Chaos
There he was, staring me straight in the eyes, his cold, dark stare piercing into me like a knife, and it was a man I hated more then anybody I have EVER known… Albert Robotnik.
A man who has devoted his life to ruining my own, so far to the fact that he attacked and KILLED my best friends parents… and now he was looking right at me, offering me some GODDAMN FLOWERS!
"Y-you…" I growled, rage and sadness starting to overwhelm me.
"What's wrong, Sonic, do you not want to give her flowers?" Robotnik asked, a sly grin appearing across his face.
"You bast-" In mid-sentence Robotnik had reached out for me, grabbed me, his hand extending across my entire face.
"Now, now Sonic, why don't we just cut to the chase and get this fight going, hm?" He pushed his arm forward, pushing me into the wall, "So why don't you transform already?"
"G-ah," I struggled to escape his grip, I felt panicked at the fact that he could have killed me right there.
"No, too bad." He suddenly slammed his fist into my stomach, and then vanished with me, appearing about fifty feet above the ground… and dropped me.
Yes, he actually DROPPED ME.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!" I screamed, trying to engage the watch which held my emerald, it didn't help that I was panicking and falling to my impending doom that awaited me.
I caught a glance of Robotnik who was watching me fall with a cocky smile, and that just turned my panic into rage, I finally got a hold of myself and twisted the lever on the watch, engaging the emerald which engulfed me into a bright light, which, in someway, shielded the fall and saved me.
"Alright Robotnik…" I said, getting back onto my feet, "You want a fight? LET'S FIGHT!"
This caught Robotnik's attention, for he suddenly appeared right in front of me.
"Finally, I was starting to worry that you were just going to fall and die," he said, his eyes turning more yellow, it seemed more and more chaos was seeming to take over him.
"So how's this going to be?" I asked, "I'm going to beat you, understand! I'm done losing to you!"
"I know, I can tell… with that rage in your eyes… there's no way I can defeat you…" Okay, I admit, I wasn't expecting that, but the next sentence erased my confusion. "In this form of course… but not to worry… you've brought everything I need."
He held up his hand, holding the one emerald he had collected, it was glowing… and so was mine.
"W-what are you doing?" I asked, confused that he was able to use the power.
"Chaos Control." He said in a voice that was not his own.
"Not good!" I yelled, running at him, I had a bad idea on what was about to happen.
But I was too late, my emerald broke away from my watch, which floated around him, circling his every move, and then more and more started appearing, he had somehow summoned every emerald that was in the city, all seven of them started circling his body.
I could feel the power resonating from the emeralds growing with each passing second, and with each passing second the emeralds went faster and faster until Albert was completely obscured by the wind.
"This is it, THIS IS TRUE POWER!" Albert yelled out, the picking up wind forcing me back into the wall.
"GHA!" I yelled, trying to regain my footing, but I couldn't, it was like a force was holding me down, I could feel my powers being drained. "GHAAAAAAA!"
I looked back up at Albert, who was in the midst of absorbing the powers of the emerald, and myself. I looked around, people were running in all directions, screaming, people were going to die if I couldn't stop him.
"Robotnik-!" I yelled, reaching out to him, as if it would do something, anything, to break what he was doing… then I noticed something… my hand, it was back to my human self, I was losing my powers, and I was helpless to do anything about it.
"ALBERT! NO!" I screamed, "NOOOO!"
I let out one helpless yell, feeling all my like drain out of me. I closed my eyes, feeling a relief of pain. And then that was it.
The news clicked on in the Suai household, it showed shocking images of a giant blue creature, towering over the building, reeking havoc with every step it took.
Sonic's Mom gasped picking up her phone to get a hold of her husband, while it rang she walked over to the stairs and yelled up the stairs.
"Sonic! Sonic are you here!" She yelled hopefully, but with no response.
She didn't know this, but her only living son… was dead.
People were glued to their TVs everywhere, watching helplessly as the advents unfolded, some hoped the police would come and put an end to it, some hoped the Military… others hoped a small blue Hero, who grew onto the people of New York's hearts, would come and save them once more. But there was no sign of the police, no way the Military could react in this short time, and there was no blue hero.
