Zero Sagas
Chapter 6: Of Pain and Chaos
(A/N), A new character in this story will be released. Sent by Sonic Heroes Bliss, comes Haze the Hedgehog!
(A/N), I own Zero, Sapphire, Nightmare, and Lifeform 0. I also own the idea of Zero Sagas. I DON'T own Sonic, Shadow, Amy, Knuckles ect. They belong to their respectful owners.
Amy Rose walked through Station Square; she had her Piko Piko Hammer drawn and was holding it close, Amy looked around and saw lots of dirt, mud, and dark alleyways, she eventually saw something out of the corner of her eye. It was a familiar hedgehog, Amy recognized that it was Shadow; she saw him running into the alleyway and decided to follow. As she followed she came to a tall brick wall and realized it must have been her imagination, and then she heard some voices from behind her.
"Well well well, what have we here?" Said some deep voice.
Amy turned and realized it was a bunch of ugly street men, there were four standing in front of the entrance to the alleyway.
"Hello cutie, what are you doing alone on this fateful day?" The man asked.
"I was looking for someone, sorry, I didn't mean to intrude." Amy said in her nice, sweet, tone.
"Well how about you have me instead?" A shorter man asked.
"No, thanks, I'll just be going now." Amy said but as she tried to leave they blocked he entrance.
"Don't leave so soon, how about you give us a kiss, and then you can leave." The man said
"I don't think so… I will just leave now." Amy said trying again to make an attempt to get past the men.
"Then we will just have to serve our self's." The man said.
"Move now or you will feel total pain you have never felt before." Amy threatened
"Not until I am done." Then the man grabbed Amy's shoulders.
Amy's eyes began to glow a deep gray, a surge of energy shocked through the man causing him to fly back a few feet.
"Ow!" The man shouted, he got back on his feet and ran at Amy "Let's get her!"
"This should be interesting…" Amy said.
MEANWHILE….
Sonic couldn't get what Dark had meant, he spent the night thinking about it before his head began to hurt, he then decided to stop thinking about it and go to sleep. He awoke to the sound of a loud buzzing; it annoyed Sonic but stopped a little after it had begun. Suddenly their was the sound of a voice, he recognized it immediately, Eggman.
"Hello Sonic, I trust you are enjoying your stay?" Eggman asked
"Eggman!" Sonic yelled, "What do you want? Why am I here?"
"Don't worry rodent, when I have what I want I will be done with you." Eggman said.
"Whatever you're planning, you won't get away with!" Sonic yelled
"I will succeed in my plans this time Sonic! I am 100 percent sure! Hahahaha!" Eggman laughed to himself.
The wall Sonic was strapped to began to lean back, it then moved on a conveyor belt into a strange room. There was strange tools, a pod that was incredibly small, about the size that could barely hold a full grown hedgehog, there was a table that had items on top of it barely identifiable, around him were see through all Sonic could see through them were a set of double doors that had small windows. The double doors opened and in stepped Eggman along with two tall guard robots.
"Guards leave!" Eggman commanded and the robots reluctantly left. "Instro enter!"
When Eggman yelled this, a short robot that was about half the size of Eggman entered, he had a long tray that was attached to his head; he had to big compartments attached to the sides. On the tray sat very strange instruments. He then pressed a button on Instro's torso, revealing a small compartment, there were two very long rubber gloves sitting inside the compartment.
"Tool Bot enter!" When Eggman yelled this, a floating ball like machine entered.
Without saying a word Eggman put the very long rubber gloves on and pressed a button on Tool Bot's torso, it slid open and revealed a very very long injection needle.
"Ready or not hedgehog here I come!" Eggman said.
Eggman pulled the injection needle out of Tool Bot's torso and held it up. Eggman advanced on Sonic as the double doors closed revealing only the sight of the hallway as a robot walked past.
MEANWHILE…
Amy Rose stood in the dark alley way, she stood there with a weird look in her eye, all around her laid the bodies of the men that attacked her. They had cuts and bruises on their faces and bodies; they lay in a puddle of their own blood. Amy walked up to one of the men and picked him up by the collar of his shirt. She raised him to eye level and stared evilly into his eyes.
"Where is Shadow the Hedgehog!?!" Amy yelled in the man's face
"I don't know…" The man choked out through surges of pain.
"What a waste of my time." She then firmed her grip and threw the man against the brick wall. She walked up to another one of the man and asked again only to result in the same answer. "Worthless idiots…" Amy said as she turned to the entrance.
