Author's note: Ha! FINALLY! The chapters you have all been waiting for!
Chapter Ten: Chanic
I was strapped to a long table, an electric shock surging through my body. I didn't scream, nor wince in pain and waited it out. Finally, the shock ended. I was left laying there, gasping horribly for breath.
"Had enough, Project Shadow?"
I swallowed and through my deep gasping I managed to say "You can do what ever you want with me and I will never have enough." The torture had been going on for nearly an hour.
Chanic laughed. It was cold and harsh. "You are like me, aren't you?"
It was my turn to laugh, though it was weak and winded. "Actually, I would have to say you are like me. Considering I am older than you."
Chanic nodded. "Physically, Shadow, you are older than me, but mentally, you are still a child." He then glared at me. "I thought I had destroyed your capsule. I thought I had killed you!"
I smiled. "I could say the some thing about you."
The blue hedgehog looked confused for about half a second, then went back to his cold glare. "What are you talking about, Shadow?"
"You wouldn't remember, Sonic," I said.
Chanic flinched at his real name. "I haven't heard that name in years," he muttered. It was the first time I caught a soft edge to that voice. He clenched his fists. "You've never met me!"
I laughed again. "I knew you before you became this!" I yelled. "I knew you when you were a hero, Sonic! I knew you when you would be the one strapped to the table and I would be the one delivering the shocks through you!"
"Impossible!" Sonic yelled. "You have been in a capsule for sixty years!"
I smiled. I had hit a nerve. "This isn't real!" I screamed. "This is an alternate reality! This isn't what is suppose to happen! I'm the villain, not you!"
Another shock, ten time worse the last, surged through me body. This time, I screamed, and he didn't stop it when I did. He pushed the voltage up and made it all most unbearable. I screamed harder, knowing, somewhere in my head, that he would continue because I was screaming. "STOP!" I screamed. This reminded me of my creation. If you thought I was created without pain, you are sadly mistaken. Sonic turned up the voltage. A weaker person would most likely be dead by now, but I wasn't ready to submit to death just yet. And I certainly wasn't about to be killed by Sonic the Hedgehog. Not on my life and over my dead body! Nice choice of words, a voice hissed in my head. "Shut up," I growled.
The voltage stopped. I collapsed, bowing my head and gasping weakly for breath. Sonic was smiling. "I was wrong about you, Project: Shadow. You are much stronger than I thought." He placed his hand on the lever that turned the shock on. "Let's see how long you can last when the voltage is lethal to an elephant."
"No," I whispered without looking up. "Stop." I had lost. I couldn't believe it, but I was surrendering. "No more."
Sonic laughed again and walked over to me. "Good. You are wise to make that decision, Shadow."
"Why?" The word was barely over a whisper. I wasn't sure Sonic even heard it.
"Why was it wise? Because..."
"No!" I snapped, a little louder. "Why are you Chanic?"
"You want that story, Shadow, is that it?" Sonic asked, suddenly speaking a bit quieter. I weakly lifted my head and nodded. "Sit tight then, boy, for it will take a while."
I laughed. "I ain't going anywhere, Sonic."
"My name is Chanic!"
I jumped at the outburst. "Ok, gosh!"
He sighed. "Ok, this is my story..."
"This is my song," I whispered quietly.
Sonic, or Chanic, didn't seem to notice me comment. "When I was five, I was walking through the forest when I came across this island."
"Was it floating?" I asked. He didn't respond.
"Somehow, I made it to the island. It looked as if no one lived there, so I continued walking, not too concerned with where I had to be next. Back then I never cared. It didn't matter. Well, I was walking and found this huge shrine looking thing. I smiled and ran up to it, not knowing what it was. On top of it was this huge, green gem. There was also seven different colored jewels surrounding the giant rock. I gently lifted each one, feeling that this was a sacred place.
"I walked over to the big emerald. I was afraid to touch it, considering if I had been it's owner, I wouldn't want anyone touching my giant gem. After walking around it, I finally got the guts to touch the emerald green gem. I placed my hand on it and felt a shock, I tried to withdraw my hand, but something held it there. Emotions of rage and hate entered my brain, and it mixed with my confusion. You see, back then I was still debating on who I was. You know that time when you just want to belong?"
I nodded. I knew that feeling, but I never knew Sonic had once felt that way.
"When I withdrew my hand, I could feel the presence of another mind in my brain. This mind was full of anger and rage and hate. For what, I still don't know. A voice whispered to me during the night and after a week, the other mind's anger and my confusion fused. I became Chanic."
I stared, shocked. Chaos? But, why? I thought. Chaos didn't have a reason to take control over anyone. "Did it control you?" I asked, hoping beyond hope that this was just Chaos in Sonic's body.
