Zero Sagas

Chapter 15: The Omega Emerald

(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.

"Too late?" Sapphire asked, "No! We can't be!"

Eggman laughed, "There is nothing you can do! This world will be ours!"

The Chaos Emeralds began to glow brightly, they then encircled Lifeform 0, and began give him power.

"Hahaha!" He laughed, "Get ready to die!"

Lifeform 0 pointed his finger at Sonic, suddenly a flash of black light erupted in front of him, a solider in black armor wielding a sword stood where the black light faded.

"Don't worry!" Knuckles approached the knight, "I fought one of these in a dream, they get stronger and faster, we just need to destroy it outright!"

Knuckles ran to the solider and punched it with all his strength and the knight fell over. Knuckles jumped on it and punched the knight's head with all his strength, causing the knight to slump over, lifeless.

"Impressive," Lifeform 0 said, "You're pretty strong." He pointed his finger again and this time several more appeared. He then revived the fallen knight. "Now I will make them stronger!" he pointed his finger and they began to glow black.

"We must stop him!" Sapphire said to Sonic, "If this goes on much longer then the world will be doomed!"

"No problem!" Sonic sped past the knights and up to the altar.

"Not so fast!" Chaos was about to intercept Sonic, yet he was knocked to the ground by a black figure, he looked up and saw Shadow standing over him.

"You're my opponent." Shadow cracked his knuckles, "You lied to us… you said you would give us a wish, to revive Maria, and for that I will kill you!"

Sapphire, Haze, Julia, Michelle, Amy, Knuckles, and Tails began to fight off the knights. Dodging swings that could cut them in two they struck back, every time they destroyed one, Lifeform 0 would revive them, stronger, faster, and tougher. Sonic rushed up the altar, but was stopped by Eggman.

"I'll destroy you, blue rat!" Eggman laughed and pushed some buttons on his walker.

His walker shot out some missiles, yet Sonic easily dodged them. He flipped over the walker and kicked it in the back with all his might, causing the walker to tumble down the altars steps.

"Argh!" Eggman yelled, amazingly his walker landed on its feet, "Now I'll get you!" Eggman tried to make his walker move forward, yet nothing happened. "What's going on?" Eggman looked down and saw Knuckles holding onto the walker's leg. "Let go, knuckle-head!

"You're not going anywhere Eggman." Knuckles grinned, "You're a threat to the Master Emerald and I'm going to have to remove you!"

Eggman pressed a couple buttons on his walker, opening a slot on the leg that Knuckles was clutching to, "I guess I'll just have to burn you off!" Eggman pressed another button, suddenly the jet booster activated, scorching Knuckles.

"Rrrrgh!" Knuckles growled as he was forced to let go, from pain of the fire.

Sonic rushed up to Lifeform 0 and stepped into fighting stance.

"It's finally time to end this," Lifeform 0 began, "This time… I will kill you and then the world will be mine!"

"Not over my dead body!" Sonic clenched his fists ready for battle.

Suddenly Lifeform 0 vanished, Sonic vanished a second after him. Sonic rushed down the alter at the extremely fast form of Lifeform 0.

"Lets see how strong you really are!" Lifeform 0 said looking back at Sonic.

He then stopped on a dime and swung his fist at Sonic's face with deadly speed, yet Sonic easily blocked it with his own speed. Sonic tried to sweep kick Lifeform 0 but he flipped backwards away from Sonic's leg. Lifeform 0 then sped off into the woods, Sonic following shortly behind.

Sonic jumped from tree trunk to tree trunk after him, flipping off trees, avoiding low hanging branches. Sonic flipped over a tree and landed straight in Lifeform 0's path, and swung his fist towards Lifeform 0's face, yet he saw it coming and dodged under it. Then he swung his fist at Sonic's stomach, yet Sonic grabbed it with his free hand, Sonic then pushed him back, causing Lifeform 0 and Sonic to skid away from each other.

"Impressive" Lifeform 0 said, "You are stronger then the echidna."

They sped off into the distance eyeing each other, daring one another to attack. At the exact same movement they flipped off a nearby tree and swung fists at each other, but they were both blocked by each others open hand, as if fighting a mirror, they both attempted to kick each other, yet they were blocked by their legs. Once again they landed at a stale mate.

'Dang it…' Sonic thought. 'It's as if he is moving exactly as me, strength, speed, it's as if I'm fighting myself.'

They sped off again, dodging lighting fast blows, kicks that could break rocks, as if they were fighting in perfect sync, not a second off.

Meanwhile…

'He's pretty strong, but he's not nearly as fast as me.' Shadow thought to himself. Shadow dodged a fury of blows that could destroy mountains; 'If I use my speed to my advantage then he won't be a match to me.'

Shadow dodged another one of Chaos' swings, and then quickly punched him in the face, Chaos couldn't even see it until it hit home. Shadow then dealt a fury of lighting quick blows that Chaos had no chance of dodging, or even reacting to. Shadow kicked him in the chest then activated his booster shoes, flipping off Chaos' chest and into the air.

"Argh!" Chaos yelled in pain as he fell to the ground, unconscious.

"Hm… Pathetic…" Shadow scoffed to himself as he ran off to fight the Dark Knights.

Meanwhile…

Sonic and Lifeform 0 had reversed directions and were on their way back. Blow after blow collided with each other as they fought in sync, eventually they made their way back to the alter, as they ran up the steps the Chaos Emeralds began to glow. Suddenly, with unexpected speed Lifeform 0 kicked him in the chest, knocking him down the steps onto the ground.

"You're very powerful hedgehog." Lifeform 0 said, "And you…" He said looking at Chaos, who managed to get to his knees, "You are pathetic."

"No! My lord I apologize for my failure but I can-

Suddenly a gray beam shot through his chest, his lifeless form falling to the ground.

"No!" Sonic yelled.

"I can't have the weak working for me," He chuckled to himself, "Now I will summon power like you've never seen before!" Suddenly the Chaos Emeralds began to circle the Master Emerald, Lifeform 0 flipped and landed on top of the Master Emerald, the area around the alter began to glow.

Sonic and Shadow ran up towards the alter.

"Chaos Control!"

Suddenly the area around them vanished, as if less then a second passed they stood inside a forest, Sonic looked around and noticed the Master Emerald floated over what seemed like an alter, the Chaos Emeralds sat on seven pillars that encircled the shrine, Lifeform 0 stood just before the center of the alter.

Sonic was about to move when suddenly the air around the alter seemed to feel colder, the Chaos Emeralds and the Master Emerald began to glow brightly before they shot beams of energy into the center of the shrine. A blinding black light erupted and when it faded there stood a clear black version of the Master Emerald.

"Behold…" Lifeform 0 smirked evilly, "The Omega Emerald!"

To be continued…

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