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Flip card 2:
Name: Super Metal Sonic
Description: Instead of transforming into Metal Overlord, Metal Sonic became his true super form.
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The first collision was like something breaking the sound barrier. A thick shockwave passed through the air, shattering whatever windows remained in station square and knocking Chaotix off their feet.
As the two superpowers clashed, it was like a thunderstorm; conflicting powers of monumental proportions sparking against one another. Nazo and Super Metal Sonic, two of the most powerful beings ever to walk the Earth.
Nazo went on the offensive, striking against Super Metal Sonic with a rapid succession of punches that knocked the super powered robot in nearly every direction, before sliding back across the ground to a safe distance and cupping his hands above his head. Energy sparked across his white body for a moment before a beam of intense chaos energy erupted forth like a volcano smashing into Super Metal Sonic's body. The robotic hedgehog disappeared in a flash of light as the attack exploded in his face. Nazo lowered his arms trying to see through the smoke what was going on. There was no way it had been that easy.
"Is that all you've got?" A voice asked, before a golden blur shot of nowhere and smashed a knee into Nazo's stomach knocking the wind out of him. Gagging out in pain the hedgehog was sent rocketing up high into the air and was left open to an attack. An opportunity Super Metal Sonic took full advantage of, leaping up to his level and smashing a full force of blurred punches into his body before clenching his hands together and delivering one last powerful blow to the white hedgehog's back. Nazo was sent cascading down towards the ground.
Jus before he hit it though, the fused hedgehog regained his senses and somersaulted back upright, rebounding off the ground with one foot before souring back upwards with both fists held back.
Laughing, Super Metal Sonic held both hands out flat in front of himself as dozens of energy attacks launched from him at once down toward his approaching enemy. Nazo threw his hand out and an identical number of energy blasts rocketed forward, colliding with those of the robotic hedgehog. Flying through the intense barrage of explosions, Nazo clashed straight into Super Metal Sonic and the two opponents began exchanging super fast blows in mid air.
"Wow! Look at the two of them go!" Rei remarked before the two of them smashed their fists into each other and a blinding flash erupted into the air.
Slamming down into the ground, Nazo dragged his foot across the tarmac to slow himself down. This new Metal Sonic had been strong even before he got a power boost from the Chaos Emeralds. His super form was just as powerful as he was now. They were easily matched.
Glancing to the side, the white hedgehog held out his hands and grasped them between Super Metal Sonic's talons as the robotic hedgehog came bolting out of the side of a building in an ambush. A titanic power struggle engaged as the two of them trying to outdo each other in strength, pushing against the other in a tug of war of epic proportions.
Finally Nazo kicked Super Metal Sonic aside and raced off down the street with the robotic hedgehog in a near instant.
"Wanna race?" Nazo asked as Super Metal Sonic drew up alongside him.
"I'm not interested in paying games. I want to fight." The robotic hedgehog replied with a great deal of malice in his voice before taking a swipe. Nazo ducked under it before leaping up towards a building, rebounding off a wall before shooting up onto the rooftops.
"Gee, all you had to say was no thanks." The white hedgehog remarked folding his arms. Super Metal Sonic came soured up with his arms spread, two energy attacks already burning like fire between his steal talons. "Ah sh…" A blast fog old bolts was launched straight at him and caught him head on. His body was tossed violently into the air before being ploughing him down through the side of a building, several walls and finally the ground itself. Crashing into the ground causing a large crater, Nazo tried to pick himself up but before he could, Super Metal Sonic came souring in grabbed him around the neck with his metal talons, lifting him into the air before smashing punch after punch into his stomach with the free hand.
Nazo's eyes snapped white open glowing brightly white and suddenly a shockwave shot outwards, forcing the robotic hedgehog backwards. Before he could defend, it was Nazo's turn to go on the offensive.
A kick landed itself directly against Super Metal Sonic's face, before a powerful energy attack came souring out from the dust sending him crashing into the side of a building. A white blur shot after him, grabbing him by the ankle and tossing him back towards the street outside.
Righting himself in mid air, The robotic hedgehog dragged his foot through the ground and slowed down to a stop. Clenching his fist, the glow surrounding his body intensified and shooting forward like a bullet he shot forward towards Nazo.
