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Q Time!
jakeroo123:...Q: I thought that someone other than Cream had adopted him because of the only understanding first thing.
A: Oh! I'm sorry! I should have made the whole thing clearer! Well, to be honest, it wont matter much pretty soon anyways...
Galexia the Chao: Q:Is the story almost over? O.o So now they've become Sonic and Shadow the Hedgehogs or are they just Sonic and Shadow chao in their second evolution?
A: 1) The story indeed is comming to a close, but there WILL be another fight...just wait and see who it is.
A: 2) Both i guess. Sonic and Shadow the Hedgehog's minds are inside Sable and Swift, but their hedgehog bodies are still out there. I would think of Sable and Swift as the second evolution, for now that is.
On with the Story!
Swift and Sable rolled, landing silently on their feet just a few inches from the shorting out machine. The power source was half destroyed; you should never rely on Chao cocoons.
A dark red and black aura was circling around Sable's body slightly, the same for Swift, except in a dark blue.
"He's up there." Swift nodded towards a ledge, the Doctor was below them at controls of the Gollum.
"Huh? Nooo!" Eggman cried as the Gollum randomly started to lose power, Tails got a lucky shot in and the Gollum stumbled backwards. Rouge, figuring out the electrical field was gone, came in for another kick, knocking a camera out of commission.
"Stupid robots! Can't do anything right!" Eggman wailed, punching a few controls in anger.
"Misplaced aggression? Yeah, that's when your robots come in handy."
Eggman gasped, stalling as he was about to send out lasers, he spun around in shock as he recognized the voice.
Two figures, no! It was one with a strange mist! It was a familiar blue, with glowing Emerald eyes. A dark blue aura floated around it, matching its stance and form but on a bigger scale. It matched a familiar stance of Sonic the Hedgehog.
Swift smirked.
The mist hedgehog duplicate waved as Swift did, acting like a translator, or maybe Swift was just speaking in Human tongue.
"S-S-Sonic!" Eggman blubbered in shock, and denial.
"Hiya Eggman, you miss me?" Swift once again waved, leaning against a wall at ease.
"Impossible! You died! I saw you fall with Shadow! You're dead! You have to be!"
"Oh? So I am dead too, Doctor?"
Eggman spun, a black and red Chao leaning against the wall similar to Swift, his Crimson eyes watching all with no emotion.
"Shadow! This is madness! You aren't alive! This is impossible!"
Eggman cried in shock, but Sable nearly smirked.
"Never doubt the power of the Chaos Emeralds."
Shadow's signature move was shot out towards Eggman. A tiny flare of yellow from the Chao hands, while a thin yellow mist circled it like a missile, causing it to grow in size.
It collided with the controls instead of Eggman, who laughed instead.
"Hah! You missed!" He shouted, starting a little happy dance, Sable raised his eyebrow.
"I do not recall saying that I was aiming for you specifically, Doctor."
Eggman spun, jaw dropping as the controls fizzed and sparks flew. The Gollum outside was spazzing, electric sparks flying out as the controls were short circuiting.
"What's going on Tails?" Knuckles shouted into a communicator, Tails was frantically scanning the robot.
"It's short circuiting! The power supply must have been cut off!"
He cried, turning away as a large hunk fell away. Rouge cried and took to the air, flapping out of harm's way.
"What? That's impossible! The only ones inside are-"
"Sable and Swift!" Cream cried, pressing her hands against the thick glass. Tails looked at the breaking robot sadly, but something wasn't right, why wasn't Eggman escaping?
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Eggman madly hit buttons to make an escape slot, his machine was failing, he needed to run.
"We will meet again, Chao!" Eggman spat those words before vanishing into the sky. Sable shook his head, pulling out the three Chaos Emeralds from behind his back.
"He didn't think this through did he?"
Swift grinned and grabbed one; the two knew what to do, as they had all of their memories.
"CHAOS CONTROL!"
The two shouted, the strange auras of the larger hedgehogs seemed to fade as the power pulled them away. They landed on the top of a building just behind of the breaking Gollum. They watched as a few of their friends flew in the opposite way to escape the fire.
"Rouge." Sable whispered, spotting the white bat.
"Tails….Oh god, Amy!" Swift groaned, hanging his head backwards, shaking his newly blue skull. Sable smirked, showing off his fangs. Swift yelped as he noticed Sable's emotion sphere had transformed also.
