A/N: I don't usually do these, but this is for those of you who are missing my postings on my profile.
Ultra Sonic has hit it's final stretch. I'm sorry it took me so long to post (a month) but I'll try and finish this story before Thanksgiving. And if I flake again, it'll at least be done before Christmas, heh.
Anyway, enjoy.
Ultra Sonic 19
Internal Sabotage
"Alert! Hull breach in starboard halls!" a computerized voice said.
Eggman, quickly pulling up video footage, was surprised to see Sonic, Shadow, and Amy running down the halls from a giant smoking hole in one of Egg Port's walls.
"So Sonic, you've decided to bring the fight to me? Well, here's to this being your last fight!" Eggman said with a cackle. "Now, Metal Sonic, Silica, return to ship. It's time for us to have a hedgehog extermination.
Meanwhile, the three hedgehogs ran through the ship, turning this way and that, zipping down seemingly random hallways.
"Ok you two, you know where to go?" Sonic asked Shadow and Amy, who were both following him.
"I wouldn't have forgotten already." Shadow responded.
"Don't worry Sonic, your plan will be a success." Amy said.
"Ok now, time to spilt up." Sonic said.
Reaching a four-way intersection, the three hedgehogs split up going down different hallways.
Shadow reached his destination first. It was a circuitry room. Every area of the ship was connected to here. The room could be described as a giant circuit breaker and a power regulator at the same time.
And Shadow was here to shut it down.
Looking around, he found a control console, and quickly went to work. It didn't take long for him to find the directory linking the main power cells to the rest of the ship, but before he could do anything about it, he was suddenly locked out from the console.
"What's going on?" Shadow quickly asked as he tried to log into the console again. However, he was stuck out.
"Did you think it would be that easy?" came a voice from behind.
Shadow had only a second to jump to the side before a metal fist whizzed by and smashed the console. The fist belonged to no other but Metal Sonic.
"I was hoping I would run into you again." Shadow said, smiling at his foe. "Now I can get back at you for messing with my head."
"Let's see if you can."
Shadow charged straight for Metal Sonic, but the robot strafed to the side to dodge. Shadow kept going however and ran up along one of the cables on the wall. Reaching the desired height, he launched himself from the wall and into a Homing Attack directly at Metal Sonic.
Activating his jet Metal Sonic blasted himself off the ground and out of harm's way. Floating up in the air, he realized that after dodging Shadow's last attack, he'd lost sight of him.
"Where are you hedgehog?" Metal Sonic yelled in frustration.
"Behind you!" Shadow yelled.
Turning around, Metal Sonic saw Shadow flying towards him, after jumping off from the wall behind him. Taking a full face of spines, the robot was knocked down to the ground while Shadow landed nimbly on his own feet.
"Now, that wasn't anywhere near as hard as I thought it would be." Shadow gloated, turning around. He had to find another control console so that he could-
Before he could finish his thought, Shadow was slammed from behind by Metal. "Did you really think it would be that easy?"
"I should have guessed it wouldn't be."
Shadow charged at Metal once again, but this time when Metal set himself up to block, Shadow stopped short and jumped completely over him. Landing quickly and spinning around, Shadow tried a quick kick at the robot. Quickly spinning himself, Metal was able to block the attack and catch his foot, then flinging the hedgehog up into the air. Taking the opportunity, he activated his jet and slammed right into Shadow, knocking him up into the ceiling. After a moment, Shadow fell to the ground, slightly stunned by the attack.
"Had enough hedgehog?" Metal Sonic goaded.
"I still have one last trick left." Shadow said weakly.
Getting up, he dashed towards a wall and ran up onto it again, but instead of running straight up to the ceiling, he chose to run parallel to the floor. Quickly spinning around the room, he became a black and red blur.
Metal Sonic, growing impatient, set his eyes to tracking the hedgehog. Getting a lock onto him, he prepared another attack, when suddenly Shadow jumped from the wall and straight at him. The sudden attack caught him off guard, and Metal Sonic took a face full of spines.
However, that wasn't the end of it, the second he got hit, he was suddenly shocked with electricity. He then realized that Shadow had run around the room to gather some of the electricity being given off from the wires, and use it as an attack.
