"Hey guys." Tails called through the intercom. "Is anyone getting hungry?"
"What's wrong bro?" Sonic asked with a grin, "Your tummy growling?"
"… Maybe." Tails blushed.
Sonic couldn't help but laugh, "Why don't we take a break?"
"Sure… if it's ok with Rudolph?"
"Fine, we're close enough." Rudolph said.
Tails landed the X-Tornado next to a small canyon and in no time, everyone was unpacked and setting up a new camp site.
Sonic was laughing with Tails, Rouge, and Knuckles until he looked over and saw Blaze and Shadow smiling and talking. 'What the hell does he think he's doing?' Sonic thought to himself. 'Shadow never smiles, and he's been getting awfully close to Blaze… too close… he'd better not be trying to steal her from me!!!' Then Sonic saw Shadow get up and walk off. 'Ok, now's my chance.' Sonic said as he got up and went in the direction Shadow went. "Hey Shadow!" Sonic called causing Shadow to turn around.
"Yeah, what's up Sonic?" Shadow asked simply.
"I know what you're trying to do."
"Huh?" Shadow asked in confusion.
"You're trying to steal Blaze from me, aren't you?"
Shadow stood there in confusion, "What are you talking about? Blaze and I are just friends."
"Yeah right! I see you, laughing, joking 'round, smiling… SMILING! You don't smile! You grin, you smirk, you laugh evilly, but you NEVER smile!"
"So what!? Shadow asked getting annoyed.
"You're trying to steal Blaze from me and you know it! You're always trying to be better than me at everything! It's like you can't get enough of it!"
"You're out of your mind, you stupid hedgehog!" Shadow yelled.
"Yeah right! I bet if I tell Rouge you'd be singing a different tune."
"If you tell her any such lie I'll-"
"You'll what?"
Slowly a smirk began to form on Shadow's face, "Well you'll be ending my relationship with her so… that means I could take Blaze off your hands." Then near instantaneously, Sonic ran up to Shadow and punched him in his jaw causing him to tumble back before he got to his feet.
"You'd better stay away from Blaze!"
"You can't tell me shit!" Shadow shouted as he ran to Sonic and kicked him back causing him to fall over. Once Sonic was on his feet, Shadow began punching Sonic rapidly in his stomach but then Sonic head-butted Shadow breaking his balance, then tackled him to the ground and the two began rolling on the ground trading blows with one another until the shouting and commotion caused everyone to get up from what they were doing and run over to the fight.
"Sonic! Shadow!" Knuckles called, "What are you guys doing!?"
"Sonic stop it!" Tails pleaded.
"Rudolph!" Knuckles called. "Help me get these two away from each other!"
"This isn't my fight." Rudolph said as he put up his hands and shook his head.
"Don't worry," Rouge said. "I got Shadow, you get blue boy."
"Got it." Knuckles said as he grabbed Sonic and Rouge grabbed Shadow and the two pulled them apart.
"Sonic!" Blaze yelled. "What the hell is your problem!?"
"He started it!"
"Knowing you, I doubt that!"
"What are you talking about!?"
"You always act like a child! You always try to mess around with others, you can never control yourself!"
"So you're choosing him over me again!?"
"What are you talking about!?"
"You know what, fuck it! Nevermind!" Sonic shouted as he shook Knuckles' grip loose and walked away.
"Sonic!" Tails called after the hedgehog. "Where are you going!?"
"For a run!" Sonic shouted as he jumped down the cliff.
Shadow grunted as he and the others walked off.
