The Dark Winds Chapter 19 The Terror of Dark Sonic.
DISCLAMER; Yea I don't own Sonic and you should know by now that's true, Sega would never have thought of something this deep.
Hey everyone sorry I have been updating late, like I told you before with school back I have almost no time free and the time I do have free it's ether homework or normal work… oh well you don't care about any of that so forgive my absence, and here you go.
Large flashes of light seemed to happen every second you looked up shaking the very trees of the island. Yet this wasn't some sort of trick of the sun or lightning strikes. All though lightning slamming into other bolts and doing so with so much force, that not only did it make a loud boom when it happened it also left ripples in the sky itself. This would be an accurate way to describe this battle.
This was a fight amongst the most powerful agents of G.U.N. and was not to be taken lightly.
These clashes continued as the sky lit up with them, seeming to happen fifty times every two seconds, but of course this was a natural thing to expect when Dark Sonic, Burning Blaze, Super Knuckles, and Super Shadow, were clashing at speeds normally only Sonic could reach with little effort.
They then started to slow just enough to be seen. An the inner battle could be defined.
Though the fight still seemed to be impossible to follow as the four figures that came into view were loosing off punches and kicks at speeds that even the fighters of Dragon Ball Z would be envious of.
Blaze, Knuckles, and Shadow attacked Dark Sonic with all they had as they let off blow after blow.
Yet Dark Sonic remained with his ever mocking smirk as he ether blocked or dodged everything that came his way.
Seeing as how they were only laying the occasional scratch on Sonic the three of them broke the attack and flew back a ways to get perspective as they hovered in the air.
"Wow he's just as strong as I had imagined." Super Knuckles exclaimed slightly out of breath.
"This is no time to start admiring him, so stay focused Knuckles, and that goes for you as well Blaze." Super shadow spoke as he kept his eyes glued to Dark Sonic as he floated in front of them.
Yet realizing that only Knuckles had responded, the two of them then turned to Burning Blaze as they realized she was completely quiet.
Blaze had remained with her concentration intently fixed on Dark Sonic; she hadn't even noticed that Shadow and Knuckles were talking let alone that she was supposed to answer them. There was one thing she had to do now and that was save her best friend and with that in mind anything else that was around her was unimportant by comparison.
Getting the feeling that Blaze may try something reckless, Shadow at once snapped his fingers towards her, bringing her back to the situation, and earning a small "huh," from Blaze in the process.
Shadow now with their full attention began to whisper a plan to them.
Dark Sonic simply floated there with his arms crossed as he awaited the battle to start back up.
After a few more seconds the three of them broke away from each other and faced Dark Sonic in three positions.
"Hmph… Is your little plan of attack done now? I was starting to think you were going to run off again." Dark Sonic spoke with a little attitude.
The others simply remained quite as the assumed their stances.
"Oh… no comment, well are you finally going to give me a challenge then?" Dark Sonic said with cockiness all too apparent.
An with out a word the three of them rushed Dark Sonic again.
Blaze rushed from the front Shadow from the right, and Knuckles from the left, pulling back their fists as they approached him. Seeing this Dark Sonic simply took a defensive pose. An with that Shadow and the others slammed into Sonic with great force.
As the impact hit Dark Sonic a loud crash was heard. Yet this was in no way good enough to stop Sonic as he simply blocked Shadow and Knuckles by holding up his arms to stop them. He also halted Blaze by blocking her with his right knee. Once the three were stopped Sonic started to smirk again.
"Little piece of advice, don't try a head on attack against someone that can pulse Dark Chaos Energy!" Dark Sonic shouted as he began to glow black.
The others gasped as they looked up at Sonic, but once they seen what was coming next they all quickly began to smirk in response.
Seeing this sudden change in demeanor Dark Sonic was caught by surprise, but was even more shocked by what happened next.
"Ignite!" Blaze yelled as she grabbed a hold of Dark Sonic's ankles and began to glow with fire.
Within an instant the fiery aura that was around Blaze transferred up to Dark Sonic not only stopping his chaos blast from charging but burning him at the same time.
As Dark Sonic began to try and rid himself of the flames, Knuckles started his attack.
"Super Knuckle Duster!" Knuckles shouted as he quickly charged his right fist and slammed it into Dark Sonic's left cheek.
Dark Sonic was swiftly sent flying through the air once impact had been made. Blaze and Shadow simply watched on in awe at this sight.
