#team dark

The gruesome writing of the word; “LIFE?” after MerKnightis murdered Von Schlemmer in cold blood is displayed on a wall. Von’s lifeless corpse is covered by a blanket sheet and hauled away by Restoration rescue fighters. Other members wash away the crude writing with sponges and rags with water as the writing on the wall gets washed away. Silver with Gold the Tenrec look at the scene with blank looks of seeing their friend murdered by his own creation…

“H-how can this happen?” Gold voice shaked in fear.

“We had everything planned, we were ready, we were prepared…then this happened…why did it had to be Von?” Gold said with tears continuing to stream on her face.

“Gold—”

“WHY COULDN’T YOU LISTEN TO HIM?!” Gold yelled at the time-traveler.

“What?”

“He had everything at bay just to help you lot. But you, you turned out to be selfish and ignored everything he tried to help you with! He even had a serum to take this thing down! Now, I see because you are too stubborn to think how he tried to convince to say he was sorry. NOW just look what happened! His blood is splattered on the floor as well on your hands, SILVER.”

“Wait, no Gold I was upset—”

“DO NOT GIVE ME THAT “I WAS UPSET” EXCUSE. Your BS alienation of Von lead to where we are now! Now, with no cure, not enough Chaos Emeralds, and with one Topaz left! We’re all just sitting ducks! AND IT’S THANKS TO YOU.” Gold sneered

Silver starts to have flashback of him ignoring, alienating over the Professor reviving the virus into a vampire. Where Von tried to convince Silver he found a solution of defeating MerKnightis.

“Zilver, please you must understand I have found a cure to—”

“GO AWAY, VON!”

The voices echoed on Silver’s head as he realize it was all his fault that Von Schlemmer could’ve give them and the rest a chance of defeating MerKnightis.

“Gold, listen I—”

“But I had enough of speaking these word salads to you, Silver. You brought upon yourself because Von tried to redeem himself to you. Now, he’s gone…you and Sonic and the other have a lesser chance on beating him. Now, history will repeat itself again and don’t me say that the leopards eat your face…all because “It’s Von’s fault!” Yet, he tried to prove himself to be better…”

Gold the Tenrec walks away from Silver the Hedgehog as the time travelling hedgehog looks at the Restoration member cleaning up the crude writing with one squeezing a rag of blood out into a bucket…

Back outside of MerKnightis’ castle. The eclipse moves closer, closing into the sun as the sky goes to crimson red with clouds blacker than before. Inside of the castle, VampBots, werewolves, minotaurs, and bat demons cheer on for their master’s final plan for domination from his throne.

MerKnightis walks in front of his throne chair with the stolen blood packet after he killed Von Schlemmer and lifts it up in dominance.

“CHILDREN, MINIONS. Long we have awaited in the dark, hiding away from the light. Well, no more! Because we are the one that will lead the night! No more will these fools will face the glory of the sun! No more of all of us hiding away from the shadows! Especially, those who stripped you of finalizing your plan for a perfect world! Tonight, there won’t be any dawn left! That’s why we are finishing WHERE WE STARTED! I will be the one who leads the night!”

MerKnightis rips out the lid of the blood packet and drinks the last ounce of the stolen blood as some leave his mouth. MerKnightis grunts in pain, his muscles pulse and buff out. His ears become pointy, his bottom jaw become more monstrous, claws pop out of his fingers as his face gives a vampiric look.

MerKnightis growls in his new demonic look as his red eyes reflect from the darkness.

“NOW, WE ARE RULERS OF THE NIGHT! Now, no one is going to stop us! Infiltrate their headquarters. Make sure no drop of blood is spilled!”

In the conference room, Cream the Rabbit is with Cheese and her bodyguard, Gemerl are with Amy Rose, Tangle and Whisper, Team Chaotix, Team Dark, Blaze the Cat, Knuckles the Echidna, Miles “Tails” Prower.

“Glad to be here, Misses Amy!”

Amy sighs

“Thanks, Cream! Thanks for bringing Gemerl in case we need enough firepower outside of Omega…which will be too much.”

