Chapter Nineteen – Reunited
As soon as Sukko got anywhere near the other Titans, he was immediately pounced on and hugged to death. The Sorcerer was home, and Frank was right. The incredible Blue Hedgehog would eventually come back. He smiled, as he had his turn to cuddle his best friend.
"I knew you'd be back, especially with that smirk." He beamed. But Sukko just grinned.
"Always." He smirked, but the he heaved and hard, as he face fell. He looked back at the Bear, incredibly somber, extremely guilty. "Actually, I bluffed." He admitted. Frank blinked.
"What?" He stammered. But Sukko sighed and hard.
"When I left to fight Cthulhu, I knew it was a one way trip, with no hope of return. Yes, I did have a plan, but the chances of it succeeding were so slight, that the odds were very heavily stacked against me. The smirk, it was a lie. I didn't want you to worry. The only reason why I standing here, is one, sheer dumb luck, and two, certainly members of my family, like always, not willing to let go of this stupid Sorcerer yet." He cried. Frank suddenly grabbed him, and hugged him again, as he just cried his heart out.
Sukko now had full memories of everything. Perfectly restored. All of it had returned and he recalled the Embodiment of Madness, and the corruption, and about how he nearly succumbed. But in remembering the Madness, was it truly gone? It desperately frightened him, on top of Stripes giving his life for him. It was just too much.
But this time, the Sorcerer kept it together, and shook himself. He heaved. Tails smiled, as he got out his handheld. He smiled.
"Hey, we have new Titan Headquarters back home. Are you coming?" He asked, but Sukko heaved, looking back behind him, to where his twin, from his dimension, had ran to. Home.
"No." He spat, to the shock of everyone. "Living as the God Of The Cosmos, meant living with memory loss. But now I'm not longer the deity, I now remember everything, and I got to process it. I need time." He admitted. But Everglade growled.
"Hey, your not disappearing on us again, we've only just got you back." He hissed, but Sukko giggled.
"I'm not going to vanish on you, Everglade. I'll still be contactable." He smiled, then he frowned, checking the pockets of his long black coat, mumbling to himself. "Inside pockets, no. Outside pockets, full of crud, yet again, as always. A bag of raw ghost chillies, and a rubber severed hand." He smirked, shaking his head. "Sonikku!" He added, to rather puzzled looks. He giggled. "He's been at my coat again. Constantly fills it with munchies, for me to give back to him later, and as for the rubber severed hand. That's Thing. I animate it with my Telekinesis, make it run on it fingers all over the place, and Sonikku adores chasing after it." He explained. "Yeah, I'm related to a five year old." He giggled. He desperately missed those stupid antics, but he heavily sighed. "But no communication device, mine must have got fried. Frank, can I borrow yours." He added, to the Bear.
Frank nodded, handed it over, somewhat confused. Sukko looked at his hand with the power ring, he had in idea. In that hand, he hovered the Frank's communication device, as his eyes glowed a deep vivid blue. Huge quantities of Magic poured down his hand and into the device and the ring. So much so, that Everglade felt it on the other end. With a flash of blue light, it was done, as he tossed the communication device back to Frank. He smirked.
"Well, glad to see the old Magic cogs are still working, even after everything." He heaved, sounding very deflated, then he rounded on everyone. "Look, I'm going home. Call me, the device and the power ring, should come straight to me on this." He added, pointing to his own ring, on his hand. "From anywhere, I hope." He frowned. "Yeah, it should work." He nodded to himself. "Anyway, I'll see you around." He added, waving and before anyone could stop him, he exploded into hundred of bright orbs of beautiful white light, all ascending upwards, and Sukko teleported away and home.
There were complaints but Frank overruled them, letting Sukko go. The Sorcerer was exhausted, he could see it in his eyes, and Sukko also desperately wanted to be with his family. Soon, it was time to returned home
Dimension – 23691 – Broadcasting From Afar
Back to the main timeline, and the Titan Headquarters, unfortunately, there was some bad news. Tails, able to see the Multiverse, with his handheld, saw the butcher bill from Cthulhu's attack, and it was a dire as everyone had feared. Ten thousands dimensions, of the millions of versions of Mobius, that made up the Multiverse, had been destroyed. The loss of life in the trillions, and unfortunately, this included Manic's dimension. Tails desperately tried to find the Titan's home planet, but after hours of calculations, be managed to pinpoint it's location, and it was gone. Destroyed by that monstrosity.
