Chapter Four

"Let's fight like men, right here, right now!" John yelled as he and Omega started to circle.

"Fight, fight, fight, fight," the crowd started to chant. John rushed towards Omega and threw a punch that was easily blockable. "Why...?" Omega began and was interrupted by John bringing his other fist into play and hitting Omega to the ground. "That's why." John took a few steps back.

"C'mon, nooby!" Omega wiped some of the blood from his face where John had hit him. He and John started to circle again when Omega ran up towards John and threw two punches that John blocked.

Omega followed up by spinning around John, grabbing him by the waist and throwing him backwards to the ground.

"We'll cover you!" one of John's buddies yelled as he and another buddy ran into the ring. Omega backed away, feeling like a predator now.

"Two against one? TOTALLY FAIR!" Omega dashed at the two buddies and rolled underneath their fists. He spun around and hit one in the back of the head with his foot while he grabbed the other one's arm and slung him to the side.

He finished the other one by jumping over his head and grabbing his shoulders and throwing him into the crowd.

By now, he was laughing like a maniac. The last of John's buddies barreled through and kicked Omega in the chest, knocking him into the crowd.

The crowd shoved him back in and tackled the last buddy as Korsabad shoved his hands in his pockets and withdrew to the back of the crowd and fell asleep.

Omega finished the last guy and uppercutted John as John rushed at Omega.

Omega finished John with a last kick to John's ribs that threw John to the side. The thug that had been thrown into the crowd was pulling the other buddy away from the fight when the school Principal and three teachers started to shove through the crowd.

"Scatter!" John rasped and he and his buddies disappeared from the crowd. Omega could sense by the other student's confusion that the Principal was coming. Omega beat a hasty retreat and acted as though he wasn't in a fight once he was a safe distance away.

The blood on his lip wasn't too bad.

He grabbed his books in the Year 8 section of the bay area and went to class, slightly early, but not bad.

Omega had barely sat down in his chair when he remembered, "Oh, great! Korsabad is asleep.

Will the staff think he's knocked out? I'll get in trouble if they do..." Prometheus came back to reality with a jolt.

"That is why we're fighting, Warlord!" he yelled. "I don't remember that fight!" Warlord said pitifully. "YOU WERE ASLEEP, YOU BLITHERING IDIOT! HOW ELSE WOULD YOU NOT REMEMBER?" Prometheus bellowed.

"I'VE BEEN IN FIGHTS LIKE THOSE AGAIN AND AGAIN, MY UPPER BODY COVERED IN BANDAGES AND WEARING A HALF-MASK ONE TIME!" "You were in fights? That's new," Warlord said as he got into a weak stance.

"That's because you were never there when I was fighting! You never cared about anything except sleeping all the time!" Prometheus snarled.

"You're a coward." Prometheus was at Warlord's front in a moment and knocked him to the ground, following by digging his scythe into Warlord's back.

Warlord screamed in agony and tripped Prometheus. Warlord brought his foot down as Prometheus teleported behind him and cut deeply into Warlord's back. Warlord fell to his hands and knees and Prometheus focused his telekinesis to throw Warlord into the air.

Prometheus leaped up and dealt brutal blows to Warlord before Prometheus finally plummeted, his blade forcing Warlord to come down with him.

Warlord's body impacted into the ground with Prometheus and Prometheus quickly got up, ready for another attack.

"O-mega..." Warlord groaned as his body slowly faded away into dust.

Prometheus relaxed and shoved his scythe away, his savage chuckle slowly growing until it was insane laughter. "Warlord is no more!" Prometheus exclaimed. His laughter suddenly stopped and his eyes widened before he grinned.

Happiness... Cruel happiness, but happiness nonetheless. With his hands, he made a glowing blue X and focused his energy to turn the X into a portal.

With confident strides, he walked inside and soon emerged in a bedroom in the Jade Palace. Probably Po's from the looks of it.

If the portal was true, then it had brought him to the past. Prometheus walked out of the Jade Palace and into the city, unafraid of meeting with the Furious Five or Po or any of them since he'd brought himself back to the time when He and Warlord were accepted into Shifu's trainees.

It was in the early hours of the day and hardly anyone was around. One of the people looked behind him and Prometheus recognized him.

It was Envy. "You!" Prometheus said as he walked towards Envy. Envy jumped and sighed. "Oh, great. It's the human again..." "And you're not?" Prometheus retorted as he got closer. "No!" Envy exclaimed.

"I want to be human but the only way I can do that would be if I had the Philosopher Stone!" "Philosopher Stone?" Prometheus asked, stopping a few feet away from Envy. "What is it?" "It's a stone that would make me human and would give me about ten centuries to live!" Envy said.

