Me: UPDATE!!! Also, DON'T KILL ME!!! At least until you read the chapter.
Lan, Sonia, and Manic all shuddered before releasing their lunches through their mouths.
"Are you guys alright?" Valor asked.
"Sonic…" Sonia panted.
"…It feels like…" Manic continued.
"…He's gone berserk," Lan finished before taking his PET EX out, "View Mode: All."
A holographic screen of Hellspine Sonic facing Bass in a destroyed clearing appeared.
"Is that Darkspine?!" Lan gasped.
"No…" Shadow gritted his teeth, "I've never seen it, but Sonic told me he only had three rings on his fingers. This form has four."
He pointed at Hellspine's hands, showing the four rings.
"His form…" White shuddered before Crimson took over, "His form's being fueled on pure, unadulterated, unbridled rage and hatred. He doesn't want to just kill the guy he's facing… He wants him to suffer for all of eternity."
"That is correct," a voice said.
"Who's there?" Maylu asked.
A tall, purple and light grey cat-like being with three pronged hands appeared holding Roll, unconscious and perfectly fine. (MEWTWO)
"Who are you?" Lan asked, "And why do you have Roll?"
'I am Mewtwo, a member of the Smash Tournament,' Mewtwo said, 'It is good to see you again, Shadow, nephew.'
"Hmph!"
"Hi, uncle Mewtwo," Tails waved.
"Uncle Mewtwo?" everyone repeated.
'He calls me that because I allow him,' Mewtwo replied, 'I consider him my nephew and he considers me as his uncle.'
"Okay. I'm freaked now," Manic admitted, "How are you talking without moving your lips? Why's Sis here when she was suppose to be with Bro?"
'Manic, Roll is with me because she was hit with a Vanishing World,' Mewtwo replied, 'The Smash Scarf has a hidden power in its threads. That power allows anyone not on a Smash Field to be teleported to the safety of an non-battling Smasher. I just happened to be nearby and she appeared in my hands, out cold. And I am psychic, which explains how I talk without my mouth moving.'
"So you're like me?" Silver asked.
He levitated a rock and moved it a little bit.
'Hmm. Interesting,' Mewtwo stated, 'But now's not the time for that. Watch and listen to their battle. You might just learn something.'
"Learn?" Lan and Manic repeated as they paled, "Uh-uh! NO WAY!"
Mewtwo 'convinced' the two to watch and learn via his psychic powers. Everyone made a mental note to NOT disobey the psychic cat-like creature.
"You shall pay for killing my mate, yesss…" Hellspine hissed as he raised his left hand, "PERISH!!! HELL SHOCKWAVE CLAWS!!!"
He slash the air and released one thousand and one black energy slashes.
"DARKAURA!!!" Bass roared as a purple aura engulfed him.
The first nine hundred blades shattered the aura and the remaining one hundred and one sliced into him. Hellspine appeared below him and gave him an uppercut.
"RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
He unleashed a barrage of slices and slashes and punches at Bass before slamming him back into the ground. He raised a hand into the air as large Arabic writing appeared in it before changing into a large black sphere.
"Ni-san! Ni-san!" Tech called as he bounced up and down on his floating disk.
"What is it?" Metal asked as he, the two Robotniks, the robotic bumbling duo, the idiotic bounty hunters, and the smarter robots came outside.
"Look! Look!" Tech pointed at a large black sphere in the distance.
"…Metal. Go over there and find out what made that," Eggman ordered.
Metal nodded. He picked the four idiots and warped to the battlefront.
"Holy snakes!" Lan yelped.
The large black sphere was two hundred miles away. Metal, Sleet, Dingo, Scratch, and Grounder appeared.
"Miscalculated," Metal sighed.
"Metal Sonic!" Lan yelped before summoning his guitar.
"What about us?" the other four asked.
'You're not that strong like Metal,' Mewtwo said.
"Ah. Mewtwo," Metal smiled, "We meet again."
'Yes we have, Metal,' Mewtwo said, 'I hope you're still not trying to beat that Anna.'
"Um… maybe…"
"How do you know each other?" Sleet asked.
