Alien vs. Plant/Cyborg
"I've obtained all the medical equipment you asked for, Dr. Finitevus." Said Dr. Quack.
"Excellent. Now, if you excuse me, I must see to our second operation. NICOLE, please provide a link to Freedom HQ for me."
The AI did so. A computer screen now showed Team Dark, (Shadow, Rouge, and Omega), and Team Triple Threat, (Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles), getting prepared for their trip to space. Chuck was with Dimitri getting the Warp Ring set.
"How is everything going down there at 'mission control'?" Dr. Finitevus asked.
"The Warp Ring is ready to absorb the power of the emerald." Said Chuck. He then put down the tools he'd used on the Warp Ring and took the Chaos Emerald from its holding place. He put the emerald inside the Warp Ring and the two started to glow; the emerald a bright green and the ring a pure golden light. Once all the energy it needed had been transferred, Chuck removed the emerald and put it back in the sphere.
"Here you go. Just think of the coordinates Finitevus gave you and you'll be OK." Said Chuck. "And remember, this thing is only good for two trips that far across space. One to get there, and the other to return home. Good luck out there."
Knuckles touched the Warp Ring and it enlarged again. They all stepped through it into a vast part of space. They saw a planet a few thousand miles away, but it couldn't be the one. Finitevus said that the female Seedrian he rescued described her world as a lush green one. The only one visible looked like a giant desert. There was nothing here, just a bunch of asteroids.
"Where's this planet Finitevus was talking about?" Rouge asked.
"He must have tricked us." Said Tails.
"Negative. My sensors indicate that the stars surrounding this area are being pulled here, or were previously pulled here. But no planet exists." Said Omega.
"Meaning?" Knuckles asked.
Rouge let out a sigh and began to explain.
"When a planet with gravity like Mobius' exists, it pulls all the stars towards it a little. And Omega's sensors indicate that by how the constellations of stars are arranged, there should be a planet right here."
"But there isn't, meaning that the planet doesn't exist anymore." Completed Tails.
"Meaning there aren't any Seedrians to get the DNA sample from. The planet must have been destroyed recently if the stars are still in the same kind of position. They would have moved closer to that planet if it had been long ago."
"And how is it you know all this about stars?" Knuckles asked.
"It's like I told you, honey, I'm a spy. It's my job to know things."
"My sensors indicate battle ships are heading in our direction. Suggest we take immediate action to conceal ourselves." Said Omega.
"That asteroid with the large holes in it!" Said Sonic.
Omega flew them all over to the asteroid using his jet engines. The asteroid had multiple tunnels inside it, perfect for hiding them. They could see large ships like they'd never seen before. On them were armies of robot creatures. Some huge, some small, and some that could kill them within a second. Like the dinosaur type robots that could easily crush them between their metallic jaws.
At the front on a large golden attack ship with over a hundred cannons, stood five creatures that stood out from amongst the rest of their allies. One of them was a light green insect-like being with three blue eyes and a light blue cape. It had two thin and large horns sticking out of its head. Another was large and crimson with a single orange eye and wore a flowing red cape. Another wore a black cape and had an insect-like head with a large ovular purple eye. Its body was composed of black armor, with a glass orb matching its eye on the chest with legs in the shape of chicken legs. Another yellow one with large horns and was the biggest and bulkiest of all of them. It looked a lot like a metallic version of a quarterback with a green cape.
And the last was definitely the leader. All the others were clearly afraid of the being and showed it their respect. It was in purple armour and had two flowing torn capes attached to its shoulder pads, and had a large green eye in the centre of its head. Its large fingers were only a few centimetres from a large golden samurai sword it carried.
"They're late. Black Narcissus, have your ships detected any enemies on radar?" The purple one asked the black one.
Black Narcissus then inputted some commands on his communicator. "They have detected nothing, Dark Oak."
"Red Pine, Pale Bay Leaf, Yellow Zelkova contact all your ships and see if they have detected anything!" Dark Oak commanded.
"Mine report nothing." The Red one called Red Pine said.
"I am afraid my ships have sighted nothing, my master." The yellow one known as Yellow Zelkova said.
"Mine say they have sighted an unknown species hiding in one of the asteroids." The green one said.
