Sorry. This was supposed to be finished awhile ago. At first I was just using my remaining summer to play video games instead of writing so I kind of had an excuse. However, last three weeks I have just been lazy. This was one of the least interesting chapters I have had to write and really is not that good. Doesn't help that I have been using Metal Sonic and Omega so much in my other story that I am starting to dislike them a bit. However it gets its job done so... what the hey. Once again I am sorry. Next chapter will be up much much much faster.
Chapter 8
The challenges for the robots
"I wonder how the other teams are doing?" Emerl said to himself as he, Metal Sonic, and Omega walked over piles of destroyed robots. Next to him one of the Eggpawns that had been hiding itself under a pile of destroyed Eggpawns jumped out and tried to stab him. Emerl only had a quick moment of pity before he kicked it in half.
"No idea. Checking up on the others is not my job." Metal Sonic said as he homing attacked two more robots that came at them. "I don't have the abilities or care to find out how the others are doing. They must be doing pretty well since we got in here and the security system has not electrocuted us yet."
"I can sense the energy signatures of the groups." Omega said while blowing up five more robots. "It seems that all three groups have been captured. All of them are in one of the lower areas of the fortress. However, they must have succeeded since we have heard no alarms or cannons going off."
"So they have been captured. I guess we will have to save them later. Let's just finish with our job and then help them. Who knows how much longer Eggman will keep them alive. I am surprised they actually have not been killed yet. Eggman has been acting so crazy lately and we know that he is willing to kill to achieve his goals." Emerl said quietly while kicking one of his attackers into the wall. "Omega, are you able to sense what state they are in? If they are injured or anything?"
"I can only sense whether or not they have energy. It seems their energy levels are much lower than usual. Almost as if they are sleeping." Omega yelled over the sound of his machine guns.
"Eggman might have used sleeping gas or something like that to stop them from doing any more damage to his plans." Metal Sonic guessed as he threw an energy ball at a few more of the robots.
"So we just need to get to the weapon storage right?" Emerl asked.
"Yes. And then we will be able to go help everyone else." Metal Sonic said.
"And then we will kill Eggman and destroy all of his remaining robots." Omega said happily.
"Speaking of destroying robots. Why do you think that Eggman is sending so many pathetic robots to attack us? He should know that even if he sends waves of enemies against us that it will be useless." Emerl asked.
"Because he is a senile old man who is going to be killed withing the next few hours!" Omega shouted.
"No. It has nothing to do with that." The voice came from a robot that was walking near them. He was very small and only had a small laser gun in his hand to fight with. "It is to help me defeat you. My name is D-357-ROY. I have been told that it is proper battle ettiquete to introduce yourself to those who you are about to kill."
Metal Sonic looked at him for a minute then started laughing. "Does Eggman really think that you have the strength to defeat us. Do you not notice the piles of robotic scraps all over the place?" Metal Sonic then kicked one of the Eggpawn's head at the new robot. D-357-ROY caught it with one hand.
""I can see that you do not understand what is about to happen. Shame. I wished to see looks of terror on your face. Oh well. I shall see them in a moment." He put out both of his arms and put one hand on one pile of scraps and the other on a second pile. He then started to bring the scraps towards his body. As they touched his body they melted and joined with him. By the end he was five times larger than he was at the beginning with large lasers and spikes all over his body. His arms had the largest improvement as they had become huge with ten cannons on each arm.
"So you became bigger. Big whoop. We will still crush you." Metal Sonic said sighing. "You just upgraded yourself with junk. That does not make you any stronger."
D-357-ROY looked at Metal Sonic for a minute and brought back his arm and socked Metal Sonic in the stomach. Metal Sonic went flying backwards and crashed into the wall stunned. Omega jumped forward and sent a couple of missiles at the robot. Both Omega and the missiles were batted away as if they were nothing.
Emerl tried to shoot an energy ball at the robot but it was blocked by the large arms. D-357-ROY then shot Emerl with a large amount of lasers. Emerl went flying backwards down the corridor and landed where the other two robots were.
"Okay guys." Emerl said getting up. "We need a plan this time around. Just attacking doesn't seem like it is going to do anything."
"His arms are the main problem. If we found a way to stop them then we could easily attack him." Metal Sonic said as he brushed himself off.
"The original robot was quite small. Even if he gained all of the robotic parts from the other robots his original body is where all the main parts are located. Destroy that and nothing else matters." Omega said.
