Aftermath of betrayal Disclaimer: Sega and Sonic team own everyone who isn't Fistika, Prisal, Snipe and Metal Amy. Of course about two of them are actually going to appear in this chapter. Probably. O.K, I don't actually know! SHUT UP!
My notes: Soz, LaMoNt kAwAii HeDgEhOg /lamont-the-ultimate, but I have no plans to use your character yet. Right, onto the story.
Metal Sonic sat in the deserted lab which housed Eggman's unfinished creations, the lab he had been concocting his plans from ever since Metal Knuckles showed him it.
"That complete and absolute bas..."
"Metal Sonic, there are problems with the Tails doll." Metal Amy walked out of the repair room, screwdriver in hand.
"What is the problem?" Metal Sonic asked. Metal Amy briefly turned to look at the room see had just exited.
"The problem is that we can't fix him. The Tails doll has really had a number done on his circuitry." Metal Amy slumped down into a near by chair. "At this rate Metal Knuckles will be done with the military base way before we even get there." Metal Sonic clenched his fist.
"Well, we're going to have to do this without the Tails doll." Metal Sonic picked up his emerald tracker again. The collection of seven emeralds was far from the other thirteen. "Although, we still have plenty of time, in fact he's going the wrong way." Metal Amy looked at the tracker.
"Do you think he doesn't know the way?" Asked Metal Amy.
"Unlikely, the chaos emeralds are like magnets, so he should be easily able to find such a large cluster." Metal Sonic replied.
"Well if that is true, then how come no one found the thirteen hidden emeralds earlier?" Metal Amy argued. Metal Sonic put away the emerald tracker and looked directly at Metal Amy.
"As far as I can tell Fistika had buried them in some sort of chamber which dispersed the energy the emeralds emit out in such a way they were 'invisible' to emerald trackers, or the other emeralds."
"Yeah, that made sense." Metal Amy sarcastically remarked. Metal Sonic ignored the comment. "So, how are we going to break into this place?" Metal Sonic got up and took out some blueprints. "Where did you get that from?"
"Stole it from Eggman. Anyway, all the emeralds are in this central room on the bottom floor. The most direct way there would be to come from above and break our way through the ceilings down to it, but the ceilings are made of an alloy way to hard to destroy to get down there without triggering the alarm and being overwhelmed by soldiers before we're anywhere near. All the corridors leading to the room are blocked by doors witch will only open by fingerprint id, and they're just as hard to destroy as the ceilings, or anything else for that matter."
"So how the heck do we get in?"
"We're going to have to steal one of Metal Knuckles' emeralds so we can get in with Chaos control."
Super Metal Knuckles walked down a long metallic corridor. He came to a large door and opened it. He walked into a large room, inhabited by discarded robot parts, monitors and a large chair.
"My liege, I bring you the chaos emeralds." Super Metal Knuckles bowed down. The chair turned around, revealing Eggman. Eggman got up and walked up to Super Metal Knuckles. Super Metal Knuckles stood upright again and handed him one of the chaos emeralds. "Courtesy of Metal Sonic." Eggman laughed.
"Excellent! You have done well my servant. I presume you have taken care of the other problem?" Super Metal Knuckles didn't say anything. "You have got rid of Metal Sonic, haven't you?"
"Possibly, I did drain his energy, but Metal Amy could have gotten him recharged easily." Super Metal Knuckles kept perfect eye contact with Eggman. Eggman looked at him suspiciously
"Also, I haven't got my info yet. Metal Amy wasn't 'altered' by you was she?" Eggman asked.
"Metal Sonic worked on her alone, I never got a chance." Super Metal Knuckles replied. Eggman snapped his fingers.
"Oh for heck's sake! Metal Sonic isn't dead and the needed adjustments haven't been done to the Metal Amy!"
"In my defence Metal Sonic was never technically alive, so can never really be dead."
"Don't back talk. Your mission was not a complete success, making the mission next to pointless!" Eggman kicked Super Metal Knuckles, resulting in him hurting his own leg.
