Chapter 6: Biotron's Grand Plan Revealed!

Team Sonic landed at what appears to be one of Eggman's abandoned bases. "So, it looks like Biotron is using this abandoned place as his base of operations" Knuckles says as Tails scans the building, detecting Biotron's energy signature. "Yep, definitely him alright" as Knuckles converts the surrounding kinetic energy in the area and focuses it into his fists as Knuckles lets out a powerful punch that manages to bust the door open.

"Welp, that was actually kinda easy" Knuckles says as the group goes inside. "Okay, we might as well split up" Nova says as Sonic says "Oh no we are not, everytime people split up in horror movies, they always die so i say we stick together". "Sonic might be right on that ya know" Knuckles says.

"So you managed to find my lair" a voice boomed as the group recognized who it was. "BIOTRON!" the group yelled out as Biotron continued "If you want to continue, you need to beat my Metal Generals to proceed".

The group were then separated by a bright light as they were placed in separate rooms. Sonic was placed in a massive room filled with orbs sparking with electricity. "Gee, ain't this shocking" Sonic said as he then looked at a humanoid shape in the middle of the room. It was Metal Sonic as the latter pointed towards Sonic and taunted him.

"Oh, so you're challenging me to a race, ain't cha" Sonic said as Metal began revving his engines. Sonic then began to count "1..2..3" as both rivals raced across the field, dodging lightning bolts as Metal began to ram into Sonic when the blue blur jumped up yelling "Hey, that's not fair, it's not a race when you try to hurt someone, y'know" as Metal kept ramming into Sonic, trying to push Sonic into the orbs of electricity. Sonic then jumped up and kicked Metal with enough force to send Metal into the giant orb of electricity. Metal's body then fidgeted violently as electricity coursed through its body as Metal was finally brought offline. The orbs of electricity shutted off as a massive door opened.

Sonic then jumped down from the platform, saying "Well, that sure was a decent warmup, now I can find the others and beat Biotron" Sonic said as he ran out of the room, unaware that Metal Sonic's eyes began to blink.

Knuckles was placed in a massive rocky area as a robotic shape walked towards him. It was Metal Knuckles who bumped both of its hands together. "It looks like Metal Knuckles is still ticking after all this time, if i'm to save my friends, i need to get rid of this robotic knockoff first". Metal Knuckles ran up as he then jumped on high and tried to punch Knuckles only for the red echidna to dodge out of the way as the mechanical doppelganger punched the ground instead, causing lava to suddenly erupt from the ground. Knuckles then eyes Metal Knuckles as the echidna rushes towards the robot and manages to punch it straight into the lava. Knuckles then notices a platform ahead and jumps onward as the massive door opens, allowing Knuckles to escape. Metal Knuckles' eyes then blinked before submerging into the lava.

Tails was put into a room filled with windmills when he saw a robotic duplicate of him. Metal Tails then flew forward as it morphed it's right arm to a cannon that fired off a tornado. Tails then tried to fly, only for him to suddenly get sucked in. The robot Tails then flew in and locked on to Tails as a red dot appeared on Tails' forehead. Tails then saw a floating platform near him as Tails then spun his tails to fly. Metal Tails then begins to charge his cannon as Tails whips out his own cannon, charging more energy as the robotic duplicate shoots his own blast. Tails creates a forcefield that reflects the blast.

Metal Tails then dodges his own shot as Tails finishes charging as Tails shoots a powerful energy blast that destroys his metal counterpart. Tails then sees a giant door opening as Tails notices that Metal Tail's eyes were blinking. "Why are they blinking?" Tails thinks as he says "Did Biotron expect me to win?".

Nova was put into a room with a giant furnace in the middle. He notices a silhouette in front of the furnace. The figure was metallic red with yellow glowing eyes, orange shoes that mimicked Nova's and two massive flamethrowers were placed on its arms. "So there is a robot clone of me too? Why do bad guys always make robot copies of the good guys?" Nova thought to himself when Metal Nova used the flamethrower on the left arm to fire off a blast of heat towards Nova. Nova easily jumped out of the way as the robotic counterpart kept on using its flamethrowers.

