A/N So here comes the fight with Metal Sonic, what surpises will be in store for our heroes. I'm also glad to see no one disliking how I'm making Scourge and Nicole get closer, I was a little worried some people would say "When would that happen!?" and stop reading. I just thought it would be neat to put a bad guy with one of the more innocent characters, atleast that's how I see Nicole. Innocent because she requires a lot of learning and is always trying to do good.
I believe it was Reaver who said he enjoyed the railgun as well. I'm glad my accurate-ness of that is enjoyable. I may have mentioned this before but the railgun is a combination of two ideas. The actual way it works and all that junk comes from the most recent doom(I believe I got the reactions and chemistry down) the part where it's shoulder mounted and in three parts comes from a character named Jhin in league of legends. Basically he uses a small pistol as his normal shots but one ability makes him fire it like a rifle for long range by attaching the barrel to the pistols muzzle. His ultimate ability is when he puts his pistol and long barrel and mount it onto a device hidden under his cloak on his shoulder and it becomes a sniper mass driver(I think that's what it is, I need to look at stuff again but that's the basic idea)
Anyway thanks for the support like always and on with the show!
Morning came and everyone got ready for the extraordinary task of taking down Metal Sonic. Tails was confident in his new weapon and his armor now had the new attachment behind his right shoulder ready to fold out and attack to his morph gun. The long barrel was attached snuggly to his hip and upper leg, it was meant to expand and get longer when deployed so it wasn't scraping against the floor and deterring his movement.
Everyone else was suited up and ready to go. Fiona had the EMP grenades she'd had on her during the attack and her pistols. Shadow like always had his belt with his hidden pain pills, taking one when nobody was looking, and another knowing this was gonna be one hell of a fight.
Silver had finished up his healing during the night, luckily. Sadly they knew his effectiveness would be lower than normal since he would be unable to actually grab Metal Sonic, that was why Tails planned to find somewhere with tons of rocks or debris of some kind to use as weapons.
Blaze was calm and secretly hoped that her fire powers wouldn't backfire or fail somehow today.
Like always Nicoles PDA was attached to Scourges belt and his double barrel shotgun on his waist, although it would more than likely be useless he wanted it incase they fought something else besides Metal Sonic. Nicole intently watched everything Scourge did incase he messed up and even loaded his shotgun for him. He gave a very subtle nod in thanks, but he had a hard time looking at her after what she said yesterday. That somewhat worried Nicole, it felt like he might be trying to avoid her now.
They were preparing to head out when Fiona took Tails to the side. Her face was full of concern and fear.
"Listen, remember what ever happens we play this safe, no risks unless we have to. Don't let anything make you make a bad mistake" she hoped her subtle hint was enough to make him control himself incase he was still harboring anger for his bases destruction and his mothers death.
He just warmly smiled cupping her cheek with a single hand to ease her mind "Don't worry Fi, we've been through worse"
She grabbed the hand on her face and held it gently "That doesn't mean we should test fate, just be safe ok?"
"I will, as long as you promise me the same thing" the kitsune asked.
"You know I'm always careful" she chuckled, hiding her fright "I wouldn't be here today if I wasn't"
"Then we'll be fine" Tails encouraged getting back to the team.
The conversation didn't ease Fionas worries, this Metal Sonic was like nothing they'd ever seen before, sure the old ones had always been strong and damn smart but none had shields, bullet proof armor, psychic countermeasures, heat resistances and any other crap it may have inside it. Chaos forbids if it had a chaos emerald in it, or a self destruct.
Tails re-explained the plan one last time to the team but Scourge expectedly said "We know the plan, let's get this over with"
His comment wasn't taken badly, pretty much everyone else felt the same way about this, the sooner Metal Sonic was destroyed the better.
And with that they were off. Nicole had been analyzing the patrols of the eggbots and it allowed them to get out of the city unseen.
The next job was to find a reasonable battlefield that would give them some kind of advantage, most importantly allow Silver to be more useful, and have a good sight of the land so Tails could make a shot.
