Disclaimer: You know it, I know it, the cat knows it. It hasn't changed!
Author's note: I'm still alive! That is all.
Metal Sonic watched a small screen that hovered slightly above the control panel. On it was a picture of the ground from a distance. Small dots littered the area. Metal Sonic pressed a button on the control panel. The picture on the screen magnified by at least ten times. Now it was clear the dots were in fact Fistika, Sonic, Amy, General Knuckles, Shadow, Rouge and the Ultimate Weapon. Metal Sonic smiled.
"Gotcha Sonic!" Metal Sonic smiled. His glance changed to look at General Knuckles, who was mostly still on the floor. "How odd. Wasn't Knuckles dead?" Metal Sonic dismissed the idea. "No matter, he will be dead soon." He turned to his two comrades. Lamont was directly behind him, looking at the same screen he had been watching a minute ago. Metal Amy was messing with the fact she had control over the program she was in and was making random objects appear out of thin air, then making them explode. "My friends." Metal Sonic announced. "Say your goodbyes to Sonic and his gang." Metal Sonic turned back to the control panel. A strange sensation entered him as his pointed finger hovered above the button that would activate the weapons and cause a near instant death to all of Metal Sonic's rivals. This feeling wasn't that of regret or concern, but that of suspicion. This was too easy. There was no way the end of Sonic was going to be as anticlimactic as a giant laser simply coming down and destroying him. Something was defiantly wrong. Metal Sonic retracted his finger slightly. The feeling of suspicion was transforming into something else. A sent of death had crept into the air. Lamont had seemed to have suddenly tensioned slightly. It wasn't just Metal Sonic that felt it. The metallic hedgehog considered exploring this strange phenomenon further, but decided he had more important things to do, like finally completing his one purpose for creation and destroying Sonic. Metal Sonic paused again. His one purpose. If the blue robot had a mouth, it would have become a smile. Killing Sonic was no longer become his one purpose. Since Metal Sonic had become his own master, especially have finishing Metal Amy; he had created his own agenda. As soon as he vaporised his annoying organic double he would be completely free of Eggman. Free of his rule, free of his objectives. Metal Sonic would for the first time in his life be his own master, following his own objectives, instead of the original objective Eggman burnt so deeply into his hard drive he has become obsessed with completing. Metal Sonic's eyes burned brighter as the thoughts danced in his mind. Metal Sonic once again positioned his finger over the button. The button that would send the laser down on Sonic like a vulture that clutched the hedgehog's end in its talons.
"Push the button." A voice muttered quietly. Metal Sonic span around instantly.
"Did you say something Lamont?" Metal Sonic questioned.
"No." Lamont bluntly replied.
"Didn't think so." Metal Sonic was looking directly into the middle of the darkest corner of the room. Lamont looked as well, but could see nothing. This was not the case for Metal Sonic. "I have infer-red you buffoon." Metal Sonic told the darkness. There was a short silence, and then out of the darkness walked Yang, his body seeming to only materialise when he lost contact with the blackness. Metal Sonic watched the smirking hedgehog, his arms crossed and his eyes uncaring. "So how did you get into the ship? We don't have a front door." Metal Sonic queried.
"I travel through Shadows." Yang simply replied.
"I sure hope you don't mean Gerald's other project." Lamont muttered. No one listened to him.
"So do you plan to do?" Metal Amy's voice came from the computer, filled with a tone of criticism. "You can't remove the emeralds! Your plan has failed"
"I'm simply going to have to alter my plans." Yang was trying not to show it, but anger had crept into his voice. "You have a laser which can destroy a planet, I think I can manage"
"Your insane. What the heck are you gaining from this!" Metal Sonic questioned, his hand tensed and prepared to attack.
"I'm not being selfish, I'm cleansing this world for all its inhabitants." Yang claimed. Metal Sonic shook his head.
"Dear god, not even Metal Sonic's that insane." Metal Amy remarked. Metal Sonic ignored the comment.
"Well my stupid friend, you made one fatal error." Metal Sonic claimed, getting bored of talking and his fingers twitching to lay themselves on Yang's face in the form of a fist.