The Earth Bender cried his heart out. Charlie and the others. They were all gone. Shads's dimension was still intact, unscathed from the attack. It was easy to spot. The only version of Mobius that showed up on Tails's handheld, green, but Saffie's did taken damage. The Sapphire Dragon panicked, desperately worried about Sally and the other Freedom Fighters, but when Tails managed to get a visual, they were alright.
The planet had taken a beating, badly cracked and broken, but the Floating Cities of the Mutant Movement, high above, were fine, everyone on them, safe and well. It was obvious that they needed to move on and find a new dimension, but trapped behind the locks of mechanical inter-dimensional portals, they were going nowhere. They now won't work, not matter what Uncle Chuck or Rotor did, and Saffie wasn't sure how they were going to get out.
But Shads smirked, pointing at Storm-breaker. He could create inter-dimensional portals anywhere, not bound by the rules, as they were supernatural in origin. Manic, drying himself off, deciding he wanted to make a difference. He joined Saffie, as the Sapphire Dragon finally went home. There were celebrations at the mighty Blue Blur returned but that got hampered at the fact that they needed to move everyone out. The main timeline's Tails went with them, and having found a suitable dimension for everyone, helped in getting the Floating cities broken apart, through Shads's inter-dimensional portals, to the new dimension, and then rebuilt. The Titans doing most of the heavy lifting.
With all four of the Floating Cities rebuilt, Tower City, Capital City, Rainbow Falls, and Robotropolis, they ascended to the skies again, and soon the population had found it's new home. Saffie heaved, thanking everyone, and promised to return home again, as they all returned back to the main timeline and the Titan Headquarters.
Frank, as an extremely good Doctor, got a job there, and at the Restoration, in the fight against Eggman. His skills were needed and was kept very busy. The Titans also got jobs in the Resistance, but stayed mainly around the Titan Headquarters. The locals from the main timeline, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, and Rouge, all went back to their normal routine, either working for G.U.N. or fighting Eggman, or volunteering at the Restoration.
Everglade stayed at the Titan Headquarters, while Blaze finished off her vacation on the main timeline, and soon they went home together.
But Sukko kept his word. Whenever Everglade or Frank called him, he responded, often with messages, not in much of a mood to talk. That was fine, so long as he answered. Sukko was extremely glad to be home, and the kids threw a huge party for him. It was amazing, but Sukko's heart just wasn't in it. It was with the amazing Black Hedgehog who'd given his life to save him, and whom still wasn't awake yet.
Stripes.
His regeneration had been very slow and laborious, but he was coming. It had taken several weeks just for his heart had start beating again, and as Sukko just spend hours lying in bed, next to him, fast asleep, before long, he began breathing. It was simply a matter of time, before he finally woke up, and the family be complete again. Well, almost. Manikkos was still missing. There version of the Earth Bender, and as just as plans were made to go and visit him, on the Chi home world, a call to arms, came from the main timeline.
Another monster was back in the Greater Cosmos.
Immediately, everyone landed on the Titan Headquarters, ready for battle. It was a simple but solid building, built bu Manic himself. The floors, walls and ceilings, will all made of solid rock, and the glass windows, had been made by hand melting sand, using pressure. The same method he turned coal into diamonds. He was still rusty at making glass but was getting better, but his ability to make diamonds on demand, meant the Titans never ran out of money.
The Headquarters consisted of nine rooms on one floor. Four bedrooms, one each for the Titans, a guest room, a kitchen, a bathroom, a lounge and a operations rooms, were all the missions was directed from. High doors, and ceilings to accommodate the rather tall statures of all the Titans, and with plenty of room for them to sleep. Manic had made Saffie a 'tree' of solid rock, in his room, so large that he could hand upside down in comfort, in his original form, and sleep without having to hide. Shads and Kee Kee's had a simple bed, as did Manic's but the Sorcerer's room was empty, Sukko yet to move it.
But as everyone landed, Blaze, Everglade, Frank, Saffie, Manic, Shads and Kee Kee, Shadow, Rouge, Sonic and Tails, all ready for the mission. But someone, rather annoyingly, was missing.
Sukko.
As Everglade growled, about to call the Sorcerer, when suddenly, there was a knock at the front door, followed by a extremely strong smell of chilli. They all looked at each other. They weren't expecting guests. Rouge went up the door, and called through it.
"Who is it?" She asked. There was intense giggling the other side.
