Flames of Fate and Destined Dark/Sonic: Stage 6 - The Iblis Trigger

==Sonic: Stage 6 - The Iblis Trigger==
Infirmary, Arce de Solis Magna, Castle Town - September 20, X014, 1:37 PM UTC
----{♫} It had been over an hour since Eggman had left Castle Town, having successfully captured Princess Elise. Lying on one of the beds inside the castle's infirmary was a bandaged Sonic, the worst of the injuries he sustained during his fight with Metal Sonic having been addressed by the nurses, leaving him only with minor wounds and bruises he could otherwise ignore. Regardless, his mood had become sour once more, having been outmatched by the mad doctor for the second time in a row.
Damn... these past few days have not been kind to me, the blue hedgehog couldn't help but think to himself as he took a deep breath, struggling to process everything that had been happening recently as his mood grew more sour by the second. First, Eggman shows up outta nowhere in the middle of grand ol' evening and then beats the crap outta me, then I put my own body on lockdown after going a little too hard on that burst of speed back at the coast, I fall for the Egghead's obvious ploy to keep the castle wide open and end up getting the crap beat outta me again - and by Metal of all things!
Sonic's internal tirade of self-deprecation would have continued had he not heard the door open, revealing Tails, who then glanced around the room before laying eyes on his blue-furred compatriot, from the other side. "How're you holding up, Sonic?" the two-tailed fox asked him as he walked towards his bed.
"I should be ready for action again before long," Sonic answered as nonchalantly as he could, rotating his arms around a few times to help loosen his joints before proceeding to give the rest of his limbs a good stretch. "We're not gonna find that talking egg just by standing here."
"You sure, Sonic?" Tails began, his eyebrows drooping ever so slightly with concern for the hedgehog. "...I know you wanna stop Eggman - I mean, I definitely do as well. But one - we don't even know where Eggman's taken the princess, and two... well, I hate to say it, but you've been acting a lot more reckless and brash than usual."
Sonic immediately fell silent the moment the words left Tails' mouth. "I know you often leap into action without a second thought, but this time you seem to go out of your way to push past your limits," the two-tailed fox continued, his expression gradually becoming more stern as he spoke. "There's a clear line between being confident like nobody's business and just being plain stupid, and right now, you're veering right past it in the other direction."
For once, the blue hedgehog found it difficult to come up with a witty retort in response to Tails' callout. Time after time, the moment he was about to say something, he would find the words that had been at the tip of his tongue quickly escape him. As the ensuing awkward silence continued, looking down on the ground with a dim expression, Sonic ultimately thought to himself, ...dammit. He's right. I haven't been thinking straight at all since that night at the plaza...
"Assuming I've managed to get through to you, the Soleanna Royal Guard's currently tracking Eggman down," the two-tailed fox finally broke the silence. "Until they find something, I think you can afford to take it easy for a while longer. I'm serious, Sonic, you really need the rest."
"Yeah, fine, whatever," the blue hedgehog replied as he got off of the bed and began to make his way out of the infirmary.
"H-hey! I thought I said you needed to take it easy!" Tails immediately cried to the hedgehog.
"And I thought I said I'd be ready to go at it again before long," Sonic immediately argued in a playful manner. "Anyway, I'm not gonna go running off on my own, don't worry. I really just need to move around and loosen up my limbs - I've been lying down on that bed for way too long already. I'll just be around Castle Town if ya need me!"
Without waiting for a reply from the two-tailed fox, Sonic briskly departed the infirmary and made his way out of the castle. "Damn it, Sonic..." Tails could only sigh to himself before making his way out of the infirmary as well.
----Castle Town, Soleanna - September 20, X014, 2:39 PM UTC
----The relative quiet of Castle Town this afternoon was a breath of fresh air after the last few nights, which had been decidedly a lot more chaotic. Though he would vastly prefer running around for a leisurely stroll every other time, slowing down and simply walking the town streets was a nice change of pace as far as Sonic was concerned.
You know, Tails was right - I definitely needed this, the blue hedgehog thought to himself as he breathed in the clean air of the beautiful town.  All this Egghead business made me forget why we even came here in the first place... yeah, this is nice.
Of course, he wasn't completely slacking on his "hero duties", as he called them, either; he did end up helping a few people out with some small favors throughout the past hour. Most notably, he recalled helping a shoemaker with making sure his newly-made shoes were of top quality and figured that having the hedgehog run around with them on would be the perfect test.As strange as he found the request, he had decided to humor him and test the shoes out. Surprisingly, they did indeed manage to endure him running at what he considered a leisurely pace, which the shoemaker considered a success.
