Here's Part 12 of the Ebony and Lavender. This was a complicated part to make because I was not sure what direction I wanted to go when I first wrote this, but after figuring how the flow of this chapter would go, then I found how to plot it out.
Anyway, thank you for reading and keeping up with my story. As always, I hope you enjoy.
The night was young as the Egg Pawns were doing their work around the area. Blaze sat there with a tuna sandwich sitting in front of her. She's been held captive for so long in the volcano that she can't tell that it's nighttime right now. Eggman Nega came around a few minutes ago to gloat about how Blaze was finally at his mercy or how powerless she is. He sure loves to rub it in your face when he has the upper hand. After his fifteen minutes of trash talking, he finally moved on to finish whatever heinous projects he has under construction in this place.
Blaze has been lonely since she was captured. Living with others for the past few days made her forget the feeling of being alone often. It also makes her miss a certain ebony hedgehog named Shadow. Every time she thinks of him, she just wish he could pop up out of no where like he usually does and take her away from this place. But he has yet to show up at all.
'I know they have not forgotten about me, so what's taking so long?' Blaze was getting more and more impatient with the whole rescue thing. Being stuck in this force field is dreadful for her.
The lavender feline stood up and walked towards the edge where the force field blocks her off from freedom. The same thing always continues in this place: Egg Pawns building more Egg Pawns and other advanced robots, Metal Sonic 3.0 patrolling the area, and the sound of Dr. Eggman laughing at his favorite comedy shows in the background. Eggman Nega comes around occasionally to gloat or antagonize Blaze whenever he has the time, but right now he is nowhere to be found.
Blaze sighed, then walked back to the spot she sat on since she was captured. She sat down and curled to her knees in case Eggman Nega reappears to gloat. She closed her eyes, hoping that Shadow and the others will come to break her out of this cage soon.
"Ok, repeat the part one more time."
"Knuckles, it's not that hard to understand." Sonic cuts his eyes at the red guardian.
"Hey! I just want to make sure I remember this perfectly, so we can save Blaze!" Knuckles yelled at the azure hedgehog.
"Guys, please settle down. We have to make sure we all know what we're doing, ok?" Tails pleaded with the two, but they were too busy butting heads with each other.
"Maybe if Knuckles would just pay attention, then we would be on our way already." Sonic snickers as he rubs his nose.
Knuckles clenched his teeth and raised his fist at the blue blur, "I swear I can't stand dealing with that smug attitude of your's!"
Sonic smirked, "Well, it's a part of my charm."
"Guys, pleas-," Tails began.
Knuckles growls, "How about I knock that charm off of your face then."
"You can try, Knuxie!" Sonic teased.
"HEY!"
Sonic and Knuckles turned their attention towards the pink hedgehog with a Piko Piko hammer in her hands. Amy continues, "Stop arguing and switch gears! This is serious."
"Yeah, and if you two continue, Amy won't be the only one bringing the pain." Eclipse said calmly and pointed behind him.
Sonic and Knuckles look past the darkling to see a ebony hedgehog glowing red with anger. Shadow glared ice, cold daggers at the both of them as his fists were clenched tightly. Sonic and Knuckles laughed nervously as they stare at the the angry ultimate life form.
"Remember, Blaze, Shadow's girlfriend, is held captive by Eggman Nega, so if you delay this any further then he will blow a fuse." Infinite states as he folds his arms.
"Sorry Shadow," Knuckles said turned back towards Tails.
"Sorry Shadz, I won't take up anymore time." Sonic smiled awkwardly at the ebony hedgehog.
Shadow just glared at the azure hedgehog for a few more seconds, then turns his gaze to Tails to finish the briefing.
"Thank you, now I will go through this one last time," Tails looks at everyone to confirm he has their attention. "Sonic, Knuckles, Amy, Omega, and Silver will attack at the main entrance to cause a distraction, Rouge and I will hack into the robots with the codes Eggman sent us to use against while providing aerial support, then Shadow will sneak past to save Blaze with Eclipse and Infinite covering him in the process. Team Sonic's main goal is to attract Metal Sonic 3.0 and Metal Sonic, so he doesn't encounter Team Shadow. Team Tails will hack into Metal Sonic 3.0 and Metal Sonic with the new virus I created from the wrist watches I made for us. Once he is out of commission we will push through to meet Team Shadow after they save Blaze, then defeat Eggman Nega and escape. I'm also providing all of you with wrist communicators so can reach each other. Any more questions?"
"What about the fake Sol Emerald?" Infinite asks.
