Gerald's insane laughter filled the air as he admired the handiwork of his greatest mechanical creation; now that it has six of the seven emeralds it was unstoppable. With the seventh emerald it would have the power needed to destroy the planet in one massive attack. He wouldn't even have to complete Sonic and have him destroy all those who have caused the mad scientist's grief and loss.
"Very well done G-000…now all we need is Shadow's emerald and we can finally destroy this world to avenge my precious Maria…" some emotion sneaked into his voice as he said her name, but then he smiled evilly as he turned away from the destruction his machine had brought "…and we can dispose of those bothersome Shadow's as we collect it…"
"ROBOTNIK!"
Gerald spun round, his eyes wide behind his glasses as he heard the voice of the one he thought t be dead.
"Impossible…nothing could survive that blast…"
"Think again professor!"
With that a black and gray blur leaped from the smoke before slamming into the huge golden flying orb and grabbing onto it with magnetic gloves and boots specially designed as prototypes weapons for Sonic and tested on the black wolf.
"This is where it ends prof."
"The magnet boots and gloves! Damn, I forgot about them…"
Nite grinned at his so-called father, a childish glee in outsmarting someone clearly more intelligent than himself. Then he turned back to the huge orb and concentrated, as a weaker version of his hedgehog siblings he didn't need as much chaos energy to unleash his full potential. The power that resonated within the machine from the emeralds began to flow through its metal and into the wolf's being, his fur slowly beginning to change colour and he grinned with unguarded joy, as he felt untold of power surge through his veins. He was going to go Super…
OOO
Nite continued to drain as much Chaos energy as he could, he could feel the power coursing through his body, he could feel the change. Soon his fur changed from its regular black to a reddish bronze and a similar bronze glow began to emanate from his body.
He let go of the massive machine and slowly drifted back in the air, now gifted with a power to fly as he hovered up and back so he could get a better look at his new body. He stared down at his hands and arms, admiring his change in colour with a confident smirk. He then let his jacket slip off and slowly drift to the ground as he looked back at Sun and Gerald, a now wide confident grin across his face.
"Say hello to Super Nite, Professor"
He let his left hand drop to his side and balled his other into a fist raising it slightly and turning so his left hand side was slightly closer to his enemies than his right, still grinning confidently.
Gerald glared, he didn't count on any of the ultimate life forms, never mind Nite being able to use the emeralds while something else was using them. He now mentally cursed the fact that he had allowed the wolf the ability to reach his super form with half as many emeralds as his other ultimates, even if it was at a cost of power. He was practically shaking with rage as the young wolf smiled at him.
"Why you….Sun! DESTROY THAT WOLF!"
The huge orb began to glow once again, but this time Nite braced himself for the attack as he adjusted his position in the air slightly. Then, just like before a huge beam of energy shot from the mechanical monster and straight for the bronze wolf.
Nite thrust his hands out in front of himself, open pal grabbing the attack and holding it in place with a minimal amount of strain.
"Not this time ball boy…"
With that he threw his hands up and deflected the giant orb of energy straight up into outer space. Gerald couldn't help but admire the fact that even his failed experiment was immensely powerful.
"Not bad…G-000! Ready all cannons! Open fire!"
Various compartment opened up all over the orb, emerging from some were large blaster cannons and from others, missile launchers. Nite grinned at his new challenge as the huge machine let loose a barrage with everything it had.
As the missiles flew at him he used his new found aerial agility to twist around them, occasionally deflecting them by landing on or kicking at their sides to add insult to injury as his creator fumed.
Soon all of the blaster cannons took aim and fired near simultaneously at the lone wolf, he raised his hands up and with lightning fast movements started to dash them between each blast deflecting it away from him and to the ground or into the sky. He grinned slightly as the last set of blast flew at him, he swung his hand and batted them towards Gerald who only just managed to maneuver his flying machine out of the way.
"Argh…he's not going to get away with this!"
Gerald was fuming at the ease of which the wolf was defeating his greatest mechanical soldier, he glared at his failed experiment and then pressed a combination of buttons on his flying contraption before smiling evilly at Nite.
"When fully powered by all seven of the Chaos Emeralds this next attack can obliterate an entire planet…but with only six it isn't powerful enough…" his grin widened "…but it will be plenty to take care of you!" he pointed at the wolf and yelled to his monstrous robot "OMEGA CANNON ANNIHILATE!"
Nite tensed as his eyes widened, the huge orb now glowing a deathly blood red and then firing an immense beam of energy straight at him. He thrust his hands out again stopping the attack but this time it was slowly pushing him back, no matter how hard he tried he couldn't deflect the robot's attacks.
He wasn't strong enough, he truly wasn't enough to defeat this machine, he really was a failed experiment.
"I….I am…"
No you're not!
Nite's eyes widened, it was Trance's voice in his head. He closed his eyes again as he felt his energy slowly draining from him as the attack continued to push him back. He didn't want to fail in front of her; he cared too much for her to let her see him weak…
"Trance…" even his voice was getting weak "…I'm not strong enough…I can't win…"
Yes you can Nite her voice sounded pleading You may not believe it but you are strong…one of the strongest….and you just have to win because… she paused for a moment ….I believe in you…
All of a sudden he felt new power surge through his veins, his colour changing slightly and becoming lest rusted and more of a true bronze. His eyes snapped open and he all but snarled as he began to push the massive attack back.
"For…Trance…I…" power surged through him as his feelings for the white wolf shot to the surface, the glow form his body now a blinding light as he drove the attack forward "CAN!"
With new found power and being fueled by his feelings for Trance and her belief in him a charged forward, through the intense red energy beam and straight toward the giant gold orb. As he hit its immensely hard metal structure, he didn't stop; he smashed into the machine, driving himself deep to its core.
On the surface, Robotnik looked on wide eyed at what he saw. Somehow the wolf had managed to cancel out the Omega Cannon altogether and even break Sun's armour. All was quiet; nothing could be heard….and then a voice bounded out from beneath Sun's metal skin.
"CHAOS FLASH!"
Then in a blinding light and deafening explosion the huge orb erupted into nothing but dust as the wolf inside once again became visible, the bright light emanating from his body with immense heat from his attack.
But as the light died down, Nite's fur slowly began to change back to what it once was, his chaos energy now fully exhausted. He took one last look up at his creator who just looked back down, admiring his failure's power.
"Impressive…"
It was the last word he heard as he slowly began to fall to the ground, completely exhausted from finishing off the huge machine. He didn't see as Gerald collected the fallen Chaos Emeralds and left, after taking one last glance at the fallen Nite.
One feeling was left in Nite's mind as he lay on the sand of the desert only an inch from certain death a feeling of joy. Even though he had failed to exact his revenge on Gerald, some how Trance's words of encouragement and the power itself that he unleashed from them filled his heart with nothing but joy. For the first time in a very long time, Nite the wolf was happy.