Before this chapter starts, I just want to say that I will no longer be posting chapters on a weekly schedule, it puts way too much stress on me, since I have to balance my fanfiction life with my gaming and schoolwork as well as with my life in general. It just becomes WAY too much for me to handle, so I will upload at a pace I'm comfortable with from now on. Having to rush these chapters out just means you guys end up with pieces of garbage. I'll probably redo the first few chapters of this fanfic, as well as the one-shot, because that was a piece of crap, but nevertheless, here's the chapter!
Fall of a hero, birth of a villain part 2
Sally's POV
It was a slightly worse day than usual, with many still worried sick about their injured friends and/or family in hospital, and those who weren't were still coming to terms with the ones they lost on that day. You know the old cliché they do sometimes in movies and cartoons, where one of the characters would say 'Well at least this couldn't get any worse' then the situation of his entire group would get much worse? I used to laugh or at the very least chuckle every time I saw that cliché happen. Not today though. The thought literally crossed my mind and a split second later, I heard one of the alarm sirens sound. It was coming from the library. I dashed as fast as I could towards the library, where I saw a ton of soldiers surrounding the building, with hundreds of onlookers. Some of the soldiers looked like they were trying to get the onlookers away from the building. I approached one of the soldiers, I needed to know what was going on.
"Excuse me, soldier!" I yelled, drawing the attention of one of the soldiers to me.
"Princess, you shouldn't be here, this place is dangerous!" The soldier replied.
"What do you mean?" I asked. The guard lowered his gaze, looking upset about something.
"It… it's Tails, princess. Our response team we sent in found his dead body when they went in."
"Oh… oh no, that's awful! Sonic's not going to take this well at all!" The last time Sonic lost someone close, he turned into that awful dark form of his and massacred the entire Efrika Egg army. I really don't like seeing him or anyone else get upset.
"That's not all, princess. Two of our guards we placed in charge of keeping Shadow's chaos emerald safe are missing. We believe whoever wants it is in that building.
My younger self would've wondered, "Who could do something like this?" Nowadays I rarely ask that question anymore, since incidents like these are commonplace now. My thoughts were cut off when I heard the soldier shouting into the radio.
"Come in, Alpha! DAMN IT!" The soldier yelled. "Princess, we need to get you out of here now! We've just lost contact with Alpha, our last squad in that buildi-" The soldier was cut off by an explosion tearing a hole through the side off the library wall, and through it, a figure emerged from the smoke.
Metal. I knew all along he'd have a secret agenda.
Metal turned his head towards Sally.
"Princess! There you are!" Metal said, firing a beam at Sally. The soldier threw himself in front of Sally, but the beam pierced his chest and went through Sally as well.
"Princess… no….." The soldier murmured, looking at Sally's body, just before bleeding out and dying.
Metal hovered over the princess's body, looking at it for a moment. Then, a twisted idea went through his head, and an ear to ear smile slowly crept onto his face.
"Metal, you little genius, you." Metal murmured to himself, throwing Sally's body over his shoulder, flew higher up into the air and looked for Sonic's house. He had found it, flew to it and threw Sally's body down right in front of the doorway. He also heard loud snoring from the other side of the door. "Lazy ass must be sleep." Metal murmured to himself, proceeding to bang loudly on the door. "That oughta get his attention."
Metal took off into the sky, then looked down with a smile on his face as he saw Sonic staring with a horrified look on his face when he saw his face. But for Metal it got even better when Sonic got on his knees and screamed in pain at the loss of the one he loved.
"Now to end this." Metal said, raising an open palm above his head and to the sky. He conjured up a massive plasma ball in his palm, using most of his energy. "This is gonna take a lot a power, but it'll get the job done a lot faster."
The citizens of Knothole looked up to the sky and watched in terror as the plasma ball got bigger and bigger.
"Say good night furballs!" Metal yelled, however, just as he was about to throw the plasma ball, a rocket launched from one of the silos and was heading straight towards the Egg carrier that Typhoon was on, causing Metal's memories to flood back. "Oh no… TYPHOON!" Metal flew toward the ship but it was too late. The missile collided with the ship, causing a huge electromagnetic shockwave that shut down both Metal's systems as well as that of the ship, causing both to plummet to the ground with the chaos emeralds.
Alright, now before this chapter ends, I just REALLY want to thank all of you for being so patient with me. It has been literally three months since I posted the last chapter. I will get to work on the next chapter as soon as possible, because I'm not going to have a lot of time since I'm busy with exams at the moment. But yeah, that's all for now, I'll see you guys next chapter!