Adventures of the Orange Flash
Chapter 9: The Final Race against Time
Naruto closed his eyes tightly to avoid being blinded from the light which suddenly radiated from the Chaos Emeralds, then the next he knew was that he was suddenly floating in midair and wasn't able to touch the ground. It took a while until he felt his feet touching the ground and the light faded away much to his relief.
"I guess I can finally open my eyes now," Naruto did just that…and his eyes widened in shock at what he was looking at "What the hell, where is this place?" he recognized the place where he is standing to be the altar where Princess Elise stood at during the Soleanna Sun Festival but around him was nothing but darkness as far as the eye can see and above was some sort of void made of white light.
"Naruto…" he turned to see Silver standing next to him.
"Silver, I guess you got dragged here too. What happened to the Chaos Emeralds?" asked Naruto.
"The Chaos Emeralds have disappeared, it must have been during that flash of light before we ended up here," said Silver.
"Silver?" the duo turned to see Tails, Knuckles and a pink female hedgehog approaching them.
"Amy? What you doing here? This is all so confusing," said Silver.
"You and me both," said Naruto in agreement.
"It is all because of Solaris," this time it was Rouge, Shadow and Omega who were walking up to them.
Dr. Eggman was the next to show up "It seems we were all caught by the spatial distortion. Iblis' seal has been broken,"
Naruto's eyes widened in shock "What?! But how?!"
"It was all due to Mephilles' manipulation,"
The group turned to see Elise cradling Sonic nearby, Naruto realized that something was wrong as he quickly moved towards them and held Sonic's wrist to check his pulse only for his blood to run cold at his discovery.
"No…not another one," Naruto muttered brokenly.
"Kit…," Kurama looked away sadly "Why does fate continue to torment him?"
"Naruto, what's wrong with Sonic?" asked Tails worriedly.
"Sonic is…dead, I don't feel the pulse of his heart,"
Everyone stood there emotionally struck by the news which he just said.
"It can't be, there's just no way!" Knuckles shouted in denial, Amy just fell to her knees and broke into tears.
"How did this happen?" asked Naruto.
Elise sniffled a bit before talking "It was when Sonic rescued me from Eggman's ship and we were returning to Soleanna…,"
**Flashback Start**
Sonic and Elise were walking through the forest when they heard a humming sound coming from behind them.
"What's that sound?" said Elise.
They turned around to see a purple Chaos Emerald floating in the air before them much to their surprise.
"A Chaos Emerald, what's it doing here?" said Sonic.
Suddenly Chaos Emerald shone brightly to the point of blinding them. Then there was whooshing sound before Sonic cried out in pain as Elise turned towards him to see an energy beam piercing through him from behind…and the source of the attack was none other than Mephilles. The dark being withdrew his attacks and Sonic fell to the ground with Elise running towards his prone form
"Sonic! Sonic! Please wake up!" Elise said pleadingly while shaking the blue hedgehog, she rolled him over only for his hand to fall to the ground and confirming her worst fears "No…no…it can't be that he's…he's," tears began to well up at her eyes as the voice of her father resounded in her mind.
"You're a good girl, Elise. Remember to be brave and don't cry, no matter what happens,"
"No…nooooooooooooo!" the tears finally roll down her cheeks as streams of flames shot out of her towards the sky to form a giant fireball with Mephilles cackling evilly.
"Mwahahahaha! Finally, the seal has been broken! At long last, I'll be able to join with you, Iblis!" Mephilles then summoned the purple Chaos Emerald to his hand "Now Chaos Emerald! It's time for the final curtain call!" before he levitated it into the air.
The Chaos Emerald glowed brightly and before long, six multicolored streaks of light came from different directions to reveal that they were the other Chaos Emeralds. Mephilles flew into the with the Chaos Emeralds surrounding him and supplying power as Iblis' flames engulfed him and a bright light exploded from within before revealing a silhouette of giant half-humanoid figure with a sun like appendage on its back and slivery rocklike armor on its arms and torso as the light enveloped everything in its path.
