SONIC HEROES: THE SERIES
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Sonic characters, just the OC's
Chapter Five: Feel the Burn
It's been over a week since the, as Sonic dubbed them, Sonic Heroes managed to sort their way through the chaos of moving in to their new home and, surprisingly, so far have faced yet to any trouble from Eggman. Needless to say, they were pretty bored. Jet, Tails, and Omega were sitting at the dinning room table, enjoying their morning breakfast, or in Omega's case, recharging. Sonic, Shadow, and their other teammates had left yesterday after receiving orders from the commander to calm down some natural disasters in far away places, leaving them to deal with the trouble in Station Square. "Hey guys." Silver yawned as he entered the room and sat at the table. Jet was about to eat a piece of toast until Silver used his psycho kinetic powers to levitate the toasted bread and place it in his mouth. "Hey! That's mine!" Jet exclaimed. "Well it's in my mouth now." Silver retorted. Jet then jumped on Silver's back and preceded to strange him.
While the emerald hawk tried to recover his lost breakfast from the grey hedgehog's stomach, a small white mouse made its way up the table and scurried across. "Heads up!" Tails warned the rest. All of a sudden, everyone at the table grabbed all the plates and silverware and lifted them up, just in time to avoid Blaze as she sliding across the table. "You won't get away from me this time!" Blaze yelled at the mouse. The mouse jumped off the table, quickly followed by the eccentric cat. "Gotcha!" Exclaimed as she held the mouse in her hand. But to her disappointment, the 'mouse' was just a bar of soap. A small squeaking laughter could be heard as the mouse ran back into its hole. Blaze ran up to the hole with an angered look on her face. "I swear I'll get you one of these days, Gary." Blaze said. Just then, the mouse named Gary crawled into the air duct above Blaze and dropped a three week rotten tomato on her head. "I really should have seen that coming." Blaze said to herself as she grabbed a towel to wipe the tomato off her head.
"You know, if you keep this up, you might end up killing yourself." Tails said as he took a sip of juice. "No! Not until I catch that monster!" Blaze screeched. "It's just a mouse." Tails said. "An evil mouse!" Blaze yelled. "Come on. How hard could it be to snatch a tiny rat?" Jet taunted. Jet was about to eat his second piece of toast until he noticed it was missing from his hand. "Silver!" Jet screeched. "It wasn't me." Silver said in the most honest manner possible. "Object located!" Omega stated as he pointed his claw to the other end of the room. There, on the living room table, was Gary nibbling at Jet's breakfast. "That rat has my breakfast!" Jet yelled. "You were saying." Blaze taunted back. "Get that pest!" Jet shouted. Jet and Blaze ran at both sides of the table and jumped to capture the mouse. Unfortunately, they weren't anticipating each other being there and crash their heads together, knocking them out. Gary laughed before jumping off the table and ran into his hole, taking Jet's breakfast along with it. "Somehow I just knew that was going to happen." Tails commented and Silver nodded his head in agreement.
Back at the dreary castle of the Dark Rulers, Nazo, Black Doom, and Erazor Djinn observed Blaze and Jet's antics through a mystical portal on the wall. Nazo and Erazor laughed their hearts out while Black Doom remained as an emotionless statue. "Man, those pathetic heroes sure are good for a laugh." Nazo chuckled. "Yeah, their better then most comedy's on TV." Erazor continued to laugh. "Enough of this! Don't you think we should be devising a way to get rid of those meddlesome pests before they cause us any trouble?" The agitated Black Doom questioned. "Calm down, Doom. You think I haven't already planned ahead? I have already sent Mephiles to retrieve a few items for me." Nazo explained. "And I have successfully found them." Mephiles said as he walked out of the shadows holding a gold and red bird in one hand and a burning flame in the other. "Well it's about time." Nazo complained. "Forgive me, my lord." Mephiles said as he placed the items on the table in front of Nazo. "What are you planning on doing with these?" Erazor asked. "Eggman uses science to create his minions, but I prefer a more...mystical approach." Nazo said.
