Disclaimer: Jeeze, I"ll repeat once more, I guess. I OWN NOTHING OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!!! THANK YOU!!!
Last time we left off, Shadow was having, ah, a bit of girl trouble. And now, it seems he's about to reunite with the Chaos Emeralds as the Armageddon's engines are roaring overhead, shaking the earth around them. Looks like we're up to one last bout with Robotnik. Who will come out alive? Fasten your seatbelts, kids, this one may take a while..
Consider this a consolation for all the short episodes we've made in the past, like Episode Six of Christopher Aosis. This episode spans for atleast three episodes worth, most likely more.
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[Episode 11; The War]
Sonic and the others were gathered together in the largest tent at camp. The Armageddon was slowly flying towards them, and though it was miles away, it could easily be seen coming. Sally stood in the middle of the huddle inside. "Alright," she said, "we have no idea what we're up against, so we'll need only the best to get this done to prevent casualties. All the others should stay well hidden. Any voulenteers to come with us?"
Sonic stepped forward. "You kiddin', Sal'? There's no way I'm missin' this kinda fun!" he said with a smirk. "Not everyday I get to trash Eggman."
Amy stood up next, wordlessly pulling out her hammer. Tails and Christine had to voulenteer, as they both had an arsenal of weaponry needed to take out the defenses. Rotor voulenteered, but said he'd join them later, and they may not recognize him. When they asked why, he said he was going to get Dulcy to help out. "Anyone else?" asked Sally, a bit desperately.
"If it means getting the Master Emerald back, I'm in." Knuckles said, coming in out of nowhere. "And I'm sure Rouge will join when she hears about the treasure involved."
"Alright, I guess we'll figure something out." said Sally. "Everyone else, find shelter. Let's go." As soon as they walked out of the tent, Sally was met face to face with an old friend.. "Bunny!" she shouted. "What are you doing here?"
"What, you think y'all can have a party without lil' ol' me?" she said, turning her left arm and lower body robotic again. "Besides, how do y'all expect to attack ol' tub-o-lard when you can't even fly?"
As she said this, several small pirate destoyers, hovering about five feet off the ground, slowly moved in from the surrounding woods. Suddenly, a white, cloaked figure jumped out of the woods. "You fellows ain't attackin' Robotnik without me, are you?" said the thief. Sonic walked over to her. "Who are you?"
"Mind your own business, furball. I just got a bone to pick with Ivo." said the thief, jumping into one of the destroyers without waiting for consent. Sally shrugged, "Well, we need all the help we can get..", and climbed aboard another destroyer.
After a minute or so, the small army was loaded and ready. The pirate army slowly lifted out of the woods, their true number now revealed as hundreds of hidden ships slowly hovered upwards. They shot off towards the Armageddon, and started fire...
The troupe of ships shot a huge array of lasers and missiles upon the ship, and one of them dropped off Knuckles, who clung to the edge of Armageddon just as the protruding shields came on above him. Thank goodness the shields didn't coat the outside of the ship. He used his spiked knuckles to climb to the top, and met up with his rival, Rouge. She smirked. "Hey there, treasure hunter. After your Emerald again?"
"You could say that." he shrugged, looking around for a door or hatch or something. The red echidna found what he was looking for and ran up to the hatch. He looked up as he opened the hatch, and saw the army of pirate destroyers let loose another barrage of lasers. He jumped down the hatch and pulled out a radio, as Rouge soon joined him.
"This is Knuckles, I'm in the ship, over." he called quietly to the transmitter.
"This is Sally. Knuckles, according to Tails, you need to find the ship's shield generators and either destroy them or deactivate them. Over."
"Got it. Over and out." said the echidna. "You with me, Rouge?" he started to say, then turned around and saw she had already left to find some treasure. "Great.." He ran off to find the generators, making sure not to be seen.
An hour later, Eggman's army of jets had been terrorizing the destroyers, and shot down a good 35% of them. Knuckles said that he couldn't get to the generators, they were too heavily guarded. Thus, all they could do was try to break the powerful shields. Suddenly, roaring could be heard in the distance as a large beast could be seen flying towards them at break-neck speeds. The green dragon opened her mouth and blasted the Armageddon with a bolt of lightning before doing a U-Turn and tailing the ship. As she attacked the shields with a constant array of flames, another bolt shot upwards into the shields as a white-scaled dragon shot upwards, diving down to meet Dulcy. The two dragons caught up to Armageddon and circled it, blasting it with constant lightning and fire. The first layer of shields fizzled into nothing. Suddenly, Armageddon began returning fire and the smaller ships were starting to home in on the pair of beasts, thus forcing them to divert their aim and attention from attacking shields. And then, something happened that no one could have expected..
A streak of silver shot out of the woods and flared into the shields, then darted in front of the ship, easily going five times faster. The silver figure held his hands out towards the ship, palms facing, and shot a giant silver beam into the shields. Three layers of it shattered instantly as another beam fired, instantly disabling all but one layer. He shot through several of Eggman's ships, and grabbed one by a loose part, swinging it around and hurling it into the shields. As soon as the last layer took some damage, Shadow charged into it, and in a flash of light the shield was no more. Then, he went to help get rid of the pests, along with the dragons. The destroyers landed on the ship -- after all, this was war, you ask questions later -- and let out the reinforcements. Several ships landed around them as wind shields, and soon the small Knotholean army was met with Knuckles inside the ship.