Suddenly she felt a familiar power around her, she immediately turned around and felt the power coming from the backpack one of the men had. She opened the backpack and turned it upside down. Out spilled a pile of worthless junk; she opened a front part of the backpack and felt around. To her amazement she felt something she had not expected to, a Chaos Emerald! She looked at the red emerald and turned to the men.
"As payment for attempting to attack me I will be taking this from you" Amy said as she turned and left the alleyway. "One down, six to go" Amy said to herself as she walked down the street.
MEANWHILE…
Tails and Knuckles walked around Station Square, they had been trying to search for Sonic had no trace, and they decided to start at where he was last seen. Tails and Knuckles searched all around the area but found nothing, they searched land and sky but no luck. Tails searched the whole Station Square from top to bottom and he still found nothing. Tails and Knuckles had split up to quicken the search but they still found nothing, but they kept in touch through a COM link.
"Knuckles, did you find anything?" Tails' voice asked.
"Not yet, I am going to search out of Station Square, just in case." Knuckles responded.
"Okay, just be careful." Tails' voice answered back.
Knuckles traveled to the edge of Station Square, he looked around the area and decided to head through the jungle, he noticed the trees were awfully thick on the canopy, so he could not see anything from above, so he decided to run through.
"Tails, I'm going to the forest, you won't be able to see from above so you won't be able to find me if you need me." Knuckles spoke into the link
"Alright, I am going to head somewhere also, so you'll have to go without me." Tails' voice responded.
Knuckles looked up, around, and then took off as fast as he could through the jungle. As he ran, he noticed he was much faster then he was a second ago. He then noticed he was running faster, and faster, and faster, eventually he was out of control. Everything around him became a colored blur; he couldn't tell what was in front of him so he decided to dodge everything that came in his path.
He dodged under trees, over branches, around rocks, and through bushes; until an animal jumped in front of him, he realized it was Froggy. Knuckles barely dodged him and ended up tripping on a branch, causing him to break into a roll. He started to roll faster and faster until he realized he was rolling into a giant pit. He felt his body being stabbed with pain from the rocks he hit, until it ended with his head colliding with a medium sized rock. Knuckles whacked his head on the big rock, flipped over it and skidded into the pit, unconscious.
Knuckles awoke to the sound of running water. His body surged with pain, he felt like he was stabbed in the stomach with a burning hot knife. He struggled to get up but when he did he felt like he was going to collapse out of exhaustion. Knuckles looked around and could not believe his eyes, all around him floated pink clouds, and he thought he was in heaven. He stood in the top of a very large tower, he looked down and saw he was in the tower of a castle; he looked at what seemed the town, it looked very peaceful, and he felt as if he was in heaven.
Knuckles turned and walked back into the towers room, it was small and quaint, there was a small white bed, standing by the wall was a dresser, and sitting on the dresser was a medium sized mirror which was cracked, a weathered, wooden door hang at the entrance of the room. Knuckles walked to the mirror, picked it up and looked at it. Knuckles stared at the mirror in amazement, he did not see a familiar Knuckles looking back but the face of his father. Knuckles blinked and saw his face again; he realized he was very tired from the last event. He stepped out the door and down the balcony.
After a long set of stairs he found another weathered door, he opened it and stepped through. He was in what seemed the throne room before him sat two tall chairs, they had cushions on them and the chairs seemed to be made of solid gold. There was a long carpet leading to another door, high on the wall where the King and Queens chair sat, was a beautiful art of stained glass. Knuckles identified some of the glass as the Master Emerald. Knuckles looked around the room and thought for some reason this place looked familiar, he felt as if he had memories that loomed around this place, Knuckles shook the thought from his mind and walked to the entrance to the room, at the corner of his eye he saw another mirror, Knuckles walked up to it and saw that he was suddenly wearing a leather suit of armor, he wore a red band in his hair, and brown leather cup links on his gloves. Knuckles waved his hand to make sure he wasn't looking at a picture of someone, yet the image of himself waved back.
Knuckles turned when he heard the sound of the door opening and saw a hedgehog standing in the doorway. This hedgehog reminded him of Amy, she was a very light pink, not Amy pink but lighter, she wore a purple tank top; black shorts, along with black boots, she also wore a cape which had dark blue waves across it. Her quills reminded Knuckles of Shadow, except they stuck straight up. Knuckles looked into her eyes and saw that one of her eyes was dark blue, and one was light purple otherwise Knuckles thought she was very pretty.
