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(Last time on Sonic X)

"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.

S.O.N.I.C GO!

S.O.N.I.C GO!

GO! GO! GO! GO! LET'S GO!

Episode 24: Goodbye Metal Sonic.

Forced into the Oval Office at gun point, Okida was forced roughly into a chair facing the President's desk. The bat couldn't see his face, but he was certain that General Saddler was smiling sadistically. Sitting behind the desk with his hands held out in front of him was Michael, the President himself. He sat there solemnly with a surprisingly stern look on his face.

"The Intruder sir." Saddler began without moving his gun from the back of the Captain's head. "Obviously now, it has been confirmed that our Captain of Freelance here is nothing more than an Eggman Empire collaborator." Since the alarms had been raised in the white house, a lot of armed agents clad in swat gear had been filing into the building. Some of which were standing around the outside of the room, all seemed to have itchy trigger fingers just waiting to blow Okida's brains out.

"I must say I'm disappointed in you." The President stated sharply, staring at Okida with deeply disapproving eyes. "I truly thought you were a model solider, loyal to this country, seems I was wrong." Okida did not reply. Nothing he could ever say or do would help him now. It was better to keep quiet, at least until his partner made their move. A crude smile crossed his face. "I trust you have retrieved the data discs he stole?" The President asked, turning towards Saddler. The General nodded and reached into his pocket, withdrawing the two forged discs with which he planned to deli ever the final nail in the Captain's coffin, sending him down for life for a crime that Saddler himself committed. Giving Okida a sneering side glance, he handed them over.

Michael looked them over once, before shaking his head at Okida. Then without a word he turned and placed one of them inside his lap top computer. Clearly he planned to review the information that could have been passed into Doctor. Eggman's hands.

Okida held his breath. This was the moment of truth, where his entire future and possibly the future of the world was decided. The President's laptop was turned away from them, so no one could see exactly what he was looking at, only that he seemed intrigued by what he was reading. Suddenly he stopped, his eyes widening before glancing up at them all, his mouth hung open a little. After a moment he looked back at the screen to ensure that he hadn't misread, before slowly standing up, placing the tips of his fingers on the desk.

"Guards." Michael began and every armed man in the room turned to look at him. Okida's mouth went dry. "Place the General under arrest!" Saddler's eyes shot open in disbelief as at least a dozen guns were all pointed in his direction at once. The President turned his lap to around, showing the files that he had been looking at. The General gagged in utter surprise and horror. Those were the files on the real discs, the ones that revealed his plans and his intention to betray the Government. The most incriminating evidence that any one could have against him was all right there.

But how on earth had he handed them to the President? He had given those to his loyal thug. He turned to look back at him, who at that moment reached behind his head and pulled his face off, revealing it to be nothing more than a plastic mask. Underneath was the far fairer face of Topaz, a member of Freelance division. The General swore out load, dropping his gun. Bean and Bark just seemed to come out of nowhere and grabbed the General from behind, pinning his arms behind him. Okida let his head roll back and he laughed, standing up slowly to face Saddler. He narrowed his eyes at the astonished human and smiled.

"Gotcha." He said simply as the General was put in hand cuffs by secret service agents. "I apologise about the ruse sir." The bat added, turning towards the President. "But it was the only way to find out what we needed to about these people without alerting their spies that I was onto them."

"You Mobian bastard." The general snarled, struggling against those who were handcuffing his arms behind his back. "You've been playing me all along!"

"Naturally." Okida replied with a great deal of satisfaction in his voice. "You weren't that hard to outwit Saddler." The President sighed and stood up, walking around his desk.

"It seems I owe you an apology captain, I'll have the price on your head repealed at once."

"Thank you Mr. President. A few days on the run without food never hurt anyone." The bat replied sarcastically. The President ignored the remark and crossed over to Saddler and stared the traitor in the face.

"Why Saddler?" He demanded angrily. "Eggman wishes only to enslave the world, why help him conquer us?" The general snarled at him.

"Because, Mr. President, I was sick of putting up with the sacred whims to leaders who were too afraid of their responsibility to use their power the way is should be." The President raised an eyebrow questioningly not fully understanding what the General meant. "Before Eggman arrived, the United States had the most powerful and advanced military forces in the world, yet we continued to endure terrorist attacks from idiotic extremist groups without half a brain. Instead of using our power to wipe them out and gain the recognition that we deserve in the world, we let them thrive and prosper. Well not any more. Once Eggman's forces arrive, they will united the entire world under one banner." His frown grew into a superior smirk, his eyes lined with sadistic hate. "You may have me, but it doesn't matter. My comrades will already be rolling out the welcome matt for Dr. Eggman's invasion force."

"Take him away boys." Okida said causally and kicking and screaming as Bean and Bark dragged the General from the room with a fairly satisfied look on their faces.

