Sorry for the super-long delay! I've been busy with...other stuff! Anywho, enjoy the penultimate chapter! :D
Chapter 14: Heroes in the Weapon
As soon as the Heroes arrived, about half of the city was already in ruins.
Tails flew the X-Tornado over the Black Chaos Demon, careful not to be swatted away by the monster. He quickly placed his communicator on.
"Amy, are you and Nova ready?"
"Ready as we'll ever be!" Amy answered as she and her brother peered down at the monster from the roof of the building.
"Spark? How about you and Mercury?"
"We're at our positions," Spark responded from the entrance of an alley where he and Mercury stood.
Tails looked at the back seat where Knuckles was. "Ready Knuckles?"
"I've been ready," The echidna answered, preparing for the attack.
Tails returned to his communicator. "Sonic, are you sure this'll work?"
"Sure I'm sure!" Sonic answered confidentially as he and Shadow flew over the X-Tornado in their super forms. "It's worked before so it'll work again."
"But we've never actually tried it on a 50 foot demon," Shadow commented in a gruff voice.
"You worry waaay too much, Shad..." He peered at Tails through the window of the X-Tornado and clicked the button on his communicator. "Tails, are you and everyone ready?"
"We're all set and in position, Sonic!"
"Well then, let's start on my signal, Tails,"
"Will do, Sonic,"
"Ready..." Sonic and Shadow flew over the demon and just when they were over his head he yelled, "Now!"
"Chaos Lance!" Shadow threw two spears of light the size of him towards the demon's head.
Knuckles jumped of the X-Tornado and glided towards the monster. "Take this!" He said as he punched it.
Tails quickly flipped a lever, immediately sending several missiles towards the Black Chaos Demon.
"Our turn," Mercury banged the floor. "Earthquake Rush!" As soon as he hit the floor it began to crack sending several rocks flying.
"Lightning Frenzy!" Spark shot electricity at the floor making it dance through Mercury's earthquake attack.
"Ready, Amy?" Nova asked his sister.
"Ready," Nova's red light surrounded her and the red hedgehog lifted her up. With a few spins, he sent the Rosey Rascal flying towards the monster with her hammer poised.
Sonic's golden glow began to glow brighter as he charged his attack. "Sonic Boom!" He yelled as he shot himself at the Black Chaos monster with his several speed attacks.
Smoke surrounded Kazu and his monster because of all of the attacks, but when the smoke lifted the Black Chaos Demon still seemed to be intact.
Knuckles landed infront of Spark and Mercury. "That's just great. Our best attacks and still not even a scratch!"
"It's going to take something even more powerful to defeat this thing," Sonic said to Shadow.
"I told you this wasn't going to work..." Shadow said gruffly. "Now what?"
"Now we do this my way," Eggman flew in in his hovercraft in between Sonic and Shadow.
Sonic let out an exaggerated sigh. "Go away, Eggman,"
Eggman shook a finger. "Uh-uh. You said that if you were stumped, all of you would listen to my plan."
"We're not stumped," Sonic countered. "We're just-"
"Shut-up, Faker," Shadow interrupted, making Sonic pout. The Ultimate Life Form faced Dr. Eggman. "We're listening, Doctor,"
"Oh, well, yes. You see, the only power to defeat this monster is the combination of the power of you hedgehogs and the brilliant technology of mine...and Tails. Therefore I created a machine capable of combining all of these talents and make them powerful enough to defeat Kazu." Out of nowhere, Eggman pulled out a remote control and pressed the button. In a few seconds, a hedgehog robot as tall as the Black Chaos Demon descended from the sky. The robot seemed to be made out of a gold-colored metal and it's eyes were coated with a silver metal. It seemed to have the same shoes and gloves as Sonic but the shape of the quills were similiar to Shadow's.
"Behold the Hedgehog 3000!" Eggman announced proudly. "It's body is completely made out of titanium-steel alloy with a light coat of gold to make it's defenses shoot way-"
"Leave the lectures for later, Eggman!" Tails said as he flew over them in the X-Tornado. "We have to defeat this monster before it destroys us."
"Right! Enough of this boring talk!" Sonic jumped through an entrance in the robot as Shadow followed. Eggman connected his Egg Walker onto the head of the robot as Super Sonic and Super Shadow looked around.
The inside of the Hedgehog 3000's head was all silver with a platform were the transparent eyes were. That platform had two metal circular platforms with a silver dome floating above it, floating next to each other.
"This place is AWESOME!" Sonic said as he pumped his right fist to the sky. "All it needs is a soda and snack machine, a huge flat screen t.v. and-"
"Shut up, Sonic," Shadow interrupted as he folded his arms across his chest. "there's a 50 foot monster that is about to destroy the city and here you are trying to redecorate our weapon?"
Sonic pouted once again. "Why have you been shutting me up all day today?"
A large hologram of Eggman appeared on the window. "Now stop arguing, you two. We are not here to fight against each other."
Sonic rolled his eyes. "Look who's talking."
Eggman decided to ignore the comment. "Now would you be kind enough to stand on one of the those platforms?"
Shadow glanced at Sonic who shrugged and began heading towards the platform on the left. Shadow took the one on the right. Immediately when they stepped on them, the platforms changed to gold and four streams of blue light shot at the two hedgehogs from the top and bottom, one light for each wrist or ankle.
