Sonic Supers!
Chapter 4(S2)
By: Cutegirlmayra (aw man, I need to cut down on RPs and goofing around and just finish this story already! I want to finish this story in 2 more chapters, but I might make it even with Season 1 and do 3 more… maybe… if filler will have it XD anyway, we're so close to the end! I'm dedicating all my time and effort to finishing up this story and then getting Instincts done. I'm sure you're happy about that lol. Anime Expo was really fun! Now, back to work! Abridged mentions: Your healthy dose of Vitamin Knuckles may include bad... um... side effects. Archie's Turbo Tails being turned down. Questing the author about why Dark Chaos calls Tails a mouse. Eggman's horror at witnessing his 'children' getting destroyed. And more Mama Big Master Freakin Emearld lol. Also, for the chapter I combined as well, Gangster Sonic, Shadow insulted at blunt Dark Chaos, Silver the duck, Dark Chaos's hair and the song 'wiggle wiggle wiggle', not toystory, tails's dark ranting, Knuckles not minding to kiss said big fat mouth, Master emerald wanting to eat Dark Chaos's energy... Anyway, good times. Here's the other chapter's author's note: UGH! I've been so busy! Xp Doctor's appointments and Dentist.. got to get my wisdom teeth taken care of… -cries- But anyway, I ALSO need to get this STORY taken care of, right?! Lol. Cause you all keep complaining to me about Instincts… -it's coming! Sheesh..- I just need to rap this one up, okay? This is the second to last chapter… I wonder what will ensue..? It gets a little dark from here,.. so be forwarned…)
Rouge spun herself into her powerful tornado kick, keeping one foot out as she drilled through the air. But even with her signature move, it failed to pierce the metal armor of the creature; Leaving only sparks flying and a dents scratched on its side and under its eye.
The creature roared, as the fish and snake-like beast threw its head up, chomping down on an unconscious Knuckles and swallowing him whole...
"NOO!" Rouge screamed out, as the fish-beast let out a bellowed hum and let his head move back, unable to move through the ground because it couldn't get the front of its mouth to barrow through the dirt.
Laying on its side, it didn't move, but simply made gear-like sounds from within its belly, as if grinding the life out of Knuckles from within.
"You're not gonna digest my friend, you metallic, demon scum!" Rouge glared down, flapping her wings up as she dived down, shouting out a battle cry as she did yet another drill attack, but this time, she aimed for the skin under the metal plated scales and was able to rip through it.
It groaned in pain from its pierced flesh, but didn't seem to be in much agony, since Rouge was a mere insect bite to him.
Tails twitched on his branch, as he looked weakly back to his friends, clinging to the branch in fear now that he was stripped from all his skill sets and devices. (Tails… my precious baby! Don't cry! D:)
"R…Rouge?" he looked up toward the fish-snake as it laid still...
But it's tail fidgeted.
And it raised it's head in pain...
Rouge started tearing through the 'inner death trap' within it's stomach, trying to find Knuckles...
Or what remained of him...
As she flew within, there were blades and gears that would string down and back up with sharpened edges, and more and more deadly traps and obstacles caused her to fly expertly around the large, robotic gave like contraption that this beast was.
'Amy couldn't have used all the scrap from Eggman's last fight to create all these things into life... could she?' Rouge wondered, seeing that the entire creatures looked scraped together.
At the end of tunneled stomach lied a pit of fire that would open and close, sparking as an assembly line of objects were being pulled into the horrifying fires...
Rouge maneuvered herself as best as she could, though she got scrapped and hit in the face with fumes of steam from the sides that would set off around her.
But then!
Rouge spotted Knuckles! Intact! Laying limply on a conveyor belt that had piles and piles of dirt on it, moving toward a machine that would make it into fine powder.
Rouge tried to get closer but gasped, having another powerful shot of hot air steam into her face from a side pocket as she threw her arms up to guard her eyes.
Though the heat was unbearable, Rouge was determined to get to Knuckles on time. This thing was like a living shredder from a junkyard or lumber factory! But her heart soared with courage and a force that was like a jet engine!
"Knuckles!" Rouge called out, moving through the heat, but her wings couldn't take it anymore.
As she fell to the conveyor belt, she huffed and puffed, looking for oxygen; which seemed to be in limited supply here.
She crawled the best she could to Knuckles, shaking him. "Wake up..! You…you dummy.." she slowly got up, moaning at the effort of it all.
Her wings fell flat to her sides, as she raised a hand to her other arm, leaning her head back in exhaustion before dipping it down as sweat clouded her eyes a moment.
Still, she felt the slight tug and vibration of the machine pulling her and Knuckles more towards what she beheld as certain doom, and her eyes moved up again through the blur of the heat throughout the monster's stomach.
"Please.. Ugh! You never were good at listening,… But your life is at stake here! Wake up! Wake up and help yourself, already! You..! You're too lovable for me to just quit on! Get up, you stupid Echidna! Or you really will be the last of your race!" she cried out, before falling to her knees completely, not having the strength to move on as they continued to move ever closer to the grinding and crushing of their fates...
"Please..." she lowered her head, lying across the conveyor belt, and reaching a hand over his body...
"I don't want you to go extinct... what will happen to... to..." she slowly closed her eyes.
Outside, Tails whimpered again, "…K..Knuckles? Rouge? Where…W-where d-d-did you all go..?"
The fish-snake reared it's head back, seeing a new victim.
Not even blinking it's fish ball eyes,... it completely focused in on Tails upon his helpless branch.
Another hum... maybe of excitement for the kill...
Tails gulped, dangling on the branch with one leg off of it, falling slightly at an angle, and looking directly at the beast.
"..Ah!" Tails noticed the hunger in it's glassed eyes and quickly scrambled up, racing away on the branch as the fish-snake hopped forward.
Trying to maneuver itself toward Tails, it dug it's scales into the ground, truly looking light a snake for a moment as it wormed it's way towards the tree.
Compared to it's size though... it seemed more like a nuisance to the beast then a set-back to get to Tails. Seeing as it could easily bulldoze it down.
