Chapter 3: Power of Chaos Control
Hex, the dark warlock whom came to Sonic's universe had finally acquired himself a Chaos Emerald from Shadow the hedgehog. To which case, before trying to find the Master Emerald, Hex then began to concentrate on meditating with the Chaos Emerald in a dark secluded place on the Floating Island.
"Now, to see how powerful this emerald really is" said Hex as he laid it down and began to meditate.
But as the dark warlock was trying to retrieve its power, Sonic and Shadow were getting out in quite a sticky situation.
"I'm never going to eat any mushrooms ever again!" cried Sonic as he finally got the yucky goo off of himself.
"Same here" added Shadow.
"We should really find out where that crazy magic guy went" said Tails as he went toward Sonic.
"Yeah, so would I, but we don't know where the heck he seems to be" replied Sonic.
"And I'm way out of luck with my Chaos Control, after he took the emerald from me" said Shadow.
"Don't worry Sonic, I'll try to find this guy for you" said Tails as he started to fly up and do a scouting mission for Sonic.
Meanwhile, in a dark secluded place on the Floating Island, Hex had managed to use the power of his staff to take a chip from the emerald he had acquired from Shadow. He then placed the shard of the emerald, with the crystal that was on his staff.
"Yes, in due time I shall be able to retrieve the sort of power this so-called Chaos Emerald as it's called here" said Hex, "soon no one, not in this universe, or the universe I came from can stop me."
"Oh yeah, that's what you think" said a voice above Hex.
As the dark warlock looked above, he noticed that it was Tails whom had quickly spotted him.
"Begone two-tailed pest, or face my wrath!" cried Hex.
Hex then pointed his staff with the shard of the Chaos Emerald with the original crystal and began to fire what seemed like red with green rays coming from it.
"I'm out of here!" cried Tails as he raced back where Sonic and Shadow were.
"Look, it's Tails!" cried Sonic as he noticed Tails was flying away from something.
"Looks like he's in trouble, I'm on it!" said Shadow as he sped right up toward where Tails was.
"Not if I get there first pal!" boosted Sonic as he also raced alongside with Shadow.
The two hedgehogs raced side by side, right next to each other. They then managed to pass Tails, who halted as they did so to follow them where he once was. But as the two hedgehogs were arriving to the scene where Hex was, the dark warlock had managed to gain much of the Chaos Emerald's strength, through the piece of the shard he had chipped off, and attached to the crystal on his staff.
"That's right you two, come right toward your doom!" laughed Hex.
Hex then fired a large fireball from his magic staff, to which he noticed that the Chaos Emerald shard was providing the original crystal with even more power than usual.
"Say, I think we should really duck!" cried Shadow as the two hedgehogs saw the large fireball coming straight toward them.
"I can handle it!" boosted Sonic.
The blue hedgehog then began to spun around, and around creating a mini-tornado to counter the oncoming large fireball. The two forces of wind and fire collided, letting out a large explosion sending the two hedgehogs flying right into the air, to which Tails managed to catch them both.
"Nice catch!" remarked Sonic to Tails.
"You two are kind of heavy together!" cried Tails who was trying to lift them up.
"We have to stop that guy before he reaches where Knuckles is!" cried Sonic referring, to of course Hex.
"I'm going to take him on myself!" cried Shadow.
Shadow then leaped right out of Tails' grip, and spun himself into a sharp spiky ball aiming right toward Hex who was about to unleash another one of his tricks. Before Hex could accomplish it, Shadow managed to race right into Hex, giving him a good punch right in the face, and sending Hex crashing right into a nearby tree.
"Very impressive" said Hex as he managed to recover from the attack, to which he promptly grabbed the Chaos Emerald he had acquired from the black hedgehog, "but you won't look so powerful, when I use your own weapon against you!"
"That's what you think!" shouted Shadow as he geared up for another attack against Hex.
"Oh I think not" laughed Hex as he then began to fire rapidly at Shadow.
Suddenly, as Shadow thought he had the upper hand in the battle, one of the rays managed to knock him off balance sending him collapsing right to the ground.
"Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to use the same brand of power you used to get to the Master Emerald, and retrieve its powers for my own!" laughed Hex.
With one wave of his magic staff, Hex then managed to use the Chaos Control power, from the Chaos Emerald creating a portal of some sort.
"He's heading to where Knuckles is located, stop him!" cried Tails to Shadow who was still trying to head toward the area.
"Oh, let me do it then" said Sonic as he leaped off from Tails' grasp, and sped right toward where Hex was.
"Too late blue being!" shouted Hex as he fired one last strange ray from his staff, sending Sonic off balance like Shadow and crashing right into him.
"Get off of me!" cried Shadow as he pushed Sonic off.
"We have to get to where the Master Emerald is, and Knuckles!" cried Tails.
"Way ahead of you!" cried Sonic.
"Not if I get there first, he has my Chaos Emerald after all" added Shadow who sped off first before Sonic.
Meanwhile, back in the chambers of where the Master Emerald was kept, Hex had finally arrived on the scene ready to retrieve its power. But before he could accomplish it, a hard punch out of nowhere came, punching Hex right in the cheek and sending him crashing into the diamond-made walls behind him quite hard.
"If you're here for the Master Emerald, you're going to have to go through me first" said Knuckles as he began ready for a fight.