Second chapter today!
Omnes Adversum Tenebris Infinitas: The Heroes VS Endless Dark Matter
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Music: End of Days - Emoticon
The monster roared and slammed his giant claw into the ground next to the heroes, trying to frighten them. Certainly doing its job, the heroes jumped away as the eye on Endless Dark Matter's chest opened and Eclipse could see them, still surrounded in a dark shield. "Ha! Cowards are what you are. Fight me!" The monster moved in time with Eclipse, and Sonic found out the weak spot. "We need to go for Eclipse." G nodded, then looked at the Blue Blur. "Great assumption, Sonic, but there's a bit of a problem... it's sorta above a giant pit of lava."
"I know. Shadow knows what to do - if he's still alive, at least. He's working on getting the Chaos Emeralds for us. We just need to distract this guy for long enough..." Tentacles shot out of the beast's back as it roared for the second time. "Watashi no tame ni shinu!" The tendrils were sent flying towards the four on the ground, and they took out the limbs in their own fashions. The ones that reached the ground, however, planted themselves in and began pumping out more dragon-like monsters.
As G shot two in the head simultaneously, he yelled over at Sonic. "Didn't tell us about these before!" Kicking one away, Sonic yelled back. "It didn't have these before! Not my fault..." As the four continued mowing down the beasts, Eclipse watched in glee as the bodies melted into goo and oozed into the body of the monster that he was controlling. "Come now, you four! Certainly you can do better than that. Maybe you need some encouragement..." Putting his arms straight out in front of him, he yelled out. "Pawāsuperu bangō 5: Dendō shotto!" Electricity came out from the monster's hands and shocked the ground in front of it, causing Sonic to have to move around it.
Gaining speed, the hedgehog launched himself at Eclipse only to be caught in an electric beam. "So weak. Soko o norikoeru!" Throwing Sonic back, Eclipse sent spikes of darkness towards the heroes. Flipping back, Sonic kicked another creature back as the spikes shaped into black and white clones of him. As Sonic began to fight with the clones, Eclipse turned his attention to G - as a shot went breezing past his head. Waving his finger, Eclipse tsked at the komodo dragon. "Now, now, play nice, won't you? I'm supposed to be the one that does that! Yami no renpatsu!" Tons of dark shots came from Endless Dark Matter's body, trying to spear the reptile.
Swamp ran up and began slashing at the dragon things behind G as the latter tried dodging the bullets. Noting a chunk of metal in the ground, Swamp pulled it out with his powers and threw it at Eclipse, who batted it aside with Endless Dark Matter's hand. "Hikari no sabi!" A wave of energy went out, rusting all metal that it came in contact with it. The cutlasses in Swamp's hand somewhat useless now, he tossed them aside and began beating the monster's back with his fists.
Eclipse laughed at the chaos - but not for long, as Alicia's sword of light pierced his shoulder. Yelling out in pain, he pulled it out and destroyed it, while glaring at the angel wolf. "Nisshoku o nyūryoku shite kudasai!" A beam of darkness went out from the shield, and it hit Alicia dead on, corrupting her light powers and disabling her ability to summon a sword. Now unable to attack Eclipse, she focused on the minions around her. The eye closed, and Eclipse became a part of Endless Dark Matter once again.
Having defeated the last of the clones, Sonic cursed as he narrowly avoided being crushed again. 'Come on, Shadow, where are you?' Now defending G from the minions, he began to converse strategy. "Alright, what's your plan?" The reptile moved out of the way of another shot, and glanced back at Sonic. "Survive until Shadow gets here. What else can we do?" As more tentacles came from Endless Dark Matter, a complete new wave of minions was released as the four heroes crowded near each other, ready to fight.
When ten of them were blasted away by fire, G looked over as Novos began scorching some of the beasts. Child and Marx were close behind, and the three began hacking away at the minions and the tendrils. Seeing that help had arrived, the heroes began to help the once-neutral Mobians fight back the minions. "So what's with the change of heart, Marx?" Ducking under a shot from G aimed to a monster behind him, the cat chuckled. "Taking that we have a similar target, why not?"
"Alright, you pests, time to get serious. Andāwārudo no ame!" Monsters began falling from the sky as the seven Mobians on the ground battled the spawn of Endless Dark Matter. "They don't stop coming, do they?" Sonic kicked one that was behind G and nodded. "He's trying to tire us out, and it's working..." As more minions fell from the sky, the heroes were trapped in a ring as Eclipse laughed. "And now I end this!" Just as Endless Dark Matter was about to bring his hand down on the heroes, Sonic closed his eyes...
And opened them again when he heard a roar of pain. Looking up, he saw a giant green bug-like monster distracting Endless Dark Matter. Marx cursed. "It seems we have company." As insect-like creatures began to flood in from the forest, the minions turned their attention to the new beasts. The minions continued to rain as the heroes fought back both the falling creatures and the beasts coming in from the forests. Hearing a "squish" sound, Marx looked up to see the black monster's giant claw through the alien's stomach.
