Sonic: Chaos Theory
Chapter 25
Extermination
From the north end of the GUN headquarters, their top operatives were ready to charge in, but had one member to wait for. Shadow had returned from his battle with Mephiles, and Rouge from her bout with the Sumo. As they exchanged stories waiting for their comrade, a booming, deep voice was heard from afar. As they looked in that direction, a red and gray komodo dragon bounded toward them, to their surprise. "Sorry I'm late! I had to get use to my new body!"
Shadow stood in awe of Omegas reverse robotization. He never expected such a process would have such incredible results. "Omega, is that REALLY you?" Rouge stood beside him, taking a good look at Omegas new body, trying to figure that out for herself.
"Yes, it's me. I guess I have to stop calling you meat bags, don't I?" Omega let out a booming laugh, loud enough to alert the Artificial Chaos, and they flooded out of the base toward the new and improved Team Dark. "Looks like this is my move!" Omega jumped in front of Rouge and Shadow with his arms up, guarding with his new invincible scales, the bullets all in ricochet, rebounding back into the army.
Rouge gave a feminine smirk and peeked out from behind him. "Nice moves Omega, but it's my turn!" Rouge leapt out from behind him and bit her finger, purposefully getting a taste of blood. As her eyes began to glow violet and the mist spread out, the Chaos in the immediate area all fell as the radiant energy from their cores was drained. Shadow stood in awe of her new abilities as well, realizing that maybe she wasn't as defenseless as he thought. For a moment, he regretted dumping Rouge, but then his immortality came back to mind and he decided it was time to put it to use.
"Stand back guys, its about to get a little bright!" Shadow removed two rings, powering himself to full, ready to destroy the incoming Chaos and every one in the base. His aura flooded across the GUN base and the other two took their places behind him as they followed Shadows warpath through the army. The Chaos fell one by one, and Rouge drained their power as the skeletons flew behind her, falling into the mist. Omega leapt into the air over Shadow and dove down toward a Gargant Sentry, expanding his body into a walking wall of muscle, and body-slammed it at full size. As its skeleton was crushed, so was the ground beneath them, making a small crater in the pavement.
Rouge split from the troop and dove into the army with a tornado kick, drilling them down with her steel-tipped boots. As they all fell, she drained their power and it grew until she couldn't suppress it, and unleashed a storm of Chaos Wingblades. The army fell in her wake, being cut to shreds by her array of razor sharp energy blades. Meanwhile, Omega dealt with the smaller groups of larger prototypes, taking down Artificial Chaos Dragons with single punches, and hitting taller prototypes with clothesline swipes, knocking them on their backs before they could react, and lashing his arms out as giant whips of muscle. Shadow was having just as much fun, and decided to make his work a little faster. "Chaos… Control!" Shadow disappeared in a flash, and in an instant, ten of the Artificial Chaos were blown into the air by miniature Chaos Blasts.
Shadow repeated this move, taking out hordes of Chaos at once. As the Chaos fell, two gargantuan Chaos Dragons approached, with rapid-fire lasers built into their mouths, and blades from Gargant Sentry built into their tails. These metal and liquid beasts have enough power to level the base on their own.
Shadow looked over at the beasts and smirked, ready for a real challenge. "OMEGA!"
"I'm on it!" Omega ran over at them and gave one of them a massive uppercut, extending his arm to the skies, then brining it back down on top of it like a whip of muscle. Meanwhile, Rouge made her way over and drained the power of from their cores, slowly shutting them down. Shadow warped over and appeared hovering over the Dragons, massing up his power for one final attack as the others held them in place.
"Ok, move!" Shadow fell between the Dragons while Omega and Rouge escaped, each preparing their own attack. From each side, Omega and Rouge unleashed the Chaos Wingblade and Chaos Cannon, cutting them apart and blasting off their armor. As the final attack, Shadow unleashed his ultimate attack. "Chaos…… BLAST!" A dome of chaos energy spread from Shadow and crushed everything in its wake, blowing all the scraps into the air. The Dragons had been destroyed.
Rouge flew over to Shadow and held him up, putting his rings back on for him. "Are you ok Shadow?.." Although Shadow had dumped her, she still had deep feelings for him.
"I'm fine… thank you Rouge… and great job." Shadow slowly stood up and got back his posture, looking over the destroyed masses. Within a moment, the peace of ceasefire was corrupted by the clattering of metal on metal as the scraps and cores combined, and Shadow suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head, telling him to look up, only too see a capsule being fired down from Space Colony Arc, and then looked into the distance to the level nine security safe, and saw Sonic and his team standing in the chamber, with all seven Chaos Emeralds, staring in horror at the freshly activated body of an old enemy that Shadow put there himself years ago, after their last confrontation with that great evil. Its piercing red eyes flickered on and struck terror into them all…..