Fanfiction and the character Unlimited are property of Josh Kovatch, 2008.
Unlimited: The Next Universe
Chapter 7: Organic Vs. Artificial
The two sides, fully powered up and ready to fight, stared each other down for just a moment longer, enjoying the last seconds of peace before the battle to decide their fate would begin.
Then, Eggman suddenly shouted to his army, "GO! GET THEM ALL!!"
Suddenly, all of Eggman's robots came to life and began to charge past Eggman and Mecha Sonic towards the Sonic team.
"LET'S GO!!" Sonic yelled out.
The six fighters behind Unlimited took off towards the advancing robots, Sonic and Shadow in front, Amy and Knuckles following, and Rouge and Tails taking to the skies.
Meanwhile, Unlimited remained where he was, looking at Mecha Sonic, who was also waiting one more moment.
The opponents were about to collide in the middle of the field, Sonic and Shadow about to attack the first sword robots, when all of a sudden, both of the last fighters disappeared and all the others felt a shockwave come from the sky. There, Mecha Sonic and Unlimited had punched each other's fists, locking them forcefully. Mecha Sonic, however, was surprised to feel that Unlimited's fist, even though it was of flesh and bone, felt just as hard as his metal fist. The two then backed up and began to throw punches at each other at breakneck speeds.
Speaking of breakneck speed, down below, Sonic and Shadow began to tear through the crowd of sword-wielding robots, taking them down quickly. Over the first two hedgehogs heads, many robots wielding axes jumped and landed behind them, trying to surround them. However, Amy and Knuckles stormed up from behind and began smashing them one by one. Some of the axe robots turned and tried to take out the new fighters, one of them bringing its axe up above Amy and swinging it down.
Amy saw this and became frightened, but instead of crying out, she remembered something.
I've repaired your hammer to be more durable and powerful than before.
Amy realized this, and, hoping it would work, brought her hammer up with the handle defending her. The robot's axe plummeted down and nailed her hammer, but amazingly, the axe shattered and the robot pulled in back in alarm.
Amy smiled and said, "Now nothing can stop me!"
She stormed forward, bashing the robot hard and sending it into another, causing them to both explode. Meanwhile, Knuckles tore through some of the other axe robots, breaking each one down and dodging the axes they swung at him. At one point, one jumped up into the air and came towards Knuckles, who was turned around fighting another. He turned after gutting the robot in front of him only to see the new one nearly put him out. However, at that moment, Rouge flew in from the sky and did her spinning kick into the robot's head, destroying it easily.
Knuckles looked at the floating bat and said, conceitedly, "I was going to get him!"
Rouge simply said, "You're welcome."
However, Rouge didn't see another type of robot, a flying one with a spear, approaching from behind her.
"HEY! LOOK OUT!" Knuckles tried to warn her, but Rouge turned around only to see the robot about to wound her. However, it was above that Rouge was spared, as Tails shot the robot with a laser and destroyed it.
Then, the X-Tornado and its pilot began to fire missiles on the field below, where many huge robots were. These robots were able to stand up to many of the missiles, but they didn't notice Shadow, who raced towards them and began cutting them down by their legs. One by one, the large robots fell and then were destroyed by the barrage of missiles from Tails.
Meanwhile, Sonic continued fighting off the fast sword robots, who were making moving around difficult for the hedgehog. Sonic turned into a spinball and began taking out one robot after another, charging through their chests. However, it was at that moment that Sonic charged at one of the huge robots that were behind them, and the robot smashed Sonic back the way he came.
Sonic hit the ground but got up quickly, but turned around in time to see one of the sword robots swing his sharp blade at him. But just then, Amy jumped between the two and blocked the sword with her hammer like before, and the blade bounced off with no effect to Amy's hammer.
"Thanks Amy!" Sonic said in relief.
Amy turned and winked at him, and the two quickly jumped at the sword robot in front of them and bashed it hard, causing another explosion.
Meanwhile, Tails in the sky looked down on the robots that were still coming.
"There's so many robots. I don't think the X-Tornado has enough firepower to deal with them all," Tails said to himself.
However, his mind was jerked to another part of the fight when he turned and saw a blast of energy coming towards him from the sky.
"WHOA! What's that?!" Tails exclaimed as the energy flew fast at him.
