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Flip card 1:

Name: Cyber-Biolizard

Description: It's remains salvaged by General Saddler, the Biolizard had once been Prof. Gerald Robotnik's prototype of the ultimate life form. Damaged in a battle between Super Sonic and Super Shadow, Saddler repaired it with cybernetic technology.

"I don't believe it…" Shadow began, staggering backwards in a mixture of utter surprise and horror. The lizard towering over them as it tore it's way out of the ship was all too familiar. A salamander like appearance, with thick orange scaly skin, lumpy muscle underneath and a thin row of green, feather like quills running down its back. Its entire left arm had been nearly destroyed, colossal mechanical parts replacing the large paw and most of its lower limb, like they had all been sewn into its flesh. The damage the lizard had received when it had once been completely organic was shown by the machine replacements it had been equip with. The top half of its entire head had been destroyed and replaced by a complex set of machinery shaped like a jaw, a pair of red visors staring down at them from in-between two spikes of alloy. Down the entire length of it's tail a jagged scar had been cut right down to the bone and even that had been filled with segmented pieces of cybernetics, all connected together by large cables and wires. "The Biolizard!" The remains of the giant reptile had been torn from the ARK as it fell towards the Earth, yet the corpse was not destroyed when it collided with the atmosphere. It fell to the ground and had been discovered by General Saddler. Recognizing the creature's raw potential, he took its remains back to his base and over the last two years had steadily been rebuilding the creature. Making it faster, stronger and infinitely more powerful. The ship rocketed side to side before finally beginning to sink into the harbour under the weight. The two hedgehogs leapt off at the last minute, followed closely behind by the Biolizard who snaked onto land like a crocodile pulling itself up from a river

The creature roared into the air, resurrected, brought back to life to serve Saddler and his cause. It could clearly remember everything that happened, why it had died and more precisely who had brought about its death. It's large, snake its head arched down to peer at the two hedgehogs that stood before it, one red and black and the other a royal blue. The quills on it's back shuddered violently, bolts of lighting passing in-between them before it drew it's head back and spat forward, throwing it's jaws open and as it did so, a beam of the purest Chaos energy spewed forth. A force more deadly than anything they had faced before, Sonic and Shadow only managed to dive out of the way in time to avoid it destroyed them as it carried on, disintegrating several buildings before it rocketed out to sea, a huge water geyser exploding into the air.

"They turned it into a Cyborg." Sonic said, stating the obvious, before a wide goofy grin crossed his face. "That is so cool!" Shadow cast him a glare.

"What planet are you from?" He asked, before rolling to the side as the lizard sung it's paw down, trying to squash them under it. The black and red hedgehog was back on his feet in an instant, skating around the side of the beast as he drew his arm back, tensing his muscles before launching a powerful Chaos Spear attack straight at the large mechanical device on its back. From his previous battle on the ARK, he knew that that was the creature's weak point. It's life support system without which it's body could not possibly function.

To his dismay however, a thin shimmering egg shaped translucent object solidified around the creatures back, repealing the golden spears with ease.

Shadow paused, before skating in close as he leapt into the air, spinning his entire body around in a super spin, hoping to break the robotics himself. The result was just the same as before, a thin layer came into existence and repeal him away like his attack was nothing. It was obvious now that when rebuilding the creature, Saddler had decided to improve on it dramatically. Shadow didn't have long to contemplate this as he didn't see a place muscular tail swing around from behind and swat him away like a fly, sending him flying through the air, several buildings and finally into the ground itself.

"A trench coat…" Okida muttered sourly, pulling the collar further up to hide his face. "They promise to give me a hand, and all they hand me is a trench coat." Well, at least they had managed to provide him transportation across the country to Washington with a little help from Chuck. Still, a little assistance actually getting to the President would have been greatly appreciated. The captain was now only a few hundred feet away from the White house and the end of his mission. Okida had left his Mech back with Tails; the sight of a three story sized walker marching down the road towards the capital might have provoked unwanted attention.

