Chapter 16; Sonic's dark secret

Tails filled the bowl with chips and then placed on the table around which Amy, Knuckles, Jet and Silver were sitting. It has been over a day since the incident in the duel dome and Wave along with their other friends still lied in Tails' room unconscious. They spent the night trying everything in their power to wake them up. From throwing water in their face to electrocuting them with small shocks. Nothing worked. The moment they abandoned hope Tails admitted he had something to reveal. The same morning Silver visited them to see if there was any news and they narrated him everything. They sat around the table and the moment Tails brought the chips so they could get some energy since they were without sleep he started saying what he had to say.

"Do you guys remember that duel runner model demonstration that happened last year where they asked Sonic to race the against the new runner?"

"Yeah" Amy said "he beat the new model using his knowledge of runner driving"

"And then that guy would not accept that he lost due to lack of skill in runner driving and in his raced cursed Amy and Sonic's parents." Knuckles added.

"Remember how much angry Sonic got?" Tails asked them.

"Yeah. It was the first time I ever saw him so angry. He totally kicked that guy's ass. Literally." Jet said.

"Then you 2 went on a runner ride so he could calm down. You calmed him down Tails." Amy said concluding the story.

"I didn't manage to." Tails admitted.

"What do you mean?" she asked him.

"Do you remember what happened the next morning?"

"That same guy crashed while training." Knuckles said.

"That's what the press said right?" Tails asked them.

"Yeah" they all replied.

"That's not the truth. That's what Sonic and I made up and told them journalists."

The team's eyes widened in shock.

"Tails!" Amy screamed "Are you saying what I suspect you are meaning?!"

"Depends on what you think I mean."

"That he was …murdered?!" Silver said shocked realizing what Amy meant.

"Yes. And the worst part is.. the murderer was…"

"SONIC?!" She screamed.

"No. Not exactly. It WAS Sonic but.. not exactly him at the same time."

"What is that supposed to mean? Like another personality or something?"

"EXACTLY. It was him but his skin was like yesterday. His hair was pointing up and his eyes had no pupils. But that was what Sonic admitted. You see it is a long story. After this murder 5 more duelist's murders occurred. Each at midnight. The police described the perpetrator as a Sonic-like figure. So every night from then on I stayed awake and waited on the streets for a sign of the perpetrator. Eventually one night I saw him pursuing a runner. I chased him down and when I caught up to him I had the biggest shock of my life. It was the Sonic I described earlier. We dueled. And I beat him!"

"You beat Sonic?!" they all asked shocked.

"Yes. That is something only the 4 of us and Sonic know!"

"But…. That would make you the king again Tails" Knuckles said in shock.

"Knuckles I'm not done yet. When I beat Sonic… he suddenly split in two. One was the Sonic we know… and the other was the dark Sonic but he seemed too… out of reach. As if he had no body. The two of them dueled. Sonic emerged victorious. Then he told me that this was the dark Sonic that you and Sonic battled in that alternate future. The rage that grew inside of Sonic for that guy allowed dark Sonic to conquer his body. Then he proceeded to transform his whole deck into darkwings. So that's one reason I didn't become champion altogether. Because I beat dark Sonic not Sonic. Besides this after dark Sonic killed that guy. Sonic was conquered by guilt afterwards and this of course allowed dark Sonic to take control of his body again. And as a result, dark Sonic's killing spree reached 5 victims. In total. Until I separated them. But the problem is that dark Sonic wasn't destroyed. He was drained again by Sonic. He said that if we let him be, he would reside in someone else and return. So he once again was sealed inside Sonic's body."

"Just like that video game marathon we had about that 'darkness onslaught' video game last year." Knuckles said.

"Yeah. Darkness can never be destroyed. It can be stopped and laid to rest but it will always return. Sonic can control it normally. But with the god cards' corrupting effect he lost control."

"So…maybe this can work again?" Amy wondered.

"What?" Tails asked.

"If we can beat him… he will be back to normal?"

"I don't know Amy. It is too dangerous to fight him now. We must make a plan first. And think about the god cards' weaknesses. I beat Obelisk with brute force. Sonic beat Slifer with strategy. But Ra….. he was beat by teamwork."