As Black Doom, Erazor Djinn, and Mephiles look on in wonderment, Nazo summoned a flame of blue chaos energy into his left hand, which quickly changed to a dark, sinister color. "Black Chaos: Dark Merge!" Nazo called out as he hurtled the dark flame to bird and the scorching flame. The dark chaos soon spread around the items and quickly grew at a rapid rate. When the flames disappeared, the items were replaced by a red anthro phoenix with golden wings and golden chest armor and wielded a blood red dagger. "Present yourself." Nazo commanded. "My name is Fenik and I only live to serve you, Lord Nazo." Fenik introduced himself as he bowed to Nazo. "I must say, that I quite impressive." Erazor complimented. "To be able to create a powerful creature from two insignificant objects. That's quite a feat." Black Doom said, equally impressed by Nazo's power. "Enough with compliments. Fenik, I have a mission for you." Nazo said. "Anything for you, my lord." Fenik said excitingly. "It's really quite simple. Destroy Station Square and everyone in it." Nazo commanded. "As you wish, my lord." Fenik bowed.
"Are you sure this will work?" Blaze asked her feathered friend. Jet was making some sort of trap in front of Gary's hole, which Tails predicted, wouldn't work. But, of course, Jet didn't listen. "Of course this will work. All we have to do is lure that dumb rat out with this." Jet held up a piece of cheese. "And then we'll drop the cage on him." Jet pointed to the small cage above them. "I don't know." Blaze said. "Come on, trust me." Jet said. "Uh...guys." Blaze and Jet looked over to see Silver with a curious look. "What?" they both asked. "What's holding that cage up?" Silver asked. "The ro-AAH!" Jet screamed as he found Gary gnawing at the rope. Before either Blaze or Jet had a chance to run, the small cage dropped on top of them and trapped them inside. Gary gave off a squeaky laugh before grabbing the cheese that Jet dropped and scurried back in its hole. 'I just knew that would happen.' Silver thought.
Tails and Omega were in the new workshop, creating a retinal scanner for their secret storage room that Knuckles discovered four days ago (By dropping on his head). Then, the workshops viewing screen turned on to show the G.U.N. Commander on screen. "Greetings commander!" Omega said. "What's going on? Need us to handle another natural disaster?" Tails asked as he removed his goggles. "Not this time, Tails. This one is far from natural." The commander said. "What do you mean?" Tails asked. "There is a strange monster burning up the city. I need you and the rest of the heroes to take care of it." the commander instructed. "Yes, sir!" Tails and Omega saluted before running out of the workshop. "Guys, you won't believe..." Tails trailed off when he enter the living room and was greeted by the most unusual sight. Apparently, Silver was attempting to pull Jet and Blaze out of the small cage by their tails, earning him a slap from Blaze. "A little help here?" Silver asked "This could take a while." Tails said before he and Omega walked over to help them.
Station Square was under attack and people were scream for their lives. The city was set aflame as with each step Fenik created a small flame. Fenik spread his wings to shoot out a barrage of gold feathers to the surrounding build to set them on fire on contact. "That's right! Burn!" Fenik evilly laughed. But to the monster bird's surprise, the flames of destruction he created slowly dimmed and burned out. "Huh? What's going on?" Fenik questioned. "Are you the one causing this trouble?" Fenik turned around to find the heroes lined up to face him. By the way how she held her hands to the burning building, Fenik guessed it was Blaze using her pyrokinetic powers to stop his destruction. "Who are you and why are you doing this?" Jet asked. "My name is Fenik and I come here under the command of my master." Fenik informed. "Master?" Silver questioned silently. Fenik the pulled out two black balls from his wings. "Let see if that three-eyed freak was true to his word." Fenik said as he smashed the ball into the ground and the broken shards formed into several Black Warriors. "Black Arms? What are they doing here?" Tails questioned. "I don't know, but let's fight now and ask questions later." Silver said. "Attack!" Fenik commanded and the Black Warriors followed.
