17. Who are the Real Bad Guys?

Back in the vents, Tails, Knuckles and Shadow had reached the spaceships command centre. The three of them peered through the grill. Tails blinked.

"There's only one person here," he whispered, "Sonic's distraction must be working!"

"Should be," said Knuckles, "he always does like being the centre of attention."

"Humm," Shadow looked around. "I don't think there are many guards around at all. If you think that the Kryptonities must have men guarding every nuke on earth – since they are the only weapons that the humans have that can harm them – so there can't be many people left on the ship."

"Okay," said Tails, "so we can probably take this guy out with out raising too many alarms?"

"Your in charge," reminded Knuckles. Tails took a deep breath.

"Right, ATTACK!"

The poor maintenance worker had barley looked up when he was hit by Shadow on the top of the head. This sent him staggering forward into Knuckle's fist, which was coming in the other direction at high speed. All it needed after that was for Tails to trip him from behind, and as he hit the floor, he was unconscious. Tails strode over to the control panel.

"Right," he said, "I'm going to send that message Sonic told me to send, while you two look out for more guards."

"You're the boss," said Knuckles cheerfully, "for as long as it takes me to win the bet."

"Hey, Knuckles," Shadow gestured for the echidna to come over and have a look at a different display. "There's a lot of Chaos Energy coming from two points of this ship! Do you think they could be your emeralds?"

Knuckles studied it carefully and then shook his head. "The signature pattern is all wrong," he said. Then he paused, and looked up, concerned. "That last time I saw a pattern like this was when Sonic last turned into Super Sonic!"

Shadow jumped. "You mean that crazy unstoppable Chaos energy monster that just likes destroying things?"

Knuckles nodded. "It only happens if he gets really angry or exposed to too much Chaos Energy. I hope it's the former, because then the affect is shorter."

"Really?"

"Yep. Only lasts until he's destroyed what ever is pissing him off."

Shadow paused, and looked down at the display again. "If it is Super Sonic," he said nervously, "then why are there two sources?"

Knuckles shrugged. "Let's hope we don't find out."

Tails ran over. "Okay, I've sent the message. If Sonic's right, all the Kryptonite Soldiers on earth will be now following "orders" and heading for the Grand Canyon."

"Great, let's get going," said Knuckles. He took a few steps before remembering something. "If those are your orders Tails," he added. Tails laughed.

"Okay, I think we… err, head for our ship. It should still be in the docking bay."

"What about Sonic and Sonia?"

"I'm sure they'll catch us up," said Shadow before Tails could reply, "Sonic always looks after himself." (Of course he didn't mean that in a nice way.)

"Great," said Tails, "too the ven…"

The doors to the bridge were rammed open and they were confronted by ten Kryptonite guards. One of them used his lazar eye beams to weld the vent shut before they could escape. The three animals paused.

"Of course there is always the 'B' plan," said Tails, as Knuckles brandished his fists.


Sonia sat up. Her head was thumping, she'd hit it had when Arm-OR had dropped her. As this fact occurred to her, she realised that the professional torturer was probably still around. She glanced around fearfully, looking to see if she could spot him before she spotted her.

It didn't take long; Arm-OR was in the centre of what had been the room (it was missing a few walls now) thrashing wildly at a yellow blur. He was paying no attention at all to Sonia. She wondered briefly where her dad was, and why Arm-OR was attacking thin air. She received both answers at once when the blur suddenly stopped and swung a fist towards Arm-OR, sending him flying towards Sonia.

She just about scrambled out of the way, which turned out to be very important, since the dent Arm-OR made in the solid wall implied that Sonia would be dead if she'd been in the way. This seemed to disappoint Super Sonic.

"Dam, nearly made a double," he said. Arm-OR, bruised and bleeding from his back slightly jumped staggered up, absolutely livid.

"You can't be that strong!" he growled.

"I'm afraid I can," Super Sonic responded, his red eyes gleaming evilly. "You may think you tough because you can beat up two girls and their husbands, but you had trouble with the blue girl didn't you. She crushed your hand!"

"Yeah, but she only took one hit!"

"You got lucky," Super Sonic scoffed. "Her power supply was exposed and you hit it. My power supply, however, comes from inside me," he smiled, as yellow energy flicked off him, "and I bet you couldn't hurt it even with a free hit!"

