Disclaimer: if I owned anything I'd tell ya about it, but since I don't own anything but my OC, I might as well say it again… I don't own anything but my OC. Sonic and characters belong to SEGA (Except my OC of course ((OC Of Course, lol)) joke is on OC and Of Course and Original Character)
"Hey Sonic, what did you find?" Amy asked noticing Sonic picking up the bracelet. The blue blur snapped out of memory lane and replied, "Something that one of my friends used to wear. The only thing about him that I remember right now is that he loved sweets." Amy comforted Sonic and said, "Not to sound rude, but can we worry about this later? We need to prevent the crisis that will unfold in the future." Ozone noticed the two hedgehogs near the statue and walked up to Sonic and asked, "Hey Sonic, may I see that bracelet? I think I might know something about it."
Sonic handed the bracelet over to the alien and Ozone began inspecting it thoroughly. "Just as I thought!" he exclaimed. Sonic began asking about it, then Ozone explained, "It's an ancient bracelet that lets the wearer harness the powers of Gaia for a vast number of uses." The alien slipped the bracelet on his left wrist and continued, "Let me demonstrate one use of this thing." He focused some thought into the bracelet as if to ask it to generate a shield, and sure enough, a green barrier of energy surrounded Ozone. That barrier was enough to distract everyone who was busy with the future's problems. Eggman then yelled, "Can we focus, please!? The one who sent us this note obviously wants us to change their future." Everyone who was admiring the green shield snapped back to reality and seated themselves to hear out their part of Eggman's plan to save the future.
"Ozone, do you know any way to bring someone or something back to life once they die?" Eggman inquired the alien. Ozone replied, "Yeah, but I know of two ways… one is through the chaos emeralds, the other is a tactic that I prefer not to use because it requires a lot of my energy. Why do you ask, Doctor?" The fat man motioned for Ozone to follow him to a quieter place, and Ozone did so without a second thought. Once they were alone, Eggman explained, "Normally I'd be glad to do this, but the fate of the world is more important than my self-glory. Here's the reason, I know that Princess Elise won't cry if we asked her to…" "I'm not killing anyone to make her cry!" Ozone interrupted. Eggman became irritated and responded, "Listen, the reason I need her to cry is so that we can release Iblis from within her." Ozone then realized the intention of making her cry, but then said he wasn't going to kill her to make that happen. Eggman face-palmed in frustration and told him that he'll call the alien when he needs to revive someone, saying that it'll save them both some frustration and time. Ozone nodded his head in agreement, and they both returned to the crowd.
After Eggman explained his plan, everyone except Elise cheered for a hopeful success. Amy asked Elise why she isn't happy or enthusiastic about the plan, but Elise simply replied, "I will not cry for any reason" Eggman somehow saw this coming and called everyone but Elise in a 'huddle'. That went well, and the fat man began explaining how to make it happen. The plan was perfect, until Knuckles pointed out a factor that Eggman completely overlooked; how Ozone was going to revive everyone if he doesn't have a power source strong enough to resurrect them once dead. He then remembered the master emerald he stored in his shoe and brought it out to show Ozone. The alien said it would be sufficient if it's powers were double it's current strength and said that it would take two of them if he was going to revive everyone in Soleanna in a timely fashion. Sonic refused to take part of the plan any further once he heard that part of the plan. "I'm not about to kill people to make Elise cry so that you can bring them back to life once Iblis is released. Future or no future, I'm not about to hurt innocent lives." He objected before leaving the 'huddle'.
"We may not even need to hurt people or do anything destructive!" Ozone exclaimed with an idea in mind. Knuckles, once hearing that, put away the master emerald back in his shoe and returned his attention to the discussion. Eggman took in what Ozone said, and came to the same conclusion: Onions. Sonic overheard the new plan and objected, "We're gonna make her cry by cooking an Onion dish!? You're crazy." Knuckles face-palmed and told the blue blur what they were going to do with the onions, and Sonic caught on after a while.
Princess Elise was wondering what the gang were up to when they finally broke the huddle and walked over to her. Eggman asked the princess if she knows how to make an onion dish. She replied 'yes' and figured the group was hungry. Blaze and Silver got to work using their powers to make some pots and pans out of the earth with Blaze shaping the mold and heating them 'till they're ready to be cooled, and Silver was doing the quick cooling with the aquatic abilities to finish the cooking utensils. After a good minute of making the necessary things needed to cook, Sonic sped into town with a fair number of rings in hand to buy a bag of onions. A minute later, he came back with the ingredient in hand.
Before Elise could start the cooking with the onions, she started crying due to the onion's chemicals. That sparked the release of Iblis. The moment the teardrop hit the ground, the soil started heating up at an alarming pace. "What the…?" Princess Elise muttered before realizing what happened. The ground eventually heated up so much that the ground started to make a hole. Sure enough, Iblis came flying out of the hole once it was large enough.
