Disclaimer: Sega and Sonic Team own people who aren't Prisal, Metal Amy or Fistika. I tried to get the other characters of them, but couldn't. So I'm starting my own popular game series, called 'Nonic the creature that looks like a hedgehog but isn't.'
Metal Sonic stood in his cell watching Super Eggman's every move with his dead eyes. Super Eggman had Metal Amy unconscious, laid on a table, awaiting the 'extras' Super Eggman was going to add. Metal Sonic continued his staring, not moving a muscle. He had no plan. He didn't know what to do. The bars wouldn't break, no deal could be made, there was nothing to do. Super Eggman turned to look at Metal Sonic. The glowing red eyes were becoming unnerving. Super Metal Knuckles entered the room. He turned to face Super Eggman.
"Master, is the patient ready?" Super Metal Knuckles asked. Super Eggman nodded in reply. "Good. Master, may I have permission to carry out the 'installation', as I can do it faster." Super Eggman laughed slightly.
"The sooner the better, my servant!" He patted Super Metal Knuckles on the shoulder and walked over to the cell which held Metal Sonic. He looked at Metal Sonic, trying to hide his glee about capturing him. "So, soon my traitorous robot, you will be whipped clean of all the information you hold! Doesn't that sound exciting?" Eggman talked in a mocking manner. Metal Sonic kept his statue like state as he talked.
"You truly are a fool Eggman. MS4 will never worked"
"How did you find out about that?" Super Eggman demanded an answer. Metal Sonic looked over at Super Metal Knuckles, who was opening the Metal Amy up.
"Used my wireless link to read some of his files." Metal Sonic returned his gaze to Super Eggman.
"Well, why won't it work? I can power him easily, he will be faster, stronger and just plain better than Metal Sonic version three, and it will hold all your copied data, meaning it can transform into that monster..." A small chuckle came from Metal Sonic.
"I've already exhausted that. Besides, like 'MS2' (that's himself), it will betray you"
"How could you predict that"
"Because, my dear doctor, you make us too strong and smart. That wouldn't be a problem, if you gained our respect. Unfortunately, you give us no reason to follow you. We realise this and betray you. It happens every time! Me, Chaos, Bomb and Heavy, G-mel, Shadow"
"Shadow was completely different"
"No he isn't! After you brought him back he would have stayed on our side if you were just respectable enough! Not some lousy clown who messed with Maria's diary!" (That was reference to an early fic 'Mangabot', which introduced 'the Beta life form', just so you know.) Super Eggman was becoming frustrated.
"Metal Knuckles..."
"Has yet to realise his own potential! You wait and soon you will be in the deep end with sharks." Super Eggman was about to argue back, before Metal Sonic broke in again. "There are those who have a chance to beat the odds, but you, dear doctor, can't even win with the scales in your favour. So go and fail again!" Super Eggman couldn't think of a way to reply, so he just gave Metal Sonic a cold stare and left. Metal Sonic watched Super Eggman leave, then turned his gaze to Super Metal Knuckles and Metal Amy. He found himself hoping that Metal Amy would get away. He wanted Metal Amy to get away more than he wanted to get away. Metal Sonic found himself getting confused. In his mind he was always the number one concern, it's how he survived, but now he found Metal Amy becoming an issue. Metal Sonic had never made any relationship outside of enemies and allies. He never had what he counted as a friend, he just had prawns of strategic value, but Metal Amy, now he had the 'Final Death Egg' plans she was next to useless. Yet he found himself keeping her around, even caring about her. Was he considering a friend? No! He was not possible of making emotional attachments to people, unless the emotion was hate. "I feel nothing." Metal Sonic muttered to himself.
Shadow was back in Amy's apartment. He was tossing the chaos emerald into the air. Tails was in the corner typing away on the computer. Sonic and Amy were in the other room.
"What was Metal Knuckles rambling about? Tell me!" Sonic walked out of the room, followed by a whining Amy.
"I don't know Amy, okay!" Sonic lied.
"Wrong!" Shadow called out, not looking away from the emerald. "We have slightly more pressing matters, namely some super powered bad guys." Shadow put away the chaos emerald and turned to Amy and Sonic. "Surly a Super Eggman is something that should spark our interest." Sonic laughed.
