Shadow stood there looking at King Dedede who picked up the hammer.
"First we find out about nightmare enterprises now this? What is Popstar coming to?" Tuff asked.
"You made a grave mistake getting in my way, whatever you are, now feel the wrath of my hammer," King Dedede said before trying to strike Shadow, but he grabs the hammer as it gets close to touching him.
"What?" Escargoon asked himself shocked by what he just saw, Shadow not only grabbed the hammer during mid attack, but didn't even flinch. King Dedede pulls his hammer back and throws several quick whacks that Shadow blocks without moving an inch. He then kicks him across the face casing him to stumble backwards. Enraged by this, King Dedede rushed at Shadow and shot an energy beam out of his hammer at him, but he whacked it out of the way causing it to hit a wall. The beam exploded the wall on impact leaving a massive hole in it. King Dedede charged at Shadow again, but he yanked the hammer out of his hands and whacked him across the face with it, knocking him out cold. He then falls to his knees out of breath. Kirby, Tiff, Tuff and Meta Knight rushed over to the hedgehog.
"You okay?" Tiff asked.
"I'll live," Shadow pointed out taking a minute or so to catch his breath, but eventually falls over after a minute. Back on Sonic's planet, Tails was still asleep, but he could hear Sonic talking to someone.
"I know Tails is gonna be happy to see you once he wakes up," Sonic said, confusing Tails who was slowly starting to wake up.
"I'm looking forward to seeing him myself, but there's a reason why I'm here, Sonic," the female voice said.
"And why's that?" Sonic asked.
"The Metarex may have been defeated but there's something else out there just as bad, something that..." The female voice said before she noticed that Tails was waking up. He looked to see a female alien plant girl, with green hair, had red bloomed roses on her head. Wore a green dress with a leafy skirt that had white peddles with green on the edges and wore green shoe. Her name was Cosmo.
"Cosmo?" Tails asked unsure if he was dreaming.
"Good to see you, Tails," Cosmo said happy to see Tails. Out of nowhere he grabs the plant girl into a big hug and starts crying.
"Take it easy, little bro," Sonic said patting Tails on the back helping him calm down.
"Guess you weren't kidding, Sonic," Cosmo pointed out as she hugged Tails back.
"I thought for sure you were gone," Tails said happy that Cosmo was back.
"I was never gone in the first place, Tails. You know that plant you held on to?" Cosmo asked.
"What about it?" Tails asked.
"Well you see, it grew over time and eventually I was able to come back once it grew big enough," Cosmo explained, "but there's also another reason why I'm back."
Tails looked at Cosmo unsure about what she meant.
"What do you mean, Cosmo?" Tails asked before letting go of Cosmo.
"Well you see, before the Metarex arrived, my people were at war with a foe that was quite the challenge. They remained unknown to you and your planet, but now that the Metarex are gone, they are back with one goal, total galactic domination. I was sent here by my mother to not only warn you, but help you as well," Cosmo explained.
"How tough are we talking?" Sonic asked.
"Not as tough as the Metarex, but they were quite the foe for my people. The only issue is they just recently found one of the chaos emeralds that we accidentally left in space, if they get their hands on all of them, they'll be able to achieve their goal. I need your help stopping them," Cosmo explained.
"Tails, when's the soonest you can get the blue typhoon ready?" Sonic asked.
"Well it will take some time, it needs some major repairs after the final battle with the Metarex," Tails explained.
"How much time will it take?" Cosmo asked.
"Up to a week depending on how much help I can get," Tails pointed out.
"That shouldn't be a problem. Let's see what we can do," Sonic said before the three head to Tails' hanger. Back in Meta Knight's ship Shadow was seen in a bed still knocked out cold with Sword Knight standing guard. He then wakes up all groggy from extreme exhaustion, all he could see was Sword Knight standing guard and was barely able to move. Luckily he eventually regained cautiousness and got up.
"Oh hi, didn't think you would wake up yet," Sword Knight said greeting the black hedgehog.
"Where am I?" Shadow asked.
"Your on board a ship of my master's called the Halberd and are en route to where the chaos emerald came from," Sword Knight answered.
"How long till we get there?" Shadow asked.
"We should arrive soon. You've been out for a full day, so you should take it easy," Sword Knight suggested before Shadow gets up and exits the room, "Okay then."
In the bridge, Meta Knight was seen overlooking how their route to their destination was going.
"With the power of the emerald assisting, we should arrive soon," Blade Knight said doing estimations.
"Good, stay on course and inform me on any changes," Meta Knight ordered before leaving the bridge only to bump into Shadow.
"I'm surprised your awake," Meta Knight pointed out.
"Well I am the ultimate life form after all," Shadow pointed out.
"Where did you exactly come from?" Meta Knight asked.
"It's a long story," Shadow answered.
"Hmm, you make it sound like you ended up here by mistake," Meta Knight said.
"Let's just say I didn't have time to think," Shadow pointed out before walking away. Meta Knight then arrives at a holding cell where King Dedede and Escargoon were seen sitting when they see him walk in.
