New Sonic Heroes rewrite CH 5

The four of them stood inside an elevator, going all the way up to the top of a skyscraper. Lovable and Volcanix had previously switched their emeralds, so Lovable had the Emerald-Cut red Emerald and Volcanix had the Brilliant-Cut red Emerald, Sol and Chaos Emerald, respectively; the name for the Emerald-cut one being provided by Sparky moment ago while in the elevator, the name seemed to just come to him for some mysterious reason. Eventually, they reached the top and exited the elevator.

The four stood wide eyed atop the green sky scraper. The city was amazing! The skyscrapers were the tallest they had ever seen, and there seemed to be what looked like a highway made out of a blue light that seemed to come from these red pipes. They could also make out hover cars that zoomed across the sky at high speed. Also, something resembling a factory seemed to be on the other side of the city. On several buildings, were logos for a company called HEXAeco, Basically, the city was so advanced, it was like they stepped into the future.

“What the…” Energy said, surprisingly at a loss for words.

“This place is amazing!” Lovable said, amazed by the cities beauty as she wandered off, unnoticed.

“Coooooooooool! What is this place?” Volcanix said.

“Come on, let’s check this place out!” Energy shouted, excitedly as he rushed forward down the inclined path formed by this building. Sparky immediately followed behind him, running. Volcanix followed, slightly angry at the fact that Energy was in the lead.

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Sparky looked at a holographic sign, saying GRAND METROPOLIS. ‘Apparently, this place is Grand Metropolis…’ He told Volcanix. Sparky was mesmerized by how advanced this city was, compared to the more modern looking New York-esque city that he woke up in. ‘How could a city get so advanced? This city must be powered by an automated energy plant! That must be what HEXAeco is!’

“Energy?!” Energy asked. “So that’s ME flowing through those red pipes!”

They flew off a ramp and landed on one of the energy-fueled highways, immediately being propelled forward as soon as their feet came near the blue energy.

“Woo! We’re being propelled forward!” Energy exclaimed.

“Why the heck am I moving faster!” Volcanix complained.

“And that affects the kinetic energies inside of us, causing us to move faster then we intend, right?” Energy added as they bounced off a set of springs, over a holographic advertisement for HEXAeco, and onto a green platform, which had another energy road to the left.

Sparky and Volcanix came to a complete stop at Energy‘s sudden burst of intelligence. They stared at the blue hedgehog, oddly.

“What?” he asked.

They ran across another energy pathway and came to another green rooftop. There were two robots like the ones from the ocean palace standing upon wooden crates.

“Yes! Robots!” Energy said. Upon instinct, Energy launched himself into a Homing Attack at the robots before his teammates could attack (much to their annoyance) and continued up an upwards slanted pathway leading to the roof of a taller building. This building looked like two tall buildings with a pathway connecting them several feet below. There were flying robots floating between the buildings, creating a sort of pathway. At the end of the first building, there were  two signs floating a few feet from each other, each sign being blue with the word “SPEED” on it.

“Speed? That must mean me!” Energy yelled excitedly as he once again took the lead. He rushed forward and used a light Homing Attack to bounce off of each robot to get to each one, with Sparky and Volcanix following him, destroying the robots. As they came to the other side, there was a large turtle-like robot at the end of the building, with a red “gate” where a energy highway should be. This robot seemed stronger then others.

Energy charged blue energy into his hands and launched a powerful Energy Ball at the robot, destroying it completely, causing the road to turn on.

On the other side was the roof of a blue building with walls formed by an orange building on the left and a green building on the right, forming a pathway leading forward and to the right, creating a corner. Around the corner, there was a flying robot with a deactivated highway and robots floating above where it should be. One lightning bolt from Sparky was all it took for the robot to be destroyed and the highway to turn on.

They immediately destroyed the robots that floated above the blue path as they dashed across and down another path as they passed over a green building. This downward energy path lead to a blue rooftop with tall blue buildings on both sides and one in front half the size of the two on the sides. Energy quickly Homing-Attacked two robots before bouncing on a red spring, the three of them reaching the top of the building in front. There was a series of robots standing in a V shape, with turtle robot sitting at the point.

