Chapter 13
READY!
(Radical Highway)
Zero and Sonic made their entrances. Zero looked around at his surrounding. They were in some kind of city. This was some world Sonic lived in. "It's been a while since I've been here," Sonic as he prepared to grind a rail. "C'mon."
Zero responded with a nod and aliened himself with a rail next to Sonic's. The two grinded down the rails until they saw a piece of a highway. Sonic and Zero leaped into the air and swiftly landed. To there surprise a group of robots were there waiting their waiting for them. Sonic dashed forward and went head first into the a robot's chest. Zero drew his Z-Saber and slashed off one of the robot's arm's off. The robot grabbed Zero and slammed him into the ground. Zero gave a look of disappointment at the robot. "Is that all you got?"
Zero slashed the robot's arms off and jumped back to his feet. Sonic curled up in a ball and shot around two of the robots. Once he stopped the robots fell through the hole Sonic had made. Sonic fell on his back and laughed when all of a sudden a shadow appeared over him. Sonic stopped laughing and looked up to see a robot was about to step on top of him. Sonic quickly got up and dashed between the robot's legs and jumped up. While airborne Zero threw his Shield Boomerang cutting right through the center of a robot. At the moment he landed on the ground Zero caught his weapon. "Heh," Zero said as he looked over to Sonic. "That was too easy wasn't it?"
"Yeah," Sonic replied sitting on top of a fallen robot. "A little too easy."
"Let's keep going."
As they proceeded through the highway everything to be quiet. Too quiet. Zero stopped for a moment. There was someone around. "You feel that?"
"I've felt it for quite some time now," Sonic replied looking around. "Hey come on out!"
Just then, the highway began to shake. Something was coming. Sonic's ears twitched. "Do you hear that?" he asked. "A motor of some kind."
"My scanners tell me there's two of them," Zero said looking at a computer in his arm. "prepare yourself."
Not too far away the two heroes noticed two cars coming in the distance. Zero aimed his Buster Gun and began shooting at the two cars. The cars swerved out of the way and came to a complete stop. Sonic tilted his head in confusion. What were they planning to do?
"Zero?" Sonic started.
"Your guess is as good as mine." Zero replied. "Look!"
The two cars suddenly transformed into robots. "What? Now we gotta fight the transformers?"(not really the transformers)
The two robots dashed toward Sonic and Zero and grabbed both of them. Sonic struggled to break the robot's grip while Zero began slamming his fist against its' arm. He switched to his Z-Saber and stabbed the robot. The robot dropped Zero, pulled the weapon out of its arm and threw it away. Zero watched his saber as it landed a short distance behind the robot. Sonic broke free of the robot's grip and fell to the ground gasping for air. The robot lifted its enormous fist and attempted smash Sonic but he quickly rolled out of the way. Sonic jumped to his feet and dashed off into the distance. "Come and get me!" he teased. The robot morphed back into a car and chased after him. Zero made a run for his Z-saber and leaped over the robot. The robot grabbed Zero's leg while he was still in mid air and threw him in the opposite direction.
"Damn," he said in his mind. "I can't get around this guy."
Zero got back in his feet and lunged at his opponent's mid section knocking it over. He quickly got and attempted to run but the grabbed his leg again. The robot got back up and kneeled over. After a few seconds it leaped as high as it could into the air and threw Zero off the highway. Zero's eyes widened as he flew over the edge of the highway. "Looks like this is the end of me."
Then all of the suddenly Zero felt his self being snatched through the air. He couldn't see who his rescuer was. All he was able to make out was….
"Sonic?" he moaned as he blacked out.
Sonic dashed down the streets of Radical Highway with the robot hot on his trail. He ran up the side of a rail and stopped when he reached the top. The robot morphed out of its vehicle form and leaped after Sonic. Sonic waited for the robot as it came higher and higher into the air. "Just a little more," he said. The robot was almost to the top. Sonic prepared for his attack. (Everything starts moving slow) The robot reaches Sonic in mid leap. (Back to normal now) "Light Speed Dash!" he yelled curling up into a ball. Sonic shot through the robot's mid section and stopped in midair. He shot towards the ground and leaped back into the air. This time he was aiming at the robot's head. Just as he reached robot a black ball came crashing into him from the side. Sonic fell to the ground and looked up at the robot, it was falling now. Sonic gasped.
"Chaos Control!" came a voice. And everything froze up for a few seconds.
Zero opened his eyes. His Z-saber was right next to him struggled to his feet and snatched it out of the ground. Before him was the robot he was fighting. It was completely destroyed. Parts were all over the place.
"Hey Zero!" came Sonic's voice. "You okay."
Zero could see Sonic approaching him in the distance. He leaned on a part of the fallen robot. Sonic came to sudden in front of Zero. "You okay?"
"Yeah thanks to you," Zero responded.
"Thanks to me?" Sonic said raising an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
"Don't act like you didn't rescue me when that robot threw me off the highway. You caught me. Didn't you?"
Sonic shook his head.
"Then who was that?"
"You know something like happened to me."
"Oh really explain."
(Eggman's Base)
"See didn't I tell you that Shadow was the best?" Eggman shouted as he slapped a black hedgehog on the back.
"You did well," Copy X said. "Looks like their's good use for you after all. Though I don't understand why you had destroy your own comrades."
