Chapter Seventeen: Divide and Conquer
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Chicago, Illinois, 5:00 pm
The windy city they call it. The same buzzing of cars could still be heard. The skies were clear and blue, but not for long when the sun was ready to fall under the horizon. The Sears Tower, 108 feet tall and a magnificent structure. Standing at the top was surprisingly Sonic himself. He crouched at the edge of the building, watching traffic being directed out of the city due to the coming invasion. The armored suited Sonic stood tall. He looked at the sun, far in the distance. It was nearly ready to set. Sonic then heard the roars of F-22 Raptors flying over the city.
"It's going to get real busy around here soon." he said to himself.
It was one thing to question the sanctity of one city, but when all of it is empty and ready to become a battlefield, nothing is to be said. Sonic felt he was in the middle of it all, and he was. Everyone was trying to get at him. Something about this war had him dumbstruck. Everything he doubted about Eggman, happened. No wonder Sonic constantly questions his ability. Eggman is beginning to completely know how Sonic works, and it's becoming the evil geniuses' most powerful weapon in his arsenal. Sonic snapped out of this trance when a sudden boom echoed across the city. He saw a blue flash coming from the city core, then it vanished below the city skylights. Sonic knew it was a portal, but had no idea that all the heroes came out of it. Sonic had no inner argument, so he flew off across the sky, to the source.
All the heroes walked out of another portal gate, down the ramp, looking at the buildings all around them. "Sweeeeet!'' said Number 4 in a slow tone.
"Don't get use to all the peace and quiet Number 4.'' said Abigail.
"Well, we do have an hour and a half before Eggman arrives, so we should help putting up defenses!'' Hoagie exclaimed.
"Just do it quick you guys.'' Shadow noted, heading towards the CP of the military base.
All the heroes spread out in the military headquarters, conversing outside, helping with defenses, and all that. Sonic watched safely from above a building roof. Sonic was amazed to see them all here, he was nervous. Sonic had a strong feeling that no matter where this battle takes part, Sonic is going to be seen by one of them.
"This just gets better and better.'' he stated.
A sudden noise reached his ears. Sonic turned around immediately. The door that leads up to the roof began to open. Sonic dashed around to the back of the building, hiding himself.
Walking through the door was Katara, Sokka, Toph, and Zuko. "Are you sure that taking Appa and Momo here was a good idea?" asked Zuko, stopping at the edge of the building and looking down.
"Of course! He has his armor he wore from the invasion!'' Sokka answered.
"Momo won't have armor, snoozles.'' Toph abruptly noted.
"He'll be okay! Trust me, my instincts say so.'' Sokka said, putting a fist to his chest in a proud way.
Katara rolled her eyes at her brother who brought up his marvelous instincts. Sonic peaked around the corner of the part of the building that led up to the roof, being extremely careful not to be seen. A sudden figure came strafing towards Sonic from behind. Sonic heard this noise. He was suddenly locked against the wall by Aang?!
"Who are you!? Why are you watching my friends!?" Aang said in a hushed voice.
"Aang? It's me Sonic!'' the hedgehog replied.
"Sonic? Is that really you? Why, why are you wearing that?" the Avatar asked, letting go of Sonic.
"Trust me, there's a good reason which I can't tell you." Sonic replied with his head lowered.
"Well come on! You need to come out! Katara will be overjoyed to see you!'' Aang said, tugging his arm to bring him out of his hiding spot.
"I think you got that the other way around, pal. Katara will be extremely overjoyed to see you!" Sonic said, poking at Aang's chest.
"We can both go out there.'' Aang suggested.
"Do you want her to have a heart attack? Both of us is too much!" Sonic snapped silently.
"Come on!" Aang said, tugging Sonic's arm as he walked out.
Sonic stood on one foot, nearly falling over. "I said, NO!'' Sonic shrieked, pushing Aang down. Aang fell on his back, sonic stepped forward, pointing down at him. The two then slowly turned their heads.
The gang were all staring at them. Katara spotted Aang, her heart was aflutter, tears beginning to form.
"Aang!" she cried.
"Katara!'' Aang shouted back.
"Metal Sonic!'' yelled Sokka in a loud tone, pointing at Sonic.
"So just because I'm wearing metal, you assume I'm-I, oh forget it.'' Sonic said, slapping his forehead.
Aang got to his feet and ran to his love, as did she. The two finally embraced, both in tears. Sonic could not help feel, proud. He did something so small, but its outcome was so large. Katara broke from the hug, her arms around Aang's neck. She lovingly pulled the Avatar into a kiss. Sokka was about to step forward, but Toph grabbed his collar. "Heel boy.'' she said, giggling.
The two lovers soon broke apart from the kiss. Katara looked over Aang's shoulder to see Sonic. Aang stepped away for a moment. "Hey…Katara.'' Sonic stumbled. Her lip quivered, she was filled with happiness to see he was still okay. Katara ran towards Sonic. Sonic opened his arms for her. She dropped to her knees and slid into his arms. "I'm so happy right now.'' she said. Sonic was hesitant to reply so he didn't. Katara broke away, her arms still on his shoulders.
"Why are you wearing that? Let me see your face.'' she said, grabbing the sides of the helmet.
Sonic quickly backed away. "I'm sorry, but I rather not. It's, it's just a better way to heal myself during battle, it's alright.'' Sonic fumbled with his words.
The door suddenly opened, there stood Shadow. Shadow's eyes twitched when he saw Sonic. Sonic narrowed his eyes into an angry gaze under his helmet. He clenched his fists tightly. Shadow shook his head.
"Richards wants you all down by the command point, he's ready to give us our orders and spots in the city.'' Shadow said.
The gang then walked towards the door. Shadow stepped to the side, letting them walk down the stairs. Sonic walked the door as well, but shadow quickly shut it. He unsheathed his sword and pointed it at him, making sonic back up from it.
"We'll finish this, soon. I promise you that, faker.'' Shadow threatened before putting his sword back in his sheath.
"Gotcha, faker.'' Sonic replied with a snappy tone.
Shadow scowled at his arch rival. Shadow quickly turned back around, opening the door and slamming it shut. Sonic lowered his head. He put his hand to his forehead. He didn't no what to worry about more. This could be his last battle, the heroes could see his face, or they'll lose. So easy for him, he worried about them all simultaneously.
Back on the ground, Shadow and the Avatar gang reunited with all the other heroes in front of the command building. Richards stood on the steps, about to speak, but the sight of Sonic hovering down to the ground kept him quiet and in awe. The other heroes turned around to see Sonic touch the ground. Sonic looked up at them all. Sonic looked from left to right. They all looked so shocked, and happy.
"Please, I know you're all happy to see me, but let's focus. Richards?" Sonic said, letting Richards take the floor again.
The general cleared his throat. "The time is 5:20 pm. All defenses are set up, and now, I will split you into groups and tell your designated spot in the city." Richards began, waving his hand to someone. A military transport truck drove in and stopped in front of the heroes. On its bed, was a large plasma screen of the city from sky view.
"The beach is where Eggman's forces will come from first. Omega and Jenny will lead a battalion to hold that point. When it gets too rough, pull back and head here; Checkpoint Bravo which is a two blocks into the city. The Avatar and his friends will stand on top of the buildings by the beach and be our 'artillery'. Fire down at the robots with all you got to keep them at bay. The trainers and their Pokemon will be here, at the base of Sears Tower. Sector V will be with them as well. At the Chicago Water Tower, Lilo, Stitch, Brandy, and Whiskers will defend that point. Down the street from them at the John Hancock Center, Knuckles and Tails will be with our armored division and hold that point. When the signal is given to you by that unit's major, both your groups will rally to the spot between the two buildings and then together, go to support your allies at the Sears Tower." Richards presented. His battle plan was amazing, he had everything pointed out to the heroes.
"What about us, mister?" said Bubbles, raising her hand.
Richards smiled and chuckled. "You three will keep the skies clear, and stay with our fighter jets, they'll need the extra strength." Richards answered.
"Sir, what of me and Sonic?" asked Shadow.
"I had a feeling you'd ask. Sonic and Shadow, you two will stand at the top of AON Center Building and wait for your rightful foes." Richards said, ending his plan
"The two Metals.'' Shadow said. "And the two Mechas.'' Sonic added.
The screen on the screen went black, Richards stepped in front of it. "All you came here today to protect this city, and your worlds. Eggman must not get control. This is a key element in his book and will give him a mighty tactical advantage over us, defend this city at all costs." Richards said his final words before marching off.
The time was now 5:50 pm. Only twenty-five minutes before the battle. The heroes still had time to talk, but when they were told by military officers to stop, the heroes split up inside the city to their respectful points. At the beach, they were ready. Omega and Jenny were standing behind a bed of sandbags. All along the beach were these small sets of defense and foxholes with soldiers aiming out. Jenny looked behind them, at the street. There were machine gun nests. These nests were also set up along the beach head. Jenny began to doze. "Fifteen minutes!'' shouted the captain's voice, making Jenny spring her head up. Robot Boy ran in, stopping by her side. The automaton was in his super activated mode. Tommy, Lola, and Gus also came.
