Sonic BOOM!
It was the middle of the night as Sonic and his team were in the Emerald Hills. He had the six chaos emeralds they gathered all in Sonic's pack. They were close to the coastline closing in on their target location using the stars as a guide. In the distance they saw their target, the Death Egg. It looked like a giant version of Eggman's head; being close to the size of a mountain.
"Whoa, that is a huge station." Amy said.
"The Doomsday Project was even bigger than this." Bunnie remarked.
Meanwhile, they noticed that Sonic had stopped on the coastline. Tails looked toward him and he noticed Sonic was just looking out over the horizon.
"Uh, hello. Mobius to Sonic. Can you answer?" Tails said.
"Oh, what?" Sonic answered.
"You were just staring out into space. What's up with you?" Tails remarked.
"Just something that happened a long time ago happened here." Sonic said.
"Well, can you tell me?" He asked.
"Very well, we'll take a break and I'll tell you, guys what happened." Sonic replied. They decided to sit down only to hear what Sonic had to say before continuing with the mission. "Uncle Chuck and I were there at Mobotropolis for the celebration for the end of the great war. When the Robotnik coup happened, Rosie had managed to smuggle me back to South Island. At the time, I wasn't able to return to my mom. I was sent to live with my Grandpa Paulie and his wife, Brenda."
"Oh?" Bunnie stated. "What was he like?"
"He was a pilot and a veteran of the Great War." Sonic explained. "He would usually tell stories on the missions he went on and some of the dogfights he was in." Sonic explained. "They called him 'Roly Poly' back during the war. But was then retired and he was always had a sense for adventure."
"I see." Tails answered. "So, what happened?"
"I would usually go on flights with him when he delivered mail in his plane." Sonic added. "But one day, we were flying to West Side Island. We were over there in the distance." He pointed to where he was looking.
A bright red biplane was flying above the water. Paulie, an older blue hedgehog with a five o' clock shadow, was in the front seat driving the plane. He was wearing a natural-colored leather jacket. Sonic, himself, was in the back seat.
"I've heard that you haven't been to West Side Island since the Robotnik coup." Paulie said. "I wondered why you begged to come with me."
"I remembered I met Sally, Antoine, Bunnie, and Rotor over here; I have tried to send them letters but they have never responded." Sonic replied.
"From what you said to me, I'm sure they'll be alright." Paulie stated.
"How can you be so sure?" Sonic asked him in confusion.
"You can call it a leap of faith." He responded.
"Do you ever think that Robotnik's occupation ever end?" Sonic asked.
"I'm probably sure it will day." Paulie replied calmly to Sonic. "But you got to remember Sonic, I won't always be here. During that time, you will have to be strong and full of courage." He held out a pinkie to Sonic. "You promise me, Sonic." Sonic reached out with his pinkie and hooked it.
"I promise, grandpa." Sonic returned. They unhooked and Sonic looked away to the waters below. Then, there was a flash of light and a loud boom. The plane shook violently. "Gramps, what's going on!?" He looked forward; to his horror, he saw his grandpa was struck by something and the plane's engine was ablaze. "GRAMPS!" The plane spiraled down, then crashed into the sea below.
Sonic was unable to rescue his grandpa from the crashing plane and was forced to leave the crash site. He was able to make it to the shore in the Emerald Hills. He didn't have time to rest, for he saw some swatbots approaching him.
"Freeze, mobian." One of the two swatbots stated. "You are under arrest." And they attempted to capture Sonic; he ran from them and was able to hide in the Great Forest. Later on, as he wandered through the woods.
"Oh no," he thought. "First, I lose my grandpa. Then, I get attacked by swatbot. And now, I'm lost in this stupid forest. What's next, it starts to rain?" He noticed it was starting to rain. "Just my luck. Well, I better find a place to hide so I won't get rained on." He looked around and noticed a hallow log. "Not very ideal but it'll do." Sonic jumped into the log and he was surprised to see it was a slide. He shouted as he slid down it and landed in a pile of straw. "Oph." He looked around know seeing a village. "Now, where am I?"
Sonic sighed from grief but stood up. His friends wandering if he was even stable for something like this. Metal Sonic who was wandering outside happened to find them.
"Stop right there." Metal shouted, shining a light at them. "You aren't going anywhere."
"Not this time, Metal." Sonic rebuked him.
"So, you're back for more." Metal mocked Sonic with a chuckle. "You've tried every move against me and you have failed to defeat me."
"There's one move I haven't tried." Sonic remarked as he dashed to him. Metal raised his hands to block what he thought was a spin dash. Then, Sonic kicked him in the crotch.
"OOOOIIIII!" Metal shrieked loudly in a girly sounding voice. "My sensors." He fell over holding the struck area.
"GO!" Sonic shouted and the whole group rushed towards the Death Egg. Metal Sonic reached for the communicator.
"Doctor Robotnik…" Metal said. "Sonic's going."