Flipping it's self over with some effort, it lay forward, as the inside of its body adjusted and rotated on a cylinder axis to straighten itself out. This meant Rouge and Knuckles temporarily we're sideways, as Rouge found herself leaping forward and gripping Knuckles's arm.
"No!" she took the last of her desperate energy to holding on. With her hand barely able to grip the moving conveyor belt, her fingers began to be sliced from it's continual sliding forward...
When the fish-snake had re-positioned itself, and its metallic belly of doom the same, Rouge was able to let go and now be at the same place as Knuckles…
But the machine roared, as fire spit from its mouth. She summoned the last of her energy to pull Knuckles under her, and get him off the edge of the belt.
"That's it! This isn't a one woman job! WAKE UP! Of all the insufferable times I had to put up with you! Please don't make me die for you like this!" She looked up at the machine...
They were only a little ways away from it now, landing where the fumes were sparking out as if to grab her, still upon it's side.
The fumes that were once on the top were now to the sides, gusting a hazard heat that was melting her shoes and heart-shaped figure upon her chest.
She gasped, her eyes full of fear as she looked back at her wings, still unable to really get off the ground. She could barely flap them at this point.
The oxygen was all but almost gone, as she got back to her knees and forward at the machine again.
She was gonna pass out from heatstroke at this point...
"Knuckles!...Knuc…Knuckles ple…please.." she fell on top of him, and almost started crying. "I can't lose you… forget that stupid emerald of yours! Live for the sake of life! I didn't bully you all these years to just have you end up as a red pile of shredded up dirt!..." she coughed, unable to form sentences anymore. "Get…..up…. dum…my." She fainted, as her squinted eyes finally shut closed... for good this time.
The beast roared toward Tails, as he stopped himself, and held his ground. "Wait… what am I doing?"
ssshhRoooowwwaaaarRsshhhh!
The fish-snake moved in a snake pattern upon the ground, using it's armored scales to pierce the ground and walk like a caterpillar would, but it was slow, giving Tails enough time to think…
It was readying to ram the tree... having gotten into position...
"I.. My friends need me… I have to help them! I'm not useless! I can still make a difference… but… how..?" He kept his back toward the fish-snake, as it roared yet again, hungry for another kill as Tails's hand gripped tighter to the tree for balance.
The other... turning into a tight fist... thinking...
"Hmph, what a useless boy. Remind you of someone? Controller?" Dark Chaos grinned towards the Master Emerald, who didn't make a sound. "What..? Did my little device drain your power so much already? My, My." She laughed, "You are pathetic. As was your idea to give sweet, little Amy chaos energy... knowing she would undoubtedly fall from it. Whatever could you have possibly been thinking..?" Dark Chaos placed her elbow on her throne's arm rest, and the backside of her hand under her chin.
Amy, from within her mind's eye, had shadows cover half her face; like a blindfold to what was happening on the outside. She only had her hearing, and her mouth moved to form a twitching, open teethed grimace.
She was feeling so powerless,... unlike her real wish to gain power to help her friends… How was she unable to control Chaos? What had she done wrong..? Was Tails to be just like her… thrown into doubt and the pits of feeling worthless just because a little voice in his head kept telling him so?
"O..Oh, Tails…" she began to softly cry, as they passed through the shadows covering her eyes to reveal themselves, sliding down her cheeks.
She was up against a wall of dark essence vines,... pulling her against it and restraining her body in a cross-like position.
The Fish-snake was about to reach Tails. He turned back, looking down at the ground and seeming to loose all hope, pathetically biting his jaw down in utter anguish when…
His eyes lit up.
The MilesElectric…
Maybe…
Tails looked up at the Fish-snake, and suddenly his face grew serious with determination. The last strand of hope he could manage to find was tugged on at last, and he wasn't going to give up without at least one more fight!
"Hmhm…hmm?" Dark Chaos had only began to laugh a moment, when she noticed Tails's sudden attitude shift. "..What's this? Has the mouse not accepted his defeat?"
Amy twitched her head up, and tried to move it upwards. Finding the vines restricted her, she nevertheless strained to try and find light in the dark abyss around her. "T..Tails?" she turned her head forward. "He's not a mouse... he's a... he's a clever fox!"
Tails spun his tails around, slowly at first, but they began to gain momentum.
"I may not have my flight…" They spun faster, as he looked up to the ever approaching Fish-snake that was slowly advancing like a train in the distance. "Or my plane." His tails we're not visible, but a simple, circled line that seemed to move quickly around his frame was shown in their place.
"But I do have my mind!"
He raced forward, using his tails to propel him forward as each step he took was thrown farther and farther ahead; making it seem like a race towards his doom.
He slid to his MilesElectric, the dust rising around him before he swiped a hand and twisted himself up to his knees. "Got it!"
The fish-snake kept speedily approaching, crying out another metallic ring as he started to fiddle with his device; readjusting things here and there as he pulled some wires and other little odd and in things out of his tails, where he stashed all this good stuff.
"..What on earth does he think he can accomplish in such a short time? My pet is even closer to him now,... he'll lunge at him at any moment and he'll be powdered down into nothing more than the dirt of the earth! Just like his pitiful friends, HAHAHAHA!" She threw an arm forward, getting up as she watched the scene from her bot's eyes, using her chaos power to do so.
Amy, from within, listened closely...
Hearing that Tails was still fighting, she wasn't sure how... But...
"Tails… I believe in you… you can do it… do what I couldn't do…"
She tugged on her wispy chains, keeping her from controlling her body.
Tails looked up only a moment after putting a piece of technology in his mouth to hold while he worked to see the Fish-Snake finally reaching him. His eyes grew wide as it reared up it's head to plunge down and take him with it, and a huge pile of rocky dirt too…
"Fight through the doubt of your mind."
Tails quickly got up, and clicked a few buttons. "Come on… come on!" he shook the device, as wires we're now strung all around it, and it flickered to a time table.
"Yes!"
ShhhRRRROOOARRRSSSSHHH!
Like a viper, the fish-snake extended its fans that mirrored the image of a data-lined frame, glowing through it. The fish gills or the frills on the top and sides of them began to show this pattern with a deadly glow...
