One day of corruption

First picture Green Hill zone in all it's glory, swaying grass that makes it's hills look like a green sea with gentle green waves (that for some reason, don't move). Now put Mephiles the Dark and Scourge the Hedgehog into this picture. Only Scourge seems to properly fit into it, but that's only because of his colouring. Mephiles looks like some delusional dingbat that flew out of a weird cave, and still thinks it's in there and fits in perfectly with it's surroundings.

Now of course, the words "delusional" and "dingbat" don't go together very well in a sentence, in fact, it's a crime to put them together on the same side of a period, but we shall ignore this horrifying revelation for now, and get on with it, before you are all driven to boredom by what would have been a tediously well described scene. What in the world would imagination be for otherwise?

So going back to the lovable near lack of good description, let's get on with this. Mephiles and Scourge were looking extremely angry (ahem ahem ahem, when most people fight they're supposed to look angry, points out someone who is reading over my shoulder, someone who is obviously Disclaimer). Though how it's possible for Mephiles to look angry without a mouth I do not know.

Maybe it's because he doesn't lack eyebrows? Whatever the case, they both look extremely angry and are apparently intent on knocking the stuffing out of each other (I have committed another crime by saying "knocking the stuffing out of", everyone knows that it's offensive to all stuffed toys that might be reading this, or any real animals that were stuffed after death).

At the precise moment when they would have succeeded with blowing each other up, Eidolon (the blue tendril thingy that was the lady) appeared with our well known heroes. Unfortunately, Scourge and Mephiles didn't know them well, and froze, their hands on each other's necks, staring at these newcomers.

The four spectators, all wolves, stared at the newcomers as well. But not with shock. No, definitely not shock, they had indignant expressions on their faces. "Hey! You ruined a good show there!" Called one, who had completely black fur (with the exception of a white stripe down her back and across her eyes, which you might be interested to hear were red).

She had a red tank top on (there was a blue rose on it), gray jeans (with holes in the knees), a black locket, and shoes that vaguely reminded Eidolon of Silver (who saw almost every single bloody thing going on on the planet that was a major event), but they were gray and blue.

Envy perked up immediately. "Hey Lust!" Lust stared.

"Envy.... I thought..... you can't..... how did.....?"

"Cookies." Envy announced solemnly, as if that answered all questions (which it probably did, to her). June and Serena stared at their wolf companion for a minute, then shook their heads and turned to Mephiles and Scourge.

"Hi, we need your help."

"And why would I give my help to a couple of chameleons?"

"Yeah, he's a dingbat who's only purpose in life is to destroy the planet." Snickered Scourge. That's funny, he used the same word for Mephiles that I did. What a coincidence. "So unless you need him to blow it up for you, then there's really no way he can help you."

"Wrong, I don't just destroy planets." Said Mephiles, frowning. "I also destroy sponges." Everyone stared.

"Why sponges?" Asked Jack, forgetting the problem at hand.

"Because I absolutely hate Sponge. Bob. Square. Pants." Said Mephiles, sounding like he was gritting his teeth. If he actually had any that is. Scourge rolled his eyes.

"I hate tuna casserole but I don't go around destroying it, even though I tried to get it outlawed in my world."

"Okay this really isn't aiding the problem we have." Said Eidolon. Something you might like to know is that for some reason, a hero chao was floating over Eidolon's head, holding a cardboard sign that spelled out: Eidolon.

"How do you pronounce that word?" Asked one of the obviously younger wolves, he was white with a brown stripe on his eyes, and had patches of black and silver all over. He had on a yellow shirt (it had a black lightning bolt on it), black levi jeans, and a pair of shoes that looked like Charmy's, but were ice white and forest green.

"It sounds like eye-dough-lon. The lon is more like luhn, but that's beside the point." Said Eidolon. "Mephiles, Scourge, we need your help to stop my twin from destroying the world."

"Who is this person? If he's close to completing my life's goal then I am interested in knowing who he is exactly." Said Mephiles. Scourge got the look Sonic gets whenever Tails is trying to explain one of his machines.

"Wha...? That makes almost no sense."

"To an empty-headed idiot like you it doesn't."