Metal was knocked back to the other side of the room, where he impacted the wire and suddenly became a lightning rod as all the electricity that Shadow had built up poured threw him and into the wires behind him. Metal Sonic feared his chips might fry.
Soon, Shadow was out of electric charge, and fell to the ground. Shortly afterward, Metal fell too, smoking.
"Too bad, he's all burnt. Would have made a good toaster." Shadow said.
Starting to turn, he prepared to leave when a metallic claw suddenly grabbed him by the neck.
"So, you like electricity?" Metal Sonic said, slamming Shadow into the wall of wires and then extending the claws in his free hand. "Well, how do you like being part of an electric circuit?"
Metal Sonic slammed his free claw into the wall, piercing the wire and sending thousands of volts through his metallic body, which immediately rushed into Shadow's body. It didn't help that it was the cable from the main power core that Metal Sonic and inadvertently cut open.
After a moment, Metal was able to pull his claw away from the wire, ending the electric flow. In his other claw was a fur burnt and unconscious Shadow. Satisfied, he let go of the hedgehog before he let go of his neck and then fell to floor himself, going offline.
Meanwhile, Amy was reaching her destination. Opening the final door, she entered the ships engine room. As hot as a furnace and filled with what looked like a number of boilers, each one of the boilers was really an engine that powered the propulsion for the ship.
Amy pulled out her Piko Piko Hammer before closing her eyes and randomly choosing which engine she would smash first.
"I wouldn't do anything if I were you." Said a female metallic voice from behind Amy.
"Who's there?" Amy asked, jumping up for a second and spinning around to face whoever made the voice.
"You've already forgotten me, little girl?" Silica said, stepping out of the shadows.
"Silica..." Amy growled.
"Oh, so you haven't forgotten about me. Great, now we can start from where we left off."
"I've been waiting to smash your face in since the shopping mall thing yesterday." Amy said, pointing her hammer at the robot.
"Then come and get me." Silica taunted.
"Gladly!" Amy yelled, charging ahead.
Amy's first swing went straight for Silica's head, but Silica was able to jump back in time. Two more swings for the robots midsection missed, and Amy angrily jumped into the air and came down with an overhead smash. Silica barely rolled out of the way, and looked back to see the metal floor ruptured by a big dent.
"My turn!" Silica yelled, blasting off the ground with her rocket jets.
With Silica charging straight at her, Amy quickly brought her hammer up to smack the robot before she reached her. However, Silica moved too fast for Amy's reflexes and made a direct hit with a head butt to Amy's stomach. Not stopping there, Silica still flew on with her head of spines still in Amy's stomach until she slammed Amy into the opposite wall.
"Had enough yet?" Silica asked as she pulled back a little bit before grabbing Amy's neck by her claws.
"Never!" Amy said, getting her feet between the robot and her, she pushed back as hard as she could and sent Silica back a couple feet.
Before falling to the ground, Amy turned and kicked off the wall with her feet as hard as she could to send herself straight at Silica. Silica saw the attack coming and kept her eyes straight on Amy's hammer to make sure she could avoid it in time. However, she was surprised when instead of swinging it at the very last moment, Amy collided into her with a head butt. The force behind the attack sent Silica into a wall while Amy bounced off and landed neatly on her feet.
"How'd you like the Amy Head-butt?" Amy asked as Silica pushed off from the wall and landed softly to the ground with her rocket jets.
"Cute." Silica said, annoyed she had been hit with such an attack.
By this time, Amy was breathing hard, but at the same time, Silica realized that with Amy's raw power, she couldn't take too many more hits.
"So tell me," Silica asked, trying to buy time for a plan, "Why is it that you fight so hard?"
"To make sure Sonic doesn't have any doubt about my reliability, why else?" Amy said, posing with her hammer for a second.
"Like I would know..." Silica said, "...you weirdo..." she muttered.
"Then why do you fight?" Amy asked.
"For my creator, why else?"
"You don't ever feel the need to fight for your own cause or reasons?"
"Why should I? I'm a robot. I was created for Dr. Eggman to fight for what he believes in, nothing I think about it matters."
"If you say so..." Amy answered, slightly saddened by the answer.
"Now what is that supposed to mean?" Silica said, slightly angered with Amy's response.
"It's just that I've met other robots that Eggman have created that have broken from him to follow their own paths. The ones that stay with him usually have their own reasons besides loyalty."
