SONIC HEROES

Disclaimer: I do not own the Sonic characters, just the OC's

Chapter Fifteen: Team Hedgehog vs. Team Dark

With Amy, Knuckles, Jet, and Espio's teams gone, things were starting to return to normal in the Frog Forest. "AHH!" Ok, scratch that last part. Rouge was flying over the forest to scout the area for any chaos emeralds when an unseen mech flew up behind her and shot her left wing. Rouge was sent spiraling out of control and headed for the ground. She was only a foot from the ground when she felt someone grab her foot a save her. Rouge looked up to find Chaos stand atop a large tree with his arms extending to catch her. "Ugh...idiot." Chaos mumbled under his breath. But while Chaos held her up, the mech that had shot her down had stealthily snuck up behind the god of destruction and aimed its gun towards his head. The mech was ready to fire until. "Enemy locked on target! Aim and...Fire!" the next second, the mech that had tried to kill chaos was engulfed in flames and instantly shut down. Chaos looked back to see the defeated mech and the one who rescued him, Omega. "I owe you one, Omega." Chaos said. "You were too distracted. Our primary target is Eggman." Omega stated. "I know, I know." Chaos said lazily.

After a taking few moments, Chaos had finally placed Rouge safely on the ground next to Omega before dropping down to join them. "So, find anything." Chaos asked Rouge. "No! I was a little preoccupied with trying to say alive!" Rouge exclaimed. "I knew it was a bad idea to trust you to do anything." Chaos said as he jumped up into the tree to disappear from sight. Rouge was really worried. The Chaos she met at Eggman's base was usually playful and funny, a little annoying maybe, but still. "I don't understand. He's been acting this way ever since we left Rail Canyon." Rouge said. She then remembers the other Chaos she saw after their Chaos had defeated Eggman with the power of the chaos emerald. "Rouge...are you all right?" Omega asked. "Yeah, I'm fine" Rouge replied. Rouge also thought that Omega was strange as well. Unlike Eggman's other robots, this one seemed to be knowledgeable of the other people's feelings. In short, she had one strange team. All of a sudden, Chaos dropped down from the tree to land in between the two. "What's up?" Rouge asked. "I feel three powerful energy sources and a chaos emerald not far from here. We have to hurry and find it." Chaos said as he ran down the path followed by Rouge and Omega.

Sonic, Shadow, and Silver were running (or in Silver's case, floating) along the forest until the reached a dead end in a clearing in front of a lake. "I guess this isn't the right way either." Sonic said. "You think?" Shadow said irritantly. "Well, well, look who it is. I hope you three aren't causing any trouble." The trio of hedgehogs looked to then side and then up to see Team Dark. The most interesting sight to them was Chaos himself. "Sonic, is that who I think it is?" Shadow asked. "Talk about being full of surprises. It's been awhile, Chaos!" Sonic called out to water beast. "Chaos?" Silver questioned, having never actually met Chaos before. "How do they know my name? I never met them. Or have I?" Chaos thought. Long time, no see boys! Too bad you had to come all this way for nothing! We'll take it from here!" Rouge told them. "What did you say?" Shadow asked venomously. "Sensors locked on Eggman! Non-complaint intruders will be destroyed!" Omega stated. "Didn't you know? We have a date with Eggman too." Sonic said. "Well then, it'll be a date to DIE for." Chaos said. "Hey! That my line!" Sonic exclaimed as he jumped forward, followed by Chaos.

Chaos jumped down from the hill and showed off his claws as he made a run for Sonic. Having fought Chaos in the past, Sonic knew his weak point and curled into his ball form. Chaos swiped his claws downwards at the blue ball, but the Sonic ball bounced off the ground just in time to avoid the attack. Once in the air, Sonic used his homing attack and took a shot at Chaos visible brain. "So, he's planning a direct attack at my weak point. There's no doubt this guy knows something about me." Chaos thought. Chaos quickly wrapped his arms around his entire body to form an aquatic barrier around himself. Sonic hit the barrier and was rebounded off of it. "Not bad. Let's see how you handle this." Sonic said as he began to spin in place. Sonic let loose with his attack and used a spin dash on Chaos' barrier. But, to Sonic's surprise, the minute he reaches the barrier, it was frozen solid. "When the heck?!" Sonic questioned as he was forced back and uncurled. Chaos released the barrier around him and explained what happened. "I have the ability to heighten or lower by body temperature to either boil it or freeze it of my own free will. Now, my turn." Chaos said as he extended his claw towards Sonic. The attack was unexpected and Sonic was slammed into a rock wall by Chaos' claw.

