Chapter 12: Powerless

They appeared in front of Sonic, who was now gathering the seven rings into a spiral around him. He clutched his hands, and closed his eyes. Feeling the power of the rings, he began to laugh, and the sky started to darken. But then, he stopped, he then began to scream. His body began to bloat, "This power is too much; I can't contain it all," he said. "I must get rid of energy." He screamed, him and his forms were then teleported in a black flash of light, transporting to an unknown universe.

A blinding flash of light could be seen and Sonic and his forms, along with Scourge and Shadow, had been teleported somewhere. Sonic breathed heavily and looked at himself in shock: he had reverted to his Dark hedgehog form!

Sweat poured down his face. He was on his knees facing the ground, his breathing heavy. He looked at his now gloved hands. "I was so close." He then looked up, and noticed his servants were still there.

"Sonic, are you okay?" Shadow asked.

The evil hedgehog clenched his fists and closed his eyes, concentrating. He gasped and opened his eyes, looking at Shadow. "It seems that I have temporarily lost some of my powers," he said. "I was so close, my destiny was within my grasp." He then got up, and put his hand on his stomach. "I can still feel Solaris inside me, I still have control over him."

"What should we do?" asked Scourge.

Sonic simply looked down again, angry at how he had reverted back to his Dark form. "Let us figure out where we are, perhaps something in this universe can help me." He told his forms.

They nodded and looked around. Everything was sideways or upside down.

Shadow smirked and looked at Sonic. "It seems that we are in the No Zone," he told the god.

"I see." Sonic said. He then fell over and clutched his stomach. Sweat began to pour down his face.

"Sonic, are you okay?"

"No, I can feel him." Sonic said, his eyes then started to flash between light green and red. "I can feel Solaris trying to take over my body. Give me more power. I need more power to suppress him."

Shadow's eyes widened. "How will you do that? Your powers are temporarily lost to you!"

Sonic screamed. "Solaris is still in me. He's trying to take control. All of you, give me energy so that I can suppress him." Sonic then fell to the ground, his eyes changing much faster.

Sonic's forms, Shadow, and Scourge nodded and blasted Sonic with their energy attacks. Sonic screamed in pain as he absorbed the energy.

He then started to gasp which then turned into a small dark chuckle. Sonic finally got up on his two feet. His fur was now darker. He looked at his gloved hands, feeling the energy rejuvenate him. "It's working. Solaris is being suppressed, give me more." Sonic said, his quills starting to rise even higher.

They nodded and continued to give him energy. Sonic screamed and gave off a very dark aura, causing everyone to stop giving their energy.

"It worked. Solaris is now trapped within me, but I don't know for how long. I won't allow him to ruin my plans after so long. I've spent too much to lose here and now. The No Zone you say? It's too soon to face Zonic, especially in the state I am, but we need to find a way to travel to another zone. Shadow, go to the zone jail, your body and strength will put up a good fight. Scourge, you've been here before. Go find the control room, and find a zone for us to travel to, any zone."

Shadow and Scourge nodded, and then teleported away.

"Until they get back, we need to lay low. Fleetway, you and Enerjak go find some Zone cops, and make sure we can wear their uniforms." Sonic commanded. "Darkspine, you stay with me."

Darkspine nodded and looked at Sonic. He turned to Fleetway and Enerjak, "You heard what Sonic said. Find some Zone cops and kill them, then take their uniforms."

Fleetway and Enerjak nodded, and the two teleported away.

"Dragon, you go fly around, and warn us if anyone's coming. Darkspine, I want you to give me more Chaos Energy," Sonic told the werehog. "You were the form I stayed as the longest, your power is second to mine." Sonic then put his hand back on his stomach. "I want to suppress Solaris further, I plan to see him. I don't want him taking over."

Darkspine nodded, and blasted Sonic with more dark energy. Once he gave Sonic more energy, Sonic nodded and closed his eyes. Sonic clutched his hands, feeling stronger than ever, temporarily draining Darkspine of his energy. Suddenly, Enerjak and Fleetway had returned with five zone cop uniforms.

"We did what you asked," Enerjak said.

"Good. Now give me your energy!" Sonic demanded. His fur started to flash between completely dark, and dark peach.

Enerjak nodded and sent a massive beam of dark energy towards Sonic, who absorbed it instantly. Sonic screamed. His aura then blasted up, and caused a shockwave to ripple through the zone. He had transformed once again. His entire body was pure black, except for the pure white eyes he had. Without saying anything, Sonic started put on a zone cop uniform, he commanded his other forms to transform so they can fit the uniforms and follow him. He then started to walk to the zone jail.

Everyone followed Sonic and walked into the zone jail. Sonic had arrived and saw the chaos Shadow was causing. It wasn't to hard for them to sneak in. The giant Werehog created an excellent distraction, and a means to get rid of the guards that would get in the way of his plan.

"Scourge, where's that portal?" Sonic asked.

"It's over there," Scourge said, pointing to the control room. Sonic walked inside and saw a giant monitor that showed all of the universes. He looked at the screen and smirked.

"Scourge, where is that portal I told you to create!" Sonic said angrily.

"It's opening right now," he said.

Sonic looked to his left and saw a giant portal open.

Shadow, you will stay here, destroy as many zone cops as you can. I will return for you once I fully transform into the Time Eater. I will have one more role for you to play, Sonic told Shadow through telepathy.

The giant Werehog nodded and watched as Sonic and his forms went through the portal, wondering where they were going to next.