Disclaimer: Prisal is no longer technically mine. Oh well. Metal Amy is defiantly mine... I think. Everyone else is Sega and Sonic Teams.
Authors note: I just had a idea (so this is what one feels like). If you're reading Lamont, I'm not going to need to change your characters past anymore. Anyway, Lamont belongs to LaMoNt kAwAii HeDgEhOg and Yang belongs to Celestial the Hedgird. (If either of you want me to rewrite them out of the story, just ask)
Professor Gerald Robotnik stood in front of Shadow. The dead genius was living and controlling G.U.N. Shadow still refused to believe it. There was no way this was possible.
"You're dead Gerald." Amy talked darkly. Prisal walked up to Amy.
"I am not that weakling!" He bellowed, tossing Amy to the floor. Shadow snapped out of his shock and ran at Prisal.
"Don't touch her!" Shadow shouted. Prisal chuckled.
"Attack me then." He crossed his arms and made no attempt to defend himself. Shadow stopped in front of him. He couldn't bring himself to attack him. He knew Gerald all of his life. "You don't have the guts. That's why you were always a failure." Prisal claimed. Shadow clenched his fists.
"How could you be here?" He asked. Prisal walked towards Shadow, which allowed Amy to get up.
"It's a very long story." Prisal simply replied. Shadow noticed that Gerald no longer talked the same way, he didn't even sound the same, he sounded tenser (which was why he didn't realise it was him earlier.
"Tell me." Shadow ordered.
"If I must." Prisal cleared his throat. "It started before you were made. A.M.M.O gave Gerald funding to build the space colony A.R.K. He wanted to use the A.R.K for peaceful work and to save Maria"
"I know all this, and stop referring to yourself in third person." Shadow interrupted.
"I'm not talking in third person. Now shut it." Prisal resumed his tale. "A.M.M.O, however, had other plans. They wanted Gerald to use the A.R.K to make weapons the government wouldn't allow A.M.M.O to make. Gerald had no choice but to obey. The set-up lasted for awhile, until the government became suspicious. They were figuring out what was happening, and A.M.M.O needed to pull out of the operation, but couldn't without shutting down the A.R.K. They concocted the story that Gerald was making the weapons without A.M.M.O's knowledge, which they force fed the government. The government didn't want the country in uproar, as would happen if they knew weapons of mass destruction were pointing at them, so they sent soldiers up to A.R.K in secret to shut it down"
"It was claimed as an accident to the rest of the world." Amy stated. Prisal ignored her.
"In the chaos Gerald was escorted away and locked up. After a bias hearing he was sentenced to death. However, A.M.M.O still wanted him to make weapons for them, so they postponed the sentence as long as possible. In this time he found out Maria had died. It sent him insane. I was then born. I was the embodiment of everything Gerald couldn't be. I was perfect compared to him. I could do things he couldn't. I found a soldier who didn't like how A.M.M.O had manipulated Gerald and I persuaded him to tape my death sentence to earth. The day came when A.M.M.O couldn't postpone the execution anymore, so they told the government that Gerald had been executed, but kept him imprisoned. They kept him working for them, but I escaped! It was surprisingly easy to dupe them and they had to search for me in secret, as they had to keep up the charade that I was already dead. They gave up fairly quickly and I planned revenge. Only armed with my wits and the tape with my revenge on it, I managed to begin G.U.N, a organisation that would not only render A.M.M.O obsolete, but mean I would have government resources. I destroyed A.M.M.O and then had John Minor done away with to finish my revenge on A.M.M.O. Of course that wasn't enough, all of humanity had to feel my pain. I set up the tape on A.R.K and made it so A.R.K would collide with earth when the eclipse cannon was fired"
"Why when the cannon fired?" Questioned Amy.
"The cannon represented mans cruelty. Of course I grew impatient waiting for the end to come. I wasn't able to go back up there again either, because the artificial chaoses had broken lose, making it near impossible to get around without dieing. So I took Gerald's ultimate life form, believing you would share the pain and be able to collect the seven chaos emeralds and fire the cannon. The problem was you wouldn't harm anyone because of Maria's wish! So I remedied the problem with mind blocks, but by that time it was discovered we held 'project Shadow' and I was under strict orders not to release it. I spend years trying to figure out a way to smuggle the creature out without the government's knowledge. This answer came in the form of Sonic. I 'helped' Gerald's grandson find out about you, and after he released you, I claimed it was Sonic committing the crimes." Prisal smiled at Shadow. "I think we all know what happened afterwards." Shadow remained silent.
"Your mad." Muttered Amy.
"I may be, but everyone else is mad as well! Blowing each over up with weapons, betraying each other, causing more pain and suffering than any other creature known to us." Prisal walked up to Amy. "Tell me hedgehog, what right do us 'intelligent' creatures have blowing up everything we see?" He asked.
