3-11: Elements, A Revelation
A/N: 95% of this chapter was written by XLR8 The Fox. I have only done minor editing to it and added to the ending.
It was another day at Camp Everfree. Everyone was doing different activities. Wall climbing, boat riding, and much more, XL was at the archery ranging working on his archery. He got 3 bulls eyes after a couple of tries. At some point Twilight came up to XL.
"You're pretty good with that," said Twilight as XL put the bow and arrows down as turned to Twilight.
"Yeah, when I was on Mobius, I was given a choice of weapons I would use as my duty of an Elemental Guardian, I chose a bunch of weapons to protect those who can't defend themselves." said XL as Twilight got curious,
"You know, you still have yet to explain what an Elemental Guardian really is, can you explain it to me?" asked Twilight in curiosity
"I guess, but maybe I should tell the rest of our friends as well, so I won't need to explain it over and over." said XL,
"Ok, that makes sense" said Twilight,
"I will tell everyone to be by the dock in a hour," said XL as he grabbed the bow again," I'm gonna continue shooting." said XL as he picked up some arrows,
"Ok, see you in a hour" Twilight replies as she walked off, XL was about to shoot again when he heard a loud noise which broke his focus as he shot up in the air, the arrow flew up and went into the forest, "…scrap" said XL as he went into the forest to retrieve the arrow.
He walked for a few minutes before finding the arrow, "there you are" said XL as he crouched down to pick up the arrow, only to also see some big green roots, "what the?" said XL as he picked up the arrow and looked at the roots, suddenly, the roots started moving as he readied his bow, his eyes followed where the root was heading, only to see a dark part of the forest.
Suddenly, XL felt a Surge mixture of magic, Chaos energy and elemental energy. He aimed his bow at where he felt the energy. He saw red eyes in the darkness as they approached. It looked like a teenage girl, she had some nature themed clothes, a jumper with root patterns on it with the hood that looked like an animal, she had track suit trousers with flower patterns on them, roots and flowers covered parts of her body. She almost looked like Gloriosa when she lost control of equestrian magic. Around her plant life grew slowly as she advanced.
"This isn't good" XL exasperates as the girl glared XL and raised her arm. A giant root to rose from the earth and charge at XL. XL shot the arrow at the root damaging it. Then he summoned his fire sword and slashed at the root, cutting most of it that rose from the surface off. The girl then roared like a tiger or lion as she retreated into the woods. XL ran back to the camp to warn the others.
Meanwhile, Rage was relaxing in his and XL's scheduled tent, it was quiet, until XL came running in, "Rage!" said XL, almost out of breath, Rage got up as he saw XL almost out of breath,
"XL? Did something happen?" Rage asked XL as XL breathed to get his breath back,
"we have a problem, and it's not involving camp activities" said XL as he sat on his bed,
"What are you going on about?" asked Rage as XL looked to Rage.
"Rage, there is a corrupted Elemental Guardian here" said XL worry shrouding his voice.
"Wait, a Corrupted Elemental Gaurdian? Last time I checked you were the only one here." said Rage.
"That's what I thought too" said XL as he was worried.
"so why is it another Elemental Guardian here?" Rage wonders aloud as XL opened a small portal. He reached into it and pulled out a gold ring with a ruby in it as its shaped as a Flame symbol.
"I don't know, but I know that she is corrupted and needs help before it's too late" said XL as the ring glowed in a red aura.
"Well that's obvious…" Rage sighs. "We should inform the others."
"Yeah, we don't have much time either." XL says as the two hurry to the dock.
The group had gathered by the docks as XL stood on the end of the dock, he revealed his gold ring as it floated in his hand. "This is a Chaos Ring, they hold the power of the elements" said XL as the group observed it, "when someone gets the title of an Elemental Guardian, they are given a Chaos Ring which has the same Elemental power as them. However, if they are separated from their Chaos Ring for a specific amount of time, their power begins to corrupt them." said XL.
"So, what like what happened to Nix and Vlagh?" Sonic asks.
"No it's different from them." Rage answers. "If it was I would have sensed it by now."
"Then what is it?" Twilight asks
"Why don't we just let XL explain?" Rage sighs.
