A look of confusion swept across Nack's face. He looked up at Eggman who had started laughing like a loon.
"Okay, I think I must have missed the joke. Scary looking Amy, what is he laughing about?" Metal Amy turned to look at Nack. She quickly scanned him to identify who he was an answered.
"Well, from what he said, and the fact he has the seven chaos emeralds, I think it is safe to presume he plans on turning super." Nack raised his eyebrows, looked at Eggman, then back at Nack.
"Super Eggman? This is going to be interesting..." The tone of Nack's voice implied he didn't see this as any sort of threat. Eggman whacked a button on his chair. Seven tubes fell down from the ceiling, tubes stretched out of said tubes and attached themselves to Eggman. The seven chaos emeralds then dropped down, one in each tube. The emeralds began to glow, causing the tubes they were in and the wires coming out of the tubes to glow. Nack didn't look impressed with the display. "Why can't he just transform like everyone else. Drama queen." The power of the chaos emeralds began to circulate Eggman, he began to rise into the air, there was a blinding flash... When it was possible to see again a glow surrounded Eggman. He kept flashed white, as Knuckles does in his super form. Nack still didn't look impressed. "Why isn't he yellow? What a rip off! I mean, if your going to go super you might as well do it..." Eggman lost interest in Nack's ramblings, flew down and floored him in a sing punch. Eggman smiled and admired his hands.
"Yes... power! More power than I have ever felt flowing through my veins and muscles! It is like a drug, except with no bad side!" Nack got up, rubbing his head. Metal Amy turned to Nack.
"Fang, can you fight?" She asked.
"Fang, who the heck is he? Oh right, that's me." Nack remembered the false name he occasionally used. "Anyway, I can shoot if that's what you mean." Metal Amy flipped backwards to avoid Super Eggman's fist.
"Well, shoot him!" Super Eggman kicked Metal Amy onto the floor.
"My powers are wasted on you two bumblers!" Nack scoffed.
"Pah, you're making way to much of this, Dumpy. Your not all that powerful, slightly less powerful than Super Sonic I'd say." Nack's comment enraged Super Eggman (even thought it was true.
"I'm still more powerful than you'll ever be!" Super Eggman screamed. He flew at Nack with speed which would rival Sonic. Nack rolled out of the way and pulled out a pistol.
"Your still made out of flesh, Eggman!" Nack shoot his gun, only for the bullets to bounce off him. "Or maybe you're not. I'm going to die. Dang it." Nack seemed slightly ticked off by this fact. Nack was hit by Eggman again, causing his head to spin backwards. "Ow!" Nack rubbed his jaw with one hand and held up his other hand to symbolise 'stop'. "That really hurt! Ow, give me a minute..." Super Eggman pushed Nack onto the floor.
"Quiet weasel, do you know who you are dealing with?" Nack picked himself up.
"Look, Egg boy, I have worked next to 'Ultra Metal Sonic', I have seen MS3 at work, and then there was that giant monster Fistika became. Next to them, you're small potatoes." Nack seemed to be acting more bravely in the face of danger than normal. Super Eggman stroked his chin.
"You have a point, but wait until all the emeralds are in my grasp, then will not only be invincible, but I will have the most brilliant weapon..." Super Eggman stopped when he noticed Nack wasn't looking at him. "What?" Super Eggman turned around to see Metal Amy with the emeralds. "But how? You have no battle abilities!"
"Yes... but I can break glass." Metal Amy realised she had to escape as quickly as she could and took off, out of the hole made by Nack's air bike. Super Eggman snapped his fingers and took pursuit. Nack look around, to find he was alone. He collapsed to the floor.
"There. I stood up to someone when at a disadvantage. I think I wet myself..." (Don't worry, he didn't really, because that would be slightly out of character)
Metal Amy burst out the crater, seven emeralds stored within her. She had already learnt she couldn't use the emeralds and her only chance was to somehow loose Super Eggman. This was not a realistic plan as Super Eggman was catching up fast. She just exited the crater when Super Eggman grabbed her legs.