Throwing the thing away, Endless Dark Matter turned back to the main fight and was blasted by multiple fire shots from Novos. The eye opened up to reveal Eclipse smirking at the fiery Mobian. The eye opened up once again and revealed Eclipse smirking. "Come on, Novos. You need to cool down! Dāku no kōri!" Ice shards shot out of Endless Dark Matter's hands as Novos was preoccupied with the minions.
Endless Dark Matter was slammed into once again by another giant alien, and Eclipse scowled and merged back with the monster to take it down. "THIS WORLD IS MINE!" Equinox, now fully reformed, and Endless Dark Matter collided with punches, sending out an energy wave which released more minions of both sides. Endless Dark Matter soon overpowered the alien, slamming it on the ground. The monster roared and gutted Equinox, the claw changing into a spear. The giant alien screamed, bleeding blue blood, and the smaller aliens began to collapse, being overwhelmed by the Dark Matter-lings.
Endless Dark Matter turned again, ready to crush the Mobians, before being slammed with a wall of water. It turned once again to see Perfect Chaos, who fired a laser at the beast. It deflected the beam off to the side, but was grabbed and held by Perfect Dark Gaia, who had burst out of the ground. The laser hit the eye straight on, breaking Eclipse's shield - and his control over Endless Dark Matter.
However, a certain celestial being slammed into Chaos, cutting off the laser. Endless Dark Matter wrestled itself out of Dark Gaia's grip and collided with the god of the night. As Solaris and Chaos were duking it out, the heroes were occupied with dealing with the never-ending minions. The rust shed off of the metal, however, so Child, Marx and Swamp were able to help out Sonic, G and Novos. Eclipse regained his control over E.D.M., although he could not regenerate the shield.
"I am your creator! Your FATHER! And THIS is how you treat me? Mabayui bakari no hikari!" A flash of light emanated from the eye, stunning Dark Gaia for long enough to push it to and through the ground. Endless Dark Matter turned towards Chaos and Solaris and fired a beam from its hand, blasting both of the gods. Finally, it spun around and slammed its spear into the Gaia Colossus, which had just sprung up behind it.
Just as Sonic was about to be overwhelmed, the minions were speared with pure energy, and fell to reveal Shadow standing with the Chaos Emeralds revolving around him. "I'm here, Sonic." The Blue Blur nodded, and the Emeralds began to circle him. Sonic's eyes changed from their usual emerald green to scarlet red, and with a burst of energy, engaged his Super Form. He shot towards Endless Dark Matter, which was turning to face the Mobians, and slammed into Eclipse, bursting straight through the monster's body.
The two rolled on the ground before Sonic threw Eclipse away. Gasping, Eclipse slowly stood up as Sonic walked towards him. "Sonic... have you not... been..." "Been what, Eclipse? beating you up like I usually do?" Eclipse smiled and looked behind the gold hedgehog. "Paying attention?" Suddenly, the Super hedgehog was swatted away by Endless Dark Matter, which roared at the sky.
G looked on as the hedgehog flew towards them and crashed, sending chunks of earth flying. Endless Dark Matter cried out as Eclipse teleported in front of it. "Just because I was disconnected doesn't mean it's going to die! It can just do whatever it wants now. So..." Eclipse teleported away after saying "Have fun dying." Sonic got up as Endless Dark Matter roared again, and he looked at the people around him.
"Come here." They all gathered around, and he began channeling his energy into them. Slowly, the Mobians all began to glow gold, and when the energy was released, there were 8 Super forms ready to fight Endless Dark Matter. They all launched into the air and began to take down the monster. While Shadow was distracting it, Sonic, Swamp, Marx and Alicia were getting up close, trying to hack away at the monster. G, Novos and Child stuck back and fired at Endless Dark Matter from a distance.
The monster spun around and swatted the fighters away, focusing on the ranged people. Tendrils fired out of its back as they were dodging, still attacking during the dodges. Slowly, pieces of Endless Dark Matter began falling off, turning into small pieces of goo. As more pieces of goop fell off, the more violent E.D.M. got until it began to fire sporadically at the flying Mobians.
Finally, all eight Super Mobians flew up to its head and charged. They broke through slowly, but got the job done. When they emerged, covered in slime, Endless Dark Matter cried out and began collapsing into the hole that it had burst out of, falling apart and landing in the lava. With a final crash, the earth caved in on it, burying it for good.
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Music End
They exited their Super forms as Eclipse came back, landing on the ground in disbelief. "Im...impossible. How could you have defeated it? HOW!? It was PERFECT!" Eclipse yelled out as Sonic walked up to him. "It's time to end this, Eclipse." Suddenly, Eclipse's eyes snapped open, and he said three words: "Raven is dead."
With a final shriek, a wave of energy was released, blowing back all other Mobians, as Eclipse began to glow black. The white marks on his body began to spiral, and the black somehow got darker as his eyes turned pure white. "I am the true self!" Sonic and the others got up to face Eclipse one last time, the fate of the world at stake...
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Now wasn't that eventful? Do what you do, and I'll see ya in the next chapter!
