SONIC HEROES: THE SERIES
Disclaimer: I do not own the Sonic characters, just the OC's
Chapter Nineteen: Everlasting Fire, Part 1
Station Square was having a normal day. That is until a skyscraper blew up and two figures jumped out to land on a nearby building. One was a giant green spider monster with six arms and purple venom from its mouth sent by Nazo. The other was the hero of the day, Metal Sonic. Nazo's monster was not sent to attack the city, but to attack Metal and retrieve what he stole from Nazo. But at this rate, that doesn't look like it's going to happen.
"Is...that all you got?" the spider panted. "If I wanted to...I could beat you in a second."
Metal knew this to be a bluff. The spider had over a hundred shots, yet none of them landed. Metal, on the other hand, only landed two blows and already his enemy was ready to kick the bucket.
"This is getting boring." Metal said. Metal held his claw to his face in a sort of yawning expression. "Can we get this over with? I have other things to do, you know."
"I'll show you!" The spider exclaimed.
The spider jumped up and charged at Metal, but Metal didn't even twitch. With just the motion of his eyes, Metal created an electrical barrier around him. The spider did not realize this until he was fired and turned to ash.
"That was a big disappointment." Metal said. the sudden sound of police sirens filled the air. Metal looked over the edge to see the police surrounding it. "Better leave before they discover me. I have a reputation to keep after all."
By using chaos control, Metal disappeared and returned to Eggman's current location.
Meanwhile, Nazo and Black Doom were watching the entire fight through the viewing portal and seemed very disappointed at the results.
"Just goes to show you. Never leave a spider to do a villains work." Nazo sighed as he leaned back into his throne. "After several months, we are still nowhere close to getting back what he stole."
"Just what did he steal?" Black Doom asked.
Nazo made no motion to reply as he placed hand over his face in sheer annoyance. Just then, Mephiles walked in on them. Black Doom noticed that the air around Mephiles seemed to be unusually cold recently. He mostly figures it has something to with the object he has been sensing. Mephiles walked up to Nazo and bowed before him.
"What is it, Mephiles?" Nazo asked, clearly annoyed.
"Nazo, as you may remember, I have been detecting a familiar presence." Mephiles said.
"Yeah?" Nazo said intrigued.
"I have pinpointed it's location to be somewhere around Soleanna." Mephiles explained.
"That's where Silver and his friends are resting." Black Doom informed. "Coincidence?"
"Maybe, but we'll never know if we just stay put." Nazo said. "All right, Mephiles, you can go. But, I won't allow you to leave without taking some help."
Nazo once again summoned the display of canisters with a snap of his fingers. Nazo raised his hand to call forth a canister with a hermit crab inside and a canister with turtle. Nazo summoned a black flame in his hand and chanted.
"BLACK CHAOS: DARK MERGE!"
The two items were enshrouded within the black flames and began to form. The two formed together to create and massive bipedal creature with a razor tortoise shell and had two crab claws. The head was sort of a mixture of a snapping turtle with mutated fangs growing from the side of its face.
"Present yourself." Nazo commanded.
"I am terquine and I exist only to serve Lord Nazo." Terquine said.
"Your mission is very simple." Nazo said. "Follow Mephiles and listen to everything he says." Terquine bowed in understanding. "Now we will find out what's going on around here."
The scene then changes to the mountain ruins of Kingdom Valley. There, two residents of the town were exploring the ancient ruins of the former castle, looking form something.
I'm telling you, I really saw It." The first man said.
"Yeah, right." The second man said in disbelief. "You saw a black rock with glowing red eyes. Yeah, that's believable." The two scoured hopelessly for the object that the man described. Unknown to them, they were being watched. "Just give it up, man. Whatever you saw, it's not here."
"But I'm telling you, I did see It." The first man said.
"Whatever." The second shrugged it off.
Just as the men were about to leave, the atmosphere around them became unusual hot. They new it was impossible to be this hot since it was only exiting the winter season. They then noticed a giant figure looming over them and looked back. After that, the only thing that could be heard was two painful screams and monstrous roar.