Just as it nearly hit him, though, Unlimited appeared and deflected it easily, sending it back at Mecha Sonic, who had fired it. Unlimited flew at lightning speed and watched as the blast hit the defending robot. Unlimited plunged through the smoke and kicked Mecha Sonic in the head, sending him to the side while Unlimited followed up with a quaking axhandle. The robot plummeted to the ground and hit, making a crater 20 feet across. Smoke and dust flew into the air from the crater, and Unlimited, charging a blast in his hands again, dropped into the crater in no time flat and fired the blast right in the robot's face. The explosion was tremendous, and many of the fighters standing on the ground were thrown off.
Sonic had seen Unlimited fire the attack at such close range, and said, "Is he alright himself?"
Then, from behind him, he heard a voice say, "I never intend to hurt myself."
Sonic turned quickly and saw Unlimited standing there, smirking at the hedgehog, who smiled in relief. However, another one of the massive robots came up from behind Unlimited and Sonic yelled, "Look out!"
Unlimited then, from nowhere, pulled out his sword again and shot backwards, disappearing in front of the robot and reappearing behind it, facing away from it.
The robot stood for a moment, but then it suddenly collapsed and exploded, apparently sliced into pieces by Unlimited.
The teen disappeared again, and Sonic watched him go, and then, turned to see Knuckles being beared down upon by another one of the huge robots. Sonic took off towards his friend and turned into a spinball again, shooting through the arms of the robot that were trying to crush Knuckles. The echidna went through the broken arms and stormed right up to the robot's face, literally punching a hole in it. He jumped from the head and watched as the robot exploded, making it fall on another sword robot that was nearby.
Now, Sonic, Knuckles, and Amy regrouped in front of the remaining robots they had been fighting as some new ones approached. Now, these new ones had sharp, fast claws, others had long limbs, and a few were just hard spheres of metal, who looked like they were meant to roll over their opponents.
As these robots started charging, the three waiting saw Shadow and Rouge fly in immediately. Rouge began to attack the ones with claws, but was thoroughly surprised when the first one easily caught her. Rouge struggled to break free, but she couldn't budge the robot's claw. However, Shadow was quick to retaliate against it by slicing through it with his Chaos Spear, making it drop Rouge.
Rouge turned to the black hedgehog and said, "That was kind of you Shadow. I adore a man of bravery."
Shadow only glared at her, and then disappeared as one of the rolling robots nearly flattened him. The robot kept rolling, charging for the other three fighters. Amy jumped forward and brought back her hammer, thrusting it forward with incredible strength and nailing the robot. Even though it seemed to take no damage, it flew backwards and screamed at the crowd of claws robots ahead of the Sonic team. The sphere crashed into the group, making them fly and explode like a bowling ball hitting pins.
"Nice shot, Amy!" Sonic complimented.
Amy replied, "Thanks, Sonic!"
However, Knuckles was the one who then ran forward, suddenly with the Shovel-Claws on, and went for another one of the sphere robots. It came at him at full blast, and Knuckles, unfortunately, didn't have enough time to try to punch it. Knuckles was hit hard and shot up into the air, unable to compose himself.
From the crater from earlier, the supposedly defeated Mecha Sonic blasted into the air and roared at Knuckles.
Down on the ground, Sonic saw this and yelled, "KNUCKLES! LOOK OUT!"
However, just as the menace nearly rammed Knuckles, Unlimited appeared right in Mecha Sonic's path and gave him a metal crunching punch to the face. The robot was sent down hard again, although this time, he stopped himself before he made another crater. Unlimited stormed down at him while Knuckles shook his head and looked around as he began to fall back down from the sphere attack. Tails flew in at that moment and Knuckles landed on the X-Tornado, and stayed aboard the ship while Tails kept firing lasers at the claw robots and the ones with long limbs. However, Tails didn't realize that the ones with longer arms could extend them to grab ahold of the X-Tornado, which they did.
"Uh-oh!" Tails exclaimed, feeling his ship losing altitude.
Knuckles saw this and jumped off the ship, gliding in towards the long-armed robots. Three had already latched onto the X-Tornado, and Knuckles came down and easily knocked the block off of one of them. Then, Rouge came down and drilled right through the second one and finally, Amy jumped up from behind the third one and hammered its head down into its body.
The three robots exploded, and the fighters jumped back down to the ground. Sonic had been running through the claw robots, taking them down easily with his speed, when he saw them do this. It was that momentary lapse of concentration that allowed one of the claw robots to pluck him from the ground and lift him into air.
"HEY! Let go of me, you hunk of junk!" Sonic yelled, making Amy turn around from attacking the long-limbed robot and see another approaching the claw robot with Sonic.
Amy tried to run towards Sonic to help him, but she felt herself grabbed at that moment by another long armed robot and lifted into the air.
