25 chapters! The number for the anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog! And this chapter brings the Boom Dimension Arc, quickly.
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Chapter 25: Metal Sonic and Shadow Rival Battle and Eggman Mech Boss Battle!
Location: Abandoned Research Facility
Inside the Abandoned Research Facility, Boom Sonic and Boom Tails looked around the facility. It seems like the three other members of Boom Team got seperated from them. Boom Sonic looked around intently as if he was suspicious of this place.
"Tails, did we explored this place before?" asked Boom Sonic.
"Hmmm." Tails think about it. "I think so. This is the place where we fought someone."
"Yeah, you're right. I just got a déjà vuof this place." Sonic said.
"Oh, I'm sure you already have this déjà vu thing." Someone with a scruffy voice said. Sonic and Tails looked behind to see a black hedgehog with red stripes on its quills. They remember him. It was Shadow the Hedgehog, or Boom Shadow.
"Shadow? What are you doing here?" Tails asked, surprised.
"Shadow, not now. I don't want to fight you." Sonic said. "I'm busy saving the world."
"Saving the world, again?" Shadow sarcastically said. He mocked Sonic with a sarcastic laugh. "How pathetic of you to save the world. AGAIN!"
"You really wanna know what makes you weak?" Shadow continued. "Your loyalty to your pathetic friends!" His statement makes Sonic angry and clenches his hand.
"Maybe the only THING you are weak is your loyalty of being an emo, Shadow." Sonic remarked irritably but smirking at the same time. Shadow got angry at him saying his loyalty of being an 'emo'.
"Okay then." Shadow exclaimed as he gets into a battle position. "I'll show you who's WEAK!"
"Bring it on, Faker!" Sonic yelled. Soon after, Sonic, Tails and Shadow fight. Sonic and Shadow charged at each other where they engage in a fist fight when they clashed. Sonic attacks with his fast kicks while Shadow punches quickly. They broke the fist fight when Shadow covers himself with a red aura. He began skating around the area where he shoots energy balls that homes to Sonic and Tails. They have to dodge them and Shadow who is invulnerable at this state. Soon after, Shadow removes his aura.
"All right Tails! NOW!" Sonic Tails attacked Shadow with Sonic's rapid punches and kicks and Tails' sticky bombs and using his Buddy Bot. Shadow stands on one knee due to the attack. When Sonic and Tails back off, Shadow kicks Tails into the portal that appeared out of nowhere.
"TAILS!" Sonic shouted. Shadow goes to the portal which Sonic follows. They all end up in an icy area. Shadow coats himself in a red aura again and do the same thing again to Sonic and Tails who dodges his attacks. This time, Shadow creates an electric spark on his hands.
"CHAOS SPEAR!" Shadow unleashes lighting up to the sky where it falls into the ground. Sonic and Tails dodged them. The lightning got stuck onto the ground and remained until they explode. Shadow removes his aura again and the two continues attacking him. When they backed off again. Shadow becomes irritated.
"ALL RIGHT! THAT'S IT! This time, I will show you NO MERCY!" Shadow shouted angrily before he disappears. Surprised, they looked around until Shadow surprises them when he uppercuts Sonic into the air. He teleported to Sonic where he kicks him into the ground. The impact is strong enough to create a crater. Tails look shocked at this.
"SONIC!" Before he could do anything, Shadow grabs Sonic and throws him into the portal that appeared out of nowhere. Shadow goes to the portal and Tails goes next. They ended up in a desolate place in prehistoric era. They continued their battle here. Shadow do his same tactic, shooting energy balls to the two, initiating Chaos Spears which Sonic and Tails dodge them. Shadow goes to the center of the area where he charges some power to him. They realize what he is about to do.
"Tails! Stay away from him!" Sonic yelled. Tails nodded. They go away from him at the edge of the arena.
"CHAOS...BLAST!" Shadow, glowing red, unleashes a destructive explosion. Fortunately, they are too far away from him so the attack did not reach them.
"Damn it! We are going easy on him!" Sonic pointed out.
"I guess we are going out now, huh?"
"I guess we will. I'll attack him first, with my SPEED!" Sonic runs around Shadow. Shadow, confused, paid attention to what he was going to do. In a blink of an eye, Sonic kicked Shadow where he goes to him with his speed and kicks him again He was flung into the air and Sonic kicks him into the ground. He do this tactic again, each time going faster. Eventually, Sonic shouted, "TAILS! NOW!"
"Got it!" Tails charged at Shadow, who is falling, with his twin tails. He grabs Shadow where he keeps going forward until he crashes him to Sonic who kicks Shadow on the back. Tails finished it by throwing him to the ground. Shadow tried to stand up but weakly due to the damages he sustained from the two. Sonic charges at him.