"Master, I may not have got to Metal Amy, but instead I put the Trojan into the Tails doll. As soon as they reboot him the Trojan will be activated and the needed information will be taken from Metal Sonic through his wireless connection with the Tails doll. Then both there systems will be erased, if the Metal Amy had her data wiped clean and not the Tails doll, then we could have more trouble than just having to contend with Metal Amy. It is only a shame I couldn't get the info sooner."
"Maybe I should have put the virus in you to hack into those files." Eggman threatened. "I wanted it in Metal Amy so the Death egg's plans wouldn't be up for the taking, I only want you to have a version! Besides, Metal Amy was specially designed to help the virus get into Metal Sonic's encrypted files easier, without the electric treatment..." Super Metal Knuckles nodded. When he tried to get in the files with his wireless link to Metal Sonic he got electrocuted for twenty four hours.
"Dose it matter as long as you get the program to run Metal Sonic's copied data and complete MS4?" (who remembers MS3? God I miss him. Why did I kill off so many of my fan characters? the Beta life form, MS3... well that's it. I'll shut up now)
The knife speed towards Knuckles head, no time to dodge or defend, fortunately that didn't seem to matter as the knife just bounced off Knuckles forehead harmlessly. Fistika stared blankly at the knife before picking it up and throwing it at Knuckles again, to similar effect. Fistika picked up the knife again and studied it.
"Hay Knuckles, those wounds on your back are real aren't they?" Knuckles, not quite sure what was going on, simply nodded. "Lets see... what the hell are these little... oh my god! Those prats!" Fistika started shouting at his metal collar. "You can make the knife temporarily useless! You can make the thing fold into itself and return to normal just like that, just to mess up my plans! You'll let me inflect deep wounds, but not kill a man! You morons and your confused morals!" Fistika put the knife away and looked up at Knuckles and Rouge, who were both completely confused. "You don't mess we my revenge GUN." As he talked he gave Knuckles a look which mixed anger and thought. "Once I've done this mission for you GUN, you better watch out." Fistika gave Knuckles a small smile and ran off.
"Okay... what?" Asked Rouge.
"I think he was trying to get revenge on GUN for not letting him kill me." Knuckles replied, not entirely sure himself.
"How could he be working with GUN?" Rouge was looking at Knuckles large shoulder wounds,
"and why didn't they stop him doing these?"
"He took some of our blood in a syringe, maybe they wanted him to do this, just not kill us." Knuckles let his hand feel against the stabs in his back. "But why?"
Fistika ran into the crowded street, shoving past various civilians. He jumped up, clung onto a building and scaled up it. On top of the building was Fistika's vehicle. Fistika jumped into it, but didn't take off. He sat and waited. Before long the screen lit up with a picture of a GUN soldier.
"Fistika, what are you doing?" The soldier was angry. Fistika remained calm.
"Pray tell, why have I yet to blow up? Surly you must 'question my loyalty' now." Fistika smirked.
"We..." Fistika cut in before the soldier had a chance to reply.
"It's because you still need me, and blowing me up would mean you would be forced to use some other hapless victim in your petit quest to advance that 'ultimate weapon' project. A hapless victim who probably couldn't do it." Fistika paused to let the soldier reply, but interrupted again. "So, bud, let me get my revenge or else a few more people will know about my 'loyalties'." The Soldier just looked at Fistika with burning hatred.
"I'm afraid that as part of our code we are not allowed to purposely kill a humanoid, and now that you're working for us, you have to follow this rule." The soldier spoke through clenched teeth. Fistika nodded thoughtfully.
"I suppose I can wait for the end of this job." Fistika turned the monitor off and started the vehicle's engine. He took a glance back at Knuckles house. "I will return to end this Knuckles, you'll see."
Shadow, Amy, Tails and Sonic trekked up the side of an extinct volcano. Tails lead, following the signal he was getting from a emerald tracker he had modified to follow the time stones signal. The heat was getting to Sonic, making him slightly more grumpy than normal.
"Tails, are you sure the time stones haven't been burned up inside that thing?" Shadow asked.
"Who cares!" Grumbled Sonic. Everyone ignored him.
