Author's Notes: Sorry I've been so long in updating. Thought I quit on ya, huh? Oh well, I'm back! School has really been a hassle lately. Especially with the Final Exams coming up. Enough about that though, I want to tell you that this chapter may be a little long in the action detail, but doesn't that make stories more interesting? Read it for yourself and don't forget to review.

Negative Effects

Chapter Nine: Second Apocalypse

Tails had decided to split up from the gang and rescue the other prisoners. Rebecca decided to help him since she did know something about being a spy. The rest of the furs decided to go meet Dr. Robotnik head on. Trey was going to make Robotnik pay for what he had done to his friend, Kevin. He was going to get him for what he had done to his home. But he was going to get him mainly because he had corrupted Ashley's mind. He knew there was a chance that she was making the decisions on her own, but he wanted to deny that possibility until he found proof. They all walked into a room that seemed big and spacious. The room was red and it seemed to be like a huge guestroom. Just as they were about to walk in some more, at least five hundred Shadow bots walked in the way of the next room. "Halt, you are trespassing onto the Doctor's grounds. Prepare to be annihilated." the leader said. The Shadow bots pointed their weapons at the furs and was waiting for their signal. "Scatter!" Trey yelled. The robots began to fire as the three furs ran for cover.

They continued to fire and then was hit by something from behind. The leader turned around and saw a fox in a red combat suit with red cargo pants. "Hello you pile of junk." he said and rammed his sword into the hull of the robot. "System failure." it said in a dull voice and fell to the ground. The fox smiled, "All too easy." he said. The other Shadow bots looked at their leader on the floor and then looked at Flare. "Kill him!" a second in command bot ordered. They all aimed their weapons at Flare and began to fire. 'These fools can't even touch me.' he thought and smirked. He ran out of the way and hid behind cover right next to Trey. "You? Why are you here?" Trey asked. Flare looked and then saw Trey beside him. He became surprised and pulled out his sword, but then put it back into its sheath.

"Don't scare me like that kid, I could have killed you." Flare warned. Trey raised an eyebrow, "I thought that was what you were supposed to do." Trey said. Flare looked at Trey and then laughed, "Nah kid, not anymore. That was when we didn't know that this idiot Dr. Ivo was the reason why we didn't go back to our time." he said. Suddenly a Shadow bot stood above the two foxes and was about to fire, when something shoved the robot into a wall and the head shattered into pieces. Kindra was standing where the bot was and seemed to be in more pain than the last time Trey had seen her. Her clothes barely fit onto her and she was battered and bruised like she had just came from a war. "Kindra are you alright?" Trey asked. She gave a weak smile, "Of course, just a little shaken, but I'm ok." she said. She tried to walk towards Trey, but then collapsed. Trey caught her and then set her down gently. "Good thing you came, I thought I would have died for sure if anyone didn't come." she said and passed out. Flare just looked at the girl and then at the remaining Shadow bots in the room that the rest of the Elite Squad was taking care of. "She needs to rest, I'll look after her and you go help out your friends." he said. Trey gave him a suspicious look and Flare tried to explain himself. "You can trust me ok, we're on the same side now and our objective is to only take down Dr. Ivo Robotnik." he said. Trey eased up and then smiled, "Fine." he said and ran into the battle.

"Surrender now, there is no point in trying to resist." a Shadow bot said. Just as the Elite Squad seemed to give up hope, Trey flew into the chaos and kicked the leader bot into a wall. "Great timing." Mist said. Trey gave a thumbs up and smirked, "All in a day's work." he said. The robots began to fire at the Elite Squad and Trey as they rolled out of the way. Trey didn't see the Shadow bot behind him with a plasma cannon attached to its arm. As it was charging up, Carmen yelled out something from behind him. "Trey look out!" she yelled. Trey turned around to see the plasma cannon pointed right to his face. Carmen pushed him out of the way as it fired. Carmen fell to the ground and then she began to shake in pain. Trey became angry and ripped the head of the robot clean off of its neck, then he kneeled over to Carmen. She looked at Trey with hurt eyes. "I don't think I will make it." she said. Trey tried to comfort her. "That's not true, you can make it, and you know it." he said. Carmen laughed uneasily, "If I don't make it, then I want to tell you this, I like you Trey, a lot. When you were with us for that whole week, I felt like I actually had someone to talk to and have some fun with." she said. Trey was about to say something, when someone knocked down the main doors to the headquarters.

