Disclaimer: See the previous chapters.
Okay, well I kinds got rushed with 21, so that's why there wasn't much of an end to that chapter. This chapter should be more promising than the last. Enjoy, as usual, to all those that read it… and I knew I would probably get a flame one of these days… if you consider it a flame, thought I don't know what to really categorize it as… -shrugs- I don't care for flames very much anymore like I used to. If I got one, I would have been very pissed off, but fortunately, I'm not like that today. Flame me any of those who hate this story. I'm wearing flameproof spray, AND I could care less.
Broken HopeEveryone minus Blizzard was either banged up with minor bruises… burns, and any other additional damage, or down and out for a temporary moment. Metal, eyeing that the group was out of commission for a while, turned tail, taking his supposed prisoner along with him in his iron grip.
"Hrn… wha… what happened? What the…" The echidna eyes a body on top of him, actually… he could smell the scent of burnt skin, and it nearly wanted him to lean his face off to the side, and literally barf. This carcass on his own was none other than Rouge's, and he managed to shove her off with his hands quickly, but… It was when he saw what had happened to her wing, and which was the source of the smell, Knuckles didn't believe his own two eyes.
"Rouge? Saving me? Impossible…"
"It's… agh… possible, but I probably won't be able to fly for a while…"
"Erm… why did you save me? I thought you hated me…?"
"Oh skip the subject, Echidna. I'm not in the mood to hear anything… huh… hey…" Rouge was looking around, until her weary eyes look to the spot where Blizzard was. There was no body laying there… looks like a bit of a drag line, apparently Blizzard had been dragged off a tiny bit… then nothing afterwards in the grass. Slowly pushing herself up off the ground, since he shoved her off quickly enough, her eyes could see no traces of Metal Sonic II anywhere.
"She's gone… looks like that robot… took her…"
Rouge stopped the moment she heard a loud screaming noise in the background. Turning her head to see the commotion between a very furious Shadow, and a struggling Sonic trying to hold him off, she sweatdropped immediately.
"HELL NO! LET ME GO, FAKER! I WANT THAT FUCKING ROBOT DEAD!"
"Shut the fuck up, Shadow! Screaming the daylights out of your damned vocal cords isn't going to do very much to get them back!"
"You dolt. If you don't let me go, he is going to go after Amy and fucking kidnap her."
"What? Idiot, why didn't you say something in the first place?!"
"I got banged up without even knowing it until that shit ass thing was firing off that laser at that pathetic Echidna. Now if you excuse me, I have a robot to catch."
Shadow elbows Sonic's abdomen hard, Sonic reeling back a bit a ways before he can try to get a shot back at the obsidian hedgehog. But by the time he could try the attempt, Shadow was gone in a moment, taking off towards the hospital in a blurred flash, for there was a slight panicking crowd of humans fleeing away from the hospital, and the sounds of a Vulcan cannon were being fired off, and deflecting right off of solid metal steel could be faintly heard, much to Sonic's dismay… with the addition of very faint distant sounds of screaming.
"Oh god… Guys, we got to hurry, now…" Sonic was recovering from his blow that was delivered by Shadow to his gut. Damn that Shadow. Damn him to hell for that cheap shot to the stomach. Let alone recklessly trying to go and get himself killed…
"Take that! Vulcan cannon fire! You're not going anywhere near the hospital, you tin can…"
A giant blue machine, much bigger than the monster Metal Sonic II, was standing in the robots' way, well; it was Tails' Tornado in walker mode, firmly standing its ground. Bullet pellets were only being deflected off of the armor from the machine, kept at a constant pace by the rapid firing, and Tails was growing a bit angry at the fact that this is one of Eggman's handiworks… and not even a scratch. The walker took one step forwards cautiously, until Metal II decided to pull out his only choice of weapon… rather… his "shield", withdrawing an unconscious Blizzard from the side, and it looked like she had been partially dragged along the asphalt for quite some time, too. The machine lifted the body, and placed it in front of himself for protection against further Vulcan attacks from Tails.