"This being?" Yang questioned, not sounding the least bit curious. Metal Sonic, with unparallel reflexes, grabbed Yang by the neck and lifted him before anyone knew the robot hedgehog had moved.
"I'm not going to let you." Metal Sonic exclaimed. Yang smiled, which sent a chill down Metal Sonic's spine. This confused Metal Sonic. He was a robot, such things weren't meant to affect him. He was becoming to close to a weak, living creature.
"I believe you've made a fatal error robot." Yang calmly announced. "You forget that this entire ship is being powered by chaos energy, and as such every wire a circuit holds the said energy."
"Your point?" An intrigued Metal Sonic asked. Yang placed a hand on Metal Sonic's chest.
"My point is two words. Chaos control."
Down on the ground the Final Death Egg flew high above, the Hedgehogs, Echidnas, Bat and Ultimate Weapon (which is technically a hedgehog I suppose) all stared up at the floating sphere. Despite the distance between them and the flying device of death, many of the weapons could be made out, as was it easy to see that it was an enormous weapon. Fistika was the first to speak.
"That's interesting." He simply admired. "Reminds me of something I read in jail"
"Did it by chance have anything to do with a 'Death Egg'." Sonic questioned, not taking his glance away from the flying armoury.
"It was actually 'Star Wars', but lets go with your theory." Fistika turned to General Knuckles, who had got off the floor. "Right, where was I?" Fistika swung his staff at the General. General Knuckles avoided the staff with ease.
"What are you doing? Don't you think that floating weapon is a tad more important?" General Knuckles angrily asked, slightly shocked.
"Look you fool, if it was going to attack, it would have by now. Besides, exploited rightly it could be of great use." Fistika claimed. The blue echidna once again attempted an attack with his staff, but was knocked to the ground by Shadow.
"Listen!" Sonic ordered. "I've seen a device very familiar to that before. It was a weapon of unmatched power." Sonic turned to look specifically at Shadow. "It could rival the ARK in power with ease." Fistika continued to look uninterested. "We have to get up there and onto that device before Eggman uses it to take total control of the earth!" The sound of slow, metallic footsteps heading towards the group averted attention away from Sonic and the Final Death Egg. Metal Sonic was walking towards the group. However, the appearance of the old foe did not make anyone jump into fighting stance, none even prepared for an attack. Metal Sonic did not look even remotely dangerous. His walk was too slow to be of threat; his posture was to slant to be a threat. Even his face, which couldn't change, didn't look dangerous. Only one word could describe him. Broken. Not as in his components were scattered across the land, but his feelings were. Behind him walked Lamont, who looked merely annoyed.
"Metal?" Amy asked in a voice even she found surprisingly sympathetic towards the revenge driven machine. Metal Sonic didn't look up; he simply slumped to the ground, his head buried in his knees. He was silent for a moment, and then when he did speak it was quietly.
"I caused it. I've brought about an end even I don't approve of. Thanks to me we are all doomed, and she's stuck up there, blind to the event, but able to hear every word." Metal Sonic was defiantly different from the cold robot that Sonic had grown accustomed to. No one knew how to react to this new Metal Sonic. This Metal Sonic that feels. Rouge was the first to react.
"Who's 'she'?" She questioned. Rouge had been fairly quiet since Knuckles death, so Sonic and Amy were surprised she was first to ask, but they didn't say anything. Metal Sonic was hesitant to reply at first, but realised nothing had any bearings on anything anymore. They were all about to die.
"Metal Amy." He simply answered. There was another silence. "Yang can't get her out of the Final Death Egg's computer. He will destroy us then do the unknown to her. I have no doubts it'll be painful"
"Yang?" Shadow questioned. "As in the creation Gerald sent out to complete his plans?" Metal Sonic shrugged.
"He was." Lamont replied.
"The plans to destroy the world, no?" General Knuckles questioned.
