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Chapter 16: White Knight
"And so here we are…" I said thoughtfully. It was a few days later
"Yes it seems so… time to take on the final tower, to return to Robotnik's tower, defeat him, White Knight and Meta Sonic." Gerald agreed.
"So how do we do this?" asked Shadow.
The hologram showed a blueprint of Robotnik's tower we had hacked from Meta Shadow's mainframe. "We get in here" said Gerald, pointing to the roof. "It has no guards, no cameras, and one security encoded air vent. With Espio and Shade's skills we should be able to hack it. Once inside. We will split into two teams. Team one will go after the computer room, looking for any sign of to what Project Doomsday is. Team two will go to the throne room, defeat White Knight, try to capture Meta Sonic unharmed and capture Robotnik… alive, or if necessary… dead."
"What will the teams be?" asked Amy
"Streak, Shadow, Amy, Jet, Nite, Nack, Kyu and Sayber will go after the head, being the strongest mostly" he replied "with myself, Shade, Espio, Bark, Jeremy, Sela and Ebon going after the computers being mostly hackers and a few fighters to protect us"
"WHAT?" I yelled "I am NOT letting you come on this mission, especially on the same team as the spy!"
"Streak, we have no solid proof that Ebon is the spy yet, and even if he is, I will be there to keep an eye on him. And I am coming on this mission. I started the resistance, its only fitting that I be there for the last battle."
I growled in frustration. Insane or not, Gerald was the same at this point in both realities, stubborn.
"Fine, but I want Espio to watch him as well" I countered "With special watch, got me?"
Espio nodded.
"So is there a virus for this tower, just like the others?" asked Shade
"Yes" replied Gerald "heavily modified to turn off all the remaining robots by setting off one of Robotnik's EMP bombs, that should put all the robotosized people into a sleep mode, without killing them It should also turn off the trooper, heavy and elite bots, however it wont affect White Knight, and probably not Meta Sonic, Robotnik probably modified Sonic to withstand one."
"…Well ether way, today it ends." Shadow said finally
"We can finally say goodbye to Robotnik" said Espio "one way, or the other"
"We aren't going to do that all for one and one for all thing are we?" I asked
Everyone one laughed, which was good, considering what lay ahead
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The Sky was as dark as it was that day around two years ago, when I first infiltrated the base. This time however, we where more careful, the plans showed all the places the cameras should be. Assuming he didn't change any, or install any new ones we would be fine, at least, so long as the spy didn't attempt anything. We where nearly at the top, thankfully. The flyers could carry anyone without speed ability, where as the rest of us could run up the wall, and there where ledges every so often for those of us that got tired. I didn't get tired myself; I was too busy thinking about the task at hand.
White Knight…
Of course I had heard about him, but from those stories he was nothing like the other elite. He was entirely loyal to Robotnik as a knight would be his king. Problem with that was, he was too willing to let resistance members live, and to give them "honourable" combat. This meant that Robotnik never let him have his own tower, so that Robotnik could keep an eye on him, that and White Knight was meant to be so skilled, that he was at his best while guarding his master.
Then there's Sonic…
He was going to be the big match up. My world's Sonic had beaten me, and he wasn't robotosized. The robotosized Biolizard was much stronger than the normal one, and now I had to face a robotosized Sonic…. Of course the one from my world only won because he was backed up by his friends and those he wished to protect cheering him on, I know that now that I had friends of my own.
Friends of my own…
I thought the concept over, and chuckled. What would my Sonic think if he knew his dark side had friends? That he was fighting to save a world? He would probably think he had drunk to much or something. But all in all, the main thing I thought about there was, maybe I could beat this Meta Sonic… seeing as how I have something to fight for myself. My own friends. Shadow, Nite, Espio …Shade, even Amy! And especially…
…Master Gerald
"I'm at the top" I heard Espio say ahead of me. Soon after that the rest of us joined him.
The professor began to hack the air vent as I went over battle tactics with the others.
"Basically, I want to try and fight this White Knight myself," I began, Amy looked set to interrupt, but I talked to fast to let her "I expect there to be a fleet of robots there as well, that's what I want you guys to focus on, I don't want them to be attacking me while I fight him"
"Why do you want to fight him myself" asked Shade
I smirked "The champions of both Robotniks fighting each other of course. Don't worry. I'll be ok"
So long as no one gets in my way
Wishful thinking, but it just felt right for me to take on White Knight in my eyes.
Shadow, Nite and Espio just nodded, remembering when I allowed them to fight each of their rivals without interference. Amy looked annoyed, and Shade looked worried. The others just went along with it, they where just following orders after all.
"It's open" Gerald finally said.