At first, everyone had stopped fighting to look at who the person was. When the dust cleared, a red echidna with a mean attitude walked into the building. "Knuckles, man am I glad to see you." Trey said. Knuckles stood there, looking at the scene. "Good thing I came." he said. There was somebody else with him as well. The person walked into the place and looked at everyone. She was an orange echidna with tribal clothing and a blue ring on both of her wrists. "Hello, my name is Tikal." she said to the group. "This is my friend that I just met, she explained to me that this whole situation deals with time travel or what not, so I got the concept." Knuckles said. "It doesn't matter who you are or what you understand. Kill all of them!" a Shadow bot ordered. They all fired at someone and didn't give anyone any chances. Knuckles and Tikal took cover next to Carmen and Trey. "Here, let me help you with that wound." Tikal said. She put her hands on the huge size hole in Carmen's stomach, closed her eyes, and then began to chant something. The hole began to grow smaller and then it was gone. Tikal opened her eyes and smiled. "All done." she said.

Trey was amazed, "How did you do that?" he asked. Tikal was about to answer, when a bullet whizzed by their heads. "You can ask questions after we put you in your cells." a Shadow bot said. Suddenly something fast and blue zoomed by and then the robot fell apart. They all looked back to see Sonic standing next to Sally and Shadow. "We have reached an agreement. We all had the wrong objectives before; ours now is to take out the one and only Dr. Ivo Robotnik. The king of Knothole demands it." he said and smirked. "Fine terms by me." Trey said. Tails burst in with Rebecca, Monica, and at least two hundred other Freedom Fighters. He saw Knuckles and smiled, then he saw Sonic by Sally, and Amy helping Flare with Kindra. "Just like old times, right buddies?" he asked. "Yep." they all said in unison. Sally walked in front of the Freedom Fighters and pointed at the Shadow bots. "Give 'em all you got. Don't stop until their all broken pieces of rubble." she ordered. They all saluted and aimed at the Shadow bots with assault rifles and pistols. "Yes Queen Sally." they all said in unison.

The leader of the Shadow bots saw the many numbers of people they had to go against. "Chances of survival; low. Chances of winning the battle; ridiculous. Squad, fire anyway and kill as much as you can." it said. Just as they were about to fire, something light blue slammed the leader against the wall. A teenage cheetah looked at the leader of the squadron and became furious. "You killed my father you bastard!" he yelled and began to punch it in the face. After the bot began to malfunction, the cheetah let it go and looked at the rest of the robots. "Chad, what are doing here?" Trey asked. Chad looked at him and sighed with relief. "I'm glad you're still alive. I'll tell you the whole story later. Right now, we need to take care of these useless bots." he said.

Four black figures walked into the room. "Indeed." one of them said. They walked closer and they saw it was none other than the rest of the Eclipse Force. "I say we take them hard and heavy. Let's go." Nega ordered. Everyone split up and went with their groups. Elite Squad was one group, Eclipse Force was another group, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, and Monica was another group, and finally the Freedom Fighters that fought with the Queen Sally. "Attack!" every leader said in unison. Bullets went flying everywhere as others went into sword fights.

Nega grabbed one robot from behind while Shade kicked and punched it until it stopped moving. "I love fighting dirty. It's so fun." Nega said. Shade just smiled and began to pick off the other robots one by one. Nightmare crushed a robot with his bare hands and then looked at Midnight. She swung her mallet one time and sent at least five Shadow bots to the scrap heap. "That was easy." she said. Suddenly a robot flew by her and smashed into the wall. She looked to see where it had came from and saw that Shadow was taking at least nine of them. "I am the ultimate life form. I can beat you with one swift move." Shadow said. He pulled out a Chaos Emerald and pointed it in front of him. "Chaos Control." he yelled. In a flash, all of the robots that he was fighting was a smoking pile of circuits. "Sweet move." Sonic commented. Shadow smiled, "Thanks." he said.