"Aw no… Blizzard! You put her down, right now!"
Tails was afraid that he had something hidden behind himself when the fox spotted something being dragged like a child's toy all over the ground. But apparently the robot was taking no heed to his demand. Deciding on an idea, Tails started to approach Metal II before he could actually attack at a reasonable distance, and accuracy without hitting, or injuring the female hedgehog he considered to be a friend. Gripping the controls, Tails was about to launch his propeller forward to punch the thing's head… but… the sound of a click, like a gun cocking itself into position caught his ears' attention. The Tornado halted in its own tracks.
"Do not interfere, pathetic unit. Or this feeble unit will suffer the consequences."
The two-tailed foxboy could do nothing more… he felt so worthless at this point of time, now that there was a hostage involved. He was going to head out to go assist Sonic in finding Blizzard, but now Metal Sonic has her captive and she was being used as a shield… He forced the walker to back away very slowly, aiming the Vulcan cannon at the bot's carcass each time it took a step forward, advancing on what little space Tails had deftly tried to guard.
"Grr… darn… I can't do anything…"
The instant gears began to grind and whine altogether from the very metallic feet of Metal Sonic II got Tails and the Tornado Walker-mode to stop completely in surprise. The mecha unit seemed to aim its laser cannon in a quick direction-accuracy degree, Tails looking at the vulnerable hospital building, and the many windows decorating the outside. His eyes widen at what Metal II was doing! What the fuck!? Instead of a bright laser beam, a missile shot out from underneath the cannon in a spring of the moment. The projectile impacts the brick, and window to a floor, and room, but this also creates an explosion to follow the successful hit. This not only causes the building to rumble, but there is a large gaping hole after the smoke and debris clears.
Metal bends his knees, or what Tails would call 'knees', and the moment he did, there was a mechanical whine and Metal leapt an amazing height to where the hole was, vanishing into the newly created entranceway into the large twenty-story building, along with his captive prisoner/shield. Banging the controls of the Tornado, Tails got really frustrated, letting out some steam by yelling aloud. But then… oh no… he remembered that Amy was on that floor! Widening his eyes in shock, Tails shook his own head and leapt right out of the Tornado. Using his two tails for a lift like a helicopter, the foxboy took off into the air, towards the hole in the building to deal with Metal II himself.
"Alright Metal Sonic! Come out, I know you're in there… chicken!" Landing on the outside of the entrance, he looked around… he swore he heard a slight scuffle, and then a muffled scream. Amy's muffled screaming, of course. There was an overturned bed, almost bent in half. Wires were everywhere, coming from the monitor machines. Cautiously, the fox looks around walking forwards with alertness apparent… until the unthinkable happened right in front of Tails. The robot charged forward, now with two prisoners in his arms. The collision between the foxboy and Metal II created a pang noise with the fox's head hitting the steel body in a rush, the boy clinging to the bot with an item in his hand. He tightened an arm's grip around the solid metal body, and jerked a tiny circular device underneath a metallic sharp quill. The sudden halt near the gaping hole forced Tails into a state of slight unconsciousness by banging his forehead into the metal, dazed, and a little dizzy, and the lightness of like… flying… or rather, falling to the ground below without really knowing, just right after letting go.
Metal II sees his job is fulfilled. He has captured both Blizzard and Amy, but now, since both of his arms are full up, he cannot attack except for charging his targets. Thus there was no time to complete the tertiary objective, only thinking that it was only for a bonus addition for a reward. Taking the arrival of the annoying pest Shadow the Hedgehog as a signal to depart, the feet ignite underneath, scorching the tile floor. The boost thrusts him off into the air, wind lashing out at him with both Amy and Blizzard underneath individual arms on either side, their bodies, rather Amy's was still struggling a tiny bit, well, pretty much they were dangling from the positions.
