The Wielders of Chaos part 3

"A Supersonic Hero, Reborn"

A door quickly opened then slammed shut. There stood Miles trying to catch his breathe after today's activities. Miles inhaled deeply then exhaled just as hard trying desperately to calm his heart that was beating so fast he thought it might burst. His body felt like it was moving through pudding as he navigated to his bed on the other side of the apartment. The apartment he lived in was adequate, and was quite livable. It was clearly cleaned often. The bed sat underneath a window that had a spectacular view of the city below. The window displayed the dark sky and also revealed the room was about two stores up, soft wood floor that only creaked slightly underneath his feet, a stove was against the wall closer to the door, and the fridge sat adjacent to it. The kitchen area was tiled instead of a wood flooring, and a small dining table sat on the kitchen portion of the room as well. A ceiling fan hung on the ceiling of the small room, the roof only sitting a mere three meters from the floor, but performed it task well enough. Miles was starving, but he was simply too weak to eat. He dragged himself over to his full size bed then collapsed onto it. He threw off his top shirt, and kicked off his sneakers.

"Funny, those guys said your apartment was crummy. To me it seems more... homey…"

"Thanks for that Mr. Sonic," Miles said his face in the pillow. Miles reached to his pocket to pull out the blue emerald then placed it close to his face. "So…explain, Mr. Sonic, how you got in there, and controlled my body,"

"No need for the mister stuff kid, just call me Sonic,"

"Well then I guess you can just call me Miles,"

"Really, a friend of mine is named Miles too!" Miles raised an eyebrow. Miles was quite familiar with the crowd Sonic hung out with, as was everyone. So it was easy to see he was put off with such a person with such a regular name hanging out with the hero of the planet. Overlanders called it Earth, while Mobians called it Mobius. Than again Miles realized that he was associated with the hedgehog now. "Yeah, but I'm sure you want that explanation first. Okay, yeah, I died during that battle with Mephiles a little over a year ago, but what he doesn't know is my soul has bonded with this emerald,"

"How did you do that?" Miles asked trying to sound excited but just simply too exhausted.

"Some hocus pocus I don't understand," Miles sighed. "I do know that you now have all my powers, and with our powers together we can make a pretty good team,"

"Team?" Miles asked confused. Also a little put off that Sonic claimed he himself had powers.

"Yeah, ya see all that stuff I did in your body really exhausted you. If I had stayed in control a little longer like that I might've over exerted your body, and probably woulda killed ya. I'm a little surprise you body did last as long as it did with me in control. I'm glad you didn't like explode,"

"Die, explode, death, explode, explode!" Miles was starting to get a little more awake with the mentioning of death. "Can you explain that again?"

The emerald was silent, so obviously Sonic wasn't very familiar with the mechanics either. "Tikal explained it to us. She said that it's taken us many years to become as powerful as we are now. She said that it was best we ease our powers onto our carriers so we don't overwhelm them with our powers…or something like that,"

Miles tried to make heads or tails of the weak explanation. "So…basically…your powers are too great for me to handle all at once so…I have to learn how to use them bit by bit,"

"Yeah, that's it,"

Miles turned in his bed to stare at the ceiling. "Wow, I can't believe it…I'm actually talking to Sonic the hedgehog…"

"Whoa, don't go all fanboy on me,"

"Sorry…I just wish…my folks…" Miles went silent as he turned his back to the emerald. The emerald titled to the side a bit as if that would help give it a better look.

"Miles, what's wrong?"

"…Nothing…listen Sonic…I know you want me to be this big time hero and all, and I bet as soon as I rest up that we gotta head out to beat the enemy. I just think you should find someone else,"

"What? Why?" Sonic asked.

"Well for starters, why should I?" Miles turned to stare at the ceiling. "I don't owe the world anything,"

"Well for starters, I haven't been able to bond with anyone like that before. Unless, you got another friend that has the exact same skills you do?"

"I don't want to Sonic. I don't want to save a world that's ungrateful,"

"Well, since I'm the first one of my friends to find a carrier it's gotta be us that starts this journey ya know,"

"Did you not hear that I'm not interested?"

