"What!?" Fox said in surprise at the news Corneria is under attack. "By who?"
"We're not sure!" General Pepper said. "Whatever it is, it's a threat we never seen before!"
"Well, are there at least any descriptions?" Falco asked.
"As a matter of fact..." General Pepper started. "A solider in the Cornerian army managed to get a photo of the threat. I'll put it on screen now."
Soon an image appeared on screen. The image shown buildings on fire and smoke covering a huge area, all that could be seen was orange shapes with blue eyes flying in the smoke, impossible to tell what they were given the image resolution. One thing in the image stood out though. In the center, standing on some rubble was a dark figure. It was covered by shadow, making the figure seem black, but some light was touching it, revealing it to blue. Another distinguishing feature in the figure was two bright, evil, robotic red eyes.
"We better go down and stop them." Fox said.
So Fox, Falco, Peppy, and Slippy started running for the exit door leading to the hangar.
"Wait!" Sonic cried. "I think I know who those guys ar-"
"We'll take care of whoever they are, stay here!" Fox said.
Falco paused and turned toward Sonic and friends. "Oh, and also…"
"Let me guess." Tails said rolling his eyes. "Don't touch anything."
"Yea, and I mean it!" Falco said and turned around and ran down the hallway with the others."
Soon Fox and the rest jumped into their arwings and prepared for takeoff.
With a loud hum of the engine the arwings shot out of the hangar and headed toward Corneria.
Soon the arwings arrived at Corneria, and were heading toward Corneria city.
"Open the wings." Fox commanded.
Everyone opened their arwing's wings.
"Everyone check your G-Diffuser system." Fox said.
"Falco here, I'm good." Falco said.
"Peppy here, all systems are good." Peppy said.
"This is Slippy, I'm ok." Slippy said.
"Prepare yourself guys, lets rock and roll!" Fox said.
At that moment they entered Corneria city, and saw the place was near destruction.
"This place looks as bad as when Andross's army attacked it." Falco said.
"Yea…it really does." Slippy added.
"I see them!" Fox said. "Let's take them down!"
The team then opened fire, shooting down these strange, orange, egg shaped robots with black wings with a red outline.
"Huh…I've never seen these before." Peppy said.
"Maybe it has something to do with that blue hedgehog and his friends we let on our ship." Falco said.
"Don't jump to conclusions Falco." Fox said while shooting down some of the flying robots.
"Hey, what's that up ahead!?" Slippy asked.
Up ahead, was the blue, evil looking robot. It was holding up a Cornerian civilian by the throat.
"Resident." It said. "You will provide this unit with the location of Sonic the Hedgehog, you will comply immediately!" The robot demanded.
"S-Sonic…?" The terrified civilian said filled with terror. "I-I don't know who Sonic is! I don't know!"
Suddenly the robot dropped the civilian and looked toward the arwings heading for it.
"Hostiles detected." The robot said. "Engaging!"
The robot launched upwards, hovering with glowing red eyes. Fox managed to finally see it clearly now.
The robot was blue, with a silver chin piece, and a pointy nose. It had a yellow circular engine on the front of it, with piercing red eyes, and it some-what resembled Sonic.
The robot dashed forward, past the arwings, so fast the team barely saw it!
"Hey!" Falco said in shock. "Where did it go!?"
"I don't know…" Fox said. "Keep your eyes open, this thing is fast, and it could attack anywhere."
At that second Fox saw the robot zoom past his cockpit, too fast for him to be able to lock on to it!
Slippy tried to shoot at it, but the robot kept evading every one of his shots, none of them were even close!
Then the robot dashed forward, and transformed into a ball form, and managed to dash through Slippy's ship, slicing the left wing right off!
Slippy started screaming as he was about to crash into the ground!
"Slippy!" Fox shouted in horror.
Slippy's ship crashed into the ground, skidding across the ground and eventually stopping. Fox could barely see his ship, it was covered in smoke.
Suddenly Fox and the rest where relieved when they heard Slippy's voice on the transmission.
"I'm okay, but my leg and arm hurts!" Slippy said.
"Thank goodness you're alright!" Fox said. "Peppy, help Slippy. Falco and I will try to shoot it down!"
Fox and Falco were still flying, looking for where ever the robot went. Peppy landed his ship next to Slippy's, and was helping him get out of the cockpit.
"I don't see him." Falco said.
"I can't either." Fox said.
Suddenly, Fox saw the robot appear in front of him, flying backwards, but slow enough Fox could see it and lock on.
"Got you now!" Fox said and fired at the robot!
Only to have the shot missed when the robot dashed at high speeds dodging the shot.
Fox was starting to get annoyed, he kept shooting, but the robot was dodging everything! Falco tried shooting it, but to no avail!
"How are we supposed to shoot this thing!?" Falco shouted in frustration.
Soon Fox saw the robot charging a laser in its yellow stomach piece, about to fire!
"Oh no…" Fox said
All of the sudden, Fox saw a blue blur hit the robot and knock it to the ground!
"What the?" Fox said in surprise.
It was Sonic!
"So we meet again Metal Sonic!" Sonic said as the robot he just knocked down slowly got back up.
"Resuming original objective." Metal Sonic said. "Terminate Sonic the Hedgehog!"
The two dashed at each other, but Sonic managed to jump up in time to land on Metal Sonic and cause him to crash in the ground!
"Is that….Sonic?" Fox asked out loud.
Sonic and Metal Sonic were having a huge fight! The two were dashing in all directions, hitting each other and knocking each other down!
"Their moving so fast!" Falco said looking down on the fight.
The fight continued, until Metal Sonic received a transmission from Eggman.
"Metal!" Eggman called in. "You're taking too much damage and you're too valuable right now! Gather the remaining Egg pawn flyers, activate your auto reconstruct circuitry and retreat, I'll think of a new plan to be rid of the pests!"
"Yes Doctor Robotnick." Metal Sonic said and did as ordered and retreated with the rest of the Egg pawns.
"Why are they retreating!?" Falco asked.
"I don't know, but let's get back to the Great Fox, Slippy's hurt and we need to figure out what were up against!" Fox said.
