Chapter 2

Behind enemy lines

Sonic and Shadow were racing against each other to see who was the fastest. They race from Tails house to angel park then back, Amy could see Sonic and Shadow almost at the finish line she cheered Sonic on saying "come on Sonic you can do it" and reminded him that after they finish racing he would take her out to a romantic place just the two of them for some alone time. Sonic and Shadow were side by side constantly passing each other, they could see Tails house and started using all their energy to make it. Shadow pass Sonic and was about to beat him for the first time saying to himself "this is it, I'm finally going to beat Sonic and show him I'm the fastest" but right at the finish line he tripped by stepping into a ditch and hits the ground head first. When he gets up he sees Sonic pass the finish line "I told you, you can't beat a true hedgehog" Sonic says while Shadow punches the ground breaking a stone to pieces.

Amy: "okay Sonic, you said you'll take me out to a romantic place just after you guys finish racing"

Sonic: "we'll uh Amy you see"

Amy: "no buts you said you'll take me out and you're going to"

Sonic gives off signs to Shadow with his eyes telling him to help him get out of this mess, Shadow punches Sonic in the face.

Shadow: "too slow"

"So that's your game, sorry Amy you know how I love a challenge" Sonic says as they start fighting each other to see who was the strongest. "Oh Sonic sometimes I just want to knock some sense into your little thick head of yours, your just lucky I'm madly in love with you" Amy says to herself talking how adorable his blue skin is and how much she loves him. Knuckles was taking a break from guarding the master emerald in Angel Island, he open the fridge got a bottle of soda, picked up some left over pizza that Tails ordered and sat down watching T. V.. Rouge was outside laying down on a beach chair taking a sun tan relaxing from worrying about what jewels will she steal next with a cup of pine apple juice at her side. Tails was in his lab trying to figure out new ways to harness the power of the chaos emeralds besides using it to have unlimited power supply to his X-Tornado. He started falling asleep since he worked all night figuring how to harness the power of the chaos emeralds, he drank some hot chocolate but once he ran out fate took over and he landed face first on his notebook and began dreaming.

It was dark he couldn't speak he could hear, see and feel, he hears machines pumping, water bubbling, and voices he hears voices that he heard before but couldn't make out.

"Is everything ready?"

"Yes I hope this works"

Tails hear machine started to function like there trying to work on something.

"Type in the calibrations"

"But what if it fails? what if it doesn't work its just too risky"

"What choice we have! It's either this or we loose him for good"

"But"

"No buts just do it!"

They start typing, pulling switches, charging machines, and electricity starts coming from bulbs on the side of the machine all pointing on a capsule with some form of egg. As the starts getting electricity red lights start to blink on and off and sirens begin to turn on.

"Its out of control shut it down!"

"I can't the controls aren't function, systems are going critical"

An explosion occur and a Shadow figure appeared, it walked up to one of the scientist grabbed him and twisted his neck until his head pop off and blood started coming down from the to the floor. Then he grabbed one of the knives that were on the floor and stabbed the other scientist, it looked at Tails walked up to him Tails tried to move but couldn't didn't know why didn't want to know all that was in his mine was to move and get the hell away from here. The figure walked close and closer raised the knife it held and brought down and stabbed Tails in the head.

Tails woke up breathing heard his heart pumping only thinking about what just happen in his nightmare. He rubbed his eyes but his forehead starting hurting as well, he rubbed his forehead only to figure out that when he slept on his notebook the words marked on his forehead was making his head hurt. He looks at the time reading its two-thirty pm that he slept for two hours. He got off from his chair, opened a window and stuck his head out to feel some breeze. As he looks outside he sees five looking like meteor things coming from the sky and heading towards the mountains and hears a giant bang after the impact on the ground. After the impact of the meteors Tails sits back down on his chair thinking what the heck was that then his chair and his other inventions start shaking from the impact of the cash. An earthquake starts happening, his notebooks start falling on the floor, pieces of his gear that he invents with starts rolling around the floor, lamps started falling and breaking apart and Tails falls from his chair and starts moving around as he try's to grab hold of something. Outside trees start falling down, rocks start rolling from the cliffs, birds start flying and animals start to hide not knowing what going on but sensing something bad is coming. "What's going on?" Amy says as she looses her balance and falls on the ground, Sonic and Shadow were balancing themselves to stand up, Rouge tried to get up from her beach chair as the pineapple juice fell on her face and Knuckles started moving sideways as the sofa shook side to side and when it was over Knuckles went outside to see if everyone's alright but slipped on a slice of pizza that was on the floor.

