Hey, Darker X here with another update (damn writer's block). I will try to update twice tomorrow.
Location: Abandoned GUN base- Date: 12/13/10 12:45 p.m.
Shadow stared at a computer blankly, trying to get more information on his creation. After typing in the Professor's universal password, he found 4 files listed right after 'Project: Biolizard' and before 'Project: Shadow'.
"Shine, Storm, Shroud, and-?" He read out loud. Mainly out of shock. He was about to open the first one, when the whole building shook.
"What now!" Shadow questioned, although, it was most likely rhetorical, as he wasn't aware of any one else's presence. He looked out the window. A giant air ship hovered just over the city, giant, black energy beams were being shot out of it, destroying a few buildings. As he was watching, a giant portal opened up, out of it descended an army of some more of the masked humans they fought yesterday. They had started an attack on the city!
"Pitiful…" Sido exclaimed, looking down through the window, watching the humans below suffer. "Look at them, running around like fire ants whose hill was just kicked over by an insane 4-year-old."
"Yes, very…" replied Akina, who had snuck up behind her leader and love interest.
"Ah, hey, Akina!" the leader usually stayed calm and serious, only the presence of the girl standing next to him made him act rather goofy and wound up. This, to the leader's dismay, only made her like him even more.
You seem happy to see all the people suffering…" she stated matter-of-factly, puzzled as to why all of this was necessary, "Why are we randomly attacking the city?"
"You see, all acts of evil or wrong-doing are converted into dark energy, which intensifies the power of the Chronokey of Darkness. The intensified power can be used to defend this organization from the foretold destruction," He replied, somewhat satisfied with the numbed down explanation. In reality, every time someone caused pain in the hearts of people, the darkness their hearts produced immediately radiates off into the atmosphere. Without the Chronokey of Darkness, the darkness would keep gathering until it formed an unstoppable evil that would destroy everything in its path. The Chronokey of Darkness gathers and stores the energy, which is then used by Fengoros.
The Chronokey of Light did exactly the opposite, absorbing light energy so an all sentient being doesn't form and wipe away all evil. Now, that may not sound bad, but it wipes away all evil, no matter how small. In other words, it destroys everyone, for everyone has a taint of darkness in their heart.
A blond haired girl with a strange smirk and dark blue eyes, wearing a Fengoros uniform, blasted the base of a tall building, causing the people below to run. One was even dumb enough to try to stop her. He soon felt hot metal embedded in his chest. He fell, dead, as the girl lifted the gun to her mouth and blew the smoke away like a movie scene.
Her teammates were busy gathering the energy from a power plant, so she went solo on this one. She rested on a bench, a goofy scene, considering everyone else was panicking as buildings around her crumbled. She looked to the side and saw a black and red hedgehog fighting a golden masked guy with a flaming sword. 'Kieta…' she thought, seeing her crush since the 6th grade battling 'The Ultimate Life Form'. She was thinking about helping him, but then she remembered why she was there in the first place.
She hopped up seconds before a telephone pole fell onto the bench she was just sitting on, effectively crushing it. She sighed and turned on her grav-rings, allowing her to control gravity and fly above the city, where she would target another major building.
Sonic stormed into the city to see a blond haired girl floating around. He homing attacked her, but she saw him coming. He suddenly stopped in midair and was launched back at his friends. Before he could stop, he ran into Knuckles, who fell unconscious after taking a blow to the face. Amy hit him with her hammer, launching him back at the girl. This time it hit, knocking her off her anti-gravity field. She shot at him with her gun, the bullet just grazing his arm as he dodged. He once again tried to attack, but she shielded herself and sent Sonic into a nearby building. She took armed herself with her laser cannon and charged it up, launching it directly into the broken window.
She waited for five minutes, but the Sonic was not to be found. She glanced below, Amy was crying, Tails had a worried look on his face, and Knuckles was- well- still unconscious. The girl laughed for a minute before a blue blur slammed into her back.
"Why you little-," She never finished, because Sonic spin dashed into her stomach.
The impact made her cough up blood. She once again used gravity to form a barrier around herself. Sonic hit it dead on before being blasted back. 'Damn it, I can't win like this!' he observed her closely, her bracelets were glowing. He watched closely. At regular intervals, the bracelets stopped glowing for about a millisecond. Normal eyes wouldn't catch it, but he was the fastest thing alive.
