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Sonic ran towards his goals at speeds that were fast for even him. Sonic's seemingly everlasting stamina was beginning to waver, but he did not care. He had figured it out. He had cracked the puzzle. Off in the distance Sonic was finally able to make it out, the volcano on which Eggman's base was situated. A small smile crossed Sonic's face in age-old fashion, but this time it felt forced. Sonic continued to speed towards the base, knowing well that time wasn't on his side. Sonic chuckled to himself. Time would be on his side soon, in fact, he'll have all the time in the world at his disposal.
The blue streak scaled the side of the volcano without any signs of slowing down. Sonic ran up the near vertical side as if he was running downhill. In no time he had reached the summit. The blue hedgehog ignored the overpowering smell of ash and continued forward to the large crater. Sonic didn't think twice before he jumped down into the pit of bubbling, skin scorching molten lava. The heroic hedgehog stretched his arms and legs out to slow his plummet downwards (there's some science for you). Sonic did a small flip in the air and landed on top of Eggman's base on his feet. The cloaked base shimmered slightly as the impact of Sonic on it momentarily disrupted the cloaking device. Sonic wasted no time in finding the large hole which Nack had cause with his air bike last time they were here. Luckily Eggman apparently hadn't fixed it yet. Sonic located it with ease and dropped down into the base. He was in. Now was the hard part, Sonic had to find where Eggman kept the time stones. The blue blur ran from room to room, his mind set on finding the time stones. Each and every room he went into, however, turned up no results. All Sonic ever seemed to be able to find was the odd robot, most of which seemed to be dusting. Sonic continued his search. He entered the holding area. Sonic stopped, looked around, then was about to leave when he did a double take.
"Eggman?" Sonic asked curiously. Eggman, who was still being held in a cell turned around quickly at the sound of Sonic's voice.
"Sonic!" He blurted out "Watch out!" Sonic turned around to be knocked off his feet by a metallic fist. Sonic sailed through the sky and crashed into Eggman's cell, bending the bars slightly. Metal Knuckles laughed slightly.
"Well if it isn't the famous Sonic. I believe now will be the perfect opportunity." Sonic raised an eyebrow.
"To do what?"
"To do what Metal Sonic couldn't, to kill you." Without another word or warning, Metal Knuckles lunged at Sonic. The blue hedgehog just barely managed to roll out of the way. Metal Knuckles held his fist outwards and fired off his knuckle missiles. Sonic ducked the first one, but took the second to his chest. The missile exploded and sent Sonic flying upwards, slamming him into the wall. Sonic quickly recovered and spin dashed down from the ceiling into Metal Knuckles face. Metal Knuckles swatted Sonic aside and followed up by punching him in the gut. Sonic endured the attack and retaliated with an uppercut to the chin. Metal Knuckles showed no reaction to the attack and kicked Sonic across the face. Sonic rolled across the floor, repeatedly hitting his head against the floor. This resulted in Sonic's head feeling like it was spinning as he got up, allowing Metal Knuckles to run up to Sonic and slam him against a wall before the hedgehog could retaliated. The bruised and annoyed Sonic regained his composure and kicked Metal Knuckles away from him.
"As much as enjoy playing this game, I'm in a hurry, so..." Sonic darted at Metal Knuckles, curled into a ball, and crashed into the robot with as much force as he could muster, knocking Metal Knuckles straight off his feet and into a wall, causing a echidna shaped dent in it.
"Go Sonic!" Eggman shouted from behind his bars. Metal Knuckles shot him a warning glance, but that distracted him long enough to allow Sonic to punch him across the face. Metal Knuckles was about to strike back, but Sonic sprayed him with punches at his trademark speed. Sonic ended the on slaughter with a spinning kick. Metal Knuckles fell hard onto the ground. Sonic smiled.
"Well that was easy." He remarked. Then a low laughing came from Metal Knuckles. The robot stood up, showing no signs of any damage. The smile on Sonic's lips turned to a scowl.
"You don't get it hedgehog. I had won before we began to fight. You're on a time limit, I've just got to keep you from carrying out your plan, and just like your metal counterpart, I can keep going and going."
"Ha! I've beaten Metal Sonic and I can beat you." Sonic retorted.