"Alright," Sally said, "here's the plan. Knuckles, you take Christine and Tails and find what keeps this ship's security ticking. If there's any security doors, open them, and try to disable all automatic defenses. The fox we met ealier has already left to find Eggman, but I doubt she'll be able to. I'll use my computer to try to locate him. Sonic, Amy, come with me in case we run into trouble. If this works, this ship will be scrap by the end of the day. Bunny, you and Alex release any prisoners, and try to wipe out all the robots you see. If anyone runs into Robotnik, Metal Sonic, or the strange mercinary Knuckles told us about, immediately call the others for assistance. Do not try to take them on your own. We've only got one shot at this, so let's try not to foul up. Move out!" The group split up, Knuckles and the foxes leaving to find the security room, Sally and the two hedgehogs staying behind to try and track Eggman, and the Pirates going to take over with brute force. Suddenly, Shadow shot through the floor. Thank goodness this ship was multi-story, or they'd have been sucked out of the ship! The three jumped back. Shadow glared at them. "Have you seen a fox wearing white?" They all slowly shook their heads. Shadow snarled and shot through the halls, before literally going through a wall, taking it out with him and going deeper into the ship.
The group looked at him irritably, knowing he had to have set off countless alarms, before Sally resumed her search.
"Come on, where does that idiot keep his gold?" the bat asked herself. She jumped into the shadows as a large beetle-shaped robot hovered by. Thank goodness it's sight was limited. After it passed through into another hallway, Rouge resumed her hunt. She reached a locked door and pulled out a small device, hooking several wires to the password-input panal, and began hacking into the security system.
Another outdated Swattbot's headless corpse fell to the ground, its head rolling down the hallway as a white figure landed gracefully behind it. She unsheathed a long, slightly curved sword and looked around her as reinforcements of E-100-bots came charging down the four intersecting hallways around her. The thief smirked, and began running down a hallway towards one of the small enforcement groups. Then, she suddenly disappeared, and reappeared behind the small army of robots, which soon fell to the ground in shambles. By now, all the other armies were at the intersection and going down the hallway to meet her, while another group entered from behind. She sighed. "This is going to be a loooong day.."
Knuckles and the two foxes dashed down another hallway. "You sure you know where you're going!?" the echidna shouted out.
"Yeah, I recognize this design!" Christin shouted back. "It was stolen from my father." Suddenly, lasers were shooting everywhere from the security cameras as robots already began pouring in. How many robots does this blasted ship have, anyway!?
Gunshots and cannon firing blared as a black cloud of pirates mixed through an army of thousands of robots.
A metallic fist plowed through the head of another annoying E-100 bot, as the rabbit's foot jabbed through the 'bot behind her. The armies are beginning to become monotonously stupid now, aren't they?
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Eggman spit out his coffee. "What do you mean our armies are down 20%!?" he exclaimed. Metal Sonic and the wolf mercinary -- I'll go ahead and tell you his name, as you are likely sick of hearing all these pronouns -- who was known as Viper, glared at the robot below, who looked up at the three nervously. "Th-There seem to be ten intruders who are doing the most damage, along with an army of intruders.. O-One of them is tearing the ship's walls apart, a-and has found his way into our large robot hanger, which is down to 5% left.. a--" The small, pathetic robot didn't have a chance to finish as Robotnik's laser cannon blasted it.
"Send a replacement." he said coldly, tapping on the controls of his Egg Walker, which started marching out of the room. The other two followed.
"Master Robotnik, what are we going to do?" asked MS. Eggman glared at the metalic sonic -- Not out of hatred, no. Metal Sonic was one of his best creations, and the two had a sort of parentic father-son bond. Shocking, no?
"These are those meddlesom Freedom Fighters again, Metal Sonic." Robotnik said. "But one of them isn't, whoever is tearing through our ship like tissue paper."
"I can deal with them all." Metal Sonic said smugly. Robotnik laughed.
"You forget who we're dealing with. Atleast they're split up. Viper, go and deal with the three in sector a-9o1. Metal Sonic, take care of the three meddlers at the entrance. I will lead my best walker to deal with the army in c-018. Move out, men.." With that, Robotnik ran off with metallic footsteps. A hole opened up nearby, and a large, shining snake slithered out. Metal Sonic took off and disappeared in a split second as David Viper mounted his pet and took off, sliding his snake-like helmet on.
The graceful fox tore through yet another group of robots, adding them to the metallic carped of mech corpses. She laughed and jumped backwards, jabbing her sword into the last one there. "What, that's all?" she scoffed through her laughter. Suddenly, something tore through the floor in front of her. She covered her eyes for a second, then slowly adjusted to the figure's bright arua of silver, and immediantly recognized that cold glare. "Shadow?" questioned the fox. The dark hedgehog said nothing. He slowly lowered to the ground and walked towards her. "Do you remember me? No, of coarse not, you had amnesia.." Shadow gave a puzzled look. "Explain." he demanded.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the ship (back at the entrance), Sally jumped up. "I found the bridge!" she shouted, waking up a sleeping Sonic (who currently had little pink bows in his quills, prank courtesy of Amy). Amy had a fit of giggling before Sonic could pull out the pesky bows. "Come on you two!" shouted the princess, taking off down one of the hallways. Sonic soon followed suit, and Amy after him, preparing her hammer. As the trio rounded the next bend, they stopped suddenly, coming face to face with the metal hedgehog himself, Metal Sonic. "And where exactly do you think you're going, brother?" the metallic warrior asked.
