SONIC HEROES
Disclaimer: I do not own the Sonic characters, just the OC's
Chapter Three: The Vengeful Hedgehog
Sonic, Shadow, and Silver ran across the many plains of Seaside Hill and were now currently standing in front of the stone door entrance of the white palace. Well, Shadow and Silver were standing anyway. Silver was trying to pry Sonic off a stone pillar nearby. "Come on, Sonic." Silver said as he pulled with even more force. "NO! I don't wanna!" Sonic cried like a little baby. Shadow was watching the entire thing, trying his best to hold in his laughter. "Come on, Sonic. I'm sure you can handle a little water. Besides, if worse comes to worse, Silver and I will help you." Shadow convinced him. Sonic took a minute to think about what Shadow said and decided to trust him like he always did. Sonic finally jumped off the pillar and walked up to the stone entrance with Silver.
"Ok, so how exactly are we going to get inside?" Silver asked. "Stand back." Shadow warned as he walked up to the entrance. Shadow curled up into his ball form and started spinning in place before using his spin dash on the entrance. The sound of Shadow making contact with the door was like a buzz saw cutting through wood. Eventually, Shadow got tired and uncurled to examine his progress. Even though Shadow was the strongest of the trio, his attack only left a large scratch mark on the entrance, leaving no sign of breaking through. "Well, that didn't work." Silver said. "Now what?" Sonic asked. Shadow didn't know what to do next, but for some reason was looking between Sonic and Silver intently. Sonic and Silver noticed this. "Uh...What are you looking at, Shadow." Silver asked nervously. Shadow only answered by grabbing the heads of his teammates and forcing them into their ball forms. "Hey, what's big idea?!" Sonic yelled. Shadow said nothing as he walked up to the stone entrance and held the two above his head. "This is gonna hurt." Silver said before Shadow used the two as wrecking balls to break open the entrance.
As Shadow walked through the broken entrance, he let go of Sonic and Silver, who were dizzily trying to get back to their feet. After several attempts to get back up, stumbling over more times then you can count, before actually succeeding. "W-what was t-that for?" Sonic asked shakily. "Relax, just be happy were inside." Shadow said as he walked past him. Shadow examined the white palace. The walls were pure white with several ancient inscriptions and pictures marked on them. Thanks to his long studies aboard the ARK 50 years ago, Shadow was able to read the inscriptions. Many of the inscriptions described and ancient trio of guardians that defended the world from an evil silver hedgehog using the power of the miracle gem. By the look of one of the wall pictures, the miricle gem looked very similar to the Master Emerald. One of the guardians was made of fire and another was made of electricity. But the most shocking discovery was that the third guardian was, what looked to be, Chaos. It didn't make any sense to Shadow. How could Chaos and the Master Emerald be connected to this place? And who is the silver hedgehog? "Shadow! Look!" Sonic called.
Shadow looked back at Sonic to see him pointing to a pedestal on the far end of the room. On top of this pedestal was the green chaos emerald. "I got it." Silver said as he ran towards to chaos emerald. "This is too easy." Shadow said suspiciously. As Silver grabbed the chaos emerald, a missile came out of nowhere and exploded on contact with the pedestal, which sent Silver back a couple yards. When Silver was thrown back, he accidentally dropped the chaos emerald. Seeing their ally hurt, Sonic and Silver quickly rushed to Silver's side. "Silver, are you ok?" Sonic asked. "I'm fine, but what about the chaos emerald." Silver asked. The group looked over to see the chaos emerald on the ground before it was blocked off by three strange new mechs. One mech was black, another was blue, and the last one was grey. Unlike other mechs, they didn't seem to have any weapons other then razor sharp claws. "That's different. Looks like Egg-head has finally decided stepping up a little." Sonic said smiling.
Three mechs crouched down for a moment before jumping forward at blinding speed that even surprised Sonic and Shadow. The three mechs each grabbed one of the hedgehogs and jumped away to battle separately. The black mech grabbed Sonic, the grey mech grabbed Shadow, and the blue mechs grabbed Silver. The black mech threw Sonic across the room to plow Sonic into the wall. Sonic tried to get up, but the mech appeared out of nowhere and kicked Sonic straight up into the air. While Sonic was in the air, the mech charged its claws with electricity and threw them that gave them the appearance of Shadow's own chaos spear. The claws burned through Sonic's fur and flesh, which was only made worse when he fell flat on the cold, hard ground.
Shadow was smashed into the ground by the grey mech and then was grabbed by his head and had his face dragged across the floor. The grey mech picked up Shadow by his head and pushed into the wall, leaving small indent in it. the mech removed its hand from the black hedgehogs head and replaced it on his neck, attempting to suffocate him. "I...don't...think so." Shadow said gasping. Shadow body began to store red chaos energy within, which showed as his body was glowing bright red. "CHAOS BLAST!!!" Shadow shouted. The energy was released from Shadow's body and created a large explosion. Shadow had thought he had won, but was found to be wrong when the grey mech was covered by a powerful force field. "You have got to be kidding me." Shadow complained. The grey mech then expanded his force field and threw Shadow clear across the room.