"Ah yes, so Shadow will push through with the fake emerald to meet with Eggman Nega," Tails explained with a stern voice. "If things go accordingly to my calculations, then Eggman Nega will take the mock emerald and Dr. Eggman will release Blaze, then we can foil whatever Eggman Nega is planning. Infinite and Eclipse, you two will have to act like you disagree with Shadow giving the emerald away to sell the act, so we can fool Eggman Nega."
"And if Eggman Nega double crosses us?" Eclipse asks for precaution.
"Then we do what we normally do," Shadow affirms. Confidence shown clearly in his eyes.
"Alright! Let's go!" Sonic yells with enthusiasm.
"Everyone understands their role before we go?" Tails asks quickly before they leave.
Shadow nodded his head, "I'm sure everyone knows what to do. Now let's go. I don't want to keep her waiting."
"Oh wait," Tails grabs the Chaos Emeralds and hands one to Sonic, Silver, Omega, and hands the last two to Shadow. "These will be a big help."
"How come Shadow gets two?" Sonic queries.
"Because he's the ultimate life form." Rouge said and winks at her best friend.
Shadow smirks in response, "I don't need two, so Eclipse can take this one." He tosses the emerald towards his brother and the darkling caught it. He stares at his brother in confusion. Shadow continues, "We're both Chaos empowered creatures, so it only makes sense for you to have one."
Eclipse stared his brother for a few seconds. He closed his eyelids and smiled, "Makes sense. I won't let you down."
"I know you won't," Shadow said with confidence, then turns to the others. "Can we go now? She's waiting for us."
"Yeah, come on. We have everything prepared and we all know what to do." Sonic taps his foot impatiently.
"Ok, we can get going now. Everyone else huddle next to Shadow. Me and Rouge will take the Tornado X over there. Marine and Cream, stay here for your safety. We will return soon." Tails said.
Both Cream and Marine nodded as the heroes walked closer to Shadow. Shadow held out his Chaos Emerald, "Chaos Control!" Then they disappeared.
"Why hello, princess."
Blaze raised her head to see Dr. Eggman Nega standing across in front her. She sighs and stood up to face the nefarious scientist that taunted her for so long.
"What do you want?" Blaze asks with a sharp tone.
Eggman Nega chuckled to himself which irks Blaze and he knows it, "I just wanted to make sure you're not dead yet. Besides, my grand plan will come into fruition."
"And what is that?" Blaze asked out of curiosity.
"The destruction of your friends, then your precious companion, Shadow the Hedgehog." Eggman Nega states loudly.
Blaze wasn't fazed by Eggman Nega's threats. In fact, she smirked at him, "Mhm, if this dimension's Eggman can't beat them, then makes you think you can."
"He doesn't have what it takes to get the job done! Just. Like. You." Eggman Nega stayed in a mocking tone.
Blaze stared at him blankly. One thing she'll admit is that he's right. No matter how many times Eggman had the opportunity to eliminate the others, he never capitalized on it. Neither did Blaze with Eggman Nega, but that's because of her morals. She's not a cold murderer.
Eggman Nega cracked a devious smile, "Besides, with this new invention, I can destroy all of them. Even without the Sol Emerald, I could overpower them with the two Chaos Emeralds in my arsenal. Well after they hand over the Sol Emerald."
"They know better than to hand over my Sol Emerald to you. I'd rather die than let them do such a thing!" Blaze spat at the scientist.
"Pfffft," Eggman Nega smirks at the lavender feline. "I bet your companion would to otherwise, considering you two love each other."
Blaze stares at Eggman Nega with wide eyes in shock. Eggman Nega grinned maliciously as he continued his explanation.
"Yes, that black hedgehog will do anything to save you, even if it means dying for you I'm sure. Then after I have the emerald, I will rip him apart in front of your eyes." Eggman barks as he paced around the force field.
"That won't happen," Blaze glared at the evil scientist. "It can't. He won't lose to you!"
The nefarious scientist tilted his with a malicious grin that made Blaze feel uncomfortable, "Oh it will. I will teach you what happens when you bring others into this little game of ours."
Blaze continued to glare at the egg-shaped man that stood in front of her. Eggman Nega did his usual evil cackle and starts to walk away from Blaze. All of a sudden, the whole base was red as a loud siren played in the background. Blaze looks around in confusion as the siren sounded in the whole area. She seem robots moving with great haste as if they were getting ready for something. She looks up to see Eggman Nega standing in confusion.
"Eggman! What is going on here!?" Eggman Nega yelled.
Eggman flew up in his traditional flying ship next to Eggman Nega, "It appears we're under attack."
"By who!?" Eggman Nega asks, still confused.
