Sonic Elemental X
Chapter 16: 16. Return of the Ultimate Lifeform
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(At Eggman's base)
At his base, we see Eggman is viewing over security footage of his base. Most importantly, the footage of the room Eggman has one Chaos Emerald, and two of the Elements of Harmony, just in case Sonic and co. try to steal them. The doc continues to look over the camera's, when a cloud of black smoke appears above him. The smoke solidifies, revealing Queen Chrysalis, and she is MAD at Eggman. Chrysalis lands behind Eggman, and yells at him, surprising the mad scientist. "EGGMAN YOU FOOL! YOU TOLD ME THE ARMOR WOULD MAKE ME INVINCIBLE, AND YET THAT HEDGEHOG AND HIS FRIENDS STILL MANAGED TO DEFEAT ME!" Chrysalis yells at Eggman. Eggman turns toward Chrysalis, and sighs. "I should've known... Damn hedgehog always finds a way to destroy my beautiful creations one way or another... But not this time!" Eggman exclaims. Eggman gets off of his chair, and goes over to another door. The door opens, revealing a red and black striped hedgehog in chains. "Wake up, Project Shadow." Eggman tells the hedgehog. The hedgehog, now known as Shadow, opens his eyes, and looks at Eggman in anger. "Sonic will stop you! And if I ever get free of these chains, you'll PAY!" Shadow yells at Dr. Eggman. "I might. But first there's something you have to do for me first." Eggman tells Shadow. Eggman reaches into his pocket, and pulls out a device. Eggman heads over to Shadow, and the door closes behind him. The next thing we hear... Is screaming.
(Back at Ponyville)
We see Sonic actually relaxing in front of Twilight's Library for once instead of trying to either stop Eggman, or explore Equestria. "Finally, some relaxation. No Egghead. No exploring. No stupid voice in my head." Sonic said aloud to himself. But things never go as planned for the blue blur as the demonic voice of Demonic Sonic rings in his head again. "Hello, my inferior container." Demonic Sonic's voice says to the blue blur. Sonic, knowing that the voice is in his head, decides to talk with Demonic Sonic with his thoughts. "What the fuck do you want fucker?" Sonic thinks. "Oh nothing, just for you to give in to my power so I can escape your body and rule Mobius and Equestria." Demonic Sonic tells the blue blur. "Never! I'll never give in to you! And what do you mean that. I'm your container?" Sonic tells back at his demonic counterpart. "You'll find out soon enough, Sonic the Hedgehog. But for now, adieu." Demonic Sonic says to Sonic (Author: Adieu is just another way to say goodbye, I just don't know what language it is.) With that, the voice disappears from Sonic's mind, giving him another chance to relax. Sonic manages to relax for a few minutes, before getting hungry. "Man. I sure am hungry... Wonder if Pinkie has any over good cupcakes for sell today." Sonic whispers to himself. After finishing his sentence though, through some sort of fucked up magic, Pinkie appears above Sonic, hanging on a branch on the tree that is the library. "Hi!" Pinkie exclaims, scaring the hell out of Sonic. "HOLY SHIT! WHAT THE FUCK! WHAT THE FUCK, OKAY!?" Sonic yells out at the top of his lungs.
Pinkie Pie jumps of the branch she's hanging on, and lands in front of Sonic. "Why so surprised? You know I have the power to teleport silly willy!" Pinkie informs Sonic. Sonic sighs, then smiles at Pinkie Pie. "Yeah, I guess I forgot about that. I was gonna go see you anyway to see if I could buy one of your cupcakes." Sonic tells Pinkie. "Oh! Okay, I'll be right back in a jiff!" Pinkie exclaims. Then, as quick as a flash, Pinkie Pie runs off for a few seconds, and reappears, holding a small brown paper bag in her mouth. "What's in the bag Pinkie?" Sonic asks, getting ready for any surprise that the party pony may have in store. "Just a cupcake! Say the kind you want, and it'll be in this bag!" Pinkie tells Sonic. "A magic cupcake paper bag huh? I want aaaaa..." Sonic begins. The blue blur thinks for a moment, then says the kind of cupcake he wants. "A red velvet cupcake with rainbow frosting please." Sonic says to Pinkie. Pinkie nods her head, and places the paper bag on the ground. Then, through some sort of magic, the bag falls apart, revealing the cupcake Sonic wanted on a paper plate,along with a noise maker near the edge of it. Pinkie quickly picks up the noise maker, and uses it. The noise is super loud, unfortunately for the blue blur. "Ow..." Sonic says aloud while hearing ringing in his ears. After the ringing in his ears subsides, Sonic eats the cupcake, leaving for some odd reason the frosting to eat last. Sonic finishes the cupcake in under a minute, and looks up at Pinkie Pie, rainbow frosting covering his mouth. Pinkie giggles a little bit, seeing the blue blur with frosting covering his mouth. "What? Is their something on my face?" Sonic asks.
