Yeah, another fight scene is on the way! I felt that it was nice to break up the boring stuff, so here it is, another kick-ass fight with some very interesting twists and turns happening in it. OK, well, enough of my mindless babbling, onto the freaking fight, for crying out loud!
Chapter 14
The move was so fast that Sonic and Blaze almost didn't see it coming; they were only able to run out of the line of the attack just in time, just a second before the hand crushed the very spot of ground where they had just been standing a moment before.
The robot, E-65, wasn't waiting for them to regain their composure. Instantly, it swung its hand in their direction the instant that it pulled its fist out of the ground as it brought up chunks of grass and dirt, leaving a huge hole where it had just gone through the earth. Sonic and Blaze both dashed out of the way barely a second before the hand would have made contact with them.
"What the hell is that?" Sonic growled, narrowing his eyes. This robot, unlike the others, seemed to truly be able to think, to calculate its moves exactly and to prepare for their motives. Maybe it was the umbrae that were doing it…
Sonic and Blaze dashed in opposite directions to dodge the sudden laser beam that came out from the cannon that made up the robot's other hand, and they were separated by a red beam of energy that soon cut off when it had no effect on them.
"Split up. We'll be able to confuse it," Sonic muttered under his breath. Blaze gave him a small, quick nod in reply, showing that she had heard his barely audible words.
Another laser was fired at them; Sonic and Blaze dashed in opposing directions once more.
In their safe little pods, Eggman and Eggman Nega were cackling madly with glee; both Sonic and Blaze vaguely wondered what the mad scientists thought as funny, because they seemed to crack themselves up quite a bit. But they weren't able to continue wondering when rapid gunfire suddenly began to go towards Sonic as the hand lunged towards Blaze, reaching out to grab her with its stubby fingers.
Heh, guess that Eggie will never be able to make robots as fast as me, Sonic thought, his cocky smirk on his face as he dashed out of the way of the gunfire once more.
Blaze simply jumped out of the way of the hand as it lunged for her again and again easily, bringing up a few flames wherever she left the ground as they propelled her slightly upwards.
Their strategy to split up and confuse it seemed to be working; E-65 seemed overwhelmed slightly by the fact that its enemies were dashing in two opposite directions, and the fact that it was not able to reach either of the two.
"E-sixty-five, stop holding back!" Eggman yelled.
Suddenly, the robots glowing red eyes trained on the megalomaniac scientists, and the smoke that gave it the strange, mirage-type look began to dissolve from the top of it, and the horrible, white eyes of the umbrae formed. There were three of the shadow-beings' heads being visible, coming off from the top of the robot's shoulders.
"You do not order us around," they said, in that horrible, raspy whisper of theirs, and the Eggmen suddenly were filled with icy, cold fear; the umbrae were working their special ability to make those whom they chose feel horrible fear without those whom they were inflicting it on knowing why.
"But…but why won't you attack them with your full power?" Eggman Nega asked.
"Patience…good things come to those who wait," the umbrae hissed, and then they dissolved into the robot once again.
Eggman rolled his eyes at his counterpart. "I truly don't understand his theory," he muttered.
"Neither do I; but we made a pact, and if we break it, the consequences will probably be catastrophic for us," Eggman Nega said.
While this was happening, Sonic and Blaze had noticed that the robot had stopped attacking for a little while, and they began to get suspicious. They weren't looking towards the Eggmen while they were having the conversation with the umbrae; they had been to busy running from attacks that they were worried about that the robot would aim for them. When they realized that it wasn't attacking them, they both stopped at the same time, realizing that there was something amiss in this situation.
"Is that it?" Sonic muttered, not allowing his hope to get the better of him as he stood on his guard, but slightly releasing it. "Guess that new robot of yours isn't so big and bad after all!"
"Oh, Sonic…" Eggman sighed, shaking his head. "You will never truly understand the stratagems of superior combat."
