"Come on Beast Boy, surely you can go faster than that!" Sonic shouted as he and Beast Boy, in his cheetah form, ran to the pizza shop. It was late in the afternoon, and the two were racing, Sonic showing that he was still the fastest thing alive.
"You know...the only one...who could stand a chance...of beating you...would be Flash," Beast Boy said when they stopped, placing the order.
"Hey, do you hear something?" Sonic asked as a loud noise echoed through the streets, and a flash of light came from nowhere.
"Ah, more animals for my circus act," came a familiar voice. Sonic and Beast Boy looked to see a man with blue skin and the outfit of a magician standing before them.
"Hey, I might be a show off, but I don't exactly perform in circuses," Sonic said, already in a fighting stance.
"There's no way you can take us on Mumbo," Beast Boy said, morphing into a T-rex. As Mumbo fired giant cards at them, Sonic dodged while Beast Boy simply hit them with his tail. Leaping from card to card, Sonic spun towards Mumbo, only to be knocked back by a giant wand.
"Huh...what happened?" Silver asked as he woke up. He looked around, seeing Blaze was standing there, waiting for him to wake. The red thing that had hit her was gone, and the smell of something burning filled the alley.
"We lost to a pair of super villians, and there seems to be trouble outside," Blaze said as Silver started glowing turquoise. The two of them left the alley only to dodge Sonic as he crashed in front of them.
"Hey Silver, mind giving us a hand?" Sonic asked, pulling his face from the ground. Before anyone could react, Beast Boy fell forward, hit by Mumbo's wand. Silver was instantly in the air, grabbing anything that was lying around. Blaze's hands had ignited with fire as she ran at the magician.
"Oh, more parlour tricks. Don't make me laugh," Mumbo said, an elephant coming out of his hat and drenching Blaze. Silver, taking advantage of Mumbo's distraction, snuck up behind him, throwing a piece of rubble at him. Again, this attack was blocked by Mumbo's wand. "What's wrong, no more tricks up tour sleeve?" Mumbo laughed, which did the same thing Blackfire had done the previous night.
"That's it! I've had enough of your magic show!" Silver yelled, his eyes and hands glowing bright turquoise. He started throwing energy bolts relentlessly at Mumbo which caused the giant wand to snap in half.
"Um, I think my show is cancelled," Mumbo said, nervously sneaking away when Silver turned to face him, his eyes now burning furiously. Silver would have unleashed another relentless assault if Blaze hadn't called out, worry evident in her eyes.
"I've never seen Silver like this before...he's changing a lot lately," Blaze thought as Silver floated back to earth, the burning glow now fading.
"Cool powers. That was just like Raven and Starfire," Beast Boy said, not noticing Silver and Blaze's confused expressions.
"You'll see soon enough," Sonic grinned before dashing back to the pizza shop. He came back carrying six pizzas, handing three to Silver to carry before dashing off, with Beast Boy in cheetah form and Blaze running while Silver flew overhead.
The next day
"Come on Shads, you really need to try harder!" Sonic shouted as he raced the black hedgehog through the training course.
"Fine then, you asked for it," Shadow grinned, throwing Chaos spears at any cannon he could see, skating around the explosions with ease. In response, Sonic accelerated, jumping on top of another cannon and leaping from one to another, the force of his landing destroying the cannons.
"Whoa, that looks so cool!" Beast Boy said, watching Sonic and Shadow with wide eyes. The other Titans, minus Raven, were also watching, ducking behind the controls when a piece of cannon flew towards them. When the two hedgehogs finished in record time, everyone was surprised. It had only taken a minute and a half, something that not even the Flash could do.
"Not bad Shadow, maybe you and I ought to duke it out some time again," Sonic said, his usual overconfident smirk on his face. Shadow said nothing, but could feel his patience wearing thin from the training exercise. He then remembered what he was going to do afterwards, muttering Chaos Control and teleporting outside Raven's room.
He knocked the door, then heard something crashing. He quickly opened the door and saw what looked like a black dragon trying to escape from a book. He saw Raven looking at the dragon with surprise, but he didn't hesitate to throw a chaos spear at it before charging and landing a kick to the dragon's head. In a terrible screech, the dragon disappeared into the book.
"What was that thing?" Shadow asked, his eyes full of concern. The dragon had caused most of the room to be covered with books and torn pages.
"Malchior, the dragon that wants to be set free," Raven said, not noticing Shadow had pretty much blacked out, remembering something about his time with Maria.
Flashback to time on ARK
"Maria, where are you?" Shadow called out, wandering around the ARK searching for his friend. He knew something was up, but he shrugged and kept looking.