They entered the docking station right as the door behind them was closing. Then, a swarm of badniks came out to greet them.
"I've never seen this many badniks in my life." Bunnie said.
"I have." Knuckles replied. "It's not very pretty."
"How many are there?" Amy asked.
"If I'm thinking correctly…" Tails noted. "About 250."
"250 badniks vs the five of us?" Sonic added. "Eh, sounds pretty even." Sonic hunkered down. "Up, over, and out." He spindashed right into the whole swarm. He disoriented the halves and destroyed ten of the badniks.
Moto bugs came up towards the group. Amy picked up her hammer and started smashing away at the bots that were coming their way. Meanwhile, some rollers approached them from the right side. Tails pulled out his pistol and began to shoot them. Some of them opened up and opened fire on them. Tails took cover behind a nearby pillar while Bunnie and Knuckles dodged to the side thus preventing the rollers from getting a good shot at them.
Knuckles and Bunnie came across some bots that were mantis-shaped. They threw their blades at Knuckles. He moved letting the blades pass by him while Bunnie had to dodge out of the way. When the bots were defenseless. He rushed forward and smashed their face open with his punches.
Bunnie encountered some of the old school swatbots. She used her legs to knock them to the ground. She struck back as they were trying to get back up from being on the ground. She saw some buzz bombers heading her way. He ripped one of the swatbot's head off and threw it at them destroying a few.
As the five of them fought the badniks, the ground was being completely littered with scrap metal and twisted parts.
Sonic bounced of each badnik as he smashed them. He knew that he had to quickly get to the control room to get that last chaos emerald. After going through a few widow bots, he noticed an air vent that can get to his destination. He jumped off of the butterdroids at were approaching him and landed into the vent of the Death Egg.
Tails continued to fight against the rollers firing at them. He saw he was getting flanked by a rhino bot rolling towards him. He ducked out of the way and it slammed into the wall. He blasted the armor off of the robot and used it as a shield. He ran towards the rollers with his blaster firing rapidly taking them down.
Knuckles finished the last of the mantis-bots. Then, some spiked chained tried to strike him from the side. It did manage to hit him.
"Ugh!" Knuckles stated as he turned around. He saw flying egg-shaped robots with a long spiked chain as a tail. "So, want to play rough? I'll give you rough."
One lashed out its tail towards Knuckles. He grabbed the tail, being careful to avoid the spikes, and yanked on it bringing the droid down before smashing the main body open. He ripped the tail off and started using it as a weapon against them.
Bunnie was able to enter a swatbot suit by ripping the circuitry out of it. She, then, used the laser wrist blaster it was equipped with against the badniks that were attacking her. While, Amy used her piko hammer to continue to smash the bots facing her. When, she saw herself cornered she used a psywave to scramble the badniks' wires temporarily to get out of the snag.
Sonic had to get through the maze of air vents as fast as he could. He eventually found himself in the power chamber where the chaos emerald is. He started to approach the emerald.
"You won't be getting that emerald, hedgehog." A voice stated. Sonic turned around and he saw Eggman in a mech. The mech was a walking one with six arms. Four of them had a laser on it, and the last two had bouncing boxing gloves. "You aren't going to be leaving at all."
"We'll see about that Eggman." Sonic replied at him.
"I am certain you won't for the Shiva Suit will take care of you." Eggman rebuked. "Say your prayers, Sonic, for it will be the last thing you do."
The lazers began to fire at Sonic and he dodged out of the way of the beams. Sonic spindashed towards Eggman's mech, he raised his springing boxing gloves and the blue blur bounced off the gloves away from the mech. The giant robot started to walk towards Sonic continuing to fire off the beams of energy. Sonic began to spin around the mech rapidly; Eggman tried to punch the ground opening a spot. Sonic charged at it busting two lasers off. The mech was able to kick Sonic away and he hit a wall hard.
"Urgh!" Sonic groaned as he hit.
"Now, hold still so this is quick." Eggman answered as he fired and Sonic dodged out of the way barely. Sonic moved underneath the legs of the robot. He jumped onto the wall behind the mech as Eggman turned around. Sonic charged and took down the other two lazers.
"Warning, weapon systems down." The computer in the mech stated.
"THAT'S IT HEDGEHOG!" Eggman shouted as he shifted the power over to the spring arms and legs. "NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!" The mech leapt into the air in an attempt to stomp on Sonic; but he missed as Sonic ran across the floor.
"Boy, I really made him mad." Sonic thought. He saw the robot charging at him; seeing Eggman throw a punch, he turned to the left and the punch smashed through a wall. "Yeah, I did."
"HOLD STILL, YOU LITTLE RAT!" Eggman stated, seeing Sonic at the emerald stand. He lunged a punch at the hedgehog and he ducked out of the way. He smashed the power charger and the chaos emerald fell right out. Sonic reached for it and got the emerald.
"Yes, I got it." Sonic stated.
"So, you have the emerald. Big deal, it's not like it will do you any good." Eggman answered.
