Sonic Adventure 2 This is an alternate version of Sonic Adventure 2, which I did as a writing exercise. The plot differs extremely from the established storyline, but it did for the STC Sonic Adventure as well (I haven't played the game, so the characters may not all be in character.) Most characters are © Sega.

Part 4: Rivals of Chaos

A green flash momentarily filled everything, and then they were standing on a beach.
Amy looked around. The sun beat down, glowing off the pale coast. The waves rhythmically broke into white foam behind her. She could see the familiar buildings of Metropolis City, all devastated and forlorn. There was no doubt about it, they were home. But how had they got there? Only seconds ago they had been trapped on Prison Island, about to be destroyed along with it.
She glanced around, to check that all her friends were safe. They were: Tails, Shortfuse and Tekno were looking around confusedly; Porker was cautiously typing on his laptop, bemused. Sonic.
Sonic was lying on the ground, unconscious. Grit trickled into his lacerated wounds, and he was breathing heavily. Amy knelt down, anxious. She shook him gently.
"Sonic? Are you okay?" he moaned, faintly, and his eyes snapped open.

"Wha-? Aah!" He squirmed, cursing, as he pushed himself to his feet, trying to wipe the stinging sand from his numerous cuts. He swayed, and Amy supported him upright. "What the heck happened?"
"That's what we're trying to find out." Amy turned to Porker and Tails, who were talking quietly. A little way off, Tekno was assessing the damage done to Shortfuse's armour. "Any answers, Porker?"
"Well, the computer's sensing an extreme amount of Chaos energy around us, and Sonic seems exhausted," replied the pig, "my guess is he brought us here. The question is, how?"
Amy looked to Sonic, but he was as confused as the rest of them. "I dunno. I just felt a ton of power, like I was going Super, but different. Sort of. more focussed." the hedgehog trailed off, his eyes closing. He shook himself awake again, but Amy said:
"Don't worry, you need rest. We'll try to figure this out on our own." Sonic gratefully tumbled to the sand. "We'd better do something to keep the sand out of his cuts." Said Amy, "he could get infected."
Porker pulled a woolly red rug out of his backpack. "I brought this just in case." He spread it out on the beach, and Amy heaved Sonic onto it, sympathetic of his wounds. The hedgehog paid no heed, already fast asleep.
"Sonic has been different since merging with SuperSonic." Said Porker. "His energy was the same, but configured unusually. So was the Master Emerald's energy. He could be capable of any number of new abilities, including teleportation."
Shortfuse approached with Tekno. He had removed his cracked helmet, and was clearly enjoying the wind on his orange fur. "Any ideas as to what we do now?"
"Well, however we got here, we're way ahead of Robotnik. I suggest we use this time to recover and plan our next move."
Amy nodded. Quite apart from Sonic and Shortfuse, the rest of them had all sustained bruises and minor cuts, and would be all the better for a rest.
"Great idea, Porker. We've got a lot to plan, too."

Knuckles was clinging to the remaining wall of a semi collapsed house went he felt a surge of power. It trembled through his brain, leaving him light headed. The energy faded to an insistent hum in the back of his head. He guessed it must be Chaos energy, and lots of it. He tried to figure out where it had come from, but he could not tell. He remembered his situation.
He tucked a frightened badger cub under his arm, and let go of the wall, pushing himself away with his feet. He heard a collective gasp from the family beneath him, and stuck out his free hand, gliding gracefully to the ground. He handed the boy to his mother and ran off without comment. He needed to find where the energy was, and why.

