I really hope this doesn't pump the story up to an M rating! On a happy note, this is the biggest chapter I've written yet!
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Knuckles was afraid, but he did his best not to show it. Sonic was downright petrified.
"Who... What are you?!" Knuckles demanded to know.
"aHaHAahaHAahHAAHAah... It should be quite obvious... shouldn't it..." the possessed Metallix answered.
"Your-your the...the...t-tails doll..." Sonic managed to mumble out.
"So your the menace Robotnik warned us about! What do you want, anyways?"
The Tails Doll tilted his head to his right and twitched. Metallix mimicked the movement perfectly.
"AHAHahHahahaAh... the doctor is trying to get rid of me... how aMUSING..."
The Tails Doll's and Metallix's heads twitched again.
"Sonic, let's take him. He's here now, and he seems to be occupied with manipulating Metallix." Knuckles whispered.
"I... I can't..."
"Sonic, I know he looks like Tails, but he's not even a robot! We can take this cotton ball!"
"...wHAt your friend is trying to say... is... he can't move..."
The eerie voice was now not only radiating from Metallix, but Sonic too.
"No! Sonic!"
Sonic's eyes began to glow red too. Tails Doll's head twitched and Sonic and Metallix mimiced with perfection.
"GRR! I'm going to tear you to shreds!" Knuckles lunged at the Tails Doll, but in a blink of an eye, Knuckles found himself not lounging at Tails Doll, but Sonic.
"What the!"
Knuckles barely managed to maneuver himself to avoid crashing into Sonic.
"How did you do that!"
"MEHhEhhee... you fOOLs think you know about...chaos... I... the ALMIGHTY tAiLs DolL... know it... by heArt..."
Knuckles thought for a second.
"Wait, so what you did was a form of Chaos Control... and if that jewel reacts like a Chaos Emerald..." Knuckles tried to make a move to the Master Emerald, but was frozen in place. Tails Doll appeared in front of him.
"...HaAAHhaaahahahaaAHAHa...you are right about the...grand emerald...but..." The voice wasn't coming from Sonic or Metallix.
It was coming from inside Knuckles' mind.
...I have already taken the Grand Emerald's power!
"No... you... haven't! Its still... there!"
...yes...an ancient seal is preventing me from taking all of the power...but with you...
Knuckles' hands went up on there own.
...I will take the remaining power!...
Knuckles' feet dragged him closer to the Emerald, even though Knuckles did his best to resist. Strangely, another voice joined the Tails Doll inside his head.
Knuckles!
And it sounded like his own!
Don't let the Tails Doll get the Master Emerald and the Chaos Emeralds!
The voice then changed back to Tails Doll.
...what...so it appears the now former Grand Emerald Guardian is awake...
Knuckles momentarily regained his movement. He was only a mere inch away from the Master Emerald.
"Oh, no you don't, Fuzzball!"
Knuckles swung a punch to Tails Doll. It connected. Metallix and Sonic let out a horrifying yell. From every crack, and Sonic's and Metallix's mouths, something like blood seemed to seep through, rising to Knuckles face until Knuckles was practically drowning in it. Everything was swirling around, and it all seemed to focused on the Tails Doll.
Knuckles then blacked out.
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"...I...won't...tell you..." Traveler gasped out.
Even though his head was the only part of his current body, it still hung in a tired way.
"Dang it, Traveler! You will give me the information that I need!" Robotnik turned to Cyber-Knuckles, who was at the strange computer that Robotnik was at earlier.
"Cyber-Knuckles! Increase the voltage up to 1400 mega-watts and raise the silver content in the water to silver ratio to 2:1!"
Cyber-Knuckles gave a few joyful beeps and clicks before pressing a few buttons. A tank of water that had been built below the port where Traveler was at was filled with water with a slight grayish tint had just been shut out of site by a hatch closing. A second later, the hatch reopened, with the water much greyer. A spark of electricity went off inside the small pool and the 'water' became electrified.
"Now, my dear boy, Traveler..."
"Heh... if I'm your son... then my mom must of been... one hundred times pass...her legal alcohol limit...to have done it...with you..." Traveler barely managed to pass out.
"That's it, INTO THE TANK!"
