Here you all are. I'm sorry it took so long. I had to rewrite this entire chapter because the original never saved.

Chapter Twenty

Black Ray walked painfully slow down an ally in Capital City. The ally was dark and filled with fog. If ever there were a land of evil, this was it.
It wasn't the ally or the darkness that gave it this impression, but the general atmosphere. An eeriness hung down which, of course, was amplified by the environment.

Black Ray's body seemed to be screaming at him, begging for him to turn around and run. But he didn't. He had come all this way in response to a call he had been hearing the past few days. Perhaps it would be something worth the effort. after ascending to a near victory on his quest to kill Sonic the Hedgehog, an unexpected turn of events occured. Sonic and Shadow fought him and his "brother" Blood Ray in the Chaos zone and reclaimed three of the Chaos Emeralds they had aquired. giving Sonic's team the advantage. Afterwards he had heard this call stronger then ever and it led him to the deserted ally.

He took another step when he heard it- He wasn't sure what it was but it sounded like a foot step. Black Ray took two steps, before the creature flew out. Black ray couldn't make out details, but what he could see was terrifying. It came toward him and before he could react, a large taloon scraped across his throat, cutting a large gash into it.

Black Ray fell down. For weeks he had been attempting to kill Sonic, but in the end it would be him who moved no longer

Elsewhere

Sonic ran through the jungle to where he and Tails thought Eggman's hidden main base might be. Behind him flew the two tailed fox, eager to once again join the fight. The two moved for a while with no results. It was then that they decided that they needed to regroup so, they stopped next to a small stream.

"Well Sonic" Tails said "It looks like Eggman finally learned how to hide a base" The two chuckled.
Sonic was glad to have Tails back. He didn't know what he would have done had the fox actually died.
"Well budy, where to next?" Sonic asked Tails who was closely monitoring his small handheld device.

"Give me a sec" Tails replied. It was good to be on another adventure. It got his mind off Leah. There he went again, puting himself out and getting hurt. In the end, maybe Cosmo was the only one who could actually love him. He felt depressed, but remembered what he had told himself months before: Cosmo wouldn't want him to spend the rest of his life mourning her, and had the roles been reversed, he wouldn't want her eternally mourning over him, But it's not the kind of thing you can say "Get over it, don't be depressed" and then follow through with that command. It was a process and before his break down on the Typhoon and Leah, he thought he was doing well. His condition in the hospital seemed to prove otherwise. perhaps, Cosmo's death had traumatized him more then he thought. If that was the case, when would his next break down be?

For now it didn't matter. He had a job to do: locate Eggman's base. He looked dow for a moment and noticed something strange about the stream: It flowed toward the small lake from the big lake. all the others flowed to the big lake!
"Sonic" Tails said, already coming to a conclusion "This stream is flowing the wrong way!" He said "Which means-"

Sonic nodded, knowing what it meant. the two made their way, back tracing the stream until they reached the bigger of two lakes. The stream didn't touch the lake at all! it lead to a rock. a couple spindashes revealed a sewage tunnel. All though sewage tunnel gives the wrong impression, It was really quite clean. No doubt, Eggman built a filtration system somewhere.

The two walked though the tunnel until they found them selves below a large grate. Tails flew up and moved the grate before carrying sonic up there. The two friends found themselves in a large shower.
"Gross" Sonic said "I'll never be able to think about the Eggster the same way again"
Tails nodded in agreement.

After idly wondering through the base and smashing about a hundred robots, They found Eggman fleeing toward a battle machine. Before he could reach it however, Sonic and Tails knocked his Eggmobile to the ground

"Sonic!" Eggman pleaded "Please don't do anything!"
Sonic smirked "I'm not going to" he said "I just want you to deliver a message for me"
"Make it quick" He said
Sonic smiled, preparing the last phase in his battle against Black Ray.

Nowhere:

Black Ray's eyes snapped opene. For the life of him, he couldn't remember how he got here.
"Here" was a very strange place. It was nothing but white going on forever. And somehow, It was all familiar.

"Black Ray" came a distant voice.
Black Ray turned around to see a strange creature coming toward it. It was tall and monstrous looking, covered in black skin with pink tints here and there. "I need you" It said. But contrary to it's look, it had a female's voice. It was soft and comforting. And now, it was right in front of him.

"who are you?" Black Ray asked, trying to contain his fear. But this creature towered over him at about eight feet.
"you don't remember me Black Ray?" the female creature said "I am pink Ray"
Black Ray rolled his eyes. Another Ray?
When Black Ray didn't respond, Pink Ray looked confused. Or at least, it looked confused to Black
Ray.