Nazo caught his punch in his open hand and used his other to parry of a kick. The two of them remained there, trying to out-do each other in strength before they broke back to safe distance, before ploughing into each other again and again punches so fast passing between them the naked eye couldn't see it.
"I can't tell you how much I've been looking forward to this." Super Metal Sonic told his opponent as they clashed, running through the deserted streets of the ruined city. A metal hand lashed out, grabbing Nazo by the top of the head. "If I'm honest, the plans of the Machine Federation meant nothing to me. They were simply a means to achieve this goal, this one fight. I'll simply take world conquest as a reward for winning." Nazo smiled, the grin visible through the metal talons wrapped around his head.
"Didn't think you'd gone completely evil." The robotic hedgehog suddenly looked a little confused. "Ruthless maybe, but if all you really want is this fight then your more like Sonic then you'd care to admit." The glow from the red eyes intensified and Super Metal Sonic tossed Nazo into the air, before landing a punch against the side of his chest.
"Don't get me wrong. I've every intention of rebuilding the Earth into a metal paradise. But for some reason, this fight seems more important." Nazo lay there on the floor, chuckling under his breath. Whoever had rebuilt Metal Sonic into this new version had failed to completely remove the robotic hedgehog's full personality. "So get back up and give me the battle I've been waiting for!" The smirk on Nazo's face widened.
"If you insist." As if he hadn't been hurt as all, the white hedgehog somersaulted back to his feet in an instant and smashed a punch directly into Super Metal Sonic's face causing him to topple backwards.
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With the Black Arms and G.U.N opening up dialogue instead of fighting, The main focus of the Blue Typhoon now was keeping the Egg Fleet of their backs. Doctor Eggman, determined to blast his weakened enemies into oblivion while he had the chance kept getting frustrated by that one single ship, which he ironically, had helped to put together. Still, that gave him a small advantage. It was an advanced ship, but he held half it's knowledge. He knew how the Egg Shield protecting it from the barrage of his fleet could be shut down.
"Have the Flag Ship's cannons target the top of their shield." He stated, watching the displays on the screen coming in from the entire Egg Fleet.
"Aye Aye Doctor." Becoe replied already relaying the order. The turrets on the front of the ship rose up into view and began rotating around so their barrels could aim directly at the Blue Typhoon, which now was engaging in a dog fight with one of the larger battleships. While his Egg Fleet had superior numbers, their ship was far more advance and so he wasn't getting anywhere with sheer force attacks. This was time for advance strategy.
As the only working Mech, Okida piloted the Spider walker they'd stolen from the Metal X Machine Federation out onto the deck of the Blue Typhoon to get a better offensive advantage against the ship they were facing. Flying along side them, all its cannons comparing their shield was one of the largest battleships. Shaped like a sword fish with a long flat nose lined with turrets, this colossal thing was about their size and had enough firepower to blast them out of the sky. Where it not for the advanced technology onboard keeping them safe they'd have been destroyed by them.
Okida swung his Mech around to face the ship head on and then fired an intense volley of missiles its way. They sank into the hull of the ship in several places but didn't tear it open. Smashing the front legs of his Mech down into the surface for an anchor, the major began powering up the main weapon of the Walker, a plasma beam generator. The jaws of the spider opened wide and a second later, purple lightning danced down its legs as a beam shot forth, slid through the shield surrounding their vessel to collide with full force directly into the front of the ship; breaking off the nose and all the turrets along with it.
Tails didn't waste he opportunity. As the enemy ship titled sideways, he swung the Typhoon around and emptied half his missiles directly into the wound on the front. There was a tremendous explosion and the Eggman Empire ship began falling down towards the ground engulfed in flames.
"Weapons fire inbound!" Someone yelled and Tails looked up in time to see an intense barrage of shelling come raining down towards them, all launched from the weapons on the Flag Ship. Before anything could be done, the attack hit the top of their shield with an echoing sound that seemed to shake the entire ship. The barrage didn't let up but thankfully the shield itself seemed to be holding up.
That is until three other ship flying in a triangle formation came up at the Blue Typhoon from underneath, their cannons firing directly into the underside of the shield. With an intense barrage hitting the Egg Shield from both below and above, their protective barrier began to buckle under the strain. Their egg was beginning to crack.
