Shadow Saves Them All
Chapter 10
Maria had been placed in a hedgehogs body, of that there was no doubt after Dylan explained to Shadow what had happened. Before they ran into the base with its alarms blaring and robotic forces gathering, Dylan told Shadow what he knew. The duo began to storm the base, ready for action. Eggman's forces gathered around Shadow and Dylan as they entered the courtyard. Shadow looked at Dylan and they both nodded. The searchlights focused on them as the alarms continued to blare.
Dylan put his right arm out, as if he expected something to fall into it. A glowing white light in the shape of a weapon formed over his hand. It faded and a golden weapon dropped into his hand. It was a special kind of sword. It had a wooden hilt and had a sickle shaped edge instead of the usual straight one you'd expect from a sword. The entire blade part of it was shining golden. The Caneblade. He held it in his hands and shadow jumped on it, like it was a snow board. Dylan spun around and then whipped his arm around, flinging Shadow up into the air. Robots flew up after him as he soared.
Three gun wielding robots charged Dylan and he sliced one apart easily. He jumped at the next robot and decapitated it, grabbing the head as it flew, he took aim and threw it at the third robot. It smashed right into its head destroying it. More robots began to swarm Dylan. He spun around quickly at intense speeds making a small tornado destroying and slicing them.
Meanwhile Shadow was dealing with the aerial robots. He saw one coming from below him and used his homing attack to destroy it. Another tried to get him from behind but he did a spinning round house kick and knocked it down to the ground, exploding on impact. Another robot tried to shoot him at close range, but he ripped it's gun right off of it. He used it to blast it to bits and then fired at the remaining pursuing bots. He began to realize he was falling and thought fast. He grabbed a piece of metal from the air and rode it like a snowboard. He landed on top of one of the courthouse buildings, he skidded off it and landed on the ground. All of the robots were dealt with rather easily.
"Heh, there's no strength in numbers," he said. Dylan had stopped the tornado attack and looked over at Shadow. They both nodded and headed to the central building, where Eggman surely hiding. Suddenly, the ground began to shake violently.
"Is… is this an earthquake?" Dylan asked, struggling to keep on his feet.
"No! This has to be the Doctors work!" Shadow shouted back. The searchlights focused on Eggman who was in his usual egg flyer.
"Oh! Ho ho ho ho ho ho!" he laughed maniacally.
"You've done well to destroy all my robots, but not nearly well enough to face my newest creation!" he said.
"Please!" Dylan shouted back at him.
"Whatever you've made is going to go down just as easily as the other ones did!" he said smiling confidently. Eggmans face twisted in anger, he hated his snide confidence.
"We'll just see about THAT!" he slammed down on a red button on the control board and the buildings around them began to move. The courthouse buildings were being pulled up against the skyscraper one and forming a human shape around it. The satellites on top of the skyscraper building moved to the front of the top of the building, they looked like eyes. The courthouse buildings had formed into arms and legs as they broke down into parts of rock and metal rubble. Finally all the transforming was done. There it stood, a large metal robot, with the body of a skyscraper, the arms, hands, legs, and feet of courthouse buildings and a face made of scrap metal and satellite eyes.
"I call it the Skyscraping Egg!" he said while laughing evilly.
"Wow, the Skyscraping Egg… just wow," Dylan thought to himself, looking unimpressed at the large structure that stood before him. Shadow didn't care what it was called it was going down. He jumped at it to use a homing attack but was stopped suddenly by an electric force field. The antenna on top of the skyscraper was projecting a field of electricity around the Skyscraping Egg. They had no way to damage it.
"As soon as I'm done with you two and Sonic and Silver, this thing is headed straight to the north pole! It won't matter if Santa Claus has a force field or not, this will destroy his workshop without any inconvenience!" he laughed evilly. The large structure began to move its legs, taking its first incredibly large step. It easily moved half a mile in one step, if that was true then making it to Station Square would be very easy for this… thing!
Shadow wasn't about to give up! He continued to use homing attacks on the field hoping he would destroy it. Dylan however was using much more concentrated attacks, not really hoping to destroy the field but hoping to do something else. The machine kept walking across the large field while the two heroes could only watch. In a matter of a half hour, it had already gotten sight of Station Square. Eggman put it in his robots scope for weaponry and the guns began to fire. Guns and blasters opened up from all over the monstrous robot and began to fire at the city. Shadow was nearly beside himself in rage before he heard a voice of sanity shout to him;
"Shadow!" a chaos emerald was thrown to him and he grabbed it.
"Together!" Dylan shouted as he gripped his Caneblade tighter. It was glowing white and yellow. Shadow jumped up and used his chaos blast at full power, while Dylan did something else. He charged his weapon up, holding it over his shoulder until finally he shouted: "Golden Strike!" He made a downward slice, and a large beam of energy sliced out of his weapon and hit the force field. With the power of the Chaos blast and the slice, the field gave out and shattered. This was their chance, they both charged up the large building robot.
