Disclaimer: I own none of these people. There Sega's. Except the Mangabot itself and the Beta life form. Okay, I think thats it.
Chapter 8: The final emerald
Metal Sonic watched as Sonic was engulfed by the blast. Metal Sonic then watched the blast head towards him. Metal Sonic was then hit by the blast. The blast continued to move until it was out of site. Eggman stopped the weapon from firing. The blast of light shrank into non-existence. Metal Sonic looked as if he was never attacked, except for the steam coming off him. He watched Sonic fell to the ground bellow. Metal Sonic looked at the Mangabot.
"It hasn't killed him, we need all seven Chaos emeralds." Metal Sonic shouted at Eggman. Sonic landed with a thump. Tails ran over to him. Tails looked him over.
"You seem to just be badly burned." Sonic looked at Tails.
"Just? Maybe you'll like to be hit by that." Sonic looked at the Mangabot. Maybe he could... Sonic jumped up onto his feet. He ran up the front of the Mangabot. He reached the cannon and jumped down it. Tails understood Sonic's plan. There must be a way to the robots fuel, the emeralds, through there. Wait, Metal Sonic was laughing. Did he not understand Sonic's plan or did he know the plan isn't going to work. Tails looked at the cannon. Rouge was uninterested in Sonic's plan, she was looking at an oncoming robot. It was an E-series robot. In his hand he was holding something. From inside the Mangabot came Eggman's voice yet again
"Ah, E-120, you have the final piece." Rouge looked at the Mangabot.
"What happened to E-116 up to E-119?" Metal Sonic started to whistle. Rouge picked up the hint. Sonic jumped out of the cannon. Looking slightly annoyed.
"Tails, he using a filter made of the indestructible metal so the emerald power could get out, but I couldn't get in, who is that?" Sonic looked at E-120.
"A E-series robot." Tails replied. Sonic decided not to give it a chance and instantly spindashed E-120. E-120 took about three hits before exploding. Out of his hand came a emerald. The final Chaos emerald. Sonic smiled and grabbed it. He turned to the Mangabot
"Oh, so close Eggy." Suddenly Sonic's view was blocked by two red eyes. Shadow did a sweeping kick, knocking Sonic over. Shadow made a grab for the Chaos emerald. Sonic, thinking fast shouted "Chaos control!!!" Sonic disappeared and appeared above the Mangabot. That's not were he wanted to be! Sonic tried again, only to end up on the robots arm. No! "I want to go inside the robot!" Sonic shouted at the emerald. Sonic looked to see both Shadow and Metal Sonic charging at him. Lets try again. Sonic thought. This time he ended up above the spikes again. No, no, NO! Sonic used chaos control again and ended up next to Tails. "How are you suppose to do this?" Sonic complained. Tails took the emerald.
"Let me try, Chaos control!" Tails stood there, nothing happening. "I'm annoyed now." Tails muttered. Tails was piled on by Metal Sonic and Shadow. Shadow jumped out of the fray holding the emerald.
"Chaos co... ahh!" Sonic punched Shadow in the chest. He grabbed his stomach, letting go of the emerald. Metal Sonic pushed Tails aside and flied at the emerald. Sonic picked it up to be charge at by Metal Sonic at full speed. Metal Sonic continued, taking Sonic with him. Sonic grabbed Metal Sonic and flipped over him. He was then hit by a barrage of bullets from the Mangabot. Sonic dodged the bullets and looked around. Shadow coming from the left, Metal Sonic from the right, the Mangabot from in front. Sonic ran away from the Mangabot. Metal Sonic stopped, and ran in the opposite direction.
"Tails, hurry up!" Sonic shouted. Sonic then heard laughing. Sonic looked over his soldier. Metal Sonic had Tails by the neck.
"Wanna trade? The emerald for Prowler's life." Sonic looked confused. "You know, Tails!"
"Oh right." Sonic looked for a way out of the situation. Lets see... Shadow, no help. Pile of robot parts, no help. Rouge, no help. Giant killer robot, no help. This is a problem.