Robotnik called over to Shadow, who was clinging to the wing of the Egg Walker as it soared along the ocean. Spray buffeted the hedgehog's face, but he ignored it, unlike Rouge. The bat was clearly irritated, hopelessly trying to block each splash with her free arm.
"When can we get the Cannon operational?"
The hedgehog answered, muffled by the water. "We'll need to mount it on Gerald's space station, ARK. Then you'll be able to target any zone at will."
Robotnik hesitated at the 'you'll.' Shadow had not mentioned anything about sharing profits. What was the animal planning? He was obviously using Robotnik, but Robotnik had made dodgy deals before, and he doubted Shadow had.
When the time came, Shadow was the one who would be exploited.
"The ARK? How do you know about that?"
"Gerald used it as a retreat," continued Shadow, evading the question, "so it will have defences. We can survive long enough to escape if we are attacked. Mobians are weak; they won't attack if we threaten their city. The humans are our main problem, but with G.U.N. out of action, we can keep them in check."
Robotnik nodded, noticing Rouge listening carefully. She was unexpected, but he would deal with her, too.
"Excellent," he said, deliberately for her benefit. "Soon we will rule the planet."

Sonic opened his eyes; sleep dispersing away from his head. He looked down at himself. He was covered in scratches, but they were the only trace of the slashes and beatings he had sustained. He was healing unnaturally quickly, probably another thing to do with SuperSonic. Sonic had his own theories about the demon, and Chaos energy. If Super had been able to control the power, could Sonic learn, too? Would he still become the evil fiend?
The force he had felt on Prison Island had been channelled by him, he knew it. Had he subconsciously copied Shadow's power, on a larger scale? The other hedgehog had evidently had more time to perfect his abilities, to waste less energy on them.
How had Shadow got his power? Would he have an evil double? Or would Shadow's opposite be friendly? Questions chased around Sonic's head, each one full of loose ends and half conclusions.
Sonic gave up, completely perplexed. He was only clear on one fact: he had new power, and he could use it. He would have to be careful to use it responsibly.
Sonic got up, uneasily. He blinked the last of his weariness away, and felt his old cocky vigour stealing into him. Amy sat watching him.
"Sonic! Are you feeling better? How are your injuries?" Sonic indicated a faint scar. Less then half an hour ago it had been a deep gash, running right down his chest. "Wow!"
"Where are the others?" Sonic asked. Amy led him up to a sea of tents, some way up the beach. The ground was covered with bright, colours, all dulled by the dust. Mobians swarmed around them, all chattering excitedly. The air was packed with noise and confusion. The Freedom Fighters were hanging around the edge, fiddling with Porker's laptop. Tekno and Shortfuse were nowhere to be seen.
"Hi guys. What's up?" Sonic sauntered up to them, shouting over the background din.
"Sonic, glad you're feeling better." Said Porker. "We're trying to track Robotnik. We've found out what he's up to."
Sonic's mood instantly hardened into seriousness. "What?"
"He accessed the computer on Prison Island and downloaded blueprints for a gun called the Eclipse Cannon. It he gets it active, he could destroy any zone on Mobius. What's more, he's also got all the Chaos Emeralds."
"Sounds like Eggman's got everything sorted, and with Shadow on his side." Sonic stopped, letting his words sink in. "There's no limit to what they could do. We couldn't attack, or they'd smash a whole city. We have to stop them, now."
"But, Sonic, we don't know where Robotnik's got his base. Porker can't track him, either."
Sonic stopped, thinking hard. Finally, he said: "Rats."

Robotnik's craft surged into the sand, spraying it straight into Rouge's face. She spat out a mouthful of dirt, swearing to get Robotnik back for that journey. Robotnik retracted his wings, letting Rouge fall over, unbalanced. He looked around, then at a sensor reading. "Bother. They have a survivor camp on the beach. We'll split up, and meet outside the city. We don't need to attract unnecessary attention."
Robotnik sprouted legs again, and headed into the sewers. Shadow crept around the abandoned Chemical Plant Zone, where no Mobians ventured. Rouge took the clean, city route, as she was not in danger of being noticed. There was no way she was getting any more messed up.

