Adventures of the Orange Flash

Chapter 5: Shocking Discovery and Fiery Entity

Naruto and team Sonic were running through the ruined buildings of the burning city in search of a Chaos Emerald before meeting up with Shadow and Rouge so that they can create a time rift which will send them back to the present.

"So how do we go about searching for a Chaos Emerald since we don't exactly have to the means to do?" asked Knuckles.

"Let's split up, Sonic and I will comb through the city while you and Tails look around for anything that could help," said Naruto.

"Alright, we'll contact you if we find anything," said Tails, then he flew off with Knuckles jumping in the air and glided after him.

Sonic and Naruto stood over a knocked down building and looked down at the landscape laid out before them as fire would shoot out from the ground every once in a while.

"Man, the whole city is on fire," said Sonic.

"Kit, you and your friend better watch yourselves, I sense that the flames are alive which is why they burst from the ground time to time," said Kurama.

Naruto nodded in affirmation before turning to Sonic "Sonic, we should be careful. Those flames seem to be alive and would attack us at any given time,"

"Gotcha Naruto, and I have an idea on just how we can through here," said Sonic with a grin which piqued Naruto's curiosity.

Music Start: Sonic the Hedgehog OST; Crisis City- The Flame, Skyscraper, Whirlwind, Tornado

Moments later, Sonic and Naruto were speeding down a slanted building on long pieces of metal to serve as makeshift snowboards. Sonic was swerving around the obstacles like a pro, while Naruto was able to manage thanks to his reflexes and remembered how one of the ninjas rode on one during his mission in the snow country when he was protecting Princess Koyuki.

He swerved left and right to avoid the flames which suddenly shot out from the ground, he flipped over a broken car which was in his way and hit a ramp which sent him flying into the air where he perform a method air plus 360 spin before landing next to Sonic as they continued to ride down the building. When they reached the end, they jumped off and landed on some rails which they grinded along before reaching of it as well to get onto a broken highway.

"Whoa Naruto, heads up!" shouted Sonic as pieces of buildings fell from above and almost crushed them.

"Gotcha!" replied Naruto swerving quickly to evade the falling debris.

Then suddenly something shot out of the ground before them, it looked like a segmental worm which is made of red and orange lava with its back and head covered in rock-like armor. It has no eyes and its mouth is composed of three creeping mandibles. The worm opened up its mandibles and shot fireballs at Sonic and Naruto, but they managed to dodge them by sliding from side to side and got away from it.

"What was that thing?" asked Sonic.

"Whatever it was, it must have been created by the flames which is in other words Iblis," said Naruto.

"You're right about that kit, those creatures share the same energy signature as the flames around us and I feel that there are more to come," said Kurama.

The fox was right as more of those worms burst from the ground with a few launching fireballs and others lunging at them with their mandibles open to eat them. But Sonic and Naruto were able to evade them as the worms attacked before any of their attacks could hit them.

"Sonic! Something's coming from behind so watch out!" said Naruto when his senses picked up a few hostiles coming in from behind fast, Sonic turned around to see what was coming.

They looked like a cross between a phoenix and bat while also made of the same orange and red lava, having two ears which curl upward to almost resemble horns and they also have long tails with pear-shaped tips.

"I got this!" Sonic used a destroyed car as ramp to launch himself into the air, he jumped off the board and used his Homing attack to send them flying into a wall before landing back on the board "Nothing to it!" he smirked then he looked ahead of them and saw a dash ramp "Looks like our ride ends here!"

They hit the dash ramp which sent them flying into the air where they jumped off the makeshift snowboards before landing on the streets below.

"Hey check it out, we got a welcoming committee," said Naruto as several worms burst from the ground and few phoenixes descended from the sky, Naruto took out a Hirashin kunai while Sonic crouched a bit with his legs apart.

"Then let's accept their reception!" Sonic crouched into a ball and started spinning quickly before speeding forward and slamming into the one of the worms when opened its mandibles to launch a fireball, sending it crashing to the floor and laid there unmoving. Then he jumped into the air and used the homing attack to knock the phoenixes out of the sky before landing on the ground.

Naruto was running towards two worms who lunged at him, he tossed the kunai into the air and waited for them to get close to him. Right at that moment, he disappeared in a flash of yellow light as the worms dug their mandibles into the ground and he reappeared above them with a Rasengan in each hand "Take this, Rasengan Barrage!" he slammed the attack on their heads, driving them further into the ground as they laid there unmoving before catching the falling kunai with one of his tails

"Naruto, come on this way!" shouted Sonic as he followed a trail of rings which led to a wide spring, they bounced off it to get to the ledge of a partially destroyed building, they quickly dashed to the other side where more phoenixes appeared before them with a deep chasm below. "Let's use these guys as footholds to get across to the other side!"

