CHAPTER 11
War
The badlands that seperated the Great Forest from Robotniks empire shook under the many feet and war crys.As they came storming down the hills the great doors to New Robotropolis opened up,as if expecting them.Out poured thousands and thousands of Swat Superiors coming after them to meet them head on.Then Robotniks general came out.The great Lord of Swatbots had entered the battlefield.His cape blew in the wind and he outstretched his left blaster arm and fired off shots.It blew down 30 or so but they kept coming.
The swats slashed with them as they fought them off.The Mobians and Robians fought with everything they had against them.Sword clashed with steel hides cutting into them.Some activated their flamethrowers burning them.Some even though burnt alive,took up their swords and came down upon them for a final attack.Sonic cut through them all like butter as he went into a sonic boom throwing them aside and cutting through everything in his path.
Tails was scared out of his mind.She pretended to be like the other warriors and go do her duties.She had saved the old mobian by sneaking up on it and cutting off its legs.But the Swat Superiors kept pouring out endlessly from the gates and crashing upon them.
Thousands turned to millions as they kept coming.Sonic took up the Sword of Acorns and flashed it high in the air.It sent a pulse through Sonic's body and the sword lit up in golden flames.Unkownst to Sonic,the reason why the sword was so magical is that it had a mind of its own and would choose its user.
And it chose Sonic.As the Mobian armies began to crumble under the mighty weight of Robotnik a small plane flew along the back ends of Robotropolis.It was Sally along with Bunnie,Rotor(healed up),and with Antoine.As the battle turned Robotniks attention away from them they snuck in.A swat clawed Sonic in the chest drawing blood.
Sonic went down but an arrow shot out and hit it in the visor and it toppled.Rob'o the Hedge came too.
He gave Sonic the thumbs up and went back to fighting shooting his arrows.But then Sonic faced the geat General.It towered over him like a giant.
"Diiiie...hedgehog..."
It came down upon him with its great claw and broke the ground wide open.Sonic dodged its hit and leaped for the face with his sword.It ripped its claw up from the ground and blocked him and swated him away.Sonic fell back down to the earth hard.It raise its great foot to stomp him but then one of the Robians activated one of their weapons and fired a tiny missle at it.It hit it square in the face but didnt even make a dent but it gave Sonic time to get out of the way.
The Robians lunged at The Lord of Swatbots and grabbed onto it.Many piled ontop of it but it twirled and wrenched them off and ran headlong into the charge against it and tore them down.It threw them up into the air and swatted them away like ants and stepped on them.Sonic spun into a ball and launched himself at it but bounced off.Bodies began to pile up under them of dead Mobians and shredded Robians.But then as things began to look bleak for Sonic the calvary came.Knuckles stood on the cliff with the legendary Knights of Mobius.The Green Knight,The Red Knight,The Blue Knight,The Black Knight and The White Knight.
Knuckles blew in a horn turning the Swats attention away from Sonic.Knuckles leaped off the cliff and glided down and hit The Lord of Swatbots head on tackling it to the ground.The Knights leaped off the cliff and high in the air twirling elegently as they came down.The remaining armies poured down to help and turn the tide.The White Knight elegently rushed underneath the Swat Superiors line of firing.He went underneath and cut off their legs and then heads.12 Swats lined up and blasted The Red Knight with their flamethrowers but he laughed as he became a fireball that bowled through them.Knuckles rushed over to Sonic.
"Sonic! The knights are going to take my place here! I am going to lead the attack on the south through Megaopolis.Make sure you try and stall Robotnik for as long as you can!"
"I will Knuckles! GO on!"
Knuckles sprinted back into the Great Forest.He ran as fast as he could to the other side of the forest.There was the last army settled there watching the outbreak on the far side.
"Allright listen up soldiers! We're going through MegaCentral and hit them with a sneak attack on the far side! But run your goddamn fasted before any surveilance systems catch us got it?"
His soldiers yelled out in glory.Knuckles ran out in the open with his men behind him.
As the battle grew more and more intense Sonic realised that the hordes of Swats had stopped coming out.Sonic took out his power ring and took off through the many burning down the troops and sliced through them.Tails was behind Sonic trying to stay close but at the same time not have Sonic see him.The Lord of Swatbots got back up and came after Sonic for revenge.
It mowed down everything in its path including Robotniks robots and slapped Sonic airborne with its great claw and jumped up and slammed Sonic down.Sonic couldnt get up as the wind was knocked out of him and his head was spinning.As it towered over him for the kill the 5 knights leaped at the great behemoth with thier swords slashing away at it.It lost balance and fell with them cutting away at it.
