"Alright, everyone know's the plan. Right?" Zephyr asked. The group had made it's way to Eggman's old layer.
"Right!" They all shouted in unison.
"Alright, in three, Amy and Knuckles." Zephyr said. Amy raised her hammer and Knuckles raised his fists.
"Three..."
"Two..."
"One..." Zephyr counted. He raised his hand and swung it down. "Go!" Knuckles and Amy ripped a huge hole in the metal door. This allowed not only for the people to be let in, but a good sight in around them as well. As was predicted, there was an army of Mecca MK II's. Both the hitters went to do their jobs and clear out a path. Rouge went off to the side exit and down the hallway. Zephyr and the other three that were left waited patiently behind the sides of the huge enterance.
"Alright, we're almost through!" Knuckles yelled back. A few seconds of bashing later, "GO!!" Zephyr yelled as they left a blur of color behind them. There was just a streek of four colors to see, no animals, no shoes, nothing but the pure color of the streek. Sonic and Tails stopped a few yards infront of the entrance of the second hangar door. The door closed behind them, and the seven were left alone in the room. Just as they had planed, Zephyr and Shadow had completed shutting and melding all the other available exits to the room. When the time came they would blast another exit.
"Ah, the Sonic team has arived. So nice of you to join me on this fine-" Metal siad but was cut off.
"Cut the formalities Metal. It's time to be shut down... Again." Sonic said.
"Oh, but first, I would like to know something..." Zephyr said.
Flashback!
Zephyr and the group were walking down a dusty path, the wind blowing through the spring air. "I can't wait until I get my hands on that fake." Zephyr said. "You're starting to sound like Shadow." Sonic said. "Well, at least I have the desency to take my enemies down the first time they bother me." Shadow countered. "Hm? What do you mean Shadow?" Zephyr said. Sonic and Tails looked to each other and sighed. "We have fought Metal before, as you know." Sonic said. "Yes, you were telling me that." Zephyr said. "We just aren't sure how he got back..." Tails said. "There was no way he would have survived, it's just so strange..." Sonic said. "What happened?" Zephyr asked. "Well, when Tails Knuckles and I fought him six years ago, he fell into an arctic volcano and I tried to save him. He slapped my hand away and told me, 'There can only be one Sonic...' and then the magma burnt him into nothing." Sonic explained. They stayed silent the rest of the trip there...
End flashback!
"How were you brought back to the world of the living?" Zephyr asked.
"That... Would be my doing." A voice said. An older man walked into few from the shadows behind Metal Sonic. He was tall and resembled Eggman in alot of ways. He was slim and had his signature mustache. But it was faded to a lighter color of orange than Eggman's. Other than that, they were almost the same.
"And who are you?" Sonic said.
"Why Sonic, i'm apauled. I think you would recognize your arch enemies..." He trailed off.
"There is no way... Thats not posible..." Tails said.
"Tails, tell me you remeber who I am?" The man said.
"Yes... I do..." Tails said.
"And Knuckles, Do you remember?" The man asked.
"Yes..." Knuckles grunted.
"But it's not possible!" Shadow said.
"Then how do you explain me, Ivo Robotnik, to be here?" Robotnik said. (Brownie point if you guess what kind of connection I put together.)
"Then where have you been all this time?" Sonic said.
"Another time perhaps. But for now, I must go visit my son in the hospital. Thank you very much Metal." Robotnik said. He took his leave though the shadows once again.
"How did he do that?" Zephyr asked.
"Enough of this. Now that you have your answer, mave we move on?" Metal asked.
"Of course Metal, i'll be happy to oblige!" Tails said. Tails rushed him in a blur of speed. He punched him in the stomach and spun to hit Metal with his namesake. Metal flew back and bounce on his back then land on his feet.
"I see you've gotten stronger Tails. At least, since the last time we met. But then again-" Metal dissapeared! Tails looked franticly about to find him, but there was nothing. Suddenly, Tails was hit from behind! He was sent sprawling on all fours away from Metal.
"You creap!" Tails shouted. Tails pulled out his blaster and began firing plasma at Metal! Metal dodged all the blasts with ease. Tails got just a little frustrated. He charged his blaster for a bigger shot.
"Eat this!" Tails shouted. He fired a large yellow blast strait at Metal. The recoil pushed Tails' arm to point up. Metal stood his ground and waited for the blast to get near him. Tails smiled. "It's going to hit!" He thought. All of a sudden, the blast split in two and exploded behind Metal! Metal stood where he was, but was diferent slightly. He was now holding a purple beam sword!
"I am amazed. This sword stood up to what the Doctor expected." Metal said. Tails growled at him. He put his blaster away. He looked to Sonic and the others. He started walking over to them, but a certain purple sword pinned him to the wall through his shoulder!