Pinkie nods her head in agreement, and Sonic wipes his mouth with his left wing, leaving the frosting on there instead! Sonic looks over at his left wing, and sighs. "The advantages and disadvantages of being a pegasus. Disadvantage: Having no hands to wipe your mouth, especially when there's frosting involved..." Sonic tells himself. Sonic heads inside of the library to wash himself off, but not before turning, and saying one final thing to Pinkie Pie. "That was a really good cupcake Pinkie! Thanks!" Sonic exclaims before heading inside to wash himself off.
(A while later)
A few minutes later, Sonic comes out of the bathroom, his wing cleared of frosting. (Some of which he licked off his wing.) Sonic heads into the kitchen of the library, to see Tails and Twilight working on one of Tails' old inventions: the arm cannon. "Hey guys, what are you working on?" Sonic asks as he arrives in the kitchen. Tails and Twilight look up from their work, to see Sonic. "Oh, just the arm cannon that I haven't used since..." Tails says, his voice trailing off. (Author: Tails is trying to refer to the incident in the game Sonic Battle.) "Cool! And Twi, you're helping my buddy out?" Sonic asks Twilight. "Yep! This invention may be new to me, and all of Equestria, but I do know my way around these kinds of electronic things." Twilight tells Sonic. "Heh, good thing to. I ain't as smart as Tails, so if I tried fiddling with that thingy, it probably explode in my face or some shit." Sonic says. Sonic starts to look around, until he sees a clock on the wall. It's 3:00 PM, and there's no excitement happening right now, so the blue blur yawns. "(Yawn) I'm gonna go sleep for a little while, wake me up if there's a situation, or you need me for something." Sonic tells Tails and Twilight. Without looking up from their work, both brianiacs nod their heads, and Sonic heads upstairs to get some sleep. The blue blur doesn't even make it to the bed, when he hears an explosion coming from downstairs. Sonic quickly flies downstairs, and to the kitchen, to see that the arm cannon has exploded somehow, and Tails and Twilight are covered in soot from the initial explosion. "Seriously? Who made the arm cannon self destruct?" Sonic asks, annoyance in his voice. Twilight smiles nervously at the blue blur, her smile giving off some sort of squeaking sound.
Sonic shakes his head and sighs. "What did you do wrong?" Sonic asks Twilight. "She connected two wires on the cannon that were not suppoused to touch, and it blew up." Tails explains. Sonic touches his head, and shakes his head yet again in annoyance. "Seriously, one of the few days I get from not having to stop Eggman, and still, there's problems here and there." Sonic says aloud. "Okay, so why don't you go do something you've wanted to do here? Even if Eggman does attack, we can still defend ourselves, right Tails?" Twilight explains. "Right! Now, go see if you can have some fun Sonic!" Tails exclaims. Sonic smiles at his two friends' suggestion, and decides to do it. "I'll see you guys later!" Sonic exclaims as he runs out the front door of the library. After reaching the outskirts of Ponyville, Sonic decides to do the one thing Rainbow Dash specifically forbid Sonic to do to her. And that was prank her. Sonic spreads out his wings, and flies up into the sky, and heads to one of Rainbow Dash's favorite sleeping clouds.
