Sonic Chronicles: The Series

In the warehouse section of the town of Soleanna, a ball of purple energy appears in midair with Mach and Kumori jumping down from it. Mach looked around to find out that his is back in his original time period, but Selihpem was not with them. “Selihpem must have escaped to another time or place.” Mach concluded. “Well then we have to find him. Once we do, I’ll destroy him!” Kumori said with a mixture or hatred and determination in her voice. “What’s with her? I have never seen Kumori act like this before.” Mach said in his mind. It was true, Kumori never showed this kind of anger to anyone, not even White Horror. What could Selihpem have to make her so upset?
It was at that time that Jasmine decided to show up. “There you are. I have been looking all over for you two. We have a problem.” Jasmine told them. “Problem?” Mach questioned. “It seems Eggman’s machines are looking for you, Mach. So what did you do this time?” Jasmine asked. “Nothing. There target is probably Selihpem.” Mach informed her. “What is Eggman up to this time? What does he want from Selihpem?” Kumori questioned. “I’ll just have to ask him directly.” Mach said. “Hey! Hold on!” Jasmine exclaimed. “I can handle this alone. You keep track of Selihpem.” Mach instructed them. “I got no problem there.” Kumori said as she cracked her knuckles. Mach nodded his head in agreement with her and ran off.
“Geez. He finally shows up again and then he leaves before even saying “Hello”. Well, it’s good to see his little trip hasn’t changed him, right Kumori?” Jasmine asked Kumori, but received no reply. “Kumori?” Jasmine asked again before she turned around to find that she had disappeared. “Those two are more alike then they know.” Jasmine said. Jasmine pressed a button on her wrist communicator to contact the G.U.N. commander. “What is it, agent Jasmine?” the commander asked. “Sorry to bother you, boss. But I need to ask you for a favor.” Jasmine requested. “What?” the commander asked. “I need you to pull up all available data about an item called the scepter of darkness.” Jasmine requested.
Mach traveled west to find himself in a large canyon filled with industrial sites and train track everywhere. “I can feel it. Eggman is here somewhere.” Mach said as he scanned around for any signs of Eggman. “Ugh, where is he? There has to be something that can tell me where he is.” Mach said. Just then, a long black train with several white mechs standing on the roof of the passenger cars. As the train passed by him, Mach somehow noticed that Eggman was in the conductor’s seat in the front of the train. “That work for me.” Mach said before jumping on the tracks to chase after the train.
Eggman was peacefully sitting in his chair as he was examining three documents on his computer. The first document contained information on the Creator Project created by the ruler of Soleanna ten years ago. The second document contained as much information about Selihpem as Eggman could find, but there was very little of anything. The third and final document was what pecked Eggman’s interest. The third document contained everything about Solatist, the Souls of disaster. That included how it was created, what it could do, and that it was sealed inside the princess of Soleanna. “My, the Soulss of disaster are even more powerful then I imagined. Once I capture the princess, those very souls will be under my control and I will rule the world!” Eggman stated as he gave his signature obnoxious laugh.
Just then, the train’s alarms system suddenly went off. “What?!” Eggman exclaimed as he started pressing several buttons on the computer console. The documents on the screen disappeared and were replaced by a video screen of Mach following Eggman’s train from behind. “Great, another hedgehog. I have already had enough trouble from Blur a few minutes ago. I don’t have time from him.” Eggman said as he pressed one of the buttons on the console. “Attention, all mechs! Be on the looks out for Mach, the black hedgehog. If you find him, eliminate him.” Eggman ordered.
Mach was able to catch up to the speeding train and jumped up to land on the roof. That was probably not a good idea because there were five white mechs with their guns aimed directly towards his head. “Great.” Mach said sarcastically. The mechs fired their guns and Mach quickly jumped to the side to avoid the gun shots. The mechs turned to Mach, who was now corned with nowhere to go. If Mach made the slightest mistake, he would fall off the train and possible severely injure himself. “This is bad.” Mach said as he looked down to the ground behind him, which was moving past him at an accelerated rate. Mach looked back at the mechs as the cocked their guns to prepare to fire again. Mach realized that with the mechs in front and edge behind him, there was only one way he could survive: take the edge.
Mach took a single step backwards, which caused him to fall over the edge. The mechs quickly walked over to the edge to found out if Mach had really jumped off and wasn’t pretending to trick them. When the mechs looked over they found that Mach was not there and figured that he had really jumped. “Target is eliminated. Mission complete.” One of the mechs stated. But the small victory was short lived when Mach’s voice was heard from behind. “CHAOS SPEAR!” Suddenly, five purple arrows plowed straight through the mechs chest to destroy their cores, which cause them to go offline and fall over the edge and be crushed by the train’s wheels. “Now that that’s over, it’s on to Eggman.” Mach said before jumping across the roof of the train’s cars to reach the main car.
The ceiling in Eggman’s car blew open and Mach jumped down to confront the evil scientist. “Wouldn’t the door have been easier?” Eggman mockingly asked as he turned his chair to face Mach. “So, what do you want now?” Eggman asked. “Who is Selihpem and why are you trying to capture him?” Mach questioned. If you want to know, then you should go find him yourself.” Eggman said as he got out of his chair and turned to face the computer. “But here’s a hint...It’s all linked to the Soleanna disaster ten years ago.” Eggman hinted. “The Creator Project.” Mach concluded. “Indeed. When you capture Selihpem, you must bring him to me. Then I will tell you the truth about Solaris” Eggman persuaded. “Forget it; you’re on your own.” Mach said before he jumped out through the hole in the roof. “No matter. Either way, the Solaris project and its secrets will be all mine.” Eggman said with a fiendish chuckle.
Blur was running with Annalise in his arms and Geisy running next to them. “I knew it. I knew you would return. You had to.” Annalise said to Blur. “Blur! Look out!” Geisy shouted as she pulled him away just in time to avoid a green blast of energy. Blur looked ahead and saw Blitz standing in front of them. “You again?” Blur said. “This time there will be no more interruptions! The Soul Trigger must die!” Blitz exclaimed. Blitz launched a wave of psychokinetic energy at Blur, which Blur dived to avoid. Just as Blur was about to get back to his feet, Blitz used his gravity powers to hold Blur in place. “Blur!” Geisy shouted. “Did you two enjoy your little walk?” Eggman’s voice came from the sky. Annalise and Geisy looked back for a moment before being captured by Eggman’s Eggmobile. “Blur!” Geisy shouted to her hero. “Geisy! Annalise!” Blur shouted, desperately trying to break free from Blitz’s hold to save them, but it was useless.
“It’s time to end this, once and for all!” Blitz exclaimed. Blitz then raised his hand to finish Blur, but was interrupted again when Selihpem jumped between them. Blitz jumped back in surprise of Selihpem appearance, which forced him to release Blur from his hold. “Selihpem! Why are you getting in my way?” Blitz asked, confused about his ally’s actions. “I am Mach. Mach Speed Blazer.” Mach said to Blitz. Mach looked back to Blur and said “Get going.” “Thanks, bro.” Blur said before he ran off to chase after Blair and Annalise. Mach turned back to his new opponent with every intention of defeating him.
Mach was the first to strike and he charged at Blitz. Blitz countered by using his psychokinetic powers to push Mach away fifteen feet. Mach landed on his feet and looked stared at Blitz, obviously impressed. “It’s obvious that I have underestimated you. You are more powerful then you look, I’ll give you that.” Mach said to Blitz. “And I’m just getting started.” Blitz said as he used psychokinetic powers to lift a bunch of nearby tools and throw them at Mach. Mach made no move to avoid them, but instead started swatting them away like flies. “You call them power? Here, let me show you what real power is.” Mach said. Ten yellow arrows formed around Mach. “CHAOS SPEAR!” Mach shouted as the purple arrows flew towards Blitz. Thinking quickly, Blitz created a force field that stopped Mach’s attack and rebounded it back towards him. Blitz was exhausted from using his psychokinetic powers too much in one day. Mach was becoming exhausted from using his chaos spear and being hit by Blitz’s and his own attacks. The winner of the battle would soon be decided
Growing very frustrated with Mach, Blitz charged at him without even thinking. Mach saw this as an opportunity and pulled out the green chaos emerald he had obtained from the future. “CHAOS CONTROL!” Mach shouted. Time instantly stopped and Mach took the chance to deliver a strike kick to the back of Blitz’s head. Time returned to normal and Blitz was sent plowing to the ground with an enormous pain in the back of his head. Blitz got to his knees and stared at Mach with anger in his eyes. “Why you!” Blitz exclaimed. “Don’t bother trying to defeat me. With a chaos emerald’s power, I can control time and space. You can’t break free.” Mach said to him. “I won’t give up! It all depends on me! I can’t lose! Not when I’m so close!” Blitz said with determination. Blitz then remembered the chaos emerald that White Horror gave to him and pulled it out into Mach’s view.
Blitz and Mach charged at each other and bashed their arms together. CHAOS CONTROL!” Mach and Blitz shout at the same time. The double chaos control created and spark of energy to be released and created and white vortex behind them. “What is that?” Blitz asked. Mach already knew about it since he used it to help Blur return to his time, but was surprised that Blitz was able to create it. “You...induced a control attack.” Mach said in surprise. “I won’t let anyone get in my way! I’ll change the past and save the world!” Blitz exclaimed. “What an idiot.” Mach thought. “Selihpem isn’t trying to help you create a better future; he’s trying to eliminate the past.” Mach told him. “What? What are you talking about?” Blitz asked, confused at what Mach was saying. “If you want to know the truth then it would seem we must see what happened ten years ago. Follow me if you want to know the truth.” Mach told him before jumping into the vortex. Blitz stood there for a moment, thinking about what to do. Who could he trust, Mach or Selihpem. Blitz had decided. Blitz jumped into the vortex with Mach to find out the truth.

A white vortex opens and Blitz and Mach drop down from it into an unknown location. “Where are we?” Blitz asks. “My guess is that we are in the experimental base where the Creator Project was done.” Mach said. “The Creator Project?” Blitz questions. “It was an experiment that was created by the ruler of Soleanna to control time and allow humanity the chance to correct their sins.” Mach explains. “But, what does any of this have to do with Selihpem or Solatist?” Blitz asks. Mach was about to answer him until the heard a faint rumbling sound coming from down the corridor.
In a laboratory just down the corridor where Mach and Blitz were, many scientists were gather around a container with a small icicle was being experimented on. Among the scientist was the ruler of Soleanna and the small icicle was most likely the Creator Project. “My lord, we can’t contain it much longer. A spatial meltdown is inevitable. We have to take shelter.” One of the scientists said. “Why, Creator? Why do you refuse to listen to my voice?” The Ruler asked the small icicle. “Father!” a small voice came from behind. The Ruler turned around and saw his daughter, Annalise. Suddenly, the Icicle’s power grew stronger until there was too much to contain. In a desperate act to save his daughters life, The Ruler cover Annalise with his own body just as the container exploded.
Down the corridor, Mach and Blitz caught sight of the explosion up the corridor and quickly ran towards it. Upon reaching the sight where the explosion took place, Mach and Blitz found a destroyed laboratory with many dead scientists lying on the ground. “It appears we are too late.” Mach said. Mach noticed that, somehow, The Ruler was still alive and quickly rushed to his side. But while Mach was busy with The Ruler, Blitz noticed a ball of light hanging over a pool of dark ooze. “That light...its Solatist!” Blitz exclaimed. Upon hearing Blitz’s words, Mach also took notice of the dark ooze beneath the light. “And that ooze must be the original Selihpem.” Mach said. “That’s Selihpem?!” Blitz said in shock. Then, to Mach and Blitz’s surprise, the ball of light and the dark ooze started to move away. “They’re escaping!” Blitz shouted. “We must split up. I’ll go after Selihpem.” Mach said. “Ok. Then leave Solatist to me.” Blitz said. The two hedgehogs were about to pursue their enemies until a weak voice stop them. “Wait” Mach and Blitz looked back and The Ruler holding up a Blitz scepter to Mach. “Seal it with this.” The Ruler said weakly as he placed the scepter in Mach’s hands. Mach quickly took the scepter from The Ruler and ran after Selihpem while Blitz ran after Solatist.
Mach entered a large room with four large tanks of strange liquid substances on the corners and a steel pillar in the center. Mach was searching the entire base for the dark ooze that would one day be Selihpem. “How can such a formless matter escape so quickly?” Mach asked no one. Suddenly, he was attacked by the same tiger creatures he confronted when he was transported to Blitz’s time, only different. Instead of being made of lava and rocks, these tigers were made from the same substance as Selihpem called Stalkers. “Looks like Selihpem is more powerful then I thought. Even after just being brought into existence.” Mach said.
The all the creatures now know as Stalkers pounced onto Mach at once, but the black hedgehog just used his speed to step aside. “Still as weak as before.” Mach commented. One of the Stalkers turned to Mach and, to Mach’s surprise, fired a purple laser beam from its mouth. The sudden laser assault caught Mach by complete surprise and took to the hit directly in the chest. Mach was thrown hard at the steel pillar and fell to the ground, holding his burning chest. “Ok, so they’re a little stronger.” Mach said. The Stalkers formed a line and they all fired lasers out of theirs mouths at the same time. Acting fast, Mach release one of his power rings and clutched it in his hand, shouting “CHAOS CONTROL!” Before the lasers were able to hit their target, Mach vanished, which left the Stalkers confused. “Looking for me?” Mach’s voice could be heard down the line. The Stalkers looked over to see Mach, in his ball form, spinning in place. Mach then used his version of spin dash to plow straight through the line of Stalkers and destroy them.
“At least that’s over.” Mach said. Just then, the ground below Mach’s feet began t quake until something large popped up and knocked Mach away. Mach landed on his feet and found himself coming face-to-face with a smaller version of the lava worm he faced in the future, only it was dark as well called a Crawler. “I need to keep my mouth shut.” Mach said to himself. The Crawler lunged at Mach, but the ebony hedgehog moved away and watched as it burrowed under ground. “Just great!” Mach exclaimed sarcastically. Without warning, the Crawler shot up out of the ground and swallowed Mach whole. It looked like it was all over for Mach until. “CHAOS BLAST!” The Crawler’s body began to glow bright red until it exploded into a hundred. “Note to self: next time, find less disgusting way to escape.” Mach said as he tried to clean to worm guts out of his fur.
A loud crash was heard coming from behind Mach. “You have got to be kidding me.” Mach said before turning around. Mach once again found himself up against another dark creature created by Selihpem, only this time it brought friends. Mach now had to fight a dark giant called a Titan while trying to destroy an army of dark birds called Nocturns. “It’s never easy, is it?” Mach asked himself. The Titan created a purple spiked rock like the Golems and threw it at Mach. Growing tired of all these monsters, Mach made no effort to move, but instead just reeled his foot back and kicked the rock ball straight back. The Titan was hit by it own attack in the head and was crushed when Mach suddenly appeared on top of the spiked ball and pounded away at it. Mach quickly jumped away from the group as one of the Nocturns almost took his head.
The Nocturns decided to join in on the action as half of them swooped down to attack Mach while the rest stayed behind. One swooped down to strike Mach, but the black hedgehog just stooped it by grabbing its neck. “Pathetic.” Mach said. When the other Nocturns flew down to attack him, Mach used the Nocturns in his hands as a bat to swat the others away and destroy them. The remaining Nocturns that stayed behind closed their wings and reopened them to fire dark energy balls. Mach quickly threw the Nocturn in his hands to take the hits for him. “Selihpem really knows how to create powerful monsters, I’ll give him that. But their still not enough.” Mach said as over a hundred Purple formed around him. The Nocturns once again closed their wings and reopened them to launch a barrage of dark energy balls. “CHAOS SPEAR!” Mach shouted as the Purple arrows collided with the energy balls and whatever remained destroyed the Nocturns.
Mach was completely exhausted from using so much of his chaos powers all at one time. If it wasn’t for the one power ring still on his wrist cuff, Mach would most likely be dead right now. To make sure he didn’t use up anymore of his chaos energy, Mach placed the power ring back on his cuff and slowly waited for his power to return to his body. “Man, Selihpem hasn’t even gained a physical form yet and he’s still just as powerful.” Mach said. Mach then felt a familiar chill going down his spine and turned back to find the formless ooze known as Selihpem trying to escape into another room. “Oh no, you don’t!” Mach exclaimed as he chased after the evil substance.
Selihpem tried to escape, but it was useless when he pulled out his chaos emerald. “CHAOS CONTROL!” Mach called out. Selihpem was instantly halted as his formless body was frozen in time. “What? Stop!” Selihpem yelled. The Silver scepter that Mach had obtained from the ruler began to float above his head as it glowed in the same light as the chaos emerald. “Who...who are...you?” Selihpem asked. “I am Mach. Mach Blazer.” Mach told him, not fearing of what would happen in the future. Slowly, Selihpem formless oozing body was being pulled forcefully into the scepter. “Mach...your face...you form...I will remember.” Selihpem said weakly. “Your death...certain...you...will die.” Selihpem promised before his entire substance was trapped in the scepter and the seal was complete. With the seal complete, the scepter dropped from the air and landed in Mach’s hands. Mach looked at it carefully, watching as it glowed just as menacingly as before.
Blitz was waiting outside with Annalise in his arms as Mach walked out of the former base with the glowing scepter in his hands. “Did you do it?” Blitz asked. “Yes. And you?” Mach asked. “Yes. The icicles have been properly sealed.” Blitz answered. Blitz walked over to a near by tree and set Annalise down next to it. Mach looked at the scepter for a moment before setting it down next to Annalise. “You’re going to leave it behind?” Blitz questioned. “Yes. I already know what becomes of it in the future.” Mach said to him. “It’s time to return.” Mach said as he pulled out his chaos emerald. “Of course.” Blitz said as he pulled out his chaos emerald. The two hedgehogs lifter their chaos emeralds into the air and shouted "CHAOS CONTROL!” And on command, a white vortex appeared behind them and Mach jumped through it.
Back inside the deserted laboratory where Creator was created, a blue robot was walking into the center of the room. “It would appear that I am too late. Too bad, the Creator Project could have been a great source of power for me. But at least I still have this.” The blue robot said as he held up a small computer chip. The blue robot inserted the chip into its head and could feel an enormous amount of power enter its mechanical body. “Hahahaha. With this power I will have my revenge! Today begins the start of my own empire!” the blue robot laughed out as he began to transform.

Back in the town of Soleanna, a white vortex appears in air with Mach dropping down from it. “You’re back sooner then I expected.” Jasmine’s voice came from behind him. Mach looked behind him and saw Jasmine standing there like she had been waiting for him to show up. “So what did you find out about Selihpem?” Jasmine asked. “What are you doing here anyway, Jasmine?” Mach questioned impatiently. “Kumori is still in pursuit of Selihpem and I think she might need some backup.” Jasmine said. “Where is she?” Mach asked. “She is west of the town, just off the shore of Wave Ocean.” Jasmine replied. “Very well.” Mach said as he started to walk away.
“Hold on! You still didn’t answer my question.” Jasmine said. Mach stopped for a second and looked at Jasmine before he said “Jasmine, I have a request.” “What is it?” Jasmine asked. “I need you to access the G.U.N. database. Specifically, find out what materials the scepter of darkness was made from.” Mach requested. “Already ahead of you.” Jasmine said. Jasmine then reached into her pouch and pulled out an exact replica of the original scepter of darkness. “I called G.U.N. earlier and asked them to make an exact copy. Just in case.” Jasmine said as she handed him the scepter copy. “Now all we have to do is find Selihpem.” Mach said. “Ok, but you still haven’t answered my question.” Jasmine said. “I found a way seal him.” Mach told her before he ran off to find Kumori.
Kumori was running along the beach until she felt a cold chill run down her spine. “I know you’re here Selihpem! Come out here and fight!” Kumori demanded. “My, aren’t we a little anxious.” Selihpem voice came from above. Kumori looked up and watched Selihpem as he jumped down a small cliff to land in front of her. “I had no idea you were so eager to die. If that’s the case, then I will happily assist you. And I shall enjoy it.” Selihpem said. “The only one dying is you, Selihpem!” Kumori said, her voice filled with hatred. “Hah, don’t make me laugh. Let’s find out if you are even worthy enough to fight me.” Selihpem said. Ooze began to drip off of Selihpem’ body and then started to take the form of Stalkers, Nocturns and one Crawler. “Let the entertainment begin.” Selihpem said amusingly.
The Stalkers were the first to attack as they all jumped on Kumori at the same time. Kumori used her super speed to dodge the Stalkers and kicked them away. The Stalkers quickly recovered and reeled their heads back before throwing them forward and shot lasers from their mouths. This caught Kumori by surprise, but quickly dropped to the ground to avoid them, but one laser did graze her back and left a terrible burn mark. Kumori winced in pain as she felt the hot laser burn her fur and flesh. “There a lot stronger then I thought.” Kumori thought. As Kumori weakly to get to her feet, trying her best to endure to pain in her back, and looked around herself to find that the Stalkers had her completely surrounded. “This is bad. Or is it good?” Kumori though as the Stalkers reeled their heads back again to create more lasers. As she looked around to find a way to escape, an idea suddenly hit her and she patiently waited for the Stalkers to attack. “It seems she has accepted her fate.” Selihpem said. As the Stalkers threw their heads forward and shot their lasers, Kumori suddenly jumped into air and watched as the lasers passed below her and destroyed the Stalkers on the opposite side.
“Ugh, idiots.” Selihpem said as he watched his monsters being destroyed by their own attacks. Kumori landed with a smirk and said “What else you got?” Selihpem held his hand up and then threw it forward, signaling the Nocturns to attack. Almost half the group charged at Kumori while the other half stayed behind. Kumori jumped from side to side as the Nocturns dived at her from multiple directions. The Nocturns kept diving at Kumori until she was backed into a wall of rocks. “This isn’t good.” Kumori said to herself. Unknown to her, Kumori kicked a stone from the wall, which caused a bigger rock to drop from a higher part of the wall and land on her head. “Ow!” Kumori exclaimed as she rubbed her aching head. Kumori looked at the rock that landed on her head and then to the wall above her and gave a sinister smirk. Selihpem saw this and looked at the wall above, instantly realizing her plan. “No, you idiots! Don’t move!” Selihpem called out, but it was too late. The Nocturns closed their wings and then opened them again to fire dark energy balls at Kumori. Kumori, using her super speed, quickly moved out of the way and watched as the energy balls destroyed the wall, which caused the rocks above to crash down on the Nocturns.
“Why did I create them in the first place?” Selihpem asked himself before he snapped his fingers, signaling the Crawler to attack. The Crawler quickly burrowed under the ground before Kumori had a chance to spot it. Kumori turned back and saw that Selihpem had no more monsters to hide behind. “Looks like it’s just you and me.” Kumori said. “I wouldn’t be too sure.” Selihpem said, confusing Kumori. Just then, the Crawler came up and struck Kumori in the back, which only created even greater pain to the burn mark she received earlier. Kumori fell to her knees in pain as she watched the Crawler burrow back into the ground. “Give it up. You have no reason to go on. Especially after what you’ll do to Mach.” Selihpem said in a cruel tone. “Shut up!” Kumori yelled. “It’s always hard to face the truth. But don’t worry, you won’t have to anymore.” Selihpem said with a chuckle. Before Kumori could react, the Crawler popped up out of the ground and swallowed her whole before burrowing back to the ground. “Finally.” Selihpem said. But to his surprise, the Crawler popped back out of the ground and fell over dead. Selihpem inspected the worm and then noticed a large hole in it’s head.
“You’re going to have to do better then that to get rid of me.” Kumori’s voice came from behind the dead Crawler. Kumori then walk from behind the dead Crawler and quickly went to her fighting stance. “Let’s finish this, Selihpem!” Kumori demanded, but Selihpem wasn’t listening. Selihpem had his eyes closed, as is he was concentrating on something...or someone. “It appears we’ll be having guests. I guess I’ll have to keep them occupied.” Selihpem said. Selihpem then reached over to his left hand and then torn it completely off and a new one grows in it’s place. Selihpem then created a ball off purple energy around it before it disappeared. “Now where were we? Oh, yes.” Selihpem said. With a flick of his wrist, Selihpem arms were covered with spikes. “Your destruction.”
Mach was running along the coast with Jasmine flying behind him, searching for any sign of Kumori. They came to a sudden stop when a ball of purple energy appeared in the sky and Selihpem’ old hand fell to the ground. “What is that?” Jasmine asked. It looks like...Selihpem’s hand” Mach answered. Jasmine walked over to inspect it until Mach pulled her back. “What’s the big deal?” Jasmine questioned. “Look.” Mach said as he pointed to Selihpem’ hand. The hand soon turned it a puddle of ooze before growing bigger and forming into a Titan. “Now there’s something you don’t see everyday.” Jasmine commented.
The Titan created a spiky black ball in its hands and threw it at the two. Mach used his speed while Jasmine took to the skies to avoid the attack. Jasmine dived at the Titan and spun around at a fast pace, shouting “SCREW KICK!” Jasmine aimed her signature attack at the giants head and blew it completely off. “All right!” Jasmine cheered. But to Jasmine’s surprise, the headless Titan quickly grabbed Jasmine and started to crush her. “Aah!” Jasmine shouted from the pain. Jasmine looked around for Mach, but couldn’t find him any where. “Where is he?” Jasmine questioned in her mind. All seemed hopeless for Jasmine until. “CHAOS LANCE!” Just then, a large black arrow passed threw the giant and destroyed it. Jasmine escaped from the Titan’s grasp and looked up to find Mach standing on top of a small cliff. Jasmine flew up to him and said “Well it’s about time. Mach was about to reply until he heard, what sounded like, Kumori fighting. “That’s Kumori. Come on!” Mach shouted before running to Kumori’s location.
From the looks of it, Kumori had the upper hand as she constantly kicked and punched Selihpem without him being able to defend himself. Kumori gave a strong side kick to Selihpem’ chest, which pushed him back a few feet. “This only proves that you were edited as a monster destined to destroy Mach.” Selihpem said. Kumori said nothing as she stared at him with eyes filled to the brim with hatred. “Oh, of course you didn’t know. You may have been on Earth, but what you did to Mach in the future, that was your...” Selihpem was cut off by Kumori. “SHUT THE HECK UP!!!” Kumori yelled as she jumped up and delivered a strong flying side kick to Selihpem head. Selihpem fell to the ground and stayed there, laughing, before he disappeared in a puff of black smoke.
By the time Mach and Jasmine arrived, Selihpem was already gone, but they were able to listen in on their conversation. “What just happened?” Jasmine asked. Kumori held her head down in shame for a moment before turning to Mach. “Mach. I think the one that defeats you and kills you in the future is...me.” Kumori confessed. Needless to say, Mach was shocked to the extreme. Kumori, his friend and the very hedgehog who proclaimed her love for him, was the one that was destined to kill him? “What?” Mach said softly, still in shock and feeling a bit of sadness in his heart.
“But...how?” Jasmine asked, deeply confused at how Kumori could have killed Mach. “I don’t know I took Selihpem down before he said how.” Kumori told her story. “But why you?” Jasmine asked. “Because Mach would never kill me.” Kumori answered. “So why did you kill me?” Mach asked calmly. “I really have no idea.” Kumori finished telling her story.
“But...that’s so unfair! Mach’s always here to defend the world!” Jasmine exclaimed. “Eventually, when something or someone is seen as too powerful...they are seen as a threat. And then the world becomes their enemy.” Kumori explained. After that, Mach turned around and started walking away with the same grim expression he had when he was first awakened by Eggman. “Mach.” Jasmine said, stopping Mach in his tracks. “Even if you believe everyone in the world will be against you...just know that me and Kumori and all your friends and family will always be by your side.” Jasmine told him. “It doesn’t matter. This conversation made me realize something.” Mach said. “What?” Kumori asked. “I should've never been freed from Prison Island! I would have been better off frozen until my death!” Mach said grimly before he ran off. Mach!" Jasmine and Kumori called out to him, but he was already gone.

