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Chapter 10: Trez's Battle

' What is this thing?' Scribbles wrote while staring at a post. This post had the word "Future" written on it. Ghost touched it and sent the trio into a warp. The warp dumped them on a field of dead grass and withered flowers. The sky was thick with fog and the lakes were black with oil. Near the lake were three piles of chao bones. One pile had a sign lying next to it.

" W-what is this?" Flash stammered. It was then that a chao wearing a skull and a cape walked up behind them.

" This is Little Planet. Alas, it is merely a shadow of its former glory." The chao said solemnly.

" Who are you and what happened?" Ghost asked.

" Many years ago, I went by the name of Trez. A trio of chao came to stop two great evils and never left this planet. It became their grave." Trez replied.

' They… died?' Scribbles wrote.

" What happened then?" Flash asked.

" The Black Arms swiftly took over the planet. Cities were destroyed, countries were wiped out, and the whole world was crushed…" Trez replied.

" So, this is what happens if we fail… We can change this future by winning!" Ghost exclaimed.

" That voice! Is that you, Ghost?" Trez asked.

" Yeah, somehow we traveled into the future." Flash said. Scribbles saw another post and tapped it. When the warp dumped them, they were back in the present.

" We now know the price of failure. We now realize that the world is counting on us!" Ghost yelled.

" Let's go!" Flash whooped.

' It's go time!' Scribbles wrote as the trio dashed off. At Stardust Speedway, Team Metal Chao was waiting for their prey. Spirit and Rocky were tied to a street post, crying loudly.

" Argh! Shut them up!" Abyss roared. Scrawl took some cloth and gagged them.

" They have three hours left…" Wraith smiled.

Elsewhere, Trez stood near a lake while staring at his reflection.

"I wish there was a way to fight the darkness within my soul." He sighed.

" Perhaps I could help you…" Black Doom hissed as he rose out of the ground. Trez whipped out a Chaos Emerald.

" You've got five seconds to tell me, or else you'll be looking at the business end of a Chaos Nightmare…" Trez said. Black Doom raised one arm and drew an orb of dark energy out of Trez. The orb took the form of its host. In a matter of seconds, Trez stared at a perfect copy of himself.

" This is it. If I want to carry out Erin's wish, I need to win this battle." Trez thought as he motioned for the dark soul to attack.

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