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Chaos Madness
-Chapter 2: Dear my Friend-
Before Shadow could asked what he was talking about, Dark Gaia roared a second time causing another earthquake, which started splitting the planet into the six continents. The waves were moving like a blender in action. The wind was howling and it quickly passed through city like a hurricane.
"This feels again like déjà vu!" Sonic said leaning in Shadow´s shoulder.
"Don´t touch me, Sonic…"
As the planet divided, Dark Gaia spread itself in a purple cloud throughout the world as it did before, darkening the world making it seem a comfy, dark violet pillow from outer space.
The monster disappeared completely. Now the planet had been torn apart once again, leaving it without communication services.
"Damn."
"What the heck? This didn´t happen last time."
"Yeah, I know."
"Wait, you know?!"
"How wouldn´t I notice about it? Everyone knew. It´s not "classified", it could have been the end of the world."
"Ah, you don´t know the other thing…"
"Is there something else I should know?"
"Ehehe, not at all!"
Shadow wondered if Sonic was hiding something from him. Secrets among them were not often revealed, but they needed to, sooner or later. Whatever had happened in their relationship was now history. The only thing that mattered now was to stick together. They were the only the heroes standing on Earth. Now, their duty was to protect the planet from enemy threats at all costs. Perhaps both knew that this was a diehard challenge for them. A simple test that could strengthened their ability to work as a team. None of them had really teamed up like that before. Maybe they had thought about it. But at this point, both hedgehogs had to be done with the "friendship" stuff. This was serious business. Even Sonic, the one running around and trashing robots, knew that having fun was not always the answer. He had a great time fighting Eggman, it felt awesome to stop him from conquering the world, but at the same time, he could feel the great responsibility that it took. And now it takes even more, for the planet to be safe.
"Shad?"
"What?"
"I need to tell ya something…"
"I think that right now we should go look for those Chaos Emeralds, again. We need to stop that thing."
"Yeah but…"
A white light flashed them and a voice echoed in their ears:
"Sonic… Sonic… Sonic… Sonic…"
"Wha- what is…? Chip?"
The little creature appeared right in front of them fluttering its green wings and giving Sonic a big, warm hug.
"I- I can´t believe it! How are you lil´buddy?"
"Pretty great, Sonic! It´s been a long time."
"Why everyone knows you, faker?" Shadow asked sarcastically.
"Because I´m the best!"
"Yeah, right…"
"Um, Chip? Would you mind if I asked you to stop the hug thingy? I am suffocating here."
"Oh yeah. Sorry, but I really missed you." Chip said letting go of Sonic.
"Hey, it´s okay! I missed you too!" Sonic gave the little fella a smile, letting him know that it was great to have him back.
"Hmph. I´m gonna interrupt this "happy" moment for you…We got a situation here if you haven´t notice yet." Shadow said crossing his arms looking down to the destroyed Station Square. Sonic reacted and asked Chip what happened.
"I certainly don´t know, Sonic. All I can say is that we were asleep in the core of the planet, and suddenly Dark Gaia managed to wake up and went up destroying the Earth´s layers, being able to appear right in this city. I followed him because I thought it was impossible for him to wake up at this time."
"So, you don´t know?"
"Not a clue…"
"I do."
From the distance, Tikal could be seen floating towards them. "I know what happened."
"You´re back? I guess it has to do with the Master Emerald, right?" Sonic asked.
"Not at all. In fact, the Master Emerald is okay. I´m just here to let you know that Dark Gaia wants to destroy Earth."
"What?!"
"Who´s this girl, Sonic?"
"Wait a second, Chip. Tikal, what you´re saying it´s true? Why would Dark Gaia want that?"
"That is completely unknown."
"Are you kidding me?"
"No, it´s just that I think that Dark Gaia is being controlled by someone."
"Being controlled?"
"She´s right, Sonic!" Chip exclaimed waving his hands. "Dark Gaia never wanted to blow up the world. His "job" is only to bring night to it."
"Well, it looks like somebody´s behind all this." Shadow said.
"That and also taking note that Dark and Light Gaia could have also being unbalanced by the EVIL rising." Tikal explained.
"Who´s Light Gaia?"
"Me!" Chip said pointing at himself.
"So, what should we do?" Sonic asked.
"You need once again all seven Chaos Emeralds to defeat Dark Gaia. But before that, you should find out if someone is manipulating it."
"All right. Let´s do it!"
"Yeah!" Chip shouted cheering at Shadow, who turned to the other side ignoring him.
Tikal waved them goodbye as she floated up to the sky slowly disappearing until no part of her spirit was left. At the same time, a wild flame rose from the center of Station Square burning everything around it.
The three heroes quickly ran towards it, feeling its powerful, hot temperature. It suddenly started to move like a tornado, sucking and burning everything. Shadow covered Sonic and Chip from it as both lied down in the ground. The black hedgehog covered his eyes with his arms, not letting the fire reach them.
The fire stopped by itself. Sonic stood up and grabbed Shadow´s shoulder.
"Thanks."
Apparently, everything around was burned now. It looked like if a small volcano made eruption just in that spot. It was strange. Shadow walked towards what seemed the tornado´s center and held his ground.
"Stay here."
Sonic nodded. Shadow approached slowly to his destination and sighed in relief.
"Hey, you all right?" He said stretching his hand.
"Umm, yeah… I´m fine." An unknown girl replied grabbing Shadow´s hand.
He helped her to get up. "What happened there?"
-O-O-O-
Sonic was with Chip waiting for Shadow to return. When he saw in the distance two blurry figures, he approached. When he saw Shadow with the new girl, he gasped astonished of what his eyes were looking at.
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