"What are you three doing?" asked Jenny.
"We're here to help you!'' said Gus, saluting.
"Well you three are certainly too young to handle a weapon. Hand out ammo to the soldiers who call for it, okay?" Jenny said to them carefully.
"All right Jenny!'' Gus saluted again, running off "He gets too into it sometimes.'' said Lola "You got that right.'' Tommy added, running after their friend.
"You ready Omega?" Jenny asked, turning to him.
"My power levels are at full capacity, weapons and ammo ready. Affirmative, I am ready for anything." replied the robot.
Jenny then jumped and hugged the large robot. Omega's arms were hung back by surprise. Jenny then let go, smiling at him graciously.
At the top of the buildings by the beach, the gang stood aligned at its ridge. "I'm still getting the feeling that we're really in for it this time." Sokka said, while he was observing all the grenades that were given to him.
"You heard the plan Sokka. We just need to hold this city until Eggman has nothing left." Aang replied, looking at him.
"That last part worries me. How much does Eggman even have?" Toph added.
"I have no idea, but I have a feeling, that he's going over the limit.'' Zuko responded.
"Hey you two! How are you doing?" Katara called out to Lilo and Stitch who were on the building that was right next to theirs.
"Doing good! We're all set over here!" said Lilo, giving a thumbs up.
"Ih!'' Stitch said, holding a laser rifle that Jumba gave him.
"You better hurry to your spot guys!" Katara called back.
Lilo listened and took Stitch down the fire escape to head down to their rightful spot. "I think we're ready.'' said Aang with a confident face.
"I hope we are.'' Toph said.
"We got everyone here! Even Sonic! We shouldn't worry.'' said Katara brightly.
"She's right. The city's evacuated, and we just gotta' keep it in our hands." Aang added.
"You make it sound so easy." Zuko said dryly.
"Have some faith Zuko. Sugar Queen is right about one thing, we got Sonic with us, and he's the fastest out of us all.'' Toph claimed.
"Then, let's stop worrying and focus, we only got a few more minutes before it begins!" said Sokka, sitting on the building edge.
At the base of the Chicago Water Tower, a camouflage blanket was put up, as well as in lines with sandbags down in front of them. In the tower itself, there were two snipes and a machine gun nest. Lilo and Stitch ran up to it, spotting Brandy and Whiskers.
"What took you guys so long?" asked Brandy, as the two jumped over the sandbags and sat against the sandbags.
"We just went to see if the Aang and his friends were ready. Calm down.'' said a sweating Lilo.
Stitch grabbed a canteen and handed it to her, which she took and drank. Brandy smiled, and looked to her right, Whiskers wasn't there. "Whiskers? Whiskers! Where is he now?" said the girl dog.
"Right here!" Whiskers voice coming from behind her in a deep tone. He was wearing a military helmet on his head.
"You may need this.'' he said, handing one to her. Brandy sighed, knowing she wasn't all for one when it came to helmets, but she put it on anyway.
At the base of the Sears Tower, the Pokemon group and Sector V sat ready, covered by sandbags and cement roadblocks. Kuki sighed with worrisome feelings. "You all right?" asked Nigel.
"Yeah, just a bit frightened." she said, holding her arms.
"We all are Kuki, but we still got each other." Nigel replied with a warm smile.
Kuki returned the same smile to her leader. Nigel then walked back over to the rest of Sector V. Kuki then took a picture of her and Shadow out of her sleeve. It was the picture of her hugging him while he looks like he's wanting to get away, but she still didn't care. Kuki held the picture to her chest, shutting her eyes, smiling joyfully.
At the top of the AON Center, Sonic and Shadow stood at the edge. Shadow constantly found himself looking at Sonic so he wouldn't try and do anything. After a moment of silence, shadow broke it. "Why are you wearing that suit again?" Sonic turned his head a bit, barely looking at Shadow. "I don't want the others to see what happened.'' Sonic replied glumly. "You afraid again?" Shadow said, sounding enraged.
"No.'' Sonic answered, not minding Shadow's mood.
"Then what? We've all seen what damage has been to you by seeing Mecha's ugly face!" Shadow snapped by surprise.
Sonic's eyes narrowed behind his helmet. "You're lucky for wearing that. At least the pain won't seep in so quick, it'll take a good damn long time to hurt." Shadow threatened.
"Don't care." Sonic said, his expression sounding the same.
"Since when haven't you?" the Ultimate Life Form pointed out. This struck Sonic hard, mainly because it's the truth.
"Do you always make your allies feel like hell before every battle?" Sonic asked, turning his head to him.
"First of all, you're not my ally. Second, I give respect to those who have earned it!'' Shadow snapped with a serious tone.
"Yeah…you're right. I haven't earned respect. And now, I still think I won't.'' Sonic said again, turning his head back forward.
Shadow raised an eyebrow at his attitude. He was agreeing with Shadow's opinion! Shadow was most taken back by this. Usually Sonic would easily come up with a comeback, however, Sonic's recent actions make him feel that he has nothing to show off for, nor even prove, all he had was to act, rightfully.
It was 6:15 pm. The time was checked by all our heroes. Their hearts skipped when they saw it. At the beach, Omega armed his gatling guns, Jenny armed her laser limbs. All the soldiers on the beach loaded their weapons and checked their ammo. From the building roofs behind them, Katara had tubs of water behind her. Aang and Zuko were ready to reign fire. Toph had several chunks of rock by her side. Sokka had a whole container filled with grenades. Everyone on the beach head kept their eyes keen, looking for any sign on the water. Silence sat among the beach. The soldiers breathed heavily, the adrenaline began to sink into their guts. The water began to ripple suddenly. The soldiers all pointed their guns at the spot.
The currents drove onto the beach, causing bubbles to pop up out of the water. After moments of it going, it stopped, silence again. The soldiers looked dumbfounded, more awfully confused. This, is when it began. Swarms of metal sonic clones fired out of the ocean. "OPEN FIRE!!'' shouted the major. Bullets fired, the silence broken. The metal clones weaved through the bullets, but some took the sharp pieces of lead to their face, falling back down. Together, Aang and Zuko fired a combined fireball. The screaming ball of pyro burned through about twenty metal clones. Rising out of the water came Eggman's mechs, firing beams of light from the tips of their nose. One laser blew apart a whole station. Egg gunners flew out of the water, firing their rockets and machine guns.
Jenny aimed quickly and precisely, shooting the egg gunners to the ground. An Abrams tank drove up on the beach and fired a round at one of the mechs. The heavy piece of machinery exploded into a ball of fire. An egg titan suddenly landed in front of the Abrams tank, smashing a fist down on it. The crew of the tank immediately got out, running to cover. Omega's eyes glowed red. He jumped out, grabbed the tank by its barrel. He swung it like a bat to rip the egg titan apart. Another mech got onto the beach. Omega flew up, still holding the tank. Omega stopped in mid air, swinging it in constant circles. Omega finally let go of the armored vehicle. With extreme force, the tank crushed the mech, causing it to explode into a million pieces.
Toph held up two of the boulders behind her. She waved her arms forward. The two boulders came down and landed in two large groups of egg gunners, killing thirty of them. Sokka looked astounded.
"Did I get any?" she asked.
"I'd say you went over the limit.'' Sokka said, still shocked. The jealous warrior then grabbed four grenades out of the box. He pulled the pin off one of them and tossed it hard. That one grenade soared down and at the last minute of detonation, it exploded right into the face of a mech. Sokka did the same with the other three, taking out more and more.
Flying out of the water were Eggman's AI controlled fighter jets, but followed by that was the slow rising of an Egg Carrier. The soldiers and heroes watched in shock. "Don't let up!!'' shouted the major.
Katara created a series of icicles, aligned from left to right. Two of the jets were making an attempt to pass over the city. The master Waterbender fired two icicles at both. The first jet got hit right in the nose, spinning out of control as it exploded into the side of a building, sending plumes of fire down to the street. The other jet was hit when the icicles literally gouged off its right wing, making it spin in circles. The fiery jet came right towards her. She gasped. Aang stood in front of her and blew a pattern of wind to send the jet far off to the left, smashing into another building. Katara gave Aang a quick kiss on the cheek, smiling as she broke apart. The giant Egg Carrier made its way over the city, opening the bay doors. More different mechs, metal clones, and robots dropped out among the city. Atop several buildings were Anti aircraft guns. The barrels lit up, blasting the evil bots out of the sky. A mech activated its turbo engines and dropped down on an aircraft gun, crushing it easily. It was suddenly destroyed by a pair of red beams. Flying through the dust cloud was Blossom, followed by Buttercup and Bubbles.