Energy curled up into a ball and charged his energy while spinning, using himself as an Energy ball as he spun through each robot, again not leaving any for his friends to fight. There was another SPEED Sign with a yellow FLY sign above it, under a large floating air dash ring, but Energy ignored the FLY route and went through the SPEED route. The three of them ran up a blue path and launched off a ramp, landing on another energy road with several loops. They ran off the road and landed inside a building.

Inside the building were 2 robots, which were (again) destroyed by Energy. This caused a wall on the other side of a bottomless pit to fall down, forming a path back to the outside. Three more robots started running towards them and were immediately destroyed.

There were more signs signifying this is a SPEED route, with long trails of rings. Energy, immediately remembering what he did in Speed Highway, dashed along the trail of rings at Light-Speed, leading towards a sealed door with something sticking out of the wall next to it with a handle on it, it was most likely a switch. Sparky walked up to it and tried to push it into the wall, guessing that it will open the door. Unfortunately it wouldn’t budge, no matter how hard he pushed.

“Out of the way!” Volcanix yelled as he pushed Sparky out of the way and walked toward the switch. He pushed it in with one arm and no effort, opening the door. Sparky just looked away, slightly embarrassed and annoyed. Inside, there was another energy path with 2 gaps. Over the first gap was a flying robot with a trail of rings, which Energy Light-Dashed over. Over the next gap and actually over the energy path itself was a series of flying robots, which the three destroyed through Homing Attacks. They jumped down to the floor below. A turtle robot sat up ahead, with a switch locked in a cage. Energy quickly destroyed the robot, and the cage opened and they activated the switch, opening the door, revealing another hallway.

Up ahead was another turtle robot and 2 more Egg Pawns behind it. All 3 were yet again destroyed by Energy. Bouncing on a spring, they reached a higher energy pathway. Turning a corner, they found a robot with a shield. Energy, on instinct, tried to attack the robot, but was thrown back by the shield. “Ow!”

Volcanix smirked as he cracked his knuckles. “Finally… my turn!” He jumped in front of the robot and threw three strong magma-fueled punches at it, breaking the shield and destroying the robot. A cage opened up revealing a switch, with Energy touched, opening a door, revealing a short pathway with a ramp.

Jumping off the ramp, they were propelled to a lower rooftop with a tall pole in front of a clear wall with holographic advertisements. In front of the pole were two “SPEED” signs. Energy was generally confused. He turned to Sparky. “What am I supposed to do here?”

Sparky thought for a moment, staring at the pole. The “SPEED” signs signified that Energy needed to use speed to get up the pole to get over th- ‘Make a tornado.’

“What? How?”

“Ok…” Energy curled into a ball and started to circle the pole, but before he could even go around once, his blue Chaos Emerald glowed and a blue tinted wind blew up to the pole and formed a Blue Tornado, which pulled Energy, Sparky and Volcanix up to the pole. Energy grabbed onto the pole, Sparky grabbed his feet, and Volcanix grabbed the feet as they starting swinging around up the pole. Sparky noticed that it wasn’t Energy that made that blue tornado.

Energy attacked two robots before Light-Dashing across a trail of rings over a pit. On the next half of the path, was another trail of rings leading upwards to a higher floor. On the higher floor was a sleeping robot guarding a switch, which unfortunately didn’t have the chance the wake up, as it was destroyed by Energy. Sparky activated the switch. A door opened revealing another pole. As the three ran up to the pole, another blue tornado formed and they instantly starting swinging up the pole, and they launched over a wall and fell down to a lower floor outside the building. They landed on a dash panel which sent them up an incline and at the edge of the floor of the building was a cannon.

A big crazy grin appeared on Energy’s face. Volcanix turned to Energy, “We’re not going there are we?”

“Yes we are!” Energy shouted crazily as he grabbed his teammates arms and jumped into the cannon. The cannon launched them toward more rooftops that had Grind Rails, which the three landed on and immediately started grinding.

