Chapter 1: A new age

The Borlium floated above the fueling planet, the captain of the ship was no longer on the ship, the thrill of running through the land, wind whipping around him was always tugging at the back of his mind, he was overjoyed that there were points he could take a load off and enjoy the thing he loved most, moving forward.

He wore a set of armor over his body, his head was revealed as were his shoes, the only things he didn't cover up with armor. A flash alerted him, he flipped open his wrist communicator an image of a fox appeared, he says," Sonic, you are needed at the bridge, the ship will be ready in one hour, we need you to come back, Second in command Tails out!"

Sonic slid to a halt, he scratched the back of his head and said," They can't get enough of me, well better get back to the kids."

He started up running again, heading in the opposite direction, his gaze set apon the warp station which his friends borrowed from the locals as a way to come from and to the ship. He slowed down and walked into the building, the warpstation was still active but time would soon be over, he made his way to the teleporter B-178L, he darts in and presses the button combination to access the ship.

His gaze falls apon a girl who was in his face as soon as he appeared, she wore a pink suit of armor, which covered her, she smiled at him from her unmasked face, she said excitedly," Sonic, your back!"

He quickly slides to avoid his attackers grasp, he holds his hands up pushing her back, he says frantically," Amy, calm down, I haven't been gone for that long!"

She scrambles to her feet and jumps at him again, this time knocking him over, she pushes him to the ground pinning him down, he shakes his head and flips around pinning her down, he quickly jumps up and darts off, Amy stands back up and kicks the ground in disappointment.

Sonic rubbed and shook his head, he says," Sheesh, her and her frantic tackling."

He entered through the main hatch and entered, in front of him was a screen out looking space, he turned to his left, a being about his height, a reddish color stood there, his armor was on but his dreadlock like quills hung from his head as he listened to music from the computer in front of him, Sonic smiled and said," Hey Knuckles, what you up to?"

Knuckles continues enjoying the music, he turns his head and lifts one of the plugs from his ears, he asks," you say something Sonic?"

Sonic repeated," How is it going?" Knuckles responds," It's been fine for now, Tails is about done fixing the main engine and adding those new features to the ship." He places the ear plug back in, and turns back to the screen.

Sonic walks to his right and enters through a door, an elevator lies infront of him, he enters it and presses one of the buttons with a machine with six dots on it, the elevator falls down, Sonic flings up and then crashes back down, the elevator pulls to a stop and Sonic picks himself back up, the door opens and he walks out, four engines stand infront of him, along with several different systems.

A fox walks out from under one of the engines, he wore a white jump suit and was carrying a pad, he looked up and noticed Sonic, he says," Sonic, good your back at the ship, I have just finished the last touches on the ship, It is time we see what the Borlium can really do, ready Sonic?"

Sonic nods his head and says," Lets just hope the doc doesn't ruin the party!"

A dark being stands atop of a tower, he stares out from his visor a large chunk chipped away from combat revealed one of his eyes, he spies a ship far off, he calls to the main room," Doctor, I have found them, what is your plan or attack?"

silence befalls as the being waits for a response, it is interrupted suddenly as a voice says," calm yourself Shadow, we can wait just a little while for them can't we?"

Shadow sighs heavily but nods, he responds," Very well doctor, what should we do in the mean time?"

The doctor quickly responds," We are going to enjoy the show of course, if I'm correct, Tails will be testing his new weapon system, I just hope he is prepared for the Devastator 3000!"

he laughs extaticlly over the intercomb, Shadow releases the button and turns back to his post.

Sonic flipped the switches on the controls, he turns to Knuckles and says," Alright start up main weapons, and fire this baby up!"

Knuckles nods his head and moves his hand across the touch screen infront of him turning up all weapon systems. Tails waits for the energy to build up, the button flashes and he presses it without hesitation.

The entire ship echoed as the weapons system charged up, the walls creeked around them and the main weapons were overloading with energy, Tails yells," Plug your ears!"

A large rush of energy fires from the large canon on the ship, it goes out for a few hundred miles and stop, Sonic says," Well that wasn't that bad?" Tails shakes his head," That was just the lock on energy!"

