Author's Note: Here's Part 17 of the Ebony and Lavender. Shadow and Eclipse FINALLY return to the fight with a vengeance. Stuff is about to go down this time in the next chapter.

Ight I won't lie, feels like I've been dragging this fight on. I can't help but feel like I am because this fight has been going on for what...3-4 chapters?

I'm trying not to write long chapters because who'd want to read a 6k+ word chapter? (Even though I made chapters that long before lol)

Anyway, I got something in works for you guys and I think you all will like it so stay tuned!

Thank you for reading, tell me what you think in the comments, and as always I hope you enjoy!


"Take this!" Nega roars loudly.

The Egg Dragoon aims its arm cannon at the heroes racing towards them. Volleys of Chaos blasts were shot from the hand cannon. Explosions sound off around the area as the heroes maneuvers around the Chaos blasts. Sonic speeds through the attack and made his way near the reactor.

"Oh no, you don't!" Eggman reacts quickly as he scrambles across his controls

The Egg Dragon brought forth it's drill arm and makes a vertical throw towards where Sonic was running. Sonic smirks at this, then moves faster. He dodges out of the drill's way, then boosts toward the reactor.

"Darn it!" Nega grinds his teeth in frustration.

The Egg Dragoon attempts to move away, but Sonic was moving too fast for their attempt to be successful. Sonic was merely seconds away from the reactor. The blue blur began to spindash at the reactor.

"Sonic look out!" Tails calls from behind him, but he was too late.

WHAM!

"Aagh, " Sonic was knocked away with a powerful attack from his right side.

Sonic catches his footing and lands safely away from the Egg Dragoon. He finally looks up to see his adversary. Metal Sonic stood in front of him menacingly. Its red eyes fixated on the blue blur in front of it.

Sonic scratch his head, "Metal? I thought I dealt with you earlier?"

"THAT GOO COULD NOT CONTAIN ME, " Metal Sonic states monotonously.

Sonic shrugs his shoulders, "Oh well, you've only come here to get your metal butt kicked with the two Eggbreaths over there."

"You're jokes are becoming worse and worse each time, " Knuckles growls in annoyance.

Sonic whips his head towards the red echidna, "Better than anything you could ever come up with!"

"Knuckles has a point. You were a lot better at insulting Dr. Eggman before, but you've been declining, " Silver spoke nonchalantly.

"Hey, it's not my fault I can't get a better script!" Sonic yells at Silver, flustered.

"Come on guys! Stay focused! We're fighting two Eggmen remember!?" Amy yells, an aggravated scowl on her face.

"Oh no, by all means. Continue telling the self-centered hedgehog that his jokes are bad please, " Eggman chuckles in delight.

Nega face-palms himself at his partner having a laughing session in the middle of their fight. He shrugs off his comrade and glares at the heroes in front if him. They were occupied from their supposed argument that started.

"Since they're not paying attention, why don't I go on the offensive," Nega began to grin to himself.

The Egg Dragoon move its arm cannon and aims it directly at the heroes. Amy turns her head as a charging sound was made behind her. Her eyes widens as she sees a bright green light illuminating from the arm of the Egg Dragoon.

"GUYS LOOK OUT!" Amy exclaims as she points at the Egg Dragoon.

Knuckles clenches his teeth, then turns to everyone else, "SCATTER!"

"Fire!" Nega roars.

A large chaos blast was shot from it's arm cannon. Everyone began to move quickly. They've dispersed away from each other safely.

BOOM!

The energy shot caused an explosion against the ground. The energy shot was enough to cause the ground to shake. Something was not right as Tails began to look around to see anything was abnormal. He ran towards the edge to see lava flows began to swish around in a slight violent manner. Tails looks back at the Egg Dragoon who was wildly shooting energy shots at the team of heroes running around it, missing each shot as collateral damage was occurring from the surrounding area.

Tails bit the bottom of his lip, 'We can not drag this fight on for too much longer.'

Tails ran back to join the fray, dodging a few energy shots. Sonic ran around at high speeds along with Metal Sonic. The two were trading blows with one another in a blur as they fought. Sonic decides to change the pace and slows down, watching Metal Sonic speed passed him. Metal looks over to Sonic and makes a U-turn. Metal began to curl up into a spindash and blast towards the blue blur. Sonic smirks, then jump out of the way. Knuckles was behind him and swung a haymaker at the curled robot.

