Zero Sagas

Chapter 13: The Reunion

(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.

Sonic felt bad, in a long time he never remembered feeling this helpless. The world would be destroyed and he couldn't do anything about it. Sonic struggled against the bonds, but they were too strong to be broken, he remembered Eggman telling him.

"Don't try to break out! They're too strong to be broken!"

Eggman had said that, obviously they were too strong to be broken. 'Maybe that doctor isn't as smart as he says he is…' Sonic thought to himself. Even though he was told that he continued, in vain, to break out of the bonds, he couldn't just sit there and do nothing. Suddenly he heard the sound of the keypad being pressed and familiar voices.

"What's the combination?" Once voice said.

"How should I know???" The other voice remarked.

"Let's see… maybe something like potato chips? Or chewy bacon?" The first voice said.

"Just try them both…" The second voice said again.

After a couple of seconds the door flew open and Tails and Knuckles stepped in.

"Tails! Knuckles! Boy am I glad to see you guys!" Sonic gave them a friendly smile; maybe they would have a chance to save the world.

"Thank goodness we found you." Tails said.

"Yeah, it seems we made it in time." Knuckles and Tails helped Sonic out of his shackles.

"We can't find Amy." Tails gave Sonic a worried look "Have you seen her?"

"Nope, haven't seen her since my fight with Metal Sonic, by the way where is he?" Sonic asked, not waiting for an answer, he turned to Knuckles. "Knuckles why aren't you protecting the Master Emerald? Eggman and Zero are going after it!"

"Zero? You mean that gray hedgehog we saw walking out of the base with Eggman? Oh no! I better get back to the Emerald! She won't be able to stop them both by herself!" Knuckles turned and ran out of the room.

"She?" Sonic asked.

"He and Rouge have been taking turns guarding it. It's a long story but basically she's giving Knuckles a vacation from watching the emerald." Tails explained.

"Right lets go!" Sonic grabbed Tails' arm and sped after Knuckles.

Meanwhile…

A blue figure stepped into an empty area of the forest. She pulled out her Chaos Emerald and examined it. "Which way to the Master Emerald?" She asked herself gazing into the emerald.

"I think it's north of here!" A voice said.

She turned and saw two figures standing behind her, one was fat and in a mechanical walker and the other was a gray hedgehog.

"Dr. Eggman! Zero!" she said lowering her hood.

"Hm… Sapphire the Hedgehog… I didn't expect to see you here." Eggman said, "But while you're here why don't you hand over the Chaos Emerald?"

"Sapphire!" A familiar voice called out from behind Zero and Eggman. They turned to see four people standing behind them.

"Haze!" Sapphire called out. "What are you doing here?"

"We came to find you." Haze's eyes traveled from Sapphire to the fat man in the walker to the gray hedgehog. "You…"

Zero looked at the four people then back to Sapphire.

"Well isn't this a nice little reunion!" Eggman laughed. "Apparently you all know each other, and I see you have a Chaos Emerald!" Haze withdrew her Chaos Emerald from her pocket. "Excellent! Why don't you just hand it over and we'll let you go alive!"

"Never!" Haze yelled putting the emerald behind her back.

"Correction… You give US the emerald." A familiar voice said from up in the trees.

Haze gasped, "Shadow!"

Shadow jumped down from the trees, followed by Amy. "Give us the Chaos Emeralds if you wish to live."

"Well, Well, Well." Another voice said from behind Haze.

Everyone turned to see a black hedgehog with a cut across his eye enter from the forest. He crossed his arms and laughed.

"Well! This is a nice reunion! Finally after so long we can have our revenge!" He glanced at everyone then looked at Zero, his eyes went wide. "Master!" He walked over to Zero and kneeled. "It's good to see you again after so long."

"Chaos the Hedgehog." Zero put his hand on Chaos' shoulder. "Have you found any Chaos Emeralds?"

"Yes my lord." He said drawing out the emerald and holding it up.

"Excellent" Zero said taking it and handing it to Eggman, "It's okay he's our ally."

Eggman took the emerald and put it away. Zero beckoned Chaos to stand behind him, which he promptly obeyed.

"Now," Eggman began, "Give us the Chaos Emeralds if you don't want to die."

"Zero…" Sapphire looked at her emerald; "I'll save you!" she rushed at Zero, Chaos Emerald in hand.

"No!!" Haze screamed. "Chaos Control!" Haze warped and flew at Zero with incredible speed.

The movement was so fast it was unidentifiable. Haze lay on the ground injured, Sapphire was in a chokehold by Zero and he had Haze's Chaos Emerald in his free hand.

"Pathetic." Zero said looking at Haze's injured form, "Did you think you could actually DO anything to me with that weak technique?" He then looked at Sapphire whom he was choking. "And you… give it up. Zero the Hedgehog is dead!"

