The Apocalypse 2: Rise of Zephiles [The Original]

Ch. 4

"Mephiles!"

"What is it Zephiles?"

Zephiles landed outside the base and folded his wings. "Get ready. They're headed to someplace called New York."

"New York? That's perfect."

"How is it perfect?"

"It means they're unfocused." he said, holding up a green Emerald. "Jason's going to pay for interfering in my plan." He looked at the Emerald. "He keeps getting in the way!"

"Well, we know where he's going. Shouldn't we go after him?" asked Zephiles.

Mephiles lowered the Emerald. "I'll go. You stay here. We can't risk revealing ourselves to the world just yet."

"What should I do?" asked Zephiles.

"You could try and look for that hedgehog you were talking about."

Zephiles let out a low growl. "I hate that hedgehog. He trapped me in time for a long time. Do you know what it's like? Living the same second over and over again?"

"No. I don't." said Mephiles. "Well, let's go our separate ways. Meet back here in one day exactly. We need to go over Plan B. Now that Jason eliminated my original plan."

"One day. That's all the time I need."

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"So. This is New York City." said Wave.

The group was standing on the roof of a tall building. "It's... big." said Jason.

"Well, it is a city, isn't it?" said Wave. It wasn't long before they were encountered by their next foe. Wave turned around and saw a cloud of black smoke hovering a few feet behind them. "Uh... Jason?"

"What?" he asked.

"Look." she said.

He turned around, as did everyone else, and saw the smoke. The black smoke came together to form a hedgehog.

"Who are you?" asked Knuckles.

"I am Mephiles. Mephiles the Dark." He looked at Jason. "So... you must be Jason. You've caused quite the predicament, you know."

"Predicament?" asked Jason. "You see, Jason. I'm sick of you getting in my way."

"'Get in your way'? I just met you."

"You remember Mekka, don't you? And how about that seal?" "What do you know of them?"

"They were essential pieces to my plan. They both failed. Now I was forced to unleash a new force of evil. All thanks to you."

"What do you mean?"

"You'll see." said Mephiles. "I don't want to ruin the surprise."

Jason ran for him just as he was evaporating again. "Get back here!" yelled Jason. Mephiles turned back into the black smoke and disappeared.

"So. I guess you were right." said Blaze. "Our enemy did show himself after all."

"Yeah." said Jason. "What did he mean when he said 'they were essential to my plan'?"

"Well, he could've left that black and blue slime at Antarctica." said Blaze. "After you killed the Leopard Seal, it must've fallen off."

"If that's the case, then Mephiles has one of last two Chaos Emeralds." said Jason.

"Oh, man!" said Sonic. "I forgot something."

"What?" said Jason, turning around.

"There's only six Emeralds, now. Remember? Mekka sent one back in time so I couldn't use them against him."

"That's right. So that means that the only one left is now with Mephiles. Do you remember which one he sent back in time?"

"Yeah. It was the red one." said Sonic.

"That means Mephiles has the green one." said Tails.

"Exactly." said Jason.

"Actually..." said Knuckles. Everyone turned to look at him. "There's one more."

"What?" said Jason. "What is it?"

"The Master Emerald." said Knuckles.