//------------------------------// // Knight of the Wind // Story: Sonic: Dimensional Chaos // by HedgehogofRed1999 //------------------------------// Chapter 25: Knight of the Wind Still outside Castle Acorn Sonic awoke with a start, his emerald green eyes scanning his surroundings, immediately the girls came to his side and tried to lift him, up, Sonic had sustained a lot of injuries from his previous scuffle, but as soon as he looked to see Castle Acorn in flames and no sign of Kint, his world came crashing down. His friend was dead, not unconscious or some ledge or in peril he was just dead. And that stabbed at Sonic's heart more than it should've… Sonic had always had Kint's back and had always been able to keep people alive, that was his job, he was a hero, and he couldn't be anything less. But now he was doubting, tears fell from his eyes as his spirit was shattered His friend had died saving Mobius and Sonic was ready to die, he couldn't help but yell in rage. "ARRRRRRRRRGH! WHY?! IT SHOULD'VE BEEN ME, NOT HIM! HE WAS INNOCENT IN ALL THIS, KIIIIIIIIIIIINT!" Sonic yelled out to the heavens and in an instant his soul was alight with fire once again, and the wind threatened to engulf the castle and swallow the world, the rage burned brightly as he was now ready more than ever to burn through the darkness. His body gained a golden-red hue, and the winds now threatened to crack the ground he stood on. Sonic took a deep breath, and in an instant, he started glowing with those colours more vibrantly. "I think it's time to end this Chaos crap, but I need to bring to bring back some old friends, hehe. Welcome back the Chaos Kids" and in an instant the Chaotic clones were back, now having a vibrant and blazing aura around them which had each of their fur colours within the energy. "Sonic, I know what you're thinking and trust me, we tried to defeat him without super forms and he still beat us, we need to make sure he can't take us out again, so going super isn't helping" Rainbow said as she was the only who wasn't stunned silent by this turn of events. "Hehe, well then Rainbow try and gain some energy from me, it won't work since my energy is too much for him to absorb but you are right, I need to have the whole gang on this, and so it may be time to bring the other emeralds out of retirement and I'm assuming he has an army so I need to make sure we don't waste energy, the best way to do that is… well to bring an old friend back, wait here…" Sonic said as he effortlessly created a portal to Equestria and brought through, a few minutes later Octavia and Vinyl ( the ones that know of his dimensional difference) "Sonic how are Vinyl and Octavia going to help us? I mean I get that they are good musicians and we probably need some music to motivate us, but still, how is bringing them here a good idea?" Rainbow asked. "Well, it wouldn't be if I didn't do this, " Sonic said as he placed his hands on Vinyl's bass cannon and immediately it gained a golden rim to it, which made it stand out as being valuable. "Now their music is amplified by Chaos energy, and this will get us past the army, Vinyl, I know you hear this all the time, but drop the bass" Sonic said as the aforementioned pony now placed her hands on the disks in her mixer studio, in her bass cannon and built the bass up till she felt to let it drop like a rock and in an instant the bass cannon, acted like a cannon and blasted a visible sound wave, but when it connected with the ground a giant explosion occurred. "You see, when they play rising notes the cannon will fire out positive charges of sound waves, which are very explosive, then when the bass drops the cannon will produce a negative charge and at a constant rate, neither falling, or rising the charges produced are harmonic, so that's how they are going to help" Sonic explained. The two musicians looked over to the now hedgehog Maurice that they weren't expecting and began to talk. "Woah Maurice so this is your world?" Vinyl asked "Yep actually a whole different dimension and quite honestly I'm deeply sorry for placing you here it's just I need to think straight and right now, you guys are the only thing that is keeping me sane, regardless Chaos Kids, take your girlfriends and transform and try to keep Pachacamac busy, I need to figure out how to stop him eternally and put a rest to this craziness" Sonic said before running into the castle and the rest of the group standing there in silence. "I'll catch up, I'm gonna check on Sonic, you guys go on ahead" Rainbow dash excused as she headed after Sonic wondering what he was up to. "Alright, we only have a certain time to stop this guy from getting whatever it is he wants and it seems like he's heading to our