**Flashback End**
"…and that's what happened," said Elise looking at Sonic sadly.
"Dammit!" Naruto punched the ground hard enough to leave spider web cracks on it.
"Mephilles played us all for fools! His plan all along was to cause the Princess to be consumed with despair that she'd cry which would then release Iblis from the seal," said Eggman.
"So that's why he wanted me to kill Sonic before…he almost had me destroy my own future," Silver looked down with guilt and frustration.
"Which also explains why he attempted to deceive me in his ambition to reunite with Iblis as well as revenge for me sealing him away in the past," said Shadow.
"And the bastard planned it in such a way none of us would be there to save Sonic," said Naruto angrily.
Suddenly they heard a loud roar coming from above them as they looked up at the white void.
"It's Solaris!" said Silver.
"This creature will consume all existing timelines. And time itself will collapse and disappear into nothingness," said Eggman.
"The instability of time caused this time-space rift," said Shadow.
"It won't remain for much longer,"
"Then we have no time to waste, we've got to defeat it now!" said Knuckles.
"No. it is a transcendent life form that exist in the past, present and future. Defeating it here now would nothing," said Eggman.
"Yes it would, Solaris had just reawakened. Defeating it while it's in the process of recovering its power will certainly be to our advantage," said Naruto.
Silver spoke up next "He's right, if you say that it exists in the past, present and future. Then we'll have to destroy them all at once!"
"Certainly, it might have been possible," said Shadow before looking at Sonic "If he was still alive,"
Everyone looked at the ground in sadness upon hearing those words. Then a blue wind blew by which Elise felt as she looked around in surprise, and it appears that Naruto felt it too since his eyes widened in shock.
Silver noticed that they're acting strangely "What's the matter?"
"I feel…Sonic's presence in the wind, I don't think he's really dead yet," said Elise making everyone including Amy look at her in surprise.
"Are…are you sure?" asked Amy with a bit of hope in her eyes.
"She's right, I can feel his presence too, I recognize it from when we first met," said Naruto.
"Apparently by achieving the Rikudo Sennin mode, you've become spiritually aware," said Kurama.
"Sounds pretty useful," said Naruto.
"Of course, let's call him back with the power of the Chaos Emeralds!" said Silver.
"I get it, with the Chaos Emeralds…we should be able to revive him from death," said Naruto.
Silver walked up to Elise "Focus your thoughts on using its power to perform this miracle…you can do it princess!"
"I can?" asked Elise confusedly.
"You were the vessel that was used to seal Iblis. You should be able to use its power to rescue Sonic's soul!"
Elise nodded with eyes full of determination "I'll do it!"
Eggman activated the radar on his glasses before speaking up "Solaris flung the Chaos Emeralds to the distant corners of this distorted world,"
"To collect them all in time, we'll have to split up!" said Tails.
"Then let's get to it!" Knuckles punched his fists together.
"Sounds like a treasure hunt to me," said Rouge.
"Commencing Chaos Emerald retrieval," said Omega.
"I'll go too! Because it's for Sonic! So Elise…watch over him!" said Amy.
"Then I'll be waiting here for you guys to come back with the Chaos Emeralds," said Naruto taking a glance at his gloved right hand.
Then Shadow, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Silver, Rouge, and Omega left in separate directions, leaving Naruto, Eggman, Elise and Sonic behind.
Naruto sat cross-legged before his consciousness dove into his mindscape where he saw Kurama in his normal size sitting on the edge of a cliff overlooking the landscape which his host had created. Naruto jumped high into the air and landed on top of Kurama's head before sitting down on it.
"So Kurama, what do you think of all this?" asked Naruto.
"All I can say is that this will be one of your biggest fights yet. You've gone up against high ranked ninjas, faced down demons, saved countries, fought my fellow bijuus and me, and even went up against resurrected legendary Shinobi. So you can mark this one as another milestone of your life," said Kurama.
"When you say it like that, I doubt any kids I would have would believe me,"
"Then it's a good thing that you got me to prove the stories since I've been watching you,"
"True that…so are you ready to go wild with me again Kurama?" asked Naruto with a smirk.