Sonic shook his head. "No. I embraced the new found energy from this thing called blind rage and hate. My heart and feelings became nothing of the matter and I ditched that little voice in your head that told you right from wrong. I was evil, and very proud of it. At the age six, I attempted to take over the world. Sadly, I was foiled by a crocodile and a chameleon. The next week, they were gone. Disappeared." He looked over at a knife that hung on the wall. It was a regular kitchen. One you would find in a regular home. I wince at the thought of what he did to Vector and Espio. Charmy wasn't born back then.
"And everyone else? You killed them too?" I asked, too afraid to ask.
Sonic nodded. "Over the course of the next year, I destroyed any of my race, or any animal I came across. I knew the military couldn't stop me, but those animals could."
"A fox of twin-tails, what did you do to him?" I asked.
Sonic lifted his head in thought. "I think I shot it's parents and drowned the child, why?"
I shivered. "No reason, continue."
Sonic shrugged off the comment. "At the age seven, I tried again. I figured since most of the little animal were gone, I would have no trouble. But a human did give me trouble. His name was Ivo Robotnick. He foiled my plans the second time. Two weeks after he foiled me, he suffered the same fate as the rest."
"I don't even want to know what you did to him." I growled.
"I decided, just in case I had missed someone, to take two years to plan my world conquest. At the age nine, I took over this planet."
"NINE!" I yelled. "You were nine?" I was shocked. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Sonic shrugged again. "What? Nine was a good age. When I found out that a female rabbit had given birth to child, that same year, I thought nothing of it. But as my reign progressed, I did remember that I was defeated by two over sized lizards, so about four years later, I killed the young rabbit's parents, leaving the child and her little chao for dead."
"And why did you kill Cheese?" I asked.
"You are very impatient, give me a moment," Sonic snapped. "As I was saying, I had kept the Chao alive, for some reason the side in which the anger came from wouldn't allow me to touch them. But two years after I killed that rabbit's parents, I had gained full control of my own body. The fusion was complete and I was stronger then the emerald. I killed all the Chao. I couldn't stand those little creatures, even the dark ones. The emerald was not happy about this. The rage turned from an onymous source to me, but like I said, I was stronger than what ever was in my brain. I took control over the new rage and basked is the new source. The emerald tried to withdraw from me, but I wouldn't allow it. I have created this world! Is it not glorious?"
"GLORIOUS!" I screamed, struggling against my restraints. "No! You have destroyed this world, SONIC!" I spat the name. Sonic flinched again. I guess he wasn't used to being yelled at. "You haven't done anyone any favors! You have killed your friends, partners and family! You have taken advantage of a powerful force. You aren't a villain, you are a hero! You aren't meant to destroy the world, you were meant to save it! This isn't your life! If anything, this is mine!"
That statement jolted me worse than Sonic's electric shocks. Yeah. Is it possible that you could be symbolizing someone else?
I had answered "no" to that question, but I was symbolizing some one else. My dreams weren't telling me to protect Tails from myself, they were telling me to protect him from Sonic! I was refereed to as the Dark Sonic for some time and my I was symbolizing that Sonic was evil and he would kill anyone for anything.
Sonic was staring at me. "And what did you do with the ARK?" I asked.
He laughed. It was back to being cold again. "The ARK? Destroyed."
"But, the Black Comet!"
"Used the E-Cannon to destroy it before it ever entered Earths atmosphere."
I could have kicked myself. The one time I'm dead and they skip the whole Black Doom incident.
"Shadow, what were you ranting about. Me, a hero?"
"Yes," I growled. "You were a hero. In another time and another place." The statement was very true. It was another time, and another place.
"Yeah, right! What are you? From the future?"
"Past," I whispered.
"Pardon?" Sonic said, walking back over to the voltage machine.
"Nothing." The word was lost in a terrible scream as he turned the lever and electricity surged through my body with extreme force. I knew he had put it as high as it could go.
"Good-bye, Shadow the Hedgehog," Sonic said. His voice was dripping with frozen venom. I knew this was it. He wouldn't turn it off evenif I begged him to. I stopped screaming, too weak to care about the pain. The last thing I saw before slipping away was Sonic's face, grinning in victory.
Author's note: I'm aware that Chaos can not take over people, this is a "What if" Story. And yes, according to this story, nothing in ANY games ever happened. Tails was killed when he was less than a year old. (If I have the ages right, which I should, if I don't then oops!) Any other things that might not be able to happen in the game world, can happen in this story. I hope I shocked you with Chanic, if I didn't, I need to reconsider writing suspense! Thank you all. Next chapter should be up pretty soon. There should be at least three left. Bye!