"Either you seriously don't know who I am, or there something wrong with your nose." He grinned. Frank gasped.
"That's Sonikku." He grinned, and immediately ran for the door and opened it. He frowned as he was greeted by an enormous brown cardboard box on legs, as Sonikku, who could barely see around it, stumbled into the Headquarters. Frank then looked out of the door after the Sorcerer's version of the Blue Blur came in. He gulped, somewhat worried. "Er, Sonikku, where's Sukko?" He stammered.
Sonikku, walked across the room and placed the huge box on to the main table, in the operations room. Pushing into the centre, he finally looked around, as everyone gathered around him. He blinked.
"Whoa! There's a lot of me's here. Sukko did warn me. I didn't notice back in the Sol Empire." He gasped. But Frank fumed.
"Sonikku, where's Sukko?" He repeated, rather harshly, the Blue Blur clearly not listening. But the tall, rather lanky Blue Hedgehog just giggled.
"He's not coming. Sukko, no longer the God Of The Cosmos anymore, has caught a cold, probably off one of the kids. He's sneezing so hard, his telekinesis is literally blowing holes in walls and ceilings. He's already blown four in the palace, including taking the entire roof off." He smiled. "Well, that game of hide and seek with Gardon, with Sukko hiding in the rafters, didn't go exactly to plan." He grinned. But Blaze growled, as her temper flared.
"Well, he'd better put the roof back." She hissed, completely unsurprised at this, she assumed correctly, that the Sorcerer had to power to do so but Sonikku gulped, biting his lip, hard.
"Er, we will, Miss Princess, when we find it." He stammered. There was utter confusion, as Everglade just facepalmed. He heaved.
"How the heck do you loose a roof?" He groaned. But Sonikku giggled.
"I have no idea, but neither of us can find where it got flunk to." He admitted. "We're hoping it's not at the bottom of an ocean. Again, which one, we don't know." He added. Blaze heaved, but Everglade panicked.
"But without Sukko, what are we going to do?" He stammered. But Sonikku just giggled, and proceeded to jump on the tables slide across it and kneeled against the huge cardboard box he brought. He grinned.
"Like heck, my brother would leave you guys hanging. He sent you a Box of Balls." He smiled. But Rouge blinked, as they all did.
"I beg your pardon." She stammered, voicing what the whole group was thinking. Then Sonikku promptly opened the box and begin flinging into Everglade's hands, all the while constantly muttering, dozens of pale blues orbs of light, all of them about four inches across. In fact there were so many, that they started spilling out onto the table, as Sonikku was now seriously diving into the box, clearly looking for something. He growled.
"Oh, where is it?" He growled, as Everglade just outright gasped.
"Self contained Magic casts." He stammered, examining one of the balls. "I didn't think that was possible." He gulped. But Sonikku suddenly, popped his head out of the box, and stared at the Wizard. He frowned.
"What? Seriously? Sukko's been doing those things for years." He shrugged, indicating the blue orbs. "You just activate them, and stuff happens." He informed, and then he dived back into the box. Suddenly, he called from it. "Whatever you do, don't drop them. You'll get fireworks." He heaved. "Usually up the backside, and they really hurt." He added, which immediately got all of the pale blue orbs that were threatening to roll off the table, quickly caught. But Everglade panted, looking at his orb, all over. Nothing was happening.
"Ok. How do you activate the orbs?" He asked. But Sonikku, who was still rummaging, growled from the bottom of the box, his tail firming in the air. He heaved.
"Er, I don't know." He admitted, but Frank growled, throughly unimpressed.
"Sonikku!" He hissed, but yet again, the Blue Blur wasn't listening, as he finally popped his head from out of the box, triumphant, with a squeal of "Found it." In his hand, was a small paper bag, that was quite heavily weighted, with writing on it. Sonikku climbed off the table and walked to the edge of the room, very happily drooling as he was about to dive into the contents of the bag. But Frank lost patients with him, and shouted at him.
"SONIKKU!" He roared. Finally the Blue Blur looked up, huffing hard.
"What?" He spat, but Everglade rounded on him. He growled.
"How do you activate the orbs?" He repeated, but Sonikku just shrugged.
"I told you, I don't know. You need Magic, and I can't cast, remember. Your the Wizard, you figure it out." He hissed, glaring back at Everglade. Finally, he opened his paper bag, and stuck his nose on. The resulting smell that exploded from it, filled the entire room, and it wasn't pleasant. Blaze scoffed.
