Chapter twenty! This is the farthest I've even gotten in a story before, and I like it, so yeah, for my anniversary/ new year gift. I'm writing a scene in I didn't originally have planned to have in there at ALL. So have fun reading it!
Just to clear it up: Lync comes from Lynch, if you were wondering, and Lync is read and sounded out like Link,
This chapter was brought to you by: Cor Amicus, Maraya Prower, Chaotic Hedgehog, Black Storm Nomad, and Black Sand Heart!
Corpish! (Cor Amicus): well yes! Pyro time! Yes, that's almost every day life for me. Shadow is awesome! And of course playing your own game, it's something I always wanted to do. And good! I love the fight scenes. I'll keep up the good work
Rya! (Maraya Prower): good! I loved it too! Thanks for the fight scene comments and the puns and your reaction, it was so nice to read it. And I love sweet baby rays! Thanks!
Fengari: noo! My book!
Chaos (chaotic hedgehog): thanks bro! and now we add Lync to the mix! Thanks for liking the pun! And that was purpose.
Flame: yeah yeah yeah….
Storm! (black storm nomad): HAMMAH TIME! And nice words stormy! And thanks for having so much fun with reading it! And random Dark Chaos lance! (lands next to my feet) WOAH! Shouldn't do that….
Sandy! (black Sand Heart): haha! I did that just for you, and the pun was my idea, I knew you would like it!
Dark was created before I ever heard of FD so don't really care… and FD just go die in a hole, I agree. And I hope this gets even more intense and interesting as you continue! I hope you will love it!
DISCLAIMER: Sonic, Shadow, Silver, Amy, Maria, Omega, Rouge, Blaze and Co. belong to SEGA, EGG FLEET belongs to SEGA, it's in Sonic Heroes, Sega owns Sonic heroes, Flame belongs to BlackSandHeart. Strife, Fengari, Flame, Inferno, Lync, Maria's abilities and how she is during this story, the seven commanders and the 12 guardians, as well as the plot and stuff you've never seen in Sonic before, that is Strife The Dark 152's property, also, the events that happen to Flame, her character development and such is property of Strife The Dark's as well.
Move- the Disclaimer
Thinking
Important
Super powerful person
Something really bad
XVXVXVXVXV
Strife was sleeping in his bed, the darkness seemed to congregate around him as he slept on his back, his face and body was still and he was pale enough to look like he was dead…
*click*
Strife sat up instantly to a sitting position, he had already summoned his sword. When he saw the person next to the doorway, he dropped it and it disappeared into darkness again
Flame.
Flame was standing next to the door and stood there, the zippers on her grey vest shimmering slightly in the light outside the door, the fire symbol on her hands stood out against her white gloves, her black shirt and pants seemed to make her shimmer inside the darkness, and Flame's hazel eyes would not met Strife's Green reptilian ones. Strife stared at flame wide-eyed, trying to figure out why she is here or if he was dreaming or not. Flame looked like she was trying to make a choice; she took a deep breath and started to talk.
"What do you mean?" Flame asked, her voice was small, Strife's eyebrows shot up. "Yesterday you replied to Inferno when he was saying that you made a choice to betray us, you said it was never your choice" Flame took another deep breath, she looked at Strife, Flame looked near tears "What did you mean"
"I meant what I said" Strife responded as he got of the bed and stood, he walked over to flame, but out of arms reach, flame didn't meet Strife's eyes the closer he got "when I said I never had a choice, I never had to choose when I was given a chance, I always did what was best for the team, for us"
"So betraying me and Fengari for Iblis was best for the team?" Flame countered.
"it was because it was either that or-"
"Stop, Strife, just stop, I-I've heard enough" Flame stopped Strife, she turned around to go out the door,
Strife moved forward and pulled her back into his arms, Flame froze out of shock, he held her for a moment and then whispered into her ear "Live, Flame, Just… live" he let go of her and Flame turned around to face Strife with sad eyes.
"Goodbye, Strife" Flame disappeared after saying those words.
XVXVXVXVXVXVXVX- at the 7 commanders HQ,
Flame teleported into her room and sat on the bed, tears rolled freely down her face now. "Live, just live?" Flame asked between a sob "do you still care, Strife or are you just messing with me?" Flame put her head in her hands and stayed that way until she felt that someone else was in the room, she looked up to see Fengari standing there, his face etched in worry for his friend, he sat on the bed next to her and put a comforting hand on her shoulder as she cried "I don't know what to do" she rambled to Fengari, "I went to see him and ask him what he meant when he said he never had a choice and he said that he meant it, that whatever choice he made he always made it the best for the team, but, but what about-" flame broke down crying again as Fengari's eyebrows rose and he rubbed her back, trying to soothe Flame.
So she actually went to see him, Fengari thought grimly that must of took some guts to go over there and actually see and talk to Strife face to face, I wouldn't be able to see him without trying to kill him, Flame obviously did much better than I could… Fengari looked down at his crying friend but with not a good result I'm afraid….
