Sonic and The Harmony of Chaos
Ch. 7
By: Cutegirlmayra (Avengers... assemble! lol)
Rouge watched as tiny lights seemed to drop from the hole in the sun like golden tears, which were growing larger, but as she squinted to try and see her hand immediately shot up from the pain of looking directly at the sun on her eyes. It gave her some relief, but only for a moment. "Curse this Goddess!" she rubbed her eyes, closing them as the light of those dots got bigger and brighter. "What is she doing to our world!?"
"Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you."
Rouge blinked her eyes open at the voice, and turned to see a figure standing directly in the harsh sunlight, her silhouette burning as though Rouge was directly standing in front of a hovering fire.
"B-Blaze?" she wasn't ever formally introduced to her, at least, not that she could remember well. So when the purple blazing cat finally landed, and the Sol Emeralds landed to her feet, Rouge was in a bit of awe. "Well, you put a new definition to 'spotlight entrance' don't you?" Rouge smiled and put her hands to her hips, the light dimming back to normal as Blaze had already powered down.
"My apologies again." She decided to not point out any previous meetings, since she didn't know Rouge that well anyway, and mostly has heard things about her. "I got your message, but found that the dark hole seemed to be leaking dimensional energy. Something is draining the sun and somehow, it connected multiple worlds together." She pivoted back to the sun, squinting her eyes to it. "There were others... I suspect they'll be here soon."
"Good. They better be." Rouge walked up to stand by her side, bending down as discreetly as she could to check out the new 'shiny gems' Blaze just happened to bring with her. Her eyes glittered at their shine in the light... And a devilish smirk crossed her thieving, eyeing lips. "Interesting... Do these act as Chaos Emeralds in your world?"
"Somewhat." Blaze didn't feel like explaining, but finally had to pull her eyes away from the sun and rubbed them subtly. As she did so, Rouge took the opportunity to store one down her heart-shaped suit, but Blaze was quick to grab her hand before she could drop it.
"Oh pooh." Rouge sighed out, pouting. "Seems someone caught me."
Blaze just held an intense stare as Blaze saw the Sol Emeralds fly back up and gather to Blaze. She let the one in her hand also go as Blaze stored them away. "Silver had warned me of your tendencies. He had to deal with something... but is prepared to meet here as well."
"Oh? And who would tell him that?" she put her hands to her hips and continued to look annoyed, side-eyeing Blaze in contempt.
"Shadow told him."
She kicked the ground and brought a shaking fist up, her eyebrows growing strongly defined, "That lousy-!" she mumbled more under her breath in her fury, but Blaze just seemed to note her as someone not worth paying extra attention to in those matters. Now that she had the Sol Emeralds safely rounded up, she just had to make sure Rouge didn't try and swipe them again.
Friend or foe..? A good question, but she did ask for Blaze to arrive here...
Blaze looked around, "Our planets are dying... we should look for signs of slowing the process down and destroy it's source..."
Rouge suddenly stopped her tantrum in surprise, "Ours..? You mean... it's not just our world?" That was shocking to say the least. 'Hmm...' she suddenly stood straight and thought immensely to herself, turning serious in her questioning. 'Could Harmony have links to other worlds? Or is she spreading out her awful, energy-sucking aura to lessen the effects of simply draining this one alone..? It seems more likely that maybe... those ancient manuscripts Shadow found... could Chaos and Harmony have created many planet eggs and thereby, having many worlds connected to Harmony's life-giving power?' Each and every one of these thoughts could have dire consequences, and Rouge just hoped they weren't too late in rescuing their chances of survival.
Shadow had phoned her not too long ago... Chaos and Harmony's interaction still put many of them on the fence about how to handle this situation. However, it was decided that Chaos was going to help free Harmony, but was that right? Shouldn't they attempt to control and harness her power like the Chaos Emeralds had done for the so-called God of Destruction?
There were so many uncertainties... but one thing was certain.
She looked back to the sun, the best she could, anyway...
Help was on the way.
In a green stream of light, like a panel opening up before spraying out the tinted aura, Silver seemed to fly about before locating Blaze, and flying down to her. "I found another." He turned from addressing her and there came a horned, body-suit figure...
He helped the person land to the ground, and then landed himself as Rouge inspected the figure carefully.
"Wait... I know that technology... you're-!" she was amazed to see her again, as the figure took off her helmet and revealed an echidna's face.
"Rouge... it's been a long century." Shade nodded her head, respectfully. "My people have sensed Harmony's uprising since the first aura beams. She's in great pain. Our Leech Blades haven't worked well since." She pulled out the technological blade as Rouge suddenly gasped at the realization.
"Of course! Why have we all been so stupid!?" She slapped her hand to her forehead, "Leech blades... they glow pink, l-like your suits!" she was connecting more dots, "You, more than anyone here, would actually—personally—know Harmony!"
Shade nodded, but there was a sorrow in her eyes as she slouched then. "It wasn't our faults... completely. Pachacamac's tricked us as well as Harmony. Sure, we were apart of feeding her power,... but..." she closed her eyes, "I remember... my mother... being offered as tribute. She was noble, never fighting the call... but her screams and groans of pain still haunt my memories." she took a deep breath, "After Pachacamac's plan to acquire and utilize the power of Chaos, much like how we weaponized Harmony's power for our own means, he had Chaos attack her and turned on us... we were always at war, but the last of Chaos's powers swelled until all were destroyed... except us, who were spared but still punished. We know the reasons... but a part of us still believes it's because Chaos knew we served Harmony... and Harmony served us."
Rouge inspected the Leech Blade, amazed as it flickered as though not strong enough to retain it's powers. "Interesting..."
Silver and Blaze, unaware of what was being told, looked to one another in curiosity. Silver shrugged, looking sorry he couldn't put any context to this for her. Blaze also concluded that she had no idea either and couldn't put things together as well, so she let out a heavy breath of air and nodded with her eyelids drooping slightly, unsure how to interrupt and ask further questions.
Bu they both had a shared thought together then... who was this Harmony? And why was she reigning havoc now?
"I acknowledged the wrongs of my people, and what they have done." Shade continued, not noticing Blaze and Silver's silent confusion, but they seemed to accept asking questions later, as Rouge continued to seem like she knew what was going on.
Though... they didn't noticing her twitching eyelid, so microscopic was her rage building... knowing what she knew.
"But wielding Harmony's power was only the start. Destroying Harmony's arm left us all unable to fight back Pachacamac's ambitious greed. The elders tossed Harmony, knowing her power could never contend against Chaos's now. Where... is Chaos?" she looked around, as though expecting him present.