Eggman pulled down a lever to his right. Traveler's head fell into the silver tainted pool, but was still connected to rubber bound wires Cyber-Knuckles had hooked up earlier. Traveler screamed inside the liquid, as if he was being boiled alive. After a few more minutes of torture, Robotnik pulled the lever back into the up position. Traveler's head slowly came back up from the liquid as stray electric bolts came up from the water to get a few last bites in. Traveler's head remained limp.
"Hmmm... turns out he really has finally kicked the bucket," Robotnik concluded with a visual examination. "Oh well. It may not be as fun, but we can finally extract the data manually..."
Before he could go on, Traveler began coughing rapidly.
"What is this? I see your alive. And after all the torture I've put you through."
"...you..." Traveler heaved.
"...know it..." He heaved again.
"...egg-breath..."
Fury exploded from Robotnik's face. "CYBER-KNUCKLES! Drench Traveler in iodized water, then replace the pool with pure liquid silver and shock him to DEATH!!"
Cyber-Knuckles gave several, rapid happy clicks. Suddenly, two of Robotnik's Egg-Bots came running in.
"Master Robotnik! Master Robotnik! We have very urgent news that require your--"
The Egg-bot on the left was then disabled by a punch through the face (and head, pretty much) by his Master.
"WHAT...IS...IT?" Ivo gritted through his teeth. The remaining Egg-bot, after looking at his companion's remains (with Robotnik's said fist still in said robot), gulped and spoke very quickly.
"Metallix has gone off the radar, my sire!"
"He what?!" Shocked, Robotnikpulled out his hand and shook it.
"We were tracking Metallix, Jim and I, just as you had commanded us to do, when he and the two creatures got to the Floating Island, the signatures were there for a minute, then they disappeared!"
"What..." Robotnik said as he combined his rage with confusion. "What about the 20 Elite Guard Bots? What about their signatures?"
The Egg-bot looked down and twiddled his thumbs. "Well, Master Robotnik... they disappeared off of the radar about five minutes after they had been posted." Then added very quickly,"You told us not to bother you unless it was an emergency! And we figured since the Master Emerald was protected by that strange seal, we..."
Robotnik pulled up a calm hand and spoke in a very calm manner.
"It's alright. I understand, my little Egg-bot. What's important is that I know now. And thank you for telling me, but please don't do it when I'm torturing someone."
"Un-understood, my lord."
"Good. Now, why don't you take your little friend, whatever-it's-called, and throw him in the incinerator."
The Egg-bot jumped into a salute. "Yes, my Lord Robotnik!"
When the Egg-bot was just about out of the room with the other Egg-bot's, or Jim's, carcass, Eggman stopped him.
"Oh, and Egg-bot unit?"
"Yes, my Master?"
"Please shut the door of the incinerator behind you when you jump inside it as well. Never know when we'll need to burn more useless rubbish."
The Egg-bot looked down. "Yes...my master."
Robotnik turned around and faced Traveler.
"Now, you may not care about me, but I bet you do care about Knuckles and Sonic."
Traveler looked away.
"Ah, so I see... I will compromise. You allow me download the data you've hidden and I'll allow you to help your new friends. Do we have a deal?"
The fried Traveler looked up.
I can't take much more of this... my circuits are nearly fried...
Reluctantly, Traveler nodded.
"Good. Cyber-Knuckles, close the Torture Pool and take Traveler down to Upgrade Bay 01. I will inform the Upgrade Team that he is to receive Battle Suit 5-J, Priority Zero-Beta."
With that, Traveler faintly smiled and Cyber-Knuckles literally stomped and whined towards Traveler. Unaware to Traveler though, as Robotnik was heading the computer to give the order, Ivo had his fingers crossed as they made the deal.
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Only minutes later, Traveler was soaring again, this time, in style. His new suit was reinforced battle ready armor, with top of the line Egg-circuitry and a cache of weapons. On his back were wings, except they had stronger boosters, and folded easily, and were triple reinforced to double as shields. Right below the wings, two jet packs were installed to boost speed, adding to the pair of boosters installed in the feet. His new suit altogether made him look like a deadly hawk-man warrior, as it was painted black and red, had spikes going up the side of his arms and down his legs, and to add with the wings, the head was formed like an even more menacing hawk.
