Disclaimer: Metal Amy, Prisal, Snipe and Fistika are mine. Fistika isn't dead! Celestial the Hedgird owns Yang and Lamont-the-ultimate owns Lamont. There's also Sega and Sonic Team who own everyone else.
Shadow, Amy, Knuckles and Rouge all shuffled through the corridors. Soldiers pushed the chained prisoners along. Knuckles looked around confused.
"What the heck is going on? Where are these guys taking us?" Knuckles asked, but got no reply. The group walked along in silence for a while.
"I am a government agent! Release me!" Rouge broke the silence. She had already tried to get out using that line before, but it didn't work then, it didn't work now. Knuckles looked at his cuffs.
"I might be able to break these cuffs." Knuckles whispered to Rouge.
"What about the armed guards?" Rouge whispered back. Knuckles was silent for a moment.
"Good point." Knuckles turned to Shadow and Amy. "Hay, do you two know what is going on"
"No clue." Amy replied. Shadow remained silent.
In a few short minutes the four where dumped into the white room. The guards left them alone. Without a moments hesitation Knuckles rose his arms into the air and broke his cuffs off. He ran over to Rouge to undo her, but he froze when he heard the click of a gun. Knuckles turned as a wall behind him began to move away. Rouge stared angrily at the room appearing. She remembered the room from before and who she talked to within.
"Explain these action immediately Prisal!" Rouge shouted.
"There is something I maybe should have mentioned..." Amy began. Prisal walked into the room, a gun pointing at Knuckles in his hand.
"Hello my prisoners." Prisal mockingly greeted them.
"Gerald!" Rouge shouted in disbelief. Prisal pointed his gun in the air and fired a warning shot.
"I am not Gerald!" Prisal shouted angrily. He pointed his gun back at Knuckles. "Anyway, I suppose you may all want to know why you're here"
"Did cross our minds." Knuckles muttered.
"Well, my revenge is coming closer by the minute, and having Shadow on my side would make things much easier, but his mind has been corrupted by false morals and lies of good inserted by this world's denial. So, I think it is finally time for me to show how merciless this world is." Prisal didn't have to explain his actions any further, Shadow had already figured out what he was planning.
"Your insane! You're going to kill them to try to turn me? Where's the logic in that!" Shadow's voice was scared and desperate.
"I know what I'm doing Shadow, you must see what humanity is really like!" Prisal smiled and turned to Knuckles, who was looking very worried. "First up, the echidna!" Without any hesitation or thought Prisal fired his gun. In a split second the bullet hit Knuckles, causing his body to spin backwards and drop to the floor. Rouge stared in disbelief. It was over fast. For a second no one moved, then Knuckles arm moved. Rouge ran up to him, eyes tearful. "I have hit him in a major artery, he shall bleed to death soon." Amy stared at Prisal opened mouthed.
"You monster!" Amy shouted. Prisal laughed loudly.
"I am just humanity! Millions of people die everyday, each as, normally more devastating than the Echidna's death"
"We need to get him to a hospital!" Rouge shouted. Prisal ignored her.
"You see how Rouge kneels by her dieing love? Even in the most crowded of streets she would still kneel alone. In this world death is suspected, but after I clean out the mistakes made by this world, it will be perfect. So Shadow, what says you know?" Shadow was quiet.
"Let me get Knuckles to a hospital!" Rouge pleaded.
"Let her take him to a hospital." Shadow quietly ordered.
"Why? He is none of my concern." Prisal replied. He turned his gun to Amy. "Now for the second casualty." Shadow's eyes widened with fear. the expression was slowly changed to thought. Shadow looked around, then smiled.
"You won't kill her, not know." Shadow concentrated his power and broke the cuffs (they must have been poor quality or something). Prisal looked worried as he was obviously losing his power over the situation.
"What? Why won't I kill her?" Prisal clicked his gun.
"Sonic isn't here with the time stones." Shadow simply answered, as if that explained everything. The Hedgehog began walking towards Prisal. Half way to Prisal Shadow stopped. He still was confused and wasn't sure what to do. All Shadow knew for certain was he had to save Knuckles. He turned and walked towards the door. Slightly confused, Prisal walked back into his room and pressed a button which slid the wall back into place. Shadow picked up the dying Knuckles and ran towards the exit. Rouge and Amy followed.