"What the… GET BACK HERE! You cowaaard!!… You damn… coward…. Come back… here… and fight… me…" Furiously shouted an enraged Shadow, clenching his teeth in a display of fury, and the tiniest bit of anguish, slowing down on his speech for another reason.
But as Shadow shouted, he also saw a falling orangey object catch the eye of his attention… rather… a fox with two tails… oh... Tails, the foxboy. Not paying attention to the escaping Metal Sonic II, He reaches out to the tails. Within moments before hitting the ground, he grips the tails, jerking Tails right before he hits the ground… only centimeters from his face to the ground. Simply letting go, he drops the boy to the ground, thudding afterward in a heap of orange and white. More importantly… just saving Tails gave Metal II his escape…. Damn it. Freaking fox… tightening a fist with one hand, he cursed aloud at the skies, though… his weight let his free falling form drop to his knees soundlessly.
No… there had to be a way of getting them back… but… but how? Shadow knew that there will be a way of saving them, but… that fiendish doctor is somewhere else, and he doesn't even know where the fuck he is… with these damned numerous bases everywhere! Everyone that had been nearly knocked unconscious by Metal II's first assault was racing towards Shadow. Sonic especially since he sees Tails is laying in a heap upon the ground, and out cold, as well. Shadow was just sitting there upon his knees, hands drooping to the ground like motionless stubs being dragged down by the gravity…. almost as if he were lifeless, too. Just by looking at his emptied ruby eyes, nothing was there. No emotions, no movement, no nothing. Not even a tinge of life.
"Hey Shadow? ... Yo Shadow, are you okay, man? Where's Amy and Blizzard?"
Sonic waves a hand over his eyes in a flash.
"Shadow? Hello? Anyone home?"
"He isn't responding…"
"Is he alright? …"
"I don't know."
…
"Shut… up… they're… gone… gone…they're god damn fucking GONE, is that okay?! It's my FAULT they're gone…" Immediately as Shadow's raging shout reaches everyone's ears, excluding Tails, they cover their sensitive ears, yelping from his piercing recent screeching. They've never seen, or heard, him yelling this loud before. Well, who wouldn't be upset at the fact that Shadow… let the fucking robot get away? He was choking on his own voice, as if he were losing it mentally, his mental wall breaking down into nothing to let his realizations and harsh truths lead him to believe that this time… he may not be able to find them. Never find them at all, but there is something that everyone, even Amy herself, keeps up within one's heart.
The tiniest light that flickers within one's soul that never dies unless all is truly lost.
That tiny light is Hope… hope that both of them will be alright, and the hope that he will not fail in saving them…
[Unknown area, Unknown Location]
A tall, chubby figure was pacing back and forth very slowly. What is his problem? His impatience with the creation he sent out hours ago… and not a sign of him returning. Must have been into a scuffle or two with the pests he hated so much. Was it the fact that those 'pests' were giving Metal such a hard time to begin with? Probably so, but it should keep that unit from being so long gone. And the distance it has to travel without being trailed by them!
Clanks amongst the iron floor alerted him to a presence. The steel shutter doors opened to reveal a barely-busted metal hedgehog, with a weakened pink hedgehog, and an unconscious blue-black tinted one. Preferably those were his easily collected targets he so presumptive sent metal II out for. The doctor was impressed immediately, and quickly, as the droning robot dropped the nearly lifeless carcasses to the ground the moment the doctor nodded at his arrival. Amy only stirred about, groaning out a whimper. The other didn't seem to move at all, just move only with the constant motions of her breathing pattern.
"Yosh! You did it, and without even taking so much as a break, or heavy dent of your finely refined steel-chromium armor, I see. Good job, Metal Sonic II. Good job, indeed. Katai, would you take care of our newest two guests, you so ever kindly as to 'escort' them to their prison cells over there while I prepare my latest plan? For you see… I didn't expect any of those pesky rodents to even put up such a weak fighting style. I pity them… not. Ah… wait one moment… maybe I shall exact what I said before. Katai, take Amy to the prison. She can witness her friend's goody-goody demise, and arise from the ashes a reborn ultimate servant…. We shall see what will turn out… soon enough."