After rail grinding, ring collecting, light dashing and spring bouncing, a spring propelled them onto a plat from that rested atop an orange blimp. This plat form contained a bumper that bounced them toward a pole. Before they could have smacked into the pole, the (blue) mysterious wind came and swung the three up the pole. They were propelled towards a spring on another blimp and launched down onto a green rooftop. The hedgehog, fox, and echidna quickly destroyed a set of robots before continuing on the path ahead. Rushing across the blue energy roads, Energy and his teammates sped past several cars on a upward-slanted green path. Some of the drivers freaked out at the split-second image of a smirking crazy-looking navy-blue hedgehog appearing in their windows.

As they reached the top of the incline, Energy light dashed over a gap and landed on a downward-incline. They reached a green rooftop with monitors showing +5 rings on them sitting in the middle of dash panels and a “dash” ramp that propelled them up towards a platform on the side of a large green building with a giant Ring with a red star in the rainbow-glowing center on the platform (something telling them it was called a Goal Ring), and with a white flash… they were gone.

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Somewhere on the other end of the Grand Metropolis, Lovable strolled across the green rooftop-walkways. While she was wandering the city, the emerald-cut red jewel she held in her hand caused her clothes to mysteriously change a little bit: her pink t-shirt became a sleeveless short dress with the red heart image on the chest, her tripled gold ring-bracelets became a single (one on each wrist) pink bracelet, and the white part of her sneakers became blue with a single pink strap where the triple stripes were, although still having the pink heart at the toe and pink soles and socks, and still retaining her light blue ankle-high pants. Even her fur and quills seemed to become more pink then red. But the valentines day colored hedgehog didn’t pay any mind to that, but she did feel something strange in her upper-back.

She looked down at the red jewel in her hand. Her brother called it a ‘Sol Emerald’ for reasons even he didn’t know. The ruby colored emerald was pulsing, like a tracker device. It’s because of this that Lovable decided to head off on her own quest through this grand metropolis, hoping to find what the gem wanted her to find. After lots and lots of wandering, she eventually came across a yellow-and-orange figure.

More specifically, a yellow furred cat with an orange dress reaching just above the knees and a yellow star on the chest, orange boots with a yellow star at the toe and yellow collars and a green strap, black tights, orange arm length gloves with a yellow star on the back of the hand and yellow collars, and green rings on her wrists and a green scarf. She had half-lidded golden eyes shining as bright as the sun with orange makeup covering her eye-lids. Her golden yellow hair/fur on her head was held back by a black headband resting behind her tall cat ears into almost spiky looking hair reaching down her upper back, with 2 bangs coming from the front of her head band and falling down the sides of her face. She, being a cat, also had a white-furred muzzle with a small black nose. A long orange-tipped yellow tail was visible coming from under her dress.  This person (animal/anthro/whatever) gave Lovable an feeling of familiarity.

Looking at the cat from head to toe, Lovable was immediately reminded of her closest friend back in her original world. Her friend’s name was Mary Summers. Her family was considerably wealthy and her and Lovable’s (and Sparky’s) families were very close, and this made Lovable and Sparky see Mary as their sister. Mary was also very close to her father, and being wealthy, she usually got whatever she wanted and this made her a little bit spoiled and short tempered when she can’t get what she wants. Mary loved being the center of attention, she loved fashion and always wore the most expensive and greatest looking clothes (usually in warm colors, or green) and she loved the summer and the sun. Her biggest dream was being a star! Movie star, TV star, singer, model… she didn’t really care as long as she was famous (although just in case that didn‘t work out, she‘d just be a teacher).

The cat seemed to be playing around with a touch-screen cell phone (protected by a case with her colors) unaware of the hedgehog walking up to her. “Hello there!” The cat looked up at the hedgehog.

“Hi.” She simply replied before looking down at her phone again. Lovable looked at her emerald, seeing it repeatedly blinking as she held it toward the cat. She looked at the cat again.

“What are you doing?” She asked the cat.

“Trying to see what’s on this phone. All my contacts in this world say “Energy”, “Sparky”, “Volcanix”, “Lovable”… and other weird names and all my music sounds familiar and gives me a headache.”

Lovable’s eyes lit up. “Ooh! I’m Lovable!”

“Oh? Then why do I have your number on my phone? I don’t even know you….” The cat looked Lovable over from head to toe, taking note of her cheerful and loving expression and the red heart on her pink shirt, as well as her “hair” style and her voice. “…do I?” She was suddenly very confused. She decided that this hedgehog girl looked eerily familiar.

