SONIC BLITZ
BOOK I OF THE CHAOTIX TRILOGY
OF CHAOS BORN
CHAPTER IV
FAMILY TIES
“Oops!” – informed opinion from Tails after failed test of stun pistol (Delta City is still paying for property repairs)
Tails looked at the female and said, “Who’s the hottie?” Knuckles smiled and said, “Her? That’s Tikal. Attractive, rational, super smart…” Tails eagerly cut him off with, “Single? Please tell me she’s single!” Tikal smiled. “Yes young Miles. I’m single. I have been for the past ten thousand years.” blushing shyly, he said, “I’m willing to overlook the age difference.”
“And have been non-physical in this world for ten times that.” Sonic muttered, “Ouch. Never heard a brush off like that one.” Tikal smiled and said, “Well, he is my type, but until the seven Chaos Emeralds are at rest on the pillars of the Gods, one wish can be granted and one wish only. For me to be alive again, someone would have to wish for it to be so. But, that is not a story for this time.”
“Yay! I can get a girl! All those girls at school were wrong!!!” Tails cheered. Everyone in the room cleared their throats loudly to return his attention to the matter at hand. “Sorry,” he whimpered. Knuckles nodded. “Yes, guardian Tikal. We apologize for the outburst.” She smiled cheerfully. “Don’t worry about it. It was kind of cute. Anyway, the situation is like this. Silver was not always the manic, Prozac deprived airhead he is today. He used to be a fierce warrior back when all beings on Earth were equal in both energies of Chaos and Order. People who could channel the energies of both were called many things. Witch, sorcerer, demon, but they all could draw the power of the Master Emerald to alter reality to their will. I was appointed with the sacred task guarding the energies here on Angel Island. Silver was the most powerful of the race who could tap these powers. He used the energy to heal. The light of his strength gave strength to the Emerald.”
Sonic nodded. “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get to the point already.” Knuckles hit him over the head, yelling, “Shut up, you idiot! This is important!” Sonic sat there unaffected from the hit. “Huh? Did you do something, Mr. Emo?” he asked the guardian. Knuckles stood there awkwardly. “He didn’t feel that?” Tikal shook her head. No, he didn’t. He used the power of Nazo, and because of that, his body is changing. His body is becoming one with the power of chaos. Soon, he will turn into the darkness.” Tails yelled, “Hey! Slow down! If he’s from the Silver clan, How can he turn into Nazo?”
Tikal nodded. “Certainly. When the war of Chaos came to be, it was because all living creatures mastered the ability to control the power of the Master Emerald. They waged war with all living things. There was only one way to end the war. The essence of absolute Chaos had to be sealed away. As the sky burned and molten stone fell from the heavens, Silver knew that only one thing could stop the war. First, chaos had to be removed from life. In doing that, the symbiotic monster known as Chaos was born. In order to have him sealed, I trapped him in the Master Emerald with my powers as a guardian.”
As for the prevention of all life being destroyed from existence, the evil created from chaos had to be sealed. Silver took his very heart from his body, and the evil creature known as Nazo was formed. The battle to seal this darkness lasted close to fifty millennia before he was divided into seven Emeralds. These Chaos Emeralds became a prison for the darkness and gave the power to grant a wish. Silver did not hesitate on his wish. Life was restored and chaos remained sealed. No one had powers from that day on.”
Knuckles said, “Until seventeen years ago, on the twenty-fifth of March at three in the morning.” Sonic looked at him and said, “Hey. That’s my birthday.” Knuckles nodded. “I know. I was there. I was supposed to kill you.” Sonic yelled, “What? Why?” Tikal replied, “Because chaos could not be allowed to return to the world. Only guardians and their servants known as mystics were allowed that power. Knuckles hesitated from shock. The shock was from the fact that your infant body was found freshly born on a bed that had been vacant for the past week. You were not born by parents. As well, the instant you were born, it was to late to stop chaos from forming without taking your life, and Knuckles, loyal as he is, could not bring himself to harm a child who had done no wrong but to be born.”
Knuckles nodded. “No child can ever commit a sin that must be punished with death. Instead, all the children were put into the Chronos Orphanage and raised by Mystics. Tails also has a gift from Chaos. The gift is sight. He just can’t fully utilize it.” Sonic yelled, “Whoa, whoa! Back up a minuet! Are you telling me that the only reason I can’t remember my parents is because I never had any?!? That makes absolutely no sense!!!” Tikal said something in an ancient language. Sonic froze. Everyone looked at this and Knuckles yelled, “What did you say?” Sonic whispered, “Of chaos born, of chaos die, the choice of all by one.” The attention was now turned to Sonic. “That language. Did you just confuse everyone with Pig Latin?”