Shadow remained silent. He folded his arms and walked over to a wall and leaned against it. Harpuia glared at Shadow, Shadow couldn't help but to look back. "Harpuia," called Leviathan as she, Copy X, and Fenfir were leaving the room. The walked down a long hallway. Harpuia caught up to Copy X.
"Master X I don't trust either one of them," he said. "What do you think is reason Dr. Robotnik called this Shadow?"
"I'm not sure," Copy X. "But not to worry my humble servants. We shall rule this universe as well as outs soon enough. Isn't that right….M.S. 5?"
M.S.5 came from out of the shadows. "Yes Master X."
"I don't trust them," Shadow said. Eggman walked over to a computer and began pushing buttons. "I can feel it in you, you don't trust them either."
"Of course I don't," Eggman replied still focused on his computer. "That's why I called you here. I still have to make some modification for the M.S.5. Once we get all Chaos Emeralds I shall combine their power with that of the Baby Elf and I shall this world with an iron palm."
"I don't like that robot of yours either," Shadow said. "You shouldn't let that X guy touch meddle with your inventions. And what about Sonic and that Zero character?"
"Must you be so negative?"
"Okay fine I will remain silent."
(Back on Radical Highway)
"So you think this Shadow character had something to with this?" Zero said. "Interesting."
Suddenly the communicator in Zero's helmet began to go off. "Zero do you read me?" came Ciel's voice.
"Ciel?" Zero asked. "Yeah I hear you what's up?"
"I've got a lock on the Chaos Emerald. And it's moving your way!"
"How can a rock be moving?"
Sonic rolled his eyes when all of the sudden his ears twitched. He could hear the sound of yet another motor. Zero clutched his Z-Saber. He could hear it too.
"Above us!" Sonic yelled. "On the highway railing."
Zero switched to his Buster Gun and looked up. He could see there was a motorcycle riding on the rail of the highway just as Sonic had said. Zero aimed his gun and fired into the air. The motorcycle dropped off the rail and fell into a nose dive evading the shots. The vehicle came to a hard landing as it slammed on the ground before Zero and Sonic.
"So this the mighty Zero," the motorcycle. "Enemy of Master X."
"Did that thing just talk?" Sonic fell the ground.
"I take it that you're Sonic the Rat."
"That's Hedgehog pal."
WARNING
"What makes you can beat me?" Cycle said. All of the sudden he morphed into robot. The same as the other two robots. He was red and had black streaks on his back. His shoulders were his two large wheels. "Get ready."
"Light Speed Dash," Sonic said. A small ball of blue light shot at Cycle knocking him over. The ball stopped, shot into the air and began bouncing on top of the evil replied over and over again. "Zero now."
Zero nodded and began shooting at Cycle. Sonic shot out of the way leaving behind a cloud of dust.
"HAHAHAHAHAAHAHA," came the Cycle's voice. "Did you really think that you had me?"
"Huh," Zero said as he began charging up his gun.
"I like that move you used Sonic"
"Oh really," Sonic said rubbing his finger under his nose. "It's called Light Speed Dash."
"I know it's one of my favorite techniques."
Sonic's eyes widened. A red flash of light shot out of the cloud of smoke and slammed into Sonic. Zero quickly reacted by firing his weapon. The powerful recoil sent Zero flying back. Cycle dodged the blast and stopped in front of Zero preparing to attack. Sonic slowly got up and noticed Zero about to be attacked. "Light Speed Dash." He shot at Cycle ramming into his side. Zero quickly jumped back up and unleashed an assault of shots at the fallen reploid. Cycle struggled to his feet as it took the shots. Sparks were flying everywhere. "Zero wait."
Zero stopped shooting and switched to his Shield Boomerang. Sonic cautiously approached Cycle. The reploid had only one arm left and only half of his face. "Do you give up?" Sonic asked. "Just hand over the Chaos Emerald. You know you're not in the right condition to fight."
"You will never get the emerald from me," Cycle groaned. "Activating self destruct sequence."
The evil reploid then began to count down from 20. Sonic's eyes widened. He didn't know what to do. If he tried ripping out the emerald then he might cause an explosion. He looked over to Zero. He had calm look on his face. like there was no nothing wrong.
"What do we do?" Sonic asked. Zero remained silent.
"Chaos Contol!" Shadow yelled lifting his emerald into the air. Everything stopped moving. Shadow quickly dashed past Sonic and ripped a hole in Cycle's chest. He ripped out the emerald and threw it on the ground and picked up Cycle's body. Shadow looked around the area. Where should he dump the body.
"Shadow," came a robotic voice.
He looked up to see M.S.5. He had a black shield surrounding his body. "What do you want."
"Hand him over to me. Master X gave special orders."
"Master X? Don't you mean Robotnik?"
M.S.5 flew down and took the Cycle away from Zero. He looked at Shadow for a quick moment. "You should make your escape. You only have but 4 seconds."
Shadow's eyes widened and with hat he and M.S.5 disappeared and time returned to normal. Sonic tilted his head. Where was the enemy? All that remained was the emerald. Could it have been Shadow again? He looked over to Zero and back to the emerald. "Well I guess we should just get out of here." Sonic walked over to the emerald and picked it up. "Piece of Cake?" Sonic said striking a victory pose. "You know Zero you should try this posing thing."
"What should my pose look like?" Zero said a looking away. "Huh I'm sorry did you something?"
"Never mind."
End of chapter.