"What is that?" She coughed. But Sonikku giggled, bouncing on his toes, extremely hyperactive.
"My favourite. Ghost chilli flavoured, black forest gateau cupcakes." He beamed, to the rather disgusted looks around the room. "Sukko's been baking again. See." He added, as he pointed to the writing on the bag. It read.
'For the bottomless pit of dissolving tastebuds.'
The comment was brutally sarcastic, and rather surprisingly harsh from the Sorcerer. But the Blue Blur just grinned, not caring.
"I love my brother. He told me he'd sent some munchies for my first trip to a new version of Mobius." He smiled. But Frank just rolled his eyes.
"I would hardly call, a teleport, which was how you got here, a trip, Sonikku." He heaved. But Sonikku nodded.
"Oh, I would." He grinned, as he promptly dived into the paper bag, pulls out a dark brown and deep red swirled cupcake and buried his face in it, scoffing it down, giggling the entire time. In the meantime, the resistant Sonic, had been desperately trying to sink behind the pile of Magical orbs he was carrying, as Tails, Knuckles, and especially Shadow, was giving him the evil side eye. Sonikku was definitely him, but everything was to the utter extreme, and to mortally embarrassing.
As the Sorcerer's twin continued to eat cake in the corner, Everglade was struggling with activating the orbs. Nothing he tried was working. After more then a an hour of trying, Everglade gave up, as Blaze rallied everyone up. She growled.
"Looks like we'll have to do this without the orbs." She heaved. Then she rounded on most annoying Blue Blur of them all. "Sonikku, you can either have the cake and join the fight. Not both. Those things reek." She hissed, holding her nose, indicating the paper bag. The cupcakes stunk, very badly. But as Sonikku was about to respond, suddenly the mighty Sorcerer's himself, intervened, giggling, casting straight through his dimension's identical twin brother. He laughed and hard.
"Oh wow, what a choice, Princess. Inevitable annihilation or baked goods." He bellowed, as his voice rang out across the Titan Headquarters. The sarcasm within it, was so thick, it could have been sliced with a knife. It was a joy to hear on the Sorcerer's voice again. It had been many months. Humour had been very distinctively lacking in Sukko's life recently.
There was utter silence, though a lot of smiles. Suddenly, Sonikku's own eyes began glowing a deep blue, as a very large large, eight inch diameter, ball of bright blue light, just exploded out of his chest, and suddenly hovered his perfect eyeline with him. The ball of light groaned hard, in huge discomfort, as Sukko's voice emanated from it. It flickered slightly brighter as with every word he spoke. Suddenly, Sonikku frowned, completely unphased, he looked straight at it.
"What?" He puzzled, but Sukko just giggled.
"Cake or Death, Sonikku." He laughed, as did a few others in the room. Sonikku grinned, then frowned, thinking about his brother's question.
"Right, Cake or Death?" He repeated, wondering hard. "Er, I don't know?" He thought. But Sukko grinned inanely, through the ball of light, somehow, managing to sneeze through it.
"Achoo... I can't believe your actually contemplating that, Sonikku." He heaved. Everyone looked at each other. The Sorcerer really did have a cold. Suddenly, Sonikku growled.
"Hey, Sukko, I thought I'd banned you from leaving the Sol Empire." He hissed. But the ball on light giggled.
"Easy, Sonikku... Achoo... Keep your quills on. I'm still here, meditating in the palace grounds. Because you grew up with me, you got to keep the Chaos Sorcery you were born with. But such a huge quantity of Magic in someone, it's a massive beacon in the Multiverse." He explained. "... Achoo... I can see you." He giggled. "Even though we can't speak to each other down the Psychic Link, it's too far, I can still cast through you, like I always have... Achoo..., and with the recent knowledge I've learned, here I am." He added.
Sonikku nodded, completely accepting, but Everglade gasped.
"That's impressive, and will you stop it." He huffed. But Sukko giggled.
"Achoo...What?" He sneezed, the ball of light, sniffing hard. But Everglade's heaved.
"Rewriting my Book of Magic." He growled. But Sukko giggled.
"You know, that's... Achoo... never gonna happen." He smiled. But Sonikku frowned.
"There's a Book of Magic?" He wondered. But Sukko heaved, shoving the ball of light into his twin brother. He scowled.