Knuckles grunted as he held the blunt, clumsy door up. Five timid Mobians were carefully extricating themselves from a pile of debris underneath. Knuckles kept glancing around, trying to locate the mysterious Chaos energy. It was fading, slowly, ebbing away.
Soon he would be able to sense nothing at all.
He was vexed, and puzzled. He had felt a tiny humming in his brain, for a while now. He had ignored it, and grown used to it, but ever since the Master Emerald exploded, he had been extra Chaos sensitive. The thrumming in his head was clearer, and grew louder every time he found a shard of his jewel.
As far as he could tell, there was a tonne of energy in the atmosphere, and he had gained Sonic's ability to sense it. He wished Porker Lewis were here, the pig knew more about Chaos then Knuckles did.
On the other hand, Porker would want to do more experiments, and get the emerald shards lost again. Maybe he was better off without understanding his power.
"Hiya." Knuckles whirled, dropping the door. He caught it with one hand, an inch from the cowering rabbits trapped in the wreckage. He hefted the burden up again, glaring at Rouge's retreating back. He felt his bag with his free hand. Still there, still full. Good.
The last animal freed herself and rolled out into the open. Knuckles let the door crash to the ground and scanned the streets for Rouge. She was nowhere to be seen.
He saw the survivor campsite near the beach. Maybe she would be heading there. He set off at a run.

"Hey, guys. Any plan?" Sonic and Amy looked round. Shortfuse and Tekno landed in front of them.
Shortfuse's battle suit had been mended, all the cracks covered by large, ungainly welds and scorches. There had been plenty of scrap metal lying around the ravaged metropolis.
"Robotnik's got some new weapon, we have to stop him but we don't know where he's hiding." Explained Sonic. "Porker can't find him either."
"Robotnik stole the Chaos Emeralds." Pointed out Shortfuse. "Track them, and we'll find his hideout."
"Can't be done." Said Porker, walking up from the small red tent he and Tails had erected. "There's so much Chaos energy in the air, it's off the scale." Tails stood behind him.
"We don't know where it's all come from. Sonic generated a lot, but not this much."
Sonic looked up, "No wonder I healed so quickly." He paused, thinking. "If there's more energy to use, that's why I could teleport, when I couldn't before."
"Possibly. But it doesn't bring us any closer to finding Robotnik." Sonic nodded, and kicked the sand in frustration. It billowed up in clouds.
"God! I hate being helpless!"
Amy looked around. "Hey!" she squeaked, suddenly. "Look!"
They all looked. Knuckles was standing among the tents, angrily brushing dust out of his eyes. "Hey, Red! Over here!" Sonic yelled. The Echidna spun round, searching for the voice. His eyes sparked with realisation as he spotted them, and he jogged over. "What are you doing here? What's happened to the city?"
They hurriedly swapped stories. "So now," Sonic finished, "we can't find Robotnik's base, so there's nothing to stop him ruling the world."
"Right. Come on then." Said Knuckles, turning to go.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"I mean I found Robotnik's base. If we hurry, we can get there before him. Coming?" Knuckles scowled, impatiently.
"Fine. But hurry up, you're always so slow." Replied Sonic.
"Speed freak."
"Cut it out, you two. Are we going or not?" cut in Amy.
"We're going." Said Sonic. "So let's go."

Rouge sat on the hard, splintered bench in the train station, watching the manhole. It shuddered again, and abruptly blew apart, taking half the road with it. Rouge stared at the smoking hole, shocked. A windscreen emerged, covered in slime and mud, masking Robotnik's grinning face.
"What kept you?" Robotnik pressed several buttons and his craft raised out of the sewer and hovered above the ground. The legs on his Walker extended, slamming against the tarmac. Sludge dripped of the machine, crawling down the metal in dull green waves.
"Stand back." Rouge stepped back. Jets of water scoured the Egg Walker, spraying from a thousand hidden places. The slime was flicked away in every direction, and Rouge receded several steps more, dodging the assault of muck. The attack halted, and the Egg Walker stood before, dripping and perfectly clean.
"Uh, very nice."
"Thank you. Now, it Shadow will just turn up, we can be on our way."
"I'm here already." Rouge spun round. Shadow crouched on the top of a streetlight, his hands and feet curled around the pole like bird's claws. He sprang off the light, landing lightly next to Robotnik. "Come on."
They met the Freedom Fighters just around the corner.