"NO! Let me go! I've gotta help Sonic!" Amy cried out.
Sonic however, wouldn't need help from the claw robot, who let go at that instant. Unfortunately for Sonic, the long legged robot that was standing near the claw robot that dropped him reeled back and kicked Sonic hard up into the air, the hedgehog falling into the tangle of robots ahead of them.
Amy saw this and nearly broke down in tears, and she cried, "SONIC!!"
Sonic flew towards the bulk of the remaining robots, unable to steady himself. Amy watched him go, worried and scared for him, and she used her hammer to pierce the armor of the robot holding her.
The robot quickly let go and Amy dropped to the ground, running towards the direction Sonic went. However, in her way came three of the sphere robots, blocking her path. Amy looked on in fear, but from behind, Knuckles yelled, "Amy, run!"
The pink hedgehog turned and saw Knuckles running towards the robots, and she began to run in his direction, very sad to have to leave Sonic. Knuckles, in the meantime, ran for the sphere robots and, this time, threw a whistling fist at one of them and easily pierced it. Knuckles punched again and again in the same place until he hit the brain of the robot and destroyed it, making it explode next to the two others.
These two spheres began to roll full speed past Knuckles, who was suddenly confronted by the first robots with missile launching arms. Knuckles jumped just in time to avoid four missiles that they fired right at him. Then, the echidna glided at one of them and twisted it around as it tried to fire again, making it hit two of the other robots next to it. Finally, Knuckles got up to the head of the robot and bashed it in, jumping off after.
Meanwhile, the two rolling robots came roaring like trains at Amy, who was running as hard as she could, but then turned back to see the two spheres gaining on her. She kept running, her eyes filled with worry and fear, when all of a sudden, she tripped on debris from another robot and fell forward.
Amy cried out, "OH NO!!"
In her sprinting mind, she frantically thought, It's all over, I'll never see Sonic again...
But at that moment, Amy felt herself lifted into the air and above the rolling robots. She looked up to see Rouge taking her out of harm's way.
Amy smiled with relief and happiness and said, "Thank you, Rouge!"
"My pleasure, girl," Rouge told her.
But it was at that moment that the two girls were suddenly confronted by more of the long-armed robots from below.
Rouge began doing some quick maneuvers to dodge the arms while Amy swung at them, beating back the grabbing hands.
Amy yelled down at the robots, "Keep your hands to yourself!"
The two girls avoided the robots from the air, while on the ground, Shadow began to slice through the robots while they had their eyes turned to the sky.
One by one, the confident hedgehog ripped up each robot, until finally, all of the long limbed robots were destroyed.
Up in the air, the two girls smiled at Shadow's help, but suddenly they heard a voice from behind say, "You two should know better than to let your guard down!"
The two turned suddenly to the voice, seeing the glowing Mecha Sonic about to fire an energy blast at them. The menace fired the attack and the two in the sky shut their eyes and prepared for the worst.
The blast, at that moment, hit and exploded, filling where they had been with smoke.
From below, Shadow saw this and looked up in sudden worry. Even if he didn't care about either of them, he still had a side of him that didn't want to see them get hurt.
Mecha Sonic laughed and said, "Good. That's two runts wiped away."
"Not quite."
Mecha Sonic grunted in anger, but then saw the two girls before him unscathed, as they were surrounded by a glowing orb of energy.
The two opened their eyes and saw the shield, and Rouge said, "That was a close one."
Mecha Sonic looked angrily around, and he heard Unlimited say, "Your anger is clouding your focus."
Mecha Sonic heard this directly behind him, and he spun around immediately, only to see a glowing ball of energy in his face.
The ensuing explosion rocked the air and ground, and the two girls nearby had to drop to the ground from the force. Meanwhile, Mecha Sonic fell to the ground after the attack, Unlimited staying where he was at.
Meanwhile, Amy and Rouge dropped to the ground as Knuckles ran up and said, "Are you two alright?"
Amy nodded while Rouge said, "Aww, were you worried about us, Knuckles?"
Knuckles countered by yelling, "That's NOT why I asked!"
However, Rouge simply smiled and made Knuckles even more angry. Amy, though, stepped off to the side and looked at the crowd of robots still coming.
Amy said, with a note of sadness in her voice, "Sonic's still over there. I hope he's alright."
Eggman had been watching this entire time, looking at the progress of his robots in defeating the Sonic team.
"I had hoped that my numbers would've been able to stop them, but that Unlimited kid has been a real pain. If he wasn't here, I would've won already!" Eggman shouted.
