SONIC HEROES: THE SERIES
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Sonic characters, just the OC's
Chapter Nine: Evil Never Dies, Part 1
Deep in the dreary dimension of the Dark Rulers, Nazo sits at his makeshift throne as his so-called, loyal, servants entered into the central camber of the castle. "So, which monster shall we send to destroy those heroes this time?" Black Doom questioned. "I have three in particular that I wish to send." Nazo said. "And who will they be?" Mephiles asked. "An alien overlord, an immortal demon, and a shadow genie." Nazo smirked. "Oh, they sound powerful." Erazor said, not quite grasping Nazo's idea. Nazo and Black Doom sweat dropped while Mephiles jumped up and smack Erazor in the back of the head. "You idiot, he's talking about us." Mephiles said. "Precisely." Nazo confirmed his belief. "But why send us?" Black Doom asked. "I believe that there are a few certain anthro's that you wish to take revenge upon." Nazo said as he summoned Silver, Shadow, and Jet's figures on the table. "Shadow." Black Doom said venomously. "Jet." Erazor said with spite. "Silver." Mephiles said with hatred. "You know what to do. Draw them out...and kill them." Nazo instructed. The three bowed their heads in acknowledgement before exiting the dimension through their own means of transportation.
Back at the hero's base, Silver and Jet were looking through the viewing glass as Sonic and Shadow duked it out in the training arena. "Do you think they'll kill each other?" Jet asked. "Let's hope not. We aren't insured for them yet." Silver joked as he looked back to the fight. Sonic jumped back as Shadow sent a spiraling kick to the ground. "Stop running and face me like a hedgehog." Shadow said. "Alright, you asked for it." Sonic said. Getting a grip to the ground, Sonic charged at full throttle and jabbed his shoulder into Shadow's chest. "Not bad." Shadow grabbed a hold of Sonic's shoulders and flipped over. "But not good enough." Shadow landed and swung his foot around to Sonic's head. Fortunately, the blue blur caught sight of his counter parts attack and ducked under the blow. "Nice try, Shad." Sonic smirked as he threw a punch to Shadow's face. The black hedgehog saw the attack and raised his fist to block the attack. Shadow counteracted by throwing his own punch to Sonic's face, only to have it caught in the palm of his hand. "I see you have improved. All right, no more holding back." Shadow smirked. "Ok, you asked for it." Sonic returned as they pushed away from each other.
"Twenty bucks says Shadow wins." Jet placed his bet. "Twenty bucks says Sonic wins." Silver returned the bet. "And twenty bucks says you stop this nonsense and get to work." A third voice broke into the conversation. Silver and Jet looked at the television screen near the viewing window as the G.U.N. Commander's face appeared on screen. "Commander!" Jet exclaimed in surprise as he and Silver jumped into a salute. "What is it, sir?" Silver asked. "We have received reports that three strange beings are attacking Station Square." The commander informed. "Hah! Nothing we can't handle." Jet boasted. "That's not all. We have received word that the leader of the Black Arms is amongst them." The commander said. "Black Doom." Silver stated. "Please, hurry before it's too late." The commander said. "We're on our way, commander." Jet said before the screen shut off. Back inside the training room, both Sonic and Shadow conjured their signature attacks as they prepared to strike. "SONIC..." "CHAOS..." "Hold it, guys!" Jet shouted, causing the hedgehogs to fall flat on their faces. "What?!" Sonic and Shadow yelled. "No time for games. We got work to do." Silver said with a serious tone.
Station Square was left in ruins, like it is everyday of week, as Black Doom, Erazor Djinn, and Mephiles began their reign of destruction. Black Doom conjured an array of meteors that plunged into one of the main buildings. Erazor unsheathed his razor blade and ran at a rapid speed past one of the buildings, slicing it down the middle. "CHAOS SPEAR!" Mephiles summoned a horde of black arrow the crushed the buildings on contact. "If this doesn't catch their attention, nothing will." Erazor said. "You know, it would be easier just to phone us." The trio of evils turned to face the heroes that had come to save the day. They looked quite pleased by the surprised looks on their faces. "Erazor Djinn?" Jet said in shock. "Mephiles?" Silver said, equally shocked. "Hey, Doomy. Long time, no see." Sonic mocked the alien leader. "The blue one is he too." Black Doom said. "Just ignore him. He is of no threat to us." Mephiles said. "What?!" Sonic yelled in outrage. "Hold on, Sonic. Just stay back. Let us take care of them. That's an order." Shadow ordered as tried to keep the blue blur back. "Aw, man." Sonic complained. "Get ready to die, you intolerable little pests." Black Doom said as the heroes and villains all charged at once.