"There! We got to stop them!" shouted Blossom, pointing at the Eggman fighter jets.
Buttercup grabbed one by the nose and threw it at two others, which cut them in half, all exploding into one. A mech suddenly grabbed Bubbles as it descended to the ground. The two girls quickly followed down after her. The two girls charged down, blasting through its brain core and out the bottom. Bubbles broke free and rejoined her sisters. From down on the ground, at the Chicago Water Tower, the silence broke as well. A huge drill busted from under the street. It had three legs on each side, and a plasma turret on top of it. The turret aimed at where the heroes were hiding. "DUCK!!'' shouted Whiskers.
The turret fired a single emerald green beam, blowing a hole on their left flank. Sector V opened fire immediately. The giant drill bot cowered back and made whirling sounds. In a fit, the drill bot fired its plasma gun at the mid section of the water tower, blowing the soldiers out of it. Debris dropped down around the heroes, getting them dirty. "Stitch! Take that thing out, and hurry!'' Lilo screamed.
Stitch climbed the damaged water tower. The top half was bending off. Stitch grabbed the top half and held it up over his head. The little alien experiment laughed hysterically as he jumped off. He held the sharp end back. The drill bot looked up. "Aloha!'' Stitch exclaimed. The powerful little alien drove the sharp point into the bots nervous core, making it shock with electricity.
Stitch did a backflip to land right beside the others. The robot moaned as it dropped to the ground offline. The heroes cheered happily. The happiness stopped when they saw Metal Sonic march out of the hole with an army of clones behind him. "Ooh.'' Stitch murmured.
"Hello, kiddies.'' Metal said in a low and evil tone. Brandy grabbed a sharp part of metal off the ground and tossed it like a spear at him. Metal caught the spear and fired it back. Brandy screeched, ducking right as the dagger piece of metal drove into the water tower behind her.
"ATTACK!!'' Metal ferociously yelled, pointing forward. Brandy gave Whiskers a shadow rifle, she had one herself. With military personnel on both sides, Brandy yelled "FIRE!" The intense firefight began, knocking down metal clones as one came out of the giant hole to take its place. A soldier held a LAW rocket launcher, he fired it directly at Metal Sonic. The metal copy flung right into a window, knocking down tables and furniture when the rocket hit him directly.
"This is Alpha Point! We need immediate air support! Marked by smoke!'' the major said through the radio at the John Hancock Center.
Tails, in his X-Tornado flew by mowing down a street filled with egg titans. Their crackling bodies even exploded by the excessive damage. A Eggman mech was smashed into a building by Knuckles. The echidna dodged to the right by a rocket from behind. Knuckles saw Metal Knuckles clones down the street. "Now that is something I can't deal with!" Knuckles said with a smirk, cracking his knuckles.
He fired forward like a sideways top, his fists batting through the clones until he made it to the other side. A clone suddenly grabbed him from behind and smashed him onto a car. A giant mech suddenly landed feet first on the car, turning it into nothing but a plume of smoke and fire. The dust cleared. Knuckles punched his fist through the mech's leg, shattering it to pieces. He grabbed the mech by its long nose and actually threw the heavy mech over his head. The giant mech crashed through about ten clones, squashing them. Tails flew overhead. A hovering egg titan suddenly came out of an intersection. Tails gasped, then pressed a red button on the controls. A missile dropped down from his plane and bulleted into the egg titan, but inside it contained small explosives.
The egg gunners on the street were turned into scarp as the small explosives littered the area, putting them all offline. Three Abrams tanks stopped to aim at a squad of three Eggman jets. "Fire!'' shouted the tank commander. The three tanks fired their rounds. The jets flew up, then transformed into missiles! The three suicidal robots impacted, blowing apart the whole street, sending a large blast radius across the ground. Knuckles senselessly beat his fists into a mech, breathing heavily afterwards. Knuckles coughed and spit some saliva out of his mouth. Knuckles grabbed his communicator that was attached to a strap that he was wearing.
"Tails! We just lost three more tanks! How much is there left?" Knuckles yelled into it.
"About twenty more! Eggman did a good job of taking out most of them, but we're still doing fine!'' Tails replied through his that was in his ear.
"Call me when the major give's the word to pull back!" Knuckles said, hanging up and charging back to the action.
On the beach, hot machine gun bullets covered the area by the machine gun nests. Aang fired a large fireball at a drill bot that surfaced out of the sand. The powerful pyro blast hit its nose directly, blowing it to pieces, as well as ten robots that were next to it. Eggman dropships flew in, carrying armor. "Incoming armor!" yelled a soldier. Ten dropships came down, dropping a silver colored steel tank. There were two barrels that came off from the side, then stuck straight forward from the rotating part. Two tanks ran over a small point where sandbags were placed.
"Toph! Launch some rocks over to the left side!'' shouted Sokka, tossing some active grenades.
The grenades bounced on the ground, blowing robots apart, but not even scratching the tanks. Toph launched two boulders to the left side. The huge boulders crushed two of the tanks into a flapjack. "We're going to have pull back soon!" Jenny yelled, firing her laser limbs into the heads of three metal clones that nearly got in their spot. Suddenly, the major of the unit came into their hole.
"We're pulling back! Get your asses out of here! Come on, come on!'' he ordered, running back out.
Jenny changed both her laser limbs into a flare cannon. A turquoise flare swooped into the air. "That's it! We're pulling back!'' shouted Zuko when he saw the flare.
Jenny, Omega, and the troops made it into the city safely. "Aang, come here!'' called Sokka who was still at his spot. The building shook from an explosion. "What are you doing? We need to go!'' exclaimed the monk.
"I still have a whole lot of grenades! I want you to fire an air blast at them when I throw this container in the air, the force will cause them to explode!'' Sokka explained his plan.
The Avatar agreed with his plan. Sokka squatted down, and threw the box high up in the air, causing some of the grenades to spill out.
All of Eggman's forces were entering through three streets that led into the city. Aang quickly leaped up over the box. He waved both his arms left and right. The air waves fired the grenades in a line. Like a cluster bomb, the grenades pulverized the ground, exploding into fire, taking out numbers of robots, slowing them down. Aang and Sokka gave each other a quick high five, saying "Yes!".
From the Sears Tower, a Eggman dropship dropped off one of the battle tanks. Egg gunners let their bullets fly, smacking against the sandbag constantly. Two soldiers with LAW rocket launchers fired at the tank. The tank's double barrels on the left side fired an ear piercing shot. The two rockets hit the tank perfectly, destroying it. The shot from the tank, however, knocked back the soldiers behind cover, as well as the heroes. Sector V rose up from the ground, seeing metal clones on the street, aiming at them.
"This doesn't look good.'' said Number 2 nervously.
The metal clones suddenly were ripped apart by machine gun fire. An MH53 Pave Low helicopter flew by, firing rockets at some egg titans that remained on the ground. The large helicopter turned around and landed in front of the heroes. The wind from the chopper's blades caused our heroes to cover their eyes. The back door of the chopper opened, releasing two platoons of soldiers, heavily armed soldiers.
The heavy weapon chopper took off into the air once again. Soldiers carrying M-60s, rocket launchers, and machine guns grouped with the heroes, setting up for the next attack. A large shadow passed over them. The Egg Carrier loomed overhead. The underside turrets let out a flurry of laser beams. Exploding and destroying anything on impact, the powerful beams of light hit parts of the city to cause more devastation. Ash got one Pokeball off the belt. He tossed it up, letting loose his Sceptile. "Sceptile! Give it all you got on those robots!'' shouted the trainer.
Readying his leaf blade, the grass Pokemon charged through metal clones, cutting them in half. Springing into the air behind him was May's Blaziken. Its fists glowed in fire. The Pokemon smashed them into the ground, releasing a whole circular wave of fire, burning through any of the robots. An egg titan suddenly came out of the ground, grabbing Blaziken. The brave fire Pokemon couldn't break free of its grip. That's when Pikachu used volt tackle and pierced straight through the robot's chest, making it wobble. Pikachu slid across the ground, and turned around. Blaziken pushed his feet against the robot to free himself, landing by Pikachu's side. Bunneary hopped on top of the head's of metal clones, using dizzy punch on each one to smash them to oblivion. Brock's Croagunk spun through a crowd of firing egg gunners with poison jab, cutting the legs of each robot he got near. Piplup formed a whirlpool, throwing it down at a drill bot. The huge hunk of metal was lifted off its feet and thrown into a building, setting a fire.
"You think we're doing good?!" called Ash.
"I hope so! We have to make sure they don't get past us!'' shouted back Misty, releasing her Gyrados.
Suddenly, the ground beneath Dawn crackled. She gasped in surprise. The ground suddenly shattered, she fell in. Ash's hand quickly grabbed hers. "Hold on Dawn!'' said Ash, pulling her up.
