The Twilight Cage: Part 2
Or-bot and Cu-bot were pulling buckets filled with liquified disease over to Doctor Eggman, who was wearing protective equipment to prevent him from getting sick. They were next to a skyscraping pillar of pure black obsidian. The two robot poured the bucket into a coralium cauldron.
"Okay," He pulled out a green skeleton key. "Next, I'm to take this key and toss it into the liquid disease. There will be a boiling reaction and wait until it's done." The doctor did that and the cauldron bubbled and boiled.
"Where did you get this stuff?" Cu-bot asked.
"I needed someone to translate the scrolls and he stated that this is what we needed to do." Eggman said, drawing a circle around the pillar. "That's why I had to toss the purple key."
"You got rid of the purple key?" Or-bot asked. "Why?"
"He said it doesn't work inside the Twilight Cage and it would hinder all spells to get me farther into the cage." The doctor answered. Then, the reaction stopped. "The key is ready." The doctor headed to the cauldron with tongs and pulled out the key. It had transformed into an ornate key that had darkened to a nearly black color.
"Get the Egg Mobile close to the piller." The two robots pushed the vehicle to the piller. "Now, onto the third realm."
The saw the grass had returned to the ground but it was carnelian in color and the sky had now become blood red.
"Okay, this has gotten a lot creepier now." Or-bot commented.
"Come on, we need to through to the fourth realm." Eggman stated. The Egg Mobile appeared overhead they saw a blue silouette running across that ground.
"Hey doc, what is that thing anyway?" Cu-bot asked him.
"Is it attacking us?" The doctor asked.
"No." He answered.
"Then, who cares it's not important." Eggman replied.
A while later, Sonic jumped into the third reality and he continued to zoom around the area trying to find the next area. He ended up hearing a banter between Amy and Infinite.
"How is this possible? How come he got through the second realm so quickly?" Infinite asked out loud.
"That's because he is the fastest thing alive." Amy boasted. "He'll be here soon and he is going to kick your..." Then, he slapped her on the face.
"Shut up, woman, if you know what's good for you." Infinite interrupted. "I'm beginning to be curious on what this Sonic looks like."
"You are going to pay for that." The blue blur answered. When Sonic had come to an area of barren rock with a color of eminence, he had saw a figure of Amy Rose.
"AMY!" He shouted, running to his wife.
"SONIC!" She answered, back. But as the two approached each other, they noticed that the both of them were translucent in each others eyes. And when they tried to hug each other, their hands went right through them.
"Damn, I'm still not in the right reality." Sonic had stated.
"But at least, you just have one more left to crossover." Amy replied to him.
"So, you are this Sonic that my prisoner had been mentioning." The voice of Infinite said. He appeared to what seemed to look like a black mink with a reddish glow.
"And I suppose you are Infinite." Sonic growled back.
"I was expecting some great warrior." Infinite replied. "However, I didn't expect you to have a striking resemblance of someone I knew."
"Whom?" Sonic replied.
"An old adversary whom imprisoned me here." Infinite mocked. "Let's see here... Now, what was he? A Moon Wrapper?"
"It's Amunrapi, you dunce." Sonic barked. "And get rid of that stupid armor, so I can see your face."
"I politely refuse that request." Infinite answered. "As you will soon discover that the most merciful thing in the world is that the mind can't possibly understand all the universe's contents. Any attempt will do so will result in two outcomes."
"And that is...?" Sonic stated, still angry.
"Either you go mad from the revelation of the things that exist or run away completely into the safety of ignorance." Infinite remarked.
In a cave of crimson stone, the two robots were holding pickaxes chiseling on the rocks. Eggman was looking at the blueprints for an alter.
"Are you sure we need these rocks?" Or-bot asked.
"According to the one who deciphered the old scrolls that in order to get to the fourth realm, we need to build an alter using the supplies here." Eggman answered. "And we also need a sacrifice as well."
"Is that what the rabbit mobini is for?" Cu-bot asked, noticing a critter tied up.
"Yes, it's required." Eggman said. "I'm supposed to use the key to cut it open and make a circle using the blood."
"Are you sure that is necessary?" Or-bot asked.
"Yes, we need to build the alter exactly like the design." The doctor stated.
During that time, the blue blur was right above them. He was zipping around on the surface. He heard a loud bubbling growl; it sounded like if the monster was more of a liquid than a solid.
"Looks like its time for me to fight my way through." Sonic said, getting pumped up for a fight. When he went around the corner, he was completely shocked. He had found Princess Sally Acorn standing there facing away from him.
"Sally, what are you doing here?" Sonic asked her in a glad tone. "Shouldn't you be back in Soleanna?" There was no reply. "Well, can you help me save my wife?" But again, there was no response from the chipmunk girl. It was like she was completely oblivious to the blue blur's attempted dialogue. That is when Sonic's happy tone faltered, he felt something was wrong. He walked up to her to get her attention. "Sal?"
