Team Dragoon: Phantom's Rift

== Chapter 1: Dimensional Introductions ==
Team Dragoon's Dimension
Team Dragoon are discussing what to do on this forced team day off in their room.
Alan: I say, we find some dimension with Badniks to destroy and people to save, like we often do.
Dria: Too often i say, why can't we just go outside and find a nice park or something?
Srish: Maybe we can challenge other team members to a fight? Or maybe go Extreme Gear racing?
Silence: Why can't we just chill here for once? Tails sent us that console, we still haven't tried it!
Srish: Ooh yeah! Let's do that! I heard that Smash Bros game is good fun.
Dria: But we should do something outside!
Alan: Fighting Badniks often happens outside.
Dria: You know what i meant!
Srish: Alan, come on! Let's play some-
Alan: No, we should-
Srish: Oy! Don't interrupt me!
Silence: By rules of voting, our two beats each of your one.
Alan: Fine. Fair's fair.
Dria: But we-
Alan: The way i see it, either you pick up a controller or you watch.
Dria: Oh fine.
Just as they were setting up, a voice interrupted them.
Speaker: Team Dragoon to Main Office.
Alan: Ok, looks like our day off is off.
Silence: Oh come on!
The four of them grab their Wispons and head for the main office.
Jewel: Team Dragoon. I hate to call off your day off, but something's come up.
Srish: What?
Jewel turns on a monitor, which switches to footage at a Power Energy research facility.
Jewel: Recently, this facility has been getting raided, but not by anything we've ever seen. Do you know what this is?
Jewel then pulls up a picture on the monitor, of a Cyber Biomon.
Alan: Biomon...
Dria: We've seen these things before, they're from another dimension.
Silence: Are you asking us to go hop dimensions-
Jewel: No, what i want you to do is go to the facility quickly. Employees have been saying the creatures arrive during lunch break, steal Power Energy supplies, and then disappear. They requested we send someone to guard the samples, and as you know them, you'll be the best fit.
Alan: Alright, we'll head there immediately.
Team Dragoon rushed out, heading straight for the facility. But just as they left, a portal appeared under them, swallowing up the group and sending them to Cyne's dimension.
Team Phantasm's Dimension.
Marl : What do you think about this? I Think it would be cool if we made our new base something like this that has an aspect of all of us.
Shera : Hmm, I get it! I would make the foundations of the house and its structure. You would make its atmosphere, defense and a sustainable weather field with your abilities. Cyne could use that Phantom Shard to try to shape the house, organize and reinforce it. Then I'd finish up by creating the gardens.
Marl : Yes, you get it. However there is one problem with this sort of cool shortcut using our powers…
Cyne : Yeah, I don’t think we have the stamina, control or energy to do any of that.
Marl : Yeah, I’ve never used my clouds to set a permanent state within the atmosphere, Cyne has only a shard of the Phantom Ruby, without the other 4 shards it split into there is no way we can restore it and use it to its full capabilities. Then Shera, no offense, I don’t think you really have the stamina, precision or control to make a structure like the way its shown on my blueprints.
Shera : Aw, I guess…
Cyne : Sadly, that's the reality we’re faced with here. We just aren't enough as we are right now to do that, even with all the experience we have gotten together.
Marl : Well, since we can all agree it will take us possibly days to get it right at our current levels, let's set up camp. Also, Cyne.
Cyne : Yeah? What's up?
Marl : You seem to have the best skills for getting food out of all of us, I mean you literally fish in your free time, so I'm sure you could get us some grub for tonight.
Cyne : Yeah, Alright. If you need me, just scream.
Cyne would walk off into the tree’s, disappearing from the site of the others.
Shera : Augh! Err!
Marl : Shera? You okay?
Shera : Something is wrong.
Marl : What?
Shera : Marl. My connection to nature lets me sense and feel the nature of my surroundings.
Marl : Yeah? What of it?
Shera : What I felt just now, was not natural. Maybe we should go with Cyne.
Marl : Don't worry, if he needs us, he will scream.
Cutting back to Cyne’s point of view…
Cyne : I could’ve sworn there was a small creek up this way. Let’s get a better view.
Cyne would find a large and sturdy looking tree, with no time wasted he would begin to climb it with ease until he reached its peak. Cyne would then take a flat hand above his eyes and begin to squint and look around.
Cyne : Hmmm. Ah! There it-
Cyne would not be given the chance to finish his thoughts nor sentence, Why would this be? Well, if you were to ask Cyne, he would tell you it's because…
Cyne : A portal? Is that a portal?
As Cyne’s observations were being made, still questioning the randomness of this event. He would soon see four figure’s drop from the portal, plummeting towards the water beneath them. Even from this distance though Cyne would sort of recognize them.
Cyne : Was that Team Dragoon?! I gotta hurry over there!
Team Dragoons Perspective…
Alan: What in- Blub!
Srish drags Alan out as Dria and Silence swim out together.
Dria: Ugh, feathers take forever to dry.
Alan: Cough... Oh i hate wet clothing.
Silence: Did a portal open up underneath us?
Srish: Where even are we?
They then look onto the horizon, noticing a figure heading towards them.
Cyne : Hey!
Cyne would begin walking as he drew closer to the quartet, eventually stopping when he felt he was in a comfortable proximity to chat.
Cyne : Hey, what are you guys doing here, and why did you... fall from the sky? *Scratching his head*
Alan: Dimensional weirdness, by the way, have the doctors been doing anything... different from the standard faire?
Silence: Biomon have been stealing a resource from our world.
Cyne : Since when did you guys have Biomon? I'm sure you would've told me before... And I wouldn't know, After what happened a few weeks ago we haven't heard anything about Bagon or Eggman, but I'm sure they are up to something, and the fact Biomon are in your world could have something to do with it. If you guys are having these... uhh... portals or rifts, or whatever they are show up, then whose to say that they aren't showing up in my world too. 
Alan: Hmm, maybe. 
Srish: Alan, how do we get back? We left the Dimension Travel Suits at home!
Alan: (Shoot.) "Cyne did say they might have more portals showing up. If we find one of those, we could go home."
Dria: Anyways, do you know of anywhere the doctors might have a research facility?
Cyne : No idea, the last time we found one was with Shadow and his team, but we aren't really affiliated with them anymore, plus i'd rather rely on myself and my friends. Speaking of which, we should go meet up with them, I don't know if Shera really knows much but Marl seems to have had his run ins with Bagon beforehand. Either way, there abilities are far better suited towards locating a base then mine, after all... I still cant even control mine... well, I'll tell you about that and what's happened on the way, let's get going!
Alan: That tracks with what Marl said. Let's go.
Team Dragoon then follow Cyne back to his friends.
== Chapter 2: Dimensionally Stuck ==
Marl : Oh, hey Cyne. What took you so long and wheres the... What are you guys doing here?
Cyne : So basically, they kinda just... warped into our world randomly and they need to find a way back, we were gonna see if maybe you knew any base's for Eggman or Bagon.
Marl : No, I don't. Bagon is always on the move, probably more so with Eggman, and Eggman has a lot of bases but we don't know where they would be at. Not to mention the only one's I've found are abandoned so whether you were looking for them or wanted some type of supplies, your out of luck.
Cyne : I see... Well I-
Shera : Hold on, I don't know where they are but I might know someone who does!
Alan and Silence: Oh? Who?
Shera : Well, before I met Cyne and Marl, I grew up on a village on the edge of Sand Hill close to Green Hill. He was a childhood friend and growing up he got into shady business with information, that's how i found out about Cyne and Marl training in the first place.
Cyne : Really? Wow.
Shera : I think he said something about a falcon, some group or something, but I could take you guys there, it's only a few zones away if we take a shortcut.
Srish: Huh, neat. Hey, before we go, what exactly were you doing when you found us, Cyne?
Cyne : Oh, uhh... I was going to fish, but I saw you guys instead so...
Marl : You idiot! You were supposed to bring back some fish with you!
Cyne : Hey, hey. Look, I got a little sidetracked you understand, right?
Marl : Try saying that to my stomach!
Cyne : Ah, yeah. Say, you guys mind helping us gather up some food before we go?
Dria: Sure, we'd be happy to.
Alan: As much as you shouldn't speak for us, you're right. By the way, what were the rest of you doing?
Shera : We were trying to plan a way to get this base made, as it stands right now our current abilities just aren't enough and it would take days, probably weeks to make.
Marl : That's right, we had left the organization after the uhh... well how should I put it, after the dragon incident. But as of right now we don't have the correct power, supplies or precision to get this thing made in a good amount of time.
Srish: Maybe we can find a way to help with that later, for now, where exactly are we supposed to find food?
Cyne : Well, there are fish in that creek you fell in, I usually take my rod over there and use the smaller fish as bait for bigger ones.
Shera : In this area you can find fruit in the bushes, going out more to the west even some within the trees as well as a few veggies that grow near the end of the creek.
Cyne : Let's make this fun! I know you guys are probably in a dull mood after landing here against your will, so lets turn a bad situation into a fun one! Whoever can collect the most food wins, as for the prize... I guess you can lead the group as a whole after we get our intel, sound good?
Alan: So you intend to fish while we find what we can from the bushes?
Srish: Let's go find some berries!
Team Dragoon then head off to the bushes, quickly finding berry bushes, and a apple tree soon after that.
Cyne : Man, they are really moving fast out there! I better get a bit more serious too, it's a good thing i brought this vial of bait with me.
Cyne would open the capsule and begin to pour the flakes up against the rocks with the creek, fishes would begin to encircle the area allowing for Cyne to take advantage.
Cyne : I sure hope this is enough, took me a while to make that stuff.
Spectating we would see Shera and Marl
Shera : Wow, look at them go at it.
Marl : Now that I'm thinking at it I could probably just use my nubikinesis to sweep up a lot of fish and you could just use your naturakinesis to get us those fruits, but it's more fun like this.
Shera : That's true.
As Team Dragoon were collecting the fruits and berries and such, Alan and Dria started a internal competition. Dria started by stealing fruits from the trees Alan was picking from.
Alan: Hey! Find a different tree!
Dria: Nah.
Alan retaliated by calling on his Wisps, who took some berries from a bush Dria was harvesting.
Dria: Oy! Using your Wisps is cheating!
Alan: You're flying, your point is null.
As the two of them duked it out over the fruit and berries, Silence called on his Wisps to help him with the trees while he harvested the berries.
Srish: You do know that it would be more effective not to compete, right?
Silence: Ignore them, they're too into it, besides, it's helping them dry off.
The team would continue harvesting until a few baskets were full.
Alan: Would you look at that. I got the most berries and most food.
Dria: And? I got the most fruits.
Silence: You two are both wrong, I got the most overall food, thus i got the most berries and fruit by default.
Alan: You get to shush, you weren't even part of this.
Srish: If anyone cares, i seem to be the only one who gathered veggies.
Team Dragoon then headed back with their multiple baskets of food.
Cyne : Alright, since we're all here lets see who won.
Shera : Alright, lets see.
Shera would hover over each basket using her abilities to scan the various fruits.
Shera : Alan, half of these berries are poisonous. Dria, half of your fruits are bruised. I don't know what happened out there but its like something had you two side tracked. Srish, you have a very good amount of veggies but Silence gathered the most.
Cyne : Ok, so how about my fish?
Shera : Well, let's measure its weight.
Shera would create a small tree, growing a vine around it that seemingly curved into hook like shapes.
Shera : Whoever's basket leans more will have the most.
Marl : I'll do that.
Marl would use his Hyper Go-On Energy to control and generate clouds that would lift each basket on to the hooks, at the same time he would release both baskets with the heaviest being...
Shera : Well, looks like Silence has the heaviest basket!
Cyne : Wow, what could you have been doing to get that many? I was even using a special bait.
Silence: 5 Wisps and not being a dummy helped.
Alan and Dria: Shut it!
Srish: He's right though.
Alan and Dria: You have no part in this!
As Srish unintentionally ignites a argument, Silence turns to the others.
Silence: So where is this place we're heading?
A shout of "How could i know what's poisonous or not" irritates Silence.
Silence: Excuse me for a second.
Cyne : What's up with them?
Marl : Well Shera, are you ready to go?
Shera : Yup! Follow me!
Alan: (Cough cough cough) "Hey guys, apparently we're leaving now."
Dria: Later then?
Srish: Hopefully never.
The group did not notice the tiny Biomon which lurked within the grass, watching and collecting data, something certainly seemed...
Dr. Bagon : Interesting... Seems we have some visitors, I guess it isnt to unexpected to see them back here after our little escapades, I'm sure you agree too don't you?
Eggman: True. What's the progress on those new Biomon you've been developing? The ones powered by... Power Energy? I still can't fathom why only organic creatures can use it.
Dr. Bagon : It's incredible, these Biomon are far superior to the like I've made before, that includes the Cyber Batch. I'm not sure of the limits of which I could take this energy, but I'm sure regardless that it will be entertaining to see how those worms fair against them. Without the help of G.U.N. I don't see them getting away unscathed. Plus, I've hired some extra muscle just incase, have you heard of the organization Falcon?
Eggman: Can't say i have. 
Dr. Bagon : Apparently they are an international organization that works around and carries out organizations around the globe. They are best known for their dealing in the black market and mercenary work. Luckily for me I was able to commission one of their best. I hear he is some type of super soldier, the type that had his body modified into a weapon, they say he never misses a shot. 
Eggman: Interesting. Have you found any more Chaos Emeralds, or any Phantom Shards? I want my "present" for Team Dragoon to have as many magic gems as possible before sending it to them. Also, i've sent some Heavies to inconvenience them while you finish your final "Powered Biomon." 
Dr. Bagon : Excellent, and we have indeed found two Chaos Emerald, sadly none of the shards have been seen. The two Chaos Emeralds are being delivered as we speak. 
Eggman: Good... 
Back with the teams. 
Silence: So because of a rude interruption, i never got where we were going. Where are we going? 
Shera : My old village, Flay Ville. It's been a few months since I was there but I'm sure everything is still the same. 
Cyne : Who exactly is this friend of yours though? 
Shera : Oh, his name is Kroe, he's a Cat Mobian, he has always liked the color black and wears it a lot, you can't miss him! 
Marl : Say, I've been noticing that you guys have been using Wisps, I meant to ask you guys about it last time but never got the chance. 
Alan: It's mostly called a Wispon. Aside from that, we found our Wisp friends through varying personal adventures. 
Marl : Interesting, I feel like I may of heard of a Wispon before. 
Cyne : You know, Marl is kinda like a big Wisp himself. I remember he took us up the the Hill Top Zone once and told us about his history. I wouldn't be surprised if he could speak the same language or at least understand them. 
Marl : As much as I want to throw you into the ground and make you regret every word you just spoke, you might be on to something for once. But yes, I don't know if we exist in your dimension but I'm from a ancient clan of Fox Mobian called "Sky Foxes", we possess natural Hyper Go-On Energy because of the "True White Wisp", a breed of Wisp that no longer exists, they had merged with the Fox Clan and became a brand new species. So in essence I guess I am partially Wisp... 
Alan: I don't think we have Sky Foxes or anything in our dimension. If anything, in exchange, we get Energy forms. 
Marl : Really? What's that like? Could it be similar to my form? Is there any way you could show me? 
Alan: We could, but it would tire out my Wisps, which would prevent them from powering my Wispon. 
Dria: In essence, it allows you to use the powers of each wisp in any way you want instead of one very specific way. Like, you could actually use fire and electricity instead of how Burst and Lightning work. It doesn't last much longer than a normal transformation though, only being a few seconds. 
Marl : Really? That's interesting, I naturally have control over clouds, its said the that True White Wisp could control the weather. Since you guys have a good understanding of the power of Wisps I was wondering whether you would want to have a little spar, I don't think I'll get a chance to go up against a power similar to my own again. Plus, I got a new form as I said earlier, I kinda want to show off a bit. 
Alan: Later, we have a base to find. 
A missile is then shot out of the air by Dria. 
Srish: We're under attack! 
One Mimic Heavy for each member of the teams then land. 
Mimic Heavy(Eggman): Ohhohoho! Good morning, Team Phantasm and Team Dragoon. 
Alan: Huh. Rather small army you got, doctor. 
Mimic Heavy(Eggman): This isn't exactly meant to kill you. Just delay you until Bagon's finished his "gift" for you, Team Dragoon. 
Silence: Why do you want Power Energy? 
Mimic Heavy(Eggman): I don't want it, i can't use it! Bagon's been the one collecting it for his "gift". Though i would like that Phantom Shard for my own "present" to Team Dragoon. 
Cyne : Well I'm sure you know we won't be giving it up that easy, Your first mistake was letting your plans be known. 
Marl : To think that you two would keep trying to get at us even after the Metal Cyne incident amazes me, whatever that "Gift" is must be bad news 
Shera : We can worry about that later, the more we talk the more time they get! 
Team Dragoon then attack the Mimic Heavies. 
Alan: Cyne! Do the clone thing! 
Cyne : Ah, so about that... 
Marl : We don't have a full Phantom Ruby, Cyne can't use that particular ability 
Cyne : Trust me, I've tried, the most I can make is a illusion. 
Mimic Heavy: Not so tough without your fake friends backing you up, are you now? 
Alan: Blast it! And blast you! 
Alan then ducks as Silence shoots the Mimic Heavy Alan was facing with Silencer, damaging it's chest.
Shera : Let's not let them take the lead!
Shera would rush towards a Mimic Heavy, quickly sidestepping a direct attack and crouching to the ground, quickly the Mimic Heavy's legs would be entwined within strong wooden roots.
Shera : Marl!
Marl : Right!
Marl would rush in, flipping into the air and begin to spin downwards whilst shooting clouds from his body to propel him downwards, the Mimic Heavy would be met with a spiraling heel, heavily denting its head.
Dria: Everyone at once!
Team Dragoon would then gang up on a Mimic Heavy, Srish knocking it off it's feet, before Team Dragoon shot their Wispons at it's head, destroying it. As a Mimic Heavy pointed a gun at his head, Alan would slice the gun off. Alan and Dria then teamed up against the Heavy damaged by Silence, Alan keeping it occupied, while Dria shot it.
Cyne : Three on me? Must be my lucky day!
The Mimic Heavies would surround Cyne, attempting a three way pincer attack, however Cyne would pull out the Phantom Shard.
Cyne : (If all that Phantom Force stuff was true, maybe I could draw out my power with this) Here goes nothing!
The air around Cyne would turn cold and static, the three Mimic Heavies would seemingly collide with Cyne, however, once the icy mist had settled it would show that the legs of each were frozen, inches away from Cynes face.
Cyne : Can't believe that actually worked, alright let's try again!
Cyne would attempt this again, however, he wouldn't be as successful this time. Marl and Shera would leap in however to finish the Badniks off.
Marl : Come on Cyne, you can't let your guard down like that or do anything that risky in that type of situation
Cyne : Yeah, I guess. 
As Cyne was doing that, Alan and Dria were slowly but surely destroying the damaged Mimic Heavy, before jumping in to help Silence fight one.
Shera : Time to try this out.
Shera would put her hands to the ground, sending roots into it and using the roots to loosen the ground beneath the remaining Mimic Heavies, causing them to fall in and be vulnerable to all attacks.
Team Dragoon quickly finished off the Mimic Heavies they were fighting, before trying to help with the ones Team Phantasm were fighting.
Marl would shoot pressurized water through the last Mimic Heavies, effectively destroying the Mimic Heavies.
Marl : Alright, everyone alright? 
Alan: Surprisingly yes. Those Mimic Heavies were very inefficient. 
Silence: Can we go now? 
Cyne : Yeah, let's get going. 
Shera : Alright, this way! 
The dual teams then head off.
However, someone was watching.
??? : Bagon, I've got my eyes on the group you mentioned, do I proceed to eliminate them?
Dr. Bagon (Radio) : Just collect intel and observe for now, It's more useful to have someone keep track of them for now.
??? : Right...
== Chapter 3: Desert Dashing ==
We follow Team Dragoon and Team Phantasm on their arrival to Flay Ville, the village was rather small and seemed to have gotten most of their resources from the waters they settle near.
Shera : Welcome to my home! You guys can do whatever, I'll go find Kroe.
Cyne : Alright. This would be a good time to ask you guys something. When Eggman showed up you guys mentioned something about "Power Energy", what's up with that?
Marl : True, I don't think we have ever encountered that, and if Bagon is harvesting it it would be bad, we need as much info we can get as to make sure we won't be caught by surprise. 
Alan: It's surprisingly not that complicated. A while back, a asteroid known by most as the Power Asteroid passed over the planet. When it did, for the entire day, everyone in the world gained superpowers if they didn't already have some. A bit later, we helped properly kill The End, and when we did, we discovered all that energy it produces and attacks with could retrigger the superpowers. A bit of study was all it took to discover that the Power Asteroid's effect and The End's uncontrolled energy were one in the same, so they dubbed it Power Energy. 
Srish: Right now, we know that The End was made of the stuff, and that through it's will, it could turn this superpower source into a deadly energy, or solid matter. Our leading experts have theorized that there's far more of this stuff out there as ambient energies, and Tails is looking to set up a mission to search the dimensions for alternate types. 
Marl : Well, I guess that would be bad for him to get that. Who knows what type of Biomon he could create with that. 
Cyne : Power Energy, who would've thought. 
Shera : Oooo, what's a "The End"? 
