MirrorTF: Two updates in one day

MirrorTF: Two updates in one day! I feel happy! And the little creature Karo is introduced from Sonic's point of view!

Shadow: I'm not gonna get drooled on again am I?

MirrorTF: Actually my dark-furred lovely, you've already been drooled on. This time it's from Sonic's perspective!

Shadow: --"

Sonic: Hey, how come I don't get a special name?

MirrorTF: Oh but you do! You are my Azure lovely! You get a fancy named specific color! For the disclaimer, I do not own any hedgehogs of chaos empowerment, nor their female counterparts. I also don't own Karo and his alienness. I do own part of the plot though.

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Karo was now a lizard of the winged variety. My first thought after he swallowed the emerald? How would we be getting it back when we needed it? My second thought? Eww. Knuckles scrambled into the kitchen nearly tripping over Karo at the door.

"You've got to see the news! There's more of him, and they're not friendly!" Knuckles halfway shouted.

Everyone scrambled from his or her seats to get into the living room. On the TV was a scene of downtown Metropolis being burned to the ground. It was akin to the invasion of the Black Arms several years ago. The news station that was capturing the scene of downtown Metropolis was using a helicopter instead of a ground crew, but that didn't save it.

The camera shook violently and the people screamed. A hideous blue creature only too familiar came through the helicopter door from off of the top. The helicopter blades could be heard malfunctioning as another creature joined the first in attacking the helicopter's occupants. The camera dropped out of the helicopter, presumably with the cameraman because his screams could still be heard as he fell. The camera turned towards the sky and a creature following the cameraman out of the helicopter. It hit the ground with a sickening thud and fuzzed out, static running across the screen.

It was then I noticed Shadow running out the door, and I called for him to wait up. Knuckles quickly caught up to us and we reached the city within five minutes. I heard a loud whistle that got closer and louder. I glanced behind me and got cold tackled by Knuckles, who also knocked down Shadow. The bazooka missile that would've hit us whistled past my top quill and slammed into a building. One of the creatures-a version twice as big as Karo and three times as hideous as he was before feeding him-let out a screech-laugh at our hit and miss by the missile. Knuckles jumped up and cold clocked the laughing lizard, knocking it into the corner of a building.

I spotted a wingless lizard that was big enough for me to ride on, which gave me an idea. I ran up to it from behind and jumped on its back, grabbing one of its horns like in a rodeo. It bucked and screeched and kicked and clawed at me, but I held on to its horn and just laughed.

I spotted Shadow shaking his head, quite exasperated, and laughed even more. I know he thought I was stupid to choose this particular moment to make a joke out of a bad thing, but I couldn't help it. The lizard bucked and headbutted me in the forehead. Let's just say it felt worse than being hit by one of Eggman's robots, except it was all focused on my head.

"OUCH!" I yelled, and then subsequently flew into a loose piece of building, which fell on two creatures. I felt a few things crack in my shoulder and two, maybe three ribs were jarred.

I got back up and rubbed my shoulder, though there wasn't anything wrong that I couldn't work around. Just my ever-loving luck that it would be the same shoulder I hurt in my fight with Eggman! I waved to Shadow and Knuckles and went to the west side of the city to find more baddies. The lizards all fought in pairs, one to distract while the other attacked. The further in I got the bigger the ugly things got, and the more experienced the pairs were. I hadn't had such good fights since the Black Arms attacked a few years back.

I reached Station Square but skidded to a halt when I spotted Shadow talking to a dragon type of the creatures. It was a darker blue than the others, who were colored like Chaos. He was colored like a sapphire and was twice my height. I circled back around the other side running into another pair of the lighter dragons. I helped up my hands in cease-fire, pointing towards the Square where Shadow and the darker one were still talking. I guess the dark one was their leader because they sat and waited for a signal before running off.

The leader barked an order of some kind to the other side of the Square, where another pair scuttled off. The same pair came around to watch me, so he knew I was here, Shadow on the other hand did not. Suddenly the leader was drooling and ready to pounce, with the pair on both sides of me. Crap, I thought, how do I get myself in these situations? I saw Shadow run and I jumped over the largest of the pair and put on some distance while dodging the poor timing of G.U.N artillery. Poor Shadow got knocked by a car, but recovered quickly.

