Chapter 4: The Dark Truth
Rage was walking the School grounds for a while just to see if he could get all of the stress off of his mind with the time of year and all the whole school seemed like it had changed. Even Rage felt different his Dark Form NEVER comes out he can always keep it in the only Dark Form he uses is his Dark Chaos Form but even he controls that. Rage was walking a path when he heard a voice
"Rage? Is that you?" the male voice yells, Rage turns to the source to see a dark haired teen with a dark grey and light grey tunic divided in half perfectly with a hood up and a spiked shape poking out of the hood from his left eye. The tunic was dressed with relic like designs with a logo of the Triforce of Hyrule with the center shaded. It was Rage's old friend Shadlink he met during the Smash Bros. Tournament he entered. Rage walks up to the youth and greets him
"Hay Shadlink long time no see surprised to see you here." Rage says to the Twili hero holder of the fourth Triforce made to balance the other three.
"well met Rage, What brings you here?" Shadlink looks at the crimson hedgehog worried about him,
"Well Queen Sally made me Sonic, Tails and a few others come here since we never finished High School…" Rage sighs rolling his eyes
"So Sally's Queen now? I am surprised she would send you here of all places…" Shadlink says like he was trying to process something, this statement made Rage curious on what he meant by 'here of all places'
"What do you mean Shadlink?" Rage asks the twili trying to figure out the meaning behind his statement
"It's this school… there is something about it. I don't know what it is but whatever it is it feels very dark. I mean come on a Boarding Multiversal High School with NO Rules? If I am not just paranoid that sounds too good to be true!" Shadlink explains to Rage who looked at him like he may be right,
"Hrm… now that you mention it Shadlink it does sound too good… The StuCom… the way the Dark and Light balance is so thrown off…" Rage thinks for a minute "It's like there is something going on that most of the student's have no idea about or better yet are part of…"
"See?! That's what I tell everyone but they don't think it sounds weird at all! Finally someone who agrees with me!" Shadlink sighs overjoyed by Rage's response.
"Wait no one has agreed?!" Rage asks surprised and Shadlink shakes his head no. "Then there is definitely something wrong here… like all of the students are being controlled… could that be why the StuCom punks held that execution to find any new people in the school for the semester?" Rage wounders aloud
"Okay that makes sense since everyone cheered but you, Sonic, Tails and those six ponies…" Shadlink says rubbing his chin in thought "I only cheered to keep them off of my trail…"
"I think we need to get to the bottom of this." Rage says "If you are interested meet me in the Shed by the Natural Class forest tomorrow at 8 AM. A Saturday would be the perfect day to investigate this…" Shadlink nods at Rage and the two head back to their dorms. When Rage opens his dorm Twilight's voice came from behind him,
"Rage is something wrong?" she asks the crimson hedgehog worried,
"Twilight I think there is something going on around here… that Execution wasn't for mere amusement I think it was to scout out for those who were not part of something yet… it would explain the Dark Light balance and how my Dark Form came out last night to save you from Sonic…" Rage says looking at the violet human form of his favorite pony and love.
"That sounds almost like it makes sense…" Twilight says after stopping to think, "I mean a Multiversal Boarding School with no rules it sounds too good to be true…"
"Exactly that's what Shadlink and I said!" Rage says "We are going to get to the bottom of this tomorrow so I need some sleep Twilight." Rage says before kissing her passionately on her lips afterwards shutting his door and heading to his room to sleep.
The next morning Rage wakes up, gets dressed and heads for the shed he wanted to meet Shadlink at. Rage got there at 7:45 AM and Shadlink was already there waiting. "Since we are early shell we get going?" he asks the crimson hedgehog after a second,
"yeah… where do you think anything would be kept that people did not want to get out?" Rage asks the twili
"I bet you it's nearby outside the Schools protection field. Most students are too sacred to enter the realm outside the field it would be perfect to hide things there." Shadlink suggests,
"Hmm you're right with all of the Vampires, werewolves and other monsters that roam the dark land 24/7 most students are too scared to go out there" Rage says
"Then let's go!" Shadlink says and the two head out of the field to the world outside. After exploring they find a small door hidden in with a rock face. The two look at each other nod to tell the other that they are both ready and they slowly open the door and sneak into the small hidden base.
Inside voices could be heard down the entrance hall and the two slowly walk in that direction, as they reach the balcony of a large room they see a group of people in dark hoodies talking, Rage knew one of the faces off the bat. He was the one running the execution the first day. The two slowly turn invisible and listen in to the conversation.
