Both breathing fast out of breath, Joey the Hedgehog and his friends are taken down one by one by Shockwave the Echidna. Seeing his last friend being taken down, his heart beats loudly. *grunt* he fell on his knees and his heart beats rapidly, he had a strange feeling that somehow he will join forces with an unstoppable power. He then forms a cloak, sky blue like energy color. the cloak around his hand was claws and could rip a house in a single blow. His eyes turn red with a strange pattern inside. He then shouted as his skin and fur turn sky blue with black mixing pattern flowing around. "Is this the way how you will play?! Then let's follow the rules. Joey smashed everything while Shockwave was evading it and when he found the weak spot, he unleash his attack called 'the piston' which he put his hand at Joey's stomach and with a single blow he knock Joey back to his normal state. He can feel the blood running out of his mouth. Shockwave, holding the Metal element stone, formed a steel pipe with a diagonal end used to stab. And just in time when Yuki came in a flash and grab hold of the pipe that Shockwave was about to use. Shockwave pushed it forward but she got it tight in her hand so she flipped it and snapped it in two with her holding the bigger piece she threw it to Shockwave which he deflected it easily. He went in front of her and just grab hold of her neck and threw her to the ground. Joey was watching the whole scene and he attacked Shockwave and successfully got him to the wall. Just the perfect timing when Natural (female) just appeared with a hood and got her ultimately long sword and tried to stab Joey but instead she missed to stabbing Shockwave. She quickly pulled out her sword and jumped off. But Joey's heart pound so hard that he entered rage mode which caused him to turn into a beast and he scratches the walls for a long time. When the beast/Joey is tired, he returned to normal state again and fainted like everybody else in the room. As he fainted, he had a dream recorded from his past, he fought Shockwave, and won in the arena. He won the qualification for stage 2. Joey then said, "It is okay, as long as you have shown your best, they will like you, Cloud..." (In Joey's mind) those words, he died because he was wrong... I never mentioned that. "Are you okay? This wound is pretty deep for a stab, luckily it didn't hit your vital organs." a random girl voice. Joey woke up and saw everybody woke up. He got to his feet and saw Alexandrite (female) trying to heal Snow's (female) stab wound she recieved after battling Shockwave on her own trying to save Joey. (In Joey's mind) well, at least this is over...