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Flip card 2:
Name: Nazo the hedgehog
Description: Turely is he Prof. Gerald's legacy, or is even Krish the Destroyer wrong?
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His reflexes lightning fast even at this large a size, Krish grabbed Illumina by the shoulders and tossed her violently down into the ground. She landed with a deafening crash that shook the earth beneath them so much it felt like an earthquake. Before the goddess could rise, Krish brought his tail around sharply and tried to impale her on the spikes on its tip. Rolling to the side crushing a load of trees in the process, Illumina waded out into the large bay between the canyon that had once been Station Square and the Mystic Ruins. Krish held up his hand and instantly green fire was burning around her, even over the water. Everything with her sight seemed to be ablaze, slowly turning to ash before her.
Her eyes burned bright blue and she fired two beams of blue energy from her eyes, striking Krish on the chest. The Destroyer stumbled backwards a few paces, before righting himself and throwing both hands forward; an unbelievable powerful blast screamed forward bathing the goddess in a green light before it struck. Illumina held up her hands and forged a shield around her body, allowing the flames to flow on past her without doing herself any harm.
Unfortunately, it didn't work on physical attacks. The colossal tail came flying around, striking her hard on the stomach. Tossed up through the air, the giant goddess flapped her wings to right herself before firing several more blasts straight at the Destroyer.
Cosmo watched the fight from the Blue Typhoon, realization burning in her eyes. Everything was so clear before her, as if someone had thrown a switch and there was light. Tails sat transfixed at the helm, watching the battling giants with a transfixed expression of utter confusion on his face. Without hesitated, Cosmo ran up to the pilot's seat and began tugging on his arm.
"Tails…Tails listen to me!" She nearly screamed at him. "I need your help!" The young fox blinked once, coming out of his shock induced paralysis. Before she could finish, the bridge window cracked itself open and one of Krish' Dragons drones dropped down to the floor with a crash. Glass flew everywhere as he raised a claw and struck down towards Cosmo. At the last second, Tails pushed her out of the way. The claw tore through his fur and into the flesh on his back.
At that moment, Void burst down through the hole in the glass after the cybernetic creature. He flicked his right wrist and a sabre appeared in his hand. Landing on the top of the beast, he drove his blade down though it's neck.
"Tails!" Cosmo began, helping the young fox up, finding the fur on his back stained with blood.
"I'm fine…" He managed, grinding his pain against the pain. A loud screech erupted from the sky and another Dragon came down, smashing a large metal claw straight into Void's back, smashing the small imp like creature to the floor. Void somersaulted back to his feet before drawing his sabre again.
"What are the two of you waiting for?" He asked over his shoulder. "RUN!"
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Krish grabbed Illumina by the neck, before dunking her violently under the water trying to drown her. At the last second however, the goddess seized his wrist and threw him off her with suspiring strength. Staggering backwards, the Destroyer scrapped his claws along through the ground to slow himself down. Illumina went on the offensive, striking at him with a vicious and unrelenting succession of energy blasts. They struck him all the way down his body, causing him tilt further and further backwards before the goddess hit him directly with a colossal punch to the face and finally he toppled backwards and crashed to the ground.
Scarlet had to run with her camera as one of the Destroyer's hands came crashing down, nearly squashing her under it. Illumina held up her left hand and called forth a large dark white spear with a barbed end. Grasping it with both hands, she drove it down hard towards her opponent's chest.
Krish's eyes snapped open at the last second and a hand shot up, grabbing the tip of the spear and preventing it from stabbing. Illumina tried to force it down, to end it now, but the Destroyer's strength was too much even for her. With only sudden push, Illumina was thrown clear and Krish took the spear before himself. Holding it like a javelin, he turned towards the falling goddess before tossing it. Like a missile it soured through the air and struck Illumina in the stomach; stabbing through her body with the tip emerging out the other side.