"We'll see about that!" screamed Arm-OR, and he charged Super Sonic at full speed, who – to Sonia's amazement – just stood there. He didn't move a muscle, until Arm-OR hit him. Then he flexed his face into a smile, as the Kryptonite gapped at the lack of any impression from his hit. "But… I… you're so small and weak," he stuttered again, "how can you be this strong?"

"Chaos Energy can do almost anything," Super Sonic laughed. Then he grabbed Arm-OR's hand, and smashed him up and down between the ceiling and the floor. Soon, Arm-OR was being flung around so fast, that to Sonia, he was just a blur. Suddenly, Super Sonic got board, and let go. Arm-OR cannoned away and ricocheted off the ceiling and the floor on his way to landing at Sonia's feet. The once mighty warrior was now a shrivelling, badly beaten mess. He looked up to Sonia, who saw to her surprise not the normal look of hate and supreme confidence, but a look of pure fear.

"Please, help me," he begged, which quite took Sonia aback. "He's crazy; he's going to kill us all…" Super Sonic smashed onto his back, crunching it with his feet.

"Don't bother the kid," he sniggered, as he raised a small put vibrant energy ball in his hand, "you should spend this time preparing your speech for the man upstairs!"

"Wait," Sonia blurted. Super Sonic stopped, and he looked round at her slowly, his eyes burning with hate.

"What?" he asked gently. Sonia hesitated.

"There's no need to kill him," she stuttered. "I… I think perhaps that he's learned his lesson."

"But he's an evil man," said Super Sonic harshly, "he deserves to be killed!"

"No, you murdering him makes you as bad as him," Sonia pleaded. "And I don't want to see my dad kill anyone!"

Super Sonic's eyes softened. He took a step closer to Sonia, and said gently; "So, you don't want me to kill him, because I'm your father, and you believe I'm better than that?" Sonia nodded. "I'm touched," said Super Sonic, "but there's one thing you are forgetting."

"What?" asked Sonia.

"Sonic's your father, not me!" and with that, he swung back round, and blasted Arm-OR into oblivion. Sonia gasped, and shielded her eyes from the glowing light. But through the dust and general chaos, she heard Super Sonic saying, "I'll be back for you one day…"

When it had all cleared, Sonia looked back round again. The yellow demon had gone, and standing there instead was Sonic. He looked over at her.

"Sonia, are you all right?"

She recovered her balance, and made her way across. "DAD!" she said, "what happened?" Sonic looked around.

"I'll say that Super Sonic happened," he scratched his head, and took a brief look at Arm-OR's fried, lifeless body, before turning away. "Did anyone else get hurt?" he asked, "I can't really remember what happens when I'm Super Sonic."

Sonia shook her head. "No, everyone's okay…ish."

"Good," said Sonic. "Tails and co will probably have finished by now, so come with me." They walked through the remains of the cell out into the corridor, Sonic picking up Buttercup as he passed; the green puff was still knocked out. He pulled her all the way to Bubbles' resting place, where he put her down, and started shaking Bubbles.

"Wakey wakey!" he bellowed. Bubbles stirred.

"What?" she said as she returned to reality. Sonic looked down on her, very unimpressed.

"Where did you get that Chaos Emerald from?" he asked. Bubbles blinked.

"I… err, I found it."

"Had Blossom told you about Chaos Energy?"

"No."

Sonic laughed. "I'm no the only one who's a bad liar," he said, chuckling as he did, before his expression suddenly went very hard. "But don't play games with me. What you did was extremely stupid."

"Hey," said Bubbles aggressively, "I was the only one who even hurt that Kryptonite – what happened to him?"

"Don't change the subject!" said Sonic, which surprised Sonia since Sonic usually delighted in telling people about his achievements. "That Emerald could have destroyed you! Chaos energy dose crazy things to people, and you were lucky that emerald got destroyed."

"You don't need to lecture me, I'm not five," Bubbles sulked.

"Doesn't stop you from acting like it," Sonic replied. "Now listen up. Your husband, sister and brother-in-law have taken some heavy hits, unlike you who just overloaded when the emerald got smashed, so I need you to teleport them back to earth. Take Sonia too."

"Where are you going," asked Sonia fearfully. Sonic paused, and looked away from the two of them slightly.