As the fins flapped, beast opened its mouth to reveal millions of daggers,... like a shark's mouth that spun in circles with many layers of its dangerous and deadly teeth.
"-Persevere by believing that you're strong without anything else but yourself."
"Got it!" Tails threw the MilesElectric into its mouth, as everything turned slow motion for a moment.
"And most importantly…"
The angle of the throw moved it away from the mouth; however, as the beast flung itself down and the hit sent the MilesElectric flipping off the side of its neck, bouncing off before reaching the back belly.
"-believe in your potential to succeed and be…
Truly...
Super."
RROAASSOOORAARRSWWSAHSHHAAAAAAA!
The MilesElectric had been reprogrammed into a bomb, exploding right when Tails wanted it to, which left a huge exposed hole in the belly of the beast. It even blasted away its plated scale armor.
A perfect escape.
"I…I did it." Tails moved up, seeing the beast flinging its head back to and fro, wallowing in extreme pain as it slid right up and before his face.
Within itself, Knuckles's eyes shot open.
Hearing the large blast and getting oxygen flowing back into his lungs, he started coughing a moment before noticing Rouge, still laying across his frame.
"R-Rouge? When did you get here?" he wondered, before looking up and seeing a blade about to fall on his head. "Great Emeralds!" he rolled out of the way, holding Rouge against him as he got up on his feet, and started running the opposite way of the conveyor belt.
"What on earth..?!" he looked up, seeing an image string of data lines glowing through pink, gooey flesh above the metal shredder.
Running on dirt, he smiled, and leaped up; having Rouge flung over his shoulder. "Haha, I think I found a nerve!" he smashed his fist through the flesh as lights sprung up and throughout his nervous system, leaving the fish paralyzed except for his head and neck.
The shredder and conveyer belt shut down slowly and then all at once as he fell back down to land on his feet within the dirt, and looked to the hole on the side of the fish-snake.
"And I believe after striking a nerve with this fella, I can take my leave a more… sanitary way." He knew the dirt had to leave somewhere… but he wasn't going out that way!
He raced up the edges and dodged some steam holes and the fire pit below him, 'jungle'ing through it as he dash out of the fish-snake beast and threw an unconscious Rouge at a shocked Tails, "Hold this for me, would ya?"
"Ah-ahhh-yahh!" Tails fumbled around a bit before flinging up his hands but was still crushed to the ground by Rouge's weight. (But don't tell her that xD)
Knuckles then raced to the front of the monster, "Alright, my neck is killing me thanks to that little throw-down of yours! Time to pull out all the stops." Knuckles cracked his fists, and smirked.
The creature looked to its back, realizing he couldn't move, and glared a wicked eye towards Knuckles. His fins flaring back and forth, as if mimicking nostrils, he looked ready to take on one more challenge... but also furious with how the battle was going.
It roared and began to thrust it's head towards Knuckles, who happily jumped up to contend with it, rearing back his fists and shoving them together to stop the fish-snake's moment as he crushed into the face of itself.
The mouth opened and closed before it rammed Knuckles to the ground, but he withstood it as he drilled his legs into the dirt; the monster trying to keep pushing him down.
"Not on my ground!" Knuckles flung the head down to the side of him, as the fish-snake's body slammed down with the rest of his head, in a domino effect. Each plate sliding over the other at the large turn.
"This is it!" Knuckles jumped up and started drilling through the skin beneath the scales as he got all the way to where the sharp gears spun down and up. He quickly jumped at the right moment to swing on the gears, and then swung it to the side and kept it there a moment as it chain-sawed through the flesh.
Once business there was taken care of he took all his power and unhooked the gear, thrusting it upward; right into the fish-snake's brain, a half metal and half flesh looking thing that the gears just kept shredding through.
"AHHH!" Knuckles shed a battle-cry as he strained to keep the gear in place.
A few beams of light sprung out from the small hole Knuckles created, and the whole brain exploded while the rest of the body turned into negative chaos essence that escaped through the forest towards the castle a good distance away.
Knuckles walked through the black and dark-bluish purple mist over to Tails, Having the gear on his back before it vanished with the mist.
He put his hands on his hips once it was gone. "So…"
"What I'd miss?"
"She… she hasn't woken up yet-" Tails was about to explain, before, as if on cue, Rouge's eyes flickered to life.
She looked up at Knuckles, as he glanced down at her, seeming pretty content and happy about his victory. "Oh, hey! Guess you were eaten too! Haha!" he laughed.
As he continued to bellow a horse laugh, Rouge's eyes blinked, before they formed the most ticked off and narrowed-brow expression this world has ever seen.
"That does it!" she leaped up and punched his face, sending him flying.
"I didn't just risk my life to save an idiot like you for this!" she huffed out, anger showing everywhere around her face.
"W-what?" Knuckles, now in confusion, held the side of his face that was hit. But, shaking his head, he equally glared her back down... "Saving ME!? As far as I remember, you were laying unconscious over ME! Who saved who, huh!?" he roared back, as the two began their typical bickering again.
"I'd of had the right mind to leave you back there to die! Seeing as you can't even thank me properly!"
"Thank you!? Thank YOU!? Hey, I was the one risking my neck out there!"
"You WHAT?!"
"YOU HEARD ME!"
"JUST GO BACK AND DIE ALREADY!"
"Dang it Rouge, I can't get why you're so mad right now! Do you just not like getting saved or something?!"
"Why I outta-!" she rolled up her arm sleeve, which had fallen down a bit from the last endeavor…
"Outta what?"
"OOHHH! Teach you some manners!"
"Well, I'm right here, Bat girl! Do your worst!" he got into a battle ready pose.
"You big fat-! Ugh! I can't believe I stuck my nose out for you! And you don't even care!" she folded her arms and quickly moved her face to the left, not bothering to even LOOK at him now.
"Huh..? Stuck your nose out..? What do you mean..?" Knuckles looked a bit confused, as Tails got up and explained... again. If no one will interrupt him this time...
"When that Fish-snake thing grabbed you and threw you down the hatch, Rouge was the first to dash down and try to save you. I think what she did was enter the beast's stomach and keep you safe before I exploded half it's stomach to allow you a way out. But I'm not sure how you didn't know about that…" Tails shrugged, not understanding that Rouge lost consciousness after the oxygen was wearing thin in the stomach; and not to mention Knuckles was already knocked out from the flailing of the fish when it still had a hold on his leg.
