Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ No One is Invincible ❯ Becoming Invincible ( Chapter 4 )

Becoming Invincible

By Blue Dragon

AN: I want to thank all positive reviewers, especially the ones I have critiqued, for their decency. This is going to become boring if I don't change something, so even though the path will remain relatively the same, events in this story will differ from the game.

Biolizard groggily paced around the exterior of the room he had sealed himself up inside. He noticed that he hadn't been experiencing much growth for fifty years, but also noticed that it was not only rapidly accelerating, but bringing new power with it. He had also noted that the life support system at the top of the room was beginning to work automatically. It seemed to be meant for something big, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it yet.

After he yawned once, the reptile made his way out of the room and up the walls that he had learned to walk on.

"Strange . . . " It seemed that unused oil from the engine of the space colony was being dumped, and running through the place like a ghastly stream.

"If I continue to grow at this rate . . . I'll be invincible. And then I'll show Shadow. Yes . . . "

He ignored the consciousness in his head telling him that Shadow was his friend.

"If Shadow was my friend . . . how come he didn't put in a good word for me to Maria? If Shadow was my friend . . . then . . . no. I shouldn't be picky. Shadow was my only friend."

Biolizard landed in front of a terminal atop a cliff of mechanics, where he noticed one of the many scattered computers rested.

"This place is way too open . . . the security functions are all wrong. All vector calculations are off by fifty-two degrees on each plane except `z' . . . this all needs to be reprogrammed and secured." With that said, he began rapidly typing on the keyboard to lock up and secure ARK, but unbeknownst to him, there were others in the ship for the first time in a long time.

***

Sonic awoke, his ears immediately popping from the pressure. His back was sore from lying on the steel for so long, it appeared he was in a small cargo bay.

" . . . What the!? I'm out of here! No way I'm going to be pent up like this!"

He climbed over a few crates and knocked aside some spare bars, staring forwards to the cockpit. It appeared that someone was communicating with an unknown receiver.

"Hey, get back down there!" Sonic didn't notice the GUN guard.

" . . . How about YOU go down?" Sonic leapt up and roundhouse kicked the guard in the neck, sending him back to his original position.

"What the . . . base, the hedgehog is overtaking the craft and-" Sonic delivered a similar fate to the pilot, and broke the speakers.

"I'm outta here!" He peered around into the darkness and burst through the door, realizing too late that he was at a high elevation.

"Woops . . " Using his quick reflexes, he grabbed the wing and broke off a board-like piece.

"Talk about a low-budged flight. I like running better, anyway. See ya!" He yelled as he locked in his shoes. "Wouldn't wanna be ya, and don't forget to write! Heh . . . "

He began spiraling down at the dizzying heights towards the city below, already beginning to notice the police patrolling the streets. A lone communication reached the ground, and the lights began flashing.

"You'll need a little more than that to take down Sonic . . . " With a quick 360 and a focus on decent, he focused again adamantly as the ground rushed up to meet him.

***

Knuckles tossed a grape into his mouth and chewed slowly, taking a long look at the clear, but ominous, sky, and then back at Rouge.

"Now why are you bugging me again?"

Rouge the bat took another cautious step towards the Master Emerald, sure she was being clever.

"Don't bother trying to fight me off, it's MY Emerald now." She smiled an arrogant smile and slashed the air with her wings twice.

Knuckles finished the last grape and turned towards her.

"For the last time, it's MY Emerald. And the day you steal it will be the end of my kind, and since that's not happening, you need not worry about trying to get it. Ever again."

Rouge took another subtle step and was sure she was ready to make her final move. "It sure will look nice in my display cabinet."

Knuckles rolled his eyes, and closed them in concentration, before snapping them open again. "The Master Emerald contains the power to neutralize all of the chaos emeralds, and that makes it VERY powerful. What the-"

"The two of you don't have to worry about who gets it; it's mine to keep! Just try and stop me!" Eggman, who had stealthily come down from above, was already using one of his many machines to take off with the Master Emerald. "If I'm not mistaken, this is the Master Emerald, correct?"

"Dr. Eggman--!" Knuckles declared, as if to let the heavens know.

"So that's Dr. Eggman . . . "

"I'll see you all when I've taken over the world! Especially you, Knuckle Head!" Eggman yelled back down to Knuckles, who was already leaping up.

"Not if I can help it . . . Hiya!" He placed a punch near a corner of the stone, and for a split second, the power was loose. That split second was enough to send the shards of the Master Emerald flying in all directions.

" . . . No matter. On with Plan A. I'll look into it once I get back to the base." Eggman muttered a few curses about his failed attempt, and continued his trek to Lord-knew-where.

"Ahhhhh! You IDIOT! You broke it!? What have you done to my Emerald?"

"I didn't break it, I temporarily separated it to prevent it from being stolen. If it's in pieces, I can restore it. And by the way, that isn't YOUR Emerald . . . ya moron." Knuckles responded, rubbing his fingers. "I split it into shards, all of equal length and volume by a process called-"

"I don't care! I'll be the one to get them back, anyway." Rouge prepared to head eastwards.

" . . . .That's what you think, Bat Girl!" Knuckles muttered harsh words to himself and began running the opposite direction, launching himself off of the nearest cliff and into the sky, where the wind blew against him.

***

Night had fallen long ago, and Shadow had just finished watching a very interesting fight between a hedgehog and a mech. The stars were just beginning to appear, and only slightly aiding in the natural illumination of the dark streets. The blue hedgehog that must have been Sonic had shown some skills, but there was no way in hell he was going to admit that.

Shadow held back a laugh as he took out his green chaos emerald and walked up a fallen robot to the top of the peak, gripping the stone in his hand.

"What the--!" Sonic exclaimed as he looked up to see Shadow.