"Here sir." Topaz began, handing Michael the correct second disc. "This displays locations of bases with hidden advanced Mech technology that Saddler had been hording, it would be in our bests interests to seize it." The President took the disc, before hesitating, glancing between the two of them.

"Was all of Freelance Division in on this?" He asked. Okida nodded.

"Right from the beginning sir." The bat replied. "We would have informed you, but since there was no way to be sure who was in on Saddler's little uprising, we had to keep quiet." Michael stopped and sighed, rubbing his fingers through his hair. It was times like this he wished he would get voted out of office at the next election, just so he could take a vacation from all of this.

"Captain Koji Naoko Okida." He began, his tone so sharp that the bat snapped to attention involuntarily. "In light of your unwavering service above and beyond the call of duty, I hereby bestow on you the rank of Major." It took several seconds for that to actually sink in and the bat was left standing there with a dumbfounded look on his face. "Furthermore, I grant Freelance Division the right to any present and future Mech arsenals. I think I'll be needed you sometime in the future." With that, he left to follow Saddler's screams out of the room. Okida stood there, his eyes wide in complete shock. In the last five minutes, he'd just gone from most wanted man to Major of an Independent Unit with access to some of the most advanced fighting technology in existence. It was almost too much to accept at once.

"Congratulations Major." Topaz said with a coy smile, removing the rest of her disguise, revealing her blue military uniform.

Sonic rolled to the side to avoid a blast, before a thick muscular tail came tearing around swatting him from behind, sending him flying through the air and through several walls before filling crashing into the waters of the bay itself.

Shadow soured to the side, gathering what energy he could spare into an attack before launching a Chaos Spear attack across the Biolizard's side. The yellow bolts simply rebounded of it's shield harmlessly, before it's long neck arched and it fired a beam of Chaos energy straight at him, the quills on the back of it's necks sparking with lightning.

Shadow caught the full brunt of it and the black and red hedgehog was sent crashing into the ground, leaving along cut straight through the concrete, a good deal of smoke rising from his body that lay still.

Sonic, who still couldn't swim tried desperately to pull himself out of the water struggling against the morning tide. He was about to sink, whena hard surface came up from under him, lifting the hedgehog out of the water. Looking down, Sonic saw that he was now sitting on the top of the Yahger Mech. Tails had struggled to get it working again after it took a direct hit from the Biolizard and even now it's movements were slow and sluggish, with several weapons system knocked offline.

"This isn't working!" Sonic coughed, wiping a good deal of sea water out of his quills. "We've hit this thing with everything we've got and it just keeps coming."

Shadow rubbed the back of his head, looking up just in time to see a thick tail slam into the building opposite, tones of rubble cascading down towards him. Disappearing into a Chaos Control warp, the black and red hedgehog narrowly avoided being crushed. The Biolizard arched his neck back, the quills running down to it's back burning with energy before it threw it's head forward, a beam of Chaos Energy lancing through the air colliding with several buildings in it's way. Each began crumbling in an instant, collapsing into thick piles of rubble, bellowing clouds of dust reaching into the sky.

Several police choppers came flying over the skyscrapers, bullets filling the sky as the received visual on their target. The bullets didn't even seem to annoy the creature, simply bouncing of it's skin like they were nothing. Involuntarily, the large laser cannon on it's back rotated around and fired several blasts straight at them. Most missed, however one struck the first across the tail, sending it tearing towards the ground. The pilots had just enough time to bail out with their parachutes before it smashed into the ground in a spray of fire.

By now, even G.U.N peacekeeper forces had been called in. Despite protests that it was Christmas day, a long line of tanks was rolling down main street towards the harbour and the creature reeking so much havoc. Seeing the destruction being reeked, people in the buildings around and in most of the city were filling the streets trying to get away.

"Any idea's?" Shadow asked as Sonic raced up beside him, dripping wet.

"It can't be invincible." Sonic remarked angrily, shaking himself like a dog o rid his fur of the rest of the water, but ended up making his fur all puffy. The Lizard roared again, before turning it's attention straight back towards them. It's scaly lips slowly pulling themselves back, revealing rows of sharp teeth. "We beat it before."

"Yeah, but that time we were both powered up by the Chaos Emeralds." Shadow added, before looking back. "And this new version seems even stronger than the first." That statement was confirmed the lizard screamed and fired another beam straight across it's right, the destructive force tearing up the road leading to main street, engulfing the tanks, reducing them to smouldering wrecks.

"Crap…" Sonic muttered, baring his teeth.

Tails tried to force the controls of Yahger Mech forward but found them completely frozen. Just how did Okida pilot this thing? It's hardware and weapons systems were more complex than anything he'd anything seen before. It was hard just getting it to move after the blows it had taken. The internal screens showed that the Walker had taken extensive damage and was close to collapse as it was. "Tails get out of here!" Sonic shouted up towards the machine as the lizard began pulling it's large bulk towards them, sliding over piles of rubble on it's belly like a crocodile. "This thing's too strong, get out of here before it tears you to pieces."

