Chapter 8 - The Shadow Garrison
Tails watched as Sonic The Hedgehog, his life-long friend, fell to the ground, a dark pool of crimson liquid seeping out from a wound on his chest. The young fox wanted to help, wanted to get his friend somewhere safe to heal him, to save him. But it was too late for that already, Sonic was dead.
"NO!" he screamed, tears trickling down his cheeks, soaking his white fur. Not accepting what his eyes were seeing.
"Tails" the voice came quietly,as light as a morning sunrise.
"Huh, w-who is there?" he said between through his sobbing.
"wake up" the voice called out, clearer this time, more urgent. Instantly the world around the two tailed fox started to fracture and shatter into pieces, cracks lancing out all over the place.
Tails started to back up but he suddenly felt something hard press up against his back. He whirled around to see nothing in his path, he tried to move away from the fracturing world once more, only to be blocked once again by the invisible obstruction.
"Tails? Tails! Wake up!" now the voice was clearer then ever. A sudden flash of white light nearly blinded the young fox as he pressed up against the invisible barrier.
***
"WAH!" The young yellow fox exclaimed, shooting into a sitting position, hitting his head against something in the process.
"ouch!" someone said, judging from the pitch and tone of the voice, they were female.
The fox opened his eyes to see who had spoken. Out of the corner of his eye he spotted something silver and orange in color, with a hedgehog-like shape. Once his vision cleared what he saw was a cute hedgehog girl, maybe about his friend Sonic's age. She was wearing gloves that matched Shadow's in style, with golden rings on the wrists, only these were black around the area on which Shadow's gloves were red.
"h-hey are you okay?" he asked the girl, helping her to her feet.
"I'm fine, thank you" she replied, her eyes opening revealing their lime green color.
"She seems familiar somehow, but I am sure I've never met her before" the two tailed fox thought.
"Hey, is he alright!?" a familiar voice called from behind the new hedgehog.
"He's fine Shadow, just a little bump on the head that's all!" the girl called back.
From behind the girl another two other hedgehogs came into view, they were two that the young fox knew all-too well.
***
"Tails!" Amy shouted in relief, hugging her young friend.
"Urf-uh- Amy, could you - ACK - not hug so tight!?" the fox gasped through the pink hedgehog's tight embrace
"Sorry Tails" She replied, loosening her grip quickly.
"Good to see you alive Tails" Shadow said.
The new hedgehog looked around, as if there was something wrong.
"Amy, wheres-"
"Here I Am!" Said a pink pony, cotton-candy-like mane bouncing around as she shot from her hiding place, a huge grin on her face.
"Good, we're all here" Shadow said, looking at the new hedgehog in a odd way.
"Uh, Shadow, is something wrong?" She asked, a look of confusion on her face.
"Wha-no, no, I'm fine really!" the red and black hedgehog quickly responded.
"Where are we?" the fox asked, examining, what appeared to be a cave of some sort. It was dark, the only light coming from a flashlight that the pink pony had gotten from, seemingly, nowhere. In its light though, it revealed jewels that Tails's friend Rouge could only dream of finding. But the flashlight also revealed the 3 other branching tunnels, each dissapearing into darkness beyond the flashlight's reach.
*Clink*
The group turned towards the source of the sound, finding a shard of stone, and a small tunnel. It was too small for the pony or any of the hedgehogs or the fox.
"So, it looks like we're not alone in this cave after all" the silver-orange hedgehog said quietly, her eyes darting every which way.
"Um, by the way, whats your name?" Tails asked her, as he had just realized she hadn't introduced herself yet.
"My name is..." she trailed off at the end, scratching her head, another confused look setting in on her face.
"Heh, funny I actually don't know if I even have a name" she chuckled, giving a apologetic look to the others.
"Wha-no name, are you loco in the coco? of course you have a name, you just need to remember it an-"
"Maria" Shadow said quietly, cutting off the pink pony in mid sentence.
"What?" everyone asked at once.
"Sorry, its just you remind me of a friend I used to know, before...a certain incident occurred" Shadow explained, while staring at the floor of the cave.
"Oh, i wont ask about it if it pains you" the girl responded, seemingly knowing what had happened just from how shadow had acted as he had spoke.
Before anyone else could speak the cave walls erupted, weird looking beings flooding out like they were made of liquid. But as they started to take on more solid forms, Shadow gasped.
"Their shades, dark copies of a actual being!" he said, flinging a chaos spear at the nearest group of the creatures which resembled his friends. Instead of exploding or scattering the shades though, the chaos energy bolt sailed right through them.
Shadow was shocked, as were the rest of his friends. So shocked in fact, that he didn't notice the shades encircling him. They threw themselves at him, their bodies disintegrating into blobs of dark energy which covered shadow from head to toe. When they started to reform as themselves again, they left behind a stone-encased Shadow the Hedgehog, a scared look plastered on his face.
***
The Shades wasted no time in starting to encase the others in stone body bags. Tails was the first after trying to blast the shades with his arm cannon, when this failed he tried to escape by flying to safety. But he wast stopped by a large group of shades that had taken on his appearance. The stone fox fell to the ground with a solid *WHAM*, the stone case not even scratched by the impact.
Amy was next, she tried for her hammer, which worked for a while, the solid surface slicing through the shades, but they quickly reformed and eventually overpowered her. Enveloping her in stone like the others.
