Sonic The Hedgehog - Chaos on Mobius
4th Saga: The Solaris Merger

Episode 93

Previously on Sonic The Hedgehog - Chaos on Mobius...
While Sonic and Tails travelled to Nostalgisland to rescue Sally from Eggman, Silver and his new friend Amy Rose were following them. After Tails held back Eggman's robots in order for them to escape his Mad Gear base, Sally revealed to Sonic the truth about the so-called Flames of Disaster. When they arrived in Station Square, Sonic was attacked by Silver, claiming that Sonic was the Iblis Trigger. Eggman managed to kidnap Sally during the battle, but Amy stepped in before Silver could finish Sonic off, allowing him to chase after Eggman.
Can Sonic save Sally from Eggman? Can Amy hold off Silver from killing Sonic? And what does Eggman want with Sally and the Flames of Disaster? Find out in the next chapter of The Solaris Merger!

Chapter Four: Temporal Warriors

Standing in the middle of Station Square was Silver, looking quite angry at Amy, who was standing in front of him.
"Grr! Why on Mobius did you let him get away, Amy?" Silver angrily asked her. "That blue hedgehog is the Iblis Trigger I've been looking for!"
"I won't allow any harm to come to my King!" Amy replied, confusing Silver.
"Your King?" He asked.
"I'm not the same girl you met last night, Silver..." Said Amy, confusing Silver even more. "Let me show you... Chaos ILLUSION!" With those last two words, a wave of Chaos Energy flowed from Amy's feet to her head, revealing her true form: a red echidna girl with small glasses, and one of her dreadlocks was tied up in plats. She also wore a blue sleeveless jacket, with a darker shirt underneath it, and blue boots.
"An echidna..." Exclaimed Silver, amazed to see her true form. "(But I thought they were extinct...)"
"Yes. My name is Lara-Su." The girl told Silver. "And I've come back to this timeline to stop you from destroying Mobius!"
"What? That's ridiculous! I'll have you know that by getting rid of the Iblis Trigger, I'll be saving Mobius!"
"That's where you're wrong! King Sonic the Hedgehog is the greatest leader this world has ever known! As long as Queen Sally is there to help..." It was at this point that Silver had heard enough.
"I don't have time to listen to your lies!" He said before lifting Lara-Su up using Psychokinesis. "I've got a job to do... and I'm gonna start by getting rid of you!" Hearing this, Lara-Su merely yawned. "Are you mocking me? You know what's happening to you, right?"
"Oh I know, but I'm not worried..." Lara-Su replied as orbs of Chaos Energy appeared in her hands. "Mainly cause there's nothing stronger..." While saying this, Lara-Su managed to break out of Silver's grasp with a burst of Chaos Energy. "...than the Power of Chaos!" Lara-Su then threw a Chaos Spear at Silver, which when it hit him, made him roll across the ground and into a wall. Lara-Su approached Silver, and knelt down to his level. "Whoever told you that King Sonic is the Iblis Trigger, they're lying. And if you ever harm my King again... I'll make you regret it... Chaos CONTROL!" After Lara-Su disappeared, Silver managed to get to his feet, but couldn't look up, as he couldn't get what Lara-Su told him out of his head.

Meanwhile, Sonic ran into Tails and TodStar at the Emerald Coast.
"Hey, guys." He said to them. "What's up?"
"I ran into Eggman on the way back from Robotropolis." TodStar told him, before throwing him a thin device of some sort. "He wanted me to give that to ya. Don't ask me what it is, cause I know bugger-all." TodStar's last comment made both Sonic and Tails look at him with confusion. "What? It's an expression." Turning his attention back to the device handed to him, Sonic was surprised to see a hologram of Dr. Eggman staring him in the face.
"Sir Sonic, Knight of the Wind..." He said. "If you want me to return the Princess, you must give me that Time Stone. Meet me at my base in White Acropolis." When the hologram disappeared, Sonic passed the device back to TodStar, who purposely stepped on it.
"Tch. Someone's cocky today." He pointed out.
"It's most definately a trap." Said Tails as Sonic revealed the Time Stone in question. "I don't think Eggman will honor his agreement."
"I'm going." Was all Sonic said, getting Tails & TodStar's attention.
"Sonic?"
"You sure, mate?"
"Since Eggman went to the trouble of telling me where Sally is, I think I should thank him personally..." TodStar shrugged while Tails shook his head in disagreement.

