Chapter Twelve: The Unbreakable
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Later that night, the group were given a large hotel room thanks to their help. Katara, however, was awake. She was sitting in the living room, staring at the fireplace with a sad look. Kuki peeked around the corner. "Katara? What're you doing up?" Katara looked over her shoulder for a moment then turned her head back around. Kuki walked over to the couch and sat down next to the saddened water bender.
"You're worried about Sonic aren't you?" Kuki first spoke.
"I can't live with the fact that he's in dire trouble. You saw how much punishment he took out there? It was unbelievable!'' she exclaimed, looking at her with wide eyes.
Kuki inched back by her tone. Katara looked back at the fire. "I bet you think I'm crazy now, don't you?"
"No, Katara, I don't. Your friendship with Sonic is just like mine and Shadow's…but now, I don't know about how I'll work things out with him.'' she said, changing her face to a disturbed one.
"It wasn't right for him to do. Shadow can be a little hard headed sometimes, trust me, I've seen and been told.'' Katara explained.
Kuki gave her a smile and looked at the fireplace as well. It's embers hovering in the small space. "Shadow hasn't told this anyone but me." Kuki spoke up.
"Huh? What?'' Katara replied with confusion.
"He told me a while back about a hidden base in some dimension, but it has to do with these monsters that are used in games.'' she explained.
"Now that's crazy.'' Katara added.
"But, now isn't a good time to go. Wait about, five days, then you should go.'' Kuki added.
"How will I get there?" she asked.
"With this.'' Kuki said, taking the yellow Chaos Emerald out of her pocket. Katara gazed at it wondrously.
"Thanks Kuki." Katara said with a smile, then hugged her. As one key opens the answers to one door, another lies in front of our heroes with another mystery to solve. What dimension will Sonic be hidden from? Could this possibly lead to a valuable resource to Eggman's growing schemes? One way to find out; March on forward.
Central City, 8:35 am
Sector V were still in Amy's apartment. The group was watching the news with Cream. "I'm severely bored guys.'' groaned Hoagie.
"Just shut up or go to sleep, do us all a favor.'' said Wally.
A blue portal opened in front of them and definitely got their attention. Walking out of it was Shadow and Kuki. "Kuki!'' all the operatives yelled, running over to hug her. She smiled and giggled to their welcome. "What's going on in here?'' asked Brandy, who just walked in with Whiskers by her side.
"Shadow! You're back!'' she exclaimed happily, walking over to them. "Thanks for the welcome, but we came to check on, intentionally on Amy.'' Shadow said.
"Talk to me about what?'' she asked. They all looked to see her standing on the staircase. She was wearing a black tank top with a pink heart in the middle of it. She was wearing pink boots with a black stripe that came down the center of it. She also wore a knee length pink skirt.
"I need to talk to you.'' said Shadow, his eyes narrowing. "Then you can come upstairs.'' she replied with a snappy tone, going back up the stairs.
Shadow growled and headed for the stairs. "Remember Shadow, make sure both of you refrain from sharing saliva!'' said Hoagie. Shadow responded by firing a Chaos Spear that burned off the top of his hat and hit the wall, leaving a wide burn mark. Shadow then continued up the stairs.
Shadow walked into her slightly cramped room. She was standing in front of her mirror, brushing her quills. "To cut to the chase Amy, Sonic's been captured by General Richards.'' he said "And you let him get away?'' Amy asked, not changing her tone a bit, still brushing her quills. "So it's my fault he knocked me unconscious? Damn that hedgehog." Shadow said, and thought to himself at the end. "You could've at least helped!'' she exclaimed, turning to him.
"Out of my jurisdiction.'' he said.
Amy huffed and sat down on her bed, frustrated. Shadow stood there for a moment. He wasn't an expert on 'How to calm someone when their loved one is taken away from them,' he was more of a novice.
Shadow sat down next to her. "I know that you love him, but the fact that he becomes Mecha in the future-''
"Don't say that! He wouldn't go on to face Eggman by himself!!'' she yelled, standing up in front of him.
Shadow's expression didn't change.
"We can stop Eggman! We're not going to let this become reality! I won't let it happen!!'' she preached, beginning to form tears. Shadow looked away, feeling a bit ashamed, only a bit. "Sonic has done nothing to protect and watch over us and all the other dimensions! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO PROVE THAT HE SHOULD BE KILLED!!!'' she screamed at the top of her lungs. Shadow looked back at her. Amy's teeth were gritted. She was breathing heavily from all the yelling. Shadow stood up. Amy's head lowered, and she let the tears flow. Amy hugged Shadow by surprise, he didn't move an inch. "Please Shadow…I…I beg of you…don't let Sonic die, not again.'' she whimpered.
