Chapter: 7 Dark Vs Dark (part 3).
Sonic, Rotor, Bunnie and Antoine hade left Knothole with Dark or rather Metal Dark, unknowing by resent event Sally was gone and Metal Dark said a new type of a Swat-bot hade taken Sally and hade got away with Sally.
Sonic wanted to save Sally even if it would cost his life to do so, but he and the group unknowing that Metal Dark was leading them to a trap that was set up In Robotropolis.
When Metal Dark and the freedom fighters came to Robotropolis he sent a signal with a message to his master Dr Robotnik, that said that he was in the city with some of the freedom fighters where with him.
Metal Dark got a message from Robotnik that told him to lead the freedom fighters to a trap that he and Snively hade made and where now waiting on him and the freedom fighters to come to the trap.
It was now only a matter of time before the freedom fighters best people would meet their demise.
Meanwhile back at Knothole two figures appeared from the edge of the small town or rather a large one that was been dragged by a smaller one, those two figures did not go unnoticed by a pair of fox ears.
Tails came up to his window and saw the two intruders and went out to warn the others in Knothole about their uninvited guest's.
Tails runs out from his hut while shouting.
"Wake up! We go intruders in Knothole! Wake up!"
Tails shouting was greeted by several freedom fighters that rushed over to the young fox and saw the two figures and then surrounded them ready to attack, when some of them came with flash lights and pointed them at the intruders and everybody was shocked when they saw Sally and Dark that was unconscious.
After a few moments of explaining from Sally while Dark was taken to Doctor Quack, but came back just at the same time when Sally was finished with her explaining to the other freedom fighters.
Sally looked the stunned faces of her people and said.
"Now you know the truth of what happened and what is to be done."
She looked around and said to the freedom fighters what she was going to do.
"I am going to after Sonic and the others but I need help to find them in Robotropolis."
Sally then saw Dark came in from the front door but became worried when he said.
"Sally if you are going in there I'm coming with you, I got a score to settle with that copy of mine."
Sally then responded with a commanding voice.
"No… You are not going any where Dark you nearly got killed once, I will not let that happened again."
Dark looked at Sally with a glare and said in a dark voice.
"Sally you have someone that you care that I can help you with, but if that copy of mine is there I will fight him to buy you guys the time needed to get out from Robotropolis."
Sally then became angry and said with a same look and voice.
"Are you disobeying my orders Dark?"
Dark then looked down at the floor and said in a pleading voice.
"Sally please let me do this, I will bring with me a power ring I know now how my copy fights and I am ready for him now. Please I'm begging you let me do this and after this ordeal is over you can punish me."
Sally then began to think, Dark was not the type of person that would be trying to get even with some one. But the sound of his voice and his body languish tells her that this is something that Dark has to do.
After a few more moments of thinking she made her decision, and looked at Dark and said.
"Alright Dark you are coming with me, but if your copy is not any where near the location where Sonic and the others are…"
Dark said the last part of Sally's sentence.
"I will assist you and the others to get Sonic and his group out from Robotropolis."
Sally nodded at what Dark said, and then turned to face her people and asked.
"Who wants to follow me and Dark on a rescue mission?"
One by one the few that were with Sally raised their hands telling Sally who wants to come with her.
Soon the team was picked and the rest could leave and to do their own jobs in Knothole.
Sally was planning in her hut on all possible escape paths and hiding spot's. After that she hade the info put in to Nicole she was heading to the meeting place where the team would meet, while she was passing by some of the huts she noticed Dark walking to the ring pool, and decided to follow him when she come to a good hiding spot she saw Dark holding a power ring with a look that said he was ready for this.
Then Dark puts the power ring in his black backpack and turned and rushed to the meeting point.
Sally came out from her hiding spot and ran after Dark to meet the team that she has assembled.
As the team stood there and waiting they saw Sally rush to them and stopped and began to look at her team then noticed that Dark was not with them.
"Has any one seen Dark?"
Sally asked with confusion showing on her face.
Everybody looked at each other and then shook their heads as some of them said that they hade not seen him.
Sally began to worry, she saw Dark rush this way but now he is gone like the wind. Sally began to think in her thoughts she said.
"Can he really have gone ahead of us?"
Then her thoughts became angrier about Dark.
