Chapter 7
Showdown with Metal Sonic
Metal Sonic stopped in front of our group; he just stared at us, moving his eyes along the crowd. "I have come to retrieve the Chaos Emeralds. If you resist, you will be destroyed." A robotic voice boomed. "Come back for a rematch? When are you gonna understand, you can't beat me." Sonic says as he clenches his fists. "You guys, get Knuckles out of here, me and Tails can take this hunk of junk!" Me and Court lifted Knuckles and hustled to get away from the battle.
We laid Knuckles down on a soft patch of grass, between some rocks. "Knuckles, did Metal Sonic do this to you?" Court asks. "Y-yes, he wanted the Master Emerald, I refused, but luckily I shattered it. "Oh no… I hope they didn't go all over like usual…" I say. "N-no, only about 5 pieces, and they all are very close." He replied. I looked at Court, who was standing, and looking around, I was wondering what she was thinking. She looked at the Tornado, and then raised her eyebrows. She ran over to the Tornado and jumped in, she jumped back out with a container.
"Rings." She said as she popped it on Knuckles. "Much better," Knuckles said. He tried to stand up, but collapsed. "I'm still too weak," we hear whirring and crashes from the battle going on 100 feet away. "You two go, go and help Sonic and Tails!" he says as he lays his head back down, regaining his strength. Me and Court rain over behind the Tornado. "What are we supposed to do?" she asks worriedly. "I'm not sure," I say as I look down at the ground. I noticed something.
"Wait a minute…" I say, looking at my wrists and shoes. Court looks at her own shoes and rings on her wrists. "Do you think…" she hesitates, "We could…" I smiled. "Alright then, it's settled, let's put these things to good use! We walked out from behind the plane, to see Sonic and Metal Sonic bashing into each other at full speed. "Yo, Metal Sonic!" I say, while waving at him. Both Sonic and Metal Sonic stop and look over at me and Court. Court was making a face at him and making some strange noise. I began to do the same thing.
Sonic punched Metal Sonic and the brawl started back up again. "Well, it worked for a little while," I say as Sonic got punched so hard he flew back and hit a tree with a large crash. Tails was flying around trying to land hits on Metal Sonic as much as possible, he was using an arm cannon until he was grabbed by Metal Sonic and it was destroyed. I look at both Sonic, and Tails, stumbling and getting up. "Good one." Sonic says as he rubs his head and dashes back at Metal Sonic. "Sonic is getting weaker…" I say to Court.
"He is, look how slow he is running. That's not normal for him." We needed to help Sonic and Tails, and we needed to help them fast. Court was looking at me, I looked at her and she seemed to be getting an idea. She looked up at the plane, and then looked back at me. "What?" I say, as she jumps up and gets in the plane. "Your not going to drive this thing are you!?" I yell at her as I jump in the plane also. "No way! I'm just getting these, she says as she pulls out two of the three Chaos Emeralds we collected. "What!? What are you planning to do with these?" I ask. "Bait." She says confidently as she hands me one.
We hopped back out of the plane to see Metal Sonic standing over Sonic, who is struggling to get up. Metal Sonic raises his had, about to hit his final blow, defeating his enemy. "Hey, Metal Sonic! Over here!" Court says as she jumps around with the Emerald in the air. Metal Sonic stopped and looked over at us. "Want 'em? Come get 'em!" she taunted some more. Metal Sonic lowered his hand and turned our way. "Get ready," she mumbles to me, I still have no idea what she is doing. Metal Sonic started running, and then did a full speed burst our way. "Now!" Court said as she grabbed me and jumped over him. He ran into a tree, "Haha!" I say points and holding my sides.
Metal Sonic pushed away from the tree, and set his sights on me and Court again. He did another speed burst our way, but this time, we didn't jump, Court grabbed my hand and we ran full speed towards him. We both slid underneath him, causing him to look down, and to crash into a tree. This time we both started laughing, and then started dancing around, getting him mad. He came at us again, but this time he was slashing through the air with his claws. We avoided the claws by running towards him then splitting up, and going around him.