"You… you went in to save me?" Knuckles broke his position, looking at Rouge with pure dumbfounded innocence as she turned her back to him with a 'humph!'.
He seemed for a moment... touched by her actions... and smiled away from her a second.
"So what? Apparently it didn't do any good anyways. I'm moving on." She started strutting away, (Those hips don't lie.) When Knuckles rushed off after her and reached a hand out for her arm. "Hey! Wait!"
Rouge was stopped momentarily as she looked back at him. "I thought you hated me? Why risk your life for me then, huh?" Knuckles asked, as she glared at him and swung her arm out of his grasp, folding her own again.
"So what if I did? Does a lady have to have a reason?"
"U-uh… H-hey! What's your deal, huh!? Why do you have to act all snooty and prim now!? I was just asking a simple question!" Knuckles yelled again, growing upset and losing his temper as he held a fist up, but Rouge just turned and ignored him.
He seemed to lose his anger though as he frowned and groaned, as if realizing this wasn't the way to go about it...
"Nevermind that… Where are the hedgehog boys anyway?" Rouge avoided the topic further and scanned the skies,... but saw nothing.
Until she looked to the castle.
"Hmm..? Is that..?"
The three looked to see the Castle was now in front of a large Eggship that held the Chaos Canon on its back.
"E-Eggman!" Tails shouted out in surprise.
"And he's got that gun on him too." Knuckles stated, walking more towards it's direction, up next to Tails and a little away from Rouge.
She noticed briefly, but ignored it.
At least he knew when to give her space...
Even though she kinda wished he'd at least-...
She sighed and stepped up towards the boys too.
"Come on, we have to find the-" suddenly the three rays of golden light dashed over them, as they seemed headed for the castle.
Tails looked up ahead, and cheered, not even caring that he was the one interrupting this time. "They're okay!"
"They're off to try and take her on… alone?" Rouge thought out loud. "Something tells me that isn't the wisest approach…" She seemed surprised, but then worried about that battle plan...
"I'm only saying the strategy sounds flawed." she lifted a sarcastic eyebrow up, as if annoyed by all these men rushing to conclusions already.
"For once, I agree with Rouge…" Knuckles folded his arms and stepped closer up to Rouge, side by side, and smiled with a gesture to her before turning to Tails.
'Was that his way of trying to play nice?' Rouge smiled, mused by that thought.
"She's proven to be more powerful than even those three's super forms. I have a bad feeling that raw strength alone isn't enough to put her down.. Hmm.." Tails's ears bent down slightly, showing his feeling of the situation being grave and frowning as he looked off to where the three boys were headed.
Was there anything they could do now..? Or were Sonic, Silver, and Shadow…
On there own?
-back at the castle-
"So you see my dear, I'll be taking the Master Emerald." Eggman, looming in his eggpod above the castle's throne room had parked his eggcarrier outside, clearly seen through the window.
A few hounds of dark energy we're around Dark Chaos, as she smiled, seeing as the Maser Emerald was quite literally dead with no power to take at this point; but that didn't seem to stop Eggman…
"You're a rowdy old man… that's for sure. But if you can defeat my beasts, then you'll be worthy to take me on." she grinned.
"I don't have time for your silly games." He thrust his arm out, showy in his movements as three robots landed in front of the three hounds. "But I'll let you have your little entertainment. However,.. I'm still getting that emerald whether you like it or not!"
Dark Chaos's eyes flickered and opened wide, as a creepy smile penetrated her face. "Destroy them." she ordered. "Heheheh…"
Her low chuckles echo'd across the castle's hollowed rooms, but Eggman kept a stern look on his face, tightening it to show no reaction to her possessed state...
But there was clearly some emotion be held back there...
The hounds ripped the robots to shreds, as Eggman held in his horror with a 'tsk' and showing a grimace. Although he allowed his disapproval of the violence before him to show, he kept a rough exterior. His eggpod moved back slightly, as he lowered his head at his fallen and completely mauled and ripped apart robots before him.
His eyes scanned them... as if witnessing that this Amy before him wasn't at all the girl he knew...
The hounds circled him, as he noticed his robotic parts started converging with their bodies, making them half mechanical and half negative energy monsters. "So that's what's been happening to all my drones…" He scowled out, having a few droplets of sweat shed down the side of his face... completely afraid of her power but still trying to remain calm.
The air was tense... Not only was she powerful enough as is,.. but she was creating more power through his machinery...
While this was happening, he was really only buying time, as Cubot and Orbot released the dark spindle's chains from the Master Emerald, giving it a chance to store up and gather its strength again.
"I would hate to be enemies with you, Dark Chaos." He began, seeing the signal from Orbot on the mirror of a window behind Dark Chaos, knowing they were ready to grab the emerald and skedaddle.
"A little late for that, or even for begged apologies… Doctor. Hmmhmm~" Dark Chaos got up from her throne, her eyes seeming to enjoy him locking his fear on his face, but his eyes.. never lied about it.
As the hounds howled to their master, she rose up from her seat, hovering a moment...
"…." Eggman was more worried now, as he gripped his controls on his Eggpod, and waited for her next move, sweating the whole time. "I'd hate to be a bother…"
"But?"
"I really should be going." He lifted his Eggpod up, hoping to be at an angle of safety or distance of security from her being, as if he stood a chance...
He pressed some buttons and the Eggcarrier released a claw. It broke through the castle's wall and gripped the Master Emerald, then withdrew it back to the ship as fast as a whip's lasso.
Orbot and Cubot were thrilled the positioning was accurate, they embraced one another before freaking out at the hounds turning to them...
They're metallic hides clattered against one another in fright at how the hound's salivated oil...
"…heh..heheh…hehehheh… I wonder what would happen…" Dark Chaos's expression looked more insanely creepier than before.
"…If what… happened..?" Doctor Eggman was ready for a quick movement, and had both his hands on the mechanism that made his Eggpod move.