"Metal Sonic is a weak being, siding with you for the most trivial reasons. Love, HA!" Sonic looked confused.
"How could you know..."
"Me and Yang are in constant contact. He's keeping everything in control." Metal Knuckles explained. "For instance, I've alerted him of your intrusion, and he's told me of Metal Sonic's pathetic feelings." Sonic yawned.
"Well as thrilling as this story is, I'm in a hurry, so see ya!" Sonic prepared to speed off.
"LOCKDOWN!" Metal Knuckles bellowed. Metal sheets flew down and covered every wall, ceiling and floor. Eggman blinked in surprise.
"I didn't install that." He claimed.
"As I said, Yang's keeping everything in control. Including pesky hedgehogs with futile plans. Just try to break out. It'll take nothing short of my power to get out."
Metal Sonic flew towards the Final Death Egg with single minded concentration. He had no plan, he had no help and he had no hope, but that did not matter to him. He had to save Metal Amy and he could no longer wait for Sonic to put his half baked plan into motion. Besides, even if he did, why would Sonic bother saving a single Eggman robot for his nemeses? Metal Sonic had decided the only course of action was to save her himself. She was his damsel in distress, his responsibility, and no one else's. Despite the haze created by Metal Sonic's ambitions, even he could still clearly see how hopeless this one-man assault was. His artificial mind raced in search for possibilities. He was approaching the colossal weapon fast. He needed a plan. An idea came to Metal Sonic, but it was a long shot. Nether the less, it was something. Via wireless connection, Metal Sonic sent a short text file to Metal Amy. It read: 'You're in the computer, can you take control of anything through it?' In almost no time an audio file was sent back to Metal Sonic. He opened it, wondering why she didn't send a text file.
"Metal Sonic, I can't access the computer, besides, something odd is happening. Listen to Yang" Metal Amy's voice was a whisper. The next voice that sounded only partially sounded like Yang's, it was as if another voice was talking over his. A voice that sounded familiar.
"Why was this pathetic creation stalling? Everyone should be dead by now, but luckily I thought ahead! Now I can personally revenge Gerald and his sappy Granddaughter!" Metal Sonic listened to the voice intently, unable to place a face to the voice.
"As we speak Yang seems to be trying to find the buttons to activate the laser all over again. It gets worse." Metal Amy's voice was shaken and full of fear. "Metal Knuckles has just reported to have captured Sonic." Metal Sonic resisted the urge to sprout a long list of profanities. "If you're going to destroy this battleship, do it soon." The audio message ended. Metal Sonic floated in mid air, deep in thought. Sonic has failed, Yang's insanity seemed to have slipped deeper and there was no way to board the floating orb and save Metal Amy. Metal Sonic considered the possibilities before him. They seemed to be wait for Yang to destroy him, or to just kill himself and get it over with. Life was so easier when he just mindlessly followed Eggman's orders. He wasn't subjected to so many... feelings. Confusion, love, pain, loss, and despair. Metal Sonic stopped. Loss and despair. A memory came forward in Metal Sonic circuit based mind. He was in an old Eggman base. He was watching something on the T.V. A man. He was old, had a large moustache. He was shouting something, some sort of threat.
"All of you ungrateful humans, who took everything away from me, will feel my loss and despair!" The man was shouting. Shouting in a voice like that of the one Yang's voice seemed to have been meshed with.
"Gerald's become Yang?" Metal Sonic blurted out, thoroughly confused.
For about forty years Gerald had been hiding in the very core of his enemy. His unstable mind in a constant struggle for power with an alternate persona. However, a problem had forever stopped Gerald from remaining in control. He wanted to be taken over. He wanted to avenge mankind for what they did to Maria, which is where his insanity and duel personality derived from to begin with. Before long Prisal was in complete control of Gerald. Prisal was worse then a revenge driven Gerald battling against insanity for two main reasons. One reasons was he would alter the creations of Gerald he could get his hands on in ways Gerald would have deemed to inhumane. Many of the changes were either rejected by the creation or caused the said creation to die, but one of the many modifications he made to Yang worked perfectly with the hedgehog's biological structure. A small implant that allowed Prisal's computer to take direct control over Yang's nervous system, vocal cords and retina. This meant Prisal could practically take control over Yang's body. The second reason Prisal was the worse of the two personalities is because he truly didn't care as much about making mankind suffer for what they did to Maria. He did still see it as part of his motive, explaining why the ARK was set to crash to earth once the eclipse cannon was activated, rather than some simpler mechanism, but he believed if they were dead then the revenge will be carried out. That's why he sent an assassin to knock of the head of A.M.M.O, a rather merciful death considering what he could have achieved with his status as head of G.U.N. Unlike Yang, who rather liked the idea of toying with humanity, Prisal wanted everyone dead as fast as humanly possible. Meaning that Shadow, Metal Sonic or anyone else for that matter didn't have a hope trying to stall him.
