Hello everyone. I'm REALLY REALLY REALLY sorry about not updating for over 3 months, but I haven't been able to find a good fight scene, and I had to get stuff for school and everything. I'll try to update sooner but probably only on weekends. You probably all hate me by now…I'm sorry but you know my laziness and all, so fell free to flame! Anyways here's the disclaimer!
Disclaimer- I don't own any Sonic characters except MJ, Chibi Star, Inferno and anyone else I created. Kilala belongs to my friend Jena whose school has a lack of Ketchup packets, Maya belongs to Alyson who isn't in my school anymore, and Tangy belongs to my friend Kathleen who is never online!
"5 Years Without You…"
By MJ the Seal
Chapter 15
Shadow vs. Metal Sonic!
"Let's get this thing started then shall we?" Metal Sonic smirked as he walked away from the microphone. Shadow began slowly walking towards him as Inferno's heart was pumped with excitement.
"Kick his butt once for me Shadow!" Inferno shouted
"Shut up you red-headed idiot" Metal Sonic said. He had an evil smirk on his face showing his metal pointed toothed teeth.
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!" Inferno screamed with rage and began to charge towards the metal sonic clone. Shadow Chaos Controlled in front of Inferno and stopped him
"Inferno, stay out of this. This is my fight and my fight alone." Shadow said emotionlessly. Inferno signed and flew back to where Maya, Amber, and Tangy were standing.
"Well someone's being serious." Metal Sonic said with a sarcastic tone. "But now, WE FIGHT!" Metal Sonic dashed towards Shadow and Shadow did the same. Shadow threw a punch for Metal Sonic's stomach but missed giving Metal Sonic the opportunity to slam his fists into Shadow's back, which he did. Shadow quickly got up and landed a kick in Metal Sonic's face. Metal Sonic quickly recoiled by throwing a punch in Shadow's stomach, and then flipped over Shadow and grabbed his arm. He flung Shadow up into the air, sending the black hedgehog soaring through the air.
"Chaos Control!" Shadow shouted after pulling out the Emerald of Hope. Shadow teleported behind Metal Sonic and kicked him right in the back of his head. Metal Sonic flew a few yards and quickly landed back on the ground.
"So this might be some competition for me after all…" Metal Sonic thought as he got into a fighting position. Shadow got into his fighting stance as well, thinking of what Metal Sonic's next move would be.
"He must have a special technique of some kind…but how much stronger is his attack from the last two's?" Shadow wondered as he looked Metal Sonic straight in the eye. "A more important question would be where he's hiding the Emerald of Peace."
"Why do you think those guys are just standing there and staring at each other?" Tangy asked curiously.
"They're waiting to see who's going to make the next move, and they're thinking about what they're next attack is going to be." Maya answered. Tangy gave an 'o' expression and continued watching the stare-down.
"Now what to do next about this Hedgehog…" Metal Sonic thought. He looked around the audience, "That's it!" Metal Sonic began to laugh to himself as an idea came to his mind.
"What's so funny?" Shadow asked his blue metallic foe.
"How about we make this more interesting?" Metal Sonic replied. He raised his hand toward the left side of the tent where one of the audience stands was, and a small glow of energy began to form. Shadow suddenly realized what he was planning to do and shouted.
"GET OUT OF HERE, HE'S AIMING A BLAST TOWARD YOU ALL!" he shouted and the entire left side of the audience began panicking and running for their lives. Metal Sonic released his blast at the audience stand and it exploded to bits, taking some innocent people with it. The right side out the audience began to run to before they ended up like some of the unfortunate souls on the left side. Maya, Tangy, Inferno, and Amber stared in shock at what was going on.
"C'mon we better get out of here! This place isn't safe anymore." Inferno shouted over the panic of the people.
"Was it ever safe in the first place?" Tangy asked. They considered this for a moment and realized that it really never was safe to watch a battle between evil robot creations with freakish powers. Maya shook her head back out of her thoughts.
"Whatever, let's just go!" Maya shouted and the four ran out of the circus tent.
"You monster, what does killing innocent people do for you?!" Shadow shouted with rage as his red eyes furiously glared at Metal Sonic.
"It brings me happiness; can't you just hear the beautiful music of fear and terror striking through their hearts? All that music makes a huge chorus, as they fear for their pathetic lives with brings me joy to know I created that fear, that I created the beautiful melody." Metal Sonic answered. Shadow could feel his blood begin to boil, and his anger beginning to go off the charts.
"I'LL KILL YOU!!" Shadow screamed as he dashed towards Metal Sonic and smashed him into the ground, punching the metallic monster like mad. He then kicked Metal Sonic up into the air and teleported next to him.
Metal Sonic smirked "Just try to…" Metal Sonic put his hands together and blasted Shadow. Shadow flew through the tent and hit the pole in the center. Metal Sonic launched another blast, Shadow tried with all his strength to move over, and luckily he just barely moved out of the way in time.
