Chapter 2: Metal Wars

tim

Mina finally figured that these two needed to be stopped no matter WHO they were fighting. She
ran around in some not so obvious places hoping to get a shot off behind one of their backs.

Sonic: "You annoying little tin can! Your words prove that you run on 2 byte brain."
Metal: "And 600 terrabytes of arrogance. *sigh* it's all Robotnick to do to make me like you."
Sonic: "Why you!!" (suddenly notices Mina sneaking around and quickly glances back)

Sonic continued fighting Metal in order to distract him enough and give Mina a decent shot.
Unfortunately, he assumed that Metal hadn't noticed him glancing at her. As soon as the opening
came, Mina threw a grenade at Metal. Metal, having expected this, used an energy wave to send
it right back at her! Fortunately, Mina knew the art of garilla warfare and so was running right
after throwing the grenade. She barely dodged it and got blown over.

Metal laughed: "You fool! I think as you think and act as you act!"
Sonic just grimmaced.

alex

His Mina? No, his Mina wouldn't be caught dead in something that revealing. All Sonic knew is
that she just tried to help them, and Metalla had almost killed her.
"There's no point to this fight Metalla!" Sonic shouted as he traded blows with his metal twin
and tiring out.
"Who ever said a fight ever has a point!?" He retorted though his voice box.

The Rebelles were all shock at what had happened, Sonic had just saved a Chaotic's life! Flona
was surprised to see Mina, last time the rebillon ran into her she had made it clear she had no
intrest in being in a group, and that she liked having a dry bed and a steady job and not having to
hide her face in public.
Flona was never admited it, but she noticed how Mina looked at Sonic, like they felt a kin-ship
or something. But she had more important things on her mind at the moment, the silver robot
was looking for new target, his current ones desposed at the moment.
Bean was confused. Antion looked ready to kill, just not sure who.

Silver scanners clicked from Rebel to Chaotic, deciding who to kill first. That was when Mighy
shell first smashed into Silver's side launching out of the club's shattard window, but the robot
was ready and caught Mighty fists first, but Mighty was proving he could match the machines'
strength, (for the moment,) which fustrated the flegling coniousness of the assiasn droid getting
ready to another one of his 'death head butts'.

Nack was loading his heavy gun that he was certain would peirce anything, machine or fleash, he
didn't like his job, but it was living, and he liked to live. He saw the Silver monster was bigger
target, the blue one was moving too fast to hit.
He aimed his weapon.
Julie-Su glaced at him in shock. She grapped the weapon.
"No, you'll hit Mighty!" She said, Mighty was a good fighter, and people like him were hard to
come by.
"What's yer point?"
Ray and the cloak Espanio only watched and waited, considering weather or not to retrive
Vector for medical attion, or to just leave him to bleed to death.

tim

Mina got up and decided this match was just too much for the whole group of them to take.

"What can I do?" She thought.

Nack, the craftiest member of the chaotix, decided to concede to Julie's words. "She's right" He
thought. "What was I THINKING? This thing might pierce the brute, but we'll be down one
man."

He quickly looked around and noticed Mina. He narrowed his eyes in ill familiarity. "Do I know
her...?"

**WHAM!!!!**
Metal: "HAHAHAHA!!!! TOO SLOW!!!! TOO SLOW!!!!! SLUG! SLOTH!!"
Sonic: "AAAAHHHG!!!!!"

Although still managing to dodge whatever Metal threw at him, Sonic's temper was quickly
getting the better of him and Bean saw this. Getting to his feet from the most recent explosion,
he yelled out to Sonic...

Bean: "SONIC!! DON'T LET HIM HIT YOUR PRIDE SO HARD THAT YOU SCREW UP!!!"

Sonic was smart enough to soak it in and not respond. He then picked up some metal debris from
off the ground and added extra thrusts to his punches. And although Metal expected that to
throw Sonic off balance whenever Metal dodged, Sonic used the momentum to twist around
with a powerful whirlwind kick from one of his heavy metal shoes!!

