Chapter 28 A Rescue Mission Gone Dark

Two weeks later

The Shadow Knight sat comfortably in his seat watching his favourite program, freedom fighter panic room. Sometimes he found it boring, but Tails usually was up to something interesting. He watched as Tails was using his back up parts scattered in his house to try and make something to what he could only assume to be a way to get out.

"Still hasn't given up yet. He should just accept it, the others look like they have." The Shadow said with a laugh. It was true that they all looked a little lifeless. Knuckles had stopped smashing things and was lying down outside. Amy and Rouge were watching TV. Tails was working in the spare workroom in the basement. Naturally the TV had programs repeating themselves over and over again, but it was better then nothing. Silver had been broken. He was the one that could have saved them if he had reacted to the situation and used his psychokinesis to pull them away from the portal. He had had nightmares about it, not being able to save his friends. Usually Blaze would get him out of this state by telling him there was still hope, but this time she had nothing to say. Just like Silver, Blaze also felt she had failed the group. Not like Silver though, Blaze was haunted by her stupidity in thinking Eggman wouldn't double cross them. It was true that Blaze didn't know if Eggman got out, obviously hoping he didn't. She knew whatever the answer was, Eggman was laughing at her, taunting her, mocking her. That was one thing she could not stand. Being mocked.

"Has anyone seen Cream?" Asked Amy. Everyone in the room lazily looked at Amy with confused expressions. Suddenly Knuckles broke through the door with a grin, "someone said something! It's a plan to escape, right, right!?" Everyone shook their heads at Knuckles. Since being trapped in the dimension, Knuckles had picked up on one thing, no one spoke much anymore and when they did, it was usually a plan of escape. Of course none of them had worked, but it was better then nothing to Knuckles.

"I was wondering had anyone seen Cream. I don't remember her being with us when we came through the portal which means... she's not here!" Amy said with a smile.

"Why are you smiling Amy, what difference does Cream not being here make?" Asked Rouge.

"She can find help and they can get us out of here!" Amy responded.

"And who will she find?" Rouge asked, already knowing that Amy hadn't thought this through at all. Amy paused for a couple of moments.

"Eh... I... don't know" Amy said sadly. Knuckles sighed angrily and stomped out the door. Everyone went back to what they were doing, which was nothing for most of them.

Tails was worn out. He had only one idea left, but it was his best one yet. He had chaos energy in his house that was also in this dimension. He wondered if he had had the seven chaos here, would there be duplicates? He didn't want to think about what would happen if that was true and the Shadow Knight figured out. His plan was to give the chaos energy to Silver and pray that he can use chaos control. He remembered when Sonic had used it with the fake chaos emerald. Since Silver could turn super like Sonic, he hoped he could also use chaos control.

Tails groaned as he tried to amplify the chaos energy. "Even if Silver can use chaos control, it might not work without a full chaos emerald, but this is better then nothing." Tails grabbed the container with care and slowly brought it upstairs, ready to tell the others his plan.

It was nighttime in the woods as Sonic walked through it. He was feeling a lot better after just two short weeks. Anyone else that was in his condition would have been lucky to just be alive. Sonic still didn't feel all his power had returned from when he fought Dark. He still had enough to call this forest 'vacation' off and get to work on finding the portal or an alternative method of getting to the Shadow Knight.

Sonic hadn't attempted to locate the portals energy, but he knew if a bone head like Knuckles could track the Master Emerald, then he could track the chaos energy.

Sonic closed his eyes and tried to remember how it worked. "Clear your mind Sonic, you can do it" Sonic said quietly. He continued this for about a minute, finding the whole thing a little boring. Sonic snapped his eyes open, "got it".

Sonic got into a running stance and smirked, "lets see what these great legs can do" Sonic said rubbing his feet on the floor a little before starting in a light jog in the direction of the chaos energy. As he went further, he increased his speed. He did it again and again until he had become a blur to anyone who saw. Sonic still didn't want anyone to know about him, which was why he had decided to go at night.

After running for quite a bit he had found the source. "Angel Island, surprise, surprise. What's it doing in the sea though." Sonic said curiously. He had missed a lot of events, including Eggman taking the master emerald. Sonic then decided to run back to Tails workshop and get the tornado.

After a half an hour of flying, he made it to angel island. Sonic found an open space and landed the tornado. It was a bit of a bumpy landing, but he thankfully didn't crash the plane. Sonic focused again to really narrow down the location of the energy. He led him to a random part of the forest.

"What the... where is it?" Sonic looked around the area, but couldn't find anything resembling a portal. He focused again, this time he found the energy quickly. Sonic looked at the ground below him.

"Underground..." he murmured before looking around for some kind of button. He looked inside the near tree trunks, figuring that would be the best spot to hide a button. His intuition had been right. He tapped the button and the ground moved aside, revealing a staircase. Sonic walked down the staircase cautiously. At the bottom of the staircase, there was a big room with two giant portals at the end against the wall. Sonic decided to check everything before he went through the portal. The first thing that caught his eye was a cloth covering something big. Sonic then noticed it was glowing.