"...When you scramble an old, rotten egg?"
"…!"
Eggman pulled back on his Eggpod, as she shot out a powerful blast, aimed for above him as the ceiling fell on top of his frame, hitting him hard.
"Ahugh!"
"Hahaha!"
"Doctor Eggman!" Orbot and Cubot called out, as they jumped to his Eggpod, and started pulling and controlling the mechanism to move it away from the falling ceiling.
"How dare you try and hurt Doctor Eggman! She-witch!" Cubot called down to her, as Orbot freaked out and jumped to him, covering his mouth.
"He didn't mean that, honest." He shakily replied.
She sneered, before sending another blast to the opposite wall, rearing her arm back to swipe it down like a widened baseball.
There was a blast heard before another further attacks were drawn out from Dark Chaos as Shadow, Silver, and Sonic all we're in their super forms and before the two; having blasted through the castle to reach her...
They were once covered in dark essence from destroying her 'guard pets' that were around the castle like a wicked providence.
"Hey, looks like we weren't invited to some kind of party." Sonic looked around, smiling. "Ah man, you even brought the roof down… tsk, tsk. And without me?"
"Enough of your foolish banter, Sonic." Shadow scolded him, as he turned to Dark Chaos, and glared her way. "Release Amy, and reverse what you have done to our world!"
Silver looked to her, and all his memories of Amy returned to him. He hovered forward, as if wanting to rush to her and be with her… comfort her and bring her back to his arms where he could protect her...
The feeling was strange… but so was she. To him, this world was odd, and not like his time.
The future... was where so many things we're different, but familiar to him.
Amy… she seemed to share the same hopes of tomorrow and dreams of the future as people from his time did. After all that's happened there... they've rebuilt; and everyone is alive in their wishes of a better life.
He knew she dreamed those dreams of Sonic and her… not him. But in some weird way… he felt he lived in those hopes and dreams… because he was the future.
Her future.
And he would do anything in his power to make the future stay as it should be, for her sake, so she can have her dreams and wishes fulfilled.
Even if it was through him, and not Sonic!
"Tsk! This is getting too dangerous! Cubot, Orbot! Get me-ugh… out of here.." Eggman was hurt, hunched over with a crooked arm gripping the rim of his eggpod, and his other arm clutching his side.
He knew the dangers of the ensuing battle that was at hand... would be more than plenty to finish him off.
He didn't want to be around, or at least this close, for the finale...
"Ah! Yes, Doctor Eggman, sir!" The two quickly pulled him out of there, steering the Eggpod back to the Eggcarrier, as they safely got away while Dark Chaos was distracted by the other three heroes.
"That was… too close." Eggman gripped his hurt side even tighter,... knowing he had to hurry as he glanced down to check behind his hand at the damages. "If Sonic and those two buffoons can't stop her… then so help me-! I'LL stop her!"
"Hold it, Silver.." Sonic stuck out his arm, blocking Silver's way and giving him a warning... looking seriously towards him, he began again. "Don't try and upstage me as the hero now…" he was playing with his words, but deep inside he was very concerned. He knew that the fight of their lives, and Amy's only hope,... was about to commence.
A battle that couldn't end with them losing.
He'd make sure of it.
Dark Chaos turned towards them; dark aurora building up around her in dark essence, wisping around her frame like powerful steam, ready to strike at any given blink.
"..." The boys remained silent, watching her and sweating nervously,…
She grinned evilly, turning away from them and gesturing like they weren't even a good enough to be a threat.
The insult only made them tense up more, glaring at her...
"Why are you smiling..?" Shadow asked, growing more with such uneasiness... but also gripping his fist tightly, making it a shaky force to be reckoned with. He was getting mad at her silence and cockiness; worried about how great her power really could be… that she could remain so clam faced with three deadly opponents- all mastering Chaos Control and using it at will.
"…Why?" She turned back, and leaned forward. Holding her chin up and placing her hands on her throne behind her, she remained standing. "Because you are unworthy opponents. Defeat my pets and you may challenge me. However… I highly doubt you could defeat me… considering…" She finally lowered herself down to the throne, getting relaxed and throwing a leg up over the other.
She may be evil, but she was in no way not elegant in her demeanor...
"You're the very reasons I have so much power and control. Always making poor Amy believe she needed YOU instead of her own strength to save her… always making her feel useless and incompetent. What even gives you three the right to be before her, as heroes, now?"
The boys glared to her, clenching their teeth and wishing to say a million things but being unable to speak. They all knew she was probably right… and that held their tongues… and they hated it!
Dark Chaos leaned her head back, smiling lesser now but still holding a charming smile… "The boy who shunned her. Held her in a room to lay and die.. with my voice being the only thing she could hear… the only thing she could listen too…" she looked to Sonic, whose eyes shook when he remembered locking her up in her room to keep her safe… when he really- "Doomed her. Completely… and utterly. Tell me, did you even CARE that she was alone? Feeling distrusted and abandoned by her friends? Unloved and forgotten by the people she held closest to her heart? A big, fat THORN in your side… nothing but a nuisance." She moved more uprightly then, leaning forward and staring Sonic down... resting her elbows on her knees; She let her hands dangle out in front of her. "At least… that's what I told her…"
She looked up, a small, taunting pout to mock their pain and prove her wicked deeds laid upon her expression...
Sonic glared back up at her, and she chuckled, before looking to Shadow. "And you… you doubted her from the start. How hard could it be? Convincing her that she couldn't do anything for herself and constantly needed you around. All your hurtful stares, and rude comments towards her… Well, you made it so easy to strangle any confidence in herself out of her! And then you doomed her too… teaching her Chaos Control when she could barely understand it's true power… How stupid could you be?"
Shadow turned away, his mouth twitched with rage as he could barely stand there anymore! He wanted to just run her thorough with a chaos spear! But then seeing her face… Amy… he couldn't hurt her…
He looked to her, and then away, closing his eyes shut as he realized he could have been kinder to Amy… and that Dark Chaos was right yet again…
"And you." Dark Chaos turned her eyes to Silver. "So kind, yet, clearly you thought her inferior to yourself and the others. You just liked to watch her struggle and feel the joy of her praise as you helped her. You led her to feel she needed the help of others, but most importantly, that she just couldn't be as SUPER as the three of you. She couldn't move as fast, but she tried. But was that good enough? You even left her in the hands of a man who betrayed her… And you call yourself her friend?"
