Red Lightning
S1E7: Good Vibrations Pt. 2: Music of the Spheres

It started when Red Lightning split the sky one night. The lightning struck everyone, and anybody struck, was given awesome powers.

Double-D was given superhuman speed and reflexes. At Eddy's prompting, he decided to use his powers for good. He became Flashpoint!

Eddy was given the ability to become a humongous metal man. He decided to use his powers to garner fame and fortune. He became Quarterback!

The noise was unbearably loud. Conner remained blissfully unaffected by the chaos and noise.

"We will, We will Robot Rock you!" He sang, as he did a rather good breakdance/body-pop, for a sociopathic human amplifier.

Double-D tried to reach forward, but the volume cranked up and Double-D was thrown to the edge of principal hall, almost off the building. Double-D looked outwards. The entire Elite Residential district was in ruins, and so was the Industrial district. Hundreds of people were flocking to the park, for safety against the Sonic Apocalypse.

"CONNER!" Double-D shouted. "PLEASE STOP THIS! YOU'RE HURTING THEM!"

Conner smiled. "I can't hear you!" He lied.

The rumble got louder, and any and all sound in the gaze of Principal Hall was muted, except for the thunderous techno.

In downtown Entertainment District, Eddy and Finn were looking in the direction of Principal Hall, weighing their options. Ed had rushed home, desperate to see if his family was safe.

"You not checking on your folks then?" Finn asked.

"Parents are both in the Park, Big Bro's near the seaside. They'll be fine." Eddy said. He turned to Finn. "You?"

"Sadie's with that Super-Psycho. I read his mind, he won't let her get hurt. My parents are six feet under, if you recall." Finn said.

The techno music grew louder, causing several buildings around Finn and Eddy to crack.

"Double-D's probably alright there." Finn said,

"Yep." Eddy agreed. "He's probably getting his arse handed to him."

"Yep."

Finn and Eddy looked at each-other, looking deadly serious.

"I'll fly us over." Finn said. Finn got ready to move himself and Eddy, when they heard somebody shout.

"Wait!" Marie shouted, striding over to them.

Eddy and Finn looked puzzled.

"Marie?" Finn asked in bewilderment.

"Listen, I don't know what the heck is going on. But I do know that my boyfriend is having his ass handed to him. So when you help him out, and when he saves the day, tell him, tell him that I still love him." Marie said.

Eddy nodded reassuringly, and Finn picked up a chunk of road beneath his and Eddy's feet, flying them to Principal Hall.

"Kickin' your can all over the place! We will, we will, ROBOT ROCK you!" Conner sang, hitting Double-D with another sound pulse.

Double-D, bleeding from his nose and ears, stood up. He was wobbling a fair bit, unable to keep his balance. He spat out some blood and looked Conner in the eye.

Conner's mouth and eyes were shining a bright blue, and he was smiling maniacally.

"Boys and Girls, Come Out to Play, on the Busy Motor-Way!"

Double-D was hit by another sound blast, launching him off Principal Hall and onto the ground below.

Conner stopped his onslaught of sound, and jumped off the hall to face Double-D.

"I think that's enough mayhem for now." Conner laughed. "I suppose I could take a break to play with you."

Conner launched another sound beam, ploughing Double-D into the concrete, making a small ditch.

He launched another beam, but Double-D blurred out, avoiding it. Double-D reappeared behind Conner, and delivered a series of pummels to his back.

Conner front-flipped and blasted Double-D back while in mid-air. He landed and spun around, blasting Double-D again, who dodged. Double-D sped up to Conner and punched him in his Loudspeaker, creating a small boom and causing both Conner and Double-D to fall into the subway.

Marie, her sisters, and her mother Bebe were taking Sanctuary in the Park. Marie couldn't tear herself away from Principal Hall, where the booming techno music had all but died down.

"Double-D," She said to herself. "Please be ok."

"Hello Marie." A familiar voice said. It was Ed. Ed's family was a few feet behind him. His parents looked worried, his Sister was too busy to be angry, caring for a very shell-shocked Jimmy.

"ED!" Marie said, grabbing the filthy boy. "Ed, what's going on? Why has that music stopped? What is that music? What's gonna happen to Double-D?"

Ed backed off a little bit. He scratched his head. "I'm sure that Double-D managed to mute the sound up here by taking the Super-Psycho responsible for the attack underground. The noise is probably still going, which won't do wonders for the lifespan of the integrity of the subway system."

Marie raised her eyebrow. Who was teaching him these words?