"Damnit!" Sonic yelled as he finally made it to the bottom. "After everything we've been through, err FUCK!!!" Then Sonic felt a small shake in the ground. When he turned to the trail, he saw a large mechanical stegosaurs with hundreds of spikes on its back instead of the usual row. The machine stopped and stared at Sonic. "Hey, I'm not in the mood. Come back tomorrow or something." Sonic said as he waved the machine off but then Sonic was hit by the tail of the beast and flew straight into the wall. Sonic slowly pulled himself out of the wall and glared at the stegosaurs, "Fine then, I warned you." Sonic said as he lunged himself as his homing attack at the mechanical dinosaur but the stegosaurs quickly curled into a ball and began spinning like Sonic grinding with him until the two shot away from each other. "Copycat!" Sonic shouted as he went for another attack only for the stegosaurs to jump in the air and land on Sonic smashing him into the ground. A few feet away, the ground began to crack, then Sonic shot out the ground with his eyes raging in fury. "That's it!" Then Sonic began spinning and glowing with a very bright blue aura. "LIGHT ATTACK!!!" Then Sonic shot straight for the stegosaurs, but the mechanical dinosaur quickly activated a multi-colored chaos shield causing Sonic to rebound off the shield, knocking Sonic straight into the air. Then the mechanical beast spun for the midair hedgehog, but Sonic saw it coming and he moved slightly but he was unable to dodge the oncoming attack completely as a blade sliced his entire right arm from wrist to shoulder. Sonic landed on the ground holding his damage arm as the stegosaurs landed on the ground and turn to Sonic. "That's it…" Sonic whispered. "I'm fucking sick and tired of this…" Then the stegosaurs curled into a ball and spun itself for Sonic, but he quickly, using his left hand, swatted the large mechanical dinosaur into the wall.
Knuckles and Rudolph instantly dropped their food and stared over to the canyon, "What the hell was THAT!?" Rudolph asked.
"What's wrong you guys?" Tails asked.
"Not sure, but it feels like… SONIC!" Knuckles shouted as he ran to the canyon causing everyone to follow. When everyone looked over the cliff, they saw a robot slowly picking itself up and something clouded in a dark blue aura. When the group looked closer, they could see Sonic standing within the aura. At that moment, Sonic's blue fur instantly turned black, his quills began to stand on end and his pupils and irises faded away leaving only glowing white eyes.
"What kind of power is this?" Rudolph asked himself, "I never felt anything so cold and hollow before."
"Dark Sonic." Tails whispered as he shivered.
Sonic stared at the robot until it was on its feet. "Finally." Sonic said as he picked up a stone. "Let's play a game. I'm going to throw this rock in the air, and I'm going to see how many hits I can get on you before this hits the ground." A grin slowly appeared on Sonic's face. "Ready… go." Sonic said as he threw the rock skyward. Sonic slowly crouch down then instantly shot for the robot knocking him in the air. Then while the robot was still airborne, the group saw flashes of light as the mechanical stegosaurs was being sliced piece by piece until finally all that was left was its mechanical head as it fell to the ground with Dark Sonic landing on it, crushing it in one quick motion. "17,856 hits, not bad if I do say so myself." He grinned before he extended his left arm catching the rock without looking.
"Sonic!!!" Tails called causing Sonic to look up that his friends who were still in shock at what they just saw and who they were looking at. Slowly Sonic's dark blue aura began to fade and his original blue color began to return. "Sonic! I'm coming!" Tails called as he was getting ready to take flight. But before he could move, Sonic was already behind him.
"No need. I'm here." Tails quickly turned around and hugged Sonic, clutching his shirt. "Relax, I'm fine."
Tails slowly let go of Sonic, "I'm sorry, I was just worried that's-" Then Tails noticed Sonic's bleeding right arm. "Sonic!"
"I just need your bandage tape." Sonic said emotionless.
"Ok I'll be right back." Tails said as he quickly flew to the X-Tornado and pulled out the first-aid kit and took out the bandage tape Sonic asked for but dropped it. "I'm sorry." Tails called out.
Before it could hit the ground, Sonic caught the tape with his damaged right arm. "Thanks Tails, you're a lifesaver." Sonic said as he began to walk off.
"Sonic!" Tails called.
"I'm fine, don't need any help." Sonic waved as he walked off and stepped down a cliff away from everyone else.
Rudolph walked over next to Knuckles. "So he has direct contact with the Chaos Force?"
"Yeah." Knuckles sighed.
"He was using the negative half of the Chaos Force, you know that right?"
"I know."
"We should kill him." Rudolph said causing Knuckles to turn to him. "A part of him is still tapping in the negative half of the Chaos Force. He could be a hazard."
"No!" Tails yelled as stood in front of Rudolph. "He very, very rarely gets like that. He must be really upset about something."
Rudolph sighed, "Fine, but I hope he solves his problems soon." Rudolph said as he walked over to the campsite.
"Shadow." Blaze said as she walked over to him. "What's wrong with Sonic?"
"Maybe you should ask him." Shadow said as he and the others walked over to the campsite.