"THIS IS FOR WHAT YOU DID TO US, FAKER!" shouted Sonic as he kicked Shadow with his strength, throwing him to the portal. Sonic and Tails clapped each other in defeating Shadow.
"Great job, Tails!"
"And great job too, Sonic!" A portal appeared. Without hesitating, they go to the portal.
Location: Slowpoke Isle
On one of the speed paths, Boom Knuckles, Boom Amy and Sticks run, having separated from Sonic and Tails. Knuckles looked around only for him to see a flying blue robot coming to them. He realized what it was.
"Guys! It's Metal Sonic!" Knuckles said. Amy and Sticks looked at Metal who is floating above and in front of them.
"I guess we can handle it without Sonic." Amy said. "After all, defeating him was simple."
"How come it is simple?" Sticks asked.
"Just watch."
Metal Sonic, or Boom Metal Sonic, summons three silver balls with blue linings. He throws it at the heroes. They dodged the two and Knuckles punch it back at him, damaging it.
"We just have to deflect these silver balls back at him?" Sticks asked.
"Yes. They are found on the road too." Amy said. Metal fires a laser that creates a damage rip. They jump to avoid it. The team continue their strategy: deflecting silver balls found on the road or thrown by Metal Sonic while dodging anything that comes in their path and jumping a rip the laser created. After many hits, Metal Sonic crashes on the road.
"Metal Sonic's down!" Amy shouted. Unfortunately, Metal appears below the ground and pierce through it, breaking it and making Knuckles, Amy and Sticks to fly upwards.
"WOAHHHHHHHHH!" The team yelled as they landed safely on the ground and continued running. "We survived that? COOL!" Knuckles exclaimed. Metal Sonic makes a new attack: digging into the ground that creates a straight rip that the team must dodge from left and right. When Metal is finished, he summons a larger balls which he hurls to the heroes. However, they deflected against him. The heroes continued this tactic until Metal Sonic crashes on the ground again.
"Metal's down again!" Amy said. Unfortunately, Metal appeared again. Though looking beat up, he still continues. He slowed to allow the heroes to speed fast him.
"What will Metal Sonic do?" Sticks asked. Amy and Knuckles shrugged. Their questions answered when they noticed Metal Sonic speeding through them. They managed to dodge him but they were hurt when it creates a line of explosions. Metal would continue it two times, with the team barely dodging it. Metal would then send an EVEN larger balls to hurl against them. The team simply deflect them to him. With enough damage, he got crashed into the ground yet again. However, he was not done. As a last resort, he floated into the air again where he charges several electricity in his robotic body and then charges towards the group at high speeds, all the while, emitting a large electric aura around him. The team noticed this and started running faster in hopes of evading it. While they move faster, Metal Sonic is FASTER than them and continued charging at them. Unfortunately, he loses his energy and crashed into the ground, failing to destroy them. Now defeated, Amy, Knuckles, and Sticks go through the portal.
Location: Creeper Gorge, on one of the platforms that has a rounded structure above it
On a lonely platform under the metallic structure, two portals appeared. Sonic and Tails come out of one of the portal and Knuckles, Amy, and Sticks come out of the second portal. It closes. Sonic and Tails looked at the three. They are happy to see them okay.
"Hey guys! Glad you are all okay!" Sonic said with relief as he and Tails walked up to them. Just as they are already near them, Tails noticed something coming to them at the corner of his eye. He looked at it to see a red thing speeding towards them.
"Guys, look out!" Tails warned, alerted. When the team looked at the red thing, they dodged at the last minute. The red thing was the robot called Eggman Mech that is piloted by none other than Eggman, or Boom Eggman.
"Well, well, well! what we have here?" Boom Eggman said. "It appears we have two hedgehogs, a fox, an echidna, and a badger!" He concluded.
"And what do we have here?" Boom Sonic said. "We got a giant talking egg and his robot that my team defeated before!" Boom Sonic teased Eggman which makes slightly irritated.
"Well, this time, I will not be defeated since my creation was improved compared to the model I have when I used it against you the first time!"
"Whether improved or not, we will still beat you, Eggman!" the Boom Team stand at each other, ready to fight.
"You have been warned! I will crush you with my robotic creation!" Eggman yelled. He controls the mech to make a battle position.
"Here we go!" the robot floats above the ground using its rocket thrusters under its feet. The robot stomped into the ground, creating a shockwave. The heroes jumped.
"Not bad! But can you escape this!" Eggman fired rockets on its back of the ellipsoid torso. Unlike the rockets before, these rocket are improved and they home immediately to the team. They were not expecting it since they thought it would be the same as before.
"Watch out!" Tails shouted as the heroes dodged the rocket. It hit the ground, exploding on contact.