"Yeah but remember Tails. We were 3 against 1 back then. Now it will be 1 on 1." Knuckles reminded him.

"I know but there is something that doesn't make sense. Ra is a phoenix trapped in an armor. And it has the regeneration effect. In other words the sphere mode. Still… do you know how phoenixes die?"

"They set themselves on fire." Jet said.

"Right. But this sounds to me like a field blowing effect speaking the game's language. Maybe there is something about Ra we still don't know. I mean a regeneration effect? It means that to use it normally it must die first. But what when it dies? We didn't see that."

"Yes we did. When Nazo killed it." Knuckles stated

"What if it's destruction has to be our doing for this to work?"

"In that case…. I don't know."

"So that's why you don't want to fight Sonic yet? You want to deduce Ra's weakness?"

"Exactly."

At that moment the room's lights were shut off.

"What the..?"

"The power went out?"

"I'll go fix it." Tails said.

But before he could get up….

"Don't move buddy." A familiar voice was heard.

The power came back and they all saw Sonic standing by the television. He was still exactly as yesterday. Dark and evil.

"Sonic!" Amy screamed.

"So you plan to fight me in the end? And deduce Ra's weakness? How cute."

"Every card has a weakness! That is your saying!" Tails answered back.

"Wrong. That was this fool Sonic's saying. I am not that Sonic anymore. I am something greater."

"What do you mean by that?"

"This should not concern you. If you really want to fight me early I'll be waiting by the abandoned chocolate factory outside the city on the way to the north. However I state this; the more opponents I beat the more powerful I get. From this point on the decision is yours. If you wanna join your friends so badly I'll do you the favor!"

At the moment he said favor the lights flickered once and he was gone.

Tails looked at his friends. Knuckles and Jet looked at him worried. But Amy seemed to be thinking.

"So now what? He challenged us. Do we respond?"

"No! The pleasure of defeating him will be all mine in the next round." Jet declared.

"Oh no! Now you reminded me. We only have 3 days. We have to prepare you." Tails said.

The rest of the day was spent by preparing Jet's deck for his battle with Sonic. However the next day, while Tails was arranging for practice in a nearby duel field he was called by Knuckles.

"Tails you there?!"

"Yeah what is it?

"Amy's gone mad! I went to hers and Sonic's home to see if everything's ok since she seemed weird after Sonic's visit yesterday and I found a message on her door saying 'I'm going to find my husband'!"

"She is going to challenge Sonic all by herself?" Tails said shocked.

"I'm afraid so. We need to stop her!"

"Everyone to Sonic's hideout! Fast!" Tails said.

5 minutes Tails Knuckles, Silver and Jet were riding towards the abandoned factory were Sonic was. Tails hoped Amy wouldn't do anything foolish.

At the abandoned factory

Amy dismounted her runner and went towards the entrance of the factory. If Tails was able to save Sonic from dark Sonic back then, then it should be possible for her to do it as well. However the moment she crossed the gate of the building it slammed shut behind her. Concentrating on what she came for, she ignored her survival instinct which screamed at her to scream for help and proceeded through the dark rooms of the building. Eventually she reached a warehouse. In the middle of the room there were carvings on the floor. Amy realized immediately it was a duel field carved on the ground. She gathered all of her courage and spoke the 7 words she so desperately wanted to say.

"I'm here Sonic. I love you."

Sonic stepped out of the shadows.

"Well, well. food for the gods. Good."

"I'm here to save you."

"Like the time when that good for nothing fox saved him last year? This time I am more powerful than you can ever imagine. No one will save him."

"I will send you back to the darkness!"

"I am the darkness!"

"DUEL!"

"I'll start. I'm sure this will remind you of something. I activate dragonic diagram!"

Sonic's expression changed for a second. He did remember it. It was the deck he gave Amy as present for their one year anniversary. True dracos. Her next favourite archetype after world chalice and dark synchro deck. Maybe she would actually be a match for him.

"And what is this supposed to be? Your effort to remind that weak fool of your love and release him? Not this time! The gods are stronger than love!"

