Chapter 15
Shadow, even in his feeble position, still managed to glare at Eclipse. The silver hedgehog caught this and smirked at him. "WELL, SOMEONE'S HAPPY TO SEE ME!"
Shadow gave his brother an even colder stare. "Yeah right!" He scoffed.
Eclipse smirked again and then turned his attention back towards Amber. "…AND YOU, TRAITOR, WILL YOU BE THE NEXT TO FEEL MY WRATH?"
Amber smirked, while the emeralds started spinning around her. "Something like that."
Amber's fur blinked to solid gold as she entered her Super form. The emeralds now started gaining velocity as they turned into a rainbow colored line. Amber closed her eyes and tightened her hands into fists as the energy began to transfer.
Below, the clouds were being set in even more turmoil than they were already in. Thunder was heard clearly from the force of the transformation going on and lighting bolts even shot out of the clouds and higher into the skies.
Amber's face contorted as the last remaining Chaos energy was transferred to her body. A bright white light illuminated the area as the transformation completed. Everyone's arms shot up out of instinct to protect their eyes, all except Eclipse, who was watching with great interest.
The light subsided, as the transformed Amber hovered over a small crater. Her fur was now a very heavy purple color as dark energy sparks danced around her body. The female opened her eyes to reveal them to now be a dark blue.
Eclipse's eyes widened slightly as his mouth opened a little to talk. "IT…CAN'T BE!"
Shadow and the rest of the group looked on confused at Amber and back towards the shocked Eclipse. Amy tilted her head slightly and bent down to talk to Shadow. "Shadow…what's he talking about?"
Shadow took his gaze off Amber and looked at the pink hedgehog. "Amber… just transformed...into…her Chaos form!"
Amy's and Rouge's eyes both widened. "WHAT?" They both shouted.
Instead of responding to their outburst, Shadow looked back at Amber. The girls followed suite and also looked back at the female.
Amber slightly flexed her muscles as even more energy sparks danced across her body. Eclipse smirked and unfolded his arms, getting into a fighting stance. "SO, YOU WANNA FIGHT, LITTLE GIRL?"
Amber smirked. "You bet…"
In a burst of purple light, Amber charged for Eclipse who put his arms up in a cross position. Amber made impact with another burst of light as she brought her elbow against Eclipse's crossed arms.
Eclipse scooted back slightly from the force of the attack but soon regained composure and swung a fist at Amber. The she-hog dodged the assault easily and darted back, pointing her hand at the monster. "CHAOS BEAM!" A vicious purple beam of Chaos energy was released and hit Eclipse directly in the chest.
The monster let loose a howl of pain as the attack made a black burn mark across his entire giant chest. Amber smirked. "You're gonna have to step up your pace a little, brother."
Eclipse growled in agitation as he flexed his wings and took high into the air. Amber followed and shortly, they were both high above their spectators.
Amber started things off with a side kick to Eclipse. The monster dodged and tried delivering his own kick. Eclipse's attack hit its mark and caused Amber to grimace in pain slightly. Eclipse didn't stop there however, and lashed his giant tail out at Amber. Amber elevated her body very quickly as the tail flew by harmlessly beneath her.
Amber flew back down to her previous position and charged for Eclipse again.
With Shadow, Rouge, and Amy
The beaten and bruised Shadow was still under the gentle care of the albino bat, Rouge, lying in her lap with Rouge softly stroking his quills while she and Amy watched the battle that was taking place above them.
Shadow's mind and eyes however, were on another thing. And that particular "thing" was none other than the white bat that was cradling him in her arms.
Shadow didn't want to admit it, but he was very relaxed and at peace under the huntress' soft and warm touch. There was something about it that the dark hedgehog couldn't figure out though. 'Why am I so comfortable with her? I always erupt with power when she's harmed or threatened. Could it be that I'-
Shadow's thought were cut short by a loud groan of pain. All three companions looked to the side to see the red Echidna next to them was now stirring slightly. Amy jumped up from her sitting position and ran over to the Echidna.
Taking a knee, Amy rolled him over slightly to find his eyes wide open. "Amy?" He coughed. "What happened?"
"Eclipse happened." Amy responded.
Knuckles' eyes widened slightly. "Eclipse, where's he at? Where's Sonic and Shadow?"
Amy put both of her hands up. "Whoa, slow down Knucklehead! Sonic is out cold right beside you and Shadow's getting some "special treatment" for his wounds."
Knuckles titled his head slightly as he got up into a sitting position. "Special treatment?"
Amy smiled playfully and moved her body so Knuckles could see Shadow and Rouge, Knuckles' eyes widened in realization. "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, okay. But you still didn't answer my first question."
