Well it has been quite a while since I have gotten on the writing system. Lots of things have been happening lately with school and stuff that have been keeping me from really doing anything that is like writing. Also I am still fighting with my parents to get them to allow me to be allowed to write fanfiction on the week days. I mean, I understand having no electronics or internet, but why no writing? Doesn't that use my brain that they keep saying is rotting?
Anyways, I am trying to get to use this more often. I also have changed from using my Mac and neo office back to my Windows and Microsoft Word. I just seem to write faster at a desk than at my bed and Word is much superior to Word.
I am going to ask one last time for reviews and after that I am probably going to stop. If you wish to spend the couple seconds to write a review to help me out, then you would probably be doing it anyways even without these notes. And I am sure some people just ignore my notes all together. Well let's begin.
Chapter 5
Central Gate Attack
The entire group landed at Eggman's new base.
Tails got out of the ship first and then started to dictate the information he had gotten about the base from the president and the commander and his own research. "Eggman's base is strategically situated in an area that experienced many time/space rifts and its surroundings are highly unstable. The base itself is situated in an area at the center of these rifts and is only stable because all of the conflicting rifts canceled each other out in that area. An intruder, like us, could be knocked into one of these rifts and be warped to a whole new area. So in a way the base has its own natural barrier.
It also has its own mechanical barriers of super steel walls that are nuke impervious and radiation impervious. The tops of the walls had many cannons and other weapons of mass destruction. The main gate and other access points are monitored by extremely powerful robots and different creations that Eggman has created. If seen from above the front of the base looks like Eggman while the back half is shaped like a chaos emerald.."
"We noticed." Vector said while Charmy made retching noises.
"The base does not seem to have any major weaknesses." Tails continued over the sound of a bee being throttled. "It just has the weakness that most things have, if you smash into it with enough manpower and strength, it will be crippled immensely."
"So basically it is like any other base of Eggman's. Sweet! That makes things nice and easy." Sonic said excited.
"Well there is one difference from his other bases." Shadow spoke up. "It seems the doctor does learn from his mistakes. It's stationary. You can't destroy it by just destroying the wings or the control panel or something. If we want to defeat him we have to just smash through everything in our way."
"Well we can make thing a little easier for ourselves. I mean we can deactivate some defense systems and stuff like that. We aren't just going to act like savages. We can have some form of strategy." Rouge said.
Emerl was quiet for a moment and then turned around. "My sensors are picking up other robots in the vicinity. I do not recognize the signals from either of them. But one of them is similar to Chaos Gamma and the other seems to have a signal that is almost like a living being's."
"I'll go look and see." Cream said as she started flapping her ears. She rose very high until she could see what Emerl was talking about. "I see them. It's Omega and Metal Sonic. They look really badly injured!"
"Omega was defeated?" Rouge asked stunned while Sonic had a stunned look on his face because of Metal Sonic's defeat.
The entire group made it to the area of the path where Metal Sonic and Omega were. Both were still functioning but it was clear that they were pretty badly injured. "What happened to the two of you?" Tails asked. He had never really formally met Omega or seen his strength, but considering that he often fought with Shadow, he could only assume that it was huge. He had also on multiple occasions seen Metal Sonic's prowess at fighting.
Metal Sonic slowly turned to Sonic. "We were trying to attack the doctor. Both of us have a grudge against him. We assumed that if we attacked now, while he was preparing for a big attack, that we would be able to break through the defenses since he was preoccupied."
"We also assumed that you all would be pleased if you had more help." Omega said.
A/N I still can't Omega's manner of speech right so he will speak normally in my stories.
"We were horribly wrong. Eggman went and brought out of storage one of his most powerful robots ever. It is called the Egg Cataclysm. It is a robot where Eggman has 100 control of all of its functions. It is humanlike and thus can be piloted as if it is an extension of your own body. It is extremely powerful with many energy blasts, beams, and lots of missles. He has never before used it. He never had the correct amount of power to keep it running for more than a couple seconds." Metal Sonic continued.
"We tried to outlast it when we attacked it, but its power never decreased." Omega said.
