Ch.8: Double Trouble
The battle began with Super Sonic and Super Shadow charging at Scarlet Snapdragon determined to tear apart his armor plating bit by bit. Using the power of Chaos Control to increase his speed Shadow was able fire his Chaos Spears at such speed that Scarlet Snapdragon barely had time to dodge.
One spear managed to pierce all the way through the armor leaving a gaint crack in it's place to reveal the weak point. Sonic moved in next and used his super spin to crack the shell the rest of the way open.
The armor plating broke off, and those standing on the sidelines cheered. But cheers didn't last long when what lay underneath all that armor. There was Knuckles, his scalene eyes set in a fierce glare, and his red fur glowing an eerie black.
Dr. Eggman was to stunned for words. The only other time he had seen this dark transformation was with Sonic. The blue hedgehog had become furious with what the Metarex had done to his friends, and so possessed by anger that his new found power threatened to destroy anyone that got in his way. That's the way Knuckles looked now.
But it wasn't just this fact that had Eggman on his toes. No, the Good Doctor had noticed that the Chaos and Master Emeralds were starting to black as well. They were turning evil, just like their guardian.
" The Metarex have no idea what monster they have created," said Eggman.
That statement was only proven when the Dark Hyper Knuckles rushed Super Sonic and Super Shadow at lightning speed. Both hedgehogs, and especially the auidence, were shocked at Knuckles amazing speed.
Before either Sonic or Shadow had a chance to dodge Knuckles pummeled them both with his spiky fists. Shadow and Sonic were both knocked into a wall with stunning force.
Afriad Amy started to rush towards Sonic but Dark Hyper Knuckles met her halfway and blasted her with a Chaos Blade. Amy's yell brought Super Sonic back to reality and his eyes were open to witness Amy get hit by Knuckles Chaos Blade.
Her scream of terror was horrifying that Super Shadow had to hold his ears. But the scene was over when Amy's crippled body fell, and her blood leaked on the floor. Sonic flew in mad rage at Knuckles.
" That's it!" said Sonic " mind control or not, you are going down!"
But Dark Hyper Knuckles had one more surprise up his sleeve for Sonic. As glowing gold image of Super Sonic raced towards him Knuckles called down lightning seemingly from nowhere and trapped Sonic in a Chaos Cage.
But the Chaos Cage Knuckles had summoned did more than stop Sonic's attack. In the few seconds Sonic was in there all of the gold energy that surrounded his body started to seep away and into the life-draining force of the Chaos Cage.
Everyone that saw this stood still in shock and horror as Super Sonic's gold fur was turning back to electric blue. Rouge, who had been observing all of this from the sidelines now thought that after all this staring it was finally time to intervene.
Plucking a knock out dart from her waist-line belt Rouge fired the dart at Knuckles, and it struck the echidna in the back of the neck. Shocked by the sting of the dart Knuckles lost his concentration for a moment and the Chaos Cage desentagrated.
Before falling unconious Knuckles gave Rouge a frightening glare and then blacked out onto the floor.
Losing his super form Shadow rushed over the unconious Sonic while the others ran to help the injured Amy. Dr. Eggman stood speechless in wonderment when all of a sudden a new problem arose.
From the metal alter the Master Emerald and the Chaos Emeralds were overloading with power, thanks to their now unconious guardians dark heart. Rouge saw this as well and hurried to remove the control chip attached to Knuckles skull. But even when she crushed it, Knuckles fur, and the Emeralds still remianed black.
" We have to stop this somehow," cried Chris.
But without Knuckles the Emeralds could not be stopped. All that was left for them all was destruction.