(I do not own Sonic X etc)

Flip Card 1:

Name: Nazo

Sex: Male

Age: (subject to debate)

Species: Hedgehog

Job description: The fused version of Sonic and Shadow, a being that took down the Metal Overlord.

The power of Nazo, ten times what Krish had expected to gain from his forced possession of Shadow's body. That idiot Sonic had done him the greatest favour anyone could. He had elevated his power to new heights. With the kind of strength he had now, he could level with entire city in an instant. Nothing on earth would be able to stop him. Glowing a sickly mixture of white and green, the possessed hedgehog looked down towards the battered Metal Sonic on the ground below him, nearly beaten into a rusty pile of scrap metal.

"You're friend was a simpleton He said with sadistic hate, before pulling his leg back and dealing the most powerful kick imaginable straight into Metal Sonic's side, sending the robot flying into the air. Metal Sonic spiralled before crashed through a building, shooting out the other side and disappearing into the sky. So much strength. He could level a building with a single punch. "There is nothing to stop me now. All I have to do is clench a fist, and Station Square disappears of the face of the planet." He looked down at his open hand, imagining the chaos he would inflict on the entire city just by closing it. A search light lanced out of the sky, targeting the hedgehog on the ground., Krish looked up, to see three police helicopters hovering above him.

"This is Police, remain where you are!" Simple toys. Krish simply glanced in their direction and the blades above their fragile machines snapped in two. The pilots bailed out, jumping to safety before their choppers collided with the side of a building. Squad cars, as they rounds the corners went flying into the sky, crashing into each other, their windows shattering and their tyres bursting. They all started running like frightened vermin as he approached, sending the odd low power level orb.

The first thing he would do with this fantastic new power would be to wipe this pathetic humans and their self righteous governments from…his eyes widened and suddenly his skin started cracking like dried sandstone. The lines glowing a strange green, beams of white light lancing out.

"What is this?!" Krish demanded, staggering back a few steps. From every part of his new body, cracks began appearing. Every limb seemed like a chore to move. Suddenly, what was happening became very clear to the ancient dark god. "Sonic, you're doing this!"

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.

Sonic opened his eyes, his eyesight blurred. Slowly he lowered his arms and looked around his surroundings. Did it work? Did the fusion deal enough chaos energy into Shadow's body to force Krish out? Whatever had happened, he'd been placed in some bizarre new location. Three suns high overhead, the sky a deep blood red. Looking up, the blue hedgehog could see familiar images rolling across the blue clouds.

With amazement, Sonic realized he was looking at Shadow's memories. How Eggman had freed him from the stasis pod on Prison Island, when the Eclipse Cannon fired at the moon and when the two of them had merged into Nazo.

"Cool. I'm inside Shadow's head!" Sonic declared, looking around his new surroundings. The inside of the black hedgehog's mind was a barren wasteland, littered with crumbling stone statues of a human girl. Standing around him like the walls of a maze, blocking his path in nearly every direction.

This wasn't the outcome that he had been hoping for that was for certain, but perhaps this could more to his advantage. How he had a chance to help Shadow from the inside, while the Chaos energy the merger had introduced helped to deal with that Krish guy.

So this was Maria. He looked up towards one of the statues. There had to be at least a thousand of them all around like, all blocking his way like the walls of a maze. She must have meant a lot to him, to have this big a place in his mind. For the first time Sonic actually realized that he had absolutely no plan, no idea were he was in the deep reaches of the black hedgehog's head and no way to battle the presence that held his body. Once again he had rushed into things with no idea what to do.

Well, no point in waiting around for something to happen. He closed in eyes, spun around and pointed his arm in the direction he stopped in. "That way it is." He said to himself, taking the path between two statues that were leaning against one another.

Everywhere he went there was nothing nut towering statues of the human girl. They were all over the place. When he had compared them to the walls of a maze he hadn't been too far off. Getting past these statues proved near impossible and for some reason he felt like he was going around in circles.

He could smash them with a spin attack, but he just didn't have the hear to wreak something in the visage of Shadow's old friend. So instead, he used his speed to race up the side of one of them, reaching the top. Standing over the statues now, he could see an endless sea of them, going on in every direction. He looked up. Another of Shadow's memories was playing out.

In it, Sonic could see her face smiling. Sonic could see exactly how important she was to him, and he could only image the grief he had been given when she died. If these images were anything to go by, she was like a sister to him.

Something off in the horizon caught his attention. Staring off, Sonic could see another statue, this one over ten times larger than the others. It wasn't made in the likeness of Maria, instead in was in that of her grandfather, Prof. Gerald Robotnik. An entire mountain, carved in his image. From the top of the head, a pulsated white glow was beating like the beacon on a lighthouse.

While it didn't look too inviting, that might be the best place to start looking for someway to help his friend. It didn't take too long to race across the top of the maze towards the bottom of the large Mountain. Once there he only paused for a second to compose himself before rocketing up the side of it. On the way up, Sonic passed through several of the images portraying Shadow's memories and as he did so, feelings associated with those memories were forced onto him. One moment he could be feeling happiness, and the next unbearable sadness and grief. But one very strong emotion was a vengeful anger that nearly consumed him.