'We've fought each other in a round of chess,' Mewtwo replied.
"I nearly defeated you, too," Metal said before noticing the screen, "Is that Sonic?!"
'Yes. He is tapping into the darkness of Sadness, Rage, Hatred, and Joy,' Mewtwo said, 'He is a demon now. He is Hellspine Sonic.'
The bounty hunters and nimrod robot twins gulped.
"Taste death," Hellspine whispered, "HELLBREAKER!!!"
He threw the sphere right down onto Bass. Fifty miles of land was now engulfed in black flames and a pillar of black energy. The energy and flames dispersed to reveal… nothing. Nothing was the easiest way of putting the now completely devastated landscape. Hellspine landed and jumped away from Bass, now with the silver and purple on him made of green data prints along with the top half of his helmet.
"Bass: HUB Style," Bass said.
"Bass is going up against Hellspine Sonic in HUB Style?" Lan pondered, "That's not going to help. The Darkness can erase the HUB Power."
"And you would know this because…" Scratch began.
"I'm sorry. But what are you?" Lan asked.
"I'm Scratch," Scratch said, "Leader of the SSSSSS Team."
"No! I, Grounder, am the leader!" Grounder argued and punched Scratch.
"NO! IT'S ME!" Scratch pecked Grounder on the head.
The two were now in a fight cloud that dragged Dingo and Sleet into it.
"So who are they?" Lan asked.
'Scratch and Grounder were created on Earth to capture Sonic, but you can see they've failed every single time because of their bickering,' Mewtwo said.
"Oh yeah. I remember them," Tails giggled, "Even Knuckles outsmarted them."
"HEY!"
"HYPER EARTHBREAKER!!!" Bass roared as he fired a large green and black sphere at Hellspine.
Hellspine flicked it back with just a pinky.
"WHAT?!" Bass gasped before warping out of the attack's path.
"You shall pay for killing my mate, Bass," Hellspine hissed before raising his right hand at him.
Suddenly, his hand and arm morphed into a black and red liquid-like dragon creature's head.
"Perfect Chaos' head?!" Knuckles gasped.
"You don't think that this transformation fused Sonic with Chaos, do you?" Tails asked.
"I'm not sure, Tails," Knuckles replied, "But I pray not."
Bass retaliated by summoning the wolf head, now in the same style as his master. The two heads began to charge up energy.
"HYPER VANISHING WORLD/BANISHING UNIVERSAL APOCALYPSE!!!"
The two beams collided and created an explosion. The smoke cleared to reveal Bass was now missing his tattered cloak and had falcon-like silver and black and purple armor with a more feral helmet.
"Bass: Beast Out," Bass said.
"That guy just did that Beast Out you did with Sonic!" Metal gasped.
"He used a program called 'Get-Ability' to rob Falzar, a CyBeast, of her powers," Lan explained, "This is his strongest form right now… at least until he robs someone even stronger of their powers."
"Any idea what he's talking about?" Scratch whispered.
"Beats me," Sleet replied.
The four who were in the fight cloud earlier were hanging upside-down on a tree branch.
"You will perish for harming my mate," Hellspine hissed.
"Must you always repeat that?" Bass asked.
The two vanished. Every nano-second, sounds of punches and kicks were heard. Hellspine slammed his fist into Bass' jaw. Hellspine snarled as he shot a furry of blasts at him. Bass appeared above Hellspine and kicked him into the ground. He held his hands together as a giant sphere that was as hot as the sun formed. He shot it down onto Hellspine, who was flying right at Bass. He pushed the sphere as it tried to keep going down until he began to kick at it.
"HA! LET'S SEE HOW YOU LIKE YOUR OWN ATTACK!!!" Hellspine roared as he kicked it right back at Bass.
Bass was now in his paralyzed state since he was about to fire his Bass Buster. Hellspine appeared before him with the Perfect Chaos head out.
"BANISHING UNIVERSAL APOCALYPSE!!!!" Hellspine roared.
The beam collided and sent Bass into the ground, reverting him back to his normal form, unconscious.