"Yep." Lamont looked at the fuzzy echidna with a look of confusion. "Who are you people again"
"Why are you all just standing around like garden gnomes?" Fistika asked. All eyes turned to the one eyed echidna. "Go do your hero thing. Save the day, be happy, drink and make sure I still have a world to control"
"Not possible." Metal Sonic claimed. "The exterior of the Final Death Egg is stronger that crystal, and hundreds of meters thick. The interior is softer, but only accessible by chaos controlling in to it. All the chaos emeralds are currently in there with Yang powering the device. All we can do is wait for him to figure out the weapons controls, then die." Metal Sonic's voice had regained a small amount of its original coldness.
"No." Sonic simply exclaimed. "I won't." Sonic looked around, his eyes rested on Shadow. A small flicker of a smile passed on Sonic.
"What?" Shadow asked.
"The third Sonic." Sonic didn't bother explaining any further, and ran away at his trademark speed.
"Can't blame him for running." All heads turned to see Nack and Snipe running forwards.
"Great, the weasels." The Ultimate Weapon muttered.
"You forget I got you the armadillo DNA, you little..." Snipe claimed.
"Oh yeah, thanks to you I can wall kick. Yippee." The Ultimate Weapon sarcastically replied. The argument was ignored by mostly everyone else, who had better things to do than biker.
"So that's what them army fellas are attacking." Nack claimed, admiring the Final Death Egg.
"What? Gerald is attacking it?" Shadow asked confused.
"Heck no, the soldiers brought in by the government are commandeering a few of G.U.N's flying robots." Nack explained.
"They'll be worthless against my weapon!" Metal Sonic announced. Metal Sonic eyed the metallic sphere. "It won't be long until Yang understands how the controls works." The robot added. There was moment of tense silence. The silence was undermined, however, by a low muttering coming from Fistika.
"...All the fake emeralds have been destroyed...There is no ventilation shaft..." General Knuckles gave his long time enemy a smug look.
"I thought you weren't helping Fistika." General Knuckles remarked. Fistika shot the tattooed echidna a hate filled look.
"I'm not teaming up with you in some pathetic 'lets save the world' rubbish, but I would prefer to not be blow up, so I will point you fools in the right direction." There was a moment's pause. "You can also use Weapon if you want." General Knuckles simply nodded.
"Here they come..." Amy muttered, staring at the G.U.N base, which currently had a panel in the side of the wall opening and many 'Flying Dog' like machines flying out of it. "I can't believe Gerald is just letting the army go after that thing." She added.
"That's because he wouldn't." Shadow told her. Amy shot the black hedgehog a worried look, then look back at the emerging soldiers. Within a moment, gunfire was heard from within the base, more precisely near where the 'Flying Dogs' were coming from. Alongside the commandeered vehicles, emerged a long line of G.U.N's flying robots, all firing at the vehicles. "See." A small laugh came from Fistika.
"Brilliant, just brilliant." Fistika exclaimed.
"What is blue boy?" Nack questioned.
"Don't you see?" Fistika looked at Shadow, then Metal Sonic. "You not only have the weapon architect, not only do you have a blue blur off somewhere with an idea, you have someone who understands the mad man's mind"
"I know very little about Yang." Shadow claimed.
"But you know Gerald! Up there is just a minion of his. Free thought isn't that common among them." Fistika looked liked he was about to talk some more, but was interrupted when a large laser, of blue colour, burst forward out of the bottom of the Final Death Egg, causing three of the armies robots to be annihilated completely, barely leaving any remains of the vehicles.
"He got the laser working!" Metal Sonic, rather pointlessly, exclaimed. "It will take him mere seconds to destroy the world now"
"Then what do we do?" Amy asked, her voice masked in worry and fear. Fistika calmly folded his arms.
"The blue dude has a plan, we wait for him to complete it." Fistika seemed calm, but sweat was visible on his brow.
"The fool won't be back in time!" The Ultimate Weapon retorted.
"So we stall." Amy announced. "Metal, do we have any way to talk to the Final Death Egg's occupants?"
"Nope." Metal Sonic replied sadly. Amy sighed angrily. This won't be the end. They've saved the world before, they can do it again.
"I have a plan." Shadow muttered. "There's a catch thought"
"What"
"We won't survive."