"What do you mean?" Rouge kept her anger at bay... waiting for the right opportunity. For now, she wanted Shade to keep talking, and held her shaking fists to her sides and hid them the best she could.
"Chaos should have triggered by Harmony's awakening. Without a host, he won't be able to meet her. If Balance can be restored, that..." she cut herself off, "Sonic... is he going to have them battle?"
Rouge shook her head, "Though some think they still may."
"...They were like lovers. Partners that created and molded the world together. Though... it's uncertain if that's an accurate phrase. For now, we just refer to them as dual Gods." Shade explained, but Rouge kept her mouth in a tight line.
"I could honestly care less about their relationship!" She snapped a little, but calmed herself down, needing more information. "Shade... I'm glad you came. I sent out the distress signal into the Twilight Cage, guessing those telepathic stingrays might pick it up or something. I'm glad it reached you... but I'm also not happy about our situation."
"The Voxai did help, yes." Shade corrected. "But... the situation shouldn't be solely addressed to us-"
Then Rouge planted her foot down, stomping silence into Shade as she flinched back.
"You already admitted to your crimes..!" she blurted out, her anger unable to be contained or held back anymore. "Weaponizing the power of life? You're people knew no bounds... You've been sucking from Harmony for centuries, why shouldn't she want to suck it all back!?"
Shade remained silent, but found the courage to speak up again, "I don't justify ourselves, but I will defend our reasoning. With Chaos as a threat to our kind, we used our own Goddess and strengthened her to contend with him! The Leech Blade takes the life-energy of another and gives it to us. Yes,... this is one of the reasons Harmony could never fully be restored to her whole and complete self. But she needn't be... Chaos's power has permanently eliminated a good part of her power when he took her arm. We had to counter-move... to protect ourselves..."
"Protect?!" Rouge remembered everything she read with Shadow... she knew Shade had nothing to defend.
"Until you and the rest of Sonic and his friends helped put an end to our Lord Ix's scheming. I will forever be atoning for my people's mistakes." Shade was finding it hard to combat her, but remained as poised as possible. She knew in her heart the truth, but also couldn't help be drawn back to her roots...
"...They sacrificed you... your mothers and their daughters... why didn't you fight back? How can you stand to claim repentance on a race of murderers!?" Rouge lunged at her with every bit of her full force, verbally assaulting her case.
Shade remained still... but not emotionless.
Blaze and Silver were starting to paint a picture but hearing that they sacrificed their own tribe's women and children suddenly threw them back to square one. What on earth was being talked about!? And what kind of 'God' was this Harmony creature..?
They looked to one another, then back at the fighting women.
"I feel like I should stop this..." Silver whispered to Blaze, but not taking his eyes off the hostile situation.
"No... I feel like... this needs to be said." Blaze closed her eyes, "Something... doesn't seem right. We won't fully understand until Shade gives her side of the story." She then opened them to look to Silver, as a true princess and judge over her people, she seemed to understand the importance of hearing the defendant's side.
"...Is she not the guilty party?" Silver wondered out loud, but then turned to look back at the two. "I wonder... what she'll say... how she'll respond..."
After a contemplative moment of silence, Shade seemed to know that Rouge was still her ally, and that her rage was justified. "...You may know right from wrong... but you know nothing of culture... do you?"
"Hardly an alibi." Rouge swiped a haughty hand up, backing off a bit as her emotional anger turned to sorrow. She remembered what she felt in that vision by Tikal... that draining essence... what she heard and witnessed...
She turned away, walking slightly and hugging her arms, looking down in sorrow and then turning her narrowed eyes back to look over her shoulder at Shade continue to try and explain such awful crimes against life.
"For those who served life... you hardly protected it." she spat out, "Hypocrites. You took life to gain power, there shouldn't be an argument here."
"...Traditions and beliefs... don't just die with the echidnas." She looked up to the sky, "I would stake my life force that the world is no stranger to such customs as barbaric as taking life... even innocent ones. Many planets practice cruel and unusual acts, calling them 'their heritage'. But what acts should be preserved and how can one judge if not apart of such a people? I never... claimed to come from a perfect people." She held her Leech Blade out, knowing the blood she had split in the ancient past. "But I do say that I have seen first hand the false and foolish doctrines taught by my people. We were deceived. We have fought a tyrant, but continued to serve one. Innocent lives have been ruined by my people's traditions and beliefs..."
"Slaughtered, actually." Rouge's words cut deep, as though going for the girl's throat. "Times have changed somewhat. Evil may reside, but..." she looked away, "You're telling me your people willingly died? So that Harmony could seal away Chaos in the Master Emerald..? Only to then do it to her and drain her for eons after..?"
"...4,000 years... I have wondered what became of Harmony. Still trapped in our prison, my people never spoke of her again. She powered our technologies, but none taught of her... or her once kind... considerate ways. She never knew that towards the end, we were forced to give up our own. At first, it was Pachacamac's own people who left us first... then, he convinced our elders and leaders that Chaos would never stop his destructive ways, and so... I remember the day my mother was chosen. Walking nobly towards the alter of Harmony's shrine... I can never blot out nor try to erase her screams and groans of agony as Harmony drained to her to grey soot upon the ground..."
Blaze and Silver were visibly shaken by such an image.
Rouge opened her mouth for a counter, but feeling pity for the girl, stopped herself and swung her head away from the conversation.
She had seen it. The color lost from the world... the women dropping like flies... she felt her own power turn to barely embers at the simulation's power that Tikal revealed from the ancient past...
"How could you let them do it? Why not revolt?"
"We thought... we were being protected."
Rouge fought tears, looking up at the sky, "We'll all end up like those girls... if we don't do something. This isn't bravery... it's not noble! It's mass genocide! Even if they're willing to die!" she closed her eyes, "I'm not!"
"This isn't the first time your leaders have used your people for their own selfish ends, right?" She seemed to be quoting Shade's words from their adventure previously, turning around, it was clear Rouge wasn't going down without a fight, and was threw listening to Shade's perceptive. "In our last encounter... why didn't you already fight against your Clan? Why stay so obedient?! Knowing what they did to your mother!"
"That was Pachacamac's designs!" Shade finally threw her head into the fray, directing a stubborn foot forward, more determined now that Rouge wasn't seeing reason. "I, and the rest of the Nocturnus Clan, only served Harmony! We had no idea what Chaos could do, we had fought against them as enemies since before I was even born! But we truly thought that Pachacamac's words about destruction for us all were from fear of the inevitable end, and he gave us hope we could all band together to stop it. They tricked her as well as us! It was never our Clan's purpose to sacrifice innocent lives! We all victims here..! I..." she suddenly seemed to let her anger go, her eyes twitching but recollecting herself and standing straight again. "I came to help heal what we, all the echidnas, have sowed... not to argue about why it all began and for what purposes we made our decisions."
