Words: 4,608

Date Created: 2 / 3 / 17

Date Finished: 3 / 5 / 17

Act Two:

Chapter 7

DATE: 9 / 19 / 3287

Unknowing to Sonic and Shadow, it had stopped raining. Along with that a small streak of blood drizzled down the side of Shadow's eye and cheek as a wound had opened up below his left ear as he rose up from the ground as he was thrown to the ground thanks to the one he was fighting which was the Silver Titan which now focused its attention onto Sonic was currently grabbing Mecha's head and slamming his visor directly into Sonic's right knee cap. Sonic grinned as he bent his body backwards and slammed the top of his foot into Mecha's chin as he proceeded to do a back flip then land with his left knee on the ground,his right foot planted on the ground and with one swift move he leapt forward and clobbered Mecha's face, hitting the top left side of his face and visor.

Shadow now finally standing on his feet, wiped away the blood that now drizzled onto the corner of his mouth. Shadow growled as he raised his hands up to his sides and opened both of his hands' palms. Lime electricity surged out from his Inhibitor Rings and into the center of his palms and two balls of lime Chaos Energy appeared and completely surrounded both of his hands. "Chaos!" He yelled out and pulled his left hand back and launched it forward. "SPEAR!" The Chaos Spear flew through the air after being unleashed by Shadow and blew up against Titan's back making it miss a shot it fired at Sonic, causing a large cloud of dust with a lime tint and lime electricity around it. Shadow smiled as even though he couldn't see the results of his attack and threw the other one in his right hand and that one made an even bigger dust of cloud with a lime tint and electricity. Shadow dropped to his right knee and a grin emerged on his face while closing his left eye lid. Out of the dust cloud, a pink bolt of energy with some yellow mixed in flew at Shadow and blew up across his chest, searing it, throwing him to the ground and caused him to loudly groan.

"Hey Shadow! Can you stop sucking dick and actually do something?!" Sonic yelled at Shadow as he was holding Mecha Monster in a hand to hand grip lock and was kicking the robot in the shin as Shadow turned onto his belly and with his left forearm on the ground and rose himself to his feet with a vein popping out of the right side of his head.

"You want something?" Shadow growled under his breath. He turned to face Silver Titan which was once again facing Sonic and firing his beam attacks at who just so happened to keep hitting Mecha. Shadow's whole body leaned forward and he casually walked towards Silver Titan while raising his hands up to his sides. His Inhibitor Rings had magenta electricity surged out of them then ignited Shadow's hands in a pure white fire with magenta surrounding it which consumed his hand. "I'll give ya something." The fire like Chaos Energy was being fueled by Shadow's anger. Shadow clenched his fist and his jet shoes boosted him towards Silver Titan, he then fell down and started sliding. He managed to slid right up to the bottom of Silver Titan's back who once again turned to the right and completely around but didn't see Shadow.

"CHAOS!" Shadow yelled out which caused Silver Titan to look down to see his target, on his back, having his elbows hit the ground, his whole body facing him, his legs spread out and he then pushed forward as all of the energy within his hands, "FLARE!" Shadow screamed as he thrusted his arms straight at Silver Titan and then out of nowhere, a massive beam of pure white, purple and red magenta Chaos Energy poured out of his hands as the beam engulfed Silver Titan. The magenta Chaos beam flew into the air but dissipated after being in the air for a while as the beam disappeared entirely, only being their for a couple seconds. Shadow panted as steam was disappearing from his hands thanks to the wind in the air. "Good enough for ya." What was left of Silver Titan was Silver Titan but only the back was left with the front completely eviscerated and melted, the entire head of Silver Titan was gone as the machine creaked and leaned forward. Shadow's jet shoes powered up and flung his legs straight up to which he carried the momentum and flipped backwards as he saw Silver Titan slam into the ground. As Shadow turned he saw Sonic getting clobbered in the left cheek bone by Mecha, Sonic on the other hand slid on his feet and turned around to face Mecha with his right arm wobbling to his side and his right eye half closed. Shadow took his opening and bolted towards Mecha, he jumped into the air while twisting his spine back and back flipping in the air as he twisted his body to the left during the flip. Shadow pulled his legs towards his chest and as he got near Mecha in the air, he slammed both of his feet into Mecha's face, throwing him to the ground. Shadow landed on his side but quickly rushed to his feet and pointed above Sonic's left shoulder. "Go! Go find other robots!" Sonic looked passed his right shoulder, turned back to Shadow with a confused expression.