"That was close…" Shadow mumbled.
"This'll be closer!" Shadow turned around only to get blasted by Metal Sonic who laughed in triumph. "YOU'LL NEVER DEFEAT ME!"
"His power and speed are amazing, nearly as good as Sonic's…" Shadow thought. He reached for the Emerald of Hope in his quills. "CHAOS SPEAR!" suddenly, tons of spear shaped chaos energy began to head for Metal Sonic.
"Pathetic…" Metal Sonic stayed in his place and let the spears of energy hit him. Smoke began to surround him, and when it began to clear, the Sonic clone was standing there without a single scratch on his metallic armor.
"The Chaos Spear…it didn't do anything!" Shadow thought aloud in shock.
"Of course, no weak attack like that could ever hurt someone as powerful as me." Metal Sonic stated as he began to brush himself off.
Shadow looked at the Emerald of Hope, shining in his sweating gloved hand.
"Time to turn this up a notch…" He clenched the emerald and his body began to glow, the emerald lending him power. He looked Metal Sonic in the eye and dashed at him, with even more speed and power. Shadow quickly Chaos Controlled behind Metal Sonic and hit him into the remaining audience stand. Then, Shadow chaos controlled to Metal Sonic again and began to go into a pattern of throwing Metal Sonic into the walls of the tent and punching him.
"How much power did he GET from that emerald?!" the questioned buzzed through Metal Sonic's brain. "More importantly, how could this hedgehog be able to actually harm me in battle!?" Just as Shadow was about to throw him into the audience stand for the sixth time, Metal Sonic blasted Shadow off of him and dashed out of the way before Shadow could recover.
"H-how can I be losing to someone as weak as him? I am the strongest creation in the universe; I am the most elite warrior of them all!" Metal Sonic looked up at Shadow who appeared to be panting as well.
"You should consider yourself lucky hedgehog…I never thought I would have to go into my second form in order to defeat you."
"S-second form?!" Shadow shouted in shock. Metal Sonic nodded and continued.
"Yes, you remember Metal Overload don't you?" Shadow thought back and remembered Metal Sonic's Overload form.
"Don't you need the Chaos Emerald in order to do that?!"
Metal Sonic chuckled. "With the power Eggman programmed me with, I now can transform into Metal Overload ANYTIME I WISH!!" Metal Sonic cackled and his body began to glow blackish blue. His metal spines along with the rest of his body grew in length, his already long claws now longer than a yard, and now his power even greater. Shadow, Inferno, Maya, Amber, Tangy, and everyone else at the Circus Plaza stared in pure awe at the monstrous transformation.
"Whoa…" Inferno said. "I wish I could do that!" Maya hit him upside the head, annoyed at the dragon's comment.
"Stop being an idiot! Now isn't the time for stupid comments like that!" she angrily shouted.
"How long is he able to hold that form?" Amber asked.
"I guess until he doesn't have enough energy to sustain it any longer." Tangy guessed. Maya and Inferno stared at her. Tangy suddenly blinked and looked around.
"Huh? Oh sorry, I was answering this question on a candy bar I had earlier, see?" Tangy pulled out a candy bar wrapper and the three fell down anime style.
"I should've known…" Maya mumbled.
Metal Sonic was just finishing his transformation as he looked down upon Shadow.
"HAHAHA! WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ME NOW!? I AM THE STRONGEST THERE IS IN THE ENTIRE WORLD!!" Metal Sonic roared as he began to laugh maniacally. Shadow just stared at the new Metal Sonic; he could feel power emitting from Metal because he was so much more powerful now.
"You've been beaten in that form once…" Shadow said as he gripped the Emerald of Hope tightly. "I'm sure I can beat you again." Shadow suddenly chaos controlled above Metal Sonic and slammed his feet into Metal Sonic's head. He flipped off of his head a put his hand up in the air.
"CHAOS SPEAR!" once again a shower of spear shaped chaos energy rained from the sky and hit Metal Sonic, who didn't even bother to dodge them. When the attack ended Metal Sonic dusted himself off and looked down at Shadow.
"You think that attack could even dent me in this form?" Metal Sonic asked and surely enough not a single scratch or dent was seen on his entire body. Shadow looked for any sign off damage and found nothing despite his efforts.
"But how?! That's one of my best attacks, is he really that powerful now!?" Shadow thought as he tried to come up with another plan.
"CHAOS CON-" Shadow was stopped short as Metal Sonic swung his right leg into Shadow's side, sending Shadow across the plaza into a brick building. Metal Sonic quickly dashed toward Shadow and punched him hard in the face, which mad Shadow fall off from the wall off the building into the ground.
"So long Hedgehog!" Metal Sonic began to slam his foot where Shadow lied on the ground, when Shadow quickly rolled out of the way just in time!
