Sonic Wars episode III: Revenge of the Egg-sith.
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Two Jedi fighters cruised over a republic carrier, performing synchronized barrel rolls and moving in unison. They came to the tip of the cruiser, and dove into a raging battle.
The two flew across explosions and fighters attacking one another, crashing into ships and cluttering up their air-space.
One ship fired four missiles at them, which they swerved around and dodged, performing several spinning tricks and laser shots to destroy them, but one missile exploded, sending small buzz-droids all over one's fighter. The other managed to crush them with the wings of his fighter, allowing them to proceed safely.
Finally, their target was in sight: Metal Sonic's flag ship.
"Master, the ship is dead ahead. The one crawling with Vulture droids," Shadow said into his comm. unit.
"I see it, oh this is going to be easy," Sonic muttered to himself. "Oddball, form up behind us!"
"We're on it sir," A clone pilot replied, leading a large group against the attacking droid ships, straying them off course.
"Quick, hit the shield generators!"
"I'm on it, master," Shadow said as he fired several bolts at the power coupling on the side of the hangar, deactivating the force field, and activating the airlock blast doors. The two Jedi leaped out of their ships after they barely made it in, summer-salting in the air and igniting their lightsabers, cutting down the hostile droids immediately around them. When they were dead, Shadow led R2 over to the control console, where he picked the lock. They proceeded in, leaving R2 a comm. unit.
A door opened, and the robed figure of Metal Sonic walked in. He came to the organic slime that captained the ship, and asked him what had happened.
"Two Jedi have landed in the main hangar bay. We're tracking them now."
"Just as the count predicted!" He chuckled to himself, and then said calmly, "Kill them."
Sonic and Shadow were waiting on an elevator, when three destroyer droids rolled up. They got their lightsabers out just as they put up their shields, and reflected back several of their attacks. The elevator arrived, and Shadow slammed a piece of the roof down on them, killing them, as they were greeted by a group of battle droids.
"Drop your weapons. I said Drop 'em." They calmly cut them down.
R2 backed into a corner as two super battle droids walked into the hangar, and began messing with the Jedi fighters.
As the elevator was going up, it came to a sudden stop. "Did you hit the stop button?"
"No, did you?"
Sonic got on the comm.. "R2, R2 come in. We need you to activate elevator…22174. R2, R2 come in."
The voice on the comm. began resonating over the hangar, drawing the super battle droids' attention. R2 backed further into the corner, and stowed it in a small compartment. The droids went back to work.
"There's more than one way out of here." Shadow began cutting a hole in the roof.
"We don't need to get out, we need to get moving.
"R2, R2 come in…"
R2 snuck over to control panel, and began working on it.
Shadow finished the hole, and jumped through. Sonic muttered to himself, "Always on the move."
Shadow looked around, but jumped as the elevator went flying down. He managed to grip onto the edge of a doorway, but looked up to see two battle droids pointing guns at him.
"R2, R we need to be going up not down."
R2 played with the controls some more.
The elevator went in the right direction.
"Ah, much better."
Shadow looked at the two battle droids, but flipped back as the elevator came, destroying them and allowing him to land on it. He crawled into the hole, where his master almost cut him down.
"That little astro droid…"
"No loose wire jokes, he's trying."
"I didn't say anything!"
"Yeah, but you were thinking it."
"Who are you? Sarah Kerrigan?
Finally, they came to where the chancellor was being held. They approached the fat man, and bowed to him.
"Chancellor Robotnik," They said in unison, and Sonic noted the lack of his trademark mustache.
"Bad things, Jedi, bad things. Count Espio!"
They turned around, and saw the chameleon, standing there, with his purple, crooked lightsaber drawn.
He approached them. "Your swords please. We wouldn't want to make a mess of things in front of the chancellor."
"You won't get away this time, Espio." They both fired up their lightsabers, (Sonic's blue and Shadow's red) and engaged him in battle, twirling him all around the room, and across the table and up the stairs and onto the platform. Espio held Shadow's lightsaber down, but lifted Sonic and threw him against a platform, and crushed it down on him with the force, rendering him useless.