"One step ahead of you buddy!" Naruto flung his Hirashin kunai to hit one before flashing over to it and throwing at another, Sonic followed up with the Homing attack before they jumped into another building.

This time waiting for them were lizard-like creatures made entirely of red and orange lava, they have hardened armor on their head which resembles a shark fin, back and limbs. They roared at Naruto and Sonic before jumping at them with claws outstretched.

Naruto jumped back a bit before the lizard landed and was about to attack when it opened it mouth and let loose a stream of flames, "Swift release: Shadow Dance!" he blurred out of sight and reappeared behind it only for it to lash out with its tail but he responded with his own and they entangled. He started to spin around several times before letting go to sending the lizard crashing through a wall and opening up another way for them to access "Sonic let's go!"

Sonic had just finished his by curling into a spiny ball and bouncing hard on it back a few times before it laid unmoving and nodded in affirmation, they ran through the opening and jumped onto a nearby rail and grinded along it before landing on another part of the broken streets. They sped through the streets and stepped on a dash panel which launched them forward as they ran through a loop before hitting a dash ramp which took them to a tall tower.

In the center is a spring which Naruto and Sonic stepped to bounce them high into the air. They were at the peak of their jump when an extremely powerful wind current blew through was carrying cars, parts of buildings, and streets. The speeding duo ended up landing on of them and looked around with surprise.

"Whoa, the winds around here must be really strong enough to do this," said Sonic.

"I know, but we've got to get out of here before we get ourselves too lost," said Naruto with the blue hedgehog nodding in affirmation.

They leapt from platform to platform while struggling against the wind that kept pushing them off towards the ground before at a dangerous height. A few phoenixes and worms got in their way, but they able to take them out. They hit a spring which sent them jumping from one piece of debris to another until they got to the end

Naruto looked into the distance and saw something which gave him an idea "I figured a way to get out of this wind current so follow my lead!" then he ran forward and jumped the platform much to Sonic's surprise before he followed after him. in midair, Naruto crossed his middle and index fingers together and called out "Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!" a large amount of clones puffed into existence, then they started to grab each other's legs to form a makeshift rope, he swung them around at a building where to one at the end quickly latched on to. Sonic and Naruto swung from the other side and were able to break free from the wind current and found themselves landing on a rather long highway.

Sonic whistled at the stunt that they just pulled off "That was pretty tight!"

"Thanks!" Naruto smirked back at him, then they heard a roaring sound from behind and turned around to see a giant flaming tornado heading in their direction.

"Whoa that tornado is carrying a car!"

"Make that plural! Let's do what we do best….RUN!"

They took off down the highway with the tornado in pursuit as it was flinging cars at them from behind as they darted left and right to evade.

"The both of you better watch out for obstacles both in front and behind!" said Kurama as he watched through Naruto's senses.

"Got it!" Naruto replied as he jumped over a car that landed in front of him before darting to the left to avoid a falling iron beam. The flaming tornado was slowly gaining on them and chucking even more cars than before, suddenly a massive amount of debris fell from above and landed on the street completely blocking the road. Naruto saw this and created a Shadow clone, together they formed a Rasengan much bigger than normal and charged at it "Giant Ball Rasengan!" the large blue spinning sphere blew away the debris for them to quickly pass through.

"Naruto! Let's lose this hot breeze for good!" with that said, Sonic picked up speed to the point of appearing like a blue blur, Naruto channeled chakra to his feet which increased his speed to the point of leaving behind afterimages as they easily outpaced the flaming tornado and got off the highway.

Music End

"Man that was close," said Naruto, wiping sweat from his forehead "I gotta say Sonic, you're fast!"

"It was no sweat, I hadn't even hit top speed yet. But you're not so bad yourself, makes me wonder what Shadow would think of it," said Sonic with a grin, suddenly his bracelet beeped and Tails voice rang out from it.

[Sonic, Naruto, can you hear me?]

"We read you loud and clear Tails, what's up?"

[Knuckles and I have found a working facility, we might find a computer that could help us track down the energy of a Chaos Emerald. I'm sending you the coordinates to meet up with us]

"Gotcha Tails, we're on our way," said Naruto, then they followed the directions and found Tails and Knuckles waiting at the entrance of a ruined building.