There was also this one young kid who lost his pet dog somewhere in Castle Town and had come to him for help. Handling that job was considerably quicker, even with the size of Castle Town being taken into account, though the dog being a little uncooperative did slow him down a fair bit. Meanwhile, a few of the guards who seemed to have been off-duty at the time decided to play a small prank on him in the form of making him guess who among them was the captain of the bunch.
Sonic's moment of quiet was eventually interrupted when he heard a young child's voice suddenly call out to him, "Scusi, signore!"
The hedgehog then turned toward the source of the voice, and found a young, blonde boy accompanied by a group of five other kids, all of whom appeared to be roughly around his age. "Ah, hey there! Something you need?"
"You're Sonic the Hedgehog, right?" the young boy asked with excitement with his eyes. "I heard from mom and dad that you were around town. I didn't know you understood Italian."
"Oh, sorry, I don't. My pal just taught some basic phrases before we came here," Sonic replied with a nervous laugh. "Anyway, there anything I can help with?"
"Well, not really," one of the other kids accompanying the blonde boy spoke before another one of the kidds continued, "Well all just happen to be big fans of yours!"
"Sorry, kids, I don't really do autographs," the blue hedgehog continued.
"Oh no, it's nothing like that! We mostly just wanted to get a good look at you up close and personal," the blonde boy spoke once more. "...but, as long as you're here... I suppose you wouldn't mind if you played a little game with us?"
Though he raised an eyebrow at the suggestion, Sonic couldn't find it in himself to say "no" to these kids with expectant faces. Still, he had been out and about for a while now, and Tails was probably looking for him by now. ...oh, what the hell? I've been out for a few hours. What's a few more minutes gonna do? 
----Town Square, Castle Town, Soleanna - September 20, X014, 3:23 PM UTC
----It had been definitely more than a few minutes by the time Sonic was done entertaining the kids back there. He thought that a game of hide and seek wouldn't have taken long, but it somehow did. ...okay, maybe they did have the home advantage since I haven't gotten too familiar with the town just yet, the hedgehog thought to himself as he continued walking along the town streets. Well, anyway, I think I've slacked off long enough. I really should be heading back to the castle.
Just as he had finished telling himself that, Sonic could hear a shimmering noise quickly approach him from behind! His reflexes immediately flaring themselves to life, the hedgehog deftly leaped towards his right just as he saw a blast of bluish-green energy impact the ground. As he landed, he turned himself around towards the direction that the blast had come from and there stood an unfamiliar grey-furred hedgehog with a series of spines flared up and back on his forehead and a set of gloves and boots with a peculiar design. {♫}
"Damn! I was hoping to catch you off-guard to deliver a swift and painless death," the other hedgehog hissed with a scowl. "It would have been much easier for the both of us."
"Not a very polite choice of first words to someone you just met!" the blue hedgehog retorted with a cocky smirk before quickly shifting to a more stern expression. "Alright, who are you and what do you want? ...well, I guess I already know the second one."
"Fine. Since these are your final moments, you'll be happy to know that my name is Silver," Silver the Hedgehog responded in grim earnest as he pointed his finger towards the blue hedgehog. "...and you, Sonic the Hedgehog, are the Iblis Trigger! Your actions will condemn the world to an eternal hell subjected by the Flames of Disaster!"
"Huh? 'Iblis Trigger'...? Wait, 'Flames of Disaster'!?" Sonic spoke with brief panic for a moment, having immediately recalled the story that Elise had told him this morning. "How do you know about that?!"
The grey-furred hedgehog merely intensified his glare in response. "So, you do have something to do with Iblis destroying the world...!" Silver hissed with more venom in his voice than previously. "I still can't believe a hero like you would be responsible for the world's destruction!"
"Okay, time out for a hot second here! What do you mean I caused the world's destruction?!" the blue hedgehog began to argue with Silver. "All I know about the Flames of Disaster is that they nearly did destroy the world when Solaris got pissed a decade ago! You've got a lot of explaining to do about this whole end of the world business!"
"That won't be a problem," the grey hedgehog retorted, a lot more calm in his tone, before letting loose with another blast of that bluish-green energy. Once again, Sonic had barely managed to dodge the incoming attack when he heard Silver continue, "I'll make sure you're dead before you even figure out how! For the future of the world, I'll put an end to this, right here and now!"
