"Yes...... kill them all Iltinis." Purred Dark Sonic. Dark Gaia's voice, with it's "lovable" stickyness, suddenly spoke.

"What are you doing in my child's head?" He asked coldly.

"Driving him nuts." Replied Dark Sonic.

"Well get out."

"No."

"Don't make me force you." Dark Sonic snorted.

"I'd like to see you try, you second-rate demi-god."

"WHAT?!" So started a battle of the wills inside of Iltinis's head.

***

Iltinis swung his fist at Scourge, who ducked under it. Sonic was hit instead. The currently white hedgehog flew into a tree. "Ow....." groaned the international hero. Iltinis roared, frustrated. He hardly ever hit them, and it was annoying him. The Destructix and the heroes had made a temporary truce so they could beat Iltinis. Shadow shot a chaos spear at the werehog.... that was when something occurred to Fiona.

"Hey Scourge?"

"Hmm?"

"Why do they call him a werehog when he's a combination of wolf and hedgehog?" Scourge shrugged.

"Maybe they were too stupid to realize that." (Geeee...... thanks for calling me stupid Scourge. ¬¬) This moment of distraction allowed Iltinis's fist to connect to Scourge's face. They heard a sound that told them all the green hedgehog's nose was broken. He swore, eyes blazing. "You are so going to get it for that hedgewolf." Iltinis smirked as he spun to parry a blow from Knuckles.

"You're a jerk," Iltinis said matter-of-factly. "You deserved it."

"He's right you know!" Called Amy.

"Shut up!" Snarled Scourge.

***

Finitevus sorted through a couple of folders, very annoyed with the fact that every single picture he had of Iltinis didn't show him in it. The hedgewolf just seemed to have disappeared from every single one. "I hope it's the same for Eggman."

***

Eggman was furious. "THEY DON'T SHOW HIM ANYMORE! MY RECORDS ARE INCOMPLETE NOW!" His robots wisely hid, after having seen him destroy an egg-pawn in his rage.

***

The Commander looked at the fight unfolding on his screen. He frowned and picked up his phone. "Connect me to Shadow's wrist communicator."

***

Iltinis twisted and bucked, trying to throw Vector off his back, but the crocodile hung on, concentrating on making attacking hard for Iltinis. The hedgewolf slammed his back against a tree. Vector gasped and his grip loosened...... Iltinis was free in an instant. He whirled and threw a punch at Vector, who was turning green again. Shadow knocked the punch off course with a chaos spear. Iltinis turned on him, furious. "You will pay for that, creature." Shadow's eyes narrowed.

"That voice sounds familiar...." Iltinis lunged at him, claws out. Shadow dodged. "Yes, yes I know that voice!" Everyone except Iltinis paused. "Dark Sonic's in you isn't he?" Asked Shadow, ducking under a kick. The hedgewolf became a hedgehog now, shooting towards Shadow like a bullet. Shadow did a backflip, so while Shadow was in the air, Iltinis passed under him. "But why, why are you controlling Iltinis? Why not Sonic?"

Iltinis snarled and darted in to attack again, Scourge and the Destructix were holding something that looked suspiciously like a net..... "You were trapped inside Iltinis's energy weren't you?"

"Shut up!" Hissed Iltinis.

***

"You can't keep talking through Iltinis and fighting me forever." Dark Gaia had a point, doing this was putting an immense amount of strain upon Dark Sonic.

"Shut up!"

"Is that the best you can come up with? Sheesh, you call me a demi-god, but what do you think you are? 'Cause you certainly ain't anything higher than a demi." Dark Sonic snarled something incomprehensible as he stubbornly continued controlling Iltinis's movements and fighting Dark Gaia.

***

Shadow backflipped again, but Dark Sonic had seen him do it last time. This time Iltinis landed a hit, his claws piercing Shadow's chest. The black hedgehog's eyes widened in surprise as he was thrown into a tree. Iltinis slowly licked the blood from his claws and smirked. "Who's next?" He asked, turning around. Amy stepped forward. "You? What a shame, I was hoping I'd have to fight you last. After all, it would be so amusing to see you crying over Sonic's dead body." Of course, Dark Sonic didn't know Shadow was immortal, and that his wounds were already starting to heal. Amy stepped closer.

