Dark Enerjak

"It seems that there really are beings as powerful as me in the Multiverse. HOW WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!"

## General Information

### Song

Courtesy Call By Thousand Foot Krutch [4]

## Physical Appearance

### Additional Info

Dark Enerjak has a room with the bodies of those he removed the Core from, in short, the original bodies of his Prelates

## Character

Dark Enerjak is Knuckles. He is the alternate version of Enerjak from Dark Mobius. In this Zone, the evil spirit of Enerjak devastated the world by corrupting the Guardian, Knuckles the Echidna as he controlled large amounts of Chaos energy as Chaos Knuckles and eventually possessing him, thus becoming Dark Enerjak.

## Backstory

The reunification meeting between Dimtri, the Echidnaopolis High Council, and the Mitre went well, but after the assassination attempt, Knuckles felt that using his "death" as a point of debate indicated that the wrong people were in charge, and that he was more prepared to make the necessary changes.  Knuckles eventually took control of the Dark Legion and absolved the High Council to forcibly unify everyone, even adopting cybernetics to show his sincerity in closing the gap. However, Knuckles found his allies increasingly at odds with these decisions, thinking that they were just jealous, rather than realizing that they feared that Knuckles' power was affecting their judgment. Upon discovering that his own friends and family oppose him even after killing Dr. Eggman and beginning to lead the Dark Legion to “fix things on Mobius”, Knuckles resolved to treat them as obstacles if they still did not give in.

In time, even Julie-Su left Knuckles, as she had become pregnant and did so to protect her unborn child from his growing madness.  Despite all his power, Knuckles did not know that she was pregnant, leaving him deeply hurt and confused by her departure. However, facing greater resistance, Knuckles decided that he would look for Julie-Su after the situation was controlled.

As his efforts to bring order to Mobius took their toll over the years, Knuckles would rest to strengthen his second sight. Remington tried to use this to kill Knuckles with a bomb in his quarters, however, the explosion did nothing but make Knuckles realize he was alone, his family had abandoned him, his friends had become his enemies, and even the loyalty of his followers was in question. As he had fought entire armies alone, at this point, he believed he needed a better title than “Guardian” to reflect his kind of power and vision as he tried to “fix” the world. This was the final blow, as Knuckles gave in to the corrupting influence of Enerjak's spirit and embraced the title, his ego deluding him into believing he would become a hero to Mobius, thus becoming Dark Enerjak.

Once Knuckles accepted the name Enerjak, he spread his conquest to the rest of the world with the Dark Legion and its renamed capital city of Nekronopolis under his command, hoping to disrupt Knuckles' ability to wage war. GUN caused Team Dark (seven unidentified members) infiltrated Angel Island during Operation: Night Fire to steal the Master Emerald. Shortly after Team Dark secured the Master Emerald in the Hidden Palace Zone, their operation was foiled by Knuckles.

Knuckles, after a while, began to experiment with his powers and discovered that he could extract the very life force of living beings as a concentrated form called the Core. With more effort, he created synthetic warriors from them called Prelates, whose robotic nature and complete obedience to Knuckles made them more ideal soldiers to the point where he performed the process on everyone he could, whether they were allies or enemies. The remains of his victims were empty, lifeless husks, perfectly preserved by magic, which he then mounted as trophies on the inner walls of his Citadel in a grotesque zoo.

As all this happened, the resistance developed its own plans. While Sally Acorn searched for the Sword of Acorns and made alliances, Sonic aimed to gather the Chaos Emeralds so he could become Super Sonic and stop Knuckles head-on. Though Sonic was able to do so with the help of Amy, Tails, and Mammoth Mogul, Knuckles proved to be very powerful in battle and stole Sonic's Chaos Emeralds so that his power would remain unmatched. Knuckles deeply crushed his opponents, including Super Sonic, and made him another victim by extracting his Core.

With this turn of events, very little resistance remained other than the Dark Freedom Fighters led by Julie-Su and Lara-Su. Eventually, Knuckles even removed Julie-Su's Core when she was captured during an attack, and Lara-Su began her search for the Sword of Acorns. This caused Enerjak to sink Downunda after her Prelates failed to stop Nack the Weasel on his wayto retrieve it, either because he knew the Sword was on the continent, or because the Freedom Fighters planned to drain his powers with the blade. Knuckles defeated Sonic, Shadow, and several powerful heroes, and Knuckles completely dominated the World and had little resistance left.