"Get out of here, Sally, Amy. I'll take care of this pest." Sonic said, taking stance. Metal Sonic followed suit. "I said go!" Sonic shouted to Amy, who was waiting for an opportunity to bash MS. The pink hedgehog looked irritated before following Sally out of the hallway. A small, black liquid was leaking from the ceiling -- obviously oil of some sort -- as Metal Sonic struck the first blow, knocking Sonic backwards. Without giving a fair chance to recover, he leaped forward and kicked the blue hedgehog in the stomache, knocking him backwards another few feet. This time, however, Sonic did a somersault and got back to his feet in time to catch MS's foot. The robot spinned sideways and slammed his other foot into Sonic's smirking face. As soon as Metal Sonic recovered the fall, he dashed over, grabbed Sonic's foot, and hurled him back the other way by quite some distance.
"Jeeze, how am I supposed to beat this guy?" Sonic said to himself, his face bruised a bit, along with his legs and arms. Metal Sonic slowly walked towards Sonic, and before the blue hedgehog could stand, a yellow ball of electricity hit him in the chest, casting a barrier around his body that paralyzed him from moving. MS continued walking forward, the shock cannon hiding back inside his left arm. "Any last words, brother?" asked the robot cruelly as he extended his razor-sharp claws. Then, a drop of 'oil' fell on MS's head. The robot looked up and saw a bouldar slowly falling. Before he could get out of the way, it fell on top of him, knocking him out cold. The bouldar bounced towards Sonic.. and kept rolling. Sonic looked in horror and closed his eyes, unaware to the fact that the rock was slowly getting smaller.. And it came to a halt in front of him, no bigger than a baseball. He slowly opened his eyes, first looking at the knocked out robot a ways in front of him, then at the small rock at his feet. The barrier around him faded.
"Alright!" Sonic exclaimed, jumping up and stretching. "I hate not bein' able to move!" The rock below him slowly turned black, then melted into a black puddle, which grew two little glowing eyes. It quickly turned into Sonic and took a bow. "Nite Mare, at your service!" said the fake hedgehog. Sonic busted out laughing, then with a quick thanks took off to find Amy and Sally. As soon as he turned down the next hallway, however, a gun pointed between his eyes stopped him from moving. In front of him stood the cruel mercinary, Viper, who had Knuckles, Christin, and Tails all dangling from his numerous tentacles. "End of the line, blue boy." he hissed through the helmet.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the middle of the ship..
"Aha! I got it!" Rouge said as the large security door opened long enough for her to slip in. She put up the small computer and looked around the room, noticing a computer. Without hesitation, she walked up to it and took out a disc, which had a cord that attached it to her small computer. She inserted the disc, and in a few seconds the computer's five passwords were input and she was in. The bat typed in commands on her miniature computer, and the monitor on Eggman's pc started browsing through many windows. Suddenly, a screen popped up that read "ENTER PASSWORD", before it was replaced with a screen full of computer code that was changing too fast for the eye to see. The jewel collector leaned back and rested her feet on the larger keyboard, letting her laptop do all the work. "I give it ten seconds."
Sonic was hurled into the same cell he had been in a mere day or two ago, along with the other five captured Freedom Fighters. "Nothing personal." the wolf said as he slammed the door shut. "Just business." With that, he latched his tentacles around the four robots he had used earlier, and destroyed them. Suddenly, all the security cameras died as the radio inside his helmet turned on. "Viper, someone has shut down all security systems in the ship! Come quick!" shouted Eggman. The mercinary turned to face the prisoners before taking off to meet Robotnik. "Well," Tails said, "Atleast it couldn't possibly get any worse!" The lights suddenly went out as everyone glared at him. "TAILS!!"
"It's a good thing you glow." the thief said jokingly, in a hallway several stories below the prison chamber. The area around them was too dark to see, if not for Shadow's silver aura. He scowled, not appreciating the humor. "C'mon, can't you take a joke?" said the fox. She jumped in front of him, skipping backwards. "Ok, let's try this again. My name's Victoria." She held out a hand. Shadow looked extremely irritated.
"Just give me my wallet back." he said. The fox shrugged and pulled out a black wallet, handing it over. Shadow jerked it away from her, then immediately tore through the roof above him, shooting upwards to hopefully find Robotnik. The thief looked up, with an irritated look to rival Shadow's. "That guy needs to settle down.." she said, before jumping up to the hole and wall-kicking up and of it, then the next hole, and the next, slowly ascending to wherever Shadow went.
Shadow tore through the floor of the prison, blinding all the captives there. He stopped as he saw the group. "Shadow!" Amy shouted. "Give us a hand!"
The black hedgehog shot through a wall in the prison, ignoring Amy's request. After a minute or so, a fox jumped out of the hole and sliced the bars of the prison open, before going through the tunnel Shadow made -- He had stopped now, as she could see a faint glow in the distance.
