Chapter Eight: The Last Hurrah
The evening sky stood still on the horizon, and the trees stood still with no trace of wind blowing in the air. Tails and Antione were positioned on the outskirts of the Great Forest taking watch for anything, or in their case, a Robotnik sighting.
"I hope Sonic and Bunnie are ok." Tails thought
"Yes, Tails, I think of the same, but I wonder vhat's Robotnik up to." Antione kept watch on Robotropolis with a pair of eyegoggles.
Tails hopped on a rock and looked around out of sheer boredom, and Antione kept watch.
"Cheese and crackers!" Antione shouted.
"What, Antione?"
"Something's coming towards us!" Antione shouted.
Tails peered at Robotropolis and saw a massive wave of blue heading towards them and something flying in the sky, heading towards them at a steady pace.
"Tails, We got to report now!" Antione said as he held to the handle of his sword.
"Right."
They retreated into the dense region of the Great Forest, looking back rarely at the terror that they hoped to avoid.
"How many where there?" Sally asked.
"We couldn't tell, there was a giant wave of them heading for the Great Forest!" Antione replied.
"And there was something in the air also." Tails added.
"What's the ETA?"
'They were on the outskirts of Robotropolis when we say them so I'd say 3-4 minutes until they breech the Great Forest."
"Darn it." Rotor said with crossed arms.
"No sign of Sonic and Bunnie?"
"Negative." Antione hanged his head down. "What should we do, Princess?" Antione asked.
"How's the modification on Tails biplane going?"
"It's good to go. We managed to scrap machine guns and missiles on it to make it a worthy fighter." Rotor told her.
Sally didn't reply for the moment, Sally had lost Sonic and Bunnie to the hands of Robotnik, and she didn't want to lose the child that she took in as a nephew. Even at such a dire moment, there were sacifices to make.
"I can do it Aunt Sally. I can slow them down at least, until we can figure out a way to stop Robotnik and his army."
"Oh Tails..." She soon forgot how bright and intellegent Tails was for his age and knelt down and put her arms on his shoulders. Her mind still told her not to let him go, but there wasn't many other options to choose from. Knothole wasn't really made as a defense bunker. The villiage hiding in the depths of the Great Forest was the defense they needed, but if her assumptions were corect, Robotnik's army would tear through the Forest and get to them.
"Sally, I got an idea! I remembered when Sonic's and Bunnie's remote control signals disappeared, and remembered that they were on a frquency. Given some time, I can make a pulse that could disrupt the Shadowbots on their given frequency as well."
"Great, but we'll have to buy you time to make such a machine."
I got a machine but I have to make the modifications, give or take one or two minutes."
"...We might not have that time if they hurry..." Sally thought with her chin on her palm.
"Leave that to us, Princess!" Antione fearlessly said.
"What?" Sally jumped.
"If Rotor needs the time, then will give him the time Aunt Sally," Tails added.
"Yes, besides there are worst things then death, Princess." Antione took his sword out of his sheath and clutched the handle tightly in his palm. "Like losing the people you care about in this war."
Sally suddenly thought about Sonic and the last moment she felt his warm body against hers and the last thing he said to her..."We're going to have a big party when we get back. Chili dogs and everything!"
New emotion sparked inside of her, emotion of love and war and success and hope ran through her mind. They were going to get through it, with or without Sonic by her side.
"...Ok. We're going to do it!"
"Allright! I'll get my plane ready!" Tails shouted as he ran off out of the hut.
"Ok, I'll meet you guys in the Great Forest when I'm ready!" Rotor ran off in the house.
Sally and Antione were the ones inside of Sally's hut and they looked at each other with intentive eyes.
"You miss zim, don't you?" Antione asked.
"Yeah, Antione."
"I wish Bunnie and Sonic were here right now. They were so collected in the heat of battle. They were zo used to raw, physical fighting that it came normal to them. Even given Sonic's brash attitude."
"Heh, yeah...Come on, Antione! We can't stall now, I'm going to get everyone to evacuate Knothole Villiage and try to recuit some Freedom Fighters to help you."
"Right."
"Be careful, Antione."
"We will do, my princess," Antione saluted to her.
Sonic quickly caught up with Robotnik and his Shadowbot army and hid behind a large rock on the plains field. From the looks of things, the army of Shadowbots were practicaly waiting at the Great Forest boundary. What was Robotnik up toxcx? Robotnik hovered above his army with Bunnie still captive in hand.
"What to do. Think Hedgehog."
But before he could even blink, Robotnik's mech was flew off with a burst of speed into the depth airspace of the Great Forest.
"Residents of Knothole Villiage, unless you surrender and hold alligence to I, Doctor Robotnik, I will annililate the GREAT FOREST! Those who surrender head to the outskirts of Robotropolis and surrender to my army of Shadowbots. Those who aren't willing however, will have nowhere to turn to once I disintigrate your prescous forest. The choice is yours..."
"He can't be serious!All of the Mobians, the Great Forest, Sally..."
Maybe he and Bunnie underestimated the power that Robotnik put into Metal Robotnik. Maybe he was just bluffing. One thing was for sure, he couldn't just sit around behind a rock all day.
Sonic dashed from the rock and headed towards the Great Forest boundary. Several Shadowbots fired at him, but they missed greatly. Besides, Sonic had only worried about one thing as he was cutting through the air like a cutting blade--Robotnik.
When she heard the message play, she knew it was for real. She couldn't see the enemy, but hearing him, from within the Great Forest made her spine chill to the bone.
Sally directed all of the inhabitants away from Knothole, opposite of the direction of Robotropolis to a small field of lands that held caves that they could hide. In the midst of the confusion and fields of Mobians, Rotor swam through and cutted through fellow Mobians with the invention in hand.
"What about Tails and Antione!" Rotor yelled.
"Pray that they got the message!" Sally responded, swimming through people as well just to stay within earshot of the communication.
Rotor knew how Antione would get in the heat of action, wanting to show his bravery and the like, and this episode was like no other.
"I'm going for Antione!" the words trailed as he headed off in the other direction.
"Rotor..!" She yelled at him, but there was no turning back for the warlus.
"So, this is how the final chapterre is ritten," Antione said as he ran through the brush and trees.
The Shadowbots weren't going to get to the Mobians as long as he's around, and if he'd died trying then so be it. Bunnie did her best and yet, it got her and the Mobians no where. When he heard no news of the Semtex operation, he knew something was wrong. Why didn't he go with her.
"I stayed to protect Knothole and by my steel, I'll live up to it."
Soon he'd reach the edge of the Great Forest and have to battle the army of Shadowbots alone. Something he never done before. He always fought with someone, and that made things feel easier around when somone was by his side. Bunnie was like that, she was a confidence builder when she was around, her attitude and personality made him feel like he was a true warrior in battle, that he had no limits, but Robotnik took her away from him, and he would pay in one form or another. At least his Shadowbot ranks would be cut down a bit.
