Chapter Three: A Brawl Served with a Dash of Brutality
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Central City, 5:30 pm
Amy Rose was in her apartment. She was eating her dinner at the table, but she wasn't alone. With her was Cream and Cheese, her two fateful companions.
"Is it just me, or did we ever get news about anything about Eggman?'' she asked, then taking a bite of her sandwich.
"I'd rather not talk about Eggman Cream.'' Amy said, taking a drink of her milk, then wiping her mouth.
"Come on, aren't you the least bit curious?'' asked Cream.
"Eggman is the least of my concerns.'' Amy said getting up and putting her empty plate on the counter by the sink.
Cream looked around to see Amy. Amy was wearing her white tank top and a white skirt that stopped just above her knees. "If Sonic was here, he would've probably say how beautiful you are.'' Cream said. Amy put her gloved hands on the counter and sighed.
"But he isn't.'' Amy muttered.
"Ever since that day, you never spoke about him. You even said you don't love him anymore!'' Cream said.
"I don't, and you should know that I don't.'' Amy turned around, leaning against the counter, holding herself up by putting her hands on it.
"It's just not the same anymore.'' Cream turned around in her chair. Amy walked over to her friend. Amy put a hand on her shoulder.
"But he did it to protect us.'' Amy smiled.
Cream smiled as well and the two hugged. A loud bang separated their hug. "What was that?'' said Cream.
Amy walked over to the window and opened the curtains. Hovering outside was Neo Metal Sonic, the real Metal Sonic. Amy ran over to Cream and pulled her to the floor. Metal's core blast came through the window and impacted the wall. The two got back up. Metal hovered and touched down on the floor.
"Evening ladies, time to die.'' he aimed his machine guns at them. A blue portal appeared between the two. Shadow, Jenny, and Omega came through. "Actually, how about goodbye?'' said Shadow, firing his chaos spear beam at Metal's chest, throwing him out the window.
"What're you doing here Shadow?'' asked Amy.
"Sorry but we had a narrow escape, here is where we ended up.'' Shadow explained.
The roof suddenly exploded. Shadow created a golden shield to block all the debris that fell towards them. Once it stopped, shadow made the shield vanish. Metal Sonic and a whole army of metal sonic clones hovered behind him. "Kill them all!'' Metal ordered.
Shadow jumped up to the massive group of clones. He came face to face with metal sonic. "CHAOS BLAST!'' he thundered.
The huge red dome formed and reduced all the clones to burning fragments, and metal sonic was sent flying for miles. "I don't like this, come on we have to get out of here.'' Shadow said when he landed in front of the others.
Suddenly, a portal opened behind him, a clawed hand grabbed him by his leg and pulled him inside. The portal sealed. "Shadow!'' Amy shouted "There's no time! We have to leave before Metal returns!'' Jenny headed for the door.
Amy quickly ran into her room and grabbed a clothes case. "What's that for?'' asked Cream.
"I have a feeling we ain't coming back here, come on!'' Amy ran out the door to catch up with Jenny and Omega. An ambush from Metal Sonic, shadow took into a portal to another dimension, and our heroes on the run, this will soon grow into something worse, far worse.
Konohagakure, 9:30 pm
Shadow came out of the blue portal and was dragged onto a road. Shadow rolled on his back and saw Sonic, the source of taking him into this dimension. Shadow fired a chaos spear right at Sonic's chest. It impacted Sonic making him let go of shadow's leg. Shadow got up quickly. Sonic growled, snarled, anything that has to do with anger, was aiming it all towards Shadow. "How did you live?'' asked Shadow.
"I was in a coma for THREE CURSED YEARS!!!'' Sonic thundered, sending both his fists at shadow. Shadow skidded to the right.
"Then how did you age?'' asked Shadow.
"SHUT UP!!'' Sonic roared. Sonic charged at Shadow angrily. Shadow jumped to the left, but Sonic quickly grabbed Shadow and smashed him into the ground. Sonic came face to face with him.
"We came to rescue you from Richards.'' Shadow said.
"Who says I wanted to be found?!'' Sonic yelled in his face. "Eggman has returned!'' Shadow yelled.
Sonic closed his mouth. Shadow raised an eyebrow. Sonic's face immediately went back to an angry one.
Sonic threw shadow right into a building on the left. The dust cleared, Shadow being lodged into the building's wall. "I don't care about Eggman! You hear?'' Sonic pointed at him. Shadow dislodged his arms, then the rest of his body. "I don't care about being a hero anymore! I learned that as soon as I waked up!'' Sonic charged at him.
