Ch.7: Scarlet Seige

" Well" said Eggman to the Metarex " it seems to me like Kncukles has gotten out of control. Your precious black seed backfired,"

" No one defies the power of the Metarex" said Dark Oak turning to his commanders " come, we have to put a stop to our Scarlet Snapdragon,"

While Eggman and Rouge joined the Metarex on their journey to the power core Tails and the others were busy dealing with the destructive force of Scarlet Snapdragon.

" We can't let Knuckles reach the core" said Tails to the others " if he does there's no telling what will happen,"

" What about Sonic and Shadow?" said Amy.

" They'll be fine" said Chris " but Tails is right we have to stop Scarlet Snapdragon,"

" No" same a sudden voice from the power core's doorway " you shall leave him to us,"

Tails and the others were surprised when saw the Metarex along with Eggman and Rouge also standing in the room. The one in front, which Tails guessed to be Dark Oak, had his eyes narrowed into slits of anger.

" Scarlet Snapdragon" said Dark Oak " your behavior makes you no longer worthy to be a Metarex. Therefore you must be destroyed,"

" You? Destroy me?" laughed Scarlet Snapdragon holding up the chaos emerald " I control the power here,"

The chaos emerald clutched in Scarlet snapdragon's hands suddenly illuminated and billions of techi-colored lightning bolts popped out and struck Dark Oak and the other Metarex. As Sonic and Shadow awakened all they could hear were the Metarex's screaming in pain.

Then to everyones surprise Scarlet Snapdragon snapped his fingers and the other Metarex's crumbled into dust.

" Knuckles has gone completely out of control" said Eggman " we need to stop him before he destroys the universe,"

" But how?" said Rouge " unless we can get rid of his armor we won't be able to do any damage at all,"

" If we were in our Super forms" said Shadow to Sonic " we would have no problem cracking open that tin can. but Knuckles has all the emeralds,"

" No problem" said Sonic " I'll take him down,"

" Oh no you won't" said Scarlet Snapdragon " Cobramechs come forth,"

Soon the two red robotic cobras that Sonic and his gang had saw when the Typhoon was attacked. The two cobras attacked Sonic distracting the blue hedgehog and allowing Scarlet Snapdragon to place the seventh chaos emerald in its spot on the alter.

" The servers are the seven chaos" Scarlet Snapdragon began to recite " chaos is power enriched by the heart. The controller serves to unify the chaos. I call forth my powers as guardian to bring end to the universe,"

Suddenly black lightning bolts exploded from all the emeralds trapping everyone within its deadly cage. While Scarlet Snapdragon stood laughing Rouge suddenly burst at full speed and kicked Knuckles off his perch.

" Shadow! Sonic! Now!" said Rouge " get to the emeralds! I'll handle Knuckles,"

" You couldn't handle a fly," said Scarlet Snapdragon shooting flames striaght at Rouge.

While Knuckles was distracted Sonic and Shadow approached the metal alter and sucked in the postive powers of the emeralds turning them into Super Sonic and Super Shadow. This transformation was not lost to Knuckles as he saw his chances for domination growing thinner by the second.