"We have a bond remember. I can tell your heart really does want to do this, so I'm just gonna tune out your voice. You should really listen to your heart more,"

"Why listen? It's all a waste. I can't beat the enemy, and since I'm not ready to use your full powers I'll be crushed before I could even get to his castle. I mean that spin attack of yours already gets me sick,"

"Ah, you'll get used to it,"

"How does that work exactly?"

The emerald was silent yet again. Miles sighed at the fact that his guide knew next to nothing of how things worked. "Okay…it's got something to do with chaos energy…I think it's like the energy substitutes for our skills, or something…"

"We'll figure it out later, but right now I gotta sleep," Miles said.

"Alright, but try not to sleep too long,"

And just like that Miles was out like a light. Sonic sighed from inside his emerald prison. He had to admit this was better then just lying in a hole somewhere. Now that Sonic had come in contact with Miles the emeralds powers began to reactivate. Sonic used the floating ability of the emerald to navigate the room. Sonic at first was shakily moving up then stopping in midair. The emerald then began moving around the room scanning it. Sonic floated over to a shelf filled with a couple of books here and there. The boy was a reader, a fiction reader. Sonic floated to the top shelf to see a pair of black fingerless gloves right next to a photo. Sonic made the glow of the emerald brighter so he could see the picture in the dim light.

Sonic was easily able to make out Miles, a bit younger in the picture. He had the same haircut he does now in the picture. Sonic noticed his eyes had a bit more life in the picture. Then Sonic looked at the other two people in the picture with him. Sonic saw a black male, and black female. They looked to be young maybe in their late twenties, or early thirties. The man was well-muscled thick upper torso, since that's all that could be seen for both, save Miles who was chest up. The man has a thin beard around his mouth, his eyes just like Miles's stern, but gentle. The woman was quite beautiful he had to admit. Flawless skin with brown eyes just like Miles, and the man, her facial features were also like Miles's. She also sported a fit body of her own. Obviously being physically fit was a family thing.

Sonic safely assumed that this was Miles's family. Sonic frowned as he turned back to the room. He immediately noticed the lack of anything that could possibly entertain company. Miles didn't even have another chair at the eating table. Sonic surmised that Miles lived alone, in more ways than one. Sonic glanced back at the family portrait again, and he suddenly noticed something. Upon looking closer he saw that both Miles's parents had on G.U.N uniforms. Sonic instantly felt that great pang of guilt hit him. Being the hero of the world he's supposed to deal with monsters like Mephiles and let the military do clean up. Sonic put two and two together and figured that his parents died trying to do a job that he himself was supposed to do.

Sonic felt somewhat conflicted to allow Miles to go on this journey, but Sonic knew it was too late. They had already formed a bond, and Tikal explained that breaking that bond was a definite no-no. Sonic couldn't remember the details, but he knew the end result was not something he wanted for himself or Miles especially. Sonic brought the emerald in park on the window seal just above Miles's bed. Sonic watched the dark shadow like clouds swish in the sky. Obviously, Mephiles had felt the defeat of one of is monsters. Sonic knew Mephiles would most likely send a response. The one thing Sonic did know was now that he was revealed the monsters could probably find him. Staying in one place while trying to avoid a person that has the entire planet in his palm was not a good way to start a journey.

Sonic looked at the scarcely light night of Solenana, the beautiful city has seen better days. Sonic thought back to the day he breezed through the streets. He wonders how the princess is doing at this time. Sonic thought on these things for quite a while as he allowed Miles to sleep. Sonic then noticed that the lights from below were actually moving. Sonic looked closer trying to pierce through the darkness with his eyes. Upon studying the shadows Sonic was able to gather that they were forms of people moving carrying torches. Sonic at first thought this odd, but then realized he noticed a few familiar figures leading the long line of people. Sonic wasn't very familiar with this world, but he knew an angry mob when he saw one. He also was aware of the three who were leading the mob. Black, Peck, and Eddy, the village idiots.

Sonic huffed in irritation. "I guess this world really is ungrateful like he says," Sonic muttered. "But, we may not be the hero they want they still need us though," Sonic was aware that this darkness over the land probably had something to do with this plague of despair. The best thing he could do was start the search for the other Chaos Emeralds i.e. his friends. However, this mob seemed to have other plans seeing as the ones who gathered the mob was explaining why they were there. "Every mob needs their motivation I suppose," Sonic turned to the sleeping form of Miles who was stirring restlessly. Sonic thought he was having a nightmare feeling the sense of dread coming off him in waves. "Miles, hey Miles wake up," No response. Sonic placed himself in Miles's open hand. "Miles!"