Shadow looked off to the side. "When there's war, violence erupts, people run in fear. When it's over peace comes with sacrifice.'' Shadow said. Amy looked up at him, knowing what he was talking about. "If I don't kill him, fate will. Like I said, it's out of my jurisdiction.'' he told her. Amy buried her face in his chest, her arms slumming down by her side. Shadow then slowly wrapped his arms around her neck. "But, think of this Amy.'' he said.
Amy looked back at him to hear what he had to say. "There's always hope.'' he said with a smile that shortly appeared. Amy forced a smile. "Thanks for being so caring Shadow. You're right there's always hope.'' replied the pink hedgehog, then returned the hug. Shadow's eyes changed into a different mood. "I just hope we have enough to outlast this war.'' he thought to himself.
Bottom of the North Atlantic, 10:20 am
Eggman walked towards an automatic opening door. It opened and he walked on through. It was the room with the pair of star posts. "That cursed hedgehog better get here soon.'' Eggman said, looking at the time that was digitally planted on the wall. The door opened again. Eggman turned around and gasped. Walking in was the battered and heavily damaged Mecha WereSonic.
"What…in the world…HAPPENED TO YOU!?!'' exclaimed the surprised doctor. "Sonic's been experiencing further levels of transformation of his dark form. This was the result.'' Mecha said, waving his arms across his body.
Mecha walked past him, limping slightly. "You never told me about demons from hell. What the hell is that about?'' Mecha just remembered.
"You faced the Black Demon?'' Eggman asked.
"Yes, how did you know?''
"The Black Demon is the most legendary creature spawned from hell. The thing is, all of are extinct because they tried to escape from hell and start their own havoc.'' Eggman explained.
"Well then why is there one still alive!'' exclaimed Mecha again.
"What was his name?'' Eggman asked.
"Thule.'' said Mecha. Eggman took a step back. "Thule was the king of all Black Demons, but he's the only one that came to the surface and lived instead of dying!'' Eggman said, running over to his console. "And what does he have to do with this war?'' Mecha asked, walking over by Eggman's side.
Eggman was reading one of his journal entries, containing information about Thule. "Thule, the King of the Black Demons. With his army trying to go to the surface, each died because of their weakness to the real world. Once only Thule was left, he made it to the surface and lived.'' Eggman read "So? How did he live?'' questioned Mecha.
"He was taken back to the underworld and was ordered by the Hellhound Army general to be killed. His soul remained in hell, as a mist of black." Eggman finished, turning his computer off.
"So when me and Sonic were in that struggle he hit both of us, right after when we collided our emeralds together, but they locked. A bolt of lightning with black mist attached to its tip hit us brought him back to life?'' Mecha said.
"That's it." replied the doctor.
"Then how did he survive on the surface with me and Sonic?'' he asked again.
"He had enough power when he struck you when your emeralds power was locked. All that energy buildup in your emeralds all went to Thule, thus giving him enough power to walk on Earth.'' Eggman answered. "Well, isn't that perfect?'' Mecha said sarcastically.
"Don't fret Mecha, he's the last of his kind and he can't bring the others members of his species back.'' Eggman assured.
Moments later, Mecha came out of the healing chamber, fully armored back up and ready to fight again. "You should be glad I had that installed today.'' Eggman noted, while standing in front of the star posts. "He's coming?'' Mecha asked after a brief moment of silence "He's a bit late, but yes, he is.'' Eggman replied.
All of a sudden, in-between the posts a blue portal appeared and resonated constantly. Eggman formed a smile. A black and green shoe stuck out, then the figure came through. Sporting red glasses and a black leather jacket with flames on the sleeves, Scourge the Hedgehog has arrived. "Who's this Doctor?'' asked Mecha.
"This my friend…is Scourge the Hedgehog." Eggman replied.
"Greetings Doc, this really better be worth it. I want to beat the living h-'' "Focus Scourge, you'll get your revenge on Sonic soon enough. Remember our deal.'' Eggman said, taking out the vial of glowing Werehog blood.
Scourge pulled his sunglasses down, smirking evilly. "Let me see it.'' he said, reaching for it "Not so fast Scourge, first you do your half of the bargain.'' Eggman told him, pulling it back.
Scourge put his glasses up and growled. "Why don't I just snatch it from you and I'll be on my way?'' Scourge asked, cracking his knuckles.
"I don't think he'll let you.'' Eggman said, pointing behind him. Scourge turned around to the ten foot Mecha, looking down at him. Scourge for once, backed off, right into Eggman.
"Do we have a deal?'' asked the villainous doctor, bending over to glare at Scourge with a sinister smile. Scourge turned around to face him. He then put on a smirk. "Deal.'' he said.
Seattle, Washington, 7:00 am
"I hope Shadow hasn't ran into any trouble.'' said Dawn.
"You know Shadow, he barely lets anyone get in his way.'' replied Max.
"That sure wasn't the case with Sonic.'' Jenny said in a serious tone. They all remained silent after that. A blue portal opened up in the living room. Shadow stepped out, followed by Kuki.
