Sonic and the Power of the Shades Stones
By the ever lazy (but still getting it done) Cutegirlmayra1
Ch. 3
"Hey, Eggman. Don't you think diving right into a storm is considered careless driving?" Sonic said, now having three robots holding him suspended in mid air. One was holding his feet, another his arms tightly to his sides, and the other was gripping his legs.
"The place we're going, Sonic, is one that wishes not to be disturbed. What you see before you is it's very essence trying to keep itself protected from outsiders." Eggman explained, sitting in his big chair a few feet above and in the center of where Bocoe and Docoe were below, controlling the large blimp like aircraft.
"Don't you know it's rude to barge in to someone's home without knocking, Eggman?" Sonic teased, but inside he was worried. The storm was tossing the large metal airship to and from. Even Docoe and Bocoe were ducking and wincing at each air blast the ship took or whip of powerful rain and lightening.
"Wooohohoho!" Eggman let out a hoarse laugh, "Why knock when it's so much easier to let yourself in. With a spare key that is.." he held up a capsule with Sonic's hair in it. Sonic let out a gasp.
"Hey! That's my hair!"
"Right you are, Sonic!" the whole ship was hit with another powerful blast that made everyone rock a bit in the boat. "whooooah ohh.." the whole crew wobbled as the ship corrected itself. "Decoe! Bocoe! Can't you drive any smoother!"
"We're sorry, Doctor Eggman." the robots said in shame. Docoe sighed, "But the storm is getting worse the more and more we head toward Liema!"
"Liema? Where's that?" Sonic asked, blinking his eyes in confusion but also curiously wondering where Eggman was taking him, and what he secretly wanted with him.
"heh heh, stumped at one of my plans are we?" Eggman mused, turning around to the captured Sonic.
"I can never figure out your plans, Eggman. There just so out there and ridiculous! But I won't lie, I try to play out your way of thinking up such ideas in my head. To bad I always have to stop cause I can't stop laughing at how dumb they are!"
"Why you-!" before Eggman could lash out at Sonic's remark, the Ship began to fall. "What's happening!" Eggman turned around back to his subordinates.
"A bolt of lightening hit right through the ship and slice one of the main engines, doctor!" Bakkun cried out, the whole ship then plummeted to a angled landing. Having everyone cry out as the impact completely wrecked the front tip of the airship.
"Blast this cursed land! If all goes well, I might just forgive this little incident… for now."
Back with Amy rose, she hurried to where the trail led too, an old boat dock. The wind was wild for some reason, and she suddenly felt her pocket vibrate from her cell phone.
"Tails?" she asked into the speaker, finally picking the phone up.
"Amy! I'm glad your safe. Sonic's been kidnapped by Eggman!" Tails quickly cried through the phone.
"What? That's impossible! Sonic would never let himself get stolen so easily! I should know.." she huffed, the worst news to her was that her hero was in trouble. The best news, however, was that he had saved the day without a sweat, and was dashing towards her home for some well earned brunch…
"Amy, this is serious! Rouge is here and just had me decipher one of Eggman's maps." Tails spoke quickly, but managed not to let one single detail be misunderstood. "If this writing is correct, then Sonic's in big trouble! We need to head to an accursed land called Liema!"
"Liema?" Amy repeated the word. "I've never heard of it."
"Neither have I." Tails responded, sounding gravely worried. "But according to this map it's an island that has been the home of dark magic for centuries. It states, 'with one offering, any heart may fall to complete ruin. Just as long as the heart remains plunged in darkness, it will do darkness's bidding. However, if raised to the light, it will be purified and cleaned from our beloved night. May the stones never touch, or the wielder will become a split soul of good and evil.' I think Eggman's trying to change Sonic's heart to do evil and then somehow control him!" Tails blurted out. Amy gasped, she held one hand up to cover her mouth and held the phone tightly.
"We can't let that happen, Tails! We just can't!" she was now terrified for Sonic. "ooh… how do we get there and stop Eggman? Tell me what to do and I'll do it!"
"Emhmm." Tails agreed, and then spoke on to say, "Meet me with the gang in my garage! We're heading on a road trip!"