Flying out of the hole was Metal Knuckles himself. Everyone looked at him in fear. "Now…let's get this party started!'' he yelled. Swarms of metal clones flew out of the hole, along with Egg tanks that broke open the hole even more. Ash quickly helped Dawn out of the hole, grabbing her hand and running back to the spot behind cover.
Sonic and Shadow stood at the top of the building, staring at the already burning city before them. The sounds of bullets firing and explosions bursting. "This is humiliating. I will not stand here, and wait!'' Shadow exclaimed angrily.
"Calm down Shadow. It'll be soon when Mecha comes.'' Sonic replied, attempting to calm Shadow down.
"Easy for you to say. You always want to wait for your enemy, no wonder you lose the fights you get into!'' he snapped.
Sonic didn't make a comment, he had no reason to be angry, especially now. "I'm going to find Mecha myself! He's somewhere in this city, and he's NOT going to get away from me.'' Shadow said in a forceful tone. The ebony hedgehog leaped off the building, skating down the side of it at incredible speed.
Sonic remained still. His head was a bit hung forward. Sonic felt like a coward. Waiting for his enemy to come to him first proved it. He stared at the rising smoke plumes that came from buildings. F-22s whisped past him. He watched them fly towards the beach, firing missiles down at it. Sonic's eyes cringed from within his helmet, he truly couldn't bare all this at once. Strangely, he felt this many times before. The times before he dealt with it, because of one thing; They were all worth a chance. Sonic quickly raised his head up. Knowing what must be done, Sonic's fists clenched, his legs steadied, he was ready to dive into battle. Sonic then leaped across the sky. The building's roof that he leapt off of suddenly exploded. "Not so fast.'' Mecha Weresonic muttered.
The evil half robot half Werehog flew closer and closer, nearly grabbing Sonic by his feet. Sonic heard the buzzing of Mecha's jets. Sonic swung his foot around, meeting Mecha's cheek. The titanium villain plummeted down to a building. He broke through its roof first. After that, Mecha bashed through every floor until smashing into the bottom.
In front of the building landed Sonic. His eyes tightened when he saw the silhouette of Mecha walk out of the building. "You've tried things like that too much, and where do they get you?" Mecha questioned.
Sonic remained silent, treating him like Shadow. Mecha got a bit infuriated by this. "What happened to you that was so bad to wear the Cyber Suit?" he asked.
"Something much worse than what happened to you.'' Sonic muttered.
"Oh really, then let me rip that helmet from your face!'' Mecha threatened with an evil tongue, clenching his clawed fist in front of his face.
"That's not going to happen.'' Sonic retorted, raising both his fists.
Mecha raised his as well. Mecha raised an eyebrow from under his helmet, teleporting himself. He reappeared behind sonic to fire his chaos cannon down at him. Sonic dashed forward, turning around in the process. Mecha came back, diving sideways, holding a car in his hands. Sonic fired up his jet boots and blasted through the car, stopping in mid air. Mecha stopped as well, glaring up at his foe.
"You've tried things like that before…where do they get you?" Sonic mimicked while crossing his arms.
Mecha growled furiously. Mecha transformed his arms into his gatling guns. The jets under his feet and on his back alit with flames. Sonic dove down, forcing Mecha to make a turn down. Sonic landed on the street, skidding across it at a fast pace. Mecha continued to fly overhead. Mecha let loose on his weapons. The bullets treaded behind Sonic, making him yelp. Sonic fired up his boots to leave the ground, but Mecha tackled him back into the street. Mecha changed one arm back to normal, his other he changed into his buzz saw. Sonic's eyes popped open. Sonic tilted his head to the left, barely missing. Sonic grabbed Mecha's wrist and tossed Mecha off to the side, bumping into a car. In the middle of Sonic's palms, was a white orb that glowed. Sonic stuck both out, firing a white beam out of each of his hands. Mecha transformed his buzz saw into a large shield. Mecha drove the shield into the ground, using it as cover. The two beams exploded into the reinforced shield, creating a puff of smoke that filled the entire street. Standing in front of it, Sonic stood still, for the moment. The dust cleared, revealing Mecha still standing.
"That was new.'' said a surprised Sonic.
"Please…what do you think I was doing when I was gone? I've been preparing for this battle, thus, I've been given some upgrades.'' said Mecha, changing the shield back into his arm.
The center core of Sonic's chest radiated. He fired a blue beam right out of it. Mecha fired his chaos cannon just in time. The two beams impacted, both pushing each other back and forth. Sonic stepped forward, as did Mecha. The two then fired up their jet boots. The two leaned back and charged at each other with extreme friction. The two smacked together resulting in a mighty ball of light. Sonic spun out of control, banging against a building, knocking a large chunk of it off, revealing the inside of the structure. Mecha smashed into a light post and landed face first onto a van. Sonic was covered with debris. His hand stuck out of the mass of debris. Mecha raised his head up, shaking it. Mecha hopped off the car, spotting the small trail of smoke rising from the area Sonic crashed into. Mecha huffed, feeling victorious. Mecha simply used Chaos Control to teleport over by the site. Mecha looked at the position Sonic was in; Defeated was what he thought.
"Time and time again you find yourself in the spot where you only sit in your own mess and cower. Quite a show to me. I do love a good laugh." Mecha promptly taunted.
Sonic's hand reached up and grabbed Mecha by his snout. Sonic sprang out of the ground, staring into Mecha's eyes. "I was thinking the same thing.'' Sonic muttered. The hedgehog proceeded to give Mecha a swift kick to his power source. Sonic picked Mecha up off his feet, holding him by his snout still.
Sonic saw an overturned car behind him. Sonic quickly leaped high up and flung Mecha down at it. With a loud boom, Mecha smashed into the car. Sonic transformed into his Werehog form. The armor grew for his body to fit in the armor and to make sure it was tightly fit. Sonic elbow dropped down at the position Mecha lie in. Mecha sat up, rubbing his head. The titanium villain stared up to see Sonic drop down on him, causing the ground to rumble on impact. Sonic was found sitting on Mecha exchanging punches left and right. Sonic then ceased, grabbing both sides of his foes face, beginning to crush it. Mecha looked left and right, seeing how it was slowly working. Mecha, however, smirked with glee. Sonic looked down at him confusedly.
"Nice try, but no.'' Mecha said, pointing his Chaos Cannon right into Sonic's chest. Sonic quickly leaped off, but the powering up cannon still fired, blowing Sonic across the city. Sonic crashed into a construction site, rolling across the dirt covered ground. Sonic came to a stop, lying on his back. His central core was blinking from the damage, but it settled down. A long slender shadow cast over him from behind. Sonic looked up to see a steel girder, held up by Mecha. Sonic rolled on his stomach, aiming his hand out to fire a white beam out of his palm. The beam hit Mecha directly in his power source, blasting him back a few feet. Sonic jumped up, grabbed the steel girder and slammed it down towards Mecha. In fear of death, Mecha teleported with Chaos Control. Sonic slammed the steel girder into the brown dirt that covered the whole ground, puffing up a trail of mahogany colored dust.
Sonic released his hands from the girder, but was suddenly forced face first onto by Mecha's foot. The vision scanner from the inside of the helmet was damaged. Mecha jumped back, grinning behind his helmet. Sonic stood up, turning around. The right eye visor was broken off, revealing one red eye inside, Sonic's eye. Black surrounded the slenderness of his eye, even shocking Mecha.
"I see now why you wear that. You're suffering has exceeded its regular limits, hasn't it?" Mecha proclaimed, sounding confident.
"You haven't seen what true suffering is all about, not yet.'' Sonic said in a dark tone, firing the beams out of the orbs on his palms. The twin lasers were deflected and blasted away a section of a building when Mecha activated his shield arm. Mecha transformed the shield back inside his arm, chuckling at Sonic's attempts of attacking.
Sonic leaped forward. Mecha quickly punched first, right in Sonic's nose. The hedgehog shot backward, snapping three light poles in half at high velocity. Sonic sat on his chest, lifting his head up. Sonic got to his feet but was suddenly crushed by a bus that was thrown on him. Mecha hovered high above the street, chuckling even more. Mecha armed his chaos cannon, the inside resonating brightly. "Let's finish this!" he yelled at the top of his lungs, firing the blast at the sideways laying bus.
Heading further into the city, the Avatar gang, Jenny, and Omega stayed together, running past soldiers running the opposite way, as well as tanks and attack choppers flying over them.
"Eggman really overdoes it." Jenny stated.
"And the only way to fight back is to do the same." commented Aang.
At a large outpost that had metal walls with spotlights at the top, the group ran through the large entrance way. Stockpiles of weapons and equipment were put to the side. To the right was one of the few command HQ's the military set up in the city.
"Well we just ran five blocks, and that horde of Eggman's clankers can still be seen!" said Jenny, looking out the main gate.
"You seven! Come here!'' shouted the commanding officer.
The group heard him and made haste. Once over there, the CO gave them orders. "This is a vital ammo storage spot, we can't let Eggman's forces take it. Find whatever spot suits you best and hold them off until we get all this equipment out of here, got it?" he explained.
