Wrecking The Metarex
"Are you OK, Cosmo?" Said the younger blue Seedrian.
"I'm fine, Galaxina. Just a little shaken. I actually thought I was going die."
"In these times, you might have been better off." Said Earthia. "This war is only further achieving Lucas's selfish goals. It wasn't really all that bad at first."
"But, Mother, he threw away everything the Seedrians achieved and stood for." Said Galaxina.
"All for the purpose of defeating the Zoah and saving our people. How he thought taking the Planet Egg of our world and all those others to grant him more power was a good idea I'll never know. It didn't even matter in the end, the Zoah destroyed our ruined world despite his efforts. I don't believe there is anything we can do."
"But, Mother, there must be." Said Cosmo. "Those people, with Black Doom, they seemed like they were friendly and tried to rescue me. Perhaps they'll do it again for all of us. Perhaps they will defeat Dark Oak."
"I don't see how mere Mobians can stop the Metarex." Said Galaxina.
"They were Mobians? From the planet you escaped to?" Cosmo asked.
"Yes. One of them was an echidna. The red one. He looked almost the same as that kindly doctor."
"What were the others? Do you know?"
"Finitevus showed me pictures of various Mobian species. I think the black and blue ones were hedgehogs, the white one was a bat but I'm not sure about the big red one."
"And the orange one who saved me?"
"You've been talking about him ever since we left the Black Asteroid. Does little Cosmo have a crush?"
"I do not." Said Cosmo crossing her arms defensively.
"You doooooo..."
"Galaxina, you're embarrasing me."
"Well that's a big sister's job."
Earthia couldn't help but smile at the chatter going on. It wasn't often she smiled. Ever since Dark Oak's uprising she had been depressed. Mainly because she had lost her planet, her freedom and the person she cared about more than anyone on that day. Earthia returned to her thoughts about Dark Oak's plan. A plan that with her own added twist, would hopefully allow the Mobians and Black Arms to win and allow the Seedrians to start over again.
The day after, the Black Arms and Metarex had met at the specified point. Every single Metarex ship was there. Thousands upon thousands of them. The battle would be split into two kinds; one by space craft and the other the old fashioned way. Two warring factions on a asteroid's surface each trying to wipe out the other. The Mobians were rather worried. A lot depended on this battle and how soon it was over.
"You nervous, Sonic? This could be, y'know, 'emit/em'." Said Knuckles
"Hey, it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings, and Robotnik's mama ain't singing any time soon!" Said Sonic. "We'll beat these guys with my super fast feet."
"I do not expect you Earthlings to be of much use." Said Black Doom.
"Then why'd you want us fight with you?"
"Because I get my son in the bargain. He was another reason I came to Mobius. He is great and powerful weapon and will be an excellent leader."
"What do you mean leader?" Shadow asked.
"Black Doom, sir. The soldiers are ready for battle." Said an unusual Black Arm. It was about five feet tall and had a bulky body with claws on its hands and feet with a gargoyle like head.
"Very good, Doombringer. Our attack shall begin soon. As for you and your little group, blue hedgehog, I think an early attack on the commanders could come in very useful. While they're distracted, we can focus on destroying their soldiers. They won't be able to improvise against our new tactics without their leaders." Said Black Doom.
"That it? We can take those guys down easy. We'll use Omega's new Chaos Control trick to get everyone on to that ship." Said Sonic.
Everyone gathered around Omega and Shadow jumped on top of his head and began to summon his Chaos energy until his hands glowed a bright green. Omega then lifted up his arms and extended them to their full length at his sides. His torso then began to spin but his head remained in place. He spun faster and faster until he was covered in green energy.
"Chaos Control!" Said Omega and Shadow simaltameously, and all six of them disappeared in a flash of green light.
Black Doom was about to set out, when Doombringer grabbed his cloak.
"You honestly think he is the right one to lead us? I deserve to become the new ruler. I am your oldest child, he is not even your true son." He said.
"He has shown far greater skill and loyalty than you have. You do not deserve to lead my people after rebelling against me."
"To show you how good a leader I was. You knew nothing of the mutiny. I almost took over."
"And you nearly killed thousands of Black Arms due to your mistakes. You have shown no mercy, even to your own people, but you are no leader. A soldier is all you are and all you'll ever be. When my life ends, Shadow shall be the new Black Doom and you can do nothing to stop it."
Black Doom then teleported away to the front line, leaving Doombringer to think over what he had said.
"You are wrong, Black Doom. There is something I can do, but I shall have to wait for the right time to do it..."
Sonic and the others appeared in a bright flash on the Metarex flagship. Thankfully, no one saw them. They sneaked across the bridge and saw three of the five Metarex commanders on top of the command centre, which was a high tech room overseeing the battle both by sight and by virtual map. Those three were Yellow Zelkova, Pale Bay Leaf and Black Narcissus. Dark Oak was in the bridge protected, leading the battle from afar by giving orders to Red Pine out on the battlefield.