Kurama responded with a fanged grin "Of course partner,"
Meanwhile, the others sought out the Chaos Emeralds in areas which they discovered to have been dragged into the distorted dimension from Solaris awakening. Along the way, dark colored floating orbs with sparkling vortex effects would suddenly appear from out of nowhere with varying effects. The dark blue orbs have a vacuum effect which pulls everything in within its radius, and the dark red orbs which are the opposite and spit out random objects. However they discovered a certain ornate statue of a regal bird on top of a mysterious orb, when activated could banish the vortex orbs and stabilize the time-space rifts for only a few seconds before they came back.
Tails ventured through the burning streets of Crisis City as he battled against the monsters with his Dummy Rings. He used his tails to fly up to the rooftops and evaded the vortex that popped up to suck him in. he ran up to the balcony of a toppled skyscraper, from there he jumped off and spun his tails as he flew over an abyss to land on another skyscraper where he found a red Chaos Emerald.
Omega was at the interior of the Flame Core, leaping onto the rock platforms which floating on the currents of the pool of boiling hot lava to get across and bounced off an wide spring to ascend towards a clearing where Iblis worms and Titans appeared to confront him, Omega fought then back with his Omega Launcher and finished them off with an Omega Shot as a door in the side of the mountain opened for him to pass through. Omega ran inside and leapt over a gap before activating the thrusters on his back to glide across to the other side, then he exited the cave into another pool of molten magma. The robot made use of the rock platforms to get across to the lava falls where he bounced off a spring to get up to ledge, then he took a running jump to the other side of the falls where a grey Chaos Emerald laid waiting for him.
Knuckles was searching for the Chaos Emeralds in the ancient ruins within Tropical Jungle, he climbed up the nearby pillar with the spikes on his knuckles to the top where he jumped off and used his dreadlock-like spines to catch the wind under them. He landed on a pier where a couple of Iblis Biters ran at him to attack, Knuckles reared his fists back before unleashing a barrage of punches as he knocked them into the nearby blue vortexes before continuing on his way. He looked around until he spotted a turquoise Chaos Emerald on a small earthen mound at the edge of the ruins, then he quickly made his way over and grabbed it.
Silver is currently seen standing on a raised platform amongst the sandy ruins of Dusty Desert, he jumped off and used his psychokinesis to levitate himself over to a platform and activated the orb statue nearby to banish the blue vortexes that were blocking a path to a massive staircase, he levitated over and climbed up the stairs to where a pair of titans stood waiting to attack him. Silver used a Psycho Smash to knock them into the gap for them to sink into the shifting sands, then several platforms rose from beneath the sands for him to use to cross over to a spiral ramp that ascends a central tower. More monsters continued to appear and Silver would use his psychokinesis send them flying out of his way or into multiple vortexes until finally reaching the top, there he jumped onto high ledges and levitated out to a platform with the yellow Chaos Emerald before picking it up.
For Rouge, she was currently flying over the blue sea of Wave Ocean in pursuit of her quarry. She glided over to one of the rock spires which stick out of the waves and clung to it, then she proceeded to climb all the way to the top where she jumped off to glide towards yet another rock spire. Rouge continued to do this until she finally arrived at the beachside where she found a purple Chaos Emerald.
Amy ran through a snowy clearing in White Acropolis, jumped up several ledges and moved along to another clearing where a couple of Iblis Worms shot out from the ground and lunged at her. Amy brandished her Piko Piko Hammer and whacked them hard to the ground with a downward swing. She activated an orb statue to banish the nearby vortexes and leapt off the ledge into the next clearing where she made sure to stay out of sight of the sweeping spotlights nearby. Amy arrived before a giant steel door which slowly opened to reveal the inside of Eggman's former base, she ran through the interior corridor all the while bashing any monsters that got in her way with the Piko Piko Hammer until arriving at the end of the hall to find the blue Chaos Emerald.