## How and why he would join Bad End Friends

Having conquered the world, Knuckles (now Dark Enerjak) turned to his Prelates fighting the Freedom Fighters for fun, but as time passed he desired new challenges to maintain his interest, and sent Prelates to other realities to explore and locate those which would be fun to conquer, until Prelate-V (one of Dark Enerjak's minions) found Bipper in a random dimension. Bipper found Prelate-V's appearance interesting and then killed him. After Bipper killed the creature, Bipper decided to go to Prelate-V's home universe to find out who sent him. Dark Enerjak saw a portal open in front of him, and Bipper appeared. Dark Enerjak thought Bipper was just another weakling and threw an energy attack at Bipper, thinking that Bipper would die easily, but after seeing that Bipper was still alive, Dark Enerjak quickly realized that Bipper was powerful and they began to fight. After a long battle, Dark Enerjak had never felt so alive. Bipper recognizes the strength of Dark Enerjak, saying that he is recruiting members for his group and asks if Dark Enerjak wants to join them. Dark Enerjak, seeing that there could be incredibly powerful beings throughout the Multiverse, accepts the invitation, and so Dark Enerjak joins the BEF.

## Appearance

Dark Enerjak wears golden armor with a faceplate. His design features a lot of black in addition to red and gold. He has gold and black bands on his dreadlocks and huge golden claws on the back of his hands. He also wears a large cape (black with red interior). Additionally, this design features robotic elements. There are cables running through his arms and inside his dreadlocks, and his right eye appears to be mechanical, surrounded by an Eye of Horus-like design in red. His left eye is purple.

## Personality

Dark Enerjak shares many characteristics with Dimitri, although perhaps he is more crazy and sadistic than his predecessor. Dark Enerjak is very confident, as he was completely confident in his abilities and dominance over his World, the Dark Freedom Fighters were just toys to keep him entertaining him. He sent his Prelates in search of new worlds for him to conquer, showing that Dark Enerjak wants a challenge worthy of himself. He will be utterly fascinated if he finds someone as powerful as him and will be delighted by the prospect of a true challenge to his own divine power. He is also very arrogant and looks down on those who are weak.

## Abilities

* Immeasurable Physical Characteristics (Dark Enerjak defeated all the heroes and creatures in his world, including Super Sonic and Shadow with practically no difficulty, and also stole and absorbed the power of the Chaos Emeralds, so he has strong strength, speed, agility, endurance and Divine Level stamina)

* Creativity (Dark Enerjak was also shown to be much more creative with his powers compared to his Prime Zone counterpart)

* Chaos Power (Dark Enerjak is much more skilled at using Chaos energy in battle, creating huge shockwaves of Chaos energy with his punches that could hit multiple targets, effortlessly tossing entire buildings using his energy and even lifting the entire Angel Island with extreme ease)

* Near-Omnipotence (Compared to most beings, anyone who takes on the mantle of Enerjak is a near-omnipotent being, capable of altering reality on a whim, as well as manipulating space-time)

* Energy Weapons (can create giant weapon-like constructs using his Chaos energy, such as a giant hammer, a spiked fist, or a solid wall of raw energy, etc.)

* Divine Energy (can fire incredibly powerful and destructive attacks and energy blasts)

* Core/Prelates (Dark Enerjak has the unique ability to steal Cores from individuals and transform them into his Prelates, slaves who feel nothing and who will obey any of his commands Dark Enerjak can teleport Prelates to their current location, so he can summon any Prelate at any time)

* Teleportation (can teleport unimaginable distances)

* Telekinesis (Chaos Control can be used as Telekinesis and can levitate objects or people in the air, trapping them within orbs of Chaos energy)

* Telepathy (can communicate and mentally give orders to his Prelate slaves)

* Flying/Levitation (being able to fly at extremely fast speeds)

* Travel between dimensions (with Chaos Control, Dark Enerjak can travel between dimensions and alternative universes. This is how he sends his Prelates to other realities)

## Weaknesses

* Arrogance (Dark Enerjak is very powerful and therefore will underestimate any person or creature that appears weak)

* Ways to be defeated (Enerjak is permanently in Knuckles' body as long as there are no external circumstances that take him out of the body, such as death or being subjected to a magical artifact or siphon device, things that drain Enerjak's powers and reverts him back to who he was before becoming Enerjak, which can make Dark Enerjak extremely weak)

## Interactions with the BEF

Dark Enerjak doesn't care about any BEF, but gives some merit to Bad End Friends who are at least a little powerful, but the only BEF that Dark Enerjak actually has fun facing is Bipper, the only one he considers "really strong". Fleetway Sonic, Evil Jake, The Powerpunk Girls, Borushiki, Demon King Tanjiro have already challenged Dark Enerjak to a battle, but they were all defeated, and they were only not killed because Dark Enerjak saw "some potential" in them and so he let them live.

## Behind the scenes

Dark Enerjak first appeared in Sonic Universe #25 of the spin-off comic series Sonic Universe published by Archie Comics.

## Trivia

* Dark Enerjak travels through dimensions in search of "fun," wanting to find opponents worthy of his divine power

* Dark Enerjak is the third character from Sonic The Hedgehog to join the BEF (not counting Ghost Amy, who is from the Anime: Sonic X), the first being Fleetway Sonic and the second being Mecha Sally

* Dark Enerjak began influencing and, after a while, possessed Knuckles, which indicates that his possession is not immediate