Arm-Egg-Eddon

Metal blasted through Rouge's door like a cannonball, speeding towards the nearest robot he uncurled, latched onto its head and proceeded to tear it apart, stripping the head of armour, hull and internal systems before tearing the torso open and crushing the CPU in his metallic fingers. He looked up, and then spindashed himself at another robot, repeating the process as Team Dark started on the other EAs, Shadow using a similar attack pattern, except he just spindashed into their torsos, burying into, and splintering, their CPUs, Rouge leapt from Omega's shoulder, performing a drop kick on one robot that smashed its head into its torso, crushing the CPU inside.

As she flew towards another one it exploded in a whirl of chaos fire, the drives in the guns had been detonated by Omega, he had retracted his clawed hands and was now sporting a chaincannon with a gauss rifle in the centre and he was tearing apart robots with as much surgical precision as a sledgehammer, bullets blasted open holes in EA torsos and heads, gauss rounds ripped into the arms and guns, destroying the containment fields and detonating the chaos drives within the guns.

"Annihilate! Annihilate! Annihilate!" screamed Omega enjoying his rampage, revelling in the rubble and dancing in the fire.

Metal felt similar joy as he envisioned every cyclopean head as Robotnik's, his ice cold fury giving way to a firry passion as he began to enjoy tearing apart these tin cans, he began to shred the entire robot, not just the head and torso, leaving piles of scrap metal in his wake. There was an explosion from high above, Metal paid it no mind, to engrossed was he in his work, but Shadow looked up, and saw a section of the Speed Highway explode, the EA robot's chaos plasma weapons having an effect.

"Omega!" yelled Shadow, grabbing his mechanical comrade with one hand, the other producing the yellow emerald, "Chaos Control!" drawing on only a small portion of chaos energy he froze time, "Omega, jet me up there" he said to the robot.

Since Shadow had been touching him when time stopped Omega was still mobile, he ignited his jetpack, carrying Shadow up to where a huge section of the Speed Highway was falling from the main one. Shadow put one hand against the highway and clutched the emerald tight in his other one, "Chaos Control!" he yelled, teleporting himself and the piece of highway out of the way, they reappeared at the beach and the slab of road crushed about 30 EAs as it hit the ground, the timestop running out. Shadow teleported back to the fray just in time to see two teams meet in the centre of Station Square.

Metal had been tearing a path through the robot hordes when he had stopped in the centre of the city, looking for more targets when a red blur smashed into one robot, a blue one smashed into a second and an orange blur destroyed the third robot standing across the square. As the blurs materialized themselves they took on three forms that Metal had hoped he would never have to face again, Team Hero, his destruction, he still felt the pain of defeat at the hands of his organic counterpart.


Sonic had been trashing robots for a while and it had dawned on him that this was not merely an attack, this was an invasion force designed for one purpose, the destruction of Station Square. When he reached the centre of the city his battle took a short pause as he saw someone he never thought he'd see again,

"Metal?" he asked the other hedgehog, shocked at his appearance, he looked like he'd been put through a car crusher, then a blender, then been hit with a sledgehammer. His spines were dented and twisted, his body rusting slightly; paint had been scraped off during his battles with the EA robots and his cloak was hanging in rags and tatters from his shoulders. "What happened to you?" he asked

Metal hung his head, his superior organic counterpart was confronting him, and he sounded concerned! What little pride Metal had left evaporated instantly, the irony of the situation did not escape him, the one who he had constantly strived to destroy now felt sorry for him.

"I should never have tried to defeat you S…S…Sonic," he whispered, struggling to say the name of his once hated counterpart, "I am inferior to you, a poor copy"

Sonic looked surprised at his ex-Rival's words, "Metal, I've never seen you as inferior to me, we've always been rival, Metal, we are equal you and I. You are simply just a metallic version of me, that's all, you're not a copy, you're a person in your own right" he said, telling Metal truthfully what he really thought of him, and he was glad to see Metal's head rise to look at him, even if it did bear a startled expression.