"Knuckles! What are you doing up?" She said walking up to Knuckles.
"Who are you? Where am I?" Knuckles asked looking around
"I am Haze the Hedgehog, you can call me Haze. What are you doing up? You are hurt, you should be resting." Haze said blushing slightly
"No, I am alright, where am I? How did I get here?" Knuckles lied
"Don't you remember? You have been here for a long time, we have been fighting the war against the darkness, yet everything will be alright, we will win." Haze told Knuckles.
"I… don't remember, shouldn't I be on Angel Island guarding the Master Emerald?" Knuckles asked.
"Its power was stolen by the darkness; Angel Island is now a kingdom of evil." A voice said from the doorway.
Knuckles and Haze turned to see another hedgehog, this hedgehog was light blue, she wore a red hair band to hold back her Sonic like quills, she wore a green shirt with a red skirt, and red shoes with a green stripe running through the body of the shoe, she held in her hand a golden staff that had two sharp curves on both sides of the staff. She wore a brown cloak over her clothes with her hood sitting on her shoulders.
"Sapphire, what are you doing up here?" Haze asked.
"I just got a message from the king that we are our advancing solders have gotten into the walls of Angel Island. It looks like the war is almost over." Sapphire said approaching Knuckles and Haze.
"Great, it will be good to know we will be at peace soon." Haze said giving a smile to Knuckles and Sapphire. "We will be able to have the world at peace from the ancient creature."
"We can't kill him! He has taken the body of my friend Zero the Hedgehog; if we kill him then we won't have a chance at saving Zero!" Sapphire blushed slightly at the name of Zero.
"But he has been infected by darkness for too long to be able to save him from the evil inside of him, there is nothing we can do but destroy him, if we don't he can awaken again when we are gone and destroy everything." Haze explained
"I guess you're right, well I'm going to go into town, see you later." Sapphire said waving to her friends.
"I still don't understand" Knuckles told Haze
"Don't worry soon you will." Haze reassured Knuckles.
Knuckles went back to the room from when he woke. He lay in the small bed and thought about everything that happened, from Angel Island to the evil creature, from the town to this Zero guy. Knuckles couldn't understand anything, and eventually thinking about it made his head hurt so he just stood in the balcony admiring the town. After a while he heard voices outside the door. One sounded like Haze, and the others were unidentifiable voices.
"We can't tell Knuckles yet, now is not the time." Came Haze's voice
"We have to, if we don't he just won't understand." Answered a strange voice.
"It will hurt him too much just to let him understand, I don't want to hurt him." Responded Haze's voice
"You shall do it, by order of the king" Another strange voice commanded
"Ok, I will do it, but this is on your head." Haze told the strange voice
Knuckles opened the door and saw Haze sitting on a chair, she looked at Knuckles and told him to have a seat, and she stood up and walked to the window.
"This town is so beautiful, I remember when I was young, I would run around and admire the flowers, and I thought it would never end. I was then invited to live in the castle, and then this happened." Haze said as she turned to Knuckles
"Haze, is there something you want to tell me?" Knuckles asked
"Unfortunately there is, I have to say this, Knuckles, I-" Haze was interrupted by the sounds of screams and shouts.
"What?" Knuckles jumped to his feet and ran to the window
Suddenly the door flung opened and a scruffy looking man walked in.
"The Army of Darkness is attacking! Get out of there!" The man yelled
Knuckles saw the gate to the town burning, and then he saw what seemed black dots advancing into the town. Knuckles turned grabbed Haze's hand and led her downstairs; floor by floor they ran until they came upon the entrance to the castle. Standing by the double doors were two solders, they each held a giant sword in their hand and wore metal suits.
"Stay here." Knuckles told Haze.
He ran up to the two solders and raised his fists, the knights looked at him and walked up to him, and they raised their swords and began to circle Knuckles.
"You go first." Knuckles challenged them.
One Knight raised his sword, Knuckles tensed up as the other raised his sword as well, Suddenly they both struck down; Knuckles easily dodged their swords, as they were slow. He delivered a strong punch to the torso of one of the knights making it stumble back. As it stumbled Knuckles crouched down and sweep kicked the knights legs from underneath it. The other knight swung again; this time faster and much more powerful, Knuckles dodged this attack also yet with a little bit of difficulty. Knuckles punched the knight's torso and head with incredibly strong punches; Knuckles felt something coming from behind and ducked. Lucky he did as the other knights sword struck the knight he was fighting in the head causing him to fall over.
