Control Revamped
Chapter 14
Choices
Grim's fist is caught by the mechanical hand of Metal Sonic, who then pulls him closer and lands a powerful, electrically charged punch into his stomach, which throws him tumbling backwards into a brick wall, crumbling it on impact. Liz stares at the wreckage for a moment, before unleashing a powerful torrent of white fire, which Metal easily overpowers with his own black flames. But while distracted by the torrent of flames in front of him, I appear behind him and try to land a strike with my katana, but Metal easily turns around and continues to fire flames from the back end of his turbine, and attempts to grab the blade.
But instead, I smirk wide as both our attacks are blocked by a forcefield, which Dani had created around Metal's hand, trapping him in place. Metal just glared as I suddenly broke off my gold buckles, flickered backwards about a dozen meters, then back forth and landed a solid punch to his face, which caused his right arm to be torn off from the shoulder, while his hand was still caught in the forcefield.
The moment Metal fell back after breaking his arm off, Trozae fired an acid emitting quill into the hole in his hull, releasing the acid into his circuitry. Metal began to short circuit, and while he was frozen in place, Ashez dashed over and removed his other arm with her bare claws, and Crystal jumped on him, pinning him to the ground, then driving orbs of blue flame into the holes where his shoulders were, welding them shut to prevent his arms from reattaching.
We all jumped back and stared at him pitifully laying on the ground, and scowled at the beast. But before backing up, Liz gave him a quick kick. "To think he use to give us so much trouble…"
"Especially me." Everyone turned to Trozae, who was glaring darker than the others. "I can never effect him, since he's not alive. Only my acid quills work, and you guys gotta open him up for me first."
I just chuckled a little and stepped further back. "We all know this guy can regenerate pretty fast, so lets finish him before he gets the chance. We'll need to use our full power. Ready guys?"
"Ready!" We all summoned forth the power of our Chaos Emeralds, and our eyes changed colors, to the colors of the gems we held. "CHAOS CONTROL!" In a great multi-colored flash, we all took on the colors of our individual Chaos Emeralds, the Control Form.
But Metal just stared at this development inquisitively. "Impressive. I've never seen this ability before… But once is enough." Of course, as soon as I heard him say this, I forced the rest of the team to back up, as Metal was suddenly engulfed in a burst of black chaos energy, and entire body, including his severed arms, lifted into the air and turned solid black. The welded holes in his arms opened back up, then his arms reattached, completing his form. "Your… 'Control Form'… is now mine… but why such a pitiful name?… why not… CHAOS FORM!"
We stared in horror as Metal slowly floated higher into the sky with a massive array of black lightning surrounding him. We could only wonder what kind of destructive power was held in his new form. He slowly tilted his head downward to stare at us, and at that moment we knew we had a fight on a whole other level on our hands. "… Get ready guys… as soon as he moves… freestyle it. None of our strategies is gonna mean anything right now."
There was a moment of silence. The whole world, as they watched, held their breath in suspense.
Before they could even see me or Metal move, we were duking it out in a high-speed battle at mach ten, explosions of crimson and black chaos energy spiraling out of control in the air. After just a few seconds, it had become a blood red tornado, rising high into the heavens and summoning black lightning from the sky. And the tornado suddenly was shattered as I was thrown backwards from the eye of the storm, paralyzed from the literal shock I had just been given.
Crystal just stared at where I had landed, then growled ferociously, before unleashing a massive array of blue stars upon him. But Metal Sonic simply began to backhand each one, deflecting them toward the surrounding buildings, clouding the battlefield in smoke and dust from the debris. Crystal stared around for a moment, before her eyes widened in horror as Metal appeared behind her. The rest of the team could hear nothing but a sudden squelch of flesh, and all went silent. Then another. And another. By the time the smoke had cleared, all that could be seen was a mangled mess of flesh surrounding the battlefield, and Metal standing over the only remaining whole body.
Crystal stared off to the side as she saw me returned to human form, my hazed blue eyes staring at her from my severed head. She could only see this for a moment though, for her eyes teared up an instant later, overwhelmed by the sight. She slowly looked back up to Metal Sonic hovering over her, who was trying to decide the most gruesome way to dispatch her. She was already quickly bleeding out from the hole in her back, so whatever he did, he had to decide fast. Metal started to reach towards her, planning to entirely eviscerate her as the world watched, but before his hand could reach, he froze in place.
Crystal just stared up at the blackened sky and continued to cry, as a single pin of light shone down upon her forehead. "T… T-take me back… s-so I can stop this…" At that moment, the seven Chaos Emeralds rose, and they took on a powerful blue shine, and the beam of light from the heavens quickly spread across the planet, and the universe.
She awoke laying next to me, the morning before the fight, with her head resting on my chest. She slowly lifted her head and stared up at me for a moment, a tear coming to her eyes as she held me tight and began to wait for me to wake up, not wanting to leave me. She just silently began to think to wonder… was it real?.. Or was it just a dream?… She had never accessed her time control powers bon that scale before… but she also knew that in dire circumstances, their powers could easily break their former limits. She just had to wait and see.
That entire morning, due to the close brush with death, she had important questions for the future running through her head. A lot of them involving her and I. Later that morning, I was up and making breakfast for the two of us, including a large load of bacon, knowing how much of a carnivore she was, and she interrupted my dazed state with one of those questions.
"Hun?.."
"Yeah?.."
"… Do you really think… that living as heroes… we would really be able to have kids?…" I just froze from that question, having pondered it myself several times, and slowly lowered my head.
"… I know… it's dangerous… but that's why we cant rest until we've beaten them all… until we set the world straight, and make it a safe place for them both…"
"… Just two?"
