Chapter 4
The fires of hell
"Jackson?" Said the evil voice.
"Yes master?" Jackson said standing before the ruins of a village in the mystic ruins.
"How goes the conquest?" The voice asked.
"Very well Master. I have met little resistance at all." Jackson said.
"Ah good. With Sonic's friends busy looking for him they have no idea that we are quietly taking over the world by having our units possess the people of the world. Now get to work rebuilding this town and move on with the next one. They may be strong but anything less then a super being can't begin to hinder us." The voice said.
"Master I have heard that Knuckles, Shadow and Tails have super forms as well. Should we be worried?" Jackson asked floating about lifting up pillars to assist his army.
"Hmm the fox needs super emeralds to become super and the hedgehog and echidna... Ah I have it. Jackson I have a special task for you." The voice said then laughed.
"Oh I like where this is going." Jackson thought with a smile knowing what his master was planing.
Jackson released the chaos emeralds and he had collected all but the one that Chaos stole.
"Good so loyal Jackson." The voice said and took control of the emeralds wherever he was.
the green emerald broke in half and then each half joined a set of another three. They spun together and one turned into a hedgehog and the other an echidna and shot off in different directions.
"There perfect now nothing can stop us. On with the conquest!" The voice said.
"With pleasure master!" Jackson said saluting him and got back to work.
Amy Rose the pink hedgehog stalker like friend of Sonic was at the beach with Cream and her mom. It was pretty boring without Sonic around.
"Come on Amy come play with me!" Cream said pulling on her arm.
"Maybe later Cream. Sonic's been gone for almost a month and I'm worried about him." Amy said.
"It's okay Amy I'm sure Sonic is fine." Vanilla said.
"I know but I still worry about him I love him so much I can't stand it sometimes." Amy sighed.
Vanilla sighed and asked Cream to go play with Gemel for awhile.
"Amy I think it's time you let go dear." Vanilla said.
"What?!" Amy said shocked of even thinking about letting Sonic go.
"Amy it's never going to happen sweetie you and Sonic are just to different." Vanilla said.
"What are you talking about?" Amy said.
"Amy why does Sonic run away from you?" Vanilla said.
"He's just playing hard to get." Amy sighed and blushed a little.
"No it's because he doesn't love you." Vanilla said.
"Of course he loves me he always saves me when I'm in trouble and helps me when I need it!" Amy countered.
"True but doesn't Sonic do that for everyone else as well?" Vanilla asked.
Amy was about to say something when she realized that Vanilla was right.
"He doesn't love me at all he's just a good friend." Amy realized.
"That's right dear you need to let him go or you'll never find the one you're destined to be with." Vanilla said.
"How do you know this?" Amy asked.
"Because when I was your age I was just like you. I married the man I thought I truly loved but it turned out we couldn't stand each other and he left me without a father to raise my unborn baby girl." Vanilla said looking at Cream.
"That's terrible." Amy said.
"That's not the half of it but that story will come another day. The point is Amy I was to blinded by love to let go the man I thought I loved. But I got up the courage to start dating again and I was rewarded with a wonderful boy friend and who loves Cream just as much as I do." Vanilla said.
"Who is it?" Amy asked.
"He's right over there." Vanilla said with a smile.
In the direction she was pointing to was Team Choatix and they were welcoming the return of Mighty an old member who is happy to be back.
"Who Mighty? He's great with kids." Amy said.
"No dear not Mighty Victor is my boyfriend." Vanilla smiled.
"Vector!? But he's an idiot in ever sense of the word!" Amy said.
"That may be true but look." Vanilla said.
Cream ran up to Victor and he picked her up and tossed her into the air a few times then hugged her.
"He loves Cream as much as he loves me and he spends a lot of time with her too. She loves him as well so when he proposed to me how could I say no? We've been living together for a few months now." Vanilla said.
"Wow." Amy said and watched.
"Amy I know you want to get married to Sonic but ask yourself this honestly. Would you and Sonic truly be happy together?" Vanilla asked.
Amy thought long and hard about it.
"No." She said 10 minutes later with a smile on her face and a tear in her eye.
"There you go my dear it's time to start looking and I can help you." Vanilla said.
"Really?" Amy asked.
"Sure I didn't wear a two piece bikini today for my health you know." Vanilla laughed.
"Alright then show me the way." Amy said getting up.
"There you go Amy look forward not back." Vanilla said getting up as well.
"Hows that?" Sonic said stopping in front of Blaze.
"40 seconds that's 30 seconds faster then my best time." Blaze said.
"Huh this training course isn't so tough." Sonic said.
"It should be it's designed for me to control my fire powers and you found a way to finish all the tasks and beat my best score on your first try." Blaze said.
"Huh maybe it's these new kicks I got." Sonic said tapping his foot on the ground.
Sonic was wearing sneakers that are solid red with a star on the tongue.