Tails thought back to where he and Fiona had fought the Metal Nack, it had rolling hills to offer cover and a place to dive into if their opponent tried to dive down and scoop them up, and also a lot of rocks which they'd used to make their escape and call for help.
It sounded like a good place to go so the team made their way to that location. Just like the two foxes remembered, this would be a pretty decent place to set their trap. Plenty of cover, and a lot of sightlines for Tails to set up from, the exact reason why Robo Nack had set up their in the first place.
"Ok, I'll find a location to hide at, I'll give you my position then I'm pretty much gonna go quiet" Since any transmission they made to him could possibly be intercepted by Metal Sonic or simply heard by them talking to him during the fight it would give away their intentions. That added some extra risk, if Tails needed them to move he'd have no way of telling them, hopefully knowing his position would help that a bit.
They all nodded and waited as Tails looked around his helmet calculating the best possible position to stay at. Without any surprise the best spot had been exactly where Robo Nack had been before.
He ran over there and looked out at the view he had, the ground was a few meters higher then the area in front of it so he had some height if they could get Metal to stand still on the ground. He took a deep breath and took his morph gun and changed it to the new configuration. He was happy to see it was able to do it, no problems with that.
He unhooked the barrel and attached it to the muzzle of his morph gun locking it in. It instantly shot out becoming longer two extensions running parallel to one another small coils running along the inside but not touching.
He tapped a button on his gauntlet and the piece on his back expanded wrapping over his shoulder creating a shoulder rest that would keep the gun from dislocating his arm. It extended a small but powerful battery and a tank of the gases needed to create the reaction to needed for the powerful blast.
He entered a crouch one foot directly under him and his other leg pointed straight out and finally the shoulder plate extended to arms back to keep the weapon from knocking him on his ass after shooting.
Attaching the first to parts to the shoulder piece the barrel crackled to life blue electricity pulsing along the extensions ready to accelerate any metal that passed through and two leg flipped out from the barrel to help keep his aim stable since it was such a large weapon.
Now fully deployed he got comfortable and went invisible and made the last transmission he'd make during this mission "Alright, now start getting some attention and get back here, hopefully we'll eventually get Metal to show up and we can get this done. I'm goig radio silent now, good luck"
With that he might as well not exist until Metal Sonic appeared, unfortunately they had to fight without him.
Scourge and Shadow ran off in different directions to find some patrols and attract their attention while Silver, Blaze and Fiona got into cover in a ditch.
Blaze took the moment to ask Silver "You feeling alright, you aren't sore?"
"I'm fine Blaze, thanks"
"I'm just worried, we can't afford to make a mistake, don't try to hide any pain or discomfort" the cat said sternly, she mostly believed him but she'd seen how much he wanted to be useful even when hurt badly, or show he didn't need someone to watch him and take care of him.
"I'm telling the truth Blaze, I'm completely up to speed, we're all at the best we can be" the young hedgehog smiled.
Fiona had to sit their and listen to them worry about eachother, she'd call it sickening but now she knew how they felt. She was worried about Tails, hell she was worried about everything, but mostly Tails. It felt selfish, but in all honesty he was also the biggest asset they had. Sure Shadow had raw strength, Nicole was the best hacker they had and she, herself, was the most acrobatic of the team. But Without Tails inventions, plans and leadership they'd crumble.
She was just scared of losing this fight, losing her friends, and most importantly losing Tails. So much was at stake and her mind was on the idea of Tails dying. She felt so selfish for that. It only made it worse that she couldn't talk to him like Silver and Blaze could. She felt very alone in that ditch despite having two people next to her.
"Don't worry, I'll be watching your back Blaze" Silver attempted to calm the cat.
Since Fiona hated hearing them comfort one another and her be alone she decided to make them shut up while also getting some much needed teasing in "Uhhh, Silver, I'm pretty sure your watching some a little lower then the back"
"What!? Heh, no that's not at all what I meant" he stuttered trying to explain to the cat that the foxes statement wasn't true…. Well on the battlefield it wasn't.