Knuckles: "is everyone alright?"

Sonic: "we're alright, Amy Rouge"

Amy: "we're fine"

Sonic: "oh no Tails is still inside his lab!"

They go inside Tails lab to see if he's alright thinking it was one of Tails new inventions. When they arrive they see lamps broken, inventions on the ground and pieces of gear all over the place. They found Tails underneath a pile of books that fell from the bookshelf, he rubbed his head feeling a bump in the middle. He explains that the earth quake wasn't his fault this time that what cause the earth quake was in the mountains. Tails opened the launch panel and his garage where he keeps his plane called the X-Tornado hoping it wasn't damage during the earthquake, he saw the X-Tornado flipped over, a wing broken and a loose wheel.

Tails: "it shouldn't take that long to fix that only like thirty minutes or less but I need your help to lift the plane so I can fix it"

Knuckles grabbed a piece of rope tied around the back end of the plane making a pulley and gave the end of the rope to Shadow while Sonic tied the rope to the front of the plane where the propeller is and gave the end to Amy and Rouge. Tails got a spare wing he kept in case of an emergency like this, grabbed a flame torch and fired he wing to connect with the plane. Then he grabbed a screw drive and replaced the old wheel with the new wheel. While Tails was about to finish Knuckles and Sonic were getting tired of holding the rope and was slipping little by little. Right when Sonic yelled at Tails telling him to look out the rope slipped through his hand and since Amy and Rouge weren't strong enough they had no choice but to let go and Shadow couldn't hold it all alone so he let go. They checked to see if Tails made it out in time and saw that he was alright.

Sonic: "did you fix the X-Tornado"

"Yep all sat" Tails answer as they got on the X-tornado.

Sonic: "Amy, Rouge you two stayed behind"

Amy: "oh come on Sonic. Listen where ever you go I'm going"

Sonic tried to convince her to stay but she just got inside with Rouge and pushed Sonic aside and headed for the mountains. As they went to see what was inside those meteors Metal Shadow had some other plans in mind.

Metal Knuckles: "where are we?"

Metal Sonic: "where do you think we're in the past. She must have open portal t the past when Malpercio is still sealed"

Metal Tails: "where did Tikal go?"

Metal Shadow: "leave her"

Metal Sonic: "but Malpercio said"

Metal Shadow: "I said leave her! we have better things to do than chasing after her. We'll deal with her later"

Metal Shadow flew off to the city being followed by Metal Sonic, Knuckles and Tails. As they left Tails and the rest of them made it to the mountains.

Sonic: "alright Shadow Tails come with me, Amy Rouge go with Knuckles we'll cover more ground"

They spit up and knuckle follow Amy and Rouge on foot as they walk on the trail since Amy didn't want to climb all the way to the top. Tails flies to the top as Shadow and Sonic start climbing. While they climb Sonic puts his foot on a ledge but it breaks apart and Sonic almost falls. As Shadow looks up he sees pieces of rocs of the ledge that Sonic slipped on and some hit him in the face. "Hey watch it that hurts" Shadow tells Sonic "my bad" Sonic answers back as they continue to climb. When they make it to the top they see a giant crater in the middle and see something in the middle but it's too small to tell so they go down. When they get there they see an orange color echidna, wearing some clothes of her time, with a yellow hand band with a green diamond in the middle, two blue wrist bands and a brown necklace with a white diamond in the middle. When Tails sees her he dose off thinking how beautiful she is and he stares at her for a few minutes but Sonic wakes him from his dosing. Tails goes closer and sees if she alright, he puts his head on her heart to see if she still alive. He hears a heart beat and tells Sonic that she alive he grabs in his arms and flies sack down to put her in the X-Tornado while Sonic and Shadow run down the mountain. When they get there they knuckle with Amy and Rouge waiting for them.