"Never you mind, Sonikku,... Achoo..., you can't cast anyway, and just... Achoo... eat... Achoo... the cupcakes... Achoo... There's... Achoo... over ...Achoo... a hundred ...Achoo... of them, ...Achoo... in the bag." He sneezed, groaning hard, to much giggling around the room. But Blaze frowned, looking at the bright blue ball of light, then at the Blue Blur.
"Won't that make him sick?" She wondered. Sukko giggled, rounding on her.
"Achoo... And he'll listen to you, how?" He sarcastically smirked, indicating his twin. Sonikku looked up, after having his head buried in the bag, he face covered in crumbs.
"What?" He wondered. But Sukko rolled his eyes, grinning hard, his ball of light flicking hard.
"Just eat the cake. Sonikku." He repeated, smiling, then he twitched. "Achoo..." He added, then he growled hard. "Oh chaos, I hate this." He heaved, sneezing, yet again. "Ok, which of the six snotty nosed bug-bears I sired, ...Achoo... gave me ...Achoo... this thing." He sniffed, and hard, indicating the cold. But Sonikku frowned, through a mouthful of cake.
"Also, there's two of mine, on top, and technically, you only sired four of them, Stripes fathered the other two." He puzzled. Sukko groaned.
"Does... Achoo... it ... Achoo... matter." He hissed. "They're all still ...Achoo... genetically mine." He added. But Blaze growled.
"Sukko." She hissed. "You came to the Sol Empire carrying twins, you idiot." She hissed. Sonikku blinked, his eyes wide, he rounded on the Sorcerer's ball of light.
"Oh crud. You didn't tell them?" He gasped. Sukko heaved.
"No, ...Achoo... of course, not. They wouldn't have believed me, ...Achoo... anyway." He admitted. "I ...Achoo... didn't tell you until ...Achoo... the due date, anyway, you were ...Achoo... 'kind of' ...Achoo... distracted." He added, indicating the fact that Sonikku, who can suckled children, almost on command, was feeding other kids, at the time. "Besides, ...Achoo... both of the babies survived, so ...Achoo... no problems." He sniggered.
He was right, so the subject was dropped. Arguing about it, wouldn't change anything. Then Sukko groaned again. The constant sneezing with the permanently headache made casting rather difficult. At least, that was one of the benefits of being a God. He never got sick, ever. Sukko couldn't physically remember the last time he got ill, and even though he knew he'd eventually recover, right now, he felt like hell, and hated it with a passion. Even fighting the Embodiment of Madness didn't feel this awful. Suddenly, the Sorcerer's ball of light began sinking towards the ground, as it groaned again, sniffing hard. Sonikku giggling, putting his paper bag down, and putting his cupped hands out and catching his brother's enormous orb, clasping his fingers firmly around it. He rolled his eyes, smiling.
"Oh, come on, Sukko. Having a cold isn't that bad." His chocolatey face grinned, but the Sorcerer's just heaved, his orb flickering hard.
"Easy for you to say, Sonikku. You don't know what it's like, to never have had a cold in years, ...Achoo... to suddenly land, with the worse one ever." He hissed, sarcastically. Suddenly, the ball of light began to flicker slower but harder, as Sukko took an almighty intake of breath. He squealed slightly, and then let it rip. One almighty sneeze. "ACHOO!"
Immediately, Sukko's ball of light vanished, as the Sorcerer's extremely loud noise, made the entire Titan Headquarters shake, rather violently. Sonikku blinked, rather hard, as everyone was rather stunned.
"Whoa!" He stammered, but then he frowned, as his brother was nowhere to be seen. "Sukko?" He asked. Suddenly, about five minutes later, the bright blue ball of light was back, as he reappeared again from Sonikku's chest. The Blue Blur was completely unphased at this, as his eyes glowed blue again. Sukko heaved, from the ball of light, groaning again, as he landed back back in his brother's hands again.
"Sorry, about that. I sneezed so hard, it cut the Magic line, collapsing the cast. Chaos Sorcery and a cold, really don't mix." He droned. Sonikku gulped, rather worried.
"Are you good?" He wondered. Sukko nodded.
"Yeah, it hurt, but I'll be alright. But it got me found, as one of the palace staff has just brought me a local natural cold remedy." He explained. "It seems to have stopped the sneezing, for now." He added, rather relieved. But Sonikku frowned.
"But don't you have healing?" He asked, but Sukko smiled, still sniffing hard.