"Calm yourself Silver, she is teasing you" she said calmly, though a small blush was clearly on her cheeks.
"Uhhh…. Thanks" the male said nervously glad Blaze didn't tke it seriously not noticing the blush in his panic.
Fiona rolled her eyes, it didn't work they were still comforting eachother.
Half an hour later and they herd some gunfire in the distance and another few minutes later Shadow had arrived with eggbots on his tail. He'd easily kept himself unharmed with his speed but kept the distance short enough to encourage them to keep chasing him.
Seeing that Fiona went on the radio and called back Scourge who was back in a few seconds hiding in the hole with the trio.
Nicole materialized next to the green hedgehog and tapped his shoulder knowing this would be the last time she'd be able to say this before the fighting started.
"Ya, what?" he turned his head to face her catching her eyes with his own.
"Good luck" was all she could say as a stray shot flew by.
Scourge just nodded and said quickly "And you be careful got it?"
She nodded and dissipated away since her holo form gave off a very slight glow that might give away their position.
The eggbot patrol made its way to the area in which the fight would begin and Shadow ran past his friends. The patrol neared them and in a second Silver popped out from cover and using his powers crushed all the bots together. He left enough time for the bots to see him and most likely show the footage to Eggman and show that they were all alive and wanting a fight.
"Alright now I guess we wait" Fiona sighed getting highly impatient.
Everyone waited for the actual fight to begin. Silver volunteered to be the look out so Shadow could rest for a moment.
Nicole reappeared next to Scourge and looked to him "I hope this all goes well" she assumed he felt the same way.
"As long as Metal Sonic shows up and pipsqueak can make the shot, we'll be fine" he said checking on his shotgun and make sure it wouldn't jam in the fight.
She found a bit of confidence in his confidence and smiled. She felt like saying something else but she was a little anxious. This was gonna be very dangerous and things could bad in a split second. She was worried for everyone, and herself. What if she got taken away and forced to help Eggman again, she'd sooner delete her entire self before allowing that to happen again.
"You ok?" Scourge asked quietly noticing her nervous fiddling.
"I'm…. just worried that something bad could happen, what if someone gets hurt or killed? What if they take me away and you're too occupied or hurt to stop them" thinking of him hurt scared her more.
Scourge could see she was on the verge of a computer anxiety attack and in a split second of not thinking he put a hand to her shoulder "They aren't gonna get ya alright?" he felt like those weren't the exact words he wanted to say but he had safely on his belt so they'd definitely have to go through him to take her.
She nodded slightly calming down then looked at him again "And I will be watching your back"
He nodded went back to cleaning his gun.
About fifteen minutes passed by before they heard something approaching, sounded like jets. They were expecting it to be Metal but after a few seconds they spotted what was making the noise and it was another giant transport. Since Metal showed up after the last transport attacked them, this could be a sign he was not far away.
"Alright, same as before, we fight and force Metal to come" Shadow explained.
They all nodded, this time they were ready for the attack unlike last time and had a much easier environment to work with, so the lack of Tails would be somewhat compensated.
Fiona took a deep breath and said "Alright everyone let's do this, show that fat bastard that we are not intimidated by his army"
They all got ready and as the dropship stopped a little bit away as they all jumped out of the small ditch and began the fight. The doors to the ship opened and like before Eggbots spilled out dropping to the ground and blasting out puffs of dust.
Weapons powered up and the eggbots began their attempts to kill the team.
The friends all spread out and began fighting.
Shadow sped off and bounced off eggbots easily keeping a chain of bounces.
Scourge also ran around the battlefield bouncing off bots as well but would occasionally stop to beat an eggbot down and stay relatively in one place to make the robots turn and focus him. He's easily escape with his speed but it was his way or taking attention off the others. One time almost taking too long to get moving again.
Nicole was spotting for after that letting him know then he had to move, but his slow reaction timing was worrying her.
Fiona made sure to work like a support in the fight, always watching out for anyone in trouble and either take a shot and finish off the offending robot or take it's attention somehow. She had to conserve her ammo since she was carrying every last bit of her supplies left from the attack.
