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Cold-hearted MetalChapter 12
"Well if it isn't the Faker," Shadow snickered. "I didn't expect to see you so soon."
Sonic cracked a grin. "You haven't changed a bit, Shadow." Sonic then looked at Amy, who was still on Shadow's shoulder. "What are you doing here with Amy?"
Before Sonic could get an answer, he heard Tails call out for him, and he saw Knuckles and Rouge behind him.
'Great, the others are here too. That's just my luck.' Shadow thought.
He saw that Amy had a surprised, but worried look on her face. Shadow then took Amy and set her on the ground.
"Hey, isn't that..." Knuckles began to say.
"Long time no see, Shadow." Rouge said as she put her hands on her hips.
"Look, Amy's with Shadow." Tails said as he ran to Sonic. "Sonic, are you okay?"
Sonic didn't answer. He kept glaring at Shadow.
"So what are you doing here anyway?" Sonic asked again. He started to walk towards Shadow, then Amy stepped in.
"C'mon, don't you guys start fighting already." She said to Sonic.
"Stay out of this, Amy." Sonic was still starring at Shadow. "I might even have to beat him up, or worse."
"Hmph," Shadow looked away. "Cut the crap, Faker. You could use a reality check right now. Amy, don't you ever get tired of hanging around this guy?"
Amy sighed and bowed her head. She couldn't believe that those two hedgehogs had already started an argument after about twenty seconds.
"And I thought that Knuckles' and Rouge's fights were annoying." Tails said to himself.
Everyone could see that Sonic was getting pissed off after what Shadow said about him. Sonic was about to attack him, when Tails and Knuckles held him back.
"Jeez you guys, let go of me! I want that idiot to get what's coming to him!" Sonic was trying to brake free of Tails' and Knuckles' grip.
"Shut the hell up and keep your damn cool, Sonic!" Knuckles yelled.
"You know, you're the last person who should be saying that, Knucklehead!" Sonic yelled back.
"Why you-"
"Stop it you guys!" Tails yelled to both of them. "The important thing is that Amy's back. Now we need to find out how to get to Eggman-"
Tails was cut off. There was a scream of pain from behind. Everyone looked back to see Rouge falling to the ground. She was injured Her back and left arm were covered in blood.
"What the hell?" Knuckles yelled. Then a robot stood in front of the fallen Rouge.
"Well, that's what she gets for stealing from Master Eggman."
"Metal Knuckles." Knuckles said.
"Another robot!" Amy cried.
"Yeah, and it looks like it means business." Sonic said he freed himself from Knuckles and Tails. Two more robots stood next to Metal Knuckles. One of them then stepped forward.
"Well if it isn't my loathsome copy, Sonic." It said.
"Metal Sonic!" Sonic said.
"And there's Zero," Amy mentioned. She then gulped as Zero glared at her.
Metal Knuckles turned to Rouge and picked her up with his bloodied, metal claws. Rouge was still losing blood.
"Subject captured," Metal Knuckles said. "Returning to the base immediately."
"Oh no, you don't!" Knuckles said. He ran to Metal Knuckles, only to get kicked in the face and flown back head first on the ground.
"Farewell Echidna," Metal Knuckles said as he flew away. "I'll be looking forward to when you put up a real fight."
Sonic and Tails ran to Knuckles to help him back up. Knuckles felt like he was going to erupt. When Sonic looked back up, he saw Metal Sonic walking towards them.
"You weaklings have the objects that we need." He said. "Give us the Chaos Emeralds that you have."
"What?" Sonic got up to face him. "Let's just see you bucket-heads try and take them."
Metal Sonic then began to attack. He ran towards Sonic and Sonic ran to him. It looked like two steaks of blue light were closing into each other. Zero started to run towards Tails and Knuckles. Knuckles then threw a vigorous straight punch at Zero, causing a deep impact on the robot. Zero was thrown back, but he landed on his feet. Tails ran to Knuckles' side.
Shadow and Amy stood behind, watching the battle. Amy started worrying about them.
"This doesn't look good." She said.
Shadow said nothing. He was too busy watching the battle between Sonic and Metal Sonic. He noticed a small gray, shiny object in one of Metal Sonic's arms.
"Shadow?" Amy wondered what was bothering him.
"Stay here." Shadow then took off towards Sonic and Metal Sonic.
"Wait!" Amy yelled, but she was unheard. "Oh, I hate it when people leave me all alone." She turned back to watch how Tails and Knuckles were doing.
Zero didn't look like he was weakening, no matter how hard Knuckles' attacks were. Tails was starting to get bruised up from Zero's attacks.
'Something's wrong,' Amy thought. 'Why isn't Zero taking any damage?'
Then Amy suddenly remembered when she was on the Egg Carrier with Zero. When she was fighting with him, she had him electrocuted before attacking his weak spot. Amy had to help Tails and Knuckles before they get badly hurt.
Knuckles was thrown back again by one of Zero's punches. He was slowly getting weaker with each blow.
"Damn it to hell," Knuckles said out loud. "Why won't he go down?"
Tails too was knocked out by Zero. Scratches and bruises were all over his body.
"Man, whatever blow we give him doesn't have any effect." Tails said weakly.
"You should have thought twice before deciding to fight me, fox child." Zero said. "Do not worry, you will be disposed of quickly."
But when Zero took a few steps towards Tails and Knuckles, he was hit by an enormous shockwave. Zero flew back and landed on his back.
"Zero, leave my friends alone! Your grudge is against me, not them!"
Tails and Knuckles looked back at Amy in astonishment. They saw her holding her Piko Piko Hammer with one hand. Amy had a serious look on her face.
"What's Amy thinking?" Tails thought out loud.
Zero got back on his feet and looked directly at Amy.
"You will regret having to make that move on me, little girl."
To Be Continued