"If they had got cooked, I wouldn't be getting any signal." Tails replied. Shadow nodded and continued hiking up the volcano. It wasn't long until they had reached the top. Sonic, seriously suffering from heat frustration, was repeatedly trying to kick Tails off the summit. It wasn't long until everyone just knocked Sonic down the path.
"Where are the stones Tails?" Amy looked around the summit while asking. Tails looked from his tracker, to the smoking hole which housed the volcano's lava.
"Would you believe..." Tails peered into the volcano.
"How is that even possible?" Shadow also looked down into the bubbling hole.
"Well, after we sent them back by themselves, via a simulation run in my lab, someone had apparently moved them to the future site of this volcano. Why I can't say."
"That doesn't really answer my question, how can they be in a boiling pit of lava, and still be intact?" Tails shrugged. Everyone (except Sonic who was still grumpy) looked around in the volcano, trying to see the stones. Something caught Shadow's eye. "Tails, if you can track these things, I pressume others can." Tails looked at Shadow confused.
"Well, it isn't outside the realm of possible..." Shadow whacked a small fuse box at the side of the pit. Something flicked briefly into view, then disappeared, then reappeared, revealing itself to be a metal building suspended above the lava. "I'd say it is very likely." Tails quickly changed his answer. Amy bit her bottom lip.
"It seems Eggman has perfected the clocking device."
"Well lets beat him up and get away from this stinking place!" Sonic grumbled.
"It's lava reef zone all over again." Tails muttered under his breath.
"Master, I detect Sonic and friends." Super Metal Knuckles looked up at the ceiling. Upon hearing this news Eggman got angry and started kicking his chair.
"Why? Can I do anything without that blue rat breathing down my neck?" Eggman complained. Super Metal Knuckles walked in the direction of the exit.
"I'll deal with that problem master."
"Wait! Do you honestly believe you can do this alone?" Super Metal Knuckles turned his eyes. There seemed to be a twinkle in his dead eyes (Yes, this chapter really makes sense.
"Trust me, I can do much more than they believe."
"It's opening." Shadow observed.
"Thank god we have you here, otherwise we might not have noticed that GREAT BIG DOOR OPENING!" Sonic sarcastically remarked. Super Metal Knuckles floated slowly and elegantly out of the base. Shadow and Sonic took fighting stance.
"Who do we have here? Ah, the lovebirds, the tag along and of course, the ring leader," Super Metal Knuckles emerged from the pit and landed in front of Sonic, "the one who pulls his assortment of performers together to create an average thrill." Super Metal Knuckles stared hard at Sonic, ignoring the others.
"So we have Metal Sonic's lap dog for sport do we?" Sonic glared at Metal Knuckles, but couldn't match his cold, metal eyes.
"I follow a different leader now." Super Metal Knuckles began circling Sonic. "Before I departed, however, Metal Sonic did share a few things with me." Sonic rose his head in an attempt to appear superior. "The mighty Sonic, a weak point he has, one he hides well, even from the program your mind became for my 'brother'. So my spiky enemy, should I reveal this weakness?" Super Metal Knuckles turned to everyone else. "Are you interested in this tasty trivia?" Sonic remained silent. Super Metal Knuckles turned again to Sonic. "My master will see you rot and die before this is done, outside and inside." Sonic clenched his fists. "Maybe I should tell her..." Sonic lost it and punched Super Metal Knuckles in the chin. Super Metal Knuckles' head was knocked backwards. A laugh emerged. "Fed up of the anthem? Then lets go straight into the game." Super Metal Knuckles punched Sonic onto the floor and turned to the oncoming Shadow and Tails. He released his energy draining disks and fired them at Shadow. Shadow went into a spindash and knocked them all away, and proceeded to spin at Super Metal Knuckles. Super Metal Knuckles showed no reaction as he was hit and punched Shadow away. "Are you all blind? Do you not see that I'm super?" Metal Knuckles walked towards Shadow, but then stopped. He turned to Amy and began to laugh. "Wait, I have a better idea." His eyes cut into Amy, as did his laughter. "Say hello to inner torture Shadow."