Backlash (exe)

== Physical description ==
=== Gender ===
Male
=== Height ===
-3’3 (Base form)
-7'0 (Malice Form)
Backlash is a character created by Twitter user @TheGroovster_. He was created on January 20th, 2022.
== Overview ==
Backlash is the original sonic of his universe. He had the same personality, and had saved the world countless times, but after saving the master emerald once more from a devastating attack from the doctor. This, in turn had gifted Knuckles and Backlash with extraordinary powers. Knuckles having the ability to manipulate energy to boost his attacks, and Backlash being able to channel his rage and use it to power himself up. During one of encounters with himself and the doctor, he became enraged and transformed into a form filled with hatred, and anger. After his transformation, he became easier to aggravate and tends to get angrier a lot more often, and has gained quite the ego.
== Biography ==
Backlash is the original sonic of his world, he had saved the world countless times, but after saving the master emerald once more from Eggman, the emerald gifted Backlash and Knuckles with powers like they had never seen before, Knuckles being able to manipulate energy, and Backlash being able to channel his anger and use it to power himself up. But every time he got mad, he noticed how the tip of his quills, wrists and legs turned black. He didn’t like how it made him look so he decided to cover the spots with bandages, but every time he got mad, he noticed the black spots on his body expanded and that led to him increasing the number of bandages he had on his body.  
On a mission, he managed to get to Hydropolis with Eggman alone and confront the doctor alone. This encounter wasn’t anything special as Backlash started to fight Eggman like he had done hundreds of times before. But unlike other times Eggman talked more than usual, he barraged Backlash with insults until the blue hedgehog snapped, Backlash’s bandages were slowly pushed off as what looked like black tree branches sprouted from the black spots on his body he was covering up.  
Backlash’s body contorted, his limbs growing longer, the black spots on his body growing, and his smile became sharp and sinister. All Eggman could do was watch as his enemy transformed in front of his own eyes.
As Backlash finished his transformation his first instinct was to let out all the rage that had built up in him, let out all his rage on the nearest person, which was Eggman. But the doctor wasn’t going down without a fight. Pressing a button on his Egg-mobile, a red light was sent into the sky, some type of signal. Backlash lunged towards Robotnik but before he could strike him a blur of blue had knocked him back. It was that pesky Mechanoid, Mecha sonic. Backlash jumped up and slammed his fists down onto Mecha, but it retaliated by raising his fists into the air, blocking his attempted attack, he then punched Backlash into the air, launching a barrage of missiles at him, Backlash countered with his own barrage of black projectiles, destroying the missiles in their tracks, he then spin dashed into Mecha, the Mechanoid caught the attack, but suddenly black spikes formed onto Backlash and pierced the Mechanoids hands, getting out of the spin dash he kicked the robot back and towards Eggman, the robot caught itself mid air and charged back towards Backlash, and so he did the same running towards the faker, the two clashed as they glared at each other, but Backlash knew something Mecha didn’t, he raised both of his fist and slammed down onto the Mechanoid, it countered with its own fists holding back Backlash’s attack, suddenly the mouth on his chest had opened, a hand with black branches shot out from his chest and straight through Mecha, ripping out the robots core and crushing it in his hand, the robot fell down lifelessly, smacking against the floor. Backlash looked up to see the doctor trying to make his get away, he launched his hand towards his direction and multiple black branches sprouted from his arms, wrapping around Robotnik's Egg mobile, and he yanked the doctor over and with one swift punch plunged his fist straight through the doctor's head, water fell down around him, his work here was done. Before Backlash exited Hydropolis, he caught a glance of his reflection of the water, he looked at himself. he saw himself as some type of God, he looked back at the world and thought to himself how ungrateful the people of this world were, he fought countless battles for them, injured himself to protect them. His thoughts became sinister quickly, and he then came to the realization, that the people don’t deserve this world, don’t deserve their freedom. And now he has all the power to take it all back.
