Important – I wrote this with Demino. We don't own Digimon or Sonic
The next day the Digi-destined gathered in a large field, the group was waiting when four beam of light came to them. The beam stopped to show the sovereigns. "Thank you for freeing the others," Azulongmon said, "For that we will lead you some of our power until the new evil is gone."
The four holy digimon started to glow sending wave of energy to the digi-destined. Soon the light faded, Rouge look at her self for a bit before saying, "I don't feel difference."
"Well you are, you'll just have to wait and find out what it is." Veemon added in as he cast her a tired look, one hand rubbing the back of his head. "So, what do we do today, hunt down another robot or take out another factory?"
Off to the side, Tai sighed as he looked over at Sonic. "Got any idea what we should do, you guys are the experts on Eggman after all."
Flicking his ear to chase off a fly, Sonic looked over at Tai with a lazy stare. "Well, most of the time we just hunt him down, trash his latest plan and them clean up what we didn't trash while hunting him."
Moving his focus to the sky, Sonic grinned a bit as he rubbed a finger under his nose in a thoughtful way. "Well, we also spend some time every now and then collecting chaos emeralds, to keep Eggman from getting his hands on them."
"Chaos Emeralds?" Tai muttered out as he blinked his eyes. "What are those things?"
"No one knows for sure," Sonic said, "Eggman use them for their unlimited power."
"What can Eggman do with them?" Mimi asked.
"Eggman almost destroyed our world with them," Amy said, "A few times."
"We need to get them," Matt said. The group nodded leaving.
"How are we going to find them?" Cream asked.
"I could work on one of my program to pick up abnormal energy in the Digi-World," Izzy said, "I may take a while. There are many energy single in the digi-World."
"TK, Do you know where spear parts are?" Tails asked, "I want to build a plane."
"Later," Rouge said, "I have my eye on a large Green Emerald."
"And its protector," Sora said.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Rouge yelled as the two partners left.
"Hey Sonic," Amy said running up to Sonic, "You want to do something while we wait."
Just staring at Amy, Sonic rubbed one hand through his quills as he thought about it. "Look, we can hang out, if you promise not to be too much of a bother." Looking over at Tai, Sonic gave a small grin at him. "Hey, you up to running a few laps around the city, or if you rather want, the digital world?"
"Um, we really shouldn't go there Sonic." Amy replied before Tai could, a lightly hesitant look on her face as she looked over at the others remaining. "We need to find the chaos emeralds, and Eggman's running nuts in the digital world you know."
Grinning rather insanely, Sonic rubbed his hands in front of him as he thought of getting to trash a few Eggman robots after having been forced to sit out all the other fights. "Hey, if they show up, I'll trash them, no robot has gotten me down completely yet."
"And Metal-Lillymon didn't?" Tai muttered out as he too was thinking of doing a little running around, his mind screaming out for the feel of air rushing past him at super sonic speeds as well. "Still, if we were to stay in one of the areas where Eggman isn't, we should be safe."
"I like the way you think." Sonic added as he grabbed Tai's digivice and held it out in front of him in a testing way. "Say, how do you work this thing anyway?"
"I'll work it," Tai said grab his digivice.
"You promise to spend time with me," Amy said with a pout.
Sonic look at Amy eyes watering. "Even if the brain head come back before me, I promise I'll spend sometime with you." Amy nodded as Sonic follow Tai into the Digi-World.
After a short run, Sonic and Tai stop in a forest. "Well, well," a voice came from above them. They both look up to see a creator with four limes each with a hand and cover with many color feathers. It body was stick like. A white mask covered its face. "A human and pet," it said climbing from the tree. "Two bodies, two minds, two souls but only one pain." Hearing those words, Sonic digivolve to Rapiermon. It moved close to Tai. "Steel bone crush," it stood on it back hand and rush at Tai.
"Rapiermon digivolve to Super Sonicmon," Sonic yelled. The glowing Sonic pushed Tai out of the way. Sonic look at the strange ultimate both got ready for the fight.
Smirking, the digimon cast a look at both Sonic and Tai and chuckled darkly. "Rare to find two such as you, Vulpmon lucky indeed to find you, you two not so lucky it seems."
"Yeah, here's some luck for you, Sonic Wind!" Letting lose the chaos-powered attack, Sonic grinned as Vulpmon was sent flying backwards a bit, dirt flying as the digimon slowed itself down to a halt. "See, I'm not such an easy target after all."
Replying by tilting his head, Vulpmon's mask began to glow with a dim pink glow that drew in Sonic's eyes slowly. "Trance Mask Dance!" Shooting off as soon as he called out the attack, Vulpmon hammered a fist and foot into Sonic's body. "Vulpmon will not lose to you."
Spitting out some dirt, Sonic pushed himself up and gathered up more power into his body. "We'll see about that, cause I won't lose to anyone again!" Rolling up into a ball, Sonic began to spin around gathering up more power with each passing second. "Light Speed Dash!"
Vulpmon crossed his arm to block the attack. The digimon was forced into a tree. "Rare indeed," Vulpmon said as he jumped onto a branch. "Here." It threw a gem at Sonic. "I'll watch you two." It hopped off into the shadow.
"That was strange," Tai, said, "What did he give you?"
