Control Revamped
Chapter 16
Eclipse Oni
Metal Sonic hovers over us with a menacing glare, and a wide smirk on his face, which as a new improvement, ha had given himself an actual jaw, instead of a solid steel muzzle. The rest of the team surrounds him, Liz hovering a few dozen yards away, the DanI standing on a forcefield, and the rest of the team on the ground beneath him. We all knew that he was only getting stronger, and that we couldn't use the Control form in front of him. We had to throw him off. I quickly looked over to Crystal with a smirk as she looked back and changed back into Nicky. "Shooting Star!" I threw my Chaos Emerald to her, and he took hold of it along with her own, quickly erupting in a red and blue lightshow, emerging as Kris.
"This pest again?" Metal Sonic smirked wide. I know all her tricks already." Just as Kris began to fire her array of Solar Shuriken, Metal created a deep violet forcefield, deflecting them all. As the array of shuriken spread on all directions, the rest of the team dove for cover, besides Dani, who deflected the attacks just as easily. As a last resort, Kris threw herself into a solar spindash, and flew into the air with a homing attack, crashing into the forcefield with ludicrous force. Metal noticed the forcefield cracking, and quickly dove to the side as it shattered, Kris passing by him by an inch.
Just as she passed, Metal charged his fist with violet lightning, and punched her from behind, breaking the spindash, and timing it just well enough to land it in her stomach as she was upside-down. Blood spurt from her mouth as she flew back, landing in a crater on the side of a building, and falling limply to the ground, suddenly changing back to Nicky, both Chaos Emeralds in her hands having gone gray, their power temporarily gone.
I glared at Metal darkly, knowing that now both me and Nicky were out of commission, and it was up to the remainder of the team. The rest of the team looked to each other, trying to figure out the best course of action from there. Then Liz got a brilliant idea. "Trey, deform, now!" She as well returned to human form, and tossed her yellow Chaos Emerald to Trey, he now having both white and yellow. As I stared at this, my eyes widened in surprise. I had already deciphered what kind of destructive force that fusion would have. I quickly ran for cover to brace myself for a display like no other.
"Eclipse Angel… and Byaku Oni… as one…" he slowly rose them both up to his sides, and began to charge every ounce of power he could within them. "Chaos…. CONTROL!" At that moment, a massive explosion of yellow and white chaos energy arose around him, and within them, the forms of Liz and grim could be seen, moving towards each other.
Then disaster. As they were about to impact, Liz's form took on something purely angelic, and Grim's took on the darkest of Oni forms, and on contact, a bolt of lightning came from the sky and struck him, the divine strike throwing him back, and the eruption of chaos threw Metal into a spiral, removing a leg, while Trey landed against a crumbled wall.
"AH!… You brats… I'll be back to finish you after a few repairs…" he quickly grabbed his severed leg and used Chaos Control to escape, while I ran to Nicky to help her up, then we all went to Trey. We huddled around him as he slowly sat up.
"Ugh…. Dude, what the fuck was that?…" After a few moments, they looked to me, seeing that I was somehow the wisest amongst us. Not the smartest, but wisest.
"… Well, my guess is, that combining demon powers with angel powers is a divine chemical concoction for a mini nuke."
"Well, makes sense…" Lauren looked a little displeased for a moment. We all looked to her with concern. "What's wrong Lauren?…"
"… I guess that mean's we'll never get to see or use Auron or Charm…" I let out a sigh, and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Don't worry, we'll figure this out…"
Later that day, Trey and Lauren were slowly walking around the untouched part of the city as they tried to relax after the battle. Lauren just kept staring at the ground, and let out another sigh. Trey stared with concern, knowing just what was on her mind.
"… Hun… Come on, talk to me…"
"… We can never have anything, can we?… We cant combine our powers… we cant get a break to be normal… and…" She sighed a little louder, a tear falling for once, despite her normal rock-solid facade. "… We cant even be a real couple, just because of an age difference…"
"Hun…"
"FACE IT! I'm nineteen, and you're still fifteen…"
"Sixteen soon though."
"That's not the point!… I… I want more for us… but just because of the fuckin' law, and the fact that nothing in our lives is personal anymore, we cant have that…" Then Trey finally snapped. He quickly grabbed her shoulders and turned her, forcing her to look at him.
"Lauren… Who gives a fuck what they think?.. I know I don't… So what if we have to break the fuckin law. Like they could stop us. I'd kick anyone's ass if they tried to split us up." Lauren was shocked, and silent. She couldn't believe she was hearing this from him. Yet she knew it was true. After a few moments, a smile spread across her face, and a tear of joy fell. She slowly pulled him close and held on tight, Trey returning the gesture.
"… I love you Trey…"
"I love you too Lauren…" After a few moments of stillness and silence, they pulled their heads from each other's shoulders, and gazed deep into each other's eyes, an finally, both leaned in and shared their long awaited first kiss.
"Aww, how beautiful. And pathetic." They both slowly broke the kiss and gave Metal Sonic a confident glare, then stood beside each other as they held each other's hands tight.
"Fuck off metalhead…" Lauren smiled a bit wider as she stepped away and handed Trey her Chaos Emerald again. "Go for it hun…"
Trey smirked wide and he slowly crossed his arms in front of him, a Chaos Emerald in each hand. "This is for you hun… and for our future…" he gave a quick lil smirk. "Say hi to the hero form of lil Richard…" Lauren blushed at the mention of their future son's name. But before she could think much of it, a great tower of yellow and white chaos energy shot into the sky, and a new hero emerged.
The red hedgehog's black markings spread further down his spines, and the tips then turned white. His cloak changed to yellow with white trim, wearing a gray t shirt underneath, and white jeans. His sneakers were deep blue with darker flame marking on them. He had become Auron the Hedgehog, the Lunar Oni. "Let's rock."
"Hm? WHA-" In an instant, Auron was across the battlefield with a white Oni aura charged around him that shone like moonlight, and landed a powerful flying punch into Metal's face, sending him tumbling back.
"LUNAR ONI BLITZ!!" He suddenly became a beam of moonlight, and charged past him in an instant, then landing a roundhouse kick to Metal's back, breaking the turbine. Metal fell to the ground before him and tried his best to hold himself up. "Wow, Metal. You're making this too easy. Maybe I should finish this real quick." Auron slowly held up his right hand, and clenched it into a fist, a sudden spark of white lightning surrounding it.
"N-NO! WHAT IS THIS POWER?!" Auron just smirked wide and chuckled.
"This is the power of my future family." Auron suddenly reared back his hand in a claw-like open position, it suddenly being surrounded with a large mass of raw power, as a beam of light came down from the moon above and charged it to it's maximum potential. "LUNAR ONI FIST!!!" In one swift motion, he swung his hand down and crushed Metal into the ground, unleashing a massive tower of white energy shooting skyward. After a few moments of blinding light, the scene found was nothing but a crater where Trey stood, but Metal nowhere to be seen. He had escaped. But no matter. The day had been won.
Trey slowly walked back over to Lauren and took her hand tight. "Come on hun… Let's go home…" They slowly walked off toward the edge of the city and passers-by stared in awe. Nobody who witnessed that fight would ever question the power of love for as long as they live.
