Light Meets Dark: Pt 1

The group was at the royal palace the next day after they had cleaned up the mess that they had found. Sonic, Tails, Amy, and Marine were together in the same room with the emeralds. The four of them were playing Parcheesi. And Chip was having a bowl of ice cream sundae.

"So, now that we have all seven chaos emeralds recharged, now what?" Tails asked as he rolled the dice rolling, then moving his pieces making a blockade. He handed the dice to Marine.

"We can't really do anything else until we know where Dark Gaia is going to try his push to the surface." Sonic stated.

"And how long is that gonna take?" Marine asked.

"I don't know." The blue blur replied. "But at least we are prepared for his arrival." She rolled a doubles and got to move, she was excited when she rolled doubles again.

"True," Amy added. The raccoon girl was upset because she rolled doubles a third time in a row causing her to move one of her pieces back to the starting point. "It would be bad if the monster struck when we weren't ready." At that moment, the telephone rang. Marine went over and picked up the phone.

"Hello?" She asked. "Oh…" She put the phone down. "It's for Sonic." Then, the blue hero went over to the phone.

"Yes?" Sonic stated. "Uncle Chuck, why are you…?" He paused for a moment. "WHAT!?" He paused for a little more. "I'll be over there as quick as I can." The blue blur hung up the phone.

"Did we learn where Dark Gaia's rising?" Amy asked.

"No, Pops is in the ER." He replied.

"WHAT!?" The other three asked in shock.

"I need to get there quickly." The blue blur commented as he zoomed out the door.

"Krickey, we need to see what's goin' on." Marine said; thus the three of them dropped what they were doing with the board game and headed out the door.

"Wait for me." Chip added, finishing his sundae.


Sonic rushed over to Starlight City Medical Hospital to hear from Uncle Chuck what had happened. He noticed that his mother, Aleema, was there as well.

"Uncle Chuck." Sonic answered. "I got here as soon as I heard. What happened?"

"Your father and I were in a diplomatic meeting." Aleema said, crying. "But he had collapsed during the meeting. It's just horrible."

"What caused it?" Sonic stated, seeing the emotional wreck his mom was.

"The doctor stated that Silver is effected by Necromantic Poisoning." Charles explained. "Something that will be fatal if left untreated."

"What could have caused it?" Sonic asked.

"From what the doctor said, it would have taken a very large dosage of undead energy at once to cause a case like this one." Aleema said, saddened.

"Is he going to make it?" The blue blur asked, looking into the hospital room. He saw his dad in a patient's robe; he was hooked up to a heart monitor and had an oxygen mask on.

"Since it is in the middle stage, he can still be saved but will have complications later on." Charles continued. "His only chance of survival is for him to stay in bed while they get someone to purify him and remove the poison. If it reaches the late stage, he's done for." But before, Sonic was able to do anything else the earth beneath them began to rumble.

"What's going on here?" Charles stated. Then, he got a message on his communicator.

"Sonic, are you there?" Tails asked.

"I'm here, Tails." Sonic said in his wrist communicator. "What is it?"

"I heard that Dark Gaia was making a final push for the surface." Tails stated. "He is going to try to push up from Mount Marble."

"Don't worry about your father. He's in good hands." Charles said.

"We'll protect him as best as we can." Aleema answered. Then, Sonic headed out the door.


Using the Sky Patrol, the four remaining members headed with Chip to Mount Marble. They had saw a huge dark purple cloud over the area. They noticed a giant dark purple serpentine creature sticking out of the mountain's side.

"Krickey, it's Dark Gaia." Marine said, preparing her boomerang.

"It looks like the mountain is keeping the monster in place." Amy said.

"But even if he can't move from his spot, it's not going to be an easy battle." Tails stated. Chip flinched.

"What is it, Chip?" Amy asked.

"I just felt an influx of power due to my close proximity to my dark half." The plushie said. "I might be able to take the shape of my former self, but I won't be at full strength."

"Do it." Sonic said.

"Okay, but I will say this. There will be no permanent way to stop Dark Gaia unless I fuse with him." Chip answered.

"We understand." Amy said. Then, the plushie headed out of the doorway.

"Lights of the Earth, rekindle." Chip stated, gathering his magic abilities. He transformed into a colossus made of stone structures.

"Tails, get the Sky Patrol to land." Sonic said. "We're going in."

"Right behind you, Sonic." Tails said, putting the Sky Patrol in auto-pilot and set to land.

"Bombs away." Marine answered.

"Here we go." Amy added. The four of them leapt out of the Sky Patrol and landed on Light Gaia's shoulder. Dark Gaia noticed the colossus coming towards him. It roared as the light half approached him.

He slashed towards Chip and Light Gaia dodged out of the way of the claws; he countered with a straight forward punch. The monster slashed towards him again, he blocked the attack again but got hit by the uppercut claw strike. The colossus did another punch and Dark Gaia blocked it to be hit with the backfist that came immediately afterwards. The fiend slashed again, Light Gaia dodged the blow and got hit by the switching claws. The colossus countered with punching with both fists simultaneously. As Dark Gaia went to slash both ways, Light Gaia blocked and grabbed onto the fiend's hands.

"Everyone get on him." Chip stated.

"Let's go." Sonic said. The blue blur and Amy went onto one of Dark Gaia's arms; while Tails and Marine went onto the other one.


Meanwhile, unknown to the party of four, Starlight City came under attack. A swarm of gaia beasts came down upon the city. The city's militia and South Island military were doing their best to hold off the monsters.

"Crush them." Master Zik stated to the gaia beasts. "Leave none alive." All the while, the city itself was being evacuated.

At the hospital, Silver looked out the window from his bed. Aleema and Charles were watching from afar. Then, the albino hedgehog got up.

"Silver, what are you doing?" Charles asked.

"I can't watch this anymore." Silver replied.

"You can't fight." Aleema stated. "You'll get killed."

"My dear, I have faced many opponents and fought in many battles." Silver answered trying to lighten the mood.

"I wasn't talking about being defeated by the adversaries." She stated. "It would be the poisoning that would kill you."

"Aleema, Charles, do you know how many lives are at stake here?" The albino asked. "We are the only heroes that Starlight City has right now." The two hedgehogs paused. "I have to go out there to defend my people."

"Then, I'll go with you." Aleema said.

"I'll get my stuff for battle, then." Charles added.


As the three mobians left the hospital, the fiends were about to break the lines of the South Island guard. They started to cheer when they saw their leaders join them on the field.

"Let's go, guys. We can drive them off." Charles stated.

"Let's rid of them for good." Aleema added.

"It's go time." Silver said as he charged, with his twin sabers out. "LEEEROY JENKINS!"