Without it getting access to the White house was going to prove increasing difficult. From the rooftop of some nearby building, the Captain watched the presidential house just beyond a set of trees. Someone had taken the liberty of placing a whole platoon of Big Foot walkers on the lawn outside; not to protect the President the captain was willing to wager but rather to keep him out. Saddler was well aware of the threat that the discs the bat carried in his pocket posed and would do everything in his power to keep the truth from being revealed.

Going in through the front door was not an option, he'd be blasted to pieces by those Walkers before he crossed the fence and that would be that. The white house was also virtually impossible to enter stealthy either, they had security cameras monitoring every room and corridor, not to mention secret service agents patrolling the place. Still, the building was not impregnable and all he really needed to do was show the President the evidence and then disappear.

It sounded simple enough, but the captain was well aware of how difficult it actually was. Sighing, he slid down the side of a drain pipe to the street.

"From this point on, your on your own." Chuck told him when he reached the bottom. "Hope you get lucky." He added, before disappearing into the crowds. Okida watched him go, before tucking his coat up around himself.

"Well, here goes nothing." He told himself, walking out into the crowds. The coat was really beginning to hurt his wings, having them pressed hard up against his back so hard to conceal them. His wings were larger than those of an average mobian bat; they allowed him great mobility in the air and were not supposed to fold like that. Still, he could bear it just as long as he did not need this disguise for any extended period of time. The wings would be a dead give away if he had to spread them out.

It seemed Okida was in luck. Some of the guards around the outside of the building had Christmas day off, leaving security conveniently lessened around the fence. The vampire bat looked through the streets to see if any one was looking in his direction. The camera on the top of the fence rotated in a one hundred and eighty degree arch every five seconds, leaving a dead area behind them for three seconds. This almost seemed to easy, the bat thought to himself leaping into the air and over the fence. Swiftly he flew across the snow trying to leave as few foot prints as he could before ducking into a bush, discarding the trench coat he had be using, letting his large wings flex a little in the process.

Stealth came naturally to a bat. It was something their species was suited completely for. Free of the confines of the coat, Okida found he could move much more fluidly. Getting up the side of the building was not overly too difficult, getting inside it however would not be as easy. The windows had doors had motion detectors and sound monitors watching them constantly. Nothing would be able to get inside without setting off some sort of alarm. Which, the bat thought to himself with a large smile, could work to his advantage. Looking around his feet as he clung to the outside edge of the building, sticking to the shadows as he side stepped for something to throw to distract the security. He paused, now that wouldn't work. If he did that then the secret service would take the President to some underground stronghold and Okida would never see him again.

It would not be long before his presence was discovered anyway. This was the white house, the most secure building on Earth. Entering and leaving completely un-observed was an impossibility. What he really needed to do was get to the President before the alarm was raised, that way they wouldn't sprit him off before they had a chance to talk

Still, despite being the most secure place on earth, Okida knew he had to try something. Spreading his wings, he soured up the side of the building to the roof and quickly ducked behind an air vent as he saw two security personnel standing there. The two of them looked around when they heard the rustle of winds, but seeing nothing there, went back to their patrol. Pausing to make sure they weren't looking in his direction anymore, the captain slipped inside the air vent, finding a thick pillar of steam rising up from below. This vent undoubtedly lead to the kitchens, but luckily however he discovered that the vent veered off the left some way down.

From this point onward, he would have to be very quiet. Not a single sound would escape his body for a single lapse or loud exhaled breath would alert nearly every agent in the building to his presence. Crawling through the vents along the ceiling, the bat discovered a grating that lead into a corridor below.

Quietly he pressed one of his large ears against it. Most mobians had good hearing, but bats took it to the extremes. He could hear the foot padding of feet coming from down the corridor at the far end, some distance away from the grating. A lot of people were in the rooms either side as well.