"You really think locking us up like this is really necessary?" Escargoon asked.
"Well that's what you get for tampering with things you don't know about," Meta Knight said.
"Well I had it handled just fine until that Shadow... whatchamacallit came along and ruined it," King Dedede said before Meta Knight pointed his sword at him threateningly.
"At least he seemed to know how to handle that power and now with nightmare enterprises gone, you've got nothing," Meta Knight pointed out.
"Well what am I supposed to do then?" King Dedede asked.
"Change your ways and then we'll talk," Meta Knight said before putting his sword away and exits the room. Back on the bridge where Shadow was explaining how he got on their planet in the first place.
"Well the Metarex we already have a slight understanding of, but what we don't know is how are you still alive after that chaos... whatever it was," Tuff said.
"It's called a chaos control and I don't have the slightest idea of how I'm alive either," Shadow said.
"Tell us, Shadow, where are you exactly from?" Tiff asked.
"I'm not sure actually, I was made, not born" Shadow answered.
"So your some kind of weapon?" Blade Knight asked.
"I don't consider myself that at all," Shadow said before Kirby let out at curious squeak getting his attention.
"Sha-do," Kirby said attempting to say Shadow.
"Hmm, you're an interesting creature," Shadow pointed out.
"His name is Kirby, he can't really talk like the rest of us," Tiff pointed out.
"He seemed to say my name just fine," Shadow said before Meta Knight enters the bridge.
"Is he gonna cooperate?" Tiff asked.
"Not yet unfortunately, so I'm gonna keep him in there until we return the emerald," Meta Knight answered.
"What's this guy's deal anyway?" Shadow asked.
"Before we wiped out a company he was getting help from, he was quite the trouble maker," Tiff answered.
"He'd usually summons monsters to fight Kirby here. From an evil tyrant by the name of Nightmare," Meta Knight explained.
"Hmm, evil tyrants are familiar territory for me," Shadow pointed out.
"You know Nightmare?" Sword Knight asked.
"No, but I have dealt with tyrants before, two of them the be precise. One being a crazy scientist by the name of Dr. Eggman," Shadow answered as Blade Knight enters the bridge.
"Never heard of him," Meta Knight pointed out.
"No surprise there," Shadow said.
"Who's the other one," Tuff asked.
"The Metarex leader, he called himself Dark Oak," Shadow answered.
"Tell me more about this Dr. Eggman, what was he like?" Meta Knight asked.
"Not the nicest guy out there. As I said before he's crazy," Shadow explained.
"Sounds like trouble, is he after the Chaos Emeralds as well?" Meta Knight asked.
"He has been for longer then I've been around," Shadow answered.
"And will he be on the planet we're going to?" Sword Knight asked.
"He will be. You need have your ship ready," Shadow pointed out before a planet is seen in the distance.
"There's our destination, we should arrive in about an hour," Meta Knight said. Back on the planet in Dr. Eggman's base Decoe was watching a small blip on screen approaching the planet.
"Dr. Eggman, you might want to see this," Decoe said before Dr. Eggman walks over to the screen and sees the blip as well.
"What could this be? Surely it isn't the Metarex. Let me see something," Dr. Eggman said before he exits the main control room and enters a room with a rather large telescope. He looks into it and sees the Halberd, "what is that?"
Dr. Eggman had never seen a ship like it before but he immediately assumed it was a threat and ran back to the main control room.
"What is it, sir?" Bocoe asked.
"It could be a UFO of some sort, but it doesn't matter, once I blow it out of the sky we'll salvage the technology and Sonic won't stand a chance," Dr. Eggman answered readying several cannons that were made with Metarex technology.
"What are those cannons, sir?" Bokkun asked.
"They're made with Metarex technology, they're able to take down ships the size of Tails' blue typhoon," Dr. Eggman pointed out as he readied the canons, "all I have to do is press this button and what's left of that ship will be ours."
Back on the ship everyone including Shadow was preparing for landing when a red light starts flashing on the dashboard.
"Uhh Shadow, how crazy did you say this Eggman guy was?" Blade Knight asked.
"I didn't specify how crazy he was," Shadow answered.
"Well is he crazy enough to shoot us out of orbit?" Blade Knight asked.
"Well at one point he was crazy enough to blow up half a planet's moon so... wait what?" Shadow asked before a laser beam comes from the planet and hits the ship in the side.
"We've been hit!" Meta Knight pointed out as they hurdle towards the planet at massive speed. Back on the planet, Dr. Eggman giggles evilly as he watches the Halberd. Meanwhile in the blue typhoon's hanger, Tails was seen on the landing pad as it was open working on a new power canon while Sonic was seen working on the engines step by step as his little brother instructed.
"Hey Tails, what are you gonna use as a power source now that the master emerald is exhausted?" Sonic asked causing Tails to stop working.
"You know I never thought of that till just now," Tails said before spinning his tails which caused him to fly over to Sonic.
"Well then we need to find an alternate power source," Sonic pointed out.
"But where are we gonna find a power source that powerful?" Tails asked before he hears a loud humming noise.
