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Silver Unleashed Chapter 3: Escape

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Chapter 3: Escape

“Chip…” Silver repeated. “…Wait Light Gaia…?”

“Yeah! I’m Light Gaia. I’m tasked with saving the Earth from Dark Gaia.” Chip replied.

“What the heck is a Dark Gaia…?” Silver asked in confusion.

“Well he’s-” Chip started before his eyes moved down to Silver’s wrist to see his bracelet…tainted purple. His expression changed from happy to shocked and worried.

“Hey…are you…ok?” Silver asked, starting to feel dizzy.

“That’s…how did it get Dark Gaia…?” Chip muttered quietly to himself. Silver lowered his brows in confusion.

“Um…what’s wrong?” Silver asked again. Chip shook his head and looked back at Silver.

“I’ll explain it later. We need to get out of here.” Chip said, now with a tone of seriousness. He flew behind and pushed on Silver’s back trying to force him into a standing position.

“What’s the sudden urgency? What’s, ow, going on?” Silver asked, grasping his wrist again.

“Later. We need to get out of here.” Chip urged, as he pushed Silver.

“All right, I’m…getting up.” Silver muttered as he stumbled into a standing position. Pain shot through his whole body as he got up, making him buckle over.

“Come on Silver!” Chip said, sounding more urgent.

“I-I’m trying…” Silver replied, pushing himself back up again. He tried to ignore the pain as best he could. He moved forward to the Temple’s entrance with Chip pushing him forward.

They both began the walk back through the tunnel to West Crisis City, with Chip using his Light Gaia energy so they could see where they were going. Progress was slower than when Silver first came in due to the ever-present dizziness and pain, supposedly from the bracelet around his wrist. Silver tried to ask Chip what was going on, but Chip was rather serious about getting out of the tunnel to somewhere safe. Silver decided not to question it, and kept moving despite how difficult it was to take a simple step forward. It took quite the long time to exit the cave but when they did the two were met with not just West Crisis City.

Silver stumbled out of the tunnel and collapsed onto his knees, feeling dizzier than before. His vision began to spin, and the pain pounded through his body. He looked up to be met by multiple dark purple and red creatures scattered all over. His eyes widened when he made out the red parts as lava and fire…lava and fire.

“Iblis…” Silver whispered in awe.

“The nightmares…what happened to them?” Chip questioned in shock seeing the flames incorporated into their dark bodies. He turned towards Silver who looked just as shocked as Chip.

“Silver we need to get somewhere safe! Do you know someplace we could go?” Chip asked urgently. Silver, stuck in a trance, did not reply. He only stared at the nightmares.

“Silver! Snap out of it!” Chip shouted. Silver shook his head slightly, and turned to Chip.

“What…? Oh man…” Silver’s vision was progressively getting worse as he now saw multiple Chips spinning slowly across his eyes. He shut them tightly and groaned as a headache began to pound within his head.

“Silver we need somewhere safe now!” Chip shouted, as nightmares started to slowly make their way towards the two of them.

“East Crisis City…there’s…wh-where I live…th-there are others there…a lot of others…” Silver managed to reply, not opening his eyes.

“East Crisis City…so where are we??” Chip pressured, backing up slightly as the nightmares began to close them off.

“West…Crisis City…” Silver mumbled, grabbing his head in pain.

“West?” Chip started.

“Just…go the opposite direction from...the setting sun.” Silver hissed.

“Well that’s helpful, since the sun has already set!” Chip exclaimed sarcastically.

“Not…not so loud…” Silver grumbled, cracking one of his eyes open. Everything was spinning passed by him at top speed. He immediately closed his eye and groaned, the dizziness getting worse.

“I can’t…help you.” Silver mumbled apologetically. Chip made an annoyed sound just as a nightmare wrapped its arm around Chip’s small leg. Chip yelped slightly as the nightmare tried to pull him away from Silver.

“Let go of me!!” Chip shouted, fear present in his tone.

“Chip? What’s going on…? Where are you?!” Silver exclaimed, turning his head in different directions.

“CHAOS LIGHT!” Chip chanted, causing a huge orb of light to blast from his hands. The nightmare hissed as the light reached its arm, causing its dark skin to burn. The rest of the nightmares backed away from the blast, hissing and growling at the pure light energy. As the light dissipated, Chip turned back to Silver who looked completely lost and very weak.

This isn’t going to work!’ Chip thought as he flew back over to Silver’s side.

“Silver we need to get to East Crisis City. I need you to try to think exactly where it is.” Chip urged. Silver nodded in reply and tried to think despite his horrible headache.