"We've been over this hun, I really don't think I can handle more than two… We've faced death multiple times already, and we fight evils from beyond our world daily, and yet the idea of having more than two kids scares me more than that."
She giggled a little from this, a very faint smile coming across her face. ".. Alright.." She slowly got up from her seat and came up behind me, wrapping her arms around me tight and tenderly. "Just Aiyana and Evan then…"
Later that day, the entire team met up in New York, were we were going to meet up with an eleven o'clock news crew. Trey was being his usual hyperactive self, walking backwards in front of us, not caring who he would walk into. "So Drew, how long until the interview?"
"We've still got an hour dude, don't spaz on us… Nicky, you ok?" We all turned to stare at her for a moment, due to her extremely odd behavior. She was staring around timidly, as if awaiting something. When she realized we were all staring, she froze and rubbed the back of her head nervously.
"Y-yeah, just fine…" We stared at her for a moment, and Liz, being one who doesn't take lightly to being BS'd, was the first to speak.
"We're not buyin it sis. Come on, whatever it is, you can tell us. We're a team, and more than that, we're friends. Please, tell us…"
"Seriously Nicky." Ashley stepped up behind her and placed a hand on her shoulder, and DanI came up on her other side.
"Whatever's bothering you, we can help…" After a few moment, she seemed to break, and finally decided to tell us.
"W-well… I-"
"It'll have to wait guys…" I immediately pointed out Metal Sonic staring at us from a distance. His menacing stare, and the fact that those walking around him hadn't even noticed his appearance yet, until about a second later, when somebody jumped and screamed, causing everyone to run off. He didn't mean to be discreet at all. "Alright team… let's bring him down." We all slowly transformed into our hero forms, but once Nicky had become Crystal, she let out a soft gulp, just before the entire scene she had witnessed before began to unfold before her.
Soon enough, Metal was on the ground and armless. I just chuckled a little and stepped further back. "We all know this guy can regenerate pretty fast, so lets finish him before he gets the chance. We'll need to use our full power. Ready guys?"
"WAIT!" We all turned and stared at Crystal, knowing she never acted this way, and something had to be horribly wrong for her to react this way.
"What's wrong hun?…"
".. I tried to tell you earlier… this all happened before… but I reversed time at the last second before I died… If we use the Control form now, he'll copy it and kill us all!" We all gasped in terror, knowing that he would be capable of such a thing. If he were to copy the Control form, he would likely have power equal to the Superdark form, and could tear us apart.
"… alright then.. What do we do now?"
"Cower before me." Metal suddenly spun his legs around and kicked us all off our feet, landing us on our backs as he quickly stood, and reattached his arms in a few bolts of lightning. As we quickly tried to get up, he unleashed a dome of lightning with a mass of energy he had been saving throughout the battle, throwing us back and causing us all to return to human form, my Chaos Emerald falling out of me and bouncing across the wreckage to Nicky, while I struggled to move, my back badly damaged from the landing.
Nicky struggled to get up, pushing herself to her knees, soon noticing the red Chaos Emerald next to her, while her blue Emerald was still in her hands. ".. Maybe.. I can stop him… If I use two at once…" Nicky slowly reached for it, grasping one of the two Emeralds in each hand.
And a miracle began. We all stared over at her with widened eyes and the two aura's of red and blue chaos energy began to change her into something so much greater than Crystal. She first took on Crystal's form, but her fur slowly became bright violet, and her spines grew longer, tilting outward at the bottom. She grew a large tuft of red hair hanging over her face and down her back, and her jeans rolled up to her knees, revealing all of her boots. Her gloves turned red and her shirt violet, with torn shoulder straps hanging down over them. The instant the transformation was done, we all knew who she was. But Metal just stared in confusion.
"Who are you?!"
"The name's Kris… The Shooting Star!" Before Metal had any clue what he was facing, he was surrounded by a violet and red blur, and as he was about to attack, he froze and looked down to his cheek, to find a ninja star, also known as the almighty shuriken, stabbed into him. Before he knew it, his visual sensors were overloaded by a sudden flash, coming from the blur. Kris had just set off a Solaris Flare. As his sensors came back online, he looks at himself to find that he's covered in shuriken, and Kris has stopped moving a few dozen yards away.
"Now for the big finale." She slowly held up both hands and summoned a shuriken between each finger, then lit them on fire and charged them with light. Metal got into position, and Kris threw them all, which he dodged a few, but when he attempted to catch one, he found that it instead went right through his hand, leaving a melted hole. Kris just smirked wider and she held up both arms, and a massive array of shuriken appeared hovering around her, which began to spin at high speeds and lit aflame. Metal's eyes widened at the sight, knowing what was in store for him.
"SHOOTING STAR STORM!" The array of flaming shuriken spun towards him as shooting stars, piercing him on impact, leaving clean cuts straight through. Just as the last shuriken broke through his back, Kris got into a three-point racing stance, and lit herself ablaze in the same fashion. "Burn in hell, rust bucket."
In one sudden flash of flames and light, Kris was standing with her back to a crater, on the opposite side of where Metal was standing. But Metal was gone. All that was left was a mess of nanytes. She slowly turned around and prepared a simple attack to destroy what was left, but in a flash of chaos energy, she returned to human form, both the Chaos Emeralds in her hands having gone dead. Metal's remains then disappeared with Chaos Control. She just sighed, then let out a soft smirk as she walked over to us and helped me up.
"That was awesome hun!… heh… Looks like we still have a lot to learn, huh?"
"Yeah… but as a team, I think we can learn pretty fast… You know what I just realized?"
"What?"
"… If we still have our powers when Aiyana is born… doesn't that mean that she'll become Kris?"
