Disclaimer: Oh, you already know. My characters are mine. Celestial the Hedgird owns her character, Lamont-the-ultimate own his and Sega and Sonic Team own there.
Author note: Well I'm glad everyone noticed the Starfox reference, but I'm surprised that not only did everyone miss the Dr Who reference, but also the fact that Amy is about to die (Remember, time stones, Sonic seeing it all, chapter 10?). Also, I will only do one resurection per story, so this would be for real. Now go read.
Yang smiled darkly at Metal Sonic, Metal Knuckles watched impatiently from behind the blue robot, Lamont lay on the floor, clutching his face and Metal Amy clung onto the emeralds tightly. Yang held his hand up, his palm opened to Metal Amy.
"So, Metal hedgehog, stop me." Yang fired a blast out of his hand. The blast made contact with Metal Amy's chest and knocked her to the floor. Metal Sonic ran at Yang without hesitation. The black hedgehog welcomed the attack with confidence. Metal Sonic threw a punch at Yang, who jumped to the left, avoiding the attack, and elbowed Metal Sonic in the back. Metal Sonic swung around and fired the missiles out of his fingers. Yang took one at point-blank range, but the explosion knocked both him and Metal Sonic down. The two got up as soon as they hit the ground and engaged in a fast fistfight. The two opponents took many punches from the other fighter, but tried to show no signs of pain. Yang pushed his hands against Metal Sonic's chest and fired two lasers at him. Metal Sonic flew the distance of the room, smoke floating up from where the lasers had hit. Metal Sonic crashed against the wall. He flew back at Yang almost instantly. Yang chuckled and whacked Metal Sonic across the head, sending him off course and into the ground. Yang pressed his foot down on to Metal Sonic's head. Metal Sonic tried to pull himself back up, but couldn't contend with Yang's strength. "Give up and I'll spare you this pain." Yang promised.
"I will only feel pain if I give up." Metal Sonic claimed. Metal Sonic suddenly flew upwards, catching Yang off guard and knocking him down. Metal Sonic then used this chance to fire more missiles at Yang. Yang rolled out of the way and returned fire. One of Yang's lasers caught Metal Sonic in the arm, but he ignored it. Yang jumped at Metal Sonic. The robotic hedgehog prepared a punch. Yang got close to Metal Sonic. Metal Sonic threw his punch, but Yang ducked under it, and then kicked Metal Sonic down to earth. Metal Sonic then attempted to fly at Yang at his top speed and ram him into the ceiling. Yang sidestepped the attack, and then grabbed him as he passed and once more chucked him to the ground. Metal Sonic was then bombarded by an assault of blasts from Yang. He continued to fire for at least a minute before stopping. Yang watched the smoke settle, revealing a large crater his attack had formed. In the middle of his crater was Metal Sonic, not moving. Yang smiled cruelly.
"Is that all he had?" Yang asked. Yang cockily laughed, but then quietened when he swore he saw Metal Sonic twitch. The blue robot suddenly grabbed the side of the hole and pulled himself up. "How? How did he survive such punishment?" Metal Sonic got to his feet. Yang fell back down to the floor and began to punch viscously at Metal Sonic's face. He left the robot no room to attack. The pounding was merciless and powerful. Yang ended it with an uppercut, which knocked Metal Sonic off his feet. Metal Sonic came back to the ground hard. Yang walked over to Lamont, who still hadn't fully recovered from Yang's last attack on him, kicked him, took his gun and aimed it at Metal Sonic. "Lets finish this." Yang exclaimed. He fired three times at Metal Sonic's head, and then threw the gun to the side. Yang then turned to Metal Amy, showing no remorse over Metal Sonic. "Now about those emeralds." He asked. Metal Amy looked back at Yang with a look of pure hate.
"Never you complete and absolute bast"
"You still have to go through me." Yang turned to see Metal Sonic slowly staggering towards him. Yang had a look of complete confusion on his face.
