THE DARK WINDS CHAPTER 18 The Brawl Begins.
DISCLAMER; HUH THEY STILL ASK ME THIS WHEN THEY KNOW I DON'T OWN IT.
Hey everyone did you miss me? Sorry about taking so long on the update I kind of pulled an Oda that time. Just when things are getting serious, I take a break. Well I promised you a battle and I'm here to deliver, so let's get it started.
Angel Island was calm and quiet. The wind was blowing gently through the trees as the sun rose up from the horizon. An there in the middle of the island stood the shrine of the Master emerald. An ancient ruined alter with a large green gem that resided in it. An there atop the stone sat a lone black figure.
The figure sat there hovering in midair with its legs folded, eyes closed, and arms crossed in a meditative position. It even seemed as though the figure was fast asleep, yet as soon as the morning sun peaked over the hills and the light shone upon the beings face, its eyes shot open.
"Finally its time." Dark Sonic spoke as he began to smirk to himself.
BACK AT G.U.N. BASE
Everyone was already awake, though everyone was still up was a better way to describe what was really going on. No one could really sleep last night since they all knew what today was.
It's no surprise everyone had their own way dealing with it though. For instance.
Tails had stayed up the night trying to scan for any movement from Dark Sonic, with no real progress at all.
Marine had been with Tails the whole time hoping to think of a way to get out of having to fight Sonic. She had hopped that the two of them could have created some sort of device to bring Sonic to his senses but it was nothing more then a pipe dream now.
Tails and Marine then walked into the base kitchen and, were shocked to see that Knuckles and Rouge were already at the table drinking some coffee.
The kitchen was rather normal in design. It had a white stove, a micro wave in the wall and a coffee maker right under that, which seemed to be the most used thing in the place.
"Yo what's up you two?" Knuckles said as he waved to them.
"Sleep well?" Rouge said after hearing Knuckles.
Tails and Marine heard this and at once simply shrugged and yawned.
"I guess that answers those questions." Knuckles said as he continued to drink his coffee.
"Well what were you two up all night for?" Rouge rebutted.
Tails and Marine heard her and started to think. They hadn't accomplished anything at all, and they didn't want it to look like they failed. Yet they knew there was no way around it.
"Sorry guys we weren't able to find away to bring Sonic back." Tails said with a little shame in his voice.
Knuckles and Rouge both sighed as they heard this, but deep down they had both knew what to expect. Even though Tails and Marine were smart there was no way they could have found away to fix this problem.
"Oye, so what were you two buggers up to then?" Marine questioned, a little upset they had made Tails announce their failure.
The two looked at each other and sighed again. As Knuckles spoke up.
"We didn't do much at all, but stand guard over the emeralds." Knuckles said as he put down his mug.
"It was pretty uneventful." Rouge said with a smirk about her as she remembered the fact she had spent that night rolling around in a pile of chaos and sol emeralds.
Rouge then started to drool slightly at this causing the others to stare awkwardly at her. Knuckles had a slightly more annoyed look on his face as he had been there dealing with her behavior the whole time.
Just when Knuckles was about to say something the intercom in the base went off.
"Tails, Marine, Knuckles and Rouge please report to my office." The commander spoke through the loud speaker.
The four looked at each other and then quickly dashed off towards the Commanders office.
It merely took them a few moments to reach their destination. They all then looked upon the commander's office.
It was blocked off by a large brown door that stood about seven feet high, with the symbol of G.U.N. printed on it. Once the four of them straightened themselves up they walked in. They were shocked to see that Shadow and Shade were already inside, with the commander at his chair and desk, awaiting their arrival.
They all immediately greeted each other as they walked in and sat down. Once they had all finished Tails couldn't help but ask.
"So what did you guys do last night?" Tails said looking at Shadow and Shade.
Shadow looked at them and then turned away remaining quite. Shade seen this and then spoke out.
"We couldn't sleep so we spent the night sparring." Shade said.
The others simply looked at the two of them but none were really surprised. When it came to Shadow and Shade if they had a problem they couldn't defuse with words (Though threats would better describe it) they would simply beat the target into submission.
Everyone then turned to the commander. Yet before he could speak Marine spoke up.
"Oy, Oy commander where's Blaze?" Marine said with a little worry.
"I'm not exactly sure Marine I called her earlier but she was not in her room. To be honest I thought one of you might have seen her." The commander said as he looked upon the others.