Silver and Blaze were now deeply concerned, looking at the ground, they sweated in meditative thought at all they were hearing...
Their own worlds... what would become of them if Harmony wasn't stopped? If her power not contained?
"Heh," Rouge crossed a seriously hateful smile across her face, letting her arms drop to her sides. "Where's your plow then, barbarian? This mess isn't going to till itself a new earth... a harmonious balance or a chaotic end? With men ruling the place... chances are they won't survive on their own means either..." she made the comment as a snide counter to how this all started from men's wars... but refrained from further mentioning of it. "You may have your ancient but powerful technology of the 'aliens' you deemed Gods, but that doesn't mean we're not raising our pitchforks to strike back and harvest some form of just existence! We deserve to be here! And we're going to fight for it. Tribe or no tribe, I won't just let a bunch of whiners declare my fate!" She actively struck a contenders pose, her fists exposed, and her obvious disagreement with Shade more evident on her expression now.
"Is that all we have to face a God? Pitchforks?" Silver also seemed to swallow hard and not like what he was hearing. "I've come to the past so many times... always striving for a better, more fuller future than the last one I saved... but no matter how many times I come back..." he looked at his trembling hands. "It's always further and further back in history that the root of the future's doom resides... Grrrrrr-rah!" he slammed his fist into the ground, bending his knees to do so, "Will it ever end!? How many times must I travel to set things straight! Innocent lives..? What about the future children of this world... or their children, and their children's children!?" he kept hitting the ground, "Banishing a people doesn't solve anything! Their traditions and beliefs live on in the heart's of wicked men... They are taught again and again for their own miserable ends! When will I really save the future!?" The girls all looked away from his display of emotion, not seeming to want to interrupt but also not knowing what to say in return.
Shade wasn't aware he was a time-traveler, but felt his anger was directed at her and her people, and again... feel into a silent, depressed state...
Blaze couldn't just stand still, though her eyes were closed, each hit of Silver's fists to the ground sounded a war cry in her heart. With each beat of her heart, matching his own tempo of his clearly upset with his black-and-white dilemma,... she finally swished her tail to balance her footing and pivoted again to the two other girls. "My skills are not great enough to do this alone." she got everyone's attention, as her royal presence seemed to shine through as she took authoritative strides to make her presence known and refusing to be ignored with further discussion on current and/or past events...
"Silver,..." she turned to see him flinch and slowly rise from the ground, watching her in a bit of frozen awe. "Shade..." she nodded to her as she met her gaze, showing her determination to heal the past mistakes as well, "Rouge..." Rouge seemed to want to ignore her at first, but her heart softened and she nodded her surrender. She would listen now,... "We need to plan to work together." She then addressed the group, as they seemed to have a unified goal now, instead of focusing on the differences of their ideologies. "According to what you have said, all life is in danger on multiple planes of existence. Whether that be dimensional, or even universal." she gestured to Shade and then Rouge. "My advice... is that we compare our new-found understanding and knowledge with that of what Sonic and his team knows." she looked to Rouge, who stepped up with a sly curve in her walk, very lady-like as she flicked the underside of her pointer finger out to direct it to Blaze, knowing what she was implying.
"The reason why I rang." she teased, "Shadow gave me a way to track their movements, and I should have communication channels still open with him. If we can get there before dusk hits, I'm sure we'll have time to 'compare notes' so to speak, before reunited Chaos and Harmony together."
Shade grew uneasy, "Is... that wise?"
The three looked to her.
"Care to comment?" Rouge raised an agitated eyebrow, not shocked that she would start up another time-wasting conversation, but wishing she really hadn't.
Shade held up her Leech Blade again, "Harmony's power is weakening... There's not enough life in all the planes of existence, as you have stated, to ever fully bring back what Chaos has destroyed." she then wiggled the blade and suddenly a miniature pink pulse spread out at light speed in a circled aura. "Harmony will know that my kind has returned... she'll be defensive of Chaos, and of all her creations... Including his own." she put the blade away. "Who's to say she wouldn't want to retaliate? When I knew her... she was motherly and kind. She trusted completely, and knew nothing of guile. She may not be the same Goddess I remember in my youth..."
The three weren't going to hang their heads anymore, but there was a solemn respect to that counter-argument.
"...If you did have to make your decision... on what you knew of her..." Blaze began, but Rouge cut her off.
"Before she was betrayed and sealed away." she intervened, "Would you... consider that Chaos may not want to fight her? If not being forced to combat her this time around..?" She turned gentler, as though hoping there was a chance to save the world.
Shade blinked her eyes and smiled, as though her eyes were imagining a completely different scene.
Shade, a young girl, stood like Tikal but at the Harmony Crystal's feet. She watched as the elders of her tribe hauled her away, and the fear and anguish of the blood and air inside of it, Harmony's very elements, splashing and flopping left and right as they carried her on their shoulders with strange mechanical devices like a metal, glowing her essence and power, palanquin.
She saw her materialize slightly into a watery version of her upper-half, gripping her head with her one arm and seeming to be in such distress, as though a Goddess could cry...
"Yes." Shade finally responded, and watched as a small wave of aura blasted by her, a gentle feeling of warmth and overall good feeling that was now signature to Harmony's aurora borealis arched beam. Rouge and Blaze were stunned by it, but Rouge knew this wasn't the same feeling she had felt in the vision.
Silver, almost seemed like he would topple over by it's alluring aura that lulled him into a state of bliss... before the peacefulness disappeared as fast as the wave had carried and passed over him.
His eyes dropped and he caught himself from toppling over. "W-...What was that?"
Shade watched as a flower rose up from the ground... and kneeling down to it, bowed, before using her leech blade to cut it and watching it's life force drain into her by Harmony's power that was channeled through the blade.
"She has not forgotten... her love for us." she stood up, showing the flower. "Chaos fears nature, he grows uneasy with it due to her power to control and manipulate it. He is water, water that surrounds the mind. She is life, the waters that fill the womb, but carries the emotions of life. Chaos is able to destroy and bring pain to such emotions... but he is also not necessarily bad. If we did not have the pain, we would not know the good." she crushed the flower, before slowly opening her hand and letting the petals and steam drift out of her hand through the wind.
A powerful storm was approaching from far off...