"Whew, this thing beats the heck out of my old hunk of metal!"
Moments before Traveler was installed into the new suit, he had surrendered the information Ivo was after. Traveler knew, though, he needed to make the deal to help his friends to stop the Tails Doll. And whatever Ivo was going to do after it was defeated. Traveler was there in a mere two minutes. Traveler slowed down to look for the Master Emerald altar.
"Traveler, can you hear me?" The only draw back to the new suit was that the comm system couldn't be shut off.
"Yeah, I can hear you loud and clear, boss." And it was inside his head.
"Straight ahead is the Master Emerald's altar. I've given you the coordinates of all the robots, and Sonic and Knuckles, were before they disappeared. For all of our sakes, don't fail."
"Easier said than done."
When he saw the first sign of the altar, Traveler cut off his boosters and jets and landed silently before the bridge. The site was devastating, especially for a robot.
There were black, metallic pieces everywhere, including a few piles that were still burning. Even though it was in the middle of the day, there was a dark aura about the scene.
"Man, doc, you could of made millions in a slasher movie deal with this thing."
"Just stay focused!"
Traveler examined a few nearby pieces that were still relatively intact. Parts of them were charred.
"Doc? What color were your Elite Guard Bots that you sent out?"
"They were white with a red outline. Why?"
"Just curious."
The non-burnt pieces were completely black, and even though Traveler scratched at one for a whole minute, he couldn't remove the black paint.
"Creeeeeepy..."
He took a few samples and stored them inside his left side. He then proceeded across the bridge and up the altar.
"Oh...my...god..."
The top of it was stained with blood. The seal around the Master Emerald though had kept it clean and dry. What the strangest part for Traveler, though, was that there were outlines of Knuckles, Sonic, and Metallix in the bloodstains.
"Traveler, what's--"
The doctor was then interrupted by static.
"Doctor? Doctor!" Traveler yelled out.
The static was then gone, to only be replaced by evil, maniacal laughing. And it sounded like a combination of voices.
"HeeeeEEEheeEEEEEHHEEEAHAHAHAhahahahahAH...the one called Traveler..."
"Who are you! How did you hack this secured channel!"
More laughing.
"EEEEEEhaaaaaaa...i thought you would like...some alone time from...that...talking egg..."
"Whoever you are, show yourself!"
"...look behind you..."
Traveler turned around and looked down from the top step. He was shocked. A two-tailed fox doll with various stitches and a strange, glowing red crystal attached to it's forehead was floating at the base of the steps. It had its head tilted to it's right. Behind him were Knuckles and Sonic. They, too, had a strange, glowing red crystals attached to their foreheads by some kind of wire. Their heads were also tilted to their right.
"Knuckles! Sonic! It's me! Traveler!"
He had ran half down the steps until he had thought of actually doing a quick scan.
"Where are they, Tails Doll?"
Tails Doll tilted it's head to it's left. Sonic and Knuckles followed promptly.
"...why...what do you mEAn..." Sonic and Knuckles asked, along with whatever other dark voices the Tails Doll had.
"They still retain their old Chaos Energy patterns, and they don't match the ones that the Sonic and Knuckles that I had met had."
The Tails Doll seemed to laugh silently, in his own body, this time not through Knuckles and Sonic.
"...how...correct of you...allow ME to... change thaT..."
In a blink of an eye, Knuckles and Sonic and vanished, then had reappeared in each other's spots. They still had the red crystal attached to their heads. Traveler did a scan to make sure it was his friends.
"So why are you doing this for me? Why not take me now?"
This time, the Tails Doll seemed to laugh so hard silently, that it overran into Sonic and Knuckles twisted voices.
"EEEEEEEEEHAHAHAHAHAHAHhahahahahaahahhahahheeeeheeeehEEEEEEE...to play, of course..."
At those words, Sonic and Knuckles began running up the steps, side by side, with red in their eyes.
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"Shoot!" Traveler jumped and used his foot jets to land 10 feet away from the Tails Doll.
"See ya!" Traveler then shot two controlled mini-missiles from below his wrist.
Right before it got to it, Sonic had reappeared in front of the Tails Doll. Traveler forced the missiles to explode, causing Sonic to get blasted off a few feet away.
