Strafe removed his cape from his suit. He and his minions all went walking towards the heroes and girls. Sonic and his friends all went walking towards the villains. Then they all began to speed up. And then they all began to charge.

The battle had begun. Metal pushed Sonic onto the ground, and Sonic kicked him off. Strike and Strafe began to run around with their speed. Rainbow slashed Rainbine with her saber. Specter and Ghost went and flew into the air. Tails and Fluttershy went flying in the air, and Windstorm created tornados from his hands to fly and go after them. Applejack used her Chaos Whip and pulled Hijacker towards her and Knuckles. Shadow, Sunset, Silver, Rarity, Manic, Pinkie, Spider, Ant, Red Reaper, and Breeze all went against the Meta-Bots.

Strike and Strafe's blurs of energy and lightning whooshed everywhere. Strafe's energy and lightning was dark blue with black lightning.

Sonic thrust his fists at Metal, but Metal managed to bock them. He then fired energy blasts at Sonic, but Sonic was able to dodge them and kick the last one back at Metal. Metal punched it away into the sky. He then held out his hand and fired red lasers at Sonic, but Sonic smirked and kept using his speed to move out of the way, making Metal frustrated.

Rainbine kept trying to aim at Rainbow with her cannon, but Rainbow, using her wings from her Chaos Ranger powers, kept making her confused and then blasted her with her Morpher.

Rainbine then fired her cannon at Rainbow, but Rainbow pulled out her saber and cut the entire bullet in half. She then threw it at Rainbine, and Rainbine kicked the saber away. Rainbow then rushed right at her and gave her a strong punch to the stomach.

Ghost threw several purple orbs at Specter, and Specter kept blocking them with his sword. Specter fired his high-tech pistols and fired at Ghost, but Ghost phased into his ghost form so the bullets wouldn't hit him.

Hijacker fired his revolvers at Knuckles and Applejack. Knuckles and Applejack kept dodging the bullets. Applejack took cover behind the archery wall. She popped out firing her Morpher at Hijacker. Hijacker tried to block with his arm, and the blasts gave a strong burn.

Windstorm threw wind streams at Tails and Fluttershy, but they were able to dodge them. Windstorm then compressed air between his hands, and then fired it at them like a cannon ball. Tails used his wind powers to slow it down, and then he quickly flew away before… BOOM! The compressed air exploded leaving a large hole in the clouds.

Fluttershy shot her Morpher at Windstorm, but Windstorm used his wind abilities to ricochet the blasts back at her. Fluttershy took them out with her saber. She then grabbed her hammer and threw really hard and fast at Windstorm. It hit him hard in the head. Windstorm inhaled and screamed in utter pain, "OOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!"

Windstorm began sending arrows made of air at Fluttershy. Tails quickly took out his arm cannon and used it to create a shield to protect him and Fluttershy. Fluttershy then flew right at Windstorm, and she was right in face, startling him.

"EEP!" Windstorm said terrified.

"Boo," Fluttershy said, right before she slammed her fist in Windstorm's face, knocking him to the ground.

Windstorm groaned as he got up, "Okay, want to play that way, huh?

Windstorm flew back to get Tails and Fluttershy. Three of the Meta-bots were firing red lasers at Spider, Ant, Breeze, and Reaper. The beams just went through Reaper while Breeze, Spider and Ant took cover behind the dirt hill.

"Reaper, give us an opening!" Spider called.

"Like you have to ask," Reaper said.

Reaper flew at the Bots yelling, "Dragon's Breath!"

Reaper breathed fire out of his mouth on the Bots. One of them was completely melted. The other two swung their fists at him, but Reaper created fire shields and blocked them.

"Now!" Reaper yelled.

Breeze used his speed and began to run in circles around the Bots, making them confused. Spider and Ant went for it. Spider jumped onto one of them and pulled the head off while Ant shrunk and went inside the other to tear up its wires. Both the bots fell onto the ground.

Ant came back to his regular size, "That wasn't too hard."

