Our heroes are fired up and ready to go all out. Only one question remains…will it all be enough in the end?

It's time to find out the answer.


Dropkick Symphony 055.

Miracle Theory, Act 3: Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned


hgehog ~ Sonic the Hedgehog ~ Sonic the Hedgehog ~ Sonic the Hedgehog ~ Sonic the Hedgehog ~ Sonic the Hedgehog ~ Sonic the Hedgehog ~ Sonic the Hedgeh


Amy Rose soared through the nonexistent skies, dodging laser bursts as they came from the Metal Overlord some distance away. Her eyes focused on the beast ahead as she spread her wings in flight, skimming the ground with one hand as it started to glow brightly.

"Your efforts are futile. I will squash you like the pest that you are."

"You can try it," she responded defiantly, dodging more attacks and closing in on her enemy.

"Die where you stand!"

A spear of metal shot from one of the Overlord's giant hands, impaling the girl and pinning her to the ground below. Her form disappeared and returned as a streak of light some distance away, still moving towards Metal Sonic.

"Arrogant as usual," she said as she began to speed up. One of the beast's three heads extended towards her, and she swiftly dodged its snapping jaws at high speed. She twirled and spun in the air while continuing to move forward, the glow in her hand becoming more and more intense. A stream of flame seemed to swallow her up before she burst through it with ease.

Amy opened her hand, spreading her fingers wide as space started to distort around them. She closed one eye, focusing the other on the Metal Overlord.

"Almost there."

Metal Sonic took to the air and swung its pronged tail, the metal stretching and extending freely as it sent sonic booms through the air. Amy swooped under it, dodging the attack even as it swerved back and forth towards her. The segments separated and broke apart into massive metal stars, and they raced towards the hedgehog as she flew on. She flashed a cocky grin before accelerating, diving towards the ground, and pulling up just in time to make a volley of stars miss her. Her wings glittered as she spread them wide and caught air underneath them, easily pulling off a climbing turn to shake several of the objects off her tail.

Amy then came to a stop, simply watching as the metal stars rushed towards her.

"I think you should just...disappear."

The stars stopped inches in front of her before disintegrating into nothingness. Metal Sonic swooped in from behind, intending to take her out while she was preoccupied.

"And...one."

A golden chain shot up from the ground as Amy closed in one of her thumbs, wrapping around the Metal Overlord and halting his movements.

"What...is this foolishness?"

"Two."

Another chain shot up and trapped the robot.

"Three."

Amy pulled in her ring finger as another chain held back Metal Sonic.

"Four."

Another wrapped itself around the center head of the beast.

"Five."

A final chain pulled the Metal Overlord to the ground as he struggled to break free.

"Game over, Metal Sonic." Amy raised her hand, a torrent of energy surging through it. She brought it down, splitting the robot's form in half before it disappeared completely.

"Not quite."

"Wh-!"

Amy froze at the sound of the voice, gasping for breath as a robotic hand stuck itself through her chest. Black liquid started to spill from her body, her eyes growing heavier with each passing moment. Metal Sonic withdrew his arm, back in his original form.

"You didn't think it would be that easy, did you? How disappointing."

"F-for you, m-maybe..."

"Is that so?"

"Y-yeah...'cause..."

The robot's head was knocked off by a hammer swing, Amy Rose standing behind him.

"I know how to play the game too, you creep."

"Don't think you can stop me like this," Metal Sonic said, his severed head floating in mid-air.

"A bit too late for that. Once I have an idea in my head, I usually don't let go of it easily."

"Your stubbornness and ignorance will be your demise."

"So says you. I've never put much faith in technology, anyways."

"I will be sure to make you suffer once this comes to an end."

Amy strolled up to the head, grabbing it and tossing it to the ground. "You're all talk." She brought her hammer down on the head, smashing it to pieces.

"My power is limitless."

"Ditto."

Amy closed her eyes as she faded into the darkness, opening them to find herself floating across from the Metal Overlord again. She spread her wings and floated backwards, assessing her new situation.

This looks like it'll be really intense...I said I knew how to play the game, but I'm not sure how far I'm willing to go.

"Could be trouble," she said to herself.

"All of your efforts are futile. I am the master of the past, present, and future. You are nothing but an insect to be flattened under my boots."

"You say that," Amy countered, "but you still haven't managed to squish me yet. You know what your problem is? You're too slow~"

"Insolent little organic! I will show you true speed!"