Screaming in pain, Illumina fell to the ground. With one sharp tug, she tore the weapon out of her flesh and tried to heal the wound. Krish didn't give her the chance. Holding up both hands, he consumed her body with green fire, burning her and the ground around in a towering inferno.
"Mistress!" Lumina called out from the battle. The queen's elite turned to watch the Destroy sadistically burn their goddess. Krish kept pouring more fire onto her body as she screamed; desperately trying to call up a defence.
Loosing interest, the Destroyer lowered his hands and finally the full scale of the devastation was revealed as the fire died away. Queen Illumina lay there, reduced back to her normal size. Most of her clothes had been incinerated and her skin and hair badly scorched. She lay in the centre of a burnt wasteland, a lifeless puppet with cut strings.
"He…actually beat her?" Void asked with a stunned expression on his face. He had heard of the Destroyer's ultimate strength, but this was beyond his worst nightmares. He hadn't thought it possibly to out do Illumina in strength. Yet Krish had proved it possible and with ease! The cybernetic Dragon came at him from behind and focusing his anger into his fighting form, Void turned and jabbed his sabre down its throat.
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"Ok boys. Time to earn our pay!" Vector directed and instantly Chaotic got stuck into the business of tearing the inside of the Armageddon apart, blasting or smashing anything that looked more important than a wall. The Spider-Mech with Beck at the controls was crashing through everything in sight, doing tremendous damage, stamping through walls and floors, tearing apart machines left right and centre.
Metal Sonic raised his hands and began striking hard against the stations vulnerable insides, everything in range catching fire. Anger and rage guided his movements. Krish had played him for a fool from the beginning and now it was pay back time. Aiding him in his task of demolition was Omega, whose missiles were filling the air as they riddled the walls, floor and ceiling with holes. Rising his left arm, Omega converting his claws into machine gun mode and began ripping the machinery apart with intense barrages of bullets.
"Here comes the welcoming committee!" Fang announced as a door on the far side of their level fell inwards and then dozens of Drones, cybernetic insects armed with huge pincers came marching out toward them. The mercenary raised the two rifles he was holding in both hands and riddled the cy-borg with shots, causing it to collapse to the floor. But the others kept coming, a steady march of metal and flesh coming straight at them.
Amy swung her hammer around, sending several of them colliding into each other before smashing them against a wall. One of them snapped at her with a pair of metal pincers nearly slicing of her legs.
An energy blast rang out and Amy dusted as it struck them, blowing at least five of them into disfigured pieces.
"Are you ok?" Nazo asked, hovering next to the pink hedgehog. Sonic and Shadow had merged on the Chaos Control over to the Armageddon and had been doing the most damage.
"Yeah I'm fine." Amy replied, before picking up her hammer and getting back to work. For half an hour now they'd been hacking away at the inside of the thing. But the station was just so larger and expansive, it seemed like their efforts were little more than pin pricks to it. They needed to find the Eclipse Cannon on board and destroy it before Krish had any notions of firing the thing.
Nazo had fears of his own right now however.
Shadow's own lamentations were passed onto him and Sonic had been having thoughts of his own on the subject.
Was he really Prof. Gerald's legacy, sent here to destroy Krish, the source of all evil in the Professor's life? Was that all he was, a tool to be used for a common end like Shadow thought he was, with no purpose or point after he stopped the Destroyer? He honestly didn't like that possibility.
"Hey, now is NOT the time to day dream!" Brought out of his thoughts, Nazo looked over and Espio tossed several shuriken through the air. The throwing stars embedded themselves in the head of one of the drones. The cybernetic creature convulsed before collapsing to the floor with a loud crash.
"Come on boys!" Vector called over, leading his agency members into the fray as a huge load of insect drones came right at them. The Spider mech brought its front legs forward and several drones went flying, smashed to pieces against the side of a wall.
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Illumina wasn't moving. She simply lay there in a middle of a wasteland that burned with patches of green fire as the shadow of the Destroyer loomed over her broken body. The wound in her side, made by her own spear as still there and she was bleeding heavily from it.
