X-Archylte Ruins-X
Time: 6:59
Time until the End of the World: 17h and 1m Remain
For at least three hours and a half, Ken was just sitting down on the train alongside anyone else that was riding to get there while the sun was rising one final time. Along the way, he takes out the six of the seven Spirit Emeralds in his possession, staring at each and every one of them. He knew that everyone that he knew of held at least one of them, but there was a question that kept getting asked in his head; Where was the last one? So far each one was from the ones he loves. Who else was there he was missing? He was sure nobody else was forgotten.
Not getting the idea out of his head, he sighs and feels like he needs to talk to Comet. "Comet, are you there?"
"Yeah, I'm always here. Something up?"
"I can't get the thought of who else it could be out of my head. Because I don't even know who else I know of. I mean...Who else am I missing? Yune, Stone, Edge, Ariel, Gemstone, Fang, Vanille, and you. That's everyone I know. So...Who else is it? It's starting to bother me."
"Well, we'll probably get to know on who it is later on. But we just have one more person to deal with now. Paragon and Xiran have been dealt with. So that just leaves..."
"Right...Mephiles the Dark. He was once everywhere in the timeline. No matter what you did to get rid of him, in an alternate universe it never worked and he'll just come back. If it wasn't for someone helping me a while back, we never would have sealed up the real him. But now time has collapsed and he's likely out while he holds the Heart of Impure with him as well."
"Probably. But I've been getting reports of something lately. From what I'm seeing, a person that controls many robots has been roaming around to find Mephiles, who's still in his sealed state. But something more actually; He's also looking for something to help release him so he can gain control of it, known as the two Guardians of Time."
By hearing of this person, he knew of who it might have been. "A person that controls many robots huh? There's only one person I know that's just like that...Dr. Eggman, or better known as Dr. Ivo Robotnik. He created Xiran one hundred and two years ago."
"Yeah, I'm betting it's him as well." Comet says through the earpiece while the mobile vehicle then slowly begun to stop, giving everyone inside the time to stop, with the Hazel hero walking out to see that the area was a large field that held remains of the mountains, yet compared to the Soleandria Valley, there were no towns whatsoever. "This is it...Your final location; The Archlyte Ruins, remains of the Archlyte Steppe after time collapsed. From what I heard, nobody has dared to enter here, for it holds many killer animals that are as dangerous. So if you're going to be out there, watch your back."
"Thanks, I will." He starts walking away from the station and was to start his journey in the last location, but he stopped to hear a sniffling. Hearing this caused him to look down to see a small Brown kangaroo with Magenta colored hair with a Blue hightlight, Blue eyes and wore a Black with no sleeves and upper top but it was held by White strands and a Black bow, Navy Blue shorts, and Light Blue thigh-length boots while she held a katana on her back. Even though he didn't know her, he crouched down to get down top her level. "Hey, something wrong?"
She looks up to him only to look down. "I-It's nothing."
"Well it's clearly something if you're sitting there crying to yourself."
She sighs now. "Why won't ya leave me alone?"
Then he sighs, knowing he won't get her to talk this way. "...Alright, fine. If you don't want to tell me and leave you alone, I'll just leave then." He turns around and starts walking away, putting her in shock. "Have a good last day here."
"S-So you're really leaving?!"
He stop and looks at her with a nod. "So now you don't want me to leave? What is it you want then?"
"I...I don't know." She looks down again. "The world's ending on midnight, ya know? And knowing the places I love are going to be gone too. Maybe even where I get the roses here."
"Roses? What do you need them for? Are you going to use it as a memoir or something like that?"
She shakes her head, with her colored hair swishing a bit with it. "No, not really. Everyday I always put one on my mum's grave because she always loved roses. They're flowers than always grew back to replace the ones I picked up. But...They're gone. All of them are gone."
"And you want to give her a rose for her grave as a final goodbye here, right?" She nods slowly. "Look, if I come across one, I'll give it to you so you can give it to her one last time. But if I'm going to do that, I need to find someone that's causing a lot of trouble here. Have you heard on where a guy that controls many robots might be?"
By hearing that, it made her brightly lit eyes look up to him. "Y-You'll do that?" He nods. "Well...Ok! I heard a few things that happened North of here! Maybe it's him?"
"Alright, thanks. I'll put this info into great use...Miss?"
"Lilly!"
He nods. "Alright then, Lilly. I'll be back with a rose soon, or at least try." He turns and runs north, hopefully to find the one behind what was going on.
Time: 8:02
Time until the End of the World: 15h and 58m Remain
From that sudden instant, a large metal fist burst through a large rock, shattering it into multiple pieces to find anything from within, but found nothing from the inside. One of those near the being was a Yellow colored cat with Brown eyes that wore Brown and Black body armor with a small sword on her back, whom was Alexandria of Xiran's old empire, to which she sighed. "No lead here. Such a shame. I'm was sure it was said to be here."