CLANG!!! The first hit on Metal was made.

Sonic: "NOW who's the sloth?!"
Metal: "Cheeter! You have a handicap of being like me with those feet!"
Sonic: "Any WORSE than YOUR handicap of being like me in almost everything else but
looks?!"

Metal let out a gutteral growl.

About then...Nack recognized Mina. "No!" He thought, "It...can't be her..." He looked as though
he had seen a ghost! She finally returned Nacks gaze. But rather than the smile of pure insanity
he was used to, she just looked confused by his expression...

Pain! Silver's head made contact with Mighty's in an a flash, Mighty went limb, but he was still
breathing, his hard head had protected his brain from preminant damage, but Walkers it still hurt
he could see Silver was rearing his head back for another blow.

"The fact I look better than you has nothing do with this fight Sonikku." Spat Metalla feeling the
dent in his armor.
"You? Look better than me? Look in a mirror latly?" Retorted Sonic.
"Heh, I case you haven't noticed I have the better reflective finnish. And when I beat you, no one
will doubt which one of us is the greater fighter."

Nack seeing Mighty's peril was temporary distrated from this girl he knew from so long ago.
They were being picked off one by one, and with Mighty so injuired, and Vector forming a pool
of blood around him, there two best fighters were gone.
Nack saw the wisdom of retreating.

Mina didn't get it, who was this guy? Why did he look at her like that? Walkers did he know?
Her whole working as a bomber relied on the fact no one knew what she was and was able to get
to most places as an entertainer.
She glaced at Sonic, she smiled seeing he had gotten a hit in. She had to admit she was seriously
impressed, Sonic before barly knew had to throw a punch(she had taught him that much) now he
was pulling off moves that made HER gasp.

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Sonic: "I'm not the one with a dent in his head, Mr. Metal."
Metal smirked: "A minor trophey compared to what I'm gunna do to you."
Sonic: "Bring it on!"

Mighty grabbed Silver's head and decided to try crushing it with whatever strength was left in
him...at the very least, it would keep Silver from another monster headbutt!!

Mighty: "You...think...you're...so tough...don't..you....?"
Silver: "I'm not speaking in framents."

Nack ran to Mina who quickly noticed him comming and turned to face her side toward him.

Mina: "Who are you?"
Nack: "Nack the Weazle"
Mina: "I'm Mina. Why come to me?"
Nack: "You look like someone I knew..."
Mina: "Yeah? What's it to ya?"

Bean had started charging his energy some time ago while staying hidden. He wanted to blast
Metal with as much power as he could possibly handle. "Maybe a few will die" He thought, "But
these two just killed all kinds of people in a matter of seconds. I CANNOT allow any more
risks..."

Bean threw the bomb right at Metala, ready to detonate again, true he had thrown another one
and it had failed to even damaged the machines, but at first you don't succed try try again.
But the assasin droid saw it coming, and with one swift one and a well placed force feild
knocked it off course, send it off in the distance. A flash of light, a strong wind followed by a
reverse wind resulting in mushroom cloud a strong distance off.
"Boy are you stupid." Metalla mocked. "You hit us point blank rang with one of those and all it
did was take off the skin. Heh. Don't worry, you'll get yours, but be pateint you can't all die at
once!"
Sonic had had enough he charged at Metalla, and two began to trade blows again, Sonic relying
on his kicks to get in damged.

Silver was like a bull dozer and rammed Mighty into the wall of the club leaving an imprint.

Mina only knew this guy was a chaotic, and if he asked the wrong questions she was dead.

That's when Mighty finally went limp. It looked as though he wasn't gunna get back up. Silver
didn't care wether Mighty looked that way or not, it was always best to vaporise first and ask
questions later. But while charging up his crimson eyes with energy to destroy this now harmless
armindillo, he got knocked over! Fiona had collected enough energy from the fight and Metal
cared nothing for her feable attempts. So because Metal had ignored her and Silver had ignored
her, she had just enough to blast Silver and run. Just enough to distract. "Why did I do that?" she
thought.