Sonic rolled his eyes, annoyed that the Eggmen always seemed to somehow put lots of big, sciency words in their sentences—on purpose. True, Tails sometimes lost himself and used real big words that Sonic himself wasn't able to understand fully, but he did it on accident, forgetting that there were dumber people in the room with him. The Eggmen, well, they did it on purpose to get others annoyed, and it was working now on Sonic.
In truth, it got old.
"Whoa!" Sonic and Blaze both gasped, and just barely dashed out of the way of another laser beam headed straight for them, nearly singing the fur on their bodies as it separated them.
The Eggmen cackled madly with glee, quite satisfied to see that their archenemies were now scurrying for their lives as the robot suddenly began to relentlessly attack both of them, shooting now at Blaze and lunging for Sonic. But, this time, it was going much faster than it had been before, and it was much harder to dodge the attacks this time.
"Looks like The Darkness actually knew what it was doing," Eggman mumbled.
"True," Eggman Nega agreed.
Blaze took in a sharp breath as a gunshot grazed her back, and she hissed irritably at the sharp sting.
Guess I underestimated that thing, she thought as the next line of fire came rapidly. She ran out of the way, ducking as gunfire went dangerously close to her head as the energy beams landed on a few stray trees.
Sonic expertly dodged the swinging hand of the robot as the fingers reached for him, only to clasp at air. The robot let out a horrible sound that could only be described as a shrilling roar and continued to lunge fiercely.
"That all you got, buddy?" Sonic taunted, sticking his tongue out. "Nyah nyah!" he went on, very immaturely, and then yelled, "Oh, crap!" as the robot lunged once more, getting dangerously close to him.
And, suddenly, Sonic froze.
He didn't know why, but, suddenly, he was unable to move, as if his whole body had suddenly been encased in wet concrete that had dried a second after it was put on him. He couldn't move, frozen in mid-run, unable to speak, unable to even blink. Even though his mind screamed to his muscles to move out of the way of the incoming hand, he found that he was powerless to do so, suddenly immobilized, as if ice had suddenly run through his veins and frozen him from the inside out and was preventing him from moving at all.
Move, damn it, move! Sonic thought furiously to himself, but his body would not obey him. The only thing he could do was watch with his unblinking eyes as the hand suddenly came down on him, crushing him into the earth.
Blaze had seen it all, known that something was wrong, tried to reach him, but the gunfire prevented her from going to him. When the hand crashed down into the ground, her eyes were wide with horror as the Eggman cackled with glee. Honestly, during battle, cackling seemed like the only thing that they ever did besides calling for revenge when they were beaten once more.
E-65 continued to crush Sonic's body into the ground, relentless. Blaze tried to reach him, but from the gun came a small orb of red energy aimed at her that suddenly made a box around her, which seemed to form a barrier around her as she helplessly watched him be pulverized.
"Stop it!" Blaze hissed, erupting in flames. But the strange red shield that was forcing her to stay in its confines was not giving way to her fiery anger; she continued to try to burn her way through this, but she eventually realized that it was fruitless.
When E-65 removed its hand from the Earth, Sonic was barely breathing, still frozen in that strange paralysis that suddenly had overcome him. His body was brushed and bloody, and he still couldn't move, couldn't make a sound. E-65 drove its fist into Sonic's body again, making yet another crater in the ground as it crushed down on the blue hedgehog.
She couldn't just stand by and watch him get hurt like this. Blaze ran into the strange laser walls that were her temporary prison, but the only thing that she got was a horrible shock that jarred her body, making her feel like icy fire was running through her veins. Her eyes rolled back in her head as she clenched her teeth to stop herself from screaming, jumping off from the electrocution of the barrier, still strapped. All around, she was trapped, seeing everything in a sheen of red as she was boxed in by the energy.
"HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!" the Eggmen cackled with glee in unison.
"That's what you get for underestimating!" Eggman Nega said, and they both began to cackle once more.
So that must have been their plan, Blaze said to herself in her mind, her thoughts coming quickly. The umbrae were smart, making us think that there was nothing else really different except that it was going fast. But it somehow made Sonic paralyzed, and somehow has made this shield around me, and it was holding all of this back so that it could catch us off guard. And it worked.