"A small sapphire," Sonic said as he return to a blue color, "Let's get it back to the others."
Back to the group Sonic show the group his new Emerald. "This could help us find the others," Izzy said, "We have them. Not good. I'm picking up many of Eggman control towers near them."
"He's looking too," Sonic, said, "We need to win this race."
"And we will." Shadow added in as he glared over at Sonic. "And try to stay out of danger this time Faker, I don't feel like wasting more time saving your behind."
Getting a rather annoyed expression on his face, Sonic turned to face Shadow. "And how have you been a great help so far, with your loner attitude and we are just bugs compared to you."
"Nice to see that you admit it Faker." Shadow countered again as he pushed off the wall he had been leaning on. "After all, no one can compare to the ultimate life form here."
Sonic raise his fist to punch Shadow but before he could Matt slammed his fist into the blue hedgehog. "Why did you do that?" Tai yelled walking up to Matt.
"If you can't keep your beast under control then I will," Matt said.
"Sonic was just going to hit the black ego," Tai yelled ignoring the pain in the side of his head.
"If we always hit someone with an ego then you'll be hit every day," Matt said.
"Stop this," Kari said, "You both agree that we need to get the chaos emerald before Eggman then."
"Your right," Matt said. He turned to Tai. "If you get in the way we won't stop." Tai walk closer but Izzy and Joe grab him.
"Mimi, why don't you take Tai to search," Sora said. Mimi nodded and the two drag them away.
In the digital world, Eggman kept staring at the screens before him as he gave a deep humming sound ot himself, one hand punching up a set of commands. "Okay, based on the energy readings of this planet, I have found the seven most likely locations of the chaos emeralds."
Turning his chair around, Eggman cast a dark look at his metallic digimon copies, almost all of them having faced the digit destined in battle before. "I am giving each of you a location to search, and I expect you to find those emeralds to me, is that understood."
Watching as the robots saluted him; Eggman tapped a finger on the chairs armrest. "And yes, when you face those brats and the furries again, I won't accept any retreats from battle, you either destroy them, or get destroyed yourself."
"Now go, except for you two Metal-Wargreymon and Mecha-Garururmon, I have a special plan in mind for you two." Turning around to face the other end of the room, Eggman smirked as Metal-Sonic stepped out into the light. "Metal, I'll leave the final location and emerald up to you, don't fail me."
Meanwhile Matt was walking in a forest. Behind him were TK and an angry Tails. Matt still agree with Shadow telling Tails he would be better if he stop being friend with Sonic. As they walk, Metal-Lillymon came up to them. "Good," Shadow said, "I was looking for a fight."
TK watch Shadow run into battle. While watch the fight, TK asked, "Should we help?"
"No," Tails said, "Why should I help…" TK look down at his partner to see Tails look at him with red eyes. Before TK could make a sound Tails jump on him. With one blow, Tails knock TK out.
Meanwhile Matt was too busy watching Shadow lose a fight.
"Hah!" Rushing in, Super-Amy slammed her trusted piko piko hammer right into the side of Metal-Lillymon, sending the robot crashing into a nearby rock. "Ha, that was for what you did to Sonic you robot monster!" Glowing brightly, Amy grinned as she felt her power grow. "And this tine, you won't be able to run away before I stomp on you, smash you and turn you into so much scrap metal."
Off to the side, Mimi blinked as the rather friendly pink hedgehog she had become partners with started trash talking even more then some of the evil digimons she had met in the past.
Next to her, Matt slammed a hand onto his head at the same as Shadow did, both of them muttering out the same thing. "I can't believe that Pinky did more damage to her then we did."
"Amy," Mimi cried, "Stop, please."
"Why," Shadow asked, "She has the power to win this fight why stop her now?"
"Because it's not just about power," Mimi said. Mimi watched the rage filled Amy continues to fight. Then she just ran up to Amy and grabs her in a hug.
"After what she did to Sonic, why should I stop?" Amy asked.
"Because revenge is worthless," Mimi said as tears fell from her eyes, "Think all that she could hurt if she not stopped. Image what happen to Sonic happening to others. That's why we're fighting not for what she did to Sonic or Tai but what she could do to countless others. We need to stop her from hurting others."
"Fighting for others is always a waste of time," Metal-Lillymon said, "They won't know or worst care about what you did for them."
"So," Amy said, "I know and I care." Just then Mimi and Amy started to glow. "Super Amymon digivolve to…" Amy body grew large as three pair feather wings grew from her back. She became more human as her pink quills became hair. Amy spread her wings as her white dress with gold trim glowed. She turned to Metal-Lillymon and ready herself for the fight.
Growling, Shadow watched as Amy began to fight the metallic digimon, his mouth turning into a thin line as he clenched up his hands. A deep anger filling him with each second as he thought of how he, the ultimate life form couldn't even make a dent in that robots body.
"Gerald, did you make a failure in your creation, am I not the ultimate life form?" Looking on the fight as he spoke to himself, Shadow held up his hand and stared at it. "No, I am the ultimate life form, it is the power of these humans that gave her that power boost."
Smirking as he looked over at Matt, Shadow quickly tried to figure out if joining with this human in a fight would be worth getting such a massive power boost. "Humph, I might not like it, but if it proves to the faker and his friends that I am the ultimate life form once and for all, then so be it."