He waited for them to stop glowing, than he attacked before she could move. He got another attack in, than a final one before she fell over.
"It was fun playin' with ya, but it looks like I won!" Sonic smirked.
"Not so fast, hedgehog!" her rings and medallion turned black and spikes protruded outward from them. "I've only began to show you my powers!"
Sonic remembered the water manipulating guy he fought two days ago. He did the same thing and called it his dark mode level 2. Sonic realized that all members must have this.
The girl stood up. Maybe it was because all other members were masked, so he didn't notice, but dark energy rimmed the girl's eyes. Her eyes remained normal, but they were filled with dark malice. She charged at him, blasting him with a gravity blast. The impact was twice as strong as it looked like it should have been, taking Sonic by surprise. He was blown back and skidded across the ground.
He stood up, completely overpowered, and yet utterly determined to defeat this opponent. He charged directly at her, once again hitting the barrier she put up. However, he felt it warp in the center, in between her hands she was holding out when she used the shield. Was blasted back yet again, but he now knew how to defeat her.
"Amy, I'm going to spin dash. When I'm ready to shoot off, hit me with your hammer as hard as you can towards the center of the shield, right in between her hands!" Sonic instructed.
"Ok," She replied. Sonic charged up, gaining power the more he spun. "Here I go!" Amy shouted, hitting him with her hammer. He spun directly into the weakest point in her barrier, smashing the field before she could react. He yanked the rings off of her wrists, effectively disarming her.
He attacked her again and again, dodging weak punches and ineffective hits. Sonic hit her with one final blow, knocking her unconscious.
"Yeah!" the azure hedgehog cheered in victory.
Suddenly, the fire from the airship stopped. The multitude of enemies swarming the city warped back into the craft. The black haired boy from yesterday picking up his incapacitated ally and warping away in a flash of purple light, retreating back to the craft as well.
Despite the confusion and chaotic aftermath the city was in, all was calm again as the ship disappeared from wherever it came from. Sonic looked down at the rings he still held from the girl. 'She was a tough foe and she seemed to be one of the weakest.' He thought, 'I'm going to have to get stronger so I'm ready for my next foe, whoever that may be.'
The Night Wing had moved to a spot just over the coast of Emerald Ocean, that way anyone realizing the ship was cloaked wouldn't be able to attack them. Not that it mattered; the Night Wing could ram directly into the ground and still be intact. It could handle explosions.
The blond haired girl, Kara, was resting in the medical bay, she had not yet regained consciousness, but she wasn't close to death at all. She was a worthy opponent, but she seemed to stay more on the defensive, and now even her weapon was gone. Sido sighed, pouring a small dose of cyanide into the I.V. drip.
He would not tolerate failures.
Shadow ran through the city, finally finding the abandoned HQ again. The front door had been blasted off, and the building sustained multiple damages. He sighed, searching for the main computer. When he found it, his fears were realized. Multiple bullet holes damaged the screen and the computer itself was broken, scattered across the floor. He still had questions, but the computer could no longer give him answers. He frowned, skating off.
'I've fought Shadow twice now. But I have a feeling he's only used a portion of his real power. It's far too easy to take him down in my level 2 form. If I used my level 3 form with him fighting like that, I could easily kill him. He's definitely holding something back, so I better be careful not to underestimate him.' Kieta was deep in thought, standing on the roof of his and Ren's apartment building. He noticed a cold wind blow through. "How appropriate," He spoke out loud, "It seems as if it's going to snow tomorrow…"
A dark figure stared out into the real world from inside his crystalline prison. Sister, should we reveal more? I mean, the oncoming storm they have heard about will be brought upon them by Sido himself.
'No,' a figure made out of pure light telepathically spoke to her brother, 'The Catalyst must find that out on his own.'
'How much longer before Fengoros regains its former glory, free from all corruptions?'
'Not even I have the power to see that, brother, but I assure you, the time is fast approaching.'
Character Development, Plot advancements, and a twist! What does it all mean? Ha, I won't tell you, you have to wait 'til the next chapter! Later!