“Why do I need to-”

“I’m going to warp us out of here and I need an exact location. If you can’t direct me there, I’ll just have to get the location from your memory.” Chip explained.

“You can do that-”

“Silver think!” Chip exclaimed, interrupting Silver again. “I don’t have much energy left and if I use another blast we’ll be stuck here.”

“All right…all right I’m thinking…” Silver muttered. Chip turned to see the nightmares were still thrown off from the light blast, however a few of them were beginning to shake off the effects. They hissed in anger and frustration as they started to advance on Chip and Silver again, this time with a little more aggression.

Silver thought desperately, trying to get a clear picture of the library in East Crisis City, since that was the clearest place in his memory. He thought of the many bookshelves stacked with books and papers, the upper circular level of the library still being rebuilt, the professor’s office around the corner once you walked inside the building. He slowly brought his thoughts together to make the image of the library.

“Chip, I think I got it.” Silver said, putting both hands on his temples trying to keep that image in his mind. Chip immediately turned back to Silver and placed one of his small hands on Silver’s forehead.

“Keep that image as clear as possible!” Chip exclaimed, glancing back to see the rest of the nightmares in the area sprinting toward the two. Chip yelped slightly before focusing on Silver’s thoughts.

“CHAOS LIGHT!” Chip chanted once again, causing another orb of light to encircle the two. The orb grew big for a few seconds before closing in on the two of them and disappearing out of sight just as the nightmares made a leap to attack.



Traveling through what Chip called Chaos Light felt extremely similar to Chaos Control but the ride was far bumpier due to Chip only being able to use his energy in bursts. With the pounding headache, aching body and dizziness plaguing Silver, the ride caused him to feel overly nauseous. The nauseous feeling caused his mind to drift away from the clear image of the library, resulting in the ride to becoming even bumpier than before.

“Silver! You need to focus!” Chip shouted, trying to concentrate on bringing the image back into Silver’s mind. Silver nodded slowly as he attempted to ignore the multiple unpleasant feelings coursing through his body, and focused on the image of the library.



The professor walked outside the doors of the library and stood on the top steps, his gaze towards the sky. He was considerably worried that Silver hadn’t come back after about an hour, which is the time he estimated he would be done making sense of Pickle’s notes. He crossed his arms and sighed. He hoped that Silver hadn’t gotten into any sort of trouble since he, for some reason, liked to go to the West and spend a ton of time out there. Silver always brought things back to put in the library but the professor couldn’t help but feel worried every time Silver went into West Crisis City.

“Silver, I really hope you haven’t gotten yourself into any trouble.” The professor muttered slightly, as he sat down on the steps to the library. He sat in silence, letting his mind wander. Suddenly, a bright flash of light appeared above him and he quickly brought his gaze upwards to see two figures falling incredibly fast towards the ground. He barely had time to dive out of the way as one of the figures slammed into the ground while the other abruptly stopped before coming in contact with the ground. The professor stood up and ran over to the two of them.

“Are you two all right-” He stopped when he saw one of the two was Silver. “Oh no…”
The other figure quickly flew over to Silver’s side and tried waking him up, but Silver had been knocked unconscious by the hard impact.

“He needs help!” Chip exclaimed, turning towards the professor.

“Of course! I’ll bring him inside the library. There’s a couch he can lie on in my study.” The professor said, as he knelt down and picked Silver off of the ground. He leaned Silver’s limp body against his own and hauled Silver inside the library with the small creature following.

Once inside, the professor brought Silver into the study and laid him on the couch. The professor checked to see if Silver had broken anything from the impact, and fortunately he was going to be all right. He let out a heavy sigh of relief before turning to look at the small creature that had appeared with Silver.

“Who are you?” The professor asked. “I haven’t seen you around here before. Are you from another part of the world?”

The small creature was silent for a moment before looking at the professor.

“My name is Light Gaia, but you can call me Chip. And I’ve lived here for ages…” Chip said, his sentence trailing off. The professor’s eyes widened slightly when he heard the name ‘Light Gaia’.

“Light Gaia…” he repeated quietly, his gaze falling to the floor. “Light Gaia…was from Professor Pickle’s notes that Silver asked me to make sense of earlier today.”

Chip looked a little surprised at the comment.

“Professor Pickle? But he was alive over 200 years ago. How did you possibly find his notes?” Chip asked, his curiosity rising. The professor brought his eyes back up to meet with Chip’s.

