For a little clarification, the Metal sonic from last chapter was not the actual Metal sonic.

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Shadow had one more emerald left to go. Then he could access the power he hadn't experienced in a long time...


*Flashback*

Sonic the Hedgehog was walking next to Shadow and asked him ,"Heya Shad. How are ya?" Shadow frowned at the younger hedgehog's question and just replied, "Hmph," in return and walked away from him. Then the alarm went off in the Sonic Heroes building and a speaker came on. A soldier speaking on it reported, "Dr. Eggman is attacking again! He brought all of his biggest creations back!" Sonic nodded before speeding off and his usual partner, Tails, joined him.


Dr. Eggman was in the sky and was searching for Angel Island, the home of Knuckles the Echidna, he said, "I must find that island in order to power the death egg! Otherwise I can't complete my plan!" Dr. Eggman's fleet soon arrived at the island and unleashed E-10,000's that overwhelmed the red guardian of the emerald as an Egg robo took the emerald away to Dr. Eggman's ship. Grinning from ear to ear, Dr. Eggman's fleet of ships flew away quickly to his next hidden base. But the main ship turned slowly around and slowly unveiled a gigantic cannon like the one on the original Egg Carrier but much larger. Dr. Eggman's eyebrows lowered in an evil smile as he pressed the fire button. Soon archs of energy began to rushed into a growing ball of energy. Knuckles' eyes widened as he ran to the edge of the island and jumped off, using his ability to glide to get away from his home as it was mostly destroyed by the huge laser firing upon the falling island. With tears in his eyes, Knuckles glided away from his beloved home, unable to save the innocent lives upon the island that were ended by the evil scientist.


Tails had hopped into the tornado, started it up, and launched the Tornado off of the landing strip on his house's hill. Sonic ran next to the machine before he leapt on top of the wings as they flew off to combat the evil scientist. They flew off in the direction of Eggman's egg carrier but when they arrived they saw Angel Island's remains falling through the sky. Sonic said to Tails, "Tails, get me to the main ship. Dr. Robotnik went too far this time." Tails nodded, then pointed the Tornado at the Egg Carrier mark 8 and flew towards the gigantic ship. Tails warned Sonic, "I'm transforming the Tornado into combat mode, get ready." He activated the plane's device as it transformed from a bi-plane into a jet plane with a huge rocket on the back, the blue and yellow paint glistening all around, and the wings covered in blue and yellow painted metal, brought forward in front of the plane to form an 'X' shape at the front. Two laser guns then folded out of the sides of the device and a precision laser gun in the center where the 'X' was. Tails opened fire on the larger aircraft which retaliated with its own, massive anti0air guns. But the smaller airplane was too agile in the air to get shot down. The Tornado suddenly kicked in the afterburners and rushed towards the main deck of the aircraft carrier and touched down with wheels deployed. Tails attempted to joke, "At least I remembered the wheels this time." Sonic just frowned, then ran off in the direction of the control bridge.


Sonic arrived to see a waiting a smiling Dr. Eggman sitting in his Egg mobile where the Commander's seat would have been. Dr. Eggman called, "Metal Sonic, take care of the pincushion for me." The very robot then landed and replied in standard robot fashion, "Yes master." It rushed at Sonic by activating the jet on it's back and flew. It attacked with speeds faster then even the blue blur himself couldn't keep up with, pummeling him with quick jabs to Sonic, finishing off it's flurry of attacks by boosting the jet rocket's power and used it to fly upwards in a devastating uppercut that left a huge cut in Sonic's jaw which began to bleed out from the strike. Sonic wiped away the blood with his glove leaving a stain there as he ran, activated his boost, and started his own assault on the robot who seemed to be underwhelmed by the speed of his attacks, acting like he was in slow motion. Dr. Eggman laughed at his rival, he then gloated, "Having trouble Sonic? As you can tell Metal has become far superior to you because of the added power of the seven emeralds. I knew that they were the reason you always won, you won with them against my Death Egg, Perfect Chaos, The Biolizard, Perfect Dark Gaia, Dark Mother Wisp, The Time Eater, and more. They were the only reason you won, so I thought to duplicate the results with my own Sonic. I even added a little bonus, Metal, can you please show him what I added?" Metal nodded as the emeralds emerged from inside the metallic copy and began to spin around the robot rapidly, emerging with Metal glowing a dark yellow with the power of the emeralds which were pulled inside of him again after the transformation. Dr. Eggman announced, "Meet Super Metal Sonic, and your doom. You lose hedgehog, this time you die, then I can take care of your friends, one by one." Sonic's rage grew, making his quills turn a almost black dark blue. His eyes faded into white as he became Dark Sonic. Dr. Eggman smirked as he said, " You really thought I didn't come up with a plan for that? I am not your enemy for no reason, how about I pull off an old trick of mine? That'll be nice, won't it?" He then pressed a button that released machines that shot out coils of energy that began to sap away the power of Dark Sonic as he transformed back into his normal self, but Dr. Eggman redirected the energy into Metal who turned into a black, rage and emerald fueled metallic monstrosity, all in his original form. Tails arrived at the seen to see the drained Sonic and Dr. Eggman laughing triumphantly as Metal prepared to finish off Dr. Eggman's old enemy. Tails rushed in and tackled Metal who didn't expect the sneak attack. Tails then quickly radioed, "Sonic Heroes headquarters, I need help! Sonic is down! And-" He was cut off by Metal ramming him from behind, then charged it's energy into its chest, realeased a cold chuckle, and fired a beam of energy at the fox who was taken by the blast. Sonic yelled, "TAILS!"