Meanwhile Amy kick Metal-Lillymon. "Angelic Hammer," Amy yelled pulling out her hammer. It was now white with gold trim and a pair of large wings coming from it. Amy stuck the metal copy of Lillymon into the ground.
"See her power," Matt said to Shadow. "That is why the digimons needs us. You may be the ultimate life form in your world but we need to prove you are the best digimon. I'm tire of puffy hair up showing me."
Metal-Lillymon grunted as Amy hammered into her chest with her Angelic Hammer attack for the forth time. Metal-Lillymon's chest plate broke along with the compressed disk. Three Lillymon appeared. Amy walk up to the weaker Metal-Lillymon but one of the Lillymon said, "Wait we want her." The three pick up the robot and flew away.
In his base, Eggman slammed a hand down on his chair as he watched one of his creations get taken away by a bunch of Lillymon's. "She lost, that worthless junk pile, how could she fail me, and to a stupid winged creature no less."
Turning his attention to the others screens, Eggman hummed darkly to himself as he watched the five other robots move in to locate the emeralds in those sectors. He just had to count one emerald as lost, for now. "But it I will be mine, once my other creations do what that blasted Metal-Lillymon failed to do, I will simply take it from them."
In the swamp region, Metal-MegaKabuterimon hovered above a swap as his sensors kept scanning the area for the chaos emerald that the doctor wanted. Already he had learned of Metal-Lillymon's loss through his connection to Eggman network, and decided that no matter what, he will not fall as easily as her.
He flew down to see four green smile digimon around an emerald. "I'll take that," Metal-MegaKabuterimon said.
"No way," one of the smile digimon yelled. With one swing of his arm the slime digimon left his sight.
"Anyone else want to try me?" Metal-MegaKabuterimon asked. The three slime turn and ran off. Metal-MegaKabuterimon easily picks up the emerald. Metal-MegaKabuterimon flew away. Then he heard someone yelling. It turns to see Sora and Yolei running after him and started to fly as fast as it could.
"That's just great," Rouge said watching the metal digimon fly away. "I can't match his speed."
"We need to tell the others," Sora said.
"That will have to wait." Yolei muttered out as she turned to look at them. "Izzy, Joe and Ken's in trouble near the Yokomon village, they're facing an air born metal copy."
Looking down at Rouge, Sora quickly yelled out the direction they needed to travel in to reach the village before it was too late.
Several minutes later, Sora gasped as she saw the Yokomon village burning in several places as Eggpawns ran around in it with Big in his ultimate form stomping one them. And in the air above the village, she could see Mighty and Stingmon battling with what looked like. "Garudamon!"
In the air, the metal copy turned to face the direction of the one who had spoken, red eyes glowing as it located them easily. "Incorrect, this unit is Metal-Garudamon, hand over the Chaos Emerald detected within this village, or you will all be destroyed."
"Alright," Yolei said, "Give us sometime to find it." Yolei walk off with Sora following.
"You can give it to it," Sora said, "It get it and more than just this village will suffer."
"She right," Joe said, "We can let them get more power."
"I have a plan," Izzy said, "With the help of our thief that is."
A little later, Izzy walk up to Metal-Garudamon. He held a bag that Joe brought with something it. "I know we promised you this," Izzy said, "We decided that we won't give it to you." He throw the bag to Yolei sitting on Halsemon. The two took off with Metal-Garudamon chasing them.
Yolei looked back to see Metal-Garudamon getting closer to them. "Faster," Yolei yelled. Halsemon try to move after but the robot easily caught up to them. It kick Halsemon wing so the digimon started to spin. As they did Yolei release the back.
Metal-Garudamon grabbed the bag and only it. Inside was a rock about the size of the chaos emerald. "Where's the real one," it yelled. Meanwhile Rouge sat on the portal to the real world looking at the Chaos Emerald she got.
"I've waited so long to have one of these in my hands." Smirking, Rouge allowed the gem to roll around a bit in her hand, light shining off it the whole time. "To bad I won't be able to hold onto it for a longer time."
Moving to hide the gem, Rouge stopped as she noticed a single Eggpawn standing in front of her, this one painted in a golden color and holding a small TV in its hands. "And what do you want?"
As she finished talking, the TV buzzed loudly and switched to an image of Eggman staring right at her, several robots standing around him, as he laughed a bit. "Well, well Rouge, I see you found one of the Chaos Emeralds."
Settling down into a serious mood, Eggman eyes glinted with determination. "Now my questions is this, how much will it cost me to have you hand it over to my Eggpawn?"
"In case you haven't notice but your money is worthless here," Rouge said.
"Who said anything about money," Eggman said, "I can give you anything."
"Like I can trust you," Rouge said.
"You're one to talk," Eggman said.
"What does that mean?" Rouge yelled.
"You're not the most trust worthy," Eggman said, "Do you think that they would ever trust you. You're just a little thief."
"I did nothing to make them distrust me," Rouge said, "and I don't want to live under your rule."
"Well," Eggman said, "I guess when I get this large emerald if a red male get in my way. Lets say that I may not hold back."
