The Apocalypse 3: Revenge [The Original]

Ch. 29+30

"I knew it."

Wave looked behind her as did Jason.

"Shadow!" Wave said.

He lifted her off the floor by her neck.

"I knew you still felt something for this kid." Shadow said. "I wanted to believe in you, Wave. I really did. But I had a feeling that the more time you spent with this boy the higher the risk that you'd turn back. You're a weakling and a traitor."

"You're right, Shadow." Wave said. "I am a traitor. But it wasn't you I betrayed. It was my friends."

"You're pathetic." Shadow said, throwing her hard into the wall.

"Wave!" Jason yelled.

"I'll just kill you both." Shadow said.

Jason kicked Shadow's legs out from under him and stood up. Jason tried a kick but Shadow grabbed his foot and pulled him down to the ground. He then threw Jason across the room and stood up.

"You guys are weak. Give me a real fight."

"You want a fight?" came a voice.

Everyone looked at the entrance.

"Blaze!" Wave yelled weakly.

"Blaze?" Jason asked.

Shadow spotted the bandage around around her stomach.

"Are you kidding me right now?" Shadow said. "You're already injured. What makes you think you can stand a chance against me?"

"Because I have something worth fighting for." Blaze answered.

"Blaze!" Wave yelled, grabbing both of her swords. "Catch!" She threw Blaze both swords.
   Blaze caught them and ran toward Shadow. She launched an attack but Shadow quickly snatched his sword off the floor and blocked the attack. He countered with a kick which Blaze managed to dodge. She attacked with both swords but Shadow quickly held his sword up horizontally and blocked.

"I'm impressed." Shadow said. "Blaze, is it? I'm going to enjoy destroying you."

He stepped to the side causing Blaze to stumble forward. She managed to find her footing in time to turn around and block an attack. Shadow attacked with such force that knocked one of Blaze's swords out of her hand. Blaze transferred her empty hand to support the other sword. Shadow advanced forward causing Blaze to have to walk backwards to avoid falling. Shadow forced her up against the wall by the entrance. Blaze could feel herself losing her grip on the sword. Then, before she could react, Shadow took his empty hand and punched her in the stomach. The same spot where Wave had stabbed her. Blaze let out a scream of pain and dropped to her knees, clutching her wound.

"Like I said, Blaze. How do you expect to win when you're already wounded?"

Blaze, with all her remaining strength, stood up, grabbed Shadow and slammed him into the wall. Shadow broke her grip and punched her twice in the chest before knocking her to the ground with a blow to the head.

"Blaze!" Jason and Wave both yelled.

Blaze collapsed to the floor. The others were starting to wake up. Sonic was the only one to see Blaze collapse to the floor.

"Blaze?" he said weakly.

"That's it." Jason said.

He grabbed his sword and stood up. Shadow watched as Blaze's fingers began to twitch. He started to raise his foot to finish the job when a fireball struck him on the side of his head. He stumbled backwards, looked over, and saw Jason.

"We're not through yet!" he yelled. "Not by a long shot!"

Jason charged at Shadow at full speed and attacked. The blow was blocked but still made Shadow stumble backwards.

"You're gonna pay for what you've done, Shadow." Jason said. "You corrupted Wave. You hurt Blaze."

"Correction, Jason." Shadow said. "You corrupted Wave when you got her killed. Her anger and hatred was your doing."

Jason attacked with full force, almost knocking Shadow's sword out of his hand.

"That's it, Jason. Use your anger to win."

"You're not gonna trick me into turning like you did to Wave so you can just forget it. I can control myself."

Shadow swung and Jason blocked then stepped to the side and countered. Shadow jumped backwards to dodge the attack.

"Finally." Shadow said. "A challenge."

The two charged at each other and launched an arsenal of attacks ranging from punching and kicking to sword thrusts and swipes. Both blocking each other's attacks. They were evenly matched. They both swung and ended up in a sword-lock. Now it was a power struggle.

"I'm more powerful than you, Jason. It's no use."

"Nothing's more powerful than someone with a purpose." Jason said. "I will beat you."

"Good luck."

Shadow stepped to the side and Jason stumbled forward. He held his sword behind his back to block Shadow's attack. He kicked Shadow in the stomach, spun around, and attacked. Shadow blocked but stumbled backwards. Jason kept attacking and Shadow kept backing up. Jason swung but Shadow jumped back and held up his hands in front of him.

"Chaos... BLAST!" he yelled, and a red orb of energy erupted from him.

Jason held up his hands to try to hold it back. It was kind of working. As the edge of the red orb hit Jason it slowed down.

"I can't hold it!" Jason yelled.

Just then a stream of fire struck the side of the orb and Jason looked behind him. Blaze was struggling not to fall down while she launched a continuous stream of fire at the orb. She slowly took large steps forward to try to hold back the attack.

"Blaze!" Jason said. "What are you doing? You're hurt!"

"I know... what... I'm doing." she said. "Trust me."

He looked back at the massive orb in front of him. He was starting to slide backwards.

"It's no use!" Jason yelled. "It's too powerful!"

"Don't... give... up." Blaze said, increasing the power of her fire.

The power of the orb was starting to damage Jason. It ended up knocking him backwards.

"Jason." Blaze said. "Please. Get... up. I can't... do it... alone."

Jason struggled to get to his knees and looked up at the orb. It was slowly getting bigger. He stood up and launched a continuous stream of fire as well. He greatly increased the power of the fire as did Blaze.

"We're still not powerful enough!" Jason yelled.

"We'll need to go... full power."

"You think you can do it?"

"No... choice."

"Then let's go for it."

They both concentrated all of their energy and increased the power of the fire to its maximum. The orb started to shrink but Shadow increased his power, too.

"It's no use! We can't do it alone!" Jason yelled.

"You won't have to." Wave said, stepping next to Jason and launching a continuous stream of Dark Energy at the orb.    She then proceeded to increase its power to its maximum. The stream of Dark Energy turned pitch black and looked as if it was trying to consume the Chaos Blast orb. The extra power was exactly what was needed. The orb began to rapidly shrink until it imploded against Shadow and then exploded. What happened?, Jason thought. Did we win?