I ran into Knuckles, quite literally, who was dirty and bruised, with a shallow gash across his chest, but no worse for wear. I on the other hand had cut my cheek on falling glass and my shoulder would've screamed if it could.

"Hey, have you seen Shadow?" Knuckles asked breathlessly.

"Yeah he's-" I started to say, pointing where I'd seen him. I never finished because at that very moment the biggest, fugliest dragon I'd ever- and probably will ever- see landed right in front of Shadow. The dragon had to be at least 25 feet tall, with blood red eyes and scales so dark they were almost black.

The moment I saw it I knew at some point it had looked like the creature in my dream. Shadow was struck with a fear driven awe that had him frozen to the spot. I called his name once, and then a second time, which he noticed briefly. I ran and pulled him from under the monstrous tail of the beast as it released a deafening roar.

Shadow snapped to reality and we dodged the giant's spit, which burned a building like foul smelling acid. The dark blue lizard chased Knuckles around the giant dragon, and then got behind the giant one. Shadow went to use a Homing Attack but then the giant dragon swung his wing, the wind knocking the both of us back.

I recovered by curling up and spin dashing back towards Shadow and Knuckles. I uncurled and ran the rest of the way, until the dragon swung its tail over my head, ramming into Shadow and Knuckles. I skid to a stop watching both of my friends in horror as fly through a building at 200 miles an hour. What I didn't expect was to be caught in the back swing of the solid black tail.

I could feel the giant muscles contract under the dark scales, every ounce of air forced out of me in that one split second. I had no time to breathe before I was sandwiched between hard building and the heavy tail that was forcing me through six inches of concrete. Then I was caught across the chest by the sharp tip of the tail and I could feel it break my ribs, four painful snaps, blood and bile filling my mouth. And for a moment I was airborne, through more concrete, each heavy piece doing more damage than the one before, breaking its own bone into separate pieces and then breaking those.

Past the concrete and I was airborne again for what felt like a second, and I met with a car. I felt glass shatter and cold steel crumple under the speed my meager weight had hit it and coughed up blood. I felt the steel under me flame and bend to my back, felt shattered bones pull them selves together so they were only single breaks, some double breaks.

I think I screamed, but I wasn't sure, my brain could only register the pain and nothing else. I couldn't even be sure whether or not I was dead, or how I even survived such collision if I did so. I heard nothing and saw nothing but the red shower that was my own pain.

The first thing I woke up too was a flurry of multi-lingual cursing in a gruff voice. That assured me that Knuckles was okay, but I couldn't be quite as sure for whoever his verbal abuse was aimed at. The next thing was a terrible smell, a mixture of medicine, bleach, backlogged toilets, or something akin to that. And blood, always the one tell tale sign of a hospital was the blood. I smelled it all around me, it was overpowering. I tried to move but my body felt like it weighed a ton. I could feel my muscles twitch with stress, but I could not move anything but my head, albeit slowly. That didn't stop the wave of nausea that washed over me, and I barely avoided puking on my pillow. Gross. That just added to the myriad scents of the hospital. Knuckles was still cursing like a sailor, something about Rouge and Cream…

"Damn Knuckles, do you have to be so loud? Go do your cursing someplace else." I said my voice very hoarse.

Knuckles stopped his round of verbal abuse, so I figured he heard me, but then he started again, though it sounded like he was calling the nurse in. I didn't bother to look when the nurse came to check me, I wasn't trying to puke again, especially since she was right next to me. I could smell her funky chicken perfume, some wannabe flower kind that was fit more for old ladies than a nurse. Someone screamed, it was agonizing listening to these people and not being able to do anything. I flinched at another peal of pain, which I think the nurse saw because she started to poke and prod at me. I heard Knuckles talking to the nurse, about how he thought I'd said something.

I was waking up more, and noticed the squeeze of bandage tape across my chest and over my battered shoulder. I also felt a splint on my leg, the bandage holding the splint firmly in place. I still didn't hurt, but Knuckles' words were becoming clearer and therefore louder. I strained my ears and focused, desperate to cut out the screams while listening for other sounds. I heard a loud bang of doors down the hall, people running, and an alarm. I heard Amy asking a worried question, and some shouting. Then a peal of frantic chirps and a flatline, followed by a flurry of movement and the abandonment of my nurse as she went to help too. I heard some one, a toddler, call Shadow, I figured it was Karo the little dragon, and he was followed by some very angry soldiers.