"You got it!" Jenny replied.
"Tails! It's time to get moving!" shouted Knuckles to his earpiece.
"The signal's been given?" replied Tails.
"You bet! We're regrouping at the point that's far off between this building and the Water Tower.'' Knuckles told him.
"Copy, heading over right now!'' Tails answered, turning his plane around and flying back.
"Time to everyone! Get it movin'!" shouted the major at the Chicago Water Tower. Brandy, Whiskers, Lilo and Stitch heard him give the call sign, so they hastily ran out of cover and onto the battle damaged street.
"We're heading down the street to meet up with Tails and Knuckles, right?!" shouted Lilo, over the explosions that occurred all around them.
"That's right! Then we have to make it to the other half of the city to assist the group at the Sears Tower!'' answered the major. An apache helicopter flew from the left, on fire. The attack helicopter smashed into the building, exploding from within, letting debris and pieces of concrete from the building fly down at them. "Run faster!" shouted Brandy. With soldiers running with them, the heroes ran with all the power they had, having to make it to the rendezvous point.
At the Sears Tower, a car was thrown by the tail of Steelix. The rolling piece of steel corroded a gap through a horde of metal clones, leaving bits and pieces behind. Kuki ran out, firing her 2x4 technology weapon that shot yellow beams, mixed with blue and purple. "Is there any GOOD reason why Number 3 is out there?!" exclaimed Nigel. Numbers of robots were easily being taken down by her easily. "I don't know, but she's doing a good job." noted Abigail.
But her luck was about to end. A few feet away from her, the ground crackled and started spreading across the street. Kuki stopped for a moment, holding her weapon up. The ground literally exploded, knocking Kuki down. The glowing red eye of a familiar looking super robot came up. Eggman decided to give these monstrosities a name; Goliaths. The giant sized robot grabbed the edges of the ground, pulling itself up. Missiles shot down at the robot from passing F-22s. The robot growled furiously. An F-22 flew too low, thus the robot swiped it out of the air, throwing it into a building and blowing the mid section of the building apart.
Kuki got to her feet and started running back to the others. Crawling out of the massive hole were more robots, metal clones. The one leading them was; Mecha WereShadow. He chuckled at all the chaos he saw before him. "Now, Goliath! DESTROY THOSE DAMN HEROES!!'' Mecha commanded with a ravaging tone.
The goliath aimed its self propelled rocket that came out the top of its head. The heroes cowered in fear. Mecha began laughing hysterically at what he believed a victory. A being appeared on top of the rocket. He held a sword in one hand, a bag of C4 in the other. He placed the bag down on the rocket and teleported again. The whole head of the goliath then boomed with flames, smoldering bits of black steel rained down. Mecha looked in shock. The goliath tipped backwards, crushing a huge number of robots that were there.
Mecha was looking over his shoulder, gazing in confusion at the wreckage. A sudden thump came from in front of him. Mecha slowly turned his head, seeing Shadow in front of him. "Sorry I had to ruin your fun." the hedgehog commented.
"You're going to regret getting in my way of redemption!" shouted the evil Mecha.
"Eggman may have built you with my abilities, but he forgot to add willingness.'' Shadow commented again.
Mecha growled with ferociousness. Mecha grabbed him by an ankle, shadow jabbed his sword into Mecha's arm. Mecha, however, didn't care of the pain. Mecha stood up, bringing Shadow to the ground. Shadow dropped his sword by accident. Mecha quickly grabbed it, hoisting it up and over Shadow's heart. Shadow's eyes opened. He reacted by firing a clean shot of a single Chaos Spear directly into Mecha's glowing power source. Mecha stumbled back, holding his power source, growling in pain. Shadow grabbed his Chaos Sword handle, unsheathing the mighty blade. Mecha realized his state, and quickly fired his chaos cannon. The blue wave of energy flew right at Shadow, which he jumped over to avoid. Shadow teleported in front of Mecha, swinging the blade, releasing a slice of yellow energy, knocking Mecha a mile away, bumping and smacking on the concrete street repeatedly until he stopped.
Mecha got up, gasping at Shadow who dove down with his sword aimed down. Mecha swayed to the side, grabbing Shadow's sword, swinging him around and letting the hedgehog go to smash into a car. Mecha fired his Chaos Cannon quickly after. The blast surrounded the car, reducing it to burnt metal and blazing fire. Mecha armed his gatling guns, firing wildly, not convinced he didn't do enough damage. Shadow came flying up out of the smoke as soon as Mecha stopped. Shadow spun in circles, sticking his sword out, firing discs of Chaos energy. Mecha fired his chaos cannon to disrupt them all. Shadow flew through the cloud of gray smoke, his sword stuck straight out. Mecha stepped back to evade. Shadow pierced the ground, growling as he looked up at Mecha. Mecha teleported right in front of Shadow. Shadow countered by quickly jabbing his sword into Mecha's lower chest. Mecha growled the blade, pulling it out, while Shadow continued to push forward. Mecha growled furiously, becoming annoyed by Shadow's stubbornness to win. Mecha punched Shadow with his left fist, throwing Shadow into the side of a car, breaking the side window.
Mecha roared in severe pain. Oil dripped out and stained the blade. Mecha grabbed the blade and pulled it out, roaring loudly afterwards. Mecha glared at Shadow with a savage look. Mecha threw the sword straight at Shadow's head. His eyes widened. The ultimate life form ducked his head, leaving the sword to grow through the broken window and sticking into the building wall. Shadow jumped over the top of the car, grabbing the sword handle. Mecha flipped the car out of the way with one hand, marching towards Shadow. Shadow quickly took the sword out of the wall, turning around to swinging it immediately. Mecha stepped back and grabbed the blade Shadow, with his other hand, fired a chaos beam into Mecha's face, blasting him diagonally upwards, right through a building wall, letting the debris fall down onto the street.
Shadow stepped forward, letting his mouth hang open a bit. Mecha suddenly appeared behind Shadow. Shadow's eyes sprang open. He turned around, hovering backwards with his shoes and coming to a stop, touching the street. "Shall we continue? Or do you need a break?" taunted Mecha, hiding his chuckle "I was born ready." Shadow snapped. The two foes charged forward, both ready to attack each other.
Running through the street was Knuckles. He spun in a spiral, bursting through the chest of an egg titan, and kept on running. Tails passed overhead, dropping some bombs on twenty metal clones that stood on Knuckles' way. "Where are they?" shouted Knuckles.
"Just keep running straight! They'll be doing the same, so you should see them in a moment!" replied Tails through the communicator.
Far down the street from where Knuckles was heading, was Brandy, Whiskers, Lilo and Stitch. "Is that Tails in that plane?" said Brandy.
"Sure is! And there's Knuckles!" Lilo pointed out.
Knuckles grabbed the joints of an egg titan, flipping him on his back. Knuckles jumped up and slammed one fist into it's face, crushing it to dust. A egg tank fired a round at the ground behind Knuckles, launching him forward and landing onto the hood of a car. The car suddenly lifted off the ground, Knuckles in total confusion. A hole was made under the ground beneath the car. Holding it, was Metal Knuckles. "Ready for a little joy ride?" said the metal doppelganger. He saw Tails flying down towards him. Metal sought up an idea of envy. He threw the car at the plane. Tails grabbed the stick, pulling to right, but the car broke through the left wing, throwing the Tornado into a flurry of spins. Tails flew out of control. The worst was about to come. The uncontrollable craft was headed down towards Brandy and the others!
The heroes stopped, gaping at the incoming plane, that was beginning to burn. "Oh, man!'' said Brandy, holding her arms up.
Suddenly, a blue portal opened up in front of them. The large shadow of the plane stopped in front of them. Their eyes opened up, looking to see a familiar looking hedgehog in front of them, but his sense of justice was powerful like his powers. His name was Silver the Hedgehog. The whole plane illuminated by the turquoise greenish glow.
"Would you mind getting out? This thing's getting heavy.'' said Silver in a struggling tone.
Tails immediately got out of the pilot's seat, landing on his feet. Silver then dropped the Tornado on the ground. "Good to see you again Silver! But how did you know we were here?" asked Tails.
"I need to see Sonic.'' he briefly replied.
"That may be a problem. He's probably of somewhere in the city fighting Mecha WereSonic, right?" said Knuckles, confirming with Tails about fighting Mecha. Silver's eyes widened at the mere mentioning of his name. Silver suddenly glowed with his psychokinesis, blasting high up into the air. "Oh, boy.'' said Tails.
"Ditto.'' Brandy added.
Sonic dashed up a building. Mecha flew straight up after him. Sonic quickly jumped back into a somersault. Mecha quickly stopped, and fired up his jets to blast back with a boost to keep on Sonic's trail. Sonic activated his jet boots as well. He flew towards a skyscraper, flying diagonally up.