"Ha, that's more like it I knew that no one could with stand my Knuckle Duster." Knuckles laughed.
Shadow and Blaze simply stared at Knuckles with annoyance as they seen this yet before they could say anything Shadow turned to where Dark Sonic had been launched. Dark Sonic was still flying but he was charging a blast of dark energy at the same time. Seeing this, Shadow at once responded.
"Chaos Lance!" Shadow yelled as he threw it towards Sonic.
Dark Sonic was caught by shocked by this, and the attack struck Sonic's blast causing a huge explosion. The shock wave that was sent out from this was strong enough to shake the island itself.
"That should give him something to think about." Shadow said as he lowered his arm.
"Watch it Shadow you could have killed Sonic with that, remember that he still needs our help!" Blaze yelled as she started to flare.
"Hmph, don't worry about him I've seen Sonic take much worse than that, and come out ok, so just keep your guard up will you." Shadow reasoned.
"Yea Blaze don't worry so much, Sonic could use a little bit of a lesson now and then anyway." Knuckles said with a small laugh.
Blaze was now really getting pissed off. She understood the fact that Sonic was not himself right now, and needed to be taken down. Yet what was really eating at her was not just that she had to fight Sonic, but what was worse was that Shadow and Knuckles seemed to be enjoying this. After thinking this over for a moment Blaze began to speak.
"You two should…" Blaze said before she was cut off as she saw Dark Sonic appear before the three of them.
"Hmph, not bad you all caught me that time, but don't expect the same moves to work twice." Dark Sonic said as he wiped a small amount of blood from the side of his cheek with his thumb.
Shadow and Knuckles were caught of guard by the fact that Dark Sonic had appeared so quickly with barley a scratch. Blaze seen this though and was not as shocked.
"Alright Sonic lets get started." Blaze said as she began to glow brightly.
Seeing this Shadow and Knuckles immediately backed away, knowing full well it was a bad idea to be around Blaze when she was angry, (Less you become a victim of unintentional BBQ) but that fact was made all the more clear when it was Burning Blaze that was pissed off.
"Alright then." Dark Sonic said as he too began to glow with power.
The two continued to shine as they charged their energy further. This lasted a few more seconds until finally they were both surging with power. Blaze then began to spin around in place rapidly as her fiery aura started to swirl. Seeing this Dark Sonic began to do the same himself. Thus after a moment the two had formed two massive twisters made out of fire and darkness that stood at least two stories in height, and six feet wide.
"Blazing Tower!" Blaze roared as the large pillar of fire engulfed her completely and moved forward.
"Darkness Hurricane!" Dark Sonic said as he was engulfed by his on cyclone and headed towards Blaze.
With that the two pillars then crashed into one another with a great force. The shock wave they created was so powerful that several trees and boulders were sent flying off the island. The impact of the towers and the fact that they were spinning was even great enough to cause a vacuum effect that started to pull in things that were around them.
"Wow now that's some power they got going on there." Knuckles said as he brought his arms to his face to block back the wind.
"Your right. Who would have thought that Blaze had such an attack?" Shadow Said as he copied Knuckles stance.
Then suddenly the battle between the two twisters became more violent. The pillars started to spin even quicker as they continued to clash. Neither one would give an inch each one fighting to gain ground causing sparks to fly as they did. Then with this the twisters started to glow brightly as a large explosion took place.
"Dang what a battle, it's taking all I have just to keep from flying back." Knuckles said doing his best to endure the blast.
"This is definitely going to be close, be ready for what ever happens next." Shadow said as he looked upon the smoke from the attacks.
It was sinisterly quiet as the smoke began to lift. No one could make out what had happened, and then suddenly two figures came into view.
"Not bad you're stronger than I thought Blaze." Dark Sonic said with a smirk on his face.
"Hmph, thanks Sonic, but you know you are the one that taught me that move." Blaze said with a little pain as she was holding her right arm.
"Well, if so then let me show you something better." Dark Sonic said as he started charging a dark beam, and pointing it at Blaze with his right hand.
Blaze seen this and was caught by surprise, she needed another moment to recover from her recent attack. Yet Dark Sonic's blast was fully charged and Blaze was still unable to move quick enough to dodge it. Blaze knowing she had no way to get out of this she braced for impact.
Dark Sonic was shocked to see this and stopped at the sight of Blaze stumbling. Though just as this happened, a figure appeared.