Everyone simply looked at each other and shook their heads. They were all so busy trying to deal with the fact that they would have to fight Sonic today none of them had thought to pay attention to the one that may be taking it the hardest.
Marine then got up and started to run around franticly in circles.
"Oy, Oy, this is a real muck this time mates. What if ole princess decided to runaway and we never see er again, or worse what if she went to fight Dark blue all on er own?" Marine yelled with panic, as she continued to run in circles around the room.
The others began to panic soon after. They normally never listened to Marine when she rambled like this, but this time she actually made sense. Blaze was one who never trusted others and believed that she had to do things all on her own, before Sonic convinced her to trust him. An since she blamed herself for Sonic's condition, it would not be surprising to assume she had gone off to fix things alone.
Everyone looked at each other and were about to dash off to find her, when suddenly the commanders door swung open smashing into Marine and stopping her in her tracks.
"Oh good morning everyone… Marine what are you doing on the floor?" Blaze said as she walked in the room, and helped Marine off the ground.
Everyone seen this and immediately stared at blaze with anger in their faces, they all were quiet until Tails spoke up.
"Blaze, where have you been? We were about to panic here!" Tails yelled as he glared at her.
Blaze seen this and took a step back in shock, that Tails would yell at her like that but she then spoke.
"Uhh, I went for a walk to clear my head I wasn't aware I needed to ask you for permission Tails." Blaze said with obvious anger.
Seeing the rage in Blaze's face he quickly backed down to his seat. Realizing that things were going to get ugly if this tone continued, Shade started to speak up.
"Hey, just calm down a little Blaze, we were all just a little worried about you, we thought you might have gone after Sonic on your own." Shade said trying to calm her.
Blaze heard her and quickly started to regain her composer; she then looked at the others seeing their worry filled faces began to talk.
"Sorry for snapping everyone, I didn't think me taking a walk would worry you all so much." Blaze said with a calm expression.
"It's ok Blaze it was my fault for yelling I'm sorry." Tails said in response.
"Look you can go and bake cupcakes for each other about this later but we still have a job to do, incase anyone forgot." Shadow said, with full annoyance in him.
The others were a little angry with Shadows lack of compassion but had no time to act on it, as the commander spoke out.
"Everyone Shadows right, we need to deal with Sonic above all else. That's why I called you all here, so that I may see you off. This will be your most important mission yet, I want you to save Sonic and bring him back to base alive got it!" The commander yelled with sternness.
With an equally stern "Yes sir," they all responded and rushed off for Angel Island taking the chaos and sol emeralds in tow with them.
Yet just as they all left the commanders office and flew off towards Angel Island in Tails plane the Tornado, a figure could be seen standing behind the corner.
"Hmm… Bring him back alive? The commander isn't thinking clearly, but that's alright he is a busy man. An he to can half his off days. Oh well, no matter I will simply insure that the mission is a real success then." The figure spoke to himself as he walked away.
ANGEL ISLAND.
It did not take them long to reach there destination, especially since they were flying in Tails new upgraded version of the Tornado. It still resembled that of a large silver jet with four wings at its sides, but now with Tails' new upgrades it could seat up to ten people and travel now at speeds of up to mach 3.
Within an half an hour they had made it to Angel Island, and once there they circled the place in an effort to locate Dark Sonic.
"Do you see him guys?" Tails said as he looked over his left side.
"Nothing yet." Rouge said in reply.
They all continued to scan the Island, and after a few seconds Blaze spoke out.
"There he is Tails bring us down." Blaze said as she pointed towards the black hedgehog that stood next to the master emerald.
They all seen this and immediately readied them selves as they began to land.
It took only a second before Tails had landed the Tornado close to the shrine, and with that they all jumped out of the plane, directing their attention to the dark being.
"Hmm…I see you all are finally here, I was beginning to get impatient." Dark sonic said as he looked upon them.
"Well I guess some things never change do they, even now your still as impatient as ever huh Sonic?" Shadow said.
"We don't want to fight you Sonic please were you friends." Blaze said hopping to reach him.
"I no longer need such useless things as friends. I am merely here to have as much fun as I can before I destroy this world. Now how is this going to go down?" Dark Sonic stated as he lowered his arms.
"We were thinking a no holds barred brawl. How does that suite you?" Knuckles said as he and the others surrounded Dark Sonic.
"We will take you down in one full on attack Sonic." Shade said as she summoned her leech blade.
The others followed her lead and started to ready their attacks.
