Sonic and Amy gasped in shock, as they watched Necronos suddenly fall out from Gamma Catalyst's dark tower, and out of their sight! Amy's eyes began streaming tears as she cried out for him.
"NECROOOOOOOOOOOOOO….."
Outside, Necronos felt the hot pierce through his body from Gamma's laser shot at him. As he continued to plummet from his dizzying height, he saw the ground rushing up to him fairly fast, as he suddenly blacked out!
Down below, where the battle between robot vs. Gamma drone proceeded, Scyzor had just so happened to take a split second to gaze up in time to see Necronos falling right toward them.
"Krystal!" he shouted, pointing up, "Someone's gonna hit the street hard!"
She looked up and spotted him reaching closer to the hard pavement.
"Oh no! We can't reach him in time!"
Suddenly, a great rush of wind sped through the air right through the robotic crowd. It spun like a mini tornado as it rushed downward to Necronos. And at the last possible instant before contact…
"Got ya!"
The wind grabbed hold of his body, and gently lowered him to the ground. Scyzor and the resistance rushed up to meet savior as the wind departed giving form of an all too familiar fox!
"You saved him!" Scyzor exclaimed. And noticing his familiarity with his mammalian friends, "By any chance, are you part of Sonic's group?"
"You bet! I'm his right hand man! Everyone calls me Tails!"
Sonic and Amy turned disgustingly to their adversary, who was busy cackling with pleasure at his apparently accomplished murder. Not wanting to see him celebrate any further, Amy charged with rage at Gamma Catalyst.
"RAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"
'WHAM!' And gave a direct hit at his head with her Piko Piko!
And for the very first time, Gamma actually looked dazed from the blow!
"HEY! That actually hurt, ya know?"
More tears fell from Amy's eyes. "And it's about time you deserved pain, you MURDERER!...You….'sob'……you killed him…"
Gamma just grinned again. "Yeah, I killed him. And hopefully crushed his little toy too. After all, I can't be banished to this so called 'Zero Zone' when I've got a whole planet to take over, and many more lives to ruin, just like I just did YOURS! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!"
Sonic clenched his fist tight, his teeth grinded with hate, he couldn't take Gamma's rants and evil anymore!
"Will you just SHUUUUUUUUUUUT UUUUUUUUUUUP?!"
Outside the Tower, all eyes shot upward as Sonic's shout echoed toward them all. Tails looked up with concern.
"Sonic's in Trouble!"
Just then he looked down again, as Necronos' lifeless body suddenly began to radiate a glow surrounding him! All robotic eyes gazed with wonder, as a bright red beam of light shot out of his chest, and straight up into the tower!
From not too far away, Knuckles could be seen gliding right toward Metal City's limits as he too spotted the red beam.
"Just hang in there, guys! I'm coming!"
Sonic stood up tall, enraged with anger, while Amy and gamma stared with confusion, as the same red beam shot through the wall Necronos fell from, and made contact with Sonic's body! Sonic looked at himself, as the red light surrounding him seemed to energize him, giving him a power that felt greatly familiar. Amy and Gamma covered their eyes, as the light grew brighter, then suddenly dispersed in a huge flash.
When it all cleared, Amy couldn't believe the sight before her. Sonic stood tall with amethyst shoes, sapphire-like metal gloves, a steel and spiked back chest plate gleaming with an emerald glow, a fiery red spiked helmet, and held what he thought he'd never hold again: a golden triton lance!
Gamma Catalyst also couldn't believe the sight. For once he was shocked!
"Impossible...How can this be?"
"It's a gift from an old friend, Gamma!" Sonic began speaking in a proud voice. "He's once more given me the strength I once had to defeat your kind! The kind meant to be imprisoned within the Cataclysmic Emerald forever!"
Then he grinned with great satisfaction. "I am once again Tritaneon, the Five Star Centurion!"
"Man that felt good to say!" he admitted.
Gamma was still shocked, but apparently still not worried.
"HA! No matter. It just looks like finishing you both off will become a lot more entertaining!"
Sonic gave him a stern glare.
"I'll give ya entertaining, bot-head!"
With that, a ball of electricity formed from the spiked edge of his staff.
"ORB-O-THUNDER!"
The blast shot right at Gamma's chest.
'BAM!' "OOOOOFFFFF!"
His giant metal body was pushed right to the other side of the room, as he hit the wall hard!
"Eeeerrrrggggh…..Not bad, armor boy. Let's see if your girlfriend here remembers THIS little trick!"
He held his large palms outward as they glowed red.
"PYRO BOMBARDMENT!"
Amy stared as a barrage of multiple fireballs burst from Gamma's hands toward Sonic. Indeed she remembered that 'little trick' of his from their last bout.