The trees and brushes hit him while he ran through and he saw the large, stationary rock that marked the edge of the Great Forest.
"My fate awaits," Antione said as he pulled out the sword from his sheath.
Sonic sped through the forest, hopping and quickly moving through the grass and trees along his path. TIme was of the essence, and he didn't have any to spare. With his mind focused and his mission set, he exploded through the forest with mind blowing speed. THere was somethig or someone up ahead, waving at him. Sonic put on the brakes and screeched to a halt, kicking up dust and dirt in the person's direction.
"Jeez! Hey, Sonic! You're alive!" Antione said as he brushed himself off.
"Yeah, but I can't chat now..." Sonic put one foot in the air and was soon to be off.
"Where's Bunnie? Is she ok?"
Sonic looked at Ant and gave a look of grimmance.
"What? Where is she?"
"I got to time to explain, Ant, I'll get her back though."
"Wait, Sonick!"
Sonic zoomed deeper into the forest, leaving his friend with only more questions, but he simply had no time to answer him.
"Wait! How am I supposed to get up in the air against him?"
Granted, air battles wasn't his speciallity but he had to find some way up there. Ahead of him in the dense forest was a large tree coming out of the ground, angling at an angle up into the air.
"Hmm, that gives me an idea.!"
The idea was sure as heck a long shot, but Sonic positioned his arms straight and behind him and nearly doubled his speed. With the wind blowing by his face, and the determination growing stronger within him, Sonic ran up into the tree trunk and shot out of the end like a cannon. Sonic covered his face going through the tree trunks and leaves and bursted through the forest ceiling clean into the sky.
"With the Sapphire Stone at my disposal, the Great Forest shall be nothing more than a mere crater!" Robotnik laughed.
Once Knothole Villiage was a speck of dust, nothing stood between him and world conquest. Those Freedom Fighters began to be a painful thorn in his side. Those he didn't comply with, he eliminated, end of story.
From within the torso of the mech, he began to activate the power consumption from the Sapphire Stone when something caught his eye.
"Huh?"
"We end this now Robotnik!" Sonic shouted.
Robotnik looked around and saw Sonic flying straight him. What the hell, how did he ever manage to fly now? Robotnik raised his hand and smacked Sonic out of the air.
"And thus that ends that petty game," Robotnik looked around to check that his nemesis was ridden.
Sonic was able to grab on to Robotnik's hand and swing wildly and latched onto MR's backside.
"Whoa!" Sonic looked down from MR's body and could see the entire forest from up above. They were quite high above, so falling was the last thing he wanted to do.
Sonic looked in the mech's right hand and saw Bunnie still unconscious from the first fight and held tightly in his grip. How was he going to get put of this prediciment.
Sonic climbed up to the back of MR and punched him square on the metallic fist. Sonic grunted in pain as the blow did more damage to him than to the mech. MR turned his head and faced his side with beading red eyes glowing on Sonic's body.
"You're still here? This ride is for one occupant only!" MR pointed his hand at Sonic's face.
Sonic gasped and a metal strand of wire shot out of a finger and wrapped around Sonic's arm.
"Wha...!" Sonic yelled.
MR grabbed a hold of Sonic and held him in front of him. Sonic grunted and tried to move towards MR in an effort to kick off of him, or attack him, but Robotnik held him at bay.
"Now lets see how well you fly, Hedgehog!" Robotnik asked.
Robotnik dispatched the coil and sent Sonic plumenting down to the Great Forest. The wind blew from under him, as the mech grew further and further away from him.
"HA, HA, HA! Now that Sonic is out of the way, I can finally destroy the Great Forest!"
Something exploded in the air that rattled the air around him.
"What? More nusisences! Gahhh!" Robotnik grumbled.
"What is that? Some robot over the Forest?" Tails shouted.
"...uugh...where am I?...!!" Bunnie awoke and happened to notice she was held captive by Metal Robotnik and held hundreds of feet in the air.
The Tornado cutted through the air and flown above the clouds towards the enemy. Robot took no stops against his newest threat and held his hand out and fired a charged blast.
"Whoa!" Tails shouted upon seeing the boagy.
Tails pushed the stick hard left and narrowly dodged the projectile the mech fired at him, profroming a tight roll in the air. The blast litted up the sky as Tails continued on towards the robot.
"Ugghh! Let me go!" Bunnie yelled.
Bunnie broke free of the mech's grip, but found herself falling to the ground herself.
"Bunnie?!" Tails gasped.
Tails pushed the speed on his bi-plane towards the mech and went under it as it was firing at him. The bi-plane dived towards Bunnie, Tails doing his best avoiding the blast of the machine gun cutting through the air.
"Tails!" Bunnie cried out.
Tails swung down underneath and Bunnie grabbed onto the wing and held on for dear life through the air.
"Thanks, Tails, I owe you one, sugar." She thanked him while kneeling down on the wing.
"No problem, Bunnie, but where's Sonic at?"
"Good question, Tails."
"Uggghhh! Die!"
"Hold on, Bunnie!" Tails shouted as he put on his goggles.
Sonic opened his eyes and was surprised that he was still alive, but he body ached all over. He looked up and saw that the tree branches had broken his fall up above. Lying on the forest floor half dead, Sonic sat up and rubbed the back of his head.
"Man, how long was I out?"
Sonic gunted in pain, and heard something crashing through the trees. Sprays of machine gun rounds shot through the trees and hit the ground where Sonic was. Sonic covered his face as the bullets narrowly missed where he was standing.
"Man, that's it!"
He got to both feet in a wobbily, shaken manner, his arms at his side with fists shaking with anger boiling over and peaking to the limit.
"This doesn't look good," Sally witnessed while looking at the action with binoculars.
Sally was with the rest of the Freedom Fighters and Mobians at the caves, but she ventured out away from the caves once everyone was safe to see how things were going.
"Tails can't stall him forever...Sonic, where are you when we need you?" Sally thought.
She took her eyes off of Metal Robotnik and saw a golden streak shoot out of the treetops at an incredible speed. Sally blinked her eyes and wondered if it was for real and what excatly was it.
"I tire of this meddling games. This ends NOW." Robotnik yelled.
Robotnik quickly charged up both of his arm cannons and fired them directly into the heart of the Great Forest.
"The Great Forest!" Bunie yelled from the bi-plane.
The charged beams merged together into one giant blast and was heading towards the Great Forest in a spiraling, unpresendented speed.
"What a lovely view of the annialation of Knothole...huh?"
Robotnik suddenly saw something flying from the forest deflecting his shot back into the air.
"What the...?"
Sonic hovered into the air zone where Metal Robotnik was and stood at him with his arms folded.