"HOW DARE HE? HE DISOBEYED MY ORDERS WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON HIM…"
Sally's thoughts where interrupted by a sound from a Swat-bot patrol unit, every body then began to run around in panic.
The patrol unit landed middle of Knothole then the side door opened and a black boot came out, that made Sally stop in place and to take a closer look at the figure that came out from the door.
Sally then was surprised as well as the others in Knothole instead of a Swat-bot's coming out a single individual came out dressed in his black mission suit without his trench coat on.
After a few moments when everybody in Knothole hade calmed down, Dark began to explain why and how in the world he got a Swat-bot patrol unit.
"Well ill try to make this sort, when I was with Tails and Dulcy one day and we saw a Swat-bot patrol hover unit and suddenly it lost control and it was already in the air. It was strange the Swat-bot's looked like they have been ripped apart by something with very sharp claws."
Said Dark but suddenly Sally said.
"Dark we can talk about it later for right now we have very little time left."
Dark smiled and looked at the patrol unit and said.
"I got the perfect way to get in to Robotropolis and maybe out from it."
Dark said when he looked back to Sally.
Sally looked at the Patrol unit and began to think after a few moments she decided.
"You really know how to fly it Dark?"
Sally asked while looking at the Patrol unit.
Dark gave Sally a strange look and said.
"You really think you have the guts to be my co-pilot?"
Dark Asked with a small grin on his face.
Sally nodded and so the new assembled team began to gather up their gear and medical supplies and began to load the Patrol unit, after all important equipment was loaded the team began to get in and strap in to their seats.
Dark was looking at the power cells indicator, it was showing that the power cells where recharged to their maximum limit.
Dark began to check the systems, while muttering.
"Weapons working at 100 percent, engine at 100 percent, internal system at 100 percent, doors all locked up and sealed."
The door behind Dark opened and Sally came in and took up Nicole and took a wire and plugged her in to the navigation computer, Nicole hade the mission to generate a false code to the other patrol units that was within Robotropolis.
Sally looked at Dark and said.
"I really hope this will work Dark, if not we will be discovered by Robotnik or Snively and everything will be lost."
Dark looked away from the controls and saw Sally's worried distress even that she was not showing it.
Dark looked back to the controls and said to Sally with a very determine voice.
"Sally don't worry we will succeed with saving Sonic and the others and if that copy of mine is there I want to fight him alone."
Sally looked at Dark and was just about to open her mouth when Dark interrupted her.
"Sally please understand this copy of mine is thinking like me and acting like me but he cant really be quite be me, everybody has a weakness even machines but I know how he fights now and I am willing to get even with him or rather try do destroy him."
Sally could only look in disbelieve that Dark is so determined to fight his copy if he was there with Sonic and the others.
Dark began to flip on the switches as the digital meters went up to max after pressing in the activation key that Dark and Rotor hade installed in secret from Sally and anyone notices anything.
The Patrol unit began to lift up from the ground and the engines began to charge up. After that the Patrol unit hade come to an acceptable altitude the Patrol unit took of like a bullet, its destination Robotropolis.
At Robotropolis Sonic, Bunnie, Antoine, Geoffrey and Rotor where walking after Metal Dark he said he know where Sally was as they followed him to an abandoned factory.
Metal Dark ducked behind some garbage cans and waited on the others to come to him, and then he got a transmission from his creator Dr Robotnik and his nephew.
"Metal Dark, report your current status and position now!"
Metal Dark looked behind him and saw Sonic and the others coming his way and reported back.
"I am outside the designated target area for the trap, shall I proceed?"
Asked Metal Dark and waited for an answer it came almost directly.
"Carry on, with caution and lure in those blasted freedom fighters in to my trap and then we take them to the roboticizer to be permanent roboticized."
Metal Dark cut the communication when he saw Sonic poke his head over his shoulder.
"Are you sure that Sal is in there Dark?"
Sonic asked while looking at the abandoned factory, with a serious look on his face.
"Yes I heard what that new Swat-bot said it was the coordinates to this factory, don't know why thou."
Metal Dark said while the rest of the group came to Sonic and Metal Dark.
"Then why are we waiting out here for?"
Bunnie asked worried about her best friend who knows what Robotnik was doing to her right now.
