(No better present for Sonic than the severed head of Eggman, eh? Heads will roll soon. Let’s just hope they won’t be any of the Sonic Team’s heads. I don’t own Sonic, Shadow, or Egghead…er…Eggman. LOL)


CHAPTER 9


Sonic stood there, mouth agape, looking into the lifeless eyes of Eggman’s bloodied head.
The spinal cord dangled from what was left of the neck like a rope, blood dripping and flesh rotting. Eggman’s face and mouth were twisted in an expression of pure horror and agony as if he saw his death coming in one moment, and had only enough time to let loose one scream and one scream only.
Sonic opened and closed his mouth a few times, until what happened began to sink in. His grip tightened on Eggman’s severed head, his eyes narrowed angrily, and his teeth were grit in pure fury. Without warning he threw the head into the pavement, hard, and he screamed up to the sky so fiercely his mouth foamed. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGH!” His fists were clenched and he was shaking all over with rage. If you were to look directly in his eyes, you would see flames burning within. “THAT…ANIMAL!” Sonic roared like a demon. He suddenly began to glow a dark blue. “First he destroys the floating Island, and killing most of its inhabitants…then he tortures Knuckles like a war prisoner…AND NOW…THIS!” He pointed furiously at Eggman’s head. “He has the gall to rip off this man’s head in cold blood and shove it directly in our faces!” His entire body glowed with a blue aura, and his entire body began to turn black, while his eyes slowly began to lose their pupils and shone a blank white. He radiated an energy that depicted negativity, rage, and blood-thirst, as his blackened body continued to tremble with rage.
Tails and the girls, needless to say, stood in a mixture of shock, awe, and horror as they watched the blue blur undergo an ominous transformation. His new black look made him seem more demonic…more threatening…and more dangerous.
Tails was shaking in his shoes as he gazed at his mentor’s new look. “S-Sonic?” He asked meekly. “Wh-What’s happening to you?”
Cream was trembling terribly and huddled close to Tails. “W-Why’s Mr. Sonic all dark and scary looking?” She whimpered, hugging Tails as if her life depended on it.
Amy’s worst fears had come true. ‘No… His emotions…his rage…they’ve consumed him… What’s he become?’ A tear slid down her cheek as she stared at the being that was once the hedgehog she loved. Shuddering, she stepped forward timidly towards Sonic, hoping that she could calm him down. “Sonic? Sonic, please speak to me…”
Sonic turned right around with his white, luminous, pupil-less eyes starring into Amy’s own, his face obscured by the darkness of his aura.
Amy let out a small squeak of fear as she backed away. Those eyes…they weren’t the warm, confident, caring eyes of her Sonic…
Sonic studied Amy for a moment. Although he was overcome with an insane rage, a part of his mind still studied her with a calm, regretful thought. ‘Amy… I’m sorry… I’m sorry you have to see me like this… But my anger’s gone out of control now… I’m no longer the Sonic you knew… I’m really sorry…’
“S-Sonic?” Amy asked timidly.
Sonic let out a low growl. “Dark Sonic now…” He said in an eerily calm voice. He crackled his Knuckles. “I’ve had it…”
“Wh-What?” Amy asked.
“I said… I’VE HAD IT!” Dark Sonic roared up to the sky. “I’ve had it with HIM! That animal… If he think’s I’m going to let him destroy one more life, HE’S GOT ANOTHER THING COMING!” He punched the ground so hard that a gaping hole was left where Dark Sonic’s fist was. “Shadow… When I get my hands on him… I’LL GRAB HIM BY HIS HEAD, AND I’LL TEAR HIM IN TWO!” He made a violent tearing motion with his hands.
Tail steeped forward. “Sonic…please calm down. Don’t you see? This is just what Shadow wants. He wants you to become angry, so you’ll fight him!”
Dark Sonic’s aura burned brighter. “A fight huh?” He said sarcastically, envisioning Shadow’s sneering face in his mind. “If it’s a fight that bastard wants…he’s sure as hell going to get one!”
“Sonic, please!” Amy begged, tears in her eyes. “Let us help you. We don’t want you to end up like Knuckles did.”
“SHADOW IS MINE!” Dark Sonic yelled fiercely not even looking at Amy. “HE’S GOING TO PAY FOR WHAT HE DID TO KNUCKLES! HE’S GOING TO PAY FOR WHAT HE’S DONE TO ALL OF US!” He glared angrily at the sky. “He’s going to pay for what he’s doing to this planet! I have to stop him before he hurts anymore of my friends!”