The silver-streaked Echidna does what he is told by the direct order of Eggman. But it was by mere surprise to see the crying Amy Rose, lying there in her hospital gown still on, too. Just by picking both up, a burden placed on him by the doctor, but really he doesn't care… that she was shaking and the numerous tremors she was managing to give off. He could tell she was frightened in all ways possible, considering she was just… taken so abruptly from her friends. And to see her go through this again, it just didn't seem right to Katai.
None of this did. And it was bothering him as well.
Why?
Why does this have to happen?
It was all he could ever ask himself, questioning his true identity and reasoning to believe he is a loyal servant before the man ever mentioned that he was 'created' of genetic proportions based off of this one red echidna called "Knuckles". Somehow it seemed as if a tiny whisper told him this was all a lie… but incoherently, he refused to listen in any way, blocking out that 'whisper', cutting off any unwanted association with it's 'lies' of it's own. But now…. Now with it constantly harassing him, that his existence with Robotnik is a lie.
'Fool…. You are not his slave…'
'Your life is a lie.'
'Strain yourself free of his demonic control.'
'You will be free once again, as you were when you were nothing but a mere newborn.'
He cursed to himself mentally, not really believing anything it said. But… he was free, when he was a newborn? How…?---
"Ah-ahem. Is there something that's preventing you from moving, Katai?" The doctor's comment caught him by surprise. Katai hadn't thought twice about it when he didn't realize that he didn't move an inch since he picked both of the prisoners off of the iron floor. Quickly, to avoid any further questioning from the doctor, he picked up his pace once the echidna began to walk right away to the cells near the machine in the far corner. Man, he better not let himself into one of his usual stand-there-like-an-idiot stances get in his way, like that. Especially in front of Eggman. Boy, would he ever cook up a suspicion…
On cue, the iron-barred door slides right open, Katai tossing the shaking Amy right in, Amy landing first on her side, then rolling slowly away to the back of the cage. In a cage again, like a trapped bird once more that can't fly free anywhere. Scared, fretful emeralds darted everywhere, blurred vision not helping her situation really well. The echidna sternly disregarded her fear, and continued away from his first stop, as the bars slam shut, startling Amy out of her wits quickly.
Over near the corner, it was decorated with rows of wires, buttons, and levers. But to top it all off, it was a huge machine, and in the center, where it looked like a giant hourglass right smack dab in the middle, there was a tube big enough for an elephant to fit into, well, due to it's massive size in width. But to avoid such unnecessary heightening, it was low enough, about half to three-fourths of the normal height of a giraffe. There, connected to the near sides were rotator lines, with antennae-like spikes pointing from the rotary lines, to directly at the center of the tube. And at the very bottom of the "hourglass" machine, was a control deck, with a computer console built into it, screen, keyboard, and a touchable pad for a 'pointer' to be moved upon the screen with many menus to click upon the glowing monitor.
Masses and masses of wires, each with it's own respective color, or same design, snaked from everywhere, inside the machine, and out. All different sizes adorned it, well, decorated it. Each had its own function, and they varied in length too. All in all, Eggman was quite proud to have built this over a period of five years. Five long, strenuous years, and he only slacked off when the incident from two years ago occurred. He even thought that this machine would be worthless to continue to that point, because the Eclipse Cannon and Shadow brought his attention away from the work. Even the Chaos Emeralds… well… speaking of which, he should be able to place the three he has into the power chamber that would give the energy for the transformation of those good, into those with rotten cores. Purely his genius mind led him to believe he can manipulate the emeralds into using them to change, or alter brain wave patterns.
Thus he can simply switch the deciding factor of what the pitiful creature, human of furry, stuffed into the tube would become… good to bad, bad to good depending on the personality, but he left that last switch hidden within the database of the machine, and pushed himself to create a multi-worded passkey just in the event someone attempts to retrieve the selection for use. He called it his 'Transmodifying Manipulator', or TM, for short on his part, or anyone else who tend to be lazy and really don't actually pronounce the full name.
