Chapter 10: Nominatus PT 2
It was nothing but havoc all over Sodor, buildings, few houses and other destruction greatly affected the town, some were saying what a bad railway it was. Of course no one could escape, many had been blocked off due to destruction. In STH's office, E-51 Intelligente was panicking and running around. STH's grandchildren were also there for protection.
"OH WHAT DO I DO? WHAT DO I DO? I CAN'T HANDLE ALL OF THIS!" He yelled.
"Everything will be okay E-51, after all, Sonic and his friends are here." Stephen said.
E-51 gently grabbed him by the shoulders.
"But what if they can't? There's just too much going on!"
"We just have to have hope." Bridget assured.
"I hope you're right."
Omega and Burnbot were busy chasing each other up and down Gordon's Hill. Burnbot slid down on the rails while Omega flew up next to him.
"I'M THE BETTER ROBOT!" Omega said.
"NO! I AM!" Burnbot said.
They notice Gordon up ahead who was not aware of their presence. Omega shoved Burnbot faster down the hill hoping to collide him into the express, which was full of passengers. Gordon was just making the turn he felt a hard bump from behind, several passengers went falling to the floors.
"WHAT WAS THAT?" Gordon gasped.
"ROBOTS! ROBOTS!" The coaches yelled.
"Not again!" Gordon groaned.
Burnbot spun him and Omega around and rammed him into the side of the express twice.
"OW!" The coaches yelped.
Gordon had to get away fast, then he saw Edward up ahead. Gordon whistled when he caught up.
"Edward, I need to get away from these crazy things!" Gordon said.
"Follow me." Edward said.
They took a different line away from the main line, it was a longer way from his destination, but much safer. Omega and Burnbot raced by losing interest.
"Thanks Edward." Gordon said.
"Anytime." Edward smiled.
Meanwhile, Henry was taking Toby and Henrietta to the Steamworks after he had derailed, but were about to get some company. Captain Metal came crashing onto Toby's roof.
"OOF!" Toby yelped.
"What the-" Henry was confused.
"ARR, YE PAY FOR THAT LANDLUBBER!" He yelled.
"OH NO!" Henrietta gasped.
Neo Metal Sonic came down tackling the pirate right off Toby and they rolled away down a bank.
"Ugh...why us?" Henry whined.
The two then gasp when they could see Silver Sonic rampaging around with Sonic and co. following and attacking him. Silver Sonic had no idea where he was going, he just wanted to destroy. He glanced over at Toby and Henry, picked up a house, and threw it at them.
"AAAAHHHHH!" The two yelled.
Suddenly James came from behind Henry and rammed them forwards a lot faster, just missing the crashing down house.
"We need to get going now!" James said.
"Got it." Toby and Henrietta said.
When they arrived at the Steamworks, they saw it being terrorized by Orbot, Cubot, Mini and Mum who were attacking each other. Heavy and Bomb were trying to stop them all while Victor and Kevin were hiding in the back.
"Oh now what?" Toby said.
Some workmen went on the offense and one hit Orbot with a crowbar knocking him into Toby. Another workman threw a hammer at Cubot, at first doing nothing, but a hit from another hammer sent him down. Mini and Mum went to attack the men but Heavy and Bomb jumped and tackled them to the ground. There, Heavy starting wailing on them and Bomb jumped on them until they were broken and defeated. The workmen were about to advance on them as well.
"WHOA WAIT WE'RE THE GOOD GUYS!" Heavy said.
"YEAH IT'S COOL!" Bomb said.
The workmen were relieved and the engines cheered. Captain Whisker and Johnny had managed to escape from their fight with Neo Metal and Captain Metal, and found Knapford Station where they confronted E-51 and the grandchildren.
"LEAVE US ALONE!" The children screamed.
"Oh what's the harm lad and lass? We only want you to join our crew." Whisker purred.
"After we dismantle this bot right here." Johnny said.
E-51 held his arms out blocking access to the children.
"You will not harm these children under my watch." E-51 said confidently.
"Well then, looks like we're have to force ya to walk the plank." Whisker growled.
The two advanced on him, making E-51 instinctively put his fists up.
"I may not have been created for fighting, but DAMN IT I'M A FIGHTER TODAY!" He snarled.
Johnny went first by lunging, but E-51 jumped back before lunging and sucker-punching the robot back into a wall. Then he head-butted Whisker and charged him into the wall. Johnny punched him back then kicked him away. Whisker was about to attack but E-51 pushed Johnny away and charged Whiskers with a punch so hard he made a hole in the pirate's chest. Whisker and Johnny were not as strong as they were before they had been destroyed.
"NO! WHISKERS! YOU MOTHER F-"
Johnny was cut off when an enraged E-51 punched him twice. Johnny retaliated punching him 3 times. The children hid under the desk not wanting to see the fight. The two robots circled each other.
"Come on bot, I got all day." Johnny said.
"Well I don't." E-51 said.
