Ch.7: Mephiles Reborn!
Shadow found himself walking away from Rouge's party once Knuckles and Mephiles decided to disappear. He had tried to explian to Sonic and the others why they couldn't trust Mephiles, but they sided with Knuckles judgement, and decided to remian Dusk's friend.
"Idiots" said Shadow, kicking a nearby rock " why can't they remember all the horrible things Mephiles has done in the past? Why can't Sonic remember? After all he was killed by Mephiles? Hmph, these time paradoxes get more irratating every time,"
As if to prove Shadow's point a swirling blue portal opened up to allow Silver the Hedgehog to slip through. He grinned upon seeing Shadow and ran over to the black hedgehog's side.
"Hi Silver" said Shadow " what are you doing here?"
"Knuckles" said Silver " I need to find him! It's an emergency!"
"What are you talking about?" said Shadow.
"It's Mephiles" said Silver " he's back! I don't know why or how, but what I do know is if I don't find Knuckles soon, everyone in my world is going to die,"
"I'll take you to him right away" said Shadow " but first, we're going to need some transportation,"
With that Shadow and Silver blasted off to Sonic's house.
Needless to say, Sonic was surprised when Shadow showed up on his doorstep with a hedgehog he had never seen before.
"Who's this?" said Sonic, pointing at Silver.
"Don't you recgonize me Sonic?" asked Silver surprised.
"Don't waste your breath Silver" said Shadow " he doesn't remember anything, none of them do. Something must have wiped their memories after our battle with Mephiles,"
"What's going on here?" said Tails, walking out of his room.
"No time to explian" said Shadow " Knuckles is in danger, and if we don't find him soon, the whole universe may die,"
On Angel Island, the Chaotix had finally arrived after taking care of their case. Their skins were soaking wet, looking like they had been swimming the entire ocean just to get here. A few fresh bruises also decorated their bodies.
"Never again" said Espio, angrilly " am I jumping into a public swimming pool just to get a lady back her pet duck,"
"Yeah" said Charmy " especially when the entire ladies swim team is in there for pratice. What do those women put in their purses anyways? Bricks?,"
"Quit complianing" said Vector " at least we got paid well. Just hope Knux doesn't rib us to much once we show up home like this,"
"I don't he'll rib us to bad...," started Espio, before he suddenly cut off.
"What's up Espio?" asked Vector.
The chameleon just pointed to the alter and when Vector turned to look, his red eyes widened in surprise to see Dusk doing something weird with Knuckles Chaos Emeralds. Ever since the defeat of the Metarex, Knuckles had been entrusted with the Chaos Emeralds care, in order to prevent the wrong person from having them.
By the evil smirk on Dusk's face, it was obvisous whatever he was going to do with those emeralds wasn't going to be good.
"Hey Dusk!" yelled Vector, approaching the black hedgehog " what do you think your doing man?"
"Stay away Vector" said Dusk, blasting the crocodile away with chaos energy " no one may interfere,"
Before any of the Chaotix could run over to tackle Dusk an angry voice came from the cabin.
"Dusk!" yelled Knuckles, eyes narrowed in rage.
"Knuckles" said Dusk surprised at seeing the echidna " I thought you were asleep,"
"I was until I heard Vector shout in pain" said Knuckles " what are you plan on doing with those Emeralds,"
"Reshape history" said Dusk " so that we can be friends for life,"
"He's gone back to being Mephiles" Knuckles growled in his mind " seeing that fight between the future me and him reawakened his dark personality and desire to bend time and space. I have to stop him before the universe is destroyed,"
"Behold" said Mephiles, as a time portal unfolded from the power of the Chaos and Master Emeralds. " as I reshape the world to what it should be,"
"No!" shouted Knuckles, and followed Mephiles into the time portal.
By the time Tails, Shadow, Sonic, and Silver had arrived, it was to late. Knuckles and Mephiles were gone.