"Well? Are they okay?'' asked Katara. "They'll be fine. Amy is worried the most though.'' Shadow said, walking over to the couch to sit down. "We just need a well suited plan.'' Aang commented.
"One that doesn't involve us getting our butts whooped.'' Jenny added.
"Aang will take his group back to his dimension, the same with Ash and his. You all just got to keep your eyes peeled and be ready for anything.'' Shadow advised.
"We're never that lucky. It's always something ten times bigger than us!'' complained May "Focus on the matters at hand May. Are we ready?'' Shadow said, standing back up.
Shadow created two blue portals. Shadow went back to his room to get his green chaos emerald. Kuki quickly ran over to Katara. Kuki took her hand out of her sleeve, revealing the emerald in her hand. "Remember, use it when you're ready.'' Kuki whispered.
"Got it.'' she replied, putting it in her water pouch.
Shadow came back out his emerald. "Head on through you guys.'' he said. "Wait!'' said Aang.
He took out Appa's whistle. He blew into it, causing the ringing noise. Appa blasted through the wall with Momo on his saddle. Appa maneuvered around and stood with Aang and the gang. Shadow shook his head. Aang and the others got on and flew into the portal, causing it to vanish afterwards. "Good luck, Shadow!'' Ash said, sending him thumbs up. Shadow nodded. Ash walked on through with the others following behind him. Shadow looked back at Kuki. Her arms were crossed, but her face wore a sad and confused face. He walked over to the hole that Appa created. He looked down, feeling discrete. Kuki walked over to him until she was by his side. Kuki slowly reached for his hand and grabbed it. His eyes twitched a bit. He looked at her. She was smiling right at him. "Do you trust me?'' he asked.
"Who wouldn't, Ultimate Life Form?'' she said, giggling.
Shadow hoisted her up in his arms and skated down the building. Halfway down he leaped from the wall onto a smaller building's rooftop.
"We're going to find Rouge.'' Shadow said, putting Kuki down.
"You know where she is?'' Kuki asked questioningly.
"I have one helluva hunch where she is.'' he replied.
New York City, 10:35 am
The New York city sky remained grey. The sounds of car horns and the vast amounts of people filled the sidewalks was more than enough. In front of a jewelry shop, the window shattered. Flying out was none other than Rouge the Bat. "This is way too easy.'' she said, flying higher into the air. A sudden wind came. Scourge came out of a portal and kicked Rouge in the gut. She slammed into the rooftop of a high-rise. Rouge held her burlap sack close. Scourge landed in front of her. "Scourge! What're you doing on Earth!?'' she asked demandingly.
"Word has it a jewelry store had a Chaos Emerald in its window and how ironic that you, the expert thief and treasure hunter to just suddenly rob it.'' Scourge replied, marching over to her. Once he got close enough, Rouge gave him an uppercut. Rouge jumped off the ground and swung her leg at him. Scourge grabbed her ankle and threw her against a small water tower that is usually seen on rooftops in New York.
Rouge dropped down to the ground on her knees. "Hand over the emerald.'' he said, holding his hand out "Get in line Scourge.'' a voice said from behind the of the alternate doppelganger. Scourge turned around to see a yellow energy beam blast right into his gut. He was sent hurdling at the small water tower, breaking through it and letting all the water pour out. Shadow teleported under the water. He stuck his hands up. He created a bubble shield around it. He then teleported back to the rooftop where Kuki and Rouge stood. He opened the shield, the water dropping on the roof, splashing around. "I had a feeling you come after me.'' commented the bat "No small talk Rouge, we came for the emerald.'' he said, holding his hand out.
"Well…YOU'RE going to have to get in line!'' yelled Scourge who spin dashed into Shadow's gut. Shadow slid across the ground. Scourge tackled Rouge causing her to throw the bag into the air. The cyan emerald fell out. Kuki stood on the ground, moving left and right yelling; "I got it! I got it!'' Scourge leaped up and grabbed the emerald.
He jumped overhead Shadow, laughing on his way down. "He's really fast you know? There's a reason why he used to be called Evil Sonic.'' Rouge told them.
"May be, but not quite.'' Shadow said, taking out his green Chaos Emerald. A quick spark from it brought his car he raced in the desert. Kuki gawked at it. "Come on, get in!'' he yelled, sliding across the hood and getting in the driver's seat.
"By the way Rouge, Commander Abraham Tower from G.U.N. wanted me to give you this.'' he said, pressing the button to open the trunk. Rouge walked over to it. Inside was a folded up Suzuki Nuda. She took it out, as well as the white helmet with two holes for her ears to fit through. She pressed a button on the side. It bounced out of her arms and transformed into the white Suzuki Nuda. It had two pink stripes across both sides of it. She put on the helmet and got on. "Remind me to thank you later, Shadow.'' she said, winking at him through his car mirror.
He smiled in return. "Press the green button Kuki. "Something bad is going to happen isn't it?'' she asked in a scared tone.