The battle spread out along the abandoned street as Silver faced off against Fenik while the others handled the Black Warriors. Blaze used her incredible acrobatics the push herself of one of the Black Warrior's should and flip over its head. While in midair, Blaze turned around and sideswiped the Black Warrior's head. As she landed, Blaze's highly sensitive ear heard the sound of footsteps behind her and dropped down on her back. When she fell to her back, Blaze swiftly pushed her feet up to kick two Black Warriors chins and knocked them out. Blaze quickly jumped back on to her feet, only to come face-to-face with five other Black Warriors. "You must be joking. Is this all you got?" Blaze mocked. The Black Warriors march to Blaze with the black swords held high as a threat, but Blaze paid no attention to it. Blaze used her pyrokinetic powers to ignite her hand and kicked off the ground towards the Warriors. Blaze twirled into a tornado of flames and entrapped the Warriors inside. When the tornado diminished all that was left of the Black Warriors and was giant puddle of black ooze.
"Whoa! Watch it!" Jet exclaimed as he jumped back just in time to avoid one of the Black Warrior's swords. Black Warrior reeled its sword from out of the ground and attempted to take another swing at the emerald bird. Luckily, Jet ducked down and slid under the aliens legs and kicked his butt...literally. Jet chuckled as the Black Warrior was sent flying and had its head caught in an exposed pipeline. "That was too easy! Any other suckers?!" Jet challenged. Unfortunately for him, over twenty Black Warriors accepted his challenge and surrounded him. "Uh...anyone in for a game of go fish?" Jet said nervously. The Warriors jumped the poor bird. "Guess not!" Jet screeched. Unknown to them, Jet secretly snuck out from under them and watched as they beat each other up. "Man, bad guys fall for that every time." Jet chuckled. Jet walked up to the dumb pile of aliens and held his fan back like a baseball bat. Jet reeled back his fan and delivered a monstrous swing. It was a line drive to center. It's going...going...GONE! An advertisement screen lit up saying "HOME RUN!"
Tails was standing on top of Omega's head, throwing as many explosive rings as possible, while Omega used his machine guns on the surrounding aliens. "Good work, Omega! We got them on the ropes!" Tails cheered as he reached into his backpack for another handful of rings. Unfortunately for the kitsune, Tails had inadvertently forgot to create more explosive rings because he was so busy repairing the base. "Uh...Omega...I'm kinda out of rings." Tails said nervously. "Situation confirmed! Do not worry; I will keep them at bay!" Omega stated as he shot another Black Warrior in the head. "Yeah, but what happens when you run out of..." Omega ran out of ammo. "...Ammo?" Tails said with a deadpan expression on his face. Seeing as how their prey was out of ammo, the Black Warrior moved in for the kill. "What do we do now?" Tails asked. Omega ignored the Black Warriors for a moment as he retracted his machine guns to replace them with his claws. And before anyone of them realized it, Omega shot up and opened the secret panels in his arms to reveal his hidden missiles. "Uh oh." The Black Warriors said before they were blasted away.
"PYCHIC SCREW!" Silver yelled as he created typhoon of psychic energy. Fenik, unfortunately, raised his red dagger to the hedgehogs attack and surprisingly absorbed it. "What the? What happened" Silver questioned. "My blood dagger is no ordinary dagger. It was forged from pure red chaos steel." Fenik snickered. "And my abilities don't work on anything made of pure chaos." Silver realized. "Exactly, now...DIE!" Fenik screeched as he spread his wings to unleash a barrage of red feathers. 'Gotta think fast!' Silver thought. Silver quickly summoned up a barrier of psychic energy and knocked the feathers away from him. "I believe these belong to you." Silver said as he used his psychokinetic powers to levitate the feathers and hurtle them back at red bird monster. Fenik just smirked as the deadly feathers came closer. "Using my own attack against me, you must be joking." Fenik said. And in a burst of blinding speed, Fenik used his dagger to cut through the feathers and halt the attack. "It looks like you'll have to come up with something better." Fenik laughed.