-Back in the miserable Island of Liema-
The ship's gear still worked, which means the doors came down and made a ramp for the group to get off. The robots holding Sonic moved him down the ramp, still having him in the air, and turned him to Eggman. Sonic tried to struggle, but these robots were tough. "You guys are a lot more buffer than the kind of robots I usually trash." he said through gritted teeth.
"Tie the pest up." Eggman ordered, the robots began to put up some something but it was too dark to see, the storm was still harsh as the trees bent in a small seven like formation and the thunder and lightening boomed and slashed through the sky.
"Heh, you really think you can tie me down with ropes, Egg Head?" Sonic, even in his situation, wasn't about to let the moment scare him one bit.
Eggman looked to him and grinned as the robots turned around, "Not with ropes, Sonic…Chains." the robots revealed there lines of black, as they dangled them up behind Eggman. A flash of lightening showed there true look as Eggman's glasses and his robots metal shined in the moment of light. As they tied Sonic's feet and hands behind his back, one robot tightened the chain to tightly, and Sonic winced through gritted teeth and tried not let another sound pass. Seeing the joy in Eggman's smile through the darkness made him not want to show any more suffering for his twisted amusement. "After so many years…" Eggman began, this time in a low and flat tone. Turning to a serious face and losing his smile, Eggman continued, "I finally am going to defeat you, Sonic. And soon, you will be the ultimate demise of this world you have tried so hard to protect. Ironic, isn't it?" Sonic Spit out some water that was collecting in his spines and smiled at Eggman.
"Still will be protecting, Eggman. Still will be."
Amy jumped in the X tornado, it had been a while since she had gone on an adventure. She stroked the sides a bit in a nostalgic way, remembering Chris and the many fun journey's him and the gang had together. Amy then violently shook her head, 'This isn't the time to be traveling through memory lane on the S.S déjà vu! I have to get to Liema and save Sonic as soon as possible!" Tails was in the cockpit and behind Amy was Knuckles, cracking his fits.
"The Doc doesn't know when to quit, huh?" the red echidna said, smiling as he was pounding his fist together. "Don't worry, Sonic. We're coming!"
"That's right!" Tails cheered as he put on his flying goggles. "I won't leave a friend behind!"
"I'm coming, my love!" Amy called out as the plane had began it's departure into the sky.
"Amy…" Tails said with a few sweat drops on the side of his head.\
"Aw, come on Tails. Sonic's lucky to have someone care about him as much as Amy does." Knuckles responded sarcastically. Closing his eyes and holding one hand up to try and look sincere, Amy glared at the two. Tails rolled his eyes as Knuckles chuckled a bit.
"You two are just Jealous! Both of you don't have someone that loves you like I love Sonic!" Amy puffed up one side of her cheek and turned away to the other side. "Hmph!"
"Amy..!" Knuckles patted her head, she looked up angery till she saw Tails just staring a bit down. That's when Knuckles whispered, "You have to be careful what you say, you might remind him of her." Amy plugged her mouth. The seed that Cosmo had left behind that Sonic brought back to Tails had slowly been growing. Day by day, a bud had began to get bigger and bigger. It wouldn't be long now, until a little boy or girl bloomed from it, and tails had looked after it in sadness and complete love. It made Amy feel very guilty to say what she did, knowing that Tails had once had someone love him… maybe even as much as she did for Sonic.
"Tails… I.."
"It's okay." Tails suddenly said, raising his head up. "Soon, I'll be able to love someone in a fatherly way. Though it may be different, I can't wait to meet them and give all my love to them." Amy held her heart, and Knuckles sat quietly down.
"Okay.. But Knuckles is still forever alone." Amy turned around to glare at Knuckles again. "You would have someone if you weren't such a jerk to Rouge… that's why she's leaving you for Shadow, ya know."
"W-what?" Knuckles kicked her seat, and steamed up. "Me and Rouge don't have that kind of a relationship!" he declared abruptly.
"Sure… that's the kind of thinking that drove her away from you." Amy snickered at Knuckles's blush and couldn't help but laugh at his attempt to convince her there was nothing going on between them, though it sounded more like he was trying to convince himself.