Espio looked over at Ray.

Espio: "We should take Mighty back. Of all the chaotix, he prooved to be the most useful. He
actually dented that guy."
Ray: "Agreed. What about Vector?"
Espio: "....we'll let his fate be decided by the gaurdian. For now, we'll pay him the same honor as
Mighty."

The two took the bloodied bodies of their comrads and left for the citadel.

Mina looked at Nack with suspision.

Mina: "Don't ask so many questions or I'll have to kill you."
Nack: "I don't remember you being such a scared girl. What happened to the Mina I knew?"
Mina: "I said NO QUESTIONS!"
Nack: "Don't you remember? People fear you...even the gaurdian decided it was too risky to
mess with you."
Mina: "Wha-?! Are you mad?"

alex

That when both heard the laser pistol be cocked back. Nack galced at Julie-Su.
"This is too much for me Nack. Last time I check you were the biggestest son of a b**ch on the
block. Where the Chaotix remember? She should be asking us not to kill her!"

Silver was annoyed that his target were getting away, so he shoot his eye beams though both Ray
and Espio(who was cloaked from visable light but not inferread, one of the two colors silver saw
in) derect hit as was exspect from such a machine as Silver.
He was still under orders not to kill Sonic's compaions, but that didn't mean he could beat them
within a ince of there lives.

tim

Nack: "You don't understand! The GAURDIAN fears and respects this chick!"
Julie Su: "Yeah right."

Mina thought for a moment...this was her chance at climbing the ladder higher than her
superiors.

Mina: "Better safe than sorry, woman. But in either case, you all are better off leaving. That 'bot
is making that obvious."
Julie Su: "Of all the nerve! Telling a chaotix what to do!"
Nack: "Julie! Drop it! She's right wether commanding us or not! We need to escape."

Mina pulled Nack close and whispered in his ear.

Mina: "Before you go, what was so special about me? If I know, perhaps I can hold off this
robot."
Nack: "All I know is what the gaurdian told me. "She's just too powerful to waste our time on
right now". He looked worried."

Mina let him go and found a hiding place. She concentrated and tried several things...but nothing
happened. Julie Su, seeing that Nack wasn't willing to stay behind, decided she should hold off
the silver brute. She pulled out her flare gun and shot at his eyes while covering her own.

alex

Silver was confused by the flar, his visual cencors shut down to prevent damage as it over loaded
his video input.

Ray and Espanio tryed to move, and felt hot irons go into their guts, Silver had been percise on
where he had pin pointed his weapons.

Mina didn't get it, she just didn't get it. What did she have? She was just a night singer who blew
up legion buildings for a hobby. What was so speical about her? She saw Sonic fighting that blue
painted robot copy of himself, and losing, he was slowly being worn down. Why didn't he run
away? Like he always did? . . . .. Like she always did. . . .

Flona had had enough, this was madness all of this, these robots looked like Sonic, they talk
none sense that Sonic understood perfectly, and they were killing everyone, Chaotic, Rebel and
innocent alike!
Seeing Silver was blinded for the moment, she came at him, pummeling his face with her fists of
steel, result in the robot tempoary lossing it balance.

tim

Nack, remebering that Mighty was no longer in harms way, pulled out his big gun again and
aimed.

Mina just clutched her head in frustration. It would go to figure that whatever it was ...this
power... was just out of her reach at a time like this. And if she was so powerful, then why did
she remember most of her life but no powers? Was she re-programmed via hypnosis? Was she
hit that hard on the head...did the same thing happen to her that happened to Sonic, or was it put
to sleep?

Nack (whispering): "Steady...."

Silver regained his balance and quicker than Fiona could think, grabbed her by the neck.

Silver: "Foolish fo-"
KABOOOM!!!!!!

Metal noticed the explosion.

Metal: "Look Sonic! Even now, your pathetic friends are trying in veign! Silver can't...."