Lovable’s smile grew as she put two and two together and she got an idea. “What’s your name?”

“Mary Summers, why?”

“YAY!” The hedgehog cheered loudly, “I knew it was you! It‘s me, Christina!”

Mary almost dropped her cell phone. Did this pink/red…thing just say she was… “OMG… Christina?!” That couldn’t possibly be real…

Lovable nodded her head excitedly. “Yup!” She grabbed Mary’s wrist. “Come on! I’ve got to bring you to the others!”

“Others? You mean…” Mary looked at the contacts on her cell-phone. “If  your Lovable… then that means the other contacts on my phone is…”

“Energy, Sparky and Volcanix are Dan, Shawn and Greg!”

“What?”

“Come on!”

“Wait!” Mary shouted. “How do you even know where they are? Where are we!?”

“They should be on the other side of this big city!”

“Then how are we supposed to find them? This place is huge!”

Lovable thought for a moment, and then she recalled the weird feeling in her upper-back that came after her clothes changed. “Hmm….I have an idea!” She held her hand to her heart, closed her eyes, and focused, clutching the red Sol Emerald in her other hand. Suddenly she glowed pink and a pair of glowing wings of pink energy shot out of her back.

Mary stared wide-eyed at the feathery angel-like wings that now sat there on her friends back. She blinked a few times, trying to make sure she’s not going crazy. She tried to figure out how a hedgehog could have wings but then she just decided not to think about it. “O… K…”

Lovable flapped her angel wings and rose into the air, with her higher altitude she scanned the entire city, focused on finding her friends and brother. Her bright blue eyes finally landed on three fast moving specks of blue, yellow, and red. “Oooh! I think I found them! Come on, follow me!”

The yellow cat watched as her friend flew away in a stream of pink energy. As the hedgehog flew farther away from her, Mary realized that she didn’t feel as happy and cheerful as she did when Lovable was there. She just shrugged her shoulders and ran after friend. Surprisingly reaching very high speeds, and she felt herself getting strangely warm, like the heat of the sun radiating from her. Odd.

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Up high somewhere at the top of the Power Plant; Energy, Sparky and Volcanix flew right out of an opening in the floor, which close before they landed. Energy sighed in relief. “Phew! That was close.”

Volcanix immediately glared at the hedgehog. “You’re an idiot, you know that?”

“Yeah, so?” He calmly responded.

“You led us into that place with the red energy! We could have DIED in there!”

“How was I supposed to know it was there?”

“It’s an ENERGY STORAGE TANK! You’re ENERGY! You should have sensed it!”

A nervous smile appeared on Energy’s face. “Well, actually I did. That’s why I led us there…”

Volcanix’s eye twitched with anger. Sparky turned to the raging echidna. ‘Dude, calm down. How was he supposed to know it could have killed us. At least I was able to get us out my flight.’  Sparky was mostly glad that he got a lot more action during their adventure through the Power Plant. Due to him being able to telekinetically/electro kinetically fly, he was apparently a “Fly Type” according to the signs that matched his fur color, and he was able to lift both Energy and Volcanix at once with his feet (his legs being the strongest part of his body due to not having any upper-body strength). He had also learned a move called the “Thunder Shoot”; where he was able to charge his friends with electricity and kicking them at flying enemies. Strangely, it seemed as if the yellow emerald he had in his possession as well as a mysterious blue wind told him about it, though.  

“Shut the heck up.”

“Way ahead of you!” Energy called as he ran into the Goal Ring. Sparky and Volcanix looked at each other before running into the giant ring after their friend.

With a bright flash of light, they were now atop one of many green rooftops.

“So what was the point of us going through the Power Plant?” Volcanix asked Energy.

Energy just shrugged. Although during their entire run and flight through the plant, throughout Sparky flying them to higher areas and using those blue upward paths, dodging/absorbing fireballs of high energy, and riding that slow elevator, Energy could have sworn he saw a dark shadowy figure ‘skating’ up ahead of the path in front of them. Something told him it was the same guy he saw in that high-speed highway, the tenrec who called himself “Eclipse”. Another reason he led them into that energy storage tank was because he saw ‘Eclipse’ hover-skate in there.