"I killed you before and I'll do it again!" Shadow proclaimed as he jumped into the air and curled into his ball form. Unfortunately, Black Doom merely threw out his hand and pushed the black ball back. "You really think it will be that easy. I have learned from my past mistakes, Shadow." Black Doom stated as he gripped his robe. In one swift motion, Black threw off his robe to reveal an entirely new body. It was a black armored alien with three blood red eyes and a five foot dagger tail. "Ok, I cannot say I was expecting that." Shadow said. "Get ready to die." Black Doom threatened. Black Doom raised his tail and threw to Shadow, who dodged to the right, and attempted to stab again. Just as the dagger came to an inch of his face, Shadow quickly halted the tail between his hands. "Whew." Shadow sighed in relief. Too bad the rest of the tail wrapped itself around his body. The tails uncoiled itself and spun Shadow into the air. Black Doom, using his new bodies advanced speed, charged forward and jumped to kick Shadow in the side. Black Doom's new body not only proved fast, but powerful as well as Shadow was sent through, not one, but two office buildings.
"You may have defeated me last time, you filthy pigeon, but I am still superior, even without the seven world rings!" Erazor proclaimed. "Ok, first, I'm a hawk. And second, you talk too much." Hawk said annoyingly as possible. A huge red vein appeared on Erazor's forehead as he unsheathed his razor blade. "You pay for you insults, you filthy pigeon!" Erazor yelled as he sent two blades of energy towards the emerald bird. Jet easily dodged the attacks by moving to the side and rolling forward on the ground. "Ok, my turn. TIME BREAK!" Jet called out as time instantly stopped. Jet held out his fans as he charged forward and jumped to take a swing at the dark genie. Unfortunately, time resumed itself and Erazor quickly raised his blade to block the attack. "You really think I'll fall for the same trick twice?" Erazor mocked. Erazor pushed Jet and kicked both his fans out of his hands. The dark genie then swung around and shot a back kick that sent Jet hurtling into the air. Erazor looked up to his prey and transformed into a cloud of black smoke. The smoke then appeared behind Jet and transformed back into Erazor. Erazor then jabbed his elbow into Jet's back and piledrived the emerald bird into the pavement.
Mephiles and Silver punch simultaneously and caught the attacks with their other hands. "How did you escape the void I trapped you in?" Silver questioned. "Let's just say I have my ways." Mephiles said arrogantly. Silver and Mephiles attempted to knee each other in the gut, only to have them blocked by the other. Silver and Mephiles pushed back with the legs and flipped backwards away from each other. "CHAOS SPEAR!" "PSYCHIC SCREW!" Mephiles shot a series of black arrows while Silver summons a typhoon of psychokinetic energy. Unfortunately, the arrows were made from pure chaos and simply passed through Silver's attack. The good news was that the psychic attack still made it way to its target. "Humph. Looks like it's time to stop messing around." Mephiles said to himself. Mephiles conjured one of his energy orbs and vanished within the purple sphere just before the attack landed. Back with Silver, the grey hedgehog used his psychokinetic powers to levitate himself in the air to dodge the black arrows aimed for him. "Where'd he go?" Silver searched the area for Mephiles. "Looking for me?" Silver swiftly turned, only to be pinned to the wall by a giant claw of ooze.
"Pathetic little rodent." Black Doom said as he raised Shadow's crippled body in his tail and swatted Shadow into the air. As Shadow's body fell to the ground, Black Doom held his dagger tail beneath Shadow. Black Doom was just about to impale Shadow in the back until a blue blur ran past and cut his tail clean off. "WHAT?!" Black Doom yelled in outrage as he looked to the side to find Sonic smirking. "Alright, you guys had you're fun. Now it's my turn!" Sonic cheered. "No, Sonic." Shadow pleaded as he slowly got up. "But, Shadow..." "I can't let you do this. I made a promise." Shadow cut him off. "I did too." Jet said. "We all did." Silver said. "I made a promise to Maria to protect the planet she loved so much!" Shadow exclaimed. "I promised Shahra that I would stop you no matter what!" Jet claimed to Erazor. "I promised Elise I would never let you harm another innocent soul!" Silver yelled at Mephiles. "Please...do us a favor, Sonic. Stay out of it." Shadow pleaded. Sonic was about to argue until he noticed the look in his friend's eyes. It was a look of determination. Realizing there was no talking him out of it, Sonic stood down.
"You really think you can keep such a promise?" Black Doom mocked Shadow proclamations. "I don't think, I know." Shadow muttered lowly. Shadow reached for his golden rings and detached them from his cuffs. A sudden burst of energy rushed out of Shadow as he powers were no longer held back. "CHAOS CONTROL!" Shadow yelled and disappeared in an instant. The next second, Black Doom was fisted in the gut and sent hurtling back. Shadow then appeared behind Black Doom and kicked him straight into the air. Shadow once again appeared atop of and reeled both fist fists back to pound the alien in the gut and slam him into the ground. Black Doom tried to stand up, but Shadow stopped him and held his head to the ground. "What are you doing?!" Black Doom screamed as Shadow's body began to draw a massive amount of red chaos. "CHAOS BLAST!!!" Shadow yelled. Shadow released the energy to create a miniature atomic blast that completely obliterated Black Doom's body. Unfortunately, the real Black Doom (the one-eyed alien squid) escaped the body seconds before the explosion.