"Shadow! Anyone! Help me!!" a voice called. Shadow broke into a run, sprinting to where the cry for help had came from. He soon found the room, kicking the door open to find Maria scrambling to get away from an Artificial Chaos experiment that had gone on a rampage.
"Maria, get back!" Shadow shouted, jumping at the experiment and kicking its head. Once the creature had divided, he fired a chaos spear, taking out the head as a puddle of water fell on the ground.
End of flashback
"Shadow, did you actually hear anything I just said?" Raven asked, annoyance hinted in her voice. Shadow soon snapped back to the present, glancing uncomfortably at his shoes.
"You said that dragon wanted to escape from the book," he said, trying to sound like he'd been listening. Raven was about to ask him something else when the alarm sounded. Without a word she faded into a black raven, flying to the main room.
"Dang, I really need to keep my flashbacks in check," Shadow sighed, relieved Raven had gone. He almost felt like he was being crushed slowly by her dark energy, but shook the feeling as he teleported to the main room.
"So, Blackfire and Red X have Galahad and Percival's swords!" Sonic shouted out loud, getting looks from everyone as Caliburn slapped his forehead, groaning in frustration.
"You great fool! No-one was to know of that yet!" Caliburn hissed. Sonic looked at everyone, then at Shadow and Raven behind him, particularly Raven.
"It's a story as long as the tale of King Arthur. Don't we have villians to beat," Sonic said, noticing Blaze and Silver look at the screen with a sense of hate and revenge. Then there was a flash of green and black, and there stood a green hedgehog in a black leather jacket. Sonic stared at it with wide eyes, then with an expression of anger.
"Not that stupid evil clone!" Sonic hissed as Scourge flashed a smile in the screen, one that made Sonic let out a small growl. Shadow also growled a little, but he stayed calm and emotionless.
"You know that...?!" Robin was about to ask, but Sonic had already left, a wind taking several loose objects through the door with him.
"Man, I haven't had this much fun since Anti-Mobius. Now, what else is there to do?" Scourge asked himself as Red X, Blackfire and himself helped themselves to various jewellery.
"How's about you actually do something like I would?" Sonic yelled as he spun full force into Scourge, sending him flying a hundred feet along the ground.
"Well, if it isn't the blue dud. You think you can just jump in whenever you want and order us about? I mean, I was once a king ya know," Scourge said, his wide smirk making Sonic's hands turn to fists and shake in anger.
"Don't think you can win this!" Sonic yelled, charging full speed at Scourge. Meanwhile, most of the others had arrived, minus Tails, Caliburn and Amy. Shadow disappeared, and a black and red streak joined the brawl between the green one and the blue one.
"Don't think you'll get away this time!" Silver yelled as he and Starfire flew after Blackfire, star bolts and turquoise psychokinetic bolts hitting her purple bolts.
"Hold still ya green pincushion!" Cyborg shouted as he fired his sonic cannon at Scourge, constantly missing and nearly hitting Sonic and Shadow.
"Sorry tin man, but I ain't a target for practicing on," Scourge smirked as the sonic blast hit Sonic while he dodged. All of a sudden, a blue robot came flying out of nowhere, disrupting the battle with Scourge.
"Hope you weren't planning on forgetting me?" the robot said, getting looks of surprise from Sonic, Knuckles and Shadow.
"Metal Sonic? Since when did you have a mouth and a non-robot voice?" Knuckles asked, sidestepping as a red X hit the ground next to him.
"Ever since they found me," Metal Sonic said, pointing at Blackfire and Red X before disappearing, engaging in high speed combat with Knuckles and Sonic.
"Now then, a chance for you and me to talk," Scourge said as he dodged debris surrounded in dark energy.
"Like you can sweet talk me into giving up," Raven said in her usual monotonous voice.
"Oh I never considered that. Hey X, throw me one of your boomerang thingies," Scourge shouted as he dodged yet more debris. Grabbing the boomerang, he spin dashed through debris then threw it. The moment it hit, it held Raven tightly against a wall, rendering her defenceless.
"Now, how come a dark and pretty girl is with this bunch of losers? I bet you'd make a great queen for a former king?" Scourge said, lifting Raven's head to make her look him in the eye.
"Are you sure you'd want me to be you're queen?" Raven asked, a small, unnoticeable, evil smile on her face.
"Why, I mean, if you're going out with Sonic, then I'm like him in every way," Scourge said, still with his smirk.
"I'm not going out with anyone, but you really need to remember someone else like Sonic," Raven pointed out, still keeping her smile hidden. At that moment, Scourge felt a tap on the shoulder, turning to find a very angry looking Shadow.
Before Scourge could react, Shadow's fist connected with his jaw, sending him flying across the ground.