"throw the emerald to Shadow, NOW!" Metal Sonic let his spiky finger scratch Tails face, drawing a small amount of blood. Sonic looked again, still no way out. Admitting defeat Sonic tossed Shadow the emerald. Shadow caught it. He then tossed it in the sky.
"Chaos control!" The emerald warped, without Shadow. Sonic presumed the emerald was now in the Mangabot." Metal Sonic looked at Sonic. He tightened his grip on Tails.
"Now don't move." Metal Sonic stabbed Tails, making him scream. The Mangabot began to power up its cannon. The Mangabot leaned slightly until Sonic was once again staring down the barrel of the cannon. Sonic's mind was racing. How can he save both himself and Tails?
"Sonic! Save yourself, Metal will just aggh..." Metal Sonic stabbed Tails again. To be honest Sonic was glad for the silence. Sonic was lost for ideas. This could be the end...
"What the..." Shadow was knocked off his feet into the Mangabot. Metal Sonic looked around at Shadow. Sonic used this distraction to make his move. He ran at Metal Sonic, tripping him over and saving Tails. Sonic got away from Metal Sonic and Shadow and looked at who saved his behind. It was a uniformed blue hedgehog with mismatched eyes. Shadow rubbed his head. "And you are?" The Beta life form stared at Shadow.
"I am the true ultimate." The Beta life form sneered. Shadow spat at the Beta life form.
"Some jumbled up G.U.N lackey can't be better than me." Laughed Shadow. The Beta life form lowered his brow and charged at Shadow. Shadow jumped into the air, as did the Beta life form. They both began to punch and kick each over with overwhelming speed. Neither could land a hit on each over. It looked like they had six fists each, four legs, ten heads. Both were speeding up, soon they were almost on fire. Sonic looked at amazement at what had just happened. Since when did Shadow move like that? Mighty, Amy and Knuckles ran up to Sonic. Sonic turned around.
"Hey guys! How'd you find me?" Knuckles took out a small monitor.
"We knew Shadow had a Chaos emerald, so I used this 'emerald tracker' I 'burrowed' from Rouge to find him, then you." Knuckles looked over at Shadow and the Beta life forms fight. "...Wow..." Shadow and the Beta life form landed. They caused a huge crater to form underneath them. Shadow managed to rip the Beta life forms right sleeve off. Underneath it were some green Japanese symbol tattoos. Shadow jumped back from the Beta life form.
"Nice tattoos." Shadow remarked sarcastically.
"It stands for 'Ying and Yang united' " Claimed the Beta life form. The Beta life form put his hands together and shouted. "Chaos wind!" A black energy came from within him, spreading itself and flying at Shadow with great speed. Shadow didn't get time to move and received the full power of the attack. The Beta life form smirked. "As you can see Shadow, I can combine your powers and Sonic's powers into new, more powerful attacks, like Chaos sphere and Sonic wind into the attack you just took." Shadow rubbed his head. Who is this guy? Doesn't matter. Shadow teleported behind him and punched him. The Beta life form only showed a small reaction. Shadow frowned. He hit him repeatedly. Again the Beta life form just shock it off. Shadow gave him one last almighty punch, which managed to knock him over.
"Hmm... cloning." Eggman's voice sounded thoughtful. Metal Sonic stared at the Mangabot.
"Finish Sonic and his friends you tub of lard!" Metal Sonic shouted. Eggman replied angrily.
"You will not insult your master!"
"I'll do what I like, now kill!" Metal Sonic replied. Eggman was taken aback by Metal Sonic's attitude, but decided he did have a point. The Mangabot aimed at Sonic and his surrounding friends. Sonic realised what was happening just in time to doge the bullets. Sonic grabbed Tails, Mighty and Knuckles. The Mangabot couldn't be bothered to attack Amy so Sonic couldn't be bothered to save her. Sonic ran circles around the Mangabot. The top part of it rotated around to keep its sites on Sonic. Sonic looked up at the Mangabot to be hit backward. Sonic looked forward to see what had hit him. It was Shadow, in mid-fight with the Beta life form. Rouge looked on at the fight. Metal Sonic walked up to her.