"Yes, but it only cures injuries, not viruses." He hissed. "Those have to be left to run their course. We can intervene but it is rather limiting, so I tend not to bother. Science is more successful there. Remember, I am a Doctor, as well as a Sorcerer." He added. Suddenly, he sneezed, yet again, but then immediately stopped, holding his breath. "Ok, I think that was the last one, at least, for a while. I hope so, because I want to try something. Hang on, Sonikku." He smiled, of which his ball of light vanished, again. The Sorcerer's own Blue Blur blinked.
"Er, ok, on hanging." He replied, rather puzzled.
Dimension – 151105 – It's Never Too Late To Learn Something New
Back in the Sol Empire, Sukko decided to move location, to somewhere he could meditate more deeply, be comfortable, and not be found. Unless he sneezed really hard again. Up, high in the tree. The Great Oak Tree, on the edge of the palace grounds. As he settled in, he concentrated again, and found his brother's signal in the Greater Cosmos, and mentally beamed himself there, literally.
Astral Projection.
Sonic the Sorcerer had taught it him. In returning him to his brother, Manic, the Titan, he'd shared his knowledge with him, before he passed, as Sukko had already absorbed the Magical power, and wow, was it good. Astral Projection, Telekinetic Freeze, Lock Picking, Sorcery Blast (The Magical equivalent of Chaos Blast), Restore (returning core strength and tiredness, back to normal), Telekinesis, true Chaos Sorcery Teleport, and the most amazing, Sorcery Flight. Sukko gasped, he genuinely believed that wasn't possible, but he was desperate to try. But not on himself, suspecting the Sorcery Flight and his own Super-Flight would interfere with each other, but definitely on Arthur, predicting huge fun the process.
Sonic the Sorcerer may not have had many casts under his belt, compared to Sukko's vast experience, but all of them were incredible and they just blew Sukko away. Thank you so much, as he vowed to put the knowledge to good use. It was using what he'd learned here, especially the Teleport, was how the Sorcerer was able to cast at such huge distances, despite not being the God Of The Cosmos anymore.
He was combining his own Magic with Sonikku's vast stores of Chaos Sorcery, he could now see his brother Magically beacon, anywhere. However, he could no longer sense the Greater Cosmos, or tune himself into with the Multiverse, anymore. He'd lost that ability. Aside was his brother's beacon, it was just now nothing but pure darkness up there. There were a few wisps of feelings here and there, in the blackness, which may have hinted at a monster, in the Greater Cosmos, but Sukko would need to cast with Everglade again, to check, for certain.
Sukko opened his eyes, and seeing the Sol Empire all around him, he smiled, as he checked he was secure, as he knew he'd be going into a very deep meditation, borderline asleep. He relaxed, and closed his eyes, and activating the Astral Projection, his dived through the darkness, straight for his dimension's brother's bright white beacon of Chaos Sorcery. He relaxed still further, finally letting go, leaving his body behind, his eyes glowing a deep, solid blue, Sukko's colour of Chaos Sorcery, but with no pupils to be seen. Sonic The Sorcerer's was a shimmering silver, but Everglade's is golden sun yellow.
With the cast successful, Sukko's mind left the Sol Empire behind.
Dimension – 23691 – Where Anything Is Possible
Five minutes went by as everyone waited patiently, anticipating as to what the Sorcerer had in mind. All eyes were on Sonikku, whom had just shrugged, and went back to eating his cake again.
Finally, it happened. Sukko's large ball of bright blue light reappeared out of Sonikku's chest, the Blue Blur's eyes glowing a deep blue again, and then with an enormously large flash of deep blue light, the Sorcerer himself, was stood there. In the flesh, complete with long flowing, black coat, beautiful flowing blue quills, and brown leather boots. His eyes were screwed up, and after a deep breath, he opened them. A very pale, permanent, blue glow in his eyes. Panting hard, he gasped.
"Oh my Chaos, it worked." He stammered, and then looked around. "Whoa, this is new." He beamed, indicating the Titan Headquarters. "The ball of light has a really narrow field of view. Like your wearing blinkers." He smiled, whirling around. "I like it, but the plain rock is quite boring." He added, but as everyone was just gasping at Sukko, Sonikku was downright growling at his twin.
"Sukko, I thought I told you to stay in the Sol Empire." He hissed, rather coldly. Sukko gulped, but coughing, and then promptly sneezed, before responded. He heaved.