"I've got you!" Shadow said as he teleported behind Dark Sonic.
Dark Sonic just had enough time to turn around as Shadow yelled out.
"Chaos Control!" Shadow yelled as a yellow glow engulfed Dark Sonic.
"Crap," was all Dark Sonic could get out as he tried to rush towards Shadow, but as he did he was then frozen in time. Blaze seen this and quickly spoke.
"What did you do Shadow, what happened to Sonic?" Blaze said with worry in her voice.
"I used chaos control to stop time around him; he should be unable to move for about 90 seconds, that's all the time I could make." Shadow said slightly out of breath.
"Well, what should we do now?" Blaze questioned.
"Just leave that to me I'll finish this quickly." Knuckles yelled as he jetted past Blaze and headed towards Sonic raising his fist.
"Wait Knuckles I don't know about this." Blaze said as she watched him close in on Dark Sonic.
"Alright I'll hit him from back here then, let's take him out with this one!" Shadow said as he readied a chaos spear.
"Ok, here we go!" Knuckles said as he aimed his fist straight at Sonic's face.
Then just as Knuckles was about to make contact, Dark Sonic's eyes began to glow red. An with that Knuckles slammed his fist at Sonic, and Shadow shot off his chaos spear. Yet what happened next caught them all by surprise.
Dark Sonic had caught Knuckles fist and slapped Shadows chaos spear away, all at the same time. Knuckles, Blaze, and Shadow were in utter shock at this.
"What how can you be able to move?" Knuckles said with shock.
"You were frozen in time; you shouldn't be able to move for another 50 seconds?" Shadow said with anger.
"Again, you all prove how little you know of the power of chaos. I am able to move because I was able to break your time distortion." Dark Sonic said as he glared at them.
The others were completely shocked by this to think that chaos control could be stopped or broken was some thing no one had counted on. Just then Knuckles tried to slam his other fist into Dark Sonic's face in an effort to take advantage of the moment, only to get that fist caught as well.
"Looks like you never learn do you Knuckle brain. Allow me to show you your place." Dark Sonic stated.
Dark Sonic than instantly pulled knuckles forward and kneed him in the stomach, causing Knuckles to fall over in pain spiting out a small amount of blood as he did. Though Dark Sonic was not finished yet, he then proceeded to uppercut Knuckles in the jaw sending him sailing through the air. An while knuckles was still flying, Dark Sonic teleported above him and then axe kicked him into the ground, leaving a large hole in the area he had landed.
"Knuckles hang on!" Blaze said as she rushed to help him.
"Well that just leaves you and me Shadow." Dark Sonic said with a sinister grin.
"Fine by me Sonic, as you should remember I tend to work better when no ones in my way." Shadow rebutted.
"Hmph, whatever you say Shadow just try and keep up with me!" Dark Sonic said as he rushed towards Shadow.
Shadow then rushed as well and the two disappeared from sight.
BACK ON THE GROUND
"Knuckles are you ok can you get back up?" Blaze said offering him a lift.
"Yea I'll be alright he just caught me off guard is all." Knuckles reasoned.
"Hm… Looked more like you were completely outmatched." Blaze said with obvious anger.
Knuckles was shocked. Not By the fact that Blaze would say that to him, but by the fact that she was completely right. He had been completely over powered and he was starting to get worried, but before he let his doubts set in he had to ask.
"Uhh… Blaze where is Shadow?" Knuckles asked.
Blaze simply looked at him and pointed up.
Knuckles gazed up and was in shock at what he saw; high speed pulses were appearing all around the sky.
BACK IN THE AIR.
The pulses of sound and light were continuing their clash with out a trace of slowing down. Then suddenly Sonic and Shadow could be seen as they flew towards each other. The two then crashed into one another with great force.
They then backed away from each other and started to glare.
"You're faster than the other two I'll give you that much." Dark Sonic said.
"Hmph, you have no idea what you're up against." Shadow yelled as he started to raise his hands.
Dark Sonic simply crossed his arms and glared at Shadow as if daring him to attack.
"Chaos Rain!" Shadow said as several chaos spears began pouring down above Dark Sonic.
Yet Dark Sonic didn't flinch, even though the shots were barreling towards him with great speed and precision, as if they were heat seekers.
Dark Sonic then began to evade all the shots one by one as they came his way by quickly teleporting.
