SONIC THE HEDGEHOG: SOLARIS

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Chapter Twelve: Mephiles' Plot Unfolds

After suffering a great defeat at the hands of Shadow, Rouge, and Kumori, Mephiles had no choice but to retreat back to Kingdom Valley. Mephiles was greatly angered that Shadow was able to resist his temptations and crushed a nearby boulder with his fist to let out his anger. "I almost had him! He was mine! If it wasn't for his damn girlfriend, Shadow would be my servant!" Mephiles shouted with rage. "But Shadow is not my only problem. No doubt that Silver has already discovered that the Iblis in his time is a fake. This is getting out of hand. I need to free Iblis and get rid of Silver for good." Mephiles said. It was then that Mephiles saw Elise, Sonic, and Amy walking out of the valley down below him. "And I know how to do both at once." Mephiles said in a sinister manner as he pulled out his purple chaos emerald. If he had a mouth, you would see an sinister smile on his face.

Elise was walking behind Sonic and Amy, who walking hand-in-hand, as they were beginning to leave the valley. "You must be so happy, Amy. Your long-time dream has finally come true." Elise said to her hedgehog friend. "Yeah and nothing is ever going to ruin it." Amy said as she latched on to Sonic's arm. "Hey, easy on the arm, Amy." Sonic joked. Amy was convinced this dream would never end. She had no idea how wrong she was. Just then, a flash of purple light appeared behind them and the group looked back at the source. To their surprise, it was actually the glow of the purple chaos emerald. "Is that a chaos emerald?" Elise asked. "Yeah, but what's it doing here?" Sonic questioned. Without them knowing, Mephiles had reverted to his ooze form to stealthily sneak up behind the group before returning to his solid form. "Now to finish this." Mephiles said as he formed a large arrow of energy in between his hands. "CHAOS LANCE!" Mephiles copied Shadow's attack.

Sonic and Elise were too busy to staring at the chaos emerald to hear Mephiles attack. But Amy did. "Sonic!" Amy shouted as she pushed him away. "What's you deal, Am..." Sonic trailed off as he got to his feet to see the horror before him. Amy was able to save Sonic, but she was not as lucky and was hit directly through the back by Mephiles attack. Amy instantly collapsed to the ground as Mephiles cut off his attack. The second Amy hit the ground; Sonic was the first to reach her and held her securely in his arms. "Amy...you can't be..." Sonic couldn't finish his sentence as the truth slowly sunk in. Amy Rose was dead. "Not what I had planned, but it works." Mephiles said cruelly as he turned towards Elise's direction. Elise fell to her knees and tried her best to hold back the tears that threatened to fall from her eyes. "That's a good girl, Elise. Remember, be brave. Don't cry, no matter what. Otherwise your tears will call forth the flame inside you. Become a strong queen who doesn't cry and...Live...happily." Elise tried to remember the final words of her departed father, but the pain was too much. "Amy...NO!!!" Elise finally cried.

Upon Elise's cry, a large stream of fire erupted from the earth and took the form of a massive ball of flames. Seeing that his plans were finally coming together, Mephiles let out a sinister evil laugh that could chill the bones of all life on earth. "Finally, the seal is broken! After ten years of waiting, ultimate power is finally within my grasp! At long last, I will be able to join with you, my brother, Iblis!" Mephiles said to the flames known as Iblis. Mephiles held his hand out to recall the chaos emerald back to him. "Now, chaos emerald! It's time for the final curtain call! CHAOS CONTROL!" Mephiles called out as the glow of the chaos emerald enveloped the entire area.

Back in the ruins of Dusty Desert, Shadow, Kumori, and Rouge had just defeated the last of the Mephiles clones. Shadow and Kumori were placing their power rings back in their wrists to restrain what power they had left. "Wow, we sure left a huge mess." Rouge said, referring to the oozy remains of the Mephiles clones. "Don't expect me to clean that up." Kumori said. "Since when have you ever cleaned anything?" Shadow joked. That's right. Shadow the hedgehog made a joke. "Hey!" Kumori shouted. Rouge was the first to notice the green and yellow chaos emeralds and tried to sneak them away without Shadow or Kumori knowing. But the second she tried to touch the chaos emeralds, the entire room and everyone inside was engulf in a bright flash of light created by the chaos emeralds.
Silver and Blaze were walking down the broken street of their still destroyed home, discussing the incident that just happened a few minutes ago. "But how is it possible that Mephiles was able to create a false Iblis?" Silver questioned as he stared at the small mechanical ball that was left behind when the false Iblis was defeated. "I don't know." Blaze answered honestly. Silver continued to stare at the mechanical ball until he suddenly tripped on an unknown object. Silver picked himself up to see that the object was a root from a...tree? "What the?" Silver questioned as he turned around and noticed that they were standing just outside Tropical Jungle. "I don't think this is supposed to be here." Silver said. "And I don't think that's supposed be there either." Blaze said as she pointed to another direction. Silver followed the direction Blaze was pointing and saw, to his surprise, the mountain known as White Acropolis. "What's going on here?" Silver questioned. "We were hoping you would know." A sudden voice came from behind.

