(I do not own Sonic X, etc.)------Metal Sonic fans, tissues at the ready please!

Flip Card 2:

Name: General Saddler

Age: In his early forties

Sex: Male

Species: Human

Description: Masquerading as G.U.N's chief operator, General Saddler is in truth the head of a vicious group hidden within the military itself. A group that wishes to see Eggman exact his rule over the globe.

Nothing seemed able to stand up to the furious destruction the Biolizard unleashed, it's furious attack; despite Sonic and Shadow's best efforts engulfed nearly have the city. Civilians were fleeing in terror as the colossal cyborg-Dinosaur lumbered down main street, any forces that tried to move against it were reduced to smouldering ashes. Half the city was in the ruins now, forever rendering the mass majority of Station Square inhabitable.

Nothing Sonic tried seemed to work. The creature's skin was impervious to attacks and it's powerful blasts levelled whole city blokes at a time. If this kept up, Station Square would only last a few more minutes.

Shadow wasn't having much luck either. His attacks weren't working, they simply rebounded of it's shield, doing more damage to the surrounding building than to the creature.

"I can think of over a million places I'd rather be right now." Sonic screeched, darting behind the side of a building before a blast came screaming at him, tearing up the road replacing it with a deep ditch. Why couldn't they at least hurt this thing? When they'd faced it on ARK they'd been able to at least make it bleed.

From the Mystic Ruins across the bay, Metal Sonic watched the fires consuming the city. His memories circuits told him that this screen was reminiscent of that time when he used the Master Emeralds power to turn himself into Metal Overlord and with that dark energy, he attacked Station Square. A good deal of buildings had been decimated in his attacks. Now he knew how wrong he was and something inside him told him that he had to do everything in his power to stop this. It was…just the right thing to do. He clenched both metallic fists. Perhaps there was more of Sonic in him than he realized.

Shadow leapt to the top of a building and fired another Chaos Spear directly at the life-support system, only to have the shield once again block his attack. This was insane, nothing was working.

Suddenly, his brain had a storm. He snapped his fingers. That just might work!

Leaping off the side of the building, he skated downward and soured straight towards the Lizard as it clawed it's way up the main street, smashing buildings and entire cars in the process. This had to be timed just right, or this was going to be all over, and not in a good way.

The Biolizard twitched it's head as it saw the hedgehog approach and rotated it's entire neck around, the mouth already open. The quills on it's back began burning with lightning and bolts swapped back and forth between the teeth.

"CHAOS CONTROL!" Shadow yelled into the air, vanishing in a green haze, attempting to break through the Biolizard's shield by teleporting past it. The attempt not only failed; but because the shield consisted completely of chaos energy the black and red hedgehog received a full blast of highly unstable energy straight through his body. He convulsed in pain, screech out load, before being thrown back violently straight into the side of a vacant truck, leaving a shadow shaped impression in the metal.

"Shadow!" Sonic yelled out as the beast towered over the black hedgehog, raising a paw ready to smash the near unconscious hedgehog into the ground. Sonic only had a few seconds to do something, but no attack in his arsenal seemed capable of even denting the creature. He had to come up with something new, in the next five seconds!

"If it works for Shadow…" He began to himself, holding his arms out in front of himself, gathering energy like he was going to us Chaos Control, but directed out through his palms straight at the lizard, hoping that he might use Chaos spear like Shadow.

The effect proved more unique than the blue hedgehog was counting on. Instead of deadly yellow darts forming around him, ready to fly forward, a blue aura surrounded his entire body growing in strength. He convulsed as a pure aqua beam rocketed forward into the air, white lightning spinning around it like a tornado. The lizard grunted in curiosity, looking up surprised before it straight him directly on the head, sending it straight down to the ground. Shadow managed to regain some wits just in time to avoid being slammed into the ground by a large scaly chin, rolling to the side before back flipping to his feet. "Woah…" Sonic gasped, blinking, looking at his steaming palms.

