Chapter 10:
Red lights blared throughout the base as all of the heroes immediately dropped what they were doing, or in Silver's case, telekinetically dropping the dishes.
The heroes ran into the living room, which transformed completely into a surveillance room, with satellite maps, weapons, and radars of all kinds.
Tails typed in commands on the keypad furiously as the television flickered to show who sent the emergency beacon.
When it became clear, Crescent was in front of the monitor's view of the base, which was shaking violently.
"Alright, hey guys, I would talk more, but we're under attack, and I really gotta help out, so-" Crescent was cut off by a loud boom that rocked the base even more.
A massive pawn smashed through the wall behind him, roaring menacingly as Crescent lunged at it.
"You think you can defeat me, one of the only three Titan Pawns the King made?" the monster questioned.
"Probably," Crescent said as he simply smirked as he lunged downward at the titan.
The massive pawn roared and swung his gargantuan fist at Crescent.
Crescent reeled his leg back, and knocked it into the giant limb. The limb swung backwards, and a cry of pain erupted as the arm became displaced.
The other arm swung around. It collided with Crescent, causing the red hedgehog to spit blood as he was rocketed through a rocky wall.
Crescent got up, and smirked as the titan roared in confusion.
"I haven't used this in years," he stated as darkness formed in the shape of weapon.
It then exploded, turning into a silver and black scythe, with purple swirling patterns adorning it. It had different curved blades coming out of it's sides.
Five new pawns which looked like regular pawns save that they had red armor with black lines appeared.
"Elite pawns, eh?" Crescent wondered.
He threw his scythe at one of the pawns, who jumped over the first part but got cut by one of the blades on the end.
The other pawns braced for the next throw, but Crescent simply waved his hand as the scythe followed his path and sliced right through thee more pawns.
The last one took the opportunity to lunge at him, but was kicked backwards into the scythe, which tore it apart.
"That wasn't too hard," Crescent said, "Now for you."
The titan roared in fury, and swung his fist at the red hedgehog.
Crescent jumped back, but did not expect the shock wave from the impact.
He held his arm out to the shock wave of black, and absorbed the energy from it as he fired it at the titan to blind his eyes.
When it finally regained it's eyesight, the monster found its left arm severed.
"Why you little!" the titan yelled as he fired a laser of black from his eyes.
Crescent simply sidestepped it, and ran up his arm. The monster could do nothing in response because of his severed arm.
The titan finally decided to shake off his enemy. However, the red hedgehog jumped into the air, and fired his scythe at it.
The monster swatted the weapon away, but it gave Crescent an opening as he rushed at the monster, dark energy surrounding him.
He then slammed into it and faded into afterimages rapidly.
The monster could not take any more and exploded in a blast of darkness.
Crescent landed on the ground as his scythe faded away.
As Crescent went to help everyone else, he shivered at the source of evil yards behind him.
He turned around, moving into a fighting position, "So you're the King of Darkness, eh?"
"Your reputation proceeds you, Crescent Darkness," the King stated. He was still disguised, but not by darkness, but by the armor he wore. Exotic platings covered his torso in layers, and many other types of streamlined platings covered his limbs. He wore a helmet that fit his quills perfectly, showing that he was a hedgehog.
"Stop giving pleasantries, and fight me!" Crescent demanded as he charged at the King with amazing speeds.
The King sent a fist charged with black energy into Crescent's purple charged fist.
Crescent gazed into the King's scarlet, slitted eyes for what seemed to be an eternity, ignoring the clash of energy happening in between them.
He didn't shiver at all, as if he knew the sinister world those eyes were the gateway to.
His eyes widened as he shouted, "I know who you are, Cor-"
At that moment, a huge blast of black covered the heroes' view as Crescent's voice let out a blood curling scream.
At that point, the surveillance shut off as their connection was lost.
"Wow," was all Tails could manage to say.
"Now we know who the mastermind is behind all of these attacks," Shadow stated.
"Yeah," Sonic agreed, "But we don't know anything about him still."
"This may be much harder than we originally thought," Espio added.
"We're gonna need to mount a mission to find Crescent," Gemini said, "He knows what's going on."
"We'll do that in time," Tails told them, "But not now. We need to focus on gathering information before doing something that big that will use up our time and resources in such a big way. You now their base is like halfway around the world? My teleporter can't do that!"
"Fine, we can wait a while," Gemini sighed.
There's more to this than meets the eye, Sonic thought, But I guess it will comes to us sooner or later. I hope soon though.
To Be Continued...
A/N: Well, here's your chapter! I wrote tis at like 2:00 AM last night because I knew I would be busy today, so don't tell me how low quality this was, I have an idea. So that's all for now, two reviews, and I promise next chapter will have the preview in it!