Chapter 24 Light vs Dark part 1

The hedgehog stood silently in the darkness, waiting for something to happen. Out of the ground a few metres in front of him, the darkness rose from the ground and formed a mirror version of the other.

"That was some show you put on. But, your glowing body aside, I think it's time for you to leave this place and die like a normal creature. I don't know how you were able to prolong your life by staying here and also having enough power to transform into whatever you are now." the darkness said with curiosity.

The other hedgehog was silent for a moment before responding, "I'm not a normal creature. I am..." he thought for a few seconds, trying to think of a name for himself, when he got a quick memory of the chaos energy telling the future fusion of himself and Sonic that he should keep the name Sonic. "I am Sonic" he said.

"I know who you are idiot, every stubborn soul that has somehow prolonged their life by getting in here, has a version of myself that knows everything about them. I don't mean to tell you what to do, but isn't your iconic way of saying that something like 'Sonic, Sonic The Hedgehog' or has that gotten old?"

Sonic was growing bored of this quickly. He was wondering how a dark deathly version of himself could be this annoying. "Can we just skip the pointless trash talk and fight, I have more important things to do than to play with idiots." The darkness starting laughed loudly while holding his stomach. When he finally stopped, he looked at Sonic with a smug expression. "Don't be absurd, this is how things will play out, we fight, you realise it's pointless, you die again and that's the end of you, any questions shiny hedgehog" He said wiping a tear from his eye, still slightly laughing. When he looked back however, Sonic was nowhere to be seen.

"Wait, what!" he said looking around sharply. "You can't sneak up on me, I can see everything!" He said checking around him. He could see everything here, because he was everything. How could he hide? He quickly lost his patience, "where is that-" he was interrupted be an elbow being shoved into his gut.

"That genius. Right here, that help?" Sonic said with his elbow still shoved in his gut. "I...I...how" the dark hedgehog stuttered in more confusion than pain. Sonic's smile faded. He grabbed him by the throat and kicked him away. The dark hedgehog grunted, before pretending to dust himself off.

"Cheap shots, that's all. If you were trying to punch the non existing air out of me, good job." He taunted.

Sonic smiled in response, looking at his own arms and legs, examining them.

"ENOUGH OF THIS, you should be scared, not smiling. Don't worry though, the great Dark will destroy you!" Dark said creating a little blast of darkness around him.

"Jeez, calm it would ya, the place was already dark, but great name though. How long did you take thinking it up, half a second. Maybe I should call myself light, to prove I'm happy being a one dimensional character, heh heh." Sonic closed his eyes and rubbed his nose. Dark dissolved and reappeared behind him, hoping to take him by surprise. As soon as he reappeared, he was met with a quick elbow to the gut again, followed by a powerful back kick to the chest. Dark went flying across the floor, tumbling on the ground before stopping.

"What the...?" Dark said shocked.

"And you accuse 'me' of cheap shots, funny". Sonic looked at Dark directly in the eyes, smirking. Dark growled, his eyes twitching uncontrollably. Dark ran towards Sonic at high speed, leaving a trail of dark energy behind him. Sonic did the same and dashed into Dark, locking fists with him. They both tried pushing the others fists back and gain the upper hand. After a few seconds of Dark slowly pushing Sonic back, in one quick movement, Sonic pushed his fists through Dark's and punched him in the jaw and doing a jumping spinning kick to the other side of his face, causing Dark to spin away. Sonic ran around Dark while he was disoriented and yanked his legs off the ground.

"HEY!" Dark said as Sonic began spinning him around in circles. "S-Stop it, your not fighting how you should be, where's the homing attack!" Dark said, starting to get really dizzy. Sonic increased the speed. "My apologies, I should be predictable so you can have a chance. I'm not an idiot." Sonic increased the speed a lot this time, both of them starting to become a blur.

"ENOUGH!" Dark charged up an energy blast in his hand and aimed it at Sonic heads. Just as he was about to fire, Sonic let go of Dark.

