Sonic Battle 2

Chapter 9, part 2: Shadow's Redemption

Author's Note: Here's part 2. I wanted to split it up to make it seem more epic.

Shadow and Metal Sonic faced each other, ready to fight to the finish. Metal Sonic tried to hit Shadow with a spike like last time, but this time Shadow was ready, and by the time Metal Sonic reached Shadow, Shadow had used his Chaos Emerald to create a shield. The spear snapped clean off. Shadow then prepared his first big hit.

"CHAOS CONTROL!"

Before Metal Sonic could react, Shadow was behind him.

"CHAOS NIGHTMARE!"

Shadow hovered a few inches off the ground, and his fists began radiating pure Chaos energy. Metal Sonic flew backwards and hit the wall, bounding off of it. Despite this save, Metal Sonic was now at only 75 percent capacity for fighting. Unfortunately for Shadow, still enough to use his Chaos arm cannons. Removing one hand, Metal Sonic fired a green blast. Shadow created a shield, but the attack was so strong that Shadow still took great damage, leaving about half of his vitality.

Shadow had not spent the time before Metal Sonic's attack idly. He had been silently preparing his next hit.

"CHAOS SPEAR!"

Yellow spears of energy surrounded Metal Sonic and closed in, taking a huge chunk of health and leaving Metal Sonic at about 25 percent. But all this time, Metal Sonic had been charging his arm gun.

Not seeing this, Shadow rushed in for the kill—although he didn't know it, his own kill. Metal Sonic shot the fully charged Chaos Buster (just came up with that name). Shadow took heavy damage; not as heavy as it could have been, because of Metal Sonic's lessened battle capacity, but still enough to drive him within an inch of death. This would definitely be tougher than Shadow expected.

Fortunately, Shadow had not revealed all of his skills up until now. He stopped moving and was surrounded with a swirling vortex of what looked like wind. As if by magic, all of his wounds were slowly disappearing.

"Metal Sonic, you fool!" Eggman shouted out, "don't just stand there, stop him! He's vulnerable!"

Metal Sonic dashed and attacked Shadow, stopping his healing. But it was too late, Shadow had already healed up to a level equal to that of Metal Sonic. But Metal Sonic knew he could finish Shadow off with a fully charged Chaos Buster—just as well as Shadow knew he could do the same to Metal Sonic with a Chaos Upper. Shadow dashed toward Metal Sonic as he charged the Chaos Buster, and then they both let their attacks fly with deadly accuracy. The meeting of the power of two opposite Chaos Emeralds caused a bright explosion of energy, leaving at first only dust in its wake. As the dust slowly cleared, an undistinguishable figure that looked similar to Sonic, but with red eyes, stood holding both Chaos Emeralds.

"Good job Metal Sonic, you really knew how to get him. You—"

But Metal Sonic was not the one standing. The dust cleared completely, revealing a badly damaged, but not completely destroyed, Metal Sonic lying on the floor. Since Metal Sonic was not the one standing, that left only…

"Shadow? How did you make it through?"

"I used my shielding powers at the last possible second because I knew Metal Sonic would try a massive buster shot, and at such close range the recoil would be enough to destroy him, even if it reduced me to critical levels. But I suppose I'll be alright now that I have two Emeralds."

"No!"

Eggman lifted the remains of Metal Sonic and flew off in the direction of a large volcano. Behind Shadow's back, Eggman grinned silently and muttered under his breath.

"Thanks Shadow, with a Chaos Emerald in him already, Metal Sonic couldn't withstand the amounts of energy I was planning on adding to him. But with no Chaos Emeralds, he should do fine."

Shadow headed back to Tails' lab with the two Emeralds.

"CHAOS CONTROL!"

If you thought I was dead or on a really really really long vacation, you thought wrong. The server wouldn't let me update for about a month.