(Short chapter again..)
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Episode 53: Enter Metal Overlord
Fire fell from the skies like rain; bring great destruction with it. Navy battle ships exploded in a fantastic light show before sinking, a ruined spectacle of they're former glory. Watching this horrific spectacle, the carrier ships that had been approaching the fallen Egg Fleet quickly began to reverse to what they believed to be a safe distance.
Metal Sonic's new form reared itself up, screamed again as it tilted its entire body around to its left hand side, before vomiting a beam of energy directly out of it's jaws. Sonic watched in horror as this attack screamed through the air and bore directly into a large sky scrapper on the outskirts of Station Square. The building shuddered, the glass windows shattering into pieces before the whole structure crumbled to the ground in a bellowing cloud of dust. Crowds screamed and ran, pushed and pulling one another in a vain attempt to get away.
"You heard me!" The president yelled down the red phone. "I want the remaining G.U.N forces in the area to attack the creature!" He paused. "What do you mean… what creature? Turn on for TV you imbecile!"
"It's all over." Eggman said almost in a hushed whisper, the sides of his moustache dropping as he dropped to his knees. "He's too strong for any of us to stop now." The blue hedgehog remained transfixed on the city, mouth hung open in exclamation. His fists clenched and his eyes narrowed.
"I'm still going to try." Sonic snarled, clenching a fist and assuming a fighting stance.
"Don't be an idiot Sonic." Eggman snapped, latching onto the hedgehog's wrist before he could race off. "You wouldn't last a solid five minutes against him." One of the creature's eyes swivelled around to look directly at them, a large, staring red disc partially obscured in a black visor.
"Look at me now Eggman." It taunted them, starching up to it's full height. "If you had not been so selfish as to try and control my growth, this god of metal could have been in your arsenal." Eggman narrowed his eyes in rage. "Now…die." It reared its head back, snapping its jaws. Shadow swept forward, the makings of a Chaos spear already created between his fingers. Skating in closer, he launched the attack directly towards the creature's mouth. The yellow lighting bolts collided with its jaws, making the whole head vibrate wildly, the force of whatever energy attack he was preparing, dissipating back down his throat.
Shadow came in close, darting up the side of the tower toward the seething, churning mass that was feeding itself directly into Metal Sonic's body. It was hard for his jets to keep him close to the towers surface. It was constantly changing as more of its mass was being pulled upward to finish Metal Sonic's transformation. Metal Sonic's large head snivelled around, those parcel eyes staring down toward the black hedgehog, burning with malice. From nowhere it seemed, a large mechanical arm swung around and took out of him, tearing him away and flinging him through the air, Shadow regained his balance in mid fall and landed back on the ground. Metal Over reared his head back and spat the attack he had been preparing earlier at the black hedgehog instead. Shadow had just enough time to look up in dismay as a beam of purple energy collided into his chest, forcing him back before it finally pushed them over the edge of the flag ship and down towards the water, Shadow's scream silenced by a loud splash.
"Not even the ultimate life-form can stop me!" Metal Sonic laughed. "I truly have become the worlds most supreme being. No longer will I keep the name you gave me Eggman, I far more evolved than a simple copy of your worst enemy. The name is Metal Overlord now."
"Come on Amy." Chuck called to the pink hedgehog as the old man began hurrying as many people as he could inside the chopper. Sam had leapt into the cockpit, already the blades above the machine beginning to turn.
"I can stay and fight!" Amy yelled back, her hammer in hand. Sonic shot a glance back at her over his shoulder.
"Go Amy, now!" He called to her. Amy shook her head in stubborn defiance.
"Not a chance, I can't leave you to fight this thing alone."
Omega reverted to a mobile mode and rocketed forward, opening every hidden missal compartment on his body, the projectiles already coursing through the air toward the titanic Metal Overlord.
"New target acquisition. Target in cross hairs, destroy Metal Sonic." Each one came into contact with the colossal metal beast but none seemed to do any damage. Metal Overlord simply looked down, grunted and lifted a large metallic paw and batted the assault machine away. Omega was thrown through the air before crashing through one of the Flag ships large cannons, disappearing a fire storm of twisted metal.
It was Rouges's turn. The bat flew through the air, trying to use speed to catch the giant off guard. Her attempt failed miserably. Metal Overlord's tail simply swung around and smashed directly down on her. She crashed to the floor, leaving a Rouge shaped imprint on the metal.
Knuckles raced over to her, pulling her up. She bared her teeth in pain as pulled her to relative safety, both her legs probably broken.
"Rouge, you ok?" He asked. She just gave him a week smile and pulled herself to a sitting position.
"Never better." She said, in a none to convincing voice, one arm wrapped around her side. Knuckles pulled her up and managed to place her inside the chopper, despite her argument that she could still fight.