“Silver found them the previous day while exploring West Crisis City. He found an old college full of many books in fairly good condition and brought them back here. He also found this Professor Pickle’s journal and when he brought it back he wanted me to clean up the notes.” The professor explained, as he reached over to his desk and grabbed the journal off of it. “I did make sense of it all…but I will explain that later. Right now I want to know what happened to you and Silver. I was worried when he didn’t come back after a few hours.”

Chip glanced away from the professor to Silver and then down to the floor.

“I only just met him tonight. He awakened me when he brought my bracelet into the Light Gaia Temple. Once I awoke, we introduced each other but that didn’t last long when I noticed that Silver was wearing my Gaia bracelet and that it had been tainted with Dark Gaia energy, which shouldn’t be possible. I got worried and told Silver we needed to leave so we made our way out of the temple and exited through a long winding tunnel leading out to what you call West Crisis City. The situation was gradually turning worse as Silver started to show signs of pain and dizziness which I can only assume the bracelet was literally injecting Dark Gaia energy into his body causing his healthy condition to deteriorate. I’m guessing that the Dark Gaia energy is still being injected seeing as the bracelet remains dark purple instead of its normal color: green.” Chip explained, pointing to the bracelet clamped tightly on Silver’s wrist. The professor nodded slowly.

“Yes, earlier this morning Silver tried removing the bracelet but it wouldn’t budge…” The professor muttered, bringing a hand to his chin in thought.

“The bracelet probably latched onto his DNA signature and won’t let go until this whole ordeal with Dark Gaia is over.” Chip guessed.

“Dark Gaia. That name was also mentioned within the text of this journal.” The professor added, tapping the journal’s cover. “Once you’ve finished explaining what happened tonight, I want you to tell me everything about Dark Gaia.”

“Of course.” Chip replied before continuing with his story. “As we exited the long tunnel, Silver was close to passing out; the pain and dizziness had increased immensely. That was incredibly unfortunate, because when we exited the cave multiple nightmare creatures were already roaming the city and Silver was unable to navigate us both through the city to get somewhere safe, and I am in no condition to fight back since this planet has so little Light energy. So I asked him to focus on East Crisis City and he chose to focus on the library, hence why we fell on the steps to it. Silver lost concentration on the ride here and we ended up landing outside on the steps. I was able to summon up enough Light energy to get here, which was awfully lucky…”

There was a long silence after Chip had finished telling the professor the story. The professor registered everything Chip had said, and thought it over before looking down at the journal once more.

“All right,” The professor said breaking the long silence, “Now tell me everything about the Dark and Light Gaia phenomenon. I gained a bit of knowledge through Professor Pickle’s notes but he only told of the story where the famous hero, Sonic, defeated Dark Gaia with the help of you, Light Gaia.”

Chip nodded in reply, feeling a pang of sadness at the mention of Sonic.
“Yes…Dark Gaia. It is a large entity that slumbers in the planet’s core. I sleep as well and the both of us gain energy over the ages that we are in slumber. When Dark Gaia gains enough energy, he awakens causing the planet to break apart and allowing darkness to flow all across the broken pieces of the planet. When he wakes up, I wake up as well and my job is to put the planet back together and seal Dark Gaia within it, making sure to drain him of his energy so he will sleep for another few eons.” Chip explained. “But, the two of us shouldn’t even be awake this early! When we were awoken over 260 years ago, that was also early because Doctor Eggman decided to use Dark Gaia for a plot to take over the world. With only about 260 years of sleep, it’s impossible for the both of us to have enough energy to awaken but for some reason a great source of energy drained into the planet’s core allowing Dark Gaia to wake up prematurely.”

“Iblis…” The professor whispered immediately. Chip raised one of his brows as he heard the professor.

“Iblis. I heard Silver say that name earlier when we exited the cave. The nightmares, which are the spread out spawns of Dark Gaia, had lava and flames incorporated into their bodies and Silver called it Iblis.” Chip recalled.

“Yes. Iblis, the Flames of Disaster, is what caused our world to become desolate and apocalyptic. He is a fire entity that consumed our planet and ravaged it for 200 years. He was recently stopped by Silver’s friend becoming the Iblis trigger, a vessel to hold the Flames of Disaster, causing Iblis’s destruction to end. I bet anything that left over energy from Iblis, seeped down into the core of the planet, feeding it to Dark Gaia and allowing the premature return of the two of you.” The professor theorized. Chip was silent for a minute as he thought about what the professor just told him. It made perfect sense, allowing Chip to feel a little at ease now that his early return was explained.

“That also explains the fire bits embedded into the creatures you call Nightmares.” The professor added. Chip nodded in agreement.

