Hey guys! Wow! Two chapters released back to back! That hasn't happened in…like, forever! And they're both rather large chapters too considering the size of the old ones! Well, I'll stop boring you and let you get to the chapter now! Enjoy!
Rise of the Chosen One
Chapter 17: Alternate worlds
*Eggman's Base: Third Person POV*
Shadow was barely able to dodge Dusk's Chaos Spear in time before he sent it at him, causing the monitor behind him to be blown to pieces. "Damn it!" Shadow yelled as he tried to form his own Chaos Spear, but he found that he didn't have the energy to do so. "Uh oh…" Shadow thought as the spear he was trying to form dissipated into nothing. "So you don't even have the power to face me eh? Well that just makes it all the easier for me!" Dusk yelled as he charged Shadow and kicked him in the face, sending him flying into Eggman's main control panel, smashing it to pieces.
"No! My main control!" Eggman yelled as he feebly tried to put some of the pieces back on the panel. Dusk spin dashed Shadow even further into the panel and jumped off of it before it exploded, sending Shadow crashing through the wall that led outside of the base and smashing into the ground fifty feet below him. "Ugh…God that hurt…" Shadow moaned as he slowly made his way back to his feet. Dusk slowly floated down to the ground, smiling evilly at his handiwork.
"The great Shadow the Hedgehog, beaten so easily by what he calls, a copy of himself." Dusk said as he smirked at Shadow. Shadow just grunted in anger and started to undo his inhibitor rings. "Ooooooh, I'm so scared! Shadow is removing his inhibitor rings! I'm in for a beating now!" Dusk yelled in a mocking voice at Shadow. Shadow just continued to remove the rings until both his wrist and ankle rings were removed. "So, what happens now Shadow? You gonna 'beat me up'?" Dusk continued mocking Shadow as the Ultimate Life Form prepared for battle.
After Shadow removed his inhibitor rings, his power skyrocketed, even surprising Dusk a little. "Okay…so maybe I shouldn't have mocked him so much…" Dusk said as Shadow's power continued to rise. "Now you'll feel my true power fake!" Shadow yelled as he dashed forward and punched Dusk in the stomach, then grabbing his leg and tossing him into Eggman's base. "So…You do still…have a little bit of fight left in you." Dusk spoke as he removed himself from the side of the base. Dusk dashed at Shadow and punched him in the face, then tried to give him a roundhouse, but Shadow ducked and gave Dusk a huge uppercut, sending him soaring. Then Shadow homing attacked Dusk a few times in mid air before he gave him an axe kick, which sent him hurtling toward the ground.
Shadow then tried to spin dash Dusk, but the evil hedgehog was able to regain his balance in mid air and hit Shadow with a Chaos Torrent, sending him crashing into the rock wall. Shadow burst out from the rubble and shot a few Chaos Spears at Dusk, which the black and yellow hedgehog easily dodged. They were, however, only a distraction as Shadow gave Dusk a tremendous punch to the face, sending him flying back into Eggman's metal base. Dusk growled in anger and spin dashed at Shadow, which he countered with a spin dash of his own, causing the two hedgehog's spin dashes to collide with each other. However, with his inhibitor rings removed, Shadow was easily able to overpower Dusk, pushing him into the dirt before jumping up into the air and shooting a Chaos Lance at him. Dusk was able to roll out of the way however, and countered with a barrage of Chaos Arrow.
"Chaos CONTROL!" Shadow yelled as he teleported before any of the arrows could hit him and reappeared behind Dusk. When the black and yellow hedgehog turned around he was met with an uppercut to the face, which was followed by a knee to the stomach. Shadow finished his combo with a point blank Chaos Torrent, sending Dusk flying back into the rock wall again. Shadow was about to continue his assault when he fell on one knee in exhaustion. "What…oh no…" Shadow mumbled as he noticed what was happening. He had used what little was left of his energy and now he was completely tired out. Dusk noticed this and smirked evilly, "Finally pooped eh Shadow old pal?" Dusk said as he walked toward Shadow. "Good, then I can make this as painful as possible for you." Dusk spoke in Shadow's ear before slugging the ebony hedgehog in the stomach as hard as he could, knocking the wind out of Shadow.
