Sonic the Hedgehog: Shadow Egg Empire Chapter 2
In high spirits and dressed in her karate uniform, Amy walked through the streets of Station Square as she approached her Martial Arts studio. Today was going to be another normal, peaceful day of martial arts class and hanging out with friends.She'd been enjoying her job ever since she started a week after Eggman had finally been defeated, but little did Amy know that this day was going to be different from any other day as it would slightly change everything forever.Walking inside her studio, Amy found her students waiting for her, young anthromorphic animals and humans alike. But waiting for her, to the surprise of the bubbly and energetic teenage hedgehog, was Espio the Chameleon of the Chaotix."Sensei Amy." Espio bowed, standing in the middle of the karate room, wearing a simple blackbelt uniform. A few kids in the room giggled, watching what was going on. "Oh, hi, Espio." Amy greeted the purple chameleon with a hug, "Whats up?""I came by to see your class and would like your assistance in warming up on my martial arts skills." The ninja replied, "I have been watching you, Amy. You've become quite the teacher and are doing an expert job for a hammer girl.""How can I say no?" The pink hedgehog said with delight, "I'd be thrilled to let you have a martial arts lesson, Espio. Alright, lets see what you got."Backing away from each other, Amy and Espio bowed before the chameleon flipped into a ninja warrior stance as the pink hedgehog took up her karate stance with one leg up, one hand up and held back and another hand forward.As the students watched, Espio launched himself at Amy, who blocked with a series of kicks and punches. The hedgehog went on the offensive then, Espio going into defense mode and expertly evading all of Amy's attacks.When the purple detective found an opening, he did a roundhouse kick and knocked Amy back. She landed safely, getting back up and grabbed a bo staff, twirling it like she would her hammer.Espio caught one that was tossed to him by a brown cat boy, he and Amy circled each other, the pink hedgehog smiling at him. Then they clashed, bo staffs spinning and clinking against each other with Espio dodging a swipe from Amy."You've been well trained, Espio." The pink hedgehog commented, "I can see why you've been a valuable ally on Team Sonic and why Vector trusts you on the Chaotix.""I learned from the best in my clan," Espio replied smoothly, "My uncle was a master ninja, my father was the finest of all next to him and he was the leader. My family trained me as a young boy, molding me into who and what I am to this very day.""And all those years of training seems to have been paying off so far."Espio leapt out of the way as Amy attacked almost viciously, shouting kung fu battle cries and going wild with her staff swings. The chameleon ducked and dodged every attack, finding the right opening and attacked when Amy's back was turned.If the hedgehog had ninja senses like Espio, she would've sensed what was coming. But no, Espio successfully hit her in the back with enough force to knock her down, leaving him as the champion of their duel.Amy groaned as she sat up, Espio helped her get back on her feet, smiling. "I hope I didn't hurt you too badly." He said in an almost apologetic tone."No, I'm fine." The hedgehog shook his hand, "This happens most of the time, most of my students end up beating me in kung fu duels anyway."Espio and Amy bowed to each other, the chameleon thanking her kindly before leaving as Amy began to address her students, summoning her next pupil for the next martial arts lesson of the day.-Elsewhere-Sonic, wearing a dashing suit with a tie, ran through the grass covered, flowery and palm tree decorated landscape of Green Hill Zone, free as the wind and happy as he could be, hollering excitedly as he sped through loop de loops.He just loved the thrill of adventure as much as he loved being with his friends, Green Hill was the most awesome place on Earth. Nothing could ruin all of this, no Eggman, no robots. Just a bright blue sky and a peaceful meadow."AH YEAH!" Sonic jumped over a large gap, spinning through the air before landing on the other side on solid ground, without getting his feet hurt. He kept racing forward, crossing bridges and avoiding dangerous pits.Eventually, the hedgehog saw something just up ahead, waiting for him. He came to a screeching halt, looking up at the sky and breathing in the fresh air before spotting his friends just waiting for him, waving at him, even she was there.Forgetting all about adventure and anything else, a day-dreamy look crossed the hedgehog's green-eyed face and he ran towards the spot where Amy waited with Tails, Knuckles, Shade, Cream, Cheese, Shadow, Rouge, Blaze and the others waited.In fact, he could also see his siblings Manic and Sonia with them as well, along with his mother Queen Aleena and his Uncle Chuck. Everyone was here and the speedster could smell a chili dog, a very yummy chili dog.Everything was so happy, what could ruin it all?Just then, the sky darkened and turned red, thunder rumbling in the distance. The flowers suddenly withered, all the leaves falling from the tree. Sonic could see some unease among his friends and family, terror on their faces.A horrifying, evil laugh filled the air and the hedgehog could feel something else, something that terrified him: A sudden twisted desire to hurt, to destroy, to serve the dark force that was upon him.Sonic turned around just as he appeared, the blue robot hedgehog with a sinister cape and a large moustache, looking at him with cold red eyes. The next thing he