Chapter 14

Hey guys, I know I have been taking a while again, but that's life. Funny. Well, after the great cliffhanger that was Chapter 13, here is the follow up. So, let continue with the story.

The sound of the bowl shattering was the only noise Blaze heard.

The TV was no longer making any sound. Tails and Amy were opening their mouths but no sound was coming out. The bowl was the lone sound in her mind.

Eventually, after what felt like a hundred years, Blaze regained her hearing.

"Blaze!" Tails yelled. "We have to go now!"

She nodded her head still staring at the screen.

"Blaze?" Tails questioned.

"I'm fine, Tails." she answered, lying through her teeth. "Let me gather my thoughts."

Shadow…

"Any ideas, Sonic?" Shadow asked.

"Well, spin dash never fails." grinning at Shadow. Shadow could tell, he missed fighting.

The creature they were facing, definitely would put up a fight. Shadow could not exactly describe it, but he could exactly depict its weapons: 1000-Volt 20 Foot Tentacles, three Turrets that shot .50 Caliber bullets, and finally claws. Big claws.

Not too shabby.

So after the weapon analysis, he and Sonic went for the attack. They hit the claws and bounced off. More like a defense than an offensive part of the massive machine.

"Nice try Sonic, but you will not be able to defeat me with those puny moves." Nega taunted.

"Any ideas, Shadow?" Sonic asked.

"Well, Chaos never fails." Shadow replied slyly, somewhat sarcastically.

"CHAOS CONTROL!" Shadow screamed.

Then as Shadow went to move through time, the situation around him was shattered. He saw the Chaos drop around him.

"What is happening?" he questioned.

"Shadow, if you are wondering what is going on, let me please explain. Thanks to some of my research on the Chaos Emeralds, it turns out there are resources in my world that are not located in yours. Guess what they do?" Nega said with a gleeful smile.

Shadow did not even respond to him. Obviously, the "resources", whatever they were, canceled out the Chaos energy. Hopefully, this would be the only machine of his with that power.

Not good.

Blaze…

Blaze had gathered her thoughts, or the remainder of her thoughts.

Her name was Blaze. Nega is the cause of every bad thing that has happened to her. She needed to stop him. Here was her chance.

"Let's go." she said to Amy and Tails, climbing onto the Tornado.

Soon, they were flying over Station Square. Blaze was standing on the side of the plane, the ruffling of her jacket from the wind. She stared ahead, seemingly emotionless. Kind of like Shadow.

Speaking of, she noticed the upcoming commotion. Down below, she noticed a black and blue dots jumping around a colossal structure.

"So Blaze, what's the plan?" Tails asked.

She jumped out of the plane. This time she meant to be falling out of the sky.

Blaze nosedived through the air, going faster than she had ever felt in her entire life, barely able to keep her eyes open to attack the menace below. Surprisingly, to her advantage, her narrowed vision let her only see her target: the cockpit that Nega was controlling the robot.

5. "Prepare."

4. "Position."

3. "Target."

2. "Flames."

1. "ATTACK!"

She felt her foot connect and all the momentum and the power of her flames flowing through her body as one. She also felt the machine go crushing into the ground, hearing bolts snap, and hear the crackle of flames melting the material of the structure.

She jumped back and landed swiftly on the ground beside Sonic and Shadow.

"Nice." Sonic praised her, panting.

"Excellent." Shadow said with a grin.

Blaze did not look back at them still focused on the sight above, even all she saw was dust.

Nega's figure did appear. He walked out of the dust into the open, and began dusting himself off.

"Well done." Nega said. "I have learned from you Blaze. You aren't like your pitiful parents. I have one thing to say."

"What?" she growled.

"Self Destruct." it said, in a strange and polite manner.

"What?" But, luckily she was already in Shadow's arm, once again being carried to safety. As she looked back, the explosion went off, sending fire and shrapnel everywhere.

"Pretty impressive." Shadow said.

"Me or the trap?" she asked, with a slight grin.

"Both." he chuckled.

They raced home, running through the streets on the way back to Sonic's place.

He placed her down and said, "You are going to have to start running by yourself."

"Yeah. It's not bad being carried, though. I am royalty." she said with fake pampered ness.

"Get over yourself." Shadow said.

Shadow was surprised, he started to enjoy this cat's company. That was new.

By that time, everyone else had arrived. Tails smiling with the enthusiasm of a 9-year-old, which he was.

"We did it! I also got some samples of the broken machine, broken by Blaze." he paused while, she got a slight cheer. "And I think I found what canceled out your Chaos energy."

"Thanks." Shadow replied. He needed to get in on that. For now, however, he needed a long nap. His jog lasted a lot longer and A LOT more painful then he expected.

Even an Ultimate Lifeform needs rest.

So there we are! I wanted a happy ending, at least for this chapter. I really enjoyed writing about Shadow's Chaos situation and Blaze planning an attack. Well I will try to update again soon. Read and Review, Thanks for the Support, and see you in Chapter 15!