"Silver, are you ok." Blaze asked as she and the rest of the heroes moved in closer to him. "Yeah, but I don't know what to do. This guy is unlike anything we have ever faced before." Silver said. 'This guy must have some kind of weakness.' Jet thought. "If you guys are just going to stand there then burn!" Fenik screech as he once again fired an endless barrage of golden feathers. Silver and the others quickly jumped away, with the exception of Omega, to avoid the assault. Jet quickly jumped behind a fallen piece of rubble and carefully watched Fenik as he fought against his friends. 'This uses his feathers to create fires.' Jet thought as he watched the feathers burn Omega's steel body, but did no damage. 'And even if we avoid those feathers, there is still the problem with that dagger.' Jet thought. He watched as Blaze hurtled a fireball at Fenik, but the bird rebounded it with his dagger. Suddenly, Jet had an idea. 'That's it!' Jet thought. As Silver slowly backed away, Jet suddenly pulled Silver close "What are you doing?" Silver asked. "Listen, I have an idea." Jet then whispered his plan to Silver.
"Hmm. Where did that damn rat go?" Fenik asked himself. "I'm a hedgehog, not a rat." Fenik turned around to find Silver standing with a smirk on his face. "What's wrong, aren't you going to burn me?" Silver mocked him. "Silver, what are you doing!" Blaze screamed. "Relax, Blaze. We got this." Silver reassured her. "Alright, get ready to die!" Fenik screeched as he stretch his wings and launched his feathers again. But, to Fenik's surprise, his stopped and fell halfway and that they were...green. "What the?!" Fenik panicked when he noticed that his golden feathers were now green. "Do these feathers make me look fat?" Jet asked his friends. Fenik noticed that Jet had replaced his precious golden feathers with his own. "What have you done?!" Fenik yelled. "Spoiled your barbecue." Jet mocked. "No matter, I still have my dagger." Fenik proclaimed as he held his dagger high. But unfortunately, Blaze suddenly launched a fireball and knocked the dagger away. "Uh oh." Fenik said. "Uh oh is right. PSYCHIC SCREW!" Silver called out his signature attack. Without his dagger, Fenik had no way of avoiding the attack. Fenik was caught in Silver devastating attack and utterly destroyed.
Silver and the others returned to their base after their victory, but it didn't seem like the right time to celebrate. For some reason, everyone couldn't shake off the feeling that they were missing something. "I don't understand. How could the Black Arms be here? I though only Black Doom could create them." Tails said. "Well, maybe he did." Jet said. "That's impossible. Shadow killed him a long time ago." Tails informed them. "Just who is this Black Doom guy anyway?" Blaze asked. He was the leader of the Black Arms. Here let me show you." Tails said as he walked up to his computer. After pressing a series of buttons, the screen showed a picture of Black Doom. "This is Black Doom." Tails informed him. "Kinda creepy, don't think, Silver?" Jet chuckled. No response. "Silver?" Jet turned around to see Silver literally quaking in his boots. 'That's the guy who helped me fight Iblis and Solaris. That's Black Doom.' Silver thought, remembering his encounters with Black Doom. It became obvious to Silver that Black Doom was alive. But the question was, how?
Nazo and Black Doom were watching the entire thing from within the center of their castle. "It would appear that Silver realizes your existence. This could be trouble." Nazo said with a smirk. "It would also appear that your creation is a failure." Black Doom replied. "Exactly as planned." Nazo said. "I don't understand." Black Doom said. Nazo waked floated down from his high white chair to land in front of the chess board with the figures. "Fenik was not created to defeat them. On the contrary, he was created to test them." Nazo said. "Test them?" Black Doom questioned. "Yes, I wanted to see how powerful they truly are." Nazo said as he stared down at the hero's side of the board. He then picked up Silver's figure and moved it up one space. "It would seem that this game has gotten a bit more interesting." Nazo said wit an evil grin.
The heroes have successfully faced their first challange, but Nazo is not finished just yet. What does he have planned for the heroes. Stay tuned to find out.
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