home, Angel Island, so it would help if we could fly, that's where these super forms will come in handy" Crimson said as he held Applejack's hand in his, and so carefully, swooped her legs from under and carried her bridal style, before leaving the ground and elevating towards Angel Island. "So you ready to do this, Fluttershy?" Jade asked, placing his hand out so gently as to not catch her off guard. "Jade, what kind of question is that?" Fluttershy surprisingly shot back. "Well, if you don't wanna go, then I…" Jade stammered. "You're cute when you're clueless, of course, I wanna go, for Equestria and for you, " Fluttershy said as she kissed Jade in between the eyes and he started going red as a tomato. "Uh sure, hang on Flutters," Jade said, quickly diverging from embarrassment to seriousness again and grabbing Fluttershy, from her waist and started elevating same as Crimson. "I guess we should get going, come on! Rarity, Pinkie you're up" Tang said, as he gave Pinkie a piggy-back and Lightning, same as Crimson carried Rarity bridal style, leaving Vinyl Scratch, Octavia and Twilight left. "I'll help them, you guys try to stop Pachacamac before he gets to Angel Island" Silver said, as he started to grab, the remaining group members with his psychokinesis and lifted them off the ground sending them alongside him towards Angel Island, and whilst they were doing that, an Angered hedgehog in the castle, now thought of killing this evil. In Acorn Castle "Where is… there it is!" Sonic said, a somewhat bloodthirsty tone coming from his voice as he picked up a familiar sword. And it immediately responded to Sonic's grasp. "Caliburn I need you to help me kill whoever killed Kint, I need you to give me the power to take this guy down," Sonic said, vicious intent now evident in his voice. "Sir Sonic, you will never be able to use me for cold-blooded murder, I will not allow it" Caliburn replied, in a distained tone. "Help me now, or else you can stay in your stone for the next millennium see if I care!" Sonic now shot back, angry at the swords refusal of command. "Sonic, you need to calm down, you can't let darkness consume you, you need to keep your heart pure and free of evil intent" Caliburn explained, as Sonic, now held the sacred sword by his handle. "I'm fighting for a pure intent, doesn't that make it right, I'm fighting to avenge a fallen friend, someone who did nothing wrong and didn't deserve to die and you won't help me!" Sonic angrily yelled. "You are becoming selfish, consumed by greed for fighting to release anger buried deep within. This isn't about Kint this is about you making up for old times!" Caliburn vexingly stated, which made Sonic gain a frustration in his eyes. "If you don't help me, first off everyone is going to die and second off Kint'll of died for nothing, are you really that blind? I'm doing this for everyone sake when I was fighting back in King Arthur's time just to get back home, why didn't you ditch me then and then just rusted outside of your stone?" Sonic asked. "True you were fighting for somewhat selfish reasons of wanting to go home, but you rose to the responsibility of keeping Camelot safe, and protected it for a while, even staying in the past a while longer before relinquishing the authority of the land to Lancelot and leaving me in his hands" Caliburn said, as this brought more fury into Sonic's irises. "My father and uncle were both roboticized and I had to see my uncle get roboticized as a child of only 8 years, and I lost my dad that day too, I just didn't know it, I did nothing back then as I was too weak, and couldn't have helped, I was only 8 for crying out loud, now I'm 16 and my friend has been killed for no goddamn reason and he was someone I'd known since I was a kid too, if you don't help I'll have to deal with this death too, and it'll also be on your head! Innocent blood was shed and you have your code of conduct so far up your butt, you're too blind to see that people will die!" Sonic angrily ranted. "I'm sorry but I was never to be used to anger or vengeance, I was and still am a blade of true justice, not trying to destroy the world, that's why few have been able to lift me, to lift a sacred sword 3 things are needed in the heart of each person:;The first is courage, the ability to face to trials head on and not back down this is the element that allows the sword and sword-handler to brave any danger and allows the user to fight in many dangerous environments, the second is faith; the ability of trusting in an outcome that is promised, this is the aspect that allows the user and the sword to slice through anything and energizes my blade to be able to cut through any hazard, and finally is Spirit; the ability to