And the last of the Chaos Emeralds is being sought by Shadow within Kingdom Valley, Shadow started off by using the tightropes to launch himself higher to drop at ledge on the other of the water. then he moved on to bounce off an wide spring onto a circular pillar where an eagle dropped out of the sky for him to jump up and grab its talons as it carried him over the water and dropped him off a small platform. Then several Iblis Takers appeared to attack only for Shadow to use his Homing Attack to take them out as well as pass through a Rainbow ring to rocket him across the water again to a ledge where a wind switch sat waiting for him. Shadow hit the green orb for it to rotate and a white jet stream shot out of it, then he rode the rushing wind further up the valley until it drop him off on an extremely high, right in front of the last Chaos Emerald which is green in color.
Back at the broken altar, Sonic lies lifelessly in the center with the Chaos Emeralds surrounding him. Shadow, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Silver, Rouge, Omega and Eggman stands a short distance away while Elise kneels to pray to the Chaos Emeralds with Naruto standing by her side.
"Oh Chaos Emeralds, gems of miracles. Please heed my call," said Elise, the gems started to glow brightly as if responding to her words "I wish to save this world, I wish to cleanse my father's sin. And I wish to talk to Sonic…once again!" the Chaos Emeralds and Sonic started levitating in the air "You and Naruto have given me so many things. Now is my time to return the favor, I care not for what happens to me. But please heed my voice Sonic, come back! To me…to us!"
"And he will…" Naruto walked up to Sonic much to everyone's surprise.
"Naruto? What are you doing?" asked Silver.
"Helping bring back a friend, with the power granted to me by my ancestor," Naruto took off the glove from his right hand to reveal a light-colored, sun-like marking on the palm "Chaos Emeralds, hear my voice. Please help revive a comrade who also draws strength from his bonds with others and instinctively follows my nindo…please bring back my friend!" then he placed his right palm on Sonic's head as a bright light shone, forcing everyone to shield their eyes.
When the light died down, Sonic stands before everyone alive and well much to their joy. As of now, his fur turned into a gold color and his quills turn upward. Naruto and Kurama could sense the vast amount of energy emitting from him.
"Amazing, this kind of power is unbelievable," said Naruto.
"So this is what happens when one calls upon the power of all the Chaos Emeralds. A power which that bastard Madara would have sold his very soul for," said Kurama.
Sonic walked towards them with a smile on his face "Naruto and Elise…thank you, I heard you two calling for me,"
"Heh, can't have you snoozing before the final showdown now can we?" said Naruto with a smirk.
Super Sonic smirked back "You're right about that, let me give Silver and Shadow some of the power before we go and kick butt," he turned towards said hedgehogs and held his hands out towards them with a golden aura flaring around him. Silver and Shadow touched Sonic's hands and felt the power flow through them as they too transformed into their Super forms with their quills pointing upwards like Sonic's.
"I guess it's my turn to power up then," said Naruto.
Everyone looked at Naruto in confusion except for Silver who knew what he meant.
"Are you going to use that form during when we fought Iblis?" asked Super Silver.
"Yeah, but I'm gonna crank it up to the next level," Naruto closed his eyes in concentration as he fused his chakra with Kurama's and the golden chakra burst out before enveloping his body and emanating like that of flickering flames, starting with the two front spikes of his hair pointing upwards to resemble horns, the whisker-like markings on his face become thicker, and the chakra shroud's shape alters to resemble a full-length haori with six black magatama markings around the collar with his nine tails sticking out from underneath, and various other archaic lines extending along his body different from his chakra mode "This is the power granted to me from my partner Kurama, the Nine-Tails Chakra Mode,"
"Astounding, it's almost like he also used the Chaos Emeralds to transform," said Eggman.
"So I wasn't wrong about sensing great power sleeping deep within you when we first met," said Super Shadow.
"That's a good look on you Naruto, now let's get going," said Super Sonic.
"Take these, I should be able to lend support during the fight," Naruto tossed a Hirashin kunai to each of them.
"Good luck," said Elise.
The four nodded in affirmation before flying up towards the white void to combat Solaris.