Further and further they crept across the bridge. They turned a corner to see... A Metarex soldier. Just before it called out for help, Omega fired up his boosters and shoulder charged it into a wall, destroying it with surprising subtlety. Suddenly, shooting, laser blasts and energy cannon fire sounded. The battle had started. It was time to attack.
"LET'S DO IT TO IT!" Yelled out Sonic and they charged the three Metarex commanders. After they'd beaten them, then it was on to Dark Oak.
If the three Metarex were surprised by their opponent's surprise attack, they most certainly hid it well.
"Well, well. If it isn't Black Doom's secret weapons. Attempting to take out the leaders right after the battle has started with a surprise attack. Very clever of Black Doom. I must admit, I didn't think he was one for intelligent strategies. He struck me as more of a 'see 'em and kill 'em kind' of guy." Said Bay Leaf.
"Quit yer yapping! We're here to fight, not to sit around talking all day." Said Knuckles.
"Leave the red ones to me. I shall enjoy crushing them beneath my mighty fists. I shall teach them never to antagonize the great Yellow Zelkova!." Said Zelkova, indicating towards Knuckles and Omega.
"Lots of talk, big guy, but no action. You want to take me and Omega on, you go right ahead, Yellow Belly."
"Yellow Belly? What does that mean?"
"It is an expression used by Mobians and Humans to refer to another person as a coward." Said Omega.
"Coward? COWARD!?! How dare you mock the great Yellow Zelkova!"
"Again with the talking and refering to yourself in a third-person. Listen, are we gonna fight or not?" Said Knuckles.
"Indeed we shall, my friends!"
Zelkova charged at Knuckles and Omega and slammed both his massive fists down were they where, but they had moved aside just before the crushing blow landed and were now a fair distance away from the others.
"While those three duke it out, whaddya say we get this party rolling too, Meta-wrecks?" Said Sonic.
"Excellent idea, my speedy friend." Said Bay Leaf.
Black Doom was on the front lines of the battle field on the asteroid, fighting with his sword again to preserve his mystical energy for when he should need it. His regular Black Arm soldiers were being batted aside like bowling pins by the Metarex soldiers, only the Black Oaks were holding their own. Victory seemed absolute for the Metarex soldiers and after only a few minutes. That was until Black Doom put his plan into action.
"FIRE!" He yelled out to all his soldiers and they pulled out laser guns of all kinds at once and began an assault. Distracted by the barrage of laser fire, Red Pine and his soldiers failed to notice that Black Doom had rose about twenty feet into the air and had summoned multiple energy boomerangs. Black Doom readied his attack and yelled out "En garde! Swift Strike!" All the purple energy boomerangs shot forward, slicing apart most of the army. Among the few left standing was an outraged Red Pine.
"You have destroyed my army! How dare you to try and bring forth my wrath?! You shall now be destroyed by my awesome power!" Said Red Pine.
The Metarex commander lunged at Black Doom with his sword. The Black Arm leader saw this and hovered toward Red Pine at full speed. They both swung their blades at the same time. Red Pine's came towards Black Doom's head, but the Black Arm hovered downward to avoid it and then performed a spinning technique with his sword to stike Red Pine along the waist and then moved at great speeds towards the other remaining Metarex, destroying them. Satisfied with his work, Black Doom looked up to the still warring ships and the flag ship of the Metarex. Soon, the battle would be at an end.
Zelkova kept landing devastatingly powerful blows on the hull of the ship every time he missed Knuckles and Omega. The two were holding their own very well against their larger opponent. Omega launched bullets and missiles at Zelkova, yet didn't leave a scratch on the incredibly strong armour. The robot then launched himself at Zelkova using his boosters and imitated an approaching slash attack, but reversed at the last second and sent a devastating beam cannon attack that managed to crack the armour around Zelkova's knee.
"Why you puny pathetic excuse for an android! You shall now be crushed by the power of Yellow Zelkova!"
The Metarex commander rapidly swung his giant fist at Omega, propelling the robot into a wall. Knuckles then proceeded to launch an assault of punches on Zelkova's head at the fall of his comrade.
"Stop your useless pounding! You're giving me a headache." Said Zelkova, and aimed a punch right at Knuckles, but the Echidna leaped out of the way, causing Zelkova to hit himself in the face. Knuckles let out a snicker seeing the entertaining sight.
"You dare laugh in the face of the great Yellow Zelkova! You will pay!" Zelkova then did another swinging punch on Knuckles and sent him flying next to Omega.
"You tiny titans are nothing compared to the power of Yellow Zelkova!" Said the Metarex commander.
"Alright... I'm starting to really get annoyed with this-" Knuckles stopped in mid sentence. An idea coming to his mind.