WHAM!

The force of Knuckles punch cause Metal Sonic to uncurl as it takes in the impact of Knuckles' brute strength. Metal Sonic flings away as it skids across the ground. Sonic lands on the ground and smirks at the red echidna. Both of them nod their heads, then dash quickly towards the azure robot. Metal Sonic recovers its footing and looks up to see Sonic and Knuckles running towards him quickly. Before Metal Sonic could react, Sonic ran faster then suddenly appears next to the robot. Sonic does a spinning kick towards the back of Metal's head. Metal parry's Sonic attack, places a hand on Sonic's tan chest, then shoves Sonic away. It turns its attention towards Knuckles who was only a few feet away charging up a punch. As anticipated, Knuckles throws a wild punch right towards Metal's head. Metal slightly moves its head out of the way of the attack then proceeds to counter. Knuckles realizes and turns his body to face Metal quickly. Metal clenches its first and swings right towards the red echidna's abdomen.

"Oh no, you don't!" Knuckles moves his hand quickly to block.

The block was successful, but Metal began to act quickly. Metal spins itself clockwise and does a backhand attack. Knuckles ducks under and responds with a body shot. Metal staggers slightly as Knuckles began to pounce on him. Metal recovers quickly and dashes around the red echidna, catching him off guard. Metal winds up an attack to knock Knuckles away.

"Take this!" A cocky voice sounds off to the right side of Metal.

Sonic appears next to Metal and rams into it away from Knuckles. Sonic boosts through the area as he pushes Metal with the force of his speed. Metal reacts quickly and kicks Sonic away, knocking the blue blur into the Egg Dragoon. The Egg Dragoon stops its assault and sees Sonic right below.

Eggman cracks a wide grin on his face, "Oho Sonic, fancy seeing you right there!"

Sonic looks up to see Egg Dragoon driving its drill arm right at him.

"Woah!" Sonic rolls under the drill arm. Sonic looks up at Eggman and sticks his tongue at him.

Eggman grunts in annoyance, "Why you little!"

WHACK!

"W-What the-, " Nega turns around to see Silver using his telekinetic powers as he throws large heaps of metal at him.

Silver motions his hand then fiercely pushes his hand at the mech. The metal parts began to crash right into the Egg Dragoon, pushing it back from Sonic. Blaze assists on the attack and began crashing into the Egg Dragoon in quick succession, proceeding to knock the mech slightly as she hits it with fierce kicks into its body.

"You annoying pests, " Nega roars in agitation as he scrambles across his controls.

The Egg Dragoon retaliates by shooting rockets from the turrets around its body while simultaneously swing its drill arm at the metal scraps. Omega steps forth and prioritizes its target right at the last shield reactor. Omega shoots multiple rockets at its target. A sensor goes off which notifies both Eggmen. 'Projectiles Incoming' were the words on their screen before displaying multiple rockets moving towards them.

"They are aiming for the reactor!" Eggman exclaims loudly.

Nega clenches his teeth, "Protect it!"

The Egg Dragoon's turrets avert its direction away from the heroes and face the rockets heading towards them. Bullets were making its way at the rockets causing explosions in response. A few rockets were still intact as they inch closer and closer.

"Metal Sonic! Destroy those rockets, now!" Eggman commands sternly.

Metal Sonic bolt towards the rockets, stands between the rockets, and the Egg Dragoon. Metal charges itself up then blast its yellow laser beam at the rockets. The azure robot successfully destroyed the rockets with its laser beam.

Eggman grins in satisfaction, "Great job, Metal Sonic!"

"Don't think it's safe yet!" Silver held up a spike ball with his telekinesis.

He hurls it straight for the reactor. Nega reacts quickly on the controls. The Egg Dragoon aims it arm cannon at the spike ball and destroys it with a Chaos shot.

"Everyone surround them and attack together!" Knuckles roars ferociously.