"...you will...hurt your friends...iF your not CAREFUL..."
It was Knuckles' twisted voice that had said this as he came running up, swinging at Traveler.
"Knuckles, come on! Break away from this spell!" He tried to persuade as he barely blocked Knuckles' powerful punches.
"...I...belong...to the TaiLS dOLL..."
Traveler blocked one more of Knuckles' punches before he punched Knuckles himself and kicked him a few feet away.
"Then I guess I'll have to destroy the ties that binds!"
Traveler pointed his left arm at the Tails Doll, and a small laser cannon came out of the outside of his arm.
"Charging...ready...shoot, not again!"
Sonic had once again appeared in front of the Tails Doll. Traveler raised his left arm as not to harm Sonic and to shoot away from him, but the Tails Doll had raised his own arm and had moved Sonic in the way. Sonic pulled up into the air like a rag-doll and his head and limbs bobbled as he came into the path of the laser. So did the red crystal. The crystal barely got in the way of the it. It then seemed like the laser fire had been completely absorbed by the crystal.
The ground then suddenly shook. Sonic's crystal then did a tiny explosion in his face. Sonic seemed to recoiled from it and got thrown away from the Tails Doll.
"What the heck?!"
The Tails Doll just stood there with it's arm up, beaming at the spot where the explosion had been. Taking the chance, Traveler used his jets to skate down to where Sonic had landed. He had happened to had landed behind a very large bush. He crouched down next to him and scanned.
"Vitals...ok...he's alive, good. Sonic! Wake up, buddy!"
Traveler looked up. The Tails Doll was now moving his head left and right, as if slowly scanning the area for the enemy to reappear. Red-eyed Knuckles was doing the same.
Sonic began to stir. "What...what happened? Uh..."
Sonic opened his eyes, and would have screamed his lungs out if Traveler hadn't quickly placed his hand over Sonic's mouth.
"Look, Sonic, it's me, Traveler, the robot that took you here?"
Sonic stared at him and muffled 'prove it'.
"When we met, you didn't trust me, you told us that Shadow wanted to stay behind to fight your problem, and Gamma stayed behind to help Shadow. You were then freaking out about Metallix and Cyber-Knuckles."
"...funny...I remember IT...the same way..."
Knuckles had found them.
Traveler jumped up and grabbed Sonic and backed off a few feet. Tails Doll appeared right behind Knuckles.
"What the heck's going on?!" Sonic shouted.
"Knuckles is possesed by the Tails Doll right now, and you were a second ago until I freed you somehow. Now you can help me fight him!"
"What! Are you crazy! I can't fight Knuckles!"
Knuckles and Tails Doll tilted their heads to the left and twitched.
"...that's right...how did you know...you were also fighting..."
"...Metallix..." A robotic, yet still possessed, voice finished.
Traveler and Sonic did a 180. Metallix was there, but his eye sensors were fully red.
"Sonic, you take on Knuckles. I'll fight Metallix," Traveler suggested, in a whisper.
"I told you, I can't! I have a problem trying to kill my friends!" Sonic objected, in an equally low voice.
"Dang it, just look into his eyes! Knuckles is home, but he's not at the driver's seat! And you don't have to kill him, just try to figure out a way to get rid of that jewel on his head. That should free him. I think."
"You think?!" Sonic yelled, but Traveler had already moved and had right-hooked Metallix.
Sonic turned around just in time to personally greet Knuckles' left fist. He got the impact, but had managed to immediately rebound from it.
"Heh, nice cheap shot, buddy."
Sonic then actually took a second to look into Knuckles' red eyes. It wasn't Knuckles.
It was hate.
It was evil.
It was the Tails Doll.
"Heheh... hey, doll boy! You know what your first mistake was?" Sonic mocked as he flicked the side of his nose.
"...what..." Knuckles' asked.
"Letting me get a good view of your ugly mug!" With that punch line, Sonic landed a punch to Knuckles.
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Meanwhile, Traveler was in a fight with Tails Doll controlled Metallix.
"...you have no chance of winning... surrender... your soul...to the...ALMIGHTY...tails doll..." Metallix offered.