The Doctor approaches Metal Sonic II. He knows that by taking the emerald from the robotic unit, that he'll be temporarily shut down until he restores it to the core, and thus he will reactivate as if nothing ever happened. But, he needed that Chaos Emerald, since the other two were within his coat pocket, signified by two odd-shaped bulges on the inside of a side pouch pocket. The robot does not fight. Instead, it knows his master needs the emerald. Therefore, he automatically shuts down with no hesitation involving itself. Chuckling with a cheerful tone, Eggman removes the emerald from the opening forehead. The very core of his functioning. This jewel gives off a light bluish hue, and thus he successfully takes his time to turn around.
Approaching the machine' power core, he jabs a few buttons with his large fingers, small beeps following after each press. Two dull gray doors slide open in front of the doctor, showing three holes in which to place all three Chaos Emeralds. Slowly lifting the one in his hand, he inserts it into the top of the triangular design. The moment it is inserted, and let go of, the jewel shines like no other. Reaching for his pocket, he takes another emerald, this one with a ruby red hue, and coolly pushes it into the lower right hole. The last, and third one, a violet/amethyst, he only needed was slipped out, and then he gently placed this last one into the lower left corner, completing the triangular power core. The three Chaos emeralds brilliantly shined together, the dull gray doors slamming shut in his face, disintegrating the shining light from his eyes.
Slowly, he made his way to the center of the controls. Katai was positioning the out-cold Blizzard onto the panel in-between the 'hourglass' machine, right in the middle, on top of the bottom part. The echidna jumps off, and lands smoothly onto the ground, looking back up at the center section.
Blizzard stirred a lot now, as a round, glass cage quickly shut all around her. This alerted her mind, which was screaming for her to wake up now. Wake up… wake up!! NOW! Those eyes snap open, sapphire flinging every which way it cold in the eye sockets. Her head felt a little off-balanced, but hey, at least she was okay… but now she was in a glass tubing? What for? Had she been captured? Where are the others? Most certainly, where's that robot? She got up slowly, and zoomed up to the side of the glass, smooshing her face to get a good look around where she was now. But now… She was in a tiny state of shock, at realizing where she was now. Down below, was a red echidna… looked like he had robot parts for arms, and legs. And he also had a whitish-silver stripe pattern along his spine dreadlocks. There was that robot… but his head was… open? Eww… wait... Robots don't have guts… and there, near the machine, was Amy, looking at her in a horrified way. The female hedgehog banged against the glass to try and find a way out. Useless. Even banging her head on it didn't work, nor did kicking or punching. Even throwing her whole body against the 'glass' became futile.
That entire time, all the doctor did was smile… no… grinned at her stupid, pathetic attempts to escape her tube.
"Ah-ah-ah. You can't escape so easily! And to you, Amy, you best be having the time of your life as you watch your good friend go rotten! Hahaha! Ahahaha!"
Amy cried in an outburst, defying that she too, might get used, but now, her friend's life was at stake. She thought he was going to kill her… "You evil man! Let her go! You let me go, too! If you don't, I'll…um… whack you with my piko-piko hammer when I get out…." She regressed back to her sniffling. The doctor merely laughed almost half to death at her bold … yet idlest, empty threat. That weak little girl will be of no match to him, even if she escaped. She would have nowhere to go.
A pair of eyes was watching from above, in the shadows. He didn't like the looks of this, and how this was going. And if this Blizzard became unstoppable to Eggman, then nothing would be able to control the female blue, black-tinted hedgehog's evil. Not even the Ultimate Life Form, or Sonic the Hedgehog… "Zis is bad, very bad. And to zink what vill happen when ze gurl manages to keel the doctor in the process of rampaging in a fury… she vill not be his servant, zat is for sure… No, no, I vill assure she has to be terminated with zis if she does become out of ze Doctor's control… I vill bring further news when I report back. Over and out." The figure holds up, in his hands, a syringe filled with a clear liquid, a plastic cap attached to the needle just for precaution. This shady person is also speaking with someone in secret, using a hand held miniature device. Just who is he, anyway?