"What are you?" Robotnik said in a menacing tone.
"The one that will bring you down for good." Sonic replied.
Suddenly, blue electricity began to stir around the entire frame of Metal Robotnik and the source was coming from the Sapphire Stone located on Metal Robotnik's right arm. Its power was being amplified throughout the entire body and unit that was Metal Robotnik.
"Sonic?" Tails had to take off the goggles to see his best friend hovering in the air.
"Yeah, that's him alright, but he looks way different than he usually looks! His fur is yellowish and his quills are up on end, but how is he doing it?" Bunnie explianed with the little information she knew.
"Bunnie, the Shadowbots, we can go stop them!"
"You're right! I pray Sonic can take care of Robotnik now."
"Thank goodness, Bunnie and Tails are safe." Sonic thought when he saw them leave.
"Sonic, what manner is this?! You've changed somehow." Robotnik inspected the hedgehog's new form.
"It's called taking it to another level, and unless you want some of this, I suggest leaving now." Sonic replied.
"I don't fear you at all hedgehog for I have a great power myself. Our fight shall decides who lives and who dies."
Good and evil had their battlefield, the players equally matched and strengthened to unfathomable levels. The final chapter of the war for Mobius would be written upon the pages of Mobian history.
"So, what's the plan, Bunnie?" Tails said.
"Head over there, Tails and let er' fly!" Bunnie replied as she pointed over at the edge of the Forest edge.
"Antione! Antione!" An out of breath voice yelled at him.
Antione saw Rotor running after him like there was no tomorrow. Rotor caught his breath and placed his hands on his knees to catch his breath.
"Vhat are you doing 'ere,Ro-ter?" Antione questioned.
"...Helping you stay alive, Ant...!" Rotor huffed.
The two were nearly on top of the Shadowbot army, but were hidden by the high brush and thick of the woods.
"What is that, 'Ro-ter?"
"This'll make those Shadowbots obsolete!"
Roter operated a control switch on the spherical ball he created and threw it into the army of Shadowbots. The sphere went off and electricity went off throughout the entire army.
"Yes!"
"Yes, but they are not falling!"
Indeed, the electricity was conducting through the Shadowbots, but they looked like they were not being affected by it. Without any warning, an explosion exploded within the masses of the robot bunch. Rotor and Antione looked up and saw a bi-plane swooping up towards the clouds.
"Tails!" Rotor shouted and waved at him.
The robots looked and raised their wrist in an attempt to fire at the bi-plane, but nothing came out of their wrists. The weapon Rotor threw in had short-circuited the weapons system of all the Shadowbots.
"Hey guys!" A familiar voice yelled at them.
"Bunnie? Bunnie!"
Antione almost dropped his sword when he heard her voice, but he was sure glad to see her.
"Antione!" Bunnie replied as she reached the two.
Bunnie ran and hugged Antione and kissed him dearly on the cheek.
"Tails is giving us air support! Let's go bust some rob-heads!"
"I'm up with that!"
"Me too!" Rotor added.
The three of them charged the robots and the Shadowbots with thier attention to the bi-plane didn't notice the Freedom Fighters wagging war upon them. .
Sonic dashed at MR and attacked his torso with a barrage of slick, speedy punches. They were so hard that Robotnik himself could feel the rattling of the blows from within the mech. Robotnik retreated a short distance and fired a charge shot out of his arm cannon. Sonic leaned his body to the side and dodged the energy blast. The shot, chared with electricity, blew by him and exploded in a ball of engulfing matter. Robotnik charged Sonic and came back with blows of his own. Sonic dodged each attack without using any effort. With such skill and grace, he slightly moved a part of his body away from each incoming blow without hardly any effort. Seeing as direct attacks wasn't going to hurt Sonic, Robotnik rasied an arm and fired a missile from the yellow hatch underneath his arm.
"!!" Sonic thought.
Sonic blocked his face and the missile exploded straight at him. When the missile detonated in front of him, a burning beacon of light flashed in front of him, blinding him instantly. Sonic peeked from his arms and saw a metallic arm heading for him. The light had distracted Sonic long enough that Robotnik was able to slam his fist into Sonic's torso.Sonic gasped, having the wind knocked out of him, and Robotnik took no time in following up the attack by grabbing Sonic by the head and punching him again with such a velocity that he almost flew away out of his sight.
"And to finish the deal." Robotnik shouted.
Robotnik target Sonic's body, pulled his arm up and fired a charged blast at him. The blast screamed through the air and when the projectile reached its target, it exploded in a hugmousgous blast.
"That takes care of that!" Robotnik called.
Robotnik looked in the direction that he destroyed Sonic, and his scanners where going off the map.
"What's this?" He looked into the computer screen.
Something was coming at his at an almost ungodly speed, screaming into the air, possibilty break the speed of sound itself. he saw some gold aura coming at him at top speeds, so fast that his speed clocking machines where going off the charts.
Sonic flew back at Robotnik and delivered a shattering double-foot kick to the mech's stomach.
"Don't think we're done yet!" Sonic said.
Sonic could very well hear the aches the groans of Robotnik inside after the powerful attack, but he didn't care for his safety, he cared for the Mobians safety and his friends. With a loud yell, Sonic quickly struck the mech in the face with a firece angling kick, hoping to knock off or destroy the armor. The head retained itself and Sonic had to resort to other measures. Sonic quickly grabbed the mech's arm and threw him up into the air, and an aura begin to glow around Sonic's body. Sonic dashed towards Robotnik, who was still being shaken from being tossed high in to the air, and Sonic clencthed his fist.
"We end this now!" Sonic shouted.
It was a brilliant and earth shattering attack, as Sonic flew at Robotnik and struck at Robotnik's shoulder so fast that it seperated and disconnected from the rest of his body. Sonic stopped himself and turned around to look at his enemy, but as he looked something weird was happening. A blue aura was covering MR and the arm that he seperated joined back with the rest of his body and wires, plates and connectors and joints began to metd back into places. After many grinding and scraping sounds, the mech's arm was totally back in place, as if the event surely didn't happen.
"No way!" Sonic said through gritted teeth.
"But of course, I have so much power at my disposial that I can overcome anything you throw at me, hedgehog!" Robotnik replied.
The mech was facing Sonic from afar when it disappeared in thin air. Sonic gasped and looked around him, but the sky was devoid of any traces of the mech.
"Wha? Were can he be? That's some clever magician trick he sure pulled." Sonic thought.
