SONIC HEROES
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Chapter Nineteen: Team Dark Ending
"Mwahaha. You fools must have a death wish. Witness this invincible battleship fleet, built by the hands of a genius. It's power, unmatched, throughout the universe." Eggman said over his battleships loudspeakers. Unknown to him, Team Dark was listening from one of the red battleships and disagreed with the mad doctor. "All right, Eggman, it's time we settle things! Today...I find out who I truly am!" Chaos exclaimed and ran off ahead of the rest of his team. "Chaos! Ugh...why is he like this?" Rouge questioned. "Primary mission is search and destroy Eggman! Do not forget!" Omega stated again. "I know, I know, but the least we can do is help Chaos sort things out. He must be very confused now more then ever." Rouge said. Omega somehow understood what Rouge was saying and feeling, but before he could say anything, a large explosion suddenly erupted not far from them and Chaos fell from the sky in front. "Chaos, what happened!?" Rouge asked while helping Chaos back to his feet. "That." Chaos said while pointing forward. Hundreds of mechs were making their way towards Team Dark and Omega was already prepared to fight. "Initiating attack mode!" Omega stated. "All right, let's show Eggman what the three of us can really do." Chaos said.
As expected, Chaos was the first to charge recklessly into battle. The fighter mechs wasted no time in countering and fired the guns aimlessly at Chaos. The second he caught sight of the bullets, Chaos reverted to his puddle form to allow the bullets to pass through him. Chaos reformed to his solid form and raised a claw to bring it down to cut through one of the mechs. The other mechs quickly jumped back to get a better aim on Chaos, but the water beast quickly counted by creating several long spikes from his body to slice through the mechs chest armor and obliterate their cores. "That takes care of those scrap piles." Chaos said. All of a sudden, Chaos dropped down to the floor just in time to avoid the jet of water that was aimed at the back of his head. Chaos quickly jumped back up and turned around to face the same blue mech from Rail Canyon. "(Sigh)...You again. Don't you know when to stay down?" Chaos groaned. The blue mech answered by holding out its hands and fired a jet of water. Chaos made no effort to avoid it, but instead, held out his claw to stop the water in midair. "I believe this is yours." Chaos said. And with a flick of his claw, the jet of water turned the other direction and drilled itself into the blue mach's core.
Rouge soared through the air, swerving around to avoid the enemy fire aimed at her. "Come...on. Give...a girl...a break." Rouge stressed out while barely dodging the bullets. Finally, one mech was able to shoot her right wing and cause her to lose control. Rouge fell hard on the cold steel floor, instantly surrounded by the fighter mechs. As the mech prepared to fire, but for some reason, Rouge only smirked at their attempts. "Bye-bye." Rouge said. The mechs heard a beeping sound come from their feet and looked down to catch the sight of Rouge's bombs. "Uh oh" the mechs said before the bombs exploded in their faces. "Let this be a lesson to ya. Never mess with a gorgeous girl like me." Rouge inflated her ego even further. Just then, Rouge's ultra sensitive ears heard a whooshing sound from behind and jumped to the side in time to avoid the kick white mech she met at Rail Canyon as its foot crashed through the steel wall. "That has too hurt." Rouge cringed. The mech pulled its leg out of the wall and turned to face Rouge. The mech swung its leg at Rouge, but the white bat jumped into the air and spun at a rapid pace to use her signature attack. "SCREW KICK!" Rouge's attack nailed a direct hit and knocked the mechs head clean off.