"He must be using all of those chaos emeralds. They are a perfect power source for a monstrosity like that." Tails exclaimed.
"Well it is not time to be thinking of things like that. We can focus on that later. Right now we have to actually get inside the base before we are going to fight that robot." Amy said. "We need to find a way to break down the main gate without, you know, getting blown up.
"I think I can help with that!" shouted a voice from above the group. A large robot started to descend from the sky. At first everyone tensed up thinking that it was Eggman. But when they looked closer they saw the GUN Commander waving at them. Slowly the large robot landed. It was extremely large, about thirty feet tall. It was shaped like a giant suit of armor complete with a lance and helmet. The only thing not medieval about it was the huge cannon on the left arm.
"I think that me and this robot can go and distract the guns and cannons on the walls. I don't want to destroy any of them because I don't want to waste strength or ammunition yet. However I can just avoid their attacks while you break down the front gate and get in there."
"Sounds like a plan." Espio said appearing from behind the commander and making him jump in surprise a little. "However we do not need to waste the entire group's strength either. I think we should break into different groups. One can break down the front gate. One can bring down the wall defenses. A third can try to turn off the security system. The fourth group can try to see if they can get any weapons or emeralds they can find in the armory areas. The last group can try to bust through any remaining robots and confront Eggman."
"That is a great plan Espio. We should probably have three people in each group. That way if one person gets knocked out, the second person can help carry the first person while-
"The final person protects them ALLLL!!" Charmy squealed flying around insanely.
"Shut up Charmy!" Vector yelled trying to swat his teammate. "I wanted to say that! Anyways, the Chaotix can work together to bring down the defenses." He held up his hand when he saw Rouge wanted to say something. "I know that you are an amazing treasure hunter and that you do things like this often Rouge, but don't underestimate the Chaotix. We also are really good at things like this."
"And you can help out the group that will be taking down the wall defenses giving your ability to fly and all." Knuckles said startling her. "Don't worry about those three. They may act like fools but they are really good at what they do."
"Well why don't I switch with Charmy and he can help bring down the wall defenses while I help with the internal computer defenses?" Rouge asked.
"Unfortunately, Charmy does not have the strength to bring down the solid steel wall defenses." Tikal said.
"The only way to destroy them would be if he just annoyed them into self-destructing." Vector muttered.
"Also Charmy is very small so he can move through tight corridors and vents better than any of us." Tails said.
"Okay, fine. I am overruled. I give up. But you can glide Knuckles, are you going to help out the aerial attack on the wall?" Rouge asked.
"I was more thinking of joining in the attack on the main gate. My strength is needed there." Knuckles said.
"Tails, Miss Rouge, and I can be the ones who attack the wall defenses." Cream said.
"What! But, Cream, it is going to be really dangerous." Tails said frantically. "We could all be hurt badly or worse."
"You mean you don't want me to work with you and help you?" Cream said putting on a very sad face.
"N-No. That's not what I mean. I want you to help but I don't want you to get hurt." Tails said while starting to get tongue-tied.
"Aw. Someone has got a crush. Don't you little buddy?" Sonic said sneakily in Tails ear. "You wish to have her near you but keep her safe as well? It's so fun to see the kids grow up." Sonic finished acting like he was wiping a very large tear from his eye while Tails turned crimson.
"If I don't help out then Eggman might be able to attack and hurt lots of people. I don't want that to happen. I wish to help out in any way that I can. I can fight. Just trust Cheese and me." Cream finished as Cheese started nodding.
"All right fine," Tails said as he gave in. "Sonic and Shadow should probably be the ones to attack Eggman since they are fastest and strongest of our group. Who will be their third member?"
"I will be it!" Amy yelled happily. "I'm pretty fast and I am quite strong, right guys?" She said turning to the Chaotix. They began nodding extremely quickly as she glared at them.
"Well then Big and Tikal can help Knuckles break down the main gate since they are all strong. Commander, you can help in different areas if we need assistance." Shadow said.
"Froggy and I agree with this plan." Big said as he lumbered over to where the two echidnas were standing.