"Sonic, Sonic are you around here!" Dart yelled, while climbing through the streets rumble, cars were thrown everywhere, fires burned through buildings, within few short minutes the entire street was turned into a living hell.
Dart looked everywhere, until he came to the a boy, who's face was covered in ash, he showed no signs of any injury… but he wasn't breathing, and Dart knew who this boy was, his name was Sonic Suai.
"Sonic!" Dart yelled, bending down to one knee, picking the broken, lifeless, body of the ground, "Damn it Sonic, ANSWER ME!"
No answer, Dart couldn't believe it what he was seeing, and for once in his life, he cried. Not once in his life has he ever cried, not when he lost his parents, not when the emeralds were taken from him, but seeing his ally, no, his partner, lying cold on the floor, that did it. That made him cry.
"Damn it Sonic! Wake up!" Dart yelled, "Wake up and defeat this thing already!"
Footsteps approached Dart from behind, he turned fast, facing Tikal, and all the other six guardians, they looked dazed and confused.
"Dart, is that…" Tikal said with a gasp.
"Yes…" Dart answered plainly, looking back at the lifeless Sonic.
"No, it can't be…" Tikal said, falling back a bit, the other six guardians approaching them.
"This is… unfortunate…" the red one said.
"It seems not even he had enough power to fight Chaos." The Silver one said, sighing.
I failed again… Tikal thought to herself, I failed Andrew,and now I failed Sonic…she closed her eyes in thought, then when she opened them there was a something in them, determination.
"No," Tikal said, "I'm not letting him die, I won't fail. Not again."
She picked up the blue emerald, her emerald, "I'll bring him back."
"W-what?" The Silver Guardian asked, clearly caught off guard by her statement, "The only way is to-"
"I know," She said, cutting him off, "I have no choice, he means too much to just let go."
There was a silence between everyone, no one wanted it to happen, yet everyone knew that there was no other way.
"Now, I'll begin." Tikal stepped over to Sonic's cold body, "Well… I guess this is it."
Dart made a move to stop her, he wasn't going to sit around and let Tikal do what she was about to do. However as he went to her she looked at him, her look stopped him dead in his tracks. His mouth opened to protest, to stop her...but words wouldn't come.
"...Hell of a run," Dart said, patting her shoulder, hoping to give her some sort of reassurance.
"Yeah…" she said, holding the emerald above Sonic, "'Hell of a run', indeed."
The emerald started to glow, brighter and brighter until the power exploded, blue lightening sparking from the emerald as it slowly engulfed Tikal. She yelled, she was in terrible pain, everyone cringed, wanting to stop it. But they knew they shouldn't.
"Ahhhhhh!" She continued to scream until the light have fully engulfed her, leaving the blue emerald suspended in air.
The emerald gave one glimmer of light, then shot all the power it absorbed from Tikal straight into Sonic, the light covered him in a beautiful spectacle of colors, with each second his body seemed to regain some of it's life.
"It's working," Dart said in amazement.
And in that second Sonic opened his eyes, his blue eyes glowing with the infused power.
Sonic was back.
"What the…" I said, a feeling of daze filled my mind, "Where am I?"
"Sonic…" A voice called out to me, I recognized it, it was Tikal's!
"Tikal, is that you!" I asked turning around.
It seemed as if I was in the sky, or something like that, it was all so bright, not a 'agh, get the light out of my eyes', it was more like a beautiful sunset.
And in that beautiful sunset was a woman that had guided me through my entire fight, Tikal.
"T-Tikal!" I asked in surprise, "What are you doing here!You aren't dead too, right?"
She laughed, her body obscured by the lights, "I'm not dead, well, kinda, Sonic… this is your soul. And I am part of your soul now."
"You're… what?" I asked, "It made more sense when I thought we were both dead."
"Sonic…" she said quietly, taking a step forward… which I regretted, for she was completely…
"NAKED!" I yelled in shock, "Why are you naked!"