After a while Flame calmed down and rubbed her eyes, Fengari scratched his eye patch and brought out his notebook labeled "RULES" on the cover, Flame laughed weakly.
"Still carrying around that old thing?" she asked
Fengari laughed as well "well heck yes, I still gotta keep up with making rules every time you do something wrong" Flame pouted at that and Fengari chuckled again "I've also added a new rule, listen:
"When you have to decide and order between a large amount of people, you must use the draw sticks method by writing numbers on chopsticks and have everybody take one, the order you get is absolute"
"How's that sound?" Fengari asked and Flame laughed again.
"Oh, it's perfect" Flame said between a laugh. Fengari took a deep breath and scratched his eye patch again before continuing
"So, do you think Strife actually cares?" Fengari asked, he stood up and leaned on the wall with his arms behind his head, the designs on the scabbards of his twin knives glinted in the light.
Flame drew her knees up and hugged them and set her chin on them "I don't know Fengari, he might still care but I can't forgive him for what he's done" she paused, "but…he also said "Live"
"Oh…." Fengari said with a hint of surprise, when Fengari and Strife first met flame in the dark dimension she was fighting a large amount of people and was seriously outnumbered, Strife had come in and took them out with his Dark Magic move, he then picked Flame up and the first word Strife ever said to Flame was "Live", that word has been the motto for Team Moon, their team, ever sense its formation on that day.
"Thing is, even if it's a sign that he cared and DOES still care for us" Flame took a deep breath, when she spoke next, her tone was absolute "I cannot forgive him for what he has done, and that's final" Fengari nodded and looked at her, seeing resolve in her tear stained eyes
"Then what you say shall be with me as well" Fengari concluded and then nodded solemnly to Flame and left the room. A few seconds after Fengari left Flame fell down sideways onto her pillow,
"Strife… I… I…. I cannot forgive you" she muttered before going to sleep.
XVXVXVXVXVXVXV- Strife- 1st person,
I was deadly silent after Flame left, my mind reeled from what had just happened, my body still warm from the hug I gave her, I couldn't think straight from the storm of emotions raging inside my head like the fire storm Iblis always is in.
Calm down, calm down, calm down I repeated in my head as I grabbed my shoes, gloves and cloak and put them on, you are supposed to be the level headed one, calm down. even with my attempt to calm down, my emotions and thoughts spun about what just happened, a strange energy filled me, and I felt like my body was hyped up and as crazy as my head, I walked upstairs and out to the roof, under the stars I felt confused, like my world that I had felt so sure of had just been pulled out from under my legs and sent me sprawling.
Well I haven't talked to her for three years, the time she threatened me didn't count. I thought, pacing under the night sky and the first time I see her she wants me dead, but right now she could have summoned her sword and killed me, but instead she talked to me… I take breath of the night air, attempting to calm the storm of my head, but to no avail. I keep pacing I felt like it was some test… and I failed it… I took a breath as paced more; I'm still not forgiven yet... I looked up to the stars, but I must try, I must try to earn their forgiveness, and if I do not and they want me dead… so be it…. I shall die.
XVXVXVXVXVXV a while later, Strife 1st person
"Strife, Strife" a voice said softly to me, I blinked a few times and opened my eyes full the light was shining in front of my eyes and I thought I saw… Flame… but then I blinked and as my eyes adjusted, it turned out to be Maria standing above me, her head blocking the sun and making a harsh halo of light around her.
"What happened?" I asked as I sit up, the grit on the roof staying on my jacket, I looked around to see that I must have fallen asleep on the roof,
"You fell asleep on the roof, isn't that obvious enough?" Maria crossed her arms a glared at me a little, it looked so much like how flame looked I cringed as I stood up. She didn't notice and just waited until I was standing before asking her next question "so how'd did that happen?" she asked, I looked at her straight in the eye.
"I just needed to get fresh air, and I'm more used to sleeping on the ground anyway, it helps me be prepared if I need to sleep in a cave or something" I lied as I stretched, "I always did that back in the Dark dimension, and I don't want to lose that ability now" I added conversationally. Right then the impact of my meeting with Flame hit me again and I nearly took a step back in recoil, I had expected to see her in the morning, but she won't be there… the next time I see her she will attempt to kill me, the reality of it all crashes on me and I go silent,
"What's wrong?" Maria asked, concerned, I shrug for I cannot tell her, or anyone, this is my burden to bear, not theirs.
"Nothing, I just realized I'm really hungry" I say, lying and changing the subject at the same time, Maria's stomach growls in response and she laughs, I don't.
"Your right!" she smiles, trying to make me go along, but the crushing reality of Flame drowns out the invitation, she smiles still "well see ya later!" she says with a wave and runs to the stairs and down them. I follow after her in a walk, trying to regain some wit so that the others do not notice my gloom and pry, I plaster a neutral look onto my face and walk downstairs all the way to the first floor. I nearly bumped into Silver as he ran from an angry Amy, Silver got around me, but Amy swung her hammer and it went towards me.