Then, Eggman was suddenly rocked by a massive shockwave, which he saw was from Unlimited punching Mecha Sonic at incredible speeds.
"It seems that even Mecha Sonic is a waste of time against that boy. How can he be stronger than the Chaos Emeralds AND my best robot ever?!"
Then, Eggman looked to the center of his robot army left and saw Sonic, who despite his ability to stay out of reach of his robots, wasn't able to attack very much to stay alive.
"Well, at least my robots have Sonic on the ropes. Maybe I'll finally be rid of that meddling hedgehog once and for all!" Eggman said evilly.
Now, from the sky, Tails looked to the crowd of robots attacking Sonic. Many of them were firing machineguns at him, but they were of course missing. However, Tails noticed something strange.
"Sonic isn't fighting. He probably can't stop running to fight them," Tails realized.
He looked at all of them, and Sonic was moving near all of them at one point or another.
"I can't fire down there without endangering Sonic. I'll have to hope the others can get to him in time," Tails said.
As for the others, they were now going towards the crowd again, this time meeting more missile robots. They fired dozens of missiles at them, but with Shadow in front using Chaos Spears, the robots weren't able to hit their targets. Shadow, followed by Knuckles, reached the crowd first, chopping down one right after the other. Rouge and Amy were about to reach them too, when Rouge suddenly grabbed Amy and lifted into the air.
"What are you doing?" Amy asked, startled at the bat's choice of strategy.
"I'm gonna fly you in so you can give Sonic some help," Rouge said.
Amy's face brightened just then and she said, "Oh thank you!"
Rouge smirked at the young girl, but then looked forward to see some of the machinegun robots where Sonic was start firing up at them.
"Whoa! Might be a rough ride!" Rouge said as she began to weave around, trying to avoid the bullets.
Amy looked down at the crowd of robots, hoping the bat carrying her over would be able to make it in and out alright.
However, at that moment, Rouge felt her hand grazed closely by a bullet, and she jumped from the pain.
Amy's hand slipped and she cried out, "AHH!"
Amy then fell from Rouge's hands and began to fall towards another group of robots, these ones having hammers themselves.
Amy looked down at them and saw this, and she said, "First I can't even go help Sonic, but now I have to fight hammer robots?! Then these guys better be ready to get SMASHED!"
Amy fell the rest of the way with her hammer pointed downward, ready to pound these robots. She came down like a meteor and cut through one with her sheer speed from falling. Then, the other hammer robots saw her, her eyes filled with anger and determination, and she said, "Who's first?"
The robots began to charge her, but she quickly brought her hammer up and started doing an attack she had been practicing. She spun around with her hammer outstretched, and she made herself go fast enough to be like Rouge's drill. As the hammer robots tried to swing their hammers and hit Amy, they were suddenly deflected and had their hammer smash themselves in the head. One by one, the robots fell from their own attack, until the others backed up in alarm.
Amy stopped spinning and looked at the rest of them, smiling confidently and saying, "That's what I thought."
Meanwhile, Shadow and Knuckles finished up with the remaining missile robots and looked towards Amy, who was behind another line of robots. They were more of the flying spear robots from earlier. The two charged at them, but we're frustrated when many of them took off into the sky away from them.
Tails had been looking around for a section of robots to fight, when he saw these robots lifting off over Knuckles and Shadow's heads.
"The skies are mine!" Tails said, now flying the X-Tornado at them.
Tails began firing missiles and lasers at full speed again, taking out about a dozen robots quickly. The remaining robots turned and saw the jet firing at them, and they charged towards Tails.
"Better kick things up!" Tails said, pushing a button to activate a special cannon he had just installed, one that fired a continuous laser that could only cut metal.
As the robots drew closer, Tails moved the laser around and sliced through them easily, taking down more and more. Now, there were only 3 left. He hit the first one with the laser, but then the second one flew out of the way of it and threw his spear at that moment.
"UH OH!!" Tails yelled as the spear zoomed right for the laser on the top of the X-Tornado. Before Tails could move the laser to burn up the spear, it pierced it and destroyed it. Just before it had, Tails had cut right through the robot that had thrown the spear, but then, the last one now raced towards him and was right in front of the X-Tornado.
"AHHHHH!!" Tails screamed as the robot brought back its spear to put an end to Tails, when all of a sudden, a beam of energy went through its head, making it explode.
Tails turned his head as debris flew past the plane, and then the fox looked up again. He saw that ahead of him, it was Mecha Sonic who had fired the laser from his eyes, but had missed his original target, which was Unlimited.
