The next day came and everything seemed back to normal. After Logan returned home, the group tended to the boy's wounds, even though he didn't seem affected by them in the slightest, then simply fell asleep and woke up the next day feeling fine. It was already the afternoon and the day had gone by so far without a thing happening, with the hybrid passing the time by taking a walk around the city, wanting to straighten out a few things in his mind as he walked.
Logan (in his head):"Man, things have been crazy lately! I get robotocised, go to one of the weirdest looking places I've ever seen, and get attacked and tortured by some mad scientist! Well, then again, when have things not been crazy in my life? I wonder how Carnage actually found out about my dark power, it's been shown here and there, but for all he knows I just got really angry. Maybe he found out after our first encounter in the forest.
Who knows, but what did he mean when he said he would use it against me? It has been getting out of control lately, and I can barely keep it in anymore when the situation gets serious. It's going to get out, I know it…maybe the High Chief made a smart decision when he banned me from the city. He knew about my dark power as well somehow, but he was right in saying he didn't want that being unleashed against our people. I don't wanna hurt any of them…"
Just then, he heard a certain whirring of a certain fox's tails spinning round, and so the young warrior turned to see none other than Tails land behind him and run up to him.
Logan:"Hey Tails, what's up?"
Tails: "We have a huge problem!"
Logan: "What is it?"
Tails: "Come back to Freedom HQ, we'll show you there!" and with that, the two flew off back to the base, where Logan would receive the run down on what was going on.
Once they arrived in the lab, Tails brought up a screen from his satellite cameras, which showed Cobran, Carnage, Metal Sonic and Metal Logan, as well as Snively and Eggman in big mech suits, heading towards the city. Following them was a huge battalion of Eggman's Troops.
Logan:"Bloody Hell!"
Sonic:"That looks similar to the mech he used to destroy Knothole years ago! We need a plan of action, like right now!"
Sally:"Alright let me think. Tails, are the Chaos Emeralds fully protected in the safe?"
Tails:"Yes, I already added extra protection!"
Sally:"Good! Antoine, get in contact with the city's defences and tell them to prepare the city for attack!"
Antoine:"Already on zit!" he responded as he ran off out the room.
Xiro:"Can we even stand up to that amount of fire-power?"
Logan:"We have to try at least!" he spoke out loud before thinking to himself "Let's just hope my dark power doesn't get out of hand!"
All of a sudden, a massive siren was heard from the computer, and a massive red banner spread across the monitor screen reading "CITY LIMITS BREACHED!" meaning that Eggman and his group had arrived.
Sonic:"Alright everyone, Let's Do It To IT!"
The group charged outside the base and made their way a few miles in front of the city, and when they deemed that they were at a good enough distance that they could hold back Eggman and the rest, they formed a wall that they couldn't get through. They watched as the villains walked over into their view, each looking ready for a fight, and so were the Freedom Fighters. Each team was waiting on the other to move so that the battle could start.
Xiro:"So…what happens if we lose?" after he asked that, Logan cracked his knuckles.
Logan:"We don't!"
Amy:"So what's the plan?"
Sally:"Logan and Xiro, take care of Cobran and Metal Logan, those two are the biggest dangers. Sonic take on Metal Sonic, Bunnie you take Eggman, Amy you've got Snively. The rest of you take out as many of his forces as you can!"
Rotor:"What about Carnage?"
Logan:"Trust me, he won't get involved unless he wants to"
Everything stayed silent for a few moments as everyone prepared for the beginning of the battle. Logan, Xiro, Cobran and Metal Logan each took a fighting stance, Sonic and Metal Sonic both prepared to run, the other Freedom Fighters readied their weapons and other such, and Carnage, Eggman and Snively all prepared to run as well. Not one person moved or talked until Eggman and Sonic both shouted in unison:
"CHAAAARGE!" and with that, the battle begun.
The Mangham brothers flew ahead of the others and tackled Aindrea and the metal-hybrid as they came to attack, taking their fight into the air, where Logan took on Cobran and Xiro took ML in one big skirmish of punches and kicks against their opponent. Sonic spindashed right into MS before being thrown off, and the two then raced all around the battlefield, constantly going back and forth at each other.
Bunnie changed her metal arm into a cannon, and blasted Eggman right in the chest with it, before she then tried the strategy of flying around and blasting him with every chance she was given, and dodging every attack of his that her way. Amy jumped up and smacked Snively right in the face with her hammer, and tried the same strategy that Bunnie used against Eggman. The rest of the group did their best to take on Eggman's forces and keep them from getting anywhere close to the city.
The battle continued for about an hour, with neither side getting close to winning. While Eggman's forces had dwindled by a good chunk, his heavy hitters seemed to be making up their loss against the other opponents. Logan and Cobran were in a dead lock, trying to push the others right fist back to win and gain the advantage over the other.