Robotnik and Shortfuse both yelled: "You!"
Rouge and Knuckles stared at each other, eyes never leaving each other's face.
Sonic and Shadow froze, glaring.
Amy, Tekno, Tails and Porker watched the procedure, unsure what to do.
Robotnik opened hostilities: "Ah, Sonic. And all his pathetic friends too, what fun. I see you've patched up the defect. Very nice." He indicated the makeshift repairs on Shortfuse's armour.
"Shut up, Eggman! You're the defect! You couldn't even keep control of your own Badniks, let alone rule the planet!"
"I could have ruled, you worthless fool, and soon I will rule again!"
"Not if we can help it!" yelled Shorty.
"But you can't! Soon, I shall have the power to destroy half of Mobius!"
Amy looked around, helplessly. Sonic and Shadow were circling, swapping insults. Knuckles and Rouge still hadn't moved.
"You still chasing us, wannabe?" inquired Shadow, nastily. "Get lost, before I hurt you."
"Ooh, really scary. I could have a sham like you any day." Sonic snarled.
"You couldn't last time." Shadow pointed out. "In fact-" his wristwatch communicator crackled.
"This is Robotnik. split up, lose these fools, and meet at the base."
"Running away now, coward?" Sonic smirked.
"Faster then you can, pal."
"Wanna prove that?" Sonic yelled, anger blazing in his eyes.
"Yeah!"

Amy and Tails surveyed the chaos around them. "Uh, guys. don't get distracted. We need to regroup and stop Robotnik escaping."
She saw Sonic and Shadow racing off out of the city. She sighed.
They were in trouble.

Robotnik flicked over some more switches, activating several Badniks by remote. Even now they would be tunnelling to the Eclipse Cannon. They would have the shuttle moving, and the gun mounted on ARK before he arrived. He set a few more instructions to the base, and turned his attention back to the renegade.
"Here, see what my working inventions can do." And he shot five shots, all straight to the squirrel's chest. He rolled, letting them gouge out big holes in the road. They were nearing the edge of the city, and approaching the greener outskirts of Metropolis Zone.
"I'm not your invention, Lard gut!"
"You're wearing my armour."
"Wrong, pal. This is Tekno's design. She was always better then you."
"You are still my robot. You were just a pitiful cub before I found you. I made you who you are, Tekno is just imitating my idea."
He knew he'd struck a chord. Shortfuse howled, enraged. "No way! You made me a slave, and I'll never serve you!"
"Tell yourself what you like. You can't escape the fact that you are nothing without me."
Shortfuse screamed in rage, and charged at Robotnik blindly, lasers showering everywhere. Robotnik stepped aside, quickly transforming to flight mode. He blasted off into the sky.
"Come on, then, traitor. Come and get me!"
Shortfuse the Cybernik needed no second bidding.

Rouge and Knuckles walked, further and further away from the city.
"Give my Emerald back, bat." Knuckles scowled. Rouge smiled, making him feel uneasy.
"You know, you make a lousy treasure hunter. No time for being polite in this business. You need someone to show you the basics." She paused. "For you, no charge."
"I don't need any help. I'm not a thief." Knuckles scowled even more. "I just want my Emerald back, and I can get it without you."
Rouge grinned, nastily. "Not if I get it first."
They glared at each other for a moment, then ran off, both in the general direction of Robotnik's base.

Amy, Porker and Tails blinked. Tekno got up, shakily, after a near miss from Robotnik.
There was no one else around. Amy looked back to the broken city, and out to the rolling hills. Two figures could be seen in the distance, one red, one white. "Um, what do we do now?"
Porker pulled out another gadget, bright eyed. "No problem. Sonic's and Shadow's Chaos signatures are easy to track. We can follow them straight to Robotnik's HQ." He pulled out an antenna from the little black cylinder.
"But what if Shadow loses Sonic?" asked Tekno.
"He won't." replied Amy, with certainty.