Shadow stood at the end of the tunnel, among a bunch of knocked-out or dead pirates, holding Eggman by the collar of his suit, his other hand pummeling him. "This will teach you.." he said, kicking the man to the ground. Victoria jumped out of the hole nearby. Shadow glared at her. "Get out of here!" he shouted. "I'm taking this entire ship down, if it's the last thing I do!"
Sonic and the others slowly made their way through the ship, Sally leading since her computer had a small flashlight. Suddenly, the whole ship shook. "Uh oh.. That didn't sound good.." Knuckles commented. Suddenly, Rouge dropped in from the above ventalation shaft. "The ship's losing power." she said. "We'll die if we stay here."
"Well, I'm not leaving without the Master Emerald!" Knuckles said.
"I knew you'd say that.." the bat sighed. She handed him a map of the ship before giving him a pushing start. "Hurry up, you idiot, unless you want to be fried echidna!" The group split up then, Knuckles running to the engine room and the others taking off to find the exit, soon joined by the remaining pirates, lead by Bunny and Alex, as they passed another corridor.
Knuckles made a mad dash across the halls and was about to make it to the room when an explosion shook the ship. The Master Emerald, in pieces, fell to his feet. He quickly put it back together, thanking the gods it wasn't scattered like it usually was, and saw Shadow fly by, making a hole in the wall behind him. Knuckles was sucked out of the ship, much to his liking as he glided into the Forbidden Forests.
Everyone else was up atop the ship, getting loaded into numerous pirate ships. As Sonic was about to climb aboard, the ninja-like thief popped out of the hatch. "You! Where's Shadow!?" she shouted. Sonic shrugged. "What do I look like, his nanny?" Victoria began to climb back down, but several pirates stopped her and pulled her into one of the ships. She tried to get away, untill Sonic assured her he'd find Shadow as he jumped down the hatch and took off at super-sonic speed. The pirate ships took off, except for one of them that stood waiting for Sonic.
Five minutes later, Sonic had still not found Shadow, only countless holes, and the pirate ship above was forced to take off as the Armageddon violently shook again, slowly descending below the clouds towards the Forbidden Zone. And then, the entire ship shook like an earthquake as numerous explosions sounded. The ship crashed to the ground in a massive wreckage, causing the last remaining generators to go out with a bang.
"Sonic!!" Amy shouted, looking out the window of one of the pirate ships as tears welled up in her eyes.
Meanwhile, thousands of feet below...
Sonic slowly got to his feet, surrounded by a ring of fire. "Where am I..?" he thought, clearing his head. He heard a loud, cruel, cold voice sound out from afar. "You're standing in the wreckage of my Master's greatest creation..." The silhouette of Metal Sonic slowly walked out of the flames. "You... this is all your fault..."
"MY fault?! That fat egghead's the one who attacked us in the first place!" Sonic protested.
"SHUT UP!!" MS shouted out, dashing up to Sonic faster than he could react and slashing him across the left side of his face. Sonic stood up, his hands covering the side of his face. "Thanks to you, Robotnik is dead!" the robot hissed. Sonic removed his hands, his left glove slightly dyed red, as he took stance. "You will pay for this.. brother.... I am Robotnik's second greatest warrior, the first being a bioandroid."
Sonic shot into Metal Sonic with a homing attack, and jumped back as MS began peeling out, yellow electicity covering his body. Sonic jumped up as MS took off, barely dodging the attack, then shot downwards as MS jumped up with a homing attack of his own, which whirled around and bashed Sonic backwards. The metal hedgehog lifted a piece of Armageddon and hurled it at Sonic, who darted out of the way by just a quill as another piece shot towards him. The blue hedgehog dashed out of the way once more, and did a flaming kick into MS, knocking the silver knight to the ground. Showing as much mercy as MS would, Sonic jumped up and brutally assaulted the robot. Suddenly, a missile blazed by and made Sonic jump out of the way. The rocket flew through the flames and exploded in the distance as a large tank slowly rolled out of the flames. "You will pay for this, mark my words, hedgehog.." a familiar, sinister voice called out. Metal Sonic leaped up and laughed, recognizing the voice instantly as the two began assaultiong Sonic, who didn't stand a chance... Suddenly, a giant, white-scaled snake's head struck out of the bushes and bit into Metal Sonic, devouring the robot with ease as tentacles tore open Robotnik's ship. Robotnik shouted out angrily as he saw Viper, without the helmet, jump in front of the tank. "Thanks for the pay, Robotnik, but our deal is officially over." he said, clutching his fist around a button. The detonator on the back of Eggman's tank blew up, destroying the creation and most likely the creator. And then, the flames around both Sonic and the mercinary grew larger...
TO BE CONTINUED..
So, the Armageddon takes an untimely downfall, and I fry my brain to make a longer episode! Big deal! But wait, the moon is even bluer than it has been! And who's this clown in the black trenchcoat!? Get ready for a long trailer to this episode, as the Armageddon of the entire dimension is at stake. And it looks like Christopher Aosis' brother shares the family evilness as well. But where did these shadowy characters come from? Find out next time, as things get chaotic and a bit cross-overish, on..