"What's with the running Sonic? I thought you said you could handle me?" Mecha shouted, letting out another boost.
Sonic was near the edge of the building when Mecha tackled him into the rim, flinging both over the roof and flaying in the air. Mecha was holding Sonic tightly by his throat. Sonic struggled and grunted against Mecha's will. Sonic stuck his feet into Mecha's chest and fired out a boost, scorching the titanium armor badly. Sonic flew down towards the city streets.
"Come back here!'' shouted the angry Mecha.
Once Sonic landed, he sprinted into Sonic boom. Mecha flew after him. Knowing he won't be able to catch up so easily, Mecha activated the super nitro stored in his jet pack. The fire changed to a sparkling green. Mecha shot like a speeding bullet after Sonic. Sonic looked over his shoulder to see Mecha tackled him head on. The two bounced across the road and then smashed through a building, blowing off a chunk of it. The two spiraled in circles, attempting to regain control of their flaying bodies. A mile down the street landed Silver. He started marching forward with a disgruntled look. "Where could they be?" he asked himself. Sonic slid to a halt right by Silver's feet, while Mecha bounced further down the street. Sonic opened his eyes, gasping. "Silver? Whoa! Good to see ya' again!'' Sonic greeted, waving his hand. Silver's face cringed in anger. Silver used his powers to lift Sonic up. Sonic couldn't move any of his limbs, Silver's power was too commanding.
"What's going on here? We're friends, remember?" Sonic pleaded.
"I've seen what you've done to the future. Killing innocents and your own friends as Eggman's benefactor!'' Silver shouted angrily. Sonic, in a moment after Silver's comment, knew he found out about Sonic's future identity. "Why does everyone hate me?" Sonic shouted in an annoyed tone.
"Because you never get your act to work out straight.'' said a chilling voice. Silver looked over his shoulder, seeing Thule.
"Who are you!'' Silver asked demandingly.
"I'm one of the reasons this world and every other should be worried about. Now, hand me the rodent, he's my business.'' Thule said, gesturing his hand for Silver to hand him over.
"Trust me Silver, he's nuts, and he's a demon! Just put me down and we can take him down!" Sonic spoke up.
"I don't want to hear from you!'' Silver exclaimed.
The future warrior was suddenly punched in the gut by Thule and tossed into the side of a car.
Thule grabbed Sonic who was dropped from the pschyokinesis grip of Silver. "Ahhhh, I see it has almost finished the job.'' Thule said, looking at Sonic's red glowing eye.
The one red narrowed. "What's happening to me? Tell me now!'' Sonic demanded.
"All in good time…demon.'' Thule muttered, tossing Sonic into a light post. Thule smirked and chuckled. He turned around, Mecha was blocking his path. "You remember me right? It's high time I return the beating!'' Mecha exclaimed, punching Thule in the gut, tossing him to the ground.
Mecha grabbed his ankles, but was suddenly hit with a spin dash from Sonic. Mecha rolled on his back. Sonic put one foot on his chest. "Seriously, when do you give up?" Sonic asked.
Sonic was blasted back by a shot from Mecha's chaos cannon. "When I win!" Mecha answered. Sonic stopped at the feet of Silver. Silver growled, raising his glowing fist. Sonic rolled forwards, getting on his feet, then turning around. Silver grabbed a nearby car and thrusted it forward. Sonic jumped over it, but the hunk of metal hit Thule and Mecha, forcing the two grinding into the ground. Silver swung one hand, Sonic dodging it, then grabbing it to swing Silver around and let him flying into a building window. Thule flipped the car off him, growling as he sat up. Mecha hovered over him, readying to attack. Thule quickly rolled off to the side to dodge a point blank blast from Mecha's chaos cannon. Thule charged forwards, but Mecha fired his chaos cannon again, knocking Thule to the ground yet again. Thule growled furiously. He let slip out his two thick blades out of his forearms and leaped up, roaring with fury.
Aang and Katara rode on Appa, wearing his armor, destroying clones from above. With the Avatar the ropes, he steered the flying bison straight up. Katara held onto the saddle. She felt a sudden pain in her chest. In the back of her eyes flames appeared then quickly vanished. Appa made it over the building as rockets whisped past him. Aang looked back at Katara, who looked like she was about to throw up. "Katara!? Are you alright?" he asked with a worried tone.
"Yeah, yeah. I'm fine, let's get back to the others, looks like they need more support.'' Katara replied, changing her expression to make it appeal to the Avatar that everything was fine.
Aang flew Appa down. Shooting of guns and explosions from rockets and grenades filtered their ears. Aang and Katara hopped off. "Find a safe place to hide, okay buddy?" Aang quickly said to his animal friend.
Appa grunted in agreement before flying off again. "Don't you think it's the least bit strange, that Richards only told us to come this far, then we suddenly get orders he didn't tell us about?" said Jenny over the loud racket of guns firing.
"Maybe that's his way of improvising!'' Sokka added.
"Well I think it's pretty stupid!'' Jenny stated, firing her laser limbs into the heads of some metal clones.
Nearing their position was Shadow and Mecha WereShadow. The two were fighting in the street, hand to hand combat. Shadow punched left, kicked Mecha across the face and sent another fist, which Mecha grabbed. Mecha chuckled, pointing his chaos cannon at him. Shadow quickly fired his chaos spear beam into Mecha's neck, blasting him back, but Mecha was still able to fire and perfectly hit Shadow with the charged blast. Shadow bounced across the ground until he skidded to a subtle halt. Shadow got on one foot, his arm resting on his knee. He took in a deep breath and stood straight up. Mecha was already charging with the extreme speed of his jetpack. Shadow stood firmly. Shadow knew something subtle and surprising would come. Shadow teleported away. Flying from behind where Shadow was just standing was Mephiles who crashed right into Mecha, knocking both far aside. Shadow reappeared in the middle of the street. He turned to face Mephiles, who was lying on the sidewalk.
"Nice reflexes Shadow. I knew you couldn't let those senses of yours go to your head.'' Mephiles noted as he stood back up.
"I'm always on the go. Why do you think I'm so powerful?" Shadow replied.
"Don't be so wise. This fight has just begun!'' Mephiles exclaimed, getting in a stance. From behind Shadow rose Mecha.
"Good…two Shadow's I'll beat the hell out of!'' he said, punching his fist into his open palm. Shadow faced forward, looking to his left and right, waiting for which one to make a move. Shadow flicked his hands, they immediately glowed gold. Mecha fired his chaos cannon. Shadow turned to face Mecha, putting up a defensive shield with the chaos energy, but it pushed him back. Mephiles formed a purple energy ball as he put his hands apart from each other. Shadow looked over his shoulder, gritting his teeth from the force of the ongoing laser coming from Mecha. Mephiles laughed maniacally, firing the energy ball. Shadow quickly dashed off to the side, letting the blast from Mecha hit the doppleganger of Shadow. Shadow landed back on his feet, firing a chaos spear beam directly at Mecha. Mecha grabbed Mephiles, but Mephiles grabbed Mecha's shoulders and tossed him towards the beam and flung across the air.
Shadow sent a fist at Mephiles who moved to the right, turning around to face Shadow in the process. "Ironic, isn't it?" Mephiles said, firing an energy ball. Shadow stuck his hands out, and dispersed it. "I'd figure to see your ugly face here.'' Shadow said darkly, firing five Chaos Spears.
"And why should you be surprised?" Mephiles said, ducking underneath the first three, but the last two hit him in the chest. While he was stunned, Shadow took this moment to dash at him and grab him by the fur on his chest. "It's because I'm always ready!'' Shadow snapped, shoving Mephiles into a car like a battering ram. Shadow stepped away from it only to be hit by a blast from Mecha's Chaos Cannon.
Shadow slid on his feet until coming to a stop. He was a bit bruised from the sudden blast. Mecha landed a few feet away. He grabbed a light pole and flung directly straight at Shadow. The ultimate life form unsheathed his chaos sword, holding it up in front of his face. He jerked it back then down, cutting the pole down the middle, all the way through. The two halves dropped by his side. Shadow smirked, swinging his sword with a grunt releasing a fin shaped blast that aimed for Mecha. Mecha put up a bubble shield around him. The powerful Chaos energy collided with the shield, exploding into a puff of smoke and light.
Shadow stood straight, the tip of his sword touching the ground. The dust cleared. Mecha immediately flew out. Shadow charged forward as well. The two came closer and closer, going the fastest they could. Shadow swung his sword diagonally at Mecha. Shadow skidded forward, still holding his sword in a pose. Mecha stopped, his right arm fell off. Shadow turned around, gazing at the agony Mecha was in. Shadow teleported over by his side. Shadow wore a distasteful look, watching the disappointment in Mecha. Oil dripped and lathered itself on the ground. "Time to end the line of trying to make copies of me.'' Shadow muttered, raising his sword up. Mecha suddenly lit up his boosters, creating a fire from the oil, propelling him to safety. Shadow jumped back. He put his sword back in his sheath.