As Energy looked forward toward the end of the rooftop, he narrowed his eyes. Because standing right over there was Eclipse, and he was holding a green colored “Chaos” Emerald. “You…” Energy said with a hint of anger. Why did this guy seem to make him so angry?

Sparky looked at his friend before glancing at the tenrec. He noticed the Tenrec’s serious and dark expression, and the way Energy seemed to become strangely angry and dark. Looking closer at his navy-blue friend, he saw faint lines of purplish-black smoke rise around Energy, almost. Sparky’s eyes widened in realization. This dude must have had an aura of negative energy, the exact opposite of Lovable! But that would mean… this guy had the power of darkness.

Eclipse looked up at Energy in annoyance. “You again?! What are you doing here?!”

“That’s what I should be asking you!” Energy replied. “What are YOU doing here at the Power Plant holding that emerald!”

“As I’ve told you before, it’s none of your concern. Now leave me alone.” Eclipse turned to leave but was once again stopped by Energy.



“Hey! Where do you think your going with that emerald!”

That line, coupled with the fact the tenrec was holding a green Chaos Emerald, brought several blurry images to Sparky’s mind. Looking at Eclipse himself brought even more images to his mind. The fox clutched his head in pain as his brain tried and failed to bring the images-- no, memories-- to clarity. On one hand, he saw a  blurry image of a blue hedgehog looking at a black-and-red hedgehog standing on a giant destroyed robot and holding the green emerald. This was followed by several more blurry memories of the black and red hedgehog holding the emerald, as well as images of a blonde human girl in blue, a scientist with a large grey mustache, and a black and red evil-looking alien, as well as a white flirtatious bat and a black, red and yellow robot with ‘W
’ symbols on it‘s shoulders. On the other hand, he saw a blurry image of a familiar looking human face, and a name that he couldn’t make out. All of these images seemed familiar, very familiar. But something seemed to be preventing him from seeing them clearly and fully remembering them. All he knew was that the images of the face and name that came when he looked at the Tenrec was blocked by a dark mental barrier in Eclipse’s mind, and the images of the hedgehogs were blocked by something in the fox‘s own mind.

“You want the emerald?” Eclipse began as he got into a fighting stance. “You’ll have to rip it out of my cold dead hands!”

Volcanix smirked darkly. “Well…that can be arranged!”, he said as he cracked his hands.

Energy laughed, “Hehehe… 3 against 1, eh? This’ll be too easy!”

“But who said you were fighting me alone?” The Tenrec asked as a ball of darkness appeared in his other hand. He immediately shot two waves of black smoke at Sparky and Volcanix, respectively.



The fox and echidna jumped as the dark smoke landed at their feet, right into their shadows. Their shadows then grew across the green floor till they were like black silhouettes of the two before they became detached all together and moved across the ground over besides Eclipes. As they reached the Tenrec, black and purple clouds of darkness appeared over the shadows and sucked them right in as 2 dark figures began to rise out of the darkness. As they fully rose out of the ground, the smoke disappeared and the two figures were revealed to be grayscale copies of Sparky and Volcanix. The duplicates looked up at their doubles with dark violet eyes and mouthless muzzles.

“Oh, he did not just clone us!” Volcanix spat as he got angrier.

“Dude…” Energy interrupted the fox’s thoughts. “Did you ever realize how creepy you look sometimes?”

Sparky took  one look at his dark double, which had the exact same expression as the yellow fox on his face; a dark emotion-less glare with eyes staring right into your soul, although it was hard to see due to the hood and hat shadowing his face. The way he stood was as if he was a soulless zombie. So basically, he looked exactly the same as the real Sparky. The black-hooded yellow fox just glared at his navy-blue friend, who laughed nervously. “Uhh…hehe… never mind.”

His question was left hanging as Energy suspiciously ignored it. The hedgehog looked at the tenrec. “So you think that you and your fakers can beat us? Then let’s go!”

“I can beat an imbecile like you any day of the week!”

The two spikey-headed rivals immediately jumped right at each other in spinball form. The foxes and echidnas followed.

