Chapter 39, Eggman's counter attack.

New metropolis, Robotnik towers.

To say that Eggman was angry was an understatement, he had just learned about the prisoner break out on the Death EGG and he was now ready to strangle someone with his bear hands.

"Doctor you really should calm down, all this anger isn't good for your blood pressure" said Orbot, Eggman's response was to slap the red robot across the room, "SILENCE" he screamed.

"Where is Infinite, I said that I wanted that useless jackal here over ten minuets ago" growled Eggman as he slammed his fist into his desk so hard that it left a dent, "I already called him boss, but he didn't sound happy" said Cubot moving away in fear of his creator, "He's not happy, I'M NOT HAPPY" shouted Eggman almost hitting Cubot.

At that moment Infinite walked through the door looking just as unhinged as the last time Eggman had seen him, "What do you want, I was busy burning a village when you called, oh you should have heard their screams as they tried to escape from their burning homes" he said becoming giddy at the memory.

"Infinite you half-arsed excuse of a mercenary, you failed me and you lied to me, I should have your cybernetics ripped from your body" shouted Eggman completely forgetting about Infinite's current mental state, unfortunately Eggman was soon reminded of this.

Infinite fired a blast of energy that knocked Eggman out of his chair and against the window leaving a large crack, "Don't ever talk to me like that, I am Infinite, I am the most powerful being this world has ever known" he said his voice becoming distorted by the power of the Phantom ruby.

Eggman was sweating, he was quickly realising that he had made a mistake, Metal sonic had already moved between Eggman and Infinite and was ready to attack the insane jackal.

Eggman quickly stood up and tried to defuse the situation, he didn't know how a fight between Metal sonic and Infinite would go but he was sure that he wouldn't survive the cross fire of such a battle.

"Now Infinite I'm sorry about that, I'm just a little upset lately since the Resistance broke Sonic and the other prisoners out of the Death EGG" said Eggman trying to sound as friendly as possible, "I told you to just kill them all, this was your mistake, not mine" huffed Infinite clearly unamused.

"Yes, yes, I suppose that was my error" said Eggman desperate not to provoke Infinite again, "But there was something else, my cameras showed that Shadow was fighting with the Resistance, I thought that you killed him".

Everything became dead silent for several seconds, the air around Infinite turned red and started to crack as power radiated from the Phantom ruby,"Shadow, Shadow is alive" said Infinite in a voice that was barely more than a whisper.

"How can Shadow be alive" said Infinite as he unleashed a wave of energy that was so powerful that it even knocked Metal sonic down, Eggman was shaking in fear, Orbot and Cubot was cowering in the corner and Metal sonic was quickly getting back to his feet.

Just then the Phantom ruby sparkled and Infinite looked down at it, "Yes, yes, Shadow was always hard to keep down wasn't he, yes, we'll just have to try harder next time" he said, Eggman looked at Infinite in confusion "Infinite, who are you talking to" he asked in a voice that was barely more than a squeak however he was ignored by the jackal.

"Yes, we'll find Shadow, and we'll make him pay for everything that he's done" said Infinite still looking at the Phantom ruby in his chest.

Infinite fired a blast of energy from his left hand and blew a hole in the wall, "We'll draw you out Shadow, we'll have our revenge" he thought as he flew out of the hole and away from New metropolis.

It took a moment for everyone in the room to recover after what happened, "Well, that could have gone better" said Orbot, however Eggman wasn't listening he was far to deep in thought, "Infinite has completely lost his mind, I need to end this war soon so I can focus my efforts on stopping him" he thought.

"Orbot, Cubot go and get some robots to fix this wall" said Eggman, "Yes sir, Dr Robotnik" said the two robots as they left the room, with his aid bots gone Eggman turned to Metal sonic, "We can't wait any longer, it's time that we take down G,U,N".

Eggman opened one of the draws of his desk and pulled out the green Chaos emerald, "You know what to do" he said as he handed the Chaos emerald to Metal sonic.

Empire city.

Empire city was currently peaceful, this city had been under G,U,N's protection since the start of the war and they had very little reason to worry about the Eggman empire breaking thought G,U,N's defences.

However little did the people know that a very dangerous threat was currently watching them from the sky.

High above the city Infinite was floating in place and he had not calmed down in the slightest since he had learned that Shadow was alive.

Infinite looked down at the city and smiled, there was many G,U,N agents patrolling the streets and there was an entire fleet of airships above the city ready to blast anything that came too close, "Yes, this will do" said Infinite talking to himself.

Infinite gathered his power and several thousands of his red cubes appeared, the cubes came together in six different balls, soon the balls began to form into their intended shaped and then huge 50 foot copies of the Deadly six appeared.

The giant Deadly six copies all fell from the sky and began to cause chaos in the city, Zik landed on a skyscraper and started to jump from building to building while throwing his stick at people below, Zomom landed in the middle of a street and began to eat every car in sight.