Mach was standing at the northern entrance of the town of Soleanna and stared out into the barren wasteland known as Dusty Desert. But Mach wasn’t alone. Standing next to him was a stranger covered by a dirty brown cloak that said he held information on Selihpem’ current whereabouts. “Where did you say he was again?” Mach asked. “In the temple ruins located in the middle of the desert. That is where you will find Selihpem.” The stranger answered. Mach had a very hard time trusting this person. Then again, after what Kumori told him, Mach didn’t trust anyone anymore. As Mach looked at the cloaked stranger and noticed a faint blue aura of chaos energy. Mach could tell this guy was powerful.
“But why would Selihpem be here?” Mach asked. “Might I take a guess?” Jasmine’s voice came from behind. Mach quickly turned around and found that the cloaked stranger was gone and Jasmine and a depressed Kumori were standing at the entrance. “What are you doing here?” Mach questioned. “Selihpem appears to be headed for those ruins. He’s probably looking for the chaos emerald that’s supposed to be there.” Jasmine said. “That make’s sense. His movement shows that he’s seeking the seven chaos emeralds. Supposedly, he needs them to join with Solatist again so they can become the Creator.” Mach concluded. “Then I will seal him before he does.” Kumori said, replacing her depression with determination.
Mach turned to the two females and glared at them, which greatly scared the two. “You will do no such thing!” Mach said in venomously manner. “But Mach...” Jasmine was cut off. “No buts! I want you two to stay as far away from this battle as possible!” Mach shouted. “All we want to do is help!” Jasmine shouted back. “Like I’m supposed to believe that.” Mach said calmly before he ran off into the desert. “Ugh, that little...” Jasmine shouted in anger. After hearing what Mach had said, Kumori returned to her depressive state and started walking back to town. “Hey! Where are you going?” Jasmine asked, taking notice to Kumori’s imminent departure. “Mach doesn’t want us. So there’s no point in staying here if he hates us.” Kumori said sadly. Unexpectedly, Jasmine stomped towards Kumori and slapped her across the face twice. “How can you say that?! He needs us!” Jasmine exclaimed. “But...you heard what Mach said.” Kumori said. “Kumori...Do you love Mach or is that a lie?” Jasmine asked. “Of course.” Kumori said like it was the easiest answer in the world. “Then prove it.” Jasmine challenged.
After trekking through ten miles of sand, Mach had reached the temple ruins, but couldn’t find a way inside. “There must be a switch or something around here.” Mach said as he started to feel around the wall for any secret entrances. But while Mach was searching, a Crawler slowly wiggled its head out of the sand to spot its prey. In one swift motion, the Crawler jumped out and charged at Mach. During his search, Mach noticed a shadow on the wall and knew it wasn’t his because Selihpem was using his shadow’s power making it harder to see then a normal shadow. Mach quickly jumped to the side before the Crawler hit the ground and burrowed under again. “Selihpem is defiantly here.” Mach said. The Crawler jumped out from behind him, but Mach quickly countered by using a chaos spear towards the Crawler’s throat. The Crawler dropped dead from the attack.
“This one seemed much weaker then the others. Either Selihpem is growing weaker or he is just stalling for time.” Mach assumed. Just then, another Crawler popped out of the ground in front of Mach. “It’s defiantly the second one. But Selihpem is gonna need a lot more then that to stop me.” Mach said with a smirk. As he said that, over a hundred Nocturns, Stalkers, Crawlers, and Titans popped out of the ground. “Note to self keep your mouth shut about having more if it’s about your enemies.” Mach said nervously. As the dark monster army advanced forward, a single Stalker secretly snuck up behind Mach. The Stalker lunged at Mach, ready to kill. Just then, Mach heard a feral screech from behind him and looked back to find the Stalker pinned to the ground with a razor blade through its head. “Looks like you could use a hand.” Just then, Erazor Djinn appeared in a puff of black smoke to defend Mach. “What are you doing here?” Mach questioned. “No time for that. Selihpem is getting closer to the chaos emerald. I will help you get inside.” Erazor said as he snapped his fingers. Mach suddenly turned into a cloud of smoke and entered the temple through the cracks. Erazor pulled his razor blade from the dead monsters skull and turned back to the rest, saying “Who’s first?”
The cloud of smoke passed threw the cracks in the wall and reformed together to create Mach’s body. “So that’s how genies feel when they turn to smoke, huh? It’s actually kind of sick.” Mach said. Mach scanned his surroundings and found himself in a room filled with sand and several stone platforms scattered around it. Even from this room, Mach could feel Selihpem’ cold, spine chilling presences just up ahead. “This time, you won’t get away, Selihpem. Mach stated before he jumped off to land in the sand. Unfortunately, when Mach landed in the sand, he instantly activated the temple’s defenses. The sand started shifting around and soon turned into a series of sand waves similar to water ones.
The waves came crashing down on Mach, but he was just lucky enough to avoid them in time. But the waves just kept coming. To make matters worse, a Titan and two Nocturns dropped down from the ceiling and seemed to be able to resist the sand waves. “As if this couldn’t get any worse.” Mach said. Mach quickly jumped to the side to avoid an incoming sand wave, only to be hit in the back by a dark energy ball. A Titan threw a spiky rock ball at Mach, who avoided it, only to be hit by a sand wave. “I’ve have had enough of this!” Mach shouted in anger. Mach’s body began to gather green chaos energy until he released it. “CHAOS BLAST!” The chaos explosion not only destroyed the dark monsters, but it also seemed to deactivate the temple’s defense system. “Now to find Selihpem” Mach said as he ran through the door into another part of the temple.
Mach stopped as he found himself in a large circular room with a shrine at the end. Mach looked up the shrine to find Selihpem holding the yellow chaos emerald. “Selihpem!” Mach called out. “I was expecting you sooner. As you must know, you are already too late. But there’s still time for you to change your mind. Join me, Mach. Let us teach this world a lesson and rewrite the future.” Selihpem offered once again. “Don’t try to deceive me. It wouldn’t work anymore after Kumori told me what you said. ” Mach said. “What?” Selihpem questioned. “You have no desire for revenge. You were only created for destruction. You’re only lust is to fuel Solatist until there is nothing left of time and space itself.” Mach said. “You say that I was created for destruction. That makes one more thing we have in common.” Selihpem said. “What?” Mach questioned. “ You have nothing left to lose. Humanity will hate you; your friends will betray you. So why bother protecting them any longer.” Selihpem tempted him. Mach though about this and figured...he was right. “Join me, Mach.” Selihpem offered for a final time putting his hand out. Mach was about to accept until. “STOP!!!”
Mach and Selihpem looked over and saw Kumori and Jasmine stop in front of Mach. “What are you doing here?!” Mach questioned in anger. “Stopping you from making the biggest mistake of your life.” Jasmine said. “The only mistake I made was denying my reason for existing. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m busy.” Mach said as he started to turn back to Selihpem. Suddenly, Kumori grabbed Mach by his arm and forced him to turn around before punching him across the face. Kumori’s action had caught everyone by surprise. Mach fell to the ground and tried to get up, but couldn’t because Kumori had pinned him to the ground. “GET OFF!” Mach shouted as he tried to pry free from Kumori’s hands. Suddenly, Mach felt a small drop of water land on his forehead. Mach looked up and saw Kumori crying. “I won’t let you go, Mach. I couldn’t live if you ever did something like this.” Kumori said through the tears. “I already lost you once to Selihpem. I won’t let that happen again. I love you too much to let that happen Mach.” Kumori said. Mach felt Kumori’s grip loosen and quickly jumped to his feet with Kumori. Instead of pushing her away like Selihpem expected, Mach was actually hugging her, which quickly calmed her down.
“What is this?!” Selihpem shouted in confusion. “You won’t lose me, Kumori. You never will. Remember that promise I made to you 8 years ago?” Mach whispered to her. “You promised you would always be there for me.” Kumori said. “And I have no intention of breaking it now or ever.” Mach said as they separated. “So, what is your decision, Mach?” Selihpem asked. “I refuse, and that will always be my answer.” Mach answered. “It’s a pity, Mach Speed Blazer. Such a pity.” Selihpem said as the chaos emerald started to float above his head. “Truly a shame that you wish to go against me!” Selihpem exclaimed while laughing. The chaos emerald then shot out a pulse of energy that knocked the group back a few feet. The chaos energy transformed the floor below them into an arena of black ooze. “This will be your last battle. Prepare to suffer along with your friends.” Selihpem said.
“Drown in darkness, you fools!” Selihpem yelled before he jumped into the pool of ooze. “That can’t be good.” Jasmine said. The group clumped together to a triangle formation to make sure nothing would catch them off guard. Just then, a large hand of ooze formed quickly and swatted the group away a few feet. Another hand was formed from the ooze and caught Kumori in midair, squeezing the life out of her. “This is your fault. Suffer, you filthy rat!” Selihpem shouted as the hands grip grew tighter. Thinking fast, Jasmine reached into her pouch and threw a series of bombs that reduced the hand back into ooze. Mach quickly caught Kumori as she began to fall and helped her regain consciousness. “Are you ok?” Mach asked while blushing. “I’m fine. A little disgusted, but fine.” Kumori answered. This time, a gigantic monster formed in front of the group, with the upper half of Selihpem’ body sticking out of its forehead. “Don’t you fools understand? You can not defeat someone that can not die.” Selihpem said arrogantly. “We’ll just see about that.” Mach replied.
The trio charged at the gigantic monster. Kumori used her homing attack to slice the monsters arms off, but they only grew back a minute later. Jasmine threw her bombs at the monsters chest, but all that did was create a small hole that was regenerated in seconds. Mach used his chaos spear on the monsters head, but the monster countered by opening its mouth and sucking them up. “Hahaha. My turn.” Selihpem said amusingly. The monster then opened its mouth and shot out a gigantic laser aimed for Mach. “Only one chance.” Mach said as he reaches for an object behind his back. When the laser hit, the only thing seen was a large cloud of smoke. When the smoke cleared, Mach was no longer there. “Mach NO!” Kumori yelled. “I knew he didn’t stand a chance.” Selihpem said with a chuckle. “Wanna bet?” a voice was heard above Selihpem. Selihpem looked up and saw Mach with a large black arrow in his hands. “CHAOS LANCE!” the attack completely blew Selihpem away, which also destroyed the monster and returned the temple to its original design.
Selihpem tried his best to stand, but he was too weak. “But...how?” Selihpem asked. Mach only answered by revealing the green chaos emerald in his hand. Too weak to stay in a solid form, Selihpem reverted into a puddle of ooze. “Now to end this.” Mach said as he pulled out the scepter replica and walked up to Selihpem. Using the power of the chaos emerald, the scepter floated above Mach’s head and began to seal Selihpem like before. The sealing was complete, but something was wrong. Suddenly, the scepter replica began to crack until it exploded. “It didn’t work the scepter it mustn’t work anymore!” Jasmine shouted in shock. Selihpem’s dark ooze began spiraling in the air, slowly reforming. “The “I” of now absorbed your powers through your appearence in the past.” Selihpem said. Selihpem’ solid body was now completely reformed. “What may have worked ten years ago, No longer does!” Selihpem exclaimed as he shot out a wave of pulsating of energy at the group.
Mach and the others tried to resist Selihpem’ power, but it was too much and were thrown halfway across the room. Selihpem landed firmly on the ground and now held both chaos emeralds in his hands. “What?” Mach questioned as he looked in his hand to notice the emerald was gone. Selihpem most likely stole it during his attack. The chaos emerald formed an infinite sign above Selihpem’ head, which created a billion more copies of himself to surround the group. “You must realize now, that you cannot hope to stop me with your limited power.” Selihpem said. “Watch us.” Mach said with a sinister smirk on his face. “It’s futile. The world will betray you. Why fight at all? Why risk your life for those who will persecute you later?” Selihpem continually questioned. “I just figured out this intire time everything you showed me was a mere illusion to get me to join you. Cause as long as I have my friends by my side, I will fight like I always have.” Mach proclaimed. Mach then released both his power rings then looked to Kumori, who also released her power rings. The trio clutched their hands together with smirks on their faces as they decided finish the battle with one final attack.
“CHAOS CHARGE!!!”

The Prolouge part 7 of 10: Bond of 2 hearts

It’s like they always say. You never know what you have until it’s gone. This concept applies to everyone, even Blur Journey Blazer. It has been over three months since Blur, Mach, and Geisy raced Jet and his team, the Babylon Rogues, across the legendary Babylon Garden. This day also marks the sixth month since Blur had searched for Kumori’s family. Blur had been searching the world endlessly for them with no luck of finding them yet. He was about to give up hope until he overheard Kumori talking on her communicator with, who sounded like, Geisy. Kumori said she was headed for Soleanna and that is where the story begins as Blur had never checked that place.
Soleanna, the city of water. The citizens of Soleanna were currently celebrating a famous event known as the Soleanna Sun Festival. The sky was lit with colorful fireworks with a long white boat headed towards a giant alter in the middle of the town. Aboard that boat was Annalise, the current ruler of Soleanna. Annalise happily waved to the cheering people as the boat made a stop at the alter. Annalise walked up the alter steps and came face-to-face with a figure wearing a black cloak holding a small torch in his hands. Annalise found it strange when she thought she saw the figures hands were not made of skin, but quickly shrugged the thought away. The figure handed the torch to Annalise, who was greatly entranced by the flickering flames.
As Annalise stared into the flames, a terrible vision entered her mind. The entire town was being burned down and the water was replaced by a river of lava. Annalise could do nothing but watch as her proud home was slowly being consumed by the flames. The ground then started to rumble and the earth below her began to crack open. Annalise looked up and saw a gigantic monster made from souls and ice tearing out of the ground. Annalise shook in fear until she noticed an lone figure standing up to the monster, ready to defend the burning town. After taking a closer look, Annalise saw that the figure was actually a light blue hedgehog that she knew. “Blitz?” Annalise silently questioned.
“Miss Annalise.” Annalise escaped from her vision when one of the servants broke her out of the trance. “It’s...it’s all right.” Annalise said reassuringly. Annalise gave the black cloaked figure a ceremonial bow before turning to the crowd. “We give thanks for the blessed flames. May we always continue to have this peace. Sun of Soleanna, guide and watch over us with your eternal light.” Annalise gave the traditional speech. Annalise turned around and placed the flames on the alter, which created a mantle of flame, signaling the completion of the Soleanna Sun Festival. The crowd went wild as fireworks filled the sky with their colorful beauty. Everything was going perfectly until several explosions were created for unknown reasons.
Annalise then looked up to see a large airship floating above them. The bottom of the airship opened up and several mechs dropped down to surround Annalise and her servants. The black cloaked figure jumped over the mechs and ran like the wind, literally. Just then, Eggman floated down to the princess in his new Eggmobile. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, princess of Soleanna. I am Dr. Ivo Robotnik also known as Eggman. I’ve come here to obtain the secret of the souls of disaster from you. And to take the chaos emeralds that are the key to its secrets, the CHAOS EMERALDS.” Eggman explained his plot. Upon hearing this, Annalise held the blue chaos emerald closely, not want to give it up because it was given to her by a special friend. “Now, princess, come this way.” Eggman commanded. Annalise slowly backed away, only to be stopped by the mechs.
All seemed hopeless until a strange gust of purple wind surrounded everyone. “No. It can’t be.” Eggman said, realizing what was causing this strange wind. “Well, that a pretty snazzy performance. And nice guess Egghead it's me all right” Everyone looked up one of the pedestals to find none other then Blur Journey Blazer. When Annalise spotted the purple hedgehog, she momentarily received another vision that replaced Blur with the similar light blue hedgehog from the earlier vision. “You...it can’t be! Blitz!” Annalise called to Blur by mistake. “Blitz? Who’s Blitz?” Blur asked Annalise. Blur’s mind was returned to the battle when the mechs quickly surrounded him. “All right! Time to Party!” Blur shouted eagerly.
The mechs opened fire, but Blur merely jumped off the pedestal to avoid the shots. Once in the air, Blur curled up into his ball form and began to using his homing attack on the surrounding mechs. The mechs tried to counter by shooting the blue ball, but Blur was just too fast for them. One by one, the mechs were destroyed by the speedy little hero when there was only one left by the edge Blur just tapped on it with his foot and it crashed into the water. After finishing with the mechs, Blur landed in front of the princess to correct her for her earlier mistake. “I’m Blur. Blur Journey Blazer.” He introduced himself to her.
“You won’t ruin my plans this time, you irritating little rat! Attack!” Eggman commanded. Several mechs of different shapes and sizes dropped from the airship above and fired all their weapons at the blue hedgehog. “What do you say we go for a little ride?” Blur said as he picked up Annalise and ran off. Thanks to Blur’s super speed, both he and Annalise were able to make it out safely. Unknown to them, they were being watched by two lone figures. The first one was none other the Blitz Psych ??????. “I finally found him. The Soul Trigger.” Slick said. The second figure watching was the black cloaked figure from that ran away earlier. “I finally found you, Blur. This time, you will die, my loathsome copy.” The figure said. Either from anger or to test his power the black cloaked destroyed the nearby wall with his metal hand.
Blur was still running until he reached a safe part of town and thought the he lost Eggman. “Um...Why are you helping me?” Annalise asked. “No special reason. It’s just my job as a hero.” Blur said simply. Blur instantly screech to a halt when 3 purple mechs dropped from the sky and blocked off his path. Blur set Annalise safely on the ground before charging at the mechs. Blur ran head first into one of the mechs to crash through its chest plate. One of the mechs fired its gun at Blur, but the blue blur quickly jumped to the side and allowed the bullet to destroy the mech behind him. Blur jumped into the air and curled into his ball form to using his homing attack to destroy the rest of the remaining mech. Blur smirked at his easy victory, but then turned around to find Annalise in the hands of Eggman’s Eggmobile.
“I am afraid our little game will have to end now.” Eggman said. After being able to squirm her arm free from the Eggmobile’s grip, Annalise quickly grabbed her precious chaos emerald. “Blur, take this!” Annalise shouted as she threw him the chaos emerald. Blur caught the emerald and said “I got it! Don’t worry, I’ll rescue you!” “I know.” Annalise said, having complete trust in him. “It’s only a matter of time before it’s mine. Until then, you can hold on to it for me.” Eggman said. Blur could only stand there as he watched Eggman fly up to his airship with Annalise in hand. Eggman’s airship then departed from the town of Soleanna, leaving Blur completely helpless to do anything. Now he has to stop Eggman's plan...again. “I never get a break.” Blur complained.

It was the next day that Blur began searching the town for any signs of where Eggman might be keeping Annalise. Blur had searched the town, high and low, but had been unsuccessful. Just then, hope came in the form of Blur’s best friend, Wing. “Blur!” Wing called from the skies. Blur stopped in his tracks when the super genius landed in front of him. “Hey Wing. Long time, no see.” Blur said. “I’m glad you’re here. I heard that you tried to save the princess from Dr. Eggman. You’re going to rescue her, aren’t you? Let me help.” Wing asked. “I may not know what Eggman is up to, but it can’t be a good thing.” Wing added. “Ok. With your help, this should be a piece of cake. But the problem is, I don’t know where Eggman is keeping her.” Blur said. “Let’s check the central plaza. There’s bound to be someone who knows where he went.” Wing said. “Good idea. Let’s go.” Blur said before he ran off with Wing flying close behind.
Blur had entered the central plaza, which held several people gossiping over Annalise’s capture. “With all these people talking, finding out where Eggman is should be no problem.” Blur said. “Let’s split to cover more ground.” Wing suggested. “You got it.” Blur said as he ran in one direction while Wing flew the other. Wing was currently hanging on the ceiling, posing as a ceiling fan, listening in on the conversation below him. “Did you hear about that crazy doctor kidnapping the princess?” Person #1 asked. “I know. It’s just terrible.” Person #2 said. Wing reached into the backpack he was wearing to pull out a small notepad and began writing the entire conversation.
“Wing!” Wing was about to run for dear life until he looked up and saw that it was only Blur. “Hey, Blur. How’d the search go?” Wing asked. “Uh, Blur...Is there any reason you have a mask on?” Wing asked uncomfortably. Blur chuckled in embarrassment as he got rid of the silly mask. “Sorry. Just trying to escape the fans.” Blur said. “You know, it’s not fair. You, Rock, and Mach have hundreds of fans while I have none. Man I am so weak.” Wing complained. “Consider yourself lucky it’s actually pretty horrible. So, did you find anything?” Blur asked. “Yeah. I heard that Eggman’s airship was seen around Wave Ocean, just outside of town.” Wing said. “I’m on it.” Blur said before he ran away at top speed.
“I’ve got to hurry and save Annalise.” Blur said as he passed the entrance gate to enter Wave Ocean. Upon entering, Blur was stopped when several fighter mechs popped out of the sand and started shooting their guns at him. Blur barely avoided the attack and curled up into his ball form. “Let’s see how you like this!” Blur shouted. Blur then started spinning in place and quickly lunged himself at the mechs with his spin dash. Blur’s attack toppled the mechs over by crashing through their legs, making them immobile. “That was just too easy.” Blur said arrogantly. Just then, several laser shots hit the ground, nearly hitting Blur. Blur looked up to find a number of flying mechs headed in his direction. “Like I said, way too easy.” Blur said confidently. While the flying mechs shot at the blue blur, Blur quickly jumped to the air and curled up into his ball form again. Blur used his homing attack to crash through the mech and destroy them. “Later!” Blur called out before running off again.
Blur was running along the boardwalk until he saw a herd of orcas pass by. “Hey, I didn’t know there were orcas here. This place has everything.” Blur said as he watched the orcas swim away. But while Blur wasn’t looking, one of the orcas swam in his direction. The orca jumped out of the water and, at the last second, Blur moved away before the orca destroyed the section he was once standing on. “Wow! He either looks hungry or just plain angry.” Blur commented. Blur then noticed that the orca was coming back. “And he’s coming back for seconds!” Blur shouted in a panic. Blur ran for his life as the orca destroyed the path behind him. Blur then stopped running when he noticed that the orca wasn’t following him anymore. “Where’d he go?” Blur asked. Suddenly, the orca emerged from under Blur, which forced him into the air and clung to its Dorsal fin. “Now I know how Geisy feels when she gets caught. Somebody, HELP!” Blur cried who looked like he was about to puke.
Lucky for Blur, Wing had managed to catch up to him and heard his cry for help. “I have to do something to help Blur. But what?” Wing asked himself. Wing scanned the surrounding area for anything that might help. Wing then noticed a large gate near the cove, which served as the only exit. “I got it! If I can shut that gate and stop the orca from leaving, Blur should be able to jump off the orca and reach the shore.” Wing figured. “Don’t worry, Blur! As soon as I find the switch, you’ll be ok!” Wing shouted to him. “All right, but make it quick! I’m getting orca sick!” Blur shouted back as his fur slowly turned to a sickly green color. “Uh oh. I better work fast before he keels over.” Wing said before he flew off.
Wing soon reached an island with a watch tower that most likely held the control for the gate. “That has to be the control tower. I better get to it fast.” Wing said as he broke into a run towards the tower. He was halfway there until man fighter mechs dropped from the sky to land in front of him. “Uh oh.” Wing said. The mechs opened fire on Wing, but Wing quickly jumped behind a rock for protection. “Man, there sure are a lot of them. I’m not sure I can beat them.” Wing said to himself. When the shoot stopped, Wing peeked over the rock, only to duck back down as the shooting presumed. “This is hopeless. There is no way I can beat them.” Wing told himself. Many thoughts entered his mind, making him believe that he was weak and inferior to everyone, making himself believe he was worthless. These thoughts continued to haunt Wing mind until a certain memory came back to him.
“That’s right! Blur is like my brother and I promised him I would always be there for him! It’s time to keep that promise!” Wing said with newfound determination. Wing flew up into the sky above the mechs. Having caught sight of the hedgehog, the mech aimed their guns and fired. Wing maneuvered in the air to avoid the shots and when the mechs started firing missles, Wing used his psychokinesis to send them back and take them down. “Wing!” Blur called. Wing instantly remembered his mission and flew towards the tower. Once inside, Wing flipped the switch that shut the gate and forced the whale to stop. Seeing his chance, Blur quickly jumped off and landed on shore.
“Blur, are you all right?” Wing asked. “Yeah, I’m fine.” Blur replied. The sound of loud engines reached the heroes ears and they both looked up to see Eggman’s airship escaping over the mountains. “Oh no, we’re too late.” Blur said. “From the looks of it, the princess is being moved to a different location. “Do you know where their going?” Blur asked. “Hmm...Judging by the speed and direction of the airship, my guess is he’s headed for Dusty Desert. Let’s go.” Wing said. “All right.” Blur agreed. Blur took a look at the direction of the airship one last time before running back to the town of Soleanna.

In the buried temple ruins of Dusty Desert, Annalise was patiently sitting on a broken piece of rock, acting as a prisoner. All the events that have happened in the past couple of days were slowly breaking Annalise’s heart and she didn’t know how much longer she could take it. She was about to give in to the depressing emotions in her heart until she was reminded of the final words of her departed father said to her. “That’s a good girl, Annalise. Remember, be brave. Don’t cry, no matter what.” “Oh father, I don’t know how much more I can take. I wish you were here to keep me and your people in comfort during our time of need. And I really wish you were here to protect us once again, Blitz.” Annalise said quietly as she remembered the first and only time she met the light blue hedgehog.
---Flashback---
“Where am I?” Blitz looked back and found that Annalise was awake. “What happened? Who are you?” Annalise asked Blitz. “I am Blitz.” Blitz answered her question. “Where is my father?” Annalise asked. “I am sorry, but he’s gone. But don’t feel sad. Your father would not want you to be sad.” Blitz told her. Blitz then took out his blue chaos emerald and gave it to Annalise. “What is this?” Annalise asked. “It’s a good luck charm. As long as you have it, you will always been happy.” Blitz told her. “Thank you.” Annalise said. Blitz smiled at Annalise before turning around and disappearing in the vortex.
---End Flashback---
Annalise smiled at the memory of the light blue hedgehog giving her the chaos emerald that promised her to keep her happy. And it did for the past ten years until Eggman showed up. Just then, the floor below Annalise started to shake and then exploded wide open. Annalise used her arms to shield her eyes from the sand and caught sight of Blur and Wing when she moved them away. “Mr. Blur!” Annalise said happily. “And I thought only Alexis called you that.” Wing said giggling. “Listen, just call me Blur. Now then, are you ok?” Blur asked. “I’m so glad you came.” Annalise said. “I always keep my word.” Blur said. “Too bad it isn’t worth anything.” Eggman’s voice echoed through the ruins.
Just then, an army of fighter mechs dropped down from the ceiling and surrounded the group. Eggman then walked from behind one of the wrecked pillars and faced the group with a sinister smile. “It looks like a pesky little rat has stuck its nose where it doesn’t belong. Well, a hedgehog to be more precise. The princess is mine until I can unlock the secret of the souls of disaster.” Eggman stated. “Well that’s too bad ‘cause we’re leaving.” Blur said. “I don’t think so.” Eggman said as he snapped his fingers to command the mechs. The mechs took precise aim at the hedgehogs, making sure not to hit the princess.
It seemed all over for the heroes until a strange gust of wind suddenly circled around the mechs. “What is this?!” Eggman questioned in a panic. Suddenly, claw marks and deep holes appeared of the mechs armor until they were blown to pieces. Eggman questioned about what was happening until he felt himself being turned around and lifted off the ground by his jacket. Eggman was shocked to discover that a black cloaked being was the one that destroyed his mech and now holding him captive. “Who are you?” Eggman asked. “Someone who desires revenge.” The cloaked figure said. Annalise instantly recognized the person as same who helped celebrate the sun festival. But what was he doing here and how did he destroy the mech?
“Tough luck, Eggman. Looks like your plans are finished.” Blur said with a smirk. “Silence!” the figure said with authority, which caught the group totally off guard. “So, what do you plan on doing to me?” Eggman asked. “I plan on killing you of course.” The figure said simply. Eggman was completely terrified and the heroes were feeling sorry for him. He may have been an evil villain bent on ruling the world, but even he didn’t deserve to die. “But not right now, I have other plans. So you’re free to go, for now.” The figure said as he threw Eggman out the open window. The figure turned to the remaining group and looked at Blur intently. “Right now, the only one I wish to kill is you, Blur Journey Blazer.” The figure said as he moved into a fighting position. “Me? What did I do?” Blur asked in shock. “I suffered a humiliating defeat at your hands and now I want revenge.” The figure explained. “Revenge, huh? Then take your best shot.” Blur challenged having no idea who the figure was. “Gladly. Prepare yourself!” the figure shouted. “Wing get Annalise out of here.” Blur said. “Right.” Wing said as he ran off with Annalise to avoid the upcoming battle.
Blur was the first to start by using his super speed to run circles around his opponent, hoping to confuse him. “Think you can keep up?” Blur said mockingly. All of a sudden, the figure disappeared into thin air. “Huh? Where’d he go?” Blur questioned. Blur’s question was soon answered when a strong fist collided with the side of his face to send him flying across the room. “Ok, fast and strong. Not a very good combination for me.” Blur said to himself. “What’s wrong? I thought you were supposed to be the fastest thing alive.” The figure said mockingly. “Your right. Let me show you why.” Blur said with a smirk on his face. Just then, Blur vanished from his previous spot and then appeared behind the cloaked figure. “Take this!” Blur cried as he reeled his foot back and swung it to the back of the figures head. Unfortunately, when his foot hit the figures head, a wave of pain surged through his entire body. “Ow, ow, ow, ow!” Blur whined while jumping on one foot to hold the other.
The figure turned around and laughed at Blur’s pain. “Geez, what are you, made of metal or something.” Blur whined. “Close.” The figure said. “Huh?” Blur said confused. “My turn.” The figure said before moving his sleeves up to reveal his metallic claws. “You know, those look kind of familiar. I think.” Blur said, referring to the claws. “Allow me to refresh your memory.” The figure said before he lunged towards Blur. Blur raised his arms to shield himself, but it was pointless as the figures metal claws sliced across Blur’s fur and flesh at lightning speed. When the assault was over, Blur was left battered and beaten on the ground with several cuts and bruises all over his body. “It seems after all these years, you have not changed at all. Oh wait that’s your father.” The figure said. “Just who are you?” Blur asked weakly. “Your going to die in a minute, so it really doesn’t matter.” the figure said as he advanced towards the injured hedgehog.
When the figure was only a few feet away from Blur, he raised one of his claws above his head. “Any last words?” the figure asked. “Just this one. Spind Dash” Blur said as he curled into his ball form. The Blur ball started spinning in place before throwing himself at the cloaked figure. Unfortunately, the figure saw the attack coming and quickly stepped to the side to avoid the attack. Since he missed his target and was he going to fast to stop, Blur crashed hard into the wall. “Ok, bad idea.” Blur told himself. “Hahaha. Did you really think you could defeat me with the same trick twice?” the figure said as he advanced towards Blur. The figure grabbed Blur by his neck and lifted him into the air. “You may have defeated me with that technique last time, but I have learned since then. I am more powerful then ever.” The figure said as he slowly cut off Blur’s Oxygen. “Hey. I have two words to say before I die.” Blur said. “What?” the figure asked. Blur then pulled his hand from behind his back to reveal a red sphere of chaos energy and plunge it into the figures chest shouting “SUPER CHAOS WIND!”
The attack caught the figure off guard and allowed Blur’s signature attack to hit. The blue sphere pushed the figure across the room until he crashed through the wall on the other side. Blur got back to his feet and tried to catch his breath. Blur looked over to notice that the figures cloak was destroyed, but he was to far to see who it was. “You may have won this time, hedgehog, but there are still more battles to come and you can’t win them all. One day, you will die by my hand.” The figure said before he limped away before breaking into a quick run. “Who ever that was, he sure was strong. Still, I can’t help feeling that I know him from somewhere.” Blur said, trying to think of who it might be. But then Blur remembered Wing and Annalise ran away before the fight started. “I better hurry. And get new clothes” Blur said as he ran off, limping a few times along the way.
After racing through the entire desert, Blur was finally able to reach Wing and Annalise. “Blur, I’m so glad you’re...” Wing trailed off when he noticed Blur’s wounds. “What happened?” Annalise asked in concern. “That guy was stronger then I thought.” Blur put it simply. The group was about to head back to town until the heard the sound of engines coming from behind. The group looked back to find a swarm of fighter mechs headed their way. “Eggman just doesn’t give up. What can we do? We can’t fight them.” Blur said, knowing he was too weak to fight. “Let’s split up. I’ll draw them away while you take the princess.” Wing suggested. “Ok, just be careful, bro.” Blur said. “Leave it to me!” Wing exclaimed before flying away in one direction. “Come on.” Blur said as he grabbed Annalise’s arm and started running in the other direction.
Elsewhere, the figure that was just defeated by Blur slowly limped across the desert, still recovering from Blur’s attack. The sound of engines soon reach him and the figure quickly took cover behind a giant rock. The figure looked over the rock to make sure that the fighter mechs passed before he could rest. When the mechs had passed, the figure slumped down to the ground before giving a loud sigh in relief. “I am too damaged to defend myself against Eggman’s machines. I have to move quickly.” The figure said before he broke into a quick run. “ That attack was unlike anything I have ever seen. Where did his son get that kind of power?” the figure asked himself before he tripped in the sand. “I am still not strong enough. I need more power. And I know just where to find it.” the figure said before he got back to his feet and ran in the direction of Kingdom Valley.