The scene then takes place to the town of Soleanna itself. Silver and Blaze were relaxing at Silver's favorite café from his first story. Also ironically joining them was Team Virtex. And you know if Raine was there, Charmy wasn't far behind. Just then, Silver's friend that worked here came up to them.
"Hey, Silver, man. How's life treating you?" the server said (we'll call him Mark from now on).
"Well, I've had better days." Silver said. "It's just nice to get out of the hero business once and a while."
"So I guess it's just the usual for you and your lovely lady friend?" Mark asked.
"Yeah, I get what ever you can find for them." Silver said as he pointed to Charmy and Team Virtex.
"Got it." Mark said as he walked back.
"So what made you guys decide to come here anyway?" Blaze asked.
"After handling nine undercover jobs in a row, we thought we deserve a break from work." Recter said. "It was just mere coincidence that we ran into you."
"I think Charmy would disagree with you there." Silver looked over to the two young insects staring at each other with loving expressions. "He's the one that led us here in the first place."
"You know, I think they're starting to become serious." Blaze commented.
"Not likely." Recter stated. "She's only a little girl. She doesn't know what love is."
"Amy was nine when she fell in love with Sonic." Silver stated.
"That's it! I'm pulling the plug on this!" Recter said in his usual overprotective manner.
Recter jumped up from his chair and stomped over to the young insects until Howl grabbed him by his quill.
"Sit down!" Howl commanded. Howl pulled Recter back to his seat. "Honestly, Recter, you need to learn how to relax."
"I'll relax when I want to!" Recter exclaimed. Just as Mark had returned with their food, a random laser shot zipped past him and knocked him off his feet. The heroes turned completely around and found Mephiles in the center of a squadron of Black Warriors. The heroes quickly jumped from their chairs. "And this is not one of those times."
"Mephiles, what are you doing here?" Silver questioned.
"This has nothing to do with you, Silver." Mephiles said. "But if you wish to fight, then you will have one." Mephiles raised his claw to command the aliens. "Kill them while I continue my search."
"Search?" Silver whispered.
Mephiles waved his hand to signal the Black Warriors to attack, while Mephiles remained in place. The six charged in at once and jumped into the pile of dark aliens. Recter grabbed two aliens by their legs and smashed them together before throwing them into the ocean. Howl decided to pull his sword and held it forward, opposed to his usual style. Howl swung his sword in a diagonal angle and flips it around to stab the alien behind him. Howl and Recter went back to back.
"Recter, have you noticed something about Mephiles?" Howl asked as he blocked another alien.
"Like what?" Recter asked while punching another alien.
"He hasn't moved at all." Howl stated. He noticed that even with all fighting, Mephiles hadn't moved a muscle. "It's as if he's not trying to fight."
"Better for us." Recter commented.
Blaze swung around to kick another black warrior across the head. Another black warrior snuck up behind her and wrapped its arms around to keep her in a lock. Blaze smirked as she decided to bring the heat, literally. Blaze focused all of her heat into her body and made her hotter then lava. The black warrior cried in pain as its arms were singed off. Black broke free and grabbed a hold of the warriors head to melt it off.
"You know, I think I might be enjoying this too much." Blaze commented.
Raine swooped around the air and tried to avoid the black warriors. Unfortunately, one black warrior jumped in her path and grabbed her by her wings. Raine tried to reach for her vials in her jacket, but another black warrior grabbed arms to stop her. Another black warrior raised it laser to her head and prepared to fire until.
"Help!" Raine cried.
"Leave her alone!" Charmy exclaimed.
Charmy flew out of nowhere and pointed his stinger at the black warrior's eye. He landed his mark and forced the aliens to release Raine. Raine took this opportunity to reach into her jacket and pulled out a vial of stomach virus power. Raine tossed the powder over the alien's heads. Since the black warriors had no mouths to eject from, they all blew up from the inside.
"Nice work." Charmy commented.
"Thanks you for saving me." Raine said. Charmy blushed at that. Then, Raine gave Charmy a peck on the cheek, causing the young bee to faint. "You're not dead, are you?"