"Just press it!'' he raised his voice. Kuki quickly pressed. Under the car, the wheels retracted inside and it was hovering. Two jet turbine engines transformed in the back. A wing came out both sides of the car. Each had a red pin stripe across the top of it. They also had a 2-D decal of a logo that appeared to look like Shadow's face. "Let's move out.'' he grabbed the newly formed controls.
He pressed one of the buttons. The jet turbines fired out green flames. The car, or jet you could call it now, flew off the rooftop and headed down towards the street. "I'll chase him by ground, try and lead him to a secluded or not too populated area of the city.'' said Rouge, through a communicator in her helmet. She revved the engine and jumped off the building. She landed on another rooftop. She spun it in a half circle. She accelerated forward, landing on rooftop after rooftop. Shadow flew above the street. "There he is!'' Kuki said, pointing up ahead. Scourge was running across the sides of buildings. "Tricky hedgehog.'' shadow muttered, pressing a button. Two twin machine guns came out the hood of the car. Shadow turned the turrets across, aiming at Scourge. He let loose the heavy amounts of lead at the green hedgehog. With shattering windows from behind him, Scourge leaped over to the other side, running across those buildings. Shadow fired again. Scourge growled by the bullets whisking past him.
Rouge stopped on the top of one building, seeing Shadow chasing Scourge to her position. Scourge ran by, Shadow hot on his trail. Rouge pressed a purple button out of curiosity. The wheels had spikes form out of them. Rouge drove down the building, sticking to it! She then drove forward, riding sideways. Shadow pressed on the turbo to get ahead of Rouge. Scourge looked over his shoulder to see the upcoming hedgehog. Scourge leapt back. Scourge landed on the top of the car, ready to jump again. Rouge bounced her bike off the wall. Scourge leaped straight forward. Rouge came in his path, swinging her foot right across his face. Scourge blasted through a skyscraper window, making large hole. Rouge fell downward. She closed her eyes and waited for the worst. Suddenly, a blue button began to blink repeatedly. Two small jet engines extracted from the inside of the bike and blasted out a small blue fire. The bike stopped in mid air. She looked around and smiled. "That was too close.'' she said. "You're lucky. Our vehicles have a special AI in it that whenever we're in danger, the vehicles deploys a way to 'land' safely.'' shadow said through the communicator.
Shadow pulled up. He pressed the green button, letting all the flying equipment gear retract back inside. They flew straight forward at the building Scourge was sent through. Kuki held her seat belt, whimpering. Shadow grabbed the steering wheel when it came back out. The car landed. Shadow turned the wheel all the way to the right, throwing the car into a single drift that ended the car up coming to a stop at the very edge of the building. Kuki was holding onto the sides of her seat, her eyes wide as fishbowls. Shadow looked at her with a cocked eyebrow. "Breath Kuki.'' he advised. Kuki let out a tiring breath, clutching her chest.
"Are you crazy?!?'' she exclaimed.
"I landed didn't I?'' he replied.
The two then started laughing. "You better not try that again.'' she said, smiling "Don't we make our life on crazy?'' he asked "You got me there.'' she said, getting out of the car. The two watched Rouge flying up and landing on the roof in front of them. She got off, taking her helmet off.
"You can thank the commander later.'' Shadow said.
"I guess I due owe him one.'' replied Rouge. Suddenly, Scourge teleported behind Kuki and wrapped his arm around her neck. Shadow quickly teleported a desert eagle in his hand and aimed. Rouge stood by Shadow's side.
"How long has it been Shadow? I see you're still doing the General's dirty work.'' Scourge said with a smirk.
"I barely listen to people's orders anymore. I always end up getting betrayed by them. So, technically you're full of sh-''
"Shadow! As you can notice, he has Kuki hostage and you don't want to make him more angry than he already is.'' Rouge told him. Shadow lowered his gun with a hint of anger on his face.
"Now that I have your little friend here and your guys full attention, I'll take your emerald along with the one I stole, Shadow.'' Scourge bargained.
"I'm not a fool, especially I must say, I'm one that can't be persuaded by the likes of you.'' Shadow snapped back at him.
"Watch your mouth! Your friend here is an inch away from having her neck snapped!'' Scourge threatened gruesomely.
Shadow's eyes flared with red for a short time. "Still as easily angered like always. But I have something waiting for me back at Eggman's, so hand over the emerald and I'll be on my way.'' Scourge said, holding his other hand out. Shadow hated to admit. He was always one to be at the top of things, but bargains seemed to not be in the memo. What Rouge said was right. He could only think that his best friend was being held hostage by an alternate dimensional copy of Sonic. Shadow held his hand out. His green chaos emerald popped up in his hand with a flash of green. "Hand it over…now.'' Scourge said, with a hint of anger in his eyes.