“S-Sonic…” Amy couldn’t take it anymore. She fell to her knees crying her heart out, burying her face in her hands.
Amy’s cries reached Dark Sonic’s ears, and he froze. He turned right around and saw Amy Rose kneeling on the concrete sidewalk, defeated and weeping her eyes out. Now not only was his heart filled with rage…but now he started to feel sorrow and regret…he felt horrible for how he just yelled. He didn’t mean to yell out like that to Amy or the others, it was just that Shadow had been toying with him, and everyone, and making their lives miserable with his heinous acts…but killing Eggman and shoving his severed head in their face had been the last straw for Sonic… He was emotionally strained and tired by the past events…and now they were coming to a boiling point. Now he had to deal with the source of his rage an anxiety before it got worse. But before he could leave… He had to talk to Amy. He turned in her direction, his blank eyes starting to crinkle in a sorry expression as he walked towards Amy. “Amy…Amy Rose…” He said in a strained voice, not being able to bear her cries.
Amy lifted her head up, sobbing away, and noticed how sad and sorry Dark Sonic looked at the moment. She wiped back the tears and choked back another sob.
Sonic felt terrible, seeing Amy…HIS Amy like this. He lifted one hand and gently cupped her face. For a brief moment, his emerald green irises seemed to materialize back, to look at Amy. “Amy…I’m sorry…I shouldn’t have yelled…” He said in a gentle voice, suppressing all the negative energy he felt inside. “But…Eggman’s severed head was the last straw for me…for all of us. I have to stop Shadow now, before we all go crazy.” He motioned toward his darkened body. “You see this?” He said in a disgusted voice. “All that’s happened, all the pain and sorrow from those goddamn Black Arms… It’s tearing me up inside, and its turning me into the twisted rage filled creature before you.” He shook his head. “Please Amy… Let me do this… I have to do this… If this keeps up, I might do something I might regret.”
Amy shook head vigorously. “No! Sonic, I don’t want you to get hurt! Please!” Suddenly she was drawn into a tight, warm hug. She could hear Sonic’s shuddering breath in hear ear. He was fighting to control his anger, and fighting the urge to weep himself. But she could feel wetness on her shoulder…and she knew. Sonic was weeping.
Sonic pulled away from Amy, and his eyes became blank and white again, but now, hot tears spilled from them. “Amy…Tails…Cream…” He closed his eyes, hard. “I’M SORRY!” He blasted off at a speed, normally not possible unless he was Super Sonic.
“Sonic! Wait!” Amy yelled after him, reaching out. Amy hit the ground with both fists in frustration and started to bawl like a baby. She cried because Sonic was in his own personal pit of hell and turmoil, and there was nothing she could do. She was so grief stricken; she barely even noticed Tails and Cream comforting her.
“Amy…please don’t cry…” Tails said with a wavering voice. “It’s going to be alright.”
“SOB But…sniffle…I’m afraid…Sonic’s falling through a downward spiral…and…SOB…I can’t do anything to help him…” She hugged Tails tightly. “Tails, what can I do?” She bawled.
Tails hugged Amy back, along with Cream. He shut his eyes, allowing his own tears to fall. ‘I wish I knew Amy…’ He thought. He looked up to the sky. ‘Please be alright Sonic… Come back to us… We need you… Amy needs you…’
Dark Sonic sped across the gritty, worn, asphalt road, his tears of pain and anguish trickling from his face as he cried. “Amy…Tails…Cream… I’m sorry… I’m sorry to all of you. I couldn’t save Angel Island from being destroyed… I couldn’t save the GUN soldiers from certain death… I…I couldn’t even save Knuckles… I’m a failure as hero…and a friend…and now look what’ve I become.” He shuddered, ashamed of his dark form. “But if there’s one thing I can do… It’s to kill the monster that started this whole mess!” He narrowed his eyes. “Shadow…you will pay for what you’ve done to me…to Knuckles…to Eggman…to EVERYONE!” He rushed through the city streets, bound for his one destination: Westopolis.
Meanwhile, in Westopolis…
Shadow walked slowly through the deserted ruins of Westopolis. The city was a ghost town now. All the residents had either been killed or evacuated. “Here’s where it all started…” He said. “It’s where I met the Black Arms…where I learned my true purpose.” He smashed through a slab of rubble. “And this will also be the final resting place of my nemesis. That little present I left for him should be enough convincing…” He laughed cruelly as he imagined what had happened. “He should be here any minute now.” He suddenly felt a gust of wind blow fiercely behind his back and smiled. “So you’ve come…” He turned around, and stared directly at Dark Sonic. “Hmm… Black and Dark Blue aren’t really your color.” He joked.
