Sleepless in Spagonia
Part 5
Day-30 minutes till sunset
No Need For Metal Sonic (I)

Authors Notes: Sorry for the long wait between chapters, got major writers block on the action, so I'm splitting the finale up in to two maybe three parts. Afraid this is sort of a teaser/filler so hope you enjoy.

HE was running as fast as he could to the tower and Metal felt the urge to fight. The Doctor had always told him that he was incapable of emotion, but he knew that was wrong. How could it be true? The hatred he felt for that faker, Sonic the Hedgehog burned so brightly within him he felt sometimes that it would destroy him.

"I am the real Sonic, and tonight I'll prove It." said the robot.

As the blue and Black hedgehogs got nearer, Metal could see that Amy was with them. Lifting his index finger up to his metal nose and rubbing it, Metal had an air of cockiness about him.

"And just as he's dying, I'll kill her in front of him."

* * *

Sonic and Amy

Sonic stopped just at the foot of the tower staring up at the clock face; he could see someone atop the tower but couldn't really make he or she out.

"Get out of the way!"

Too late to heed Shadow's warning both Sonic and Amy were flung backwards by the metal doppelganger himself, Metal Sonic.

The robot had changed little since their last meeting, except for being slightly more armoured, making him look a little chunkier. The roundel in his chest however had a vast array of small rod like protrudences coming from the sides.

Getting up off his backside Sonic smiled cockily.

"You've let yourself go, Metal, y'know you're supposed to exercise 5 days out of every seven if you want to keep your figure as slim as yours use to be."

Metal Sonic retorted with a kick to the head, sending Sonic flying through a nearby shop window. Shadow reacted as quickly as possible to this and tried to deliver a kick of his own. Metal Sonic, who had not even turned around from kicking Sonic, caught Shadow's foot in his hand and span the black hedgehog around and around until letting him go, sending him into the same shop as Sonic.

Turning towards Amy, Metal Sonic advanced on the pink hedgehog.

"Not again, stay away from me you hunk of junk!" she cried taking out her Piko Piko Hammer.

As Metal Sonic continued to advance on her, Amy began swinging her hammer wildly in his direction. Metal Sonic reached out and took Amy's hammer from her hand and proceeded to crush it in his thing metal hands.

"Your coming with me." He stated coldly.

* * *

Inside the wrecked shop Shadow stood up from his prone position on the floor and began to dust himself off when he heard a muffled cry. Turning round he sneered at the sight of Sonic with his head stuck in the wall that separated the shop floor from the staff area.

"Why...does this...keep happening to me." He said, pulling his head from the wall.

"Are you in the habit of shoving your head through walls?" asked Shadow wryly.

"Only when I'm sure there's a chilli dog in the next room."

Both hedgehogs moved to the window they recently crashed through and peaked out to see if the metal monstrosity was still out there. Seeing nothing they both leaped back out into the empty street.

"Boy, he's a lot stronger than he used to be." said Sonic.

"Probably because he's got all of our data in his memory banks, but if we try to work together this time we might just have a chance." said Shadow.

Sonic turned to Shadow with a look of contemplation upon his face.

"No I don't think it's that. The roundel on his chest used to be an energy point so that he could electrify his entire body, it looks like it's been redesigned, but for what reason?"

"Maybe to absorb energy instead of discharging it." said Shadow.

"Maybe, we better get after him...wait a minute where's Amy?" said Sonic

Shadow, looking in the direction of the bell tower, pointed to the clock face.

"Up there."

High up on the clock face, Amy was tied to the centre of the clock hands. Metal Sonic stood at the base of the tower beckoning them forward, but before Sonic and Shadow could move, Metal Sonics eyes began to glow and right in front of the two hedgehogs's appeared the face of Doctor Eggman.

"Good evening gentlemen, so glad you could make it, are you ready to see Spagonia become the biggest HUB for Dark Gaia creatures in the world?