"Don't think being knocked out will stop your punishment," Hellspine hissed.
He was about to move when he felt a pulse of power. He turned to see a giant left hand.
"Sonic, calm down," the left hand said.
"What the hell is that?!" Ryuronin, the bumbling idiots, Manic, and Crimson all asked in shock.
'He is the one who thought up of the idea for the Smash Tournament,' Mewtwo replied, 'He is the one who makes it so that no intergalactic wars erupt. He is a god himself. He is Master Hand.'
"Why the fuck should I calm down?!" Hellspine demanded.
"You are destroying yourself by staying in this form, Sonic," Master Hand said, "The power you are using was created with dark intents. Your life force is slowly being deteriorated."
"Good," Hellspine said, "Now I can die and go to where my mate is."
"Roll is not dead," Master Hand said.
"What?!"
"You have forgotten the Smash Scarf's failsafe," Master Hand said, "It has the ability to teleport the wearer into the hands of the closest Smasher who is NOT in COMBAT if they were to receive a fatal blow."
Hellspine's eyes widened as he landed. His form glowed before he changed back to normal Sonic.
"Master Hand… where is Roll-chan?" Sonic asked.
"Roll is with Mewtwo," Master Hand replied, "Go to her, Sonic."
Sonic turned and began to walk off before remembering something.
"Hey, Master Hand, is my mom doing okay in Smash World?" Sonic asked.
"You saw her enter the portal, I see," Master Hand chuckled, "She is doing quite fine. R.O.B. has appointed himself her knight while she is on Smash World."
Sonic chuckled softly at that.
"Can you give her a message?" Sonic asked, "If you can, tell her that I hope to see her soon."
"I will tell her as soon as I get back," Master Hand replied, "Unless Crazy Hand gets stuck in a pick jar… again."
"He's a giant floating hand and that jar's so tiny," Sonic sighed, "Just how does he get completely stuck in it?"
"That is one mystery no one will be able to solve for the time being," Master Hand replied before vanishing.
Sonic ran off.
"I have seen all I needed to see," Metal said as he cut the numbskulls down, "Farewell until our next battle. And make sure Roll is nowhere near Sonic when I fight him. I DON'T want to fight Hellspine."
He used Chaos Control and the five vanished.
'The Smash Scarf's failsafe has just one setback;' Mewtwo said, 'The wearer is knocked out for a day.'
Roll floated onto a soft piles of leaves.
'Tell Sonic to come to Viridian City sometime soon,' Mewtwo said before vanishing.
Shadow warped them all back to the Gale. Silver took Roll to bed.
Sonic quietly creped into the Gale, Time Break active.
"Sorry, but there is no way I can face you guys," Sonic said as he looked at the frozen images of his friends and siblings.
He walked on and into Roll's bedroom. Time Break didn't go into the room. He sat down in the chair beside her resting figure and gently held the only hand sticking out of her sheets. He gently stroked it for a little until she began to twitch a little. He quickly, yet gently, placed her hand back on the bed. She slowly opened her eyes.
"Mega-kun? Daijobu?" Roll asked as she got up into a sitting position.
"Hai, Roll-chan," Sonic replied, "Roll-chan, gomen-nasai."
"For what?" Roll asked.
"For you getting hit by the Vanishing World," Sonic replied as he began to sniff.
He gently hugged, crying softly while whispering 'I'm sorry...' over and over. Roll returned the hug.
"Mega-kun, it's alright," Roll replied after a little, "I knew I would be fine."
"You did?"
Roll nodded.
"I heard this voice that said the Smash Scarf could protect me from the Vanishing World," Roll said, "The attack hit, I felt a tingling feeling all over me, then I'm in the arms of a weird cat-like Mobian before I fainted and woke up with you sitting beside me."
'Did Mewtwo tell her? Or was it Master Hand?' Sonic thought before the two hugged once more, "I'm just glad you're alright, Roll-chan. I wouldn't be able to live without you there."
"Mega-kun…" Roll whispered.
"It's… well… I… um… oh…" 'I've faced anything that would destroy the planet in the eyes, yet I can't do a simple thing like THIS?!'