Blur and Annalise had escaped the Dusty Desert a while ago and were now running through a field just outside of town. It was only a few moments later that Blur decided to stop running because of his injuries from his recent battle. “I never thought I’d say this, but I can’t run anymore.” Blur said exhausted. “You’re hurt. We can’t go any further until your wounds are healed.” Annalise said. “I’m fine.” Blur said with a straight face. Annalise wasn’t fooled. She could tell Blur couldn’t go on much longer. “Don’t be stubborn. Just sit down and relax.” Annalise said before taking a seat on the ground. Blur knew he had no other choice, so he fell back to the ground and stared up at the crystal blue sky. “I’m sorry. It’s all my fault.” Annalise said suddenly. “Don’t say that. You had nothing to do with this. Heck, not even Eggman was to blame for this.” Blur said reassuringly, which caused Annalise to smile. “But, why was he after you anyway?” Annalise asked, obviously referring to the cloaked figure. “I don’t know, but he seemed very familiar to me.” Blur said before he shut his eyes and fell asleep to rest.
Over an hour later, Blur awoke and felt better then ever. He looked over his body to see that all his injuries were gone. “Oh good, your up.” Annalise said. “Yep, a nap was all I needed and now I’m raring to go.” Blur said as he jumped to his feet as started walking away with Annalise following close behind. “Eggman mentioned the Souls of Disaster. Is that why he’s after you?” Blur brought up the subject. “Yes. The name of the moon god of our country honor is Creator. It’s told that the Creator’s rage would destroy the world. His wrath comes in the form of the Souls of Disaster.” Annalise explained the legend. “Ten years ago, we almost faced the full force of his fury. I was a child then, so I don’t remember it very well. I lost my father. And now that man is trying to cause the same disaster again.” Annalise said. “Hey, don’t worry.” Blur said. “I’m not.” Annalise said happily. “Huh?” Blur said confused. “Even though I don’t know how, something tells me that Blitz will save us all like last time.” Annalise said proudly.
“You sure talk a lot about this Blitz. Who is he?” Blur asked. “Blitz was the one who saved me from the Creator’s rage ten years ago and gave me that chaos emerald.” Annalise said, referring to the emerald she gave to Blur. “He said it was a good luck charm and that as long as I have it, I will always be happy.” Annalise said smiling at the memory. “I guess it’s really important to you. Here, I guess I should give it back now.” Blur said as he held the blue chaos emerald to her, but Annalise declined. “No, I would feel much better if you kept it till this is all over.” Annalise said. “All right then. When this is over, I promise to give this back.” Blur promised. Blur then picked Annalise and said “We should really head back to town. Hold on.” Blur broke into a run and head straight back to town.
Blur was walking around the town of Soleanna with Annalise until Blur suddenly stops. “What’s wrong, Blur?” Annalise asked. Suddenly, Blur grabs Annalise and jumped away as a green blast of energy nearly hits them. “What was that?” Blur asked. “I’ve been looking for you. You’re the Soul Trigger.” Blitz said as he used his psychokinetic powers to levitate to the ground. “Your actions will condemn us all.” Blitz claimed. Blur sets Annalise down and asks “Who are you?” “My name is Blitz.” Blitz answered. “For the future of the world, I will destroy you!” Blitz exclaimed. “Annalise! Hide!” Blur shouted to Annalise before she ran off to find a safe place to hide.
“Come, you monster!” Blitz shouts to Blur. “Hey! Who are you calling a monster?!” Blur says as he jumps into the air. Once in the air, Blur changes into his ball form and used his homing attack on Blitz. But Blitz wasn’t afraid of Blur's attack. Instead, he held out his hand to use his psychokinetic powers to grab hold of Blur and force him out of his ball form. “What?!” Blur exclaims, completely surprised that Blitz could do this. “Do you really think you can stop me with such weak attacks?” Blitz said confidently. Blitz then holds out his other hand to pick up a nearby table with his psychokinetic powers. Blitz threw the table at Blur, which sent him flying and crashed into a nearby wall leaving Blur trapped. It had become painfully obvious to Blur that he couldn’t win against Blitz.
Blitz walks over and kneels down to the defeated Blur. “Humph! Is this a joke? How could someone like you cause the destruction of our world?” Blitz asks. “What do you mean?” Blur questioned. “It doesn’t matter. For the future of the world, the Soul Trigger must be destroyed!” Blitz Exclaimed. Blitz raises his hand to finish off Blur until he felt someone send a powerful kick to his chest. “What?” Blitz questions as he looked around and found no one there. Suddenly, Geisy appeared out of nowhere using her invisibility powers. “Geisy!” Blitz and Blur exclaimed at the same time. “Get out of my way, Geisy! This is my mission!” Blitz tells him. “Absolutely not! If you want to get to him, then you’ll have to go through me first!” Geisy tells him. “I didn’t want to do this, Geisy. But you left me with no choice. “Blitz said. Blitz used his psychokinetic powers to lift Geisy off the ground and hurtle her towards a nearby wall. Once Geisy collides with the wall, she falls hard on to the ground.
Seeing that Geisy was in trouble, Blur formed a sphere of blue chaos energy and crushed it in his hands, shouting “CHAOS WIND!” Suddenly, a blue whirlwind came out of nowhere and surrounds Blitz. “What is this?” Blitz questions. The whirlwind then shoots him straight up into the air. When the fight ended, Annalise walked out of her hiding place with a sad expression on her face. Blitz was supposed to be a hero. Why was he doing this? Blur quickly ran over to Geisy to help her. “Are you ok?” Blur asked as he kneeled down to him. Geisy got to her knees and rubbed her aching head. “Yeah, I’m fine I just got in the way again like always.”
“Do you really believe that all you’ve ever done is get in the way?” Blur questioned. “It true! I’ve always been a hostage and got you into more trouble! I’m useless!” Geisy cried. Then, to Geisy’s surprise, Blur hit her across the face. “Blur?” Geisy questioned until she felt Blur being her into a warm hug. Geisy had always dreamed of this. It felt too good to be true. “You’re not useless, Geisy. You’re the most important thing in the world to me, Geisy.” Blur said. “Do you really mean that?” Geisy asked. “Of course. No one could ever take your place, Geisy.” Blur said.
As the two slowly broke apart, Blur couldn't help but stare at Geisy's blue eyes. Something inside Blur's heart jumped after that. "You know, I never noticed before, but you have really beautiful eyes." Blur told her. Geisy blushed deeply red from his comment. "You...really think so?" Geisy asked. "Yeah." Blur said before they were thrown across the plaza.
Blur hit the wall and fell to the ground as Blitz walked up to him and says “This time, you won’t get away.” Blitz raised his hand to finish Blur, again, and was stopped, again, when he heard Annalise’s scream. Blur and Blitz looked over and saw Annalise being taken away by Eggman’s Eggmobile. “Annalise? Wait!” Blur shouted as he tried to catch her. But Blitz wasn’t about to let him get away. Blitz used his psychokinetic powers to hit Blur in the back and forced him to the ground on his knees. “Don’t you dare turn your back on me! It’s time I finally put an end to this!” Blitz exclaimed as he prepared a blast psychokinetic energy in his hand. He was about to throw it until. “Stop!” Geisy shouted.
Suddenly, Geisy jumped between the two fighting hedgehogs. “For the last time, Geisy! Get out of my way!” Blitz shouted at her. “No!” Geisy said sternly. Blur gets back to his feet and looks back to Geisy saying “Thanks, Geisy. I appreciate it.” Blur then ran off to save Annalise. “I can tell just by looking at you, that was Blur wasn’t it?” Blitz asked. “Yes it was.” Geisy answered. “Well, Geisy, I suggest you get out of the way. I finally found him and I won't let him get away.” Blitz said. “So the person you were looking for was Blur? Were you planning to kill him?” Geisy asked sadly. “He responsible for destroying our world.” Blitz told her. “That’s crazy! Blur would never do that!” Geisy told him. “Well tough luck, it’s true! In the near future, his actions will cause the devastation of the world! So I must destroy-” Blitz was cut off by Geisy. “No! I don’t believe that. Even if that was true." Geisy told him. "If I had to choose between the world and Blur. I would choose Blur!” Geisy told Blitz before turning her back towards him and started chasing after Blur.

Blur tried chasing after Annalise and Eggman, but lost them thanks to Slick’s interruption. Blur ended his chase near the docks close to the Wave Ocean entrance. Just then, Wing showed up flying over his head before landing in front of the blue hedgehog. “Blur, thank goodness I found you. Where’s Annalise?” Wing asked. “Eggman, he kidnapped her while me and Geisy were...Anyway, Eggman took Annalise and I don’t know where he went with her.” Blur said. “Maybe I can help you there.” A third voice entered the conversation.
Blur and Wing looked over to find, to their surprise, Rock Ciail Teleflame Wing’s twin brother walking over to them will a red card in his hands. “Rock, what are you doing here?” Blur asked his hot tempered rival. “Jasmine contacted me for help when I saw Eggman on the outskirts of the town.” Rock said as he threw the red card to Blur. “He wanted me to give you this.” Rock said. “Blur stared into the card until a holographic projection of Eggman appeared from it. “Blur Journey Blazer, if you want me to return the princess, you must first give me your chaos emerald. Meet me at my base in White Acropolis, just south of the town” the projection instructed before it disappeared. Blur threw the card back to Rock who just threw it down and stomped on it.
“He’s pretty cocky.” Rock said. “He’s defiantly up to something. It’s got to be a trap. I don’t think Eggman will honor his agreement.” Wing said. “I’m going.” Blur said. “Huh?” Wing questioned. Blur pulled out the chaos emerald that was given to him by Annalise and stared deeply into it before he pulled out a fake version of the Blue emerald. “Since Eggman went through all the trouble of telling me where Annalise is, I think I should thank him personally with this fake emerald.” Blur said. “Well if that’s the case, we better get going. Eggman said his base was just south of town. We better hurry before he changes his mind.” Rock said. Blur nodded his head in agreement and ran south of the town with Wing and Rock following.
Blur, Wing, and Rock trekked through the harsh, cold tundra of White Acropolis until they reached a steel door entrance that obviously led to the inside of Eggman’s base. “Ok, we’re here, now what?” Rock questioned. “I would be happy to answer that, Rock.” Eggman’s voice echoed through the mountain. “Huh? Where did that come from?” Blur questioned. Just then, another projection of Eggman appeared in front of the group. “What do you want, Eggman? We’re bringing you the chaos emerald like you asked.” Blur said. “Yes, but I’ve decided to have a little fun with you three before you do. Try to get past all my defenses and then you will find me in my laboratory. Oh, and can you do me a favor?” Eggman asked. “What’s that?” Rock asked irritantly. “Try not to die.” Eggman laughed before his hologram disappeared.
Just as the hologram disappeared, a large number of white fighter mechs and one yellow mech dropped from the sky and landed in front of the group. “I knew we couldn’t trust him!” Rock exclaimed. The white mechs aimed their guns and fired at the heroes. Acting fast, Blur grabbed Wing and ran behind a rock while Rock pulled out his drills to burrow underground. Blur peeked over the rock for a moment, but dropped back down when the white mechs resumed their fire. “I have to admit, Eggman sure knows how to throw a party.” Blur said. The white mechs stopped firing for a moment and cleared a path for the yellow mech. The yellow mech lifted its right arm to fire a small missile at the rock where Blur and Wing were finding. The missile disintegrated the rock on contact, which left Blur and Wing completely exposed. “Uh...hey guys.” Blur said nervously. The white mechs opened fire again, but Blur quickly grabbed Wing and used his super speed to avoid the shot. “Got any ideas, Wing?” Blur asked. “Just one.” Wing says as he reaches into his backpack and pulls out his explosive rings. In a burst of blinding speed, Blur quickly passes all the mech, placing the explosive rings on them. The rings exploded and completely destroyed the mech. “We did it!” Wing cheered. “No thanks to Rock. Where is he anyways?” Blur asked.
A few moments later, Rock plowed out of the ground and found himself completely lost. “Ok...where am I?” Rock asked himself. He scanned the area and found that he was still on the mountain, only things were much different. There were search lights everywhere, an unknown building in the center and a steel door on the other side. It took a minute before Rock realized that he accidentally burrowed under the entrance and into Eggman’s base. “Well, I better let them in.” Rock said as he walked over to the steel entrance. But then, the searchlight spotted him, which activated the alarm. With the alarm blaring all over the mountain, several flying mechs floated above Rock head and surrounded him. “So that’s how you want to play, huh? Well then, bring it on!” Rock challenged.
The flying mechs used their guns to shoot at the substitute guardien, but Rock held up his drills and used them as a shield to block the shots. But while he wasn’t looking, a one of the mechs snuck up behind Rock and shot him in the leg. Rock winced in pain, which him to drop his guard for a moment. Seeing that his defense was down, the mechs fired all they had against Rock and forced him to the ground. The mechs ran empty on ammo and inspected their work. Rock had been hit by over a hundred bullets and now laid on the ground covered from head to toe in his own blood. There was no way he could have survived that. But, to the mechs surprise, Rock slowly pushed himself off the ground and back on to their feet. “It’ll take more then that to finish me.” Rock said weakly. The mechs tried to fire their guns, but then remembered that they used all their ammo on their previous attack. “Nothing left, huh? Well, that’s fine by me.” Rock said as he held up his drills threateningly.
After being able to finish off the last of the flying mechs, Rock limped over to the steel entrance door. Upon reaching the door, Rock found a control console that required a password to open it. “Screw it.” Rock said before he destroyed the console with his sharp fist. Lucky for him, that little stunt was able to override the password and opened the entrance. Outside, Wing noticed the entrance had opened and alerted Blur. “Hey, Blur, look!” Wing exclaimed as he pointed towards the entrance. “All right.” Blur said as he and Wing walked through. Upon passing the entrance, Blur located Rock leaning against the steel wall. “Hey, Rockhead. Where have...” Blur trailed off when noticed that Rock was covered in blood. “Help...me” Rock pleaded before he passed out.
A few minutes later, Rock woke up and felt strangely warm in a cold environment. Rock sat up and noticed his body was covered by a small blanket to keep him warm. Rock removed the blanket and inspected his body to see that all the bullet wounds were completely gone. “What the?” Rock questioned. “Hey, Blur, he’s awake.” Wing voice could be heard from the side. Rock looked over to find Wing and Blur hovering over him. “Well it about time, Rockhead.” Blur joked. “What happened?” Rock asked. “You passed out from lack of blood. You would have died if I didn’t work fast.” Wing explained. “Thanks.” Rock said. “Yeah, yeah, whatever. We have to hurry if we want to save Annalise.” Blur said. “Right!” Rock said. Blur and his friend quickly ran into the building in the center of the mountain, where Eggman was waiting.
Blur and the other ran into the central part of the base where Eggman said he would be. “Your late.” Eggman’s voice was heard. The trio looked up to see Eggman standing behind a safety glass window. “Well, we had to deal with your little pets.” Rock said. “Where’s Annalise?” Blur questioned. “My, aren’t we impatient.” Eggman said before he pulled Annalise into view. “Blur!” Annalise cried. Blur and the others were prepared to strike until. “You better not move. Now, the chaos emerald.” Eggman demanded. Seeing that he had no choice, Blur pulled out the fake blue chaos emerald and showed it to Eggman. “Place it there.” Eggman instructed as a small pedestal came from under the floor. Blur did as Eggman said and placed the fake chaos emerald on the pedestal and watched it sink into the floor. “Now!” Eggman exclaimed before he pressed a button on the nearby console.
All of a sudden, the three heroes were surrounded by a red energy field. Rock tried punching it to break free, only to be pushed back. “It’s no use. It’s power is too great for you to overcome. Now allow me to introduce you to my latest creation. This is the Creator prototype.” Eggman explained. Annalise looked at the mad doctor in shock. Did he really recreate the monster that killed her father ten years ago? “With this machine, I will be able to control the flow of time itself!” Eggman shouted in victory. Eggman pulled a lever that activated the machine and pulled the heroes straight into the air. The heroes tried to escape, but it was futile, and disappeared in a flash of light. Annalise could only stand there and watch as her only hope was taken away.
“Rest assured. They’re not dead...yet.” Eggman said. Eggman walked over to another control console in the room to show the files of the Creator Project. “They’ve just been teleported by my glorious invention to another time. Who knows where they’ll end up?” Eggman said as he downloaded the information on a portable disk. “It could be the distant past or the far future. But my machine still requires some fine-tuning. In fact, what my machine needs in order to be complete, is your power.” Eggman stated. “My power?” Annalise questioned. “Yes, I can finally complete my plan...now that I the chaos emerald and you, the princess of Soleanna. That’s all I need to revive the Souls of Disaster. And with its power, I will be able to control everything and rule the word!” Eggman shouted manically.
After finishing with his little speech, Eggman walked over to the console and pressed a series of buttons. Just then, the pedestal with the fake chaos emerald was raised from the floor in the center of the room. Eggman reached over to grab it, but the fake chaos emerald somehow moved on its own a floated behind him. Eggman looked back to find an unknown figure holding the fake emerald. The figure was hiding in the shadows, so it was impossible to see his face. But Eggman did notice the pulsating blue aura that surrounded him. “Who are you?” Eggman questioned. “You have made a mistake, Eggman this emerald’s fake.” the figure said. “Oh, have I?” Eggman said. “Because of you, Selihpem is free and the timeline is in danger. If you free Solatist, everything will be destroyed.” The figure stated. “Solatist?” Eggman questioned. “Do not make the same mistake again or everyone will die.” The figure warned before it used chaos control to disappear.

Eggman was walking down the corridor in his base with two white fighter mechs and dragging Annalise by her arm, very angry that he got a fake chaos emerald. “Ow. Not so hard.” Annalise pleaded as Eggman squeeze her arm harder. “Quiet! I’m in a very bad mood and it would be very wise of you not to make me any angrier.” Eggman said. Eggman stopped in front of a random door and opened it before throwing Annalise inside. “You shall remain here until I can retrieve the chaos emerald. So please, enjoy your stay.” Eggman said before slamming the door shut. “Guard the princess until I return.” Eggman instructed the mechs. “Affirmative.” The mechs replied. Eggman walked down the corridor and jumped into his Eggmobile and flew off into the town of Soleanna.
Meanwhile, Geisy had secretly snuck into Eggman’s base undetected, thanks to her invisibility power. “Hmm...I can’t help but feel that Blur is around here somewhere.” Geisy said. Geisy walked down the corridor until she found herself inside Eggman’s computer room. “Maybe Eggman’s computer can help me.” Geisy said as she walked over to the control console. The computer required a password, which Geisy knew because she learned it from Kumori during their training sessions. “M-A-R-I-A. Maria.” Geisy said as she typed in the password. The computer accepted the password and revealed several secret files. There were files on the Souls of Disaster, the Scepter of Darkness, the Creator Project and many more things that Geisy didn’t understand. “This still doesn’t tell me what happened to Blur.” Geisy grew impatient and banged her fists on the console. Lucky for her, her attack on the console accessed a recorded surveillance video that showed Blur and the others being taken away by Eggman’s machine. “Oh no, Blur!” Geisy cried. Another surveillance video showed Annalise being put into a cell by Eggman. “Annalise! I have to save her!” Geisy exclaimed before she ran out.
Geisy peeked around the corner and found the cell that Annalise was being kept. The problem was that the cell was being guarded by two white fighter mech. Geisy was about to use her speed and take out the mechs, but then Geisy came up with a more amusing idea. Geisy giggled for a moment before disapearing. The mechs were patiently monitoring the area until one of the mechs felt something hit the side of its head. The mech turn it head towards the source and found only the other mech. The one mech slapped the other in the back of its head, who returned the slap with its own. Pretty soon both mechs were slapping the hell out of each other. It was a funny sight. They soon decided that enough was enough and fired their guns to blow each others heads off. “Eggman’s robots get dumber every time.” Geisy chuckled as she reappeared again. “Hello? Who’s out there?” Annalise asked from inside the cell. Geisy opened the door just as Annalise was about to. “Geisy!” Annalise exclaimed. Just then, the alarm went off. “Prisoner has escaped from cell block C-17. All patrolling guards begin search immediately.” The alarm sounded. “Let’s get out of here!” Geisy shouted before picking up Annalise and used her super speed to escape the base.
Thanks to Geisy’s quick thinking and feet, Annalise and the red hedgehog was traveling safely through the town of Soleanna. “Thank you so much for rescuing me. I am grateful.” Annalise said. “No problem. I’m sure Blur would have done the same.” Geisy said. Annalise stopped suddenly after that. “Uhh, Geisy...there’s something I need to tell you. You see, Blur was...” Annalise trailed off, not wanting to upset Geisy. “Its ok, I already know what happened to Blur and the others.” Geisy said cheerfully, which surprised Annalise. “You’re not worried?” Annalise asked. “Of course I am, but I have faith in Blur. I know Blur will find a way to come back.” Geisy said confidently. Annalise was amazed by the endless faith Geisy presented and smiled.
“You sure seem confident for someone who is worried.” Annalise said. “Yeah, but it’s like Blur always says: Nothing starts unless you take action. If you have time to worry, just run.” Geisy said. Annalise giggled for a moment after that. “He really says that?” Annalise chuckled. “Yeah, funny isn’t it? I think he gets it from his father.” Geisy started to laugh with Annalise. “He really loves running doesn’t he?” Annalise asked. “I guess. He’s always loved to run for as long as I’ve known him.” Geisy said. “When did you first meet Blur?” Annalise curiously asked. “Ahh, I’ll never forget that day.
Then they heard a few loud thuds from behind them. The two girls looked back to see five white fighter mechs pointing their guns at Geisy. “I think I should get rid of these guys before I continue.” Geisy said. “I’ll be waiting.” Annalise said confidently as she quickly ran to find a place to hide.
The mechs opened fire on the red hedgehog, but she was too fast when she used her speed. Geisy reappeared behind one of the mechs and bashed her foot at its back to completely trash it. Two of the mechs took their place on each side of Geisy and fired their guns at her. Geisy merely smirked as she took a step back and watched the bullets pass her and destroyed the mechs on each side. “I can’t believe how easy this is!” Geisy snickered (Oh great, another Blur is what Eggman would think). The cheering quickly stopped when Geisy felt two guns on the side of her head. “Uhh...can we talk?” Geisy said nervously. Seeing that Geisy was in trouble, Annalise decided it was her turn to take action. Annalise grabbed a nearby chair and bashed it across the back of the two mechs head. The mechs turned around to face Annalise, which gave Geisy a chance to strike back. Geisy grabbed raised her foot and spun around to knock the mechs heads off and destroyed them.
“Whew, now that’s what I call a work out.” Geisy said. “Are you all right, Geisy?” Annalise asked. “Yeah, thanks to you.” Geisy said. “Your welcome. I have a question about Eggman.” Annalise said. “Who is he?” Geisy asked. “Where did he come from?” Annalise asked. “Oh that. Well, I don’t really know."
They made their way towards the palace of Soleanna. As the two girls made their way to the palace doors, they soon found themselves surrounded by an army of white and red fighter mechs. Even with all the training she received from Kumori, Geisy knew she couldn’t take on all these mechs by herself. “Finally, I’ve been waiting so patiently for your return, princess.” Eggman said as he floated down next to them in his Eggmobile. Eggman also took notice of Geisy’s presence as well. “Well, if it isn’t Geisy. This day just gets better. Now come with me before I have to take drastic measures.” Eggman threatened. Realizing that they had no choice, Geisy and Annalise gave in and willingly allowed themselves to be taken away by Eggman.

In a brilliant flash of red light, Blur, Wing, and Rock dropped from the ceiling into the new world. Blur and Wing were able to land on their feet, but Rock was unfortunate enough to land on his head. “Ow.” Rock said as he rubbed his aching head. “It’s a good thing nothing’s in there.” Blur chuckled. Rock was about to beat Blur to a pulp until. “Oh, look who’s here. I didn’t expect to see you guys here.” Jasmine’s voice came from above. Blur and the others looked up to see Mach and Jasmine standing in a room just above them. “Jasmine! Mach!” Wing exclaimed. “Hi. Long time, no see. And I really mean long time.” Jasmine said.
Blur, Mach and the others met up later outside the Eggman’s former base and looked out to the destroyed city that was once Soleanna. “This is the distant future, far removed from our own timeline. 24 years to be exact” Mach explained. “The future? Then that means Eggman’s machine can control time and space!” Wing exclaimed. “Eggman’s got some nerve dropping us here.” Blur said. “Now, how can we get back to our own time?” Rock asked. “You need a space-time rift, but this requires a lot of energy. More specifically, chaos energy.” Mach explained. “I get it. You mean by using chaos control...” Blur was cut off. “I do mean chaos control, but our power alone is insufficient so we’ll need 3 emeralds.” Mach said. “Ok, Mach. It looks like we’re working together again. Just like old times.” Blur said holding the real Blue emerald. “We’ll split up into two teams and each of us will recover one chaos emerald from this city.” Mach instructed. “Alright, then I get Rocky.” Jasmine said as she latched on to Rock arm. “Fine with me.” Rock said with a big smile on his face. “Come on.” Mach said as he began to drag Jasmine away by her ears. “Let’s go, Rocky.” Blur said as he started to drag Rock by his ear.
“I said let go!” Rock yelled as he was finally able to break free of Blur’s grip on his ear. “Just what was that all about?!” Rock shouted. “Sorry, Rock, but we have a mission. You can do whatever you want with your girlfriend after we’re done.” Blur said. “Let get one thing straight! Jasmine is not my girlfriend!” Rock exclaimed. “All right, all right, enough yelling. My ear’s starting to hurt.” Blur rubbed his eardrums. “So, what do we do now?” Blur asked. “I’ll go back to Eggman’s base and try to find any information that might help us get back to our own time.” Wing said. “Then I guess that leaves us to find the chaos emerald.” Rock said. “All right, let’s get to work.” Blur said. The group broke apart with Wing headed back to Eggman’s former base and Blur and Rock running towards the city.
Blur ran ahead into the city and was currently snoozing on the top of a destroyed taxi cab. Blur then received a rude awakening when felt a sharp pain in the side of his face. “Ow! What the?” Blur questioned while trying to soothe the pain in his jaw. Blur looked over and saw Rock, who was really angry, holding his fist in Blur’s face. “What’s the big idea?” Blur asked. “You left me hanging back there.” Rock said. “Hey, it’s not fault your feet are slower then your head.” Blur said. “That does it!” Rock shouted before jumping at Blur. Blur was caught off guard by Rock sudden assault and allowed himself to be hit. Blur and Rock were rolling around the ground, fighting for dominance of the battle. Rock finally had the advantage when he pinned Blur to the ground below him. “Now to finish what I should have done years ago.” Rock said as he raised his fist. Rock was about to beat the living daylights out of the blue blur, but stopped when he felt an unusual strong chaos energy from above.
“Do you feel that?” Rock asked as he got up off of Blur and scanned the area for the source of the strong energy. “What? I don’t feel anything.” Blur said as he got up to his feet. “There’s a powerful source of chaos energy around here.” Rock said. “Maybe it’s just Mach.” Blur guessed. “No. Wherever this energy is from, it’s way more powerful then Mach.” Rock said. “More powerful then Mach? No way.” Blur said in disbelief. “Yeah, and it’s headed this way!” Rock shouted as he quickly looked to the sky. Blur also looked up and saw Blitz flying by with Sheila following close behind on the rooftops. “Hey! That’s the guy who attacked me earlier! I have a bone to pick with him!” Blur exclaimed before he chased after the hedgehog. “That idiot.” Rock said before he chased after the impatient hedgehog.
Blur and Rock were able to catch up to Blitz and Sheila when they stopped in front of a tornado of flames that erupted from the earth. “Now there’s something you don’t see everyday.” Rock commented about the tornado of flames. Blitz and Sheila were fighting off a few tiger like creatures made of lava and rock called Biters and a flock of birds made of fire called Takers. Blur and Rock watched as the two used their special powers to destroy the monsters. “Wow.” Rock said in amazement. Just when the battle seemed over, the large tornado of flames disappeared out of sight. Just then, a large monster made of souls and ice with four long tendrils came face-to-face with Blitz and Sheila. “Even though I don’t really like that guy, we need to help him.” Blur said as he was about to jump in the fight. “I think we have our own problems.” Rock said. Blur looked back to see what Rock was talking about and found a small army of Biters. “Oh boy, here’s trouble.” Blur said.
The Biters jumped at the two, but they quickly jumped to the side. Another Biter tried to close its mouth on Rock’ head, but Rock quickly reacted by grabbing the Biter by its jaws. Rock then gained a tighter grip on the Biters jaws ripped it in half. Two more jumped at Rock, but Rock grabbed them by their stomachs and charged forward to crush them against a nearby wall. Rock turned back around to find that there were still twenty more lava tigers left to go. “Well, I was hoping of saving this for Blur, but it looks like I don’t have a choice.” Rock said to himself. Rock bashed his fist together, which caught fire in an instant. Rock then jumped into the air and dived towards the center of the group. “Let’s see how you like my...FIRE DUNK!” Rock shouted. Rock slammed his fist into the ground, which sent out a shockwave of fire that eliminated all the Biters surrounding him. That one attack exhausted him a bit and he didn’t think he had the strength to fight anymore.
“Whoa! Go, Rock!” Blur said impressed after watching Rock use his new technique. Rock collapsed towards the ground, but luckily, Blur was there to catch him. “Thanks.” Rock said. “Hey, no problem.” Blur said as he placed Rock arm on his shoulder to support the exhausted hedgehog. Blur dragged Rock back to the site where Blitz and Sheila were facing of against the lava monster. They couldn’t see Sheila anywhere, but they did see Blitz somehow blocking the monsters fire breath with his hands. Just then, a large electricity ball came out of nowhere and collided with the monsters forehead. They watched as the lava monster fell back into the lava pit, defeated. Jut then, Sheila showed up and it looked like she was talking to Blitz about something, so Blur and Rock decided to move in closer to listen.
“It looks like you stopped him for now.” Sheila said to Blitz. “But he’ll just rise up again from the ashes like it always does.” Blitz said as he banged his fist into a nearby pole. “What’s the point of all this? It’ll never end.” Blitz said hopelessly. “Calm down, Blitz.” Sheila said calmly to her companion. “Then tell me what we should do. How can we completely destroy Solatist?” Blitz questioned. “By knowing the truth, of course.” A shadowy voice came from behind. Blitz and Sheila turned around and looked up the rubble to find the mysterious newcomer. “Just as a flower comes from a seed or a chicken from an egg, everything has an origin.” Selihpem said. “You need to find the being originally responsible for this catastrophe. The soul Trigger.” Seihpem continued. “Is that really the answer to our problem? Tell me, do you know who it is?” Blitz asked. Selihpem stared at Blitz for a moment before jumping down in front of him.
“To fix this current timeline, you need to change the past first.” The being said. “But, that’s impossible.” Blitz stated. “With my help, you can. You see, I hold the power to travel through time itself.” Selihpem said. “No way!” Blitz said in disbelief. “To change the past, you must first eliminate the individual responsible for freeing Solatist in the first place. The Soul Trigger.” Selihpem said. “If I eliminate that guy, will our world be saved?” Blitz asked. Selihpem nodded his head and says “The Day of Disaster. It was that day, 24 years ago, that Solatist was freed from his seal. And you have this person to thank for that.” The being then handed the purple chaos emerald to Blitz.
Blitz grabbed the chaos emerald and soon saw an image of Blur standing in the middle of a field of flames appeared in his mind. “I see it! So, that purple hedgehog is the Soul Trigger?” Blitz questioned. “Purple hedgehog...he looks just like you” Sheila said. “I will send us back in time. To the point where the Soul Trigger was alive.” The being said as he created a ball of purple energy in his hands. The purple energy soon expanded to cover all three of them before they disappeared. Blur and Rock jumped out of their hiding place and inspected the place where Blitz, Sheila, and Selihpem were once standing. “Who was that guy? He looked just like Geisy's father.” Rock said. “Blur...can you here me?” Wing said through the communicator he gave to Blur. “Yeah, I’m here. What is it Wing?” Blur asked. “Get back to Eggman’s base as fast as you can! There’s something you need to see!” Wing said excitingly. Not bothering to ask questions, Blur and Rock quickly ran back to the former base where they started.
Blur and Rock scoured the entire base for any signs of Wing until they were finally found him in the computer room in the upper level. “So, what is it that wanted to show us so badly?” Rock questioned Wing. “Did you find a chaos emerald?” Blur asked. “Well, yeah.” Wing replied. “So, where is it?” Blur asked. “I was able to track the emeralds signal to a nearby volcano, but that’s not what I called you for.” Wing said. “That what?” Rock asked. “I was able to access this computers old file and you won’t believe what I found.” Wing said as he accessed the computer file. “According to this, the princess died when she was kidnapped by Eggman. Apparently, Eggman’s airship exploded! The data says that this incident took place two days after the Soleanna Sun Festival!” Wing exclaimed. “You mean, if we don’t hurry back in time, Annalise will die on Eggman’s airship?” Blur asked. “Yeah, but she won’t die alone.” Wing said sadly. “What do you mean?” Blur asked. “The data also says Geisy died along with the princess when Eggman's airship exploded.” Wing said. “Geisy...no.” Blur said sorrowfully.