"I can't keep this up" Knuckles said to himself "Each time I hit the Knights they just come back with a faster and stronger attack, its as if they have no limit to how long they could fight! If I keep fighting I would eventually get overwhelmed!."
Knuckles looked for a weak spot but could find none, he kept dodging the attacks yet quickly it became harder and harder. Knuckles decided to get the Knights to fight each other. He jumped behind one of the Knights and raised his hand.
"Come and get me!" Knuckles taunted.
The knight made no hesitation in taking the bait, he ran to Knuckles and tried to slice him, but Knuckles dodged the blade, and was hit in the back of the head by the hilt of the other Knight's sword. He flew into a wall and landed pressed up against the wall.
"Knuckles!" Haze shouted.
The Knights went to Knuckles and raised their swords. Haze pulled out a Chaos Emerald and held it up, immediately the Knights pulled back their swords and turned to Haze
"You want this?" Haze asked.
The helmet the Knights wore began to glow a bright blood red, and they began to advance of Haze.
"Chaos Control!" Haze yelled
Haze disappeared from the sight of the Knights; she appeared next to Knuckles, grabbed him, and disappeared. She then reappeared out in the front of the building.
"Knuckles, are you ok?" Haze asked
"Yeah, I'm fine, I didn't know you could do the Chaos Control." Knuckles told Haze
"Yeah, I never talk about it, supposedly that move was said to be used by evil hearts." Haze blushed at Knuckles' comment
"You have come far to dodge my elite knights mortals." A voice said
Knuckles and Haze looked up and saw a figure walking out of the shadows, he had Sonic like quills, except he was all gray, and his shoes were red which had a black stripe running through them. His eyes were gold and he appeared to be slightly smiling.
"Who are you? What do you want?" Haze stood up and walked over to this strange hedgehog.
"Who knew a weak fool like you could do the Chaos Control, it was unexpected that a pure good person still used the evil in their heart" He said folding his hands over his arms.
"Who do you think you are, buddy?" Knuckles said standing to his feet.
"Haze, give me that Chaos Emerald." He said
"I don't think so." Haze put the Chaos Emerald behind her.
Suddenly fifteen knights stepped out of the shadows, encircled Knuckles and Haze and raised their swords. Their suits were a different color, instead of being white they were black, and their helmets began to glow a bright red.
"I don't think you heard me correctly, give me that Chaos Emerald." He repeated
"No!" Haze answered
Then the Knights held the edges of the swords to the throats of their necks
"Want to try again? Give me that Chaos Emerald" He said
"N-No!" Haze swallowed her fear but managed to answer back
"Ok, let's see you take the fall of the one you love, that boy!" He said.
The gray hedgehog raised his hand and lowered it again, the Knights then focused the blades attention to Knuckles, they turned to him and held it near him, and they pulled up their swords and readied to bring it down with incredible force.
"Wait!" Haze said "Don't hurt Knuckles!"
"Then give me that Chaos Emerald," The gray hedgehog said again
"I-I don't know…" Haze answered back
With another wave the Knights readied their swords they brought it up, drew it forward and were about to slash when Haze interrupted.
"Ok! I'll give you this Chaos Emerald, just don't hurt Knuckles," Haze said holding the Chaos Emerald to the gray hedgehog
The Knights brought their swords down to their sides and stood in a standby position; the gray hedgehog took the emerald and stepped back.
"Knights! Return to your original posts!" he said looking at the Chaos Emerald.
Then out of the shadows flew the other Chaos emeralds; all seven of them began to encircle the gray hedgehog when something that made Knuckles' heart crack came into view. The Master Emerald rose down over the hedgehog's head all the Emeralds began to turn faster and faster, suddenly they made a flash of golden, silver, light and fell to the ground, colorless. Then a silver, golden hedgehog flew up a few feet in the air with his arms crossed. His quills didn't go out any more, they made and abrupt inclination witch stood straight up, his tail, and back quills stood up, but not very high up.
"Hahahaha… Now I am much stronger to rule this weak and pathetic world…" He said
Suddenly Knuckles awoke in a strange cave, he looked through the darkness and rubbed his head.
"Man… what a bump, was that all just a dream, it seemed so real." Knuckles said
He looked around and saw a giant door in front of him, the door stood an almost 50 feet high.
"Whoa! What is that!?!" Knuckles said standing to his feet
TO BE CONTINUED…
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