Unlimited smirked at Tails, who smiled and nodded. The teen then turned back to Mecha Sonic and said, "That's was a fortunate move for Tails. I thank you on his behalf."
Mecha Sonic shouted, "I've had ENOUGH of your smart mouth!"
The robot then suddenly rolled into his own deadly razor ball and charged Unlimited. Like Unlimited had done against Sonic, he disappeared just as Mecha Sonic tried to hit him. Each time, Mecha Sonic would change course and race towards Unlimited, who was floating somewhere else.
Unlimited smirked as Mecha Sonic tried a third time, and he brought up his hand towards the robot.
This time, when the robot was upon the teen, he felt himself suddenly stop totally dead.
"WHAT?!" Mecha Sonic yelled from within his rolled up shell.
He unrolled to see that Unlimited had caught Mecha Sonic by one of this blades, without getting so much as a single cut.
Unlimited smirked and said, "That was a fair try, but you'll need to do better than that."
Unlimited suddenly let go and disappeared, reappearing behind Mecha Sonic and kicking him hard in the back. Then, Unlimited began to hit Mecha Sonic across the sky, teleporting around to get in Mecha Sonic's path each time he hit him in a new direction.
Unlimited did this fifteen times in a row in under a minute, and Mecha Sonic was angry but couldn't gain his balance enough to stop and attack Unlimited.
Finally, however, Unlimited ended the streak by doing a front flip and bringing down a thunderous kick to Mecha Sonic, sending him down to the ground in no time flat.
The robot fell towards the robots that had been firing machineguns at Sonic. Fortunately, Sonic wasn't around where Mecha Sonic crashed landed, and the robot hit the ground and made a crater 50 feet wide, destroying many of the gunner robots and making many more fall to the ground.
Sonic had been running through a different tangle of robots when he saw the explosion nearby.
"Whoa! Looks like someone finally took out some of these things!" Sonic exclaimed.
He ran towards the dust and smoke from the explosion, and was nearing the center when he was blown back by a massive gust of wind.
"WHOA!!" Sonic yelled as he flew backwards.
Then, to double the wind, Mecha Sonic yelled and charged up his body. The wind was so forceful, the remaining gunners that Sonic was now flying towards suddenly lost balance and shot each other when they aimed for Sonic.
The blue hedgehog saw this and turned into a spinball, flying towards the last few, which still didn't regain their balance from the wind. He shot through them, finally ending his running for survival.
"Whew! I didn't know if I'd ever get out of that!" Sonic said to himself.
Then, Sonic turned back to Mecha Sonic, who was glaring menacingly up at Unlimited, who was now descending between Sonic and his robotic counterpart.
Unlimited landed and said to his opponent, "So, have you understood my power yet?"
Mecha Sonic growled, absolutely irate from the teen seemingly toying with him.
Sonic tried to see what would happen next, but then he heard grinding behind him. He turned only in time to see a half a dozen spike ball robots about to take him down.
"Uh oh!" Sonic said, and he rolled into a spinball himself and took off, getting an idea.
Unlimited wasn't watching, but he smirked with a hidden knowledge.
Mecha Sonic saw this and then saw Unlimited walking towards him.
The robot, now angry beyond belief, roared, "I'LL WIPE THAT SMILE RIGHT OFF YOUR FACE!!"
The robot blasted off and rocketed at Unlimited, charging up an energy blast and getting ready to fire it in Unlimited's face, the teen still calmly walking towards the approaching Mecha Sonic.
Meanwhile, Sonic was racing to reach Unlimited first, knowing that he had to get there before Mecha Sonic fired.
Unlimited then stopped and put his hands to his sides, waiting.
Mecha Sonic flew up right into Unlimited's face and yelled, "DIE FOOL!!"
But at that moment, Sonic unrolled from his spinball and grabbed Unlimited's hand. Unlimited smirked right into the glowing energy in his face.
Mecha Sonic then unleashed the massive attack, which screamed through where Sonic and Unlimited were and rushed towards the spike robots. They had no chance to change direction as Mecha Sonic's blast swallowed up them all, disintegrating each of them with no problem. Finally, the blast exploded in a massive flash of light, creating an orb of light hundreds of feet high and across.
Mecha Sonic glared at the light as Eggman, who was just barely out of the way of the attack, looked on in anger seeing that Mecha Sonic had nearly killed him too.
"Watch where you're firing that thing!!" Eggman shouted.
