Control Revamped
Chapter 13
Limits
I ran in a wide circle around a green hedgehog wearing a black cloak and flame-shaped red shades, who seemed unphased by the battle that was ensuing, while I just scowled at him, his currently emerald green eyes glaring. "Why wont you just stay down Scourge?!"
"You should know better, kid. I've read your fan fictions, and I'm one of your favorite villains. You should know better than to ever count me out." Scourge quickly rose a blackened hand and fired a beam of dark chaos energy, leaving a massive explosion in my running path, but I simply widened the circle to avoid the pothole. The rest of the team finally began to run onto the scene. Scourge had cornered me alone, and it took some time for the rest of the team to show up.
"Drew, we're ready! Let us in!" Lauren had her Chaos Emerald at the ready to transform, but I interrupted her.
"No, I've got him on the ropes! I have a plan!" Suddenly, the wide circle I was running it slowly became a red tornado, larger than any I had created before. Scourge just scowled as he felt himself being bashed from all sides with glancing blows, but recovering instantly from every one.
"Is that all you've got?!" It wasn't. I suddenly went into a spindash and crashed into his head, bouncing myself toward the eye of the tornado, then using the wind I had created to control myself mid-air, and spun around as the wind followed me, suddenly coming to a screeching halt a hundred yards from him as the wind caught up in a few seconds, while I began to convert all the chaos energy I could into one attack. The rest of the team stared as I smirked and took off. Then disaster struck.
Just as I was in front of Scourge, a red flash went off, and I returned to human form, and Scourge grabbed me by my shirt and held me up. "Wow, that's just pathetic. I may be a villain, but one thing any warrior should know is their limits. And you just pushed yours too far." With one swing of his arm, I was tossed over to the rest of my team, and I was caught by Nicky and Lauren, As they looked up with a glare and stared at Scourge, he disappeared in a flicker of violet flame.
"Drew, what the hell were you doing?! You're not the leader of this team, and you shouldn't be showing off all the time! This is the third battle this week that you've deformed in the middle of battle and we lost him!" I was just sitting in an old chair at my house, staring at the floor, staying silent throughout the lecture Lauren was giving me.
"Seriously hun, you're not the only one of this team." I slowly looked up to Nicky, didn't expect her to join this lecture, but she immediately shut up when she noticed the look in my eyes. I was clearly ashamed of myself for screwing up so badly, so she left it at that, and the room grew silent.
".. Drew, you gotta stop doing that, ok?… If you're gonna do something that powerful, do it earlier on so you don't screw us all over again." Lauren just slowly walked away and left with Chaos Control, with the rest of the team besides Nicky, who stayed there and held me for a moment to make sure I was ok.
The next day, the inevitable happened. During a patrol, Scourge landed a tactical assault on a power plant. He was planning to detonate it and take out a multi-mile radius with the blast. For once, I was the last on the scene. Once I was there, the battle was already heavily underway. Dani was standing between Scourge and the reactor, making sure he couldn't put a scratch on it, Liz assisting with her own Eclipse Barriers. Meanwhile, the rest of the scene was a clusterfuck of light beams, dark beams, Oni aura, flying quills, and razor claws. In my current state of mind, it was difficult for me to keep track of.
Honestly… after the lecture I had been given the night before, I was afraid to join the fight, for the off chance that I'd screw up again. For a few minutes, I just sat there as I watched the rest of my teammates being volleyed around with ease by a ricocheting green and black ball, as well as large and powerful pulses of chaos energy. Although they had teamwork on their side, we were still amateurs. We weren't real heroes. And I was the least of them. This entire time, I may have acted like I was fighting like this just to do the right thing… but every fight I was in was fueled by something else. Let it be revenge, the rush of battle, or the endorsement deals I could get from it… I was never all into it.
As I began to ponder this while watching them, I let out a sigh and slowly dropped my Chaos Emerald near the scene, and slowly began to walk away. I thought that someone else should have gotten that Chaos Emerald. It didn't belong to me. It couldn't. But only after a few steps, something got my attention. The battle had gone silent.