"You are fighting tired, you can't get an attack in edgeways anymore and you have been buried into the ground. Why won't you just fall over dead!" Yang shouted. Metal Sonic didn't say anything, but turned to look at Metal Amy. Metal Sonic's glance changed to Lamont momentarily, then he looked at Metal Amy again and nodded. Yang didn't even bother trying to figure out what Metal Sonic was doing. Yang walked up to Metal Sonic and punched his stomach, then his face, then kicked his chest. "Fall." Yang ordered.
"No." Metal Sonic replied. Yang fired a beam at him, elbowed his chest, and then rammed his shoulder into him.
"Fall!" Yang ordered again.
"No." Metal Sonic replied again. Metal Sonic tried to punch Yang, but Yang grabbed the fist and twisted the arm. he then struck with a blow across the face and then fired two beams at Metal Sonic, one from each hand.
"FALL!" Yang ordered yet again.
"No." Metal Sonic replied. Yang, the rage he felt from Metal Sonic's ignorance boiling his face, grabbed Metal Sonic and was about the attack again, but he stopped himself.
"I know how to hurt you." Yang claimed. He tossed Metal Sonic aside and ran at Metal Amy. Metal Amy began to run away, but it was in vain. Yang grabbed hold of the pink robot. Yang smiled his wicked smile once again. "Lets see how much torture you can take." Yang began to crush Metal Amy's neck, so determined to cause pain to Metal Sonic that he wasn't even attempting to get his hands on the emeralds. Metal Amy struggled desperately against the maniacs grasp, but had next to no hope of escaping. Metal Sonic charged at Yang. Yang's smile widened. He clicked his fingers, still crushing Metal Amy with his other hand. Metal Knuckles jumped on Metal Sonic and pinned him down. Yang tightened his grasp on Metal Amy. "I can feel her insides breaking, every nut an bolt in her body slowly bending to my power. Say your goodbyes to her." Yang taunted Metal Sonic. Metal Sonic, however, remained calm. He made no attempt to break free and attack. This confused Yang. "Aren't you going to try and save her?" He asked.
"I have." Metal Sonic replied.
"What?" Yang asked. "What? I am killing her here! She is about to die! You have not saved her? Is this safe?" In the heat of his anger, Yang threw a punch into Metal Amy's face. The fist made contact, but he got no reaction. "What the heck!" Metal Knuckles understood at once.
"He's moved her files." He announced. "The same way he escaped us previously. He must have taken all the files that make up her program and memories and stored them in himself"
"You glorified computers." Yang muttered. "Well can't you remove his files then?" Yang asked.
"No. There copy protected." Metal Knuckles claimed. Yang punched the empty Metal Amy again, leaving a dent in place of her face. Yang was breathing heavily, but tried to calm himself down.
"Okay, it won't matter soon. I just have to hold these emeralds she has, then my purpose can finally be fulfilled." Yang reached for the chaos emeralds, but only felt air. He turned to the robot and realized to his frustration and confusion she wasn't carrying the emeralds. "What the..." A quiet laughing came from the corner of the room. Everyone turned to see Lamont standing there, holding all the chaos emeralds.
"That is a technique know as diversion." Metal Sonic explained. "While you were fighting me, Metal Amy gave the emeralds to Lamont, who is now going to save me because he want world conquest, and he knows I can deliver that to him with the 'Final Death Egg'." Lamont nodded.
"Bet your regret telling me your plan now." Lamont stated. Yang glared angrily at Lamont, before charging at him. Lamont held forwards the dark blue emerald and smiled.
"Chaos control!" He shouted. In a flash of green he disappeared. Only temporarily reappearing next to Metal Sonic to pick him up. Yang sighed.
"I'm more than a little peeved right now." He grumbled.
Shadow clenched his fists and looked at the floor.
"Not yet!" He looked up at the present time Sonic. "You know what will happen. You know why I have to do what I have to do"
"Can someone fill me in?" The time stone bearing Sonic asked.
"My thoughts exactly." Amy added. Shadow looked down at the ground again and the Sonic of the present time shuffled uneasily. There was a moment's silence before Shadow looked up again.