"And what do you call that?" The black hedgehog shouted up to him as the lizard began slowly pulling itself upward, now profoundly irritated. Sonic was silent for a minute, before a smile crossed his face and he clenched his fists.

"The Sonic Wind." He replied, before back flipping down to the street, landing directly beside Shadow. The Biolizard roared in anger, righting itself. "I don't know about you, but I've just about it with this thing."

"Same here." Shadow said back, clenching a fist himself before nodding and the two of them turned back to the lizard, who arched his neck preparing to fire another blast in their faces. "So what you say, what to try together?" Sonic nodded, before holding both hands out in front of himself as Shadow did the same, their synchronized energies building.

The combined two attacks screamed forward, spinning together like dance partners, a glowing point marking the fatal blow as it crashed into the Biolizard head first. The blue energies of the Sonic Wind and the gold of a Chaos Spear merged, exploding in a huge firestorm. A colossal amount of smoke went flying up into the air, reaching into the creature as the creature's groan was muffled by the bang. Amy watched from the top of a building, her hammer in her hands. What she too late already?

A swarm of military choppers were already on route to Station Square to help the local garrison forces defend it from what reports described as, 'Godzilla born again'. With over three dozen Mech Walkers loaded up, swinging on thick metal cables on the underside, Okida felt fairly confident that he would arrive in time to make a difference. He only hoped that this Yahger Mech was still where he left it. Flying alongside their air born convoy was an escort of flight capable walkers, Flying Dogs. All flying in a V-formation around them.

He knew what this threat was. After a quick review of the files on the disc, it showed that Operation Artificial Chaos was a project started by Saddler to defeat Sonic and Shadow, the two beings that would have inevitably stood in his way. In the distance, on the bay where Station Square, or it's decaying rubble stood, there was a sudden flash of blue and gold followed by ear shattering scream the pierced the heavens. Okida pressed his ears to the side of his head, his acute hearing picking it at far higher a pitch than the other soldiers.

Leaning out of the window, Okida peered past to see what was going on. The glow had died down by now, and only a steady pillar of steam was rising into the air like a black mountain.

Sonic, having covered his face with his arms, looking past his limbs to see if it had any effect and as the smoke clear, a large grin crossed his face. It had worked, wonderfully well in fact.

The creature's mechanical arm had been completely blown off and a good deal of flesh torn from it's shoulders, exposing bone and wires interweaving the skeleton. The burnt ends of cables sparking out everywhere By the way it's neck was twisting, it's mouth screaming violently into the air, it was obvious it was in a lot of pain. Yellow blood that looked more like bile was spilling out onto the street in a thick ooze. A smile crossed Shadow's face from ear to ear.

"Looks like we disarmed…." His attempt at a one liner froze in his mouth as a deep glow began emitting itself from the beast's eyes as it was instantly surrounded by a red aura. A low roar like distant thunder growling in it's throat as it focussed the chaos energy in it's body. "No way in hell…"

The two hedgehog's watched in disbelieve as it's mechanical arm re-grew from the ends of the shattered metal, the cruel steal talons reappearing without a single scratch. New skin and muscle began to cover the wounds and within seconds, the creature was as good as new.

"That can't be good…" Sonic began, both ears falling to the side of his head as the Biolizard reared into the air with his neck and screeched.

"You're beginning to make a habit of stating the obvious." Shadow muttered before the creature charged at them as fast as it's two limbs could carry it, the large muscular tail smashing into the side of a building behind it.

The fight that began in that instant lasted only a minute. Unable to find the time to concentrate, Sonic and Shadow were smashed in every direction imaginable, beaten completely black and blue (pardon the pun.)

Lying on the ground, hardly able to move their limbs, the lizard moved in for the kill, preparing to blast them with it's strongest attack, hoping to finish the two of them off right now. The quills on it's neck sparked and it's neck arched, beams of light being drawn between it's teeth. The very ground beneath them trembling, the pieces of stone jumping up and down.