"Mega-kun, take a deep breath and tell me what you want to tell me," Roll said.
Sonic did the deep breath.
"WhatI'mtryingtosay,Roll-chan,isthatIloveoyu," Sonic said quickly, blushing madly and looking up at the ceiling.
Roll took a few moments to put the spaces between the words.
"I hope this doesn't get in the way o…" he never finished since Roll he pulled him into a kiss.
Sonic's eyes widened before they closed slowly. Roll felt Sonic wanting to seek entrance. She complied and intertwined his tongue with his. The two embraced as their tongues played for a time. They parted after some time.
"I love you too, Mega-kun," Roll whispered.
"Roll-chan, when I thought you died," Sonic said, "I went berserk. I didn't care what happened to anything, but I knew the only thing I wanted was for Bass to pay for making me think you were dead."
He took out the four rings.
"Roll-chan," Sonic said, "I used these four World Rings, Sadness, Rage, Hatred, and Joy, and changed to something I hope to never change into ever again."
Roll's eyes widened.
"The World Rings, they make me feel emotions I'd rather not give into at times," Sonic explained, "When I use the World Rings, I'm usually in the perfect state for Sadness, Rage, and Hatred, turning me into Darkspine Sonic. I have these incredible powers in it that I could even defeat a Djinn who absorbed the stories of the Arabian Nights, but… it felt wrong. I actually enjoyed his pain, his discomfort, his agony."
Sonic shuddered.
"Roll-chan, if you ever see me in an angered state that a bark blue aura appears on me, I want you to get away," Sonic advised, "I don't want you to get hurt if I turn Darkspine, Dark Super, or even… THAT form…"
"The one you used on Bass?" Roll pondered.
Sonic nodded.
"I try my best to keep that promise, Mega-kun," Roll said before yawning.
Sonic noticed her clock said 10:59 p.m. He stifled a yawn, but it was still noticed.
"Mega-kun… you can sleep with me tonight," Roll offered.
Sonic blushed a little.
"A-alright," Sonic stuttered.
She moved over to let him in the sheets. She nuzzled up close to him and the laid, wrapping her arms around his neck as he wrapped his around her waist. The two shared a long kiss before falling asleep. Roll was the first to fall to slumber while the later managed to mutter 'Time Start' before entering the realm of dreams.
"So we confront Sonic once he comes home," Skye the Hedgewolf said.
He suddenly shuddered.
"Anyone else feel like we've just been fooled by a Chaos User?" Skye asked.
Everyone nodded.
"Ten Rings on Sonic," Lan said.
"Note to self: NEVER try ANYTHING with that yellow Hedgefox," Eggman said.
Momma nodded. The four who didn't go were watching what Grounder recorded while Metal was tucking Tech into bed.
"Ni-san?" Tech asked.
"What is it?" Metal asked.
"Why do you hate Sonic?" Tech asked.
Metal began to think about it. Just WHY did he hate that hedgehog? Was it because he was designed to hate him and destroy him? Did he truly hate Sonic… or was he jealous of the hedgehog because o fall his friends?
"I'm not sure, Tech," Metal replied, "I might have an answer for you tomorrow. Until then, sleep."
"But, Ni-san," Tech whined, "What about the story?"
"Oh yeah," Metal remembered before taking out a certain book, "So, what story should we read tonight? How about… 'Sonic and the Secret Rings?!'"
"He has a story in there?" Tech asked.
"Apparently so," Metal replied.
"Can you read it? Please?"
Metal looked up to see Tech had a certain pleading look in his eye.
"Very well, Tech," Metal chuckled softly, "You don't need to use your cute face on me all the time, you know. I'm actually wanting to read this as well. Now let's see… 'A long time ago, in a strange structure, a blue hedgehog was resting near a fireplace. A book on his face. He awoke when he heard a female call out to him…"
Me: I'm afraid.
Shinobi: You offed her last chapter, yet she's in this one.
Me: no, I'm afraid of Lebi-chan and Lena right now.
Shinobi: Same here. And Why did I know you'd do confessions in this chapter?
