SONIC THE HEDGEHOG: SOLARIS
Disclaimer: I do not own the Sonic characters, just the OC's
Note: I have heard from many people who do not understand what is happening in the story. I suggest people read my previous stories, Silver the Hedgehog: Iblis and Shadow the Hedgehog: Mephiles, in that order, before they continue reading.
Chapter Eight: The Flames of Disaster
Shadow and Rouge were waiting in a ridge close to a river of hot lava close to an active volcano. Shadow was still depressed that he failed to help Kumori and Rouge was trying everything she could to snap him out of it. Just then, Sonic and his friends decided to show up. "You know, for the fastest thing alive, you are so slow, Sonic." Rouge said. "Hey!" Sonic exclaimed. "Never mind that, look what we found." Rouge said as she held up the chaos emerald to plain view. "You found one of the chaos emeralds!" Tails exclaimed. "Of course. I may not look like one, but I'm a real treasure hunter. Unlike a certain echidna we all know." Rouge taunted. "What was that?!" Knuckles said angrily as he held his namesake dangerously close to Rouge's face. "That's enough!" Shadow said sternly, finally breaking out of his depression state. Knuckles looked at to Rouge for a moment before turning away.
"Have you guys found anything?" Shadow asked. "Yeah, I received a signal indicating that there's a chaos emerald somewhere inside that volcano." Tails told the group. "You're kidding! You mean we have to go all the way through there?" Rouge complained. "If you don't like it, you can stay here." Knuckles taunted. "You have got to be kidding! There is no way I am leaving an idiot like you in there, alone." Rouge retorted, which made Knuckles even more angry (If that's possible). "It would probably be better if we split up and covered more ground." Shadow instructed. "Don't be late." Sonic said. "Same to you." Shadow said to him. Just as they planned, Sonic went with Tails and Knuckles one way, while Shadow went with Rouge down another.
Sonic, Tails and Knuckles were currently walking down their chosen path until Tails suddenly stopped. "What is it Tail?" Sonic said back to his little brother. "Whoa! Check out that volcano." Tails said as he pointed to add effect. Sonic and Knuckles looked towards the direction Tails was pointing to, just to see lava had erupted from the volcano's mouth. "Yeah, so?" Sonic asked. "It's completely out of control. There's no logical explanation for what might have caused it." Tails said. "Do you think it might be the chaos emerald?" Sonic asked. "I doubt it. Not even the chaos emeralds could cause a disaster like this." Knuckles said. Just then, several gigantic fireballs spat out of the volcano's mouth into two separate directions. "Is it me or are those thing getting closer?" Knuckles asked. "It's not just you!" Tails said in a panic as the fireballs came closer.
Acting fast, Sonic grabbed Tails and Knuckles by their arms to pull them out of the way before the falling fireballs could hit them. "Ok, that proves that Knuckles is right." Tails said. "Knuckles is right? Oh no, it the end of the world!" Sonic screamed. "Shut up!" Knuckles exclaimed. The trio looked up to see more fireballs escaped from the volcano and were headed for them. "And we're out of here." Sonic said as he grabbed his friends by their arms again and broke into a fast run. Tails looked back and quickly moved his namesakes up to his chest as they were almost torched by the fireballs. Knuckles looked ahead of the track to see a large loop just ahead of them. Knuckles looked towards Sonic, who had a mischievous smirk on his face. Knuckles instantly realized what Sonic was up and Shouted "You better not be doing what you're doing!" "Hang on!" Sonic shouted back. Using his added speed to his advantage, Sonic went straight up and then down without falling out of the loop before using a speed boast that was conveniently there to reach another part of the ridge.
