Control Revamped
Chapter 11
A Hidden Fear, A Hidden Hatred
"Team Control, GO!" I ran in at full speed and backflipped in front of Scourge, kicking him in the chin, launching him skyward with ease. Once he was in the air, it was the rest of the team's turn to kick some ass. Liz and Grim got underneath and grabbed onto each other's hands, then ran into a circle until they both upgraded to Demonic and Angelic forms, growing wings of each kind, then let go and flew in a spiral up towards him, creating a white tornado of Oni Aura and flames, leaving Scourge horribly burnt.
As Scourge opened his eyes and looked up through the eye of the tornado, a green light came crashing down on him, and Ashez stabbed her laser claws into his chest, crushing him into the ground like a bolt of lightning, and blasting the tornado apart in a beautiful array of white lights. Once Scourge opened his eyes again, he saw Ashez jumping back just as Crystal came down from above with a hammer fist full of flames and light. On impact, another bright explosion engulfed the battlefield.
Scourge struggled to get to his feet, but then realized that he had landed on a bed of Trozae's quills, leaving him paralyzed. His eyes widened for a moment and shook, bloodshot from the thought that this may be his end. Dani suddenly created a forcefield around him and lifted him back into the air so he was in a standing position. When he looked forward, He could see that I was standing in a three-point racing position, ready to take off at any second. "N-no! This cant be! You can't destroy me!"
"Think fast Scourge." I took off at mach three, but suddenly, just as my right foot left the ground, my gold ring buckles broke off, and my power was no longer restrained. In a split second, I went crashing through him at mach ten, emerging on the other side with nothing but a shattered forcefield and a mangled mist of dark chaos energy in the air. I smirked wide, loving the feeling of destroying another evil bastard. The surrounding crowd cheered, and so did people watching around the world. This had been our most impressive display of combat yet, and this was just the beginning.
He was only the third villain we had destroyed, the other two being Black Doom and Iblis. When we destroyed Iblis, Mephiles finally got so pissed off that he revealed himself as the same old man that had corrupted us a year ago. I kinda expected it was him.
We all returned to our human selves and gathered together. You know, it's amazing how much can change in a year. For one, my acne had completely cleared up, and I was one handsome son of a bitch. Or, that's what I was told. Nicky had slimmed down slightly like she always wanted. Also, she streaked her hair blue, another touch she always wanted to add. Dani had slimmed down a lot actually. She was about the same as Nicky was when I met her. Trey had grown to be quite a tall young man, practically looked like a pro basketball player. Liz had slimmed slightly and had treatment for the few scars on her face. Ivy had grown into quite a fetching young girl, who practically every fan boy of Team Control wanted. Sadly, because her boyfriend Jeff wasn't on the team, a lot of people didn't know she was already taken. Ashley on the other hand, was also a huge interest with the boys. She was the only single girl on the team, and just as good looking as the rest.
Over the course of a year of our involvement in international politics and science, we had finally gotten the world to straighten out and stop all the stupid wars and skirmishes. Now our only wars were against gun control, drugs, keeping pollution under control, and of course, against the villains plaguing our planet. But for some reason, none of them seemed interested in a fight to the death. It seemed they were training, or planning something on a grand scale.
But at the time, we didn't care. We had just taken a huge leap towards putting the planet back into normalcy, even better than it's formal normalcy actually. And we all had something big to look forward to anyways. Tomorrow was the anniversary of Black Doom's destruction. And a huge festival is going to be held at the very spot that we had fought him. Of course, we would be the stars of the festival, and we would be up to our necks in people asking for autographs, but we would still enjoy it.
Once we were gathered together, we all just seemed to ignore the crowd, just chatting about who we should hunt down next. Personally, I had no clue who I wanted it to be. Everyone else was kinda clueless at the moment it seemed, so we just decided to make it whoever attacks us next. After that little chat, I turned to Nicky and took her hand, slowly walking away from the team. "Hey hun… It's been a while since we had a chance for a real date. How bout tomorrow after we've been to the festival for a while, we split and go see a movie? For a little privacy, I can take you back to my place for it. Neither of us wants to be barraged with fan boys and fan girls asking for autographs while trying to watch a movie."
She giggled a bit a bit from this, and gave me a quick nod. "Of course hun. It's been too long since we've gotten some time alone…" She leaned against me as we walked, holding tight onto my arm. As people began to approach us asking for autographs as usual, we used Chaos Control to escape and go back to my house for a bit. She needed some time to recover before going to see her mother, who hates to see her battle scarred after a big fight.
The next day, people were gathered in mass at Valley Forge, awaiting the arrival of their heroes. Suddenly, as they looked to the front stage, seven massive beams of light, each a different Chaos Emerald color, shot into the sky as we appeared, one in each. The crowd cheered as we stood, all of us waving to our fans and me trying not to tell them off about being such raving lunatics over us. Once that was over, we just randomly walked around the festival, enjoying the food and games, me owning at DDR with my incredible speed and precession, and me and Nicky even got a painting done of us. Of course, we got it all for free.
The festival seemed like it couldn't be going any better. And we were right. It was at it's peak, and was only about to become Hell on Earth. The entire festival stopped and turned at the sound a familiar laugh, mechanical and deep. As they looked to the night sky and the top of the statue of us defeating Black Doom, they could see a metallic shine and two piercing red eyes. Metal Sonic slowly held out his hands and a flickering shine of dark energy came across the jewels in his palms. Just as everyone began to scream and run, he fired into the crowd with exploding Eclipse Bullets, killing dozens of people in seconds. And he was laughing the whole time.
As I watched this form the edge of the festival, my eyes widened and shook, practically paralyzed by the sight. It was just like a year ago. When I first gained my powers. When Mecha Sonic killed half my school. Killed all of my friends. Left me with nothing. A cold sweat dripped down my face and I slowly grit my teeth. Mt fists clenched and my entire body began to shake. The rest of the team turned and looked to me as they felt the Chaos Emeralds being ripped from them and attracted to me, as if my hatred had become a magnetic pull.
My eyes turned red for a moment, and I became Scion in an instant, my spines turning upward and my fur turning gold. My Super Form eyes became bloodshot and enraged, a fire behind them like no other. "METAL SONIC! YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS!!! YOU'LL PAY WITH YOU EXISTENCE!!!!"