Sonic plugs his ears again, the lights around the main canon flash and begin to change color, the energy forms outside of the canon, with the final build up the main canon fires, a large beam firse out electricity flying through it, disrupting the space around it, the weaponry around it fires into it increasing the laser damage, the beam finally stops, the ending force pushes the ship backwards.

Sonic picks himself off of the ground, he says," Is everyone alright?"

Knuckles rolls on to his back, he was growling angrily, Tails helps and picks up the others, he says," Everyone is fine Sonic."

Sonic walks over and places his hand on tails's shoulder, he says," Good going buddy, nice work."

Knuckles rolls over and says," Yah great, I have to wash the blood and patch up the cut in my head thanks to you!"

Knuckles holds his head as he stumbles his way out of the room heading to the left and out of sight. Tails looks down depressed, Amy walks up and pats him on the back," You did good Tails, don't ket him get you, he is just dumb for not seeing your achievement."

Tails smiles as he wipes the tears from his eyes, he replies,"Thanks." As they head out, Tails going to check on the main canon.

The doctor rubbed his fingers together, he was sitting in a black room, his chair facing the window out into space, he tapped his pointer fingers together as he thought of the spectacle he had just witnessed. He said to himself," It seems out pesky tailed friend has finished his newest weapon, I just hope he can deal with my newest weapon…. Go now Devastator 3000 and destroy them!"

Gears spin rapidly as the robot moves one leg after the other, the towering machine looms over the doctor as he admired his work before departure, he knew that Sonic would be ready for a fight and was waiting at that instant, but he wasn't going alone for Shadow would accompany him on a mission of his own.

Sonic was twirling a pencil like contraption in it's hands, it's build up was the same proportions that of a pencil but it was casted in metal and had strange elegent writing along it, a gift from a stranger who had not met before had bestowed it apon him to carry, when the time came, he would know, she left as soon as she came.

Sonic looked up from his thoughts noticing that Tails was still figiting with the outer hull checking for damage, Sonic smiled and pressed the speaker button, he said," Hey Tails, checking over the same spot eight times won't get you done faster."

Not realizing that they were watching him this whole time, he flipped in a circle and crashed back down.

He glares into the window at Sonic, who was holding back his laughter, but Tails knew he meant no harm and just smiled back, Tails's ear begin to twitch, a sudden noise alarms him, he turns his head towards space, a strange feeling entered through his body, he entered through the ship heading for the main room, he had to enter from the opening hatch so it took longer then he wanted.

He approached Sonic who was still focused on the pencil like object, he turned noticing Tails and noticed something was wrong, Tails said," commander Sonic, I have reason to believe something is headed for us, I can hear a strange noise remenation from space, I think we should take a look?"

Sonic nodded his head never distrusting Tails, they quickly exited the ship wearing protective helmets since they already had suits on.

As Sonic moved out with tails he too began to hear the strange noise, suddenly a flsh of light caught his eye far out, he looked further trying to identify it, a strange machine was heading for them, no doubt one of there most forbidable foes sent it, Dr. Eggman. Sonic waited while tapping his foot on nothing as if he had somewhere to be.

The creature approached rapidly, and was at them in a moment, it's had large arms that stretched out into it's main wings, it's hull shimmered from the distant sun and the blinding light mad Tails and Sonic jump back, the robot stood high above them but Sonic had fought robots like this so he wasn't even flinching, Tails on the other hand still never like what Eggman created.

Sonic just rubbed his hand against it's hull, he began tapping on it, he wiped his hands together and stated," Nah, this is going to be a synch!"

Sonic rammed it head on, energy flowed through him as he attacked the machine, in a vortex he spun into it, causing the creature to spin with him, it slowed down and just stood still for a moment, a second later it fell lowering itself into space.

Sonic wiped his hands with a smile and said," See Tails, it is much easier then it looks-"

Tails interrupts and says," Sonic?"

Sonic continues," The impact on the robot has It disoriented and then-"

Again he is cut off, Tails says a bit louder," Sonic?"

Sonic continues to talk again," There circuits fry and all is good."

Tails shouts," Sonic just turn around!"

