Meanwhile, Omega was totally lost. There was some sort of maze in here that had never been there before. And then it occurred to him… there was a trail of destruction and shrapnel from security bots. If he followed that, he'd probably come across Sonic or Tails, or perhaps some rogue robot. It was his best bet, in any case. He didn't recognize this at all.
All in all, the path was quite pleasant, although it went into some tight spaces, and up walls. It was a good thing that he was feline, and with his claws could climb them, although with a bit of difficulty. About 10 minutes later, he could tell that something was wrong. For one thing, the door at the end of the hall was barred, and Tails was tugging on them in a futile attempt to get inside. And the Emeralds were very close… "What's happening?" Omega demanded as he walked up to Tails.
Tails jumped a bit in surprise, and looked at Omega. "Omega?" he asked, surprised. "How did you survive?"
"I landed in a tree. Now what's happening?"
"Sonic's fighting Eggman, and so far, it's a stalemate. Neither can do any damage to the other, but it's only a matter of time-" Tails started.
"Say no more. Eggman's preoccupied, then? Perfect. He won't notice a little shadow creeping across the room."
And with that, Omega began to cut through the bars on the door. He only needed to cut through 2, but the metal was strong, and took him 10 minutes. In the meantime, Sonic was dodging the attacks of the egg-spider, over and over, searching for a weakness. There didn't seem to be ANY sort of chink in its armor… it moved too fast for its joints to be exposed. And then, the egg-spider stopped, and began to buck up and down; trying to shake something off… it was Omega, clinging to its back. Sonic stopped, and began to examine the egg-spider while Omega was distracting it… and found its weakness. A small panel, on the underside, was exposed. Sonic rolled up into a ball, and began to spin… and as he did, the spider threw Omega off its back, across the room, sans chain.
He crashed into the bars around the Chaos Emeralds, barely alive. His robotic arm was pretty much useless now, a piece of smashed metal. Omega closed his eyes, hating himself, hating Eggman, hating how he had failed. He had failed to bring Justice to the world. He had failed in his mission. He had failed in his Life, fooled into thinking the wrong things, fooled into believing lies. It wasn't fair. It shouldn't end this way…
Meanwhile, Sonic spun into the exposed panel. KRA-ZZZAAPP! He fell, his fur charred and smoking, but still able to fight he got up, but was abruptly swatted into a wall by the egg-spider. As the egg-spider started toward Sonic's prone form, Omega began to lose hope. He would die, they would all die… "SONIC!!!" Tails cried, and ran over to him.
The egg-spider took aim at Tails, and fired its laser at him. It hit, knocking him to the ground, his leg bleeding. Omega watched all of this, helpless, his rage growing. It shouldn't end this way. It couldn't end this way… it WOULDN'T end this way! He would have JUSTICE! He clenched his right hand, and to his surprise, gripped a Chaos Emerald.
The Emerald pulsed with light, and rose above Omega's stricken form, breaking the bars that had held it. The other Emeralds did so as well, glowing, pulsing, in an orbit. Omega rose with them, the center of their orbit, as the glow surrounded and engulfed him. "What?! NO!!" Robotnik shouted from the egg-spider, and fired at the chaos Emeralds.
But it was of no use. The Chaos Emeralds simply took the blast with no disruption, and the glow grew. The world went gray for Omega… everything else froze… and the Emeralds Spoke as one. "Will you take the Power, the Power of Life, and live? Will you do what you have promised, and bring Justice into the world?"
Omega was weak. He could barely speak. He had expended most of his energy clenching his fist around the Emerald. His heart was stopping, his lungs ached and burned… his brain wasn't getting enough blood… "Yeh… Yes…" he said, and died.