Chapter 11 - Consumed by darkness

I continued my chase. After a few minutes, I see something flash right next to me. It's not Sonics or Shadows flash when they run. This one was white, and much faster. I only saw it for a slight amount of a second. The Malicious is right in front of me now. I'm about to catch up. Jody isn't too far ahead of him either. Suddenly, The Malicious trips. What the? He trips? Now is my chance. I manage to close the gap between me and Malicious, and jump on his back to keep him down. Then he lifts me using a shield. I can't move. "Heh, impressive you are. But I have no time to play." He throws me away, and runs forward. But he's bumps into something, and falls on his back. "Ah, it's that wire girl." He says. I'm right behind him again. Wire girl? I see the wires in front of us. I only need to slow The Malicious down, so I try to grab him. But he uses his shield to blast me away. I will be knocked out once I hit the ground, but... Someone catches me. It's that girl, Seria? How did she... Oh, that's right. She suddenly disappeared. "You okay, Hero?" she ask. "Not really, I can barely stand." I respond. The Malicious looks viciously at her.

Malicious: "So you're the one that was ordered by the government to keep an eye on Summers. So you finally decided to show up."

Seria: "You won't get Summers. He's too dangerous to let him fall into your hands."

Me: "We'll stop you here for once and for all."

Malicious: "Hah, you! Don't make me laugh kid. You're exhausted, you won't be able to do anything. You wouldn't even be able to scratch me if you weren't."

I rush at him. He puts up his energy shield again. I don't know why... but I'm very confident I can penetrate it. I feel like i'm stronger than ever. My fist hits the shield, and shatters it. But... where's The Malicious. I look behind me, and there he was. He was ready to break Seria's neck. She simply teleports out of it, to the other side of her wire wall. So... she can teleport. So that's why I never noticed her. "I'm amazed you broke my energy shield, boy. But I have no time." He creates a massive energy shield, then lets it explode. The wire wall gets shattered, and I and Seria have to get out of the way. Seria teleports herself away, while I get blasted back again. I get up, very slowly. My whole body hurts, but I can still move. As long as I can move, I can ignore the pain. The Malicious was already out of sight, but I know in which direction he was heading. I chase him again.

After another 10 minutes there's a gigantic wall. It seems to be a wall that surrounds some kind of city. Seria and Jody are fighting The Malicious as I get closer. Just what I thought, Seria teleported to Jody and Summers. Their fighting skills are awesome, although they don't have a lot of power. Especially Jody is very good when it comes to technique. But none of them can penetrate The Malicious 's energy shields. I'm finally close enough, and then hit The Malicious from his back, where he is unshielded for the moment. He staggers, jumps against the wall, and makes a hole in it so he hangs. "You're still not out? Persistent, aren't you? He looks at Summers, then puts up an energy shield around him. This one took him about a minute to create. We can't reach The Malicious anyway, I think.

Jody: "What are you doing to my brother!"

Malicious: "I'm only making sure he won't destroy us all."

Jody: "He's not evil! He won't destroy us!"

Malicious: "It's only a matter of minutes. None of you can possibly stop it."

Seria teleports herself above The Malicious, and hits him down to the ground. The Malicious quickly creates a powerful shield around himself too. There is nothing for him to worry about. He sits on the ground and waits. For several minutes we try breaking either one of the barriers, but nothing helps.

We stop once Summers starts floating in the air. He doesn't have his eyes open, leading me to believe that he's still uncunscious. "Brother?" Jody asks to him. He doesn't respond. Seria blames The Malicious. "What's happening? Malicious, you did this!" The Malicious sighs... "This was in him all along. Just wait, and be amazed by his awakening." I wanted to say something, but Summers opens his eyes. They're glowing white now, his color changes a bit and he gets thick, shiny white lines on this fur. Then suddenly, an explosion happens in the shield. "Just as I thought, my energy shield are" The energy shield around Summers shatters, and a very powerful wind blows us far away. The wind is even strong enough to shatter The Malicious's own barrier, and blow him away too. Then there's a very powerful explosion... that's all I can remember before i'm... knocked out.

I finally awake... but I can't open my eyes. I can't even move. It must 've been hours since... that happened. I hear some footsteps closing in on me. "It's you? How did this happen? I'll... take care of you." A female voice? I pass out, yet again...

End of chapter

New character

Name: Seria Idon
Age: 23
Gamefaqs member name: Cloud789
Color: Pink, with some red and blue
Spike style: Point up, then down, up, then down, like a zigzag
Others: A dress, much like the one Amy wears, but is colored dark blue. She has bangles and bracelets on her wrists and ankles that jingle.
Side: Good
Time in Hedgehog Mania world: About 14 years before she gets introduced into the story
First appearance: Chapter 8
Role: Adult female hedgehog that does various tasks for the government, but she also tries to stick to the good guys group.
Personality: She used to be a boy, so she isn't attracted to males. She's quite attractive for a female hedgehog, so she doesn't like all those guys that regularly try to hit on her. She doesn't joke around a lot and gets straight to the point. She learns fast, and is pretty smart. She sticks as much as she can to Hero's group because she can be herself there, without being annoyed. She still has a few boy habits though.
Backround: A boy before she got transfered to the Hedgehog Mania world. She was only 9 back then. She was raised in a city, and it wasn't much later that her skills were noticed by a hedgehog that worked for the government. There she was trained for many years, and the hedgehog that found her became her mentor. About 3 years ago, she went on a secret assignment with her mentor, who achieved a legendary status by this time. They failed the mission, and her mentor didn't make it. That mission was to check out Summers. He unleashed his evil powers a bit, and caused an explosion that fatally wounded her mentor. When she came back, she was assigned to keep an eye on Summers, and interfere when something goes wrong. If it fails and she survives, then she has to report it to the government.
Special power: Telepathic and telekinetic abilties. She's well trained in creating wires with them to capture targets with them, and she can also teleport. She can use those abilities also pretty good in combat.

Status growth:
Power: 6/10
Battle speed: 8/10
Endurance: 7/10
Melee fighting: 8/10
Strategy: 8/10
Running speed: 9/10

Name: Evil Summers
Age: 21
Gamefaqs member name: UltimateSummers
Color: Black head, orange fur, and several white stripes
Spike style: Some of the ones near the front stick up, and the rest are like Sonics
Others: Yellow pants, black-brown mountain shoes
Side: Evil
Time in Hedgehog Mania world: About 17 years before he gets introduced into the story
First appearance: Chapter 11
Role: A very powerful evil guy
Personality: He has no personality. He just wants to destroy whatever he sees.
Backround: He's the same person as Summers the Hedgehog, so he also has the same backround.
Special power: Uses dark energy in every kind of imaginable way