34 - Fight To The End!

The black and green hedgehogs clashed, their arms swinging back and punching into their fists at the same time. Power brutally traumatized the earth below them, the concrete and ground shattering upon impact. As they both held their tightened fists against each other, knuckles pushing against knuckles, Scourge leered the entire time. Shadow grunted, Scourge was strong. Sonic definitely wasn't exaggerating, this kid was a tyrant. Even in the form he was in now, Shadow was only on equal terms with him, he still wasn't stronger than him. In fact, he felt like he was still weaker. Realizing that this physical endurance game was going no where, Scourge snatched his arm back and quick stepped backwards. Shadow did the same, readying himself for another assault.

Scourge then held up his bat, making a rather composed and relaxed posture. He then simply swung the bat downwards. That simple action alone, caused a detrimental force of wind to strike right into Shadow, knocking him back with a startled yelp. It was like he charged up a bunch of nothing and just swung it at him effortlessly as a basic attack. Shadow didn't lose focus however, and recovered quickly by charging forward. He conjured up chaos energy in his hand, forming the shape of a lance. It's color was mostly black, some of it navy and some of it a murky red. Shadow then swung directly towards the green hedgehog, who with a straight face, easily blocked it. He didn't even bother to deflect or dodge, he just blocked it. Shadow continued swinging at the young adult, trying to move faster and swifter than Scourge could determine.

However, this was the mistake that Shadow made: Scourge was still both faster and stronger than him right now.

As he blocked every single swing of attack, even going as far as to slightly move his body here and there, he just mocked the ultimate life form. "It's funny," He said with boredom as Shadow couldn't even get the green one to flinch. "You managed to fuse with a Chaos Born and a Divine Spirit, and you're still weaker than me. I told you so." Suddenly, right when Shadow made another swipe, Scourge was gone in the blink of an eye. He then reappeared only centimeters away from Shadow's personal space. The anti-double flipped his baseball bat the other way, the knob facing Shadow. He then gently tapped the knob against Shadow's chest, sending the black hedgehog hundreds of feet away.

He landed harshly into a grocery store, fruits and vegetables splattered and rolling all over the place. In the midst of all the dust of now even more destroyed debris of the building's structure, he could see the silhouette of Scourge coming right for him at a daunting slow pace.

Shadow clenched his teeth in frustration, he was right. He was still too weak to fight him. That was until he felt a change of gears turn in his brain. And, that wasn't him. That felt like something else. Suddenly, Shadow paused for a very small fraction of a second. The hold he was using for the lance changed, grasping the weapon of chaos energy like a sword. His body seemed to have been moving on his own, why was that? That's when he felt something speak to him. "Let me take control of your arms for a bit." That was Sonic, he was making him hold the weapon like this. That's when Shadow steadily held the lance's handle more confidently, his knees slightly buckling down to get in a better stance for that of a true swordsman. "I told you, I once went to a world where I had to learn how to use a sword like a real knight. Scourge is no push over when it comes to hand to hand combat, or using melee weapons. So if you wanna play toe to toe with this guy in the weapon's department, you gotta know how to duel properly." Shadow almost chuckled to himself. Once again, Sonic was teaching him something for a change.

Scourge narrowed his eyes with a frown as he stopped in his tracks. "The fuck was that? I could hear him."

He could hear Sonic too? That entity inside of him must have given him such powers. Didn't matter though, he was going down. With Sonic's influence along with Dark's power surging throughout the chaos weapon, Shadow jumped up and boosted himself directly towards Scourge at alarming speeds. Too fast...! The anti yelled to himself. Using Dark Sonic's ability to fly for a short amount of time, Shadow floated to charge even faster and stronger against him. With panic, Scourge quickly swung his bat to counterattack Shadow's upcoming assault. They clashed once again, but this time on more common ground. Shadow was now stabbing, slicing, even mimicking moves of a fencing master. Hell, the ultimate life form himself seemed impressed by his own actions. He didn't realize Sonic was this proficient in swordsmanship. Scourge was having difficulty keeping up, blocking and even trying to swing his bat in response to each attack, but he couldn't keep it up forever.

He was starting to get pushed back from how harsh Shadow's blows were, forcing him to just hold up his bat, using the base of it to block the majority of everything he hit him with. Shadow caught him off guard even more, now gracefully moving his body to make spinning and spiraling attacks with the lance of chaos. Scourge's blocking guard was broken, causing him to grunt while accidentally losing hold of his weapon and losing balance. Shadow took this chance to take control of his body once more. "I got this!" He yelled aloud, mostly for Sonic to give him back full control. His lover did as he commanded, allowing Shadow to take the lead for himself and move his body to a halt. He then took the lance and lifted his arms to do a full swing directly into Scourge.