"Enough!" Silver finally couldn't hold his tongue anymore, and swished his hand out in front of himself. "Give us back, Amy! Our Amy!"
"She is none of yours!" Dark Chaos arose from her chair, looking enraged. "And besides… what good are the three of you now? Her loyal heroes… only trying to save the wreck you created… the monster that fed on her fears and doubts that YOU gave her in the first place..! you really think you OWN her? That you deserve too? HAHAHAHAHHAHA!" she gestured to her mechanized hounds. "Obliterate them! Make them feel her pain…!"
Sonic looked at the three dogs and then flew back, shooting a chaos beam at one of them as it opened it's mouth and absorbed it; closing it's mouth. The engine on it's back spun and activated, as he charged a blast in his mouth, twitching it open more and more as it unhinged in increments; leaning his head back, he shoot forth an even more powerful blast back at Sonic.
"AHH!" Sonic dodged, but just barely, as he felt his arms we're slightly singed by the blast's force.
Shadow summoned two Chaos spears, and held them in his hands while the others flew out in their usual fashion towards his enemy. The hound was pierced and let out a cry. Shadow flew down, and leaped off the ground right under the hounds neck as it kicked itself up and reared like a tall horse. Slicing through the mechanized hound with his spears, Shadow rolled away as the oil dripped a moment from the hounds belly and neck. Coming down, it staggered before shocks sparked around it and forced the mechanical hound to twitch as if glitching.
The hound looked back, one eye flickering at it charged him, glowing intently with the prospect of revenge as it turned it's head to bite down on his side. Succeeded in startling Shadow, it bit down and threw him, pinning him as he used his metal claw; holding him down with a powerful bite keeping Shadow immoble while he struggled under his mass.
Shadow was able to break his arm free, using his Chaos Spear, he jammed his jaw on one of his sides. It struggled to try and break through the spears, but couldn't as Shadow let out a cry and jabbed the other spear in his hand through it's mouth. He was finally able to get some footing before using his feet to ram the spears further through, and even stab the fiendish hound straight up through it's robotic and shadowy skull... When he saw the gears in the hound begin to creak, he unhooked the spear at it's side and leaned up, ramming it into the back of it's neck. The Hound seemed to have one last bit of energy left and shook itself free of his last attack, biting down and finally breaking the chaos spear before one last lunge for Shadow's life.
Silver fired his own energy blasts, doubled in power by Chaos, as the hound tried to leapt to him, but to no avail.
It opened some hatches on its back and rockets shot out, targeting Silver and catching him off guard, but he threw up his shields; crossing his arms over himself to evade damage.
With Silver distracted, the hound flew up with jet backs on his feet's back ankles and charged him, blasting him into a wall above and behind everyone else.
Dark Chaos laughed, seeing as she had drained the Master Emerald for this very cause… to give her loyal servants enough power so she could enjoy the suffering of those that defied her will.
Do you see, Amy? No one can save you now…
Amy looked up from her mind's room, as the dark, shadowy vines we're taken off her eyes and she beheld her friends struggling to save her. "N..No! No, you can't kill them! Stop it!" She shook from her chains but it was no use.
Dark Chaos Chuckled.
What power on earth could save them now? Considering YOUR going to kill them with your bare hands...
Her murderous smile stretched across her lips, as she watched the battle rage on. Pacing down her throne as she watched with eager anticipation the three trying to desperately protect their own hides.
Even now... they don't fight in unison. They stick to their own strengths. And you still carry a fondness for them..?
Amy dipped her head down, gritting her teeth in her tears. "..Y-...Yes... I'll always care about them... always..."
This didn't seem to please Dark Chaos, who swung her foot down and stifled a disdainful noise... She clenched her teeth and moved a piece of fabric from her legs. "Pathetic. You're too stubborn to even see your own demise... let alone their own..." She watched the boys struggled, but could feel Amy pleading from within her soul's heart for a miracle.
Amy shook her head, at least, as much as she could before crying out once again. "You will not win!"
...I already have.
Sonic leaped up to Shadow's heckhound, and drilled into it, but it only knocked him off Shadow for a moment. Sonic's hound grabbed his neck (or where the neck should be) and threw him down, across the room and away from interfering with his kin's battle, and headed back to attack Sonic again.
"Wha-! A double up!" Sonic was already at his wits end, not knowing what else to do when the two suddenly began their crawl toward him…
Shadow was still struggling to get up... his arms twitching as he tried to get himself upright, but bobbed down every time he seemed to be gaining some height...
They growled, taking a dark pleasure in their prey's confusion, and pounced..!
But Silver let out a giant pulse, letting it carry a massive energy surge through his hand, and literally flying through the air with a powered up punch on his hound; crashing it into the other two, as Shadow arose at last and clapped his hands together.
With his immortal and perfect healing abilities, his power all at once rose to him again, and his ultimate power began to show forth. This caused his limiters on his wrists to shake violently, as if desperately trying to restrain some of his true power...
"CHAOOSSS!" he slowly pulled them apart, showing a rather large chaos spear, "CONTROL!" he then made an arch with his hand as he suddenly held a large beaming sword. In stride, he held it with two hands and bent his knees, before swinging it around as Sonic and Silver jumped to the ground to dodge the long, chaos sword.
The mecha-hounds looked to the sword before being slashed and turned to shadowy ash by it. Shadow's limiters glowing and cracking slightly in the process.
Silver and Sonic looked to Shadow and then themselves, before offering the other his own hand and helping each other up.
The three, in unison, huffing and puffing due to their individual loss of energy, all looked back to Dark Chaos... who slowly clapped her hands.
"And that's all you could muster, in the end." Her deep and uncaring tone rang through the broken castle like ice dropping in a cave; Completely hollow and void of feeling besides complete, delighted, pleasure in their torture.
They we're sitting ducks though…
They were exhausted!