"Back off, Sonikku. I'm still there, I promise. This is Astral Projection." He beamed, indicating himself. Sukko giggled. "See, I'm as cold as ice, and I have no heartbeat, but feel me, in here, Sonikku." He smiled, pointing to his brother's heart. "I'm still there." He added.
Sonikku smiled, and promptly hugged the Sorcerer, and then squealed, swearing hard, just as Sukko sneezed, yet again. He shivered, and hard.
"You really are cold." He stammered. "And your still sneezing?" He giggled. Sukko heaved.
"No, can do, I'm afraid, ...Achoo... until the cold shifts." He sniffed. Sonikku blinked, fascinated. He could now definitely feel Sukko casting through him. He was telling the truth. He frowned.
"How does it feel?" He wondered. Sukko just shrugged.
"Surprisingly normal, to be honest. I can still cast Magic, and everything. I don't feel cold at all. You could potentially astral project and not know it. Astral Projection is the ability to project one's consciousness (or soul) into an astral form outside of the body. When a person astral projects, their physical body falls to the floor, slumps over or remains still until they return." He explained, looking at Manic in the background, who was quietly smirking. He knew the story, and where Sukko had got the knowledge from. He didn't object. Sukko deserved it, he'd earned it. But Everglade exploded, growling hard.
"Sukko!" He hissed, the Sorcerer pulling yet another incredible cast, out of nowhere. It was getting irritatingly frustrating. He did this, a lot. But the Sorcerer put his hands up and shook his head. He gulped.
"I swear Everglade, this one's not mine." He admitted. But the Wizard stared.
"What?" He gasped, but Sukko beamed.
"Look, I'm not the only Sorcerer in the Multiverse. Arthur is one, but there are others. During my travels, as the God Of The Cosmos, I found one, lost out in the wilderness. Unfortunately, he was dying, so he asked me to return him to his family. I did, and he return, he shared his knowledge with me. Astral Projection was one of numerous incredible casts he gave me." He smiled. Manic beamed, nodding approvingly, as Everglade wondered over and examined the Sorcerer for himself. It was amazing. He blinked.
"What else did he teach you?" He desperately wondered. But Blaze coughed, cutting across the Magic users. She growled.
"I think that's for another time. There's a monster in the Greater Cosmos, to deal with first." She hissed.
Both Sukko and Everglade went rather white and sheepish, and then got back into task in hand. The Sorcerer heaved.
"I'm not the God Of The Cosmos anymore, so I can't see what's up there." He hissed, pointing at the ceiling, indicating the Greater Cosmos. "All I can tell you, is that there is something, but I have no idea what." He admitted. But Everglade just smirked, holding out a hand.
"Do you want a Boost?" He giggled. Sukko just smiled, but then frowned.
"Yes, but not directly. Not of I want to crash and burn." He heaved. "When the God Of The Cosmos was taken from me, I also lost a fair few subtle abilities beyond the main ones I never used. One was permanent good health." He scowled as he sneezed, yet again. "And the other was infinite casting stamina." He sighed. "I can't cast now, on and on, like I could in the Sol Empire, back when he was fighting the Order of Eldin, or Cthulhu." He paused, suddenly shuddering hard, feeling cold, all of a sudden. He heaved. "Pretty much every super-high level cast nowadays, of any size or intense difficulty, will knock me out, for months on end, like it used to. Don't worry, I always recover. I think I'm going to be spending a lot of time here, sleeping." He added. Suddenly, Sonikku looked up. He blinked.
"Oh, like your old cast and crash routine, you had back at the Restoration, before you ascended." He thought. Sukko nodded.
"Yeah, pretty much. Though my stamina is significantly higher now, then it was back then, it's no longer infinite." He admitted. He sighed. He'd have to plan his casting more effectively, to avoid crashing. That's why it has taken months for Sukko to create to box of self contained Magic casts. He still had the same power and knowledge, he had as the God Of The Cosmos, but now he had take time, and recover between casts. He looked at Everglade. "I'm using huge quantities of Magic just to Astral Project here, if I Boost with you to see what's in the Greater Cosmos, I'll deplete my stores, and crash out, and right before a fight. Not a good idea." He admitted. Everglade thought, that was indeed a problem, but Sukko then rounded on Sonikku. "But I'm not the only one here with Chaos Sorcery in his veins. I'm currently casting through Sonikku, and he has plenty of Magic still left in him. If I cast the Boost, through him, instead of doing it directly myself, we might able to see what monster is in the Greater Cosmos, and stay awake in the process." He added, eyeing up his twin.