Appa landed behind Shadow, the gang got off and ran up to him.
"I take it you guys did your job? What about Jenny and Omega?" Shadow began.
"Richards gave us orders for us to find you! Jenny and Omega were told to keep defending this storage place!'' replied Aang.
"Good timing. I could use some help-'' he began but was interrupted when the wall of the building on the right exploded, a flaying Sonic came through.
Shadow's eyes twitched, then suddenly went to anger.
"You're not getting away this time.'' he thought in his head, marching towards Sonic's body. Mecha WereSonic came through the hole and dropped by Sonic, picking up the drowsy hedgehog by the chest armor piece, his head dangling.
"He's mine,'' Shadow said. Mecha turned his head, looking surprised.
"Shadow! How great to see you again! But…I'm so sorry. I have a debt to settle with this hedgehog.'' Mecha announced.
"Well…I have a score to settle with him!'' Shadow snapped, firing a Chaos Spear into Mecha's hip, flinging him down the street. Mephiles dropped down in front of Shadow, then suddenly from atop a roof came Thule, landing behind Shadow.
"Don't think you're going to get to him first!'' Mephiles claimed.
"The hedgehog is mine, and mine only!'' Thule said.
A slew of rockets rained down on the three. Mecha chuckled from above as he transformed them back to his normal arms. "All fools! You never suspect anything!'' Mecha said triumphantly as he laughed.
"I'm sorry Mecha, but," a voice said from behind.
Mecha turned around to see Sonic hovering there. "Join the club why don't ya?!" he exclaimed, thrusting his fist across Mecha's face. Mecha dropped down into the group of where Shadow, Thule, and Mephiles lie. Sonic dropped down into the still clouding smoke. It began to clear, revealing on each corner, a foe. Each of them exchanged a glance, waiting for the other to attack or who to go for first. All enemies with each other. So much hate and angry emotions began to stir, and in a moment, it was about to pour out. Mephiles shot energy balls at Sonic. Sonic sprinted out of the way, only to be punched by Thule. Mecha tackled Thule to the ground. Shadow fired a volley of chaos spears at them all. Sonic created a shield around himself. The chaos spears hit the others directly, stunning them. Shadow charged at Sonic firing a chaos beam. Sonic moved to the right and charged forward. The two collided with extreme force, throwing them both opposite ways.
Mecha flew after Sonic. Sonic landed on a light pole. He gasped when Mecha came inches closer to him. Sonic did a backflip and sent his own foot into Mecha's chin, tossing the titanium automoton upwards. Sonic quickly grabbed the underside of the pole when a black beam of energy shot at him. Thule growled furiously at him. Shadow jumped on Thule's back, grabbing his spikes and throwing him forward, leaving Shadow to land perfectly.
"Seriously, you got to drop this. I'm fighting against Eggman!'' Sonic exclaimed at Shadow.
"But you WILL be fighting with HIM in the future, and I'm not the kind of person who'll let betrayal get away so easy!'' Shadow barked, teleporting.
He reappeared behind Sonic and let out a vicious Chaos Blast. The huge dome of light wiped through the street, ripping the concrete from the buildings like it was paper. The black material that covered Sonic's arms and legs had a few tears in them. A dent went inward on his helmet, and two of the metal parts that covered two of his quills were broken off. Sonic stood slump, his arms drooping, but his heart still ticking. Silver landed behind Sonic. "Aww, jeez. Come on! How many of you really hate me!?" Sonic complained, looking between Shadow and Silver.
"Shadow? What are you doing here?" asked Silver.
"The same reason you're here." he replied.
"Eliminate Sonic?" Silver guessed.
"Correct.'' Shadow answered.
Sonic slapped himself in the forehead. Silver raised an eyebrow. Two of Sonic's revealed quills were white. "Time to end this!'' shouted Shadow. Suddenly, a boulder fired down at him. Shadow quickly fired a Chaos Spear beam, blasting it to pieces.
Appa flew over, dropping Aang, Katara, Toph, Sokka, and Zuko, all standing around Sonic, protecting him. "We're not leaving you alone.'' said Toph.
"We're on your side Sonic, until the end." Katara said, winking.
Sonic looked in wonder at each of them. Each one circled around Sonic, looking at Shadow or Silver. "Get out of the way!" shouted Shadow.
"I don't think so grumpy!'' Toph snapped. Shadow's eye twitched.
"Who are they?" asked Silver.
"Sonic's friends from another dimension." Shadow replied bitterly.
"And soon to be wiped out!'' shouted the voice of Azula. They all looked up and saw the mind controlled Firebender landing on one corner.
Mecha Weresonic appeared on one side. Thule landed on another. As well as Mephiles. Sonic looked around. He had no idea what to do. Surrounded by allies, former friends, and hated enemies. What to do, what to do he thought. At the same time, everyone surrounding the gang and Sonic fired a beam of their powers. Sonic's eyes broke open. He formed a blue shield that surrounded himself and the gang. The blasts all redirected off the shield, flying off in a random direction. The stray beams blew apart parts of the buildings that surrounded them, letting chunks of debris, glass, and dirt scatter the area. In the midst of it, Sonic lowered the shield.
"Make sure she stays safe.'' Sonic said blankly, pointing at Katara.
Sonic marched towards the smoke cloud but was suddenly grabbed by a hand and pulled into a group hug with the others. Sonic raised an eyebrow.
"No matter what, we stay together, as friends.'' stuttered Zuko, feeling out of character.
"You have our support Sonic.'' said Sokka, giving a thumbs up.
"You're the hedgehog, spikey!'' Toph said, punching his arm.
Sonic smiled under his helmet. The gang broke apart, Sonic headed to the smoke cloud, already hearing the others were fighting each other.
Sonic stopped, looking over his shoulder. The gang stood there with warm smiles. Sonic noticed Katara. Her gracious smile. Sonic turned his head back around and leapt out of the cloud. Sonic landed in front of Shadow and Mecha. Sonic spin dashed both into opposite building windows. Aang flew out of the cloud on his glider. Thule grabbed the ground, taking a chunk of it out. He launched it at Aang. Aang closed his glider, flying towards the boulder. He jerked his fist forward, firing the boulder back at Thule, smashing into pieces as it impacted. Silver grabbed two cars. He spun around, firing both by holding his open palms outward. Sonic leaped towards them, followed by Mecha. Sonic straightened out his body, coming right between the two. Mecha, instead grabbed both cars and charged down at Sonic. The blue blur landed in front of Silver. Silver was ready to attack, but both his hands were frozen by Katara. "Sorry.'' Sonic said, dashing out of the way. Mecha slammed one car down first, which Silver luckily rolled out of the way from. Mecha held the other over Silver, about to finish him off. A fireball shot from Zuko hit the car, blowing it into pieces. Mecha stood in the smoke as it began to vanish. Silver swung both his hands against Mecha, shattering the ice that covered his hands. Mecha grabbed Silver by the fur on his chest.
"You're going to regret you were born." Mecha hissed, holding a fist up. Azula shot a bolt of lightning at Mecha's back, shocking both him and Silver. Azula laughed maniacally. Thule ran to her side, looking at Silver and Mecha's unconscious corpses.
"Well done, my servant!'' Thule complimented. Azula, however, was flung forward by a kick delivered by Shadow. "Try and do the same to me.'' he muttered.
Thule threw his fist down at him. Shadow grabbed it and tossed Thule to a building on the right side of the street. Thule's immense weight and size broke down the wall, leaving a huge hole. Mephiles landed behind Shadow, his crystal, stone-like arms changed into spikes. He swung across, leaving a gash on Shadow's back. Shadow turned around, grabbing both of his spiked arms. Shadow then let a surge of energy into Mephiles's body, shocking him and throwing him a few feet down the street.
Toph heard Silver walking by. "Aha!'' she yelled, firing a mound of earth at him.
He yelped, flying up to dodge it. Sokka tossed his boomerang that came and hit the side of his head, knocking Silver back down to the ground. Toph fired another mound of earth that pushed him into the building wall, breaking it. "Good job Toph!'' said Sokka.
Katara saw the injured Shadow. She dropped to her knees, pulling some water out of her pouch and began healing him. Shadow twitched, feeling disturbed. "I thought you were against me?" he said.
"You can still change. There's no reason for you to be in the position you're in.'' she replied, finishing the healing.
Shadow stood up, glaring at her. "No thanks.'' he said, pushing her on her back.
"Hey! Faker!'' shouted the voice of Sonic.
Shadow faced forward, seeing Sonic tackle him directly in the gut and into the side of a parked car. "She's just trying to help! Why can't you get through your thick skull that I'm on your side!?" barked Sonic.