"Ten second until the shield gives out!" Sam stated, reading off the reports coming up to the bridge. "Then we're sitting ducks!"
(Damn Eggman!) Tails thought to himself angrily. They should have known he would betray them like this, it was who he was. The Doctor liked fighting, but he liked winning even more. All he had ever been concerned in was either saving his own hide or his petty appetite for conquest. He had sided with them against Metal X out of self preservation and when it looked like they were about to be either killed or captured, like a rat deserting a sinking ship he let, not without stealing the Master Emerald to power his Flagship.
With Metal Sonic now in possession of the six Emeralds they had it had been extremely difficult to get their ship moving again. They would have been dead in the water without the source of Chaos Energy their Black Arm dissident, Jalios had been able to procure for them. It was a small generator of sorts but of a foreign design, smaller than the average mobian and was by no means a more powerful source of energy than the Chaos Emeralds but it had served their purposes thus far. Unfortunately, it was not an indefinite source of power; it was being to burn out under the constant demand. Right now according to their reads outs, they had about forty percent left and most of that was quickly being used up to reinforce the shield. If this kept up they'd use up all their energy and instead of being blown into oblivion, then they'd fall to their deaths.
"Not on my watch." Okida muttered to himself, firing a beam of plasma energy directly up towards the Flagship, striking the colossal Whale shark across the bow. The blast did nothing, the ship was simply too big for that small an attack to have any effect. It managed to carve a single scar through the metal but compared with the sheer size of the vessel itself the effort was obviously to no avail. It did however force the guns to stop firing, the turrets on the top of the ship growing quiet.
"Their shields ready to give in!" The Doctor began with a thick smile, a wide smile spread over his face. "Finish them…" Before he could finish, the door at the back of the bridge forced itself open and fell down, a large dent smashed in its surface. Standing there in the doorway was an Echidna covered in angry red fur and sharp purple eyes locked directly onto them. Behind him, the remains of security Dreadnaughts posted outside the door lay scattered across the ground, smoke rising from the charred remains.
"Agh Knuckles!" Decoe exclaimed, shooting up from his seat and back away with his metallic comrade Becoe to run back to a safe distance. The Echidna clenched his fists by his sides and began to make his way towards them.
"How in blazes did you get onboard!" Eggman demanded in utter surprise nearly falling out of his seat. The Echidna did not reply. He glanced up at the Master Emerald, the power source for the Whale Shark Flagship, a jewel he had pledged his life to protect lying encased in wires; a simple tool to be used. "Becoe, Decoe get him!" Eggman ordered the two robots, who shrank away like cowards behind a chair.
"With the greatest respect Doctor…you on your own!" Becoe replied, poking his out from behind their hiding place for a moment. The doctor growled angrily, before turning to the console
"SECURITY, get in here NOW!" He shouted down into an intercom, smashing his hand down on the pad.
"Don't bother." Knuckles finally stated; his back still to the Doctor as he exclaimed the encasings of the Emerald. "They're already in pieces. You're all alone."
"Now…now Knuckles…I'm sure we can come to….to some agreement here…th…there's no need f…f…for violence!" Eggman shuttered; a sudden worried look over his face.
"No need?" The guardian of Angel Island asked sceptically, a thick sadistic smirk playing itself over his lips. "You betray my friends; steal the Master Emerald, leave us to die by the hands of aliens and then try to kill us yourself and you say there's no need for violence?" There a sudden blur of white and Rouge the bat appeared next to the pillar they had the Master Emerald encased in, wires feeding off its energy to keep the Flag ship in the air.
"We beg to differ." She stated, leaning against the giant jewel while the red Echidna cracked the knuckles on each hand. Each of them had a very sadistic glare on their faces.
"We beg to differ a lot." Knuckles added; his smirk widening.
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Battles had been tough before, but none of them had come close to how intense this one was. Nazo was being pushed to his limits as he clashed with Super Metal Sonic through the deserted streets of Station Square, ploughing through buildings and abandoned vehicles. Even so, in this fight to the death, he was actually enjoying himself. The side of him that came from Sonic was filled with acceleration, excitement and trill as punches and kicks were exchanged so fast it was hard to see. Super Metal Sonic was without a doubt the strongest opponent thus far either Sonic or Shadow had ever faced.
