(I do not own sonic X, or Sonic in general)
(Sorry for short chapter)
Flip card 2: Whale Shark flag ship
"Believe it or not, I've been looking forward to fighting you again." Sonic stated with a keen smirk on his face as both her and his metal copy circled each other, keeping out of a radius of a few feet. Everywhere around them the Egg Fleet clashed with the air force, and as the airal battle progressed it soon became obvious who would win. The Egg fleet out matched the military in both numbers and technological capability. Planes and the flaming remains of G.U.N walkers were tumbling to the ground below. Sonic knew that time was running out, but he had other pressing business to attend to right here. Metal Sonic was not going to beat him again.
"I fail to see the logic." Metal Sonic replied, his eyes maintaining a steady red glow, his talons clenching and unclenching with a regular rhythm.. "You are no match for me, you surly must realise this. So the reasoning behind your challenge eludes me." He paused, standing directly in the other path was lead to the Flag ship, the luminous titan just behind the battleship they were presently standing on. So large was it's bulk it nearly blocked out the entire sky. "Unless of course you believe that your buying time for your friends." he placed his hands on his hips. "Don't you realize that Lord Eggman anticipates all, your friends are walking into another of his ingenious traps!" Sonic stopped still.
"They'll deal with it." He said angrily, putting his faith in them. Metal Sonic let his arms drop to his sides, his eyes glowing intently.
"I doubt that, now, back to unfinished business." Sonic smirked and snapped his neck from side to side.
"Thought you'd never ask!"
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The tugging feeling of guilt in Amy's stomach finally became too much for her to bear. Without hesitating she pushed the glass roof above her aside, exposing herself to the lashing winds. Her hammer in her grip.
"Chris, I'm off!"
"Say what?!" Chris exclaimed, who was still trying to learn the Controls of the
"I can't sit here while Sonic gets all the fun." She said with a smirk, before sliding over the side, leaving Chris alone in the X tornado.
"What is it with these guys?" He asked himself before pulling the controls sharply upward to avoid colliding head first with one of the Egg Fleet's small fighters.
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Blow after powerful blow was exchanged, painfully shockwaves spreading through both their bodies, yet despite this they continued. Two blur blur's, one slightly larger than the other leaping after each other from ship to ship, occasionally making contact, lightning fast barrages of kicks and punches being exchanged as they did so. Sonic was already noticed at Metal Sonic had grown stronger and faster since they last met, but quite frankly he didn't care.
Metal Sonic shot back after Sonic's kick as deflected off his arm bracers, trying to cleave the blue hedgehog across the chest. Sonic dodged around it, pushing his body to his limits just to avoid the super fast slice. Faced with a stand off, they leapt to the side, ploughing through one of the Egg fleet's largest ships, ripping through the metal skin into the hull. The fight continued inside, tearing the ship apart as it did so. It tossed around in the air, before it's tail end exploded in a shower of fire and it fell toward the ground, drenched in flames.
"Why won't you just die?" Metal Sonic demanded, finding Sonic slip once again from his claws. Sonic looked back, his usual cocky smirk on his face.
"Sorry, I've got other plans!" Metal Sonic was beginning to see exactly why Eggman hated Sonic so much.
The two combatants raced alongside each ship, jumping from vessel to vessel, exchanging blows as they came close. Shown only as momentary flashes of light.
"Where'd he go?" Sonic asked himself, looking back over his shoulder as he shot up onto the top of one of the larger battleships.
"Right here!" Something very hard smashed into the back of his head, sending him flying over the edge of the battleship. He would have plummeted to his doom had he not activated the crystal ring attached to his arm a second earlier, his reserves of strength pouring into his body. Filled with new energy, Sonic swung his entire body around 180 degrees and catch out of the edge.
Using what momentum he had, he propelled himself back onto the deck, catching Metal Sonic off guard with a sharp blow to the chin. The robot stammered back a few paces, before regaining himself and launching toward, talons cleaving Sonic across the side, leaving four parallel gash marks in his side.
Sonic ignoring the stinging pain. He knew he only had a short time before the effects from the crystal, like any other ring, wore off so he pushed himself. Forcing his body to match Metal Sonic blow for blow, regardless of how fast the android could move itself. A punch, then a kick, the another punch. Each combatant blocked their enemies attack before retaliating, finding their own attack defended against.
However, this stalemate didn't last long. Metal Sonic blocked a kick with his left bracer and then swung his lower power around completely, knocking Sonic off his feet and straight through the metal skin of the battleship before he could react. The ship beneath them shuddered slightly with the impact. Metal Sonic paused only briefly, before righting himself and walking over to the hole he had just made. The metal platting was caved in completely, hanging over the edge and down into the ships interior. Metal Sonic beat down to examine it further.
There was a trace of blood left on the side of the splintered metal, but Sonic himself was nowhere to be seen. The robot heaved himself to his feet.