Even after resting up a bit, they were too anxious to get to Dark Chaos that they didn't really allow their bodies to heal and their minds to be properly focused and ready for this…
Her words had already enraged them, but also made them feel terrible and at fault. They weren't just mad, they were miserable.
The only thought in their mind?
Was Amy even savable now…?
"We've fought your demons!" Shadow gestured to the metal on the ground. Burnt, dented, and laying in shadows that moved out of the room and into nothingness.
Shadow couldn't lose another innocent girl in his life…
He already had two lives that ended in his hands…
All his fault…
Adding Amy to that equation… it would just be too much for him.
He tried not to care about her, he really, honestly did.
But her kind smile.
The way she looked to him and her cute pout of disapproval to a comment he made.
Her laugh and her gentle touch.
Everything about her should have made him despise her.
And yet-
"We fight and end this… NOW!" Shadow walked forward, determination in his eyes, before ducking down into battle position again; ignoring his body protesting it, and just using his 'ultimate lifeform' abilities to quickly use the chaos still left in him from the chaos emeralds being so close to charge him up. Quickly, he regained his strength, "Face me, Chaos! You coward!"
"Dark….chaos…" she corrected him, and her smile finally faded. "My,… you won't quit." She hovered off from her throne, as her hair began to wiggle around her and stand upright, and the chaos she had stored for so long suddenly taking root and blasting through the area in wild spurts of force and power. It pulsed from below her as she held herself high and dangerously above the three exhausted heroes.
"I HATE when prey doesn't QUIT!"
"Now!"
Sonic shouted out, as the three huddled together, and shot out a powerful energy blast at her, the same they had used for the beast they previously fought.
"HA! Such weakened power… you don't have enough strength to defeat me now! Pitiful!"
She literally held out her hand, having the blast hit it and be completely controlled as it vanished. Though having made her hand ripple out some of it's power, the small adjustments of her shaking hand made the blast look barely anything. She wiggled her fingers tauntingly by her cheek, and side-puffed to blow out the steam coming from her glove; the only evidence that showed of it's mere existence.
As she held her hand, and continued to blow gently on it, ash from her glove fell off.
The Chaos power around her formed a new glove on her hand before the previous one... disappeared.
"You want to play with the inevitable?"
She sneered, before spreading her arms out and slightly leaning down, almost in a mocking bow that matched her wicked expression. Eyes narrowed in frustration, she also carried a slight sense of amusement that escaped in her tone...
"Would my toys like to play?"
She shot out of the castle with a jet steam in her wake; sonic booms followed after her, as she soared through the grey sky, and laughed manically.
The boys watched a moment, taking last minute breathes to work up the strength they needed.. and shot out after her, blasting out after her.
Gaining on her, she threw her body around to face them, as they stood a moment before her... then, they threw punches and kicks- anything they still had left in them!
But she was too strong,… she dodged all their hits and fired back ten-fold. Soon, their bodies dropped to the ground, one right after the other.
Tails, Knuckles, and Rouge watched with horror stricken eyes at the scene before them, seeing them struggle to get up as Tails shook his head.
"We…We have to help them!" He looked to Knuckles, who looked back at him with a face that showed he had NO CLUE what to do.
Rouge covered her mouth. "What if… we can't beat her?"
"Don't say that!" Tails cried out, letting tears form in his eyes now as his fists came up in bundled fists full of hope. "We have to win! We… we can't lose! Then we'll lose Amy!"
Knuckles turned his head away, closing his eyes to his friend, as Rouge held herself and silently looked down.
"W…Why… Why are you both giving up..? The battle's still raging on! We…WE CAN DO SOMETHING FOR THEM! ANYTHING!" Tails wouldn't allow himself to stand around and do nothing, as he raced to the battlefield.
"Tails!" Knuckles called out, reaching out for his friend.
"Heheheheh~ Such fun. Heroes… you don't deserve to be heroes… your nothing more than the starters of evil. If it weren't for you… Amy would of- Well, scratch that, I'd still have my way! WHAHAHAHAHAHH!"
She spread her arms back to cackle another laugh, Sonic slowly raised himself up.
"N…no… We can't fall now… I can't lose… her… again…" he looked up into the sky, and remembered the first time Amy had changed, and what Dark Chaos had said and done then.
"Hah…. Besides…"
Dark Chaos looked down at the boys, hovering in her spot as she grew a tad more serious in her tone.
"Amy is dead."
"HA-CHA!" Eggman screamed as he finally got his Eggcarrier in position, and pressed both buttons on his joysticks in both hands. "IF THAT'S TRUE, THEN I WON'T HAVE ANY GRIEF FOR ENDING YOUR UGLY AND DESPICABLE EXISTANCE YOU SHE-DEVIL- WITCH!"
"Oh…Oh my." Orbot covered his mouth delicately as him and Cubot hugged one another, quivering in fear at their hurt and berserking master.
"P-please, Doctor!"
"Get a hold of yourself!"
The Master Emerald was given new life, thanks to Eggman allowing it to charge. But to be perfectly honest, It would of happened a lot quicker if Knuckles were to have helped it along, as was his birthright…
The Master Emerald's power was once again drained, however, as the powerful Super Canon was once again charged to its fully capacity.
It blasted through the sky like a ray of light, pure gold with a sound of sparkling shine that crashed through Dark Chaos.
The beam didn't stop till it faded a few moments later. Sonic looked to the sky, horror filling his eyes.
"Amy's…Amy's….!" His eyes widened, and a dark blue essence made it's way up his arms and legs.
In a burst of agonizing dread and grief, Sonic threw back his arms, letting a blast of Dark Chaos energy surge through him.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Eggman huffed and puffed, waiting in the silence before lifting his head, sweat-dropping from his brow as his mustache twitched and shook in pure fear. It turned to a jagged line as he whined out a horrified cry, "THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!" he sprang up and gripped his head- for in the mist of the blastes impact- A black, Super form Dark Chaos hung motionless in the air, smiling.
Her eye sockets shined white as she opened them abruptly, her body completely black. She hovered in the air a striking resemblance of Super Amy, but more criminal in every way... She had absorbed the power of chaos from the blast and was now so filled with it's massive energy that her entire body was fidgeting and twitching from it's power.