*THUNK*
I caught the hammer with my hand and my mask of neutral broke and I glared at the Pink hedgehog, she sweat dropped and fidgeted under my glare, I moved my hand to the side and the hammer disappeared. "Save your energy for fighting the commanders, not each other" I walked around Amy and went to the living room, the one with the fire place, not the one with the T.V in it.
I turned to look outside through the window and I saw my reflection in it, I took a deep breath and looked at my binders, the pain caused by them has definitely increased, probably because I have to use more energy, It's going to hurt in the days to come, I can handle it though, pain is nothing new for me.
I sigh and push my feelings deep down and into a chest and lock it with chains, I cannot think of it now, I don't want to be caught off guard if something happens and I need to make a snap decision, I walk back into the hall and towards the main room area where we had the party, now back to the couch and T.V, Wii, it's the living room, Shadow and Sonic were chatting away, and with a golden blur Maria ran up and tackle hugged Shadow, who let out an audible oof sound as he was sent to the ground by a smiling Maria.
"Now you know what it feels like to be glomped" Sonic said with a laugh.
"SONIC!" and another tackle hug, this time from the pink hedgehog to the blue.
"What goes around comes around" I said with my smirk widening further, no… actually… it was a smile. I held back a laugh as both male hedgehogs tried to get the female ones off them.
"Holy crap! He smiled!" Silver yelled, and in an instant Blaze whacked him upside the head, "what! I didn't swear!"
"It's a bad word" Blaze said with a glare "seriously, how can crap be holy?"
"Air bubbles?" I asked, Blaze and Silver looked at me with disgusted faces; I tried not to wince because me, Fengari and Flame have had this conversation before.
"ew" they said in unison. Their heads swiveled back to each other and they glared "okay, you didn't have to say that, stop copying me! No YOU stop copying ME!" the two said the same words at the same time, Sonic, Amy, and Maria burst out laughing, me and Shadow both chuckled, and Silver and Blaze stopped being angry and joined in the laughing, this continued until Tails ran into the main area, frantic
"GUYS!" he yelled "Eggman is attacking angel island!"
XVXVXVXVXV Edge of Angel Island, Strife 3rd person
Strife was at the edge of angel island, a long ways away from the sonic mansion, Strife glared at the lone "egg sawfish" egg airship (the big blue ones that have the long "nose" thing you land on in sonic heroes level 13.)
"I thought I got rid of him when I hit him with oblivion" Strife muttered as he glared once more at the giant airship as Tails landed next to him, the kitsune crossed his arms trying to replicate Strife's pose "okay, don't do that kid. It doesn't fit you, and Cosmo likes you as you" Tails tripped forward and the black hedgehog dashed forward and grabbed the fox before he fell to his death, he pulled him back and the Fox laughed nervously "Don't die on me, I need you for later" Strife winced this time at his usual phrase he used with Fengari and Flame.
"Sorry about that Strife" Tails said as he looked at the ship again, he sighed "should I grab the X-tornado?" he asked as Strife eyed the ship more, the rest of the crew were scouting from the mountains
"Ahhh… no" Strife said as he shook his head, "no need to put it in danger" Tails nodded
"Thanks boss!" he said with a smile, Strife rolled his eyes and continued scanning the ship, looking for any sort of weakness, inconsistency or point of entrance that would allow them to get in quicker.
"Okay, how many bot's does the normal ship like this have?" Strife asked, Tails thought deeply.
"About 100 or so total" he confirmed, Strife nodded
"Alright" Strife clapped his hands once and shook imaginary dust of them, "get everyone here, we are going to attack now" Tails nodded and took a radio device out of his tails and talked into it, earlier that day he had designed and made it for cases such as these.
"Alright, the boss says everyone group up! We are going to attack" by the time Strife rolled his eyes the whole group was there in a flash of chaos control. Strife wacked Tails upside the head
"Stop" he glared, Tails laughed
"Sorry-"
"Don't say it" Strife interrupted, Tails sighed "good" Strife turned to the rest of the crew "I'm going to teleport there and scout for a little bit" Strife created a dark sphere and disappeared, then a second later he reappeared and skidded back "Ow…" he rubbed his arm. "There is a barrier that prevents teleportation two miles from the edges of the ship and in a circle, so we can't go in from the side" he explained, "so how do we get in? it's coming closer so the more time we waste, the less we are able to go to the place" he crossed his arms "any ideas?" he asked, if Fengari and Flame were here, it would be easy… Strife thought
"Except they are not, and they made it clear they won't be coming back." Dark commented.
Shut up, I know that Strife thought back pointedly, Dark was silent.