The boy had grown tired of the battle going nowhere, and decided to try and end it. He grabbed Cobran's right arm with his right hand, the same the two were in a deadlock with, and then threw Aindrea up above up and then down towards the ground. He looked over to watch ML go flying at Xiro, only to be sent flying away by a left punch from the Mangham brother.
Logan:"We're getting nowhere! We need to get rid of his troops!"
Xiro:"But how?!"
Logan:"I got a plan!"
He looked down to watch Sonic and MS run at each other full speeds, but before they hit, the hedgehog turned into a sonic-spin, and knocked his Metal copy flying. The hybrid then called down to him "Sonic, I have a plan! I need you to get everyone else to distract the others, while you round up all Eggman's troops in one place!"
Sonic: "On it!" he shouted before speeding off to tell the others.
He watched as Sonic ran around all of Eggman's forces in a massive circle, like he was a heard dog rounding up cattle, until they were all together and couldn't escape because of the blue blurs constant movement around the small area he kept them.
The Mangham channelled every bit of Chaos Energy he could until he reached his maximum output, and then dive-bombed straight into the middle of the group of robots, who quickly took notice of him and were about to attack him, but didn't even come close as the boy yelled at the top of his voice "CHAOS CONTROL!" before he and every one of the troops, disappeared in a flash of light.
After a few seconds, the young warrior reappeared in the same spot he teleported, and fell to his knees gasping for air, though he was quick to look back up and give the mad doctor a cocky smirk.
Logan:"Tell me Eggman, do your robots know how to swim in lava?" his sarcastic question angered the crazed Doctor.
The Mangham was too tired after preforming that incantation to really fight back, so it was no surprise that when Eggman came running at him in his giant mech, he couldn't exactly fight back very well, and was instead dealt a powerful left kick right in the face, sending him flying straight up to the other side of the city.
Eggman:"Enough playing around! Time to get serious!"
Just then, the chest compartment of his mech suit opened up, revealing hundreds of missiles to be stored in there, and he fired a good 50 of them off at the Freedom Fighters. Luckily, they managed to dodge all of them, but that didn't prepare them for their enemies attack. MS teleported right in front of his furry counterpart, and blasted him flying across the ground with his chest laser, and right as the hedgehog managed to recover, he was sent even further after receiving a right punch from Eggman.
Amy charged at Snively, jumped up and went to smack him with her hammer, but Eggman's nephew grabbed her hammer in his right hand, and then smacked her straight into the floor, before picking her up, taking pride in seeing she was now unconscious, and then threw her over to where Sonic had crashed, which wasn't too far from the city, only a few metres.
Bunnie went to blast ML with her metal cannon arm, but he smacked the blast away from him with his left hand, and then dealt her an uppercut right under the chin off the same hand, sending her flying into the air. The metal-hybrid quickly caught up with the rabbot in the air, and then with one swift right axe kick, she went flying down towards the ground and landed with the other downed Freedom Fighters.
Carnage, while having no interest in getting in the conflict yet, was forced to act after being surrounded by Tails, Rotor and Antoine. Each of them attacked at once, Antoine with his sword in his left hand, went to straight up stab the doctor through the chest, the walrus attempted a right punch to the left side of his face, and the fox used his two tails to try and harm him from the right.
However, none of their attacks affected him, with Antoine's sword shattering to pieces upon contact with the robot-doctors chest, and Rotor and Tails each had their attacks grabbed by Carnage's hands. With the young fox's tails in his right hand, the doctor swung the boy round and smacked each of his friends away, before he fired a small grenade from his right hand by the now injured 3, and the explosion was strong enough to send them over to the rest of the downed Freedom Fighters.
Xiro charged at Cobran to double punch him in the stomach, but Aindrea dodged it and left elbowed him in the back, sending him flying into the ground and creating a small crater upon contact. He then landed by the Mangham, stamped his right foot right in the teens back to inflict some extra damage, then used his left foot to push him off the ground, and finished up with a strong right punch to his ribs that sent him straight over to the other downed Freedom Fighters.
All that remained was Sally, and even she knew she stood no chance against any of them. All it took was a small energy blast from Aindrea's right hand fired directly under her feet, to send her flying to her fellow downed comrades.
Eggman:"HOHOHO! Is that all you can do Freedom Fighters?! Are you just going to give up?!"
Suddenly, there was a massive bang coming from the distance, before suddenly a figure could be seen flying out from the city at such speeds, before landing before he downed heroes and created cracks in the ground below him upon impact. Everyone knew who it was the moment they touched down, the one and only Logan Mangham, back to deal some real damage, though there was something slightly different about him. His fur seemed darker and almost stuck up more, and he had his back turned to his friends so they couldn't see his eyes were now red, not blue.
Logan:"No, this isn't everything we can do! As long as I'm still standing, I can kick your ass in the name of the Freedom Fighters! No one messes with my friends!"