"Hey, Omega. You know that thing you did with Rouge when you were facing that Black Bull?" Said Knuckles with a smirk clear across his features.
"Affirmative. I used them as ammunition for my Omega Bazooka." Said Omega.
"Why don't you do the same with me?" Said Knuckles, taking off his hat and pulling out a pair of what looked like the tops of metallic gloves with two upside down trowels sticking out of the front. Omega had these objects listed on the list of weapons used by Eggman's enemies; the Shovel Claw.
Omega picked up the red Echidna in his right metallic hand and retracted him into the top of his arm. The Echidna then started spinning and Omega fired him at Yellow Zelkova, impacting on the Metarex. Knuckles kept spinning even after he had hit Zelkova and was beginning to tear through his armour. Soon, cracks were forming all around Zelkova's metallic body and it then shattered apart.
To Knuckles's surprise, inside the armour was a large green creature the size of a Mobian Bear with branches sticking out of eitherside of its head, long green mossy hair, and wearing an orange waistcoat attached to all sorts of life support systems. The creature ripped all of them off and then charged at Knuckles and tried to crush Knuckles beneath its fist, but the Echidna was too quick and landed a devastating punch that knocked the creature out cold.
Rouge and Tails were dodging slashes coming from Black Narcissus's staff. They twisted and turned through the air, missing the blade on the staff by centimetres each time. Narcissus even managed to cut Rouge on her stomach, slashing through her skin tight suit.
"Alright! Now you've made me angry!" Said the bat. She began spinning through the using her Screw Kick technique and slammed right into Narcissus's face.
"You dare try and ruin my perfect face!? For that you will pay with your lives!" Said the Metarex. The blade at the end of his spear then started to glow purple, indicating a laser was charging.
Worried, Rouge turned to Tails. "Ok, Foxy. You're the genius. Got any ideas?" She said.
"You got any gadgets on you?" The young fox asked.
"As a matter of fact..." Rouge pulled out what looked like a small make-up kit in the shape of a heart. This was actually a personalised bomb made by GUN for Rouge.
"I don't think this is the best time to touch up your make-up right now, Rouge." Said Tails.
"There's never a bad time to touch yourself up, Honey."
Rouge flew up into the air and placed the bomb on the face of Narcissus and the bomb expolded with a loud boom. Once the smoke had cleared, Rouge and Tails were astounded to see that Narcissus was still standing.
"You will have to do better than that!" Said Narcissus and was about to fire the laser when-
"This is Dark Oak calling Black Narcissus. I repeat, this is Dark Oak calling Black Narcissus. Are you there Narcissus?" Said the voice of the Dark Oak.
Narcissus looked into the mirror at the top of his staff to see the face of Dark Oak looking back at him.
"You will return to the command bridge immediately. The time has come." The Metarex leader said.
"But, master, I-" Said Narcissus, but was cut off Dark Oak.
"No buts. Return to the birdge immediately." And Dark Oak's face vanished.
Narcissus regretfully put down his staff and prepared to fly off, but first said some departing words to his enemies.
"Consider yourselves lucky, for now. But that will soon change, as well as the rest of the galaxy! Hahahaha!" Said Narcissus, and flew towards the command bridge.
Sonic and Shadow were using their great speed to try and get an adventage over Bay Leaf, but he too was fast. Bay Leaf kept throwing his twin swords at the hedgehogs, and when they missed, they disappeared in a purple flash and returned to their owner's hands. Bay Leaf executed a spinning technique with his swords, turning him into slashing vortex of slices and dices. The two hedgehogs were slow to react to this and were slashed across various parts their bodies, but, fortunately, the wounds weren't serious.
"Let's take this Meta-wreck down, Faker!" Said Sonic.
"You have a plan?" Asked Shadow.
"Yeah!" Sonic then proceeded to whisper his plan into Shadow's ear.
"Well?" Asked the blue hedgehog.
"I like it. Let's do it."
The two hedgehogs then performed spin dashes and spun towards Bay Leaf, but didn't stike him. Instead, they began to spin in circles around him. Meanwhile, Shadow was conjuring up all the Chaos energy he could until they were all surrounded in a cocoon of red energy. They then proceeded to bounce around the cocoon, striking Bay Leaf in a barrage of spin-dashes and then stopped. Bay Leaf toppled over and Sonic held up his hand to Shadow in order to get a high-five, but Shadow was staring at Bay Leaf who had just recovered and was getting up off the floor. Eyes glowing a bright yellow, Bay Leaf began twirling his swords around when Dark Oak suddenly contacted him.
"This is Dark Oak calling Bay Leaf. Return to the bridge immediately. The promised time has come!" The Metarex leader's voice said through Bay Leaf's communicator.
Although Bay Leaf's chance of revenge had been taken from him, you could tell that he was full of joy.
"Savour these moments, my friends. They shall be your last!" Said Bay Leaf and flew off.