He checked his wrist watch; it had been precisely five minutes since he entered the white house. He couldn't put off the confrontation any longer, he was as far into the white house as he could go without raising an alarm and if his estimations were correct, he was near enough to the oval office to attempt it. He took a few deep breaths, before plunging head first through the grating, landing on the floor with a loud thump. Someone down the far end of the corridor shouted something but by then Okida was already gone. Within moments alarms were being raised all over the building but the bat was nearly within arms length of the two wooden doors leading into the oval office. His mission was nearly over.

As he reached for the doors, there was a loud clicking sound and Okida felt someone pressing a gun against the back of his head.

"Nice try Captain." The bat knew that voice at once. It was General Saddler himself, the man who'd been masquerading as G.U.N's loyal general and all the while had been plotting the downfall of the Government, stealing technology from the Egg Fleet to construct his own superior Mech's. "I'll be taking those discs back now if you don't mind." Looking back over his shoulder, Okida could see the General himself holding a gun to the back of his head. He was surrounded by several of his men, all of them with their guns pointed directly out at him. Growling in frustration, the bat reached slowly into his pocket and withdrew the discs and with the utmost reluctance, handed them over to the general, who quickly passed them to the man nearest to him to conceal on his person. "Well now the Okida the charges are certainly mounting against you aren't they? Let's see, stealing a military walker and confidential files, resisting arrest multiple times and now breaking and entering the White house." The bat replied simply with a sneer as he put his hands up.

"You'll never get away with it Saddler." The human general didn't look impressed.

"How cliché, don't you get it Mobian scum?" The human reached into his pocket and withdrew two dices of his own. "These contain some reports I created indicating that you've been in league with Eggman since the beginning. I wonder what they'll do when they see these?" He lowered his voice as more security agents began rounding the corners of the corridor to see that the General had apprehended the intruder. "We've already won." That last comment was made with a foul amount of venom in his voice. "The Intruder's been apprehended gentlemen." The general stated, looking up to the security personnel that were beginning to gather, some of them out of breath. "An assassin and spy from the Eggman Empire." He added, giving the bat a contempt full glance. "So let's show his face to the President."

Sonic looked back for a second to see Shadow disappear, before he went in for a hack at it, racing around the beast hoping to keep it occupied long enough for it to lower it's defences. He had no such luck, The Bio Lizard's tracking devise that had been installed into it's new optical pieces was able to follow his movements easily and held it's partly mechanical limb up, waited for the right moment, before batting Sonic away like a cat with a ball of string.

"Well you showed him didn't you?" Shadow remarked sarcastically, helping the blue hedgehog out of the hole in thick concrete wall he had been smashed through. Sonic shook his head to dislodge from brick dust from his quills, feeling like someone had just run him over with a Monster truck ten times.

"It could have gone better, that's for certain." He replied, before a towering shadow fell over them, the colossal head of the BioLizard blocking out the sun above. It snarled, showing three rows of teeth, all of which were razor sharp and glinted in the sunlight. The creature reared its head back, the quills again burning with lightning. Before it could fire its attack however, a barrage of shots rang out and a swarm of missiles collided with its neck; forcing its mouth shut. The creature roared and turned to face its left hand side from which the projectiles had been fired from. Sonic and Shadow followed its gaze to find Okida's Yahger Mech standing on top of a nearly flat roofed building, its missile launch pads open with thick smoke rising from them. "Need any help?" A familiar voice asked over a loud speaker, yet it was clearly not Okida's.