The wide, open meadows around Metropolis City stretched far out, eventually fading into wilder, less civilised zones. The Metropolis Zone marked the boundary between modern Mobius and the wilderness.
The pasture was sharply split as the two speeding hedgehogs blasted through it. Sonic booms rippled in their wake, stunning any chao who happened to be wandering in the field. A second later, the animals were half a mile away, leaving a steaming trail of blackened grass.
His surroundings blurred into blue-green fuzz, he concentrated only on what was directly in front of him. Hills and flowers flickered by, snapshots of trees crossing his path before he flew past them. The black shape of Shadow hung aggravatingly in the corner of his vision, persistently keeping up with him. He poured on speed, feet barely touching the grass as he rocketed along.
Shadow increased his pace, too. The black hedgehog unexpectedly changed track, ploughing into a wood. Sonic swerved, straight into a tree. He curled up into a living razor blade, slicing cleanly through the obstacle. He landed in a roll, and was running again without changing pace.
Sonic dodged right and left, nerves on edge, painfully alert to elude the towering pillars littering his path. Shadow did the same just ahead of him. Sonic jumped, soaring into the air to avoid tripping up on a tree stump. Ahead of him, Shadow dodged and weaved, trying to lose Sonic whilst not crashing himself. Sonic strained to keep up. If anyone crashed at this speed, they would be spattered all over the forest.
Shadow stuck his arm out, grabbing a tree trunk. Sonic copied, at the last minute. His impetus swung him round, and he let go, firing off out of the woods. The ground became rocky, the grass dissolving away. They were soon running over steep mountains, struggling to keep balance on the volatile terrain. Huge rocks loomed in front of Sonic, snapping by a nanosecond later.
His momentum pushed him further, pulling him upright every time he staggered or tripped. He could feel his trainers heating, burning, but he couldn't slow down. He couldn't even look down.
He and Shadow sped on, at near light speed.

Rouge pushed a curtain of brambles away, angrily. The jungle was full of mosses, thistles and steep ledges. The ledge she was standing on overlooked a ravine nearly a hundred meters deep. She had a clear view of the trees at the bottom, too.
Even for her, the height was dizzying.
She grabbed a thick rope of ivy creeping up the side of the rocky hill. She heaved herself up onto a higher ledge, looking at the view. It hadn't changed much. Just green and brown. She caught sight of a glimpse of scarlet.
Knuckles was edging along another ridge, the other side of the gorge. God! What was it he reminded her of?
He was trying to reach something. She squinted, and made out a brightly coloured parrot-chao, trapped in a nest if thorny vines. He reached out a gloved hand, and pulled the creature free. Then he jumped into the chasm, gliding across to another outcropping. The memory. She could grasp it now, could feel it. but couldn't name it.
She wrenched a clump of dandelion leaves from the earth and ripped them up, savagely, venting her annoyance.

Shorty yelled, bulleting toward the tyrant, shooting with all his guns. He'd show the smug bully that he was no failure. Robotnik dived in his aircraft, and caught Shortfuse in the stomach.
"Let's see how much you can take. I always test my mistakes." Robotnik launched toward him, two bolts hitting him in his welded chest. Shorty snapped off four perfect hits, which sizzled into the mutant's shields.
He was wrong. Shorty's identity was his own. He owed nothing to Robotnik.
But he did. Without Robotnik he would be just another cowering child. His image, his identity, his whole life, belonged to the madman. And when Robotnik was defeated, what would he be then? Despite his hatred of other robots, he also detested the idea of becoming a normal Mobian again, forfeiting all his abilities. He would be a reminder of Robotnik's rule, a soldier in peacetime with no background to return to.
A rebel without a cause.
"Wakey wakey, squirrel." Shorty spun around, to see a squadron of homing missiles advancing.
"Uh oh."