Sparky shot a lightning bolt at his double, but the fake fox caught it and absorbed it. Sparky smacked his forehead, ‘of course he’s immune to my attacks, he’s me! What was I thinking!’  The grayscale Sparky lifted his hand as black electricity cackled around his hand. He shot a black lightning bolt right at the real Sparky. The fox was thrown back by the dark bolt. Sparky clutched his chest in agony. ‘That actually… hurt? But how…?’ Sparky’s eyes widened. ‘Black lightning…this “Dark Sparky” is me made out of darkness, so his powers are too, electricity made out of pure darkness…better watch out…’

Volcanix was throwing several magma-empowered punches at his the Dark Volcanix, but all of his blows were blocked. Dark Volcanix lifted his fist as it burned with dark fire. He threw his punch right at the orange-colored echidna, who was thrown back by the punch with a burn mark on his face. Volcanix picked up a stone from nowhere and smashed it right on his dark duplicate. The stone seemed to explode into several pieces as the Dark Volcanix punched it from under. The dark echidna let out a dark evil laugh. “Do you really think you could stop me?” He said, his muzzle expanding like a balloon where his mouth would be.

“Oh you did NOT just say that!” The two of them continued to fight.

Eclipse was throwing several lightning-fast dark-fueled punches and kicks at Energy. But the hedgehog easily avoided each one with his super-fast reflexes. “Come on, step it up!” Energy taunted. He paused for a second and looked to the side, “Now where have I heard that before?” he asked himself (and you). He quickly shook it off and looked at the Tenrec. “Dude, you may be fast, but you’re too slow!” He taunted again as he ran in place, his feet blurring under him. ‘That seemed oddly familiar too…eh, who cares.’ “ Dude, where I come from, I’m on my schools’ Track team. And also the fastest guy in my whole school--no, I’m the fastest guy in my city! And if I got super-speed in this world, what makes you think you can catch me? Actually, I might even be the fastest guy in the whole universe!” As Energy said this, he felt a strong wind pick up around him, blowing harshly. “…okay… I might not be the fastest thing alive (gah! Headache!), but I’m certainly must faster then you!”

Eclipse froze for a second as he heard this. Didn’t he have a fast crazy guy  on his school’s track team as a friend? Now that he thought of it, the voice sounded just like his… Eclipse shook his head. ‘No. Dan’s dead.’ He told himself. ‘He told me…he showed me. This guy’s just some lame imbecile. Just a faker…’ “Shut up, you imbecile!” With that, Eclipse just fought harder and faster then before.

Sparky paused from fighting his double and turned to the Tenrec. He had apparently heard his thoughts. ‘Wait…what? How does he know about Dan? Who told him what about him?’ These questions circled Sparky’s head as he continued to try to beat his copy, but it was no use, Every attack had no effect, but he managed to avoid the black lightning. But still, they were evenly matched… man, he’d have a much better chance fighting a volcano!

Sparky froze. ‘Wait a minute… Volcanix!’

“What do you want! I’m busy over here!” The Echidna harshly responded.

‘I think I have an idea! Why don’t we just switch opponents! I’ll fight your double and you fight mine!’

“What makes you think that’s gonna work! There’s no way in Crisis City that you can ever beat me in a fight!”

The fox got a strange headache after hearing “Crisis City” but quickly shook it off. ‘Really? I’m sure I can beat you if I tried!’

Volcanix just ignored the fox as he continued to fight his dark doppelganger. Every lava-empowered punch was blocked by a dark-magma fueled fist. This continued as they fought harder and meaner. This ended when the Dark Volcanix grabbed the orange echidna’s arm and slammed him onto the floor several times. Volcanix groaned as the pain filled his entire body. He tried to pick himself up in pain and looked up at his dark copy. The grayscale clone had lifted his fist as he charged it with all of his power. This was it. This was the end of Greg Simmons AKA Volcanix the Echidna. The Dark Volcanix spoke with evil, sadistic rage and madness, “There can only be ONE!!!” he yelled as he was about to bring his powered-up fist down on the real echidna.

He was stopped as a yellow bold of lightning shot down from the heavens and struck him. The powerful electricity coursed right through his very darkness-filled core. “GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!”, he screamed with agony as his whole body twitched uncontrollably before he fell to the ground in pain.

