Chapter 8: Truth of Existence & Knuckles

/POV: Colton\

Darkness... that is what I'm surrounded by.

Suddenly a green light enters my field of view, I see an object starting to materialize in front of me.

It's... the Master Emerald? Why is it.. 'Ugh!' A sudden pain emerges in my head. It feels like the Emerald is calling to me, trying to tell me something.

All of a sudden I feel chaos energy flowing all around me, and... wait... the chaos energy is flowing out from my body! 'What the!'

Then everything goes white.


I wake up with a start.

I look around seeing I'm in my room at Favonius HQ.

I look at Paimon, she's still asleep, good I didn't wake her.

'I need to find out what that was about.'

I look at the time, 2:00 AM. I get up and create a portal to the Universe of Möbius.

/author's note: Möbius = Sonic's universe\

Luckily my portals don't make sound. I step through to my desired destination: Angel Island.


/Location: Angel Island, Möbius\

I step out of the portal and noticed despite being on solid ground, I appear to be thousands of feet in the air.

'So... this is Angel Island, huh? I gotta say it's a nice looking place.'

Truth be told, despite being in this universe more than once, I've never been on Angel Island.

I lift myself up with Psychokinesis(curtesy of Silver the Hedgehog), I levitate off the ground to get a bird's eye view, and spot the above ground Emerald Shrine.

/Author's note: can't remember what it's actually called but it's the place where Knuckles keeps the Master Emerald, when it's above ground. Hopefully you understand what lm saying.\

I also spot Knuckles and slowly float down landing next to him.

Knuckles was already awake at this point so I didn't startle him as I did rush anything.

"Colton? What are you doing here? It's like 2 in the morning" Knuckles asks, with a look of confusion on his face.

"I'm here because I just had a strange dream. In that dream it felt like the Master Emerald was calling out to me. I'm here to investigate what's going on."

Knuckles looks puzzled, "Hmm... I guess I'll try to help, let's go over to it, and see if we can figure anything out."

"Thanks Knux, I'm glad I can count on you to help me in this matter." I say with a genuine smile on my face.

He returns the smile and we walk over to the Emerald.

Although I don't seem pictures of it before, I've never seen it up close, mainly because it's never been needed or stolen the few times I've been to this universe.

As we approach, I get a strange urge to touch it, not wanting to offend Knuckles, I voice this strange urge.

"Hey Knuckles, I don't know why, but I feel the urge to touch the Master Emerald."

Knuckles looks over at me, he looks to be in though. "Go ahead, maybe it will help us solve this problem."

I nod and get close enough to touch the Emerald. I reach out my hand and touch it.

Suddenly knowledge and visions fill my head.


I see a blurry scene showing when I was born, everything was blurry, except baby me.

'My birth? Why is it showing that?'

Then I see the scene again but this time it's to my left as to my right is a different scene, showing the Master Emerald glowing as I'm born, the only thing that I could properly see in both scenes was me and the Master Emerald.

Then the knowledge floods into my head.

The knowledge of who or rather what I am.


I take a step back in shock.

"Find out anything?" Knuckles asks from behind me.

"Yeah," I reply, "Turns out the Master Emerald duplicated itself and transferred its duplicate to a new born, giving it a destiny of power. That newborn is or rather was me."

"What is that supposed to mean? You know I'm not the smartest person, that's Tails' job, give me a straight answer."

I sigh, "Knuckles... I'm the Master Emerald as a human."

Knuckles eyes go wide in shock, "What!? How!? It's right there!"

"It's certainly is. Now, I'm just as shocked as you are, but apparently I was created by the Master Emerald, despite being born just like any normal human, to be the Master Emerald at the same time as it."

Knuckles gains a straight face, "That means you'd have chaos energy within you at all times... actually I'm going to try and see if there is."

Knuckles closes his eyes, after a few seconds he opens them.

"You do have chaos energy within you."

"I do? I guess that'd explain why when first going super with Sonic and his younger self, it felt so natural, and yet weird that I did it using the chaos emeralds."

Knuckles gives a face that looks like he got an idea, "why don't you try to see if you can use your chaos energy."

"Good idea Knuckles." I reach within myself and find the energy, I then will it to fire out in the form of a chaos spear towards the ocean. It worked.

"Wow, I didn't feel any kind of strain on my mind, or any depletion of my chaos energy."

"That'd be because you have an infinite amount of chaos energy within you." Knuckles states, "Although this would mean that you could go super on your own, heck you could go hyper on your own since you can control chaos energy, heck since your the Master Emerald, that would explain how your able to have any amount of energy in your body, just like you said you could."

Knowing the reason behind what and who I am fills me with happiness. I finally know what I am.

'I finally know what I am-'

Suddenly the ground begins to shake, and an all to familiar doctor shows up.

"Well well well. If it isn't my favorite guardian of the Master Emerald, and that universe traveling brat." Says Doctor Eggman.

"Eggman! You're here to try to steal the Master Emerald again, aren't you!?" Knuckles asks accusingly.

"Right you are! And this time I've brought a few old friends to help me!"

As Eggman says this, the Death Egg Robot, that I helped defeat back when Eggman took over the planet with the help of the Phantom Ruby, suddenly rose up from off shore. Following the giant mechanical titan was Metal Sonic, wait no that's not normal Metal Sonic, that's the form I've been told it took when it went rogue: Neo Metal Sonic.