"I think Dark ze thinking right now."
Antoine said trying to cheer up Bunnie.
"Let's move we have very little time now."
Metal Dark said and began to sneak from the hiding place the others began to follow him over the street to the wide open main doors.
When they all where inside the factory the doors and windows slammed shut and a green gas came in making everybody cough very hard, after a few minutes they all fainted.
Everybody except for Metal Dark ho stood there with a smug grin on his face the door and windows opened and several Swat-bot's came in with two cages and began to pick up the unconscious freedom fighters.
Bunnie, Antoine, Geoffrey and Rotor where placed in one of the two cages while Sonic got the other one with special bonds on his feet to prevent him from using his speed and the Swat-bot's removed Sonic's backpack with the power ring inside.
Metal Dark looked at the Swat-bot's while the cages where been towed from the factory, fortunately the knock out gas did not have that long effect when everybody began to wake up.
Metal Dark heard his prisoners where awakening from their short slumber.
Sonic was the first to speak with a question.
"How in Mobius, did I get in here?"
Asked Sonic very confused.
"You asking me Hedgehog I think we went strait in to a trap."
Geoffrey answered with an irritated voice.
"I think we are all ze here no?"
Antoine asked while looking around.
"Where is Sugar Dark?"
Bunnie asked, worried.
"That was I was thinking."
Sonic asked, trying to find a way to break the bonds on his feet.
Sonic tried and tried again but could not break the bonds that was restraining him, Sonic was about to do a spin dash when he heard a very familiar voice.
"I would not do that if I where you Sonic."
Everybody looked out from their cages and saw Metal Dark came into their sight, they where confused for a few moments before they became really angry.
"Dark how… how could you do this?"
Sonic hissed with venom in his voice.
"We trusted you Dark how can you betray us like this?"
Bunnie shouted out with rage trying to brake out from the cage but when she touched the bars she got a huge electric shock that forced her body to be thrown to the cage wall behind her.
Metal Dark only looked with a smug grin on his face and then said.
"Well I was bored, I needed a change for once and I got what I needed from Robotnik."
Sonic and the others continued to yell at Metal Dark about what they will do to traitors like him.
Meanwhile not far from Metal Dark and his prisoners, the hijacked Patrol unit came in a normal speed they have seen the escort and now where looking for a spot to land.
Soon they found one and began to land in a old warehouse and landed inside of it and its doors opened and out came a team that secured the entire warehouse and last came two figures the short one was Sally and the tall one was Dark the real one.
One of the freedom fighters walked over to Sally and said.
"The warehouse is secured Sally, all exits are been guarded right now."
Sally nodded and smiled and replied.
"Good, any other Swat-bot patrols in the surrounding area?"
The Freedom fighter shakes his head and replied.
"No Princess the Patrol unit did not detect any other swat-bot patrols only the one that hade Sonic and the others. They are the only ones here at this sector."
Sally nodded to the freedom fighter and ordered him to go to the patrol unit to keep watch with the sensors from it, and to warn them if there was any other patrol unit coming to reinforce the escort.
Dark looked out from the main door and looked back to Sally and nodded giving her the all clear sign.
Dark and Sally rushed out and with Nicole's help they could navigate the fastest route to the escort where Sonic and the others was, even Metal Dark.
After 30 minutes they arrived at a cross road ahead of the escort, both Dark and Sally then hide within an abandon food shop.
"Dark, remember what I told you first we save Sonic and the others then you can take care of your copy got it?"
Sally told Dark while she looked at the approaching escort, where her love was on it. But she hoped that only she and Dark could save Sonic and the others.
"I remember Sally, but I will be the diversion and lead the guards and my copy away from those cages while you use Nicole to hack the system."
Sally gave Dark a nod fully understands what he said, but then again why did he volunteer to be the diversion?
Is it because Dark was beaten by his copy two times in a row or is it something ells?
"Here they come Sally get ready with Nicole and I will be ready to use the power ring."
Said Dark snapping Sally from her thoughts and got ready.
Dark removed his backpack and removed his black trench coat, after that he opens the backpack and takes up the power ring getting ready.
Sally took out Nicole and told her to activate a count down timer for when to strike.
Nicole began to count down from 10 seconds, while the escort was coming closer and closer.
