Sonic and The Harmony of Chaos
Ch. 5
By: Cutegirlmayra (Hey guys! I'm trying to write a story like I did in the old days, but it's hard because I like the new way I create a story now. It's really coming together but I keep getting new ideas and ahhhh plot structuring! Anyway, I hope you enjoy this story and find it delightfully EDGEY.)
The sun began to settle its hovering speed just above the bumpy, green terra littered with patches of brown and slathered with a wetness from the flying drops of sea off the shore. Tails's house remained half in light and shadows, a piece of wood creaked slightly as Knuckles and Tails stood outside by his twirling watermill, laid on its side instead of upwards and rotating. It was his personal power source, and with the sea winds always beating against the shoreline and coast's cliffs, he was never in shortage of power. They leaned against his wooden signpost he never truly finished, meant to state who's house this was. It was more like an observatory and workplace than a real home though. But for Tails, it was enough. Knuckles finally repositioned himself with a sigh, sitting on the cobble of the small wall that surrounded the interesting watermill, staring at a figure with his emerald green eyes fixated on the sun. Its arms folded, standing regally against the wet spray of wind that lightly drizzled the ground beneath him. The water sparkled beneath his liquid feet, creating a beautiful array of colors that shown like a rainbow. This momentarily distracted Chaos. He looked down and his eyes softened into one of great sorrow.
Who was he grieving for?
"He's been acting strange all morning." Knuckles relaxed back, gesturing with a gloved hand to Chaos for Tails to see. The movement did catch Tails's attention, and he turned his head to Knuckles.
"A little odd that he suddenly took an interest in seeing the world." Tails stated lightly, just making small talk, but knowing full well this meant something was happening.
Knuckles shrugged, "He takes no interest in the Chaos Emeralds, so I'm not all that bothered anymore." He seemed unusually unfazed now by Chaos's actions, "As long as he's not rampaging and sending others into the Twilight Cage, I'm good." He rubbed under his nose, seeming almost apathetic, not wanting to burn his brain trying to understand the strange God of Destruction's reasoning.
"I can't relate with that, to be honest." Tails looked down, "Why would anyone want to destroy the world? It's so…" he looked up and started walking a bit down the hill from his house. "Beautiful…"
The sky almost opened with a shine of the on-coming sunset at Tails's words. Knuckles looked up, glazing his eyes over the long, sleek blanket of faded rays that draped across the once bluish sky. Now, it was a golden orange, with yellows and reds to contrast each other as the descending sun bowed its massive head.
"It's kinda funny you should say that." Knuckles looked a bit nervous, sitting up more and placing his hands down on his knees, taking a deep breath. "I should tell you about this vision more… there was something really disturbing about it… something about…" he cleared his throat, surprisingly shifting to be very delicate and caring on the topic again. "Women."
"Women?" Tails turned around, but as he did so, Chaos shot out another homing beacon to once again try and communicate and find Harmony. She had first sent out a distress call, but when he replied, no answer…
Why was that?
Chaos, in his impatience, gripped his three fingers to his chest and squeezed. Something was clearly wrong with him, he boiled again in rage, and seemed to be longing for something…
He let out a cry and swung his arms back, fully throwing his chest up to the sky and arching his back. The powerful blast was more fierce and resonated so vastly that it knocked Tails down.
"Tails!" Knuckles jumped to his feet.
"No! Stop!" Tails tried to warn his friend, lifting a hand up but Knuckles was knocked back into the spinning watermill, sucking him around itself.
"W-ah!" he was splashing amok, wildly swinging water and avoiding drowning. Tails felt the gulf of his stomach make him sick, the strange power that Chaos released felt like a kick below the belt, and he wasn't sure why. With a leap of his feet, fighting the lingering sensation that made him want to throw-up, he flew up and grabbed one of Knuckles's flailing arms.
The two landed back by the house, Tails falling to his knees and Knuckles gasping for air and rubbing his behind. "What… was that awful feeling?" Tails clutched his stomach.
