The defeated hedgehogs and Alicorns stood there in shock… as they waited in the castle brainstorming what could be done about Tails and Tirek, Sonic seemed the most distraught and headed out of the room they were in and laid beside a wall, looking to the ceiling as his head tried to comprehend what had just happened.
He just couldn't believe it, in the one time in his life where he thought Tails was really going to listen to him was the one time he had doomed Mobius and now his home was going to be destroyed by his brother.
Sonic was wallowing in self-loathing at the fact of what he wanted to give to Tails was no longer achievable and now more than ever he was blaming himself for what happened for all of this and it ate at him.
Rainbow Dash came through the door to talk to Sonic, as she saw his dishevelled state, she offered her hand to the slumped hero. "Come on Sonic, you can't treat this like then end of the world, we'll get Tails back and save your home too, alright… Please just stop mopping, Kint would never want you to do this, and neither do I… I don't want one of the most awesome guys in the multiverse to back down when the going gets tough, come on Sonic, just please stop beating yourself up, you're not helping anyone here" Rainbow said sincerely as she started to put her hooves around Sonic's quills and her mouth was so close to his due her holding him, she sat on the floor beside him waiting for a response.
"How could I let him do this? I tried to get him away from my personal pain I wanted him to be better than me, and now, he's going to destroy everything" Sonic moaned, as placed a hand on his head, showing a hatred for himself.
"Sonic, no brother is perfect, and nopony is perfect either, you have flaws sure, I have flaws, but it's better to not focus on them, they are there as support to make you better than you were before, now come on let's go to Mobius" Rainbow offered.
"I need to catch my breath, I'm afraid of what we'll face next… I trusted him to be mature about things, and in my stupidity I gave him a reason to hate me, I can't deal with that, I've lost so many already and now my best friend, or I guess new best friend is now my enemy you've never lived my life so you wouldn't understand… Whatever I'm getting angsty aren't I?" Sonic joked, to which she chuckled at his short one liner.
"As angsty as Starlight Glimmer or Sunset Shimmer back in the day, no you're even angstier" She zinged to which he now had the pleasure of laughing at her joke.
"Listen Rainbow, if we get through this I gotta tell you something, but we'll save that for later, let's head to Mobius and stop Tails and Tirek" Sonic said, rising from the floor, with Rainbow following suit and both going out the door they came into going to talk to the others.
"Ok guys, we need to head to Mobius, Tails took his mech and I can't sense Sombra or Chrysalis' energy on Equestria, so it's safe to assume that they followed him to Mobius, whilst Flash drained us of our energy" Sonic explained, and as he stated this, the Equestria Humane six came through the doors, looking to find someone or something.
"Yo Girls how have you been?" Sonic asked.
The other Rainbow Dash looked at Sonic with a grave expression, neither denoting anger or sadness, yet another unreadable face caused by the recent crisis. "Sonic, you've got to leave Equestria, and we have to head back to Canterlot High, you see, when Twilight created us as clones, after her last visit to earth, she thought to have us live her life as she felt we'd want to break away from the boredom of school, in exchange they would live our lives, but we knew that the portal would close and that this would leave us trapped in this world, and so to avoid that, she decided instead to use the mirror pool to clone herself and her friends, we are the result though we never knew the effects of what that meant for Earth, you see when we were living her life, there was nothing strange at all, though soon Rainbow met her brother, Spectrum Dash, in our and as soon as that happened, a Spectrum Dash appeared in her world too, we found out that our two worlds equalize, and that when one event happens in one world, the other world equalizes and creates a scenario similar to what caused this new person to appear in the bearer's life. This may be the last time we meet so, goodbye Sonic, and goodbye our creator" Rainbow says as they suddenly head out of the room.
"Wow…OK, angst and exposition anyone?" Sonic joked, having a smirk ever present on his face.
"As soon as they as they head back into mirror pool, the original Hu-mane six will appear in the other world and the dimensions will be equalized, so we have nothing to worry about, honestly I'm surprised that we didn't address that earlier." Twilight explained.
