Silver Unleashed Chapter 5: A New Member

Chapter 5: A New Member



Silver collapsed onto the floor, panting deeply and sharply. He trembled in shock, the pain quickly subsiding from his body.

‘What the hell was that…?’ he thought as he brought his head upward to look at Keela and Chip, who had backed up a considerable amount and looked completely terrified.

“G-Guys what’s-” Silver stopped when he heard his own voice, which had lowered and become very hoarse. He tried to clear his throat but nothing seemed to be wrong with it.

“Guys what’s going on? What happened??” Silver asked, anxiety rising in his chest. Keela remained stiff as she just stared at Silver with a horrified expression on her face. Chip slowly peaked out from behind Keela and watched Silver in a cautious nature until he saw Silver’s expression of fear and confusion. Chip knew that this meant Silver was in control of his thoughts and wasn’t completely taken over by Dark Gaia. He slowly made his way over to the frantic hedgehog.

“Chip, what happened?” Silver repeated. Chip pointed to Silver’s hand, causing Silver to follow Chip’s finger to the bracelet clamped to his wrist. His eyes widened when he saw the dark purple smoke slowly moving within the orb. He quickly looked back up to Chip, desperation in his eyes.

“What did it do to me!?” Silver exclaimed.

“Well…all that Dark Gaia energy that was being injected into your blood stream had to cause some sort of reaction…I guess this was the reaction.” Chip explained, gesturing to Silver’s body. Silver immediately looked down to fully notice the obvious changes that had occurred during that short episode. Silver looked himself over, quickly standing up to get a full view of his body.

“I-I-” Silver stuttered, not knowing how to react to what he was seeing.

“You’re not the first one to be affected like this! This happened to Sonic when Eggman woke up Dark Gaia!” Chip added quickly, trying to comfort Silver any way he could. Silver only looked at Chip with a frightened expression. Chip sighed ever so slightly and flew a bit closer to Silver.

“You need to take a few breaths. I promise everything’s going to be-”

“Keela!!” A voice shouted from the entrance of the temple, interrupting Chip. Silver and Chip immediately whipped towards the direction of the entrance. Silver’s ears twitched, picking up the faint shuffling of some of the archeologists making their way through the gaping hole in the temple’s doors.

“Chip they’re coming inside.” Silver managed to mutter.

“Then we need to hide.” Chip whispered, flying behind Silver and shoving him off to the side so they could hide behind a pile of debris. Silver moved, but was still recovering from the shock of his sudden dark transformation. As Chip attempted to get Silver to lower himself onto the floor behind the debris, Keela stood motionless in her spot, also trying to recover from the shock of Silver’s transformation. As Chip got Silver hidden the entire archeologist group ran up to Keela.

“Keela!” one of them exclaimed. “Are you all right? We walked off for a minute and when we came back we heard this loud howl!”

“I…” Keela muttered.

“We thought that one of those dark creatures came in here!” Another exclaimed with a worried tone.

‘The nightmares!’ Chip thought. He turned to Silver and whispered very quietly to him.

“Silver, we have to get the emerald on that pedestal and then the amount of nightmares here will decrease, but you’ll still have to fight them off.”

“Fight? Like this?” Silver whispered back, gesturing to his body.

“Sonic was able to fight.” Chip replied.

“If you haven’t noticed, I’m not Sonic.” Silver snapped back, glaring at Chip. Chip put a finger to his index finger to his mouth and glared back at Silver.

“Do you want them to find us?” Chip hissed. “Besides it doesn’t matter if you’re not Sonic. We’ve got to protect the people of Angel Island from the nightmares.”

Silver responded with an annoyed gesture and continued to listen to the conversation the archeologists were having with Keela. Chip poked his head above the pillar and watched the group.

“Keela are you all right? You look like you’ve seen a ghost…” one of them asked. “You’re never spooked are you sure you’re all right?”

“I…I just…I just saw…” Keela muttered, unable to form coherent words.

“You just saw…what? What did you see? Was it one of those dark creatures??” The same one asked, worry rising in their tone.

“No…it was…it was a…” she stopped as a shadowy figure cut through the darkness behind the group. “What was that…?”

“What was what?” one of them asked, turning around to see nothing behind them. They turned back to Keela with an expression of concern on their face.

“Keela, I think we should call it day. I think you’ve been working too hard…” They stepped towards Keela and put a hand on her shoulder. “C’mon, let’s head back.”

The group slowly moved Keela from her position on the floor and began making their way to the entrance of the temple. Chip relaxed slightly and let out a small sigh in relief. He was about to lower himself below the pillar when he too saw the shadowy figure swoop behind the unsuspecting group.

“Nightmares.” Chip whispered, his eyes wide with shock. “But how can they enter the temple?”

Silver raised himself to Chip’s level just above the pillar and watched the small chihuahua in confusion.

“Chip what’s wrong?” he whispered.

“Nightmares. Hurry we have to get the emerald onto the pillar now before more start-”

“GYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!”

