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Sonic was screaming.

Chip tried to cover his eyes to not see the sight, but it was only when the screaming got louder, more animalistic, that he finally saw why.

Dark Gaia was absorbing the energy responsible for Sonic's current form, which was monikered "the Werehog", before, but now...

The Werehog was absorbing all of Dark Gaia's energy.

Oh, how the tables had turned.

Light Gaia turned to see the monstrosity fade away as Sonic took him in, took all of him in...

He turned again and watched in horror as a new transformation took place within his friend.

The Werehog still had his fur and bulky appearance, but now two more pairs of arms, scaly with a strip of fur on top, burst out from over his shoulders and under his arms, green blood spurting out from where they tore free from the flesh while blue scaled plates covered the wounds...

Green blood?

He screamed again as his forehead tore open as a large, green eye opened in the middle of it.

A line of fur on his stomach, excluding the light aqua, upside-down-teardrop-shaped patch, fell away to reveal the scaled stomach of...

Wait...no, he couldn't...

But he was.

Sonic was actually becoming Dark Gaia.

He never thought he'd be seeing this, but watching his friend become the very thing he was supposed to counter was not what he wanted to see before the world was restored.

Then Sonic's facial structure changed.

As horns also tore from the skin as they burst out of his skull, he screamed at such a volume that his mouth opened unnaturally wide...

Then the eye pushed itself out, larger and green like the one now in his forehead, blocking the usual airways to his lungs, but he wouldn't be needing to breathe through his mouth anymore, anyway.

Then the sides of his face widened, causing him to scream in pain even more than he already was as more eyes emerged, two eyes opening above his mouth and six smaller eyes pushed out from the inside, more teeth growing in and more tongues also forming inside.

The Werehog's tail grew longer and more reptilian, the scales forming and leaving a strip of fur on top of it, meanwhile, the blue fin of Dark Gaia burst out of his back in a shower of blood.

Then the true transformation, and true, utter hell, began.

His body began contorting further as he started to get larger in height. He gained more muscle where it was necessary, his arms bulked up even more, the fur bristling over the visible muscle as it bulged and expanded to proportions no mortal or even immortal creature could even manage to hold, yet here he was, growing more and more gargantuan by the second in mere seconds.

Before Chip knew it, the transformation was over.

What Sonic had become could only truly be described as a mix between the Werehog and Dark Gaia.

His middle arms were almost cartoonishly thick, very muscular and furry compared to the spindly and partly furry arms above and below them, blue scaled plates covering the shoulders of each one, and Chip swore he could see every single muscle in those arms shifting with every move.

His chest was much, much larger than before now, with even thicker muscle, and the bottom half of his body was a bit longer than before, further attributing to his new somewhat-serpentine look.

All of his eyes, all a vibrant green, looked down at the much smaller Light Gaia, all of the tongues in his wide mouth filling each gap between each jagged, pointed, serrated fang.

The only other difference, besides basically being Dark Gaia in the form of the Werehog, was that there weren't any tongues that were hanging out as a result of those eyes peeking through.

Then, the rumbling began.

The planet was being restored, right at that very moment.

So this was it.

He and Dark Gaia were going to go back to sleep as soon as the last continent was set in place.

No...

He and Sonic were going to go back to sleep as soon as the last continent was set in place.

Were Sonic's friends going to worry about where he went when this was over? Probably.

Were he and Sonic going to be together forever? Definitely.

And as the last piece was restored, one thing was certain.

The two of them would certainly do their job to make sure the planet was safe...

No matter what.