Silver and Blaze turned around to face Tails and Knuckles. "Who are you two?" Silver questioned defensively. "We were gonna ask you the same questions!" Knuckles exclaimed as he held his fists up in a fighting position. "We can answer that." A female voice came from the side. The group turned to face Shadow, Rouge, and Kumori. "Shadow!" Silver and Knuckles exclaimed at the same time before sending distrusting glances to each other and turning away. "It's all because of Solaris." Rouge said. Just then, Eggman walked in the middle of the group. "It would seem that we have all been caught by the spatial distortion. It has become clear that Iblis' seal has been broken. Most like due to Mephiles' manipulation" Eggman said. "But that's impossible. I made sure that the only way the seal could be broke is if the princess would cry." Silver stated. "Then how do you explain all this?" Eggman asked, referring to the distorted world around them. Eggman's question stumped Silver as he had no idea how. Just then, a large volcanic eruption emerged from the middle of the city. "I bet we'll find our answer there. Come on!" Shadow exclaimed as he and the rest of the group ran towards the eruption.

When they finally reached the eruption site, the group found Elise on the floor, crying her eyes out, in front of the large lava pit that Iblis once traveled through. "No." Silver said quietly before running to Elise's side. "Elise, what happened?" Silver asked. "Amy...she's dead." Elise said through the tears. Silver was not the only one that heard it, but the entire group heard as well. The heroes looked over to the side to see Sonic kneeling on the floor with Amy's dead body held close to his. "Sonic!" Tails yelled as he ran to him with the rest of his friends. When they had reached him, they could believe what they were seeing. Amy was really dead. "Amy." Tails said sorrowfully. "I can't believe it." Knuckles said quietly. Even Shadow, who hardly knew Amy at all, felt remorse for her death. "Mephiles played us all for fools. His plan all along was to cause the princess to be so consumed with despair that she would cry. " Eggman figured out Mephiles plan. "Your smarter then you look, Eggman." a familiar dark voice could be heard.

Shadow felt a familiar chill run down his spine and sharply turned to find Mephiles with the seven chaos emeralds floating around him. "Mephiles!" Shadow exclaimed. "You are right, Eggman. My plan all along was to force the princess to cry and break the seal that entrapped my other half. The girl simply acted as a catalyst to force the princess to cry and set him free." Mephiles revealed his evil plot. "You won't get away with this Mephiles!" Silver shouted as he jumped in front of the group. Mephiles stepped back in shock when he caught sight of Silver, like he saw a ghost. "But...How? How can you still exist?" Mephiles asked Silver. "What are you talking about?" Silver questioned, confused at Mephiles' meaning. "Do you know why I sent you back to kill Sonic?" Mephiles asked. "To kill Sonic and free Iblis." Silver answered. "That is only one reason. The other reason I sent you was so that you would erase yourself from existence." Mephiles said. "But how?" Silver asked, not fully understanding what Mephiles was getting at. "Allow me to reveal a piece of your family history. You, Silver the Hedgehog, are the direct descendent of Sonic the Hedgehog." Mephiles said. Silver was taken back by this new information and realized that he had almost erased himself when he tried to kill Sonic.

"But that still doesn't explain why Silver shouldn't exist. If you hadn't noticed, Sonic is still alive." Blaze stated. "True, but it takes more then one person to create a family." Mephiles said. "What do you mean?" Blaze questioned. "I mean, that Sonic and Amy were destined to become a family, which would one day lead to the birth of our good friend, Silver." Mephiles said. "But Amy is..." Silver trailed of as he stared at Amy's lifeless body. "But how you still exist remains a mystery to me. But it won't matter in a moment as Solaris shall live once again!" Mephiles stated. The chaos emerald circled Mephiles at a faster rate which manipulated the flames of Iblis to surround his body. Both Mephiles and Iblis shot up into the sky to create a massive explosion of light. From that light came a monstrous white creature with two razor sharp claws, six panels on its back, a dragons head, and was coved in silver coated armor. This was the creature everyone had feared: Solaris.

"That's him! Solaris!" Silver exclaimed. "This creature will consume all existing timelines and time itself will collapse and disappear into nothingness." Eggman said. "The instability of time caused this time-space rift." Shadow said. "It won't remain for much longer." Eggman said. We have no time to waste. We've got to defeat it now!" Knuckles exclaimed. "No. it is a transcendent life form that exists in past, present, and future. Defeating it here would do nothing." Eggman said hopelessly. "No! I won't give up! There has to be a way! If you say that it exists in the past, present, and future, I'll destroy them all at once!" Silver said, eyes filled with the fires of determination that would prove he was related to Amy. "I might have possible, if Sonic had the will to fight." Shadow said as he looked towards his emotionally scarred best friend holding his love close to him.

"Fine! If Sonic refuses to fight, then I'll take his place and destroy that monster!" Silver proclaimed. "Do you realized what you're getting yourself into? It's too dangerous." Shadow said. "I don't care! For too long, my world and its people have lived in pain and despair. I have always been there to protect them and not about to stop now!" Silver flared. "I'm with him. This could be our only chance to truly be rid of this monster and if you won't help, then stay out of our way!" Blaze shouted as she stood by Silver. Tails and Knuckles stared at each other for a moment and then stood by Silver. Shadow watched as Rouge and Kumori passed him to join their friends with Silver. Shadow smiled as he walked up to the grey hedgehog. "You really are Sonic's descendent. Very well, I'm in." Shadow said. "Solaris has flung the chaos emeralds to the distant corners of this distorted world." Eggman informed. "We'll have to split up if we want to collect them all in time." Shadow said. "All right, guys! Let's show Solaris the true power of teamwork!" Silver shouted. The group cheered and then spilt up in search of the seven chaos emeralds.

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