Without a single moments hesitation, Metal Sonic fired his boaster rockets and soured through the air, intercepting the deadly blast. Sonic looked up, cried something, telling his robotic clone to move out of the way. But Metal Sonic did not budge, spreading his arms out wide as he prepared to take the blast head on. Shadow pushed himself to his feet, already mid way through Chaos Control trying to save him, but even his efforts were to last. Metal threw up an energy shield and fired a energy beam of his own in an attempt to divert the attack. His own beam flew through his shield effortless, after first rocketing forward from the cavity in his chest, colliding with the deadly oncoming attack.

For the second during which the energy made contact with Metal's body, there was absolutely silence, like the world had freeze framed. Before a deafeningly loud bang tore through the air and Sonic watched in horror as the shield dissipated and Metal Sonic was ripped to shreds in an instant, his mere presence disrupted the beam just enough so it missed Sonic, Shadow and Station Square altogether, flying out across the bay to finally end on the horizon. First his hands and legs began to flake off, burning like ash. Then the rest of his legs vanished, his body ripped to the side. The left arm, gone instantly after that moment before finally the rest of him was blasted into oblivion.

What was left of the robotic hedgehog's crumbled boy fell to the ground, crumbling into charred ash as it hit the ruined concrete. All that remained solid of his body was the head, the quills scorched off and half of the facial armour gone. Most of his optics had been burnt away, and parts of his limbs lay scattered here and there. The eyes, still visible for a moment, blinked red before disappearing completely as Metal Sonic's systems went offline.

"Metal…" Sonic began, the finality of it all dawning on him as he fell to his knees, his arms falling lifelessly beside him. "No…it can't." Shadow just stared with an open mouth, before clenching both fists and looking back up at the Biolizard, who by now was towering over them like some ominous doom, raising it's metallic paw up, preparing to smash them into the ground like some insects. Tears began welling up in the blue hedgehog's eyes as he watched the corpse, trying to refuse what he had just seen with his own two eyes, but was forced to embrace it none the less. For the most part, he felt cold. Empty, devoid of feeling. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" his scream broke the world, and suddenly the emptiness was replaced by a burning anger unlike anything he had ever experienced before. In a single second it was over him and nothing or nobody was going to stop him from tearing this creature limb from limb.

The lizard smashed it's paw down, feeling their bodies crunching into the ground beneath it's palm. And just as it did so, beams of piercing light began radiating away from it's claws. The creature looked confused, before a force of sheer wind threw it backwards. The Biolizard stumbled backward, screeching as a white figure began rising like a phoenix from the ashes below, clad in a white aura that burned so intently it seemed to engulf the entire city. It was a hedgehog, with jagged quills and glowing fur. The Biolizard could sense a tremendous amount of active chaos energy within it, enough to challenge it's own supply. The hedgehog opened is' eyes showed narrowed green silts glaring at him in intense anger. Like a second sun, the white hedgehog rose upwards into the air, unthinkable power burning between it's fingers.

The lizard didn't know where this new hedgehog had come from, but didn't quite care either. It tilted it's head back, the quills it's back sparking again as it powered up another blast.

"Not this time." The hedgehog stated, it's voice rippling like two people were speaking at once. It held out a hand, the palm flat towards the Biolizard as it's attack powering up reached it's peek and it threw it's head forward, another beam of light lancing out from between it's teeth. The blast never even reached the white hedgehog as it simply reflected off a shimmering shield surrounding its body, dissipating into nothing.

The Biolizard didn't even have time to look confused as the white Hedgehog soured forward, landing a kick straight against the side of it's head. The blow seemed small, but had enough force behind it to throw the cybernetic creature clear off the ground. Tumbling across the harbour, the Biolizard landed half in and out of the bay, scratching at the scarred ground trying to pull itself back up to solid ground.