"GAAHHHHHHH!!!" Tails cried out in agony.
"Tails!" Sonic shouted. "Metal, let him go!"
"Why should I?" Metal taunted. Sonic growled and rushed Metal. He stopped emediatly when Metal pushed the sword deeper into the wall, causing more pain to Tails! Tails screemed again in agony, making Metal laugh like a maniak.
"Damn you Metal!" Sonic yelled.
"Sonic... Please help me... It hurts... It hurts." Tails said with tears running down his face.
"Don't worry, i'll get you out of this Tails." Sonic said. Sonic turned to Metal and scowled at him. "Metal... I'll do whatever you want, just please let Tails go." Sonic dropped to his knees. Metal looked down at Sonic. "You disgust me Sonic the Hedgehog." Metal tore out the sword and slashed Tails across the chest! Tails eyes went wide as he dropped to his knees and then fell flat on his face.
"Tails!" Sonic yelled. He was thrown backwards and slammed into the far wall behind Shadow and Zephyr. He looked down and found a huge gash from his lower abdomen all the way up to his left shoulder. He passed out. Shadow and Zephyr stood together, mouths agape at the speed and power of the new Metal Sonic.
"Sonic wasn't fast enough, and Tails wasn't smart enough." Metal Said.
"Shut up!" Knuckles slammed his fist into Metal's head, sending him flying to the wall!
"Rah, you will pay dearly for that." Metal said. He rushed Knuckles and disapeared again! Knuckles closed his eyes and counted to five... before catching Metal by his sword arm!
"Got you." Knuckles smirked. He lifted him into the air and continuesly slammed him into the ground! At one point, Metal said, "Enough-" SLAM "Of-" SLAM "THIS!" SLAM! Metal spun his body and kicked Knuckles in the side of the head, sending him to the ground. Metal stood again and watched Knuckles get back up.
"Come back for more punishment? Good. At least a better challenge than Sonic." Metal said.
"You bet." Knuckles said. He ran up to Metal and game him a knuckles smashing punch. The only bad reprocution was that Metal's sword lodged itself in Knuckles leg. Metal flew back and bounced off the wall and slammed into Knuckles, taking his sword with him. Knuckles lay on the ground, motionless. Defeated.
"Oh no, Knuckles! Not you too!" Amy said. She had snuck around the battle and gathered up her hero and his side-kick.
"Don't worry, i'll end this now." Shadow said. He walked up infront of Metal and smirked. Meenwhile, Zephyr grabbed Knuckles and layed him down with the other fallen heros. Amy was shaking at the scene before her. Her Sonic... Defeated and cut like that... She fell to her knee's and started crying.
"Please don't cry Amy... I can't stand it when girls cry..." Zephyr said. "If it will make you feel better... I can fix this for you." He said to the sobbing hedgehog. She turned to look at Zephyr.
"How can you lie to my face like this? I know you're not a doctor... We need to get them to a hospital..." Amy sobbed.
"No. I can fix this." Zephyr stood in front of the three lined up furries. He extended his hands forward and they glowed green. The three on the floor also glowed green. The wounds started to heal at an extreamly fast rate. The wounds healed completely with a little bit of let off steam at the end. Zephyr stopped and frowned.
"Oh thank you so much Zephyr!" Amy said and gave him a hug. Zephyr had no reaction accept for a pat on the back.
"They will all be fine. Now if you will excuse me," Zephyr turned to watch the fight between Shadow and Metal.
Shadow started out with a taunt, "All right you rusty bucket of bolts. You may have beeten that faker over there and his little friends, but I am the Ultimate Life Form, Shadow the Hedgehog!" Shadow swung his arm down and balled it into a fist. Metal shook his head. Shadow started to question what he was doing, but in the blink of an eye, he was slammed into the wall behind Zephyr and Amy!
"Ahh!" Amy scremed. Shadow grunted and smashed his way out of the wall.
"That was a lucky shot Metal." Shadow said. He chaos controlled back to him and smashed his knee into Metals stomach, followed by a kick to the chin. Again, Shadow used chaos controll to get above Metal. He flipped in mid air and drop kicked Metal in the head! Metals sword flew out of his hand and lodged itself in the ground a few meters away. "I hope you can feel all of this Metal." Shadow said with a smirk. He chaos controlled down to the crash site and watched Metal stand once again.
"By feel, you mean the emotion of pain, correct?" Metal said.
"This is correct." Shadow said.
"Then you misunderstand me. I do not feel like you do. I have circuits to tell me that something is wrong with my structure. Nothing to tell me I should become angry and cry when damaged." Metal explained.