Meanwhile, the others who had just finished off the remaining robots they had been fighting saw the explosion fill the entire area where Sonic was.
Amy turned and saw this and realized that Sonic had been over there, and her face filled with horror as she dropped her hammer.
She thought, in a stupor, He was over there... he... couldn't be... Please, no...
She then broke down and yelled to the light, "SONIIIIIIIIC!!"
Amy dropped to her knees at that moment, her eyes streaming with tears, as she sobbed loudly.
Knuckles, Rouge and Shadow from the ground and Tails from the sky saw the explosion and were just as horrified as Amy, who was thinking, You said we'd be together at the end of this fight, Sonic... Now... we'll never...
Amy only continued to cry, her sorrowful, pain filled eyes averted from the light from the explosion, which now faded away, and Mecha Sonic could be seen. He looked at the massive crater he had made, which had subsequently destroyed the last of Eggman's army of robots.
Mecha Sonic, however, only began to laugh maniacally as he said, "HA! There's no one in the universe that can stop me now!! I'll rule over everything with no equal!!"
The robot continued to laugh at the apparent demise of Sonic and Unlimited, gloating over his victory.
Meanwhile, Eggman looked towards Mecha Sonic and the remaining Sonic team members and said, "Well, I might be rid of Sonic and that Unlimited kid, but now it looks like I'd better get out of here before Mecha Sonic tries to do away with me."
And with that, the cowardly Eggman scurried away in his pod, unbeknownst to Mecha Sonic.
The robot only continued to gloat over the hole in the ground, yelling, "You thought you so high and mighty, Unlimited, didn't you?! Well, you're not much now!! HAHAHAHA!!"
The robot did this for longer than was expected, the other Sonic team members waiting, knowing they would have to fight this demon. However, at that moment, everyone but Amy, who was still staring at the ground as her hot tears of pain fell, saw something descending from the sky a ways behind Mecha Sonic. It reached the ground and stood there, looking at Mecha Sonic.
"Is that-" Rouge began, but suddenly, even more surprisingly, Unlimited appeared from nowhere behind Mecha Sonic and reeled back. He then kicked and hit Mecha Sonic so hard that the robot flew and skidded the entire crater that he had just created.
"WHOA! LOOK!!" Knuckles exclaimed, talking about Unlimited.
However, when Amy lifted her eyes, she saw the other figure instead, who was turning towards her at that moment.
At first, the pink hedgehog thought she couldn't trust her tear filled eyes, but when she blinked and looked again, there standing ahead of her was Sonic, perfectly alright.
Then, ironically, Amy began to cry even more, but not for pain, but for joy. She jumped up and called, "SONIC!!"
Sonic had looked to her and his eyes gleamed at the sight of her. Amy then broke into a run, running to Sonic as fast as she could.
Sonic then began to run to her as well, not as fast as he could, but still fast. Amy ran with her arms outstretched to Sonic, and when they met, Sonic swept her into his own arms and twirled with her, both of them in each others' arms.
Amy began to laugh from the joy she was feeling inside, and when they spun around with each other once, they looked into each others' glistening eyes.
Amy then said breathlessly, "We did it, Sonic! We made it!"
Sonic's soft eyes soothed Amy as he said, "You believed we would, Amy, and I did too!"
Amy's eyes streamed with tears even more as she held Sonic in her arms as he held her, and they brought their faces together and kissed, just for a moment, and then they embraced closer, holding each other to feel the warmth from the one that they loved so much.
"I was so worried Sonic," Amy said, her voice nearly gone from her tears.
Sonic comforted, "It's alright Amy. I'm here with you."
Sonic put his hand gently on the back of her head and held her against his chest, feeling her soft breath on him as she cried more, and he said, "I love you Amy."
Amy, her voice cracking, rasped, "I love you, Sonic."
The other Sonic team members walked up to the loving couple as Tails from overhead began to land the X-Tornado. Knuckles was just barely smiling, Shadow just looked on indifferently, and Rouge smiled and said, "Isn't that cute?"
Finally, the two hedgehogs loosened their hug to gaze into each others' eyes again. Their love was so strong, nothing could ever break it.
As Tails walked up from the X-Tornado, the Sonic team then all looked around at Unlimited, who was standing at the edge of the crater where Mecha Sonic had attacked.
Tails asked Sonic, "How did you two make it out of there like that?"
The team looked at Sonic, curious as well, and he said, "It was easy. When I grabbed ahold of Unlimited's hand, he teleported us out of there right away!"
