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Last time on Sonic X:
"Ok pal. Who are you, and what have you done to Shadow?" The possessed black hedgehog laughed again, two orbs of white light beginning to burn between his fingers. Sonic yelped and somersaulted backwards as a beam of white hot energy jumped from his hand, colliding with road, carving a jagged line down the middle of street, water from the sewers lancing upwards in three thick geysers. Sonic looked back at the destruction. Whoever was controlling Shadow's body had given him near unrivalled power.
"For eons I have been held back, But now the vessel is mine." The black hedgehog clenched a fist and a second later the truck he was standing on detonated, a fire storm exploding into the air. Sonic was thrown by the force across the street, colliding into a street lamp. "I have no need for worshippers or deception anymore. Watch, as I make this entire planet BURN!"
Episode 14: The desperate plan
The green flames were everywhere, burning with intense heat the likes of which Sonic had never felt before. He couldn't even get close to Shadow. All the time the darkness that had the black hedgehog's body under it's control was laughing insanely. The snow around them didn't melt, it evaporated straight from it's solid state. The light from the moon and stars above died out, replaced by the brilliance of the flames that seemed to blaze with the brilliance of a second sun. The black hedgehog stood amongst the fire, watching in amusement at Sonic's vain attempts to stop him. The fire was spreading outwards, scorching anything it touched.
"Ok, that's it." The blue hedgehog declared, sliding backwards a few feet as the scorching heat intensified. "I'm giving you to the count of three to let Shadow…" he never even got to finish the sentence. The black hedgehog, still clad in fire, raised his let hand and fired another beam straight at him. Caught in it again, Sonic was sent flying down the high street at a speed that daunted even him. Only muffled cried escaped him as he impacted the side of a building, flying straight through one side and out the other. Sonic had been thrown through an entire building before, and that time it was hardly a picnic, this time it felt like every bone in his body had been broken. Lying in a pile of collapsed rubble, half covered with snow, the blue hedgehog paused to think that perhaps a desperate change in strategy was called for. "Ok, that could have gone better." He groaned, painfully pushing himself up to a sitting position, shaking the dirt and snow out of his quills.
"Idiot." A voice from above stated. Sonic looked up to see the possessed hedgehog standing on the roof top, looking down at him with his arms crossed. "You've no hope of defeating me. Even less of rescuing your friend."
"I've faced worse odds." Sonic replied, on his feet in in instant, ignoring nagging pain coming from his legs and back. The black hedgehog laughed as Sonic shot up the wall towards him. Sonic's attempt was thrown away with the slightest gesture of Shadow's hand, sending the blue hedgehog flying through the air.
Before he hit the ground, Metal Sonic came souring in, catching him in his talons. "Thanks Metal." Sonic added as the robotic hedgehog lowered them to the ground. Metal looked off in Shadow's directly, who by now was only a black dot in the midst of a sea of green.
"Looks like Shadow got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning." Sonic shook his head.
"I don't know who that is, but it isn't Shadow."
"How observant of you." Shadow remarked, leaping the distance between them, landing directly in front of the two. ""No, I'm not Shadow. I am so much more. I am Krish Kra Pal." Sonic blinked in surprise, recognising the name.
"The ancient Echidna's god?"
"Hey Chris." Rouge waved over, but suddenly noticed the boy's agitated look. His hands pressed against the back of the door, his breath sharp and shallow, showing he'd been running as fast as he could. "What's wrong?" Chris looked up quickly
"We have to leave, now!" He nearly shouted. Everyone, even Metal Sonic was looking at him strangely.
"Calm down Chris." Chuck began, but the boy managed to butt in quickly to finish what he'd started.
"They know we lied, Mishoal is out looking for us. There's a bounty on our heads." That forced a solemn silence on all of them.
"Are you sure?" Chuck asked. Chris nodded several times very quickly.
"Yes, and they want you most of all Shadow." The black hedgehog blinked in confusion.
"What? Why me?" He asked. Chris paused for a moment to catch his breath.
"Don't know. I didn't hang around long enough to find out." He hesitated again, remembering something important. "Oh yeah, and I found the second time ring." Everyone was instantly by his side, looking up at him with anticipation in their eyes, all of them blurting out questions like where, when and how to get to it. Chris managed to get enough information from their questions to answer. That he'd found it beneath one of those ugly statues. The Echidna's of this time had mistaken it for an alter and had offerings were often being placed upon it.
