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The second part is here! Don't forget to check the first part in the Crossover category (Sonic the hedgehog + Megaman X) or you will be confused by what the heck is happening. So if you haven't read it yet, click on my nickname and search my profile for Silver path (part 1).For those who read it... stop reading this nonsense and dive in the next adventure like right now!
Their captor had them in an iron grip. Silver could barely focus on his powers while Crack was making one error noise after another. The sun disappeared behind the rock column, giving Silver better look on it.
It… or more like he did look like a hedgehog, he had only three big quills on a head with a little curvature. His skin gave him a feeling he is partially robotized or use it for enchanting his psychic powers. His chest fur was spiky and a bit messy.
His gloves had big bracelets with a big dark blue glowing stone. His boots looked rather heavy and big for his thin legs but seemed sturdy too as their tips had steel plate.
He raised his hand and closed his palm a bit. Silver yelled as he was crushed. He clenched his teeth. This was ridiculous. Why was he attacking them? Why is this world so devastated? And the only one having all these answers is the jerk that's trying to kill them.
Silver had enough. His gloves glowed and his aura pushed the dark blue one back. The attacker was surprised and even more when Silver ripped his psychic attack apart. He immediately freed Crack too.
"-Krtzz- System… reboot…"
"Why did you attacked us?!" Silver got ready for action. Their opponent was stunned only for a while, as he created a dark blue whirling ball and throw it at them. Silver avoided the attack and took Crack with him, as he was unable to move yet.
The ball formed by psychic energy completely destroyed the cliff without leaving a trace. Silver felt pressure as the other psychic started to chase them. Silver headed to a field full of stone columns and structures like big loops, funny looking stones, and other shapes. Our hero zigzagged his way trying to lose their pursuer.
"Let me down," said Crack. Silver quickly landed on an overhang.
"Do you feel better?"
"Yeah, enough to kick his butt!" The robot turned his right hand into the buster.
"It's not that I don't agree…" His speech was interrupted by collapsing rocks. The pursuer was destroying everything around him to chase them out. His psychic spheres were making pretty good job… too good for our duo.
"Hey, weird head, I'm here!" Silver jump from behind a bigger rock cliff. "Catch me if you can!" He started to fly away. The other hedgehog was just a few meters behind. For a while he just chased him and then he started to throwing a new attack. His hand now shot an energy in a form of an arrow.
It cut through stones like they were a butter. Silver silently yelled when it just missed him and seeing the result made him even more nervous. He started to doubt about his plan. Futuristic hedgehog almost caught his leg, but Silver was quicker. He grabbed him with his power and tossed him toward a rock wall.
Unfortunately, the attacker landed on his feet and jumped toward him. He created from his energy a sword. Silver avoided the attack but had to pay a few hairs from his chest. His heart was beating like crazy. He pressed against the stone wall. The attacker was getting furious. He turned in the air and prepared a bigger ball.
"Gotcha!" shouted now functional Crack and hit him to the back with a small plasma ball. The hedgehog had a hard landing. Robot jumped at him and pointed his cannon at his head. "No psycho mambo and no harm will come to yar face!"
Cybernetic mobian glared back at him. Crack's eyes noised here and there showing he wasn't fully functional.
"Don't hurt him!"
"Did I just miss 'Thank ya for saving my ugly tail.' part?" mumbled Crack sarcastically.
"Geez, thanks all right, but you don't need to kill him."
"Don't need?!" Crack shouted and adverted his eyes from the captive. "That guy almost shorted out my CPU!"
"It must be some kind of mis—Watch out!" Silver pulled Crack to himself just before psycho-ball was fired, hitting a stone wall behind them and crushing it. The duo flew back as the stones were raining down.
Cybernetic hedgehog stood up, jerked and in a pain fell down holding his chest. Silver rushed to him. The biggest stone piece yet tore down, threatening to crush them both.
"That idiot!" Crash stepped on it and flew after him.
"I've got you!" Silver took him. The big shadow made him look above. "Oh, crud!" He flew, but too slow.
"Anybody called a taxi?" Crack caught them and dragged them to safety. The huge stone crushed the land beneath it.
"Thanks, Crack, you saved us."
He put them on the land. "Ya are the dumbest psychic I have ever seen!" Crack yelled, but then a two bulbs appeared on his LCD. "Ya are actually the first one I have ever seen."
The other psychic woke up, stood up and made few quick steps to make a distance.