Sonic fought to keep his rage down, which slowly reverted him back to his regular form of light blue, but he was still feeling strong resentment towards Shadow. “Now you listen to me Shadow…” He pointed a finger at his ebony furred foe. “This has gone on long enough! You’ve killed innocent lives. You’ve destroyed homes. You even went so far as to torture a friend of mine to death. But killing off a close acquaintance and shoving his decapitated head in my face? That was the last straw. This ends NOW Shadow.”
Shadow chuckled, shaking his head at the light blue hedgehog. “Poor, poor Sonic…” His Black Arms robe faded away, and his demonic yellow eyes reverted back to their normal red irises that everyone was familiar with. “Did you also have a fight with your friends?” He chastised.
Sonic snarled. “Leave them out of this! It’s bad enough they had to see me transform into some rage filled, time bomb. They don’t need you picking on them when they can’t even defend themselves!” He took a look around their surroundings. “So here we are again. We met here after so long…I thought the past events had meant something to you. I thought you’d help us rid our planet of the Black Arms…but it looks like I was wrong…” He closed his eyes and growled. “Now you don’t have a single good bone in your body.”
“Oh, you only just noticed?” Shadow asked sarcastically. “You’re fast physically, but slow mentally.” He laughed.
Sonic just snorted. “Stuff it Shadow. I’m not in the mood for wise cracks right now.” He cracked his knuckles as he stared Shadow down. “So where are we fighting? Are we doing it right here, or in the Black Comet?”
“Right here is fine enough, by me.” Shadow confirmed. “Now we can begin, and we’ll finally see which one of us is the more powerful hedgehog. Try not to hold back.” He grinned nastily.
“Oh I don’t intend to hold back…” Sonic said in a low voice. “I intend to kick your ass to the moon and back, that’s what.”
“Hmm… Tough talk, Faker. But can you pull it off?” Shadow goaded. “Think about all the magnificent power I have. The Black Arms…the Chaos Emeralds…the Master Emerald… What little hope do you have of defeating me?”
“It may be just a little hope…” Sonic informed. “But even a little hope is all that’s needed. And a little hope is what’s going to help me take YOU down.”
“I see… Well then let’s see what’s stronger. Will it be my power? Or will it be your hope?” Shadow raised a glowing hand. “CHAOS SPEAR!” He launched 3 bolts of chaos at Sonic.
Sonic jumped over Shadow’s bolts quickly and started spinning into a ball and performing his “Homing Attack,” launching himself directly at Shadow.
Shadow followed suit, spinning into ball form and launching his own Homing Attack.
Both hedgehogs bounced, span, and ricocheted off one another, each trying to knock down the other. They span and shot at each other from random angles so fast, that it looked like a tornado of blue and black spinning in place until both bounced off each other and landed back onto the ground.
Sonic knelt down and started to rev up like a turbo engine as he was about to blast off with a spin dash. But instead, bounced back slightly, shooting an energy shockwave at Shadow.
“CHAOS GUARD!” Shadow generated a small field of chaos energy in front of him, and absorbed Sonic’s attack in a moment. Shadow shook his head, laughing. “It’s not good enough, Faker. CHAOS MAGIC!” He snapped his finger, and a small burst of chaos energy erupted on top of Sonic.
“GOOOOOOOUUUUUUH!” Sonic was engulfed in a blast of chaos energy and left with singed fur and some 1st degree burns on his skin. But instead falling to his knees, he merely produced 4 power rings in his hand, and launched them one after another, but neither of them seemed to hit Shadow, nor were they aiming for him, except for one which he caught in mid-air.
Shadow was puzzled. “What the hell? Are you that disoriented, or are you just stupid?”
Sonic just smirked. “I’d prefer the term, sneaky.” He span in mid-air in ball form. “It’s time for Sonic Drive!” He shot in a perfect beeline towards the nearest ring, which Shadow held in his hands, and smacked him into the air.
Shadow felt the impact of Sonic’s body barreling into him and was carried into the air, where the other 3 rings were hovering. It was there that he suddenly felt Sonic attacking him from various sides.