Furiously it grabbed the White Knight and threw it up into the air and aimed its plasma gun and basted him into nothingness.Rain began to trickle and came down heavy.The ground turned to mud under them.Then the Lord of Swatbots pressed a button on its side arm.
The ground shook underneath them.It knocked Tails off balance.Out from the gates of the city 5 great metal giants stomped out.They were 30 feet tall,had a great cannon on their right shoulders,with great horns and a gigantic sword sheathed on their sides.
"What kind of monsters have you made Robotnik!" Tails said.
They were Swat Titans.Robotniks muscle.Much bigger than The Lord of Swatbots but not as intelligent.They came crashing into the fray blasting everyone and everything in their path to smithereens.Things looked bleak for Sonic once again.But the tide was about to change suddenly.Sonic looked up at the grey,cruel sky and saw Metal Sonic.
Sonic gasped as Metal Sonic words uttered into his mind.
"Listen well Sonic...I am letting you go so that I shall crush you and Robotnik together with my army!"
Metal Sonics words were made true.Metal Sonic raised his hand high into the air and called down a lightning bolt that surged through him.Then the sky was filled with thousands of Metal Sonic's.
"KILL THEM ALL!!"
They came down like the rain and cut loose.They shot down their eyebeams blowing away Robotniks forces and at the same time Sonic's.Robotnik was watching all this from his command tower.
"Damn you Metal Sonic! Damn you Snively!!"
A intruder alarm went off.Robotnik looked.It showed a surveilance of Knuckles and his men crawling through Megaopolis.
"Well,well,well...surprise is mine!"
As Knuckles crept through the ruined city suddenly he realized something.
"Its too quiet...shit! He's onto us!"
Knuckles turned and saw bullets spray out from every direction and nail his troops.
"GET DOWN!"
Knuckles and his men crawled on the ground and moved under broken buildings and looked out.The city was surrounded by Robotniks forces.
"It is impossible! We...we cant win!" one of his soldiers said in despair.
"Shutup or I'll kill you right now.Your still alive so dont give me that shit!"
He gulped and bowed his head and began to prey.A lazer pierced through the building and put a clean hole through his head.His body slumped over.
"We're doomed! This is the end!" his men wailed.
"Shutup!"
"We must withdraw! We cant win!"
"I said shutup!"
Scared they ran despite Knuckles pleads.As they ran out into the open a barrage of gattling guns fired up filling them all with lead.Some tryed to drop to the ground to avoid the bullets but then were blasted to bloody bits by oncoming heat seaking rockets.Knuckles was all alone now.A ominous silenced hushed over.He looked around the city trying to see the enemy.A great darkness surrounded him clouding his vision and numbing his perception.He desperately listened for a sound.Any sound,a rat would have been nice to hear about now.
"I know your out there! Show yourselves! Your here to kill me arent you? Come on!!!!" he shouted into the abyss.
His cries were answered as thousands of red eyes lit up in the dark around the city.He gasped but then put up his gaurd and waited for the assault.Giant walker mechs came stomping out of the dark and shined their lazer targeting systems on him.The ground then shook with the sound of thousands of mettalic feet moving in unision.He saw Robotniks army of relentless machines marching out.All of them here for one single purpose.To keep him from rejoining with Sonic and the others and eliminate him once and for all.A scout stood up on a high rock and opened up its arm that played holograpic two way video revealing none other than Robotnik himself.He sneered at Knuckles trying hard to stand his ground.
"Think your little party of goons is enough to stop me cone head!" Knuckles spat.
"Oh dont worry Knuckles,if these aren't enough for you theres always more I can give.Their is always more! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
True to his word more did come and filled up the city and the skies above him completely trapping him.Knuckles was stunned.How could one man create so many machines.They began to close in around him for the kill.The sky was filled with them.All armed with scattershot cannons and missles.He could dig but he isnt Sonic.He cant move fast enough to dig deep enough to get away from the blasts.
"You might consider me overkilling my dear boy but you see this is all just safety precautions so no Master emerald miracles happen!" Robotnik said in a very polite tone.
"Fine.I may not be able to get out of this but I would rather DIE than to run from your sorry ass! I was saving this for when I got to you but"... Knuckles hesitantly pulled out a mini nuke from his pocket he stole from him ages ago.It fit in the palm of his hand and looked no bigger than a regular battery.With a smile and thinking of a time before this he pressed the red button.The city and his army were engulfed in a bright searing heat that stretched across Mobius and could be seen visible from space.