Blaze used her fire powers to decimate anything in her way, but the massive use of her powers caused her powers to fail once in awhile. Luckily Silver, like he promised, watched her back and protected her whenever her powers stopped working either shield her or destroying anything that tried to hurt her in those short moments where she stopped.
She looked frustrated by the continual failure of her powers, she didn't like to talk about it but she always had a feeling that if he couldn't master her powers why would she have the responsibility of protecting the Sol emeralds. All her worries finally came to fruition when she had been captured and lost the emeralds to Eggman, her ultimate failure that had cost millions of lives. Even if she died she'd do everything to get them back and make the man who had destroyed her life.
In no time flat the team finished off all the robots inside the large dropship and Shadow said "Silver, hold that thing in place"
Silver smirked as his hands began to glow and hold the aircraft in place.
Shadow pulled out his chaos emerald and drew power from the gem powering up a chaos spear. He threw the large spear through the ship cutting it in half with the massive bolt.
Silver lowered his hands ending the psychic connection and the ship fell to the ground kicking up a large amount of ash and dust.
Silver chuckled and said "Guess that ship dropped"
Everyone groaned at the terrible pun, Shadow going so far to smack the back of his students head "Don't ever do that again"
Silver just groaned rubbing his head a little.
"Ok so why'd we do that?" Fiona asked gesturing to the destroyed aircraft.
"Because now he knows we have the chaos emerald right here, he'll send his best for us, meaning Metal Sonic" Shadow explained.
They all knew that meant shit was about to hit the fan. Now was the time to take a few breathes, rest and clear their heads.
Blaze hated the idea that she needed someone to help her especially in a fight but she oddly was ok with Silver doing just that "Thanks for watching my back" Blaze nodded with an appreciative smile.
"I told you I'd be watching out for you. We make a good team" he smiled.
"Well, like I said I appreciate your help. I just wish I had control of my powers like you" she sighed "I've spent years trying to perfect my fire powers but I always fail at some point" she sighed.
Silver frowned, it must have been hard to never be able to perfection. He wouldn't know, as long as he could remember his powers came to him like breathing. He always felt a little guilty about that, he hadn't earned his powers, or learned how to use them. He had simply mastered his control over it on nearly his first try. Sure he learned how to control the intensity and strength of his actions, and Shadow had made him practice more often to work on endurance, but he'd never had any real problem with his powers.
An idea came to mind though "If I may, your powers are fire. Fire can be unpredictable"
Blaze looked up at him having looked down at the ground "Yes I know, but… a fire can be controlled with enough work"
"Yes that is correct I suppose" she was right, maybe they were both partially right, he didn't want to go any further and imply she could never fully control it so stayed quiet.
"Either way, your welcome. I wouldn't want you hurt"Silver said nervously.
Blaze just smiled and replied "Yes, I'd much rather see you un-hurt as well"
The two awkwardly stared at one another for a moment until Fiona cut in and said "Jeez anymore awkward staring we might think you two are in love"
Both cat and hedgehog blushed madly and quickly looked away saying nothing for or against her statement. A little bit aways Shadow was chuckling at the scene knowing eventually he'd have to intervene somehow and force something t happen. Obviously not right now of course.
Scourge quietly watched everything but eventually turned away avoiding the sight and emotions it brought.
He must have forgotten that Nicole was on his belt as she materialized next to him waiting a moment before speaking unsure why he was so distant.
"Scourge?"
"What?' he asked not sounding annoyed, but sounding more like he'd rather not talk to anyone.
"May I ask you something?" she said her voice squeaking a little.
"I can't really get away from you so sure" he shrugged with a small sigh.
"What were you doing earlier, you were purposely being slow and almost got a shot a few times" she was worried something was distracting him.
"I was trying to take agro for everyone else, duh" he answer short and slightly rude.
"Yes I know but why wait so long before moving, you have their attention, why wait until the last second?" she'd been on his belt long enough to know his reaction time was sharp. He kinda needed to be when going the speed of sound. But as a computer she could sense the very small milliseconds of difference in his reactions.