"No big, we'll get those twelve other emeralds and go ultra on there behinds." Sonic clasped Shadow on the shoulder. "You worry to much"
"Don't touch me." Shadow took Sonic's hand of his shoulder. Amy came over to Shadow and put her arm around him.
"Sonic's right, for once. After we got all those new emeralds, a super form is much less dangerous." Shadow smiled slightly. Tails turned around to look at everyone.
"Hay guys, I think I have an idea how to unlock a few more of Shadow's memories." Everyone turned to look at Tails. "You mention stuff like a room, or Nack's hat unlocked memories." Shadow nodded.
"Speaking of me and my hat." Nack kicked open Amy's front door. Gun in hand, pointing at Sonic, Amy and Shadow. "I still want my emerald!" Tails picked up a near by CD case and threw it at Nack. It hit his head. "Who was that?" Nack turned to look at Tails, giving Sonic time to nick Nack's gun and Shadow time to chuck him to the floor. "Oh, I'm bad at this hold up thing." Nack claimed as Shadow took the gun off Sonic and pointed it at Nack.
"Stop following us around for our emerald! Do you not have anything else to do!" Shouted Shadow. Nack shrugged.
"Well, the others emeralds are in that Government base, or with the robots, which, no offence, are much scarier than you." Shadow leant closer, letting the gun press against Nack's neck.
"Believe me weasel, I can be scary." Nack gulped and started to crawl backwards.
"Oh well, no harm, no foul I'll be off"
"Wait!" Tails called out. "I think we could use Nack"
"How?" Everyone asked, including Nack.
"Well, before we go after the rest of the emeralds, I have to run a few tests on the Tornado, I can't be sure it is still safe after having to rebuild it." (the Tornado sank in 'Emeralds and Love', I'll stop with the references to past fics now.) Tails got up and walked over to Nack. He took off his hat. "I believe in the mean time Nack can help us recall some of Shadow's memories"
A few minutes later Tails and Sonic had gone off to test the Tornado. Shadow was lying on the couch. Sitting next to him was Amy and Nack, who had been deprived of all his weaponry.
"You know, for a bad guy, I sure seem to be helping you lot out allot this week." Amy shushed him.
"Close your eyes Shadow, and listen to the sound of my voice." Amy ordered. Shadow did as he was told. Amy looked at a piece of paper with writing in Tails handwriting on it. "Your mind is wondering, you are at peace, no worries, no pain, just quiet." Nack rolled his eyes. This was stupid. "Now I am going to say some words. Concentrate on the words." Shadow lazily nodded. "G.U.N, A.M.M.O, Prisal, Snipe, A.R.K, Maria," Amy said each word slowly, with pauses in between. Shadow showed no reaction to any of the words.
"Nothing." Shadow claimed. Amy turned to Nack, obviously doubting the method. Nack picked up a sheet Tails had given him.
"Right, dark Sonic dude, Tails wanted me to say these, saying it wouldn't work coming out one of your friends, or something." Nack cleared his throat. "Betrayal, death, end, doom, conspiracy..." The word echoed in Shadow's mind he began to move around uncomfortably. "... destruction..." Nack's voice held no concern for what the words effect on Shadow would be, unlike a friend's would. "... war, weapon, the Ultimate..."
"...life form will not fulfil his mission like this!" Nack's voice turned into an another cold, uncaring voice. Shadow opened his eyes. He was standing in front of a man he did not recognise, in a room he didn't recognise. The room was empty and featureless, except a mirror. Shadow herd noises behind it, so he guessed it was a one way mirror. "Why won't he kill the man? What use is he if he can't kill!" A different voice answered.
"It's not that he can't kill, sir, but he refuses to, on account of a 'Maria's' last wish"
"So Gerald, your daughter is as weak as you? That is why you need me." Shadow was then surprised to here Gerald.
"Prisal, stop this please"
"Sir?" The, what Shadow guessed to be, soldier began to ask. The sound of smashing was heard and a soldier smashed through the one way mirror, half a bottle pushed in his head.
"That is how you kill, you pathetic creature!" Prisal shouted angrily. Gerald started to weep. Shadow realised that both Prisal and Gerald's voice was coming from roughly the same place. Prisal must have Gerald in his clutchesor something.
