"Hi! My name is Sonic T. Hedgehog and my life has been spun around more times than I would like to remember. First some wizard causes some of my best friends to turn against me, manage to clone himself a few fighters from some of the girls I know, and final cause everyone in Knothole to vanish. As if that isn't bad enough, Robotnik has brought Bojack back and has an even stronger army. All in all, life ain't so bad. Granted now two of my best friends, well one friend and one rival has been robotized and now want to kill me. I'm going to need some serious therapy if I live through this."

Metal Sonic laughed, "Forget it Sonic! I am receiving combat data from them. They are Robotnik's now."

Shadow and Speed stood silent as Sonic backed up away from them, "Come on guys! Your stronger than Robotnik's programming."

Knuckles ran over and pulled on Sonic, "Forget it! Their lost!"

Bojack crossed his arms, "Let's get this over with. I would like to absorb them before I need a new body."

Metal nodded, "Of course! Speed! Shadow! Capture them!" Both robotic hedgehogs looked at each other, then toward the trio of mammals. Metal Sonic's head suddenly sparked with energy. Both bots shot forward and flew past Sonic and the others. They curled into metal balls and slammed into Metal and Bojack. They hit the ground hard a few feet away. Shadow and Speed stood ready as Metal stood up, "You overloaded my receiver."

Shadow chuckled with a robotic tone in his voice, "You really think we could be controlled by the likes of you? Me and my brother reprogrammed your little toys."

Bojack pushed himself up, "But your robots!"

Speed pointed at him, "And your a cyborg! But we don't blame you for it."

Shadow patted his brother on the shoulder, "We should show them!"

"Agreed! Leave Bojack to me!"

"I'll handle Metal Sonic!" Both Hedgehogs shot toward their targets.

Metal and Bojack separated and flew off into two different directions. The plan was to lure the hedgehogs into a trap. Shadow waited for Bojack and Speed to fly out of sight, before stopping. Metal saw this and landed, "Something wrong?"

"Nothing! I just don't plan on flying into a trap. I am well aware of the squad of Swatbots a few miles east and west of here."

"Your linked up to Robotnik's communications net."

"Yes! And I am also not that dumb." Shadow's talons tightened, "I'm also ready to ditch this get up."

"What?"

Shadow chuckled, "My outer shell is little more than a cover. It was used to convince you we were ordinary robots." He yelled out and his silver armor blasted off him. His real robotic armor was light blue with dark blue trim. A glowing aqua blue orb was on each of his arms and shoulders. His glowing eyes in his visor had changed from red to blue, "Thats better!"

Metal red eyes scanned every inch of Shadow's body, "Your bluffing!"

Shadow's metal quills parted slightly and reveled thruster vents, "We'll see!"

Metal activated his chest turbine, "We will indeed!" Metal shot forward and curled into a ball. He spun around and turned into a saw blade. The orbs on Shadow's arms and shoulders glowed and a meter long icicle appeared in each of his hands. As Metal was about to hit, Shadow crossed the icicles and blocked. The force of the impact shattered the icicles and reveled them to be two long swords. Shadow dug his metal feet into the ground and managed to keep his stance. He pushed his blades forward and Metal flew back and uncurled. Metal landed on his feet and jumped at Shadow. Long blades shot out of his elbows and he spun to hit Shadow. Shadow blocked and jumped back. Metal lashed out with his blades, but Shadow managed to block each strike with his swords. Metal chuckled as he leapt back, "Defiantly an improvement! Shows that robots are superior to mammals."

"Possibly!" Shadow slammed the handles of his swords together and formed a double bladed weapon, "But it also proves that no machine can match the prowess of a mammal's mind!" He threw out his now free right hand, "Now Freeze!" A sphere of ice formed in his hand. The orb on his arm glowed and the sphere grew sharp spikes and shot at Metal.

The machine melted the sphere with his eye lasers, "Is ice the best you can come up with?"

"Sort of!" Shadow jumped into the air and panels on his shoulders opened up. Five icicles appeared on each and fired into the air. The icicles flew up, then plummeted to the ground.

Metal fired his eyes lasers, but the did little to the icicles. As he moved to dodge, a icicle landed on the ground next to him. The ground around it froze over. His foot skidded, but he remained standing. One hit him in the leg and the other in the arm. They did no damage, but his entire left leg and arm froze over. The rest of the icicles hit the ground and froze it over. The ice on the ground froze with the ice on his leg and he couldn't pull it free, "Damn ice!" He fired his laser eyes to melt the ice.

Shadow landed on the ground, "Here! Let me help you!" Shadow flung his blade at Metal. It spun around fast and sped up. Metal raised his unfrozen arm up as the blade hit. The blade knocked Metal free from the ice and sliced off his right arm at the elbow. The blade curved in mid air and flew back into Shadow's hand.

Metal looked at the stump his arm had become and his tore up leg, "What have you become? No machine could do all these things."