"So what happened at your end?" asked Knuckles.

"Oh nothing much, just fought some monsters made out of lava and jump on top of flying pieces of buildings and streets in a wind draft," said Sonic nonchalantly.

"And let's not forget that we had to outrun a flaming tornado that was chucking cars at us," Naruto added in.

"I guess your exploration wasn't so boring," said Knuckles as they walked through the corridors of the building "But I have to say that no matter where we look, all we see are ruins, I still can't believe that this is our future,"

"But could it have come to this?" said Tails.

"Something must have happened to Elise to release the flames, but what?" said Sonic then noticed Naruto tense a bit "What's up Naruto?"

"I'm sensing three people ahead of us," said Naruto.

"How do you know that?" asked Tails.

"Thanks to a good friend of mine, I have the ability to sense emotions and right now I'm sensing some over there," he pointed at a metal door that was slightly open, they quietly walked over peeked inside to see a large database computer with three figures standing before it. Two of which Naruto and Sonic are familiar with, but the third was what surprised them, it was a hedgehog who almost looked like Shadow but his colorations are a bit different.

"Kit, can you sense the negativity from that hedgehog?" asked Kurama with narrowed eyes.

"Yeah, he practically leaks evil from within. We better keep an eye on him," thought Naruto with Kurama nodding in agreement, then they listened in on the conversation.

"Is it true Mephilles?" asked Silver the hedgehog "If I eliminate that guy, will our world be saved?"

The mysterious black hedgehog nodded to confirm the question "Yes indeed, here are the records of the Day of Disaster. This was when Iblis was freed and his flames were released into the world," he pressed a key on the control panel and screenshots of Soleanna in the past appeared on the large screen "And you have this person to blame," he held out a purple Chaos Emerald which Silver took and peered at.

"I see it! So the blue hedgehog is the Iblis Trigger?" said Silver.

Blaze the cat walked over and looked at it "Blue hedgehog…" then she turned to look at the entrance but Naruto and the others quickly moved out of her sight when they saw her turning around.

"I'll send us back to the time when the Iblis Trigger was still alive," Mephilles formed a purple orb between his hands which spread out to cover him along with Silver and Blaze before disappearing out of sight.

Seeing that they were gone, Naruto and the others entered the room and approached the computer.

"Who was that guy, he looked just like Shadow," said Knuckles.

"More like an impostor, I was sensing some bad vibes from him," said Naruto.

"He was the one who lied to the hedgehog and cat that Sonic was the one who caused the future to end up like this," said Kurama.

"Th-this is terrible!" said Tails as he was pressing away on the keyboard.

"What is it Tails?" asked Naruto as he, Sonic and Knuckles walked over to the two tailed fox.

"According to the data, the princess died when she was kidnapped by Eggman! Apparently Eggman's battleship exploded!"

"When did this happened?" asked Naruto urgently.

"The date is this incident was two days after the Festival of the Sun,"

"If we don't return in time, Elise will die onboard Eggman's battleship. Then that means…" said Sonic.

"It means that if Elise dies, then the Flames of Disaster will be released onto the world," Naruto finished grimly.

"Tails, have you learned the location of a Chaos Emerald?" asked Knuckles.

"Just give a second," Tails typed on the keyboard for a few minutes "I got it, there's Chaos Emerald located somewhere in a volcano. I'll contact Shadow and Rouge to meet us there,"

After contacting them, Naruto and Team Sonic left the city and arrived at the volcanic area in the outskirts where they found Shadow and Rouge waiting for them.

"You guys are so slow. Look," Rouge holds out a green Chaos Emerald with a smug look on her face.

"You guys already found a Chaos Emerald, that's pretty quick," said Naruto.

"Well not to toot my own horn, but I'm a real treasure hunter. Maybe I can teach you a thing or two, unlike a certain echidna I know,"

Hearing that, Knuckles angrily walked up to her "What did you say?!" then he grunts and walks away.

"Have you guys discovered anything?" asked Shadow with his arms crossed.

"Yeah, we received a signal indicating that there's a Chaos Emerald here, but…" said Tails before pointing at a volcano.

"You mean we have to go through there?" asked Rouge.

"Then if you don't like it, you can stay here," said Knuckles.

"You've got to be kidding!"

Naruto quickly spoke up before they got into an argument "Calm down, we need to focus on getting to the Emerald so that we can get back to our own time,"

"Whatever you say foxy," said Rouge while Knuckles grumbled a bit.