“CORRECTION. I BRING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION ONTO MY ENEMIES UNTIL THEY SCREAM IN PAIN.” Omega said in monotone.

“O..kay, that’s a first…” The pink hedgehog said to the overintense robot.

“Amy Rose, Cream the Rabbit have instructed me from Jewel the Beetle to her mother, Vanilla the Rabbit to fight against an unknown threat…” Gemerl said formally.

“Yes, we’re aware of that, Gemerl…how can stuff happen at like this?”

“What is wrong, Amy Rose?” Gemerl spoke robotically.

“Something happened with Silver’s friend, Von…he was working on cure to finally beat you-know-who a second time. Yet, unfortunately Von was killed before he had the chance to finalize the cure…”

“Who, who was the intruder who murdered your friend?” Gemerl responded to the pink hedgehog.

The Restoration look at each other and give nods leading to Amy to tell the truth to the six-year-old rabbit and her bodyguard ex-robot of Eggman.

“Cream, you are definitely not going to like this…”

“What seems to be the matter, Misses Rose?”

“Chao, Chao!” Cheese chirped.

“I know you are not going to like this, Shadow, Rouge, and Omega were out patrolling at Windmill Village and found this crude message from someone, or something remembers us from the past. It once terrorized us before and it’s once again terrorizing us with a new army of monsters behind it and it’s coming to finish what it started…”

“What might finish what it started?” Cream said to the pink hedgehog.

“Cream, I know you are not going to like this. We thought Sonic and Silver destroyed it for good but the Metal Virus…is back…”

Cream’s face switches from concern to absolutely terrified and almost falls back as Gemerl catches her.

“Cream…” The bodyguard robot said.

“No, no…We got rid of it…how can it be back..?” Cream said as she clutches her head.

“Cream, I know your scared…we all are…Von thought he condemned it with chemicals instead it backfired got itself a body and birthed a vampire…he tried his hardest to create a serum to defeat then suddenly…oh god, seeing that scene with him…”

Flashback shows Amy, Tangle and Whisper, Knuckles, Sonic and Tails seeing the corpse of Von with the crude writing; “LIFE?” on the wall.

“It  got him before we had the chance…I knew this would happen…” Shadow said leaning behind a wall.

“Speaking of which, has anyone seen John and Lucy lately?” Espio the Chameleon said with caution.

“They were acting pretty weird with Lanolin recently. They ran off like they were hiding something…” Tails said to the chameleon.

“That’s not like them at all…one moment they good at poker and the next they act they’re hiding something…” Vector the Crocodile said.

“That’s ironic, coming from a detective and all!” The femme fatale Rouge the Bat said.

“This is NO laughing matter, Rouge! There is a vampiric abomination on the loose and you are joking around like it’s normal! Anyone remember how that thing affected us!” Shadow spat at the white bat.

“Okay, Shadow! Because I don’t remember you saying “cowards don’t run” leading you to become one of them?” The bat pointed at the red and black hedgehog’s white fur on his chest.

“She has a point, Shads…” Vector agreed.

“What? What is this? Are you trying to make me lose my temper because I can kick your ass like there’s no tomorrow, reptile!”

“Oh yeah? Try me, edgehog!”

“Hee-hee “”edgehog!”” Charmy giggled.

“I also enjoyed you when you got me that nosebleed at Windmill Village, Shadow! DO IT, RIGHT HERE! COME ON, LET’S SEE HOW TOUGH YOU ARE!” Vector pointed to his bottom lip to let Shadow take a swing at him.

“Guys, calm down! This isn’t going anywhere!” Tails stepped in front of the two.

“Easy for you to say! Your cure from the previous epidemic got destroyed before it got finished!” Vector pointed at the eight-year-old fox.

“Well, I got bombarded by Cheese and Chocola before I finished the upload I had to sacrifice my Tornado model for it!” Tails yelled back.