Sonic knew that a fight was imminent the second he saw how Silver reacted to him mentioning Iblis. He'd like to know more about what exactly the grey hedgehog was getting at, but right now he needed to fight for his life! As far as he was concerned, this stranger truly did mean to kill him; there was no way in hell he would just play along with that crap!
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===Sonic VS Silver - Denizen of a Hellish Future===
{♫} "Since we're doing this the hard way, how about I soften you up a little?" Silver began as he outstretched his arms towards the nearest objects in the area! All of a sudden, Sonic noticed that a bunch of tables and chairs were now coated in a glowing aura with a color similar to the energy blasts he had fired.
"What the-?!" the blue hedgehog cut himself off as he then noticed the objects now floating towards and then around the other hedgehog. Not a moment passed when a few of the chairs were suddenly flying straight towards him! He promptly rolled out of the way, only to find himself smacked away by one of the tables! Getting back on his feet, he grunted, "Damn it... what the hell was that?!"
"Sorry, I'm not here to talk!" the grey hedgehog answered before firing off another blast of energy towards the blue hedgehog, who swiftly rolled out of the way! As he exited out of his roll, he saw Silver about to launch a few more of the chairs towards him.
Thinking fast, he immediately curled into a ball and began rotating in place at a high speed. Right as the chairs and tables had been tossed towards him, Sonic suddenly shot himself forward as he maintained his spherical form and blasted through all of them before immediately striking Silver! 
Curling out of his spherical form, he saw that Silver had been knocked away a fair distance from the impact. Noticing that his Spin Attack had managed to daze the grey hedgehog for a moment, Sonic immediately dashed forward and began to pummel him with a series of wide and powerful kicks and striking blows, knocking him high into the air!
Promptly following him into the air with a great leap, he just as quickly found himself suspended in midair, his body now coated in the same bluish-green aura that had enveloped the tables and chairs thrown at him earlier! "It's no use, Iblis Trigger!" Silver began as he levitated in midair, arms stretched out towards the blue hedgehog. "No matter how fast you might be, my psychokinesis will grind you to a halt! Now, take this!!"
Without a moment's hesitation from the grey hedgehog, Sonic felt himself be blasted back down onto the ground faster than his body could react. Impacting the ground with a loud thud, he found himself rolling backwards before managing to recover his bearings and force himself back on his feet. At that moment, he saw a wave of energy shaped like a curved knife quickly shooting towards him before promptly lurching over to his right, only to see another one of the knife-like waves shooting towards where he had just landed! Without missing a beat, Sonic began channeling energy onto his hand, eventually transforming it into a small, blue cyclone the size of his palm.
"Sonic Wind!", the hedgehog yelled before launching the gathered energy forward as a bright blue vortex with an upward swing of his arm. His aim would prove to be dead on as he witnessed the vortex directly collide with the incoming knife-like wave, causing both projectiles to dissipate from the impact.
"So... you have a few tricks up your sleeve yourself," Silver remarked as he levitated back down on the ground, sounding almost impressed. "It's a shame this won't last long enough for me to find out what else you can do, and how many more ways you can bring an end to the world, Iblis Trigger!"
"Enough with the Iblis Trigger stuff already! I've got shit to do," Sonic bit back before rapidly spinning in place, launching forth a wave of energy that quickly traveled along the ground towards the grey hedgehog, who responded by firing a blast of psychic energy at it. However, he failed to notice that the blue hedgehog was quickly approaching him from his left until he found himself impacted by a Spin Attack from the hedgehog!
As the spherical form of the hedgehog shot past him, Silver began to frantically glance around his immediate surroundings. However, every time he would look somewhere, he'd suddenly feel the hedgehog strike him where he wasn't looking before shooting past him repeatedly, the rate at which the hedgehog would strike gradually increasing!
Eventually, Sonic found himself a few feet in the air directly above a dazed Silver. Looking to put an end to this, the blue hedgehog immediately began diving down, curling back into a ball before beginning to rotate downward at blistering speeds, covering himself in a bluish-white aura as he continued his rapid dive!
The grey hedgehog, having managed to snap himself out of his dazed state, glanced at the bluish-white sphere that was zeroing in on him and, in a moment of desperation, held out his hands with a wave of psychic energy shooting upwards in an attempt to stop him. It would be of no use, however, as the wave evidently did nothing to slow the hedgehog down - let alone stop him.