"Now excuse me! I need to go find it! Fuhrer King Bradley won't be able to help you now!" Envy broke into a run through the almost empty streets.

"Aw, don't make me chase you!" Prometheus said to himself as he started to chase Envy.

Prometheus's body was apparently much better than Envy's since he was faster. Envy ran into a building and spun around to attack, but Prometheus was faster.

Prometheus drove his fist into Envy's stomach, making Envy stumble backwards and try to regain lost air. "Weakling," Prometheus said as he drew closer with his scythe activated.

"Tell me how to get this Stone and MAYBE I'll let you live." "Why would you want to know? It's not like you're not human.

You're still human underneath that armor, right?" Envy asked. "No, I'm a machine," Prometheus said, his anger rising.

He didn't want to be reminded that he wasn't human. "Heh, fully machine, eh?" Envy said as he started to tug at his collar nervously.

"Have you learned to use alchemy yet?" "What're you talking about? I want the Stone!" Prometheus yelled. He teleported around Envy and started to kick him and punch him until Envy was on his knees.

"WHERE'S THE STONE?" A huge fist slammed into Prometheus's back and knocked him to the ground. Prometheus struggled to get up as Envy got up and wiped the blood from his forehead. "Thanks, Gluttony," Envy said.

"You still owe me, though." "Can't I eat him this time?" Gluttony asked pitifully.

"No. I can't stand it when you do that," Envy said. "DIE!" Prometheus yelled as he dug deep into Gluttony's stomach with his scythe. "I'll talk!" Envy said as he covered his face. "You had your chance!" Prometheus yelled as he kicked Envy into a window. The wooden beams of the window broke and Envy fell down.

Gluttony uppercutted Prometheus and Prometheus flew through the ceiling.

Prometheus sped back down and teleported at the last second as Gluttony tried to punch Prometheus through the wall.

Prometheus teleported behind Gluttony and landed another hit. A dark aura started to glow around him as he attacked Gluttony mercilessly.

"WHAT THE!" Envy exclaimed as he entered the room with a woman. "What is with you!" the woman said as Prometheus shoved Gluttony to the ground.

"Lust, get out of here!" Envy yelled as he shoved Lust out. "Escape is nowhere to be found!" Prometheus yelled. He teleported next to Lust and the aura surrounding him expanded into a large, dark explosion, completely destroying the building.

The few townspeople that were there started to scream as Prometheus emerged, unscathed from the wreckage, the dark aura still surrounding him.

Prometheus shoved his way through the crowd, their screams dying into soft murmurs of confusion as he walked back to the Jade Palace, his dark aura fading away as he reached the top of the stairs.

He took his helmet off and ran his fingers through his hair. He went into the training hall and saw Warlord.

"Where's Shifu?" Prometheus asked. "He's in the room where he tries to find his Inner Peace," Warlord said, motioning with his thumb towards the direction of the room.

"Aren't you supposed to be with him?" Prometheus thought back to the time frame that he was in. "Think so." He walked till he was in front of Shifu's room and knocked, careful not to break the paper covering. "Prometheus? Is that you?" "It's me," Prometheus replied.

"Come in," Shifu said. Prometheus sighed and walked in. "Shifu, I've got to tell you something." Shifu opened his eyes from his meditation.

"What is it?" Then Prometheus explained about the time freeze that had happened to Shifu's world.

At the end of it, Shifu's face looked like he was confused.

"How?" he asked as he left the room, needing time to think about this and how to stop it. "Why in the world did it not affect me?" Prometheus wondered. "Maybe you were meant to live," a voice said inside of Prometheus's mind. "Do I know you?" Prometheus asked.

"You're close." "So, you've noticed," an abnormally large female hedgehog said as she emerged into the room.

"Who are you?" Prometheus asked. "Emily the Hedgehog's the name," Emily said with a smile.

"Funny middle name," Prometheus teased, making Emily slap her forehead. "Just call me Emily," she said. Prometheus nodded and looked out the window. Did he have any way to stop the freeze? "I know what's going to happen to you and I know what has happened to you," Emily said.

"Why do you care?" Prometheus sighed. "You aren't happy with your choices, are you? You killed your friend because of the time freeze.

As long as the freeze doesn't happen, you won't kill him, correct?" Prometheus shook his head. He hated himself.

Why did he attack Warlord? "I'd never do that again." Inside, he dreaded his promise. What if it does happen again? "Wanna walk around?" Emily suggested. "Why are you being so nice to me and why are you here?" Prometheus asked.

"I've been looking for you, and, believe me, it's not easy going from one world to the other," Emily said.

"You're not from here?" Prometheus asked. Emily shook her head sadly. "No... I'm from Mobius." Prometheus thought about why she was sad. "Are your people frozen too?" Emily nodded. "Yes... all of them."