Sonic and Tails landed on their feet while Knuckles, once again, landed on his head. "I have the worst luck when I'm around you." Knuckles said as he rubbed his head. "Hey, we're not complaining. Right, Tails?" Sonic asked the fox. There was no response. "Tails?" Sonic questioned. Sonic turned to his little buddy, who looked sickly green. "Hey, Tails, are you ok?" Sonic asked. Sonic received his answer when Tails threw up on his shoes. "Should've seen that coming." Sonic said to himself. While, Sonic tried to clean the vomit off his shoes, Knuckles scanned the area until he spotted an extra large speed boost. "Hey guys. I think I found a way to reach the volcano." Knuckles said as he point towards the speed boost. "Then what are we waiting for?" Sonic said as the group made their way towards the speed boost. Just as they were half way, a number of Lava tigers and Fire birds shot out of the lava pits around. "These guys just don't know when to learn." Knuckles said.
Tails took to the skies and the firebirds followed him close behind. "These guy look like they're gonna give us a rough time." Tails said as he looked back at the fire birds chasing him. But while he was looking back, Tails didn't notice a single fire bird swoop down in front of him and bash him over the head with its wing. The sudden blow to the head caused Tails lose altitude and fall towards the ground at an alarming rate. Tails tried to regain his flight, but couldn't since his namesakes were somehow tied together. "Come on, come on." Tails said to himself as he tried his tied up tails. Before he hit the ground, Tails was able free his tails and lifted himself back into the air. The fire birds tried to attack again, but Tails reached into his backpack and threw his explosive rings at the birds. By sheer luck, the ring were able to latch on to the birds necks. "Uh oh." The fire birds said before they blew up.
Sonic was busy fighting off the lava tigers that surrounded him. One of the lava tiger's jump at him, But Sonic merely took a step to the side and watched as it collided with the tiger behind him. "This is too easy." Sonic said confidently. But while he wasn't looking, another lava tiger pinned Sonic from behind to the ground. The tiger tried several times to bite Sonic's head off, but he just wouldn't stay still. After much trying, Sonic was able to free one of his arms. Sonic gathered a great amount of blue chaos energy and form it into a sphere and threw it in the center of the entire group. "SONIC WIND!" Sonic called out is signature attack. The energy inside the sphere began spiraling out of control until it created several blades of wind that sliced all the lava tigers in half. "You know, you could have helped, Knucklehead." Sonic said to Knuckles, who was sitting on a nearby rock, watching the entire thing. "I thought you could handle it." Knuckles said with a smirk. Sonic was about to yell at the echidna guardian, but just decided to let it go.
The group resumed their way towards the speed boost until, once again, something got in their way. Out from one of the lava pits came a large golem made of lava and rock. "Not another one." Tails said tiredly. "Since you guys took care of the last one, I'll take this one." Knuckles said as he walked up to the lava golem. The lava golem created a spiked ball of rock and used it as a mace to strike Knuckles. Knuckles jumped to the side as the rock was about to make contact and countered by driving a hard punch to the monsters chest. Unfortunately, the punch had no effect on the monster. The lava golem then bashed Knuckles across the head with its free hand to send him flying to the wall. While Knuckles was down, the lava golem picked him up and started to crush him. "I...Won't...Lose!!!" Knuckles shout with determination. Knuckles bashed his fist together, which ignited the flames around them. Knuckles burst through the golems hand and jumped toward it face to bash it clean off.
Knuckles landed on the ground as he watched the lava golems decapitated body fall back into the lava pits. "Man, that one never gets old." Sonic complimented Knuckles fiery fists. "Hah, it was nothing." Knuckles soaked up the praise. "Wherever did you learn a technique like that?" Tails asked curiously. "Well, one day is was sparring with Chaos back on Angel Island..." Knuckles was cut off. "Probably getting his butt kick." Sonic chuckled, but stopped when Knuckles sent him an evil glare. "Anyway...after the fight, Tikal told me about a technique created by my ancestors that allowed them to manipulate fire." Knuckles explained. "Whatever, we wasted enough time. Come on, Shadow's probably waiting." Sonic said. The trio then ran at top speed towards the speed boost, which sent him flying straight towards the volcanoes mouth.