Sonic turned his head, and the dark, looming blood red eyes and body of MR approached him, and rammed into him with the full force of a semi truck. Robotnik then disappeared after the attack and left Sonic alone, reeling in excruating pain in his chest. Sonic held an arm of the region of pain, only to be striked again by the mech in the back. Sonic released a shout of pain and Robotnik released a coil out of his hand and coiled it around Sonic's feet. Robotnik then flew towards the Great Forest away from the central away and slammed Sonic at the ground. He aimed his hand at the location where Sonic was slammed through and fired long, streaming laser blasts at it. The attack started slowly, then increased ten told as the laser beams landed at ground zero in such a rapid fire pace that dust from the earth began to kick up from the attack. The dust cleared and a large pile of destruction of trees laid waste a couple of acres wide.
It was a dead zone and the air was still and silent around it. Robotnik hovered above the diaster area wondering if his enemy could survive such an attack. Upon further thinking, he decided not to stay around to find out.
Antione slashed through the torso of Shadowbot and stabbed another lurching bot sneaking behind him.
"Not excatly my day on the beach!" Antione shouted.
"No kidding!" Rotor replied as he smashed through a Shadowbot.
Bunnie threw a Shadowbot in to another bot and looked up into the sky amist the battling.
"Look up in the sky, ya'll!" She pointed.
"Time to destroy this place!" Robotnik yelled.
Robotnik started his jets and flew up into the air. Yet from the debris, trees were being pushed aside and a worn figure appered from the mess. The scarred and bloodied hedgehog yelled and bolted from the ground at MR.
Robotnik faced the Great Forest and suddenly saw the hedgehog out of the debris and rocket towards him with such speed that he was almost a golden blur on his computer screen.
"It's... not... possible!" Robotnik yelled.
But the impossible was deemed possible. Sonic charged at Robotnik and moved at such speeds that he was already behind the mech and delivered an elbow to the mech's back. MR turned around, but before he could even analyis what happened, Sonic jump-kicked MR in the side and was gone before he could even retaliate. Sonic continued his barrage of attacks, attacking Robotnik at every possible angle at unparrel speeds. Robotnik couldn't even keep track of him on his pulsation dectector. Sonic put presicion and soul into each attack, denting and even knocking off parts of his armor.Robotnik quickly retreated away from Sonic and Sonic did the same.
"We are quite evenly match, hedgehog, but I have the advantage in this battle."
MR scanned the entire forest side for any mass signs of heat signatures. It was a dead giveaway when he saw a cluster of heat signals inside a rocky landform.
"So that's where they are hiding!"
Robotnik put both of his arms up and four missiles fired out of the yellow platings.
"What? Why is he firing at the caves? Oh no..." Sonic thought.
Sonic flew down, following the missiles trajectory and smashed two missiles and caught up with the third one but the fourth one was closing in on its destination. Sonic gasped and kicked it up a notch and had no time to destroy it. The missile exploded just several yards away from the landscape, engulfing Sonic in a yellow, firey explosion.
The explosion cleared and Sonic was nowhere to be seen.
"It was about time I killed him, he was quite an enemy but in the long run only one player had to remain. And now for the Great Forest..."
Unfortunately for him, something smashed at the shoulder of his mech at upon his left side. Sonic struck Robotnik with a lunging fist.
"Don't you learn anything, hedgehog. I'm indestructible!"
Sonic kept his poise and kept his fist in Robotnik's armor. The fist began to glow a yellow color and the shoulder exploded in a small flash of light. Robotnik yelped and Sonic retreated away from him, as he looked at the damage. The, dark interior of wires and metal were moreso exposed do to the attack. The blue aura of the Sapphire Stone tried to rejuevenite the broken section of the armor, but the process was taking longer than Robotnik had expected.
"Don't think I'm letting you heal yourself, 'buttnik!"
With the speed of a hurricane in full season, Sonic roared at MR with his blazing gold aura glowing around him. Sonic charged at Robotnik but MR put both of his arms in front of him in defense. Sonic tackle clashed at MR's armor that it sent tremendous soundwaves throughout the sky. The deadlocked, but Sonic flipped over MR and kicked him in the back and Robotnik truned and struck behind him, but only whiffed air. Sonic quickly flew up and in front of him and kicked him in the body area and caught Metal Robotnik wavering off guard. Robotnik regained his composure and almost synchonety, Sonic's eyes met with Metal Robotnik's eyes. They were both filled with the burning desire and fueling with the drive of winning the battle, or ridding the other from the plane of existance.
"It's time our fight conluded, hedgehog!" Robotnik yelled.
MR put up both of his arms and a blue electricity field shot up around himself. Sonic hit him and was blown back, tumbling several feet back. MR teleported and reappeared several hundred feet above him. MR slowly circled his arms up into the air and placed them in front of him and charged his power to the maximum level. The blue aura focused into Robotnik's fingertips. Sonic flew up at him, ready to stop the madman, but what indeed did the doctor have in store?
"DIE, HEDGEHOG! ANNIALIATION!" Robotnik shouted.
The blast exploded out his fingers and a blast of unmeasureable porportions rained at the planet. Sonic gasped, then yelled as the immense beam towered on him and engulfed him.
"Oh no!" Sally shouted as she looked at the battle approching the fatal end.
"Whoa!" Tails gasped in awe, looking on from his bi-plane.
"Yes! Yes! You shall meet your grave now, Sonic!" Robotnik roared in triumph.
The blast of energy rained on the Forest and was hitting ground zero, when something odd was happening. The beam was was not driving into the ground, but was stopping just above up the forest.
"Wha..?" Robotnik said.
Sonic grunted and put his entire effort into stopping the beam from destroying the entire forest. He put his shoulder and entire body into stopping it and strained to his body's limit, but even so the beam slowly continued to advance on the Great Forest.
"Give it up, hedgehog. You'll never defeat me!" Robotnik cackled.
The blue beam physically overpowered Sonic, and descended it's way down to the Great Forest. Sonic closed his eyes and thought of everyone down at Knothole, his friends, Tails, Sally. The world wouldn't be safe and Robotnik would enslave everyone in the world. His crimes would go unpunished and his dreams would become a fearsome reality to anyone living on the planet. No more.
A power exploded inside Sonic and his aura grew to the size of the beam. Sonic yelled and held both of his hands up against the beam.
"Yes! What? What this!?"
The beam stopped midway and began reversing back towards the owner. The golden aura began to push the blue beam back away from the surface of the ground.
"Impossible!" Robotnik yelled.
The golden aura pushed the blue beam up and Sonic kicked the beam with all his strength within him.
"Take THAT!" Sonic yelled.
The blue beam reversed directions and headed back towards Robotnik. He tried to control it, but the the control was gone and it was racing back at him. The beam stuck Robotnik in an immense blast.
"Ugh! Damn you, Sonic! I'll get...!"
MR electroucuted and the Sapphire Stone exploded the arm off of the mech and the robot exploded in a dazzling array of explosions lighting up the sky.
Sonic gasped heavily and slowly floated down to the surface. Cheers and applause where heard in the distance.