Amy gasped as the massive machine appeared in front of her, one of its heads moving with blinding speed to bite her head off.

"Ooh...that's fast!"

She smiled as she balanced on the central head, twirling playfully.

"But you're still too slow~ Slow, slow, slow~"

"I will end you," the robot snarled.

"Sheesh." Amy flew away, looking down on Metal Sonic as she flapped her wings. "Gives new meaning to the phrase 'talking heads', doesn't it?"

"Enough of your games."

The two extra heads on the Metal Overlord retracted into its frame, energy gathering into the machine's massive floating hands. Metal Sonic clapped them together, waves of energy washing over the area and past Amy as she hovered in the skies above. The robot had reverted to its original form, a golden aura swirling around it.

In a flicker of light, the setting had changed and left the two standing across from each other, on top of sprawling skyscrapers in a polluted city.

"Did you think that this would be simple?"

"I wasn't really thinking about that..."

Amy looked around, noting how familiar everything looked. She was already here before, wasn't she...?

"This is...Stardust Speedway? But the future...Sonic saved it, didn't he?" She shook her head. "No, this is all some kind of dream world, I remember now."

"A dream, you say." Metal pointed down towards the street below, where Sonic was thrown headfirst into a window by one of the Metal Sonic clones. He was slow to get up as several of them advanced.

"S-Sonic? No...that can't be possible. It's all a trick." Amy turned angrily towards Metal Sonic. "I'll make you pay for that!"

"I'm sure that you will."

She froze as he cried out in pain, one of his arms broken and limp by his side. He struggled to fight on with his good arm, quickly turning and fending off attacks from the clones as they rushed in. Amy's eyes flickered back and forth between Sonic and Metal Sonic as she tried to decide who to go after.

This just has to be a trick...but I can't sense anything wrong. Why is that? Maybe that's the real Sonic, maybe he could die if I don't help him right now...

"What will you decision be? Will you stop me, or will you choose to save your precious hero's life? You don't have much time to choose, Amy Rose."


"Tch...never a dull moment, huh?"

Sonic ran forward into a flying kick, taking off the head of a Metal Sonic clone as it came towards him. He spun and used the body as a shield against a spin attack, then flipped over it and came down on the attacker's head with a stomp attack, shattering the frame to pieces.

He took a brief moment to look at the carnage around him. The area was littered with scrap metal and robotic limbs, damaged heads strewn about with some still sputtering and sparking. Sonic continued forward and bounced himself from a round bumper, uncurling in the air to acquire his next target. Falling quickly, he lined himself up with the next group of robots before unleashing a Sonic Boost, tearing them to pieces as a sonic boom sounded in his wake.

The blue hedgehog stopped to catch his breath for a moment, watching as more and more robots advanced from the distance. Wiping the blood from one corner of his mouth, he then cracked his knuckles and jogged towards his enemy once more. A clone ambushed him from behind, throwing a punch that sent the hero off-balance. He stumbled into another waiting fist and was bounced around before being hit with a spin attack.

Wincing at the sharp cuts across his chest, Sonic grit his teeth and ran backwards before suddenly accelerating forwards, tackling a robot in the process. The two went into a roll and tumbled down a nearby tunnel at high speed, shooting out the other side and into one of the zone's large pinball paddles. It flicked the two upwards, and they separated for a second before throwing a flurry of punches at each other as they fell towards the ground.

The clone grabbed Sonic by the neck and drove him downwards, smashing him through several of the spherical bumpers and into the grass below. His head still spinning, Sonic grabbed onto the offending arm and tore it off before smashing the robot's face in with the limb. Throwing it like a boomerang, he stunned several more of the robots before smashing them to pieces with Homing Attacks.

Need to think of something. Won't have the juice to do this forever…

"Wait. I've been jumping around like an idiot and had something I could use! Sheesh, get it together, Sonic…"

He looked upwards, watching as the skies of Collision Chaos turned to a blinding white.

"Oi…that ain't looking right at all. Hope Amy's alright." Reaching behind his back, Sonic produced a Time Stone and clutched it tightly. "That bucket-head was so wrapped up in himself that he didn't bother to take those off o' me. Lucky break, I guess."

The gem began to glow brightly.

"'Cause it means I can just do this all day long! You junk heaps ready? C'mon!"

The Metal Sonic clones all converged on Sonic, who simply flashed a cocky grin as he stood in place.

"Nothin' to it. Time Break!"


Where am I? Why do I feel so...strange?

