Disclaimer: I own Metal Amy, Fistika and the Ultimate Weapon. Those who don't believe me can explode or something. Celestial the Hedgird owns Yang and Lamont-the-ultimate owns Lamont. Everyone else is Sega and Sonic Team's
Fistika strolled down the empty corridors of the G.U.N base. His breathing, pace and heartbeat were normal, yeta certain amount of worry and confusion could be seen in the way he looked around and how his 'good' eye darted around.
"Where are the soldiers? This place has become a ghost town!" Fistika muttered to himself. Fistika entered into deep thought. "Gerald must have dismissed the men."He chuckled to himself. "The idea of time off must have fogged the fact this place is teeming with intruders." Fistika speculated. He turned a corner, finally reaching the destination he sought for. The Ultimate Weapon turned to Fistika and scowled.
"I see the delusionist is back." He commented. Fistika raised an eyebrow.
"That's a new one. I have been called many things, but most the time they make sense." Fistika claimed.
"You are delusional in believing that you have any chance of taking this world." The Ultimate Weapon walked towards Fistika. Fistika shook his head.
"Must you be such an Echidna hater? Surly with a little effort we could be the best of friends!" Fistika sarcastically exclaimed. The Ultimate Weapon bared his fangs angrily and attempted to punch Fistika. "Stop!" The blue Echidna exclaimed. The Ultimate Weapon followed the order, against his will. Fistika smirked. "Now come my slave, we have allot of work to do." Fistika clicked his fingers. "Now, Weapon, follow me." The Ultimate Weapon tried a final attempt to struggle against the power which Fistika had over him, but didn't have a hope. Fistika turned to his prisoner. "You will learn." Fistika promised. The two walked towards the Base's exit, The Ultimate Weapon trying to stop each step he took, making his walk look very uncomfortable.
As soon as Fistika got out of the base, he closed his eyes and stretched his arms out.
"What the heck are you doing?" The Ultimate Weapon asked, irritation filling his voice. Fistika continued to stay in his pose, letting sunlight beat down onto him.
"For the first time in a long time I am able to enjoy the earth's beauty as a free man. I don't have to go around collecting rubbish for G.U.N, or waiting around in some dark, metallic base for a lunatic to make a Weapon for me." The Ultimate Weapon's eyes narrowed.
"My creators were sane and I am not you weapon!" The enraged weapon shouted.
"Calm down. You should be happy. Even if I am controlling you, with me you will be more free than you ever could be with G.U.N." Fistika claimed. The Ultimate Weapon grabbed Fistika by the scruff of the neck and held him high.
"Do not speak ill of my creators!" He threatened. Fistika made a tutting sound.
"Why don't you just learn?" Fistika asked. "Put me down!" He ordered. The Ultimate Weapon complied. "I control you now, so stop trying to kill me!" The Ultimate Weapon turned away from Fistika. The blue echidna smiled. "Now come my reluctant friend, we have..." Fistika stopped mid-sentence. He tried to say something, but his mouth just hanged open. All colour washed from his face. His eyes opened wide and his one pupil enlarged to an almost scary size. The Ultimate Weapon turned to the shocked Echidna.
"What the heck is wrong with you?" He asked, turning in the direction Fistika was looking. The Weapon became only more confused. "What's so scary about a orange Echidna and a blur?" He asked.
"That's not a blur." Fistika muttered. He watched the two figures walking towards them, his hands slowly curled into fists.
"Fistika..." The blur began, but Fistika cut him off almost immediately.
"No, don't you talk! You're dead! YOU'RE DEAD! I saw you fall down dead with a knife cutting into your dang brain! You can't be here! I killed you! I... I killed you!" Fistika shouted, fear engulfing his voice. "You can't be here. This is not possible! NOT POSSIBLE!" The blur shook his head.
"Calm down Fistika. What you see is my soul captured in the power of the Master Emerald." General Knuckles explained.
"No. NO! Knuckles junior did this trick to me before. Who are you? WHO ARE YOU!" Fistika's fists were clenched so hard that he was crushing his thumbs. Tikal ran towards Fistika.
