Episode 13: Supporting Me
As Metal Sonic's eyes glow a bright red, Sonic looks on to see what the robot is going to do next. Suddenly, an elderly voice was heard from the robot, as if it had activated some kind of deep-seated protocol.
"All of you ungrateful people who took everything away from me, will feel my loss, my pain, my despair! " the voice said, to which Sonic braced himself.
The robot repeated the phrase a second time, causing the capsule above to finally open, and a light glowed bright from it. As Metal Sonic finally exploded, the flash grew stronger for a moment, then revealed what looked like a gigantic reptile fused with a lot of machinery. On top of all that, the timer for the cannon's fire changed.
Time left: 20 minutes
"Woah!" Sonic exclaimed, looking at the reptile before it let out a loud roar.
"Is this the prototype that Rouge mentioned?!" Sonic wondered to himself, before jumping out of the way of the prototypes tail as it attempted to crush him. Sonic jumps up in order to attempt an attack on the beast, only for it to fire a sphere of dark purple energy from it's mouth, which hits Sonic.
"Ack!" he exclaimed, as he scraped along the ground on his feet. Seeing the large life support system on his back, Sonic jumped up as high as he could and attempted a homing attack, only for the prototype to respond by producing a series of small pink spheres, which head towards Sonic and hit him.
"Guagh!" Sonic screamed as he was sent into the same area of orange water Metal Sonic landed in earlier.
"This guy's tough... Gh.. " Sonic uttered as he struggled to stand up before looking up at the prototype as it roared to the ceiling.
The scene then cuts to Antoine and Bunnie as they fight off scores of Snively's robots in order to stop them from getting to Sally. Due to their sheer volume, the two of them eventually grow tired and they end up losing concentration.
"So many of them! How on earth can Snively be makin' 'em this fast?!" Bunnie as continued to hang in there. All of a sudden, a blitz of yellow speeds through the robots and ends up destroying a large score of them in a hurry. The figure stopped beside Bunnie and Antoine to reveal himself.
"Ze Shadow!" Antoine said in shock
"Shadow?!" Bunnie also said in shock.
"Don't give up yet. Protect the princess with everything you are." Shadow said before speeding off. With a renewed motivation, Bunnie and Antoine looked each other and nodded, before the two continued to fight against the robots in order to protect the Sally.
The scene then cuts to Rouge, who is seen doing her best to fight off the scores of robots coming from the elevator. However, her injuries are preventing her from fighting at her fullest. Before long, one of the robots whacks her into the wall.
"Agh!" she screamed as her back hit the wall, before she went down on the ground. The robots then surrounded her and readied themselves to kill her.
"Is...this it for me?..." Rouge thought to herself, before closing her eyes and accepting her fate. In the blink of an eye, Shadow is seen landing in front of her, before proceeding to take down the scores of robots with ease, before he walks over to Rouge.
"Rouge." Shadow called out, to which Rouge responded by sitting up against the wall.
"Heh...took you long enough.." Rouge whispered, before lowering her head in pain.
"There's a high chance I won't make it out alive. If I don't, I just wanted to say... thank you." Shadow said. Before Rouge could ask what she was being thanked for, and before she could look up again, Shadow was nowhere to be seen. Because of the sheer pain she was in, Rouge ended up passing out.
The scene then cuts to Nicole, Rotor and Tails back at the Knothole, who are seen desperately trying to get in contact with the others, but to no avail.
"I can't get in contact with Sonic or the others! It's like the signal is being blocked!" Tails said, who was seen typing frantically on his computer.
"Neither can I!" Rotor called out.
"...There's no way they will let this fail." Nicole said, trying to remain positive through all of this turmoil. She then put her hands on her heart, in hopes that everyone will come back safely.
The scene then cuts to Sonic, who is seen looking up at the Biolizard, who has it's head turned to Sonic as if it could hear him. It then began to charge a powerful laser from its' life support system on it's back, getting ready to fire it at Sonic.
"Kh!" Sonic tisked as he closed his eyes and braced himself for the laser. All of a sudden, a ray of yellow comes down and lands a homing attack on the Biolizard's life support system, causing it to roar at the ceiling in pain and stop the laser from firing.
"What?!" Sonic wondered, before a familiar black hedgehog landed beside him.
"Shadow!" Sonic said in shock. The last shot of the episode focuses on the two of them looking at each other for a brief moment, then give each other a nod and walking up to the Biolizard and assuming their battle stances, which the Biolizard responds to by roaring loudly.
-To Be Continued...In The Season Finale, "Wishes Are Eternal"-