Shadow reached the peak of the mountain, and jumped, thrust high into the air by his velocity. Sonic saw this, but did not copy. Instead he coiled, launching a light speed spin attack off the top of the crag.
He rammed into Shadow, smashing the hedgehog out of the sky. They powered into the ground, Shadow ploughing through the rock hard surface. They both lay still for several minutes, panting heavily and trying to move their overdraughted limbs.
Sonic gasped, staggering to his feet. He was in a parched, dusty valley; with bleak, dirty mountainsides enclosing him, but outside the dale the desert sprawled out, toasted by an insensitive sun. About thirty meters away stood a stocky, compact pyramid.
He heard a haggard puff behind him. Shadow was standing up, rapidly recovering from the shock of Sonic's attack. He crouched into a fighting stance, bringing his fists up, ready.
Sonic saw his eyes flick to the pyramid. "Love the base, pal. How do you get inside?"
Shadow glared at him, but did not try to hide the fact. "You won't be going inside."
"Oh yeah? Try and stop me."
"I will." Said Shadow. "And now we shall see who is the fake."

Rouge peered out from the top of a thick, leafy tree. The jungle ahead tersely subsided into a mountain range. Beyond that, she knew, was the desert, and Robotnik's pyramid HQ.
However, far over to the left the mountains split into another deep gorge. A stocky, solid plank of rock stretched across it, a perfect natural bridge. In the centre of the bridge sat a chunk of emerald.
No harm in being greedy. She hopped off her vantage point, and skipped around the edge of the gulf. This one was even deeper then any in the jungle. The bridge was a comfortable ten-foot wide, though, so she strode onto it quite fearlessly.
A warm breeze ruffled her fur, and she smiled. She felt a strong feeling of triumph at surveying the view. On one side of her lay a dense rain forest, on the other side dusty, hot mountains. She walked towards the gemstone in the middle of the ledge.
So did someone else. She heard a loud scrabbling, and turned to see Knuckles leaping off the peak of the dehydrated looking mountain bordering the gorge. He glided overhead, and then dropped, directly onto the jewel.
"Back off," growled Rouge, "mine."
He turned, the gem enveloped in his large gloved hand. "You wish." He swung a brown leather bag off his shoulder and pushed the shard into it. The breeze blew his dreadlocks across his face, whistling faintly through his thick fur.
"Okay, I'll just take those as well, then."
"Not before I've got yours."
Rouge pulled off her bag, and dropped it onto the stone. "Alright. If you can knock me off the ledge, you get my bag. If I knock you off, I get yours."
Knuckles looked at her, plainly mistrustful. Finally, he put down his kitbag. "Deal."
She ran at him, rolling to the side at the last minute. She skidded round behind him, coming in with a rapid punch. He twirled, faster then she expected, and caught her fist. He twisted it, wrenching her arm behind her back expertly.
She gritted her teeth, waiting for the pain to come, but Knuckles didn't twist anymore, just pushed her away. She tottered, off balance, and fell. The rough stone grazed her.
Knuckles walked over to her sack, but she kicked it away. "I'm not down yet, pal." She ran again, this time jumping into the air, opening her wide wings. She saw Knuckles diving into a forward roll, and fell back down to the floor. She spun around, too slowly.
She felt a gash of fire explode in her back, running all the way up her wing. Her legs gave out, and once again she crumpled over. She got up, cautious of an attack, but Knuckles stayed where he was, watching her.
Rouge was annoyed. Her wing hung limp, numbness swimming hazily through it. She wouldn't be able to fly for a day, at least. She turned back to Knuckles, still motionless. Rouge the Bat did not get knocked down. He was going to pay now.
She came in another time, but more carefully. Then, with a yell of: "KIHAI!" she sprang into a jump-kick, bringing her left foot up into Knuckles' head. As his hand rose to block it, her other foot bit out, catching him straight on his black-button nose.
He faltered, caught off guard by the power of her kick, and went down. He turned his fall into a backward roll, and came up again, spurred hands up ready. "Very good." He grunted, impressed. He blinked water from his violet eyes and glared at her.
Then, for a second, Rouge felt a new emotion billowing inside her.a weird, strangely familiar one.
She shook it out of her head. She had not been trained to have feelings. She had been trained to fight.
She spun, flying at the echidna in a flurry of anger.