"That's good, but he could've gotten you out of there earlier than he did," Amy then said, her voice and normal attitude returning.
"Well, now the question is," Shadow then spoke for once, "Can he finish off Mecha Sonic?"
They all looked at Unlimited, who was now watching Mecha Sonic rise from the ground and face Unlimited.
The teen looked at the robot, Unlimited's face serious as the robot said, "You, boy, will die. I swear it."
Mecha Sonic then lifted his arms and began to charge up his body again, using the Chaos Emeralds' max power. His energy rocketed up again, and his body began to shine even more, his appearance once again frightening. Finally, Mecha Sonic yelled loudly and was charged into his fiery red aura again.
Mecha Sonic glared with a deadly look on his face as Unlimited lowered his arms, preparing to fight to the end.
Then, the robot yelled, "NOW DIE!!"
The robot launched himself at Unlimited, who waited as the robot closed the gap between them insanely fast. Then, just as he approached the teen, the two disappeared.
The Sonic team looked on in shock, but then lifted their eyes to the sky as they felt quakes coming from it. All over the sky, shockwaves from the hits the two were dealing to each other shook the air. The ground beneath them shook and cracked, but didn't totally rip apart thanks to the infinity symbol on the ground a distance away, which was glowing from the immense output of power.
Up in the sky, Unlimited threw a punch, which was dodged by Mecha Sonic, who spun and tried to kick the teen. Unlimited brought up an arm and easily blocked it, and then tried to axhandle the robot. Mecha Sonic threw his arms into the air and blocked it, releasing more energy, and then, Unlimited yelled and his body was suddenly surrounded by a black ball of energy, which pushed Mecha Sonic backwards.
The robot tried to break through the shield, but then got slammed in the head by a heavy fist from Unlimited. The robot flew back and then tried to return the punch. However, the robot then missed his punch and was elbowed hard in the back. Then, Unlimited brought his arm back up and slammed him down hard, sending Mecha Sonic falling like a lead weight to the ground. Mecha Sonic stopped just above the ground, but then was kicked in the back again.
Mecha Sonic flew forward, but then turned and tried to punch Unlimited with both of his fists. Unlimited quickly raised his hands and blocked both fists, but then was surprised by the headbutt Mecha Sonic dealt thereafter.
While Unlimited reeled back, Mecha Sonic took to the air again and stopped high above the ground.
Unlimited regained his composure and looked up into the sky to where Mecha Sonic looked like he was gathering his energy.
"Uh oh, what's he doing?" Sonic wondered out loud.
Amy stood close to Sonic as the rest looked up into the sky in worry.
Then, the robot yelled, "You've fought well, Unlimited! But now, it's time I finish this!"
Unlimited stood his ground and watched the robot carefully, knowing he was about to do something drastic.
Mecha Sonic then raised his hands and put them together, turning his body and looking at Unlimited as he cupped his hands away from the teen.
"I was so impressed with that move you used on me the other day..." Mecha Sonic began.
Then, at that moment, energy began to build in Mecha Sonic's hands, and Unlimited and the rest saw that it was a bright blue energy that Mecha Sonic was building.
Only Unlimited knew what Mecha Sonic was about to do, and the robot affirmed this by saying, "I just had to have it for myself!"
Then, the blue energy became brighter, and the robot cackled maniacally again.
"NOW! PREPARE TO DIE TO YOUR OWN ATTACK!!" Mecha Sonic roared.
The robot charged up a bit more and then yelled, "KAA MEE HAA MEE..."
At that moment, Unlimited knew what he had to do to silence this menace once and for all. Suddenly, Unlimited blasted into his thrashing black aura again, and prepared as the robot buckled down.
Finally, Mecha Sonic yelled blastingly loud, "HAAAAAAAAAAAA!!"
The blue beam of intense energy rocketed right for Unlimited, who now just put his hands out to the sides.
Sonic and the others saw this, and Sonic yelled, "HEY! Don't just stand there!!"
Unlimited called to them, "Don't worry, it's not as it seems."
Then, Unlimited smirked and his aura began to writhe unusually. Across the battlefield, the infinity Seal suddenly glowed incredibly white.
Unlimited's aura then began to feed into his hands, and he looked up at the approaching wave of energy.
At that moment, Unlimited formed a black ball of electrified energy in one hand and said, "Death..."
Then, in the other, an equal ball of energy formed and he continued, "Matter..."
Finally, the teen thrust his hands together in front of himself and pointed it right at Mecha Sonic's attack, yelling, "BLAST!"