"Ok, this is where we split up" said Shadow
Looked to Gerald's team "Good luck you guys." I then gave Ebon a careful glance, as if to say 'try anything and your dead'. He just shrugged in reply
"You guys too" Gerald agree.
From there, each of us went into the air vent, and split paths at the first junction.
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"This is White Knight Mi'Lord" he was in a control room, there where two holograms, on one was Robotnik's image, and the other held a digital map of the compound with a red flashing blip.
Report
"The spy is in the building. He is in position to strike on your command"
Not yet, I have a schedule and I intend to keep it.
"How is the building of your Doomsday project going if I may be so bold as to ask Mi'Lord?"
All we need now is the emeralds to charge the battery; you are to keep Streak and his friends busy, so that Meta Sonic may… acquire them for me.
"Yes Mi'Lord, for the glory of your Empire!"
Indeed he said as the holograms faded. White Knight left the room, ready to intercept the other group of "Guests"
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We had just passed the surveillance room where the Meta-Biolizard had appeared last time I was here. There was an opening to a corridor on the upper tier. The corridor was gloomy, gothic like. It looked to be made of a dark coloured, almost black, stone, with a red carpet in the centre of it. Pillars marked the end of a tenth of the hallway, with lit torches in between each.
"Gees, think Robotnik sees himself as a king or something?" I asked
"It does seem a little extreme" Shadow agreed
"What is this? A hi tech tower or a medieval castle?" added Amy
At the end of the corridor was a large… and I do mean LARGE, red door. Nite and I pushed open one door, while Shadow and Jet opened the other.
Inside was a similarly made room, though instead it looked much more like a throne room, as a small alcove at the back, with Robotnik's throne in the middle of it, red curtains hung over it. And there, standing in the middle, Was White Knight. It looked similar to the previous elite (except of course for Meta Shadow), white and black, though more bulky looking than Dark Lance, taller than Berserker Blade, and looked much more like the knight of some royal. It only had one hand though; the other looked like some kind of energy weapon. It was surrounded by a few squads of Elite, Trooper and heavy bots.
"So you're finally here." It said. Its voice was a lot different. It sounded like Robotniks, but with the accent of some ancient knight. Not only that, but the conceited tone usually found in Robotnik, his elites and even of my worlds Eggman, was no where to be found. The tone White Knight had sounded more like he had respect for us; I could already tell where he got his reputation.
"Indeed we are" I said with similar respect. I felt it only right to give out what I received.
"I assume I am to make battle with you Streak." It, no, He said taking a step forward
"You assume correctly."
"I know these robots are not going to be a challenge for your friends, but they should keep them entertained while we have our combat"
"How generous of you"
"Well I would not want them to get bored."
"Considering what I have heard of you, I don't think they would, it should be an entertaining match"
"I would agree. I saw what you had done to Gigacannon"
I smiled "I expect your entire army had"
"Indeed"
"So shall we get started then?" I said, taking a bow
"Lets" he said, bowing himself,
Then the fight began.
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"Come on, I want to see how Streak and the others are getting on" said Bark impatiently
Shade was getting similarly impatient, but she, the professor and Espio where doing there best, this was one hard system to crack. Espio had placed it on Jeremy, Sela and Bark to watch Ebon while he was busy hacking, that way Streak would be happy. The problem they had just now was that despite the hacking skills of all three, they had been on the system for ten minutes and only found the blueprints for old style Heavy and Trooper bots. As in real old style, first ones to be in production compared to the Mk Vs that existed today.
"How much longer" Sela asked
"We will be done when we are done" said Shade. "You try it ad see how well you do"
"Uh, no thanks, computers make my head hurt"
"Well then shut up and let us get on with…" Espio started
"I FOUND IT" Yelled Gerald jumping up, giving everyone a fright. After a moment of having his arm in the air he sat down "oh dear… oh dear… oh…DEAR" he repeated as he slowly read some of the schematics.
"What? What is it?" Espio said, he went to look at it and his jaw dropped. The rest of them went to see what was found, Except Jeremy and Ebon...
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I have to give it to Robotnik. When he wants to build them tough he REALLY builds them tough. The Battle against White Knight was really intense. The handless arm was in fact a light sabre like thingy, and on his other arm was a sort of barrier projector, basically making him wield a sword and shield made of laser. And of course, he also had the Magenta emerald as his power source, meaning he was able to use chaos control also, along with his own unique chaos skills.
Case in point
He raised his arm and a purple energy ball formed above him "Chaos Diligence!" he threw the ball at me, I managed to dodge in time for the ball, made acid like chaos, vaporise a few robots that where trying to pile in to attack Shadow.
