Chapter One: Early Signs

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When Sonic the hedgehog defeated another one of Eggman's plots he couldn't done it without the help of his friend Brandy Harrington. The power of the emeralds brought Sonic back to life. For chaos emeralds can create miracles, unbelievable feats that can change the course of any event. The emeralds have both positive and negative energies, but what if our fateful hero absorbs the negative energy? For every hero has a dark side.

Sonic sat on a tree branch in the Amazon Jungle, the place where he stopped Eggman from creating a new base at. Sonic looked to his left and hopped of the branch. He sped off to the tree house to see brandy. Sonic opened the door, he saw her still sleeping in bed. Sonic closed the door quietly.

He walked over to the window and looked out it. He sighed "Where could you be Eggman?'' he whispered. Suddenly whiskers came right through the window, surprising sonic. "HI!!'' he yelled. His loud shriek caused brandy to fall off the bunk. Sonic quickly caught her. "What is going on?'' she asked just waking up. She noticed Sonic was carrying her, he put her on her feet. "Well I just got here and whiskers came out of nowhere, so yeah you know the rest.'' sonic explained.

Brandy sighed tiredly and went to the bathroom and shut the door. "You need to work on your entrances.'' sonic stated "Hey! Well I guess so.'' whiskers admitted. "So what've you been up to?'' whiskers asked "I just got the feeling Eggman won't stay quiet for long, he's planning something and I don't like it.'' sonic said crossing his arms. "Don't worry too much you just might get it.'' whiskers said. Sonic went over to the door and left running through the jungle. Brandy came out of the bathroom dressed in her casual clothes. "Where'd Sonic go?'' she asked "He just left, he seems very worried about what this Eggman guy is up to.'' whiskers explained. Brandy looked out the window and saw the trail of dust he left floating into the air, her worries started to stir of what might happen.

The volcano where sonic and metal sonic fought remained silent. The old wreckage of the egg carrier remained there. The lava that once stirred inside the volcano is now hardened, the molten rock started to crack. A hand came bursting out of it, the hand was entirely made of metal.

Sonic sat against a tree looking up into the sky. "Sonic!'' a voice cried out. Sonic immediately stood up. He ran to the source, he saw brandy walking through the jungle. He came to a stop in front of her which made her jump. "You call?'' he said simply "We need to talk.'' she responded "About what exactly?'' sonic said, raising an eyebrow. "Just follow me.'' she said and started walking.

Sonic looked down and followed her. They both stopped at a hill overlooking the jungle. She sat its edge with sonic sitting next to her. "So what do you want to talk about.'' he spoke first "You've been acting strange lately.'' she replied "Me, strange?'' he replied surprised.

"Nothing personal sonic, but I think your worrying too much about Eggman returning.'' she told him "Well maybe because he might.'' he said trying to get through her. "I'm just worrying about the people around me, I don't want to lose anyone out here.'' sonic said lowering his head "I'm here.'' brandy said putting a hand on his shoulder. He looked at her hand then at her. She turned toward him putting her hand on his cheek. Sonic didn't know what he was doing. Their faces grew closer to each other until a rumble came. Sonic stood up, scanning the area. A explosion hit the under the hill they were standing on. The hill crumbled below brandy's feet causing her to fall.

Sonic quickly dove after her. He reached out his hand and so did she. He caught her grip and took her in his arms. Sonic moved himself in the air, they landed on the ground safely. Sonic put her down, ran to a bush and took out his air board. "What is that?'' she said surprised "Its an air board come here.'' She walked over to the blue hedgehog he picked her up and got on the board. The board lifted off the ground slightly then shot off like a rocket. The wind blowing against their faces was nothing except for brandy though.

Sonic looked behind them as Egg Gunners were on their tail. "Well looks like you were right about Eggman returning." she said. Sonic steered the board through the jungle, bullets started passing by them quickly. Sonic turned the board around and stopped it. "Brandy start running, I'll handle this.'' he told her. Brandy hopped off the board, sonic immediately took off as soon as she did.

Sonic built up speed, the robots went faster as well. Sonic pushed the air board off the ground making it turn sideways. The board punched through the three robots with sonic landing safely. Sonic turned the board around only to see five Egg Titans. Sonic glared, he got off the board and threw it to the side. The robots raised their cannons and fired. Sonic had already charged, he spun in a ball and speared right through one of the robots. Sonic turned around and lunged at another, but only to be met by one of the robots slamming its fist into sonic. Sonic left an imprint where he was just slammed into. "Whoa!'' he yelped. A Egg Titan drove its fist down at him, but he back flipped out of the way. After that sonic swung his foot at its leg destroying it, causing the robot to fall sideways.

Sonic finished it by jumping up into the air and dove his foot into the robots chest, sonic jumped away as it blew up into pieces. Sonic noticed on his left and right, Egg Titans stretched their fists at him but both ended up by knocking each other out. The last one fired a powerful missile when Sonic's back was turned. He reacted by turning around and kicking it back at the Egg Titan, the missile impacted the robots surface creating a ball of fire. Sonic then walked away from the incident with no care, is something happening to the blue blur? His actions in fighting were different, possibly more violent.

Eggman was on his new Egg Carrier, following him was his fleet of many other ships. He was sitting in the bridge. One of his worker robots came in. "Sir, the robots you sent were destroyed by Sonic what are your orders?'' the robot waited "Oh do not worry, the more sonic uses violent methods, he'll get more use to it, than he shall be consumed by it.'' he laughed evilly afterwards.

Sonic was on his way back to the tree house. When he went in brandy greeted him with a hug. "You alright?'' she asked worriedly "Yeah Yeah.'' he replied without caring. Strangely the green chaos emerald which sonic kept was now blinking and close to grey colors it returned to its normal colors when sonic sat down. "You sure your alright?'' she asked "Yes, I'm sure.'' he replied. She smiled "Well I'm going to the mall bye.'' She exited the house and was gone. Sonic got on the lower bunk and closed his eyes and tried to get some sleep in.