"Well. Regardless, it's time to save Mobius yet again, Yo Silv, Shadz you with me?" Sonic asked, to which they only replied with a smirk, ever present on their face, sniggering at the cobalt hero's never say die attitude.
"We can't say no can we?" Shadow asked.
"Nope, otherwise I will leave you in this world with candy coloured ponies" Sonic shot back.
"Figured you'd say that, let's go already!" the two other hedgehogs said rising from their slumped seating position beforehand.
"I'm coming too Sonic" Kint said, having a peculiar machine, alongside him.
"What is that?" Sonic asked, pointing to the ray gun type of machine.
"It's a chaos absorber, I made it from some primitive tech after the party we had, it should drain Tirek of the power he's now got, you just need a direct shot" Kint explained.
"Listen Kint, I'll take it through, you stay here, I don't want to get involved alright, you were my best friend and putting you in the firing line could cause something to happen" Sonic ordered.
"Same as always, Listen Sonic, I know you care and really rather not have me in harm's way, but you can't protect me from everything, life is full of twist and turns and we never know what could happen, come on Sonic, I help you this once then I retire alright?" Kint argued.
Sonic begrudgingly agreed and in an instant the whole gang had been transported with their kit to Mobius, only to see they had ended up in a destroyed forest, the smell of burning forest still lingered in the air.
"Crap, we don't have long we've got to get to the capital city, we'll find Sally there, but I have a feeling Tirek and his army are going to head to Eggman's old base in which they'll find some old egg Robo's. Since we have two objectives, one to stop Tirek and one to destroy the mech and robots in your base, we'll split into two teams, the first team consists of speedsters that can get to the capital, which is Me, Shadow, and Rainbow, the rest of you, follow Silver to the bases that Tirek could've gone to and destroy the armouries" Sonic ordered, to which everyone nodded their head.
"Kint you'll come with us to take out Tirek and we'll cover you to make sure life is a lot easier" Sonic explained. "Alright guys time to split" Sonic added and without another word, the teams dispersed running to different sides of the planet.
Sonic's gang were moving incredibly quickly never letting up in their motions, but Rainbow seeing this as good a time as any, decided to ask Sonic something.
"Yo Sonic?" Rainbow started. "When this is all over, say if you're not busy do you wanna catch a movie sometime, or hang out?" She asked, Sonic immediately smirked, at her question.
"Sure if you wanna go on a date, I'll be totally available Skittles, but right now, we should probably focus on the mission at hand" Sonic joked, looking at her blushing face that could read like a book.
"Ugh thanks, in any case why are we heading to this capital place anyway, who lives there?" Rainbow asked.
"My ex-girlfriend and princess of the Acorn Kingdom, Sally Acorn, she's the tough as nails, able to pull her own weight and doesn't take smart Alek comments type ruler, we're heading to her as she is with her family the last of royal acorn line and her new boyfriend Monkey-Khan, an arrogant prince from another kingdom, we need to make sure that Tirek isn't there and warn them of his presence in this world so they may be able to prepare for him" Sonic answered.
"Wait you and this Princess person used to go out?" Dash asked.
"Yeah, for a few years actually, she was the most important person in my world, then she dumped me after I wanted to not be selfish and help everyone in Knothole by taking on Robotnik and then she hooked up with Monkey-Khan just to get back at me, needless to say my heart was broken and I wanted to die, of course in my own selfishness I took our group away from all of that to be on our own, Knuckles and Amy were fine with it and Tails, didn't say anything, but… I was too blind with sadness to even be concerned with his feelings, now he's gonna wreck all of Mobius because of my stupid mistake" Sonic rambled.
"Sonic, come on, no moping, is that the castle?" Rainbow asked, as they neared a stone structure which Sonic could immediately identify.
"Ah, back here, such memories, yes this is the place and we should just let ourselves in" Sonic said smirking with a toothy grin in anticipation, they went to open the doors only to be stopped by the phrase
"Halt, who goes there?" A Mobian panda in guard armour asked.