"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Go."
After that Nicole said go Dark moved out from his hiding spot and rushed out from the shop.
Before the attack Metal Dark was talking to his prisoners.
"As you can see no one will ever know what hade happened here, but I think I will have some fun fooling other freedom fighters to come with me in to traps by my master."
Sonic and the others can not believe it, how this did happened he betrayed them but there was something about Dark that they could not put their fingers on.
"Soon Dr Robotnik will rule Mobius and as his top agent I will make sure that he will help me, to come back to my world so I can take it over from him."
Metal Dark said grinning like a madman.
"That would not happen you Metal Rust Bucket!"
That stopped the escort completely when a figure rushed out from a shop holding a golden ring.
"Sure my home world sucks big time, but I will not let you destroy it."
That voice made Sonic, Bunnie, Antoine and Rotor, Geoffrey very confused, more confusing was that Metal Dark was showing a shocking expression but then melted to an angry look almost crazy mad like.
That was until Metal Dark began to shout.
"You, I thought I killed you and the Princess back at Knothole."
The voice replied with a more angry tone to it.
"You dare to attack the ones that don't have the ability to defend themselves from you, and for that I will destroy you and your machine body guards."
Sonic then began to look after a reflective surface to see who Metal Dark was talking to, and fund one laying there. Sonic's eyes became big with surprise when he saw Dark himself standing there with a power ring in his hand.
Then it hit him like a ton of bricks, the Dark that they have been for the last few days was a spy for Buttnik. But that means that he was a machine a robot or?
"We shall se about that Dark."
Metal Dark said as the Swat-bot raised their arms and rifles and took aim, waiting for the order to open fire.
Dark raised the power ring and it began to glow then a aura became visible as the power ring was been absorbed into his body.
Metal Dark gave the signal to fire all the Swat-bot's opened fire as the laser shots came they bounced of to different directions, Metal Dark became confused how did a normal being of flesh and blood be able to do this with out a devise to put up a barrier.
As the glow disappeared Dark stood there looking at Metal Dark with a look the look of a warrior, then suddenly Dark rushed at the Swat-bots and began to turn them into scrap metal.
Metal Darks sensors showed Dark's moving to fast for the swat-bots targeting system. At the beginning there was 15 swat-bots now there was none except for one, Metal Dark.
"Now that your body guards have gone to the junk pile you are next Metal Dark."
Dark said surprising the freedom fighters. Dark did never speak when he was using a power ring.
"Very impressive Dark for a living creature I am impressed, but now that you have destroyed my guards are you ready for the elite?"
Metal Dark asked and then took a fighting stance and got ready for a fight.
"You know what they say back home?"
Dark said who took the very same stance, and got ready for a very hard fight.
"They say, Third times a charm."
They both stood there in complete concentration, Sally began to move quietly to Sonic's cage to open it.
When Sally crept by the other cage a panel opened up completely catching her of guard, but when she saw Rotor poke his head out she then calmed herself down and began to help Rotor out from his and the others cage.
Dark and Metal Dark was still standing there daring the other to make the first move, Dark looked with his eye's to the right and saw Sally helping Rotor with the cage that Bunnie, Antoine, Geoffrey and Rotor hade been imprison in.
Dark looked back at Metal Dark knowing what to do, his style. Dark then made the first move came charging in and delivered a hard right hook, that Metal Dark blocked that was the signal for the final fight to begin.
Metal Dark retaliated with a hard counter kick that was blocked by Dark, Dark then did a low leg swipe that caught Metal Dark's foot that made him fall to the ground both got up and both throw a hard punch that created a small shock wave.
The Freedom fighters felt that shock wave and saw that both Dark and Metal Dark recovers form there own hits and grabbed their hands hard and began to put everything they got in pure strength.
But they saw that Dark was loosing slowly if Dark dose not do anything any time soon they then need to figure out a way to defeat Metal Dark on their own.
Metal Dark was grinning while thinking that with his own power source he is unstoppable, while his opponent has a limited source of power.
Dark could feel that he is losing and the power ring did not have enough power, if he some how could get stronger then his opponent.
Metal Dark then pushed harder that forced Dark's right leg to bend and its knee hitting the ground.