"What's going on here? Who let this thing in here?" The guard yelled.

"Sorry sir, he's with us! He's a good one I swear! He won't hurt anybody!" I heard Tails saying to the guard in a pleading tone. They'd see Shadow before me, since they were coming from the other side of the hall.

I heard them talking, very faintly, and I just laid there trying to block out the sound of the hospital. It took a lot of focus to keep my attention on the sound of my friends' conversation and away from the loud cursing of Knuckles and the wails of the dying. They talked for a while, and I could feel movement coming back to me when Knuckles abruptly stopped his abuse (to the relief of several hospital staff). I faintly heard Rouge's gentle questions asking where Knuckles was-and the sound of Amy's familiar footsteps.

I drifted in and out of sleep, still groggy, though I was glad Knuckles had stopped his fury for good. I was dozing when I felt a warm hand on my forehead, which startled me but only slightly. I opened my eyes, which stung from the light, and found Amy's light green eyes watching me worriedly. I chuckled and gave her my cheesiest smile, which made her light up with relief.

"Oh Sonic! I'm so glad you're okay!" she said her relief becoming my relief. She was so infectious sometimes, it was no wonder she was always getting kidnapped.

"Hey babes, just hanging out, like my new digs?" I said my voice still hoarse. She sniffled and punched my uninjured arm.

"Oh gods Sonic, you're worse than Knuckles and Shadow!" she started to tear up, so I gripped her hand softly.

"Hey now, you know I can't stand seeing you cry! I'll be fine honest! I can't barely do nothin' cause they gave me so much morphine!" I reassured her, desperate to keep her from crying.

I really couldn't stand seeing any girl cry, especially not over me. My plea seemed to help because she went right back to sniffling and rubbing her eyes. I took a deep breath and sighed, though it hurt a great deal. I heard Shadow walk in followed by the sound of Karo's nails clacking on the floor. I watched as my dark twin plopped Cream into the lap of a deliberating Knuckles and came over to stand by Amy.

"Hey Shadow, glad to see you up and runnin'." I said suddenly groggy.

"I'm hardly running. You know it took me five whole minutes to get over here?" he said sarcastically. I tried to sit up for what must have been the third time, but my sense of balance was still gone and the room swirled as I grabbed onto the bed rails.

"Did you know that one dose of that morphine crap can knock you on your ass for several hours?" I said gripping the rails for support.

"I know now."

"We need a plan." Knuckles said.

We all turned to face him.

"What you got in mind?" Shadow asked.

"This is too big for us. We need the Chaos Emeralds. I wonder…." Knuckles said, going back to his contemplation.

"You wonder what?" I asked. My vertigo was screwing my ability to form words properly, so my question came out slurred.

Knuckles took his time answering, thinking over every angle of his plan, but I was already catching on. This guy was thinking of having him, Shadow and I go Super. All at once. Because this was the first day of the alien creatures' attack and it had already become an all out war.

"We need the Master Emerald and we need the Chaos Emeralds. We'll have to figure out how to get the one that Karo swallowed, but I have a plan. We just need someone willing to go to Angel Island." Knuckles said thoughtfully.

"Knuckles, you're not thinking of what I think you are…are you?" I asked carefully. I already knew of course.

"I don't know, what are you thinking?" Shadow asked turning towards me. I shook my head trying to clear it before speaking; my brain was fogging up from the morphine. I turned to Knuckles.

"Do they really have enough power for that? I haven't seen you Super in years. Not to mention there's never been more than two of us Super at the same time." I said, slightly incredulity.

"Knuckles can go Super? I suppose I should have expected as much, but what, does he destroy mountains in his spare time as Super?" Shadow asked, completely incredulous.

I couldn't wrap my mind around it. Knuckles hadn't gone Super in years. There had never been more than two of us Super at one time as far as I could remember. Even so, how could there possibly be enough chaos energy to power all three of us?

"I'm thinking even past that Sonic. Something you've only done once and that neither Shadow nor I have done. I'm talking creating the Super Emeralds again. I'm talking going Hyper."

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MirrorTF: What shall Sonic and the others do now? Find out next chapter!

Shadow: But they already know how its gonna go! (Gets whacked with a two x four and dragged away)