"From the time of Ancient Egypt, I have been little more than a phantom, doomed to wander unseen." Krish laughed, looking down at his out reached hands, having missed the feeling of living flesh. "Oh how I've longed for this, finally a body again." Sonic caught him off guard by delivering a punch straight across his face, knocking him sideways. The black hedgehog crashed to the ground face down, his fire dying down to a dull roar.
"Well don't get too comfortable. That body isn't yours." Sonic replied, smashing a fist into his palm. Krish laughed again, picking himself off the road, gently brushing the small fragments of dirt off his cheek.
"This body was made to order. The mind that occupied it until now was never supposed to exist."
"But it does. It was his first, you've no right to take it!" Metal Sonic snapped.
"And what are you going to do about it?" Sonic cracked his knuckles suggestively.
A pile of rubble heaved and Fang pushed himself out from under it, shaking himself to dislodge a thick amount of dust and shattered brick. Rubbing the back of his head, he looked up through the gloom. The entire Foundation skyscraper had collapsed around him. The shattered ruins casting shadows across the snow covered streets. The faint blare of sirens in the background growing louder as emergency vehicles got closer.
Try as he might, Fang just could not remember what he was doing here. There was a loud echoing bang and a green flare illuminated the sky, followed by another in succession. Those explosions shook the ground beneath his feet, the rubble around him groaned, threatening to collapse on him again.
Despite his lack of memory, it was clear that staying here was far too dangerous. Quickly the weasel pulled himself out from under the rubble, dodging out of the water as a metal pipe fell from somewhere above him, nearly landing on top of him. Darting between what remained off the building, Fang desperately searched for a way out, to some form of familiar surroundings, but kept coming up on dead ends. The green flares that crossed the sky where beginning to become more violent and the explosions that followed them nearly knocked him off his feet with their force.
Finally, after coming down a desert alleyway, he witnessed two blue objects hurtle through the air and crash straight into the side of an overturned car. Sonic crashed through the wind screen, cutting his leg before rolled to a stop in a pile of snow. Metal ricocheted off the door and collided with the side of a building, disappearing from view.
As a torrent of laugher echoed, Fang saw what had thrown them across the street. It was Shadow, the well known black and red Hedgehog from the ARK. But he was glowing bright emerald green, the green fire around him. Dancing to his whim whenever he raised an arm of gestured with his head, like it was part of him. Within that fire, Fang finally saw what had happened.
"What the hell is this?" He demanded. "Where am I?" Whoever was sitting in the chair did not reply for a moment, instead he let the weasel stare around on confusion for a while.
"You know, despite your recent, humiliating defeat. You're still the best bounty hunter and assassin this planet had to offer." Fang looked his way, confusion plain in his eyes. He tried to edge closer to see who was speaking to him, but only managed a few inches for his shaken nerves stopped him.
"Who the hell are you?" He asked, his voice more unstable.
"That is irrelevant." It replied. "What is however is the offer I'm proposing for you." The Weasel tried to tell himself that was all a dream, some bizarre fantasy. He was still in bed, suffering a nightmare. Suddenly some sort of subliminal idea kicked in and what the speaker had actually said registered.
"Offer?" He asked without shaking at all. The man chuckled slightly and placed his arms on the end of the table.
"I thought that might grab your attention." Talking business seemed to unlock Fang's sadistic side, so to him at that point it didn't matter exactly who or what he was talking to. "I am offering a very simple arrangement, one I know you can live by. You serve me and my cause now." Fang waited for several seconds before asking…
"And?"
"That is all. You will now serve me." The man replied, folding his arms. Fang stared at him, blinked once before asking again…
"What about payment?" The man was silent for a hostile moment, his eyes narrowing.
"You shall receive nothing of the sort." He snapped, almost angrily.
"No money? No deal, I bid you good day sir." Fang said with venom in reply. The gentlemen leaned forward in the chair, revealing his face. He was human, with short brown hair, dark tanned skin and strangely radiant green eyes.
"My dear Mr. Sniper. I believe you misunderstand the situation you are in. You see…" He began as the weasel turned to give him a look back over his shoulder. "You don't have any choice!" Without warning a green flare erupted from his eyes and Fang, former Chaotix member Nack the Weasel could only scream as his world vanished in a green haze.
