Control Revamped

Chapter 4

Duty

"Knuckles?! How the hell did you get here?!" The three of us were just staring at him. We couldn't believe we were in the presence of one of the greatest heroes of all time. Knuckles just stared for a moment, obviously taking my comment as rude.

"Just like how all those villains got here. With Chaos Control. Now if you can excuse me, I need those Chaos Emeralds. Otherwise, we can't put an end to this." Something was wrong. Knuckles never wanted to use the Chaos Emeralds to solve anything. He always saw them as a last resort. Then I noticed the gloves. They were yellow.

"… EVERYONE BACK UP, IT'S-" Before I could finish, Knuckles punched me in the gut and launched me across the street, landing me on my back again. I yelled in pain, unable to move. That's a pain I can remember. It was as if a needle had been driven into my spinal chord. Nicky and Dani quickly backed away from Knuckles just in time to see his red hide melt away, revealing himself as Mecha Knuckles.

"TERMINATE!" Both girls ran form the mech over to me, to make sure I was ok and get me away from it. But as they tried to lift me up, I screamed in pain. After four hits to the back, it was practically broken. I couldn't move at all. They both gave me a concerned stare, and Nicky's stare slowly turned to a glare as she looked over to Mecha Knuckles, who was slowly walking over.

"Drew.."

"Y-yeah?…"

"Give me back my Chaos Emerald." I was deeply surprised I couldn't believe that she was going to fight. But them again, I couldn't, could I? I slowly held up my hand and the blue Chaos Emerald emerged form it, and Nicky took It from me. Dani then mustered her power and summoned out her sky Chaos Emerald. The two of them slowly stepped toward Mecha Knuckles, and a great burst of blue and sky chaos energy erupted from them.

Nicky transformed into a bright blue hedgehog girl wearing blue jeans, a dark blue sleeveless top, red boots, red shades, and a blue barrette, her hands adorning fingerless black gloves.

Dani became a lavender fox girl, wearing a bright blue sweat jacket with lavender stripes and a white tee underneath, blue jeans, and white sneakers. Her brown hair flowed behind her in a powerful wind, created from the explosion of chaos energy.

"So Dani, who should throw the first punch?"

"Why punch when you can do this?" Dani reached out with her right hand and placed a forcefield around Mecha Sonic, then pulled him in for Nicky to land her first strike as Crystal the Hedgehog. Once Mecha Knuckles was close, Dani released the forcefield and Crystal unleashed a burst of darkness, blasting it back and leaving a gaping hole in Mecha Knuckle's chest. Mecha knuckles landed on it's back, and struggled to get back up. Just before it could though, it found itself being lifted high into the air with a forcefield. Crystal slowly positioned herself under it, ready for the finishing blow.

Once Dani had Mecha Knuckles about a hundred meters up, she thrust both palms to the ground and Mecha Knuckles came crashing down to earth. But just before landing, just before crashing tin Crystal, she released the forcefield, and Crystal unleashed a beam of darkness to the sky, blasting straight through Mecha Knuckles and tearing him to shreds.

The last few scraps hit the ground and Crystal stopped firing, then lowered her arms as she ran over to me, Dani following. "Alright Drew, hold still." She held out her hands and all she could muster was darkness, no healing light. Her character's powers normally would have allowed light, but her heart was holding her back, She struggled to produce light for another minute, while DanI tried her best to keep me conscious, "Come on… Come on…" Finally, as a tear fell, the darkness emerging form her hands turned to light, and my back began to heal. She had saved my life. A few minutes of healing later. I very slowly got to my feet.

"Thanks girls… I'd be dead if you hadn't fought him…" They were both silent for a moment, just staring at each other, then slowly turned their heads back to me as they deformed. Nicky was the first to speak.

"A lot of people would die if we didn't fight. And we've gotta keep fighting. It's our duty." I just stared for a moment, unable to believe what I was hearing.

"She's right. Forget family and school, neither will exist much longer if we don't fight." I just smiled faintly, knowing that if I could get those two on the team, the others would be easy.

"Alright then. You two ready for a road trip?"