"Hey kid. Turn around." It was Scourge. I had to listen. As I slowly turned around, I saw a horrible sight. He had Crystal by the throat, holding up a blade of dark chaos to her neck. I gasped at the sight and let out a little growl. "Come on kid. You don't ant me to kill her, do ya? Then fight me… Fight me and show me how powerful you really are!"
I just growled more and clenched my fists at the sight. I only had one choice. I couldn't let him hurt her. I had to defend my beloved Nicky, and my teammates. Little did I know, my eyes had just changed from their usual deep blue to not Scion's emerald eyes, but a crimson red. "Fine… You want a fight… I wont hold back anything…" I didn't even plan what happened next. It just came to me. Like a natural instinct, hidden deep within my soul.
As Scourge threw Crystal aside, I ran in at human form, and reached down to grab my Emerald. "Chaos…" Just as it was in my hands, I burst into a red flame of chaos energy, becoming Scion in an instant, but what came next was even more spectacular.
"CONTROL!" My hedgehog body suddenly became nothing but a mass of red chaos energy, in the solid form of his normal body. Super Form in miniature version. Control Form. And the moment I took on this form, my senses peaked, and I broke a new land speed of mach ten, and ran in a wide circle, swiping past Scourge, but never touching him, only causing him to spin out of control. The rest of the team stared in awe, and for a moment, it seemed like I was gone. That was, before I ran in from the opposite direction, and landed a flying punch into Scourge's face.
The impact was so great, that if it weren't for the overwhelming sound of the sonic boom, we would have heard his neck break during the spilt second before the inertia caught up with him and sent Scourge flying across the plains beyond the power plant and crashing into a hillside. Before he could even get up from the impact, another surprise caught him.
As he opened his eyes, he could see what looked like a blue star above. It was Control Form Crystal. "This is what you get for holding me for ransom!" She quickly held her arms to the sky, creating a blue star above her head, with she fired down upon him. As Scourge tried to use Chaos Control to escape it, he felt something stab into his stomach. He looked down to find a few quills, all glowing indigo, jabbed into him. Control Form Trozae was only a few dozen yards away. After a matter of two seconds, he was inevitably paralyzed.
"NO! THIS CANT HAPPEN!" With the power he could muster, he surrounded himself in a barrier of dark chaos energy, only to have it barely absorb the impact, and shatter in front of him. The flash from the starburst blinded him, as well as burning him severely. But it was only the beginning. He found himself surrounded in a bright blue forcefield, to look out of it and see that Control Form Dani was nearby. He was then swung around four times, before being thrown through the air at incredible speeds.
And who did he run into in the air other than Control Form Grim, turned entirely white, who then used his immense strength to shove his hand right through Scourge, spurting blood out his back, and making him cough some up. Scourge was then grabbed by the spine, literally, and spun multiple times before being thrown towards Ashez, who was entirely green at the time. Just with one swing of her claws, five streaks of green chaos energy split him apart, but due to his advanced regeneration abilities, he was still alive, and could potentially return to normal, if he was just given the chance to disperse into a mass of chaos energy.
So the final blow would have to do it if we had a chance. Liz suddenly came flying down from above with her wing spread, and surrounded in a mass of now yellow flames. She dove directly through Scourge, and burned what was left of him to a crisp in a tornado of yellow fire. After a few seconds, we all stood at the side, waiting for it to die out. And it did quite abruptly.
I was the first to deform. Exactly a minute after my transformation into Control Form, I returned to human form, the Chaos Emerald in my hand blackened. In a matter of a few seconds, the rest of the team deformed as well. And with Lauren's descent, the flames died out.
And in our horror, we stared into the smoldering crater at the remains of Scourge. Which were still moving. In a grotesque and scratchy voice, with his empty eye sockets glowing violet, he spoke. "You havnt seen the last of me…" Before we could find a way to stop him, he dispersed into chaos energy, awaiting his time to reform.
After a few seconds, Lauren turned to me and smiled wide. "You did great bro. That new form was genius! Sure, we didn't destroy him, but I'm sure with more practice and a better strategy, we will soon." Of course, I couldn't help but smile from the praise.
"Thanks sis. Now I just hope we don't get yelled at for destroying the power cables headed into the city." I turned my head to see that the entire city behind us was blackened. Lucky us. We actually shut down the power for most of the eastern seaboard for the second time in world history.