The boy channelled some of his energy to give him a slight boost, before he burst off the ground and reached Eggman quicker than he could anticipate the young warrior to be able to travel, before dealing the mad doctor a powerful left punch that sent him straight into the ground. The Mangham looked up above him and spotted his robotic-copy, and so flew up and dealt him a head-butt straight under the chin, before grabbing hold of each of his legs, preformed a front-flip while still having hold of him, and then threw him straight into the ground below.
MS flew at the hybrid and attempted to strike him with a right punch, however Logan preformed a backflip mid-air to dodge the attack, and as the metal-hedgehog turned around to face his opponent, he was given a powerful double kick to the face courtesy of the young warrior, strong enough to send him flying across the skies for at least a mile.
As the young warrior touched down on the ground, he spotted Snively headed for him and readying a left punch for the Mangham, however as Eggman's nephew reached the hybrid and attempted to strike him, the boy simply stopped the punch with both his hands, then grabbed hold of the mech's arm and threw the pipsqueak over him and onto the ground behind him, before tightening his grip and swinging him round a few times, and then threw him back in the direction he came.
He then sensed Cobran heading towards him at incredible speeds from behind, and so as Aindrea was about to grab hold of the Mangham, the boy span round and double punched him straight in the stomach, freezing him in place from the pain and surprise of the attack. Logan then followed up his strike with a triple jump spinning hook kick to his fellow hybrid's face, and then upon landing on the ground, leapt over his old friend and landing right behind him, before dealing a right punch that was strong enough to send him to his own downed comrades.
All that remained was Carnage, and the hybrid had no intention of showing mercy. He flew at the deranged doctor faster than he could counter, grabbed him by the neck with both hands and tightened his grip to inflict damage, while at the same time staring him right in the eyes so he could strike fear into the doctor, before he threw him over to his comrades.
The Mangham then flew up into the sky and remained high above the villains while remaining at distance, before he began charging his most powerful attack. Seconds after him taking the Kamehameha stance, the bright blue energy ball had already appeared in his hands, and about ten seconds later, it was fully charged to the strongest he could get it.
Then, with one massive "HAAAAAAAAAAA!" he threw his hands forward and unleashed the ball of energy into a beam the same size as himself, that went sky-rocketing towards his enemies, and when it was seconds from hitting them, a massive explosion the same size that destroyed Carnages base, the same given off from 20 tonnes of explosives, erupted and engulfed the villains, masking their fate from everyone else.
Moments later, the boy fell to the ground and reverted back to his normal self, now gasping for air after using so much energy. He knew he'd let his dark power get to him that time, it had almost gotten out of control if that one part of himself wasn't still in there, though if he didn't get that boost, he didn't think he could've taken them all on at once. Though he didn't know whether it had been enough to fully defeat them, and his question was answered when he heard the familiar sound of Eggman's laughter.
As the smoke from the explosion cleared, it revealed an energy shield created by the doctor and his nephew's mech suits, which surrounded the group and shielded them from any damage they would've received from Logan's Kamehameha. The boy could barely stand let alone take them all on, but even so, he slowly stood up and took his guard, to show them he would still stand and fight against them, and that he wasn't afraid.
Eggman:"Are you stupid boy? You know you can't take all of us in your current state, so why do you still fight?"
Logan: "Because if I don't…no one else will…and I'm not about to give up…for the first time in my life…and then let you trample…on all the innocent people in this world…! So I don't care…how many of you I have to beat…and even if I can't do it…I will always say…BRIIING IT OOOOONNNNN!"
Eggman: "Hmph, suit yourself little pest…prepare to fire!"
All of them lined up with one another, going from right to left it went: Metal Sonic, Carnage, Snively, Eggman, Cobran, and Metal Logan, and each of them prepared to fire a massive attack at Logan, the Freedom Fighters, and the city. Eggman and Snively opened up the chest compartment to their mech suits, revealing a massive cannon similar to the one used by the Enemy Clan Leader years ago, and each cannon began to charge a massive red energy ball at the ends of their weapons.
Carnage held out his right hand, as a bright red ball of energy the size of his chest appeared at the end of his hand and began growing in power. MS's chest laser began to emit a strange purple light as he charged it to its maximum capacity. ML charged his version of the Kamehameha, and Cobran charged his Dark Death Ball attack.
The Mangham could never block all of these at once, let alone prevent each and every one of them from hitting or harming the city in some way. Each of them was too powerful, and there was too many for him to handle at once, especially in is current condition. The pressure and stress was starting to get to him, and he could feel his dark power getting stronger, nearly taking him over with him doing his best to suppress it as best he could.
