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The battle had begun. DunBroch's villagers were currently own against Eggman's robots. A large group of Slicers managed to hold off some villagers with their firing claws, but in no time flat, the villagers managed to reach the praying-mantis robots and break their bodies with their mighty maces.
Above the sky, Batbots, bat-like robots with a single wide, cylindrical light bulb underneath their bodies, were currently diving down ontop of people's heads, burning them with their light bulbs. Due to the intense heat the light bulbs gave off, many of the villagers had burn marks on their hair, but it wasn't hot enough to catch anyone's hair aflame. Soon, arrows filled the sky, taking out some of the pesky Bat-bots, but not all of them.
Back on the ground, Silver was currently dodging bombs that were being thrown by a group of eight Baby Kikis. The silver-white hedgehog was growing tired of this little dodging game and decided to take action. Using his psychokinesis, he levitated himself into the air, which caused the robot monkeys to change the aim of their throws, launching bombs into the air. Propelling himself upwards even more, Silver watched as the bombs that were meant to hit him rained down upon the Baby Kikis, destroying all but three of them. Quickly returning to the ground, Silver once again used his powers to catch the bombs the monkey-bots threw at him to return them back to their owners.
MacGuffin and Dingwall were taking out some Egg Pawns, using only their fists. Despite the orange robots' metal bodies, the punches the lords threw weren't causing any pain on their fists. For the robots however, the punches left huge dents in their armor.
E-123 Omega was unloading lead onto as many Eggman robots as he could with every weapon in his arsenal. As robots exploded to his left and right, he felt truly happy. Stretched out in front of him were the shot up, blasted, and falling-apart machinery he had utterly wiped out.
Rouge and Tails were squaring off with some Rhino-Tanks as this was going on. The femme bat threw some of her bombs while Tails threw his exploding ring capsules. The combination of both their attacks put the threat of these rhino-based tanks to rest.
Elsewhere, another group of villagers were having difficulties with taking out some Buzz Bombers, who were currently raining stinger shots down onto them. The villagers retaliated by firing arrows at them, but the speedy wasp-bots would just simply dodge the arrows, continuing to fire their stinger shots once the air was freed from primitive projectiles. Suddenly, a black ball appeared seemingly out of nowhere and slammed into one of the Buzz Bombers, knocking it into one of its companions, sending both robots sailing towards the ground in a blaze of glory. Shadow uncurled himself and released a Chaos Blast out of his body, destroying the remaining Buzz Bombers.
Knuckles and Macintosh were currently fighting side-bye-side as they tangled with some Motobugs. Macintosh, spear in hand, stabbed into one of their heads, yanking the spear out and causing it to fall on its side, offline. Knuckles was simply punching whichever ones got too close to him. "You aren't that bad, for someone as skinny as you are," Knuckles commented as he delivered another approaching Motobug an uppercut to the face. "Neither are you," Macintosh replied, stabbing his spear into a Motobug's head.
As the battle raged on, more and more of Eggman's mechs began to fall, but as they fell, so did some of the villagers. A large group of Electric Spinners, which where almost identical to the regular Spinners in body frame, but had different colors and a different face, electrocuted a group of villagers, but their victory did not last for long, as they were quickly taken out by arrow fire. At the same time, a group of Shellcrackers were terrorizing another group, but were crushed under the weight of large boulders that were launched by catapults. Meanwhile, Fergus was taking out some Caterkillers. He'd either stomp on their heads with his peg-leg or slice into them with his sword.
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Sonic quickly ran at the Eggasaurus Rex, quickly performing a Sonic Boost as he slammed into the robot's right leg. Unable to keep balance, the robot teetered back and forth before falling on its side. As the blue hedgehog ran to the cockpit dome, the bot's head lunged forward and tried to bite him, but Sonic leaped over the mouth's gaping jaws and did a Homing Attack, smashing into the dome. Once landing on the ground, he put some distance between him and the robot. "This is going to be too easy," he remarked as the robot used its massive forearms to lift itself off the ground.