knew, the speedster opened his mouth and said, "What is your bidding, master?""Sonic the Hedgehog." The robot spoke, his commanding voice full of menace, "I, Doctor Robotnik, command you to serve me now. Destroy your friends, crush them all and together, we will rule all unopposed."He wanted to resist, he wanted to fight back, but he couldn't. With all free will seemingly gone, eyes welling up but his broken heart full of darkness, Sonic snapped to a salute and spoke in a horrifying monotone, "Yes, master. I will comply."Even as he heard Tails protesting, everyone pleading with him, Sonic wheeled around and punched the fox in the face, knocking him out cold before picking him up by the legs and smashed him on the ground before tossing him into a rock.The impact was brutal enough for something in the hedgehog's adopted brother to be broken to a point where Tails seemingly never moved again, Sonic turned to face the others as they moved in to attack him, prepared to fight to the end.Lightning was flashing in the sky now, the intensity of the thunder rumbling intensifying, the menacing overlord was laughing maniacally and goading Sonic on, "YES, YES. BEAT THEM UP, DESTROY THEM ALL, DESTROY!Sonic raised his hands to block an incoming punch from Knuckles, the speedster grabbed the red echidna's fists and grasped them hard as bones began to crack and the guardian screamed in horrible agony. Then, Sonic punched through his ribcage.Knuckles' scream intensified as the fallen hero grasped his beating heart and ripped it out, the echidna dropped to the ground, his life signs fading as blood poured out of his wound. Shade wailed in horror and raced to protect him.Ignoring the others attacking him, Sonic engaged the orange female echidna in battle, almost reminded of when they first met when she was with the Nocturnus. But this time, he was the bad guy and she was the good guy.He tried hard to resist, to break the spell, but Sonic couldn't do it, he just couldn't. Shade put up a good fight, displaying her combat skills well, but the blue blur overpowered her and took her down in seconds, breaking her neck under his foot.The Chaotix came forward, trying to surround Sonic, but he beat them all up, Espio went down hard. Vector went flying into the distance off the ledge and down into the water, Charmy was badly beaten to a bloody mess with Sonic's spin attacks.Silver tried to contain and stop Sonic with his psychic powers, his hands aglow as he held them up. It worked long enough for Blaze to hit the blue blur in the head and try to blast him in the face with fire, Rouge joining in on the beatdown.With all his strength, Sonic broke free of Silver's grasp, hitting him in the face and whacking Blaze away hard. He initiated a series of homing attacks on the white hedgehog, beating him until Silver had lost the will to keep fighting and fainted.Blaze recovered and tackled the hedgehog, her hands aflame as she attempted to burn him into submission. All the while, the evil overlord controlling the hedgehog's will laughed maniacally and kept rooting for him, claiming victory was almost theirs.The hedgehog summoned all his strength and pushed Blaze off him, punching her in the face and grabbed her by the wrist before slamming her on the ground repeatedly before completely taking her out of commission.At that second, Shadow and Rouge attacked, the Ultimate Life Form and the gem thief coordinating an attack with Omega, who laughed with delight as he declared, "I WAS BUILT TO DESTROY SONIC ORIGINALLY, I CAN ACHIEVE THAT DREAM!"Queen Aleena, Manic and Sonia were all shocked and horrified at what was unfolding, Uncle Chuck began pleading with the robot, asking him to stop this, only for him to get eviscerated by "Eggman" in a heartbeat to everyone's horror.Sonic went head to head with Shadow, the two hedgehogs beating the tar out of each other and reminding themselves of the Space Colony ARK incident, of when they had first met on Prison Island and had fought again on the ARK.For one minute, as he dueled with the Ultimate Life Form, Sonic nearly realized how much he missed battling Shadow. Doing this again, having a battle with an equal of himself, he almost felt this was the one good thing to come from this.A part of him shook its head, this was wrong, all wrong. Regardless, the blue one defeated the black one and took him down brutally before beating down Rouge, ripping off her wings and taking the bat out of the fight.Omega remained, so did his own siblings. The robot was trying to blast the hedgehog into submission and shouting various battle cries, this all changed when Sonic launched a series of Homing Attacks on Omega, trashing his body completely.As the huge robot fell apart, the head landed at Sonic's feet and he crushed it underfoot before getting out of the way as Big the Cat tried to slam him with his whole body. Froggy jumped on Sonic, trying to catch him off guard.With almost no remorse, the speedster threw the frog on the ground and smashed him with his foot, ending the frog's life to the horror of Big. "FROGGY!" The cat wailed, "No, my pollywog pal is gone. I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS, SONIC!"I'm sorry. More tears were coming out of his eyes now, the fact that he was hurting his friends was hurting him too. Sonic attacked Big, breaking his fishing pole as well as the cat's foot and arm before tearing out his heart with his bare hands.Big fell, blood pouring out of his wound as Sonic threw the heart away like garbage. A squeaky battle cry rang out as Cheese flew in to attack the blue hedgehog, Cream charging forth with fear and determination to avenge her