A computer screen on a metal stick pull next to the two villains and turned on. On the screen was the heroes the were crashing through the helpless robots in the fray.
"They're here!? Now? This is unexpectedly early," Eggman Nega seemed distressed as he stared at the screen. He shook his head to recollect himself, "No matter, my latest invention is ready for those rodents. For now, Metal Sonic 3.0!"
The black and yellow robot flew up in the air and awaited his creator's command.
"Guard Blaze in case anyone gets here! Now!" Eggman Nega barked, then the robot flew in the direction of the heroes. Eggman Nega turns to Eggman, "Send Metal Sonic to them. I'm going to get the machine ready." Eggman nodded and Eggman Nega ran quickly to his destination.
Blaze smiles as she realized she will be free of this prison soon. Eggman watched the feline as she became hopeful and cheerful. Eggman smirks before flying away.
"Hey wait!" Blaze calls out.
Eggman stopped in his tracks and turn towards Blaze, "What do ya want?"
"Aren't you gonna free me?" Blaze asked impatiently.
"Uh no, that was not a part of the deal. They will save you so sit tight." Eggman affirms, then flew away quickly.
"Wha-, that's not fair!" Blaze watched the man disappear in the distance, then sighs to herself. She decided to walk to her normal spot and sit patiently for her rescuers.
"ANNIHILATION!"
Omega shot multiple rockets at the Egg Pawns rushing in.
BANG! BOOM!
Scraps of metal fall to the ground as Omega pushes through in enjoyment of this chaotic destruction. Sonic and Knuckles blow past Omega attacked the remaining robots. Sonic spindashes through multiple robots in rapid succession. Knuckles threw multiple haymakers at the helpless robots that stood in front of him. Knuckles uppercuts a robot into the air.
POW!
The robot that Knuckles punches to the air was smacked into a group of other robots. Knuckles looks up to see Amy Rose falling to ground with her Piko Piko Hammer in her hands. Knuckles smiled and rushes the other robots that shot their lasers at them. Omega's hands pull inside its arms and a barrel of machine guns expose itself out of Omega's arm. Omega mercilessly starts shooting at the Egg Robots. Sonic kicks a robot that was charging behind Omega knocking it away from them. Sonic looks forward to see a large group of Egg Robots charging at Sonic.
Sonic looks back at Omega and an idea just popped in his head, "Hey Omega! Remember that thing you used to do with Shadow and Rouge when you shoot them like cannon balls!"
"AFFIRMATIVE!" Omega answers, not taking his eyes away from his targets.
Sonic points at the group of robots charging at them, "Shoot me at that large group of robots, would ya!"
Omega complies and pulls his right barrel gun in his arm. Sonic smirks and charge up his spindash. Omega picks Sonic up and puts him on his right arm. Omega aims before taking the shot, "FIRE!"
Omega shot the blue blur with high speed, then Sonic added to the speed with his boost and charged at the group of robots at light speed.
VROOSH! CRAAAAASH!
Sonic blasted through the group of robots into a doorway that leads deeper into the base. Little did Sonic know that a robot came up to shoot the hedgehog.
CRAAAAASH!
Sonic looks behind him to see a robot smashed by a giant metal beam. Silver landed next to Sonic and smiles at him, "You should be more cautious Sonic."
Sonic rubs his quills as he is embarrassed, "Thats what I have you guys for. Anyway everyone, group up so we can push forward!" They run through the giant doorway to await more robots.
This time, bird-like robots flew through the air and started dropping explosives around the heroes.
"Everyone, scatter!" Knuckles yells and jumps out of the way.
Sonic grabs Amy to run from the explosives that dropped near them. Silver used his telekinesis and caught a good number of the missiles, then threw them back at the flying robots. Omega shot his homing missiles at the robots and destroys a good number of them, but more robots came in.
Sonic puts his wrist to his mouth, "Hey Tails, that aerial support could be useful right now!"
"On it!" Tails replied through the communicator.
More and more explosives were being dropped on the heroes . Silver continues to catch more and shoot them back at the robots. Sonic looks around for something to get him up there. Sonic looks to his right and his eyes widen at his discovery. There was a tall metal pillar behind the robots. He smirks, then began to run towards it. Sonic seen something move out the corner of his eye and turns his head.
POW!
Sonic was knocked away by something really hard. The blue blur rolled onto his back. He sat up and rubbed at his head, wincing at the pain. Sonic looks up to see his metallic counterpart standing in front of him.
Sonic smirks, "A bit of a cheap shot, don't ya think?"
"YOU WERE OPEN." Metal Sonic states.