"Hmmm!?" Eggman said looking down at them as they began to run up the robot.
"Dammit! How did they get through that force field?" he pressed some more buttons on the control board and the guns focused on Shadow and Dylan. They dodged the bullets and continued up its legs, they met up around the chest dodging more of the bullets and rockets until Eggman came into sight.
"I'll get the emeralds, cover me!" Dylan said to Shadow. They split up, Dylan running closer to Eggman and Shadow running up to the robots blind spot, it's left shoulder. He landed on top of it and caught his breath for a moment. Suddenly a gun lifted out of the ground and looked around for Shadow, who had been standing on top of it. It looked left quickly as he tried to keep his balance on it, and then to the right even faster. He nearly fell off until he centered himself. He looked over at Eggman, hoping Dylan would distract him very soon. The giant robot had gotten significantly closer to Station Square and was getting closer by the second.
Dylan jumped up with incredible speed and flew up right in front of Eggman. He grabbed onto the tiny windshield on the Egg flyer and Eggman was pulled forward as the entire flyer tilted forward. He looked over at Dylan as he steadied the Egg flyer. Dylan climbed up and was face to face with Eggman. Eggman put on a face of anger and tried to punch him. Dylan pulled himself back, pulling the rest of the Egg flyer with him, the entire thing had flipped upside down. Eggman fell out of his chair and was holding onto the top of the chair he sat on. Dylan had somehow managed to get into the upside down cockpit and he pulled on the thruster until the flyer was right side up. Eggman had lost his grip on the flyer as it rotated and ended up grabbing onto the bottom of it, holding on for dear life.
"Okay, where are you, you little emeralds?" Dylan scanned the cockpit furiously looking for the emeralds. He found a little suitcase underneath the control board and tried to open it. There was a worded pass code. He tried the first thing that came to mind, 'Eggman' and it worked. Bokkun must've set the password. Speak of the devil, just as the suitcase opened revealing the emeralds, Bokkun flew out of nowhere and grabbed the open case. He snickered and flew off blowing a raspberry at Dylan. Eggman had climbed up to the edge of the carrier and watched Bokkun fly off with them. He shouted to Bokkun; "Bokkun! Close the case!" That's when Dylan started to button mash on the control board, hopefully it would do something useful. Eggman saw what Dylan was doing as he climbed up over the front of the flyer and grabbed his arms shouting; "Stop! Stop it! You don't know what you're doing!" Dylan found one button that was black and yellow and said danger and smashed down on it with his elbow. The force field around the robot flickered back to life as Bokkun unknowingly flew right into it. He dropped the case and the Chaos Emeralds began to fall out of it. Dylan and Eggman both shouted; "No!" Dylan stepped on Eggmans fat head and jumped off the egg flyer, sky diving down to grab the Emeralds. He had managed to get all five of them in his hands as Eggman climbed back into the Egg flyer. He looked down at Dylan and smiled menacingly. He flicked the glass cover off a red button that was labeled; "Fire Homing Missiles," he shouted out; "Now you'll pay!" as he raised his fist to slam onto the button.
Shadow ripped the gun off the ground and jumped into action. The gun began to fire uncontrollably as Shadow aimed it at the egg flyer. It shot into it making some holes. The egg flyer began to rock back and forth, stopping Eggman from hitting the button and the flyer lit on fire. It began to descend as he grunted in anger. The aiming device he had used to aim at Dylan was aiming all over the place, until Eggman slammed his fist down onto the fire button. Unfortunately it had aimed directly at the Skyscraping Egg's satellite face. The missiles fired and destroyed the face of the robot as Shadow began to fall away from the Egg flyer. Dylan grabbed the five emeralds and front rolled so he was looking up at Shadow. He threw the emeralds to Shadow and shouted; "Here!" Shadow grabbed each off them and all seven of them began to rotate around him. He had gotten a boost of speed, just enough to save Dylan from his fall. He grabbed Dylan and they both landed safely on the ground. The Skyscraping egg had stopped walking, a good thing too. It was practically IN Station Square. The citizens had taken notice of the behemoth of a machine and had gathered around to watch the fight unfold.
A news team had set up near the fight as the same news casting woman as before had began to speak into the camera. The news broadcast was being sent everywhere as an emergency broadcast, so Sonic and Silver both saw it in their hospital room. Amy walked in from the hallway and they all stared at the screen, hoping it would end okay.
The emeralds rotated around the duo as they felt their power enter their bodies. "I always wondered what this would feel like," Dylan said to Shadow. "Well then," Shadow smirked. "Get ready, it feels really intense the first time," The emeralds spun around them faster and faster until their powered had fully entered them. Shadow had transformed into his super form and Dylan did as well. Shadow's black color had been replaced with a bright yellow and red color. Dylan however looked different, his brown hair had glowed an intense yellow and didn't spike up. He had a glowing yellow aura around him and felt incredibly powerful.
"OH YEAH! That is the stuff right there!" Dylan shouted as the chaos energy filled his body. "Plan?" Shadow asked him. Dylan smiled and said; "Yeah..." He looked up at the giant robot and Eggman who was panicking.
