Chaos Uncontrolled

Chapter 21

Sonic sighed as he hopped off the tornado. The flight back had been pretty quiet, and honestly he'd not been expecting that. Surely Super should have had something to say after their win, but the other hedgehog remained silent. Idly he listened to the conversations between the others while trying to see if he could get anything from Super. It felt almost like there was a wall between them; which Sonic didn't even know was possible. "Yo Super, you there?" Sonic thought. Nothing. Not even a stirring of emotion that could indicate Super was listening. Frowning, he tapped his chin in thought. He waved down Tails who gave him a confused look.

"What's up Sonic?" Tails asked after wandering over. "You look... well you don't look like you just won a battle against Eggman." Tails smiled.

"Super's... not talking to me. It's like he isn't even there at all." Sonic crossed his arms. "I didn't even know we could do that."

The fox frowned, concern clear. "Really? That seems... odd. Any idea why?"

Sonic shook his head. "No... I thought he'd have something to say about all this. Maybe bragging or something." He shrugged. "It's weird that he'd go completely silent on me."

"That is weird..." Tails placed a hand on his chin. "Also kind of concerning..."

Sonic flicked an ear. He glanced over at Shadow who gave him a questioning look. It looked like Knuckles had already left to go back to the master emerald. Sonic turned back to Tails. "We should probably try and figure this out. Just to be safe."

Slowly Tails nodded. "Yeah. That seems like a good idea. I guess technically he did keep up his end of the deal..."

"I don't think he'd go straight back to how he was before though." Sonic sighed, pinning his ears against his head. "It felt like we were getting through to him."

Tails' frown deepened. "Yeah..." Suddenly Tails got a determined look on his face as he hopped up to the tornado to retrieve the chaos emeralds. They'd managed to grab the rest of them before leaving Eggman's base. "I might have an idea." He looked up at Sonic as he walked back over. "Do you trust me?"

"Of course, bud." Sonic grinned. "Did you even have to ask?"

Tails smiled. "Then let's go back to where we were training and see if this works."

Sonic waved to Shadow just so the other wouldn't follow them. "Don't worry about us Shads. Just taking care of some business. I know you won't listen to me but you should get some rest."

The other hedgehog huffed. "I could say the same to you." He shot back, but still went to walk off back towards the shrine. Probably so he could meet up with the rest of team dark. "Try not to do anything too stupid." He added.

"No promises!" Sonic called out to Shadow's retreating back. The black hedgehog didn't even acknowledge that. He turned back to Tails. "Alright. Let's do this."

The fox nodded and led them to the spot that they'd used when Sonic and Super were training together. "Ok. Sit down." Tails gestured with his head to the ground. Without a word Sonic sat down. Tails began to set the chaos emeralds down around him. Sonic could see where this was probably going. Though neither of them had any idea how this would interact with Super. Clearly the fox's goal was to draw him out, but would this work? Or would Sonic just transform into his normal super form? There were a lot of unknown factors in this plan, but that just proved that Tails wanted to help. The fact that the fox was willing to try something he wasn't sure would work just meant he wanted to do this as quickly as they could. "Alright... you've probably guessed what I want you to do..." Tails paused in front of Sonic after he'd finished placing the chaos emeralds.

Sonic nodded. "Yeah, that much is pretty clear. Do you think it'll work though? I haven't tried to go super since all this."

Tails folded his ears down and looked away. "I... don't really have any other plan. Sure chaos energy has allowed him to take control before but that was all his choice as well. We've seen that he can choose to not take control if he wants to. This was the only thing I could think of that might force him out."