The other side of the coin

Disclaimer: I own Fistika, the evil echidna. The Beta life form, the evil weapon, and MS3, the evil robot Sonic. I need more good guys, give them to me! Oh, and Sega and Sonic team own the rest.

"Hello, MS3. I, Metal Sonic, and present company, Metal Knuckles and the Tails doll, are your masters." Nack looked at Ultra Metal Sonic annoyed.

"What about me, metal boy?" Ultra Metal Sonic turned to face him.

"One, you're only here for the emeralds, and two, you keep calling me 'metal boy'." Nack grumbled slightly. MS3 looked around his surroundings. He picked out who his masters were, and three other creatures. MS3 lifted an arm in the direction of Nack. Ultra Metal Sonic stood in the way. "MS3, Nack is not an enemy, and those two are your power source." He pointed to Fistika and the Beta life form. "Our enemy is Sonic and all his friends." MS3 nodded. Nack walked from behind Ultra Metal Sonic.

"So what do we do with him?" Ultra Metal Sonic turned to face Nack. Nack swore he saw a spark in his eye.

"We take him to Station Square." Ultra Metal Sonic laughed, as did Fistika.

"Yes, like I said. A failure of a plan, blowing stuff up, how original!" Fistika sounded fairly energetic for someone who was having his energy sucked out. Metal Knuckles whacked him around the head.

"Fistika, I have a surprise for Sonic when he comes to the rescue, don't worry about me. My plan is flawless." MS3 walked over to Ultra Metal Sonic. Ultra Metal Sonic turned to him. Suddenly a surprised look came over his face. "What do you mean 'What is actually going on?'!"

Knuckles rubbed his head. What drink had he took Rouge for? Oh right, Guinness. Knuckles looked around. This wasn't the emerald shrine. Knuckles then realised he was on a sofa. Knuckles got up and looked around. He must be in Rouges house, pictures of emeralds surrounded him. Diamonds, rubies, gems, you name it. Knuckles looked around. The room was an odd shade of purple, the T.V was somewhere between normal and wide screen sized, there was a computer in the corner. Knuckles rubbed his head again and sat down. He hoped that he hadn't made a fool of himself before passing out, but everyone was drinking allot that night, so even if he had, it wouldn't have been noticeable.

"Rouge!" Knuckles called out. He waited for a while before getting an answer.

"Knuckles?" Rouge walked in. Her eyes were blood shot, her clothes were slightly ripped, and there was a fork in her hair. Knuckles presumed she had too much Guinness as well. "Oh hi! Why are you here?" Knuckles shrugged. Rouge smiled. "Well, at least we found each other sleeping in different places." Rouge gave Knuckles a cheeky look. Knuckles smiled.

"That wouldn't be so bad. Anyway, I might need to go back and relinquish Chaos of his duties." Knuckles got up and hugged Rouge.

"See ya, Knux." Knuckles let Rouge go. Before leaving Knuckles heard a voice.

"Doesn't Chaos live to guard the emeralds, leave it for now." Knuckles and Rouge both turned around to see Sonic stumble from underneath a cloak on the floor. Rouge frowned.

"Anyone else here?" She asked. Sonic shook his head.

"Everyone else is either to young, or Shadow, who doesn't drink." Sonic rubbed his head. "I can see why now." Knuckles and Rouge looked at each other. Sonic smiled pathetically.

"So how come everyone ends up in my house?" Rouge shouted. Knuckles shrugged. Sonic laughed nervously. Rouge collapsed into the sofa Knuckles was previously on. "Sonic, can you please leave as soon as humanly possible." Rouge turned on the T.V. Sonic was still beating off the effects of the hangover and Knuckles was making for the door again.

"SONIC!!!" The sound irrupted from the T.V. Sonic turned around to see a live broadcast. Ultra Metal Sonic was standing in the middle of Station Square. A metal hedgehog was behind him, randomly destroying buildings and such stuff. Ultra Metal Sonic looked around. "Come Sonic, come out, face me! Where are you?" Sonic got up.

"Which way is Station Square?" Asked Sonic, seemingly forgetting his hangover.

"Sonic, you can't defeat Ultra Metal Sonic, especially now he has that robot for backup. Wait for the Ultra form to wear off, then we should attack."

"He could destroy Station Square in that time!" Sonic didn't wait for a reply, he rushed out of the house, in the direction of rising smoke coming from the centre of a group of skyscrapers. His feet barley touched the ground as he ran. In a couple of seconds Sonic was standing on a skyscraper, watching the two Metal Sonic's destruction. Sonic then spotted Shadow walked out of a building towards the two robots. Sonic jumped on the roofs of building towards him. He landed next to Shadow. "Shadow! Good to see you, I may need some help." Shadow turned to Sonic.