"It's me fellas, Sonic the Hedgehog, son of Jules and Bernadette Hedgehog, ex to the princess and Mobius number 1 hero!" Sonic boasted, as he stated his titles like a fact file.
"Let him in!" the panda said to the door lifters, to which they immediately started pulling on cogs and switching certain cranks, the door opened and the Mobian hedgehogs, including Dash, alongside the human went inside the enormous castle, and moving alongside some Guards to the throne room.
Once inside, the doors shut and Sally was alongside her parents and boyfriend all of them sitting on their thrones. Making them seem risen above the group of 4 beneath them, obviously as a way to show power.
"Hey Sally I just finished the mine cannon's and the defence grid is finished all that's needed is the… SONIC?!" an older teenage walrus said, going towards Sonic and bear hugging him, to which of course even though Sonic had known Amy, he still wasn't used to it.
"Hehe… nice… to see you too, Rotor" Sonic said, as his lungs kept deprived of air and his face started turning blue. Eventually Rotor let Sonic go allowing him to catch his breath.
"Ah man it's been too long; how have you been keeping?" The ocean blue walrus asked.
"I've been keeping good, Eggman's gone, but even though Baldy Mcnosehair is gone we still have another problem, from another dimension, which surprise… surprise I caused" Sonic said, whilst putting his arms up casually almost as if to say that the fact he had caused the problem was no big deal.
"Wait Eggman's gone, did I hear right?" Rotor questioned.
"Yeah, he's gonzo, and here is his true form and my best friend Dr. Ovi Kintobor" Sonic announced, to which everyone except Shadow, Silver and Dash were surprised by.
"Wait so you're Robotnik?" Sally asked.
"Yes Princess, I'm eternally sorry with all my heart of the actions my alter ego had caused upon you, but I'm willing to make up for them by helping you battle an even more deadly threat, called Tirek, he had stolen some Chaos energy from Sonic and now he has gained terrifying power, luckily this will dispose of him, this Chaos Absorber is a reflector of sorts for Chaos energy, it can absorb positive and negative chaos energy and fire it back at the sender" Kint explained.
"You need not apologise you were not in control…" Queen Aleena tried to say before Khan rushed Kintobor with his royal sword.
"You must die, for your crimes against the kingdom of my princess!" Khan raised his sword to Kint's neck ready to plunge down into his throat, before Sonic homing attacked Khan forcing him off Kint.
"Listen Monkey Brains, Kint is not Robotnik they are nothing alike, in fact if not for Kint I wouldn't be able to harness Chaos energy, so layoff" Sonic warned, causing Khan to give Sonic a mean stare.
"As I was saying, Kintobor, you have nothing to apologise, though I assume you came here to warn of Tirek's march?" Aleena questioned.
"We're not just going to sit on the sidelines and watch Tirek mop the floor with you guys, we're fighting alongside you, it'll at least give you a fighting chance, then it's up to Kint to end this" Sonic replied, answering for Kint.
"I admire your tenacity, though this is royal business, and not for retired hero's" King Maximillian stated, which caused Sonic to sigh at the King's arrogance.
"I never retired, I've been constantly fighting Eggman for a good time after l Ieft home, and I'll just show you some tricks I had been hiding" Sonic said as he clenched his hands into fist and in an instant he was transformed into his Golden super form.
"Huh? how… how is this possible don't you need the Chaos Emeralds to transform?" Maximillian was now shocked and Sonic's sudden development.
"Nope, just my own Chaos energy, regardless you can't defeat Tirek without me, especially since Tails is now with him too" Sonic gravely admitted, needless to say Sally had a look of shock and anger on her face, with tears streaming down her brown fur.