"Crap, if i don't do something, then he's gonna fry me alive" when he notices something. Metal Nova is absorbing the heat from the furnace into it's quills. "So that's it then, if i somehow douse that furnace, then Metal Me is powerless, now how am i gonna douse the fire?". Nova looks around when he sees a cauldron of water hanging on a massive chain. "Wait, how is there even a thing of water in here?" but before he could ponder that plot contrivance, Metal Nova starts to fire onto Nova who jumped onto the moving platforms, perfrorming superhuman acrobatic feats as Nova jumped onto the chain the pot was holding on to when Nova yanked on the chain. The pot was then lowered until it was inches from the furnace. Nova jumped off the chain and used his homing attack to spill enough water to douse the furnace, leaving Metal Nova open to attack as Nova ran over, unsheathing his sword and delivering a horizontal slice to destroy the robotic copy.

Nova then sheathed his sword when he notices the giant door opening but not before noticing the sliced robot's eyes blinking as he realizes "Wait a minute, did Biotron really want me to win, does this have to do with his plan?". When Nova wasn't looking, the head then spits out a small piece of itself onto Nova.

Nova then walks out when he sees Sonic, Knuckles and Tails waiting for him. "Well, Biotron really put us all in the ringer, didn't he?" Sonic says as Tails says "Weird, if Biotron wanted to kill us then he wouldn't have sent us to separate rooms filled with our robotic copies, unless…". Knuckles replied "Biotron might've wanted us to fight them for a reason, but it still doesn't make sense, why make us fight them?". Sonic says "Yeah, my fight with Metal Sonic was way too easy, almost if it was done on purpose".

The group were then teleported to one final room together as they both saw a massive machine in the middle when they saw a similar humanoid shape inside. "So you actually managed to defeat my Metal Generals, just like I anticipated."

Knuckles then speaks up "Okay Biotron, there's something fishy about this I don't like, what's going on here?". "Well, that's obviously simple fleshling, it's all according to plan, this machine where i'm currently resting in is a machine enhancing unit, designed by my 'father' Eggman to enhance his robotic creations, however the machine consumes massive amounts of energy to enhance just one of his Badniks, under normal circumstances, this machine would be of no use to me, however, thanks to my knowledge of Hyper-Go-On the possibility of my evolution is now a reality" as Biotron snaps his fingers together which sent a massive shock around Nova's body.

"w..What did you do?" Nova said in an angry tone "When you weren't looking i had one of my Metal Generals attach a small piece of myself to you, allowing me to drain the Hyper-Go-On in your body" as Nova's whole body started to weaken while Biotron, inside the machine, was starting to aggressively mutate into his final form. Sonic commented "Whatever Biotron is doing to himself in that machine, it's starting to make him stronger." The machine started to fritz as Knuckles yelled "Everyone, get down!" as they all ducked down only for the machine to suddenly stop.

Sonic then said "Is Biotron done?" while Tails uses his tablet to scan the machine, concluding that Biotron's power level has significantly risen. Suddenly, the latch that was holding Biotron opened as a tall humanoid shape stood up, concealed only by the smoke that was pouring from the machine. "w…What happened?" Nova faintly said as he could barely stand up. "So this must be what i was meant to be" Biotron's voice emanated as the smoke now cleared out,revealing his new menacing frame. Biotron has become more humanoid in appearance, grew to become 4'20 ft, his chrome metallic armor is now purple with black accents, his eyes are now covered by a visor, his markings are now black, he grew a massive dinosaur-esque tail and a X appears on his chest-plate. "w..What did you do?" Nova said faintly as Biotron explained "This was all part of the plan you see, during our last bout, i realized that my body had a significant flaw, my ability to regenerate, while potent, had a massive drawback where it could only take so much damage at once..however, during my time in that Time Void, i saw a vision of Dr Eggman, Dr Gero and Dr Myuu creating me when one of them said that they should reduce the power of my regeneration because he claims that it would make me easier to control".

