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Chapter 7: Serious Matters

In the utterly dark room you could only see the sparks and flares of Amy and of the evil, Machine M-14 clash in their fight. Amy charged at it once more, but before she knew it, the Ghost mech punched her in the stomach and kicked her towards the wall. Blood started to fall from her head and she held her red eye in pain. Her vision started to be blurry. She could barely see her surroundings except a shadowy figure walking up to her. A hand clasped on to her neck and lifted her into the air. Her windpipe was being forcibly closed so hard, her nose started to bleed. The hand was cold and metallic. It was M-14 choking her.

"It's been fun, little rat. But, I'm under orders to kill you." The Ghost Mech stated unemotionally. He threw Amy into another wall. He laughed as he eyed the unconscious body of Sonic in the corner of the room and Tails stuck on the ceiling. He walked back towards the pink hedgehog yet again and grabbed her by the neck. He put his hand out and it soon became a drill. He moved it slowly towards Amy's face.

M-14 laughed as he thought of the carnage that he was about to do. He suddenly stopped as he got mere centimeters to Amy's face. He looked towards his body and noticed that a sword went right through his chest. He started to panic and dropped Amy from his grasp. He looked behind him and noticed that Sonic had stabbed him. His head was bleeding badly and dripped onto the floor.

"No. This can't be happening. I'm not supposed to be harmed. I'm supposed to be indestructible. Why is this happening?"

Sonic chuckled. "I managed to find out your trick. You can only do one thing at a time." He took out the sword as The Ghost Mech fell to the floor. Amy got up and looked at Sonic.

"Thanks for the help Takuya." She said as she sheathed her katana as Yume landed on her shoulder, in complete silence.

"Uh.I hate to ask this, but who are you?" he asked with confusion in his voice. Amy sighed and held her head in frustration.

"You idiot…it me. Izumi." She stated as her face collided with the palm of her hand. "I managed to Spirit Evolve like you and Tommy. Lucky I was here in time. Looks like he was about to kill you."

"Yeah. He was able to use shadows to his advantage. I don't know how, but he was weakening when he was fighting me. How come?" She was confused thinking about the moment of the fight. Her beloved pet owl flew onto her shoulder and shook its neck.

"Perhaps, it was the difference in elements. By what I noticed, since he was using shadows in his attacks, he must have been a dark elemental machine." Yume suggested as Amy nodded in agreement. Sonic noticed the talking nocturnal bird as his eye twitched.

"Um…did your owl just talk? H-how is that even possible? "

"Why young Takuya, I had the intellect to make sentences as well as speeches. But alas, Even though I had my wit, I was just an owl. Never to talk." Yume took a breath as she noticed she lost Sonic in her speech. "But, because of Izumi use this technique called 'Spirit Evolution' on herself, I though to myself 'why don't I use that as well.' And now, here I am. Able to talk freely without hiding anything."

As she took to the ceiling in delight, Yume looked at the unconscious Tails, whose head was still through the ceiling. Amy and Sonic noticed him and started pulling him out of the ceiling with ease. As he fell to the floor, all of their D-Tectors beeped and surrounded them in the same glow as before, turning them back to their original selves.

"Tommy looks like he's unconscious." Izumi stated as she looked at Tommy with a defeated look on her face. Cuts and bruises were on his face and the more serious cuts started to bleed. Emerl, Gear, and the others ran and looked at Tommy.

"We can bring him upstairs and let him have some rest for now." Emerl stated. "I'm afraid we can't treat his wounds at the moment. I don't have the proper healing items."

J.P nodded and picked up Tommy gently and was about to bring him upstairs, but Takuya stopped him and looked at Emerl.

"Hold on a second. I just realized you didn't tell us about why we are here in the first place. Now tell us, what is it that we are here and why we have these spirits?" Takuya commanded to Emerl. All the intelligent robot could do was sigh as he opened his hand. Gear noticed his hand and stared at it for a moment. Emerl moved his eyes to Gear as she kept staring at his palm. He got irritated and punched her in the stomach, which sent the message to Gear's empty shell of a processor and brought out the wise robot's book of legends. He skimmed through the pages looking for the right one to start.