"I have an Idea" Silver said scratching his chin "but it's… dangerous"
"Danger comes with the territory, Silver" Strife told the silver hedgehog "explain" so Silver did "heh, sounds risky but it seems like a good choice" he looked to the others "does that work with everyone?" they all nodded "then let's go"
XVXVXVXVXVXV above the egg sawfish, Strife 3rd person
"Okay! This is insane! Why did I approve of it?" Maria yelled over the wind as she fell, in fact, the entire crew was falling down, Silver's idea was to teleport them way above the ship and fall towards it, then anyone who could fly, would, and Silver would catch the rest, and land onto the ship, they fell downwards at an angle towards the ship, Strife had zipped up his cloak and put the hood on, it flapped around him as he fell, he closed his eyes and fell, Tails would give the signal to fly, he listened and waited, so this is what falling feels like… Strife thought and waited.
"FLY!" Tails yelled and grabbed Sonic, who grabbed Amy, Omega activated his rockets, Rouge spread her wings and flew, Knuckles did as well, Cream flew as well, Shadow grabbed Maria held her bridal style and hovered using his rocket shoes, Team Chaotix went into Fly team, Silver floated himself and Blaze with Psychic power, Strife waited a few seconds and flipped around, dark energy surrounded his feet and his arms spread out to his sides and floated down onto the front bridge, the others were flying over, but Strife saw a robot that looked like an eagle ready to take off, and the cannons on the side turned to face him, as well as the large cannon behind the spots the eagle robots were rising out of.
Woops, forgot about that… Strife thought, he summoned his crystal cutlass and ran forward and threw it at the eagle bot, it flew and impaled itself hilt-deep into the front of the bot, Strife gathered dark energy in his hands, "Dark Spears!" chaos spears shot out of his hands and destroyed all of the cannons to the side of him, Strife ran forward and took the sword out of the robot and slashed to one behind it and shot another round of Dark Spears into the door the eagle robots were coming out of and destroyed it, on his decent he slashed the cannon in half with his sword, he landed and turned around, the crew were running up the runway and continued up to him "so, were would Eggman be?" Strife asked, Tails flew up and pointed at the spot at the top were some open holes in the ship were placed
"he's in there" Tails told Strife, he nodded and ran forward, he jumped over the gap with the aid of the fan at the bottom, he threw his sword and it sank into another egg pawn, the one next to it turned over to look at its comrade, and ended up being stabbed by the spear his comrade was using, Strife drew out the spear out and tapped his sword on it and it disappeared, the spear was coated in crystals, Strife threw it and it elongated and impaled three more egg pawns, he turned and shot ten more robots with dark chaos spears, more robots appeared and two blurs, one black and one blue homing attacked the robots and destroyed them, a hammer sent from Amy flew, guided by Silver's psychic power and smashed the egg pawn to smithereens, more hammers flew like guided missiles and destroyed the vast majority of the robots, Strife turned to face a panting Silver and Amy
"Good job!" He yelled, He turned to the blue and black-red hedgehogs next to him "let's go find Eggman" he turned to the rest "scout through the area and look for any robots! Contact Sonic or Shadow with a radio if anything happens!" he commanded
"Yes boss!" was the chorus of reply; Strife rolled his eyes for what seemed like the thousandth time that day.
"For the hundredth time, stop that" Strife yelled and they all laughed, Strife turned and jumped up the ledges with Shadow and Sonic to get up to the ledge with the open slot, they looked in at the inside of the ship
"Great, The Egg Hawk" Shadow said with a glare at the large floating machine that looked like a large red hawk, there was a large circular arena in the center of this part of the ship, unusual because this is where the troops usually were stored, according to Sonic and Shadow. Strife sighed and started to gather a large amount of crystal in his hands,
"Alright, you too lead him closer and I'm gonna throw this into the fan." Strife commanded, the two hedgehogs jumped onto the arena
"Here egg butt, Baldy mc nosehair! Come at me bro!" Sonic yelled at the doctor.
"Why you!" Eggman charged forward on his machine and Sonic and Shadow ran away from the Egg shaped man in the giant hawk robot.
"Dark magic!" Strife yelled as He jumped above the robot with a large crystal spear and shoved it into the fan a broke it, it still hovered but listed to the side.
"you little-" Eggman grumbled, Strife landed next to Shadow and Sonic both in a fighting position, he got into his as well,
"Something is…. Off" Sonic noted to Strife and Shadow.
"agreed" Shadow noted as well "he usually would be ranting about some sort of plan to take over the world by now" Strife's eyes narrowed… he saw a part of Eggman's mustache flicker a little at the edges and the machine itself flickered a little as well, Strife growled and jumped towards Eggman, he got close to Eggman and kicked the doctor as hard as he could. Eggman flew out of the spot where was sitting and crashed to the ground, Sonic and Shadow's mouths both dropped.
"Did he just-" Sonic asked
"Yep. He just did" Shadow answered,
"To Eggman?"
"Yep"
"Out of the cockpit?"
"Yes"
"Without even giving him a chance to monolauge?"
"Yep"
"Okay, that was interesting"
"Well he does certainly have a different view on things" Shadow answered fourth question and sighed.