"That means that I will be the one to attack the armories on my own." Emerl said when he realized he had not been assigned anywhere. "I have copied a lot of peoples' abilities so I should be okay."
"Don't get cocky kid." Metal Sonic said as he started to change into his Neo Metal Sonic form. "I once copied the powers of almost everyone here as well as Chaos'. Not only that but I absorbed a large portion of Eggman's warship. And yet I still lost. Copying will not always help you win. I can help out as well so your arrogance doesn't get you blown up. I have learned that lesson multiple times."
"I can also help out. I have recovered almost all internal damages and am at 90 capacity. I can get to 100 by the time I am needed to help out. I also wish to find out what type of inferior robots Eggman is currently trying to make to replace me." Omega said as he got up.
"I also want to make sure no more Metal Sonics are being created and that I remain the only still-functioning Metal Sonic." Metal Sonic said as he also got up from the ground.
"Exactly, we are searching for inferior robots." Omega commented.
"What was that you discarded piece of junk." Metal Sonic snarled as he turned and faced Omega.
"Do you wish for me to prove my superiority?" Omega asked as he turned his hands into cannons.
"Whoa guys. Calm down. Vent the frustration at Eggman, not at each other." Emerl said stepping in between the two furious robots. "You can fight each other after we beat him.
"Priority change. Number one priority is the destruction of Eggman and all of his robots that are residing in that base. They shall all be crushed by me." Omega said as his hands went back to normal.
"Hey! Leave some for all of the rest of us. We all have a beef with Eggman." Sonic said.
"Let's stop acting like morons and let us finally go and attack already. It is time for us to pay a house call to the kind doctor." Shadow said as he started to prepare himself for the fight.
"Okay. Knuckles, Tikal, and Big you are up first. Break down that gate!"
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"Sheesh. This is a bit of a pain. I mean I know that Tikal is strong but I think Big is just too slow to be really effective." Knuckles murmured to himself. "What do you think Tikal? You have been around him the most out of all of us. Do you think he is strong?"
"Well, I am really not sure. I mean I think he is strong but I have really only watched him fish but he looks pretty strong. You should see the size of some of the fish that he manages to catch. They are huge! And out of the three of us he is the only one that has an actual weapon. It may be a fishing rod but it is still a weapon against some things." Tikal answered thoughtfully.
"I guess that is true. But I have yet to really see what he can do with it. All I have ever seen him do is fish his friend Froggy out of Chaos. Not that interesting. I should have asked Cream or Amy. They probably could have told me. Or even the Chaotix because they also got to see him fight Metal Sonic. Same goes for Rouge, Omega, and Shadow."
"We are actually the odd ones out. Basically everyone except us, Tails and Sonic have seen him fight up close. Were you not able to see him because you were concentrating on using the chaos emeralds?" She paused as Knuckles nodded. "Well we could always ask."
"You guys want to know whether I am strong or not?" Big asked puzzled. "I don't know. I think I am strong." He looked up as he heard sounds of footsteps coming nearer. Suddenly 5 robots jumped onto the walls that were near where the trio was standing. One of the robots took out a laser and pointed it at Tikal. Tikal looked up and tried to move out of the way. She barely avoided it but tripped on a piece of concrete. The robot took aim and began to charge the laser up. Right before he managed to shoot it, a huge hook smashed into its side and lifted it off the ground.
Big took his fishing rod, spun it around once, and then smashed the hooked robot into the other robots. He then pulled Tikal up to her feet. Unfortunately he pulled a little too hard and she almost went flying over him. Knuckles walked over to Big slowly. "Well I guess you are pretty strong. It's good to have you with us. I am surprised by how well you use that fishing rod."
"I am not that strong. I couldn't help fight that big metal-bird-robot-thingy that kidnapped Froggy for very long. You were the one that did that. I just hit his side colorful circle."
Knuckles turned to look at Tikal. "Maybe he is just really good at fighting the weaker robots."
"Well, Eggman is probably going to send a lot of those weak robots at us first. Maybe we can go and have him fight the weak robots. Then you can fight the strong robots. And then I can use my powers to break down the gates once the resistance is in pieces."
