Chapter 7

Water of woe and wonder

"What is it?" A voice said.

"It's uh... hedgehog wonder what it's doing here?" Another voice asked.

"Well we can't leave him here come on lets take him back." The first voice said and they picked Sonic up and headed out.

The figures took Sonic to a hut and left him on a cot. A few hours later Sonic woke up.

"Oh good your awake." One of the figures said and Sonic woke up.

"What happened to me?" Sonic asked.

"Your something else man most people don't survive my operations." The second one said.

"Huh?" Sonic said and sat up.

He was covered in stitches and his leg was killing him.

"What did you do to me?" Sonic asked.

"I amputated your leg." The second voice said revealed to be an Echidna with blue fur.

"What!?" Sonic said lifting the blanket off up and the first figure a shark with green hair slapped the back of the Echidna's head.

"Jadan don't tease him like that!" The shark growled.

"Sorry Honey I couldn't resist." The Echidna smiled sticking his tongue out as he rubbed the back of his head.

Sonic's leg was in a cast but he could still feel it because a shock wave of pain came from it and was felt all over his body.

"I must have broke it when I hit the ground." Sonic thought and laid back to ride out the pain.

"Do you know who you are?" Honey asked.

"Huh? Of course I know who I am I'm Sonic the hedgehog." Sonic said.

"Oh good the last guy that washed up here doesn't remember who he is or what he is." Honey said.

"What?" Sonic said and hissed when he moved his knee.

"Your not going anywhere for at least a week. I fixed your leg but your body needs to catch up with my surgery." Jadan said and left and Honey did as well and came back with a tray of food.

"Here eat up you'll be up and about before you know it." Honey said.

Sonic looked at the tray of food and sighed.

"I wonder what Blaze is up too?" He thought and nodded his head.

"I have to get back to her but first I need to get out of this bed." Sonic said and started eating.

A week went by quickly and Sonic got his cast off and his leg felt just fine like there was nothing wrong with it in the first place.

"Wow your surgery is amazing." Sonic said stretching out.

"Ha I know huh?" Jadan said.

"Jadan." Honey said tapping her foot.

"What? I have the right to gloat don't I?" Jadan said.

"Yes on your free time you forgot to feed Chaos again." Honey said dragging him out by the ear.

"Chaos?" Sonic thought and followed them out of the hut.

They moved to a pool and in the middle of it was Chaos but he looked weak the emeralds he had in him were very dim like they were low on energy.

"Chaos." Sonic said wading into the water.

"Hello user of wind." Chaos said and Sonic jumped back.

"You can talk!?" Sonic said.

"Yes I am capable of speech why does that surprise you?" Chaos asked.

"You've never spoken before!" Sonic said.

"I had nothing to say I refused to give my past master that luxury." Chaos said and he lifted one of his flippers up and a light appeared on the end of it.

"Hedgehog much has happened since you have been plucked form your world and you must see what is happening." Chaos said and moved the light right in front of Sonic's eyes and they turned a bright green and his arms flopped at his side.

"Go!" A human commander said leading his men into battle against Jackson and Sonic appeared on the battle field. They took down some of the monsters but where hunted down by the monsters quickly and were slaughtered.

"Commander!" A solder screamed as he was dragged into a giant monsters mouth and was eaten alive and the commander shoot the monster with an assault rifle downing it but it was to late.

"Sonic the hedgehog where are you?!" He yelled and was tackled to the ground by his own troops who had been infected and he screamed his last scream firing his assault rifle straight up as he was taken over.

"Oh my..." Sonic said covering his mouth his eyes full of fear.

"There is more." Chaos said shifting the scene.

"This is all your fault tails!" Big T said shooting a machine gun grafted into his arm at the approaching hoard.

"My fault!?" Tails said firing his arm cannon off.

"Yeah if you had giving me one of those too we wouldn't be back to back right now!" Big T growled pushing Tails down as he shoot over his shoulder.

A monster was about to strike Tails head and Sonic gasped.

"Tails!" Sonic said reaching for him but his hand went through him.

Tails was knocked out and a four armed monster grabbed Big T and ripped him in half.

"Damn it not again." Big T said and went offline his head still intact but out of power as the monsters carried Tails off.

"No." Sonic said and the vision ended.

"Our world is in peril." Chaos said.

"Oh god how did this happen?" Sonic asked tears in his eyes.

Chaos retold the story of Jackson coming to power and why he stole the master emerald and one of the emeralds collecting more before he was banished to Blaze's world and weakened badly by the one commanding Jackson.

"My memory and power started to return when you arrived." Chaos said.

"We have to get back!" Sonic said grabbing the water god.