"That shape..." Sonic said before pulling off the cloth. Sonic shunned his eyes from the light. "The Master Emerald, I knew it. I wonder if that idiot left the chaos emeralds lying around here too."

Sonic went through every drawer and shelf, almost tearing the whole place down. "Dammit, I guess he has some brain cells after all". Sonic muttered under his breath. He walked back into the centre of the room and found the control station. It took him a minute to get his head around what each button did. It didn't really matter at the moment what most of the buttons did. In the centre of the buttons was a computer that did most of the work. Sonic looked for a bit until he found the last location used.

"Portal control centre eh, sounds like the place" Sonic turned on the portal and entered the destination. While looking on the computer, he had found the time machine section of the portal.

"So the one on the right is the time machine. This is easier then I thought it would be, since the time travelling has it's own portal designed for it, I can just destroy the portal and no more time travelling." Sonic smirked and got to work. He turned off the portal and started spin dashing the time portal at all angles, slicing it into pieces. Then for the next thirty or so minutes, Sonic found any blueprint related to time travel and destroyed it. Satisfied that the time machine could not be remade, he turned the portal back on and got ready.

Sonic did a little stretch of the legs and arms before standing up and frowning again.

"Time to get to work" Sonic hopped through the portal.

The Shadow Knight had the chaos emeralds behind glass, glowing furiously from being so close to each other.

"I have the master emerald, I have the Chaos emeralds, I have the freedom fighters trapped, I even have eggman trapped! The multiverse will be mine and no one can stop me!" He paused dramatically. He looked around him curiously. Sonic then dropped in from the non existing roof a few feet in front of him. The Shadow Knight stood up and grinned.

"You know something Sonic, when i saw you down in my portal room, I freaked out. Sonic had come back from the dead, hehehe, but then I realised something". He waited for Sonic to ask what, but after he got no reply he continued on, "I have nothing to fear. I'm superior to you in every way. I'm faster, I'm cooler and I'm far stronger then you will ever be" The Shadow Knight pointed his finger at Sonic and smirked.

Sonic examined him for a bit, "Oh... I think recognise that ego. Your that weakling Scourge, if I'm not mistaken." Sonic said in matter of fact way. The Shadow Knight opened his mouth in shock and anger.

"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME"! He shouted furiously. Sonic grinned and tapped the side of his head a few times, "Angered very easily, definitely Scourge." Sonic said tauntingly. Scourge throw off his helmet in anger, "Your and your new white stripes dare talk to me like that. I'll pulverise you!" Scourge got into a fighting stance. Sonic mirrored Scourges stance and grinned. Scourge quickly jumped and homing attacked Sonic. Sonic dodged to the side.

"Careful, you'll destroy your precious monitors." Sonic said. Scourge tried spin dashing Sonic, but Sonic jumped over it. Scourge homing attacked Sonic multiple times, but Sonic kept jumping to the other side of the room.

"Would you stop jumping around and fight me" Scourge shouted. Sonic smirked. Scourge did a spin dash at Sonic again. This time when Sonic jumped over it, Scourge quickly homing attacked him while he was in the air. Sonic was hit into one of the monitors.

"Ouch" Sonic teased as he slowly got off the cracked screen. Trying to take advantage of the situation, Scourge attempted to homing attack Sonic again. Sonic jumped to his feet and jumped over his head again. Scourge smashed into the screen and a static sound could be heard. Scourge noticed this and tried to get away. The screen exploded, causing a knock on effect that blew up all the monitors. Scourge was sent to far side of the room by the explosion. He rolled up next to Sonic's feet. Sonic pulled out a button and opened the portal back to Mobius. He threw Scourge in before jumping in himself.

As soon as Sonic landed, he was punched to the floor. Sonic jumped back to his feet like he wasn't even hit.

"What the" Scourge stepped backwards in shock. Sonic grabbed him by the throat and glared at him. Scourge started sweating a little, this was not what he expected. Sonic held him there for a few seconds waiting for Scourge to resist. Scourge grinned. Sonic then put his hand to Scourge's chest. Before Scourge could say anything, Sonic shot a beam through his chest. Scourge went wide eyed and made a choking sound, but didn't say anything. Sonic dropped him to the ground and looked down at him. Scourge fell on his knees putting his hands against his chest. It didn't last long though, and in about three seconds he fell to the side.

"W-what i-is this" Scourge said coughing blood all over the floor.

"This is what happens when you think that I won't do anything to threaten your life. You could have broke out of my hold, but you didn't because you believe me to be nothing more then a 'hero' and an idiot that would never kill you even when given the chance." Sonic grabbed Scourge and lifted him so they were face to face. It was just then when Scourge saw Sonic's eyes staring right into his, he noticed that they were a Silvery colour

"You thought wrong" Sonic said darkly and kicked Scourge into the wall. Sonic didn't look back once at Scourge and jumped through the portal, leaving Scourge in the wall. Scourge, with a pure look of shock, watched as Sonic left him there, left him there helpless. Before his mind could even comprehend what had just happened in the last five minutes, his head fell to the side and his eyes shut.

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