Chapter 7: Beginnings

Last time on Harmonic Chaos Chronicles 14 Icezer was corrupted and nearly froze Pen to death if Rage and Ace hadn't appeared in time! Rage and Rainbow Dash go to see the Wonderbotls air show but soon disaster strikes when a dark cloud appears along with a mysterious hedgehog! Who is this mysterious stranger? Can Rage and Rainbow Dash survive the surprise attack? Find out now on Harmonic Chaos Chronicles 14!

Lightning flashed showing the hedgehog again as ponies start screaming when a unicorn leaps down from the cloud along with Nazo. This unicorn was no ordinary Unicorn… it was King Sombra! The wonderbolts attempt to attack the two but Nazo smirks and hits them away "Pathetic." He huffs as the only two left were Rage and Rainbow Dash not running in fear "Well who have, we got here? Nazo asks "Two brave souls?"

"Nazo you fool that is Prince Burning Rage and his marefriend Rainbow Dash!" Sombra says

"Thanks for the introduction Sombra but Nazo already know who I am." Rage chuckles

"I do?" Nazo asks

"Maybe you need a refresher." Rage smiles "Zero Chaos Lance!" he yells throwing a lance of Chaos Energy at Nazo who dodges it last second.

"Rage the Hedgehog!" he growls returning fire with Chaos spears which Rage just absorbs

"Please." Rage smirks "I am The Chaos Guardian your Chaos moves are useless against me!" Rage chuckles

"Our turn!" Rainbow Dash says flying around them creating a tornado before stopping and looking at them with a smirk but soon a beam of energy flies through the tornado and hits her knocking her back. Not for long though as she regained her balance quickly and glared at the two as a gust of wind dispelled the tornado "Very well try some of this!" Rainbow yells "Chaos Spear!" she yells throwing two Chaos Spears at them which surprised both of them as Rage hits Sombra head on tackling him

"You guys make this too easy." Rage smirks

"Do we?" chuckled Sombra "Now Nazo!" He shouts at the hedgehog who then throws something in the ground and Rage feels some power weaken him and he backs off

"What was that?" Rage asks

"That my furry friend was a Seed of Darkness… it weakens the power of Chaos and light in the world." Nazo chuckles Rage looks wide eyed in shock before he grabs Rainbow Dash and flies out of Ponyville

"Rage what in blazes do you think you are doing?!" she yells

"I hate to run from a fight Rainbow Dash, but this is one fight we cannot win not with that planted!" Rage says

"Yes run away little hedgehog… soon nowhere will be left for you to anyway." Nazo laughs as he and Sombra disappear

Meanwhile in The Dark World Xager was looking at the picture of Rage… "She lied to me." He growls "Rage may be my other but I know killing him won't do me any good!" he curses as Noah, Spark and a group Dark Spawns appear from the darkness

"We have been looking for you Xager." He says

"Uh-oh!" Xager says 'I can't stay in The Dark World anymore… I need to leave!' he thinks before disappearing to Equestria

"WHAT?!" Noah yells in fury punching the ground under him fracturing the cement very badly "Grr!" he growls

"Calm yourself Noah we will get him later." Spark says before opening a doorway of dark energy "Let's just let Darkness know what happened." She says over her shoulder as she walks in

Noah clenches a fist in anger before commanding "Search the area for him" to the dark spawns then following Spark and the doorway closes.

Meanwhile in Equestria Rage was sitting with Ace on Angel Island and Ace was looking at the Chaos Emeralds "So Ace how exactly did you get to be stuck in that orb of yours?" Rage asks

"Well that is a long story." Ace sighs "You see when The Chaos Emeralds were made Eight Chaos Beasts were made I was born from the Cyan Emerald also I was the first. Nazo was born from the same one. Soon one of our comrades discovered the negative energy and one by one the others were consumed by the desire for the power. Eventually it came down to me and Nazo the two of us fought for days on end until the gods had enough of the fight. The locked Nazo away in a red orb but to prevent his release they had to lock me away as well. Until you released me that is It is because of the fact we are brothers I am the only one who can kill him."

"Hrm…" Rage thinks

"So Rage here's my question to you, how were you able to release me? Only one with a pure heart and strong connection to Chaos could do so and you don't seem to have much of a connection all I feel is a weak connection." Ace continues

"Well a lot has happened since you and Nazo were locked away. In fact I thought that The Eight Chaos Beasts were mere legend until now. Anyways since then the Gods appointed a group of the best warriors on Mobius to protect The Chaos Emeralds to prevent such a battle like you guys had. And they did for a time… soon something happened with Dark Mobius and the group which was entitled The Chaos Guardians were all defeated. In a last minute effort Chaotix the Wolf entrusted the Echidna race with the emeralds and with his powers he took the dying Chaos Guardians to another dimension where they oversee the Emeralds from there. As the Echidna race died they left it with Knuckles…. Soon he too died. It was around the same time my own adventure began… my mother was killed and the killer was escaping with my brothers… So I followed and was beat in battle when he had his minions attack me. Anyways Chaotix picked me up and healed me. What I did not know is they were watching my battle against the Chaos Guardians mortal enemy Darkness and they were impressed by the way I stood up to him in battle. In turn they named me The Chaos Guardian as fate would have it my family had the blood of Chaos within us."

Ace looked wide eyed at Rage's story "Wow…" was all he could say "And the Inferno Chaos thing you do?"

"Ah yes… it was something I figured out for myself and The Chaos Guardians discovered they all could use certain forms too. It is known as Elemental Chaos and all Chaos Users have access to some of them." Rage explains "It is a special form of Chaos that fuses Chaos and the power of the elements to perform various attacks with various affects."

"Is it possible Chaos Beasts have them as well?" Ace asks

Rage nods "Yes, as a matter of fact Nazo has Demonic and Zero Chaos powers. And…" Rage pauses "From what I can sense you have Holy and Life powers."

"Holy and Life?" Ace asks

"Holy Chaos is a chaos power that is super effective against darkness and demons. As for Life Chaos… it cannot harm anything it is made for healing others." Rage explains

"What about you what do you have?" Ace asks

"All of them." Rage replies "As Chaos Guardian I have access to all forms of Chaos powers and a limitless disposal of them. The reason my connection may feel weak is because I mask my true Chaos ability for the safety of myself and others."

"I see…" Ace replies before a glow of energy blinds them and they see Xager appear and collapse "He's with The Dark Legion!" Ace gasps

"Was…" Rage says looking at him

"What do you mean was?" Ace asks

"Those scratches are from Dark Spawns… he betrayed them!" Rage gasps himself as the man gets up to reveal the man who attacked him earlier. "You…you are the one who said something about others." Rage yells,

"I am…" he says standing up "And I am sorry for that… my name is Xager the Hedgehog and what that mean is I am you…"

"What do you mean?" Rage asks

"you may not remember when you were defeated in battle all those years ago but in a last ditch effort to save your life while tricking Mephilies you faded to Darkness… when that happened a copy of your power formed me A Lost Soul…" Xager explains "that power mixed with the little bit of darkness formed me."

"No way…" Rage says shaking his head

"There's a bomb shell…" Ace says wide eyed himself

To be continued