Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own any of the characters used in this story except E-100 Alpha.

Well it's finally come down to the last emeralds at last. I'm sorry that it took so long to reach this chapter, but I'm happy you were patient. I know the Knuckles and Rouge subplot took a while, but I thought it turned out alright. Now we return to the main storyline and all of the action. I hope enjoy reading this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Chapter 10

The robotic duo of Omega and Gamma faced off against each other in front of the run down detective agency as all of their organic peers stared in awe. Each of the robots determined to defeat the other as they scanned each other's information in their sensors. The tension rose to its climax until one of them decided to make a move.

"I will eradicate you." Omega announced to his older counterpart as he aimed his arm cannon in Gamma's vicinity.

"No, Omega! You can't!" Amy cried. "He's our friend just like you are. Something's wrong with him. Please don't destroy him!"

In the split second that Omega had dropped his guard during Amy's pleas, Gamma had managed to charge up a vast amount of energy that was shining pink, much like Tails' Cyclone's Power Laser technique and fire it out of his arm cannon directly at Omega, who dodged it, but got his arm caught in the blast.

"Oh no!" Tails yelled. "Now Omega's arm is damaged more than last time!" he shouted as Omega's arm was completely sparking up.

"Omega, get out of there, he just too much for you right now!" Rouge yelled.

"Negative, I will not be defeated by an older model. I am Omega, the ultimate E-Series robot!" Omega said defiantly.

"He's just as bad as Shadow." Rouge said to herself. "I swear, organic or metallic, men are men."

"Destroy, Destroy!" Gamma shouted as he charged up his cannon for a second blast.

It was at this time that Tails had noticed that Gamma too was tiring out and starting to barely spark up which delayed Gamma's energy accumulation. This gave Tails an idea, which he knew was a risky one, but he had to try. He took his yellow emerald and prepared to throw it in the battlefield.

"Hey, Omega! Catch!" Tails said as he threw the emerald with all of his might to the bulky robot.

As Omega caught it, he felt surged up with energy, so much that he quickly gathered enough power to pull off his Chaos Inferno technique which made a direct hit at Gamma immobilizing him, but not destroying him.

"De.......stroy........De......str.......oy." Gamma said as he stopped moving.

"It's alright Amy" Tails said as he walked over to inspect Gamma. "He's just shut down for the moment. I can fix HIM and Omega in a little bit. I'm just glad I brought my spare set of tools with me."

"That's a relief." Amy sighed out. "But what could have made him do this?"

"It was probably THIS." Tails said as he yanked something from Gamma's back compartment causing him to fall over.

"The pink chaos emerald?!" Knuckles said. "So Omega was right, he DID have one."

"Yes." Tikal said. "And its negative energies have corrupted this robot with its great power. We must hurry and find all of the emeralds before it too late."

"Well so far, all together, we have six emeralds." Sonic said. "Now if we could find some clue where the last one is, we'd be in business."

"Well, in that case, I think you guys better see this." Mighty said as he led everyone inside.

"What is it Mighty?" Sonic asked.

Mighty then turned everyone's attention to the television set in the living room area which showed a news report of an "unidentified robot." terrorizing Station Square shouting the words "chaos emeralds." as he shot his greenish-blue lasers down on the unsuspecting public. Everyone knew that it was obviously E-100 Alpha, even without the zoom in shot of him at the end.

"Man, that guy doesn't give up." Sonic said.

"Well, what are we going to do? If we DON'T give him the chaos emeralds, he'll destroy the city searching for them and many innocents will be in danger." Amy said.

"And if we DO give him the emeralds, he'll be unstoppable and then more than likely destroy the city and us with it as his first target of his new power." Shadow continued.

"The worst pat of this scenario is that he already has the last emerald." Knuckles said.

"What?! Are you kidding? How do you know that?!" Rouge asked in a shocked manner.

"When I fought him with Omega before, his laser was a dark blue color, but in the news report it was slightly green and much more powerful. This suggests that Alpha must have found the green chaos emerald, and is searching for the rest at any cost." Knuckles said with a sense of despair.

"That's it!" Tails exclaimed causing everyone to stare at him. "I know how to defeat Alpha!"

"What is it?" Amy asked in a desperate fashion.

"There's no time to explain. I need all of the emeralds you guys have found and I need Sonic and Knuckles to come with me." Tails said and in that instant, his friends didn't ask any more questions and did what he instructed."

"Thank you guys." Tails said with enthusiasm. "Just watch the TV, I'll be okay."

"Well I guess it's Team Sonic to the rescue again." Rouge said. "Just promise me one thing Knuckles, that you'll come back alive ,okay." she said with a wink towards him causing him to blush.