Marl : Oh, hey Shera, you find our guy? 
Shera : Yup! 
Kroe : Hey, Shera told me you guys needed help tracking down some bases, is there anything in particular your trying to get for one of these bases? 
Silence: We hope to find out what exactly the evil doctors are planning to do. 
Kroe : It's been going around in the underworld about Eggman and Dr. Bagon after people witnessed the dragon, ever since sources about the two have been tight, however it seems at least on of the doctors has a leak from the organization known as Falcon, turns out they are harvesting a special energy and are using these rifts that have appeared to obtain it, they say they keep the stores of the stuff in a base hidden in the Mirage Saloon Zone somewhere. 
Alan:(So that's where the Power Energy's gone.) 
Srish: With luck, we may find a way home there too. 
Dria: So do we go there? 
Marl : Seems so and I say we hurry before they can send any more distractions. 
Shera : Thanks Kroe! 
Kroe : No problem, just be careful. Eye's lurk everywhere, don't want to get caught up in the eye of a hawk. 
Cyne : *Whispering to Alan* That's kinda creepy... 
Alan: Alright team, let's go to this Mirage Saloon place. 
The dual teams then head out for Mirage Saloon.
Cyne : Please! Water! I need water!
Marl : Cyne, we're almost there, just hang on.
Cyne : What do you mean?! I know you can make water why aren't you?
Marl : ...
Shera : I'm sure there's a good reason.
Cyne : What?! What reason would that be?!
Marl : Just consider it training... I'm not gonna expend energy on you in a unknown place.
Cyne : You guy's are thirsty too right? We walked across like 7 Zone's and have only taken two rests, the sun is setting! 
Alan: It has been a while... 
Dria: Hey look, buildings! Could those be that Mirage Saloon place? 
Marl : Well, how about we go in and find out. If this is where the base would be then I'm sure we might see some Eggman Empire logos. 
The dual teams then head into Mirage Saloon, with Alan quickly finding a unattended drink place. 
Alan: Hey Cyne! We found something relating to water! 
Cyne : What?! Hold on, I need that! 
Marl : Honestly. 
Shera : So... Where should we look for clues? There's a lot of people outside, but also a lot of people in those buildings, there's not much i can see here that could allude to a base. 
Marl : Well, places like this are usually rich in resources, the Oil Ocean Zone is close to here after all. It wouldn't be far fetched to say that some of the people here may be stationed as workers and gatherer's for resources, things that could be sent directly to the empire, Try looking around for people who look like they would be good with manual labor, have similar uniform, things with the empire logo or place's with abundant resources. I'd say those are our best bet's. What do you think Silence? 
Silence: Sounds smart. I'll look for anything outwardly Eggman while you check for that. 
Silence then sneaks away.
Marl : I'm going to look for possible work site's, the rest of you should probably pair up with someone just incase something happens, we need a pair to talk to the locals, someone to investigate like Silence and also a group to be on the look just incase anything shows up, the information networks can leak things pretty fast, I'm sure someone has been watching even as we speak. I'm going, feel free to tag along if you want to locate any possible work site's.
Cyne : Man, that was some good water!
Marl : Were you listening?
Cyne : Wha- uh, yeah!
Marl : Alright then.
Marl would then go off towards the workzone of the Mirage Saloon Zone.
Shera : I'll go talk with people, who want's to join me? 
Srish: I'll come along. 
Dria: Guess that leaves us on watch duty. 
Alan: No way! I'm joining Marl. 
Cyne : I'm not gonna lie, I didn't catch any of that, so I guess I'll just be here with you. 
With Silence 
Silence:(Alright, nothing so far. I can barely even see any people of any occupation-) 
Silence's thoughts are interrupted by the sight of a thing that looked like a Biomon. 
Silence:(Biomon... If i tell the team, i risk losing them. I'll track them to wherever they're headed.) 
Silence then silently followed the possible Biomon. 
With Shera and Srish.
Upon entering a local tavern, the pair would be met with stares via the patrons, which consisted of a variety of people with different backgrounds.
??? : Well, Well, Well. What have we here boys?
The bar would erupt in laughter and intrigue as the figure stood up and approached the pair.
Cole : The names Cole, Coming deep from the bottom of my heart, and as a proud Teekian myself and as a very patient patron of this tavern. I'd suggest that two little mice from outside of this zone should probably leave.
Shera : So are you the biggest guy around these parts?
Cole : Not the biggest, but a big one. If that means anything to you and keeping yourselves in good health you two would leave now. 
Srish: Hmm... 
Srish readies his Wispon in case this "Cole" attacks, while backing up due to the tension.
Shera : We're trying to find any info on the Eggman Empire and if it's possible they have affiliations here.
Cole : Is that right? You won' be getting any info from me. You foreigner's have no respect or honor, therefore your not welcome.
Shera : Please don't make us do this the hard way.
Cole would then let out a bellowing laugh, slightly breathing fire between it.
Cole : I'm sure you can see I'm not a regular Teekian, I'm one of the rare mutation's, the Charred variant. This is your last chance stranger's, your friend doesn't scare me with that weapon either, leave now or I'll turn you both to cinder.
Shera : Alright Srish, Let's show him why we should be respected!
We would focus over to Marl, accompanied by Alan.
Marl : Come here for a second, and be quiet. Listen closely, sounds like metal. 
Alan comes closer, and hears the melodic clank of a Egg Pawn walking. 
Alan: That would be a Egg Pawn. 
Back with Shera and Srish, Srish fires on Cole, with the shots each pushing Cole back a few steps. Sensing the pretty obvious signs of Cole counterattacking, Srish prepares to dodge.
Cole would conjure a fireball from his hands and aim it towards Srish, throwing one after the other in an attempt to hit and destroy his target.
Srish would dodge these fireballs before grabbing a burning stool and tossing it at Cole, as well as firing more Rhythm shots
Cole : Why you!
Cole would be ready to charge towards Srish by using his feet to unleash jet like flames, however Shera would put a stop to this by entangling him within vine's causing him to slam face first into the floor. Cole would get up, burning the vines.
Cole : I'm part fire, did you really think that would hold me?
Shera : Is that right? What's that below you?
Cole : What?
Upon glancing down where he had crashed, he would see a cactus growing from the place he had crashed and left a hole.
Cole : Hah! What is a cactus going to do to me?
Shera : Well, it has plenty of water of course! Srish! Shoot it! 
Srish then shoots the cactus, causing it to burst and cover Cole in water, burning his water-sensitive skin. 
Srish: Had enough? 
Cole : Y-You, fine. Fine! I'll tell you what you want. There is a base around here, but I don't get why you would want to know. 
Shera : That doesn't matter, can you tell us where it's at? 
Cole : Don't know, it's a secret base, most of us work at the refinery. I hear it's somewhere north of here, between the oasis that is next to the Oil Ocean and Mirage Saloon. But that's all I know. 
Srish: I'll get Dria. 
Meanwhile with Silence... 
The Biomon presses a switch, opening a door into a base. 
Silence:(Success! This has to be the base! Now to get my friends.) 
With Marl and Alan...
Marl : Alright, I say we follow it until we can get a lead. Try to be a bit stealthy, if anyone is about to catch on I can only do so much for distractions and cover, considering we have confirmed this as a hotspot for the Eggman Empire I'd rather not have a full batallion to face. 
Alan then looks up to see the Egg Pawns transporting crates into a Blowfish Transport. 
Alan: This isn't the base, but it may be headed for it. That's a Blowfish Transport. 
Marl : Alright, let's track- 
Before Marl could finish his sentence a large explosion and boom could be seen. 
Marl : What was that? That explosion is where some of the others should be standing guard! Alan, who is on lookout duty? 
Alan: Dria's on duty, and i believe Cyne stayed with her? 
Marl : Alright, I don't think we should give up this lead, knowing them they should be able to handle whatever is, plus the others are closer by then we are. So as I was saying, Let's track it down to where it goes. 
Meanwhile... 
Cyne : Augh... My head... Who was that guy? That glowing red eye... 
Cyne would slowly start to get a hold of himself, going up to Dria to see if she handled the massive explosion well. 
Cyne : You okay? 
Dria: Owwwww... What happened? That explosion was like the Silencer times 4! 
Cyne : Some guy in a cloak just appeared, he eye was glowing red... he just stood there and then suddenly he put his hand out in a gun motion, and some type of projectile came out. Turns out he was aiming for that massive load of fuel. Now he's gone, who was that? 
Dria: Wha-When was there a load of fuel? 
Alan: What in the heck happened? 
Dria: Alan! 
Cyne : Some guy appeared in front of me, he was in disguise so I couldn't make out anything about him but that he had this glowing red eye, he just stood there and shot a stockpile of fuels, now that I consider it, those definitely weren't there before. Marl, may have been right about someone watching us. 
Meanwhile, Silence was heading back, when a mysterious figure ran straight into him. 
Silence: Uh oh. Heyyyyy, i have some friends waiting for me, so i'm just gonna leave now. 
Silence then rushes past the mystery person.
??? : Yeah, run to your friend's, I have some friend's of my own waiting there.
They would take out a radio.
Dr. Bagon (Radio) : What is it?
??? : Seem's they are at the Mirage Saloon Zone, I signaled the Biomon you had stationed here to give them a little welcoming party while you get what you need ready.
Dr. Bagon (Radio) : Perfect, I'll tell Robotnik as well, They are most likely looking for us but I can't let them get to that base. It has a majority of our Power Energy stores as well as other resources we transport between zones, if I don't arrive on time I want you to fight them, and I'll give permission to kill, got it?
??? : Of course.
Dr. Bagon (Radio) : I'm glad that your such a reliable mercenary, Cross.
Cross : Alright, I'm heading out to the base.
The now revealed "Cross" would put away the Radio and head off into the distance.
== Chapter 4: Base Breaking ==
Silence then reaches his friends.
Silence: I found the base, but maybe also a new enemy.
Dria: Elaborate.
Silence: I followed a Biomon, and they headed to a base. I can lead you there. As i was heading back however, i ran into some guy in a dark cloak. 
Cyne : That must've been the guy! Did you see a red glowing eye or anything!? 
Silence: Actually yeah! Come on! We need to get to the base! 
The reunited dual teams are then lead by Silence to the base.
Cyne : So this is the place? You know, I feel like there should be more security here, is this a trap? 
Alan: You're telling me you didn't expect a trap? I'll carve a way through with my claws. 
Silence: The rest of us should look for anything traplike, such as someone watching us. 
Marl : No need, I sent some clouds overhead of us before we arrived, I have to keep them fairly translucent so that they won't be noticed. I've been sending slight winds into the area to try to feel on what's around there. Nothing seems to be on the outside, so it's likely they are on the inside. Also, I don't recommend trying to dig, It's likely if they went to the trouble of keeping this place secret and in a place with highly valuable resources that they would have the appropriate security to defend against things like that. It seems to me like we are going to have to just show ourselves. 
Cyne : I wouldn't be to sure. 
Marl : Why is that? 
Cyne : You forget I got this Phantom Shard. 
Marl : Cyne, you can barely use that thing, what would you be planning. 
Cyne : Well the whole Phantom Ruby can rival the power of the Master Emerald, so a shard would be relevant to a Chaos Emerald or two right? 
Marl : Go on. 
Cyne : Well, I remember seeing Shadow use the Chaos Emerald's to teleport, so I was thinking maybe if we could get enough control maybe we could all just teleport into the thing? Eh? 
Alan: That might work, but should it not, i'm cutting the door down. 
Cyne : Alright, everyone put your hands on the shard. The best way to use Phantom Energy like this is with desire from your mind. So just try to think about being inside, and hopefully we will. 
Everyone would place a hand on the shard, all in sync with the one same desire on their mind. This overwhelming build up would force the shard to react, shifting and morphing the reality around them until they appeared in the inside of what they could only assume was the base. 
Shera : Ah, I didn't like that. 
Marl : That was definitely a new experience for me, but let's pay attention. 
Dria: I did not expect that to work... 
Alan: Doesn't look like anyone is here. 
Silence: We should look closer. 
Cross : Looks like someone should get their eyes checked, or maybe it's just me. 
A green hedgehog mobian in a black cloak would walk around the corner, glaring at the group with his scarlet eye.
Dria and Silence: So! You're the one who we encountered!
Alan: You hurt my friends and teammate, now you're gonna pay!
Srish: If you're smart, you're gonna leave, a professional badnik busting team and a team of superpowered G-U-N trained heroes has to be too much for you! 
Marl : It'd be wise to listen. 
Cross : First off, I'm a mercenary who hasn't had a single failed mission, a super soldier and I intend to keep it that way. Second, I don't care what you are or who you are, the assignment given to me by Falcon and my commissioner Bagon is all that matters. Third, I never dine with unseasoned meat, so I think I'll use some salt to tenderize your lot a bit before supper. 
A group of Biomon and Badniks would come out behind Cross, ready for battle. 
Cross : Before we get into the thick of it, why don't you at least tell me why your here. If you do maybe I'll tell you something as well. This is the most mercy I'm willing to lend. 
Alan: It was mainly a accident, we were trying to discover why Biomon of all things were in our dimension stealing Power Energy, and we fell through a portal and now we're here. 
Silence then looks around in a panic, trying to find a place to bottleneck the enemies
Cross : Is that right? Well, I'll tell you that little something, that Power Energy is here and stored here, not that you would be able to get it.
Cross would then leave the room, leaving the rest of the work to the Badniks and Biomon.
Alan: Let's see here, by my best estimate, there's just about less than 200 Badniks here, mainly made up of Mimic Pawns-
Alan dodges a blast from a Egg Pawn, then fires back.
Alan: -with some... Mimic Fighters? and 7 more Mimic Heavies.
Silence then blasts a hole in the horde, smashing a dozen Mimic Pawns and Mimic Heavies, while Dria tries to thin them out. A Powered Biomon then steps forward.
Srish: And what are you?
Powered Biomon: I am your "gift", Team Dragoon. The newest generation of Biomon, empowered by your world. And, your doom! 
Cyne : Fat chance! Your not the first time Dr. Bagon has upgraded his Biomon. 
Cyne would step forward and up to the Powered Biomon with rebellion spelled across his gaze. 
Marl : Careful now Cyne, we don't know what it could be capable of. 
Cyne : After fighting a mechanical version of myself, I don't think I'll have to worry too much. 
Shera would tangle up a group of Badniks, sinking and growing thorns throughout a vine to impale them. 
Shera : Great, now we have to learn what these new one's can do? 
One armed with a cannon arm then steps forwards and blasts a fireball, before enhancing it into a huge fireball. 
Alan: Shoot, get down! 
Another with a gun arm then takes to the skies. While they were doing that, the Mimic Heavies rushed in.
Marl : Shera, Focus on using your abilities to keep the badniks at bay so we can slowly pick them off at our own pace, make something like wall for that, don't give them the advantage of surrounding us. Seeing as they can fly I'll be taking to the skies to defend from an aerial point.
Shera : Right!
Cyne would launch towards a Powered Biomon, attempting to deliver a roundhouse kick, only to have his leg grabbed.
Powered Biomon : Hraa!!
The Biomon would slam Cyne into the ground, whilst still holding his leg. The Biomon would send an electrical current through Cyne's leg, quickly circulating throughout his whole body.
Cyne : Grah!! Err!! I hope... You like your own brand!!
Cyne would use the Phantom Shard within his hand to temporarily awaken his hidden powers again, this time using his electrokinesis to send the current in his body back at the Biomon, straight into its eye's as well, blinding it.
Powered Biomon : Why you!! 
As Cyne is attempting to handle the Powered Biomon with no weapon, Dria catches notice of two canisters seemingly incorporated into it's body. 
Dria: Everyone! Those Powered Biomon have canisters in their back. They look crucial. 
Alan then cuts through four Mimic Pawns, before getting punched by a Mimic Fighter and destroying it too. 
Alan: Why would they have canisters in their backs? 
Silence: Power Energy is inherently limited- 
Alan: Of course, you're a genius! Those canisters must have spare Power Energy to ensure full uptime on their powers! 
Srish is then knocked into the wall by a Powered Biomon with a hammer. 
Srish: Good to know... 
Dria jumps in to help Srish get up, as Alan and Silence try to clear out the ever approaching Mimic Badniks, before Alan is knocked aside by a Mimic Heavy and into a empty corner. 
Mimic Heavy: Ready for a rematch? 
Alan: Try me. 
The two then get into a fight with claws.
Up in the air, Marl would be handling the gunned Biomon in order to prevent any aerial assaults on his comrades below.
Marl : If your the only one I have to handle then it won't mean much.
Powered Biomon : Oh, I have backup.
Suddenly two new Mimic Aero-Chaser's would appear next the the Biomon.
Marl : What?! When did you make those? Those can the the normal one's, I can sense it meaning it's a Mimic but when did you make it?
Powered Biomon : Let's just say Eggman didn't want Lord Bagon to have all the fun, we even have a Mimic Interceptor in the back, heh.
Marl : This will only make it slightly harder.
Marl Rushe's in forming clouds next to his sides, in response the Aero Chasers would shoot lasers towards Marl. Marl would do a barrel roll, deflecting some of the lasers by condensing the water molecules within his clouds and getting up front with the Powered Biomon. The Biomon would attempt to shoot towards Marl, however Marl would strafe to the left and surf on his clouds, coming up from behind the Biomon.
Powered Biomon : What are you doing!! I'll Ki-
The Biomon would be cut off from the painful sensation of two Mimic Aero-Chasers frying his back as an effect of missing Marl, who was now backed away standing on a cloud.
Marl : Hmmm, let's see how well you perform without those canister's keeping your power going, soon you will be just like any other Biomon. 
Alan: Soon is a bit of a overstatement. 
Dria: Each powerup lasts for a hour. 
Dria then shoots the Mimic Areo-Chasers as Silence and Srish try to handle the other Badniks still standing, including multiple Mimic Heavies. Silence then gets hit by the flying Powered Biomon, leaving him wounded. 
Srish: Gosh! Silence, are you okay? 
Silence: It's not... critical. 
Silence then blows the arm off a Mimic Areo-Chaser. 
Alan: I hate to admit being stretched thin- 
Mimic Heavy: But i'm winning! 
Cyne would finish up fighting and defeating the unarmed Powered Biomon. 
Cyne : Shera! You can heal them right? 
Shera : Yes, but it wouldn't be possible without letting down the bush wall, if I let it down now we would be hoarded. 
Cyne : But- 
Marl would then float down. 
Marl : Shera, your the best support here, go heal and help them out. As long as no more aeriel enemies show up I can manage holding up my own defense down here. 
Shera : You sure? 
Marl : Go, we need to hurry anyways. 
Alan is then grabbed by the Mimic Heavy. 
Mimic Heavy: Hey PB1, catch! 
The Mimic Heavy then tosses Alan to the Biomon with the cannon, but due to being distracted, it doesn't manage to prepare, and Alan manages to use it's cannon arm as a swing pole to smash open one of the Power Energy canisters, empowering himself, before using his light powers to create a flash to blind the cannon Powered Biomon, and manages to pull out the other canister. 
Alan: Dria! 
Alan then throws Dria the canister, which she manages to catch. She then dodges a Aero Chaser blast and lands next to her teammates, smashing open the other canister to empower them and herself. 
Alan: Gotta watch out, Badniks and Biomon! 
Alan's teammates then smile as they feel the effects of the Power Energy. 
Alan: Because now, WE'RE COOKING WITH SUPERPOWERS! 
As the Mimic Heavy attempts to finish the job he started, Alan puts a light in his eyes, blinding his optical sensors. Just as the Mimic Heavy manages to adapt to the condition, Alan slices it's torso, destroying it instantly. 
Srish: Anyone else feel like testing our new skills on these robots? 
Dria then flies over and touches the less damaged Mimic Areo-Chaser, allowing her to control it telekinetically. She then uses it's lasers to fry the other Mimic Areo-Chaser, and a couple of Mimic Fighters for good measure.
Shera : Don't leave me out of the fun.
Shera would be seen putting a bag of seeds onto her hip, with a sunflower shortly blooming there after. The plant would suddenly burst, growing to 30 meters in size. 
Shera : Move out the way! This is gonna be a big one!
The sunflower would begin glowing, taking in all the solar energy around it, emanating with massive heatwaves. The Sunflower would then close with a glimmering light, waiting to launch its destructive power.
Shera : Everyone clear!? 
Srish: You give me a second, i have a vendetta to deal with. 
Srish then attacks the Powered Biomon with the hammer, dodging the hammer strike, freezing the hammer to the ground and kicking it in the chest, freezing it. He then shatters the arm with the hammer before freezing it again and shattering it whole with his Wispon. Dria then flies by and grabs the hammer, adding it to her levitating weapons. Srish then uses his icy kicks to deflect a fireball and then freeze the leg of the cannon armed Powered Biomon, before it's destroyed by Dria and her seized Mimic Areo-Chaser. They then get back to the group to watch the show.
Shera : Hope you brought shades! It's gonna get pretty bright!
Shera would raise her hand and swiftly lower it in a commanding fashion, at the same time the sunflower would reel back and open up, launching a beam of light. In a flash, the enemies would be wiped out, with a few of the stronger ones surviving the blast, even having blown a hole into the wall in front of them.
Cyne : Well that was pretty efficient! 
Alan: They're not letting up yet! 
