SONIC THE HEDGEHOG: SOLARIS
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Chapter Thirteen: Emerald Hunt and Sacrifice
Silver was trekking the remains of Dusty Desert that now lie outside his city in search of the white chaos emerald that was supposed to be there. Or at least that's what Eggman told him before he left. "Where is that chaos emerald? It's got to be here." Silver said as he entered the one of the remaining ruined temples. But the moment Silver entered the temple, Iblis' monster made their presence known to him. In front of Silver were two large lava golems and a half dozen fire birds waiting. "I knew this was too easy." Silver said as he moved into a fighting position.
The fire birds were the first to strike as they flew past the two giants and dived directly at the grey hedgehog. Silver calculated their movements and was able to dodge their attacks at the last second. "Why don't we make this a fair fight?" Silver said. Silver began to use his psychokinetic powers to lift his body off the ground, but, to his surprise, he was only able to hover three feet in the air before dropping back down. "What the?" Silver questioned. Silver looked up just in time to jump aside before a spiky rock ball created by one of the lava golems nearly crushed him. "Mephiles must have somehow reduced my powers again. I doesn't matter. I'll still destroy these monsters." Silver said. The fire birds once again stooped down to strike, but Silver used his psychokinetic powers to catch the birds in midair and crush them together. Now all that was left was the lava golems. The one of the lava golems formed another spiked rock ball in it had and charged at Silver. The lava rushed up to Silver and used the spiked ball as a mace to crush the psychic hedgehog. Fortunately, Silver still had enough of his power to freeze the golem in place. But unknown to him, the second lava golem snuck up behind him and raised its fist above his head.
"SWIFT STRIKE!" Hearing the familiar attack being called from behind, Silver instinctively looked back to see the second lava golem being cut in half by a transparent disk. It was then that Black Doom floated in Silver sight. Silver quickly crush the paralyzed golem and swiftly turned to Black Doom. "What are you doing here?" Silver asked. "There is no time for questions. You must hurry before they reach the chaos emerald." Black Doom said. Then, as Black Doom predicted, an enormous amount of lava monsters created by Iblis started crashing through the ruined walls. "Go! I will take care of these pests." Black Doom said. At first Silver didn't want to leave him, but realized he had no other choice and ran off. Black Doom was now left to face Iblis' creations alone. "Show what you can do." Black Doom challenged. After several rough minutes of searching, Silver found the white chaos emerald perched at the top of the temple. "All right. Solaris, here I come." Silver said as he picked up the emerald. When he turned to leave, Silver found himself faced with the army of lava creatures that was fighting Black Doom. Silver then noticed a golden chain in one of the golem's hands and a brown robe in one of the lava tiger's mouth. It had become obvious that Black Doom had been defeated. The lava monsters jumped at Silver and acting on instinct, Silver yelled "CHAOS CONTROL." With that, Silver had disappeared.
Shadow raced through the remains of Kingdom Valley in search of the red chaos emerald. Shadow quickly took notice that, not only this area, but the entire dimension was slowly ripping apart, piece by piece. "The space-time rift is slowly collapsing. If we don't find those emeralds soon, all hope will be lost." Shadow said. Shadow swiftly grabbed a nearby vine and swung to a cliff on the other side of the gorge. When Shadow reached the cliff, he found the red chaos emerald only a few feet away from him. This was easy. A bit too easy. Shadow slowly walked towards the emerald and, as he expected, a mass of dark creatures created by Mephiles popped out of the ground and walls to block him off. "I knew it was too easy." Shadow said. "What did you expect?" Shadow looked to his side to find Erazor Djinn hold his razor blade in a fighting position. "What are you doing here?" Shadow in an untrusting manner. "Relax; I'm not here to kill you. I want Solaris dead as much as you do." Erazor said. "Then I guess it would be fitting if we worked together." Shadow said. "Right, but remember, this is only temporary." Erazor said. "Agreed." Shadow said as they charged towards the dark monsters.
Shadow jumped high into the air and curled into his ball form to use his own homing attack on a group of darks tigers. After uncurling, Shadow found himself surrounded by a large number of dark birds. Shadow was not worried as over a hundred yellow arrows formed around him. "CHAOS SPEAR!" Shadow shouted. The arrows scattered in all directions to completely obliterate the dark bird. Shadow looked over towards Erazor's direction to check on him. Erazor cut one of the dark giants down the center to split in half before spinning around to decapitate a dark tiger that almost hit him. Erazor looked over to notice Shadow's gaze. "What are you looking at? Hurry up and get the chaos emerald!" Erazor shouted. But while Erazor was busy looking at Shadow, he did not notice the dark worms below him until it was too late. Two dark works popped their head out of the ground and sank their teeth into Erazor's legs to stop him from moving. Then, two dark tigers bit down his arms to stop him from using his blade and one dark golem walked up to the helpless genie. The dark golem lifted it mace-like hand brought it down on Erazor.
Shadow looked away, not wanting to see another ally die again. With his mind back on track, Shadow made a break for the chaos emerald while the dark creatures were distracted by the dead genie in front of them. It was only until one of the dark birds gave a loud screech did the dark creatures noticed Shadow was headed for the chaos emerald. Shadow quickly picked up the emerald and turned around in time to dodge a dark bird that nearly bit his head off. Shadow knew he was surrounded and knew there was only one chance of escaping. "CHAOS CONTROL!" Shadow shouted and in a flash of light, disappeared.
A few moments later, all the heroes returned to the center of Crisis City where they first started. "Do you have the emeralds?" Eggman questioned. The group answered by revealing the seven emeralds they collected. Tails had the yellow emerald, Kumori had the green emerald, Knuckles had the light-blue emerald, Silver had the white emerald, Rouge had the purple emerald, Blaze had the blue emerald, and Shadow had the red emerald. "All right, now all we have to do is use the power of the emeralds to defeat Solaris." Silver said. "Yes, but there is still one thing left to do." Shadow said as he walked over to Sonic.
Sonic was still holding Amy's dead body until Shadow forcefully picked him up, which caused him to drop Amy on the ground. "What are you doing, Shadow!" Sonic yelled. "Shut it, faker!" Shadow shouted. Sonic instantly stopped, knowing Shadow only called him that when he was really angry. "Do you intent to stay here moping all day while the rest of us risk of lives to protect the world!?" Shadow questioned angrily. Sonic didn't answer. "Listen...Amy gave her life so that you would stay alive and stop Solaris. Don't let her sacrifice be in vain." Shadow said. Sonic thought about what Shadow said and found that he was right. Sonic willing followed Shadow towards the group of heroes before looking back at Amy one last time. "Good bye, Amy."
Silver joined with the other hedgehog heroes and looked between them, knowing what they had to do. The chaos emeralds then left their capturers hands and floated above the trio of hedgehogs. "Are you certain you want to do this?" Shadow asked Silver, wondering if he was having any second thoughts. "I have never been more certain about anything in my entire life." Silver said. Shadow nodded in understanding and raised his hand towards the emeralds above along with Sonic and Silver. The positive energies of the chaos emeralds began coursing through their bodies as they grew more powerful by the second. For the first time since the battle on the ARK, Sonic and Shadow became Super Sonic and Super Shadow. Silver felt his hidden power being unlocked as his fur changed to a white-gold color to become Super Silver. With their newly obtained powers, the three took to the skies for the final battle against Solaris.
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