We simultaneously kicked him in the back of the head, making him do a face plant into the grass. He got up, and stared at me and Court, "Come on, don't tell me you are worn out now! It was just starting to get fun!" I taunted him. He started to rise into the air, energy began to swirl around him as he began to spin himself. "Court, I think its time to move!" I say as I grab her hand and we boost away from him. He then swooped down and started chasing us, we had to be going over 150 miles per hour.
We ran faster and faster but he kept speeding up too. Me and Court were running side by side, and kept checking to see how far away he was; unfortunately he never got farther away, only closer. I looked at Court and had and idea, I raised my index finger in the air and made an imaginary cyclone in the air. She knew what I was talking about, she smiled and nodded. We both then turned, and began to run in a circle. Metal Sonic was still right behind us. We ran faster and faster until we noticed we had made a giant cyclone.
We jumped into the center of the cyclone and Metal Sonic followed us. He had slowed down quite a bit. We got ready for battle, "Bring it on, Metal Sonic!" Court says. "Do you know who you are dealing with?" I add on. "Indeed, I do, I have followed you two since you left Hillsboro." Me and Court exchange glances, "Why, what do you want?" Court asks. "Dr. Eggman has sent me to retrieve the Chaos Emeralds." I grit my teeth, "Eggman huh? What's his plan?" I ask the robot. "That information is classified. Now it is time for me to destroy you and finish my objective." Metal Sonic then jumped in the air and dashed at us, we dodged and dashed back. "Metal Sonic, you're out numbered, don't you realize that?" Court said.
"I am aware of the circumstances. You two measly children are no match for me." Me and Court clenched our fists and dashed towards him, we both hit him directly in the face. "Who's measly now?" I say as Metal Sonic flew backwards and hit the cyclone and bounced back. "The cyclone was a good idea." Court whispers to me. "Thanks." I say as I smiled then winked at her. Metal Sonic got up and started slashing away, we blocked, or dodged, or countered all of his moves.
He clenched his robotic hands and swung his fist; me and Court moved out of the way then kicked him into the side of the swirling vortex again. "Heh heh, dontcha want the emeralds?" I say as I tossed the one Court game me in the air and caught it a couple times. "Looks like Sonic and Tails wore you down to our "measly children" standards." Court said as she laughed with her Chaos Emerald in her hand. All though he is a robot, I could tell he was angry, which is exactly what we wanted.
Metal Sonic was being worn down, and yet he was still powerful. He jumped in the air once more, did a flip, and then made himself dash down to us. We tried to avoid it but he went to fast. He smashed into me and Court at full speed, making us fly in opposite directions. We also dropped the Chaos Emeralds. Metal Sonic picked up the Chaos Emeralds and shot evil glares at Court and I. I struggled to get up, as did Court, when we got up, Metal Sonic was holding the Emeralds high in the air. "Oh no." I say as I realize he was being powered by a Chaos Emerald.
He crossed his arms and the Emeralds began to glow, me and Court look at each other and nod. We dashed top speed at him, jumped and kicked him backwards towards the vortex, causing him to bounce back towards us. Me and Court jumped fast enough to kick him once more back into the vortex. He fell, as the Emeralds were still glowing, and still in his hands, he got back up and charged at us full force. We both jumped out of the way. Metal Sonic stopped in the center of the vortex, Court on one side of him, me on the other.
The emeralds began to shine brighter. "He's trying to use Chaos Control! Stop him before he gets a chance to!" I yell to Court. We both charge towards him and make a flying jump, then come back down fast as we use both of out feet to attack Metal Sonic. He used Chaos Control just as we hit him, causing him to explode, while Chaos Control initiated. The explosion caused us to fly backwards, also causing the vicious cyclone to dissipate, until Chaos Control made us freeze in mid-air. It felt like I was struck by lightning, it was a shocking feeling, but not nearly as painful, but it still hurt.