"You… YoU thOUGHt that WAs EnOUgh TO DesTORY ME!?"
"…If that isn't… then I will be."
"HMMM?"
Dark Chaos turned to look at a super from of another dark entity.
Dark Chaos's smile left a moment, before returning to an even crazier grin as she laughed like a demon, her mouth distorted to unspeakable lengths, even squiggling into an odd line that drew her fangs.
"If it's true Amy is dead… then there's nothing stopping me from ending you myself."
"ANd WHat MaKES You thiNK YOU can Do THAT?"
"…"
Dark Sonic shot forward without even a sound effect, his body disappearing before reappearing into a powerful punch.
An endless parade of powerful hits pulsed with each impact and kept Silver and Shadow down, unable to get up as each blast slammed them down harder and harder against the ground; bouncing their bodies two and fro with each impact.
They were now the hopeless ones…
Tails grabbed Knuckles from behind him.
"H-huh!?"
"She lived that! Which means… which means…."
"… Tails…"
"We have to think of something..! We just gotta! We just-! Just-!" he walked into Kncukles's chest and started to cry, as Rouge looked solemnly at him. She dropped one arm to then grasp her elbow with her other hand, holding it gently in sorrow.
"He.. he won't really kill her... would he? He couldn't! Of all people.. Sonic can't give up on Amy! I don't believe her! I... I..." Tails continued to cry upon Knuckles's chest, as Knuckles's eyes showed a remnant of tears beginning to form on the ends of his eyes.
As Rouge watched the hopeless child and scene... she got an idea, perking her ears up and letting go of her arm in surprise at it's presence.
"Hold on… Knuckles, you're the one that said you asked the Master Emerald to help that last time… at least, that's what you explained on the fill-in details, right?"
Knuckles looked back over his shoulder to Rouge, raising an eyebrow, "Yeeeah?" he shook his head free of any possible tears.
Tails wiped some tears away and looked back to her as well, moving away from Knuckles.
"Then is it possible to ask it again?" She raised her eyebrow, as if wondering if HE even knew the answer.
"U-uh… I suppose it's worth a try?" Knuckles raised his arm up in a shrug, not quite sure.
"Hold on…" Tails's head started spinning in thoughts around the insides of his brain,… before he then started speaking out loud.
"The Master Emerald is the heart of Chaos… that's how the Emeralds recharge themselves! Through the Master Emerald's power! Which means…"
"They have to be dead by now." Rouge stated.
"Yes… but then how are they able to retain their super forms for so long?"
Knuckles and Rouge looked surprised by the question for a moment, and then looked to each other, unsure how to answer him.
"See? It doesn't add up."
Tails tried to put two and two together... holding his hands out and using his fingers to try and sort through his thought processes...
"What if… What if all Dark Chaos is… is harboring The master emerald's power… maybe it takes time for her to convert it into Dark Chaos Energy? That would explain why she stalls with monsters before attacking herself in the first place! She needed to store up for the on-coming battle with her, Sonic, Silver, and Shadow!" Tails was growing excited, it was suddenly all making sense now!
"Not just that! But the main reason she kidnapped the Master Emerald was to store more of it's power! Draining it so we couldn't use it's power against her! Which means.. the Emeralds... it's all connected!" he spun around, jumping in a twirl as he did so, his burnt tails swishing along side him in his excitement. He gestured his arms wildly towards Rouge and Knuckles, trying to get them to follow his reasoning and understand too. "Dark Chaos, the Emeralds, the Master Emerald..! It all works together! They're all fueled by the Master Emerald's power! By Chaos himself!"
"But… how does that help us with Amy now..?" Knuckles stated, knowing Dark Chaos couldn't be stopped and even if Amy was still in there….
Could she be?
"I don't think there's an Amy left to save…" Rouge looked away, but Tails immediately snapped back at her, stepping forward with narrowed eyes and slightly pouting at her negativity.
"SHE LIVES OFF OF SUFFERING! She's delighted by our fears, doubts, and is outraged that we haven't given up yet! It could be she just said that to get us to believe she's gone! So we lose all hope in-!"
Knuckles looked away, before taking a deep breath and looking seriously up at Tails. "That's a little far-fetched, Tails… But at this point? I'm willing to believe anything you say."
"Really? You're willing to go off a gambled bet?" Rouge looked to Knuckles, who smirked and looked back to her.
"As far as I recall… that's part of your job, Thief!"
She looked surprised, but then smiled and looked tenderly to him. She sighed and lowered her head, closing her eyes to give this... one... last... shot.
"I'm in, what do you need?" she looked to Tails, taking courage and faith now.
Standing up next to Knuckles, he smiled happily to her too, before turning to Tails, and nodding for him to continue. "You've got us on your team, Tails! You call out the shots!" Knuckles rotated his arm, ready to lend him a hand.
Tails looked overwhelmed with emotion, "You guys..." seeing they may not get it all, but were willing to trust him, filled him with hope as he nodded in return with full purpose of heart and determination.
"Right!" He wiped his eyes one final time, and lifted a fist up to start giving orders.
He finally looked like he was done crying.
"I have an idea… if we can somehow get the rest of her Chaos energy back in the Maser Emerald… or have it completely take it back- even the dark chaos energy-!… we might stand a chance at completely draining her of her power! And getting Amy back!"
"But… wouldn't that make her stronger? Being absorbed into the-" Rouge was cut off by Knuckles.
"No… it wouldn't." he grinned, believing in Tails more and more as he looked down and away, before his face brimmed with confidence in Tails's plan.
He turned back to them, explaining why it sounded good to him. "Dark or normal chaos, doesn't matter. The Master Emerald is the home of all chaos potential. If anything can eat up the chaos energy that Dark Chaos is harboring, then it's the Master Emerald!"
"But,… that still doesn't explain how we'll even get the Master Emerald TO her! What? Are we just gonna shove her into it?" Rouge mimed a shove and then gestured the universal sign of 'I don't know'.
Tails and Knuckles looked to each other, and smiled, before looking back at her.
"I think that's exactly what we're gonna do!"
"….Oh great. Me and my big mouth…"