"Well then let's just check the next one." The one that held the metal hand said, revealing it to be Dr. Ivo Robotnik himself, wearing a large metal body suit while his mustache was now White as snow. After saying this, the two of them walked away from what they just punched while multiple smaller robots with guns, Egg Gunners, followed in suite. While walking, he growls lowly in anger. "We'd better find where it is before midnight! I'm starting to lose patience VERY quickly."
"I'm the same, Dr. Robotnik. Because if we plan to rule over the God of Light known as Bhunivelze once the time nears, we must find Mephistopheles and use his power of the destroyed time and his Heart of Impure before then."
He nods. "Yes, of course I remember why we're doing this! You think I didn't know?" The egg-shaped scientist sighs in a hint of anger. "To think in one lifetime I tried to obtain him. He's become a bigger pain to find the second time around!" From within the machine he's in, he hears a loud beeping noise from within the mech, making him stop. "I'm getting something!" He starts turning around to see if it'll get faster by getting near its direction, but stops when it's aiming towards one of the rocky walls. By seeing this, he nods. "Get it ready to be opened!"
Once given the command, the gunners then started shooting off lasers from another part of the guns they hold on their one arm while in the distance, Ken was watching and observing this. "Comet, I found Eggman. But he's with someone else as well. I can't tell on who it is though..." He quickly runs from one remains of rock to another, wanting to see up close to see who else was there, with him being surprised. "...It's that cat girl. The one I fought in the Mystic Ruins at one point."
"You mean that one cat that worked with Xiran that got crushed? I guess I shouldn't be surprised she's here. Same with Shai being around. Guess she wanted to do something more than be with somebody like him. But not exactly what I'd expect."
"Think the way to release Mephiles is nearby? Because they're constantly trying to dig through just about anything through those rocks."
"That I don't know. But I suggest you stop them before they do. Because we need Mephiles to stay in his sealed state. If he's not, he might just kill everyone so quickly. Because what's in what he's sealed in holds multiples of them. And if there's a ton of them..."
"...Then everyone will just be dead right off the bat. Right. Though...Maybe along the way I can find that rose for that Lilly girl. Do you feel like she has a pure enough soul to hold the last Emerald?"
"I don't know, but let's not risk letting that go to waste. We need anything to help us get the last one we need. We're down to less that sixteen hours left in this world. We can't let a single person we can help be ignored at this point."
He nods by hearing this and continues to watch them before the gunners stopped shooting the lasers. Once this happened, Dr. Robotnik then uses his large arm to swing it and crushes the wall that was weakened, destroying it to see that it led somewhere. "There! I found it!" He says before looking at his robots. "Stay here and keep watch for anything you buckets of scrap!" They turn and start scouting the area while being imobile, with both him and the ex-soldier following him.
"Comet, looks like they found something. I bet that's where that lead is."
"Then what are ya waitin' for?! GO!"
He nods and quickly jumps out from where he hid and does a sudden Homing Attack onto one of the Gunners, destroying it while catching their attention and him getting up. "Sorry, but you're in my way." In response to him saying this, the other robots the Egg-shaped man made started shooting out multiple lasers and bullets at him, with him running towards them with his Chaos Blade prepared and quickly slashes up to at least two of the five robots into halves. After doing this, he does a swift turn towards one of them and shoots a Blizzard spell at it, taking out its gun for him to disarm it and destroys the other two with an Aeroga before finishing off the last one.
Once finishing off the ones that were keeping watch, the Hazel warrior looks at where the two entered into and jumps in.
Time: 8:28
Time until the End of the World: 15h and 32m Remain
Upon entering the dark caverns from where the two blasted through, they walked through the tunnel filled with lightless area for quite some time. Though it was stopped when the two of them both saw two lights, with one being Black and the other being Blue, roaming around a circular part of what was in front of them. By seeing this, the old man smirks before laughing pleasingly. "There it is! After searching for eighty six years!"
By seeing this, Alexandira slowly walks over to the two floating objects around. "So, this is the Guardians of Time? It surely doesn't look as expected." After observing this, she slowly looks over to him. "How will you handle this?"
"As stated by the theory I created, the 'Chaos Theory', if one were to create a ton of tension between two of the most powerful forces, it can create a rip and release anything of pure chaos! Once it's made, I will control Mephiles and his duplicates and use them to rule the one to create the new world!"
"Like you'll get away with this." A voice said, making the two look to see Ken stepping towards them through the shadows with his sword prepared and aiming toward them. "It's been a long time, Eggy. Nice to see you lost enough weight to fit yourself into that suit. That's kinda surprising."
By seeing him, his anger rose. "You...I KNEW someone like you would just interfere!" He turns towards the floating lights and slams them together, crating tension that was in the form of Black colored lightning. "Stall him!"
