Hi Guys.

Whats with all the glares?

Oh yeah. Three weeks late with this. Heh. Sry.

I decided to go ahead and do a Ultimate Madness chapter first.

Have to laugh though. I got a ton of reviews for awhile and when I finally update, only one.

I guess you guys took my authors note last chapter about not deserving them more seriously then I expected. :-/

Anyways here is a new chapter.

Chapter 9

"That was awesome!" Douglas shouted as the robots continued celebrating over their victory. "Egg Golem gave me this big long speech about how tornag is and we managed to crush them anyways. No one is our equal!!"

"Of course not. We are the most powerful beings ever created. No pathetic Golem could ever stand up to us. And especially not to me." Metal Sonic said.

"Let us continue and defeat some more Golems. Soon this whole area will bow to us." Omega ordered.

Meanwhile Flareot was standing a little further away from them. Sure they may be powerful, but how much longer can they fight like this? Their power is not infinite and they have no chaos emeralds to go and re-energize themselves. They may be feeling high and mighty with their victory, but they probably are on their last limbs as it is. He smiled to himself. This will be fun. Time to put my master plan into action.

Flareot walked forward. "So you want to conquer more Golems?" He asked as they turned toward him. "Well then you better get ready for another battle that is coming up in a minute."

"What do you mean?" Omega asked suspiciously.

"It is time for me to do my part for my lands. I will defeat you all right now while you are all weakened." Flareot answered.

"HA!" Metal Sonic laughed. "You saw what we did to your leaders. Do you really think you can stop us??"

"Yes. Easily." Flareot answered. He smiled as Metal Sonic's confident look faded. "I can see energy and I can tell that after that battle you all are extremely weak. Your powers are nothing what they were."

"But we defeated you easily before." Douglas said. "So we can do it again and again if we wish to."

"So far you have fought my army that I was commanding, me, and the Wind, Earth, Ice, and Lightning Golems. You have not recharged even once. You have taken vast damage and have used some of your most powerful attacks. Do you really think I haven't noticed. And did you think I have not been healing myself this entire time?"

Douglas looked at the other two robots to see what they were thinking. Neither Metal Sonic nor Omega would look at each other, Douglas, or Flareot. Douglas' heart sank a little after seeing that.

"Not only that but I have been watching you this whole time. I have seen some of your weaknesses and I have also seen many of your stronger attacks. I know what you do to prepare them and thus can prepare defenses should you try to attack me with any of those. Of course you have so little power right now that you would not be able to pull off any of the super powered attacks anyways." Flareot concluded.

The robots just looked at each other for awhile. "May we have a very quick group meeting?" Metal Sonic finally asked.

"Sure you can." Flareot said while nodding. He chuckled to himself as the three robots grouped together and started to talk.

"Okay Douglas. This is your cue to transform into a huge hulking robot again and beat him down." Metal Sonic ordered.

"You think I have enough power to do that again?" Douglas asked slowly. "Do you realize how much energy it takes to take matter that has been compressed into a small form and make it large again. Or how much energy it takes to re-compress it? I can't do that for awhile now."

"What about you Omega?" Metal Sonic asked. He already knew the answer but hoped that for once he would be wrong.

Omega shook his head. "I used most of my strongest weapons in that last attack. I also feel really drained. Why can't you do it?"

"I wish I could. I probably have the most energy left but it won't be useful. I would probably not be able to hit him because he knows most of my attacks. My attacks are easy enough anyways to see coming, having him know what they are just makes matters much worse."

The robots were silent for a moment. Then they turned around and faced Flareot. "It does not matter if we are not at full strength. We will still be able to defeat you. We will always find a way." Metal Sonic said.

"Even you defeat me then you have to deal with the remnants of my army, the other generals that are as powerful as me. And then you still have to deal with the five remaining Golems." Flareot said smiling.

The robots turned around again and started talking to each other. Is this some form of teamwork among them? When faced with disaster I guess they will throw their egos to the side and work together. Maybe they are smarter then I thought they were. Perhaps this shows they could find a way to defeat all the Golems. Flareot thought to himself.

"Do you think that we might need to perform a tactical retreat?" Douglas asked partly to the group and partly to himself.