"When an Elemental Guardians power corrupts, they start to go after things that will oppose a danger to their power and Element. f they don't have their Chaos Ring by the time they enter their final stage of corruption. They will be corrupted forever. There is only 2 ways to reverse the corruption, one is to return the Chaos Ring that has the same Element as the Corrupted Elemental Guardian before the final stage of corruption, once returned, the corruption will be reversed. The second is to contact the Mistress of Light, Mistress Fiona, she is the one of many Elemental Masters who created the Chaos Rings" said XL as the group was shocked about this information, Rage walked up to XL
"XL, how did you become an Elemental Guardian?" asked Rage "Normally I catch wind of things like that but I was never informed of it. Master Chaos was not happy at that development…"
"I was 12 when it happened, I was at my school, and my brother, Kix, was being bullied, when I came, the bullies where about to stab him with a knife, I felt something burn inside of me, when I got there, I stood in front of my brother, then suddenly, a wave of flames sent the bullies flying, they see me determined to protect my brother. They then ran off. As my brother and I were heading back home Mistress Fiona appeared. She told me and my brother where descendants of Elemental Guardians. She gave me the Chaos Ring of Fire, and my brother, the Chaos Ring of Electricity" said XL as he brought out another God Ring with a Citrine gem in it in a shape of a Lightning Bolt.
"Wait, XL, how do you have your brothers Ring? Did he give it to ya?" asked Applejack as XL had some tears streaming down his face, "No, Vlagh made Midnight Sparkle kill him in front of me, which is how I became Dark Flame that one time" said XL as Twilight remembered what happened back then, the rest of the group felt sorry for XL, but XL wiped his tears, "Let's not worry about me for now, what matters is that we have a Corrupted Elemental Guardian is here and is getting worse. " said XL as the group got worried, "we need to find her Chaos Ring, from what Elemental Power she was using. She must be the Elemental Guardian of Nature. We need to find a Chaos Ring with a green gem in the shape of a leaf inside the Ring. We should start looking. " said XL. They split up into small groups to find the Chaos Ring of Nature, the first group was Sonic, Rainbow Dash and Applejack. The second was Shadow, Rebecca and Rarity. The third group was Rage, Sunset and Pinkie Pie. The last group was XL, Twilight and Fluttershy.
Sonic, Rainbow Dash and applejack looked by the climbing wall, since it was close to the forest. Shadow, Rebecca and Rarity were looking by the tents. Rage, Sunset and Pinkie Pie decided to look near the forest, while XL, Twilight and Fluttershy searched in the forest. XL had his sword of flames in case they found the corrupted Elemental Guardian, "keep an eye out, the Chaos Ring must be here somewhere" said XL as Twilight and Fluttershy looked around, just then, some Foxes ran onto the path XL, Twiligh and Fluttershy were on, the group saw them as they looked scared.
"What's wrong with them?" asked Twilight, XL Kneeled down as he then started to yip like a normal fox, one of the foxes yipped back, Fluttershy and Twilight were surprised that XL was communicating with the foxes, XL nodded to the foxes as he got up and faced the two girls, "These foxes got scared by the corrupted guardian, she's close" Said XL as they got scared a bit.
Meanwhile with Rage, Sunset and Pinkie were still looking by the entrance of the forest, just then, Rage felt a small surge of energy. H looked in the direction the energy was coming from, he then saw it was coming from the building Gloriosa's office was, "I think I found out where the Chaos Ring might be" said Rage as Sunset faced him while Pinkie had her head in a bush, " where is it?" asked Sunset as Rage pointed to the building, "in there" said Rage as Pinkie took her head out of the bush as he hair had leaves and branches in them.
Meanwhile with Sonic, Rainbow Dash and Applejack, "man, finding this Chaos ring is hard work" said Sonic as Rainbow Dash was also having a hard time,
"Maybe we're just lookin' in the wrong spot?" said Applejack as they then some rustling, they looked to some bushes near the climbing wall, Sonic got into a defensive position while Rainbow Dash and Applejack got ready to attack, just then, the ground rumbled as then something burst out of the ground, they saw that it was a giant venus flytrap, but it looked more monstrous, "the heck?!" said Sonic and Rainbow Dash as the Flytrap looked at them moving its head to where Sonic, Rainbow Dash and Applejack are, it roared at them. Sonic runs towards it as he had an idea, "Sonic are ya crazy?!" shouted Applejack as Sonic started doing a spindash in front of the monster Flytrap really fast. "Nope, just gonna cut down a weed!" said Sonic as he spindashed towards the Flytrap as he hit the main stem of the Flytrap, as he managed to cut through it, causing the Flytrap to fall off its stem as it looked dead
"Is it dead?" asked Rainbow Dash as Sonic walked over to her and Applejack, "I don't know" said Sonic as then the monster flytrap roared again as its roots from the ground grabbed onto the cut stem that was attached to the Flytrap as the Flytrap lunged its mouth towards them and tried to bite them, "Woah! Guess not" said Sonic as he tried to distract it. Applejack tried to use her Equestrian Strength to rip the Flytrap from the roots.