"Everyone, begin part one of the plan, NOW!" Eggman yelled as if he was a commanding officer. Knuckles immediately brought out the master emerald from his shoe and enlarged it to normal size. Once done, he gave a 'thumbs up' to the attacking team. The 'attacking team' consisted of Sonic, Amy, Vector, Espio, Shadow, and Ozone. Silver's part of the job was to prepare the sealing technique necessary to re-seal Iblis into Blaze.
Sonic and Amy planned to use the 'pinball launcher' tactic where the blue blur curls up into a ball, spins rapidly, then Amy smacks the 'pinball' with her hammer at full force straight into Iblis's torso. The technique proved semi-effective as it knocked the lava golem back a foot, but Sonic came back slightly singed from the assault. Vector and Espio tried to do an unusual trick where the croc simply 'distracts' the fiery freak while the chameleon applied extreme-heat-proof needles onto places where he thought the pressure points were, but that tactic proved useless as the needles were 'absorbed' into the fiery menace. Shadow gathered chaos energy into the palms of his hands while Ozone amplified his powers and sent them into the bracelet. "Chaos…" Shadow muttered while drawing back his right arm as if to strike back, then finished by thrusting his arm forward, propelling the energy straight at it's target. As he finished thrusting his arm, he finished with a "…Spear!" The attack itself ruthless, but Iblis remained unfazed by the assault. Ozone said, "Keep Iblis busy, I've got an idea." Shadow nodded his head in acknowledgement and motioned for everyone in the 'attack team' to go for an all-out assault.
The team assault worked quite well wearing down the lava golem. That is, until Iblis pulled off an attack that made even Shadow flinch in total shock. Everyone stopped attacking and regrouped with the ebony hedgehog to see what made him stop attacking. When they caught on to what he was seeing, Iblis made the same movements as Shadow did when he performed the chaos spear attack, but Iblis shot out what seemed like spears of lava. Sonic was then surprised what happened immediately after the lava spears were shot: Iblis stretched his left arm, aimed it at the group and fired balls of magma at the same speed as Sonic's 'pinball launcher' but with more spheres than the blue blur could count, and that was enough to send the team fleeing. They couldn't make it back to Eggman, Silver, or even Blaze because the ground cracked open spewing out a 'wall' of lava trapping the team inside an 'arena'. Ozone finally gathered enough energy and told everyone to gather around him immediately. Without any other ideas, the gang did so. The alien released the energy he stored into the bracelet and it generated a force field around each individual that, upon first glance, covered the individual's outline.
"Alright, I've gathered enough energy to make us all heat-proof for a half-hour. This also shields us from the lava. We've got to weaken Iblis down so that we can seal him inside Blaze. If we seal him now, Blaze might die trying to seal the freak. We've only got the limited time to weaken him and get this done before Mephiles notices that Iblis is released." Ozone explained before rushing in to try his luck at bringing the beast down. He shot numerous chaos spheres at Iblis non-stop. Knuckles overheard the whole ordeal and commanded the master emerald to give some of it's powers to Ozone to aid him in the assault. "Everyone, don't just stand there, attack!" the alien yelled while firing the chaos spheres. Soon enough, they were all attacking simultaneously. Iblis started flailing its arms wildly in desperation for a good five minutes before its body went limp and fell unconscious.
Once the beast went down, the wall of magma died down allowing the team to regroup with Eggman. Silver started chanting some incantations that was used to seal Iblis a long time ago, and Blaze walked up to the lava freak. Knuckles then 'told' the master emerald to help Silver seal Iblis into it's new vessel. The master emerald then shot a beam at the pyrokinetic feline and the 'Flames of Disaster: Iblis' was absorbed into Blaze. Eggman jumped in excitement seeing as how the plan worked perfectly. "Princess Elise, sorry to do that, but it was necessary if we are to prevent the disaster that is going to happen. We had to do it because Blaze doesn't cry at all… and the requirement for Iblis to be released from its vessel is for it to shed a tear." Eggman began explaining, but Elise caught on quickly. "I knew the plan, but just couldn't think of anything to make me cry. I caught on once you got the onions for me to slice. It's okay now. At least now I know that if I get kidnapped, the bad guys are going to get a decoy. The only thing is that if that happens, we need to make it look as if the worst is going to happen." Princess Elise said, then continued, "I thought you were crazy at first, but when I realized it, I went along with your plan without a word knowing that it will save time."
Now that Iblis is in it's new vessel, what will Mephiles do once he finds out? What will Black Doom do soon? What happened to Metal Sonic? Just stay tuned and you may find out soon enough.