Unlike his other comrades, Omega had not trouble dealing with the enemy mechs. Omega simply walked up to the mech because their bullets keep bouncing off his strong, thick armor. "Enemy threat level: none! Engaging primary attack sequence!" Omega stated. Omega retracted his metal claws to replace them with his signature machine guns. "Eradicate all enemy threats!" Omega exclaimed. Omega let all hell loose as he began firing rapidly and randomly. The fighter mechs stood no chance and were easily crushed. "Secondary mission: complete!" Omega stated. Just then, Omega felt himself being lifted into the air from behind and was thrown off the edge of the battleship. Luckily, Omega used his jets to lift himself back onto the ship. It turned out that the one that had thrown him was the giant red mech from Rail Canyon. "Enemy confirmed! Scanning for weakness!" Omega stated. Omega just stood there, leaving a wide opening for the enemy mech. The mech pulled out a large machine gun and fired it on Omega, but the copies attack proved to be insufficient against Omega. "Primary weakness found!" Omega stated as he lifted his machine guns. Omega fired at the mechs ankles, which collapsed under the pressure, ultimately defeating it.
Chaos was finishing off the last of the enemy mechs when Rouge dropped down next to him and Omega casually stood next to him. "Well, that probably could have gone better." Rouge said. "Yeah, but where's the fun in playing safe?" Chaos joked. Rouge was happy to hear that Chaos was starting to return to his old personality. A little more and he would be back to the way he was the first time she met him. "Eggman signature located!" Omega suddenly said. "Where?" Chaos questioned. All of a sudden, the floor beneath them blew open to create a large hole. Luckily, the trio moved away before they fell in. From within the hole came a large black, mechanical claw made its way out, followed by the rest of its body. This new creature took the shape of a large black wolf machine with Eggman sitting at the head of it. "Eggman, the time has finally come that I defeat you!" Chaos exclaimed. "You won't get away this time!" Rouge shouted. "Primary target: Eggman! Prepare to eradicate!" Omega stated. "Enough of this! Chaos, Rouge, Omega, your time is up!" Eggman proclaimed as he activated his newest invention, the Egg-Cerberus, and the battle begins.
The Egg-Cerberus pounced on the team; but Chaos and Rouge were able to dodge it easily. But because of his heavy body, Omega was to slow to move and was now caught between the Egg-Cerberus' metal-spiked teeth. "Omega!" Rouge cried out before jumping in to help her friend. Rouge flew up into the air and performed her signature technique, "SCREW KICK", aimed to smash the Egg-Cerberus' red eye. The Egg-Cerberus gave off a mechanized howl before throwing Omega in Rouge's direction. Rouge was hit by Omega and forced down into the floor by the weight of the machine. "Ok, that hurt." Rouge commented. Chaos had completely ignored his teammate's situation and had snuck up behind Eggman by running along the Egg-Cerberus back. But because of the because of the broken eye it received from Rouge, the Egg-Cerberus was jumping around wildly, making it harder for Chaos to walk around. "Can't make this any easier, can he?" Chaos asked sarcastically. Unfortunately, Chaos complaining alerted Eggman of his presence as the mad doctor turned back to him. "Uh oh." Chaos said. The Egg-Cerberus gave a mighty leap that knocked Chaos off its back and landed with Rouge and Omega.
"Ok, so apparently that's not going to work." Chaos said as he rubbed his throbbing head. "So what do we do now?" Rouge asked. "I'm all out of ideas." Chaos said. "There is one alternative solution." Omega said. "You mean you have an idea on how to defeat Eggman. "Affirmative!" Omega replied. As Omega discussed his plan with the others, Eggman decided to charge in with the Egg-Cerberus. "It ends now, you fools!" Eggman exclaimed. "I just hope this works." Chaos said as he held up the white chaos emerald. "It's not like we have any other choice." Rouge said as she used all he might to lift the heavy Omega a few feet off the ground. The chaos emerald glowed in Chaos' hand and the god of destruction transferred the energy into Omega. Omega retracted his claws, but did not replace them like he usually did. "Prepare for attack!" Omega stated. The Egg-Cerberus came closer and closer until. "3...2...1...FIRE!" Omega exclaimed. "CHAOS INFERNO!" The three shouted as one. Omega unleashed a devastating blast from his arms that completely engulfed the Egg-Cerberus within it flames.