"What, why?"

"I got Mecha, so go find other ones!"

"Wait...so you want me to leave?" Shadow violently nodded. "You think you can take Mecha by yourself?" Shadow nodded once again. "Remember, show, don't tell!"

"I'll kill you myself!" Shadow yelled as he turned to Mecha who was now getting up. Shadow rushed over to him and jumped on top of him, holding him to the ground yet it didn't seem like Shadow's weight wasn't affecting Mecha at all. Sonic looked over at the 'corpse' of the Silver Titan and nodded.

"Wish I had a zipper on my lips." Sonic chuckled out and just lazily boosted off down the road. Shadow struggled to keep himself on top of Mecha but all Mecha did was push off the ground and slam Shadow onto the ground with Mecha on top with his chest facing the sky. Mecha bounced off Shadow and quickly turned around to raise his right foot above Shadow's chest. Shadow's action was to use his Jet Shoes to boost away from Mecha with his back sliding on the ground. Mecha let gravity take control of his foot and he slammed on top of Shadow's left foot. All that came out of it was not blood but wires, screws, metal plates and all sorts of machinery. It blew up and created a small explosion of electricity that burned Mecha's right foot. Shadow however kept going backwards with his left foot detaching away. Shadow leaned his hands back and flipped himself backwards and onto his right foot with him keeping his balance.

"HUH?!" Mecha yelled out loud as he lifted his right foot up for inspection. Shadow hopped in the air lightly and his Jet Shoe let loose and he flew through the air like Superman. He smashed his right fist across Mecha's face and as he kept flying, he uppercutted Mecha in the chin which made him travel with Shadow who then slammed both of his fists into Mecha's face, more specifically his visor and threw him to the ground. Shadow aimed his right Jet Shoe straight into the air and shot down and on top of Mecha. Shadow was sitting on his chest with his knees under Mecha's armpits. Shadow pulled his right fist back and took a quick jab at his visor, cracking it. Mecha, in retaliation, sucker punched Shadow in the left side of his jaw with his right fist. Shadow, now enraged, had red purple and green Chaos Energy burst out from his hands. Shadow grabbed Mecha's right forearm with his left hand then his right hand grabbed his tricep and at both parts, the arm itself was melting with Shadow's hands folding into his arm. Mecha, with his left hand, grabbed Shadow's right Jet Shoe and growled at him. Shadow, after melting most of Mecha's right arm, tore it off, threw it behind him and then he heard a loud crush as he looked at his right Jet Shoe which was completely destroyed. Shadow looked down, with fire in his eyes, the Chaos Energy around his hands went wild. All Shadow did was snag the tricep of Mecha's left arm and it just tore off from sheer power.

"Death to all who oppose me!" Shadow yelled as he grabbed the side of Mecha's head with the Chaos Energy burning away at his head. His visor cracked then popped off. Shadow dug his fingers into Mecha's head and tore off the metal plates around his face and head and threw it behind him. Shadow pulled his fists into the air and above his head and slowly opened them. Shadow slammed his fists into Mecha's head. A shock wave of Chaos Energy punched out if the ground and the head. Mecha's head was completely gone and disintegrated. Shadow leaned back and fell onto his back onto the pavement, panting heavily. Shadow leaned over to his right Jet Shoe and detached it, leaving a silver bud with golden orbs around the side of the bud. Shadow fell onto his back and heard an explosion to the far distance to which he looked over to his left and saw smoke coming from the streets. Shadow sighed.

Sonic

Sonic lazily trotted out of a clothing store wearing the jacket he promised to wear a while ago. It was a cobalt blue jacket with two pockets near the bottom and two pockets near the breast area, it had no hood instead it had a tuck out collar. The jacket was open and was a zip up. The inside of the jacket was baby blue with the inside of all four collars baby blue as well. The sleeves were somewhat long so he tucked them over the golden rings but not over the majority of his gloves. Apparently there were two large openings in the back for his two back spines to poke through. The zipper was cobalt blue as well. He swayed his hands and hit the bottom back of the coat, pushing it back. Sonic scoffed and put his hands in the bottom pockets.