"Fine," Rouge said as she slowly handing the chaos emerald to the Eggpawn. Just then the Eggpawn exploded. "Sonic," Rouge said with tears in her eyes, "I'm…I'm…" Rouge hid behind the portal to the Real World.
"Rouge, why did you? Don't you know how dangerous it is for Eggman to get his hands on those gems?" Glaring at her, Sonic struggle dot keep his voice under control, wanting to hear just what kind of excuse she had for almost handing over the chaos emerald.
Still hiding behind the portal, Rouge sighed and held up the bag with the chaos emerald in it, the words from the blue hedgehog still hammering through her head. "I'm sorry, but I couldn't, I couldn't let him carry out his threat."
Tossing the bag at Sonic, Rouge took of flying, wanting to be as far away from Sonic and everyone else at the moment. "I'm sorry." Muttering out the words as she left, she didn't look back over her shoulder, instead she kept her eye son the horizon. "I really am."
"You!" Screaming out the word with a thick layer of hate for a robotic bird like humanoid, the massive body of Metal-Garudamon landed right in front of Rouge, grabbing her harshly in one hand before glaring down at Sonic with crimson colored eyes glowing brightly. "Hand over the emerald, or this one dies!"
"No way," Sonic yelled.
Rouge felt the grip get tighter. She cried as her vision blurred. "See," Eggman voice enter her ear, "Sonic doesn't care. Even your cries of pain won't make him change his mind. You mean nothing to him just like every one else." As Eggman continue to say thing along the same manor, Rouge mind wandered back to when she was in preschool where all the other bats stayed away from her afraid of having their brown or gray fur change to white.
"Rouge," Sora yelled, "Warp digivolve."
"Rougemon warp digivolve to…" He body became a copy of Sora but covered by armor with two swords. "Armor Rougemon." Rouge grabbed the two swords and cut the arms. Wanting to pass her pain to someone else. Rouge cut Metal-Garudamon many times then she started to crush the remains.
"Please stop," Sora said grabbing Rouge in a hug.
"I'm a thief," Rouge said returning the hug. "For years everyone I was near always keep an eye on me. I just want a group that trust me." Rouge glowed and change into a small white ball with bat ears. Rouge broke into a full cry as Sora cradle her.
Not knowing how to respond, Sora could only cradle Rouge, hoping that one of the others could help her deal with this new problem, but all she saw was the same unsure-ness on their faces.
"Another one!" Literally hammering one hand through the screen before him, Eggman fumed as he pulled it out, and then proceed to completely destroy the screen. "How? How can they keep doing this? My superior creations, my perfect weapons, I have all the advantages this time, yet they keep winning!"
In the corner, Datamon stood in his new body and simply observed the new development, both he and Eggman already working on a way to secure the means to empower the new weapon they were designing in order to win completely control of the digital world. "Eggman, perhaps we need to revise our battle plans, instead of one metal-copy facing them, how about two?"
"But first," Eggman said, "We have a Master Emerald to get and a guardian to make suffer."
Meanwhile Kari and TK just landed on Angle Island. "Thanks you Mr. Bird," Cream said to Birddramon.
"What are you doing here?" Knuckles asked.
"We're searching for the Chaos Emerald," Kari said.
"Only the Master Emerald is here," Knuckles said so leave.
"And Eggman," Tails said pointing the large craft coming.
Snapping his head around and lifting up his hands, Knuckles growled as the large craft stopped right above them, several Eggpawns already heading towards the ground. "He's after the Master Emerald again!"
Starting to move forward to trash the Eggpawns, he stopped as two massive shapes fell from the sky, each one landing a good deal ahead of them. "What the, what kind of robots are those?"
Looking harder at the one robot they hadn't seen before, Kari shook her head in disbelief. "That one looks like, Zudomon!"
"And that's Metal-MegaKabuterimon." Yolei added as she recognized the shape of the robot as the same one as Izzy's digimon had had in the past. "He sent two metal-copies this time, and none of us have a partner with us, we can't win this."
"I'm out of power," Cream said, "We need to get out of here."
"I'm not letting him get the Master Emerald," Knuckles said.
"Please, Mr. Knuckles we need to get out of here," Cream said, "We'll help you get it back but you need to live to continue to protect it."
Fine," Knuckles letting the group lead him to the portal to the real world.
Grumbling the whole way, Knuckles kept on casting worried glances back towards Angel Island, his mind able to feel the very moment when the Eggpawns ripped the Master emerald out of the shrines foundation.
His mind quickly showing him a memory of the other two times that had happened, the giant waves of water coming form the impact when the large Island hit would wash across the digital ocean and destroy everything it hit.
His only hope of ever returning to the island with the master emerald was that the ocean wasn't deep enough to swallow up the entire island completely.
The island hit the water and tilted. With haft the land hidden underwater. Cream grab Knuckles and pulled him away. A little later, they got back to the real world. "Good you're back," Tai asked.
"They got the Master Emerald," Knuckles said.
"Tails gone," TK said.
"We have four Emeralds," Tai said, "We need to get the others. We're brake into two teams. One will try to slow Eggman down the other will try to find out what Eggman is up to."
"Great," Matt said, "Lead the group stopping Eggman while you slow him down. You're good at that. You slowed us down."
As Tai growl moving closer to Matt, Shadows said, "Faker keeps your pet under control."