Tikal chuckled. “I am from the old world. It’s a wonder it never carried over.” Tails muttered with a puzzled tone, “Probably because it got sealed away with this Nazo guy. Talking like that would destroy all rational social structure. That would be as bad as the apocalypse in my book.” Knuckles hit Tails for the comment and he went flying. “Hmm. Lets see.” He hit sonic again, and again he was unaffected. The guardian shook his now sore hand, muttering, “I’ve heard of being thick skulled, but this is absolutely retarded.”
Tikal shook her head. “His body is only seems that hard because it is healing at the very instant of impact.” Sonic smiled. “Cool,” he chirped. “I could get used to that.” Knuckles laughed and retorted, “Don’t get used to it. The effect is only temporary. Shadow was created from a stolen Chaos Emerald over fifty years ago, and he took on your form, with the powers that you have, as well as the ability to gain power from one instead of all seven. He has been tricked by Eggman to serve as a host for the symbiotic entity that is known as Chaos. When that happens, he will be unstoppable.”
Tails looked at him and said, “Well, if it is a creature created from Chaos, what if I made a weapon that could focus the power of the Master Emerald to trap it and leech the ambient energies back into it?” Knuckles looked interested at the comment. “Never thought about that, but the problem is time. You need to make it with virtually no resources or research data. But I might be able to work on that.” He walked over to the Master emerald and said, “Big. I need you in the temple.
Suddenly, the ground started to shake as something massive approached. “Did you just summon a monster?” Tails yelled in fear. Sonic took a fighting stance, when suddenly a short and excessively overweight man walked in. “You called master Knuckles? Did you find froggy?” Knuckles slapped his face and said, “For the last time, Big, froggy is imaginary. There is no such thing as an Irish tap dancing frog with a beard and top hat singing West Side Story. You got that? Now I have a job for you. I need a sword forged from chaos energies.”
The contradictingly named Big looked at him and said,”Then you will find froggy?” You could now see a vein protruding from the guardian’s forehead as he yelled, “Yes! Yes! Dammit, yes! If you make the sword I will look for that damned frog! Now shut the hell up and get to work!!!”
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Meanwhile, in a heavily industrialized area known as Robotropolis, a robust man sat in a large hovering chair looking at a large monitor. He had red hair protruding from the side of his head and matching mustache as well as a bald area that looked it was maintained with a floor buffer. He yelled, “Snively! What is the status on my latest creation?” A whiny voice said, “The prototype Metal Strategic Offensive Neurologically Interactive Combat Android, or Metal Sonic, for it’s speed, if finally created. We have twelve variants of the model designated after signs of Chinese astrology and they are ready for immediate mass production, uncle.” he let out a sinister laugh and said, “What about my pawns? How have they done?”
Snively replied, “Shadow managed to return with significant injuries and we discovered what we assume to be blaze at target’s house.” The man yelled What do you mean assume? Either you know or you don’t?” The thin, weasely man said, “The body that was recovered received such significant cranial trauma that it is impossible to preform even the slightest inkling of skeletal reconstruction to preform a positive identification. We can’t even preform a dental record check due to the damage to her body, Uncle Eggman sir.”
The obese man yelled, “What use are you if you can’t identify my tools when you recover them!” Snively stammered in fear, “However, oh impatient one, I did manage to find something that may be of interest to you. That is, if you wish to hear it rather than de-atomize me in your ever unquenchable fury, uncle, sir” Eggman looked at him and sneered, “It had better be good, or I’ll use you as target practice for my swat bots!”
“It turns out, oh despicable one, that her remains were emitting high levels of Chaos Radiation identical to that of the strange emeralds that we found on the orbiting research facility.” The man smiled. “Go on.” Snively nodded and continued, “It turns out that while Shadow is the most suitable host for Chaos, this Sonic person we are trying to eliminate is a flawless genetic match for the creature trapped in the emerald. If we can release Chaos into our unsuspecting vassal, we can subdue the target and use him as a donor body for the other entity. If we do that, our army will be unstoppable.”
Eggman laughed and said, “Excellent. Shadow’s failure to destroy our little thorn might be useful to us after all. Get the child mystic into the device and start the syphoning process. Soon. Soon, we will be Gods!”
