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Chapter 17: Meta Sonic

"I am NOT your copy!" I yelled at the idiot.

"Of course not, your some copy of some weak version of me from another world aren't you?" he called back. I was now able to get a good look at him, he basically looked like Metal Sonic's armoured form from Angel Island back when the Death Egg Crashed into it, except smaller.

I glared at him. He may have been robotosized, but his cocky attitude will never change. "Is that why Robotnik was able to capture you, and turn you into that monstrosity, while he beat my world's Robotnik at every turn?"

"Well your Robotnik and ours are very different; after all, yours calls himself "Eggman" of all things! How stupid is that?"

"Ether way he thinks he can take over the world just by having an army of robots, and that's just as dumb."

"Whys he winning then? Heh would love to stay and chat but I have work to do with these babies" he mocked holding up my Yellow Emerald. "Catch you later!" He stamped on a button and a trap door opened up below him. In a flash he was gone. I was about to go chase him when

"STREAK!" I heard a yell and turned to see the professor run in with everyone else, bar Jeremy and Ebon…

"What's the matter?" I asked "Where are the birds?"

"That doesn't matter now we found out what Project Doomsday is!"

"What is it? I asked, not caring as much about Ebon, so long as Jeremy was watching him

"It's a…"

"It's basically a giant battle ship armed with a Robotosizer Cannon big enough to robotosize our entire base at once!" Shade said quick and summarised.

That… was bad

"And all it needs now is the chaos emeralds to charge its engine." Added Espio

"Where are the Emeralds?" asked Gerald

"Meta Sonic just made off with them!" I replied

"Streak you have to go after him!" Gerald yelled. Not that he needed too, I was already making chase.

XOXOX

"Meta Sonic to Robotnik, over" said a running Meta Sonic

Report came the reply into his internal Radio

"I have the other six emeralds and I'm on my way"

And White Knight?

"He's gone, just as you predicted"

Good, time to give the word to our spy

"My sentiments exactly" chuckled Meta Sonic "Time to be rid of Gerald…"

XOXOX

It wasn't Long before I caught up to Sonic running down a tube which I assumed lead to the hanger of project doomsday.

"Over and out" he had just managed to say

"Guess that was your boss on the radio" I asked him. He seemed to have been expecting me, not surprising as he had been running slower than he could at maximum.

"Not that it matters to you, but yes, that was Robotnik"

"We could stop this now you know, after all you where made to be doing what I have been doing these past two years."

"Na, I'm having more fun where I am thanks"

"You do know that means I have to ether catch or destroy you"

"As if you can buddy. Your some faker from a faker dimension, I'm the original"

"What makes you so certain that about that?"

"Let me show you, CHAOS THUNDER!" he yelled, and I saw my own attack speed towards me. It was very hard to dodge.

Even though he was holding the emeralds, it was easy enough for me to use them myself from this distance away; I tapped into the yellow and countered "CHAOS THUNDER!" purple lightning made its way for him, and just like me he managed to dodge it, only just. "See, I think we are both just as real my friend" I said

"If you say so but this is where it will end"

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"This is Lord Robotnik, do you read" asked Robotnik into his radio on board the Doomsday

I read you

"You are good to go. I want my meddlesome grandfather out of the picture. I don't care if you are tailed, he can't stop you now"

You got it boss

"This will be the end, one way or the other; I just need five minutes to charge up the battleship Doomsday." He said after the radio cut out "good thing I have them all right here, thanks to the teleporter I put in one of the rooms below my throne room, Streak has no idea Meta Sonic's Yellow emerald is a fake." He laughed "Things are going JUST as planed"

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Nite had decided to try and look around for Ebon and Jeremy. He wasn't expecting to find what he found below the throne room. A teleporter. But why? Then it came to him. Meta Sonic came close to here when Gerald had interrupted Streak's pursuit. Could it be that? He checked the log, and just as he feared there was another location. On the doomsday ship. And there was a log of six items being transported there. Without haste he used it on himself to go to where they had been heading.

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This is getting ridicules, why are the fights I'm in usually HARD ones?

This was the thought that ran through my head. The only easy ones I personally had where against those GUN robots, the Eggcrusher, against any normal bot in this dimension and Gigacannon. Every time I zigged, he zagged, and every time he zigged, I zagged. I guess that's what happens when you fight something so close to yourself

"This seems to be a bit of a stalemate doesn't it?" I asked him

"Yes it does"

"How about one last attack each" I said; a plan was forming in my mind "The winner is the one left standing

"Alright"

I Smirked

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He got into his position, his gun ready to fire. Gerald wouldn't know what hit him. Now he just needed to make sure everyone was out of the way when he took his shot at Gerald. It was only a matter of time…

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I had finally done it; I had turned off Meta Sonic. I zapped him with a single Chaos Thunder that was just powerful enough to activate his off switch. He had used one with everything he had, but I dodged it in time. However things where bad. He had no other emeralds on him. Not only that, but I could tell by the fact that it didn't have its full colour and shine that this was not the true yellow emerald. It was a copy, just like Tails had made.

"Sh t" I cursed

Nite to Streak

"Yeah?"

That wasn't the real Yellow Emerald

"Yeah, Meta Sonic must of swapped it when we where back at the base, you know where the real ones are I assume?"

Yes, I'm in doomsday right now and looking at all seven of them

"Bring them back to the tower, we need to formulate a plan for taking out Doomsday when it launches, assuming it has enough power"

Oh it does alright, I just checked, I'm currently bringing them all back to a teleporter, but I'm pinned down

"Need assistance"

Nope he said before he groaned I should get them back in one piece

"What about you?"

The Radio was deadly silent.