It finally ends.

Down in the toilet, Omega was rewiring Metal Sonic to reactivate him. Rouge was sitting on the remains of the sink, trying to keep off the floor. She looked at Metal's remains with disdain.

"Must we reactivate him?" she asked Omega. "I mean, there's really no point. We've already lost this battle so we might as well hand ourselves over peacefully. It's…" she stopped as Omega stood up. His face was as unreadable as ever, as was his posture.

"Analyzing argument," he said mechanically. "Searching for proper response. Response found." He turned to the spy. "Shut up!" The last words actually sounded human. Interesting. Rouge shrugged.

"Unless metal's head had something amazing in his circuits, we can't win." Omega hit a few switches on Metal's back. The metallic blue human copy's engine spluttered back to life and the android began moving again.

"As a matter of fact Rouge," he said. His body was now just a metal skeleton with a few scraps of cloth and skin handing here and there. All that was left of his face was a wisp of synthetic organ around his temple, revealing he had no hole for a mouth. The effect was beyond unnerving, going into nightmarish. "I do." With a sudden flash, he disappeared.

"What was that?!" Rouge exclaimed. Omega turned to her slowly.

"Experimental teleportation device. Harnesses the power of the chaos emerald that powers Metal to transport the user through space." Rouge nodded.

"Right." Below Omega's vision, she hit a button on her radio.

Back in the observatory, the SPEED members' phones began beeping like crazy.

"What's going on?" Sonic asked as he stared at his mobile.

"It's the general alert," Tails said. "A GUN agent's giving us a warning, but can't use anything verbal. But who would do that?" Shadow twitched slightly.

'What was that?' he thought. 'I sensed something. Something related to…' Then he noticed a light just behind Amy. "Amy, get down!" Amy reacted, but too slowly. Metal Sonic appeared behind her, grabbing her roughly with his claws and disappeared again. Sonic stared at the point for a few seconds.

"What just happened?" he asked dumbly.

"Your girlfriend just got taken by a half destroyed teleporting robot copy of you," Knuckles answered. Sonic was so stunned, and still concussed, that he didn't rise to the girlfriend jibe.

"Thought so." Without another word he sped through the door. Tails stared after him.

"What's he doing?" Shadow shrugged.

"Something stupid."

"Should we help him?"

"Give him a second." There was silence for a few seconds. Then the echo of human bones striking a metal wall reverberated up to the observatory. Shadow gave an evil grin. "Now we help."

It had taken Sonic two seconds to get down to the first floor, another three to find the restroom. Once there he bolted in, and was knocked back out instantly. He didn't seem to notice, just charged straight back in. He had to get Amy away from the murderous robots.

Not that he cared for her or anything.

"Sonic!" Amy wailed, beating her mechanical captor.

"You don't give up, do you?!" Metal exclaimed.

"Not a chance!" Sonic called back. He charged again, and was knocked back by Omega's heavy arm. By now, Shadow was at his side.

"Do you have a plan?" he asked. Sonic just grunted and charged again, meeting the same fate as before. He hit the back wall hard, rips in his shirt and jeans. "Guess not." Shadow snapped his fingers and warped behind Metal. The robot seemed to predict this and pulled the struggling Amy out of reach. Rouge jumped and axe kicked Shadow just as he came out of the warp. She tried a follow up, but Shadow's recovery was lightning fast and he used his air shoes to catch her leg. A quick burst of air sent her leg flying back, followed by the rest of her body. Right before she made contact with the wall, Rouge spread her legs wide so she landed in an air splits, spreading her momentum over a large area and lessening the impact. Shadow was already speeding forward to attack again, and Rouge had to jump aside to avoid him.

"Mi a elbuod tnega!" she said in absolute gibberish.

"Ew wonk," Shadow said back in the same gibberish, still punching. "Tsuj ylap gnola." Rouge stared at him for a few seconds, and then dive kicked Shadow's legs from under him.