The Mimic Interceptor and remaining Mimic Heavies and the leftover Powered Biomon then charge in, before the Powered Biomon is shot in the back and destroyed by a silent explosion, as are the Mimic Heavies. As Dria uses the Mimic Areo-Chaser to fight the Mimic Interceptor, Alan, inspired by the solar annihilation beam that Shera fired, concentrates and manages to turn pure light into a blade that stabs the Interceptor's eye, destroying it's sight. Dria uses this opportunity to grab it for use later. 
Dria: Nice work, Silence. Really living up to your name. 
Dria then looks over to the corner, where Silence was standing, and Silence gives a nod.
Shera comes in and tangle's up the Interceptor's arms, leaving it immobile.
Cyne : Freeze or fry? Let's see!
Cyne use's the Phantom Shard to tap into his hidden abilities once again, jumping on the back of the Interceptor and freezing its paneling, he would the send a massive electrical surge into it, completely frying it from the inside.
Dria: Oy! I wanted to smack Cross aCROSS the face with that! 
Cyne : Oh, sorry. Heheh... 
Marl : Speak of the devil... 
Cross would appear in front of the destroyed wall, clapping his hand with a smirk. 
Cross : I'll admit, that was entertaining. Maybe letting you fight them was a mistake since some of you seemed to gain a thing or two. However, the fact is that your all tired out, and I'm still kicking. Even you "Marl", You "Shera" and You "Cyne" wouldn't be able to push me with that miserable level of power, even if you transformed into your awoken states. As for you dimensional travelers, even with the power's you obtained, your high levels of knowledge, planning and teamwork, you still have no chance. I'll be surprised if you can land a hit, infact, let's make a deal. 
Alan: Rightttt... What are you on about? 
Cross : My code name is "The Hawk's Eye", As a living weapon i can generate energy from my body, and as a sniper I commonly shoot it. I have a state of my own called the "Scoped" state, you see this red eye? If i put 100% of my power into my focus, my eye can perceive time five times faster, gives my sight five times the range, make's my attacks five time more accurate and five times more powerful. In short, I could probably take you all out right here right now if I wanted. So here's the deal, You pick two people, one from each of your groups to fight me two on one, if you make me feel pressured enough to use or want to use my "Scoped" state I'll leave, no questions asked. If you decline, I'll just simply put an end to this little campaign right now, what do you say? 
Alan: If that's true... I'll take you on! 
Dria: But... my Aero-Chaser. 
Cyne : Well, how hard could it be to make him get a bit serious? Plus, I feel like I haven't been doing as much as I could, so I'll go as well. 
Cross : Alright, the human and the hedgehog. Your teams fate lies on you both now. Don't disappoint me, after all, this is the most fun mission I've had so far! 
Marl : Better make sure you two don't lose, it will be hard to try to save you from a sniper, especially him. 
As Alan steps forward to challenge Cross, he guards with his Lightcutter Claws and summons light in Cross's face in a attempt to blind him.
Cross : Attempting to hinder my sight? My eye can see through everything!
Cross would make a finger gun, shooting a energy bullet toward Alan. Cyne however would slide in next to Alan, causing the beam to warp slightly in the direction away from the two.
Cross : What? What just happened?
Cyne : Same thing happened when Dr. Bagon made his Cyber Biomon launch a energy cannon at me. At the time i had the Phantom Ruby, however later Dr. Bagon was spouting about how I have this "Phantom Force" and how it passively alters energy around me. So with the Phantom Shard, I assumed I could do the same to a smaller energy blast.
Cross : Interesting, but it won't help you.
Cross would put his left hand on his finger gun, charging up a large energy bullet which would soon be shot towards the pair.
Cross : Alter that. 
Cyne : I'm not gonna be able to do anything about that, Alan, you think those claws can do something? 
Alan: I sure hope. 
As Cross shot the energy bullet, Alan blocked with his Laser claws, which "caught" the energy. Alan then parried it back at Cross, who dodged it. Alan then threw his hand back, which sharpened the claws, and threw them. Cross dodged the initial throw, but was caught by the claws slicing the area, them cutting into him. Alan, in a attempt to make more "hardlight", focused hard, and managed to craft a wall of "hardlight". 
Alan: What do you see now? 
Cross : A shot. 
Cross's modified body would slowly regenerate the wound, while this happened Cross would shoot a slightly charged blast directly above him, then shooting the blast with multiple energy bullets causing the shots to ricochet off it and over the wall. 
Cross : Just for good measure. 
Cross would blast open a hole into the concrete floor hopping down the hole and disappearing.
Alan: Eh i had hoped he would be unable to see it...
As he was saying that, Alan dodged all the shots and climbed atop the light wall, watching for the pesky hedgehog.
Cyne : Hold on, let me try sensing where he- Jump!!
Just as Cyne said that, multiple shots would come from the floor, spreading out in all places, the holes left in the floor were also very wide.
Alan: Hey, he didn't even try to hit me from below!
Alan changes his claws again, but this time shoots them individually at all the holes, blocking them for a bit in case he tried to jump from them. Then, a hole was created directly the wall Alan was atop, which did not cause the wall to fall in.
Alan: Look at that. They refuse to obey gravity.
Alan then takes a second to summon a hard-light shield and jumps into the underground Cross carved, blocking a opportunistic shot from Cross who was down a tunnel to his right. Alan fired his claws at Cross, but Cross ran down the tunnel.
Alan: Hmm.
Alan created a hard-light circle around himself as Cross ran around attempting to lure reactive fire.
Cross : Alan was it? 
Alan: Yes yes, what is it? 
Cross then shoots the light circle from his left pathway, doing only a little damage to the circle. 
Alan: Nice, energy attacks have little effect! 
Alan then puts up the light shield, looking for any signs of Cross breaking the circle or circumventing it.
Cross : You know, My own abilities aren't the only thing I rely on. You should really pay more attention to what you walked into. All those remote bomb's around you, I'm sure you wouldn't mind me setting them off. Also, feel free to try to shield against it, even if you hold out I doubt you could escape that easily from the rubble of this tunnel. 
Alan: So that's how you opened the holes. Either way. 
Alan then pulls himself out of the not so deep hole, as Cross jumps out of a hole and detonates the bombs, collapsing the floor they were fighting on and tripping up Alan.
Cross : Heh, amatue-
Cyne takes the chance of Cross's resurfacing to deliver a sweep kick from behind.
Cross : Wha-
Cyne then delivers an uppercut to the face of the falling Cross, knocking him away a little.
Cross : Not bad, but I can regenerate that easily.
Cross looks over at Alan and then at Cyne.
Cross : Hm.. Wait a minute.
On Second glance Cross notice's two Alan's and Two Cyne's.
Cross : What?
Cyne : What's the matter? You look like your seeing double? Need an eye exam?
Cross : How?
Cyne pulls out the Phantom Shard.
Cyne : Illusion's, ones you can't see through.
Cross then throws sticky motion detectors around the area, in preparation.
Cross : You two really are fun. 
Alan and Phantom Alan: Nice... Wait, my double speaks along with me? That's physically how, but also helpful. 
Alan then switches to Quake, and throws the claws at a area he saw motion detection bombs. The Quake claws cause a quake, detonating it early. Alan then throws with his other hand, and shakes the ground under Cross, extending the damaged region and forcing Cross to jump farther back. Phantom Alan meanwhile, was firing Phantom Laser shots at Cross, which Cross dodged, having no way to be sure of their physicality. 
Alan and Phantom Alan: Shooting you is fun, but detonating your bombs early is better. 
Cross : This won't be enough to force my hand. 
Cross would take a grenade off his belt and shoot at Alan, before he could throw the bomb however the Phantom Cyne would attempt to throw a jab at Cross, making Cross backstep, what he wasn't expecting was for the ground to be frozen with ice, which instead caused him to slip and fall back into the rubble. As this happened the illusions would fade. 
Cyne : You really can't take us together, look at you. Your cornered and in rubble. 
Cross : Am I? 
Cross would throw smoke bombs everywhere, obscuring the vision of everyone but himself. 
Cross : I guess it can't be helped, time for my focus shot. 
Cross would begin summoning his power all into the peak of his finger tip's. 
Cross : I'll take Alan first, his abilities make him the most dangerous. 
Cyne would find his way to Alan in the smoke however, and hold the Phantom Shard towards him. 
Cyne : Alan, I got an idea, I think we can put a stop to him with this. Charge up your light photons inside of this Phantom Shard, since its a gem it should be able to refract light, when we get the chance to locate him, release all the charged up energy. If I'm right it should make a lightspeed beam that could destroy anything it touches. 
Alan: A supercharged Phantom Light Beam... Eh, i've got no better ideas. 
Alan then begins charging, even dispelling his light constructs to focus on charging his Phantom Light Beam.
After a few brief moments of silence, Cross would be ready to fire.
Cross : Goodbye.
Cross would then fire his Focus Shot, the shot itself resembling a hawk, however Alan and Cyne would notice this and at the same time fire the Phantom Light Beam. The beam of light would rip right through the hawk in an instant and would head directly towards Cross in the blink of an eye, with Cross being bewildered to say the least, yet still on his feet...
Cross : (Wow, I nearly died, that completely burned my right side. To think they actually really made me use it.)
The shockwaves released would soon clear up the smoke.
Cyne : What!? He's still up, looks like he barely dodged it though.
Cross : You guys win, I had to enter my "Scoped" state to even survive that and barely get hit. As promised, I'll leave. But beware, Bagon is on his way. 
Just before Cross left, Cyne picked up a Phantom Shard and Alan a Chaos Emerald that had landed at their feet.
Cyne : Alright, let's head back. We should probably get the Power Energy here as well. 
As the dual teams entered the storage room, Team Dragoon was amazed by the sheer amount of stuff in the room. Boxes and boxes of materials and Power Energy. 
Dria: I bet there's enough material here to craft another set of Mk II Wispons. 
Silence: Maybe, but even so, we don't have the tech or the know-how to construct them. 
Alan: Well look at this, i doubt this requires prerequisite knowledge. 
Alan then pulls out futuristic looking armor suits, with slots on the back for Power Energy canisters. 
Srish: Could that be some sort of armor designed for the Powered Biomon? 
Silence: Maybe... Doesn't matter to us though, it probably won't fit us. 
Alan, doubting this, puts on a chestplate. While at first it is too big for him, as soon as he puts his arms through the holes, it compresses into a form-fitting suit, while somehow not shrinking the Power Energy canister holders. 
Alan: Well look at that... Do you think this was Eggman, Bagon, or both? 
Marl : Most likely both, Bagon most likely got Eggman's help in making it. 
Cyne : That's nice and all, but is there anything here we may be able to use to get you guys back home? 
A bit of checking later... 
Silence: I don't think there's a way home in one of these boxes. 
Dria: I'll look for something more obvious. 
Dria then exited the room. After she left, Alan went back to putting on the form-fitting armor, starting with leggings armor, then going to the arms and armored gloves, before finishing with the helmet. 
Srish: Wow Alan! You look so cool! So futuristic. 
Shera : Definitely seems high-tech, would be kinda cool if you could use it like one of your wispons. 
Marl : Guys, come check this out. Look's like some sort of rift, seems to be being stabilized and contained behind this thick glass and room. 
The group would come to check it out, even watching as a Biomon and Badnik duo would exit the rift carrying Power Energy canisters.
Alan: Could it be?
Meanwhile, Dria's still searching elsewhere, when she finds a unmanned Blowfish Transport.
Cyne : Hey! Find anything? 
Dria: Blowfish Transport. Seems like someone was stocking it to send it somewhere, but never finished. 
Cyne : Any way we can get the coordinates of where it was meant to be? 
Dria: I don't know, maybe there's something inside? I've never entered one. 
Alan: Can you see a way to access this rift, Marl? 
Marl : Well, we can't just break in. Not only would that trigger alarms but it wouldn't give us the time we need to close the rift to prevent this in the future. The door seems to be locked in by a keypad, keycard lock and stamp scanner. Let's let the Biomon and Badnik pass by, after that I'll slip some of my clouds in between the cracks and into the inside. I'll create a miniature pressured water to undo the hinges from the inside, from there you should be able to pry it open. But how could we close the rift? 
Shera : How about the Chaos Emerald? Should be able to close it right? 
Alan: I don't know how to make Chaos Emeralds function. 
Meanwhile, Dria had found a control panel in the Blowfish Transport, but it was passcoded. Leaving attempting that for some other time, Dria checked on the resources, and found a incredible treasure. 
Dria: Is that... Two Chaos Emeralds? 
Cyne : What? Let me see. 
Cyne would walk over and gaze towards what caught the eagles eye. 
Cyne : Red and Blue? Yeah, and if the vibrating of my Phantom Shard is anything to go by then those are definitely Chaos Emeralds. It's amazing how the doctors could get their hands on them so quickly. I guess that's how it is in a world without Sonic... anyways, you thinking what I'm thinking? 
Dria: Nope. 
Cyne : Well, I was thinking maybe we could try using them, I just recently had used a Super Form for the first time, I don't really know how to use any chaos control though like Shadow. But maybe we could find something here that can produce a similar result? 
Dria: Maybe... 
Shera : So this is where you two are. 
Cyne : Oh, hey! Whats up? 
Shera : We found a rift being contained in some room. We could probably get Team Dragoon home with it but... We don't know how we would close it afterwards, so I came to see if you guys found anything. 
Dria: 2 Chaos Emeralds. 
Alan: Sweet! 
Dria: What's tha- 
Alan: Elite Suit. There's more in the back that the rest of you can use. 
Marl : Two more? That give's me and idea. Maybe with the strength of three emerald's I could empower my abilities to form some type of "Chaos Clouds" that could stitch the rift shut. I'll need your help though Cyne, your the only one here I know with any experience with that power, not to mention your always using some type of mystic energies anyways. If there is anyone on Team Dragoon who has had any experience with them that would help as well. 
Cyne : Alright, count on me. 
Alan: First we need to reach the rift. 
Just as he said that, the Badnik opened the door, followed by the Biomon.
Shera : This is our chance!
Shera would summon vines behind the Biomon and Badnik to halt the door from closing. Marl would also cover the eyes of the Badnik and Biomon to prevent them from using their sight.
Alan: This is our chance!
Alan would then rush through and jump for the rift, but would be stopped at the last second by Silence.
Silence: You can't just jump through! We need to confirm it's location! 
Marl : True enough. Shera, can you make some vine's we can use as a rope? 
Shera : Of course! 
Shera would then create vine ropes, an abundance of them too. 
Cyne : So, how exactly are we testing this? Sending someone in to see? Sending something else in? I mean, what if we don't need the ropes at all? 
Alan: I'm going in! 
Alan doesn't grab a vine rope, choosing instead to just stick his head into the rift. 
Team Dragoon's dimension. 
Scientist: Gaah! Alan! Where were you?! You and Team Dragoon never arrived! 
Alan: Sorry, got lost in another dimension. We found your Power Energy by the way. 
Scientist: I presume it's where you are? 
Alan: But of course! 
Alan then pulls his head out. 
Alan: This connects to that place we were supposed to defend. 
Dria: Great! We can go back and get our dimensional gear! 
Cyne : I guess this is it huh? Though it was unexpected, I had a good time with you guys. 
Marl : Indeed, this benefits us as well. 
Cyne : If you ever need anything, just come on back! I'd love to see which of our teams are better months from now! 
Alan: What? You think this is over? 
Dria: We need to handle this! Defeat Eggman! 
Srish: We just need to head back and grab some stuff before we do this for real! 
Cyne : Really?! Count me in!! 
Team Dragoon then leave through the dimensional rift.
== Chapter 5: New Priorities ==
Cyne : Hey Marl.
Marl : What?
Cyne : You think we'll ever see Cross again?
Marl : Hm, I don't think we will see him anytime soon, but perhaps in the future. Why do you ask?
Cyne : Well, I don't know. I just feel like that guy is on the wrong side.
Shera : What makes you say that?
Cyne : Well, the whole time we fought with him he kinda just, toyed around sure but, he also had the expression of someone experiencing something fun and new, it was like he never had fun before, he even said that this was the most fun he had in a while.
Marl : Well, if we could have that guy with us it would be a miracle, but then again, he belongs to Falcon. Shadow talked about that organization once, so don't get your hopes up.
Cyne : Oh, also, didn't Cross say something about Dr. Bagon coming here?
Shera : ...
Marl : ...
Cyne : ... 
Meanwhile with the doctors. 
Eggman: Failure... A power level Bagon promised me was stronger than all seven of them combined, and the base's Badniks, and still failure... CROSS! YOU'D BETTER HAVE A ACTUAL REASON TO HAVE LOST OR I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN! 
A black figure would appear behind the doctor, this figure would be identical to Sonic the Hedgehog albeit being black instead of blue, having green lizard like eye's and and an overall pale coloring along his jaw, arms and belly, even having no mouth to identify his speech with. Of course, this was... 
Mephiles : Hello doctor, I see you are troubled. Perhaps now is not a good time for you? 
Eggman: NO! IT IS NOT A GOOD- Mephilis? What do you want? Could you get Bagon, i need to know the status on the Chaos Emeralds he said he found. 
Mephiles : You amuse me, Ivo. I will not be taking any orders from you. I however, have a proposal for you. 
Eggman: Oh alright, just give me a second to finish my call. Cross, inform Bagon of your failure. (Eggman turns off the call.) "What's this proposal?" 
Mephiles : I must thank you and Bagon, that little stunt you two pulled making the metal version of the little hedgehog allowed me to take control and free myself. However, Sonic, who was imprisoned with me has also now been released. Whatever control or hold's you had over the world will once again quickly diminish and I know you don't want that now do you? We have a common enemy, just different goals. I however can help to take down such a threat, I only need one thing, or maybe seven. 
Eggman: If it's the Chaos Emeralds, it'll have to wait, i still haven't finished Team Dragoon's "present", and with the seven Chaos Emeralds, it'll be their last present they ever receive. But until i have seven, it's still up in the air as to it's success. 
Mephiles : Very well, I will return. In the mean time I'm going to give the blue hedgehog a present of my own... 
Mephiles would slowly drift into darkness as he finished that sentence, leaving no trace he was even there.
Eggman sets up a call.
Eggman: BAGON! 
Dr. Bagon : What is it Robotnik? 
Eggman: As you know by now, your mercenary was useless, and now our central supply base is in the hands of a meddlesome hedgehog! As well, with that rift we stabilized there, Team Dragoon is probably back in their own dimension, preparing! Where are those Chaos Emeralds you found?! 
Dr. Bagon : Oh, don't worry, I have them being sent by a Tunneler Biomon. As for Cross, I'll kill him if I see him and I'm on my way to the base they took at this moment. If you want to get a job done, you have to do it yourself. AND I ALWAYS GET THE JOB DONE! 
Eggman: Good. Where is any Power Energy not at that base Cross failed to defend? 
Dr. Bagon : I stored it in two other locations, one is in the underground base at Emerald Hill the other is within the Desert Palace Zone. I doubt they even know about it. Even if they did they won't know anything after I'm finished with them. Infact, I'll let you roboticize them if you want! 
Eggman: That's great! They can assist my "present" when it's complete, but send ALL Power Energy to our main base. I'm not having more odds defied and energy lost. 
Dr. Bagon : True enough, I'll dispatch the Biomon stationed there to transport it- 
Dr. Bagon would be cut off mid sentence by a blue blur. 
Dr. Bagon : Hold on, something just showed up. 
Eggman: I've been warned THE hedgehog is back, if it's that, delay it, but i doubt you can beat it yourself. 
Sonic : Oh hey Clem! Why the long face? Look like you've seen a ghost. 
Dr. Bagon : Sonic... 
Sonic : Before I got here I had to deal with some guy cosplaying as a black version of me, talk about fanatics right? Anyways, I've heard that you switched sides. 
Dr. Bagon : Hold on Robotnik, I'll be back. 
Dr. Bagon would cut the call, and gaze towards Sonic. 
Dr. Bagon : Sonic, I didn't expect you to be here, do you intend to get in my way? 
Sonic : Cmon doc! I can't just let you team up with the egghead and have you thinking you own the place! 
Dr. Bagon : Fine, If it's a fight you want, it's what you will get. 
Sonic : Now you're speaking my language! 
As that becomes a battle, Team Dragoon have just reached base and are preparing. 
Alan: Ok, Ether Adaptors, check. Dragoon Sigil, check. Dimension Travel Suits, check. 
Dria: I've got my W-Wing! 
Srish: Hover's on. 
Silence: Here's my Kunoichi-G. 
Alan: Let's go! 
Jewel: Wait! 
Alan: Wha- 
Jewel: Where are you going? Give me time to rally some help! 
Srish: We need to stop the Power Energy thefts quickly! We can handle it! 
Jewel: I'd feel safer if you at least brought Sonic... 
Alan: They probably have their own in the other dimension. We need to do this. 
Jewel: A-alright... Just come back if you need to. 
Dria: Sure! 
Team Dragoon then head into the Dimensional Hub.
== Chapter 6: Threats upon Threats ==
Cyne : *Whistles* Not bad! You guys are definitely better suited with the gear.
Marl : Enough with that, I can sense something happening outside, like a battle or something. 
Team Dragoon arrives at the lake. 
Alan: Heh, where this all started. 
Silence: Where was Mirage Saloon again? 