Shadow leaped forwards and kicked sonic across the face, then landing back on his feet. Shadow swerved to the left, dodging Sonic's fist. Shadow grabbed his wrist and swung sonic over his shoulder and onto the ground. "We need your help Sonic, as much as I hate to admit it.'' Shadow said. Sonic raised his fist right into shadow's face, launching shadow across the town.
In a house of the town, a pink haired girl known as Sakura was reading some scrolls. She was a well trained ninja, at level Chunin its called. She raised an eyebrow while reading the scrolls. "This is interesting.'' she said, looking closer at them.
Sakura was sitting on her bed, her legs crossed. All of a sudden, shadow crashed through the wall and rolled across the floor. Sakura yelped in fear. Shadow sat up, shaking his head. Sonic climbed inside the hole and roared at shadow. "Come on Sonic!'' Shadow threw his arms up, taunting him.
Shadow grabbed a wooden chair. Sonic quickly threw his fist at him. Shadow of course ducked under it. Shadow smashed the chair into Sonic's back, splintering it into pieces. Sonic grabbed shadow by the throat and pinned him to the floor. Shadow stuck his feet to Sonic's chest. Shadow then proceeded by throwing sonic over himself and out the hole. Shadow jumped back on his feet and stumbled back. Shadow looked at the frightened girl on the bed. "Sorry about the hole.'' he said.
Suddenly, Sonic crashed up through the floor and grabbed shadow. Sonic started smashing shadow into every wall, including the ceiling. The door opened, two boys came in. One's name was Naruto, the other was Sasuke. "What's going on?'' Naruto exclaimed, staring at the 10 foot tall Werehog smashing Shadow into the floor.
"I don't know! Just get rid of them please!'' Sakura yelled quickly. Sasuke stopped behind Sonic.
"Put him down, he's not a toy.'' he said plainly.
Sonic turned around. Sonic flung Shadow into the right wall. "Now…leave.'' Sasuke said. "That's the same thing I was going to say.'' Sonic replied, punching Sasuke right in the chest. Naruto moved out of the way as Sasuke crashed into the wall in the hallway.
"My turn!'' Naruto said bravely. Sonic marched over to shadow, who just started to get up. "Over here ugly!'' Naruto mocked.
Sonic turned around and saw Naruto with a cocky grin on his face. Sonic swiped his claws at him, but he vanished. Sonic's arm came back. Suddenly, two Narutos' were behind him. Sonic turned around, hitting them both, but they disappeared into thin air.
Now, there were ten Narutos' in the room. "Come on, which one is the real one?'' all the Narutos' mocked. Sonic cracked his knuckles.
Both his fists glowed sky blue. He then spun them all around the room, causing all the shadows to disappear. Naruto looked around hastily, then looked straight at the growling Sonic. Sonic stretched one arm and wrapped his hand around the ninja, then retracted his arm back. Sonic angrily snarled in his face. "I could use some help here!'' Naruto shouted.
Sakura rushed over to Sasuke's side, he began to awaken. "Please tell me your alright.'' she said worriedly.
"I'm okay, I just want another shot at that thing.'' he said, rising to his feet.
Shadow jumped on Sonic's back. Sonic growled and started spinning around. Sonic threw Naruto into wall. Sonic grabbed shadow by his shoulders and threw him into the floor, causing it to break, both falling through it. The three ninjas looked down in the hole to see the two rivals exchange punches and kicks. "Should we do something?'' Naruto asked.
"If we don't, the whole town is going to be destroyed by these two!'' Sakura replied.
"Agreed, but which one is good?'' asked Sasuke, crossing his arms.
"Get the big blue one!'' Naruto answered, jumping into the hole. Sasuke and Sakura exchanged looks, then jumped in the hole.
The two crashed through the door and rolled across the road. Shadow quickly jumped back. Sonic got up and roared at him. "Roar all you want Sonic, but it isn't going to help!'' Shadow exclaimed.
"I'm not going to help you!'' Sonic pointed at him.
"Eggman is back, his armies are probably getting ready, and a whole lot of lives are going to be lost, and you're just going to stand by and let that happen!?'' Shadow retorted.
"Don't tell me what to do Shadow! Ever since that day, I vowed to never risk my neck for the world! I'M THROUGH WITH IT!!!'' Sonic thundered loudly.
"Don't be stubborn! The world, all the others, and all those dimensions, we need your help!'' Shadow fought back.
"Don't try and push it Shadow! I did too much fighting, and I'm not going to waste it on Eggman!'' Sonic charged.