He looked back at his friends, none of them were in any state to help him, not even Xiro, the damage their opponents had dealt was too serious, and it looked like the blows Cobran dealt to the Mangham brother were in carefully executed places to immobilise him. Each of them was shocked and scarred for what was to come at any moment, and so were the citizens of the city who had come to watch their heroes fight, with one in particular being the most worried out of them all. Amongst the crowds, the hybrid saw Nicole stood watching with everyone else, and she was also scarred just like the rest of them, but on a level much more than them.
The boy was angered with himself over the fact that he knew he didn't have the power to stop their combined attack and save everyone in the city, making him feel weak and useless. He felt his dark power crawl up his back and almost take control of him, and though he didn't give it full control of his body, he allowed it to take partial control, over him, just enough to give him the boost he needed for what he had planned.
The Mangham ran closer towards the villains, until he was a safe distance from the city so it wouldn't be harmed, and close enough to block their attacks. The hybrid took a horse riding stance and crossed his arms in front of him, symbolising to his opponents that he was going to block it, while at the same time channelling as much Chaos Energy as he could for his next move.
Carnage:"Is he really that foolish to think he can block all of these attacks?"
Cobran:"It doesn't matter! Everyone, FIRE!" he yelled, and with that, everyone fired their attacks at Logan.
They travelled across the battlefield at incredible speeds, they would no doubt hit him any second now, but despite this factor, the young warrior didn't move, he stared there and continued to channel his Chaos Energy while staring the attacks down.
Sonic:"Logan! What are you doing?!"
Bunnie:"Yer gonna get yerself killed!"
He ignored them, despite all their doubts, he would save them, and he was going to stop these attacks, whether they thought he could or not. The attacks were closing in by the second, and despite the clear danger, the boy didn't care one bit, because they didn't scare him. No matter how hard they pleaded for the Mangham to move out the way, he refused to do so, and everything seemed lost as the attacks were mere metres away from hitting him.
Nicole:"LOGAN!" she screamed in terror and worry.
Logan:"CHAOS BLAST!" he roared as he threw his arms out to the sides, right as the attacks were a millimetre off hitting him.
Suddenly, a massive dome of red light burst out of the boy and completely surrounded him, growing to be around 30 feet tall and wide, and managed to push the attacks away from getting close to the city. No matter how much more power they applied, the attacks would simply try and push against the dome, but would get absolutely nowhere. Eventually, their attacks ran out of energy and died down, and moments later, so did the dome of Chaos Energy, revealing the area it had covered to no be severely burnt and black, and the boy that created it to be extremely tired.
Snively:"How is he doing this?!"
Carnage:"It's that dark power of his, it's boosting his power enough for him to be able to take us all on at once. We have to act now while he's still partially influenced, we have a better chance at brining it out at this point, otherwise we may never get this kind of chance again!"
Eggman:"Right, everyone, ATTACK!" he ordered before they all began charging at the young warrior.
To anger the hybrid further, the mad doctor fired another chunk of missiles at the downed Freedom Fighters, and with them having no way to defend themselves, the damage dealt to them upon impact was huge, and it had the exact effect on Logan that they hoped for.
Logan:"NO!" he shouted in rage, as he got up off the floor, and charged at the enemies.
The Mangham threw a left punch at Aindrea, but he managed to avoid it and land a powerful left roundhouse kick to the boy's stomach, causing him to gawk from the pain before he fell over onto his back. Cobran then placed his left hand on the young warrior's chest to hold him down, before using his right fist to punch him in the face, forcing his entire body further into the ground, essentially making a crater.
The man then left kicked his fellow hybrid onto his stomach, before grabbing the boy by the back of the neck with his right hand and lifting him up in front of him, and then dealing him a powerful left punch right in the back, forcing him to spit out some blood, right before he was thrown across the floor for a good few metres.
The Mangham barely managed to stand to his feet, right before he received a spindash right in the back courtesy of Metal Sonic, sending him across the floor once again, this time ending up lying on his back. The machine then grabbed him by the neck with both hands, head-butted him twice before letting go of his neck with his left hand, and using his free hand to punch the young warrior across the face multiple times.
Then, the robot-hedgehogs eyes began to glow a brighter red, before two beams of energy blasted out of his eyes and hit the Mangham directly in the chest, causing two notable burn scars on his person, as well as sending him flying across the area.
The hybrid couldn't halt his flight across the battlefield, so Metal Logan did it for him by right front kicking him straight in the back, causing Logan to freeze in place for a few moments as he tried to understand the gravity of the pain he was feeling at the moment, before he collapsed to his knees, supporting himself with his right arm while holding his stomach with his left, right before he hurled up a small bit of blood.
The metal-hybrid then slammed his left foot down on his furry counterparts back in an axe kick, forcing him further into the ground similar to what Aindrea did, and made it worse by punching him the tiniest bit further into the ground with his left hand. ML then stepped back while raising his right hand and creating a small ball of energy at the end of his hand, before firing it directly at Logan, causing a small explosion that was strong enough to send him out of the ground and high into the air, before he slowly began falling back to the ground.