"It all begins with this." Shadow spun the emerald on his finger, he had played along long enough.

"Now I get it!" Sonic didn't appear happy. "The military must have mistaken me for the likes of you! Is that right? Well? Say something, you fake hedgehog!" Sonic ran at Shadow, who simply tossed the emerald to the other hand and watched.

"Chaos CONTROL!" The hedgehog stared at Sonic arrogantly as he zoomed right past him, `teleporting' the short distance.

"Whoa . .. . he's fast. Wait, it isn't his speed . . . ! You're using that emerald to teleport!" Sonic thought and concluded aloud.

"My name . . . is Shadow the Hedgehog. I am the world's ultimate life-form. There is no time for games . . . farewell!"

With that, he used a final Chaos Control, and focused on his longest jump to his most distant destination: ARK.

***

Biolizard's eyes snapped open further, and he then narrowed them.

"Shadow the Hedgehog . . . I can feel you here. Oh, how I long to prove to you my strength . . . no. We can't meet just yet. But we will soon enough! Yes! In the meantime, I'll just sit around here and sip cola . . . " He pulled a drink from one of the few functioning refrigerators, not noticing how much bigger he was getting as a result of his on and off years in sleep.

"Yes . . . I lost my chance at being the strongest . . . and I lost my chance at Maria's love. I WILL have one of them, and since the latter is impossible, I can regain the former . . . Yes." He stood up with the can in his hand, downing it all in one gulp before checking out his life support system. It sat connected to wires all over the place, and the bright orb in the middle illuminated the dark room with its red glow.

"Strange, that thing seems smaller now . . . no matter."

Biolizard made his way towards the auxiliary transport system by the edge of the mechanized panel. There, he saw an escape pod. It was time for his first trip down to Earth. It wasn't a planned one, as the pods discovery was fairly recent, but the reptile wasn't in a picky mood.

"Well, planet Earth, I haven't seen you for a while, but now, I'm going to explore you fully for the first time." With that, he opened up one of the few remaining working pods, programmed its course, and locked himself in. Through the transparent glass, he could see the blue planet below him, completely filling up the screen

"Depart." He commanded, focusing his will to shrink himself back to a reasonable size. The pod uncoupled itself, and zoomed down to the planet below, leaving a blazing trail through space.

***

"Sonic the hedgehog! Freeze! Don't move!"

Sonic turned in the night to see a large squadron of GUN soldiers, cop cars, and robots, all with weapons pointed at him.

"Oh no, not again!? What country are you guys, with, anyway? Are you even a real military!?"

"Fire at will!" The small army began firing from behind cars, corners, streetlight, sewer pipes, and out in the open.

"Ahh!" Before he knew it, Sonic found himself barely avoiding the GUN fire and having to duck behind some poor sap's parked car, that was quickly being destroyed.

"You'll have to pay for that car, you know!" Sonic yelled out from behind the car that was quickly making its way to explosion status.

"The peoples' taxes take care of that! Now surrender yourself!"

Sonic spun into a ball, focused his power, and then sped away as the poor sap's parked car exploded and sent fiery trails high into the sky.

"We have you surrounded! Put your hands up!" Four officers had him immediately boxed in when he stopped spinning.

"Aw man! Fine! I'll go quietly!" he yelled in submission, slowly raising his gloved hands into the air.

"Subject is resisting arrest! Get him!" The officers knocked him to the ground and started kicking, as well as beating him to the ground with the butts of their rifles.

***

Knuckles landed at the edge of a towering cliff. Below him, there was a canyon of bright rock that appeared to be crawling with GUN robots. The fading sunlight cast a desperate but sufficiently glow on the place, but the shadows were still becoming longer.

"Why the heck are GUN robots patrolling that place? It's a pretty wild canyon, anyway, I can't imagine why anyone would-" Knuckles suddenly felt a feeling in his gut. Chaos energy.

"Whoa. I probably ought to check here for pieces of my emerald . . ." he dropped down into the canyon, ignoring the dizzying heights, knowing he could just begin a glide whenever he felt he was descending too fast.

"Yaa!" He dropped down onto an unsuspecting robot before it could even react, and it shattered into hundreds of scattered pieces.

"That takes care of that . . . now to find some of those Master Emerald shards."

There was a loud impacting sound not too far away, and Knuckles almost jumped.

"What was that . . . eh, I'll worry about it later." He ran to where his feelings were strongest. His father, Locke, had exposed him to chaos energy when he was young, so now he could almost sense an emerald or its shards whenever they were close by.

"I'm getting closer . . . " Knuckles ran, flipped twice, and ducked under more patrolling robots into a space between two sandy rocks. The dirt path below them led between two boulders and around a corner, where he could have sworn he heard something.

"The feeling of that Emerald's presence is getting stronger . . . I need to get it."

Knuckles ran in and around the corner, coming face to face with something he had never seen the likes of, just about his size.

The two stared each other down for a split second.

"What the hell are YOU doing here?" Knuckles asked in shock. It appeared to be a lizard, its eyes orange and searching, darting everywhere. It was holding a Master Emerald shard.

"Likewise, what are YOU doing here. And who are you?"

"I am THE Guardian Knuckles of the Master Emerald, and that's my shard. Give it here. And who are YOU?"

"I am the Biolizard, the prototype of The Ultimate Life-Form, SON! And you don't want to mess with me."

"Give me a break. I've stepped on things that look tougher than you."

Biolizard blinked.

"You're an echidna, aren't you?"

"Yes. The shard, please"

Biolizard shrugged.

"Do I hear fifty dollars?"

The echidna shook his head rapidly. "Don't make me have to take it from you."

"Come on, then!" Biolizard stood fast, holding the gem behind his back. "Show me what you've got."

Knuckles jumped into one of his favorite fighting stances. "If you insist."