Chip whipped his head toward the group and was horrified to see that some sort of ooze was swallowing up one of the archeologists and was trying to drag them off into the shadows of the temple. The group fell into chaos as a few tried to help while the others panicked and started to scream. Chip spun around back to Silver and stared him down with the most serious his expression his face had ever made.

“Silver, we need to get the emerald on that pedestal NOW!” he shouted causing some of the archeologists to turn in their direction. Silver jumped and scrambled to his feet, the emerald in hand. Chip flew out from behind the pillar and moved to the group at top speed.

“Chaos Light!” He chanted, creating an orb of greenish light, which burst outward only a short distance. It hit the ooze, causing a hissing sound as it let go of the archeologist.

“Who are-”

“No time! We need to evacuate!” Chip shouted as he flew around the group, ready to lead them out when the ooze launched itself from the shadows and crashing into Chip. The darkness from the ooze sent painful shocks through Chip’s body as he became motionless and fell toward the temple stone. The ooze hissed as the light energy from Chip’s body caused the same sort of effect, however it recovered in seconds and launched itself toward the group. It latched on to many of the archeologists and began dragging them off. They started to scream and tried to pull themselves free from the ooze’s grasp, but it consumed their bodies as they disappeared into the darkness of the temple.

Keela’s eyes widened in horror and she screamed as she watched her friends and comrades being pulled to their demise. Her body froze up once again and she fell to the floor, watching the last of her friends disappear. The ooze began to circle Keela, as she was the only one left, reaching its slime out to her.  She gasped when it grasped her ankles, and her fear reignited her motion as she thrashed against its hold.

“LET ME GO!!!!” She screamed as it began to drag her off. Silver whipped around to see Keela being dragged away. He turned to the pedestal and then to Keela. He immediately changed direction, his sense of justice getting the better of his judgment, and he raced down the steps as best he could. Keela struggled against the ooze as it’s darkness started to consume her body and she looked away screaming. Her gaze fell upon Silver who was stumbling toward her and she clawed at the ground reaching for him.

“HELP ME!!!” She screeched, feeling her upper body covered with the dark ooze. She could feel herself start to fall into the dark abyss that was awaiting her below and she struggled even harder. Silver watched, fear rising in his chest, as she began to fall into the darkness, her arms still outstretched.

“NO!!!” He shouted as he threw back his arm and launched it at her; his arm stretching an enormous amount. He gasped lightly but quickly became refocused when he felt Keela grip his hand. Silver flew forward, feeling the strength of the ooze completely, but quickly launched his other arm backward and grabbed onto a pillar. He dug his claws into the stone and began to pull against the ooze.

“RRRRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!” he felt his arm being dragged into the ooze along with Keela but he wasn’t about to let go. Strengthening his grip on both ends he began to reel in the arm holding onto the pillar. Ever so slowly, he pulled Keela’s arm back out of the ooze and then eventually the top half of her body. She gasped in panic as her head resurfaced from the ooze and returned to struggling against the ooze’s grasp.

‘Almost got it!' Silver thought as he started to reel in his opposite arm. Then he felt the resistance drop causing Silver and Keela to launch backwards and smash into the pillar Silver was gripping. They both slid down the pillar and collapsing into the floor. Silver groaned in pain as his arms slowly slid back into place.

“I am never stretching my arms ever again…” Silver muttered as he pushed himself into a sitting position. Keela shakily did the same and turned to Silver. She made a small unsure nod as a thank you for saving her before shifting her gaze behind Silver. Her eyes widened once again and she started to cower. Silver turned around to see that the ooze was completely consuming the temple! Silver immediately stood up and whipped his head around.

“Chip!?” He shouted, as he helped Keela up into a standing position. “CHIP!!!”

The ooze began to drip from the ceiling and ever so slowly surround the two. Silver panicked and began to make a run for the temple door, dragging a paralyzed Keela behind him.

“CHIP!!!” Silver shouted again, as a wave of ooze attempted to block him from going any farther. Silver stopped and pushed Keela backwards as the wave crashed down in front of them.

“Hang on I’ll lift us out of here!” Silver said as he tightened his grip on Keela’s hand. His markings lit up and the two of them rose into the air only a few inches before his markings fizzled and they were both dropped back onto the floor.

“What the!?” He attempted to lift them out again but his markings fizzled once more, dropping them to the temple floor.

‘My powers…they’re GONE!!!’ Silver panicked as he looked at his telekinetic markings. He brought his head up to see the ooze coming down on the two of them and he gasped before covering his head. He waited for the impact but it never came. He removed his hands from his head cautiously to see Chip hovering above the two of them, with a light orb surrounding them.

“Chip!!!” Silver exclaimed in relief. Chip turned to Silver and gave a weak smirk before moving the orb.

“Wait what about the emerald?” Silver asked, holding up the emerald.