Shadow arrived on the ship with Rouge, Omega, and Team Chaotix along with the member Mighty. Omega then held up his hand to report, "Sonic Heroes agent Knuckles is in the vicinity, I suggest Rouge pick him up for the fight ahead." Rouge nodded as she flew off to get her rival in treasure hunting while the other back-up headed towards the command bridge. The team arrived, seeing a crying Sonic who was filled with rage and a badly injured Tails who had many burns all over his skin, many of them third degree. Sonic got up and said, "Take care of Tails. I need to make Robotnik pay." Then with more speed then was thought possible, Sonic began to unleash a barrage on Metal Sonic who couldn't keep up, even with his new power. Sonic was unseen all the time by the others, he was unleashing all the hidden speed and amplified it with the chaos powers he had absorbed from the power rings he had collected. Metal was receiving huge dents all over it which were bing restored by the amplified power of the self-repair devices, but it couldn't dodge or block Sonic's attacks of pure speed. Shadow was amazed at the hidden power of the blue hedgehog, he said to himself, 'I may be the ultimate life form, but I have yet to harness speed like that...I must train myself after this mission to achieve it.' Metal's chest was then ripped open by Sonic, who had curled into his spinball form and blasted through Metal's chest. Before the damage was repaired, Sonic swiped the emeralds out of Metal who chuckled and said, "I was designed by my creator to keep any transformation I was given. I hope you all can fly." He then turned into a grey liquid as he sunk into the floor. Dr. Eggman laughed yet again as he pressed one of the many buttons lying before him as the ship started to transform. Sonic said to Vector, "Get to your ship and get every one off." Shadow replied to Sonic, "You need my help in the upcoming battle.


Allow me to stay." Sonic pushed him away and said, "I need to take care of this myself." He had the emeralds give him their positive energy and transform into Super Sonic as he flew out of the room. Shadow said to the others, "Do as he said." He then skated out of the room, he smirked to himself as he teleported next to Sonic and absorbed some of the chaos energy he was emitting to transform into Super Shadow. Shadow said to the blue blur, "I shall help you out blue hedgehog. But don't expect me to save you from your ignorance every time." Knuckles had arrived near the ship and said to Rouge, who was carrying him, "Get me to Sonic and Shadow." She sighed as she flew him over, he then did the same as Shadow, absorbing the energy, and transformed into a darker red version of Super Knuckles. He said to his fellow supers, "He destroyed my home and many innocent lives. I'm not going to just stand by while you two make him pay." Shadow just replied, "Hmph, fine. Just stay out of my way." The team below had escaped in the ship that they had arrived in; flying away from the ship just as the deck below them folded away. Vector, inside the Sonic Heroes ship said, "Phew, that was close." And they flew upwards to join the super powered trio in the upcoming fight.