Sonic raises and eyebrow, "Is that sass I hear? Just when I thought you were a regular tin can. Man, who taught you that? Eggbutt?"
Metal stood silent as he stared at the blue blur with his crimson eyes. Sonic got into a fighting stance and smiles, "Come on Metal. May the best Sonic be the winner."
Metal readied itself, then both of them sped off at each other and clashed. Metal Sonic threw a punch, but Sonic dodged out of the way. Sonic jumped, then homing attacks at Metal Sonic. Metal Sonic spindash s into Sonic and deflects Sonic's attack. Metal Sonic flew at high speeds and tackles Sonic into the air. Amy seen Sonic being carried around like a helpless baby in the air.
"Tails! Metal Sonic is on the battlefield! I repeat, Metal Sonic is on the battlefield!" Amy spoke into her wrist communicator.
"What about Metal Sonic 3.0?" Tails queries through the communicator.
Amy looks around for the ebony robot, but she had no luck, "Nope!"
"Ok, I'll hack into Metal Sonic as soon as I get insi-,"
"No Tails! I can handle Metal Sonic!" Sonic interrupts quickly.
"But Sonic-," Amy began.
"I got it! Just trust me!" Sonic yelled.
Tails was silent for a few seconds, then began, "Ok Sonic. We trust you! Just don't waste too much time with a Metal Sonic!"
"Thanks Tails!" Sonic called out.
"Tails, where's that darn aerial support!?" Knuckles asked in annoyance.
"Yeah, we're in a tight corner right now!" Silver yelled as he continued catching more explosives with his telekinesis.
"We're here!" Rouge answered.
"What!?" Knuckles asked, then looks around. He sees Tails and Rouge on Tails' red Tornado X.
Rouge jumps out and throws her bombs at the flying robots. BOOM! Explosions were made which caused robots falling out of the air. Tails flew through the smoke and made a beeline for the other robots. RATATATATATA! The Tornado X shot out more robots the flew around in rapid succession. Silver noticed the explosives cease to drop, so Silver took the initiative. Silver throws the explosives at the robots and the doors blocking their way.
BAAAAAAAANG!
The doors were blasted open, but multiple Egg Robots were waiting at the doorway and charged. Omega stepped up and pulled both his hands in his arms. He aims at the robots in the far distance and charges up some energy using the Chaos Emerald he possessed. A bright green light illuminated from his arms as the air around Omega felt dense.
"FIRE!" Omega yelled.
A large green energy blast fired from Omega's arm cannons. The green blast grew larger as it traveled towards the robots. The robots jumped out of their metal plates and tried running away, but their fate was already sealed.
BOOOOOOOOM!
A green colored explosion was made in the far distance as the heroes stood behind Omega with their jaws dropped. Rouge flew and landed next to Omega and winks at the robot, "That's our Omega! Show that Team Dark pride!"
Knuckles leans over at a shocked Silver who's eyes looked like they would fall out of his head, "Remind me never to get on Omega's bad side when he has a Chaos Emerald."
Silver nods slowly in response and regains his composure, "Nice going Omega! Everyone, let's keep pushing forward!"
"Waaaaay ahead of you!" Tails calls out from the communicator. "I could use some help though!"
"We're on our way Tails," Amy answers. She turns her gaze to the others. "We have to help Tails! Wait, where did Rouge and Omega go?"
"They went on ahead when we Tails called. Let's follow them?" Silver ordered and the others complied. They rush through the doorway to assist the others in battle.
Robots were scrambling to get in their battle stations for the heroes attack. Their attention was too focused on everything else to notice if anyone snuck in. A pair of crimson eyes watched the robots prepare in the shadows. Once the coast was clear Shadow stepped out of the shadows and jumped up onto the pipes above. Infinite and Eclipse follows and balance on the pipes. They moved along the pipes while remaining unnoticed. Shadow looks up to see air ducts above their heads. Shadow looks at the map of Lava Reef on his phone that Tails sent.
After figuring which one leads to their destination, Shadow uses his inner Chaos to form into a shape of a whip. Shadow flings the other end of it onto the vent blocking the way, then lightly tugs at it to avoid unwanted attention.
CLANK!
Shadow was successful at pulling it off, but it made a sound. The robots were alerted and looked around for the source of the sound. Shadow motion the others quickly to jump into the air duct. Infinite jumped in first without making a noise. Eclipse jumps after and make a little noise. The robots began to frantically find what's causing these noises.
'Idiots,' Shadow thought and jumps into the air duct before the robots looked up to see nothing.