"You might wanna get outside," Cosmo said running in. A couple of seconds later they run out to see the Halberd falling towards the planet.
"Those the enemies of yours?" Sonic asked.
"No, this isn't even one of their ships," Cosmo answered as the ship passed over them.
"We need to get to that ship before Eggman does," Tails said before they all rush towards the ship to see what it was. Later at the crash site Meta Knight was flying over the ship looking for any signs of civilization before flying down to join his team, Kirby, Tiff, Tuff and Shadow.
"Shadow, where do you say Eggman's base is?" Meta Knight asked.
"I don't know. I've never been on this planet before," Shadow pointed out.
"Well just our luck," Tuff said.
"I regret to inform everyone that King Dedede and Escargoon got blasted out of their cell," Sword Knight said.
"If you ask me we're better off without them," Meta Knight pointed out, they then hear movement causing him to pull out his sword and looks around. Kirby let's out a curious moan.
"I'll see if the turrets are working," Blade Knight said before running back into the ship.
"Make it quick," Meta Knight demanded as he looked around for any signs of danger.
"You want us to do anything, Meta Knight?" Tiff asked.
"Not at the moment, just sit tight," Meta Knight answered unaware that Sonic was watching them.
"Ever seen aliens with just feet and no legs, Tails?" Sonic asked quietly.
"Can't say I have," Tails answered.
"Never thought aliens like this even existed, then again the enemy we're about to face..." Cosmo said before stopping when he sees one of the ship's cannons aiming right at them, "we better move."
The three see that the cannon was aiming right at them so they move before the cannon fires at them getting the groups attention.
"Who's there?" Meta Knight asked before out of nowhere, Sonic rolls into a ball and rams into him. This attack was called a spin dash. Sword Knight looks and tries to stab the blue hedgehog while he had his guard down, but gets attacked by Tails who was right behind him.
"Kirby," Tiff said before Kirby rushed over and started to use his suck ability to try and devour Sonic. He runs as fast as he could making it look like he was running in place. Tails was shocked by what Kirby was capable of and immediately bumped into him to stop him from devouring his big brother, but gets grabbed by Sword Knight.
"One false move and its over for you," Sword Knight pointed out keeping Tails in position as Sonic noticed that he was in trouble.
"Tails!" Sonic shouted.
"Don't move or it's over for your friend," Sword Knight said.
"That's enough, all of you!" Cosmo shouted almost immediately stopping the fight.
"Who is that?" Tuff asked as Cosmo walked past him and Tiff. Blade Knight walks out of the ship to assist Meta Knight. But Meta Knight signals him to step down.
"I've heard of you star warriors before when I was dead, but didn't think you were real," Cosmo said confusing Kirby's group.
"You know about us?" Meta Knight asked.
"Yes, and right now we don't need to be fighting, not with the galaxy about to be brought into chaos once again," Cosmo explained.
"What do you mean by that?" Blade Knight asked.
"Stand down and I'll tell you all about what's going on," Cosmo said before everyone backs down. Meanwhile, King Dedede and Escargoon were seen navigating their way through the forest.
"Where are we?" Escargoon asked.
"On an alien planet obviously, now where on this planet I don't know," King Dedede said.
"Well we're lucky to have survive that explosion," Escargoon pointed out as they continue through the forest when they are suddenly ambushed by several robots.
"Don't move an inch," King Dedede said before Dr. Eggman walked up and examined him and Escargoon.
"Never seen aliens like you before. I must say that you sure do look interesting," Dr. Eggman said.
"And I've never seen a creature with long feet," Escargoon said pointing to Dr. Eggman's legs.
"They're called legs, but I see that you are a race that don't have any," Dr. Eggman pointed out.
"And is that supposed to mean something?" King Dedede asked.
"Not at all my beaked friend," Dr. Eggman answered.
"What?!" King Dedede asked as he lunged forward at Dr. Eggman only to get stopped by his robots.
"I think it was meant to be a complement, your majesty," Escargoon pointed out.
"What do you want with us?" King Dedede asked.
"You see we had one alien invasion already, you are considered the second alien race to visit," Dr. Eggman pointed out.
"That doesn't explain why you're interested in us," Escargoon pointed out.
"You see I'm having problems with a blue creature by the name of Sonic, and lately I've been able to thwart his plans stop me from ruling this planet thanks to the alien tech I was able to salvage. But now that has changed thanks to one of the chaos emeralds landing on this planet," Dr. Eggman explained.
"Go on," King Dedede said.
"You see I shot down that ship you were on to see if you were more advanced than they were, but Sonic beat me to it leaving me with nothing," Dr. Eggman continued.
"Where are you getting at with this," Escargoon asked.
"You help me with stopping Sonic. I see if I can make you a ship that'll get you off the planet. Do we have a deal?" Dr. Eggman asked holding his arm out. King Dedede thinks for a second then shakes his hand.
"Mister. You've got yourself a deal, as long as I get a chaos emerald in the end," King Dedede said.
"I'll see what I can do, but I can't make promises," Dr. Eggman said with an evil grin.