"Its finally..over."
The evening sky stood still on the horizon, and the trees stood still with no trace of wind blowing in the air. Tails and Antione were positioned on the outskirts of the Great Forest taking watch for anything, or in their case, a Robotnik sighting.
"I hope Sonic and Bunnie are ok." Tails thought
"Yes, Tails, I think of the same, but I wonder vhat's Robotnik up to." Antione kept watch on Robotropolis with a pair of eyegoggles.
Tails hopped on a rock and looked around out of sheer boredom, and Antione kept watch.
"Cheese and crackers!" Antione shouted.
"What, Antione?"
"Something's coming towards us!" Antione shouted.
Tails peered at Robotropolis and saw a massive wave of blue heading towards them and something flying in the sky, heading towards them at a steady pace.
"Tails, We got to report now!" Antione said as he held to the handle of his sword.
"Right."
They retreated into the dense region of the Great Forest, looking back rarely at the terror that they hoped to avoid.
"How many where there?" Sally asked.
"We couldn't tell, there was a giant wave of them heading for the Great Forest!" Antione replied.
"And there was something in the air also." Tails added.
"What's the ETA?"
'They were on the outskirts of Robotropolis when we say them so I'd say 3-4 minutes until they breech the Great Forest."
"Darn it." Rotor said with crossed arms.
"No sign of Sonic and Bunnie?"
"Negative." Antione hanged his head down. "What should we do, Princess?" Antione asked.
"How's the modification on Tails biplane going?"
"It's good to go. We managed to scrap machine guns and missiles on it to make it a worthy fighter." Rotor told her.
Sally didn't reply for the moment, Sally had lost Sonic and Bunnie to the hands of Robotnik, and she didn't want to lose the child that she took in as a nephew. Even at such a dire moment, there were sacifices to make.
"I can do it Aunt Sally. I can slow them down at least, until we can figure out a way to stop Robotnik and his army."
"Oh Tails..." She soon forgot how bright and intellegent Tails was for his age and knelt down and put her arms on his shoulders. Her mind still told her not to let him go, but there wasn't many other options to choose from. Knothole wasn't really made as a defense bunker. The villiage hiding in the depths of the Great Forest was the defense they needed, but if her assumptions were corect, Robotnik's army would tear through the Forest and get to them.
"Sally, I got an idea! I remembered when Sonic's and Bunnie's remote control signals disappeared, and remembered that they were on a frquency. Given some time, I can make a pulse that could disrupt the Shadowbots on their given frequency as well."
"Great, but we'll have to buy you time to make such a machine."
I got a machine but I have to make the modifications, give or take one or two minutes."
"...We might not have that time if they hurry..." Sally thought with her chin on her palm.
"Leave that to us, Princess!" Antione fearlessly said.
"What?" Sally jumped.
"If Rotor needs the time, then will give him the time Aunt Sally," Tails added.
"Yes, besides there are worst things then death, Princess." Antione took his sword out of his sheath and clutched the handle tightly in his palm. "Like losing the people you care about in this war."
Sally suddenly thought about Sonic and the last moment she felt his warm body against hers and the last thing he said to her..."We're going to have a big party when we get back. Chili dogs and everything!"
New emotion sparked inside of her, emotion of love and war and success and hope ran through her mind. They were going to get through it, with or without Sonic by her side.
"...Ok. We're going to do it!"
"Allright! I'll get my plane ready!" Tails shouted as he ran off out of the hut.
"Ok, I'll meet you guys in the Great Forest when I'm ready!" Rotor ran off in the house.
Sally and Antione were the ones inside of Sally's hut and they looked at each other with intentive eyes.
"You miss zim, don't you?" Antione asked.
"Yeah, Antione."
"I wish Bunnie and Sonic were here right now. They were so collected in the heat of battle. They were zo used to raw, physical fighting that it came normal to them. Even given Sonic's brash attitude."
"Heh, yeah...Come on, Antione! We can't stall now, I'm going to get everyone to evacuate Knothole Villiage and try to recuit some Freedom Fighters to help you."
"Right."
"Be careful, Antione."
"We will do, my princess," Antione saluted to her.
Sonic quickly caught up with Robotnik and his Shadowbot army and hid behind a large rock on the plains field. From the looks of things, the army of Shadowbots were practicaly waiting at the Great Forest boundary. What was Robotnik up toxcx? Robotnik hovered above his army with Bunnie still captive in hand.
"What to do. Think Hedgehog."
But before he could even blink, Robotnik's mech was flew off with a burst of speed into the depth airspace of the Great Forest.
"Residents of Knothole Villiage, unless you surrender and hold alligence to I, Doctor Robotnik, I will annililate the GREAT FOREST! Those who surrender head to the outskirts of Robotropolis and surrender to my army of Shadowbots. Those who aren't willing however, will have nowhere to turn to once I disintigrate your prescous forest. The choice is yours..."
"He can't be serious!All of the Mobians, the Great Forest, Sally..."
Maybe he and Bunnie underestimated the power that Robotnik put into Metal Robotnik. Maybe he was just bluffing. One thing was for sure, he couldn't just sit around behind a rock all day.
Sonic dashed from the rock and headed towards the Great Forest boundary. Several Shadowbots fired at him, but they missed greatly. Besides, Sonic had only worried about one thing as he was cutting through the air like a cutting blade--Robotnik.
When she heard the message play, she knew it was for real. She couldn't see the enemy, but hearing him, from within the Great Forest made her spine chill to the bone.
Sally directed all of the inhabitants away from Knothole, opposite of the direction of Robotropolis to a small field of lands that held caves that they could hide. In the midst of the confusion and fields of Mobians, Rotor swam through and cutted through fellow Mobians with the invention in hand.
"What about Tails and Antione!" Rotor yelled.
"Pray that they got the message!" Sally responded, swimming through people as well just to stay within earshot of the communication.
Rotor knew how Antione would get in the heat of action, wanting to show his bravery and the like, and this episode was like no other.
"I'm going for Antione!" the words trailed as he headed off in the other direction.
"Rotor..!" She yelled at him, but there was no turning back for the warlus.
"So, this is how the final chapterre is ritten," Antione said as he ran through the brush and trees.
The Shadowbots weren't going to get to the Mobians as long as he's around, and if he'd died trying then so be it. Bunnie did her best and yet, it got her and the Mobians no where. When he heard no news of the Semtex operation, he knew something was wrong. Why didn't he go with her.
"I stayed to protect Knothole and by my steel, I'll live up to it."
Soon he'd reach the edge of the Great Forest and have to battle the army of Shadowbots alone. Something he never done before. He always fought with someone, and that made things feel easier around when somone was by his side. Bunnie was like that, she was a confidence builder when she was around, her attitude and personality made him feel like he was a true warrior in battle, that he had no limits, but Robotnik took her away from him, and he would pay in one form or another. At least his Shadowbot ranks would be cut down a bit.