Kuki looked at Scourge's arm. She gulped and suddenly bit it. Scourge yelped, pushing her off. Scourge took out his Chaos Emerald and fired a beam of portal energy at Kuki, causing her to vanish. Shadow had his eyes widened. They then narrowed down with anger and hate. Scourge pointed them at Shadow and Rouge.
"CHAOS CONTROL!'' he yelled.
The blue beam hit both and teleported the two heroes away. Things go bad to worse as our three heroes are separated. How far will they be sent? How will they get back? What are Scourge's intentions with the chaos emeralds? All that and more as you read on.
Avatar Dimension, 9:30 pm
The gang set up camp in a dense part of a large forest somewhere in the Earth Kingdom. "Is anyone else feeling like this use to be the thing we always did before?" Aang spoke up.
"Like the old days. Those always use to be fun, and so much more peaceful.'' Katara replied, changing her tone at the end to a sad one.
"How long has it been, since Sonic was captured?'' asked Zuko.
"Two days ago we got here, now here we are. I think it's Friday.'' replied Sokka.
"And all we've been doing is camping from one place to another, just like the old days!'' Aang joked. The group laughed.
"It was much easier to talk about stuff before but now it just seems impossible.'' Katara noted.
"We're in the middle of a war. Eggman isn't going to give up, not at all until he's won.'' said Zuko.
"From what Kuki told us, he's planning to blow up the Earth, at least not our dimension's earth.'' Aang said.
"He'll come after us no matter what.'' said Toph.
"It just seems to me we're not so lucky when it comes to these things.'' added Sokka.
"But somehow we always come out on top, but fall back down again.'' Aang said, laying down on the ground.
"We shouldn't worry, if we could beat Eggman before, we can do it again!'' Katara said.
"Except this time he's much more desperate to win this time.'' Toph reminded.
"Who knows what he'll sick on us.'' said the blind Earthbender.
A sudden breaking of branches and moving of trees reached their ears. "Nice Toph, you just had to say something!'' Sokka complained, getting out his space sword.
"See anything guys?'' Aang said, quickly turning around.
"I hope we're just imagining this.'' Sokka whimpered. The group all laid their eyes on one spot. Bushes started to rustle and shake. After a few seconds, coming out of the bushes was; a saber toothed moose lion cub. "Phew.'' said Sokka.
Suddenly, the little animal ran off quickly. Trees fell down and jumping into the clearing was Thule himself. "Oh, come on!'' Sokka exclaimed. "Isn't that the thing that bit you Aang?'' asked a surprised Katara.
"Yup, sure is.'' replied the Airbender, tightening the grip on his staff. "You kids again?" said the creature, then looking at Aang.
"Ahhh, the Avatar. I take it you remember the time we first encountered?" he asked.
"That's all in the past, now who are you?! What do you want!'' Aang demanded.
"I retreated here in hopes to plan my devious plot to destroy Earth! But it's been hard with the damage I took from your blasted Sonic!'' cursed the demon.
"But since you're here and I sense a ChaosEemerald coming from one of-'' he was interrupted when Katara stepped forward and fired a barrage of icicles in his gut. He groaned from the sudden attack. He looked back up at the group. His white fangs showing. "I see that you are ones not to talk…alright then, let's see how WELL YOU CAN FIGHT!!'' shouted the angry demon, leaping up into the air.
Thule came back down at a fast pace. "Split up now!'' shouted Sokka. The gang ran in opposite directions. Thule slammed both his fists into the ground just after they retreated.
Zuko fired three quick fireballs. Thule stuck a single hand out. All the fireballs came together and stopped in his palm. The fireball was three times as big was it once was. Thule held the giant ball of flames over his head then through it back at Zuko. Aang and Toph stood in front of the fire bender. The two raised a giant thick wall of earth out of the ground. The fireball exploded on impact creating a large chunk of the rock wall missing. Aang and Toph both worked together to bring out a large ball of dirt and earth out of the ground. The two stretched their arms out with their fists clenched. The massive ball rolled towards Thule. Thule grabbed it, but it continued to push him back across the ground. Unfortunately for him, there was a cliff he was coming up to. Without even knowing, Thule tumbled off the cliff down into another section of the massive forest. The giant earth ball smashed on top of him.
With Appa and Momo following, the gang headed over to the edge of the cliff. Toph looked straight ahead. "Did we get him?" she asked.
"I don't think so. That was too easy. He took much more damage when we were in Seattle.'' Zuko noted.
The ground busted upwards from behind him. Thule's large clawed hand reached up, and he pulled himself up. "Told you.'' said Zuko, getting in a stance. Appa flew straight at him. Thule grabbed his horns, tossed him around, and let him fly through a series of trees. "Appa!!'' screamed the Avatar.
Thule knocked Sokka and Zuko out of the way, and grabbed Aang. "Damn Airbender. I'm going to make sure that you're people will remain extinct…PERMANENTLY!!!'' he yelled with anger.