Right after the Mangham hit the ground, he felt a certain metal right hand grab him by the head and then lift him up, gifting the boy the sight of Carnage staring him right in the face, and revealing him to be the one to pick him up. The doctor then tightened his grip on the hybrids head, essentially trying to break his skull by sheer force, while at the same time activating the electric shock system in his armour, the same system he used to torture Logan only yesterday, and sent the shockwaves throughout his body, causing the young warrior to scream from the sheer pain all over his body, until eventually he couldn't take anymore and dropped lifeless it seemed.
Believing the boy to be dead, Carnage deactivated the shockwaves and dropped the hybrid, allowing for the corpse to fall onto its stomach and simply lay there. Everyone believed him to be dead, however their presumptions were proven wrong when they saw the 'corpse' begin to slowly move his arms under himself, in order to push himself up onto his feet.
Carnage:"Stupid Child!" he shouted, before slamming his left foot down on Logan's head, and then continuing to do so over and over again.
Eventually, he stopped his attack and allowed the hybrid to slowly get onto his hands and knees, turning back to the doctor to give him such a glare of anger, while also showing him the fact that he was bleeding from both his nose and mouth. However, that wasn't all Carnage saw, for as the young warrior glared at him with such a vengeance, he was gifted with the sight of seeing Logan's eyes flash from their light blue colour, to a bright red colour, before his entire eyes turned pure white for a moment, and then returned to normal. The robot doctor smiled under his armour seeing this, before he took a slight run up and then right kicked the hybrid flying across the battlefield.
Snively was awaiting the Mangham, and when the young warrior was close to him, he slammed his mechs right fist down on Logan, sending him straight into the floor. The little helper then picked him up in the same hand he used to slam him into the ground, before tightening the mechs fist to try and crush the hybrid, and his efforts were rewarded with the sound of the boy's screams of pain as he felt his ribs and left arm break. Satisfied with his work, Eggman's nephew threw the Mangham up into the air, and as he came back down, Snively dealt him a powerful left punch that sent him flying across the ground once again.
After managing to come to a stop, the hybrid was barely able to pick himself up, right before he was stamped on by the right leg of Eggman's mech. As he attempted to get up, the doctor stamped on him once again, before he performed the same action 3 more times to inflict some major damage on the boy. He only stopped when the young warrior managed to manoeuvre himself quick enough to spin round onto his back and grab hold of the mechs foot with his hands and attempt to push the dictator off of him.
However, due to the amount of damage he'd taken and how much energy he'd lost, he was unable to fight back, and it was all too easy for Eggman to stamp on him once again, before taking his foot off to get a good look at the boy. He was bruised, cut, scratched, bloody, had blood running from several of his injuries, as well as from his mouth and nose. Eggman grabbed hold of the near dead boy with his right hand, and brought him close to his face so he could look him in the eye, with the hybrid slowly opening his eyes to see the doctor smiling a devilish grin right in his face.
Eggman:"It doesn't matter how long it takes Logan, we will get that dark power out of you, even if we have to destroy everything you ever loved, or remind you…" he began as he slammed the young warrior into the ground and held him there "…of your dead little brother…" he stated before he punched Logan with his free hand "…your metal limbed friend that was a result of your actions…" and again "…your crippled father…"
And every time he made a point, he punched him again "…or the city you're banned from…or the loved ones you've left behind…of all your failures…how you let all of your new friends get beaten…and the fact you were dumped by the one woman you ever loved!" he shouted, before throwing the Mangham up into the air, and punching him as he came down, sending him flying towards all his beaten friends.
As the hybrid rolled across the floor before finally coming to a stop, he couldn't help but feel horrid. All the memories that Eggman had spoken of had now come rushing back into Logan's head, and it was absolutely killing him to think of everything he'd caused and could've prevented but didn't. He'd let all of his friends get killed, and he couldn't do anything because he wasn't strong enough.
He looked back at all his friends. Tails helped Xiro up by putting his right arm around his shoulder, Antoine and Bunnie helped each other up and held one another other close, Rotor picked Amy up in his arms as she came around, Sonic carried Sally in his arms and held her close, and in the city, he saw Nicole have to cover her mouth to hold back the screams she wanted to let out, as tears fell from his eyes.
He'd failed all of them. The Mangham held his head as he ducked down to try and hold back all his emotions, feeling himself shake from the anger and rage flowing through him, as well as something almost grow and take him over. He felt the darkness inside him finally get to him. He was so unbelievably angry about the current events and everything that had been brought back to him, he'd left himself completely open for the darkness to take control. It was almost as if it was feeding off his rage and misery. He heard the voice in his head simply laugh at him, before telling him to give in to the darkness, so he could take revenge on everyone who's ever hurt him. And he didn't refuse.