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[Episode 12; The Source of Chaos]
Last time we left off, Shadow was having, ah, a bit of girl trouble. And now, it seems he's about to reunite with the Chaos Emeralds as the Armageddon's engines are roaring overhead, shaking the earth around them. Looks like we're up to one last bout with Robotnik. Who will come out alive? Fasten your seatbelts, kids, this one may take a while..
Consider this a consolation for all the short episodes we've made in the past, like Episode Six of Christopher Aosis. This episode spans for atleast three episodes worth, most likely more.
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[Episode 11; The War]
Sonic and the others were gathered together in the largest tent at camp. The Armageddon was slowly flying towards them, and though it was miles away, it could easily be seen coming. Sally stood in the middle of the huddle inside. "Alright," she said, "we have no idea what we're up against, so we'll need only the best to get this done to prevent casualties. All the others should stay well hidden. Any voulenteers to come with us?"
Sonic stepped forward. "You kiddin', Sal'? There's no way I'm missin' this kinda fun!" he said with a smirk. "Not everyday I get to trash Eggman."
Amy stood up next, wordlessly pulling out her hammer. Tails and Christine had to voulenteer, as they both had an arsenal of weaponry needed to take out the defenses. Rotor voulenteered, but said he'd join them later, and they may not recognize him. When they asked why, he said he was going to get Dulcy to help out. "Anyone else?" asked Sally, a bit desperately.
"If it means getting the Master Emerald back, I'm in." Knuckles said, coming in out of nowhere. "And I'm sure Rouge will join when she hears about the treasure involved."
"Alright, I guess we'll figure something out." said Sally. "Everyone else, find shelter. Let's go." As soon as they walked out of the tent, Sally was met face to face with an old friend.. "Bunny!" she shouted. "What are you doing here?"
"What, you think y'all can have a party without lil' ol' me?" she said, turning her left arm and lower body robotic again. "Besides, how do y'all expect to attack ol' tub-o-lard when you can't even fly?"
As she said this, several small pirate destoyers, hovering about five feet off the ground, slowly moved in from the surrounding woods. Suddenly, a white, cloaked figure jumped out of the woods. "You fellows ain't attackin' Robotnik without me, are you?" said the thief. Sonic walked over to her. "Who are you?"
"Mind your own business, furball. I just got a bone to pick with Ivo." said the thief, jumping into one of the destroyers without waiting for consent. Sally shrugged, "Well, we need all the help we can get..", and climbed aboard another destroyer.
After a minute or so, the small army was loaded and ready. The pirate army slowly lifted out of the woods, their true number now revealed as hundreds of hidden ships slowly hovered upwards. They shot off towards the Armageddon, and started fire...
The troupe of ships shot a huge array of lasers and missiles upon the ship, and one of them dropped off Knuckles, who clung to the edge of Armageddon just as the protruding shields came on above him. Thank goodness the shields didn't coat the outside of the ship. He used his spiked knuckles to climb to the top, and met up with his rival, Rouge. She smirked. "Hey there, treasure hunter. After your Emerald again?"
"You could say that." he shrugged, looking around for a door or hatch or something. The red echidna found what he was looking for and ran up to the hatch. He looked up as he opened the hatch, and saw the army of pirate destroyers let loose another barrage of lasers. He jumped down the hatch and pulled out a radio, as Rouge soon joined him.
"This is Knuckles, I'm in the ship, over." he called quietly to the transmitter.
"This is Sally. Knuckles, according to Tails, you need to find the ship's shield generators and either destroy them or deactivate them. Over."
"Got it. Over and out." said the echidna. "You with me, Rouge?" he started to say, then turned around and saw she had already left to find some treasure. "Great.." He ran off to find the generators, making sure not to be seen.
An hour later, Eggman's army of jets had been terrorizing the destroyers, and shot down a good 35% of them. Knuckles said that he couldn't get to the generators, they were too heavily guarded. Thus, all they could do was try to break the powerful shields. Suddenly, roaring could be heard in the distance as a large beast could be seen flying towards them at break-neck speeds. The green dragon opened her mouth and blasted the Armageddon with a bolt of lightning before doing a U-Turn and tailing the ship. As she attacked the shields with a constant array of flames, another bolt shot upwards into the shields as a white-scaled dragon shot upwards, diving down to meet Dulcy. The two dragons caught up to Armageddon and circled it, blasting it with constant lightning and fire. The first layer of shields fizzled into nothing. Suddenly, Armageddon began returning fire and the smaller ships were starting to home in on the pair of beasts, thus forcing them to divert their aim and attention from attacking shields. And then, something happened that no one could have expected..
A streak of silver shot out of the woods and flared into the shields, then darted in front of the ship, easily going five times faster. The silver figure held his hands out towards the ship, palms facing, and shot a giant silver beam into the shields. Three layers of it shattered instantly as another beam fired, instantly disabling all but one layer. He shot through several of Eggman's ships, and grabbed one by a loose part, swinging it around and hurling it into the shields. As soon as the last layer took some damage, Shadow charged into it, and in a flash of light the shield was no more. Then, he went to help get rid of the pests, along with the dragons. The destroyers landed on the ship -- after all, this was war, you ask questions later -- and let out the reinforcements. Several ships landed around them as wind shields, and soon the small Knotholean army was met with Knuckles inside the ship.