Dria: Don't know, we've gotta go quick. 
Team Dragoon then zoom off in their Extreme Gear, looking for any familiar territory.
Shera : These suit's are tight, is this really necessary?
Cyne : Well, don't want Dr. Bagon to be able to put us in a tough spot, especially since we never have actually fought him. The gear stored here would help a lot.
Marl : Before we go out, make sure you have all the gear you need.
Cyne : Flashbang, Grenade, Combat Knife, Throwing Hook. Seems about right to me, plus these suits are sweet!
Shera : Wait so we don't need the suits?
Cyne : Uhh... Of course we do! Make's us look like more of a team! 
Marl : Ridiculous, I'm taking this off.
Cyne : Pft, fine.
Team Phantasm would walk outside the Mirage Saloon Zone base, slowly walking to the outskirts where Marl had sensed a fight.
Meanwhile, Team Dragoon has found a path to Mirage Saloon.
Silence: We're likely going to be a while. It took hours on foot, it's gonna take some time still.
Alan: Ah great. 
A shadowy figure would begin to form behind the group, slowly rising out would be a black hedgehog. 
Mephiles : Why hello there, Dimensional visitors. I hope I'm not interrupting anything. 
Team Dragoon does not hear this, as they had already Extreme Geared away.
Mephiles : ...
Mephiles : A chase it is then.
Mephiles would reach into the shadows reaching for something, he would soon pull out a Extreme Gear made of crystals and shadows, its look would be similar to the Blue Star II, however it would be black and white.
Mephiles : Let's see, I believe it functions something like this.
Soon, Mephiles would zoom into the distance in pursuit of the group.
Dria: Alan, something's coming up behind us!
Alan: What does it look like?
Dria: Well, it looks like a black hedgehog riding a crystal Board-type Extreme Gear.
Srish: Hang on, let me see.
Srish then approaches Mephiles.
Srish: Who are you? 
Mephiles : I'm Mephiles. Mephiles the Dark. 
Srish: Who named you something so suspicious? Your name is one of the most "bad guy names" i've ever heard. 
Srish then gets a distance away from Mephiles.
Mephiles would speed up, getting directly in front of the group, he would then swerve around and drift, this would cause a wave of shadows to emerge along with a wall of crystals, blocking the path up ahead.
Dria flies over it, Silence uses the Wall Run gear part to scale the crystals, Srish uses Rhythm in Hover to multi-jump over the crystals, but when Alan tries to shoot apart the crystals, it fails, and he skids to a stop so as to not crash.
Dria: Dang it! Alan couldn't break through! 
Silence: I can break it!
Silence fires the Silencer at the crystals.
Shard's of the crystals would fly everywhere, wisping into shadows before hitting the ground.
Mephiles : How interesting. I think I will enjoy myself a bit longer. Unless of course your group would like to disclose the location of the Chaos Emeralds. 
Alan: Go find someone else! We don't live here, why would we know? 
Alan then jets off again, as Silence destroys the Dark Star.
Mephiles : Heh, it matters not. Believe that you have escaped me, I've already attached a crystal to the humans shadow, now I just wait.
Zooming in on the battle between Sonic and Dr. Bagon.
Dr. Bagon : Tch! Stay still!
Sonic : Nuh uh, gonna have to be quicker than that!
Dr. Bagon would hurl quills towards Sonic, Sonic easily dodging and even doing a taunt between each before they hit the ground.
Sonic : Man, either today is one of my good days or you just suck, ever considered a little target practice pal? Also, what's up with the mask?
Dr. Bagon : Thats none of your concern. This should be however!
Dr. Bagon would hold a quill that glowed a brilliant purple, seemingly pulsating in his hand.
Sonic : You should know by now that it won't hit.
Dr. Bagon : Hah! Fool.
Dr. Bagon would throw the quill down into the dirt, the other quills he threw would begin to rumble. Suddenly the quills would morph into Powered Biomon.
Dr. Bagon : I had a vial of Power Energy with me, I had used it on an augmented quill so that the Biomon that arose would be far more powerful! I didn't get to test it out before but it seems like you will work as a test instead. (Even though the power supply is extremely limited from a single quill)
Sonic : You think that's enough for me? Alright then, let's test 'em out!
Sonic would crouch down, suddenly balling up and spinning violently, this was Sonic's Spindash Attack. The moment it was released the Biomon would be knocked out within an instant, unable to react to his speed. The only Biomon that wasn't out of commission was the Biomon spawned from the very Augmented Quill that made the others.
Sonic : Well, that's surprising.
Dr. Bagon : Meet my new "Power Warrior" Biomon! The strongest one yet.
Sonic : Well, don't cry when I break your new toy. 
Meanwhile, Team Dragoon could see Mirage Saloon. 
Dria: Hey, we're almost there! 
Shera : Huh? 
Shera would gaze out into the distance, putting hand over her eyes in an attempt to get a better look. 
Shera : Hey! I think it's them! 
Marl : Hm? 
Cyne : Oh? Nice. 
A few minutes and a empty vial of Power Energy later... 
Team Dragoon, giving Sonic and Bagon a wide berth, arrives at the captured base, where Team Phantasm is watching Sonic and Bagon go at it, though minus Powered Biomon. 
Cyne : So that's Sonic? Wow. 
Marl : Must be a big moment for you Cyne. 
Cyne : Yeah... 
Alan: And... Who's that with the mask? 
Srish: Alan, we're going in to get the battle suits! 
Alan: Yeah, go for it! 
Marl : That's Dr. Bagon. 
Cyne : Really? I kinda expected something different, not a Mobian though, and he looks like he's in rags. 
Marl : Don't let his appearance fool you, that man is very dangerous. 
Alan: That mask looks stupid. He must not be one for form, unlike Eggman. 
Marl : I'll be real with you, that mask may be the most dangerous thing about him. I had seen it in one of the Sky Foxes ancient scriptures. 
Alan: Oh? Does it say anything about anything? 
Marl : Well, it just looked like the mask was being chained up in the scripture, so I don't know what it does. But I just know it would have to be dangerous for them to do that. 
As Team Dragoon were watching Sonic having fun picking on Dr Bagon, a "Mephilisized" Alan pops out of Alan's shadow and watches along with them, mirroring Alan's smile.
Cyne : Hmm?
Cyne notices the the entity from the corner of his eyes, immediately taking his attention off of Sonic and Dr. Bagon and instead on whatever just showed up.
Cyne : Wh- What is that?! Alan, Did you always have a twin?! 
Alan: Huh? What are- Nyah! Wait... you share the same color scheme as that hedgehog from earlier, are you relatives? 
Meanwhile, Team Dragoon emerges from the base with the armor on. 
Dria: This stuff looks so cool! 
Srish: Err, Alan? 
Alan?: Yes? 
Srish: Not you, weird clone that resembles- Hang on. 
Alan starts backing up and lights the Lightcutter Claws. 
Alan: What is your relation to the weird hedgehog we met?! 
Srish: What is your relation to Mephiles?! 
Alan (Shade) : I am but a small piece to a bigger picture. You have led me right where I want to be. That hedgehog, that blue hedgehog is now within my grasp. 
As he finishes that, he is shot directly in the back by Silencer, destroying him. 
Alan: SONIC! 
Sonic would sidestep a flurry of quills from the doctor before looking back. 
Sonic : Huh? 
Alan: You're being too slow, come on, we need to talk to you. 
A bit of Bagon getting Team Rocketed later...
Sonic : Heh, sorry bout that. Been a while since I got to stretch my legs! 
Alan:(Was honestly hoping he'd complain about me calling him slow.) What does the name Mephiles mean to you? 
At the mention of the name, Sonic would take on a serious tone. 
Sonic : He's a part of the god Solaris, back in the day it had taken me, Shadow and Silver to take him down. A while back he returned no thanks to the guy I just sent flying, in a attempt to stop him I had trapped myself inside of this weird dimension with him, but recently a portal opened allowing the both of us to escape. I don't know how long it's been but I almost went insane from being in that place. 
Marl : Well, it's been around 16 years since you went missing. 
Sonic : WHAT!? There's no way! 
Marl : It's true, a lot has happened since you left. 
Sonic : Well, that would explain why I feel so rusty. 
Cyne : H-Hey... Uhh... 
Sonic : Oh? Hey! What's up? 
Cyne : I think y-you might be- 
Marl would put his hand on Cynes shoulder, Shaking his head in the process. 
Marl : Now might not be a good time to bring that up, he just got released from some random dimension after 16 years. 
Cyne would look down dissapointingly. 
Cyne : *Sigh* your right... 
Sonic : Well, why do you ask about Mephiles? Don't tell me he's already getting started on his plans? 
Srish: Well he wants the Chaos Emeralds for some stupid reason, i never doubted it would be bad. 
Alan: And there was some clone of me like a minute earlier. 
Sonic : Well I remember a while back he could take on the form of whoever's shadow he resurrected in, but last time I checked it was mine. It's possible he may have gotten stronger since last time then and gained new abilities. As for the Chaos Emerald's, I'm not sure what he would want with those considering his whole thing was about finding Iblis to become whole. 
Marl : Well, where's Iblis? 
Sonic : Iblis is gone, Sealed into Blaze and she is in her own dimension at this point. The only other piece of him was used by Dr. Bagon to revive Mephiles. 
Shera : Maybe he's trying to use the Chaos Emerald's as an alternate power? 
Cyne : Unlikely, I say he's trying to use it to open a portal through dimensions to find Iblis. If he really is half of this god it would make sense if he could feel his other half at all time's. 
Sonic : Either way, that's a guy you don't want getting his hands on any type of power ups. 
Alan: Wait shoot hang on, he said he wanted you before Silence blew up his avatar. 
Sonic : Well, being the guy who messed up his plans Twice now would probably earn me that spot, I gotta say though he deserved it the first time. Like come on, who shoots a laser through a guy's body? 
Team Dragoon: Who even is Mephiles? 
Suddenly, Sonic's shadow would begin to tremor, a black mass slowly rising from it and would soon reveal Mephiles himself.
Mephiles : It warms me to know that my image is being conversed about so much, Who am I? I am the mind, I am the will, Born from the Solaris Project and a part of the very Sun God, Solaris. 
Alan: Ah great. 
Silence: WHAT DO YOU EVEN WANT WITH CHAOS EMERALDS?! 
Mephiles : A magician does not reveal the secrets to his tricks. Before that though, I have a much needed revenge to enact on this hedgehog. Do not get in my way or you will be collateral. 
Sonic, would backstep away a good distance. 
Sonic : Wow, You must be really eager to get whooping for a third time! Gotta hand it to you, but you gotta try a little harder if you want to beat the egghead in that regard! 
Alan: We've never really fought this guy, all i've seen is he can create crystals and shadow people, what exactly should we do?
Sonic : I'd say just watch, you can study our fight and hop in when you need to. You guy's ready? 
Cyne : Yeah! 
Team Dragoon backs up and get back on their Extreme Gear, then Mephilis surrounds them with crystal and Crystal Spindashes at Sonic.
Sonic would jump over the Spindash, however Mephiles would bounce off he Crystals and back towards the airborne sonic. Sonic would respond by going into a spinball and aiming downward towards the ground. Mephiles would disappear into the shadows and surf around until coming up to Sonic, opening a shadowy portal beneath the speedster feet, Sonic would attempt to kick Mephiles but his foot would go through, allowing for Mephiles to hold Sonic up in a choke.
Mephiles : I'm your shadow... You can't even touch me... Now I'll-
Mephiles would be cut off from a sudden feeling of something hitting him hard. He turns around, only to see no one and his crystals still standing. Something then blasts his back again.
Mephiles : Who is the insect that would interfere in my deathmatch? 
Suddenly, a explosion hits his side, throwing Sonic out of Mephiles's hand. 
???: Uh oh. 
Mephiles : You think you may hide from me? 
Mephiles would snap his fingers summoning two clones of himself, they would head towards the aggressor of the previous attacks. They then find nothing.
Srish: Can't fight what you can't see! 
Mephiles : Hmmm. 
Sonic : I might not be able to hit you as of now, but my allies here have tactics of their own! 
Vines would begin to grow around Mephiles feet. 
Shera : You won't be going anywhere either! 
Mephiles : You think that an earthly construct can hold me? 
Mephiles would attempt to phase through the vines, however, he soon learned he could not. 
Mephiles : What? (Is this magic? How else could something like this hold me?) Surprising, to say the least. 
Mephiles would instruct his clones to free him, eventually breaking the vines. He hadn't seen the attack heading for him from above. With a massive boom a lightning strike would hit Mephiles. 
Marl : Hmph. 
Massive clouds of dust and smoke would be kicked up from the blast, with even the sand around them turning into glass. When the dust settled, there would be a injured Mephiles limping and slowly regenerating an arm. 
Mephiles : Pests! 
Mephiles would snap his fingers once again summoning twenty five clones. 
Mephiles : Your kind is unique, therefore I must eliminate you all, for you are threats. 
Most of his clones are then blown up.
Mephiles : Perhaps the sunny desert was not a wise place to fight, I am weakened here. I will be back...
Mephiles would sink into the ground, leaving the sight of the battleground. Leaving his clones behind as distractions. As his crystals fade, Team Dragoon quickly helped finish off the clones.
Sonic : I feel like now is probably a good time to ask, especially after the show you guys put on. But, uhh... well who are you guys exactly.
Marl : I'm Marl, Sky fox. This is Cyne, Hedgehog of course and then we have Shera, Leopard. We compose Team Phantasm, over there is Team Dragoon, they come from a different dimension. I'll let them introduce themselves. 
Alan: I'm Alan, Dimensional Hero and the Assault Specialist of Team Dragoon. 
Dria: Alan, we're all that. Anyways, i'm Dria, the Support Specialist of Team Dragoon. 
Srish: The name's Srish, i'm the Distraction Specialist of Team Dragoon. 
Silence then turns off the Kunoichi-G's invisibility. 
Silence: I'm Silence, the Stealth Specialist. 
Sonic : Hmm, Interesting. You guy's all seem pretty nifty. You say your from a different dimension huh? What brings you here? 
Alan: Biomon, dimensional accidents, a fight from a few weeks ago, and preventing villains from getting all seven Chaos Emeralds. 
Cyne : Anyone hear that? 
The sound of propellers could be heard from the sky, it would soon be revealed to be the new Tornado IV. 
Sonic : Tails?! 
== Chapter 7: One Last Goal ==
The plane would soon land in front of the pair. Stepping out would be a two tailed fox. 
Tails : Sonic!! I can't believe it! Your really back!! I saw it on my radar, I knew that signal from anywhere, I'm so happy to see you again!! 
Sonic : Woah! Woah! Hold on! You really grew up man! 
Tails : Well, it has been 16 years. 
Sonic : Yeah... Sorry bout that... 
Alan: Sooooooo... What next? 
Sonic : Well, if you guys are having issues between dimensions, then I assume your trying to stop the source. What was up with clem- or I mean Dr. Bagon. 
Marl : He's been exploiting dimensional rifts to harvest an alternate power source from their dimension. He's working with Eggman on this too. 
Sonic : Well, where could we find the egghead then? 
Tails : While you were gone he had began construction on Eggman Land, Luckily he wasn't able to get far but he came up with the idea of turning it into a flying Island, if he's anywhere it would be that place. 
Alan: Wait. Is there even enough room on this Tornado? 
Tails : Glad you asked, This Tornado was made using Power Ring's as an energy source, Using the small amounts of Chaos Energy within the Power Rings allows me to enter on my Tablet the input to configure add-ons to the plane. Using the Chaos Energy from the generator allows for these additional parts to be instantly transported and attached on. I can even create new piece by accessing my workshop and using this tablet to control my Tail-bots and give them commands for construction, which would have a Chaos Receptor installed to instantly transport it with the Chaos Generator. It will take some time to make some seat add-ons as we only have three right now. 
Cyne : ... I did not understand what any of that meant, but cool. 
While those are being made, let's see what the baddies are up to.
Dr. Bagon : Tch! Stupid Hedgehog! STUPID HEDGEHOG! Why, WHY. Why is that hedgehog back?! Robotnik! How did you ever deal with that, that, THAT RAT! 
Eggman: I didn't. 
Dr. Bagon : Did the Chaos Emeralds and Power Energy arrive? 
Eggman: Power Energy's here, but your Digger Biomon hasn't brought the Emeralds yet. Check it's status. 
Mephiles appears.
Mephiles : Hello doctors, I have some information that could help your endeavors, but you know how the world is. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. 
Eggman: Once again, i currently require the Emeralds. If it's not that, then tell me. 
Mephiles : Well, I'm sure you don't have the Emerald's, so instead I request a substitute. Dr. Bagon, I'm aware that you have been keeping a Phantom Shard with you this whole time. 
Dr. Bagon : You want this? You're going to give more than information for that. 
Mephiles : Then I offer the information, and the claiming of your rogue bounty hunter. What was his name? Cross? 
Dr. Bagon : How would you possibly convince that traitor to work with you of all? 
Mephiles : My methods can be quite persuasive. 
Dr. Bagon : I request one thing more, seeing how you will still want the emeralds after this. 
Mephiles : Go on, speak it. 
Dr. Bagon : I want your crystal, I want a pure Crystal from you like when i revived you all those years ago. 
Mephiles : Consider it done. 
Mephiles would change into his crystal form and produce a pure crystal, he would then detransform and lay it on the desk in front of him. 
Mephiles : The shard, now. 
Dr. Bagon would hand the shard over to Mephiles. 
Mephiles : Good. 
Eggman: What exactly can this crystal do, Bagon? 
Dr. Bagon : 16 Years ago I studied the crystal, at the time I couldn't do anything with it, but I soon learned of its secrets. It holds a piece of the power of Mephiles, pure darkness. It has something I call "Temporal Essence" and "Unholy Energy", the only way to truly reach into those powers is with the same power, while we have no way of accessing that "Temporal Energy" we can indeed access the "Unholy Energy" and that would be because of the mask I wield. If I can unlock that power we could make a Badnik or Biomon with the capabilities of wielding this power. We only have this one crystal though, so I'd suggest using it on our best weapon. 
Eggman: I'm not sure adding this to my "present" is the best idea. Magic isn't my strong suit, it's why i allied with you. Maybe make a Powered Biomon with the crystal as a added countermeasure against Team Phantasm. 
Dr. Bagon : I'll have to make a new type of Biomon for this, but I shall take that suggestion. 
Eggman: Now the information, Mephiles. 
Mephiles : Seems that that group has three Chaos Emeralds and two Phantom Shards, not to mention them joining up with Sonic and if I remember correctly Tails after I saw his plane going that direction, it's clear they are planning to come here personally. Whatever plans you may have you would best to hasten, as part of our deal I will convince Cross to return giving you two extra time. 
Eggman: I'm just waiting on (ahem) I just need some final parts for my machine. Incidentally, why do you need the Chaos Emeralds? 
Mephiles : I need to borrow them to become whole once again, do not worry, I'll exclude you two from anything I do after the fact, you have my word. If it goes well enough maybe I'll find you two your ideal timelines, but its best not reminisce on what is not. 
Eggman: Good enough for me. Now you do your thing while we prepare for battle. 
Mephiles : Hehehe... 
Mephiles would then drift into the shadows, wisping away as if he were never there.
Eggman: Wait, what ever happened to that energizing stuff you were making out of Power Energy? You talked about it once then never again. 
Dr. Bagon : Few failures here and there, work in progress. I was thinking about fetching some more Power Energy to use for it but you can imagine how well that went. But, since we're here I may as well make a few adjustments, as well as with this crystal now. 
Back with the heroes...
Tails : Almost finished guys!
Sonic : Right! So tell me about this Sonic from your dimension. 
Alan: There's not much to say, i'm sure you were identical before getting lost between dimensions. We don't have a crystal variant i suppose. 
Sonic : Well, I'd hope not. Having a metal one was bad enough. 
Cyne : I second that. 
Sonic : You too huh? 
Alan: So what exactly was this dimension that Mephiles pulled you into like? 
Sonic : Well, it actually seemed exactly like the place I once fought Solaris. It's a large empty space, I think Mephiles called it "Oblivion". Considering it seemed like the place I fought Solaris at I have no idea if any time passed or if I've aged at all. Over all it was really weird. 
Srish: Did you ever have to deal with the Metal Virus? 
Sonic : Can't say I have, let alone heard of it. 
Alan: It's essentially a mechanical zombie virus that Eggman crafted that turns people into zombie robots, or Zombots. 
Sonic : Nope, can't say I'm familiar with any of that. 
Alan:(!) What was the last adventure you had pre-Mephilis? 
Sonic : Oh, I was going up against Metal Sonic, At the time I just thought he would be like any other but he was black and had yellow lining, at the same time the Metal Sonic I knew was also there. Seems like the Eggman from Blaze's world had found his way here and teamed up with my Eggman. In the end the two had fused into this insane Metal Sonic, or well, they would've if I hadn't kicked their butts along with my friends before they got the chance to! 
Alan: Can't say i've heard of Nega having a Metal. There was that one time Nega wanted to feed a dragon that Silver told me about, but that was a while back. 
Cyne : Dragon? That brings up bad memories. 
Sonic : How come? 
Cyne : Well, that metal version of me I was talking about earlier turned into a metal dragon... 
Sonic : Really? Yours could transform into giant monsters too?! Wow! We're pretty alike. 