"How'd Eggman find the last emerald anyway?" Rouge asked Metal Sonic. Metal Sonic grabbed Rouge in a similar fashion to how he grabbed Tails earlier.
"You forgot to erase some messages detailing the where about of the final emerald on your mobile." Metal Sonic tightened his grip. "The President was a fool to even tell you were the emerald was." Rouge gasped, they found out she was a spy! Rouge struggled, just to feel Metal Sonic slowly start to strangle her. Metal Sonic watched with glee as Rouge's face turned blue. Rouge started to kick at Metal Sonic, but to no effect. Rouge took one of her hands away from her neck and pointed. Metal Sonic looked, to be sent flying backwards by the Beta life form, who had been sent flying by Shadow. Rouge was released and ran off. Metal Sonic pushed aside the Beta life form to pursue Rouge. Metal Sonic was quickly gaining on Rouge when... "Arrrghh!" Metal Sonic grabbed his face in pain. Knuckles had hit him squarely in the face. Knuckles then gave Metal Sonic a uppercut punch, sending him flying. Rouge looked at Knuckles and hugged him.
"You saved me!!" Rouge then realised what she was doing and released Knuckles. "Emmm, I mean, errr, thanks sugar." Knuckles was about to say something, but was knocked over by the Beta life form, going back to kill Shadow. Rouge helped Knuckles back on his feet and again watched Shadow and the Beta life form continued there fight. Shadow was breathing heavily. He was going to fast. He was going to tire to soon at this rate. The Beta life form ran up towards him. The Beta life form was still going strong. Suddenly a large blast was heard. Both Shadow and the Beta life form looked over at the source of the sound. The Mangabot's cannon was firing again. The blast was following Sonic, destroying the ground as it went. Sonic was running in there direction. Both hedgehogs jumped out of the way as Sonic and the blast ran past. The Beta life form snarled.
"Distractions. Shadow! Tell your master to stop interrupting our battle!" Shadow snarled back at the Beta life form.
"Don't tell me what to do. Besides, he is not my master." Shadow prepared himself for the onslaught of fists he is about to endure. The Beta life form brushed one of his spikes. He was trying to intimidate him. The Beta life form gave Shadow a cocky smile.
"Chaos Control!" The inside of the Mangabot glowed slightly, as the Beta life form teleported behind Shadow and pounded his back into the ground. Shadow turned over and looked up at the Beta life form. "Poor Shadow. What if Maria could see you know. Cowering on the ground, doing the complete opposite of her wish." Shadow coughed.
"Her... wish." Shadow sounded confused. The Beta life form kicked him a little.
"Its written into my DNA as a memory. 'Give them a chance to be happy' or something." Shadow suddenly stopped moving, his eyes widened. "Doesn't matter. Now you die and I become the ultimate weapon."
Rouge and Knuckles looked on in amazement. Knuckles turned to Rouge.
"Who do we help?" Rouge looked at the Beta life form standing over Shadow.
"I think Shadow would be a wise choice." Rouge replied. Knuckles suddenly looked startled and turned. Rouge turned as well. Both of them were grabbed by long cords coming out of Metal Sonic's arms. Before they knew what was happening both fell over. They were being electrocuted! Knuckles tried to pull it off, to no prevail. Metal Sonic watched his prisoners determined. Sonic ran to there rescue. Unfortunately the Mangabot was still firing at him. Metal Sonic started to use his finger rockets again. Sonic jumped all the missiles, to be hit by the guns from the Mangabot. Sonic fell to the ground. The Mangabot aimed its cannon at Sonic for a third time, but this time Sonic couldn't move his legs. Eggman laughed.
"Those bullets send a mild electric bolt through your leg, paralysing them. Goodbye hedgehog." Sonic looked around, Shadow was being beaten into the ground, Knuckles and Rouge were being electrocuted to death and he was about to be wiped out by the Mangabot. Shoot. Wait, where was Tails, Mighty and Amy? Sonic looked up. He decided that was the least of his worries...