Then, Sonic pulled out the other six. The seven chaos emeralds floated around him. "Okay, so you have all seven chaos emeralds. What are you going to do show the collection off on Twitter?" The colored gems swirled around Sonic faster and faster, getting closer and closer.
Then, there was a great light the emeralds merged with him. He shined with a bright gold hue as sparks of energy flickered of him. Sonic was just floating in mid-air. Sonic looked at himself.
"Holy cow, so this is the power of the chaos emeralds?" Sonic thought. Then, he looked at Eggman and flew towards the mech.
"Oh… SH…!" Eggman said out loud in total shock, his mustache drooping. Sonic completely ripped through Eggman's mech causing it to collapse and spark. He, then, trashed the power room. Eggman got himself out of the wreckage of his fallen suit. He noticed that Sonic was going to destroy the station. "I'm not going to waste any more time. I'm getting out of here."
Eggman ran towards the nearest escape pod and shut the door behind him. He shot the escape pod out to the side for his escape.
As the other four were finishing off the rest of the badniks, they saw several explosions from the outside of the Death Egg.
"WE GOT TO GET OUT OF HERE NOW!" Knuckles stated.
"BUT WHAT ABOUT SONIC!?" Amy yelled.
"WE DON'T HAVE TIME! MOVE!" He shouted. Some debris collapsed off the station causing the four to be knocked away from the shock. They had to dodge out of the way of the stray lightning bolts coming off the station in meltdown. Amy did notice as they were fleeing that there was a trail of gold starting to circle the station.
During that time far away, Metal Sonic looked at the Death Egg as it had started to malfunction and being ripped to shreds. Scratch, Grounder, Coconuts, and Zero went to him.
"What are we plan to do?" Zero asked.
"I view that Eggman is a very incompetent leader." Metal Sonic answered them. "Otherwise, this incident wouldn't have happened."
"So, what do you suggest?"
"I say we part ways from Eggman and start as our own group."
"Yeah, yeah. We could be the Super Special Sonic Search & Smash Squad without Robotnik." Coconuts answered.
"No…" Metal rebuked Coconuts. "We are no longer the Quintuple S squad."
"Then, what are we then?" Scratch asked.
"How will others know us by?" Grounder added.
"From this day forward, we shall be known as the Metallix." Metal Sonic proclaimed.
"Affirmative." Zero replied. Then, the five robots left.
Knuckles, Tails, Bunnie, and Amy were a safe distance away as they turned around. They saw the golden blur flying as he left the Death Egg as it exploded. He blasted forwards breaking the sound barrier; he flew over them slowing down. He turned to face them waving; then he returned to normal mid-flight. He faced forward and smacked right into a tree.
"This'll leave a mark." Sonic stated to himself as he slid down the tree. His friends met up with him at the tree.
"Sonic, are you all right?" Tails asked.
"A little beaten but I'm okay." Sonic replied. He ended up spitting a tooth out.
"We did it! We saved the day!" Tails said, as the sun started rising.
"I did most of the work, though." Knuckles said.
"What did you mean most of the work?" Sonic stated, rebuking Knuckles.
"I destroyed 70 of the badniks, so I should get some of the credit." He explained. "You only took down 30."
"You were actually keeping track?" Amy stated.
"Yeah, but I was the one who went in there and destroyed the Death Egg." Sonic remarked back to Knuckles.
"Guys, I don't care who did what or how many badniks y'all smashed." Bunnie stated. "What matters is that we stopped Eggman."
"Yeah, but he got away." Sonic stated. Then, his communicator came online.
"Hello, Sonic?" Sally asked.
"Sal, we did it. We destroyed the Death Egg." Sonic exclaimed.
"Well done, Sonic." Sally stated.
"But Eggman got away." He replied.
"I see." Sally sighed. "Well, come back when…" She paused without turning it off. "Wait, what is it?" She paused. "Are you serious?" She turned back to Sonic. "We have captured Eggman." The five were completely shocked.
"How did that happen?" Knuckles stated. "He would have had some escape pod or something."
"He did." Sally said with a slight chuckle. "But that escape pod got him right in the middle of the Soleanna military training ground. It didn't take much to apprehend him."
"That's wonderful, Sally." Amy said.
"Thanks." She stated. "I'll be awaiting your arrival. Sally, over and out." Then, the communicator shut off.
"Time to head back." Bunnie said.
"Who's up for chili dogs?" Sonic asked.
"Here we go again?" Tails replied as the five headed back to Soleanna…
END
In a dark room, a lone red and black buzzard was analyzing the computer screens at various objects. He was wearing a brown coat, some goggles, and black furry hat. Then, a mallard entered the room from behind him. The old buzzard turned to face him.
"What is the status on the janissaries, mallard?" the buzzard asked.
"They are being trained and prepared for battles right on schelude." He replied.
"Excellent." The buzzard answered with glee. "Let our elite squadron forward ahead of us. It will soon be time to visit an old enemy."