"Stop it," Sora said, "It's clear that you two can't pick the teams. I say the rest of us leave to set up the team." Sora looked down at the small white ball in her hand. Rouge just sat in Sora's arms stirring at nothing.
Huffing a bit at the comments from both Matt, Shadow and Sora, Tai and Sonic glanced at one another as they picked the other one at the same time, already knowing that they were both thinking of going of on their own as soon as they could. "Okay Sora, mind of me and Sonic step out for a minute, we could someone to eat."
Rubbing a hand over his stomach, Sonic grinned at her as well. "Yeah, hadn't a bit to eat since the last time." Facing Tai, he grinned at the messy haired boy. "So what do we say we go out for something to eat, all that's in this place is your mom's cooking."
Getting a sick look on his face, Tai nodded as fast a she could, already remembering that it was spinach week again, and that all they'd get was some new strange bio toxic sludge to eat. "How about that sushi spot down the street, hear they got a great deal on specials."
"Matt, could you leave the room too?" Sora asked. Mimi left them with Shadow. "So first what team should Tai be on, and remember that Matt must be on the other."
"Sonic stop may of Eggman plans before," Cream said, "He should be on the team to stop him."
"Amy and Mimi should be with them. They seem to able to keep Tai and Sonic calmed," Kari said, "Izzy would also be more helpful with him."
"I think they may need a digimon that can armor digivolve," Joe said.
"Um Kari, you better hurry up if you want to catch them." Cody muttered out as he spotted one blue and one brown blue rush out of the building. "Something tells me they are going to do something reckless again."
Snorting in a sarcastic way, Shadow turned to stare at the wall with a told you so expression. "Like that's anything new, the fool doesn't understand the concept of caution." Glaring over at Amy as she opened her mouth to reply, Shadow shrugged his shoulders. "Yell all you want pinky, you know' it's the truth."
Pushing away from the wall, Shadow turned his attention to Matt, one eye narrowing a bit, as he looked the blond haired boy over. "You know, I find it strange that while the messy haired brat can copy Sonic's speed, none of the others kids or you have copied one of our skills."
Not answering at first, Matt stepped back as chaos energy crackle between Shadow's fingers. "So, do I really need to have one of your skills, as long as you can become stronger through digivolving there's no need for it."
"Wrong." Shadow spat out as his red eyes narrowed into slits. "The thought is strange, but I think it would be best if you can least defend yourself." Pulling back the fist, Shadow grinned up at Matt as the sparks grew into much larger ones. "So, let's test you and see which of my tricks you can do, the Chaos Spear or Chaos Control?"
"Somewhere else," Matt said, "I don't want to break any things." Shadow nodded and to made their way to the roof. "So what," Matt said.
"Try to gather energy in you hand as you thing of holding a spear," Shadow said
Matt took a deep breath. He closed his eyes as he did as he was told then he yelled, "Chaos Spear." Matt open his eyes to see a smoking hole. He smiled at Shadow. "This is more useful that running."
Meanwhile in the Park, Tai sat with Sonic near him. "Are you sure that going after Tails just us two alone is worth it?"
"I am, whenever we go in as a big group, we end up getting spotted to easily." Twisting his neck and letting it give off a loud pop, Sonic grinned as he held up a hand. "Besides, I know more about Eggman's traps and tricks then anyone else, so getting through security will be a breeze."
Looking less then happy with the suggestion, Tai shook his head as Sonic grin faltered. "It's not just Eggman, there is also Datamon to worry about."
Snapping a finger at Tai, Sonic face took on a pure look of determination. "And that's why I'm taking you along, one, so can I digivolve, even if I hate my girl body, two, so you can tell which tricks and traps Datamon prefers."
Looking even more put off by Sonic's boosting, Tai sighed as he rubbed hand over his temples to remove the headache he could feel coming. "And how should I know that, we defeated him in one day, well it was Etemon and the dark network who deleted his body, but the point is that we barely even knew how he thinks, let alone how strong he is."
"Come on," Sonic said, "Tails need our help."
"I want to help him," Tai said.
"Good lets go," Sonic said.
"You not going to listen to anything I say," Tai said.
"Of course I'll listen but following what you say is difference," Sonic said, "Ready to go?"
"No," Kari said running up, "We can't let you get hurt."
"I can get Tails the best alone," Sonic said.
"At least let us be close so we can help if we need to," Kari said, "Beside you can't get in the digi-world without Tai's digivice." Kari smiled showing Tai digivice in her hands.
Meanwhile Eggman smiled at Tails working on his weapon. "It almost done," Eggman said, "I can do the rest. Send Tails to a nice place for a trap." Datamon smiled at the ideal.
"It would give me a chance to test out this new body of mine as well." Dragging Tails off in the most ruthless way he could, Datamon left the room, several sharp metallic blade like objects glinting as he move through a bit of light. "Courage and Love, I'll cut right through them, as well as the rest of the digi destined."
Tossing the still mind controlled Tails into a cage, Datamon stopped as a blue and gray shape stepped out into the light in front of him. "Ah Metal-Sonic, is there something you want?"