“There’s no time! The temple is being consumed by this nightmare and is being brought to Dark Gaia. The emerald will have no effect now!” Chip explained as he increased their speed, blasting through the waves of the dark ooze. Silver kept his gaze forward looking for the temple entrance.

“Chip there!” Silver pointed to a faint opening to the outside. “There’s the entrance to the temple!”

Chip nodded and moved the orb towards it. The ooze attempted to stop their escape and began to close the entrance. Silver’s eyes widened and he immediately looked at Chip.

“We’re going to make it!” Chip exclaimed as he used all of his remaining energy to launch the orb forward. It burst through the think layer of ooze blocking the entrance to the tunnel, crashed through the thick layer of temple rock and skidded across the grass on the outside. The orb burst, exploding the three from it. Silver landed a few feet from the temple along with Keela and they both looked up to see the Gaia temple get covered in the darkness of the ooze and watched as it was dragged slowly into the earth. Silver’s mouth was ajar, completely mortified and confused by what had just occurred. He moved his eyes over to Keela who was sharing the same expression of horror and confusion. He was about to say something, but his thoughts were interrupted.

“Silver!” It was Chip. Silver shook his head trying to shake off the shock, as he pushed himself into a shaky standing position. He walked over to Chip who had just got up into a sitting position himself.

“Chip what’s wrong?” Silver asked, helping Chip get into the air.

“I want to see the Chaos emerald.” Chip said.

“Why?” Silver pulled it out. “See it’s…fine…”

Silver looked down to see that the chaos emerald’s original glowing white color had become a deep grey.

“What the…?” Silver whispered, looking at the emerald closer. “What happened??”

“The temple…without a temple for the chaos emerald to go to, it loses all of its positive energy. The only thing that remains in that chaos emerald is the negative energy.” Chip explained. Silver let his arm fall to his side, still clasping the emerald.

“Damn it…If I had put the emerald on the pedestal this wouldn’t have happened.” Silver muttered angrily.

“Silver that doesn’t matter. We still have 5 other temples, which should be enough light energy to weaken Dark Gaia. But, with this temple gone, there will be nothing to stop the nightmares from coming out and terrorizing the town. We need to go back and fight them off.” Chip said pointing in the direction of the town.

“What use am I to fight those things off!? My telekinesis doesn’t work, I can barley walk without tripping over myself and the only perk to this body are these stretchy arms!” Silver shouted, waving his arms around to prove his point. Chip made an exasperated sigh before giving Silver an annoyed look.

“You’re kidding, right? We’re on a mission, and you came along for the ride! Besides, people’s lives are at stake here! I have never seen a nightmare able to withstand the light energy of a Gaia Temple, not to mention swallow it whole and suck it into the ground! It’s my job to protect this planet, and you wanted to help me, so are we in this together or what?” Chip asked, his small hands on his hips and his eyes locked with Silver’s.

Silver took a slight step back before sighing slightly and nodding.

“We are.” He stated.

“Good! Now come on! I’ll help you get used to that new body of yours. Just think of tonight as the official test run.” Chip exclaimed, his happy and determined demeanor returning.

“Hold on.” Silver said, grabbing onto Chip’s tail. He turned and pointed to Keela who was still over where the temple used to stand.

“What about Keela? We can’t just leave her here. We should take her back to the town…I mean she lives there.” Silver suggested. Chip looked over to Keela who had stood up and was now walking over to the two of them, her expression dark and serious.


“Well she’s walking over here. We can tell her what her options-”

“What is your mission?” Keela demanded, cutting Chip off as she stopped right next to Silver. Chip and Silver looked at each other and then back to Keela who had raised her brow in impatience.

“We’re heading to all of the Temple’s of Gaia where we will place the Chaos Emeralds and hopefully weaken Dark Gaia and seal him within the planet.” Chip answered.

“It’s also my mission to try and remove what is left of Iblis from Dark Gaia.” Silver added quickly at the end. Keela remained silent for a minute before looking at Chip.

“I want to join you on your mission.” She stated, sounding very sure of herself. Silver and Chip were completely taken aback by her request and looked at each other in confusion.

“Uh…that’s not exactly-”

“If this Dark Gaia you’re talking of is sealed away, will my friends be returned?” Keela asked, cutting Chip off once again.

“Yes, that-”

“Then I’m coming along with you. Besides, you’ll need an archeologist. From looking at the two of you, neither of you have extensive knowledge of old ruins predating the time of Iblis. My help could be very valuable.” Keela said, giving a quick smirk before it disappeared in seconds.

“But we don’t-”

“It wasn’t a request.” Keela stated, cutting Silver off.

“…Fine…” Chip said with a sigh after a few moments of remaining silent.

“Where to first?” Keela asked.

“Back to your town. There are some nightmares we need to take care of. Then after that we’ll rest up and head for the next continent.” Chip answered. “If you would be so kind to lead us back to the town?”

“Follow me.” Keela said as she started to walk away. Chip turned to Silver and gave him a worried glance before flying after Keela. Silver pocketed the emerald and loafed after the two of them.