Miles jolted up from his sleep breathing deeply to catch his breathe. "W-What happened?"

"Angry mob outside, might wanna leave, like now,"

"What!" Miles sat up quickly then looked down below then at the sky his face fell. "Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no…" Miles repeated over and over getting off his bed.

"Miles it's just a mob with pitchforks, torches, death threats, and the strong chance of being ran out of town. No, biggie,"

"That's not what concerns me. The sky Sonic, the sky," Miles said quickly trying to gather himself in the darkness of the room. Sensing Sonic's confusion Miles explained. "The sky only gets like that when Darklord Mephiles unleashes hell,"

"Darklord?"

"Damn, I can barley see!" Miles barked. Sonic knew that a kid Miles's age shouldn't be talking like that. Sonic assisted by glowing bright enough so Miles could find the light switch. Miles quickly flipped it then sighed with relief upon having light. Miles decided to move quickly. "Listen Sonic, apparently I may either be leaving by free will or by force, but either way I can't stay here anymore. That means that I wont have anywhere to go, so I guess until we can find someone better for you…I'll be your carrier…"

"Ya mean it?" Sonic asked sounding like a little kid. Miles rolled his eyes and nods. "Hurray!"

Miles strapped up his shoes, and then walked over to his shelf. He hesitated slightly reaching for the fingerless gloves, but whatever feeling he had was pushed aside as he slid them both on. Miles left his short sleeve button up shirt for a black sleeveless jacket. Sonic studied that the jacket wasn't leather like Black's, but made of a cotton like material. Miles smirked.

"Ya know, Black wasn't always the leader of that band of misfits,"

Sonic raised an eyebrow from inside the emerald. Miles grabbed a belt then pulled it through the loops of his paints. Miles also placed a clip on the side of his belt than he grabbed the floating emerald then placed it in the right side of his belt. The emerald clicked perfectly into place. This way he wouldn't have to carry a big emerald in his pocket the whole time, and he would know it's secure. Miles grabbed a backpack from under his bed, grabbed a few bits of food, and lastly grabbed the portrait on the shelf. He took the picture out the frame gently then placed it in his pocket. Suddenly, he heard the cries of the mob outside.

"I guess they finally got the motivation they needed," Miles said putting on his backpack. Miles grabbed his wallet off the window ledge then shut off the light. He looked down below to see parts of the mob flooding into the building. He could hear them all storming up the stairs. "I see they aren't concerned with the other guest,"

Miles moved to his window to unlock it. He opened it up then looked down to see parts of the mob remained. Upon seeing him the mob turned into an uproar.

"CURSE YOU!"

"KEEP YOUR IDEALS TO YOURSELF!"

"LOOK WHAT YOU'VE BROUGHT UPON US!"

"LEAVE US BE!"

"NOW WE WILL LOSE OUR HOMES, ALL THANKS TO YOU!"

"YOU JUST HAD TO PLAY HERO!"

After a while the screams became redundant to Miles, but they obviously were upset that he had defeated one of Mephiles's monsters. Now Mephiles was either gonna send down his wrath from above, or just send in a bigger and badder monster. From the horizon he could make out a monster like figure approaching so he assumed it was the latter. It seemed to be coming from the sky bringing a new type of darkness with it. The city was barley lighten up as it is, now this new entity was gonna take what's left of the light. Miles put one foot on the window seal and upon noticing what he was about to do the mob encouraged him to jump. Miles really couldn't believe these people, Mobians and Humans alike acting like such mongrels.

"Well at least they're getting along," Sonic threw in his two cents to make the situation less heavy.

"Thanks for finding the silver lining in this Sonic,"

"It's what I do,"

Miles suddenly heard his door kicked open. Miles turned his head to see the other half of the mob in the hall and some of them entered his room. All of them enter cautiously. A man in the front of the mob approached. The flame from his torch brought a dark look to his face. He has brown hair that draped over his face, his eyes dull, and shockingly enough a police uniform. To think a Soleana policeman was gonna try and arrest a fourteen year old.

