LITO: Infinity Rising
Chapter 8: Discoveries and Revealence
"Hey Sonic, you're alright." Sonic just heard a random voice out of nowhere since he snapped
awake in the hospital. He turned to see a familiar looking face right towards him. A familiar
bird-looking one in fact. "It's me, Molly. Remember? The one that gave you life-saving
psychiatric advice. I mean, not life-saving, just life… purpose-finding, there we go." Molly
laughed and Sonic laughed along with her in an attempt to cover up his sheer trauma over what
Dark Foxen did to him. "Right, right. Sorry Molly. Of course I remember you. I just woke up,
that's all." Molly smiled. "It's totally alright Sonic. Anyhow, Gazelle and all your other friends are
here to see you, if you want them to come in." Sonic took some intense breaths to try and calm
himself down. He knew that he needed to get his priorities straight according to the situation at
hand. "Ok, first; what all happened in there?" he said, pointing to his brain. Molly went to her
new desk, the one that she was given since she was hired and promoted to full-time nurse at
the hospital, and pulled out Sonic's CT. "This is actually the strangest anomaly I've ever seen.
During your time here, you weren't unconscious; but your whole nervous system was kept alive
by a strange energy." Molly said. "Chaos energy?" Sonic guessed. Molly shook her head. "If
chaos energy happened to be bright purple and literally started to repair your mind and you just
happened to rest the whole time afterwards, then yeah, that's pretty powerful chaos energy."
Sonic knew that Molly wouldn't exactly believe the possibility of having a dreamy vision while he
was in that state, and since he was given a week to solve the puzzle, he figured the best thing to
do would be to just leave it at that. "Do you want your friends to come in?" Molly asked. "Have
Gazelle and Blaze come in first; then everyone else." he told her confidently. Molly then nodded
and went to the door to let them know the news.
Sonic's mind was on all sorts of things. The
battle between him and Dark, the crashdown afterwards, the Zootopian and Mobian crowd
booing him at his failure. Sure, Mobius lost their home and Zootopia was fearful that they could
be next. So he understood that that would be the type of reaction to expect from them. But what
Dark said about how he was worthless compared to him. How Dark could have them live forever
and give them true and lasting value and he could only give them cheap magic tricks in
comparison was correct. But would they really abandon him like that? He weighed the
possibilities in his head, then decided against it. "The only possibility that matters is this
possibility; right here." he thought to himself. But that comforting thought only lasted for a brief
second as he realized, with how individual his friends were and what interests they could have
beyond him, they wouldn't always want to be part of his heroic battle for justice in the universe.
Which was fine, they didn't have to be at all; but if he needed them, like really needed them,
would they really just abandon him?
Those mental questions were interrupted by Gazelle and
Blaze coming into the door quietly. Gazelle walked quickly to Sonic to hug him, but stopped
herself when she realized that he was hooked to an IV. "Oh, I'm sorry about that Sonic." Sonic
just smirked at her. "Yeah, I'm not dying. I might as well get Molly to snip-snip this thing off of
me." Sonic then looked out the door. "Hey Molly. Snip-snip, come on. I got my real life-source
right here. I don't need no IV, I don't need no 4. Come on!" he yelled. All the time, Gazelle was
laughing joyfully. Because she thought that it was funny, and that she was glad to see her friend
being joyful again, especially after seeing all of the disrespectful treatment he had received
when he had returned to Zootopia. The two then calmed down after that and smiled at each
other and then gazed into each other's eyes contentedly. Both wishing that they could be
together forever. Especially Sonic, with all of the chaos he was about to endure.
As soon as Blaze was done navigating the hospital and examining it; she walked over to her two
friends. "Well, it doesn't look like Zootopia's hospitals aren't different from Mobius's." She then
saw her two friends shrug their shoulders. "Well, weren't any different than Mobius's." she
corrected herself. Sonic then remembered what he had to ask her. "Hey Blaze. Dark Foxen told
me something that he said you might possibly know." Sonic said, in a bit more of a serious tone.
"He said, 'The Sharpest of Blades is coming down for the most Fatal of Cuts,' What did he mean
by that?" Blaze turned to them with a serious gaze in her eyes. Not blazing, not angry, just
focused about the issue at hand. This made Sonic and Gazelle realize that the best thing to do
would be to just listen and observe what Blaze had to say.
"Many years ago, our people waged
a war against a group of savages that wanted to vanquish our kingdom. They were nothing but
savage brutes from another dimension that have terrorized planets for years. Their life cycles
vary upon their hearts and their actions; for some of the few we have seen, did not behave in
the ways of evil and darkness as the Majority." "The Majority?" Sonic asked. "Yes." Blaze
confirmed. "Not every single one of their species was evil; but the ones who had the most
power, the ones who used it for their name and self-interest without any concern for anyone
else; were called the Majority. Those who never agreed with them and tried to help those
peaceful planets from the shadows were called…" "The Minority." Sonic and Gazelle guessed
simultaneously. Seeing where Blaze's definition of the creatures was going, they both saw that
coming. Blaze, knowing that the two would've gotten the gist of the Majority/Minority thing,
continued with her story. It turned out that these creatures were actually born a certain creature
(like a dog, cat, fox, bear, wolf, bird, hedgehog, etc…) and that creature evolved in appearance
overtime as they grew up, in a way that made them stronger, faster and had a more powerful
appearance during stages in their lives. How they would evolve would depend on the condition
of the creature's hearts and the actions that were portrayed through them. The weird thing about
this, was that they would never devolve, but only get stronger as time went on. Before getting
too much further into detail about the creatures, she told them about how the Majority destroyed
the Minority and that the Majority was eventually destroyed and that her family had protected a
baby who belonged to the minority a couple of years after Blaze was born. Her parents named
the baby, Blades, after his sharp appendages that were used for hands. "I could tell you more
Sonic, but everyone else really wants to see you and I only have so much information on him
anyway." Blaze said, disappointedly. Sonic just smiled at her anyway. "Thanks Blaze. I'm sure I
can figure the rest out." Blaze gently hugged him and Gazelle smiled in gratitude of her friend
being helped. "I'll give you more details later, but the best place to find clues is in Spagonia on
Earth. I frequently heard Blades mention the Hyluind Deserts and their Propheteers, Professor
Pickle might have a copy of it you can borrow." Sonic smiled at her, "Gotcha, thanks again
Blaze." he replied.