Marine and Tails both were charging large cannons that seemed to appear on their hands out of nowhere.
Shadow began to ready a chaos spear in his left hand.
Knuckles pulled back his right fist, and Rouge lifted her right leg at the same time.
Blaze then looked at Sonic one last time as she formed a fire ball in both her hands.
Dark Sonic simply stared at them all, and started to laugh.
"Hmm… interesting, you decided to attack me all at once huh? I'm impressed this might actually prove entertaining after all. Just try not to bore me by going down to quickly ok. Don't let me down now." Dark Sonic stated as he assumed his fighting stance.
Everyone remained in their positions for a few more seconds. The air became tense with the power of everyone ready to clash flowing through it. Yet they all remained motion less almost as if they were daring each other to make a move. Then the wind blew a small leaf from a near by tree and when it hit the ground everyone jumped into action.
Shadow, Shade, Knuckles, Rouge, Blaze, Tails, and Marine all fired off their attacks with devastating consequences. The combined assault caused an explosion to burst out in between them sending off a shockwave through the island.
All that was left in front off them was a smoking crater, with no sign off movement. Marine then approached the hole.
"Oye, mates you think we nailed em that time?" Marine said as she looked back at everyone.
They all looked around as they remained on guard.
"There's no way it was that easy." Shadow said.
"Some thing definitely doesn't feel right here guys." Knuckles stated as continued to look around.
Just as he said this, a quick gust of wind blew out from the smoking crater causing Blaze's ear to twitch as she heard it. Once she realized what she heard she instantly began to yell out.
"Everyone look out!" Blaze yelled trying to warn them.
They all instantly turned to face Blaze as the gust blew straight towards Marine.
Marine felt this wind and then quickly turned around, but as she did Dark Sonic appeared right in front of her.
"To slow," Dark Sonic said with a low darkened voice as he then kicked Marine, sending her flying into a tree. Once she made contact with the tree she fell to the ground battered, and unconscious.
The others gasped at seeing this. They were completely unable to see the attack coming and even Shadow wasn't able to react in time to stop it.
"So who's next?" Dark Sonic said with an evil smirk about his face as he turned slowly to face the others.
The others then readied themselves for his next attack but Tails was to busy worrying about Marine to care.
"Marine I'm coming hold on!" Tails shouted as he dashed to her.
Just as Tails was heading toward Marine Dark Sonic spotted him and vanished instantly.
"Tails look out!" Shade yelled to him.
Tails was a mere ten feet from Marine when Dark Sonic materialized in front of him.
"Thanks for volunteering." Dark Sonic said as he charged a blast of dark energy from his right hand and fired it at Tails.
All Tails could do was gasp as the attack flew at him.
"CHAOS SPEAR!" Shadow shouted as he appeared on the side of Tails in the air, launching his attack.
The chaos spear was able to block most the attack from Dark Sonic, but the explosion from the two attacks still caused Tails serious damage, sending him crashing into the ground right next to Marine.
"Marine, Sonic I'm sorry I failed you…" Tails spoke out as he lost consciousness and his head hit the dirt.
"Well done Shadow, if you hadn't have intervened things would have been much worse for the kid." Dark Sonic said as he looked at Shadow.
Shadow was then becoming angry at this, but he was caught off guard when Rouge and Knuckles appeared behind Sonic.
"Your going down!" both of them shouted as they attacked.
Hearing them behind him, Dark Sonic let out a smirk as his eyes became red.
Seeing this Shadow yelled to Knuckles and Rouge but was to slow to do anything about it.
"CHAOS BLAST!" Dark Sonic yelled as a black energy erupted from his being.
Knuckles and Rouge gasped as they tried to bring their arms in front of them to shield themselves. Yet it proved pretty much useless as they were both blown back into a large boulder. After they slammed into the boulder the two of them quickly fell to the ground.
"Dang, that hurt. Are you ok Rouge?" Knuckles said as he slowly got up, hearing no answer from her.
He then turned to look at her but was shocked to see that Rouge was completely still. Knuckles grabbed hold of her and tried to get her to come around but it was useless as Rouge just laid there in his arms badly damaged and barely breathing.
"Don't worry Rouge you'll be all right. I heal you." Knuckles exclaimed as he held up his left hand over her body and a green energy began to flow into her.
"Do you really think you have time to sit there like that?" Dark Sonic said as appeared in front of knuckles.
