Review please! I need my fuel!
Gloved fists connected with metallic ones. A red form dodged a blur of grey metal. A black body leaped in the air to avoid a white blur of spiky fists. Red lines sail into the air, slashing on its blood-colored adversary, who dodged just in time. Purple eyes gazed into gold.
Knuckles the Echidna panted, hard. His opponent, Crimson Twilight, did the same only in a calmer manner as he glared right back at the ruby Guardian from the electric post he was currently perched on. They had battled for half an hour straight, with no interruptions.
Even if he didn't want to admit it, the echidna was starting to get tired. His enemy however, was stone as he looked down on the exhausted guardian. Crimson's golden eyes glowed under the sunlight, and the creature was finally beginning to have a diversion.
Twilight smirked, showing off a set of impressive fangs. His arm blade retracted when he got up from his crouched position, being in perfect balance on one single foot contacting the small round top of the electric post.
"I'm impressed, echidna. No demon or angel stood long against me, let alone a mortal..." Crimson Twilight whispered, eyes narrowed on the Guardian. Knuckles understood that was the closest thing he could ever have to a compliment from the black devil. The echidna grinned, apparently happy about that.
"Well, you shouldn't underestimate a Guardian!" Knuckles said with a grin, which earned him a raised eyebrow from the smaller mammalian. It was then that, slowly, Crimson's smirk turned into a smile, and a wicked one at that.
His right arm suddenly morphed, crackling and tearing the metal beneath it as it grew humongous, supposedly too big for it owner to hold. It looked like...a cannon? the texture was like flesh, but also metal at the same time. Four grey blades burst out on four different stops around the hole, and a slit, like a eyelid, snapped open on the side of the transformed arm. A small red ruby was seen, glowing fiercely inside of the slit. Veins grew on the metal-fleshy surface of the weapon.
"A-A gun?" Knuckles said, gaping at the sight of the massive, disgusting half-flesh, half-metal cannon that was where a metal arm was a few seconds ago. Crimson Twilight's smile turned into a straight poker face when he pointed his morphed member at the echidna. A golden glow was forming at the bottom of the black abyss that was the cannon's hole.
Crimson smirked.
"Nice knowing ya." Where the last words the midnight colored demon said before he fired.
As it turned out, his weapon didn't fire like a revolver, but more like a machine gun.
Small golden orbs spilled out of the vile contraption like vomit. Knuckles took a step back, violet eyes wide, before literally turning away and running for dear life. Crimson laughed, jumping on the electric wires and running above the red Guardian, still firing on the echidna. The integrated gun seemed to bombard the streets below endlessly, leaving small insignificant craters on its path.
Finally, a missile impacted Knuckles in the left leg, causing the red colored form to collapse with a cry of surprise. The echidna tumbled and rolled around himself a few times, finishing on his stomach. On his injured leg, a deep, long gash was seen.
Crimson laughed, ending the waterfall of chaos-filled orbs. He then gracefully landed besides the injured echidna, laughing at the mortal's weakness. Knuckles glared up at him, also angry at himself from being taken down so easily. He had no idea who was this black hedgehog, or why he was doing this, but one thing he was sure was that this hog had completely and utterly lost it.
Twilight pointed his horribly transformed arm at the fallen guardian, the gun's hole already charging again with a humming sound. He pointed the cannon straight at the echidna's face. Knuckles looked up, his eyes never leaving the golden orbs that were Crimson's.
A steady grown escaped from the red Mobian's lips, but otherwise he didn't move in fear the cyborg would start firing again. And this time, in his face, which wouldn't be a very good thing for him.
"Pathetic. Just when I thought I was finally having fun." Crimson Twilight commented, readying himself to see the Guardian's brains splash on the destroyed and cracked asphalt floor. Knuckles gulped, knowing there was no way he could avoid getting shot at point blank.
Suddenly Crimson's golden eyes widened, before closing halfway. The demon extended a Blood Whip and slapped away a black revolver with it. He chuckled, leaning back against the taller black hedgehog behind him, who was shocked by the sneaky blood red tentacle retracting quickly into the demon's head. The same said devil who, with his remaining hand, caressed Shadow's left cheek while grinning like a clown. The immortal hog felt his muscles tense at the touch.
"Your Chaos energy..." The black cyborg whispered in wonder and amazement. The creature twirled around, caressing his adversary's cheek. Twilight laughed softly at the Ultimate Lifeform unresponsive and stiff body. He leaned up closer, angling his head to the right a bit, foreheads literally touching as he wrapped his morphed cannon arm around the hedgehog's almost non-existent neck, careful to not put too much of the gun's weight on his victim.
Gold dazed into bewildered red.
"I want it."
A powerful punch later the Ultimate Lifeform was send rolling into the ground. (Sorry Sonadow lovers!)