"Alright," Sally said, "here's the plan. Knuckles, you take Christine and Tails and find what keeps this ship's security ticking. If there's any security doors, open them, and try to disable all automatic defenses. The fox we met ealier has already left to find Eggman, but I doubt she'll be able to. I'll use my computer to try to locate him. Sonic, Amy, come with me in case we run into trouble. If this works, this ship will be scrap by the end of the day. Bunny, you and Alex release any prisoners, and try to wipe out all the robots you see. If anyone runs into Robotnik, Metal Sonic, or the strange mercinary Knuckles told us about, immediately call the others for assistance. Do not try to take them on your own. We've only got one shot at this, so let's try not to foul up. Move out!" The group split up, Knuckles and the foxes leaving to find the security room, Sally and the two hedgehogs staying behind to try and track Eggman, and the Pirates going to take over with brute force. Suddenly, Shadow shot through the floor. Thank goodness this ship was multi-story, or they'd have been sucked out of the ship! The three jumped back. Shadow glared at them. "Have you seen a fox wearing white?" They all slowly shook their heads. Shadow snarled and shot through the halls, before literally going through a wall, taking it out with him and going deeper into the ship.
The group looked at him irritably, knowing he had to have set off countless alarms, before Sally resumed her search.
"Come on, where does that idiot keep his gold?" the bat asked herself. She jumped into the shadows as a large beetle-shaped robot hovered by. Thank goodness it's sight was limited. After it passed through into another hallway, Rouge resumed her hunt. She reached a locked door and pulled out a small device, hooking several wires to the password-input panal, and began hacking into the security system.
Another outdated Swattbot's headless corpse fell to the ground, its head rolling down the hallway as a white figure landed gracefully behind it. She unsheathed a long, slightly curved sword and looked around her as reinforcements of E-100-bots came charging down the four intersecting hallways around her. The thief smirked, and began running down a hallway towards one of the small enforcement groups. Then, she suddenly disappeared, and reappeared behind the small army of robots, which soon fell to the ground in shambles. By now, all the other armies were at the intersection and going down the hallway to meet her, while another group entered from behind. She sighed. "This is going to be a loooong day.."
Knuckles and the two foxes dashed down another hallway. "You sure you know where you're going!?" the echidna shouted out.
"Yeah, I recognize this design!" Christin shouted back. "It was stolen from my father." Suddenly, lasers were shooting everywhere from the security cameras as robots already began pouring in. How many robots does this blasted ship have, anyway!?
Gunshots and cannon firing blared as a black cloud of pirates mixed through an army of thousands of robots.
A metallic fist plowed through the head of another annoying E-100 bot, as the rabbit's foot jabbed through the 'bot behind her. The armies are beginning to become monotonously stupid now, aren't they?
[Change Scene to Bridge]
Eggman spit out his coffee. "What do you mean our armies are down 20%!?" he exclaimed. Metal Sonic and the wolf mercinary -- I'll go ahead and tell you his name, as you are likely sick of hearing all these pronouns -- who was known as Viper, glared at the robot below, who looked up at the three nervously. "Th-There seem to be ten intruders who are doing the most damage, along with an army of intruders.. O-One of them is tearing the ship's walls apart, a-and has found his way into our large robot hanger, which is down to 5% left.. a--" The small, pathetic robot didn't have a chance to finish as Robotnik's laser cannon blasted it.
"Send a replacement." he said coldly, tapping on the controls of his Egg Walker, which started marching out of the room. The other two followed.
"Master Robotnik, what are we going to do?" asked MS. Eggman glared at the metalic sonic -- Not out of hatred, no. Metal Sonic was one of his best creations, and the two had a sort of parentic father-son bond. Shocking, no?
"These are those meddlesom Freedom Fighters again, Metal Sonic." Robotnik said. "But one of them isn't, whoever is tearing through our ship like tissue paper."
"I can deal with them all." Metal Sonic said smugly. Robotnik laughed.
"You forget who we're dealing with. Atleast they're split up. Viper, go and deal with the three in sector a-9o1. Metal Sonic, take care of the three meddlers at the entrance. I will lead my best walker to deal with the army in c-018. Move out, men.." With that, Robotnik ran off with metallic footsteps. A hole opened up nearby, and a large, shining snake slithered out. Metal Sonic took off and disappeared in a split second as David Viper mounted his pet and took off, sliding his snake-like helmet on.
The graceful fox tore through yet another group of robots, adding them to the metallic carped of mech corpses. She laughed and jumped backwards, jabbing her sword into the last one there. "What, that's all?" she scoffed through her laughter. Suddenly, something tore through the floor in front of her. She covered her eyes for a second, then slowly adjusted to the figure's bright arua of silver, and immediantly recognized that cold glare. "Shadow?" questioned the fox. The dark hedgehog said nothing. He slowly lowered to the ground and walked towards her. "Do you remember me? No, of coarse not, you had amnesia.." Shadow gave a puzzled look. "Explain." he demanded.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the ship (back at the entrance), Sally jumped up. "I found the bridge!" she shouted, waking up a sleeping Sonic (who currently had little pink bows in his quills, prank courtesy of Amy). Amy had a fit of giggling before Sonic could pull out the pesky bows. "Come on you two!" shouted the princess, taking off down one of the hallways. Sonic soon followed suit, and Amy after him, preparing her hammer. As the trio rounded the next bend, they stopped suddenly, coming face to face with the metal hedgehog himself, Metal Sonic. "And where exactly do you think you're going, brother?" the metallic warrior asked.