"No way, man. I didn't even know I had a soul! Guess you really do learn new things every day."
Traveler slid his chest plate open to reveal a small artillery of missiles. Which were promptly fired at Metallix. Instead of fighting them off, Metallix simply rose is hand. Smoke engulfed him.
"That can't be it. It's too easy."
"...you are right..."
Metallix flew from the smoke and started delivering punches to Traveler, most of which were blocked.
"How are you...hitting me? This suit is supposed to be even more advanced than you!"
Metallix made a clicking noise.
"...the tails doll...has gifted me...with unlimited power..." Metallix said as he continued his onslaught. "...with this power...who needs the world's most... pathetic scientist...dr. robotnik-nik-nik-nik-robot-nik-nik-bot-bot-bot-bot..."
Immediatley, Metallix's attack ceased and went on to attack himself. Physically and verbally.
"...Must remain loyal...to...Lord Robotn-!!"
"...submit yourself..."
"...N-No..."
"...yes..."
Tails Doll had appeared behind Metallix and was raising both, stubby stuffed paws towards Metallix, trying to maintain control.
"...subMIT..."
The Tails Doll's eyes grew even brighter red. So did the jewel.
"...No..."
"...SUBMIT...SUBMIT..."
"...All...Hail..."
"...I...THE SUPREME LORD OF DARKNESS...COMMAND..."
This time it was a terrifying evil, deep, dark voice that came from Metallix's own mouth. The Tails Doll's eyes and jewel were shining so brightly red that Traveler couldn't even look directly at it, even with applying a light reduction screen to his visor.
Smoke began to sprout from Metallix.
"Come on, Metallix, you can do it!"
"All Hail Lord..."
"...I COMMAND YOU TO OBEY ME..."
The sky had turned dark and and the island began to shake. Sparks began to add to the smoke from Metallix.
"...I COMMAND YOU TO SUBMIT YOUR--"
But the dark voice was interrupted.
"All Hail Lord Robotnik!" Metallix's own robotic voice shouted out.
--
Sonic had just landed a first punch to Knuckles.
"...the TAils doLL shall...reclaim your soul...once I am finished...with you... my self..." Knuckles' dark possessed voice murmured.
"So, you think you can beat me in a fight? Bring it, Knucklehead!" Knuckles began to give a flurry of punches towards Sonic, but he easily used his speed to evade them.
"Nyah!"
"Ooo, so close!"
"Come on, Robotnik on a hot day after walking three feet could get closer to hitting me then you ever can!"
After another near meet and greet with another punch, Sonic tripped Knuckles and jumped on him.
"...about to... kill your friend, are you..."
Knuckles said a dark, heaving voice. Sonic froze at those words.
"...mistake..."
Knuckles kicked Sonic off, and punched a hug hole where Sonic's head was a mere second ago.
Dang, what was it that Super-Robo told me to do?
Sonic looked in Traveler's direction and saw a possessed Metallix beating himself up. Sonic had put some distance between himself and Traveler's fight during his own.
"Wow. There's something you don't see everyday. I won-"
Sonic faintly saw a red light before he finally got to have a meet and greet with Knuckles' right fist. Sonic rubbed his jaw as he suddenly remembered.
"Hey, whatever happened to playing fair?"
Knuckles just shrugged and went for another punch. Sonic easily dodged it.
He then finally noticed something odd. The Tails Doll wasn't there anymore.
"Better take advantage of this while I can..." He told himself.
"Hey, Slug-Bug Knuckles! I'll stand right here and let you get a free hit, since I'm feeling sorry for ya."
Sonic spreaded his legs and opened his arms.
While Knuckles was rushing him, he could of swore he had heard something like 'supreme lord of darkness'. Sonic shook it off.
Knuckles were mere inches away when he was most of the way through the throw of his right hook. Sonic jumped a bit and grabbed on to Knuckles' head and balanced himself on it, causing Knuckles to fall down. When the crystal on the wire had fallen in front of Knuckles, Sonic used all of his strength and came down and crushed it.
It was promptly followed by a small explosion.
Sonic went flying one way, Knuckles another.
Sonic shook his head and quickly got up. The sky had turned dark and the island was rumbling.
"Crud! I got to get Knuckles before this place crashes!"