Silver was using his psychokinetic powers to force a barrier to protect himself from the black warrior's attacks. But even with his enemies attacking him from all directions, his attention was focused on Mephiles. Just by looking at him, it appeared that he was asleep.
"What is he doing?" Silver mentally asked himself. "He said he was searching for something, but what?" Silver's thoughts were interrupted by an annoying banging on his shield. "You know, you're really starting to annoy me."
Silver clapped his hands together and expanded his shield to toss the aliens in all directions. One of the black warriors was head for Mephiles direction. Mephiles eyes remained closed, but he swung his claw to slice the flying warrior in half. All the heroes (except Charmy) made their stand against Mephiles.
"All right, Mephiles, talk!" Silver demanded. "What are you looking for?"
But Mephiles remained in his close-eyed state. This ticked Silver off. Silver charged in recklessly and raised his fist to punch the dark demon. But before he could even reach him, Silver was hit by a jet of water that sent his flying into the ocean.
"What was that?" Blaze questioned. The four remaining heroes looked over to see Terquine with his claw stretched out. "And I thought things couldn't get any uglier."
"So who are you supposed to be, freak?" Howl questioned.
"My name is terquine and I'm gonna wash you away!" Terquine exclaimed.
Terquine held out his claw and ejected a stream of rushing water. Howl jumped in front of the group and raised his sword to block. But the blast was too powerful and knocked Howl's sword away and knocked the grey wolf off his feet. Terquine jumped up to slam his claw at Howl's head, but Recter acted quickly by pulling his friend to safety. Terquine tried to pull his claw out of the ground when Blaze went on the attack.
"Let's see if you can take the heat." Blaze said.
Blaze kicked off the ground and twisted around to enclose herself in a tornado of flames. Terquine tugged at his claw, but showed no signs of help. As the burning tornado moved closer, Terquine suddenly twisted his head and ejected a stream of water from his mouth. The force of the attack doused Blaze's flames and forced her back to the wall. Finally, Terquine broke his claw free from the ground.
"Hahaha!" Terquine laughed maniacally. "I've seen better under a rock."
"Then how about I send you back!"
Terquine twisted his head around just in time to see Recter throw a punch to his face. By sheer luck, Terquine closed his mutated fangs to entrap Recter's fist. Recter could only feel agonizing pain as the monsters fangs dug deeper into his arm. When Terquine finally let him go, it was only so that he could punch Recter in the chest with his claw. Recter landed next to Howl and Raine was already at their side. Meanwhile, Silver pulled himself out of the ocean just as Mephiles broke from his trance.
"I found it!" Mephiles exclaimed.
Mephiles conjured a shadow ball in his hand and allowed it to engulf him. But Silver was not about to let him go that easily Silver jumped out of the water and dived straight for his arch-enemy.
"I won't let you go, Mephiles!" Silver yelled.
Silver jumped into the purple shadow ball just as it disappeared. Terquine, who was watching the entire scene, merely laughed before turning back to his prey.
"Look's like it's just you and me, my pretties." Terquine cackled.
"You know, that's sounded so wrong." Recter smirked.
"I guess we should be thankful." Howl said. Recter and Howl slowly pulled themselves up and Howl grabbed his sword. "Now that leaves more for us to take care of."
As the two stood up, he noticed that al the damage he had created had disappeared as if it had never been there.
"But...how?!" Terquine panicked. "You should at least show some injury!"
"It helps when you have a seven year-old medical genius o the team." Recter said as he pointed to a grinning Raine. "Now I think it's time we got serious, don't you think guys?"
Raine grinned as she pulled out a vial of black liquid and Howl flipped his blade around so that he has holding it upside-down. As Recter started cracking his knuckles, Terquine began sweating bullets.
"Y-y-you mean...you haven't been fighting seriously?" Terquine said nervously.
"We never show our true power in the first round." Recter stated with a mischievous smile. "And you're about to find out why. Team Virtex, Blind Blitz!"