"Okay Big. Did you understand that?" Big just stared at him completely lost. "Basically you fight the small enemies. Okay?" This time Big understood and he took out a little box that he had been carrying with him. He opened it up to show that it was a bait box.
Knuckles looked inside. "Okay we have regular lures, bobbers, and..." He stopped and looked at Big. "Why do you have a spike ball in here?" He asked confused. "What is it for?"
Before Big could answer two doors opened up to the sides of the gate. Huge amounts of Egg Pawns and other robot series came out of it and surrounded the trio.
"Duck," Big said. He then attacked the spike ball to the end of his fishing rod and started to spin around. Knuckles and Tikal just got onto the ground right before Big smashed the spike ball into the heads of the robots in front of him. He then started to dance. Unfortunately for the robots, this dance was a war dance that a very large cat was performing.
This was also a war dance that was being performed using a makeshift spiked ball and chain.
Big began to spin left and right crushing all of the nearby foes. Insanity ripped through the robots as Big began smashing large groups of the robots at once. All of the sword and spear using robots were almost instantly demolished. The robots with guns tried to fight back. Unfortunately, there were so many robots that they were all packed too close together to get a good shot.
After a large amount of robotic carnage, the ranged robots were able to move into areas where they could shoot Big. When the robots began to shoot at him he just jumped into the air. He hovered for a moment and then body slammed a large amount of robots. He kept bouncing over and over again until almost all of the robots were destroyed.
As Big was finishing up a large armored robot wielding his own ball and chain landed in front of Big. Big ran forward and tried to hit the robot with his fishing rod but bounced off the armor. The robot pulled his fist back and then used an uppercut on Big. Big flew flying into the air high above the fortress.
"BIG!!" Knuckles and Tikal yelled as he disappeared from their sights. Knuckles then began to get ready to fight the robot. He stopped as he heard a peculiar sound. It was almost like a roar. It was an extremely quiet roar. But the roar continued to get louder. Knuckles looked up and gaped. He tried to say something but the words would not come to him.
Above their heads getting larger by the second was a roaring purple meteor. The large robot looked up and saw it and froze. He then looked to the right and left trying to find where to go. He realized that he was to big of a target to run and just put his hands over his eyes.
Using his own strength, the robots strength, and the force of gravity, Big smashed straight through the head of the robot. The robot exploded and Big was blown backwards to where Tikal and Knuckles were standing. He then twitched a little and stopped moving.
Tikal ran over to where Big was lying. She was about to say something and then stopped as she heard snoring noises from the big purple mound in front of her. She turned him over and saw that he was sound asleep, exhausted from his efforts. Knuckles walked over to him.
"You did good big guy. Now it is my turn." He started to walk away and then stopped. He turned to Tikal. "I just made a pun just now didn't I? That is so cool." Knuckles said excited.
Tikal just rolled her eyes and sat down as she studied the gate. It looked sturdy, was made of extremely strong metal, and had, instead of the expected picture of Eggman, lots of drawings and carvings and engravings of the chaos emeralds.
I never realized he was so interested in the emeralds. Tikal mused to herself. I know that he always wanted them because of the energy potentials and powers. But this seems to be a little more than that. Having the base look like an emerald, having the gate covered in pictures of emeralds, and having created so many of his own. This seems to be a fascination more than anything else. Something is wrong here but I am not sure what. But I intend to find out by the end of this entire battle filled episode. The truth will not hide from me.
Tikal's thoughts were then interrupted as the small doors on the sides of the gate opened up again. This time four robots came out of the left side while four came out of the right. One was red, one was blue, one was green, one was yellow, one was gray, one was purple, one was light blue, and the final was black. Each one was shaped like a knight.
Even these are related to the chaos emeralds. They are the same color. But why a black one? Tikal pondered.