I looked away quickly, also noticing something, "AND WHY AM I NAKED!"
Tikal simply laughed, "Sonic, this is your soul, clothes aren't part of it. So naturally you wouldn't be wearing it."
"Ah-uh-gee- I guess that makes some sense…" I said, still not looking at Tikal.
She had always been the greatest guide any person could ask for, she was bright, funny, and well, beautiful… plus over thousands of years old, but that's beyond the point!
"Sonic, I've given away my physical self to save you, you must stop Andrew, no matter what happens," Tikal explained.
"Wait… so this means, you're dead?" I blinked, incredibly confused.
"In the most basic of explanations… yes." She nodded.
"And you died for me?"
"Yes."
"W-why!" I yelled, "Why would you do that for me, why…why?"
Tikal stepped towards me, "Sonic, because you're meant for so much more. Please Sonic, you must live, don't make my sacrifice be in vain."
"I-I…" I closed my eyes, as much as I didn't like it; I had no choice but to do it, "I won't let your death be in vain, I will be the one to stop Chaos. I'm going to stop Dark Gaia. I'm going to be the hero you've always wanted me to be!"
She smiled, she liked that, "That's good… good luck, Sonic."
She wrapped her arms around me, in a hug, shocked at first, I hugged back.
"Don't worry, I won't fail you." I assured her.
"I know you won't, that's why I love you," She said, her voice beginning to fade.
"Yeah… goodbye, Tikal." I said, closing my eyes.
"Goodbye, Sonic Suai."
"Tikal!" I yelled, suddenly sitting up, the entire scenery was changed, it was no longer a beautiful scene, it was the streets of New York, wrecked and burning.
"Sonic!" A voice which I recognized as Dart called out to me, "You're alive."
I looked over at Dart and a group of people, who were the seven guardians standing right behind him.
"Yeah… I am." I nodded, sitting up, Dart helping pulling me to my feet, "Where's Tikal?"
I already knew, or had an idea, but I needed to hear it from them.
"She's dead, Sonic, she gave her life away to bring you back," Dart explained.
Sonic felt his heart twinge with guilt and pain, but he reminded himself something important.
"Yeah… I had a feeling about that," I said stepping past him, "But she's not dead, she's still with me. And I don't plan to let her sacrifice be in vain."
"What's your plan?" Dart asked, stepping to my side as I watched the giant creature wreak havoc.
"I'm going to beat that ugly sucker with everything I have!" I yelled while slamming my fist into the palm of my hand.
Dart blinked, laughed, and did the something, "Hell of a plan, I can tell you thought long and hard on it."
"Damn straight," I smirked, glancing back at the Guardians, "But I'm going to need your help… your power."
"What are you saying?" The light blue one asked, "You're not planning to…"
"Yep, I am."
"But Sonic, you're battling the last person who tried that!" The yellow one protested.
"But I can do it!" I yelled, "I can control it. I know I can!"
The Guardians glanced at each other, looking back at me.
"…Fine, we'll let you use all our powers… just be careful." The silver one said, vanishing, returning to the silver emerald, "I trust my power with you, Sonic Suai."
"So do I." The Red one stated, also turning back into the emerald.
"So do I." All six of the Guardians said, transforming into their emerald form.
"But what about the blue one, it vanished along with Tikal." Dart pointed out, I simply turned back to him and smirked.
"Dart… I am the blue emerald," I didn't realize it right there, but my light blue eyes were dark blue now, it was completely different, as if I traded out my old eyes for something new.
"Alright, let's do this!" I yelled, focusing all of my energy so that I could summon the emeralds.
You're probably wondering why I think I won't turn out like Andrew? Well, the way I see it, he wanted to use the power to destroy something else, thus taking a negative part of it. But if my main goal is to protect the people around me, then maybe I could use the positive power… or something. Yeah, I really had NO idea what I was doing.