"I use diagram's effect to destroy master peace the true dracoslaying king and search my deck for true king's return. Then I set 2 cards and activate card of demise! Now I draw until I have 3 cards. Then I tribute 1 of them to summon dinomight knight the true dracofighter! my end my turn with the continuous spell true draco heritage. I activate its effect to tribute it and summon ignis heat the true dracowarrior. Now I end my turn."

"Pathetic. My turn. I draw. I summon blakcwing gofu the vogue shadow. Then I special summon 2 tokens due to its effect."

"Hold it. I activate 3 effects. True king's return, dinomight's effect and ignis heat's effect. Ignis heat brings from my deck and activates another true draco heritage continuous spell card, dinomight brings true draco apocalypse continuous trap card and true king's return resurrects master peace from the graveyard."

"Good. But not good enough. I link summon link spider by tributing one token!"

"Right into my trap! I activate mystical space typhoon which smashes my true draco apocalypse and in turn when it is destroyed it smashes a monster out."

"Damn. Whatever. I activate the field spell mount of the bound creator. Now I summon a link spider again."

"Hold it. I activate mask of restrict!"

"NO!"

"Now you can't tribute your monsters!"

"Impossible! You can't seal my god cards!"

"I can!"

"Damn you! I set 2 cards and end my turn."

"My turn. I draw. I activate diagram's effect!"

"Hold it. I discard ash blossom and joyous spring. Now diagram's effect is negated. Which means you can't destroy or add."

"So what! Ignis heat destroy link spider!"

"So fool! I activate malevolent catastrophe! Every spell and trap card out is destroyed. And my other set was emergency truce. When it is activated all your monsters lose their effects for good!"

"So what because true king's return was destroyed gofu goes down! Ignis heat continue your attack!"

"AAh!" (Dark Sonic LP 5600)

"Dinomight attack him too!"

"AAAAH!" (Dark Sonic LP 3300)

"I end my turn. See Sonic? The gods are nothing compare to the power love gives!"

At that moment Sonic's body released a dark aura. His hair was raised like if he had put gel on it. And when he looked at her, his eyes were literally empty. No eyeballs. Just an infinite white.

"That was your last move woman! Now you will experience pain beyond your greatest fears!"

Amy got the creeps by the way he spoke those words. Despite this she remained calm.

"Then let's see you try."

"My turn. I draw. (both next effects slightly altered) I activate the spell card lullaby of obedience! I pay 2000 LP" (Dark Sonic LP 1200) " to declare a card in your deck and if you have it I get it. I choose…. Soul exchange!"

"Oh no!"

"Oh yes! I activate it! Now I can use YOUR monsters for a tribute summon! I sacrifice dinomight knight, ignis heat and master peace! Ancient god of war! Awaken from your eternal slumber and pulverize my opponents to dust!"

Sonic slammed his hand to the ground and an earthquake started. At the same time outside the factory Tails, Knuckles, Jet and Silver had just arrived and felt the shaking realizing they were too late. Amy had already engaged in a duel.

We need to find a way in!" Tails said.

"Leave this to me!" Knuckles said determined not to lose another friend. He charged towards the door!

"Knuckles what are you doing?!" Silver said shocked by his friend's attack on a huge metal door.

Knuckles prepared to punch the door while running towards it. His mark shined momentarily and then he punched the door which instantly bursted open. Silver was left with an open mouth due to Knuckles' strength even if it was provided by the lunar dragon. The 4 friends immediately charged in and headed towards the room was the voices of Sonic and Amy were coming from.

Back in the duel field Amy witnessed in fear the ground behind Sonic cracking and a blue shine coming out of the ground. The next moment the ground opened and Obelisk flew out of it and landed behind Sonic. His head was almost touching the ceiling. Amy was staring at the huge blue titan in fear when Tails and the rest of their friends entered the room.

"Oh no! We're too late." Knuckles said in despair.

"Amy brace yourself!" Tails said.

"It's ok.. for now. He used my soul exchange to summon it. He can't battle yet. But I have no cards on the field on in my hand."

"One card is all you need. That's what Sonic taught us right?" Tails said.

"I know." She answered.

" It's too bad I can't deliver you the pain yet. Whatever. I set one card and end my turn."

"My turn. I draw. Yes! I activate disciples of the true dracophoenix! Now I return true king's return, master peace and dinomight to my deck. Then I shuffle. And I draw a card." But she drew dragonic diagram. Meaning she was defenseless.