The trio scattered with Raine flying straight with Recter following behind and Howl running off to the side. Terquine quickly swiped his claw at Raine, but the butterfly swerved around to avoid it. At that moment, Raine pulled out the black vial and tossed the liquid at Terquine's eyes.
"AAH! My eyes!" Terquine screamed. "What have you done?!"
"Just a little something called methanol." Raine explained. "It's known to cause blindness."
While Terquine scurried around, trying to regain his senses, Recter applied a direct punch to the turtle's chest. Terquine doubled over in pain from the punch and even started coughing up blue blood. Recter then twisted Terquine's claw around before spinning around and hurtling him up into the air.
"It's all yours howl." Recter said.
Howl skidded underneath the spot where Terquine would land and placed his blade back in its sheath. Howl closed his eyes to focus on his target before snapping them open. Before Terquine had a chance to realize it, Howl unsheathed his sword and cut across Terquine's body, cutting him into numerous pieces. But even after all that, Terquine still seemed to be alive. Terquine mentally commanded his claw and swung it at Howl's head.
"Watch out!" Blaze screamed.
Howl looked back to see the claw coming at him and realized he couldn't avoid it. Just when he seemed finished, Blaze suddenly jumped off his head and formed a fireball from her mouth. The fireball incinerated the claw and all of the other body parts to be rid of the monster forever.
"Hey, thanks, Blaze. You just saved our sword guy." Recter said.
"Yeah, thanks." Howl grumbled while tending to the spot where Blaze's heel landed.
Meanwhile, Raine was trying to wake Charmy with some smelling salts, but it wasn't working.
"He's not waking up." Raine informed.
"I could get some of Knuckles old gym socks." Blaze smiled deviously.
"I'm up!" Charmy screamed as he shot straight up.
"I thought that would work." Blaze smirked. Blaze then took notice of her boyfriend's disappearance. "Hey, where's Silver?"
"I don't know. He just disappeared with Mephiles." Howl informed.
"I hope he's ok." Blaze said in a worried manner.
The shadow ball that Mephiles created appeared in the center of the ruin that once stood as the castle of Soleanna in Kingdom Valley. Mephiles calmly jumped down from his orb while Silver fell flat into the ground. Silver quickly jumped to his feet and confronted the dark demon.
"All right, Mephiles, the game is up!" Silver exclaimed. "Now what are you doing here?"
"Quiet, you fool." Mephiles said calmly. "If you stay quiet for a moment, I will explain everything." Silver lowered his guard, but still didn't trust Mephiles. "Do you remember when you traveled to the future with Metal?"
"How did you know that?" Silver questioned in surprise.
"Nothing escapes Nazo's watchful eyes." Mephiles claimed. "Ever since you returned, I have been sensing a familiar power present."
"A power?" Silver repeated.
"Yes. And I know it's around here...somewhere." Mephiles said.
Mephiles and Silver scanned the area for whatever Mephiles was looking for. Suddenly, the atmosphere around them started to heat up and the ground started shaking.
"What's happening?" Silver asked.
"I don't know." Mephiles said.
The ground suddenly began to break apart and the two enemies jumped back from falling in. Suddenly, Silver could also feel the same presence that Mephiles felt. To him, it also seemed familiar.
"What is this?" Silver mentally asked himself. "It's like...I know it from somewhere."
Inside the newly formed chasm, a fountain of lava began to spew from the Earth. Lava rocks began to form within the hot magma. The rock then came to life without warning and attempted to escape the chasm. The lava and rocks began to meld together and grew to an enormous monstrosity. Mephiles and Silver's eyes bugged out when they saw the monsters completed form.
"It...Can't be." Silver said; his voice filled with horror.
"But it is." Mephiles said, who's expression was opposite of Silver's. Mephiles started out with a low chuckle before breaking out into a full scale evil laugh. "I just find it hard to believe. After all this time, my purpose will finally be realized. And once again we shall rejoin once again." Mephiles held his claws out to the creature in acceptance. "Let us come together again, my brother..."
"IBLIS!"
The Flame of Disaster lives once more. Will Silver be able to defeat it? Or will Mephiles have the last laugh? Find out on the next Sonic Heroes.
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