Ultra Sonic 10

Ultra Explosive

Shadow, Rouge, and Knuckles stood off against Ultra Sonic while Tails and Amy flew above. For a minute now no one moved, all eyes on Ultra Sonic and waiting for him to do anything.

"Knuckles," Rouge whispered, "What happened to Sonic?"

"Eggman must have done something to him. He's calling himself Ultra Sonic, and from what I've seen, he's just as if not more powerful than Super Sonic."

"Shadow, what do you think we should do?" Rouge asked him.

Shadow didn't say a word. He was staring right at Ultra Sonic, who apparently looked like he was staring back at him. They shared eye contact with each other, ignoring everyone and everything else. Eventually, Ultra Sonic spoke first.

"Night, what are you doing here!" Ultra Sonic roared at the black hedgehog.

"Night?" Knuckles pondered.

"Shadow, have you seen Sonic like this before?" Rouge asked.

"My name is not Night, it's Shadow." Shadowshot back at the all white hedgehog.

Ultra Sonic stared back, squinting his eyes a little. "...You're right...you're not Darkness. But you look very close in her likeness. I don't like that." In a flash he had flew right up to Shadow. "And things I don't like, I destroy."

Ultra Sonic cocked back a fist and was about to punch Shadow when Knuckles quickly jumped over and threw a fist to Ultra's jaw. Stumbling back in mid air, he wasn't given much time to recover before Rouge quickly spin-kicked him, followed by a spiny balled tackle from Shadow.

Ultra Sonic flew off a couple yards away. Shadow, Rouge, and Knuckles quickly chased him from behind. They soon reached where he landed, but he was up before they could land an attack. Ultra proceeded to retaliate by first kicking Rouge up into the air, then sending a punch to Knuckles that sent the echidna flying to the right. Finally, a smash tackle to Shadow sent him flying through a broken wall a good distance away.

"The three of you got a lucky shot at me, but do you really think you can defeat me?" Ultra Sonic said with a laugh.

"I think we can!" Knuckles yelled, coming out of the ground. Like a missile he flew straight up at Ultra, preparing to strike. However, Ultra reacted in time and moved out of the way, watching as Knuckles went pass.

"When dealing with a bat, you shouldn't knock her into the air!" Rouge called out as she dived down, spinning as fast as she could with her heel aimed right at Ultra's head.

Her Drill Drive attack gained speed and Ultra had barely enough time to throw his arms up to block before it hit him. The force of the attack pushed him to ground level, but by then the friction of Rouge contacting Ultra forced her to slow down out of her spin, and Rouge was surprised to see Ultra unharmed minus a small scratch from friction burn.

"Is that the best you've got bat?" Ultra said with a maniacal grin as Rouge gaped at the ineffectiveness of her attack.

"Are you prepared for this?" Shadow said in a menacing voice as he sped towards Ultra at a breakneck speed. Just before colliding with the white hedgehog, Shadow instead started running steadily faster in a circle around Ultra.

"What's this?" Ultra asked in surprise.

"Dark Tornado..." Rouge said softly, recognizing the attack. She quickly started flying off to get out of the way of the attack.

"Not so fast, bat." Ultra said as he flew up after her and grabbed her by the boot. He then turned and threw Rouge right into the black blur, and sure enough, it collided with Shadow and ended his attack.

After landing, Rouge and Shadow quickly got themselves out of their tangle and looked up towards Ultra. Shadow still kept a fearless resolves, but Rouge was starting to shake a little.

"Shadow, whatever has happened to Sonic, he seems unbeatable." Rouge said in a shaky voice.

Suddenly Knuckles flew right into one of the few walls left standing and landed by Shadow and Rouge, slowly getting up.

"Knuckles!" Rouge called out worriedly.

"I'm fine..." Knuckles said, climbing out of the rubble. "However, we need to figure a way to defeat Sonic."

"It's as if he's consumed so much Chaos energy that he was able to reach a new plain of power..." Rouge said.

"I have a plan." Shadow said suddenly, surprising Knuckles and Rouge. "Just distract him long enough for me to touch him."

"You got it." Rouge said, starting towards Ultra Sonic once more. After a few steps, she turned back to look at Knuckles. "Coming?"

Knuckles looked slowly from Shadow to Rouge. He realized that neither of them had done anything to gain his trust in the last few days. However, he decided to put his anger aside in order to save his good friend. Slowly he stood up and followed after Rouge.

Rouge quickly turned towards her objective once she saw Knuckles was following. She had seen the look of distrust in his eyes, but she ignored the feelings that they brought. This was not the time for them either way.

As the two neared, Ultra Sonic scoffed. "So, now after all that has happened, the two of you think you can defeat me all on your own? Don't make me laugh."

Knuckles and Rouge continued walking towards their target, ignoring Ultra's comment. As they continued walking, sure enough, Ultra Sonic burst into laughter.

"Now!" Knuckles yelled as both he and Rouge blew off full speed at Ultra while his eyes were off of them.

Reaching striking distance, Knuckles quickly leaped into the air and, with fist outstretched, he aimed towards Ultra's head. Rouge meanwhile went into a slide tackle, her feet aimed at Ultra's midsection. Surprisingly enough to all three of them, the attack worked and Ultra was knocked back a little bit.