Sokka jumped on the creature's back and jabbed his sword into its flesh. Reddish black blood poured from his back. Sokka quickly dislodged his sword and hopped off his back. "Damn you!!" he shouted, about to crush the warrior with one fist. Katara wrapped a water tentacle around each of the beast's spikes and pulled him down with all her strength. Thule's eyes flared ferociously. He reached to grab Sokka's sword when he was still holding it. Thule threw him back into the dirt. Toph formed two rock gloves around her fists. She blasted off the ground with her earth bending. Thule grabbed her by one arm. "Let me go!'' she screamed and kicked. Aang leaped at him with his staff held high. Thule reached out and grabbed the staff with his other hand. He threw the two benders into trees. Katara formed a series of icicles out of the water from her pouches. She fired the volley of frozen ice daggers straight at Thule. Thule merely put his huge arm up in defense. They pierced into his skin, but all he needed to do to rid of them was swing his claws at them shattering the icicles into tiny pieces.
Zuko leaped overhead. He spun forward, with a streak of fire forming around his foot. Thule stopped and looked up. Zuko's foot smacked right into Thule's dome, exploding. Thule bounced and spun across the ground from the sudden impact. The rest of the gang came behind Zuko.
"Cursed kids.'' he muttered.
"Have you all forgotten your purpose for coming here?'' he said, standing back up, but not looking back at them.
"Trust me when I say this, we haven't forgotten about Sonic.'' Katara objected.
"That's not what I was trying to get from you. Have you found him?" he replied, grinning afterwards when they couldn't respond.
"See? Sonic is most likely being held in another dimension that you do not know about. Most likely, it'll be the place he'll spend the rest of his life rotting until someone finds him, if you can.'' Thule said, laughing evilly.
"How were you even created?!'' shouted the angry Avatar.
"From Hell. Born from flames and ash. With the power of the underworld, my species wanted to rule more than our domain, but the world above us as well.'' he explained.
"What does this have to do with Sonic?'' asked Katara. Thule hesitated for a moment and shook his head. "The blue hedgehog is destined to fight his evil self; Mecha WereSonic, to decide the fate of the world and the future, but not only for itself, but the fate of all the other known dimensions. I myself ruled the underworld in search for a way to conquer the upper world. That's why the prophecy foretells me, Sonic, and Mecha, to fight on the day of Armageddon, thus finally proving who is the true warrior.'' Thule explained.
"That's awful.'' said a shocked Sokka.
"It is, but if Sonic can't live up to his so-called responsibilities, if he can, I'll only have to deal with Mecha and that is no challenge.'' replied the malevolent demon.
"You're insane!'' shouted Katara.
"And that my dear girl is why I'll win this war and bring forth my newly formed armies to bring about Armageddon to all!!!'' he yelled to the stars, with a maniacal laugh.
"I'm sorry Thule, but that's the job for Solaris to do.'' a familiar voice spoke. Thule looked up to see Mephiles hovering above.
"MEPHILES? How did you get here?!'' shouted the demon.
"They know each other?'' asked Toph.
"Damn you, Mephiles. You're lucky that last battle between me and you was your victory. Without the help of Iblis your birth would succumb to the powers of Hell!!'' he shouted "But that's why I won Thule. The end of the world will be due to me, not your poorly thought plan of merely rebuilding an army of your dead and forgotten species.'' Mephiles snapped.
"That's why your smart mouth gets you beat!'' Thule snapped with anger, lunging up at him. Mephiles stuck both his hands down at him. Thule pushed his hands away, grabbing him in his large hand. Thule dove back down, holding Mephiles out with his hand. Thule smashed Mephiles into the dirt. "Still have that easily angered mind of yours don't you?" Mephiles taunted him.
"This anger is going to obliterate you! You wretched pest!'' Thule exclaimed, slamming Mephiles into a tree, snapping it from its base.
"Are you guys totally confused like me?'' asked the blind Earthbender.
"Should we just let him beat the heck out of each other?'' asked Zuko.
"Aang? What do you think?'' Katara asked.
"DUCK!!'' he shouted. A stray purple energy ball sent from Mephiles hurled at them. The group dropped to the ground immediately. "I guess that answers it.'' Sokka said.
"Right, let's fight em'!'' shouted the Avatar, running towards them, with Katara and Toph following them.
"What? I thought we were going to run!?!'' whined the warrior.
Aang launched a fireball between the two battling demons. The two both looked at them. "Damn kids.'' Mephiles muttered.
"I've been trying to rid of them, they're very strong.'' Thule added, but he was suddenly punched by Mephiles.
Thule dropped to the ground. "Don't think we're going to have a quick parlay and then go back to fighting each other.'' Mephiles said.