Only the sudden confession was cut short by the ground shaking, and of course, Sonic could sense what was coming. "He's here… Tirek's already here, dammit, sir, regardless of your actions I'm going to fight for this kingdom whether you'd like me to or not" Sonic casually admitted, before racing out the castle and confronting Tirek outside the door to the monument to the Acorn family, the other hedgehog's joining him and looking in a fierce expression, that displayed a hunger for battle. Sally had gone to the balcony and Nicole appeared to Sonic, before the battle had begun to place a shield over the castle town.
"Hm, well Nicole's taken care of that, we have to divert attention away from the kingdom, and make sure that the citizens are safe" Sonic stated, to which Shadow chuckled.
"Finally faker's starting to use some strategy, I would expect no less, and we shouldn't transform as to make sure he can't drain us on the spot" Shadow pointed out.
"Too true, Edgy the Hedgy in any case, ready to do this?" Sonic smirked, as he was looking for his rival's cocky attitude to shine through, truth was Sonic was scared, he was scared of the fact that this could be the last stand against Tirek and if they failed here, Sonic would have more coffins on his conscience, but he was determined to not let that happen. He just had to wait for Kint to get a perfect shot, exactly why he was inside the shield alongside Sally.
With group 2
"Guys, I sense a spike in Chaos energy, it's at Acorn Castle, I can sense that Sonic's starting to make a mess there, we should head back, it's obvious that Tirek's not here and that the real action is happening somewhere else, and besides Rainbow can't use her powers without you guys backing her up right?" Crimson explained, as the group were wandering around, having discovered a storage of Egg Robo's
"There's one more base, but yeah I can see what you mean, and besides we can come back for it later, Rarity take my hand" Lightning said as he interlocked his fingers alongside the frosty-white feline's paw, making her blush profusely, before picking her up and jetting back to the castle, though as all of the group started to head back to the castle a foreboding red light lit up in the lab, and a metallic, hedgehog figure rose from the ground, covered in dust and debris, it's blue tinted armour was faded and mixed in with the dust, as it rose from its hiding space.
"Target: Sonic the hedgehog, is back in Mobius, alongside beings who control chaos energy, similar to secondary target: Shadow the Hedgehog, must be wary and observe these beings" The mechanical monstrosity stated as he dusted himself off and immediately activated his rocket booster to give chase to the Chaos Kids.
Needless to say, this shadow of the past intended to stay as such.
Castle Acorn
This was it, their final chance to take out Tirek, and end his tyranny and save Tails from the evil that was haunting his mind. Speaking of the young kitsune, he now had a bloodlust in his eyes and an anger that scared and reminded Sonic of his dark side, Tails' fur had turned a dark orange, and his irises had a blood red tint to them, his stare piercing Sonic's soul the entire time.
"Kint, don't shoot till you have a clear shot, we'll take care of these guys!" Sonic yelled.
"Right, ready when you are Sonic" Kint replied, and the hedgehogs on the ground took a fighting stance, that fit each of their styles. Sonic, having a relaxed posture his legs split apart and one slightly bent to support the other, his fists came up to just where his face was, relaxed and almost waving in the wind. Shadow conjured Chaos spears into his hands and used them like daggers as he held them across from each other, bending his legs as he did so and having a snarl evident on his face.
Rainbow was last having her hedgehog form gain a cyan aura, which reminded Sonic of the aura he'd usually emit from his super form. Sonic couldn't help but feel a sense of pride at this development. "Huh? got training from the Chaos Kids I assume?" Sonic asked to which she nodded, before descending from her elevated form and dropping down to the ground, an ocean blue glint in her eye as she stared at Tirek intently.
"Listen well hedgehog, you will surrender to me and give me all of our energy or die and watch your loved ones suffer!" Tirek bellowed as his energy started to charge and ferocious winds started blowing past the group, but not powerful to knock them off their feet.
"Never, you're leaving this dimension right now!" Sonic yelled, as he looked back to Kint and nodded to which the scientist nodded with an understanding on his next actions.