Suddenly, everyone felt the ground begin to shake. Small stones around the area began to hover into the area, before being crushed into nothing and disappearing. It was like everyone could feel a growing dark presence among them, one they did not welcome and made them feel cold almost. The sky darkened in an unusual manner, and if one was to look carefully, it got darker in a very certain location, and as the Freedom Fighters as well as the villains discovered, that point of darkness was above where the Mangham now stood. Lighting began to strike and flash miles away behind the boy, before a large strike of white lighting came crashing down directly behind the boy, before disappearing as a black aura slowly began growing around the young warrior.
Logan:"HHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!" the boy roared, as he became engulfed by that dark aura, surrounding his entire body.
Just then, his body began to change form slightly. His fur became darker, his hair exploded upwards and spiked up almost like a Super Form, he grew from being the size of a child to a teenager standing at 5'8, all his peach coloured skin became grey, this in turn caused his mouth to disappear, and his irises and pupils disappeared, leaving his eyes blank and full white. There he stood, surrounded with a black, powerful and evil aura that anyone could feel a mile away.
The hybrids power was tremendous in this creepy and insane looking form, which amazed, confused and also scared the Freedom Fighters and everyone else watching. The new Logan spotted his enemies, who were as amazed as the others, and clenched both his eyes and fists as a sign of anger. He began to march towards the 6, breaking the ground beneath him as he stomped closer and closer to them.
Snively:"S-Sir! What is that?!"
Eggman:"Carnage?!"
Carnage:"He did it! He's transformed into the Legendary Dark Form! Something that can only be achieved by few. Their transformation depends on their person, and what they seek when they use the darkness for power!"
The Mangham stepped closer and closer to the group of low-lives, who were now almost shaking with fear from his sheer presence and power. Even with no mouth, he spoke in a demonic voice that could send chills down any man's spine.
Logan:"DON'T FUCK WITH MY FRIENDS!"
Carnage:"What do we do?! The power of this transformation is too great for us to handle!"
Cobran:"Why are you so scared?! I can beat him easily, Dark Form or not!" he boasted, before he burst off towards his rival.
Carnage:"No you fool!"
Aindrea yelled at the top of his voice as he flew towards his old comrade, who had now stopped dead in his tracks awaiting his old friend, and upon reaching the former boy, Cobran threw his right fist out in a powerful punch…one Logan grabbed with little effort using his own right hand. The hybrid was left in complete shock from this turn of events, shock that quickly turned to fear when the Mangham raised his other hand and waddled his index finger, to tell him 'he shouldn't have done that', right before he twisted Aindrea's arm to the right using the hand he used to grab his punch, and broke every bone in Cobran's right arm.
He screamed in pain as the hybrid let go of him, allowing for him to fall to his knees and try and recover from the move, grabbing at his now broken arm as he was nearly in tears from the pain. Aindrea looked down at his now bleeding arm, and then looked back up at Logan, almost jumping away from shock as the hybrid leaned in centimetres from his face and stared him right in his fear-filled eyes.
Cobran:"What-What are you?" he asked, almost regretting the question as soon as he asked it.
Logan:"I'M YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE!" he answered simply.
The Mangham then grabbed his old comrade by the neck with his left hand, and effortlessly lifted him off the ground and began to tighten his grip on Cobran's neck, never ceasing the amount of pressure he put on until he passed out moments later. Logan then placed a hand on Aindrea's chest, before uttering the incantation "CHAOS CONTROL" and then dropping his old comrade to the floor as he began walking towards the rest of his opponents, with Cobran disappearing in a flash of light seconds later.
Eggman:"Metal Units, Kill Him!" he ordered, and on cue, both robots flew straight at their enemy.
Upon reaching him, each machine went to kick him, ML attacking with a right roundhouse kick and MS with a left, but the hybrid easily stopped each of their attacks by raising his arms like an assistant block, then grabbed hold of their legs, threw his arms out behind him while keeping hold of the two robots, before bringing his arms out in front of him and slamming the two metal-units together, and then tossing them aside.
The two managed to recover and blasted off at Logan to try and attack from the sides, MS attacking from the right and ML attacking from the left this time, now attempting to land a punch off the arm of their respective sides. However like before, with little effort, the Mangham ducked under their attacks as they reached him, and then launched himself up straight and thrusted each of his fists through their stomachs, essentially killing them there and then, before he tossed them aside again, and then followed up with an energy blast off each hand, incinerating the two upon contact.
Seeing that there was no other choice but to fight, Carnage created an energy axe in his right hand, and threw it at his opponent before he began running towards him. The axe came flying at the hybrid and hit him in no time, though upon making contact with him, the axe shattered to pieces before disappearing, not stopping Logan's approach in the slightest. The doctor grabbed both sides of the Mangham's face upon reaching him, and unleashed the full power of his electric shock system right into the former boy's head, however he was completely unfazed.