"Don't be late," said Sonic.

"Humph," same to you," Shadow walked by him before taking off with the others close behind.

Music Start: Sonic the Hedgehog OST; Flame Core-Volcano

The group were running along the ledges of the mountain with Tails and Rouge flying above, Sonic, Shadow, Knuckles and Naruto running on the ground.

"Watch out for the lava which burst out from the ground!" said Knuckles just as they jumped out of the way of an eruption. Then they ran through a shuttle loop which ended with a triple spring, they bounced on it to send them high into the air, giving them a view of the landscape ahead of them as well as the volcano.

"Whoo-hoo! What a view!" said Sonic excitedly.

"It seems like the crust's energy is getting out of control, could it be because of the Chaos Emeralds?" said Shadow.

"It's a possibility," said Knuckles.

They descended to the ground and ran through another shuttle loop and hit a dash ramp to send them flying to a clearing, there more of the worms, lizards and phoenixes appeared before them but there was another creature among them. It looked like a humanoid giant made entirely of lava with cooled molten earth encasing its limbs like arms, legs, wrists, shoulders, chest and head as armor.

"Whoa, that's quite a welcome just for us," said Sonic.

"Looks like we got a heavy hitter among them, this might be a good workout for me," said Knuckles.

"Let's take it to em, guys!" Naruto charged forward with his claws bared, the others were close behind as they picked their opponents.

Tails threw his Dummy rings at the phoenixes and Rouge supported with her pink heart-shaped bombs to blow them out of the sky and send them crashing to the ground.

"Chaos Attack!" Shadow skated forwards and jumped into the air at a worm who opened its mandibles to take a bite out of him, but he was faster and launched a barrage of punches and kicks before finishing up with an axe kick to drive it to the ground. A worm came in from behind, then Shadow turned around with yellow electricity in his hands "Chaos Spear!" and threw an arrow-shaped energy which paralyzed and then he unleashed another Chaos Attack on it as well.

Four lizards surrounded Sonic who was smirking "Well what are you waiting for? I'm right here," he did a 'come here' gesture which pretty much irritated them as they jumped attacked him at the same time. Sonic started spinning his legs around like he's breakdancing at high speeds that it formed a miniature tornado and knocked them away from him "Heh too easy,"

Knuckles was charging at the golem who raised a hand and lava formed around it to take the shape of a spiked ball then it was thrown at the echidna. Knuckles leapt high into the air to dodge it, "Ground Shaker!" then he dived straight towards the ground fist first while spinning himself rapidly while giving off a flaming red aura. He struck the ground with enough force to create a shockwave on the ground which affected the golem to the point that it couldn't move. "Now you're mine!" Knuckles launched himself at the golem's head and slammed a powerful haymaker to take it down.

Naruto was charging at his own group of lizards "Let's get wild! Shadow Clone jutsu!" he created a handful of clones as they ran along his side "Flurry of the Skulk!" they all attacked with their claws bared, slashing left and right giving the lizards to chance for them to retaliate. Then he leapt back to see them fade away into the atmosphere.

"There seems to be a larger amount of enemies than usual, it's best that you keep a sharp eye out when you enter the volcano," Kurama.

"Got it," thought Naruto, then they heard a rumble and turned to see that lava and brimstone was shooting out of the volcano.

"The volcano is erupting, let's go!" said Shadow, then they took off towards the cliff which had a dash ramp at the end and launched themselves towards the crater of the volcano

Music Switch: Sonic the Hedgehog OST; Flame Core- The Cavern

They landed on a rock platform with rivers of lava around most of the area with columns of rocks sticking out.

"Now that we're here in the core of the volcanic, let's find that Chaos Emerald," said Naruto. They split up with Shadow and Rouge going through a lava tube while Sonic, Tails and Knuckles went through another, leaving Naruto to scope out the area on his own.

Naruto ran forward bounced off a spring to get onto a ledge above him, two worms burst out of the ground to attack, Naruto cartwheeled to the right to avoid the attack and threw kunai wrapped with explosive tags into their mouths which exploded within them, then he heard rumbling and saw a stone door slid downwards to reveal a tunnel.

"I guess it must have opened since I took down the enemies around here," thought Naruto, he proceeded through the tunnel and ended up in another cavern which suddenly darkened to his surprise "What the?! What just happened?!"