"Sonic, it's time." Eggman had the robots drop him in the center of a weird looking circle that had some kind of words written on it. There were eight pillars surrounding it, and Eggman placed three stones that had black mist coming from them on three of the eight pillars. "Sadly, these Shade stones are harder to find than I originally planned, but I think just three will still have you at my command." Eggman climbed down from his latter, supported by two robots that held them. Once On the ground he boasted a victory laugh and started to chant some words. Sonic looked around him and saw the whole bottom of where he was on his knees tied down, was glowing dark purple and odd symbols began to shine around the ground, moving slowly.
"What's a Shade Stone, Eggman?" Sonic asked, moving his eyes from the ground to stare at Eggman. Eggman stopped chanting for a moment.
"Since I've practically won anyway, I'll tell you. Long ago in the world there was a way to change a man's heart into that of good or evil. The Stones, made from the shades of light and darkness, were then used to either clean a man of evil intent or to be ruled by his wicked longings and desires. Back then though, there were only eight shaded Light Stones that were used to turn criminals into goody to shoes. But, one day, a man found a way to reverse four of the Stones he had stolen into the shaded Dark Stones. With them, he used dark magic to turn innocent people into his controlled slaves of darkness! He had a glorious rein! until some girl used the light stones to over power him or something like that but anyways! The moral of the story is, there's no one to save you now, Sonic! The soon to be hero for me! And you'll have destruction and mayhem as your power that can only be controlled by me! Hahahaa! Say goodbye to your pathetic hero, world! Sonic mine to command now!" Eggman chanted the words again, and the stones began to float toward Sonic. Sonic tried to get out, he jumped to his feet and started hopping out of the circle, but some robots bashed him back in. he looked around but before he could make an alternative plan, a Dark Stone had entered into himself, his whole body stopped and he felt such searing pain as he was unable to do anything but feel something grab at him from within.
"Wha…What is this?" his eyes shook and he screamed in agony as another one flew in, making the sensation inside him intensify.
"All people are made of good and evil, this will just create more evil to go off of any selfish desires, vanity, evil doing , or any other evil that you may have done or felt before become stronger and more and more irresistible to you. The Stones have just gone into your soul, Sonic. They'll begin to change you, and create an evil inside you that will feed off your memories and feelings until it is a you that you will fear and despise as it destroys all you love and care about the most. I will call him, Dark Sonic!" another cry was heard from Sonic, as his fur changed it's color to a deep, dark blue. His eyes glew into a bright white color as the last Shade Stone of darkness pierced his heart and he let his head fall. the rain feel and lightening subsided for a moment. "Sonic..?" Eggman dared to step an inch closer. Sonic's head with white sockets moved toward Eggman's direction. "Are you…changed?"
The creature did nothing, but smiled at the old man. 'So, this is Eggman?' he thought.
'Wha…What's happening! Where am I?' Sonic was trapped in a world of darkness, seeing out of a large screen at Eggman's face.
'I am your other, the one that now controls the being known as 'Sonic'. You are trapped within your mind. Now, shut up.'
Tails was being hammered by the storm, but somehow able to dodge the lightening and break through the clouds to see the island below. Amy gasped when she saw Sonic, "SONIC! He's there! Look! He seems fine!" she felt relieved that he wasn't hurt, but then she saw his chains. "Oh no!"
"Looks like they chained him!" cried out Knuckles. "Tails, get us down there!"
"Right!" Tails began to roar his plane through the wind and rain, down to where Sonic was with Eggman and his robots.
Eggman heard the sound of a plane and flipped around to see the X tornado. "Perfect." he smiled and pointed to it, turning to Sonic. "Destory, Sonic! Destory it! Destory your friends!"
'No!' Sonic struggled to stand, but the other him inside slammed his foot on him, pushing him down.
'…Seems fun enough…'
Sonic removed his smile, and put his hand up to the plane, a sudden whirl of dark power swirled him, as a hug ball of darkness was being formed in his hand.
"Sonic!" Tails cried out.
"Tails, Move!" Knuckles said as Tails had to change course abruptly as a large beamed blast zipped by them with incredible shock waves. It spun the X tornado around and around, using all of Tails strength on the wheel however, they were able to return balance to the aircraft. "What the.."