His massacre began at Knuckles, he already knew his location as he was always busy protecting the Master Emerald, he quickly made his way to angel island, killing anything in sight. Since Backlash wasn’t the quietest Knuckles was alerted about what he was doing, and before Knuckles knew it, he was confronted with Backlash towering over him and the master emerald. Knuckles' first instinct was to confront Backlash about why he was doing this; he didn’t get an answer as Knuckles stared into the endless void of Backlash’s eyes. Knuckles fist glowed a bright red as he jumped towards Backlash punching him in the gut, the punch knocking him back. Knuckles wasn’t wasting any time, before Backlash could get up he struck Backlash down into the ground again. Knuckles skidded back, glaring Backlash down, he watched Backlash get back up a black like liquid covering over his injuries, he then spun into a ball and dashed towards Knuckles, the echidna tried to jump out of the way but black branches had sprouted out of the ground and wrapped around Knuckles leg, so he revved up a punch, and when Backlash was about to collide into him he punched Backlash and sent him into the ground. Backlash stood up, his bones cracking back into place, he then looked down at Knuckles who was still stuck in place. He then beat down on Knuckles punch after punch, Knuckles's only resort was to counter each punch with his own, and so that's what he did, each punch Backlash threw at him he returned with his own over and over until one had eventually struck him in the chest. Knuckles kept countering all of Backlash’s attacks, but the wound was too severe, and after a while Knuckles had been hit again, launching him into the ground, but this wasn’t it for the echidna, he wouldn’t give up just like this, this was his final stand. He pushed himself back up and readied his fist, for what may be the final time. He then quickly smashed both of his hands towards the ground, causing a shock-wave that distracted Backlash, Knuckles jumped towards what once was his friend and delivered a mighty blow to the creature, skidding back Backlash lunged towards Knuckles, but the echidna countered uppercutting him into the sky, then he launched himself into the air flying above Backlash, his fist glowed a bright red, and with one mighty blow he blasted the hedgehog into the ground, shaking the island they were fighting on, Backlash being buried underneath debris from one of the pillars. The echidna warrior walked towards the rubble where Backlash was, suddenly a hand reached out and grabbed him by the neck, lifting him into the air. Backlash slowly rose out from the debris, holding Knuckles up in the air. He then threw Knuckles towards one of the pillars, launching himself towards the same direction, he then grabbed Knuckles mid air and dragged him against the pillar, his blood staining it, he then threw Knuckles towards another and spun into a ball, barreling towards Knuckles and the pillar, crashing into both causing the pillar to collapse. As the dust from the pillar settled, Backlash reverted back to normal, looking down at Knuckle's brutalized body. He then walked towards the edge of the floating island, looking down at the world below. He reverted to his normal form, Backlash knew who his final victim was going to be, that two tailed his fox, that so called best friend.