Infinite laughed at the destruction that was being caused, "This should draw out Shadow, and when we see him we'll make his suffering infinite".

G,U,N HQ.

Commander Tower was being updated on the Resistance's successfully rescue of Sonic and the others when an alarm went off, "What's happening" he said, he knew that this alarm meant that one of their main defence forces was under attack.

"Sir, it seems that Empire city in under attack by giant monsters" said a G,U,N agent who was on a computer, "Get it on screen" ordered Commander Tower.

The agent pressed a few keys and images of Empire city under attack by the giant Deadly six appeared for everyone to see, Commander Tower slammed his fist onto his chair's arm in frustration.

"Prepare to launch a strike team, we can't afford to lose that city" said Commander Tower, however before anyone could carry out their orders the was a terrible rumble throughout the base and more alarms sounded.

"What now" asked Commander Tower, "Sir, we're under attack, a huge squad of Eggman's robots have just broken into the base, according to our men Metal sonic is with them" said an agent with worry clear in his voice.

Commander Tower stood up with determination in his eyes, "All agents ready for combat, I want everyone that can hold a gun to defend this base to their last breath, we are the main defence of Earth if we fall then so does the planet" he said inspiring the troops.

"Commander, what about Empire city" asked Agent Topaz, "Send word to the Resistance, they'll have to hold the line until we can get there, but first we have to survive, no win this battle" said Commander Tower, Topaz nodded and left the room to carry out her orders.

Commander Tower walked to the door and activated his communicator, "I want the Diablon mech ready for combat when I arrive" he said to the R&D team, "But Sir, are you sure" asked an agent through the communicator, "You heard me, I will not just sit here while this base is under attack, I'm joining this fight" said Commander Tower.

Resistance HQ, Infirmary.

Sonic was laying in his hospital bed, despite Vanilla's treatment every part of his body still hurt, Sonic wasn't sure which was worst the pain that he was currently in or the fact that there was people out there that needed help and yet he was in bed doing nothing.

The door opened and Amy walked in "Hi Sonic, feeling better", ever since Sonic had been rescued Amy had been visiting him every day, Sonic had to admit it was nice to see a friendly face after everything that he had been through, "Hi Amy" he said with a half smile.

Amy sat down in a chair that was next to Sonic's bed "Vanilla said that your recovering well and she hopes that you'll be on your feet again before long", "I don't feel any better" said Sonic as his ribs gave another spike of pain.

Just then Knuckles's voice came from Amy's communicator "Amy, we need you in the War room now" he said, "Knuckles what's wrong" asked Amy annoyed that her time with Sonic was being interrupted, "It's G,U,N, they say that Empire city's under attack by giant monsters and they need help" said Knuckles.

Upon hearing this Sonic tried to sit up but winced when he felt more pain, "Sonic don't, your still not well enough to help" said Amy as she forced him to lie down, "But I can't just sit here while a whole city's under attack" argued Sonic.

"We don't have a choice, none of us are in any conditions to fight, we would only get in the way" said Blaze from her own hospital bed, "But" said Sonic, "No buts Sonic, leave this to us, we've handled things this long without you, we can handle this" said Amy making her point clear.

Resistance HQ, War room.

Amy ran into the War room and found everyone there waiting for a full briefing on the situation, "How bad is it" asked Amy, "Very bad" said Rouge stepping forward "I just got a call from Topaz, she said that Empire city's being attacked by giant versions of the Deadly six" she explained.

"I would have thought that G,U,N could handle something like that by themselves" said Silver, "Usually they could, but G,U,N HQ is currently under attack, they can't send any backup to the city" explained Rouge.

At this Shadow's attention was spiked, "G,U,N HQ is under attack, by how many" he asked, "A lot, and according to Topaz Metal sonic was leading the attack" said Rouge sounding worried about their alias.

"What are we going to do" asked Amy, "We need to get to Empire city, we have to save those people" said Silver, "You can go, I'm heading to G,U,N HQ" said Shadow shocking everyone into silence.

"What, but what about the people of Empire city" asked Amy, Shadow had a very serious look on his face "If G,U,N falls then every major city in the world will be defenceless, I can't let that happen" he said.

"Rouge, Omega are you two coming" asked Shadow, "Sure thing, G,U,N are the one's who write my pay checks" said Rouge, "Affirmative, I would never decline a chance to destroy Eggman's robots" said Omega.

Shadow pulled out the yellow Chaos emerald which he had grabbed from the Resistance's stock earlier and teleported himself Rouge and Omega away.

"Let Shadow go, he makes a good point anyway, we need to focus of Empire city" said Knuckles, "We need to send whoever we can to protect that city".

"Right, I'll gather all of the airships that I can" said Silver, "I'll ready the Tornado 2" said Tails, "Good, if Eggman thinks that we'll run from a few giant monsters then he's even crazier then we thought" said Knuckles.