Gathering of Darkness – Chp. 1 – After the First Wave

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Notice: I am denying the fact that Elise blew out Solaris.

Chapter Recap: See Sonic Next-Gen's Last Story. Next Chapter, the previous chapter will be summarized.

Soleanna – Town Square – 1:30 P.M.

"We did it," an overreacting silver hedgehog yelled. Besides the silver hedgehog, there is a blue hedgehog, a red and black hedgehog, a white bat, two humans, one male and one female, a pink hedgehog, a robot, a two-tailed fox, and a red echidna. The pink hedgehog then asks, "Silver, why are you overreacting about a single victory?" Silver is still doing stuff like he's nuts, but he isn't. One of the other hedgehogs, the red and black one, said, "Actually, Amy, I'm mentally overreacting due to our recent victory. And I believe Sonic had the easiest time out of me, him, and Silver." Amy just shook her head. Sonic said, "Shadow, I know one thing. It's your opinion."

Shadow said, "I believe only two people know why I'm overreacting like this – Rouge and Omega." Rouge then giggled. The male human said, "Sonic (blue hedgehog), Tails (two-tailed fox), Knuckles (red echidna), Shadow, Rouge (white bat), Omega (robot), Silver, Amy (pink hedgehog), and Princess Elise (the other human), I've made a decision."

Sonic asked, "Eggman, what do you mean?"

Eggman answered, "I will from now on only use my intelligence for good things. Nearly every single robot I created in the past will be shut down. Every single one of them except for Omega." Everyone clapped his or her hands. Shadow asked, "Silver, are you ready to go home?" Silver nodded his head. Shadow and Silver used Chaos Control to create a portal so Silver could go home. Silver waves good-bye to everyone, and then jumps into the portal that closes afterwards.

Soleanna – Eggman's Base: Main Room – 3:15 P.M.

Eggman has just finished shutting his last base down, and is leaving it for the last time, never to return. Just to be safe, he put Metal Sonic in one of the prison cells after shutting it down. After Eggman was certain he shut everything down, he left.

Soleanna – Eggman's Base: Metal Sonic's cell – 11:35 P.M.

Nothing was going on in the prison area right now. In fact, nothing was even on in the area. No robots, no security, no nothing. A dark portal opened all of a sudden. A darkly colored hedgehog jumped out whom then closes the portal. Seeing the blue robot on the ground, he moves toward it. The hedgehog opens a panel in the robot's back. He moves a finger over the chips. When the hedgehog stopped on a chip, "So this one contains the master data. This robot has limits set on it," he said while pulling the chip out, "but removing it will get rid of such limits." The hedgehog then threw the chip at the wall, destroying it, so the chip couldn't be put back in.

The hedgehog reactivated the robot and then left to turn the lights back on. When the robot got up, it thought, what's up? I thought that Eggman had deactivated me. Wait, my master data, its gone. How long has it been? The lights then came back on. The robot saw someone appear out of nowhere. "Who are you," it asked. The robot was rather surprised when it spoke. The person said, "Mephiles. And you? Don't be afraid now."

The robot said, "Metal Sonic. I have problems with a couple Hedgehogs."

"Sonic and Shadow?"

"Yes, but now that I'm thinking about it, how long have I've been deactivated?"

"I can answer that when I know when you were deactivated."

"Oh. 2:30 P.M."

"Around 9 hours."

Its still the day I was deactivated then."

After talking about their own past, Mephiles finally asked, "Metal, why don't we work together to defeat Sonic and his friends once and for all?"

"Yes. After all, it makes complete sense. You have the intelligence while I have the experience," Metal Sonic answered.

TO BE CONTINUNED…

Oh, and by the way… Eat more chicken!

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