AN: The end is near, the Watchers have fallen, and Super Sonic is even closer to emerging. But can he face Vaulk, Cyber Sonic, and Janus, that is what is still to come starting with this episode.
Big-Bad-Kyubi-Thanks, I'm trying to keep up the momentum
Sonic watched the warehouse burn, Buffy had left, not realizing that he was still there. His mind was a jumble, but then again, since he could become what he now was, when wasn't it?"So you managed to save your friends?" he heard Vaulk chuckle, "So, now what is that you need to do, she would have died, and yet, the destruction of that slayer wouldn't have had the impact that keeping her alive would, especially with the chaos that will now fill the watchers council, Janus would be most pleased with it, that is if he wasn't still so obsessed with eliminating you."
Sonic smirked, "Good for him, but I really don't care."
The hedgehog leaped to the ground and started off.
"You know, there are more things hunting you at the moment than anyone else in this damned town, even your little Slayer friend now," Vaulk chuckled drawing his blade, "And Janus would be quite pleased with me if I take your severed head to him!"
Sonic shrugged slightly, drawing the Sword of Acorn, he focused, rising to the max, slipping out two Power Rings hoping that they would let him win this time. He knew that Vaulk had let him live during their last duel, now it was for real, the demon wouldn't be toying around this time, it was life or death.
"Let's do this then," Sonic said, the last remnants of cheer fading from his eyes, a look of death and hatred.
Sonic waited, his mind scrambling through the skills the sword gave and what he remembered from watching Giles teaching Buffy how to use a sword. He knew that to win he would have to be very lucky, and the collection of Power Rings he carried could just be the edge he needed.
Blades met in the center of the street in a roar of steel on steel, as the Sword of Acorn activated, the characteristic sparks light flashes all around Sonic and his blade.
"Impressive, a blade of that caliber," Vaulk laughed as he leaped clear, Sonic doing the same, each watching the other warily, "Perhaps I'll take it and add it to my collection when I take your head to my master."
"I'm rather attached to it," Sonic answered as he struck a flurry of strikes at maximum speed as a car swerved along the road they were fighting in.
Vaulk fell back, off the road, tripping and falling through a bench as Sonic leaped clear, skipping off the roof of the car as it swerved to avoid them both.
The demon didn't have time to regain his footing as Sonic rebounded off the wall of the building across the street and was back on him, letting the sword guide his path.
Both blades collided at full force; the magic power within them striking as well, the point of impact began to glow, brighter and brighter. The light burning like the sun against the late dusk. Both combatants groaned with exertion, but stayed in place.
"What the hell?" Buffy managed to stammer from where she was walking home as the early night turned into day.
She turned around and broke into an out and out run back towards the warehouses at maximum speed.
Willow saw the light rip through the window shades, flooding the house as her mind realized what was going on and rushed to try and help her friend. She paused and turned to run to Xander's, she'd grab some of his Power Rings in case he was running low.
Then she heard a low chuckle, spinning she saw a pale blue hedgehog waiting for her.
"No!" she gasped as it attacked.
Giles was in panic mode when he saw an explosion in the distance, but most of the others had gathered, including Kendra, when the sky lit up. He blinked and it wasn't a hallucination, it grew brighter if anything else.
"Bloody hell," he muttered and dashed for the door, "Big problems all right."
The others followed close behind.
Sonic roared, feeling the Chaos Energy rising within him, the pressure on the barrier was increasing, power was starting to trickle through, but then the miracle happened, Vaulk's sword shattered under the strain of pressure and magic.
The surge of energy from the Power Rings died down an instant later, and the Demon forced him backwards, blade or no blade. Leaped clear of a strike that snapped a streetlight clean in two.
Sonic danced backwards, drawing on the skills he had inherited from Sonic, evading a chain of lightning quick strikes that left blurs in the air. He felt as if he were moving normally while the others were underwater, reacting purely on instinct as he managed to get a Power Ring out of his pack.
Instead of using it normally, he spun it in the air as Vaulk drove a fist forwards, Sonic grabbing the ring as the demons fist passed through the middle and twisted the ring just as Janus' Avatar's elbow entered. The blue hedgehog heard bones shattering as he triggered the ring, the gold circle vanishing from the arm of his foe and empowering the speed freak.
Energy cascaded through him as he rolled backwards and onto a closed dumpster, sheathing his blade and focusing on the energy within him now. His mind was calm now, space seemed to distort as he lashed out with a combo of strikes as Vaulk did his best to defend while protecting his shattered elbow.
The hedgehog dropped into a ready stance and lunged, again, his foe trying to stop the assault. They both moved with well trained motions, it was then that Sonic's mind began to open slightly.
His thoughts dropped onto something that had happened to the true Sonic, a conversation with another Hedgehog, a black colored one. Shadow, the name hit him.
"Look, Sonic, I know we've fought, but I have to stop, its not worth it anymore," the hedgehog said to Sonic, "You're the only one who can stop Robotnik now, physically, I am superior, but you have beaten every challenge as a normal being, not one genetically engineered to fight, but if you fight someone strong in Chaos Energy, remember what I showed you, remember Chaos Control, your ties to the Chaos Emeralds will let you pull it off, use it if you need to."
Then his mind flashed back to the present.
"Thanks," Sonic whispered so low that Vaulk couldn't hear him, "Thank you Shadow."
"It's been a good fight Vaulk, but its time to end this!" he focused, leaping clear of a snap kick.
He heard squealing tires as an old beat up car swerved to a stop at the end of the block, his mind instantly identifying it as Giles, it drew his awareness outwards and spotted Buffy watching, slack jawed at the other end.
Sonic felt the power flash through him as he focused his mind, remembering what Shadow had taught him on Mobius. The energy surged to his command as he drew the Sword of Acorn once more.
"Chaos Control!" he roared as he seemed to wink entirely out of existence, bending reality to his will for a mere instant, before he appeared a yard in front of Buffy, dropped low, almost on one knee.
Everyone's breath seemed to be held for a second, but then it happened, the street seemed to explode in a direct path from where the blue blur had started to where he ended, the blasts consuming Vaulk in the process, his energy merging with Sonics in the final moments as the demon tried to use his Chaos Raptor ability in response, forgetting the consequences of his other use, but even there it was far to late.
The attack Sonic had used, while it was based on Chaos energy, it did not use that to do it's damage, merely to warp space and time around the user, as long as the user is focused, time and space have no meaning, thus damage done is multiplied to those outside of the technique. Normally, the use was controlled down to a point of damage to the right spot, but the Power Ring had altered the strike, drawing it on the entire length of the block.
Sonic sheathed the mystic weapon as chunks of street rained down all over the place. Turning, the hedgehog surveyed the damage as those who rushed there stared at him or gazed dumbfounded at the wreckage. The speed freak had to admit, it was impressive, even though he had lost control of that attack, his anger had eroded the control he normally held, control hammered into him during his training on Mobius.
But still the anger did not cease, though the last move did show him something that he needed to know, when he triggered Chaos Control, he could sense the concentration of Chaos Energy that could only be Janus, and he was underground.
"Vaulk," he whispered slowly, "Even though you died, I know what I needed to know, your death gave me the keys to deal with your master."
He turned, and ran, his mind in a blur as he blast past the watcher and the others, his mind locking onto one thing, only one of them wasn't there, where was Willow?