"Good work, Bay Leaf. An unknown species hiding in an asteroid? They must be spies sent by the enemy. Send one of our troops to destroy them."
"Allow me to vanquish them, master. It will be the perfect opportunity to ready me for the battle. For I, the almighty Yellow Zelkova, shall pulverise these spies with ease."
"Very well, Zelkova. And make sure you get rid of them painfully. If there's one thing I hate, it's a spy!"
Zelkova jumped off of the ship and towards the asteroid. He would enjoy tearing the tiny spies apart.
"This can't be good." Said Rouge as she watched Zelkova charge towards the asteroid.
He rammed into it with his shoulder and threw it off course, causing our heroes to be thrown about like a bunch of laundry in a tumble dryer.
"OK. This guy's really ticking me off. I'm going to treat him to a knuckle sandwich." Said Knuckles once they'd stopped spinning.
"Hold it, Knucklehead. We're on a mission to save your distant cousin, remember?" Said Sonic.
"It'll only take a knockout second." Knuckles said while slamming his fist into the palm of his hand.
He got his wish sooner than he expected as Zelkova smashed through the asteroid's wall and almost crushed them, but Knuckles and Omega retaliated by charging at him. The three were now locked in a battle of force but none of them could overpower the other. Zelkova soon grew bored with this and picked them up and threw them against the nearest wall.
Shadow and Sonic then spin dashed Zelkova in the hopes of stopping him. No such luck. His armour was too thick and he grabbed them and threw them against the same wall as Omega and Knuckles had hit. The four then looked at each other and mutually had the same idea. "Quadruple team!" They all charged Zelkova together and sent him crashing through the wall and caused him to slam into the golden battle ship.
"Does the almighty Yellow Zelkova require some assistance?" Bay Leaf said gloatingly.
"NO! For I shall-"
"Silence, Zelkova. You have underestimated them once already and they have shown themselves capable of fighting you. You, Bay Leaf and Narcissus shall all go and fight them. They will not stand a chance." Said Dark Oak.
All three of the Black Arms advanced. Bay Leaf summoned a pair of samurai swords that appeared in a purple flash and Narcissus brought out what looked like a large mirror on a staff with a blade sticking out of the bottom.
"Come, young fools. Witness the power of the Metarex leaders." Bay Leaf said.
"Metarex leaders, huh? Looks like we're on the right track after all." Said Sonic.
Bay Leaf then tried to slice Sonic and Shadow in half with his swords, but they were too quick and avoided most of his attacks, but he did manage to gash Shadow across his arm. Rouge and Tails were doing some high flying tricks around Narcissus who couldn't even reach them.
Omega and Knuckles were fighting off the mighty Zelkova. Knuckles wished he had the Chaotix with him to back him up. No doubt, with Vector and Mighty's help they could crush this guy to a pulp. But Knuckles just realised that Omega was just as good, as the automaton retracted his hand and fired drill missiles and yellow laser beams at Zelkova that managed to subdue him.
"These inferiors have actually proven to be a match for some of my greatest warriors. This is impossible. Red Pine, cover me! I'll deal with these pests myself." Said Dark Oak. He rushed towards all of them and inflicted painful blows that left them on the floor within seconds. Dark Oak then looked down at Shadow, believing him to be part of the species they were fighting, which he was.
"You are truely pitiful. Your efforts to destroy the Metarex race are pitiful and our first fights have only just begun. Perhaps this will make your leader see sense and surrender to the Metarex!"
Dark Oak lifted his sword up high and was about to decapitate Shadow, when a purple glowing sword clashed with Dark Oak's as it slashed halfway down to its target.
"And maybe this will make you see sense and realise the Black Arms cannot be defeated." Said the unparalleled voice of Black Doom.
All the Metarex leaders forgot about the spies as they saw the leader of the Black Arms hover before them.
"Prepare to meet your doom, Black Doom, at the hands of Yellow Zelkova."
"You don't have the skill worthy to be my opponent. I shall do battle with Dark Oak only today."
"You are overly bold, Black Doom. You even face us without an army." Said Dark Oak.
"Actually, my army is all around us."
"Where?"
"In plain sight. Hiding in the asteroid field." Black Doom clicked his fingers and asteroids began flying like shooting stars while dropping explosive projectiles and Black Arm soldiers on the Metarex ships.