"Ok, now it's my turn to take a whack at this guy!" The Echidna said with a smirk, racing forward. He was by now means as fast as some of the others, but he made up for it with supreme strength. Somehow he managed to reach the base of the tower Metal Overlord was growing out of. Punch after punch he directed into its base, hoping to knock it down completely. Again the metal beast deflected the attack with ease, calling forth a powerful force shield that knocked the Echidna away, off his feet and crashing into the side of the over turned X tornado. If anything, Rouge fared better against it than he had.
"Already boys, looks like we're up to bat now." Vector muttered to his team mates, swallowing hard before hand, his knees knocking.
"Do we have to?" Charmee asked, cowering behind Espio. Each one them was terrified, more terrified than they'd ever been in they're entire lives. What kept them standing there, ready to fight was a highly underrated thing called comradeship. Despite their common disagreements, The Chaotix had been brothers in arms for a long time. Together they'd been through many hardships and that would be how they would stand against this one, together.
Espio tore several shuriken from a concealed pocket and sped forward, closely followed by Vector and reluctant Charmee.
"Don't you fools get it yet?!" Metal Overlord asked, looking down on the charging trio, raising its lobster claw into the air, the small barrel of some of weapon emerging from its centre. "I AM INVICIBLE!"
"GET DOWN!" Sonic yelled, dragging Amy and himself to the floor as Metal Overlord's claw descended and a river of fire coursed down toward them. Eggman screamed like a little girl and ducked behind the chopper, holding his head in his arms as the blazing heat shot past him, his two loyal robots at his side.
As Metal Overlords sadistic laugh rolled around the thundering sky, a large force of strike planes sourced over the burning city toward the bay and the demonic machine that was burning everything in its path. There were at least three dozen of them, all flying in a triangle formation. Each one with two miles under each wing.
"This foxtrot five, target locked on, preparing to fire sidewinder missiles." The leader of the triangle formation said through a microphone.
"Don't miss." The President told him from back at the White house.
Shadow pulled himself back over the edge of the ship, shaking the water out of his matted fur. There was some profoundly embarrassing about being beaten like that, not that Shadow minded loosing the occasional bout' but this one was fairly humiliating. He looked up toward the Metal Overlord, its entire body surrounded by towering flames.
"Damn it." Sonic cursed, looking up, his arm still around Amy. "How are we supposed to beat something that powerful?"
"There may be one hope." Eggman said, hesitating only for a moment as he peered out from behind the chopper. "The seven Chaos Emeralds, perhaps, with those we may have a fighting chance."
"Too bad we don't have them." Amy shot back.
A loud, constant roaring sound began to penetrate and the air and suddenly they all caught sight of the large attack force heading directly toward them. Metal Overlord lifted its head up to get a better view. It's face set in a sneer.
"If their greatest fighters can't defeat me, then what hope do they have?" The air force swooped overhead, before coming back around, lower this time so the entire force could have a clear line of fire.
They didn't even get the opportunity to pressed the little red button at the top of their joy sticks. Metal Overlord held its large claw up, spread it out wide and clenched it tightly again, pillars of green light illuminating away from it. Bathing everything around in an intense flare; beams of light shooting outwards.
"Chaos Control!" He screamed and instantly, time and space were ripped apart. Leaving the here and now stuck in a limbo without movement. Everything around was like it was inside a freeze frame. The air force was stuck in mid air, like a large collection of toy planes. Sonic and his friends were left staring upward in bleak horror, rotted to the spot. Everything was deadly quiet.
Immune from the effect, Metal Overlord arched his back, his spine shaking. Several of the large spikes on its back detached themselves from their positions and rocketed toward the planes, tearing through them like scissors through paper. Once all of them were reduced to hovering piles of scrap metal, Metal Overlord recalled those spikes and released the effect Chaos control had on reality. Sound came rushing back and along with it, movement returned to the world.
"What the heck?" Shadow asked himself, staring up as scraps of burning metal and parachuting pilots suddenly replaced the fighter planes he had seen moments before. He hadn't even seen them get hit by anything, one minute they were there, and the next they weren't.
"He stopped time?" Eggman exclaimed in confusion and then realization suddenly came to him. "Chaos control…. Sonic, listen to me. You must retrieve the Chaos emeralds, Without them, we're as good as dead."
"Well how the hell am I supposed to find them on short notice?" The blue hedgehog demanded. Eggman looked down for a moment, muttering something about how he was going to live to regret this. "You should be able to track them, with you have a source of their unique type of energy with you."