Metal Dark grinned evilly at Dark and said.
"Falling down to your knee?"
Metal Dark said keeping pressure on Dark.
"This will be a memory that I will keep to remind me of how I defeated one of your kind."
Sonic wanted to help but he knows now that Metal Dark is stronger then Dark and his time was running out fast.
Sonic could only watch now he lowers his head and began to think of a way to help anything!
"Face it Dark you can't defeat me even with one power ring you could not beat me."
Metal Dark said making Dark grunt showing that he the will to not give up.
Sonic then looks up at Metal Dark overhearing what he said, one power ring.
Sonic began to think looking around for his back pack and found it under a scrapped Swat-bot, Sonic rushed over to it and began to dig it up and then opened it and pulled up a power ring.
Sonic looked at Dark then at the power ring while thinking.
"Metal Dark said that Dark could not defeat him with one power ring what about two then?"
Sonic kept on thinking for a while longer before making his decision.
Sonic looked up and then shouted.
"Hey Metal Freak how about two power rings then at the same time?"
Sonic then throws the power ring at Metal Dark and Dark, Metal Dark heard what Sonic said and turns his face away from Dark.
That was a mistake.
Dark then pulls Metal Dark so that his back hit the ground and his feet kicked in to the stomach area of Metal Dark then sent him flying strait to one of the abandon buildings walls and crashed throw it.
Dark then grabbed the power ring and his body began to absorb its power adding the first power rings power that was still with in Dark.
While Dark was absorbing the power ring, Metal Dark then walked from the building that he was thrown in to with a look of pure hatred and saw what Dark was doing.
"You will die!"
Metal Dark cried out and then rushed at Dark from the behind pulling his left arm back to deliver a hard left punch.
When suddenly he got a hard kick out of nowhere with such a force that Metal Dark's head was thrown to the side with the rest of his body.
Dark hade absorbed the power ring and then he just blurred out and then reappears in front of Metal Dark and delivered a hard right kick, the sent Metal Dark flying and strait in to another building.
After a few moments of completely silence Metal Dark got out from the destroyed building his clothing where shredded and a few cuts that showed metal under the faked skin.
"You… How did you do that?"
Metal Dark asked looking close to a nervous break down.
Dark did not answer, that made Metal Dark angrier then he already was.
"Why won't you answer me?"
Metal Dark asked again taking a step closer and then found him self getting hit that just came out of nowhere.
Dark hade disappeared and reappeared, hitting Metal Dark with a hard right hook which sent Metal Dark flying yet again hitting the ground.
Dark began to walk towards Metal Dark, while Metal Dark was getting up and then shouted at Dark.
"This is it I have enough from you Dark, if you don't want to stay dead then I shall make you dead right here right now. Computer max power output NOW!"
Metal Dark's power core began to power Metal Dark's body to max.
While this was happening Dark then stopped looking at Metal Dark waiting to finish what ever he was doing.
Metal Dark looked at Dark both standing there then suddenly both of them blurred out and a tremendous explosion could be heard in the middle.
Sally picked up Nichole trying to figure out what was happening.
"Nichole what happened to Dark?"
Nichole began to scan after Dark and found him moving at the speed of sound, even Metal Dark was moving at the same speed.
"I have scanned the surrounding area and I have found Dark and Metal Dark moving at the speed of sound."
Sonic looked socked, then ducked down hearing a new explosion close to them.
"Nichole analyse the data and compare them to Dark's current condition."
Nichole began to scan but her scanning ability was now limited thanks to Dark's new level of speed.
"I can't scan him currently in this occasion Princess, Dark is moving to fast for my scanner."
Everybody looked at Sonic then a huge crash was heard that made every body look at where it came from, and saw Metal Dark getting up half his face was gone showing his true side a robots face the left side show's a normal mouth but the eye where black with a red pupil.
Metal Dark began to shake looking like he was going to self destruct, but then Dark blurred in and delivered a hard left kick.
Sending Metal Dark strait towards an old clothing shop, Dark then stood there and then shook his head like he was dizzy.
Then Metal Dark blow up the rubble and came charging back and unleashed his fury, Dark got a two hits on his head then a kick on his upper body then two hits on his stomach then finally he got a hard right hook that sent Dark flying landing with very hard.