"I remember this feeling… or something like this… back on the island." Knuckles sucked in the pain and only showed the hurt on his face a bit, having his eyebrow dip down and twitch. He quickly swung himself up, "He's looking for Harmony." He concluded. "Tikal said something about the end of the world if Harmony and Chaos fought again. But… they've been communicating." He wasn't aware of Harmony's silence since then, only that the feeling was pleasant and not as painful as Chaos's colorful, circling blast that traveling in all directions. It even caught up to Sonic…
He was just blazing a trail with his super speed, still on the lookout for Amy, when the blast overwhelmed him and he face-planted into the ground.
Sonic skidded with his body flying up in the air and his face taking the total blow of the implant, suddenly spinning and flopping in his crash as his speed slowed due to the sudden traction. He closed his eyes as he was torn from the earth and flopped down on his stomach. His fingers gripped the loosened dirt under them as he flinched and twitched at the pain in his stomach. "Ahh… Yuck." He slithered an arm around his waist, arching his back as he fought through the moment of sickness. "What was that..?" He looked groggily to the sky, his eyes still tensed up from the inner-strain before lowering himself back to the ground. "Man… ouch…" he placed his hand on his face before pulling it away when his glove rubbed a reddened splotch on his face. "Yssh!" he squinted an eye shut and looked to his hand, then turned to the reddening sky, still showing the traveling wave of light arching like a wide arrow through the world.
His eyes shifted left and right before he gripped his raised hand, "Chaos…" he got up to his knee, "Woah!" the spike in his stomach reacted and he curled a little inward, tensing and waiting it out…
"Heh… that unpleasant." He remembered the first beam, but it wasn't at level with him at that time. It just looked like two streaks of bright lights gliding over the sky… but because this one wasn't in the sky, it blasted him, and it hit. Hard.
He slowly felt the pain ceasing after a moment, and got up, shaking it off and letting his mouth go limp, gums flapping as he did so. "Alright, let's see where you go." He raced towards the jungles, in another direction from his typical search.
Little did he know he was heading straight for the Echidna ruins… straight …
To the Babylon Rogues.
"Communicating?" This fascinated Tails, as he pulled up his Miles-Electric.
"What are you thinking..?" Knuckles slowly tried to get up, trying to more accurately see what Tails was doing, but quickly fell to a knee and stumbled a moment, gripping his stomach. "Ohh…that's a nasty voicemail if there ever was one." He joked a moment, trying to laugh through the uncomfortable lift of his stomach. "Offph… I think I'm gonna barf..!" He plugged his mouth, gagging a moment while Tails quickly clicked in some commands.
"I translated an alien language, I can translate a sonic boom!" Tails turned to Knuckles, "Let's ask Chaos to do that again but from a higher altitude this time."
"WHAT!?" Knuckles sprang up, already feeling better.
Tails nodded, still having a smile on his face. "Em-hmm. I don't think it'll hurt anyone if it's high up." He looked over whatever was downloading onto his screen. "I'll use my old software to decode it, maybe even get some readings and see what the ruins have to say about this Harmony guy…" Tails continued to click some things in, sticking his tongue out and to the side, showing his childlike excitement for a new adventure to test his mind out and be useful again.
But…
Knuckles shifted his eyes about, looking down, and then looking almost guilty. "Tails…" he closed his eyes, squinting them shut in embarrassment. "There's… something I need to tell you about that vision…"
"Hmm?" Tails was happily at work, not really paying him much mind.
Seeing that, Knuckles opened his eyes, "Hmmph…" gently, he lifted his hand up and pushed the device down so Tails would listen.
Tails was surprised at first, but gave Knuckles his full, innocent attention then.
"This Harmony God… it's… well, it's bad news for women." Knuckles looked away, seeming uncomfortable about this. "If she and Chaos fight-"
"She?" Tails blinked his eyes, learning this for the first time.
"Ehem." Knuckles gave him a stern look, as though asking 'politely' to continue.