"Why didn't you just call him a dingbat?" Asked Inu, who had asked about the pronunciation of eidolon.

"Because, everyone knows it's against the law to put the words delusional and dingbat on the same side of a period." Everyone stared at him.

"Errrrr......... that's very very interesting I'm sure Mephiles. And you know my twin. He's the guy who... you know.... created you, and you rebelled against?" Mephiles's eyes widened.

"Oh crap......" He said, making it very drawn out, so saying "oh crap" took around ten seconds instead of four, wasting more of my precious time, because I had to type that out to explain it. "I'll help."

"And so will you Scourge."

"Why? I have no incentive to, if the guy destroys this planet then good riddance I say, I won't have to deal with Sonic's stupid antics, which defeat me every time, and I hate that fact."

"Because if this world is destroyed, then he'll move onto another world to destroy. And another, and another and another, and another..." Of course, Eidolon saying "and another" on and on and on and on, is also wasting my precious time, so this author in particular was glad when Scourge said he actually got it.

"Alright already! Geez! Fine, I'll help you, but then I've got to be allowed to fight this guy in peace!"

"Yes, I have to be allowed to blow him up as soon as this is over." Said Mephiles, as he and Scourge took their hands from each other's necks and brushed them on the grass, as if to get rid of something dirty.

And they probably thought that the other was quite dirty, and (more than likely) lower than dirt, and almost not worth their time. Eidolon just rolled her eyes, frowned at the hero chao over her head, and dismissed it. It flew away singing a tuneless song called "Chao", that goes something like this.

"Chao chao, chao chao chaooooooo..... chao chao chao chao chao....." and add a very high pitched "chao" at the end, and you've got the basic gist of the song! [Insert extra large smiley here] Isn't that wonderful folks (asks the insane author)?!

Envy, while this had been going on, had been chatting with her siblings, Lust, Hanyou, Inu, Gold Wolf, and (weirdly enough) herself on the odd occasion. Inu had shared some cookies with her, after that, she had started talking to herself. You get the picture. "Sugar hype in progress" signs should have been put around her. But they weren't. So Mephiles had absolutely no idea what was going on.

Why did he have no idea what was going on you ask? What was going on that he didn't get? Well you see, after awhile, the hyped up Envy's eyes fell on Mephiles. And in her state of insanity, she completely forgot that he was a murderous, bloodthirsty spawn from hell intent on destroying everyone and everything, no.... she jumped on him with a yell of "pretty crystals!" and "cookies!"

So he was currently caught in one of the most bone crushing hugs of all time, struggling for air (even though, technically, he didn't really need it, he was just used to breathing you see). Thankfully, Envy's siblings pulled her off him in time. "Heh heh heh....... coooooookies........" Said Envy, eyes wide, a grin on her face.

Mephiles decided from that moment on that Envy was a result of an experiment the devil made that went wrong. Horribly, horribly wrong. How do we know he decided this? From what he said next. "That girl is a result of an experiment the devil was doing that went wrong. Horribly, horribly wrong." Now you know.

Eidolon looked like she was trying to stifle laughter. "Alright then, let us go to recruit some other people we will need the help of."

"Like who?" Asked Jack.

"Sonic, Shadow.... you get the idea." And so they disappeared again. Taking Envy's siblings as well, accidentally.

"THAT WAS FREAKING AWESOME!" Yelled Envy when they reappeared in the middle of Shadow's house, of course, she was right by Shadow's ear when she yelled this. Shadow reeled away from the position he had been in, which had enabled him to yell into Sonic's face. The black hedgehog was clutching his ear, feeling deafened.

Having someone yell in your ear tends to do that to a person. Envy looked at him with a smile, then went over to the hedgehog, who was flat on his back, waiting for the ringing in his ears to subside. She leaned down, and, Shadow, expecting another yell, braced himself, hoping he wouldn't go deaf. "Do you have any cookies?" Numbly, Shadow raised a hand.

"No don't...!" And pointed towards the kitchen. Envy dashed off.

"Oh great, she's going to go on sugar hype....." Said Hanyou, dashing into the kitchen after her. Shadow heard some scuffling noises, Hanyou came out with Envy looking disappointed.