Well, too late to turn back now, the emeralds were twirling around me like crazy, fussing their power straight into my body. I felt different, not in pain, it was… a feeling I couldn't describe. Like the biggest rush of adrenaline you could ever feel.
When the emerald stopped moving I was completely different, I was in my 'Sonic the Hedgehog' form, but glowing very brightly.
"You… did it." Dart blinked, shocked at what I did.
"Yeah I did!" I smirked, looking back at Dart, giving him a thumbs up, "Now, if you excuse me. I've got a city to save."
"Good luck," Dart nodded.
It was weird, everything was different, my powers, my appearance, yet I seemed to know everything out of the top of my head. Instinct I guess.
I zoomed off, into the sky, yes, THE SKY. I could fly, even faster than I could run. And that giant Chaos never saw me coming.
I rolled myself into a ball and rammed right through the blue goo, coming out the other end.
The creature, which now looked something like a lockness monster due to it's increased back size, and several new tentacles that wrecked havoc wherever it swung.
"RHAAAA!" The creature roared, coming to realize that it was coming under attack. The creature, despite it's enormous body size, swung quickly to it's side to face me.
"Sonic Suai!" Chaos yelled, it's words echoing into my head, "We thought you were dead, we thought we KILLED YOU!"
"Yeah well, you thought wrong buddy!" I smirked, holding my fist up to them, "I'm back, and I'm here to kick your over grown-reptile-ish-ass!"
"Rhhhhhaaaaaa!" I roared, it's long tentacles swinging at me from the left and right, trying to smash me.
"Nice try, pal." I mocked, focusing my power so it would swirl around me and unleashing it in a powerful knock back blast, the tentacles were forced back from the attack.
"Oh yeah, pretty cute trick right there, huh?" I yelled forming power into the palm of my hand, "This one will be just as impressive!"
I energy formed on my palm and shot out in a beam, flying through the air and slamming into it's head, causing the goo to go flying in all direction.
"Boom!" I yelled, pumping my fist into the air.
…And then it started to rebuild it's body, looking more angry then ever. It's tentacles swung all around, one smacked me out of the sky, and caused me to crash right into the ground.
"Owwww…." I growled, rubbing my head in pain.
"Sonic!" Dart yelled, running over to me, "You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine…" I responded as Dart pulled me up, "This may be a little bit more complicated then I had thought."
"Not just one of those 'kick it until it dies' type thing, huh?" Dart questioned, looking up at the creature.
"Nah…" I shook my head, "If only I could fight Robotnik, that would make things a lot easier!"
"Wait…" Dart began, and idea forming. "What if you could?"
"What are you saying?"
"What if you entered his soul," He pointed out, "You have the powers Tikal had now, so perhaps you could fight like that."
"That… is ether the smartest, or plain stupidest thing that has ever come out of your mouth… I like it." I nodded, trying to think how I'm going to do this.
"Then you better get going!" Dart said, pushing my shoulder.
"Yep… Considering it's attacking, you better move too!" I yelled, jumping out of the way as tentacles came down at me.
"Yikes!" Dart yelped, the tentacle narrowly missing him.
I began to fly again, dodging more tentacles as I flew right toward Chaos.
The same old methods wouldn't work, I knew, Chaos knew that… so it was time to do something drastic. Something… EPIC.
Along with the awesome abilities I had demonstrated earlier there was still an entire set of other moves that I was ready to try… including one radical one that I thought was worth a try.
"Hey!" I yelled, "Chaos! Let's see what your soul is like!"
Don't ask how I did it, because it defied all laws of… EVERYTHING. To dive right into the very core of something was radical, but it would work, I would fight Chaos where he can't hide.
"CHAOS MERGE!"
Boom. That's what followed. I rushed at Chaos, and it was as if a door was beginning to open inside him, light pouring out of it, it was the door way to his soul. Yes, I rushed right into the creature's eyes… and vanished.
Chaos's soul was… chaos, destructive; everything about this place was disruptive to every sense in your body.
"Chaos!" I yelled, my words echoing across what appeared to be a sea of lava, with little patches of earth floating along in it.