"Please calm yourself, you..." Fistika made a swiping movement in her direction.
"Shut it! What is this! Some kind of joke!" A vein was visible on Fistika's forehead. Tikal tried to put a hand on Fistika's shoulder, but he refused to let her. The Ultimate Weapon watched on, annoyed.
"Is someone planning on explaining what is going on?" He asked. Tikal turned to the weapon, obviously just noticing him. She at first looked scared by his unearthly eyes and large bat wings. She looked down at the floor and explained.
"Fistika, back in the days of the Echidna, lead a rebellion against the tribal leaders. Due to a large group of supporters and knowledge of the unknown emeralds, he was largely successful in his battle. However, for every battle he won, he was buffeted by General Knuckles, who lead a formidable legion of each tribes best warriors. Fistika may have been in Ultra form, but his army weren't. There were a variety of reasons why, the most common being a need for single mindedness to achieve the feat. Whenever the opposing forces met, Fistika lost vast amount of supporters. He grew to fear General Knuckles and avoided him like the plague." Fistika muttered something under his breath, but it was ignored. "After Fistika's army was practically destroyed, General Knuckles approached the emerald shrine and asked Chaos if he could use the emerald power to finally bring peace. Chaos gave him the permission he wanted and General Knuckles used the power to defeat and finally apprehend Fistika"
"Wait, wasn't Fistika in ultra form, while General Knuckles was simply in super form?" The Ultimate Weapon questioned.
"That is correct. The defeat fuelled Fistika's fear of General Knuckles. Before Fistika could get to the place he hid the emeralds, General Knuckles caught him, but was killed by Fistika soon after"
"Shouldn't you know this, considering you are partly my DNA?" Questioned Fistika.
"Your DNA and Chaos DNA have mixed together so that I can't clearly part your memories from Chaos." Explained the Ultimate Weapon. Fistika turned towards General Knuckles. The initial shock had worn of, but fear was still racking Fistika's voice.
"Well why are you here ghost boy? There is no Echidna's left to defend." Fistika shakily stepped towards him. "Oh, are you here to avenge your son? Well I thought I was sending him to daddy." Fistika was trying to sound threatening, but was having a harder time doing so than normal.
"Right now the Emerald shrine is without a guardian. My form is in such a state I won't be able to fulfil my duties, and Tikal apposes all violence, so won't be of much use"
"Are you expecting me to baby-sit the rock or something?" Fistika asked.
"No. We need you so we can resurrect my son." General Knuckles stated. Fistika began to chuckle, then gradually his chuckle rose into a loud laugh.
"I spend so long eradicating any legacy you planned, now you want me to bring the squirt back? Are you mad?" General Knuckles remained calm. He had expected that reply.
"Its your choice, if you would prefer to resurrect my son while half dead yourself"
"No! This isn't the old days of Echidnas. You will not be victor again." Fistika folded his arms. "Weapon, lets see if the dead still feel pain"
Sonic and Omega ran to Rouge and Amy, who were still in the area that smelled strongly of Echidna blood.
"We really have to get out of here!" Sonic stated. Amy and Rouge looked up at the blue hedgehog. "The emeralds are defiantly gone, and Eggman's goons are beginning to swarm the place"
"But what about Shadow? We must find him first!" Amy claimed.
"I think Shadow still has a few things he needs to sort out here." Sonic stated.
"Well I'm not leaving without him." Amy replied. Sonic sighed in frustration.
"Amy, Shadow can handle himself, but all hell is breaking loose around us and we have to get out now!" Sonic shouted. Amy gave Sonic an angry look, crossed her arms and held her head up high.
"No." She simply announced. Sonic gritted his teeth. He then turned to the large robot next to him.
"Omega, do you mind?" He asked.
"Affirmative." Omega responded, before walking towards Amy and picking her up, much to the protest of the pink hedgehog.
"Now lets go and get those emeralds!" Sonic grabbed Omega and Rouge by the wrist and prepared to run of, but before any movement was made, a black blur knocked all four of them to the floor.
