You know, for this episode I looked up Super Smash Bros. Melee videos, and all the memories came back to me. So now it's time to put those memories to good use. Enjoy!

Episode 12: Super Metarex Bros. Melee

The SEGA logo appears briefly on the screen, before cutting to a Sonic trophy flung into the air.

Wait, what? What is going on?

Just watch. Er, read. I mean, listen.

The Sonic trophy falls right-side up in an ancient arena, and light comes from beneath it. Cut to a line of text: "Sonic All-Stars in". Then the trophy's light rises over it, making Sonic come to life. He takes a combat stand as in front of him Dark Oak holds his sword for battle. Split-second title: "Super Metarex Bros. Melee". Sonic and Dark Oak lunge toward each other, along with Cream and Charmy. Shatter-wipe transition to Amy moving her arms gracefully, then multiple Sonics each showing off an attack. Behind them Dr. Eggman stands up with a background of fire. Cut to Knuckles running through the jungle. He leaps up high, then moves close to the screen with a grin. Switch to Rouge shooting at a Metarex Meta Ridley, then shooting toward the screen. A background of Seedrian history pans as still images of Dark Oak with his sword appear. Then his hand, Cosmo's hand, and another Metarex hand cross over each other. A stampede of Chaos run over the image and Cheese looks around at the front. Cut to Decoe leaping on top of ice blocks. He trips and is about to fall, but Bocoe grabs his hand. They both have cheerful eyes. Switch to multiple gameplay footages featuring Sam Speed, Rouge, Tails, Charmy, Amy, Decoe and Bocoe, Knuckles, Cream, Cheese, Chris, Cosmo, and Dark Oak. Sparkly fade to Cosmo playing a harp, then looking longingly to the starry skies. In the sky Charmy flies around clumsily, followed by Tails shooting in his X Tornado admist other fighter planes. He briefly passes by Shadow's fighter jet. Cut to Chris speeding down the street from a portal, then stopping to turn around and smile. Switch to an army of other characters with Cream and Vanilla in the front. Bokkun peeks into the shot with a smile. Cut to Sam Speed in his car bumping into Big in his car. Sam pushes Big's car out of control. As Sam's car soars off a ramp, Big has a shocked expression while his car plummets in an explosion. Quick fade to multiple fighters sucked in a vortex. Cut to Dr. Eggman landing in a pillar of lightning, then Sonic, Amy, and Cheese bracing themselves. Switch to Dark Oak, Cosmo, and Cosmo again about to play instruments. Cut to Knuckles being shocked by electricity. Switch to Chris looking at Decoe and Bocoe in a friendship bond. Brief scene of Charmy and Cream running, followed by another scene of the Blue Typhoon, Rouge's ship, and Sam Speed's car going in the same direction. Split-second of a television bomb about to go off, then cut to a single line of text: "[Get Ready]". An explosion knocks out several character trophies in the air.

The announcer declares, "Super Metarex Bros. !"

...What was that about?

That's the promotional intro for SEGA's new game! It'll make BILLIONS!

Billions will be lost if Nintendo and HAL Laboratory win the lawsuit.

What are you talking about? This is just the new incarnation of Sonic Battle!

Uh-huh... And how does this relate to what supposedly happened in the Metarex wars?

This episode is what inspired this game! Just sit back and listen well!

I've been trying to do that since the start.

On the Metarex base, Dark Oak commanded his army, "Kabutops! Use Ancientpower!"

"Wait!" interrupted Sonic.

"Oh, what is it?" groaned Dark Oak. "Is it something about the steak again? Because it's not funny! 'Cause there's no steak! Got it?"

"No, I was just telling you that we need to wait for the countdown!" Sonic told him.

"...Fine." Dark Oak grumbled. "Announcer, countdown please."

The announcer shouted, "3! 2! 1! GO!"

"Ancientpower!" ordered Dark Oak. The Metarex Kabutops all at once used a prehistoric power to throw several rocks at Sonic. Soon, Sonic was brutally covered in rocks.

"OW! OWohoho! Hey!" screamed Sonic while being pelted in rocks. "No fair! The Pokémon from the Poké Ball item are invincible! Though I don't recall Kabutops ever being inside one of them."

"These Metarex aren't supposed to be like the Poké Ball item," claimed Dark Oak. "They're just like Pokémon. And if I'm correct, 10% of the Metarex's stats should be raised." Just as Dark Oak predicted, some of the Metarex had all of their stats raised by one stage. "Now, EXTERMINATE Sonic!" The Metarex piled on Sonic and repeatedly attacked him, raising his damage percentage quickly to 64%. "Ah, if we Knock-Off Sonic now, we'll get the 'KO 64' special bonus."