"Wait!" Reaper said, "Never, EVER say anything like that!"

Then a laser shot Reaper, launching into the dirt hill. He groaned, "Ugh, this is why," and then he fell onto the ground.

A heavily armored Meta-Bot stomped its way towards Breeze, Spider, and Ant. But then it was surrounded by cyan energy. Silver landed in front of the heroes using his powers to hold the Bot. Rarity took out three of her arrows and fired them at the Bot's left arm, destroying it. Manic fired his music blasts and Pinkie fired her cannon at the other arm, turning it to pieces. Shadow jumped up and threw three Chaos Spears at the Bot and made really damaged. Sunset then jumped up and used her Chaos Sword and chopped the Bot's head off.

The Bot fell onto the ground. Reaper got up, "Ow. That hurt. And once again, that's why you never say IT'S TOO EASY!"

"Geez, stop yelling," Spider said.

Then all of a sudden, more Meta-Bots appeared. "Aw, great," Ant said.

Specter was knocked right into the ground. He got up and groaned, "I trusted you, Ghost, and look how far you've fallen."

Ghost scoffed, "Yeah, I've always wanted to destroy you."

Specter threw red orbs at Ghost. Ghost yelped in surprise, "AHH!"

Ghost quickly created a purple shield to protect himself. But right as he made it disappear, Specter punched him really hard right in the face, knocking him into the pool of water.

Ghost quickly got out of the water panicking, "AHH! I can't swim! I CAN'T SWIM!"

Ghost then noticed Specter was just standing there with his arms crossed, "Okay, two things. One; are you telling me that you have this advanced tech and you never learn how to swim with it? And two; it's like two feet deep."

Ghost looked and saw he was right, "Oh. Right. Umm… Pretend like this never happened?"

Specter nodded, "Agreed."

Specter then kicked Ghost right in the face and knocked him away, making him bounce on the ground, "OW! D'OH! OOF! AH! Dang-! It! Spec-! Ter!

Strike and Strafe's blurs whooshed all over the place around the fighting. In slow motion, they were throwing punches at each other while moving around the obstacles. Strafe threw a bolt of lightning at Strike, but Strike slid on the ground under it. He jumped up in the air and threw electric fireballs at Strafe, but Strafe reflected them into the air.

Metal thrust his fist at Sonic's face, but Sonic ducked his head backwards right as the blow was about to land. Sonic then got his head back up and slammed it against Metal's. Metal's head had a bent on it.

"How'd ya like that?" Sonic taunted.

Suddenly, Metal's damaged spot was gone. Sonic was shocked, "What the-?"

"Strafe gave me a few little adjustments in me when he saved me from destruction on Mobius," Metal said.

"Oh, how useful," Sonic said.

Rainbow was knocked into the judge's seats. Rainbine aimed her cannon at her, "Why don't you just give us? You're no match for me."

"Wanna bet?" Rainbow asked.

Rainbow grabbed her saber and threw at Rainbine's cannon. It got inside the barrel jamming it, "Hey, no fair!" Rainbine yelled.

Rainbow suddenly flew right at Rainbine and punched her right in the face. Rainbine yelled in pain as she landed on her back on the ground. Rainbow walked over to Rainbine and took her saber out of the cannon.

"Sorry," Rainbow said, "I never play fair."

Knuckles threw his fist at Hijacker's head, but Hijacker ducked his head and dodged it. He then kicked Knuckles onto the ground. He took out his revolvers and aimed at Knuckles.

"Let's see if you're bullet-proof to these bullets," Hijacker said.

Hijacker was just about to pull the triggers, but then Applejack aimed her Morpher and fired. The blast hit the revolvers, vaporizing most of them. Only the handles remained.

"Oh, come on!" Hijacker yelled in annoyance, "That's the second time this week!"