Cyne : (More than you would know) 
Tails then finally finishes.
Tails : Alright guys! It's all ready to go! You guys got your stuff? 
Alan: Well we are the Elite Dragoons now, so definitely! 
Silence: Elite-? 
Alan: Because the Elite armor we're wearing. 
Cyne : Alright, Marl , Shera. Let's get on the plane. 
Sonic : Alright, let's get movin'. 
The teams would enter the plane taking up their respective seats as Team Dragoon put their Extreme Gear in a storage compartment, sitting down as Tails would call back... 
Tails : Alright, get ready for take off in... 3... 2... 1... 
The plane would lift off the ground, rocketing into the sky and distance. 
Tails : By the way guys, seems like you were in a scuffle of some sort? If that's the case then stay alert, there's no telling what we could encounter in the sky, especially as we approach Eggmanland. 
Sonic standing on the wing of the plane would cross his arms and smirk, looking towards Tails while also looking back the the two teams at the end of his sentence. 
Sonic : Heh, No sweat! Anything that comes are way will be a cakewalk. I'm sure these guys agree. 
Alan: I'm not so sure. Eggman in my world has put your variant in danger double digit times. 
Dria: What weapons do we have in the case of a battle? 
Tails : Well, the Tornado IV has a cannon powered by chaos energy, allowing to shoot blasts with low concentrations of it. It also is equipped with rifles hidden under panels and has the necessary capabilities to transform into a mech. Not to mention any add-ons can be transported and used instantly via this tablet. Just incase any of us have to leave the plane Yacker is also here and knows how to pilot it. 
Sonic : Wait, Yacker?! Yacker can drive a plane? 
Tails : Yup. In addition we also have special medicines and pills that can grant temporary boosts upon consumption, I recommend using them when needed. On the chance's you need to fight midair you can use one of those watches over their, upon tapping the button on the side you can activate a gravity that coats your body, it will allow for you to work as if you were on the moon. 
Alan: Nice power boosts. Do any of these "pills" provide high levels of energy? 
Silence: Are simple rifles enough defense for the passengers? 
Tails : The rifles use water instead of bullets and gunpowder. By compressing the water and shooting it out it can tear through even metal, as for the pills their are 4 types. Iron Pill, It's gray and will make you more durable and make your muscles hard as steel, Power Pill, This pill is red and makes your muscles a lot stronger as well as producing adrenaline throughout the whole body, Jet Pill, It's blue and will drastically increase the minds perception and reaction speeds as well as increasing your leg muscles power to become faster, Lastly is the Ion Pill, this pill will greatly increase your energy, stamina and will even numb any pain within your body, these will however make you a bit more hungry. 
Alan: Do you know if they work on Wisps? It would be ultra helpful if we could use Color Powers multiple times without our Wisps getting tired. 
Tails : Glad you asked! I had just recently finished making the pills compatible for Wisps, the pills they use are a little smaller. 
Alan: Sweet! 
As they finish up, the radar goes off. 
Dria: What's that? 
Tails : Seems like there is another aircraft within the area, its strange though. The signals its giving off are irregular and its not as if we are even close to arriving at Eggmanland. What I do know is that it's right behind us and following. 
Sonic : Trouble already? 
As the aircraft shows itself, it's cockpit reveals Metal Sonic.
Sonic : Wow, two evil versions of me in one day! I must be getting the pep in my step back after all.
Cyne : What? What do you mean?
Sonic : Well, let's just say your gonna meet my metal now!
Tails : Right, You got this Sonic?
Sonic : Hmmm, It's gonna be a bit harder in the air.
Marl : I'll go with you, I can make clouds for you to platform on. 
Metal Sonic's Metal Carrier boosts on ahead, before deploying Unleashed-model Balkiries and Flying Egg Fighters. 
Dria: We have incoming! 
Cyne : Alright Tails, we're gonna jump in to defend the plane! Shera! Stay here! 
Shera : Why?! 
Cyne : Your abilities wouldn't work in the sky! 
Shera : Alright! 
Tails : Alright! You should probably use those watches about now! 
Team Dragoon pull out the watches and activate moon gravity, before jumping out to fight. Almost immediately, they slowly fall back to earth because moon gravity isn't hovering in midair. While Dria just starts flying and firing from there, Alan shifts around to catch as much air as possible, which causes him to be pushed back up by strong wind. Srish was already trying that at the same time, and Silence took after the two of them and did the same. As soon as Alan was above the flying height of all the Badniks, he reoriented and started firing at the Badniks, with Srish grabbing onto Dria and firing while holding onto her claw. Silence, meanwhile, let himself get pushed upwards until the wind couldn't push him any higher, and used that high position to shoot at the huge Metal Carrier.
Cyne would also jump out from off the plane, using the watch to activate his low gravity as well. Cyne would slowly fall a Balkiry would come in to attempt to impale him, however Cyne would use his flexibility to dodge and grab onto it, using his now light weight to his advantage. Cyne would hang from the Badniks wings, and would shift his body to control the motion in which it went, eventually using it to go upwards and crash it into another Badnik, Cyne would fly off and land on another, jumping off redirecting it to crash into a Egg Fighter before also using the Phantom Shard to briefly manifest a sword of ice, slamming it into the head of a Egg Fighter before once again taking control of a Balkiry.
Alan: Sick ride, but can you do this?
Ranger then pops a Ion Pill, giving him the energy for constant Laser usage, which immediately works as expected, rebounding off the swarms of Badniks before knocking Metal Sonic out of the Metal Carrier. As the Color Power fades, Alan uses Ranger again to go for more combos, while the Metal Carrier gets bombarded by Silence, eventually destroying the back. Dria and Srish meanwhile, are just keeping the Badniks off the plane.
Sonic : Look's like their having a lightshow down there!
Metal Sonic would then begin to rise, hovering and glaring towards Sonic.
Sonic : Man, if looks could kill!
Marl : So, its finally ready to engage us?
Cyne would accidently blow up the Badnik midflight and begin to fall, luckily his landing would be cushioned by a metallic blue hedgehog.
Cyne : Wow, I had my heart in my throat for a second!
Metal Sonic would then shake Cyne off of his head, before rushing towards the now stunned in mid-air Cyne. However, a downward axe kick from the Blue Blur would put a stop to this.
Sonic : Hey! Eye's over here! 
As Metal Sonic looks over, Alan smacks him during another Laser light show, before stopping and going again. 
Srish: Alan! Leave at least a couple Badniks for us! 
Alan: How about this instead, you can destroy the carrier. 
Metal Sonic would then activate a barrier, only to be shattered by Cyne using a Phantom Shard to disrupt it, Marl would also trap Metal Sonic in ultra thick clouds, while this happens Sonic would begin charging up an full powered Spin-ball.
As Alan watches Metal Sonic make a fatal mistake, the rest of Team Dragoon attacks the Metal Carrier tearing it apart.
Sonic would then launch towards Metal Sonic only for Sonic to appear right where he was before launching.
Sonic : Huh? What?
??? : You really thought we would come here unprepared?
Suddenly, a badnik dressed up like a magician would slowly hover down and on to the scene.
Heavy Magician : It is me, The Heavy Magician as dubbed by Lord Robotnik of the "Hardboiled Heavies". I am here to assist my companion "Metal Sonic".
Sonic : Oh great, you again. So what tricks you gonna use this time?
Cyne : What? He kinda looks like the one police one we fought a while back, I think he said something about belonging to that group of Badniks too.
Heavy Magician : This time, I'll make you disappear! Heehee! 
As the Metal Carrier loses all propulsion and begins crashing, Silence shoots the Heavy Magician, damaging it, before Alan gives it a nice gash with a Laser passby and Srish and Dria shoot it.
Heavy Magician : Agh! I won't stand for this!
Just then Metal Sonic make his way out of the cloud trap.
Heavy Magician : Heh, Perfect!
The Heavy Magician creates life like illusions of him and Metal Sonic. Metal Sonic would also begin his attack as this happens.
Alan: Which do we shoot? Which do we shoot?!
Dria's Wispon fires at every Badnik that comes close, with it mostly passing through whatever it attacked.
Cyne : Which of you guys are the best at shooting? 
Alan and Silence: I could probably hit it if i could tell which was which! 
Cyne would throw one of the Phantom Shards he had towards the two. 
Cyne : They have Phantom Energy fueling them, that seems to be what all the Hardboiled Heavies have in common. Use the shard to destroy the illusion and find the real ones. 
Alan, not knowing what to do, just held it up in the air, but that worked, and destroyed the copies. From there, Alan threw Laser claws at Metal Sonic to tie him up, and Silence shot Heavy Magician from his sniping height.
Upon the securing of the two threats Tails would begin to slow down the speed of his plane as well as Marl with his clouds.
Sonic : Alright, so I suggest you tell us on what Eggman and Clem are planning, and make it quick, we got places to be ya' know. 
Heavy Magician: Robotnik will rebuild us, we're not telling you anything. 
Heavy Magician was actually slipping a card with his remaining Phantom Energy to Metal Sonic essentially stalling for time while conversing with Sonic, With the heroes distracted with his rambling they wouldn't notice it until it was too late...
Cyne : Guys! Why is Metal Sonic glowing like that?! 
Alan: Dunno! 
Alan shoots Metal Sonic.
The shot however would only scratch Metal Sonic. Metal Sonic would stop glowing, showing off a purplish tint to its usual color scheme. In the midst of this, Sonic would look over to the Heavy Magician.
Sonic : What did you do?! 
Heavy Magician: The Invincibility Card. Admittedly temporary, but will last long enough to destroy you! 
Metal Sonic then dashes forwards, catching Sonic and scattering the rest of the heroes before attacking the Tornado IV with the Burst Shield.
Marl : Crap!
Marl attempts to use his clouds to catch his allies and to try to carry the Tornado IV to prevent it from crashing, however, having to have such a crucial focus on the platforming and mid-air support would be to much strain as they would slowly drift down below, into the Oil Ocean Zone.
Cyne : Wait! What about Sonic?!
Marl : We have to trust he can handle it, but we should follow the direction he was sent when we land. Knowing Sonic he should be good on his own for a while but in the Oil Ocean Zone it's gonna be incredibly dangerous. 
Alan: Don't worry, we still have the anti grav, just focus on the Tornado! 
Team Dragoon then catch the wind and glide up.
Cyne : Tails, you coming?
Tails : I'll catch up with you guys, I have repairs to make.
Cyne : Alright, Shera lets go.
Shera : Right.
Cyne and Shera would follow along by activating their watches, leaving Marl and Tails to their devices. While that's happening, Team Dragoon shoots Heavy Magician with everything they have, destroying it.
Elsewhere...
Heavy King : Ah... Another one bit the dust... Guess i'll have to inform Lord Robotnik and recreate Magician...
Meanwhile, Sonic would be attempting to thwart Metal Sonic within the Oil Ocean's outbacks.
Sonic : Surprised you got any fight left in ya', however, even with that invincibility you got it aint gonna be enough!
Metal Sonic just stares in response, getting ready to charge towards Sonic.
Sonic : Alright then, Catch me if you can!
Sonic would then use the Figure 8 to accelerate his speed to the limits and with the moment that Metal Sonic rocketed towards him, Sonic too would blast off and run along the Sea of Oil, leaving a trail of fire among it as he went. Metal Sonic would come up next to him, shooting a laser out from his core, Sonic would dodge this but barely escape the large explosion that ensued from the lasers contact with the oil.
Sonic : Talk about a close one.
Sonic would leap into the air and jump onto the back of Metal Sonic, landing a sideways dropkick causing the speeding Metal Sonic to surf along the oil, along with Sonic accompanying him be landing atop and enjoying the ride.
Sonic : C'mon man, your giving my extreme gear some competition right now!
Metal Sonic would respond harshly by releasing an electric wave which Sonic would leap away from and back on to the Oil Ocean, slightly stumbly before being back on track to run on the flammable liquid. As Sonic was doing that, Team Dragoon lowered themselves through careful low-grav falling to the Tornado on Marl's clouds.
Alan: Is it still usable? 
Tails : Yeah, It's not damaged to badly, I just need to fix some of the key components that allow for smooth flight and it will be fine. 
Meanwhile, down in Oil Ocean, Metal Sonic's purple aura starts faltering.
Sonic lunges in delivering a flying kick to Metal Sonic's head, leaving the robot to be stunned back.
Sonic : Not so tough anymore now are you, and you wont have the oily advantage in this warehouse section of the zone! 
As the two duke it out in the base, Team Dragoon lie back in wait for Sonic, floating in the air via the gusts. Soon, Cyne and Shera would come up behind the group.
Cyne : Any sign of where they could be? 
Alan: Man, i gave up trying to track their battle long ago. 
Srish: Sonic will be out momentarily, i know it! 
A cloud of smoke would then emerge in the view in front of them, in it they would see Sonic in a spinball rocketing into the torso of Metal Sonic.
Alan: Hmm?
Dria and Srish: Sonic!
Sonic launches Metal Sonic into a oil tank. Just as Metal was about to try something, a Eagle shot finally destroys him. Sonic looks up, offended.
Sonic : Hey! What's the big idea?!
Cyne : Sonic! Let's get back to Tail's, should be done his repairs by now.
Sonic : Yeah, but I want compensation for that! 
Dria: What's the problem, Metal Sonic was destroyed! 
Alan: Your need to be the one to destroy Metal can wait, we have a Eggmanland to reach. 
Dria then pulls Sonic up to the Tornado IV, and everyone gets in. The group would soon leave the Oil Ocean Zone, directly on course for the flying Eggmanland.
== Chapter 8: Battles in Eggmanland ==
Meanwhile...
??? : Cross, I'm disappointed. I've heard from one of our clients that you abandoned a mission, is this true?
Cross : Yes, it's true.
??? : Cross, you have had a perfect track record up until now, You have one more time to pull something like this until we must exterminate you, do you understand? As a super soldier simply exiling you will not be enough, we cannot have any liabilities lurking, that includes those you are assigned to dispose of.
Cross : Yes sir, I understand..,
??? : Now, luckily for you we have a chance for you to redeem yourself.
Cross : What would that be?
??? : We have received a commission from a client known as "Mephiles", in fact he is here currently
From the shadows a figure would step out and reveal itself.
Mephiles : Hello Cross, I have heard many things about you.
Cross : Really? What do you need?
??? : Our client says that he needs you to help the Eggman Empire with a group of troublemakers, this is the same group you left off the line in your previous assignment.
Cross : I see, so that's how it is? What did he offer for this commission?
??? : It's being funded by the Eggman Empire, so the money is not an issue. I expect for you to carry out this assignment and not fail. Do. Not.Fail. I would hate to have you leave us.
Cross : (I can't believe this, I think I'm just gonna desert this place. Those guys I fought, I don't want to kill them, they are the only people I've met that can give me a good challenge.) Understood.
??? : Just to make sure you don't make any repeats, Mephiles has offered to observe your actions, we will place this collar on your neck. If we hear about you doing anything to jeopardize your mission, then your head may find a new place to lay.
Cross would then have a collar placed around his neck as a failsafe for the organization.
??? : Now head out.
Cross : (Tch! I can't destroy this in time for them to not kill me, I need to get those seven to break this thing without taking my head off, but at the same time I have to try to kill them... This is the worst.) Understood...
Cross would then vanish assuming his mission and his plan of betrayal.
Skies of Eggmanland
Alan: It's pretty cloudy around here.
Dria: Tails, you getting anything on radar?
Tails : Nothing I can see, could be cloaked though.
Srish: This feels like a trap, why does it feel like a trap?
Silence: Use of cloud cover wouldn't be out of the ordinary for Eggman. 
Cyne : Wouldn't it be funny it be funny if Biomon fell from the sky? I mean, it's not like they have wings or can fly not tha-
Marl would cover Cynes mouth. 
Marl : Do. Not. Jinx. It. 
Silence then shatters a canister of Power Energy, reactivating Team Dragoon's superpowers. He then makes the Tornado IV silent. 
Dria: Marl, maybe we could use these clouds to our advantage? 
Marl : True, it'll be a little tough because of the air pressure around the plane but I could cloak us in the clouds. 
Marl would then begin to glow a bit with Hyper-Go-On, immediately clouds would come to surround and coat the plane.
Marl : Tails, try slowing down so its not too obvious, a fast cloud would be suspicious. 
The Tornado IV slows. 
Alan: Is there anything in this plane that jams sensors? 
Tails : Yes, I can send out Frequencies with the Chaos Energy generators by the engine, I've been doing it but still nothing, Either Eggman has something that also has Chaos Energy to block these frequencies or something of similar power to Chaos Energy.
Alan: That likely means Badniks can still sense us. 
Tails : Probably, but at that we should've been attacked by now. Maybe they are preparing something and are confident that we will be stopped or prevented by something, either that or its an elaborate ambush. 
Dria: Oh by the way, can you tell how close we are to Eggmanland? 
Tails : Three kilometers. 
Meanwhile, on the base... 
Mimic Heavy: Ready, aiiiiiiim. 
Badniks and Biomon aim at the cloud covered Tornado IV.
Tails : Hold on! I'm picking up a build up of energy from Eggmanland! 
Alan, Dria and Silence: Grab gear, now! 
Team Dragoon pull out their Extreme Gear, and as Silence grabs his, the cannons fire, annihilating the propeller and propeller structure.
Tails : Hold on!
Tails grabs out his tablet, using a miniature leveled Chaos Control to transport the damaged plane back to his workshop. Sonic, Cyne, Marl and Shera would enter a free fall before Tails would grab Sonic and Marl would use the clouds to create platforms to surf on towards Eggmanland.
Marl : I guess we'll have to go from here. 
Alan: Team Phantasm! Get on! 
While Alan is getting Team Phantasm, the rest of Team Dragoon go on ahead, Dria clearing the way with E-Wing, Srish using the low gravity to moonjump over to the base from the cloud platforms and Silence Air-Riding to the base, blowing a door open. Sonic and Tails dash through the open door and go right.
Dr. Bagon : Robotnik, it appears our friends have arrived and have taken it upon themselves to welcome themselves inside.
Eggman: That's great. Lock the right door at the entrance they're using, so we can separate Sonic from them! 
As Team Dragoon approach the two hallways, the right door is shut. 
Eggman: Cross to Left Storage. Mephiles, you can either help Cross or deal with Sonic and Tails in Right Storage. All Badniks to Right Storage! 
Mephiles : Ah, Ivo. You know I must have my revenge, you can expect me in the Right Storage. Hehehe... 
Mephiles would plunder into the abyss, disappearing from the sight of the two doctors.
Eggman: While you complete that special Biomon, where will the other Biomon be? 
Dr. Bagon : The Biomon have been stationed with your Badniks, as well as being stationed and hidden in specific locations to take them by surprise as they try to traverse their way here. 
Eggman: We can only hope they will be enough to kill that blasted hedgehog. Though, will Cross handle the teams without supervision? 
Dr. Bagon : I've heard that Falcon put a kill switch collar on Cross, they want to make sure he doesn't run rogue like last time. 
Eggman: Never needed one of those. How do they kill? 
Dr. Bagon : According to Mephiles, if they get word from Mephiles about Cross doing anything out of contract, all they have to do is press a button and his head will explode. Mephiles said he put a crystal on the collar to track him. 
Eggman: Good... 
Meanwhile, Team Dragoon were driving through Eggmanland, with Team Phantasm on the Lightcutter Sigil's extending platforms.
Cyne : So... do we know the layout of this place or where we are going? I mean we have a floating island the size of a Small Zone, who's to say the doctors are on this side of this place?
Marl : Doesn't matter, either way we are going to find them, and I'm sure there is a map lying around here. Maybe Team Dragoon could have some insight by comparing it to their Eggman's bases. 
Alan: Eggman bases back home are more open than this one. I haven't seen any turning points since we entered.
Eggman(intercom): Hello, Teams Dragoon and Phantasm! 
Alan and Srish: Eggman! 
Eggman(intercom): As you can tell, i'm not here to greet you myself. I've finished your present, Team Dragoon, but Dr Bagon's preparing a surprise gift for Team Phantasm, so Mephiles hired someone to, shall we say, entertain you until he's completed it. I see no need to introduce him, as you've met him once already. Feel free to ride any of my rides after, if you survive that is. Ohohohoho! 
Team Dragoon then arrive in the Left Storage, where Cross is waiting for them. He immediately attempts to shoot Alan, but his shot is blocked by the Lightcutter Sigil's shield.
Cross : *Sigh* I know it's a strange request, but just surrender yourselves. I don't want to have to do this a second time.
Cross would extend both of his hands outwards in a finger gun motion.
Cross : If you don't, then it might get a bit dirty. (They will probably say no, but it'd be easier if I don't have to risk my neck getting taken off by one of their attacks to try and get this collar off.) 
Team Dragoon: ...You're joking right? 
Silence: Wait, what's with the collar, we didn't see him have it before. 
Alan: Yeah, looks a bit sus. 
Silence: ALAN! 
Alan: ...picious. 
Dria then fires at Cross from the E-Wing, followed by Srish skating with Hover, and Silence goes invisible and silent on the Kunoichi-G, before zooming around and firing Silencer at him, with Alan following up with firing Laser claws at Cross.
Cross : *Sigh* Very...