Dusk then kneed Shadow in the face before grabbing him by his quills and slamming him into the base. Dusk then jumped back and blasted Shadow with multiple Chaos Arrows, before slamming a knee into his back, causing Shadow to let out a cry of pain, despite how much he was trying to avoid doing so. Dusk smiled with malicious intent and slammed Shadow's face into the ground repeatedly, he then threw the hedgehog up into the air. "I wish I could play a little more with you, but I'm running on a tight schedule if I'm going to conquer this planet." Dusk yelled up to Shadow as he charged a full power Chaos Lance in his hand. "Sayonara, Shadow the Hedgehog!" Dusk screamed as he shot the lance at Shadow. Before the lance could hit however, it was blasted into nothing by something much more powerful. Shadow landed on the ground with a thud, not having the slightest clue what had just saved his life.
"What is the meaning of this?! Who stopped my attack?!" Dusk yelled in fury as he looked around for the one responsible. "I did." Said a familiar hedgefox. Shadow tilted his head slightly in the direction of the voice to see Hikaru slowly floating toward the battlefield. The turquoise hedgefox smirked as he looked at Dusk, "I think I might have found myself a decent spar."
*Tundra of Disaster: Sonic's POV*
Toro and I slowly made our way up the mountain; I was a bit nervous that Toro couldn't actually stop the avalanches, but when the first one came down he was able to easily hold it back, causing the excess snow to go around him. As long as I stood behind him there was no chance of me getting caught up in the avalanche. I guess what he could do was more like redirect it, but that's better then nothing.
"Nice Toro! You really can stop the ava-I mean snow waves!" I exclaimed as he redirected another avalanche past us. "Yeah! Toro the best!" Toro said as he continued up the mountain. Neither of us knew, however. That more then just avalanches awaited us on these snowy slopes. As we continued up the slopes, a bright light flashed in our eyes, distracting us both. When it cleared there was a green hedgehog with red shades, a leather jacket with flames on it, and black and green boots standing in front of us. With him was a scarlet fox with brown hair, a black top, black bottoms, and black boots. The two looked around as if they were slightly confused with where they were, that is, until the green hedgehog's gaze fixed on me. "Ah! Blue! How nice of you to show up to be my personal punching bag!" The green hedgehog said as he pounded one of his fists into the other. "Look dude, I don't even know who the heck you are." I replied, I mean seriously? I just meet this guy and he's already got a nickname for me and wants to fight me?
"What are you talking about? We've met multiple times!" The green hedgehog said before he was tapped on the shoulder by the fox. She whispered something into his ear which caused him to grunt in annoyance. "I guess the Fi's got a point…Whatever, even if your not the Sonic from our dimension, I'm still gonna pound you into dust!" The green hedgehog yelled as he charged me, with speed close to or equal to mine! I barely managed to avoid his first punch! The fox just sighed in annoyance, "Scourge! Why are we fighting Sonic when we should be focusing on getting out of this place?!" The fox yelled in frustration. "Cause Fiona, I need to stress relief! And Blue here can provide it!" The hedgehog known as Scourge said before he tried to punch me again, which I backfliped to avoid.
"Alright then, have it your way." I said before I charged Scourge, punching him in the face before I spin dashed him, sending him sliding back a few feet in the snow.
*Third Person POV*
Fiona decided to help Scourge, when Sonic ran up to punch Scourge again she jumps forward and kicked Sonic in the face, before turning toward Scourge. "I can handle him myself Fiona!" Scourge yelled as he got off the ground. "Just thought it was better then me standing around doing nothing!" Fiona yelled at Scourge, who was grateful for the help, although he would never admit it. "Fine, help if you want." Scourge grumbled as he spin dashed Sonic before he could get up. The blue hedgehog had decided he had enough so when Scourge went to spin dash him again, he rolled to avoid it and kicked Scourge away like a soccer ball.
Sonic had let his guard down though, and was met with a kick to the back of the head from Fiona, who also found herself being lifted off the ground by a giant hand! "What the? Let go of me!" Fiona yelled as she squirmed in Toro's grasp. "Great work Toro! Now don't hurt her, just make sure she can't interfere!" Sonic yelled as he kicked Scourge away from Toro. "Okay, Toro no hurt." Toro said as he stood there holding Fiona. "Get your hands off her you-"Scourge started before he was punched in the face by Sonic. "Hey! Your fights with me Scourge!" Sonic yelled as he spin dashed the evil hedgehog into the snow.
