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Chapter 2: A New Threat

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"Wow..." Sonic said with amazement. He took in his surroundings, standing on a square obsidian platform with the rest of the gang.

"I've never seen such naturally-occurring structures in my life!" Tails exclaimed. "It's just so...unreal!"

"What are THOSE things?" Silver said with curiosity as he pointed to some strange creatures walking around in the distance.

These creatures were really tall, about twice as tall as Sonic, not to mention everyone else. They were dark purple, and humanoid. They had very long arms and legs, and a small torso. They emanated a purple aura that would make one cringe at such an encounter.

Tails shuddered at the sight of them. "They are REALLY creeping me out, Sonic!"

"Don't worry, buddy!" Sonic replied heartily. "I'm sure they won't hurt you!"

Sonic had spoken too soon. One of them turned towards the gang and started...teleporting...to them, with his jaw opened fully.

Sonic's eyes turned to little black dots. "Not good..."

"SSSONNNIIIIC!" Sonic turned to hear Tails crying out for him as one of the creatures chased him frantically.

"You must be joking..." Sonic said to himself angrily. He yelled, "I'm comin' for ya, Tails!"

Sonic raced towards the creature, jumped up, and kicked him across the jaw. It fell back from the astonishing blow, but wasn't finished.

"Maybe this'll work..." Silver said as he tried to use his telekinetic powers to suspend the creature in the air. It failed. The thing teleported away, confronting Shadow next.

"Me now, huh?" Shadow stated with a smirk. "CHAOS SPEAR!"

He performed a Chaos Spear on the creature, but it teleported away before it could be hurt.

"You think you're so special, huh?" Shadow grinned with an evil countenance. He pulled out a green Chaos Emerald from wherever they magically appear in the Sonic games, and started his epicness. "CHAOS CONTROL!"

He was able to keep up with the thing's teleportation abilities, and was even able to get in a couple punches to the jaw and stomach.

The creature was getting weak, barely able to fight anymore. Knuckles saw an opportunity, and glid forward, punching him in the face with his awesomely sharp knuckles. The creature let out a death cry, and vanished into thin air, much to the gang's surprise.

"Hey! The rascal left something behind." Knuckles said as he knelt down to the white stone ground. "It looks like a pearl of some sort."

"Well Knuckles, you ARE the master treasure hunter! Why don't you figure out what it is?" Sonic said jokingly.

"But...I've never seen such a bizarre pearl before..."

"Aw, come on, Knuckles! You know enough about jewels and gems and pearls and stuff to figure it out what it is!"

"Sonic, I have no clue what this is."

"Well, you know what, Knuckles? You probably weren't as smart as you thought, now, were you?" Sonic was growing impatient.

"FORGET IT THEN!" Knuckles yelled, throwing the pearl away in frustration. As the pearl hit the ground, however, Knuckles was teleported away from the scene to another part of the floating white stone island.

"What the..." Sonic mumbled, confused. He sped towards Knuckles, and saw he was bruised a bit. The gang walked up soon after.

"It's just like Chaos Control." Shadow said to himself. "Except that you take damage once the action is executed..."

"What happened?" Knuckles asked weakly.

"I dunno, but I didn't do it!" Silver replied.

"Well, whatever it was, it kinda hurt!"

"Looks like it."

"This pearl," Tails said, "seems to have teleportation qualities similar to Chaos Control, except -"

"You get hurt in the process." Shadow completed the thought.

As everyone stood around, confounded from the pearl incident, a new threat had revealed itself. A huge black dragon-like creature swooped down at the gang, which shocked them.

"Looks like we've got another problem on our hands." Sonic said with a scowl. "And it's not Eggman."

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