At that moment, in another part of the Emerald Coast, Silver was sitting on the boardwalk, watching Zappy get slapped in the face by another girl.
"So..." Said the voice of a cat that Silver knew. "...I hear someone else is against killing the Iblis Trigger?" This made Silver hang his head again. "Silver? What's wrong?"
"...Just thinking, Flare..." Was all Silver said at first, but he eventually spoke up. "To kill someone to save the world... is that really the right thing to do?"
"I... don't really know how to answer that, Silver..." Flare replied. "But are you willing to listen to me about Iblis, now?" Before Silver responded, he saw Sonic run across the sea with a two-tailed fox and a green echidna following him.
"Not yet." Said Silver as he got to his feet. "I want to get some more information on Sonic, first. And it seems that Dr. Eggman's base would be a good place to start, since those three are headed that way... c'mon, Zappy."
"Ohh, but I wanna play in the sand and be a hippie..." Complained Zappy, before Silver used Psychokinesis to pick him up.
"I said come on!"

That night in White Acropolis, an alarm had sounded as Egg Fighters and Egg Shooters had formed outside the base. The reason why the alarm was sounding was because a certain black-and-red hedgehog was detected approaching the base. The hedgehog charged through Eggman's robots with ease, managing to bounce off of one to enter the base before it exploded.
"Transmission from HQ, there's an SOS coming from Dr. Eggman's base in White Acropolis." Said a voice after the hedgehog creeped into the shadow to avoid being spotted by searchlights. "Our last communication with our agent was 26 hours ago. Agent Shadow, we expect an immediate rescue."
"Understood. Initiating the mission now." Shadow replied before jumping over the wall he was leaning on. "Doctor... what in the Realm of Iblis are you up to this time?" Shadow was wearing a brown coat like a cape as he raced deeper into Eggman's base, destroying every Egg Fighter in his path. "Hmph. Useless heaps of metal." It was at this point that Shadow sensed a familiar presence. "What are they doing here?" The people Shadow was referring to were Sonic, Tails and TodStar, who were outside the base, waiting for TodStar to melt an opening in the door... until his flaming hand stopped burning.
"Ohh, c'mon!" TodStar grumbled as he smacked his right hand with his left hand. "Bugger. Sorry, but that's as hot as it's gonna get."
"It'll do. Stand back!" Announced Sonic, before he blasted toward the door, shattering it in the process! "C'mon, guys! We've got a party to crash!"

"SONIC THE HEDGEHOG LOCATED WITHIN BASE." Said a computer voice that got the attention of all of the robots within the base, aswell as Shadow. "INTERCEPT SONIC THE HEDGEHOG IMMEDIATELY." Hearing this, all of the Egg Fighters left Shadow to fight Sonic.
"Hmph. Thanks, Sonic. You just made my job that much easier..." Shadow pointed out before running towards the detention level. He eventually found the captured agent, but it was the last one he expected to get caught... "Rouge?"
"Hey, Shadow..." Said Rouge the Bat, not sounding too happy.
"How did you of all of GUN's spies get captured?"
"I'd rather not talk about it. Think you can get me outta here?"
"Move to the side." Shadow told her. After Rouge did as he told her, Shadow Spin Dashed through the cell door.
"My hero." Rouge said, supposedly flirting with Shadow, but he didn't notice, as he had revealed a Chaos Emerald.
"Chaos CONTROL!" Shadow shouted as he and Rouge teleported away.

While Shadow was rescuing Rouge, TodStar sensed his presence as he, Sonic and Tails infiltrated Eggman's base.
"(Master Shadow... what's he doing here?)" He thought before running after Sonic and Tails. While Sonic used his Homing Attack to deal with the Egg Shooters, Tails disabled some of the Egg Fighters by electrocuting them with his whip-cord, allowing TodStar to smash them with ease! Eventually, the three of them made it into the center of Eggman's base, which seemed pretty small...
"You're late, gentlemen..." Said a voice the three of them were all too familiar with. When they all turned around, they saw Eggman in a room sealed off above them.
"Well, your robots did have an appointment to get smashed..." TodStar joked.
"Where's Sally?" Sonic angrily asked.
"My, aren't we impatient?" Muttered Eggman before shoving Sally into view.
"Sonic! You guys!" She shouted, making the boys assume their fighter stances.
"Ah-ah. You'd better not move." Said Eggman. "Now then... place the Time Stone in the center of the room." Sonic did as he was told, much to Tails' disapproval, and placed the Time Stone within a pedastal in the center of the room. This made Eggman snicker before pressing a button that created some sort of a barrier around the boys. A barrier that Sonic tried to Spin Dash through, but had no luck. TodStar tried punching through it, but he failed aswell. "It's no use, boys. This field is too powerful for you to overcome. Now, allow me to introduce you to my latest creation... this is the Solaris Prototype." Both Sonic and Sally gasped after hearing that, while Eggman just cackling. "With this machine, I shall be able to control the flow of time itself!" While saying this, Eggman threw a large switch that caused Sonic, Tails and TodStar to float up towards the ceiling before vanishing.