"CHAOS BLAST!" Shadow shouted as a blast of Chaos Energy shot and hit Metal Sonic's left eye.
"AARRGGHHH!!" Metal Sonic roared as he covered his now shattered eye. "YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!!!" Metal Sonic quickly grabbed Shadow and began crushing the life of the defenseless hedgehog, who began to shout in pain.
"I'll crush you until every bone in your body breaks! Then I'll blast you into oblivion!" Metal Sonic snarled as he continued to crush Shadow.
"What am I going to do now?! I'm trapped in this guy's grip with now way out and I have nearly no energy left in my entire body!" Shadow thought as Metal Sonic's grip on him began to tighten.
"What should we do?! Shadow's getting crushed by Metal Sonic!" Inferno asked as he looked toward Amber, Maya, and Tangy for ideas.
"Honestly I don't know what to do…" Amber said as she closed her eyes to think.
"We could try distracting him until he let's go of Shadow!" Maya suggested.
"Yeah but are our attacks even powerful enough to do any real damage?" Inferno inquired. Maya, Amber, and Inferno signed.
"Hey…where did Tangy go?" Amber asked as she just realized the orange monkey being missing.
"TAKE THIS!!" Tangy cried as she threw a bonanza of exploding papayas at Metal Sonic's left shoulder. The explosives caused Papaya pulp to hit anyone near by, including Shadow.
"Annoying monkey, stop hitting my arm!" Metal Sonic ordered as he took his left hand off of Shadow and moved it to swipe Tangy.
"Got to aim this just right…" Tangy mumbled as she steadied her arm. She threw another papaya and it hit an opening she made in Metal Sonic's left shoulder.
"Did you think that for one second you-" Metal Sonic stopped short when the papaya blew up in his left shoulder. The small explosive was powerful enough that it caused chunks of his shoulder to fall to the ground.
"AAAAAAGGGHHHHH!!" Metal Sonic cried as he dropped Shadow to the ground to hold onto his wounded shoulder. Shadow plopped lifeless to the ground and moaned as Tangy ran over to him.
"Shadow, are you okay?" Tangy asked the black hedgehog as she kneeled down to him. Shadow replied with a grunt. Tangy thought for a moment and thought of a way to tell if he was okay.
"Does…this hurt?" Tangy asked as she poked Shadow where Metal Sonic kicked him earlier.
"AGH! YES NOW STOP!" Shadow shouted and Tangy back off. Shadow tried to stand up, but fell back down again.
"Yeah, you might want to sit down after being crushed in the hands of a giant robot..." Shadow ignored Tangy and tried to stand up again, this time managing to stay on his feet without plopping over like a doll.
"Two questions…" Shadow panted as he turned to Tangy. "One, how should we beat Metal Sonic, and two what in the world are those papayas made up?" Tangy pondered over Shadow's questions for a moment, while tapping her foot and putting her hand to her chin.
"Well, you can hardly stand up…so I don't know about the first question, but my papayas are made of explosive stuff that has a really long name and explanation!" Tangy answered and she looked back over to Shadow.
"Explosives…" Shadow muttered remembering how her Papayas exploded on contact. Then in a quick second he came up with a plan.
"Those…defiant weaklings… they made my left arm useless with papayas…exploding papayas." Metal Sonic thought angrily as he grabbed his left arm. "Well, there's no use for this anymore…" Metal Sonic gripped harder on his arm and ripped it off of his body, discarding it onto the ground where the Circus tent once stood. "Time to finish this…" Metal Sonic got into and stance where he stretched out his arm and put one foot behind him. He closed his eyes and in his hand a ball of black light began to form and grow bigger with each passing second.
"Hey what's Metal Sonic doing?" Tangy asked Shadow who looked toward the west with his crimson eyes. He saw the black orb of energy forming and growing in his hand and knew that this wasn't going to end nicely.
"Tangy, how many of those papayas do you have?"
"Well, an unlimited amount since I can generate them from thin air."
"Good, I've got an idea…follow me." Shadow dashed toward Metal Sonic with Tangy following close behind until he was a few feet away from the metallic creature.
"So, you want to die at my feet Shadow?" Metal Sonic asked in a sarcastic tone as the black energy orb grew to the size of a small house.
"Metal Sonic, this is where you'll be defeated, once and for all!" Shadow declared and he took out the Emerald of Hope. Shadow's body began to glow and Metal Sonic knew what was coming.
"Do you really think a Chaos Blast from you will be able to stop my attack?"
"No, at least not alone…" Shadow muttered and Tangy got the hint of what to do next.
"Time to end this! GO CHAOS SHADOWBALL!" Metal Sonic shouted as he threw the dark energy sphere at Shadow.
"CHAOS BLAST!" Shadow shouted and a huge ball of energy began to surround him and spread toward Metal Sonic's dark sphere.