She turned around and it appeared that her eyes were sown completely shut. And limbs appearing made of a red wine colored syrup immerged from her back. She slashed at the blue blur putting him in a daze before he blacked out.
Sonic came to in a hallway made from amaranth bricks. He began to look around as he walked down the corridor.
"Where am I?" He asked himself. "What happened to that thing?"
"What's the matter, Sonic?" Infinite's voice had stated to him. "I thought you like Sally's presence."
"You asshole, you made one of your monsters look like one of my friends." Sonic stated, angrily. "Now, you just made me angry."
"Your feeble efforts to reach your Amy amuse me." Infinite stated. "But now, I'll have the my goon deal with you." Sonic turned around and saw the Sally monster once again. He saw that it was composed of the same syrup that her limbs were made from.
Sonic went to spindash it and he just went right through the creature. It didn't even do any damage against it. The monster lashed out another limb to strike the blue blur and it dodged out of the way. He did a homing attack and it didn't do anything against it.
"My attacks aren't working against it?" The blue blue asked, in worry. "How is this possible?" The monster melted into a pile of goop and slithered across the ground. It reshaped itself and reshaped itself into three parts. One resembled Tails, one resembled Knuckles, and the last resembled Amy. The three monsters attacked Sonic. He managed to dodged out of the way of the creatures and fled down a hallway.
Sonic hid in an area in where he believed he was safe. He contemplated about what was going on.
"I have been so many enemies but this is... I don't know how to describe it." Sonic stated to himself in a worried look. "This is gone completely against what I know. I was able to beat Dark Gaia with my friends by my side." He listened as the monsters passed by him. "Is this even happening?"
He shook off the feelings of doubt. "I can't give up. I need to rescue Amy Rose. I need to beat these creatures somehow." He looked up and discovered a torch. He saw that the flames were pitch black. Curious he walked up to the flame and took down the torch. He looked right into the fire. Then, the blaze flared up and wrapped itself around him. He screamed as this occurred but nothing happened. "That was bizzare."
He heard the sliding goop of the monsters coming towards the blue blur. He got in a fighting stance realizing that he is cornered. Then, the monsters came into the room. Sonic stuck out his hands and a black jet stream of fire shot forth from his hands. The fire burned the monsters and destroy them.
"How did I do that?" Sonic asked. "I can't do pyrokinesis."
"You discovered the black flame. Not bad." Infinite had stated to him.
"The black flame?" The blue blur asked.
"Yes, the black flame." The mink replied. "Look at your key and apply the black flame to it." Sonic did just that and once the key had been burned. It had darkened until the key was completely unrecognizable charcoal color and there was a skull where the hole in the skeleton key was. The blue blur tried to make a portal where he was and a portal appeared in front of him. It looked like that of a gunmetal sphere which twirling spirals of licorice within it.
"Okay, now to free Amy." Sonic stated.
"Hold it..." Infinite replied. "Before you go in, I want to let you in on a secret."
"And that is..." Sonic asked.
"As you went through the first three realities, the Twilight Cage hasn't changed at all." Infinite stated. "When you traveled, the veils of your senses have been stripped away one at a time. The realms you were going through is not what the Twilight Cage looked like; they were but a solid illusion." Sonic started to look like he was horrified. "What's the matter, Sonic? Feel like you are going insane?" The blue blur tossed aside the expressions of fear.
"I'm not going to let you play mind games with me." Sonic stated, with a determined yet angered tone on his face.
"Once you enter the portal into the fourth realm, there is no going back." Infinite replied. "Your innocence as well as the innocence of Amy Rose will be trapped in this realm forever."
"I will rescue my wife. I will defeat you. The two of us will escape from this dreaded nightmare." Sonic stated.
"So, be it." Infinite stated. "What I gave was my final warning. You had your chance to leave. I will allow you to enter the portal and face the truth about my existance." Then, Sonic leapt into the portal.
Meanwhile, Eggman arrived in the area. He had all of the supplied needed. Or-bot and Cu-bot looked around.
"Now, that we have the supplies and found this place." Eggman said. "We can begin building the alter to get the portal to the fourth realm."
"Or we could just take that portal." Cu-bot said.
"What there's no portal to the fourth realm." The doctor replied.
"No, look over there." Or-bot replied, pointing in the direction of the portal. The trio looked over and saw the portal.
"Oh, so it is." Eggman answered.
"What are we going to do about the alter supplies?" Cu-bot asked.
"We'll take them back to our world as surveniers." Eggman replied. "We'll head into the fourth realm." He pulled down a set of nightvision goggles. "Turn on your nightvision mode, bots." The doctor stated. "It's going to be very shaded in the fourth realm and the slightest of light might disturb the residents there, whom live in total darkness to the point it is completely alien."
"I hope we will make it through." Or-bot stated, in a worried look.
"Me too." Cu-bot added, as the Egg Mobile entered the portal to the fourth realm.