The hybrid then grabbed hold of both Carnage's hands, balled them into fists whilst his electric shock was still active, and then thrusted the robot-doctors own fists through his own robotic chest, with the electric shock getting released throughout his entire system, causing Carnage to freak out and violently shake as he screamed from the apparent pain he was feeling.
Eventually, his glowing red eyes vanished before his eye sockets exploded right in front of the Mangham's face, sparks flying out from them and everywhere else in his body, before the now robotic corpse stumbled back a few steps before collapsing onto its back. Logan knew Carnage would've downloaded himself to another body at this point, and so didn't think twice when he placed his right foot on the head of the robotic corpse, and crushed it into nothing but dust before he continued his march towards the remaining threats.
Snively:"What do we do sir?! He's too powerful!"
Eggman:"Just attack him! NOW!" he ordered, and seen as how his nephew really had no other choice, he acknowledged and followed the order.
The little helper charged at Logan, and threw the mechs right fist out towards the hybrid, only to have the entire arm shatter to pieces upon hitting him, and the attack having no effect on the former boy whatsoever. The Mangham then raised his right hand up at the mechs chest, and fired a beam of energy right through it, causing the entire machine to fall to pieces, with the only thing left being Snively's little Egg-Pod, which Logan grabbed with the same arm he destroyed his mech with, and blasted out a strong wave of invisible energy that was strong enough to send the pipsqueak flying for miles and miles.
All that remained was Eggman. The hybrid began to walk towards the mad doctor with a killer look about him, causing the dictator to actually become scarred. Knowing it was either kill him or die by his hands, Eggman opened up and activated every weapon his mech had: missiles, small and large machine guns, energy blasters, and the massive energy cannon. Seeing as the former boy had no intention of stopping, the doctor fired off everything his mech had at Logan, and didn't put anything less than 110% into his attacks, hoping they'd be enough to stop the monstrosity headed for him.
Every single attack hit the Mangham, and caused a constantly growing shroud of smoke that masked the fate of the former boy, though it was clear it wasn't having any affect as the smoke cloud was constantly moving forward despite everything that was hitting him. However, after the smoke cloud had grown so big, it ceased moving forward, leading some to believe the dictators attacks had actually managed to stop the hybrid, Eggman himself being one of those to believe.
The doctor began to nervously chuckle as all the weapons of the mech retreated back to where they'd came, as he believed he'd actually manage to stop the Mangham, though his belief was cut short seconds later. Through the smoke, a shadow of a familiar figure could be seen emerging from the smoke as it cleared away, and once it finally did, there stood Logan, completely unscathed and unharmed despite everything that had hit him.
The hybrid then teleported right in front of the mad doctor, and right punched the mech in the chest with such force, his fist pierced straight through the armour. Needing to defend himself, Eggman swung his machines own right fist at Logan, who in response stopped the attack with a left punch that shattered the mechs arm to pieces upon contact. Then, the dictator swung his remaining arm up above him to bring down on the former boy, but as he did so, the Mangham swung his own right arm up in a rising block, stopping the attack from hitting him all together. Using the same arm he used to block the attack, he pushed the mechs arm up and off him before blasting it to nothing but ashes with an energy beam off the same hand.
Seconds after, Logan flew under the machine so fast, no one was able to see him even move until he was standing behind the doctor, before suddenly, the mechs legs just fell off and exploded top pieces without an explanation. Though Eggman's mech remained in the air due to the hover-mode on his Egg-Pod inside, it didn't stay for long, as the hybrid leapt up onto the pod, chucked the dictator out of it and onto the ground, before slamming both his fists down onto the pod, sending it straight to the ground nearly in pieces, then grabbed hold of it with his left hand, threw it miles into the air, before firing an energy blast off his right hand that homed in on the pod, and destroyed it upon contact. The Mangham then turned his attention to Eggman, who, with nothing to defend himself with, was now cowering in fear.
Eggman:"Please! Have mercy!" he pleaded, before Logan grabbed him by the neck with his right hand.
Logan:"MERCY?! YOU THINK YOU DESRVE MERCY, AFTER EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE?! NO! SAY YOUR PRAYERS EGGMAN, FOR TODAY I TAKE REVENGE FOR THE PEOPLE OF HARTHILL, AND RID MOBIUS OF THE DANGER THAT IS YOU!" he roared right in the mad doctors face, before he raised his left fist and started charging an energy blast to fire right in Eggman's face.
It quickly reached enough power to obliterate him, and the hybrid was ready to fire it and rid the world of this low-life, but suddenly, he started to have second thoughts. He looked at the absolute fear on Eggman's face, and that was when he realised, this wasn't what he wanted, despite what the voices in his head were telling him. He'd always shown mercy to those who didn't deserve it, it wasn't right to take anyone's life, even if they were such a horrible person.
