AN: Some of you may be wondering just how Acaltha would be part of Janus'
plan, well, he was far more powerful than Glory could be in this dimension,
but now he is actually weaker because of the energy taken from him to
transform the Chaos Emeralds into Super Emeralds. He's rather ticked off
about that and doesn't really care about what would happen if Acaltha
activates, he's losing rationality, obsessing over eliminating Xander/Sonic
no matter the costs. As for Sonics new ability, Chaos Raptor, it won't work
on Janus or against Vaulk due to the origin of their energy, the same
reason it doesn't work on Sonic, but it is devastating against other beings
As for the lizard demons, think more of a mix between the hatchling Godzilla's in the movie Godzilla and the Jurassic Park Velociraptors then throwing a crest along the back of the head, that's just what I thought of for them, dumb as doornails, but fast, nasty, and strong with a pack instinct.
For Xander's new home, he got the one that Angel owned in the series where Acaltha was in the show. How I view it is that people built a lot of large houses and then the prices dropped, I mean if Angel was having problems keeping the agency in LA how could he afford the mansion? I figure with the cash from his parent's house plus whatever he had been left and all the other stuff he could afford it.
HolyKnight-yeah, you just made me realize I didn't really have Oz do much, I'll need to fix that soon.
Janus smiled at the petrified demon his minions, the lizard like demons he commanded to do his bidding, had dug up. The ancient monster stood there in the middle of the chamber he had prepared for this, it was something he would use, but he needed to know how first, it was infuriating, he was a god, and he was supposed to know everything!
"I am sorry my lord," Vaulk said as he materialized in the chamber, "I ran into an unexpected snag in the plan."
"And what would this 'snag' be?"
"The hedgehog's energy base is raw chaos energy," Vaulk answered swiftly, hoping to walk out of this alive, "The Chaos Raptor technique doesn't hurt the pest, it adds itself to his energy."
"Damn his soul to hell for it," Janus hissed, "But that is not unexpected, he drew my own power from that spell to empower his emeralds."
"Sire, he is far more powerful than we had expected, and with that sword," the demon licked his lips at the thought of it, "Such power, it is incredible, beyond anything that I have fought before."
"So our foe is even more impressive than we had thought," the god of chaos whispered, "Then our plans must be accelerated, Vaulk, put your efforts into finding out how we can activate our friend here," he rapped a knuckle on the demon statue, "And do be quick about it."
"Yes my lord," Vaulk said, evaporating from sight, "Your will shall be done!"
"See to it that you don't fail me, Vaulk," Janus hissed, "Or it will be you who dies first."
Xander smiled slightly as he flipped through the books the watcher left on the table, he still hadn't found anything on Acaltha, though he had found quite a bit on Vaulk. Apparently, he had caused massacres since the early part of the first century, though there were reports of the same type of attacks earlier, just that the guy's involvement wasn't confirmed, only lately had he begun serving Janus as an Avatar.
Buffy was in the corner, listening to Giles relay his visit by Sonic in the early morning, both the slayer and the watcher complaining about the speed freak. Willow was trying to keep from laughing about said conversation, and well, Oz and Cordy were doing homework.
It was then that Xander discovered just how bad things were getting when the second slayer, Kendra, walked in through the door.
"Well, this just has to be a sign of a potential apocalypse, worse than usual if we need both slayers not to mention our blue friend," Buffy commented, "What happened now?"
"Big problems," was the answer, straight and to the point, leading to a simple conclusion to all of the Scoobies.
"Oh Crap!"
Elsewhere, in the military base, the harsh grinding of machines was heard as their first objective was complete, a strange looking pod with tubes and wires protruding was in the center of the vast underground complex the military had been using.
Silver Sonic had manipulated the system to restrict access to this part of the complex as one of the mechanical arms grabbed the DNA sample recovered from the military base, the mechanical hedgehog had confirmed it against Sonic's sequence back on Mobius and began to flood the tank with a pale, lime colored gel and then the DNA was added.
Its single minded determination to complete its mission was its driving force behind this procedure as it modified the genetic structure, comparing it to other recorded DNA sequences, improving upon the base material.
Its belief that metal was better than flesh was proved wrong by Sonic's adaptability, so Silver Sonic modified that belief to create a hybrid, flesh and steel, a deadly combination. A simple modification to the base genetics was to modify the coloration of its future shell.
Sonic watched the slowly setting sun as he wondered about the future, he felt the barrier now when he amped up with all the power he had within him, but still the transformation wasn't accessible to him as of yet. Still he felt the power lying dormant within him, just waiting to be awakened and released upon his enemies.
Fortunately Kendra had brought information about Acaltha, and the news was grim indeed, it was another point for him to make the transformation, to become Super Sonic and deal with the threat.
