Finally I'm back and I bet you're all excited to see the end of the story aren't you. Well you'll just have to wait.

CHAPTER 17

READY!

Zero and Sonic made their entrances into Eggaman's base. Not too far ahead of them holding the remaining Chaos Emerald was M.S.5. Sonic growled and shot forward. Right before he could reach his robot counterpart a purple force field came from out of the ground blocking his path. Sonic slammed into the force and was electrocuted. Zero drew his saber made a slash at the wall, but it had no affect. "GREAT!" Sonic shouted. "Now how will we catch up?"

Zero put his onto the side of his head and activated his communicator. "Ciel, Tails do you read me?" he asked. "We've got a problem."

"What's up?" Tails replied.

"Eggman's put up some kind of force field and I don't a generator any where near by," Sonic replied in Zero's place.

"Let me see," Tails began to type on his computer. Screens upon screens appeared in the monitor of his computer. "I think I've found something. We may not be able to disable the field but we can give you guys another route to the emerald."

"But we must warn you," Ciel continued. "It's pretty dangerous."

"WHEN HAS DANGEROUS EVER STOPPED US BEFORE?" Zero and Sonic at the same time.

Tails looked over to Ciel and the two smiled at each other. There was no stopping Sonic and Zero no matter what they said. The scientific duo nodded and they began to type in their computers. After a few seconds of hacking Tails pushed the "Enter" button and ground beneath Sonic and Zero began to slide open revealing three rails ready to be grinded on. Sonic looked over to Zero.

"You know how to ride one of these?" he asked.

Zero looked back at the blue hedgehog and put on a little smirk. "What I t wouldn't help to learn now would it?"

The two then leaped forward and landed on the rails grinding down the rails. Around them was nothing but blue sky. It was almost beautiful if not for all the Eggman aircrafts. Zero held his Z-Saber tight as he followed not too far from Sonic on the rail. "Hey up there."

"What's up?" Sonic looked back.

"Why do you think Eggman takes these emeralds of yours anyway?"

"You know I'm not sure," Sonic replied. "He was only able to use them once. But then that plan kind of back fired."

"Is that so?" Zero looked up ahead to see that his section of the rail was just about end while Sonic's continued on. He didn't know what to do. Sonic did a short jump and spun around so that he was now grinding backwards.

"Grab on," Sonic said as he extended his arm. Zero quickly grabbed on and he was pulled over the rail on the other side of Sonic.

"Thanks."

"Next time just jump to the next rail. It's not that hard."

Zero replied with a nod and together they proceeded on. Minutes later Zero noticed a ship was pulling up from underneath. He also noticed the blue figure was flying near the ship. Zero narrowed his eyes and they zoomed in closer, revealing the M.S. 5.

"You see that?" Zero asked pointing down.

"Yeah," Sonic replied. "Let's get him."

The two then jumped off their rails and landed on the ship's deck to see that M.S. 5 was gone. Sonic rolled his eyes and stomped his foot hard. "Dammit where did he go!" the blue hedgehog shouted. Just then a door began them opened up revealing an army of Eggman's robots. Sonic and Zero prepared for battle, they've gotten so far and they weren't going to let a couple of robots slow them down. Zero charged first and leaped into the group. Once in the middle of the army he then began to hack and slash his way through. Sonic quickly followed up by curling up into a ball and crashing his way through. He immediately uncurled and kicked off a robot's chest throwing himself into the air. Zero looked up to Sonic who was looking back down at him. He knew what he was supposed to do. Zero threw his saber into the air towards Sonic. The Blue Hedgehog caught the weapon and with lightning fast speed threw himself back onto the ground. Sonic looked around at the enemies surrounding him for a second and then began dash about the area slashing at anything that moved. Zero pulled out his Buster Gun and fired at a robot's face, knocking the head clean off. He then spun and blast four more robots through the torso. Zero leaped into the air and landed next to Sonic so the two were back to back. "There's no stopping them is there?" Sonic asked gripping Zero's saber.

"I do have one idea," Zero said. He then pointed his gun at the ground began to charge it up. After a few seconds he unleashed a huge blast through the ship's deck. The robots all looked around to see that Zero's plan had backfired and the continued to approach the two heroes.

"All that for nothing?" Sonic yelled.