With a might swing of its right arm, the tethered wreck ball swung right for Sonic, but he easily dodged the attack and watched as the ball slammed into the ground right where he had once been. Standing only a few feet from the wrecking ball's position, Sonic started to taunt Eggman, making a figure eight with his feet as he ran in place. "Come on Eggman, step it up," he said before quickly leaping onto the wire connected to the massive ball. As he rapidly approached the cockpit once again, Eggman quickly pressed a blue button. "Oh no you don't." The robot's left hand retracted and in its place emerged a futuristic-looking gun barrel. The barrel aimed itself at the hedgehog. Sonic thought it was some sort of laser gun, prepared to jump when it fired, seeing how the inside of the barrel was glowing bright yellow. The barrel made a loud firing sound, causing Sonic to leap into the air to hopefully avoid the shot, but all he got was a yellow energy wave striking his chest, knocking him backwards.
Sonic slammed onto the ground hard. As he pushed himself back up, he grunted a little. "Oh that smarts." Eggman's laugh got his attention back onto the Eggasaurus, where he saw the wrecking ball rapidly approaching him. Sonic quickly leaped out of the way and watched as the wrecking ball slam onto where he once was. The giant ball started dragging back to the arm and once it was back into position, the large T-Rex robot charged forward. Sonic also ran forward, but once he reached the legs of the robot, he started to run around rapidly in a circle underneath it. As Sonic disappeared into a blue blur, a blue cyclone started forming, lifting the robot off the ground and putting it in it's swirling vortex. Eggman shouted in terror from the experience, covering his eyes with his hands. Soon the cyclone died, throwing the Eggasaurus Rex not too far from its original location. Once the large robot slammed onto the ground, Eggman removed his hands from his face, seeing no trace of Sonic anywhere in front of him. "Now where could that hedgehog be?" A sudden rapping on the cockpit's dome got the evil genius' attention, causing him to look to the source of the noise. Standing ontop of the dome was Sonic, who gave a quick wave to Eggman before slamming his foot down ontop of the dome, causing a big crack to form. 'He must have used the cyclone to reach the top of the robot. No matter, I'll get him off before he causes too much damage,' Eggman thought as he controlled the robot to quickly push itself off the ground. This action caused Sonic to be forcefully launched from the top of the robot, but before he was launched too far away, Sonic curled himself up into a ball and launched a Homing Attack, slamming into the dome once again, creating another crack. Once Sonic landed on the ground, he once again put distance between him and the Eggasaurus Rex.
The robot roared angrily at the retreating blue hedgehog, but all of a sudden, Sonic doubled back, performing a Sonic Boost as he ran over to the robot's legs, trying to cause it to fall again. Unlike the last time, Eggman was prepared. Once Sonic was close enough, he maneuvered the robot into the right position and swung its mighty tail, which collided with Sonic. Sonic was sent sailing backwards a good distance away before slamming into the ground. The wind had been knocked out of him, but still he managed to get back on his feet, a little slower than the last time he took a hit from the robot. In a move which caused Eggman to laugh, the blue hedgehog quickly Sonic Boosted towards the robot once again.
"Stupid hedgehog, what makes you think that will work this time when it failed the last?" As Sonic got close again, the Eggasaurus' tail swung, but instead of knocking Sonic, the blue hedgehog leaped into the air, curled into a ball as he still did the Sonic Boost, and slice through the halfway point of the tail. As Sonic landed on the ground in a kneeling position, the tail slammed onto the ground with a massive thud. Sonic turned back to the robot just as the robot turned to face him.
"Ohhhhhh now I'm mad!" growled Eggman. As soon as Sonic began his charge towards the robot, the Eggasaurus' mouth began glowing with a dark purple light, which turned into a beam that struck the ground right in front of Sonic, causing him to screech to a halt. He didn't stay motionless for long, because a second later he took off again just as a purple beam struck the ground where he once stood. As Sonic continued running, three more beams were fired at him, but he dodged them all effortlessly before reaching the robot's legs. Sonic rolled out of the way as he dodged a kick and performed a backflip, dodging the wrecking ball as the robot's right hand brought it down ontop of him. Sonic leaped onto the ball and ran up the arm, but before Eggman could even fire his wave gun, he was at the cockpit, leaping into the air and curled into a ball. After attacking it with a Spin Attack, he quickly leaped off and put some distance between him and the robot as he had done before.
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Merida was running through the forest, rapidly searching for Mercilla. She was on the right trail, seeing broken tree branches hanging only by a slim strip of wood on the trees, leaves scattered around on the ground below and snapped tree limbs laying all around. Once she came out of the forest, she stood before what appeared to be a large clearing filled with ancient ruin structures. The structures were made completely out of stone and they towered over everything before them. As Merida marveled at them, she failed to notice a black-colored animal approaching her from her right.