Amy looked down slightly. "Eclipse is still alive."
Knuckles sat up even more. "Then who's fighting him?"
Amy faced him again. "Amber is."
Knuckles jumped up. "WHAT?" As soon as he sprung to his feet though, he fell back down from the pain in his body.
"Knuckles, you have to stay down, you're still hurt." Amy cooed.
"Oh man, my head."
Amy and Knuckles both looked to their side to see that the blue hedgehog was also stirring. Amy, of course, was delighted and immediately tried to jump on top of the hedgehog, completely forgetting about his wounds. "Sooooooooniiiiiiiiiiic!"
Sonic's eyes widened when he saw Amy. "Uh-Oh…"
Sonic barely dodged out of the way of Amy's onslaught by rolling his limp body to the right. "Amy please, I can't feel my body as it is!"
Amy stopped her attempts for hugging Sonic when she was reminded of his wounds. "Oh yeah, sorry."
"Do you mind shutting up?" Came a dark voice from not too far away. The owner of that voice was of course, Shadow.
Knuckles and Sonic tiredly dragged their bodies closer to Shadow and Rouge and lay down beside them. Amy also walked back over, in much less time than the two injured males.
Sonic smirked at Shadow when he saw what position he was in. Shadow seemed to read his counterparts mind and raised his voice before Sonic. "My threat still stands, Sonic!"
Sonic shut his mouth and looked across the whole surface of the area he was on. "Soooooooo, where's Amber and Eclipse?" He asked while looking at Amy. The pink hedgehog only pointed up as Sonic followed her finger's direction and saw two figures exchanging blows in the sky.
With Amber and Eclipse
Amber came at Eclipse with a round house kick, which the evil hedgehog half-heartily blocked with the back of his claw. The monster, in turn, swung a huge right fist against the female's now open body. Amber couldn't dodge or block in her position and was hit with full force.
Rocking back slightly, the purple hedgehog regained her composure and tried a straight kick using her entire body. Eclipse turned to the side as Amber flew by. The giant hedgehog began glowing dark, heavy silver as the energy in his body began to build up.
"CHAOS INFERNO!" Eclipse shouted as the devastating attack was unleashed upon the exposed Amber. The purple Chaos hedgehog once again had no time to dodge and was hit by the attack. The huge explosion sent the female flying back through the sky as she performed a horizontal flip to stop herself.
Looking back at the source of the attack, Amber spotted that through the smoke of the attack, faint silver light shone. Amber narrowed her eyes in an attempt to get a better view of what was lying before her but it soon was revealed when a strong gust of wing blew the smoke of the Chaos Inferno away.
High in the sky, above Amber and everyone else, Eclipse had gathered a massive energy orb. It was already twice the size of Eclipse and continued to grow. Amber's eyes widened. "No…"
With Shadow and Co.
The entire group's eyes also widened as their pupils shrunk to small dots.
"That energy attack has way to much power for only Amber!" Sonic said half amazed at the energy gathered and half frightened.
Shadow freed himself from Rouge's gentle grasp at that moment and stood tall. Rouge gave him a worried look. "Please…be careful Shadow."
Shadow turned back to her and gave her a dark, handsome smile. The dark hedgehog turned his back towards Rouge and the others as his fur burst to gold with one flex of his entire body. Bending his knees, Shadow shot off at incredible speeds.
With Amber and Eclipse
The female hedgehog's deep blue eyes were now totally wide in fear as she rocked back a little. "That's…too…much!"
"I can't believe you'd give up that easily."
Amber turned around to see Shadow floating next to her in his Super form. Amber smiled slightly. "Well, this is kinda different."
Shadow looked at her, then back at Eclipse. "No matter, we have to stop it anyway."
The energy attack that Eclipse was gathering was now well the size of over ten Eclipses and finally stopped growing.
Eclipse breathed out heavily and smirked when he saw Shadow and Amber, ready to counter his attack.
"LET'S SEE YOU STOP THIS ONE! CHAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOS MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!" With one push of both of his claws, the giant attack was released and was sent directly towards Shadow and Amber.
Through the bright light of the attack, Shadow faced Amber. "Amber, if we don't stop this, Station Square and everyone in it is doomed."
Amber nodded with a newly gained confidence and put her two hands out in front of her, ready to stop the attack. Shadow followed suite as both hedgehog awaited the devastating attack that had the power to wipe out Station Square.
Eclipse saw this and laughed evilly. "TRY ALL YOU WANT DEAR SIBLINGS, IT'S OVER! EARTH AND EVERYONE ON IT IS MINE!"
