Sonic Overdrive
Chapter 4
South Island, Scrap Brain Zone
Metal Shadow walked out of the pod, looking at Shadow. It began to scan him, noticing he was an android.
"How did they manage to make a metal version of me?"
Metal Shadow didn't say anything as it suddenly floated up and dashed at Shadow, ramming him into a wall. Shadow let out a quick scream as Metal Shadow then kicked his chin, launching him upwards into the air. Suddenly a barrage of swipes from Metal Shadow's claws hit Shadow, causing him to get cuts all over his face and chest. Shadow quickly retaliated with a swift head-butt to his metal counterparts head as it launched Metal Shadow right down to the ground. However, Shadow hurt his head from the hit. Metal Shadow got up from the ground as it teleported behind Shadow in a flash.
"He can use Chaos Control too?!"
Shadow was quickly kneed in the back, then grabbed by the arm and tossed into a wall. Metal Shadow then teleported to Shadow and punched his gut as he was stuck on the wall. Shadow coughed as he was punched rapidly in the gut by Metal Shadow. With him being enraged, he left off a chaos blast from his body which pushed Metal Shadow back. Shadow got out of the wall as he leaped from it and moved towards his counterpart at rocketing speeds. Metal Shadow quickly flew at him as well. As they were both flying toward each other, Shadow quickly teleported above him and threw a chaos spear into its back.
"Got you…"
Suddenly, Metal Shadow turned around seeming unaffected by it as he threw his own chaos spears back at Shadow. Shadow quickly dodged it as the spears penetrated through the base. "No effect." Shadow said in shock. Metal Shadow then regenerated himself as he teleported in front of shadow, kneeing his chest. It paralyzed Shadow for a bit. And with a final attack, Metal Shadow let off his own Chaos Blast that blew Shadow far back and making him go through the walls of the base.
Metal Shadow teleported outside as he looked around for Shadow by scanning the area. As he flew around the area, Shadow instantly appeared behind Metal Shadow, giving him a devastating axe kick to the head which sent the metal counterpart crashing down into the ground. The impact made a crater as Metal Shadow was on the ground flat. Shadow had to make sure that Metal Shadow was destroyed. He summoned a huge array of chaos spears and threw them all down at Metal Shadow. Each spear hit it as it caused a combustion of explosions around the crater. As the smoke cleared, Metal Shadow was still unscathed as it rose up from the crater and looked up at Shadow.
"Impossible!"
Suddenly, the unstoppable machine shot a plasma beam from its chest as it rocketed towards Shadow. Shadow quickly moved out of the way, with the beam hitting a faraway mountain, causing a huge explosion when it hit. Shadow looked back at it and was in shock of what he saw.
"Just what are you?"
And with that, Metal Shadow finally spoke. "I am the true Ultimate Lifeform."
Shadow simply laughed at that statement as he slowly reached for his inhibitor rings.
"You? The Ultimate Lifeform? Don't make me laugh. If you call yourself that... then prove it by defeating me here."
Shadow then removed his inhibitor rings, all of his chaos energy was released from it now. His entire body was surrounded by a red energy that sparked intense flames as a red and yellow aura came from him. He took one step and made a crater that was the same size of his foot appear. Shadow pulled his hands back as a small red orb appeared on his hands.
"Chaos Bombardier!"
Shadow tossed the orb as it suddenly released a barrage of energy spheres that began to bombard Metal Shadow with insane amounts of speeds and power. Each hit made an explosion bigger than the last as Metal Shadow could feel himself getting pushed back and eventually taking huge amounts of damage. As more came kept coming, Shadow took this an advantage and teleported behind Metal Shadow as he was still getting hit by the spheres. Shadow smirked and let off one more Chaos Blast. The force of the blast made a colossal explosion that made an ear shattering noise and soon spread far and wide across the area, reaching Scrap Brain Zone and destroying it completely. A huge crater was left with Metal Shadow heavily damaged with his face, arms and legs. Metal Shadow could barely stand as it had wires sticking out of its left face that was blasted off.
Metal Shadow then made a hasty retreat by teleporting away from the area. Shadow then put his rings back on restoring his energy back to normal as he breathed heavily.
"Shadow. What happened?"
"It's fine Rouge. I'm heading back now."
South Island, Emerald Hill
Meanwhile, the guards from the skies above arrived, riding golden chariots as they landed down, beginning to search the area. As this was all going on, Amy Rose suddenly spotted them.
"Whatcha guys doing?"
To Be Continued