Because of Sonic's high damage percentage, he was flung farther with every hit. "I'm not in a regular Melee. I was tricked into playing CRUEL Melee! Only with Kabutops replacing the steroid wireframes!"

"Now you figure it out." smirked Dark Oak. But then to his surprise, Sonic began rolling to dodge attacks. Then he jumped over the edge of the floor, making some Metarex follow him. Then Sonic mid-air jumped backward and did another lunge to the opposite edge. This herded some Metarex toward him. Sonic did a smash attack to knock them off far enough for them to not be able to come back.

"At least Cruel Melee isn't entirely impossible." stated Sonic while trying to catch his breath. "Now, to strangle you by your extremely long armpit hair!" Sonic sped to Dark Oak and reached for his 'armpit' hair. But then Sonic moved right through Dark Oak! "He was a hologram all along? Lousy coward!"

"Watch your head, Sonic!" cautioned Cosmo. "It's getting bigger every time we see you!"

More Metarex descended from glowing platforms and dropped through to attack Sonic. Dark Oak's voice boomed, "So you might have mastered Cruel Melee, but can you still survive in Endless Melee?"

"Wait, I still didn't get to defeat 20 of your Metarex!" exclaimed Sonic.

"...You want to defeat more Cruel Kabutops?" questioned Dark Oak.

Sonic explained, "I heard a rumour that if one defeats 20 Cruel Kabutops Metarex, then I'll have to fight Mario and Luigi from their series, and if I win, I'll unlock them!"

"That was an old April Fool's joke." grumbled Dark Oak. "It's been disproved. Trust me."

Sonic spat, "I couldn't trust you with the steak-"

"Your head is getting larger!" cried Amy.

"...Okaaay..." Sonic said perplexed. "Hold on, if we're switching to Endless Melee now, does that mean I get to use items?"

"Unfortunately, yes."

"Sweet!" cheered Sonic. "I can't wait to blast several Metarex with a Smart Bomb!"

"Sorry, that's only in Super Metarex Bros. Brawl." reminded Dark Oak.

"Aww man!" Sonic groaned. A stick with two red balls and a pivot in the center appeared. "I guess I'll make due with this nunchuk thing!"

"It's a flipper!" corrected Amy.

"Whatever." Sonic flung the flipper at the Metarex, but it stopped in mid-air before them. "Huh? No fair! How does that help me stop them?" The Metarex charged after Sonic, but they bumped into the flipper which knocked them away. "Eh, still sucks."

Meanwhile, Knuckles avoided the rain of Metarex and made his way toward Dr. Eggman. "Alright Eggman. It's time to KO you! And here it means Knock-Off! As in knock you off this pod and down to the pit below!"

"You don't have to explain the abbreviation." grumbled Decoe. Knuckles loomed closer menacingly.

Bocoe pleaded, "Come on! Don't hurt us! We both need to save our ships!"

Knuckles challenged, "Okay, which ships are you interested in?"

Decoe and Bocoe hesitated, then nervously answered, "Well, we were interested in Sonamy for a while... a-and Topaka! As in Topaz and Mr. Tanaka, yeah. Uh, Eggman, you got anymore?"

Dr. Eggman added, "Well, I was starting to like... Shadouge..."

"SHADOUGE?" yelled Knuckles as he waved his fist to charge for a Giant Punch. "You're supposed to be for Knuxouge!"

"Uh, if you don't like that ship," stammered Eggman. "Then there's also Tailsmo! I like that ship!"

Knuckles clenched Eggman's shoulders and shouted in his face, "ARE YOU CRAZY?"

"J-just let me wriggle free," sputtered Eggman. "Don't throw me in any direction." But before Knuckles could, the shaft starting shaking, making Knuckles unable to stand. "Ugh! It's like someone threw a Poké Ball item, released a Togepi using Metronome, and then the Metronome move chose Earthquake!"

Eggman boasted, "If I were in my Giga form, I wouldn't be affected by it!"

Knuckles glared at Dr. Eggman. "You have a Giga form?" he asked in disbelief.

"Yep! But only if you complete Adventure Mode on Normal or higher in 18 minutes or fewer."

Knuckles ignored Eggman's claim and contacted Tails. "Tails, what's going on out there?"

Tails answered, "There's a Metarex ship coming at us at 6 o'clock!"