"It's time. Say goodbye to precious Blizzard, Amy Rose. She will not forget about you, though. She'll be under my direct control… and the fact that I will finally take over this pathetic planet with her as my lead supreme superiority over those pests... especially Sonic, and Shadow… oh ho, will Shadow ever receive such a shock from being destroyed by his own 'sibling'… not that I don't even believe that either of you are really siblings… it's such a shame I had to take some files aboard the ARK. Later… I even found that the ARK's database was looked into and copied… good thing I entrusted myself to steal the precious datawork on you… or else I would not have known of your location! Much less known of a second hedgehog in the works… oh well. Time to get to work."
"What? Fuck off, Doctor Fathead! Let me go, and I'll think 'bout sparing your life." Snarled a voice from above, coming from the tube. It sounded feminine, and really, really angry to boot. Not only did the doctor just tell her that he stole the documents on her, but Shadow lied about telling Gerald not to do data on her. Was it possible for Gerald to go back against Shadow's wish to not have data on her? Could be, but now wasn't a really important time to discuss anything like that… considering her life is on the line, here.
"Aw… such sweet language... afraid not, my dear. For you see, you… you are a hybrid of power. My grandfather managed to find Wanted Warrants on your head down on the Earth. And such a good price on your forehead, too. Say… about twenty million for your capture, less for your death. You see…. You are a product of Genetics Utilities National corps. Don't think it was G.U.N., the military agency… this was a very different GUN… My grandfather, and my cousin, Maria… they didn't care for money, or your death. They were too inflated with their kindness to do so. You were presumed dead, and the warrant was called off twenty two years later, four years after the ARK shut down from an 'accident'. In a diary I discovered not too long ago, I had seen an entry… and I was surprised of the information it carried on you... But seeing as it's the last moments of your 'goody' life, I will show it to you."
Producing a diskette in the shape of a floppy disk, he inserted it into a different machine nearby. A screen spreads out across on the other side of the room, the shocked hedgehog in awe… the professor's voice rang throughout the entire room, Amy and Katai also listening in on this sudden surprise.
Entry Date: December 17th, 2021
'I was afraid of it being true after I recalled asking information on Genetics Utilities National corps. They were indeed out for her head, for the reason of being an experimental subject under the influence of a gene-enhancing dosage, spliced into her normal DNA, specializing in reconfiguration with mixtures. She was out for twenty million dollars, five for her instant death for being a public danger, and a hazard to people's health. I was shocked at the outrageous attempt at making an Ultimate life form of their very own … Copying my works in the process! I was very enraged at the Genetics labs at GUNc for replicating my ways of splicing DNA. I had no idea this had been going on without my knowledge, and I had taken this… apparent experiment aboard with my smaller experiment, Shadow. My colleagues were sorry for even using her against her own will for a fight with the 'other' project, but it was amazing she survived after the transfusion. Her speed, strength, and reflexes had doubled, almost up to Shadows' level. They could excel possibly even further. I was truly amazed at her awesome power, and that she would also benefit in being a help to mankind. So far, she has gotten along with Shadow and Maria. 'Blizzard', so presumably her name was, even befriended me very kindly. Everyone aboard gave her the respect, and she gave respect back. No questions asked, period. I end this, sadly as I had more to say, but this shall be enough.'
It was too true to believe…. Blizzard fell to her knees. She was an experiment gone wrong? No wonder she felt alone, and only made friends with rural children… back then…
"Now is the time for no more delaying! Behold, the true power I shall unlock within you, my servant!"