Sonic was still frozen, his mind screaming even more to run, the pain from his broken body making him struggle. But he was still helpless, trapped in the paralysis that made him unable to move, unable to shout something, and unable to glare at the robot in one last attempt to show that he was still struggling.
E-65 punched him into the ground once more, making the crater deeper. Blaze realized that it didn't even need to hold the gun in her direction anymore, that the shield was somehow staying in place without the gun being there. The robot picked Sonic's unmoving body up, only to throw it into the air and to ram it into the earth once again as it was coming down. It did it again, this time punching with even more force.
It punched Sonic again.
And again.
And again.
Suddenly, a snarl ripped through Blaze's bared teeth, and she felt her anger rising to the surface, threatening to break through. Her true anger, her pure rage, was making its appearance.
With a roar—the only thing that could describe the sound that came from Blaze's throat—she burst into a million flames, white-hot and burning, making the area around her suddenly undulate with the heat, efficiently raising the temperature of the area up to well over one hundred degrees Fahrenheit. The extremely hot flames that were erupting from her body, licking around her eagerly, searching for something to scorch like tendrils of wispy fingers. The strange energy shield that was holding her in place seemed to vibrate from the heat, and, suddenly, it exploded, leaving her free.
Instantly, Blaze ran over to Sonic, running into the robot at full speed as she aimed her flames at it with a snarl. The white hot flames made the robot screech with agony as it stumbled backwards, and Blaze instantly knelt towards Sonic's unmoving body. He was even worse now, with more blood oozing from the scrapes and cuts that E-65 had given him, topped with the black bruises that were forming all over him.
To her relief, he began to cough and wince. Whatever thing that had made him unable to move before was gone, whatever the umbrae had done to him had worn off, finally.
Sonic struggled to get up, instantly collapsing from the effort. "Man, that thing sure did a number on me, huh?" he groaned, but he tried to plaster a false grin on his face to hide the pain.
Blaze wasn't buying it. She gave him a look with her golden eyes that said 'Please, don't give me all that crap about how you're all right, because I won't ever buy it in my life, and that was one of the most fail attempts that I've ever seen at trying to convince me that you're all right.'
"This thing really does have some pretty good tricks up its sleeve," Blaze admitted, getting her white-hot flames ready at her hands. Her anger at what the robot had done to Sonic was not completely gone, and her anger fueled her flames, making them hotter, more destructive.
"If the umbrae can make one of the Eggmen's robots do something like that…then what can The Darkness do itself?" Sonic asked aloud, not even expecting an answer.
I can do far worse than that, you pestering rodent, the horrible voice suddenly growled in Sonic's head. The acidic pain suddenly seemed to replace his mind as he clutched his skull, trying to keep whatever was left of his brains inside of his head. Now do you begin to finally see how futile it is to try and stand up against me?
No, I don't, and one thing you're gotta learn about me is that I can be a real slow learner at times, Sonic shot back. This snappy reply made even more pain erupt in his body.
Don't be smart with me, The Darkness hissed.
You want me to be dumb?
Sonic couldn't stop the strangled cry from escaping his throat as more blinding pain flashed behind his eyes.
And you, princess, don't underestimate what I can do, The Darkness said, suddenly leaving Sonic's mind and sounding in Blaze's own. The horrible pain erupted behind her own eyes as she held back a scream. The Darkness seemed to have given up on torturing her, so she had almost forgotten that The Darkness was still able to access her mind whenever it wanted to. The voice was heard in both of their heads at the same time when it spoke the next words:
Don't think that this battle is over yet. In fact, it's just started to truly begin.
And with that, it left their minds as quickly as it came.
And that was also when the horrible screeching roar was heard not too far from where Sonic and Blaze were.
Sonic shot up, wincing, and they both whipped around at the same exact time towards the noise. And what they saw there made them gasp, unable to retain their surprise.
They remembered the robot was big.
But not this big.
E-65 suddenly seemed three times its original size now, everything seeming more lethal as it blocked out the sunlight, so large that the area where Sonic and Blaze were in had suddenly become shrouded in shadow, in darkness. It was almost impossible, clearly unimaginable, that something could be that huge when it was so small before.