Eyes blazing brightly red at the question, Metal-Sonic lifted up a hand and allowed power to glow around it. "I heard you were going to fight Sonic and the others." Not waiting for Datamon to respond, Metal-Sonic turned halfway around. "The hedgehog is mine, do what you want with the rest of them, but leave him to me."
His own eyes glowing at the order, Datamon regarded the hedgehog like robot in front of him with a mixture of resentment and amusement. "But of course metal-Sonic, you can destroy your counterpart that you hate so much, but as you said, the rest of them are mine." With a hint of malice clear in his voice at the end of his sentence, Datamon walked past Metal-Sonic and out into the outer parts of the bases.
Datamon moved to a place that he could use to set up traps. He walks down a long hall to a large round room. He hung the cage in the center of the room and went to working on the traps. "Metal-Sonic just like you, I'll destroy anyone who gets in my way to those that I hate," Datamon said getting to work.
"There Tails," Sonic said looking from some bushes. "We should be able to get in ourselves in and out without being notice."
"This could be a trap," Tai said.
"We went over this," Sonic said, "That's why you're where. We have the others waiting to help." Sonic ran off with Tai following. They came to the hall. Slowly they came to the cage the held Tails. "Tails," Sonic said. He looked into the red eyes staring into nothing. "What did they do to him?"
"That black caller he has on," Tai said, "He is a digimon and under its control." Tai free Tails from the cage. Just then a door at the end of the hall block opened up.
"Welcome, my old enemy." Stepping out into the room, Datamon grinned as he lifted up a hand to show off, his metallic claws glinting in the air. "Like my new body, got it custom made by Eggman himself."
His height bigger then Metal-Sonic's, Datamon grinned as he lowered the arm down, his body just as tall as Tai's, sporting a humanoid build, with a mockery of Tai's hair that stood up much like his, but only with sharper spikes and a set of body armor looking just like Wargreymon's. "Etemon was mine to destroy not yours, and for stealing my rightful revenge from me on that day, I will kill you."
Crossing his arms, Datamon grinned as the three claws on his gauntlets began to hum with the power running through them. "Come on, let's see how long you last without your partner, human!"
Rushing forward, Datamon shouted out in joy as he slashed down with his claws, aiming right for Tai's face.
Tai ran to the door. He pound on the think door. Datamon came running up. With great speed Tai ran past Datamon and up the wall and roof. Tai grab the chain hanging from the roof. "Get down here," Datamon yelled firing missiles at Tai.
Meanwhile Sonic handed Tails to Kari. "I need to go for him," Sonic said. Sonic ran back to the steel door only to find Metal Sonic standing in front of it. "Still wanting to fight," Sonic said.
"I came up with a great ideal," Metal Sonic said. He show Sonic a control spiral. "Hold still and become a slave."
Tai stood up then metal claw grab him. Datamon smiled at the digi-destined in his claw. "Having fun?" Datamon asked. Just then an explosion happen. Datamon turned to see what cause it.
"Let my brother go!" Screaming loudly, Kari and Cream came rushing in through the door, the small rabbit in her champion form. "Let him go!"
Jumping forward, Cream kicked Datamon right in the face before he could really react, his body landing harshly on the ground. "Heh, a minor setback, it won't take me long to crush you two fools and get my revenge on that rat."
Jumping up, Datamon rebounded off the wall and shot up over Cream, one arm lashing out as light flowed in around it to form an almost flower like shape. "Try one of my new attacks why doesn't you bunny rabbit!"
Cream ran trying to keep out of attack. Cream jumped onto the arm that Datamon was aiming at her. In a rage, Datamon drop Tai to grab Cream. "Let go," Tai yelled. Cream nodded and jumped from the attack.
Outside Sonic struggle to keep his metal counterpart from putting the control spiral on him. "I'm not going to be your slave," Sonic grunted. "Sonic Sphere," Sonic yelled. As a sphere, Sonic knock the robot away. He ran off searching for a way to get to his partner
Sonic found Cream fighting Datamon. "We don't have time to play with an ugly robot. Lets get out of here," Sonic said. Cream returned to being a rookie. Soon, Sonic scoop Cream as Tai grab his sister. They ran out of the room.
Datamon walked to the hole in the wall. "Courage," he said, "You may have gotten away but thanks to the scanner I planted I can learn how to open a portal to you world."
"Sonic, you escaped again, but next time, there will be chance of a retreat, it will the final battle between us." Muttering out the words, Metal-Sonic turned around sharply and stalked past Datamon who had begun to send the fathered information back to Eggman. "I will be busy for a while, tell Eggman I'll be back sometime tonight."
Not leaving Datamon with a chance to respond, Metal-Sonic took off flying as fast as he could across the ground, cape fluttering in the wind behind him. "This human partner of yours, he seems to have changed you, in the past you wouldn't have run away, you would have stayed and fought until one of us had lost."
Slowing down until he was standing on a rock overlooking the wastelands that has recently been added to the area under Metal-Wargreymon's control, the robotic hedgehog clenched up both of his hands. "And even if you have changed with a human partner, you seem stronger then ever, but even with those changes it won't matter, not when I drag you into the darkness of the digital void for our final confrontation."
In the real world, Sonic was sitting on the bottom bunk. Cream walks into the room. "Mr. Sonic," she said, "Tails is resting. He can't remember what he did while under Eggman controls." Sonic nodded. "What's wrong? I though you would do more than nod."