Music Start: Sonic the Hedgehog OST; Boss: Solaris Phase 1
The heroes had arrived at the center of the void as Shadow traveled to the past, Silver to the future and Sonic with Naruto remaining in the future timelines. They heard a roar and turned to see Solaris hovering before them ready to fight.
"That body of light is the sign of a super-dimensional life form. Standard attacks won't work on him! He eats dimensions for lunch," said Eggman through a mind link shared by the others.
"So we need to hit him hard with everything we got, any weak points?" asked Naruto.
"There should be something that's anchoring him in this dimension, that's probably the light shells that can be seen on his body. If all of those are destroyed then he can be defeated,"
"In that case, I'll start things off with a hard hitter!" Naruto immediately dashed forward at high-speed. Solaris summoned the red orbs to launch purple spiked meteors at the approaching, Naruto darted left to right in a form of a yellow flash before stretching his right arm with a chakra arm popping from his back to help form a large Rasengan with three smaller Rasengan orbiting around "Planetary Rasengan!" he thrusts the technique forward however Solaris crossed his arms together and he came in contact with an invisible forcefield which knocked him back "Darn it, he has some sort of shield up!"
"Then we need to hit him from a distance, so I'll take care of this!" said Super Silver flaring his power to catch Solaris' attention as he turned to face him. Solaris summoned more of the red orbs to launch the spiked meteors at him "Shield of Light!" he used his amplified psychokinesis to form a large green shield of energy in front of him, the meteors stopped upon hitting it and Silver waved a hand to throw them with a much greater force. Solaris raised his left arm to block the retaliation, the impacts left several cracks on the shell.
"Good job Silver, keep it up!" said Super Sonic.
Super Silver reformed the Shield of Light once more and captured more of the meteors before throwing them back, however Solaris summoned the blue vortexes to swallow the reflected projectiles before they got any closer and sent out several more of the meteors at Super Silver.
"Darn it, he's using those voids to attack and defend!" said Super Silver.
"Hang on, I'm coming over to lend a hand!" Naruto focused on the Hirashin kunai in Super Silver's possession before flashing over to where he is "Let's go!"
Naruto and Super Silver flew towards Solaris while avoiding the meteors or in Super Silver's case, grabbing them with the Shield of Light and flinging them back with a few hitting Solaris's left forearm and the rest being sucked in by the blue voids, Naruto formed a Rasengan in each hand and used them to destroy the incoming projectiles as they drew closer to the temporal deity.
"Use these on Solaris!" a chakra arm shot out of Naruto's back and waved in an arc and formed multiple Giant Ball Rasengan above his head.
"Got it!" Super Silver used his psychokinesis to grab the spiraling spheres as they absorbed the energy and changed color from blue to green "Take this!" he launched them at Solaris who summoned some of the blue voids to absorb the attack, however Super Silver maneuvered the spheres around them and continued the charge forcing Solaris to raise his left arm to block but the spheres instantly shattered the light shell on his arm upon contact.
"Epic, think I'll call that the Telekinetic Rasen-Rampage!" said Naruto with a smirk.
"Stay focused on the battle Naruto!" Kurama scolded.
"Everyone! You need rings to stay in a Super State, but maintaining this form consumes so be careful!" said Tails.
"Not to worry Tails, I got that covered since I've been collecting rings throughout our runabout," Naruto channeled chakra into the storage seal in his left palm as a large amount of rings came out and were absorbed into Super Silver.
"Thanks Naruto!" said Super Silver.
"No problem, just let me know when you guys need rings and I'll be there in flash," said Naruto.
"Guess it's my turn then. A super-dimensional being sounds like it might even be a fair fight," said Super Shadow with a smirk as Solaris turned towards him. Super Shadow started charging red chaos energy into his hands, the energy glowed brightly to signal that it has been fully charged "Spear of Light!" he swung his hands to discharge multiple nine red energy projectiles in a circular pattern as they raced towards Solaris and slammed into his right forearm with great force.