All that Sonic was able to say was, "Oh, crap," before the hand tried to crush them both. They dashed out of the way, escaping by the skin of their teeth from that situation, each barely a centimeter away from the huge hand which had made the largest crater they'd seen yet in the soil.
Sonic was only able to mouth a curse word in shock, his throat unable to form the sounds to make the words audible, but the robot pulled out its hand quickly and tried to crush them once more.
This…this thing, this monster, was much, much, much more intimidating than it had been moments before. The threats that it had implied before had been tripled in intimidation, which made both the hedgehog and cat wonder what else The Darkness was capable of.
"Hohohohoho!" Eggman cackled with glee, sounding like an evil, crazed, drunk Santa Claus.
"Haahaha!" Eggman Nega cackled along with his counterpart, sounding like an evil, crazed, drunk hyena.
Sonic and Blaze were dodging, dodging for their lives as E-65 kept on trying to crush them with its huge hand. Wherever its fist met the soil, a huge crater was made once more as dust came up in large plumes, seeming like small, dirty clouds. And the gunfire suddenly became quickly more accurate, hitting Sonic and Blaze every now and then as they tried to evade the attacks, but, seemingly, with no avail.
We…are…SCREWED! Sonic thought furiously as another energy beam from the gun made contact. How the hell did that thing get so freaking ACCURATE all of a sudden?
Blaze cursed in her mind as yet another round of the energy beams seared through her skin. How did it suddenly…suddenly become so much stronger after I just hit it? What in the world is going on?
The robot was angrily making trees fall, creating more craters, simply crushing huge boulders on the impact of its strong, metal fist, nearly leveling the forest near the area. It seemed to be reconstructing the whole place; what used to be a small clearing surrounded by deciduous trees whose green leaves were swaying gently in the wind was now replaced by a nearly flat area of land with no grass, quite a few holes, and much less trees than there had originally been, before the whole battle had begun.
Suddenly, that thing happened again, that thing where Sonic suddenly froze in his tracks and became unable to move. Except it happened to both Sonic and Blaze this time; they both suddenly became paralyzed, their eyes wide, frozen in their stances of running away.
"Now do you see how futile it is to fight against The Darkness?" the umbrae hissed as they appeared, coming of in wisps of smoke from E-65, their horrible white eyes that were devoid of irises locking onto Sonic and Blaze.
Sonic and Blaze were silent—they weren't able to move a single muscle in their body that they had conscious control of. Their minds were both screaming to their bodies to run, to get out of the way, but they were unable to maneuver away from the monstrosity.
The thing grabbed Sonic in its fist, and then it began to crush. Squeezing Sonic harder and harder, E-65 stared at Sonic with its emotionless glowing red eyes as it continued to suffocate him.
Suddenly, something cracked, and Sonic was able to move again. And his first act once he had control of his body once more was to yell out in pain as his lungs compressed, knowing that something probably broke, and he wasn't able to breathe.
No! Blaze thought furiously, but she couldn't move.
Sonic's cries of agony became louder and louder as the robot continued to compress the blue hedgehog in its large fist. And suddenly, whatever had made Blaze paralyzed suddenly stopped, and she was instantly able to move again.
"DON'T YOU TOUCH HIM!" she snarled with fury, her white-hot flames suddenly shooting out from her palms in her rage. The burning fire continued, a never-ending line of pure, searing heat, as the air around the fire undulated and the temperature rose steeply again. She was careful to aim her attack towards the body of the robot, not wanting Sonic to get hurt, and E-65 dropped Sonic as it batted away the flames, backing up.
Blaze let out another snarl as she put even more of her anger into the attack; the temperature was surely higher than 200 degrees Fahrenheit, easily, and the air around the fire seemed to be a mirage—that's how much it waved from the heat. The flames became whiter and hotter and were eagerly reaching out for anything else to destroy.
E-65 made a strange shrilling noise that they could only define as a robot's scream as it continued to try and stop the flames.