Dark Sonic's left hand then began to glow with dark energy as he brought it back and readied himself to slam his fist upon Knuckles and Rouge.
Knuckles' mind began go into a panic as he looked towards Dark Sonic.
He would be able to dodge the attack and possibly counter Sonic if he moved now. Yet he knew if he moved that would leave Rouge defenseless, to the attack which was not an option. He may not say it all the time but he cares for her far too much to let anything happen to her.
Dark Sonic then smirked as he finished charging his attack.
Seeing no other way out of this for the two of them Knuckles clutched Rouge to himself and awaited impact.
"You're through already? How pitiful." Dark Sonic said as he brought his fist down on the two of them.
"Rouge, Knuckles!" Blaze yelled as she rushed towards them.
There was a quick black flash as the attack hit sending a pulse through the area. Smoke was all that could be seen where the three of them had been until Dark Sonic came into view.
"You know you are all starting to be to predictable now." Dark Sonic said with slight annoyance in his face as the scene cleared.
Knuckles was shocked to see that he and Rouge were unharmed but was more shocked to see what had saved them.
"You guys alright?" Shade said as she held up a blue barrier over the three of them.
"Yea, thanks. We owe you one Shade." Knuckles said as he stood up while picking up Rouge.
"Don't mention it just get Rouge and the others to safety." Shade said as she looked at Knuckles.
An with a firm "you got it," he dashed off to Tails and Marine.
Dark Sonic simply remained quiet as he watched Knuckles dash off with Tails, Marine and Rouge in tow. Seeing that he was focused on them Shade spoke out.
"Pay no mind to them I'm your opponent!" Shade said as she released her leech blade from her right wrist, and stepped in front of him.
Dark Sonic smirked at the sight of this.
"Hmph, don't worry I wouldn't waste my time with them, but I hope you will be a little more fun." Dark Sonic said as he assumed a fighting pose.
An with that Shade rushed at him.
Shade then began to slice at Dark Sonic wildly. Swinging from left to right with a speed befitting that of a master swordsman. Her attacks were so polished and quick anyone would have instantly been turned into cold cuts the minute she unsheathed her sword… but Dark Sonic wasn't any normal being.
Dark Sonic was able to avoid every swing she let out as if it were mere Childs play to do so. Seeing that she was pretty much wasting her energy Shade began to up the anti, as she summoned froth a second Leech blade from her other wrist.
Dark Sonic was caught slightly off guard by this, but it was still no reason for him to panic, as he continued to dodge with minimal effort.
After a few more seconds Dark Sonic jumped back, causing Shade to slice a boulder by mistake.
"You do have skill, but as a warrior you should be very well aware of your limits and I am far above yours." Dark Sonic said as he folded his arms again now bored with her attacks.
Breathing heavily from exhaustion Shade looked up at him and spoke.
"Your right Sonic. I am no match for you now…but I hope you don't think me so naïve as to attack you head on with out a plan." Shade said with a smirk.
Dark Sonic looked at her, and then raised his eyebrow in interest.
"Alright now Shadow!" Shade said as she jumped out of the way revealing Shadow from behind her.
"CHAOS SPREADER!" Shadow yelled out as he fired a large blast of yellow energy from his gun.
Dark Sonic was got off guard by this and merely widened his eyes in shock as the attack hit him, forcing Dark Sonic back into a near by boulder.
"Well that should slow him down a little." Shadow said as he lowered his gun breathing heavily as the amount of energy it took him to use that attack was enormous.
Shade then quickly ran over to Shadow in an attempt to see if he was alright. Yet once she did, a large dark beam exited from the crater Dark Sonic was in, and at once headed towards them both.
Shadow gasped as he tried to block the attack but faltered as he still needed a moment to recharge from his last move. "Dang," was all he could he could utter as the beam was inches from them. As the blast closed in a loud yell was heard.
"CHAOS CONTROL!" Blaze said as she appeared in front of them.
The two gasped as Blaze appeared before them but had no time to gawk as she quickly brought her hands up to block the attack, as it came.
OVER ON THE FAR SIDE OF ANGEL ISLAND
"Well that should do it." Knuckles said as he brought his hand down stopping its green glow.
Knuckles had just finished healing Rouge, Tails, and Marine and was now inspecting their conditions. They were still unconscious but all their visible damage was gone and they seemed to be sleeping peacefully now so he had no more need to worry.
"Alright guys you stay here I'm going to go help the others." Knuckles said as he stood up from before them.