“Then you should’ve been in Windmill Village with Sonic looking after Mr. Tinker before creating that monstrosity!” Espio walked up threatening the fox.

“Back off, Espio!” Tails shoves Espio away.

Espio gives him a death glare.

“DO. THAT. AGAIN.”

“What? This?”

Tails shoves Espio again. The chameleon aggressively grabs the Tails’ shoulder and slams the kid down on the table and pulls out his trusty kunai.

“GIVE ME REASON WHERE I DON’T SHOVE THIS DOWN YOUR EYE!!” Espio yelled at the kid two-tailed fox.

“For Pete’s sake, Espio! Calm down!” Vector yelled at his chameleon partner.

“No, he striked first! And I am finishing it!” Espio yelled back at the crocodile.

Tangle’s tails grabs Espio’s arm with the kunai.

“Seriously, Espio! You gotta chill! He’s just a kid! There’s no reason to be ticked off on him!” The lemur told off the chameleon.

“Tangle, let go.”

“No, this is insane! We all know that the previous virus attack was painful. Y-you cannot blame on any one else…well you can blame Eggman for all the BS--on your trauma of almost losing Vector and Charmy! You just gotta—”

Espio backflips and gets off her tail and kicks Tangle’s face leaving Whisper to have a bloodthirsty look toward the chameleon as Espio catches his kunai. Tangle feels her lip and sees blood. Tangle lets out a laugh for a while.

“Was that good for you?” The lemur said to the chameleon.

“Yes…”

Tangle chuckles at the response.

“You—”

Tangle continues to laugh and stops.

“I’M KICKING YOUR ASS, NOW.”

Tangle gives the chameleon a death glare as Espio laughs.

“How can you fight a nin—”

Tangle’s tail clocks the chameleon’s right jaw, Shadow punches Vector in the face, Charmy grabs and pulls Tails’ mouth and eyelids.

“CHARMY, LET GO!” The eight-year-old fox yelled toward the toddler bee.

Omega E-123 fires bullets against Whisper the Wolf as she shoots a variety of Wisps from her Variable Wispon.

“YOUR TINY WEAPON CANNOT FACE AGAINST MINE…” Omega jeered at the Diamond Cutter member.

Whisper loads an Orange Wisp and fires an Orange Rocket towards Omega as he gets knocked down.

“OW.”

Rouge ducks from an punch/hook from Knuckles as the bat unleashes her Kick Attack towards the echidna’s stomach and unleashes a Charlie Kick on Knuckles’ face as a small amount of blood leaves his mouth.

Cream the Rabbit, scared and terrified sits behind a wall and covers her face from her friends pulverizing one another as tears continuously leave her face with Cheese the Chao comforting her.

Meanwhile, Shadow punches left and right on Vector’s face.

“OOH! THAT WAS SOFT! I DIDN’T EVEN FEEL A THING! HIT ME, HIT ME HARDER, SHADS! DO IT! C’MON!”

On the sidelines with Amy Rose and Blaze the Cat, Blaze starts to furious as hue of high temperature heat comes out of the princess of the Sol-Dimension’s body as she clutches her hands into fists as she gets hotter.

“Blaze?” Amy said to her friend as the flames get hotter surrounding her body as the flames consume the cat.

“STOP!!!”

Blaze unleashes a shockwave of heat making everyone to stop and look at the fiery-based cat as flames continue to surround her.

“Behaving like this is not going to get us anywhere! This what this monster wants! To be make it easy for him to strike! Yes, the first epidemic was traumatizing, yes, we dealt with the consequences of that event! Fighting over it only effects the wounds more than healing them!”

The others look at the fully-flamed feline and think for themselves. Blaze’s flames die down and sighs.

“Now, how are we able to stop this thing? Like we did before?”

“We go back to where it ended…”

The gang see Sonic the Hedgehog and his partner, Silver the Hedgehog with Gold the Tenrec.

“SONIC!” Amy said.

“Mr. Sonic!” Cream yelled

“Chao, Chao!” Cheese chirped.