Sadly for her he didn't answer staring off at the horizon with a blank stare.
"Scourge please don't ignore me" it didn't sound like a request but a plea, like it hurt her when he refused to speak with her.
"I can do what I want, I am expendable after all" he had no sign of sadness saying that.
"What!? No you aren't expendable, everyone trusts you to carry me, including me" she didn't want to sound narcissistic but she was one of the most powerful tools in their arsenal, before and after Tails' base exploded.
"So what, if I die Shadow will just zoom by and pick you up, we all know why I'm here. Because I have nowhere else to go, everyone wants me dead, my own home wants me dead" he growled. His past deeds had finally caught up to him all at once and he was now and exile from his own universe and now he was stuck in a universe that knew who he was, all the bad things he's done hate him too.
"You aren't going to die!" Nicole said rather desperately clutching his arm with both hands.
"And what make you so sure, look at who I'm with, people who I've hurt somehow in the past and want to hurt me back" he clearly didn't understand that the team had gotten past the things he's done. They'd gotten past it enough to work with him. But at the end of the day that wasn't the real problem Scourge was having and he knew it.
"You're a liar, there is something else wrong" Nicole suddenly said getting aggressive, she'd been so nice to him and all he could do was push her away, not talk to her. She felt incredibly hurt that she had placed so much trust in him yet he returned none to her or anyone else, if what he was saying was true of course.
"Get off me!" he growled back ripping his hand from hers "I'm a horrible person, why can't you accept that!?"
"Because people change, and I have seen you be selfless, for me" she said angrily.
"So what? I was protecting you because we needed you to survive!"
"Then why'd you go back for me during the attack? You could have left with the others safely, or even just ran away from all of this but you didn't, tell me why right now!" she demanded.
"What do you want me to say? Do you want me to say that I'm a good guy? That I'm like Sonic more than I like to admit. That maybe I don't deserve to die after everything I've done?"
"What?" Nicole's rage completely left her hearing the second part "No, that's not what I wanted-" sudden jets in the air ended their conversation prematurely.
Scourges attention also went to the sky hearing the noise along with the others who had amazingly not heard their argument, too into their own teasing of Silver and Blaze to notice.
"Sounds familiar" Shadow growled knowing who it was.
"Get ready" Fiona yelled to the group just as she spotted a fast moving object on the horizon.
They had all of about one second to prepare before Metal Sonic flew in and quickly attack them. Heading straight for the one holding the emerald, Shadow.
The dark hedgehog side stepped watching Metal scream by and quickly turn. While doing so Silver lifted some rocks and forced them in his way. The metal sonic simply flew straight through them without a care and the broken chunks broke apart flying at dangerous speeds towards the group.
Everyone ducked in cover giving Metal time to attack Shadow. Like a rocket he tried to ram Shadow who once again side stepped but Metal turned on a dime fist connecting with Shadows head.
Shadow grunted from the hit but recovered quickly empowering his fist with chaos and sending it at the robot. It dodged his attack punched him in the gut then lunged for the chaos emerald.
Shadow just barely kept it out of his reach while trying to catch his breath. Using chaos energy again he made a small pulse wave pushing Metal away just before it could get a grip on the gem.
By now everyone else recovered from the barrage of rocks and Scourge ran in entering the fray. He tackled the recovering robot and the two tumbled a few feet.
Scourge managed to end up on top and prepared to send a barrage of punches but Metal fired its jet booster while grabbing the hedgehog's jacket pulling him with it.
"Let go of me you piece of scrap!" Scourge growled trying to pull pull himself away.
It must have had a sense of humor because it did and continued to fly away as Scourge slid through the dirt being left behind.
He slid to a stop and groaned a little. He wiped away dirt from his jacket and shook his head getting dust from his fur. He looked up and saw Metal coming straight at him and had no time to get out of the way. Raising his hands he felt Metals head crash into him and forced him to start sliding backwards from all the speed he'd generated.