Though just as he did, a large beam flew past his head and into the clear sky away from the island.
"What the? What was that?" Knuckles said as he turned around to view the area the attack came from. Thinking that this could not be a good sign in any way he quickly rushed back to the action.
BACK AT THE SHRINE
Shadow, Shade, and Blaze simply stood there in awe as they tried to understand what had just happened.
"Why did it." Was all Blaze could squeeze out before Dark Sonic teleported behind them.
The three of them gasped as they turned to face him, but just as they did this Dark Sonic spoke out.
"CHAOS BLAST!" Dark Sonic yelled as he released a large black explosion from his body.
They immediately brought up their arms to block the attack as they were sent flying in three directions. Shadow and Blaze were able to recover in midair after a moment but Shade had taken more of the impact of the attack and was unwillingly headed towards a large rock.
Yet just as she was about to make contact Knuckles appeared from behind and caught her.
"Are you alright?" Knuckles said as he placed her down, as he did this Shadow and Blaze rushed to them in an effort to assist.
"I'm alright, but I think my arm is busted." Shade said as she crouched down holding her left arm.
"Go to the others and rest." Shadow said as he helped her up.
"I can't just leave you guys you'll need all the help you can get against him." Shade said trying to stand.
"Don't argue with me!" Shadow said as he looked at her with an intense face.
Shade seen the seriousness in Shadow's face and at once backed down. Seeing this Blaze spoke out.
"Don't worry about it Shade we can handle things from here on." Blaze said as she placed her hand on Shades right shoulder.
"Yeah we haven't even gotten serious yet so this fight is far from over. Besides some one should stay and watch over Rouge and the others." Knuckles said as he looked at her.
Shade stared at the three of them and simply dropped her head.
"All right I will leave the rest to you guys, but you better promise you won't lose!" Shade said as she looked towards them.
They all looked her in the eye and gave her a quick nod as they started to walk towards Dark Sonic.
Shade watched them walk off and then began to head over to the others.
They all walked up to Dark Sonic and he then began to speak.
"So it will be just you three from now on I hope you won't regret this plan." Dark Sonic said.
"Sonic we're going to save you, and bring you back to your senses." Blaze said with fire in her eyes.
"Even if we have to beat you to the ground to do it." Knuckles said cracking his knuckles.
"Really…You think you can stop me." Dark Sonic said.
"No more games this ends now Sonic!" Shadow yelled with rage as he glared at him.
With that the seven chaos emeralds appeared and began to hover around Shadow and Knuckles, meanwhile at the same time the sol emeralds began to do the same with Blaze.
The two sets of emeralds continued to orbit around them for few more moments as the gems then disappeared into them, as they let out a loud yell. Causing a huge flash off light that had shone across the entire island. An when the light faded, the three of them arose.
Shadows whole body had become a light yellow, and the only thing that remained the same was the red streaks in his quills. As he hovered above the ground, cloaked in a yellow aura.
Knuckles had become a slightly whitened red as he hovered before Dark Sonic. His dreads had grown slightly in length, and he had a calm expression about him.
Last was Blaze. Her fur had become a reddish pink and the ends of her gloves and shoes that met her wrists and ankles were changed into what looked like flames. Her coat was changed as well as it became red in color, as she levitated before Dark Sonic.
It was quite impressive and rare to see three super forms at the same time, let alone the likes of, Super Shadow, Super Knuckles, and Burning Blaze all at once.
Dark Sonic gazed upon his newly transformed opponents and began to talk.
"Really do you think just because you have the power chaos and sol emeralds with you think you're a match for me?" Dark Sonic said with a cocky voice.
"You never know, do you?" Blaze said as she looked towards Dark Sonic.
"Enough talk, LETS GO!" Super Shadow yelled as he rushed towards Dark Sonic, with Knuckles and Blaze right behind him.
"Hmph… I'll show just how weak you all really are!" Dark Sonic said as he rushed them as well.
ALRIGHT EVERYONE THERE YOU HAVE IT THE BATTLE FINALLY STARTS SORRY AGAIN FOR THE WAIT BUT I DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH TIME NOWADAYS SO I UPDATE WHEN EVER I HAVE TIME TO. FEEL FREE TO TELL ME WHAT YOU THOUGHT OF THIS CHAPTER AND DON'T FORGET TO COMMENT, IF YOU WANT.
SO UNTIL THE NEXT CHAPTER…STAY THIRSTY MY FRIENDS.