But of course, Sonic's speed was more than enough to dodge each ball, letting them scatter and explode on contact all over the wall and doorway behind him. 'BLAST!' 'BOOM!' 'BAM!'
"And let's not forget, BUSTER BEAM!"
Amy remembered that attack as well. Gamma's chest opened revealing a small cannon barrel, firing a yellow-green laser to the both of them!
Sonic hit it aside with his lance, while Amy was able to jump right out of the way just milliseconds before it struck. Landing next to her partner, she stood ready with her Piko Piko.
"Too bad you're right about that! I know all your tricks and moves, blackie! Now we'll see just who's the weak one around here!
Tails stood by Necronos' body, still wondering about the red light that emerged from him.
"I don't whether that was a good thing or a bad thing…"
Krystal looked confused as well. "Let's hope that wasn't his soul that left…"
Then, all eyes widened, as they watched the hole through Necronos' chest start closing up! The darkened skin underneath his black cloak appeared to be regenerating and healing itself!
"Whoa!" Tails said stepping back. "This guy is always full of surprises!"
Scyzor watched amazed as everyone else around the scene. "Is he some sort of magician?"
As soon as his chest was restored lick new, a pair of light blue eyes opened from inside his black hood, as Necronos regained consciousness!
"That's Purity Magician, to you my friend!"
"Necro!" Tails exclaimed, "You're alive! How'd you do that?"
"Weren't you just listening, Tails?" he answered staring back at him. "I'm a master of Purity magic, one of the most powerful of all the mystic arts. And Gamma Catalyst actually thought a mere laser shot would finish me off! HA!"
Tails smirked and sweatdropped. "Well, it would for most of us…"
Necronos then tossed something into Tails' hands. "Catch!"
Tails caught it: Rotor's Chaos Control generator!
"Hey, this is-"
"No time! Get it up to Sonic, and help him activate it to send Gamma Catalyst and his dimensional infecting tower to the Zero Zone!"
"Oh right!"
With that, Tails held the device tight in his arm, and took off from the ground straight up the tower.
The combat in Gamma's chamber raged on. Amy finally gathered the strength to increase her movement, giving her the speed to knock blow after blow upon Gamma's metal body! Not many of them strong enough to damage of course, but good enough to provide a good diversion as Sonic used his old ancient warrior powers as Tritaneon to deliver the blows that worked!
"SPEAR ASSAULT!"
Arrows fired from his lance, pelting Gamma's blocking hand.
"Eeeerrrrrrrggggghh………This is NOT how my conquest is supposed to go!"
Amy smirked as she proceeded to distract him.
"What can we say? Necro just turned things into our favor! We deserve it after what YOU did to him!"
Sonic made a quick dash at Gamma's feet.
"I've never used this old pun……Have a nice trip!"
"ENOUGH!!!!!"
Gamma's hands came together in a loud clap, sending a mini shock wave to Sonic and Amy!
"Whooooaaaaaaaaa!" They slammed against the wall hard, and landed dazed and shook up.
"You think I'd let you get away with humiliating me again?! OH NO!"
The force of their hit prevented Sonic and Amy from moving.
"I'm one who has already suffered one defeat too many!"
"And for the record, I'm getting REALLY tired of hearing you wining about that!" Amy blurted out.
"In that case, don't worry, my dear," Gamma grinned. "You won't be around much longer to hear me remind you…"
Sonic looked up from behind Gamma's shoulder. Someone was sneaking in the large hole in the chamber's wall again.
'Tails?'
It was! Tails spotted Sonic as well, placing his finger on his lips in a 'shhhh' expression. Sonic spotted Rotor's generator in his hands and nodded. He got an idea.
"You feel that confident in yourself? After all your constant complaining about what Amy did to ya last time? Sounds to me like your more like a deranged bully off the playground, ya metal moron!"
"WHAAAT??!!"
Amy turned to him. "Sonic? What are you doing?!" she whispered.
"Look behind him," he whispered back.
Amy looked forward and found Tails setting the generator down in the chamber's center. She got the idea.
"He's right ya know. It's been quite a long time since any of us delt with a big bad guy who was so embarrassed of getting beaten by a GIRL!" she taunted.
Gamma's red piercing eyes glowed bright with anger. His fists clenched and shook with rage. And just plain, he was ticked!
"GRRRRRR! I AM NOT AFRAID OF A WEAK LOWER BEING LIKE YOUR KIND!"
Tails set the generator and placed his hand on a large rectangular button…
"Well, you probably will now!"
"HUH?!"
Gamma quickly turned back. And matched his eyes with Tails as he saw the device.
"WHAT? That's----It's impossible!!!"