"I advise that you watch your step Naruto, or you might end up falling into the lava," said Kurama "But it's a good us foxes can see in the dark,"

"You're right about that," said Naruto as he leapt on the platforms with little trouble, then he saw a purple orb looking like a harden form of lava levitating above a platform. Feeling curious, he threw a shuriken at it which made lit up with a purple glow, illuminating most of the surrounding area "Well this makes it easier for me to get around," he continued through the cavern while striking more of the orbs to light up the path till he was finally out of the cavern.

"I thought we would never get out of there," said Kurama, with Naruto nodding in agreement. He bounced off a couple of springs to ascend a waterfall of lava then he threw a Hirashin kunai to a wall before flashing over to it, then he kicked off it to land on a ledge and ran along it to enter another lava tube. Once inside, the room darkened again much to his annoyance and he also found Sonic and Tails there "I guess you guys couldn't advance because of the darkness,"

"Yeah, but Knuckles is helping us out by finding those orbs to light up the way," said Sonic. Sure enough, the cavern lit up brightly for the gang to advance and found a grinning Knuckles waiting for them.

"Told you I could handle it," said Knuckles.

Music End

They continued their descent to the core and reunited with Shadow and Rouge along the way until they finally found themselves standing before a large volcanic pool and saw a cyan Chaos Emerald floating in the air. Rouge flew up to the Emerald and reached out to take.

"I found a Chaos Emerald!"

Naruto immediately sensed something approaching them and it seemed like Shadow sensed it as well as he called out to her.

"Don't touch it!" shouted Shadow.

Naruto quickly threw and Hirashin kunai at Rouge and flashed over to her, then he carried her in a bridal carry which made her blush a bit before using one of his tails to grab the kunai and then flung it back to where the others are and flashing away right before something burst out of the magma.

"Thanks for the save foxy," said Rouge as Naruto set her down.

"No problem," said Naruto with a foxy grin, then they turned their attention to the monster before them. It resembled a giant worm with a serpent-like body and an armored ripped up head, and there is a green eye located on its forehead before it closed its eyelid.

"What is this thing?!"

"I think….I think that's Iblis," Everyone looked at Naruto with surprise in their eyes.

"What makes you so sure of that?" asked Sonic.

"Because the energy that I'm sensing from it is the same as the monsters which we fought on the way here only much stronger,"

"Well we're gonna have to beat it if we want to get that Chaos Emerald," said Knuckles.

Sonic stepped forward with Shadow and Naruto walking up to his side "Leave this to us!"

Music Start: Sonic the Hedgehog OST; Boss: Iblis

Iblis unleashed a powerful roar which shook the lava dome so hard that the stalactites from the ceiling were shaken off and fell into the lava pool, serving as footholds for them to get across. But they were still too far away from the monster.

"We're too far out of range to attack, is there some way for us to draw it in?" said Sonic as he landed on one of the footholds.

Shadow looked around for a bit before seeing something in the distance which gave him an idea, then he called out to the others "We could light up those orbs over there, they would attract it to come closer that way we can attack it," Naruto and Sonic turned to where Shadow was pointing and saw three tall platforms with a purple orb on each of them at the center of the lava dome.

"Sounds like a plan but until then…heads up!" They jumped out of the way when Iblis launched a volley of fireballs at them and it destroyed the platforms that they landed on them.

"We're gonna need more footholds if we need to reach those orbs!" said Sonic.

"Leave that to me!" Naruto wrapped some exploding tags on his kunais before throwing them at the ceiling, the explosion was powerful enough to break off some stalactites to fall onto the lava with some leading to one of the orbs. Sonic quickly jumped on the new footholds till he got close to the orb and used his Homing attack to make it light up before backing away from it.

Soon they noticed that the magma was bubbling a bit before Iblis burst out and attacked the orb with its pincers only for it to get stuck on the platform, Sonic used this opportunity to execute a Homing attack on the green eye, making it roar out in pain and diving back into the magma then it jumped high into the air before diving at them but the hedgehogs and fox quickly moved out of the way as it crashed into the platforms.

"You guys watch out! Against something that large, you don't have a chance on the soft footholds!" shouted Tails from a distance.

Naruto threw another couple of kunai with explosive tags to bring down some more stalactites for them to use but Iblis fired another volley of fireballs to destroy some of the new footholds.

"It's trying to trap all of you in one place, you have to defeat this thing fast!" said Kurama.

Naruto thought deeply before getting an idea, he called out to Shadow "Hey Shadow, I need you follow my lead!" Shadow looked at him with a quirked eyebrow before nodding in affirmation "Shadow Clone jutsu!" He created two clones to immediately dashed forward and leapt out over the lava one after the other.