Tails knew what was going on as well, he was in  Green Hill zone when  he had gotten a message from Knuckles before he confronted Backlash, and that was the last he heard from him, he knew Backlash was going for him next, so he waited there, patiently. After some time. He had spotted Backlash. He stood there looking at Tails. Backlash tapped his foot, crossing his arms. The Fox questioned him, why was he doing all of this? Weren’t they best friends? But Backlash just laughed, friends? He didn’t need friends, all he needed now was this power he was gifted with. And with that Tails had started the fight, blasting a ball of blue energy towards Backlash with his arm cannon. Strangely, Backlash didn’t move as he watched the ball of energy barrel towards him, and like that Backlash was engulfed in an explosion of blue energy. Then, without a warning Backlash had zoomed out of the explosion sucker punching Tails and kicking him away. Tails got launched back, he took flight and pressed a button on a device he was holding, multiplying himself. Backlash let out another laugh, he pressed the palm of his hand towards the ground, multiple black branches had sprouted from the ground, Backlash then ran up the pillars as the group of Tails followed him, and then one by one he attacked them running side from side, jumping from pillar to pillar. The clones were all gone, and all that was left was Backlash and Tails, the fox blasted a barrage of energy orbs towards Backlash, He jumped towards the orbs, and as his fist glowed a dark-ish purple he punched through the orbs shattering them, he then grappled onto Tails leg using his bandages. He then swung up above Tails and swung the fox towards the ground, he then clapped his hands together, creating multiple projectiles out of his Malice, then launched them down at the fox making his descent into the ground even faster. Tails barreled down, hitting a couple trees until he crashed into the water. Tails then felt something, something metallic? He had looked down to see it was nothing but the ocean floor, suddenly something had grabbed his leg, it was a black branch, it quickly gripped around his leg and had yanked him back into the surface, Backlash had transformed into his Malice form, he held up the fox in front of him, Tails looked at Backlash, glaring into his eyes, just to be met with nothing. Before Backlash could finish the fox off, Tails had blasted him point blank in the face, he stumbled back gripping his face, Tails knew he was no match for Backlash, so he came to a conclusion. If he couldn’t beat him, he could warn everybody else, everybody that was left. And as Backlash opened his eyes he saw that the pesky fox was nowhere to be seen. After some time Backlash had cleared the zones of all living things, besides the fox. He then claimed angel island as his domain, and he looked down at the land he had created. Everyday the black spots on Backlash grew longer and wrapped around the land he was inhabiting, after a couple of days the entirety of Angel Island had been enveloped with the black vines, and slowly it made its way towards the land down below.
Since Tails was the only one left alive in the land, he had gotten desperate, he walked through all the zones as he had done multiple times before, stopping at Green Hills he saw something in the water. He looked down at it and saw what looked like a vault hidden in the ocean, it must’ve been hidden by Backlash’s illusions. Tails was out of options, and he hadn’t seen anything like this before, so he decided to test his luck and jumped into the water. He pounded at the vault door trying to pull it open, after a couple of seconds helplessly trying to open the vault door he swam up. He thought it was hopeless, there was no way he could open it. But he had to try, who knows what could be behind that door. That thought filled Tails’ head, and he swam back down, and pounded at the vault, he then remembered one of his tools, he searched his pouch and pulled out an old prototype of an upgraded arm cannon he had been working on before everything had happened. He charged up the cannon and blasted the vault door open, the water getting sucked into the vault door like a whirlpool, Tails getting dragged in as well.  
Inside the vault was a hidden base, Tails was pushed against the steel floor. catching his breath, he got up and looked around. He thought it would’ve been a lot bigger but nope, just a tiny base. A small bed, tools, spare parts, a capsule and a bunch of blueprints on the wall. Tails walked towards the blueprints cautiously, but as he got closer, he noticed what the blueprint was for. And suddenly, his motivation and hope returned to him, it was a blueprint for one of Eggman's scrapped Metal Sonic upgrades. This is what he needed, if he had any chance of defeating that tall blue monster this was it.  