Sonic ran towards a Shadow bot as it aimlessly kept trying to shoot him. He reached the bot and spun into a ball. Then he crashed into the bot and tore out the other side of it. The bot fell and went dead. A bot he didn't notice was creeping up behind him with a pole in its hand. It raised it above its head and was about to swing down, when a fist hit it in the face and sent it crashing into a chair. Sonic turned around to see Knuckles rubbing his hands together. "Thanks man, I guess I didn't see him." Sonic said. Knuckles smiled, "Watch your back next time Sonic. You're still our hero and we need you alive." he said and went back into battle. He was about to punch another bot when two more grabbed him from behind. The one he was about to punch took out a hand-sized drill. "Your time is up, echidna." it said and was about to ram the drill in his heart. Suddenly a large size mallet crushed the robot like a pancake and hit the other two robots off of Knuckles. "That ought to teach you to play fair." Amy said, holding her Piko Piko Hammer in front of her, ready to swing again. "Thanks Amy." Knuckles said. Amy snickered, "No prob." she said. Two robots from behind hit Amy onto the ground and were about to fire their weapons when two shots from behind hit them in their head. She turned around and saw Tails standing there with a smoking phaser in his hand.

"That's the last time I'll see anyone get jumped by these fools." Tails said. He put his gun away and grabbed another Shadow bot that was trying to take advantage of Carmen. He threw the robot against the wall and continuously punched it in the chest. Then he threw it to the ground and kicked the head clean off and it hit another Shadow bot's head off. "Now if that isn't impressive, nothing is." Monica said, dropping a malfunctioning robot onto the ground. She hit a robot on the head with her wrench that she always kept on her and it simply mismatched its circuits. It fell to the ground and turned off. "Oops. Clumsy me." Monica said with an innocent voice. She noticed a silver robot that seemed different from the other robots. This one actually resembled an animal. "Oh no, could it be? Did he actually get the machine fixed from all those years ago?" she asked herself. The robot looked at her and smiled. "Species: Vixen. Type: Mechanic. Chances of survival: High." it said. It tried to grab her, but was stopped when Tails hit it across the room. "No one touches my wife!" he snarled.

More roboticized animals walked into the room with laser cannons. "Fire!" a robot yelled into the crowd. Waves of lasers went over everyone's head and everyone ducked. "Fire back! Make sure we leave no robot standing." Sally ordered. "Yes ma'am." All of the Freedom Fighters said in unison and fired at the new threat. Bunnie ran up to the group of roboticized animals and tried to scatter them. She threw most of them into the walls and back into the room that they had came from. "Ha, this is way too easy sug, I guess they're no match for…" she was saying until she was hit from the side by the same robot that seemed interested in Monica. "Bunnie Rabbot is no longer a threat." it said with a metallic voice. "Nooo!" Antoine yelled and ran up to the robot. "Ant, that isn't smart. Come back!" Rotor yelled. "I don't care. I won't ztand down and let them take over. I can't let zis happen anymore. I'd rather go down fighting than let zis hardware win." Antoine said. He began to punch at the robot and hit it in the face. Suddenly a laser went through his chest and he stood shocked. Then he fell to the floor and seemed to lie still.

A Shadow bot stood there with a phaser pointed at Antoine. "Goodbye rodent." it said. It was about to fire again when it was hit on the head. Tikal stood there with her fist balled up. "That should teach you not to harm innocent people." she said. They looked around to see that all of the Shadow bots were demolished. The roboticized animals had retreated and that left one more job for them to do. "C'mon, let's finish this." Sonic said and everyone walked into the throne room of the headquarters.

To Be Continued