Hey, sorry, I know it's been a while, but I've been trying to make this chapter really, really good, and I wasn't really sure where I should stop…
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ANYWAYS… Here it is! Chapter four. Enjoy!
(Oh, by the way, I've decided to label it when I switch character views because I know it can get confusing, and I plan to switch views a lot from now on, so I hope it helps!)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sonic the Hedgehog P.O.V.
I was floating in the air as I watched it happen. A Metarex just out of my reach took aim and fired. The laser blast flew past me on my left side. But it was not intended for me.
The blast of energy hit Amy Rose directly in the chest. It all happened too fast for even me to react. She was thrown backwards against the dome of the control center of our ship. She hit her head hard on the glass, and slumped to the ground, lifeless. I knew she was probably just unconscious, but I saw a trickle of blood run down her neck to her shoulder.
I heard myself scream in agony and rage. The world around me turned red at the edges and I closed my eyes. I got this splitting headache, like there were two people in my head arguing with each other, but they agreed on one thing that kept them from tearing me apart. I think I realized at some point that I had lost all control over my actions, but at that point, I didn't really care.
All I could think was: They hurt Amy. They. Must. Die.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Miles 'Tails' Prower P.O.V.
I watched in wonder as my hero was surrounded by the glowing colorful stones. Things were going to turn out all right, I was relieved. Then it happened. It had only happened one time before; when Chris and Cosmo had gotten caught by the Metarex and were abused. I thought it would never happen again, now that sonic knew about it, he would be aware and make an effort to avoid going Dark Super Sonic. But I suppose seeing Amy on the floor like that, and believing it was his fault must have been too much for him to handle.
It was different this time though, he hadn't had the Chaos Emeralds before, and since he didn't need any emeralds to go Dark Super Sonic… something weird was happening.
AN: (I don't know if I'm explaining this very well, so I drew my own picture of what it looks like, see this story's picture that I've just changed. It's original, I drew it myself, from my imagination, but it's based off of the Dark Super Sonic and Super Sonic forms.)
He had already started to turn gold when he realized what had happened to Amy. And the shock and anger he must have felt at seeing one of his friends hurt on his watch made him so angry, that he immediately and swiftly began to turn the darkest shade of blue in existence. But my guess is, because of his pure and good intentions when he caught the Chaos Emeralds, the Emeralds weren't gonna just give up on making him Super. But he was so angry, that the darkness was very strong as well. He screamed in a cry that seemed like he was more outraged than hurt, and the two colors seemed to fight one another for his fur for a little bit, and then they suddenly just calmed down, and settled on splitting him right down the middle. The line between the two shades of his fur was not defined; it kept swirling and changing down his middle.
He opened his now ruby red eyes. He looked down at Amy, who was still out cold and bleeding a little from her ear; and then at his other friends around him who were frozen in varying degrees of wonderment and terror. I probably wasn't in any better of a state. He said nothing. He turned his attention to the still approaching army of Metarex robots.
He let out a sudden roar and attacked the army viciously. They didn't stand a chance. All around him Metarex fell in piles of scrap metal. We were all still a little bit shocked, but after a minute, Knuckles broke the silence among us and said, "Remind me not to make that guy angry, come on! We'll win faster if we help!"
I grinned in agreement, and continued to work on making the shields stay up and keeping the weapons firing. I still couldn't help thinking that something didn't feel right though. I shook my head and continued my work on the computer.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Knuckles the Echidna P.O.V.
Leave it to Sonic to pull something like this at the last moment and turn the tide. Sometimes I get jealous of the guy for always getting to save the day, and then I remind myself of how awesome I am. I am the guardian of the great and powerful Master Emerald. I come from a long line of strong and just echidnas; and protecting the Emerald has been my duty for as long as I can remember. It was my father's job, and his father's job, and his father before him, and so on. I am also the last echidna. After me, there are no more. But now is not the time to be thinking about this. Right now, Sonic is kicking robot butt while I'm thinking of my parentage, I better get to it.