Cross would activate his "Scoped Mode" his perception of time and visual prowess becoming far much more enhanced, he would glance around and see silence clear as day. Cross would sidestep out of the way from the shot fired by Dria, whilst also grabbing the now visible rocket fired from Silence, throwing it into the laser claws, after this he would roll out of the way of Srish sliding grenades underneath each member before deactivating his "Scoped Mode".
Cross : ...Well.
Within a few seconds, Cross would perform these acts now using a power he only used once at the end of their last encounter, truly showing why he is a super soldier to the team of aces.
Silence: He... just grabbed my rocket... How?
Alan: His sight is unimpedible, i suppose he could see it.
While the grenades under everyone else's Extreme Gear explode too late, the Lightcutter Sigil does not move to avoid them and they explode, knocking it back and flipping it, launching all it's passengers off, with Team Phantasm getting pulled into dark portals. Alan pulls off the Lightcutter Claws before facing Cross.
Eggman(intercom): Did no one seriously tell you- bah. No using explosives, Cross! You have more than enough firepower in your body to scorch them where they stand, and we wouldn't want this base or you being damaged, after all.
Alan: Ok, this is gonna be tricky.(Alan turns back)"Where... where's everybody else?"
Srish: Hey, i might have a idea. 
As the group conversed Cross would change his order of gadgets so that he wouldn't instinctively use any explosives.
Cross : You guys refused my offer, so it makes me sad to need to do this. 
Cross would throw spiky balls over the area in order to limit the groups mobility, at the same time he would deploy glass panels onto the walls. These panels were actually camera that allowed for Cross to see through angles he was not facing, allowing for multiple perspectives and coverage. The glass panels were actually a glass crystal alloy the was made to be extremely durable and hard to destroy, they did however have a major weakness to heat. 
Cross : Have you all had time to plan on how to proceed? Take all the time you need... 
Srish(whispering): So, we all know that collar wasn't there before, and we need to figure out a way to remove it. Dunno what it does, but it likely needs to be removed. 
Cross : (What are they discussing?) 
Dria:(whispering): Well, while you figure that out, i'm figuring those things out. 
Dria then runs in without her Extreme Gear and touches a few of the nearby spiked balls, levitating them for her own usage, before grabbing a crystal glass panel. 
Dria: Just what do these do? 
Cross fires a few shots at Dria, but they are blocked by the spike balls, and Dria also reflects one with the crystal glass, though Cross dodges it. 
Dria: How neat. 
As Dria grabs more objects, Cross attempts to fire around them, but they constantly get blocked by Dria's collection of spike balls and a couple crystal glass panels. While continuing to try that, Cross keeps a eye on the planning heroes for any aggression, as Dria wasn't actually attacking.
Cross : I'll show you one of my drives that i hadn't used before hand, don't hate me to much for this, I just need to show that I'm working.
Cross then changes to what he refers to as "Variant Drive" by inserting a chip into his body. Cross would then fire a shot that would hit one of the spike balls once again, this time destroying and piercing through it, scratching Dria's hand leaving a light cut.
Cross : With this my shots become more condensed but require a bit more energy and time to shoot. (I hope they can catch on soon that I'm not actually trying to kill them, I need to extend this out for as long as possible.) 
Eggman(intercom): Don't explain your tricks, kill them with your tricks! 
Dria: Ow... ok so blocking isn't a option anymore, 
Dria then goes and collects the rest of the objects, even as her spike ball collection gets destroyed. After gathering them all, Dria manages to reflect a piercing shot with a crystal mirror, though it's dodged. 
Dria: I could use some help guys! 
Dria then attaches the crystal glass to her remaining spike ball, then starts gathering up the scrap from the other spike balls to clean the battlefield, dodging more shots, to the point that Eggman chimes in, irritated. 
Eggman(intercom): I thought you had better aim then that! You know what, forget the eagle, kill the rest now!
Cross, complying, charges up a Variant Hawk Shot at the team.
Cross : *Sigh*
Before shooting the blast, Cross would take a long look at the collar, before looking back up towards the group, clearly showing resistance to what he was about to do. Right as he fired though, Dria blocked it with the crystal glass, reflecting it. Cross dodged it, of course, but just as he was back on his feet, Dria tossed all the spiky scrap she had gathered at him, with Cross dodging in JUST the right way to sever the collar.
Dria: Hey idiots, look, i destroyed the collar!
Alan: Hey great!
Silence: Our planning was honestly going in circles.
Srish: Now then, what exactly was the collar for, Cross? 
Cross would look up, with a smile on his face, which was strange since he usually a neutral or brooding expression.
Cross : I'm happy you guys were smart enough to do that. See, that collar was put on me by my organization to keep me from abandoning missions like I had last time, if I were to abandon my mission it would've exploded and killed me, as well as if I tried to remove it myself. I deliberately held back while doing just enough to not be too suspicious. I'm going to abandon the organization, it's not a place that's safe for me to return now. I would just leave as to not get involve, but I suppose I owe you guys a favor, though, I could understand if you don't trust me. 
Alan: Hmm, ok. Come help us fight Eggman and we'll consider this over and done with 
With the baddies... 
Eggman: Bad news, Cross's collar was destroyed. Please tell me one of you are finished with what you were doing.
Mephiles : I've had my fun with Sonic, however, I sense the presence of Chaos Emeralds within that group, seems they do not know how to use them, therefore I will take them for myself. Seems our deal came together fine after all, I'll be going out to steal the emeralds from them and then I'll return here to set up preparations. It is my fault Cross is here in the first place.
Dr. Bagon : Good, I'm nearly done the diagnostic on the new Biomon. 
Eggman: Thank goodness. I'll wake up the "present", it's finally time to show it to them. 
Eggman then goes into a dark room and activates his "present." 
Eggman: System diagnostic. 
???: Checking... All systems at 100%. 3 Chaos Emeralds in power supply. Diverting 285% of power to combat systems.
Eggman: No need for that just yet, wait until you meet your template. 
???: Yes master Robotnik. 
Back with the heroes...
Sonic : Can't believe he ran, can't blame him though.
Tails : I hope the others are doing alright.
Cyne : Yeah, I heard what sounded like explosions earlier.
Marl : Stay sharp, More Badniks and Biomon seem to be coming from up ahead.
Switching back over to Cross and Team Dragoon...
Team Dragoon and Cross rush out into the outside portion of Eggmanland, immediately finding signs pointing to a place called the "Final Battle Arena."
Alan: That's rather obvious. Bet they'll send some sort of boss robot after us there.
Srish: Well, let's go.
Team Dragoon then rush on ahead with Cross...
Cross : I'm raring to see what's in store. That guy was talking non-stop about a present. 
Back with the others...
Shera : Where do we go from here?
Tails : My scanner shows that there is a large area just up ahead.
Sonic : Anyone we need to worry about?
Tails : Not from what I can see.
Cyne : Alright, then lets move forward.
The group of five would then move into the next room, this room was massive and had a style that resembled a gym of sorts, but... with a flair.
Marl : I never expected Eggman to be into these types of strange designs.
??? : OHH!! Sorry, thats because of MEEEE!!!!!!!!
??? : Why must you always be so loud and crazy, and put your motobug on a leash, if we make an entrance it should be elegant and cool.
??? : NO NO, IT HAS TO BE SPONTANEOUS AND WILD!!!
??? : *Sigh*
Cyne : You gonna keep us waiting or are you gonna come out?
??? : Excuse my subordinates, they don't know how to get along.
Out from a stage would walk three figures...
Heavy King : I am the Heavy King, leader of the Hardboiled Heavies. The small crazy one is Heavy Rider, the green one is Heavy Shinobi.
Sonic : I guess you guys are a bit salty bout' what we did to your friend on our way here.
Heavy Rider : ERRR, LET ME AT EM, LET ME AT EM
Heavy King : Control yourselves. I'll take the hedgehog, Shinobi, you take the grey hedgehog and the fox, Rider, you will take the sky fox and leopard.
Heavy Shinobi : Very well.
Heavy Rider : HAHA!!! Get Ready!!
The Heavy King would launch in towards Sonic, only to be jumped over by Sonic, making a silly face as a taunt. This face would fade away as a blast hidden behind the king would enclose near Sonic's face, barely dodging the attack.
Sonic : Not bad! But those tricks wont get me so easily ya' know!
The rider would ride his motobug towards the leopard and sky fox, Shera would attempt to entrap the Rider's Motobug, however the Rider just jumped off of it instead, not caring about it. Before the Rider could strike Shera with its massive mace, Marl would block the blow with a cloud.
Marl : Get your head in the game! You could've easily dodged that.
Shera : Yeah, Sorry!
The shinobi would engage Tails and Cyne by throwing Asterons towards the two, they of course would dodge, Cyne even attempting to throw it back only for the Shinobi to slice it open. Tails would respond by taking out a hand cannon charged with an electric orb to shoot towards the Shinobi, however, the Badnik would dodge and slam Tails to the floor, only to receive a kick to the head by Cyne.
Cyne : Yeah, how do you! you...
Cyne would notice that his leg was now slightly frozen.
Cyne : What?
Heavy Shinobi : Don't get too cocky. 
As Team Dragoon reach the big open area, they notice a entirely separate one walled off, that had a rollercoaster leading into it. They also heard the sounds of battle. 
Srish: You think that's Sonic? 
Alan: Of course. Maybe that's where Team Phantasm ended up too. I need to know how they got separated from us.
Team Dragoon and Cross then rush over.
Heavy King : We have some visitors.
Cyne, Sonic and Marl : What?
Tails and Shera : Huh?
The group would pause their fight to look over at the newly arrived Team Dragoon accompanied by Cross.
Cyne : Hey! what's that guy doing here?!
Heavy King : Seems back up has arrived, but why aren't they dead.
Cross : ...
Heavy Rider would come towards Cross.
Heavy Rider : HelloOoO??? Can you hear? He asked you a que-
Heavy Rider would be cut off by a shot fired towards his crazed Motobug, completely destroying it.
Heavy Rider : WHAT?!
Heavy Shinobi : I knew we couldn't trust him.
Heavy King : Well, it won't matter. Lord Robotnik's gift should be complete and arriving shortly. Though, you really should head back to that Arena, I'd hate for you lot to die that easily. 
Alan: Blah blah blah, first leave my friends be, then we'll engage your lord and his "gift". 
Heavy King : I'm afraid I can't do that. See, this was a gift meant for your team, this team will have a special something given to them as well. That's why they were transported here, I can't have you two groups spoiling the fun. 
Alan: Nope, we're fighting the final battle together, and if you can't realize that- 
Alan cuts the Heavy King's staff. 
Alan: Then we'll fight you until you do! 
The Heavy King then regenerates his staff. 
Heavy King : So be it, either way the result will be the same, even if the soldier joined you. 
Sonic : Yada yada yada, enough talking, I'm getting sleeping hearing this lullaby of dialogue go on and on.
Sonic would vanish, appearing in front of the Heavy King, kicking him into the wall. 
Sonic : We Gettin' started? Or what? 
Heavy King : Shinobi, Rider. You know what to do. 
As Sonic and Heavy King duke it out, Heavy Rider seeks vengeance on Cross for destroying his precious Motobug, leaving Shinobi with everyone else. Team Dragoon would try to shoot him, but he would block their shots with sword movements. In a attempt to counter this, Alan would try throwing Laser claws, which were somehow blocked, then Lightning claws, which it slid behind, and then Quake claws, which he jumped to avoid, though quite slowly. Team Dragoon would dodge the ninja starons, and then Alan and Dria used his slow jump to their advantage. Alan threw more Quake claws, which Shinobi jumped to avoid, but Dria used her Extreme Gear to quickly launch herself up before slamming down on Heavy Shinobi, knocking him backwards and off balance. Team Dragoon then attacked the Shinobi, Srish using his ice powers to freeze it's legs to the floor while Team Dragoon beat up on it, but Heavy Shinobi unleashed a spin attack on Team Dragoon, freezing them while simultaneously sending them into corners of the room.
Marl : Cyne, Shera.
Cyne and Shera : Yeah!
Marl would headover to create heat using his clouds to unfreeze the members of Team Dragoon, Cyne and Shera would confront Heavy Shinobi. Shinobi would start by freezing the floor, only for Shera to create a layer of leaves over top of it from sprouting vines, allowing them to traverse the icy landscape carefree, this however left a clear path for Shinobi in which he would dash forward with his katana drawn, slicing down towards the two. Luckily Cyne would catch Sheras back pushing her down to dodge, whilst using a Phantom Shard to activate his own Icy abilities. Shinobi would turn around to see Cyne's hand in his face, however he would backstep this and attempt to cut Cyne's hand off with his katana, Cyne would create a layer of condensed Ice over his hand, although it would shatter it would allow Cyne to successfully block the attack allowing for Shera to catch the katana with her vines. Cyne would use this chance to switch into using electrokinesis before he could cut them, shocking the Badnik before it would cut the vines and jump back a good distance, at this point Team Dragoon were thawed from their frozen states.
Shera : Cyne, that was pretty good!
Cyne : Yeah, I may have not had a good grasp with my abilities using Phantom Shards against Metal Cyne, but as we have been on this adventure I think I've been getting the hang of it.
Marl : (Really? This is the missing step shadow talked to me and Shera about within his training that we couldn't complete)
Shera : You might be close to gaining mastery over it!
Cyne : Yeah, but I feel like something is missing, like it won't be complete unless I can use my own Phantom Energy, I just don't know how yet...
Cyne would be cut off by a starfish like badnik being throw his way, leaving a trail of crystal dust from the frozen atmosphere it would glide through.
Heavy Shinobi : Aw, I missed. 
Dria rushes towards Shera. 
Dria: Hey, you mind if i borrow this? 
Shera hands over the katana, which Dria levitates. She then shoots Heavy Shinobi, who dodges the attacks, but in the split second it gets his feet back on the floor, Dria cuts it with the katana, freezing it. Alan and Srish then run in and attack the Heavy, Alan with a Lightning claw-enhanced punch, and Srish with a icy kick, damaging but freeing Heavy Shinobi, but Silence shoots Shinobi in the chest with Silencer, destroying it. 
Alan: Sorry we took this Heavy down before you could. You can have the purple one if you like. 
Cyne : Sure- 
The head of Heavy Rider would then roll over screaming profanities. With the boot of Cross now pinning it down.
Cross : Oh? Sorry, I didn't know I had to share. 
Cyne : It's...Fine... 
The group would look towards the loud crash coming from their left, seeing the Heavy King now halfway inside the wall.
Heavy King : Heh, It's here... 
Sonic : What? 
Heavy King : I'll let you meet it. 
The Heavy King would use up his maximum amount of power to create a shockwave that would burst the heroes through the wall and into the arena area. 
Heavy King : This is where... It ends for you all... 
Heavy King would then enter a hibernative state after using all of his energy in that last shockwave.
== Chapter 9: Final Battle ==
Cyne : Man, I wish we could've at least had a warning before that happened. 
Marl : Well, if what he said is true we have bigger fish to fry anyways. 
Alan: Ok, what was that? 
Dria: I suppose it doesn't matter. Now then, Cyne, how did you get over there? You were with us right up until we found Cross. There were no other ways to take that you could have used to get where you were, especially because the door leading right had been locked. 
Cyne : So, essentially that Mephiles guy kinda just...
Marl : He came out of the floor and opened this black looking portal, after which he dragged us in. It happened very fast.
Srish and Silence: Honestly, Mephiles's involvement was my first guess. 
???: Ohohohohohoh! 
Eggman and Dr Bagon float down towards the teams, each in their own flying vehicle. 
Eggman: Hello everyone! I've been watching all your battles. Honestly, i'm impressed you made it out, with nary a scratch too! But that won't be the case this time. Dr Bagon, introduce your weapon first. 
Dr. Bagon : Allow me to introduce you all to my greatest Biomon to date! 
The sound of rumbling could be hear from one of the arena gates, slowly opening as the metal brushed up against the wall. Soon the massive figure of the biomon could be seen, covered in crystal, and and having bulging veins that every once and a while would glow. 
Dr. Bagon : This is my "Behemoth Type Biomon", as you can see she has some of those power Mephiles has and I've even managed to make a heart using power energy that pumps it throughout her body, being able to reproduced thinks to the crystals duplicative capabilities. I hope you will play nice with her. Heheh-HAHAHA!! 
Eggman: And now, it's time for the moment everyone's been waiting for! Your present! Constructed by me, powered by 3 Chaos Emeralds, and of course, programmed with collected biodata from our first battle, it's the hero of Team Dragoon himself, Mecha Alan! 
Mecha Alan then flies in and lands beside the Behemoth type Biomon. 
Alan: This... This is a honor. I've never been considered such a threat before! Anyways, let's do this! 
Eggman: As a special present, you can attack it first. 
Alan: Let's see how you function. 
Alan then shoots Mecha Alan with Laser claws, but he slaps them aside. 
Alan: What? 
Alan then switches to Lightning, then Quake, then throws Laser claws, then Lightning, then Quake, but nothing works. The rest of Team Dragoon also fires at Mecha Alan, but he slaps all their shots away. 
Alan: What in the fudge? How? 
Eggman: Alright Bagon, i think that's enough beating around the bush, do you? 
Dr. Bagon : Indeed, I believe you should show them why our supreme intellect is superior to their collective.
Metal Alan then charges Alan. Alan attempts to punch Metal Alan, but his punch is caught by Metal Alan, who also manages to arrange its fingers around the Lightcutter Claws. Alan tries again, but his other hand is caught. Dria tries to shoot Metal Alan, but it uses Alan as a shield, leaving him scorched. 
Alan: So that’s it, huh? Gonna use me to block while your hands are occupied? Not very fitting of the “real Alan”.
Metal Alan: I’m no idiot, I know I’m not the “real” Alan, nor do I need to be the “superior” Alan. I only need to be the Alan who chose the right team. 
Sonic: Well that’s new. When’d you decide that your robots didn’t need to be the “real” person?
Eggman: When Metal Cyne’s first act was to protect Team Phantasm.
Metal Alan then threw Alan at Dria, knocking both of them aside. Srish tried to kick Metal Alan, but his foot was caught, and he was slammed into the floor multiple times before being thrown aside. Sonic then attempted to Homing Attack Metal Alan, but was slashed before he hit, sending him rolling into one of the side walls. 
Eggman: Over to you, Bagon! 
Dr. Bagon : Of course, I wouldn't want Team Phantasm feeling left out! 
Cross : Be right back. 
Cyne : Hey wher- augh.. He must have a plan or somet- 
Marl : Pay attention you idiot! 
The Behemoth would wind up a punch before slamming it into the ground, this is what they would think until a portal opened up underneath Marl, flinging him into the sky, only for the Behemoth to enter this portal and slam Marl down from the sky while charging up an attack filled with unknown energy, Marl would attempt to divert this possibly fatal blow by attempting to transform into his "Cloud Mode" however he would soon find out that his movements, and the energy around him moved slower than usual, as well as his senses. Shera would activate her "Ent Crown" mode and attempt to prevent the Behemoth from dealing a killing blow to Marl, this luckily slowed the Biomon down allowing for Marl to survive albeit taking massive damage.
Marl : Urk..What...happened. 
Shera : Marl!! 
The group would have no time to think as the Behemoth would dash towards them, still in shock at the completely overpowered Marl, before this Biomon could land another strike however it would receive a large blast to its side. In this distance we could see Cross with smoking fingers, still held in a firing position. 
Cross : Try not to freeze up, I understand your in shock in seeing your comrade in that state but if you've fought a dragon and your stilling stiffening up this early in the game then you've got a long way to go. In fact, maybe this will help you.
Cross would take out a Phantom Shard, one that was not found by the heroes nor villains. This Phantom Shard was obtained by the "Falcon Organization" which Cross would have stolen as he planned his betrayal as a last ditch effort to try to use it to break free, seeing how he no longer had any use for it he would give it to Cyne, now having Three Shards.
Cyne : Thanks for that! Shera, try healing Marl. Me and Cross will hold out against this thing. 
Cross : Nope, I'm gonna find those other shards they have lying in this place, I saw them earlier and if we get those you should have the full set. 
Cyne : Oh... 
Tails : Don't worry, I'll help ya! 
The Biomon would get back on it's feet, being slightly dazed after the surprise attack. It would look towards the fox and hedgehog before letting out rumbling roar. 
Dr. Bagon : Careful now Cyne, I wouldn't want what happened to your friend happening to you! I want MUCH WORSE!!
As Alan gets up, Metal Alan charges him, using its replica of the Lightcutter Claws to slash Alan back. Alan then attempts to blind him with his light powers. 
Metal Alan: I am built with a anti-blindness software. You cannot blind me. 
Alan: Worth a try. 
Eggman: Hahaha! Once i kill you, i'll take the four Chaos Emeralds you have, and expand Eggmanland across the globe!
Alan: Four? Don't know where you got that info, but we have three. 
Eggman: What? Then where is number 7? 
Mephiles somewhere... 
Mephiles : I don't know why but I get the feeling I've caused someone mass confusion, how splendid. Nearly as splendid as this violet shade, such a magnificent relic indeed, and soon I'll have them all... 
Back with everyone, Dria attempts to grab Metal Alan to use it against the Behemoth-type, but it dodges and cuts across her arm. It's blocked by the armor, but just barely. As Team Dragoon regroups and fires at Metal Alan, it continuously blocks them all. Soon though, it would also slap aside a silent Silencer rocket. 