Everyone follows Knuckles' command and surround the Egg Dragoon. Both Eggmen twirl their heads around at the heroes moving around them in an alerted manner. Blaze and Silver attack together with their powers from the right side of the mech, Sonic and Tails spindash while Amy swings her hammer from the left side, Rouge and Omega attack with their explosives from behind, and Knuckles and Infinite powers in from the front. Metal Sonic moves quickly and began zooming around the mech in a circle. It was moving so fast that a wind began to pick up and turn into a tornado as a defense. Sonic uncurls himself before going in and moves at high speeds towards Metal Sonic. Sonic homes in on Metal Sonic and slams right into the azure doppelganger, successfully foiling Metal Sonic's attempt.

Sonic uncurls, spinning kick Metal Sonic away, then face everyone else, "Get em, guys!"

Everyone intensifies their attack and lunge at the reactor of the Egg Dragoon. They were a few meters away from smash the reactor.

Eggman Nega turns to Eggman quickly, "Eggman! Use the Master Emerald's power now!"

Eggman scrambles over a few buttons, then slams the green colored button hastily. The Egg Dragoon drops the armor hiding the Master Emerald and the energy began to surround the Egg Dragoon quickly than the first time it was shown. Knuckles widens his eyes at the sight and slightly wavers before regaining his ferocity. Now was not the time to hesitate. Everyone was only inches away from getting their hands on the reactor. Eggman Nega opens his mouth in fear of them successfully destroying the only protection they had against the heroes. Eggman looks down towards the reactor, eyes glued to the reactor and heroes that are merely milliseconds away from each other. Suddenly, a clicking sound was made from the Master Emerald. The energy that was surround the Egg Dragoon implodes, then exerts itself away from the body of the Egg Dragoon to create a shockwave.

"Gaaaaah!" Everyone yells as the shockwave blows everyone away from the Egg Dragoon.

Everyone skids across the floor as the shockwave carries them away a good distance.

Blaze catches her footing then slams her hand against the ground in frustration, "We almost had them! We have to try again!"

"As if we'd let you get the chance!" Eggman Nega laughs maliciously.

The Egg Dragoon takes the offensive and began shooting a volley of Chaos blasts towards the heroes who were not ready.

"Everyone look out," Blaze cries out to the others who were not looking.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Multiple explosions surround the Egg Dragoon as it shot more and more. The heroes were evading the volley Chaos shots but the shots were a lot more quicker than normal. One of them zoom towards Blaze, so she jumps over the blast. Unfortunately, Silver was behind her oblivious to the blast coming for him.

"Ugh!" Silver collapses to the ground violently.

"Silver!" Blaze cries out to her best friend.

Everyone turns their attention to Blaze's screaming voice and sees Silver sprawled out on the ground holding his left side. Blaze ran towards Silver and pulls up a tall wall made of fire. She held her concentration as she struggles to repel the shots in order to protect Silver. Amy runs to Silver and kneels besides him to look over him. She turns his body over to see the energy from the shot is radiating off Silver's ribcage. Amy widens her eyes in distraught as Silver clutches his body in pain.

"Is Silver alright?" Sonic slows down and walks towards Amy.

Amy looks up at Sonic in worry, "He's in pain right now. It's the same as what happened to Shadow!"

A shocked expression spreads across Sonic's face, "You mean the energy draining thing?"

"Yes," Sonic turns his attention towards Blaze who still held her wall of fire up high. She continues, "We need someone to get that remaining energy off his body before it drains him!"

"We need Eclipse!" Amy calls out to Sonic, worry still covering her demeanor.

"But he's tending Shadow right now," Rouge flies in with the others right behind her. Rouge turns her attention to Omega, "Omega, help Blaze stop those shots from blowing us to bits!"

"AFFIRMATIVE!" Omega rungs around to the side of the fire wall, charges up the power of its Chaos Emerald, then shot volley of Chaos shots back at the Eggmen.

Rouge turns her gaze back to Amy and Silver, "He's with Shadow right now. He can't leave him since Shadow was nearly drained of everything."

"But we can't leave Silver like this, can we?" Amy queries.

"It's fine," Amy looks over to see Silver getting up, still clutching his side. He grins, "This is nothing."

"You can't fight with that still eating your energy away," Infinite steps in from of Silver and motions him to sit down. "If you fight, you'd only drain your energy more until you have none left."

"Well, there has to be something we can do," Knuckles says, uncertainty reigning in on his tone.