In a matter of minutes, Sonic and I had demolished all of the 'bots attacking the ship. He flew off into the brawl to destroy the armada itself. I was about to follow him when I heard Cosmo calling my name. Crud, that's right, I need to go activate the Master Emerald, almost forgot. I looked over my shoulder at the glowing gold/black blur decimating the enemy ships. He should be fine without me for awhile, I thought, chuckling to myself.
I ran into the control room shouting my apologies to Tails for forgetting and I didn't wait for a response before sprinting into the cargo bay where my Master Emerald was.
As I ran up, I stopped dead, staring at it.
It was glowing brightly, and the green color of the emerald kept twisting and shooting off sparks like it was angry. I had never seen anything like it.
As I walked closer, it seemed to calm down a fractional amount. I could see images flashing in the reflection of the emerald for fractions of a second at a time. I couldn't comprehend what any one image actually showed, but I got the feeling that they all had something to do with destruction and fear.
I caught a flash that was more defined and longer than most. It was of Sonic. He had a twisted look of fear and pain on his features before it flashed again to show myself and the rest of Sonic's friends watching something with apprehension and worry etched on all of our faces. I shivered.
I saw swirling dark green patterns in the surface of the emerald where terrifying images weren't showing.
I arrived right in front of the emerald before I was aware that I had been slowly making my way up to it.
I didn't really know what I should do, so I raised my arms and started the chant that I was so familiar with.
"The servers are the seven Chaos." He started with as much confidence as he could muster. The emerald flared up and the images and swirls moved faster, making Knuckles feel a bit dizzy.
"Chaos is power, power is enriched by the heart." He continued on, closing his eyes to avoid feeling sick from the swirling colors and flashing images. The Emerald glowed as bright as the sun and flashed so many colors that it all just looked white. If Knuckles had been looking, he would have gone blind from the brightness.
"The Controller serves to unify the Chaos!" Knuckles shouted over the now audibly humming with power Emerald.
As soon as Knuckles finished pronouncing the last 's' in 'Chaos', and his arms fell to his sides, the emerald went dark. One second it was as bright as a new sun, and within the time span of just a second, it… died. It stopped humming and glowing and turned a rich, dark green. Like a child that was having a tantrum just suddenly went to sleep. Knuckles waited for a second, and then cautiously opened his eyes.
"WHAT?!" he roared, "How? What the..." he started pacing, but just then he heard a gut-wrenching scream coming from outside the ship. He had a horrible feeling and began to run back to Tails.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Miles 'Tails' Prower P.O.V.
Knuckles is going to power up the Master Emerald, thank goodness, there is only so much I can do with the regular power of our ship. I set the power board up to get ready to accept the Chaos energy from the Master emerald and waited for Knuckles to start awakening it. I had a minute so I kept an eye on Sonic.
He really was remarkable. He decimated whole fleets of ships with every blast from his palm. The Metarex did not stand a chance. I almost started to feel bad for them as they began to try and flee. I was surprised at Sonic for continuing to attack a fleeing enemy, usually he was more merciful than that, but they were only robots. At least, he hadn't attacked Eggman or Yellow Zelkova yet. I watched as a brave ship attempted to sneak up and blast him from behind. I was about to yell to him to look out, but he had it covered. He flicked his right hand back with barely a glance and a dark bolt of pure energy blasted the ship apart.
My attention was drawn back to the control board as the energy readings spiked. Knuckles must have made it to the cargo bay where the Emerald was. The energy readings were off the charts. My power board started fizzling from the huge amount of power coming from the Emerald. I had to cut it off and turn the shields and guns on to full power to keep the power reservoirs from exploding.
"What the heck?" I wondered to myself. Sure, the Master Emerald gives off a lot of power, but it's never given off so much that my power reservoirs almost exploded…
I checked the cameras in the cargo bay. I saw the Emerald acting really strange and Knuckles with his arms held high in the air reciting his chant. Knuckles closed his eyes as he said the second part of his prayer. Then an intense bright light filled the screen and all the cameras to that room simultaneously fizzled out and died. I heard a humming begin from the direction of the Cargo Bay and then I heard Knuckles shout something at the top of his voice, probably the last part of the chant. Then the humming abruptly ended and a bright light suddenly flared up outside the ship.