Omega was still holding the doorway, but he realized that he couldn't stand against any strikes once Knuckles and the others arrived. Throwing Sonic back again, Omega bent the door frame with his cyborg arm, stretching the metal so no normal sized human could fit through. Omega had seen the red boy's strength, and knew this barrier wouldn't hold once he arrived. He moved to Metal, who was still clutching the struggling pink girl.

"Retreat recommended. Capture impossible at current strength." Metal shook his head.

"No." he said. "We use the negative generator." Omega took an involuntary step back. His mind was screaming at him, telling him this was wrong, telling him the stop Metal. But his implant overrode these impulses.

"What of the spy?" he asked in his usual monotone.

"She dies with the rest." Omega was sure that if he still had a mouth, Metal would have smiled. "Serves her right! She's irritating and useless. I'm certain the doctor would believe she turned traitor." Omega just stared at him, secretly shocked. Part of his mind was still telling him to turn against the android.

Suddenly the doorway was broken down by one mighty punch from Knuckles. Omega turned, raising his arm mounted machine gun. Knuckles clenched his fists and charged regardless. Omega hesitated before firing, but once again his robotics took over and he let loose. But the bullets barely left the barrel before they were engulfed by an aqua light and stopped dead.

"Damn psychic," Metal cursed and moved to meet the dreadlocked teen, pushing Amy to Omega in the process.

Knuckles' first punch missed wide, and Metal sent his knee into his side. Knuckles stumbled back, winded, and Metal punched him in the jaw, then the ribs. Knuckles fell to his knees, gasping. Silver, who'd been navigating the debris of Knuckles punch, moved to help him up. Not nearly as good in close combat as he was at defense, Silver was sent flying by a single one of the android strikes, knocking Knuckles back with him. Metal used another copy of Sonic's laugh.

"Foolish boy! Did you honestly believe that you could beat me?! You deserved to be tricked, you're that stupid!" Metal expected some smart comment or roar of rage from the headstrong individual. He didn't expect laughter.

"Robots," Knuckles said between strained chuckles. "You can see a million miles to the front but not an inch to the sides, can you?" Then he felt a boot slam into his back engine. A steel toed boot.

Metal was thrown a few feet, but flipped his gyros and back flipped to land on his feet. Rouge landed next to Knuckles, offering her hand to help him up.

"No hard feelings?" Knuckles blushed slightly, and then grasped her hand. The rest of SPEED, minus a still captive Amy, all ran to their side. Metal Sonic sighed.

"Humans," he said exasperatedly. "So eager to solve a problem through violence. Well, I guess we shall indulge you." Before anyone could act, he flew up through the hole in the roof left by his fight with Sonic. Omega was up there, holding Amy securely under his robotic arm. She was still struggling, but getting nowhere.

"What a beautiful rose you are," Metal crooned. He stroked her face, but she pulled away.

"Get away from her!" Sonic shouted. He moved forward, but stopped as Metal pressed his claw hard against Amy's throat.

"And here I thought you didn't have feelings for her. How astute." Metal gestured to Omega, and he threw Amy down to the blue haired boy. He managed to just catch her. She hung onto his neck.

"Sonic, I knew you cared!" Strangely enough, Sonic didn't pull out of the embrace. In fact, he hugged her back. SPEED in general rolled their eyes.

"He still has a concussion, doesn't he?" Silver whispered to Shadow.

"Hope so," Shadow muttered back. "Otherwise we'll have two love struck guys to handle." Silver nodded. Then he realized that Shadow was referring to his relationship with Blaze.

"Hey…" Metal clanged his hands together loudly in a clapping motion, getting everyone's attention.

"Now that you're all together, it's time to demonstrate one of Dr Eggman's greatest strokes of genius!" He held up his hand that morphed into a small cannon. "He has figured out how to extract chaos energy from the air that radiates you're your bodies! This will create a massive blast. Prepare to be the first test subjects!"

"Tails!" Shadow said to the blonde teen. "Is that possible?!"

"It's improbable, but if anyone could do it, it's Eggman."

"OK Metal," Shadow called. "What do you want?" Metal raised his head, creating another mimic of Sonic's laugh.