"Graah!" I cry as I feel the energy from the explosion and Chaos Control combining. I noticed the same thing was happening to Court, then as fast as it came, we fell. When I hit the ground I hit with my feet first, then fell sideways, clenching my sides. It felt as if I was still being shocked, I could no longer see Court due to smoke and debris. "C-Court?" I say, as I still lay on my side holding my stomach. I hear a whimper and a response, "D-Dylan, a-are you ok?" I gave a weak smile when I heard her voice. "C-Court, I think w-we won." I say with a sigh of relief. "Hooray." She replies with weak enthusiasm. The smoke began to clear, and I could see Court.
"How are you doing? Are you ok?" I ask, as I begin picking myself off the ground. "Uh, I think I'm ok, I'm gonna try and get up." She says as she lifts herself off the ground. We got to our feet then stumbled over to each other, and smiled. "Hey, the Chaos Emeralds are ok, look." She says as she points to two Chaos Emeralds lying about five feet from each other, along with a third which was farther back about 20 feet. "I guess we should go get them." I say as I shrugged. We limped over to the Emeralds, which were glowing.
We then exchanged glances and slowly bent down to retrieve the Emeralds. Our hands touched the two Emeralds simultaneously; when we picked them up they began to shine brighter. Not two seconds after they were in our hands their power began to shock us and lift us off the ground. We were both in immense pain as the Emerald showed its true power. I could see green energy and bolts of electricity swirling around me; I could feel it being fused into me. The pain was so terrible I had to shut my eyes, I only got them open a little bit, just enough to see Court floating in the air with the same thing happening.
Then everything stopped. The wind stopped blowing, the birds stopped chirping, and the clouds stopped moving. Me and Court fell to the ground, but we landed more gently this time. We both fell to our knees and caught ourselves. "W-What's going on?" Court says, as she looks around. "I'm… I'm not sure." I replied to her, as I was staring in amusement of the world freezing. We both then stood up, with the Chaos Emeralds in our hands, still glowing brightly. I looked down at it and looked over to Court doing the same thing.
"Do you think?" We both say in unison. Then we both nodded and held the Chaos Emeralds in the air, which caused the world to move again. "What!?" Court says in astonishment. I noticed that I wasn't in pain anymore. "Court, how do you feel?" I ask her. She looks at herself and smiles, "Never been better!" I nod and smile at her. "Do you think that we just activated Chaos Control?" I ask her. "I think--I think we did…" she says as she looks at the Emerald in her hand, which was no longer glowing.
"Well, there's only one way to find out! Chaos…" I say raising the Emerald in the air. "Control!" Court finishes as she raises her in the air also. The Emeralds shined bright colors and energy circled around them in an instant. Then, the world stopped moving again. No sound, no movement, only me and Court. "W-Wow!" I say in astonishment. "Dylan! We did it! We used Chaos Control!" Court shouts as she runs over to me and gives me a giant hug. "We sure did, didn't we?" I say, as I try to keep my cool, when inside I'm actually screaming like a little girl.
"You are really going to stand there and say this is just "la-de-da" nothing?" She says as she smiles to me a smile that says "I know you are actually psyched and want to jump up and down like a little kid on Christmas." I laugh, "Well, I guess it is kinda… AWESOME!" I scream and jump and do a dance. "Eggman is now no threat to us! We have the power to use the Chaos Emeralds!" Court says as she smiles. "I can't wait to tell David, he's gonna be psyched." I say as I look in the clouds.
We both then raised our Emeralds and dismissed Chaos Control. We looked around, the ground was burned, and some on fire, Sonic and Tails were over by the trees, knocked out, Knuckles was slowly walking around the Tornado. "I saw the whole thing! You guys were amazing!" He says as the two of us bump fists with him. "Now all we gotta do is fix these guys up." He says as he bent down and picked up the Emerald that was powering Metal Sonic. We walked over to Sonic and Tails, Knuckles picked them up and set them near the Tornado. "Rings, please." He says, Court immediately jumped in the plane and grabbed two ring containers. "Here you go, Knuckles!" He smiled and opened the containers on Sonic and Tails.