Chapter 8: The final emerald
Metal Sonic watched as Sonic was engulfed by the blast. Metal Sonic then watched the blast head towards him. Metal Sonic was then hit by the blast. The blast continued to move until it was out of site. Eggman stopped the weapon from firing. The blast of light shrank into non-existence. Metal Sonic looked as if he was never attacked, except for the steam coming off him. He watched Sonic fell to the ground bellow. Metal Sonic looked at the Mangabot.
"It hasn't killed him, we need all seven Chaos emeralds." Metal Sonic shouted at Eggman. Sonic landed with a thump. Tails ran over to him. Tails looked him over.
"You seem to just be badly burned." Sonic looked at Tails.
"Just? Maybe you'll like to be hit by that." Sonic looked at the Mangabot. Maybe he could... Sonic jumped up onto his feet. He ran up the front of the Mangabot. He reached the cannon and jumped down it. Tails understood Sonic's plan. There must be a way to the robots fuel, the emeralds, through there. Wait, Metal Sonic was laughing. Did he not understand Sonic's plan or did he know the plan isn't going to work. Tails looked at the cannon. Rouge was uninterested in Sonic's plan, she was looking at an oncoming robot. It was an E-series robot. In his hand he was holding something. From inside the Mangabot came Eggman's voice yet again
"Ah, E-120, you have the final piece." Rouge looked at the Mangabot.
"What happened to E-116 up to E-119?" Metal Sonic started to whistle. Rouge picked up the hint. Sonic jumped out of the cannon. Looking slightly annoyed.
"Tails, he using a filter made of the indestructible metal so the emerald power could get out, but I couldn't get in, who is that?" Sonic looked at E-120.
"A E-series robot." Tails replied. Sonic decided not to give it a chance and instantly spindashed E-120. E-120 took about three hits before exploding. Out of his hand came a emerald. The final Chaos emerald. Sonic smiled and grabbed it. He turned to the Mangabot
"Oh, so close Eggy." Suddenly Sonic's view was blocked by two red eyes. Shadow did a sweeping kick, knocking Sonic over. Shadow made a grab for the Chaos emerald. Sonic, thinking fast shouted "Chaos control!!!" Sonic disappeared and appeared above the Mangabot. That's not were he wanted to be! Sonic tried again, only to end up on the robots arm. No! "I want to go inside the robot!" Sonic shouted at the emerald. Sonic looked to see both Shadow and Metal Sonic charging at him. Lets try again. Sonic thought. This time he ended up above the spikes again. No, no, NO! Sonic used chaos control again and ended up next to Tails. "How are you suppose to do this?" Sonic complained. Tails took the emerald.
"Let me try, Chaos control!" Tails stood there, nothing happening. "I'm annoyed now." Tails muttered. Tails was piled on by Metal Sonic and Shadow. Shadow jumped out of the fray holding the emerald.
"Chaos co... ahh!" Sonic punched Shadow in the chest. He grabbed his stomach, letting go of the emerald. Metal Sonic pushed Tails aside and flied at the emerald. Sonic picked it up to be charge at by Metal Sonic at full speed. Metal Sonic continued, taking Sonic with him. Sonic grabbed Metal Sonic and flipped over him. He was then hit by a barrage of bullets from the Mangabot. Sonic dodged the bullets and looked around. Shadow coming from the left, Metal Sonic from the right, the Mangabot from in front. Sonic ran away from the Mangabot. Metal Sonic stopped, and ran in the opposite direction.
"Tails, hurry up!" Sonic shouted. Sonic then heard laughing. Sonic looked over his soldier. Metal Sonic had Tails by the neck.
"Wanna trade? The emerald for Prowler's life." Sonic looked confused. "You know, Tails!"
"Oh right." Sonic looked for a way out of the situation. Lets see... Shadow, no help. Pile of robot parts, no help. Rouge, no help. Giant killer robot, no help. This is a problem.
