-1My first real fanfic so don't be too harsh, k. BTW Sonic and all related characters are property of Sega and I don't own them. On with chapter 1.

Metallic Reflections

Chapter 1-The return of Eggman

Sonic the Hedgehog lay on a hilltop on the outskirts of Station Square watching the sun rise, "Things have been pretty good lately; Tails's managed to upgrade the Tornado again, Knuckles's been able to guard the Master Emerald in peace now that Rouge isn't bugging him anymore, and even Shadow's been doing okay, ever since the whole Black Arms thing he's been acting, well, nice, he's more sociable now, and best of all; nobody's heard from Eggman in weeks." Just then Sonic heard someone calling his name, the blue hedgehog sat up and looked around to see Amy Rose running up the hill towards him, "Oh man, well, guess you can't have everything." Sonic thought, then he saw Amy looked worried, scared, "Amy, what's wrong?" Sonic asked

"It's Eggman, he's back." Amy replied

"Eggman! So much for not hearing from him. Where is he?"

"Downtown Station Square, Tails's fighting him now in the Cyclone but he can't hold out much longer, Sonic please hurry." Amy begged, Sonic nodded and raced down the hill towards the city. Meanwhile Tails was battling a large group of egg pawns in the Cyclone while Eggman hovered above in his egg-mobile, Eggman laughed at Tails, "Give it up Tails, there are too many for you to handle." the fox glared at Eggman, "I'll never give up Eggman, don't forget; I've beaten you before."

"True, but back then I didn't have an army of robots to help me." the doctor laughed. Then an Egg pawn appeared carrying a rocket launcher, he took aim at Tails, suddenly the robot exploded, Tails and Eggman both looked around to try and see what destroyed the robot, Tails then saw a blue blur streak past him, "Sonic!!" he cried, Sonic then stopped in front of Eggman, "Whaddya want this time Egg head?" he asked, Eggman glared at his enemy, "As always hedgehog; I want your head. Now behold; the Egg Carrier 3!" Eggman pressed a button on the Egg-mobile's console and an enormous ship appeared above Station Square, Eggman laughed maniacally, "And that's not all," Eggman pressed another button and a hatch opened on the underside of the Egg Carrier and several large robots jumped out and crashed into the city streets. The robots looked just like Egg pawns except they were three times as tall, had thick, grey armour and large cannons for hands, one robot aimed a gun at Sonic, suddenly the robot's arm exploded, Sonic looked up and saw a black and red hedgehog standing at the top of a skyscraper, "Shadow, thanks pal, I owe you one." Sonic said, Shadow leapt off the building and began to spin straight towards another robot, which was firing at him, the other robots were firing at Sonic and Tails. Tails quickly fired and blasted a robots head off while Sonic spun through the chest of another. Sonic and Shadow landed next to each other, "You owe me five." Shadow said

"How d'you work that out." Sonic asked, Shadow threw a Chaos Spear at a robot, "That thing with Amy counts too." he said, the two hedgehogs smirked at each other before continuing the fight. When all the robots were destroyed Sonic, Shadow and Tails turned their attention to Eggman, "You lose Egg head." said Sonic smiling, strangely Eggman was smiling too, "Oh this isn't over yet Sonic." he said, "You see, while you three have been fighting my robots Metal Sonic is over on the other side of Station Square stealing a Chaos Emerald from the museum."

"You mean this Chaos Emerald?" a voice called, everyone looked over to where the voice had come from and saw a red echidna standing on top of a small building holding a light blue Chaos Emerald, Eggman looked shocked, "Knuckles, how did you get that emerald?" he asked, Knuckles smiled, "Metal Sonic gave it to me, he isn't so tough."

Sonic chuckled, "Nice goin' Knuckles."

"Agh, I'm not finished yet hedgehog!" Eggman shouted as he pressed another button on his console, another large robot fell from the Egg Carrier and landed in front of Sonic and the others, this robot was five times the size of an Egg pawn and had spiked wrecking balls for hands. Eggman landed his Egg-mobile on the robots head and the two combined, "This is the Egg Breaker 2, and I doubt even you can stop this Sonic." Eggman said confidently, Sonic smirked, "We'll see, Knuckles, Shadow, how 'bout we hit this thing with a fire dunk?" Knuckles jumped down from the building he was standing on and landed next to Sonic and Shadow who started spinning, Knuckles held out his arms and Sonic and Shadow began spinning around them. Knuckles leapt into the air and threw Sonic and Shadow at Eggman, the two hedgehogs blasted through the Egg Breaker, as the robot exploded Eggman flew away as fast as he could in his damaged Egg-mobile. The four friends gathered together and watched the Egg Carrier fly away, "So, Eggman's decided to take us on again huh?" Sonic said smiling, "Well, I say we go after him and take that ship apart before ol' Egg head does any real damage."

"Sorry Sonic," said Knuckles, "I gotta get back to the Master Emerald, I only came here in the first place because I saw the Egg Carrier flying over Angel Island."

"No problem Knuckles. We can handle it, right guys?" Sonic said, Tails held his thumb up while Shadow folded his arms and smiled.