Amy: "who's she, Sonic you better not be cheating on me!"

Sonic: "I'll explain later just hop on"

They got on the X-Tornado and headed back to Tails house to make her better. While they headed back to Tails house Metal Shadow, Knuckles, Tails, and Sonic were destroying the city.

Metal Shadow: "find him don't stop destroy everything and everyone until you find him"

Metal Shadow was shooting at building with his energy balls as it turn it rubble while he hears people screaming in fear as they die. Metal Sonic was shot needles at people, freezes them then he punches them and hey shatter to pieces while frozen blood fell on the ground and then dried up. Metal Knuckles grabbed them by the head and squash their head that blood came out from their ears and their brains exploded into little pieces while Metal Tails spines around slicing their bodies in half and if they stilled live cut their throats off. While they continue on with the destruction Metal Shadow heard two poor talking.

"Did you hear Eggmans building a new invention something about chaos emerald and finding them easier?"

Metal Shadow sees a coin with blood all over, wipes the blood off and walks over to the poor kids.

"No way you're serious"

"Yea but I think it's a rumor"

Metal Shadow: "where did you last hear where he was" he said as he grabbed him by the shirt and put him against the wall

"Uh I don't know"

Metal Shadow: 'where!"

"Hey leave him alone uh" the poor kid said as he slapped him in the face and fell on the floor

"where did you last hear where he was" he demanded as he charge an energy ball and puts it in the kids face as tears came out from his eyes

"Somewhere north from here"

He put the kid on the ground and walked away while the kids stared in fear. He looked back and tosses the coin he picked up.

"Hear for you information" as he toss the coin at them

"Uh thanks mister" the poor kids said while they looked at the coin. "Hey what that beeping sound" they looked at the back at the coin and right when they turn the coin around the coin exploded ad killed the two boys. "Fools Metal Shadow said while he walked away and hears the explosion behind him.

Metal Shadow: "let's go"

Metal Sonic: "where we're going?"

Metal Shadow: "to meet an old friend"

They flew off heading to Eggmans war fleet. Back at Tails house Tails put the mysterious echidna on a bed with a heart rate machine keeping track of her heart. When he was finish checking on her he sat down in the living room where everyone was.

Sonic: "how is she?"

Tails: 'she's doing fine for now but I couldn't wake her up"

Sonic: "I see"

"Okay that's it!" Amy says as she burst out of her chair.

Amy: "who is she your new girlfriend, you've been cheating on me haven't you!"

Sonic: "no Amy I'm not"

Amy: "don't lie to me and to think I would have fallen in love with a cheater"

Sonic: "Amy it's not like that at all I would never cheat on you in fact I don't even know who she is "

Amy: "you're not lying?"

Sonic: "I'm telling you the truth go and ask Tails"

Tails: "he's not lying"

Amy looked at and Sonic and sat down thinking why would be thinking that Sonic would be cheating on her after she known him and he's known her since the begging.

Eggman was working on an invention called the emerald tractor using the chaos emerald he would be able to find the other emeralds in no time. While he finishes the last adjustment to his emerald tractor his ship detects intruders heading towards his positing. Eggmans tells his battle ships to open fire. The cannons start shooting at them, they dodge the shot the cannons shoot at them and destroy him one by one. After they destroyed the cannons to eggamans main battle ship and runs full speed at it and made a hole so they could enter in. when they got in robots with machine started coming from around the corner followed behind with rocket launcher. They aim at Metal Shadow and open fire, they dodge the machine gun bullets and kicked the missiles back at them which blows them up leaving robots parts and heads with sparks coming out from the broken pieces. They continue walking and run up to robots in the form of a ball coming at them. When they were about ten feet away from them they unrolled themselves with three legs, machine gun arms and shoulder rockets. They start shooting at them, Metal Sonic grabbed robots parts that they destroyed and threw it at the missiles path which created a giant smoke after the missiles impact the robot parts. When the smoke was starting to clear Metal Sonic ran in so fast that the robots couldn't keep up and were disintegrated. They blasted their way through waves of robots that blocked their way from reaching Eggman and blew up doors that blocked them from going further. As Eggman hears the intruders coming closer and closer he runs to the command bridge where he'll be safe, while he was running he think its Sonic who was after him and his emerald tractor and was going to lay a trap confidence that he wont be able to make it out alive this time. After they destroyed countless robots and doors they made it to the command bridge and saw Eggman standing next to the control consol.