The green hedgehog just barely dodge by using his own loss of balance to dive further backwards away from the weapon that nearly took his head off. Once Shadow missed, Scourge recovered to get back on his feet properly and summon his bat back to him. However, Shadow expected him to do this this time. He smirked, and pushed more of Dark's power into the lance. The lance became bigger, sharper, shaping it's self into a weapon with a much longer blade. One that resembled more like a sword. "Dark Chaos Blast." He muttered, before activating a devastating slice and energy beam towards Scourge all at once.

Taking the impact of such power caused Scourge to be both sliced and blasted right out of the city square. After landing several feet away onto already destroyed concrete right onto his back, he made a brief cry of pain. And then, as Shadow quickly flew to his location before landing on his feet to walk towards him with that same chaos-sword, the green hedgehog laughed. With a small grin on his face, he ignored the blood dripping from both his mouth and his chest. Thankfully he had high tolerance to pain, otherwise he'd be screaming right now. He could feel that his spine didn't feel right either after landing that hard but, oh well. He then slowly got right back up on his own two feet, summoning another bat in his hand. He then put it in between his legs to hold it there while he rose his hands to his own muzzle. He cracked his own neck, and moved around his shoulders. Shadow watched with narrowed eyes as his enemy took the bat from in between his green legs and held it back up onto his shoulder as if everything was just as peachy as it was before.

He had a large gash on his chest, the one that Shadow made moments ago, and he was acting as if it was nothing. Scourge snickered a little more. "Things just got a little more interesting." He spat some blood onto the ground, then coughed out a tooth. The blood that he just spat out, and the blood dripping from his chest, Shadow realized...

...The blood was almost just as black as his own fur.

Before Shadow could draw any more conclusions, Scourge held up the bat in his hands like a major league player and sneered. "You've had your fun, now I'll have mine. Let's see how strong you three are against this." Without even moving a muscle, seven balls of bright red appeared in front of him. They were entirely made of corrupted chaos energy, not doubt from the demon. Scourge then swung the spiked bat into each of the balls one by one, putting enough force in each swing to make them shoot off like bullets directly towards Shadow. The sword of chaos disappeared, and Shadow crossed his arms over his face as a black force field shrouded him. The balls bounced off against the shield one at a time, and it seemed to be an effective defensive tactic. That was, until each hit slowly began to break the shield.

Shadow tried moving forward, but the balls of chaos followed his every move. He couldn't even get to Scourge if he wanted to, he'd be interrupted. Not only that, but they were very hard hitting. If Shadow took down the shield for a second and one of them hit or even grazed him, he'd be leaving this battle with broken limbs. Once the sixth ball hit, his shield was almost completely destroyed. As he waited for the seventh ball, he realized that nothing was coming. It's been a minute now, where was the last attack- "Ahh!" Shadow was battered directly into his back. The shield was immediately destroyed, and he fell forward. Before he could get back up, that seventh ball he waited for earlier struck him right in his head to force him right back down. That hit was so bad, Shadow saw stars and he swore he heard his skull crack. There were eight this entire time, he was tricked. Scourge then walked behind him, and held up the spiked bat. "You know what I'm gonna do to you, Stripes?" He asked casually. "I'm gonna beat the absolute fucking shit out of you, and I'm going to enjoy every single minute of it." He swung it down onto his body numerous times, over and over. Holding the bat up, swinging it down, it's spikes tearing into Shadow's fur and skin considerably every single time.

In a last ditch effort to get the green hedgehog to stop, Shadow summoned some large dark chaos spears in the air to shoot at him. This did cause Scourge to stop and deflect the spears away from him easily, giving the ultimate life form enough time to turn his body over and stretch his leg to kick Scourge right in the stomach. Another blow to his stomach, Scourge was getting sick and tired of that. Shadow was going to take another swing at him, until Scourge snarled and tackled Shadow down. His bat rolled over and laid beside their bodies. He swung his gloveless fists into Shadow's face over and over until blood coughed and spurted from out of the ultimate life form's mouth. Scourge then took a fist full of his white chest fur and stood up, yanking Shadow up in the air along with him. As he held him up, he made a dangerous angry glare at him.

"I'd almost rather you kick me in the balls a thousand times, before you punch me in my stomach."

"Fuck...You.." Shadow weakly retorted. "As if I give a damn...about your personal rules of a street fight.."

Scourge made a small laugh at that. "True, that does seem a bit ironic and hypocritical, only I don't give a shit." He hissed. "My tum-tum's a sensitive place, and I advise you to keep your hands away from it."

"It's a fight you jack ass! The hell's so special...about your stomach anyway?"