"So, you finally found me," Mercilla's voice said, causing Merida to spin around to its source, seeing a rather large black bear standing a good distance away. She quickly grabbed an arrow, sliding it into the bow and aimed it at the bear. It wasn't long before she realized that this was the bear, called Mor'du by the ancient legends that surrounded the bear in mystery, that had taken her father's leg those many years ago. "So you were the bear that attacked my dad." Now she was mad.
"Yes, and once I'm through with you, I'm going to have to have a little rematch with him, and I'm sure it won't turn out like how it did the last time," Mercilla taunted.
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That did it. Merida angrily fired off the bow, sending it plunging into the black bear's left shoulder. As Merida rushed to put another arrow in her bow, Mordu roared angrily and yanked out the arrow before charging on all fours at the red-haired princess. Merida quickly rolled out of the way of the incoming bear, turning around quick enough to put two arrows into Mor'du's backside.
The black bear howled as it rose to her feet, trying to move her arms back to try and rip out the arrows embedded there, but all that did was give Merida some clear shots at her now visible underbelly. As the arrows stabbed into her, Mor'du teetered backwards, nearly falling, but as she tried righting herself, two more arrows stabbed into her, sending the bear onto her back. The arrows there plunged themselves deeper, causing Mor'du great pain, which was evident in her howl. As she rolled over to get back on her feet, more arrows plunged into her, but she shrugged those off. Once back on her feet, she charged at Merida, interrupting the princess from firing off another arrow.
Merida rolled out of the way, but was taken by surprise once Mor'du made a quick turn, taking a swipe at her with her massive paw. Merida rolled out of the way again, leaping back to avoid being chomped on by massive bear jaws. This close-quarters combat jig wasn't working in her favor. Lunging forward, arrow in hand, she stabbed it into the bear's side and tried to swing herself up, but Mor'du swung her body to the right quickly, sending Merida sailing away onto the ground. Her senses regained, she saw Mor'du charging at her once again, but she quickly grabbed her bow and fired an arrow at the bear, just as she was bearing down on the princess. As luck would have it, that arrow plunged right into the bear's neck, instantly halting her charge.
Merida got back to her feet as Mor'du gasped for air and pulled at the arrow lodged into her neck. She ran to the ruins, trying to find a place for her to quickly catch her breath. As she rounded one of the stone structures, she managed to catch a glimpse of Mor'du removing the arrow and coming right for her. "Okay Merida, gotta find something to use or she's going to get me," she muttered as her eyes searched desperately for something she could use. She saw where Mor'du was running to, seeing her approach a single standing structure, giving her an idea. As the black bear got closer, she studied the stone for any structural weaknesses, finding a large crack in its side. She waited for the bear to get closer before firing an arrow right at that crack.
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Mor'du saw the arrow shoot past her, embedding itself into the stone beside her. "Ha, missed me."
"Wasn't aiming for you."
Mor'du, confused by this, turned to the structure beside her, seeing the crack in its side growing larger before the upper half broke loose, falling ontop of her. The stone, slammed against the black bear's backside, sending it straight to the ground where it laid, trapping her. All she could do was watch as Merida approached her cautiously, an arrow in her bow aimed right at her face. With a beastly growl she snarled at the princess. "Curse you Merida. Curse you and everyone in your family. Too bad your luck has run to an end." With that, Mor'du disappeared in a flash of purple light, causing the stone to fall to the ground.
Merida searched for where the black bear could have gone before a purple flash of light caught her attention. Appearing out of the light was the bat that had attacked her before in the kingdom. Mercilla had once again changed forms, using the bat to retreat back to the kingdom, possibly to harm her friends or her family. She wouldn't let that evil witch do that. She quickly ran after her, firing arrows at the bat, but the bat was more maneuverable than she expected it to be. As the bat dodged each arrow, the two were quickly returning to the kingdom.
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Back at DunBroch, the villagers were winning in the fight against Eggman's mechs. Many of the robots had been scattered across the land, battered and broke. With only a few robots out of the once grand army remaining, the majority of the people were watching the battle that was taking place between Sonic and the Eggasaurus Rex.