"We shall but we need help I don't have enough power to warp us back chaos energy is very limited here. Elemental will work but I need a lot of it." Chaos said.

"Hmm I think I can help." Sonic said and focused and his wind power returned.

"Awesome!" Sonic said.

"Ah wonderful now grab my head and put your forehead against mine." Chaos said.

Sonic floated up and did as Chaos said.

"Let us go." Chaos said and they teleported away.

Honey had a shocked looked on her face and Jadan was drinking a beer.

"Here I got more." Jadan said and Honey took the bottle and finished it.

"We saw nothing." She said and walked away.

"That's how we work." Jadan thought with a smile and followed her.

Sonic arrived in emerald city or what was left of it a few hours later. It looked like perfect chaos had ran through it and Sonic yelped when he saw a giant black monster wrecking what was left of the town that looked a lot like perfect chaos only it was black and there was lava not water everywhere.

"Are you alright master?" Chaos asked him.

"Yes I'm fine and what do you mean by master?" Sonic said.

"I can't use my full powers without a master and I've decided that you are perfect for that role as we need to go back and forth between the worlds to get the chaos emeralds and I'll need you strange new powers to do so." Chaos said.

"Why do we need to do that?" Sonic asked and looked Chaos over.

He was in his 0 form.

"Yes well we came back I kind off... left the chaos emeralds behind and they split in different directions to keep them from being stolen in my weaken state." Chaos said giving a forced laugh that made bubbles rise up within him.

"I see well for starter lets find my friends and we'll go from there." Sonic said about to run off when Chaos attached to him and turned into aqua colored body suit.

"What are you doing?" Sonic asked feeling his skin crawl as Chaos got settled his brain and eyes moving to Sonic's back.

"Just making sure I don't slow you down." Chaos said.

"Alright then." Sonic said and started to run but found he was only going 100 miles an hour.

"What the?" He thought and put more effort into going only 150.

"Why am I going so slow?" He thought.

"Am I slowing you down?" Chaos asked.

"Ah yeah I forgot about you but why are you so heavy your just made of water." Sonic asked.

"Water is a lot heavier the most people give it credit for." Chaos said.

Sonic grunted his reply and ran around town at 100 miles an hour to save stamina. At the moment Chaos was the only friend he had and his ability to attack things from any direction provided Sonic with some cover when he was saving lives or fighting monsters so he didn't mind going slow. With Chaos' help he was actually able to get to places he could before. Like right now for example Sonic is at the end of a broken bridge and on the other side he can see Big T's head being tossed back and forth between two monsters.

"I can't jump this with you on me but I can't leave you behind either." Sonic said.

"I know what to do." Chaos said and stretched his arms out wrapping them around to street poles on opposite sides of the bridge.

"Now Master run backwards as hard as you can." Chaos said.

"I get it a sling shot." Sonic and ran backwards 500 feet then crawled up into a ball and was launched across the bridge into a monster then Chaos slapped the second one to the ground when his arms caught up with them with the force of a semi going 90.

"Nice job." Sonic said.

"Thank you." Chaos said.

Sonic picked up Big T's head and found his battery back was still inside but loose. He pushed it in and Big T activated.

"Ah who's handling me?" Big T asked.

"I am." Sonic said flipping him around.

"Ah hello Sonic how are you?" Big T asked.

"Big T? What's the matter with you?" Sonic asked and Chaos let go of Sonic.

"It appears my personality chip was destroyed when I was ripped in half." Big T said sadly.

"Bummer well do you know what's going on?" Sonic asked.

"Yes but if you don't mind can we go to the lab and get me a new body? Tails should have a spare plane laying around that boy is always making things." Big T said.

"Yep come on Chaos." Sonic said.

"Wait master I sense a chaos emerald." Chaos said.

"Where?" Sonic said.

"Right... there!" Chaos said and a Minotaur like monster appeared before them raising up out of the ground the red chaos emerald embedded in its forehead.

"I am Longhorn the 8th general and you will not leave here alive." The monster said and drew a giant ax from a sheath on his back.

"Well looks like I'll have to disagree with you." Sonic said and put Big T on his head and over it.

"Sonic what are you doing!?" Big T said alarmed as a humming sound came from his head.

"Just using the hidden feature Tails installed in you for emergencies." Sonic said as a battle suit wrapped around him.

"Fascinating." Chaos said and began to fight the minions that appeared along with Longhorn using his water like body to stretch and crush his foes.

Sonic charged up the booster rockets on the bottom of the armor then blasted off and smashed Longhorn with a bone crunching punch or would be if he was a human in the chest. Longhorn stumbled back and swung his ax hitting the ground hard making a tremor that made Sonic trip and hit his head on a sharp rock.