Cream gasped, "More are coming! One at 12 o'clock, another at 3, and another at 9!"

"Why are you telling me all these times?" Knuckles said frustrated.

At the same time, Chris, Shadow, and Rouge watched the Metarex fleet come in. Chris remarked, "Either we unlocked a new stage, or the Metarex are coming to kill us."

Shadow's communicator started ringing, and he groaned, "Ugh, I'll pick it up."

Eggman spoke, "Yeah, Shadow, quick change of plans: we decided you can't be in Super Metarex Bros. Melee. You'll have to wait for Brawl."

"WHAT? Outrageous!" snapped Shadow. "Next you'll be telling me I'll only be an Assist Trophy in that game!"

"No time for arguing!" interrupted Dr. Eggman. "You have to leave now! Besides, we fell for the Metarex's obvious trap, so you should get out while you can! At least so you'll be able to appear in the new game at all."

"No way! I can take them on!" Shadow responded angrily. "If Sonic can survive Cruel Melee, I can pwn it by a thousand times!"

Outside, a red Metarex declared, "Listen well, all of you! My name is Red King!"

"Your name isn't Red King!" growled Dark Oak's voice. "It is Red Pine, because you have a pinecone for a brain, you pine brat!"

"Fine, master." replied Red Pine begrudgingly. "I, Red Pine, am one of the four Metarex kings. We'll make our future appearance in Brawl to replace the Kabutops Metarex in Multi-Man mode! But now, you've brought all the Chaos Emeralds in one place! And since you only thought of fighting each other, we'll easily grab them all and finish the season with us winning!"

Dr. Eggman sat in shock. He held his communicator up to his mouth and spoke, "Bokkun, start the Crimson Egg engines. Shadow, get out of here!"

"Ohhhhhh no!" spat Knuckles. "You're not going to get away without me doing my Epic Giant Punch!" He shook his fist backward, charging for the Giant Punch. "Finally, all charged up." Knuckles spoke as he felt steam coming from his head. He threw his fist with a "POW!" But Knuckles noticed the Egg Mobile fly away. "No fair! Their energy was supposed to be drained!" Knuckles hurried down to the X Tornado and grumbled, "I don't even know how to fly this thing. Maybe if a Barrel Cannon fell down here I can launch myself up before it disappears."

Meanwhile Shadow reluctantly sighed, "Fine, I'll go back to the Crimson Egg."

As Shadow ran off, Rouge hurried after him shouting, "Wait! We're not getting the Chaos Emeralds? NOO!"

"Look honey, I'd love to get the Chaos Emeralds too," responded Shadow. "But your crazy ex has apparently taken over the family and we must do as he says!"

"Wait! You can still resist him, can't you?" Chris questioned as he ran after Shadow. But then his wristwatch started ringing. "Aw, why is everyone calling people? It gets inconvenient and annoying after a while."

Amy pleaded, "You have to help us! Sonic's damage percentage is at 140%, and he's struggling to recover from launches! Another fighter must join in before Sonic is KO'd!"

"Wait, can't Sonic just use the Chaos Emeralds to use super attacks?" asked Chris.

"No, Final Smashes are only going to be in Brawl, unfortunately." Amy said sadly.

Chris pondered for a second and questioned, "Well, can't you help Sonic?"

"JUST GET HERE!" screamed Amy, making Chris' ears hurt.

"Okay! I'll save Sonic!" declared Chris, not knowing that Shadow was glaring at him suspiciously.

Meanwhile, Sonic grabbed a Red Shell and breathed, "If a Green Shell can KO several Metarex in a line, then the Red Shell will be even more awesome." He flung the Red Shell, which homed in on the Metarex and then bounced off the edges. "Heheh, it can't go off the edge!" observed Sonic. But since the shell can't fall off, it repeatedly hit Sonic's stance, constantly sending him up. "Whoa! Ow! Not me! OUCH! Maybe we should just stick to Green Shells."

Amy rubbed her chin thoughtfully and figured, "Maybe I should help Sonic..."

Well, of course!

She ran inside her ship and came out with a Super Scope. Amy was about to fire at the Metarex, but then she stopped. "Hold on, I have to do this the right way." She fired 15 individual shots, followed by two fully charged shots. Amy then called to Cosmo, "Come over here! I need you to attack me while I'm charging my shot!"

Cosmo was very confused and she asked, "Why would you want me to attack you?"

"So this baby can get infinite ammo!" responded Amy excitedly. Cosmo still stood unable to understand.