This continued for a few more seconds until Dark Sonic noticed something, he could no longer see Shadow firing the chaos spears, then in an instant Shadow appeared below him.
Dark Sonic looked down at him and was quickly caught off guard. Shadow then spoke up.
"Chaos Cage!" Shadow yelled as the remaining chaos spears froze in the air around Dark Sonic.
"What the?" Dark Sonic questioned as he seen this, and was unable to move.
"Hmph, you should have never taken your eyes off me Sonic, there's a reason I'm known as the ultimate life form." Shadow said.
With that the floating chaos spears all fired at Dark Sonic. Yet Shadow wasn't finished as the moment the chaos spears fired he shouted "Chaos Shot," and blasted Dark Sonic again. There was another explosion as this attack happened.
"That should do it this time, there's no way Sonic could have gotten out of that one." Shadow said with pride.
Back on the ground Blaze and Knuckles were watching the whole thing.
"Wow, did you see that Blaze I've never seen an attack like that one Shadow must have been saving it as a trump card pretty impressive.
"Your right that was amazing, but something doesn't feel right." Blaze said with worry in her voice.
"Hmph, that was a good trick there Shadow." A voice spoke out of the smoke.
"What," everyone yelled as they heard this.
Just then the smoke cleared Showing Dark Sonic covered in a large barrier.
"Dark Barrier, a helpful move when you need to avoid some pesky attacks. Wouldn't you say so Shadow? Dark sonic said as he laughed.
The others were speechless Shadow's attacks was completely ineffective, but they had no time to gawk as Dark Sonic started to speak.
"Let me show what dark chaos power can do!" Dark Sonic said as he disappeared.
Shadow, Blaze, and Knuckles quickly turned from side to side in an effort to locate Sonic but were unable to sense him. Then out of nowhere Dark Sonic appeared in front of Shadow.
"How," was all Shadow could seem to get out as this happened.
"Dark Flash!" Dark Sonic yelled as he brought both his hands up to Shadows face.
An with that a large flash of darkness came out, and sent Shadow flying into the ground, next to Knuckles and Blaze.
"Are you all right Shadow?" Both Blaze and Knuckles yelled as they rushed to his side.
"I'm fine, forget it." Shadow said as he slowly began to rise, breathing heavily.
"This is bad Shadow what should we do now?" Knuckles said with worry.
"Not sure this could start getting ugly if we don't think of something quickly." Shadow rebutted.
Hearing that Blaze began to look up at Dark Sonic. He was just floating there staring at them as he waited for the next attack they would dare try. Blaze then noticed something; once she did she quickly started to get knuckles and Shadows attention.
"Guys I have a plan!" Blaze said as she began to whisper it to them.
Shadow and Knuckles were shocked completely by this, as they started to process it.
"Are you sure Blaze this seems a little out there?" knuckles said.
"I'm not sure if this will work but we have nothing to lose so let's give it a shot." Shadow said as he was finally able to stand.
"Alright then guys here we go!" Blaze yelled as she and the others rushed up to Dark Sonic again.
Dark Sonic seen them coming at him head on again, and at once spoke out.
"You're trying a head on attack again? I told you the same move wouldn't work twice." Dark Sonic said as he readied his stance.
Though as he did this he was caught off guard again as Knuckles and Shadow flew down to the ground while Blaze continued her approach. Seeing the confusion Blaze then quickly began to rush around Dark Sonic leaving a trail of flames all around him.
Noticing that Sonic was confused Shadow and knuckles readied their parts.
After a few more moments, Blaze then finally stopped her rush leaving Dark Sonic in a huge sphere of flames. Now getting annoyed by this Dark Sonic began to speak.
"I don't know what you're planning with this but all you've done so far is piss me off!" Dark Sonic yelled as he pulsed the flames away with dark energy. As the flames cleared away dark Sonic gasped.
As Shadow and knuckles were right of him with their attacks ready. An with that they fired them at Dark Sonic.
"Lightning Lance!" Shadow yelled as he hurled the electrical lance at Dark Sonic.
"Earth Shatter!" Knuckles yelled as he punched the ground causing large Shards of earth to fly at Dark Sonic.
Yet as the attacks were thrown something happened. The shards of earth Knuckles threw had some how merged around the lance Shadow had thrown increasing their power further.
Dark Sonic was completely unprepared for this assault, and thus the only he could do was bring his arms up to block as much of it as possible. Though even this proved inadequate, to say the least as the attacks hit Dark Sonic full force.
