Chapter 25

Sonic nearly missed the flying person because of the speed he was running and the fact that the person was flying in the opposite direction. As soon as Sonic noticed that there was someone above him, rather than making a U-turn and trailing behind him/her, Sonic simply stopped, turned around, raced to catch up to the person and jump upwards straight at the person. Sonic wasn't sure why he had that urge, but he just wanted to test out his strength in his legs, as well as to identify the person easily. Sonic passed the altitude of the person and noticed it was Spurino. Things have really quieted down around here. These guys actually stopped attacking me.

Sonic quickly initiated Chaos Rush and headed straight towards Spurino with a foot leading. The end result was both of them falling from the sky. Sonic simply landed on his feet while Spurino landed on his back with a loud thud. This guy gotten a whole lot weaker since the Master Emerald was destroyed.

"What are you doing here?" Sonic immediately began. He felt that he should quickly address the situation rather than just playing around. Rather than answering, Spurino simply groaned from his apparent pain. This guy has really gotten a whole lot weaker than I thought he would. This is ridiculous.

"It doesn't matter why I am here." Spurino said, "It's obvious that I didn't come to attack you or else I would have done so already. In fact, I am looking for help that only you can provide."

"Huh?"

"Sonic, it's obvious that Suprion and I have lost majority of our powers since Knuckles destroyed our energy source. I wouldn't even consider fighting you right now because of my state. I am only here to ask you of one thing, and that is to refresh my power so that we can all find the Chaos Emeralds and live in harmony." Sonic blinked at that. Was Spurino crazy? Does he really think I will fall for that??

"I'm not like Knuckles you know. I can tell a truth from a lie."

"I'm serious Sonic. Since the Master Emerald had been destroyed, our powers have had no external source. The energy powering Spurino and I is stored inside us like batteries and we are beginning to run out slowly. Not only that, but we both came to an agreement that rather than us fighting for Dr. Robotnick, or Eggman as you call him, we should fight against him."

"Really?" Sonic asked, looking very surprised. "What made you come to that conclusion?"

"I was reading his diary and it stated that after he gets world domination, he will eradicate us by forcefully drawing the Master Emerald's energy out of us. Once that happens, then we will cease to exist. I figured that I might as well team up with you and put Dr. Robotnick to a final rest for once."

"What did Suprion say about this?" Sonic asked. Things actually made sense with Spurino, although part of him wasn't believing it.

"Suprion agreed right along with me. At first he didn't believe me, but I showed him the diaries and he couldn't refuse to reject my offer to him. He is looking for you right now to tell you the exact same thing I'm telling you."

"But how will I know that you're telling the truth?"

"I already knew that you were going to ask me that. That is why I brought this." Spurino pulled out a beautiful silver Chaos Emerald which shined extremely bright, just like Sonic's red one. Sonic gasped at the sight of it.

"Where did you find that?!" Sonic asked. I don't believe it. Your telling me that my Chaos Emerald didn't react to that at all? "Nothing that my friend, Tails, have built could detect any Chaos Emeralds nearby."

"I can easily tell you why." Spurino quickly said. "Because of the high amount of energy all these Chaos Emeralds are giving out, because they are all unlocked now, there is nothing that can track such a high frequency of energy. Also it seems that the energy available in all the Chaos Emeralds' is continuously rising. This means that anything that is tracking the Chaos Emerald will need to keep in sync with the Chaos Emerald's energy. Nothing on this Earth is able to keep up with it"

"But then how come..." Sonic began, but he never finished. Should I tell him that I have my red Chaos Emerald with me. He might try to steal it right away. I should probably keep that information from him.

"What were you saying?" Spurino asked. "You never finished..."

"No, don't worry about it. But if you show me the diary which Eggman has written, then I will be able to believe you."