Mach and Jasmine were waiting in a ridge close to a river of hot lava close to an active volcano. Mach was still depressed that he failed to help Kumori and Jasmine was trying everything she could to snap him out of it. Just then, Blur and his friends decided to show up. “You know, for the fastest thing alive, you are so slow, Blur.” Jasmine said. “Hey!” Blur exclaimed. “Never mind that, look what we found.” Jasmine said as she held up the chaos emerald to plain view. “You found one of the chaos emeralds!” Wing exclaimed. “Of course. I may not look like one, but I’m a real treasure hunter. Unlike a certain echidna we all know.” Jasmine taunted. “What was that?!” Rock said angrily as he held his namesake dangerously close to Jasmine’s face. “That’s enough!” Mach said sternly, finally breaking out of his depression state. Rock looked at to Jasmine for a moment before turning away.
“Have you guys found anything?” Mach asked. “Yeah, I received a signal indicating that there’s a chaos emerald somewhere inside that volcano.” Wing told the group. “You’re kidding! You mean we have to go all the way through there?” Jasmine complained. “If you don’t like it, you can stay here.” Rock taunted. “You have got to be kidding! There is no way I am leaving an idiot like you in there, alone.” Jasmine retorted, which made Rock even more angry (If that’s possible). “It would probably be better if we split up and covered more ground.” Mach instructed. “Don’t be late.” Blur said. “Same to you.” Mach said to him. Just as they planned, Blur went with Wing and Rock one way, while Mach went with Jasmine down another.
Blur, Wing and Rock were currently walking down their chosen path until Wing suddenly stopped. “What is it Wing?” Blur said back to his little brother. “Whoa! Check out that volcano.” Wing said as he pointed to add effect. Blur and Rock looked towards the direction Wing was pointing to, just to see lava had erupted from the volcano’s mouth. “Yeah, so?” Blur asked. “It’s completely out of control. There’s no logical explanation for what might have caused it.” Wing said. “Do you think it might be the chaos emerald?” Blur asked. “I doubt it. Not even the chaos emeralds could cause a disaster like this.” Rock said. Just then, several gigantic fireballs spat out of the volcano’s mouth into two separate directions. “Is it me or are those thing getting closer?” Rock asked. “It’s not just you!” Wing said in a panic as the fireballs came closer.
Acting fast, Blur grabbed Wing and Rock by their arms to pull them out of the way before the falling fireballs could hit them. “Ok, that proves that Rock is right.” Wing said. “Rock is right? Oh no, it the end of the world!” Blur screamed. “Shut up!” Rock exclaimed. The trio looked up to see more fireballs escaped from the volcano and were headed for them. “And we’re out of here.” Blur said as he grabbed his friends by their arms again and broke into a fast run. Wing looked back and quickly moved his namesakes up to his chest as they were almost torched by the fireballs. Rock looked ahead of the track to see a large loop just ahead of them. Rock looked towards Blur, who had a mischievous smirk on his face. Rock instantly realized what Blur was up and Shouted “You better not be doing what you’re doing!” “Hang on!” Blur shouted back. Using his added speed to his advantage, Blur went straight up and then down without falling out of the loop before using a speed boast that was conveniently there to reach another part of the ridge.
Blur and Wing landed on their feet while Rock, once again, landed on his head. “I have the worst luck when I’m around you.” Rock said as he rubbed his head. “Hey, we’re not complaining. Right, Wing?” Blur asked Wing. There was no response. “Wing?” Blur questioned. Blur turned to his little buddy, who looked sickly green. “Hey, Wing, are you ok?” Blur asked. Blur received his answer when Wing threw up on his shoes. “Should’ve seen that coming.” Blur said to himself. While, Blur tried to clean the vomit off his shoes, Rock scanned the area until he spotted an extra large speed boost. “Hey guys. I think I found a way to reach the volcano.” Rock said as he point towards the speed boost. “Then what are we waiting for?” Blur said as the group made their way towards the speed boost. Just as they were half way, a number of Biters and Takers shot out of the lava pits around. “These guys just don’t know when to learn.” Rock said.
Wing took to the skies and the Takers followed him close behind. “These guy look like they’re gonna give us a rough time.” Wing said as he looked back at the Takers chasing him. But while he was looking back, Wing didn’t notice a single Taker swoop down in front of him and bash him over the head with its wing. The sudden blow to the head caused Wing lose altitude and fall towards the ground at an alarming rate. Wing tried to regain his flight, but couldn’t since his namesakes were somehow tied together. “Come on, come on.” Wing said to himself as he tried his tied up Wing. Before he hit the ground, Wing was able free hisself and lifted himself back into the air. The Takers tried to attack again, but Wing reached into his backpack and threw his explosive rings at the them. By sheer luck, the ring were able to latch on to the Takers necks. “Squawk.” The Takers said before they blew up.
Blur was busy fighting off the Biters that surrounded him. One of the Biter’s jump at him, But Blur merely took a step to the side and watched as it collided with the Biter behind him. “This is too easy.” Blur said confidently. But while he wasn’t looking, another Biter pinned Blur from behind to the ground. The Biter tried several times to bite Blur’s head off, but he just wouldn’t stay still. After much trying, Blur was able to free one of his arms. Blur gathered a great amount of blue chaos energy and form it into a sphere and threw it in the center of the entire group. “CHAOS WIND!” Blur called out is signature attack. The energy inside the sphere began spiraling out of control until it created several blades of wind that sliced all the Biters in half. “You know, you could have helped, Rockhead.” Blur said to Rock, who was sitting on a nearby rock, watching the entire thing. “I thought you could handle it.” Rock said with a smirk. Blur was about to yell at the echidna guardian, but just decided to let it go.
The group resumed their way towards the speed boost until, once again, something got in their way. Out from one of the lava pits came a large golem made of lava and rock called a Golem. “Not another one.” Wing said tiredly. “Since you guys took care of the last one, I’ll take this one.” Rock said as he walked up to the Golem. The Golem created a spiked ball of rock and used it as a mace to strike Rock. Rock jumped to the side as the rock was about to make contact and countered by driving a hard punch to the monsters chest. Unfortunately, the punch had no effect on the monster. The Golem then bashed Rock across the head with its free hand to send him flying to the wall. While Rock was down, the Golem picked him up and started to crush him. “I...Won’t...Lose!!!” Rock shout with determination. Rock bashed his fist together, which ignited the flames around them. Rock burst through the Golem’s hand and jumped toward it face to bash it clean off.
Rock landed on the ground as he watched the Golems decapitated body fall back into the lava pits. “Man, that one never gets old.” Blur complimented Rock fiery fists. “Hah, it was nothing.” Rock soaked up the praise. “Wherever did you learn a technique like that?” Wing asked curiously. “Well, one day is was sparring with Chaos back on Angel Island...” Rock was cut off. “Probably getting his butt kick.” Blur chuckled, but stopped when Rock sent him an evil glare. “Anyway...after the fight, Tsunamiios told me about a technique created by my ancestors that allowed them to manipulate fire.” Rock explained. “Whatever, we wasted enough time. Come on, Mach’s probably waiting.” Blur said. The trio then ran at top speed towards the speed boost, which sent him flying straight towards the volcanoes mouth.
Blur and Mach’s group were flying towards the mouth of the volcano, but unfortunately they crashed into each other and were caught in an awkward pile-up. “Hey watch it!” Blur yelled. “Watch the Wing!” Wing exclaimed. “Someone get their foot out of my face!” Mach shouted. “Who’s touching me?!” Jasmine said angrily. “Sorry.” Rock apologized. Jasmine slapped Rock across the face for that. After taking a few awkward moments, the group finally broke apart and looked around to find themselves standing in front of a large lava pit. The strange thing was that the pit was dark and the only thing lighting it was the ice and three glowing orbs. Jasmine then noticed something else glowing in the pit. It was the light blue chaos emerald. Jasmine flew up into the air to grab it. “Looks like I found another chaos emerald.” Jasmine said. “Don’t touch it!” Mach warned her, but it was too late. When Jasmine touched the emerald, a gigantic Larvae popped out of the ice, which knocked Jasmine back to the group. “What’s that?” Blur questioned. “No good. I can tell you that.” Mach told him before he jumped on to one of the rock platforms with Blur joining. “Ready, pal?” Blur asked. “Always.” Mach replied.
The Larvae reeled its head back for a moment before throwing it forward and shooting several fire balls at the two. Think fast, Blur and Mach jumped to two nearby rock platforms to avoid the attack. “Can’t say I was expecting that.” Blur said. Mach looked forward at the Larvae and saw that it had disappeared. “Where did it go?” Mach questioned. He received an answer when the Larvae popped out from under the platform, sending Mach flying. “Mach!” Blur called out. The Larvae then turned to Blur. Blur jumped into the air and used his homing attack on the creature, only to be bounced back to the rock platform. “That’s bad.” Blur said as the Larvae’s mouth came closer to him.
Meanwhile, Mach then fell on one of the glowing orbs and broke it, releasing the light that was trapped within it. the Larvae stopped its attack on Blur and looked back at the light, completely mesmerized by it. The Larvae left Blur and jumped to attack the platform where Mach and the light were at. Acting fast, Mach quickly jumped to another platform with another light orb as the Larvae devoured the platform and the light. Blur jumps on the same platform as Mach and asks “What just happened?” “The light. It must be attracted to the light. That gives me an idea.” Mach said. “Well then, let’s hear it.” Blur said. As Mach was explaining his plan, the Larvae came back up and looked around for Blur and Mach. “Ready?” Mach asked. “Always.” Blur replied. Mach then broke the orb with his fist, which released the light within it. the Larvae saw the light and jumped in the air and opened its mouth to devour it. “Now! CHAOS SPEAR!” “CHAOS WIND!” Blur and Mach yelled out their signature attacks and sent them into the creatures mouth. Both attacks together caused the creature to cry out in pain and fall back into the ice in defeat. When the Larvae fell, the chaos emerald popped out of the ice and landed into Blur’s hands. “All right!” Blur shouted victoriously.
A few minutes later, Blur, Mach, and the others returned to the spot where they started with Blur and Mach holding the chaos emeralds. Blur and Mach cross their hands and shouts “CHAOS CONTROL!” The combined control attacks created a white vortex behind the group, which most likely led them back to their own time period. Blur, Wing, and Rock jumped into the vortex, shortly followed by Jasmine. Mach was about to jump in with them until he felt a familiar chill going down his spine. “I see you have defeated a larvae. Very impressive.” An all-too familiar voice said from behind. Mach looked back to find Selihpem appear in a puff of black smoke. “But it was nothing more then a mindless puppet. If you want a real challenge, then follow me.” Selihpem said as he started to run towards the volcano. Mach was about to decline, but then thought he might hold the answers of what happen to this world and Diane. Mach had decided and chased after Selihpem as his only way home disappeared.

In the central plaza of the town of Soleanna, a white vortex appears in midair with Blur, Wing, and Rock jumping down from it. Rock scanned the surroundings to see that they were back in their own timeline. “It looks like we made it back in one piece.” Rock said. “Where did Mach and Jasmine go? Did they appear somewhere else?” Wing questioned. “Those two can take care of themselves. Right now we need to figure out if we made it back before Annalise and Geisy died.” Blur said. Wing looks down and picks up a newspaper on the ground to check the date. “Good news. It’s been only one day since the sun festival. That gives us one more day left.” Wing said. “Great! Now all we have to do is find out where Geisy and Annalise are.” Blur said. “Uhh...Blur.” Wing said hesitantly as he handed him the paper. Blur looked at the paper and the headline caught his attention. “Princess and hedgehog captured by evil scientist.” “This is bad. We have to save them.” Blur said. “But, where are they?” Wing questioned. The question stumped the group as they had been gone before Geisy and Annalise were captured.
Later, Wing met a server at a nearby café who gave him the information he was looking for. “Thank you.” Wing called back to the server. Wing turned around and was about to walk away until he saw the most unusual and hilarious sight. Wing saw Blur and Rock in masks which made Wing laugh. “All right, that’s enough.” Rock said in a bad mood. “I’m sorry, but it’s just too funny. How...” Wing was cut off. “Don’t ask. Did you find out anything?” Blur asked. “Yeah, I heard that Geisy and the princess were being held in the terminal station.” Wing answered. “I’m on it!” Blur exclaimed as he took off the mask and ran outside of town.
Blur traveled west to find himself in a large canyon filled with industrial sites and train track everywhere. Blur used his super speed to run up one of the steel towers and scanned the entire area. “Ok, think. If I was Eggman and I wanted to unleash those Souls of Disaster things, where would I keep my prisoners?” Blur asked himself. “Instead of wondering, why don’t I just answer that for you?” Eggman’s voice came from nowhere. Blur turned around to face Eggman’s flying television with Eggman on the screen. “What do you want Eggman?” Blur asked. “Don’t be that way, Blur. I just thought you might be interested in knowing where your little friend might be.” Eggman said. Where are they?” Blur questioned threateningly. “Look down.” Eggman instructed.
Blur looked down the cliff and say a sleek black train passing by. By sheer luck, Blur managed to see Annalise and Geisy through the train’s window. “Ok, I found them. But what’s the catch?” Blur asked suspiciously. “I believe the catch...is you, Blur.” Eggman said before his flying television flew away. Just as it left, several flying mechs flew towards the train. “Oh no!” Blur exclaimed. Blur was about to chase after them until he felt a searing pain in the back of his leg. Blur looked back to see a small group of white fighter mechs with their guns aimed at him. “It’s never easy, is it?” Blur asked himself.
The mechs fired their guns, but Blur quickly moved away with his super speed. Blur then jumped into the air and curled into his ball form. Blur used his homing attack on a few of the mechs before uncurling and landing back on the ground. Four mechs surround Blur at on opposite directions and fired their guns, But Blur merely jumped into the air and watched as the mechs destroyed each other. “That was too easy.” Blur said. Just as Blur was about to chase the train, a red walker came from nowhere and landed in front of Blur. “Give me a break!” Blur complained.
The walker fired a red laser, but Blur quickly jumped behind a rock to avoid it. The walker fired its laser again and shot straight through the rock. Blur was lucky that it only missed his face by an inch. Blur could tell that the mechs armor was too thick for his regular attacks, so he charged a large amount of blue chaos energy in the form of a sphere. “Let’s see how you like this!” Blur shouted as he jumped from behind the rock and charged at the walker. The walker tried to use its lasers as defense, but Blur was too fast. Blur jumped up and plowed his signature technique into the walker’s core. “CHAOS WIND!” Blur shouted. The walker was destroyed in an instant and Blur left in a hurry to try and catch up with the train.
Blur had managed to catch up with the train in a few seconds and attempted to board it. But when he was close enough, the flying mechs came out of hiding and shot at the speedy hedgehog. Blur knew that if he stopped to avoid them, he would lose the train. On the other hand, if Blur didn’t avoid them, he would most likely be killed. This left Blur with only one choice. Blur pulled out the light-blue emerald he recovered from the future and held it high above his head. “CHAOS CONTROL!” Blur shouted. Blur disappeared as the bullets nearly hit him. The flying mechs searched for the hedgehog, but quickly found him, only to be destroyed. After having finished off the mechs, Blur quickly jumped into the air and used his homing attack on the door.
Annalise and Geisy were patiently sitting inside the train, waiting to see what Eggman might have planned for them. “What do we do now, Geisy?” Annalise asked. “We wait for Blur.” Geisy said. “But how can you be sure that he is coming?” Annalise asked. “Because I know Blur would never let anything happen to me. Any moment now, Blur will crash through that door to rescue us.” Geisy said confidently. Just as she said that, the door blew open and Blur jumped in. “Geisy, you were right! I can’t believe it!” Annalise exclaimed. “Me neither.” Geisy said in surprise. “Come on, let’s get out of here.” Blur said. Blur picked up Annalise and jumped out of the train with Geisy following behind.
Blur was running with Annalise in his arms and Geisy running next to them. “I knew it. I knew you would return. You had to.” Annalise said to Blur. “Blur! Look out!” Geisy shouted as she pulled him away just in time to avoid a green blast of energy. Blur looked ahead and saw Blitz standing in front of them. “You again?” Blur said. “This time there will be no more interruptions! The Soul Trigger must die!” Blitz exclaimed. Blitz launch a wave of psychokinetic energy at Blur, which Blur dived to avoid. Just as Blur was about to get back to his feet, Blitz used his gravity powers to hold Blur in place. “Blur!” Geisy shouted. “Did you two enjoy your little walk?” Eggman’s voice came from the sky. Annalise and Geisy looked back for a moment before being captured by Eggman’s Eggmobile. “Blur!” Geisy shouted to her hero. “Geisy! Annalise!” Blur shouted, desperately trying to break free from Blitz’s hold to save them, but it was useless.
“It’s time to end this, once and for all!” Blitz exclaimed. Blitz then raised his hand to finish Blur, but was interrupted again when Selihpem jumped between them. Blitz jumped back in surprise of Selihpem appearance, which forced him to release Blur from his hold. “Selihpem! Why are you getting in my way?” Blitz asked, confused about his ally’s actions. “I am Mach. Mach Speed Blazer.” Mach said to Blitz. Mach looked back to Blur and said “Get going.” “Thanks, bro.” Blur said before he ran off to chase after Geisy and Annalise. Mach turned back to his new opponent with every intention of defeating him.
Annalise and Geisy were struggling to break free, but they couldn’t. “Now stop it, you have nowhere to go.” Eggman said. “I would rather die then be your prisoner again. “Geisy said. “Suit yourself.” Eggman said as he pressed a button that released Geisy. “Geisy!” Annalise cried as she watched her friend fall to her death. Geisy though she was going to die until she felt a pair of strong arms wrapped around her protectively. “Blur!” Geisy exclaimed as Blur set her down on the ground safely. “You all right?” Blur asked. “I’m fine, but What about Annalise?” Geisy asked. Blur looked back and watched as Eggman was about to escape with Annalise. “Looks like I win this time, hedgehog!” Eggman shouted in victory. Blur merely smirk as he raise his chaos emerald above his head. “CHAOS CONTROL!” Blur shouted. In a single second, Annalise had somehow vanished and reappeared in Blur’s arms. “Let’s go.” Blur said as the two hedgehogs ran away with Annalise.
Blur, Geisy, and Annalise were running through a nearby jungle, hoping to avoid Eggman’s mechs. “It looks like we lost them.” Annalise said. “Then let’s stop somewhere close by to catch our breath” Blur said, exhausted from using chaos control twice in one day. “Man, how does Mach do it?” Blur asked in his mind. “After were done, I think it would be a good idea to take Annalise back to the castle.” Geisy suggested. “Good idea, Geisy.” Blur said. “Hey, Blur, look” Geisy said. Blur stop and looked back to see Geisy headed in another direction. “Geisy, wait!” Blur called as he chased after her. Geisy suddenly stopped with Blur and Annalise close behind. In front of them was a small lake that held a tree of white flowers that blew in the wind. Geisy and Annalise thought it was the most beautiful thing they’ve ever seen, but Blur didn’t know why.
“It’s so beautiful.” Annalise said as she walked closer to the lake. “I’ve never seen so many flowers before. Blur, have you visited many wonderful places before?” Annalise asked. “About zero.” Blur answered. Annalise looked happily as the wind carried the white flower petals across the air, but quickly became sad. “Once you defeat Eggman, you two will leave, won’t you?” Annalise asked. “We have to. Eggman will always cause trouble and we have to be there to stop him.” Geisy answered, equally sad that she might have to leave her new friend behind. “It’s ok. Though I have been frightened many times, I’ve enjoyed this adventure. It allowed me to be something other then a princess. I was able to be myself.” Annalise said as she turned back to the tree. "Being a princess isn’t easy, but I love my home and all it’s people. You would too, if this was your home, right?” Annalise asked. No response.
Annalise turned back to see why her friends weren’t answering and smiled at the sight before her. Blur and Geisy were staring at each others eyes in a loving way before they shut them and moved closer toward each other. Blur no idea what he was doing, he just felt an urge to do this and couldn’t resist. Their faces were only an inch from each other and nothing was going to stop them. Well...almost nothing. A random flower petal flew past Annalise’s face, which caused her to sneeze, which caused Blur to fall into the water. Blur turned away so that the girls wouldn’t see the blush on his face. “Uhh...” Blur said uneasily. “Oh, come on!!!” Geisy shouted to the sky. “Sorry.” Annalise apologized.

It was the day after Annalise and Geisy had escaped from Eggman’s clutches. Everything was peaceful in town, but peace never really lasts very long. Floating high above the town of Soleanna, Eggman’s airship could be seen clearly by everyone. “Princess Annalise, ruler of Soleanna. By refusing to negotiate with me, you have forced me to take drastic actions.” Eggman said over the load speakers. The crowd below the airship was starting to panic at Eggman’s initial threat and amongst them was Geisy, who was headed towards the castle to meet Annalise. Geisy quickly darted towards the castle, hoping to stop Annalise before Eggman’s plan succeeded.
“Meet me at the specified point at 4 o’clock today. Failure to do so on time will result in my leveling of this entire town so that nothing but ashes remain.” Eggman threatened. Annalise looked out from her balcony to see that Eggman was not bluffing, meaning she had no other choice. “Miss Annalise!” One of the maids cried. “I cannot allow harm to come to my people.” Annalise said as she started to walk out. “Miss Annalise?” One of the maids questioned. “It is my duty as princess of Soleanna to go. There is no other choice.” Annalise told them before she left to fulfill Eggman’s demands.
At Wave Ocean just outside of town, Blur was walking along the coastline. You heard right, Blur Journey Blazer, the fastest thing alive, is walking. The reason he wasn’t running like he normally does was because he had a lot on his mind, thinking about a certain red hedgehog we all know. “I can’t believe I almost kissed Geisy. I can’t actually be falling for her...can I?” Blur asked himself in his head. Blur couldn’t believe that the incident happened only once. “I have to admit, she has changed a bit and so have I. I think the truth is I actually lo...” Blur stopped himself when he heard a frantic female voice. “BLUR!!!”
Blur turned around to face the very person he was thinking about. “Geisy, what’s wrong?” Blur asked when Geisy stopped in front on him. “It’s Annalise, she’s been captured!” Geisy said frantically. “Again?” Blur questioned, clearly becoming annoyed of having to do the same thing again. “Yes again! Don’t just stand there, move!” Geisy shouted. “Ok, we’ll save her.” Blur said before taking off down the coastline. Geisy caught up with him in a few seconds and Blur asked “Where is he headed anyway?” “I heard from one of workers at a local café that he was headed for Kingdom Valley.” Geisy answered. Blur screeched to a halt and Geisy turned around to find out why. “What’s wrong?” Geisy asked. “Kingdom Valley is that way.” Blur pointed the opposite direction. “Oh.” Geisy said embarrassingly. Blur and Geisy quickly run the other direction to make up for lost time.
High above Kingdom Valley, Eggman held Annalise prisoner aboard his airship. “You’ve wasted so much of my time. If you had cooperated with me earlier, I wouldn’t have had to do this.” Eggman said irritantly. “What are you trying to do, Dr. Eggman?” Annalise said in a proper manner. “Why do you wish to revive the Souls of Disaster?” Annalise asked the evil scientist. “Did your parents ever disclose anything to you anything about the Creator?” Eggman asked as he walked around her closely to give him an intimidate look. “The Creator’s secrets are in his eternal light. His power...can change time and even manipulate the very fabric of space itself. I wish to obtain this power and dominate everything in this world. From the beginning of past all the way to the end of the future.” Eggman revealed his evil plot.
“So...you wish to rule over...time and space?” Annalise questioned. “Yes, truly. And the secret...It remains dormant inside of you, princess.” Eggman said. Eggman walked over to his computer console and opened up a file titled Solatist, the Souls of Disaster. “The princess of Soleanna and the seven chaos emeralds. Once I have everything, the fate of the whole world will change. And one of the beautiful gems is just up ahead.” Eggman said. Eggman minimized the Solatist file and activated his emerald tracker. His emerald tracker is similar to the one Wing created before. “Chaos emerald located.” The computer stated. “Finally...now, let’s go collect that chaos emerald.” Eggman said.
Blur and Geisy were running across the valley outside Soleanna until several white fighter mechs drop down and blocked their path. “We never get a break, do we?” Blur said. The mechs were about to fire until they were suddenly entrapped in a strange light. “What the?” Blur questioned. Just then, Blitz and Sheila drop down from one of the trees and lands in front of the two. “Blitz!” Geisy exclaimed. Using his psychokinetic powers, Blitz pushed all the mechs against the trees and destroyed them. “You two look like you’re in a hurry.” Blitz said. “What’s it to you.” Blur said harshly, not trusting Blitz one bit. But why would he after Blitz tried to kill him not once, not twice, but three times. “Look, I know you don’t trust me, but the circumstances have changed. I need to rescue the princess or Solatist will be freed.” Blitz said. Blur could tell that Blitz was telling the truth and said “All right, but how are we going to find her?” Blur asked. “It would be a good idea if we split into groups of two to find her and then get back together later to save her.” Sheila suggested. “Ok, let’s go, Geisy.” Blur said as he ran off with Geisy close behind. “We better hurry before Eggman frees Solatist.” Blitz said. “Right.” Sheila said as the two ran off in another direction.
Blur and Geisy were running down their chosen path at high speed, but were stopped, like always, by a small army of white fighter mechs and a walker mech block their path. “Looks like they don’t know when to quit.” Blur said. “We don’t have time for this!” Geisy shouted as she charged at the mechs. The mechs aimed their guns at their attacker and fired. Geisy was so blinded by her anger towards Eggman that she somehow didn’t notice the bullets headed straight for her. Luckily, Blur quickly dived on top of Geisy and pinned her to the ground so the bullets would miss their target. “What are you doing?! Let go of me before I...” Geisy was cut when Blur brought her up to feet and hit her across the face. “Are you crazy?! You could have died doing something that stupid!” Blur shouted, making Geisy come to her senses. “I’m sorry. I’m just...” Geisy trailed off. “Listen, I understand that you’re worried about Annalise. But getting yourself killed isn’t going to help.” Blur reasoned. Geisy held her head down in shame.
But while they weren’t looking, the white fighter mechs took the opportunity to completely surround the hedgehog couple. Blur and Geisy only realized where they were when they reload their guns. “You know, I never thought I would go out like this.” Blur said. “I can’t believe it has to end this way.” Geisy said sadly. Blur check around for anyway off escaping this, but saw no way out. Blur knew it was over, but he knew he had one thing left to do before he died. “Geisy, there’s something I need to tell you.” Blur said as he turned to face her directly. “What is it, Blur?” Geisy asked curiously. “A lot has been happening between us lately and I just need to tell you the truth. Geisy, I lov...” Blur was cut off when an object came from out of nowhere and sliced of one of the mechs head off. After taking a closer look, Blur found the object to be a large shuriken. “No way!” Shouted happily. Suddenly, a whole barrage of shuriken came from out of nowhere and killed off all the white mechs. When the white mechs were all destroyed, Vec and Glee walked next to Blur and Geisy and Esper reappeared next to them. “Team Chaotix Jr!” Geisy shouted in joy. “You looked like you could use some help.” Vec said. “Thanks.” Blur said. “Don’t thank us yet. There’s still one left.” Esper said, referring to the walker mech.
The walker opened up the secret hatches in its body and fired out a barrage of homing missiles. “Homing missiles! Glee, try to redirect them back at that robot.” Esper instructed. “Hey! I’m the leader here! Glee, do what Esper said.” Vec said as he shoved Esper to the side. “Gotcha!” Glee said excitedly. Glee flew directly at the missiles and when they were a foot away, Glee made a sharp turn upwards and the missiles followed. Glee was going to do what he was told, but then decided to have a little fun. Glee flew in circle with the missiles and even spelled his name from their exhaust fumes. “Quit messing around, you idiot!” Vec yelled from the ground. “He’s no fun.” Glee complained and flew at the mech. Glee flew directly under the mech and turned around and watched as the mech was destroyed by the missiles. “Yeah! Fireworks!” Glee cheered.
“What are doing here anyway?” Blur asked the detective trio. “We were called to investigate on why this areas valuable treasures keep disappearing.” Esper explained. “Hey! I was going to say that!” Vec complained. Esper ignored him and asked “Do you have any clue as to who might be behind it?” Just then, Jet and his team passed by on their Extreme Gear, carrying a large bag with them. “Just one.” Geisy hinted. “They’ve got to be the thieves.” Esper informed his team. “After them!” Vec ordered. Team Chaotix left to chase the Babylon Rouges, leave Blur and Geisy very confused. “What just happened?” Geisy asked. “I have no clue.” Blur answered honestly.
Eggman was in his ship further studying the files on Solatist until the alarms suddenly went off. Eggman checked his computer for what was causing the problem. “The one of the engines are malfunctioning.” Eggman stated. Suddenly, a thunderous explosion could be heard from the lower chambers. “What is happening?!” Eggman questioned. Down in the engine room, White Horror was destroying the attacking Mechs while Erazor Djinn was destroying the engines. “METEOR ATTACK!” White Horror called out as a meteors flew out to destroy another group of mechs. Erazor unsheathed his razor blade and sliced another engine in half. “Are you certain this is a good idea?” Wite Horror asked as his master watched from the shadows.
“If we can’t stop Selihpem, then the least we can do is make sure that Solatist is not freed from its seal.” The master said as he jumped in front of White Horror. “Help that accursed genie. I’ll take care of these meddlesome pests.” The master ordered. “As you wish.” White Horror said before he turned to assist the evil genie. The shrouded master gathered a large amount of blue chaos energy and shot it out towards the mechs. The attack was so powerful that it not only destroyed the mechs, but blew a hole in the side of the airship itself. Back in the control room, Eggman was panicking as he realized that there was nothing he could do. “No! We’re about to crash!” Eggman shouted in fright.
Blur and Blitz met up again later, but found out they were too late as they watched Eggman ship fly over the horizon and exploded. “No! We’re too late!” Blur exclaimed. “We failed. We couldn’t save her.” Geisy said tearfully. Blitz held his head down in shame. It was his fault that Annalise became Eggman’s prisoner in the first place. Just then, an idea came to Blitz. “Wait...there’s still a way to change this.” Blitz said. “Huh?” Blur said in confusion. “If we return to an earlier point in time, we’ll be able to save her.” Blitz explained. “Chaos control.” Blur said, understanding Blitz’s plan. “Exactly.” Blitz said as he pulled out the white emerald he received from the ruler of Soleanna. Blur pulled out the light-blue chaos emerald he obtained from Blitz’s time and the Blue emerald he obtained from Elise. The two hedgehogs held their chaos emeralds in the air and shouted “CHAOS CONTROL!”
On command, a white vortex appeared behind them. “Come on, Blur! Let’s go save Annalise!” Geisy exclaimed as she charged at the vortex. “Geisy, no!” Blur yelled, but was too late as she jumped through the vortex. 'She's becoming a female me' Blur thought. Blur was about to follow her until he turned around and threw his Light-Blue chaos emerald to Blitz. Blitz caught the emerald and looked to Blur, confused, “We can handle this ourselves. Besides, you’ve got somewhere to go, don’t you? we’ll make sure to change Annalise’s fate. And that in turn, should change your future too. Thanks, Blitz” Blur said. “Yeah...just go save her.” Blitz said. Blur jumped into the vortex with Blitz and Sheila jumping in after him.