"So we just got to get him to move his arms out of the way so we can attack the center body." Emerl said as he jumped forward. He started jumping around attacking random parts of D-357-ROY's body. The other robot tried to swat him away but failed each time. Emerl's speed was to much for him to handle.
Behind them Omega started to prepare his arm with most of his more powerful missiles. He searched through his internal computer and figured out exactly what combination of weapons would create the most amount of damage.
As D-357-ROY spent his time attacking Emerl, Metal Sonic ran to the side of him and morphed his hand into a large spear. When Emerl jumped near and D-357-ROY swung his arm near them. Metal Sonic jumped up and impaled the hand to the ground. With a roar D-357-ROY tried to hit him away but Emerl started to attack the other hand with a flurry of punches that kept the other hand pinned to the ground.
"Now Omega!" Emerl shouted.
On cue, Omega released his attack at the main body. With a roar of rage, D-357-ROY strained and ripped his hands upwards and punched Metal Sonic and Emerl flying. He then put his hands across his chest and blocked Omega's attack.
"Damn it!" Omega shouted before he also got a taste of a huge fist smashing into his face. He went airborne and landed on his back ten feet away from where he started. He then slowly skidded another five feet.
Metal Sonic and Emerl both got up and regrouped back where Omega was. "That should have worked. We underestimated the strength in his arms." Emerl said.
"Omega seems to be in standby mode. He is not responding." Metal Sonic said as he kicked Omega in the head repeatedly.
"I wish there was some way that we could use our copy skills to defeat him. But how will they be useful. The only thing he really does is punch us." Emerl said irritably.
"Even if he had other attacks with those lasers and cannons, we saw what happens with those." Metal Sonic said sighing. "He just blocks them. The only thing I guess we could do is make OUR arms like his. Maybe then we could just box with him until he leaves an opening that we can exploit."
Emerl turned and looked at him as if he was a crazy person. "And how, pray tell, do you expect us to do something like that? Just tell our hands to become humongous? What are you thinking?"
"What? You can't do that." Metal Sonic asked surprised. "Can't you just copy the way his arms look and change your appearance to match that?"
"Well I can make them look like that. But I can't make them huge like that. When I change the structure of my body my mass stays the same. So I can't increase the size of my entire body. I can only change the shape of it and any part that I increase in size, I have to make another part smaller. Do you mean you can just make any part of your body huge?"
Metal Sonic nodded slowly. "I can use the nanobots to change the size and shape of my body to make myself bigger to some extent. I can't become like skyscraper sizes but I can make parts of myself much bigger than normal if I need to. I can also copy techniques and weapons from different people. However, unless I am given a long time in one area with a willing ally I can't copy fighting styles or personalities. So even if I make my arms like his it is not going to do anything since I don't know how to use them properly."
"Hmm. Copying styles is really easy for me. If doesn't require much for me to do so. So I can't make my body huge and you can't fight evenly with him." Emerl was quiet for a bit again. Then slowly a huge grin appeared on his face. "I think I have an idea of what we can do to beat him."
"Why do those words create a huge amount of fear in me? I have a really bad feeling about what you are going to say next." Metal Sonic said quietly. "However I have no plans so... what are you thinking of?"
"Well. I was thinking that perhaps we could each copy each other's abilities." Metal Sonic just stared blankly for a bit. "I could go and copy the program that makes the nanobots in your body and allows you to copy others bodies using it. You can copy the part of my copy program that allows me to copy people's fighting styles."
"... You want us to copy each others copying abilities?" Metal Sonic finally asked. "Is that even possible."
"Well... we will probably have to get rid of the data quickly after this battle is over before it overloads our systems. But I bet we can get it to work if we try." Emerl said giving Metal Sonic a thumbs up.
"I guess it might work. However I have just one question." Metal Sonic turned to look at D-357-ROY. Why is it that you are not attacking us?"
D-357-ROY jumped a little at being addressed. "I was ordered to go and stop anyone that tries to pass through this hallway. Currently you two are talking and not trying to get through. So currently do not need to waste my energy on you fools. However, if you attack me, even from where you are standing, I will attack back. Same thing if I see you charging a powerful attack in my general direction. And no trying to enter this building by an alternate path. If you try that then I will have absolutely no choice but to crush you. By the way, what have you two been talking about this whole time?"