Sonikku, however, was still completely oblivious, happily digging into the paper bag, eating cake. Giggling hard, Sukko, ran over to him, and physically pushed him, to the centre of the room, right next to Everglade. He moved, but his demeanour didn't change. He just carried on eating. Everglade blinked, as Sukko laughed.
"There was a reason why I sent Sonikku a massive bag of cake. Welcome to the Blue Blur's food-dumb mode. You give any version of 'Sonic', a huge pile of one of his favourite foods, he'll scoff the lot, all the while being completely unaware of his surroundings. I mean literally. The world could end and he wouldn't notice." He grinned. The resident Sonic when rather white. He'd had many an argument with his friends over that. It was very true. But the Sorcerer smiled. "But with Sonikku, because he's brain's in that bag of cake, he'll basically allow me to do whatever I want, and more importantly, as you know how hyperactive he is, he will stand completely still, wherever I put him." He smirked.
The Sorcerer, then lined up Sonikku to the side of Everglade, and then stood behind his twin, his hand, at his back, his fingers clawed. Sukko's eyes suddenly glowed as huge streams of bright blue luminescent vapour-like hue, exploded from Sonikku's chest, the Blue Hedgehog completely none the wiser, and went straight towards Everglade. He put his hand out as the Magic gathered there, in his palm. He gasped in awe. Huge quantities of it, more then enough for the Boost cast. Sukko smiled.
"That should do it." He beamed, as he moved around his twin, scratching his ear as he passed. "Thank you, Sonikku." He praised, as Sukko stood opposite Everglade. He held out his hand. He smirked. "Shall we?" He asked. Everglade smiled, as he powered up his power ring, performing a powerful incarnation, he grabbed Sukko's hand, Sonikku's Magic between them. With him still streaming pure Chaos Sorcery towards them, the twins worked together give Everglade the power, to cast Boost, and see what was up there, in the Greater Cosmos.
There was indeed another tear in the cosmos, caused by the constant shifting of the
Multiverse, and there was monster. This monstrosity was like nothing they hadn't seen before. It was made of huge quantities of disgusting lime green, orange, and black slime, which had turned into groupings of spheres in the zero gravity of deep space. He was wobbling towards the Multiverse. It had large dull, yucky pink eyes, dozens of them, at one end of the creature, and even though the didn't look dangerous to the Multiverse, as a whole, Everglade could foresee the slime causing havoc, especially if it was highly toxic. Regardless, time to move the monster on.
Suddenly, the cast crashed out, as Sukko screamed, holding his hand, pulling it away, hard. Out of nowhere, brutal, incredibly disgust monstrous images, flash in front of his eyes, to a horrendous noise. It was both terrifying and painful, causing the cast to fail, despite being more then enough power. Sukko was left bend double, panting hard. He swore.
"Oh, Chaos." He heaved, then he looked at Everglade. "Sorry, about that. I couldn't hold it any longer, even with Sonikku's help. I just don't have the stamina, I think the astral projecting is still interfering." He flat out lied, now somewhat worried. But no one noticed as everyone stared, as Everglade grabbed the Sorcerer's ice cold hand. He smiled.
"We all know your not the God Of The Cosmos anymore, but looking back, none of us realised that it was pushing you, too far beyond your limit. It was killing you." He admitted.
But Sukko heavily sighed as he quickly moved on, snuggling in close to Sonikku. He sniffed.
"It did kill me." He cried, as he felt a deep foreboding over it. He gulped, shaking hard. But Everglade wasn't going to let his best friend wallow over this. He smiled.
"But that was then, this is now. Like you said, you'd learned from the experience, and side-by-side with your twin, together again, you can still do this. I don't know what happened between you. You obviously drifted apart, but you can't. Not anymore. It doesn't matter about the cast, I got what I needed. I think I know how to fight that monster, and we will need you, both of you." He added.
Sukko smiled, from behind Sonikku's ear, him still happily eating cake, and he beamed. He was still as powerful as he was before, that hadn't changed but with better management of his stamina, and some help, he could indeed still do this.
They could do it.
Sukko, now finally realised, that he alone wasn't the Titan. He'd been very arrogant about it before. The both of them were. He and Sonikku. Twin Sorcerers working together, like always they had.
Finally, reunited.