IMPORTANT: All credits go to the Sonic Team who originally blessed us with a courageous, kind hearted, friendly, blue hedgehog. Only the main plot of the story is mine.
NOTE: No sexual scenes. Romantic relationship between Amy Rose and Sonic the Hedgehog. Rouge and Knuckles may never admit their true feelings for each other. No other relationships are mentioned in this story, but one of the main characters will have unrequited feelings for Amy...
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Sonic the Hedgehog
Rising Darkness
- Hidden Darkness -
Chapter Five: A Deadly Revelation
Silver struggled to break the hold his enemy now held on him.
I cannot let him win. He thought as he desperately fought for control. He wants to use me against my friends. He will destroy them. M-
Are you done with your incessant yammering? Stay silent and stop fighting me, you fool! Hissed the darkness that now held the psychokinetic hedgehog captive and was trying to take over his mind.
Have you been listening to me this whole time? Silver asked with concern. If he had, then he would know what the hedgehog was going to try to do.
Yessss. Of courssse, I have. Little naive hedgehog. I know your plansss. They will never work.
And how do you know they wouldn't?
Because, unlike you, I know everything there isss about you. Even the thingsss you have no idea about. Now enough, be ssssilent and I will ssspare you. Ressst!
Noooooo!
And there was silence.
He had managed to escape from the unknown enemy who had attempted to kill him. Going through the door to his house would instantly reveal to his enemy of where he lived. So he decided to jump through a window in his backyard. He used one of his Chaos Spears to shatter the glass and jumped clear through, landing in the kitchen sink.
"Damn it!" he cursed as he leapt off the counter and landed on his feet, the sudden movement had caused his head to ache. He was still hurt from the impact of the log that had slammed against his head.
He quickly took one of the wooden boards that he found under the kitchen sink cabinet and hammered it against the window, covering up the gaping hole. He continued to do this until the whole window was covered with wooden boards. The little moonlight that had once shone through the window was now obscured by the wooden reinforcements.
"Who are you hiding from?" the whispery voice seemed to float from every direction of Shadow's house.
Shadow, having grabbed a donut from a box that sat on his marble counter, jumped with a start, the donut fell from his hand and rolled away, far into the inky blackness of his dining room.
"Shoot! How did you get in here?!" he said rather gruffly, falling to hands and knees, in a vain search of his snack.
"Is the proud and powerful Shadow the Hedgehog bowing to meee." The whispery voice had taken on a familiar hiss that only took Shadow a few seconds to realize he was in grave trouble.
"What do you want!" he yelled out to the darkness, then his quills stood on edge as he noticed a dark shadowy figure appear right in front of him.
"Revengeee" was the hissing reply and before Shadow could even move, he was thrown into the air, crashing into the darkness of his living room.
"Quit it already! I have no power, I am of no use to you!" shouted the perplexed azure hedgehog as he clamped his hands over his ears, as the hissing voice repeated, once quiet but growing steadily loud.
Oh, but you do. That isss why I could not kill you to begin with. That isss why I could not take your life. You sssee I once emulated the power of our rival, Shadow the Hedgehog. The Ultimate Lifeform. But you sssurvived. You ssssurvived. Because of thessssse."
Instantly an image flashed in Sonic's mind, the seven Chaos Emeralds whirling around him. The energy flowing through him, reviving him. Resurrecting him. More images all shooting through with such intense force.
A crying girl.
Violet light speared through his body. Piercing his heart.
A crystalline being watching with merciless intent as he, the once invincible and never defeated super Sonic, fell to his knees.
He died.
The girl screaming.
Tears. Flames. The crystalline monster uniting with the flaming beast.
Sonic dying.
Dying. Dying. Dying.
"Stop it!" cried Sonic as the images flashes faster and faster, blinding light, crying, flashes, death, resurrection.
"STOP IT!" And he felt it. The mist. The voices. The images. Fading. Fading away.
"Sonic!" Shadow called out as he stared at the unconscious hedgehog on the ground. "Sonic!" he shook him rather aggressively, trying to wake him up.