Without a single word, the world started to slow to a near halt and Sonic got down into a 4-point start and pushed himself up. Before blasting off in such a fast motion that no-one could see him move. In the few nanoseconds that it took Sonic to close his eyelids he was already to Tirek's face and brought out a marker pen from his quills and marked Tirek with an X on his head and a cliché evil bad guy moustache as well as giving one to Tails and returned to his original place, at that moment time resumed and Tirek reeled back feeling the wind created by Sonic brush his face and so did Tails, at the moment Rainbow Dash saw their moustaches and started baling out with laughter at the sight she saw.
"HAHAHA, you guys look ridiculous!" The Rainbow quilled hedgehog laughed.
"Real mature Sonic" Shadow scoffed.
"And... mwah, a beautiful work of art, made by Sonico da Mobius, and now for the actual fight, bring it on Tirek!" Sonic said, turning around and blasting off before anyone could see and struck Tirek in the face with a chaos energy-amplified blow, knocking a fair distance back, Tails intervened for the second punch and blocked it, and hit Sonic full force, before pursuing his now more airborne brother and striking him constantly before striking him into the ground, thought Sonic was able to recover before hitting the ground and spindash towards Tails, whilst he was on the ground.
Shadow and Rainbow weren't left out as Chrysalis and Sombra were now on their tails chasing them to no end and trying to strike them with increasing ferocity whilst the two heroes kept dodging like a leaf to avoid the strikes and countering with their own offensive moves.
"Let me drain you" Chrysalis said as she held Shadow's head in her hooves, as her physical appearance hadn't changed to a Mobian, and she opened her mouth to drain Shadow, though was kicked square in the face by Rainbow, Shadow, smiled and put a thumbs up to his saviour as Chrysalis was recovering from her sudden injury. Sombra also came to her side to put himself against her to keep her up and conscious before imparting some of his energy to her, giving her a boost. Shadow and Rainbow looked on in shock at this development and now the two villains were blasting towards the recently created team with more ferocity than before. Rainbow was the first to be struck and so was sent flying a good distance, but stopped before colliding with the force field and pushed off with her chaos energy to the battle once again, and Shadow was now the centre of attention for the two equine entities, and at once unleashed a barrage a chaos spears onto the supposed couple, and launched a chaos grenade into the mix for good measure. Shadow wasn't specifically huffing or out of breath from his brutal onslaught, but had used a considerable amount of Chaos energy and thought to conserve the rest.
"That should do some major damage, and if not I have a whole arsenal waiting for them, and at that moment, Shadow brought double wield handguns out of thin air and started importing his energy into said handguns, and they started glowing Crimson Red with an evil intent ever-present around the firearms. Shadow started assessing the weapons individually at first glance.
"Hm, I remember these classics, the Sigma pistol, a light pistol usually used for, of course, close combat as most pistols are, 9x19 mm parabellum rounds, characterized for being deadly for being at close range, and was created by the German Empire, I'm going to have fun with these two beauties" Shadow analysed to which Sonic paused as he looked at Shadow staring at his guns and gun slinging them like a wild-west cowboy.
OK I'm just gonna ask Shadow how he knows so much about Guns after this, he's more of a nerd than Silver was and Silver was a nerd, I mean yeah sure pointing out a race of equine isn't really nerdy it still begs the question how Silver knew that, and oh crap, Rainbow's getting clobbered and those two have them on the defensive time to even the odds. Sonic thought as he heard Shadow's gruff voice from the top of Tirek's mane.
Sombra and Chrysalis were now slashing at Shadow who was easily evading every attack and blasting the couple with his arm's rounds, but imbued them with his chaos energy, with every shot, this repelled Sombra as several shots pierced the Shadow King's hide and left him injured with each shot, and as Chrysalis was attacking Rainbow and choking the life out of her, Sonic now away from Tirek, saved her by slashing at the changeling and forcing her hand off of the multi-coloured hedgehog.
"You OK? Can't have you dying before our date can I?" Sonic chuckled, to which Rainbow smirked before the two parted to again focused on their individual enemies.