Solaris retaliated by launching meteors from the red voids at Super Shadow who activated his Turbo Boost by surrounding himself in his yellow aura and dashed to the side as he evaded the spiky projectiles while charging up his chaos energy for another attack. Super Shadow had completed the charge and fired another barrage of red projectiles, Solaris summoned blue voids to block but like Naruto and Super Silver's collaboration technique they veered around the voids and struck the forearm again.
"Yo Shadow, need a hand?" asked Naruto.
"If you want to," Super Shadow responded.
"Then I'm coming over!" Naruto appeared next to Super Shadow in a yellow flash with a smirk "Let's do this, Twin Rasenshuriken!" Naruto stretched his arms out and a pair of chakra arms appeared on each to help form the bladed spiraling spheres, then he charged forward towards the meteors and instead of throwing them like he usually does…he used them to slice the meteors like he was wielding a pair of chakram.
"Naruto, it's ready!" said Super Shadow with his chaos energy fully charged.
"Okay, then let me set up!" Naruto brought the twin Rasenshuriken together as they fused to become much larger "Here we go Shadow!" he threw the jutsu while Super Shadow fired the Spear of Light, the nine red projectiles circled around the shuriken as it hit Solaris and exploding, resulting in a giant dome of blue wind chakra with red streaks before it died down to reveal Solaris without a light shell on its right arm.
"And that will be called the Chaos Planetary Rasenshuriken," said Naruto, Kurama groaned a bit but he knew of his host's instinctive tendency of combining techniques to form something extremely powerful at times or in certain situations "Here's a recharge for you Shadow," Naruto transferred some rings over to Super Shadow.
"Thanks,"
"I'll be heading back to Sonic to destroy the last of the light shells," Naruto honed in on Sonic's Hirashin kunai and 'flashed' over to it.
"You almost got him, keep whaling at him!" said Knuckles.
"Ready for this Naruto?" asked Super Sonic.
"Always!" Naruto responded.
"All right then, let's have some fun Solaris!"
Solaris spread his arms apart as a large laser made of white energy shot out from his chest straight towards them. Super Sonic used a turbo boost to quickly get out of the way while Naruto dashed to the side in a streak of yellow light.
"I think we made him mad," said Naruto.
"Gee, you think?" Kurama spoke sarcastically.
"I got this, Arrow of Light!" Super Sonic drew in the blue light around him into his body and engulfed himself with it before charging straight at Solaris at speeds far higher than any Naruto had ever seen him looking like a literal arrow made of light as he slammed into Solaris' chest before drifting backwards.
"Nice one, let's see if I can do better!" Naruto threw out four Hirashin Kunai in four diverging directions before crossing the middle and index fingers of both hands together "Shadow Clone jutsu!" four clones appeared around Naruto before flashing towards each of the thrown kunai as they grabbed them before throwing at the light shell on Solaris' chest. In a yellow flash, a barrage of Shadow clones appeared each with a wind infused Rasengan in hand "Wind style: Rasengan Super Barrage!" they bombarded the light shell to the point that it was shattered to reveal a large red sphere "Take him out Sonic!"
"A mach step ahead of ya!" Super Sonic sped by, having activated the Arrow of Light as he slammed into the red sphere.
That attack inflicted enough damage to take down Solaris as he plummeted into the abyss below the four heroes.
"…is it over?" Super Silver asked anxiously.
"No...It's not over yet," said Super Shadow with a small frown on his face.
Right as he said that, a large pillar of light appeared as Solaris rose up while his form had undergone a complete change. It's a bit larger in size and the 'ring on its back is replaced with a plate that has a pair of wings seemingly attached to it, each made of five segments looking similar to the Soleanna crest.
"I guess it's not gonna be that easy," said Super Sonic.
"Yeah, but I thought that he would be defeated once we destroy the light shells," said Naruto.
Music Change: Sonic the Hedgehog OST; Boss: Solaris Phase 2
"Ngh…is it impossible to defeat a super-dimensional being after all?" said Eggman.
Elise however spoke up "No…something's different…I sense a large powerful consciousness coming from Solaris!"
