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Light and Shadow
Part X
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"Why are you even working for Eggman again, I thought you had joined up with Rouge?" Letting out the comment as he skill fully avoided a series of punches and kicks, Sonic kept a close eye on Shadow for any kind of reaction to his question.
Flashing brightly as he activated the power of the fake emerald, Shadow moved back to regain some breathing space, his red eyes snapping around the battle ground until they found Sonic, or rather the speed trail of the blue hedgehog. "Rouge, you must be joking."
Ending the comment with a series of chaos spears ripping through the air, Shadow took the fight up close again, punching out at Sonic who blocked him expertly. "I serve Eggman, and no one else."
Smirking at him, Sonic grinned as he moved to get a sudden death grip on each of Shadow's wrists. "Funny, because last time I checked, you were helping us to take him and Metal-Sonic down." Grinning at the last word, Sonic went into a super spin dash, air kicking up as he spun around with Shadow lcoked onto him. "And know what else? your fighting skills are worse then ever."
Ending the spin dash with a swift kick into Shadows stomach, Sonic grinned as he watched the red and black hedgehog smash into a nearby metal wall. "But hey, don't blame me if you're getting weak."
"You." Pulling himself out with murder in his eyes, Shadow gazed across the clear space and right into Sonic's eyes, and then down to the faintly glowing object in the blue hedgehog's left hand. "The chaos emerald!"
Moving to the side to avoid a spin dash, Sonic kept on the defensive as he moved to gain space between himself and Shadow, the red and black hedgehog's eyes nearly glowing with anger. "Come on Shadow, this is getting old, I need to get up there and face Eggman, he's got some answers I need."
Smirking right back at him, Shadow let out a cold chuckle as he flung out his right arm, the flesh pealing back to reveal a small missile launcher built into his arm. "Fat chance hedgehog, you won't ever reach Eggman."
Amusement fading away from his face, Sonic had to move a bit faster then he had expected to avoid each missile fired at him, his quills feeling a bit burnt as the last explosion went off behind him. "You're not shadow are you?"
Laughing at the question, Shadow lowered his head as the flesh moved back into place over his arm. "I am Shadow Android, mark II series." Glowing as he moved forward, Shadow began to chuckle as red power moved in around him. "I am the ultimate battle life form built by doctor Eggman, and you, are dead."
Taking the cue, Sonic began running backwards, his eyes narrowed as he soared past metal walkways, clouds moving below them as the Egg-Destroyer moved through the air. "That is not what I need right now." Spitting out the words as Shadow moved up besides him on a parallel walkway, Sonic stared down at the fake emerald.
Not feeling up to pulling punches or holding back any longer, Shadow lashed out with his left arm, chaos spears shooting out rapidly towards Sonic's walkway. "Heads up hedgehog, it's a long way down."
Breaking in the last second, Sonic found himself staring down at the ground way, way down below, his head slowly moving to face Shadow who had moved to stand on the other side. "Heh, not bad, for a copy, but the real Shadow would have blown up the whole walkway, not just a small section."
Grinning superiorly across the walkway, Shadow simply lifted up both arms, his eyes glowed bright red as he locked his remaining missiles on the blue hedgehog. "I may not be the real one, but my orders are to destroy you, and return with the emerald in hand."
Holding up the glowing fake emerald, Sonic gazed at it with a bored expression as he returned his attention to the Shadow Android. "Well, I have no real need for it, so, here you go." Tossing the gem through the air with the last word, Sonic grinned as he watched the Shadow Android move to save it.
Reacting more on programmed commands, then free will, Shadow tossed himself out into the air, arms returning to normal as his fist close din around the gemstone. "Chaos..." Then his optics locked onto Sonic glowing as he held out his hand at him, power already flowing out at him in a blue swirl of energy. "No!"
Smirking as he watched the android do just as he expected, Sonic pulled out the power he had managed to draw from the fake emerald, using it to empower an attack he hadn't used in a long time. "Sonic Wind!" The attack had been based around Shadow the hedgehog's Chaos spear, but changed to match what he wanted it to be like.
Still glowing with the power of the fake emerald, Shadow pushed down the sudden fear as he stopped moving forward, space and time twisting around him as he willed himself to move to safety, but, as he found , it was too late as the attack hit him just before he vanished, the fake emerald shattering as it took the brunt of the attack, each pieces glowing brightly as chaos control sent them across time and space randomly, then he was hit by the attack as well, his body blown backward onto the walkway..
Gazing across the distance, Sonic watched as the Shadow Android crashed back down onto the walkway, the fake emerald vanishing into several sharp light glints. "Well, are you finished?" His voice calm, Sonic watched as Shadow pushed himself up again, the missile wrists opening up again, a fake emerald shard jammed into his chest. "Guess not."
Then he was running as heat and shockwaves belted him, the sound of the Shadow android following somehow still heard over the noise of the explosions.
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Rubbing his head as he looked around the room, Tails grinned as he recognized at least half of the tings as computers, the other half were half finished robots. "Must be Eggman workroom, but why did he send me here?"