"Thing is" Strife noted as he stood up and glared at Eggman. the giant Egg Hawk disappeared into shadows, and in a convergence of shadows Eggman turned into a blood red nine tailed fox. "That's not Eggman"
XVXVXVXVXV- Flashback Strife, 1st person
"Alright, so the next commander is Lync the nine tailed fox" I snapped my fingers and the blood red fox appeared in a cloud of black "okay, this girl is tricky, she is a nine tailed fox which translates into magic, very powerful magic, she fights with magic and trickery, though once you get out of her tricks, she's easy enough to beat" I took a breath "shadow, you're gonna fight her, you sense of energy in battle is very strong, I can tell, and your chaos abilities are strong, and you aren't the one to be tricked easily, so she's all yours when we figure out we are fighting her"
"Hey wait why not me?" Silver said with a pout
"Because, you're gullible, which makes you the perfect one to get tricked" I said, Silver went red and everyone else laughed,
"It's either that or knucklehead" Sonic said, Knuckles stopped laughing and glared at sonic
"HEY" knuckles roared and the laughing shot up again
I sighed and let the laughter die down, "alright, now that that's over, the next person is…"
XVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXV- on the Egg Sawfish, current time, Strife 3rd person.
"Lync, you fake" Strife said in disgust. The said fox stood up and wiped her hands on her black shorts,
"Yes Strife? Heard you're a traitor/ murderer/fugitive now, so you're much worse" she said, three of her nine tails were glowing, she flicked them and all nine glowed, she cracked her knuckles "I may not be as destructive as Inferno but I'm a lot smarter, so just don't think I'm a slouch." She glared at Strife with hate "you're gonna pay for what you did, so just die quietly won't you?" she threw a blast of blood red energy at Strife, Strife held his black emerald out.
"darkness drain" the energy blast went into the black emerald and Strife smirked "nice try, try again" Shadow moved with insane speed up to Lync and kicked her in the same fashion as Strife, sending her flying again, Strife turned when he heard sound and looked at the eagle like robots charging at him and Sonic, Strife and Sonic both jumped at the robots and landed on them and lead the bots away from Shadow and Lync engaged in their fight.
XVXVXVXV in the air, Strife 3rd.
Strife sighed as he sat on the eagle, he wanted to summon his sword but it would be lost in the wind, he created two small spikes of Crystals in each hand and stabbed them into the wing parts of the robot, Strife laughed as when he leaned the robot leaned with him, and if he sent a small bit of energy through it the robot fired, he leaned back and the eagle braked, the others flying past and giving him a clear shot, he send energy through the spears and the eagle fired, shooting all of them, Sonic Jumped off his as Strife shot it and landed behind him and grabbed his shoulders
"That was awesome!" Sonic yelled over the wind, Strife turned the robot around and headed back to the ship, he saw the others fighting the hordes of robots, Strife sent a large amount of energy through the robot and a large energy beam fired out of it and decimated a large amount of the robots, Strife turned it into a nose dive and the two hedgehogs jumped off the robot and it exploded, killing more robots, Strife and Sonic landed on a Robot and made large dents in it, after that Strife sliced it in half with his cutlass as Sonic spin dashed his way to the others , Strife slashed his way over and saw how the fellow fighters were doing.
"So how does the fight go!" Strife asked tails as he sliced a bot in half and tails blew it up with his Tails Blaster,
"Not great! They seem to be recreated every time we destroy one!" Tails replied as he blasted another one and turned his blaster into a boxing glove as it shot forth and punched through a robot. He raised his hand and a giant hand appeared out of a hole in the ground flicked one robot into the air, Strife jumped up and slashed it in half.
"I'll go find the thing that is creating them and destroy it!" Strife yelled over an explosion that resulted from Omega shooting a rocket, "Silver! Blaze! With me!" Strife yelled as he ran up to Silver and Blaze, they ran up to him and silver lifted him up out of the gap they were fighting in, Strife blasted a path up the gap in case the crew needed to run, Strife walked up to the destroyed opening door and Silver tore it off and cleared the rubble away with his power, Strife looked back at Silver and Blaze, both with determined faces and powers at the ready, "alright, let's go" and they entered the bowels of the ship.
XVXVXVXVXVXVXVXV Shadow, 3rd person.
Shadow jumped out of the way of a Blood red chaos spear and sent his own yellow one back in reply, this one hit and sent Lync reeling and Shadow jumped away from her to gain distance we have been fighting for a little while, her moves have gotten a bit slower, and the fake moves and copies she makes are easy enough to see through, if Strife is right, all I have to do is fight a little longer and I'm fine Shadow thought and readied to fight again, Lync dashed forward again and swept with her nine tails, Shadow jumped over it and blasted her away with a chaos spear and shot away using his rocket shoes, Lync shot a red energy bullet from each of her nine tails and shadow ran to dodge them all and threw a chaos spear from inside the dust cloud and blew Lync back AGAIN,
"I thought you were supposed to be the smart one!" Shadow taunted in a way to replicate Strife, but Lync just teleported in front of him and smashed him to the ground with her nine tails all at once.