"None of your damn business," The young adult replied defensively. "Just stay away from it. If you hit me there again, I won't hesitate in killing all three of you for good. Would make my job easier anyway." He dangled Shadow above the ground just to piss him off a little more, as the black hedgehog grit his teeth in both pain and weakness. "Besides, I think you're just about done. Any last words before I knock you out and take you three to my lovely castle?" He asked with a small smile.

Shadow started to smirk and laugh as well. "Yeah, a few things actually..." He trailed off ominously, making Scourge rather intrigued. "You asked me how Sonic was in bed, right?" His laughter became a lot heavier, more dark. "Well you were right for the most part. He was tight, he was warm, he was so good." He grinned even harder as Scourge's face turned monstrous. "We went at it all night, until he passed out from how hard I fucked him on that bed. He moaned and screamed my name, not yours." His hold on him was becoming gravely tight, but Shadow wouldn't let up. "Whatever you did to him in that castle obviously didn't effect him, because you weren't even a factor that night. He didn't even remember what you did, he remembered what I did to him back in Moebius, when I made him cum there too." An evil smile drew across Shadow's face as Scourge's blue eyes went from red to black in seconds. "He said he loved me, and even after he was finished, he just kept asking for more."

"..." Seething rage, was an understatement for Scourge's wrath as of now. He turned to the side and carelessly threw Shadow on the ground. The ultimate life form landed hard, groaning in pain as he rolled to the side. Scourge just stood there in silence, before beginning to speak in a cold and heinous tone. "I wasn't a factor?" He asked to the fellow hedgehog. "You say, I wasn't a factor." He clenched his fists so tightly, Shadow saw unhealthy veins pulsing through his limbs. His green quills were raising. "I wasn't a factor, even though I am the only enemy that's ever caused Sonic to fear me? To loathe me? To care about me?" He twisted his head towards Shadow, revealing his enraged expression. One eye of his was inverted, with his eyeball being black but his iris being red. The other looked normal, but still just as furious. "He felt sorry for me."

"...What?" Shadow whispered to himself. Sonic was being oddly silent at this moment.

"He said that he felt bad, because he could have saved me from turning into this." He raised his hands at himself as a gesture. "Look at me!" He screamed. "My blood's not even red, it's fucking black now!" He hollered. "I can't feel pain anymore, with or without powers. I'm insane, and I'm so fucked up that I think rape is the best way of showing someone how much you love them!" He leaned over and picked up his bat. "And yet, I can still feel, even after all the torture I put him through, even as fucked up as I am, that he still cares about me. He's still stupid enough to think that he can reform me, that he can save me!" He shook his head and held up the bat. "You don't know anything Project," He deeply insulted. "I will always be a factor to Sonic! Even if you kill me right here and now, he'll still remember me! He'll still be sorry, he'll still regret not fixing me and listening to me when he had the fucking chance! But now it's too fucking late, and now you're all fucked! So how about you shut your fucking phony-ass bio-hog mouth, and just DIE ALREADY!" He screamed as he swung the bat down.

But before he could even land one hit, Shadow announced one more attack.

"Dark Bind!"

"What-!?" Instantly, a black mass of aura appeared and thinned into thick wires. It wrapped around all of Scourge's limbs and all over his entire body, tightening so he couldn't move. "Ngh..!" He nearly dropped his bat again, and Shadow took this time to get up and back away. His wounds were slowly recovering, and he could feel his energy come back to him. Scourge angrily forced the wires off of his body with a growl, snapping them off like nothing. He then came charging towards the ultimate life form head on, swinging his bat against him once more. Shadow blocked with his arm, and it hurt, but he didn't falter. They let go for a brief moment, just to swing and clash once again. Shadow used his fist as his weapon this time, Scourge's bat's spikes digging into his glove, but he didn't care. He wasn't going to lose. They clashed over and over again, and each time they did, the planet suffered a major impact of power to erupt in it's grounds.

Debris, rubble, pieces of buildings, even parts of houses or towers broke apart and flung into the air. The two male hedgehogs clashed one last time, red static and dark blue aura wrapping against each other like opposing viruses throughout their bodies. Shadow clenched his teeth as he felt his lover and the Divine Spirit use their power to simultaneously help Shadow push back against Scourge's bat. "It's over Ogilvie!" He shouted over the loud rumbles of chaotic power. "Your men are all dead or detained, and you'll just bleed out soon enough. Give up!"

"My ambitions are too adamant to give up now," Scourge seethed as they both slammed their foreheads against each other's. "I'm never losing to the likes of you ever again!" He shouted back. "I will kill Zonic, and I will have Blue for myself! No one's gonna take this away from me!"

"I see," Shadow quietly summoned some chaos power into his left palm, letting it surround his fist to power his strength even further. "Then unfortunately for you," He chaos controlled beside him, catching Scourge off guard. "I'll just have to break another tooth!" He dived his fist directly into Scourge's cheek, and the anti-double just barely blocked it with his forearm. However, his wrist was definitely broken by now, and his bat was destroyed into pieces from the amount of power they were using.