"Hiding are we?" Metal Sonic asked, standing perfectly still. "Seems Eggman's prediction was correct, your first defeat had shattered your confidence and turned you into a coward." His sensors picked up movement coming from behind him and turned to confront it. It wasn't Sonic as he'd expected, it was that pink hedgehog girl. He brought up her file on his internal system. Amy rose. Limited strength and no distinctive super abilities. Hardly a threat.
"Take this you bully!" She yelled and swung her hammer down, impacting directly onto the side of Metal Sonic's head, which to her horror didn't even flinch. Metal Sonic's red disc like eyes swirled to the side, staring at her as they began to glow.
"Organics, none of them had so much as several brain cells in their empty heads." His claws lashed out, latching around Amy's head in an iron grip. She dropped her hammer in surprise, trying to claw at the vice like hand. She strength was nothing compared to his so she struggled in vain. She tried to kick him in the groin, but found that there wasn't anything there to kick. his talons were sinking into her skin, drawing blood. She squealed, struggling harder to escape.
Metal Sonic relinquished his grip when Sonic slammed at full speed directly into him, knocking the robot to the ground. Amy fell to her knees, coughing. Metal Sonic snapped his head to the side, his entire visor glowing red. He pulled himself up and looked up in his opponents direction.
"You're…" Sonic stated, his outline highlighted white. Metal Sonic looked up. His sensors read Sonic's heart rate and brainwave activities had just skyrocketed. "Going to pay for that!" Metal Sonic did not understand, only this kind of energy level was detected during Super Sonic transformation. And indeed, Sonic's quills were turning golden yellow and lancing upwards before returning to normal. Like his body was trying to turn super, but lacked the energy from the Chaos emeralds to do so.
Suddenly, the metallic hedgehog was sent flying by what seemed like an invisible punch. Sonic had moved so fast, even he hadn't been able to see it. While in fall, Sonic leapt up and swung his arms over his head, clenching both fists and hammered Metal Sonic into the floor, crashing through it and into the ships interior. Amy looked up. Never before, had she seen anything quite like this. Sonic was fast granted, but not this fast.
Metal Sonic did not understand, he had had barley enough time to protect himself from the blow. The information he had about Sonic in his memory system clearly states that that should not be possible for him. A super spin slammed directly into Metal Sonic's mid section, propelling him upward and out into the air, closely followed by a angry blue hedgehog, rage etched into every muscle on his face. Metal Sonic righted himself in mid air and spread his arms and legs, slowing his ascended, red eyes glowing intently.
"DIE!" He screamed and launched himself forward, talons outstretched, tensing both arms to slash the hedgehog as Sonic leapt toward him. Amy was barely able to keep up with her, her eyes were simply to slow. All she could make out were momentary still images flashing around her, each one depicting a scene of battle.
Suddenly, everything went silent, apart from the scream of war that reigned all around them. Amy managed to get to her feet, using her hammer for support. She blinking, sighting something in front of her, then she yelped and duck to avoid some object come flying over her head. It colliding into the ship behind her, bounced off, fell onto another ship, fell off again before finally smashing itself through a small fighter, which in turn clouded into the side of the Flag ship, a large fire ball erupted into the air.
"Sonic!" She cried, fearing the worst.
"You called?" Asked a voice from behind her. She turned to find the blue hedgehog standing there, very out of breath and covered in scratched and bruises but very much alive.
"You're alive!" Shed cried, flinging herself around him, knocking him to the ground and began kissing him on the cheek over and over again. She tried vainly to pull himself away but found his own strength sapped. "Then.." She added, looking confused all of a sudden. "Who as that I just saw smashed his way through several ships?"
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"He…" Metal Sonic began, struggling to get up. "Beat me?" A spike of electrical energy lanced down his arm, causing him to loose strength so he collapsed down again. "Just not possible."
His ran through the battle again in super quick speed, analysing the whole thing. The statistics stated he should have won with ease. It made no rational sense. It occurred to him that Sonic himself wasn't rational, like Eggman he was an organic, flawed in many ways yet with an annoyed unpredictable streak. He quickly deduce that it was this factor that allowed the defeat. It was mere oversight, nothing more.
Slowly, his form dematerialised and deceased into liquid, seeping down through the metal floor inside the flag ship, retreated from the bellowing flames around him. It was time to go ahead with the operation. Everything, despite set backs, was proceeding as planed. Those brainless organic creatures had no idea what was really going on, they were too busy fighting the Egg fleet. His ruse had worked perfectly.
Metal Sonic rematerialized inside on of the inner corridors inside the flag ship itself. It took a moment because of his weakened state, but eventually he managed to force himself solid again. Every now and again the ship shook violently.
The Egg fleet was under attack from all sides. Eggman's plan, while it worked on paper, was failing. Several battleships had arrived from the United Nations forces in the bay Station Square sat opposite, each armed with formidable anti-aircraft guns.
Let them shoot the fleet down, for all the good it was going to do them in the end.