Just outside of Eggman’s base in White Acropolis, a white vortex appears in midair with Geisy jumping down from it. Geisy searched the area and saw Eggman’s base ahead, guessing that was where he was keeping Annalise. “Don’t worry Annalise, I’m coming.” Geisy said before running towards the base entrance. A minute later, Blur jumped down from the time vortex and caught sight of Geisy charging towards Eggman’s base. “Geisy, wait!” Blur called out to her, but she didn’t listen. Blur was going to chase after her, but as usual, white fighter mechs popped out of the ground and blocked his way. “Come on!” Blur complained. The mechs fired their guns, but Blur wasn’t really in the mood to play and decided to make it quick. Blur used his super speed to avoid the shots and then curled up into his ball form. Blur span in place for a moment before using his spin dash to kill all the mechs at one time. “I just hope Geisy isn’t doing something stupid.” Blur said as he ran off after Geisy.
Geisy ran into the center of Eggman’s base and entered a large room with four large tanks of strange liquid substances on the corners and a steel pillar in the center. The base basically looked like the original laboratory created by the ruler of Soleanna. “What is it with bad guys and large bases?” Geisy asked herself. Geisy walked over to the steel pillar and found a small computer console on it, but it required a password. Not a problem. “M-A-R-I-A. Maria.” Geisy entered the password and opened the computer. “You would think Eggman would have changed that by now.” Geisy said. Geisy searched through the computer for any leads on Annalise’s whereabouts. Geisy found a surveillance recording that showed Eggman dragging Annalise into his airship in the lower chambers. “You won’t get away this time, Eggman!” Geisy said with determination before running down to the lower chambers of the base
In the lower chambers of Eggman’s base, a last minute inspection was being made for his airship before it took off. “Thrust increasing. Engine output at maximum. Course plotted. Gate opening.” The base computer stated. As the hanger doors were opening, a trio group of familiar evil characters (White Horror, Erazor, and ?) were rushing towards the airship. “There it is! That’s where the seal of Solatist is being kept!” the master exclaimed. “We must board that ship at once!” Erazor shouted. “Leave it to me. DARK CONTROL!” White Horror called. In a flash of light, the evil trio teleported inside the airship. “Lifting off!” the computer stated as the airship began to depart. But high above in the rafters, Geisy jumped off and landed safely on top of the airship. Blur wasn’t far behind when Geisy jumped on board the airship. “I knew she was going to do something stupid.” Blur said. Blur quickly followed Geisy’s example and jumped off the rafters to land on the airship. Unfortunately, the airships engines activated to give it extra speed so that Blur might miss his target. Blur was just lucky enough to catch the airship wing before he killed himself. “How do I get myself into these messes?” Blur asked himself.
Eggman was in his ship further studying the files on Solatist until the alarms suddenly went off. Eggman checked his computer for what was causing the problem. “The one of the engines are malfunctioning.” Eggman stated. Suddenly, a thunderous explosion could be heard from the lower chambers. “What is happening?!” Eggman questioned. Down in the engine room, White Horror was destroying the attacking Mechs while Erazor Djinn was destroying the engines. “METEOR STRIKE!” White Horror called out as a meteor flew out to destroy another group of mechs. Erazor unsheathed his razor blade and sliced another engine in half. “Are you certain this is a good idea?” White Horror asked as his master watched from the shadows.
“If we can’t stop Selihpem, then the least we can do is make sure that Solatist is not freed from its seal.” The master said as he jumped in front of White Horror. “Help that accursed genie. I’ll take care of these meddlesome pests.” The master ordered. “As you wish.” White Horror said before he turned to assist the evil genie. The shrouded master gathered a large amount of blue chaos energy and shot it out towards the mechs. The attack was so powerful that it not only destroyed the mechs, but blew a hole in the side of the airship itself. Back in the control room, Eggman was panicking as he realized that there was nothing he could do. “No! We’re about to crash!” Eggman shouted in fright.
“Look’s like play time is over, Egg-head.” A familiar voice cane from behind. Eggman and Annalise looked back to see none other then Geisy. “Geisy!” Annalise exclaimed happily before she ran behind the pink hedgehog for protection. “Look’s like this place is going down fast. Too bad for you, Eggpoop.” Geisy said. Eggman began throwing a temper tantrum, which made him look like a big, fat baby. “I’m not finished yet! I still have one more trick up my sleeve!” Eggman proclaimed. Eggman pressed a large red button on the computer console, which released a trap door beneath the two females. By either luck or coincidence, Geisy and Annalise fell on a small steel platform out side the airship. “Now what?” Annalise asked. “Now, I shall take my revenge and rule the world.” Eggman’s voice came from above.
Geisy and Annalise looked up to see Eggman in his Eggmobile, only it appeared to have been upgraded again. The main part of Eggman’s signature vehicle acted as a head for a giant red dragon-like robot that flew just above their heads. “Even though I was waiting to save this for Blur, I will gladly show you my newest creation.” Eggman gloated. “What is it this time?” Geisy asked. “Behold...the Egg-Dragon!” Eggman shouted as the dragon machine gave a thunderous roar. “Geisy!” Annalise shouted in concern. “Don’t worry; I’ll take care of this.” Geisy said. Eggman only laughed at this. “Do you really think you stand a chance against me? Please, you are nothing more then a pathetic little girl who always gets caught!” Eggman said snidely. “I’ve changed I’m not that pathetic girl I once was!” Geisy claimed. “Then prove it!” Eggman challenged as the Eggmobile was covered in red head armor to give the machine a full dragon look.
The Egg-Dragon flew in circles around Geisy until it stopped to open it wings out. On the wings, several holes in them began to glow bright with energy. “Lasers fire!” Eggman commanded. The Egg-Dragon fired its laser at multiple targets around the steel platform. Thinking fast, Geisy picked up Annalise and jumped from side to side to avoid as much of the laser fire as possible. Geisy was lucky enough to avoid most of the lasers, but not lucky enough to avoid the one that burned her left shoulder. “Are you all right?” Annalise asked as Geisy set her down. “Yeah, just fine.” Geisy said through the pain. “Here I come you little pest!” Eggman shouted as the Egg-Dragon dived towards Geisy. Acting fast, Geisy pushed Annalise aside to safety and jumped up and landed on top of the Egg-Dragon’s head. “Hey! Get off!” Eggman yelled. Eggman was too distracted with Geisy to notice that he was headed for the side of his ship. Before Eggman crashed into his ship, Geisy quickly jumped off the Egg-Dragon and landed back on the steel platform with Annalise. “Hah! I sure showed him!” Geisy cheered in victory.
But her victory was cut short when the Egg-Dragon crashed through the ship again and flew down in front of the two females. It was clear that Geisy had left damage, seeing that the Egg-Dragon’s head armor was missing. “Don’t think this is over yet, you little hedgepig.” Eggman said. “That’s hedge-HOG!” Geisy shouted. “Whatever Stupid rodent.” Eggman shrugged as he pressed another button for the Egg-Dragon. The Egg-Dragon raised its tail and fired a swarm of small missiles. The missiles somehow missed Geisy completely and circled around her. “Hah, missed!” Geisy boasted. “Oh, did I?” Eggman smirked as he pressed another button. All of a sudden, the missiles released a surge of electrical energy and struck Geisy dead center. “AHH!” Geisy cried as she collapsed in pain. “And now we end this.” Eggman said as the Egg-Dragon prepared to fire its wing lasers again. Geisy could only lay there and wait as Eggman prepared to finish her off.
Geisy slowly tried to get back to her feet, but she was too weak and collapsed to her knees. “Geisy, please stop.” Annalise begged, worrying about her friend’s safety. “No. I told you, I’ve changed. I am no longer that weak little girl anymore. I am stronger and I’m going to prove it! I WON'T RUN AWAY THIS TIME!” Geisy said with flames of determination in her Blue eyes. The Egg-Dragon fired its lasers one last time, but Geisy quickly curled into a ball and spun in place then threw herself towards them. It looked useless, but it was able to stop the laser fire. Then, to Eggman’s surprise, Geisy formed a sphere of red chaos energy in her hand. “What is this? Impossible! That’s Blur’s Chaos Wind!” Eggman announced. Then, threw the red sphere and bashed through the Dragons chest before exploding in a wind of energy. Geisy quickly grabbed Annalise and jumped up back inside Eggman’s airship.
Geisy swiftly ran down the airship corridor until suddenly, the ship broke in two, leaving no place for them to run. Or at least that’s what Annalise thought. Geisy, on the other hand, had another idea. “Aren’t you worried?” Geisy asked her friend. “If you have time to worry, just run. Right?” Annalise repeated the words Geisy told her earlier. Geisy smiled at her friend and looked down as the piece to the ship that broke exploded into a million pieces. This was their chance. Geisy held Annalise tighter before running off the edge and jumped ahead. Geisy jumped off a piece of the wreckage towards the airships wings. Seeing that they were close to a cliff, Geisy decided to take her chances and jumped up. But unfortunately, Geisy didn’t jump high enough and fell back down. “This is it.” Geisy said depressingly. Just then, a piece of the wreckage passed by and a speedy purple blur busted through the roof. The blur turned out to be Blur as the hero grabbed the girls safely in his arms. “Blur!” Geisy shouted in happiness. “Hang on!” Blur warned. Then, the wreckage that Blur came through crashed into the cliff, which exploded and created an updraft that pushed the trio back up onto the cliff.
When the trio landed on the cliff, Annalise was thrown in one direction, while Blur and Geisy were thrown towards another. Annalise rubbed her head as she sat up and noticed that Blur and Geisy weren’t with her. “Blur?! Geisy?!” Annalise called to her friends. When she finally found them, she smiled at the scene before her. Blur was lying on the ground with Geisy lying on top of him and their faces were very close together. “Um...Sorry, Blur.” Geisy said embarrassingly as she got off him. Blur and Geisy stood back to their feet and, to Geisy’s surprise, Blur pulled her into a warm hug. Geisy’s face was completely red from the close contact with her hero. “Uh...Blur.” Geisy said embarrassingly. “Listen, Geisy. Before anything else interrupts me again, there’s something really importent that I need to tell you.” Blur said seriously. “What?” Geisy questioned. “I love you.” Blur said. Geisy’s heart had completely burst. Blur Journey Blazer, her first and only love, had said that he loved her. To prove that he was telling the truth, Blur pulled her closer and leaned his head forward so his lips would make contact with hers. Geisy was officially in heaven. Her dream of finally kissing her hero had finally come true. Annalise was happy for her friend and she watched on; knowing that Eggman was gone and no one could ruin this day. And that no one's name is Selihpem.

After suffering a great defeat at the hands of Mach, Jasmine, and Kumori, Selihpem had no choice but to retreat back to Kingdom Valley. Selihpem was greatly angered that Mach was able to resist his temptations and crushed a nearby boulder with his fist to let out his anger. “I almost had him! He was mine! If it wasn’t for his damn girlfriend, Mach would be my servant!” Selihpem shouted with rage. “But Mach is not my only problem. No doubt that Blitz has already discovered that the Solatist in his time is a fake. This is getting out of hand. I need to free Solatist and get rid of Blitz for good. I can't let the Elemenetic stop me.” Selihpem said. It was then that Selihpem saw Annalise, Blur, and Geisy walking out of the valley down below him. “And I know how to do both at once.” Selihpem said in a sinister manner as he pulled out his purple chaos emerald. If he had a mouth, you would see an sinister smile on his face.
Annalise was walking behind Blur and Geisy, who were walking hand-in-hand, as they were beginning to leave the valley. “You must be so happy, Geisy. Your long-time dream has finally come true.” Annalise said to her hedgehog friend. “Yeah and nothing is ever going to ruin it.” Geisy said as she latched on to Blur’s arm. “Hey, easy on the arm, Geisy.” Blur joked. Geisy was convinced this dream would never end. Just then, a flash of purple light appeared behind them and the group looked back at the source. To their surprise, it was actually the glow of the purple chaos emerald. “Is that a chaos emerald?” Annalise asked. “Yeah, but what’s it doing here?” Blur questioned. Without them knowing, Selihpem had reverted to his ooze form to stealthily sneak up behind the group before returning to his solid form. “Now to finish this.” Selihpem said as he formed a large arrow of energy in between his hands. “CRYSTAL...LANCE!” Selihpem copied Mach’s attack.
Blur and Geisy were too busy to staring at the chaos emerald to hear Selihpem attack. But Annalise did. “NO!” Annalise shouted as she pushed them away. “What’s you deal, Annali...” Blur trailed off as he got to his feet to see the horror before him. Annalise was able to save them, but she was not as lucky and was hit directly through the back by Selihpem's attack. “Not exactly what I had planned, but it works for half of it.” Selihpem said cruelly as he turned towards Annalise’s direction. Annalise fell to her knees and tried her best to hold back the tears that threatened to fall from her eyes. “That’s a good girl, Annalise. Remember, be brave. Don’t cry, no matter what. Otherwise your tears will call forth the flame inside you. Become a strong queen who doesn’t cry and...Live...happily.” Annalise tried to remember the final words of her departed father, but the pain was too much. Annalise finally cried and at the same moment died.
Upon Annalise’s cry, a large stream of light erupted from the earth and took the form of a white beast that had 5 eyes, 4 tendrills and an eagle shaped head, Solatist. Seeing that his plans were finally coming together, Selihpem let out a sinister evil laugh that could chill the bones of all life on earth. “Finally, the seal is broken! After ten years of waiting, the ultimate power is finally within my grasp! At long last, I will be able to join with you, Solatist!” Selihpem said to the ice known as Solatist. Selihpem held his hand out to recall the chaos emerald back to him. “Now, chaos emerald! It’s time for the final curtain call! CHAOS CONTROL!” Selihpem called out as the glow of the chaos emerald enveloped the entire area, Blur and Geisy had to shield their eyes from the light.
Back in the ruins of Dusty Desert, Mach, Kumori, and Jasmine had just defeated the last of the Selihpem clones. Mach and Kumori were placing their power rings back on her wrists to restrain what power they had left. “Wow, we sure left a huge mess.” Jasmine said, referring to the oozy remains of the Selihpem clones. “Don’t expect me to clean that up.” Kumori said. “Since when have you ever cleaned anything?” Mach joked. That’s right. Mach Speed Blazer made a joke. “Hey!” Kumori shouted. Jasmine was the first to notice the green and yellow chaos emeralds and tried to sneak them away without Mach or Kumori knowing. But the second she tried to touch the chaos emeralds, the entire room and everyone inside was engulf in a bright flash of light created by the chaos emeralds.
Blitz and Sheila were walking down the broken street of their still destroyed home, discussing the incident that just happened a few minutes ago. “But how is it possible that Selihpem was able to create a false Solatist?” Blitz questioned as he stared at the small mechanical ball that was left behind when the false Solatist was defeated. “I don’t know.” Sheila answered honestly. Blitz continued to stare at the mechanical ball until he suddenly tripped on an unknown object. Blitz picked himself up to see that the object was a root from a...tree? “What the?” Blitz questioned as he turned around and noticed that they were standing just outside Tropical Jungle. “I don’t think this is supposed to be here.” Blitz said. “And I don’t think that’s supposed be there either.” Sheila said as she pointed to another direction. Blitz followed the direction Sheila was pointing and saw, to his surprise, the mountain known as White Acropolis. “What’s going on here?” Blitz questioned. “We were hoping you would know.” A sudden voice came from behind.
Blitz and Sheila turned around to face Wing and Rock. “Who are you two?” Blitz questioned defensively. “We were gonna ask you the same questions!” Rock exclaimed as he held his fists up in a fighting position. “We can answer that.” A female voice came from the side. The group turned to face Mach, Jasmine, and Kumori. “Mach!” Blitz and Rock exclaimed at the same time before sending distrusting glances to each other and turning away. “It’s all because of The Creator.” Jasmine said. Just then, Eggman walked in the middle of the group. “It would seem that we have all been caught by the spatial distortion. It has become clear that Solatist’s seal has been broken. Most like due to Selihpem’s manipulation” Eggman said. “But that’s impossible. The only way the seal could be broke is if the princess would cry.” Blitz stated. “Then how do you explain all this?” Eggman asked, referring to the distorted world around them. Eggman’s question stumped Blitz as he had no idea how. Just then, a large volcanic eruption emerged from the middle of the city. “I bet we’ll find our answer there. Come on!” Mach exclaimed as he and the rest of the group ran towards the eruption.
When they finally reached the eruption site, the group found Geisy on the floor, crying her eyes out, in front of the large lava pit that Solatist once traveled through. “No.” Blitz said quietly before running to Geisy’s side. “Geisy, what happened?” Blitz asked. “Annalise...she’s dead.” Geisy said through the tears. Blitz was not the only one that heard it, but the entire group heard as well. The heroes looked over to the side to see Blur near Annalise’s dead body. “Blur!” Wing yelled as he ran to him with the rest of his friends. When they had reached him, they could believe what they were seeing. Annalise was really dead. “Annalise.” Wing said sorrowfully. “I can’t believe it.” Rock said quietly. Even Mach, who hardly knew Annalise at all, felt remorse for her death. “Selihpem played us all for fools. His plan all along was to cause the princess to be so consumed with despair that she would cry. And one thing no one can avoid crying is being at the verge of death.” Eggman figured out Selihpem plan. “Your smarter then you look, Eggman.” a familiar dark voice could be heard.
Mach felt a familiar chill run down his spine and sharply turned to find Selihpem with the seven chaos emeralds floating around him. “Selihpem!” Mach exclaimed. “You are right, Eggman. My plan all along was to force the princess to cry and break the seal that entrapped my other half. Everyone simply acted as a catalyst to force the princess to cry and set him free. And for the last time, my name is SELIH!” Selih revealed his evil plot. “You won’t get away with this Selih!” Blitz shouted as he jumped in front of the group. Selih stepped back in shock when he caught sight of Blitz, like he saw a ghost. “But...How? How can you still exist? Oh yeah, I killed Annalise.” Selihpem asked Blitz. “What are you talking about?” Blitz questioned, confused at Selihpem’ meaning. “Do you know every reason why I sent you back to kill Blur?” Selihpem asked. “To kill Blur and free Solatist.” Blitz answered. “That is only half of the reasons. The third reason I sent you was so that you would be erased from existence.” Selihpem said. “But how?” Blitz asked, not fully understanding what Selihpem was getting at. “Allow me to reveal a piece of your family history. YOu know why you like exactly like Blur other than your Light Blue fur. That's because you Blitz, are the son of Blur Journey Blazer himself.” Selihpem said. Blitz was taken back by this new information and realized that he had almost erased himself when he tried to kill Blur.
“But that still doesn’t explain why Blitz wouldn’t exist.” Sheila stated. “True, but it takes more then one person to create a family.” Selihpem said. “What do you mean?” Sheila questioned. “I mean, that Blur and Geisy are destined to become a family, which would one day lead to the birth of our good friend, Blitz.” Selihpem said. “ But it won’t matter in a moment as The Creator shall live once again!” Selihpem stated. The chaos emerald circled Selihpem at a faster rate which manipulated the ice and souls of Solatist to surround his body. Both Selihpem and Solatist shot up into the sky to create a massive explosion of light. From that light came a monstrous white creature with three eyes that looked like a Giant sphere with a Red aura spiraling around it and two giant hands. This was the creature everyone had feared: The Creator.
“That’s him! The Creator!” Blitz exclaimed. “This creature will consume all existing timelines and universes and time itself will collapse and disappear into nothingness.” Eggman said. “The instability of time caused this time-space rift.” Mach said. “It won’t remain for much longer.” Eggman said. We have no time to waste. We’ve got to defeat it now!” Rock exclaimed. “No. it is a transcendent life form that exists in past, present, and future. Defeating it here in the present would do nothing.” Eggman said hopelessly. “No! I won’t give up! There has to be a way! If you say that it exists in the past, present, and future, I’ll destroy them all!” Blitz said, eyes filled with the fires of determination that would prove he was related to Geisy. “It might have possible, if we had the emeralds.” Mach said.
“If we don't have the emeralds then I’ll destroy that monster without them!” Blitz proclaimed. “Do you realized what you’re getting yourself into? It’s too dangerous.” Mach said. “I don’t care! For too long, my world and its people have lived in pain and despair. I have always been there to protect them and not about to stop now!” Blitz flared. “I’m with him. This could be our only chance to truly be rid of this monster and if you won’t help, then stay out of our way!” Sheila shouted as she stood by Blitz. Wing and Rock stared at each other for a moment and then stood by Blitz. Mach watched as Jasmine and Kumori passed him to join their friends with Blitz. Blur smiled as he walked up to the light blue hedgehog. “You really are my son. Very well, I’m in.” Blur said. "The Creator has flung the chaos emeralds to the distant corners of this distorted world.” Eggman informed. “We’ll have to split up if we want to collect them all in time.” Mach said. “All right, guys! Let’s show The Creator the true super power of teamwork! Wait a minute has Blur used that before?” Blitz shouted then asked everyone shook their heads no. The group then spilt up in search of the seven chaos emeralds.

Blitz was trekking the remains of Dusty Desert that now lie outside his city in search of the white chaos emerald that was supposed to be there. Or at least that’s what Eggman told him before he left. “Where is that chaos emerald? It’s got to be here.” Blitz said as he entered the one of the remaining ruined temples. But the moment Blitz entered the temple, the Creator’s monster made their presence known to him. In front of Blitz were two large Golems and a half dozen Takers waiting. “I knew this was too easy.” Blitz said as he moved into a fighting position.
The Takers were the first to strike as they flew past the two Golems and dived directly at the light blue hedgehog. Blitz calculated their movements and was able to dodge their attacks at the last second. “Why don’t we make this a fair fight?” Blitz said. Blitz began to use his psychokinetic powers to lift his body off the ground, but, to his surprise, he was only able to hover three feet in the air before dropping back down. “What the?” Blitz questioned. Blitz looked up just in time to jump aside before a spiky rock ball created by one of the Golems nearly crushed him. “Selih must have somehow reduced my powers again. I doesn’t matter. I’ll still destroy these monsters.” Blitz said. The Takers once again stooped down to strike, but Blitz used his wind powers to catch the Takers in midair and crush them together. Now all that was left was the Golems. The one of the Golems formed another spiked rock ball in it had and charged at Blitz. The Golem rushed up to Blitz and used the spiked ball as a mace to crush the hedgehog. Fortunately, Blitz still had enough of his power to freeze the golem. But unknown to him, the second Golem snuck up behind him and raised its fist above his head.
“METEOR STRIKE!” Hearing the familiar attack being called from behind, Blitz instinctively looked back to see the second lava golem being cut in half by a meteor. It was then that White Horror floated in Blitz sight. Blitz quickly burned the paralyzed Golem and swiftly turned to White Horror. “What are you doing here?” Blitz asked. “There is no time for questions. You must hurry before they reach the chaos emerald.” White Horror said. Then, as White Horror predicted, an enormous amount of lava monsters created by The Creator started crashing through the ruined walls. “Go! I will take care of these pests.” White Horror said. At first Blitz didn’t want to leave him, but realized he had no other choice and ran off. White Horror was now left to face The Creator’s creations alone. “Show what you can do.” White Horror challenged. After several rough minutes of searching, Blitz found the white chaos emerald perched at the top of the temple. “All right. The Creator, here I come.” Blitz said as he picked up the emerald. When he turned to leave, Blitz found himself faced with the army of lava creatures that were fighting White Horror, with the stain of purple blood on them, this told Blitz White Horror died. Blitz yelled “CHAOS CONTROL.” With that, Blitz had disappeared.
Mach raced through the remains of Kingdom Valley in search of the red chaos emerald. Mach quickly took notice that, not only this area, but the entire dimension was slowly ripping apart, piece by piece. “The space-time rift is slowly collapsing. If we don’t find those emeralds soon, all hope will be lost.” Mach said. Mach swiftly grabbed a nearby vine and swung to a cliff on the other side of the gorge. When Mach reached the cliff, he found the red chaos emerald only a few feet away from him. This was easy. A bit too easy. Mach slowly walked towards the emerald and, as he expected, a mass of dark creatures created by The Creator popped out of the ground and walls to block him off. “I knew it was too easy.” Mach said. “What did you expect?” Mach looked to his side to find Erazor Djinn hold his razor blade in a fighting position. “What are you doing here?” Mach in an untrusting manner. “Relax; I’m not here to kill you. I want The Creator dead as much as you do.” Erazor said. “Then I guess it would be fitting if we worked together.” Mach said. “Right, but remember, this is only temporary.” Erazor said. “Agreed.” Mach said as they charged towards the dark monsters.
Mach jumped high into the air and curled into his ball form to use his own homing attack on a group of STalkers. After uncurling, Mach found himself surrounded by a large number of Nocturns. Mach was not worried as over a hundred purple arrows formed around him. “CHAOS SPEAR!” Mach shouted. The arrows scattered in all directions to completely obliterate the Nocturns. Mach looked over towards Erazor’s direction to check on him. Erazor cut one of the dark Golems down the center to split in half before spinning around to decapitate a Stalkers that almost hit him. Erazor looked over to notice Mach’s gaze. “What are you looking at? Hurry up and get the chaos emerald!” Erazor shouted. But while Erazor was busy looking at Mach, he did not notice the Crawlers below him until it was too late. Two Crawlers popped their head out of the ground and sank their teeth into Erazor’s legs to stop him from moving. Then, two Stalkers bit down his arms to stop him from using his blade and one dark golem walked up to the helpless genie. The Golem lifted it mace-like hand brought it down on Erazor.
Mach looked away, not wanting to see another ally die again. With his mind back on track, Mach made a break for the chaos emerald while the dark creatures were distracted by the dead genie in front of them. It was only until one of the Nocturns gave a loud screech did the dark creatures noticed Mach was headed for the chaos emerald. Mach quickly picked up the emerald and turned around in time to dodge a Nocturn that nearly bit his head off. Mach knew he was surrounded and knew there was only one chance of escaping. “CHAOS CONTROL!” Mach shouted and in a flash of light, disappeared.
A few moments later, all the heroes returned to the center of Crisis City where they first started. “Do you have the emeralds?” Eggman questioned. The group answered by revealing the seven emeralds they collected. Wing had the yellow emerald, Kumori had the green emerald, Rock had the light-blue emerald, Blitz had the white emerald, Jasmine had the purple emerald, Sheila had the blue emerald, and Mach had the red emerald. “All right, now all we have to do is use the power of the emeralds to defeat The Creator.” Blitz said. “Yes, but there is still one thing left to do.” Mach said as he walked over to Blur.
“Listen...Annalise gave her life so that you would stay alive and stop The Creator. Don’t let her sacrifice be in vain.” Mach said. Blur thought about what Mach said and found that he was right. Blur willing followed Mach towards the group of heroes before looking back at Annalise one last time. “Good bye, Annalise.”
Blitz joined with the other hedgehogs to fight the Creator. The heroes and looked between them, knowing what they had to do. The chaos emeralds then left their capturers hands and floated above the trio of hedgehogs. “Are you certain you want to do this?” Mach asked Blitz, wondering if he was having any second thoughts. “I have never been more certain about anything in my entire life.” Blitz said. Mach nodded in understanding and raised his hand towards the emeralds above along with Blur, Mach and Blitz. The positive energies of the chaos emeralds began coursing through their bodies as they grew more powerful by the second. For the first time since the battle on Mars, Blur and Mach became Super Blur and Super Mach. Blitz felt his hidden power being unlocked as his fur changed to a white-gold color to become Super Blitz. With their newly obtained powers, the three took to the skies for the final battle against The Creator.

