The return of hope
Disclaimer: I only own the Beta life form and Fistika, Nintendo own the rest. Just kidding, they belong to Sega and Sonic team.
Ultra Metal Sonic looked down at Sonic's lifeless corpse in disbelief. Hyper Knuckles had killed him? Ultra Metal Sonic didn't believe he had it in him. Ultra Metal Sonic returned his attention back to the Beta life form, who was helplessly dangling in his hands. Hyper Knuckles stood close by, awaiting Ultra Metal Sonic to keep up his end of the bargain. The Beta life form tried to call out an attack, but there wasn't enough breath in his body. Ultra Metal Sonic tightened his grip. The Beta life form gasped.
"How? I am the ultimate weapon?" The Beta life form reached out a hand, which fell. Ultra Metal Sonic tossed him to one side. He then looked at Hyper Knuckles.
"Now he has been dealt with I can thank you for dealing with my pest problem." Ultra Metal Sonic glanced down at his defeated double. "When I visited the floating island of old I discovered what had actually destroyed your race. In the beginning there was more than seven emeralds. to be precise there was twenty. Now, as you know, not all echidnas are as peace loving as you, to be precise, there was one called Fistika. He came from a blue tribe of echidnas, he was banished after he tried a rebellion. In this rebellion he lost sight in his right eye. Anyway," Hyper Knuckles was getting annoyed, Ultra Metal Sonic was becoming side tracked. "After being banished Fistika looked for a way to find revenge. It was then he learnt of the power of the Chaos emeralds. He searched far and wide, eventually gaining thirteen. Well, this was more than enough for him to gain the power he wanted. He became 'a yellow demon' as your race put it. He completely wiped out his old tribe, but this wasn't enough for him. Blinded by power he tried to take over the entire island."
"So he killed my race?" Hyper Knuckles asked. Ultra Metal Sonic shook his head.
"Not entirely. You see I saw this Fistika and realised he was way more powerful than Super Sonic and reported to Eggman. Well, we both returned to find that Fistika had been caught by your race. Well Eggman tried to convince them to hand him over to us, but when they didn't..." Hyper Knuckles stared up at the Tornado.
"Eggman killed them?" Ultra Metal Sonic nodded. "What happened to Fistika?" Ultra Metal Sonic shrugged.
"Eggman wouldn't have been able to get him out of his prison, and by that time Sonic was the main priority. To think, if only they handed him over, Eggman's badniks wouldn't have had to shoot that female echidna protecting her child, the future guardian of the Master emerald." Hyper Knuckles flied up to the Tornado, with nothing in his mind, except killing Eggman. Eggman had killed his race, he had killed his mother! Eggman was going to die. He didn't care about what happened to the thirteen other Chaos emeralds, he didn't care what happened to Fistika. He just wanted to kill Eggman. He flew up to the Tornado. Tails watched as Hyper Knuckles punched Eggman out of the backseat. Hyper Knuckles grabbed Eggman.
"I'm going to kill you, you destroyed my race, my entire race!" Eggman cowered in his hand.
"What are you talking about? I did nothing!" Hyper Knuckles punched him again.
"Don't play dumb, you burned the island down when they wouldn't give you the blue echidna."
"What? I just told Metal Sonic to release him for me, how he did this wasn't anything to do with me." Hyper Knuckles was knocked out from behind. Eggman scrabbled back into the Tornado. Ultra Metal Sonic watched Hyper Knuckles fall.
"I always keep my end of a deal. I told you about the end of your race, now I'm going to keep your master emerald safe, in my clutches." Ultra Metal Sonic laughed. Hyper Knuckles regained his balance and flied at Ultra Metal Sonic. He unleashed a fury of punches at Ultra Metal Sonic. None seemed to make contact. Ultra Metal Sonic effortlessly flinged Hyper Knuckles into the water. Ultra Metal Sonic watched the water for a minute, before looking at the Tornado. "Now Eggman and Tails, I believe I'll take you two down next." Ultra Metal Sonic waved goodbye. He clicked his fingers, the Tornado exploded.