With that stern upper lip, Tails closed his mouth and bent his head, waiting his turn…
Knuckles sighed, "If she and Chaos fight… Chaos would win." He removed his hand from the gadget. "The Echidnas, my people, used Chaos to weaken her. They did so... so that no other power could challenge their own." He rubbed behind his neck, gesturing with one hand as he spoke, then kicked the ground and walked down from Tails's house.
"I kinda wonder… should we really be letting them talk?" He kept his back from Tails.
"W-what do you mean?" Tails still seemed a bit confused but looked to his device and back to Knuckles.
"…The Echidnas… My ancestors… they did a terrible thing." Knuckles lowered his head, a moment of shame coming over his features as he folded his arms and tightened his grip on their sides. "I wouldn't want you to imagine what me, Shadow, and Rouge saw in that vision from Tikal… but I will say a lot of it was just… given to us. It was like watching those moving pictures-"
"…Movies?"
"Yeah, yeah. But faster. Some parts slowed down while she talked." Knuckles turned back around, pointing to Tails as if letting him know that was the thing he was trying to say. "I think Chaos might want revenge. He hurled my ancestors into another dimension for crying out loud! What will he do to Harmony..?" Knuckles slowly shifted his head over his shoulder to the God of Destruction, still fixated on the far horizon.
He wanted that reply from her more than anything…
His longing eyes turned back to a fierce desire, his arms shifted out and waved with a self-control of a God controlling the wild waves.
The waves, in return, crashed against the cliffs and shores, as though reacting to his sudden rage and worry.
"…He does have a lot of power." Tails mentioned, flinching a bit as he noticed the unsettled sea and Chaos's rippling and shaking form, moving like a disturbed glass of water.
"…He practically drowned City Square." Knuckles shook his head, but Tails walked up and patted his back, trying to comfort him somewhat from his worries.
"I want to hear the whole story. The vision, and what you know. But for now, you said they were companions to one another, right? That together, they created the whole of the planet and its egg?"
Knuckles reluctantly nodded his head, grumbling and looking down because he knew Tails was going to still ask him to take Chaos to the ruins.
"Let's just give it a shot. If I can translate the message, we can know if he's asking for a rematch for revenge or not. It will be okay. I have a feeling that's not the case. He would have just charged off if it was, right?"
Knuckles shook his head again, "Not without a host he can't." He lowered his arms, "Chaos has been antsy lately… but he can't travel too far from the Master Emerald, not without a wielder of Chaos to host him." Knuckles then looked annoyed… "And you say Sonic just left?"
"… Eh… heh..." Tails felt awkward at that poor timing, sweating a little as he rubbed the back of his head while removing the hand from Knuckles's back. "That's… actually what I was gonna say. That Chaos reminds me of when Sonic looked worried."
"Huh?" Knuckles blinked his eyes, turning back to Tails, "You sayin' Sonic was worried about someone?"
"Sonic and Amy had a bit of a… uh… communication problem." Tails made a goofy smile and looked to the sky, "I kinda wonder if Chaos and Harmony are on similar terms…"
"A communication problem?" Knuckles looked seriously interested in that, and turned back to the sky, still seeing no lights. "…Yeah, she's not responding, right? But she must be getting the message." He waved his arms about, heading over to Chaos. "Let's get him to the ruins!" He seemed to have a new found hope that Chaos and Harmony weren't enemies, and turned back to encourage Tails to help him. "He can't go too far, but the ruins are close enough to Angel Island that he should be alright."
They nodded in agreement.
"Right!" Tails sprung into the sky, gesturing for Chaos to follow them. "Come on, come on." He gently coaxed and flew off as Knuckles made sure to watch Chaos from the rear.
"Let's see if your message can reach her up there." Knuckles smiled, putting his hands to his hips as Chaos calmed down, looking back at him with a tilt to his head.
He seemed to realize they were trying to help him, and immediately walked after Tails.
Chaos was a little hesitant about the jungle, he ducked his head and looked cautiously around at all the plant life.
"You think he's nervous about the jungle?" Knuckles inquired of Tails, noticing how Chaos was falling behind.
"Maybe he's feeling the pull from the Master Emerald, or even unsure of his new surroundings." Tails looked behind him, still seeing Chaos wearily avoid stepping on a plant, before ducking when he almost ran into a branch.