"Unlikely." Shadow continued to walk towards Ultra Metal Sonic and MS3. Sonic stood there confused. Amy emerged from the building. She instantly spotted Sonic.

"Sonic! You have to help Shadow, there's no way he can win!" Sonic turned to Amy.

"I bet he could take the new guy, but we all know Metal is way out of all our leagues now." Amy shook her head.

"Sonic, Shadow has somehow got the idea that your the ultimate life form into his head." Sonic looked even more confused.

"What?"

"I know, apparently there's something about a foetus which took thirty five years to develop, or some such nonsense. He claims that he was made after the A.R.K was raided for purposes to avenge Maria. Sonic, you need to get these ideas out of his head, or his confidence will be to low for him to put up a good fight." Sonic tried to absorb what had been said. He heard a sound from behind him. Shadow went flying at Sonic and Amy. Shadow hit a wall.

"The new Metal packs a punch." Shadow claimed. Sonic grabbed Shadow.

"Shadow, you are the ultimate life form." Shadow got up and brushed dust of his body.

"No, I am one of them. Tell me Sonic, who were your parents?" Sonic didn't answer. "Were they from green hill zone? Did they look just like you? Was your mom the queen of mobius, who was overthrown by Eggman, forcing you and two siblings to hide underground? You don't know. That's because you were grown in A.R.K, before being sent to earth and awoken."

"Shadow! You are the ultimate life form, I am just a super fast hedgehog." Sonic stared Shadow straight in the eye.

"Give them a chance to be happy." Sonic looked at Shadow oddly as he muttered these words. Suddenly a fake cough came from behind. Sonic turned around to see Ultra Metal Sonic with MS3.

"As enlightening as that was on Shadow's frame of sanity, I have been waiting for you Sonic, and I was frankly getting bored." Ultra Metal Sonic restrained the urge to whack Sonic. "Sonic, this is MS3, or Metal Sonic V 3.0." Sonic chuckled.

"So you're outdated technology Metal?" Ultra Metal Sonic pretended he didn't hear.

"Now we can proceed to fight in a battle which will destroy Station Square, or we can leave to a much more peaceful place." Sonic looked at the wreckage close by.

"Where did you have in mind?" Ultra Metal Sonic grabbed Sonic.

"MS3, make sure none of Sonic's friends come to his rescue." Ultra Metal Sonic turned from MS3 to Sonic. "Chaos control!" He shouted. A blinding light took him and Sonic.

Sonic looked around. Where had Ultra Metal Sonic taken him? It looked like oil ocean. Ultra Metal Sonic flew above him, chuckling

"Typical Shadow, rewriting history." Sonic looked up at him.

"What did you say?" Sonic asked.

"Oh, nothing, just I find this side of Shadow amusing." Ultra Metal Sonic replied.

"This side? What are you talking about, maybe your circuits are fried." Sonic then realised he couldn't move his legs, he looked down to see his body slowly being devoured by the oil. Ultra Metal Sonic floated down onto a near by platform.

"It's not like you're going anywhere, except the afterlife, so I might as well kill the time. What I mean is that since Shadow got together with Amy, he has been drifting from his angry, serious side. He has become... how can I put it... insecure. I'm not saying it's Amy, much, but he more nervous, he's doubting himself, like just now. Oh, anyway, I'm sure I'm boring you." Ultra Metal Sonic finished his analysis of Shadow. Sonic's legs were now completely engulfed in the oil. Ultra Metal Sonic sat down to watch the show, loving every minute of Sonic's demise.

Shadow was knocked backwards by MS3. Amy watched as Shadow took the impact. Shadow jumped over the MS3, then tried to trip him up. His foot collided with MS3's, only causing Shadow pain. Shadow was then punched on to the ground. Amy couldn't bare to watch anymore, she took out her hammer and ran towards MS3, then she heard the safety of a gun being put off.

"Not so fast, little missy." Nack was aiming a gun at the back of Amy's head. Amy glanced back at Nack. "Make one move and bang!" Amy looked back at Shadow, who was being subjected to repeat hits to the head. Shadow jumped out of the way of MS3. MS3 fired a laser at Shadow from his chest. Shadow took full impact. Shadow was sent crashing into a building. Shadow sat in the rubble. He couldn't win, he could barley get an attack in, not only that, but he could feel his mind seeping away, the drug was taking affect. Shadow didn't know if he could fight both of them at the same time. MS3 jumped into the rubble, coming down hard on Shadow with his shoulder. Shadow screamed. MS3 kicked him, Shadow flopped helplessly on the floor. MS3 picked Shadow up by the throat. He lifted one of his hands, his pointed fingers aimed at Shadow's heart. He prepared to strike. Shadow couldn't struggle against the strength of MS3. MS3 struck.