"Just wait for it," Zero softly replied.

Then all of the sudden an explosion occurred from inside the ship causing a huge quaked. Then the ship began to tilt and the robots began to run around in a panic. Sonic grabbed Zero's arm and dashed through the crowd towards the top side pointing up. Zero looked to see the robots falling off the ship. He was proud of what he had done.

"There, do you see it?" Sonic said pointing up. "That's the main flag ship."

Zero returned his attention to Sonic to see that there was an enormous ship in the distance. Sonic could see he was almost at the end of the ship and he could feel the ship descending diagonally. With all his might Sonic threw Zero up and the red reploid landed at the top of the falling ship, soon after Sonic arrived prepared for anything.

"You ready for this?" Zero asked.

"Oh you bet now let's go," Sonic said clenching a fist.

The two nodded at each other and looked up at the main ship. Together they leaped off the ship and flew through the air towards the main ship. Sonic was amazed at what was happening. He had never done this kind of thing before. He looked over to Zero who was by his side soaring upward. "Wow," Sonic said in his mind. "Zero has really unlocked some hidden potential that didn't even know I had. I never knew I could leap this high."

"Hang tight we're almost there," Zero said.

"Zero take this," Sonic handed Zero his saber. Zero nodded to Sonic and smiled. "Look out!"

All of the sudden flying robot came shooting through air and smacked into Zero. Sonic narrowed his eyes with anger. As he continued his ascent he curled up into a ball. "Homing attack!" he shouted as shot after Zero and robot.

Zero struggled to break free from the robot's mighty grip. The robot would let go. Zero pointed his saber down and attempted to bring it down into the robot's back but he the armor was too thick.

"Zero!" came a familiar voice. Zero's eyes widened to see a blue ball flying through the air towards him. The blue ball had caught up to the flying robot and began to spin circles around it. "Don't worry I'll have you out of here in a second."

The ball continued its orbit around the robot and came down onto the robots' back causing it release Zero. Zero caught himself and pulled up next to Sonic. "I've got an idea," Zero said. He kneeled over and pulled on the robot's body causing it to pull up into the towards the main ship again.

(Eggman's Base)

"Master X I have retrieved the emerald for you," M.S. 5 said kneeling over with the emerald in hand.

Copy X grabbed the Chaos Emerald and smiled. "B-beautiful isn't it Harpuia?"

"Yes Master," the green reploid replied approaching his master's side.

"My p-plan is all coming into plan. All w-we have to do is…."

Copy X was interrupted by the sound pounding outside his chamber. After a few seconds the door came falling in revealing Shadow the Hedgehog. He wasn't very happy.

Copy X gave an evil smile to the black hedgehog. Harpuia stepped forward prepared for a fight. Copy X lifted his arm signaling that everything was fine and the green reploid stood down. "S-shadow," Copy X said. "To what pleasure do I behold this visit?"

"The doctor is furious with you," Shadow replied. "First you make seven useless robots to retrieve emeralds, then you plant our emeralds into three of them without even telling the Doctor now here you are hiding a…" Shadow paused at what he saw. The M.S. 5 was kneeling to Copy X. "What are you doing get up."

"He won't listen to you," came a female's voice. Shadow looked to see it was Leviathan and Fefnir standing behind him. "He's under the master's control now."

"What!"

"It's true," Harpuia said as he drew his two swords. "He's a Neo Arcadian now."

"And there's nothing you or the doctor can do about it," Copy X finished.

Shadow growled in extreme anger. His fur began to grow blood red and his quills moved around as if they minds of their own. "Death to all who oppose me! Prepare for your end Megaman X!"

Copy X extended his right arm signaling his three guardians to attack while he and M.S.5 vanished into thin air. Shadow's eyes were focused straight at Harpuai. He shot forward and grabbed into the green reploid's arm throwing into the other two. He then curled up into a ball slammed into the three and made his way through the exit. But before fully exiting he stopped and looked back at the three.

"CHAOS BLAST!" he yelled as he released all his negative energy into a deadly attack. "Now I've got to tell the doctor."

Wow what a way to end the chapter huh? I tried to make this chapter really action packed and I'd really like your opinion on that if you would. But for now you'll just have to wait for the next chapter of Reploids and Hedgehogs.