It took quite a deal of willpower to push through it, but eventually the blue hedgehog arrived at the top of the statue. The first thing there was Shadow himself, lying on the ground, engulfed in a green orb that was producing the beacon light.

"Hey Shadow, wakey wakey!" Sonic began, reaching for the unconscious black and red hedgehog. As his head penetrated the orb, he was instantly hurled back, nearly over the edge to a very long drop.

"I've waited eight thousand years for my freedom. I will not let some insignificant hedgehog stop me now." Hanging onto the edge for dear life, Sonic looked up to see a towering figure standing over him. A pair of glowing red eyes staring down at him. Krish Kra Pal's form within the ultimate life forms head was like one of the statues they'd seen in the Echidna's cathedral. A large, humanoid like form with large muscles. A pair of insect pincers were the mouth should be, two goat like goats curving out the side of the skull head. Large spikes of bone were lined up along his shoulders, arms, legs and along a muscular tail. His hands were cloven, the fingers large curved talons. Covering his body was a thin black fur, red streaks running over his muscles.

Sonic grunted and pulled himself up, standing before the demonic creature in defiance. "Shadow is mine!"

"Shadow is his own person. You've no right to take him." The red eyes narrowed at him.

"Who are you, to tell me what rights I do and don't have? I am a living god!"

"A high opinion of yourself doesn't give you permission to use people like this." A large hand swung around, trying to cleave Sonic with it's large claws. Sonic dodged to the side, narrowly avoiding it.

"You will not interfere!"

"Shame, interference is what I do best." The sky above them instantly become thick with clouds, a thick thunderstorm blaring thunder and lightning, Shadow's very worst memories rocketing across the clouds. Sonic could see Maria's body lying on the floor, her clothes slowly staining with blood. Krish swung one of his arms down, sinking his claws into the ground, tearing a large chuck of rock out of the giant statue. Sonic dodged around it as the demonic figure tossed it at him, before he raced forward, lying a punch straight across his face, knocking him to the ground.

"We're in a place where strength doesn't matter. Willpower's the only thing that counts here!" The blue hedgehog said, doubling back as a kick scored itself into Krish' chest. The demon staggered backwards, screaming in outrage.

Lunging forward, a pair of pincers wide open, snapping around Sonic's body holding him in place. Sonic struggled against the grip, but Krish reached up, clutched the hedgehog in his talons before tossing him up into the air. His tail wiped around, batting Sonic into the ground.

"Then I will win!" Krish declared, before roaring loudly as Sonic rolled to the side, claws slamming into the ground trying to impale him. Eons of frustration and anger fuelling him, Krish swung claws and talons at the blue hedgehog like an enraged beast. Sonic's speed was all that was keeping him ahead of those deadly swipes. A momentary slip as all that was required for instant death, with that in mind, he did his best to stay ahead of his opponent. But at some time during the battle, Krish drew blood, slashing Sonic across the shoulder. Grunting in pain, the blue hedgehog flattered for a second. Enough time to Krish's tail to whip round and smash itself straight into Sonic's back.

Spiralling through the air, Sonic caught the edge of the giant Gerald's moustache just in time to prevent plummeting to his death. Hanging on for dear life, a very long drop below him, the blue hedgehog struggled to keep himself from falling as the demonic being stood over him. He raised a claw, preparing one last strike.

"I could sure use Shadow's help right about now." The blue hedgehog muttered to himself and even as he said it, a final realization came to him. Shadow could help him. He looked back down towards the clouds that kept portraying Shadows memories, remembering exactly how they'd forced their emotions onto him when he passed through them. A large grin crossed his face before he glared up at Krish. "Hey, big and ugly. You going to stand there all day looking nasty, or do we finish this?" Kirhs; narrowed his eyes before letting his arm swing open, talons out stretched. Sonic waited for a the right moment and when it came, the grabbed one of the demons fingers and before Krish could stop himself, Sonic used the momentum to toss him over the edge and straight into a cloud containing one of Shadow's worst memories, having to watch Maria die in front of his eyes.

Krish screamed as it took effect, filling his entire being with intense anguish and pain. His body convulsed, trying desperately to escape. Sonic climbed back up to the top of the statue, watching the demonic figure disappearing in the white haze of the clouds, his screams growing quieter with each passing second. The blue hedgehog sighed in relief. That had been too close for comfort. "Ok Shadow. Let's get you out of here." He said, walking over to the black and red hedgehog. This time he stopped to study the strange force field he was engulfed by, looking from someway of turning it off.

Now that he looked closer, he could see that the ground Shadow was lying on was engraved with two circles and the green glow seemed to be emanating from its outer rim. At one point on this circle there was a large stone orb that broke the field. That had to be significant. Approaching it rather carefully, expecting to be tossed back by some invisible force again, Sonic gently touched it. Instantly the green glow dissipated, vanishing completely, leaving Shadow unbound.