Shadow fired his chaos spear beam, hitting sonic in the chest, but he didn't even go down. Shadow increased the power by continuously shooting the beam. Sonic kept crossed in front of his head. He let out a tremendous roar, swinging both his hands opposite ways, making the beam vanish into thin air.
Shadow was more then shocked to see Sonic's amazing feat. "What's the point of fighting? There's always a sacrifice.'' sonic said. Shadow narrowed his eyes. He saw a purple glow. He quickly found the source and saw the purple chaos emerald sitting on the edge of the roof of the building they were fighting in. Shadow looked back at Sonic. Sonic smashed the ground and immediately charged at him. Shadow charged as well. Except, shadow jumped on Sonic's back, then leaped up to the roof. Sonic looked up and spotted the chaos emerald. "You ain't getting that.'' sonic mumbled, stretching his arm. Shadow came closer to the roof, until Sonic's hand grabbed one of his legs. Shadow grabbed onto the edge of the roof. With his hand he grabbed the emerald, but one final tug forced shadow to fall, leaving the chaos emerald to fall freely to the ground.
"Come on!'' Naruto yelled, running out the door. Sakura stopped in front of the door and spotted the Chaos Emerald. Sonic walked over to it and picked it up. Suddenly, five ninja daggers thrown by Sasuke dug into Sonic's arm. Sonic growled at him furiously. Sonic entered his unleash form. The sky blue aura engulfed his body, burning the daggers into nothing but dust. Naruto charged first. Sonic swung his claws at Naruto, but the young ninja grabbed his wrist and pulled him to the ground, kicking the chaos emerald out of his hand.
Sakura ran in its path and picked it up. Sonic grabbed Naruto by the shirt and threw him at Sakura. Sakura jumped out of the way just in time. "You wuss!'' Naruto yelled as he flew past her, smashing into a building.
"Give that to me now.'' Sonic marched towards Sakura. Sasuke jumped in the way. "I'm afraid I can't let you do that.'' he said.
Sonic attempted to grab him, but Sasuke quickly jumped up and kicked Sonic across the face, causing him to fall on the ground. Shadow got on all fours, shaking his head. Naruto dizzily walked back over to the group. The four surrounded Sonic. "Was that too easy?'' Naruto said.
Suddenly, Sonic swung his legs, knocking them all out. "Yes.'' Sonic said. Sonic marched towards Sakura and grabbed her by her shirt and planted her against a building wall. "Give me…the emerald.'' he said.
"Never!'' she yelled, shutting her eyes.
"Sonic! Let her go!'' Shadow shouted. Sonic narrowed his eyes angrily. "Why can't you understand? The world needs you! You're the strongest hero there is!'' Shadow tried to phase him.
Sonic looked into Sakura's eyes. "Listen to him.'' she said. Sonic breathed heavily, he let her go. She ran past him and over to the others.
Sonic's ears twitched. Sonic quickly turned around. A volley of missiles came down at the group. "Shadow!'' Sonic pointed up at the incoming missiles.
Shadow teleported himself, Naruto, and Sasuke out of the way, but didn't get Sakura. Sonic quickly ran on all fours towards her. Sonic lunged and grabbed her in his arms. The missiles impacted the ground with such force, the whole ground shook wildly. Sakura held onto Sonic's fur tightly. Sonic looked at her, "You all right?'' he asked.
She slowly opened her eyes, looking up at him, she answered "Yes.'' Shadow and the others reappeared behind Sonic.
Sonic put Sakura down. A silhouette crashed down in front of the group. The wind flurried past them. The cloud started to vanish. Sonic saw who it was and only growled. A large metal foot touched outside the cloud. It was the fearsome: Mecha WereSonic.
"Sonic? SONIC! How are you alive?'' he shouted. "I was about to ask the same thing.'' Sonic charged at him immediately. The two clasped each others hands, in a test of strength.
"You just don't DIE!'' Mecha yelled.
"Likewise ya' FAKER!'' Sonic yelled back.
Mecha kneed him in the stomach. Sonic grabbed his fist just before it met his face. Sonic was punched in the face anyway by Mecha's other fist. Mecha grabbed him by the throat and activated his jetpack. Mecha lifted off and headed towards the roof of the building where Naruto and company were staying at.
Mecha flung Sonic to the ground. Sonic landed right on his back, bouncing on the ground three times in a row. Mecha landed in front of his body. "Where have you been this whole time?'' Mecha asked marching towards him. Mecha grabbed him by the throat again, sonic grabbed his wrist, but Mecha lifted him up. "You may have eluded the world, but you will NOT elude your death!!'' Mecha raised his fist back.