Scourge ignored the pain like usual, and counteracted. "Every single word that comes out of your mouth," He hissed as he held up his knee. "Just pisses me the fuck off!" He shoved his boot right into Shadow's stomach as payback for earlier. The kick was strong enough to knock some wind out of him, but not strong enough to get him down again.

He just recovered and prepared his fist once more, murky crimson, black and navy blue aura infesting his limb. "This is your last chance!"

Scourge did the same with his right hand, bright red aura surrounding his arm. "Just shut up and die!"

They both reared their arms back, before charging forward with their punches.

Zector the crocodile carried several bodies onto his back, dragging himself to the infirmary where almost every space of the entire ward was filled to brim of wounded or near death soldiers. Nurses and other men and women ran left and right, carrying towels, tools and paperwork. Yelling orders to doctors, assisting patients in limping or even carrying them to their rooms. People were screaming, people were yelling, crying, hollering...Everything was a complete mess, absolutely no order. So many doctors and nurses were so busy, they couldn't even tend to Zector or pay any attention to him. No one could help him, even as he carried six men and women on his scaled back. One of those men on his back was Zespio, his faithful comrade. For that alone, Zector refused to give up.

As medical professionals sprinted back and forth beside him, he kept moving as quick as he could towards the corridor of medical rooms. Any one of them would be fine, so long as he got there before he collapsed. The very first room he came across, he limped inside of. All doors were unlocked and wide open, it was no problem getting inside. Once he stepped inside, he fell over. He fainted, with his allies unconscious on top of his back. When one of the doctors rushed inside to check in on the several dozens patients inside of this room, he stopped once he saw Colonel Zector and Colonel Zepsio unconscious on the floor along with other high ranking soldiers.

The doctor yelled for some nurses to come and assist him. Soon, several assistants rushed in to help pick up the soldiers one by one, to try and find an available bed for them to rest on. Seeing as how there was barely any space left inside of the room, the doctor pointed to the door and ordered for a nurse to grab some spare pillows and blankets to make makeshift beds. She nodded and ran out of the room, bumping into the Warden in the process. She deeply apologized, but kept moving and sprinted down the hall. The warden of No Zone HQ, now bandaged up with his arm in a cast, watched the madness unfold before him. His nurses and doctors were going insane, desperate ants running ragged all over their own colony. He knew of all the chaos that was going down in the medical ward. He came down to stop it but, Zobotnik figured there was no point in yelling or ordering for the havoc to cease, because it couldn't just stop.

People were dying, getting their limbs amputated, or sleeping in a coma every second the man continued to breathe. No, it was best to let his workers do the best that they could, even through the madness of their infirmary. The most he could do now is return to his office and try and see if he could access the surveillance blimp that flew over the city. He wasted no time in making his way out of the crowded corridor of the medical ward, traveling to the elevator, and heading up to the very top floor. Well, not the very top, that's where his air force went. No, his office was the floor right underneath that one. Once he was inside, he pressed a button and waited. With a couple minutes passing, he heard a ding, and he stepped out to head to his office.

Passing the meeting room, he entered his office easily with face recognition from the DNA scanner next to the entrance. The doors opened automatically, and he walked through easily. They closed back right behind him, and he moved to return to his desk in front of the large windows that had a direct view of the beach and the sea.

He took one step closer, and the windows instantly shattered.

He yelped and fell over on his butt with a pained hiss. He slowly looked up towards the windows, only to see that glass was shattered everywhere. Even the curtains and blinds covering them were tossed to the floor. In the space of the window sill, something was crouching on it with grace. In that space, was a blue hedgehog hopping down from the sill and landing on his feet. He marched towards his Warden's desk, where his laptop sat. Broken glass managed to get on top of the desk, but he didn't care about that. The hedgehog kicked the computer chair away from the desk and seized the device. He pulled it close and began typing away onto the keyboard. The hedgehog was panting, but he didn't seem exhausted. He looked determined, focused. But he also looked tense, angry and ready to snap at anyone who dared to interrupt his focus. His commander of now both the prison and his army, Zonic. "My apologies sir," He said with a rushed tone. "I need to use your computer."

"Y-You can't just break my window and barge into my office!" The old human yelled while pointing his casted arm towards him. "Where'd you even come from!? This is a classified room-!"

"The window." Zonic retorted.

Zobotnik glared at the lieutenant general. "Besides the window, smart ass!"