They made their way through the vents and made them selves into a room. The room was dark, so Infinite put enough force into the vent without making too much noise. After loosening it, Infinite pushed the vent forward and slides it out of the way. They crawled out and sneak to the door. Infinite puts his ear to the door to listen out for the others.
"Are we close?" Eclipse queries.
Shadow pulls out his phone and looks at the map for the red dot that indicates their location. He looks up at his brother, "We're not that far from our destination point. We have some ways. It would be easier to move around if we knew Metal Sonic 3.0 was sighted near the others since he can sense when I use Chaos Control." Shadow curses to himself.
Eclipse stares wide eyes at his brother, "It can do that? Wait, how do you know that?"
"It was in the schematics. An upgrade Eggman Nega placed on it after he fixed it up," Shadow looks over to the snow haired jackal. "Is it clear to move out?"
Infinite opens the door and peaks out. No robots were in sight. He motions the brothers forward and they walk out of the room quickly.
"Why can't we just push through with the others again?" Infinite asks in aggravation.
"We would be further away from Blaze if we did that." Shadow affirms as he's pushing forward.
They walked out into a long corridor with no sign of any robots. It seems Tails' plan is working. The majority of the robots were lured by the huge attack Sonic led at the main entrance. They ran down the corridor and walked into a wide open room. Across from the room was a giant pair of doors.
"Is this the place?" Eclipse asks as he walks up to the door.
"No, this is where Eggman does his experiments. Kind of like his research lab in short." Shadow answers.
Infinite put his ear near the door for precautions. His ear twitched a couple times. He looks back at the brothers, "There are robots in here."
"The idea is to avoid anyone until we reach Blaze. There has to be a way around." Shadow says, then looks around for an alternative path.
Eclipse and Infinite look around as well, but they had no luck. They turn their gaze back to Shadow and the ebony hedgehog sighs. Shadow walks up to the door and slowly pushes it open. He peaks his head in to see a robot on a computer in the far distance. Two other robots were walking around said they were patrolling the area. Shadow leaned in a bit further to see a robot next to a capsule which seems to have something inside of it, but it was hard to see because of the green liquid. Shadow slowly backs away and closes the door quietly.
He turns to the others, "We have four robots in the room. One on a computer on one side of the room straight ahead, two robots walking around, and one more sitting next to a capsule."
"Which means one of us has to take out two." Eclipse confirms.
Shadow nods his head and continues, "Infinite, you can take out the one standing in front of the computer, Eclipse, you take out the one near the capsule and I'll handle the two roaming around. But I noticed a couple things we can stand on above, so we'll go in unnoticed. Ready?"
Both nodded their heads, so Shadow walks quietly to the door and softly pushes against the door. He peaks his head in and looks around. After a few seconds, Shadow creeps in slowly with the other two following him. Shadow looks up and jumps up on top the line of pipes. Eclipse and Infinite jumped up and went their separate directions. Shadow creeps to a clueless robot and looks for the other robot. He sees it walking away from the robot at the capsule towards the door. Then, he looks up to see both Infinite and Eclipse looking at him for the cue to attack.
Shadow held out three of his fingers for a countdown. Shadow mouthed the words, three, two, one. Eclipse and Infinite jumped down and punched a hole into the robots. Shadow ground pounded the robots under him. He looks over to the other robot who looks at him.
"Chaos Spear!"
Shadow threw his attack, impaling the robot. All the robots were out of commission, Shadow runs to the computer and searches for Blaze's location. Infinite and Eclipse ran and joined him.
"What are you doing?" Eclipse asks as he watched his brother.
"Looking for the best route to get to Blaze, so we can save her quickly." Shadow affirms, eyes glued to the computer screen. "Seems like going down this hallway will lead to her." The ebony hedgehog points to the door on the left of them.
Eclipse looks back at his brother, "Check the security cameras to see if any robots will be in the way."
"Good idea," Shadow says. "Let's see... seems like there are a few robots, but we can avoid them judging from the rooms."
"Do you see Metal Sonic 3.0?" Infinite asked. "They only seen the regular Metal Sonic and not 3.0."
Shadow changes the camera and sees Metal Sonic 3.0 walking around.
"Well that answers my question." Infinite murmurs as he stared at the screen.
"What is he doing? And why isn't he assisting the other robots in the scuffle?" Eclipse queries.
Shadow eyes widens, then turns to the others, "Thats the room Blaze is in. He's guarding her in case we get there."
Infinite's scoffs, "Damn it, but it makes sense. I'd imagine that Eggman Nega is no fool."
"Hmph, then let's beat him and save Blaze." Eclipse stood away from the computer and started walking to the door. Shadow and Infinite follows, and walks through the doorway.