“Yes but this could make taking care of Dark Gaia more difficult since there are two entities at work instead of just one.” Chip muttered.

“There must be a way, and you will find it.” The professor assured Chip, giving him a small smile. Chip didn’t smile back but he certainly felt reassured that all of this was being explained, in a way.

“If I may,” The professor started. Chip watched the professor, waiting for him to continue.

“What method do you use for sealing the planet?” he asked.

“Remember the temple I described at the beginning? I need to place all 7 chaos emeralds in the seven temples scattered across the globe, allowing Light energy to come back into the planet and bringing the planet together piece by piece.” Chip answered. The professor looked worried after Chip finished what he was saying.

“What’s wrong?” Chip asked, seeing the uncertainty in the professor’s face.

“Well, there’s a problem with your plan. The chaos emeralds have been scattered and lost for years. The only two we know about are the ones Silver has.” The professor answered.
“How many does he have?” Chip asked starting to sound worried himself.

“Two.” The professor replied.

“Two? That’s all?” Chip asked, dumbfounded.

“Like I said before, the chaos emeralds have been lost for a long, long time. We haven’t had time to create the technology to find them during the Flames of Disaster, and we’ve only made a scratch on the surface of rebuilding back the world from such destruction.” The professor explained. Chip looked down at the floor once again, his feelings of worry returning.

“That means it’ll take longer for me to find them since I can’t use a lot of my Light Gaia powers to move around to find them.” Chip murmured. “And if it takes too long, Dark Gaia might consume the planet!”

The professor walked over to Chip and put his hand up, causing Chip to stop and look up.

“Don’t worry about it right now. We’ll continue our conversation in the morning when you’ve rested. I know you’ve been sleeping for over 200 years but you could use some rest after the events of tonight.” The professor suggested, as he retreated back to his desk to put the journal away. Chip nodded slightly.

“I suppose…” He replied, his voice trailing off.

“You can stay here tonight. I’m going to remain here and keep and eye on Silver to make sure he’ll be all right. If you’d like I could find a place for you to rest?” The professor offered, sitting down at his desk.

“Thank you, but I can find a spot to rest…” Chip replied. The professor nodded and turned to his desk and started taking a few other books that were piled up beside it and began doing some of his work. Chip flew out of the professor’s office and went through the library up the second floor. He went to one of the bookshelves and sat on the very top before lying back and staring through the class ceiling and at the stars in the night sky. Chip remained up there and eventually dozed off while staring at the stars above.



Silver woke up the next morning, not long after sunrise, feeling very tired but felt much better than he did the previous night. He no longer had a headache, his body had stopped aching, and his vertigo was gone. He was extremely thankful they went away while he was sleeping.

Once he was fully awake, he got up off the couch and looked around to finally notice that he was no longer in West Crisis City but instead in the library back in East Crisis City.

Chip successfully brought us to East Crisis City.’ Silver thought to himself as he walked out of the professor’s office and into the bottom floor of the library. He brought his gaze upwards as he heard the voices from the construction workers, and the familiar voice of the professor. He was talking to the construction workers again, making sure that they reconstructed the library correctly. Silver shook his head and chuckled before he turned to exit the library but stopped when he saw Chip looking through a book while sitting on the edge of a bookshelf. Silver walked over to the bookshelf and stopped in front of Chip to see that he was looking at a journal the professor wrote a few years ago.

“You’re reading one of the professor’s journals?” Silver asked.

“Oh! Silver! You’re awake.” Chip exclaimed, looking up from the journal. “I was just curious about Iblis. The professor and I had a conversation about Iblis and Dark Gaia last night after we were dropped in front of the library.”

Silver sighed and looked down at the floor.

“I’m sorry you had to live through that ever since you were born…The Professor’s notes are extremely detailed and thorough.” Chip said, his voice downcast and apologetic. Silver brought his gaze back up from the floor and looked at Chip.

“It’s not your fault. Besides, we’re…slowly moving forward. It’ll be all right.” Silver replied, sounding a bit distance. “Anyway, you and the professor talked?”

“Yeah.” Chip answered, placing the journal aside. “I learned about Iblis and I taught the professor about Dark Gaia, and we both figured something out about the bracelet that’s currently latched on your wrist.”

Silver brought his arm up slightly, meeting it with his gaze.

“You do?” he asked.

“We can only guess but we think that the bracelet is being affected by Dark Gaia. Usually that bracelet, which has Light Gaian powers, wouldn’t be affected but we believe that left over energy from Iblis is being incorporated into Dark Gaia allowing him to move around the usual boundaries that can keep him at bay.” Chip explained. Silver just watched Chip in confusion.