Suddenly a creature burst from the magma, it was chaos, and at first it appeared that it would swallow me up, until mid strike it suddenly transformed into a human, who flipped perfectly in the air.
He landed right next to me, it was chaos alright while appear exactly as he looked in the flashback… a mirror image of me.
Might I add that we both were wearing clothes this time, my guess it was because I was intruding into his domain, the rules don't apply the same.
"Sonic…" he spoke, his voice coming out demonic and distorted.
"Finally, we meet face to face, gotta say, you're one handsome devil." I smirked at my lookalike.
"Why… tell me why the emerald worked for you, and not me!" This surprised me a little, it surprised me that after all these years he hadn't come to the answer.
"Isn't it simple, your soul is… chaotic, it's no wonder why you tried to harvest the negative energy of the emeralds… it's the only thing your soul can comprehend," I stated. He just stared at me with a lust for blood, he wanted to tear me limb for limb, and you know what I say? Bring it on. He rushed at me, swinging his fist at me, I took the blow like a sucker and rolled back.
Suddenly the scenery changed, the chaotic scenery became more so, the sea of lava tossed and turned and our platform began to shake, the sky clashed with lightening and dark clouds make the sky even darker. Not to mention that I suddenly felt drained, it took a moment but I soon realized that with every hit that I took everything became more chaotic, and my soul was losing the battle.
Which meant that it should work the same way for me…
I leaped up and slammed my fist into his face, knocking him back to the ground. And as I thought the world began to shift, it became a field, colorful flowers, blue skies, white fluffy clouds.
And I felt energized from the punch, "Alright! I'm so going to pound you down!"
He wiped his mouth of blood, standing up we stared silently at each other for a moment. Just a moment, he ran back at me and we began to fight again.
We each got our hits in, the scenery changing with every strike, from a beautiful field to a sea of lava.
"I'll make you BLEED!" Chaos yelled at me, getting in a pretty good right jab.
"Don't know if you've noticed, but I'm already bleeding, bud!" I couldn't help but smile, even though I was taking hits I felt far more energized, hardly feeling my now bloody face.
"Rhaaaa!" He threw his fist right to me, I caught his hand before it landed, "Why! I can't understand why you're so much better then I am! You're just a replacement!"
"Maybe you're right…" I said, looking straight into his rage filled eyes, "Replacement or not, I'm going to make the most of these abilities. I'll always be here to save the day. I'll always be here to stop corrupt people like you!"
He just stared at me silently, he couldn't comprehend what I was saying. I just lifted up my fist, and slammed it right into his face, using all my force to push him back. The scenery shattered, it was like I broke through a veil of glass leading right back into reality. Chaos went flying onto the streets of New York; still in his human form might I add.
I stepped up to him, taking in a deep breath I looked down on the man who at one point was supposed to save this world, "You lose."
Victory washed over me, the feeling of relief, soon followed by remorse. Remorse for Maria's parents, remorse for Tikal, and remorse for those who suffered because of this attack. Good people died because of this thing, and they should never be forgotten.
"Sonic!" Dart yelled, running up to me, "You did it!"
I looked back, smiling, "Yep. It wasn't easy, though."
"No kidding." Dart nodded, he was about to continue when he heard something, we both turned our head… to see Robotnik, crawling along the streets.
I stepped over to the older man, he knew I was coming, he turned over and tried to punch me. I caught his punch with ease, clenching it with such force that he screamed out.
"You killed them, everyone who died today." I stated, squeezing harder, "Their blood is on YOUR hands!"
He yelled out, "Then just kill me!"
"I should!" I yelled raising me fist, "But that wouldn't be right, would it?"
He looked at me with confusion, but not for long, I punched him knocking him out.
"Doesn't mean I couldn't break that REALLY annoying nose of yours, though…" I said, turning away from his limp body.
"Huh…" Dart blinked, "He's lucky, anyone else probably would have killed him."
"I thought about it…" I admitted, shaking my head from the thought I looked back at Chaos, or otherwise known as Andrew, "So… what's going to happen to him?"