Silver have no better luck then his friends as he was never given a chance to counter attack. Every time Silver would try to use his psychokinetic powers, the blue mech would always appear out of thin air and deliver a solid blow. After much battling and losing the trio of hedgehogs were throw against each other in the center of the room. The three mechs moved in closer and all had seemed hopeless for the heroes. Just then, over ten black balls fell from the ceiling and covered the mechs in pitch black smoke on contact. "What the?" Sonic questioned in surprise. The sound of metal being ripped and cut could be heard from within the smoke. After a few second, the smoke disappeared and the mech were found on the ground, totally destroyed. "Uh...what just happened?" Silver asked. Just then, the green chaos emerald was thrown into Shadow's hands and the group looked up to see who it was that gave it to them.
The rescuer appeared to be a red hedgehog that looked to be 17 years old, had two arching quills on his back, and six quills on his head that curved downwards. The newcomer wore black shoes with two white straps going across them, steel ring bracelets on his wrists, and white gloves with two different black kanji symbols on them. The right glove held the kanji symbol for strength (剛) and the left glove held the kanji symbol for heart (意). "Who are you?" Shadow asked suspiciously. "My name is Recter." The one called Recter answered. Sonic got up to his feet and walked over to Recter with his hand held out to him. "Well, thanks for the help, Recter. I'm Sonic." Sonic said. "I know." Recter said with a murderous glare. Shadow saw this and quickly jumped to Sonic. "Sonic, watch out!" Shadow called out. Sonic looked back at Shadow as Recter lifted his fist and brought it down on the blue hedgehog. Shadow was barely able to push Sonic away in time as Recter crashed his fist in the ground, creating a small crater. "What's your deal?!" Sonic shouted. "I am here to get revenge for what you did years ago, Sonic." Recter said as he moved into a fighting position. "What does he mean by revenge, Sonic?" Silver asked. "I don't know." Sonic answered honestly. "Prepare yourself, coward." Recter said.
Recter charged at the trio of hedgehogs and raised his fist before bringing it crashing down on them. Sonic, Shadow and Silver were lucky enough to jump away before becoming a part of the crater that was left from Recter's assault. Recter look to Sonic and charged at him with murderous instincts. Recter attempted to punch the living daylights out of the blue blur, but Sonic proved to be to fast as he dodged left and right. Sonic soon found himself backed it a wall with no chance of escaping. Recter was about to sent the finishing blow until he felt his arm being held back by an unknown force. It turned out that Silver was using his psychokinetic powers to hold Recter back. Silver then grabbed hold of Recter and flung him to the other side. Unfortunately, Recter quickly recovered and bounced off the wall towards Silver to land a blow to the head that knocked him out cold.
Once Recter landed on his feet, he soon found himself facing off against Shadow. "I have been watching you, studying your abilities. It seems that that you use the ancient fighting style know as Taijutsu." Shadow said. "Very clever. You're absolutely right. But that's not all that I know." Recter said with a smirk. Shadow charged at Recter and gave a low kick, knowing that Taijutsu could not be performed at a small level. But, to Shadow's surprise, Recter pushed the kick away and jabbed his fingers into both of Shadow's shoulders, pushing him away a little. Shadow prepared to attack again, but found out that he couldn't move his arms. "What the?" Shadow said in surprise. "It's called the gentle fist style. I learned it from a family in a small village. Maybe I should have told you, but I know seven different styles of martial arts. You can't win." Recter said. Shadow knew that without his arms, there was no way of beating Recter.
Sonic saw how easily defeated his friends were and thought he didn't stand a chance against Recter. Recter moved closer to Sonic and picked him up by his shoulders so that they stood at equal eye level. "After three years, I will finally be able to pay you back for what you did." Recter said as he reeled his fist back. "But what did I do to you anyway?" Sonic asked, hoping to buy enough time to create his signature technique. "You don't remember? You kidnapped my little sister!" Recter shouted with anger. "Huh?" Sonic said confused. "Maybe this might help jog your memory. My name is Recter Rose." Recter revealed his whole name. Sonic instantly recognized that name the second he heard it. "Amy." Sonic said in realization. "Exactly. You kidnapped her three years ago! I have been training everyday since then and now you'll finally pay for what you did!" Recter yelled. "But it wasn't me!" Sonic yelled. "Shut up! Time to die!" Recter yelled as he threw his fist at Sonic. Luckily, the conversation gave him enough time to gather the energy he needed. "SONIC WIND!" Sonic shouted as he plunged his signature attack into Recter's chest, which sent him flying through the wall on the other side.
Recter was greatly weakened by the sudden attack, but refused to give in until he had finish Sonic once and for all. Recter weakly pulled himself through the hole, only to find that Shadow and Silver were healed and standing with Sonic. Recter knew that we was too weak to fight all of them and decided it was the best time to retreat. "This isn't over, Sonic." Recter said as he pulled out three black balls. Recter threw the ball at the ground to create a cover of smoke. When the smoke disappeared, Recter was gone. "Who was that guy?" Silver asked. "Apparently that was Amy's older brother. He was much stronger then I expected." Shadow commented. "But what did he want with Sonic?" Silver asked. "He thinks I'm the one who kidnapped Amy three years ago." Sonic said. "Then if it wasn't you, who was it?" Shadow asked. "Metal Sonic." Sonic asked. Unknown to any of the hedgehogs, a pair of blood red eyes had been watching the entire battle as they scanned the heroes. "Sonic the Hedgehog, Silver the Hedgehog, Shadow the Hedgehog. All data...successfully copied."
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