"Pitiful." Krish muttered to himself, glaring down at the defeated angel in contempt; the red eyes fixed directly on her. "And this was the Imperial leader of Maginaryworld?"
Without warning Illumina's eyes snapped open and suddenly the sky was alight with the light of an aurora. A beam lanced through the air and the light and struck the Destroyer hard across his chest tearing a huge gorge through the flesh. Screeching loudly. Krish stumbled backwards his footsteps causing small earthquakes. Illumina kept up her assault, a relentless beam of energy cutting through muscle; trying to rip it's way to the Destroyer's heart.
"Tell me Brother of the Dooms eye, your fame stretches across star systems, spiral arms and even dimensions so let me ask you; exactly how far does your power extend?" The Goddess asked, forcing more power through her eyes, turning to burn the Destroyer with her gaze. The distance between the two of them light up like a starlit sky.
"Why bother telling?" he asked, anger burning in his eyes. "When I can just show you?" His body consumed by flames, the blast Illumina was trying to use was forced off and away from Krish's chest. The goddess tried desperately to defend herself, but the oncoming rush of fire was too much, an unstoppable tsunami of flames that crashed through any defence and struck against her heard.
A shield flying up around her body, Illumina threw all of her strength into maintaining it; fleeing all her power slip away as the flames flowed mere inches away from her. A hideous laughter broke through the air and out of the fire came a huge hand, talons outstretched. It had her in an iron grip before she could defend herself, lifting her high into the air so her head was level with an enormous red eye. Slowly, the claws around her began to tighten, squeezing the life out of her body bit by bit. She could feel her bones strain, almost ready to snap.
She bit her bottom lip, silencing the scream of pain she felt welling up the bottom of her throat and focused all her attention on breaking free. It wasn't enough and the space kept constricting and eventually the bones on her arms snapped like twigs. The pain overtaking her, she cried out before falling limp. Seemingly satisfied, Krish let her drop from that height until she hit the ground with a large thud. Several more bones broke on impact.
"I wonder how my dear brother will react when I tell him I quite literally ground you into the dust?" Slowly, he raised his left foot. Illumina just lay there, battered and broken as the shadow crossed over her defeated body. A loud whistling sound broke the silence and Krish looked up just in time to get a round of missile fire straight in the face.
The Albatross flew across his side, firing more missiles as it went. The flying Mech was quickly followed by the S-Team in tight formation behind him, their own missiles impacting the Destroyer at various points across his entire body. Krish held his arm up and used it as a shield; the bullets and missiles simply impacted on his skin, hardly even scorching the short black fur.
"This is insane." Sam Speed muttered, looking back to see that all their attacks hadn't done a thing, and the wound Illumina had carved in his chest was healing, the skin closing over the carved flesh. "Just what the heck is this guy?"
"He's not called the Destroyer for nothing." The Major replied, before leading the formation around for another attack.
"Insects!" Krish hissed after the Albatross and it's support fire soured towards him. He swung a fish forward trying to crush them, but they were small and fast enough to swerve through the talons and spikes. Coming up along his arm, the major emptied ever missile he had left directly into the Destroyer's face at close range. Several struck his left eye and the sheer forced of the blasts nearly sent the giant toppling backwards. To stop himself, he slammed a foot down into the ground carving another scar across the wasteland.
"Open fire!" Looking around, Krish was able to force a shield around himself quick enough to protect himself from an intense barrage of missile fire. An army of Turtle Mech's had taken up a position on the mountain aside and acting as artillery were blasting him with everything they had. Not only this, but the President had deployed a large force of Anubis Mech's. These lumbering heavy walkers moved slowly towards the bombarded enemy and once they were within range, all thirty of them quickly lined up and let the Destroyer have it. Okida watched from above in awe at the tremendous display of firepower. The Anubis Mech had mastered missiles and lasers and the distance between the strike force the Krish was full of both. Smoke flew up, engulfing the giant completely and hiding him from view.