never give up in the face of adversity, that even though the odds are stacked against you, you keep fighting proud and true and never let evil corrupt your heart, but you have lost all three of these, you are now so cowardly that you do not believe in yourself to defeat this evil without my assistance, you are not having faith in yourself and in others to keep this kingdom safe, instead you walk with rusty shoulders and an aching back as you believe that only you should be the hero and that no-one else could be trusted with that title and even you have uncertainty in yourself, and finally you are losing your spirit to fight as you always have, with your true fighting spirit which is not held down by weapons or powers, though they are available you aren't fighting freely, defending whomever the wind sees as innocent" Caliburn explained to which this had Sonic raise Caliburn above his stone pedestal and almost threaten Caliburn with eternal damnation to his prison. "Caliburn, why are you telling me this?" Sonic said, now grasping the sword with more force than before, so much so that the handle threatened to break under the force of his grasp. "I am telling you this, so you might realise that being Sonic the Hedgehog for the people was not bad, but you need to let go of your past and be the carefree spirit that once wielded me" Caliburn informed, to which he dragged Sonic's hands down and forced him to plant him back into his stone pedestal. "Fine, I'll do this without him, besides I like the idea of beating down on my enemies mercilessly," Sonic said out loud, turning around and walking away from the sword that once he'd held as an ally. Though he was greeted by a familiar face, Rainbow Dash walking up to him and having a compassionate look on her face. "Sonic, is everything OK?" She asked as she looked at his orange, anger induced form, and his now red irises. "I'm fine Rainbow, just throwing away my past," Sonic said, a dark undertone settling on his lips. "What is that?" She asked, looking at the Sacred Sword behind the angered Mobian. "It's called Caliburn it's a magical sword which brings a form of power known as Excalibur, and it used to talk, now it's sealed… so yeah not much we can do, it has to be wielded by a hero of Spirit, Trust and Courage apparently that's what it told me, but won't help me take out our big bad" Sonic ranted. "That seems really unfair, I mean surely it should help, I mean who is more a hero than you?" Rainbow questioned, to which Sonic huffed before responding. "I'll wait for you outside, but I'll leave you to try to pull out the sword" Sonic compassionately stated, before jetting out of the room and leaving the two entities alone with each other. Rainbow immediately grabbed the sword, and tried to remove it, upon pulling up with more might feeling a sense of resistance from the sword, she tried to dislodge it from its pedestal, and in one final heave was able to lift the sword from the stone. Looking at the face on its handle. "Hm? Sonic? Oh, wait… you must be his girlfriend; Rainbow stash was it?" Caliburn stated after being released, though his sudden vocalization had made Rainbow drop him in shock at this discovery. "You can talk? OK yeah I mean we have wolves made out of twigs and branches, but seriously this takes the cake on the whole bizarre scale, and two things; First off he's not my boyfriend…we're not even dating and its Rainbow Dash" She replied, before picking the talkative blade up from the ground. "Are you joining him on his quest for vengeance?" The sword asked. "Yes, but I want to use you to get faster, you see Sonic is miles ahead of me in speed and I'm assuming you could make me faster, and also I'm not great with physical combat since we don't want to drain power, will you help me?" Rainbow asked as she looked to the face of Caliburn as he had a thought on her proposal. "I'll help you, Rainbow, though there are 3 rules in using me, do not use me in anger, do not kill the innocent and do not rush in without a plan, like Sonic had done multiple times before, without consulting me, I'll help you as you fight and give you a few 'pointers' "The sword, suddenly laughed, which also caused Rainbow to snigger when she finally understood his joke. "In any case, enough jesting, let's go!" Caliburn said, to which Rainbow ran outside, to see Sonic, looking out to the inferno on Angel Island and thunderous sounds of the Sound barrier being broken and collisions of scuffles. "Hm, this chaos ends now I gotta end this… Yo Dash, let's… let's end this, hold on tight" Sonic said, before grabbing her around her chest ascending to join his clones on the island that was a catalyst for this whole adventure, and now it was time to end it.