"A consciousness?! Hmm…that's it! That's his core! Even if we can't stop his form, we can stop his consciousness!"
"Look! There's a strange thing in the middle of Solaris! Isn't that the core?" Amy pointed out.
"You're right Amy, you four should aim for that red sphere in order to stop Solaris!" said Tails.
"Okay guys, you heard 'em! Let's mess him up!" said Super Sonic.
Super Silver darted from side to side in order to evade the laser beams which Solaris was firing at then using the Shield of Light to catch the spiked meteors and sending them back while aiming for the core.
"Don't hold back, let him have it Silver!" said Knuckles.
"I will defeat you Solaris!" Super Silver as he reflected another cluster of meteors back at his enemy.
Super Shadow was using his turbo boost to stay on the move while charging up chaos energy into his hands for the next attack "Time to unleash the ultimate power! Spear of Light!" he fired another barrage of boosted Chaos Spears at the core before dodging the retaliatory attack from Solaris.
Naruto and Super Sonic were laying it on with their assault on Solaris who was really going all out and firing multiple laser beams which decimated the shadow clones that Naruto threw at him.
"Sonic! Naruto! I believe in you!" said Princess Elise.
"You heard her Naruto, let's not disappoint and finish this once and for all!" said Super Sonic.
"That's right, let's combine our strength and take Solaris down!" said Naruto.
He held out his hand towards Super Sonic and started to form a Rasengan, the hedgehog joined in by drawing the blue light from around him and channeling it into the spiraling sphere. This resulted in the Rasengan enlarging to the size of basketball with multiple streams of azure blue chakra swirling around them like a spinning dome.
Solaris must sense the potential danger of the attack as he sent a large cluster of spiked meteors at them. However the streams of chakra deflected the spiked projectiles away from the duo.
"Brace yourself Solaris, cause this is gonna hurt!" shouted Naruto.
Both of them charged towards Solaris at high-speed and knocking more of the meteors out of the way. Refusing to give in, Solaris fired a massive beam from his chest right at them with Super Sonic and Naruto thrusting the sphere in front of them for the clash. It was a struggle between the two but the duo proceeded to pierce through the beam.
"Haaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Super Sonic and Naruto roared out as they drew close to Solaris' core "This ends here! Chaotic Luminous Rasengan!" they rammed the spiraling sphere into the core resulting in Solaris roaring out in pain and defeat.
Music End
Everyone watched as the light orb of Solaris gave off bursts of light upon his defeat and celebrated their victory with Knuckles and Tails giving each other hi-fives, Eggman crossed his arms with a nod of approval, Rouge and Omega were just as happy with Amy and Princess Elise looking relieved. Super Sonic, Silver, Shadow, and Naruto returned from the void to land before them as everyone watched the bright light envelop everything and we see a white flame being formed in a black void.
"Where are we?" thought Elise as she found herself floating in a black void along with a now normal Sonic and Naruto "Did you destroy it?" A bright light lit up in the darkness, catching their attention.
"No…that's the true Solaris," said Sonic.
"Might as well find out where it's taking us," said Naruto, they all moved into the light to seek out their next destination.
**Flashback Start**
A young Elise along with her father the Duke of Soleanna watched the original form of Solaris which is a small while flame within its casing in a small dark room.
"Look Elise. This is Solaris, the flame of hope," said the Duke.
"It's so beautiful…" young Elise looked at the flame in wonder.
"When the flame has grown large enough, our world will change. Solaris will allow us to control time and move through history. People will be able to rectify past mistakes and avoid bitter fate,"
Young Elise looked at her father with hope in her eyes "Will we be able to see momma?"
The Duke turned to caress her hair with a warm smile on his face "Yes Elise. We'll both be able to see your mother once again," this made the princess nod happily at the thought of meeting her deceased mother again before she took her father's hand as they walked away from Solaris and out of the room.
**Flashback End**
And it is this same room that Elise, Sonic and Naruto have entered and were approaching Solaris' casing.