"What?!" exclaimed Sonic as he jumped up to his feet. Then everything came back to him and he nearly collapsed back to the floor.
"Woaaaah!" Shadow said in his gruff voice as he caught hold of the falling hedgehog and helped him regain his balance.
"Thanks Shadow." the azure hedgehog shook his head, his quills flowing back into place.
"What is it?" Shadow said, concerned that Sonic had not called him "Shads" or teased him.
"Where is Silver?" Sonic looked about the cave. The stalactites and stalagmites dripping with threads of sticky blue-green substance hanging like a fishing hook line, ready to catch any unsuspecting insect. Sonic stared at this display with bitter irony. How ironic that they too had walked into the sticky thready trap of the enemy that was always aware of what they were doing. Watching their every move. Always after...wait.
"Shadow!" Sonic suddenly whirled around, facing the ebony hedgehog. "You know this enemy!"
"How dare-"
"Let me explain!" Sonic exclaimed, feeling flustered. The scarlet striped, ebony hedgehog fell silent. "Thank you." the azure hedgehog subconsciously ran his hands through his quills, feeling the anxiety rising. "This enemy knows you or, at least, he is after you."
"Let's go get him, he has Silver." Shadow said with a snarl. And he charged a chaos spear and split the wall open. Revealing the hidden headquarters of none other than Dr. Eggman.
Silver shivered in the cold air of Eggman's base. "Why am I here." he wondered aloud.
"Because I am leading your friends into a trap and you are the bait!" laughed a cruel, dark voice.
"Who are you?" Silver's voice quaked from fear and cold.
"Who am I?" Asked the voice in offense. "Don't you remember meee?"
"N-n-no." Silver stammared as he wringed his hands together, nervously. Eyes darting back and forth for a way of escape.
"Liesss." He snarled as he, unseen by Silver, landed a few feet behind him. "I know all. I know you. And I know you know me!"
Silver took in the labatory of the mad scientist, Dr. Eggman, as he walked around, trying, in vain, to find the source of that horrible, dark, frightening voice. Hoping he was wrong about who he believed it belonged to.
"What are you looking for?"
"Nothing." Lied the hedgehog as he ran his hand over the desk of the mad doctor. "Just looking around."
"Is that so?" And the voice became silent.
Darn. I gotta keep him talking. He thought as he continued his search. "Tell me a little about yourself."
It was not the topic the statement called for, but the words that encouraged the response.
"You dare tell me what to do!" And Silver looked uo in time to see a swirling mass of deep violet darkness, stretching itself around a column of the lab. The darkness wrapped itself around the column, forming a tighter and tighter grasp around it, until the column creeked and cracks began to form.
"Wait!" shouted the silver anthropomorph as he rushed forward, with his hands up in surrender. "I am sorry, please don't..."
The dark laughter once again returned, reverberating through the tiny lab. The violet mist clung to the pillar, as if trying to make a point. "You foolsss, all of you think you are ssso great. But you are all mortalsss. All susceptible to death!"
"Yes." admitted Silver, raising his head and lowering his arms. "That is true, but I am not susceptible to pride!" And he threw himself at the swirling mist, reaching out to grab it in his arms. But once he made contact with it, things took an unexoected turn, at least for him.
"Ahhhhh!" he cried out ad the cold, icy, darkness stung and shocked him, the darkness slashed at him, knocking him down to the ground, where he stayed, unconcious.
Silver woke up, not knowing how long it had been. He wrapped his hand around the back of his neck, sore from the fall. He looked around and realized the darkness was gone. He grabbed a nearby counter and hauled himself up, with a groan. He dusted off his knees and shoulders. And began to walk through the labatory, through Eggman's, not so secret, secret base.
He wandered through hallways and into rooms, until he knew he would never find his way back. At least maybe now his enemy, whoever he was, would be unable to find him. Silver heard a low humming sound, like the beating of little hummingbird wings. He followed the sound, until it got louder, like the sound of a vaccuum cleaner. Then louder, like the sound of a washing machine. Until it was so defeaningly loud, he had to cover his ears with his hands.