Meanwhile in the forest, XL, Twilight and Fluttershy heard the roar from the Flytrap, "what on earth was that!?" asked Twilight.
"No idea, but we need to head back to the camp now," said XL as then they heard growling as they saw the Corrupted Elemental Guardian, except she had gotten worse. She was becoming dark green and lots of vines and roots surrounded her and her eyes had turned black with green pupils with cracks around her eyes.
"She's getting worse" said XL as the Corrupted Guardian roared and giant roots rose from the ground chargeingat XL, XL used his Fire sword to cut down the root as it was a blaze, Twilight ponied up as she was ready to help fight, "Fluttershy, you should get back to camp and tell the other!" XL yells as Fluttershy got up and saw the corrupted Guardian.
"O-ok, I'll try" said Fluttershy in fear as she ran off back to camp, the Guardian hissed as more roots and vines appeared, "this is gonna be tough" said XL as he and Twilight got ready to fight
Back with Rage, Sunset and Pinkie, they went to Gloriosa's house /office and looked around, they looked around to find the Chaos Ring, then Sunset found a Gold Ring on Gloriosa's desk, it had an Emerald gem in the ring, the emerald was shaped as a leaf,
"I found the Chaos Ring!" said Sunset as Rage and Pinkie went to her and saw it.
"Nice job, now let's get to XL and show him the-" before Rage could continue, Gloriosa walked in through the door and saw the 3 there,
"Whats going? Why are you in my office?" asked Gloriosa as they turned to her, Gloriosa saw Sunset holding the Chaos Ring
"what are you doing with that?" asked Gloriosa as Rage stood forward, "This doesn't belong to you Gloriosa, it belongs to someone else, and they need it." said Rage as Gloriosa was confused,
"Why? What's wrong?" asked Gloriosa, then suddenly, the foour heard roaring as then ran out to see Sonic, Shadow, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Rarity fighting off giant flytraps.
Rage and Sunset saw Fluttershy run out of the forest, "Fluttershy, wheres XL and Twilight?" asked Sunset as Fluttershy was almost out of breath, "the, Corrupted Guardian, she's getting worse, and XL and, Twilight are fighting her" said Fluttershy, just then they heard more roaring and saw the Corrupted Guardian come out of the forest as she had vines and roots holding her up in the air. The vines were holding XL and Twilight. Twilight tried to get out but XL seemed to be knocked out
"Twilight! XL!" said Rage as he shot a Chaos Spear at the vines, cutting them as Twilight and XL fell down as Twilight tried to pick up XL, but then the Corrupted Guardian saw this as she tried to attack, then Rage appeared in front of the Corrupted Guardian as she kicked her back, "I don't think so" Rage grunts as he helped Twilight get XL away from the Corrupted Guardian.
"what the heck happened?!" asked Rage as Sonic, Shadow, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Pinkie pie finished fighting the fly traps as they went to rage and the others, "she's gotten worse, she is so strong, XL and I couldn't beat her" said Twilight as Rage looked to the Corrupted Guardian which had gotten up from the attack he did to her, he then summoned his sword, "maybe I can" said Rage as he then glowed in a red aura as he charged towards the Corrupted Guardian
The Corrupted Guardian summoned tons of roots and vines as they acted as a shield from Rages attack, Rage kept striking the vines and roots, cutting them down, as he got through it however, the Corrupted Guardian had a Boulder being held up by roots and vines, she threw the boulder at Rage as he tried to dodge it. It was too late, Rage was struck by the boulder and got sent to the ground, but he got up. "Dammit…" Rage curses he still wasn't fully recovered from the battle with Gloriosa and as such he was already weakened.