"For Buddha's sake Shadow! Stop doing that!" Nack shouted as Shadow once again destroyed a G.U.N robot seconds before the air bike collided with it, however the robot was still close enough for the resulting explosion to rock the air bike. Shadow looked sideways at Nack.
"I didn't know you were a Buddhist." Shadow remarked.
"I'm not, I thought you were." Nack replied. Shadow decided to not answer, opting to concentrate on attacking the opposition rather than explaining to Nack how he hasn't had the time to decide on a spiritual outlook. Nack didn't bother prying further and returned to the difficult task of keeping the air bike steady as numerous laser blasts and explosions flew past constantly. Shadow glanced upwards at the Final Death Egg as he ducked an attack from one of the many G.U.N robots.
"Get us closer Nack!" Shadow shouted. Nack looked up at the black hedgehog, his eyes wide with disbelief.
"Closer? We're already in range of all that blasted thing's weapons!" Nack argued. Shadow glared angrily at the weasel.
"We need to keep Yang occupied. Now you can either risk getting blasted by that or get blasted by me." Shadow threatened, destroying a near by robot with a single punch to reinforce his point. Nack smiled worryingly and complied with the request.
"This is the last time I do the good guy thing." Nack muttered while trying to keep the fake smile on his face. With a push of a lever the Marvellous Queen rocketed towards the enormous circular eyesore that remained the centerpiece for the surrounding explosions and battling mechs. As the air bike sped towards the Final Death Egg at speeds common to anyone associated with Sonic, Shadow remained his calm and composed appearance, and while inside he secretly dreaded the oncoming barrage of attacks the floating armoury was about to throw at them. Nack was more visually worried about what Shadow had forced him to go up against. The purple weasel had taken to singing quietly to himself in an attempt to relax himself, but his voice became progressively louder and fear choked as the Final Death Egg got closer, and the odd attack was aimed there way. Luckily for the pair the air bike took no damage in this sprint towards the Final Death Egg.
"Nack!" Shadow shouted over the sound of a nearby by eruption of flames as one of the military robots spiralled down in a fiery death. "Stop singing Lostprophets songs and slow down!"
"And we all sit round here in our home town, It's so good like this, these are times we'll miss" Nack continued to mumble under his breath as he decelerated.
"Drive round the weapon at this distance until he notices us." Shadow ordered Nack, who was getting fed up of being told what to do, but kept it to himself.
"How will we know when he sees us?" Nack questioned.
"When all of the Final Death Egg's weaponry is aimed at us." Shadow simply replied. Nack gulped and sweat formed on his brow.
"Glowing embers fly across the sky..."
Luckily for Shadow and Nack none of the fighting machines had dared get as close as they had to the Final Death Egg, so they remained practically unchallenged as they flew in a circle around the device which was to deliver a quick end to humanity. An unspoken tension crawled into the air as Shadow and Nack occupied a peaceful space within a battle torn sky. They were middle of a contained war around a world ending weapon which they were awaiting an attack from, but yet there was a disturbing peace floating in this small area which none but they had dared enter. This peace was instantly shattered as Nack let out a scream of surprise as Shadow disappeared in a blink of the eye. The weasel frantically looked around, unable to comprehend how a hedgehog could just disappears while flying hundreds of feet in the air. Then the situation got even worse. The cannon on the bottom of the Final Death Egg, the one capable of destroying an entire planet, fired directly down at the earth. Mouth opened wide, Nack could only think of a single word to express the moment.
"Ah."