Alright guys new chapter is dine and I feel like I'm on a roll. I feel a bit bittersweet about this chapter because in my head I felt like it could have been better but I'm not sure what else I could have done. I had at least two huge sections I deleted and retyped because I just wasn't feeling it. In the end I felt like its a decent chapter and establishes the points I'm trying to make. For those of you who really like this chapter, cool I tend to make high expectations for myself.

Enjoy!

Chapter 4: Wrath of the Water Dragon

The bright light of the portal was blinding but eventually it died down to reveal...space? Sonic stood on a chunk of floating rock in a dark and seemingly endless void filled with what looked like stars in the distance. Strangely it wasn't freezing and there was oxygen which the hedgehog was thankful for.

"I hope Tails machine actually worked. I'd hate to be stranded in another dimension that doesn't even have chillidogs." He said jokingly walking forward. Unbeknownst to the blue hero a small pink creature had been nearby when he arrived into this spatial dimension. Curious and playful it looked on at the hedgehog with its head tilted to the side before following along.

Sonic, wanting to contact Tails to be sure he was in the right place started fiddling with the device on his wrist. "Hello?Tails?Rouge?Anybody?" The small little screen on the device showed static with no response no matter how many buttons Sonic pushed. Eventually he gave up and sighed closing the device to look around. Off to his left floated the slightly ominous ruins of some sort of palace. "I might as well look around a bit while I'm here."

He leapt using each piece of rock as a stepping stone until he landed near the ruined piece of palace. There wasn't anything that looked particularly abnormal about it other than the fact that a strange language was written on part of one the columns attached to the arches. He walked farther inside it giving off a whistle as he admired what could have been a hugely intricate place except it had no ceiling.

The pink and curious creature was hiding behind one of the columns making sure that the hedgehog was not looking everytime he moved.

The azure hedgehog had stopped in the center of a very open area and looked down to the ground. There was a mural of some sort etched into the center around four strange looking creatures. One of them walked on all fours and was dark blue and white. The other right across from it stood on two legs, had two things on its back that looked like wings and a pearl on its shoulder. The one below those two seemed to have no legs, in fact it had these six black like arms with a single red tipped spike on each. The last of the creatures was above all three of them. It was mostly white, walked on all fours and seemed to have some kind of gold ring on its body that almost looks like it was constricting it. Never having seen these creatures before, the blue hero didn't know what to make of this mural. It seemed powerful in some way but he couldn't understand why. It was at that moment that the pink creature decided to venture much closer to the hedgehog almost entirely sure that he was not dangerous.

It floated right behind him at first and then floated lower when the hedgehog bent down to run his hand across the stone floor. The blue hero rubbed the dust between his fingers as the pink cat like creature peeked a bit over his shoulder as if it too was genuinely curious about what Sonic was looking at.

Sonic felt as if something was near him and looked over his left shoulder but found nothing there. Then the pink cat moved to his right shoulder and moved again when Sonic looked over his right shoulder. The blue hero raised an eyebrow and stood up swearing he thought something was there and turned around as fast as he could to see if anyone was behind him but there was nothing there.

The small cat that had teleported right before it could be seen was without a doubt a playful creature called Mew. It can be as mysterious as any legendary pokemon and it cannot resist the urge to play and discover just like a small child. It giggled placing its small paws over its mouth, quite amused by the hedgehogs bewildered expression. Oh yes, Mew would definitely be able to have a bit of fun with our hero.

The blue speedster now slightly more alert than before continued walking around in the ruined palace until he came across a row of mostly unbroken mirrors lined next to each other on the right side of the wall. Sonic walked by slowly seeing himself in every mirror until he stopped at one in particular.

"Theres something about this mirror that seems off." He saw another blue hedgehog exactly like him standing across from himself and neither he nor the other moved. He put his hands on his hips and the copy did the same at nearly the exact same time. He was even putting on the same expression. Part of Sonic knew this wasn't a mirror but the other part didn't care. He found this copy of himself a bit amusing since this whatever it is didn't try to attack him like Metal Sonic did. He was in a quite a playful mood considering that he might not have been transported to the right dimension but he couldn't resist the urge.

He lifted up his right hand slowly waving it in a 'hi' gesture and his look-a-like did the same. He flattened his ears to his skull and crossed his arms while tapping his foot and saw the same thing in the 'mirror'. He rubbed his finger under his little black nose in a signature gesture he does when he's feeling cocky adding a smirk to top it off. Next he turned slightly ,closed one of his eyes ,wagged his finger ,and gave it one of his most charming smiles. Every single movement seemed to mimic his with exact timing but Sonic could see the bit of time it took for the other to copy him."You're pretty good at this. " He thought. "But can you handle this one?" He turned his upper body around seeing the other blue hedgehog do the same. When he turned around he made the most exaggerated face he could by stretching his mouth, pulling it with his fingers and sticking out his tongue. Both hedgehogs held their expression for a few moments until one of them began giggling. Sonic looked on with curiosity as the other blue hedgehog could not hold his expression and doubled over with laughter. The blue hero noticed that the giggling sounded nothing like his voice at all and was in fact very high pitched almost child like.