***
The shades then turned their attention to the hedgehog, who had managed to out-run her set of shades. But as the shades started to fuse together, they became faster and stronger. Eventually the shades managed to strike the hedgehog down, she fell to the floor, landing on her hands and knees. The shades commenced to encircle the hedgehog, getting closer with every second, their targets were as good as dead now, there was no way these creatures could win.
***
Inside the hedgehog, something clicked, like a light being flicked on in a dark room. She felt raw power flow into her body surging through her in waves a energy.
She was lifted off the ground by an invisible force, the floor underneath her was now boiling hot, but every few seconds it would freeze over. Her body was orbited by two rings of energy, one burned bright in the darkness and produced searing heat that burned the shades to the ground. The other ring glowed a pale-blue and radiated freezing cold energy causing shades who were hit by it's blasts to experience a painful end to their existence.
One shade made a break for the deeper part of the cave, only to be stopped by the hedgehog.
"Please spare me?" it asked, it put all of its effort into sounding sorry.
For a moment the shade's pleading seemed to have the desired effect, the hedgehog looked at the creature with eyes that seemed to be more understanding than harsh. But that sense of hope in the shade was instantly turned to fear as the hedgehog's eyes went from an cool understanding gaze, to a inferno that would show no mercy to its enemies.
"Spare a shade, HA! your going straight to hell!" she said, her voice harsh, but also conveyed a level of authority that the shade found almost respectable. This was the end for it however so it closed its eyes as the two rings of energy enveloped it, and it ceased to exist.
***
"I lost control it was too much" the hedgehog confessed to her friends, who were trying to comfort her. With the remaining power she had left over from her power surge she had been able to undo the effects of the shade's paralysis.
"Its okay now, your our friend Solaria" Shadow said.
"Solaria?" the silver hedgehog repeated.
"I hope you don't mind me making up a name for you out of nowhere" the black and red hedgehog said, giving his new friend a apologetic look. The girl looked up at the ceiling of the cave, musing over her new identity.
"Solaria, I like it, thank you Shadow" she finished off her thank you by giving the hedgehog a tight hug.
Shadow tried to hide his blush but he failed miserably, his red stripes almost disappearing. He smiled however as he realized how much this girl was like Maria, but he also enjoyed how different she was from Maria.
"Come on you two lets get going, we've gotta get back to Ponyville so I can throw a party for you and your other friends!" Pinkie Pie said, making it sound as if they didn't someone might die.
The group shared a good and much needed laugh as they followed the path to where ever it may take them.
***
Deep in the Everfree forest there was a small area of which nearly all animals avoided. The reason being a weird object had arrived. It was round with a pointed end, at the other end a smoking object, which was impossibly hot, whirred in the cool air. Suddenly with a loud hiss a panel slid out of place and out of the strange pod came a figure. It was blue, its body had a odd indent on the front and a weird extrusion on the back.
A loud roar erupted from a nearby hydra. Creatures who had been examining the blue being panicked and ran for safety. But surprisingly the blue creature stayed right where it was.
If any one of the creature of the Everfree had been able to read the mind of the being they would have found out 2 things, one: that it had no mind to read. Two: If they could figure out and understand its objectives and put them into words, it would have translated to: 'Location: Unknown. Priority 1: Find and destroy Solaris Project remains. Priority 2: Kill Sonic The Hedgehog!'.
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2957431 thanks, I really enjoy writing this. though I'm having severe "writer's block" for how to stage a scene of combat between Rarity and Rouge. I know how rouge would fight but how would Rarity?
2957570 thats the problem. she would either buck or make rouges ears explode with high pitched whining.
2961349 Ouch, that second suggestion makes MY ears hurt just thinking about that!
I don't believe it. you made the girl a remain of the Solaris project. DO YOU REMEMBER HOW BADLY THAT WENT?!
2963783 call me a sonic 06' fan, I just like the name "Solaris", and yes sonic 06 was a horrible storyline. But hey, what can I say? The concept of a huge projects remains be a living thing, I find it really cool. Besides what harm could a girl who has two incredibly unstable powers at her command possibly do to be worse than Solaris, Well wait and read the story.
2965244 Well, call me a Sonic 06 fan as well, because when i first got it, i was nine, and the only thing that bothered me was all of the loading screens. and the whole point i got the game in the first place was to do the final story to play as the Super Forms of the Hedgehogs. And it was only when i played it a few years later when i noticed all of the problems.
2968081 I've never acctually played it but All I wanted was to listen to the Solaris phase 2 music, his world.
2971045 That is the whole point why i got the game in the first place.
i love it bad luck you stop whrithing
3061998 I'm not stopping yet, just experiencing some HUGE writer's block at the moment...I really do enjoy writing this story but school (for me) starts in about 1 or 2 weeks (
) so i'm worried as well.
2971055 still, there's a Sonic Generations conversion mod that makes Sonic Generations much like sonic 06', its still under development but its is incredibly detailed, i have played the Wave ocean demo, it made me ragequit, like it should have.
3062798 Yeah I downloaded that, but my computer doesn't have the right video card i guess, so the HUD doesn't show properly, but at least i can use other mods.
P.S. Have you seen my story yet? Just askin'.
3062868 I couldent find your name on Fanfiction
, so no i havent read you story yet, i will, if you give me a link or something...
3062878 Okay them, here it is.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9439686/7/
that goes to the new chapter
3065932 ive only been reading the story for a few minutes, but so far it looks great, keep up the good work!