"Target locked, destroy at once." Spinning around at the cold synthetic voice, Tails let out a small cry as several gun shots shot past him, the looming form of an omega and gamma like robot emerging from the darkness of the room. "Miles Tails power, you have been targets for termination."
Jumping over a work bench as more shots rang out, Tails bit back aloud yelp as one bullet hit the very tip of his left tail. "Jerk." Rolling around to get into a better fighting stance, the young fox froze as he spotted something lying on the ground.
His fingers closing around the handle of the Eggman standard issued eggpawn gun easily, but mentally he was a bit concerned. He'd never used one of these before, he'd never shot a weapon that could kill anyone before, least of all, he'd never used one of Eggman's weapons.
"Target found."
Doing a true action movie worthy forward dive to escape imminent death, Tails felt as if he had slipped into chaos control time, everything moving around at bullet time speeds as he took aim and fired before even completing his first spin,
The first laser shot ripping the right arm off completely, while the second and third shot tore through the chest and head region, Sigma shuddering violently before falling over.
Landing as Sigma blew up and released a small bird; Tails merely stared down at his hand still holding the gun. "That- that was awesome."
Rising his head with a new determination, Tails couldn't help but grin as he took in the surroundings and machines lying around. "Alright Eggman, what else do you have in this place of yours?"
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Kicking the control system, Amy glared out as the entire Eggfleet took up flanking positions around them, escorting their ship towards the Egg-Destroyer. "Rho, are you still locked out of the systems?"
Moving his head to face her, Rho disconnected himself from the controls and turned around to fully face her. "Confirmed mistress Rose, Eggman Network is no longer accessible for me or the ship, however, sub systems on the ship have activated and changed our course towards the flag ship."
Gazing out the window, the pink hedgehog kicked herself mentally at having ever suggested they take over one of Eggman's war ships. "We can't stay here, Eggman, he'll." Turning, she glared at the surrounding ships. "Can't we take control of another ship?"
Rho, moving around to face the same direction as her, hummed as he processed their chances of successfully taking over another ship. "Negative, calculations indicate we only have a five percent chance at this time." Returning his attention to the ship's control, silence filled the bridge as he slowly ran his robotic fingers over the screens and buttons. "Lady Rose."
Glancing back at him, Amy blinked as she watched Rho move to reconnect to the ship's computer again. "Rho, I thought you said you couldn't connect to the systems?"
"Affirmative lady Rose." The cold, emotionless reply came as Rho attempted link up, his eyes shutting down as all power went into the process of connecting. "However, system override may be possible." Voice growing fainter, Rho finally seemed to shut down completely as his body went limp.
The sight causing Amy to fully face him as her panic grew. "Rho? Rho!" Her arm reaching out, she froze as a loud clanging sound flew through the whole ship along with a tremor sending her stumbling backwards. "Oh, now what?"
Behind her, RX grunted as he stared out the main window, face expressionless as he held out a hand. "Unwanted company, that's what." Fist clenching up as he stepped closer to the pink hedgehog, he noted her pull out a new hammer as she too spotted the rising shadow outside on the ship deck. "Metal-Knuckles."
Towering up outside, a fairly large robot body rose up into a fully standing position as it's hover units cooled down from the flight. Arms spreading out, a mecha looking very much like an earlier version of the Eggemperor lashed out with one hand and cut through the ship hull with ease as its claws showed the area with sparks.
Green eyes blazing as he watched through the single computer screen before him, Metal-Knuckles watched the three pains in his metallic behind as they stared back at him. "Well now, let's see how the three of you can stand up this EggMecha." Punching in one button, the robot finally let out a cold laugh as all the weapons system began powering. "This is it, our last battle."
Slamming out both of the mecha's hands, his laughter filled the air as rocket engines kicked in and propelled it away from the metallic wrists, each one heading right towards the bridge. "It was miserable knowing the lot of you."
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Running along the connecting bridges of the ship, Sonic did his best to avoid the massive attacks thrown at him by the Shadow android as he it followed him, the shard of the fake emerald embedded in its chest glowing brightly as once again the android attempted to chaos control closer to him.
Spotting a good opening as the attempt left it stunned for a shot while, Sonic did a quick turn around, throwing everything he had into a light speed dash attack, hammering both him and the android several meters backwards, bending the railing of the bridge and nearly sending both of them to a long drop into the ocean. "Guess you are a faker, the real Shadow would have avoided this."
Moving back as the android kicked him off, Sonic let out a deep breath as it turned to glare at him, the sneer on it's face growing as both wrist snapped open, missiles loading as he began to run backwards. "Come on, not this again, I'm telling you it won't work!"
Letting out a scream of anger, the android sent every single missile left flying, eahc one heading right towards Sonic who had stopped moving. "My orders, are to destroy you!" Rushing forward as well, the shadow android curled up into a spin dash, green sparks flying around it as it drew out power from the fake emerald shard. "Chaos!"
"Sonic Wind!" Snapping out both hands as the missiles had nearly reached him, Sonic grinned as a blue vortex formed before him, each of the missiles getting sucked up in it and sent right back into the spinning Shadow Android, each missiles erupting in a fiery blast that rocked the bridge around him.