"I was just thinking of Metal Sonic," Sonic said, "Before I was a match for him but now I use all my strength in one attack and all it did was stun it. And then there is Eggman. He almost won before but he was never this close."
"I sure we can win," Cream said, "As long as Eggman can get into this world we have a safe place to rest and plan."
Meanwhile, Shadow and Matt walk through the Digi-World looking for control towers to knock down. "Why is the perfect life form playing house keeper?" Shadow asked.
"Because we have too." Matt replied as he checked his digivice to see if anyone else was nearby. "It is also a good way to show that you're a good team leader by helping with the boring jobs."
Eyes half closed in boredom over the lecture, Shadow cast a glance up the sky above them, snapping his eyes open for a second before he grabbed Matt and pulled him down with him. "Stay still, there's an Eggman scout ship above us."
Risking a look up as well, Matt glare as a sleek red and yellow scout ship passed over head among a few clouds, the Eggman logo on the belly and side of the ship. "Eggman's here, but we haven't seen any traces of robots or towers?"
"He's planning on invading this region." Shadow muttered out as he looked down to check the area around them for any robots. "Better keep a low profile until we're sure what is going on here anyway."
"I want to see where it's landing," Matt said, "Come on." Matt grabs Shadow and dragged the hedgehog. Reluctantly Shadow follows his partner. They came an area with dead trees. They travel through dead branches until they came to a village.
The buildings were made of rotting wood with other part falling off. The sky was cover by a mass of black clouds with lighting once and a while. In the center of the village was a steel cage with viral digimon standing guard. In the cage many digimons were crying for help. Shadow saw a gray hedgehog crying in the corner of the cage. Just then Eggman's craft landed and robot exit the back. One by one they grab each of the digimon in the cage.
"They must be paying the digimons so Eggman leave them alone," Matt said, "We need to get that craft. Thank of how the Tai and Sonic would feel when we show them our new craft."
"Of course we could say that lowing the number of digimon coming in could slow him down," Shadow said, "I'll get us aboard and I'll strike when we're away from the village."
Grabbing onto Matt's shoulder, Shadow grinned as he pulled out one of the chaos emeralds that they had managed to get before Eggman did. "Knew this would come in handy at some point, now hold on tight."
Turning his head to ask what Shadow was going to do, Matt was met with a blast of pure white light seconds before the world warped around him and Shadow, his stomach doing a series of flip flops before he landed on a hard cold floor.
Hiding the Chaos Emerald again, Shadow checked the surroundings to make sure he hadn't made a mistake, and grinned as they had landed on the very top of the patrol ship as he had planned them too. "This way, Eggman should have a entry way into the ship for his robots to use doing battle."
Standing up while holding a hand to his mouth, Matt followed after his new partner as he kept an eye out for anything that might get them into trouble. "Shadow, you found the entry way yet?"
"Here," Shadow said he reach down to grab the edge of the hatch and started to pull. Shadow grunted as the hatch slowly open. When it was open enough, Shadow slip in. Matt follows. Shadow then pull the lip down. Then he pulled out the chaos emerald to give them light. Wasp shape robots were hanging from the ceiling. Shadow walk by the robots to a computer panel. "I'll shut down this bot, jam the radio and then we can strike."
"I've been looking for a fight to use my new skills," Matt said.
"Good, you could use some training." Turning away from the computer panel, he hid the chaos emerald and looked over at Matt barely visible through the darkness. "You have five seconds to get ready."
Staring at his partner in puzzlement, Matt opened his mouth to ask what he meant when the lights suddenly turned on, bathing the room in a crimson glare, the waspbots turning on as well, several red eyes moving to stare at Matt and Shadow. "Oh that?"
Already having a chaos spear ready, Shadow tossed it off before he went flying forward to fight close up with the waspbots. "The others are yours." The comment the only other thing he said to Matt before he began trashing waspbots.
Matt used his chaos spear on the last waspbots. "Easy," Matt said walking into the cockpit.
"Those are swam base," Shadow said, "They were to built to work as a large group."
"I can't wait to show Tai what we got," Matt said.
"Team faker won't be happy," Shadow said, "Take a look at our guests."
Matt walked into the cargo hold. He look at the frighten digimon. "Don't worry," Matt said, "We're get to a safe place to drop you off." As the digimon cheered, Matt looked at a gray hedgehog that was like Shadow. Matt made his way to the hedgehog.
Looking up at the footsteps, the gray hedgehog backed away as she noticed it to be a human, and while he didn't look like the dreaded doctor Eggman, it was most likely best to stay away from him anyway.
Watching as the digimons nearby began to pull on some kind of collar around their necks, Matt sighed and looked down at gray hedgehog. "Hey, you think you can stand up for a moment, it's for the best if that collar around your neck is removed before we reach a sector with a control tower in it."
"Why?" Looking with as harsh a stare as she could, the hedgehog glare at Matt as she backed up a bit to make sure she could get in a good hit if was needed. "You're human just like him, like that Eggman guy who destroyed my home after I ended up in this crazy world."
"We're fighting Eggman," Matt said. Once again, Matt reached for the collar.
"Stay away from me," the gray hedgehog said, "Why should I trust you? You could be lying."