"Okay then. So he is going to allow us time to try this." Metal Sonic said ignoring D-357-ROY. Shall we try it out?"
Emerl only nodded. The two robots stared at each other and began the process of copying the copying skills of the other robot. After a few minutes of staring at each other D-357-ROY finally got bored. "Are we going to fight at all? Or you love birds just going to stare at each other?"
In response the two turned to D-357-ROY. "Copying data."
D-357-ROY jumped a little when he heard them speak again. Then as he understood what they said, his eyes narrowed in anger. "You are not going to copy my abilities you little brats!" he shouted.
In response the two expanded one arm each to the same size as D-357-ROY's. They then grabbed his arms and tried to throw him. He then broke out of the hold. As he attacked again they blocked his punches and spun around trying to attack him quickly. Right as they were about to hit, the cannons in his arms went off. The explosion missed the two robots but pushed D-357-ROY far enough back that they lost their grip.
He then jumped back onto his feet but the two robots caught up to him almost immediately.
"Well this is getting interesting!" D-357-ROY shouted as he shot some of the lasers on his arms. The two robots jumped out of the way quickly to avoid the lethal assault. With a roar D-357-ROY jumped forward and tried to punch Metal Sonic.
Metal Sonic ducked underneath the fist and slid forward. He gasped as the other fist came hurtling right for where he was sliding to. If we even get hit once we are going to lose these forms! I have to avoid it!
Luckily, he did not need to avoid it as Emerl punched D-357-ROY right in the face before he could hit Metal Sonic. D-357-ROY tumbled backwards a bit and landed on his back.
The other two robots wasted no time in grabbing D-357-ROY's arms and pinning them to the ground with their own giant hands. With their other hands they prepared an energy ball. ROY's eyes slowly widened as he realized what was going to happen.
"This time we are not going to miss!" Emerl shouted as he increased the energy in his hand.
"You will be completely obliterated an leave no trace!" Metal Sonic shouted as he prepared his own attack.
Right before they attacked, the roar of a attacked their ears right before a gigantic energy beam smashed straight between Emerl and Metal Sonic. The beam continued on straight through the center part of the robot completely destroying it and leaving only the two still pinned arms remaining.
The two robots turned to see Omega standing up with a still smoking barrel of his cannon arm out. "You. You. You. You. You. YOU COULD HAVE KILLED US!" Emerl shouted in horror.
"Darn. I missed. I thought I would be able to get three targets at once with that attack. Guess that would have been too good to be true." Omega said sadly.
"You were going to kill us!" Metal Sonic shouted furiously. "I am going to kill you when we are done with this mission. And when did you wake up anyways?"
"You guys took so long chatting about your copying skills and then the actual battle, how can you even be surprised that I could fix myself during all of that time. I will thank you for giving me that opening I needed to attack him with that. It was most enjoyable to reduce him to ashes."
"You. You kill-stealer. I can't believe it." Metal Sonic said stunned. "I think I am going to have to kill you right now."
"As if you can. You used up huge amounts of energy copying Emerl and using that giant arm and stuff. I bet you have almost nothing left."
"You are no better. You used a huge cannon just now and used tons of missiles earlier. And if you think that using your machine guns will be useful against me... then you are one idiotic robot."
"Can you two fight after we do what we need to. This task isn't fun anymore. I just want to finish it and get ready to fight other robots." Emerl said sighing.
The other two robots grumbled for a bit longer but finally continued on. After a few more minor battles they reached the main weapons storage area. It was filled with tons of Eggman's former robots. Some of them were only shells that used to hold small animals. Some of them were ones that Eggman himself used to pilot. To the left and right there were even larger rooms with some of Eggman's largest mechas. On the back wall of the main room there were several tubes holding different Metal Sonic variations. Some of them were the oldest models while others were new variations. On the back wall of the room behind the main room there was a huge locked storage vault with thirty-five fake chaos emeralds in it. A large computer was next to it.
The moment Omega went in he started shooting up all of the robots nearby. Metal Sonic instead walked forward and started to copy any data and upgrades from the other Metal Sonics that he did not have yet.
Emerl however walked to the back room with the storage vault. I guess that Eggman really did not need so many chaos emeralds. He must not have been able to control the power of all of them or did not need that much energy. Oh well. Sucks for him because we just left us a very useful gift.