Sonic used the placement of the rings; the one in Shadow’s hand and the 3 surrounding him in various spots, and used his Sonic Drive ability, combined with his Light Dash (to lock onto the rings), and proceeded to surrounded Shadow with a flurry of attacks. ‘This is what he gets for screwing around with my friends!” He yelled mentally.
“ENOUGH!” Shadow yelled. “CHAOS MAGIC!” He suddenly disappeared, causing Sonic to loose his focus on his attack, and allowing Shadow to reappear behind Sonic and blast him with a field of Chaos, knocking him down to the ground.
Sonic, however, was not giving up so easily and he merely touched the ground with both feet, before bouncing back in a pursuit attack, surprising Shadow long enough to knock HIM out of the air with Sonic Eagle, slamming Shadow with an axe kick and sending him straight into the pavement below. He watched as Shadow hit the ground like a meteor, sending dirt, gravel and dried tar through the air. Sonic landed next to the crater and waited for the dust to clear. He looked into the crater, and saw a worse for wear Shadow struggling to get up. “How does it feel?” Sonic asked with bitterness. “How does it feel to be the one on the receiving end of the punishment?” He sighed. “Shadow… I’m going to give you one more chance. Open your eyes, and see how the Black Arms are using you!”
Shadow started to laugh. He was…amused. “Heh heh heh heh… Hahahaha… BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!” He roared with laughter as he stood up with ease. “Hahahaha…Ha…you idiot!” He sneered at Sonic. “I’m under NO mind control! I did this of my OWN free will! I don’t give a damn about Gerald, Maria, you, OR your idiot friends! FUCK THEM! FUCK THEM!”
Sonic stomped the ground. “They’re NOT idiots! Don’t ever call them that! You have no right to insult them!” He could feel his rage building up, and felt himself becoming Dark Sonic once more.
“I’m the Ultimate Life Form!” Shadow screamed. “I CAN DO WHATEVER I LIKE!” He began to burn with chaos energy. Suddenly, the 7 Chaos Emeralds appeared circling around Shadow as he began to levitate out of the crater. He rose into the sky, and glared at Sonic with a false omnipotent look, as the Master Emerald appeared underneath his feet. “Now…” Shadow said as the multicolored emeralds circled around him, and the giant green emerald floated underneath his feet. “Now you shall see Sonic… You shall see my true power! I am Shadow! I am the Ultimate Life Form, and the leader of the Black Arms!” He started to glow brighter as he started to rapidly drain the emeralds of their power.
Suddenly, in the sky, the deadly form of the Black Comet, the base of the Black Arms, appeared to loom over the battlefield. Hordes of the Black Arms soldiers began pouring out of the sky and flying towards the field. But it wasn’t to join the fight… The moment they approached in air space, they were all sucked into the Master Emerald as if it were a great crystal vacuum, and seemed to add to Shadow’s power gain.
“The very essence of the Black Arms shall fuel my vast power, along with the emeralds.” Shadow announced, before he and the emerald started to follow the exact trail of Black Arms that they were absorbing, right into the Black Comet.
Sonic watched in horror, as the Black Comet began to crumble and hatch as if it were a giant egg. Something truly terrifying was about to come forth… The Black Comet blew apart like a super nova, filling the sky with blinding white light, causing Sonic to shield his eyes. When the light dimmed down, and Sonic looked toward the sky, his jaw dropped in shock and terror as he saw the creature before him. Its giant, red and black, reptilian body was reminiscent of the Black Arms, especially Black Doom and the Black Bull, but it had thick fur, like Shadow and even massive quills. Its shape was very reminiscent of an organic version of Metal Sonic’s monstrous “Metal Overlord” form, from its great scaly wings, to its multi-eyed, razor tooth jawed face to its great spindly arms. Sonic felt the last of his anger consume his being and fully transformed into his “Dark” form. He glared angrily at the beast before him. “So… You’ve show your true colors… I’ve been calling you a monster for a while, but now you really are one!” Dark Sonic floated up into the air, feeling the negative emotions surging through him. “All this negative energy and rage in my body… I’ve squeezed it all into a bitter little ball, but now I have to release it in the right way…” He pointed a finger at Shadow’s monstrous face. “And the right way would be to kick your ugly ass to hell, Devil Shadow!”
Devil Shadow eyed its prey hungrily, and roared a primal scream before flying towards its target.
TO BE CONTINUED



I DID NOT MAKE THIS STORY!! IT WAS WRITTEN BY A AUTHOR ON FANFICTION.COM CALLED “Milleniumon the Sonamy Freak”, and ALL credit goes to him/her.