Sonic sped through the door of Tails' workshop in Mystic Ruins. The young fox was sorting out his tools and materials at the back of the room.

"Tails, you'll never guess what just happened to me!" Sonic exclaimed, unable to keep his excitement in any longer. Tails turned around from the mess at the rear end of the room in a hurry. Sonic walked up to him with a smile on his face while Tails waited for to hear what happened, looking concerned. "Try and guess!"

"Sonic, how can I guess what happened? Knowing the kind of adventures you get into you could have gone to an alternate universe where I'm a girl or jumped to the tenth dimension," Tails said irritably.

"How could I have done that in one morning?" Sonic asked. Tails raised an eyebrow.

"Anything's possible for you, Sonic," the fox smiled. Sonic sighed and decided to tell Tails what happened.

"Eggman gave me new powers!" the hedgehog exclaimed. Tails' took a step back and looked at Sonic questioningly.

"Sonic… you should be careful with those powers, they could be dangerous, especially coming from Eggman. Why would he do you a favour like that?"

"Hehe. That's the best part, he wasn't doing me a favour. He was trying to kill me with this negative chaos stuff but it did the opposite; it made me more powerful," Sonic explained.

"But Sonic, if it was meant to kill you, it could be harming you now!" Tails exclaimed.

"Don't worry!" Sonic said with lack of worry. "I'll be fine, it nearly did kill me. I could be dead by now, but I guess my body accepted it."

Tails didn't like his friend's carelessness; he felt like Sonic was bringing himself to an early grave. The fox folded his arms and frowned at him.

"I thought you would take this better, Tails. Stop worrying!" Sonic exclaimed, and got exited again. "I can't wait to tell the others! I'm going to go out and test my new moves!"

Tails watched as the hyperactive hedgehog ran out of the door again without a care. He went to the window and watched as Sonic threw many dark balls of energy at the floor around him. "At least he thought to stay a safe distance from the workshop."

On his own, Sonic practiced powers he already knew; then tested for any others. There was the dark energy ball and the improved spin dash, but what else did he have? And how effective would these powers be with the chaos emeralds? Sonic felt giddy just thinking about it, he had more than just his speed and regular moves to use in adventures now. Even if it did make him comes across as dark.

Sonic's attacks slightly seared the grass around him. He didn't want to destroy anything, just test out his new moves. The blue hedgehog smirked when he thought of a power his rival used. Shadow and his chaos spear. Would Sonic have something similar to that? The hedgehog thought about it and held his hand out flat and a purple sphere appeared again.

"No-no-no," Sonic complained and shook his hand and it sizzled away; discarding what he didn't want. Sonic held it out to the side, as though he had a dagger in his hand and it appeared; a dark purple chaos spear. He cheered in triumph. It was small, but it existed. The hedgehog swung his hand as though he threw the spear and it hit a tree nearby, one of the smaller branches on the tree snapped and hung by the bark.

Sonic cringed then turned around to see Tails in the window of his workshop looking shocked. The mischievous hedgehog gave a nervous laugh then waved. Tails gave a look of disapproval. "Sorry buddy, I think I've damaged your tree," Sonic said sincerely, even though he knew Tails wouldn't hear him.

Sonic shrugged it off and turned back to the tree again. He would give his friend a real apology later.

The blue hedgehog began to shiver, he looked up to the sky. The sun vanished and the clouds came to say hello. This automatically made him feel somewhat miserable, but a bit of cold wouldn't get him down.

Drip.

Sonic sighed since it was raining, and a raindrop had fallen on his head. The hero hated the rain; he hated getting wet in general. This meant that he would have to go inside, even though he was enjoying himself and only getting started. Just one more, Sonic thought.

A sphere appeared in his hand when he stretched out his palm. Sonic gasped, this one was different. It had a tint of green to it on the top where the rain touched it.

Every drop of water that fell on it was repelled by the dark energy. Sonic waited for the rain to get heavier. He became wet, but so did the sphere, and the wetter the sphere got, the greener it became. Sonic gave a chuckle of interest; these new powers were perplexing.

The ball floating in Sonic's hand was almost emerald green all over. He shot it at he biggest puddle and an explosion of lime and jade splattered around it. All of the water from the puddle was repelled and thrown around it. Sonic stood to admire the energy fading away. It was the same colour as his eyes, which made the new powers feel personal to him. The shame was, he had to get it wet to make it this way.

The blue hedgehog trudged back inside. When he closed the door he gave his body a quick shake. Water droplets flew off of his fur and onto the floor and walls around him. Tails was still bust sorting out his tools, but still turned around when he heard the door slam. "Sorry about the tree Tails," Sonic said while rubbing the back of his neck.

"It's okay Sonic," Tails gave a friendly sigh and walked over to him. "I think you were right, these powers are benefiting you instead of harming you."

"Yep! I can't wait to tell the others! They're going to be so amazed!" Sonic said in excitement.

"When do you not amaze people, Sonic?" Tails said smartly. "You even amazed me. When it started raining I noticed something, just before I went back to work."

"What? The green, isn't it so cool!?"

"Yes, and the fact that water is repelled from it. Sonic, if you're ever stuck in water again, you could use one of those balls as a shield!"

Sonic's smile grew wider at the ever expanding possibilities of these powers. He wanted to go and test it out, but not right now. The rain was too heavy and he would need the others to help him out of the water if it didn't work.

BOOM

Sonic and Tails ran to the window at the sound of an explosion in the distance, then screaming. "Tails, station square's under attack!" Sonic exclaimed and ran to the door; getting ready to head off to the smoke plumes in the near distance.

"Let's take the Tornado!" the fox jumped into action and opened the large garage door to the side and jumped in his plane. Sonic jumped on the wing as the mini jet started up and lifted off out of the small building.

As Sonic rode towards Station Square, one terrifying thought floated through his mind. Maybe Eggman wasn't dead.