Knuckles walked forward and tried to attack the red one. The red one blocked his punch and began an extremely fast counter attack. He socked Knuckles over and over and over until Knuckles collapsed onto his knees. The red one walked over to him and stepped on his back. The red one began laughing manically as he pushed harder on Knuckles. Knuckles then took that moment to grab the Red Robots leg, pull him to the ground, and stick his hand through the robot's head.
"Pathetic reject. Next time laugh when I am actually a corpse." Knuckles snarled as he wiped blood off his face. He then looked at the seven remaining robots. "So who are you guys? You can't really be made for teamwork because you did not even flinch when I destroyed that guy. Is this going to be seven one on one battles?"
The dark blue robot then stepped forward. "We are the royal brigade. We are servants of Eggman. We once were humans but now we have been changed into cyborgs. We are in constant pain every day because of it, but it makes it so that hurting others comes very easy to us," he finished smiling. "How does it feel to kill a human? His blood is on your hands."
Knuckles looked down at his hands at the same moment that the blue robot ran forward. He went extremely fast at Knuckles, covering a huge distance in only a couple of seconds. However Knuckles chose that moment to put his hand up in a fist in front of him. The blue robot could not stop his momentum and impaled himself.
Knuckles then addressed the other robots as he through the blue robot onto the ground. "I think I would know if you were cyborgs or not. Tails has already informed me of couple of traits they all share. I won't personally say them because I don't feel like it. So don't try to trick me like that. It won't work."
The light blue one then walked up. "You are obviously not as gullible as we were led to believe. I am a bit angry because you said that we have no teamwork. On the contrary we give all for the team." As he said that the two destroyed robots began to beep and exploded. The light blue robot began laughing at the huge smoke filled crater left behind. "That was enough explosives to blow up about ten elephants. Now that girl is all tha-," he choked as a fist when through his chest. Knuckles then walked out of the crater bleeding slightly.
"Obviously you needed to make it stronger. Not enough oomph for my liking. Try again later."
The green robot then warped next to Knuckles, then behind him, and then in front of him. He continued to warp around trying to confuse Knuckles. Knuckles straightened up, raised his fist, and punched the ground. The ground buckled and flew upward taking the unfortunate green robot with it. The green robot warped right in front of Knuckles just in time to be smashed by a concrete chunk wielding echidna. "Another one down," Knuckles said.
The yellow robot jumped forward, dodged a punch and grabbed Knuckles. He then sent thousands of volts of electricity into Knuckles. "You are so stupid. Punch. Hit. Punch again. Is using your fists all you know?"
Knuckles grabbed the hand that was holding him and crushed it. The yellow robot has a second to register surprise before a huge fist ripped him apart. Knuckles looked down at the pieces. "It obviously is working for me pretty well.
Knuckles then picked up a few pieces of the robot and chucked them at the purple and gray robots. The projectiles smashed into them with more force than a bullet. They never even had a chance to banter or fight. It was instant destruction.
Only the black one remained. He began applauding Knuckles. "You are extremely strong. No wonder the doctor uses you to fight against Sonic sometimes. I however do not attack like my brothers do." He took out a machine gun, flamethrower, and rocket launcher. "I prefer instant destruction via firearms."
The weapons blazed and Knuckles was hit tons of times. He finally collapsed under the storm of attacks. The black one began to laugh but did not get any closer to Knuckles. He only uses punches so if he did survive then the more distance the better. Slowly Knuckles stood up and proved that theory wrong by punching the air so hard that the air fist crashed through the black robot.
"Argh! How do you keep surviving?! You should be dead! Are you immortal?" The black robot gasped. Knuckles then pulled out a chaos emerald out of his fur. "How do you have that?" the robot asked. "Master should have them all."
"It is a fake. It is
less powerful than a normal one, but still effective. Since I have
learned how to use the emeralds well because of my duties, I know how
to convert the emeralds power into a healing ability. But you guys
were tough. Tikal, you take it from here." Knuckles finished as he
and the black robot collapsed. One was sleeping while the other would
never be turned on again.
Tikal then started to walk towards the
gate. She stopped as the small gates opened up once again.
This time some new robots came out. They were robotic copies of Sonic, Shadow, Tails, Knuckles, Cream, Amy, Vector, Charmy, Espio, and Big. Omochao was also nearby with a small little pistol in his hand.