"The other Guardians and I are going to take him back; perhaps we can work with him. Help him even," Dart nodded, "You should get going, I'll make sure Robotnik gets turned over to the police."
"Thanks…" I nodded, I knew I was needed elsewhere; I was still very worried about Miles and Maria. I stepped away from Dart and the others, I was going to see my friends.
In the events that unfolded within the next week are still mostly a blur, the news covered the story 24 hours a day. I helped out finding the missing and getting the wounded to safety, the news gave me the title of Hero of New York. I didn't feel like a deserved it.
Meanwhile, Miles was recovering nicely and was out of the bed within days. Maria was out in five, I hardly was able to talk to them when I was hit with the news: Maria would move out to Texas and live with her grandfather, my parents offered for her to live with them until the end of High School but she decided that she needed to be out of the city.
I didn't blame her.
New York Airport.
I climbed the stairs of the airport, scanning the large crowd to find Maria.
I spotted her, she wasn't smiling, her blue eyes looked solemn and depressed, yet even still she was probably the most beautiful person I had ever seen. It took me forever to realize but I really cared about her, I didn't want to see her leave.
But I knew I had to let her go, I couldn't ask her to stay in the city where her family was murdered.
"Hey!" I yelled, walking up to her, she turned to face me and for a brief moment the sadness washed away, she smiled a sweet smile at me.
"Sonic!" She seemed almost surprised.
"What?" I smiled back, "Didn't think I'd come and say goodbye?"
"Of course not!" She shot back, "…I'm glad you did though."
There was a brief moment of silence, I could tell she was hurting, no matter how she was trying to hide it.
"How are you feeling?" I asked, she looked away from me.
"Sonic… how did you deal with losing your brother, how do you forget the pain?" She asked, I was a little surprised at first but I quickly recovered to answer her question.
One would almost guess a kid my age would have forgotten something like that, but not me, I remember everything. I remembered my parents face of frustration and sadness. I remember asking my parents where Michael was.
I remembered everything.
"You don't get over it," That probably wasn't the answer she wanted, "I know I can never forget what happened, but what matters is how you deal with it. You should never forget about them. You shouldn't let it control your life, let it make you a better person."
"Sonic," She closed her eyes, opening them showing that they were filled with tears, "Thank you, but…"
She burst out in tears, sobbing uncontrollably, the first thing I did was pull her into a hug.
She hugged back, hiding her face behind me shoulder, "I miss them so much! I can't possibly understand what Albert would do that to them!"
I wanted to say everything was alright, but inside I knew that if perhaps if I went after Robotnik more aggressively I could've stopped so many people from dying.
I lied when I say to Robotnik that the blood was on his hands, because it was equally my fault. I couldn't stop him fast enough.
"I'm…" I said, holding back tears of my own, the guilt was just killing me, "…So sorry."
We just stood there for awhile, in each others arms until she looked up at me, her eyes meeting my own, we just stared at each other for a moment until she leaned in and kissed me.
I kissed back and for a moment everything terrible washed away, everything was… perfect for a moment.
Suddenly over the loud speaker her flight was called, she broke away, I was annoyed by the speaker.
"It's time for me to leave," she frowned, she too was equally disappointed.
"Then don't go," It was a stupid thing to say but I really wanted to kiss her again.
"You know I can't do that," She reluctantly took a step back.
"We'll keep in contact though, right?" I said as she walked away.
"Of course!" She smiled, "I'll call you when I get there."
"Great!" I waved while she walked away.
I frowned once she vanished from sight, shoving my hands in my pockets I turned and began to walk away. Suddenly everything came back, the guilt, the job.
New York needed a Hero right now.
The world needs a hero.
I'll be that hero.
My name is Sonic Suai.
This is my Secret Identity.
End
It's finished, finally after so many years it's actually finished.
It's been a hell of a time and I thank you all for your continued support throughout the years.
There WILL be a second one, so stayed tuned for it. I will release a Epilogue/credit chapter in a little bit.
Thanks again.
Mark.