"Want?!" he said. "What could I want?! I'm a robot, like the invisible boy told you. I have no feelings, no will, no desires." The lower part of his face moved as if to sneer. "I must say studying you all has been enthralling, but the Doctor need you all dead. Goodbye." Shadow looked at Omega, who was standing still behind the android.

"Omega, you don't agree with this do you? Surely you have a heart!" Omega just stared straight ahead.

"Silence!" Metal boomed. "Now you shall all die quietly! My sensors can't take anymore logicless babble."

"Fat chance metal head," Sonic said. "We aren't going down without a fight!" The nine GUN agents charged towards the robots. Metal gave another robotized sigh.

"I'm afraid you don't have a choice in the matter." He pushed a button on his wrist. Instantly, electricity struck the attackers from the walls of the broken toilet. The volts immediately disabled their muscles, making them collapse in mid step. They were now completely helpless. "Did I forget to tell you, Rouge dear," Metal mocked, using a copy of the double agent's voice. "I told Omega to install shock sensors around the complex in case you betrayed us. My mistake!" He laughed again, this time using a recording of Eggman's insane victory cackle. He raised his cannon, still laughing. "Now, you shall all die."

Bang!

Metal stumbled, half of his spinal frame shattered by the shot. Omega stood with his arm raised, a look of sadness on his face overriding his unemotional robotics. Metal felt like he should be shocked, but he still felt nothing.

"Why, Omega?" he asked. "Why betray me, you brother?" Omega lowered his arm.

"I'm sorry," he said. His voice sounded human, not the artificial toneless sound of before. "What the Doctor is doing is wrong, and you aren't programmed to see it. But I can, and I must stop him." Then Metal made a sound. It was laughter, but it wasn't a copy of someone else. It was soft and almost intangible.

"You're so lucky Omega, even if you don't realize it." His face moved into what would be a smile if he had lips. "Maybe you are the better one of us after all." Then the remains of the metallic blue copy disappeared, teleported away.

In the depths of Dr Eggman's base, the Doctor and the two cloaked figures watched as the camera in Metal Sonic's eyes blotted out. Eggman muttered a series of elaborate and unrepeatable curses. The cloaked figures just stood still and waited for him to finish. After a few seconds, Metal's body appeared in a brief flash of light, collapsing from lack of energy. Eggman didn't even bother to look up, just ignored the robot altogether. Finally, the smaller figure spoke.

"It seems that your plan failed Doctor," he said bluntly. Eggman glared at him.

"The plan didn't fail at all!" he spat.

"No it didn't," he agreed. "Your troops did."

"I give him life and he betrays me! What type of a son does that?!" he was muttering to himself. The figure looked curious.

"Why do you call him your son? He is a robot, and should not have emotional attachments." He pointed to the remains of Metal Sonic. Eggman laughed.

"Not him you fool! Omega! Surely you are smart enough to figure out what's going on." The cloaked figure thought for a second, then got it.

"You don't mean…?"

"Precisely! A perfect copy, if I do say so myself. Metal Sonic's AI patterns are based off the same brainwaves." The taller figure clapped sarcastically.

"Brilliant work Doctor! Too bad your inventions failed, and now they have information from that white haired spy on us!" Eggman shook his head.

"Rouge knows nothing of importance, especially about you two. I suspected her from the beginning. This mission was a test, which she has failed miserably. Have no fear; she will be punished severely next time we meet. Now the only problem is coming up with a way to get rid of SPEED." The smaller figure held up his hand.

"That will not be necessary. Everything is nearly in place. All that remains is for the rest of the Seven to make their arrival." Eggman looked shocked.

"So soon?!" he exclaimed. "I didn't think the time was so close!" The figure nodded.

"All will come into place soon. All we must do is make sure the pieces are in position. You can handle that, can't you?" Eggman nodded.

"Compared with everything else I've had to do, getting him there will be no problem at all." The figure nodded.

"Good. Now all we must do is wait."

Personally I think this is the worst of my endings yet. It's scrappy and need more which I can't think of. I've got a poll on my profile as to what to do next. Please use.