"Welp, there goes my spendings...well. I do look snazzy." He said as he twisted his arm under and over. Sonic started to slowly walk forward then sped himself up. He was going his normal speed which to most Mobians was an olympic sprinter. "Man, there's a whole lot of nothing around here. I think that Shadow just wanted bragging rights-oh my name is Shadow and I destroyed Mecha Monster AND Silver Titan-congrats Shadow, so did I…" Sonic mocked aloud, he tried his best to sound like Shadow. Sonic looked up and saw to bright faded white beams in the clouds. Sonic hopped upwards and he skidded on his heels to a halt. Out of nowhere and suddenly a giant maroon and black object landed right in front of Sonic. Sonic stared in shock as he laid his eyes on the new enemy. The new enemy was a giant mecha. First the chest was a giant sideways oval, it was red on the top and black on the bottom. In the middle of the red were five large lights that produced dimmed white light and a large green glowing circle pad under the lights. Around the left and right of them were two giant shoulder pads each with a large shiny orb as the socket with a red spear on the top of the shoulder with a yellow strip around it which connected to a large long iron bar which connected to a long and large cylinder with six large holes around in a circle with another one in the middle. There were also short legs. The leg was composed of four orbs with two large ones at the top. The four orbs were the same size except the large one at the top. The feet were surprisingly small. Made of four small iron bars each with an orb connected to the end. These two four-toed feet were keeping this whole thing upwards. Now the back had three long curved steel pipes on each side with a total of six steel pipes. Two on the sides at the top of the red half, aiming upwards and one on them at the bottom of the red half, aiming downwards on each side. Now in the dead middle and at the top of the machine was clear glass with the warlord Dr. Eggman himself, grinning at his new fierce toy. Sonic slowly placed his right hand onto his forehead while leaning his head back, the hand slid down his face and he looked up the machine. "Impressive toy ya got there Scrambles!"

"Ohohoho! You don't know the third of it!" The doctor laughed out as he pointed at his nuisance. "It's a pleasure seeing you again after all these months!" Sonic grinned as he heard those words.

"I forgot how much of a joy SHELL you are Eggman!" Sonic chuckled out as he put his hands to his waist.

"It's what I do!" Eggman said as he bowed in his mech. "Do you like the show I put on for you?" Eggman said as he raised his arms into the air. Sonic put his left hand to his chest and gasped.

"You put this all on for me?" Sonic said in a light voice. "Boy do I feel special! I mean you did terrorize the entire city but boy oh boy! I'll make some waffles with the yok I've been given! Just for the two of us."

"Ehahahaha! Why thank you! It's my pleasure!" Eggman ran his right index finger and thumb across his mustache.

"So. What's this little beast we got here?" Sonic said as his hand turned to where the under part of it was facing upwards, he pointed his index finger at the mecha along with his thumb pointed straight out.

"This? This is the Ultra-Hyper Prototype-0! A machine built from the years of battling you! It was built to match you in physical combat...I plan to work on the speed factor-but this is the best you're getting!"

"Hm! Pretty impressive craftsmanship you got there scrambles! Am I supposed to fear it? Cause I think it's doing the opposite." Sonic said as he gleefully closed his eyes and stuck half his tongue out.

"Don't mock me! I will make this road your grave!"

"Besides the machine needs a shorter, less complicated name. Call it something unique like the Egg Giant-I mean...it does LOOK like a giant egg…"

"First it's not a giant, second; it's not an egg, thirdly; how dare you critique my creations without seeing its true power! Fourthly-"

"I don't know. Just call it something like...dragoon...you know...like a mounted infantry! I mean it's a good looking mech-don't get me wrong-."

"Fourthly; you are in no position to make demands like that! Only I make demands! Like i'm the only one who will destroy you!"

"Just try it Scrambles!"

"Stop it with that name!" Eggman said as he slammed his fists onto his controls. Sonic laughed softly and noticed something in the air. Sonic grinned as he slowly backed up, taking quick glances at the air. "What's the matter...scared?"

"Gonna be adding some salt to MY eggs." Sonic took a glance at the sky and pointed his thumb in the air. Eggman himself looked upwards and in that exact second, a red blur collided into the right side (Sonic's right.) of Eggman's mech, hitting between the shoulder pad and the cockpit. The entire mech folded in on itself as most of it ripped and tore apart but some of it just blew up. The entire right arm ripped off and flung into the air while Eggman's Eggmobile, a white spherical pod with the lower hemisphere black and on each side it has a glowing orange stripe and a backwards-facing engine with a vent on the front. The front of the pod has three blue LED bulbs inside a circle for headlights. Up front, it also has a light red windshield with black tints along the sides. Near the back is a large red couch-like seat. The Eggmobile ejected out of the mech and landed near the right arm. All of this created a massive amount of dust and particles flying everywhere. Sonic shielded his face by raising his right arm above his face and his left arm under face. Sonic laughed loudly as he lowered his arms. "Looks like you need some more brain power eggface!" Emerging from the dust cloud was Knuckles The Echidna who had his left arm on his right shoulder as he moved his right arm in circles. Sonic high fived Knuckles when he had gotten near him and laughed aloud as he saw Eggman's Eggmobile, with him inside of it, fly off.