"You think that did it?" Sam asked. A second later, a torrent of green fire shot out of the chaos and crashed straight into the Turtle Mech's in the distance; obliterating over half their number in an instant, the walkers reduced to smouldering piles of ash.
"I'm going to go with 'no'." Okida replied.
A huge muscular tail came arching around from the smoke and crashed into the Anubis squadron, several of their number impaled on huge spikes of bone while the others were only sent flying into the air.
Several of them tried to resume fire but they were quickly silenced as a large foot came slamming down on top of them, their metallic forms crushed into the ground.
"None of you deserve the honour of death at my hands." The Destroyer remarked, advancing out of the smoke. Relaxing his muscles, Krish started shrinking, his height and mass reducing themselves until he was back to normal; floating in mid air with his arms folded across his chest. "You can die along with your planet!"
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The Bridge of the Blue Typhoon had been taken. As if attracted to the ship, Krish's dragon drones swarmed in on it carving their way into the already battered vessel to end to the crew, which by now was being hunted down through the corridors. Void was doing his best to fend them off, but they numbers were just overwhelming.
Big had, unexpectedly, come to their rescue as one of the monsters tried to snap Void'd head off. Showing uncharacteristic courage, the large feline threw himself at the cybernetic Dragon with Froggy hanging of the fur on his shoulders.
"We have to take the Bridge back." Cosmo remarked suddenly. Most of the crew that stayed on board were scrambling out of the rooms as more and more cy-borg dragons charged through the Ship. Emerl was holding them off on the flank, but even he couldn't keep it up for long.
"That's wishful thinking right now." Topaz remarked, loading another magazine into her automatic weapon. Cream and her mother were at her side, both poking around the corner to see Big struggle against the snapping jaws of a metallic lizard as it clawed it's way down the corridor.
"You don't understand." Cosmo whispered. Everything was so clear before her eyes, unquestionably transparent. She could see it all. But time was slipping away and if haste was not applied it would all be for nothing. "Everything depends on it."
"What are you talking about?" Void demanded, resting his weight on his sword as he paused to catch his breath. Tails' face remained transfixed on Cosmo, his blue eyes fixed on hers and her on his. Neither gaze faltering even for a moment. As if sensing her thoughts, the young fox began…
"You know why you have the visions." Cosmo nodded once in response. "Well, why then?"
"I thought I was here to warn someone about the darkness, but it turns out I was wrong. I'm here to give the Speedster and the Shade her best chance at stopping it."
"Can we get to the point of this?" Void asked, getting a little impatient.
"Don't you get it?" Cosmo asked with wide eyes. "I AM the point." Tails suddenly looked more confused than ever. "This is why I given the visions, why I came here. I know what I have to do now."
"What do you mean?" Cream asked. Cosmo smiled innocently in response, her blue eyes full of feeling.
"It means I'm the only one who can stop Krish."
"And just how do you intend to do that?" Void asked angrily. "Even Illumina couldn't stop that monster!" A snapping from around the corner increased and Big was suddenly forced out, his hands holding desperately onto the creature's jaws preventing it from biting his head off.
"I could use a little help!" The big cat remarked, digging his heals into the floor.
"Listen to me!" Cosmo demanded. "You need to take the bridge back. There's little item and I need your help!"
"Why the heck is going on?" Vanilla cried, pointing out the portside window. Following her gaze, they gaze the gigantic body of the Armageddon began to rise, ascending higher and higher into the sky. It's shadow on the ground began to shrink as it ascended.
"Hey what's the deal?" Vector asked, looking around in confusion as the ground beneath his feet began to shake. The scattered broken remains of the stations security forces lay smouldering around them. Nazo, Metal Sonic and Omega had disappeared heading up to the levels after the Armageddon's control room; leaving the rest of them alone to hold off the cybernetic creatures.
Amy quickly went over to a window and watched through the small opening as the ground below began to slip away.