"Pathetic…" Metal Sonic thought as he saw the Chaos Blast head toward him and the sphere.
"TANGY NOW!" Tangy nodded toward Shadow and began pegging her explosive papayas at the Chaos Blast. The papayas exploded all around the chaos energy turning it into an area of explosions and chaos energy all in one.
"WHAT!?" Metal Sonic shouted, aghast at the new attack. It ripped through the dark energy ball like a piece of cloth and began heading toward Metal Sonic at an amazing speed.
"Time for the grand finale!" Tangy cried as she pulled out a papaya several times larger than herself. She chucked it at the chaos blast which was merely inches away from Metal Sonic who was trying to escape.
"NNOOOO!!!" Metal Sonic shouted. The papaya hit the chaos blast, and exploded into a highly deadly mass that hit Metal Sonic as the Chaos Blast slammed into him. It disintegrated his body piece by piece as it engulfed him in its light. Metal Sonic was defeated at last.
"YYYYYEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" Tangy screamed at the top of her lungs as she did a little dance. "WE BEAT METAL SONIC! Oh yeah, go us, it's our birthday, uh huh, it's our birthday, O YEAH!"
"You guys were great!!" Shadow and Tangy turned around to see Maya, Inferno, and Amber running towards toward.
"THAT WAS SO AWESOME! Shadow used Chaos Blast and then Tangy used those papayas, and then Metal Sonic was like NO, and you guys were like TAKE THIS!!" Inferno rambled on as he thought of the battle.
"Nice work you two. Now, let's find the Emerald of Peace." Maya said and the group nodded and began to search around the area.
"Let's see…due to Metal Sonic disintegrating…the emerald should be around where he was last standing…" Amber mumbled to herself. "That was on top of the circus tent ruins…" she ran over to the area where the Circus tent once stood and began to search through the piles of rubble at her feet.
"BZZT!" Amber jumped when she heard the sudden noise and looked around to see where it came from.
"BZZT!" Amber looked over toward a yellow-orange figure in the rubble and slowly moved towards it. She began to see something sparkle as she got closer to the yellow-orange patch, and picked up the pace a little.
"What in the world…" she bent down and pulled the figure out of the pile and found it to be none other than Puppet Tails.
"BZZT! BZZT!" Puppet Tails buzzed as Amber clutched its tails in her hand. She looked over the puppet robot until she came across the red jewel on its forehead. She clutched the jewel and yanked it off of the creature's head and began to stare at it.
"Now what could this be…" Amber whispered as the jewel glowed in her hand. She tossed it to her left hand to find that her right hand was covered in red, wet, paint.
"Paint?" Amber raised and eyebrow when she looked at the spot where the paint was rubbed over to find the color silver.
"This is the Emerald of Peace!!" she shouted in awe as she rubbed the rest of the paint off and held it up.
"SHADOW, MAYA, INFERNO I FOUND THE-" Amber was cut short when a gloved her covered her mouth. The next thing she knew she was being flown off the ground and into the air, her mouth still covered.
"Hey did I just hear Amber you guys?" Inferno asked as he looked up from his pile of rubble. The group looked around until Tangy saw something in the corner of her eye.
"EEEKK, AMBER'S GETTING FLOWN AWAY!!!" Tangy screamed and pointed toward the sky. Shadow, Maya, and Inferno looked up to see Amber getting carried away by none other than…
"PUPPET TAILS!" Maya shouted. "Isn't he supposed to be dead?"
"Inferno, fly up and get Amber!" Shadow commanded and Inferno nodded. Inferno flapped his wings but soon stopped and clutched to his left wing.
"Argh…my wing, Puppet tails hit it earlier remember?" Inferno mumbled as the pain from flapping his wing slowly faded away.
"LET GO OF ME!!" Amber screamed, muffled by Puppet Tails' hand. Puppet Tails said nothing and continued flying up and away into the sky. Amber bit the hand covering her mouth and began to scream.
"CATCH THE EMERALD YOU GUYS!!!" she screamed and with all her might, she threw the Emerald to the ground.
"I got it!" Shadow said before dashing off after the falling Emerald of Peace. Shadow jumped up into the air and caught it before it hit the ground. Maya, Tangy, and Inferno rushed over and looked up at Amber who was nearly out of their view.
"Good luck everyone…I know you can defeat Eggman…" Amber whispered. A cold winter breeze blew across the city, as Shadow, Maya, Inferno, and Tangy watched Amber get carried away out of sight.
End of Chappy 15! Sorry for the long time to update, but you know me. I've got an idea planned for the next Emerald, but I might need to work out the details, so the next chappy might be a fun one with MJ, and the other Sonic cast. Anyway, moving on…
Oh no! Amber's been kidnapped by Puppet Tails! What will happen to her, and what about MJ and Chibi Star? Where will the map lead Shadow and his friends next?