"I feel terrible." Marie said dejectedly. "Double-D's risked his life for me, and everybody else. And the last thing I did do him was run away."

"Actually, he let you run away." Ed said with a vacant grin. "Face it Marie, it's not like you can out-run him"

"Ed, let me be emotional here!" Marie snapped. "I just couldn't take it. I thought he was just a normal guy, but now, I don't want Flashpoint, and now I'm not sure if I want Double-D!."

"Then why are you going on about him?" Ed asked, left half of his mono raised.

Marie pulled Ed into a bear hug. Ed felt her grip on him tighten as she started to cry.

"I still love him!" Marie sobbed. Ed let her cry on his shoulder, patting her back.

Ed's comfort was snatched away as May pounced on him. Marie stopped crying with a hiccupy sniff, and gave a weak smile as she saw Ed freak out as May clung to his shoulders.

Marie looked out to Principal Hall. "Please be safe."

Finn and Eddy where flying their rock to Principal Hall. Finn had taken note of the extreme destruction around them.

"Look there!" Eddy yelled, pointing to the hole in the ground.

"This is were they must have gone." Finn deduced. Finn produced his cell-phone and floated the rock into the darkness. His phone turned on and Finn stuck it to his forehead using his psychic powers, using the phone as a crude torch.

"I sure hope this isn't the subway." Eddy said. "Although I don't fancy the sewer that much either."

Double-D had been tossed into the wall of the tunnel yet again. Conner was still laughing as he force Double-D into the ground with his Sound Beam. Double-D stood up slowly, struggling to stay on his feet.

"Conner. It doesn't have to be this way. You don't have to kill them."

Conner's face turned angry and his leitmotif turned from Techno to Thrash Metal.

"I do have to kill them. They'll never be my friends. Mom and Dad didn't want me after the storm. Nobody likes me! I'm a freak. They have to die so people like me don't have to hide anymore."

Conner pointed an accusing finger at Double-D.

"You're just like me! I've heard what people think about you. No matter which face you wear, people have a reason to hate you!"

Double-D blurred towards Conner, punching him in the speaker, throwing Conner into a wall. Double-D sped up to him again, giving him a pummel at speed that made it look like Double-D had a hundred arms and legs.

Conner came out of daze and blasted Double-D away. He prepared to vaporise Double-D, only for a golden lump to smash him into the floor.

Double-D looked up. "Guys!"

"Didn't think we'd let you have all the fun, did ya." Eddy said.

Conner stood up, disorientated. His speaker shone blue, only for a rock to be launched into the speaker, courtesy of Finn. Conner was blown away, crashing into a wall. Conner grinned.

"It's amazing how quickly the tides turn when you get some help." Conner smiled. The was a loud horn noise, and yellow light shone from the end of the tunnel. "And here's mine."

"Oh, you have got to be kidding me." Finn sighed as he scooped up Eddy and himself, squishing them against a wall. Finn tried to make a grab for Double-D, only to be distracted by the noise of the train.

"Why are the trains still running? Haven't they seen the madness up there?" Finn muttered to himself.

"DOUBLE-D, LOOK OUT FOR THAT TRAIN!" Eddy shrieked. But it was too late. Double-D and Conner were swept up by the speeding locomotive.

"DOUBLE-D!" Finn and Eddy yelled in unison.

Double-D pulled himself up from the front of the train. As he looked into the cockpit, he saw it didn't have a driver, so it must have been a runaway train.

Conner climbed up next to him, and winked. His speaker made a high-pitched screech, and the windscreen shattered, letting both himself and Double-D fall into the cockpit.

Double-D barely got his vision back before he was knocked back by a sound attack.

Conner smiled, this time sadistically. The techno music turned into thrash metal again as the beam turned red.

"INDESTRUCTIBLE! ANNIHILATION WILL BE UNAVOIDABLE!" Conner sang to the thrash metal.

The beam cut into the floor. Double-D blurred away, finding a hiding spot in the toilet cubicle in the fifth cart.

Double-D got his phone out, he dialled a number that he knew would work.

"Y'ello?" Finn said into his phone, which suddenly began to ring.

"Hey Finn." Double-D spoke slowly into the phone. "Could you put me on loudspeaker?"

"Oh," Finn sighed. "Sure."

He pressed the button on his cell and turned his head to Eddy.

"It's Double-D." He said solemnly.

Eddy grabbed the phone. "DOUBLE-D! ARE YOU ALIVE? IS THAT PSYCHOPATH ALIVE? WHATS WITH THAT TRAIN?"