"Run away!? NEVER!" Omega shouted making even Flareot jump.

"If we leave now even to recharge we will be branded as cowards or useless robots who cannot control their energies properly enough to be able to fight for long periods of time." Metal Sonic explained.

"You know... in a separate dimension nobody would even know if we were destroyed. And what use if heroics if we are easily defeated and let the world be taken over by the Golems?" Douglas asked.

"True. Since we are the strongest things on the planet, if we are defeated then there would be nobody left to defend the planet." Metal Sonic said.

"I refuse to surrender or retreat! If we did that then we would be no better then all of the pathetic humans that we are needed to protect." Omega said. Douglas growled at the rude description of humans. "And if they are all destroyed, who would be left to go and marvel at are splendor?"

Even faced with total destruction he remains strong on his beliefs. That sometimes is not a good idea at every time. However all three have shown to be committed since they have not fled yet. Contemplating retreat just shows that the other two have a better sense of danger than him. That is probably because they have copied data from living creatures. Maybe they are more capable then even I, who have been watching them through all of these battles, ever realized. Flareot thought to himself.

As the robots were still deciding what to do Flareot finally addressed the robots. "Okay look, stop talking for a bit." They looked at him. Defiance and a small bit of fear was in their eyes. "I was just kidding about the fighting part. I just wanted you to understand that you need sometime to recover or you will be defeated by the other Golems extremely easily." He grinned at the irritated looks on their faces.

"So that was all fake!?" Douglas yelled exasperated. "You made us all think super hard for no reason?"

"Did I teach you anything?" Flareot asked smiling. Douglas grumbled in response. Flareot smiled even wider.

"Well after you have done all of this stuff. I hope you know a way to help us regain some of our energy." Metal Sonic asked.

"Sure. Follow me. I will take you to one of the main halls of our home." Flareot said. He walked to the right side of the room they were in and touched the wall. The wall opened up and exposed a huge room that was filled with water. Even though the wall had opened up, the water stayed where it was in a huge block. At the end of the room was a large open doorway. Omega looked at the water barrier.

"I guess we will have to find a different way into this main hall since you can't go through an area that is a different element than you own." Omega said.

"Oh yeah, about that..." Flareot said smiling embarrassed. "I kinda lied about that," he said as he walked through the water.

"You lied?" Metal Sonic said exasperated. "I give up with you. Just bring us wherever you want."

"Of course I lied. Do you think that I would give away real secrets to people I was fighting and thinking of how I could defeat you. The truth is that we are able to choose if we want to go through other elements or not. But that is only for elements that can do a lot of damage to each other."

The robots just stared at him confused.

"For example. I can choose not to touch water. Metal can choose not to touch lightning. Ice can choose to not touch fire. Same with plants. Lighting can choose to not touch rock. Things like that. But in normal situations I can go through it easily. The only time this does not work is if a elemental is really weak.

"An elemental?" Omega asked as they went through the water cave.

"I don't remember if I told you but that is the name of our race. I guess while we are walking to the main hall I can explain some things."

"You see our race is made up of people of the nine elements. Fire, wind, water, plants, earth, meteorites, ice, metal, and lightning. We were originally a peaceful race. However one day the nine elementals that would eventually call themselves the Golems found the Lunar emeralds. They were then changed by them and transformed into their current forms. They then took the helm of leadership of all of the elementals. They have kept that power after all of these years. It was okay for a while but after way too many centuries we finally got tired of it. Nobody has been able to fight against them and only small amounts of resistance has actually occurred. Once I realized that you are so strong, I realized that you could be valuable allies in the struggle against the Golems."

"So that is why you want to help us recover our energy levels." Douglas said understanding dawning upon him.

"Right. Another thing that I have not explained properly is the layout of the caverns of the ancients. That is the name of this area you have been in. While I properly explained about how the caverns will go one after another straight to the Lunar Emerald Altar, the rooms that the regular elementals live in have been strewn into random areas. Only another ancient can go and open the doors to these rooms. Also you can't use the other rooms to bypass any of the Golem's rooms."

"Darnit."