Nazo, a composite being created by the merging of two personalities that couldn't be more different, only felt one thing. The one thing that the two hedgehogs that had created it had felt when they joined. Complete and utter rage.

His arms spread out wide and white fire burned between his fingers, before he cast them forward, sending a blast of purest chaos energy coursed forward, striking the Biolizard across the head, knocking completely sideways, to the side of a warehouse, all the windows inside the building shattering. Racing in, Nazo delivered a solid punch to it's large scaled front doing an intense amount of damage to it's rib cage. Nazo didn't stop there through, he flew around the side, blasting the side of it's life support system. The shield protected it, but it was plain that the blast had put it's defence under extreme pressure. Nazo did a U-turn and attacked again, this time with a more powerful attack.

Again the shield flared up, refusing to budge but near the breaking point. Fuelled by his rage, before he even finished his blast, fired another one out of his free hand and finally the shield burst. Screeching the lizard pulled itself violently to the side, narrowly avoiding severe damage to it's life support.

Nazo was beyond all reasoning now. The word mercy never entered his mind. As far as he was concerned, the very word did not exist. The white hedgehog unleashed a vicious wrath upon the creature, hitting it with a multitude of blasts that did a tremendous amount of damage each and every time. The Biolizard shrieked, desperately backing up towards the waterfront, it's shield doing everything it could to project it's vital systems.

Forcing it even further back, Nazo flew directly into the centre of the street and with s glare of utter hatred on his face, held his arms out in front of himself. Gathering energy, then threw his palms forward, an invisible blast rocketing through the air, turning entire buildings into falling rubble instantly and sending the lizard flying off the side of the harbour and into the water. The water flew up over the side of the front, parts of ships and boats smashing onto the roofs of warehouses.

The Biolizard slipped down, disappearing into the darkness in an instant. Amy had seen the whole thing from a distance. She had never seen either Sonic or Shadow that angry before. What could possible have driven them to such… As she moved across the rubble ridden street, something round touched her foot. Looking down, she could see it was the severed head of Metal Sonic, nearly burnt to a crisp.

Nazo narrowed his eyes as a loud groaning began to emanate from the sea below him, a faint red glow burning beneath the waves. A groan that increased in volume with each passing moment. The white hedgehog blinked and looked up towards the sky. Thick clouds were beginning to gather, becoming the gigantic black sky. The distant forks of lightning burning far above. Thunder blasting down towards the ground like a bass drum. The very light from the sun above began to slowly disappeared, the ruined city around him becoming as dark as night,.

With a spray of foam, the Biolizard's head burst out of the water and fired a blast of white energy straight forward. It's speed catching the white hedgehog completely off guard, sending him flying on the deadly end of it into the sky. Crashing through a wall, Nazo ended up lying across the deck of some room on the hundred and eighth floor of a skyscraper. Covered in brick dust and snow, a thin trail of blood running from the edge of it's mouth.

Screeching, the creature pulled itself out off the water, two large lumps on either side of it's life-support system boiling up like. The muscle underneath the scaly skin stretching and compressing, distorting as a secondary mode of combat activated; a protocol to be activated in case of dire emergency. Bones began stretching along the underside of the arms, the fat, stumpy fingers stretching out and arching, the metal replicate following suit. In an instant, a thick layer of soft skin stretched between each fingers, finishing a new set of bat like wings replacing each arm.

As Nazo pulled himself up, shaking the brick fragments out of his quills, the beast testing the flexibility of it's new limbs before turning to look up the building. A screech escaped it's mouth, before it took to the air; souring up the side of the building towards the white hedgehog.

"Bring it!" Nazo snarled, gathering two energy orbs between his fingers and leaping down to meet his opponent.

(In Chris' voice)

Metal Sonic, once a hated enemy sacrificed himself to save them! Is he gone forever? Will the enraged Nazo prevail against the Biolizard? Fine out next time on Sonic X, the Final bout'. Don't miss it!

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