Shadow looked confused for a second before realizing what the fox is aiming for "I see, so he wants me to use my Homing attack on his clones so that I can get across to the orb," he jumped off his foothold and attacked each of the clones as they disappeared in a puff of smoke before getting close enough to hit the purple orb and waited, when Iblis burst of the lava to attack he performed a backflip and used a Homing attack to strike the green eye once again. He was about to fall into the lava when he saw Naruto's clones jump towards and quickly used his Homing attack to get onto a foothold.

"Heh, you're not as tough as you look," said Shadow with a small smirk.

Iblis appeared out of the lava and roared angrily before launching a volley of fireballs at the third platform which held the third purple ad destroyed it before charging recklessly at them destroying the footholds in its way, the trio were leaping from platform to platform to avoid the rampaging monster with Naruto felling more stalactites for them to use.

"Guys, there's no more stalactites for me to bring down, at this rate it's gonna trap us in one place!" shouted Naruto as he leapt to evade the charging monster.

"But he destroyed the last purple orb so he won't fall for the same trick thrice!" said Sonic.

"Come on Naruto, you've always been able to think outside the box in the middle of battle. You to do it again in this situation!" said Kurama.

Naruto was racking his brain for a plan that could somehow make Iblis stay in one place long enough for them to land a hit on it, then he finally got one. He took out a paper tag from his ninja pouch but the writings on it looked different from the explosive tags "Hey guys, get ready to strike back!" the hedgehogs looked confused for a moment before nodding in affirmation. Naruto landed on a platform and placed the paper tag on it before staying still for Iblis to turn to and charge at him again.

"Get out of the way Naruto, it's coming!" shouted Tails worriedly.

Naruto waited until it got close enough before jumping back and forming a tiger handsign to pulse his chakra, making the paper react and release a bright flash of light which completely caught Iblis unawares and leaving it dazed "Now guys now!"

Sonic and Shadow moved in and performed a double Homing attack on the green eye and somersaulted backwards, and Naruto followed soon after with a Rasengan to send Iblis flying into the lava pool and not to resurface, signaling its defeat.

Music End

The trio soon headed back to the others while Rouge flew over to take the cyan Chaos Emerald without any problems this time.

"Way to go Naruto, you sure pulled a good one out of that bag of tricks of yours," Sonic patted Naruto's back with a grin.

"I must say that I'm impressed with your skills," said Shadow walking up to Naruto with his arms crossed.

"Thanks guys, but all three of us took him down," said Naruto while rubbing the back of his head with a sheepish look on his face.

"Yeah but I gotta say, you've got some serious moves under your belt," said Knuckles with Tails nodding in agreement.

Rouge landed next to them with the Chaos Emerald in hand "Well now that we have a second Chaos Emerald, let's get back to our time," she handed it over to Sonic and walked towards Shadow, though she winked at Naruto causing him to look away with a pink tinge on his furry cheeks.

"Oh, does a certain knucklehead have an attraction?" said Kurama with mischievous grin.

"I-I have no idea what you're talking about furball!" shouted Naruto.

"Suuure, whatever floats your boat," Naruto cut off his connection to pay attention to what Sonic and Shadow were about to do.

They crossed their Chaos Emeralds together and raised them to the air before calling out simultaneously "Chaos Control!" Then a blue swirling portal appeared in midair.

"Let's go!" Sonic jumped in, followed by Tails, Knuckles and then Rouge. Naruto was about to follow them when he suddenly sense a familiar negative aura and turned to see Shadow in pursuit of the hedgehog who looks exactly like him.

"Kit you better hurry, the portal is about to close!" said Kurama.

Naruto was currently confused, whether to jump in the portal and follow Sonic to rescue Princess Elise or stay behind to follow Shadow and hopefully get some answers from that Mephilles who seems to play a role in all this. After thinking he made his decision…

This is Hussbek online with another chapter, Naruto and Team Sonic had wandered around the devastated future and learned of Elise's death among other things which they hope to return to their time to prevent it from happening, then their encounter with the Living Flame Iblis whom they were able to defeat in order to acquire the second Chaos Emerald.

Now Naruto is torn between following Sonic to rescue Elise or follow Shadow and figure out what game Mephilles is playing. The choice is up to you readers for how the story will progress and I've set up a poll on my profile page. Read and Review as always.

This is Hussbek from Ghana.

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