"Black Comets. Living rocks from my home planet that can travel through space. They serve as the main transportation for us and a means of surprise in areas such as this." Said Black Doom.
"You shall pay for trying to make a fool out of me, Dark Oak, the glorious leader of the Metarex."
"As the Earthlings say, 'bring it on'!"
Black Doom summoned another sword out of nowhere and used both to spin around to make a slashing vortex of cuts and incisions. Dark Oak tried to land a hit on him, but found it impossible. Meanwhile, Bay Leaf, Red Pine and Narcissus were dealing Black Arm soldiers of all kinds, and Zelkova was taking down all the giants known as "Black Oaks" with his strength. He managed to wrestle out a large blue club called a Dark Hammer from one of the giants and used it to swat them aside like bulky flies.
Team Sonic, Rouge and Omega watched all this happen with awe, while Shadow watched with confusion. He had defeated and defied Black Doom and yet he had saved him. What was going-
"emJump on to the bird-like creatues! They shall take you to safety. We shall deal with the Metarex, my son./em" The voice of Black Doom said in Shadow's head.
Shadow wasn't sure about trusting him, but it was their only chance.
"Everybody jump on to those Black Arm birds!" Shadow yelled.
They complied and jumped off the ship onto the aliens, except for Omega, who simply flew with his jet boosters. The birds took them to one of the comets were they jumped off. Surprisingly, not a single Black Arm attacked them. One of them came close though, but was showing them where the blast shields were to protect them. They all suspected a trap, but they were wrong. Everyone was now thoroughly confused. Black Doom suddenly appeared in a flash and he was greeted by one of the many soldiers.
"How did the battle go?" The soldier asked.
"Dark Oak and his commanders retreated to oversee the battle and I decided to do the same." Said Black Doom. "How are my soldiers doing?"
"The battle plan is running smooth-" The soldier was interrupted by a laser blast that just hit the comet.
Black Doom hovered higher to see the gold ship.
"Why delay your destruction by fighting, Black Arms? You cannot hope to stop me!" Said the ship.
"What is that thing?" Tails asked.
"Starship! The most powerful attack vessel in the Metarex fleet. Entire armadas of different species have fallen to that craft." Said Black Doom.
"That overgrown tin can? We could take that thing out easy!" Sonic said.
"You probably cou-" Realisation hit Black Doom. If he had a mouth, you would have seen the largest grin you would ever see. "Why don't you prove it?"
"Y'mean work for you? Sorry, buddy, but we have a strict no teaming up with evil alien dictators policy." Said Sonic.
"I just saved your lives by telling my Black Hawks to fly in and rescue you. I saved your friend, my son, Shadow's life. You Earthlings usually feel that you owe each other when things like that happen."
"Yeah, and we owe you a lot of turmoil for all you've done. I wouldn't even work with you for all the gems in the wor- well..." Rouge said.
"I have stolen enough jewels during different wars to fill entire galaxies." Black Doom said.
"Where do I sign up?"
"We're not here for riches. We're here to help Lien-Da and cure her." Knuckles said.
"We have scavenged thousands of medical supplies from across the universe as well. Perhaps they can aid your friend..." Said Black Doom.
"We take down that ship and you give us the means to cure her?" Shadow asked.
"Probably... I don't know what the disease she has is, but the odds are well in your favour. Now, if you please."
Shadow jumped into the air and performed a spin dash, then shot towards Starship like a bullet out of a gun. Starship fired a few lasers at Shadow, but he spin dashed against them and they didn't even harm him.
"Not bad. But it is useless." Said Starship.
"You think so?" Said Shadow before spin dashing against every part of Starship's hull.
"What the heck is he doing?" Said Knuckles.
"Shadow is attacking the hull of the ship at immense speed to cause it to vibrate asunder." Said Omega.
You could practically hear the gears move as Knuckles tried to work out what Omega just said, although it might have been Omega's inner machinery.
"In English, honey." Said Rouge.
"Shadow is causing a series of rapid strikes on the ship's hull to make an intense vibration, causing the ship to shake apart from the inside." Said Omega.