Turning as the vortex died down, the blue colored hedgehog sent a short look back as the smoldering wreck that had been his opponent, and the fake chaos emerald shard no longer glowing as it lay amidst the ruined metal parts. "One down, one to go."
Rushing off, he smirked as he took a quick look around after clearing the bridge and running up the side of the main vessel hull, it had been a long trip, but he had made it back to the top of the ship, and there, right before him were Eggman in his stupid machine, hovering before the main doors. "Hey Eggman, was that really your best?"
A familiar laughter cutting him off as several footsteps rang out behind him, a deeply built in danger sense from his long run as a dare devil and hero causing the blue colored hedgehog to duck the hammer in the nick of time, several quick flips and a small slide on his feet putting some distance between himself and. "Amy?!"
The pink hedgehog grinning as she looked up, a far more evil version of her hammer held in her hands, spikes jutting out of it's ends as she stood up, her quills lose and jutting out much like his own did. "Hello Sonic, and goodbye!"
Rushing forward, she gave off a massive battle cry as she lashed out with her hammer, nearly hitting Sonic who had Jumped up to avoid her, her head turning in time to see him land on the ship and running off. "Come back and fight you coward!"
Frowning as he watched Eggman laughing down at him, it finally dawned on Sonic. It all made sense; this was why she had acted the way she did, why she had had such a change in personality. "Eggman you jerk, you're controlling her!" His yell causing the fat man to laugh even more as he was hit by the non spiked parts of Amy's hammer, air flying out of his lung s as he was sent sliding along the ground.
Amy's own laughter mixing in with Eggman's as she took a running start, jumping up with her hammer and bringing it down with a massive swing, metal shards and bits of the ground flying off as she missed, Sonic having rolled away from the impact site in the last second.
Twisting around to follow him, she let out a curse as something blue shot past her, her hammer breaking apart as Sonic spin dashed through it's handle. "Jerk, that was brand new!" Punching out, she grimaced as she was simply avoided with each move, Sonic dancing around her with ease. "Fight fair dammmit!"
From above, Eggman grumbled as he quickly punched in a series of commands, his small regained control of his cyborg copy of Amy were good, not perfect, but good. The blue rodent would never hurt her, not even if she was working for him.
Still, it would be wise to give her some help, after all, he never fought fair, why start now. "Eat Egg missiles Hedgehog!"
The sudden shocked expression on Sonic's face making him smirk as he couldn't fight off both Amy and avoid the missiles without getting hit by his little cyborg, or blown to bits.
Eggman's own laughter dying as each missile was shot down, smoke filling his sight as he screamed out in anger, turning his mecha around to see. "Tails?!" And in one of his mecha's as well. "How did you escape?"
Smirking as he sent his machine walking forward, Tails grinned as he sent several shots after Eggman, sending the fat man flying wildly to escape. "Please, I've gotten better, did you really think you could stop with just one robot?"
Eyes narrowing, Eggman slowly turned his head to stare towards the ship's main bridge. "But, if you defeated Sigma, then who's controlling the ship?!" The last few words yelled out as he snapped around to watch Tails advancing on him. "No, I won't have my plan fail, not this time!"
Hitting every weapon button, Eggman let out a cold laugh as missile hatches and machine guns slid into place, Tails stopping just a few meters away. "This time, I will win!"
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The first thing she became a where off was a sudden painful grip on her wrist, her mind still fuzzy as she rolled across the metallic surface of the deck of the eggfleet ship, RX nearly landing on her as he came rolling across the ground as well.
Behind her, she could hear the sound of heavy machinery stomping towards her, the stench of burning plastic, molten metal and thick smoke in the air as wave after wave of hot air washed over her. "Rho, he, Rho!" Standing up in seconds, the pink hedgehog looked into the fiery inferno that had been the bridge. "Rho!"
"One down, two to go." The cold, synthetic voice making Amy grit her teeth as the large, Eggman like mecha emerged from the fire it had started, it's arm missiles reattached to his wrists. "Not bad, but I had hope to get you all with just one attack."
Amy's stomach doing a small drop as she remembered the last few minutes, the attack, how Rho had grabbed her and RX, tossing them out to safety even as the bridge were torn apart, how she had been helpless as the robot had tried to fight back, but lost as several bombs had been launched and blown in seconds.
Her, friend, like Gamma, had died like this, helplessly before he evil of Eggman. "No." Gripping her hammer, she glanced down at it and metallic sighed, it was a good weapon, but in this fight, it would be useless. "Metal-Knuckles, you will pay for Rho death, I swear it!"
Laughing as he moved the Egg Mecha into a battle stance, he grinned down at her from the safety of his cockpit. "Hah, you won't win, Amy." pressing the buttons rapidly, he laughed as he watched her begin to run forward. "Now-" The missile hands warming up again as he pointed them forward. "Die!"
TBC:
AN: Another long wait for a new, short and somewhat lame chapter, but this time I'll tell the truth for it, I am starting to lose interest and having massive fits of writers block with this story. And while it was meant to be a surprise, I am planning a third part to what will become a saga, but, I think I will need a small break to decide who will be in it, and who won't so I won't end up with another massively over charactered story, that is, if I ever write it.