A few minutes later…
Now all of Sonic's friends came into the hospital and Sonic appeared very excited to see them;
but what Sonic saw and heard instead took his breath away. "Sonic, I hate to be the bearer of
bad news, but because of your loss to Dark Foxen…well…Molly, could you turn on the news in
here please?" Knuckles statement had a bit more of a take-charge mentality to it and while
Sonic knew that Knuckles was generally serious, he knew that this was serious (even for
Knuckles). Molly later came in turning on the local news and no one could believe what they
saw. Two news reporters, a scarlet macaw and a raven, were flying in what appeared to be a
smoke filled sky, surrounded with buildings devoured by fire and frightened citizens scattering
aimlessly for their lives.
Everyone gasped at the sheer horror of the sight. After that, Molly turned up the tv for everyone
to hear the report better. "This is Ray Venn reporting live from a ghastly blazing City Central
where you can probably guess that, from everything being destroyed, we are witnessing
something beyond an apocalyptic scale for Zootopia…" before they could see what Ray was
going to say next, the tv started glitching. The screen started to glitch randomly in the same
seizure-esque action as Sonic did while he underwent his seizure caused by Dark. Until the tv
let out a boom of light which seemed to cause the tv to explode and forced everyone in the
hospital to cover their eyes. When everyone uncovered them, they discovered that the tv hadn't
actually blown up, but for some weird reason, the tv was projecting cubes that looked like they
were coming out of the tv in 3D. They could also tell that even though the tv had looked like it
was all busted, but for some reason it looked more like a virtual reality illusion than anything. But
what they could tell was real was the figure that was coming out of the screen. He looked like
the tallest of mountains; his gaze struck fear and awe in the eyes of everyone. Except Sonic,
who was pretty good at putting a brave face on during even the darkest of days. Although Sonic
normally actually was very brave; after the shellacking Dark dealt him the previous time they
met; Sonic was left utterly terrified. But he had to put up a brave front. He had to. His friends still
needed to believe in him, right? Do they? Should they? He no longer knew. "Ah, Sonic." Dark
greeted as he flew from out of the tv and into the real world for all in the room to see. "How nice
it is to see you again." he flew directly over to Sonic and examined his IV. "I see that you're
feeling well enough that you don't need this anymore." he said, as he sucked the atoms and the
energy out of the IV and the devices it was hooked to and absorbed the energy into his own
body. Even though Sonic guessed that Dark could absorb energy from inanimate objects as well
as living ones, he was still in awe of the power that he displayed. "Now then, let's get down to
business." Dark said, as he constructed a chair out of some of the energy he had stolen and sat
down next to Sonic. "I believe that this 'announcement' is being broadcasted all across Zootopia
and everywhere else across the universe, so I would listen very carefully if I were you, oh great
'Hero of Mobius'." Dark said, obviously having no intention of respect, but rather to mock and to
taunt the blue hero into letting his guard down in fear. It worked. Nobody else saw Sonic's fear
however, because they were all too caught up in their own paranoia. Not Gazelle however. For
some reason, she was the only one who wasn't caught up in her own fear. Shock, yes. Panic,
most definitely. But the only fear she felt towards were whatever that creature was going to do to
Sonic and Zootopia. Dark stared into Sonic's frightened face, "People of the Universe. You have
known my people as the Majority of the Savagars, and I myself have been know by many
names over the years. I'm the Tallest of Mountains, I am the Roughest of Waves, I'm the
Toughest of Terrors, I am the Darkest of Days. I have been known as Dark Foxen, Dark,
Shnooviliiean, Croptsie, Aghastan, Edge, Energy, Plasma and even god." He
paused for a brief moment to let those words soak into the hearts and minds of his audience.
"You, may call me...Infinite." he said, as he turned towards Sonic, with fear still paralyzing his
very complexion.
Ok, this was originally going to be longer, but then I thought, "Nah, that statement has so much
of an 'OW THE EDGE' factor, that I should stop while it's good. Anyhow, next time, we're going
to actually kick off the adventure as Sonic has to find… you know what, I can't spoil that. Sorry.
If you want hints, I suggest you try to find them in the original, first story, Love In The Open.
Anyhow, my updating plans are going to be like this: the Q&A Chapter for "More To Me Than That", then the
next chapter for this story, then the next chapter for "Determination of the Strong". So that's that
if you're all interested. Other updating/future story plans will be in the Q&A section of "More To Me Than That"
And as always…
Keep Loving, Keep Edifying, Keep LoveandEdifying. :-D :-D :-D
See ya!