"You lied." She said accusingly to Shadow. "There were no cookies." Shadow raised his eyebrows. Sonic had put some in there yesterday....... after receiving a glance from Eidolon, he kept his mouth shut about this. Sonic was staring at them.

"What the... how in the world....?"

"We're here to ask you for your help." Said Eidolon, the apparently good tendril thingy that reminded Amy, who was also in the room, of a squid. Hanyou was staring at Amy with a strange, faraway expression on his face.

"Hanyou?" Asked Lust.

"What...?"

"Why are you drooling?" Hanyou went red and ran out of the room.

"What's up with him....? And what do you need our help with?" Asked Sonic cheerfully.

"Saving the world from a creature that created Mephiles. My twin. He's tons stronger than anyone you've ever faced, he's possessing Espio the chameleon, and he wants to destroy the world." Then Eldrion paused. "If you remember Iblis..... then think of my twin as a much much worse version of him."

"I get the picture." Said Sonic, wide-eyed.

"I knew you would." Said Eidolon, seemingly oblivious to the effect those words had created. Then she turned to the Babylon Rogues, who for some unknown reason, were also there. "How about you?"

"Sure, there might be an opportunity to get a picture of him to use for a bit of blackmail." Said Jet, grinning evilly. Eidolon either didn't know what blackmail was, or wasn't bothered by Jet trying to find a way to blackmail Sonic, because she didn't object to it.

"Good. Next stop is your ship, I'm starting to get tired from all this teleportation, I'll need to save my energy for the battle, if I can help in any way that is."

Darkness.... the slam of some metal door...... screaming..... a flash of a terrified face..... flames....... roars of anger...... Angra Mainyu, Eidolon's twin, was leaving Espio alone for the most part, even though he was still possessing him. So Espio's eyes were still completely red, and glowing, and he still had wings.

The only change was that there was dried blood on his back around the wings, and that he was curled up in a corner, the wings wrapped around him, crying. In case you didn't know, a possession were the host was not willing hurt the host a lot. And in Espio's case, having experienced a lot of mental stuff when he was in the virtual reality chambers Vector found him in, it hurt even more.

Memories rose to the front of Espio's mind from Angra Mainyu's, he was trying to make Espio enjoy the images he saw, and just couldn't understand why Espio seemed terrified of some, horrified with others, just plain miserable with some, and utterly dejected with the rest. "Look mortal, I am offering you immortality, and the chance to survive the destruction I shall bring to the world, and you don't like any of the things I'm showing you. Why?"

"They're not right, they're inhuman..."

"If you haven't noticed, I am not exactly human, and neither are you. Heck, I was here before humans, I'm the reason the dinosaurs died! It wasn't some stupid meteor like everyone thinks, though the results were the same."

Espio shuddered and opened his eyes, staring into the darkness around him, that was laced with a strange red light every now and then. It was almost the same view he got from behind his closed eyelids. And it didn't matter if his eyes were open or closed, he couldn't find any sanctuary from Angra Mainyu, who was able to talk right into his head. "I don't want any of your glory..." He muttered.

"Who said you'd be getting my glory? You'd be getting the privilege to survive."

"I don't want to survive if it's like this." Said Espio, closing his eyes again. The wave of destructive images started crashing through his mind again.

EEK! Sounds like Espio's giving up hope, and what in the world is going on? The countdown is nearly over......... oh yeah, that reminds me, for the previous chapter I forgot to put "two days of corruption". Today would be "one day of corruption".

The next chapter is probably going to be called "zero, explosion now". Or something like that. Anyway, R&R, I hope you liked this chapter. :) If you're wondering, I was looking up "delusional" on , and saw in the synonyms "eidolon", so i checked what it meant. It seemed to fit, so I used it. Then I went onto Behind The and looked up names with destruction in the meaning, and the search yielded the name Angra Mainyu. And that worked to, so it was chosen. I hope this was a good chapter..... I certainly hope it was..... btw, before the btw, I wrote this aaaaages ago, but lost the file and wasn't able to post it. So as you can see I finally found the file, and it is now postable! Hope you enjoy it, R&R (even though I said that already). I hope I did this chapter right. ^_^