"What happens now Sonic?" He asked. Sonic (guess which one) was silent for a moment.
"Well first, Nack will come with his dad and say..." Before Sonic could finish his statement, Nack and Snipe ran towards the group.
"Hay, G.U.N have called reinforcements, there's a huge group of soldiers heading this way! Why are there two Sonics?" Nack shouted as he arrived.
"That's what I want to know." Amy muttered. Snipe laughed to himself, then spat to his side.
"That really added allot dad, thanks." Nack cynically claimed. Snipe just shot him a cold look.
"Silence you bickering!" Shadow shouted. He ran at the Sonic without time stones and grabbed him by the shoulders. "Is it these soldiers which do the killing?" Shadow was shouting at the top of his lungs. Sonic avoided Shadow's glare and nodded. Shadow threw Sonic aside. "Tell me where they are coming from?" Shadow ordered Nack. Nack pointed to the right. Shadow ran off in the direction the weasel had pointed him without hesitation. The Sonic with the time stones (who, for easy reference, is from now on referred as 'past Sonic') stared on, more confused than anyone.
"Will someone please tell me what the heck is going on!" Past Sonic asked. Everyone looked at present Sonic expectantly.
"Well, in a nutshell, Shadow has snapped after being reintroduced to the now insane Gerald, seeing how uncaring the soldiers were to Knuckles' death and the belief that Amy's life is nearing it's end. He went back to Gerald, who set him some sort of task. He then tried to stop us, saw the other me over there, realised this must be the time when I went into the future and saw the shooting, and has now gone to try and stop the soldiers killing Amy." Present Sonic explained. To say the least, everyone was fairly shocked. Amy was the first to talk.
"I'm going to die?" Amy muttered. Present Sonic rubbed the back of his neck, looking nervous.
"I never said you were the one who died." He replied, looking in the direction Shadow had run in.
As Shadow ran down the corridor his mind raced faster than he did. Why was he trying to avoid a unavoidable catastrophe? Why had a sudden urge to protect replaced his urge for revenge? How come he had gone from happily letting the entire world be destroyed, to an unwavering promise to himself to stop a certain life from falling? Shadow knew the answer to all these questions. It was because he loved Amy. He loved her more than anything he had ever loved. He loved her more than Maria. If he could just save her he could prove to himself that Gerald was wrong. The hate he had felt was wrong. The need for revenge was wrong. He could prove that his love for Amy was the only right thing in the entire base.
"Amy. I promise you... life." Shadow muttered quietly. As Shadow darted down towards the soldiers, the sound of multiple feet running towards him made themselves heard. Oddly two of the many sets of feet could be heard from behind him. Shadow guessed that Sonic and one of the other animals must be following him. Shadow smiled slightly. He would never admit it, but some help would be welcomed.
Past Sonic and Amy ran after Shadow, Sonic pulling Amy by the arm. He no longer held onto the time stones.
"Why did Sonic, you know, the other one, say only we two should go?" Amy asked. Sonic shrugged.
"He, I mean me, I..." Sonic gave up on the figuring which person to refer to him in. "... Sonic must know what he's doing." he claimed. "I'm never without a plan." Sonic cockily announced.
"Do you have a plan now?" Amy asked.
"Errr... no." Sonic replied. The Hedgehog from the past spotted a black quill turning a corner. "Where catching up with him"
"He's moving slower than usual." Amy noted.
"You wouldn't be at peek condition if you had just gone through all he has." Sonic explained. Amy nodded. The two continued running. Before long Shadow was visible, at this point the sound of the oncoming guards had become exceptionally loud.
"Shadow!" Amy shouted. This diverted Shadow's attention, making him turn.
"Amy." He replied. Amy ran up to Shadow and grabbed both his hands. The two looked into each other's eyes.
"Please listen." Amy pleaded.
"Amy." Shadow repeated. The sound of guns being armed rang out from behind him.
"Project Shadow! Shoot to kill!" A soldier ordered. Shadow turned around.
The soldiers shot.