Seems that it isn't fireproof, Blaze thought, smirking a bit with her satisfaction.
The robot continued to make those terrible sounds as her flames from her anger continued to pour on it. This only encouraged Blaze to continue to burn the robot relentlessly, wanting to make sure that it paid for the pain it caused Sonic.
Finally, when she was sure that the thing should have been reduced to a pile of molten metal and non-functional parts, she pulled back. She had probably been attack it for five whole minutes relentlessly with the fire, and she was feeling slightly drained. There were plumes of great, dark smoke, and Blaze thought, That should at least hurt it a little bit.
She ran over to Sonic, who was trying to get up, wincing as his body wouldn't allow him to move. He was even worse now, his quills matted and clumped with dirt and his own dried blood as he coughed out a small bit of blood from his mouth. Slightly disgusted at himself, he wiped his mouth with his gloved hand, trying to clean himself at least a little bit.
As the smoke cleared, the robot was simply standing there, as if nothing had happened to it at all.
"What the…" Blaze gasped. "What the hell is that?"
If anything, E-65 seemed pissed off. Its emotionless red eyes were locked on Sonic and Blaze, and the voice of the umbrae spoke.
"You seem to finally understand…how we are indestructible…" they groaned, their voices hoarse whispers.
"Why don't you just shut up?" Sonic muttered. "'Cause from my experience, when bad guys are scared, they start talking all this crap so that we get scared, which seems to be what you're doing." He said this with his usual cocky smirk on his face as he rubbed his nose.
I guess the one thing about Sonic is that he'll never lose his attitude, Blaze thought with relief. At least one thing would always remain the same in all their battles together.
"You dare…you dare mock us…?" the umbrae hissed, seeming enraged. "Well…we'll just have to wipe that cocky smirk off your face!"
The robot lunged for them once more, but they were ready, dodging out of the way as quickly as they could. Both of them were sweating, and it wasn't from having to go so fast, it was because of the fear of what this monstrosity could do. Obviously, E-65 had the upper hand, and it was only Sonic and Blaze against this huge robot. The odds were against them.
Every time Sonic tried to power up for a traditional Spin Attack, he would have to dodge out of the way from either the robot's gunfire or avoid being crushed by its fist. And every time Blaze tried to get enough flames at her hands to cause some damage, she had to dodge, too. When they even tried to combat it with plain punches and kicks, it ignored them like they were simply pestering gnats.
It seemed that nothing they could do would be able to stop the thing.
"All right, E-sixty-five, I think that's enough," Dr. Eggman finally said. "I think that they've learned their lesson."
There were suddenly roars coming from the robot as it turned around to face the Eggmen with its glowing red eyes, giving Sonic and Blaze a small chance to take a breather.
"You OK?" Sonic panted.
"Been better," was Blaze's reply as she hissed when her fingers made contact with an open wound from the gunfire.
"You do not order us around!" the umbrae suddenly hissed to the Eggmen. "Do you forget that without us, your robot would be nothing at all against your enemies? If you try to order us again, we will SLAUGHTER YOU, and The Darkness WILL ALLOW IT!"
Eggman and Eggman Nega were trembling with fear as the umbrae struck their hearts with it. The wisps of gray smoke were coming off from it even faster now as the umbrae finally appeared, showing their horrid eyes and looking straight at the Eggmen.
"Unless you have a death wish…you will LEAVE THIS TO US!"
The Eggmen weren't able to reply, frozen with the thing's paralysis that it did. The robot then turned around to face Sonic and Blaze again, who were trying to regain their strength slowly by taking deep breaths.
"Oh crap," Sonic said again when they had to dodge yet another attack from the robot.
The attacks were getting quicker and quicker, while Sonic and Blaze's dodges were getting slower and slower from their exhaustion. They had both been hurt by the robot, but they weren't giving up.
This thing's gotta have a weakness, Sonic thought as he continued to dodge. Rrrrgh, but what the hell IS it?
"You two…you two will die!" the umbrae hissed, lunging for them once more.