Blur, Mach, and Blitz floated in the air to face The Creator directly. “All right, The Creator, show us what you got!” Blitz challenged. “Gladly.” The Creator spoke in Selih’s voice. The Creator’s back began to spin at a rapid pace and shot out hundreds of spike rocks in their direction. Using his newly acquired super abilities, Blitz used his psychokinetic powers to catch all the spiked rocks at once. “What is this?!” The Creator shouted in surprise and outrage. “Here, I think these belong to you!” Blitz shouted as he threw the balls back at The Creator. The Creator raised a shield to defend itself and it worked, but the shield cracked. “If you still think you have a chance against me, you dead wrong.” The Creator said. “We’ll just see about that!” Mach shouted from behind Blitz. Blitz moved to the side to reveal Mach holding a large arrow of energy. “CHAOS LANCE!” Mach shouted. As Mach threw the arrow, The Creator raised its shield to block the attack, but the shield broke this time. “Not so tough, now are you?” Mach said with a smirk. The Creator stared angrily at the two hedgehogs. Wait...two? “Where is the other one?” The Creator questioned. “Hey, The Creator!” Blur voice came from below. The Creator looked down. Big mistake. The minute he looked down, a golden blur passed through him. Too weak to keep itself up, The Creator fell into the lava pit below.
“All right, we did!” Blur celebrated. “So it’s over?” Blitz asked. “No.” Mach spoiled their celebration. “What are you talking about, Mach?” Blur asked. “That was too easy.” Mach answered. Just as Mach predicted, The Creator was not ready to go down yet. The Creator rose from the lava, only this time he took on a new form. His body was now a crystalline version of Solatist and had 16 hands. The Creator now had the ball of ice that contained Solatist and Selih was exposed. "You thought you could destroy me? You were wrong. Now, prepare to face the consequences of my true POWER!” The Creator said as it began to gather a great amount of energy. When The Creator threw the energy, it was Mach who realized they weren’t the targets, it was their friends. The heroes coward in fear as the attack came closer, but suddenly stopped. The group looked up to see it was Mach who was keeping the attack at bay, but he was growing weaker. Blur was about to help until. “No! Stay back!” Mach shouted. “But Mach...” Blur was cut off. “Listen, Blur. I can’t hold this for much longer. You and Blitz are the last hope for the world.” Mach said. “Mach, no!” Blur shouted as he realized what was about to happen. “See you when it’s over.” Mach said before his power disappeared and reverted to his original form then fell into Kumori's arms.
Blitz looked towards Blur to see how he was taking in this new development and gasped in horror. Blur rage had finally gone out of control and revealed it’s true from. Blur’s pupils completely disappeared and his golden fur transformed into a dark and evil color. Super Blur had transformed into Dark Blur. (Not Darkspines)
“You! I’ll kill you!!!” Dark Blur proclaimed. “Hahahaha. You are going to kill an immortal super-dimensional being. It’s a laugh.” The Creator roared in laughter. The Creator’s laughter quickly halted when Dark Blur zipped through it, leaving a burning, gaping hole in him. Dark Blur took the opportunity to summon a pair of dark energy balls in his hands. Dark Blur threw the energy balls at The Creator’s core, which seem to have caused a great deal of damage as The Creator let out a roar of pain. Dark Blur tried to gather more energy balls, but then suddenly, a large stream of purple ooze escaped from The Creator’ core towards Dark Blur. Selih’ upper body formed from the ooze and hit Blur’s chest. Blur’s fur returned to its normal color as Selih brought his hand back and watched him drop. Blitz used his psychokinetic powers to save Blur from falling into lava.
Selih looked down towards Blitz and held a questioning look on his face. Just then, out of nowhere, an unknown assailant grabbed Selih from behind. “What is the meaning of this? Release me at once or else!” Selih questioned. The person in question turned out to be White Horror and Erazor Djinn’s master. “Time to end this, Selihpem!” The master shouted. “Not so fast.” Selih said. Suddenly, a spiral of fire left the core and completely engulf the shrouded figure. But he did not give up as he forcefully pulled on Selih’ body until finally he separated from The Creator. The shrouded figure threw Selih into the city and then fell as his body gave out. Unfortunately for him, he was standing over the lava pit and fell to his death.
Blitz watched on as The Creator reverted back to Solatist’s true form. It was apparent that without Selih, The Creator could not hold himself together. This was the chance Blitz had been looking for. Blitz dispelled his super form to release the chaos emeralds. “What are you doing, Blitz?” Sheila questioned. “I am going to make Solatist will never be used again. I will destroy him along with myself. That way, The Creator will never been be resurrected again.” Blitz said as he reached for all the emeralds. Blitz walked up to the great iceball with the emeralds held high. “Chaos emeralds, lend me your power! Eternal light!” Blitz began, but was stopped when Selih came from out of nowhere and pinned the hedgehog to the ground. “This ends now!” Selih shouted as he attempted to choke Blitz.
Selih stopped his attempts when Sheila’s voice reached his ears. “Chaos emeralds, lend me your power!” Selih and Blitz both looked back to see Sheila holding the chaos emeralds to Solatist. Selih tried to reach out and kill her, but Blitz quickly grabbed his arm to stop him from moving any further. “Eternal light! The living icicle that has been entrusted to the royal family! Fall into slumber with my soul, Solatist! You Soul of disaster!” Sheila chanted. Through the power of the chaos emeralds, Solatist had no other choice but to be sealed inside Sheila’s body. While Selih was distracted by Sheila’s performance, Blitz took this opportunity to kick Selih off of him and ran to his friend.
“Sheila!” Blitz exclaimed. “Blitz, use chaos control to stop time and seal us into another dimension.” Sheila said, struggling to keep Solatist sealed inside her. “No! I can’t do that to you!” Blitz said. “Didn’t we go through this already? We agreed to save the world at any price!” Sheila reminded him. Hesitantly, Blitz grabbed another chaos emerald and reeled his hand back to use chaos control. But he couldn’t go through with it he tried again, but it ended the same way. “I can’t! I wouldn’t know what to do without you! You fought along side me to save the world! You’re my friend...right?” Blitz asked, on the verge of an emotional breakdown. “You’re still so naive Blitz.” Sheila said as she turned to face him. “But...that’s one of the reasons...why I've always loved you.” Sheila said. Blitz stared at Sheila in shock. Did she just say she loved him? Sheila walked closer to the light blue hedgehog and tilted her head and moved closer until her own lips made contact with his.
Blitz couldn’t believe what was happening. Sheila, his best friend and greatest ally, was actually kissing him. Blitz thought back to when he first met Sheila. How scared she was when everyone would pick on her, calling her a freak and believing she was a minion of Solatist. Blitz was the only one that stood up for her and they’ve been friends ever since. Blitz thought back to all the times they spent together and came to one conclusion: he loved Sheila. But before he had a chance to return his affection, Sheila pulled away as her body began to become transparent. Sheila dropped the chaos emeralds and felt herself being pulled into the darkened skies. “Sheila!” Blitz called desperately for her to come back. “Good luck, Blitz.” Were Sheila’s final words. Sheila finally reached the cloud and exploded in a ray of warming light. Suddenly, a small ray of light shined on Blitz and spread till the entire city was covered in light and all of the things that were destroying the city had vanished all together. Blitz looked in amazement as, for the first time in 24 years, the sun had shined on the Earth. Blitz had hoped for this day to come, but not like this.
“Aww, how sad. The little rat’s girlfriend is gone forever.” Selih mocked, making Blitz angry. “It was probably for the best, seeing as that girl was completely worthless.” Selih continued and Blitz snapped. Blitz charged and began punching Selih left and right. “Hahaha! Why bother! Your attacks will do nothing! I am immortal! I can not die!” Selih shouted before Blitz delivered a strong uppercut that sent Selih back a few feet and broke most of Selih's crystal shards causing Selih to panic. “Well, if I can’t kill you, then I’ll have to send you to Hell directly!” Blitz shouted in rage. The chaos emerald reacted to Blitz’s rage and began to glow brightly. “SUPER CHAOS CONTROL!!!” Blitz shouted. The chaos control opened a black vortex behind Selih and began to suck everything inside. Blitz used his gravity powers to hold himself in place and grabbed everyone as they flew by, but Selih was not so lucky. “This isn’t over, Blitz! I will return and you...will...DIE BLITZ TAKESHI BLAZER I SWEAR IT!!!” Selih proclaimed before being sucked into the vortex.
When the vortex disappeared, it came as a signal that the war across time and space was finally over. “Is it over?” Geisy asked. “No Just as a flower comes from a seed or a chicken from an egg, everything has an origin.” Blitz said “What?” Blur asked, wondering what he was thinking. “Selih, he was right, everything has an origin.” Blitz said. “We need to go back to The Creator first came into existance.” Blitz said. “What are we doing?” Blur asked. “Getting a second chance.” Blitz said. Geisy understood what he meant and Blitz closed his eyes to concentrate on a certain memory. Blitz looked at the chaos emeralds and noticed that they were starting to crack, meaning they could only be used one last time. “CHAOS CONTROL!” Blitz said. The emeralds shattered as everyone vanished in a flash of light.
The citizens of Soleanna were currently celebrating a famous event know as the Soleanna Sun Festival. The sky was lit with colorful fireworks with a long white boat headed towards a giant alter in the middle of the town. Aboard that boat was Annalise, the current ruler of Soleanna. Annalise happily waved to the cheering people as the boat made a stop at the alter. Annalise walked up the alter steps and came face-to-face with a figure wearing a black cloak holding a small torch in his hands. For some reason, Annalise looked at the persons hands before accepting the torch.
On the sidewalk close to the alter, Blur, Mach and everyone else were watching the celebration and were very confused. “Wait a minute we reset the time line and yet all of us seem to remember what happened?” Wing asked. It would appear that they had memory of what happened the past few days even though the timeline reset. “I guess it just happened because it happened.” Kumori said. “Works for me.” Mach said. “I buy it.” Jasmine said. Blur was the first to ask “Geisy? Do you think Annalise remembers us?” Blur asked. “I don’t know.” Geisy answered honestly. “This is so very confusing.” Rock said and everyone agreed.
Blitz was watching the celebration from a different sidewalk. “Thank you, Annalise.” Blitz said quietly. Just then, Sheila walked next to him. “Blitz, where are we and what are we doing here?” Sheila asked. Blitz was surprised by Sheila’s questions. “I’ll answer that very soon, Sheila. But first, I have something for you.” Blitz said. Sheila was caught off guard when Blitz stared to kiss her. Sheila then realized what was happening and returned the kiss with equal passion. Down below, Annalise looked up and saw the kissing couple. She smiled and said 'Thank you, Blitz.' Annalise gave the black cloaked figure a ceremonial bow before turning to the crowd. “We give thanks for the blessed flames. May we always continue to have peace. Sun of Soleanna, guide and watch over us with your eternal light.” Annalise gave the traditional speech. Annalise turned around and placed the flames on the alter, which created a mantle of flame, signaling the completion of the Soleanna Sun Festival. The crowd went wild as fireworks filled the sky with their colorful beauty.
Elsewhere In the dark and dreary dimension known as hell, Selih yelled in rage at how he was defeated. “How?! How?! How was I defeated by the pest? HOOOOOOOOOOOOW!?” Selih yelled in rage. “That’s partly your fault.” Selih looked to the side to see Black Doom, Erazor Djinn, and their master who were all alive again with memories of what happened the past few days. “What do you mean?” Selih asked. “You're probably wondering how you still exist, even after your past has been erased.” The master said. “What do you mean?” Selih asked. “The icicle of The Creator has been destroyed. Meaning you should not exist.” The master said.
“But then how do I still exist?” Selih asked. “You see, when you first met Blitz, you used your temporal powers to travel back in time right?” the master asked. “Yes.” Selih asked. “Well, Blitz’s has a kind of chaos energy that is different from others exposed to him because your powers mixed. Your powers accidentally merged with his like the others temporarily, making you all immune to the time paradox. When it wore off it was to late for it’s effects to be reversed.” The master said. “You mean, we temporarily existed outside of time and space long enough to avoid the time paradox?” Selih questioned. “Exactly. Now Selih, I can understand that you might want revenge on the hedgehog that defeated you.” the master persuaded. “Yes.” Selih said. “Well, I can help you escape this prison and allow you to take your revenge. That is, if you become my eternal servant.” The master continued his persuasion. It didn’t take long for Selih to answer. “Very well, I accept.” Selih agreed.
“Good. Now our little group is complete.” The master said. “And what shall we call our organization?” White Horror asked. “From this day forward, we shall be known as the Dark Rulers.” The master answered. “Now that we have that out of the way, there is one more thing we have to ask.” White Horror said. “And that would be?” the master asked. “We have been kept in that cloak for too long. I think its time to tell us who you are.” Erazor demanded. “All right. I think you deserve that much.” The master said. He turned to his soldiers removed his cloak, he was a demon that had 2 vicious Red eyes and his arms were armed with razor blades and his head was full of spikes and his feet looked as if they had mouths with shark teeth. Then he said one sentence.
“The name’s Darkrion The Dark. The ultimate evil being on Earth for 10000 years.”

The Prolouge part 8 of 10: Jet of Gravity

It was one month since Blur finally found Kumori's family, she was Geisy's twin sister all along and The Creator incident, but for one bird, it has been four since his shameful defeat. For Jet the Hawk everything was going great. His had his best friend, Storm, his girlfriend, Wave, and was the leader of the greatest band of thieves in history. What more could he want? He would give only one answer: his pride. Ever since his defeat at the hands of Blur the hedgehog, Jet no longer had a passion for racing. He even abandoned his title of Extreme Gear Master. Storm and Wave were becoming worried and tried to figure a way to cheer him up. That when Wave remembered the rumor of a great treasure called the Ark of the Cosmos. And that is where our story begins.
The Babylon Rogues mastered their way through one of the most challenging tracks of their lives: The Gigan Rocks. Legend has it that a shooting star that grants wishes rested in the center of these mountains and that no one has ever made it alive. Try telling that to Jet. Jet, Wave, and Storm easily passed the obstacles and made it to their destination. Deep in the mountains, the found a stone wall with a painting of Babylon Garden. Just below it, a chalice holding a green stone ring stood atop a pedestal. The ring was the Ark they were looking for. They knew the chalice was bobby trapped, but Jet handled it.
“Well, that takes care of that trap.” Jet said proudly.
“Be careful, Jet.” Wave warned. “This thing may have more then one trap.”
“Aw, quit your worrying. I can handle it.” Jet proclaimed.
At least that’s what he thought. Jet was shaky as he tried to reach for the Ark. He was nervous that anything he might do would kill him. He touched the Ark. Slowly; he raised it out of the chalice, checking left and right before completely taking it out.
“S-s-see I t-told you there was n-nothing to w-w-worry about.” Jet said shakily.
Wave could resist the urge to chuckle as Jet was literally quaking in his boots. Wave looked on to the night sky and then noticed a shooting star passing by. Wave brought her hands together and closed her eyes.
“What are you doing?” Storm asked.
“Making a wish, idiot.” Wave said rudely. “They say if you make a wish on a star before it disappears, it will come true.”
“That’s stupid.” Storm laughed. “How old are you. How old are you, right boss?” unfortunately for him, he found that Jet was also making a wish. “I feel so lonely.”
For Wave, she didn’t need the wish. She had everything she wanted. But it wasn’t for her, it was for Jet.
“All I want is for Jet to be happy.” Wave wished.
“Give me back my honor.” Jet wished. “Give me the power to beat Blur.”
Storm, not wanting to feel left out, also brought his hands and closed his eyes to make a wish and as the Albatross’ luck would have it, the star he wished on crashed into the mountains next to them. The sudden impact caused the ground to start shaking. Jet noticed that the pedestal that held the Ark was starting to sink into the ground.
“Oh no, the trap!” Jet exclaimed.
“Boss, look out!” Storm yelled.
Jet turned around to the wall painting and noticed two huge boulders headed straight for him and his team. Thinking quickly, Jet raised the hand with his magic ring.
“I’ll take care of this!” Jet shouted. “TIME BRA...” but Jet was cut off when the Ark in his hand started to glow. Suddenly, the rocks stopped falling. After a moment of confusion, Jet found himself floating in the air. “Wha?! I know I’m a bird, but I don’t think should be doing this! Get down!”
“What’s happening?” Wave questioned as she and Storm started to float too.
“Look at me, I’m flying!” Storm yelled like a child. That was until Jet bopped him in the beak. “Sorry.”
When he was right-side up, Jet then figured out that this was all thanks to the power of the Ark of the Cosmos. The Ark slowly moved down Jet’s hand and became attached to his wrist.
“Hah! Look’s like my wish came true already!” Jet cheered.
The scene changes to a city far away to west. It was a city that far more advanced the Station Square, Soleanna, or Central City combined, but not as advanced as Future City. The city buildings were lined with chrome, the signs were laser made, and it was entirely powered by one tower owned by the company known as Meteor Tech. everywhere in the city, strange silver robots acted as workers for the city. Since it was night time, all the robots were shut down for the night. All except for one.
“So, this is the city of Megalo Station.” Metal said in wonderment. Metal was cruising around the city, testing out his newly acquired form. Metal had already convinced a certain person that Blur was the enemy and now he needed to find Eggman to complete his plans. “Now where could he be hiding?” Suddenly he could feel something in his circuits reacting. “What’s happening?”
Metal looked towards the sky and found a meteor show that somehow seemed to be affecting his circuits. But just then, one meteor broke from the rest and was headed straight for the city. But suddenly, it stopped and emitted a ray of light. The light transformed into a purple stone ring just like the one Jet has. The ring rolled onto the ground and stopped in front of one of the Meteor Tech robots. The robot suddenly became active and was followed by all the others. The one robot marched forward to lead the other on a rampage and only Metal was there to witness it.
“What’s going on? The robots have suddenly gone haywire.” Metal said. Metal then noticed the leading robot holding the stone ring. “It’s that stone, but what is it?”
“It’s called the Ark of the Cosmos.”
Metal turned back just as a dark portal appeared on the ground. A figure arose from the portal and took the form of Darkrion.
“What do you know about that stone?” Metal asked suspiciously.
“Nothing, but my friend, Erazor, knows quite a lot about them.” Darkrion smiled. “I am to guess that you are the one called Metal Blur, formally Metal Sonic.”
“What of it?” Metal asked dangerously.
“I have watched you over the month and I must say I am impressed.” Darkrion chuckled. “You have proven to be Blur’s most dangerous foe of all. I could use someone like you.”
“Use?” Metal asked.
“Become my servant and join the Dark Rulers. With you at my side, conquering this planet will be a breeze. We'll revive the true ruler.”
“Forget it.” Metal turned him down. “If there is anyone who will control the world, it will be me.”
“If that’s the way you want it, then I’ll have to destroy you.” Darkrion said as he moved to a fighting position.
“Bring it on.” Metal mimicked Blur’s usual phrase as he moved to a fighting stance.
The two titans of evil clashed, but the sounds of their battle were droned out by the sound of the Meteor Tech robots rampage. And so a new challenged has arisen that would decided the fate of the whole world. And it all started with a wish and a single star.

The scene changed to the day after the Meteor Tech rampage. For some reason, as soon as morning came, all of the robots suddenly dropped out of site. So to investigate the sudden attack, G.U.N. sent their top agent, Mach Blazer. Mach was peacefully cruising through the cities air roads in his new hover car. But he was not alone. In the passengers seat was his brother, Blur, and in the back was the newest member of the team, Blitz. Also in the back was Blur’s Gear, the Blue Star, along with Mach and Blitz’s. Mach’s Gear was a black and Silver board called Black Shot and Blitz’s was a purple and grey board called Psychic Wave.
“Man this is a sweet ride, Mach.” Blur admired Mach’s car. “How did you get it?”
“Being an agent of G.U.N. does have its perks.” Mach smirked.
“Awesome.” Blur said.
“You know, it’s really great that you decided to invite me on to this mission.” Blitz said.
“Of course. There is no way I would go on a mission without you. After all, you’re my son, right?” Blur said.
“You aren't my father yet.” Blitz said.
“So what were you saying earlier about a stone?” Mach asked.
“Yeah. It happened last night.” Blitz began. “Sheila and I were sleeping when it just dropped out of nowhere and hit me on the head.”
“It’s strange because I’ve never seen anything like it.” Blitz said. Blitz reached behind his back and pulled out a yellow stone ring exactly like the one Jet and the robot had. “This is it.”
“Weird.” Blur said. Blur grabbed the ring and inspected it. “Are stones supposed to look like this?”
“That’s what we’re here to find out.” Mach said. “Meteor Tech is the most advanced industry known to man. It’s because of Meteor Tech that Megalo Station is considered the 2nd most advanced city.” Mach and the group entered through a tunnel that led to the industry. “It’s there we’ll find our answers.”
“What? We’re going to play scientist?” Blur complained. “Man, what a rip-off.”
Blur carelessly tossed the stone ring between his hands, not knowing that they were being watched. Above them and out of their sight was a small security camera. The camera zoomed in on Blur, or more specifically, the stone ring. Suddenly, the tunnels alarm went off and Blitz looked back to see the tunnel closed off. Just up ahead, the tunnel was also closed off and several Meteor Tech robots suddenly attacked.
“Watch it!” Blur screamed.
Mach skillfully swerved the car around to avoid the robots first attack. But being such a small space, it wasn’t long before they caught up. One of the robots grabbed the side of the car until Mach put his foot in its face.
“Hey, buddy, hands off the ride!” Mach yelled.
Mach activated the boosters on his air skates and burned the robots head to a crisp. The robot fell limp and smashed into the floor below. Blur joined in the party by jumping up and curling into his ball form. Blur used his homing attack to take out three robots before jumping back to his seat.
“That was tight!” Blur cheered.
“Heads up!” Blitz warned.
Blur and Mach looked up to the roof of the tunnel and found a barrage of robots jumping down on them. The robots clung to the car and refused to let go. Suddenly, a barrier was formed around the car and pushed the robots off.
“Way to go, Blitz.” Blur praised.
“We’re not out of the woods yet.” Mach said.
True to Mach’s words, even more robots crawled out of the sides of the tunnel. The robots clung together to from a barricade in front of them.
“Now what?” Blitz asked.
“Quick! Into that elevator!” Blur yelled.
Mach looked over to see that there was a small elevator that would fit them. Just as all the robots attacked at once, Mach made a sharp turn and drove into the elevator, causing Blitz to fall out a bit. The robots tried to reach in after them, but they missed. The elevator had already been pre-set to stop at the 900th level, which was coming up fast.
“What was that all about?” Blitz asked as he climbed back into the car.
“I believe that’s what we’re here to find out.” Mach said.
“Watch out. This could get messy.” Blur said.
Blur, Mach, and Blitz were on edge as to what was awaiting them. Soon, they had reached the 900th level and the doors flew open. Just as they had suspected, a group of five Meteor Tech robots was already waiting for them. When the robots charged forward, Mach set the car full throttled and crashed through the blockade. Three robots were still attached to the car, but soon let go as they came close to a dead end.
“Brace yourselves!” Blur warned.
The three quickly grabbed their Gear and awaited the imminent crash. The crash created an explosion the burst a hole through the tunnel. Blitz used his psychokinetic powers to levitate him and Mach.
“Oh no, Blur!” Blitz exclaimed.
Blur was freefalling at a fast rate and Blitz knew he wouldn’t make it in time. Just when all hope seemed lost, a strange light burst from the stone ring in Blur’s hands. Blur and the rubble around him suddenly floated in midair.
“What the heck?” Mach question.
“I feel strange.” Blur said. “But...excited.”
The stone ring moved down Blur’s hand and became attached to his wrist. Blur smirked and grabbed the Blue Star to fall safely to the ground. Not far behind, the robots from earlier flew out of the tunnel and chased after the heroes. Mach and Blitz were prepared to fight until they realized the robots completely passed them. Blur looked back and smirked as the robots began to chase him.
“Catch me if you can.” Blur challenged.
And a new race had begun. Blur thought it would be fun to out race them, so he decided to turn the entire city into one big track. Blur crashed through the glass roof of a building to land inside a train station. The robot quickly followed behind and curled up into wheel-like forms. This maneuver proved effective as now they were able to move much faster.
“Hmm. Not bad.” Blur complimented. “Let’s see if you can keep up.”
Blur raced outside the train station and shot off a ramp that just happened to be there. Blur, being the show-off he is, stood on one hand on his Gear and waved back at the robots with the other. Blur and the robots landed on the ground, but two of the robots landed in the same place and destroyed each other.
“Ouch, that’s gotta hurt.” Blur Chuckled.
With three robots still on his tail, Blur made a quick turn toward the next ramp. Blur was ready to jump when he noticed something out of the corner of his eye. Acting quickly, Blur made a sharp turn and jumped on a pipeline hidden between two buildings. While two of the robots remained on track, one of the robots was stupid enough to follow Blur. Not knowing it was too heavy for the pipe, the robot fell down ninety stories to the ground.
“Logical patterns inefficient.” The leading robot stated. “Switching to alternate adaptive thought program.” While its only remaining partner moved on, the leader stopped in midway. “Program adapted. Switching to alternate methods.”
The leading robot quickly turned to the opposite direction that Blur was headed. Blur jumped off the pipeline and found himself down a road with several trains crossing above it. Blur looked back to see that only one of the robots was chasing after him.
“Look’s like it’s just you and me.” Blur said.
Blur increased his speed and caught a huge lead ahead of the robot. Suddenly, the robot opened up its side and shot a wire from it. The wire made contact with the back end of the Blue Star. All of a sudden, Blur seemed to be slowing down. The wire seemed to have connected with Blur’s Gear and instantly drained it of its energy.
“Whoa! Talk about bad timing!” Blur screamed. The robot quickly caught up and reached its arms out to grab the blue hedgehog. All of a sudden, Blur felt himself being lifted off the ground. He then felt the urge to shout out two specific words. “GRAVITY DIVE!!!”
A black hole appeared before Blur and the blue hedgehog passed through it. Upon reaching the other side of the black hole, Blur suddenly shot forward with speeds he couldn’t even reach in his wildest dreams. The speed proved to be an effective weapon as the aftershock rattled the machine behind him and tore it to pieces. The shockwave also lifted the trains off their rails and landed on the road below. Blur soon slowed down when he found himself back at the train station.
“Whoa, what was that all about?” Blur questioned. Blur gazed at the stone ring on his wrist. “Did you do this?” as if it understood him, the ring gave a sudden glow. “With you, there is no way I can get caught.” Blur turned around, only to have his throat grabbed by a metal claw. “I stand corrected.”
Blur’s capturer was the leader robot that had disappeared earlier. The robot predicted Blur’s tactics and returned to the train station before Blur did. The robot raised Blur off the ground and pulled him closer to his head.
“Surrender the Ark of the Cosmos!” The robot commanded.
“The what of the what?” Blur mentally asked.
When Blur didn’t give an answer, the robot pulled back its other claw. The robot threw its claw forward, but it never landed. The robot was suddenly entrapped in a green light. The robot released Blur just before falling backwards to the ground. Blur looked past the defeated robot to find Mach and Blitz.
“You just can’t stay out of trouble can you, Blur.” Blitz joked. “You’re lucky I used my powers just in time to save you.”
“Yeah, lucky.” Blur said sarcastically.
“Just what where they doing?” Mach questioned as he inspected the defeated robot.
“That robot said he was looking for something called the Ark of the Cosmos.” Blur informed. “What is that?”
“I have no idea, but I think it might have something to do with that stone on your wrist.” Mach said.
The three hedgehogs gathered around the strange ring and eyed it with interest. But the sound of sirens soon drew their attention away.
“Look, this isn’t a good place to be right now.” Blitz said. “We have to get out of here before more show up.”
“You mean run away!?” Blur protested.
“Would you rather fight an entire horde of those things?” Mach asked.
“Running away is good.” Blur suddenly changed his mind.
The trio jumped on their Gear and zoomed out of sight and exited the city before anymore Meteor Tech robots would notice them. But unknown to them, the fallen robot suddenly reactivated itself.
Back with the Babylon Rogues, Jet was sitting in his office, gazing wondrously at the Ark on his wrist. Wave was also there, making some quick analysis’ of the Ark that was in their possession. Wave was working with some data files she downloaded from scanning the Ark and thinks she found something.
“I think I figured it out, Jet.” Wave said.
“Yeah? Whatcha got?” Jet asked.
“As I suspected, the Ark of the Cosmos is actually an important piece of Babylon Garden, invented by our ancestors.” Wave explained.
“So what does it do?” Jet asked.
“I’m not sure yet. I’ll need to analyze it more.” Wave said. “But I think this stone’s magnetic field is able to transmute a planet mass energy and create a singularity to...”
“Yawn!” Jet interrupted rudely. “Skip the boring speech and tell me what this thing can do for me.”
“To put it simply, the stone can temporarily charge up gravity by summoning a black hole.” Wave simplified it.
“Sound promising...so that power was gravity, huh?” Jet questioned.
“One more thing.” Wave said. “The Babylon scrolls say there are five Arks of the Cosmos. One serves as the master unit(Yellow), while the other four attract each other and serve under it(Red, Green, Blue, and Purple).”
“So...if they attract each other, then you should be able to build some kind of Ark-finding radar.” Jet said. “Get on it.”
“Understood.” Wave nodded.
“B-boss!” Storm screamed as he fell into the room.
“Keep it down!” Jet ordered angrily. “And what do you want?”
“T-take a look at this.” Storm said.
Storm held up a small portable TV that was already set for the news. On the screen, one of the Meteor Tech robots crashed into a museum and stole one of the artifacts. The item was shown on screen, which caught Jet and Wave my surprise. The item was a red stone ring that looked like one of the Arks of the Cosmos.
“Again, what you have just watched was a scene was taken earlier this morning from the Megalo Station museum.” The announcer said. “A Meteor Tech robot has stolen a meteorite that was on display and is still at large. The robot is suspected to still be within the city area.”
“That’s an Ark of the Cosmos!” Jet exclaimed. “Storm, set a course for Megalo Station at full throttle.”
“Right away, boss!” Storm saluted.
“Hah! So these things really do attract one another!” Jet smiled deviously
Jet fell back in his chair and began to chuckle in a sinister manner. Storm and Wave were becoming worried at what was happening to their leader, but didn’t say anything. Ever since they found the Ark, Jet was slowly starting to change. It scared the two Babylonians. Storm ran to the control room and altered their course to Megalo Station and the next Ark.