"Can't let you do that Sonic." (Andross has order us to take you down! Peppy, long time no see, and so on and so forth) Shadow claimed in a voice devoid of any feeling. Sonic got to his feet and look at the black hedgehog.
"Shadow, what the heck are you doing?" Sonic asked. Shadow crossed his arms.
"Those emeralds need to be possessed by Yang, so Gerald's vision can be realised." Shadow simply replied. Sonic clenched his fists, sensing a fight coming.
"Are you under the G.U.N drug again or something? Gerald wants to destroy this Earth!" Shadow nodded.
"Yes. The ultimate cleansing for humanity." He explained.
"Shadow!" Amy shouted. "Don't do this!" Shadow turned to Amy. Some feeling appeared in his eyes, but only some. "Please." Shadow closed his eyes and scrunched up his face.
"Everything I have ever known as good, everything I've learnt to enjoy, everything I've learnt to love is going to be destroyed by the world!" Shadow opened his eyes, tears flooding them. "They will feel my pain! This destruction hungry world must be stopped before it destroys more than just this plain."
"We may need to sedate him." Sonic whispered to Omega and Rouge. They both nodded. Shadow's eyes darted to Rouge.
"Rouge you know of the suffering these people cause. They killed Knuckles. They've took what you love from you. Don't you seek revenge?" Rouge shook her head.
"No, it's not an entire species fault..." Rouge swallowed hard, trying to fight tears back. A raging fire flickered in Shadow's eyes.
"It may not be, but for many deaths similar it is. Death powers these people. They can't live without it, so they shouldn't live!" Shadow's voice struck like an icy dagger.
"You sound like Gerald." Amy muttered. Shadow couldn't bring himself to turn to Amy and instead looked behind himself.
"Maybe he's right." Shadow suggested. Sonic, Rouge and Omega looked at each other. Sonic gave the robot a small nod. Omega aimed at the floor directly below Shadow. Rouge curled into a ball and jumped in Omega's cannon like arms.
"Knock him off his feet." Sonic muttered. Omega fired Rouge. Shadow's head jerked sharply to look at the oncoming bat. Rouge attempted to kick the black hedgehog, But Shadow jumped to the side and Rouge missed completely.
"Already you have resorted to violence." Shadow observed.
"Come peacefully Shadow, we outnumber you one to four, and you don't even have a chaos emerald to pull of those fancy attacks with." Sonic reasoned. Shadow stared at the hedgehog.
"What part of 'Ultimate life form don't you understand'? If a fight is what you want I won't disappoint." He once again crossed his arms.
"We don't want to fight you, but your leaving us little choice!" Sonic replied.
"Typical." Shadow scoffed. A flicker of rage passed up Sonic's body. Sonic turned to Amy.
"Amy, can you reason with your boyfriend so we can get out?" Amy sighed.
"I don't think he'll listen to reason." Amy commented. "Gerald has got to him"
"Well at least try! If there's anyone who can get to him, it's you!" Sonic argued.
"Picking up strange time defying energy signals." Omega suddenly blurted out. Everyone gave him a weird look.
"That was random." Sonic claimed. "What does it mean anyway"
"I have detected the arrival of energies of time altering qualities. Someone may either be using a T.A.R.D.I.S or the Time stones." Omega explained. Sonic and Shadow exchanged worried looks.
"What's going on?" Questioned Amy. Sonic avoided making eye contact with Amy, while Shadow looked directly in Amy's eyes.
"Amy," Shadow's voice had softened drastically. "Get out of here as fast as you can." Sonic's ears suddenly pricked up. "Run as fast as you can from this place." Amy shook her head.
"I'm not leaving without you." Sonic and Amy claimed at the exact same time. Everyone's turned to look at Sonic. Sonic was still for a moment, before he turned around to look at someone who had just come from down the corridor. This someone was Sonic, holding the time stones. Sonic (the non-time stone holding one) bit his lower lip.
"You are going to regret coming here Sonic." He muttered.