As the gang looked to it, Shade once again set her sights to rectifying her people's wrong. "She deserves are apology... Chaos deserves his friend and companion back... but we must do so carefully. Scars of the past do not heal themselves. Nothing can bring her lost power back, her arm will forever be a reminder to her of our selfish lies and foolish ideologies... the era of idolatry... ends with Harmony."
-Else where-
Worried by the storm and where their friends and loved ones had gone off to, Team Chaotix—shielding a tired Vanilla from the powerful winds and helping Cream and Cheese up the hill to get a better look in the distance—set their sights on Eggman's moving army...
"Boy, some storm, huh?" Vector called out, keeping one arm over his struggling eyes to see and another to powerfully hold Vanilla up in his arms. "You doing okay, miss?"
Vanilla had lost a lot of strength during that last wave of whatever power made, as Vector put it, "Ya feel good but regret it later". She was panting, and through her pants, constantly looking back and checking on Cream.
"I'll... be alright... Cream?"
"C-coming, mother!" Cream's ears were flapping in the wind, Vector and Espio kept their arms either defending her from the front, or prepared to catch her if the winds knocked her back from behind.
"She's doing great, Miss Vanilla lady!" Charmy called out, his mouth growing in size as he tried to summon up all of his 'big voice boy' to reach her and Vector ahead.
"It doesn't make sense, why isn't anyone informed about what's happening?" Espio made a good point, but Vector didn't know how to answer it.
"Come on, Espio. We're detectives! It's our job to figure it out, or it wouldn't be much of an 'agency', now would it?" He kept his team and the three moving, looking up to see Cheese using his pudgy hand to fight the storm... but being blown away before hitting Vector's face. "Gwak!" he was able to secure himself though to grabbing his headphones, but seeing them slip a little under and almost fall off Vector's head, he grabbed the chains on his neck as Vector let go of Vanilla and she slumped to her knees, watching worriedly and weakly as she held a dainty hand up to her chest.
"M-Mr. Vector..." she looked so helpless in her current state, but Cream rushed to try and help.
"Mother!" she fell to her lap, gripping her as the two watched Vector get slightly choked from the Chao.
"G-ge-get-gwak! This chao o-o-offph me!" he struggled but Espio and Charmy were able to expertly pull the Chao down into their arms. As Charmy adjusted his chain necklace and headphones, patting his head and lightly going, "There, there, Boss~" in his usual, chimey voice; Espio securely hugged Cheese close to his chest, and lead him back into Cream's arms.
"Hold him tight..." He stated to her, and knelt by them. "We can't keep this up forever, Vector. We need the others. We have to know what's going on... Vanilla can't take too many more of those light blasts..."
Vector stomped his foot down, flinging Charmy forward as he was only trying to situate his 'look' back in order. "I KNOW THAT!" his large crocodile mouth snapped open and close in his words. He was growing worried too... frustrated in his own attempts at trying to help everyone...
He stared with trembling eyes at the two girls, looking to him for help... for guidance... for aid...
He closed his eyes, getting emotional, and seeing that they needed a hero so desperately. It was only right to seek out a hero and do what he could to help in a situation like this. "GAHHH! Detective agency, Team Chaotixxx!" he cried out, striking a pose with his finger pointing off into the distance.
"Hai!" the two jumped into position. (Japanese for 'Yes!' or complying.)
"AHHHHH It's time to find Sonic and his friends and get a good reading on what the heck's going on lately!" He nodded, flexing his arms out a little as though still trying to sound cool. "We'll get to the bottom of this mystery or die tryyyiinnn'!"
Charmy and Espio quickly jumped up, trying to signal to him that he's only making Vanilla, Cream, and Cheese even more scared.
"D-D-Die?" Cream's light, high-pitched and squeaky voice carried over the wind as she held her mother tighter, and in return, Vanilla sorrowfully looked to Vector and leaned closer down to her daughter. Cheese also cried out in 'Chao' like cries, as though scolding Vector with his eyes angled against his words.
Vector awkwardly recollected himself, "Emm... C-Charmy! You have permission to clamp my snapper if I'm about to say something off again!" he pointed to his muzzle as Charmy nodded, eager to begin.
"If you say so, boss~" he kicked his feet out, endlessly optimistic about the possibilities of that coming into play.
"Alright, gang. Let's move out!" he lifted his fist up and picked up the girls, helping them up as they continued to try and find a reading on Sonic...
Instead... they saw something bright from the sun, covered in dark storm clouds, and something... dropping from it...
"T-that's where we're going!" he suddenly stated, "Where that golden sundrop is burning like a comet towards!"
"You sure about that?" Charmy looked unsure but Vector just hollered back over his shoulder at him.
"I know what I'm doing!"
"If you say so, Vector..." Espio followed along... unknowing they were heading for Blaze, Shade, and Silver...
Other worlds continued to begin their stages of decay and were slowly dying...
Having their life sucked out of them... and wondering if the legends of a Harmonious spirit were preparing for another war...
All the while, a conniving villain, stroking his mustache, had once again trapped this Goddess between earth and sky...
He wanted to release her true form...
A form that could end all creation from every planet... ever... again.
Eggman sneered.
-Eggman's new zone and headquarters-
The wind against the windows were like high-pitched whistles as they cried by, howling in the storm as light taps from leaves hit against the base as Eggman had began his cruel experiment again.
"Why are you putting her through this again!?" Orbot worriedly watched him prepare, seeing Cubot also wringing his hands as Harmony covered her head with her one arm, shaking in fear as she looked to the two Chaos Emeralds surrounding her Crystal.
"She's done everything you asked!" He pleaded, but Eggman just tapped his nose.
"You're not thinking like a evil genius." he teased, smirking as he moved over to the window, and placed his oxygen mask on. "Sure, she's been forced to do my bidding, but who hasn't? She's still a variable that isn't completely useful yet until she becomes her true form..."
"T-true form..?" Orbot looked aghast.
The wind now intensified, as though the sound of agony as her being rippled like shaken water, falling to her knees and folding in a feminine manner, her blood-red crystals being covered by her body's fluid to show she was somewhat hiding, and the drips of lava-lamp like blood moving within her seemed to stream like drops of tears around her 'eyes'.
The storm was knocking over trees, which then grew out and were covered by plants that were then blown into the base, as though a hurricane was forming some distance away but rapidly approaching...
Eggman spread out his long arms, letting the flashes of lightning highlight his stature from looming above her in a sealed room she couldn't effect again. "Alright, little miss Goddess of life! My final request!"