The Egg Carrier mark 6 had merged with Metal Sonic and transformed into a giant, red and yellow version of Metal with Eggman's command deck forming the head to control it. Dr. Eggman saw the supers and said, "Now that I have the master emerald to help me in this battle, I shall defeat you even with your super forms activated, for you all know that this gem controls the chaos emeralds' power." The evil scientist laughed aloud once more before stating, "This is the device of your defeat, Metal Sonic special version 1." The trio of super powered creatures nodded at each other before Shadow announced, "Chaos control!" Sonic used his light speed attack against the ship, bouncing all around off the ship to leave huge dents in it as Knuckles used his super enhanced strength to punch holes straight through the ship. Dr. Eggman counteracted by activating the self defense systems that put a giant, green spherical shield around the robot who began to fire lasers out of its arms, and green arcs of energy were gathering into it's chest. The supers had been hit but their power protected them from any major damage that they would have sustained, but then the master emerald was revealed from the chest and it glowed with power as a laser was shot through it, and the chaos energy inside amplified the power along with the gem itself intensifying the beam as it shot our with huge chaos powers. The supers attempted to dodge the huge beam of chaos energy but the mere size of the beam caught them and ravaged their bodies with the energy which left them smoking and numerous wounds on them. Dr. Eggman smirked and said, "One more blast like that and your finished." Sonic growled lowly, he then curled up and started to charge his energy up into a light speed attack,meanwhile, Shadow charged straight at the command deck, dodging the incoming fire by spinning to the side of the shots, when he arrived at the deck he said with a smile on his face, "Goodbye Doctor. CHAOS BLAST!" The resulting huge explosion of energy hit the shield surrounding it and was powerful enough to lower the shield as it slowly faded away,, but before Shadow could follow up, he was smacked away by a gigantic arm and blasted several times with one of the arm cannons.


Dr. Eggman smiled confidently as he turned his attention to a monitor showing the charged amount of the master emerald laser, he saw it was at 50%, he turned his attention to Knuckles and threw punches at the echidna, who caught the massive fist but was hit by the other, causing him to fall from the impact towards the water below. However the Sonic Heroes jet plane caught him while he fell and opened fir upon the gigantic foe, of whom responded to the small threat by firing a swarm of missiles to blow them out of the sky. Vector attempted his best to shake them off but was unable to destroy them all, he quickly sent Cream, the injured Tails, and more of the younger members into the escape pod, hit the launch button and headed towards the missiles to distract the missiles from following the pod. Mighty yelled, "ARE YOU CRAZY?! WERE GONNA GET KILLED!" Vector, with a huge smile, grabbed Mighty and tossed him outside of the plane and motioned for the others to follow suit as he jumped out of the plane. As he fell through the sky, he saw the ship get blown up and got scratched from some of the debris falling down. He said, "That may leave a mark." Then he and the others dived into the water below as the pod hit the water. Back in the sky above, Sonic finished his charge of the spindash along with the master emerald laser's being fully charged and prepped to fire. Sonic released himself from his spot and flew at the ship as the laser fired at him, the two huge energies clashing for victory. Shadow had recovered from the attack of Eggman's, and activated his chaos boost, along with removing his chaos inhibitors as well, charging at the ship with his chaos energy unleashed, when he reached it, he crashed through the ship, turned around quickly once he was on the other side, and repeated the same process numerous times throughout the enormous mad scientist's creation. The alarms were blazing with sound in Dr. Eggman's control area he yelled, "No! I was supposed to beat you Sonic! Next time I won't leave you your friends to help!" He then left in his Egg pod through the top of the command deck as he flew away to one of his bases. Sonic then decided to pull a risky move and started to absorb the energy around him, using the chaos energy of the super rings to absorb it into him painfully as he screamed while it super charged him with energy, and make a flaming golden aura surround him as he charged through the laser, he reached the center with the emerald and released his energy by placing his wrists together, one on top of the other, and his hand in a cupped position, and fired a beam of chaos energy that bisected the ship as it blew up. The energy he absorbed then became too much for him to handed as he fainted, and detransformed, falling to the sea below. Knuckles awoke when he hit the water, he spotted Sonic falling and said, "I gotta get him, he can't swim, he then flew up with his remaining time in super form and rescued his old friend, de-transforming once he hit land with his feet. Shadow saw a shard of the master emerald, collected it, and flew off into the distance before he de-transformed once he reached land. He turned around once he landed, he saw the fleet of Eggman's air ships fleeing the scene, he chuckled as he walked away from the battle. When he saw Knuckles, he tossed him the shard, posed to skate away, and rushed out of the reception area. *End Flashback*


Shadow remembered it as the last time he had used the emeralds' power, and as he knew Metal had grown in power since the last encounter, he would need the power of the emeralds to save the city of Utopia from Metal's attack. He held up one emerald to the sky in various directions, he saw the jewel grow brighter towards the north, he activated his jet shoes and sped off to collect the last jewel of power.


I hope you enjoyed the chapter and the story so far, I shall get back to the Metal Sonic empire's invasion of Utopia next chapter. Stay whelmed, Dragonlord1157