Right as Hijacker turned his attention right to Applejack, Applejack was right in front of him and just punched him right in the face. Hijacker was sent flying. But Applejack then took out her Chaos Whip and used it to grab Hijacker. Applejack then wrapped her leg around the whip and pulled hard on it, forcing Hijacker to come back. Applejack then gave Hijacker a strong uppercut, sending him into the air. She then jumped up and caught up with Hijacker. She forced him right to the ground and threw her saber at him. Right as Hijacker hit the ground, Applejack's saber hit him in the shoulder. Applejack then came down stomping hard on his stomach, then aiming at his face with her Morpher charging it, "Honesty Blast!"

Applejack blasted Hijacker hard in the face while jumping off with a backflip. When she landed, she spoke, "No more using your toys."

Hijacker groaned as he got up, "They ain't toys. And I'm still taller than you."

Hijacker then felt a finger tapping his shoulder. He looked and saw Knuckles, "But not me, bully."

Knuckles punched Hijacker really hard in the jaw, knocking him out. Hijacker fell onto the ground unconscious.

"Nice one, Knuckles," Applejack said.

"Thanks," Knuckles said, "That was a great move."

Fluttershy fired her Morpher at Windstorm, but Windstorm kept using his wind abilities to dodge them. Then he spoke, "How about we make this interesting?"

Windstorm held up his hands, and suddenly, a massive tornado going counter-clockwise. Tails and Fluttershy were stuck in it. Windstorm began attacking them in the tornado, shooting blasts of wind at them.

"How's it feel to lose?" Windstorm asked.

Windstorm charged at Tails and threw his fist, but Tails suddenly dodged at the very last second. Now it was Tails' turn, "Let's turn this around!"

Tails began to turn in clockwise circles really fast. The tornado began to go the other way. "AGH! WHAT!?" Windstorm yelled in shock.

Fluttershy flew straight at Windstorm and gave him a strong punch to the face. Tails made the tornado disappear. Fluttershy then noticed a whole fleet of birds heading for them, "Uh… Tails…"

Tails looked and saw the birds, "Uh-oh…"

Fluttershy thought quickly and grabbed Windstorm's arms. She threw him right at the birds. Tails held out his hands and used his wind abilities to push Windstorm faster towards them. The birds began attacking Windstorm, "OW! AGH! HEY! STOP! THAT HURTS!"

As soon as Windstorm was out of the bird fleet, he saw Fluttershy doing a front flip jumping off of them and giving him a strong kick to the head, and he was sent down to the ground again.

Windstorm landed hard on his back on the ground. Strike and Strafe ran right past him. Strike was ahead of his father. He then instantly came right to a halt and tried to kick Strafe with a roundhouse kick, but Strafe ducked forwards under it. He then tried to give Strike a hook punch, but Strike blocked it with his arm.

Strike pushed Strafe back. He then began to hold his arms at him and rotate them rapidly, making wind and pushing Strafe. Strafe had his feet hard against the ground. Strike then charged right at Strafe with an electric fist, but Strafe ducked his head backwards.

Metal grabbed Sonic by his shirt and threw him into the water, "Hope you learned how to swim."

Suddenly, Sonic popped right back out and kicked Metal hard in the head and did a backflip onto the ground, "Didn't see that coming, did you? Now that I have these new abilities, I'm not afraid of water anymore."

"Grr," Metal growled, "Then let's see how you handle this!"

Metal threw a massive green Chaos orb at Sonic. Sonic held up his hands and he was able to catch the orb. He focused his power into it and the orb turned bright blue and he launched it back at Metal. Metal was hit and it launched him into the bleachers.

Ghost shook himself out of his dizziness, "Well, that was painful."

Then Specter appeared right in front of Ghost and threw a punch at him, but Ghost managed to catch it.

Ghost shook his head, "Really? You try to punch me?"

"Who said I was trying to punch you?" Specter asked, "I was trying to do this."

Specter's gauntlets began to glow bright red. Ghost sighed, "I probably should've seen this coming."

"Yeah, probably," Specter said.

Specter then electrocuted Ghost. Ghost yelled in pain, but then he pushed him back. The other villains came to help Ghost. The heroes and girls all came together.

"Please, kids, this does not concern you," Strafe said, "All I want are my sons. But you're welcome to come with me if you like."