Sonic bit down on Mecha's shoulder. Mecha chuckled, "Please.'' he said. Mecha punched sonic in the side of the head, knocking him to the ground. "You damn hedgehog!'' Mecha yelled. Sonic stretched his arm and it impacted Mecha in his chest, throwing him off the roof. Sonic jumped down after him. Sonic tackled Mecha and the two crashed into the ground in front of the others with a loud boom.
Sonic rose up, bruised and battered, he limped out of the crater. Sonic turned around, Mecha wasn't in the crater. Sonic turned around forward. Mecha reappeared behind Sakura. Wrapping his arm around her and aiming his gatling gun at her head. "Let…her go.'' Sonic said weakly.
"As soon as she gives me the emerald.'' Mecha said.
"I have it.'' Sonic said, with one hand behind his back. Sakura let out a quiet gasp, she still has the emerald. Sonic winked at her.
"Fine then, give it to me now.'' Mecha let go of Sakura and walked towards sonic, his gatling gun aiming at him. Mecha stopped in front of Sonic. "Here you go.'' Sonic said.
Sonic swung the arm from behind his back and right into Mecha's power source. Mecha stumbled back. "You…may have tricked me this time, but you will stay pay.'' Mecha said, changing his gatling gun back into his regular arm, but then he changed it into a sharp metal spike that started at his elbow.
Mecha charged back at Sakura. Sonic quickly leaped over Mecha and stood in front of Mecha's way. The spike penetrated right into Sonic's gut. Sonic's eyes widened immediately. Mecha took the spike out, half of it coated with Sonic's blood. Mecha changed it back into his arm and laughed. Sonic grabbed the chaos emerald from Sakura's hands and smashed it on Mecha's head. "CHAOS CONTROL!'' he yelled.
In just a second, Mecha vanished. Sonic then fell to his knees. His eyes began to shut. Sonic fell face first to the dirt. The group surrounded him with worry. "I guess…through all what he said, he still won't let a person die, even if it means taking himself to make sure it doesn't happen.'' Shadow said.
"Can we help him?'' asked Naruto.
"Maybe, if we're lucky. Hurry, bring him into the house!'' Shadow said.
Is there truly a little hero still left in Sonic? If its possible, our heroes must make that heroism grow to make Sonic realize that the world needs him more than ever.
Central City, 6:15 pm
Jenny, Omega, Amy, Cream, and Cheese, hurried through the streets of the metropolis. "So far we haven't encountered any clones! Our we that lucky?'' Jenny said.
"Negative.'' Omega said, stopping in his tracks. The others behind him stopped as well. About a thousand Metal Sonic clones stood in front of them, their numbers stretched for miles.
"This really looks bad.'' said Amy.
Metal Sonic landed in front of the massive army of clones. "So heroes? Do you honestly believe you'll even make it down the street now?'' metal asked. Suddenly, far in the distance, metal clones were sent flying in the air. Metal turned around to see the clones flying all up in the air. The ground exploded and an Onix came flying out. The Onix landed behind the heroes. A groan was heard, Appa, the flying bison landed beside the heroes. Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph, and Zuko jumped off. On top of Onix's head was a Pikachu and a Piplup. "Are we late?'' asked Aang.
"Just in time actually.'' Jenny said, raising her fists.
"CHARGE!!'' Metal yelled.
"CHARGE!!'' Aang yelled. The two sides started charging fiercely at each other. Pikachu and Piplup landed on the ground. Pikachu charged at them with a volt tackle, Piplup charged at them spinning in circles with his peck attack. Pikachu created a gap in the army, Piplup spun in circles throughout the numbers of clones. Aang jumped up into the air, right over the heads of the clones. Metal Sonic came right up at him. Aang fired a powerful fireball out of one fist, hitting metal sonic dead on. The fireball glued to metal until he crashed into the ground, resulting in a huge explosion, taking half of the clones out. Jenny readied her shiva swords, charging through the black smoke, cutting ten clone sin half.
Omega flew over her, firing his flamethrowers down at the clones, melting them into nothing but liquid. Omega extended his hands back out. Omega landed feet first, crushing two clones under his feet. Omega had one arm, firing his gatling gun, the other firing rockets. Metal Sonic fired his core beam into omega's back spiraling him forward into a pickup truck. Metal fired three rockets at the truck, exploding it into hundreds of pieces. Omega crashed down on the ground. Metal pointed his machine gun right at his chest. All of a sudden, a green laser hit Metal. Omega swung his fist right into his face, launching metal a mile away. The shot came from the KND S.C.A.M.P.E.R. The transport landed in an open space. Running out of it was Kuki, the rest of Sector V, Lilo, Stitch, Brandy, and Mr. Whiskers, all armed with 2x4 technology. Jenny flew over to them.