"That's it! You asked for it Blue!" Scourge said as he got up and dodged a punch from Sonic before giving the blue hedgehog an uppercut to the jaw, sending him soaring through the air. Scourge capitalized on this and homing attack Sonic in mid air, before grabbing him and pile driving him into the snow! Although snow is soft, the impact still rocked Sonic, who was wondering where he was as he got to his feet, only to get a roundhouse kick to the face from Scourge! The green hedgehog then spin dashed Sonic again, causing him to slide through some of the snow. "Ugh, I'm tired of being a punching bag!" Sonic yelled as he met Scourge's second spin dash with his own. Slowly, Sonic was able to overpower Scourge's spin dash and send him sprawling into the snow. He then ran up to Scourge and spin dashed him again, sending him further up the mountain. Sonic ran up to Scourge again and grabbed him by his quills, then threw him into the air and homing attacked him twice before giving him an axe kick, which sent him crashing down into the snow below.
"Damn it!" Scourge yelled as he pulled himself to his feet, only to get a dropkick from Sonic, which sent him a little ways down the mountain. Fiona finally managed to squirm her way out of Toro's grasp and kicked the yeti in the face, to which he just stood there with a blank expression. "Huh, what going on?" Toro said as he looked around. Fiona just sighed before she ran down to check on Scourge. "You okay Scourge?" Fiona said as she kneeled by the green hedgehog. He just snarled at her, "I'm fine! I'll always be fine! Just get out of my way!" Scourge yelled as he pushed Fiona aside, to which she huffed at him. "Fine! See if I ever check on you again!" Fiona yelled at him, before putting on a slightly sad expression. Sonic and Scourge were about to engage in battle again when they were interrupted by Toro.
"Snow wave!" Toro yelled as he barreled toward Sonic. "What in the hell is a snow wa-" Scourge started before he looked up the mountain and saw the avalanche, to which his ears went back a little, "Oh." The avalanche hit them all before they could react to it, Scourge had had enough to dive over to Fiona and shield her from the avalanche while Toro tackled Sonic to the ground before the snow covered all of them.
*The Fields of the Ancients: Third Person POV*
The fight had been pretty even between the two groups, while the polar bear who was apparently known as Bark was no match for Kaiza, and Jewel was having some trouble with Bean, Zaos and Nack seemed pretty evenly matched right now. "You can't outrun me you pesky hedgehog! I've even nailed Sonic a couple of times with my rifle!" Nack yelled as he fired another shot at Zaos, which he barely managed to dodge. The white and orange hedgehog had already been nicked by a few of the bullets, shown by the few bleeding cuts he had on his arms and left leg. "Damn it! I can't even get close to him!" Zaos yelled as he dodged another bullet. Whenever he did get close to Nack, the weasel would unload on him with his twin pistols. If he tried to stop and charge up an attack however, he'd have a bullet in his head long before he released it. And at this rate, he was going to end up with enough wounds to cause him to bleed to death.
Jewel wasn't having much of a better time. Bean was apparently was a bomb loving maniac, and enjoyed nothing less then watching something explode. He was just throwing bomb after bomb at the pink hedgefox, who was barely managing to dodge each of the explosions. She had been a little to close to this one however, and was caught off guard by a piece of shrapnel the slashed her across the head, causing a stream of blood to flow down her face. "Ow!" She yelled as she gingerly touched the wound. "Haha! I got her! I got her!" Bean yelled as he jumped up and down with delight. Jewel noticed that the duck had stopped his bombing and charged him. Before he could react, Jewel had kicked him in the face, sending him flying. Bean got to his feet, only to be punched in the stomach by Jewel. She then grabbed his arm and threw him judo style over her shoulder and into the ground. She then formed a Chaos Spear in her hand and pointed it at his face.
"If you want to keep your head I suggest not moving!" Jewel yelled at the Bean. The duck did as he was told and didn't move a muscle, he liked his head. Bark on the other hand, was having a hell of a time trying to fight Kaiza, who seemed more like he was trying to teach the polar bear, rather then fight him. "No, no, strike with your right hand." Kaiza said as he effortlessly flipped the polar bear over him after catching his left hand. Bark grunted as he slammed into the ground, but Kaiza had had enough of the polar bear. When Bark managed to climb back to his feet, Kaiza slugged him as hard as he could in the face, which sent the polar bear flying and knocked him out cold as he slammed into the ground. "You fought well, considering how long you lasted." Kaiza said as he turned and watched Zaos' fight.
