Sonic was running in the city so fast that people only felt wind shoot past them. When he got to the jewelry store, instead of stealing a diamond, he traded it for a pearl he had picked up with the claw on the underwater escape pod.
While he was running back to Eggman's base…he was stopped by Shadow who had his arms crossed, and a glare aimed at Sonic.
"Oh, hey Shad. What's up?" said Sonic with a grin.
"…" Shadow continued silently to stare.
"Ooookay…I kinda need to get somewhere quickly…so I'll see you around!" he said, walking around Shadow.
"What are you up to?" said Shadow.
"Nothing." Said Sonic, calmly staring back. "What's it to you?"
"You're planning something. Since when did you have a liking for diamonds?" said Shadow.
"I never did. Eggman needs them for a plan of his." Said Sonic.
Shadow raised an eyebrow. "Mind telling me why you are teaming up with your worst enemy? It's not like you to try to take over the world with him."
Sonic shook his head. "I'm not trying to do that Shadow. Metal tried to kill us both, so we are going to get him good. Want to join in?"
Shadow shook his head. "Nah, I told Knuckles I would teach him a thing or two today. Later."
"See ya Shad." Said Sonic zooming off.
Shadow glared in his direction. "Stop calling me Shad." He muttered, before chaos controlling away.
It took Sonic a while to get through Eggman's maze of madness. He had apparently forgotten to unlock the back door, so he had some difficulty getting back in.
Such as…
KLONK!!
"Oww…what the…?" he said, after running into a wall." He felt where he had run into.
"Oh…the wall was painted to look like that was a way to go." He said sighing.
(A few hours later.)
Eggman was impatiently drumming his fingers on the arm of his chair. Where was that hedgehog?
Suddenly, it hit him. He had not unlocked the back door.
"Oh, well. He'll get past the maze no problem." Said Eggman, turning back to his computer.
(A few more hours later.)
"Hmm…perhaps I made that maze a bit too difficult." Muttered Eggman.
Suddenly, the door opened.
"Ah! Sonic! So sorry about the door. I guess it just slipped my mind." Said Eggman with a grin.
Sonic glared. "Just don't forget again. There is so many false ways, and traps and madness it's insanity!" he said, handing Eggman the diamond.
"And you got the diamond too! Fantastic! Now I can begin working immediately." He said, walking off.
Sonic took a seat on the floor and took a snooze.
(The next day.)
Amy opened her eyes, and saw that she fell asleep on top of Metal.
"Good morning sleepyhead." Said Metal cheerfully.
"Good morning Metal." Said Amy while stretching.
"What is planned for today?" said Metal, who was smoothing out Amy's quills.
"Nothing really, I'll call up Cream, and perhaps we can hang out together." Said Amy, walking over to the phone.
Metal sat back with his hands behind his head. He was calculating an idea he had in his head.
Amy picked up the phone and called Cream. They talked for a bit, and then when she put the phone down, she turned to Metal, and said, "Metal, she says she's free today, but she needs to get some chores done first."
Metal looked over at her. "Sounds fine to me, want to eat sometime?"
"Oh! I forgot." She said, walking into the kitchen.
As soon as she left the room, a metal screen went over Metal's eyes, and on the screen, a program was activated.
"Activate program A. M. D. B." he commanded to the hovering screen.
(A bit later…)
Amy had finished eating her cereal by now, and walked back into the room to see a metal screen floating in front of metal. Silently, she walked over to metal, and when she saw the screen she gasped.
On the screen, there was pictures of at least twenty small spider like robots, no bigger than a paper clip. There was images of what they saw, and she could see that he was giving them commands mentally, due to the fact that he had a metal cord from his head to the screen.
"What are you doing?" asked Amy.
Metal jumped. He obviously did not notice her there. He looked over at her and said, "My cpu calculated that you would be at least 3.2 more minutes."
Amy frowned. "Are you hiding something from me? What is this?" she said, motioning to the bots.
"When I built Metal Overlord, I had spare metal in some compartments in his body in case of severe damage. I used that metal, and some left over energy to create a program called A. M. D. B." he replied.
"What's A. M. D. B.?" said Amy, looking confused.
"It stands for Anti Mechanical Defense Bots." He said. "These small robots can spy, patrol, and latch onto mechanical objects. If they latch onto a mechanical object, they shoot out a powerful electrical current that destroys the bot, but the current is strong enough to disable a robot the size of a small house. I made them specifically against Tails. If he does try to get revenge on me, then these bots will latch onto his machines and render them useless."
Amy shot Metal a look of concern. "Metal, you shouldn't be so paranoid. Tails isn't like that. He might be mad at you, but he wouldn't try to extract vengeance. He understood the situation."
Metal shut down the program, and dismissed the metal screen. "Better safe than sorry." He replied.
"Yeah. Come on! Cream should be done with her chores now, so we should go find her!" said Amy, grabbing Metal's arm. "Come on!"
Metal stood up, picked Amy up, and rocketed out the door.
They got to Cream's house pretty quickly, and they saw Cream and Cheese outside, watering plants.
"Just a few more Cheese." Said Cream tiredly.
"Chao chao chao…" said Cheese.
"Hey Cream!" said Amy running over.
"Amy! How has it been?" said Cream happily.
"It's going alright." Said Amy. "Done with the chores yet?"