"The battlefield. I ran here and sprinted up the wall to your office, then I broke the window by punching it." Zonic went through some personal files, looking through several pieces of top secret info that he didn't need to access. Where was it? He was sure Zobotnik would have it. "My champion and Shadow prime are still stuck there, fighting for their lives." The hedgehog easily entered the password to enter the computer's browser, looking through tabs and windows of useless things. "All of Scourge's men are dead. I'd call this a win, but we've lost so many people, this has no right to be considered a victory."

His warden blinked and his eyes slowly widened. "They're all dead?" He asked slowly. He then grinned and jumped up in the air with a cackle. "Hahaha! I knew you could do it! That's my commander, always on point! I knew we'd win, there was no doubt-"

"What," Zonic clenched his teeth so hard, his canines started to ache. "Did you just say out of your mouth...?" He harshly whispered as he slowly peered from the laptop screen. "This," He pointed to his roughed up uniform, with blood spots decorated at certain parts of his body. "This was a win? Your wounds, my wounds, and two thousand of my men dead? Dismembered? Mutilated? That, is what you consider a win sir?"

Zobotinik shook his head with a small chuckle. "Granted, the body count is pretty high, but it'll be no problem hiring. Everyone wants to be a No Zone officer, we'll have our numbers fixed no problem." The old man walked over to his commander and placed a gloved hand on his shoulder. Zonic's nerves riled up to one thousand. "Now the real problem is the city, that's a lot of damage you guys did. I won't hold you accountable, after all, your so called 'champion' made that mess. Him and that nasty green mutant," He spat with disgust. "The death toll we can't really keep a secret, but the city being a mess will be a real problem. We won't be getting any money from the local businesses anytime soon. Ah," He patted his shoulder over and over. Each pat, was Zonic's sanity decreasing bit by bit. The very last of it, was disappearing. "But unlike Zhadow, you're still here! You're smart enough to figure it out. Pfft," He took his hand off of his shoulder and placed it on his hip. "Zhadow's so useless like this, I still can't believe he got himself into a coma."

As the warden went on and on about literally nothing Zonic couldn't care even less about, the commander was slowly going insane. Over the duration of these past couple of months, his psyche was slowly falling apart day by day. First his studies causes him to overwork and deteriorate his health, then his love falls into a coma thanks to his poor decisions, his champion gets tortured and nearly killed several times by the very person who he helped turn into a monster, and now he got to see how his lover was put into a coma just to cause him even more misery. He was already so angry, but now, he was just gonna lose it again. Zhadow's hospital room, talking next to his body, emotionally eating just to turn around and excessively exercise to keep his body fit, which only put even more strain on his body...The heart ache, the headaches, the constant drive to be a perfect and just leader-

God fucking damn it, he was going to lose his fucking mind.

...And now, he didn't care if he did.

Because he was done.

Zonic steadily turned his head over at his boss. He was still, talking.

"...So make sure you get the medical ward in order, because it's a damn mess down there. And don't forget to-" Zobotnik paused as he realized that Zonic was entering his personal files. He immediately tried to grab and take the laptop away. "Y-You..! You can't be in there! Get off of my computer!" He exclaimed as he tried snatching it from his commander's hold. And instantly, once he even tried to proceed and reach for his device, he saw Zonic's now soulless and hellfire green eyes drive a spark of intimate fear into the human's body. "...!" Zobotnik slowly backed away with his good arm up in defense. "W-Why...Why do you look like that?"

"I-I..." Zonic whispered. "I think, I've gone insane." He confessed with an unusually chilling voice. He's seen Zonic angry plenty of times before whenever he conversed with his boss, but never like this. "And," Zonic slowly blinked. "Why, do you still keep talking?"

This was his commander speaking, but he was still the general. How dare he talk down to him like some inferior? He was tired of Zonic's insubordination, he needed to be more obedient. The warden growled and immediately straightened his posture, his ears steaming. "How dare you! I have top secret files on that computer, you have no right to access them! I could have you fired for this, even if you are the Overseer! And I'm sick and tired of you talking down to me as if I'm inferior, you're inferior! I am the general!" Zobotnik cried. "I am your boss, and you will obey!"

"FINE!" The hedgehog put the laptop down and gripped his hand into his own chest, seizing his medals. He tore off all of his medals, and carelessly tossed them at Zobotnik. The obese human flinched and covered his head in fear. He's never seen his commander act this way before, perhaps he really did lose his mind. "I've seen and cooperated with too many atrocities that have occurred in this building. Because of you," He growled. "Because of you, I made a horrible, terrible mistake. I let that maniac out into the streets!" He pointed out the broken window, referring to Scourge who was still in the field. "If it wasn't for your poor judgement, I wouldn't have let him go! Now he's going to kill my champion, all thanks to the torture we've wrought onto Ogilvie! We did this! YOU did this!" He slammed his fist on the desk. "I love my soldiers, they are all loyal allies and friends, and I will always remember them as such. However," He snatched the laptop from the desk and began marching away. "I am sick of being aligned with a system that so carelessly abuses it's inmates so cruelly, that it turns them into world destroying psychopaths like him! I refuse to be apart of your 'perfect system' any longer. I can continue my work as an Overseer without you! And as an Overseer, anything and everything that has to do with either Sonic prime or anti-Sonic overrides any law in the universe. They're my responsibilities, and I decide what happens to them! As of now, I am no longer your commander, I am just a simple hedgehog who just so happens to have a much more significant role than someone as corrupted and twisted as you."