"Just shut up, your cuter being the tall, dark mysterious type, it makes me like you all the more" She noted, kicking him in the stomach with her black boot and sending him skidding, Shadow stood up and had a brief sense of disgust before getting back into a fighting stance, no need to focus on that, she's trying to distract me! Shadow thought as he jumped to the side as an energy attack sent by her went flying by him, Shadow realized that shot was a fake and the real one was being sent at him, it grazed his arm and burned, and a small shriek of fear was heard from one of the large holes that acted as doors, Shadow and Lync turned to see Maria peeking in from there. "Oh! It's that girl Strife brought back!" Lync charged a red chaos spear and threw it at Maria "Die!" Shadow jumped forward and boosted using the light attack and smashed the chaos spear, he set an arm protectively around the golden hedgehog and glared at Lync.
"Nobody touches MY Maria" Shadow growled. Lync's smile turned into a wicked grin, she teleported Shadow and Maria into the center of the arena,
"You're Maria, eh?" She asked with a smirk and her nine tails glowed with a harsh blood red light. A flash and Shadow and Maria had to cover their eyes to not be blinded. When he opened them the sight caused his head to reel. He asked in bewilderment.
"Ten… Marias?"
XVXVXVXVXVXVXVXV Strife 3rd person,
The three of them, Strife Silver and Blaze, Slid down the incline and into the middle of the ship, there were lights so it was okay, and a large machine sat in the middle, sending partings in one side and spewing out egg pawns and egg eagles (the bird bots) out the other, a blood red chaos emerald sat on a pole that drained it's energy.
"A chaos emerald!" Silver nearly stated the obvious as he pointed to the emerald. "That's what's powering the machine!" Silver smiled
"Well that's simple" Strife said out loud "too simple, Silver, grab it with your psychic power and bring it here" Silver did as told and used his power to move it, but nothing happened
"It's like it's not there!" Silver noted with a sense of hurt "what the heck!" Blaze shot a fire blast at the robot maker and an energy shield shot down and protected it
"So a shield and fake emerald, wonder where the real one is" Strife thought out loud.
"With Lync, she probably has it on her and using a spell to make the machine run infinitely" Dark reasoned from Strife's shadow, only Strife could hear it.
Agreed Strife thought, then "Silver, your radio please" Silver tossed it to him and Strife caught it "thanks" Silver nodded and continued to look at the robot maker. Strife shifted the channel to just shadow and pressed the button down "hey Shadow, you Copy?
XVXVXVXVXVXV meanwhile, Shadow 3rd person.
"Ten… Marias?" Shadow asked as he spun around in a circle, each one looked identical to the next, same golden fur color, blue dress and blue boots, gloves, and the same beautiful blue eyes with a pleading look in them
"Shadow! Help me!" they all asked at once, Shadow spun around again
"She fights with magic and trickery, though once you get out of her tricks, she's easy enough to beat" Strife's words echoed through his head, and cut through the confusion that was fogging his head, Shadow seemed eerily calm as he stood up straight and closed his eyes, he lets his senses calm and sent his chaos energy out into the area around him, he saw colors as he turned around. Nine of the Maria's were glowing blood red, but one Maria glowed a bright golden in response to Shadow's chaos energy. Shadow smiled and began to walk towards the real Maria, He walked up to her and opened his eyes and hugged her, she smiled and hugged him back, he smiled evilly "which one is the real Lync?" he asked into her ear.
"Directly behind you but one to my right" she said and hugged him a bit more, she charged a little energy in her hand and as they pulled back, Maria's hand slipped into Shadows and transferred the energy into it and Shadow turned and with one violent motion, threw a fully charged chaos spear directly at Lync, it hit her dead on and sent her skidding back and rolling, she turned back into Lync, and the other eight turned back to normal Lync and collapsed, the lead- real Lync dropped a blood red chaos emerald and it rolled over to Shadow, who picked it up with a quizzical look.
"Guess this was the source" Shadow noted as he stuck it back into his quills for safekeeping. The chaos energy rolled into him like a wave and Shadow felt refreshed and ready to go,
"Hey Shadow, you copy?" a voice echoed from Shadow's radio, he picked it out of his quills and replied
"Yes I copy, Strife, what is needed?" Shadow replied
"Get the chaos emerald from Lync and turn it off, it's what is powering the machine that is creating all the robots" Strife commanded. Shadow took the chaos emerald out and saw it was glowing like it was being used.
"Understood, I have the chaos emerald and am proceeding to shut it down" Shadow held it in his hand and thought be silent. The chaos emerald stopped glowing and he put it back into his quills. "The emerald is shut down"
"I copy, proceeding to destroy the machine and come to you for reinforcement, over and out" Shadow could hear Strife's smirk in the words
"Acknowledged, over and out" Shadow replied, he put the radio back in his quills as Lync stood up, the eight others stood up as well and filed in behind her. Shadow felt Maria get in a fighting position behind him, and Shadow did as well. "Ready for round two?"
The eight Lyncs smiled all at once and replied in a strange chorus of voices, "ready as always"
XVXVXVXVXVXV- meanwhile in the ship, Strife 3rd person.
