Arm - Egg - Eddon

Mecha had found the person he had been sent to find, and was now pursuing his hoverbike down a highway, attempting to make contact.

"Wait, Listen, my creator wishes to hire your skills" he said to the one riding the bike

"Well why didn't you say so" came a southern drawl from the bike's rider, he pulled over to the side of the road and turned to Mecha.

Mecha could now see the nameplate on the side of the bike; it read 'Marvelous Queen'

"So" came the rider's drawl again "What does your creator want with the Sniper?"

"To find out you're going to have to follow me" Replied Mecha, turning away from the mercenary, seeing the curved fang that gave the weasel one of his personas, the one he was leading back to Wreck Base, Fang, The Sniper.
Knuckles was examining the super and Master emeralds that had grown from their Chaos Drive frameworks.

"Well Kir, from what I can tell this is exactly like the Master Emerald in every way except power, it's slightly weaker, probably because it was grown artificially from the Chaos Drives" Said Knuckles, returning from the center pedestal to where Kir and Miira sat

Kir looked up at Knuckles, "any ideas about the two empty ones?" he asked, already having an idea himself

Knuckles frowned, "I would have said get a white and a light blue framework set up, but those colors of Chaos Drive don't exist..." he began, trailing off as he saw the chaos emerald in Kir's necklace, he had an idea, "Kir, I could go to the mainland and get a chaos drive creator, that way, with a few modifications you could create white chaos drives...but you'd need to find the light blue emerald" he finished

Kir nodded, and looked up "OK, Knuckles, you get the creator, I'll clear some space in my hut and..." he began, but Miira cut him off,

"No Kir! You are not putting more equipment in that hut of yours, you need to sleep sometimes you know. We'll put it in one of the storage huts" she told him, and then glared at Knuckles as he began to say something, silencing him as well.

Knuckles had climbed to the top of the Icecap Mountain and glided away from the island, towards the City of Station Square, unknowing of what was about to happen. Phase 2 of operation Armageddon was beginning


"Ah, Fang, welcome" came Robotnik's voice from his chair, he was looking at a bank of monitors, watching his plan unfold before him, he was watching hundreds of red lights turn on in the darkness of hidden bunkers

"What you want then Dr?" said Fang, leaning back in a chair and pushing his hat back.

Robotnik turned the chair around, looking at the mercenary, "At this moment in time I require Nack" he told him

Fang appeared to fall asleep, then his eyes shot open and he began to speak in a different voice, "Ok Doc, what d'ya want me for?"

Robotnik handed over a photo, "this is your first target, and I want you to retrieve this "he handed over another photo" from the target"

"Alright Doc, what's the pay?" Said the weasel, standing up

"Pay upon completion" stated Mecha, guiding Nack out the door


In warehouses in most of the major cities red lights began to turn on, and thousands of robots unfolded themselves, checked their weapons and stepped out into the world, EA-Troops, an army of robots, all marked by a mustached, grinning logo, Robotnik's.

Knuckles was stopping by Tail's workshop when he heard the explosions, they were coming from the city's central station, the one that had given it its name. He and Tails had dashed over there to see ten robots blasting at everything in sight, buildings were being holed, humans were dashing around and screaming, some being cut down as they ran, the strange, glowing energy blasts torching their backs.

Knuckles saw the guns and realized what the energy blasts were, sitting in a cycling ammo chamber were glowing chaos drives, their energy focused and ejected as volatile plasma. With a growl Knuckles threw himself at the robots, not noticing the writing on the first one he hit, it read EA-118.

There was a whoosh as a yellow plasma blast flew past Knuckles' head and crashed into an EA, blowing it apart and igniting the chaos drives, taking another two with it, Tails had got the cyclone from the workshop.

A blue blur smashed into two more EAs, the figure uncurling into a familiar blue hedgehog,

"Hey Knux, what brings you here?" asked Sonic before Spindashing into another robot

"I, was, just, in, the, neighborhood," replied Knuckles, his fists crashing into the robots with each word.

Pretty soon all ten were heaps of smoking metal and the three of them made for other explosions and other robots, the team was back together.


Shadow was sleeping when an explosion rocked the mansion; he leapt from his bed and skated into the main hall, meeting Rouge, looking like she had just woken up,

"What the…?" he began as they ran to a window,

Looking out they saw swarms of robots firing at everything in their path, buildings, cars, people; the metal death wielders blasted everything.

"Get Down!" yelled Shadow as an energy blast flew towards the window, half smashing, half melting it as it soared through the room and melted the wall, hitting the floor of the room beyond.

Rouge turned to Shadow, "Get your emerald and wake up Omega, I'm going to get ready" the told him, turning and running for her room,

Shadow skated to his room, grabbed him emerald the Chaos Controlled to Omega's workshop, yelling at the metal behemoth, "Omega! Get up now! We're under attack! The whole City is under attack!" Omega's eye lights ignited in a furious red,

"The Eggman's robots?" he asked, Shadow nodded and Omega lifted his arms, cycling through every weapon he possessed, checking their readiness, "Let us depart" he said, then blasted through his door, leaving Shadow to skate after him.

Omega stopped at the door in t he floor, opening it, de-activating the EMP fields and jumping down.

"Omega, where are you going?" yelled Shadow, but Omega couldn't hear him.

"Metal? Metal where are you?" he called, scanning and finding the metal hedgehog curled up in the corner, "Metal, are you awake?" he asked the prone figure,

Metal stirred, turning his head and looking at the huge robot, "what? What do you want?" he said, his voice still full of despair

Omega lifted Metal off the floor and placed him on his feet, "Can you still fight?" he asked him, getting an angry look in return,

"Fight! Of course I can fight! What kind of imbecile are you?" he yelled, gazing up at the bright red eyes of Omega

Omega looked up to the ceiling, feeling the vibrations of the EAs destructive rampage, "Metal, we are under attack from Robotnik's forces, we could use an ally" Omega told him, looking back down at the pitiful figure before him

Metal began to smile; a ferocious, dangerous smile as he uttered just four words, "Let me at them"