“Whaddya mean, we go back to where it ended, Sonic?” Vector said as he pulls out a loose tooth and flicks it away.

“I had a talk with Silver and it found the location of where this guy is. And I know why wants us there.”

“He still has a beef on us for throwing him out, if that bastard wants us to be there, then we’ll be there. That bastard killed Von because I didn’t learn to him and this would be our chance to finally destroy him once and for all! It’s a rematch he wants; it’s a rematch he’ll get…”

Silver slams his fist on his palm.

“But guys were down to five emeralds! How are we supposed to fight him back?!” Tails said to the two hedgehog.

“Gold, contacted some…mercenaries…” Silver responded to the two-tailed fox.

In the shadows, silhouettes of Jet the Hawk, Wave the Swallow, and Storm the Albatross are seen as Wave blows a bubblegum bubble and pops it back to her mouth.

Back at the nightmarish scene of Angel Island. The Eclipse officially closes in on the sun as the sky is completely red with blacker clouds. MerKnightis looks at the haunting scene with hands behind his back. A WHOOSH! Occurs behind him.

“So, you’re here…”

MerKnightis slowly turns around to Sonic the Hedgehog.

“Hedgehog…”

“Love the glow up, tin can…”

“Thank you…” MerKnightis sarcastically said.

“I’m here, right where you needed me…”

“Exactly what I had planned, does this place bring you back memories, blue hedgehog? Where was I prepping up the final moments of my conquest..?”

“You could’ve turned my friends into walking pieces of scrap metal…”

MerKnightis chuckles

“You and your jokes, you know, hedgehog you always find a way to mask yourself with clever humor…”

“At least I didn’t try to infect my friends with slop!”

“But my dear boy, you were helping me! You ran as fast as you can and yet I still caught up with you—”

MerKnightis scoffs.

“You didn’t bother to pay attention what the HARM you brought in your compatriots. They begged for mercy, they pleaded for your help but all you did was to run, and run, and run, and run…like a coward with his head cut off…”

Sonic gives the vampire a death glare.

“Now, don’t you give me that look after all you’re the one who brings his friends into these situations. Why do you think Eggman got his memory and created me and allowed me to do the dirty work? That was because I had no autonomy or freedom than I was getting smarter and I never wanted to be the doctor’s puppets…so, I had to cut the strings out of him. But you, you and that pompous silver hedgehog threw me out before I can finishing the job…now with this new body of mine. It will be my pressure of throwing you out just like how you threw away me…”

The vampire walks closer to the hedgehog.

“So, what’s it gonna be? Give up? Or rejoining me so we are whole again…otherwise I’ll tear you apart, limb from limb and I’ll kill everyone you cared about like the pack of rats they are!”

MerKnightis’ face moves closer to Sonic.

Sonic says nothing.

“Well, say something…”

“You know, Count Dorkula there’s a time you just got to keep your trap shut…”

MerKnightis narrows his eyes.

“What are you playing at?”

“You know, you’re the dark and gothic, vengeful bad guy who has a beef with me because you wanted to take over the world—yadda, yadda, yadda! Yeah, I get that, but you just need to be careful how to talk with that tone of yours!”

MerKnightis gets confused.

“What are you planning on, hedgehog?”

“You know, telling you to be careful on you talk—especially where everyone can hear you…”

Sonic points his finger up where the vampire looks in surprise as he sees Restoration heroes, mercenaries, and other fighters surrounding the two as MerKnightis growls in response.

“Clever of you, hedgehog…so you wanna play, luckily, I got one of my own…”

MerKnightis snaps his fingers as a pack of werewolves and Vampbots arrive behind the vampire as Sonic scoffs.

“Is that all?”

“Oh…I got one more…”

The ground begins to shake as the ground splits apart making everyone barely fall as gazer of blood spirals out from beneath revealing Eggman’s old weapon, the Faceship, now bloodier and scarier, as its mouth opens revealing bat demons and more werewolves as they jump and fly out surrounding the heroes with murder intent.

“Now, let us end this…”

TO BE CONTINUED…