"Z…z…er…o…" Sapphire struggled as she began to slowly lose consciousness from loss of air.

'Amazing!' Eggman thought to himself, 'I didn't think he was capable of THIS!'

Zero threw Sapphire into a nearby bush, he then picked up the Chaos Emerald she had. "Now we have four Chaos Emeralds," The emeralds began to glow, "I can feel the power pulsing through me."

The emeralds began to glow brighter and brighter, also making Zero's quills glow. He stepped into battle stance, "Good-bye fools." Zero pointed his palms in the direction of everyone else. Everything suddenly flashed white.

Meanwhile…

Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails rushed through the jungle. Dodging random tree branches and rocks on the ground they sped as fast as they could towards Angel Island, Knuckles led the group as he knew where the island was, followed by Sonic, then Tails.

"Knuckles!" Sonic began, "How much longer until we get there?"

"I'd say about ten to twenty minutes"

"Why is the island so far away???" Tails' breathing began to increase as he was running out of stamina.

"Well, it's to help keep the island safe, we don't need any unwanted visitors." Knuckles said, turning his head to them then back to the path.

As they ran they eventually reached an empty space in the jungle. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles stopped. "Lets take a little break here." Sonic said. As they sat down to rest Tails noticed two legs sticking out of a nearby bush.

"Hey guys! What's this?" Tails said pointing to the leg.

Knuckles and Sonic approached the leg. "I dunno Tails," Sonic said.

Sonic and Knuckles grabbed the leg and pulled. They pulled out a hedgehog they had never seen before.

"Who is this?" Knuckles thought for a second then realized she looked awfully familiar.

Knuckles noticed she was light pink, he thought she looked similar to Amy in color except that she was totally different in appearance. 'She looks so familiar,' Knuckles thought. Sonic and Tails shook her a couple times until she began to stir.

"H…hu…huh?" She mumbled, she then looked around, confused; she then saw Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles standing above her.

"Who are you?" Sonic said helping her to her feet.

"I'm Haze, Haze the Hedgehog." Haze said looking from Sonic to Tails, then she looked at Knuckles, "Oh! Hi Knuckles!"

"What happened here?" Tails asked.

"Well we ran into Zero, and Eggman, and Sapphire… Oh Shoot!" She ran around and started looking in the nearby bushes, "Sapphire? Where are you?"

Suddenly a bush close to Tails rustled.

"Found her!" Another voice said that they didn't recognize. Two people emerged from the bush carrying the girl they called Sapphire.

"Who are you guys?" Sonic was confused.

"This is Michelle," Haze said pointing to the tan colored echidna, "and this is Julia, and her chao Quartz," she pointed to the burgundy echidna and her chao.

"I think we met somewhere before," Knuckles said looking at Haze.

"Yes, we met during the Great War, but you guys shouldn't remember anything." Haze said.

"I remember, I hit my head on a rock and blacked out, I awoke in a strange world." Knuckles explained.

"Me too! I fell asleep on my way to Ark, and then I awoke in a weird castle town area." Tails was happy that he wasn't the only one who had any experiences like that.

Julia and Michelle helped Sapphire to her feet. "I think the arrival of Lifeform 0 and his energies may have triggered your memories." Sapphire brushed the dirt off her skirt.

"Yeah! Who is this Lifeform 0 character? He said I should call him 'Zero'." Sonic told them remembering their meeting in Eggman's HQ.

"Yes, It's a long story but a long time ago an incredible power was born from the Master Emerald, the evil side of the Master Emerald, he had the figure of a hedgehog, but he needed a body to survive. He then possessed Zero the Hedgehog, a nice, kind, normal hedgehog; he tried to make people bow before him, yet they wouldn't, so he killed them and made warriors of darkness. They held incredible power, none like that which any normal person could achieve, Lifeform 0 knew that and went around, enslaving all, and killing those who wouldn't go quietly. He showed no mercy." Sapphire looked to the ground and folded her arms across her chest.

"He killed an incredible amount, until he arrived at the kingdom of Matiar, where we decided to fight back. We fought for what seemed hours until we slowly became overwhelmed, when all hope seemed lost a mystical golden hedgehog came from nowhere, and helped us fight back, we gained an incredible advantage until Lifeform 0 joined the fight. He fought against the mystical warrior, but luck was on our side, the mystical warrior sealed Lifeform 0 away with his life inside a gem that cannot naturally decay. We then finished off the Dark Army and restored peace."

"I guarded Lifeform 0's body for as long as I can remember, until Eggman showed up and revived him."

"So, now what do we do?" Sonic asked, "Doesn't seem this Lifeform 0 can be easily beaten, so what can we do?"

"I believe that you can do it" Sapphire turned to Sonic, "I believe that you are the warrior reincarnate!"

To Be Continued…

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