Chapter 7: Meeting Your Maker, Part 2

As Metal waked through the burning down town, it thought to itself about an appropriate metaphor for what it was doing to the Egg Leaders.

Metal sensed one out of the corner of its optics, in a second Metal rushed over and put its hand through the Egg Leader's chest.

Metal ripped out its battery, dropped it, and kept walking.

It had done that to around seven Egg Leaders so far, 'Two birds with one stone? No, that can't be it…'

An Egg Leader jumped out from around a corner, and started firing its gun at Metal. Metal couldn't react before a bullet made contact with its forehead and ricocheted off, flying across the street into some poor guy's window.

Before another bullet could make contact Metal had already removed the Egg Leader's head from its body.

'Easy as pie? It seems like that would work here, but I don't like the sound of it.'

Metal landed and once again started walking. It thought about using its heat sensor to pin-point all the Egg Leaders, but decided against it.

After spending an unknown amount of time in stasis that would be far too boring for Metal's mind.

It took half an hour, before Metal had slowly came across every single Egg Leader. It was almost sad to see them all go, they weren't a good challenge, but at least they were something.

"Sonic!" A voice, distorted by a speaker, sounded above the town. Metal glanced up, a familiar feeling swelling inside it.

Rage.

"I don't know what you're doing in some little out of the way town, but make no mistake! You won't stop my plan."

It was at this point that Metal saw it. A single ship from Eggman's fleet, one of the smaller ones, painted in an off green colour.

"Well, it looks like I might finally get do something exciting." Metal said to itself. It activated its jetpack, and flew up.

"Tell me Sonic, are you alone? Any friends with you? I bet you wish you had someone backing you up you annoying little-" The voice suddenly cut off as Metal flew as high as the observation window.

Metal looked into the ship, and to no great surprise, found its egg-shaped creator, Dr Ivo Robotnik, or as he was better known today, Doctor Eggman.

Though it couldn't be seen, Metal guessed that Eggman's eyes must have widened in pure shock at seeing it.

"Metal Sonic? What are you doing here? Have you seen Sonic?" Eggman glanced back at a computer screen inside the ship, then back to Metal.

Metal shook its head, before going from just floating softly to dashing just below the speed of sound, towards the ship's window.

Eggman, understandably, dived for cover as the glass window shatter and glass shards painted the room with their presence.

'Okay, that might have been overkill.' Metal thought to itself, 'But at least I enjoyed it.'

"What do you think you're doing, Metal Sonic?" Eggman yelled, clearly enraged after having his window shattered.

Metal, in that moment, had a thought. Yesterday, it couldn't speak, but several months back when it tried to destroy Sonic and his friends, it could speak just fine.

'Probably because I learn by scanning things, and when I've lost before I'm reset to a standard model.' Metal reasoned to itself. It made the most logical sense, but if that were truly the case, why did Eggman expect a response? He didn't know that Bokkun had upgraded it, he probably didn't know that Bokkun was flying around below them putting out fires.

'Which leaves me one logical conclusion. Eggman's the smartest idiot on the planet.'

Metal, realising that it had zoned out for a moment, shrugged its shoulders.

"You don't know?" Eggman sneered, "What, are you glitching? I'll have to look at that…"

Eggman started mumbling to himself, weighting the pros and cons of fixing Metal's apparently malfunctioning system.

Metal, on the other hand, was searching its memory banks. It could think of a number of reasons to kill Eggman, least of which being because it wanted to.

'But that's not why I'm going to do it.' Metal thought as it started walking calmly over to Eggman.

Eggman, despite how focused he was on pondering Metal's current defects, still noticed the robot walking towards him.

"What are you doing?" Eggman asked, his voice developing a nervous edge. Completely understandable considering what Metal had done to him in the past.

Metal lightly shook its head.

Metal and Eggman were standing a foot apart. Metal looked up at its creator, black eyes staring into unfeeling goggles. In the next moment Metal had crouched low and done a sweeping kick, knocking Eggman off his feet.