"Listen kid, I understand what you feel, but that world doesn't exist anymore, and it isn't coming back. Your only bringing back painful memories," he said.

"I'm sorry that you feel so ashamed of what used to make people happy," Miles distastefully. Sonic could feel that Miles was downright disgusted that he was trying to be reasoned with by such a lowly person. "Your only a shell at this point giving in to the Darklord,"

"Because he has this planet in his clutches!" cried a woman from in the hall.

"Well then tell me why we're still here than. Tell me why Mephiles keeps us around. Why not just annihilate us?"

"No one knows how he thinks, he's too far above us," the police officer spoke again. "Your actions have doomed us you know!"

"You doomed yourselves when you gave up on everything. The Princess would be sick to her stomach if she saw any of this. She doesn't even know about this does she?" The officer was silent. "Thought so. If you guys put all this energy on something other than me you might be able to one day see the sun again,"

The officer ushered the crowd back. Miles looked at him unsurely. "We cannot change your mind, and make you give up your ideals?" Miles looked at him sternly, which was a good enough answer. "Then burn,"

The officer threw the torch on Miles's bed, which Miles still had his foot on. Miles quickly pulled his other foot off the bed to avoid the flames. He glared at the officer then shook his head. He then turned to scan the best place to go. He in honesty was not a fan of heights, and really wished he hadn't been so distracted. Miles however felt the flames trying to grasp him from behind so Miles hoping that Sonic would take over should he fall short. Miles pushed off the window ledge. Miles could hardly see, but he was able to make out some sort of object. He thought he could land on it, but then he saw it was a mere lamppost. Miles panicked instantly.

"Keep your feet under you, don't flail and stay in control of your body," Sonic instructed. Miles calmed himself enough to follow the instructions. Miles landed nimbly on the top of the lamppost. Miles was shocked at how easy it was to balance on it. "Yeah, I got pretty good balance,"

Miles smirked happy he didn't land flat on his face. However, his right foot slipped of the side since he wasn't paying his stance much attention. Miles then landed flat on his face. "Ugh, spoke too soon,"

Miles got to his feet then brushed off the dirt. He looked over at his apartment building to see the whole building was now on fire. At least it gave Miles a good enough light to see which was he needed to go. In order to leave Soleana he needed to go through Kingdom Valley. However, with the absence of the sun it was hard to tell if it was day or night. Miles wished to travel when he could best see, and at the moment visibility was weak.

"Hey, I wonder where that monster went," Sonic said.

Miles heard a loud slam behind him, and he turned around sharply to see the purple outlines out giant figure. Miles stared at the purple circle that attracted most of his attention. Miles noticed that one set of streaks began moving and then Miles was hit with a blunt force. The force sent him flying right through a wooden table. Miles was now lying in a pile of splinters in complete agony. Whatever struck him was pretty darn strong. Miles began to get up, but a giant hand latched onto his torso the throw him in another direction. Miles then went flying through a whole row of tables and then meeting the concrete ground. He thanked the Chaos Force Sonic was so sturdy since otherwise he would've probably broken a few bones, or lose consciousness.

Miles began getting up again then looked to see his attacker. Miles tried to make out its shape through the glowing purple outlines all its body. Miles deduced that it was a Black Coal. These are titanic creatures that stand at lest ten feet tall and strong enough to chuck boulders with one hand. It also had the uncanny ability to form boulders at will. The only advantage Miles had was speed, but it didn't mean much if he couldn't see where the attack was coming from. Miles watched the streaks carefully and followed their every movement. The streaks were coming in from the side so Miles assumed it was a punch so he ducked down to the ground. Upon hearing concrete being smashed to pieces and the fact he felt no pain Miles surmised that it was a miss. Miles decided to go for a counter attack.

Miles jumped up to slam his knee into the creatures purple sphere. Miles guessed that was the head. The creature shrugged off Miles, but Miles quickly recovered. Miles noticed his burning apartment, than smirked.

"Alright, tall dark, and spooky. Let's go to a bonfire," Miles leaped at the Black Coal then kicked off the giant's side. Miles felt the giant waver a bit, and fell back to perform a backhand spring. Miles heard and felt a loud crash in front of him, so he assumed the giant must have tried to crush him with one of his infamous boulders. Miles wasn't going to let that happen again, well at least by pure luck. Miles quickly made his way over to the burning apartment complex. Remnants of the mob were still there trying to find a body he supposed. When one person mentioned him the others quickly stirred back from mild mob to angry mob. Miles had to admit the transition was impressive.