The green hedgehog just barely kept himself standing from the force and grit his teeth as he slid backwards holding onto Metal's head. The Robot didn't seem to care still barreling forward. It eventually tired of this and flipped around too quick for Scourge to react and kicked him in the chest knocking him to the ground.
In a way Scourge hoped Metal would take the opportunity to beat the crap out of him so Tails could take the shot, unfortunately Metal was single mindedly after Shadow and that chaos emerald. For now Scourge had to take a breather the kick knocking all the air from his lungs.
Metal rocked forward back to the group clearly wanting to get Shadow. Blaze jumped in the way and spewed a torrent of fire at the approaching robot, it'd either have to move out of the way or take the fire…. Wait his armor was fire proof.
Blaze gasped realizing this too late as Metal burst through the flames unfazed by the attack clawed hand outstretched to tear her to pieces.
What happened next was almost too fast for Blaze to register, inches from her face the clawed hand approached her until a green barrier got in between the two. The barrier for the shortest moment stopped the robot giving her just enough time to dive out of the way but an ear piercing scream echoed out as Metal sailed by now about to collide with Shadow.
It took half a second longer for Blaze to realize what happened, Silver must have made a barrier in a desperate bid to stop Metal, it worked very slightly slowing him enough to save the cat but it obviously hurt him a lot. Her head snapped to Silver who was on his knees cringing in pain knocking him out of the fight for a moment.
She wanted to help him but knew they had more important thing to do and looked to the direction Metal had flown off to. He was now currently brawling with Shadow clawing at air while Shadow tried to avoid the attacks.
Getting up she noticed Shadow was constantly on the defensive, avoiding all the strikes and barely ever returning his own. It occurred to her that perhaps his leg was effecting him more than he was letting on, damn it, too proud to admit he had a problem. Either way Blaze ran to the brawlers and to batch metal off guard. She jumped up and kicked straight into the back of Metals neck.
With the opportunity open Shadow infused with fist with chaos and uppercutted the robot while it's head down and sent it into the air. Unsurprisingly it quickly recovered using it's jet to remain in the air.
All while the small brawl was taking place Fiona had ran to Scourge to see if he was ok, Nicole easily beat her to it.
"He's fine" the lynx said looking to the action hearing Silver scream in pain.
Scourge and Fiona herd as well gaining new found fervor, the green hedgehog rising to his feet.
"Come on" Fiona commended running back towards the action.
They both saw Metal get launched into the air from Shadows punch and Scourge got an idea. Thinking back to when they broke out Nicole and Blaze he remembered how Tails vaulted him up to damage the robot, made of nanites, to topple it over.
"Hey, get me up there" Scourge said.
Fiona didn't argue and nodded crouching down and cupping her hands ready to throw him up.
Scourge stepped back and bit and ran forward, nearing Fiona he planted his foot in her hands and jumped with her lift soaring into the air.
Now above Metal and close enough he curled up and spin dashed straight into the robots back.
He could feel Metal's skin dent inwards from the attack and pushed him back down to earth. It crashed into the dirt with a loud thud. Once again quick to recover it used the dust as cover waiting to strike.
By now Silver had recovered and wasn't having any of Metals hiding act and using his powers made another barrier and pushed it at the dust cloud. He stopped right as the barrier was about to reach the dust cloud, the resulting gust of air he made clearing the area.
With nowhere to hide Metal burst forward only to face a chaos spear heading straight at it. Like Tails had predicted all along its quick reflexes allowed it to dodge the bolt head butting straight into Shadow.
The chaos emerald left his grasp twirling into the air, metal quickly noticed leaving Shadow tumbling through the dirt and flew straight for the emerald.
It seemed he had gained what he wanted, but right as he was about to reach it the emerald dropped down quite suddenly. Metal dove down to reach it but it flew left making it almost slam into the dirt.
The robot tried to catch it several times before realizing what was happening and looked to Silver, his hand extended and glowing a large smirk on his face.
Metal made something like a growling sound and flew straight at the hedgehog refusing to made a fool off.
