Ultra Sonic 18
Fleeing Flight
"Sonic, Eggman is waiting." Metal Sonic said, his arms crossed.
"Don't you want to be strong again?" Silica asked with a seductive tone of voice.
"As much as I'd like to go back with you two," Sonic started, "how about you catch me first?"
Sonic turned and ran, and immediately Metal Sonic and Silica flew up and out of the hole they made after him. Rushing past strewn rubble, Sonic quickly found a section of the town with a couple walls still standing and dashed behind one. Metal Sonic and Silica followed closely behind, but when they turned to look behind the wall, Sonic had seemingly vanished.
Spinning around, they looked about them at the other walls forming a maze around them.
"Over there, I just saw a flash of spines." Silica said, quickly flying off in the direction she pointed in with Metal Sonic in tow.
Crossing another corner, and moving past another wall, they found no one to be there, but then Metal saw another flash and hurried after it, again finding nothing.
"We need to split up." Metal Sonic said, and the two robots turned and moved away in two opposite directions.
Back at the hiding place, Amy was waking up. Looking around, she saw Sonic and Tails working on the Tornado 2 with a hole in the roof right above them.
"Sonic, what's going on?" Amy said groggily as she stood up.
"Metal Sonic's found us. Shadow's keeping him and Silica busy right now, but we don't have much time."
"Silica! Why didn't you wake me? I owe her a..."
"Sonic, I'm done here." Tails said, cutting Amy off, "We're lifting off right now so go and get Shadow. Amy, get in the back."
"Amy, you'll get to pay back Silica, just wait."
With a thumbs up, Sonic ran off again while Amy jumped into the back seat behind Tails.
Back at the maze of rubble, Shadow quickly dashed behind another wall as Silica flew past him, and then flipped over the top and onto the other side as Silica looked behind her to see if she passed anything.
Turning, he moved to run again when he came face to face with Metal Sonic.
"Sonic isn't here, is he?" Metal said with a cold voice.
Shadow didn't say a word, just glared at the robot and clenched his fist.
"You're still angry about the Overlord incident? How I wiped your memory again and copied your form? I almost got to use all those Shadow-bots too. What a shame, they probably would have stood a better chance in defeating me than you ever could."
"Sorry, but I bet Shadow could beat you any day!"
Turning to see where the source of the voice came from, Metal Sonic was hit with a face full of spines as Sonic tackled him and hit him hard enough to slam Metal through the wall.
"Are the preparations complete?" Shadow asked.
"Yeah, let's go." Sonic answered.
"Where do you two think you're going?" came the voice of Silica, from above. "I finally realized how much easier it would be just to fly up and look for you like a hawk, and it paid off."
Silica dived straight down in an attack attempt, but Shadow and Sonic were able to jump away in time. However, upon reaching the ground, Silica quickly flipped over and roared her engine enough to cause a quick cloud of smoke to surround everyone.
"Shadow!" Sonic yelled, "Where are you?"
Turning, Sonic saw a shadow through the smoke coming straight for him. Quickly waving his arms, he tried to catch the attention of the shadow. But, out of the smoke, instead of Shadow there was Metal Sonic, and Sonic was quickly grabbed within Metal's claws.
Finally, the smoke cleared, and Shadow saw that Sonic had been grabbed during the smoke screen.
"Silica," Metal Sonic started, "The two of us will be leaving now; we got what we came for..."
A whistling sound was heard through the air, and looking above them, the three watched as a missile flew down from above straight towards them.
"You should watch your back more!" Shadow yelled, taking the opportunity brought by the distraction to spin dash into Metal Sonic. As soon as the robot was knocked away, he and Sonic ran off as the missile landed and large explosion landed where they just were.
"Looks like Tails' Tornado 2 is packing a lot more punch than he told me it would." Sonic said, smirking as he and Shadow escaped the maze.
Above them, the Tornado flew by overhead. It did a little wing wave in the air before flying forward, and Sonic motioned to Shadow a little natural ramp that Sonic had used when he and Tails had fought the GUN robots. Both speeding up, the two hedgehogs dashed across the area and up into the air from the ramps, where they soon landed on either wing of the Tornado 2.
"Ok Sonic, we're on our way out of here. Just tell me where to next." Tails yelled above the roar of the engine.
"We're going to-" Sonic was cut off as suddenly Silica appeared in the sky above them.
"She can fly too?" Tails yelled shocked as he immediately jerked the plane in a different direction, dodging Silica's next attack.
Circling around in the sky, Tails was amazed to see how quickly Silica recovered from that miss, and only stopped about twenty feet below them. For such a burst of speed so sudden, her jets were also able to allow her to stop on a dime.
Shadow watched below also and was just as amazed as Tails. He then realized why it was so hard to escape Silica in the tight corners of Eggman's ship when he confronted her before. If he had stayed on straighter paths, he might have had a better shot from being able to reach his top speed more.
"Tails! Send the plane right back at Silica! I've got an idea!" Sonic yelled.
Tails followed his orders and did a quick turn upwards before purposely stalling the plane and then turning it into a nosedive straight at Silica.
"Don't forget, she wants me, so none of you worry about her attacking you." Sonic called out to the others on the plane.
"Sonic, what's the plan?" Tails yelled out to Amy.
"It involves Amy." Sonic said, letting go of the plane wing and grabbing back on to the plane tail. "Amy, when she comes by, she'll aim at me, so I need you to..."
"Sonic, I've been waiting to do this for a while." Amy said, standing up in her seat.
As the plane closed in, Silica set her sights back onto Sonic, and then dashed forward. All she needed to do was attack from an angle to grab Sonic and leave the plane in its nosedive. Quickly reaching that angle, she reached out for Sonic as she came from their side and-
"Piko Piko Hammer!" Amy yelled, slamming the hammer straight down onto Silica in her mid air dive. The force of attack sent her plummeting straight down towards the ground, and looking closely, they could see a puff or smoke where she landed, hard.
"Nice job Amy. Now Silica knows why everyone fears your hammer." Sonic commented, looking below.
"You're welcome Sonic," Amy said, blushing, "I guess I just don't know my own strength."
He let go of the back of the plane, flipped in the air, and landed on the wing again as Tails turned the plane back around.
"Now, as I was saying, we're heading in that direction!" Sonic yelled, pointing towards a collection of clouds in the sky.
"Why in that direction, Sonic?" Amy asked.
"Because Amy, it's time for us to take out Eggman once again."
Not long after uttering those words, did the clouds above them finally part as the sun finished setting and all turned to darkness. But, by the moonlight they could see what the clouds revealed, the Egg Port, high in sky above them.