Johnny charged, only for E-51 to blast lazers out of his eyes, right through Johnny's chest taking him out. When it was all over, the children looked up.
"Is it over?"
There was E-51 rubbing his head.
"Wow, didn't know I could do that. I guess I thank Dr. Eggman for one thing." He shrugged.
The grandchildren ran to hug him, which he gladly accepted.
"You're are hero!" Bridget said.
E-51 felt like tearing up, if he only could.
"That...that means a lot...thank you!"
Muffle Moutain...
Needless to say, Dulcy was speechless seeing the Magic Railroad for the first time, and when the arrived at Burnett Stone's workshop, there was Lady, already aware of the predicament. Dulcy was even more shocked at the sight of her.
"Hello Lady, we could really use your help to stop these robots." Thomas said.
"I know, but first we need to figure how to stop this strange energy." Lady said.
"Shadow had mentioned it had something to do with the technology. He's been in cyberspace before...maybe we can go too." Dulcy said.
"It's possible...but I wouldn't know how to get you there." Lady said.
"Hmm...what if-HUH?"
Suddenly they all realized someone had followed them in, it was the Tails Doll, it had latched under Thomas after escaping it's fight with Blaze and Marine.
"TAILS DOLL!" Shade yelled.
"STOP HIM!" Dulcy yelled.
Tails Doll flew at Shade who activated her helmet and jumped up. She tried to kick it but missed and Tails Doll head-butted her in the chest. Then Dulcy blew fire at it but Tails Doll scrambled behind Thomas who ended up getting his funnel burnt.
"Oops, sorry Thomas." Dulcy said.
"It's okay."
Tails Doll then races towards Lady, but before he could do anything, a blue blur rushes into him before being savagely ripped apart. When the deed was done, the others walked closer thinking the being was Sonic.
"Sonic? How did you get here?" Shade asked.
But it wasn't Sonic...it looked like him, but with a darker blue. The being turned around and Shade and Thomas recognized that person all too well. The red glowing eyes, the sharp teeth, the sharp claws under the gloves.
"Sonic. EXE? Why are you back, look we don't have time for you." Shade growled.
Sonic. EXE looked at her with an annoyed expression.
"You think I want to be back? I DON'T! I WAS ATTACKED BY SOME WEIRD MALWARE ENTITY THAT SENT ME HERE! I WANT IT GONE! HE'S MESSING WITH MY DIMENSION!" Sonic. EXE growled.
"Well we're trying to stop him too, he's causing a bunch of robots to reek havoc on Sodor." Dulcy said.
"Last time I checked, he was exploring an area of cyberspace close to the tech on this island, which ain't much. I can take you all there, though I'd rather take care of it myself." Sonic. EXE scoffed.
"Well too bad, we'll do this all for you, you're just too weak." Shade teased.
Sonic. EXE growled and walked closer to her until he was in her face.
"You're pretty brave facing someone who can easily rip you in half." He threatened.
"What can I say, I like facing danger head-on." Shade said.
Sonic. EXE scoffed and walked back. He moved his clawed hands hands in a ripping motion creating a portal to cyberspace in front of Thomas.
"Let's get going." He said jumping in.
"Lady you stay here, I think Sonic and the others will need you more here. I'll come back for you." Thomas said.
"See you soon Thomas." Lady said.
Dulcy and Shade jumped on Thomas and he, Annie and Clarabel raced through the portal. Upon entering cyberspace, Thomas found himself on a red energy track unable to move on his own. Dulcy and Shade joined Sonic. EXE on Thomas' deck as the evil entity could feel this virus' presence.
"I can feel him, I'll guide you." He said.
They were all amazed by the large vastness of Cyberspace. So many glowing yellow and blue lights, tunnels and occasional firewalls that the mobians destroyed.
"Cinders and ashes, this is incredible." Thomas said.
"A little too much light perhaps." Annie said.
"Indeed, way too much." Clarabel agreed.
"We'll you'll be hoping for a lot when he get to him, he knows we're here." Sonic. EXE said.
After bit more racing around Cyberspace, they eventually came to a large arena-like area where in the middle was a large tower made out of dim red lights. Behind it were three massive red towers spreading the red energy all over the area. Thomas, Annie and Clarabel changed into their mobians forms.
"We need to take down those towers." Dulcy pointed out.
"No problem, whoever made them isn't even here." Shade said.
As Shade attempted to race to one, something from the central tower activated a giant wall blocking her path.
"WHAT?"
"SHADE LOOK OUT!"
Thomas tackled her out of the way of a blast of red electricity. Everyone looked up to see a devil-like figure floating down to them while laughing loudly. He was mostly black with red stripes, long red claws, high heels boots and had 4 long horns. He glanced at each mobian before locking eyes with Sonic. EXE.
"I already took care of you before, I'll do it again." The villain said.
"Not this time Nominatus." Sonic. EXE.