Suddenly, lightning and wind emanated from all around Unlimited, as his black aura thrashed violently until it finally blasted out in all directions, extending around the teen like a wall.
The beam of energy came closer and closer, and the Sonic team watched tensely, scared about what their ally was about to do.
Finally, just as the beam of energy was about to bury Unlimited, he yelled with ear-shattering volume, "FIIIINALLLLLLLLLLLL!!"
At that moment, a beam of energy 10 times as big as the beam Mecha Sonic had fired erupted from Unlimited's hands, colored black and electrified, as Unlimited stood encased in his almost destructive black aura of lightning.
The beam blazed unbelievably towards Mecha Sonic's, which now seemed like nothing compared to the awesome attack that Unlimited was using.
The Sonic team looked on in near denial, thinking that they were in a dream seeing such a spectacular attack.
Finally, the two beams collided with enough force to crack the planet, which was held together by the Seal Unlimited had placed. The beam that Mecha Sonic had used only just stayed together, but it was pushed back like nothing.
"WHAT?! BUT HOW?! IT WAS YOUR ATTACK!!" Mecha Sonic yelled as the black energy charged at him with ferocity unmatched.
Unlimited from below, just before he powered up a little more to finish off the robot, smirked as he called up to him, "But it wasn't my best."
Mecha Sonic looked down and attempted in vain to push back the insane blast that rushed at him now.
"NO!! NO!!" Mecha Sonic tried, pushing every drop of energy through him to power his own attack.
Unlimited smirked once more, as he brought his hands back a little and thrust them forward once more, increasing the beam he was firing to more than 12 times the size of Mecha Sonic's
Finally, Mecha Sonic watched as his beam died in that instant and he was swallowed in the din of the massive attack.
Mecha Sonic looked down as his supposedly invincible body, powered by the Chaos Emeralds, began to burn and deteriorate from the energy. His eyes reflected horror as he watched his body disappear in front of him, disintegrating his arms and legs within seconds.
Finally, as Mecha Sonic felt the energy tearing away his head, he yelled, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
His head and torso were completely wiped out, and the last thing to be burned to nothing was the eye, which looked down at the fighter whom all of reality knew was, without a doubt, the most powerful fighter ever.
Finally, the sky was cleared of all the energy at once, as the energy compressed at that instant into a point the size of a marble and exploded. The rocking explosion spread black across the sky as smoke filled the place where Mecha Sonic had been floating. The ground shook hard, but didn't fail to stay together, and soon, the quakes subsided as the energy from Unlimited's attack finally began to disappate.
The Sonic team looked up into the sky once more to see the black energy fading away, returning the sky to its blue splendor. Finally, the smoke cleared and they all saw, to their immense relief, that Mecha Sonic no longer existed in this world.
"Alright!" Sonic cheered and the others, besides Shadow, followed suit.
Unlimited lowered his arms, looking into the sky where he had just defeated the menacing Mecha Sonic, and closed his eyes, knowing that one more evil was now removed from reality.
Then, he turned at the sounds of the Sonic team's cheers, and he smiled.
The team approached him then and Sonic said, "Wow! Mecha Sonic had no chance against you! That was incredible!"
"If you hadn't been here, I don't think any of us would've made it," Knuckles told the teen.
"Thank you so much for helping us!" Amy added.
Unlimited smiled at all of their gratitude, but then, all of it was wiped away in an instant as his face turned suddenly serious and angry.
They saw this as Unlimited closed his eyes, and Sonic asked, "What is it?"
Unlimited, however, didn't have to respond, as Amy cried out, "HEY! Look at the sky!!"
The team looked up to where Mecha Sonic had been and saw, to their terror, that the sky was now turning deep red as black clouds began to form.
Unlimited then said, his eyes still closed, "I will never stop until you are dead, Infinite."
The teen then turned to look into the roiling sky, which now thundered and boiled with evil as the red sky began to swirl.
I've fought too hard with these good beings to let you take it all away! Unlimited thought, his aura suddenly pumping up at that moment as he glared into the sky.
The threats of Eggman and Mecha Sonic are gone, but now, Unlimited and the Sonic team face a new one: the most dangerous being ever conceived!
Preview for next chapter: The Second Cataclysm: Unlimited and the Sonic team witness the horrifying arrival of the evil form of Unlimited, Infinite! The deadly foe approaches the Sonic team with one goal in mind: Destroy everything, kill everyone. Can Unlimited stop Infinite by himself? Or will he need some help from the power source that brought him here in the first place? Find out in the next installment of Unlimited: The Next Universe!