"So that's it, Eggman must have known that Biotron's regenerative capabilities would make him an uncontrollable threat" Tails thought to himself. "By harnessing Nova's Hyper-Go-On and using this machine, I was able to destroy the inhibitor chip that was holding back my full capabilities and now I can accomplish my master plan". Biotron snapped his fingers as something was brought up from the launchpad in the room. It resembled a massive laser cannon. "During my visit to this place, not only did i find this Badnik Enhancer but i also found a certain virus that can turn people to machines".

"y..You mean the Zombot Virus? I thought we got rid of it?" Sonic said as Biotron explained "Well, you would call it a virus but in my receptors, i would call it 'salvation', this is no ordinary Zombot virus, this is a modified strain that can not be cured, your time existing is over fleshlings, in all but a few moments, all of life on earth would be converted to machines" as Biotron then inserted the virus into another machine. "What is that?" Nova said as Biotron replied "This machine will synthesize the virus and convert it into particles, spreading into the air and infecting anyone who breathes it in".

"n..No, i refuse to.." Nova tried to say before he was kicked away by Biotron. "Fool, i refuse to have anyone interfere, not even a lowly rodent and his pathetic friends will stop me". Biotron then grabbed Nova by the head and tried to use his other hand to stab Nova, until he was stopped by Sonic who said "No one hurts my friend Biotron".

"Heh, the basic primal instinct of the friendship, how primitive" Biotron said as he tossed Nova to the side. "Why even do this, what is the purpose of a world of machines" Sonic said.

"It's because of you fleshlings and your illogical actions that the machines must rule, time and time again, you were given the chance to stop, the chance to make things better but your will to enact violence and your carnal desires is what brought the world into ruin".

"What ruin? It was fine before you showed up, you're no better than anyone" Tails yelled out as Biotron replied "Don't you dare lecture me on whether i'm moral or not, your kind is what gave rise to all of the economical and political problems, who converted nature into a resource? Who started wars? Who decided to elect Joe Biden? It was you, you're the cause of every issue and I'm the one who will solve it now fleshlings, time to die" Biotron said as he charged a massive energy blast in his right hand. Suddenly, Biotron's blast was negated as a massive field of energy surrounded the group. "w..What? How?" Biotron said confused as a red wisp flies towards Nova and begins charging Hyper-Go-On into him. "What is he doing? Doesn't he realize that it's going to kill him this time?" Knuckles said as Sonic explains "Of course he knows but he doesn't care, Nova was the one who saved him and it's time that he returns the favor" as Nova's body was surrounded in a flaming aura. "What? What's going on?" Biotron said as Nova floated in the air and his aura flared up.

Nova floated back down as his appearance had changed, his quills are longer and stood up, making it flame-like and his yellow eyes are more golden colored. Biotron says "So, assimilating the wisp has caused you to mutate into this form, interesting" when he suddenly manifests a tendril on his right hand and tries to strike Nova with it, before the latter catches it with his left hand.. Sonic says "Wait..did he actually catch it that fast?" as Nova suddenly rips the tendril off of Biotron's right hand.

"Hmm, not only have you changed, but your fusion with that wisp has increased your combat capabilities as well". Nova just stared straight into Biotron who said "Now what is it Nova, do you admit defeat or do you wish to continue our little conversation, either way you will suffer the fate as the other fleshlings". Nova just walked straight and yelled "Biotron". "Oh, so you do wish to try to defy me" Biotron gloated as Nova said "Well, i can't beat the crap out of you without getting any closer" which made Biotron chuckle and say "Well, come as close as you like, either way, you will die" as both walked towards each other, auras surrounding them as the final battle begins.

End of Ch 6.