AN: If you think that a thousand miles an hour is fast, it makes sense, in the race episode of the Freedom Fighters series the robot that Sonic can match speed with, without a power ring, goes five hundred miles an hour at half speed, and Sonic improves in the comics after that, namely he's already got the instashield, so I'm starting the Xander version of Sonic at a level right after Sonic and Knuckles for his Sonic form, he just can't transform yet.

As for my other stories, I'm working on Dragons Destiny but its taking a while to write it the way it should be, for Xanders Fantasy, that's more of a I really wasn't planning on expanding it, I gave Xander a power strong enough to kill just about everything in the Buffyverse without breaking a sweat, Glory and the First are the two possible exceptions, but neither are powerful enough to stop a super nova.

rickW22- I'm working on it!

Brutal2003- Thanks, I'm working fast.

Janus sneered at the new globe he watched through, the mortal was really starting to tick him off. He still had a few tricks up his sleeve, and they were sure to work. A heavily armored creature stood behind and to the right of Janus, the creature slowly nodded.

Xander had a rough couple of days, but it was starting to get better. He'd managed to defeat Silver Sonic by the greatest bit of luck he could have ever imagined having, acquiring two things that would help him survive longer. But the cost of that fight was greater than he had ever thought possible, he'd lost his parents and the final death toll of Silver Sonic's rampage was over three thousand, mostly soldiers who were ordered into the fight.

He slowly shook his head as he glanced around, his friends where there, and the only relative of his there was his Uncle Rory. It was an almost peaceful funeral, though, no bombs going off, no robots or demons running amok through the cemetery through the day.

In fact, Buffy had been complaining that Silver Sonic had scared off most of the vampires and demons, either that or she wouldn't believe it was Sonic's running around that did it, all she had received was that they were scared of the hedgehog.

It was over, but he waited, a small smile crossed his lips as he thought back to the few good memories of his parents that he had, before they had found the bottle.

But the grin vanished as he felt an odd chill in the air and walked away from the open grave, he had sold the house and moved into another, the old place felt spooky with his parents gone, and with the cost of houses going down hill, Xander had found a nice place that reminded him a castle, but it would do for him, especially with the gear he was getting to build some things due to the instructions of the ever helpful Nicole, although Willow seemed to like the devices far more than he did.

Smiling as he remembered that school had only two weeks left.

He waited until he was alone to slip out two Power Rings and transformed without a thought, running would at least clear his head.

Sonic realized that since Halloween he had been getting faster and faster, now approaching the level the form had been in during Halloween, but he was still no closer to triggering the transformation to Super Sonic.

Passing a thousand miles an hour, he did a quick grind along a guardrail before going airborne. Raw speed, something that seemed to flood his senses with more than he ever thought they could handle before he gained the ability to change into Sonic. His endurance was building, though only Silver Sonic had actually tested it and that wouldn't have ended well without the benefits he'd discovered there.

Suddenly his head hurt and he staggered to a stop, "What the... why am I sensing chaos energy?"

"Because my master sent me to eliminate you, you insignificant mortal!"

Sonic spun, his mind adjusting instantly to the influx of energy that seemed to energize him as he saw a massive creature standing there.

Nine foot tall, built like a tank and quite nasty looking.

"So tall, dark, and ugly," Sonic chimed in, "Did you really pay someone to design that outfit for you, or did your mommy pick it out?"

The demon spun, a sword materializing in its hand, "You shall pay for your insolence, hedgehog!"

Unsheathing the Sword of Acorn, Sonic smiled slightly, "Bring it on!"

The blade activated, as energy bursts surrounded the blue streak, his hands guided as both combatants lunged, Sonic's speed and agility against the monsters brute force.

"Who are you?" Sonic asked as he avoided a slash with a simple backflip, "Who sent you!"

"I am Vaulk, and Janus sent me to deal with you!"

"So if I'm an insignificant mortal, what does that say about your bosses views of your skills Vaulky?"

The monster roared and charged with a raw fury visible in his eyes, Sonic avoiding a string of strikes that ripped gashes through the stone and cement that surrounded the alley the fight occurred in. Vaulk lashed out, his foot tearing through he wall, into the laundromat.

"Big, dumb, and still all so slow," Sonic muttered, his plan was working, he couldn't take the guy on at the moment, but getting him off balance would work, Vaulky wasn't as good when he was ticked off.

"You will pay for that!" the hulking brute roared, as Sonic leaped from the alley and to the roof, followed by the demonic swordsman, who shattered an air conditioning unit as he did so.

"Give it up slow poke, you'll never win this fight," Sonic answered, calmly leaping airborne, drawing in his power and hovering out of the behemoths reach, "Go home and I won't turn you into a pancake on the streets!"

Vaulk seemed to collect energy in an open hand, "Time to end this insect! Chaos Raptor!"

The lights seemed to bend into an eerie dark purple around them, even though it was the middle of the afternoon; the light seemed to just vanish or distort.

"What the hell," Sonic managed to stammer, "Turning out the lights, now that is just plain old rude!"

An energy blast seemed to erupt from Vaulk and tear towards him, filling the air with the stench of ozone. Sonic couldn't move, the air seemed to have thickened and he could barely crawl.

But he felt something else rising within him, the pure, raw power of the Chaos Emeralds, a shield formed around him and the assault diffused into it, chaos energy merging with more chaos energy. His mind instantly identifying and classifying it, memorizing its structure, his mind knew how to use the ability his foe had just performed.

He moved, the odd light surrounding him, no longer trapping him as the chaos energy rose within him, stabilizing far to low to trigger a transformation, but it did give him the freedom of motion he needed for his next move as Vaulk seemed to realize his attack had failed.

Sonic grasped a Power Ring from his pack and focused, his mind remembering the time when Antoine activated one with his sword, and a second ring to trigger as he usually did.

"Impossible!" Vaulk roared, "But no matter, you will die!"

Sonic hovered their, the two rings burning a bright gold as they expanded outwards, dissipating into their chosen targets. He was calm, relaxed now, the power arching visibly among the flashes of energy from his blade.

"Alright then, you want to play?" Sonic asked as he brought the Sword of Acorn up, energy streaking along its perfect surface, "Well, I say, let's get it on!"

The blades met in a shower of sparks and a sonic boom that shattered windows all through the city.

"How?" Vaulk stammered as he was driven back, the ring energy tearing through the last vestiges of the attack he had used.

"Simple, I draw a lot of my power from the Chaos Emeralds, raw, untamed Chaos energy, you used Chaos energy to attack me, it was the same as dumping water into water, you recharged me, and well, now you get to die!" Sonic responded, anger flashing through him so that he couldn't even think of a joke, comment, quip, or insult like he normally would.

"Sorry, but you'll never stop Janus, he's preparing Acaltha to deal with this insignificant speck of a world!" with that parting shot, Vaulk vanished to return to his master.

Sonic reverted to Xander as he sheathed his blade, scratching his chin as he shook slightly, "Acaltha, why does that name seem like it'll mean really bad news?"

He glanced off the side of the building and reached for his now empty pack, "And how the hell am I going to get down from here?"

Elsewhere in a secured facility, a single chip that had been recovered from the Sunnydale Army Base was being attached to a computer system to analyze it, next to a blood sample. The screen of the computer flashed for a second as the automated construction equipment being tested on the same system came to life and a small white bar began to fill on the screen as a simple phrase appeared above it, Installing Silver Sonic Backup Data.