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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ETA Chapter 10:
January 9, 2019 - January 15, 2019
UPDATE:
I will be taking a break on:
January 4, 2019 and January 8, 2019.
As those days mark the dates of two of my loved ones' deaths.
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Chapter 9: The Lightless Place
"Aghhhh!" Sonic cried out as he was struck by a robot's rusty metallic arm, he hit the ground with a thud.
If it wasn't for that demon putting his power into these hunks of junk, I could defeat them in my sleep. he complained silently as he darted, dodging a robot's whirring saw blade.
"Haaa!" Sonic called out as he lunged at one of the smaller bots, ladybug like with metallic red and blue colors. Its eyes, with a violet glow, shot out two twin lasers, striking Sonic, holding him in a magical grip.
"Aaaaahhhh!" screamed Sonic as the dark energy tore through him. He flailed and writhed, trying to escape the glowing and smoldering light, but he could not. Finally, the lights died down and Sonic staggered to a counter, taking shelter behind it, while he recovered. He winced in pain, feeling like he had touched a live wire and been electrocuted or struck by lightning.
"How long is this going to go on?" he wondered, as he grimaced from the pain that was slowly fading away. "I need to help my friends." he muttered in defeat, then he saw it.
The crystalline, snow white gem. A chaos emerald! The one he had gotten from the ice serpent, from what seemed like decades ago, but was only about fifteen hours ago. He grabbed the emerald and smiled.
This game has now been made in my favor! He shouted, "Chaos Control!" and vanished, reappearing behind the bug like robot.
"Haaaa!" Sonic threw himself in a homing attack against the robot. "Take that!" he cried out as the robot imploded, violet smoky darkness seeping out from the ruins.
"I don't think so!" he called out as he shouted out the same command that allowed him to use his chaos control will. The chaos light tore through the darkness, causing it to evaporate or dissipate. "Haaa!" he called out once more as he attacked the robot with the saw blades, cutting into the weak core.
Moments later, Sonic was laying, more from relaxation than exhaustion, down on a pile of robot parts. All smashed and broken to pieces, not one in service. The darkness was completely destroyed or otherwise vanquished from the heap of scrap metal. He needed to catch his breath, but once he did he approached his friends. They were still laying on the ground, unconscious.
Nooooo! cried Dr. Eggman as he felt the cold touch of his enemy, Sonic, now in the form of Dark Sonic. He felt it in his head. In his veins. In his lungs. In his heart. He soon began to fade away, knowing that he could possibly pass out or even die from the dark coldness of Dark Sonic.
Oh, yes. Doctor. Dark Sonic laughed evilly. Oh, yes. But then suddenly,
No! Eggman regained his balance and fought back the icy darkness that was invading him. This is not real! You are not real!
Doctor! snarled Dark Sonic, as the mad genius turned to face his foe, defiance in his eyes. Fear me! I know you do. If you fear me, I will make it quick and painless.
No! Never! You are not real! Eggman shouted, jumping up and down.
No! Stop saying that. seethed Dark Sonic. This is your fault. You deserve this. You - But the evil form of Sonic was cut off as Eggman grabbed him, and threw him across the empty space.
Shut up! the mad man growled. "Shut up!" he shouted, the sound echoing through the silent place.
"Nooooo!" Dark Sonic hissed. "You will regret this, Doctor. You will regret this." And the dark anthropomorphic creature began to change. Change back to Sonic the Hedgehog. And once he did, Eggman was ready for him. He grabbed Sonic, picking him up and throwing him into a door that had appeared out of thin air.
"Go away!" Eggman said with triumphant glee as he watched Sonic fall, screaming, through the doorway. The door closed and another one appeared in place of it. The mad scientist threw the door open and walked through it, slamming it shut behind him. The door remained in the silent place, not disappearing like the other ones had.
Silver shook his head in shock. He was back in his time, but it did not look like how it did now. There was no grass. There were no people. The buildings and streets were destroyed, as if by fire. There were fire demons everywhere.
Flying ones, soaring through the air, which was filled with smoke and sulfur. There were fire worms, popping out of the ground, leaving more damage in their wake. There were fire salamanders spewing flames and causing more fires to erupt. The place looked like how it had before, like how it had when, When I first met him… Silver thought gravely, remembering Mephiles, all of a sudden. It had been a long time since he had remembered anything about him or his life.
Iblis must be here. Silver thought as he soared through the air, with the aid of his psychokinesis. I must find him and destroy him, again! Silver soared passed the ruins of a city that he knew was once full of life and the sound of cars, which were now burned and tangled messes of metal, heaped on top of one another.
He could see the inferno tornadoes that continuously tore the place up more, making it even worse than it already was. He soared past, dodging the air demons, striking a few with his telekinetic powers, destroying them with silent shrieks of surprise.