Eggman: "so glad you can make it Sonic wait your not Sonic who ever you are you won't live any longer to see day light again destroy them."

Eggman commanded five giant robots with axes coming in from two doors opening on the opposite side of the room and three robots with machine gun arms and rocket launcher shoulder pads and ten robots with machine gun and rocket launchers surround them. "Any last word" Eggman asked them. They separated Metal Shadow cut off one of the giant robots arm grabbed his axe swung it at him cutting him in half and swung the axe around colliding with the other robot and slicing his axe in half then his head. Metal Sonic led the robot with machine guns arms and rocket pad shoot at him while he flew around the robot while it followed him destroying the other then robots with machine guns and rocket launcher and then he goes and rams through his body grabbing his power core and destroying it in his hands. Metal Tails cuts the legs of the other three giant robots and blew up their heads while metal knuckle punches the other two robots with machine gun arms to pieces. Metal Shadow face at Eggman as he saw Eggman was in fear flew at him put his hand through his chest and pulled out his heart and squash it with his bare hands as blood ran through his fingers. As he looked at his hand then at the dead body he laugh to himself like he enjoyed it like it brought him pleasure then the blood and body turn to grayish liquid.

Metal Shadow: "a clone very clever, find him!"

They search everywhere but couldn't find him. Right when Metal Shadow was about to blow up the ship he hears something above him. He looked and saw Eggman running to his personal ship called the Egg Carrier for an escape. "Clever very clever" Metal Shadow said as he blew up the catwalk and Eggman screamed as he fell. When he hit the ground lying down his eyes started closing little by little as he saw foot steps coming towards him then his eyes completely shut.

Tikal woke opening and closing her eyes as she open and closed she started getting flash backs of her farther dyeing, campsite destroyed and fighting Malpercio and then fail. "No" she screams thinking she's still in the present but when she wakes up she sees herself sitting on a bed in a room and a machine keeping track of her heart beat. She gets off and walks through the hallway as she walks she rubes her eyes from sleeping for who knows hw long then bumps into Tails as he goes and checks on her.

Tails: "aw my head"

Tikal: "I'm sorry"

Tails: "hey you're that girl we found in the mountains"

Tiakl: "my names Tikal and yours?"

Tails: "Tails my name is Tails here let me introduce you to the rest of the gang"

Tails takes Tikal to where Sonic, Amy, and Rouge were sitting while Knuckles was watching TV. and changing channels.

Tails: "this is tiakal

Tails: 'nice to meet you all"

They all answer back, but Amy answer in a happy and jealous way seeing how Sonic answer politely which he never does to her.

Sonic: "where did you come from anyway?"

Tkal: "I'm from here. In my time an ancient god called Malpercio ruled this earth and killed everyone I dear so much I was the last hope for destroying him but I wasn't strong enough so I came here so I can destroy him and change the future"

Sonic: 'what happens to us?"

Tikal: "you die Malpercio kills you all"

Tails: 'what! You mean we all die I don't even get married or get a girlfriend I just die!"

Tikal: 'I'm sorry but that's how it is."

Sonic: "alright so tell us how you ended up here"

"Well I all started" Tikal said as she explained how she came here. While she was explaining to them Eggman was waking up. He woke up and saw three figures two sitting down and the other one standing. The leader came towards him.

Metal Shadow: "so glad your finally awake doctor I though your were dead for a second there"

Eggman: "who are you?"