The robotic hedgehog arrived on a kick with the side of his bracer, before lashing out with metal talons nearing scouring a direct hit on the hedgehog's side. Nazo slide through the swings, getting in close to smash a head but directly into Super Metal Sonic's face. The two of them collided with the side of a wall and was sent right through it in a cloud of brick dust.
As the robotic hedgehog slammed into the ground, Nazo smashed his arm onto his neck and kept him pinned there, their energy fields conflicting with each other; gold struggling against white.
From the stop of their crashed ship, Vanilla was watching the fight with awe on her face. Even the fight between Nazo and Metal Overlord hadn't been anything like this. Vector was still down on the ground tending to the unconscious Vanilla, Espio and Charmee. For obvious reasons he left Fang lying there.
"I wish I had some popcorn." Rei remarked, watching the fight being the young rabbit girls' side. Emerl watched from a distance as well. Through his electronic sensors, he was registering intense energy exchanges. All seven Chaos Emeralds acting at once and with two so powerful opponents the energy readings were off the scale.
Super Metal Sonic grabbed Nazo's arm and pushed against it, trying to get enough room to pull himself up. Nazo however wasn't giving him much leeway, keeping him pinning there. Suddenly however, both of the robotic hedgehog's legs swung open and the jets on the underside of the feet turned on full blast, a powerful blast striking Nazo straight in the stomach. There was a bright flash and the white hedgehog was sent spiralling through the air before disappearing through the window of a store nearby.
The robotic hedgehog flipped back to his feet and launched into attack, firing at least twenty energy attacks at once into the building; causing the whole thing to collapse with Nazo still inside. As the dust began bellowing up into the sky, Super Metal Sonic stood up out of a fighting stance and remained still, silhouetted by the sunset. Was that it he wondered? Had the battle been won? Had he finally done it? Without warning two hands lashed out of the ground beneath him and grabbed his ankles. Before he could do anything to stop it, the robotic hedgehog was yanked violently down below ground into the sewers. Nazo was there waiting for him, already with a punch ready.
Super Metal Sonic fell backwards in the water, a large dent created in his armoured chest plate. Nazo stood over him, a large smile on his face.
"How was that fight for you?" He asked, dusting his hands. The glow from Metal Sonic's eyes increased and almost like skin, the metal remoulded itself back into its original shape. The nano-bots running through his body could heal him of virtually any wound and allowed him to copy most techniques used against him.
"Good, but not great." Metal replied, rising to his feet; metal fists clenched at his sides.
"Fine then." Nazo replied, his smile widening. "Let's dance!"
Manhole covers flew off as the two of them began fighting again, speeding through the sewers like bullets. It was like a maze down there and the game they ended up playing was cat and mouse, hiding before trying to catch the other of guard. The ground beneath those members of Chaotix who were still conscious was shaking at the clashes and at one point Vector was almost convinced it would cave in beneath them.
Catching Nazo off guard, Super Metal Sonic flew out from the darkness grabbing the white hedgehog around the neck with a hand before throw both of them down through the floor into a lower level with a cascade of stagnant water pouring after them. Plunging down through the water and into the depths, the two of them kept fighting despite the lack of air; pouring every ounce of strength they had into conflict with one another.
Flying up out of the water his quills still matted, Nazo arched his hands and fired a single energy attack down into the depths below as Metal began to surface. The robotic hedgehog caught the blast head out and was sent back down as the water itself boiled and churned before a geyser exploded. After that, everything grew silent.
Nazo dropped down to the side of a stone walkway to catch his breath.
The fight had brought them down into an underground part of the sewers he doubted anyone had been in for at least ten years. Above the water pit below was a series of metal and stone catwalks and above them was a curved stone ceiling. Exactly how far from the surface had they fallen? The white hedgehog hadn't time to ponder the answer as a metal claw lashed out from the water, grabbing him by the foot and dragging him under. There was a brief exchange of blows and a second later a stray energy bolt tore a wall open and water began pouring out to some other place. Nazo and the robotic hedgehog went tumbling with it, down through the tunnels, large pipes and water falls; smashing punches and punches into one another all the while and ignoring the ride completely.