"Well make it quick," Blaze yells loudly. "I can't hold this up for too long!"

Everyone remains silent as Blaze and Omega deflects all the blasts coming from the Egg Dragoon.

Eggman Nega began to grin widely, "What's wrong rodents!? You had us trapped just a few seconds ago!? Now the tables have turned!"

"Never underestimate the combined intellect of two intellectual scientists!" Eggman began to do his usual cackle.

The Egg Dragoon began to shoot heavier and more powerful shots at the wall of fire. One of the shots made it through the fire above the heroes' heads. Everyone gasps as the shot flies passed behind them.

BOOM!

An explosion was made from behind the heroes, sending a shockwave that caused the ground to shake slightly. Omega was still shooting more of his Chaos shots at the volley of shots the Eggmen shot. They were beginning to disintegrate from the power of the Master Emerald.

Eggman looks over at Omega in disgust, "Omega, haven't you realized that your power isn't making any difference?"

"Allow me to take out the trash," Eggman Nega turns the arm cannon towards Omega, then fired at the terminator.

Omega sees the shot coming charges up its shot. Green lights illuminate from the arm cannons of Omega's arm.

"FIRE!" Omega fires two large lasers at the large blast coming its way.

The two energy shots clash with each other immediately, but the power from the Eggmen were already proven too much for the E-Series robot.

Omega 's feet began to slide slowly on the ground from the force of the clash, but Omega held its ground, "INITIATING MAXIMUM OUTPUT. 100% TO 150% POWER!"

Omega puts more power in its laser and forced them to be larger in size. The sudden change in power began to waver the energy shot from the Eggman as Omega started to push the energy shot back slowly.

Eggman widens his eyes in surprise, "I didn't think you had this much power in your storage Omega! How intriguing!"

Nega grunts in response, "It doesn't matter! It's not enough to stop us!"

The Egg Dragoon charges up the energy in its arm cannon. A bright, green light shines from the barrel of the cannon as it aims right at the two blasts.

"Fire!" Nega slams the button.

A large, green energy blast shot from the arm cannon and made its way towards the energy clashing against each other. The larger blast merges with the weaker one, then turns into a larger energy shot from before. It completely blows through Omega's laser and quickly made its way towards Omega who stood there at its wake.

BOOM!

A loud explosion was made and it shook the whole area around the heroes. Next thing they know, Omega was flying away from them through the smoke. The E-Series robot lie on the ground motionless with its once red lit eyes dimming to black.

Rouge held her hand out as she seen her teammate has fallen, "Omega!"

Knuckles grabs Rouge's arm quickly when she began to fly over to her robotic friend, "Don't go over there! You'll get shot with him!"

Rouge turns her head towards the red echidna, panicking, "But I have to help him!"

"It won't do Omega no good if you get hurt too!" Knuckles retorts.

Rouge attempts to pry herself off the echidna's grip, "I have to help him! I can't leave him like that!"

"Rouge-," Knuckles began.

"Time to take out the rest of the trash," Nega roars loudly, catching the attention of everyone.

The Egg Dragoon fires another large energy shot straight at the fire wall. The energy shot pierces through the fire wall causing Blaze to flinch. The energy shot breaks through then lit up.

WHOOSH! BOOOOOOOOOOM!

The whole area was lit green as the explosion weighs in through the environment. Everyone was rolling across the ground from the impact. Silver reacts quickly, jumps up, then catch all his friends with his telekinesis. He brings everyone safely to the ground below him. Silver lowers himself and pants heavily as he held his ribcage. He then collapses onto the floor as his energy was being drained more and more.

"Silver," Blaze sat up and crawled over to the white hedgehog. "Why did you do that?"

"What?" Silver looks up slightly to face the lavender feline.

"You made a shield at the last second to protect us from the explosion," Blaze furrows her eyebrows.

Silver chuckles, "I couldn't let you guys get hurt."

"How touching!" Blaze whips her head to see the Egg Dragoon charging up another energy shot.

"However, your attempt has only delayed the inevitable," Nega laughs loudly. "Hahahahaha, you can't save your princess this time, Silver! Now it is time to rid you all, once and for all!"

The electricity surrounds the arm cannon to show that more power was being exerted from the Master Emerald. Blaze stood up and faced the Eggmen with no sign of fear on her.