"How'd you guys get to this dimension?'' Jenny asked.
"Jumba built a portal, problem is it barely works, but this time was lucky.'' Lilo explained. "Uh, if you don't mind, we need help!'' Sokka yelled, cutting through five clones.
"Stop whining already!'' Toph yelled, ducking a missiles. She quickly turned around, raised a chunk of concrete mixed with dirt and fired it. The ball of debris rolled across the ground and crushed about twenty clones.
"As you can see, you got Pokemon, and we got the trainers.'' Kuki said. Ash, Dawn, Brock, and Misty ran off the ship.
"Good, we need the help.'' said Jenny. All the other heroes pulled back to jenny and the arrival of the other heroes. The thousands of clones were reduced to hundreds. All the heroes stood together. "How many did you get so far?'' asked Sokka.
"Lost count snoozles.'' replied Toph. Metal Sonic stood in front of his army of clones. "You're numbers may have raised, but it does not matter.'' Metal said.
"Then let's test that.'' Jenny said, arming her laser limbs. Jenny pointed one of her laser limbs at the army of clones and yelled, "CHARGE!!'' all the heroes yelled in an uproar to face the massive army of metal clones. A huge battle in the streets of Central City, who will win this street brawl? What of Shadow and the others? Will Sonic join the heroes and stop Eggman? Only time will tell, as the Apocalypse has begun.
Konohagakura, 9:50 pm
Sonic lay flat in the lobby of the building. He had a large white cloth that wrapped around his back, keeping pressure on the wound. Shadow waved the purple chaos emerald over it. A green glow swerved from the emerald and onto the wound. A quick green glow shined over it, then vanished. Sakura raised the cloth and saw that the wound was gone!
"How'd you do that?'' asked Sakura, with amazement in her tone.
"The power of the Chaos Emeralds can create miracles, at least that's what I've been told.'' he replied.
"So…exactly who is he?'' Sakura asked.
Shadow sighed.
"Is there something wrong?'' she asked.
"It's just an annoying tale to tell, but since your curious, I'll tell you.'' Shadow said.
"His name is Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog. The fastest thing alive, and I do mean that, he runs at the speed of sound. In other words, he can't be stopped, literally.'' Shadow began.
"What's wrong with him then?'' asked Sakura.
"Three years ago, on Earth, a war was going on, The Dimensional War.'' Shadow continued on.
"An evil mastermind by the name of Dr. Eggman created an ultimate weapon, a super nuke. It was strong enough to wipe out half a country.'' said Shadow.
"And how'd you stop it?'' she asked.
"I didn't…he did.'' Shadow replied, gesturing his head at Sonic.
"Sonic entered his Perfect form and pushed the super nuke back into the cannon it was fired out of, Eggman's space station, the Death Egg exploded in the biggest blast I've ever seen in my entire life.'' Shadow went on.
"Then how is he alive?'' she replied.
"Sonic said he's been in a coma for three years, but it was on Earth. The dimension I come from aged three years, Earth had the same affect, and all the other dimensions remained the same. The outburst of energy must've advanced his age.'' Shadow pondered, getting off subject.
"So what happened next?!'' Sakura demanded.
"After that, we won, we all went back to our dimensions and lived our lives.'' Shadow continued.
Sonic's eye just opened up at this point. "Wow, that's amazing.'' she said "To be honest, it was the complete opposite, horrible.'' Shadow said.
Suddenly, Sonic rose up and grabbed the purple Chaos Emerald. Naruto and Sasuke came from behind Sonic. Shadow and Sakura both got up as well. "Sonic, you need to rest.'' Shadow cooperated.
"No. No more resting. I'm leaving.'' Sonic said.
"But…didn't Shadow need you to come with him?'' Sakura added.
Sonic looked at her confusedly. "You don't understand.'' Sonic turned his back to them.
"The world needs you Sonic, we can't do this without your help.'' Shadow said.
"Not anymore.'' Sonic muttered, raising the emerald up. Just then, Sonic vanished from their sight, back into hiding. Shadow shook his head with disappointment.
"Now what are you going to do?'' asked Naruto.
"There's no point in to trying anymore, he doesn't want to help.'' Shadow said, getting his green Chaos Emerald. "
You're leaving too?'' asked Naruto.
"Yes, I have to help the other heroes, but if the times come when help is needed, I'll come back.'' Shadow said, before disappearing. The three stood confused, exchanging looks of worry of what might happen next.