"Damn you Sonic! Don't think you've won this!" Eggman roared out.

"I'll be having my victory with bacon! Have fun on your next try!" Sonic yelled as he clapped his hands high in the air. "Now take yo forces and fry yourself to sleep!" Eggman growled and he and his Eggmobile flew away from the remains of his beloved mech. Sonic looked at Knuckles with a grin on his face. "Get it? Fried? As in fried the food-."

"Yeah I got it." Knuckles chuckled out. Sonic looked down at the remains of the mecha which was a discussing mess.

"What a horrifying scene…" The Blue Blur then looked up at Red Rad. "Did we discuss that tactic? Or did we make that up?"

"Think we made it up…" Sonic nodded in response.

"That was awesome dude, but why did you come here?"

"Oh, I heard explosions and gunfire from Angel Island so I jumped off the island and flew over here to check it out. I saw Eggman and gunned for it."

"Sweet."

"Nice coat."

"Jacket. And thanks. Just bought it." Sonic's right arm vibrated but only for a second. Sonic rolled his coat's sleeve up and tapped a finger on the wrist communicator's screen which turned it on. "Oh hey it's five. Aaaaand Sally texted me…well more specifically, she sent an all text..."

"What's it say?"

"It's says; 'To everyone on the battlefield, please report to the Mobian Spire immediately, we have a major announcement.'...okay…" Sonic shrugged and turned to face the way he had came. "We should check up with Shadow."

"What? Why?"

"Cause its Shadow, Knux. Who knows what's happening with him."

"Then what are we waiting for."

"Nothing." Sonic said as he bolted down the street at a jogging pace, fast enough for Knuckles to catch up with him. Sonic and Knuckles had jogged back to the edge of the city to where Shadow was. Sonic noticed Shadow on his back and dashed over to him, speeding away from Knuckles. Sonic reached to Shadow. "Yo Shads, you al-HOLY-." Sonic quickly stopped and noticed Shadow's missing feet. Sonic did several confusing gestures in front of his chest with his left fist. "...WOW!" Sonic did several more gestures but with his right fist. "That is-wow-that is very surprising-YOU HAVE METAL FEET!?" He yelled at Shadow who scoffed at him.

"I was pretty sure I told you this…"

"I'm pretty sure you didn't." Sonic said while nodding his head. Knuckles managed to catch up to Sonic and put his left hand on his right shoulder.

"Che…" Sonic pointed at Shadow with just his right index finger.

"Knuckles, YOU pick him up." Sonic said as he looked at Knuckles who looked back at Sonic.

"Why me?" Knuckles voice cracked. Sonic trotted away from the two and turned to face the direction of the Mobian Spire.

"I'm not qualified enough to carry him. I'm not THAT strong!" Sonic yelled as he raised his hands in front and above his shoulders. Knuckles shrugged and picked up Shadow in a bridal style.

"Do NOT carry me like this!" Shadow growled at Knuckles.

"Want me carry you on my back?" Knuckles asked Shadow while glaring at him. Shadow gritted his teeth in anger but only crossed his arms.

"C'mon Knuckles. Sally is waiting for us." Sonic said as he waved for Knuckles to follow him.

"She is?" Shadow asked.

"Yeah, dunno why though." Sonic and Knuckles jogged all the way back to the Mobian Spire with Shadow still in Knuckles' arms. It took quite a while but when the three got there they were surprised with the fact that there was a decapitated silver Metal Sonic just laying there but also Rouge standing at the doorway with her arms crossed, her legs outwards and her eyes looking at the three of them.

"Took you boys long enough!" Rouge yelled at them while tapping her watch that was on her right wrist.

"S-O-R-R-Y. We were picking up Shadow who apparently does not have feet…" Sonic said as he pointed the entirety of his hands at Shadow who was in Knuckles' arms. At the same time when Rouge notice this, Cream and Tails trotted up the stairs together and met up with the others.

"Oh hey guys." Tails softly said.