Amy watched from below. She couldn't make out what was going on, had something exploded? Amy heard footsteps on the grass. She looked around to see Shadow walking towards her. Shadow stood in front of her. Neither of them talked, they didn't need to. Amy saw something in Shadow's eye that had gone missing since G.U.N stole him. Amy passed a hand over the side of Shadow's head, she watched as Shadow wrapped his arms around her.
"I'm back." He claimed. Amy smiled. In Shadow's arms she no longer cared about anything. Shadow felt Amy resting in his arms. Shadow felt his eyes filling with water. He released Amy so he could look at her face. Amy was letting her tears flow like water. Shadow couldn't hold back the tears anymore. He was so happy to be back. With Amy he may have let tears pass down his normally emotionless face, but never in such magnitude. The two hugged again. Amy wiped her tears.
"I knew I could get you back." She managed to say.
"I'm sorry for trying to kill you." Shadow remarked. Amy let out a quiet laugh. Suddenly Shadow felt someone knocking on his head. He turned to see Tails flying above him.
"Hay, Shadow. I could use your help here!" Shadow let go of Amy and turned around.
"What's happening now?" Shadow asked.
"Lets see, Ultra Metal Sonic is blowing everything up, even the Tornado!" Shadow looked around. Tails wasn't lying.
"Did Eggman escape the Tornado?"
"Who cares?"
"That's fairly heartless for you, Tails." Tails' eye twitched slightly. He didn't have time to discuss this, didn't Shadow see the seriousness of the situation?
"Shadow! Just keep Metal Sonic busy!" Shadow nodded. He watched Ultra Metal Sonic slowly descend. Now that he had seen Sonic was dead, he didn't mind taking his time with the rest. Shadow folded his arms and watched the oncoming creature of destruction. Ultra Metal Sonic landed. The two hedgehogs traded glances. Ultra Metal Sonic laughed slightly.
"The ultimate life form. A title you will soon lose." Ultra Metal Sonic pushed him backwards. Shadow jumped out the way. Ultra Metal Sonic launched at him in a blur of punches. Ultra Metal Sonic could have used his physic powers, but he wanted to test Shadow a bit. Shadow dodged or blocked all the fists. Ultra Metal Sonic kicked him. It hit. Shadow was knocked to the floor. He rolled away from an attack and sprang to his feet. Ultra Metal Sonic launched another barrage of attacks on him. Shadow kept out of reach. Ultra Metal Sonic fired a ball of energy at him, Shadow easily dodged. The ball then homed in on Shadow. Shadow took it head on. He ignored the pain it inflicted on his body. He continued to dodge the attacks from Ultra Metal Sonic. "Why don't you fight back?" Shouted Ultra Metal Sonic. Shadow just smiled back. Ultra Metal Sonic began to attack again, then he stopped. He looked around. "You want to keep me busy..." He scanned the surroundings for the umpteenth time that day. "Because the dead Sonic Knuckles showed me..." Ultra Metal Sonic found what he was looking for. "Was the clone!"
Sonic jumped into the base, followed by Rouge. With the stalling they had been able to get another Egg nova bomb. The two grinded down the jet and landed with the fake emeralds surrounding them. Sonic set the bomb and put it in the middle of the room. Rouge grabbed Sonic and began to fly him out. Rouge was suddenly hit, she went crashing back down. Ultra Metal Sonic blocked there escape. Sonic looked worryingly at the bomb. He turned to Ultra Metal Sonic.
"Errr, Metal, You might want to..." Sonic never finished. The Bomb went off. Ultra Metal Sonic shielded his eyes. Rouge was catapulted out by the explosion. Sonic had managed to grab her leg. The two were burned by the flames. They fell to the floor. Shadow, Amy and Tails came to help them up. They all looked back at what was once Metal Sonic's base. A smouldering crater was left. Ultra Metal Sonic looked down at it with uncontrollable rage. He turned to Sonic and his friends.