Nazo grabbed Metal Sonic's head and then head butted him several times before the robotic hedgehog relinquished his grip on the white Hedgehog's arms. Before either of them could continue the fight, they went cascading off the edge of a waterfall and down through a dark tunnel laden with mod and fungi before emerged down into another underground chamber, a wide curved space with a curved ceiling and thin carpet of water covering the floor.
There the fight recommenced, energy attacks lighting up the shadows as the two of them went at it again, refusing to give up; desperately trying to outdo one another. Chunks of rock began falling from the ceiling as bolts missing their mark stuck the walls, the ground beneath their feet shaking as they clash.
Hands slammed together with a shockwave that made the entire chamber even more unstable. The two of them remained there, fingers interlocked as their fought trying to push each other back.
"When I kill you I'll be free from control." Super Metal Sonic stated, his eyes glowing brightly. "I can finally be who I want to be, without either Sonic or Shadow trying to change me."
"Sonic didn't do anything." Nazo told him. "You changed into what you where by yourself. Whoever told you otherwise was lying. There's no need for this lust for power and revenge."
"All you organic's ever engage in is one never ending quest to control one another, the many always controlled by the few." Metal Sonic replied flatly, before smashing a kick into Nazo's stomach forcing the two of them back from one another. "The world you fight to protect has had my new world order a long time coming. When Machines are put in charge, the insane policies of your world will come to an end."
"The world doesn't need one power controlling everything." Nazo stated, descending into a fighting stance his hands held ready for an energy blast. "That leads to only misery and dictatorship." He forged a smile. "Just ask Eggman."
"Then your factions are destined to fight each other till doomsday." The robotic hedgehog remarked, before clenching his fists and a bolt of intense energy pasting between his arms. "Which for you is sooner rather than later!" His fists flew open and two orbs of golden energy began to accumulate between them, growing brighter and brighter.
"Let's go then!" Nazo shouted, before his hands threw themselves up and all the energy he had left began gathering in one sudden burst, his glow intensifying with each second that last. Lighting flashed through the chamber, conflicting colours of white, blue, gold and red, making everything look like a tech-disco.
"Now die!" Metal shouted, before throwing his arms forward delivering all his energy in one solid burst, a shockwave unlike anything before rocketing outwards as a beam of blue energy lancing out like a sword towards Nazo.
The white hedgehog narrowed his eyes, before throwing his own arms forward and his own attack rocketing forward. The ground shook like ten earthquakes were happening all at once, half of the chamber caving in before the attacks collided with one another. A brilliant white light erupted outwards in a dazzling display that seemed to consume everything in its path.
"Holy mother of!" Vector exclaimed as every manhole cover down the street flew upwards, a shaft of white light lancing out from beneath each one with lighting sparking around it. The ground shook like there was no tomorrow, the clouds above thundering like nothing on earth.
"What the hell is going on!" Beck demanded hardly able to keep his balance.
"At a rough guess…" Rei began, hanging onto the side of the ship with one hand with helping Cream up from the side of the drop with the other. "I'd say it's the end of the world."
Finally the discharge of energy ended and with one last explosion, the chamber collapsed completely and both combatants were thrown into the next room through a solid brick one. Instead of two, there was now three. Colliding with the side of a stone pillar, the exhausted Nazo separated into the two hedgehogs used to make him up and once Metal Sonic hit the ground his glow died away to nothing and his metal skin changed from gold back to blue. Dust began to bellow up into the air and for a while, all three of them were silent. It was only when the dust began to settle on top of them did anyone start moving. The seven Emeralds that had fuelled their battle lay scattered around the chamber in random locations, their glow diminished sufficiently. Metal Sonic strained to push himself up, battle scars running down each arm, the nano-bots in his body were having a difficult time repairing them.
"Come on, I'm not finish yet." He began, making his way to one knee.
"Yeah? Well neither are we!" Sonic replied, heavily out of breath. Shadow forced himself up as well. This fight couldn't drag on any longer. They had to confront the real enemy now. The enemy working all of this from behind the scenes.
"Both of you…wait!" He began, gesturing to both of them to stop. Metal Sonic and Sonic himself cast a glance in his direction. "We shouldn't be fighting one another right now."