Shadow was watching Sonic's fight, greatly impressed on how powerful Chaos had become since the battle against Black Doom. "Impressive. Able to change his body temperature, despite the area's atmosphere temperature. He has really improved since the last time." Shadow thought. But his thoughts were interrupted when a series of bullets were head straight for him. Shadow quickly back flipped and looked forward to find Omega. "Target: Shadow the Hedgehog! Danger level: high! Initiating attack sequence!" Omega stated. "Look's like I have my own problems to deal with." Shadow said. Omega opened the sides of his arms to reveal his hidden missile storage and shot two missiles at Shadow. Shadow quickly countered by summoning two chaos spears to blow the missiles. A cloud of smoke was formed from the destroyed missiles, which proven to be a perfect camouflage for Shadow. "Now's my chance." Shadow thought. Shadow formed two small orbs of yellow chaos into his hands before bring them together into one large arrow. "This is it. CHAOS LAN..." Shadow's attack was halted when Omega burst through the smoke and struck Shadow into the ground. "But how?" Shadow questioned. "Body temperature is impossible to hide from my thermal vision." Omega stated.

But while Sonic and Shadow were being pummeled by Chaos and Omega, Silver was faced with his own problems. Silver was holding his arms up to block each one of Rouge's powerful kicks. Normally, Silver would use his psychokinetic powers to grab hold of his opponent and throw them away, but that would require concentration, which is a pleasure he does not have at the moment. "There has to be someway out of this mess. But what?" Silver thought. "I suggest you pay attention." Rouge said as she suddenly dropped down and swiped Silver off his feet. Silver landed on his back and tried to get back up, but Rouge placed her foot to stop him. "If I were you, I would stay down." Rouge said. "If you were me, you would be better looking." Silver retorted. That had really ticked Rouge off. Rouge lifted her foot and swung it down, but Silver had caught it with his psychokinetic powers and pushed her away. "Look's like I win." Silver said as he got back to his feet. "I wouldn't be so sure about that." Rouge smirked. Silver gave off a confused look until Rouge pointed towards his feet. Silver looked down and caught sight of a silver bomb. "Not good!" Silver exclaimed as he attempted to jump away, but it was too late. The bomb had exploded and Silver was sent back ten feet.

Chaos had once more extended his claws and pried Sonic from the wall and threw him to the ground. Omega and Rogue have also succeeded in defeating their opponents and threw them on the ground next to Sonic. "Well boys, looks like we win this round." Rouge proclaimed. "As if. There is no way we are going to lose to you." Shadow stated. "Too late for that. You have already lost." Chaos said. "Chances of victory at 99.9 percent." Omega stated. "You see, there's no way you can beat us." Chaos said. "Well, we've done some unusual things in the past and we have always come out on top." Silver said, giving Sonic and Shadow new confidence. "He's right. We can't give up that easily." Sonic said. "You just don't learn, do you?!" Chaos exclaimed as he charged at the trio. All of a sudden, Chaos stopped in his tracks. Chaos was being held in place by Silver's psychokinetic powers as Sonic began to gather blue chaos in his right hand. To Sonic's surprise, Shadow placed his hand next to Sonic's and added his yellow chaos. "Shadow?" Sonic questioned "Two is better then one, right?" Shadow said. Sonic and Shadow formed the chaos into a blue and yellow sphere and charged it towards Chaos. "CHAOS WIND!" The two drove the combined attack into Chaos' chest, which sent him flying back to his team and crashed them all together into the nearby rock wall, knocking them out.

"All right! We won!" Sonic cheered. "Don't get too excited. We've just knocked them out. It's only a matter of time before they wake up." Shadow said, ruining Sonic's celebration. "He's right; we have to get out of here fast." Silver said. "I guess you're right. I don't want to have to go through that again." Sonic said. "Let's move, fast." Shadow said as he held out the green chaos emerald. Sonic and Silver reached for the emerald as they shouted "CHAOS CONTROL" and vanished. Unknown to them, Eggman was watching just the enitire battle from over the hill. "Looks like you win another round, Sonic." Eggman said. But soon, Eggman melted into a silver puddle and reformed into a new shape. "Of course, I never expected you to lose to that failure of an experiment. But don't worry yourself, Sonic. Just one more group and my power shall be at its greatest. Next stop: Hang Castle. CHAOS CONTROL!" and the mysterious figure disappeared in a flash of white light.

Winners: Team Hedgehog

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