"So you think just because it's two of us that your robots can win?" I say, earning an annoyed look from Eggman.

"That's exactly what I'm thinking, My Robot may not have the Phantom Ruby, but it's still strong enough to squash you both! And with Neo Metal Sonic under my control, you have no chance of winning! HAHAHAHAHA!!"

I turn to Knuckles, "Let me try something, that way we can finish this fight much faster than normal."

Knuckles seemed to understand what I'm implying, "You're going to have us both go super using your own energy, aren't you?"

"Exactly!" I reply.

As I say this Eggman, obviously in his egg carrier, flies over to his Death Egg Robot, and gets inside. When he does this it activates and leans forward to loom over us to try and look intimating, while Neo Metal got in a battle stance.

I already knew that manipulating chaos energy would be simpler than thinking, so turning super was as easy as lifting a finger.

/Super Colton:

Description: Colton's super form

Appearance: Gold replaces the brown of Colton's hair(and No, it does not spike up, this is a super form from chaos energy, not a super sayian form), and red replaces the brown of his eyes.

Abilities/Attributes: Nothing really changes in terms of what powers he can and can't use, however, chaos energy attacks are stronger in this form, than in base. Colton also has near invulnerability, meaning, unless the attack is extremely strong, he can't be damaged, but of course he is still affected by getting hit(as in he can still be launched back), he just doesn't get hurt by the attack.\

Eggman was taken aback by my sudden transformation. "How did you do that!? You don't even have the chaos emeralds!"

I raise a hand towards Knuckles, he's immediately surrounded by golden aura. "Don't need them, I can manipulate chaos energy on levels even Shadow can achieve."

/Chaos energy skill/ability:

Power Share: this ability/skill is pretty much when Colton grants someone a power boost giving them, at least a Pseudo-Super form, or at most, a mastered hyper form.

Mastered Hyper: a state stronger than normal hyper, where instead of glowing seven different colors, the colors combine and make white instead(look I know that's not technically cannon to Sonic lore, but so many people use a white colored super Sonic as hyper Sonic on YouTube animations, I thought I could do that to, but make it more like a power beyond regular hyper form)

Pseudo-Super: essentially just a power up without all the flashy transformation stuff. Basically in a pseudo-super state your stronger than before, just not as strong as a regular super form, oh and it also lacks the invulnerability given by the super form.\

We look at each other and nod, with incredibly fast movements we completely decimate Neo Metal Sonic, and leave the Death Egg Robot in shambles. Eggman seems to get over the shock of losing quickly as he flees shouting something about revenge.

"Well that was easy." Knuckles comments as I force us both to power down.

"Well, yeah. I just gave us both super forms." I reply, looking at him.

"Thanks for everything Knux. I gotta get going back to the universe I was at earlier, and get some sleep too." I say waving to him and walking away.

"No problem. Oh wait!" I turn, "Yeah?" "Do you want me to tell the others?"

I smile,"Definitely, next time I'm here I want you to tell me about the look on Shadow's face when he learns that the so called 'ultimate life form' isn't so special after all."

Before Knuckles could respond, I create a portal back to Teyvat and jump through.


/ Location: Mondstadt, Teyvat\

I step out of the portal, right outside HQ.

'I wanna do something before heading back to bed.'

I will myself into my super form and float 200 feet into the sky.

"I want to know how it feels being hyper."

I will myself to go into a stronger form, and I succeed, I'm now in a hyper form.

'I can go further.'

I will my energy to be even stronger, I transform into the pinnacle of chaos energy: the Mastered Hyper form.

/Hyper Colton:

Description: Colton's hyper form

Appearance: Colton's hair is now constantly changing between the colors of the emeralds, just like how Hyper Sonic's body does, and Colton's eyes are also red in this form.

Abilities/attributes: Chaos energy attacks are even stronger, and he is now even more invulnerable, meaning only attacks of extreme magnitude can hurt him(let's say a beam of pure darkness, from a powerful entity, he now takes less knock-back from attacks.

Mastered Hyper Colton:

Description: Colton's Ultimate chaos energy form

Appearance: Colton's hair is completely pure white, and his eyes are red just like the other chaos energy forms.

Abilities/Attributes: Chaos energy attacks are now incredibly strong, he is now fully invulnerable, no attack can hurt him, not even from reality bending beings, and being hit causes no knock-back.\

After transforming, I start moving around a bit before powering down.

I then decided to use my quote on quote birth right however I want, since after all it's my own natural chaos energy, and it's my choice of how to use it.

"Chaos Control!"

I warp into my room, right in the middle of it.

I look and see Paimon still asleep, good.

I look at the time, 2:59 AM, wow didn't take long at all.

I get in my bed and just lay there, in my head I replay what happened within the hour.

I smile before eventually falling asleep.


/Bet you weren't expecting that weren't cha'? Our hero is technically a Master Emerald? Who would've thought? Well just to make things clear, any time he shares chaos energy with someone, they don't get a proper appearance for the form, instead they'll get an aura surrounding them that corresponds with the color of the form. This is inspired by "Super Knuckles" and "Super Tails" in Sonic Heroes, mainly because they don't get their real super forms but rather just golden auras. Also you'll be seeing more chaos energy manipulation in the future.

See you next time!\