Currently, Sonic was dodging some of the Eggasaurus' missiles that were being launched from its shoulder cannons. Using these missiles as a chance to get close to the cockpit dome, Sonic performed a series of Homing Attacks on the missiles, sending him straight to the dome. Once reaching the dome, he did one final Homing Attack, causing another crack to be formed as he approached the ground.
Inside the cockpit, Eggman noticed the rapidly falling power levels of the robot. Sonic's repeated attacks had caused this, like many of his other machines' failures in the past and Eggman wasn't going to let it happen again. "Divert all power from the mouth laser to the power core." He said as he punched in the commands to do so. By doing this, he failed to notice an approaching blue blur before it was too late. "Noooooo!"
Sonic quickly slammed into the robot's right leg, causing the powerful machine to topple over on its left side, slamming onto the ground once again. Sonic watched something strange happening to the robot, due to its releasing of many sparks and small explosions.
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Sonic's attack during the power transfer had caused a rupture in the fuel lines that connected and flowed power through every part of the robot's body. With no place to go, the highly unstable energy was going everywhere inside, landing on the hot interior mechanical equipment, resulting in multiple explosions which were tearing the robot's insides apart. Eggman could feel the explosions occurring in his cockpit. All over his scanners, the power levels of the machine dropped to zero and everything was non-operational. "Curse that darn hedgehog!" he shouted as he slammed his fists against the console repeatedly.
The robot hadn't moved for over a few minutes, which caused the villagers to excitedly cheer at the defeat and failure of Eggman's takeover of DunBroch. Both the evil genius' robot army and giant robot had been defeated, giving nothing for the villagers to fear from him. "So much for the impressive Eggman," MacGuffin sneered.
Not too far away, Mercilla had seen the defeat of the mysterious new invader and his army of weird minions. She simply flapped there, pondering her next move. Should she commander that thing for her own use or just stay in this weak form? As she thought about how she could make that thing more suitable for her own use, an arrow sped past her, barely nicking her side. She looked down and saw that Merida was almost underneath her, so she started to fly to the machine, her mind made up. An arrow streaked through the air and sliced through her right wing's membrane, leaving a medium-sized hole. She screeched in pain and increased her speed as more arrows came her way.
Seeing where the witch-bat was heading to, seeing Sonic and a giant metal robot, Merida ran over to her blue friend, glancing back at Mercilla to keep an eye on her every couple of feet.
"Did you get Mercilla?" Sonic asked once Merida had joined his side.
"No. She's right there and she's headed for that thing," she replied, pointing to the large bat that had now perched atop the Eggasaurus Rex.
With a cackling laugh, Mercilla's bat form dispersed into a purple mist which spread out all over the Eggasaurus Rex's body. When all of the mist enveloped and entered the robot, it began shaking violently.
"What the heck?" Eggman shouted, looking all around his cockpit and on the console readings for the cause of the violent shaking. All of a sudden, the dome opened up and the seat he was in launched the round man up into the air. As he flew through the air, screaming loudly, he could have sworn he heard someone tell him they were now taking over.
Everyone saw Eggman's ejection, some laughing at the doctor's situation, some pointing at the now pulsating form of the Eggasaurus Rex. Strange energies had swarmed all over the robot's body, which soon began to transform into something else. Eggman fell in front of Sonic and his friends, who looked at the man with somewhat angered looks. Eggman rubbed his behind before noticing Sonic and the others.
"So Eggman, you plan to blow us all up or did your machine not like you and told you to take a hike?" Sonic remarked.
"I didn't do anything. Something forced me out," Eggman answered as he got back on his feet.
"Mercilla did that. She's probably taking over that thing with some of her magic," Merida told them.
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Before Eggman could remark about how magic wasn't real and how her claim seemed absurd, a loud and familiar roar brought everyone's attentions back onto the Eggasaurus Rex. The machine was back on its feet, still looking beaten up. Wires shot out of its broken tail, colliding with the end piece to the broken end, re-attaching itself as it withdrew the cables. That was only the start of its transformation.