The two were confused on his behavior, finding it rather humorous of the once, destructive god.
"He's been in the jungle before though… I think." Knuckles looked up, thinking hard about it and scratching his head before Tails just shrugged, smiling.
"Let's just focus on deciphering what he's saying to Harmony. We can figure out his odd fear of trees later."
As Tails and Knuckles moved ahead, although Knuckles turned around after moving ahead of Chaos to keep an eye on him, Chaos continued to look around as though expecting the plants to come alive…
If Harmony was around… he wanted to make sure his presence was known, but not attacked.
He wondered what she still felt… how she was feeling… he missed her more than he could bear.
Harmony felt something in the earth and touched her weary hand to it. She looked up in the sky and saw the same curve of endless colors spread over the sky and didn't react to it.
She just looked heartbroken and lowered her head.
The army of Eggman stormed the land, destroying nature in its wake and building stages and obstacles. Eggman was preparing for Sonic's retaliation… but Harmony knew nothing of this.
All she saw… was another echidna takeover… but this time, run by a human creation.
"You! Make sure that loop-de-loop has spikes at the end of it! I want to see him trip up and burst into rings! Haha! You! What are you dawdling for!? Put those metal fish into the water already! They're programmed to jump at light speeds, so you don't have to toss them in one at a time like they're gentle! AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Eggman, directing a bunch of bumbling robots and Elemental cyborgs to their tasks.
Giddily, he came up from his dilatorily shouting of commands and relaxed on his hovering chair, "Marvel at it, Cubot! Orbot! My plans for Sonic's demise and the world's takeover is going so- Ah! Wonderfully terrible~" Like a French chief, he kissed his pinched pointer finger and thumb and then sharply moved it away.
"He seems really into himself again, Orbot." Cubot, looking up at his boss's gleeful laughing before shifting back into his outraged cries and shaking his fists below, turned to address his friend.
"Of course he is, he really has outdone himself on this one." Orbot put the speaker he was communicating through down and sighed, seeing his boss's happiness over something so controversial left him a bit uneasy. "It's as though he doesn't care he could be wiping out an entire planet." Orbot looked over to see Harmony, wearily avoiding the Chaos Emeralds strategically placed around her crystal in case she acted out. He moved over the side of the balcony to look down at her, peering at her wrap her one arm around herself, looking back over at the open expanse of Eggman's mothership.
The mouth was open as more elemental soldiers continued to bring supplies out, just following robotic orders but looking curiously to her as if feeling somesort of connection and affinity to her.
She refused to gaze at them too long, her crystallized eyes bending as she felt something beat inside her when another powerful and colorful blast lit up the sky again.
"AHHH!" Eggman cranked himself back, moving further down and clutching his chest.
"Boss?" Cubot and Orbot both turned around, seeing him heaving and huffing in discomfort.
"Drat… he's really persistent… isn't he?" Eggman sneered towards the sky. "YOU CAN'T HAVE HER!" he shook an angry fist into the air, stomping on his EggMobile's edge and standing up. "She's mine." His glasses gleamed as Harmony turned around, tilting her head at the strange sounds but seeing the emotions dictating his refusal to let her go.
She looked down again, the fluid surrounding her body encasing her eyes as if she was 'closing' them, but they still shone through the diluted substance.
"…I can't stand to watch this any further." Orbot hopped down from the railing he was leaning over and started hovering quickly down the curled line of smooth stairs, not having steps on them.
Cubot looked back and forth between Eggman and Orbot, his hands up in the air as if not sure who to follow. "W-w…Wait for me!" he took off after Orbot, "What are you planning to do, buddy?"
"I'm going to follow my directive," Orbot stated firmly. He didn't seem to be messing around this time.
"But your directive is to-"
"My directive, Cubot, is to watch over Eggman's physical, mental, and emotional health!" Orbot began, "We let him abuse us, ridicule us, and even torture us. But this battle is too much. You saw him clutch his chest just then, didn't you? That was clearly his heart! Those blasts are not merely signals, they're an emotionally taxing wave that discharges a physical response!" Orbot quickly swung around, explaining it more clearly to Cubot. "Didn't you analyze it?"
