Chapter 11: Nite vs. Metal Nite

As Metal Nite fired both of his blaster cannons Nite managed to dodge to the side and stood ready for his metal copy's follow up attack. But he knew if he fought with the machine here then he would be putting his friends in danger as well.

I've got to lure him away…

"You want me metal head, then you gotta catch me!"

With that the wolf took off down the runway at inhuman speeds, his metal counterpart seemed to growl in anger as it took off after him. Nite looked over his shoulder to see that the M-001 wasn't really that far behind him. It was using the booster on its back and the tip of its tails along with what appeared to be the same hover technology that Shadow used to break the sound barrier.

He smiled as he knew that defeating this machine would prove to be quite a challenge, it caught up with him and then took over him slightly, he grinned as he reached down and tapped a button on his boots while still running and they activated a similar hover technology allowing him to catch up to and run side by side with the metal wolf both causing sonic booms as they ran.

He smiled again as they both looked at each other while seemingly skating on air. His metal clones then spoke:

"Most impressive, but you will not survive this confrontation"

Nite grinned confidently as he sped up slightly.

"By the time this is over I'll show you what a TRUE wolf can do"

Metal Nite probably would have glared at his biological likeness but he lacked the ability to move his face, instead he just leaped forward in his own homing attack. Nite just hopped up allowing the metal wolf to smash into the ground instead.

Nite then flipped back in a ball towards M-001 but the mechanical canine copied him and the two bounced off of each other. Both landed still running.

Nite's head began to feel funny again as he instinctively dodged his opponent's attacks.

OOO

"Catch me if you can slow-moes!"

With that he sped up to near super sonic speeds, creating a sonic boom as he charged further forward and closer to the freedom he so yearned for, that was until something landed in front of him and forced him to skid to a halt.

"What the?"

In front of Nite was a silver metal version of himself, it seemed to have some kind of fan on its chest and both its tail and back were boosters, its eyes glowing red as it prepared for its first attack with its clawed hands. Nite smiled confidently as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"Let me guess, Silver Nite?"

The robot didn't say anything it just lunged forward trying to slash him but Nite was fast enough to dodge to the side and spin to try and bring a hard kick to the mechanical wolf's head but it ducked and the two leaped back away from each other.

"You got some moves, but you're still no match for me!"

With that the two charged towards each other each dodging the others lightning fast attacks neither seeming to tire or give any ground. That was until the metal wolf's chest began to glow. This distracted Nite long enough for the metal counterpart to land a powerful kick to the young wolf's chin sending him high into the air. It then hopped back, its hands to its side as its chest began to glow even brighter until final a huge blast of energy erupted from it.

"YARGHHH!" Nite yelled in agony as the blast engulfed his entire body and sent him flying back. When he landed smoke drifted up from his body and his consciousness slowly began to drift from him as he heard a robotic voice near him.

"Target, Captured"

OOO

Nite shook his head as he awoke from his flashback still running with his metal brother only a few inches behind him, he turned slightly and was hit by a hard punch across his face which caused him to stumble as he swung a punch of his own landing it across Metal Nite's jaw and making it stumble slightly away. But the two kept running.

If that's how it happened against Silver Nite then…he glanced back at Metal Nite as they continued their deadly race I don't stand a chance against this upgraded one.

"Only one chance…" he spoke to himself quietly as he quickly changed direction and started heading for the edge of Prison Island, Metal Nite followed still trying to attack with everything it had and only missing its attacks by a few centimeters but getting closer each time.

Nite upholstered one of his Magnums and loaded something into it, making sure that his robotic self didn't see. Then just as they reached the edge of the cliff drop into the sea he spun and fired.

"Eat dirt clod!"

The blob of mud struck Metal Nite in the eyes preventing it from seeing what was going on as the two fell over the edge of the cliff and plummeted towards the sea.

I hope he can't float…

As they fell Nite pulled the Red Emerald from his pocket and concentrated hard on getting back to his friend.

"Chaos…CONTROL!"

With that he was engulfed in a green glow and disappeared as the M-001 hit the water below and sank but was still very much operational and now quite annoyed with its biological copy.

A green glow appeared on top of the main building on Prison Island and when it subsided Nite stood in its place, he quickly glanced around before sighing. It wasn't where he wanted to end up.

"Guess this stuff takes practice…"

He put the Emerald back in his jacket pocket and started to walk over to the door leading from the roof back into the building.

OOO

Amy stood watching where the two Nites had run off feeling that it seemed all very familiar to her. Then remembering how she had seen Sonic and Metal Sonic fight in much the same way. She fought to repress a slight giggle as she realized that everything that was happening to Nite right now had happened to Sonic and guessed that sooner or later it would happen to Shadow, if it hadn't already happened some time in the past.

"There they are Cream"

She turned as she heard the familiar extremely relaxed voice of Big the cat, and there was Big and Cream running towards the group of heroes, Cream seeming slightly angry as was Cheese as the pair ran up to Spike.

"Mr. Spike I am very cross with you. You should be in bed recuperating not out in dangerous area" "Choa, chao"

Spike seemed to be taking aback by the rabbit's rare show of anger and looked down in shame before replying.

"I'm sorry Cream but I just really wanted to help out…"

Cream and Cheese sighed as Big finally realized something.

"Where is the gun man?"

"Huh?" Tails turned to face the oversized cat taking a moment to register who Big was talking about "Oh, Nite took off running down the runway…"

"He was being chased by a metal version of himself" finished Knuckles looking a tad ticked off at the day's events.

Amy was starting to feel a bit uneasy as her wolf friend hadn't reappeared yet and after what Eggman had told her about the M-001 she didn't want to leave the metal copy alone with Nite for too long.

"Come on…" she signaled for the others to follow as she started to jog in the direction that the two wolves had run "…we should go make sure he's okay!"