Orbot and Cubot looked to each other, knowing that couldn't possibly be all he'll ever need. Their worry only grew when a tree's trunk slammed into the base, exposing a pocket where Harmony stood.
The robotic 'hands' from the top-sides of the base stretched out and patched it up fast while Eggman continued.
"For someone so subdued, your powers over nature and air carry quite a different spirit." he was noting the fact that even though she was cowering, her powers were very much fighting to free her, and he wasn't sure how to interpret that exactly...
"Lose your form, Harmony..." He slowly withdrew his hands behind his back... "And reclaim your ultimate form."
Orbot gasped, having not realized that if Chaos had an ultimate form, that it would make sense Harmony must have one too. "A final..?" he looked to Cubot, but neither of them had actually experienced Perfect Chaos...
But they knew the records, the affects had been catastrophic.
"You can't be serious," Orbot turned back to Eggman, but Cubot finished his sentence for him, "But he'll do it anyway."
Eggman kept a smile as his glasses shined across their reflective surface.
Harmony's soft hums seemed to shrill with a plea of mercy, but Eggman just shook his head.
"No, no, no. No amount of hopeless pretending is going to make me believe you can't possibly have the powers to dominate the world and bend it to my own shape and design." Eggman rubbed his fingers confidently into his extended mustache... "Once you're released from the prison of the Crystal, you'll be able to gather the powers of the world and then some, take all that female energy and shift rock, grow jungles, and I'll come in with all my half-metal army to completely litter the world with machines!" leaned forward, his true desires coming through. "Sonic will be so caught up in trying to get here, he won't have time to actually stop you like he did Perfect Chaos! This time, instead of destroying everything, I'll just build over it. You'll take all manner of life, leaving this planet desolate, and explode your power to make way for me to play God!"
Orbot and Cubot held hands again, pushing up against each other as they started to understand his purpose. "W-... Wipe out the world?" Cubot stuttered. "Only... to replace it all with man-made machine..." Orbot finished for him, and then two looked to each other in great concern.
"We won't have flowers?" Cubot began.
Orbot shook his head, "Streams made of oil, all of nature refined with a coarse metal coating... robotizing everything into a steel planet..."
"Glorious, right?" Eggman threw up a leg and stomped on the edge of the window, "Harmony! It's time to exact your revenge! Destroy life! And I'll make sure it never exists again!"
Harmony looked horrified, could this creature really be so bent on destruction? She looked down, remembering the words of the creatures that seemed so frightened before of extinction, of giving up their breath of life for the last time and leaving nothing to remain after them. Was that a lie too? The fear of absolute oblivion? Did no creature's soul wrack with a true love of life and joy in their sphere of existence?
Eggman, seeing her contemplating in bubbled silence, was still waiting upon a certain emotion before he began.
His bright white teeth glistened as he saw it then, her blood boil...
Her wrath that Chaos could create such creatures of man with her... She purposefully designed nature to be elegant and delicate, though surviving all disaster that it might never wane in it's existence... she gave life a way to create more life, to never fully let death end all things.
Her one hand slowly lowered to brace herself against the ground, her body hunching over as her patterns on her long appendages out of her head began to break off, looking like gaps between a spiderweb.
Eggman began to slowly laugh, a signature of his before slamming his foot on the button to activate the torture she knew all too well.
As her unique sound carried in her agony, her being ripped apart like water spraying up and began to splinter out into a bigger form.
The Crystal shook, and at last, began to crack as the Chaos Emeralds were blasted back, denting the metal around them but still keeping the torture in effect.
"Ah! She's doing it!" Orbot let go of Cubot and raced himself into the window's wall, putting his pudgy little gloves against the sturdy material as he watched her break away into a large being, absorbing the crystal's power as it's light show blasted and the base's walls began to rip asunder at the intensity of her unleashed rage.
"There's a woman scorned!" Eggman howled in a wicked triumphant. "There's the wrath of Harmony!"
Her long head, mimicking that of Chaos's ultimate form, cried out into the open hurricane above the base, finally reaching it's epicenter as Eggman didn't withdraw himself from his built-in bunker. The base shook as though threatening to lift off the ground, but Eggman had prepared for this, studying the manuscripts and learning from his past experiments.
Cubot did move away, grabbing a stunned Orbot and seeking shelter away from the view of her finally reforming some shape again.
Dragon-like, with one gaping spider-webbed wing that traveled all down her slug like body, releasing some globbish vines that only strengthened her one wing, she flew into the massive storm and let out a piercing cry that broke the wind around her as she controlled it to stay afloat with only one mapped wing. In all logical reality, the 'wing' had no webbing to actually keep her afloat anyway. It seemed her power over air kept her up, due to the thousands of large holes in her stem-like pattern that formed the shape of a wing-structure... but it was as if the 'bone' of it was all her substance. Plants began to die as she took power from them, exploding it out into the universe to displace this planet's energy into the universe.
And on many different planets... seeds of the last known Metarex tree began to sprout... as though that was the final ingredient they needed to live again...
In Tails's workshop, a small stem of a seedling, which had been in that state for years upon years... began to form a bud... as it tossed back and forth... and a bright light suddenly burst from around it. A saddled, small body and top of a head suddenly emerged from the bud, as though wrapped in a baby's blanket... but no sound or noise indicated of anything alive... just yet...
After Harmony successfully distributed her power out, she soared up to face the sun, as though her opponent, and opened her mouth to throw her head back and began absorbing power once again...
Plants weren't the only victims in her fury...
-Back with Sonic and the gang-
The wind was ferocious as the team trekked and battled through the insanely planned zone, finding it hard to break through the natural/metallic army of the giants made of stone, plant, and robot that were fueled off of Harmony's power.
Knuckles held up a hand to block the wind as he then dived through a sudden gap in it's pressure and crashed into one. He broke the rock easily, dented the metal, but when seeds and oil spilled out as one... he held out his hand to let the seeds drip away from him like sand rushing off a slope.
"What... does this mean?" He looked up and saw the half-smashed and crushed through giant turn back to him with one glowing pink eye and the other red like the metal robot it was fused with. "Erk!?" He gritted his teeth, surprised that even though half it's body was demolished, it still went to swipe out at him. He jumped, "Is all of nature out to stop us!?" he then saw the wind pick up again, "Huh?" Turning his head he was immediately swept up and flailed in the air, trying to swim and glide through it. "W-wo-woah!" his gliding ability only slowed his momentum but he still wasn't strong enough and landed against a raised wall of earth. "Grr... Eggman's forcing this storm out of her, right!? I'm no guardian if I can't correct this wrong!" he struggled to lift a fist up and turn his body against the zone's earth, reaching back and slamming his fist to dig into the ground. "If I can't fly, I'll fight where there is no wind!" he tunneled and began to pop his upper half up out of the ground to attack the giants, figuring if he can't 'destroy them', he'd at least make a pit fall to trap them.