"How does me attacking you give the gun ifinite... ammo, you call it?"

"Something to do with a programming error." guessed Amy. "Just come over here so we can help Sonic with this glitch!"

"Wait, can I just get the Chaos Emerald first?" asked Cosmo. She nervously headed to the Chaos Emerald capsule.

"No! What are you doing?" cried Amy before more Metarex crowded around the ship. "Aaah! Fine, be that way! Good thing I have spare hammers!" She grabbed a black-headed hammer and Amy walked around swinging it up and down. But then the hammer head fell off, and Amy was unable stop swinging. "Drat! Why didn't I just settle for my usual hammer?"

"I'll help you with the infinite ammo soon, Amy!" cried Cosmo as she walked up to the capsule...s. "Oh, there was another Chaos Emerald capsule right next to the first one. So Tails was right about the two Chaos Emeralds all along!" She went to a nearby keypad and pushed several random buttons.

"Code overrided." sputtered the computer before glitching out.

"I did it!" cheered Cosmo as the Chaos Emerald capsules opened. But then an alarm like the one sounding in the Brinstar Escape Shaft sounded.

Sonic sighed, "Okay Cosmo, what did you do?" Inside the capsule with the Planet Egg thing, two metal half-spheres rose around it and locked together with a metallic clang. "From what I heard, something has used the Metal Box." The metal sphere with the Planet Egg got ejected from the capsule and down the shaft, leaving Cosmo in surprise.

Meanwhile, Knuckles was keeping his rage inside as he tried activating the X Tornado. "You stupid plane! Why won't you WORK?" The sphere hit Knuckles on the head, knocking out his remaining stamina. "Grooooaaaa..." moaned Knuckles as his face fell on the wheel, blaring the horn. The Planet Egg continued falling down the shaft.

"The Planet Egg is gone, sir." spoke a Metarex soldier to Red Pine.

Red Pine's interior face grew maniacal and he giggled, "That means we can use... our big gun."

"Wait, sir, you're not talking about our Subspace Gun, right?" asked a soldier worriedly.

"What other gun is there?" Red Pine countered mockingly.

"No! We can't use it yet!" the soldier cried. "It was only to be used in Super Metarex Bros. Brawl."

"...Ohhhhhhh yeaaaaah..." sighed Red Pine. "Well, can we use all our other guns?"

"Affirmative, sir."

"Good. Now fire at our base!" Red Pine ordered.

The soldier gasped, "Wait! There's still some of our people in there!"

Red Pine mimicked childishly, "'There's still some of our people in there!' I'm Red King, so you have to do what I say, no matter what! And I say: OVERKIIIIIIILLLLLLLLL!" The intimidated Metarex hurried to activate all the guns and did a shooting spree at the base.

Tails noticed the shots and commanded Cream, "Quick! Palm Tree Shield!" Cream activated the palm trees and they generated a red bubble that gradually shrunk. "Hold on a second, this isn't the usual shield..."

"It'll have to do!" snapped Cream before angrily turning back to her controls.

Tails looked uneasy at the shrinking shield. "Apparently, if this shield gets too small, it'll break and everyone will be stunned! Quick, deactivate the shield!" Cream rolled her eyes and she turned off the shield. "Now fire the anti-missiles!" The Blue Typhoon fired several missiles at the Metarex shots, but every missile got destroyed before hitting the target. "...Okay! Reactivate the shield!" Cream again activated the palm trees and the red bubble shield was at its former size. Yet it again started to shrink. "I'm not sure how long this shield would last. Cream, do you know why the Palm Tree Shield isn't working the usual way?"

"NO! Now just accept it!" Cream spat before turning back.

"...Are you still mad about me rejecting you?"

Meanwhile, Shadow was running away from Rouge and Chris. "Stop following me! Can't you see I'm using the evasion technique?"

"You can't just run away!" cried Chris. "You could be helping others!"

"That's right, the Chaos Emeralds need your help!" Rouge added pleadingly. "Oh, and Sonic too."

Shadow told them, "Look, I'm teaching you a lesson: You can be a follower and still look cool at the same time. Don't worry, after I do what Eggman says, I'll be plotting my sweet revenge..."

Chris challenged, "Do you just follow Eggman's orders because his grandpa made you?"

Shadow continued running, then he stopped in sudden realization. "WHAT? That geezer's geezer made me? Impossible! I'm the ultimate life-form, not some codger's Frankenstein's monster!"