Metal wasn't smiling anymore.

alex

The power blast hit the ground with enough force to cause the asfault to act like shrapnal.
Metalla seemed to form out of nothing silcing Nack's gun in two and breaking the wessel's arm
in the process. The creature's screams were a slight satisfation to Metalla. (Metalla is his REAL
name in Sonic Anima)
Silver's crainal casing had suffered greatly, but it looked like his core prossesor had suffered
minor damaged. Metalla cursed himself for his parenter fate, Metalla wasn't so stupid as to loss
his only allie.
Julie-Su borught her blaster to bear between Metalla's eyes, the engery backwash caused by the
swift force feild resulting in the end of the gun and the destuction of the hand on Julie-Su's
artisfical arm. Metalla kick her in the stomach sending her back.
Metalla picked up Silver, he glaced at Sonic, and then took off in a blur of motion unable except
for Sonic to track.

tim

Sonic looked at what he hadn't had the time to concentrate on earlier...and saw several bloody
masses. What a mess....

Mina: "I'll meet you here again sometime soon, Nack"
Nack: "I...uh...yeah."

Mina left and Antoine, who had been unable to do anything, was the least injured and began
helping Sonic carry Bean and Fiona back to base. They exchanged glances with the
chaotix...then went their way; the chaotix doing the same.

**at the rebels hideout**
(Bunnie bandaging and aiding the injured in the background.)

Sonic: "...and then he just took off."
Rotor: "Wouldn't ya know it. Now that you're useful, you drag scum to us. Now it doesn't
MATTER if you die, you're still a jynx!"
Bark: "In defence of Sonic, imagine what those monsters would have done if he wasn't there to
greet them."
Rotor: "Hpmf..."

**back on the floating island**

In a building a couple blocks away from the event, Mina continued to play with her could-be
powers to no avail. "What stinkin' powers?!! GAURDIAN scared...of ME?!" Just then an old
man came out of the shadows.

Mina: "Wha-...who are you?"
Kile: "My name is Kile."
Mina: "What do you want?"
Kile: "To help you find what you're looking for. You seamed deep in thought."
Mina: "Yeah...I was informed I have a special power, but I can't figure out what it is."
Kile: "Yours is indeed a legendary one."
Mina: "What? How do you know?"
Kile: "Reasons I care not to say. I'm willing to tell you what your power is if you will spare me."
Mina: "Ok. But how will you know I'm telling the truth?"
Kile: "You'll give me your word and that will be enough."
Mina: "I give you my word. I will never kill you."
Kile: "Very well. Your power is the ability to use chaos energy."
Mina: "....?"
Kile: "If you find any chaos emeralds, you can absorb and use it's powers. There are many on this
island."
Mina: "oh....I see..."

**Back to Metal Sonic**

Very frustrated, Metal was repairing his injured comrad. "I underestimated the power of their
combined efforts." He thought to himself. "I must re-plan this."

alex

"Isn't that right doctor?" Metalla said looking at the cripled scintist.
"Please . . .. leave a man be, I gave you the sensetic skin you wanted, why don't you two just
leave me alone?" Knitbotor begged.
"Because." Metalla said looking him in the eye. "I lack the resources to repair and upgrade Silver
by myself, and I need a place to stay. And your lab is the best is in the world. Besides . . . . I like
you." metalla finnished the senstence with a chilling tone like that of a stocker.
"Please, I'm not like that maniac you told me about who built you. I'm just a humble scientist."
"Bah! Your an insult to my inventor, though that isn't saying much so don't feel so bad."
Having finnished the repairs on Silver and having the removed the bugs and 'accendantal' flaws
Knitbotor had tried to put in, (Metalla was smarter than he ever let on,) the two left the lab not
setting off the secruity of the legion.
Metalla was thinking of what to do next.
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"You mean you had the Chatoix right there bleeding and you didn't finnish them?!" Growled
Rotor, true he was privatly releaved since that ment his family's murderer was still his to kill, but
he could let anyone know that.
"We had wounded." Sonic retorted.