Dark got up but Metal Dark came rushing in again and did the same combo again, making the freedom fighters very concerned about what was happening.
Sally could see that something was wrong, very wrong she looked at Nichole and then looked at Sonic and saw that he looked more then ready to jump into action at any time notice.
"Oh man this dose not look good, Dark is losing hard now."
Sonic said out loud.
"What happened to sugar Dark, shouldn't he win by now?"
Bunnie asked looking concerned.
"It is maybe the power rings effect must beginning to fade off."
Rotor said that has analysed what was happening.
"Oh man, not cool at all."
Sonic said, looking at Sally for guidance.
"We ze need to do ze something or Dark is soon ze history."
Antoine said still looking at Dark's losing battle.
"I agree with the France guard, we need to help him."
Geoffrey said that made everybody look at him with a surprise.
"Don't take me wrong Dark is a good weapon that we are using, But he is still a Overlander in my eye's."
Geoffrey answered to the surprised group.
"I don't know what we can do to save or help Dark in this situation."
Sally said looking down to the road, not wanted to look in her friends faces.
Then they all heard something been slammed strait into a wall with a crushing sound, everybody looked where the sound came from and saw Dark there coming out from a hole from a building.
Metal Dark reappeared in front of Dark a good few feet away from him.
Metal Dark began to stalk towards Dark like a predator ready hunting its prey.
"What's the mater Dark, you gave me a beating but it seems that the power rings powers are soon completely depleted."
Metal Dark said with a sneer, making Dark look up to him with pain seen in his face.
"He's right my body can feel the power rings powers but they are now gone completely."
Dark thought to him self wobbling a little.
"There has to be a way to destroy him but how?"
Dark thought shaking his head to clear his blurry sight.
Metal Dark came closer and closer then stopped and looked at Dark.
"You know when I have finished you off and your friends, ill go back to Knothole and raze it to the ground and the children will suffer especially that twin tailed fox."
Said Metal Dark and then continued to walk.
Darks eyes snapped open and looked up shocked after what Metal Dark said.
"What was he's name again, oh yes now I remember Tails."
Sonic, Sally, Bunnie and Rotor heard what Metal Dark said, they all gasped, but Sonic recovered and rushed at Metal Dark in max speed.
Metal Dark didn't even have to look at Sonics direction when he backhanded Sonic knocking him unconscious.
Dark lowers his head looking at the ground, the forehead shadowing his eyes. In his mind he saw Sonic's socked face when he got hit by Metal Dark, and some horrible visions about Knothole and the children that turn's into machines.
"Now let's finish this, it was not so nice to meet you."
Said Metal Dark that hade now stopped just in front of Dark, and pulling back his left fist ready to deliver the finishing blow.
"Now die!"
Screamed Metal Dark and then throws his left fist, until it was stopped in an open palm.
Metal Dark was surprised, but he was not the only one that was surprised the one that caught Metal Dark's fist was none other then Dark himself.
Then a green aura began to emit from Dark's body as small rocks began to hover up into the air.
Dark head was still down but then the head moved up revealing Dark's eyes. The eyes where gone nothing except two white glowing eyes, then the aura took on a new shape like someone put him on flames.
Sally and the others could only stare in shock, which was until Nichole began to shout out warnings that woke her up from her shock.
"Nichole what is it?"
Asked Sally when she took up Nichole from her boot.
"Princess be advise chaos energy is been detected at your current location and it is getting stronger and stronger by the minute, I recommend that you shut me down for the time been or I will risk been short circuit and lose all my data."
Said Nichole unaware about what was happening to Dark.
Sally did what Nichole said and shut her down, just in time when she and the others began to hear a lot of electric machinery began to explode all around them.
Metal Dark's sensors where been overwhelmed, that was until he felt his hand been crushed by Dark.
Dark gave to much pressure to Metal Dark's hand that it was crushed and then Dark pulled back his right arm and delivers a punch that made Metal Dark's face to be deformed, then Dark rushed after Metal Dark and gave a hard kick then a punch and then a kick again keeping Metal Dark airborne.
Dark then waited for Metal Dark to come down, when Metal Dark came down Dark made a round house kick sending Metal Dark sliding on the ground, then Metal Dark got up after a few moments but his body was buckled and his internal system's was on backup system's.