Shadow slowly walked toward Metal, "I'm much more than a robot. The nanites have combined the magical powers of the elemental gems and technology. My body is constantly improving and growing stronger." He dismissed his swords and crossed his arms, "Time to finish this!" The orbs on his arms glowed and the ground under Metal cracked, "Too bad for you there is a underwater stream underneath us." Water blasted out of the ground and enveloped Metal. Shadow clenched his fists and the water froze. Metal was sealed in a pillar of ice. Shadow turned and scanned the horizon, "He should be in position soon."

Bojack looked back as he flew into the sky. Speed had activated some thrusters hidden in his metal quills and flown up after him. He chuckled to himself, 'That's right my little moth. Follow the flame to your death.' He activated his leg jets to augment his magical flight, 'Just a little further!'

'Fool thinks I am ignorant of the squad of Swatbots he is leading me to. Like those domeheads could even scratch me. But I am getting board! Better stop end this.' Sperk yelled out and his silver armor blasted off him. His real robotic armor was gold with black trim. A glowing gold orb was on each of his shoulders. His glowing eyes in his visor had changed from red to yellow. Four pointed blades deployed around his right forearm. He clenched his fist and threw his fist forward. Gold energy sparked around the blades and lightning shot from them. The mini bolts combined into one large one and blasted Bojack in the back. As the cyberfox started to fall, Speed curled into a metal ball and slammed into Bojack. Bojack fell to the ground, but managed to cast a hover spell to slow his decent. Speed uncurled and laughed, "Cute!" He revved his thrusters and shot downward. The blades on his arms sparked and his entire fist erupted with golden energy, "Thunder Fist!" Bojack flew out of the way and Speed's fist impacted the ground. The ground cracked and lightning energy exploded around his fist.

Bojack landed several feet away, "What are you? That power!"

Speed chuckled and stood up, "I'm the warrior of lightning! I specialize in destruction!"

"As usual, you have no class!"

Sperk held his left hand out as the blades on his arm retracted, "Class is for students! I'm a Master!" Lightning shot from his hand and transformed into halberd. The pole was four feet long ending at a sharp point. Just below the point was a crescent shaped blade with it connected to the pole at the curve. Speed spun it around and laid it across his right shoulder, "How about I give you a free shot?"

"HUH!"

Speed shrugged, "Hard?" Speed turned around so his back was facing him, "Better! I know you hate attacking people when your facing them."

Bojack stepped back, "Your kidding?" Bojack sighed, 'Better not waste this chance. This fool's over confidents will be his downfall.' Bojack knelt down and held his hands out. Dark energy sparked around him and a sphere of black energy formed in front of him, "DIE!" Bojack flung the ball at Speed. The metal hedgehog simply laughed as the tip on his halberd glowed gold and a wall of lightning formed around him. The sphere hit the wall and both exploded in a violent outburst of power. Bojack covered his eyes, "What?"

Speed glanced over to Bojack, "Please tell me that wasn't your best shot!" He turned back to Bojack, "You got to have more than that."

Bojack sneered, "Damn you! I was just warming up!" Suddenly, Bojack's eyes flashed red. He grasped his head and fell to his knees, "No! Not now!" He yelled out in pain.

Speed laughed, "That's Robotnik's programming! Imagine having to put up with it everyday."

"I'll...kill...you!" Bojack had to force the words out.

The hedgehog jumped back, "You'll get use to the pain!" Bojack started to stand, but a pillar of ice fell on top of him.

Shadow landed on the ground next to Speed, "Sorry I'm late! Moving that thing proved harder than I thought!"

"Forgiven!" Speed dismissed his halberd in a flash of light, "Should we kill them?"

"No! We used up to much of our power. Lets not push it!"

"Lucky for those two!"

"No kidding!" Both hedgehogs flew into the sky.

Sonic and Knuckles stood outside of The Eclipse as they waited for word from their friends. Tails had gone inside and fell asleep. Sonic guessed that all that had happened was to much for the kid. Knuckles slapped him on the shoulder, "Their back!" Both Shadow and Speed landed a few feet away. Knuckles walked up to them and tapped on Shadow's metal arm, "You still you in there?" Shadow and Speed chuckled. Their bodies flashed with white light and the returned to their flesh and blood forms. Knuckles and Sonic stepped back, "How?"

"Robotnik was stupid enough to download both the robotizer and derobotizer programs into the nanites." Shadow tapped a wrist gauntlet on his left arm, "I simply added a program that linked the two."

Sonic laughed, "Inventive! Did you manage to save any?"

"A few! Not enough for armor, but they can build more of themselves before we need them."

Knuckles cracked his knuckles, "Can't wait to try mine when it is ready."

"Sure!" Shadow waited for Sonic and Knuckles to board the ship before turning to his brother, "The fools have no idea!"

Speed patted Shadow on the shoulder, "It just proves that we were right in doubting them. I'm for moving now, but let us at least take them back to the island."

"They deserve that much!"

Speed chuckled and walked to the ship, "Don't worry! Soon The Brothers of War will take center stage and then no one will be left to stand in our way."

"Then lets not waste anymore time."