal which sends Tikal flying through the walls and landed out side the castle. While she was getting up Malpercio kicks her, she slides against an old building and falls on top o her. She gets the pieces of rubble off of her and shoots yellow energy balls at him, Malpercio puts his arms in front of his face to cover himself., as the smoke clears Tikal kicks him in the face and rams him in the stomach which makes him fall. While Malpercio is on the ground vines like thing start coming from the ground and grabbed Tikal by the legs, she tries to break free by shooting at them but they wont break loose and when they tied around her half way they bring her down to the ground, Malpercio gets up and starts punching her in the face, stomach and kicks her with all her energy she starts glowing brighter and brighter summoning an energy field, the vines break loose and she send Malpercio flying. she flies in the air and a giant ball appears from her hands and throws it, Malpercio tries to stop it by holding it with his hands trying to send it right back at her but it was too powerful and a nova blast occurs. Tikal waits until the smoke clears as she starts breathing hard "is that all you got" Malpercio says as he get up. Tikal charges her power as she says to herself "for Silver, for Max, for Sarah, for everyone that suffer give me the power to destroy this ancient god once and for all", her fist starts glowing as well as her body Malpercio charges his power and they fly at each other full sped as both of their fist impacts causing an explosion Tikal fall on the floor with little energy barely getting up.

Tikal: "finally it's over"

Malpercio: "I can't believe it, the hero, the savior for mankind and still I'm stronger and powerful while you're still weak and defenseless. And your suppose to be the hope for mankind. He says as he laughs at Tikal.

Tikal: "no I failed but maybe there's still hope"

Tikal opens a portal using whatever energy she has left and tells Malpercio "if I cant defeat you there's still one person who can" she disappears inside the portal. Malpercio tells Metal shadow and the rest to follow her. They go in and start shooting energy balls at her she dodges them but one hits in the face and she gets knock out cold as they try to catch up with her.

Copyright: Tikal, Metal Shadow. Metal Sonic, Metal tails, and Metal Knuckles are copy right from Sega.

Copyright: Malpercio is copy right from Baten Kaitos.

Copyright: Max and Sarah are copy right from me.