Soon, he had many locations where the Elemental Soldiers were falling in, one after another, and weren't able to escape or move further.
He popped out like a groundhog again and looked around, then smirked and pulled himself out, rotating his shoulder a bit to stretch it out. "And that's how you get a tough job done!" he gloated, before looking to see a white and purple figure seeming to fly alright in the wind.
He squinted up, "Who's that..?" before he looks behind them and gasps, seeing a familiar set of black wings and a heart-shaped breast pendant struggling in the wind. "Ah! That Bat Girl Too!? What's Rouge doing here!?" he further pulled himself, with a few comical wiggles, out of the hole in the ground he was in and dove up into the air. "ROOOUUUGGEEE!"
Rouge suddenly stopped fighting the wind and glided back a moment, "Hold on a second... I know that angry voice anywhere." she looked around before her face lit up at seeing an increasingly growing in size and detail red echidna moving towards her through the wind.
"Knuckles!" she exclaimed, glad to see him before seeing he was using the wind to literally propel him towards her,... which meant...
He was shooting like a rocket towards her.
"Ah-ah!" She shook her hands out, trying to warn him to slow down, "You blockhead, stop!" she turned around, panicking before he slammed into her and they toppled through the air. "AHAHAHAH!"
Knuckles seemed serious during the whole ordeal, kicking a foot down to stop their constant circling and flip her back towards her friends like an aerial U-turn with a pivot.
"Darn it, Rouge..." He grumbled through his gritted teeth as he tried to fight the wind once again,... but wasn't doing so well as they slowed in their forward direction. "You know the risks of being here..."
Getting back her senses after momentarily getting light-headed, she suddenly looked amazed by his worry for her, and then smiled sweetly to him. "I'm at risk wherever I go, might as well call in my last few moments with a brave knight, right?" she caressed his head and squished it up to hers, making his face turn a bright red with a flowing blush as he suddenly kicked the air and began to move down as he stopped gliding.
"You're not gonna die here, you-!" He screamed out a bunch of unrecognizable sounds as though language that was muffled by gusts of wind in his face being shot straight into his mouth and making his words unable to really come out, but Silver and Blaze turned back, catching him with Silver's power.
"Huh?" Knuckles blinked his eyes as he was taken out of his raging fit to see he was being pulled up to the mysterious white and purple figures. "Do I... knoooowwww-ah! Silver!" He had to squint his eyes through the wind again, but immediately noticed it was Silver. He then squinted his eyes to the purple figure, "But what about..."
"This is Blaze," Silver was unsure if Knuckles remembered her, "It's been a long time, but now's not the time to race through memory lane. Where's Sonic?" Silver tried to get straight to the point.
"We have some important information for him." Blaze continued, as Knuckles vaguely remembered her name, and noticed Silver's telekinesis power was holding her up as well during this storm.
"Huh." He seemed to accept that, "Sonic moved on ahead, in hopes of getting Chaos closer to Harmony, but..." He looked a bit unsure of if that was a good idea or not. "We're all just trusting that Harmony and Chaos can sort out their differences without a huge dispute."
"Not a wise plan..." Rouge grumbled.
Then, from behind Knuckles, a pink glow...
He slowly turned around, and called out with a few shocked kicks-"Not Nocturnus!"
Shade let the helmet be removed and revealed herself, "It's been a while... Knuckles the Echidna."
"S...Shade the Echidna?" he was greatly shocked now, but seemed to recognize her better than Silver and Blaze.
"I am trained in stealth, forgive him. I tried staying on the ground level before Silver hoisted me into the air." She looked towards him with a nod, but there was a slight sting in her words as though she was hinting at not wanting to be revealed.
Knuckles seemed conflicted, but nodded to her being there, "How... Have you been?"
Rouge rolled her eyes.
"Enough of pleasantries. Where's Sonic?"
Tails was finding it hard to maneuver through the extra spikes and obstacles in their path, "W-woah! Sheesh... It looks like Dr. Eggman really wanted to slow us down." he kept his arms up tight by his body and was feeling the strain of keeping himself strong enough to keep pushing through the wind, but at least they were making progress.
"Up top!" Sonic called, jumping up as Tails moved into position and caught him, swinging him into a Giant that then hit another of it's kind, the elemental soldiers.
"Heh, this will be a lot more trudging through than I anticipated." Sonic dusted some loosened rubble from the Giant stone and metal soldier off his shoulder, then blowing on it to keep the dust off too. "How's Amy?"
He looked back to see a pink dot still struggling to climb over an edge in the distance, but finally making it, sighing, before her dress threatened to blow up and had to push it down like Marilyn Monroe.
Tails and Sonic looked back to each other, "Dresses." they then chuckled to one another.
"I wish I could help, but I can't go back." Sonic was referring to the necessity of getting Chaos to Harmony as quickly as possible, he smiled up at his buddy, and Tails knew.
Nodding, he flew back, "Good luck, Sonic! And stay safe!" he waved and called back to him.
Sonic nodded, a part of him didn't want to see Amy struggling so much... or any of his friends for that matter, but looking ahead, the Babylon Rogue's had already harnessed the wind to create plenty of speed for their Extreme Gears.
"Time for me to break through the limits." Sonic smirked, and hunkered down in a runner's position. He then skirted to the side, after taking a sharp breath, and bolted as a stream of blue out towards them.
Curling up, it took no time at all to catch up to them and bolt like a missile passed before having to stop at a steep, high cliff.
"Wah-ah!" The jet-stream he created for the Babylon Rogues was amazing, but Jet just formed a fist and pulled it a bit forward, grimacing but muttering in his mind the curses against Sonic.
"Who does he think he is..?" He dived into the jet-stream, "I'm the biggest show off there is when it comes to wind!" back and forth, he did flips through the wind's curved downward arch and easily made it back to him.
His team followed, and as he jumped off his air gear, he flicked his a finger off his beak in a haughty way. "That's how you ride the wind, Sonic! You utilize it, not cut straight through it without style!" He gloated.
Sonic just smiled back over his shoulder at him, "Says the loser." he joked, before looking back at Eggman's base. "We've really got to make up for lost time... all of us do." He narrowed his sights on Eggman's base, seeing a tree knock into it.
The four flinched back, "Wah!" before seeing the trunk shoved out and some sparks as though repairs were being quickly made.