"I'm going to try and find Blossom, or at least her kids," he said.

"YOU CAN'T!" Sonia wailed petrified, "THAT PRINCE WILL SLAUGHTER YOU IF HE WAS ABLE TO KILL BLOSSOM!"

"Blossom's dead?" said Bubbles, her voice going squeakier then normal. Sonic didn't reply to that.

"I'll see you on earth," was all he said, before shooting off down the corridor.


"When you said the 'B' plan," said Knuckles as he and Tails bobbed around in Shadow's wake, "I thought you meant we were going to fight them, not just burst through them and run for other lives!"

"Really?" said Tails. "I thought that was the only sensible thing to do."

"Would you two keep your mouths shut!" shouted Shadow, who was pulling them along, "it messes up all the aerodynamics!"


'Blossom' breathed steadily, as the Prince paced round her. For the changed Puff, it was all a slightly surreal experience. She felt a deep calm inside, a calm that came from the knowledge that she was, momentarily, attempt to completely obliterate her opponent in pure anger. It also came from the knowledge that she finally knew what had possessed her to kill Superman; it was whatever this was. In those moments all those years ago she'd felt the worst she'd ever felt in her entire life, but today, she felt good.

"Quite done yet," she asked. The Prince looked up, his lip curled furiously.

"Yes, I believe that I've just decided how I'm going to make you suffer."

"Good," said Blossom calmly, and then, it the blink of an eye, she attacked. Since she was yet to launch an affective attack in the entire battle, the Prince was caught somewhat off guard by this, and ended up being smashed across the floor. He would have smashed into the wall too, but Blossom beat him there, and kicked him high into the air above. The Prince managed to steady himself, just in time to watch the yellow beam of energy hit him in the chest. As he smashed to the floor in pain, Blossom wandered slowly over to him.

"I think the boot is firmly on the other foot," she said calmly, "but I'd like a second opinion." The Prince responded by whirling his leg around just above the floor, taking Blossom's feet from under her, and landing her on her back.

He scrambled to his feet, but Blossom just flew upwards, still in a lying down position, and kicked him in the face a few times. After a couple of hits, the Prince managed to grab Blossom and hurl her towards a wall. Blossom's response was to punch the wall out the way as she hit it, rocking the entire space ship. She burst back through, and went to attack. The Prince put his MJ-damaged arm up to defend him self, but it was a useless attempt, as it was no where near strong enough to protect him. As he rocked backwards, Blossom hit him again, opening up a good distance between them. She laughed slightly, for the Prince was now bleeding.

"I can't imagine how pathetic I was before to be loosing to you!" She laughed. "But, now I'm more powerful, let's see what this Kamehameha thing can really do!" She pulled her hands back to one side, and the energy ball built up again. "I hope it makes you suffer!"

The Prince finally found his tongue. "YOU CAN'T WIN!" he said, "YOU LOST THE FIRST FIGHT, SO THIS IS ALREADY OVER! GUARDS, KILL HER!"

A door was opened, and ten Kryptonite warriors burst in. This was of great relief to Shadow, Knuckles and Tails, who were now free from pursuit, but didn't please Blossom.

"You're pathetic solders will pay for your cowardice!" she screamed, as energy flashed off her. She released the blast in the direction of a few of the soldiers, before moving so quickly to deal with the rest that to onlookers she became a mere yellow burly, scything and destroying anything in her path with limited trouble.

Even the most arrogant of Princes, could have seen that there was no way to defeat 'Blossom' in a straight fight, well not at the moment anyhow. So the Prince glanced around quickly for something that might give him an advantage.

The last soldier clattered to the ground, and Blossom landed gently, her hair flayed out behind her like a cape, her entire body glowing slightly. She looked at the Prince, who was by no means defeated.

"It's over Blossom!" he said triumphantly, displaying Edward and the still unconscious MJ, who he had picked up again. "Surrender, or I kill them and you won't be able to save both!"

Blossom just looked at him, calmly. Then she lowered her hands to one side, and started powering up an energy ball. The Prince laughed.

"Who do you think your trying to fool," he chuckled, "you wouldn't harm your own children!" he kept on laughing, but the laughter became more and more hysterical as the ball being generated in Blossom's hands grew larger and large. Eventually, he cracked.