The white hedgehog gasped already imagining the pain he'd be in for.
Had it not been for the timely intervention of two fast an angry hedgehogs Silver might be dead.
Scourge and Shadow intercepted the robot midair tackling it to the ground, their combined strength and wait forcing it down.
The trio tumbled along the ground as they landed. Shadow lost his grip of the machine and separated from the ball. Scourge held on tight though and the duo ended up rolling into a rock. Metals back against the stone while Scourge had the advantage.
In no time Scourge took out some anger on the robots face not caring that his fists might get broken from hitting metal so hard.
It looked like Scourge had the upper hand until Metal finally was able to recover and block ta punch. Being stopped threw Scourge off enough for Metal to then slam both palms into the green hedgehogs temples and kicking Scourge away with a strong kick.
Scourge groaned in pain gripping his head as the world looked fuzzy and his brain felt scattered. He swore he'd destroy that thing.
Despite the pain, dizziness and blurred eyes he got up and faced Metal again expecting Shadow to have taken his place but his ears heard no fighting anymore.
He was seriously confused and shook his head to clear his eyes. Everything began to clear and he went wide eyed at what he saw.
Everyone stopped fighting for one key reason. Something that even scared Scourge.
In Metals hand was Nicoles PDA. Scourge placed hand on his belt hoping his eyes were lying but felt not device like before, so he looked down and found it wasn't there anywhere on his belt. Metal must have grabbed it as he kicked him away.
His eyes went back to Metal who looked confident from his stance.
"Let her go!" Scourge yelled.
It simply shook its head then pointed at the chaos emerald now in Fionas possession, she'd picked it up after Scourge and Shadow tackled Metal.
Everyone knew what it wanted but they all knew they'd won. It was still only had wait…..why wasn't Tails shooting?
With Tails…
Tails watched the whole battle from his sniping spot, on several occasions he wanted to shoot, especially after Shadow knocked Metal into that air but Scourged pounced it before he could take the shot. He'd seen it all and had been scared someone would get killed , he was almost forced to try and make an interception shot to save Silver if it hadn't been for Scourge and Shadow.
But no he finally had it, Metal thought he had the upper hand, holding Nicole so confidently, like he was in control. The PDA was at its side so he'd just aim for the head.
He smirked about to squeeze the trigger until…
"I wouldn't do that if I were you"
In an instant Tails hit a button on the railgun which disconnected the barrel and shoulder from the morph gun, it quickly changed to the rifle form. He rolled away from the voice then turned to face it. He knew who it was; he'd never forget Eggmans voice.
He almost opened fire but noticed the voice he'd heard had not come from Eggman physically behind him. Instead a floating screen of him greeted his presence.
"Too much of a coward to come out here for real?" Tails taunted gun still ready to destroy the device.
"No, I just have more important things to do than play with you rodents" he smirked, it was almost enough to make Tails shoot.
The fox knew something was up, how'd Eggman know he was here, and why send this TV alongside Metal.
"How'd you know I was here?"
Eggman simply laughed "Oh you poor dumb fox, you fought Nack here, correct? This is the exact place he was, and when my footage showed you weren't in sight I made an educated guess"
"Congrats" Tails replied sarcastically, he guessed the other part was some kind of sensor, most likely an infer-red sensor to see exactly where he was. "What makes you think I didn't die in the attack?"
"Had some of my robots recycle anything they could from it, no bodies were found. That was an impressive explosion by the way" he chuckled mockingly.
"So why are you here?" Tails asked getting to the point.
"Oh yes, I do apologize" clearly sarcastic "I just wanted to see what trap you had for myself, quite clever by the way. Is that a railgun, I'm surprised you were able to make that with so little resources" he actually sounded impressed.
"Sorry I'm not accepting any jobs right now if that's what you're implying" the fox growled.
"Oh I'm so glad you brought that up" he cheered.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Tails said annoyed, briefly looking back to everyone still in a stalemate with metal.