"Are you simple?" The robotic hedgehog asked flatly. "And why not?"
"'Cause we're all being played like pawns in a game of chess." The black Hedgehog stated.
"What on Earth are you talking about?" Sonic asked with a raised eyebrow.
"You really think we all wound up here, in this place, with all Seven Chaos Emeralds by accident? Look around, what do you see?" The other two glanced around the chamber and found that they were standing in and found it worth their attention. It was carved from advanced Black Arm technology, constructs the like of which they'd never seen before stood half concealed in the shadows. As they eyes grew more accustomed to the light, they could see what this place was. It was some kind of entrance hall for a larger complex, a large iron door barring their way to the rest of the place on their left hand side.
Realization flooded into Sonic's eyes.
"Here!" He began in utter amusement. "The ancient Technology was here, under Station Square all along!"
"Impossible!" Metal Sonic exclaimed, equally as stunned. "I was informed it was in the Sahara Desert!"
"By who?" Shadow asked, his red eyes locked onto the robotic hedgehog. It was then Metal Sonic finally realized he'd been betrayed. It was then he came to know how small a player he was in a game larger than his own ambitions.
"By me of course." A voice stated. Whipping around, all of them turned to see a figure standing on the top of one of the machines. A mobian sized being hidden behind a cloak and a steal mask covering the face. There was a powerful green glow emitting from the visor. It was him, Metal Sonic's Benefactor.
"I should have known you'd try something like this." The robotic hedgehog shouted, anger flooding into his eyes. The strange figure chuckled loudly, before turning to the other two present.
"Good to see you again. It's been a long time." Shadow and Sonic cast each other a glance, both unsure of what he was talking about.
"Haven't had the pleasure." The black hedgehog replied.
"Yeah, cloak, metal mask, the scary green eyes….sorry doesn't ring a bell. And I'm good with faces." Sonic added in with another of his infamous smiles.
"Shame." The figure replied flatly, a hint of disappointment in his voice. "It seems I didn't make a lasting impression before." Slowly, he reached up with long fingers and touched his steel mask. The skin on his arm was snow white. "I'll try to do better this time around." With one fluid motion he removed it, revealing his ragged face. He was an Echidna, with pale white fur and a short beard. Deep scars ran all over his face.
It took a moment for Metal Sonic to place a name to him, but when he did, he staggered backwards in a mixture of amazement and horror. Despite the colour change and injuries, it was still that same Echidna.
"Mishoal!" He exclaimed in amazement. Here was the high priest of the Echidnas, the greatest servant of the dark god Krish Kra Pal. They had seen him when they journeyed into Mobius' past. His preaching's were the reason their kind attacked the Emerald shrine. He had convinced the Echidna people to worship Krish. His Benefactor has been him all along?
"Didn't Perfect Chaos drop a cathedral on you?" Sonic asked, jabbing a finger forward. The ancient Echidna chucked, folding his arms.
"That it did and were it not for the intervention of my master, I would have been destroyed."
"Krish…" Shadow muttered from between clenched teeth, eyes set in a rage.
"Now you show your face coward." Metal sonic snarled, clenching a fist toward him. "What kind of game were you playing behind the scenes?"
Metal sonic snarled, clenching a fist toward him."What would you have cared?" Mishoal laughed, crossing his arms. "All you obsessed about was your own petty vengeance. You suspected me of treachery, yet so long as I helped you in your quest you cared little. That made you a perfect servant." Metal Sonic's eyes blared bright red in response.
"I serve no one!"
"You honestly think you needed to know about it in order to serve?" Mishoal asked with a sick smile. "Everyone is a slave to something. Whether it's a dictator, or a fashion trend. They don't realize it, but they are." His smile widened. "You just happen to be in service of a god."
"Not for much longer I won't!" Metal replied, raising his hand and firing a energy attack directly towards the Ancient Echidna. Just before it hit him, something darted in between and absorbed the blast, saluting it in the air and it faded away to nothing. "What is…" Metal Sonic began, his words dying away when he saw who had protected Mishoal.