Metal was stunned by this revelation, Equals! Sonic had always considered him an equal, a rival, which was why he couldn't beat Sonic! It wasn't that he was inferior; it was that they were equal. A smile came to Metal's face, now he could see a purpose, "Sonic" he said, no longer having to force his counterpart's name through his teeth, "how many robots have you destroyed?" he asked

Sonic frowned, "around about a hundred, why?" he asked, puzzled

"I bet I destroy more than you," said Metal with a grin, before launching himself at an incoming EA

Sonic's eyes widened, the he grinned as well, once more leaping back into the fray.


"I wonder what's holding Knuckles up?" Miira asked Kir, turning to him she understood why he hadn't been answering for the past five minutes, he was fast asleep.

Kir was dreaming, but this dream seemed different, almost prophetic somehow. He watched himself leap from the side of a platform to grab Miira, who appeared to have fallen off, his necklace caught on a twisted pole and the chain snapped, wrapping itself around said pole. He caught Miira's hand, but just missed the platform's edge and as he began to fall, a metal hand grabbed his, he looked up into a pair of solid orange eyes that belonged to a metal hedgehog. The metal hedgehog pulled both him and Miira up and Kir retrieved his necklace, tying the broken chain together, "Thanks" he said to the silver coloured robot,

"You are welcome" came the reply

Then everyone began to fade, the colours, what little there were, began to twirl and mix together as Kir woke up, his dream forgotten,

"Ugh, I'm awake, I'm awake" he said, responding to the shaking, "What'd I miss? Is Knux back yet?" he asked, turning to Miira, who had been shaking him

"No, Knux isn't back yet, but Flare says there's something strange heading this way" she said, pointing the hedgehog in the doorway, Flare waved as Kir looked his way,

"Come on Kir, you got to see this" he called, waiting until Kir had got up before skating away.

Kir followed him to a cliff that gave them a good view of the southern side of the island, "What am I looking at here?" he asked, scanning the horizon, seeing the something a second before Flare pointed it out.

It looked like the hull of a ship, but upside down, the keel pointing towards the sky, there were eight huge motors and propellers, four along each side, holding it up in the air, Flare passed Kir a pair of binoculars and Kir could now see rows of rocket engines along the bottom helping to keep it in the air, twelve motors and propellers on the back pushed the behemoth along, it was also bristling with guns, from a huge cannon on the front to the large blasters along the sides and top and the point defence guns all over any other space.

"How the hell does something like that fly?" asked Flare, staring at the strange craft

"I'd say a massive chaos drive engine, but you'd need a great deal of technical know how to build one" Kir told him, it was then he spotted the huge logo on the side, one with a moustache and a giant grin. "Looks like we might meet the infamous Eggman" said Kir, mainly to himself

"What was that?" Flare asked, taking the binoculars from Kir to have another look, "It's got something written on the prow" He said, zooming the binoculars in, "it says…'Aerial Egg' what kind of stupid name is that?"

As they watched the saw Aerial Egg turn away, and a smaller craft began flying towards the island, it was a smaller overturned hull shape, with only four motors holding it up and five pushing it, it also only had a main cannon and three blasters.

Kir frowned, "looks like some kind of landing craft" he said, turning to Flare, "Lets get back to The Camp, fast, and call everyone to my hut" he told him before dashing off towards his hut to grab one of his finished devices.

As the other people arrived at his hut he began handing out strange devices. They were like wristbands, except they were much thicker, made of metal and came up to their elbows.

Once everyone was wearing a pair, Kir, Flare and Miira included, Kir turned to the assembled creatures,

"These" he said, raising one arm and showing them the device "are a device of my creation, they are called Chaos Bracers and they are designed to enhance you for combat purposes" pressing a button on the bracer caused four panels to rise from it, each panel had a chaos drive in it, one of each of the standard colours; red, yellow, green and purple, he closed the panels and pressed a green button on each bracer "pressing these buttons will activate them, now, a landing craft of unknown design has landed on the island and I have reason to believe that they have hostile intent so now we must defend our home. Lets see if the Masters made us properly"

Everyone activated their bracers, a shimmering filled the air as the chaos power radiated from the twenty assembled creatures. Kir and Flare activated their chaos emeralds and all of them ran towards the landing craft, ready to do battle with whatever awaited them.