"throw the emerald to Shadow, NOW!" Metal Sonic let his spiky finger scratch Tails face, drawing a small amount of blood. Sonic looked again, still no way out. Admitting defeat Sonic tossed Shadow the emerald. Shadow caught it. He then tossed it in the sky.
"Chaos control!" The emerald warped, without Shadow. Sonic presumed the emerald was now in the Mangabot." Metal Sonic looked at Sonic. He tightened his grip on Tails.
"Now don't move." Metal Sonic stabbed Tails, making him scream. The Mangabot began to power up its cannon. The Mangabot leaned slightly until Sonic was once again staring down the barrel of the cannon. Sonic's mind was racing. How can he save both himself and Tails?
"Sonic! Save yourself, Metal will just aggh..." Metal Sonic stabbed Tails again. To be honest Sonic was glad for the silence. Sonic was lost for ideas. This could be the end...
"What the..." Shadow was knocked off his feet into the Mangabot. Metal Sonic looked around at Shadow. Sonic used this distraction to make his move. He ran at Metal Sonic, tripping him over and saving Tails. Sonic got away from Metal Sonic and Shadow and looked at who saved his behind. It was a uniformed blue hedgehog with mismatched eyes. Shadow rubbed his head. "And you are?" The Beta life form stared at Shadow.
"I am the true ultimate." The Beta life form sneered. Shadow spat at the Beta life form.
"Some jumbled up G.U.N lackey can't be better than me." Laughed Shadow. The Beta life form lowered his brow and charged at Shadow. Shadow jumped into the air, as did the Beta life form. They both began to punch and kick each over with overwhelming speed. Neither could land a hit on each over. It looked like they had six fists each, four legs, ten heads. Both were speeding up, soon they were almost on fire. Sonic looked at amazement at what had just happened. Since when did Shadow move like that? Mighty, Amy and Knuckles ran up to Sonic. Sonic turned around.
"Hey guys! How'd you find me?" Knuckles took out a small monitor.
"We knew Shadow had a Chaos emerald, so I used this 'emerald tracker' I 'burrowed' from Rouge to find him, then you." Knuckles looked over at Shadow and the Beta life forms fight. "...Wow..." Shadow and the Beta life form landed. They caused a huge crater to form underneath them. Shadow managed to rip the Beta life forms right sleeve off. Underneath it were some green Japanese symbol tattoos. Shadow jumped back from the Beta life form.
"Nice tattoos." Shadow remarked sarcastically.
"It stands for 'Ying and Yang united' " Claimed the Beta life form. The Beta life form put his hands together and shouted. "Chaos wind!" A black energy came from within him, spreading itself and flying at Shadow with great speed. Shadow didn't get time to move and received the full power of the attack. The Beta life form smirked. "As you can see Shadow, I can combine your powers and Sonic's powers into new, more powerful attacks, like Chaos sphere and Sonic wind into the attack you just took." Shadow rubbed his head. Who is this guy? Doesn't matter. Shadow teleported behind him and punched him. The Beta life form only showed a small reaction. Shadow frowned. He hit him repeatedly. Again the Beta life form just shock it off. Shadow gave him one last almighty punch, which managed to knock him over.
"Hmm... cloning." Eggman's voice sounded thoughtful. Metal Sonic stared at the Mangabot.
"Finish Sonic and his friends you tub of lard!" Metal Sonic shouted. Eggman replied angrily.
"You will not insult your master!"
"I'll do what I like, now kill!" Metal Sonic replied. Eggman was taken aback by Metal Sonic's attitude, but decided he did have a point. The Mangabot aimed at Sonic and his surrounding friends. Sonic realised what was happening just in time to doge the bullets. Sonic grabbed Tails, Mighty and Knuckles. The Mangabot couldn't be bothered to attack Amy so Sonic couldn't be bothered to save her. Sonic ran circles around the Mangabot. The top part of it rotated around to keep its sites on Sonic. Sonic looked up at the Mangabot to be hit backward. Sonic looked forward to see what had hit him. It was Shadow, in mid-fight with the Beta life form. Rouge looked on at the fight. Metal Sonic walked up to her.