Where he was now was a small, low lit room. The light flickered, as if from a candle. The defeaning sound was coming from a tiny capsule, located im the center of the room. As he walked closer to it, the sound became quieter. Which was strange because, normally when someone goes closer to something that makes a loud noise, the sounds get louder, not quieter.
He too thought this was strange and it made him all the more curious, especially as he got closer, a few feet from the capsule. He could now see that what he thought was the color of the capsule, was really the contents being held inside. It was brilliant red, fiery and pulsating with a raging glow. He reached one finger for it, but never touched it, because someone was behind him.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." warned the familiar voice of Dr. Eggman. Silver spun around to face the mad man. Just as the doctor opened his mouth to speak, he was suddenly gasping for air as Silver punched him in his rather large stomach.
The doctor heaved and huffed for the air that was stolen by that punch. Dropping to his knees, still coughing and sputtering. Silver, knowing that it was bad form to fight an enemy that was down, waited for him to recover.
The doctor possibly preceiving this, stayed kneeling on the ground and shielded his face and stomach with his arms. Suddenly someone tapped Silver, gently on the shoulder. The hedgehog spun around ready to fight, but realizing it was only one of Eggman's henchbogs, Cubot, stopped and crossed his arms.
"What do you want?" he asked as he narrowed his eye at the bumbling henchbot, who was, unknowingly, shielding the other henchbot, Orbot, from an assault by the peeved anthropomorph.
"Just wanted to let you know that the Doctor, does not want to hurt you." squeaked the henchbot, as he shielded himself with his hands. "He just wants to talk, is all."
"Okayyy.." the silver hedgehog now turned to face the cowering man. "What do you want, Doctor."
"Well, Silver." said the doctor, as he rose from the ground and became his usual overly dramatic, proud self. "I merely wanted to help you defeat that creature you have been having trouble with." And the doctor took a moment to twirl his rather large and goofy mustache.
The two hedgehogs, Sonic and Shadow, searched throughout the base for their friend. Knuckles also did some searching, but from higher ground, as his knuckles gave him the ability to climb up walls, and glide through the ground, to reach higher ground.
"See anything yet?" Shadow asked Sonic, who shook his head in response.
"I guess we will have to keep looking." grunted Knuckles from above his companions' heads.
And for awhile no one said anything.
"Let's split up." suggested the azure hedgehog as he recovered from the shock of seeing his past replay itself.
"Good idea." the other two said in unison as they all chose different areas to explore.
Sonic the Hedgehog walked through the narrow hallways of his nemesis' base, absentmindedly tracing his fingers over the rough grooves of the darkly polished, rocky walls. He whistled and thought about the date he planned with Amy. It really wasn't a date, but it was more a friendly gathering, just betwern the two.
He shook his head at the thought of Amy's anger that was sure to come when he got back to her and had to explain the reason for having to cancel the date, without even notifying her ahead of time. He shuddered to think at the idea that she would most likely try to smash him with her piko piko hammer.
Oh well. At least this day cannot get any worse.
Oh but it will... promised the dark creature as he watched the witless hedgehog amble along the narrow hallways. I will see to it that it doesss. And he whisped away in a dark jet of darkness, ready to confront the other foolish creatures that dared to challenge him.
Knuckles the Echidan, ran his hand through his red set of quills, clinging to a wall, high off the ground, with one of his knuckles. He turned from side to side, trying to find Silver. He was about to launch himself into the air, to glide to one of the higher pillars, when he almost fell as a rush of darkness swept past him.
"Darn it!" he called out losing his grip and plummeting to meet the ground below, or more like water, which would surely ne his end, as he was not that strong a swimmer and the shock of the icy water would knock him unconcious. Inches from his doom, a powerful grip lifted him to the platform he was trying to reach before he had lost his grip.
"Thank goodness."
"I would consider myself more as evil, not good." laughed a dark voice as a column of darkness rushed to block the redhead's path.
"Hey!" he let out a startled reply.