"That's your directive?" Cubot itched the top of his cubed head. "I think mine's something like… to be yelled at upon every occasion."
"…Ugh, you're directive is to perceive counter statements to further Eggman's communication and help him see beyond his own intellect. Plus, your… simpleness makes him feel better." Orbot placed both hands exasperatedly on Cubot's 'shoulders', before patting his head and continuing to move towards Harmony.
Cubot looked confused, but continued to follow his friend.
Once the two hovered over to Harmony, a slight bounce in their float, they looked to each other uneasily and approached her with caution.
Giving her the same respect as royalty, Orbot put his hands together and lowered his head. "Harmony..? Might we speak with you?" Cubot also seemed to notice Orbot's new stance, similar to submitting to Eggman and immediately mimicked the action.
"Just a moment of your time, your fluidship." He seemed to mean to say 'ladyship'.
Harmony shifted her being around, pulling back the fluid over her eyes and rippling her body with a glow like sunlight on water.
"It's so diffused your light…" Orbot began trying to analyze why the light splintered off of her in many directions. When he did, he noticed an organ inside her chest, hidden by the-…
"UCK!" He flinched back, shaking his head and covering his robotic mouth with his large, rubbery red hands.
"What is it?" Cubot went over, attempting to poke her arm but Orbot immediately shuffled his hands forward, as if swimming through the air.
"Don't touch that! It's amniotic fluid!" he ripped Cubot away from it, as Harmony stepped back and tilted her head, unsure why the two strange beings were functioning without the essence of life inside them.
She leaned forward as her red, hardened blood eyes tried to identify them better.
"What's that?"
"The liquid surrounding an unborn child!" Orbot seemed squeamish, his bolts clattering as he held Cubot back from behind, restraining him further with his arms.
"Oh. So she's expecting?" Cubot rose the blue slits in his eyes, trying to piece things together.
"No, Cubot… she IS the expecting!" Orbot looked back to her, "She's… what gives life to all things. She is life! Scientifically, she could be considered more than that."
As Orbot let Cubot go, Cubot still seemed rather confused but nodded as though he got it. "Ooookay…" he hovered around her, giving her a good look as she watched him with curiosity. "So… she's like a mother?"
"She's more like the organ of a mother." Orbot jittered in his disgust again, "But there's an actual… there's a … a heart inside of her." He fidgeted but pointed a shaking finger at her chest.
Sure enough, when Cubot squinted, he could see the blurred red mass inside of her, not connected to anything much like Chaos's floating brain, and turned back to Orbot.
"So..." he put a finger to his mouth, still trying to understand. "That liquid around Chaos… isn't water?"
"You mean cerebrospinal fluid? I'm not sure." Orbot tapped his chin, squinting at Harmony again, "But the colors are wrong, aren't they? Then again, with the blood inside of Harmony, the clear color could have a tint of pink. But Chaos looks blue, but is actually clear as water…" Orbot shook his head, "Then again, they are aliens…"
"What about Eggman?" Cubot seemed to be tired of trying to wrap his mind around this enigma, and instead, put his hands to his head and looked pleading towards Orbot to change the subject.
"R-right… Ehem." Orbot was a little too invested in their fable and realized he needed to stay on track. He floated in front of Harmony, holding his hands together in a begging way.
"Please. We don't want to Eggman to hurt himself with things over and above his bulbous head." Orbot's sincerity mixed with his words almost came out insultingly sarcastic, but he seemed to mean well enough.
"Is there any way to keep him from destroying himself? Even just a slight chance? We know he seems to not care about wiping women off the face of the planet but technically, I think that's because of a dormant fear that he'll never get the chance to reproduce so-" As Cubot rambled and dissected his boss's brain, another colorful blast exploded over the sky in an arch of light. Harmony ducked, looking afraid of the light and covering her head.