Just outside of Megalo Station’s walls, three Meteor Tech robots were trying to make a getaway. One of the robots was holding the stolen red Ark. But what they did not count on was the Babylon Rogues being on their tails. The three Babylonians chased after the group, but Jet was becoming impatient and rushed on ahead. Once the robots realized that Jet wouldn’t give up, the three jumped into the air.
“You think that will stop me?” Jet said.
Jet raised his Ark to the air and activated it. Jet suddenly became weightless and drove towards the robots. Unknowingly, jet swiped his fan across one of the robots and destroyed it in midair. Jet crashed his board it the second robot and sent it plummeting to the ground. And with the last one, Jet swung his leg around and smashed it over the head. The robot was thrown down and smashed into a special dome that housed Megalo Station’s botanical garden.
“Ugh, lost!” Jet shouted furiously.
Inside the garden, the robot was lying on the ground while still gripping the red Ark. Not long after, the robot shut down and released the Ark. The Ark rolled out of its hands and down a steep hill. When it had stopped, a Mach loomed over the Ark and picked it up. Back outside, Storm and Wave had finally caught up.
“Look, there’s the boss!” Storm shouted as he pointed to the sky.
“Jet, you get back here right now!” Wave yelled.
But Jet promptly ignored her and activated his green Ark. Jet forced himself to become five times heavier than normal and dropped down after his prize. Meanwhile, Blur, Mach, and Blitz were finding inside the garden as another group of Meteor Tech robots passed over them.
“They don’t give a guy a break, do they?” Blur said.
“We just stand around here.” Blitz said.
“Right! Let’s get moving.” Mach said.
Mach started to walk forward until he was suddenly pulled back. Mach dropped his Gear in surprise as two white gloves covered his eyes. Then, a familiar sound ringed in his ears.
“Guess who?” A female voice singed.
“Kumori?” Mach questioned. Mach looked behind him to see Kumori standing next to her new Gear. It was a pink and black board called the Shadow Rose. “What are you doing here?”
“Fated lovers are always drawn together, silly.” Kumori flirted.
“Kumori...” Mach groaned.
“Ok, you got me. I was running away from those robots.” Kumori said. “I was so scared.”
“She’s a really good actor.” Blitz thought.
Meanwhile, Jet was watching the scene from above. Jet clutched his fist in rage at the sight of the blue hedgehog. For a split moment, Jet’s Ark seemed to give off a black aura. Kumori dove at Mach and trapped him in her signature hug. Just then, something fell out of Kumori’s possession. Jet gaped as it was the red Ark he was looking for.
“What’s that?” Mach asked.
“The cause of all my troubles.” Kumori said as she picked up the Ark. “I picked it up and those stupid robots came after me.”
“So that’s it.” Mach examined. “If my guess is correct, those robots are after the stones that you and Blur possess.”
“Then that settles it.” Blur said. “Looks like the answer to all our problems is at Meteor Tech.”
“Guys, we’ve got company!” Blitz shouted.
As Blitz said, five Meteor Tech robots spotted them and came charging. What they didn’t realize was that the leader of the pack was the same one who chased Blur through Megalo Station.
“You guys get to Meteor Tech. I’ll hold them off.” Mach said.
“Are you sure?” Blitz asked.
“Have you forgotten who I am?” Mach smirked. “I’ll be fine...hopefully.”
“Good luck, Mach.” Blur said.
Mach threw the Black Shot forward and jumped on it. Just as the Meteor Tech robots were headed their way, Mach jumped out of nowhere and zoomed ahead of them.
“New target sighted!” The leader robot stated. “Target identified as Mach Blazer! Targets fate: Elimination!
The five robots switched their paths and began to chase after Mach. This gave the other three, heroes a chance to jump on their Gear and make a breakaway for the exit. Mach turned back and smirked as the five robots changed to their wheel form and rolled after him.
“That’s right. Allow me to show what a true rider can do.” Mach smirk.
Mach started down a giant hill that led to a gigantic loop. Mach and four of the robots passed the loop successfully. But one robot didn’t have enough speed and fell of in the middle. Next, Mach came up to a ramp-like root and shoot forward off of it. Mach landed inside one of the many greenhouses of the botanical garden. Mach looked back to see that three of the robots survived the ramp, but one of them smashed into the wall.
“This is all that made it this far?” Mach chuckled. “How disappointing.”
Mach swerved around the many potted plants in the greenhouse while the robots just crashed through them. Thinking fast, Mach made a sharp turn and jumped through one of the windows. Mach landed safely on one of the giant trees. Mach looked and. Much to his disappointment, the three robots still followed.
“Initiate alternate tactic!” the leader robot commanded.
The two subordinate robots followed their commands and increased in speed. Mach looked and gazed curiously at what they were up to. Suddenly, the two robots were at Mach’s side and sandwiched him between them. Mach tried to squirm his way out when he realized what they had planned. There was a fork in the tree track ahead and Mach was headed straight for it. “Darn it.” Mach cursed himself. “Have to...reach it.”
When they were only a few feet away from the fork, the two robots spilt apart. Mach was thrown off the track and knocked off his board. Mach grabbed the Black Shot and hurriedly looked for a way of survival. Just then, Mach saw what looked to be a floating ring. He remembered seeing a similar ring during the World Grand Prix.
“Let’s go this works.” Mach said to himself. Mach flipped the board around and pressed a triangle-shaped button. “GEAR CHANGE!”
Thanks to Mach’s latest modification, the Black Shot transformed into a black glider-like vehicle. Mach hopped on the Glider Gear and pushed himself forward. Mach flew through the ring and shot upwards towards another section of the tree track. Elsewhere, the three robots were rolling by and headed straight for their main target.
“Mach Blazer eliminated!” the leader robot stated. “Moving to next targets: Blur Journey Blazer, Kumori Marina! Mission: retrieve the Arks of the Cosmos!”
“There’s just one problem with that.”
The three robots uncurled and scanned the area for the owner of the voice. Then out of nowhere, Mach comes swinging in on a vine and kicks the two subordinate robots off the track. Mach jumped back on his Glider Gear and dashed at the remaining robot. But the leader robot rolled back into its wheel form and moved away before Mach hit it. The two started hitting against each other until they came up to another ramp.
“This ends here.” Mach said.
“Prepare for eradication!” The robot stated.
The two shot off the ramp and hovered in midair. The robot uncurled and Mach jumped off his Gear. The robot threw a punch and Mach threw a kick. Both attacks hit Mach in the face and the robot in the chest. The robot rebounded and bashed Mach across the face with it other claw. The robot prepared to finish Mach off until it noticed him smiling.
“Confused? Look around.” Mach said. The robot did as Mach asked and found that it was surrounded in a cage of purple arrows. “This is where it ends. CHAOS SPEAR!”
The arrows moved from their positions and were thrown forward towards the robot. The arrows pierced through the robots arrow and shut it down. As the robot fell to the ground, Mach jumped back on his Gear before landing. Mach landed inside a giant hive-like structure. Mach jumped off his Gear and returned his Gear to its original board shape.
“Man, I am definitely going to feel that one in the morning.” Mach said as he massaged his shoulder. But before he had a chance to relax, a boulder passed by him. “What the?” Mach looked back. “You must be kidding me.”
Mach was unfortunate to find that he had landed in a hive filled with Meteor Tech robots. Over nine hundred robots surrounded him and moved in closer to prevent him from escaping.
“Target successfully captured!” One robot said.
“Alternate plan successful!” Another robot stated.
“Preparing to eradicate!” Another robot said.
“You know, that can get a little annoying.” Mach commented. The robots moved in for the kill. “You have no idea who you’re up against. I am: Mach Blazer!”
The robot felt a strange surge through their circuits and the hive rooms yellow wall suddenly became green. The green walls emitted an aura that seeped into Mach’s body. Mach’s fur started to rise and suddenly flashed bright green. Mach smiled in a fiendish way and let out a maniacal laugh similar to White Horror’s as the immense power began to take over him.
“Atmosphere changing!” One robot stated.
“Target power concentration rising!” Another robot stated.
“Hahaha! Welcome to my nightmare!” Mach laughed. The robots were actually scared and changed to their wheel forms to run away. “There is no escape! CHAOS...BLAST!!!”
Back with Blur, Blitz, and Kumori, the three were nearly to the exit when Kumori asked.
“Is Mach going to be ok?”
“Don’t worry.” Blitz assured her. “After all, nobody can beat Mach.”
“Well, there is me.” Blur said.
“Like I said, nobody can beat Mach.” Blitz repeated.
Feeling insulted, Blur whacked Blitz over the head. Kumori laughed at their antics. Just then, a sudden shockwave came out of nowhere and knocked the three hedgehogs off their Gear. The four looked to where it came from and saw a red nuclear blast in the center of the garden.
“That’s Mach’s chaos blast!” Blur shouted against the shockwave.
“But where’s Mach!” Blitz shouted back.
The nuclear blast slowly dwindled and it began to rain robot parts. All the parts hit Blur and Blitz, but none landed anywhere near Kumori.
“Oh, come on! That’s so not fair!” Blur shouted.
“Never mess with a girl.” Kumori said.
Blur and Blitz sweat dropped. As they attempted to free themselves from the pile of parts, Mach suddenly appeared in a flash of light with his Gear.
“Do you think you could be a little more subtle next time?” Kumori said sarcastically.
“No.” Mach said dully. “We can’t waste anymore time around here. We have to get to Meteor Tech fast. Something tells me that this so-call ‘robot malfunction’ is not what it seems.”
“Then what are we standing around for?” Blur questioned. “Let’s jet.”
Blur and the gang jumped back on their Gear and raced out of the botanical garden. Meanwhile, high in the tall trees, Jet was looking down at his prey. The dark aura around Jet’s Ark slowly began to increase. Jet raised his arm to use his Ark until someone grabbed him. The Hawk was ready to pound the intruder until he noticed it only Wave and Storm. When he was with his friends, the dark aura suddenly disappeared.
“Wave, what are you...” Jet was cut off when Wave slapped him across the face. “What was that for?!”
“For being an idiot!” Wave yelled. “Do you realize how worried we were?!”
“I-it’s true, boss” Storm said. “You’re really starting to scare us.”
“Hmph! Whatever.” Jet turned away from them. “Do you know where they are headed?”
“They said they were headed for Meteor Tech.” Wave informed. “That’s where those robots are coming from.”
“All right, we go to Meteor Tech and get back that Ark.” Jet instructed. Jet threw his Gear forward and jumped on. “Babylon Rogues, let’s move!”
And the three birds used the power of Jet’s Ark to fly through the glass dome and speeded back to Megalo Station. Unknown to any of the anthro’s, they were still not out of danger. The same robot that Mach fought earlier burst out of the ground. The robots one eyes began to glow red and the holes in its armor healed themselves. The robot took to the air and flew off the opposite direction of the heroes. Towards the track of legends: Babylon Garden.

Meteor Tech Industries, the source of the world’s most advanced technologies. And it was also the home of the rogue robots. Everywhere, Machines were building more robots for their army. Meteor Tech robots scouted the entire factory for intruders, unaware of the four were already in. After sneaking past the city robots, Blur and the others were able to sneak into the factory undetected.
“Ok, we’re inside. What do we do now, Mach?” Kumori asked.
“Why are you asking me?” Mach replied. “Why do I have to come up with all the ideas?”
“Because you’re the smart one.” Blitz stated, making Mach groan.
“Whatever we do, we better watch our step.” Blur warned.
But just then, one of the factories security cameras caught sight of the group of unwanted intruders. The alarms went off, meaning that they had been spotted.
“Too late for that.” Blitz said.
The patrol robots changed to their wheel forms and raced towards Blur and the others. Blur and the others prepared to counter the robots attack. But to their surprise, the robots completely passed them. The group turned around to find the robots true targets.
“Is that...?” Blur questioned.
It was Jet, Wave, and Storm of the Babylon Rogues. It’s been four months since Blur, or Mach had seen any of them. Blitz saw them in Soleanna during the Creator incident, but that wasn’t something worth mentioning. As the robot charged at them, Jet used his Ark to make his team weightless and went on the attack. Storm crushed them with his fists, Wave clobbered them with her wrench, and Jet cut them up with his fans. With the real threat out of the way, Jet and the others landed in front of Blur’s group.
“Long time no see, Blur Journey Blazer.” Jet smirked.
“Jet!” Blur exclaimed.
“It’s been a while, rat.” Wave said rudely.
“Too early for my taste, pigeon.” Mach retorted.
“Hey look, they have more rats with them.” Storm said.
“We’re not rats!” Kumori yelled.
“We’re hedgehogs.” Blitz stated.
“Enough babble!” Jet cut in. Jet held his hand to Kumori. “All right, you, hand over the Ark of the Cosmos!”
“The what of the what? What are you talking about?” Kumori questioned.
“Don’t play dumb with me!” Jet exclaimed. “Not after you swiped the Ark right out of our hands!”
“Hold on a minute, Jet. Girls hate guys who rush things.” Blur chuckled.
“Rush?” Jet smiled deviously. “Don’t you know, I’m the fastest creature in the universe. And today, I’m gonna prove it.”
“Then let’s settle this the old fashioned way.” Blitz cut in.
“What do you have in mind?” Jet asked.
“A race, you and me.” Blitz challenged.
“You’re on.” Jet accepted.
“Sure you can handle this, Blitz?” Kumori asked.
“Don’t worry.” Blitz said confidently. “First one to the control room wins.”
“Then let’s go.” Jet said. Jet and Blitz placed the Type J and the Psychic Wave in front of them as Jet began the countdown. “3...2...1...GO!”
Blitz and Jet swiftly jumped onto their Gear and took off at lightning speed. The others followed them, except for Kumori and Storm. Kumori was ready to follow when Storm jumped in the way.
“Sorry, can’t let you go until you hand over that stone, little lady.” Storm said.
“Get out of my way.” Kumori told him.
With Jet and Blitz, Blitz seemed to be holding his own as he held a slight lead over Jet. But as they came to the first turn, Jet moved inwards and took the lead. They soon came to the first ramp and shot clear off. Jet, having more experience, made it to the upper level of the factory while Blitz landed at the bottom.
“Later, loser!” Jet called down. “Oh, and watch out for that hammer.”
“Hammer? What hamm… Oh boy!” Blitz questioned.
As Blitz looked forward, he soon realized he landed on the Meteor Tech robot assembly line. And just over his head was a row of iron hammers waiting to pound him to dust. Blitz quickly swerved to the right to avoid one hammer and swerved to the left to avoid another. Left and right, Blitz was not only racing for the Ark, but for dear life. As Blitz looked up, he saw that Jet was making his escape. Using his psychokinetic powers, Blitz snapped all the hammers in two and made a clear path.
“There is no way I am going to lose that easily!” Blitz exclaimed.
Blitz used his psychokinetic powers on his own body and forcefully pushed himself to gain speed. Farther on the track, Jet jumped off the higher ramp and performed a few tricks to show off. When he landed, he couldn’t help but look back at his competition. He was surprised when a purple blur swept past the hammers and was headed for his direction.
“He doesn’t give up, does he?” Jet smirked. “But that’s nothing I can’t handle.”
The next part of the track was to race through a row of giant gears. With the big hole in the center, it wasn’t hard to get by. That’s when Jet got an idea. As Blitz came close, Jet reeled out his fans and swiped them past the giant gears. Finally, Blitz had caught up.
“I will win this race!” Blitz exclaimed.
“Oh, and how do you plan to win under a pile of metal?” Jet turned back with a smirk.
“Huh? Not again.” Blitz questioned.
When Jet passed the row of gears, he plucked a feather from one of his fans and threw it back. The feather landed on the giant gears and caused it to collapse. Blitz looked up in surprise when the gears started to topple over one another to fall on him. As the pieces of machinery fell on the purple hedgehog, Blur and the others were watching from the side.
“Is Jet crazy or something?” Blur said. “He’s trying to kill Blitz.”
“What’s going on with him?” Mach asked.
“I don’t know?” Wave said honestly. "He's been acting this way for a while now." Wave looked sadly at her love. She knew Jet would do anything to win, but never kill. “Jet...what’s happening to you?”
“Hey, look!” Blur suddenly shouted.
The others and Jet looked back at the junk pile as it started to glow a mysteriously green color. Suddenly, Blitz zipped out of the rubble, protected by psychic force field.
“That was a dirty trick!” Blitz yelled.
“All's fair in love and races.” Jet replied.
“If that’s true, then how about this.” Blitz said.
Blitz dropped the force field and held his hand towards Jet. Blitz created a pulse of energy that sent Jet flying off his Gear. With Jet out of the way, Blitz quickly took the lead. Blitz jumped of the next ramp and made his way to the last leg of the race.
“Looks like I win.” Blitz smiled.
“YOUR GONNA GET IT NOW!” Jet’s voice came from nowhere.
Blitz looked down the track, but didn’t see Jet anywhere. Blitz saw something out of the corner of his eye and looked up towards it. What he saw defied the laws of science and logic. Jet was actually riding along the walls. Jet smirked at Blitz’s shocked expression and gazed down at the glowing Ark on his wrist. The others also looked surprised, save for Wave.
“How is he doing that?” Blur questioned.
“Jet’s mastery of the Ark has improved much better then I thought.” Wave thought.
Jet jumped down off the wall and landed right next to the surprised Blitz. The two anthro’s pushed and shoved each other away as they came closer to a large steel door. The two pushed each other away as the steel door opened automatically to let the two inside. Unfortunately, they found that beyond the door was a mass of Meteor Tech robots just waiting for them to arrive. But that wasn’t the end of it. Even now, a hundred robots were being completed simultaneously and stopped at the room.
“Now what do we do?” Blitz asked.
“Have you forgot, I’m the fastest creature in the universe!” Jet stated. The Ark around Jet’s wrist began to glow as he was lifted up off the ground. A black hole formed before him, which meant only one thing. “GRAVITY DIVE!!!”
Jet passed through the black hole and zoomed passed every single robot in the blink of an eye. As he passed them, began to malfunction, machines began to exploded, and all the electricity failed. The robots also felt the impact of Jet’s assault and were reduced to dust. Blitz could only watch on in disbelief. In one attack, Jet brought the entire factory to its knees.
“Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea. Correction it was a bad idea!” Blitz muttered.
Meanwhile, inside the central control room, a familiar egg-shaped villain was sitting at the master computer of the factory. The villain was none other then Dr. Eggman. The evil scientist shook his head in frustration and banged his fist against the computer board.
“Why?! Why won’t my SCR-GP’s respond?!” Eggman yelled. Suddenly, a loud booming sound could be heard just outside his door. “What’s this racket, and now of all times?!”
Eggman jumped from his seat and stomped over to the door. But the moment he opened the door, Jet’s Gear made contact with Eggman’s face and threw him back to his chair. A moment later, Blitz and the others arrived.
“Looks like I win.” Jet gloated.
“Hey! Do I look like a ball to you?!” Eggman complained.
“Eggman? What are you doing here?” Blur asked.
“What do you mean? I own this company’s designing branch.” Eggman laughed.
“What?!” Everyone exclaimed.
“So that means you’re the one sending those robots to hunt us down!” Jet growled.
“And he’s the one sending all the robots on a rampage around the world.” Mach said.
“As much as I would like to take credit, I can’t” Eggman said. “You see, this robot situation has been quite a headache for me as well.”
“You know, I could arrest you right now if you don’t start talking.” Mach threatened.
“Hah! Not even you can arrest me without a warrant, Mach.” Eggman smirked.
“Darn it, he got me!” Mach mental growled.
“But, since we’re all friends, I’ll let you in on a little secret.” Eggman said. “Not even I know why they are running amok. But they appear to be following a leader.”
“A leader?” Blur questioned. “I guess for now, we’ll have to believe what Eggman says.”
“Then maybe the robot attack has nothing to do with that stone.” Blitz said as he pointed to the Ark on Blur’s wrist.
Little did Blitz know, his sentence drew the eyes of unwanted watchers. Jet looked angered at the sight of the master yellow Ark and Eggman appeared shocked.
“He has an Ark too?” Jet thought.
“Where did you get that?” Eggman questioned.
“So you do know something, Eggman.” Mach said sternly. “Spill it.”
“All right, I’ll tell you.” Eggman said as he turned to his computer. “All robot activity in my facility is normally controlled by the mother computer. As the core of Meteor Tech it was supposed to be the perfect computer. But one Mach, I’ve been unable to control it. The core inside the computer is a stone similar to the one you’re holding. According to my analysis, that stone is able to alter its surroundings and produce a special magnetic field.
“Huh whaddya just say?” Blitz asked.
“It can control gravity.” Mach put it simply.
“Exactly. And that’s not all.” Eggman continued. “It also appears that the robot leader SCR-HD also holds a stone with a similar power.”
“What?!” Everyone exclaimed.
“If my deductions are correct, the robot leader is using the other robots from around the globe to collect these stones and destroy everything in their path.” Eggman explained.
“But why do they need the stones?” Blur asked.
“That, even I don’t know.” Eggman said.
“They’re drawn to one another.” Jet explained. All eyes were now on Jet. “These aren’t just any stones. They are spoken in Babylon legend as...” Jet trailed off when he realized something. “That’s right! Girl, give me the Ark of the Cosmos.”
But when the group turned to the entrance, they just now noticed that neither the black hedgehog nor the large Albatross was with them.
“Kumori’s gone.” Blur said.
“Storm is missing too.” Wave said.
Just then, Eggman’s computer started beeping. Everyone turned to the computer as it projected an image of another city close by. On the screen, Kumori could be seen running away from a tired Storm, but they were also being followed.
“That’s them.” Blur said. “We have to hurry and get to them.”
But just as Blur was ready to turn and leave, Jet came out of nowhere and punched Blur in the Stomach. Everyone jumped back at Jet’s surprise attack and Blur fell to the ground. Blur was face down on the floor, holding his stomach, while Jet stood over him, laughing.
“The dirt suits you.” Jet chuckled. “Stay out of the way and leave this to the real racers.” Jet turned to leave. “Let’s move, Wave.”
“But...”
“I said...MOVE!” Jet hissed.
Wave, frightened by Jet’s new personality, obediently followed Jet. Jet and Wave raced off back their ship to await the albatross’ return. Mach and Blitz helped their friend back to his feet. Mach and Blitz glared at the emerald hawk, but Blur looked sad.
“Jet...why?” Blur asked before blacking out.