"Get out of here, Sally, Amy. I'll take care of this pest." Sonic said, taking stance. Metal Sonic followed suit. "I said go!" Sonic shouted to Amy, who was waiting for an opportunity to bash MS. The pink hedgehog looked irritated before following Sally out of the hallway. A small, black liquid was leaking from the ceiling -- obviously oil of some sort -- as Metal Sonic struck the first blow, knocking Sonic backwards. Without giving a fair chance to recover, he leaped forward and kicked the blue hedgehog in the stomache, knocking him backwards another few feet. This time, however, Sonic did a somersault and got back to his feet in time to catch MS's foot. The robot spinned sideways and slammed his other foot into Sonic's smirking face. As soon as Metal Sonic recovered the fall, he dashed over, grabbed Sonic's foot, and hurled him back the other way by quite some distance.
"Jeeze, how am I supposed to beat this guy?" Sonic said to himself, his face bruised a bit, along with his legs and arms. Metal Sonic slowly walked towards Sonic, and before the blue hedgehog could stand, a yellow ball of electricity hit him in the chest, casting a barrier around his body that paralyzed him from moving. MS continued walking forward, the shock cannon hiding back inside his left arm. "Any last words, brother?" asked the robot cruelly as he extended his razor-sharp claws. Then, a drop of 'oil' fell on MS's head. The robot looked up and saw a bouldar slowly falling. Before he could get out of the way, it fell on top of him, knocking him out cold. The bouldar bounced towards Sonic.. and kept rolling. Sonic looked in horror and closed his eyes, unaware to the fact that the rock was slowly getting smaller.. And it came to a halt in front of him, no bigger than a baseball. He slowly opened his eyes, first looking at the knocked out robot a ways in front of him, then at the small rock at his feet. The barrier around him faded.
"Alright!" Sonic exclaimed, jumping up and stretching. "I hate not bein' able to move!" The rock below him slowly turned black, then melted into a black puddle, which grew two little glowing eyes. It quickly turned into Sonic and took a bow. "Nite Mare, at your service!" said the fake hedgehog. Sonic busted out laughing, then with a quick thanks took off to find Amy and Sally. As soon as he turned down the next hallway, however, a gun pointed between his eyes stopped him from moving. In front of him stood the cruel mercinary, Viper, who had Knuckles, Christin, and Tails all dangling from his numerous tentacles. "End of the line, blue boy." he hissed through the helmet.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the middle of the ship..
"Aha! I got it!" Rouge said as the large security door opened long enough for her to slip in. She put up the small computer and looked around the room, noticing a computer. Without hesitation, she walked up to it and took out a disc, which had a cord that attached it to her small computer. She inserted the disc, and in a few seconds the computer's five passwords were input and she was in. The bat typed in commands on her miniature computer, and the monitor on Eggman's pc started browsing through many windows. Suddenly, a screen popped up that read "ENTER PASSWORD", before it was replaced with a screen full of computer code that was changing too fast for the eye to see. The jewel collector leaned back and rested her feet on the larger keyboard, letting her laptop do all the work. "I give it ten seconds."
Sonic was hurled into the same cell he had been in a mere day or two ago, along with the other five captured Freedom Fighters. "Nothing personal." the wolf said as he slammed the door shut. "Just business." With that, he latched his tentacles around the four robots he had used earlier, and destroyed them. Suddenly, all the security cameras died as the radio inside his helmet turned on. "Viper, someone has shut down all security systems in the ship! Come quick!" shouted Eggman. The mercinary turned to face the prisoners before taking off to meet Robotnik. "Well," Tails said, "Atleast it couldn't possibly get any worse!" The lights suddenly went out as everyone glared at him. "TAILS!!"
"It's a good thing you glow." the thief said jokingly, in a hallway several stories below the prison chamber. The area around them was too dark to see, if not for Shadow's silver aura. He scowled, not appreciating the humor. "C'mon, can't you take a joke?" said the fox. She jumped in front of him, skipping backwards. "Ok, let's try this again. My name's Victoria." She held out a hand. Shadow looked extremely irritated.
"Just give me my wallet back." he said. The fox shrugged and pulled out a black wallet, handing it over. Shadow jerked it away from her, then immediately tore through the roof above him, shooting upwards to hopefully find Robotnik. The thief looked up, with an irritated look to rival Shadow's. "That guy needs to settle down.." she said, before jumping up to the hole and wall-kicking up and of it, then the next hole, and the next, slowly ascending to wherever Shadow went.
Shadow tore through the floor of the prison, blinding all the captives there. He stopped as he saw the group. "Shadow!" Amy shouted. "Give us a hand!"
The black hedgehog shot through a wall in the prison, ignoring Amy's request. After a minute or so, a fox jumped out of the hole and sliced the bars of the prison open, before going through the tunnel Shadow made -- He had stopped now, as she could see a faint glow in the distance.