Metal Dark looked at his opponent with fear.
"Wha… What… What are you?"
Metal Dark asked in fear, his opponent was not someone to underestimate but he did and now he is paying the price big time.
Sonic was waking up from the hit he got from Metal Dark, and looked up and saw that Metal Dark was in a bad shape. But then he saw Dark appear out of nowhere and a delivered a fatal blow to the chest, Sonic saw the balled up fist enter and exit out from the back of Metal Dark.
At the same time the power core came out from the back of Metal Dark, Dark pulled out his fist and backed away a little.
Metal Dark look's down and sees the hole that Dark made and looks back to Dark, all that Metal Dark can see was that Dark was standing there with a look that said: "no one threatens me or my friends and gets a way with it."
Dark then walks past Metal Dark and picks up the power core and looks at it for a moment before he slams it to the ground and stepping on it and crushing it under his feet.
Dark then looks over to the rest of the gang and see them helping Sonic up to his feet, but then his vision became blurry and he soon felt his knees hit the pavement and soon complete darkness.
Sonic, Sally, Antoine, Rotor, Bunnie and Geoffrey rushed, mostly by worry but Geoffrey wanted to check if Dark was still able to fight after that Dark has recovered from this fight.
After they checked on Dark they heard the sound of hundreds of Swat-bots making their way to their location. Coming form the North, West and East but not South, Sally looked at Dark and then looked up to Sonic and the others and said.
"Sonic! Take Dark to the South there is a group of freedom fighters there waiting on us in an abandon warehouse the rest of us will try to get there by foot."
"Right, Sal ill be back to pick you and the rest up."
Sonic picked up Dark and put his Left arm around his neck and then took off to the South.
Sally and the others began to run after Sonic but Geoffrey stopped and looked back at Metal Darks body and walked over to it and kneeled down next to him, after looking at the robot copy Geoffrey then picked up a explosive pack and put it in the remains of Metal Dark and set the timer for five minutes and then got up and began to run after the others.
Sonic hade reached the extraction point, where the other freedom fighters where and when they saw Sonic with Dark they rushed over to help him.
While the extraction team helped Sonic to put Dark inside the patrol unit, the rest of the gang kept on moving the sound of Swat-bot patrol units where moving in close to them.
Sally rushed in to a ally way and ducked down behind a dumpster, and waited a few moments before continued running to the extraction point.
Geoffrey used his crossbow and took down a few patrolling Swat-bot units, and at the same time put on a small explosive device and then sync the timer with the first one inside Metal Darks body.
Bunnie and Antoine where doing the best they could to avoid detection, but with a scared royal guard that make's it a little harder to run and avoid the Swat-bot's bio scanners.
Dark was put inside on a medical-bed and strapped him in, Sonic told the extraction team to wait as long as they can if he and the rest of the gang did not made it back they then should leave as fast as they can.
Then he jumped out and rushed off to get the others.
Sonic was running fast but without a power ring he could only hope that he can reach Sally and the others in time before they are captured by Robotnik's troops, or worst become roboticized.
Metal Sonic was standing there and looking at the fight between his brother and Dark, and the outcome of that fight and he saw that Geoffrey planted an explosive and left the scene. Yet he did nothing to go down and team up with his brother instead he turned and took off to his personal hiding place when he heard a lot of explosions and a huge explosion.
Metal Sonic could not forget the fight between Dark and Metal Dark, it was first a one sided fight but then the real Dark changed to something ells some sort of a personality change.
But he could have joined in to the fight but he would not last any longer then his brother did in that battle, he could now only watch and study this overlander and yet this one was different somehow.
Metal Sonic came to a old building and entered it and walked down to its basement there was a metal door guarded by two Swat-bots that only obeyed him, he walked up to the door and his eyes began to glow crimson red sending a code into the guarded door.
After a few moments the door opened up for Metal Sonic and he enters on a table with a sheet on covering and object, metal walks over to it and pulls the cover off from it only to reveal a stone tablet with pictures on it.
Metal Sonic began to look at it like he hade some other times in secret, Metal Sonic was indeed fascinated by this stone tablet showing him of a future that he could not really translate but so far this arrival of this overlander was indeed connected to this stone tablet.