"You just don't know when to quit, do you?" Erazor scoffed as Jet slowly tried to stand back on to his feet. "Very well, I'll just put you out of your misery." Erazor held his blade high above his head. Erazor brought his blade down, but his target persistently jumped to the side and grabbed his fans in the process. "If you couldn't beat me before, what makes you think you can now?" Jet smirked. "I'll shut that beak of yours permanently!" Erazor stated as he swung his razor blade to shoot out a wave of energy. Jet's ring began to glow as he called out his signature technique "TIME BREAK!" In that instant, time stood still for Jet as he ran past the energy blades and jumped to Erazor Djinn. Unfortunately, time resumed itself and Erazor took the opportunity to slice Jet in half. But instead of blood, something unexpected came from inside Jet. 'Straw?' Erazor's mind went into overload. After taking a double take, Erazor found that what he actually killed...was a scarecrow. "Looking for someone?" Jet's voice came from behind. Erazor swiftly turned around just in time to witness Jet swing his fan to create a miniature typhoon. Erazor had no chance to dodge the attack and was propelled into the side of a building.
"So, what act shall you be performing?" Mephiles tempted his capture opponent. "This!" Silver exclaimed as he created a barrier around his body and blew the ooze claw the pieces. "You are just as persistent as I last saw you. I am immortal. Why not just accept the fact that you cannot win?" Mephiles questioned. "You were the one that told me I was the descendent of Sonic. It's time I lived up to the family name." Silver said. Mephiles gather a ball of purple energy and hurtled it to the grey hedgehog. Silver counteracted by creating a wave of psychokinetic energy that shot out and eliminated Mephiles' attack while still rushing forward. Acting fast, Mephiles created another energy orb to transport his body just seconds before he was hit. Mephiles jumped down from the energy orb in another location only to have Silver appear out of nowhere from the side. Silver created a blade of psychokinetic energy with his hand and sliced Mephiles in half. While in midair, Mephiles' upper half swung around to claw at Silver. But the grey hedgehog repelled with another barrier and splattered Mephiles all over the street.
Shadow teleported via chaos control to grab a hold of Black Doom's tentacles and swung him around to shoot him into the ground. Erazor attempted to slice the emerald bird, but Jet block with the metal of his fans and flipped the genie over his shoulder to land with Black Doom. Mephiles attempted to regenerate as fast as possible, but it was not quick enough as Silver kicked his head to join with his evil partners. "All right, I think it's time we let Sonic join in on the fun." Shadow said with a smirk. "Finally!" Sonic cheered. As the Dark Rulers tried to bounce back from their defeats, Sonic gather a great amount of blue chaos into his hands and molded into a sphere. "SONIC WINDS!" Sonic yelled as he threw his signature attack at the trio of evils. The Dark Rulers had no chance to avoid it and were hit full blast by the devastating wind, creating an explosion of chaos. "Well, glad that's over." Silver said with a sigh of relief. "Can we go home now?" Jet whined. "Yes, let's go." Shadow said as they turned to leave. But after only three steps, Shadow suddenly stopped and began shivering. "Shadow, what's wrong?" Sonic asked. "S-such evil. It's s-so c-c-cold." Shadow shivered as he turned back to the defeated Rulers.
Black Doom, Erazor, and Mephiles opened their eyes (or eye, in Black Dooms case) and found out they were still alive. "What happened?" Erazor asked. "I did." A sinister voice called from the smoke. As the smoke cleared, the Rulers found their master in front of them with his hand stretched out. "Who is that guy?" Sonic questioned. Nazo looked to his hand and found it to be completely burned. Must have been because he tried to block Sonic's attack. But in a matter of seconds, the burns and scars disappeared completely, as if they had never been there before. "Amazing. No one has been able to do harm to me since I fought that red hedgehog." Nazo said. Hearing the description of Recter, something in Sonic's mind suddenly clicked. "Red hedgehog? Then that means...you're Nazo!" Sonic exclaimed. "It is such an honor that you actually know me. But not much of one." Nazo sniggered. "Nazo, what are you doing here?" Erazor asked. "Do not worry yourself. I will take over from here." Nazo said. Nazo stepped forward from his servants and stood only five yards away from the heroes. "You may have been able to defeat them, but let's see how you stand up to a god." Nazo smirked. The heroes could tell that their biggest battle was up ahead.
The Dark Rulers are pulling out all the stops as Nazo finally takes a stand. What powers does Nazo possess? Will the heroes stand in victory or fall in defeat? Stay tuned to find out.
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