As of yet, he hadn't, no, couldn't tell them that Janus was trying to open Acaltha, for to do so would give up his own secret, and with Buffy and Giles angry at their blue ally, that could lead to one dead Xander, or with most of the Scoobies in the hospital at the best. One idea that did flash through his mind was that he would have to introduce his new persona to Kendra, hopefully where she couldn't try to slay his furry behind, though with the martial arts training he had inherited from the speed freak, he could possibly stand to go toe to toe with a slayer if he had to.
His other self had apparently learned the martial arts after his first confrontation with Knuckles, someone who was an even match for him at all of his levels, the training had pushed him over the limit in Mobius, but here, it wasn't working right, it wasn't providing what was required to push the energy level up that little bit left that would let him change into his super form.
Even the new power, the awesome might of the Chaos Raptor, wouldn't do him any good against either Vaulk or Janus as both drew on the same energy source as he did. The fastest thing alive wasn't quite sure whether that was a good thing or a bad one, but he would find out, he had to stop both of them, before they did any harm to the city and those he protected.
In another place, the Watchers council had decided to intervene with this new 'ally' of those in Sunnydale. With the being in the way, they would act early dealing with the Cruciamentum of this Slayer, especially before her hatred faded enough to realize that this being was on her side, but the Watchers demanded their control over the Slayer.
Quentin Travers was leading a team to the Hellmouth.
AN: I'm not totally sure if I used the right spelling for the trial; if you know the spelling and I got it wrong, please tell me.
Also, I'm sorry this chapter is so spread out, I'm working in all the angles for the next few chapters, enemies are popping out of the woodwork and Xander/Sonic is going to have his hands full dealing with everything to come, not to worry people, I'm not going to dump Sonic into hell though, for now, of course, to Xander dealing with a cyborg incarnation of Silver Sonic, the Watchers Council, Janus, Vaulk, not to mention Acaltha, his hands will be full.
Also, if Acaltha does manage to open, where would you like to see Xander end up if he gets pulled through to? I don't want to send him to Mobius yet, some ideas are coming to me to have him dimension hopping during the summer, either after getting yanked through Acaltha and his energy screwing it up, or having him build one of the D-Boards like Tails and Sonic built in Night of a Thousand Sonics, the schematics are stored on Nicole as shown when they have to rebuild it in a later issue, so they could have access to it, your thoughts on that? Some of the ideas I've come up with involve things like him showing up in Spira during Final Fantasy X, namely the locals dealing with Nicole and Super Sonic, or having Nicole hacking into the People's computers in Artemis Fowl, just the reactions that would be great to include, perhaps both. Especially since that summer focuses almost entirely on Buffy with what little is shown, I doubt even the enslaving demons that Buffy ran into would hold Sonic down, he'd just power up and leave a path of destruction in his wake.
As for the lizard demons, think more of a mix between the hatchling Godzilla's in the movie Godzilla and the Jurassic Park Velociraptors then throwing a crest along the back of the head, that's just what I thought of for them, dumb as doornails, but fast, nasty, and strong with a pack instinct.
For Xander's new home, he got the one that Angel owned in the series where Acaltha was in the show. How I view it is that people built a lot of large houses and then the prices dropped, I mean if Angel was having problems keeping the agency in LA how could he afford the mansion? I figure with the cash from his parent's house plus whatever he had been left and all the other stuff he could afford it.
HolyKnight-yeah, you just made me realize I didn't really have Oz do much, I'll need to fix that soon.
Janus smiled at the petrified demon his minions, the lizard like demons he commanded to do his bidding, had dug up. The ancient monster stood there in the middle of the chamber he had prepared for this, it was something he would use, but he needed to know how first, it was infuriating, he was a god, and he was supposed to know everything!
"I am sorry my lord," Vaulk said as he materialized in the chamber, "I ran into an unexpected snag in the plan."
"And what would this 'snag' be?"
"The hedgehog's energy base is raw chaos energy," Vaulk answered swiftly, hoping to walk out of this alive, "The Chaos Raptor technique doesn't hurt the pest, it adds itself to his energy."
"Damn his soul to hell for it," Janus hissed, "But that is not unexpected, he drew my own power from that spell to empower his emeralds."
"Sire, he is far more powerful than we had expected, and with that sword," the demon licked his lips at the thought of it, "Such power, it is incredible, beyond anything that I have fought before."
"So our foe is even more impressive than we had thought," the god of chaos whispered, "Then our plans must be accelerated, Vaulk, put your efforts into finding out how we can activate our friend here," he rapped a knuckle on the demon statue, "And do be quick about it."
"Yes my lord," Vaulk said, evaporating from sight, "Your will shall be done!"
"See to it that you don't fail me, Vaulk," Janus hissed, "Or it will be you who dies first."