The Mangham dropped Eggman on the floor, and allowed him to crawl back a bit to gain a safe distance from the demonic boy, before he spoke "LEAVE! IF I EVER SEE YOU AGAIN, I WILL NOT BE SO KIND!" and without a second to waste, once Logan finished his sentence, the dictator jumped to his feet and began to run in the other direction, back to the Eggdome. The hybrid watched the mad doctor as he ran like a coward away from him, before turning back to face his friends once he heard their voices draw closer to him.
Sonic:"Logan, are you okay buddy?"
Sally:"Just, take it easy. Everything's fine now"
Tails: "The fights over, we won, you can calm down!"
Bunnie:"C'mon Hon, come back to the old Logan we know and love!"
The former boy stared down at his hands for a moment, before clenching them and concentrating with all his might, as he became surrounded in what looked like black fire, and allowed it to slowly engulf his body. He started to shrink back to his normal size, his skin became peach again, his fur became white and didn't stick up as much, and his eyes became their normal blue irised ones.
The transformation back to his normal self tired out Logan, not helping was the fact that all the injuries he'd sustained during the fight finally caught up with him, causing the boy to fall to his knees gasping for air, so Bunnie and Antoine helped him stand to his feet.
Logan:"I hope…I never use that power…ever again…"
Sonic:"Hehe, I think we all hope that too, but you saved the city and everyone else, so good job man!"
Xiro:"Yeah, how did you regain control before you killed Eggman?"
Logan:"It didn't feel right, and it went against everything I stood for, so I didn't do it"
Sally: "Good to know that even when you became that…thing, you were still the same person"
Logan:"Yeah…so, whose hungry?"
The group all laughed as they began to walk back to the city for a quick trip to the hospital, and then out for some food in order to celebrate their victory.
Elsewhere, on the outskirts of Megaopolis, Aindrea laid there in the middle of nowhere unconscious. He slowly opened his eyes to the familiar industrial looking skies of Eggman's city, right before he sat up but nearly fell back down from the pain of his arm being broken.
Cobran:"Stupid…fucking Logan…breaking my arm!"
He managed to stand up, still holding his broken arm with his good one, and took a look around the area. He had sensed Snively earlier, though he was nowhere around from the looks of it, leading Cobran to believe he had headed back to the city awaiting everyone else's arrival. Seen as how much pain he was in, he decided to fix his arm right here and now, using the same technique he watched Logan preform.
Cobran:"Let's hope I studied this move right…CHAOS HEAL!" he shouted while gripping his broken arm tight, before suddenly it was engulfed in a massive flash of light that lasted for a few seconds, until finally subsiding and revealing a now fully healed Aindrea.
He cracked all his arm, feeling a slight sensation of joy from it "Oh yeah…I must thank Carnage for capturing that technique on video for me to learn from!"
Just then, he heard a familiar voice come up on his comm device, and quickly recognised it as the doctors, and so answered the call as other people joined in.
Eggman (on comm):"Is anybody there?!"
Cobran:"I read you doctor!"
Snively (on comm):"I'm here too sir, I'm repairing Carnage as we speak!"
Eggman (on comm):"I've been running for miles trying to establish communication! I need a pick up! I also need someone to retrieve whatever's left of the Metal Units!"
Carnage (on comm):"We've already sent a transport to your location, and our spy teams are already on their way to the battlefield to retrieve whatever they can find"
Cobran:"So now what?! We need to take Logan and the rest of the Freedom Fighters down whilst they're at their weakest!"
Eggman (on comm):"No! It's too risky, especially after what Logan just became! We are unsure if he can turn back into that form at will, so for the time being it's best to keep our distance! We need time to plan and come up with something that will end them for good! We have to wait and be patient!" he explained, however this only seemed to anger Cobran.
Cobran:"NO! That's what you said about the last plan, and look how that turned out! Both your metal units destroyed, as well as both your mechs and Egg-Pod vehicles, which you stated would be near indestructible, not to mention Carnage nearly died, I have a broken arm, and you nearly got your head blown off! Our alliance Eggman, has brought me nothing but more losses against the Mangham, not to mention all of your plans seem destined to fail in the first place! I am no longer part of your organisation, I'm taking matters into my own hands and taking action now!"
Before Eggman could argue against him, the hybrid threw his ear piece device onto the ground, and crushed it under his foot. He then took to the skies and began slowly flying towards Mobotropolis.
"As much as I hate to admit the doctor is right, I do need a plan if I am to defeat them once and for all! Let me think…they have 6 chaos emeralds, and I…" he stated to himself as he reached in his right pocket and pulled out the Green Chaos Emerald "…have the last one to make all 7…if I could steal the other 6 Emeralds, I could transform into the legendary Super Form and destroy them with ease! Though I would like a last confrontation with Logan, and perhaps he can also reach a Super Form as well! Prepare yourself Mangham…because come morning…our final fight shall commence!"