Rouge flew in front of Shadow and spoke, "Look, the point we're making is that Dr. Eggman won't give you your memory back. I mean, you have to ask yourself if Eggman would really have the ability to cure your amnesia. The same Eggman that always has failing plans and is my crazy ex?"

Chris begged, "Just help us! It's the right thing to do!"

Shadow pondered outloud, "Mmm, sorry. Cool people don't care about the right thing. They just only care about... the cool thing to do. And believe me, this'll be cool after I carry out my revenge!" He grabbed Rouge's arm (who again did a brief blush) and held out his Chaos Emerald. "Chaos Control!"

"Wait for me!" Chris cried as he leaped into the Chaos Control.

Dr. Eggman looked behind him to see a bright, red light. "Oh, OW! Too shiny!" Out of the light, Shadow was holding Rouge closely while Chris fell toward Dr. Eggman. "Shadouge! I mean, Shadow and Rouge, it's about time! And what's that kid doing here? Why is he looking at me like that?"

Rouge groaned, "You just realize now that Chris is back?"

"Yeah, we're almost halway through the season. You should be smarter than that." pointed out Shadow. "Unless, of course, you're not smart."

Chris stated, "Hello, Dr. Eggman. It's been years since we met."

"...Noooooo, it's only been 6 months." Eggman responded with the same look of confusion that Chris saw with everybody else. "Wow, and people think I'm dumb! Er, which I'm absolutely not!"

"Well in my world, it has been 6 years." clarified Chris. "So I created a portal machine that only I could use, and then came here."

"Ah, so you're an adult now." Dr. Eggman said. "But why do you have dwarfism?"

Chris was appalled at Eggman's guess. "I don't have dwarfism! Something relating to time ratios has caused me to be young again! Uh, H. George Wells explained it better!"

Albeit very confusingly, but it was an explanation nonetheless.

Shadow placed the two Chaos Emeralds inside the Egg Mobile and walked away. "You have fun with that. I'm just gonna go get some nachos."

After Shadow left, Chris continued, "My current state doesn't matter! I've changed. Back then I used to be stupid."

"And how do you know you're not still stupid?" questioned Eggman.

"BURN!" chimed Horkirk and Jasdirk.

"GET OUTTA MY SHIP!" demanded Dr. Eggman before he ejected the two out into space.

Chris ignored those statements and went on, "But now I recognize responsibilities and take initiatives."

"Initiative?" challenged Eggman. "Heh! I'd like to see that!" In response, Chris held out a spherical object. "AAAH! He's wired! He's got a bomb!"

"A bomb?" asked Decoe.

"WHAAAAT?" Bocoe gasped. Chris threw the object at Eggman, blinding him and everyone else in multiple colours. In the ruckus Chris grabbed the two Chaos Emeralds and ran off.

When the coloured smoke cleared, Eggman growled, "A smoke ball? No fair! They're only supposed to be in Brawl!"

Bokkun spat, "You stole our stuff! No fair! You're supposed to be a good guy, an example for others! One that earns his prizes, scallywag!"

Chris ran down the halls and found the ship hold. He hurried inside, but came across a tall, robe-wearing wolf and a muscular dingo. The wolf snickered creepily, "Ah, we won't let this child get away, Dingo."

"I'll clobber him nice n' easy, Sleet!" declared Dingo.

First Scratch and Grounder, and now these two?

Sleet looked around and saw Chris was past him. "No fair! You- how dare you sneak past me!"

Dingo muttered, "Guess we should've just killed him right away." Right after that, Shadow stepped into the room with a tray of nachos. "Ooh! Are those nachos for us?"

Shadow scowled at the two and spat, "Move aside!" He punched both of them epically into the wall.

At the same time, Chris hurried into an Eggman ship and noticed that the ignition was a touch-button. "Wow, doesn't anyone use keys anymore?" mused Chris as he touched the button and zoomed out of the Crimson Egg.

Meanwhile, Cosmo was running toward Sonic with the two Chaos Emeralds. "I have the Chaos Emeralds! Now I can help you with the infinite ammo, Amy!"

The Metarex declared, "Oh no you don't! No cheats!" He fired at Cosmo, and the knockback properties made Cosmo trip and drop the Chaos Emeralds. "Strange, tripping was only supposed to be in Brawl..."

Sonic gasped, "The Chaos Emeralds! My only chance to get stronger!" But he was subsequently blocked by several Metarex. "Drat! It's too risky to fight with my damage percentage really high now." All of a sudden, a blast of electrical energy shocked the Metarex and KO'd them! Behind them was... Pichu! "What? Pikachu's son slash brother slash nephew slash cousin?" Pichu released several electrical bolts at the Metarex, frying them greatly. "Huh? How come I can't see their skeletons when they're being electrocuted?"