“Ok so that explains what exactly?” Silver asked, not seeing where Chip was going.

“It means that Dark Gaia has taken over the bracelet in an attempt to control me since that belonged to me years ago, but it’s not on me anymore. The bracelet has latched onto you, locking onto your DNA. It won’t come off until Dark Gaia is put to rest. He was trying to control me so he would ravage the planet forever and I wouldn’t be able to stop him.” Chip said, finishing his explanation. Silver’s eyes were wide with shock. He looked down at the bracelet and then back to Chip, doing this a few times.

“So, there’s no way to get this off?” Silver asked, gripping the bracelet with his other hand.

“No…there isn’t.” Chip replied.

“Well…I guess it isn’t that bad. It’s just stuck.” Silver muttered, tugging at the bracelet slightly.

“Actually…there’s more to it.” Chip added, his voice quiet. Silver shot his head up, and lowered both his brows in worry.

“There’s more.” Silver said, staring Chip down.

“Yes. Since the bracelet is under the influence of Dark Gaia, at night Dark Gaia can tap into the bracelet fully and inject whoever is wearing it with Dark Gaia energy.” Chip continued. Silver looked horrified, and began pulling at the bracelet.

“What does that do!?” Silver asked, becoming extremely anxious.

“So far it’s caused you to become sick and that’s all.” Chip replied. “But I don’t know what it could do. This has never happened before…I’m sorry.”

Silver looked terrified. Chip felt extremely sorry for Silver because he honestly didn’t know what could happen with prolonged inner exposure to Dark Gaia energy. Chip watched Silver as he just stood in front of the bookshelf without moving.

“Silver!”

Chip turned his attention away from Silver and flew off the shelf to see the professor walking over to them.

“I looked down to see you were awake! Is there something wrong Silver? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.” The professor said, as he stopped next to him. Silver didn’t respond and only staring blankly into space. The professor turned to Chip and made a gesture in confusion.

“I explained my theory about the bracelet.” Chip muttered. The professor took a minute to respond.

“I see. Well anyway, wake up Silver! We need to talk!” The professor shouted, clapping his hands in front of Silver’s face. Silver jumped slightly and looked at the professor, coming out of his trance.

“Wh-what?” Silver stuttered.

“Come on Silver! No time for stuttering, there are explanations to be done!” The professor shouted, as he patted Silver extremely hard on the back. Silver stumbled forward and coughed slightly before turning and looking at the professor.

“Explanations? But-”

“There’s more than just the bracelet Silver. Come! To my office!” The professor said, motioning for Silver to follow. Chip flew behind Silver and started to push him towards the office.

“H-Hey! I can walk!” Silver exclaimed, as Chip kept pushing him towards the lab.



The two brought Silver through the conversation they had the previous night, and explained Dark Gaia to Silver in detail. They described what was currently happening to the planet and that Chip needed to seal up the planet but he needed all the chaos emeralds to do so.

“But…the chaos emeralds have been scattered and lost for ages. How are you going to find them all? Especially finding the rest of the temples. The one I found you in was completely hidden under multiple buildings and years of hardened lava. There’s no telling where the other temples could be hiding along with the chaos emeralds.” Silver stated, after the professor and Chip finished explaining.

“But, you have 2 chaos emeralds right? Chaos emeralds can search out other chaos emeralds. As for the temples I’ll be able to get a good estimation of where they are using my Light Gaia power.” Chip replied.

“Yeah…I do have 2 chaos emeralds…” Silver muttered, his voice trailing off.

“Then what are you two waiting for? It seems there’s a World Adventure here!” The professor exclaimed. Silver looked at the professor in confusion.

“A world adventure? What do you-”

“Oh come on Silver. You are always running off to West Crisis City. You’re just begging for an escape from here! Come on, take the offer and go on an adventure to save the world!” The professor encouraged, cutting Silver off.

‘He is way too happy about this!’ Silver thought.

“But what about bringing back books for the-”

“Oh stop it. I still have many books to rewrite and make sense of. I’ll be kept busy. You on the other hand need an adventure. You seem trapped here and this adventure is just the thing you need!” The professor said, cutting Silver off for the second time.

“It would be a good idea, since the chaos emeralds are in your possession. And you know more about this time than I do, you could guide me around.” Chip said, adding to the professor’s point. Silver brought his gaze back and forth between the two. He made a big sigh, and nodded slowly.

“All right. All right…I’ll go.” Silver breathed tiredly.
Here is chapter 3! This took me so long omfg. Sorry for the wait if anyone was waiting for this to come out. Idk.

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