Sonic and Shadow's group were flying towards the mouth of the volcano, but unfortunately they crashed into each other and were caught in an awkward pile-up. "Hey watch it!" Sonic yelled. "Watch the tail!" Tails exclaimed. "Someone get their foot out of my face!" Shadow shouted. "Who's touching my chest?!" Rouge said angrily. "Sorry." Knuckles apologized. Rouge slapped Knuckles across the face for that. After taking a few awkward moments, the group finally broke apart and looked around to find themselves standing in front of a large lava pit. The strange thing was that the pit was dark and the only thing lighting it was the lava and three glowing orbs. Rouge then noticed something else glowing in the pit. It was the light blue chaos emerald. Rouge flew up into the air to grab it. "Looks like I found another chaos emerald." Rouge said. "Don't touch it!" Shadow warned her, but it was too late. When Rouge touched the emerald, a gigantic lava worm popped out of the lava, which knocked Rouge back to the group. "What's that?" Sonic questioned. "No good. I can tell you that." Shadow told him before he jumped on to one of the rock platforms with Sonic joining. "Ready, pal?" Sonic asked. "Always." Shadow replied.
The lava worm reeled its head back for a moment before throwing it forward and shooting several fire balls at the two. Think fast, Sonic and Shadow jumped to two nearby rock platforms to avoid the attack. "Can't say I was expecting that." Sonic said. Shadow looked forward at the lava worm and saw that it had disappeared. "Where did it go?" Shadow questioned. He received an answer when the lava worm popped out from under the platform, sending Shadow flying. "Shadow!" Sonic called out. The lava worm then turned to Sonic. Sonic jumped into the air and used his homing attack on the creature, only to be bounced back to the rock platform. "That's bad." Sonic said as the lava worm's mouth came closer to him.
Meanwhile, Shadow then fell on one of the glowing orbs and broke it, releasing the light that was trapped within it. the lava worm stopped its attack on Sonic and looked back at the light, completely mesmerized by it. The lava worm left Sonic and jumped to attack the platform where Shadow and the light were at. Acting fast, Shadow quickly jumped to another platform with another light orb as the lava worm devoured the platform and the light. Sonic jumps on the same platform as Shadow and asks "What just happened?" "The light. It must be attracted to the light. That gives me an idea." Shadow said. "Well then, let's hear it." Sonic said. As Shadow was explaining his plan, the lava worm came back up and looked around for Sonic and Shadow. "Ready?" Shadow asked. "Always." Sonic replied. Shadow then broke the orb with his fist, which released the light within it. the lava worm saw the light and jumped in the air and opened its mouth to devour it. "Now! CHAOS SPEAR!" "SONIC WIND!" Sonic and Shadow yelled out their signature attacks and sent them into the creatures mouth. Both attacks together caused the creature to cry out in pain and fall back into the lava in defeat. When the lava worm fell, the chaos emerald popped out of the lava and landed into Sonic's hands. "All right!" Sonic shouted victoriously.
A few minutes later, Sonic, Shadow, and the others returned to the spot where they started with Sonic and Shadow holding the chaos emeralds. Sonic and Shadow cross their hands and shouts "CHAOS CONTROL!" The combined chaos control created a white vortex behind the group, which most likely led them back to their own time period. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles jumped into the vortex, shortly followed by Rouge. Shadow was about to jump in with them until he felt a familiar chill going down his spine. "I see you have defeated Iblis. Very impressive." An all-too familiar voice said from behind. Shadow looked back to find Mephiles appear in a puff of black smoke. "But he was nothing more then a mindless puppet. If you want a real challenge, then follow me." Mephiles said as he started to run towards the volcano. Shadow was about to decline, but then thought he might hold the answers of what happen to this world and Kumori. Shadow had decided and chased after Mephiles as his only way home disappeared.
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