Blaze let out a gasp as more gunfire sliced through her skin and the blood began to well out of the wound. Sonic took in a sharp breath as the small and deadly energy beams seared his own skin as well.
"We'll kill you if it's the last thing we do!" the umbrae roared, and the robot was now lunging blindly around and around, destroying everything in sight. The landscape was utterly decimated now, reduced to nothing more than a dusty clearing with craters and the stumps of trees ripped from the monstrous robot's punches.
In an instant, Sonic and Blaze were frozen once more. The thing seems to like to freeze them so that its job got easier.
The coward, Blaze thought furiously as she struggled to move, but it was useless.
"Let's see, who shall we kill first?" the umbrae teased, their voices harsh.
The Eggmen were frozen as well, so they weren't able to stop the robot from finishing them off. And if they tried, they had a feeling that they would be the ones the umbrae would kill instead.
The robot lunged and grabbed Blaze's frozen form within its fat, stubby, metal fingers as it threw out that strange red energy ball from its cannon and fired it at Sonic, making a cage around him. The energy boxed him in all over, even under his feet, and he was trapped in this prison.
The thing stopped the paralysis, wanting to hear the cries of pain, their last words.
The moment that it stopped, Blaze screamed in pain as the fingers crushed her. It was as if her lungs had suddenly been taken out as the crushing weight suddenly squeezed her body.
"Blaze!" Sonic yelled, ramming into the energy wall, only getting that horrible electrocution as he yelled in surprise and pain and jumped back. E-65 continued to relentlessly crush Blaze in its large hand, squeezing the life out of her. Her golden eyes, fierce and full of a spark that they always seemed to somehow possess, were not fading away as the light began to drain out of them, rolling back into her head as she shrieked once more. And all Sonic was able to think about were the times that he heard her scream before, all those times that the umbrae and penumbrae had made her feel such pain that her voice was barely a strangled cry. The screams were resonating in his ears…
She fell silent, falling limp as everything turned black.
"Blaze!" Sonic shouted. As if her being passed out wasn't enough, E-65 continued to crush her, as if it wanted to grind her to dust and make her fade away into nonexistence.
"Stop it! You MONSTER!" Sonic snarled, feeling his anger rise.
E-65 dropped Blaze, only to pound its fist on her fallen body. Each time it punched her, another snarl escaped from Sonic's throat. The robot didn't even seem to care if Blaze was a girl; it continued to pound away.
Sonic heard her moan, and when it punched her again, she began to scream once more. Once more, the pain, the horrible pain hit her, over and over and over and over…she began to spew out blood from her mouth as she choked on it, on the blood that should have been inside of her body.
She faded back to unconsciousness so quickly, because she was so weak.
"S…STOP IT!" Sonic roared, his anger making him throw his head back uncontrollably as feral noises came from his throat. He began to lose all sense of reason as he felt himself transforming, felt that familiar coldness come over him as he began to transform, his anger in physical form…
Blaze's screams resonated in his ears, and he remembered when The Darkness had hurt her, causing her to wince, to bite her lip to keep herself from crying out in the horrible agony that she was going through. All that Sonic was able to say in his mind was Not her, not her, not her…
And the second thing that he was able to think was, I'LL MURDER THAT PIECE OF CRAP!"
With another roar, Sonic's transformation was complete, as Dark Sonic made his appearance once more.
"Oooh, the umbrae got him real mad," Eggman Nega muttered to his counterpart.
"I haven't seen Sonic this angry since the last time that we tried to destroy him with that other robot," Eggman Nega agreed.
Dark Sonic was silent, glaring at E-65 with his white eyes, devoid of irises, as the dark aura around him intensified with his anger. More feral growls and snarls ripped through his teeth as he snarled, the dark energy breaking the red barrier or energy around him, shattering it like a million red glass fragments.
And Dark Sonic growled only one thing, but that one thing struck fear into the hearts of the umbrae and the Eggmen.
"I'LL…I'LL KILL YOU!" Dark Sonic roared, his voice threatening, almost like the growl of a wild animal. "I'LL TAKE THE PAIN YOU CAUSUED BLAZE AND RETURN IT A THOUSAND-FOLD!"