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Bean interrupted.

Bean: "This isn't time to get picky about the chaotix. Sure they're a thorn, but the two metal
maniacs are our main concern. Let's plot how to destroy THEM first before plotting how to
destroy the rebellion."
Rotor: "Who's destroying the rebellion?"
Sonic: "Forget who...lets' plan!"
Rotor: "Kiss up..."
Bark: "This sounds like a mission with my name on it."
Bean: "You're right. And I was going to mention that."
Sonic: "So what are we waiting for?"
Bean: "Don't get hastey, Sonic. There's much to be said for Mighty. Bark will have a hard time
on his own."
Sonic: "..."
Bean: "Can that thing read your thoughts? It acted like it..."
Sonic: "Yeah. Metal is mentally linked with me."
Rotor: "So much for "Secret" hideouts."
Bean: "I'm gunna ask you to go while we plan. Then Metal won't know..."
Sonic: "I understand."

It was time for planning...and it seemed like out-whitting Metal was their only chance. To do
that, Sonic must not know the plan. All he knew when Bean came out of the planning room was
that Bean was smiling and said: "All you have to do is distract Metal for us like last time."

alex

Julie-Su cringed as the doctor repaired the damaged to to her distoyed hand. The phisian was
more than being careful, he had no intention of causing the graudain's mistress grief (and
therefore end is own life). But the nerv were impossible not to set off the damage was so severe.
Mighty, Espiao, Vector and Ray, were all in tentive care, Nack was having his arm casted.
Julie-Su could not wait for her turn at those wit less tin toys and reduced them to modern art to
display in the guardain's bed room.
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Metalla could sense it, Sonic was close, there was no doubt now, there mental link was
reastabished, he knew where Sonic was. He glaced over at Silver as they flew over the island,
the fun and games continued.

tim

Metal came to close in on Sonic and noticed he was alone. All he could tell was that the others
told him to go alone and that it was part of a plan. He didn't like it. They figured out to keep
Sonic out of the loop. Sonic grinned at Metal.

Sonic: "Whassa matter? Know you've been outwitted?"
Metal: "Clever. But it won't matter. A sneak attack won't do any damage."
Sonic: "Who said they'd attack? Who said sneak? I sure dunno."
Metal: "No matter!!"

Metal was visabley annoyed. And Sonic saw it. He just smiled at Metal. Metal started
reconsidering. He had underestimated them once. And now they had PREPARED for him. What
then? Only thing to do...he sent radio signals to Silver for him to stay hidden and watch Metal's
back. Silver recieved and obeyed.

Sonic: "Where's your pal? Awe....must've gotten a HEADACHE!!!"
Metal: "Silence!!"

Metal dived at Sonic and the battle began.

**Meanwhile**

In a deep cavern of the floating island, Mina finishes absorbing a chaos emerald into her body.
Looking at herself and feeling energy seer through her body, Mina smiled. She was on cloud 9!
But when she turned around, she saw Knuckles.

Knux: "So Mina...we meet again."
Mina: "Again? I never met you."
Knux: "You've got guts to come here then. If all I knew was that Knuckles was the highest
power, I'd avoid a fight."
Mina: "But I've at least learned that I have powers you only dreamed of having."
Knux: "Ha! Alot of good your powers are when I have the sword of acorn."
Mina: "Wunna find out? We have a common enemy to worry about first."
Knux: "Those weaklings? I'll let them have some fun and then go to save the day."
Mina: "Even you would have trouble holding this island up. A king needs a kindom to rule."
Knux: "What are you pushing?"
Mina: "I was only gunna absorb what I needed. But I was gunna leave the emeralds to keep the
island afloat. However, I have taken precations. Bombs are set at the key points that harness the
emerald power. If I detonate them, they go off."
Knux: "IF you detonate them?"
Mina: "If you attack, my death or command will set them off. Check, Knux. But not checkmate."