"I don't get." Jet shook his head, recovering from the shock of a tree truck piercing the domed base. "Why is Eggman purposefully ticking off a God?" He gestured his hand out to the others.
Wave felt uneasy, not sure when another one of those blasts may drain her energy again, but Storm noticed this subtle fear and placed his hand warmly to her back, smiling gently to her to give her some optimism.
She was amazed he could pick up on her emotion like that, since all she was doing was looking at the ground, but smiled politely back and nodded, not wanting him to alert Jet to her behavior.
She was lost in her thoughts... never having to contemplate death at such a young age...
"D'ah... Wave?" Storm grabbed her attention.
"Huh?" She had thought his touch was meant as a kindness, but it turned out he was just like the clueless males around her. Turns out, Jet had apparently been talking to her, and the gentle tap by Storm was his way of telling her to try and answer back. "O-oh!" Noticing all their looks at her, she realized they figured her to be the smartest around.
She sighed, stepping forward, glad not one of these ignorant men could have that high of emotional detectors. "What would you blokes do without me?" she pulled out her necklace and started to assess the readings.
'Good thing emotional empathy is predominately a lost concept to most men,' she didn't mind her sexist comment, she worried that if they did see something off with her, that it could be just like the jungle... and she was tired. She didn't want to play anything off again, and she really didn't want anyone asking about it. Her own feelings... were not a big deal to her.
"Sorry, I don't really think I picked up on your questi- Ah!" her mouth practically dropped in a dramatic fashion, seeing the levels of intensity coming from the base. "This is bad! This is like, really bad!" she dropped her act and immediately started to send the readings to Tails and Shadow. "These-!"
Before she could explain the abnormal levels of activity going on inside the base, the base seemed to be shredded in a spiral up towards the massive hurricane that didn't form like usual. Clouds should be evident, but instead, the clouds remained above and as a pink, large body and slender snake neck with the look of a dragon's head suddenly split the sky and blasted the clouds and storm away. The wind still howled and pulled them forward, forcing Wave to lift her hands over her head, still gripping her magnetic bead that was still sending the live information tightly in her hand.
The wind scooted her forward and she fell, as the men around her quickly surrounded her to protect.
'Not again...' she covered her eyes, biting down on her trembling beak. 'I don't want to die... Jet,... Storm,... what will they do without me?'
As her despair set in, the boys remained fixated on the strange wing, seeming to beat through the air but not actually draw any wind, instead, the wind hoisted the monstrous body upwards.
Plants around the area began to turn to grey ash as their colors flew through the air and spiraled around the being.
"Is that..?!" Sonic leaned forward, feeling the 'water in his ear' like sensation intensify and he had to grip the side of his head.
"What? Is Chaos telling you something?" Jet was down by Wave, but Storm turned his eyes away from the beast as the wind continued to be harsh. He was large, he could block the wind, but worried Wave might be drained again.
He saw that she hadn't removed her arms down from her head, and that her beak was softly clattering against the top of itself.
His eyes bent, suddenly realizing that Wave was not okay.
He looked to Sonic and Jet, back and forth, as though used to being told what to do, not sure how to handle this situation.
"I think..." Sonic began, then teetered unsteadily before lowering his hand and looking back to Jet, showing a bit of a weary certainty. "Yeah, that's her."
"Harmony..?" Jet gawked, "Well, I'd be scared to see her too!" Jet remarked, but as he did so, saw Storm bend down over Wave. "Huh!?" his feathers stood on end, "Storm!? What are you doing!?"
Storm shut his eyes tight, wrapping his arms around Wave in a tight hug, and securing her against the wind... he kept Jet and Sonic from seeing her state, acting as though he was simply blocking her from the wind, and keeping her safe.
In reality, he was keeping her pride and dignity safe too.
Jet continued to look oddly towards him but tried to see Wave underneath, but Storm just looked sorrowfully up at him, showing that something was wrong but it was probably best not to let Wave know they knew.
Sonic looked confused, looking to Jet, who knew Wave just as well as Storm did, and figured this was another one of her ways to look tough without showing anyone weakness.
He turned his head away, gritting his teeth, "Tsk." but he thought to himself, 'That darn girl...' and felt that if Storm was keeping whatever she was experiencing away from his sight, it was probably what Wave wanted anyway.
Jet looked back at Sonic, "Just get rid of her already!" he stated, throwing a arm to his leg and pushing him forward. "Or whatever it is your supposed to do! Just don't keep me waiting." He was speaking on behalf of Wave, but Sonic looked to the three and didn't seem to understand.
He nodded though, accepting that he wasn't picking up on something, but hoped Wave was alright.
Right before he was about to face her, Harmony had thrown her neck back so far that it almost laid over her fattened, slug like body. She gathered the energy into a single, glowing and circling with lights ball that she shot or threw forward like a beam. Her holed wing also, like a bunch of threads connecting together, flung forward as the wind carried the beam towards the sun.
Sonic gasped as the other two men turned to watch the beam and gasped as the sun... looked as though it was exploding.
The light was immense and the whiplash sent them all to their knees, as Jet threw himself over Storm's body, another act of love for their team before the hole in the sun looked like someone had shot the sky...
The sun didn't explode... but it's hole looked as though a strange, dripping solar eclipse.
"Soooniiccc..!" A voice suddenly cried out as the wind and storm ceased for a brief moment.
Sonic launched his head upright, looking around as his body was pumping with adrenaline. 'Really wish I had all the Chaos Emeralds right about now!'
He saw in the distance... could it be?
"Vector?" he said the name as though disbelieving, seeing the crocodile waving his hand vigorously before pointing to what looked like Knuckles and Rouge... with a weakened Silver and Blaze.
Turns out the beam had shaken the whole of the earth, and when the sun was hit, it cut into every other world, making the passage to obtaining Harmony's lost energy even more effective. To put it simply, imagine a pool had a small hole in it, it was still leaking, but you weren't getting a lot of water out to tell. Now, imagining ripping a huge hole that completely matched the circumference of that pool's bottom?
Massive amounts of energy were now floating through the hole, like streams of ghostly light.
Shadow, who had traveled on alone and on a different route than the others, stopped to see the beam and the sun look like it was taken out. His anger grew and he saw Silver and Blaze practically get wracked by the energy of their worlds being drained. In so much that Blaze fainted, but Silver completely lost most of his ability to concentrate and use his power so evenly.
Rouge and Knuckles flew, but Shadow moved fast, catching the two and showing Rouge the data Wave had live-streamed.