"If you think Sonic can be unbearable, just try living with Scourge for one minute," Shadow muttered before engaging Scourge hand to hand while Raven's hands glowed with dark energy.
Meanwhile, Metal Sonic seemed to be enjoying his fight with Sonic, Knuckles and Cyborg, flying circles around each of them. He was now stuck in Neo form, but he was in no hurry to lose the form.
"How can a simple robot copy be such a pain? I thought you couldn't top the original," Cyborg shouted, yet again firing his sonic cannon and missing the blue robot.
"I guess we should end this. Caliburn, now's the time!" Sonic yelled, his gauntlet appearing on his hand and a wind surrounding it. When the wind disappeared, Caliburn was now in Sonic's hand, ready for the fight. Stopping, Sonic charged his Soul Surge, then sprang at unbelievable speed at Metal, hitting him with slow-motion sword swings until the robot fell, now barely able to stand, let alone dodge Blackfire as Starfire and Silver sent her smashing into the robot.
"Hey X, ya think we should get outta here before we get creamed?" Scourge asked, now back to back with Red X. Without a word, Red X disappeared, and Scourge ran, picking up and carrying Blackfire while Red X picked up Metal Sonic before disappearing again. As everyone celebrated their victory, something was happening for an honorary Titan elsewhere.
"How could this dam have started to crumble again?" Argent asked herself as she tried to seal it up, her crimson energy creating objects like staples and hands to hold the dam up. A large torrent of water fell before she fully sealed it, the crimson energy hands disappearing while the staples hardened.
"Well, that should hold it for a while," she said to herself, looking down at the bottom of the dam. Some rubble had fallen, now looking like islands in the shallow water. Looking closer, she saw an orange and yellow robot with bright blue eyes.
"What the...was it in the dam?" she asked herself while running down to the robot. When she got to the river, she created a few stepping stones, making it to the same "island" as the robot. She was surprised to find barely a scratch or dent. Before she could set it down, the eyes lit up, now looking at her.
"Who...are...you?" it said weakly, sounding somewhat like a little kid. Surprised, Argent dropped it, surprised the robot could speak after the fall and being in the dam. It was also a surprise that it could move, stand up and seem to stretch, if that was possible for a robot.
"My name is Argent, but what are you, and how did you survive that fall?" Argent asked, a little weary around the bot.
"I...I'm the Gizoid. From what I can remember, my name is Emerl," Emerl said, his voice sounding more like a teenager.
"What exactly is a Gizoid?" Argent asked, glancing up at the dam as something appeared at the top of it. It looked like a man with red hair and a British flag jacket and glasses.
"Hello duckies, how's about a little lesson in how not to mess with my plans," Mad Mod called down, a few robots next to him.
"Oh great, I hope you know how to fight," Argent said to Emerl as she prepared for battle.
"Not really, but I'm a very quick learner," Emerl said, probably smirking if he'd had a mouth. A robot started flying down, and Emerl watched it fly, then, after copying the robot's flight abilities, he too was flying thanks to his jetpack.
"Come on, just use any attack, I dare ya," Emerl muttered, dodging a punch thrown by his opponent, copying it, then proceeding to practice his new skill on the robot, sending it crashing to the ground below. He then saw two robots attacking Argent, watching their attacks and copying them in a matter of seconds. Flying towards them, he used the attacks, disabling each robot in quick succession.
"Well well, looks like you're quite the fighter. But just try and dodge this," Mad Mod called down, causing a piece of the dam to fall, ready to crush the two heroes. A pair of red hands of energy grabbed the rock, but weren't strong enough, constantly, being pushed back.
"I...I can't hold it back much longer!" Argent yelled, feeling drained at the energy she was using to hold the rock back. Every instinct was telling Emerl to run, but instead, he delved into his memories, what little of them there were, searching for old combat data until, he hoped, he'd found the perfect move.
In an instant, Emerl was spinning in a ball, smashing through the rock's centre, then continued to spin up right in front of Mad Mod, making him fall into the water.
"Sorry, but I think you've just been beaten by a kid and an ancient machine," Emerl said as he fished Mad Mod out of the water, Argent watching from the dam wall.
"They had robots in ancient times?" she asked, a red energy hand holding Mad Mod in a firm grip.
"Where I came from yeah," Emerl shrugged as if it was obvious. "Though what do we do with mad guy there?" he asked, pointing at the struggling Mad Mod.
"Leave him at the police station and then take you to meet Robin and the others. I bet Cyborg might like to study your robotics," Argent said as they prepared to fly off.
"As long as I don't end up disassembled on some workbench," Emerl said sarcastically, activating his jetpack.