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Chapter 7: A Two Metarex Army
Everyone looked up to see Sonic flying towards them. He smacked into the twins knocking them off their feet and they tumbled across the sand. When they stopped rolling, the hedgehog got up, after rubbing his aching back, and saw his friends severely injuried.
"Guys! Are you okay?" inquired Sonic.
"Sonic! We're okay now that you're here." replied the girl hedgehog.
"Where were you?" asked Knuckles.
"I stepped on a trap in this city I found and it put me inside this cannon. Then it shot me all the way here." answered the hedgehog.
"Well, you're the last…"
"To guess."
The twins were back and were waiting for Sonic's relpy. He didn't say anything and continued to stare at them.
"Aren't you…"
"Going to guess?"
"The one on the right is Des and on the left is Ert." said Sonic as soon as those words left their mouths.
The twins stared at him baffled.
"Impossible!" spoke both of them as they took couple steps away from him.
"How do you know?" asked Amy.
"Des is the immature of the two. Also, Des always starts the sentences while Ert ends the sentences when together. It also helps when someone points that out to you." said the hedgehog smiling.
"You CHEATER!" screamed Des and Ert as they lunged at him together.
"What's your problem?" questioned Sonic as he got out of their way.
"Since you got help from people outside the game…"
"We'll just have to do it the old fashioned way."
They held each others hand and began to spin. The wind span violently and sand sprayed everywhere as a sand tornado wrapped around the two of them. When it stopped, a single Metarex was left in the twins' place. The Metarex had two eyes, two tails, an eye on its chest, and looked pretty much like a giant purple scorpion.
"Our name is Desert. You can't defeat our combined powers and the chaos emerald and planet egg." said Desert.
Before the hedgehog could say anything, Desert went under the sand. Everyone scanned their surroundings warily, but there was no sign of the Metarex when the sand below Sonic exploded.
"Sonic!" shouted the girl hedgehog, the girl rabbit, and Cosmo's daughter.
Desert had the hedgehog trapped between its maw and he struggled to break free.
"Let go of him." screamed Amy as she ran at the Metarex pulling out a piko hammer.
The girl hedgehog raised her piko hammer and flung it at the Metarex. The Metarex used its twin tails to knock it out from midair and landed on the land.
"Weak. I can't see why the master wants you." she spoke as she kept Sonic between its maw.
"You don't know?" The hedghog had stopped his struggles and looked at Desert.
"We don't question out beloved master. We simply obey any commands given to us." said the Metarex as her eyes narrowed on Sonic.
The plant girl decided it was a good moment to add, "So you're a foot soldier."
This caused a nerve to snap in her circuit and she dropped the hedghog as she began her rant.
"How dare you! I'm one of the 5,249,816,370 commanders! We each have an army under our command!" Desert spoke as she waved her tails around as emphasis.
"What army?" Cream searched for signs of other Metarex, but there weren't any in sight.
"I chose to work independently. I don't need useless underlings hindering my work." she replied stiffly.
"Right." The echidna sounded critical and the rest of the crew felt the same.
This was enough to push the Metarex overboard as she said, "I'll show you."
Her mouth opened wide and sand gushed out crashing into Knuckles which sent him flying.
"Knuckles!" The crew watched as he came crashing back down.
"You're next." Desert faced the rest of the crew after he hit the ground.
She reopened her mouth, but before she could let out another blast of sand, a chain wrapped around her mouth.
"That should keep you quiet."
Starlight landed on Desert's back and pulled on the chain treating the Metarex like a horse. This got cheers from the crew, but the Metarex fell apart and Cosmo's daughter fell to the ground.
"What happened? Did we win?" she asked as she got to her feet.
"Far from it."
The pieces that had made up Desert rose into the air and reformed the Metarex twins.
"How did they do that?" wondered the plant girl as she withdrew from the vicinity.
"We're not your average Metarex." said Des.
"We were built to reassemble and disassemble." spoke Ert.
"Tails. Chris." Everyone turned to the two most severly injuried members of their crew.
"I'm not sure." responded Tails as he craddled a broken arm.
"I think they have something built which allows them to break apart and reform like we saw when they combined into Desert and separate into Des and Ert." explained the boy.
"Correct." The twins sudden burst surprised all of them.
"Our cores have a magnetic attribute that allows up to change our shape." said the first twin.
"Because our cores are made from polar opposites and similar polar fields, we are unstoppable." spoke the second twin.