The doctor chorused throughout the whole entire laboratory, evils ringing about. He slammed his finger down upon a button, clicking the Transmodifier's altering sequence button. Within that moment, all was quiet after the echoes died down. Katai was nervous, getting a bad feeling… Amy watched in pure helpless horror, trying her best to push against the bars with her weakened grip. The shadowed figure recoiled in terror. All of this was happening as the roaring rumble of the machine's inner sanctum was revving to life. The rotating lines began to move in circles, slowly gaining speed. Everything was going according to the plan, and Blizzard did not like this. Her quills felt funny, and so did her fur... Like it was rising up from static electricity.
She could feel this force growing each every passing moment go by. Her head felt like it was swelling, but it physically wasn't. It was all in her head, as she backed away from the glass, waves of strange feelings overcoming her. Electricity began to electrocute the antennae spikes, pushing against the tube cage to spin faster and faster, till the point where they were partial blurs, barely visible to the human eye. But the moment both bottom and top spikes were blazing like hell, the top and bottom parts began to close in on the tubing, the huge 'ends' aiming to seal her in. Blizzard panicked, racing about inside hopelessly trying to find a way out of this. She stopped in realization. Her tries are in vain. Everything darkens, as the electricity, and bright lights flare inside touch her everywhere, her eyesight going black. Her mind no longer functions as it used to do, as the shocking experience grows even more painful. She felt so strange, her senses going wild. The molecular structure of her DNA began to unleash it's full potential power, as her mixed blood reacts with the Transmodifier's effects.
Her fur takes on a light change, almost solidifying the black to a specific point. Her body was in a heap upon the tube floor, her screaming having ceased to the point where the pain is all she can feel… pure, solid pain tingling throughout her entire form. Her eyes are closed… as if she is fading away. Being erased from her own mind… from existence. She can now no longer feel anything. Blizzard couldn't even feel her own body, considering her heart was beating rapidly. There was a strange essence within…. Like she had turned into something else, different in attitude.
Her eyes shot open with an icy glare at the ceiling, pupils dilating into thin slits quickly.
No more was she that stupid little sissy nitwit.
On the outside, Eggman was laughing with delight, and evil mixed in the bunch. He never thought it would come true, but now it is, and he'll finally rule the world, as he always wanted to. Ignoring Amy's consistent crying out to Blizzard, the process was almost finished. Just thirty seconds more, and Blizzard the Hedgehog will become the ultimate servant. The true power of what those sick people created out of their own interests. True power at its very existence!
But, as soon as his laughing was toward the end, the machine stopped roaring, and rumbled instead, creating shocking sounds throughout the entire lab. The edges cracked slowly, pounding consistent within. The sounds became more louder with each repeated attempt, and everyone began to back away, except for Amy, who could go no farther from her cage on the inside. She shook half to death, against the bars as the cracks continued, the machine crumbling underneath the powerful forced being contained within.
Sooner than expected, the outburst of an explosion follows, metal flying everywhere. Smoke and debris scatter about, the smoke acting as a cover screen over the center core. The doctor looked closely, after letting his arms down since he used them as shields. Katai was at a distance, and holding up his fists, he was prepared for the worst… just in case this Blizzard turned out to be a lot more dangerous than Robotnik thought. The shadow remained silent as usual in the rafters above. Amy curled up into a ball, shaking rapidly, already too scared of what might have happened to her friend… um… she didn't even wanted to think of it at that point of time.
A sudden lump formed on the top of the cloud, a figure bursting right through the cloudy shield. Like lightning zipping out of a thundercloud. The form gracefully landed on one foot, then both slowly, and softly. Silence was in store, now that the real reason to be silent was out; because of the new hedgehog that appeared right in front of the 'group'.
Her graceful form was like no other. Truly someone would have definitely mistaken her for sonic now, but there were major differences now. Her quills actually shot up, like Shadow's. The black-tints upon those quills almost solidified. Instead of a whole colored body, she had a peachy tummy, but nothing else… with the addition of her eyes becoming more of ice than sapphire. She can easily glare daggers into one's face, even in the strongest of men… Her face held no expression. No feeling.
The Blizzard some may have known.
Was no more?