"Oh well let me ask you something. Did you notice the new design of Metal Sonic. He's finally up to date with what Sonic actuallys like and not like what he looked like when he was younger. Longer quills, longer legs and just older in general" he made an evil smirk.
"Ya, so you upgraded finally, nice might I add. How'd you get him to resist telekinesis?"
"Sorry that's for me to know you to never know, back to my inquiry though. You have to admit he resembles Sonic quite well right?"
Tails growled annoyed by his insistence of talking about that "Ya, I guess so" he rolled his eyes.
Well let me tell you a story, I'm sure you know most of it by now from Shadow. The day the Freedom fighters fell" he chuckled darkly.
What the hell was he talking about? Tails was confused what else could he possibly be talking about.
"I'm sure Shadow has told you that he abandoned Sonic so he could save his last two doomed friends?" the fat man continued to smirk.
Tails almost said he knew Sonic had survived but that would imply he saw the video logs, which meant he'd been to Freedom HQ so kept quiet about that "Ya he told me"
"It might surprise you to know that Sonic escaped as well. I monitored him, watched him. Laughed as he slowly fell apart, all alone with nothing but his regrets as company"
Tails almost growled again, he'd been watching Sonic the entire time and watched him suffer, if he ever got his hands on him he'd make him suffer far worse.
Eggman took his silence as reason to continue "Well anyway, I let him live for a few months, but eventually I tired of watching and decided to involve myself. I broke into what was left of Freedom HQ and took him back to my base, he was so weak, he couldn't resist at all.
What? Sonic hadn't died there? Tails was now listening to every word, maybe he was still alive!
"Oh I had fun torturing him, breaking him, making him remember all the mistakes he'd made in the past." Eggman laughed maniacally, Tails could barely hold back his fury, and his tears.
"You bastard!" Tails finally yelled.
"Oh I'm not done yet, this is the best part. I realized something. Why waste such a great fighter, and pass up the beautiful irony if making my greatest foe mine" he continued to laugh.
Tails suddenly realized what he was going on about "No…. you didn't"
"Oh no not exactly. No, I broke his mind first, made him realize all his mistakes and see that light. He realized the error of his mistakes and swore loyalty to me and volunteered to be what he is now. Oh and don't try to appeal to his old self, like all Sonics since that Shard you will never be able to change him back"
Tears now filled up Tails' eyes, he couldn't believe it. He had broken him, he'd made Sonic turn against everything he stood for, he brainwashed him and there wasn't a way to turn him back.
"I'm going to fucking kill you!" Tails screamed "I WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER WORKED FOR!"
Eggman was unfazed by his threat, basking his misery the fox was feeling "Oh just try, you will fail"
Before his laugh could start up again Tails broke stealth unloading every round he could into the TV.
After unloading his entire clip into the floating screen he saw it fall to the ground. He proceeded to stomp it into small pieces with his boots letting off all his rage. Tears streamed down his eyes unable to handle the idea that his best friend, hero, and brother had turned to Eggmans side. It wasn't even against his will, his mind changed on it's own and now couldn't be changed.
He collapsed to his knees totally drained of all energy. What was happening to his friends right now he couldn't do anything.
He knew why Eggman revealed this information, it wasn't to hurt him, or two watch him get angry, not. He knew just how much Tails cared about Sonic, despite having left him for years he still loved Sonic. His leaving was a mistake and any ill will that he thought Sonic had towards him was all in his head. He knew that now.
So now he couldn't do anything…. He couldn't hurt Sonic.
HAHAHAHAHA, I've been waiting for 31 chapters to FINALLY reveal this. To finally get to this and it was SATIFYING AS HELL hahahahaha.
Deep breathe* sorry….. just really excited. I'm sorry the railgun wasn't implemented but perhaps it will in the future(I know the answer but you'll have to wait, suckers)
God that was satisfying, I hope you were all blown away by it, if not then there's still more to come, but further ahead you can calm down for now.I hope the fight was cool, hell I hope it was all good and I hope you liked it. Let me know what you think and remember…
Live long and prosper
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