Chapter 41, The toughest of terrors.
G,U,N HQ, East wing.
Team Dark appeared in G,U,N HQ and was greeted by a alarming sight, there was countless EGG gunners, silver EGG pawns and E-2000s firing at the G,U,N solders who was fighting to defend their base.
Shadow grabbed a rifle from a dead G,U,N solder and shot down an EGG gunner, "Rouge see if you can snipe some of the robots with your bombs, Omega tear them to shreds" said Shadow as he took cover from the incoming lasers and bullets.
"Sure thing" said Rouge as she took flight, "Affirmative, I approve of this plan" said Omega as he brought out his machine guns and opened fire at the incoming robots.
G,U,N HQ, West wing.
On the other side of the base a large squad of E-2000's was tearing through G,U,N's defences, the robots had just broken through another metal door when a large laser came down and destroyed every robot in the front line.
The remaining E-2000's looked up and saw Diablon descending towards them, inside of Diablon was Commander Tower piloting the mech.
The E-2000's wasted little time and fired their huge lazes at Diablon however not a single one of them was able to pierce the mech's energy shield, Commander Tower pressed a button and Diablon launched a barrage of homing lazars that tore the robots apart.
Commander Tower smile as he saw the destroyed robots, the last time he had piloted Diablon in battle was during the Black arms invasion, back then Diablon was still unfinished and lacked many of the weapons that it now possessed.
Just then another robot entered the room by smashing straight through the ceiling and much to Commander Tower's surprise it was Metal sonic, Metal sonic looked at the destroyed E-2000's and then at Diablon, he seemed to be sizing the huge mech up.
"I'll mail you back to Eggman as scrap" said Commander Tower as he fired Diablon's homing lasers, Metal sonic moved like lightning and dodged the lasers by flying into the air, in frustration the Commander fired more lasers but Metal sonic flew around the room at high speed making him impossible to hit.
Metal sonic fired his chest laser but much to the robot's annoyance the attack failed to get through Diablon's shield, Metal sonic fired his engine and charged Diablon head on, the blue robot hit the mech's energy shield and bounced off causing no damage to the mech.
Commander Tower saw that Metal sonic was disorientated from the failed attack and he took his chance to strike back, Diablon grabbed Metal sonic in it's right hand and slammed the blue robot into the ground, before Metal sonic could recover Diablon hit him with a left fist that was larger than the robot's entire body.
Metal sonic was starting to spark, those attacks had done severe damage, there was several dents in his body and a crack in his chest, Diablon delivered a right hook that sent Metal sonic flying across the room and into a wall.
Commander Tower locked on with Diablon's lasers with the intension of finishing the blue robot off, however Metal sonic then pulled out something that made the Commander freeze, Metal sonic was holding the green Chaos emerald.
The Chaos emerald glowed in Metal sonic's hands, soon the light was so bright that Commander Tower had to look away, when the light dimmed Commander Tower saw a horrifying sight, Metal sonic had used the power of the Chaos emerald to transform into his Giga metal form.
Giga metal sonic roared as he charged at Diablon who he was now the same size as, Commander Tower fired Diablon's missiles but they did little damage, Giga metal sonic reached Diablon and slashed the mech with his claws leaving huge scratches in the machine.
Diablon punched Giga metal sonic in the face knocking the robot back, but this barely slowed him down as he delivered an attack of his own, soon Diablon and Giga metal sonic was exchanging blows with each other in a brawl that Giga metal sonic was winning.
Seeing that he was losing this fight Commander Tower decided that it was time to call for back up.
G,U,N HQ, East wing.
Back on the other side of the base Team dark was tearing all of the robots that they encountered to pieces.
Shadow teleported behind a E-2000 and shot it in the back of the head, Omega unloaded a barrage of missiles into a squad of EGG gunners and Rouge dropped a couple of bombs on some unsuspecting EGG pawns.
"How many of these things does Eggman have" panted Rouge who was getting tired, "I hope that he has an infinite supply, this is proving to be a most enjoyable mission" said Omega as he tore a EGG pawn's head clean off.
Just then everybody's communicators went off, "Come in all agents, this is Commander Tower I require immediate assistance, I am currently in the West wing battling Metal sonic, be warned Metal sonic has transformed into a stronger form using a Chaos emerald" came Commander Tower's voice.
"Shadow did you hear that" asked Rouge, Shadow had a very serious look on his face "Yes, if Metal sonic has a Chaos emerald then he might be more than the Commander can handle" he said as he shot another robot.