"I think we need to use our Enerbeam to hold the rockets and fling it back to him!" Amy suggested.
"Alright then!" Sonic and his friends tried to fling the rockets back to Eggman but due to its speed and impressive targeting, they were unable to catch any rockets and they were slightly hurt as a result.
"Dang it! Is there anyway we could stop those rockets?" Knuckles spotted a lone missile staying on the ground.
"Maybe that will work?" Knuckles pointed it to everyone. Seeing this as a chance, Sonic used his Enerbeam and flung it back to Eggman, damaging it.
"OWW! Not fair! I've just improve those rockets!" Eggman retorted.
"Maybe a little." Sonic taunted, making a hand gesture of pinching something. Eggman growled. He fires several rockets to the team. They dodge them and when they find a lone rocket on the ground, they fling it back to Eggman. After taking two more hits, Eggman and his robot stunned. The team force it into the ground using the Enerbeam.
"Timber!" Eggman said as the robot falls to the ground and Eggman stunned. Exposing its cockpit, Sonic shouted, "NOW!" Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Sticks attacked Eggman with rapid punches, throwing sticky bombs, hard punches, hammer and boomerang respectively. After moving backwards, Eggman grip the joysticks to make the mech stand. He looks angry now.
"Okay then! TIME FOR A CHANGE OF PACE!" Eggman pilots the robot by floating into the ground and moving to the side. He fires cannonballs out of its arm.
"Is he firing cannonballs?" Sticks asked as she and the team dodge the attack.
"Pretty much." Amy answered. Eventually, Eggman's Badniks appeared out of nowhere.
"Not this guys!" Knuckles groaned. Sonic looked at the Eggman Mech and to the Badniks.
"Okay team! Me and Tails battle Eggman while you three fend off the Badniks." Sonic ordered. They split up, with him and Tails battle against Eggman and Knuckles, Amy and Sticks fending off the Badniks. Sonic and Tails dodge Eggman's attacks, flinging any rocket that might be dropped into the ground. After taking four hits, Eggman stunned. Sonic and Tails forced him into the ground with the help of Amy, Knuckles, and Sticks after they destroyed the Badniks.
"NO! Not this again!" the robot falls to the ground. Once again exposing its cockpit, they attacked altogether. Eventually, Eggman pulled the joystick, making it stand on its feet again. Now smoking, Eggman pounded his arm in anger.
"I WILL DEFEAT YOU THIS TIME, SONIC!"
"SAY IT TO YOUR BUTT, EGGBUTT!" the Eggman Mech then fired lasers on its arm, prompting the team to jump to avoid it.
"Now he's firing lasers!" Knuckles complained.
"Don't worry, just jump!" Sonic suggested. Eggman attacked the team again with its attacks. He will send some Badniks so the team worked together to destroy the Badniks, dodging the doctor's rockets, shockwave, punches and cannonballs. They fling the rockets back to Eggman four times, causing it to stun. They topple it to the ground.
"MAYDAY! MAYDAY!" Eggman shouted as it falls to the ground yet again. The team finished him once and for all. When he recovered from the stun, he tried to pull the joystick but the robot didn't budge. He tried it again and still nothing. Seeing he was defeated by Team Sonic again, he gets out of the mech with his Egg Mobile. He was about to pound his hands when he stopped in the middle of it. He then smiled evilly.
"What's the matter, Eggman?" Still want to fight?"
"Not this time! You may have won but the Time Eater will surely destroy you all along with the other versions of Sonic!" Upon hearing the word 'Time Eater', the team, especially Sonic and Tails, was shocked.
"Wait, what did you just say?" Sonic asked. But Eggman ignored him.
"So long, suckers!" Eggman finally said as he flies off to the portal that was similar to the Time Eater's while laughing evilly. As the portal disappear, the team discuss at his statement.
"Did you guys hear what I'm hearing?" Sonic asked.
"You mean the words 'Eater' and 'Time'?" Knuckles said.
"Yeah. It appears he may have linked to the Time Eater." Amy pointed out.
"Also, he mentions 'along with the other versions of Sonic'." Tails pointed out.
"So what will leaves us then?" Sticks asked.
"It maybe Eggman is working with the Time Eater. If he mentioned the other of versions of me, then I think there are other three Eggmen working with the Time Eater." Everyone gasped.
"So you mean the true mastermind is?" Amy asked.
"Yeah. But we cannot discuss it yet, not even to the Sonics."
"But why?" Tails asked.
"Maybe they will find out soon. I guess?" Boom Sonic said. "Anyways, we should grab the purple Chaos Emerald and get out of here."
After grabbing the Chaos Emerald from the Eggman Mech, they go to the portal.
Boom Eggman, along with the three Eggmen working for the Time Eater? This is getting suspicious indeed.