"Game over, Silver!" Sonic declared right at the moment he managed to feel himself impact the grey hedgehog, forcing him down on the ground and leaving a few visible cracks that then turned into a small crater - roughly around the size of either hedgehog's body - directly below him.
Launching himself off of the downed psychokinetic and landing feet-first on the ground a few inches before him, Sonic took a short moment to examine the ground in front of him before moving closer towards the mini-crater. There, he found the grey hedgehog visibly struggling to get back up on his feet, grunting and breathing heavily all the while.
Ah damn... I might've gone a little too far, Sonic thought to himself with a slight frown on his face before moving closer towards Silver. "Hey, c'mon. We better get you some help. Those injuries look-" Sonic said before being cut off when the grey hedgehog suddenly reached his hand out towards the blue hedgehog, who then found himself unable to move - once again, he was at Silver's mercy
"I really wish I'd have gotten the jump on you and granted you a swift death," the grey hedgehog began as he lifted his other hand outward, his expression having turned into one of a cold, deathly calm once more. "I'll tell you right now - I don't take defeat in the face of my enemies lightly. Now, I'm going to make your last moments the most painful you'll ever get to feel; it's just as much as the one responsible for the world's end deserves!"
Sonic attempted to protest but was immediately cut off by the sudden feeling of his joints beginning to pop! Holy shit, is this guy for real?! He's actually going to try and tear my limbs apart?! the hedgehog thought to himself with a panicked and pained expression, as he continued to feel his limbs slowly but surely begin to pull away from his body, feeling every second of agony such an experience would subject to a person all throughout. Shit, and he's apparently gonna take his sweet time doing it too! Damn it, how do I get outta here?! How can I get outta here?!
After what felt like several agonizingly-long seconds of raw pain and torture, Sonic suddenly heard a familiar girlish voice cry out, "Stop!" 
Not a moment after, he heard something impact the other hedgehog, who then let out a cry in reaction. At that same instance, he felt himself falling back down on the ground, landing face down on the dirt. Now struggling to get back up himself, the hedgehog heard footsteps rapidly approaching his direction and turned to see not only Tails - he'd likely been looking for him for a while by now, but also a familiar pink hedgehog in her trademark red dress now standing in front of him, her arms held out sideways. {♫}
"Amy...?" both hedgehogs asked in unison, the unexpectedness of Silver apparently knowing Amy Rose prompting Sonic and the two-tailed fox to weakly turn to the grey hedgehog's direction.
"Get out of my way, Amy!" the psychokinetic continued, still maintaining his fighting stance. "I have a mission to complete!"
"Absolutely not!" the enraged pink hedgehog responded, not moving an inch from her spot as she then summoned her signature hammer on her hands. "I'm not going to let anyone hurt my friends! ...not even you, Silver."
"You know this guy, Amy?" Tails asked the pink hedgehog as he began to help Sonic up on his feet.
"Not a lot, but more than enough," Amy responded curtly, her eyes trained on Silver to ensure he doesn't try anything else. "Get Sonic back where you need him! I'll keep him busy."
Sonic tried to protest only for the pink hedgehog to continue, "Don't worry about me, Sonic. I can take care of myself! ...just promise me one thing?"
The blue hedgehog could only raise his eyebrows in wonder of what Amy was about to ask of him. "The next we see each other... can we talk?" the pink hedgehog finally declared after a moment of silence. "...I mean, have a serious talk?"
For the life of him, Sonic couldn't exactly figure out what Amy had meant by that. He wanted to guess it was about their current relationship, but something in the back of his mind was vehemently saying that it was something else. Something more serious than that. Still unable to pinpoint anything, he tried to half-heartedly answer, "Yeah... okay. I owe ya for the save, at least."
"Come on, Sonic, let's head back to the castle," Tails began as he began hovering a few feet above ground and, grabbing hold of Sonic's body - wanting to avoid lifting him by his arms for the moment, began flying off into the direction of the castle. "Ms. Helios finally has some intel for us."
As the duo flew off, Sonic looked back to where they had taken off and could vaguely see that both Silver and Amy had remained where they had left them. He couldn't tell what they were doing though, being too preoccupied with the pain having his limbs nearly pulled apart left him. ...I'm trusting you on this one, Amy, the hedgehog thought to himself between deep breaths before recalling the psychokinetic's drivel about him being this "Iblis Trigger" and causing the end of the world. 
He then turned to his two-tailed comrade and spoke, "...I think I might have some intel of my own."
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