"No sweat Rouge! This robot's going to the junk heap!" Knuckles said with a confident smile on his face.

"That goes for you too Sonic." Amy said mimicking Rouge's winking gesture.

"You know it Amy! I've always managed to take of myself before and today will be no different." Sonic said confidently.

"Please be careful Tails." Cream said with a concerned look on her face.

"Chao, chao." Cheese squeaked joyfully.

"I will Cream. Don't worry. I'll be okay." Tails said.

"Don't screw up! I know it'll be hard without ME to help you, I mean I AM the ultimate life form after all. But just TRY to do a somewhat decent job." Shadow bellowed.

"We'll try to manage without you Shadow." Sonic said, acknowledging Shadow's words of good luck.

"Sonic, I need you to take us to my workshop as fast as you can!" Tails exclaimed.

"Okay, little bro, but what do you need there?" Sonic asked.

"I'll explain later, but we need to go NOW!" Tails said nervously.

And with that statement, the three young heroes were off headed towards Tails' workshop with Sonic holding one of his friends' arms in each of his hands. They raced at supersonic speed, but both were somehow able to notice that Sonic could run faster than usual and finally arrived at the Mystic Ruins where they quickly headed for Tails workshop.

"Okay, now what do you need Tails?" Sonic said impatiently.

"Hold on." Tails said as he rushed inside.

The side of the workshop opened up revealing a secret door that lead to his holding bay where he kept all of his best inventions, including his transforming plane, the Tornado 2 which could also morph into the Cyclone. The trio quickly hopped inside and headed towards the site at Station Square where Alpha was last reported to be seen.

"Wow, this is great!" Sonic shouted. "At this rate, we'll be there in no time!"

"Now tell us Tails, what's your plan for defeating Alpha?" Knuckles asked.

"Well, do you remember when Gamma was fighting Omega, and how he started to spark up when he attacked?" Tails asked.

"Yeah, so." Knuckles said.

"Well, I have a theory that just like Gamma, Alpha isn't able to handle an excessive amount of the chaos emeralds' energy for a long period of time, especially considering how unstable they are now. If we fire all of the power of the remaining chaos emeralds combined with the Master Emerald's, we might be able to overload his circuits and shut him down permanently." Tails said with a hint of doubt.

"That's a brilliant idea, why didn't I think of it?" Knuckles said with a sound of relief.

"It's not as brilliant as you may think Knuckles, because if my theory's wrong then he might actually absorb that energy and become more powerful then ever." Tails continued.

"Either way, we've got to try it. It's our only hope." Knuckles said.

"Hey guys, look who it is down there!" Sonic said almost ready to laugh as he saw that Dr Eggman was trying to fix his egg-shaped pod on a nearby building. "Hi Eggman, having a little trouble there?"

Eggman just growled and waved his fist in rage as Sonic flew by.

"Well I guess the mystery about where Alpha got the green chaos emerald is finally solved. Too bad for Eggman, having to do all that work finding it for us just to have Alpha steal it." Sonic said in a relaxed tone.

"Don't get so calm Sonic, because there he is!" Tails screamed as he saw Alpha in the distance. Apparently, Alpha's sensors had picked them up on his scanners, because the metal menace had turned around and aimed all of its weapons towards them. This forced Tails to slow down his Tornado's speed and morph into the Cyclone.

"I will have the chaos emeralds." Alpha muttered as he charged up the energy from the emerald he possessed giving his body a dark green glow.

"Alright guys, it's do or die time. I hope this works." Tails said somewhat timidly.

"This is what being a hero's all about! We're going to win no matter what!" Sonic said with a cocky expression.

"I didn't come this far to lose! I won't be beaten by a tin can on a power trip!" Knuckles said with determination.

At that moment, both the Cyclone and E-100 Alpha fired their most powerful attacks, resulting in a huge beam fight. The Cyclone shot out an incandescent multicolored beam containing the power of all the emeralds that it was powered by, whereas Alpha's beam was a dark green. The two beams raged towards each other, and Alpha was taking the upper hand.

"I don't know if we can do it guys!" Tails yelled.

"I know we'll win this, we just have to!" Sonic shouted.

"That's right, we're not just going to give up now!" Knuckles roared.

Just then, an image of Tikal appeared in front of the Cyclone. Tikal then made a barrier, that not only powered up the Cyclone's beam, but reflected most of Alpha's blast right back at him causing a huge explosion that engulfed not only Alpha, but Sonic and his friends as well as a huge portion of Station Square.

Well, that's it for now. I'm sorry to leave you hanging, but the chapter has reached its limit. Please review as soon as possible and I'll try to hurry up. Good-Bye for now.