"The emerald is shut down" Shadow stated, Strife smirked
"I copy, proceeding to destroy the machine and come to you for reinforcement, over and out" Strife replied and waited for acknowledgement
"Acknowledged, over and out" Shadow replied, the line cut off. Strife turned to Silver and Blaze, who were smiling at Strife.
"Alright, lets blow this machine up" Strife commanded and Blaze created a fireball in her hands and made it larger, then Silver made it fly forward faster after Blaze threw it. It hit the machine and it exploded, Strife made a wall of crystal around them to shield them from the shrapnel, after the explosion stopped Strife brought the crystal down, there was no structural damage to the ship, making it still safe to fly, but the machine and all the robots it was making were gone, Strife tossed the radio back to Silver "now fly us out"
"Got it!" Silver chirped and flew them out and through and out the duct and back to the others, Strife saw Knuckles punch the last robot into the wall and destroy it, the others were sitting on the piles of scrap or on the ground and catching their breath. Strife walked up to Sonic who was breathing heavily.
"Are you okay?" Strife asked Sonic as he looked up to him and laughed.
"Yeah, just a little winded after the fight" Sonic waved Strife off and looked back to the main area. "Now go help Shadow and Maria, they're gonna need it" Strife nodded and looked at the destroyed fan. Sonic saw it and looked at Knuckles "hey Knux! Throw strife up over the wall!" Strife's eyes went wide
"What!?" Strife asked in surprise as Knuckles dashed forward with a wicked smile on his face and Grabbed Strife and threw him straight upwards, Strife landed on the top and looked back at Sonic and Knuckles who were laughing, "jeez you guys" Strife muttered and straightened his cloak and jumped up the jutting out parts on the wall and back to the arena.
XVXVXVXVXVXVX- in the Arena Strife 3rd person
Strife walked into the doorway and Spotted Shadow and Maria fighting back to back against nine Lyncs, Strife growled, she's already done that split already? He thought and jumped onto the edge of the arena, Strife extended his senses and found the real leader of the nine Lyncs, he ran forward and grabbed her by the neck, she paled as Strife grabbed her and threw her backwards, when that happened the eight others disappeared into red energy and flew back into her tails, Strife glared and kicked her in the side in a way similar to what Lync did to Shadow and turned back to Shadow and Maria, who were panting in exhaustion,
"You two get back to Sonic and the others who are recovering, you'll be fine, I got this" Strife commanded and turned back to Lync, Shadow and Maria both ran out of the place and away to sonic and the others. Now that those two are gone, all I need to focus on is fighting Lync Strife thought as he watched Lync pick herself back up, two of her tails were still glowing, she flicked them again and all of them glowed again, Strife rolled his eyes. "Nice try Lync, though it's not going to throw me off, I've fought you and your tricks before, so I know what to expect"
"Yes, but I don't have what you have" Lync noted as she pointed at her wrists, Strife sighed.
"Still, even without being sealed, I'm still going to beat you" Strife stated as he glared at the blood red nine tailed fox.
"Then let this begin!" Lync yelled and dashed forward at Strife, he jumped over her and kicked the back of her head, but then the Lync he kicked exploded into shadows and Strife looked forward to see Lync jump at him and whack him to the ground with her tails. "You said you wouldn't be tricked?" she taunted.
"I didn't say I was tricked" Strife replied as he swept Lync's legs out from under her and stood back up, he dodged an energy blast sent from Lync as she stood up, Strife blocked a punch from Lync and replied with a few of his own. This continued for a while as they traded blows and energy blasts, Lync would shoot nine shots and only one of them were real, Strife's increased sense of darkness allowed him to figure out what was real or not. Strife gained the advantage over Lync and right when he seemed to be winning, he Summoned his crystal cutlass and brought it into the air to deliver the final blow… he swung
*CLANG*
Strife's eyes flew wide when he saw the two who blocked his sword. They pushed him back and Strife jumped back and looked at them, one readied his twin knives, and the other readied her black sword.
Fengari and Flame.
"Fengari! Flame!" Strife yelled in confusion at the two warriors "why are you working with her of all people! Are you crazy?"
"newsflash, they're with me now" Lync said with a evil smirk and nodded at Flame and Fengari, the two nodded back and charged at Strife, who took a step back and readied his sword, he parried Flame's sword thrust and Blocked Fengari's swipe before jumping out of the way of their swings, the two worked in sync against the black and blue hedgehog, he backed up but managed to block their attacks, but not without scraps and glanced hits against him, eventually Strife was thrown back and skidded near the edge of the arena, he took a step back and his foot was half off the edge, he moved back completely on the arena "dark magic!" two walls made up of Crystal sprung up in front of flame and Fengari. Fengari skidded to a stop and went around it while Flame just jumped over it, Strife's eyebrows as he blocked a sideways aerial swing from Flame, he looked directly into her eyes and Strife's eyes narrowed in recognition. That's it! He pushed her back and kicked her in the stomach, Flame leaned forward and wacked flame on the back of the head with the hilt of his sword. She collapsed and Fengari roared in anger as he charged forward at Strife, he ran at him and jutted a small crystal wedge ahead of him on his right, and another one farther ahead on his left, he ran up to Fengari and pushed off the crystal wedge and went to the left and dodged Fengari's right to left swing, missing him, Fengari kept on running past Strife, but before he could turn around, Strife jumped off the second crystal wedge and hilt smashed Fengari as well, knocking the sky blue wolf out. Lync's mouth dropped at how quickly the Black and Blue hedgehog took out the two warriors.