Sonic and Tails' fist collided again, and Tails was knocked a far distance away, which also gave Tirek an opening and he took it, catching the sapphire-furred speedster.
This is getting insane these guys are covering each other too well, when I attack one another attacks me and so I started getting overwhelmed, and I could start moving faster, if I wasn't back in this world again. Sonic thought as he remembered why he could move so fast before in the other worlds, the gravity was lower, meaning that the Sonic blast created by the Sonic Boom would be less devastating, but her, it would most likely take out some of the castle. I'm only at 224m/s right now, but soon if I'm not careful, I'm most likely going to destroy the castle, which will not bode well for me, and may endanger some of the villagers, just keep it down Sonic, just for now Sonic mentally added.
He kept blurring past the grass and avoiding Tails' assault, until both the hulking equine and the chaos-influenced fox were staring directly at Sonic, Tails proceeded then to tackle Sonic and continue to beat Sonic into the ground, Rainbow yelled out to him, but was apprehended by Chrysalis, and was promptly drained of energy, Shadow tried to attack her, but Sombra kept him at bay and allowed the Queen Changeling to drain him of his power. "Argh!" Shadow yelled as he was drained and placed alongside Rainbow on the floor stagnant and stationary like a lifeless corpse.
This made Sonic a little more distressed, but he was taken away from that feeling, by another feeling… pain, each blow from Tails, pushed Sonic's body further to the breaking point, as he started coughing blood and was pulled up by Tirek and further brutalized by Tirek who proceeded to swat him away like a fly and then teleport to the airborne hedgehog and chain attack him, before grasping Sonic in his hands and crushing the hell out of him.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" Sonic screeched as his body was being destroyed so slowly. He could feel his collapsing ribs, and stressed lungs, as he tried to keep oxygen flowing, only to fail as the grasp around him became tighter and tighter until eventually the grasp released, and Tirek was now eye to eye with Sonic.
"This was written in stone and destined to happen, look at your loved ones, the girl is now fatally weakened by her lack of chaos energy and severe injuries, and you are the only one that remain, even your surprisingly powerful rival has fallen. Face it you can't win! Though a question if I may?" Tirek asked.
Sonic still fatigued and barely awake nodded weakly. "Where are the rest of your battalion? your other clones? Those energy sacks of Chaos? Where are they and by extension where are the main 5?" Tirek questioned.
"Well…if…I…. had to guess… they are probably removing another source of power, that being my old nemeses lair…you may know him as Robotnik… now known as Kint, the guy… with the… giant laser…aimed right…at your…face…wanna…know…how…it…works?" Sonic questioned.
Tirek laughed at Sonic's cocky, never-say-die attitude even in the face of death. "I must say you impress me, even when you know you're going to die, you still fight on and never lose your smile, why is that?" Tirek now r.
"Hehe, well… I was never…really…shown…how…to…give…up…but…I…know…that…th…the...moment…I do…th-that…is…the...moment…the…world meets…it's…end" Sonic weakly wheezed, too tired to fight on and ready to accept death, if only in a blaze of glory. This is it…goodbye…Kint
"Hey Kint, you there?" Sonic telepathically said out-loud
"Yeah Sonic, what?" Kint replied.
"Could you do me a favour and blast Tirek, now, it'll revert him back to normal and I'm sure the girls'll handle the rest, since when I go the clones do to without having a central point of energy the clones disappear, don't worry about me, I've lived a good life and made so many friends I have…no regrets, can't change the past…we can only focus on our future and make the…best of it" Sonic said, mentally exhausted.
"Sonic, I'll never do that, you promised you'd keep fighting the good fight and if you die now I'll never forgive you" Kint argued.
"Yeah I remember, but wasn't I fighting the good fight all along? And besides I'm content with my life, at least it'll… get Amy out...of my hair…geez…the th-threat of death… or th-the fear of… Amy's hammer… I choose door option number 1 please" Sonic said, trying to make light of his imminent death.