"Just a few more plants to water, and I should be done." Said Cream. "By the way…how is Tails doing? I left when Metal threw Sonic into the water and shot him. Tails looked really sad."
"We decided to give Tails some space for a while. I'm kind of worried of how Tails will handle this." Said Amy, looking a bit sad.
(Metal puts a hand on their shoulders.) "I'm sure he's fine. We could go check up on him if you want."
Cream brightened. "That sounds great! Let's go cheer Tails up!"
"That's the spirit!" said Metal enthusiastically.
"Alright! Let's go!" said Amy.
"CHAO!!" screamed Cheese pulling on Cream.
"What is it Cheese?" asked Cream.
"Chao." Said Cheese, pointing at the few unwatered plants.
"Oh, right…Go ahead you guys. I'll be right behind you." Said Cream, picking up the watering can.
Metal nodded. "Got it."
"See you soon!" said Amy while running off.
(Back to Sonic and Eggman.)
Sonic was running at high speeds in circles. Obviously impatient.
"Sonic, do you really have to run at the speed of sound in a circle?" said Eggman, obviously annoyed.
Sonic skidded to a halt and said, "Doc, how long is this gonna take? For all we know, Metal could've started on making Amy a second Metal Overlord."
"It'll be done before the day ends." Said Eggman confidently. "Changing the weapons on robots doesn't take an awfully long time."
Sonic sighed. "I'm bored. I'm going to run around your base at high speeds, okay?"
"Fine. Just don't break anything." Said Eggman.
"Alright!" said Sonic, as he ran out the door.
"Crazed speeding hedgehog." Mumbled Eggman to himself.
(Back to Amy, Metal, and Cream.)
The trio had regrouped at Tails's house, and they were pondering how to go about the situation.
"We could tell him everything will be alright. But that's obviously not true." Said Amy.
"I don't know how we are supposed to handle this." Said Cream sadly. "I should've thought this out!"
"I've got it!" said Metal happily. "And Cream, this plan will help you with a relationship with Tails."
"Really?" said Cream. "I hope we're not taking advantage of the situation."
Metal shook his head. "As long as it's making him feel better it should be fine. Alright, now here's the plan…"
Tails was sitting in a chair, racking his brains on how to convince Sonic to understand, when his thoughts were interrupted by knocking on the door.
"Yes? Come on in, it's unlocked." Said Tails.
Cream opened the door, and walked up to Tails. "How are you doing Tails?"
"Hey Cream. What's up?" said Tails.
"I was just checking up on you. I'm sorry about what happened." Said Cream.
"It's okay. I'm just trying to figure out how to make that blasted hedgehog understand." He said without thinking.
"What?" said Cream. "Sonic's alive?"
"Oopes." Said Tails.
"How did he survive?" asked Cream.
"Well, I don't exactly know…but he's working with Eggman to defeat Metal. And he won't give up on trying to send him back to the scrap heap." He said. "He called me through our radio, and told me he was still alive."
"Wow…I didn't know that would happen." Said Cream.
"Yeah. And Sonic's so darn stubborn. I don't know how on earth I'm supposed to convince him!" he said with a sad look. "And if I don't convince him, they'll just keep on fighting! And either I will be sad, or Amy will! I already lost Cosmo! I don't need my best friend to get killed too!"
"Don't worry Tails. Together we can convince Sonic. One may not be enough, but two may just do it!" said Cream sounding hopeful.
"Thanks Cream." Said Tails hugging Cream.
Cream blushed, and whispered in his ear. "I'll be there to help you. All you need to do is ask."
Suddenly, Tails was tripped by a mysterious flying soccer ball! (Guess who!) And Tails fell on top of Cream.
Metal and Amy watched as Tails and Cream were very surprised and startled. Unfortunately, their giggles messed up the moment.
"Hey! You guys that wasn't funny!" said Tails, jumping off Cream.
"Whoops." Said Metal. "Gotta go!"
"You punks! Get back here!" said Tails.
"Aw come on Tails. We were just messing around." Said Amy.
"You guys messed up the moment." Said Cream sadly.
"Sorry Cream." Said Metal, still chuckling. "The look on Tails's face was hilarious!"
Tails's face turned a bright red. "That wasn't funny you walking junkyard!" he said.
"Aw get over it." Said Amy. "But, you said Sonic is alive?"
Tails looked concerned. "Yeah. You guys aren't going to go kill him, are you?"
Metal walked over to Tails and put a hand on his shoulder. "If we can get him to stop. We will. I vow to disable him, but not kill him." He said.
Tails smiled. "Thanks Metal."
"By the way…do you know where Sonic is?" asked Amy.
Tails thought for a moment. "Yeah, he's at one of Eggman's bases. Judging on the location of the battle, I'd say they are at the northwestern one on top of a hill. I can show you guys where it is. In fact, I'll help you guys stop Sonic. Between all of us, we will be able to stop him, and Eggman no problem!" said Tails excitedly.
"Alright! What are we waiting for!" said Metal. "Let's give em the fight of their life!
I finally got chapter 9 done. Whooo. The story is nearing the end…but it's not quite there yet! I hope you enjoyed it, and I'll try (and hopefully succeed this time) to update sooner. Thank you everyone who reviewed, and the next chapter will be the battle. There's a few more chapters left, so don't think it's over yet though!