"Like a homing device?" Chuck asked, who was leaning out of the chopper. Eggman looked back and nodded. Chucked narrowed his eyes. "Take off now, head to the city." He told Sam and stepped off onto the ground. "I can do the most good here…not go!" He shot back before anyone could question him. Sam gave him a puzzled look, before smiling a weak smile and a thumbs up. He turned his attention back to the controls of the chopper and slowly it began to rise into the air. Tail looked down toward his old friend, who was still standing defiantly against Metal Overlord with a wide smile.
"This may be front page news." Scarlet Garcia said outload, her camera man still filming footage from the air. "But I don't get paid enough for this kind of thing…wait…you didn't pick that up on the mike did you?" Metal Overlord looked up toward the fleeing helicopter.
"Who gave you permission to leave?" He demanded, opening his jaws to fire another blast toward it. Before he could even muster the energy, a ripple of machine gun fire was sent directly into his mouth as Omega ploughed out of the wreckage, cannons blazing.
"Sonic' the crystal ring I gave you earlier." Sonic blinked and looked down at his wrist and the round green band. "I need that back for a moment." Sonic nodded and detached it from his arm, handing it over. "I constructed this while I had a Chaos emerald in my lab. It uses chaos energy, the same kind as in the emeralds." Eggman smacked his fist into his open palm.
"Perfect, this is exactly thing we need."
"There's a Chaos emerald inside the X tornado isn't there?" Knuckles asked, gesturing over toward the plane with was still lying, relatively unnoticed by everyone else around.
"We'll be needing that as well." Chuck announced, turning the crystal ring over in his hands. "The ring's devoid of energy; we'll need it to power the ring up." Sonic darted over to the X tornado and quickly withdrew the red emerald inside the machine, tossing it over toward Chuck who caught it in his free hand.
"Need anything else?" Knuckles asked.
"Just keep him off us for a moment or two." Eggman replied, already reaching his pockets and withdrawing components for machines that he always carried around. Shadow snapped his neck to the side as he cracked his knuckles.
"If you insist."
"Roger." Omega added. Shadow and the robot looked at each other, nodded briefly, before engaging Metal Overlord, Knuckles quickly following. Chaotix also managed to pick themselves up, before joining the fray. Chuck and Eggman worked quickly, their fingers frantically assembling a small device around the ring, making it look more like a bracelet.
Espio's flying kick slammed directly into the chest plate of the Meta Overlord, causing him to start swaying. Omega came around again, two missiles catching the titan in the back, knocking him forward. Vector slashed out with his tail and fists, making large dents in the armour plating as Espio cast two shuriken that made contact with the parallel eyes, blinding him, making his roar in pain and frustration.
"There!" Eggman declared, sliding the last piece in place. Sonic snatched it from his hand with asking and slapping it onto his wrist again. It was the same of crystal ring, but with a small box and screen attached to the side. The ring itself was pulsating with a soft green light.
"That screen will guide you to sources of Chaos energy." Chuck told him, sliding the Chaos emerald into his pocket and turning the screen on. The display showed a large X directly in the middle. "That shows were the chaos emerald I have is, use this as a beacon to return once you find them all. The device is a little make shift so you'll have to be careful with it."
Sonic nodded and said, "Right. So once we get all the emeralds, I turn Super and smash all this Metal Madness?"
"That's the basic idea." Decoe announced.
Their conversation was suddenly cut short when Metal Overlord roared loudly as Omega crash landed near by, followed by a very angry looking Shadow. The tian roared again, and again and again, folding his arms around his body, his tail wrapping around the tower below. Sonic stared back in confusion. Was this some soft of new attack? He got his answer soon. A tight fitting shield, outline Metal Overlord's engulfed it, swallowing the machine giant whole before a gigantic sheet of white steal dragged itself around the tower, hiding the monster that had once been Metal Sonic from view. Threads like those of a spider's web lanced out, connecting this new pod to the ground. Once finished, this strange new thing looked more like a cocoon, the king caterpillars go into before emerging as butterflies. Everything became still as everyone simply stared, wandering to themselves what was going to happen next.
"What the heck is this?" Vector asked as he and his team backed off.
"Sonic, you'd better get going." Eggman said to him. "I don't like a look of this. GO, get the Emeralds and then come back here…go!" Sonic blinked and gave one last look up toward the towering white…thing cocoon. Was Metal Sonic completing his transformation inside that thing? Would he come out of there even more powerful then he already was?
He didn't even want to picture anything strong than what they'd just faced.
"Back in a flash." He put in, before all that remained of his presence was a faint after image that disappeared within a moment. As Sonic raced of the side of the flag ship, leaping from submerged ship to submerged ship, toward the closest of one of the six remaining X's on his radar screen, he began to wonder if he'd make it back in time.
Flip Card 1: Dr. Eggman