I whipped my head around as the green aura around Sonic became an intense white that enveloped him and created a white-hot blast that flared out for a range of about half a mile in a sphere around him. It was so bright and intense that I had to look away again for fear that I would go blind from looking at it. It just barely touched our shields and a warning immediately went up informing me that that area of the shield suddenly went down and that we had no defense in that part of the ship. Anything that touched the supernova around Sonic immediately disintegrated. The whole time the new Sun that was Sonic lasted, we could hear his blood-curdling scream of pain.
Half a minute in, Knuckles ran up from the Cargo bay and gasped at the bright light that was Sonic. He began shouting something to me, but all I could make out was "Chaos energy" "Master Emerald" and "My fault" over the cacophony of Sonic's scream, various alarms, and pistons shunting off steam in a valiant effort to keep the ship from burning up from the heat.
Sonic sounded like he really was in a great deal of pain. I wish there was something I could have done to help him, but trying to get anywhere near him would have been suicide. We were right next to a star the size of our ship. And Sonic was right at the center of it.
I was beginning to think it would never end and that I would have to hear my hero's cry of pure agony forever when the light shrunk back in and then burst out in a warm, tingly blast that made me feel like everything would be okay. I knew this feeling to be the work of the Chaos emeralds, and that its power warmed even the coldest of hearts.
The light emanating from the outside of the ship faded to a warm glow and it felt safe to look again. I slowly turned my head along with Knuckles, Cosmo, Cream and Cheese, and Chris. Six faces looked on with awe and fear at the two creatures hovering just a half mile away from our ship.
One of the creatures seemed to be made purely of light and glowed with the friendly warmth of a campfire or the rising sun on a cold day.
The other seemed to be the complete opposite. One would miss it in the vast emptiness of space if the other was not next to it. It seemed to bend and draw the light around it in and created a pitch-black void where it floated.
Both of them were hedgehogs. And both of them wore Sonic's shoes and gloves.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Amy Rose P.O.V.
"Uuuuhhgggg… My head…" I groaned as I slowly sat up. "What happened?" that's a good question. One moment we were fighting the army of Metarex, then Cosmo comes out with the emeralds, and I let my guard down for ONE second to see my beloved Sonic go super and then WHAM! And the next thing I know, there's this warm feeling and I wake up with a major headache and my chest hurts like never before.
I didn't get an answer; everyone was busy staring at two things floating around about half a mile from the ship. I looked around for Sonic. "What are those things? Where's Sonic?" I asked, again, no answer.
I took a closer look at the things that I know recognized as hedgehogs hovering a half mile away from the blue typhoon. Everything was dead silent. One of them was really bright and made me think of a smile and a warm, sunny day; and the other was pure black and made me think of death and disaster.
One made me feel safe and warm and the other made me want to go curl up in a corner and hide.
They were as different as day and night, yet as similar as twin stars in the sky. I gaped at them both and made out the familiar form of none other than Sonic the hedgehog.
"Sonic? I-Is that y-you?" I asked in a tiny voice.
No one should have been able to hear me from that distance, but as soon as I asked, both of the hedgehogs turned to the sound of my voice. They stated to fly in my direction. I could see their eyes now.
The dark one had eyes the color of newly fallen snow. They were a pure white that glowed brightly in the midst of all the blackness that made up the rest of him. They had no pupils. They shone in the darkness like searchlights. They both enchanted me with their beauty and terrified me with their cold, alien, calculating look. Other than his eyes, gloves, and shoes, this hedgehog had no other features to speak of, and all the light and area around him seemed to be warped and pulled in towards him.
The light one had eyes the color of the core of a flame, the ruby red that one imagines at the center of a log fire. They too, had no pupils. But rather than make him look frightening and alien, the warm red eyes seemed to draw me in and make me feel… safe, like an inviting fireplace on Christmas day. There are no other words to describe it. His whole body seemed insubstantial, and I could actually see the spaceships in the armada behind him, or what was left of the armada that wasn't fleeing. He was completely composed of light, and emanated a warm glow that never wavered or dimmed. I had a feeling that he was pure energy.
How did this happen to Sonic? My Sonic? How was he now two beings that looked like polar opposites?
