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This chapter takes place at the same time as the second half of Sonic and Knuckles' battle against the Egg Naga inside the Egg Citadel. Just a side note for everyone. :)
Chapter 9: The War is Over
In Station Square, Amy and the police were already on their last leg. The endless struggle had left them really drained physically and mentally. They weren't sure if they could keep on fighting anymore.
"Man, I really hope Tails has gotten Sonic and Knuckles out of that thing. I could really use their help right about now." thought the pink hedgehog as she whacked a broken G.U.N truck at a horde of Egg Pawns, crushing them to the ground…
In Central City, a badly charred Omega emerged from the explosion he had been caught in and slashed Eggman's robots with his claws.
"Inferior models must be eliminated," said the walking arsenal with his usual monotone voice as he snapped an unfortunate Egg Pawn in half with a thunderous back breaker.
In Grand Metropolis, the detectives weren't faring any better than Amy. They were exhausted. Vector had chipped his teeth from crunching too much metal. Espio had (finally) run out of projectiles and his kunai was in no longer in good condition. Charmy's wings were killing him from flying too much.
"We're doomed" exclaimed Vector and Charmy simultaneously as they comically dodged the incoming laser beams.
The chameleon simply sighed, greatly annoyed by his teammates' pessimistic mindset. Espio didn't say anything at all; instead, he continued to use his various styles of martial arts to deal with the hostile opponents.
Despite Vector and Charmy's current outlook of the grim situation, they wouldn't give up so easily. Quickly joining their ninja teammate's side, the duo began to launch a counterattack at the advancing robots with everything they had. If they were going to lose, they would at least go down fighting to the last ounce of their strength…
In Metal City, the Babylon Rogues faced a trouble of their own. Their Extreme Gears had run out of air a few minutes ago, and they couldn't really find a place to replenish the fuel (with everything blowing up in that city, it's hard to even locate a hotel, much less a tiny base for refueling air gears).
The Rogues, however, continued to fight their way out. Wave pressed a button and ordered their airship to land. In light of the current predicament, the swallow had decided to make a strategic retreat. As the airship descended, the birds used everything they could to fight their way through the menacing robots in an attempt to reach their airship…
In Westopolis, all hell broke loose. Eggman's forces were everywhere, much to everyone's dismay. They had brought out the big guns and started shooting at everything their sensors picked up.
Shadow had resorted to using Chaos Spears to retaliate, despite knowing full well how much strain the attack put on his body if used repeatedly in a long period of time.
Tails, using his genius, quickly repaired some of the fallen robots and turned them into temporary allies. The fox also used every trick he could think of in an effort to push back the invading forces.
In spite of everyone's best efforts, they were vastly overpowered by Eggman's army. Everywhere, the heroes found themselves surrounded by the robots. The Pawns pointed their guns at them and prepared to pull the trigger.
At that time, an extremely loud explosion was heard on the sky, causing everybody to direct their gaze at the source. The battleship that was directly above the Egg Citadel was blown to bits and fell to the ground.
Back to Eggman's forces, as soon as the gigantic battleship exploded, the Egg Pawns around the world began to malfunction. After squirming uncontrollably for a few seconds, they all short-circuited and went offline at the same time.
"YES!" exclaimed Tails happily, "Rouge did it!"
Shadow remained indifferent, but the presence of a ghost of a smile on his muzzle told the fox that he was happy that the war was finally over. A tiny smirk appeared on the hedgehog's face, but it disappeared after a split second as he turned away and walked to the G.U.N agents stationed nearby.
The agents turned on their communication channel on and cheered loudly when they heard that the Egg Pawns around the world had stopped working. That was it. That was everything everybody wanted to hear: The war was over. They had won.
Tails couldn't contain his excitement and joined in the cheering. Shadow simply stood where he was with his arms crossed, but anyone could tell the silent agent was pleased with the end result.
In Station Square, everybody started celebrating and throwing their hats and helmets up in the air, yelling and crying happily all the while. Amy joined in the celebration and threw her hammer up in the air. The large hammer hit the ground with a loud bang, shocking everyone present. There was also a small tremor when the hammer landed hard on the ground.
"Sorry," said Amy sheepishly, "I got overexcited."
Even though Amy could have been charged with destruction of public property, the police didn't care; they just laughed it off and went back to celebrating.
In Grand Metropolis, the Chaotix also started cheering. Charmy was all over the place yelling incomprehensible stuff. Espio put his kunai away and looked at the damage that had been done to the city. When he noticed his boss picking up the remains of the Egg Pawns, he raised an eyebrow questionably.
"Vector? What are you doing with those things?"
"Recycle!" said Vector as he continued picking up the scrap metal on the ground, "I bet we can make a good profit out of these junks."
The fuchsia chameleon sighed, "It's always money with this guy" was all that crossed his mind. The chameleon then walked to Charmy and left the croc to his own device.
At the same time, Omega had recovered from most of the damage the Egg Pawns had caused him. Also, he managed to automatically fix his flamethrowers and began to 'cremate' the deactivated Egg Pawns, a job he carried out with pleasure and without a second thought. (He hates their guts).
After a short while, Rouge landed on his shoulder and smiled at the robot.
"How are you feeling, Omega?" asked the bat.
"All functions online. No major defect detected."
"Alright, then let's get back to base, big boy. I'll contact Shadow later. I need my beauty sleep after all this...and after I collect my jewels, of course."
"…Affirmative…"
After that, Omega activated his rocket boosters and headed back to G.U.N headquarter, with Rouge sitting on his shoulder.
In Metal City, the Rogues had already taken to the sky in their airship and looked at the aftermath of the war down below. Jet smirked and sat back onto his couch. The green hawk turned around and looked at his accomplices.
"It's finally over. About time," said the hawk.
"Yeah, thanks to those stupid buckets of bolts, I have to a lot of fixing and tuning to do" said Wave in a really annoyed tone. Their gears were badly damaged during the war, and now Wave had to fix not only hers, but also her teammates' as well, a thought she wasn't too fond of.
"Now then, about the treasures you said you'd discovered…" said Jet as he put both hands on his desk and looked at Wave. The swallow simply nodded and began making a course for the Gigan Rocks, having discovered a secret treasure there that might have something to do with their origins (Any Sonic fan will know about this place and the story behind it).
Back to Tails in Westopolis...
After Shadow, having been contacted by Rouge, and the G.U.N agents had returned to base to plan the next steps for taking down Eggman's flying fortress, the fox entered some codes into his wristwatch and commanded the Tornado to fly to his current location.
Once the Tornado had arrived, Tails flew into the cockpit and prepared to head to the Egg Citadel.
All of the sudden, there were explosions on the top floor of the fortress. The Egg Citadel began to shake violently and lose altitude.
"Sonic and Knuckles did it!" exclaimed Tails, "they must have beaten Eggman already."
Tails smiled happily and began to head for the place that the Egg Citadel was going to crash land pretty soon, according to his calculations.
At that moment, he remembered something he had forgotten the entire eventful day. He was supposed to be mad at Sonic. Knowing the cobalt hedgehog, he would most likely dash back to the Mystic Ruins and to his workshop immediately after all that.
Not knowing how to face Sonic just yet, Tails made the most rational decision presented to him at that time: heading back to his workshop first and pretended that he had not moved from his bed. Without a second thought, the two-tailed fox turned the Tornado around and stepped on it. The plane soon reached its destination after a few minutes of flying.
Alright, that's it for this chapter, folks. Stay tuned for next time.