"Oh no you don't you pathetic lump of metal..." Eggman sneered.
"What the..." A near by voice exclaimed. The voice belonged to Sonic. Super Metal Knuckles turned to see the sight.
"Ah, so my master as joined me in super form." Metal Sonic looked at Metal Amy struggling against him.
"Metal Amy! Come on!" There was a great deal of concern in Metal Sonic's voice. This shocked him. He had never felt concern before. Super Metal Knuckles noticed the concern as well.
"What? was that concern in your voice? How can that be?" Metal Sonic ignored the questions and ran towards Metal Amy, was still struggling against Super Eggman's might. "Cool your jets 'brother', I'm dealing with you!" Super Metal Knuckles sprinted towards Metal Sonic. Metal Sonic jumped at such a time that he landed on Super Metal Knuckles head. He then bounced off and gain a bit more height. He 'glided' (sort of) over Metal Amy and Super Eggman. He clenched his fist and let gravity pull him down to the two. He managed to just barley miss Metal Amy and came down on Super Eggman. The speed of Metal Sonic's descend and his weight was enough to dislodge Super Eggman from his victim. Metal Amy gave Metal Sonic a quick thumbs up and flew off. Metal Sonic quickly jumped off Super Eggman, only to be grabbed by the hand of Super Metal Knuckles. "Well, Metal Sonic, that was a waste of your time." Super Metal Knuckles threw him to the floor and flew at Metal Amy. He came at her from below, knocking her off balance. He released the two energy draining disks.
"NO!" Shouted Super Eggman. "I have no idea what they'll do to the chaos emeralds within her!" Super Metal Knuckles grudgingly called back the disks. Metal Amy had regained her balance and was about to make a gambit for freedom again. Super Metal Knuckles crushed this retreat instantly by grabbing her head between his two hands. He began to move his hands closer together. The sound of breaking metal rang out around the summit. Amy looked up at the event in shock.
"He's going to kill her!" She cried. Shadow grabbed her shoulder and used her as support to get up.
"I think Metal Sonic made her." Shadow let go of Amy and turned to look at both her and Sonic. "We should chaos control out of here! Forget the time stones for now!" Shadow took out his emerald.
"Yeah, lets return after this gang war between Eggman and Metal Sonic." Sonic added. Shadow held up the emerald.
"Chaos control!" Shadow shouted, letting the light engulf him, Sonic, Amy and Tails (who despite popular belief is still there). All this was going on unnoticed as Super Metal Knuckles was slowly crushing Metal Amy's head. Metal Sonic looked up at this, frozen in place. He couldn't believe what he was seeing, even more he couldn't believe what he was feeling. He actually cared what happened to Metal Amy, and not just as part of a plan, but he didn't want to lose her a friend. Metal Sonic snapped out of this statue like state and flew up at Super Metal Knuckles without another moments hesitation.
"Bet you have a headache by now." Super Metal Knuckles sneered. He ignored the Metal Sonic desperately trying to remove his hands from Metal Amy's head. "You surprise me Metal Sonic, I thought you would take the emeralds off her and fly away." Metal Sonic discontinued attacking his arms and directed a punch directly between his eyes. The effect on Super Metal Knuckles this punch had was minimal, but it annoyed him, especially because he couldn't fight back without releasing Metal Amy. Thanks to the focus on Super Metal Knuckles meant that no one saw Super Eggman came from below and punch Metal Sonic down to earth. Metal Sonic lay on the ground, which had cracked underneath him.
"My ex-main robot, how fun it shall be to kill you." Super Eggman claimed. However, he had no intention to kill Metal Sonic, as he still needed the data that the Tails doll would find. Super Eggman turned to Super Metal Knuckles. "Wait minion, I have a spare 'Trojan' and we have Metal Amy." Super Metal Knuckles nodded and lessened the tension on Metal Amy's head.
"I see master, then lets lock up Metal Sonic, alter Metal Amy and let all the pieces all into place." Metal Sonic lifted his head, but let it fall down again.