friends."CREAM! BE CAREFUL!" Amy cried, shaking her fear as she held her hammer and her ground, she was concerned for her safety. Sonic punched Cheese into the sky, sending her over the horizon far, far away to Cream's horror."MY BABY CHAO!" She wailed, "Sonic!" Sonic advanced on Cream, grabbing her by the neck and lifted her up, strangling the life out of her while tying up her ears as tears fell onto the ground from the rabbit girl.Cream passed out in an instant, her life signs weak, the blue blur tossed her out like he'd done so with Vector. A few more remained, Sonic's enemy/new master was getting more excited, commending the hedgehog for doing a remarkable job.Vanilla stood, horrified at what the blue blur had done to her daughter, Gemerl was outraged and so was Chocola Chao. Queen Aleena, Manic and Sonia stood ready, prepared for battle with weapons drawn.Without even blinking out the tears in his eyes, Sonic attacked Gemerl just as he'd attacked Omega and smashed every inch of his body before brutally taking out Vanilla just as he'd taken down the other girls. Chocola Chao suffered Cheese's fate.Setting his sights on his mom and the siblings, half filled with remorse but stuck under the influence of the cackling madman, Sonic attacked them, starting with Sonia as she tried to subdue him with her piano weapon.His sister was formidable, a well skilled fighter, but Sonic overpowered her and knocked her down before taking out Manic in a curb stomp battle, battering him in an instant with several homing attacks.A tearful Queen Aleena took flight, a blue aura surrounding her as she drew a staff and vowed to put Sonic out of his misery. The hedgehog shook his head, knowing what was to come, there was nothing anybody could do to save him from this fate...Without hesitation or mercy, Sonic activated his super form, the Chaos Emeralds not freeing him from the mind control as he took flight and attacked his own mom, evading magic attacks all while the robotic overlord watched from below."Sonic, stop!" Aleena pleaded, "Don't let Robotnik control you, fight him. This isn't you, its not like you to be like this. Don't listen to him, resist. Face up to what you are doing right now, you can't do this. You can't hurt your family!"Family! Not even that word could help Sonic wake up from his horrible nightmare trance, he was aware of what he was doing. A mental battle was unfolding in his mind now, between himself and a Sonic serving the Eggman Empire.The evil Sonic was beating the normal Sonic, claiming that he was meant to be like this, he was a minion of the doctor now and couldn't break free even if there was somebody who could bring him back to his own good ways.In spite of the mental battle, this did not affect Sonic in any way other than emotionally. He was still in control of his mind for the most part, but there did not seem to be a way the spell could be broken.Aleena, like all the others whom had lost, put up a strong fight against the blue hedgehog before Sonic overwhelmed her and brutally beat her with the Queen of Mobius crashing to the ground at the dark lord's feet, defeated.His super form draining as he reverted back to his blue self, Sonic faced a horrified Amy, who'd dropped her hammer as a louder cackle filled the air, accompanying the lightning. This was it, the hour of victory, it was the end of it all."Excellent work, Sonic! EXCELLENT WORK!" Eggman said with satisfaction, "You have served me well, even though I can see a spark of light left in you. Now, finish the job, DESTROY AMY ROSE AND BE DONE WITH IT! HA HA HA HA HA...""Yes, doctor!" Sonic said and marched towards Amy, fist raised and prepared to beat her up. But then, the pink hedgehog, despite being terrified, spoke and pleaded with him, "Sonic, no! W-would you really... hurt a woman."It was then that something finally clicked, Sonic ceased his advance, a look of comprehension on his face. He looked into Amy's green eyes, seeing her beauty and remembering how much he loved her. The mind control seemed to break!"SONIC! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" The robot Eggman howled furiously, "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? DESTROY HER, FINISH THE JOB, FINISH HER! WHY DO YOU HESITATE? DON'T LISTEN TO HER!""I..." Sonic said, looking at his hands and at Amy. "I would never... hurt a woman... as pretty... as you, Amy. I... I love you; I always have and... I'm sorry."Amy smiled and put a hand on his face in an assuring and forgiving manner, "Would you... hurt a baby?" To Sonic's surprise, she held up a bundle with a baby hedgehog in it. Sonic looked at her and the baby, realizing, this was their offspring.Embracing them both, Sonic, starting to cry a bit, held Amy close to her and they began to kiss. A furious robot hedgehog Eggman suddenly laughed maniacally, coming closer and berating Sonic for his disobedience."Such a pity..." The doctor purred, "You could've been my best enforcer yet, but your emotions anchor you, you let the woman you love prevent you from going further. All of this, family and freedom will all be your DESTRUCTION..."Lightning came down from the sky, electrocuting Sonic as he screamed and dropped to his knees, Amy crying out for him. Darkness was engulfing him, the triumphant evil Egg Overlord laughing louder than ever before.Voices cried out, begging for Sonic to come back. The baby in Amy's arms was crying, obviously terrified about what was going on. The hedgehog felt helpless, with nothing that could be done to save the day this time...Just then, a sharp voice rang out, "WAKE UP, SONIC!"
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