"Why did you do that!? You could have killed them!" was all she could yell at him from her loss of words, Strife's eyes narrowed into a glare as his hand tightened around his sword handle, he started walking towards Lync as he talked.
"Firstly, I didn't, I've seen Fengari and Flame both take harder hits than that and survive. Secondly, your copying ability isn't perfect, you missed the Flame emblem on Flame's gloves, and you also missed the crescent moon patch on the heart of Fengari's sweatshirt. You missed a glaring detail with Fengari, his "Fangs of the Moon" Long knives have a cut in circle on one side of the blade, along the middle of Flame's sword, oh it's an inch short, it has the words "Nox Aeternis" written on it in Latin. Flame's eyes light up with an unnatural fire when she fights, you missed that, and Fengari would of never fallen for my wedge trick, he's the one who came up with the idea. They also would of Sliced straight through my crystal wall instead of going around it; they learned the technique to slice through it. You also didn't have them fight in our usual "over our heads" Strategy we use when you fight in a group. You faked them and really didn't do a good job making them, I know my friends better than everyone else, and using them against me was the worst move to make" Strife held his Sword up to Lync's neck and looked angry enough to kill her in cold blood "now get out of here before your worst choice gets you killed" Lync Smiled evilly.
"As you wish" She disappeared in a blood red flash, the two fakes turned back into Lync again and disappeared. Strife de-summoned his sword and jumped back out of the arena. He walked out of the tower and out to the others, who were at the top of the pit, actually rested. Strife walked around the edges of it and went to the others.
"You got her?" Shadow asked, Strife nodded and Shadow let out a sigh of relief, "glad that's over" Shadow raised his hand and Strife gave him a hi-five.
"Now that she's gone, the teleportation spell should wear off and let us get out of here" Strife said out loud, all of a sudden, like a cloud passing over them, the egg sawfish went shady. "No!" Strife yelled as the ship disintegrated again within a few seconds, once again, all of them were falling.
And of course, they all screamed. (Well not Espio, Shadow and Strife, who were the silent types, and Omega, who could not.)
"Sonic!" Strife yelled over to the blue hedgehog, who looked over too him "come over here!" he looked over at Shadow and Silver who were now falling and not flailing about. "You two as well, get over here!" the three hedgehogs maneuvered themselves over to Strife. "The teleportation Block is still on! But I have an idea!" the three hedgehogs nodded, "do you all have a chaos emerald?" they all nodded, Shadow brought out his Red and Green emeralds, Sonic brought out his yellow one, Silver brought out one that was the same color as him, Strife brought out his black one, "Shadow, give me your red one" Shadow nodded and gave it to him, he held his out in front of him, all the others did as well "now all of you come gather around us!" all of the rest of the sonic crew angled themselves around out circle, "do chaos control but give it to me so I may direct us!" they all nodded. Strife nodded "one, two three!"
"Chaos control!" they all yelled, a Black sphere enveloped them all and in a black flash they all disappeared.
*CRACK*
They all landed lightly on the edge of angel island and turned out to look at the ocean, a large red cylinder was were the egg sawfish was, it cracked in several places, then in one moment, collapsed into itself, and red glass rained down and dissolved before it hit the ocean. Strife sighed in relief and turned back to Sonic and crew, who were waiting for him.
"let's get back to base" Sonic said with a smile, Strife returned it with a smirk of his own
"yes, let's get back home"
XVXVXVXVXVXV- back at 7 Commanders HQ, Fengari 3rd person.
"Idiot" Fengari Stated plainly as Lync stumbled into the teleport room, he nearly glowed with anger, he crossed his arms "you are lucky Strife let you live, now get out of my sight before I do what Strife didn't" Lync scurried past Fengari weakly as he glared at her. Fengari's anger lessened somewhat after the offending fox was gone. Fengari looked at the teleport machine and began to think I cannot forgive you Strife, for leaving me and Flame to die by Iblis, and breaking Flame's heart. When I see you, Strife, my Blades will be drawn and I will fight you. For Flame commands it. Fengari scratched his eye patch and left the room, shutting the light off as he left. He walked past Flame's room, he stopped to hear Flame crying, so loud enough that he could hear it through the door, a shadow fell over Fengari's face as he walked into his room, in an instant he drew his knife and threw it.
THUNK
It impaled itself two inches into the forehead of the picture of Strife the Dark.
"Strife, I will never forgive you"
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Excerpt from Fengari's book:
A un-forgiven best friend is a sworn enemy.