"Well these shoes are made out of grounded up rings mixed with a heat absorbing rubber for the bottom of them so they may just be it." Blaze said.
"Well anyway what do you want to do today?" Sonic asked her.
"Hmm lets see how Anthony and Iris are doing." Blaze said and Sonic tapped her shoulder.
"Tag your it!" He said running ahead of her.
"Hey wait up!" Blaze said and ran after him.
Anthony was sitting on the ceiling and Iris was humming to herself as she was taking care of some flowers in the room she was in.
"Ah there you are Blitz." Anthony and dropped from the ceiling and landed on the ground in front of them.
"Why do you call me Blitz?" Sonic said.
"Well your not Sonic anymore that's why and you need a name so I call you Blitz." Anthony said and rubbed his wrists where the shackles were still there and on his ankles.
"Can't you remove these Blaze?" Anthony asked.
"No they still work even like that but not as well." Blaze said.
"Fine it doesn't matter. I can move again and my mind is freed at least." Anthony and moved close to Blaze.
"You can't hold me forever I can override the pain these chains give me if you shock me to much so keep that in mind." Anthony whispered in her ear.
"That may be true your sister is still bound to her mask." Blaze whispered back.
"As soon as I get that thing off of her you will see what we can do." Anthony said and left the room pulling Sonic along with him.
"So Blaze do you like Sonic?" Iris said and Blaze started blushing.
"Me like him? Of course not." Blaze said.
"Well he loves you a lot and will do anything for you." Iris said.
"What do you mean? Surely just saving his life couldn't do that could it?" Blaze asked.
"Normally no and if it does not this quickly anyway. You see Blitz is missing two things that we all need." Iris said looking at Blaze.
"What's that?" Blaze asked.
"Hatred and personal darkness." Iris said.
"Huh?" Blaze said and sat down in a chair.
"You see Blaze when you saved Sonic he had just been stripped of his hatred and darkness. Without those things Sonic won't be able to fight anymore. Without hatred he can't bring himself to fight against anything even to save his own life. Without personal darkness he won't stand a chance against those that have plenty of it like Eggman Nega. If he was attacked by him he would be killed easily. We all need darkness in our hearts even a little bit but Sonic is basically helpless now." Iris said.
"Well how can I help him?" Blaze said.
"You can give some of your darkness and hatred to him with our help." Iris said.
"I'll have to think about it." Blaze said and left the room.
"She'll come around after what will happen today." Iris thought and returned to her flower garden.
Blaze went looking for Sonic and found Anthony and Sonic in a training room.
"Alright Sonic you need to get used to fighting again so I want you fight against me.
"Uh I don't know." Sonic said.
"Come on what are you afraid?" Anthony asked and threw a punch nailing Sonic in the face and he didn't even try to dodge and fell to the ground.
"Come on Sonic." Anthony said helping him up.
"Now it's your turn." Anthony said and Sonic looked at his hand and extended it and Anthony covered his face and Sonic help up a flower.
"Here your sister told me to give this to you." Sonic and Anthony took it and sighed.
"Yep it's true there is not a drop of hatred or darkness in you." Anthony said and sighed leaving the room.
"Good luck your highness I hope you do a better job then I did." Anthony said going back to his room.
Blaze looked at Sonic who sat down on the mat and looked out the window.
"It's such a beautiful day today." He sighed and an alarm went off.
"We're under attack!" Yelled a solder and Sonic got up and moved over to Blaze.
"What should we do?" Sonic asked.
"We fight!" Blaze said grabbing Sonic's arm and led him to he front of the castle.
Sonic you take the ones over there and I'll take the ones over here." Blaze said attacking her foes and Sonic walked up to the first attacker on his side.
"You need to stop this someone is going to get hurt." Sonic said.
"Yeah you punk!" Said the attacker and whacked him in the head with his club and Sonic staggered about yet stood in his way.
"You must stop this please." Sonic said and was hit again.
"Sonic would never be this tame something is wrong with him." Blaze realized and ran to save him after she had defeated her set of attackers as the attacker beat Sonic down with his club.
"Get out of my way!" He growled.
"No I won't let you hurt anyone." Sonic said calming and was brutally attacked yet he stood his ground.
"Sonic!" Blaze yelled and kicked the attacker hiting Sonic in the head and lit him on fire sending him packing into the other attackers and they ran off burned.
"We'll get you yet Princess just you wait!" They yelled and ran off.
Sonic smiled and fell to the ground.
"Such hatred it is sickening." He said and Blaze gasped when she saw him.
He was covered in blood and his arm was broken along with various lacerations from the spikes on the club.
"Sonic." Blaze said bending down in front of him tears in her eyes.
"Hello Blaze." Sonic smiled and Blaze hugged him and cried.
"I'm so sorry I should have listened to the dreamers!" Blaze cried.
"It's alright they have learned that hatred will get them no where." Sonic smiled and closed his eyes passing out.
"Sonic!" Blaze screamed and cried over him fearing the worst.