Zonic stormed out of the office, and didn't even bother properly opening the door. It took face recognition, so it wouldn't work anyway. So instead, he kicked both the doors down and walked right out. That exit alone, was his dishonorable discharge to this military. Like he gave a damn.

Chaos, he was so angry he couldn't see straight. His body seemed to be moving on it's own, holding the laptop tucked under his arms as he walked to the elevator. He needed to get to the Room of Realities, now.

It took him less than a few minutes to get there, as his personal office was only underneath the warden's personal floor. He entered his office, slamming the door back closed. He traveled to the backroom, walking in and facing the walls and floors of numerous TV monitors planted in every single space. He instantly looked at Sonic's reality monitor. It was nothing but snow. All of his monitors had static. He untucked the laptop and flipped it open to reveal it's screen again. It's gotta be here somewhere. Where the hell was it? Where did Zobotnik hide the file? He looked and looked, his eyes moving back and forth, back and forth.

That's when he finally found it.

He clicked on it, and saw the convoluted codings of the universal wifi connected to internet of both the entire HQ, and the rest of the universe. Such powerful internet could only be activated and powered by something even Zobotnik couldn't understand. He had directions and instructions on how to maintain it from past Overseers, but he didn't truly comprehend what it meant or what it's true capabilities are. As an Overseer, Zonic was the only person who could understand it's coding. Rather, he was supposed to. He slacked in his studies, thanks to his obsession with becoming a perfect No Zone leader. He didn't truly understand this coding either, because it was chaotic coding.

But that's why him doing this was one big risk, instead of going back out there to try and help his champion fight Scourge. That feeling he felt before, it had to be chaos energy. He had to activate with that power he felt before, but if he couldn't, he'd have to figure it out and that could take hours. They didn't have that kind of time, he needed to connect the wifi.

Focus, breathe.

Focus, breathe.

Focus...Breathe...

Focus...

Breathe...

He could feel it again, that strange energy. His rage, his breaching insanity, it was heating up his entire body. His fingertips, felt like they were on fire. His chest, it felt like a stove. Is this, is this what experiencing chaos energy felt like for the first time? He was starting to sweat, his hold on the laptop was slipping off. He was losing breath, his heart beating faster. He could feel it, this was it!

He stared at the strange alien-like activation coding of the universal wifi, his dark green eyes brightened. They became so bright, it mimicked those of Sonic's. Lime green, shining as beautifully as two peridots. His eyes were burning, the computer was heating up. The coding on the screen changed colors, turning royal blue. Blue static surged throughout his hand and his arms, around the computer.

Suddenly, a message popped up on the screen.

Congratulations! You have successfully been connected to the universal wifi.

With a pained hiss, Zonic dropped the laptop on the floor. It landed hard, it's screen slightly cracking with royal blue static surging through it. His fingers were bruised, the tips of them burnt through the glove fabric with falling dead flesh. He'd need that bandaged, but right now that wasn't the issue. One by one, pictures of all of his monitors returned. The universal satellite was working once again. He stood in front of Sonic's reality monitor, now showing his ruined world. Thank goodness, this was his chance!

He got closer and pressed his fingers on the buttons of the monitors. Switching cameras, activating it's built in microphone. No, not Twinkle Park-Ah yes, Station Square. GUN HQ! He just needed to try and get a signal out to Miles' prime's computer access. He pressed another button, and waited. He had to pick up, he had to pick up, he just had to.

"Pick up, pick up..."

Static. "He..o? Is so...one th...?"

"Miles prime?!" Zonic watched the screen carefully as it flashed static a couple of times. "Can you hear me?"

A little more static, until a full picture appeared and settled. He saw a yellow-orange kitsune looking into the webcam of his computer on the other side. Zonic's entire body felt an entire wind of relief gently push him against the wall. He almost collapsed in joy. "Thank Chaos..." He whispered to himself.

"Hey, you're that Zonic guy right?"

"Yes," Zonic nearly smiled. "It's me Miles prime."

