Control Revamped
Chapter 12
Lies
I hover above a crowd of running a screaming people, littered with the dying and the dead, children huddling over their dead parents, close friends holding each other in their last moments. The bloodlust in my bloodshot eyes is beyond imagining. I glare across the battlefield towards the one who committed the hanus act, Metal Sonic. As people run screaming, Metal Sonic slowly turned his head towards me, revealing a new mechanical mouth he had formed for himself, smirking with a toothy grin. The rest of my team just stared, wondering what had driven me into such a state of enraged insanity to instill myself with the power of the Fleetway Super Form.
Behind my eyes was a reflection of a memory that has haunted me since the day I received my powers. The memory of losing almost all of my friends. Every one besides the six that were with me now. But the memory was still strong. Seeing Metal's older brother Mecha killing everyone at my school, right before my eyes, just to taunt me and make me beg for death. But Metal Sonic had only called upon a wrath greater than he could handle. Or so we thought.
In a flicker of lightning, I appeared across the park and tackled Metal at full speed, only to see that he hadn't budged. He blocked my attack with one arm. Metal then pulled back his unused fist and punched me in the stomach, but I didn't react either, being immune to pain in that form. But the next attack was effective. Metal spun around and landed a roundhouse kick to my face, sending me flying across the park, crashing into the forest. As I pushed myself up among the rubble of splintered trees, All I could see was a black tunnel, and the object of my aggression at the end. An explosion of chaotic energy burst from the point I was laying as I flew forth, summoning my katana and slicing at Metal with all the effort I could muster.
But once I was in his face, Metal summoned his own katana, with a serrated back edge. As our blades clashed, waves of chaos energy as sharp as our blades burst forth, cutting into the hillsides Metal then spun around and elbowed me in the stomach, the poisonous spike on his elbow stabbing into my stomach, infecting me with a powerful poison that without Trozae's assistance, I was guaranteed to die from. The stab caused me to flinch horribly, and my tunnel vision began to fade, my color returning to normal and my spines floating down. My vision blurred as in looked up and saw that Metal was draining all the energy from me, forming his own Superdark Form.
Metal smirked wide as he suddenly spun around and kicked me to the ground, landing amongst my friends and allies. They all ran to me and Nicky held me up while Ivy examined the wound. She gasped at the sight of the specific poison that had been used, one that was guaranteed fatal. It would draw negative chaos energy from the source of the poison endlessly, infecting the flow of chaos energy in the infected person's body until it caused their nervous stem to shut down permanently. The only was to prevent death would be to destroy the source of the dark energy. As she explained this to the team, Nicky's eyes widened and teared up in an instant, while she held me tighter and told everything would be ok. Ashley looked up toward Metal and growled, as the entire team quickly transformed into their character forms.
"YOU BASTARD! I SWEAR, YOU WONT SURVIVE THIS DAY!" Ashley looked as if she was almost ready to activate the Superdark form herself, but Metal just chuckled as the negative chaos energy was drawn from her and he absorbed it all, making himself stronger.
"Nobody has to die tonight except for one of you. Drew. Turn yourself over to me so I can finish the job, and I'll spare your friends lives, as well as the citizens of your pathetic planet." I stared for a moment from this. Behind my glazed eyes, it was unclear what my answer would be. Lauren was about to comment that I would never agree, until I interrupted her.
"Fine…" I slowly tried to push myself to my feet, while the rest of the team just stared in horror, wondering why I was so willing to do something like this. Nicky's eyes teared up more as she reached out for me and begged me not to do it, but it was too late. I had already made my decision. I slowly stumbled over to him and held my open wound, the combination of blood and poison dripping between my fingers. Once I got close, Metal's true plan was initiated. He quickly grabbed me and turned me around, holding me by the neck, and proceeded to fire multiple rounds at my currently defenseless girlfriend. Nicky held up her hands to block the attack, but it was useless either way. A massive cloud of smoke towered from where she was sitting, the rest of the team staring in horror at the sight, while I seemed to look as if I was going insane. My eyes shook horribly, my body limp, tears flowing in rivers.
"Do you see this Drew? Unless you and your team hand over the Chaos Emeralds, it will happen to every one of them!" He then aimed at Ivy, preparing to take out the only one who had any chance of saving me from the poison. In a fit of rage, I quickly summoned my katana and stabbed into his turbine, causing him to let go of me and reach for it to take it out before the katana became permanently jammed in him. I ran over to the smoke as it cleared, to find that Nicky was horribly maimed, barely conscious and crying silently, expecting this to be her final moments. I shook almost violently as I realized her condition, and quickly slid into the crater and held her up, holding her close to me.
"It's ok Nicky.. Everything's gonna be ok…. I promise…" My tears continued to flow, while she just smiled faintly and cuddled into my chest.
"I'm sorry hun… I wasn't strong enough…"
"No, Don't talk like that! You're gonna make it!"
"I love you Drew…" Before I could say another word, she was out cold. We had no idea if she had much longer. All we could do was hope for the best. Metal Sonic smirked wider at the sight, thinking that now I would be begging to die, but he was wrong.
"… Metal…" My body began to glow red, a vibrant shine that instilled fear into the wicked and courage into the hopeless. "I swear, you wont get away with this…" I slowly laid Nicky down and stood limply, my aura growing stronger by the second. Metal stared in confusion, wondering where this power was coming from. The rest of my team stared in amazement, knowing exactly where the power was coming from. I slowly turned and glared at Metal as my blurred vision seemed to be clearing, once again having Metal in my sights. My eyes slowly changed from their usual deep blue to emerald green.
In a flicker of red chaos energy, I appeared before him as Scion, both katana summoned and reflecting a glare of the sun in his eyes as the dark clouds above shattered. Metal was caught off guard and fell back, only to find that without his visual sensors even picking it up, I was already underneath him, kicking skyward and breaking his back. Metal flipped himself around and stared at me from above, only to find that I was gone again. His heat sensors then picked up a trail of energy leading from where I was just standing to directly above him. He tilted his head back to find that my heel was right over his head, and I landed an axe kick to his forehead, causing him to spin out of control and crash into the hillside.
Metal struggled to get up, but found that when I axe kicked his back, I had shattered part of his circuits, disabling his legs. He tried to turn on his turbine and fly, but that too was damaged from the katana being jammed in it. He looked up to see that I was already above him again, spinning down at mach five. Before he had the chance to crawl away, a gargantuan crater opened in the hillside, an explosion of red chaos energy filling the air.
When the light cleared, all that could be seen was a smoking crater with me standing in the middle of it, Metal Sonic being nothing but scrap metal laying in a heap before me. My wound healed shut, and I stood there staring at the sky, tears still flowing for the loss of my beloved.
But then I heard a familiar voice behind me. "You did great hun. Just don't show off that much next time, ok?" My eyes widened as I quickly turned and found that Nicky was standing before me, completely unscathed, despite her near-death condition I had seen her in only moments before. I stared in confusion for a moment, until I saw Lauren transformed into Liz behind her, with her hands glowing faintly. She had finally learned how to control her healing powers.
As reality came to me, I finally saw clearly that she was alive and well. Before she could say another word, I fell into her arms and held her tight, ignoring the crowd of survivors that were crowding around the smoldering crater.