"Ah, yes. Why you are here in Mobius in the first place, I presume. I'll talk about the first thing about that. As soon as Mobius was formed, little creatures known as Chao roamed the land, with a giant emerald, called the Master Emerald and 7 smaller emeralds called Chaos Emeralds as their deities. Until more people showed up. They started to fight for territory as well as power. When the fight started to get rough and it affected the Chao greatly. Many of them were killed because of this." Emerl stopped as he noticed most of the group's reactions.

They all either looked away from Emerl or tried not to look sad at all. It hurt him inside for telling them about this. He had no choice, if they want to know something. They have to know everything.

"As soon as the Chao were being killed, something happened within the Master Emerald. A creature made purely of water arose from it. He vanquished everyone that hurt the Chao with massive floods and tidal waves. Because of this, he was given the name Chaos, the god of destruction. He was both a sign of greatness to some, but to others, he was a great threat. Around 5 years after that, most of the Mobians noticed him as a God and created a kingdom for him, The Kingdom of Chaos. It's still around today and had 12 rulers, Chaos being the first and an echidna from Angel Island named Tikal being the current 12th ruler of the kingdom."

Izumi looked at Emerl with some grief, but also with some anger. "But that doesn't explain why we are here." She stated. Everyone agreed to the comment while Emerl was finding the page.

"Okay. Apparently, as the 11th ruler somehow went missing, Tikal took his place. But, as she took his place, an evil tyrant known as Lord Metallic arose from the lair that was once Dr. Eggman's, who also disappeared the same time that Lord Metallic showed up. He used all of Eggman's robots to either turn them into more powerful robots, or used them as his guards."

"So that must be why those robots kept attacking us." J.P thought out loud.

"Exactly." Emerl continued, "So during that time, Tikal sent 7 warriors that each held a Chaos Emerald to use for their vast elemental, physical, and mental abilities. With them, Lord Metallic wouldn't stand a chance. However…" Emerl went silent as he was struggling to say the words.

"What is it? It can't be that..." Roki told the storytelling robot, but Koji silenced her before she could finish.

"They all failed their task and one of them switch to Lord Metallic's army. Everyone else died and turned themselves into spirits, knowing one day they will be back to defeat the tyrant once and for all."

"Well then, if we are to fight Lord Metallic, how the fuck can we?" Koji interjected. "If you haven't noticed, only three of us have spirits and they couldn't even beat this fucking piece of shit we call a robot!"

Emerl looked at the dark-haired teen and could only sigh at what he said. He wanted to say something in defense, but he couldn't help but admit he was right. Although he did feel some anger for disgracing what he thought are the saviors of Mobius.

"Well Koji. Once the rest of you get the other spirits, you will be put into training for the immanent fight against Lord Metallic. But for now, we have to find the rest of the spirits before Lord Metallic finds them and uses them for his malicious deeds. We'll start looking for them in the morning. I suggest you get your rest. We'll be going by dawn." And with that, both he and his female counterpart went upstairs to their rooms. Everyone else slowly got to their rooms after the robots did, now with knowledge of what currently seems to be the greatest task that they've ever faced.

In Lord Metallic's lair, the tyrant himself was sitting his throne with his face shadowed by the intense darkness with his robotic aid, Theta, beside him. He noticed the 6 figures covered by shadows kneeling towards him.

"It seems that the kids have managed to get three out of the 7 spirits. However, we managed to get the Sprit of Darkness. Making it 6 now." Theta updated the metal tyrant.

"Thank you Theta. Now I've called you six because you are the strongest non-machines in my personal army. I want you to do your task and do it well." He got up and walked towards the end of the room. On the wall was a sword. It looks like a normal sword, except the edges of the blade were glowing violet. He grabbed the sword and threw it at the screen, showing a picture of the group he started to loathe as much as he did with Sonic and his team. As he threw it, the screen fell and crushed the throne he was once sitting on. "I want you to bring the rest of the spirits. I don't care how you do it. Just bring be them. Also, if you can bring the head of the brat harboring Sonic's spirit, you will be rewarded handsomely."

As he finished, the six figures left, setting off for there quest. Lord Metallic looked at the moon and curled his hand into a fist.

"Sonic. Your head will be mine. I shall put in on a mantle over my fireplace."