The good doctor landed on his side and seemed stunned for a moment if only because he was so mad, "Metal, cease now, before I make you!"

Metal with barely a moment's thought stomped its foot into Eggman's stomach. The doctor screamed out in pain.

"What will you do, Doctor?" Metal asked, speaking for the first time to his creator. It tried to recall if it had ever directly talked to Eggman before, but Metal shrugged the question away. It probably had at some point.

Eggman, still in pain, let out a surprised gulp.

"Since when could you speak?"

"I got an upgrade." Metal kicked the good doctor again. This was actually some much needed stress relief, all things considered.

Eggman yelled out again, but stopped himself from yelling at Metal. It was clear to him that Metal had gotten into the same kind of malfunction which caused those crazy episodes. With that in mind, the only solution that Eggman could think of was fighting Metal until his battery ran out and then reprogramming it.

For that, he'd help.

"It's almost poetic, the creation killing the creator. Hmm, is it?" Metal asked, still kicking the doctor, "I'm not very good with figurative speech, but I've got all the time in the world to master it. Unlike you, of course."

With those words Metal's hand became covered in yellow energy. This was its overcharge ability, by using of its battery life it could make this energy around itself. Energy that was very good at slicing through things.

Eggman knew this as well, as he was Metal's original creator, so he decided that now was the best time to attack.

"Attack NOW!" Eggman yelled at the top of his lungs.

Metal had only a second to ponder that before it was grabbed from behind. Then, Metal was dragged away from its creator at high speeds.

Apart of it thought that it might have been Sonic or Shadow, trying to save the doctor's life for some reason or another.

This thought was quickly forgotten as Metal felt its body suddenly stop. Whatever had grabbed Metal had thrown it, and before Metal could react it had been stopped in the air by a punch.

'System check; Cease overcharge.' Meta went through these details in a split second as it laid on the floor, 'Battery life: 87%. Calculating functionality after damage taken: 97%.'

Metal was shocked at that. Maybe Bokkun was a better mechanic then it first thought.

Metal turned on its heat sensor, and picked up three heat signatures besides itself and Eggman. In that moment Metal activated its jetpack, scrapping the floor for a moment before it managed to pull up.

Now floating near the ceiling, Metal managed to get a good look at the mystery attackers.

All three of them shared some design elements between them, Metal assumed it was either because they were a part of a group or because Eggman was lazy.

They were all fairly sleek and streamlined, but they weren't exactly the same robot.

Standing by Eggman was the shortest of the trio, similar to Bokkun in height if Metal to guess. Its body was grey and gold in colour, its head was sporting two sharp points that resembled ears. Its arms were unique among these robots, as its arms were thin, as was the standard in Eggman's designs, but the forearms had two large gauntlets on them, each with a gun barrel coming out of them.

Standing near the window that Metal broke was a black and bronze coloured robot, who was probably as tall as Metal. This robot didn't look like much, but Metal got the feeling that it was designed to look like a hedgehog because the shape of its head resembled hedgehog quills.

Which just left the last robot, white and silver, who had slightly larger hands then the other two robots. Metal was starting to question these robot's designs, as this one had dreadlocks like an Echidna.

Metal wasn't impressed, "What are these, the new Egg Pawn design?"

"That was rude. I mean, I know it must hurt to see the next generation, but that's no excuse to be rude." The black and bronze one said from across the room.

Metal was surprised by this, if only because the robot spoke as if it had some sense of person.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Still doesn't answer the underlining question, what are you supposed to be?"

"Like he said, they're the next generation." Eggman said, managing to get up from the floor well Metal was distracted.

"They're based on Sonic and several of his friends. Sort of like you, except all three are better then you." Eggman smirked, "But seeing as I'm merciful, I'll give you a chance to surrender."

Metal looked around the room, three robots that it had no information on at all. Apparently far better than it, Eggman's new best work.

Oh how Metal wished it could smirk.


Hey. I guess being gone for what, three months? Is probably much better then being missing for almost a year.

Well, anyways, thanks for reading.

See ya later.