"Guards! Escort the prisoner's back to the cell!" Prisal shouted. Shadow had barley opened the door when a group of soldiers aimed there guns at him. Shadow stopped. He couldn't get past them alive. Shadow threw Knuckles at the soldier's feet.
"Help him." The soldiers stared blankly. "Help him!" Shadow ordered more angrily.
The Ultimate Weapon walked towards the lab. There were some tests that wanted to be done on him. The Ultimate Weapon didn't mind the tests, if anything he enjoyed the attention. The Ultimate Weapon suddenly felt a presence near by.
"G.U.N really need to beef up there security." The Ultimate Weapon turned around and saw Chaos Fistika deliquifing. Chaos Fistika smiled.
"Who are you?" The Ultimate Weapon questioned. "And explain why you are in here?" Chaos Fistika smiled.
"They call me Fistika, and I am here for you"
"Fistika? I remember you from my former life." Chaos Fistika looked confused.
"Your what"
"You met my beta. Tricked him. Used him for your own twisted plans." The Ultimate Weapon claimed. Fistika sighed.
"Well, it seems you remember me. I was hoping you wouldn't. Oh well, no big loss." Fistika circled the Ultimate Weapon. "You are allot more impressive looking than Beta." The Ultimate Weapon grabbed Fistika by the throat.
"Looks isn't the only department I beat him in." The Ultimate Weapon rose a fist. Fistika didn't seem scared. The Ultimate Weapon sent his fist flying at Fistika. Fistika watched calmly as the fist stopped just before his face.
"Now put me down." Fistika ordered. The Ultimate Weapon, confused by his own actions, placed the Echidna back on the floor. Fistika smiled wickedly. "I belive you would like me to explain"
"Why did I do what you said?" Asked the Ultimate Weapon.
"You see, Chaos has the ability to posses a creature which ends up with part of him inside it. Normally he would use this to get the part to return to him. However, I have been able to use this to control you. The fools here believed I gave them the blood sample free of charge." The Ultimate Weapon stared angrily at Fistika. "The only problem is I can't give you conflicting orders to those of G.U.N's, but I have bigger fish to fry anyway." Fistika laughed to himself. He had the powers of Chaos and the Ultimate Weapon at his disposal. Life was good.
"You will not control me!" The Ultimate Weapon began punching the air right in front of Fistika like mad, as if trying to break an invisible barrier. Fistika watched unimpressed.
"Punch yourself." The Ultimate Weapon instantly whacked his own face. Fistika was enjoying himself. "Now my slave, where is the offspring of General Knuckles?" Fistika asked. The Ultimate Weapon spat at him, but Fistika stepped out of the spits path.
"Prisoner Knuckles to see master Prisal for his execution." The happiness in Fistika's eyes disappeared.
"Execution? Knuckles' brat is mine!" Fistika flipped his knife between his fingers. "When was he taken"
"Five minutes ago." The Ultimate Weapon reluctantly replied. Fistika looked in the direction of Prisal's room, he still remembered the way from when he was last there.
"You never saw me. I'll be back." Fistika dashed off, determined to be the one to end Knuckles' life.
"Dang." The Ultimate Weapon simply stated.
Yang watched Eggman storming around the room, swearing and complaining. He couldn't help but smile.
"First he nicks all the emeralds, now this!" Eggman kicked the large monitor.
"Didn't you notice it was a recipe for soup when it downloaded?" Metal Knuckles asked.
"It was the copied data originally! He swapped it in the middle of the fight or something!" Eggman picked up a near by worker robot and chucked it across the room. Lamont was hit in the forehead with it.
"Ow! That was uncalled for!" Complained Lamont. Yang shook his head.
"This is just pathetic." He muttered to himself.
"Master, perhaps we use the time stones to go back in time and stop Metal Sonic foiling all our plans?" Metal Knuckles suggested.
"The time stones are too busy keeping us all alive right now!" Eggman replied.
"You what?" Asked Lamont.