Orbot continued to ramble but Cubot began to start seeing some connection… he noticed her knees wobbling and the boiling blood inside of her began to fizz up again.
He looked back to her face, seeing the distraught and nodded.
"You need to feel what he's saying." Transcending his programming, Cubot suddenly recognized the lights were opposite to Harmony's cries for help. The beacon she had released seemed to had a pleasant feeling to Eggman, while this other beam drained and ached him.
"If Chaos is Harmony's opposite, then perhaps together…" He thought about it, before moving passed Orbot and looking determined to reach up and grab Harmony's hand.
As he did so, the sticky substance made him react with a fake gag, "Oh, barf!" he exclaimed before pulling her along to the roof.
"-but I'm sure with some trimming of that mustache and learning basic pleasantries he might actually find a future queen to his ridiculous Eggman empire and… where did everyone go?" Orbot spun around, looking under his arm behind him before forward and shaking his fist at Cubot leading Harmony away from the Chaos Emeralds.
"Wait! Cubot! What are you doing? Stooopp!" he charged after them.
"Romeo, oh Romeo!~" Cubot clutched his heart and then lifted his other arm out, letting go of Harmony as she stood upon the roof of Eggman's base.
She looked around, being level with the blast of lights now,…
She shook her head, stepping away in fright, but Orbot finally could tell there was an emotional response in this Goddess.
"…What are you afraid of, Harmony?" He gestured for her to step forward, and not back down. "If you called out for help once,… why don't you again?" Orbot didn't feel he was going against orders. They were asked to watch Harmony, and it wasn't like she was escaping at this moment so…
In all honesty, they were thinking of the health of their creator, not so much his happiness…
Harmony gazed out over the sky… the earth below her… the dying planet she wanted so desperately to heal again… But it was not to be.
She turned her head.
Her single arm pointed to her obliterated one, and her shoulders bounced as if attempting to cry.
The robots couldn't discern this emotion, and looked to each other, hoping the other one might have some clue but it was no use.
They had never seen such hopeless regret before…
-The Jungle's Mystic Ruins-
Jet leans towards Amy, "Isn't this Sonic's friend?" he then looked enraged, leaning back up and stomping a foot down, "Yeah! I remember now! This is that Girly that swiped the Arc of the Cosmos!" he kept stomping his foot as Wave, who was allowing Amy's unconscious head to lean against her shoulder, glared up at Jet. "Jet, we've been over this before. You're acting like a child more than a leader." She huffed and looked to the side, "You can't honestly expect our respect with a tantrum about things that have already happened." Her comment froze him a moment as she mentally pictured steam coming out of his ears and giggled into her hand.
He turned away from her, folding his arms and flicking his tail back, "Whatever!"
Storm bent down to Amy, "The little lady with a strong arm…" he reached out for her, but pulled back and rubbed his peak as though remembering a painful pitch and swing.
Jet rolled his eyes back to Storm, nudging him with a swift kick of his foot, "Quit that! Don't touch her."
"I-I wasn't going to, boss. Honestly." Storm stumbled a bit but got up, worried his boss thought wrongly of his actions. "I was just remembering is all…" he placed his hands over his beak again, embarrassed by the misunderstanding.
"Both of you need to quiet down." Wave looked back to them, before pulling the computerized gem off from her necklace and clicking it. Diagrams and data floated up on screens that projected from it. She swiped her hand out and they went flying out of view before Wave began analyzing her body's condition, along with Amy's state as well.
"Strange…" she muttered as Storm and Jet crept around the screens in front of them and went to look at it from her angle.
Jet squat down and leaned his cheek towards her, trying to see what she was reading. "What is it, Wave?"
"According to these readings, something just sucked the life out of us." She looked over her pigmentation on her arm, "My colors returning… but that's so weird… what kinda signal can pull such an immense amount of power from so far away?"
"So, your life was sucked dry?" Jet turned back to her, putting some weight on his knee and placing a hand on it for stability.
"Who would do such a thing..?" Storm worriedly put his hands up to his shaking mouth. "You mean it could of killed you..?"
Wave turned back to Storm, nodding, before returning Jet's stare down to Amy.