He turned and looked at Shadow, grinning. Shadow brought the sword close to him, and flung it back, catching Espio off guard. He leaped onto him, striking again and again, leading him the stairs, and to the middle of the room.
Espio managed to catch Shadow in a sword lock, and muttered through gritted teeth, "I sense fear in you, boy. You have hate, you have anger, but you don't use it!"
"I don't need it." Shadow repelled him back, and fought him all the way to the chancellor's chair, where he grabbed Espio's arm, and cut off his hands. His light saber went flying into the air, where Shadow caught it with his mechanical hand. Espio kneeled as Shadow put his head between both blades.
"Good Shadow, Good. Now kill him," the chancellor said. "Kill him now."
Shadow looked at the begging face. "I shouldn't…"
"Do it. DO IT."
Shadow crossed the blades, decapitating him
Shadow released the chancellor as Sole cut a hole through his platform. "You told you've done it before. With your dear Maria. And the sand people."
Shadow thought back, transfixed by that memory.
The Jedi gathered their robes, and headed out.
On the bridge Metal Sonic announced "Prepare for attack!" as a clone ship pulled up next to them. They began shooting at each other, the droid ship taking more damage.
The trio was at the door to the elevator, but couldn't get it working. Finally Shadow kicked it in, but soon the ship began to turn downward. They quickly hopped in, and ran down the length of the corridor.
"Quick, prep drag and stabilizers." Metal said.
"Stabilizers" a technician replied. "Magnetizing.
"Fire the emergency booster engines!" Metal ordered with an exaggerated close-up of his face.
The sip began to stabilize, and the corridor began to become vertical. The Chancellor latched onto Shadow as him and Sonic threw two bat-man like cords around a support beam and landed into a hallway.
"Quick, let's get out of here," Sonic said, and they ran off, but were soon captured in a vortex of ray shields.
"What? How did this happen?"
Shadow spoke up. "I say, patetitence is key. R2 will be along, and he'll release us."
They waited a moment, and soon R2 came flying down the hallway, splattered in oil.
Sonic commented "…What's he been doing?"
"Doesn't matter-" Shadow was cut off as an army of droids appeared to escort them to their leader.
They were brought to the bridge, where they met General Metal Sonic.
"Ahhh yes, the…negotioator, General Sonic the Hedgehog.
"And this must the infamous Shadow." Metal approached him and looked him over. "I was expecting someone of your reputation to be a bit…Older."
"Hyper Metal Sonic…You're shorter than I expected." Shadow shot back.
Metal turned his back to them. "I get that a lot. Nonetheless, your lightsabers will make a fine addition to my collection. He placed them in his robe.
Sonic said. "Not this time. And this time, you won't escape."
"R2!" R2 began going haywire, allowing the two Jedi to pull their lightsabers to them, and cut off the shackles. They cut down the droids in the room, only encountering major resistance from Metal's guards. They eventually defeated them too, and confronted Metal himself, who snatched up a rod and threw it at the glass, shattering it. He went flying out before the blast shields closed.
Metal shot a harpoon at the escape pod bay, and climbed in, firing off his and all the others.
The trio took their seats, trying to pilot what was left of it.
"Can you land it?" Sonic asked.
"I'd say under the circumstances the ability to pilot this thing is irrelevant."
And that's what happened. They came into the planet's atmosphere, burning away half of the ship, being hosed down by others. The smoking husk came in hot, fortunately finding a landing strip that was suitable. Shadow managed to slow it down enough that they were able to land safely.
Once done, they came to the senators' palace, leaving the chancellor off. Shadow saw him off, but responded to a call from behind. He smiled as he saw his lovely wife, Amy, running to him. She kissed him as she embraced him, and when they were done, she looked into his eyes and said, "Shadow, I have wonderful news!"
"What, what is it?"
"Shady…I'm pregnant!"
Shadow looked taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "That's wonderful! Who's the father?"
"Oh stop it!"
To be continued…