"So Eggman has gone back on his old designs of trying to copy real people? Well that is really lame. But then again this is Eggman we are talking about." Tikal scoffed. "I notice a conspicuous absence of three previous Eggman robots. Did he decide not to deal with them again?"
"All traitors to the master will be crushed. Master has no need of weaklings or traitors. He shall reign supreme with our help. You shall not enter here. We will defeat you all." The Shadow copy intoned.
"Do you have anything special about you or are you just copies. I mean even Metal Sonic got special powers and upgrades beyond Sonic himself. They were not always effective and they helped Metal Sonic rebel, but still, do you have anything like that?"
"We all have stronger abilities then the originals. We also have extremely powerful weaponry. To top it off we have been given the ability to fight even if we are horribly damaged. Our final characteristic is that we are 100 loyal to Eggman and to each other. So we will not betray each other or act in our own interests." The Tails robot said.
"You are like the real Tails huh? He also blabs way too much information out when asked something." Tikal smiled as the Amy robot hit the Tails robot over the head. "Well I guess that they have to keep some parts of the original personality to work properly."
The Sonic robot looked at her confused. "How do you know so much about these people and events? I have never even heard of you before. Who are you?"
"What do you mean who am I? Didn't Eggman make a robot of me as well?" Tikal said irritated. She scanned the robots. "WAIT! HE DIDN'T!? BUT WHY? EVEN OMOCHAO IS HERE. HOW CAN HE BE HERE AND I NOT BE HERE?" Tikal shrieked.
"Master only made copies of the strong organisms on this planet. Obviously you are too weak for his notice," the Vector robot said.
Knuckles and Big had woken up when Tikal started yelling and looked at each other sleepily. However when the robot said those words they both looked at each other in fear. Then they looked at Tikal. They watched as blood filled her eyes and she started to clench her fists. The normally peaceful Echidna Princess had been insulted and her Echidna blood was not going to allow that. Big and Knuckles then crawled about 20 feet behind Tikal. They then muttered a quick prayer for the robots that had been so very foolish.
Tikal raised her hands into the air and started to mutter words from the ancient forgotten Echidna language. Slowly the concrete around her rose up and floated around her.
"We are made extremely sturdy. Do you really think those pieces of stone can hurt us little girl? Fool." The Espio robot said smirking.
Unbeknownst to those robots, Tikal was planning to hit them with pieces of stone. Just really big pieces of stone. Most were about the size of humongous boulders. They started to float into the air.
Tikal finished her chanting and thrust her hands at the robots. The rocks went hurtling at extremely fast speeds straight towards the robots. Once they were in sight the robots realized that they were moving to fast to avoid. There was nothing they could do. They were reduced to nothing immediately after impact.
Tikal was not finished yet. She raised her right hand and broke a nearby mountain's tip off. She summoned it toward her and then sent it crashing into the gate. The gate was not made to withstand impacts like that and gave in, collapsing into pieces. However the mountain tip also shattered into pieces covering them all with rock.
Tikal brushed herself off and looked at Big and Knuckles. They must have been still really tired from their battles because they fell asleep again. Even with all of this noise. She then looked closer and gasped.
She started to turn around when the tranquilizer dart hit her. She never even got a chance to see who it was before the blackness overtook her.
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I actually finished?! No way. It is unbelievable. I know I say this every time but I hope this next chapter will not take to long to write.
First though I am going to write a new chapter for ancients versus robots because there are people that want to read more. Well that is what the reviews and favorites say. So I will do what the public says they want and rewrite that one.
Whenever I do get the next one up it will not be nearly as long as this one was. Probably about one half to three quarters of the length. This one was just really long do to having kinda two parts. The introduction to the base and the gate attack.
Please review. It will speed me up if I know people actually do care about this.
If you are curious why Tikal is so violent, I will eventually explain it. I never really explained it originally so I will hopefully get a chance soon.
If I don't by Chapter 10 then I will just write it in one of the afternotes.
10 pages single spaced.