(Meanwhile)
We head over to were Rainbow Dash is at, and sure enough, she is sleeping on a cloud. Now, this cloud is specifically positioned to be not to far from Cloudsdale, or not to far from Ponyville just in case the rainbow blur had to go to either place. Rainbow Dash is sleeping peacfully, when a cloud appears about three feet above her. On the cloud, is Sonic, and he's trying to a water prank on Rainbow Dash. Now, Sonic has spent enough time in Equestria to now that pegasi can control clouds, and sure enough, Sonic is a pegasus! Only problem is though, he forgot how to activate rain while a pegasus is on a cloud, so Sonic starts jumping up and down on the cloud. A really horrible decision, because if a pegasus jumps on a cloud, it activates lightning. And sure enough, a lightning bolt came out of the cloud, and nearly struck Rainbow Dash, but it missed her, just by an INCH! When the lightning bolt zipped pasted Rainbow Dash, she awoke with a start, after hearing the lightning bolt zip past her ear. "Hello?" RD asks tiredly. Rainbow Dash looks around, and sees no pony, so she looks up, and sure enough, she sees the cloud Sonic is on. "Seriously, if this is a prankster..." RD thinks. Rainbow Dash streches out her wings, and flies up to the cloud. When she reaches the top, Rainbow sees Sonic, and for some odd reason, her wings go stiff almost instantly. Rainbow Dash notices she isn't flapping her wings anymore, and her eyes shrink. Rainbow Dash falls, and starts to scream her head off. "HEELLLLLLLLP!" RD screams. Sonic hears Rainbow Dash screaming, and decides to do his super hero thing.
Sonic jumps off the cloud, and flies after the the quickly falling Rainbow Dash.
500 feet...
A Mach cone starts to form around the blue blur.
400 feet...
Sonic feels himself gaining speed from his drop.
300 feet...
Rainbow Dash looks downwards, and thinks it is the end for her, so she closes her eyes, and accepts fate.
At 200 feet, Sonic's Mach cone breaks, and he manages to preform, a Sonic Boom. The blue blur catches up to Rainbow Dash, and grabs her, bridal style. Feeling Sonic grab her, Rainbow Dash opens her eyes, and sees her savior. "Thanks Sonic!" RD exclaims. "No prob!" Sonic exclaims. The two speedsters soon land, and Sonic plops Rainbow Dash on the floor. "So, what happened back there? You didn't open your wings." Sonic says to Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash rubs the back of her head, and laughs nervously. "Yeah, I don't know what happened. I came up to see who nearly electrocuted me with a lightning bolt, saw you, and my wings stiffened up." RD explains. "Heh, alright. (Looks to left, and sees Ponyville in the distance.) Hey, you wanna head back to Ponyville? That is, if your okay to fly back." Sonic says to Rainbow Dash. "Sure, but try not to cry when I beat you to Ponyville, Sonic." RD says, smirking. "Oh, it's on Rainbow!" Sonic exclaims. With that said, the two speedsters take flight, and speed off directly for Ponyville.
(Later at Ponyville)
The two speedsters finally make it to Ponyville after 2 minutes. But as always, since they we racing each other there, Sonic is still the fastest. Sonic and Rainbow Dash stop at the entrance of Ponyville to relax for a minute. "I beat you, fair and sqaure Rainbow, end of story." Sonic says for Rainbow Dash can argue about why she was beaten by him. "Damn, you're right." RD says to Sonic. The two speedsters smile at each other, and walk into Ponyville. What they see next, horrifies them. Ponyville has been partly destroyed! "What the hell! Who do this!?" Sonic exclaims. Sonic doesn't even walk a step, before seeing something at the corner of his eye, and it is coming towards the two speedsters pretty fast. Before the object can strike them, Sonic grabs Rainbow Dash, and he jumps away from the object. The object turns out to be a spear made of pure Chaos Energy. "A Chaos Spear? There's only one being I know that can do that..." Sonic thinks. Sonic looks in the direction from where the Chaos Spear is coming from, and sees his familiar old speed rival: Shadow the Hedgehog. "Long time no see Shadow. You here to prove that your the ultimate life form again, arn't you?" Sonic asks Shadow. "No. I am here to collect the Chaos Emeralds, and Element of Harmony you have, and give it to Dr. Eggman." Shadow tells Sonic. Sonic looks at Shadow's left hand, and sees the red Chaos Emerald. Shadow throws the Chaos Emerald in the air, and in a flash of light, it is gone. Sonic smirked a bit at what Shadow said, and he and Rainbow Dash got into battle positions, ready to take down Shadow the Hedgehog.
Boss Bio #5
Name: Shadow the Hedgehog
Abilities: Chaos Control, Chaos Blast, Chaos Spear, Homing Attack, Light Speed Dash, teleportation.
Bio: Sonic's lookalike. Even though Sonic and Shadow don't look the same, people still confuse the two hedgehogs for the other.