"Shadow, Sable, whichever, doesn't that thing hurt?" Swift barely held back his disgust for the crimson emotion sphere.
"Hmmm?" Sable looked up and blinked, looking at the spiky devil ball floating just above his head.
"….Swift/Sonic, you and I both know that we don't actually feel it."
Swift shrugged and grinned, looking down over the city, most of it was fine, and a few firemen were putting out the blaze.
Tails and the others had landed, seeing if they could help with fire, while they were actually looking for the two cocoons.
"Swift!" Cream cried over and over, looking through the smoking metal, Helen was there, and was thinking a few things over.
She had asked Knuckles about what happened with Sonic, and he told her about his adventures, including the ARK.
That led her to believe one thing, one tiny but true claim
Sable was Shadow.
So that must mean that Swift was Sonic, and that would explain the small rivalry between the two, or why they had the same personality traits.
"No." She said, looking at the teary Cream, The others looked at her confused.
"They aren't Swift and Sable…." She whispered, immediately searching for the high points nearby, she knew that Sonic loved looking at the sky, and Sable was that way, so why wasn't Shadow?
"What are you talking about?" Amy asked, tilting her head, trying to see what she was.
A smile turned up on Helens face as she finally spotted Crimson eyes that widened as they met.
"I found them, and they aren't Swift and Sable." She smiled, Knuckles made the universal 'crazy' sign with his hands. Rouge slapped it away.
"What are you talking about hun?" she asked, but Helen was paying attention, she lifted her hands, cupping her mouth to amplify sound.
"SHADOW! SONIC!" She called, at once Sable's eyes lit up with amusement, before the two shapes came hurtling down at intense speeds, turning into a blue and yellow blur.
Amy and Tails supported sad looks; Knuckles looked at her slightly mad.
"What are you doing? They're gone okay? Why are you shouting lies?" Knuckles demanded with a sharp tone. Helen smiled, looking through the thick black smoke that was lazily drifting upwards.
"She's not sprouting lies Echidna."
A gruff, dark, and menacing tone growled. Yet, it was familiar all of the same. The mist cleared slightly, showing a small black and red Chao with its arms crossed. It was startling that everybody could understand him.
Helen smiled and Sable looked down, not wanting to meet her eyes.
"Sable." She had the tone saying don't-argue-or-you-are-dead. Sable sighed and looked up, crimson met blue.
"What?" He snapped, trying to hide the worry in his eye, Helen smiled, easily seeing it.
"Don't worry, I'm fine okay? Where's Sonic?"
Okay, by this time Knuckles laughed, falling to the floor laughing loudly. Tails was confused, Rouge was pondering, and Chris was just blank. Amy was blinking in shock, looking at the tiny body.
"Wait, you expect us to believe that….that little thing is Shadow? Mr. I-want-to-destroy-the-earth Shadow?"
He laughed loudly again, Sable snarled, his Spiky emotion sphere turning slightly sharper.
"Believe it Echidna, and if I had a chance right now, you'd be dead and hanging from a tree."
Knuckles snorted, crossing his arms and staring at Sable.
"Yeah, said the munchkin."
"That 'Munchkin' just whipped out a robot that even you could not defeat."
Knuckles promptly shut up, and a loud laugh caused everybody to turn, well everybody except Sable.
"Wow, got to hand it to Sable, he put you in your place Knux."
Swift trotted over, hauling a little bag with the three Emeralds inside, his blue fur seemed to glow on his small body, but he stopped smirking as everybody turned to stare at him.
"….What did I do? Wait, Cheese sold me out didn't he... he told you about that candy stash…..CHEESE WHERE ARE YOU!" Swift shouted, looking around darkly, Sable snickered softly and Swift glared once again.
"Oh, shut your mouth Faker."
"I think you're the fake one around here Moron."
"You want to go Emo!"
"Anytime Klutz!"
The two were practically at each other's throats, before Rouge snatched Sable out of the fight and hugged him dearly.
"Oh Shadow! It is you!" She sobbed clutching him closer. Sable coughed, trying to get air.
"Rouge, no personal contact!" He cried out, Rouge dropped him quickly and he landed easily. Swift rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, yeah how cute is t-OH CRAP AMY NOOOO!" Swift cried as Amy put him in a bone crushing hug, his face turning more purple than blue.
