Sonic: Fall to Darkness
Chapter 10
Metals Madness
Sonic slowly limped out of the GUN Headquarters, leaning on his beloved Amys shoulder. Amy looked into Sonics eyes worriedly, realizing that this had been the toughest fight of his life. She quickly tried to think of a way to cheer him up. "Hey hun, guess what? I think I've found where we're gonna build the house." Amy smiled lightly, hoping the news would cheer him up. "In that field outside the city, near your favorite tree." Sonic looked back into her eyes and smiled a bit, but still far too exhausted to do much.
"That's perfect Amy… We'll start as soon as possible." They soon both reached the front gate, and were met by the other heroes, who had seen Sonics latest battle for themselves. Shadow stepped up to Sonic and smirked slightly.
"Well, I didn't know you had it in ya. Must been tough for ya to make it past all them" Shadow was slightly insulting Sonic for his injuries, but Sonic took it as a compliment, knowing that's as much as he'll get from Shadow.
"Better than you coulda done, Ultimate Fail." Sonic chuckled as he watched Shadow steam up and turn away in a huff, but just as the others were about to speak up, there was an explosion inside the base. Sonic was instantly back in battle mode, holding himself up and ready to fight whatever just caused the explosion. "Lets go team." Sonic ran back inside, headed back toward the holding cells. As they all approached the holding cells, they realized there weren't any cells left. The entire building had been destroyed, and the only thing the could see among the rubble was the beaten and bloody Dr Eggman. They all ran over to the Doc and knelt over to help him up, actually worried for the old man. Sonic was the first to reach him of course. "Eggy, you ok?"
"I-I'll be fine. There are other matters at hand. There never was an Eggman Nega for this dimension. I don't have any living relatives remaining to create such an offspring. He was in a disguise all along! You have to stop him before it's too late!" Eggman was on all fours, blood dripping off his crooked nose, his suit torn in a few places.
"Who?" Before Eggman could answer, Tails tapped Sonics shoulder and he looked at his old friend to see Tails staring in horror at whatever was in front of him, pointing at the monstrosity, shaking in fear. Sonic looked in the same direction and his eyes widened in horror. Atop a spire of rubble was the almighty Neo Metal Sonic, his arms outstretched, gazing to the skies, cape shimmering in the air, like a living shadow. Metal slowly tilted his head back down and stared into Sonics eyes, his own red glowing eyes piercing through his soul.
"How long has it been? Five years? Ten? It doesn't matter to me….. For I've been suffering a thousand long years of hatred and discontent. A thousand years of planning how to kill you….. And today, I will exact my revenge, by first humiliating you, showing you all how worthless you truly are!" Metal rose into the air, surrounded by violet lightning, and his body slowly became nanytes once again. "And I'll do it with all of the powers I copied from you! To prove that I am greater!" Metals body slowly grew several attachments, including a gold ring over his turbine, Knuckles shovel claws, with enlarged arms, the wings of the Egg Dragoon, Werehog shoes, and the shoulders of the Eggbeater Prototype 3. As his new body formed, the heroes could only stare in horror while their most powerful adversary breached any level of power they had seen before. The lighting soon stopped and Metal turned his head back down to them, glaring into Sonics eyes once more.
"Now show me your pitiful best!" Sonic growled and leapt into the air, pushing himself into a spin and hurling toward Metals head. Metal Sonic simply tilted his head to the side and let Sonic pass by, then looked back ahead of him as Knuckles rose up for an uppercut. Metal kept his arms crossed and simply kicked Knuckles in the face with his spiked foot, then grabbed Tails tails as he swung them at him. He then threw Tails into Blaze through her fire blast and flicked away Shadows Chaos Spear, followed by taking Omegas punch to the face and not budging an inch, then electrocuting him with violet lightning, forcing Omega to retract. Rouge flew at him with a Tornado Drill Kick, only to have her ankle grabbed and twisted, leaving that leg useless, them being thrown to the ground. Silver then lifted a mass of rubble and tried to hold Metal in place with it, trapping him in a cocoon of rubble, but Metal stood still for a few moments and with just a focus of his power, the rubble was reduced to dust. Striker flew in with a lighting blade and prepared to slice through his head, but he was countered by a similar lightning blade, only ten times as powerful, electrocuting him and causing Striker to fall from the skies. Metal had just successfully blocked the entire heroes team.
Sonic got back up and tried to kick Metal from behind, but even though it made contact, Metal was unphased. He was suddenly thrown back by an electrical surge, realizing that it would take everything they had to defeat this new Metal Sonic. Tails and Knuckles gathered next to him and the Chaos Emeralds gathered around the three, beginning to spin and shine brightly as Sonic stood back up. "Metal… I'll never forgive you for what you've done. NEVER!" the Chaos Emeralds were quickly pushed to their limits and bonded with the three heroes, their spines flaring to the heavens, fur shining golden yellow, Tails now with seven tails, and Knuckles with larger claws. They thought they had the power they would need, but there was more to come. Metal began to laugh maniacally, then glared into Sonics eyes as his own flickered out.
"On the contrary… You will pay for all the suffering you have dealt me!" Metal Sonics eye panels suddenly lit up in blood red, his blue steel turning to black, an evil aura building around him. Violet lightning began to strike around them and the skies went black as Metals form became complete. "This is my true power! I am SuperDark Metal Sonic!"