"Wha? Knuckles?" Sonic says rubbing his head. "Oh… My head…" Tails says rubbing his head also. "What happened to Metal Sonic?" Sonic asked as he got himself to his feet. "Well, your superstars here took care of him, and got a prize for doing so." He said as he waved his hand our way. "We found another Chaos Emerald! Metal Sonic was powered by it!" Court says excitedly. Knuckles held out the Emerald, and Sonic took it, "Thanks you guys." I smiled and said, "That's not all! Watch this!" Me and Court stepped back and held our Emeralds in the air.
"Chaos Control!" We say in unison as a bright flash of light illuminated the area. We re-appeared behind the group, laughing. "Whoa! You guys can use Chaos Control!" Sonic said, astonished. "How did you guys manage that!?" Tails asks. "Well, when we hit Metal Sonic and made him blow up while he was trying to use Chaos Control, we got caught in the energy." I say, "Then, when we picked up the Emeralds, we could feel it being fused with us, and that's when we learned we could use it!" Court finished.
"No way! That's tight!" Sonic says jumping around excitedly. "Eggman's got another thing coming to him if he thinks he's gonna win this one! Hey Knuckles, wanna come along and crack some Eggheads?" Knuckles chuckled, "Sure, why not, I'm up for getting him back for what Metal Sonic did to me!" he said as he punched his fists together. "Knuckles, what about the Master Emerald? You shattered it, remember?" Court said.
"Oh yeah, I'll get right on that." Knuckles said as he rushed off. "I guess he figured he had to do it right this moment?" I said. "Yeah, he is pretty protective of the Master Emerald." Tails says back. "I don't see why he shatters it when it's in danger, he's lucky he can repair it." Court says. "Hey! I only made five pieces, and look, I've already found all of them!" He says putting them all back together. The Master Emerald shined a bright light when it was complete. "There, all better!" Knuckles says, patting it.
"Ok guys, I say we fly for a little while, and get away from this mess, and the possibility of getting blamed for it!" Knuckles says looking around. Me, Sonic, and Court all look at each other and winked. We all dashed away cleaning up the mess, putting out the small fires, and cleaning up robot parts. We were done in less than a minute. "That was fast!" The three of us smiled and gave a thumbs up.
"Alright then, lets get going you guys!" Tails said as he walked to the plane. Me and Court nodded then ran and jumped in, Sonic and Knuckles walked slowly, it looked like they were bickering, like they normally do. Me and Court laughed, "Sonic, Knuckles, what are you guys arguing about this time?" Court asked when she paused from giggling. "Blue-Bone Head over here says I have to leave the Master Emerald behind, or I can't come!" Me and Court shot a look to Sonic who was cracking up laughing. "Geeze, Knucklehead, take a joke and get in!" Sonic says as he hopped into the plane, still laughing hysterically. Knuckles mumbled something and jumped in.
We flew for about and hour before we saw a nice safe clearing on the outside of another city, but this one was smaller, a lot smaller. "This seems like a good place to rest." I say out loud to anybody who was listening. "Yeah seems like it, and I don't think anybody is going to find us here, but its only for the night anyways." Knuckles shrugged. It was mid afternoon and it looked like everyone was about to fall asleep. So I walked over to Court, who was reading Twilight again.
"Hey Court." I said as I sat down next to her. "Hey Dylan, what's up?" She says as she put her bookmark in the book and closed it. "We were pretty awesome out there today!" I say as we high-fived. "Yeah, we did do some pretty cool things, I never thought we would be able to use Chaos Control!" she says happily. We laughed and talked for a little while longer, we were talking about cheese when we both heard something. "What was that?" Court asks. "I'm not sure," I say standing up. She stood up to, and looked towards the trees.
We saw a pink hedgehog that said "Sonic, is that you?"