Not far to the east of Megalo Station was the main source of its water supply, Aquatic Capital. The entire city was built over a hidden underground lake bed that dispersed gallons of water that rivaled Soleanna. Many of the roads were covered in water and the main mode of transport was a boat. But down on one of the ground roads, Storm was exhausted after chasing Kumori, who was hardly even breaking a sweat. Normally, Kumori would just leave him in her dust, but she felt bad for the bird.
“H-hold up!” Storm yelled
“And Mach says I’m persistent.” Kumori groaned. Kumori halted and turned to the Albatross with an annoyed expression. “Do you ever give up?”
“I-I c-can’t let you g-go.” Storm said panting. “I-I have to g-get that s-stone.”
“Fine! If you want it that bad!” Kumori said. Kumori pulled out the red Ark and reeled it back. “I’ll give it to you!”
Kumori launched the Ark from her hand to the large Albatross. Storm, not expecting the attack, got hit hard in the beak by the small stone ring. Storm feel back and started to see stars.
“Ooh, pretty.” Storm said dumbly.
Kumori was satisfied that she was finally let out her annoyance on Storm. But soon she realized she was far from where they had started this whole chase. The intoxicating fumes of the factory had been replaced by a calm ocean-like breeze.
“Where the heck am I?” Kumori questioned.
Storm sat up after a moment to recover himself, but that was a bad idea. Looming over him like a shadow was an infuriated Kumori. And trust me; you do not want to get her mad.
“Uh...hi.” Storm said nervously.
“Thanks to you, I got separated from Mach, you jerk!” Kumori yelled. Kumori reeled back her fist and punch Storm across the face. And if that wasn’t bad enough, she picked him up and started to slap him silly. “So you’re going help me out of here! Am I clear?!”
“C-crystal clear, ma’am, sir.” Storm said scared.
Kumori let go of Storm and instructed him to lead the way. Storm hunched over and trudged forward with Kumori following. But it wasn’t all bad. Storm still secretly had the red Ark. Unknown to them, they were being watched. Just outside the city limits, the three hedgehogs were standing on a hill, scouting the city. Well, Mach and Blitz were. Blur was still knocked out from Jet’s surprise attack.
“According to Eggman, they should be somewhere in this city.” Mach said. “And with them, the robots leader.”
“It could have hundreds of robots with it.” Blitz stated. “Bringing Blur with us would put us at risk. But leaving him here would be an even greater risk. What do we do?”
“You stay here with Blur.” Mach instructed. “I’ll go down there and look for Kumori.”
“Are you sure about this?” Blitz asked.
“Of the two of us, I am the faster. And if worst come to worst, I’ll use chaos control to get out of there.” Mach explained.
“Then get going.” Blitz said. “Blur and I will join you when he wakes up.”
Mach nodded in agreement and turned to pick up his Black Shot. And Mach disappeared with chaos control. Mach reappeared in the center of the city. Mach had an ominous feeling about the place. Something was missing. As Mach began to search the entire city, he realized what it was that was missing.
“The entire city is completely deserted.” Mach said. “I don’t like this one bit.”
As Mach continued his search, he thought he saw something inside one of the alleyways. Mach moved in closer and cautiously looked down it. Mach let out a sigh of relief that nothing was there.
“I think I’m starting to lose it.” Mach said to himself.
Just then, something crashed through the wall and tried to grab Mach. The black hedgehog jumped and found that it was one of the robots. What he didn’t know was that it was the same one he fought before in the botanical garden.
“Target sighted!” The robot stated. “Activate attack sequence!”
The robots eyes started to glow and four more robots crash through the city buildings. Mach reacted quickly and jumped on his Black Shot and raced away. The five robots changed into their wheel forms and chased after the black hedgehog, much to Mach’s pleasure.
“All right, you want to play, I’ll play.” Mach smirked.
Mach and the five robots raced down the main road and passed the electrical arch that acted as the starting line. Mach and the robots came up to a ramp and landed in the water roads of the city. The city itself was one giant maze that, if you slip up once, could be the end of you. As he came to his first turn, Mach tried to turn his Gear, but he was slowly starting to slip from the water.
“Come on. Don’t give in.” Mach said to himself. Shifting his weight backwards, Mach was able to make the turn. “Yes!”
Three of the robots also followed his example. But when one robot tried to turn, another slipped and crashed into it, destroying them both. Mach and the robots came up to a fork in the road and chose separate sides. Mach and one of the subordinate robots took the left road, while the leader and the last robot took the right.
“Target lost!” The subordinate robot said.
“Our target is not Mach Blazer!” The leader robot stated. “We must search for the Ark of the Cosmos!” Just then, something inside the robots head started to vibrate. A pulse entered its artificial mind and started to take form. It then shaped into the red Ark. “Target located! Altering direction! Continue pursuit!”
The Leader robot changed back to its regular form and flew off above the city buildings. When the two roads started to connect, Mach was found warding off the robot chasing him with his signature attack.
“CHAOS SPEAR!” Mach shouted. Mach fired his arrows, but the robot maneuvered around them perfectly. “Darn! These things are just as persistent as Kumori.” Just then, the second robot comes to join its comrade. “This day just gets better and better.”
Both robots opened their sides and shot wires from the openings. After watching Blur’s race with them, he knew that those wires were bad news. Mach quickly swerved around to successfully avoid the wires. Mach smirked at the robots failed attempts. But his smirk soon turned to panic when he realized where he was going. They were headed for a very sharp turn and Mach was going way too fast. Thinking quickly Mach gathered a large amount of black chaos and brought them together to form his most powerful attack.
“CHAOS LANCE!” Mach yelled.
Mach thrust his attack forward and made contact with the oncoming wall. The force of the attack pushed Mach back enough so that he would not hit the wall and was able to make the turn. One of the subordinates was also able to make the turn, but its comrade slipped up and smashed into the wall. Now it was just it and Mach.
“Hold on. Last I counted, there were three.” Mach thought. “Where’s the last one?”
Mach soon snapped out of his thoughts when the two came up to a large ramp. The two riders were tossed up into the air and thrown into a tube of flowing water. The tube twisted around and around to form a spherical shape. Mach thought he was going to throw up. Finally, the tube spat out the two riders made them land in a wide water highway filled with boats and solid bubbles hanging above it. But for some odd reason, the robot landed in front of Mach and grabbed him by the neck.
“Target: Captured!” The robot stated. “Preparing for eradication!”
“You guys just love to talk, don’t you?” Mach chuckled.
“Quiet, mammal!” The robot demanded.
Unknown to the robot, the conversation was merely a distraction. Secretly, Mach conjured a single chaos spear in his hand and threw it upwards. The arrow hit the beam that was supporting the hanging bubbles and snapped it in two. Just as the robot prepared to kill him, Mach filled back and kicked its head, forcing it to let go.
“Later.” Mach said. The solid bubbles collapsed onto the unsuspecting robot and crushed it underneath the weight. “That takes care of that mess.” Mach dusted his hands off. “But still, where could that last one be?” Mach began to think until he realized what it was after. “Kumori!”
Back with Storm and Kumori, Storm was still moaning over being beat by a girl. Kumori continually bashed him over the head to stop his whining.
“Ow, that hurts!” Storm whined.
“They’ll be more unless you find my Mach!” Kumori threatened.
Storm was literally quaking. Just then, they heard a strange sound coming from down the road. The two looked over and found the leader robot from earlier. The leader robot stopped in front of the two and flashed a bright light at them. The two waved their hands in front their eyes to prevent being blinded. Without knowing it, Storm held up the red Ark and suddenly caused the robot to explode.
“What was that about?” Kumori asked.
“I don’t know.” Storm said. Storm and Kumori gathered around the destroyed robot. The head of the robot was wide open and Storm found an unexpected surprise inside. It was the purple Ark. “It’s the same.” Storm took the Ark. “This is just like the stone we found at the Gigan Rocks.”
“Giga-what?” Kumori asked.
“And now this makes two of them!” Storm cheered. “I have to get back and tell Jet.”
“H-Hey, wait!” Kumori called. But Storm wasn’t listening. Storm jumped on his Type S Gear and took off, leaving Kumori all alone. “Get back here, you jerk!”
“Kumori!”
Kumori turned around and found Mach headed for her.
“Mach!” Kumori waved happily.
Just then, Blitz and Blur started to make a turn to head for their direction.
“Hey, guys, we’re here!” Blitz called.
Blur shot his signature smile before accidentally tripping off his Gear. Blur fell off his Gear and fell onto the water road next to them, splashing for dear life.
“Help! I’m drowning, I’m drowning!” Blur cried.
He soon stopped when Blitz was looking down at him with a deadpanned expression. Blur then realized that the water was only two feet deep. Blur rubbed the back of his head and chuckled embarrassingly.
“I’m embarrassed to admit he’s my grandpa.” Blitz thought.
“What happened here?” Mach asked as he inspected the robot.
“Don’t ask me.” Kumori said. “It just comes flying at me, full tilt, and then it just blows up.”
“It blew up?” Blur asked.
“How strange.” Mach said. “A robot just doesn’t blow up without a reason.”
“You think there might be something else?” Blur asked.
“I’m not sure.” Mach said. “I’ll need to think a little more.”
“Hey, what happened to that overgrown turkey?” Blitz asked Kumori.
“Storm took something out of that robot and took off.” Kumori explained.
“So now that this robot is out of commission, does that mean the others will stop?” Blitz asked.
“I seriously doubt it.” Mach said. “Since all the robots are programmed by the stone Eggman has, they won’t stop until we remove it.” Mach turned to Kumori. “Kumori, did Storm say anything that might help?”
“Well, I remember him saying that they found something that was inside the robot someplace else.” Kumori said. “Oh...what was it again.” Kumori rattled her brain to try and remember what he said. “Gi...Giga...Something like that. Wait, Gigan.”
“The Gigan Rocks!” Blitz said.
“Right, what you said.” Kumori said.
“You know the place, Blitz?” Blur asked.
“Sheila and I discovered it on one of our explorations.” Blitz explained. “Legend has it that inside its ruins lies the ultimate treasure: A shooting star that grants your wishes.”
“Really?” Kumori said with starry eyes, much to Mach’s displeasure.
“But the thing is, no one has ever made it out of the Gigan Rocks alive.” Blitz explained. “Besides we have other things to deal with. Like paying Jet back for what he did!”
“NO!” Blur shouted suddenly. “No. We are going to the Gigan Rocks. Besides, that wasn’t Jet.”
“What are you talking about?!” Blitz exclaimed. “Don’t you remember? He raced me and nearly killed me. Let’s not forget what he did to...”
“I know...” Blur interrupted. “...I know what he did, but that wasn’t Jet. Jet may be arrogant and he may cheat to win, but I know him well enough to know that he would never do anything like that.”
Blitz couldn’t understand it. Jet had knocked him out, but Blur was still defending him. Kumori looked puzzled at the scene playing before her. But Mach understood Blur’s feelings more then anyone else. He remembered the time Blur transformed into Dark Blur and nearly destroyed all of Station Square. To Blur, the same thing was happening to Jet.
“So you think something is altering him?” Mach asked.
“Yeah. And it has something to do with these.” Blur said as he held up his Ark.
“Then it’s settled.” Mach stated. “Our next priority is to head for the Gigan Rock.”
Blur and Kumori nodded in agreement. Blitz, slightly confused, decided he had no choice but to agree. The four heroes jumped on their Gear and zoomed out of the city and headed north to the mountain area. Unbeknownst to them, the thought to be destroyed robot was not all as he appeared. The robots eyes flashed on and it took on a different personality.
“My plans are starting to come together!” The leader robot said. “Now I’ll let these primitive life-forms do all the dirty work! HAHAHA!”

To the far north of the continent stood a familiar formation of mountains known only as the Gigan Rocks. Now normally, the entire area would be in ruins. But after the escape of the Babylon Rogues, everything changed. The four heroes were already zipping down the set path until Blitz and the others stopped in his tracks. Stand not far in front of the stood a large red dragon gate with a row of statues and Chinese lanterns hanging above.
“I don’t remember this being here.” Blitz said. Blitz pressed his hands against the gate and tried to push it with his psychic powers. But it wouldn’t budge. “Great, now what?”
“What is it that you seek here?”
The Blur, Blitz, and Kumori screamed in surprise and fell back. Mach readied himself with one of his dark spears. When he heard movement, Mach threw the arrow backwards. The arrow to collide with one of the statues and cracked it open. Mach thought he was going crazy until he realized the statue was out of place.
“What was that?” Kumori asked as she stood up.
“Something strange is going on here.” Mach said.
“What is it that you seek?” The voice came again. The four hedgehogs turned around and faced one of the statues. To their surprise, the statue was actually walking and talking. “Again, what do you seek?”
“Does anyone else think this is weird?” Blur asked.
“What do you seek?” The statue asked again.
“We’re here looking for something that looks like this.” Mach said as he held Blur’s arm.
Mach showed the statue the master Yellow Ark around Blur’s wrist. In the statues eyes, the Ark seemed to give off a white aura that was invisible to others.
“The light is shining within this hedgehogs Ark. But I can feel the darkness growing in the hawks Ark as well.” The statue thought.
“What’s the matter with him?” Kumori asked when the statue wasn’t moving.
“I don’t know.” Blitz said. Blitz snapped his fingers in the statues face. “Yo! Wake up!”
You wish to find the Ark of the Cosmos?” the statue asked. Everyone nodded. “Then you may search for it.” The heroes smiled proudly. “If you complete one task.”
“And that would be?” Mach asked.
“You must defeat me in a race around the track.” The statue challenged.
“That’s all?” Mach chuckled. “Then I...”
“I accept.” Blitz suddenly interrupted. Blitz walked up to the statue. “I accept your challenge.”
“Blitz, you think you can do this?” Blur asked.
“Yes, I have to make up for losing to Jet.” Blitz said. “Don’t worry, I’ll be fine.”
“Then prepare yourself.” The statue said. Blitz placed the Psychic Wave next to the statues stone version as it began the count down. “3...2...1...GO!”
The dragon gates flew open and the race had begun. Jet and the statue jumped on their perspective Gears and zipped past the gate and started down the first slope. The slope sped the two racers to over five hundred miles, a speed which Blitz was completely not used to. Blitz was only lucky enough that he was able to stay on as long as he had. His opponent on the other hand was a total natural. Things only got worse when they came to their first ramp.
“What have I gotten myself into?” Blitz whimpered.
The two shot off the ramp and across a large chasm. The statue sweat dropped as Blitz was clinging to his Gear, literally in tears, shouting ‘I don’t want to die’. Blitz slapped himself when he remembered he had psychic powers. Blitz used his psychic power to levitate himself across the chasm. The statues weight worked against him and pulled him down. Blitz landed on the track on the other side.
“Whew. Lucky I didn’t panic.” Blitz said to himself.
On top of the mountain above the track, Blur, Mach, and Kumori were watching the whole event. The three hedgehogs held their heads down in embarrassment.
“How embarrassing.” Mach said.
“Just pretend we don’t know him.” Kumori advised.
Back on the track, Blitz came along another slope and used his psychic power to stay in control. Blitz jumped off another ramp and landed on the main track. But to his surprise, the moment he landed, the statue flew out of nowhere and started to close in on Blitz.
“You've got to be kidding me.” Blitz complained.
The two turned and entered into a tunnel that looked like something out of an Egyptian tomb. The tombs track started to curve into a hairpin, which came at a real disadvantage for Blitz as he lost most of his speed to make it. The statue on the other hand took advantage of Blitz’s loss and took the lead. Now the statue was ahead of Blitz as they came to the final leg of the race.
“This is your final chance to succeed.” The statue informed Blitz. “This will determine if you’re worthy or not.”
“Bring it.” Blitz said.
The two riders exited the tomb and landed on a thin, narrow track. Blitz was caught off guard when the track started to move upwards. It was then he realized that they were riding on a giant column. Blitz returned his attention to the race and used his psychic powers to push himself forward. Blitz and the statue started vying for the lead. The statue used his fist to attack Blitz, but the grey hedgehog created a force field.
“Very impressive. You’ve proved to be an interesting challenge.” The statue said. “But this is where it comes to an end.”
The statue held its hand out forward and started to release black and white particles from it. The particles formed together to form a black hole. Remembering his race with Jet, Blitz knew that black hole would be the end of the race.
“I won’t let you!” Blitz exclaimed. Blitz slid over and knocked the statue aside. Unexpectedly, Blitz found himself being pulled into the black hole. “This feels weird.” When Blitz appeared on the other side, he found the urge to shout. “GRAVITY DIVE!!!”
Blitz shot forward at speeds that would make Blur proud. The shockwave from the sudden burst shook the entire cave and started to crack. The cave roof fell and crushed everything within it. All was silent until Blitz suddenly shot out. Blitz landed on the ground, but fell off his Gear and tumbled past the finish line.
“Blitz!” The other hedgehogs called as they ran to their friend.
“Blitz, are you ok?” Kumori asked with concern.
“Yeah, I’m fine.” Blitz said as he sat up.
“Looks like you finally won.” Mach said.
“That he did.” The four hedgehogs looked back to find the statue, which had miraculously survived. “And as promised, I shall open the path to the Ark of the Cosmos.”
The statue turned and held his hand to a set of boulders. The boulders moved aside and revealed a new set of tracks.
“Now that’s cool.” Blur said.
“We thank you for your help.” Mach said respectfully. “Let’s go, guys.”
The four hedgehogs jumped on their Gear and zoomed past the statue to enter the new path. Down the path, they stopped at the same wall of Babylon Garden and the pedestal with the stone chalice. But what they didn’t expect was to find the whole area had been crushed by an avalanche of boulders.
“Was there an earthquake?” Blur questioned.
While the others ponder of the events, Blitz moved in closer to the chalice. Blitz looked down in the chalice and found that it was empty.
“It’s gone!” Blitz shouted.
“Something wrong, Blitz?” Kumori asked.
“Legend says that the star is supposed to be in this chalice.” Blitz said. Blitz searched around and even lifted the pedestal with minimal effort. “Did it roll off somewhere?”
Blur and Kumori stared with wide eyes at Blitz strength, even if Blitz didn’t know he had it. But Mach’s attention was elsewhere. Mach moved closer to the wall painting and closely inspected it.
“Hey, Mach, what’s up with that painting?” Blur asked.
“It’s the divine wings.” Mach said. “Or better known as the Wings of the Heavens.”
“Wings of the Heavens?” Kumori asked.
“Legends say that a boy was given a pair of wings as a gift from the gods.” Mach explained. “With those wings, the boy was able to rule the world.” Blur moved his hand across a tablet with foreign markings. “There’s some form of ancient text written here.
“Can you translate it?” Blitz asked.
“This is more of Geisy’s area of expertise, but I can try.” Blur said as he began to translate
The divine wings, straddler of stars, lose their plumes to the dark and fall the ground.
The plumes become as stars, returning to this land
We, the children of Babylon...
“Babylon?” Blur interrupted. “What do they have to do with the stones?”
“I think I understand.” Blitz said. “What if the stones are the plumes described in the text?”
“Then that would make the stones the power units to the wings themselves.” Mach suddenly realized.
“Then the heavens would be space and the wings could be some kind of spaceship.” Blur joined in. “And there’s only one place where the Babylonians would go to.
“Babylon Garden!” Kumori realized.
“Exactly!” Mach stated. “But if they did create a spaceship, what reason would they need it?”
The four pondered more then they had ever had. Babylon Garden, Arks of the Cosmos, the Babylonians. What connection could they all have. And why did the Arks come from space if it was the Babylonians who created them? Mach’s brain eventually crashed and KO’d him.
Meanwhile, at the Babylon Rogues airship. Jet was sitting at his desk, becoming irritated, while Wave was making some final calculations to Jet’s Ark. She had just recently discovered that the Arks were engine units to the warp drive of Babylon Garden. But that’s not what disturbed her. When she scanned Jet’s Ark again, it gave off a black radiation that nearly destroyed her equipment.
“He’s late!” Jet suddenly shouted. “What’s taking Storm so long?!”
“Calm down, he’ll be here.” Wave said calmly. But I found something while scanning the Ark that has me worried. I’ll try to paraphrase it so that even you can understand.”
“She dares to mock me!” Jet mentally growled, unaware of the Arks sudden dark radiation
...We have come to a decision. We must severe the engine units from the vessel.
If we delay, the contraction between the engine units will form a lightless black,
Consuming everything in its path.
“Lightless black? What the heck does that mean?” Jet questioned.
“I don’t know.” Wave said honestly. “What are your thoughts?”
“I don’t know and I don’t care!” Jet replied rudely. Jet turned in his chair “All that matters is getting me the rest of the Arks as soon as possible.”
“He’s becoming obsessed with those Arks.” Wave thought sadly. “I have to get them away from him.” Wave moved in closer to grab the Ark from Jet. “Jet, maybe I should scan it one more time.
Wave made a vital mistake. The Arks black aura flared and Jet turned around to backhand Wave across the face, tossing her to the floor. Wave tried to stand, but Jet jumped on her and grabbed her by her neck. Wave was crying while gasping for air.
“You dare to defy me?!” Jet screeched. “If you try this little stunt again, I won’t be so kind!”
Jet released Wave, allowing her to breathe, and returned to his chair. Just then, Storm burst through the door and ran up to Jet. He was clueless as to why Wave was on the floor, but he decided not to ask questions. Unknown to the flock, Eggman had followed Storm and snuck onto the Rogues airship.
“You’re late!” Jet yelled.
“Sorry, boss.” Storm apologized. “But I brought back something good.”
Storm placed the red and the purple Arks he stole and placed them on Jet’s desk.
“You actually did something right for once.” Jet smirked. But his smirked disappeared when he realized that there were only two. “Where’s the other one?”
“Other one?” Storm questioned.
“The one that Blur had.” Jet said. Storm started twitching nervously. “You idiot! You forgot to get that rats Ark! And it’s the most powerful one!”
Jet jumped over his next and nailed Storm across the face. Storm landed on the floor right next door. Jet stomped over to the Albatross until Wave moved in his path.
“Don’t blame him! He didn’t know!” Wave defended.
“You two are useless!” Jet exclaimed as he moved back to his desk. “Thanks to you two, I am now...”
Jet trailed off when he felt along his desk. He felt nothing. He looked down and found that both of his stolen Arks were missing. Just then, something passed by the window outside the ship and Jet found it to be Eggman in his Egg-Mobile with both Arks. Jet’s anger flared to new heights as he picked up his desk and threw out the window.
Back with Blur and the others, the heroes were trying to wake Mach from his coma. Kumori suggested she kiss him, which woke him up in an instant. Mach was running from Kumori when the Earth began to shake. The heroes looked up to see Eggman being chased by the Babylon airship. Along with the sound of roaring engines, they could hear the shriek as well.
“It’s Jet and Eggman!” Blur shouted.
“They’re headed east of here.” Blitz said. “That must be where Eggman has the last stone waiting.”
“Then let’s not wait around.” Blur said. “We have to hurry and catch up.”
The other hedgehogs agreed with their blue comrade and zoomed off on the Gear. All the Arks were finally coming together into one place. But did they realize what they were getting into? Or what they were facing?

To the far east of the continent laid a vast desert of red sand. In the middle of the barren wasteland stood a mighty tower that repesented Eggman's base. Not far from the outer walls, the four hero hedgehogs were flying across the desert sands and headed for the tower. But waiting for them on the outer walls was an unwanted surprise.
“Took you long enough.” Jet said.
“Jet?” Blur questioned.
Mach noticed that Jet’s Ark was black, but that was the least of their worries. Jet’s feathers were darker; his chest feathers were black, his pupils were gone, and the iris of his eyes was stained blood red. Through the dark manipulations of the Ark of the Cosmos, Jet had become Dark Jet.
“Where’s Eggman?” Blitz asked.
“He’s inside.” Wave informed as she pointed back to the tower. “He calls it Crimson Tower. It’s Meteor Tech’s signal tower. This tower relays all commands to robots all around the world. In other words, you’re looking at Meteor Tech’s brain.”
“That means Eggman took the Arks of the Cosmos we’d got and ran in their.” Storm said.
“What’s he after this time?” Kumori questioned.
“He’s most likely trying to use the power of the Arks to regain control of the robots through this tower.” Mach concluded. “Sooner or later, he was planning to set the robots on a rampage.”
“That’s probably the reason for creating Meteor Tech in the first place.” Kumori said.
“The Eggman Land Project again.” Blur concluded.
“You mean that amusement park plan?” Blitz asked. Everyone nodded. “How can a genius be such an idiot?”
“Either way, we’ve got to storm the place.” Blur said.
Blur jumped on to the Blue Star and tried to pass the birds. But suddenly, Jet came out of nowhere and knocked Blur across the face. Blur wasn’t surprised at Jet’s attack, but was surprised at what Jet was currently doing. Jet was hovering in midair without the use of his Gear.
“Not so fast.” Jet said. “You think I was standing around here, twiddling my thumbs?”
“I getcha. Sorry to keep you waiting.” Blur smirked.
“One last race, all or nothing.” Jet said. “First one to nab Eggman gets all the Arks of the Cosmos.” Wave and Storm were surprised at the high risk Jet was taking. “And receives the title of fastest creature in the universe.”
“Sounds like fun to me.” Blur said.
“Just try to keep up.” Jet said.
Jet turned to head down the track to prepare for the final race. Blur stood and grabbed the Blue Star to follow until Wave grabbed him by the arm.
“Hey, what’s up?” Blur asked.
“Blur...please do us a favor.” Wave requested. “Please...beat Jet.
“Huh?” Everyone questioned.
“Jet’s changed. He’s not what he used to be.” Wave said.
“Yeah, he’s more mean and scary than usual.” Storm said.
“Please, beat Jet and return him to normal.” Wave begged.
“Don’t worry, I promise.” Blur gave her a thumb up.
Blur jumped onto the Blue Star and took off after the dark hawk.
“Do you think he’ll win?” Storm asked.
“If anyone can bring Jet back, it’s Blur.” Mach assured them
Even with Mach’s words, the two birds still felt troubled. Farther along the track, Jet was going at a slow pace so that Blur would catch up. When the blue blur finally arrived, he decided it was time to get serious.
“Sorry to keep you waiting.” Blur smirked.
“You think this is a game, huh?” Jet growled. “All right then, let’s play.”
And the race had begun. The race started off with the two anthro’s jumping off a ramp from the higher levels. Jet seemed more serious then even, but Blur was kicking back while in midair. The two landed and were not far from their next jump. The two jumped off the ramp when they realized there was no floor beneath them.
“Whoa!” Blur screamed as he fell.
Jet on the other hand already had an idea. Jet used the powers of his black Ark to cling to the wall and ride up it. Jet was sure Blur could not have survived the fall. But to his surprise, Blur went zooming by and jumped up to the next section of the track. It had appeared that Blur had learned to control the Arks powers at the last minute. Lucky for him. Jet followed shortly and jumped up to the next part of the track. But to his displeasure, Blur was already making the first turn.
“Damn that rat!” Jet yelled. “I will not lose again!”
Blur had made the turn and was headed for the next wall climb. Suddenly, Jet burst through the glass wall and swung his fan at Blur. Blur was lucky enough to pull back before getting hit. Jet missed, but he also was able to slice a reinforced steel girder in half, sending Blur a warning. Blur and Jet jumped off the ramp and were clinging to the wall again.
“Are you out of your mind?!” Blur exclaimed. “You could have killed me!”
“That’s the point!” Jet stated.
“Wave’s right. He’s really lost it.” Blur thought.
Jet continually assaulted Blur as they came close to the next track. At the last minute, Blur jumped up and curled into his ball form. Blur nailed Jet in the beak, but it wasn’t enough to knock him off. Blur jumped back on his Gear before landing on the next track. The two riders came up to another hairpin curve and Blur lost great speed making it. Jet, being more experienced, made the turn easily and was headed for the last leg of the track.
“You see hedge-rat. I am the fastest creature in the universe!” Jet boasted back to Blur.
“It’s not over till the fat lady sings.” Blur said.
“I didn’t know your mother was here.” Jet insulted.
“Oh, it’s on now, birdbrain!” Blur flared.
The two hedgehogs jumped off the last ramp and dived directly into the center of a radio factory station. The two riders curved around the loop and were now running down the last few miles. Jet and Blur were down each others throats. Jet tried to kill Blur with his fans and Blur was even tempted to use his Chaos Wind on Jet. Realizing that they were getting nowhere, Jet put away his fans and held out his Ark.
“This is getting us nowhere.” Jet stated. “One last round to see who is the fastest.”
“You’re on.” Blur accepted.
Jet and Blur held out their Ark in front of them. Jet’s Ark emitted a black aura, while Blur’s Ark emitted a white aura. All the while, the two racers were urged to yell out a specific phrase.
“GRAVITY DIVE!!!”
A black hole appeared before them and the two passed through it. The second the went through, the two took off at blinding speeds. The shockwave shook the entire factory and pieces were flying everywhere. Blur and Jet grinded off of the factory pieces to go to speeds faster then light. The two came up to the makeshift finish line and it had appeared that Jet was going to win. But without realizing it, the dive wore off and Jet fell to the ground without standing back on his Gear. Jet tumbled, only a few feet from the finish line. Blur landed perfectly and crossed the finish line to win the race.
“That was tight!” Blur cheered as he jumped off his Gear. Blur walked over to Jet with his hand held to him. “Hey, good race.”
Suddenly, Jet jumped up and threw his fist to Blur’s face. The blue hedgehog was thrown back to the ground. Blur tried to stand up, but Jet grabbed him by his legs and thrust him into a steel pole. Blur fell to his knees and even started to cough up blood. Blur stood up and watched as Jet came running at him. Jet was pounding Blur left and right, but the hedgehog was even putting up a fight.
“Maybe this will teach you a lesson!” Jet screeched. Jet nailed a solid blow between Blur’s eyes and threw him back a few feet. Blur stood up, barely conscious. Jet pulled out his fans. “Time to end this!” Jet ran forward and then swung at Blur. But then suddenly, Jet stopped. “Why? Why won’t you fight back?!”
“Jet...why do you want to kill me?” Blur asked hoarsely.
“Because, when you beat me, you stole my honor!” Jet growled. “I was the Master of Extreme Gear until you came along!”
“But you still are.” Blur said.
“I won’t be until I defeat you.” Jet stated.
“Jet, I don’t want to fight you.” Blur said. “That Ark is controlling you. You have to get rid of it.”
“You would want that, wouldn’t you?” Jet said, completely misunderstanding Blur’s intentions. “Why would I believe you? Why would you even care about me?”
“Because you my rival, Jet.” Blur said. “But more importantly, you’re my friend.”
“F-friend?” Jet questioned in surprise.
Jet was stunned. He had never considered Blur and himself to be friends. Ever since his defeat, Jet had been so determined to beat Blur by any means necessary. Now he realizes that it was all a mistake. He then remembered all the terrible things he’s done in the past few days. He beat his best friend, he tried to strangle his love, and now he was trying to kill his rival. Suddenly, Blur’s Ark glowed and released a pulse of light. The pulse destroyed the darkness of Jet’s Ark and returned Jet to normal. The emerald bird to a few steps back before collapsing to his knees.
“Wha...What’s happening to me?” Jet asked himself. “What have I...?” Jet trailed off as he saw the green Ark on his wrist. “Get it off! Get it off!! GET IT OFF!!!”
Jet tried to pull the Ark off of his wrist, nearly ripping off his own arm in the process. The Ark gave in to Jet’s commands and released itself from his wrist. Jet threw the Ark away and it landed next to Blur’s feet. Blur picked up the Ark and looked at his friend. It was a sad sight. Jet was on his knees with his face in the ground, crying.
“Jet?” Blur asked.
“Leave me alone.” Jet sobbed. “After all I’ve did, I don’t deserve you pity.”
“Come on, Jet. It’s not that bad.” Blur said.
“Not that bad?!” Jet shouted. “I nearly killed everyone, even my own team. It wouldn’t surprise me if the never wanted to see me again.”
“Of course we would, boss.” Jet looked back to see Wave and Storm standing behind him. “We’re always with you.”
“Wave...Storm...” Jet whispered.
“And we are too.”
Jet looked back to Blur to find Blitz and Mach helping him up. Kumori was close to Jet, smiling down on him. Even Blitz and Mach’s earlier hatred were replaced with expressions of kindness.
“But...why would you help me after all I did?” Jet asked confusingly.
“Boss, we’re best friends.” Storm grabbed Jet and hugged him momentarily, choking the emerald bird. “And we always will be.”
“And I still love you, Jet.” Wave said. “No matter how much of a jerk you are.”
Wave moved in and kissed Jet beak to beak. Jet’s body went stiff during the kiss. The moment Wave released, Jet nearly fainted. A moment later, Jet found Blur placing the green Ark back in his hands.
“Come on, we still have a race to finish.” Blur grinned.
“You’re on.” Jet accepted.
The green Ark moved down Jet hand and became attached to his wrist. The riders jumped back on their respective Gear and took off towards the tower. As the heroes came closer to the tower, hundreds upon hundreds of Meteor Tech robots formed a barrier around the tower.
“Look’s like the welcoming committee is here.” Blitz said.
“Ready, Jet?” Blur asked.
“Ready, Blur.” Jet replied.
“GRAVITY DIVE!!!”
The two held out their Arks together to create a gigantic black hole. The black hole swallowed all seven riders in and spat them back out on the other side. In a flash, seven multi-colored blurs were sent fling over the robots heads. But the shockwave created by the blur rattled all the robots until they were noting but dust on the floor. The seven blurs entered the tower and crashed through all the floors, destroying every section of the tower along the way. But at the highest point of the tower, Eggman was prepared to place the red and purple Ark with the blue Ark until he heard a sudden boom.
“What was that?” Eggman questioned.
Just then, the steel door flew off it hinges and smashed him in the face, forcing him to toss the Arks. But just as fast as they came, Jet and Blur grabbed the Arks in midair.
“Guess what, Eggman.” Mach grinned. “Along the way, I got a warrant for the arrest of one Dr. Ivo Robotnik. After years of terror, you finally under arrest, Eggman.”
“System error! All robots offline!” the computer stated.
“No! My plans are ruined again!” Eggman yelled.
“Deal with it, Eggman. You’re through.” Blur said.
Suddenly the entire tower started to shake. All the heroes fell to the floor by the sudden quake. Kumori crawled over to the window to see what was causing it and was met by an unexpected surprise.
“Babylon Garden!” Kumori shouted.
Everyone moved to the window and found that Kumori was right. Babylon Garden had moved from its original position and was waiting just outside the tower.
“The resonance from all five Arks must have called it down here.” Wave concluded.
“So the legends were true.” Jet whispered.
Blur looked at his Ark for a moment before releasing it from his wrist.
“Hey, Jet!” Blur called.
Jet turned around just in time to catch the master yellow and red Arks that Blur tossed. Jet was more confused then ever. Blur picked up his Gear and started to walk away.
“Hey, where are you going?” Jet asked. “We still haven’t finished our race yet.”
“On the ground, I’m the fastest thing alive.” Blur boasted. “But in the air, there’s no one better then you, Jet. You’re the Master of Extreme Gear.”
Jet smiled at his rivals praises. Blur gave Jet a thumb up, which Jet gratefully returned. But this wasn’t over between them. Even though their differences were settled, the flame of their rivalry burned brighter.