Eventually the second blue hedgehog had transformed back into a light pink little cat with a long tail ,short arms, and blue eyes. When it stopped laughing, Mew had floated through the space where the mirror would have been, face to face with Sonic. It smiled realizing that it was sort of silly to think that the azure hedgehog could have been dangerous and began making circles around him while smiling. "Mew Mew!" It chirped waving its little arms around excitedly.

The blue speedster watched with awe as the little pink cat seemed to be doing a little dance around him before smiling himself. "Well aren't you full of energy little guy?"

"Mew!" It said again doing a little loop in front of Sonic. "Where did you come from?" He said genuinely curious. He's seen quite a bit in the time he's been alive but this is the first time he's come across a being like this that could transform into him.

Mew couldn't exactly answer the blue hedgehogs question as it would be hard to explain with lots of exaggerated movements but it did understand what he was asking. So instead of trying to explain it simply tilted its head to the side in a very cute movement that only it could pull off so well.

Sonic saw how the pink cat simply tilted his head and thought that maybe it just didn't understand him but he tried again anyway.

"Umm well I'm looking for a friend. See I'm not from this world or dimension or whatever and I came here to bring him back. He's a black and red hedgehog similar to me and four of his quills are up like this." He pulled up a couple of his own quills for emphasis. "He wears gold rings on his wrists and has red eyes and scowls a lot like this." He pulls up the top outer edges of his eyes to make it easier to scowl in what would be a very comical impression of Shadow. In fact it was comical enough to make Mew laugh again.

"So have you seen him?" He wasn't entirely sure if the little pink cat understood everything he was trying to say but he seemed to understand something as he took the blue heroes gloved hand in its two smaller ones and pulled obviously trying to take him somewhere.

"Mew. Mew." It gave him a knowing look and Sonic was happy that he may at least be able to find something he could use to track down his rival.

As Mew flew off Sonic ran behind it keeping up easily even though there was no solid ground to run on. They left the ruined palace behind and as they went the blue speedster swore he heard something far in the endless distance. It sounded like a roar but from what he didn't know. He looked behind him hearing it again but saw nothing that gave away the form nor shape of the creature but he wasn't that worried because they were obviously heading away from it.

Mew had stopped floating above a larger piece of ground circling a bit around the area as Sonic landed smoothly near the edge. When the hedgehog was close enough Mew floated in front of the him and pointed to the ground. "What is it you want me to see?"

He looked down below Mew and saw two black like lines that broke off every foot or so side by side and went farther in the direction they had just been going in. "These marks, I've seen them before." Sonic placed his hands on the marks until he realized why they looked so familiar. "These are scorch marks made from Shadows chaos powered shoes. Shadow was here wasn't he?" He had turned to Mew for a confirmation but it only continued to stare at the black marks slightly flicking its tail. Judging from how wide the black marks were, the black hedgehog must have been pouring on the speed. It suggests that Shadow was pumping quite a bit of chaos into his shoes to get away from something.

Alright so at least I know where he's been, that's progress right?

Sonic was about to ask Mew if it could show him any other clues that would help him track down his rival but a very familiar roar stopped him and it was much closer now. Near the edge of the rock a rift had formed, darkness only revealing two red eyes inside. The blue hedgehog had stepped back seeing the silhouette of its body come through: A long neck, two arms and legs, a long tail, wing like appendages on its back, and a round orange like pearl on its shoulder. It possessed a white and violet body coloring that made it seem mysterious in some way or another. He realized that it was the same creature in the mural he had just been looking at a few minutes ago.

"What is that thing?" The blue hedgehog asked not really addressing Mew but at the same time having no one else to talk to. Palkia had begun making all kinds or angry noises that sounded like snarling in what Sonic only guessed was some kind of speech as it seemed to address Mew. The blue hedgehog even thought he felt the space around him fill with pressure when its red eyes focused on him for a few seconds.

Mew floated in front of the hedgehog unafraid of this powerful pokemon. Although it much rather preferred playing and goofing off it certainly didn't believe that Palkia had a right to attack its new friend.

Mew had begun speaking to the water dragon moving around as if to emphasize what it was saying and the blue hero had to admit it sounded like it was trying to be serious. At some point during the exchange Sonic began to feel a headache coming on. From the moment he had stepped into this dimension he had felt a tingly sensation all over his body. He had brushed it off as simply side effects of dimensional traveling similar to how he sometimes feels when using the chaos emeralds but now it had turned into a very painful headache.

"Unacceptable! He is not a being from our world. He belongs back in his own dimension just as you belong in ours," a loud resounding voice said. Emerald eyes widened as he realized that the voice came from the large white and violet dragon glaring holes into both of them.

Palkia was angry with Mew for allowing a creature from another dimension to stay here. Not only was it territorial like its counterpart Dialga but it felt a strong sense of duty to protect the fragile balance between space and time. Both felt they could not afford to have such disturbances such as dimensional travelers within their jurisdictions. They knew that if they just let anyone pass through space and time it could rip apart the balance that they have protected since its beginning, jeopardizing not just their world but many others connected to it. The collapse of one world could lead to another in a catastrophic domino effect ending the existences of countless lives.