"We need to get over there and help him" said Rouge, however right as she finished her sentence there was an explosion that blow a hole in the ceiling, seconds latter several squads of EGG gunners descended into the room.
Shadow huffed at the robots bad timing, "We can't leave the other agents to fight this many robots alone" he said, Shadow looked in the direction of the West wing and then at the robots, he then turned to Rouge, "Can you and Omega handle things here" he asked, "Just go" said Rouge knowing that Commander Tower may not be able to last much longer.
Shadow didn't need to be told twice in just a few seconds he sped out of the room and down a hallway, Rouge landed behind Omega "Give them your worst" she said, "Affirmative" said Omega as he brought out his machine guns and switched to his explosive rounds.
Shadow sped through the base as quickly as he could, all around the base there was G,U,N agents fighting Eggman robots, Shadow fired a few shots at the robots as he passed but he needed to get to Commander Tower.
G,U,N HQ, West wing.
Commander Tower was doing all that he could against Giga metal sonic but it wasn't enough, while Giga metal sonic was taking damage from all of the attacks he was dealing far more to Diablon.
Diablon fired some lasers that scratched Giga metal sonic's armour, Giga metal sonic then countered with a laser of his own that tore through several layers of Diablon's armour, warning lights was flashing in Diablon's cockpit alerting Commander Tower of the damage.
Just as Giga metal sonic was about to attack again a beam of light came in from the left and hit him in the face, Giga metal sonic looked to the left and saw Shadow who had just fired a Chaos spear, Commander Tower took this opportunity to punch Giga metal sonic in the face while he was distracted.
Shadow teleported onto the top of Diablon's head, "You called for backup Commander" he said, "Agent Shadow I can't say that I'm disappointed to see you but what about Empire City" said Commander Tower from inside of Diablon, "The Resistance are handling that, right now we should handle this" said Shadow as Giga metal sonic recovered from Diablon's last attack.
Shadow fired multiple shots from his rifle but all of the bullets just bounced off, "Useless" thought Shadow as he throw the gun over his shoulder, Giga metal sonic charged and locked hands with Diablon.
Shadow fired a couple of Chaos spears into Giga metal sonic's face, this distracted the robot enough for Diablon to push him back.
"Commander is Diablon's cannon still working" asked Shadow, "Yes, but it takes time to charge" said Commander Tower, "Start charging, I'll hold him off" said Shadow as he jumped off of Diablon and skated towards Giga metal sonic.
Shadow circled Giga metal sonic while firing Chaos spears at the robot, Giga metal sonic tried to crush or slash Shadow with his claws and he fired his laser but Shadow was far to fast for him to hit, while this was going on Commander Tower was charging Diablon's antimatter cannon.
After about a minute Commander Tower's voice came from Shadow's communicator saying "Charge complete", "Roger" said Shadow as he teleported away from Giga metal sonic and behind Diablon.
"Antimatter cannon fire" said Commander Tower as he fired a huge blue laser, Giga metal sonic turned to face Diablon just in time to be hit in the chest by the laser.
The laser tore through Giga metal sonic like a hot knife through butter, there was several small explosions as Giga metal sonic fell to the ground then there was a large explosion that reduced Giga metal sonic to a pile of scrap.
"Excellent, with Metal sonic destroyed we've dealt a major blow to Eggman's forces" said Commander Tower triumphantly, however both Shadow and Commander Tower immediately raised their guards again when something underneath the pile of scrap began to move, and then much to the two's shook Metal sonic now returned to his base form crawled out of the scrap pile.
Metal sonic was very heavily damaged, there was large cracks in his body revealing his circuitry, his left eye was flashing on and off and his left arm was missing, Metal sonic immediately fired up his jets and flew towards the hole in the ceiling.
Shadow throw a Chaos spear but Metal sonic dodged this and disappeared through the hole and to safety, "Damn it, he got away" said a frustrated Commander Tower, Shadow however was no longer focused on Metal sonic instead his attention was now on the pile of scrap which he could sense was hiding something of great power.
Shadow dug through some of the scrap and a half smile appeared on his face, "He might be gone but he left something behind" he said as he picked up the green Chaos emerald, Commander Tower smile, "Good work Shadow, with another Chaos emerald on our side we can bring this war to a quicker end" he said.
Commander Tower then received a call from the base's control room, "Sir, we have received word from all around the base, all of Eggman's robots have been destroyed" said the agent from the other side of the line, "This has been an even bigger victory that we could have hoped" said Commander Tower feeling quite pleased.