"Very well Sonic. I will show you, follow me." Spurino turned around and began to run ahead at around 500km/h. Sonic immediately followed. You know, things might just get a little bit easier. But something just doesn't feel right. This is such a change of events. First Shadow leaves the team, and now Spurino and Suprion wants to join the team? Things seem to be going out of balance. What next? Me turning evil and Eggman turning good? I better take some precautions. With that, Sonic began to draw onto the Chaos Emerald's energy. Immediately, with the initiation of UA, Sonic detected footsteps behind him. At first, he figured it was just a citizen taking a stroll in the middle of the waste land which Station Square has yet to occupy.

However, his reasoning immediately changed when a gun shot was fired from behind him. His UA suddenly heightened to maximum levels which automatically judged where the bullet was going to come from and when it would impact. Sonic's anger rose the split second the shot was fired. With his risen anger, the Chaos Emerald reacted by supplying him with the abundance of unlocked energy to him. Immediately, Sonic disappeared and reappeared right behind the shooter, who turned out to be Suprion. Sonic's anger was immediately evident in his tone.

"Honestly, did you really think you could beat me this way?" Suprion simply disappeared and reappeared a few meters away, and so did Spurino.

"Did you really think that we would have ran out of power because of the Master Emerald is not nearby us?" Suprion replied.

"I will definitely give you guys an exchange for what you tried to do." With that, Sonic ran towards them at an estimated of Mach 2.25. With a fist leading, Sonic lunged himself towards Spurino...who side stepped to get out of the way of the fist. With Sonic passing beside him, Spurino decided to let Sonic's speed come against him, simply by putting out his fist, so that Sonic would run into the fist with his stomach. Just as expected, Sonic flipped over the fist and fell head first into the ground, clutching his stomach as he tried to negotiate with the pain. Rather than staying on the floor, whining because of his stomach, Sonic decided to bring out his hard, cold warrior self, by shaking off and mentally numbing the pain. He got up by flipping himself onto his hands, and whipped his legs around at high speed, catching both Suprion and Spurino at their knees. Once Sonic's feet was planted on the ground, Sonic elbowed Spurino (who was now in mid-air) in the jaw, which whipped his head upwards. Moving at high speed, Sonic found himself under Spurino and kicked him upwards while maintaining a handstand. Before following Spurino with the combo, Sonic quickly dealt with Suprion by jump-kicking him away from the scene. Then he jumped upwards and tried to kick Spurino downwards, but was forced to break off his combo because of a loud blast sounding from the floor which was followed by a now noticeable revving down of a motorcycle engine. By pushing himself off Spurino, Sonic was able to gain enough distance from the bullet which flew between them. Sonic landed on his feet with a slide, drawing marks on the ground. He slowly looked up with his red eyes and saw a black hedgehog sitting on a motorcycle with a Desert Eagle in his right hand. Has Shadow lost his mind?? He would never catch me with a gun!

"Shadow?" Sonic asked. "Are you serious?" It was that point in time that gravity had finally forced Spurino to land harshly on the floor with his back, once again, with a thud.

"I already told you that I'm not joining you Sonic, which is why that shot got fired at you in the first place. I don't care if you are dead or alive. My only mission at the moment is to retrieve the Chaos Emeralds."

"I already told you Shadow that the easiest way to do that, is to team up with me. Everything gets a whole lot easier when us both have the same mission."

"O please...I don't need help, I am the Ultimate Life Form." There goes Shadow and his cockiness.

"Wait a second." Suprion spoke from behind Shadow. "You're telling me that you both has split up as fighting partners? This has gotten so much easier now. So Shadow you want to team up with us? You know that we will find the Chaos Emerald either way."

"I don't have time to meddle with you fools." Shadow replied. "I will do what I want, when I want. I do not have time to be held down by you guys, especially when you guys obviously must be working with Eggman." Sonic said nothing. He didn't need to put in some information, he got tricked once, and he's not going to let Shadow get tricked as well.

"Actually, that's not true..." Suprion began.