"Good thing I'm wearing you." Sonic said shaking his head and got up.

"Good thing I can't feel pain." Big T answered and Sonic ran forward and delivered a series of quick Sonic rockets I call Uzzi rocket to Longhorn's head then finished with a his pursuit attack which name escapes me right now.

Longhorn cradled his bleeding forehead with both hands dropping the ax which Sonic picked up with effort despite his exosuit making him twice as strong as Knuckles and returned it to Longhorn via his unprotected chest causing the beast to fall.

"Does Tails know you can be so violent?" Big T asked as Sonic took him off his head the armor retracting back inside of it.

"What Tails and the others don't know can't be used as black mail against me. Besides I've fought these things before or something like them not using weapons no matter how strongly I'm against them had me licking my wounds for a year after it happened. These things are the exception to my no weapon rule." Sonic said picking up the red chaos emerald and they headed for the mystic ruins.


"Princess Blaze?" A guard asked her.

"What is it?" Blaze asked.

"Your uh... on fire again." The guard said.

Blaze realized this and turned it off.

"Sorry." She said.

"It's fine but you need to stay calm we'll find the theft that stole the orb of wind." The guard said and left.

Soon after he left Blaze was on fire again her emotions were out of control but her powers thankfully were not.

Blaze ran out of the castle and to the lake nearby tossing herself into it in attempt to cool down her body and mind. It worked and she was able to relax and focus.

"Sonic said he didn't need the orb to stay here but he's gone anyway. My siblings won't tell me what happened to him and I don't have any clues." Blaze thought and decided to take a swim while she was there. What choice did she really have the last run from the castle to the lake had burned the rest of her clothes off.

"I picked a bad day to let Milly and the blacksmith update my combat suit I burn through so many of my good normal clothes when things get like this." She groaned softly and washed off the ashes that had stuck to her.

She took a deep breath and dived under the water.

She loved the lake it was the one place she could be alone and focus her fire powers without the risk of hurting someone. Blaze swam pretty well despite the fact that she was a cat and had fire powers loving the way her powers kept her warm even in the 40 degree water. As she got deeper underwater she felt the need for air but something on the bottom of the lake was glowing brightly caught her eye. She went back up took a deeper breath and dived straight for it. She managed to grab it and returned to the surface.

"What is this?" Blaze said looking at the object in her hand, in it was a dagger with a silver handle and a crystal blade.

"It feels warm but what is it?" She wondered and she heard something dive into the lake.

"Who's there!?" She asked looking around.

She saw a fin come up and head for her making her scream due to a bad childhood instant with a rouge shark and she swam for the shore. Before she could make it something grabbed her leg and pulled her under the water. She fought to get free and tried using her powers but since they were fire based they did nothing but make bubbles and Blaze found she was running out of air as her attacker squeezed her making her last bits of air came out her mouth as she thrashed about in vain.

"Sonic help me!" She gurgled and then fell silent the figure pulling her body in closer to it then grabbed the dagger and left Blaze as she sank to the bottom of the lake her eyes starting to glaze over and fell onto the bottom.


"Like this Big T?" Sonic asked him as he tried to attach Big T to Tails old bi plane.

"Yes now push that button I should be able to do the rest." Big T said and Sonic pushed the button.

The plane shifted into a wolf and Big T cracked his neck.

"Not exactly what I had in mind but with a little work I will be just as functional as before. Oh dear I really wish I had a personality chip talking like this bothers me so." Big T said.

"Don't worry Big T when we save tails I'll make sure he gives you a good chip and upgrades you." Sonic said.

"Wonderful now what is our next move?" Big T asked.

"Hmm well we don't know where anyone is so lets start looking for chaos emeralds." Sonic said.

"Master I've got a lock on the next chaos emerald." Chaos said who had been meditating in the corner the red emerald floating before him.

"Great lets get going." Sonic said and they headed for the door.

Before Sonic reached it he felt shocked like he just been tasered and fell to his knees.

"Sonic what's wrong?" Big T said.

"I'm not sure but I feel." Sonic said and threw up.

"Whoa." Big T said.

"I think traversing between worlds has affected him he should rest." Chaos said helping Sonic up

"Yeah that's probably it I did feel sick after we got out even if it was for a moment." Sonic said and sat in a chair.

"The sun is going down it would be safer and more practical to go in the morning. Oh god practical? I need my personality back bad." Big T added.

"Well lets call it a day." Sonic said.

"I hope I don't get sick like that again." Sonic thought and soon found himself asleep.