He found himself at the foot of a volcano, a mountain that bubbled with lava. He went into the mouth of the volcano and saw more inferno demons there, after destroying an inferno giant, he made his way to the rendezvous point that he and Blaze would often meet at, ready to fight Ibli. And sure enough, he met him there as well. Erupting from the oozing and churning magma, he roared with silent rage.
He looked as he had before, he had two glowing eyes, rows of small, serrated teeth, and he was made of the magma and lava rock that he had entrapped Silver's world in. His body was like a worms, but with little claws at either side, and he was like a glowing ember.
With another roar that shook the volcano, pieces of the ceiling fell into the lava, allowing Silver to make his way to the beast, via the makeshift platforms. He summoned the lava rocks that Iblis tried to hurl at him, allowing them to return to the monster. The demon roared with anger and sunk back into the lava.
He splashed and writhed inside the bubbling, thick, hot liquid and finally erupted from underneath the platform Silver was standing on. The telekinetic hedgehog was launched, with a shout of surprise, into the air and soon was falling, headfirst, into the burning, red hot fiery sea of magma.
Mephiles smiled at Tails, knowing that the little fox trusted him.
"Pleased to meet you!" Tails said, cheerily, as he shook the hand of the demonic entity.
"Likewise, Tails." grinner the demon, his eyes flashing more brilliantly than ever. "I need you help."
"Sure, what do you need?" Tails asked, still smiling at the entity.
"A chaos emerald." Mephiles said nonchalantly, but seeing Tails' startled expression added, "Shadow and Sonic need my help and I need the emerald in order to help them."
"Are they in trouble?!" squeaked Tails, worriedly. "Should we go get them, I can use my Tornado and -
"You cannot help them." hissed Mephiles in annoyance, but then he smiled gravely. "Only the emerald and I can save them now."
"Oh." Tails said, blushing with embarrassment. "Sorry, Mephiles. I had no idea it got to that extreme. I unfortunately don't have any emeralds." He backed away when he saw Mephiles eyes turn redder and saw him crystallize.
"Do not lie to me, little fox!" he thundered, eyes flashing brighter and the darkness thickening. "You have no idea the things I can do. The things I will do. Unless you give me that emerald!" Tails scratched his head in confusion and then stooped down to pick up the welding tool.
"Are you sure you are a friend of Shadow's?" he asked, pointing the tool at the seething and fuming demon. The demon cooled down, returning to his Shadow like form.
"Yes, I am." he spoke softly. "I just am from the darker side of a hero. You see I came to be, through Shadow." he explained with cunning.
"Oh?" Tails said, clearly not convinced as he did not lower his makeshift weapon.
Mephiles knew he needed to earn back Tails' trust.
"Sorry friend of Shadow's, I am just stressed with the fear of losing my friend, and his other friend, to the evils that threaten us." Mephiles assured Tails as he stepped closer to the little fox. "Are you sure you do not have one?"
"Yes, I am sure." Tails said, with relief that he did not have to fight Mephiles as an enemy. "Maybe Amy does, you can ask her when she returns to-" Tails had turned to where Amy was unconscious, or at least where she had been. Amy was gone.
"Where is your pink hedgehog friend." Mephiles queried, eyes flashing with concealed anger.
"I don't know." Tails said, looking around the room. "She was right there, knocked out. The hammer pieces are gone too." he said as he noticed the pieces were missing.
"She knows about me."' the dark entity hissed, then he turned to Tails. "The show is over, time for me to get going."
"Going where? What show? What?" Tails was befuddled, but the answer would come soon, with a flash of dark energy, Tails was knocked unconscious once again, but this time by Mephiles.
I need you as a bargaining chip. the demon laughed coldly. Only then can I acquire what I need. he scooped up the unconscious Tails, and with a chaos flash, he was gone. Tails had been foxnapped.
"The Lightless Place." Dr. Eggman muttered repeatedly as he flipped through pages in a book. "The Lightless Place."
"Where is it?" he grumbled angrily and impatiently. "Aw! There it is!" he shouted triumphantly as he tore the page out and begin reading, mumbling silently and incoherently.
"Why did I ever decide to use that place and that no good demon!" he whined as he began fumbling with switches and buttons on his computer and the counter. He flipped a switch and all of a sudden there it was!
'The Lightles Place.' He could see on multiple screens everything that was happening there. He could see a certain echidna, unconscious on the ground, an ebony, scarlet striped, hedgehog laughing and giggling insanely, and a silver hedgehog falling and screaming.
"Those idiots." grumbled Eggman. "They are way in over their heads!"
About a month ago...
They had been working on the ultimate revenge for the meddlesome anthropomorths. The discoveries that Dr. Eggman had made would come in handy, as Mephiles understood almost all of the strange dimensional places.
"Since you discovered it, Doctor." Mephiles' cold smile could be felt in the change of the atmosphere around the two evil plotters. "It is only right you give it a name."
"Right." laughed the demented scientist. "And I will name it, 'The Lightless Place.'"