"This is Melee," reminded Amy. "They dropped that special effect and replaced it with the bodies simply going darker."

Sonic objected, "But a few episodes ago, we saw a Metarex get shocked and his skeleton showed!"

"That was back when it was just Super Metarex Bros." responded Amy. Meanwhile Pichu electrocuted more Metarex with his Thunder attack. But then a surviving Metarex did a medium punch on Pichu, which sent him flying.

"Pichu PI-CHUUU!" wailed Pichu before he disappeared in a Star KO.

Amy asked, "Why did Pichu get KO'd so easily? The Metarex didn't attack him until now."

"But he gets recoil damage every time Pichu uses an electric attack." brought up Sonic bluntly. "Maybe Pichu in Brawl is a bad idea..."

"Excuse me Sonic," interrupted Cosmo. "The Metarex are taking the Chaos Emeralds." Sonic and Amy turned around to see a Metarex already have the two Chaos Emeralds in his hands.

"Oh no they won't!" declared Amy as she grabbed her usual hammer. "Sonic, take the Parasol!"

"But the Parasol is a weak battering item!" whined Sonic.

"Yeah, but it's still fun to float in the sky with it." Amy countered. "And believe me, you need the fun!"

"Fine." Sonic responded reluctantly. He grabbed the parasol and jumped high into the air. Soon Sonic opened the parasol and floated above the Metarex. "Wheee." An explosion from outside knockbacked everyone in the room, even interrupting Sonic's drift. "AAAAAAH!" cried Sonic as he suddenly plummeted to the floor. The explosion destroyed a part of the wall, revealing the Metarex ships firing at the base.

"They're destroying the base with their own people inside!" gasped Cosmo horrified.

"Yeah, that's pretty funny." chuckled Sonic, oblivious to Cosmo's worriedness. "Okay, the parasol is obviously worthless! Get me a cloaking device!" Sonic grabbed a cloaking device and quickly became invisible (despite his outline being visible and the device flickering every time he moved). "Whoo-hoo! I also can't take anymore damage this way!" The Metarex looked around confused as they tried to find the hedgehog.

Amy cried out, "Sonic? Where are you?"

Sonic's voice answered, "...Actually, I don't know. I can't see myself." Right after that, Sonic's cloaking device lost all energy, making him visible right next to the Metarex. "...The invincibility was fun while it lasted." he mused before the Metarex swarmed him.

Back in the hallways, Chris piloted the Eggman ship to find Sonic. But he glanced behind him and Chris saw none other than Shadow! "Shadow's here too? This was his revenge plan?"

Shadow stared at Chris, and suddenly snippets of his past came back to him. Him punching Chris, Shadow noticing the similarities between Chris and Maria, and... Chris shedding a tear on his energy ring. "You... You cried on my stuff!" shouted Shadow angrily. "Now you'll pay for that tear!" He shot Chaos energy at the ship, making it crash to the ground.

"YAAAAY!" cheered Jasdirk and Horkirk.

"Stop following us!" groaned Shadow as he blasted the two off the base. "Now, to finish him off. And since I'm cool, I'll just walk over to him, just to make things suspenseful." Shadow stepped toward Chris while he stumbled out of the ship and down the hallway. Suddenly Rouge picked up Chris and carried him down the corridor quickly. "Hey! I was going to finish him off!" yelled Shadow. "...As soon as I caught up to him, that is." Rouge held Chris at the shaft and descended while Shadow looked down and smiled. "That's it, honey. Drop him down the bottomless pit."

As they were descending, Rouge inquired Chris, "So, now that I've saved you from Shadow, is there anything else I could do for you?"

Chris asked, "Hmm... do you have any french fries?"

What? Chris is thinking of french fries at a time like this?

Rouge snarked, "Do I look like Ronald McDonald to you? You know what? I should drop you just for that. Yes, I'll drop you now." She let go of Chris and let him fall down the shaft.

"AAAAAAAAAH!" Chris cried until Knuckles grabbed his hand. "Knuckles! Do you have any french fries?"

"No." answered Knuckles. "Do you know how to fix this ship?"

"I'm not sure..."

"Alright." Knuckles replied and dropped Chris.

"NOT AGAAAAAIIIN!" shouted Chris as he fell.

Sheesh, I would expect better from Knuckles.