"Why would I even be surprised?'' Thule replied, letting his two spike claws come out the bottom of his wrist. Mephiles fired a purple energy ball at him. Thule put the two large spikes in front of his face. The ball vanished in a puff of air as soon as it hit. Mephiles growled at this. Toph launched a boulder up into the air. As gravity came over it, the mass of earth came back down. Thule turned around and saw it coming down at him. Thule rolled forward, then turned around. Thule leaped up and batted the ball of earth at Mephiles. The ball bashed through Mephiles. Thule landed back on the ground, snickering. Aang fired a ball of flames at him. Thule was hit in the back by the sudden burn. He turned around growling furiously. Zuko jumped in front of Aang and fired two blasts of fire that had a tail. The two flames encircled each other on their way to the evil demon. Thule put a black misty shield in front of him. The fireballs together caused a massive blast of fire.
The gang lowered their arms from the shining light that was now dimmed. Thule was standing in a small crater, smirking with evil. "Fools. I was born from fire! What makes you think it'll even scratch me?'' he taunted.
"You never know you oversized freak!'' Zuko yelled back.
Mephiles teleported behind Zuko and kicked him. Zuko was sent flying with a yelp. Aang jumped towards Mephiles spinning his staff like a windmill. Mephiles poked his spike feet into the ground to withstand the blistering winds. Thule tackled Aang, throwing them forward also tackling Mephiles. The rest of the gang followed them with haste. The three started rolling down a hill. The base was coming.
The three separated when they made it to the bottom. The gang skidded down the dirt hill. Mephiles looked up at them. He threw his hands repeatedly, letting loose energy balls. All around them, the three heroes maneuvered from side to side on their way down the dirt covered hill. Toph launched rock formed spears down at him. Mephiles teleported to dodge them. Thule saw a rock spear coming at him. He swung his spike claw, shattering it into pebbles. He then retracted the spikes back into his arms. Toph raised mounds of earth out of the ground and wrapped them around Thule. Thule struggled but broke free of the rocky prison. A blue portal opened above the group. They all looked up to it and saw Rouge fall through. She landed on her feet, looking around curiously. "I'm tired of these interruptions!'' yelled the angry Thule, charging at the bat. Rouge swung her foot right across the demon's face, knocking him on his back. "Whoa.'' said Sokka.
Rouge looked over her shoulder and saw the gang. "You!'' she said, running over to them.
"Who are you?" asked Katara.
"Name's Rouge, I'm a friend of Shadow. He's told me that you were sent here to find an emerald, right?'' she asked.
"Yeah, but where's Shadow?'' asked Aang.
Rouge then looked behind and all around. "Dang, he must've got sent somewhere else.'' Rouge muttered.
"Do you know where the emerald is?" asked Zuko.
"Got the location on my GPS.'' she said, pulling it out. "Hurry, we don't want them to follow us!'' said Rouge.
The gang got on Appa. With a quick 'yip yip!' Appa flew up into the sky. Mephiles growled, "Not on my watch.'' he mumbled.
He fired off into the air. Thule got up with an angry glare on his face. "Get back here!!'' he yelled, jumping high up into the air, and continuing to jump to keep up. With the gang on Appa, two angry demons hot on their trail, can the gang reach the emerald's location first? Winner takes all and fights all in this race to the finish!
Townsville, 2:30 pm
Shadow lay on the top of a rooftop. His eyes began to open. He groaned and got on all fours. Shadow got on one leg, then stood up. "Where am I now?" he questioned himself.
"This is great, just great.'' he said. His ears perked and twitched. Shadow did a cartwheel to the right. The roof suddenly blew off in a cylindrical shape that stretched from the one end to the other. "Two minutes and I'm already being attacked.'' he said, looking back over to the city. He gasped to see one of Eggman's Super Titan Robots bashing through the city. It's three clawed hand and fully rotation head with a red eye sensor was a dangerous creation. "What is Eggman's robot doing here?'' he thought to himself. Suddenly three things crashed right by his side. The dust cleared to reveal three little girls. "That's just cruel.'' he said.
The one with blue eyes woke up, looking at Shadow. "Uhhh, hi?'' he greeted, waving one hand. "Sonic!!'' she screamed.
The other two awoke and smiled. "Dammit, not again.'' he muttered, being tackled to the ground by the girls.
"Get off me!'' he exclaimed.
"We missed you so much!'' screamed the blue eyed girl.
"I thought you were dead!'' screamed the one with red hair.
"I sure as hell wish I was right now!'' he screamed in his head.
"Do I look like I have blue fur?!?'' he interjected.
The three girls stopped their laughing and looked. "Then who are you?'' asked the one with green eyes.
"First; GET OFF ME!!!'' he yelled. The three girls hovered off him and looked at him. "How are you hovering like that?" he asked.
"Wait a minute, you wouldn't happen to be Shadow would you?'' asked Blossom.
"Yes, thank you for noticing.'' he said with an arrogant tone.
"How'd you get here?" asked Bubbles.
"An enemy of mine teleported me in the middle of our fight, the coward.'' he answered.
"Please tell me this first, you don't know Sonic's back?'' he questioned.