The attack had hit Sonic right in the gut and was pushing him back as it did. Seeing that the attack was working Blaze then flew over to the others.
"Sol Flame!" Blaze yelled as she created a large fire ball in her hands and threw it at the attacks Shadow and knuckles fired.
Then with that the flames engulfed the attack adding further to its power as it struck Dark Sonic. Shadow, Knuckles and Blaze then began to yell.
"Flaming!" Blaze shouted.
"Earth!" Knuckles roared.
"Lance!" Shadow yelled in reply.
Then as they said this the attack exploded and sent Dark Sonic crashing with unimaginable force into the mountain side.
Blaze, Knuckles, and Shadow seen this and at once rushed over to check. An what they saw was astounding.
Dark Sonic was completely knocked unconscious by this, as he laid there in a large hole in the mountain side. Seeing this, the three of them at once sat down at the mouth of the hole breathing heavily.
"Wow, now that was team work if I've ever seen it." Knuckles sighed.
"I have to admit I didn't think we could pull that off, especially since all those moves are still new and unpolished. Though I guess it worked out well done Blaze." Shadow said as he stood up.
"Yea Blaze that was some did you come up with that one?" Knuckles said as he looked towards Blaze.
"To be honest I'm not sure. I just thought since we had picked up a few things from those specters, and since Sonic seemed to only really be affected when we worked together, I figured why not try it." Blaze said as she looked at them.
"Well, it doesn't matter how you came up with it all that counts is the fact that we took down Sonic. Now let's contact the commander and get some help up here." Shadow said as he began to push some buttons on his communicator.
Yet just as Shadow did this the ground around the hole began to shake wildly. The three of them then gasped at this as suddenly the ground exploded with a black tower of energy, and Dark Sonic then stepped out of it.
"This is impossible." Shadow said as he saw this.
"There's no way how are you still standing?" Knuckles said as he began to back step.
"That was our very best shot how could it fail." Blaze said in utter terror as she looked at Dark Sonic.
"You're right that move was powerful, and actually I wasn't able to block it all as a matter of fact." Dark Sonic said.
Shadow then looked at Dark Sonic and began to smirk.
"Hmph, well I wasn't expecting you to get up from that one Sonic, but it makes no difference, as we can tell you were hurt by that attack. Shadow said with pride.
The others then looked at Dark Sonic. He had several cuts and scars about him, and his mouth had blood leaking from its side.
"Yea and this proves that we can counter your dark super form, with the three of ours." Knuckles said with a grin.
"That's right Sonic all we have to do is wear you down, so why don't you just stop this." Blaze said with care.
Dark Sonic heard all this and at once began to laugh. Seeing this the three of them asked what was so funny? Dark Sonic then looked at them and started to speak.
"You're all so naïve. I never said anything about this being my super form." Dark Sonic stated.
The others then gasped at this in shock. They had simply thought that since Dark Sonic was so powerful, and that Sonic described him as being more powerful then Super Sonic, it was safe to believe that this was a dark version of Sonic's super form.
"That means this whole time you've just been in your normal state." Blaze said in shock.
"An you could have used the power of the emeralds to become stronger." Knuckles said.
"That's correct, yet to be fully honest I didn't use the emeralds because I don't need them. In fact I haven't even been using my full power." Dark Sonic stated.
"There's no way that can be right! That would mean that…" Shadow said as he was cut off.
"You never stood a chance at all, and now it's time I made that clear." Dark Sonic said as he vanished before their eyes. They were then all caught with complete terror as he appeared behind Blaze.
Thus with out a word Dark Sonic chopped Blaze in the back of her neck and she fell to the ground a few feet away from him unconscious.
"Blaze," was all Knuckles and Shadow could say as this happened.
"As you can tell I let you fight this long so I could enjoy myself a little bit, but now I see that it's past time I destroyed this world and all of you along with it!" Dark Sonic said as he began to ascend into the air.
Shadow and Knuckles simply watched on, things were bad before and now with them low on energy, Blaze down for the count, and Dark Sonic ready to finish this they had gotten even worse.
OK EVERYONE THAT'S CHAPTER 19 THE PLOT HAS THICKEND AND THINGS LOOK BLEAK. YET YOU'LL FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT TIME IN THE DARK WINDS SO UNTIL NEXT CHAPTER…STAY THIRSTY MY FRIENDS.