"Perfect name for the dungeon, in which our enemies shall have a one way ticket into oblivion." sneered Mephiles, as he held the aqua blue Chaos Emerald in one clawed hand.
"Yes, Mephiles the Dark." The doctor grinned. "And together, we will make this plan a reality. Sonic will not even know what hit him, until it is too late.
"Shadow, the Ultimate Lifeform, will not know what him either." Mephiles laughed darkly, blood red, lime green, eyes flashing with cruel excitement.
The origins of 'The Lightless Place,' as Dr. Eggman called it, must be explained. This Place, which had no name frok its true creator, was designed an interdimensional prison. It once caged a dangerous and deadly force, but the force escaped long ago, before Sonic's world, or any of the other worlds, were fashioned into existence.
The place was to be an eternal sentence for this dark and evil force. There would be no light, no sound, no sights to enjoy. It would be a vast, white, not dark or light, empty space. There would also be no time, so no day or night as well. The silence would forever drive the force mad, the being would suffer for its offenses, for all eternity.
However, the force escaped into the inter dimensions, to continue its horrible, destructive, evil wishes. But this force will be explained in another story, not this one. The importance of this force, is the Place that was made for it. And its escape from that Place, leaving the Place free for Eggman and Mephiles to experiment with.
And they did just that. Dr. Eggman, having always been a scientific genius, plagued with morbid curiousities, took it a step too far. He gave Mephiles the Dark, that heartless, embittered, savage demon, the power to allow anyone he would please, to be subjected to the imprisonment and torture of that Place. Eggman was either too foolish or too prideful to think that, eventually, Mephiles would turn on him.
In fact, Mephiles had originally been planning to, but the treatment he received from his co - conspirator, only inspired him to betray him. Mephiles and Eggman had spent a month designing and creating the horrors, that Sonic's friends had faced, of that Lightless Place. Never had Eggman actually suspected that Mephiles had made a specific horror just for the mad scientist, himself.
To give Mephiles the ability to transport anyone to the Lightless Place, Eggman had to endow in Mephiles, a new charge if chaos energy. As Mephiles had previously, when he last had infected Sonic's world, taken on Shadow's form and, as a result, gained the power of Chaos Control, Mephiles already had Chaos energy in his physical makeup. But as Mephiles had been trapped inside the dimension, that Solaris had created to consume all the dimensions, while keeping himself from being destroyed in the process, the Chaos powers had weakened.
Although, Mephiles was an inter dimensional being, given the natural powers to teleport through dimensions and shift through time, he could not go into the Lightless Place, without Chaos energy. It would require a great anount of Chaos, to allow the demon to fulfill his wishes. And Eggman foolishly, gave him just as much, if not more. So, when the time cane for Mephiles to sentence his enemies to the Lightless Place, Eggman, having been officialized as his enemy, was sentenced there as well.
But since Eggman had known what the Place was, and had co-designed it, with the help of the demon, Mephiles, he was able to overcome and escape it. He had not expected it to be as hard as it was, because he did not count on Sonic, his true and hidden worst fear, to be included in the horrors of the Place. Eventually, Eggman came to his senses, realizing the real Sonic had not been taken to the Place, and had fought back his fear, opening a Door with his mind, allowing him to be free from the Place, once and for all.
If Mephiles could transport anyone to the Place, and he had done so, why were Sonic's friends still unconscious on the floor of Eggman's Base? Since only given a month of time to design the Place, to his wishes, Mephiles could not have the Ideal, therefore he did not learn how to fully and physically teleport his enemies to the Place. He could only move their essences into the Place, therefore explaining why Sonic's friends and the mad doctor, were still in the world, but at the same time being mentally tormented in the Place.
Mephiles and Eggman, were the only ones who knew about the truth behind the Place and the only ones who had designed it to their wishes. Therefore, the others would have to be bailed out or would need to figure it out in their own. To prevent this, Mephiles had created a mind wipe once an enemy entered the Place. The mind wipe would wipe away memories of the real life the enemy lived in, but woupd return once they went through the Doors. The Doors held a countless number of fears, each specifically designed for Mephiles' enemies.
The black door, with violet shadows, was for Shadow. Explaining why Shadow was eventually able to enter it, but Knuckles could not. The Door that was blood red, glittering with embers, and had a hot door handle, was for Silver. The last Door, was for Knuckles, which was why it had the multi dimensional colors of the Master Emerald. Eggman knew the secrets behind the Doors, and the evils that awaited him, so Mephiles had to be crafty with the doctor's fear.
Suspecting, and being confirmed right, that Eggman would avoid the Doors, knowing what dangers awaited, behind them, Mephiles designed a fear that would appear once all the Doors vanished. And that fear, was Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic was never intended to enter the Place, so Mephiles never made a fear for him. If he had, there would be confliction between the two Sonic's, and perhaps the real Sonic would overcome the fear Sonic. Besides that, Mephiles had other plans for the real Sonic, darker plans.