And, just like that, Dark Sonic was on top of the robot, raining down Dark energy blasts at the monstrosity.
E-65 was backing up, nervous, trying to block Dark Sonic's attacks. Each attempt simply made the hedgehog angrier, and he let out more snarls as he continued to relentlessly pummel the robot.
"Stop, you inferior living creature!" the umbrae hissed, truly afraid.
This only encouraged Dark Sonic to continue to throw dark beams of energy at the thing, not able to truly think, his mind simply a red haze of fury and rage and his hatred for his enemies which had caused him and Blaze so much harm.
Dark Sonic jumped back, extended his palms, and shot out an endless beam of dark energy at the robot, only for a few seconds though. The robot was screaming while Sonic did this, then stopped when the energy stopped, and it looked for him, turning this way and that.
Suddenly, another energy blast hit the robot, then another in a different direction.
"What!" the umbrae growled.
They saw Dark Sonic for the briefest of instants, and then he simply blinked away as another energy blast hit the robot from behind. It was getting confused and annoyed as it let out a roar.
This only made Dark Sonic smirk.
The umbrae tried to make Sonic paralyzed, but it wasn't working. Dark Sonic's mind was somehow inaccessible now as he continued his plan; strike with a beam of energy, dash out of the way before the robot saw him, and make it pay for what it did to Blaze.
"Die, die, die!" the umbrae screeched, panicked, as they tried to make the robot block Dark Sonic.
But it wasn't working.
Every shot that Dark Sonic took at E-65 hit its mark. The robot was confused, smoking up in some places from the angry hedgehog's fierce attacks from his anger and fury. More angry roars were coming from it as the umbrae screamed, wondering where this power was coming from.
Dark Sonic was angrier than he had been before, if possible. Seeing Blaze hurt that much, seeing her paralyzed by whatever special thing they did to her, and hearing her screams once more, over and over and over again, helpless to save her…it had been something that made his rage come through, and whoever wakes up Sonic's rage is in big trouble.
Lightning fast punches and kicks, so fast that the robot wasn't able to block all of them, were being rained down upon it as Dark Sonic continued to fight against E-65 with a lust for vengeance. He needed to make sure that the robot felt Blaze's pain, feel it multiplied by a thousand.
When the robot was weakened enough, Dark Sonic stopped attacking it, only to stand right in front of the robot, glaring at it with hatred with his pure white eyes that were completely devoid of his emerald green irises. He extended both of his palms out towards the robot, and let out a growl as his dark aura suddenly flared around him.
"What's he doing…?" Eggman Nega mumbled.
"I've no idea…" Eggman answered.
Dark Sonic took in deep breaths, concentrating the dark energy around his palms, as it began to condense like a strange ball of darkness surrounding his outstretched hands. It crackled in his hands as he pulled his arms back, getting it ready as he continued to concentrate the darkness around his hands. It was time to finish this, and finish it quickly.
His rage flared again suddenly as he heard Blaze give out a low moan, probably drifting in and out of consciousness, being dragged under the current of the swarming waters of unconsciousness, resurfacing for a few seconds only to be dragged under once again.
With another roar of pure rage, Dark Sonic shot out a large beam of dark energy that consumed the whole area around E-65. The robot was letting out shrilling shrieks and screams, but Dark Sonic continued to relentlessly pour on the energy into the attack, making another short burst of darkness come from his palms and travel towards the robot.
His mind was blank, every sense of reason gone from him, except for one thing, one single coherent thought that made it through his mind.
Destroy this thing…until there's nothing left.
The robot continue to shrilly scream, but it was getting weaker and weaker as the darkness intensified around it, and Dark Sonic continued to relentlessly attack it with the beam of energy.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" the umbrae screamed, but their voices were already fading away.
And, finally, the robot exploded in a flash of brilliant white light. The pieces of the broken, exploded robot were quickly disintegrated by Dark Sonic's dark energy around it, leaving nothing left.
