Chapter 5: Burn baby Burn

Sonic awoke once more his head feeling like lead, "what had that hedgehog done to him?" He asked himself as he sat up looking around. Hedgehogs were running around screaming but his ears didn't seem to want to focus and he heard nothing. But when he saw the soldiers then he knew. He jumped out of the cot he was in and ran forwards out of the tent he was nursed to health in. Two Blood red hedgehogs were brutally beating an old man.

Sonic jumped kicked the nearest one, the other decided to attack back but was stopped by Shadow's fist colliding with the side oh his head, his eyes glazed and he fell to the ground. "Sonic!" Shadow shouted. "You are temporarily deaf because while you were sleeping one of those hedgehogs through a sound bomb at you."

Sonic nodded in showing he understood but was still wondering why he couldn't speak. Then ran down the huge cavern and periodically stopped a few bands of those soldiers. Then they saw him a huge hedgehog his arms rippled with muscles and in one hand he held Azma.

"Puny hedgehogs." The beast roared. "You are no match for Grug the unstoppable."

Shadow laughed as he threw a rock at the ceiling of the cavern. The roof broke revelling an odd sight to Sonic a large bundle of chaos emeralds. "Sonic those are fake but they still have power." Shadow called as he slowly changed into his emerald form his fur changing to silver and his streaks turning red.

Sonic nodded as he turned golden he didn't feel as strong as when he used real emeralds but he knew it would be enough to take down this giant. Sonic rushed forwards as Grug took a swing at him he neatly sidestepped the clumsy fist and jumped onto Grug's head. Using it as a spring he bounced high to the roof of the cavern then in mid air he turned faced down and torpedoed at Grug's head. Making contact Grug laughed and grabbed Sonic.

"Grug make you bleed." He shouted as he slowly squeezed Sonic.

Shadow rushed forwards tackling the Grug by smashing into his knees then sonic turned around and kicked Grug in the back of the head. Grug let out a small moan as his eyes became unfocused. Then Shadow let out an evil laugh as he cupped his hands, a small ball of energy was building and when Shadow released it Sonic had to dove out of the way. He grabbed Azma before it hit as well.

Grug screamed in pain as he was engulfed in blue-black flames, after a bit he was nothing more then a burning skeleton... Which then got up and looked down at Shadow. "Kill all the red hedgehogs." He commanded coolly and watched the burning skeleton rip through the red hogs ranks.

Grand City: 6pm

Tails paced nervously around the room as Knuckles walked in. "What's the matter Tails?" He asked

"Sonic is missing." He replied simply

Knuckles crossed his arms in thought. "Any Idea where he was."

Tails nodded. "The silver mountain range, near the emerald grove."

"Lets go then."

The Caves: 6pm

Sonics mouth hung open as he watched the huge golem rip through the ranks. "Shadow, where did you learn that?" Sonic asked choking back his vomit as the golem cleanly decapitated one of its unlucky victims.

Shadow laughed as he watched the monster kill every one of his enemies. "I have found the darker secrets of the Dark Chaos." He said simply as he walked towards the battle.

Sonic had no time to wonder what 'Dark Chaos' was. Instead he gently cradled Azma in his arms and ran through the ranks of Enemies to the medical tent he had woken up in. Laying her down an aged hedgehog his fur now silver but still showed signs of rich black.

"You are Sonic I presume." He stated leaning on a crooked staff.

"Yes." Sonic replied calmly as he shifted out of his chaos form. He rotated his shoulder blade to relieve the tension.

"So you are the chosen one." The man stated as he walked over to a cluttered desk. "Sonic your father would be proud."

Sonic started as he heard the man mention his father. "How do you know my dad?" He asked quietly walking to an empty seat in front of the old mans desk.

The old hedgehog smiled faintly as he sat down as well. "Me and your father started this resistance."

Somehow that news didn't surprise him his dad was the kind to do things like create a large underground army of hedgehogs. "Where is my Old man?" Sonic asked picking up a file at random, it read 'Army Status' on the top and he idly flipped through it.

"We don't know." The old man replied. "We lost contact with him four years ago."

"Same time I did." Sonic thought to himself as he stopped on a page that jumped out at him. It was a report on the colony: Current population: 100 males 43 Females. Warriors: 60. Chaos wielders: 2. Sonic noticed that the two was written over a one. He laid the paper down and looked up at the old man. "So why am I here?"

"Shadow informed us of your abilities." He stopped and looked out at the clean up crews. The fight was over. Just then a messenger ran through the opened tent flap.

"Casualties sir." He saluted smartly then left.

"My name is Karak by the way." The old man told Sonic as he read the report. Another twenty dead, they would be hard pressed to find any more soldiers. "Sonic I have a favour to ask of you."

"What is it Karak?" Sonic asked as he stood up to leave.

"I will have a soldier bring you to the exit of the caves. Please bring back fighters, our information says that another larger attack will take place one with a chaos wielder in it." He sighed before continuing. "We will surely fall."

(Well there it is Chapter 5, A bit more story to it. I'm starting work on my own novel so this will probably be a passing fic; I'll try to update as much as possible but no promises.)