Chapter Four: Part Four: Breaking My Limits

Shadow knew he had to stop this meaningless battle between them. Unfortunately, time was not on his side, for at any moment now he would run out of energy. Then what would happen? Would Dark Sonic destroy the new foe, or worse, the whole floating island? What would become of the others; would they…? No, why is he thinking like that?!? He has to stop Sonic somehow… otherwise…

The other pulled back, before spinning into a pinball. He attempted to dodge, but instead the hedgehog turned a quick 180 and rocketed him into the ground, face first. Catching himself quickly, Shadow reached for a Chaos Emerald, "Chaos Control!" Dark Sonic raised his eyebrows, seeing his sudden reaction. Before he knew it, the dark hedgehog was forced into the ground by a set of hands.

Being caught off guard like that angered him as he kicked the hedgehog off and sent into rows of homes. Their residents filed out minutes ago when the danger was well known to the city. They were all remaining in a hidden bunker underground. However, they wouldn't remain safe for long. Now, they fighting began to get more and more violent, as Dark Sonic was using sneak attacks as Shadow relied on the powers of the emeralds and gems to use chaos control. But now, they began to lose their strength.

"Sonic, stop this now; I'm not the enemy!" "So why do you stand in my way?!?" "Just what is it you're trying to do," he asked as they launched magical attacks now; it would not be long before they would resort to weapons… "Why you ask; simply to protect!" Protect… did he mean Amy? Then, that would mean… "Sonic, listen up; Amy and the others are safe, but it's not helping that you're doing this! The enemy is the creature down there already on its way to destroy the others! Are you going to squabble with me on this or will you do something and help?!?"

The words began to make sense, especially since it was Shadow, but… where was…? Before he realized it, the hedgehog's eyes widened as it was now preparing to strike the building where the others were. Seeing this, the blue spheres flickered back to an emerald green snapping Sonic out of it. He wildly looked around, and saw Shadow with a worried face. "Oh no, don't tell me…" "Forget that; they need help!"

At that moment, it prepared to fire. "No; Amy No; of all things, not this," he thought. Sonic rushed like the wind to the place, and was feet away as it fired. "Amy!" Sonic felt a burst of speed past him; his was heart racing as he leaped up in front of them. The attack cut between him as it ripped away the dark blue on him, revealing a whiter glow. It was something straight out of horror. At this, Amy yelled to him at the top of her lungs, "Sonic!"

The dark wings burst apart into dust and realigned into a set of ten white wings. Eventually, the attack wore off and remained an angelic version of his previous dark Cream was spinning wildly around her as Cheese was jumping and fluttering around with joy. "What's with your chao," Tails asked her. "Cheese is very happy! Apparently, she likes the super form." "I can see why," Amy said to herself.

"Hey Knuckles, can you get the others out of here? This next attack will be powerful, so I need you guys as far as possible." "What about Shadow," Amy said finally getting worried again. At this, a golden warp was next to him as another white hedgehog, this one with red streaks, appeared before them. "Go on already," he confirmed.

The red echidna nodded back to them as he ushered the others out of the building. They ran for the outer wall as the battle ensued. The two angelic beings nodded in response as a swirling energy radiating hatred surrounded the creature before them as the metallic hedgehog revealed red eyes of hatred. "You are truly pests; I shall be glad to be rid of you." "Okay, whatever you just said, it doesn't matter, you're the one that's goin' down," Sonic replied.

"Then try!" At this, it launched out balls of dark static. "Here we go!" Shadow rolled himself into a pinball, as Sonic tossed him up into the air, the hedgehog rocketing into the clouds, where he charged his attack with the sun's energy. This distracted Destructor, allowing the white hedgehog to flip up before the dark ray was launched at him. He spun over him, trapping the robotic-like being in a ball of light. He held it down, forcing more pressure onto it.

Looking up, he called out to Shadow, "Go!" And as this voice rang in his ears, the other white hedgehog spiraled down towards them. Sonic darted out of the way just in time, the pinball impacting with the light, sending out shockwaves rupturing stone walls nearly a mile away. Before long, an explosion of white engulfed the city and could be seen as a faint glow on another part of the planet. Minutes felt like hours as the light slowly faded.

At the wall, the others dimmed their eyes to see remaining two small glows where the larger one had erupted from. Below them, sparks of light began to slow, at first random and fast, before becoming uniform and slow. The being was gone, a crater in its place. The next thing they knew, the two super-powered hedgehogs had teleported behind them. Amy had tears of joy in her eyes and hugged her hero. "Oh Sonic, I knew you would come through for us!"

"We're awful thankful that guy didn't do any damage," Crysla said as the four walked up to them. Drago stood next to her, behind their backs they were holding hands. "Speaking of which, did any of you two catch what happened to him?" "No; I think that was only a clone," Shadow said to him. "The real guy is somewhere in that city you spoke of before, and he's probably scheming on how to destroy or rule the full blown planet," Sonic added. "Well, we'll be ready for it."

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