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Chapter 22
Eggman was beginning to feel his insides boil with rage. The Egg-Destroyer 3000 was crushing the ground, trying to find the hedgehogs and the echidna.
"Come out cowards!" he shouted, the veins in his head beginning to pulp. "You'll die quicker and less painfully, I can assure you!"
Suddenly a bright yet short flash appeared in the sky. Super Shadow reappeared. His golden aura lit up the saddened darkness that was left of evening. He hovered just above the Egg-Destroyer 3000.
"Doctor!" Super Shadow yelled out.
Eggman blinked and the Egg-Destroyer 3000 turned around.
"Impossible! My Egg-Destroyer has all the energy from the emeralds! How-?" Eggman yelled, startled.
"Determination." Super Shadow replied coolly. "You've done enough to this world, Eggman. In the end, you're gonna wish you never sent me here in the first place."
Eggman snarled.
"Egg-Destroyer! Kill that hedgehog!" he screamed.
The Egg-Destroyer 300 transformed its arm into a huge missile launcher. Coloured sparks began to fly from around its body, once again. Super Shadow prepared himself for the fight and stanced.
The Egg-Destroyer 3000 gathered an incredible amount of energy to its arm and eventually fired a huge missile. The missile flew through the air at an incredible velocity and was headed directly for Super Shadow.
Shadow frowned and, as the missile came closer to him, flew upwards. He was hoping to simply jump over it but, as he looked behind him, he realised that the missile was a homing device.
Eggman's insane laughter echoed across the terrain and through the woods. He watched the missile chase the hedgehog around like a dog chases a cat.
Super Shadow continued to fly and allowed the missile to follow after him. He flew with great speed and darted into the forest. He flew over the heads of his friends and was headed straight for a cliff.
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Sonic lay in his own world. His vision was beginning to turn misty and his breathing wasn't improving at all. He could feel the blood in his chest as he took in air. He didn't feel the need to call out for the others to help him…in fact he couldn't really make out who exactly it was that was staying beside him. He could feel the horrible urge to cough coming into his chest.
Ray was sat just next to him, almost in the same condition. Knuckles carefully stood up, holding his side in pain.
"I'm…gonna try and go back and get some help for us." He said.
But almost as soon as he did he was forced to duck down again as Super Shadow skimmed past his head.
He and Ray gasped and saw the bomb headed toward him.
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Super Shadow flew at top speed. Just as he reached the cliff, he swerved very quickly to the right. The bomb hit the cliff and there was a deafening explosion. The cliff began to crumble and break apart. As the falling debris hit the ground it broke apart and dust flew everywhere.
For a moment, Super Shadow couldn't be seen amongst the dust cloud and Ray began to worry. But then Super Shadow flew like a Concorde out of the dust and back over where his friends were. He stopped himself just before Eggman, a determined and unmoved expression on his face. The doctor snarled at Super Shadow's stubbornness to be gotten rid of.
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Ray wiped his forehead and sighed with relief, his chest sounding rusty. Then, as he saw his father hovering before Eggman once more, an idea popped into his head.
Knuckles stood up again. Ray stopped him.
"Wait Uncle Knux, I'll go…" he said, coughing a little.
"You aren't in any condition to walk back to the base by yourself, Ray" Knuckles said.
"You're not any better…" (he coughed again slightly) "…than I am! Please, I have an idea to help my dad!"
He carefully stood up and ran toward the direction of the Underground Resistance. Knuckles wasn't quick enough to stop him and sighed in slight annoyance.
He sat down by Sonic's head.
"Don't worry pal. You're gonna be fine. Just hang in there and don't fall asleep on me!" he said.
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Even though Super Shadow felt more confident in avoiding Eggman's attacks, he knew that he could try his best to fight of this robot but it wouldn't do much good as both he and the Egg-Destroyer 3000 were equally matched.
He didn't let it show, however, but he had a feeling that Eggman knew the same thing. Just then Super Shadow spotted something out of the corner of his eye…something moving in the trees at a fast yet struggling pace.
It was Ray. He ran as quickly as his body would let him towards the Underground Resistance. Eventually he arrived at the hidden entrance but was forced to stop and catch his breath. He fell to his knees and breathed heavily.