"Hey to you too." the evil enemy laughed as the column began to spread into a wall of darkness, soon preventing the echidna from escaping.
"What the heck?"
"What indeed." drawled the dark voice as a spear of darkness drove itself into the echidna. "What indeed..." And Knuckles collapsed to the ground, unconcious.
Shadow the Hedgehog walked tensely through the cold base, knowing what trouble lurked. He had lied to the others about not knowing who was behind all this. Well, did he lie if he kept out information?
"Yes." A voice cut through the air. "That is called lying by omission." And laughter echoied through the room.
"Ha! Ha! Ha!" laughed the Ultimate Lifeform, sarcastically. "Veryyy funnyyy."
"Indeed." the evil being said with a laugh. "I am quite the joker."
"Where is Silver!" Shadow snarled, preparing for a fight.
"Oh, the little hedgehog." the dark creature said nonchalantly. "I am afraid you have come here for nothing."
"What..."
"He is dead!"
Silver the Hedgjeog shook his head in confusion as the mad scientist smiled at him.
"I don't believe you, you evil -"
"Now. Now. Now." interrupted the doctor as he circled around the hedgehog, like a lion ready for a feast. "That is no way to talk to the most genius scientist and doctor that has ever lived. Especially since I have a way to stop this fiend that you have failed to stop yourselves." He grinne rsther mischievously as he tapped his fingers together, as many villians do.
"What?" Silver quizzed. "You mean you can stop whoever is behind this?"
"Yes!" growled the mad man, impatiently. "Of course I can!" And he walked over to the capsule in the center of the room.
"After all what do you expect from a man with an IQ of over 800?" he chortled. "I can do anything!" And he traced his finger over the capsule.
"How exactly can you do this?" said Silver as he tapped his foot impatiently. Sure this crazy creepy doctor was a narcissistic mad man, but did he have to take so long to explain everything?!
"Ugh." he rolled his eyes, as he twirled his mustached and tapped on the capsule with annoyance.
"Well?!" Silver exclaimed, growing anxious.
"Ughuh!" coughed the evil doctor, as he knocked on the capsule. "Okay fine, if you are so witless. This capsule contains the energy that could balance out the essence of your newest friend."
"He is no friend of mine." mumbled and protested Silver.
"Sarcasm, you fool!" the mad scientist said, looking disgruntled.
"Ohhhh, I seee." A voice spoke from thin air. "This energyyy can makeee meeee likeee youuu?"
"Exsctly!" said Eggman, too engrossed in his grandeur, to notice that Silver was shaking and shivering with fear and coughing to get the mad scientist's attention. "This can put that ingrate down once and for all!"
"Howww soooo?" hissed the voice as Silver made a run for the door, but his way was barred by a gathering thick smoky darkness, and the memory of the pain, comining into contact, that was associated it.
"Oh." laughed the crazed genius as he pushed his henchbots aside, who were trying to warn their creatore of the danger that he was facing. "By overcharging the emerald energy that he has consumed and causing him to collapse on himself. In all reality it will be his own power hunger and ornery self that would be his doom!"
"Eggmannn." the voice snarled. "I thought we had a deal."
"Wait, but you said you would stop this thing. Nothing about helping it to begin with!" exclaimed Silver as he aggressively stepped towards the befuddled man, who had come to his senses, finally releasing he had told the fiend everything their was to know about his secret weapon.
"You betrayed me!" squalled he, backing away from the angry swirling darkness that recoiled like snake, preparing to strike. "He betrayed me! I no longer choose to quale in fearful slavery to him! Eggman proclaimed and rushed straight for the capsule.
The darkness darted after him. Grappling around his ankles, kncoking him down to the ground.
"Secret Weapon 8600M, self destruct!"
SECRET WEAPON 8600M LAUNCHING SELF DESTRUCT SEQUENCE. The secret weapon, the capsule containing the pulsating energy, begin to lower into the ground. There was a small explosion.
As the pathetic, mad scientist was being dragged away by the swirling darkness, he begged his rival, Silver for help. "Do whatever you can to stop this enem. And remember to save me!"