"Blaze..." Silver coughs out as he looks over to his lilac friend.

Sonic stood up with Blaze as he joins her at facing the Eggmen. He turns toward Silver and grins, "Don't worry your head Silver. We are not losing."

"That's right," Knuckles stood next to the Sonic and Blaze. "We're not giving up just yet!"

Tails helps Amy up then looks at Blaze, "We've got your back no matter what!"

Infinite stood up with his fists clenched, "Plus I don't like the idea of dying."

"I can agree with that, Snow White," Rouge smirks at the jackal.

Infinite grunts but smirks, "At least we can agree on something."

Blaze looks around at her friends standing up with their strength. They were look forward to face the Egg Dragoon. Blaze moves her eyes over all of them before landing right on the Blue Blur.

"If we continue to fight together then there's nobody that can stand against us," Sonic gives Blaze a thumbs up.

Blaze stares at her friends in amazement. She was speechless at how much willpower her friends had to stand with her even if it the possibility of winning is bleak. She began to grin as she began to become more confident in herself.

"Oh, enough with the 'friendship is power' crap," Eggman Nega rolls his eyes in boredom. "I have no time for this. No matter what you do, the result will be the same."

"I don't think you've heard what Sonic said," Blaze spoke up. She faces Eggman Nega with a determined expression, "As long as we fight together, then we can not lose."

Eggman smirks at the lavender princess's challenge, "We'll just have to see about that! Let's see if you can survive this last attack then!"

The green light from the arm cannon began to shine brighter and commence the action to fire at the heroes who stood bravely against them.

"So long, heroes," Eggman says loudly.

Everyone stood their ground. All of them were tired but they were waiting for the Eggmen to fire so that they could plan a counter. They didn't speak. Didn't need to for they knew that they had to do something instead of letting the Eggmen win this battle.

"They are really foolish. They're not even trying to move," Eggman Nega points out. He turns his gaze toward Eggman, "Finish them."

"Right, it is time to seal our victo-,"

CRASH!

"Gaahhhhh!" Both Eggmen scream in unison.

The Egg Dragoon's body jerks away, causing the arm cannon to unbalance and shoot somewhere else away from both them and the heroes.

"What was that!?" Negas roars in anger.

A red exclamation point appears on his screen causing Nega's eyes to widen.

"The reactor..." Nega turns his attention to his counterpart to see him rendered speechless. "The reactor..is destroyed!"

Nega opens his mouth but words could not leave his mouth. He moves the screen around to see the reactor has been smashed to smithereens. Nega's jaws dropped down so far as he stares at the destroyed reactor in disbelief.

Sonic looks at the reactor in surprise, "Ok, what just happened?

"I don't know," Tails spoke quietly as he was confused. "Was there a malfunction?"

"No, that was not a malfunction," Blaze says quietly.

"She's right," Infinite confirms for the lavender feline.

Blaze began to smile, "You're late."

A flash of light appears in front of the heroes. Eclipse appear from the light and stood tall in front of them.

"Better late than never," Eclipse chuckles to himself.

Another light appears next to Eclipse. The being to emerge from the light stood none other than the ultimate life form himself. Shadow face the Eggmen with a calmed expression.

Nega sees the ebony hedgehog and began to slam his fist against a panel in aggravation, "I thought I ended you! You were mere roadkill!"

Shadow folds his arms, perseverance radiating from his eyes, "You can't keep me down. I've made a promise and I intend to keep it, so I'm not going to die just yet!"

Eclipse cuts his eyes at his brother, "Yeah sure. Without me, you would have been a goner."

Shadow growls in response, "Quiet!"

"Hehe, good to have you back Shadow," Sonic pats the jet-black hedgehog on the back. "Could definitely use your help here."

"I can tell," Shadow states monotonously. "You all look tired."

Knuckles gets in Shadow's face, "Hey that thing is tough! It's not easy to break!"

"Hmph, I should know. I fought it first," Shadow rolls his eyes.

Knuckles clenches his teeth, "Why you-,"

Rouge pulls on one of Knuckles' dreadlocks, "Now's not the time to be fighting each other."

"Come on guys, we're in a big fight here," Tails pleads.