Sonic quickly ran to Knuckles, who was already began to stir.
"What... Sonic?" Sonic helped Knuckles up.
"Listen, no time to explain. We got to get Traveler and get out of here!" Sonic turned to Traveler's direction. He had to shield his eyes to even see Traveler's body.
"What is that!" Knuckles exclaimed.
"Only one way," Sonic gulped,"to find out."
--
Sonic and Knuckles had got over by Traveler just as they heard, "...I COMMAND YOU TO SUBMIT YOUR--" which was quickly interrupted by a more robotic, "All Hail Lord Robotnik!"
Sonic and Knuckles had to shield there eyes, but they could make out a robotic form that resembled Metallix. Metallix fell to his knees, then fell down. Traveler, still looking away, went and tried to quickly grab Metallix, but somehow he was being burned.
And he felt it.
Even though they couldn't see it, the Tails Doll was practically acting hysterical. The island began to shake more furosious and lightning began to strike. One lightning bolt quickly came down from the sky and struck the red glowing Tails Doll.
In a flash, he was gone. As was the dark sky and the shaking.
Everything had somehow returned to normal.
"Whoa..." Was all Knuckles could managed.
"Whew... I wonder how he's like on a BAD day!" Sonic joked.
Traveler finally got up. "Metallix's body is beyond repair. But his memory core is still intact. If we hurry, we can still extract it and re-implant it in a backup Metallix body."
"What's the rush? Isn't this... Tails Doll gone?" Knuckles asked.
"I don't think so. Plus, when I tried to grab Metallix, I somehow got burned and infected. Not only that, but I felt it." Sonic looked confused.
"That's impossible. Robots can't feel pain. I'm pretty sure, anyways."
"Well, we need to hurry. And if either of you need more proof the Tails Doll is still alive, take a look behind me."
As Traveler was preparing Metallix, and keep the memory core intact, Sonic and Knuckles did look. Right in the spot where the Tails Doll had disappeared, there was a message burned into the dirt:
The Tails Doll Lives On.
--
Robotnik was in his secret lab/office, looking over the data that Traveler had 'agreed' to exchange for a new suit.
"Interesting... yes, yes..."
Suddenly, a message popped up right in the middle of the screen.
"What! I thought I had secured this connection. Grr, might as well see who screwed up what."
The message contained a video, with no description. It was named 'fool'.
"Hmmm... let's see who is the so called 'fool'..."
He accessed it and the Egg Video Player loaded up.
The video started off with a live feed of Dr. Eggman's office.
"What! I'm no fool!!"
The video then went to complete static.
It came back, this time showing a town that was brightly lit with lights that were hanging from strange positions, but many of them from on top of the various light poles that were scattered around the city, including a few giant ones that were like towers along an outer wall.
The video was a bit static-y, but still intact. The filmer finished looking up at the lights and decided to look down where all of the lights seemed to be pointing towards.
A huge mob of robots seemed to had surrounded a black hedgehog with red stripes that seemed to be protecting one damaged robot in the middle.
"Ooo! If I only had some popcorn! Somebody seemed to have captured my dream! A hedgehog surrounded by deadly robots! I'd rather have the hedgehog be blue, but I guess not everyone's perfect. Except for me, of course."
He laughed at his own joke.
As Eggman finished laughing, the filmer had moved to get a closer to look at the fight.
"Aha, that's it! Try to fight your way out of this one, hedgehog!"
"It can't be..." Robotnik told himself as he nearly fell out of his seat.
The filmer whirled around and focused on one Dr. Ivo Robotnik, issuing commands from his golden, hovering throne.
"AHAHA! That's a splendid idea! A golden hover throne! I must personally thank whoever made this, before I enslave them, of course."
Static picked up a little bit, then died back down. The filmer whirled back around to the black and red hedgehog and the damaged robot.
The hedgehog was badly bruised, bleeding a bit, but was still fighting. The robot's legs seemed to broken to some extent, had it seemed to have also taken a fair share of hits. It had some white writing on it's shoulders, but they were illegible from the camera's angle.
"Comrade...Shadow...you must go!...Escape..."
"That robot seems to be 'suffering' from power failure.. Wait! Could this somehow be..." Robotnik slipped into thinking as he continued to watch the movie.