Tails pressed the button, and all eyes watched as what they had waited so long for finally began! The generator hummed, a light in the center glowed bright, and a vacuum-like suction started as a small portal formed in the center of the chamber!
Tails instantly leaped into the air and flew out the same hole in the wall.
"Sonic! Get you and Amy outta here fast!"
Suddenly a burst of electric energy burst form the portal, and flowed across the dark tower in and out! Knuckles had just flown in on the scene, just to get blown back by its great force.
"Whooooooaaaaaaaa!"
Down below, the entire populace of Metal City watched as Gamma's tower was surrounded with the strange energy. Scyzor and Krystal looked most astonished.
"What is that? What's happening?" Krystal wondered in shock.
"It looks like Sonic's keeping his promise to us!" Scyzor answered.
From all over Mobius Z, Rotor's Chaos Control generator was working just as planned from the beginning. From all over the planet's surface, the synthetic chaos energy flowed from the reactors placed in the seven zones of previous defeats and victories: Mystic Cave, Star Light, Lave Reef, Marble Garden, Carnival Night, Hang Castle, and of course the reincarnation of Grand Metropolis: The Metal Metropolis Zone!
The dark tower began reacting to the gathered energy with the slowly growing portal; it's solid form fading in and out of sight like a ghostly apparition. And high up, the portal's suction began pulling at Gamma's robotic body, drawing him inside!
"YAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!"
Sonic and Amy held back against the wall from the portal's power.
"That's it! You're goin' DOWN!"
"AAAAAGGGGGHHHH!"
Sonic suddenly felt the wind growing stronger!
"Amy! Grab hold of my armor and let's get outta here!"
"You got it, Sonic!"
Gamma's red eyes flashed open as he fought against the portal's great force of pulling him in. His stern gaze locked onto Amy as she grabbed hold of Sonic getting ready to escape.
'No………Not again, girl………you will not best me twice………..you will not just walk away from me this time……….OR EVER AGAIN!'
Gamma suddenly shot out his hand like a retracting claw! Just as Sonic began to speed out of the fading chamber, Amy gasped as she felt his cold metal grip tighten around her body!
"AAAAHHHH!"
"AMY!" Sonic cried out.
He reached out and grabbed hold of her hands and he held tightly to the doorway. The portal's forceful suction grew more powerful by the second, as he struggled as best he could to hold on to her!
"Amy! Just hold onto me, I'm NOT letting go of you!"
Amy did hold as tight as she could, but Gamma's grip on her was practically ripping her in two!
"I can't! Sonic, I can't hold on much longer!"
"IF I MUST BE DEFEATED AGAIN………IF I AM FORCED TO GO……….I WILL NOT GO ALONE!!!!!" Gamma's voice boomed with rage.
"Don't listen to him Amy! Just hold on to me!"
"I'm trying!"
Suddenly Sonic felt his hold on the doorway slipping. His fingers were coming loose from it.
"NO! Not now! Eeeeerrrrggghhh!"
'GRAB'
Then he felt another grip seize his wrist! Looking out the doorway, he couldn't believe his eyes!
"NECRO!"
Amy blinked and saw him too. "You're alive!"
Necronos grabbed a firm hold on Sonic's wrist as he tugged hard!
"Hang on you two! Don't give in!"
Then it happened; time seemed to slow down greatly for the next 60 seconds…
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Gamma's robotic body couldn't fight against the force any longer. He screamed in agony as his form began breaking apart to thousand of pieces and flowing into the Zero Zone!
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"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa……………"
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Hearing his voice fade away, Amy opened her eyes hoping it was over………she was wrong.
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She gasped once again as she found Gamma's hand still clutching her body tightly!
"AAAGGH! Sonic!"
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"AMY! I…….can't………..get a………grip!"
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Sonic and Amy's fingers against one another suddenly loosened, slipped, and separated!
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Sonic stared in widened, unimaginable shock as he watched Amy being quickly pulled away from him, and vanishing into the portal.
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"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
"SOOOOOOOONNNNNIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiccccccccccccc……………"
Thus the final phase activated: the tower vanished from sight and existence completely, the portal closed as the generator deactivated, and Amy's voice fell silent…….
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"NOOOO! AMYYY!"
Sonic suddenly felt another grip to his body as he tried to run to the now dead generator. He turned around to see Necronos and Knuckles holding him back.
"Knuckles! Stop it! Let me go! I gotta----!"
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"Sonic", Knuckles pleaded holding onto him. "Don't! It's too late………..the Zero Zone closed……….she's………"
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"No……….it can't be! I gotta get her back! AMMMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY…………"
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Oh my! What can possibly happen now? Assuming there IS one, stay tuned for next time (we hope...) R&R please!