The trees and brushes hit him while he ran through and he saw the large, stationary rock that marked the edge of the Great Forest.
"My fate awaits," Antione said as he pulled out the sword from his sheath.
Sonic sped through the forest, hopping and quickly moving through the grass and trees along his path. TIme was of the essence, and he didn't have any to spare. With his mind focused and his mission set, he exploded through the forest with mind blowing speed. THere was somethig or someone up ahead, waving at him. Sonic put on the brakes and screeched to a halt, kicking up dust and dirt in the person's direction.
"Jeez! Hey, Sonic! You're alive!" Antione said as he brushed himself off.
"Yeah, but I can't chat now..." Sonic put one foot in the air and was soon to be off.
"Where's Bunnie? Is she ok?"
Sonic looked at Ant and gave a look of grimmance.
"What? Where is she?"
"I got to time to explain, Ant, I'll get her back though."
"Wait, Sonick!"
Sonic zoomed deeper into the forest, leaving his friend with only more questions, but he simply had no time to answer him.
"Wait! How am I supposed to get up in the air against him?"
Granted, air battles wasn't his speciallity but he had to find some way up there. Ahead of him in the dense forest was a large tree coming out of the ground, angling at an angle up into the air.
"Hmm, that gives me an idea.!"
The idea was sure as heck a long shot, but Sonic positioned his arms straight and behind him and nearly doubled his speed. With the wind blowing by his face, and the determination growing stronger within him, Sonic ran up into the tree trunk and shot out of the end like a cannon. Sonic covered his face going through the tree trunks and leaves and bursted through the forest ceiling clean into the sky.
"With the Sapphire Stone at my disposal, the Great Forest shall be nothing more than a mere crater!" Robotnik laughed.
Once Knothole Villiage was a speck of dust, nothing stood between him and world conquest. Those Freedom Fighters began to be a painful thorn in his side. Those he didn't comply with, he eliminated, end of story.
From within the torso of the mech, he began to activate the power consumption from the Sapphire Stone when something caught his eye.
"Huh?"
"We end this now Robotnik!" Sonic shouted.
Robotnik looked around and saw Sonic flying straight him. What the hell, how did he ever manage to fly now? Robotnik raised his hand and smacked Sonic out of the air.
"And thus that ends that petty game," Robotnik looked around to check that his nemesis was ridden.
Sonic was able to grab on to Robotnik's hand and swing wildly and latched onto MR's backside.
"Whoa!" Sonic looked down from MR's body and could see the entire forest from up above. They were quite high above, so falling was the last thing he wanted to do.
Sonic looked in the mech's right hand and saw Bunnie still unconscious from the first fight and held tightly in his grip. How was he going to get put of this prediciment.
Sonic climbed up to the back of MR and punched him square on the metallic fist. Sonic grunted in pain as the blow did more damage to him than to the mech. MR turned his head and faced his side with beading red eyes glowing on Sonic's body.
"You're still here? This ride is for one occupant only!" MR pointed his hand at Sonic's face.
Sonic gasped and a metal strand of wire shot out of a finger and wrapped around Sonic's arm.
"Wha...!" Sonic yelled.
MR grabbed a hold of Sonic and held him in front of him. Sonic grunted and tried to move towards MR in an effort to kick off of him, or attack him, but Robotnik held him at bay.
"Now lets see how well you fly, Hedgehog!" Robotnik asked.
Robotnik dispatched the coil and sent Sonic plumenting down to the Great Forest. The wind blew from under him, as the mech grew further and further away from him.
"HA, HA, HA! Now that Sonic is out of the way, I can finally destroy the Great Forest!"
Something exploded in the air that rattled the air around him.
"What? More nusisences! Gahhh!" Robotnik grumbled.
"What is that? Some robot over the Forest?" Tails shouted.
"...uugh...where am I?...!!" Bunnie awoke and happened to notice she was held captive by Metal Robotnik and held hundreds of feet in the air.
The Tornado cutted through the air and flown above the clouds towards the enemy. Robot took no stops against his newest threat and held his hand out and fired a charged blast.
"Whoa!" Tails shouted upon seeing the boagy.
Tails pushed the stick hard left and narrowly dodged the projectile the mech fired at him, profroming a tight roll in the air. The blast litted up the sky as Tails continued on towards the robot.
"Ugghh! Let me go!" Bunnie yelled.
Bunnie broke free of the mech's grip, but found herself falling to the ground herself.
"Bunnie?!" Tails gasped.
Tails pushed the speed on his bi-plane towards the mech and went under it as it was firing at him. The bi-plane dived towards Bunnie, Tails doing his best avoiding the blast of the machine gun cutting through the air.
"Tails!" Bunnie cried out.
Tails swung down underneath and Bunnie grabbed onto the wing and held on for dear life through the air.
"Thanks, Tails, I owe you one, sugar." She thanked him while kneeling down on the wing.
"No problem, Bunnie, but where's Sonic at?"
"Good question, Tails."
"Uggghhh! Die!"
"Hold on, Bunnie!" Tails shouted as he put on his goggles.
Sonic opened his eyes and was surprised that he was still alive, but he body ached all over. He looked up and saw that the tree branches had broken his fall up above. Lying on the forest floor half dead, Sonic sat up and rubbed the back of his head.
"Man, how long was I out?"
Sonic gunted in pain, and heard something crashing through the trees. Sprays of machine gun rounds shot through the trees and hit the ground where Sonic was. Sonic covered his face as the bullets narrowly missed where he was standing.
"Man, that's it!"
He got to both feet in a wobbily, shaken manner, his arms at his side with fists shaking with anger boiling over and peaking to the limit.
"This doesn't look good," Sally witnessed while looking at the action with binoculars.
Sally was with the rest of the Freedom Fighters and Mobians at the caves, but she ventured out away from the caves once everyone was safe to see how things were going.
"Tails can't stall him forever...Sonic, where are you when we need you?" Sally thought.
She took her eyes off of Metal Robotnik and saw a golden streak shoot out of the treetops at an incredible speed. Sally blinked her eyes and wondered if it was for real and what excatly was it.
"I tire of this meddling games. This ends NOW." Robotnik yelled.
Robotnik quickly charged up both of his arm cannons and fired them directly into the heart of the Great Forest.
"The Great Forest!" Bunie yelled from the bi-plane.
The charged beams merged together into one giant blast and was heading towards the Great Forest in a spiraling, unpresendented speed.
"What a lovely view of the annialation of Knothole...huh?"
Robotnik suddenly saw something flying from the forest deflecting his shot back into the air.
"What the...?"
Sonic hovered into the air zone where Metal Robotnik was and stood at him with his arms folded.