"Okay members of the inner circle I call this meeting to order!" a silver haired man says "Are there any isuues that need to be presented?" he asks the group of about 15 people and the blue haired StuCom president raises his hand, "What is it Jaden?" the man asks
"Well Lord Xerg I fear some of the new students this semester may cause trouble with the other student body." Jaden says bfroe being interrupted by another member,
"But that is not our concern as a council. But that brings up a good point Jaden… that one red hedgehog, Rage…" the man says
"Rage?" Xerg says raising an eyebrow "The one who beat the living snot out of you?" the man in the hood nodded back and Xerg "I see… he does have a large amount of energy I have never seen before coming from him but also his Light Energy… I have never seen anything with as much Light power as him… I fear if we do not get him to join us soon then he will become too aware of the truth behind this place and that could be trouble…" Xerg says thinking
"So what do we do Lord Xerg?" a female member asks "If we do not get this done within the next few weeks then I fear it will be too late." Xerg looks right on the balcony that Rage and Shadlink were hiding on to stay invisible
"I don't think we have to worry…" Xerg smiles "Our friend Darkness brought us him…"
Back up on the balcony Rage gets a look of shock in his eyes and turns to run but Shadlink stood at the door slowly fading to a dark black hedgehog with glowing red eyes. He grabs Rage and throws him down to the floor below causing him to turn visible again.
The table Rage lands on soon cuffed his wrists and ankles down and Xerg looked at him with a pleased grin "It is an honor to meet you Rage the Hedgehog… You know I was afraid hunting you would become a choir but when Darkness came along he made it almost too easy! Do you know who we are?" he chuckles pleased with the dark hedgehogs performance on tricking Rage so well. "We are the Inner Circle of the Legion of Darkness the strongest dark beings across the Mulitverse. And you my prickly red friend are quite the roadblock in our plans…" he chukles
"I knew something was up the minute I stepped foot here!" Rage growls trying to break free
"Since you will be joining us soon I guess it's only fair to tell you what we plan on doing…" the female says before Jaden continues "We plan to use those in this school as pawns by corrupting them into the Legion… Then we will wage war against the Light worlds covering the Multiverse in pure darkness!"
"Well a Multiverse of Darkness is a Multiverse I will have no part in making!" Rage yells "I'd rather destroy it or die!" Rage continues trying to break free without using his chaos powers
"It's no use Rage the cuffs are made of pure draconium alloy nothing can break them." Xerg says to the struggling hedgehog
"I won't even ask where you got enough Draconium in the first place. But you know nothing about me so try all you will you can't alter me." Rage huffs at Xerg with a frown
"I wouldn't get so cocky hedgehog after all we are the ones who brought you, your Mobian pal Sonic and his buddy and those wretched ponies here. We know all there is about you from Sally." Xerg laughs typing away on a console. "You are a Light Guardian who lives on Angel Island as the self-named Chaos Guardian with Knuckles dead, you have mastery over the elements and you have fought one of our members Christain the Dark many times. You also live and are in a relationship with one of those dumb four legged ponies from Equestria!"
"What did you just say about Twilight and her friends?!" Rage growls in anger
"Oh so its Twilight now is it?" Jaden laughs mocking Rage
"You know nothing!" Rage yells a flare of chaos energy forming around him, "I am not self named I AM THE GUARDIAN OF CHAOS APPOINTED BY THE GODS OF CHAOS!" the flare grows brighter and his quills begin flailing from the energy as his fur fades to a golden color and the cuffs snap from the amount of Chaos energy and Rage jumps up "I will not let your Legion touch Mobius or Equestria while I still stand!"
"Then maybe I should remove you from the equasion." Xerg looks at the golden hedgehog draqing a large battle axe from out of thin air, as he does this he and Rage are taken to a field made of dark slime and pillars sticking out of the ground.
"I hope you thought that would make me chicken out." Rage grunts summoning The Blade of Chaos, "Now lets get this over with!"
"Submit to the Darkness!" Xerg yells charging at Rage his weapon beaming with darkness
"Never!" Rage yells blocking the strike with his hand by grabbing the handle and kicking Xerg back about 50 feet.
"You cannot avoid the Darkness forever hedgehog it will consume you as it does to all!" Xerg yells "And if you think you stand a chance against me you are sadly mistaken!"
"Bitch please I am not even warmed up yet!" Rage grins back ready to attack "No I will show you true power! Aqua Chaos Wave!" Then Rage releases a large wave of chaos powered wate at Xerg sweeping him off of his feat and into the air yet he still lands on his feet,
"Your magic is impressive but your efforts are in vein!" Xerg yells "Subimit, Dark Malstrom!" Xerg creates a large storm of dark energy and it rages over the small arena he put them in. "You cannot defeat me rat!" he laughs floating in the air "I am immortal, I am DARKNESS this place shell go on forever in darkness!"
Rage shoots a glance at the tall silver haired man after hearing his statement "What good is a world that goes on forever in darkness and second you just made the worst mistake! If you truly knew who I was then you should know that NOBODY CALLS ME A FUCKING RODENT!" Rage screams releasing a burst of Chaos energy from his angered emotions before charging Xerg and slicing at him frantically before jumping back gathering a large strong energy on his weapon "Zero Chaos Buster Lance!" he yells in an echoing voice charging at light speed through Xerg's chest. As Rage stands back up in a natural position the place fades back to the hidden base he had snuck into, right as he looked around there were Dark Spawns everywhere ready to strike the red hedgehog down.
"You are under arrest hedgehog!" one growls
Rage tilts his head with a smirk "If I die then at least I will go down fighting as I always have!" he chuckles charging through the group of Dark Spawns to try and escape the hidden fortress
To be continued