The Corrupted Guardian roared at Rage. suddenly, she summoned a black energy ball with a dark green aura around the energy ball, she then shot the energy ball at Rage, Rage got hit as he was sent flying, XL was trying to get up after being knocked out, but then Rage collided into XL as both of them got hit badly as they had struck against a big rock, which knocked both of them down
"Rage! XL!" said Sunset and Twilight as they and the rest of the group had ran towards them, unfortunately, Vines and roots covered Rage and XL as the Corrupted Guardian was slowly heading towards the group, "we have to get her the Chaos Ring now!" said Shadow, "but what about XL and Rage?!" Said Sunset as she and Twilight were on the verge of crying, "if we don't stop that Corrupted Guardian, we may not be able to save them" said Shadow as Sonic didn't want to, but he knew this was right, the rest of the group understood but Sunset and Twilight wanted to get XL and Rage out of the Vines and roots now
Meanwhile under the roots and vines, as they were covered Rage looked to XL. "Hey, I have an idea...you may not like it though",
"Well let's hear it." XL grunts,
"It's clear we are going to have too much trouble fighting her alone. However, if we can fuse we may be able to defeat her." Rage suggests,
"Heh I'd do it! What makes you think I may not like it?" XL answers,
"Because, you could die..." Rage answered grimly "Very rarely is it I can fuse with others because of my internal Chaos Force. Most people die after we split... but it may be our only shot here",
XL smirked "Dude, your talking to the Fox who had parts of him destroyed and replaced with holographic robot parts, I can take it, besides, with both powers of Guardians of different roles as one, we will be strong enough to take her down, its not like we have a choice in the matter anyway" XL pants.
"Alright, if you understand the risks involved." Rage says.
Just as the Corrupted Guardian was about to shoot another energy ball at the group, Sonic, Shadow and the rest of the group felt a surge of power, "Burn! Bureijingukaosu!" Rage's voice echoes and the vines and roots got blasted away by a beam of light, Rage stood in his Final Form "Ryuu Saishu Burijingukaosu" he says. Soon a portal opens and 11 Golden Rings with different symbols come out of the other, the Chaos Ring of Nature floated up as the Chaos Rings, along with XL's Chaos Ring of Fire, floated around XL the Chaos Emeralds then appeared around Rage just then, a bright pillar of light engulfs XL. When it died XL was in a different form, his tails had grown bigger and longer, his fur changed from red to white as his white fur changed into red as his bangs changed as well, red to white except for the blue part which had turned purple, XL had Fire patterns on his arms, tails and his gloves, XL was glowing in a Firey aura.
"Nice try, but its gonna take a lot more than that to beat me!" said XL in his Ultimate Fire Form as the group was amazed, they could feel the power emanating from Rage and XL,
"We're not going down without a fight!" yelled Rage as the Corrupted Guardian growled in anger.
" Ready?" XL asked Rage as Rage nodded,
"If you are!" said Rage as the 2 got ready to use Chaos Control, "Chaos Control!" shouted XL and Rage as they teleported into the same place, as the beam of light got bigger and brighter, Flames and Chaos Energy was flowing around the beam of light
The group saw a faint silhouette of a mobian figure, the beam of Light was dying down as the figure was more clear to see, he had white fur, two large fox tails with the tips being red, he wasn't wearing a shirt but had Rage's jacket on, Rages jeans, but his shoes were a combination of Rage's and XL's shoes, he had chest fur and face fur, which were white, his had quills pointing up with purple streaks on them, and the top part of his quills had a flame shaped pattern, he has 3 bangs on his fore head, the top and bottom bangs were white while the middle was purple, the mobian was glowing with fiery aura around him, just then he opened his eyes to show purple eyes, the group and corrupted guardian saw the new being that has appeared as he looked towards the corrupted guardian, and then to the group
"Rage? XL?" asked Sunset, just then the Mobian smiled as he pointed his thumb to himself, "the names Raxel" said the new Raxel.
The group was amazed, but the corrupted guardian growled and roared as she then summoned another energy ball, she saw some of the campers hiding and aimed her sphere at them, suddenly she got kicked back by Raxel with incredible speed, Raxel smirked as the corrupted guardian lost her focus and staggered back, she was furious
Raxel focused his energy as then he glowed more powerful with rainbow aura, fire aura and Chaos aura flowed around him, the Corrupted Guardian growled as she summoned more spheres and aimed them at Raxel, she shot them as then Raxel destroyed them witgh a Chaos spear, he flew up as fire was being summoned around him, "Chaos!" said Raxel, preparing an attack, the Corrupted guardian got worried as she summoned more giant fly trap monsters towards Raxel, "Flame!" said Raxel as he shot a giant blast of yellow fire which incinerated the fly traps.