Emerl walked forward and tried to open the vault by force. He was greeted by a couple thousand volts of electricity. While Emerl was pretty good at absorbing large amounts of electrical energy from using the chaos emeralds, it still hurt when it hit him that suddenly. He jumped back in irritation growling loudly.
"What was that?" Metal Sonic asked when he heard all the noise. He looked and laughed when he saw an irritated Emerl kicking the storage vault. "What were you trying to do just now?"
"I was attempting to get these chaos emeralds out of this vault by force. Guess it would have been weird for it to have been that easy. Luckily I copied a lot of hacking skills from Rouge. I will just have to open by using the computer."
"Why don't you just blow it up?" Omega asked coming over as he started blowing up the robots in the back room.
"Do you want to be anywhere near an area where large amounts of energy are being shot at a large amount of chaos emeralds?" Emerl asked. Omega and Metal Sonic both grimaced. "See the reason?"
"Yeah. It would probably blow up everything for a couple hundred miles. Not a very good idea after all." Metal Sonic said.
"Exactly." Emerl walked over to the computer and started to type in different codes. "This seems to be a very complex lock. It might take awhile to crack it. You guys can do what you want."
Right when he said that an alarm went off. Attempted access of storage vault. Activating all robots in vicinity.
As the alarm finished all of the huge robots in the left and right rooms started up as did the ones in the back room that had not been destroyed yet. They slowly made their way to the robotic trio and started to attack.
"I guess he set it up so anyone that tries to open it, even Eggman himself, gets attacked. However I bet those robots have chips that make it so they cannot attack him so he is not put into any danger. Pretty smart defense. It can only be that since I did hit any firewalls or anything in the unlocking system. I am going to need some time to unlock this so can you guys deal with those fools?" Emerl asked.
Metal Sonic and Omega both smile evilly. "With pleasure!" they shouted and attacked while Emerl went back to hacking the computer.
What occurred next was nothing less then a slaughter. Even with their sheer numbers, the robots could not match the might of Omega and Metal Sonic. One by one the robots were destroyed. Even ones that once gave Sonic himself trouble were destroyed. After numerous had been defeated, the remaining ones began to feel an emotion that they had never been programmed to have. Fear. There sense of self preservation that had been installed in them told them that they would die if they attacked. One by one the remaining robots ran away out of the room.
Unfortunately for them, they had not counted on the persistence of their enemies. Metal Sonic and Omega chased them down into every last one had been destroyed.
Meanwhile, Emerl finally managed to open the vault and took the chaos emeralds. I am sure these will be extremely useful later. He then placed them into a briefcase nearby. He looked up as Omega and Metal Sonic came back into the room dripping oil everywhere. "I got the chaos emeralds so I guess we can go. I am assuming that that oil is not yours."
"We don't use oil. Only the really old robots ever used oil. Probably why their destruction was always so spectacular to watch." Metal Sonic said. "I guess we should go and save the captured groups."
"I can't allow you to do that," a voice said nearby. A young human wearing a blue robe walked into the room. "You have done what you need to and now your job is done. Trying to save the others would be a foolish waste of energy. So I need you to sleep for a bit before you do anything silly."
"You think you can stop us?" Omega asked as he took out his machine guns.
The man only closed his eyes and looked down for a moment. Then he opened them. "Electrical Storm!" With a roar of energy the entire room filled with lightning. Omega was almost instantly laid out. Metal Sonic struggled for a bit but when his nanobots started to go on a rampage he shut himself down.
Emerl lasted the longest of the three. He punched the floor as hard as he could and dug his hand into the ground underneath. For a while he acted like a lighting rod and let the ground absorb the electricity. I have got to find some way to fight him and get these chaos emeralds to Sonic.
After a little bit the man walked forward. "I know you wish not to be defeated but if you continue letting this much power move through your body you are going to go berserk again. And neither of us wish for that, do we?"
Emerl's eyes widened. Finally he nodded and shut down.
"You three truly are amazingly strong. I must say I am impressed that a human in this age could make robots this strong. And even the ancient civilizations could make such an amazing robot. Well, goodnight for now." He then warped away as some eggpawns came in to pick up the shut down robots.
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Finally finished this dumb chapter. Thank gosh. I do not like this chapter. Next chapter will be Sonic's group and we will find out what happened to everybody else that got captured. Will be up faster because it is better and more exciting.