Sonic turned, skidding to one side as Shadow smashed into the rock behind him. The hedgehog bounced off the stone, striking Sonic in the chest. Red pain filled Sonic, burning into anger. He let Chaos energy rise within him, then wrenched it all down again, disappearing with a shout of: "Chaos Control!"
Shadow crashed to the dust, looking up, astonished to see Sonic using his technique. Sonic smirked. "Fake, am I?"
"Copying my move doesn't make you any less of a sham." More anger powered through Sonic, dissolving into a cloud of emerald Chaos. He channelled it all into a super powered spin attack, with a cry of, "COPY THIS!"
Shadow did, the two hedgehogs flying towards each other, both deadly balls of razor-sharpness. They collided with a thud, and landed on the hard ground, fresh pain jolting into Sonic's hands and feet. He threw a high- speed blow into Shadow's face, golden sparks cascading off his arm. The pain in his hand only increased his rage, which became a cyclone of Chaos energy in his lungs.
He saw Shadow approaching in a black whirlwind, and his energy forcefully imploded. He appeared in a puff of jade, in time to see Shadow frenziedly obliterate the side of the mountain. The dark spikeball fired towards him, with a snarl of, "I'm gonna rip you apart you miserable wannabe!"
"You wish you evil sonnnofa-" Sonic's voice became tinged with a deeper, bestial tone; the rock under him detonated in a shower of heat and spines. Immense fury drove Sonic, and he brought a concrete-solid pebble into Shadow's head at supersonic speed. The sable hedgehog ignored the blow, one hand grasping Sonic's neck, the other pounding him repeatedly in the face.
Pain. anger. power. Sonic smashed a fist under Shadow's chin, thrusting the animal nearly twenty feet into the air. Sonic dived into a spin attack, leaving a golden trail of flames in his wake. He crushed Shadow right through the rocks, and the two rivals were rolling on the floor, scratching, strangling, punching, kicking, biting and snarling.
Pain.anger.power.pain..anger..power..painangerpower painangerpowerpainangerpowerpainangerpower!
Sonic let out a horrific roar, shattering Shadow's head into the stones. "GRAAAAAGGHH!! Die, fake!!!"
Scarlet rage clouded his eyes; irresistible energy propelled his limbs, waves of power struck out from him.
"Sonic." a faint voice infiltrated his fiery wrath; he turned to see Amy and Tails coming into view around the rocky mountain.
"GRAAAGH!!!" With another howl Sonic blasted into a spin attack, a deadly cannon ball going at light speed to the intruders.
The world flashed bright yellow. Sonic felt unbearable fire coursing through his muscles.and found himself sprawled over the gravel of the eradicated mountain. Heat steamed off him, he gripped a stone, and saw his fingerprints etch themselves into the surface. Fear and worry shattered him. He'd nearly destroyed everything. he'd attacked Amy. Amy!
He jolted up, but she was okay, scrabbling up from the dirt. Tails, Tekno and Porker were cowering behind her, cautiously tiptoeing up to him. When he looked up, they jumped out of their fur, terror seizing their faces.
"D-Don't worry, guys." Sonic's voice was cracked and uncertain. "Is Amy okay?"
"I'm fine, just shaken up." Amy called, standing up carefully. "What happened?"
"I nearly went Super.Shadow was." Shadow! Sonic glanced over. Shadow was crouching the other side of the valley, looking in confusion and fear at the steam pouring from his hands. It would be worse for him; he had never gone Super before.
But Sonic was too concerned about his friends to worry about Shadow. "Are you sure you're all alright?" He helped Amy up.
"I'm fine, honestly." She suddenly remembered their position. "Robotnik's base! Where is it?"
Shadow had obviously remembered too, and stood up, quickly.
"Come on!" yelled Sonic.