"It seems there was some kind of misunderstanding," Silver offered him a hand. The other hedgehog was heavily breathing. "We don't want to fight you, we onl—" The flames burst out of a small hole before Silver. "Whoah!" He fell on his butt. He quickly put out a fire on his chest.
"Bwahaha!" Crack was laughing so hard he stumbled over and fell on his butt too. Right to a hole. "Don't tell me…" The flames burst. "Hot! Hot! Hoooot!" He was hopping around and holding his butt, while Silver was rolling, kicking and laughing on the ground.
"Can it! Yar hairs will regrow, but I'll need a mechanic!" He looked at his butt. "My poor tail."
Silver stood up and rubbed tears from his eyes. The third one was carefully watching him and he took a step closer to him. Silver awkwardly smiled. He was staring at him too much making him nervous. Hedgehog raised his hand and slowly got closer to Silver.
He touched his forehead. He did it for a couple of seconds before he finally talked: "Who are you?"
Silver smiled. "I'm Silver the hedgehog and this is my companion Crack. He has a sarcastic big mouth but he isn't that bad."
"Ya're just envious of my perfect profile."
"I'm Zilver. What do you want here?"
"We are only looking for our lost friend. Maybe you have seen it. It is small hedgehog with an attached ball on its head. It can be a big prankster too."
"I may have seen it."
"That's fantastic!"
"Ehm…" interrupted him Crack.
"What's up?"
"What about filling me in?" He pointed at himself.
"What do you mean? We just talked."
"But I didn't hear him utter a single word!"
Silver was silent for a while. "But that means—!"
]Yes, I'm talking with a telepathy.[
"No wonder."
]But I can communicate with the other one too. We just need to open a communication channel since he is a machine.[
"Really? That would save us some trouble." Silver conveyed the message to Crack. He wasn't happy about that, but he did it anyway.
]Follow me.[ He flew and lead them through bare lands. The more Silver saw the more it was depressing. The sky was constantly covered by ashes, the flames were bursting out of countless holes and the air was dry only purple crystals added a new color to this death world.
"What happened here?" He had to ask.
]There we are.[
Before them appeared a floating island.
"The Angel Island?!"
"Ya mean that island with the big-butt jewel?" added Crack.
"Something like that," his comments were certainly unique.
]How do you know it?[ They landed.
"I know it will sound crazy, but we two are from different time and space." Zilver didn't react. "There are these Genesis portals that disturb the space-and-time matrix that connects different dimensions and our friend, unfortunately, went through one and ended up here."
]That's… interesting.[
"So you believe us?"
]I guess so. You look too gullible to make a good lie anyway.[
"That's our Silvie," noted happily Crack, making fun of him.
Silver wasn't happy about that, but if it helped them to make friend with this guy, so be it.
]Come with me.[ Zilver guided them to the main shrine. Even this place was totally devastated. Like the flames reached even this place. The vegetation was dead, not even bug to see. The main building was leveled, but the underground part looked solid. Some stones and broken columns were here and there, but otherwise, the place was fine.
"What happened here?" His question was ignored.
]I believe this is it.[ The room wasn't big, but it was so-so decorated with old furniture and some machines. The virtual hedgehog flew to them, happy to see a familiar face. ]It ended up in my home. It was indeed lucky. Any other place would lead to his demise.[
Silver jerked. He was really lucky.
]Since you have him, you can go. Your mission is fulfilled.[ He slightly bowed and went further to the ruins.
Silver didn't like it. Not at all.
"So, let's go. We have got the last coordination too," said Crack when the portal to laboratory closed.
"No."
"Come again?"
"I said no. This world needs help."
"Are ya crazy or stupid?" Crack spread his arms. "Look around ya! This world is finished. Kaput!"
"How can you know it?!"
"'Cause I have made a scan of my surrounding, that's why!" He called a small hologram showing a land they flew over. "Just look. The planet is dead. There is no water, vegetation, no life. It's too late for it." He closed it.
"If it's too late know," hedgehog clenched his fists, "then we just have to return in the time!"
Crack made a skeptical face. "Hah?"
"Just think. If we change the history, we will change this place too."
"And did it occurred to ya, that would mean having an information what caused this?"
"We can just ask him."
"Yeah, right. He just ignored ya two times, what makes ya believe it won't be for the third time too?"
"That's because he has no hope. I'll show him a path to the better future… or the past… whatever works."