"Guys! The internet's back!" As the rest of Sonic's home world friends rushed to crowd into the computer's screen, they were instantly yelling and hollering questions. Briefly arguing with each other as to who would get closer to the computer, or who should get more space in front of the webcam. Eventually, Tails angrily pouted and screamed for everyone to settle down and get out of his way. After his small outburst, everyone hesitated and gave him a little room while keeping quiet. "Sorry about that," The fox smiled sheepishly. "Is Sonic okay-"

There was no more time, Zonic had to give the kitsune directions to follow now. "Miles prime, I am so sorry for interrupting you, but you need to listen to me." He cut him off instantly. He saw that Tails immediately became serious and silenced himself. "You need to sever your connection from your world's wifi, now!"

"N-Now? But we won't be able to communicate with you anymore!"

"Please, trust me. Our universal connection is powerful enough to bring back your power, and we'll be able to connect again. You will still be able to talk to me, but right now you have to take it down!" He cried desperately. "This is our only chance to take that bastard down. If you do this, I assure you, Scourge will be done for good and we can truly win this war!" He saw that Tails was staring at him with grave concern, he could hear the desperation. Yet he was still hesitating. Zonic could understand, after all, he didn't even get to tell the child about his brother's whereabouts. Now he was expecting him to follow everything he was saying. "I know you can't really trust me. After all, I am a stranger to you. However, on Sonic prime's behalf, I am begging you," He said. "Destroy the connection. Please."

Slowly, Tails closed his eyes and inhaled deeply. He then opened his blue eyes back and started moving his hands. "Consider it done, Zonic." Tails stated firmly. "If it'll help take down Scourge, I'll do whatever it takes."

Another breath of relief nearly caused him to pass out again. "Thank you." He breathed. "Thank you." The child' cooperation was almost enough to reform his insanity. "Once you do it, our connection may go a little fuzzy, but you won't lose us. Don't lose focus, Godspeed." He made a move to turn around.

"W-Wait!" Tails cried. "Where are you going?"

"First to the medical ward, then to Sonic prime. He needs me, but I have faith in you, and so does he." He made a small smirk as he continued to walk to the exit of the Room of Realities. "I can't wait to see Scourge's face the second you destroy his connection."

Tails watched as Sonic's twin left the room in a hurry. Hm, he couldn't really read that guy. He was really cool and temperament before, but now he looked so desperate and worried. He even looked roughed up with some blood stains. The war must have been pretty bad, but he got through it okay. He really wanted to know what was going on, and he desperately wanted an update on his big brother and Shadow, but their efforts to win the war were more important. With the way that Zonic guy talked, it seemed like Sonic was still very much alive and okay. But, medical ward? How many people got hurt? Sure it was war but-

"I got a bad feeling," Amy suddenly muttered.

Rouge narrowed her eyes. "Yeah, I didn't like how he was acting."

The motherly rabbit cradled her child with an unsteady expression. "That young man looked very upset."

"Yeah," Knuckles interjected. "Like something else besides Sonic was buggin' him."

Sitting in the corner of the messy GUN boardroom, Fiona held up her head. "Commander Zonic isn't really the best when it comes to having a temper." She shook her head and scowled. "The guy's got way too many screws loose."

Chaos, why was she still talking? "Oh, like you?" The kitsune casually asked with much less interest in whatever her retort could be. Tails was so dismissive towards the vixen's comments that he didn't even look her way. She needed to stay quiet like a hostage was supposed to. Okay, that sounded a bit dark, but Tails truly didn't care for what she had to say anymore. At this point, none of this was her business anyway. He continued typing on the anti-Omega's keyboard.

Fiona scoffed. "Very funny, kid. Looks like someone gathered some balls underneath all that cutesy fluffy fur."

Amy tilted her head towards her. "Hey, watch it." She held up her hand, a red hammer instantly summoning in her hand.

Tails shrugged. "Nah, it's okay. She can say what she wants, I don't really care. At least I'm not the one who got dumped by another man."

"Little shit-!" Fiona instantly stood up. Rouge and Knuckles were quick to move in front of her in seconds, glaring down at her with menacing expressions. Even with her wounded wing, Rouge had her hands on her hips with cold blue eyes. Knuckles cracked his namesakes in his fists, staring down at the fox with just as much contempt. "What," Fiona challenged. "You think I'm scared of you!?"

"We're not the ones with cuffs on, sweetheart." Rouge sweetly reminded her with a scowl.

"You've put us through a lot of crap, but you hurt Tails and Sonic the most. A little sass from the kid won't hurt you, as if you don't deserve more. You're lucky we're not pounding your face into the wall. Except we're not like you, so we're gonna try our best not to stoop that low."

"So why don't you sit your pretty ass down and continue to do just that," The white bat insulted while bending forward to look the girl square in the eye. "Sit by, do nothing, and look pretty."

Fiona hissed. "Bitch."

"For the people I care about? You're damn right I am." The bat stood up straight and held up her hand to her face, brushing a strand of her hair back behind her neck. With a sarcastic flutter of her long eyelashes, she turned the other cheek and waved over for Knuckles to follow suit.