"I know many people may acted like that, but there are good people on earth..." Prisal cut her off.
"Spare me your juvenile nonsense. The only 'good people' around are killed as soon as they can be." Prisal lost interest in Amy and returned his attention to Shadow, who still was having trouble comprehending what was happening. "So Shadow, not to sound cliché, join me! I can give you a past, I can give you purpose. I can give you everything!" Shadow remained silent.
"Shadow will never join your evil!" Amy shouted.
"My evil? The world is the evil you fool!" Prisal replied.
"He will still never join you after what you've done to him"
"The world took Maria from him"
"You're the one who"
"Let him speak for himself!" Prisal's eyes were wider than normal. He turned to Shadow.
"What will it be Shadow!" Amy and Prisal looked at Shadow. Shadow looked at each of them. He was quiet for five minutes before he spoke.
"I don't know"
Metal Sonic sat in his cell. He watched as Metal Amy stood in the opposite cell, her programming reconfiguring itself. It was a procedure that robots had to go through after adding new hardware. It was buying Metal Sonic a small amount of time before he became a blind slave to Eggman again. He had to think fast if he wanted to keep his free will. He looked up at Metal Amy. He needed to figure out a way to take out the 'Trojan' from here system, yet he had no way of getting at her. Metal Sonic stood up and walked over to the side of his cell. He sighed.
"Help me." He was speaking to himself. Metal Amy could not hear, or see him. Metal Sonic was breaking apart inside. He was in the first situation he ever believed to be truly hopeless, then there was the confusing feelings he was getting from Metal Amy. Metal Sonic fell to the floor again. "So this is fear." He muttered. Metal Sonic looked up again at the bars. There was no way he could get through them, he had already established that. An idea struck Metal Sonic. He could get through the bars, just not physically. He looked at Metal Amy. In her current mode the wireless link should still work. He needed all the information out of her. Metal Sonic knew his plan was risky, even stupid, but he needed to try. To save himself. As well as Metal Amy.
Super Metal Knuckles laughed to himself as he watched Sonic and Tails slowly losing all there energy. He turned to look at the G.U.N base.
"Well lads, I'm afraid if I stay here to long I'll miss my chance for ultimate power. See ya!" Super Metal Knuckles flew off, leaving Sonic and Tails before they died, like some movie super villain. The barrage of bullets from the many turrets surrounding the base caused only slight irritation to Super Metal Knuckles. He flew up to one of the walls. He study it for a second, before demolishing it in a single punch. "The power of super, you got to love it." Super Metal Knuckles laughed and flew in. He flew down the many corridors of the base, following the chaos energy using his emeralds (you know, that magnet rubbish), Super Metal Knuckles didn't bother with the soldiers which would frequently try to stop him.
"Hello brother." Super Metal Knuckles heard a voice in his head.
"Metal Sonic? What are you doing?" Super Metal Knuckles sent the question to Metal Sonic using his wireless link.
"Just testing the range of the link." Metal Sonic claimed. "So how are you?" Super Metal Knuckles was getting annoyed.
"I don't know what you're up to, but quit it!" Super Metal Knuckles ordered.
"Don't worry, that was all the time I needed." Metal Sonic's voice sounded smug.
"What?" Super Metal Knuckles asked as he broke down a wall. He got no reply. Super Metal Knuckles checked his data. He felt like he was carrying a lot more information within himself, but couldn't pinpoint what. "If he's downloaded a virus onto me..." Super Metal Knuckles grumbled. He didn't have time to dwell on what had just happened, as G.U.N's safe was directly in front of him. Super Metal Knuckles tried to punch down the safe, but it was much stronger than the other walls and didn't budge. Super Metal Knuckles grumbled. Soldiers were pouring in behind him and shooting at him, despite the bullets having no effect. "I can't think with all that firing!" Super Metal Knuckles shouted. He pounded the ground, causing a shock wave to knock all the soldiers over. "That's better. Now..." Super Metal Knuckles looked at the hole he had cause by pounding the floor. "Living beings just don't think in three dimensions." He smirked.
Inside the safe was a perfectly square, grey room. In the centre was twelve chaos emeralds. The emeralds were attached to a small, black, disk like machine. Out of the machine were two wires which hooked up to two capsules on either side of the room. The capsules were both full of green liquid. Floating in the liquid were two hedgehogs, both were stuck in a deep sleep (you know, cryogenically frozen, without the freezing part). One of the hedgehogs looked like Shadow, with hazel eyes, a black t-shirt and jeans, as well as a red wrist band. The other also looked like Shadow, except with ebony streaks and a yin-yang symbol on his air shoes. The room was peaceful, with only the bubbles in the liquid making any movement. This peacefulness was interrupted when Super Metal Knuckles burst through the floor. He looked around the room. He spotted the emeralds almost instantly and flew over to them. Before he grabbed them he looked up at the two hedgehogs. He backed away slightly.
