I hoped you like Dark Sonic's appearance, but now with the rest of the story. Please review. I do not own anything except the plot and OC characters.
Chapter 10: Repentance and Forgiveness
The hedgehog shifted himself to see a pink object standing on the side of the ship. It was a pink hedgehog who was frantically trying to get his attention.
"Stop it Sonic! You're hurting Starlight!" shouted Amy.
"What a nuisance. I might as well get rid of her." spoke Sonic to himself as he aimed his lance at her instead.
Starlight threw her chain wrapping itself around the lance and pulled with what little strength she had left. It flew out of Sonic's hand and changed back into nothing.
"You'll regret that." said the hedgehog as he strode to her.
"Sonic. Listen to yourself. Isn't the reason you're fighting is to protect us? How can you do it if you're the one trying to kill us?" demanded the plant girl.
He came to a halt as the words penetrated his mind.
"Why am I hurting Starlight? Why did I try to hurt Amy? What was I trying to do?" thought Sonic as he struggled with himself.
"Does it matter?"
"Who's there? And how can you speak in my mind?" questioned the hedgehog.
"It's obvious. I'm you." responded the voice.
"How can you be me? I'm me." spoke Sonic.
"It's simple. I'm your darker half. The one everyone refers to as Dark Sonic or Dark Super Sonic. We met at Black Narcissus's base." continued the voice.
"That power was from you." said the hedgehog.
"Yes. Now I have a question for you. What are you going to do with my power or should I say ours?" wondered Dark Sonic.
"What?" spoke a confused Sonic.
"Answer me. I want to know why you fight. I, myself, do it from the rage and despair in my soul. I shall make others suffer to soothe my pain." demanded his dark half.
"I fight...I fight...I fight for the people I care about." responded the hedgehog.
"Really? What will you do if you have to destroy one of them? What then? And don't give me an annoying answer like I will save and protect everyone. You must choose." said Dark Sonic.
"..." Sonic was speechless.
"Well? What's your answer?" pushed his darker half.
"...I will do what I can. Even if I have to give up my life, I will do everything I can even if I fail." replied the hedgehog.
"...I see. I will let you have control for now. However, if you ever waver, I will not hesitate to take over." spoke Dark Sonic.
"Got it." said Sonic.
The dark aura that surrounded him turned red as his green pupils returned with a firery red tint. A flame red lance formed from his new aura and flames licked at his body, but didn't burn him.
"What power. Where are these flames coming from?" thought the hedgehog.
"Those pills helped you tap into the powers you were born with. The special mutations that appear in a select few. It happens to be of being able to tap into fire. Though I would have expected it to be wind as running is what we desired, but we can't choose what gifts we get." spoke his darker half.
"I can understand why White Lily was concerned." said Sonic.
"I'm going to sleep for now. The next time we meet may not turn out as pleasant as this one." spoke his darker half.
"Got it." said the hedgehog.
He continued on his path to Cosmo's daughter who tried to defend herself against a possible attack. Instead, he reached out and helped her to her feet.
"Sorry about that. I still need getting use to this power." spoke Sonic as he rubbed his head.
"You're..." she started as she stared at him with wide eyes.
"Now head back to the ship. I have to deal with this Metarex." he interrupted pushing her towards it.
"Okay." she said leaving the hedgehog to fight by himself.
Starlight limped back to the Blue Typhoon as the Metarex dove down to strike her.
"Oh no you don't." He spun at Shrieker causing an explosion the moment they touched.
Both were sent flying into opposite directions and crashed into the trees.
"Sonic!" shouted Amy as she ran down to hurry to his aid.
Knuckles blocked her path and she pulled out her Piko hammer ready to clobber him.
"Out of the way. He needs me." she spoke as she raised her hammer over her head.
"Amy. Sonic is trying to protect us. We need to start the Blue Typhoon while we can." argued the echidna.
Cream and Cheese also limped into the ship to get between them.
"Knuckles is right." Then the girl rabbit passed out in front of them.
"Cream!" they shouted as they helped settle her down in one of seats.
"What in the world is going?" asked Tails as he got to his feet.
"About time you woke up." said the girl hedgehog.
"No time to explain. We need to start the ship while Sonic distracts the Metarex." said Knuckles.
Tails went to his position and tried to start the engine. Unfortunately, there wasn't anything to power it.
"We don't have power." said the two-tailed fox.
"We need to use our these." said Amy showing her golden star shaped object.
"You guys. Where's Starlight?" asked the echidna.
Everyone looked around to see that Starlight was missing. The plant girl was running to the engine room as she took out a perscription bottle.
"I didn't think I'll have to result in using this. White Lily is going to be mad." She popped a golden silver pill into her mouth as she put the bottle away.
A golden silver aura surrounded her and she placed her hands on the engine. Her aura poured into it causing an energy spike. Back in the control room, everyone was taken aback by the surge of energy.
"We got power?" said Tails in disbelief.
Amy was the first to snap out of it and said, "Well, let's hurry!"
Everyone got into position and fired up the engine. A blast of fire barely missed the Metarex's head as Sonic charged again. The fire ball burned the near by trees to ashes. They turned around just in time to see the Blue Typhoon lifting off. The hedgehog attacked with his lance and retreated to the ship. The robot dodged the attack and flew into the Blue Typhoon's path.
"Sonic! Hurry and enter the ship's cannon." ordered Tails.
A giant blue cannon appeared from under the ship's deck. Sonic jumped from tree to tree till he got onto the ship and into the cannon waiting for the two-tailed fox's signal. The Metarex sent all of its missiles and lasers toward the ship's control center. Everyone waited for the cannon to finish charging and getting into position. It appeared that they weren't going to make it in time and everyone was going to close their eyes when there was a loud shout. Power shot into the system and hit the maximum amount to fire the cannon.
"SONIC POWER CANNON!" everyone shouted.
A blast of fire shot through the cannon and toward the robot. Sonic was covered in fire that destroyed all the missiles and laser beams when they came close to it. Before the Metarex could do anything else, it was engulfed by fire and exploded. The good news was the fire vanished and was replaced by Sonic in his normal form unharmed. The bad news was the hedgehog was standing in mid air above the ocean. When he realized this, Sonic fell down shouting.
"HEY! Someone help me!"