Five: A New Enemy

"You could've at least warned us that there weren't going to be any stairs." Spark complained as he stood up. They were already in Kazu's lair.

"I didn't know either." Amy confessed. "There's no time for that though."

"Where to now, Amy?" Blaze asked.

Amy looked around. "If I remember correctly, the place where Sonic is in should be right over-" She was interrupted by an attack sending her straight to the ground.

"Amy!" Nova helped the pink hedgehog up. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah," Amy answered as she stood up.

Shadow glared ahead of him. "Show yourself!"

"Glad to," Sonar came lunging out of the shadows, knocking down the black and red hedgehog. Shadow quickly stood up again.

"Shadow the Hedgehog," Sonar spoke. "I've heard a lot about you."

Shadow glared at him. "Who are you?" He demanded.

Sonar grinned. "My name is Sonar the Lizard. Like I was saying, I've heard many things about you, Shadow, including you powers...but they do not surpass mine."

Shadow growled. "Chaos Control!" He teleported behind Sonar and attempted to hit the lizard from the back when Sonar sent him flying with a whip of his tail.

"Shadow!" Knuckles ran towards Sonar ready to punch but before he could, Sonar pulled his hands back, then pushed forwards colliding them with Knuckles chest.

"Umph!" Knuckles stumbled back, the air completely gone from his lungs.

"Got you!" Nova grabbed Sonar in a headlock while Amy charged straight for Sonar.

"Think again!" The green lizard elbowed Nova then shot some thick, green liquid from his mouth straight towards Amy.

"Rose!" Shadow quickly grabbed Amy and carried her to safety.

Nova landed in front of them. "That's my job, Shade,"

Shadow ignored him. "What was that?"

"From the looks of it, acid," Blaze answered.

"Disgusting!" Amy commented.

"And there is more where that came from," Sonar added.

"He's really getting on my nerves!" Spark said. "Thunder wave!" The porcupine clapped, sending several waves of thunder crashing into the lizard.

"Got him!" Silver caught Sonar with his mind. The whole team surrounded him.

"You're through!" Blaze said as she and the rest charged their attacks. They were about to unleash them when...

"Enough!" Shouted Sonar, but his voice was now accompanied by several deeper voices, voices that sounded like his. He looked at Silver through the corner of his eye.

"Put me down, White Rat,"

As if in a trance, Silver dropped Sonar and back away.

Sonar looked at the entire circle of heroes, all of them having the same look as their telekinetic friend.

"Now," He continued, his voice still layered with the mind-controlling voices. "To destroy you all!" He was about to send a wave of acid at the Heroes when Eggman's voice came out of the speakers in the room.

"Sonar!" Eggman's voice ordered. "We need you back here!"

The green lizard stood still for a second then took a quick glance at the team. "Acid Run!" He yelled before shooting gallons of acid at the heroes, enough to burn them alive and blocking their path to the door. With one last grin, he ran off.

The eight friends merely stood there still under Sonar's influence and useless again the acid.

Suddenly, Silver's eyes snapped into reality breaking all connections with Sonar's mind control. He looked to the side noting that Nova had reacted as well. He then looked at the acid flowing.

"Nova!" Silver yelled as he ran towards the green liquid. "We have to stop it!"

Nova looked around at the rest of his comrades. "What about-"

"They won't snap out of it in time. Trust me!"

Nova opened his mouth to counter but then closed it and ran to Silver's aid.

Using their telekinetic powers, the two hedgehogs managed to create a wall of invisible force to stop the acid in it's tracks.

"What do we do now?" Nova asked, his arms still up since he was using all his strength to stop the acid.

Silver looked down. He couldn't think of anything at the moment since all his concentration was on the invisible wall he and Nova were creating. He looked around, noting a few wooden crates piled in one corner.

"We can use those to stop the acid temporarily, but we have to move everyone else fast since the boxes won't last long!"

Dividing their concentrations in half Silver and Nova lifted all the crates and made a barricade against the acid. They then flew everyone over the acid and into the next room and set them down.

Yeah...I made this chapter short because if I fused this one and the next chapter...it'll be pretty long. Anywho, sorry for ending this chapter weird, but pleeease review. I need all the advice I can get! Arigato! ^^