Sparky waked over to his friend and helped him up. ‘So you were saying I can’t beat you in a fight?’

“No you can NOT! You don’t have upper-body strength, what makes you think you can beat me? You know what? I‘ll prove it to you right now!” Volcanix ran over to Dark Sparky as Sparky ran over to Dark Volcanix.  

The Dark Volcanix stood up weakly, before regaining his strength. He looked at the yellow electrokinetic walking toward him. “Hahaha! Really? You? You really think you can defeat me? Your crazy!” The dark doppelganger charged his fist and charged at Sparky. “Rrraaagh!” He swung his fist forward and punched… a dust cloud. “What the…” He turned around, seeing the fox standing behind him with his hands in his pockets. Sparky yawned in boredom.

The echidna look-alike tensed up in anger. “RAAGH!” He charged at the fox ready to punch him in the face! …but the fox disappeared a split second before it happened in a streak of lightning. “Son of a…” The fake echidna turned around and tried again, but Sparky swiftly dodged it again. This lasted for several more seconds. Eventually, after the Nth time he dodged Dark Volcanix’ attack, Sparky kneeled down with his right hand on the ground and charged himself up with electricity. As Sparky’s body cackled with yellow electricity and vibrated with lightning speed, Sparky looked up at Dark Volcanix with glowing blue electrical eyes. In a split-second, Sparky kicked off the ground and shot himself right through the dark copy of Volcanix as a powerful lightning bolt in an aura of yellow and landed on the other side of the fake echidna, landing with his hand and knee on the floor. Behind him, the dark Volcanix exploded in a blast of dark smoke as a bright wave of light shot out of him. Sparky panted heavily as he slowly rose up onto his feet. That took a lot out of him.

Meanwhile, with the other pair of Sparky of Volcanix, the real Volcanix fought against the dark Sparky. Although it was going exactly how it was going for Sparky and Dark Volcanix, the fox swiftly avoided all of the echidna’s punches. Each time his attack missed, Volcanix’ anger grew. “Grrr….” He tensed up as his body glowed with intense volcanic heat. “THAT’S IT!!!” He charged at the fake fox and grabbed him by the neck, squeezing it as he kneed the fox between the legs. “RAAAAGH!!!” He slammed the fox onto the floor with immense force. He charged up both of his fists with volcanic lava as he stood over the fake copy. He then began to furiously and viciously punch the fox with powerful molten fists. He then picked up the fox by the neck with his left hand while simultaneously charging up his right fist. “Take this!!!” He punched Dark Sparky with enough force for him to be knocked high into the sky. The raging orange echidna crouched down before rocketing up high into the sky via lava. Volcanix rocketed up above the fake Sparky and punched him down. The force of the punch knocked the Dark fox down right through the green sky scraper. Dark Sparky fell down through several floors before hitting the very bottom and fading into black smoke as he exploded with a wave of light. Volcanix panted heavily as he landed on the ground, standing over the whole in the building’s rooftop. He looked to the side, seeing Sparky, Energy and even Eclipse all staring with wide eyed, horrified faces.

“The heck are you looking at!?” Volcanix asked harshly.

Sparky just looked away as Energy and Eclipse continued to fight.

Eclipse charged a ball of darkness in his hand and shot it at Energy, hitting him straight in the chest.

“Oof!!” Energy held his chest in pain. “Y-… Your not the only one that can shoot energy balls!” Energy charged up an energy ball and shot it right at Eclipse.

The blue projectile hit the tenrec. The hedgehog and tenrec both held their chests in pain as they panted heavily, trying to catch their breath.

Eclipse groaned. “Nngh… enough of this. I don’t need to waste my time fighting an imbecile such as yourself.” He brought out the green and purple Chaos Emeralds. “Time for me to finish this!”

Energy’s eyes widened. “Uh oh…” He could feel the energy. And it was getting to him. He could feel the dark power seeping into him…

The emeralds in the purple-streaked tenrec’s possession glowed with negative chaos energy as Eclipse charged up with his dark negative energy of darkness.

Sparky took a few nervous steps back in fear. He could feel the darkness in the air. This might be the end.