Meanwhile, Shadow was making sure to destroy the ship. His original plan was working well enough, but now he needed to move in for the kill. He charged up all his energy and struck the side of Starship at full speed, tearing right through the metal. Inside the ship were hundreds of brown humanoid Metarex with insect-like heads and purple eyes. They fired missiles from their clawed at Shadow which he easily dodged. He then sent a barrage of Chaos Spears hurtling towards them. The spears sliced through the robots with ease. Shadow then zoomed through the hallways of the ship until he found the main control room and crashed into it.
"Now to finish it off. Chaos-BLAST!" Said Shadow.
A huge explosion of Chaos energy destroyed the front of the ship where the main computer was. The ship began exploding from different parts until it eventually blew up entirely. The others were worried about Shadow for a second until he appeared in front of them in a bright green flash.
"Task complete. May we see this medical equipment?" Said Shadow.
"My forces have advanced considerably and without Starship, nothing can get in their way. I will take you to our flagship, the Black Asteroid." Said Black Doom.
Later on the Metarex flagship, Dark Oak was going into a fit of rage and was yelling at his commanders.
"That ship was capable of destroying armies on its own, had won over a thousand battles, and you're telling me it was destroyed by a single Black Arm?" Yelled Dark Oak.
"We are not yet sure if it is a Black Arm. The surveillance footage from the robot Metarex soldiers showed it had similar markings." Said Bay Leaf.
"Let me see the footage!" Ordered Dark Oak.
"Girl, play surveillance footage from Metarex Troop unit 3309/7." Bay Leaf ordered.
The young green plant girl that had served as Dark Oak's messenger had just walked in with some schedules that had to be run by the commanders. The girl rushed over to a computer and brought up the footage Bay Leaf asked for. A hologram appeared in front of the commanders showing Shadow burst into the control room.
"Now to finish it off." Said Shadow's recorded voice. "Chaos-BLAST!"
"Chaos?" said the young girl before she could stop herself.
"Did you say something, Cosmo?" Dark Oak asked.
"I said Chaos, sir, like the Chaos Emeralds." The girl known as Cosmo said.
"Chaos Emeralds... they are but legend."
"Actually..." Bay Leaf said.
"Don't tell me you actually believe in these jewels of power. Thousands of mystical emeralds scattered across the galaxy."
"We have found evidence to support this, though. Bay Leaf and I have been searching for the source of Black Doom's power." Said Black Narcissus. "He is the only Black Arm with the power he is known for. Before he had his power, he visited all the planets that his recently defeated enemies, the Xorda, had attacked. People living near some of the planets say that they detected huge amounts of energy coming from specified points on the ruined planets."
"What does this have to do with the Chaos Emeralds?" Said Dark Oak.
"The legend of the Chaos Emeralds started shortly after Xorda tried creating a new from of weapons; Gene Bombs. It is said that shortly after they began trying to make the Bombs and were conducting experiments, they accidentally made a set of blue Chaos Emeralds. Since then, every time they've destroyed a planet using a Gene Bomb, a set of Chaos Emeralds was eventually made. We believe that Black Doom found out about this and stole most of the emeralds and took some of their power for himself, and returned them to their planets, but the only ones he couldn't obtain were those on Xorda and on Earth."
"What makes you say that?" Asked Dark Oak.
"Black Doom recently tried to conquer both those planets and our intelligence reports say that someone saw Black Doom go into a fit of rage after his leading commander, Doombringer, reported in saying, 'emWe have not located any of them/em'."
"That's it?"
"Well, before today it was, but I managed to cut the being responible with my sword for destroying Starship and I found something rather interesting. Girl, show file 379." Said Bay Leaf.
Cosmo did so and the hologram now showed the results of a blood test.
"The DNA in that being is enhanced with an unknown energy similar to Black Doom's, and the DNA results are similar to that of Black Doom himself, meaning that this being is, in fact, Black Doom's son. This explains everything. The Chaos Emeralds's power is said to be capable for all sorts of purposes. Teleportation, various offensive moves, and even reincarnation. A being with that kind of power is trouble enough, but two! No army would stand a chance. You can see why Black Doom made this being." Finished Bay Leaf.
"This must be it. The new weapon Black Doom told us about, Shadow the Hedgehog." Said Dark Oak. "This 'ultimate life form', shall rue the day he brought upon himself the wrath of the Metarex."