AHHHHHHHHHH! Dark shouted as he flew through the air, going out of eyesight from Sonic. Sonic smiled slightly, "He'll be back".

Sure enough, a very pissed off Dark formed from the dark in front of Sonic. "Back so soon" Sonic said, pretending to be surprised. Dark stopped growling and smiled. "Don't get so confident, you may have won this battle, but you haven't won the war, and it will be a tough one" Dark said. Sonic gave a bored frown.

"Make that face all you want, if your bored then I promise you won't be in a second. Mainly cause we are in the practise room."

"Practise room?" Sonic said, tuning in.

"Ah, your listening now aren't ya. Yes, this is the practise room, but I think were done here. In each of these next rooms you will face a new challenge, think your up for the challenge, shiny boy!"

"Sure" Sonic said calmly while stretching his legs and arms. Suddenly the room transformed into Sonic and Tails house. Sonic walked around the room and checked out all the pictures on the walls. The was one picture of each of his friends hanging on the walls in a frame of their associated colour.

"I don't think I have a picture of everyone in my living room, get your facts straight" Sonic said folding his arms. Dark grinned, "this is the friendship room, all your friends are on the walls! Isn't that cool! Dark said kindly. Sonic gave him a cold stare.

"Alright, I get it, you want to get on to the fighting, fair enough." Dark transformed his shape and colour to match Knuckles.

"Don't touch my Master emerald!" Dark said with Knuckles voice.

"I have no problem beating up Knuckles" Sonic explained. Dark changed into Amy, "how about now, soniku." Amy said giggling. Sonic stared at her in confusion. "Soniku... oh right, Soniku, funny. Still not seeing the point of this though." Sonic said cracking his knuckles.

Dark smiled, "You wont lay a finger on Amy, i know everything about you." Sonic closed his eyes, "No, you don't". In the blink of an eye, Sonic dashed into dark and rammed his fist into her stomach. Amy gasped in pain and fell to the ground crying. "H-How could you Sonic, I-I-I cant breathe, it's me Sonic. He transported me here, m-my stomach." Amy held her stomach in pain.

Sonic helped her up, "I'm so so sorry Amy." Sonic put his hand on his chin, "OH, I have an idea!" He grabbed Amy and smashed her head into the wall.

"Feel better sweetie" Sonic said with a grin.

"Screw you" Amy mumbled from inside the wall. She broke her head out and charged at Sonic. Sonic dodged multiple hammer attacks before jumping through the sealing to avoid a mini earthquake attack. Amy jumped through the hole after him. Sonic was nowhere to be seen.

"Don't be a fool, you cant hide for long". Amy looked around upstairs, pretending not to know where he was. Once she had walked past the closet she thought he was in, she quickly spun around smashing the locker to pieces with her hammer. Sonic spin dashed through the bed and snatched her hammer. Before she had any time to react, she was smashed across the room by her own mallet. He dropped the mallet on her and jumped back through the hole. Amy pushed the hammer off her face.

Amy sighed, "I really hate that hedgehog".

Sonic was waiting for Amy to come downstairs. Amy appeared moments later. "Enough of this, it's clear that you have no remorse for hurting your beloved Amy, so transforming into your other friends will do no good, except one. Dark transformed into Shadow.

"Heh heh, ready to dance, faker!"

Sonic got into a fighting stance and waited for Shadow to make the first move. Shadow charged towards Sonic and homing attacked him. Sonic blocked it with his two arms. Shadow, already being in the air from the homing attack, through multiple chaos spears, "chaos spears!" Dark shouted. Sonic didn't move and soon disappeared in the explosion. Due to the explosion, the entire house started to crumble.

Shadow had already jumped out of the house and was smiling as he saw it sink into the ground.

"I wonder how bad he'll look when he comes out, or better yet, he doesn't come out at all!" Shadow laughed loudly. Shadow continued looking at the house, his smile getting bigger. "Guess I'll have to drag him out if I want to see it".

While Shadow was gloating, a figure appeared behind. Sonic then grabbed his arms and held them in a lock.