"Is anyone here afraid of heights?" Espio slowly raised a hand. "Well do yourself a favour don't look out here." The pink hedgehog added with a nervous smile.
with a simple flick of it's head, the Dragon tossed Big backwards until he slammed violently into the side of the wall nearly squashing Froggy in the process. The creature screeched loudly before charging, teeth arched ready to bite. A second later, a beam of intense water pressure came blasting out of nowhere to strike hard into the cybernetic lizard's side, forcing it out the side of the wall and out of the ship itself.
"You need to the get to the bridge?" Asked a voice. Turning, they all saw Tikal standing down the corridor; her eternal companion Chaos at her side. The water demon's arms were raised and eye glowing bright green. "Then let's get to the bridge."
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The command centre of the Armageddon had been intended for Black Arm commanders and as such was a large, impressive looking chamber fit to house the grandest members of state. It was here that the founder of the sect had conceived the very idea of sealing the Destroyer in Nexus. Also, fifty years previous, Prof. Gerald has ascended deep into the earth to examine the crashed station he discovered. It was here he first uncovered the Eclipse Cannon and copied it's design. To make sure the station's crash sight as kept secret he destroyed all mention of this place in his files and notes; lest the original cannon fall into the wrong hands.
Krish's hands.
The dear departed professor had know long in advance of everything and had done his best to prepare for it. How he had done this was irrelevant but he would have done more, had the Destroyer not put a stop to his meddling. An insane man rarely has the wits to organise a defence. For an extremely inferior creature, the Professor had been one major thorn in his side and his legacy had continued to bombard Krish fifty years after the mans death.
The Destroyer had simply been planning to destroy the planets defenders and then ship the populace off as slave labour. But since they had annoyed him intently now, he had changed his mind; they could all die at once.
He reached forward and flipped a switch.
Thousands of mechanisms working in unison began to stir, gears twisting and pulling as the ancient weapon began to move once again. The upside down spire on the underside of the Armageddon began to shake, pieces of lodged dirt and rust falling free as the cone spilt into three pieces that folded out like a flower opening. The glow inside spreading down the edges towards the tip. The joints were ancient and rusted to the core, not even the drones had been able to repair that. Still, the cannon could fire given enough time for the buffers to get in place so the backlash of power wouldn't destroy the station.
As the cone opened with a reluctant groan that could be heard for miles around, the metallic spire inside was revealed, a huge twisting mess of cables that ran from the surface all the way up to the tip that separated out like a trident. At the bottom ran three rings that got smaller the closer they were to tip. There was a brief spark and the ring nearest the station began to glow neon blue as the firing sequence began.
"Oh no!" The President began in horror with sweat running down the side of his face, recognising this scene all too well.
"Not that…anything but that!" Rikoye whispered, his teeth clenched together as his arms began to shack in raw fear.
"The…it can't be…" Scarlet began nearly letting the camera drop. "The…the Eclipse Cannon!"
People all around the world has seen this weapon or at least heard of it, so when the second cannon began to open and power up, it sent all of them into outright panic. The police who up until now had been maintain peace, simply dropped their weapons and started running with the terrified civilians.
Krish took one final look at the earth while the power accumulated. A fused world…the world that had allowed him to return to this dimension and for that he was grateful, but this world had spawned everything that threatened him. He would not be sad to see the back of it.
"Hold it right there!" A voice cried over and an energy blast soured through the air, striking the floor near his feet as a warning shot. Krish snapped around to see Nazo standing at the entrance to the command centre, Metal Sonic and E123: Omega at either side. The red battle android had his arms raised ready to fire intense barrages of missiles and bullets and Metal Sonic was already in a fighting stance, metal claws held ready to swipe. "Put your hands in the air and step away from the Doomsday machine!" Krish hissed angrily through his nose before turning to face them fully, eyes ablaze with intense anger.