He hit the floor with his fist and the hidden door opened. Ray carefully clambered down the hole.
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"OK Shadow…You and I both know the little problem standing in the way of our battle…" Eggman yelled.
Super Shadow kept the same expression.
"Neither one of us can win this, Doctor…" he said calmly. "So why don't you just surrender?"
"Surrender! How dare you even suggest such a thing? I'm going to make sure you die wether both you and my machine are equally matched or not!" he screamed.
The Egg-Destroyer 3000 lifted its huge arm and began to swing it toward Super Shadow. Super Shadow flew up and down, avoiding being battered as his friends had already been.
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After a while, Ray finally made it to the Underground Resistance's living quarters. He stumbled to his house and found that that his front door was open.
"Everyone's in our shelter…" Ray thought. "But what I need is on my desk…"
He made it to his desk and surely enough, Shadow's gun (which Tails had made for him) was sitting there. Ray picked it up and smirked.
Just then the cover to the shelter opened slowly. The people hiding below had heard Ray stumbling about and someone was coming to investigate.
"Alright whoever you are! Stay where you.." someone shouted.
It was Tails. He burst open the manhole cover and stopped yelling when he saw Ray.
"Oh my God! Ray are you alright?" Tails said.
"What? My little Ray's up there?" came Amy's voice from the shelter.
Tails jumped out and ran to Ray, seeing the damage to his side and how ill he was.
Amy popped her head out and, seeing her son, began to cry.
"You look terrible…" Tails said. "What's happened out there?"
"Uncle Sonic's in a worser…state than me…" Ray replied. "Uncle Knuckles is injured too…You have to go help them…"
"I will but first, stay here and rest a bit. Tell me what's happening out there."
Ray began to tell Tails and Amy about how the Egg-Destroyer 3000 hurt himself, Knuckles and Sonic. Then about Shadow reviving the chaos emeralds and transforming into Super Shadow.
"So now he's out there fighting that robot but none of them…seem to be backing down…" Ray finished.
He began to cough again (the amount of blood in his chest drawn down to a minimum). Amy quickly scurried into the kitchen and fetched a warm cloth. She then came back and began to rub Ray's chest, in the aid of easing his coughing.
"They must be both as powerful as one another…" Tails said.
"I came down here to get you guys and to get this…" (He held up Shadow's gun) "…To help Dad win." Ray said a little wheezily.
"OK Ray. I'm not properly trained when it comes to medical stuff but I'll try and help in whatever way I can!" Tails said. "Give me two seconds!"
Tails quickly ran out from the house.
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Super Shadow continued to battle on with the Eggman's mechanical giant but it seemed to be in vain. Of course, damage was being done but whenever Super Shadow caused damage to the robot's exterior the robot fought back and did the same. Knuckles watched helplessly from the ground.
"Man oh man…this isn't good." He said quietly to himself.
He turned to look at Sonic but what he saw gave him a huge shock, so much that it made him yell out.
Sonic was lying face down in a pool of his blood. His eyes were closed and his arms lay flat at his sides. In fact, he wasn't breathing. He'd obviously had the dreadful coughing fit but was unnoticed, due to the amount of noise from Super Shadow's battle with the Egg-Destroyer 3000.
Knuckles began to gasp for breath, as the horrific sight of his friend lying there in that fashion had made him feel ill.
"S…S…Sonic?" he gasped.
Suddenly, almost as if he'd been giving an electric shock, Knuckles jumped over to Sonic and felt around his neck for a pulse. With nothing being found, tears began to dwell up in the echidna's eyes.
"Sonic, don't…you dare!" he stammered amongst his tears.
A new realisation set into Knuckles' mind and, as it did so, the echidna slowly backed away from his friend. He looked at Sonic's blood stained face and the tears began to fall.
"I'm so…s…sorry!" Knuckles yelled.
Why hadn't Sonic made some kind of effort to attract his attention? He was dying but Knuckles was so concentrated on the battle…
Knuckles sat, leaning against a nearby tree and wept for the loss of his friend and all. Sonic the Hedgehog…was gone.