"Sonic!" Sally cried.
"Relax, Princess." Eggman told her. "They're not dead... yet. They've just been transported by my glorious machine to another time!" Eggman had begun pacing whilst saying this. "Who knows where they'll end up? It could be the distant past, or far future. But my machine still requires some fine tuning. In fact, what it needs to be complete... is YOU."
"M-me?" Asked Sally.
"Yes. With your help Princess, I shall be able to control all of time, and rule Mobius!" Eggman then pressed a different button that dropped a capsule down around Sally. "Now, you may feel a slight METALLIC sensation..." As he pulled down another switch, Eggman started laughing maniacally while electricity was surging through Sally's body.
"SONIC!" She screamed while in tremendous pain.

A short time later, Shadow and Rouge managed to escape Eggman's base, and had just started walking up Mammoth Mountain.
"Don't you wanna know this is?" Asked Rouge, as she held out a rod with a dark aura.
"My assignment was to rescue y-" Shadow replied, but he stopped himself when he saw the rod. "I've seen this before... how did the Doctor obtain it?" Before Rouge could respond, a large number of Egg Flappers dropped a large four-legged robot that seemed pretty primitive for Eggman.
"It seems the good Doctor doesn't want us to leave..." Rouge stated.
"Hmph. Let's get this over with." Said Shadow.

Meanwhile, Silver and Zappy arrived within Eggman's base, only to find no one in sight.
"Looks like we've arrived a little too late..." Silver assumed before he and Zappy felt rumbling. Suddenly, a large flying robot shaped like a bird appeared above them. "What? Oh no!"
"Hey, it's a birdie!" Said Zappy before he approached the robot while waving his hands. "Heeeere, birdie birdie birdie!"
"Zappy, stop waving and start shocking!" Silver told the yellow hedgehog.
"No can do, bro..."
"Why not?" It was then that Zappy revealed two small batteries.
"Gotta recharge these AAs. *chuckle*"
"*groan* Fine. I'll deal with this one, myself."

As Silver fought the large flying robot, Shadow fought the large four-legged robot.
"Hah. You can't stop me, Doctor..." Shadow said after throwing a Chaos Spear at the robot's feet, causing it to crash down to the ground, allowing Shadow to strike at the top with his Homing Attack!
"You can't stop me from getting answers about the Iblis Trigger!" Silver shouted to the flying robot as it dropped bombs his way. Silver used Psychokinesis to catch them all, and throw them back at it!
"Is that the best you can muster?" Shadow asked the four-legged robot, as it started sparking electricity.
"Come on, I've dealt with worse than this..." Silver pointed out as the flying robot came crashing down... towards Zappy.
"Chaos CONTROL!" Yelled Shadow, as he and Rouge vanished before the four-legged robot exploded.
"Look out!" Shouted Silver as he pulled Zappy out of harm's way using Psychokinesis.

After the bird robot exploded, Silver saw something sparkle in the flaming wreckage. When he went to investigate, he found a blue jewel that seemed familiar to him...
"*gasp* A Time Stone!" He exclaimed, while Zappy was lying on the ground, making a snow angel.
"You know about these, Silver?" Asked Flare, before Silver nodded.
"Master Shadow told me all about the Time Stones." Silver replied. "With this, I can take us through time without relying on Mephiles!" Hearing this, Flare suddenly filled up with hope.
"Does this mean you're giving up on the Iblis Trigger?" She asked.
"Maybe... let's just head back to Station Square for now." Silver replied before picking up Zappy using his Psychokinesis. When Zappy looked at his snow angel, he noticed that it had electricity marks around it.
"Hey... just like when I do those at the Crystal Mountain on Onyx Island!" He pointed out.

END OF CHAPTER