As weeks passed by, Tails scavenged and found the parts he needed to build Metal Sonic, slowly the robot was getting built, day by day, he had taken parts from destroyed robots, even salvaging the Tornado Until it was finished. Tails had created his last hope of defeating Backlash, the last thing he needed was a power source, Tails' first thought was of the Chaos Emeralds, surely if he found at least one it would be enough to power the Mechanoid. Tails scavenged throughout the zones, it took a couple of days before he found one of the chaos emeralds, this was all he needed to power his creation, but would it be enough to defeat Backlash? Tails knew how powerful Backlash became, so he decided to look for the rest of the chaos emeralds. After a while Tails had in total 3 of the chaos emeralds, He knew if he looked long enough, he’d be able to find the rest. But since it took him so long the black branches had made their way towards the land and had already submerged half of it. Tails knew he didn’t have much time left, so it was time to set his final plan into action. He placed his creation into the capsule and placed the chaos emeralds he found into a compartment in front of the machine. Tails flipped over one of the beds and hid behind it, before clicking the red button to start the procedure, a flash of light engulfed the room, flashing multiple colors, Orange, Blue then Red. The color of the chaos emeralds was slowly drained away until it was simply a gray husk. The light show dimmed down; the room went dark. Only lit by a single light hanging on the sealing. Tails got out from behind the flipped bed, looking at the capsule. Did his plan work? The capsule began to crack, and suddenly gave in as something stepped out of it. Tails celebrated as his plan had worked, he had successfully made his last line of defense against Backlash, Tails didn’t waste any time, he built onto the Mechanoid giving him a whole arsenal of weapons, even giving himself new gadgets. Before Tails went off to go confront Backlash, he decided he should give his creation a name, after some time of thinking he decided to go with the name  
“Metal X”  
Tails then flew off to Angel Island, Metal X following by his side. As they slowly came closer to the island the air became denser and foggier, it became harder to breathe, but that didn’t stop Tails. He had one aim and it was to get revenge for what Backlash had done to his friends, to his home, to his hero. The two made it to Angel Island, Metal X landing down on the island first clearing away and black vines that were in his way. The two wandered further into the island, before Metal X noticed a strange aura, coming from the center of the island. They made their way to the middle, before the two noticed the aura that Metal X picked up was the Master Emerald. But it wasn’t just the Master Emerald, he finally had found what he was looking for, Backlash. Tails didn’t waste any time. flying up he used his arm cannon to blast a beam of pure chaos energy towards Backlash, he shielded himself with his arm, the black branches on his arm shaping into a shield and shrugged off the blast, Backlash could always deal with the fox, but it wasn’t Tails he was more focused on it was that new Mechanoid.They were both trying to defy their own god? and this made him furious. He transformed in front of both of their eyes and let out a monstrous roar and pounded at his chest. Backlash then thrusted his hand forward, the shield turning into some sort of vine smacking Tails into the ground. He then turned his sights to the mechanoid, he recoiled back before launching a barrage of what seemed like bullets. The Mechanoid didn’t have any time to react as the dust engulfed him, the black bullets flying into it, until it stopped. Backlash laughed to himself, was that it? All that just for them to go down that quickly. Metal X then quickly launched out of the dust cloud delivering a quick punch straight to Backlash’s gut launching him into the air, Tails got up to see the fight Metal X was putting up. The fight ensued back and forth, like a game of tug a war. Backlash reached into his chest stomach, pulling out 2 blobs of black liquid, launching them at the ground, they formed into two silhouettes of Knuckles and Dr.Eggman. The two figures jumped at the Mechanoid, before anything happened Tails blew away both black replicas with a shot from his arm cannon. Metal X boosted into Backlash, Backlash stood his ground, black vines sprouting from his legs and implanting into the ground. He then dunked Metal X into the ground, the vines withdrawing back into his legs. Before Backlash could deliver any more hits Tails shot at Backlash, that gave the Mechanoid enough time to shoot a beam of pure chaos energy straight into the hedgehog's face, Backlash stumbled back, half of his face being blown up, but it didn’t do anything as the Black spots on his body regenerated the lost part of his face, regrowing on it just like nothing had happened to it. Metal X then launched up, pushing Backlash into the air with him. Metal X abruptly stopped, sending Backlash into the air, Metal X sped above Backlash with a green flash and charged down onto the island pushing Backlash in front of him, Backlash countered the robot, but it didn’t do anything but knock the robot off course for a few seconds. Metal then blasted Backlash into the Island down below, the island recoiling. The Mechanoid landed in front of Backlash, the Mechanoid grabbed Backlash and dragged him into the ground, then pulled him into the air, throwing him straight off the Island. Backlash launched his hands toward the Mechanoid as the black branches sprouted out of his arms and wrapped around Metal X yanking him off the island as well, the two fought while descending, throwing punch after punch as they fell. Backlash recoiled into a ball, while Metal charged up one final chaos blast, it grew bigger and bigger quickly becoming bigger then the island itself.  