The umbrae flew out, shrilling and screaming, their shadowy bodies writhing in pain, slowly disintegrating like fog does when the sun comes out. And the last thing that was heard was their screams as they faded away, until there was no noise left but the wind whooshing across the area.
Dark Sonic was panting, and his midnight-blue fur faded back to cobalt, his spikes turning down, the darkness disappearing from around him, and his emerald green irises returning. His wounds were still there; he was all black-and-blued and bloody from the umbrae. A new stream of blood had begun to come out of his mouth and was trickling down his chin, and he could barely see anything in front of him. His vision was fuzzy, fading away.
He staggered over to Blaze, saw with relief that she was still breathing, and then, suddenly, let out an exhausted sound and dropped down, knocked out, as he collapsed near her own passed out body.
At this, the Eggmen flew away in their little pods, afraid of what was going to happen next.
There was finally quiet in the battle arena. The landscape had undergone miraculous change; it was nearly simply a flat dust ball now. The boulders and trees which had surrounded the originally small clearing were all gone, replaced with broken stumps and shattered fragments of rocks. The green grass was all torn up and the ground wasn't green any more with it; it was replaced with the horrible tan color of dust. It was hard to believe how pretty the area had been before, before the battle with E-65 had taken place. It was now eerily silent, the only sound the wind whooshing over the flat land.
Then, no one saw it, but a figure, cloaked in white, seeming to be made of light itself, was walking slowly towards Sonic and Blaze. The movements of this being were so graceful and otherworldly that, if someone had been there to see it, they probably would have thought it was an angel. It seemed to glide gently over the ground, never truly touching the floor as it continued to gracefully walk over to them.
The figure—you could tell that it was a slightly off-white animal that seemed to be a hedgehog, glowing with a soft white light—knelt down towards the two passed out heroes. It gently reached out its hand and touched Sonic's cheek, then Blaze's own, seeming to almost be an apparition, a ghost, someone that shouldn't be from this world.
The moment that it touched his cheek, Sonic's wounds instantly began to close up, the black-and-blues leaving his body, the bloody cuts sealing themselves up and knitting themselves together. The same thing happened to Blaze when the figure touched the lavender cat's cheek as well, her own wounds closing up as the figure drew its hand back, beginning to stand up. The wind made the flowing cloaks which it was dressed in billow slightly in the breeze, although it seemed that it shouldn't be harmed by such a simple thing as nature.
And then, it spoke.
"Thank you…for defeating him…" the person whispered—and the voice sounded fairly feminine, gentle and soft, almost like the breeze itself.
It—she, probably—then turned away, looking at the sky.
"I know there is still good in him…but, if he doesn't see the light soon enough, I will have no choice but to defeat him…oh, brother, why did you give in to your darker nature?" she whispered, shaking her head, closing her light, crystalline blue eyes that also shone with light like the rest of her.
"But, in the meantime, they must stand strong against him," she murmured to herself as she looked at the knocked out blue hedgehog and lilac cat. "My only hope is that they will be able to stop him…before he becomes too strong for even me to be able to stop."
With another look at the two, she whispered, "Sonic, Blaze…continue to fight. I will explain everything when the time is right."
And, with that, she closed her eyes, focused, and soon, they simply blinked away as she mentally teleported them back to Tails' workshop, knowing that was where they stood.
And then, with one last look at the destroyed landscape, the figure began to walk gracefully away from the battlefield, leaving a small trail of light that seemed like stardust as she walked away, eventually disappearing through the trees like mist in the morning.
OK, so, it was pretty rough for me these past few…I dunno, weeks? My writers block is acting up, added with another book report, crazy schedules and other things like that…and also a slight obsession with Dragon Ball Z…I've kinda been reading the comics in my free time whenever I can because I think they're so awesome! But anyway, hope this chapter wasn't a disappointment, hope it was worth the wait, sorry, no romance, but there will be some in the next chapter or two, and I'll probably be ending it soon, only to start a new one! A sequel, yay! If any of you have any suggestions for me, let me know!
Thanks, peeps! Your reviews have been helping me out, thanks so much! You all are total awesomeness! ^^