Chaos, Rouge, and Omega gathered around what had remained of the Egg-Cerberus and all eyes were on Eggman crippled body. After only a few seconds, Eggman's body had dissolved into a puddle of silver ooze. "Eggman target, completely destroyed!" Omega stated. Meanwhile, Rouge snuck away from the rest of the group to search for Eggman's treasure. Chaos confident in what she was going to find, but did nothing to stop her. He figured it would be best for her to find out for herself. "I found it; Eggman's treasure storage." Rouge said joyously as she walked up to the metal door. But the minute she attempted to open it, the doors flew open to reveal the Babylon Rogues. "Wha...What are you doing here!" Rouge questioned. "None of your business!" Storm exclaimed. "Listen, if you looking for treasure, don't bother looking in here. The only thing in there is clones." Jet said before walking away with the rest of the Rogues. "Clones? Yeah, right." Rouge said not believing a word he said and walked into the room the Rogues came from. "Now let's find that treasure..." Rouge trailed off and gasped at what she saw. Lined along the long hall was over a hundred capsules filled with...Chaos clones.
Just then, Omega walked in with his claws replaced by his machine guns. "Prepare to destroy immediate area!" Omega stated when he noticed Rouge. "Hey, Omega...is it true that...Chaos is a..." Rouge couldn't bring herself to finish the question, fear for what the answer might be. "It is true. The Chaos we have come to know is indeed a clone." Omega answered. Rouge was afraid of this. Chaos, the person she had come to love as a brother, was nothing more then a fake. "But..." Omega continued and Rouge's ears perked up to listen to what he had to say. "Chaos is a failed experiment." Omega said. "Failed? How?" Rouge asked out of curiosity. "He posses the one thing these clones do not have." Omega said as he walked passed Rouge. "What?" Rouge asked. Omega stop and completely turned his upper body around and said only two words. "A heart!" Rouge was happy with what she heard and waved Omega good luck before exiting the room.
Rouge walked back to where they had defeated Eggman (or so they thought) and found Chaos holding the head of one of the Chaos clones. "So it's true? I'm just a copy of the original?" Chaos asked with his back still turned to Rouge. "Yeah." Rouge answered. "Ah, well. That's life, real or not." Chaos said, surprisingly cheerful, as he threw thead head up and kicked it away. "So what are you going to do now?" Rouge asked. "I think I'll go travel the world and find the real Chaos. Maybe he could help me discover my purpose in this life. What about you? What are you going to do now?" Chaos asked. "I think I'll go looking for that Master Emerald again and probably pay a visit to Knuckie." Rouge said. "Heh! Some things never change, do they?" Chaos joked as he walked away with Rouge. "Whaddya saying? What else is a famous treasure hunter supposed to do?" Rouge asked and Chaos laughed hard.
This Machine
A shadow of myself
Just who am I?
Scanned horizons
A tragic mystery
You could've left me here
Sealed inside the pod
No one would ever know
The Chaos Control, Control
My true identity
The power that is me
We all danced in fire
Trapped in this machine
Don't know how long we've waited
As the Eggman's watching
We all danced in fire
Looking through the screen
Don't know how long we've waited
As the Eggman watches
With Rouge in the fight
Electric lives
Change surroundings
A jewel in history
A treasure disappears
As she goes
Miss her as you look away
And no one knows
This power is a key
This power changes me
We all danced in fire
Trapped in this machine
Don't know how long we've waited
As the Eggman's watching
We all danced in fire
Looking through the screen
Don't know how long we've waited
As the Eggman watches
Chaos Control
Chao-Chao-Chao-Chao-Chaos Control
Chaos Control
Chao-Chao-Chao-Chao-Chaos Control
E-123
You didn't know
Now I'm gonna show you
The power that is me
You try to take me down
Stop the show
Seems you've never tasted fear
Or loss of control
The power lives in me
The power that is me
We all danced in fire
Trapped in this machine
Don't know how long we've waited
As the Eggman's watching
We all danced in fire
Looking through the screen
Don't know how long we've waited
As the Eggman watches
Next Chapter: Team Knuckles Ending
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