And the mad doctor was dragged screaming and crying into one of the dark hallways.
"I am back!" laughed the being as it swirled back into the room, where Silver was still taking in all that had occured. To Silver's surprise a dark, violet, swirling shadow spiraled down, taking the form of a certain someone.
"Oh m-"
"Silver!" cried three voices belonging to a redheaded echidna, azure hedgehog, and ebony hedgehog as they rushed forward. Suddenly they halted in their tracks.
"You!" The four friends and rivals shouted out.
"Yes me." and his laughter echoed all around the base as he opened the palm of his hand, the light blue emerald floating into the air, far out of reach.
"Well. Well. Well." sneered their enemy as he ambled to them. "I was waiting for this moment. Savoring every second. I want this too last forever." and he lunged at Shadow, catching him by surprise.
"Oof!" the ebony hedgehog called out.
"Understand thisss." hissed his arch nemesis as he pinned down Shadow. "I never expected to hate you so much. But you got in my way. My way of my destiny. You destroyed my brother, Iblisss. You deserve what issss coming. And it issss coming. All thanksss to you."
"I do not understand." Silver stammered as he stepped forward to towards their angry enemy. "Who are you exactly?"
"Call me the Doom of the Worldssss. The Destruction of the Dimensionssss. The Fear of all Fearssss. The Incarnation of Evil itself. Call me the One Who Almost Killed Sonic. Call me the One Who Will Kill Sonic. Call me the End of Everything. Call me Mephilessss. Mephiles the Dark!"
"Seriously." Knuckles growled. "Let's show this foul creature to bed!" And he threw himself at Mephiles, knocking him off of Shadow.
"Watch it!" growled Mephiles as he knocked the redhead aside. "Or you will be sssorry! Now where wassss I? Oh, yes. YOU!" and he tackled Shadow to the ground, a snow white emerald rolling underneath some rusted machinery that Eggman had been hoarding.
"Get off him!" called out Sonic as he tugged and pulled at the angry Mephiles.
"That. Isss. ENOUGH!" and they all flew into the air and crashed into more of the rusted machines of Eggman's old creations.
"H-h-how?" Silver quizzed as he fixed his spines back into place.
"I took your power!" Mephiles laughed triumphantly. Then he turned to Sonic who barely got back up to his feet and dusted off his spines. "And I will soon have yourssss." and he dissipated into that dark violet shadow as he dove for Sonic.
"Stop!" Shadow shouted, pushing Sonic aside, who was not at all happy being back on the ground.
"Ughhhhhhhh!" Shadow screamed as the shadows passed through him.
"That isss it!" Mephiles said as he landed back down, reforming into his hedgehog form. "It is your doom!" and he transformed into his crystalline form. The air thickened with inky shadow, more like smoke. Drifting and wafting throughout the base, his blood red eyes glowed fiercely, with anger.
"Your world isss going to ssssuffer." he said with a mouthless smile. "All becausssse of you!"
"I will dessstroy everything you love and cherish." Silver said with the cold calculating voice of Mephiles.
"Even now your friends and rivals fall to me." Shadow spoke, no gruffness in his voice as Mephiles spoke through him.
The mist thickened and swarmed around Knuckles, who was too in shock to call out.
"Now I have them all." the redhead continued for Mephiles.
"Give it up!" laughed Eggman, his voice and tone like that of Mephiles.
"I go throughout the world, as my power captivates the minds of your closest friends and your greatest enemies."
A whirring sound and the robots', all rusted and brand new, some taken apart, others yet to be fused with body parts of their own, eyes glowed with an eerie electric green color like that of the crystalline form of Mephiles.
"It issssss your doom, my revengeeee!" and with cruel, cold laughter he spiraled into the air and rushed out of the room.
"Your world endssss. Once and for all." and the four mouthpieces of Mephiles fell to the ground. In an enchanted sleep, most likely with no peace.
"This just got a whole lot harder." Sonic grumbled. "Aww, well. Haaaa!" and he sped attacked a robot's metallic, silver and gold arm that sported Eggman's generic emblem.