"Sup bro." Sonic said as he put his left hand to his side.

"Are we going inside?"

"Yeah we were." Sonic said with a loud tone. Tails looked between Rouge and Sonic then walked into the Mobian Spire with the rest tagging along. Sonic took off his jacket and threw it over his right shoulder. The mobians went in one at a time with Rouge in front, Tails second, Cream third, Sonic fourth, Knuckles and Shadow lastly. The six mobians travel across the Mobian Spire and up to the control room where Sally was all alone looking at some of the computer screens. When the six came in, Rouge, who was in the front, knocked on the wall which caught Sally's attention. She looked at the six with concern among her face.

"Did everything go alright out there?" Sally asked as she gave most of her attention to Sonic who shrugged at the question. She noticed Shadow in Knuckles' arms, Shadow had his arms crossed and seemed a little peeved with being held bridal style.

"Put me in a chair you buffoon." Shadow growled out. Knuckles put Shadow in a chair near his left and moved it to face Sally.

"Why'd ya call us?" Tails asked as he placed his left wrist onto his right metal arm's elbow and stretched it out.

"Well since no one's injured-."

"-Hey, can someone call a veterinary?" Knuckles said as he clutched both of his triceps and laid against the wall.

"Why? What happened?"

"Its nothing much just...these pythons are SICK!" Knuckles yelled out as he flexed his arms out showing everyone his ferocious muscles.

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Sonic and Tails yelled aloud in unison. Sally rolled her eyes and grumbled to herself as Sonic and Tails jumped and high fived Knuckles. Shadow snorted with Rouge laughing aloud and question marks floating around Cream. The six of them calmed down relatively quickly.

"No but all serious now-why'd ya call us." Sonic said with a smile and pointing his right index finger at Sally. Sally rubbed her eyes with her index finger and her thumb and sighed loudly.

"You guys are gonna hate this…" Sally said softly and waved her hand in the air and let it rest to her side. "We implemented a feature into this tower. Its called the Universal S.O.S. Beacon."

"This already sounds like it leads to problems." Shadow said as he tilted the chair back. "What does it do?"

"It...um...it sends out a high frequency wave across the world and beyond. The whole point of it was too send out a distress signal if Mobotropolis or Mobius were to ever fall to Eggman or any other kind of force. Aaaaand we may have accidentally activated it." Everyone minus Rouge and Sally had a look a pure confusion. Sonic jumped forward and aimed his hands outwards.

"WHY IS THAT A FEATURE!?" Sonic yelled out.

"I knew you were all gonna make a fuss out of this."

"WHY WOULDN'T WE BE?! You just sent a distress signal into outer space and across the planet that isn't even in distress anymore!"

"Wait, wait, wait, what does this all exactly mean?" Cream said as even more question marks floated around her head.

"Aliens." Sally said bluntly. Sonic dropped his jacket and walked out of the room. A few seconds later he walked back into the room and picked his jacket up and threw it back over his shoulder.

"When?" Tails asked.

"Who knows. It was sent recently but it could take days, weeks, months even years." Rouge said as she walked up to Sally's left side.

"Greaaat. We don't even know WHEN there gonna show up. Faaantastic." Shadow grumbled aloud.

"But won't the aliens be nice?" Cream asked.

"I mean...there ALIENS...WHY would they care about us?" Shadow asked as he turned the chair to face Cream.

"Well it doesn't matter. There coming soon. We don't know when. That's the biggest problem. So we'll have to assume they're coming soon. We'll have to assume one of two things. Either one: It's a single powerful alien. Or two: An entire army of aliens." Sonic said with a bit of anger in his voice.

"Just another challenge we'll have to overcome." Tails said as he folded his arms

with all of the others nodded and agreeing with Tails.

"I'll bring Cheese with me this time. He has really wanted to join me in these battles lately…" Cream noted.

"Your Chao?" Tails asked as he looked at Cream who nodded at him.

"Upgrades, gear, techniques...guns. We need it all." Shadow said as he looked at everyone.

"Course you want guns." Sonic said rolling his eyes.

"Alright, we're gonna get prepped and whenever they come. They'll feel the pain!" Sally said aloud as she raised her fist in the air.

"YEAH!" Everyone yelled out loud while also raising their dominant hands into the air. "I'm gonna contact Eggman and tell him the situation." Sonic said while quickly lowering his fist and checking his wrist communicator. "He'll help us and we'll help him. All we gotta do is keep calm and fight on!"