Crimson Twilight licked his lips, loving the black and red hedgehog's shocked expression when he had closed their bodies together. The cyborg stomped toward the black speed devil, the scent of his Chaos energy lingering and haunting his mind. He was going to get that energy, like it or not.
Changing his arm into its blade mode and completely ignoring the exhausted dusty white bat trying to get up a few feet left, he walked up to Shadow, who had already charged a Chaos Spear. His red eyes were blazing in rage. He looked ready to kill, and the victim was going to be Crimson Twilight.
"You want this energy?!" The ebony speedster growled, giving more and more power to his attack; so much it flickered into a sinister red tone for a second. "WELL COME AND GET IT!" The Ultimate Lifeform screamed, throwing the glowing spear at his adversary.
Crimson extended his mechanical arm in front of him, the red gem in front of his face just as the lance was about to collide with his head; it wasn't even a hit. The spear was deflected and cut in half on each side of the black armored body, dimming down as the energy was absorbed by the Twilight Manacle. It's wearer smiled largely, in a way that seemed physically impossible. The 'smile from ear to ear' saying was literal in this case.
The red gem glowed brightly as it glomped the energy. But that wasn't enough to satisfy it; the Manacle ate it like candy, and just like a kid, it could never stop wanting more and more from its surroundings. It could hungrily snatch it from the sky, the unmoving vegetation and buzzing wildlife around it, hell, even its own host.
And this black hedgehog had enough to satisfy it for some time.
It needed it; Crimson needed it.
It wanted it; Crimson wanted it.
"Now that wasn't enough..." Twilight growled, nearly trembling because of he fact he was so darn close to such a powerful source of Chaos energy.
He flew forward, grabbing Shadow by his quills with his organic arm and unseating his blade in front of the red streaked hedgehog. He pinned the large hedgehog against a nearby wall.
Immediately the smaller part of him started to trash even more violently, fighting for control desperately; but the small part that was still the original Sonic could only watch helplessly as Shadow fought and tried to get the shorter and supposedly weaker one off him, but Crimson Twilight was as heavy as a truck-sized boulder and didn't even move a inch. Not a single inch. There was no escaping this one.
"Dammit.." Shadow cursed, watching the massive white fangs Crimson had adorned in his mouth, one poking out like a vampire's. His attacker laughed when the black one underneath him stopped struggling, finally knowing it was futile.
"Hehehehehehe...I promise I'll make it the most painful thing you ever felt, Hedgehog." Crimson whispered to him with a silky, wicked voice, readying his arm blade in front of the weakened Ultimate Lifeform, aiming for the neck.
Crimson ignored the dozen of screams of panic echoing behind him and, with one fast movement, he thrusted the sharp grey-bladed weapon forward just as his eyes flickered back to emerald green.
The sound of something getting torn apart was heard, quickly followed by silence.
The heavy quietness glided above the mortal's heads as they watched the entangled mass of red and black. Nobody dared saying a single word.
Crimson Twilight slowly shrank his sword into its sealed mode, slipping it out of the deep hole he had made in the asphalt wall. His organic hand unwrapped itself from red-streaked ebony quills. The second the blade was placed away, Shadow slipped down against the wall, ruby eyes wide in shock and disbelief as the realization sank in.
The cyborg demon had spared his life; the grey sword had sank right beside his almost non-existent neck.
A few inches left and it would have been the end of the Ultimate Lifeform. Nobody dared to move, in fear they might break the slim tint of sanity that had appeared in Crimson's golden eyes.
Shadow had no idea how much time he and Crimson stared at each other in silence. Battling with their eyes. Cold ruby against boiling gold, who rapidly widened as their half metal, half flesh owner took a step back. The cyborg later made powerful hop forward that would outmatch a athletics champion if it would be the Olympics , jumping a good 8 meters up and landing on the roof of a building.
CrimsonTwilight gave a glance at the people rushing to the black hedgehog's help. his golden eyes slowly filled themselves with red tears. Quickly whirling around, he rapidly disappeared from sight after numerous unnaturally long jumps, leaving only a stunned crowd of people behind. Everyone activated themselves, medics buzzing everywhere and reporters flashing cameras at the desolated streets.
Shadow sat there, shocked, still rewinding what just happened a few seconds prior.
The Ultimate Lifeform swore he had seen horror in those golden eyes.
YAWN...Now that's done I'm got to start the next Perfection chap!
Oh the red tears thing; the Twilight Manacle changes the coloration of his tears, so instead of transparent they are red like blood. I though about when I watched a documentary about lizard that says some reptiles do that to impress and intimidate their adversaries. I found it cool, dunno about you.
PS: This is NOT a Sonadow story, as much as I like Sonadow(cause I think it's so darn cute and fluffy like a bunny), Crimson Twilight was just fooling around to distract and confuse Shadow. Sorry again Sonadow lovers!