Fooled To Love

The Final Fight

Growling under his breath, "Knuckles don't you dare jump."

Laying a hand on his shoulder, "Just stick to the plan. He won't jump."

Knuckles jumped.

Eyes narrowing dangerously, "I don't care about the plan anymore. Go save him. I'll take care of Mephiles."

Worried for the one she took care of, she nodded, rushing to help him.

And he ran to the dark being, red eyes burning with ever growing anger.

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Mephiles went to walk away, but was stopped by a kick to the side of his head. The sound caused the three mourning members of Team Sonic to look up.

Shadow stood tall, eyes shinning with hatred towards his look alike. Mephiles looked at him, growling.

"Shadow!?" The three on the other side of the gap shouted in surprise. Shadow's ears twitched as he looked towards them.

"You're alive!?" Tails gasped out.

"Of course." Shadow huffed. "I'm not an idiot. I know not to stay on a burning helicopter."

"What happened!? Did you cause that explosion!?" Amy asked.

"No. I had some help." Shadow crossed his arms.

As if on cue, a loud shrieking could be heard and the group looked down to see Sticks and Knuckles swinging on a vine. The shrieking came from Knuckles. Sticks looked up and gave Shadow a thumbs up, crawling up the vine with Knuckles following her. The three sighed in relief.

Shadow smiled, seeing that Knuckles was safe and that it seemed Sonic was too. The moment was cut short, for Mephiles had tackled him.

Team Sonic noticed this and decided that they were going to help Shadow. Mephiles stopped them by summoning clones of himself to keep them on the other side. Shadow growled and kicked him off, quickly getting up.

The more Knuckles tried to get to Shadow, the more Mephiles' clones blocked his way. He tried his best, as did everyone else, but it was basically no use. They decided to deal with the clones until there was a clear opening.

Sonic was in no condition to fight, and he knew that. But there was no way that he'd sit in the sidelines and watch. He blocked out his pain as he tried to fight like he usually did. The other's noticed his pain, though, and they weren't going to have him any more hurt than he already was.

"Sonic!" Amy shouted as she hit two clones in a row with her hammer, them disappearing by a puff of smoke. "Go sit down! You're hurt enough!"

"No way!" Sonic shouted, spin dashing into another one while wincing at the pain it caused. He really did struggle too much with the tight ropes, and it might've been a bad idea to kick his captor with his bound legs when they were leaving the place with the emerald.

"Sonic! Sit down!" Amy glared towards him, anger and worry present in her eyes. And that one look made him give up and sit on the sidelines, massaging the aches on his legs. He hasn't moved them in what felt like forever, them being bound and all. Content with their friend on the sidelines, the rest of Team Sonic continued to go through the Mephiles clones.

Sonic stared at his friend's seeing them struggle to keep up with the ever growing clones. There had to be a way to stop him. But what? There had to be something he was missing, something important.

Then it hit him.

The large emerald.

It had to have enough power to stop Mephiles! And Knuckles could probably use it easily!