"Eddy, calm down." Double-D said into the phone. His lower lip tingled. "I'm gonna crash the train."

"WHAT!" Eddy and Finn said in unison. "Don't be a fool dude." Finn stammered into the phone.

"Conner can't survive a 60 MPH impacted followed by a 1/2 Megaton gasoline blast." Double-D said.

"Neither can you!" Eddy shouted down the phone.

"It'll kill him and stop the destruction." Double-D argued.

"Please." Eddy said, tears welling up in his eyes. "I love you man."

"As a friend?" Double-D asked with a worried chuckle.

"That too." Eddy sniffed.

"Are you sure we can't, y'know, manufacture some sort of happy ending?" Finn said into his cell phone, trying to hold back to tears, awkwardly hiding them with a forced chuckle. "You know how I love those things."

"I'm sorry." Double-D said in a melancholic fashion. "Tell Marie I love her."

And the line went dead.

Double-D sighed, as the doors were blasted open, Conner smiling psychotically.

"I can hear you!" He giggled, the techno music growing louder, as if in a threatening manner.

Double-D roared, and began to pummel Conner relentlessly. Double-D needed to beat Conner back into the control room, where Conner would most likely break the controls.

"I know what you planning to do!" Conner laughed. "You talk too much!"

Conner blasted Double-D backwards. Double-D retaliated by blurring towards Conner at unmatchable speeds, striking the speaker and blasting Conner backwards.

Floored, Conner could do little to defend against Double-D dragging him down the train to the control room. They had reached the last cart before getting to the control room.

Conner blasted himself free of Double-D's grip. Tumbling a bit, Conner stood up in front of his nemesis. The speaker on his bare chest suddenly enlarged, becoming much larger that his chest.

The techno music blasted, rumbling the train and blowing Double-D away like a strong gust. Double-D struggled to inch further. All he needed was to strike the speaker, and Conner would be thrust into the controls.

"Do you feel it!" Conner laughed unsettlingly. "GOOD VIBRATIONS!"

"Too quote you." Double-D said as he reached forward, millimetres away from the speaker, "You talk too much'l

Double-D thrust his body weight forward, hitting the speaker.

Conner was thrust forward, breaking the controls, and derailing the train.

Everything went white.

Finn and Eddy had just rode their rock away from the hole, when the both saw a pillar of fire erupt from the opening.

"DOUBLE-D!" Eddy shrieked, Finn holding him back with his mind. Eddy broke free and went to the edge of the hole. Eddy slammed his metal fist into the ground, creating a small tremor.

Finn began to cry silently, he turned around, hearing thoughts.

Marie and Ed were running towards Finn and Eddy, looks of hope and terror on their faces.

"Where's Double-D?" Marie asked, expecting an answer.

"Marie…" Eddy said, scratching the back of his head.

Finn bit his lip. "Your boyfriends d-drinking soda pop with the b-big guy now!" He sniffed.

Marie fell to her knees. "No" she cried.

There was a moment of silence, which was interrupted by a mysterious "flumph"

The group turned to see Double-D's limp body, having fallen from the sky. The body groaned and Double-D stood up.

"Hey Eddy." He said, dazed. "Guess who has two thumbs and can outrun explosions. This guy." Double-D grinned as he pointed to himself, then almost fainted.

Marie pulled Double-D upwards, and slapped him.

"You stupid wanker!" Marie screamed. "I thought you were dead!"

Marie's mood changed as she hugged Double-D, holding him tight.

"Did you win?" She asked.

"You betcha." Double-D smiled, still slightly drunk from the adrenaline.

There was a small cheer among Finn and Ed, and Marie turned to Eddy.

"Sorry you won't get to walk him home. But I need this guy to rip off all my clothes." She smirked as she dragged Double-D off.

"Work, work, work." Double-D laughed as the two disappeared down the road.

Finn slung his arms over Ed and Eddy in pure joy. "So…" He said. "Who's going to buy me a drink."

It was late a night, as Sadie looked up and down the pile of rubble. She sighed.

"I never did get those curly wurlys he promised."

Sadie looked to her left where a large crack sounded. A fist punched it's way out of the ground, holding a curly wurly.

"Oh hey Conner." Sadie grinned.

Authors Note: Well, that was the season finale. But don't fret, thanks to your reviews, you have treated yourselves to two new seasons. Remember, every five reviews is a new season, so try to write as many as possible. So, stay tuned.