(Cue Sonic Adventure 2: Sonic vs Shadow, Space Colony Ark Boss music)
I guess I better start." Shadow tells the two speedsters. Shadow jumps up into the air, and a yellow light starts to charge up in the black hedgehog's left hand. "CHAOS SPEAR!" Shadow yells out. Shadow releases the yellow light into a spear, and Sonic and Rainbow Dash jump out of the way of it. "You'll have to do better than that Shadow if you want to catch us!" Sonic exclaims as the black hedgehog lands on the ground. "Oh, I do, do I?" Shadow asks evilly. That's when, the black hedgehog teleports away in a flash of blue light. "Where did he go!?" RD exclaims. Suddenly, Shadow reappears next to Rainbow Dash, and kicks her in the side. Before Rainbow could retaliate though, Shadow disappears yet again. "ARGH! HOW CAN WE HIT AN ENEMY THAT CAN TELEPORT AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT!?" RD yells out. Then, Shadow reappears behind Sonic, but the blue blur was ready for him. Sonic turns around, and punches Shadow in the forehead, and on a device Sonic hadn't originally seen when he first saw Shadow. The device is a small flat circle with a red glowing dot in the middle, and four mettalic arms stretching out the sides of it. The device cracks a bit, and Sonic smiles, knowing what he has to hit now. "Aim for the device on Shadow's forehead!" Sonic tells Rainbow Dash, as Shadow disappears yet again. Rainbow Dash smiles at her friend, and nods her head. The two friends look around, trying to anticipate were Shadow might pop up next. Shadow reappears in front of Rainbow Dash in an attempt to hit her in the face, and knock her out. A bad mistake, because Rainbow dodges Shadow's punch, and bucks him as hard as she could in the forehead. This breaks the device on Shadow, but also knocks him out, and sends him flying towards a barely standing house.
(End Boss theme)
The house collapses on Shadow, and Rainbow Dash smiles nervously at Sonic, a squeak coming from her smile. (Author: I'll just start calling those squeaky smiles from now on.) "Seriously? You didn't have to nearly kill him." Sonic tells Rainbow Dash. "What? It was either me or him Sonic!" RD complains. Sonic sighs and puts his left hoof on his forehead. "Just... Just shut up help me get Shadow inside Twilight's Library..." Sonic says to Rainbow Dash annoyed. Rainbow Dash nods her head, and the two speedsters place Shadow on their backs, and carry him to the inside of Twilight's Library.
(That night...)
We see Shadow in a bed in Twilight's library, actually still knocked out from the hit from the forehead, and he has bandages on his head since he was seriously injured from a house collapsing on him. That's when, Shadow awakes with a start, and instantly feels the pain from his fight with Sonic and Rainbow Dash. "OW! Why does my head hurt!?" Shadow exclaims. At Shadow nearly yelling, it attracts the attention of Tails, who was up there putting some books away for Twilight. Tails goes over to Shadow. "I see you're awake Shadow." Tails says to Shadow. "Yeah, I know, but what happened to me? And where the hell are we?" Shadow asks, still annoyed at the pain in his head. "It's a long story..." Tails begins.
(One explanation later)
"So, let me get this straight, thanks to the doc, we're in a world that's inhabited by talking ponies, and Sonic has turned into one?" Shadow asks, trying to get Tails' story through his head. "Unfortunately, that is what happened about a week ago." Tails tells Shadow. Shadow shakes his head in pain, and anger. "I'm going after Eggman. We'll need the Chaos Emeralds to get back home, if I am correct?" Shadow asks Tails. Tails nods his head, and Shadow stands up, and turns toward the window near the bed. "See you around, fox boy." Shadow says to Tails before jumping out the window. After Shadow lands on the ground near the library, he teleports away, wanting to find Eggman's base to retrieve the Chaos Emeralds he has.
Author: HOLY SHIT OVER 3,000 WORDS! This is my biggest chapter yet! Anyway, I'll be seeing you around, but first, here's the Chaos Emerald, and Elements of Harmony counters for Eggman and Sonic. LATER!
Emerald count for Sonic and friends and Eggman:
Eggman:
Chaos Emeralds: two (since the one Chaos Emerald Shadow teleported had went to Eggman's base before his fight with Sonic and Rainbow Dash.)
Elements of Harmony: two
Sonic and Co.:
Chaos Emeralds: one (The one that Shadow had teleported, he stole from Sonic and co.)
Elements of Harmony: one