"If it only happened to me and the girl… then…"
"Then why didn't it happen to us?" Jet bit his beak down, angered. He stood up and swiped a hand out, "No one messes with my team! And I mean any member of my team!"
Wave suddenly saw him in a better light, a heroic and kingly stance made his childish behavior from before almost dissipate as she smiled fondly to his response.
"Whatever it wanted, it got it." Wave rolled her shoulder and moved Amy's head down to the ground, attempting herself to get up as she clicked the gem off and put it back on her necklace. "Emm…" she found herself still slightly wobbling…
Immediately, Storm and Jet reached out and helped her up. She gave them a weak scold with her eyes, before surrendering to their help when a kind and concerned expression was returned to her, along with a 'forgive us and just let us help you?' smile was offered instead of just letting her go.
"The signal was ranged so far that my systems can't locate its exact source, but I do know the central direction, based on the arch of the signal, and the energy drained has a residual essence that we can track from here-" she pointed to the direction she had fallen, "-to here." And continued the motion to where her energy had departed too.
"Genius, Wave." Jet smirked, removing his hands from helping her up. He walked towards the area, clenching a fist. "Whoever did this to you… we'll get your life force back! One way or another… Anyone who dares to mess with the Babylon Rogues… Heh, gets a swift reminder how we're not ones to mess with!" the Rogues formed an epic pose before Amy began to stir with soft noises, waking up just as the Rogues turned around.
"Well, look who's joining the living for a change." Jet looked over his shoulder.
As they approached her to interrogate her about what she knew of the life-sucking lights, Sonic came blasting through the trees, seeing them approaching her and Amy looking faint.
"Amy!"
"Do you know what happened?" Jet asked, not looking very friendly as Amy placed a hand on her head, trying to keep it from rolling as she got up.
"H-huh?"
Wave made an annoyed face but was about to suggest that Amy didn't know anything either when Sonic jumped and slammed his foot into the back of Jet's neck.
"ACK!"
"Ambushing, 3 against 1? I didn't think that was your style, birdbrain!" Sonic spun up and stood in front of Amy, watching as Jet twitched on the ground and swung himself up in an outrage.
"SOOONNNIICC! You wouldn't know a brain if it hit you in the face!"
Suddenly, Chaos blasted like a water jet towards Sonic, wanting a host to find Harmony, but was immediately grabbed by Tails and Knuckles.
"Wait!"
"Where do you think you're going!?"
-Within the Ruins-
"I think the dimensional rifts worked. I got my message through to Blaze and Silver." Rouge's voice echoed in undistinguishable sounds over the ruins walls, but the screechy recorder in Shadow's hand was kept close to his ear, but down by his cheek.
He moved some stones and stepped up into an old chamber, looking around at the coffins all lined up in it. "Any news back?" he asked, blasting some traps that were set-off with a powerful detonator that he threw out.
"Tsk… I should have kept that emerald." Shadow muttered as he walked by the cracked and tumbling stones, watching as an entire corner collapsed and revealed the sunlight from the edge of the caved ceiling.
"Nothing yet. I'll keep trying. What about the ruins?"
Shadow kicked away some loose pebbles before pushing a coffin's lid off, letting the sound vibrate as it cracked the floor and he peered in.
"…At the moment..?" he reached in, pulling out an amulet with a crystal etched into it. "Nothing." He looked at the crystal designs on the other coffins… so many women sacrificed for the Chaos Emeralds and Master Emerald to come to fruition.
"All I know is that if Harmony gains her ultimate form… much like Chaos, you and the rest of your kind will be nothing more than dust." He threw the amulet down in contempt, "I deny this Goddess her methods and powers. She may grant life as a blessing, but she is nothing more than a robber of her own cribs!"
(Ohhhhh, that quote though! –DANNNNNG- anyway, that's it for this chapter, stay tuned for what happens next! Will Harmony reach out to Chaos? Will a battle unfold? And I know it's yucky, but hopefully no more talk of fluids and organs, okay? Lololol Till next time, stay tuned!)