Shadow and Cosmo started a conversation as Sonic narrowed his eyes at Metal Tails, who was scared. His animal mind was terrified of the consequences of this meeting but he just HAD to get a reason through to him... Somehow.
"I'm not going to ask you again." Sonic whispered but Metal Tails' adapted ears heard him loud and clear.
"I... Wasn't followed, no. Shadow used his special ability and got me here without Doctor Robotnick knowing..."
Sonic grinded his teeth together. Tails had been forced to call Eggman by the name the Doctor originally had - Not the one Sonic had made him laugh with...
"I'm not going to say this twice... Metal-"
"Sonic, please, I'm only trying to-"
"METAL... Get away from this place. Far, far away or I'll have no choice but to eliminate you."
Metal Tails flinched and felt his internals start to work on their own. He rose his gun-arm and it started to heat up. Right as it was about to fire, however, there was someone just next to Sonic who was looking at Tails with a condescending glare...
"Tails... I can't believe this has happened, and neither can Sonic, but you can't do this. Give it up-"
Tails froze in place. He was in front of two of the most important people in his LIFE so far. One, was the spirit of Cosmo - The love of his life during the Metarex crisis, then Sonic The Hedgehog. The person who believed in him from the very beginning... After being rescued...
It all started to fall apart in Tails' eyes and the Metal Fox began to cry. He sunk to his knees as he felt his emotions spill over. "Sonic... Cosmo... I.. I... I can't... I'm so sorry... Please... Please don't give up on me... I..."
Cosmo cleared her throat and was about to say something else when Sonic blinked and walked up to Metal Tails from his house. "Look, Tails, if I am going to have you back in our lives... I need to reverse what the Doctor's done to you. Shadow? Any ideas how?"
Shadow was next to Sonic and Cosmo appeared behind the pair as Shadow cleared his throat. "The Super Form. That's the only way you'll reverse it properly."
Sonic was left with a predicament here. Get the Chaos Emeralds off of Knuckles and turn Super to turn his best friend back to normal... Or risk killing Tails and Eggman in one go... He wouldn't want to kill Tails OBVIOUSLY but if it came down to it, he didn't know how his Super form would deal with this situation...
'I'm ready when you are.'
Sonic closed his eyes and saw his Golden form standing nearby. 'If I do this... and hand control over to you-' He looked in his minds eye to Super Sonic who was waiting for the chance to speak. '-Promise me you won't kill Tails. I can't do it otherwise.'
Super Sonic grinned and perhaps that was the scariest part of Super. He had a mind of his own, quite literally. 'Only if I get to turn that Doctor you call Eggman into a gooey mess.'
Sonic took in a deep breath. It was quite a decision he'd have to make...
Knuckles walked through the bushes and found Metal Tails on the floor looking up at Sonic, Sonic with a closed set of eyes, Shadow and Cosmo's spirit standing nearby. Knuckles saw Shadow nod at him, so he nodded back. "I've got the Emeralds, Sonic."
Sonic nodded his head mentally and then opened his eyes. There was a certain fire in those Green Emerald eyes of his, he was ready for this. He was ready to try and break Tails free of his metal constraints and bring about freedom for everyone on Mobius, Finally.
"Give them to me, Knuckles."
Shadow walked so he was inbetween Metal Tails and Knuckles, grasping each of the Seven Emeralds as he handed them to Sonic. "Remember Sonic, you can defeat the Doctor for good. We have Metal Tails to free." Cosmo whispered.
Sonic nodded his head as when the final emerald was collected, he felt his veins start to pump extremely violently. He looked at Metal Tails with a glitter of hope. "For your own good Tails, stay here until I come back and free you from your metal constraints..."
Metal Tails nodded his head and, amongst all odds, held onto Shadow's hand who got them out of the way of Sonic... Who looked like he had the most muderous gaze he had ever had on him in a VERY long time, since Dark Oak's days.
Sonic began to take steps forwards, his blood starting to boil and his quills starting to change. The power of his Super Form coming to light. Within moments there was a huge flash of light and Cosmo was no longer in a spiritual form, she was as physical as she could be. She blinked and grasped her hands, she gasped. She was REAL! SHE WAS REAL!
Cosmo instantly raced to Tails' side and hugged the metallic fox with all her might, not caring if she died again.
"Tails! Tails! Never give up! I'm here! Together, we'll get through this. I just know it!"
Metal Tails hugged Cosmo gently, trying not to hurt her. "I hope you're right Cosmo..."
Sonic cast one final look to the group and then turned his head and started to march forwards, his quills turning Gold as the Sun with traces of Red on the outer edge of the aura. He was angry...
VERY angry.