Mew began to argue back with Palkia and now that the blue hedgehog could understand what both creatures were saying it left him feeling touched. Mew was defending Sonic like it had known him for much longer than maybe twenty minutes. In fact Sonic felt the need to step in to defend Mew. Even though he knew absolutely nothing about this creature or the little pink cat, his instinct to protect and defend others was kicking in and he couldn't resist it.

"Hey you, Palkia !" He addressed the huge dragon after hearing Mew say its name. "I don't like your attitude and I don't know what's going on but it wasn't my choice to just go trespassing through your dimension. But Mew's right when it said I was only looking for friend. As a matter of fact if you've seen him, a black and red hedgehog that looks alot like me, I would love to leave you alone once I get him. "

Palkia was silent a moment as it seemed to stare at the small blue hedgehog who didn't seem in the least bit intimidated at all.

"You… your related to the other one aren't you?" It said slowly. "You're the ones that go flitting through my dimensions all the time!" It didn't seem to care about the hedgehogs reason for being here.

What is it talking about? Sonic never recalled going through dimensions and seeing the dragon there. In fact until today he had never seen nor heard of Palkia.

"I've been looking for you. I don't know how many of you there are but you all seem to originate from the same dimension. It's only for a few moments but I see you and sense you crossing Dialga's as well as my domain using an energy similar to aura."

Uh oh I didn't realize there were other creatures with the ability to control space and time outside of our own world or that me and my friends would anger them by using chaos control. Sonic thought. Next to him Mew was a bit nervous. Every moment they spent talking to the dragon seemed to reveal that Palkia doesn't plan on letting this go.

"You and your look-a-like may have evaded Dialga and I for a long time but I made sure to punish one of you for it." That immediately got the speedster attention. Could it be that Palkia was responsible for attacking, kidnapping, and possibly injuring his rival. Well he was about to find out.

"What did you do to Shadow you overgrown lizard!"

"That is none of your concern. As the keeper of space that exists between all dimensions you will recieve punishment as an incentive never to tresspass again!" It bellowed making both Mew and Sonic flinch at the sound. It held its hands apart from each other and reared them back as a blue sphere formed in the space between.

"This way!" Mew said recognizing one of Palkia's attacks easily. Sonic was a bit reluctant to follow after hearing that the dragon may have hurt the blsck hedgehog but he knew this was a fight he wouldn't win without the chaos emeralds. The little pink cat took off as fast as it could with the blue hedgehog following behind closely. They had just managed to miss the aura sphere as it came hurtling right at them destroying the ground they had just stood on into hundreds of different pieces.

Palkia, wasting no time in pursuing its targets, extended its wing like appendages and picked up a good amount of speed. It continued to launch an assault of aura spheres like a machine in a batting cage. The blue hedgehog thinking he saw an opportunity to attack made a quick u-turn and used all the broken up rocks to create a path jumping them all at incredible speeds that even the legendary water dragon had trouble keeping up with. Sonic launched into homing attack after homing attack hoping to at least do a little damage to slow it down but the hard scales of its body proved too strong to scratch. He aimed for its head putting all his strength into the attack and landing a blow on top of its head. It was a direct hit but Palkia shook it off breaking the heroes momentum and leaving him in midair.

To his surprise it wasn't an aura sphere that hit but rather a powerful gush of water from its mouth hitting Sonic head on and smacking him through a slab of floating rock with great force. The impact was great enough knock him out cold as he fell onto a smaller slab that was luckily right below him.

Palkia gave a fearsome roar believing that victory was near and it prepared for one of its most devastating attacks...Spacial Rend.

Mew had saw the hydro pump hit home and it also had a feeling the blue hero wouldn't be able to endure it and rushed over quickly. Palkia saw the little pink pokemon fly into its line of fire but it couldn't care less at the moment. It continued to charge up the spacial rend as it seemed to disappear in a black spiraling void. It was now or never and Mew knew that there was only one thing it could do. It made sure that it was touching the azure hedgehog and teleported. Palkia had broken the space where Mew and the blue hedgehog had been as that particular area of the spatial dimension had become destabilized shattering like glass that had been cut by something sharp.

"NOOO!" It roared outraged that it had allowed them to leave the spatial dimension unscathed. Eventually it calmed down as it realized that the space around it was also starting to destabilize with its change in emotion. It focused on repairing the damaged space from its attack.

"Mark my words Mew, if I ever catch you or that creature in the spatial dimension again, I will not hesitate to attack. Judgement comes to all those who deserve it."

And as it finished stabilizing space it flew off in the distance into another rift silence following once again in its wake.

So tell me how was it? I hope this encourages those of you who are new to follow and favorite me, I mean two legendary pokemon appearences in one chapter gotta be interesting right? For those of you wondering why Sonic can all of a sudden hear what Mew and Palkia were saying, I'll explain that in more detail later and you might be able to sort of figure it out in the next few chapters if I don't end up outright explaining it. And of course if you have suggestions, ideas, or criticism I'll be glad to take them.