However, he had no time for him. If it were his choice he would've left them to deal with the creature, however the creature came at him first. Miles hopped he knew what do.

"Once you got some light on him try and get in a spin attack," Sonic said. "And throw out some more banter why don't you, I mean I know he can't respond, but you can still get feedback,"

"I'll try and keep that in mind," Miles muttered as he sidestepped a pitchfork that was thrust towards him. Miles snatched the pitchfork out the person's hand. He threw the person down then threw the fork at the beast. It however bounced off, but he expected that, he was getting desperate.

"Spin attack… Spin attack… Spin attack… Spin attack…" Sonic chanted.

"Sonic, trying to concentrate," Miles said as he leaped to the side of the giant's fist as it came down, while at the same time kicking a very pointy pitchfork from skewering him. Miles wasn't sure if he was ready to use a spin attack so soon. He wasn't even sure if he could pull of a proper spin.

"It's all in the legs, don't worry to much about the form," Sonic said.

"Well, o-okay," Miles leaped toward the giant then pulled his body in tightly. He began to spin slowly then a bit faster until blue spikes began to form around him. However, he couldn't get into the spin of things quick enough since the giant sent him the opposite direction. Miles was plowed into the ground. "Okay, different tactic,"

Miles hopped to his feet as the monster approached. Now that the monster was in clear view the mob started to shrink back a bit some throwing in a few pitchfork jabs to help out. Miles reached for the emerald on his belt.

"Sonic, I'm gonna need some help,"

"It's too early for me to take over again especially after that workout earlier,"

"You saw that spin attack right?" Miles exclaimed.

"Saw it? Dude I felt it, and I suppose we found what we need to work on first,"

"I need something else here," Miles said edging backwards as the beast approach. Miles started to feel the flames reaching out to him again.

"Ya got a couple of options Miles, ya just gotta experiment,"

Miles looked at the fire behind him then smirked. "Alright big guy here I go!"

Miles charged the beast head on. The beast went to slam both fist on him, but Miles slid in between the giants legs. Miles scooped up a pitchfork then vaulted over the giants arm thankful for Sonic's reflexes and acrobatic prowls. However, Miles depended too much on Sonic's skill and not his own as he almost impaled himself falling on the ground after the move. Miles threw the fork into the flames then rolled, as the giant was about to stomp on him. The Dark Coal then summoned a giant boulder with one hand, and Miles took this chance. Miles rolled onto his feet then leaped up to strike the giant's wrist. Miles kicked off it's arm just as a the boulder came down landing on the giants head. The boulder spilled out all the vile contents it had inside.

Miles ran back to get the pitchfork yanked it out the fire. The metal part steaming hot which made Miles smile. Sonic was not exactly for the idea Miles had. Miles dashed toward the giant and actually began running along side it's body. Then stabbed the fork into it's head. Earning a cry of pain.

"Spin Attack!" Sonic exclaimed.

Without thinking Miles unleashed his best spin attack right through the beasts stomach leaving the mob shocked. The beast fell at his feet in an instant the darkness suddenly lifting from the area. It was so sudden that it shocked Miles the change in the atmosphere. This beast brought about one of the darkest times, literally. However, with the fall of the beast the darkness lightened significantly. Suddenly Miles's Chaos Emerald began glowing. Then suddenly the emerald shot out a powerful stream of light. Than it pierced into the sky suddenly the darkness that had been there for so long finally vanished. Miles was shocked to see the night sky above him.

"W-what...just happened?" Miles asked holding the emerald.

"Oh, I remember this part, Tikal said the emeralds would be a beaken that would shine through the darkness...whatever that means. I guess this is what she meant casue the darkness is gone now,"

"Cool," Miles said looking at the sky seeing the shining moon and stars.

Miles looked back at his audience with flames still in the background. The crowds espression showed a great collection of fear, and awe. Miles pitied them in a way, but he knew they wouldn't change. Any time soon anyway. He then looked into the sky as he leaped into the air leaving behind everyone and everything.