"Destroy," They both flew up to the head of the building and prepared to attack. Shadow turned into a ball, getting ready for an amazing homing attack while Dylan charged his weapon with Chaos energy. It glowed a burning bright yellow and the blade grew in size, it was easily twenty feet long when he was done charging it. They both unleashed their attacks on the face of the robot and it exploded. Dylan slashed through the face with a large golden beam and Shadow had hit the face with tons of intense hits that it was hardly even recognizable as a face. The entire robot began to explode and light on fire after that. The arms fell off slowly and the legs collapsed. "NOOOOOO!" Eggman shouted as the rubble started to fall on the egg flyer, damaging it.
"I hate that Human and Hedgehog!" he shouted as the rubble crushed the egg flyer and brought it to the ground. The entire robot had come crashing down and was reduced to a pile of rubble. Dylan and Shadow landed in front of the mess that was Eggmans base/Robot and smiled. It was done. The people began to cheer and shout happily at the duo of heroes. Dylan gave Shadow a low five and they both flew off into the sky above Station Square.
"So," Dylan asked Shadow. "How long until this Super form wears off?"
"It's last until we run out of ring energy," he said back to him. That's when they both remembered something very crucial, Sonic and Silver were both still in the hospital and they both still needed to be treated. They changed course immediately and flew to the hospital. They stopped right outside of the window of Sonic and Silver's room and knocked on it. Silver looked over from the T.V. and was surprised, so surprised in fact that he had fallen right out of his bed. Sonic looked over and said something to Silver, it was inaudible through the glass.
Silver used his psychokenesis to open the window and the two flew in, for some reason Amy was nowhere to be found. Dylan and Shadow both put their hands on Silver and Sonics heads and their entire bodies glowed yellow for a split second and then it faded. After that a bright light flashed and Shadow and Dylan both stopped glowing yellow and the Chaos Emeralds were floating around them again. The emeralds flew out the window and then scattered in all different directions. The room was silent. Dylan looked over to Sonic and Silver and asked; "You guys feeling better?" Sonic got up using his arms, which had been broken, and loosened his neck a bit. Silver got up and rubbed his head from the fall and then they tried to move around. It had worked perfectly, Sonic and Silver had both been healed up. Sonic jumped and turned into a ball midair, and the bandages he had on him fell off him and landed in a pile underneath him. Finally he stopped and landed on the ground. He winked at Dylan and Shadow and gave his signature thumbs up and said; "Thanks Dylan! You too Shadow!" His confident disposition had returned to him at last. Silver used his psychokenesis to remove all his bandages and put them in the trash can. He dusted himself and said; "Thanks Dylan…" he said happily. He looked over to Shadow who was starting to get angry and quickly said; "Y-you too Shadow!" Quickly remembering what happened last time he had made Shadow angry. Dylan and Sonic both laughed at the situation and the room was once again silent. At least until Amy walked in.
"Sonic!" she shouted running up to him and hugging him. Just seeing him up and moving again was enough to make her heart fill with joy. Sonic awkwardly took a step back as she continued to hug him.
"I'm so happy! I couldn't stand to watch you sit there covered in bandages! I'm so happy Sonic!" she said. Tears of joy began to fill her eyes. Shadow turned away from the scene, while Silver began to whistle and look anywhere but Sonic and Amy. Sonic looked Amy in the eyes and both their faces turned a bit red for a second. Dylan looked at the two of them, they both knew what they wanted to do but they were too scared to do it, that's when Dylan intervened. He said something so forward, so point blank that in any other situation it would've been thought of as crazy.
"JUST KISS EACHOTHER ALREADY!" he said in a slightly annoyed tone. Sonic and Amy both looked at each other a little flustered by the sudden outburst until Sonic did something Crazy. He pulled Amy in and gave her a quick two second kiss. He pulled away quickly and his face turned redder than the red Chaos emerald. Amy was amazed, she was in a daze just looking up at the ceiling saying these three words; "Sonic… kissed…me…" she had a small dumb smile on her face and a bit of drool came out of her mouth. Silver, Dylan, and even Shadow looked at Sonic dumbfounded. Sonic saw their looks and immediately said with a red face; "It was just a Christmas present!" Shadow began to laugh at Sonic, he looked ridiculous. Silver joined in and Dylan did as well.
"Good to see they've got their holiday spirit back," Dylan thought. Eggman was defeated, Shadow laughed at other's ridiculousness, Sonic was back to normal and Silver was being… well Silver.
"This is nice," Dylan thought. He looked at the clock and out the window. It was 6:30 A.M. Christmas Eve morning. As the sun rose from over the horizon the sky was filled with orange and yellow color. Sonic, Shadow, Silver, and Amy looked out at the new morning. Snow had begun to fall, glistening off the beautiful new sky.
"Mission Complete," he said to himself as he took in the glorious new day.
Or so he thought… End of Part 1