"Iltinis."

"The name is Dark Sonic."

"I'm not talking to you. Iltinis I know you're in there, and I know you can hear me." Iltinis's ears twitched, and Dark Sonic looked annoyed.

"Shut up girly! You're making this harder than...." Suddenly he shut up. Then he spoke softly.

"It's me Amy, what lie am I going to be told this time?" Amy shook her head and stepped even closer.

"Iltinis, only Finitevus lied to you." Iltinis snorted. "I'm serious Iltinis, you can't kill everyone."

"Oh? And why not?"

"I know that you don't have even a smidgen of anger directed at any children you've seen, so that's one reason. Another is that it would make me unhappy."

"And why should I care about what makes you happy?" Asked Iltinis, feeling bitter.

"Because I know you love me." Iltinis froze.

"I'll kill Dark Gaia for that."

"No, don't." Iltinis frowned, but didn't reply. "Iltinis, I l...." Suddenly Shadow's wrist communicator crackled and the Commander's voice came over it.

"Shadow, Shadow can you hear me?" Shadow groaned and managed to reply that he could. "Once you're finished with that battle of yours, I'd like you to bring Iltinis to me. I'd like to talk to him." Iltinis became angry again.

"He probably just wants to "talk" to me like Finitevus did! I'm not going through the pain again!" He yelled, charging at Amy. However, at the last second he veered to the side and headed towards Sonic. Despite what he thought, he couldn't bring himself to hurt her.

***

"See?" Came Dark Gaia's smug voice. "You don't have enough control over him to make him hurt her."

"I can still make him kill everyone else."

"I doubt it, Amy was pretty close to breaking him out." Suddenly Dark Sonic's grip on Iltinis slipped.

***

Iltinis froze, a couple inches away from Sonic. "What's going on...?" He asked, sounding frightened.

***

Dark Sonic beat Dark Gaia away then reached back towards Iltinis's mind, his control enveloping it.

***

Iltinis gave a pained cry and clutched his head, then straightened, angry again. But before he could take a step, a net fell over him and a dart hit his shoulder. Dark Sonic screamed through him, furious, and started trying to tear the net, but the tranquilizer knocked him out and he collapsed.

***

Dark Sonic swore in every language he knew, the distraction gave Dark Gaia enough time to take hold of him. Dark Sonic knew fear then. "Become one with me, little darkness," crooned Dark Gaia, before absorbing Dark Sonic. With the destruction of him, his control disappeared.

***

"Thanks for the save there, but you can hand him over now." Said Sonic, stepping closer to Scourge.

"Sorry loser, but we ain't giving him to ya." Scourge held up three fingers as he walked away. "Read between the lines." Shadow shot up and towards Scourge, who turned, surprised. Before the others could move, Fiona opened a warp ring, hauled Iltinis up, tossed him through it, and jumped through after him. The remaining Destructix fled, leaving Scourge to Shadow.

After about twenty minutes of a good beating, a guy in a weird suit suddenly appeared, standing on a tree...... what made him weird was that he was standing sideways. He pressed a button on his suit and fell to the ground. "I forgot about that." He grumbled, standing and dusting himself off. "I'm Zonic the Zone cop, hopefully this will be the only time you ever see me. I'll take Scourge off your hands." Shadow reluctantly gave the now unconscious Scourge to Zonic. "G'day." He disappeared in a flash.

"Now what?" Asked Amy. Everyone looked at the warp ring.

"We follow him." Said Shadow. "I'll go."

"I'll go with you." Said Knuckles. By now, they'd all lost their Holy forms (Espio thanked whatever gods ninja's had that the Holy forms were gone). Shadow nodded and the two ran and jumped through the portal.

Okay I hope that was good. Sorry for not updating 'til now. ^^' Anyway, I REALLY hope this was good, I had something else planned, but it came to a dead end. This chapter was inspired by a couple random ideas Unisis11 gave me. Thank you! :3 Anyway, R&R, tell me if you like it, and I hope to have the next chapter up soon-ish. Much sooner than this one I hope.