Have you ever felt what true power is? It is not being the boss, no, it's being able to manipulate the boss as you see fit. Having the title of power means your weighed down by the responsibilities needed to keep the title. Controlling the title means you have the power, but they have the responsibility. The power is not in the rulers grasp, it's in there advisors. Knowledge of this truth can get a person far in there personal endeavours, unless the power your manipulating decides to strike back. When this happens the business, whatever it may be, turns into a battle for control of the power. Fistika and Prisal are experts in this game, but at current Prisal has gained the upper hand, mostly because Fistika doesn't know he has. (Just thought I'll put the 'power' part of the fics name into perspective)
Fistika looked at his list. He had already collected the blood samples from Knuckles and Rouge, but there was still many more samples to be taken. A group of the names on the list had been grouped as 'The Chaotix'. Fistika had done a short amount of research on the group, mostly by shouting at his collar for answers. He had discovered that they were detectives who had stood there own against 'the ultimate life form' once. One of the four grouped as 'The Chaotix' is believed to have left the others to continue his travels. More importantly, Fistika had found out where they live. Back on the floating island. Once again Fistika was returning to the home he once had. Fistika was little more than a minute away from the island in his vehicle when he spotted a orange ball of light floating towards him.
"I have not seen one of them before." Fistika muttered, not sure what to make of it. It didn't seem hostile, but Fistika had never relied on looks. The glow came closer and the world around Fistika changed. The backdrop fell and the vehicle disappeared.
Fistika found himself outside a recognisable site. He was next to the prison he was placed in after his rebellion on the floating island. He realised what was happening instantly.
"Tikal, put me back!" Fistika shouted into the air, but to no response. Fistika decided to play Tikal's game and walked towards the prison. Outside to Echidna's were talking, a soldier Fistika didn't recognise and another unrecognisable echidna, but of higher rank, probably a general like Knuckles farther.
"So to dampen our souls on the day of Fistika's capture, a entire tribe of Echidna's are destroyed by some mysterious blue monster." The general sighed. "Bloodshed shall never end on this island."
"The creature has disappeared sir, maybe we shall finally have peace."
"Not while the emeralds are still here. There power is finally attracting attention, especially after the 'yellow demon' which was Fistika." The soldier looked uneasy.
"I've been thinking sir, how do we know none of Fistika's followers know he's in here?" The general rolled his eyes sarcastically.
"Does it matter? He have a small army guarding him, one which can call a larger army easily. Only a fool would dare try to free Fistika."
"Yet I believe that I could hold him in a much more secure place." A metal hedgehog walked into the conversation. It was the one which had released Fistika from his sleep. The robot held a time stone. "Hand Fistika over to me, and my master, Dr Robotnik, and we can promise you that you will never see him again." The general looked sceptical.
"Oh really, and why would you want the demon in your care?"
"To be truthful, his power has exceeded past what we thought possible, and we believe he could be the key to the ultimate power supply." The general rose his eyebrows.
"Well sorry, shiny hedgehog thing, but we think that Fistika will be staying put." Metal Sonic nodded.
"As you wish to play." Metal Sonic the fired missiles out of his fingers, blowing apart the prison and knocking down all the echidnas. Metal Sonic revealed a concealed flamethrower. "Then lets let Angel island burn..." Fistika suddenly found himself back in his vehicle heading towards the Floating island. The voice of Tikal spoke to him.
"Many armies tried to stop the robot, until the robot destroyed everything, just to get hold of the power you once held. Please don't let such a tragedy happen again!" Fistika turned to the orange glow.
"Listen Tikal, that was an amateur mistake. I will not allow another such thing to happen, not that it even can! That was a lousy attempt to stop my quest for power, now be gone!" The glow floated away. Fistika turned again to his target. "Tikal's attempt to reach my heart did tell me who was responsible for my homes destruction. I'm going to keep an eye out for that robot..."
Author note: I know that the power piece was out of place, but I just felt I should put it in. Also, I'm not entirely sure if Fistika's going to do anything about what Metal Sonic did. Oh well. It's late, I don't care.