"I still have a day to kill you!" Ultra Metal Sonic hit Sonic off his feet. He then continued to land a series of punches to Sonic's chest. Power slowly sipped into Sonic, turning him Super, not that it mattered, considering Metal Sonic was still Ultra. Blood came out of Sonic's mouth as Ultra Metal Sonic hit him across the face. Ultra Metal Sonic wouldn't let the feeble attacks of the others distract him. Sonic was already badly beaten up. Each hit felt like a thousand swords. In Super form the pain had dulled slightly, but not much. Ultra Metal Sonic punched Sonic directly in the face. Sonic became light headed, he was about to pass out, or worse. "No where to run, no one to ask for help, your only possibilities for victory are non-existent." Ultra Metal Sonic muttered. He hit Sonic again. "You always found a way to escape, but not this time." Ultra Metal Sonic rose his fist to land the final blow. Sonic waited it. Suddenly splashing water was heard, like something rising from it.
"I'm his escape, Metal." Ultra Metal Sonic chooses to ignore the character. He punched Sonic. Sonic disappeared? Ultra Metal Sonic looked around. They had all gone? He looked into the sky. He could see a small sliver of light on the distance. Hyper Knuckles. He had come just in time to take them all away from his grasp. Ultra Metal Sonic prepared to chase.
"You saved us Knuckles!" Rouge flew next to him. Hyper Knuckles, who held Shadow and Amy, while Super Sonic flew on his other side. Knuckles smiled at Rouge.
"Couldn't let you die after confessing my love." Rouge smiled back. "When we get back I take you to get a drink." The two hugged in the air. Super Sonic looked back at the small island they had fought Ultra Metal Sonic on. Was it over? Super Sonic suddenly realised Ultra Metal Sonic could pursue them, unless... Sonic looked at his yellow body, changed by Chaos energy. Sonic grabbed hold of Hyper Knuckles and Rouge.
"Chaos control!"
Back on the island Ultra Metal Sonic saw his enemies disappear into green light. Chaos control. Ultra Metal Sonic punched the ground in anger. The ground cracked slightly. Ultra Metal Sonic heard someone behind him. He turned.
"Got what you wanted, metal boy." Nack walked forward. Ultra Metal Sonic's anger disappeared at the sight of what he brought. Two pairs of glowing eyes looked at him blankly. Ultra Metal Sonic laughed.
"It isn't over Sonic, far from it." (He's right you know)
Disclaimer: I only own the Beta life form and Fistika, Nintendo own the rest. Just kidding, they belong to Sega and Sonic team.
Ultra Metal Sonic looked down at Sonic's lifeless corpse in disbelief. Hyper Knuckles had killed him? Ultra Metal Sonic didn't believe he had it in him. Ultra Metal Sonic returned his attention back to the Beta life form, who was helplessly dangling in his hands. Hyper Knuckles stood close by, awaiting Ultra Metal Sonic to keep up his end of the bargain. The Beta life form tried to call out an attack, but there wasn't enough breath in his body. Ultra Metal Sonic tightened his grip. The Beta life form gasped.
"How? I am the ultimate weapon?" The Beta life form reached out a hand, which fell. Ultra Metal Sonic tossed him to one side. He then looked at Hyper Knuckles.
"Now he has been dealt with I can thank you for dealing with my pest problem." Ultra Metal Sonic glanced down at his defeated double. "When I visited the floating island of old I discovered what had actually destroyed your race. In the beginning there was more than seven emeralds. to be precise there was twenty. Now, as you know, not all echidnas are as peace loving as you, to be precise, there was one called Fistika. He came from a blue tribe of echidnas, he was banished after he tried a rebellion. In this rebellion he lost sight in his right eye. Anyway," Hyper Knuckles was getting annoyed, Ultra Metal Sonic was becoming side tracked. "After being banished Fistika looked for a way to find revenge. It was then he learnt of the power of the Chaos emeralds. He searched far and wide, eventually gaining thirteen. Well, this was more than enough for him to gain the power he wanted. He became 'a yellow demon' as your race put it. He completely wiped out his old tribe, but this wasn't enough for him. Blinded by power he tried to take over the entire island."
"So he killed my race?" Hyper Knuckles asked. Ultra Metal Sonic shook his head.
"Not entirely. You see I saw this Fistika and realised he was way more powerful than Super Sonic and reported to Eggman. Well, we both returned to find that Fistika had been caught by your race. Well Eggman tried to convince them to hand him over to us, but when they didn't..." Hyper Knuckles stared up at the Tornado.