My fear and shock must have been given away by my expression; because both of them simultaneously looked ashamed of themselves and said in perfect harmony, in an almost imploring tone "Amy…" their eyes searched my face for any sign of revulsion or alarm. I looked head on at the two of them, letting them know that they did not scare me. They must have been satisfied, because they turned away from me and seemed to notice each other for the first time.
There was a moment of tension as they sized each other up.
"Another faker." The dark one droned. "Let's see if you're any good." He said with a tone that made me think that if he had a mouth, he would have been smirking.
"Who are you calling a faker?! I am THE, one and only, Sonic the hedgehog!" The light one threw back with one of Sonic's many signature poses.
"Yeah right, and I'm Eggman, FAKER!" He shouted back becoming excessively aggravated over the debate.
"Hey, don't start a fight, you're obviously confused." The light one backed up, becoming worried from the black aura appearing around the dark one.
"No, I believe it is you who is confused, Sonic-wannabe!" The now emanating darkness hedgehog closed in on his light counterpart, becoming angrier and angrier with every passing second.
The light one continued to back up, "Look, I don't want to fight you, but there is no way you can be Sonic, because I am Sonic." He attempted to reason with the terrifying black hedgehog, to no avail.
"I don't want to fight you," the dark one mocked, "you're pathetic; you aren't even trying to act like me." He taunted, "If you really think you are the real Sonic, then fight me, and whoever wins can claim that title." He challenged.
"Fine." The glowing one accepted after deliberating for a while, "but only because you would fight me anyways."
"Got that right, wimp." The dark one responded, and then sped in the direction of the light one so fast that no one had time to react.
But the glowing one was prepared for that and dodged the attack by teleporting to where the other hedgehog had just been standing.
"What, to afraid to take a hit?" the dark one smirked, and charged again.
The other one just cheekily made a yawning motion as he dodged yet again.
I watched on as the two of them continued in this dance of attack, dodge, and repeat. Neither one made any headway, because the dark one was to angry to think of anything but attacking head on, and the light one had no intention of hurting the other until he actually had to defend himself.
I could tell that unless someone intervened, this would-be battle would go on forever.
So I decided to be that someone.
"SONIC!" I yelled as loudly as I could to get their attention.
Both of them immediately stopped and diverted their attention to me.
"Yes?" they both asked, then glared at each other and said "she didn't mean you." They said these words at the same time, and yet again, their voices were in perfect harmony, like a choir of angels singing together.
I hadn't actually thought ahead that far. "Ummm, could you guys please stop fighting? How do you know you're not both Sonic?" it sounded kind of lame, but I was just trying to distract them.
"There's only one Sonic the hedgehog, and that's me!" the dark one shouted and attacked the light one, catching him off guard.
The punch hit the light one square in the chin, and even though they had been floating just next to each other, and the punch couldn't have been very hard, it created a huge explosion that blasted both of them far away from each other.
They both now glowed with auras of pure power, and had been blasted down the length of the ship from each other. My quills blew back from the force of the blast and I had to put all my effort into leaning forward to keep from falling over.
"Whoa…" the three of us all said at the same time.
Tails ran out waving his arms at the two Sonics. "You two can't touch each other! Don't you see? You're both Sonic, and somehow, you split into two separate consciousnesses of yourself!" he yelled, beginning to fly with his twin tails towards the two beings. "You are Sonic dark and light, yin and yang, shadow and sun! You two are like opposite ends of a magnet! Two halves of the same whole! Good thing you didn't hit each other too hard, or else you could have ended us all with the recoil blast! We're just lucky Amy wasn't fried!" he finished, arriving next to the twin hedgehogs.
Just then, the Metarex recovered from their shock and began firing again. All of us were caught off guard, we had almost forgotten that the Metarex were still there. They threw everything they had at us. Tails was blown back from the force of a missile hitting our shields and exploding just behind the double Sonics.
The power-emanating hedgehogs had been watching at each other with a newfound respect and amazement until the explosion behind them blew their quills back. They both turned; interested to see who had dared attack them. Their burning auras flared up with anger at the sight of the Metarex command ship with its weapons ablaze shooting at the Blue Typhoon.
"Gotta run!" they both said in that harmonic double-tone again. And off they went.
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