"This is where everything began. Who knew that such a tiny flame could bring such devastation?" said Elise, she walked towards the casing and disabled it before carrying the flame in its candleholder and to Sonic and Naruto "If we put out this flame, Solaris will never exist, and we will never have to worry about the Flames of Disaster, right?"
Naruto and Sonic nodded in affirmation of the logic "And that in turn will save the lives of many who had died when the flames were unleashed,"
"As well as the nonexistence of Mephilles and Iblis," said Kurama.
"But our encounter…you and I will never meet. I…to tell you the truth," she looks at them with tears in her eyes as she sobbed out "I don't care what happens to the world!"
Naruto looked at her in understanding of her sadness, he understood that he and Sonic had become precious to her just like she is to them, and the thought that erasing Solaris' existence would also mean erasing her friendship with them made her very unhappy and she didn't want that to happen at all.
"Elise…I can understand that you don't want this to happen, but it doesn't matter. The fact that a bond has been forged between the three of us changes little. Even if we don't remember any of this, our hearts…no…our very souls having been etched with the bond will remember it for us. So please don't cry Elise, this isn't a farewell…but more of a 'see you later'," said Naruto with a foxy grin.
"He's right Elise, so just smile like you always do," said Sonic with a smile.
Hearing their words made Elise smile happily at how faith they held in their friendship no matter what happens. At their nod of assurance, Elise leaned forward to the candleholder and softly blew out the flame of Solaris as the entire room went completely dark. But neither of them took note of the sparkles of fire floating in the air.
We now watch over city of Soleanna at night as the Festival of the Sun is already underway. Princess Elise was on the boat waving to the audience who were cheering loudly as she rode by in direction of the altar where the main event will soon be held.
Meanwhile Sonic was speedily running along the edge of the waterway before skidding to a stop, he watched the royal boat which the Princess was on with a smile on his face before resuming his run as he crossed the bridge and passed by so fast that he created a wind that made Elise lose one of the feathers from her hair. Elise watched feather float away as she reveled in the wind, then her eyes caught something of interest on one of the rooftops of a tall building.
It was a black silhouette, humanoid in shape…however there appears to be a pair of animal ears on top of its head and nine tails flowing behind its back. The black figure stood there for a few moments before it started to jump from roof to roof before disappearing behind a building.
One of the Ladies-in-waiting noticed her being distracted and grew a little concerned "Miss Elise, is something the matter?"
"I saw and then I feel something…it felt like I recognized them from a long time ago," said Elise with a smile slowly forming on her lips.
"You met someone? Who were they?" asked the other Lady-in-waiting.
Elise turned around with a happy smile "One is a hedgehog and the other is a fox, and both love to run fast,"
Elsewhere, Sonic watched Elise from the top of a rooftop with a smile on his face as he watched Elise's feather float by into the night sky. He heard something landed nearby and turned to see an orange fox with nine tails, the fox walked up next to him and looked down with a smile.
"It felt as if everything we've been through only happened yesterday, huh Sonic?" asked the fox.
"You're right about that…Naruto. But I'm a little confused since we're supposed to forget about all this since it didn't really happen?" said Sonic.
"It must be Solaris' way of making up for the trouble he caused since I still retain my recovered powers," said Naruto with a shrug of his shoulders.
"Maybe, but Elise would be really happy that she could remember us," said Sonic with Naruto nodding in agreement.
Both speedsters continued to watch the festival knowing that the past, present and future are safe but can't help but look forward to what will happen next as time goes without any interruptions this time.
This is Hussbek coming at you with the latest chapter online. I've come to the end of the Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 arc and I hope that I've written it up to your satisfaction. I chose not to do the kiss scene as it doesn't fit so much at all but chose to have Naruto use the yang seal which I felt was much better to revive Sonic from death with the help of the Chaos Emeralds. In some of the games, I want to ask if you want Naruto to team up with Sonic or run solo like Sonic and the Secret Rings and some others? Be sure to read and review like always. Might continue the next adventure based on one of the GBA titles, I'll leave it to you guys to guess.
This is Hussbek from Ghana.
Signing out.