"Eggman killed them?" Ultra Metal Sonic nodded. "What happened to Fistika?" Ultra Metal Sonic shrugged.
"Eggman wouldn't have been able to get him out of his prison, and by that time Sonic was the main priority. To think, if only they handed him over, Eggman's badniks wouldn't have had to shoot that female echidna protecting her child, the future guardian of the Master emerald." Hyper Knuckles flied up to the Tornado, with nothing in his mind, except killing Eggman. Eggman had killed his race, he had killed his mother! Eggman was going to die. He didn't care about what happened to the thirteen other Chaos emeralds, he didn't care what happened to Fistika. He just wanted to kill Eggman. He flew up to the Tornado. Tails watched as Hyper Knuckles punched Eggman out of the backseat. Hyper Knuckles grabbed Eggman.
"I'm going to kill you, you destroyed my race, my entire race!" Eggman cowered in his hand.
"What are you talking about? I did nothing!" Hyper Knuckles punched him again.
"Don't play dumb, you burned the island down when they wouldn't give you the blue echidna."
"What? I just told Metal Sonic to release him for me, how he did this wasn't anything to do with me." Hyper Knuckles was knocked out from behind. Eggman scrabbled back into the Tornado. Ultra Metal Sonic watched Hyper Knuckles fall.
"I always keep my end of a deal. I told you about the end of your race, now I'm going to keep your master emerald safe, in my clutches." Ultra Metal Sonic laughed. Hyper Knuckles regained his balance and flied at Ultra Metal Sonic. He unleashed a fury of punches at Ultra Metal Sonic. None seemed to make contact. Ultra Metal Sonic effortlessly flinged Hyper Knuckles into the water. Ultra Metal Sonic watched the water for a minute, before looking at the Tornado. "Now Eggman and Tails, I believe I'll take you two down next." Ultra Metal Sonic waved goodbye. He clicked his fingers, the Tornado exploded.
Amy watched from below. She couldn't make out what was going on, had something exploded? Amy heard footsteps on the grass. She looked around to see Shadow walking towards her. Shadow stood in front of her. Neither of them talked, they didn't need to. Amy saw something in Shadow's eye that had gone missing since G.U.N stole him. Amy passed a hand over the side of Shadow's head, she watched as Shadow wrapped his arms around her.
"I'm back." He claimed. Amy smiled. In Shadow's arms she no longer cared about anything. Shadow felt Amy resting in his arms. Shadow felt his eyes filling with water. He released Amy so he could look at her face. Amy was letting her tears flow like water. Shadow couldn't hold back the tears anymore. He was so happy to be back. With Amy he may have let tears pass down his normally emotionless face, but never in such magnitude. The two hugged again. Amy wiped her tears.
"I knew I could get you back." She managed to say.
"I'm sorry for trying to kill you." Shadow remarked. Amy let out a quiet laugh. Suddenly Shadow felt someone knocking on his head. He turned to see Tails flying above him.
"Hay, Shadow. I could use your help here!" Shadow let go of Amy and turned around.
"What's happening now?" Shadow asked.
"Lets see, Ultra Metal Sonic is blowing everything up, even the Tornado!" Shadow looked around. Tails wasn't lying.
"Did Eggman escape the Tornado?"
"Who cares?"
"That's fairly heartless for you, Tails." Tails' eye twitched slightly. He didn't have time to discuss this, didn't Shadow see the seriousness of the situation?
"Shadow! Just keep Metal Sonic busy!" Shadow nodded. He watched Ultra Metal Sonic slowly descend. Now that he had seen Sonic was dead, he didn't mind taking his time with the rest. Shadow folded his arms and watched the oncoming creature of destruction. Ultra Metal Sonic landed. The two hedgehogs traded glances. Ultra Metal Sonic laughed slightly.