Knuckles checked the X Tornado again and suddenly noticed something. "Oh! All this time I just had to push the giant button marked 'Ignition'!" He pressed it and the X Tornado hovered. "Yeah! Now what? ...Oh yeah, I let Chris fall down the shaft. Better pick him up." Knuckles quickly flew down the shaft and caught sight of Chris. He quickly piloted the X Tornado underneath Chris, catching him just before he hit the bottom blast line. "Phew! Saved ya!"

Chris stayed on his back, unable to move due to the impact after the long fall. "Yeah... thanks a lot."

Back at the Blue Typhoon, Cream saw that the Palm Tree Shield was getting even smaller. "The Shield's stamina is down to 30%, Tails!"

"Yeah, and there's no food around to regain stamina." added Tails sadly. "...You wanna do it real quick?"

TAILS! What's wrong with you?

"No!" spat Cream as she once again angrily turned aside.

In the Crimson Egg, Bokkun noticed, "Hey, where's Rouge and Shadow? Wasn't he supposed to come back with some nachos?"

"Forget about those two!" Dr. Eggman interrupted, pointing to the base. "There seems to be a gravitational pull at the center. It has to be an interdimensional portal!"

"How do you know it's not just an ordinary gravitational center?" questioned Bocoe.

"Because an ordinary gravitational center is boring!" countered Eggman.

"He's got us there." mumbled Decoe to Bocoe.

Back in the X Tornado, Chris managed to gain back a little movement needed to pilot the plane. He flew the X Tornado up the shaft, but stopped in mid-air when he saw Shadow standing in an opening. Chris stared at Shadow, then turned back to the controls. "You're not going to be my hitchhiker!" declared Chris as he flew the X Tornado quickly up.

"...Oh am I?" challenged Shadow as he expertly leaped high after the X Tornado. It flew higher and higher until it reached the main battle platform. The X Tornado dropped onto the platform and skidded through several Metarex.

"Sonic! I have two more Chaos Emeralds for you!" called Chris as he threw the Red and Purple Chaos Emeralds at Sonic.

Sonic excitedly ran at the Chaos Emeralds. "Ooooh! Gimmegimmegimmegimmegimme!"

"Those are my Chaos Emeralds!" declared Shadow. "I found them first!" He lunged at the Chaos Emeralds while Sonic continued speeding towards them. "...Hmm, I'm falling pretty slow. But this stage doesn't have low gravity settings."

When both Sonic and Shadow got close to the Chaos Emeralds, all seven of them began to glow. Cosmo and Red Pine both looked notably awestruck at seeing Sonic and Shadow become Super for the first time. Everyone else, however, just sat and ate some snacks while watching something they've seen multiple times before. Dr. Eggman chewed a gob of popcorn and remarked muffled, "Sonic and Shadow are Super again. Again."

Red Pine gasped, "No! It's... impossible! That's imPOSSIBLE! Both of them can't use the Chaos Emeralds, could they? No, it's impossible!"

"Stop saying 'impossible'." grumbled a Metarex soldier.

Red Pine glared at the soldier and hissed, "Fine. It's inconceivable."

Sonic grinned at his Super form. "Finally! I'm SOOOOOOPAAAAAAAAH!11!11!1"

Runway music started playing as Shadow stepped up in his Super form. "Ah, it's good to be an ultimate superhero. Again. Now I shall finish the season by obliterating all those Metarex!"

"Wait a second! I was going to destroy the Metarex!" protested Sonic.

"How can you if you're dead?" questioned Shadow.

Sonic was appalled and he objected, "I'm not dead!"

"Oh really?" Shadow inquired, ready to fight. "Well let me kill you for you." He raced toward Super Sonic and punched him into the wall.

Super Sonic growled, "NOW I'LL SHOW YOU!" He flew around at high speeds, ramming into Super Shadow at any chance. Both of them lunged quickly at each other, occasionally hitting each other.

"What's going on?" asked Cosmo.

"It's their Final Smashes, but a game early!" answered Amy. "But since Sonic and Shadow are doing their Final Smashes at the same time, their power is neutralized!"

Tails looked at both of them quizzically. "How'd you two get back so fast?"

"No time for that! Shadow and Sonic are going to die!" wailed Amy.

Red Pine watched the Super battle annoyed. "They don't take the chance to attack me? Am I not good enough? Do they just take me as a Sandbag, not worth fighting for? Metarex ships, break up the fight!" The ships fired several shots at the Supers to stop the fight, but in vain. "Come on now, break it up! Break it up!"