The Corrupted Guardian roared as she charged towards Raxel, Raxel spindashed towards the Corrupted Guardian as he hit her right on her body, pushing her back while still in a flaming spindash, just as they fought it was over the Corrupted Guardian summoned a Giant energy ball in her hand , she then shot it towards Raxel, Raxel harnessed his power as he then shot a rainbow beam at the energy ball, Raxel was winning as then the energy ball cracked and got destroyed as the rainbow beam hit the corrupted guardian
The Corrupted Guardian got knocked out, the group of friends saw this as Raxel stood in front of the Corrupted Guardian, the Chaos Ring of Nature appeared in his hand, he pointed the symbol of the Chaos Ring towards the Corrupted Guardian, "I summon the Power of this Chaos Ring, to revert the effects of corruption from this Guardian" said Raxel, just then, a small green beam shot out of the ring and onto the forehead of the Corrupted Guardian, then the corruption of the Guardian was disappearing, so did the damage she caused on the camp, the overgrown fly traps withered fast as they were now dead plants and crumbled away.
The Corrupted Guardian was now healed as she looked better, she had light green skin, crimson hair, her jumper was white and light green and had brown tracksuit trousers, she opened her eyes to reveal Blue eyes as she stood up, "I believe this belongs to you" said Raxel as he gave her the Chaos Ring, she glowed energy as she was bonded back to her Chaos Ring.
"Thank you" said the girl as then suddenly, Raxel glowed white as he disappeared while Rage and XL got blown back separate ways, XL wasn't in good shape, his robotic parts got broken off, his Right eye, Left arm and Right leg got blown off, he couldn't get up, "uh, a little help here?" asked XL as Rage got up as he went to XL and helped him up, XL trying to balance on his left leg, "thanks, I can't believe we fused! And we won!" said XL.
"Well had I been at full power…" Rage grunts before Sunset hits him
"Rage…" she whispers "Don't one up yourself."
"Anyway there is still something I don't get." Rage sighs.
"What's that?" XL asks. Rage looks to the guardian.
"Why was she here. I locked all passages from Mobius to here when I came back so unless she was on Dark Mobius with someone who had access to the dark gateways there isn't any possible way she could have gotten here." Rage explains, "Explain yourself."
"Rage, come one she was just corrupted! This is no time to be so demanding with her!" XL shouts.
"XL…" Rage sighs "Normally I wouldn't but we are still in danger. As such I cannot spare any sympathy right now. Now uh…"
"Flora." She answers.
"Right Flora, do you remember much of anything?" Rage asks.
"Well… there was this one guy he was dark and I couldn't make out any features besides these evil…red…eyes…" Flora says.
"Did he talk?" Rage asks, she nods "Scratchy voice like ice to the ears, or deeper more sinister?"
"It was a deeper more sinister sound." Flora says. "I still can't remember where I was when it all happened." Rage sighs. "Why? What's wrong?"
"I should have guessed…" Rage groans.
"What?" XL asks "Is there something you're not telling us?"
"If you'd calm down and give me a chance to talk then the answer would be no." Rage sighs. "It's Vlagh, he's responsible for all of this."
"How do you know that Rage?" Flora asks. "I've never heard of this 'Vlagh' and I am sure if he was as big of a threat as you claim the Elemental Guardians would know!"
"The reason you haven't heard of him is because I defeated him originally 6000 or more years ago." Rage admits.
"Wait did you say 6000?!" Twilght exclaims.
"You're over 6000?! That's not possible!" Sunset exclaims.
"It's true." Rage sighs. "The Guardians Blessing…a special power bestowed upon Chaos Guardians…it makes it so we cannot age…"
"So, that whole thing about you being in high school before…was that a lie?" Rainbow Dash asks.
"No," Rage answered. "For part of it I was in condensed time-space where the flow of time is different. It was for training and it doesn't help that Dark Mobius' flow of time is so much faster than Mobius' for Mobius' time it was about 5 years. For their time, it was 6000 and since I killed him there it was 6000 years ago. Look let's leave it at I killed him and he's come back a few times. Though he has never recharged this fast or been reborn…" Rage ponders.
"Hold up Rage, why didn't he come with her?" Sonic asks.
"You're right!" Rage exclaims "That's why she's here. Vlagh was too weak to travel between worlds on his own so he sent someone else to do the work for him!"
"Are you saying he used me because he wasn't strong enough to do so himself? Ha! Yeah right! He obvious used me for my power." Flora laughs.