"And one more thing…" Crack pointed at him, but then he stopped, "… or not, just go to him. If my scan is right, ya will find something interesting there." He indicated him to go. So Silver went.
Crack looked at the machines. "Great. My memory is still wonky from the shock and I'm about to give a kick to microchips. I better get paid for this." He sat on a chair and accessed the computer. "Let's see…"
Silver noticed the corridor was going deeper. He already knew the Angel Island was full of ruins, but this was like… destroyed ruins. The walls were full of cracks and dust was falling here and there on his head. He wondered what happened to Knuckles, Sonic and other heroes he used to know.
"Zilver…?" he silently approached a door leading to the last room. It was lighted and in the middle of the hexagonal room was the Master Emerald. Silver gasped as it was cracked, its light was dim and the color was almost gone. 'Is it dying?' He never heard about it. 'That's!' he gasped.
Zilver was connected with few cables to jewel's pedestal apparently recharging and leaning against big crystal structure. Silver come closer. It looked like something was inside of it. He squinted, but he couldn't recognize it.
"Pss, Silvie, c'mon for a sec." Cracked silently called him. "Wanna hear about this world?" he continued when they returned to the previous room.
"Of course."
"Then sit down and listen." Silver raised his left eyebrow, but he did it nevertheless. "This world was pretty fine till some 200 years ago. Some big-butt monster from underground started to wreak havoc. The flames were bursting from the whole planet and no place was safe. Most of the population died during few first months.
No organization was able to subdue that phenomenon. The survivors then settled here on Angel Island and many generations they tried to kill the monster, but to no avail. It completely burned the land."
Silver clenched his fists.
"According to the data it's called Iblis and what more, it isn't alone. There is some dark hedgehog by his side. He isn't breathing flames or big-butt sized, but he has one nasty ability." Crack looked toward the last room. "Did ya notice the crystal back there?"
"Yeah, I did." He stood up. "I think something is inside."
"Yup, the remains."
Silver shivered. "What?"
"Yup, that dark bastard can capture others inside of crystals and after some time, they will turn to crystal itself."
Silver fell on his butt. "So all the purple crystals were…?"
"Oh yeah and that's why I told ya to sit down."
"Why would anybody do that?"
"It seems their existence is nothing more than total destruction."
]Why you are still here?[ Zilver must have finished his charging.
"We will help you!" Silver jumped to his feet. "We will help you to change the world! Let's go to the past!"
]What…? But that's…[
"Totally possible!" Silver confidently smiled. "Genesis portal can take us anywhere!"
"If ya know the right coordination, that's it," added Crack.
]It's pointle—[
"It's not!" Silver shouted.
Crack put his hand on Silver's shoulder. "If ya allow me." Silver smirked, he had a feeling this will be good. "So, Zilvie, let's make our facts straight, shall we?" Zilver frowned. "Ya are living in a death world, the whole population was crystallized, the Master Emerald can run out of energy any given day and ya still refuse to take a chance to change it?"
]I can't…[
"No, you can't."
Silver raised his eyebrow. That's not the right way to persuade someone.
"Not alone, but with us, it's possible." Zilver didn't answer. "So ya would rather die here alone, then die while trying?"
'Crack is taking it too far.' Silver noticed Zilver clenching his fists. Crack hit the spot! Zilver was angrily staring at him and gritting his teeth too. "Good, I take it as yes!" He turned to Silver. "Get on with it, Silvie!"
"It's Silver, jerk-bot!" But he was grinning, he felt electricity running through his body. He stopped. "To which time we should actually go?"
"Ya just had to kill the mood, don't ya?"
]I know. My master often told me the stories about the past.[
"Then put your minds together and make our path already!"
Zilver put his hand on Silver's one. They closed eyes and focused. Zilver was thinking on the date his master mentioned as a beginning of the end while Silver was making the portal.
"Cool job, ya two!" The portal was before them.
Silver took a deep breath and jumped through it. Zilver was watching in a daze. The path to change everything was before him. He never thought about it.
"Psychos first." Crack gallantly showed him the way.
Zilver slowly went through it, closing his eyes. His heart was beating fast. 'I'll avenge you, master.' Once he stepped on the other side, he felt cold. The difference was like coming from the Hell to North pole. His whole body shivered.
To be continued…
The first chapter of a new and long arc is here! What do you think? Please, let me know.