"why do you hold that hideous form?" Pink Ray asked.
Black Ray raised an eye brow "who's calling who hideous?"
"Not only has the creator done terrible things to your memory, your taste has changed" she said "so for you, I will-"

With that, she began glowing. In a second she changed into a pink blob and the transformed into a pink hedge that looked identical to him. Except where Black Ray had a masculine look, Pink Ray was now very beautiful. Black Ray just starred at Pink Ray who in turn smiled.

"I guess this form isn't too bad handsome" she then looked down at At Black Ray's gloves and shoes. "what are those for, may I?" she asked
"what?" black Ray replied.
Pink Ray just held on to the neon green ring wrapped around his wrist. Black Ray just stood there, too intoxicated by her beauty to do any thing.

In a second, the two's eyes began glowing. Black Ray felt a strange presence in his mind, and the Pink Ray let go and it faded.

"interesting culture" Pink Ray said before forming a dress shoes and gloves for herself out of particles floating around. Of course, the gloves were tight and the shoes didn't match so that she had Black Ray's comical appearance.

"that's better" she said "now Down to business"

She then waved her hand and the white nothingness transformed into a large chamber with metal floors and ceiling. The room also had counter tops with computers and containers of liquid. Black Ray got the feeling they were in some sort of lab, but one less sophisticated as Doctor Robotnik's.

On one wall was a large machine with six canisters. One of the canisters had no windows and was easily four times the size of the other canisters which were narrow- all identical to the canister the doctor and he had found Blood Ray in- which is not what shocked Black Ray. What shocked him was that one of the canisters was the one he and the doctor had found. And Blood Ray- in his blob like form- was inside of it.

The other canisters were full of similar blobs. One was pink, one was orange, one was blue and the last was black. Black Ray quickly realized that the black one was him, which meant that this lab probably belonged to Robotnic and Metal Sonic. And the pink blob was probably this Pink Ray- following this logic, the other colored blobs were rays as well. But why didn't Metal mention this? And where was he anyway?

"where are we?" Black Ray asked. His first thought was that he shouldn't trust her, but his every instinct told him that she was fine. He even felt a sense of comfort around her.
"Here is the 'vrtual' zone as the creator calls it" she replied
"who is-"
"you will learn" She cut him off.

At that moment, A strange creature walked into the room. He was tall- very similar in stature to what Pink Ray had looked like before she morphed into a hedgehog.
"Watch and learn" Pink Ray said pointing to the creature.

The creature walked up to a computer that was plugged into the canister machine and started putting in information. A closer inspection revealed that the creature was inserting very well designed organs that could change forms along with the blobs.

"Gak!" came a yell.
At that moment, two creatures, also similar looking, came in carrying weapons and a chain. They grabbed the other creature, who's name Black Ray figured was Gak, and locked him in the chin.
"His greatness wants you" One of the creatures growled.

They then dragged Gak at of the lab, and Black Ray followed through one of the most terrifying places he had ever seen. The buildings were carved from spungy looking rocks and toxic green rivers covered most of the land.

All the inhabitants- creatures similar to Gak- were carrying weapons and traveling on hovering boards. Then there was a line of these soldiers dragging along dying bodies and dropping them in the river. "Welcome to the black comet" Pink Ray said.

They followed the soldiers and Gak to a small cave that was decorated with heads and weapons Black Ray cringed at. And in the center of the chamber stood another creature. This one had no legs and appeared to be floating. He wore a cloak with saws and knifes dangling from chains that were draped over his soldiers.
"Who is that?" Black Ray asked
"That is the ruler of the Black Arms: Black Doom" Pink Ray responded

The soldiers dropped Gak and left the room, leaving Gak, Black doom, and Doom's personal guards, two Black and gold colored black arms. Black Ray watched as Gak bowed before Black Doom. And Black Ray could see why- he would too. Black Doom looked down to his humbled servant.

"you were not in our last raid" Black Doom said simply.
"I was working on the weapons" Gak stuttered
"we have weapons, what we need are soldiers"
"and when I'm dome, you will have five of the best soldiers science can produce! I swear"
Black Doom waved his hand, sending a wave of energy crashing into Gak and forming a large gash. Black Ray was reminded a little much of what Blood Ray did to him.

"why will this project work any better then your last?" Black Doom asked.
"the MK was doomed to fail- but these Black Arms I am creating are made the same way I made Black Bull... They won't fail"

Black doom nodded and dropped on a stone as if he were sitting. "I would hope not. By the next raid- that's all of the time I'm giving you"

Black Doom then waved his hand and the two golden Black
Arms pulled Gak to his feet and dragged him back to his lab. He didn't dare object.

Then the setting dissolved and the two saw Gak working on a computer. Black Ray was already confused.

Now originally, this was the next to last chapter, but it wound up being twice as long as my usual chapter, so I split it into two. So, until next time.