"I'm not leaving you, Gamma!" Shadow said as he slugged a fist at a robot copy of himself, but got slugged back by a robotic alligator.
"You mussssssssssssssssssss..." Gamma's eye sensors had powered down.
"Gamma! No, you didn't leave me behind, I'm not leaving you behind..."
The robots seemed to be slowly closing in on Shadow, as well as the filmer.
"That's it boys! Now finish off the hedgehog!" the Robotnik ruler said off screen.
Shadow removed a band from his left wrist.
"I know what will happen if I don't have these..."
He then removed a band from his right wrist.
"But its better than falling to the Doctor!"
"CHARGE!"
The robots, in unison, declared: "ALL HAIL OVERLORD ROBOTNIK! HIS WILL BE DONE!"
The robots then converged on Shadow, who appeared to had been gathering energy.
"CHAOS...LUNGE!!"
An energy field developed around Shadow, and he started to plow through the robots, as if they were nothing, and narrowly missing the filmer.
The filmer focused on Shadow as he got closer and closer to Overlord Robotnik. Eggman was on the edge of his chair, dying to know what would happen.
Shadow was mere feet away when a strange red aura caught him.
Overlord Robotnik opened his eyes and saw this.
"Haha! Good! Now then, my minions, finish this hedgehog off!"
Nothing happened.
"Why aren't you all doing anything?! DESTROY THIS HEDGEHOG NOW!!"
Then, a strange voice, coming from nowhere and from all of the robots at the same time said," ...THE TAILS DOLL CONTROLS THEM..."
The filmer then did a slow 360 as to show this was true. All of the robots eye sensors had turned red.
The filmer returned to the Overlord.
"What?! Who dares to defy me!... Why, your a pathetic little doll! ROBOTS! Shred this doll to pieces!"
Robotnik could be seen talking to something, but it was out of the camera range. But just barely.
"...I WARN YOU NOT TO ATTEMPT TO DISPLEASE ME AGAIN!!..."
The voice had turned into a dark, deep, powerful voice that had made both Robotnik and Overlord Robotnik cringe in their chairs.
"...I AM HERE TO OFFER YOU THE TEMPORARY SAFETY OF YOUR SOUL..."
"My-my soul?" Overlord Robotnik stammered.
"...YES...IN RETURN, YOU WILL ALLOW ME TO TAKE THIS BLACK HEDGEHOG AND THIS ROBOT..."
The filmer swung around to view the now red glowing Gamma robot. And it seemed all of the other robots had gotten out of the way so that the filmer could see it. The filmer swung back towards the Overlord.
"...FROM THIS UNIVERSE FOR MY OWN PURPOSES..."
"Wh-wh-hy do you-ou need permission??"
"...DO NOT QUESTION ME!!..."
Both Robotniks trembled again.
"Fine-fine! Take them! Do what you want! Just leave me and my robots alone!"
All of the robots and the dark voice seemed to laugh in unison.
"...THE DEAL WAS FOR THE SAFETY OF YOUR SOUL, NOT YOUR ROBOTS..."
Then, in a blink of an eye, the glowing red Shadow disappeared. The Overlord Robotnik slumped in his chair.
"W-wow.. that was stran-"
But he was interruptedby several explosions of robots, soon hundreds. The video shook and went fully static, only the explosions audible.
After a minute of explosions, the sound of fire came and the static faded back.
A terrified Overlord Robotnik lowered a shield he had managed to pull up in time and looked around at the carnage.
Then, the filmer finally spoke. "ALL HAIL OVERLORD ROBOTNIK. HIS WILL BE DONE."
The terrified Overlord looked in the filmer's direction. "Tails r-" then static took over completely. Robotnik put his head in his hands and shook.
"Oh no... what... this is..."
The video then stopped. A message popped asking if it was to be replayed.
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Now, you all probably have a lot of questions. The most important one I can think of: Why didn't Eggman stop the movie and ordered some popcorn? Serioiusly, I almost put it in. If you have any suggestions on the true nature of the Tails Doll, don't hestiate to tell me. I only spent like two minutes of research, lol. Oh, and all questions will be answered. Trust me. ;)