Blaze laughs as her friends were their usual selves even in the heat of the moment. She turns her gaze towards Shadow who was yelling at his annoying brother. Shadow stops talking then locks eyes with the lilac cat. They remained silent as they stared at each other for a few seconds. Blaze cracks a small smile as she stares at the ebony hedgehog. Shadow blushes slightly and looks away slightly.

"Awe, look at you two," Eclipse nudges his brother from behind in a teasing manner.

Shadow turns his gaze and glares at the darkling, "Silence."

Eclipse chuckles to himself as his brother slit his eyes at him, "Sure thing."

Amy taps Eclipse's shoulder lightly, "Hey what is your name...Eclipse?"

Eclipse turns to face the sakura hedgehog, raising an eyebrow, "What is it?"

"Can you help Silver?" Amy moves herself so that Silver was visible to the darkling. "He has been struck by the same thing that hurt Shadow? Can you get that off him?"

Eclipse nods his head slowly and walks over to the white hedgehog.

He kneels down to face Silver and grins at him, "Well don't you look swell."

Silver's ear twitches at Eclipse's voice, then groans, "Now isn't...the time to hear...quips."

Eclipse chuckles to himself, then lowers his hand towards the energy draining Silver, "You should not complain when I'm helping you."

"Hehehe I guess...I shouldn't. I'm grateful for your help," Silver spoke quietly.

Eclipse pulls the energy off Silver's rib cage and crush the energy with his own. He looks at Silver, "Do you have enough energy to fight?"

"Not really but I'll manage. I have a Chaos Emerald after all." Silver sat up.

Eclipse nods his head in response then look towards the Egg Dragoon.

Eggman Nega was seething in anger as their only line of defense from there weak points dissipated. He was gripping the lever in his capsule tightly as if he could rip it off from its placement. Eggman clenches his teeth as he was disappointed. He genuinely thought that he could rid those heroes once and for all. The sweet taste of victory was within his grasp only for it to be slipped away again.

"Even if we don't have the shield to protect the mech, we can still win this," Eggman spoke through his gritting teeth. "We'll just have to be one step ahead of them."

Nega inhales and exhales slowly to regain his composure, then gave Eggman his attention, "Seems like our only possibility of winning. We'll have to combine the powers of the Master Emerald, the Chaos Emeralds, and the Sol Emerald to pulverize them."

Eggman's eye twitches slightly at the name of the Sol Emerald but remains silent.

Nega continues, "We'll use all of its power in one single attack. The only requirement is having all of them at one spot where they are immobile."

"As if we'd let that happen," Nega turns his attention to the Shadow. Shadow slots his eyes at the nefarious doctor, "You've lost your only defense. Nothing can protect you now."

Sonic steps up beside him, "Yeah, this is where it ends Eggman Nega!"

"So, we can just focus on the core below or hit the two jerks in the capsule, right?" Eclipse stood next to Shadow, cracking his knuckles.

Infinite smirks at the dark alien then turns back to the Egg Dragoon, "Correct. Now let's beat them so we can get home."

Eclipse and Shadow look towards each other and nod their heads in unison. Both of them turn to Infinite and he nods his head as well. Afterwards, they immediately spring forward at high speed towards the Egg Dragoon.

"Hey! Wait for us!" Sonic calls out and began to run after them.

Amy looks over to the others, "Let's end this! The sooner we beat Eggman, the sooner we get the home!"

Everyone roars with excitement then ran to join Shadow and the others in their assault. Eggman Nega furrows his eyebrows as he sees the heroes charging in after them. He press a few buttons as he kept his eyes on the heroes running in.

"We're going on a full offense. We cannot afford to lose this," Nega states.

Eggman nods his head, then looks over to his Sol counterpart, "I agree. Let's finish this."

Shadow was pushing hard as he run full speed towards the Egg Dragoon. Sonic zooms up to him and began running next to him.

Sonic looks over to Shadow, "So you have a plan?"

"The plan is to turn that hunk of junk into metal scrap," Shadow responds quickly.

Sonic smirks at the black hedgehog, "Heh, simple and quick. Just the way I like it. Hey, we should boost into them then use the light speed attack once the others get their attention!"

Shadow cracks a smirk himself, "Fine, don't get in my way!"