"I am going mad... I'm turning into you..." As soon as Prisal spoke Gerald's weeping seemed to disappear.
"Silence! I am what you want to be! I can take your revenge! I have already got our death sentence into the A.R.K, waiting this creature to release it." Shadow was confused. 'Our death sentence'. Shadow looked down at the dead soldier.An unusual amount of fear grew from inside Shadow. "Soldiers, remove this creature from my sight. Make him the Ultimate life by removing the memory." Prisal's message came out of a speaker Shadow could here outside the room. A door Shadow hadn't noticed opened and three soldiers entered. Two began to try to give Shadow some sort of knockout pill, while the other talked to the broken one way mirror.
"Sir, memory erasing is dangerous, it is almost certain that mostly all his other memories will go with the chosen one." Prisal laughed.
"Good, that might be beneficial. By the way, I don't want to see him until I'm successful in destroying A.M.M.O. If A.M.M.O find out about any of this..." The soldier nodded. Shadow had been dodging the soldiers attempts to feed him since they had come in, but at that moment they managed to get him to the floor, using electric rods, and force feed him the pill. He blacked out.
"So, you see, if you had said it, there would have been to much care in your voice, I just don't give a dang." Nack explained. Shadow suddenly jumped up, causing both Nack and Amy to fall over in shock. Shadow ignored the two lying on the floor and talked to himself.
"The memories are just confusing things more. I'm going to find the answers. The time stones are well protected. There fore I must turn to the only people I can find in this time with answers, G.U.N. So it's not only the emeralds we shall get from there base"
Fistika looked up at the Chaotix detective agency's house, if you can call it that, it was more like a lone apartment. Fistika could tell allot about 'the Chaotix' from this, mainly that they needed money. Fistika believed that he could use this simple fact to his advantage, possibly getting in and out without a fight. Fistika decided to put his plan into effect. He walked up to the house and knocked. There was a few mumbled sounds inside, before a green crocodile answered the door, with a chameleon and bee in tow.
"Hello, may we... a Echidna?" Vector looked at Fistika confused. "Weren't you lot killed of ages ago"
"No." Fistika simply answered. "Only the ones on this island." This was true, but only because there weren't Echidnas anywhere else. "You are the Chaotix detective agency are you not"
"That's us!" Charmy exclaimed, slightly more energetically than Fistika expected.
"Yes quite, well, I am here on behalf of the Station square hospital. I'm afraid I need a sample of each of your blood." Espio looked sceptical.
"Why?" He asked.
"It's just for a data base. You will be paid handsomely for the sample." The mention of pay seemed to make Vector very happy.
"Yeah! As longs as the pays right"
"Money, money, money, money..." Charmy began to sing. Espio remained calmer.
"So I'll just use these syringes..." Fistika's suddenly looked to his side and jumped a blue, watery fist. Chaos retracted his fist and tried to hit Fistika again.
"Who's that?" Charmy asked.
"I believe he is Chaos." Espio answered. "Knuckles told me he's a creature of pure chaos power, who protects the master emerald and is a Chao god"
"Then why's he attacking the hospital guy?" Vector questioned. Espio looked over the blue Echidna.
"I don't think he is a 'hospital guy'..." The Chaotix then heard a sound and turned, to see Tikal.
"My friends, run! He wants your DNA for a creation of pure evil!" The Chaos creature fell to the floor.
"How could you know what the DNA's for, I don't even know that!" Fistika looked at Tikal, who he was getting really annoyed with.
"I went to see what they were making. I slipped past quietly"
"Something not hard for the dead." Fistika added. Tikal ignored the comment.
"I saw them perfecting the 'mould' for the DNA. The mould for an evil they call 'The Ultimate Weapon'." (sound familiar?) Fistika laughed and put his hands up.
"You got me. I'm here for you three's DNA, I wanted to do this peacefully, but that's no longer an option"
"You bet it isn't." Vector rose fits in front of himself. Espio and Charmy quickly darted to either side of Fistika. Chaos liquefied and moved underneath Fistika's feet to get behind him. Tikal keep to the sidelines, wanting no part in the following attack. Fistka looked around at each of his challengers.
"Sure. Well, it looks like the odds are against me." Fistika took the knife in his hand. "This shall be fun."