Silence: Wha-bu-how? 
Metal Alan: I can track Wisp energies. 
Alan: Well then maybe we should kick things up a notch. 
Alan then consumes a Jet Pill, and armed with higher speed and clarity, he summons a hardlight Red Scythe, before slashing at Metal Alan, who is put on the defensive by the wild but still somehow trained slashes. Then, Alan did it. He managed to actually land a hit against Metal Alan, leaving a scratch along the chest.
On the flipside Cyne would be struggling against the Behemoth, using the power of Three Phantom Shards he was able to put up a good fight, although it was clear he had the disadvantage, throughout the long fight, or rather long surviving against the beast Cyne would figure out the the Power Energy inside of it allowed it to alter the time of whatever it touched, although the Phantom Shards allowed him to resist this effect. Cyne would leap forward facing an oncoming charge from the Biomon, he would attempt to activate his electrokinesis using the Phantom Shards only to have it blocked by a wall of crystals, which would soon push into and shove Cyne down.
Cyne : This thing is just untouchable!
Marl : Alone maybe, together? I don't think so.
Cyne : Marl? Your back up?
Marl : Yeah.
The group would watch as Tail's managed to get the Biomon to charge into a pile of Dummy Rings, blowing it up, although it would soon after rush out, having slowed the effects of the explosion as soon as it made contact.
Tails : Guys! A little help here!
Shera : Alright! Cyne, could you give us each one of those shards?
Cyne : Yeah.
Marl, now in his cloud mode would take a shard, Shera, now covered in a nature born armor would hold the shard, putting it into her crown, Cyne being inspired and fueled by his comrades backing him up would grip the shard in his hand, the aura of Phantom Energy now becoming slightly visible around him as reality distorted slightly.
Cyne : Let's go!
Marl and Shera : Yeah!
The Behemoth would conjure four portals, each would shoot out crystals like cannons. The group would rush in for a frontal assault, Shera would catch these shards with vines rooted from her armor, Marl catching them using clouds and Cyne dodging and weaving, charging a ball of lightning within his palms. The Biomon would then summon a wave of Crystals that would emerge from the ground, surely impaling anything it would touch, Cyne for a split second would lose his aura of Phantom Energy, having his spines raise up slightly, as well has his pupil turning orange and his iris turning a shade of teal that slowly faded down into yellow. With this sudden glimpse into a new level of ability, Cyne would conjure a mountain of ice underneath him and his comrades feet, lifting them above the graveyard of crystals and allowing them to glide towards the Behemoth, this ice would extend to entrap the Biomon allowing for Shera and Marl to slam the Crystals back into the creature dealing real damage for the first time, this would soon be followed up by Cyne releasing a now massive discharge of electricity from his palms, losing the color in his eyes and the raising of his spines as he would do so. The only thing that could be heard was the crackling of lightning and a howl of pain. Team Phantasm would the land over the Beast of a Biomon, now seeing that Cyne had accidently froze the entire arena but also created new pathways and platforms that could be used to their advantage and let them gain extra mobility.
Cyne : That was sick, for some reason I felt so complete while doing that.
Marl : I saw.
Shera : I think we can all see it.
The howls would soon stop, with the Biomon looking back towards the group, now having a large dent within its chest, showing a glowing orb just under its wound.
Tails : Guy's! That could be its weakness, we might have to strike that area to defeat it!
Dr. Bagon : Impossible, what is this power? Why are they gaining an edge? If I need go down there myself then I swear!
Eggman: Bagon, keep it together, and keep your fight from spilling over into mine!
Metal Alan: Robotnik, permission to use experimental generator?
Eggman looked on as Metal Alan was actually starting to take damage now due to a inability to counter the Red Scythe, with a more severe cut on his chest exposing a Chaos Emerald.
Eggman: Granted.
A light then forms in Metal Alan's hand, one so bright that Team Dragoon had to cover their eyes.
Silence: Alan- 
Alan: I got it, i got it! 
Alan then dims the light with his light powers, exposing something he thought impossible. Metal Alan, with his own light-based Red Scythe. Alan charged in, attempting to cut his copy's Red Scythe down, but the attack is blocked by Metal Alan, using his Red Scythe. 
Metal Alan: I see you are confused. In essence, master Robotnik built me a way to replicate your light constructs.
Eggman: Maybe i should remove that need to explain everything... 
Sonic : Maybe you two should pay more attention! 
Atop one of the rails of ice formed from Cyne's outburst would stand Sonic, having not been seen within the fights for some time. 
Dr. Bagon : You think we forgot about you? Your of no concern to us. 
Sonic : Why is that? 
Within Sonic's shadow would emerge Mephiles, cackling as he did so. 
Mephiles : Because I've been promised to be your cause of expiration, hedgehog! 
Sonic : You again? 
Alan: You have no place in this fight! 
As Alan tries to fire at Mephiles, Metal Alan slashes Alan, knocking him across the room. 
Alan: Right... the one i still have to worry about... 
Alan and Metal Alan then trade blows, both occasionally swapping back to the Lightcutter Claws to fire at the other.
Dria: Alan's going to be killed if this keeps up! 
Srish: Only one thing we can do! 
Just as Alan and his copy fire a rocket at each other from their light Red Scythes, Srish fired at Metal Alan, distracting him long enough to get hit by Alan's rocket. At the same time, Dria shoved Alan out of Metal Alan's rocket's path.
Alan: Wha? 
Dria: I get that you're the only one capable of keeping up with your Metal self, but i won't allow you to get killed trying to save us all. 
Srish: We need to fight together! 
Alan then chuckled slightly. 
Alan: I guess there's still a reason we're called TEAM Dragoon. 
Dria: Now you get it! 
Alan then summoned his friends light variants of the White Rapier, Yellow Gauntlets, and Black Sword.
Alan: Just a heads up, these ones can't fire ranged attacks, that would take too much. 
Srish: Well that's no good, mine are pretty much fully ranged. 
Alan: That's why there's a blade where the gun usually goes. 
Eggman: Why aren't you attacking, Metal Alan?! 
Metal Alan: Dramatic moment-. 
Eggman: DO IT NOW! (I have no clue why this is happening, but it needs to be removed.) 
As Metal Alan charged in to attack the regrouping Team Dragoon, it first has to dodge a unrecognized weapon of light that flies past and sticks into a wall. As Metal Alan turns to find out who threw it, Silence flies in, holding a ribbon-like light construct, He then shoots Metal Alan point-blank with the Silencer, leaving the blast radius along with the ribbon.
Alan: Silence! Finally deciding to fight from the front? 
Silence: He's unaffected by stealth, nothing else to do. 
On the other side of things the Behemoth-Type Biomon would begin to take a stance, its veins bulging and throbbing whilst glowing with a radiant aura. 
Tails : I think its accelerating it's blood flow to get stronger. 
Cyne : Your saying this thing was holding back? 
Tails : Yeah, but it's weak point is way more vulnerable now! 
Portals would then spawn around the battle field, the Behemoth type making a clone of itself out of the Crystals on its back. 
Marl : Two? Great... 
The Behemoth and its clone would launch into the fight, the clone directly assaulting the group while the main body attacked through the portals, Team Phantasm would barely be able to dodge these while having to handle the clone.
Cyne : This thing is just- *Huff* Ridiculous! 
Marl : Cyne, we're gonna give you these shards back. We're gonna need you to do whatever you did before, having the Phantom Energy is clearly giving you and advantage, and with this clone we won't be moving forward. 
Shera : Yeah, you handle the main body, we will handle the clone. 
Once the opportunity was given, Cyne would catch the two Phantom Shards from Marl and Shera. Marl flinging Cyne towards the main body via a cloud. 
Cyne : Alright, let's see if I can manage that state again. More energy the higher chance I guess... 
The Behemoth now focus on Cyne instead of the Portals, attempting to punch Cyne, Cyne would barely dodge this, however a jolt of lightning could be seen connecting Cyne's nose and the Biomon's fist. This jolt would travel throughout the Biomons body and be dispersed through a crystal, this jolt however would be used as a marker for Phantom Energy and would allow for Cyne to teleport to it. Cyne now behind the Biomon and on it's back would attempt to freeze it, however he was unsuccessful in activating the power he had used before, causing the Biomons tail to whip him off. 
Cyne : Unf!! 
Cyne would stand up, dusting himself. 
Cyne : A lot of trial and error... 
Back with Team Dragoon, Dria dodged a slash from Metal Alan and stabbed it in the chest with the White Rapier. Metal Alan slashed again, but the slash was blocked by Silence's Black Sword, allowing Alan to jam his Red Scythe between Metal Alan's. Srish then jumps off of Dria's back and punches Metal Alan with the Yellow Gauntlets, scratching his head. He counters by grabbing Srish's leg again, and throwing him at Alan, before slashing Dria and Silence with his Red Scythe.
Srish: That's not gonna work... 
Alan: How bout supercharging? 
Alan then pulls out the pack of pills. Dria takes the Iron Pill, Srish takes a Power Pill, and Silence another Jet Pill. They then counterattack, Dria actually blocking Metal Alan's attack then grabbing the Red Scythe, throwing it off. From there, Srish punches through it's handle, causing it to fade, and then both he and Silence attack Metal Alan, Srish punching it in the head, and Silence slicing it's chest multiple times, revealing the other two Chaos Emeralds in it. 
Eggman: Ack! Too much injury! Metal Alan, take this! 
Eggman then throws Metal Alan some Badnik parts, which Metal Alan incorporates using some Chaos Emerald and Eggtech nonsense. 
Alan: Hey! Not cool! 
Eggman: Metal Alan is indestructible! 
Silence: (Maybe not...) 
Looking over with Marl and Shera's handling of the clone, we would see Biomon clone raise its head, seemingly charging a dark energy. Marl and Shera would think of a way to prepare for handling this attack. 
Shera : what are we gonna do about that? 
Marl : We can't take it head on, Shera, I need you to make that sunflower thing that you used before. In the mean time I'm going to focus on building up the energy to try out a new move? 
Shera : what would that be? 
Marl : I'm going to try to make a lightning bolt so powerful that it can ignite and combust the oxygen around it, if I can vaporize it completely then I bet we can go back and help Cyne out! 
Shera's sunflower would begin to grow and bloom, her form letting it nurture faster and grow larger, the clone would whip its head downwards while letting out a vanta black ray, in response Shera would command the sunflower to open, launching pure solar energy towards the beam. Now clashing, the beams would fight for dominance, with Shera seemingly winning until the clone would use its crystals to passively absorb energy and make its own beam grow stronger, slowly swallowing Shera's attack.
Shera : M-Marl!! It's not looking good! 
Marl : I need more time! Try to figure something out! 
Shera would stomp down summoning roots and vines from the ground, restraining the clone down into the ground, this redirection of its energy would seemingly work and give Shera back the edge, eventually swallowing the Biomons beam completely. The beam would make contact with the clone, leaving it smoking afterwards but still up on its feet. 
Marl : Bingo. 
Marl would hover into the air with both hands raised, having created massive storm clouds, he would then twist his arms over themselves and condense the clouds, more and more and more until the resulting ball of cloud was the size of a beachball. Marl would attempt to strike down lightning as he normally would but instead the cloud would turn into a blaze, but this was no ordinary fire, this was actually lightning so condensed that it took on the same form as fire. Soon it would hurdle down towards the clone, making contact and completely igniting it, then it would begin to crackle like a firework, screaming in pain, the orb would soon make its way into its torso in which it would explode in a static and fiery explosion, leaving the ground beneath it charred. 
Marl : *Huff* *Huff* That... was tough... 
Shera : Marl! You okay? 
Marl would drop out of his Cloud Mode. 
Marl : Yeah, just need a little rest, can you get me one of those Ion Pills? 
Shera : Yeah! 
Meanwhile, Team Dragoon had discovered the Badnik "bandages" were no more resilient then generic Badnik armor, being able to cut them open with even a glancing blow, and were still dealing damage. Then, Alan noticed Shera coming over for something, and used his Red Scythe to catch Metal Alan's Red Scythe. 
Alan: What do you need? I'm kinda busy! 
Shera : Got any Ion Pills? Marl's a bit low on energy. 
Alan: Tails had the foresight for multiple sets, here! 
Alan tosses over a Ion Pill, before disarming Metal Alan and finally shattering the Chaos Emerald casing before Eggman does a repair.
While Shera would hurry back to Marl, Cyne would still be confronting the main body. The main body of the Behemoth now pinning Cyne to the ground, growling and leaking saliva onto him.
Cyne : Gross! But... Actually!
Cyne would manage to activate his cryokinesis, freezing the saliva, traveling all the way into the inside of the body, completely freezing the Behemoth.
Cyne : Who would've thought! 
Cyne would check out the damage he did, making quips and even taunting the beast.
Cyne : Now, lets see that core.
Cyne would walk up to the core of the now frozen Biomon, inspecting how he could get to the core with one attack.
Cyne : How could I do this? Hmm...
Marl : Cyne! I'll help you out. What's the plan.
Cyne : I need an attack that can pierce all the way into its core, that's the only way we could probably kill it.
Marl : Alright.
Marl would re-enter his Cloud Mode, surfacing clouds to his hands which would turn to Balls of electricity, slowly absorbing clouds into them and growing larger.
Marl : Cyne, Concentrate on those shards, reach that power for this final attack, my attack combined with it should pierce deep enough, if possible use your electrokinesis. We only get one shot at this before it thaws out.
Cyne : Right.
Cyne would hold out the Phantom Shards, trying his hardest to connect his Phantom Energy to the shards to access the form, however he would have no success.
Cyne : I can't do it again!
Marl : Cyne, look. When I use my abilities I let it flow throughout my body. When entering a state like this I need to filter out my Hyper-Go-On or else I could do damage to myself and cause an energy clot, that's why in this mode I have clouds being produced from my body. You know how it feel's, think about how you felt when first entering that state, remember, not everything is physical, the mental and spiritual part of things matter as well.
Cyne : That's true...
Cyne would suddenly become untense, and smile.
Cyne : Man, us and Team Dragoon should go get something to eat after this you know?
Marl : What?
Cyne : Well, I was thinking. If this energy, this force I possess bend to the will around me. Then if I were to take it into myself, then I could reach in and pull out my true potential the same way. The best way to do that would be, to just be me! This whole time I've been acting tough, trying to understand what I need to do next. Instead, I think I'll just do what I want, what makes me happy. I'm not scared nor confused anymore, I understand this power and why the Phantom Ruby is drawn to me.
The Behemoth would slowly begin to move, the ice now thawing.
Marl : It's moving.
Cyne : Let it, I'm all pumped up now! If I can't beat this thing then how am I gonna live up to myself and my friends, ya' know?
Marl would smile.
Marl : Alright. I see your not the same confused kid I once knew you as, you've matured a bit I suppose.
Cyne's eyes would change, his spines raising up.
Cyne : No, I haven't changed, I just know what I gotta do now!
The Behemoth would completely break from the ice, rushing towards Cyne, Marl would throw the orb of lightning towards it's core. Cyne would flash and seemingly turn into lightning itself, walking forward, the sound of each footstep sounding like a faint thunderclap, before grabbing the orbs Marl threw and within a flash of lightning and within the boom of thunder, he would push the two orbs into the dented chest of the Biomon, piercing through and completely destroying the core, lightning would soon course through the entire Biomon's body and cause it to explode.
Dr. Bagon : Inconceivable!
Cyne : See, still as reckless as ever!
Marl : Heh.
Shera : Seems like we aren't the only ones who have overcome our obstacles!
Marl and Cyne would lookover to Team Dragoons fight with Metal Alan.
At that moment, Metal Alan had it's Red Scythe locked between Alan's version, and as Team Dragoon approached it, Alan pointed at it multiple times as if directing his team because he thought it'd be fun, Suddenly, lightning strikes Metal Alan.
Alan: Woo! Good work Marl!
Marl then looks on confused.
Alan: I... err, Cyne?
Cyne looks just as confused as Marl.
Silence: Alan. I think that was you.
Everyone else: What?!
Dria: Wait wait, of course!
Alan: I just put on the Ether Adaptor as a matter of principle-
Srish: But there must be magic in this world!
As Metal Alan recovers due to Team Dragoon's distraction and spin attacks with the Red Scythe, Dria recovers and calls down lightning too. Before Team Dragoon can lightning fight Metal Alan into oblivion, it uses Mimic protocols to create a lightning rod on it's back. Alan uses the time it does that to cut through the Chaos Emerald casing, followed by Dria stabbing and shooting into it's leg, Srish punching it's head, knocking it to the floor, and Silence blowing open the casing with a Silencer shot. But just as Alan's about to finish it off, his movements noticeably slow, the Jet Pill wearing off. Metal Alan capitalizes on this, catching Alan's Red Scythe and throwing it back, knocking Alan off balance, before jumping up and spin attacking with it's own Red Scythe, knocking Team Dragoon aside. Metal Alan then charges the still prone Alan while dropping the Red Scythe, cutting through his Elite armor before throwing him against the wall, leaving him unable to get up. Dria attempts to get him out of there, but is knocked away by a backflip kick from Metal Alan, causing her White Rapier to fly out of her hand and disappear. Srish jumps on to Metal Alan, trying to slam him against the floor, but Metal Alan shakes him off before throwing him at Dria, knocking them both down and dissipating the Yellow Gauntlets. Metal Alan then dodges a thrown blade, then cuts a familiar ribbon, turning the Black Sword back into light. Alan then attempts to strike him down with lightning, but it is ineffective. As Team Phantasm attempts something, dark crystals surround them, before Sonic and Tails are thrown into the crystal cage. As Alan attempts to overload the lightning rod Metal Alan has, his teammates attempt to shoot it down with their Wispons, but a well placed spin kick knocks their shots back into them, knocking them down. Alan's Wisps then pop out and attempt to do something themselves, but their attacks bounce off Metal Alan. Just as it's about to stab Alan though, he blocks, manifesting a magic shield. But as Metal Alan beats down on it, it cracks, and left with no other plan, Ranger shatters a canister of Power Energy, and uses it himself. This causes mysterious energies to flare up, and glowing orbs of light, darkness, and various other colors to appear and absorb into Ranger. Striker and Distractor, seeing this, absorb Power Energy themselves, causing a similar result, while Metal Alan looks around defensively and the doctors look on shocked.
Cyne : You guys got this!
Shera : I can't believe someone else besides me can use magic!
Marl : Enough of that, we need to get out of this cage.
Mephiles : You will stay here. See, this plan of the doctors is failing, so I will have to take things into my own hands soon. After all, The seven emeralds are all here right now, I'll be taking them once the moment is ripe!
Sonic : No! We won't let you!
Sonic would attempt to spindash through the cage, however it wouldn't work.
Mephiles : Calm down, the grand finale is yet to come!
Tails would attempt to warn Team Dragoon about Mephiles seeing as they were the only ones free, however they didn't notice or hear him over the fighting.
The orbs of light then vanish, Alan's Wisps seeming to have channeled all they could. Alan's Wisps then fuse with Alan, but instead of a Energy form, Alan instead started to glow a ever-shifting range of colors in a Super aura fashion, with both his Ether Adaptor and Lightcutter Claws taking on their own glow. Alan then feels a surge of power, which allows him to get back on his feet, then cut through Metal Alan in the same second. 
Metal Alan: M-aster R-robotn-ik. I'm s-sorry to h-ave failed yo-.
Metal Alan then collapses, destroyed.
Dria: Alan! What was that?!
Silence: It's like you were affected by the Jet Pill, but i didn't see you take one!
Alan: I'm not sure what exactly happened, i just felt better again, and then it was like i was seeing the world in slow motion. I wonder what my Wisps did?
Alan, feeling like he could still do more, started waving a finger around to see what would happen. Not understanding exactly what he was doing, Alan created a Chaos Spear, then, shocked by this discovery, throws it at the crystal wall, where it explodes into a cold snap, creating a exit for Team Phantasm and Sonic and Tails.
Srish: Dude, i think you just infused ice magic into a Chaos Spear!
Dria: Wait, i think i understand! Your Wisps somehow absorbed the ambient magics in the air, and possibly because of the Chaos Emerald's close proximity, some Chaos Energy!
Alan: I mean, i heard of Wisps having odd reactions to ambient energies while the Power Asteroid was over our planet, but this is some next level power!
Alan's Wisps then emerge from him, having shared all their absorbed power with him.
Alan: I'll dub it a "Dragoon Form"!
Mephiles, having finally run out of patience, attempts to steal Metal Alan's Chaos Emeralds, but is shot out of the sky by a familiar looking projectile, causing him to drop his Chaos Emerald and Phantom Shard. Everyone then looks to the right wall to see Cross, standing there with a smirk and a Phantom Shard.
Silence: GRAB THE GEMS!
Sonic then grabs Metal Alan's Chaos Emeralds and Mephiles's dropped gems, before tossing them over to Cyne. Cross then jumps down and hands Cyne the last Phantom Shard.
Eggman: Dr Bagon, i'm afraid our battle has been lost. I believe the only decision left is to flee and entrust this to Mephiles to handle. 
Dr. Bagon : Indeed, we will watch, I would love to see how Mephiles is when he is serious! 
Down below, away from the retreating doctors we would seem Mephiles hunched over. 
Mephiles : ... 
Cyne : Your plans have fell apart, the plans you and those doctors made have only made us stronger, and we even now have all seven Chaos Emeralds and the Phantom Ruby! 