"I.. I end my turn."

"Oh no!" Knuckles said realizing what was gonna follow.

"My turn! I draw. Obelisk! Crash this bug of a woman! GOD HAND CRASHER!"

Obelisk raised his hand and then started lowering it with all his strength right on Amy! She tried to jump out of the way but she ended up under the huge blue hand.

"Amy!" they all screamed.

Obelisk's hand was raised and Amy was lying on the ground unconscious. At least that seemed to be the case for a second. Immediately afterwards she jumped back up even with a lot of scratches and wounds and stood against Sonic again.

"You're one stubborn woman! But everything is pointless against god! I set one card and end my turn!"

"My… my turn." Amy tried to balance herself and snap out of the shock of the attack. She lost her balance momentarily but got up again and drew her next card. "I activate dragonic diagram. Now I also activate card of sanctity. We both draw until our hand is at 6. Perfect. Time to show my ultimate weapon. I activate dragonic diagram's effect. I destroy disciples of the true dracophoenix to add another master peace in my hand. Then I activate 2 cost downs. I discard 2 cards to reduce for each cost down the level of the monsters in my hand by 2. So I summon master peace once again. Then I activate double summon. So I summon my 2nd master peace. Now for the ultimate true draco. I overlay my 2 master peaces together. From the combination of the two kings the supreme ruler of all dracoslayers shall be born! Claim your throne and reign over the world! I xyz summon master peace the true dracoslaying ruling emperor!"

"WHAT?!"

"Amy's gonna win!" Tails said excited.

"Master peace activate your effect! I detach an xyz material so his attack doubles and all your spell and traps are destroyed!"

Sonic's backrow was blown to bits and master peace's effect increased its attack from 4000 to 8000.

"Master peace! Attack with the dracoslaying sword of justice!"

Master peace jumped towards Obelisk. However before he could touch him…

"I can't believe I'm about to do this! I activate the trap you destroyed! Sudden death!"

"What the hell is sudden death?!"

"When it is destroyed and you enter the battle phase all monsters on the field and all the cards in our hands are immediately destroyed. Then our ability to normal summon is permanently sealed! However you draw 2 cards every turn from now on."

"Amy wins. She will just add true king's return next turn, summon a master peace and beat him!" Tails said.

"Way to go Amy!" they all said.

"Give it up Sonic it's over!" she said.

"NO! YOU WON'T WIN! YOU WON'T STOP MY DESTINY!"

"Then go ahead and make your last move!"

"My turn…. Ha… ha…. Ha…hahaha… hahahahaha… AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"What's so funny?!" Amy asked him.

"Little foolish woman. You were nothing more in the end than a stepping stone for my destiny! I activate monster reborn!"

"Oh no!" Amy screamed in terror.

"Arise once again! Mighty Obelisk The Tormentor!"

Obelisk was brought back in a giant blue flash.

"GOD HAND CRASHER!"

Obelisk's hand once again crashed Amy. (Amy LP 0)

"AMY!" Tails and the others screamed.

Obelisk's form disappeared since the duel ended. Amy was on the ground inside a pool of blood. Wounds were all over her body. Tails and the others immediately rushed to her side. When they reached they saw her mark being literally deleted from her right arm. It transformed into a light blue energy which entered Sonic's body. Sonic looked at them once again with his eyeballs restored and his hair in their natural appearance. But his skin was still darkened. And his smile was still evil.

"You killed her…YOU KILLED YOUR OWN WIFE!" Tails screamed.

"Indeed I did. And soon you will be next!"

"Why you! I'll kill you!" Jet screamed and charged at Sonic.

Sonic's mark suddenly released a very strong blue light that prevented the others from looking at him. After a little while the light disappeared and they opened their eyes. They were back in Tails' house.

"Damn that coward he teleported us all back here!" Jet screamed breaking a dish that was left on the table when he kicked it by mistake.

"So now all that's left is the 4 of us." Tails said realizing that Sonic was sweeping them one by one. "And by defeating Amy he grew stronger than us. What do we do now?" Tails asked them but no one had anything to say. The day after tomorrow whatever happened to Amy would happen to Jet and Knuckles or Tails.