With group 2
"Sonic's energy is fading fast we need to kick it into high gear and make sure he's still alive, we still have a connection with him and if he die's we die too" Lightning commented darkly, as his hands started dissipating.
"What's happening?" Rarity asked as they travelled until they saw the castle.
"We're dying, Sonic's dying, and if we don't get there soon, he will perish alongside us, we've got to help him!" Crimson replied as they made their way up the cliffs to Acorn Castle. Seeing destruction and devastation in the wake of Tirek's wrath and speaking off the heartless entity he was bellowing in victory at the recent turn of events. Though they immediately turned their attention to a female hedgehog on the ground and at once the girls were shocked to find the once colour-filled Rainbow Dash, now lacking any of the colour her namesake would entail and a second hedgehog, wearing booster shoes was fallen beside her, the Chaos kids immediately recognised this as the body of Shadow the hedgehog and he too took on a lifeless colourless form.
Things were looking bad and so, not wasting anytime the hedgehogs started heading down carrying the mane six alongside them in a bridal style pose. They immediately assessed the area to find any more casualties and when that was looked over, the group then burst off leaving the Mane six in their dust as they placed them down so fast they didn't realize it.
When the hedgehog's including Silver saw the giant laser that struck Tirek they were in shock at this development and were snapped out of their trance when they saw Sonic plummeting to his death and having patches of grey on his form.
Silver was the first to react as he grabbed Sonic keeping the hero from dying and laid him down straight up, to which he immediately fell straight to the ground unable to continue fighting.
Tirek fell hard. Knocked out, barely breathing and lacking consciousness, he now was out of the fight and when the other two tried to escape they were quickly dispatched by a combined assault by Jade and Tang.
The clones started to examine Sonic and found him on death's door, shallow breathing and hardly any pulse at all they needed to keep him alive, but couldn't think of a way to save him. Though a sinister laugh shocked everyone and it was coming from the castle, a dark cloud had formed and began speaking.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA!" The cloud laughed as it started taking on a Mobian appearance, and took on an Echidna form, though was total blacked-out.
"Who's he?" Jade asked perplexed at this sudden development.
"He's finally dead… after 4000 years I'm free of captivity!" the cloud laughed.
"Who are you?" Crimson asked.
"I go by many names, the 'Warlord of the Echidna's', the 'Mad Protector' but you may call me Pachacamac, the father of someone you may know, tell me if her name rings a bell… Tikal?" The tyrant now laughed, as the realization hit everyone like a ton of bricks, this was Tikal's father from 4000 years ago the same crazy guy who tried to wipe out the Nocturnus clan by using the chaos emeralds, but unleashed Chaos, literally onto the world… but that couldn't make sense he should be dead.
"How can you still be alive? You were destroyed when Chaos' rage was unleashed on your clan wasn't that true?" Jade asked in shock.
"Yes well, let's go and take you back to that day" the Echidna smirked.
The Day of Chaos
"Leave no Chao spared! Those vermin will not prevent greatness!" Pachacamac ordered, to which his command was obeyed, the chao's were being slaughtered left and right and none were given any remorse. The fire that burned in this peaceful place, now raged out of control threatening to engulf the savage echidna's. Though they knew not what was going to unfold.
Chaos looked around to see this senseless slaughter and grow ever more enraged and infuriated and before long the echidnas were being mercilessly killed for their actions, until Pachacamac remained, he went to the floor as his daughter was walking to Chaos and prayed to be reborn in these words.
"Chaos of darkness, take me soul and spirit,
Cast me to the earth so all may fear this,
The legend of the tale of our destruction,
And bring me back when our race shan't function
In years to come, in future times,
Give me control of the minds.
Darkness, death, and most of all fear,
Give me power to destroy what they hold dear"
In that moment, Pachacamac was swallowed by the shadows and engulfed as the sealing of Chaos took place, alongside his daughter.