"Tails?" Sonic asked in near exclamation. The fox had had little time to study the advanced controls of the Walker, but with the X tornado still in the shop, he had had little choice. Okida had leant the machine to him while he was doing business else ware. Besides, he was going to need all this machines advanced capabilities when facing this creature. The Biolizard roared again and swung its entire neck around, its quills burning again as it powered up and fired. The Yahger swung to the side narrowly avoiding the blast and fired another set of missiles, all of which impacted on the creature's shield without hurting it at all. "Tails look out!" Sonic yelled as the Biolizard reared itself up so it was resting on its muscular tail, before a swarm of red spheres formed around its head. This was one of its original attacks, one it had used against Shadow on ARK. These orbs of energy hovered in the air momentarily before flying straight at the Yahger, striking the machine head on, knocking it out of the air and into the sea. It was the fact that the jets had maintained themselves while the machine fell that kept the walker from vanishing all together and eventually the lift pushed it free and back onto the harbour, although now its movements were slow and sluggish. The blow had severely damaged its movement capabilities.

By now, the disturbance down by the docks had been detected by the police and military and Swat vehicles were already on their way. Their blaring sirens could be heard in the distance. Realising the need to get this fight away from the city before someone got hurt, Sonic reached down, picked up a rock from the ground and tossed it straight at the BioLizard's head. The creature roared and glared down at them. Shadow got the idea and fired a Chaos Spear. It didn't do any damage, but it did seem to infuriate the creature.

It screamed and advanced, hoping to trample them under foot and now that they had its attention the two hedgehogs turned and ran, making their way towards the bridge that lead out of the city and back towards the Mystic Ruins. The bride was still empty and luring the beast across would not be difficult.

Unfortunately for them, the creature was not as stupid as it looked. It figured out their attentions in moments, it's orders had been to engage the enemy and do as much damage as possible, as well as cutting off any escape routes.

It reared its head back and vomited a beam of chaos energy forward, a deadly laser flying through the air. Sonic and Shadow came to a screeching halt and watched as it crossed the bay in seconds and collided with the suspension bridge, the entire structure engulfed in purple flames in an instant, all of it erupted into a fire storm of flying brick dust and cables.

"We may have problem." Shadow stated as he watched the bridge collapsed into the bay.

"That's the understatement of the century." Sonic replied, looking up as the lizard towered over them. It slowly opened it's jaws, showing row after row of jagged teeth, dripping with saliva. "Nothing seems to hurt it anymore." Shadow narrowed his eyes, trying to come up with an alternative strategy very quickly. The last time they defeated it, they had been in their super forms and in their current states they would not last along against this new cybernetic version.

It wasn't as if they could simply find all seven Chaos Emeralds lying around. No matter how desperate a situation looked, Shadow knew that there had to be a was around it. It was one of the lessons Prof. Robotnik had taught him.

"It's life support system on it's back." Shadow , gesturing to the advanced machinery riddling the creature's spin. "We attack together." Sonic nodded and the two of them dived out of the way as a large mechanical paw came crashing down. Shadow skated to the side, gathering speed before darted directly to the right. Sonic copied the manoeuvre on the left, both leaping into the air and spinning right for the Prototype's back. The shield came flaring up again and as it received an attack from both sides it bent becoming egg shaped. The Biolizard roared, trying to bend it's neck right back to blast them but it couldn't manage the angle. The shield took a lot of punishment from the two spin dashes and just when it looked like it was on the verge of popping, two large laser turrets ascended from inside the beast itself and blasted the two hedgehogs simultaneously. Sending them flying backwards into the sides of buildings. It was an semi automatic weapon, put in place to remove irritants that put stress on the shield.

Sonic pried himself out a hole in the side of a warehouse wall, shaking his head to dislodge some brick dust from his quills. They'd almost had it. Another few seconds and they'd had burst through the shield, leaving the creature's life support wide open for an attack.

"This is NOT how I want to spend Christmas." He muttered to himself, trying to pry himself up. Just as he pushed himself out of the hole, the large shadow of a giant mouth full of jagged teeth looming over him, acidic saliva dripping out from between the scaly lips, scaring the ground below. Sonic swallowed hard.

(In Chris' voice)

The rampage continues as G.U.N tries to take on the Biolizard. Can Okida clear his name and exposure General Saddler? Find out next time on Sonic X, Goodbye Metal Sonic. Don't miss it!

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