The black hedgehog was still out cold, that is until Sonic drew his hand back and slapped him across the face.

"OWW!" The black hedgehog yelled, sitting up.

"Sorry, didn't have the traditional glass of water." Shadow rubbed his forehead, groaning, a sharp intake of air making a hissing sound.

"What happened…where am I?" He began, shaking his head to rid himself of the nausea. Sonic was about to answer when a dark shadow loomed over them like something had stood in the path of the sunlight. Looking back, Sonic saw a giant towering demonic figure with spikes lancing out of his shoulders, red glowing eyes, insect like pincers and huge horns. "YOU!" Shadow declared, memory suddenly flooding into his eyes as he recalled everything that had happened.

"I SHALL NOT LET YOU GO!!!" Krish screamed descending on them, fury burning his eyes.

"Shadow, let's send this freak packing!" Sonic stated, giving the black and red hedgehog a side glance. Shadow meet his gaze and nodded, turning back to face Krish, his giant talons ready to wrap around them.

"Let's do it!" Their energies connected and before Krish could stop them, their combined strength smashed itself into him. It was more than enough to rip him from Shadow's mind entirely, forcing him out with pure chaos energy. As his diluted his own power, Krish's entire body began to dissolve. He screamed, stumbling backwards, before their power devoured his body entirely and he disappeared with one final scream that echoed through the air.

As Metal Sonic pulled himself up over the edge of the roof he had clung to for dear life, he was Nazo screamed before the air around him rippled and two hedgehogs threw thrown out of a pure flare of white light. Sonic slid along the ground of the snow covered street straight into a snow bank, disappearing from sight. Shadow landed against a street lamp, coming to a immediate stop.

"That…" Sonic began, poking his head above the snow. "That was fun, but let's not do it again any time soon." Shadow rubbed the back of his neck as he stood up rather unsteadily, his legs having lost a good deal of their strength.

"I feel awful." He remarked, leaning against the street lamp for support. Gently it began snowing again, the air filled with small white flakes.

"What happened?" Metal Sonic sliding down a thick bank of snow to the street below. "One minute Nazo was beating the crap out of me, the next the two of you are here." Sonic smiled, a smug grin coming over his face.

"My brilliant plan was a complete success." He replied.

"Care to explain this brilliant plan?"

"I would, if I understood what happened myself." Fang had been watching for some time. Well so much for that problem. Now would be an excellently opportune time to slip away unnoticed and then return one day to take revenge for his humiliating defeats. As he turned, he paused to give thought. This was certainly not the last time they would have trouble from Fang the Sniper.

The silence in the air was broken as more police choppers neared. The Swat police came hurtling around the corner, sirens blaring. A small detachment from the G.U.N peace keeper force, three pilots inside large Big foot Walkers came flying in to support the police. But by the time any of them arrived on the scene, there was no body left to arrest. Metal Sonic, his own engines too badly damaged for flight had to ride inside the X tornado with Amy, who found it hard to stay within three feet of the metallic hedgehog.

"Tails, have you any idea what just happened back there?" Chris asked. Tails shook his head. He did know and quite frankly he didn't want to know. Half the stuff they managed to get themselves involved in was so far fetched it made fairy tales look plausible.

"Face it Shadow. You owe me big time." Sonic stated, folding his arms as he grinned smugly. The black hedgehog said nothing. He just sat there with his arms crossed, staring off into space. "Oh come on. I just saved your life." Sonic added, trying to attract Shadow's attention by waving his arms about. "A 'thank you' is the least you can do." The black hedgehog turned to give him a sideways glance.

"That stunt could have killed us both." He replied, his voice flat and emotionless.

"Maybe it could have…" Sonic began, leaning back against the wings of the X-Tornado. "But it didn't did it?"

"Starting taking things seriously Sonic." Shadow snapped. Sonic paused, stunned by his abruptness. "The next time you use Chaos Control to help you in battle, it could be the biggest mistake of your life." Sonic narrowed his eyes and turned away sulking. "Which is why I've decided to teach you how to use Chaos Control properly." The black hedgehog added as Sonic spun back, a stunned glare on his face, his green eyes wide in utter confusion. "If you expect to compete with scum like Krish, then you'll have to be able to use Chaos Control without killing yourself. As the only other person on this planet who can use it as well, I'm the only one qualified to teach you." Sonic blinked.

"You serious?" He asked. Shadow simply nodded. Sonic paused, his stunned expression maintaining itself before he blinked and cried… "Cool!"

"Oh and Sonic?"

"Yeah?"

"Thank you."

"Don't mention it."

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(In Chris' voice)

Have we seen the last of Krish? Hope so.

But the race is on as the second Emerald Tournament begins, with a twist. It's super speed time with the Sonic R saga, next time on Sonic X: Road Rage rampage. Don't miss it!

(I lot of people have asked me if I was going to do a Sonic R saga, and now I can tell you I am. Let's see how well I can fit Sonic R into the story so far shall we? R&R)