"Pfft," Sonic scoffed, "No thanks."

"If you're trying to get your kids to join you, then beating up their friends isn't exactly the way to go," Specter said.

"You didn't give me a choice," Strafe said, "Please, Strike, you and your brother come with me, and this won't go any-"

VROOM! VROOM! There was the sound of a loud of a revving engine of a motorcycle from far away. Everyone could hear it approaching fast. Then all of a sudden, a blue electric flaming motorcycle flew out form behind the dirt hill and landed between the groups with a burst of blue fire and lightning.

Specter yelped in fear, "AHH!"

Reaper just gave a look to him, "Seriously?"

Specter blushed in embarrassment, "What? He caught me off guard."

"Sure, right," Reaper said.

Everyone turned their attention to the new visitor. It was on a pure black standard motorcycle, but the tires were on blue fire with electricity. The whole bike had sighs of burns all over it.

The stranger stepped off of the bike and took off his helmet. When everyone saw his face, they gasped in shock. Specter leaned to Strike, "Uh, do you have a third brother in the family?"

Strike shook his head. The stranger had Strike's face, but there were so many different looks. His skin was the same color, but his veins were glowing bright blue all around. His eyes were completely blackened with cerulean blue glowing irises. His hair was a bright blue flame with blue electricity. He was wearing a sable black jean jacket with spikes on the shoulders, and the exact same logo as Strike on the chest with the same blue glow. His lower half contained midnight black pants, and sable black shoes. He also had ebony black gloves on his hands.

The stranger hissed in a silent demonic voice. He had a pair of chains in his hands. His clothing and gloves were boiling from the heat from his body.

"Well, what are you waiting for?" Strafe said, "Take him out!"

Hijacker took out new revolvers and shot the stranger. But the very moment the bullets touched him, they just burned out of existence. The stranger growled at Hijacker. He held out his arm swung it, using his chains and they got hold of Hijacker.

Hijacker could feel the chains burning, "AH! They're burning!"

Ghost was quietly trying to tiptoe away. The stranger could notice him. He had another chain in his other hand and used it to grab Ghost. Ghost began to freak out in fear.

"Who are you!?" Hijacker yelled in pain.

The stranger hissed, "I am… Ghostspeed. The Speed Force's Burning Bounty Hunter."

Ghostspeed pulled the chains that had Hijacker hard, and Hijacker turned into a small cloud of blue fire and lightning as well as some black smoke. Ghostspeed just destroyed him.

The heroes and girls gasped. "Whoa, how did he do that?" Sonic thought.

Ghostspeed then pulled Ghost right towards him. Ghost whimpered in fear. Ghostspeed grabbed Ghost by the collar of his coat and held him in the air. He held the chains in his other hand really close to Ghost's face, and they were burning.

Ghost whimpered and groaned in pain. Ghostspeed lowered the chains and said in his silent demonic voice, "Sorry. Does it hurt? It looks like it does."

Ghost whimpered in literal fear, "O-only if you scare me."

Ghostspeed put Ghost down on the ground. Ghost was so frozen in fear; he just fell onto the ground shaking in fear. Ghostspeed turned his attention to the other villains.

"You all better run away before you all suffer by my power," Ghostspeed said.

"Oh yeah?" Windstorm asked, "What makes you think so?"

Ghostspeed raised his hand. "This makes me think so," he snapped his fingers.

All of a sudden, Ghostspeed's bike's flames grew and roared loudly. Then it began to drive on its own. It drove around the villains in many circles making a wall of fire.

The fire was getting too hot for the villains to handle. "Sir, we must retreat," Metal said.

"Agreed," Strafe said.

Metal held up his arm and formed a dark blue energy bubble around him and the other villains. They all disappeared. Ghostspeed's bike stopped and the flames and electricity went out.

Strike asked Ghostspeed, "Are you… are you me?"

Ghostspeed sighed. His flaming hair began to turn to normal hair and his veins slowly stopped glowing. His hair looked exactly like Strike's hair, and his blackened eyes turned to white with normal cerulean blue eyes.