She nods and prepares her blade as well, wielding it towards him. "It appears you now hold a sword yourself, and you've grown largely. I no longer sense the once cocky attitude you once held onto during our encounter."
"Yeah? Well people change when they get older. Either physically or mentally. But things are different from back then. And this time...I'm stronger and better than ever." He swishes the sword he holds in his hand around and places it on his shoulder.
"Of course. As a slave to Bhunivelze, you've gained the power you hold."
"It's not slavery if I offered to do the job myself if nobody could!" By saying this, he dashes toward her and swings it towards her, but it's instantly stopped by her clashing to stop the swing, causing sparks to fly by metal causing tension against one another. "Now get out of my way!"
"I will do no such thing!" She pushes him away and attempts to stab him directly into the chest, but he grabs it with his gauntlet-like left hand and pushes it back so he can do the same until she dodges it with a backflip to gain some distance away from him. Once given some space, she emits sparks of lightning and dashes toward him with the blade prepared to stab him once again, to which he flashes Dark Brown and stops the attack with his weapon once again. By seeing this, she nods slightly. "You've truly grown. I'm surprised you have."
"Really? Well...I've yet to even show on what I'm fully capable of and how much different I am." In a sudden burst of a larger and darker Hazel aura, causing the Yellow cat to start getting overpowered by the sheer strength.
While this was going on, more of the Jet Black energy leaking out of the tension. "This is it! The very thing I've been looking for!"
"P-Please! Stop this! You don't know on what it's capable of!" A female voice yelled in pain with an echo, which, surprisingly enough, came from the Blue orb.
"Like you would know! I know exactly on what I'm doing!"
The leaking energy grew more and more to create a small rip of Purple energy and flames, catching everyone's attention. By seeing this, the Warrior of the Gods knew he couldn't waste anymore time. To help speed the battle up, his aura burst even bigger than ever. "Get OUT OF THE WAY!" He takes the Chaos Blade back and slams it against hers, knocking her down onto the ground while skidding the weapon back. After doing this, he runs over to Dr. Robotnik quickly. "STOP!"
However, it was too late. The rip explodes, leaving nothing but a Black splotch on the ground. Everyone stared at it until the small shadow-like object on the ground slowly moved over to Ken's shadow, becoming one with it so it can slowly rise, revealing a Black version of him but the arrow mark and everything that was Grey was now Teal Blue, Silver Ring on the left ear and a Dark Grey fingers on his left hand, Dark Blue cape, and Teal colored eyes and cape but holds no mouth. Despite looking different, everyone knew on who it was; Mephiles the Dark.
By coming back, he just laughs evilly. "Finally, after being in the prison of chaos for a hundred years...I've returned."
"Welcome back, Mephiles the Dark." The scientist says, with the beast slowly looking over to him with his demonic eyes. "It's time we continued what we wanted to do more than two hundred years ago."
"So, you wish to use me as a tool, do you?" He laughs again, much more louder than before while fading away into Purple flames, disappearing from their line in sight. Everyone looks around until the unexpected happened; A blast of dark energy them blasts through the back of machine that was owned by the old man, going through his chest from both sides. Everyone stared at where he was hit, with him landing onto the ground to reveal it was two of the same person. "...You have rather high expectations." The two of them said this in sync, causing multiple copies of Mephiles to start sprouting out in Purple flames, creating more versions of himself. All they did was just laugh before they all exploded, destroying the insides of the area and also knocking the Dark Cholocate-colored Mobian out.
Time: 9:29
Time until the End of the World: 14h and 31m Remain
"Ken! Can you hear me?! Please wake up!" Comet's voice yelled through the ear piece still in his ear, which finally woke him up and slowly get up.
"C-Comet? W-What just..." His sights begin to clear up, seeing the rocky area destroyed and, to somehow no surprise to him, Alexandria was lying on the floor lifeless alongside Robotnik. By seeing this, he remembered everything that happened. "Comet, both Robotnik and Alexandria are dead. I lost two people I couldn't bring into the new world."
"Hey, don't blame or get angry at yourself. We have to keep going. Especially if Mephiles is out there. I've been getting reading of large reading of power that's still forming and multiplying right about East of here. Get there as fast as you can. Because we have fifteen hours of the world left. We can't waste it on this."
"Right...Right. I'm on it."
"Wait." A male voice says, making him look to see it was both the Blue and Black orbs floating towards him. "You're...Him. I finally...Get to see you before my eyes...All grown up."
"All grown up? Have we...Met before?"
"You don't know, do you? Understandable I suppose. I only did see you and Yune when you were-"
"Please, let's put this on hold until we stop Mephiles." The Blue one states. "Please, take us with you. We're the only ones that can put a stop to him."
Ken nods by hearing this. "If you guys can help put a stop to him, then let's do it. I did it once, I'll do it again." He turns and runs off, with the two floating lights following.