Backlash spin dashed straight towards the Mechanoid, Metal X quickly unleashed a full blast of raw chaos energy into Backlash that lit up the dark foggy sky, like fireworks. Backlash fell out of the blast, his skin burned and bubbling with some type of black liquid, and into the water below. Had they won? Metal X’s eye’s flickered from green to gray as he fell alongside Backlash, but quickly Tails grabbed Metal by the hand and flew him up to the island. Had they won? Did the plan work? Before Tails could think Angel Island shook as the black branches over the Island tightened their grip slowly fading life away from the Island, the grass turned from a vibrant green to a dark-ish blue, Tails looked down at the land below where he once was, the same was happening there. Then suddenly out of the water a pillar rose from the ocean, rising until it matched the height of the island they were standing on, that’s where all the black vines were connecting too. It had black and dark blue vines wrapped around it and on the top was an object shaped like a cocoon,Tails quickly pierced it together, He was in there, Backlash was in there. They didn’t beat him, they couldn’t beat him, they could hear its heart beating. so, they had to go with plan b. Without wasting any time Tails pulled out a couple of gadgets, putting what looked like a controller of some sorts on Metal X’s wrist. With the power of the 3 Chaos Emeralds he couldn’t beat the monster, but he could surely escape it. He quickly pressed the button down as a green ring appeared in front of the two, Tails ran in dragging Metal X behind, and as the two entered the ring portal it closed behind them. Tails and Metal X had escaped from that hellscape, but at what cost? They escaped, but it didn’t feel like a victory, how long until that thing awakened again?
Did they really escape...?
== Abilities/Weakness ==
=== Abilities ===
In his base form he keeps the same speed as regular Sonic and all the same abilities, but along with that he can manipulate Malice in more tactical ways, like sending a barrage of bullet like objects made from malice, and if needed he can make weapons like scythes or swords from the Malice. Backlash’s Malice form abilities consist of being able to manipulate the Black spots on his body, from projectiles, close combat weapons to shields and more defensive objects. He also has the ability that if he’s inhabiting a land for a certain amount of time, he can spread black vines around the place automatically, which slowly increases his power, he can do it manually if he needs to. And when needed, hands made from Malice can sprout out of his mouths and eyes when needed, though he prefers to use his mouth’s. If Backlash is sneak attacked when in his base form and is nearly killed in his base form his Malice form will come out like a fail-safe. Backlash can create hollow replications of the people he has killed, he can create a replica of a person without needing to kill them, but the replica won’t be as strong, or smart. And if Backlash is about to die, he will be encased in a cocoon made from Malice that is impossible to pierce, and will heal him overtime, depending on the way he’s been killed it will take longer or shorter (If his entire body has blown up it will take months, but if he died to brute force it won’t take long to heal him back up). And he also has an ability of creating illusions, it can go from a small illusion of a person to a larger type of illusion like the world looking more messed up then it actually is.
=== Weaknesses ===
Since he is still Sonic, he shares the same weaknesses in his base form. Like not being able to swim, in his Malice Form he isn’t capable of drowning, but it limits what his power can do, as the water slows down his attacks making them less efficient.  
== Trivia ==
* The Black spots on his body are a physical representation of Malice, and that’s why it grows every time he’s angry.  
* He got the scar on his chest from his first encounter with Mecha Sonic.
* His reign of terror lasted for over a year canonically.
* He can’t use his chest mouth to eat or taste.
* He can use the Malice on his body to create a guitar, he likes playing it.
* Tails didn't get his gift, because he was too young.
== Gallery ==
File:Backlashbase.png|Base Form
File:Backlashmalice.png|Malice Form
File:Backlashtails.png|Tails in Backlash's Universe.
File:Backlashmetalx.png|Metal X, The Metal Sonic of Backlash's Universe.