"What are you?" Robotnik said in a menacing tone.
"The one that will bring you down for good." Sonic replied.
Suddenly, blue electricity began to stir around the entire frame of Metal Robotnik and the source was coming from the Sapphire Stone located on Metal Robotnik's right arm. Its power was being amplified throughout the entire body and unit that was Metal Robotnik.
"Sonic?" Tails had to take off the goggles to see his best friend hovering in the air.
"Yeah, that's him alright, but he looks way different than he usually looks! His fur is yellowish and his quills are up on end, but how is he doing it?" Bunnie explianed with the little information she knew.
"Bunnie, the Shadowbots, we can go stop them!"
"You're right! I pray Sonic can take care of Robotnik now."
"Thank goodness, Bunnie and Tails are safe." Sonic thought when he saw them leave.
"Sonic, what manner is this?! You've changed somehow." Robotnik inspected the hedgehog's new form.
"It's called taking it to another level, and unless you want some of this, I suggest leaving now." Sonic replied.
"I don't fear you at all hedgehog for I have a great power myself. Our fight shall decides who lives and who dies."
Good and evil had their battlefield, the players equally matched and strengthened to unfathomable levels. The final chapter of the war for Mobius would be written upon the pages of Mobian history.
"So, what's the plan, Bunnie?" Tails said.
"Head over there, Tails and let er' fly!" Bunnie replied as she pointed over at the edge of the Forest edge.
"Antione! Antione!" An out of breath voice yelled at him.
Antione saw Rotor running after him like there was no tomorrow. Rotor caught his breath and placed his hands on his knees to catch his breath.
"Vhat are you doing 'ere,Ro-ter?" Antione questioned.
"...Helping you stay alive, Ant...!" Rotor huffed.
The two were nearly on top of the Shadowbot army, but were hidden by the high brush and thick of the woods.
"What is that, 'Ro-ter?"
"This'll make those Shadowbots obsolete!"
Roter operated a control switch on the spherical ball he created and threw it into the army of Shadowbots. The sphere went off and electricity went off throughout the entire army.
"Yes!"
"Yes, but they are not falling!"
Indeed, the electricity was conducting through the Shadowbots, but they looked like they were not being affected by it. Without any warning, an explosion exploded within the masses of the robot bunch. Rotor and Antione looked up and saw a bi-plane swooping up towards the clouds.
"Tails!" Rotor shouted and waved at him.
The robots looked and raised their wrist in an attempt to fire at the bi-plane, but nothing came out of their wrists. The weapon Rotor threw in had short-circuited the weapons system of all the Shadowbots.
"Hey guys!" A familiar voice yelled at them.
"Bunnie? Bunnie!"
Antione almost dropped his sword when he heard her voice, but he was sure glad to see her.
"Antione!" Bunnie replied as she reached the two.
Bunnie ran and hugged Antione and kissed him dearly on the cheek.
"Tails is giving us air support! Let's go bust some rob-heads!"
"I'm up with that!"
"Me too!" Rotor added.
The three of them charged the robots and the Shadowbots with thier attention to the bi-plane didn't notice the Freedom Fighters wagging war upon them. .
Sonic dashed at MR and attacked his torso with a barrage of slick, speedy punches. They were so hard that Robotnik himself could feel the rattling of the blows from within the mech. Robotnik retreated a short distance and fired a charge shot out of his arm cannon. Sonic leaned his body to the side and dodged the energy blast. The shot, chared with electricity, blew by him and exploded in a ball of engulfing matter. Robotnik charged Sonic and came back with blows of his own. Sonic dodged each attack without using any effort. With such skill and grace, he slightly moved a part of his body away from each incoming blow without hardly any effort. Seeing as direct attacks wasn't going to hurt Sonic, Robotnik rasied an arm and fired a missile from the yellow hatch underneath his arm.
"!!" Sonic thought.
Sonic blocked his face and the missile exploded straight at him. When the missile detonated in front of him, a burning beacon of light flashed in front of him, blinding him instantly. Sonic peeked from his arms and saw a metallic arm heading for him. The light had distracted Sonic long enough that Robotnik was able to slam his fist into Sonic's torso.Sonic gasped, having the wind knocked out of him, and Robotnik took no time in following up the attack by grabbing Sonic by the head and punching him again with such a velocity that he almost flew away out of his sight.
"And to finish the deal." Robotnik shouted.
Robotnik target Sonic's body, pulled his arm up and fired a charged blast at him. The blast screamed through the air and when the projectile reached its target, it exploded in a hugmousgous blast.
"That takes care of that!" Robotnik called.
Robotnik looked in the direction that he destroyed Sonic, and his scanners where going off the map.
"What's this?" He looked into the computer screen.
Something was coming at his at an almost ungodly speed, screaming into the air, possibilty break the speed of sound itself. he saw some gold aura coming at him at top speeds, so fast that his speed clocking machines where going off the charts.
Sonic flew back at Robotnik and delivered a shattering double-foot kick to the mech's stomach.
"Don't think we're done yet!" Sonic said.
Sonic could very well hear the aches the groans of Robotnik inside after the powerful attack, but he didn't care for his safety, he cared for the Mobians safety and his friends. With a loud yell, Sonic quickly struck the mech in the face with a firece angling kick, hoping to knock off or destroy the armor. The head retained itself and Sonic had to resort to other measures. Sonic quickly grabbed the mech's arm and threw him up into the air, and an aura begin to glow around Sonic's body. Sonic dashed towards Robotnik, who was still being shaken from being tossed high in to the air, and Sonic clencthed his fist.
"We end this now!" Sonic shouted.
It was a brilliant and earth shattering attack, as Sonic flew at Robotnik and struck at Robotnik's shoulder so fast that it seperated and disconnected from the rest of his body. Sonic stopped himself and turned around to look at his enemy, but as he looked something weird was happening. A blue aura was covering MR and the arm that he seperated joined back with the rest of his body and wires, plates and connectors and joints began to metd back into places. After many grinding and scraping sounds, the mech's arm was totally back in place, as if the event surely didn't happen.
"No way!" Sonic said through gritted teeth.
"But of course, I have so much power at my disposial that I can overcome anything you throw at me, hedgehog!" Robotnik replied.
The mech was facing Sonic from afar when it disappeared in thin air. Sonic gasped and looked around him, but the sky was devoid of any traces of the mech.
"Wha? Were can he be? That's some clever magician trick he sure pulled." Sonic thought.
