When the hedgehog dissipated, all that was left was a black emerald.
. . .
Sonic could hear the ocean. He opened his eyes, seeing the blue sky above.
'No battle..' He thought to himself. His headache was gone now, but his chest hurt like hell.
He begun to stand, almost falling down. He was on the shore of the prison island. He could see his reflection in the water, but he wish he hadn't looked. His chest was pulsing. Blue energy glowed bright on his chest, in a strange spiral pattern. He touched the pattern, feeling nothing but his chest, as if it wasn't affected at all. He looked around again. The island glew brightly, but that was from the sun. The beach shone happily, as if nothing was going on. He listened to how peacefull the island sounded, and was startled by a sudden grunt. He turned around to see Shadow staggering towards him.
"Shadow.." Sonic stepped forwards.
His shoes were busted, almost completely destroyed. His fur was covered in burns. Sonic could see the same spiral pattern on shadow's chest, but his was red.
"Shadow..what happened?" Sonic walked towards him.
"Idiot..If you had dodged that attack, we could have won.." Shadow said through his teeth.
"I didn't see it coming.." Sonic scratched his head.
"Hm-gck.." His grunt was interrupted by a cough of blood.
"Shadow!" He ran to his rival's side.
"Don't you have healing powers?"
"I can't..use them..for some reason.." Shadow held his hand up. Nothing happened.
"Shadow...just tell me what happened." Sonic was worried about him, but he had to know how he got so badly hurt.
"Hhmph.."
. . .
And they thought they could win.
The blue one wasn't hard to take care of. I feel like he would've been a problem if kept conscious, and the seal should stop him for quite a while. So many mobians with the ability to control chaos, much more than before, but they're worthless. That black hedgehog is the only one that could possibly stop me, at this point. But he doesn't have much time left.
"CHAOS-" I interrupted him with a kick to the jaw, sending him flying into the wall behind him.
If he can't use attacks without shouting their name first, then he's even more worthless than the unconscious one. And if his only attacks use chaos, then-
"HAA!" The hedgehog dashed out of the room, and then teleported behind me, keeping his momentum and kicking me in the back of the head.
He's harmed my ultimate body twice now.. He'll pay for that.
I gave him no time for reaction. I grabbed him by the arm, probably breaking it, and throwing him through the prison roof, right next to the hole I made. How comical.
. . .
Sonic and Shadow began to walk around the island, to the front of the prison. There were dead soldiers everywhere. Sonic was shocked, but Shadow kept walking, albeit limping a bit. The door was sealed shut, but he kicked it open with his good leg.
"So..We're looking for medical stuff, right?" Sonic tried to shake away what he'd just seen, but it'd take more than that.
It was even worse inside. There was obviously a battle here, bits and pieces of GUN mechs were strewn around the room, some bodies lay inside, some out.
. . .
I decided to grab the blue hedgehog, in case he wakes up. I flew through my hole, up and into the sky. I looked around for the black one, and threw the blue hedgehog on the beach where I could see him. A barrage of chaos spears shot at me, but I dodged them easily. That fool, giving away his position so easily-
But he wasn't there.
"CHAOS CONTROL!"
He flew through me repeatedly, spinning me around with the amount of attacks. I could see him smirking everytime he flew at me. He thought he could actually win.
The shoes he's wearing.. Those are allowing him to fly. I'll get rid of them.
I reeled my hands back, gathering chaos. The hedgehog noticed, and stopped his attack to watch. He might be able to sense large amounts of chaos, as his expression slowly changed from confidence to fear. All he could do is dodge, but he wouldn't be able to.
. . .
"That sucks.." Sonic said as they walked through a hallway.
"It was a one-sided battle." Shadow looked down as he said this, shamed that he had to admit it.
This hallway was fairly clean, a few tools lay on the ground. An open doorway with a half-charred sign that read "Medical -" confirmed that they were headed in the right direction.
. . .
I could see the glow of my attack in his eyes, slowly becoming larger and larger. And then it disappeared. Back into me, as i'd need that energy later. He touched his gloves, taking off the rings around them. Whatever those were, they limited his powers. He was much stronger now, almost even equal to me. His fur glowed blue.
Not this time.
As he used his time control technique, I used my own. I dashed forwards with my hand pulsing in chaos, and slammed my palm into his chest. His realization came too late, and I began my barrage. The only thing keeping him in the air were my attacks.
. . .
"I fell down to the beach..And.."
"Lost consciousness."
"Geez Shadow..You had a hard time.." They both looked around the emergency room. It was the best place to get bandages.
Shadow opened some cabinets, he mumbled something to himself as he searched.
Sonic looked over Shadow once more.
His jets definitely didn't work anymore, and his gloves were totaled. His fur was rustled, and bits of twigs and leaves were scattered around in it. His inhibitor rings were on now. Sonic guessed he must have regained consciousness before him, and put them back on. His chest was undamaged compared to the rest of his body.
"Pretty rough, huh.."
"If you couldn't hurt him with your inhibitors off, then i wouldn't have lasted long either.." Sonic looked around.
"So you don't know where he went.." He sighed.
"Can you run?"
Shadow took a moment to think. He wrapped bandages around his arms and legs, including his hands and feet. He put on his damaged jet shoes and nodded to Sonic.
"Tails could repair your stuff for you..So we should go to him." Sonic knew his buddy well, the fox never turned down any of his requests.
They walked out of the prison with high hopes.
. . .
Black. The white hedgehog was surrounded by it. An embodiment of his own negativity, an infinite darkness that only seemed to get darker every second. You'd feel sorry for him if you didn't know what he's done in his lifetime. You'd stop feeling sorry if you saw that he was grinning like a madman. Echoing laughter. He'd definitely gone mad.
But then, for the first time in forever, he'd seen light. Dark, purple light. It had to be a figment of his imagination, a made-up hallucination to calm himself down, as if it was possible at that point.
No.
A black and purple hedgehog appeared before him. His eyes glowed red and yellow, various purple crystalline patches on his body glowing purple.
"You want to be free." He did.
"You want to be free, so that you can kill the ones that put you in here." He did.
"You don't care who you kill, as long as they have an ounce of chaos in them, they belong to you." Yes...
Free...Free...FREE!
I'LL BE FREE!
The emerald shattered against the ground. A black and grey hedgehog looked down at it. Another pawn in his plan. The first step, completed.