"Actually, no Rage is right." Sonic says. "Vlagh likes things done himself so if he sends someone else it's either because he can't do it himself or he has a bigger plan in the works."
"Besides if I wasn't still recharging from my fight beforehand, I would have been able to take you down no problem." Rage scoffs.
"Is that so?" Flora asks "Let's go right now!"
"Flora!" XL shouts, "Don't do this now."
"If he's so strong then I want him to prove it!" Flora yells. "Or are you all bark a no bite you red rat?!"
"Flora you're starting to step over a line you really don't want to cross…" Sonic whimpers looking at Rage who was standing there clenching his fist in an angry way.
"What…did you call me?" He asks as his fist catches fire.
"ENOUGH!" Applejack yells.
"Guys don't bicker like that!" XL shouts "Flora Rage does have an elemental advantage over you…"
"What are you talking about?" Flora shouts.
"Remember the name of Rage's Blade of Chaos?" XL asks.
"Well yeah it was Bureijingu whatchamacallit." Flora answers. "Some name that doesn't mean anything."
"It means Blazing Chaos." Rage jeers crossing his arms. "My main element is fire. Not to mention I have a few moves that can could have killed you in your corrupted form in a single blow."
"Well then why didn't you use them?" Flora asks.
"Well because I didn't want to kill you for one. For two they take too much power. Not even 24 hours ago, I had to stop a crazed camp director. I am still recharging from that battle. This last endeavor didn't help any either."
"Why don't we get back on topic?" Twilight asks.
"Right, so what were we talking about?" Sonic asks
"Vlagh." Sunset answers.
"Right, Vlagh." Sonic nods "So what do we do about him?"
"Well since he isn't a threat now we wait." Rage says "I need to recover before we even think about going after him. Without my Chaos Finisher moves none of us would survive an encounter with him. Especially when we don't know how much power he has and how much he has yet to regain."
"Then we strike early while he's weaker!" Flora exclaims.
"Normally that would be a good idea but…" XL sighs.
"But what?" Flora asks.
"Vlagh can only be killed by either the Chaos Finisher: Darnkess' end or the All's End Chaos Finisher." Rage answers. "Sadly both of those are beyond anyone here besides me. Not because they're not powerful enough, Shadow could but it would damage him physically…that and I am not technically allowed to teach it to anyone else…"
"What? Why not?" Shadow asks.
"They're restricted to Chaos Guardians for a reason Shadow." Rage sighs. "If people use them wrong they'll kill themselves. When I first became a Chaos Guardian even I couldn't use them. I had to train for a long time to be able to perform such an ability. Even now it takes a good majority of my power to use."
"So, we can't do anything because Rage isn't at full power?" Flora scoffs "Great why don't we all just team up and stop him now then? All of us together can kill this Vlagh guy!"
"All we could do is weaken him again. Then he'll just recharge and come back." Sonic sighs, "We've tried that before back on Mobius."
"Why is killing his have to be in such a specific way?!" Flora pouts.
"To heck if I know." Sonic says who then looks to Rage. "Rage knows the most about him than any of us so ask him."
Rage shakes his head, "The answer to that is even beyond me, it could be that they were made specifically for that. It may just be chance. All I know is that we have time. I will be recharged in a few days. Just so long as he doesn't pull a move between now and then we'll be fine."
"That's great and all…but we're forgetting something." XL sighs.
"What?" Applejack asks.
"I am missing half of my limbs!" XL shouts.
"Calm down." Sonic says "I'll head over to Tail's place tomorrow and grab some new ones. He's bound to be able to make some new ones."
"Just how do you plant to get there Sonic?" Rage smirks.
"Right…" Sonic sighs. "Mind if I borrow a Chaos Emerald?"
"Just be careful." Rage chuckles throwing him the cyan Chaos Emerald.
"No promises." Sonic grins.
"Figured you'd say that." Rage smirks "Just be back soon alright?"
"You got it!" Sonic exclaims with a thumbs up before he uses Chaos Control to warp to Mobius.
"Rage I thought you said you blocked Mobius off." Twilight says.
"I did." Rage answers. "I just unlocked the passageways long enough for Sonic to get through." Rage closes his eyes and glows before collapsing. "Damn… I need to get to bed doing that drained what I had left…" he pants standing up using Applejack for support.
The gang returned to their tents as the sun sets over the horizon and Rage looks out a small window like opening in the tent. The returned home tomorrow and he was going to do nothing but rest. With Vlagh's return clear he would need to gather all of his strength back as soon as he could.