Shadow stood at the end of the tunnel, among a bunch of knocked-out or dead pirates, holding Eggman by the collar of his suit, his other hand pummeling him. "This will teach you.." he said, kicking the man to the ground. Victoria jumped out of the hole nearby. Shadow glared at her. "Get out of here!" he shouted. "I'm taking this entire ship down, if it's the last thing I do!"
Sonic and the others slowly made their way through the ship, Sally leading since her computer had a small flashlight. Suddenly, the whole ship shook. "Uh oh.. That didn't sound good.." Knuckles commented. Suddenly, Rouge dropped in from the above ventalation shaft. "The ship's losing power." she said. "We'll die if we stay here."
"Well, I'm not leaving without the Master Emerald!" Knuckles said.
"I knew you'd say that.." the bat sighed. She handed him a map of the ship before giving him a pushing start. "Hurry up, you idiot, unless you want to be fried echidna!" The group split up then, Knuckles running to the engine room and the others taking off to find the exit, soon joined by the remaining pirates, lead by Bunny and Alex, as they passed another corridor.
Knuckles made a mad dash across the halls and was about to make it to the room when an explosion shook the ship. The Master Emerald, in pieces, fell to his feet. He quickly put it back together, thanking the gods it wasn't scattered like it usually was, and saw Shadow fly by, making a hole in the wall behind him. Knuckles was sucked out of the ship, much to his liking as he glided into the Forbidden Forests.
Everyone else was up atop the ship, getting loaded into numerous pirate ships. As Sonic was about to climb aboard, the ninja-like thief popped out of the hatch. "You! Where's Shadow!?" she shouted. Sonic shrugged. "What do I look like, his nanny?" Victoria began to climb back down, but several pirates stopped her and pulled her into one of the ships. She tried to get away, untill Sonic assured her he'd find Shadow as he jumped down the hatch and took off at super-sonic speed. The pirate ships took off, except for one of them that stood waiting for Sonic.
Five minutes later, Sonic had still not found Shadow, only countless holes, and the pirate ship above was forced to take off as the Armageddon violently shook again, slowly descending below the clouds towards the Forbidden Zone. And then, the entire ship shook like an earthquake as numerous explosions sounded. The ship crashed to the ground in a massive wreckage, causing the last remaining generators to go out with a bang.
"Sonic!!" Amy shouted, looking out the window of one of the pirate ships as tears welled up in her eyes.
Meanwhile, thousands of feet below...
Sonic slowly got to his feet, surrounded by a ring of fire. "Where am I..?" he thought, clearing his head. He heard a loud, cruel, cold voice sound out from afar. "You're standing in the wreckage of my Master's greatest creation..." The silhouette of Metal Sonic slowly walked out of the flames. "You... this is all your fault..."
"MY fault?! That fat egghead's the one who attacked us in the first place!" Sonic protested.
"SHUT UP!!" MS shouted out, dashing up to Sonic faster than he could react and slashing him across the left side of his face. Sonic stood up, his hands covering the side of his face. "Thanks to you, Robotnik is dead!" the robot hissed. Sonic removed his hands, his left glove slightly dyed red, as he took stance. "You will pay for this.. brother.... I am Robotnik's second greatest warrior, the first being a bioandroid."
Sonic shot into Metal Sonic with a homing attack, and jumped back as MS began peeling out, yellow electicity covering his body. Sonic jumped up as MS took off, barely dodging the attack, then shot downwards as MS jumped up with a homing attack of his own, which whirled around and bashed Sonic backwards. The metal hedgehog lifted a piece of Armageddon and hurled it at Sonic, who darted out of the way by just a quill as another piece shot towards him. The blue hedgehog dashed out of the way once more, and did a flaming kick into MS, knocking the silver knight to the ground. Showing as much mercy as MS would, Sonic jumped up and brutally assaulted the robot. Suddenly, a missile blazed by and made Sonic jump out of the way. The rocket flew through the flames and exploded in the distance as a large tank slowly rolled out of the flames. "You will pay for this, mark my words, hedgehog.." a familiar, sinister voice called out. Metal Sonic leaped up and laughed, recognizing the voice instantly as the two began assaultiong Sonic, who didn't stand a chance... Suddenly, a giant, white-scaled snake's head struck out of the bushes and bit into Metal Sonic, devouring the robot with ease as tentacles tore open Robotnik's ship. Robotnik shouted out angrily as he saw Viper, without the helmet, jump in front of the tank. "Thanks for the pay, Robotnik, but our deal is officially over." he said, clutching his fist around a button. The detonator on the back of Eggman's tank blew up, destroying the creation and most likely the creator. And then, the flames around both Sonic and the mercinary grew larger...
TO BE CONTINUED..
So, the Armageddon takes an untimely downfall, and I fry my brain to make a longer episode! Big deal! But wait, the moon is even bluer than it has been! And who's this clown in the black trenchcoat!? Get ready for a long trailer to this episode, as the Armageddon of the entire dimension is at stake. And it looks like Christopher Aosis' brother shares the family evilness as well. But where did these shadowy characters come from? Find out next time, as things get chaotic and a bit cross-overish, on..
[Mobius Chronicles]
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[Episode 12; The Source of Chaos]