Metal Shadow: "that not any of your concern what concerns me is your little invention called the emerald tractor"

Eggman: "I don't know what you're talking about"

"Liar!" Metal Shadow says as he punches Eggman in the face and sees him wipes the blood from the side of his mouth. Metal Shadow walks away and snaps his fingers. Metal Knuckles, Sonic, and Tails go towards Eggman and start beating him up kicking him and punching him to make him answer. Metal Shadow tells them enough by raising his hand.

Metal Shadow: 'my patience is running out doctor. I'll ask you one more time where is your emerald tractor."

Eggman: go to hell! You'll never get it, its gone I send to a secret location"

"Aww!" Metal Shadow says as he throws Eggman against the wall. As he tries getting up, Metal Shadow sees something in his pocket. He puts his foot on his back and holds him on the ground, checks his pockets and finds the emerald detector and the chaos emeralds he used to make it. "you son of a bitch" Metal Shadow says as he punches him harder as blood comes out form the other side of his mouth and gives him a noose bleed. He grabbed him by the shirt sat him and down on a chair and tied him up with rope he found on the floor.

Eggman: "what are you doing?"

Metal Shadow: "I was going to give you a chance to end your life quickly but I change my mind."

Metal Shadow nods his head to Metal Sonic, Knuckles and Tails. Metal Sonic walks up to the controls and starts pressing buttons, Metal Knuckles grabs a dynamite and starts putting the time for four minutes, and Metal Tails gets to the switch of the life pods and sets them to self destruct. When they finish doing there jobs they start walking out of the room waiting for Metal Shadow, Metal Shadow stays behind raises his hand and blast the doors to pieces to prevent him from escaping. Then he walk out of the room, egggman hears an explosion he turns his head around and see them flying off. Eggman moves his body around trying to make one of his arms loose. He manages to make one free and unites himself. He goes to the dynamite and grabs a wire cutter. He looks at the wires seeing a red, green, and a blue wire, he's never done this in his life. E starts sweating while his heart pumps faster by each second deciding which wire to cut to defuse the dynamite while the countdown continues. He puts the wire cutter up to the red wire. He wipes his forehead from all the sweating from being nervous. He starts closing the wire cutter slowly hoping he's about to cut the right wire. He closes the wire while shutting his eyes tight, he waits a couple of minutes to hear an explosion, he opens his eyes seeing the countdown go to two minutes then stop. He lets out a big breath of air in a sign of relief then he hears his system continuing counting where the dynamite stop saying "ship will self-destruct in two minutes". Eggman runs for the life seeing that that's the only door they didn't blow up. In his head he though they were foolish enough to leave the escape pod door non damage right when he opening the door an explosion occurs nearly burning his face knock him back as he sees pieces of the life pods that blew. He move to the console that Metal Sonic set off to continue the count down of the dynamite while his heats pumps even faster. He starts punching buttons to cancel the count down but Metal Sonic must have disabled the controls to shut it down. Eggman starts running to the door hearing the system say "ship will self destruct in thirty seconds". He punches the door screaming "Help me! Somebody get me out of here!" hoping there was at least one robot functional to set him free. He hears the system counting ten nine eight as the time get to five seconds Eggman screams "no!" as the system say one and Eggman main battle ship blows up hitting the other battle ships that were underneath it blowing them up while the main battle ship started blowing to pieces. Metal Shadow sees the explosion from a distance as he watches to make sure he didn't make it out alive smiling at the view he was watching. While he was smiling the emeralds detector started making noise as he held it in his hand. He looks at it seeing an arrow pointing east from there positing. They fly off to there the emerald detector guided them as the rest off Eggmans fleet started blowing up as pieces of the ships fell from the sky. Back at Tails house Tikal explained to them how she ended up here leaving out a few minor deTails. While she was about to finish Knuckles calls everyone to show them something about Eggman that he was looking at the news. They go and see a field man reporter talking and behind him thousands of battle ships as well as building collapse from the ships.

Bob: "this is just in right behind me thousand of battle ships of the notorious evil doctor Eggman"

John: "have the police found any events of whom and how did this happen?" ask one of the reporters

Bob: "the police haven't found any events yet wait I'm receiving a message from the chief police men, uh-hua…yea…alright. This is just in ladies and gentle man they just found a footage clip that miraculously survive the crash lets watch."

