Outsider in the ranks Disclaimer: Fistika is mine, both the Beta life form and MS3 from the original are still dead. Shame. Oh well, everyone else belongs to Sega and Sonic team.
My personal note: First off, if you haven't read 'Emeralds and Love' you can either read it, or this list of important points: 1) Fistika is a blue echidna who was defeated after causing lots of chaos in station square, 2) Shadow and Amy are dating, as are Knuckles and Rouge and 3) There are now twenty chaos emeralds. Right, now err... just read the chapter.
There are only two things which are certain to warp friendships, absorb your soul and turn reality into an illusion you won't want to return to. These are love and power.
Fistika sat in the middle of his cell, muttering a ancient echidna poem to himself.
"Chaos is power, time is illusion..." Dust had settled around his person and rats scuttled in and out of the cell, weaving in between the bars. Drops of water randomly dropped from the ceiling. A few drops hit Fistika on the head, but he ignored them. Fistika was alone in the room. There were four cells, but only one was occupied. Fistika paused his reciting and stood up. Seconds later the sound of large locks being disabled echoed around the room. Fistika turned to face the only door. His pupiled eye rested upon a small window in the door. He watched the soldiers typing various commands into a computer. After a minute the door completely unlocked and opened, allowing two soldier to enter the room in which Fistika inhabited. They both wore the standard G.U.N uniform and held rifles. "Ah gentlemen, to what do I owe your company?" Fistika sarcastically remarked.
"Shut it echidna." Replied one of the soldiers. Fistika simply smirked. "Our boss wants to speak to you." As he spoke, the soldiers pulled out an ID card and opened up Fistika's cell.
"The boss of G.U.N? Well this should make for some pleasant chat, maybe I could ask him to get a better chef, the stuff you're serving tastes like gruel, and another thing..."
"I said shut it Fistika!" The soldier tried to hit Fistika with the butt of his rifle, but Fistika caught the rifle. Fistika looked up at the soldier with a smug smile. The other Soldier pointed his gun threateningly at Fistika, who let go of the rifle. The soldier glared at Fistika before turning around and leading him out of the room. The second soldier walked behind Fistika, his gun always glaring at him. The soldiers lead Fistika through various corridors, all of which were grey and featureless. The doors housed small rooms full of cells, very few of which contained convicted criminals. The soldiers stopped in front of a door which didn't stick out in any way. One of the soldiers swiped his key card in a small slot next to the door. The door then opened to reveal a small white room. The soldier gestured Fistika into the room. Once inside the door closed behind Fistika. Fistika found himself alone in a what could only be described as complete whiteness.
"These people really need to hire a professional painter." muttered Fistika.
"They cost too much." Claimed a voice. The voice seemed to come from every corner of the room, it sounded old and worn out. Fistika glanced around the room. The voice seemed to be coming from four small, nearly invisible speakers in each top corner.
"So this is the voice of 'Mr. GUN'? Any reason I was called?" Fistika looked around the room while he talked, trying to determine where G.U.N's boss was watching him from.
"My name is R. E. Prisal. Anyway, the reason you have been summoned is because I have a proposition for you." Replied the voice.
"So much for the 'we don't make deals with terrorists' claims."
"This isn't a deal, it's an offer. You have been asked for a variety of reasons." A small amount of anger had built in Prisal's voice. "Not only are you one of the only creatures to stand a chance against the targets, but if we send soldiers to do the work then the public might... frown... on what we are planning." Fistika raised an eyebrow.
"And what are you planning?"
"Do you remember the Beta life form?" Fistika nodded, partly to discover if they could see him. "Well this is the projects next step."
"This is a death sentence to every human on earth..." Shadow watched the recording of Gerald from the abandoned research centre of the A.R.K. A while ago the space colony had been safely returned to earth to destroy anymore threats which could have come from A.R.K (This happened in my story 'Mangabot'). Shadow had spent weeks searching for it with Amy. Rouge had known where it was, but for some reason refused to take Shadow to it. Shadow had returned to the colony in hope of uncovering more about the mystery that was the events of fifty years ago.