Not letting up, Rouge quickly spun around with a jump kick to Ultra's head. Ultra was once again hit and knocked back a step. Knuckles then came under Rouge's jump with a punch combo to Ultra's stomach, earning another few steps back. Knuckles then turned around as Rouge turned towards him, and the two grabbed each other's arms. Knuckles then spun her around as hard as he could, allowing Rouge a kick straight at Ultra that was strong enough to knock him off his feet and send him a good distance a way.

After realizing what they had done, Knuckles and Rouge, arms still bound, looked towards each other. Although surprised that their attack had succeeded, they were more surprised at how natural it felt for them to fight together...

"HOW DARE YOU STRIKE ME!" Ultra yelled in anger. Levitating himself off of the ground, he quickly straightened himself, and flew at Knuckles and Rouge in a rage. Right before he reached them, however, Shadow suddenly rushed out from behind the two and grabbed Ultra Sonic.

"I hope this hurts." Shadow said right before he glowed a little.

Before Ultra could do anything, he suddenly felt his power being sucked away by Shadow. Ultra was practically bound to his power, and the feeling of it being ripped away from his body brought him pain.

"Aaaaaaaaaah!" He yelled in pain. As Shadow continued to glow, he continuously sucked away as much energy as he could.

Soon, Ultra Sonic regained enough sense to quickly pry himself away from Shadow's grasp. The second the pain ended, rage returned and he grabbed Shadow, spun him around and around as fast as he could, and flung him like a bullet at Rouge.

"Rouge!" Knuckles yelled as the speeding Shadow collided with her and sent the two of them flying off. Turning back towards Ultra, Knuckles was surprised as he saw the hedgehog already next to him.

Grabbing Knuckles by the neck, Ultra quickly flew into the air, choking Knuckles with one hand.

"How dare the three of you strike me, and then cause me pain? For this, you shall all die, and for finding me first, you get to die first."

It quickly became apparent to Knuckles that he couldn't breathe, but all he could do was flail as he was suspended over mid air. Ultra Sonic just watched as he choked the life slowly out of his once dear friend. However, to interrupt his fun, Ultra felt a volley of gunfire across his back.

Turning around, he saw Tails and Amy flying close by him. The two had watched the whole battle from afar, and couldn't believe what they were seeing their friend and idol doing.

"Sonic!" Amy called out. "What are you doing? Knuckles is your friend! Let him go!"

"Oh, well lucky you, your little friends have asked me to set you down." Ultra said with mock concern in his voice. "For once, I feel like complying."

Ultra turned to fully face Tails and Amy in the Tornado II. Taking aim, he threw Knuckles directly at the plane. Surprised, Tails tried to dodge the speeding echidna, but wasn't fast enough as Knuckles ended up crashing through one of the wings, and then the echidna and the plane were soon falling towards the ground.

"Now...who should I go after next?" Ultra asked himself as he looked at the heroes on the ground several feet below him. Each of them, even Knuckles, were slowly getting up once more, but none of them looked like they could put up much of a fight, or even stand straight for that very matter.

An ominous shadow flew overhead, however, interrupting Ultra's thoughts. As all looked up and upon the Egg Port, the voice of Eggman came out from it.

"Ultra Sonic! It's time to return to base." Eggman called from up above.

"Who do you think you are to order me around?" Ultra said cockily.

"Well, I believe I was the one who gave you your power and freedom."

"Yes doctor, and I thank you for that. But I'm no genie, and that means I don't have to help you, now do I?"

"Well, you don't realize that I have this." Eggman said as a panel at the bottom of his ship opened, revealing a beam cannon. It was large, and at the very end was a very large case.

"And what is that supposed to do?"

"Watch and learn." Eggman said as he powered up the machine. It soon fired straight at Ultra Sonic, who, cocky, decided to not to dodge. The beam soon him however, and for the second time that day he felt the pain of having his power ripped away from his body.

The cannon fired a special retraction beam that was designed to suck the power of the emeralds away from Ultra Sonic. As his power was being ripped away, Ultra Sonic soon found himself too weak and too much in pain to fly away. He was slowly forced to the ground, where all he could do was lay there and continuously yell out in pain.

The pain, clearing all rational thoughts, soon gave way to anger. Anger of his being harmed, anger of defeat he was facing, and anger of the fact that he could soon be losing all his power forever. The rage was building, but in his current position, he could do nothing, and that only angered him more. Soon, he realized that if the doctor was going to take his power, he was going out with a bang.

Meanwhile, Eggman looked at his machine as he happily watched the Ultima Emerald forming within the case on the beam cannon. He didn't notice as Ultra started building up what energy he had left, and start to form a very bright light around him.

Soon, Ultra had enough power built, and the very last of what he had. And he had no qualms against unleashing it.

"ULTRA...CHAOS...BLAST!" he yelled.

Suddenly, an explosion of white light erupted from his body. The light slowly crept over what was left of the city, and the different heroes on the ground had barely enough time to get themselves behind some form of cover.

From above, Eggman could see the explosion quickly coming in his direction.

"Hurry, move the ship! We must leave for now if we don't want to go down here and now!" Eggman yelled. He gave his order just in time, as the Egg Port was just able to escape the force and sheer energy of the explosion and fly away to safety.

After the explosion died down, and the white light faded away, all that was left of the previously just ruined city was a completely flattened wasteland. And in the center of it all lay Sonic, who was now blue once again.