The red vixen's shackled fists shook together. "And what are you gonna do to me in the meantime? Why am I even still here?!" She yelled.

Rouge flagged her off as she returned by Amy and Vanilla's side along with Knuckles. "Why would we let you go? Just so you can miraculously find your way back to Moebius and help out your hubby? Oh no honey," The ivory bat turned to give Fiona a look, her hands still on her hips. "We're not as stupid as you think we are. You may have talked all that spunk before about being done working for your ex, but guess what?" She narrowed her eyes at her. "I've done that song and dance before and I don't believe you for a damn second. I've been there, and I've seen too many cases like you in basic law enforcement missions every single day. You're one of those types, mindlessly following your abuser because it's all you know. You don't know how to function without that creep, and he's got you wrapped around his finger like a constrictor." She pitifully shook his head at her. "You will never stop working for him, and you'll be in his shadow until he kills you or until you finally find the 'fluffy balls' to leave him for good. And unfortunately for you, the prior will more than likely happen."

Amy's glare faltered as she slowly turned to Rouge. "Abused..?" She almost whispered. This also made Tails hesitate for a small second as he typed. The red echidna stared at Rouge, feeling nothing but truth from her hard hitting words. And Vanilla, looked as if she knew exactly what she was talking about. A sad look was clouding the older woman's amber colored eyes.

"It's obvious honey, look at her." Rouge held her hand out to Fiona as a gesture. "It's written all over her face, all over her body." She pointed to certain parts of her figure. There were old faded wounds on her body, and Rouge doubted if they were battle scars. "None of those are from street fights, those are from him. I'm sure of it."

Then, Amy slowly turned to Vanilla. The woman made a sad expression, closing her eyes and shaking her head. "Miss Vanilla?"

"..." She didn't say anything back.

But Fiona, was also silent. She didn't look their way, and slunk back into her corner to sit in.

"Besides," Rouge said with disappointment. "Sonic will know what to do with her. She's gonna stay right where she is until he gets back, so she gets her rightful punishment from the very person she's screwed over the most."

Knuckles crossed his arms and looked over at Fiona's corner. Then, he glanced over at Tails, who was quietly working on that computer. "Seems fair enough to me."

Tails pushed a couple more keys, and finally got through to the wifi. He smiled brightly and pumped a fist into the air. "Alright! I got it!" He exclaimed. Amy jogged over and leaned over to watch.

"You got it?" She frowned with squinting emerald eyes. "All I see is a black screen with a bunch of numbers."

"This is it, Amy! And all I have to do now," He looked down at the keyboard and hovered his finger over a key. "Is take it down."

That final key, destroyed Scourge's connection to their wifi.

As he walked off the elevator to march across the medical ward, he stopped the instant he tried taking a step further.

This place was in shambles!

Nurses running back and forth, doctors constantly barking orders while literally jumbling a bunch of equipment in their hands, soldiers yelling and screaming all over the place, while some were just passed out in various places around the ward. Such disorder, such disarray, horrid organization-It was giving him a migraine. Well no more, this needed to stop. They needed to get their act together this instant. Zonic clenched his teeth, a vein growing on his temple. He was already so irritated, this was just making things worse. He stomped his foot on the floor and took deep breath before yelling, "ATTENTION!"

Instantaneously, every single living person in the ward paused.

"About face," Zonic hissed. "Eyes front."

As if by natural instinct, anyone who could still stand turned straight to face their commander immediately. Total silence filled the building from top to bottom.

"Now," Zonic said. "Where are my colonels?"

One of the doctors had the gall to speak back to their commander. "T-They're both passed out in one of the medical rooms. Room twenty-seven, sir."

Damn, that wasn't good. He needed them and the rest of his high ranking officers. In order for his plan to work, he couldn't do this by himself. He looked down at his hands, feelings of new found power just waiting to be unleashed. Zonic tightened his fists and sprinted down the corridor of medical rooms. Twenty-seven, twenty-seven-There it was. The door was already wide open. He skidded to a stop and without hesitation, stormed into the room. A lot of his soldiers were in here resting, but he could see Zector and Zespio on some blankets and pillows on the floors. He assumed they had to improvise. They all looked so tired, so exhausted. He felt guilty for what he would have to do next. After all, his men needed rest. But if he didn't do this, his champion would be lost and the rest of the universe would be in peril.

He inhaled slowly, before exhaling just as steadily.

Focus, and breathe.

Zonic's hands glowed a great royal blue, his aura emanating a strange light into the room. He stepped forward, the door to the room closing shut gently.

This would only take a minute.

END - 34

So sorry for the wait, been working on other stories.

Also, a bunch of cliff hangers, Sorry~