Cross : If I was you, I'd surrender, running and fighting won't get you out of this buddy. 
Mephiles would release a massive killing intent, not phasing the heroes but letting them know the rage that has built within Mephiles. 
Mephiles : Perhaps I had underestimated your group. To think that mortals of this realm and another could push me like this, it gives me bad memories. Ones of the past, present and future. However, you have not won, not at all! 
Marl : Why is that? 
Mephiles : I've had time to prepare, Time to grow stronger. While within oblivion I hadn't been sitting idly but instead, plotting my escape, growing stronger, gaining more power. All the while that blue rat had been losing his mind, I had been growing and indulging mine. I'm sure you all realize up until now I had been playing around, but my wrath has been surfaced and the retribution will be served! 
Mephiles would begin to give off an ominous dark mist, rolling off like a thick fog or smoke. Mephiles would raise his hands, and within separating them a flashing light would emerge revealing Mephiles in a new crystalline form. 
Mephiles (Crystal) : Seem familiar? 
Sonic : That form! That's the one you were in when you put a hole in me! 
Mephiles (Crystal) : Indeed, and with my power growing I've gained far greater abilities with it too! Temporal Essence, time itself now bends to my will! 
Cross : That's fine, We won't waste any of it to defeat yo- 
Cross would be interrupted, actually he was not, technically he was still speaking, it was just that time had came to a halt briefly. 
Mephiles (Crystal) : Fools, you think I'd give you the chance to use the Emeralds or Ruby? Of course they have the means to counter this ability of mine, but with no experience against it how will you do anything? 
Unknown to Mephiles, Sonic and Cyne were still conscious, this was due the the "Phantom Force" and "Chaos Force" they possessed. 
Cyne : (Woah, Woah, Woah! What's going on right now? I can't move!) 
Sonic : (Tch! If I was running as he did that I'd be able to move) 
Mephiles (Crystal) : Oh? What's this Cyne? Chaos Emeralds? For me? Oh! You shouldn't have! 
Mephiles would begin to rob Cyne of his Emeralds, taking them for himself. 
Cyne : (C'mon! C'mon! Do something!) 
Mephiles : I have three seconds left, I'd best el- 
The Phantom Ruby would then glow a radiant aura, pushing back not only Mephiles but making the Emeralds he held scatter across the ruined arena, as well as making time resume it's original course. 
Mephiles (Crystal) : Impossible! 
Alan: Something happened, but i'm not sure what. 
Dria: Grab the Emeralds! 
The members of Team Dragoon would each grab a scattered Emerald, and just as Mephiles recovers, Team Dragoon combines the four emeralds they got back with the three they already had, starting the super transformation process. Mephiles just looks on, knowing it could no longer be stopped. 
Alan: Gather around, everyone! It's time to take this up and outta here!
Sonic, Tails and Team Phantasm gather within the spinning Chaos Emeralds, while Alan puts up a thumbs up, Dria cracks a soft smile, and Srish and Silence grip hands in confidence. The heroes then lift off and into the air as they turn Super.
Super Team Dragoon: Let's see if you shatter like your crystals! 
Super Sonic : You sure like to talk a lot about time.. 
Super Tails : ..But you seem to be running out of it! 
Super Cyne : I'll show you why they call us Team Phantasm.. 
Super Shera : ..Because no matter the reality or world you want to create.. 
Super Marl : ..It's nothing but an illusion! 
== Chapter 10: Super/Boss ==
Mephiles (Crystal) : (What am I missing? This can't be the end of it!) 
Mephiles would try to sense around before any fight broke out, however he found nothing. 
Mephiles (Crystal) : (I need time to develop a new plan!) If you want me! Come and get me! 
Mephiles would spawn an army of clones, numbering within the Ten Thousands to distract the Super Heroes. Mephiles would take this moment to slip away and appear before the doctors. 
Dr. Bagon : What do you want?! 
Mephiles (Crystal) : Pilot this island to Angel Island NOW!! Or else I will destroy you both here and NOW!!! I do not care if it is being guarded, I do not care how desperate. The only thing I can think of to survive is the Master Emerald! I swear, if we do not make it, then when I return, and believe me I will, I shall reduce your bloodlines to the DARKNESS which is swallowed BY. THE. VOID!! 
Eggman: Err... Alright. 
Eggman then inputs the coordinates of Angel Island's most recent location, and the boosters get to work.
Back with the Super Heroes, Super Alan calls for Super Marl. 
Super Alan: You wish to know how Energy forms work? Here's your chance! 
Alan's Wisps then pop out and nod their approval to working with Marl. 
Meanwhile with the rest of Team Dragoon, their wisps get the idea to follow Alan's Wisp's example. They quickly fly out of the Wispons and use Power Energy, absorbing magical energies nearby them, before entering their companion, sending them into a Super Dragoon mode. Silence quickly takes advantage of this by throwing fire Chaos Spears that explode upon impact, clearing out tons of clones. Dria then notices Cross struggling with the high numbers of clones, having not joined the Super party. She helps out by striking the clones down with a lightning storm. 
Super Dria: Now just why didn't you join the fun? 
Super Cross : I've always been alone, I was never good with people... 
Super Dria: Now now, rules of this battle state that we should fight as a complete unit. Just look at Silence.
The two look over to see Silence and Srish blasting clones as Alan and Marl discuss. 
Super Dria: He enjoys sticking to the shadows likely even more than you do, but he has learned the value of fighting beside allies. Come join us in this fight. 
Dria then throws a huge fireball at the clones, destroying about a hundred.
Cyne and Shera would divide the clones up, Shera spawning massive walls of wood and Cyne entangling them within Chaos Binds.
Super Cyne : Not too bad!
Suddenly, a laser would appear, bouncing among multiple clouds steadily growing larger and more powerful with each cloud it ricocheted off, eventually taking out an entire colloumn ending within a massive explosion.
Super Cyne : Hey! I was gonna take out those ones! No fair!
Super Marl : Hmm, I think I've gotten a feel for it, thanks for that Alan and Thanks to your wisps. 
Super Alan: No problem! 
Alan, lacking his Wisps, would instead use the many powers he currently has to craft a functional replica of the Red Scythe, paint and all. He would then flow Holy Energy through the weapon to enhance it, and then he starts swinging it, with it taking out many clones per swing due to the sheer size of it. Meanwhile with Silence and Srish, the two were using their new powers to enhance their Wispons in a gradual fashion, thus allowing them to cause more devastation to the army of clones thanks to elemental explosions enchanted into the Wispon's shots.
Super Cross : Hold on... is that? Angel Island?
Cyne would turn to Cross.
Super Cyne : What? 
Team Dragoon look around to see where Angel Island is, and when they finally see it and the speed at which they are approaching it, they are all immediately on the same page. 
Super Alan: SONIC! 
Sonic, having been too distracted by fighting clones to notice what's been going on, turns. 
Super Dria: You and Tails need to get Knuckles into a Super State, right NOW! 
Super Sonic : Huh? Wh- 
Sonic would then see the island. 
Super Sonic : Noted. Tails! Let's go! 
Back over with Mephiles... 
Mephiles (Crystal) : It's right there, the Island, the Master Emerald! 
Mephiles would then get a transmission from one of his clones showing that Sonic and Tails were heading towards the Island. 
Mephiles (Crystal) : Tch! Even if stopping time now won't completely stop them now I could at least hitch a ride!
Mephiles would stop time, allowing for all of the heroes to notice as they became slightly slower, during this Mephiles would vanish and appear at the peak of Eggmanland. 
Super Sonic : Wha? 
Mephiles (Crystal) : Sonic! 
Sonic would then look down at Mephiles. 
Super Sonic : Decided to show yourself? 
Mephiles would launch a crystal cannon towards Sonic, Sonic would not need to move at all as the attack would not effect him at all. Within that moment Mephiles would disappear, with time resuming. 
Super Sonic : I guess after seeing his attack could do nothing he turned tail and ran! Anyways, back to that island!
Tails and Sonic would then arrive at Angel Island, where they would find Knuckles laying in front of the Master Emerald.
Knuckles : Sonic, Tails. I could sense your super forms, not to mention the giant island flying towards here. What's the situation? 
Super Tails : Long story short, Mephiles is back. 
Knuckles : Oh. That guy... 
Super Sonic : You should probably go into your super form just incase. 
Knuckles : Right. 
Knuckles would go towards the Master Emerald, drawing from it's endless pool of power. He would then burst into a super form. 
Super Knuckles : Alright then, you guys can head out. 
Super Sonic : Right! 
Super Sonic and Super Tails would then return to Eggmanland to finish up the clones, however, a tiny shard from the attack Mephiles used on him would drop, flying directly onto the Master Emerald with no one noticing. Slowly, a black portal would be spawned from it with Mephiles Emerging on the Emerald. 
Mephiles (Crystal) : It's MINE!! 
Knuckles would turn around in panic. 
Super Knuckles : What?!!? 
Knuckles would be slightly pushed back by the pressure given off by the now transforming Mephiles, once the light and pressure would disappear it would reveal Mephiles now with longer spines, green faded crystals instead of purple faded ones and a pitch black aura. 
Chaos Mephiles : It's a shame, this power is so abundant and hard to contain, I don't have the control over it needed to achieve my goal. It is however a power that will allow me to gain the much easier to control Chaos Emeralds!
Super Knuckles : Take this!! 
Knuckles would fly up to Mephiles with a burning uppercut, slamming his fist into... a clone?
Super Knuckles : What? 
Chaos Mephiles : Over here. 
Mephiles would snap his finger, causing bindings to appear on Knuckles. Mephiles would then slowly walk up to him.
Chaos Mephiles : Now, none of you can win. 
Super Knuckles : Not true, not only are all of them in super forms, but they have the Phantom Ruby, if they use it on you it will disrupt your power and transformation! 
Chaos Mephiles : But it will also undo theirs won't it? Those energies don't mix! HeheheHahaha!!
Knuckles would then kick towards Mephiles while still being held in the bind, Mephiles dodging of course.
Chaos Mephiles : Ah, Ah, Ah, can't touch me. 
Super Knuckles : You think? You forget no one is better than me with Chaos Energy. 
Knuckles would then shatter the binding, grabbing onto the face of Mephiles. 
Chaos Mephiles : What- 
Super Knuckles : Chaos Control! 
The two would then teleport onto Eggmanland, Knuckles putting Mephiles face into the ground beneath before Mephiles would back hand him off. 
Chaos Mephiles : Worm! You have only brought me closer to closing the fates of you pests!
Super Sonic : Is that... Mephiles?
Super Cyne : He transformed? But how?
Super Alan: Oh blast it! Blast him now!
Team Dragoon then fire everything they have at Mephiles, ending off with Alan using Super Laser to ram straight through him.
Mephiles body would regenerate however, being formed back with the crystals that make up his body.
Chaos Mephiles : My turn.
Mephiles would then summon crystal mirrors aiming it at the members of Team Dragoon, all of the attacks he experienced have been stored within his body and with his new abilities the mirrors allow him to portray events from the past, allowing him to shoot them back with the same attacks. Marl would block the mirrors with his clouds, negating anything the mirrors would have done.
Super Marl : You just don't know when to quit.
Marl and Shera would charge up attacks, one being a Laser lightning bolt and the other being a Chaos solar beam. As they launched there attacks Mephiles would respond by castig it through a portal and aiming it towards Cross and Cyne, Cross would be able to detect the portals creation point with his new enhanced eye and convince Cyne to form a barrier just in time to guard against it. Sonic would then dash between the beams shot by Marl and Shera to kick the head of Mephiles sending him flying towards Knuckles, who wound punch him into the air with an uppercut. Mephiles would soon catch his balance though and begin to hover.
Chaos Mephiles : I do not feel pain. Even if you were to defeat me, I'd resurface just as I did once ago, I am immortal after all. 
Mephiles would then coalesce more crystal around him, forming a giant version of himself that would stand 50 meters tall.
Super Srish: Guys? What's the plan?
Super Alan: For now, FIRE EVERYTHING!
Alan, Dria and Silence then fired off attacks of their own creation, Alan, a explosive hammer imbued with the elements of holy light, Fire, electricity, and even ice. Dria, a storm of weapons she remembers, most crafted out of any element she could think of. Silence, a super strong Chaos Spear with elemental explosive properties. Alan's hammer punched a hole through his body, until he regenerated it like it was no big deal. Dria's weapon storm chopped off his head multiple times, but he just kept regenerating it nonchalantly. Silence's Chaos Spear, he decided he didn't feel like dealing with it, so he teleported aside.
Super Dria: WHY? WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL EVERYTHING? 
Chaos Mephiles : I care not for what happens to the mortals of this plane, I have but one goal in mind and I'll do what it takes to achieve it. 
Mephiles would make the titanic version of himself slam it fists into the ground in an attempt to flatten the Super heroes, of course they would dodge, leaving its fists to hit the ground and cause a small earthquake.
Super Knuckles : This isn't going to work, but I have an idea. 
Super Sonic : What is it? 
Super Knuckles : Cyne, you have the Phantom Ruby, I can sense the distortion. 
Super Cyne : Yeah, what about it. 
Super Knuckles : He's being powered by the Master Emeralds Chaos Energy, we need to disrupt and completely stop that flow of energy. The only way we can stop it is by using the Phantom Ruby, since it's energy conflicts with Chaos Energy it would be perfect, there's only one thing... 
Super Cyne : What's that? 
Super Tails : We don't know the reaction the two energies will have... It's likely that both of you will detransform and if some type of adverse effect were to happen you wouldn't be able to escape... 
Super Cyne : That's fine, I have the most experience with Phantom Energy, no one is better to deal with it than me. But I probably wont be able to get close with that giant version of him being a guard dog, I'm not as fast as the others so I can't just get in that fast and since my lightning and ice abilities are connected to Phantom Energy I can't really use them in this form. 
Super Alan: Just leave that to us! 
Team Dragoon then get back to firing stuff at the huge Mephiles. The Mephiles Colossal would respond in kind by charging forward, however he would come to a halt as Sonic, Tails and Knuckles would push against him keeping him in place.
Marl and Shera would call for Cyne to come over, Shera had made a slingshot with Marl making clouds that would work as the sling. Cyne would rev back into it and with a snap would launch forward, past the occupied Mephiles Colossal.
Super Cyne : Mephiles!!
Chaos Mephiles : Hm?
Cyne would take out the Phantom Ruby, attempting to activate it the moment he got close. He would make contact, undoing Mephiles form and his own and would begin to fall back down to Eggmanland.
Cyne : Heh, did i-
However, the Mephiles he hit would shatter like glass, revealing Chaos Mephiles cackling as Cyne fell down.
Chaos Mephiles : You really thought I'd let you hit me like that?
Chaos Mephiles would shoot downwards towards the now untransformed Cyne, slamming his head into the ground.
Cyne : GAUAHH!!
Cyne would be reeling in pain from this as Mephiles would slowly lift him up by the neck.
Chaos Mephiles : Your friends are busy with my construct, no one will come to help you and you will the FIRST! To die.
Mephiles would then send shockwaves and darkness throughout Cynes body, causing him to scream.
Super Marl : Cyne!
Before Marl could attempt to save Cyne, a massive fist would hit him, being delivered from the giant Mephiles. At the same time Mephiles would drop Cyne on the ground.
Cyne : *Cough* *Cough* Y-You... Will be beat!
Chaos Mephiles : You were the biggest threat due to that Phantom Energy, now look at you, can't even move? Your nothing but a slug set underneath the foot of a elephant.
Mephiles would then place his finger on Cynes head, charging energy.
Chaos Mephiles : Any last words?
Cyne would then smile, the Phantom Ruby flying into his hand via the will of his mind and the Phantom Connection they both hold.
Cyne : Good riddance!
Chaos Mephiles : What?
The Phantom Ruby would flash, causing multiple reality distorting shockwaves to past by, the Chaos Energy within Mephiles would adversaly react with this, sending him out of his transformation, even reaching out into his colossus and the other Super Form Wielders causing them all to revert to their base states of power.
Cyne : If your immortal, then I'll banish you to a life of solitude!
Using the last of his will Cyne would open a portal using essence of Mephiles shattered crystals, causing a portal to Oblivion to open.
Mephiles : No! NO! NO NO NO!!!
Mephiles would then be sucked into the portal, leaving him in the place he wanted to escape, and in a fate worse then what he would've received. The ruby would stop vibrating with power, with the now raw energy of the Master Emerald sitting their and having no where to go, its power would clash with the Phantom Rubies, causing a blinding darkness, then an explosion that would wipe away the darkness that would soon implode, taking Cyne with it.
Shera : W-Where is Cyne?
Marl : I can't believe it... 
Team Dragoon, Sonic, Tails and Knuckles then remember they're no longer flying. Sonic is grabbed by Tails, and Srish grabs on to Sonic while Dria grabs Alan, who grabs Silence, and Knuckles just glides down. They then all nicely land. Everyone then feels a rumble under their feet. 
Alan: I don't think Eggmanland liked that... 
Knuckles, not about to deal with a collapsing island, runs back to Angel Island while the others look on confused.
Marl : That battle and release of energy was too much! This island can't stay floating anymore and will crash into the sea!
Marl would create clouds for the group to float on, in which they would all watch the Island sink.
With the villians...
Eggman: Eggmanland is going down! We must evacuate!
Eggman and Dr Bagon then evacuate Eggmanland in their flying crafts.
Back with the heroes...
Dria: So? Wasn't that cool, Cross? 
Cross : Yeah, it was pretty fun. You guys really aren't that bad. Speaking of which where is Cyne?
Marl and Shera would look down. 
Marl : I... Don't think he is here anymore... 
Shera : ... 
== Epilogue: For the Future ==
Somewhere, far far away... 
Cyne : Ahn... My head... 
Cyne with his hand on his head would look around, only seeing pitch black. 
Cyne : Where am I? 
Soon Cyne would get the feeling like he was falling and would close his eye from the sudden force, upon opening them he would be met with a blue sky and looking down a boat sailing within the water. 
Cyne : WHAT IS HAPPENING?!!? 
Cyne would land into the water making a big splash next to the boat. Surfacing while trying to catch his breath and looking around. 
??? : OY! Just who might you be?? 
Cyne would look up in confusion, before laying his eyes on a raccoon girl.
Cyne : Uhh, I'm.. Cyne? Who are you?
Marine : Me? Hohohoh! I am the great captain! Marine! It's your lucky day I found you falling from the sky when I did! Or else you would be swimming with the fishes!
Cyne : Oh... Ok... 
Cyne would climb onto the ship, getting a strange feeling about the place he was now at, not aware he was in a completely different dimension... 
Back with our heroes...
Tails : I wouldn't worry too much, I doubt he's dead. But it is possible he may have been displaced among space and time. He could be anywhere... 
Alan: Displaced... among space and time... Hmm. 
Dria: What is it? 
Alan: This reminds me of something- Wait of course! The Warp Topaz incident! 
Srish: What? Oh right! When Sonic was sent to the Sol Dimension! 
Sonic : Your Sonic too huh? Speaking of gems, I think he may have taken the Phantom Ruby with him.
Alan: Yeah probably. Why would that be important? 
Tails : Well, while I don't think it will effect too much, it does mean that there will slowly be a shift within our universes balance. Seeing how the Phantom Ruby is a mass of Phantom Energy, something that makes up the universe, without it we might experience some thing we never have before. With the balance being thrown out of whack, there's not telling what chaos could happen. On the other hand it gives him a way to get back here... But he would need to get lucky enough to be in a dimension with relics that can produce an identical result or a dimension where relics like that are accessible at all.
Alan: Well, we can't help you there. Our Phantom Ruby vanished. 
Tails : It's fine, we'll work out a way to find him and the ruby, we usually always do.
Cross : I like this whole... team aesthetic. 
Marl : Really? Well, we're missing a member right now and could really use the help. What do you say?
Cross would smirk and shake Marls hand.
Alan: Hope you can handle this yourselves, because we need to bring back the Power Energy, and... well i'm homesick.
Sonic : Don't sweat it! You guys come back here whenever you need! In trouble? Just ring us up and we'll be there in a flash!
Dria: We'll be in touch! 
Team Dragoon is then taken back to the base, where they manage to return the surviving samples of Power Energy to the lab.
Team Dragoon's Dimension 
Scientist: Thank you, Team Dragoon. Shame you couldn't recover all the samples, but i suppose it's understandable.
Alan: Good to know.
Team Dragoon then return back to the Restoration Base.
Alan: Jewel, we solved the problem!
Jewel: Oh thank goodness you're okay.
Dria: It was admittedly a fun adventure, though i need a break.
Jewel: Before you do that, we need you to investigate something tomorrow.
Alan: Really? What is it?
Jewel: Not you. This is a mission for Dria and Silence only. You've been working way too much, and we've got you and Srish tickets to the new theme park. It's called Luna Park.
Srish: Really?! 
Alan: Oh COME ON! 
Alan then storms off, annoyed at being forced away from a mission, while Srish follows him.
Jewel: Now then, Here's your mission. There have been some portals reported in the newly discovered Rocky Ruins Zone, and we want you to investigate tomorrow. If you find any dimensionally stranded people, please do your best to return them to their home dimension. 
Dria: Alright.
Dria and Silence then return to their bunks to finally rest after this long day.
The End.
 
 
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