Knuckles was nervous, but had the control to not show it.

alex

"How did you get in here?" Knuckles demanded. His power aura of green flaring. "I am aware of
all that becomes of the master emerald and it's servers!"
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Metalla and Sonic traded blows and they each tried to score a leathal kick.
"Sonic is this is a joke, I have no intrest in killing you here and now, but I do need a good warm
up before the main event, so we can keep playing all you want. But never know when I'll be done
playing . . . "

tim

Mina: "You think you're all that and a bag of chips, don't you?"
Knux: "That doesn't answer my question!"
Mina: "My powers are anti-magic. Similar to the concept of antimatter. It can do similar things
as that which it is the opposite of, but can only be strengthened by it's opposite."
Knux: "Then your powers are useless too! Whatever you do will strengthen me!"
Mina: "No, Gaurdian. Direct attacks won't work. Your sword of acorns won't work. But indirect
attacks will."
Knux: "But if you absorbed chaos energy the same as I and the sword did, how are you
opposite?"
Mina: "That's why it's chaos! Both positive and negitive energies reside in chaos emeralds!"
Knux: "I see...well you ARE still weaker than me right now. How about we strike a deal? I'd hate
to rid myself of sutch a useful tool."

**Back at the fight**

Metal: "This is KILLING ME!! I KNOW it's killing YOU, Sonic!"
Sonic: "Yeah? But I can find sanctuary in the fact it's GUNNA kill you in the end, Metal!"
Metal: "AAAARRRG!!!"

alex

"Give me a break." Said Metalla, (Metalla makes him to be more of a person than just Metal)
"Our minds are simmilar we don't have our life forces linked. Do you really think I would kill
you if couldn't gloat over it? Haven't you been paying attion Sonikku? I want to PROVE I'm
stronger than you, faster, a better fighter than you'lll ever be."
"I fight because I have to. You fight because you want to."
"I fight for my need to acknowlage myself as a being."
"So you can only define your existance though ending other's lives?"
"I am an assasin droid, it's what I do."
"Your also a creation of Eggman, how you cling to that part of what you are and ignore where
you came from."
"You do the same!"
"Never! I embrace everything about myself, the good with the bad."
"So your sayin the darkness in you is a part of you?!"
"I'm saying that I except the choices I make and the conaquinces of them. The darkness is never
stronger, but deney it even exists is what allows it to grow!" Sonic glard at Metalla."As seems
evedant."
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(Knuckles hasn't stay in power as long as he has by being stupid)

tim

Finally, when the time was right, Bean activated the immense electro-magnet that he had stolen
from the chaotix and put under the ground where Metal and Sonic were fighting (seeing as how
they needed the most rehabilitating, the chaotix were still recuperating). Metal and Sonic both
got stuck, but since only Sonic's feet were metal, he stayed standing while Metal got slammed
into the ground.

Metal: "Darn you! That's cheating!"
Sonic: "Well...um...I can't move either...."

Bean walks out to the scene with a ticked expression.

Bean: "Cheating's the least of your worries, murderer."
Metal: "You calling ME a murderer? The casulties that me and Silver caused were minimal
compared to who all you've killed. Innocent bystanders get caught in your crossfire too, you
hypocrite."

Bean was silent.

alex

"I won't be judged by a machine!" Spate Bean.
"Heh." Said Metalla. "Brave words when your the one free, try saying them from the other side
of the switation."
"You think I"m stupid?"
"I KNOW your stupid."
Silver patently waited instructions, if Metalla destuction became obilvious he had under orders
to interfer, not before than. Silver flipped back the forearm and his machine gun was ready.

"What do you know about me you ugly peice of marchinary?"
" . . .. Heh. Actully very little. You see, Bean Duck DIED during the great Overlander's war on
MY world, I didn't recognize you, but I have aactully a vast data base, and I found your name
incriped on a 'those fallen' mural in what was left of Mobotropious, I didn't have any reason to
think about it at the time, but then I when I decided to create a file for you, boom, I find you
you've been dead for some time."
"Your talking jipperish you mindless malfuctional killing machine." Bean started to form one of
his engery bombs.
"Didn't you learn last time, it would take a nukluar bomb to penatrate my armor?" Retorted
Metalla.
Bean was about to retort when Sonic mumbled.
"So that's why I never met him in the real world."
Bean looked at Sonic. He was fully conviced the hedgehog was insane now.

tim

Sonic looked at Bean.