It was Dark Oak. Metal Sonic's most trusted General had been working with Mishoal all along. "You traitor! I'll have you melted down for this!" Metal Sonic snarled, the glow from his eyes reaching insane proportions.
"Silence you pathetic machine." Dark Oak told him, letting his left arm trail out. A second later, the sword he often used appeared, the hilt between his fingers. "You are nothing more than a merger servant. I am one of Lord Krish' acolytes. You shall finally address me with respect." His words sent waves of near uncontrollable rage flowing through Metal Sonic's body, lightning bolts of energy sparking around his fists. He'd been played for a fool from the very beginning and what was worse was that he'd seen it, but had chosen to ignore it all, too transfixed on his lust for revenge.
"Wow. It's just a soap opera here." Sonic commented with another goofy smile.
"Focus here." Shadow snapped back at him. "There's a lot at stake."
"Like Shadow asked you, you really think that all this happened by chance? Bringing all seven Chaos Emeralds to this place, you, all of you have done exactly what I required." Mishoal asked, raising his left hand, a green glow highlight his fingers. The seven Emeralds on the ground vibrated violently for a moment before flying out of their places and up to him, flying around him like in orbit. "I can not thank you enough."
"We didn't have theresources necessary to collect the Emeralds ourselves, had we not been up against overwhelming odds; I would have done it myself." Dark Oak explained. "But you proved most helpful in bringing them here for us and luring the enemies of our master to this planet." It took a full moment for that to click in Shadow's mind.
"The Black Arms!" The Black and red hedgehog began in surprise. "You wanted them here."
"What for?" Metal Sonic asked. "What could you possibly have against them?"
"In Ancient times, The Black Arms Sect of the Fesionian army confronted our Master and two of their best scientists destroyed his body, but thankfully died in the process. Our lord has been desiring retribution for eons now. We thought it fitting to have them here at the scene of his rebirth." Mishoal replied, catching the blue emerald out of mid air to study it's surface.
"Rebirth?" Metal Sonic repeated.
"They intend to use the Chaos Emeralds to remake Krish' physical form." Shadow stated, lowering his arms to his eyes, his eyes set hard forward. "This is what it's all been about, all of this, right from the moment you were rebuilt."
"And you made it easy." Dark Oak added.
"Gee Metal, you built this guy, can't you just order him to shut down or something?" Sonic asked, giving his metallic counterpart a side glance.
"He can't." Dark Oak replied, the single orb like eye in the middle of his head glowing bright green. "He may have built the metallic shell you see before you, but the real me…that is something he didn't install."
"You aren't the General I made." Metal Sonic stated, realisation flooding into his eyes.
"The Dark Oak you made never activated. I carved his mechanical insides out and installed myself instead." The being posing as Metal Sonic's first general replied. "I was simply using the form as a disguise. Not that I haven't enjoyed the masquerade. This form has a certain poetry to it." He held his arm up to study the metal fingers, as if intrigued by it.
The being posing as Metal Sonic's first general replied. He held his arm up to study the metal fingers, as if intrigued by it."You'll pay for this, both of you!" The robotic hedgehog snarled, before leaping towards them, utter rage and murderous intent in his eyes.
"I remade you, and I can just as easily re-unmake you!" Mishoal declared, his eyes suddenly filling with an intense green glow. Suddenly, some invisible force grabbed Metal Sonic in mid air, engulfing his body and wrapping around him like a python. The more he struggled, the more it squeezed around him. "Care to do the honours?" The ancient Echidna asked Dark Oak, who simply floated over, sword in hand. Silently he raised his weapon and before either Shadow or Sonic could do a thing, he sliced Metal Sonic across the chest.
Silence endured for seconds and nothing happened. A moment later, Mishoal released his grip and left the robotic hedgehog fall. With a loud thud he collapsed to the ground on his back, showing a deep cut sliced right through his armour. Dark Oak had nearly severed his top half form his legs. Only a few thick clusters of wires, cables and what armour remained at the back was holding him together. His eyes had gone out completely only a black void in his visor.
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(In Chris' voice)
Mishoal…alive! Dark Oak really Krish's agent! This is nuts, but that's the least of Sonic's problems now as the revival of an evil eons in the making begins. Darkness falls next time on Sonic X; Rise of the Dark God part 1: Don't miss it!