The pictures showed an creature coming from a distend world that looked like an overlander, this creature was tormented by his fellow tribe but he kept on going and thus he was thrown in to a portal of some sort showing the true nature of his kin.
This creature is then been hunted by knights in black armours and the one leading them was a warlord with a armoured arm pointing at the creature, however he then jumps on a armoured dragon trying to escape but then crashed in to a wall.
The creature is then picked up by a tribe that was in a war on this warlord and his dark knights, after some time with this tribe he joins them in the battle to free a city from its cruel ruler.
After a few battles this creature will meet an iron golem and will lose two times but on the third time the creature will come out as the victor, but will then fall to an illness that can only be cured by a loner that will cross his path and the creature will steal her heart.
The creature will help the tribe in the final battle but at the aftermath the creature will disappear and fall into a deep sleep, but after a short period of time he will return to….
Metal Sonic could not translate the final part he needed to study some other ancient text that will help him to translate this final part and yet there was a peace missing from the tablet showing how it all would end.
Sonic hade found all but Sally and got them back to the waiting patrol unit, Sonic then turned and began to rush back to find Sally. He could only hope he could reach her in time before it is too late to get out from Robotropolis.
"Sally where are you?" Sonic said in his thoughts wile running at his top speed.
Sally was running towards the extraction point and hid from the Swatbots patrols that she come across, the patrols where getting tighter and tighter like all Swatbots where on a search frenzy.
Sally was running around a corner and saw a Swatbot standing there looking away from her, Sally hold her breath and began to back away but then tripped on a can that made a sound that was enough to get the attention of the Swatbot that turned around and looked at Sally and began to walk towards her.
"Surrender freedom fighter." The Swatbot said while it was walking towards Sally.
Sally feared the worst until she heard a buzzing sound and then the Swatbot's chest was ripped apart by a blue blurry saw, it then stopped and there standing in front of her was Sonic and before she hade the chance to thank Sonic she felt how she was picked up and then felt the speed that she and Sonic was travelling in now.
They reached the extraction point and told the pilots to get moving fast, the patrol unit took off still using the same id code after dodging the patrols they then speed of but not unnoticed by a swat-bot patrol unit.
Sally then told the pilots to land in the forest and get ready to run and hide fast, Sally then told Geffrey that he should plant a bomb on the swat-bot ship when they landed and then run and hide like the rest of them.
The patrol unit landed and after that the bomb was planted they all rushed out with Dark who was still unconscious due to injury and using two power rings at to defeat his copy, when the other patrol unit landed the swat-bots came out and rushed in to the other patrol unit after a few seconds later the captured patrol unit exploded taking the other patrol unit with it in its destruction.
Sally and the others could only let out a sigh of relief, they hade a lot to do the last few weeks and that now the real Dark was back and that the fake one was demolished.
After that they made sure that no other patrol unit followed them they then began their journey back to Knothole, it is now time to rest up and prepare for the next mission but for now everybody needed their much earned rest.
After a few weeks later Dark, Sonic and Tails where hiking up a mountain and Sonic he was carrying the extra materials because that he hade lost his bet during that race so long ago.
Sonic hade hoped that Dark would forget that bet, but was stumped when Dark reminded him during a visit at the Knothole hospital.
Dark looked behind him and saw Sonic and Tails and said. "Sonic you slowpoke come one you said you did this before."
Sonic gave Dark a glare and replied. "Says the one who can lift a log without any help at all and before that you really did some beating on that tin can copy of yours."
Tails looked at his good friends and then said. "Sonic, Dark you both act like brothers sometimes."
That got Dark and Sonic to look at Tails with surprised looks on their faces and then began to laugh and then began to set up a camp for the night, when the camp was done they sat down and began to enjoy the coming night.
For now they needed their rest for some time in the future they will begin to try harder to beat Robotnik, and they all hade a feeling that some time in the future a final battle is about to begin.
Next Chapter: Valentines, Rescue times.
Note: I am sorry that this chapter took this long to make, I did some changes as you could see. But still I have made so that this story will only be an experimental fanfic, this is an adventure fanfic I know that I suck at doing jokes and describe some scenes but I am trying my best as you can se. even so I am playing wow and that takes up some of my time again I apologise for not posting after a half year.