Xander smiled slightly as he flipped through the books the watcher left on the table, he still hadn't found anything on Acaltha, though he had found quite a bit on Vaulk. Apparently, he had caused massacres since the early part of the first century, though there were reports of the same type of attacks earlier, just that the guy's involvement wasn't confirmed, only lately had he begun serving Janus as an Avatar.
Buffy was in the corner, listening to Giles relay his visit by Sonic in the early morning, both the slayer and the watcher complaining about the speed freak. Willow was trying to keep from laughing about said conversation, and well, Oz and Cordy were doing homework.
It was then that Xander discovered just how bad things were getting when the second slayer, Kendra, walked in through the door.
"Well, this just has to be a sign of a potential apocalypse, worse than usual if we need both slayers not to mention our blue friend," Buffy commented, "What happened now?"
"Big problems," was the answer, straight and to the point, leading to a simple conclusion to all of the Scoobies.
"Oh Crap!"
Elsewhere, in the military base, the harsh grinding of machines was heard as their first objective was complete, a strange looking pod with tubes and wires protruding was in the center of the vast underground complex the military had been using.
Silver Sonic had manipulated the system to restrict access to this part of the complex as one of the mechanical arms grabbed the DNA sample recovered from the military base, the mechanical hedgehog had confirmed it against Sonic's sequence back on Mobius and began to flood the tank with a pale, lime colored gel and then the DNA was added.
Its single minded determination to complete its mission was its driving force behind this procedure as it modified the genetic structure, comparing it to other recorded DNA sequences, improving upon the base material.
Its belief that metal was better than flesh was proved wrong by Sonic's adaptability, so Silver Sonic modified that belief to create a hybrid, flesh and steel, a deadly combination. A simple modification to the base genetics was to modify the coloration of its future shell.
Sonic watched the slowly setting sun as he wondered about the future, he felt the barrier now when he amped up with all the power he had within him, but still the transformation wasn't accessible to him as of yet. Still he felt the power lying dormant within him, just waiting to be awakened and released upon his enemies.
Fortunately Kendra had brought information about Acaltha, and the news was grim indeed, it was another point for him to make the transformation, to become Super Sonic and deal with the threat.
As of yet, he hadn't, no, couldn't tell them that Janus was trying to open Acaltha, for to do so would give up his own secret, and with Buffy and Giles angry at their blue ally, that could lead to one dead Xander, or with most of the Scoobies in the hospital at the best. One idea that did flash through his mind was that he would have to introduce his new persona to Kendra, hopefully where she couldn't try to slay his furry behind, though with the martial arts training he had inherited from the speed freak, he could possibly stand to go toe to toe with a slayer if he had to.
His other self had apparently learned the martial arts after his first confrontation with Knuckles, someone who was an even match for him at all of his levels, the training had pushed him over the limit in Mobius, but here, it wasn't working right, it wasn't providing what was required to push the energy level up that little bit left that would let him change into his super form.
Even the new power, the awesome might of the Chaos Raptor, wouldn't do him any good against either Vaulk or Janus as both drew on the same energy source as he did. The fastest thing alive wasn't quite sure whether that was a good thing or a bad one, but he would find out, he had to stop both of them, before they did any harm to the city and those he protected.
In another place, the Watchers council had decided to intervene with this new 'ally' of those in Sunnydale. With the being in the way, they would act early dealing with the Cruciamentum of this Slayer, especially before her hatred faded enough to realize that this being was on her side, but the Watchers demanded their control over the Slayer.
Quentin Travers was leading a team to the Hellmouth.
AN: I'm not totally sure if I used the right spelling for the trial; if you know the spelling and I got it wrong, please tell me.
Also, I'm sorry this chapter is so spread out, I'm working in all the angles for the next few chapters, enemies are popping out of the woodwork and Xander/Sonic is going to have his hands full dealing with everything to come, not to worry people, I'm not going to dump Sonic into hell though, for now, of course, to Xander dealing with a cyborg incarnation of Silver Sonic, the Watchers Council, Janus, Vaulk, not to mention Acaltha, his hands will be full.
Also, if Acaltha does manage to open, where would you like to see Xander end up if he gets pulled through to? I don't want to send him to Mobius yet, some ideas are coming to me to have him dimension hopping during the summer, either after getting yanked through Acaltha and his energy screwing it up, or having him build one of the D-Boards like Tails and Sonic built in Night of a Thousand Sonics, the schematics are stored on Nicole as shown when they have to rebuild it in a later issue, so they could have access to it, your thoughts on that? Some of the ideas I've come up with involve things like him showing up in Spira during Final Fantasy X, namely the locals dealing with Nicole and Super Sonic, or having Nicole hacking into the People's computers in Artemis Fowl, just the reactions that would be great to include, perhaps both. Especially since that summer focuses almost entirely on Buffy with what little is shown, I doubt even the enslaving demons that Buffy ran into would hold Sonic down, he'd just power up and leave a path of destruction in his wake.