"The ultimate life form. A title you will soon lose." Ultra Metal Sonic pushed him backwards. Shadow jumped out the way. Ultra Metal Sonic launched at him in a blur of punches. Ultra Metal Sonic could have used his physic powers, but he wanted to test Shadow a bit. Shadow dodged or blocked all the fists. Ultra Metal Sonic kicked him. It hit. Shadow was knocked to the floor. He rolled away from an attack and sprang to his feet. Ultra Metal Sonic launched another barrage of attacks on him. Shadow kept out of reach. Ultra Metal Sonic fired a ball of energy at him, Shadow easily dodged. The ball then homed in on Shadow. Shadow took it head on. He ignored the pain it inflicted on his body. He continued to dodge the attacks from Ultra Metal Sonic. "Why don't you fight back?" Shouted Ultra Metal Sonic. Shadow just smiled back. Ultra Metal Sonic began to attack again, then he stopped. He looked around. "You want to keep me busy..." He scanned the surroundings for the umpteenth time that day. "Because the dead Sonic Knuckles showed me..." Ultra Metal Sonic found what he was looking for. "Was the clone!"
Sonic jumped into the base, followed by Rouge. With the stalling they had been able to get another Egg nova bomb. The two grinded down the jet and landed with the fake emeralds surrounding them. Sonic set the bomb and put it in the middle of the room. Rouge grabbed Sonic and began to fly him out. Rouge was suddenly hit, she went crashing back down. Ultra Metal Sonic blocked there escape. Sonic looked worryingly at the bomb. He turned to Ultra Metal Sonic.
"Errr, Metal, You might want to..." Sonic never finished. The Bomb went off. Ultra Metal Sonic shielded his eyes. Rouge was catapulted out by the explosion. Sonic had managed to grab her leg. The two were burned by the flames. They fell to the floor. Shadow, Amy and Tails came to help them up. They all looked back at what was once Metal Sonic's base. A smouldering crater was left. Ultra Metal Sonic looked down at it with uncontrollable rage. He turned to Sonic and his friends.
"I still have a day to kill you!" Ultra Metal Sonic hit Sonic off his feet. He then continued to land a series of punches to Sonic's chest. Power slowly sipped into Sonic, turning him Super, not that it mattered, considering Metal Sonic was still Ultra. Blood came out of Sonic's mouth as Ultra Metal Sonic hit him across the face. Ultra Metal Sonic wouldn't let the feeble attacks of the others distract him. Sonic was already badly beaten up. Each hit felt like a thousand swords. In Super form the pain had dulled slightly, but not much. Ultra Metal Sonic punched Sonic directly in the face. Sonic became light headed, he was about to pass out, or worse. "No where to run, no one to ask for help, your only possibilities for victory are non-existent." Ultra Metal Sonic muttered. He hit Sonic again. "You always found a way to escape, but not this time." Ultra Metal Sonic rose his fist to land the final blow. Sonic waited it. Suddenly splashing water was heard, like something rising from it.
"I'm his escape, Metal." Ultra Metal Sonic chooses to ignore the character. He punched Sonic. Sonic disappeared? Ultra Metal Sonic looked around. They had all gone? He looked into the sky. He could see a small sliver of light on the distance. Hyper Knuckles. He had come just in time to take them all away from his grasp. Ultra Metal Sonic prepared to chase.
"You saved us Knuckles!" Rouge flew next to him. Hyper Knuckles, who held Shadow and Amy, while Super Sonic flew on his other side. Knuckles smiled at Rouge.
"Couldn't let you die after confessing my love." Rouge smiled back. "When we get back I take you to get a drink." The two hugged in the air. Super Sonic looked back at the small island they had fought Ultra Metal Sonic on. Was it over? Super Sonic suddenly realised Ultra Metal Sonic could pursue them, unless... Sonic looked at his yellow body, changed by Chaos energy. Sonic grabbed hold of Hyper Knuckles and Rouge.
"Chaos control!"
Back on the island Ultra Metal Sonic saw his enemies disappear into green light. Chaos control. Ultra Metal Sonic punched the ground in anger. The ground cracked slightly. Ultra Metal Sonic heard someone behind him. He turned.
"Got what you wanted, metal boy." Nack walked forward. Ultra Metal Sonic's anger disappeared at the sight of what he brought. Two pairs of glowing eyes looked at him blankly. Ultra Metal Sonic laughed.
"It isn't over Sonic, far from it." (He's right you know)