"What the-" Shadow stuttered as he felt someone grab him from behind. "HEY! Let go of me!" Shadow shouted in annoyance. He tried shaking him off, but Sonic had his shoulders held back tight. He growled in frustration until he had enough and disappeared into smoke and appeared a few feet in front of Sonic, in his normal form.

"Got bored of being Shadow?" Sonic said. Dark cracked his neck, "quit your taunting, were going on to the next room. To be honest, I didn't think you'd clear that room so easily, but we'll see how you handle the next room!"

Sonic stretched some more. Although he didn't look like much of a taunt, it was driving Dark crazy, but he tried his best to ignore it. This time the room changed into a forest with burning trees and smoke everywhere. Dark disappeared and Sonic was left alone. He heard screams coming from far away in the forest. He knew this was some sort of mind game, but he also felt the need to follow the sound. Sonic ran through the burnt forest dodging falling trees and breaking through ones in the way.

He stopped in his tracks when the sound stopped and a house appeared in front of him. He entered the house and saw two hedgehogs lying under a burning plank. Sonic knew they were dead, this wasn't meant to be happy ending, it was meant to mess with his head. He lifted the plank off and looked at their faces. He knew who's parents they were, he saw they intent behind this room, but he didn't feel any need to mourn over them, especially since they weren't real.

He gently put them on the ground and walked out of the house and saw Eggman standing there with a chaos emerald. "Be seeing ya around kid" he said with an evil grin as he turned to leave. Dark watched from above, waiting for Sonic to snap. To his complete surprise, Sonic leaned against the house wall and closed his eyes.

"How can this be, this was the most traumatic experience of his life, a-and he just let Eggman walk away, with his parents blood on his hands!." This just doesn't add up. He's completely changed". Dark thought to himself.

Dark appeared from the smoke and threw a stone at him. Sonic jerked his head to the left to avoid it. He got up from the wall and opened his eyes.

"Time out for a second. How did your personality and fighting style change in such a short time?" Dark asked curiously.

Sonic thought about it for awhile. "Felt like changing it", Sonic said. Dark growled, "enough of your lies, I know everything about you, I'm your death escort, so It's impossible for me not to know".

"I don't think 'impossible' is the word your looking for." Sonic responded.

"Actually, impossible is the right word, not that your immature brain could understand. But this shouldn't be happening. It feels like I'm with the wrong dead guy", Dark said.

"Your just annoyed because your losing" Sonic said smiling.

"ENOUGH! I've had just about enough of your mockery. I don't care what you are, or how you're able to teleport. This last room will surely be the end for you!" Dark shouted as he flicked his fingers, causing the room to change again. This time taking much longer than the others.

The whole room was submerged into water. There were at the bottom of the sea with never ending water in every direction except beneath him. "If you haven't guessed it by now, this is your fear room. Quite unfortunate your fear is water, your going to drown before I can kill you myself, what a shame" Dark laughed and took in loads of water, which had no effect on him.

This time Sonic was actually nervous. He held in his breath and looked for a source of oxygen, but found none. Dark looked at Sonic's face and finally got what he wanted, fear on Sonic's face. Sonic stopped struggling in the water and tried to think clearly in the few seconds he had to spare. He closed his eyes and energy emitted from his body. Dark watched in horror as Sonic's body was encased in an energy bubble, with no water inside.

"IMPOSSIBLE" Dark shouted and sprayed tons of dark blasts at Sonic. Although Sonic had made a genius move that saved his life, he was still very slow and just narrowly jumped out of the way of the blasts. Dark put his hands forward and started charging for a huge blast, in the hope of taking Sonic out in one go.

Sonic saw Dark charging up and smiled. It wasn't the best idea to attack that attack head on, but with the water slowing him down, he was sure to get hit. But Sonic knew that even if he could dodge it, he just couldn't resist the challenge being presented in front of him. He copied Dark and began charging his own energy into one big blast. As they both were ready to unleash their blasts, Sonic then realised there was only one way to go.

Straight through Dark.

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