Sonic turned his head, and the dark, looming blood red eyes and body of MR approached him, and rammed into him with the full force of a semi truck. Robotnik then disappeared after the attack and left Sonic alone, reeling in excruating pain in his chest. Sonic held an arm of the region of pain, only to be striked again by the mech in the back. Sonic released a shout of pain and Robotnik released a coil out of his hand and coiled it around Sonic's feet. Robotnik then flew towards the Great Forest away from the central away and slammed Sonic at the ground. He aimed his hand at the location where Sonic was slammed through and fired long, streaming laser blasts at it. The attack started slowly, then increased ten told as the laser beams landed at ground zero in such a rapid fire pace that dust from the earth began to kick up from the attack. The dust cleared and a large pile of destruction of trees laid waste a couple of acres wide.
It was a dead zone and the air was still and silent around it. Robotnik hovered above the diaster area wondering if his enemy could survive such an attack. Upon further thinking, he decided not to stay around to find out.
Antione slashed through the torso of Shadowbot and stabbed another lurching bot sneaking behind him.
"Not excatly my day on the beach!" Antione shouted.
"No kidding!" Rotor replied as he smashed through a Shadowbot.
Bunnie threw a Shadowbot in to another bot and looked up into the sky amist the battling.
"Look up in the sky, ya'll!" She pointed.
"Time to destroy this place!" Robotnik yelled.
Robotnik started his jets and flew up into the air. Yet from the debris, trees were being pushed aside and a worn figure appered from the mess. The scarred and bloodied hedgehog yelled and bolted from the ground at MR.
Robotnik faced the Great Forest and suddenly saw the hedgehog out of the debris and rocket towards him with such speed that he was almost a golden blur on his computer screen.
"It's... not... possible!" Robotnik yelled.
But the impossible was deemed possible. Sonic charged at Robotnik and moved at such speeds that he was already behind the mech and delivered an elbow to the mech's back. MR turned around, but before he could even analyis what happened, Sonic jump-kicked MR in the side and was gone before he could even retaliate. Sonic continued his barrage of attacks, attacking Robotnik at every possible angle at unparrel speeds. Robotnik couldn't even keep track of him on his pulsation dectector. Sonic put presicion and soul into each attack, denting and even knocking off parts of his armor.Robotnik quickly retreated away from Sonic and Sonic did the same.
"We are quite evenly match, hedgehog, but I have the advantage in this battle."
MR scanned the entire forest side for any mass signs of heat signatures. It was a dead giveaway when he saw a cluster of heat signals inside a rocky landform.
"So that's where they are hiding!"
Robotnik put both of his arms up and four missiles fired out of the yellow platings.
"What? Why is he firing at the caves? Oh no..." Sonic thought.
Sonic flew down, following the missiles trajectory and smashed two missiles and caught up with the third one but the fourth one was closing in on its destination. Sonic gasped and kicked it up a notch and had no time to destroy it. The missile exploded just several yards away from the landscape, engulfing Sonic in a yellow, firey explosion.
The explosion cleared and Sonic was nowhere to be seen.
"It was about time I killed him, he was quite an enemy but in the long run only one player had to remain. And now for the Great Forest..."
Unfortunately for him, something smashed at the shoulder of his mech at upon his left side. Sonic struck Robotnik with a lunging fist.
"Don't you learn anything, hedgehog. I'm indestructible!"
Sonic kept his poise and kept his fist in Robotnik's armor. The fist began to glow a yellow color and the shoulder exploded in a small flash of light. Robotnik yelped and Sonic retreated away from him, as he looked at the damage. The, dark interior of wires and metal were moreso exposed do to the attack. The blue aura of the Sapphire Stone tried to rejuevenite the broken section of the armor, but the process was taking longer than Robotnik had expected.
"Don't think I'm letting you heal yourself, 'buttnik!"
With the speed of a hurricane in full season, Sonic roared at MR with his blazing gold aura glowing around him. Sonic charged at Robotnik but MR put both of his arms in front of him in defense. Sonic tackle clashed at MR's armor that it sent tremendous soundwaves throughout the sky. The deadlocked, but Sonic flipped over MR and kicked him in the back and Robotnik truned and struck behind him, but only whiffed air. Sonic quickly flew up and in front of him and kicked him in the body area and caught Metal Robotnik wavering off guard. Robotnik regained his composure and almost synchonety, Sonic's eyes met with Metal Robotnik's eyes. They were both filled with the burning desire and fueling with the drive of winning the battle, or ridding the other from the plane of existance.
"It's time our fight conluded, hedgehog!" Robotnik yelled.
MR put up both of his arms and a blue electricity field shot up around himself. Sonic hit him and was blown back, tumbling several feet back. MR teleported and reappeared several hundred feet above him. MR slowly circled his arms up into the air and placed them in front of him and charged his power to the maximum level. The blue aura focused into Robotnik's fingertips. Sonic flew up at him, ready to stop the madman, but what indeed did the doctor have in store?
"DIE, HEDGEHOG! ANNIALIATION!" Robotnik shouted.
The blast exploded out his fingers and a blast of unmeasureable porportions rained at the planet. Sonic gasped, then yelled as the immense beam towered on him and engulfed him.
"Oh no!" Sally shouted as she looked at the battle approching the fatal end.
"Whoa!" Tails gasped in awe, looking on from his bi-plane.
"Yes! Yes! You shall meet your grave now, Sonic!" Robotnik roared in triumph.
The blast of energy rained on the Forest and was hitting ground zero, when something odd was happening. The beam was was not driving into the ground, but was stopping just above up the forest.
"Wha..?" Robotnik said.
Sonic grunted and put his entire effort into stopping the beam from destroying the entire forest. He put his shoulder and entire body into stopping it and strained to his body's limit, but even so the beam slowly continued to advance on the Great Forest.
"Give it up, hedgehog. You'll never defeat me!" Robotnik cackled.
The blue beam physically overpowered Sonic, and descended it's way down to the Great Forest. Sonic closed his eyes and thought of everyone down at Knothole, his friends, Tails, Sally. The world wouldn't be safe and Robotnik would enslave everyone in the world. His crimes would go unpunished and his dreams would become a fearsome reality to anyone living on the planet. No more.
A power exploded inside Sonic and his aura grew to the size of the beam. Sonic yelled and held both of his hands up against the beam.
"Yes! What? What this!?"
The beam stopped midway and began reversing back towards the owner. The golden aura began to push the blue beam back away from the surface of the ground.
"Impossible!" Robotnik yelled.
The golden aura pushed the blue beam up and Sonic kicked the beam with all his strength within him.
"Take THAT!" Sonic yelled.
The blue beam reversed directions and headed back towards Robotnik. He tried to control it, but the the control was gone and it was racing back at him. The beam stuck Robotnik in an immense blast.
"Ugh! Damn you, Sonic! I'll get...!"
MR electroucuted and the Sapphire Stone exploded the arm off of the mech and the robot exploded in a dazzling array of explosions lighting up the sky.
Sonic gasped heavily and slowly floated down to the surface. Cheers and applause where heard in the distance.
"Its finally..over."