"Oh Sonikuu! It is you! I thought I lost you forever!" Amy cried, fat tears rushing down her face like no tomorrow. Swift groaned, and squirmed trying to break free of her grip.
"As much as I find this sight amusing, I think there are more pressing matters, like, say, getting back to our bodies." Sable/Shadow growled, looking up as Amy dropped Swift, all while blushing. Cheese looked over at Sable.
"Bodies?"
Swift recovered enough to take it from there.
"Yeah, when we Chaos controlled down to Earth, our souls split and went into Chao. So, our bodies are perfectly healed just out their waiting somewhere. Do you have an idea on where our bodies are Shads?"
Sable bared his teeth threateningly.
"I've told you, don't call me Shads. And for where, I spent all of my life in space, how would I know your planet?"
Sonic winced, looking towards Cheese and shrugging.
"Do your Chaos abilities work in your Chao bodies?" Tails asked, looking more at Shadow/Sable specifically.
"….My Chaos Spears only work when our energy fields adapt to our bodies, form a casing of our true forms out of power you could say. My spears aren't as powerful, but I wish not to attempt to use Chaos Control without the field."
Tails nodded and Sable looked upright, eyes widening suddenly, his head snapped down to Tails.
"You have a Chaos Emerald tracker, do you not?"
Tails jumped slightly at the very random request but shook his head none the less.
"Y-Yeah I have one right on the X-Tornado, why?"
Sonic/Swift's eyes lit up as he recognized the use for it, Shadow/Sable jumped up onto the X-Tornado using his powerful legs, and started fiddling with the mechanism.
"My body was designed to be a host for Chaos Energy, a battery you could say. My gold bands keep the energy in check, so I won't release it all at once. However, since the energy inside me is continuously made, it is stored inside me, causing my body to be like-"
"A living Chaos Emerald!" Knuckles finished, looking at Sable/Shadow with some kind of admiration. Sable nodded and looked pretty proud himself before looking at Tails.
"As far as I could understand, we both crashed near a creek in a jungle; see if that helps you in any way possible."
Tails smiled slightly and started flipping buttons, trying to find the lost bodies. Sable looked down at the ground, eyes slightly glassy before he gasped loudly and looked down.
Rouge and Helen spun, watching as he growled angrily before jumping down off of the plane, staring at two Chao and raisers in a nearby alley.
"I know you're there!" Sable snarled, glaring with blood red eyes at the two shell shocked power Chao.
"No way, that is Munchkin?" The fat lime green Chao from such a long time ago laughed, the orange one recognized as Rubble joined in, walking into the light.
The two Chao however did not realize that Swift and Sable's aura translated the speech, allowing all of the mobians and humans nearby to listen.
"I thought he would be a neutral Chao! Not a little Emo!" Sliver laughed, Swift winced as he watched Sable tense.
"Oh? Hey, doesn't that Chao look like that old hero? Eh, what was his name….Sonic?" Rubble rumbled, shrugging and sneering at Sable afterwards.
"You should leave now, unless you wish to be seriously injured." Sable's voice was dark, his blood red eyes flashing dangerously. Rubble crossed his arms.
"Yeah? What are you going to do about it?" He sneered, black eyes flashing, trying to look 'scary'.
"…." Sable was silent, but he turned, slowly and intimidating as he was known for when he was larger.
A small dark fanged smirk graced his features, the spiked emotion sphere helped in his devil appearance.
"Try, I dare you."
Rubble and Sliver apparently took that as an insult and charged with full blown fury, arms and legs flailing in would-be-attacks.
Sable's pupils widened, turning into the familiar cat-like slits of his natural body. He spun, grabbing Sliver's arm and hurling him with impossible force into Rubble who screamed in shock.
The two Chao looked up at shock at the angry Chao, a red aura swirling around him as he set one of his little feet on the backs of the two. Then, at that moment, they recognized what he looked like.
"Never fight when you don't stand a chance." He hissed, sounding like a hell-bent demon waiting for their blood. They whimpered and looked up with wide eyed fear.
"I am Sable, reincarnated soul of Shadow the Hedgehog, don't you forget it!"
Rubble's eyes rolled back as he fell limp, the other copied so.
"Such weaklings." Sable muttered, kicking the fainted forms before turning away, not meeting eyes with anybody.
"Let us be off."
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