"Just how do any of you keep coming back to life?" He demanded, before charging with talons held ready. Omega went into action first, blasting the Destroyer's entire body with an intense succession of missiles that engulfed Krish in a fire storms stopping him in his tracks and hiding him from sight. Metal Sonic followed the attack up by crossing his arms in front of his chest and pausing just long enough to build up enough energy. With a loud sonic boom, a laser blast rocketed forward and stuck Krish head on as he tried to escape from the missile fire. Disappearing in a light show, all the Destroyer could do was hold up his hands trying to defend himself.
Nazo curved himself into a ball and started spinning, energy burning around his body before he shot forward as Metal Sonic's attack ended. To his dismay, he found that nothing was there for him to hit.
Coming out a spin attack, the white hedgehog slid to a stop a short distance away.
"Where'd he go?" Metal Sonic asked, looking around for their opponent, who had completely disappeared. Omega was completely silent, his large red optics scanning the command centre piece by piece. Suddenly, he swung his arms to his left and fired a barrage of bullets. They struck something and whatever it was came flying out of the shadows. Before Omega could defend himself, Krish carved a deep scar directly up his chest-plate nearly tearing his head off. Forced offline Omega fell down to the floor with a loud thud.
Metal Sonic pared of a swing before firing an energy blast, but by then Krish had already disappeared back into the darkness and vanished, every attack missing their target.
"How's he doing that?" Nazo asked, his eyes darting from left to right trying to predict when the Destroyer was next going to attack. The entire chamber was bathed in shadows and Krish could be hiding in any one of them, preparing another deadly strike.
"Don't ask me!" Metal Sonic replied flatly. The two of them stood back to back, watching the darkness for any signs of movement.
"Just what were either of you thinking coming here?" A voice from the shadows asked. Snapping around, both Nazo and Metal Sonic saw a pair of glowing red stars glaring at them from out of the darkness. "I beat both of you with ease." Metal Sonic simply fired another energy blast straight at him, only to find the red eyes faded away to nothing a second before it hit and the attack missed it's mark. A large arm lanced out from behind and grabbed Nazo by the foot, before swinging him around and smashing him straight into Metal Sonic. The two of them collided and crashed to the floor.
The darkness then faded, illuminated by the glow of green fire as it spread around the chamber; encircling the two of them in an instant. Looking up, Nazo could see the Destroyer standing over them; the thick muscles under the skin highlighted by the green glow. The silted reptile like eyes glowing blood red. "I saw you die."
"The hand is quicker than the eye." The white hedgehog replied with a short grin, before shooting up and landed a upper cut across Krish's chin; knocking him backwards several paces.
Metal Sonic followed through by flying in close and slashing at the Destroyer repeatedly with his metal claws. Each slash didn't even carve the skin. A cloven hand came around, grabbing Metal Sonics by the waist and lifting him into the air. There he struggled to free himself before Krish's tail whipped around and smashed itself directly into his face.
Nazo crashed a punch into the back of Krish's head but the Destroy didn't even flinch.
"What the heck are you made of?" Nazo asked, spinning backwards to avoid being stabbing with the spikes on the outer edge of his arms. The hedgehog's moves were slower than usual. He was too distracted by his own doubts. What was he supposed to be? What was he here to do? Simply to kill Krish? Was that it? Just who the hell was he!
Distraction cost him dearly.
Krish grabbed Nazo but the arm and tossed him into the air, before striking at him hard with a fist. As the blow struck home, the form of the white hedgehog wavered for a moment before spilling out into the two that made him up.
"Oh that can't be good." Sonic commented as the Destroyer towered over them other, red eyes glinting from the midst of green fire.
"You're finished Sonic." Krish stated, standing over them both with his fire burning instantly along his side shoulders. "The Eclipse Cannon's firing sequence has already began and there's no way to stop it! No matter who wins this fight, planet Earth gets wiped of the intergalactic map!"
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(In Chris' voice)
It's the final face off and the last chance to save the planet. Can Sonic and Shadow beat Krish and the cloak to prevent global destruction? And what happens when dark secrets of both the Destroyer's origins and that of Sonic himself emerge? It's time to do or die as it comes down to the wire! Next time on Sonic X, the final battle part 2: Don't miss it!