Sonic jumped and laded between Metal Sonic and his house. Sonic spun his arm around like a baseball player in a cartoon winding up his pitch. He threw a punch at the robot, but He caught the punch in his hand and kneed sonic. Sonic went flying and crashed through the wall of his own house.
Shadow glowed red and threw himself at the Doctor's only agent with his new found strength. Metal Sonic spun around Shadow and pushed the back of his head, using the hedgehogs own momentum against him. Shadow tumbled to the ground and instantly rolled back into a standing position.

"INITIATING BALL LIGHTNING-23 "
Metal Sonic raised his hands over his head and a ball of electricity formed between them. He through the ball of lightning at Shadow, but the Ultimate Lifeform teleported and appeared behind Metal. The robot have him a round house to the Hedgehog, but he blocked it with crossed arms and pushed the mechanical hedgehog away from him.

"INITIATING LIGHTING STRIKE-22"
The robot raised his right hand and lightning shot from his fingers.

"CHAOS SPEAR" Shadow yelled and golden energy blasted out of his palm.
The two outburst of Energy met in mid air and created a flurry of sparks. The two were evenly matched for a while, but shadow grew weaker and the lightning overcame the golden light. The flurry of sparks in the middle began to creep towards Shadow as his energy beam lost power.

Then Sonic came flying out of the hole in the house as a ball and shot directly at the mechanical monster. Metal cut off power to the lightning strike and leapt into the air. He did a front flip kick and kicked Sonic down like a soccerball. Sonic went sprawling into shadow and they rolled on the ground.
The two living Hedgehogs stood up and charged at the nonliving Hedgehog.

"INITIATING DUAL LIGHTNING STRIKE- 12"
Bolts of electricity shot from both of his hands and made Sonic and Shadow stop in their tracks. Shadow dropped the Red Chaos Emerald and it rolled to the edge of the clif. They stood there twitching wildly with electricity coursing through them.

Metal Sonic walked around them as Electricity still flowed into them from his hands.
The lighter Blue Emerald has? special qualities when it comes to electricity. It also seams to have some influence over the storms, but I will figure that all out after I have seen to your deaths."

Metal hunkered down on his knees and looked Sonic in the eye. "the fastest thing alive, they say. Although I am not technically alive, it seams that I have put your speed to shame."
He stood and walked towards the cliff, looking out at the angry see. "soon you will cease to be either fast or alive, young hedgehog, and you will die so close to home. I know you wanted to end your days far away in some exotic land, but it seams that that will never happen."

Sonic made a coughing noise, And Metal bent down to hear. "what was that, meatbag?"

"I-i-ah sawd?" Sonic stuttered as metal lowered the electric flow to a lower voltage. "ah sawd look ot be'im you."

Metal laughed as he stood back up. His laugh sounded like it was come through a tin can.
"It sounds like I have already Fried your squishy brain." He said as he cranked up the power, inciting a grunt from Sonic and a clenching of the jaw from Shadow. "allow me you put you out of your misery. Soon I will do the same to-"

Metal's speech was cut short as a spike- knuckled glove, glowing with red energy, made contact with his head, Sending him flying into the air with a severe dent in his head.
He flew over the trees and landed in the forest.
Knuckled upper cut had been enhanced due to the Red Emerald in his other hand. The electric shocking had ended and both Hedgehogs passed out in the mud.

The light Blue Emerald fell from the sky and landed in the mud between unconscious hedgehogs, glittering with dangerous power.

Sonic awoke lying in his bed the nest morning. Blinding light shone through his bedside window. Sonic tried to sit up, but the action caused pain to shoot across his body. Sonic slumped back down and tried to get back to sleep, but he was to sore from the beating he had received the previous day.
Some time later, Amy came into Sonic's room. She saw that his eyes were open and yelled out the door. "HEY EVERYBODY, SONIC'S AWAKE!"

Sonic covered his ears. "Hey Ames, do you think you could keep it down a bit?"
Tails and knuckles came into the room at once, with Cream following close behind.

They gathered around Sonics bed and Tails asked. "are you feeling alright?"

Sonic took a moment to check his bearings. He felt like he had been kicked more times then a hackey-sack.
"I'm fine." He said. "nothing a couple hours of napping won't fix."

Amy patted him on the head. And said just rest until your good to go again. I don't want to up and running too soon and spraining yourself."

"yeah, well, listen guys. What happened back there?" sonic asked. " Did the rustbucket seriously shoot lightning bolts at me?"

Tails glanced at Knuckle and Amy. "We think that the Emeralds have taken on some sort of elemental properties, instead of being manifestations of raw energy."

"What?" sonic asked, not really catching any of the technical terms Tails was throwing out.

"Shadow's been up since noon, and he said that the red Emerald made him stronger." Amy said. "like, super strong. Knuckles strong."

Sonic suddenly remembered the rescue he and knuckles did the other day. "yeah, and the blue emrald made Knuckles real fast, like, as fast as me?"

"It's just as I thought." Knuckles said.

"What do you mean?" asked Tails.

"When I was young, my mother would tell me a story every night. "Knuckles began. "There were different stories, most of which I forget, but I do remember the story were the seven Chaos Emeralds were given the Echidna nobles. Each Emerald was given to a specific Noble. The Red Emerald was given to Starnest the Strong. The dark Blue Emerald was given to Xerxes the fast. The Light Blue Emerald was given to Woocrut the rainbringer, and the Silver Emerald was given to Ollin the Blacksmith. And the Purple one?"

"What about the yellow and Purple ones?" Sonic asked.

"Uh, I forgot." shrugged Knuckles.