Sleepless in Spagonia
Part 6
Day- 10 minutes to sunset
No Need For Metal Sonic (II)
Sonic
"What are you talking about Eggman?" demanded Sonic.
The huge image of Dr. Eggman dominated the street as his image was projected from Metal Sonics' eyes. Sonic and Shadow stood watching and waiting for the manic scientist to cease his gyrations.
"Ho ho ho ho, I need all the parts of Dark Gaia to come together and Spagonia is the perfect place to stage my plan, thanks to its overly large bell tower."
At this, the top half of the bell tower began to glow an ominous purple colour as Eggman continued.
"You see my little friends, with the help of Metal Sonic, who I recovered from Little Planet not long ago; I have converted the bell tower into a gigantic Dark Gaia attracter. Of course I am not going to bring all of the pieces to the city, I have another transmitter and I'm not telling you where, I'm simply bringing enough of the Dark Gaia energy to power Metal Sonic so that he will be strong enough to kill you, and you won't have the Chaos Emeralds to help you."
The image of Eggman disappeared from the screen as Metal Sonic eyes blinked and returned to gazing towards the two hedgehogs.
"We need to destroy the transmitter in the tower before the sunsets or this city going to be crawling with those things and then he really will be unstoppable." said Shadow.
"We'll have to take care of him as quickly as we can then, shouldn't be a problem then eh?" said Sonic rubbing his index finger underneath his nose.
Shadow, turning to Sonic, smiled arrogantly.
"Let's finish him then."
In the flash of an eye both Sonic and Shadow lunged towards Metal Sonic, both spinning into balls. Metal Sonic stood stock still as they moved faster and faster and closer and closer to him, seeming to be oblivious to their movements. In an instance, however, Metal Sonic moved his hands in front of him, seemingly to shield himself from the impact, only to catch both Sonic and Shadow in either one of his hands. Spinning both arms around and around, Metal Sonic let both go forcing them both to rocket backwards into a solid brick wall.
Sonic was the first to stand up, rubbing his head.
"I think someone up there hate's me, how many times have I got to stick my head into the ground or through a wall?" he asked himself.
Shadow picking himself up from behind Sonic walked over to his side.
"How did he manage to stop us, he couldn't possibly be that strong." He stated.
"It must be the Dark Gaia energy he's already absorbed, we have to think of a way to subdue him so that we can get to the tower and stop him from being fully charged."
Sonic looked from Shadow to Metal Sonic as a thought struck him.
"Shadow let's give him a double spin dry!"
Shadow, nodding with approval, burst off at amazing speed, followed by Sonic. Both hedgehogs began to run around and around in a circle around a still stationary Metal Sonic. In no time at all a vortex of wind began to pick as Metal Sonic was lifted up into the air and both Sonic and Shadow jumped, with incredible speed, up and flew directly towards Metal.
As soon as they neared him, the two hedgehogs spun into a ball and zoomed directly toward the Metal robot. Just as they were about to hit, however, Metal Sonics' form began to distort as his robotic voice rang out.
"Chaos Control!"
As soon as he disappeared both Sonic and Shadow bounced off of one another and were sent flying in all directions. Shadow managed to take control of his flight first but was quickly struck in the back of the head by a reappearing Metal Sonics' fist, throwing him back toward the earth. Shadow hit the ground with such tremendous force that he was knocked out instantly by the impact. Sonic soon took control of his own wayward journey and managed to land safely on a nearby rooftop. Scanning the area desperately for any sign of Metal Sonic, Sonic swiped away a bead of sweat from his forehead and listened as an eerie silence took hold of the area.
Looking off to the distance Sonic could see his friends trying their best to stop the revellers from entering this area, and silently thanked them. It was hard enough not to get hurt by this new version of Metal Sonic, let alone makes sure that an innocent bystander didn't get hurt either. Hopping off from the rooftop, Sonic made his way over to Shadow and began shaking him.
"Come on Shadow, I can't do this on my own, he's too strong."
As he continued to shake the black hedgehog awake, Sonic was aware of a large rumbling sound coming from the fountain area not too far away from here.
Shadow, waking up with a groan, allowed Sonic to help him up as the blue hedgehog instantly began to question him.
"How can he Chaos Control without an Emerald?" he said.
"I can Chaos Control without an emerald, but only over short distances." He said rubbing some life back into his arms." He's copied my data before it shouldn't come as a surprise."
Sonic answered incredulously.
"If it wasn't supposed to come as a surprise why did we just get tossed around like a couple of rag dolls then?"
Shadow gave Sonic a look of contempt as he answered.
"I can usually detect when someone is warping, but it's there life signs that I detect moving from one place to the other not the warping itself, and just in case you haven't noticed Metal Sonic isn't actually a living being."
Sonic was about to retort when the statue of Carpathius Pickle flew up the streets towards them. Shadow reacted quickly and Chaos Controlled both of them away, but as soon as he appeared near the base of the Bell Tower, Metal Sonic appeared behind them both, and with awful power, punched Shadow so hard in the back that Sonic could have sworn that he heard the ultimate life forms spine snap, the force of the punch through Shadow forward falling to the bottom of the steps leading to the tower. Turning from where Shadow used to be, Metal Sonic grabbed Sonic by the throat and flew up towards the top of the tower.
Stopping not too far away from where Amy was fasted to the clock face, Metal Sonic raised his hand and pointed toward the pink hedgehog.
"Are you ready to see her die, fake hedgehog?"