Zaos was still having just as hard of a time with Nack, he had, however, been slowly forming a plan in his mind to take the weasel down. He smirked as he continued to run around and avoid Nack's bullets. Nack fired again, which Zaos dodged, and the hedgehog decided to put his plan into action now. He charged straight at the weasel, which surprised Nack. "Alright then! Have fun in hell!" Nack yelled as he prepared to fire his rifle straight into Zaos' head. Time almost seemed to slow down for Zaos, he had to wait for the perfect moment, too late and he would have a bullet to his head. Too early and Nack which change the trajectory of his gun to shoot him anyway, the timing had to be just right. "Wait for it…" Zaos thought as Nack was about to click the trigger.
"…NOW!" Zaos yelled in his mind the moment Nack flexed his finger to pull the trigger. Zaos went into a spin dash, barely avoiding the bullet as he skimmed over him, and spin dashing Nack in the stomach. This caused Nack to drop his rifle in surprise; Zaos came out of his spin dash before Nack could recover and grabbed his pistols, throwing them over to where the rifle was before blasting all three weapons into dust. Zaos then turned to Nack and spin dashed him again before he could get up, and placed a foot on the weasel's chest. "Stay down." Zaos said in a dangerous tone, to which Nack obeyed, with no weapons he wouldn't be much of a match for the white and orange hedgehog.
"I don't want to kill you, but if you so much as move, I won't think twice." Zaos said a he lifted his foot off Nack and went over to check on his sister. "You okay Jewel?" Zaos asked as he stood next to his sister and kneeled to check on her. "I'm…fine." Jewel said, but Zaos thought otherwise. The blood on her face showed that she was anything but fine. Zaos lightly moved Jewel's head to the side to examine the wound on her head. It wasn't too bad, but that didn't make Zaos any less angry at the one who had given her the wound. He looked down at Bean and punched him in the face, easily knocking the duck out. "That wasn't necessary!" Jewel yelled at Zaos as she jumped to her feet. Zaos shrugged, "Someone had to knock him out, can't have him lighting any more explosives." Jewel sighed in defeat, knowing that her brother was both in the right and wrong for punching the duck.
Zaos went back over to Nack, who hadn't moved since Zaos had told him not to, and kneeled down to look the weasel in the eye. "I'm only going to ask this ONE time. Where is the Chaos Emerald?" Zaos asked Nack, he already knew that Nack had the emerald, but he was seeing if the weasel would willingly tell him where it was. "Uh…What emer-" Nack was cut off with Zaos punching him hard in the face, knocking him out as well. The hedgehog then fished the Chaos Emerald out of Nack's pocket, this one being the white emerald. "Well, here's the emerald we need." Zaos said as he looked over the emerald, making sure that it wasn't any sort of fake. "Yep, this is the real deal…So what should we do with these three?" Zaos said waving at the three that the group had knocked out. "The best course of action would be to tie them up and leave them. We can bring them with us to the temple, and then bring them to the nearest authorities after that." Kaiza said as he brought some rope out of his pack. Kaiza then retrieved Bark and Bean with ease and placed them near Nack before he tied the three together and picked them all up with ease. "Let's go." Kaiza said just as Zaos had finished bandaging up Jewel's head. The other two nodded and Zaos picked up Jewel and followed Kaiza to the White Chaos Temple.
*Eggman's Base: Third Person POV*
Dusk didn't ask anymore question as he shot another Chaos Spear, this time up at Hikaru. The Saiyan warrior easily battled the spear away from him into the side of the base, then dashed toward Dusk and dropkicked him in the head. Dusk was able to regain his balance and bounce of the wall of the base and rocket toward Hikaru. He punched the hedgefox in the stomach, then kicked him into the rock wall of the canyon. "Well now, looks like you might be a little itty bit of a challenge to me!" Hikaru yelled out loud. "As long as I don't turn into a Super Saiyan." Hikaru added in his mind.
Dusk growled at Hikaru and shot a Chaos Torrent at him, to which Hikaru shot a small beam at the torrent, easily overpowering it and hitting Dusk with it, sending him back into the base. Dusk growled again and spin dash toward Hikaru, which he easily dodged and gave Dusk an axe kick, sending him crashing down into the ground. Dusk burst out from the ground and shot a barrage of Chaos Arrow's at Hikaru, to which he just stood there and took them. Dusk smirked at his handiwork, but when the smoke cleared it revealed Hikaru, with only one or two scratches on him! Dusk was furious at this, but Hikaru just smirked at him, "Was that all, really?" Hikaru said in a mocking tone. Dusk yelled and tried to spin dash Hikaru, but the hedgefox just redirected him into the wall, causing Dusk to slam into him to slam into the cliff wall. Before Dusk could recover, Hikaru comboed him with a series of punches and kicks, before grabbing him and slamming him into the ground.