They play the footage and they see Metal Shadow standing in front of doctor Eggman while Metal Knuckles. Sonic, and Tails beat him up then it switch to another footage showing Eggman tied on a chair while Metal Knuckles grabbed the dynamite put the time. The next footage show Metal Shadow take out the emeralds tractor and the chaos emerald he had in his pocket. The last footage shows Eggman punching buttons on the console, then punching the door trying to escape and screaming his last word as the footage ended right there.

John: "do they have any leads to who these strangers are and what that invention was?"

Bob: "for now our top best scientist are scanning around to see if any notes or footages survive to see what the invention that Eggman build. the only they lead have is they think it was our hero Sonic the hedgehog accompany by Knuckles the echidna, Tails the kitsune and Shadow the one that turn o the good side the hedgehog that killed Eggman for his invention and destroyed his fleet, That's all for now back to you John.

Knuckles shuts off the TV and stares at it in shock.

Sonic: "how the hell can they have a lead of me killing Eggman! I mean look at him he doesn't even look like well beside the hair"

Shadow: "Now's not the time to amuse how his hair resembles yours, Tikal do you know who those people were?"

Tikal: "yes they are Malpercio servants, they serve and obey him. They are known as Metal Shadow, Metal Knuckles, Metal Sonic and Metal Tails and it seems that t Malpercio must steal be sealed away inside his holy sanctum so they must need that invention to find the emeralds to break his seal so we may still have time to stop from being free"

Tails: "that invention that Eggman build I think it's called the emerald tractor, he must have build it to find the emeralds a lot easier"

Sonic: "can you build one?"

Tails: "I could try but it may take a while I only use the chaos emerald to harness the power on vehicles not invention like the emerald tractor"

Sonic: "can you do it"

Tails: "yea I'll get started right on it"

Tails went to his lab trying to make the emerald tractor. He tried several times but screwed up as the invention blew up on his face leaving ashes on his face. While he was trying to build it for the last time after failing a couple of time he was about to give but luckly he got it right. He went back to Sonic telling him the good news. As he showed him the emerald tractor it started making beeping noise pointing north. Sonic, Tails, Tikal, Shadow and Knuckles got on the X-Tornado. Amy and Rouge were about to along with them but Sonic stopped them telling them to stay it might be too dangerous for her and he doesn't know what there capable of. Amy acknowledges and stood behind with Rouge as they flew off while the emerald tractor guided them. When they disappeared Amy gave a frown look at where they disappeared while Rouge walked away being jealous at Tikal thinking that Tikal is trying to take Sonic away from her. When Sonic and the rest of the gang made it to where the emerald tractor pointed they landed and got off searching for the chaos emerald. They walked together so they wouldn't get lost in the forest. As hey walked they pushed branches and leaves out of there while Shadow kept on getting hit in the face with branches since he was the last person walking behind them, they found the emerald eventually camouflage underneath a pile of leaves. Right when they were about to grab they were being shot from behind. They try to see through the smoke but couldn't as they were punched in the stomach and pushed outside from the smoke. As the smoke clear they saw Metal Shadow holding the chaos emerald in his hand.

Metal Shadow: "so glad you could lead us to the chaos emerald making our job easier"

Tails: "we found it first finder's keepers"

"We're sorry but life isn't first come first get if that what your parents taught you then you'll never defeat us" he said as they were starting to walk away. "You're not getting away with the emerald if I have anything to say about it" Sonic said as Shadow join Sonic running at them getting ready to fight. "You're not even worth my time chaos control!" Metal Shadow said as they warped away in front of Sonic and Shadow face. Tails looked at Sonic and told him to not to worry we'll get the next one as they walked back to the X-Tornado.

A/U: sorry everyone I know you were hoping for a new chapter but I decided to rewriting it making the story better. I hope you like how I written the story all over again. Review!

Copyright: Eggman is from Sega

Copyright: Bob and John are copyrights from me