"What the?" He questioned. He noted the similarities they had to Shadow. A few theories crossed his mind. were these G.U.N experiments? Super Metal Knuckles stepped backwards so he could see everything at once. "Master, I'm sending you an image of the safe's inside. Any ideas about what the hedgehogs are?" Super Metal Knuckles seemed to be talking to himself. The voice of Eggman came out of a small device on the side of Super Metal Knuckles' head and answered his question.
"I don't believe it!" There was a momentary pause. "Here it is, in my grandfathers diary." Eggman cleared his throat before quoting the journal. "'My original project, Yinyang failed due to not being able to contain the large amounts of energy, so I have redesigned it into two projects, project Yin, which will be pure good, while project Yang shall be pure evil. It is my belief the two will be able to hold the balance of good and evil.' I believe that to be Yang!" Eggman sounded excited.
"So what? That's Yin?" Asked Super Metal Knuckles.
"No." Replied Eggman. "That seems to be..." The sound of typing was heard. "Lamont, a Shadow like project. Him and Shadow are brothers." Super Metal Knuckles nodded, even though Eggman couldn't see him. "It looks like the two will be awakened if you try to take the emeralds." Claimed Eggman.
"So what do I do"
"No clue, get the emeralds and run?" Eggman suggested. Super Metal Knuckles walked towards the emeralds, when he got an idea.
"You know, a entity of pure evil could be useful..." Eggman's laugh emitted down the device.
"Good idea! Get them under my rule if you can!" Super Metal Knuckles turned off is link with Eggman and picked up the emeralds. He didn't absorb them as the power would blow his circuits. As the emeralds left the disc like machine, the liquid in the containers began to drain. The two hedgehogs began twitching. The containers drained completely and they both burst opened. Lamont and Yang fell on the floor. Yang was the first to get up.
"Those G.U.N idiots and there stupid darts..." Yang stopped mid sentence and looked around, surprised by his surroundings. "I don't know who you are," He pointed at Super Metal Knuckles, apparently not noticing Lamont, "but I am going to kill you!" He fired black energy out of his hand at Super Metal Knuckles. Super Metal Knuckles dodged the attack. The attack ricochet off the walls repeatedly, until it hit one of the containers, blowing it open.
"Now I see why they had you guarding these emeralds." Super Metal Knuckles claimed.
"Who had me doing what?" Yang asked. He then looked down at the emeralds. "Wasn't there only seven of them"
"That's how I remember it." Lamont exclaimed. Yang and Super Metal Knuckles turned to look at him. "Now explain, who are you, and why am I in a room with a robot and faker"
"Faker!" Yang shouted. "You have no idea who you're dealing with"
"Well neither have you, I'm Lamont, the ultimate life form!" A smile formed on Yang's mouth.
"Lamont? Were you that failure of a Shadow copy?" This comment enraged Lamont.
"Take that back!" Lamont pulled a gun out of his jeans and pointed it at Yang. Super Metal Knuckles quickly got in the way.
"May I intervene? I thought you wanted some things explained." Yang pushed the robot aside.
"Give me a minute, you can explain after a rid myself of this nuisance." Lamont gave Yang a cold stare and shot Yang. Yang easily dodged the bullet. Lamont put his gun back and ran at Yang. Yang kept Lamont at a distance using a shield of evil energy. Lamont kicked the shield, managing to crack it. Yang disowned the shield and shot dark energy at Lamont. Lamont jumped the attack and kicked Yang in the face. The energy bounced off the wall and into Lamont's back. Both hedgehogs tried not to show any signs of pain. They attacked each other with an on slaughter of punches, kicks and attacks which included the attacker shouting 'chaos something'. Super Metal Knuckles watched the two fighting for a while, before losing interest and stepping in. He flew at the two and knocked them onto the floor.
"Listen!" Super Metal Knuckles ordered. Yang and Lamont got back onto there feet.
"You've got my attention robot." Yang exclaimed. Lamont nodded in agreement. Super Metal Knuckles, glad to finally have the pairs attention, spoke.
"I have a proposition from your creators grandson..." Lamont interrupted.
"Grandson? He must only be like four"
"You're about fifty years in the future. Anyway, how would you like to help him conquer the world"
"What's in it for us?" Lamont questioned.
"Everything." Super Metal Knuckles replied. Lamont's eyes widened.
"Everything, as in anything?" He questioned. Super Metal Knuckles nodded.
"Why should I believe the ramblings of a machine?" Asked Yang.
"I am holding twelve emeralds, I have a further seven. What is to stop me from getting you anything?" Ying smiled. 'Yes, this moron can help me get what I really want' thought Yang.
"I'm in." Yang claimed.
"As am I." Lamont added. Super Metal Knuckles laughed.
"In that case, let us go!" Super Metal Knuckles ran in the direction of the exit, followed by his two new accomplices.