Present
"You abandoned your daughter and left her to her own vices, never sticking with her, what kind of sick father are you?!" Crimson angrily yelled. This only filled the villainous Echidna's heart with joy at the sound of his daughter's supposed demise.
"She could never see the beauty of what I wanted or what I was trying to achieve! She was a simple-minded idealistic fool, who blinded herself to the truth that we were trying to keep them safe!" He laughed.
"Guys, Sonic's really in a bad way, he's not breathing and his pulse is a 15, we need to get him inside!" Jade yelled.
"I'll bid you ado to watch your supposed hero die, goodbye forever" He again laughed, picking up Tirek and the rest of the unconscious evil equines and taking them with him, Tails following as well.
When they got into the castle they laid Sonic on a bed and all looked at him with a despairing look on their face. As Shadow and Rainbow were also in this state, the Mane six and the Chaos Kids were weeping in unrelenting compassion and emotions at these heroes what they thought to be their final moments. Until Jade wiped against Sonic's hair and found a rock hard resistance, in an instant Jade's face lit up as he was hoping what he had brushed against was what he thought it was and of course it was. The gems of power were stored in Sonic's quills.
"Clever hedgehog… guys, we need to make a wish quick, we need to wish these guys back to life" Jade explained to which the other hedgehogs understood immediately, and in a few minutes the three fallen hedgehogs were in the middle of a chaos emerald circle and as the Chaos emeralds started to hover, so too did the bodies, that had been the casualties in this case. Sally Acorn immediately started praying and pleading with the emeralds to give the heroes a second chance the emeralds started spinning around in a fast orbiting pattern before the group were engulfed in a bright light, though despite what they thought would happen something more grim occurred, the hedgehogs fell to the ground 1 after the other and Shadow was checked by Jade scanning their vital signs, but after he scanned Rainbow and tried to scan Sonic, the worst thing happened, Sonic's vitals' were dropping despite the wish.
"Oh no, I was afraid of this, Sonic's still dying, the Chaos emeralds can't revive a person twice and that's a limitation on their power, well there is only one thing left. We have to die to allow Sonic to live" Jade explained.
"What do you mean?" Crimson asked, to which Jade simply looked at him with a look of grim intent in his eyes, and soon it became clear.
"We need to be absorbed by Sonic's body to force his body into his Super form and then his wounds and body will heal due to that" Jade pointed out, which struck a chord with the girls as each of them had really come to like and care for each of the boys developing a loving relationship with them, for their attractive personalities.
"Come on Tangy, you don't really have to go, do you? I mean I can't live without another party pony in Equestria, I mean there's Cheese but… it won't be the same without you" Pinkie asked to which Tang did something unexpected, he kissed Pinkie, this caught her completely off guard as it did with the rest of the people in the castle.
"I'm sorry my little party pony, if this is the only way to save Sonic I gotta do it, who knows maybe I'll be back someday" Tang laughed as he held her face in his hands and she of course looked at him with a loving disposition in her irises, before getting him back for before and caught his lips with hers and kissed so passionately that it nearly cause tears to fall from her eyes, but they separated, and before long Tang had hopped back into Sonic's body, this process kept repeating as each of the Chaos Kids made their affections known to their respective counterpart in the mane six, though each exchange with the two paired characters was different and special to those Mobians, and before long all had shown their affections and had headed back inside of Sonic's body. The room fell silent no-one dared to disrupt this silence for this was the deciding of life and death of a hero, had death claimed Sonic, or would he fight till the bitter end?
That answer came like explosion, fast and not there for a long time, it was only there for a few seconds. The air started accelerating and the wind started picking up until, Sonic's body was elevated by the air alone in a single instant, Sonic's body gained a golden glow showing that he would transform, and transform he did.
The transformation was so grand that it threatened to engulf the palace in the glow of his super form which was now completely golden all around, and white was still seen on the gloves and his red, blood eyes were seen, all this for a moment, before the winds settled down and Sonic's body fell, he then relaxed his breathing rate and in that moment all the group knew he would survive.
Talk about cutting it close huh?