"It makes no sense." Muttered Shadow, "How did the video get here?" Shadow shut down the recording and stroll through the corridors connecting the rooms. From one of the rooms Amy ran out towards Shadow.
"Find anything?" She asked. Shadow sighed and shook his head. Amy smiled slightly and gently kissed his cheek. Shadow's face perked up a little. "Lets keep looking." Shadow and Amy continued down the corridors. Half way down one of the corridors Shadow stopped and looked around. "What's wrong?" asked Amy.
"We are not alone..." Shadow slowly turned around, his eyes darting around. For a minute nothing happened. Shadow lowered his guard. "Maybe I was..." Before Shadow could finish he was knocked to the ground. A G.U.N robot stood over him, pointing a gun at his head.
"Unauthorised intruder, prepare to be neturised!"
"What's an authorised intruder?" Questioned Shadow. Without any effort Shadow span through the robot, shattering it into countless pieces. Shadow looked down at the destroyed robot.
"There'll be more, why didn't I think the government would be protecting this." Shadow kicked one of the robots components.
"Ah, don't worry about them, they aren't any concern." Claimed Amy. Shadow agreed and continued down the hallway. As he walked down the corridor he began to hear sirens. The corridor began to flash red.
"It happened here..." Shadow felt a memory revelling itself. He looked into one of the old labs. He saw Gerald.
"What do you mean? This was not part of the deal!" Gerald was shouting at a soldier.
"Our bosses are to close to discovering what we're doing, you will continue our weapon from jail." Shadow stared at the two, what was going on?
"SHADOW!" Amy's shout pulled Shadow back to reality. Hoards of G.U.N robots were flooding the corridors.
"I think we should go soon." claimed Shadow. He pulled out a red chaos emerald and pulled Amy close to him. "Chaos control!" Shouted Shadow. As the two of them disappeared Shadow couldn't help but look back at the lab. He would discover the truth, no matter what.
"Well, this doesn't make sense." Metal Sonic stared intently at a computer screen. Metal Knuckles walked up towards him and also looked at the monitor. On the monitor was blueprints for a robot. "This robot doesn't seem capable of combat, or speed, it doesn't look like it could even be a simple worker." Metal Sonic turned his chair around to face Metal Knuckles.
"Well maybe that's why Eggman never finished it." Metal Sonic shook his head.
"No. A machine like this wouldn't normally get past the design point, let alone be half built." Metal Sonic switched off the monitor. "Anyway, how's the Tails doll coming?"
"Well, Beta did a number on him, which wasn't very fair seeing as Fistika had just switched him off..."
"Just answer the question." Interrupted Metal Sonic.
"Still a lot of work to do on him." Metal Sonic nodded and turned the monitor back on.
"Well, you'd better do that work brother." Metal Sonic returned to the blueprint, trying to figure out the robots purpose.
"Brother," Metal Knuckles glanced from Metal Sonic to the blueprints, "you are becoming obsessed with those blueprints, do you not remember what the Metal Amy was like when Nack released it?"
"That was a different design, one which could be of use in combat, but with a scary personality." Metal Sonic pressed a few buttons on the keyboard. The screen zoomed into the head of the Metal Amy blueprints. "What is that?" Metal Sonic zoomed in even closer. "Code 579 secure memory chip? Don't the metal counterparts use Code 502 secure memory chips? What's the 579 version?" Metal Sonic scanned the computers files. He turned to Metal Knuckles. "The chip doesn't exists!"
"Or Eggman deleted all data on it." Metal Knuckles paused to think. "It is possible the chip was installed into the uncompleted robot and then all knowledge of it was destroyed."
"Why would Eggman do that?" Questioned Metal Sonic.
"Maybe the chip was going to hold some sort of data that Eggman needed to keep as secret as possible, a robot is much less likely to be hacked into." A short laugh emerged from Metal Sonic.
"That's some extremes to go to, just to keep some data secret, and then he goes and forgets about it." Metal Sonic printed the blueprints out from the computer. "Nether the less, this data could be of use to me. Brother, you continue to fix the Tails doll, I'll discover the secrets hidden within this robot."