Chapter 17: Blast from the Past (Part II)

Dire Dire Docks: Edge of the Lake

The heroes were fighting for their lives when Tails looked up.

"Sonic!" He said. "Is that who I think it is?" Just then he was knocked down by Shadow.

"You will all meet your doom now!" Shadow declared, running at Espio.

"Hey!" A female voice shouted. Everybody looked up in surprise as a purple cat jumped off the cliff and landed between Shadow and Espio. "Not if I have anything to say about this!"

"Blaze!" Tails exclaimed, slowly getting up.

"Long time no see Blaze!" Sonic greeted.

"Hallo there!" Mario said, smiling.

Dimentio crossed his arms. "And who exactly are you?" He demanded.

"Your destruction!" Another voice shouted, as Dimentio suddenly fell down. A silver hedgehog floated gently toward the purple cat and landed next to her.

"Silver!?" Shadow was shocked to see his former comrade.

Silver looked at the black hedgehog. "What are you doing!?" He demanded. "You're supposed to be helping Sonic, not trying to kill him!"

Sonic chuckled. "Shad is working with Eggy now." He explained.

"Don't ever call me that again!" Shadow angrily snapped.

"Enough!" Metal Sonic shouted. "This ends now!" He rushed at Sonic, but Silver used his telekinesis to knock the robot back, but was then knocked down by Shadow's homing-attack.

"Silver!" Espio exclaimed. "Are you OK?"

Silver nodded. "I'm fine!"

With Silver and Blaze fighting alongside them, the heroes were able to drive back Dimentio and his team.

"You will not defeat us!" Bowser Jr. said angrily.

"I'd like to see you try that!" Mario laughed, as he jumped on Bowser Jr's. head, knocking the Koopling down. "Tell Bowser that he will never defeat us!"

"Hmph," Shadow grunted. "Why don't we let one of your little friends tell him instead?"

"What's that supposed to mean!?" Mario demanded, attempting to jump on Shadow, who easily dodged the attack.

"Don't listen to him!" Silver told Mario. "He's just trying to distract you!"

"We must focus if we want victory!" Blaze agreed, using a Flame Tornado to push back Dimentio.

After a couple minutes the villains were finally defeated.

"But…how could you…!?" Shadow panted for breath after getting a solid kick in the pit of the stomach by Sonic.

"Like I said," Sonic said, shaking his head. "Good always prevails over evil."

Dimentio laughed. "You think that you've won!?" He asked, amused by Sonic's speech. "This is just the beginning! You will never truly prevail over evil!"

Metal Sonic nodded. "He is correct."

"You'll pay for this!" Bowser Jr. declared.

Luigi chuckled. "I don't think we will!" He said, despite the fact that most of the fight he was hiding behind a rock.

"Don't you?" Dimentio smirked. "Well, we won't take our anger out on you then."

Silver grunted. "What's that supposed to mean!?"

"Your friends will all suffer greatly for this defeat!" Dimentio grinned evilly. "They will be hurt greatly, and you'll hear their screams of pain in your hearts and your ears as you continue to get closer! Then you'll wish that you never opposed us! That is the consequence of defeating us, and there's nothing you can do to stop it!"

"Why you!" Sonic speed at Dimentio angrily, but Dimentio merely teleported to a rock a couple yards off.

"You will see us again Sonic!" Shadow promised. "Chaos Control!" There was a flash of light and the villains, including Dimentio, vanished.

"Is everyone OK?" Mario asked the team, who were all angered by Dimentio.

"Ungh!" Rouge groaned. "They messed up my hair!" Blaze chuckled at the complaint. "What's so funny?" Rouge demanded.

"Nothing." Blaze shook her head.

"Hey!" Tails exclaimed in alarm, looking around frantically. "Where's Amy!?"

The heroes quickly looked around them and sure enough: The pink hedgehog had disappeared!

"Hmm, that's strange." Sonic said, scratching his head.

"Yeah…" Tails nodded. "She's usually around Sonic." Sonic quickly backed up a bit when he said that.

"So let me get this straight," Rouge stated. "We came here for no reason!? There was no emerald here, so we were just wasting our time!?"

"Seems like that's the case." Luigi said, at which Rouge groaned in disappointment.

"So Silver," Sonic turned to the psychopathic hedgehog. "How'd you get here?"

"Well," Silver explained. "After you defeated the Time Eater some time ago, a portal opened to go back into the past. But no portal opened to let me go back to the future."

"You mean you've been stuck here the whole time!?" Tails was shocked.

"Yep."

"And what about you Blaze?"

Blaze told her story. "Well, for some reason everything went white in my dimension as I was guarding the Sol Emeralds. When it cleared I found myself here."

"I was looking around when Blaze and I ran into each other." Silver continued.

"Silver told me that he had not gone back to the future. And so we decided that since Silver was in your dimension at the time, and I was in mine, that you had to have been here somewhere." Blaze finished.

"Well, thanks for helping us!" Mario gratefully said.

"No prob." Silver winked.

"Let's head back to the castle." Luigi suggested. "We need to find a way to rescue our friends!"

"YES!" Sonic shouted, startling everyone. "Finally no more STINKING water!" Everybody burst out laughing as Sonic took out a Chaos Emerald. "Chaos Control!" There was a flash of light and the gang vanished.

Bowser's Castle: Balcony

Shadow was on the balcony looking at the full moon in the sky.

"Hmm, Eggman doesn't seem to be taking our agreement seriously." He thought out loud. "What if Dimentio was right? What if the Doctor's lying to me again?"

Just then Dimentio walked up to him. "Hey Shadow." He said, noticing Shadow's strange mood. "Why the long face?"

"Just thinking." Shadow replied, not even turning to look at him.

"Let me guess: About what I said at the docks huh?" Dimentio asked.

"How'd you know!?" Shadow asked, surprised that Dimentio was correct.

"Lucky guess." Dimentio winked.

"Hmph," Shadow grunted. "But what if you are right? What then?"

"No one said that being evil was easy Shadow." Dimentio kindly said. "I was lied to before as well, by my teammates and my own captain."

"What did you do about it?" Shadow asked, slightly curious.

"I pretended to work with them so I can gain their trust." Dimentio told him. "After awhile Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Bowser attacked."

"Wait, so Bowser has worked with Mario?" Shadow asked.

"Yes." Dimentio nodded. "The same way that Eggman has worked with Sonic on several occasions."

"Hmm…" Shadow crossed his arms.

"When they attacked, I was ready." Dimentio continued. "They defeated my boss, and thought that they had won. But then I attacked, using Luigi as my tool. They still defeated me, but my boss and my teammates helped them. My only friends had turned against me." He turned to Shadow with fire in his eyes. "That's why I don't trust anyone Shadow."

"I understand that." Shadow nodded. "But still…will Eggman do that to me?"

"It is too soon to find out. But if he does," He looked at the black hedgehog with kindness in his eyes. "Just know that I'll always be on your side."

Shadow smiled slightly. "Thanks."

Dimentio laughed. "I told you that we would get along just fine!" He declared.

Shadow grinned. "And so you did."

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To be continued...