Shadow fired a Chaos beam into Sonic's gut, launching him into a building wall, lodging into it. Shadow dashed up towards him. Sonic dislodged himself, driving both feet into Shadow's stomach. Sonic forced Shadow into the concrete road. A blast of blue fire shot from Azula and hit Sonic, firing him forward.
"Hello there.'' said Mephiles, standing over Sonic.
Sonic gasped. Mephiles drove his spike arm down. Sonic rolled out of the way, formed into a ball and smacked Mephiles in the face, throwing him across the ground. Thule fired a black beam of energy at Sonic. Aang put up a wall behind Sonic, leaving the blast to explode the wall only. Sonic quickly turned around. Thule came charging through the smoke, swinging his claws in a violent manner.
Tails, Knuckles, Brandy, Whiskers, Lilo, and Stitch were halfway to the Sears Tower.
"Are we close Tails?!" asked Knuckles through his communicator.
"Just a few more miles!'' he replied.
"Miles! How much more miles exactly?" complained the guardian. Mecha WereShadow landed in front of the group, with an army of clones flying down towards his position. He had a new arm attached.
"And you thought this was going to be easy." said Mecha. All of a sudden, Jenny and Omega landed in front of the group.
"You're in the same situation, tin can.'' Jenny said.
"Attack and kill them all!'' ordered Mecha.
The wave of clones flew directly at them. Jenny armed her buzz saw blades, charging up at the clones, cutting through them. Omega charged up his inferno blast. The two energy shots came out of his arm, wiping out even more of the clones.
"You guys keep going! We'll hold them off!'' Jenny called out.
"Come on, let's go!'' said Knuckles, continuing down the street.
Jenny hovered down onto the street, her back to Omega's. She changed her arms into two katana blades. "Which half do you want?" asked Omega, arming his gatling guns.
"Just as long as we share, ok?" Jenny said, chuckling.
"Roger, let us deal with them swiftly.'' Omega replied.
The two then charged in separate directions at the swarming clones that surrounded them.
Sonic bounced across the wrecked street, denting parts of his armor. Mephiles came down, his hands morphed back to normal, holding an energy ball. Sonic spun on his head, and bounced off the ground, getting right side up again, leaving Mephiles to bash the ground with the powerful energy released from his power. Sonic landed on the ground safely, only to see a streak of lightning pass over his head, which he ducked from. Sonic fired an energy stream from the visor eye he still had on. The blast knocked Azula to the ground. Silver picked up a multitude of cars and flung them all at Sonic. Sonic saw ten cars flying towards him. He leaped forward to take the challenge on. He ran sideways across one, jumping from that one to the hood of another, then spin dashing through another, getting out the other side unharmed.
"Use your head for a moment Silver. I can find a way to stop myself from becoming Mecha!'' Sonic shouted, dodging another car.
"There is no way! You're stubbornness and lack of judgment gets yourself to ignore your friends warnings and go to Eggmanland anyway! I know all about the day you die!'' Silver shouted, launching a tanker truck at Sonic. Zuko fired a ball of flames from afar, hitting the tanker in mid air, shattering windows on buildings on both sides. Silver charged forwards with his levitation ability, punching Sonic in the jaw, throwing him into the building wall.
Katara was being chased by Mecha. "Foolish girl! You seem strong when your foes don't see you! But when you are spotted, you are nothing but a coward!'' Mecha mocked, teleporting and reappearing in her path.
She came to a stop, breathing heavily. Thule suddenly grabbed her, hoisting her up. "How is it to carry such a heavy burden? Is the Flames of Disaster giving you trouble?" Thule said, laughing evilly. Mecha tackled Thule in the gut, grabbing Katara by her shirt.
Sonic lifted his head up, spotting Katara's danger. He hopped to his feet. Silver stood in his way immediately. Nonetheless, Sonic charged, but kicked Silver in the gut to get him out of the way. Mecha raised his fist back. Sonic jumped, grabbed Katara in his arms and sped off. Mecha growled, changing his right arm into his rocket launcher. The angry villain let out five rockets. Sonic ran in zig zags as the sudden explosives plummeted around them. Sonic came to a skid, right in front of Aang. "Keep her safe!'' Sonic shouted, jogging backwards, then turning around to get back to the battle.
Sonic slid on his back, his foot stretched outwards. He tripped Mecha, then jumped back on his feet, turning around to face his nemesis. Mecha slowly got up.
"This isn't the first time you've been tested you know?" Mecha stated, firing his Chaos Cannon. Sonic created a shield around himself, which the blast cut off into two separate parts and fired down the street. Sonic dropped the shield when Mecha halted.
"I've noticed that Mecha. You don't need to tell me anything!'' Sonic snapped at him. The blue hedgehog dashed forward, punching Mecha across the face, spinning the titanium foe in a circle before he regained control.
Sonic changed into his Werehog form. The armor growing out to fit his larger body. Sonic stretched an arm out to grab Mecha by his ankle. Mecha dropped on his back. Sonic flung Mecha over his head. Mecha spiraled down and smashed into the ground with a bang. Sonic turned around, but he suddenly felt an extreme pain in his gut. He looked at his right hand, the material was beginning to melt off. Sonic shook his head in despair. He was suddenly punched in the gut by Mecha, dropping like a rock.
"What's the matter? Can't finish the job?" he mocked. Sonic stumbled to get up. Sonic turned his head at him, firing his visor beam into Mecha's power source, blasting Mecha far back.
Mephiles looked at Sonic's weakened state. "It can't be!'' he thought to himself, noticing his white quills.
"Thule's an idiot for doing that, but not my business.'' Mephiles said, turning around and spotting Katara a few feet away. Mephiles looked at Aang with an evil look. "Just like what I did to Sonic.'' Mephiles said, readying a light spear.
Sonic got on all fours, choking on his own spit. He turned his head, noticing Mephiles. Sonic looked at who he was aiming for; Aang.
"He's going to release Iblis!'' Sonic shouted, dashing madly over to Aang.
"Goodbye, Avatar Aang!'' Mephiles shouted, firing the light spear, the same method he used to kill Sonic a while back. Sonic drifted in a half circle, standing in front of Aang when the Avatar's back was turned. Katara spotted the incident and gasped. Sonic grabbed the light spear by both sides. "Aang!'' shouted the Waterbender.
Aang turned around, gasping when he saw Sonic. Sonic began pushing the spear back, but Mephiles growled furiously, pushing it back. Sonic roared, pushing the light spear back at Mephiles, exploding and knocking Mephiles to the dirt. Sonic stood there, tired and worn out. Thule grabbed Aang and tossed him aside. Mecha hovered over Katara. She looked up in horror. The Waterbender quickly moved out of the way when Mecha landed where she was standing. Sonic looked all around him, he was surrounded. Mecha, Thule, Azula, Shadow, and Silver. Sonic attempted to get up, but stumbled back on his hands. Shadow readied a Chaos beam, Mecha armed his Chaos Cannon, Thule charged his dark energy, Azula began to form lightning, Silver's hands glowed with his pscyhokinesis powers. Sonic finally stood up, preparing for the worst. Sonic looked over at the gang. Katara ran forward, but Sokka grabbed her. With tears rolling down her cheeks, she screamed to the heavens. A stream of fire shot into the air, out of Katara's chest. Sonic looked away, feeling nothing. At the same time, all his enemies lashed out with all their might. The combined shots all culminated in one mighty explosion. A mile high plume of black smoke rose into the air.
It went so fast, but yet so slow. All the foes shot fired at Sonic, were dispersed on the ground, injured or hurt for being so close to the huge explosion. Mephiles flew up to the ball of flames known as Iblis. He stuck his hand out. The ball of fire sunk into his hand and into his body. "I will have the chaos emeralds you fools! And the world will finally see the true power of IBLIS!!'' Mephiles thundered. The evil copy then teleported himself with an energy ball that surrounded himself.
Katara lie on the ground, still crying. She looked into the midst of the smoke. She saw Mecha walking out of it. "Not who you were expecting?" he said, walking closer. He suddenly stopped when the dust cloud suddenly vanished in a second. Everyone looked to see a blaze of fire, in it was a black silhouette. It began limping forward. Thule formed an evil grin, whispering "Yes.''
Sonic dropped to the ground on all fours. The armor was melting off into liquid metal. His face, finally revealed. They all stared in horror. It was nothing but bone. His irises were nothing but glowing red. His pupils were black. Surrounding his eyes was pitch black. All the armor melted off, revealing his whole body to be skeletal.
"What in god's name is happening to him?" said Mecha, turning around to face him.
The tips of his six quills snapped off, causing Sonic to roar in agony. They grouped together in a circle over the crown of his head, spawning a fire in the middle of it. Suddenly, black material began to grow over his body. It was like a kind of second skin. It reached his neck, finally covering his head. His eyes were shut.
"Sonic?" said Katara.
His eyes broke open, filled with red. Claws came out of his fingertips. The crown over his head tip spun, the fire blazing wildly. The ritual was now complete; he had now become Demon Sonic.