Now he remembered. Someone had been controlling him, and whoever it was, was inside Shadow's body. Using him like a puppet, just like they'd used Fang. The weasel would like nothing better than to get his own back, but he had just seen this guy bat Sonic the Hedgehog and Metal Sonic off like they were flies. If they couldn't beat him, his chances weren't much better.
Sonic pulled himself up, his body aching. A trail of blood was leaking out the side of his mouth and his skin was covered with bruises and cuts. Sonic had already thrown everyone at him but the kitchen sink and Krish was still coming. It was like nothing hurt him. Any kicks and punches that got through his defences his body had took without so much as flinching.
There had to be some way of beating this guy. Sonic wasn't about to abandon Shadow to this terrible fate. Suddenly, someone seized his arm. Sonic looked down, to see a old man in a black robe holding onto him and the bizarre thing was, he looked like he was getting older by the second. His black hair first turned silver, then white, then finally fell out.
"He…lied to us." He gasped through withered gums, his teeth falling out. Sonic had never seen anything so disgusting. "I devoted two hundreds years to him, all that time he was lying to me. You have to stop him."
"That's what I'm trying to do!" Sonic replied, looking past his hiding place towards the black hedgehog, who was just standing there, waiting for his adversaries to make the first move. He was toying with them. "But nothing hurts him."
"Chaos Energy." The old man gasped, now hardly able to speak. By now, he looked like he was over a hundred going on a hundred and fifty. Sonic looked back, an eyebrow raised in confusion. "Krish's presence is maintained in our world by his spirit. Dilute it with Chaos Energy and he will be forced back to whatever dimension he calls home." Before Sonic could ask what he meant by that, the old man collapsed to the ground, before withering even more, becoming a skeleton, that collapsed into dust seconds later. After two centuries of life, Arthur Falcon the third, finally died.
"Gross!" Sonic declared as the old man's hand dissipated around his arm. Metal Sonic came souring out from the building he'd got knocked out off, souring through the air with a flying kick. Krish caught his foot in his open hand, before tossing Metal like a rag doll into the ground several times.
Chaos Energy? Would that work? Nothing else seemed to be working, so there wasn't much harm in at least trying. Only problem was, how to introduce Chaos Energy into Shadow's…Sonic's eyes widened as an idea came to mind. It was dangerous, not only posing risks not only for Shadow, but for himself too. If he was work, or he made the slightest mistake, it was more than likely they would both die. But it was the only way he was going to make it work. He groaned, realizing he had no choice.
Darting out from behind the car, he raced straight at Krish, going as fast as his legs could carry him. Becoming a blue blur, the hedgehog poured one more speed and at the same time, call on the ability that only he and Shadow could use.
Tails had had to land the X tornado some distance away and approaching the battlefield on foot had taken some time. Amy had been raring to hit something with her hammer for ages now, he was getting close to hitting Tails a few times when he lead then down some dead ends. It was hard to tell exactly which way there were going with all this brick dust in the air. And the ominous green flashes in the sky were doing little to fill them with confidence.
"Hey look!" Chris began, pointing through the gloom towards figure standing at the far end of the road. Completely bathed in green light, doing what appeared to be a very large number on Metal Sonic, bashing the robot across the face and side before picking him up and smashing him into the ground. "Is that Shadow?"
Krish looked aside just in time to see a blue blur hit him straight on, flying directly into his body as the words "CHAOS CONTROL" where tossed into the air. The sheer force of it force the possessed black hedgehog back a few steps, his eyes wide in horror. Sonic had completely disappeared, absorbed into his body. Suddenly there was a white flare and Shadow's body morphed, becoming bright white. His quills more jagged and uncoordinated, the strength in his limbs increasing ten fold. Krish could feel more power than he'd images flowing through him. Whatever Sonic had been trying to do, it had failed. It was back fired completely.
"The power of Nazo." The ancient dark god laughed, his own power elevated to unheard off proportions. "I'll rip this world apart!" Metal Sonic picked himself up off the floor, looking up in horror. Krish's new body was glowing like a new sun. That figure had haunted his dreams, the fused form of Sonic the Shadow, the same being that had defeated him when he had been Metal Overlord.
"Sonic…" He began. "What have you done?"
Flip Card 1:
Name: Shadow (Possessed)
Sex: Male
Age: 51
Species: Hedgehog
Job description: Succeeding in placing his mind inside Shadow's body, the dark god Krish Kra pal is hell bent on destroying the world.
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