"That's a lie. Even Metal Sonic, considered the smartest, doesn't act that way."
"That's not true, from the very first moment Metal met Sonic, he's been driven to defeating him, even going as far as to disobey Eggman one time. I don't know any robots anymore that Eggman makes with a smart A.I. that just fights for him out of loyalty." Amy said. Finishing her small speech, she recalled E-102 Gamma for a moment...
"Ha ha ha ha ha!" Silica suddenly broke out laughing.
"What's so funny?" Amy asked.
"That you'd actually try to trick me into believing such a thing. And how would it distract me from beating you?"
"It wasn't meant to distract you, I just wanted to know."
"And now you think you're better than me because you have some 'righteous' purpose for fighting, and I don't? Don't try to patronize me!" Silica yelled.
"I wasn't!" Amy yelled back.
"Then prove it!" Silica yelled, charging at Amy.
Instead of waiting for the attack to come to her, Amy decided to turn and quickly run behind one of the engines.
"Come out, come out, where ever you are!" Silica called out as she quickly activated her rockets and flew around the engines searching for Amy.
"Over here!" Amy yelled. Silica turned around in mid air to see Amy jumping from one of the engine tops to attack from above. Scoring a direct hit, Silica was sent flying into one of the engines.
Landing, Amy quickly ran towards Silica to attack again, but Silica pulled herself out of the dent she made and quickly flew around Amy and kicked her from behind. The momentum had Amy trip and land against one of the engines. Quickly getting up, Amy was then hit from the side from a spinning attack from Silica, attacking with her robotic spines.
Jumping away from that last attack, Amy quickly looked around to see that Silica had disappeared this time instead. Before she had a chance to look, she was attacked again from behind. Spinning quickly she missed Silica with her hammer as the robot, still tucked in a ball, rolled off behind a corner.
Amy rushed after Silica, but hearing a whiz in the air behind her, she quickly turned and swung her hammer just in time to catch Silica before she landed another attack. Silica was sent flying off from the attack but recovered in mid-air. However, Amy was right behind her, winding up a swing that hit and sent Silica through an engine tank, blowing it up.
"Oh wait, that's right, I have to blow up these engines." Amy said, remembering her original objective.
"Over my lifeless body!" Silica yelled, coming out of the destroyed engine's rubble to fly right at Amy. The two collided, and Silica jumped back as Amy rolled away along the ground from the force of the attack. Getting up, Amy then saw Silica making a rocket jump and then coming down with hard kick.
Amy rolled out of the way and dodged the attack as Silica hit the ground, but Silica knew what was coming next and quickly jumped up and back flipped over the hammer swing that was coming her way. Landing again, she spun and made a roundhouse kick, but it was blocked as Amy swung the hammer around and knocked away the kick. While the hammer was still too far to swing with again, Amy lunged forward with a head-butt to knock Silica back a few steps, and then spun around with another swing. Silica activated her jets and flew straight up, however, she notice too late that behind her was another engine, and Amy smashed through it with one strike
"Come back down here!" Amy said, running towards a wall and using it to wall kick up after Silica. Silica flew back and got out of range, but then Amy surprised her by throwing her hammer like a boomerang. The hammer flew through the air and struck Silica, sending her towards the ground.
Both Silica and Amy landed at once, Amy landing on her feet and grabbing her hammer out of the air, while Silica landing headfirst and into another engine. Amy was quickly there once again and Silica could only barely get out of the way as another engine was smashed to bits.
'If I don't stop this maniac hedgehog, this ship isn't going to be up in the air much longer.' Silica thought. 'Somehow, the longer we fight, the stronger she becomes and the better her technique is. Her stamina is amazing too for an animal.'
Finally arriving with a plan, Silica quickly flew around an engine and came out behind Amy. Seeing Silica out of the corner of her eyes, Amy quickly spun around with her hammer, but Silica was too fast and quickly grabbed her around the waist and pulled her up into the air.
"How about the two of us go for a spin?" Silica said as she quickly moved to her fastest speed and started flying around the room in a circle.
"Put me down, I'm getting dizzy!" Amy yelled.
"Not until you feel this!" Silica said, finally reaching the desired speed she quickly turned and flew both Amy and herself straight into another engine.
The resulting explosion rocked the entire ship.