"How'd Eggman find the last emerald anyway?" Rouge asked Metal Sonic. Metal Sonic grabbed Rouge in a similar fashion to how he grabbed Tails earlier.
"You forgot to erase some messages detailing the where about of the final emerald on your mobile." Metal Sonic tightened his grip. "The President was a fool to even tell you were the emerald was." Rouge gasped, they found out she was a spy! Rouge struggled, just to feel Metal Sonic slowly start to strangle her. Metal Sonic watched with glee as Rouge's face turned blue. Rouge started to kick at Metal Sonic, but to no effect. Rouge took one of her hands away from her neck and pointed. Metal Sonic looked, to be sent flying backwards by the Beta life form, who had been sent flying by Shadow. Rouge was released and ran off. Metal Sonic pushed aside the Beta life form to pursue Rouge. Metal Sonic was quickly gaining on Rouge when... "Arrrghh!" Metal Sonic grabbed his face in pain. Knuckles had hit him squarely in the face. Knuckles then gave Metal Sonic a uppercut punch, sending him flying. Rouge looked at Knuckles and hugged him.
"You saved me!!" Rouge then realised what she was doing and released Knuckles. "Emmm, I mean, errr, thanks sugar." Knuckles was about to say something, but was knocked over by the Beta life form, going back to kill Shadow. Rouge helped Knuckles back on his feet and again watched Shadow and the Beta life form continued there fight. Shadow was breathing heavily. He was going to fast. He was going to tire to soon at this rate. The Beta life form ran up towards him. The Beta life form was still going strong. Suddenly a large blast was heard. Both Shadow and the Beta life form looked over at the source of the sound. The Mangabot's cannon was firing again. The blast was following Sonic, destroying the ground as it went. Sonic was running in there direction. Both hedgehogs jumped out of the way as Sonic and the blast ran past. The Beta life form snarled.
"Distractions. Shadow! Tell your master to stop interrupting our battle!" Shadow snarled back at the Beta life form.
"Don't tell me what to do. Besides, he is not my master." Shadow prepared himself for the onslaught of fists he is about to endure. The Beta life form brushed one of his spikes. He was trying to intimidate him. The Beta life form gave Shadow a cocky smile.
"Chaos Control!" The inside of the Mangabot glowed slightly, as the Beta life form teleported behind Shadow and pounded his back into the ground. Shadow turned over and looked up at the Beta life form. "Poor Shadow. What if Maria could see you know. Cowering on the ground, doing the complete opposite of her wish." Shadow coughed.
"Her... wish." Shadow sounded confused. The Beta life form kicked him a little.
"Its written into my DNA as a memory. 'Give them a chance to be happy' or something." Shadow suddenly stopped moving, his eyes widened. "Doesn't matter. Now you die and I become the ultimate weapon."
Rouge and Knuckles looked on in amazement. Knuckles turned to Rouge.
"Who do we help?" Rouge looked at the Beta life form standing over Shadow.
"I think Shadow would be a wise choice." Rouge replied. Knuckles suddenly looked startled and turned. Rouge turned as well. Both of them were grabbed by long cords coming out of Metal Sonic's arms. Before they knew what was happening both fell over. They were being electrocuted! Knuckles tried to pull it off, to no prevail. Metal Sonic watched his prisoners determined. Sonic ran to there rescue. Unfortunately the Mangabot was still firing at him. Metal Sonic started to use his finger rockets again. Sonic jumped all the missiles, to be hit by the guns from the Mangabot. Sonic fell to the ground. The Mangabot aimed its cannon at Sonic for a third time, but this time Sonic couldn't move his legs. Eggman laughed.
"Those bullets send a mild electric bolt through your leg, paralysing them. Goodbye hedgehog." Sonic looked around, Shadow was being beaten into the ground, Knuckles and Rouge were being electrocuted to death and he was about to be wiped out by the Mangabot. Shoot. Wait, where was Tails, Mighty and Amy? Sonic looked up. He decided that was the least of his worries...