Sonic: "We both know that your blasts won't do anything to him. Can we get on with the real
plan?"
Bean: "The others are on their way..."

Some rebel engineers (Generic characters. No one in particular) approached Metal's helplessly
motionless body and pulled out their plastic tools.

Engineer: "Now we find out how to pull this guy apart...."

Metalla let out what seemed a growl, but the rebels knew he was only blowing steam since he
was unable to move, then his eyes flash bright red instead of their normal crimson, and a violet
force wave genrated by the assasin droid knock the engereers back. Sonic only standing because
his feet were still logged to the manget ground.
Then it became chaos as bullets from a machine gun came from nowhere and pummeled the
ground near the machine, but none touching his blue armor. The smae could not be said of the
two rebels.
The device due to the damaged cause by the heavy machine gun, began to power down, Metalla
wasted no time, his moment were a flash, and two things happened, one there was scream, then
there was Metalla blocking the moon light in the sky above.
Sonic looked agasp. Bean's skeletial arm was cut cleanly in two across the elbow. The duck was
screaming in pain.
"No one interfers in our fights Sonikku, no one." Said Metalla darkly. "Forgive me if I take my
leave." He spate, he and the still hiding Silver, were gone in a flash.

tim

Metal was in a hiding place MANY miles away from the rebel's hideout.

Metal: "That was too close! If they removed my cranium plate, I'd have lost many a file to that
magnet!"
Silver: "If is not an option, Metal. They did not do sutch things. So since it did not happen, it is
no worry."
Metal: "But it IS! They get craftier the more determined I get!!"

alex

Bean looked at Sonic. Sonic saw in the duck's eye that he was now threowly(sp) conviced that
Sonic was insane.
Sonic held back a laugh at the loook on his face. Knowing it would only make matters worse.

tim

After regathering their wits, the rebels were meeting again.

Bean: "This Metal guy is really getting annoying."
Sonic: "At least he annoyed Echidnapolis."
Bean: "Which brings me to my point. Perhaps if we led the best there..."
Sonic: "You're nuts! They'd kill more innocent people!"
Bean: "...and lure the Gaurdian out. I don't care HOW evil he is, a king is no longer a king if
there's no kingdom."
Sonic: "But-"
Bean: "Listen Sonic...if we get killed because we didn't risk echidna lives, Metal has free reign at
their lives anyway. This is survival. If we do this, we'll be alive with some dead echidnas instead
of DEAD with some dead echidnas."
Sonic: "......"
Rotor: "Let's DO IT!! I'm tired of this nut running around thinking he can get away with it. At the
least, it'll weaken the gaurdian."

***Meanwhile***

Metal: "I can sense it. They're planning something. I need to recouperate FAST or they'll be a
step above me!"
Silver: "They are not a step ahead of you. I agree. Let us go now."

But try as they might, Sonic's speed was fast enough to get the rebels to Echidnaopolis...and
Metal knew what they wanted to happen because he was close to Sonic now and knew Sonic's
thoughts. It was time for Metal to think fast and come up with a way to kill them without rising
too much of a stur...

In order to be rid of Metal, they need to lure Knuckles. He would go there because his chaotix
are useless against Metal. Sure...they may have recovered by now and will try a second time. If
THEY stop Metal, great! But if not, then Knuckles will have to do something about Metal
HIMSELF before his precious kingdom gets flattened.

Meanwhile, Bean feels they have no chance at defeating Metal at this point. They've proven to
be useless against this near-invincable machine with armor that can take a nuke, so he's resorting
to USING the enemy Knuckles against Metal. Otherwise, they would fight Metal at their own
base in vaign because Metal is unstoppable.

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