"We are currently heading to the water elementals' room. One of my allies is there and he knows more about you robots then I do." Flareot explained. "All we have been told is that you are robots. I don't even really know what that means. The only things I really understand is that you are made of metal and have electricity flowing through you. I can get the Metal and Lightning generals to also help you repair yourselves."

Flareot walked through the next door and found himself at another wall. He placed his hand on the wall and it started to liquefy and collapse.

"The elemental you are about to meet is kind of odd but he is nice and will gladly help out. He occupies the large pool on the left."

The whole room was filled with pools and basins of water. Rivers connected them all over. There were multiple waterfalls all over the walls that led to more pools and more rivers. Multiple elementals made of pure water swam through the the waters happily. At first no one seemed to notice the robots.

However one of the robots on the far right noticed. He was in a basin mimicking the ocean and ran up to them when they entered. He summoned a large sphere of water and hurled it at the robots.

The robots started to prepare themselves for a fight when Flareot instantly evaporated the water sphere. He glared at the elemental and yelled at him for attacking guests. The elemental yelled something back in a weird language.

Suddenly a huge throng of elementals surrounded the group. They began pressing on the group and tried to crush them with water pressure.

"What are you trying to do?" Flareot asked. "I am Flareot, fire general of the army of the ancients. How dare you attack me?!" Flareot asked more confused then angry at the crazy mob around him.

"Flareot would not bring enemies in here. So you must be an impostor!" One of the elementals shouted.

"Prove that you are actually Flareot and not some crazy person imitating him." Another one shouted. "Do something only Flareot could do."

Flareot sighed and put a fiery hand in the air. With a shout he suddenly evaporated every single river and pool that were nearby. The elementals were knocked flying by the burst of heat energy that had emanated from him. When the elementals started crying over the loss of their water he put his hand down and small rain clouds appeared everywhere and released the water back into the room.

After that Flareot took one last look around the room to see if anyone else was going to contest his right to be in the room or if someone was going to attack again. Some still looked ready to fight at a moments notice.

Omega ended those thoughts by putting up one cannon arm into the air. With a might explosion he sent out a large electrical orb that he had gathered during the fight with the Golems. Anyone that had still been nearby ran away muttering about the truth in the stories that the Golems really had been defeated by the robots.

Seeing that everyone was calm, Flareot nodded and continued walking.

The robots finally walked over to the large basin on the left side of the room. At first they could not see anything in it. The water was completely clear and there was nothing to show that an elemental was in there.

"I have to do a secret technique before he will appear."Flareot said. "I don't know why he does it like this but I kind of think that it might be because he just likes making a really showy entrance."

Flareot summoned a flame orb and set it in the center of the pool. He then started to spin it. Slowly the waters around it started to spin while also turning to steam. Flareot increased the spin speed until there was a huge column of steam in the center of the now empty pool. Slowly a large bubble of water started to condense at the top of the pool. It grew larger until it was about the size of Omega.

Without warning the bubble jumped off of the column and landed in front of the group. Flareot stopped his flame orb and the water returned to normal. Slowly the water bubble started to transform as first an arm appeared and then two legs. And finally another arm appeared and the whole body morphed.

The robots at first watched the display bored. However, when the body started to appear. Metal Sonic began to stare at the being in front of them with a stunned silence.

"This is my friend Waveot." Flareot said. "He is one of my best friends even though we are of opposing elements." He saw that Metal Sonic was staring stunned. "What is it?" Flareot asked.

"What is Chaos doing here?!" Metal Sonic finally managed to ask as he stared at the water being in front of him.

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I wonder how many people expected this. Grin

Yep. The mysterious character is indeed Chaos. Next chapter basically all the things that haven't been fully described will be. Also some more characters will appear. (Thank gosh. I have been getting tired of just the three robots and Flareot.)

So Flareot got to show some more of his strength and skills as a tactician. Yay. He has been taking a backseat roll for a while so I am happy I could change that finally.

I will be doing another Ultimate Madness Chapter next but since I have so little to do right now it and this stories next chapter will be up much much much sooner then normal.

Next chapter will probably also have a little more action and be longer since new people shall be fighting. However, there will be no Golems in the next chapter either.

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