The robot's neck started to extend further away from its body, creating a long neck with spikes that had just emerged from its head all the way down its neck, stopping once it reached the base of the long neck. The claws on its fingers and toes became sharper than they were before, as did the teeth in its mouth. Its eyes changed from yellow to blood red while its body formed purple-black organic skin. The wrecking ball on its right arm grew spikes all over it, now making it a flail, while the gun barrel on its left arm morphed into the blade of a fine sword. The end of the tail morphed into a mace ball. With the robot's transformation now complete, Mercilla's voice laughed out of its hideous-looking mouth. "Such amazing power. I feel like I could take on a whole army!" Her gaze then fell upon Merida. "Now you and your father, as well as your troublesome friends, shall pay." With a monstrous roar, Egg-Mordu charged at the group, causing many of the villagers assorted in them to scatter in various directions.
As Sonic and the others made their own getaway, they evaded the technorganic's charge and went over to where the women and children were. As Egg-Mordu began trashing many of the still-standing buildings in the village, thinking that her targets had hidden in them, Sonic and the others started talking about what to do.
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"I thought I destroyed that thing's insides," Sonic said, confused. Normally when something of Eggman's had been trashed internally it stayed trashed.
"Mercilla must have used some of her... magic, to repair the inner workings," Eggman said. He didn't like saying that magic, which he still sort of didn't believe in, had been the cause of this new monster's emergence, but there really wasn't any other thing to point to. He moved a piece of his glasses, using its scanner to get a readout of the monster. "That thing is too powerful for any villager attack or regular attack." Eggman turned to Shadow. "Do you still have the Chaos Emeralds?"
Shadow nodded, pulling out the seven mystical emeralds.
"Sonic is our only chance of stopping this thing."
Sonic stepped forward, eager to take this thing on. "Oh yeah. I've been wanting to take on that Mercilla person in a fight for some time now." He took the seven emeralds and laid them around him in a circle, but before he could do anything, Merida walked into the circle, standing next to him. "I'm helping you," she said, looking determined.
"Merida, get out of there now!" Elinor shouted. "If you go you'll get yourself killed."
"No! This is my fight now. She hurt dad and caused all of this to happen. I'm going to stop her and there's neither a thing you can do about it!"
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Elinor didn't reply, knowing that nothing she could ever say would change her daughter's mind about this. "Fine, but come here first."
Merida walked over, only to be given a tight hug by both her mom and dad.
"You better come back when this is done," Elinor said, some tears coming down her face.
"I will mom. I promise," Merida said, smiling at her mom. "Now I got to go." She got back into the circle of emeralds.
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"Are you sure about this?" Sonic asked, concerned for Merida's safety.
"Positive."
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At that point, Egg-Mordu had spotted them just as she was about to smash a building under her foot. Growling at how stupid she had been to not notice them being over there this whole time, she used that anger to increase her speed as she ran over to them. Her thunderous footfalls got the attention of Knuckles, who turned to Sonic and Merida. "You two might wanna hurry it up."
Sonic closed his eyes, which Merida did, following Sonic's every move. The emeralds around their feet started spinning, lifting off the ground, and bathed them in a rainbow mix of lights as they rapidly spun around the two. The next moment, all seven emeralds entered their bodies, causing the forms of Sonic and Merida to begin a transformation of their own.
Sonic's fur changed from blue to yellow, a golden glow surrounding his body. His head quills raised upwards, appearing like how Shadow's were. His once green eyes changed to red, completing his transformation.
Merida also gained a golden glow around herself, which matched with her golden robe. Her hair had straightened, now a glossy, brighter shade of red. Her bow was now golden, as were some of the arrows in her arrow case. Once her eyes turned from blue to orange-red, she was now Super Merida.
Everyone looked at Merida in amazement at her new super form, but that amazement was now interrupted by the footfalls of Egg-Mordu approaching the group.
"Get to cover now. We'll handle this," Sonic said.
As everyone ran to safety, both Super Sonic and Merida leaped into the air and quickly shot forward, leaving behind a golden streak as they zoomed towards Egg-Mordu.
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End of Chapter 10
A/C: Exciting ending. The reason I chose a dinosaur for Eggman's newest creation was because, he never made a robot dinosaur, at least I don't think (I did some searches on Sonic Wiki and found nothing that said he ever made one). When I first thought of the Eggasaurus Rex, the first thing that popped into my head was Transmetal Megatron from Beast Wars XD The reason for Merida having a super form is because if I gave Rapunzel one, why not give Merida one? Anyways, in the next chapter, Super Sonic and Super Merida fight Egg-Mor'du, with a little help from... Eggman? Stay tuned.