"The time stones are not only powering this entire complex, there also creating a ripple in time expelling of the mass heat coming from the volcano"
"Right..." Lamont was still none the wiser. Yang had observed for long enough.
"Look you fools, we know the metal Hedgehog will be after the final emerald, so we need to just find that and set a trap." Yang explained. He turned to look specifically at Eggman. "Get that emerald tracker out of that MS4 you kept bragging about." Yang ordered.
"Remember your place! Do not order me around!" Eggman shouted.
"You know I'm right." Yang simply replied. Eggman couldn't think of a reply and just went off angry. Metal Knuckles turned to Yang.
"Watch it Yang, you don't want to make him angry"
"Why? He going to sit on us?" Lamont asked.
"I believe Eggman's rage is of no concern to me." Yang added.
"Keep on his good side if you want to keep your share of the world." Metal Knuckles warned.
"Trust me. I will get all I deserve." Yang replied. Metal Knuckles shook his head at Yang's over confidence and left. Lamont walked up next to Yang.
"Why don't we betray him now?" Lamont asked.
"As long as he can be of any use, we follow him." Yang explained. Lamont walked over to Eggman's large monitor.
"Tomato soup." Lamont muttered. He closed the current information and explored Eggman's hard drive. "This guy has a lot of rubbish on his computer." Lamont muttered Yang walked over and looked up at the screen.
"Look out for anything on Yin." Yang asked. Lamont did a mock salute. He passed many files, mostly specs for new robots or machines. "Wait, stop there." Yang pointed at the screen, at a file named 'base control'. lamont opened the file. A smile slivered across Yang's mouth.
"Oh Eggman, you fool, you have handed this base to us"
"That'll teach him not to log off after he's done." Lamont added.
Metal Sonic looked at the emerald tracker. He could tell that the final emerald was moving around in the G.U.N base. Metal Sonic put the tracker down. A single emerald should take no time at all to get, but Eggman would know he was after it, and could cause more than just a bit of commotion. It was because of this Metal Sonic was going to go after the final emerald alone, in his normal form and only carrying a single emerald. He had to make himself as untraceable as possible. Metal Amy was going to keep the rest of the emeralds out of there hands by scrambling the signal the emeralds give out. Metal Sonic had considered going to get the Tails doll for help, but he still didn't know how to get rid of the Trojan he had discovered was in him. Metal Sonic felt weird. He hated the idea of carrying out his mission alone, yet he had done so many of his missions alone before he reawaken Metal Knuckles and the Tails doll. He had to admit he never really enjoyed either of there company. Metal Sonic was by nature a loner. So why did he not want to work alone? Was he going to miss Metal Amy? Metal Sonic tried to dismiss the thought, but similar thoughts had been pestering him for a while. He had become very attached to Metal Amy, and it didn't seem right to him. Being attached to something meant a lapse of judgement when putting them in danger, a lapse which could cost a plan. Normally someone like Metal Amy would be expendable, but Metal Amy wasn't like that in Metal Sonic's mind. Why this was had been bouncing around in Metal Sonic's head since he had realised how he felt. What made Metal Amy so special?
Metal Amy walked by, trying to tune the scrambler so it would scramble the emeralds' signal properly. Metal Sonic watched her. Metal Amy turned briefly to look at Metal Sonic. She noticed him quickly turning his head to look at a map. Metal Amy felt a great respect for Metal Sonic. She had seen very little of the earth, but she still could tell from what she had seen that Metal Sonic was a strong leader. He was a calculating individual, always as many steps ahead of his opponent as he could be. He had made the odd mistake, but most of the time there was no way he could have calculated the possibility and he always fixes the problem. The current plan was a show of his brilliant mind, however it was going to be the first time she had been alone. Metal Amy was really bothered by that thought. It she had enjoyed knowing Metal Sonic was close, he was almost like a security blanket. Metal Amy looked over at Metal Sonic again. He was cute, a bit of a workaholic, but cute. Metal Amy froze. Had that thought just passed through her head? A smile grew inside Metal Amy. She turned back to the tracker, still looking at Metal Sonic out of the corner of her eye.