Chapter IV: A Shadow's Lament

(Flashback)

"RAGE!" Icezer yells as the red hedgehog falls to the ground

"Guys...I'm sorry." he pants

"Rage don't you die on us!" Twilight begs

"Sorry guys...I can't do anything... it's too late..." Rage smiles softly "At least I can die knowing...I protected you...my friends."

"Rage don't talk like that everything will be okay!" Fluttershy says

"I wish you were right..." Rage coughs glowing brightly "Good bye..." he says disappearing in a flash of light

"Rage!" Icezer cries

"He...just vanished into specks of light..." Rainbow Dash says quivering

"Rage was a being of pure light his powers granted by The Chaos Guardians are more then likely why." Christain says as he looks at Darkness "But just because he is gone does not mean you have won!"

"Oh please Christain what else is anyone going to do?" Darkness chuckles

(Rainbow Dash and Rage's home)

"Ah!" Rage gasps shooting up startling Rainbow Dash

"Rage what's wrong?" she asks rubbing her eyes

"just a bad dream again..." Rage sighs looking out into Luna's night

"the one about us losing you again?" Rainbow Dash asks

"Yeah... it's been haunting my sleep and I don't know why..." Rage replies

(?)

A dark red hedgehog was laying on a bed with Darkness looking at him along side him was Mephilies. "So Darkness are you sure that your theory is correct?" he asks

"We will not know until he wakes up." Darkness says as the hedgehog stirs in the bed and sits up finally coming to.

"What...where am I?" he asks looking around then at the two observing him "Did you two find me?"

"Yeah, we found you outside of a town... are you okay?" Darkness asks and the hedgehog nods "Who are you exactly?"

"My name is Xager..." the hedgehog says moving the covers off of him to see that he was wearing a Dark Legion coat. "Where are my clothes?" he asks

"They were... destroyed when we found you... so we gave you this." Mephilies responds

"Now just what were you doing?" Darkness asks

"I..don't remember..." Xager replies

"What do we do Mephilies?" Darkness asks

"Wait Mephilies?" Xager asks

"Yeah, that's me and you owe us for saving you." Mephilies replies

"No I don't!" Xager says "I may not remember much but I do know that you are not good news!" he yells running out of the Dark Legion's fortress by leaping o ut of the window

"Dark Spawns!" Darkness yells "Stop him!" he points a finger and Dark Spawns leap out and follow him.

Xager reaches the edge of the town the Dark Legion's castle floated above before being stopped by a cluster of Dark Spawns. Suddenly a sword appears in his hand... a Blade of Chaos none the less "A..Blade of Chaos?" he asks looking at it before slicing a Dark Spawn that leaps for him and then runs out of the gap and escapes to a cliff where he stood. "Who...was I before this?" he asks himself "I can't remember anything but my own name... Xager the Hedgehog... Warrior of Dusk..." he looks to the skies "the only other name I remember is Rage..."

(Equestria)

Rage sat on his chair in The Palace of Friendship as the others arrive. Pen was the last to do so and Rage welcomed her warmly before looking at the others. "Thank you all for coming." he says

"So What is this super important thing you called up here for Rage?" Discord asks

"It's about our old foe The Dark Legion." Rage says

"What about them? You stopped them after defeating James and halting their plans to forge The Radiant Dawn." Christain says

"yes but Darkness the Hedgehog is reforming it... with new members." Rage responds

"Who the hay is Darkness?" Applejack asks looking at the others who all shrug then they look at Rage.

"Darkness is no ordinary being... he is my polar opposite... what would be my darkness... he is just as if not a little more powerful then I myself am and he stops at nothing to consume things in darkness." Rage says

"That's right..." Aster says "Rage is a Chaos Guardian and because of that they have not darkness within them but it only makes sense that it forms it's own being in order to maintain balance."

"And he is no joke either." Christain says "He makes Nix look like child's play"

"So what do we do?" Pen asks

"We stop the Dark Legion." Rage says "But this time we will need help... if Darkness knows one thing it's strength in numbers and he will try to get all he can to follow him. He already has to have Mephilies and that Noah guy with him and who knows what else!"

"So what do you suggest Rage?" Twilight asks

"Icezer you still have the old Freedom Fighters broadcaster?" Rage asks his icy blue brother

"I do but why?" he asks

"Well with Robuttkid and Mobius the Freedom Fighters have been reformed and their old channels reopened and I figured we could use them to send a message asking for some hands." Rage explains

"Are you sure you want to invite strangers into this?" Icezer asks

"It may be our only hope." Rage says "besides the more the merrier." he chuckles with a thumbs up

"Alright Rage but don't say I didn't warn you." Icezer sighs

(With Xager)

Xager stood looking across a grassy plane "Still... nothing not a single answer as to who I am..."

"something troubling you Xager?" a dark gray rabbit asks him

"Who are you and how do you know who I am?" he asks looking at the female rabbit

"My name is Christina the Rabbit I know who you are and I know how you can remember everything." she says

"really I am listening." Xager says as the rabbit throws him a photo of Rage

"Who is this?" he asks

"his name is Rage Chaotic the Hedgehog he holds the rest of you memories within him... kill him and they will be restored." Christina says

"But how does that work?" Xager questions

"you are Rage's lost soul... you see he died once and after he somehow was saved before fading to darkness you were then created as a result so really you never should have been. But here you are and in order to remember everything you must kill him." Christina responds

"Very well..." he says using the darkness to fade

Back in Equestria Rage was walking with Rainbow Dash and Christain along a field of grass when suddenly everything stops except for Rage. "What?" he exclaims waving a hand in front of Christain and Rainbow Dash's face's. Then he turns hearing the opening of a Dark Corridor and sees a hooded figure come out and summon a Blade of Chaos. "A Blade of Chaos?!" Rage gasps as he summons his to block the incoming attacker.

"Who are you?" Rage asks him as he throws his blade making the attacker jump back

"Someone from the darkness..." he says leaping again and making Rage roll out of the way and strike him with a sweeping kick making him fall down. He then gets up and tries to attack Rage who avoids as much as he could but is then his hit by an attack.

"How do you have a Blade of Chaos?!" Rage yells

"It doesn't matter Rage Chaotic." he responds leaping for an attack

"Ultima Chaos Counter!" Rage yells releasing a counter attack sending the figure to the ground knocking his hood down and his Blade of Chaos vanishing. Soon he stood up and walks over to Rage slowly

"You...make a good other..." he smiles disappearing and his friends run up to him.

"Rage are you okay?" Rainbow Dash asks

"Yeah one minute you are there and the next you aren't what happened?" Christain asks

"It was nothing." Rage lies

"Alright if you say so." Christain sighs

'Xager who was he?' Rage asks himself in his head as they continue on to their destination of Angel Island

To be continued

Noah belongs to Christain Ape99

Pen belongs to decode9

Alex The Hedgehog belongs to Dragon Roberts