Sonic blinked from within his helmet, he turned around now noticing the ship had begun to break apart revealing another robot, it had a strange almost smile on it's face as it stared as Sonic, it blinked it's eyes, he had a deep royal blue color, he had thin jagged metal fingers supported by a opened hand showing his circuits, his head rose up similar to Sonic In a jagged point like his top quill, except for the fact that the other quills actually extended from the back of that one and also down his back. His nose was pointed like his but a bit thinner than his own, he had metal shoes that looked an aueful lot like his, but they had a strange opening at the base of his heel he supposed would help him run.

The bieng turned towards Sonic, he said," I am Devastator 3000, but as I have grown to reject this name, I will hereby be known as Metal Sonic!"

Sonic was a bit surprised but lashed out at him, the bieng caught his hand and tossed him back, Sonic startled by this tries his main attack, he spun into a vortex and zoomed at him, the being copied and made an identical votex, the two clash head on sending a torrent of wind gusting through space, Tails is flung back quite a bit before struggling to regain his spot near Sonic.

The two stop there attack, Sonic rubs his nose and says," Hmm, your pretty good, for one of Eggman's junk bots."

The robot replied," And as are you, for a gloatful flesh bag."

They stand for a moment but attack again with more of a vicious attitude then before, Sonic swung low trying to grab hold of his leg, Metal Sonic flipped around the attack and pressed Sonic's head down as he jumped off of it.

Sonic rubbed his head as he glared back at the robot who had stepped on his head like that, he rushed at him and punched him with all his might, sending the being flying back but not totally done. The being floated back up the them, he lashed out cutting across Sonic's helmet, a crack split through the mask, Sonic quickly released the helmet and replaced it by pushing the button on his suit covering his face with a mask.

Metal Sonic lashes out a second time but Sonic is able to grab him and knock him back, Metal Sonic flips back around, he turns towards Sonic, a half smile still on his face, with a quick spin maneuver he avoided Sonic and sent a painful jab to sonic's gut, Sonic is shoved back holding his side, Metal Sonic look at him his eyes glaring at him, he moved his hand out, sonic blocked but didn't feel any pain.

Sonic looked up and realized he was extending his hand, Sonic slowly reaches out skeptical of the robot's reasoning, he reached out and grabbed it, the robot pulled him up, he nodded once and then took off into space as the flashed appears a second time and he was gone, Sonic blinked a few times before he could recap what happened.

Tails walks up to Sonic, Sonic begins talking," Tails, did you see that robot Eggman built?"

Tails nodded his head and says," Yah he sure was scary I thought he was going to kill you, he is a great threat and I-"

Sonic cuts him off with a smile on his face as he says," he was awesome! Did you see him he was like me: handsome, powerful, strong, handsome, a leader, talented, handsome! It was the best fight one of Eggman's goons ever put me through."

Tails struck himself in the face to make sure he heard him correctly and to see if he had just dozed off, he finally spoke up saying," What do you mean, you liked fighting him he was really powerful and could have killed you just then!"

Sonic just held up his hand to stop Tails, he responded," Ah, but he didn't which means if my theory is correct he has the same idea I do, he wants me to grow stronger so we can have an epic dual!"

Tails realizing what Sonic said tugged him back to the ship to check on him, Sonic was glaring at Tails who was checking for signs of something wrong.

Sonic says angrily," I don't know what this is about Tails, I am fine!"

Tails states," Sonic you admitted you wanted an enemy to grow stronger, you never have before what makes you want to now, either you want to or you have a problem."

Sonic repeated his final statement," Yes I want him to grow stronger as does he want me to grow stronger as well, that way when our epic dual begins it will be awe-inspiring to all who watch."

Tails couldn't believe what he heard his friend actually preferred that an enemy get stronger so he could have an epic dual, he never wanted that before so what has changed, even the foe Sonic had faced years ago that aided Doctor Eggman, he was formitable but Sonic defeated him and destroyed him saying how he didn't want that kind of evil to get stronger, now it seemed he wanted just that.

Tails flickered out the light and walked away, he knew there was no arguing about it now he had much work to do and little to no time to do it in, so he wanted full rest, Sonic on the other hand was fast asleep not even needing it.