"You can't fire that! It'll destroy the entire ship!"

"And?"

"You can't!" the Prince stuttered, "this is all that is left of our race, all the women and children… your children, you couldn't possibly want to…"

"What makes you think that I care?" asked Blossom. "I only care about destroying you, and if this is the way to do it, do be it!" The ball bulged to a massive size, light pouring out of it.

"MUM, PLEASE" Edward screamed, but it didn't even register a flicker on her face.

"YOU DON'T HAVE IT IN YOU BLOSSOM!" screamed the Prince desperately, "YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY LIVE WITH THE GUILT!"

"I'm not Blossom," the yellow puff said in reply, "I have transcended beyond her!" She fired.

Somewhere inside the massive ego that was the Prince of Krypton, heir to the throne, something clicked. He was going to die. So he might as well go out in the way all ego maniacs want to go; in style. He dropped the unconscious MJ and the terrified Edward, and charged "Blossom's" blast, hitting it dead centre, and taking the full force of the blow himself. The action saved the ship, his people, Sonic, Shadow, Tails, Knuckles, Edward and MJ, but more served to achieve his purpose. When news of his heroic sacrifice got out, he would be immortal.

To his, disappointment, he survived the initial attack. This didn't appear likely to be a permanent thing however, because the crazy yellow Puff was soon standing on his neck.

"Time to go," she said. "But don't worry, because you will go down in history, as the first of my many victims! For once I've destroyed you; I'm going to get revenge on all Blossom's old enemies, from Mojo Jojo right down to the kid who throws the newspaper in the pond every Tuesday morning. I suppose once I've done that I should destroy all Brick's old enemies too, as half my power comes from him. Either way, once I've finished entire civilisations will have been obliterated, and you will have the pride of being the first victim. Goodnight…"

"MUM WAIT," wailed Edward, grabbing the yellow Puff's hand. "Please, you're scaring me."

She looked at him with the two glowing yellow eyes, and suddenly, Blossom felt her anger evaporating, and herself returning. What hadn't worked on Sonic had worked on her; Blossom even felt Bricks powers leaving her, as she returned to normal. But unlike Sonic, she could remember everything.

"Oh Edward, I'm sorry…" she whispered, and she swept her now crying son into a hug.


Else where Brick watched, as his powers returned to the bottle. Few, he thought, that was nearly very bad. Not only had he almost lost Blossom to some insane Chaos Energy evil, he'd nearly created a disproportionate amount of work of himself and Death at the same time!
Sonic sprinted into the arena. He had had no idea quite what he was expecting, but it had defiantly not been this.

"What happened here?" he asked. Blossom and Edward looked up from MJ, whom they'd been tending to.

"Mum went a funny yellow colour, and nearly destroyed everything," Edward said, as deadpan as he could.

"Oh," said Sonic. "I'll talk to you about that later. For now, we need to get off this ship. Shadow, Knuckles and Tails will probably be waiting for us."

"Did you succeed?" asked Blossom, as she stood up, carrying MJ.

"Course I did!" Sonic replied. "I'll give you the details when we get back to earth, but I'm sure those Kryptonite soldiers are in for a big surprise…"


"Are you sure that we were supposed to meet here?" asked the lieutenant. The captain nodded.

"Those are our orders," he said.

"It looks like the entire army is here, I wonder why?"

"I don't know, I don't think anyone knows."

"Oh I beg to differ," said a newcomer to the conversation. The Captain swung round, only to be met by a fist coming in the other direction. As he tumbled to the ground, so did many others, because having been directed into the Grand Canyon by Tails' orders, the entire SSR (minus the Puffs and Ruffs of course) was on hand to spring an ambush. The disorganised and surprised troops were soon bidding a hasty retreat.


Okay, sorry about the length, but I had a point that I wanted to get to and I just kept going till I got there. There are two chapters left, just to tie up a few lose ends, so if you have any pacific requests about how this should be done (i.e. who do you want to lead the SSR, how should the SSR members respond to the returning Blossom – especially the DC comics characters) now is the time to let me know. Okay, please review. Thanks.

P.S. I've updated my profile page, so it now has somthing on it, for all those that are intrested in finding somthing out about me or the background to my stories. It's probably boring, but if you have any questions on anything on it, don't hesitate to contact me. Okay, thanks.