"Do not think of me so easily feeling. I threw my emotions away when I first saw what human kind could do to themselves." Shadow sighed and mouthed something to himself... Unexpectedly, Metal flew and punched Shadow in the face! Shadow slid on his feet, face pointed the other way, on the floor. When he turned to look at Metal, he was right up in his face! Again, Shadow was met with a punch to the face. This punch sent him into the air, where Metal flew up to. Shadow crashed into the ceiling and Metal just kept coming. He continusly punched Shadow in the stomach, keeping him air-born. He finaly stopped when he saw that there was a glint coming from Shadow's eyes. Metal let Shadow fall and they landed on their feet.
"Shadow, what do you think you are up to?" Metal asked. Shadow stood with his back slumped, his face facing the floor. His arms were limp at his side, as if he was to tired to move at all. Shadows body moved to look at Metal with growling eyes. He got into a 'gathering energy' postion from DBZ and his eyes glowed red. But this wasn't all that happened! His body turned more red than before, his black fur getting a dark red tint.
"Ahahahahahaha..." Shadow laughed.
"Shadow, what do you think you are doing with all that Chaos Energy!?" Zephyr yelled.
"Zephyr, what's going on?" Amy asked, still on her legs on the ground.
"He's going to use Chaos Blast!" Zephyr said.
"Hm? What is this attack you call 'Chaos Blast'?" Metal said. Zephyr looked at him with a 'you seriously don't know' look. He smirked.
"Metal, hold on tight, this is going to be one bumpy ride." Zephyr chuckled. He extended his hands forward and said, "Chaos Shield!" producing a round barrier around him and the fallen ones. (Amy counts, seing as she fell to her knees)
Metal looked to Shadow and his bright red Aura that he was producing, "You can't be serious Shadow. One attack won't kill me!" he was clearly over looking the power of the Ultimate Life Form. Shadow laughed again, sending fear into Metals processors.
"We will see, Metal." Shadow said. "CHAOS BLAST!!!" A bright red dome was produced and was expanding rapidly and took everyone with it! Zephyrs shield was pushed back and back until it hit a wall. It was pushed through, but it was still holding! The blast took up the entirety of the base, all except for one small building. Shadow dropped to his knees and shook with exhaustion.
"Damnit... I guess it's over though." He fell on his face and slept the day away.
Rouge was on her knee's, holding onto the counter above her. She got up and continued to work on hacking the data from Metals hard drive. "I wonder what that was?" She thought. There was definitely a lot of data here… Enough that Rouge sat down and waited for it to all download. A little bar came up and it said, "Copying data. 10%." Rough sighed and wondered how the battle was going. She kicked her feat back and forth in boredom. She minimized the little downloading window and opened up and internet explorer. She went to a sight that had a lot of beautiful jewels and dresses. Mostly girly stuff.
"Oh wow. I have to have these." She said to herself. She clicked a little 'buy this' button.
"Oh, and these too." She clicked again.
Back on the battle field, there was a lot of rubble. So much in fact, that if you tried to rebuild the place, it would fit together like a ten thousand piece jigsaw puzzle. Some of the rubble started to move. Suddenly, a large portion of it flew off! Pieces fell behind the now exposed group that was hiding in the shield before. Zephyr helped Amy to her feat and let the guys rest.
"Amy, are you alright?" Zephyr asked.
"Yes, I'm fine." She said. "I'm still worried about Sonic though."
"Don't be, I healed their wounds. They will be fine after a nice eight to ten hour rest." Zephyr said with a smile.
Suddenly, some rubble started to move. Zephyr put his arm in front of Amy. He quickly ran and got Shadow and put him with the others. He was again defending Amy. The rubble burst, and out popped Metal Sonic! Zephyr scowled at him. Metal stared back.
"You may have defeated everyone else…" Zephyr looked to the three fallen hero's and fallen anti-hero. "But I will stop you, here and now!" He shouted. Suddenly, Zephyr was surrounded by a bright, light blue aura! Metal was taken aback.
"What is this power? Let's see what the scanner says." Metals eyes blipped and bleeped with red and white.
"What's that? You've had a scanner all along?" Zephyr smirked.
"That's right. Tails' power was fifty. Sonics was two-hundred. Knuckles' was two-fifty. Shadow's was three-twenty. Let's see what yours is…" Metals eyes bleeped three times in succession, indicating it was done. "What's this? It's much higher than the others." Metal said.
"Well, don't keep me in suspense, what is it?" Zephyr asked.
"It's well over three hundred… It is… eight-hundred-and-fifty!" Metal said.
"That low? I thought it would be higher." Zephyr said.
"We will see just how strong you are Zephyr." Metal said.
"Yes. We will see." Zephyr said.
They stood their ground against each other, neither one wavering. Zephyrs aura grew a little more, and Metals turbine started. They rushed each other, and collided in the center, sending a huge shock wave outwards. They started the power struggle.