Eclipse rose his other hand as the emeralds swirled around him. He charged up a large ball of pure negative energy as it glowed with non-light.

Volcanix glared with anger. Who the heck does this guy think he is?

Eclipse smirked darkly. “Say goodbye to your li-!”

He was cut off as he was hit by a blast of heat and a flash of light. “Ugh!”

Sparky looked confused. ‘What the…’ He turned around and saw his sister, Lovable flying in the air with white, fluffy Angel-like wings with a pink glow. Sparky blinked a few times before rubbing his eyes. He shook his head before looking at the yellow cat clad in orange standing next to the angelic hedgehog. He didn’t know how, but he immediately knew it was Mary Summers.

“Need some help?” The Cat asked with her orange-gloved hand outstretched with sun-like flames burning around it.

“Hi!” Lovable greeted.

Energy turned around at hearing the pink-red hedgehog’s voice. Any thoughts going through his mind (or lack thereof) at the moment came to a halt as he turned around and looked at the pink-red floating hedgehog with Angel Wings on her back. To him, she seemed to glow as bright as… a very bright light. As he felt her positive aura seep into his body, he felt the dark influence of Eclipse combine with it and they both neutralized each other. Energy’s mind instantly became clear and returned to it’s usual state.

Volcanix realized that some of the anger he felt faded to it’s usual level of rage as he seemed to return to his usual state of mind.

Sparky noticed the way Energy and Volcanix returned to normal as the dark influence the were under faded away. It seemed that Lovable’s positive aura and Eclipse’s negative aura neutralized each other.

Mary was slightly angry. Everyone was completely ignoring her!

Eclipse was feeling very odd. That angel-winged hedgehog girl… the way she seemed to glow with a bright light-filled aura. It was so bright, he had to shield his eyes. That light… it made him feel weird. Was it…weakening him? Was the light his kryptonite? He didn’t know what was going on, but he needed to get out of here! He held up the green Chaos Emerald and…

“Hey!” Energy called out. He turned to Sparky, “Dude, come one! We can’t let him get away with the Emerald!”

Sparky nodded as they both charged right at the tenrec. As they both focused on the green jewel in the dark tenrec’s hand, a couple of images flashed before their eyes.

Energy and Sparky blinked as they charged at Eclipse. The hedgehog glanced at the fox, “Hey Sparky, thinking what I’m thinking?”

Sparky just gave his friend a look before turning back towards the emerald. They both kicked off the ground and launched at Eclipse as Energy and Sparky simultaneously wrapped their fingers around the gem.

At that moment, the mysterious blue wind came formed a whirl wind around the three of them. This was followed by a black tinted wind blowing with the blue one. The black wind seemed to be different then the blue one. While the blue wind blew freely and uncontrollably, the black wind seemed more controlled and less chaotic, following a set path.

The green Chaos Emerald glowed in reaction to this. The way that that the wind blew around them seemed to give them power. They could feel the emerald’s power surging through them.  

Energy was NOT going to let this guy get away with the emerald. This guy didn’t deserve it!

Both Energy and Sparky focused on the green colored Chaos Emerald. They focused on the limitless chaotic energy it contained as well as the contrasting blue and black winds that swirled around them.

“ ‘Chaos….’ ” Both the hedgehog and fox said/thought simultaneously. The emerald flashed brightly with chaos energy. The blue and black whirlwind picked up speed as the image of the blonde haired girl in blue returned. “ ‘Control!’ ”

The emerald’s power surged through their bodies as green energy came from everywhere and flew right into the emerald, charging. Blue-white energy swirled around and through their entire bodies as space-time seemed to warp. The flow of time slowed down and the space around them distorted.

Seeing what was happening, Volcanix turned to the hedgehog and cat behind him. “Hurry up! Or yo butt’s gonna be left behind!”

Volcanix grabbed onto Sparky’s tail and Energy’s spikes. Mary wrapped her arms tightly around Sparky as if she was hugging him protectively and Lovable grabbed Energy and Eclipse in a big hug.

A bright wave of light burst out of the Chaos Emerald, Energy and Sparky and surrounded the entire rooftop, engulfing Volcanix, Lovable, Eclipse and Mary also.

As the light faded, they were gone.