"He is?!'' they all said at the same time.
"Good, now you know, anyway what's this place?'' asked the hedgehog.
"Townsville! We're the Powerpuff Girls!'' chanted Blossom.
"Dear lord.'' he thought in his head. "Hmmm, have you guys seen any giant ship come here to drop that robot off?''
"Actually some other flying robot came in and teleported it here. He said his name was Mecha Were, it had your name in it!'' said Buttercup, thinking of the name.
"Mecha WereShadow, of course.'' Shadow said, looking off to the side, thinking.
"Anything else you guys seen?" asked the ebony hedgehog. The giant robot stopped in front of their building.
"I, Mojo Jojo will destroy you, and when you are destroyed, you will be defeated, and you will not fight and-'' he blabbered, but Shadow fired a huge chaos spear beam at the robot's eye sensor, throwing it halfway across the city and shattering through a skyscraper.
"Trying to get some answers here! Now, you were saying?'' he said.
The three girls were staring across the city, amazed with their mouths hung open. "Hello?'' he said.
The three girls regained consciousness and turned back to him. "You are cool!'' screamed Bubbles.
"About time someone notices how powerful I am.'' said Shadow, taking up all the glory.
"We were going to ask if you could help us stop him.'' Blossom asked.
"Fine, I need some exercise anyway.'' replied Shadow, leaping straight off the rooftop. The three girls looked at each other and smiled, then flew after him.
Shadow came closer to the large robot slumping against a building who's top half was broken off. Shadow twitched his hand, his Chaos Sword forming in his grasp. Shadow jabbed the sharp blade into the sensor eye. "Arghh! Get off my robot now!'' yelled the angry monkey.
One huge hand swiped Shadow and sent him flying through five buildings until crashing into a street, burrowing through the concrete and bumping against a building. The three girls fired their red lasers out of their eyes. The robot was put back down when it attempted to get back up. "Curse you girls!'' he screamed.
Mojo activated the super missile that comes out the top of the metal giant's dome. The huge missile fired at them. The three girls gasped. Shadow appeared in front of them, hovering. "Chaos Control!'' he shouted, sticking his green Chaos Emerald out.
The missile vanished and came directly back at the robot. Mojo hit the turbo boosters. The giant robot hoisted itself high into the air. The three flew up after it. Bursting through the cloud bank, the four heroes came face to face with the massive robot. Shadow flew forward with his sword held back. Mojo swung the robot's right arm. Shadow boosted upwards. The three girls blasted straight through the robot and out the other end. Shadow dove down, straightening his body out. He pointed his sword straight. He began spinning erratically. He was enwrapped with golden energy. He looked like a golden drill. "Uh oh.'' muttered the evil primate.
With a bright light, Shadow impacted the robot's dome, causing it to explode. The bright white light caused the girls to shield their eyes. Mojo slowly fell down, but was wearing a parachute. His arms were crossed as he drifted slowly among the wind's breeze. Shadow flew down and grabbed him by the back of his cape. "Now, how about some help?'' asked Shadow.
Within a few minutes, they put Mojo back in his jail cell. The four heroes regrouped at the top of a building overlooking the city. Shadow formed a walkie talkie in his hand. "Kuki? Kuki, you there?'' he talked into it. There was only static on the other end. He lowered the phone and made it vanish with a whip of his hand.
"What's wrong?'' asked Blossom,
"My friend's in trouble.'' he answered.
"Why don't we help you?'' asked Bubbles, flying in front of him.
Shadow put a hand on his forehead, sighing heavily. "Fine, agreed. But I want you to stay focused on this mission, all our worlds are in danger and could be destroyed, you in?'' he asked.
"As long as we tell the Professor.'' said Blossom.
"And it has to be before bedtime.'' added Bubbles.
The group came back to the girls' house. "Girls! Where've you been! I thought you'd take down that robot quicker!'' he said worriedly.
"Actually we had some help, from him.'' Bubbles pointed out.
Shadow was standing there with his arms crossed. "Greetings Professor Utonium, I'm taking them on a mission, I need all the help I can get.'' he began.
"I don't know, fighting in another dimension? It doesn't sound like a good idea.'' replied the Professor.
"Professor, his world and every other dimensions of the heroes could be destroyed if we don't contribute!'' said Blossom.
"We can finally beat Eggman!'' Buttercup added.
"Then we can finally be at peace!'' Bubbles wrapped up.
Shadow was surprised to see so much bravery and enthusiasm come out of them. "Alright girls, but promise me you be extremely careful.'' he said, hugging them all.
The four heroes stood together. Shadow held his chaos emerald and looked at his reflection. "Hopefully, we can win.'' Shadow thought to himself.
Shadow waved his emerald causing chaos control and teleporting the group. Where are our heroes going? Can Shadow reunite with Kuki? As more and more heroes come together to fight this threat, more and more does this war get worse.