Matt not wanting to a verbal fight, he grabbed her hand and dragged her from the cargo hold. He stops to show the broken robots leading the cockpit. "If I work with Eggman why would I break his robots?"
"Just to make it look like I trust you and you take me to Eggman," the gray hedgehog said.
"What do you have that Eggman wants?" Matt asked dragging her into the cockpit.
"What are you bringing in here?" Shadow asked.
"She from your world," Matt said, "We're going to drop off the digimon and take her back with us."
"Fine," Shadow said, "What her name?"
"Everyone calls me Cappy," the gray hedgehog, "Aren't you Shadow the hedgehog, Sonic's brother."
Silence filled the room for a whole minute as Shadow felt his mind run from shock over getting called Sonic's brother, to outright fury at it. "No, I am Shadow the Hedgehog, the ultimate life form and I am not in anyway or kind related to that blue hedgehog."
Staring wide-eyed as each word was spat at her through clenched up teeth, Cappy shook her head as she gave a deep sigh. "Aw, but that means I owe that idiot two bucks." Pouting a bit after muttering out the words, she grabbed Shadow's arm as he turned to walk away. "What do you mean ultimate life form, you're just a hedgehog right?"
Pulling his arm free, Shadow cast a dark glare over his shoulder at her as he took a deep breath of air to calm down. "No, I was created by doctor Gerald Robotnik over 50 years ago, and while I don't know how he did it, I know that I am not a normal hedgehog."
"You mean running fast like Sonic," Cappy said, "Dose that means that Sonic is an ultimate life form as well? If you're not brothers then why do you share the same last name?"
"Come on, Cappy," Matt said grabbing Cappy hand. "Let get you away from Shadow before he get angry."
After dropping of the Digimon then hiding the craft, the three came to Tai's apartment. "Everymon," Matt said standing before the group, "I would like for you to meet Cappy. She's from Shadow world."
"Hi," Cappy said. She looks at Rouge. "What's with the ball?"
"Nothing," Sora said hugging Rouge. Rouge just stares forward. 'What is wrong with you?' Sora thought.
Meanwhile Eggman smiled at his newest tool of conquering. "It all ready," Datamon said.
"Good," Eggman said, "We need to test it. Lets wait for Tails so we can show him what he did for us and thank him."
"Why?" Datamon asked
"I like to play with their minds," Eggman said.
Not answering right away, Datamon regarded the massive machine before them. "Are you sure it will work, we only have 3 emeralds you know, the others have 3 as well and one is still out there somewhere."
Nodding with a frown as everything that Datamon had said was true, Eggman finally sighed and leaned forward. "It should work, but the range will be very limited, only about a third of the digital world will be ours to completely control."
"It should be more then enough to destroy them with." Datamon smirked out as he rubbed his metallic hands together; one eye glowing a bit bright as he finally noticed something different about the command room. "Where is that robot of yours, Metal-Sonic, I haven't seen or heard from him since we got that data from Courage and Sonic."
Looking up form his own thinking, Eggman simply shrugged as he moved to leave the room. "It doesn't matter where he is, victory is ours."
Looking up from where he sat on the ground, Metal-Sonic's eyes glowed brightly as he focused on the sand moving through the wind. "It's time Sonic, for our final and last meeting." Laughing darkly the metallic hedgehog held up the final chaos emerald, blue light gently glowing form it. "And I've chosen the perfect place for this battle."
In the real world, Sonic sneezed. After rubbing his nose, he said, "So we're rest tonight and then we find the last Chaos Emerald."
"Knuckles," Sora said, "Would you like to stay at my home?"
"Fine," Knuckles said.
She place Agumon's coat on Knuckles. "Wear this," she said, "Here hold Rouge." Knuckle took hold of the in-training digimon. They came to Sora's home.
"You can use the couch," Sora said taking the coat from knuckles.
"What wrong with her?" Knuckles asked looking at Rouge.
"I don't know," Sora said, "After digivolving, she changing into this form and not change into her normal level. Could you try?"
"What do you want me to do?" Knuckles asked.
"Talk to her," Sora said, "try to get her happy."
Looking down at the small white ball as Sora left to find them something to eat, Knuckles sighed and settled down on the couch. "So, you like this fluffy white ball shape for a body?"
Not getting an answer besides a small whimper, Knuckles gritted his teeth and mentally smacked whoever thought that he would be the best to cheer up Rouge. "Look, I don't know what happened, or why you're like this, but it is not helping."
Placing her on the couch, he stood up and crossed his arms. "Well, say something." Still not getting an answer besides Rouge turning away to hide her eyes, Knuckles felt his anger grow. "You, fine, just act like that. Keep on running away from your problems for all I care."
"No one cares," Rouge, cried, "Everyone in my village were black or brown bats. I was the only white bat. Everyone kept away from me. Even now I don't have friends."
"I care," Knuckles said.
"Liar," Rouge said.
'One kiss won't hurt,' Knuckles though. He pick up Rouge and kiss her on her lips. As they did, Rouge return to her rookie form. When they were done, Rouge just rested her head on Knuckles's chest.
The next day, Metal Sonic smiled at the field he was in. "Now I need to call Sonic."
Cappy was made by Speed-To-Sonic