"I'm not going to let you trick Shadow at all!" Sonic blurted out. "Shadow, they tried the same story on me, just before they tried to take me down with that weapon." Shadow noticed the gun which was in Suprion's hand. This was not a very well known model at all. In fact, Shadow quickly noted that it was probably only known by Eggman, Suprion and Spurino.

"Either way," Shadow added. "I wouldn't work with them at all. They would only hold me down with their weakness." With that, Shadow hopped off the motorcycle and charged at Suprion. Spurino was just about to get up and defend him, but Sonic quickly took care of that with a quick fireball that forced Spurino to take a step back from the fight. Shadow glanced in Sonic's direction quickly before engaging with Suprion. Sonic jumped over the scene with Shadow and Suprion and headed straight for Spurino. Well, I guess I will just assume that we are fighting with the same short-term goals.

Sonic landed, and tried for a high kick towards Spurino's head. Spurino easily bent backwards and caught Sonic's foot. With a twirl, Spurino threw Sonic into the air. Sonic turned around and faced Spurino with a questioning look. What is he going to do next? Spurino lit a ball full of electrical energy and blasted it towards Sonic. The ball moved with blinding speed towards Sonic and was spreading sparks all over the air, which created mini-thunders that indicated the power of each spark. Sonic knew he couldn't get hit with that ball at all. CHAOS RUSH!! Sonic turned into bright, glowing hedgehog and moved out of the trajectory at max speed. It turned out his speed was insufficient to clear the area around the ball which was occupied by the sparks. One of them had burned right onto Sonic's upper right arm. Immediately Sonic, grasped his arm in pain and crashed into the ground. Ahhhhh!!...man, what would have happened if I had gotten hit with the full ball? Once again, Sonic mentally blocked out the pain and jumped to his feet. Up ahead of him was a quick moving hedgehog that had another ball in the palm of his hand. Sonic bent to the side quickly and caught the hand and stopped Spurino altogether. He looked at the ball, and was forced to look away from it. It was too bright. Sonic elbowed Spurino's face with the same right hand, which whipped back Spurino's head. This forced Spurino to shut down the energy flowing to the ball because he didn't concentrate on it. When Spurino's head snapped back in place, Sonic threw Spurino into the air. Time to try something new. Let's see how many hits I can put on Spurino before a second passes. Sonic focused all of the Chaos Emerald's energy to his feet and got ready to charge towards now-airborne Spurino. Chaos Control!! Chaos Rush!!

If a person, who was outside of the Chaos Control realm, was watching this, all they would have seen was Spurino in the air, and the very next instant, a crater in the ground appeared, Sonic falling from the sky unpowered, and Spurino falling from high in the sky at a high enough speed to create a forcefield of heat around him, very much like when the Space Shuttle undergoes re-entry. However, from, Sonic's point of view, not only did everyone and everything suddenly go into standstill, he moved at untraceable speed towards Spurino and kicked him to the floor. The next instant, he moved around and punched Spurino back into the air with unbelievable power. While Spurino was moving upwards, Sonic kicked Spurino's left knee, then he moved to the otherside, and elbowed the back of his head, then he returned back to the front, and kicked his stomach and continued at this pace until he landed a combination of 25 hits. Then Sonic moved up at high speed, and then headed towards the ground (and therefore Spurino) at maximum speed and landed a downwards kick right into Spurino's chest. Sonic was forced to disengage both Chaos Control and Chaos Rush due to the amount of power he had used up and had practically none left. Therefore, gravity took control and Sonic dropped from the sky.

Spurino crashed into the ground creating a 6 foot deep, 12 foot wide crater. Sonic landed on his back on the ground, breathing heavily like as if there was no air left on earth. Sonic summoned his arm and leg muscles so that he could stand up. He was barely able to accomplish this and had even more struggles to bring himself towards the crater. In the center of it, Sonic saw that Spurino was completely knocked out. When he turned to his left, he saw that Suprion and Shadow had stopped fighting and stared at the events of what just happened. Birth of a new combo. It can be called the Turbo Combo.

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