"I knew this was a trap!" Sonic yelled as he tugged on one of the whips on his wrists. Immediately, the hedgehog robot moved his wrist.
"Calm down, my furry golden friend," Eggman reassured. "this is all part of the robot's control. You see, the Hedgehog 3000 actually uses the movements of the operator to create its own. Those 'Control Lights' that are attached to you send your movements to the robot's mainframe which then send it to a certain body part to perform the movement. It's simple robotics really."
Tails appeared in a double screen next to Eggman. "Yes, Eggman. Thank you for the lesson." He faced Sonic and Shadow. "You guys have enough power to destroy the demon so long if you grab hold of it and then activate it's Chaos Blast with the Chaos Emeralds that you have."
"Easier said than done," Sonic commented. "Let's just get this over with."
"Chaos Control!" Shadow teleported the robot right behind the demon and punched it in the back. The demon let out a roar as he turned around and fired a blue light at them with his mouth, pinning the robot to a skyscraper until the structure itself collapsed.
Sonic opened his eyes, finding himself on his knees on top of the large window, the Control Lights still attached to him. He looked to his right and saw Shadow in the same situation. 'You okay, Shad?" He called out through all the noise.
"Yeah," Shadow answered gruffly. He launched himself towards his platform and stood on it long enough for the Hedgehog 3000 to stand up. As soon as it did, Sonic toppled right on top of his platform.
"This is hard to control," Sonic groaned as he rubbed his head.
"We don't have time to complain," Shadow answered as he readied a punch. He shot it at the demon, yet it blocked the attack.
"Do something!" Sonic yelled. He quickly sweep kicked the demon, sending him crashing on to the ground. "Sweet! It's like a video game!"
"Quickly, Sonic!" Amy came up on the screen. "The monster seems to be gathering energy!"
"That can't be good," Tails came out next to her. "it must be getting ready to unleash the Chaos Bomb. If it does reach that point, we're all soon going to be gone!"
"Well, that's not going to happen!" Sonic pulled one of his hands back then shot it forwards. "Sonic Wind!"
As the Black Chaos Demon attempted to fight back with the strong winds, Shadow prepared his attack. "Chaos Control!" He yelled once again as he teleported them behind the robot.
Sonic moved the robot so it would be grabbing the monster (he just looked like if he was hugging the air). "Ready, Shadow?"
The Ultimate Lifeform nodded in agreement.
"CHAOS BLAST!" A bright light shot around the demon and the robot.
From afar, Amy, Tails, Spark, Nova, Knuckles, and Mercury watched from afar and were suddenly blinded by the light. All they could hear was a loud roar, not of anger, but of pain. When the light faded, they saw the Black Chaos Demon on the ground, dead, and the Hedgehog 3000 floating over it.
"Yes!" Tails cheered as he pumped on of his fists in the air. They gave each other high fives and hugs on Amy and Nova's part.
Spark high-fived Knuckles and then turned and saw Mercury and smiled. He raised one of his hand and Mercury happily high-fived him.
"Let's go down and see Sonic and Shadow!" Tails said as he began to fly towards them. The rest followed.
Super Sonic and Super Shadow descended from the robot and landed next to the dead monster, where Kazu laid, injured, but alive and enraged.
"You...idiot!" Kazu shouted as he clenched the ground beneath him. "You're just making it worse for the world! The world will rot because of the impure people here!"
"The only one 'impure' here is you," Sonic answered. "Destroying the lives of others is not a way to cleanse the world."
"Leave him with his stubborn ways," Shadow ordered. "Let's just finish him now." He quickly raised one of his hands, ready to give him the final blow when-
"Kazu!" Senka came out of nowhere and threw him and shiny black rock. Kazu quickly caught it and in a flash disappeared along with the cobra.
The two hedgehogs stood there, dazed.
"Dammit!" Shadow yelled as he turned back to his normal form.
"What just happened?" Sonic asked. He too changed back to normal.
As if on cue, the rest of the Heroes walked up.
"He got away, didn't he?" Knuckles guessed. Sonic nodded.
"But not alone," Shadow added. "That one cobra threw him something which triggered him to teleport.
"Like this?" Eggman floated on his Egg Walker holding the exact same stone as the one Senka had.
"Where did you get that, Eggman?" Tails asked.
"Kazu had many of these hidden around my lair," Eggman explained as he handed the object to the orange fox. "He probably believed that he could store them there without me noticing."
"With all due respect, Doctor," Mecha Shadow said as he arrived. "it was I who-"
"Shut up, Mecha," Eggman interrupted.
"Peculiar," Tails muttered as he examined the stone. "I'm going to have to take this back to the lab to find out more about it."
"Do whatever you want with it." Eggman said as he and Mecha began to float higher. "but we are leaving."
Sonic gave him one of his cocky smiles. "Nice working with you, Eggman."
Eggman laughed. "The pleasure is all mine, Sonic, but remember. When we encounter each other once again, we'll be enemies."
"And we'll be here to stop you," Sonic said as he winked and gave him a thumbs-up sign.
"You can only try," And with that, the doctor and the robot dissappeared.
"We should be leaving too," Shadow said." Our work is done here,"
"But Eggman forgot the robot," Amy pointed out. "we can't just leave it here."
Sonic grinned. "There's a very simple solution to that, Amy."
Short chapter (and a pretty lame one)...but then again, I'm losing my imagination. Lol. Please read and review! ^^