"Give up yet?" Hikaru said to Dusk, who was picking himself off the ground after that last barrage. "Ne…never…" Dusk said as he removed his inhibitor rings. Shadow knew what was coming, but Dusk was a fool if he thought that would do any good against Hikaru. Hikaru just smirked as he watched Dusk remove each of the rings. When the last fell to the ground, Dusk's powered increased by quite a bit. He snarled as he jumped up and punched Hikaru in the face, which he made no attempt to block, causing him to fly backwards and slam into the cliff wall. Dusk then proceeded to shoot all kinds of projectiles at Hikaru, from Chaos Spears, to Arrows, to Lances, and ended the massive barrage with a Chaos Cannon, completely obliterating a part of the cliff.
"That'll…teach you…to mess…with…me…" Dusk said in between his panting. But, when the dust settled, Dusk's eyes looked like they were about to pop out of his head. "WHAT?!" Dusk yelled as he looked at Hikaru, who besides a few cuts and a little bleeding on his head was virtually unharmed. "Wow, you actually injured me with your little assault." Hikaru said as he slowly made his way toward Dusk, an aura of killing intent radiating off of him. Dusk was running possible strategies for attack through his head at the time. Finally, Dusk came to the conclusion that he needed to run now, which he promptly did, taking off out of the valley at near Mach 2. This caused Hikaru to tilt his head in confusion, "What? No more fun? Aw…" Hikaru said slumping his head in disappointment. Shadow just stared at Hikaru in confusion; one second he looked like his was about to rip Dusk to pieces, then instead of chasing him makes a childish comment about no more fun? Who the hell was this guy?
*Tundra of Disaster: Sonic's POV*
Boy was I a lucky guy! Toro burst from the snow and helped me out of the pile of snow that we were currently in. If it weren't for Toro, I would be a hedgehog on ice right now! "You okay Sonic?" Toro asked me as he cleared the snow around him. "Yeah, I'm okay Toro, but what about you?" I asked with worry, even if he was a near 10 foot tall yeti, he wasn't indestructible. "Me okay! Toro doesn't mind snow much, that why Toro live up in mountains! Well, that and villagers no like Toro…" Toro said with disappointment. I frowned as I looked at the yeti, he was such a nice guy, and I bet the only reason he's turned away by the villagers was because of his appearance.
"Don't worry big guy, after me and you stop these avalanches, I'm sure the villagers will love you!" I told Toro, trying to get his spirits up. The yeti looked up at me and smiled, "Ya! Then we will be heroes!" Toro replied. "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!" I said to Toro as he began to climb further up the mountain, with me following behind him.
A few minutes later we reached the point where I was at. Although Toro was big he could move at a fairly quick pace. I looked up ahead of us and saw what we were looking for. "What is that?" Toro said pointing at the emerald. "That's a Chaos Emerald, you stay here Toro, and I'll grab it and stop the avalanches!" I said as I rushed forward and nabbed the emerald before any more avalanches happened. Almost instantly the snow storm that was around us dispersed and the sun came out, though that only made it a little bit warmer. "Alright! Now let's get out of here before-" I didn't get to finish that sentence though, because I was hit in the back by something! I was so surprised that I dropped the emerald and rolled a little ways down the hill. I looked up to see what had hit me, and saw Scourge and Fiona! The green hedgehog smirked at me as he tossed the Chaos Emerald between his hands. "Ya snooze ya lose Blue! And now this emerald is mine!" Scourge yelled at me as he prepared to run down the other side of the mountain. I reacted quickly enough though, and spin dashed him in the back, causing him to drop the emerald. I grabbed it and jumped back, "If you want this emerald, you're gonna have to go through me Scourge!" I yelled as I stared at the evil hedgehog.
Scourge growled at me as he got to his feet, "FINE! If that's the way you want it, then you'll get it!" Scourge yelled as he charged me with his fist pulled back.
Well, there's chapter 17! Sonic has to defend the emerald from Scourge! Can our blue hero defeat his evil counterpart, who he hardly knows? We'll find out next time, until then, adios!