"KNUCKLES!!" Sonic shouted as the white light shined over them.
"Knuckles is terminated.As you shall be Sonic the Hedgehog!" Metal Sonic said.
But before he could strike a Swat Giant came trampling towards him.
"Slow fool!"
Metal Sonic motioned to his troops as they came down like buzzsaws cutting the bot into pieces.The Knights of Mobius were being overwhelmed by the Metal Sonic's.They spun around them creating a vortex cutting off their air.But then Rob'o the Hedge saved them by firing off exploding arrows at them blasting them to bits.Sonic looked forward towards New Robotropolis as the gate was left undefended and wide open.He juiced towards the gate but The Lord of Swatbots stepped in front of his path.
"You will never pass...Hedgehog"
"Apearently you dont know who I am! I'm Snoic! The fastest Hedgehog on Mobius! Lets go slowpoke!"
The Black Knight stood in between them.Bat wings suddenly sprouted of the Knights back.The Knight turned around and took off its helmet revealing its identity as Rouge the bat!
"Rouge?! Your the Black Knight!"
"Meh.I guess."
Rouge pulled out a Red Chaos Emerald.The one Knuckles tore from Mecha Shadow.She placed it in his hand.
"You'll need this Sonic! Trust me on this one!"
Sonic smiled and felt that victory wasnt so far away.Metal Sonic came down like a bat out of hell on Rouge.She repelled with her sword stopping his attacks.
"YOU GAVE HIM THE CHAOS EMERALD! YOU WILL DIE FOR THAT!"
It shredded Rouge's armour.She pulled away from the furious Metal Sonic hoping to lose it in the battlefield.But it tore after her flinging everything aside in its path.
"Fight me ,bat girl!" it said.It lowered its head with his eyes glowing.Rouge took up her sword.
"You'll regret that!"
Metal Sonic waved his hand and picked Rouge off the ground with a invisible force that was crushing her neck.
"Pathetic."
It came in closer watching Rouge squirm.It laughed maniacally.But Metal Sonic was caught off gaurd when the Blue knight stabbed Metal Sonic in the back.His grip on Rouge broke as he looked curiously at the sword poking out of him.He grabbed the sword and wrenched the rest through him and tossed it aside.Some liquidy substance melted over the wound and repaired him.
"I have the powers of Chaos! None can defeat me!"
It shot an eye beam that melted the Blue Knights armour to his flesh.He screamed and rolled around in agony clawing at it.Metal Sonic gave him release by picking up his sword and striking down on his neck.Rouge came at him with her sword but he caught her wrist.She grabbed his his other arm and they became locked in a duel.
"Let...go of me you wretched creature!"
"You'll have to kill me first!"
Sonic still had his hands full with the Lord of Swatbots.Everytime Sonic went on the offensive it would repell him with its mass.Sonic gripped the Chaos Emerald as he felt the energies empower him.He saw an opening as it lowered its defense to step back and he ran up it and leaped into the air.The sword of Acorns burst with power from the chaos emerald.
"SONIC SLASH!!"
He came down and delivered the final blow.It got sliced down the middle.It shifted part and fell to pieces.Sonic whiped the sweat from his brow and stormed off towards the center of the city.
MEtal Sonic activated his jet thrusters and took Rouge up into the sky.Rouge kicked herself away from him.
"Bad move.The sky is my domain! Prepare to crash and burn!"
Metal rocketed towards her and slashed her in the side.She cryed out as blood trickled through the claw marks on her suit.She bit her teeth and held her sword.It came around again but this time she was ready.She swooped to the side and cut his mid section wide open.Then she stabbed his thrusters at the back.He fell down to the earth and crashed.The Swat Superiors began to beat the Metal Sonic's back.
"You...will pay!!"
Metal Sonic raced at Rouge slamming her into the ground.He broke her sword and pinned her down about to cut into her when a unexpected twist happend.Tails came in and slashed half of Metal Sonic's head off.He toppled to the ground with a look of shock on his mechanical face.His remaining red eye faded into blackness.Then all the Metal Sonic's dropped dead on the spot.Tails helped Rouge up.
"Wow Tails! That was awesome what you did!" Rouge said with a smile.
"Aw shucks! It was nothing.Are you ok?"
"I'm fine thanks to you,you brave little fox!"
She grabbed Tails suddenly and gave her a great kiss on the lips.
"I'll thank you more later..." Rouge said winking as she walked away.Tails,collapsed to the ground with a lovesick look in his eyes.Her grin spread to each corner of her face.Meanwhile the Swat Superiors began to crumble under the ferocity of the Mobians.