Shade, even though connected to Chaos's powered realm in the Twilight Cage, looked to her Leech Blade as Rouge had caught her. It was flickering... before blazing into new life. "The Lost Chaos Emeralds powers..." she concluded, "She is gathering her lost power... but she can't... she can't harness that much anymore. She's been weakened, what is she doing?"
Rouge thought the worst then, Kamikaze...
Her eyes widened, but she dared not speak her thought.
Amy and Tails made their way back to Sonic, holding onto one another with one arm around the other as they tried to trek through the wind before it suddenly seemed to cease... they were coming from another angle towards the cliff Sonic and the Babylon Rogue's were on before seeing Team Chaotix, and a mostly recovering Vanilla and Cream.
Then they all seemed to collide as they all moved in the direction they saw the beam. As luck would have it, they had all gathered at a distance beneath Harmony's wing.
Harmony:
(-hole in sun will be restored later with order- Rouge explains the dimensions are connected to the missing Chaos Emeralds that Harmony absorbed, meaning she now controls the power of other dimensions, thinking Chaos might try to 'finish the job' and also due to Eggman's tormenting and unrelenting pressure, which they don't fully understand yet. This scares the team but they continue towards Eggman trap. When close enough, she controls Amy, "Why are you hurting me!?" to try and communicate her sorrows. Seeing Amy in pain, and the girls assemble to try and put an end to this madness, and fight some of the Eggman horde of elemental solders. But Amy gets taken by Ultimate Harmony, trying to free herself form the Crystal Eggman's using to torture her into obeying him. Sonic asks Chaos how he can trust him. Chaos looks to a suffering, possessed Amy. "I see…" Sonic looks down with a smile, "You want to save her… don't you?" But before he can decide anything, Amy is taken by Harmony as a host, since Eggman was unaware Harmony couldn't move from the Crystal too far, and in order to not get tortured more, she took Amy. Sometime, during the raging battle, Cosmo and her children fly down from the atmosphere, "As beings of Harmony's power, we must preserve all manner of life and heal the Planet Eggs. Children, do all you can to calm Harmony's aggression!" Cosmo leads the fight to secure Harmony with vines as Chaos tries to reason with her through Sonic -whenever that happens- and Tails is wracked with emotion at seeing Cosmo's bloomed form again. Chaos –possessed Sonic- talks with Harmony –possessed Amy- about how it was Pachacamac's doing and not her own. –during battle part-. Next chapter will have the rest or whatever XD You know what you're doing! The fight, the order, the funny 'you can't have a watermark on the art of the PLANET, Sonic!' sonic flowers that spell his name lol etc. you get it. ;D Harmony becomes the 8th emerald? Chaos banished the Echidnas, Shade appears? Rouge tasked with finding Eggman and Harmony? Eggman has 3 chaos emeralds, shadow has 1, sonic and tails have 2, and Knuckles has 1..? Harmony drains life power and turns people white like in Sonic Lost World :D –only when fully drained- Chaos and Harmony get a heart organ restored to them. Brains already there? Or only Harmony has the heart that Chaos helps her reform? Chaos gains his heart!? Tikal lives on Angle island, awkward cause… they're the last echidnas, do they… do their duty and repopulate? Rouge steps in with Shadow, G.U.N wants more details on Ancient Echidnas that Tikal can translate/provide, Shadow is pushed towards Tikal by Harmony, and as they're both immortals, they start to get along. Rouge confesses to Knuckles who is conflicted, does he stick with his people or with his heart? ShadowxTikal and Knuxouge at end? w Girls gather together after being asked to rest by the boys when Harmony keeps draining they're power. Vanilla encourages Cream to go on without her and follow the other girls while team Chaotix will assist her. She collaspes, "They are right, women help set things right. But a mother must make sure everything is alright for her children to succeed." She faked being okay and Vector offers to carry her. The girls find the boys in pain because they thought Chaos wanted a host to hurt Harmony, he gets frustrated and attacks, but the girls jump in and defend the boys. -Chaos hit by Rouge's spin attack in the brain again lol XD- Boys explain they thought he was hostile and would destroy balance, but Wave uses her orb-tech to find out he wants to restore balance, not destroy it. -connotations and tones can't be read in text form sometimes- Amy hugs Sonic, but they all see Vanilla struggling to carry Team Chaotix who also got hurt. They rest up to take on Harmony. This happens before Amy is possessed by Harmony and taken as a host to free herself from the two emeralds control. Boys steal emerald to give Chaos his ultimate form, and Harmony takes her ultimate form from draining the girls. The boys hang back to be with the struggling girls while Chaos Sonic and Harmony Amy duke it out and realize they both still love the other and want to create balance, they don't hate the other. Moon is restored! Other emeralds are permanently gone from existence, only the seven remain. Shade? Maria resurrected?! COSMO RESURRECTED? Metarex's are directly linked to Harmony, because they are nature that has evolved through her power to live on. do that one, lol. At least that maybe? Have Tails and her reconnect lolol "I'm back... Tails." He cries and is overwhelmed as he hugs her again. "I missed you! I missed you so much!" she hugs him back. Aww~ Rouge steals original manuscript from Eggman? Or at least, finds it? Learns full story? Is that necessary? Sonic learns to be invested in conversation so that he can clearly understand Amy's feelings, somewhat better than before, so they don't end up bottling up feelings—especially pain and hurt, like Chaos and Harmony. He wants Amy to be with him, but not so much so that it exhausts him. Amy and him talk and come to a understanding, Harmony and Chaos seem to play around with each other, flying and surfing in a game of chase and also just loving one another's presence. It inspires the two, Sonic and Amy~ Amy tags Sonic and a fun little game begins?~3 have the 'girl squad' and 'boy squad' fight the elemental robots! :D That'll keep them busy till the cliff, right? Harmony will need all that power anyway to transform into her ultimate one-winged form, with holes that connected to one another as though oddly shaped spiderwebs. Eggman commands Harmony and she creates monuments, towers of metal and earth, and all sort of things carnival like to appease Eggman and recraft the world, hurting more and more women until the gang finally arrive with Chaos. Planet Egg is almost flickering out, blinking light, but Chaos and Harmony hug and restore it together. Journeying to the core of the earth. Eggman can connect some machines to Ultimate Harmony and as she sucks power from the Planet Egg, he can then use that power to fuel eternal robot/stone zombies! He will never be defeated again! Harmony Lose Control activates Harmony Amy? the other girls can go 'super' like too? Harmony's crystal breaks? Harmony's crystal reforms after power depletes..? returns to earth, crystal and emerald combined? )