Chapter 1: From enemy to ally
[Angel Island 12:00 PM]
The midday winds were calm and peaceful for Rage who was sitting in a field in front of The Shrine of The Master Emerald. They sun was high and the Chao were running about playing. Tikal and Chaos were sitting together just chilling like Rage was.
Soon Rage felt a surge of dark energy and he jumped to his feat and turned around to see his mortal enemy Christain the Dark. But something felt different about him...
"What are you doing here Christain?!" Rage yells "You're not getting the Chaos Emeralds if thats what you want!" Rage then summons the Blade of Chaos ready for anything.
"Calm down..." Christain says "I need..." he stops like it was killing him to just say it "...your...help Rage the Hedgehog..." he finally finishes with a heavy sigh of hatred for himself
"Okay unless this is some trick how desperate are you coming to ask me for help?" Rage asks Christain questioning weather or not this was some kind of trap or something.
"Look if I am coming to you, the hedgehog I hate above everything else then I am pretty damn desperate!" Christain yells "Your anti-version Darkness stole my dark power leaving me weak and with little abilities! If he's not stopped who knows what will happen!"
"Okay and why should I help you Christain? I mean he's not harming Mobius... honestly I could care less what happens to your power as long as Mobius and the Light/Dark balance is stable I will play no part in it!" Rage says sounding persistant
"Thats the thing you ignorant hedgehog! He's coming for the Light World, if he was staying there I wouldn't have come to you now would I? I know you'd never help me even if your life depended on it!" Christain growls
"Well when you put that way..." Rage says finally understanding the desperateness of the dark hedgehog. "...I will help you," Rage sighs, Christain's face almost lit up at the words "On one condition... If I help you and get your dark power back you will not intrude with the balance of Light and Dark, or Mobius and the Chaos Emeralds for a whole Cosmic Cycle!" Rage looks at Christain with a serious look. A Cosmic Cycle was about 15 years on Mobius!
Christain put serious thought into it before agreeing. "Fine... Thank you...Rage" he says
"Yeah...yeah" Rage sighs "I am going to want a long shower after we're done with this..." Rage grabs the Chaos Emeralds and walks back over to Christain "Okay look hold on to my hand. I can use a Chaos Control to get us to the Dark world." Rage says to Christain.
"Not gonna happen... After I fled Darkness blocked the transports to and from Mobius... the only device we could use is in one of Eggheads old military factories..." Christain says shaking his head
"make that two long showers..." Rage sighs...
"you and me both..." Christain says back. This actually made Rage laugh, Christain never acted so calm or had much of a sense of humor... could it be that with out his normal dark power he is a completely different person? Rage wondered about all of that for a few minutes before Christain broke his thought train.
"Rage... how much do you hate the darkness?" he asks in a calm voice
"You know Christain... I don't hate it... I just despise what it cant do to people when they are not careful..." Rage says "Now I have a question... without all your dark power that Darkness stole from you... you act like a whole different person why?"
"My Dark Power holds most of my emotional memories... without it my emotional memories are limited to my most used..." Christain explains "Look Rage I hate this just as much as you do but you must understand how important this it to me... I am the only one who can control that level of dark power without going insane so we have to stop Darkness no matter what!" he says
the two walk down a street where Rage's brother Icezer kicks Christain on to his face...
"Take that you gray bastard!" he yelled before seeing Rage with him, "Rage what the hell are you doing with Christain?!"
"As hard as it is to believe Icezer I am helping him regain his dark power from Darkness... Only because Darkness is a threat with it greater the he is." Rage explains using a healing spell for Christain. "He is like a whole different person without it." he says to the icy blue hedgehog.
Christain gets up and looks at Icezer with a fire of anger. Icezer was afraid he was going to be killed by the hedgehog but instead he said "Look I know how unbelievable this sound and looks Icezer but its true. Now can you please not kick me again? It was not pleasant getting some dirt in my mouth..."
Icezer looked at the hedgehog completely stunned by the reaction... he was not even attacking Icezer! "your n-not mad?" he asks the gray hedgehog...
"Yes I'm mad... but I'm not going to attack you.." Christain says even though he wanted to beat the living daylights out of the icy blue hedgehog...
"Wow... I guess I'm actually sorry about that then..." Icezer says feeling guilty
"it's okay Icezer..." Christain sighs catching up with Rage.
Not only did he not attack Icezer but he even accepted an apology?! That was too surreal for even Icezer! But it must have been ture... and Christain must be real desperate to even concider asking Rage for any kind of help on anything!
"Good luck Christain... Rage..." he says to the two before they depart again for the old base Eggman used.
[Ruined War Factory 5:33 PM]
Rage and Christain were looking around for the room with the built in warp unit that shielded it from the blocks Darkness put up.
"Hay Rage over here I found it!" Christain yells after about two hours of looking
"Great lets get going Christain!" Rage yells walking into the teleporter with Christainand theyset the location to Dark Mobius. Soon with a mixture of sounds a bright yellow light blinded the two and they awoken in what looked like the Field of No Return... The two then begin the search for Darkness...
TBC... well what did you think?