"Not bad, but try this CHAOS THUNDER!" the electric attack was similarly dodged and hit a few of the robots Nite was taking on
"Not to bad yourself" he said as he turned his sword back on, he tried to first swipe at me from left to right and then a thrust which pushed him a good few feet in towards me, I dodged it by an inch, and he cut my face with his sword, right under my eye.
"Ugh" I said as I jumped back, nursing the wound "shame Robotnik made you undyingly loyal to him, you would be good to have as an ally."
"Shame you didn't take him up on his offer of robotisation, for I can say the same about you."
I admit it; I was having fun, despite being in a life threatening battle.
"Well I'm afraid that I don't look good in metal" I said as I used a Shadow Thunder in his direction. He jumped as he saw me coming.
"Well at least I can have this battle with you, I have not had much to do as Mi'Lord's bodyguard since he robotosized the Biolizard and Sonic" he mused "and considering battle is what I was made for, I have been bored. I needed a challenging fight to the death with a worthy opponent"
"Nice to know I'm wanted" I said, sending a chaos Thunder his way, the attack was mostly dodged except for the blackened dent in the white hilt of his sword wrist.
"I complement you on making use of my lack of concentration, but now I'm afraid its time to end this"
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Espio was worried; the blueprints showed the doomsday project was all but finished, only that it needed power now. On the other hand he had no clue what the rest of it said.
"Professor, just how much trouble are we in?" he asked as he looked at the ship in the diagram. By scale it was much MUCH larger than Robotniks tower. It looked as if it had at least ten of the mass laser batteries, but the other weapons didn't make sense. It looked like a big sceptre, the top of which was adorned by a large jewel. The only thing that made it seem larger than a sceptre was the scale, and the fact that the top of it seemed to have a bridge and that the back of it seemed to have a large main thruster.
"Big trouble" replied the professor. "See the jewel? From the look of the prints that is massive robotosizer cannon"
Espio almost had a heart attack "a robotosizer cannon?"
"Yes, big enough to robotosize anything within the blast radius"
"What kind of size we talking about here?" asked Shade
"It would robotosize an entire territory." Gerald calculated "and considering the fact there are only five territories…"
"He would only need to shoot it a maximum of five times!" Espio said in fear
"That's not all, this project doomsday has further defences, of course there are the mass laser batteries, but also dispensers for a new type of robot, a high speed flight kamikaze robot, missile launchers, and the cannon itself is defended by shield generators. Four of them, one on each side."
"This thing is a monster" Bark Exclaimed "How do we defeat something like that?"
"There is a way, but we need to make sure Streak, Shadow or Nite get all the chaos emeralds"
"What would that accomplish?"
"I have a feeling Streak will know, but for now I would rather keep it to myself"
"Professor, print that out, I am about to upload the virus." Shade instructed. The professor nodded, and as a copy came out, a timer came up on Shade's screen saying "60:00:00" and began counting down.
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Things where getting interesting. White Knight had a similar thing made into his arm as Dark Lance did, i.e. a cannon which could fire the elemental power of what ever emerald was loaded into him. This case being he had a…
"VENOM CANNON FIRE!"
A smaller, but faster ball of acid launched from his sword hilt and headed straight for me. By this time, all the other robots where destroyed, and so the others where watching and cheering me on.
All it seemed, except Amy. I don't know where she went, but wherever it was I couldn't see her. Not that I had paid much attention to that fact, I was busy with White Knight.
I should have paid attention though
BANG
The shot rang out and hit white Knight in the visor. In other words, his CPU. The robot fell to the floor, power draining as he said "Whhhy………?" which was exactly the question on my mind
Why? WHO DID THAT!
Amy dropped down from her snipping point as everyone stood there stunned. She went over to the robot ad picked the Magenta Chaos Emerald out of it.
"You? YOU DID THAT?" I yelled at her
"Yeah. Ain't you gonna thank me for saving your butt" she asked. Everyone else knew just what my reaction would be. I was about to strangle her, if Shadow and Jet hadn't grabbed me.
"YOU LITTLE B TCH! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO INTERFERE?" I screamed
"WHAT? I just saved your hide and that's the THANKS I GET? So much for trying to repay you for saving me from Berserker Blade!"
Nite was walking up to her while we where talking. He slapped her in the face. I stopped struggling as I saw this. What Nite said next was enough.
"Idiot"
Amy just stood there, a shocked expression on her face as she rubbed the slap mark on her face. Nite took the emerald from her and placed it with the others.
We all stepped down from battle positions as we calmed down. Another mistake.
A blue blur shot past me, and I then noticed the Yellow Chaos Emerald was gone. I looked round to see the other ultimates with similar expressions on their faces
"Heh heh" came a familiar Laugh. I looked up to the alcove.
Standing there, in the poorly lit room was a blue metallic shadow. We all knew who it was…
"So you're my copy are you?" asked Meta Sonic