Amy Rose opened her eyes slowly, feeling the cool asphalt at her back.

I can't move. I'm all here, but I can barely move at all...

"Foolish. It seems that the human saying is true...love is indeed blind."

Oh...I remember now. I chose to go after him...but...

She turned her head to one side, looking at the blue hedgehog as he lay still.

"I'm sorry...I couldn't do anything. I'm so sorry, Sonic..."

"Now it is time for you to meet your demise as well. You chose to save your object of affection instead of the world, and it has cost you dearly."

"I always said that...if I had to choose between the world and Sonic, I would choose him every time. That's never going to change," she said weakly.

"Foolish."

"C-call it what you want…"

This isn't very good, is it? Sonic came all the way here to save me, and now…he's gone. It's my fault. I did this to him.

He asked me to do one thing, and I couldn't do it. I…I really hate this feeling. I hate feeling so helpless…but this will be the last time, won't it?

Metal Sonic stood over her, raising an electrified hand to the sky.

I was totally kicking butt before, and now all of a sudden it's like this. I'm gonna die.

For good this time.

Dark clouds began to swirl around in the sky, rain falling hard onto the street below. Bolts of lightning streaked down towards the robot's raised hand.

Déjà vu, right? I was in this situation before. About to lose it all, until I managed to save myself, or until Sonic saved me.

I'm out of whatever power I had and Sonic's not here to save me now.

So why I do I feel so calm? Maybe I'm just ready to give in…maybe somewhere inside of myself, I realize how hopeless everything is. All this despair seems so familiar, even though I was so confident just now. Here I am, rambling with myself…it's so pointless at this stage. I said I was going to end this, said it like I meant it. Now look at me.

Metal Sonic pulled back his arm, ready to strike.

I want to get up, so badly. I want to do this, but something won't let me. I'm trying so hard to believe, because that was supposed to make everything right…but…

Amy let out a strained breath, feeling herself start to cry. "I couldn't even do that…"

I wanted to be so much…I don't want it to end this way.

"I don't want to die…"

"You don't always get what you want," the robot replied flatly. He brought his arm down, sending waves of electricity tearing through the asphalt below.

Metal Sonic pulled his arm from the smoking crater he had created.

"Impossible."

"Maybe it ain't about what we want, Metal."

Sonic stood behind the robot, cuts and bruises all over his body as he held Amy in his arms.

"But we always get what we need in the end."

"You…I'm fairly impressed. You managed to use a Time Stone and succeed against my creations."

Sonic said nothing to his nemesis, instead placing a Chaos Emerald in Amy's shaking hands.

"Close your eyes, Ames."

The girl nodded and did as she was told.

"You remember…the place where we first met?"

"Yes…"

"Think of that place really, really hard. I'll be waiting for you there, okay?"

"Sonic…! You can't-"

"Amy, please."

She was quiet again.

"I know you wanted to do this on your own, but things have changed. And I can't…if I lost you again, I wouldn't know what to do with myself."

"…"

"For me…you have to go now."

Amy opened her eyes, wiping away some of her tears. "I love you."

"…I know."

Sonic took a deep breath, feeling Amy disappear from his grip a moment later. The skies started to darken even further, and the rain was even heavier than before. Lightning flashed around the two hedgehogs as they stared each other down.

"I see that you intend to die here."

Sonic again said nothing, simply bouncing from side to side and warming himself up.

"So be it."

Metal charged, stabbing Sonic in the heart with lightning speed.

The blue hedgehog then faded away into nothingness, leaving the robot confused.

"This is-"

Sonic punched his copy in the head, sending him flying through several buildings before coming to a stop. One of them exploded into pieces as Metal Sonic came charging back, the earth splitting apart as his exhaust tore through it.

"Okay, then. Time to get this party started…"


hgehog ~ Sonic the Hedgehog ~ Sonic the Hedgehog ~ Sonic the Hedgehog ~ Sonic the Hedgehog ~ Sonic the Hedgehog ~ Sonic the Hedgehog ~ Sonic the Hedgeh


Amy gets shaken up, but Sonic arrives in the nick of time to set things straight again. Now with Amy in a safe place, he's tasked with fighting a super-charged, dimension-ripping Metal Sonic. How will the Blue Blur come out on top this time, if his trump card couldn't seal the deal?

056 – Miracle Theory, Act 4: The Last Way

To decide everything, Sonic and Metal go head to head once more. Only one path leads to victory…and it's through one of them.