"Are you nuts?!" Tails asked, looking down at the blue hedgehog through the camera on the top of the Mech. "Leave you two alone to take this thing on?"

"We don't have time to argue." Shadow replied simply, placing his hand upon the side of the machine before teleporting them away before Tails had a chance to argue. A second later, Shadow reappeared alone by Sonic's side, leaving the Yahger Mech on the other side of the Mystic Ruins.

"Well, what now?" Sonic asked as the Biolizard stopped, open it';s jaws as it prepared to fire another blast straight at then. Sonic and Shadow braced themselves, preparing to jump out of the way at the last second so it wouldn't have time to adjust it's name. Just as it's quills were beginning to glow and spark with energy, a loud whistling sound flew through the air as several rounds of shelling artillery came hurtling down from the sky colliding with the creature, knocking it down to the ground. The shield surrounding it's life support system being the only thing that was keeping it safe. Sonic blinked in confusion and looked up as a large shadow began eclipsing the winter sunlight. Crossing the sky above them, breeching the thick clouds was G.U.N's pride and joy. The colossal battleship, built after the fall of the Egg Fleet, crossed over the city like a bronze titan, shadowing the ground below completely. The Government 'G' logo painted on it's underside.

Giant Wing had had to nearly blow out it's engines to get here this quickly. It had been stationed up north were it was supposed that the Eggman Empire's forces would strike hardest. Luckily, it already had a large Mech Walker force on board, which began one by one dropping from a large hanger door on the side, parachutes slowing their decent.

"They don't know what they're up against!" Shadow hissed from between clenched teeth as he keep his gaze on the Biolizard, which was staring up at the falling Walkers with a curious look on it's half mechanical face. It screeched out load then all the turrets within shooting range on the Giant Wing turned around and fired several sounds of laser fire and rounds' of bullets straight at it. The Mech's that landed, most of them the large Hot Shot variety open their missiles bays and fired everything they had straight at the creature.

As the two hedgehog's on the sidelines expected, it's shield went up and note even a single missile got through. The Lizard screamed, arched it's head around and more balls of red energy gathered inside it's open mouth, before flying off in multiple directions, tearing the walker's around it to pieces in seconds.

Seeing the forces below getting trashed, the forest above turned it's big guns around and fired it's artillery straight down at the creature. The ground shook at the impact and Sonic was knocked off his feet by the sheer force. The Biolizard however held up under the blast, as closer as it was and continued to decimate the Walker's around it, who by now was trying to desperately defend themselves.

The fortress fired again and again and again, causing massive ground vibrations and shook the entire city below and a good deal of the Mystic Ruins. But had very little effect on the Lizard, who after laying waste to the Walker army around it, turned it's attention towards the irritant above.

Before either Sonic or Shadow could stop it, it looked straight up at the battleship above as it's quills began to burn with energy. Sonic dived forward to do something, anything, a beam shot from between the Biolizard's jaws and tore a hole straight through the ship, emerging out the top as it's destructive force emptied straight out through it. Giant Wing tilted violently to the side before the beam finally dissipated and it began to slowly fall towards the ground, smoke and fire quickly consuming it's bulk.

Both hedgehogs watched in horror as it, consumed now completely by fire, crashed into the bay. A thick wave radiating away from the metallic corpse as it sank into the water, smoke still rising into the sky. The Biolizard let it's head roll back again and it screamed a victory screech, it's slathering yellow tongue arching in it's mouth.

Sonic leapt up to the top of one of the few buildings left standing around the harbour to see a few lifeboats make their way slowly away from the smoking wreck. There were a good few of them, but hardly enough to account for the whole crew. Sonic waited for a moment to see if anyone else would try to make it off, but then the reality finally hit to him. There was no one else.

"We have to stop it." Shadow muttered to himself as the creature's attention was slowly drawn back to them.

Amy Rose watched the fireworks from the relative safety of the shores of the Mystic Ruins. She had been on her way to Tails workshop to celebrate Christmas with the guys. After she'd witness the Government's pride and joy get blown out of the sky it became obvious that was where Sonic would be.

She peered across the water to try and get a better look, and gasped when she saw the giant head of the Biolizard screeched above the dust clouds before it's jaws flew open and it fired a beam of energy directly at one of the tallest sky scrappers that towered above the city. Within moments, the towering structure had been cut completely in half, it's upper half crashing to the ground in a bellowing cloud of dust.

"This thing can reduce Station Square to rubble in ten minutes if we don't do something." Sonic whispered, clenching both fists.

Flip Card one:

Name: Amy Rose

Age: 17

Sex: Female

Species: Hedgehog

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