Live Fast Die Young
Chapter 2
A New Generation
A gravel wasteland covered in a thick fog, thick enough to barely see more than a few yards ahead, was silent. But only for a moment. Deep within the fog, an explosion and the crash of metal could be heard. A black hedgehog with red streaks stood before a draconic looking Metal Sonic prototype, known as Metal Overlord. Yet this one lacked wings, and instead had two sets of thick legs. The angered hedgehog, the infamous Shadow, stared into the beasts eyes and into the hole he left in its head, wondering why such an army of intimidating yet weak prototypes was built. "These machines are all as weak as eggsoldiers… structurally at least…. So why even make them?… and who?…"
As Shadow had his back turned, a Metal Overlord stepped up behind him and prepared to swallow him whole, but at the last second, a red flash came shooting by and tore a hole directly through the great steel titan, crushing its hide and leaving it as a scrap heap on its side. Shadow turned around to look and saw nothing but the Metal Overlord, and felt a strong gust shoot past his neck. As he looked around, all he saw was the fog thinning and dozens of prototypes surrounding him. "This isn't-" Suddenly, Shadow was interrupted as the red blur shot past another mechs legs and cut its feet clean off, causing it to crash on top of another. "Hmm……. Chaos… Control!" Shadows vision was slowed enough to clearly see who he was dealing with, and was baffled by what he saw.
*1* The black shoes with gold rings on the straps, black rings around the wrists and ankles, the flaring red spines, and two katana. This was the next generation of speed. This was….
"Who are you?! Identify yourself!" One of the mechs asked.
"I'm Scion! The Crimson Wind!" Scion instantly took off at mach three and leapt into the air, spinning directly through the mech that had inquired his name, tearing a hole in its chest, and leaving the rest of its body crushed by the boost aura. As he spun out its back, Scion landed on his feet and began to skid backwards on the gravel, then backflipped onto another Overlords head, stabbing both katana in as he slid back, then leapt off just before it was engulfed an a massive explosion, flipping through the air surrounded by a red gust. As Scion landed, he kept running directly toward a line of Overlords marching in file, which were all struck down as he spun through the whole troop. Scion looked back for a moment to admire his work as they were all engulfed in fiery explosions, only to look down a moment later and find nothing under his feet.
Scion slowly began to fall, having no wall nearby to stab his katana into. But he then realized he was flying, hovering in the skies beyond his control. Scion looked up to find a white hedgebat with black streaks holding him up. Scion smirked and chuckled a bit, amused by the new arrival.
"So, you're Shadows kid, huh?"
"That's right. Name's Eclipse." Eclipse quickly turned them around and threw Scion into the fray, who spun into another set of Overlords and tore them like tissue paper. Eclipse then began to fire an array of Chaos Disks, chopping the Overlords into scrap metal with ease. Just as Scion was about to hit a cliff, a forcefield was put in his path and he bounced to the left, crashing through another Overlord. Silver ran past Shadow and skid across the ground, leaping into the air and unleashing a psychokinetic blade, cutting down a whole line of them.
"Mobius! Get in here!" Suddenly, a gray hedgecat ran up behind Silver and leapt into the air, suddenly turning light brown with dark brown markings.
"RICHTER FIST!" Mobius came crashing down and his impact with the ground caused a mass of stone spires to grow, stabbing into several overlords. As the field was engulfed in flames, at the center of the ring of fire stood the three new warriors of the generation, Scion, Eclipse, and Mobius. The new generation of the greatest heroes ever to live. Silver and Shadow stood in amazement as they finally saw how powerful their children had become, how the hearts of warriors burned within them from the days they were born. Scion smirked as he turned back to the others and devised a plan.
"Alright guys, lets finish them off with everything we got! Lets take it to the next level!" Eclipse and Mobius nodded and they began to charge their full power. Mobius quickly turned orange with red markings, his three spines aiming to the skies, fur fluttering like the tips of flames, hovering a few inches above the ground, absorbing all the flames surrounding them. Eclipse slowly rose one hand over his head, hand shaped into a gun, with a condensed mass of blue chaos energy with red lighting hovering over his fingertip. Scion slowly swiped his hand over his blade and it began to glow red, a chaos aura slowly surrounding him.
"FLARE GUN!" Mobius aimed his hand toward the troop in front of him and the flames engulfed them, overheating their circuits and causing them to all explode.
"ECLIPSE CANNON!" Eclipse aimed his finger toward the troop in his direction and began to fire an intense beam of blue chaos energy with red lightning, which he controlled to sweep past every one of them ahead of him, blasting them into shrapnel.
Scion reared back his blade and ran into the crowd of them, then as he was at its center, midair, he quickly swung his blade a full turn and unleashed an extended blade of raw chaos energy. "CHAOS BLADE!" The blade quickly began to tear the Overlords apart, their scraps being turned to scrap with every movement Scion made. A sphere of strobed chaos lights surrounded him and Scion began to spindash midair, the scraps being torn to shreds and leaving nothing but shards of metal and wire littered the battlefield. As Scion stopped spinning and took his ground, the other four stood in awe of his power, unable to believe that at only thirteen years old, this kid was already as powerful as his dad was when he was twenty one.
Shadow smirked as he realized that his own son was also slowly surpassing him. The next generation had a long and difficult future ahead of them as they would soon find out. As Shadow and Silver admired their childrens work, Scion, Eclipse, and Mobius were swapping high-fives and admiring each others work and powers, showing off of course. If only they knew what was ahead of them….