"The answer's yes and no," Ghostspeed said, "Am I Strike? Yes. Am I you, though? Not exactly."

"Now I'm so confused," Tails said.

"Let's just say that I'm Strike's… inner ghost and darkness," Ghostspeed said.

"You're not evil, are you?" Sonic asked.

"No," Ghostspeed said, "I was created by the Speed Force and a bit of Red Reaper's fire. So you can say I'm like… one of them."

"One of who?" Knuckles asked.

Specter thought for a moment, and then he asked, "Are you some kind of… Speed Force Ghost Rider?"

"Correct," Ghostspeed said.

"Oh, that makes sense," Spider said.

"Listen, we should head inside and see if everyone is okay," Shadow said.

Everyone else nodded. But just as they were about to move, a blur of dark blue and black lightning and energy grabbed Specter. It was Strafe, and he was choking Specter.

"Father, let him go!" Strike said.

"It's really poetic seeing one of your best friends fall in front of you," Strafe said.

"Dad, please, don't do this," Strike begged, "I'm begging you. Take me. He's not worth it."

"No, Strike!" Specter yelled, "If you turn yourself in, he'll use you to control the multiverse."

"You may have gained so much power when you lost your girlfriend," Strafe said, "But it was not enough to prove that you understand how I felt when I lost your mother."

"Strike, don't listen to him!" Breeze said, "He's lying!"

"He's not himself!" Rainbow said, "It's those powers he has! They're messing with his mind!"

"He can't make you what you may have been before, darling!" Rarity said, "Don't let him do it now!"

"If you all side with him, then you leave me no other choice," Strafe said.

Strafe held up his hand and it began to vibrate rapidly. He then thrust his hand straight through Specter's chest and Specter gasped in pain. Everyone gasped in utter shock.

"NOOO!" Strike yelled as tears formed in his eyes.

Specter fell onto the ground. His body then turned into red mist and then he disappeared. All that remained were his mask and gauntlets. Strike went over and fell onto his knees. He held Specter's mask in his hands.

"How could you?" Strike whimpered, "All he ever wanted was to help people prepare for the future."

"It was all worthless," Strafe said, "And now you have learned that friendship is a weakness."

Strake then turned to dark blue energy and disappeared. Strike's tears went down his face and dropped onto the ground. But then he began to growl in anger. He put down Specter's mask and stood up.

"Oh, no," Breeze said in fear, "No, no, no. Not again."

Strike's body had bright blue electricity crackling around his body and his growling grew angrier. Reaper went over to Strike and grabbed his arm, "Strike, calm down!"

Strike's hand was suddenly gripping hard on Reaper's heck chocking him hard. Strike slowly turned his head to Reaper as he said, "Stay out of my way, Reaper. I will end him for what he did to my best friend."

"AGH! Strike! Stop!" Reaper chocked.

Sonic suddenly realized something. He remembered that Vezon had separated, but if he was still gaining power from his anger, that meant one thing.

"Oh, no," Shadow said, "Vezon wasn't completely killed by Darkness. He left a small amount of his power inside of him."

"Strike!" Sonic yelled, "You have to fight Vezon! Don't let him control you!"

The whiteness of Strike's eyes suddenly turned back and his irises began to glow. He then instantly threw Reaper at Sonic. They were both thrown right into the bleachers.

"Sorry, Sonic," Reaper said.

"No problem," Sonic said, "Ow."

Then Strike's lightning was beginning to turn bright red. His eyes were turning to crimson red and glowing. His hair was now becoming like Ghostspeed's, but the flame was red with red lightning. His clothes were changing color. His hoodie turned midnight black, his shirt was grease black while the symbol was crimson red and the lightning bolt was backwards, his sweatpants was coal black, and his shoes were leather black. His glasses were midnight black, his bandana was jade black, and his accessories on his hands were obsidian black. Strike had turned dark.

"I think we just have to get him back to his senses with a fight," Sunset said.