The demon hedgehog lunged at the other demonic being, only for Nominatus to make the ground between them rise up, but Sonic EXE phased through it and punched Nominatus back, but not too far. Nominatus then shot fire from his hands, but Sonic. EXE was immune to it. The hedgehog spin-dashed into Nominatus knocking him down. Before EXE could lunge, a large piece of the ceiling raced down and crushed the demon spawn under it. It slowly rose back up to the ceiling showing EXE knocked out.
"There...now for you all." Nominatus said.
Dulcy and Shade got into fighting positions but Thomas, Annie and Clarabel stayed back.
"Just give up now! Stop terrorizing Sodor like this!" Shade demanded.
"Do you not understand how much power you can have by getting in control of those living machines? Once the island is destroyed, I can rebuild it in my image and then takeover as LORD OF SODOR!" Nominatus laughed.
"NEVER GONNA HAPPEN!' Dulcy growled.
"Hmm...wait...do my eyes deceive me?" He glared.
He took note of Thomas, Annie and Clarabel, then he sensed the gold dust energy in them, this made him beam.
"THAT ENERGY IT MUST BE MINE!"
"NO!" Shade yelled lunging.
"YES!"
Nominatus then sends a shock to her and knocks her down to one knee.
"Damn." Shade muttered.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! YOU FOOLS ARE NO MATCH FOR ME!" Nominatus yelled.
"Wanna bet?"
Dulcy saw he was distracted and lunged to kick him, but Nominatus saw her at the last second and jumped back. Dulcy swung a fist but Nominatus blocked it before kicking her away. Then showed his palm to her, Dulcy gripped her head as the electricity from earlier began to affect her.
"Dulcy what's wrong?" Thomas asked.
"I DON'T...AUGH!"
Suddenly a blast of electricity shot out of her eyes which struck the ground in front of her. It began to create some kind of figure, but the more there was created, the more they could recognize who it was.
"Wait...is that?" Dulcy gasped.
What formed in front of them was a metal version of Dulcy, just like the roboticized one from Dark Mobius. It's red eyes glowed and stared down Dulcy.
"This clone will take care of you while I get rid of a few Sodor pests who dare to challenge me." Nominatus said.
Before Dulcy could respond, the metal dragon tackled Dulcy away. Shade recovered from the electrical surge and stepped in front of the others, she was holding onto her left arm.
"No, I won't let you!" Shade said weakly.
As Nominatus prepared to fire a large blast of energy at her, he's hit by a wave a gold dust energy by Thomas.
"We can't let you do this." Thomas said.
Nominatus staggered a bit, the power was greater than his own.
"WHY YOU-"
Thomas looked back at Annie and Clarabel and smirked, the girls nodded. With the power of gold dust, Thomas floated into the air, Annie and Clarabel followed suit.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Nominatus yelled.
"Showing you our power!" Thomas said.
Together the three created three balls of golden energy, combined them, and threw it at Nominatus. But he wasn't going to give up so easily, he created a large ball of his own energy and both balls struck each other, both pushing against each other.
"I WILL NOT LOSE TO YOU FOOLS!' Nominatus said.
"I THINK YOU WILL!" Thomas said.
"Oh yes, we always win." Annie said.
"I agree, it's pretty obvious." Clarabel said.
While they were taking care of him, Dulcy continued to battle against her metal counterpart. Shade wanted to help, but she was too weakened by the energy, and Sonic. EXE was still out cold. Suddenly a long gloved hand rested on her shoulder, Shade turned to see Rouge.
"Feel like trading places sweetie? The others are helping to destroy those towers." Rouge said.
Shade was overjoyed that the other team had made it. She nodded and walked over to Percy, Mavis and Ashima while Rouge went to help Dulcy. Both dragons were duking it out nearby, punching and kicking. The metal Dulcy didn't say a thing.
"Ugh...you're going down, I mean it!" Dulcy panted.
The metal Dulcy kicked her away in response. Dulcy was now covered in bruises again...but she wasn't going down like last time. She rushed her clone and tackled it down to start wailing on it. But the clone rolled them over so it was on top and started punching her, some blood shooting from her nose. Suddenly the metal clone is kicked away by Rouge.
"Rouge, your team made it!"
"Sure did honey, now let's take care of this creep."
The two lunged at the clone...
Sodor...
The others were still having issues with taking down Silver Sonic, he seemed a lot more stronger and had caused a great deal of damage to Sodor. Tails had Sonic with him on the plane where they were aiming for Silver Sonic's face.
"Aaaaaannnnnddd NOW!" Tails shouted.
Sonic spin-dashed right at Silver Sonic who didn't see it coming. Gmerl, Blaze, Marine, Heavy and Bomb thought this was it...but they were wrong. Suddenly Omega and Burnbot came crashing right into Tails plane, at the same time, Captain Metal and Neo Metal crash right into Sonic. Everyone gasped when Sonic smashed a hole through the roof of Tidmouth Sheds, Tails abandoned his plane as it also crashed into the sheds. After he dodged a swipe from Silver Sonic's claws, the robot went to smash the sheds to pieces...with Sonic still inside...
"SONIC!"
To be continued...