Sonic and Shadow weren't listening. "Give up, Shadow! It took me 12 episodes to get back all seven Chaos Emeralds, and I'm not going to let it all be for nothing!"

Shadow smirked, "So I see you're not just copying me in physical appearance."

"What's your point?" questioned Sonic.

"Simple. You're just an ordinary hedgehog." Shadow answered smugly.

"WHAAAAT?" gasped Sonic as he gawked at Shadow. Super Shadow took the moment to punch Sonic in the face. "OWWW! You think you're awesome? Well awesome people don't follow a mad doctor's orders and pass it off as part of a 'revenge plan'!"

Now Shadow gawked. "You take that back! This is all part of my revenge plan! I'm just following Eggman so that he thinks I'm on his side!"

"Well it's not going to work now since you just told everyone." grumbled Dr. Eggman as he inched closer to Rouge (who inched away from him).

Super Sonic punched Shadow and cackled, "How'd you like that?" Super Shadow punched Sonic, and both of them continued ramming into each other. However, they didn't notice the Metarex Base stage's gimmick, which was that it gradually fell apart. Eventually a black hole emerged from the center. "What did you DO?" Sonic accused Shadow.

"Me? What did you do?" Shadow countered. The black hole starting sucking in several Metarex ships. "We'll pick this up another time. See ya chump!" He flew off, only to have Sonic pull him back.

"Either I live, or we both die!" challenged Sonic.

Nearby him, Mario was flying through space, but he got pulled in by the black hole. "Woo-hahaha!" cried Mario as he was sucked in.

"...Okay, now let's see you do that!" declared Sonic as he wrestled with Shadow.

Dr. Eggman shouted to the others, "We have to get outta here! Full engines everybody!"

"They are at full engines!" answered Bokkun worriedly. "Waaah! We're gonna die!"

"Way to be optimistic, Bokkun." grumbled Rouge.

Everyone was having the same problem in the Blue Typhoon. "We don't have enough power!" shouted Chris. He glanced at the passengers who were glaring at him. "And I have a feeling we're going to get sued before we die."

Knuckles hurried to the Master Emerald and shouted, "I don't have time for the long chant! Just give us more energy, PLEEEEEEASE!" The Master Emerald glowed brightly and transferred more power to the engines. "Oh, thank you. I'm not ready to protect you in another dimension. Or death."

Red Pine ordered his Metarex, "Come on! Move away! We have to get outta here!"

"But we can't, sir!" cried a soldier. "I suppose the plot wants us gone."

"NOOOOO!" whined Red Pine. "I'll never show up for another episode! That means I'm pointless! WAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!"

Supers Sonic and Shadow rested on a piece of debris. Sonic mumbled, "You're... going... down..."

Shadow grumbled, "Give... up..."

Sonic answered weakly, "Nev...er... Faker."

"Take... that... back."

"HELLOOOOO?" wailed Dr. Eggman as his ship was pulled toward the black hole. "We're about to be pulled into spaghetti!"

Shadow saw the Crimson Egg get closer to the black hole. "I'm a-coming, family!" he declared as Shadow leaped for the ship arms out.

"Heheh, he gave up." snickered Sonic.

Shadow landed on the Crimson Egg and groaned like he was constipated. "Grrrrrrrr! Chaaaaaooossss Contrrrrrrrrrrollllllll!" The Crimson Egg was finally teleported in another part of the galaxy. Shadow finally relaxed and sighed, "Ah, there it is."

Sonic crawled away from the black hole, but he saw the seven Chaos Emeralds fall toward it. "Whatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhat NOOOO! The Chaos Emeralds!" Sonic held his arm out, but they were already plunged into the hole. "NOOOOO! WHAAAT? WHAAAAAAAT? NO! NO! ARE YOU KIDDING MEEEE? NO! NO! I COLLECTED THEM ALL! IT WAS THE END OF THE SEASON! NOOOOOOOOOOO!"

The Blue Typhoon struggled to hover beside Sonic. "Sonic, we'll get them back eventually!" called Tails. Sonic lied on the debris stubbornly. "Eh, it'll take a while to get him back." stated Tails to the others.

Meanwhile, Dark Oak examined the situation. "So both Sonic and Shadow have Super forms. What's next, the pink hedgehog? Or that mutant squirrel? Or even my daughter- I mean, that flower child? ...I might need a spare episode to come up with a new plan."


Phew, another chapter done in time. Nothing much to say except this makes me want to play Melee again, just for the stuff that couldn't make it in Brawl. Anyway, please review!