Lost Hedgehog Tales
CHAPTER 2: METAL SONIC STRIKES
"Alright, here goes" Silver the Hedgehog said. Sonic the Hedgehog sat across from him and nodded. It had been a miracle. Just a few days ago, Team Fighters, which consisted of Sonic, Tails, Amy and Tails' robotic helper dog, T-Pup, had landed in the icy continent of Holoska. They had met up with the Arctic Freedom Fighters, which had Guntiver the Arctic Wolf, Erma Ermine, Flip the Penguin, Augustus the Polar Bear and Sealia Seal, and together they had planned an invasion on the Death Egg which was Doctor Eggman's main base for his latest scheme. The Death Egg was built with such advanced technology, that it needed something very powerful to power it. That's where that Chaos Emerald came in. After he had gone into hiding, Eggman had managed to snag a chaos emerald and used it to power the Death Egg. Recently, Eggman had used a powerful weapon on the Death Egg, called the Cosmic Reset Button. It had sent a wave of energy switching reality and altering it drastically. Thanks to the power of Chaos Control however, the Genesis Wave was reset and things were back where they had left off. But in the struggle to blow the Death Egg up, Princess Sally Acorn had sacrificed herself to save the world from roboticization. She in turn had been turned into a vicious cyborg that only knew to kill. So Team Fighters and the Arctic Freedom Fighters had come up with a plan to invade the Death Egg, deroboticize Sally and destroy the machine itself. During the invasion, they had come across Silver the Hedgehog who had found out about the traitor and came here to stop everyone from walking to their very own demise itself, which was the Death Egg. After getting ambushed by Akhlut, one of Eggman's commanders, the heroes soon found themselves in a scuffle with the robot princess herself. It was a tough battle and they had almost died, but managed to push through and knocked Sally out. But after that, they were hit by another wave. This time it was dubbed as the Super Genesis Wave and it took Sonic on an adventure of a lifetime. After it wore off, the team found themselves escaping the Death Egg with an unconscious Sonic. He wasn't the only one as several others were knocked out as well, but Sonic had taken the longest time to recover. Silver cleared his throatas he began to talk.
"Ok, so right now we're in the continent of Holoska. The reason why we're all here is because we planned to invade the Death Egg and destroy it along with rescuing Sally." Sonic nodded in understanding. "Ok, I get that but what happened after that?" Silver gave him an annoyed look implying that he hated being interuppted.
"Ah yes, about that y'see..." Silver scratched his head. "We kinda got ambushed by this killer whale named Akhlut and his goons, but we beat them. Then we run into your highness herself" Sonic frowned when Silver said that. He didn't like it whenever someone insulted the princess. He knew Silver didn't mean it, but still.
"So anyway, while we were fighting, Sally got a good hit on you and she was gonna kill you, but I managed to shut her system down by electrocuting her." Sonic glared at Silver after he said that. "You what?" Sonic exclaimed. Erma quickly rushed over and put a hand on Sonic's shoulder. "Hey, just calm down and let the kid explain, kay?" Silver glared at Erma. He hated it when people called him a kid. It made him feel so...weak. "Don't call me a kid" Silver spat. Erma glared back. "Shut up. You attacked Rotor in our colony and nearly killed him. Don't expect me to be nice." Guntiver intervened. "Erma, that's enough. He's here to help us so at least give him a chance" Erma just hmphd angrily and faced the other way. "C'mon, after all that's been going on, we shouldn't fight amongst ourselves. It's important we stick together on this one." Tails couldn't agree more. "She's right guys. If we're going to take on Eggman, we should have each other's backs for this"
"No way Tails, Erma's right. Silver attacked and nearly killed Rotor and the poor guy's back isn't even better yet! Then he also blamed Antoine for being the traitor despite the fact the guy's in a fucking hospital after saving Elias and being a real hero. Did you guys even think once how would Bunnie react to this if she found out. She's already in a depression for not being able to fight since Naugus deroboticized her and the fact that she lost Antoine. Let's not forget how he tried to kill me back in Moebius. Face it, this guy's a walking paradox with nothing to do but find this "supposed" traitor and eliminate them. But all he's done is cause problems." Sonic said while glaring at Silver, who in return glared back. "If you must know, the only reason I'm even here is to help you guys out and stop this menace from destroying the world. Have you been to my future yet, Mr I-m-so-cocky-full-of-myself, huh?" Sonic glowered at the opposing hedgehog. "Why, you son of a..."
"EVERYBODY, SHUT THE HELL UP AND STOP ARGUING LIKE LITTLE BABIES!" Amy's voice triumphed over the others. Everyone froze immediatly at once. Flip slowly backed away from Amy, not wanting to feel her wrath. As soon as it was quiet, Amy smiled. "Good, now then will you please get back to explaining to Sonic why we failed to save Sally, Silver?" She then looked at Sonic, who raised his eyebrow. "And you better shut up, if you don't want my hammer on your head, sweety" she threatened menacingly. Sonic sank down onto his chair in defeat. Amy was really terrifying with her hammer. Sonic would know that since he's had years of practice running from Amy. Silver cleared his throat again and spoke. "Now back to where we left off, before I was rudely interupted," he glared at Sonic, who stuck his tongue out back. "After I stopped Sally from killing us, a bright light washed over us and I don't really remember what exactly happened then, but when it faded away, you, along with Flip, Amy and Sealia were knocked out. The rest of us grabbed you guys and escaped the Death Egg when more of his Egg SWATS came after us. After that we just camped out here for the past few days trying to recover, and since you just woke up this morning, we can go back to planning a returning strike on the Death Egg." Sonic looked at Silver in confusion. "Wait, so why are we attacking the Death Egg a second time after we failed the first time?" That's when Tails spoke up.
"Well, since we all are back in shape to fight, we figured it would be a good idea to attack Eggman again so soon. He would be least expecting it and not only that, but it will be much easier since he sent out the Egg Boss, that's supposed to be stationed to guard the Death Egg, to find us. Also, due to the damages Mecha Sally took after Silver disabled her, it's gonna take a while for Eggman to patch her up. So we have alot of threats out of our way and the Egg SWATs won't be a problem. Plus, Eggman is also planning to relocate the Death Egg to an unknown location where no one could find it or track it down. So we need to move fast if we want to pull this off." Sonic nodded. "So what's our plan of attack?" Augustus grinned. "A direct charge on the battle station itself. With Eggman's big threats out of the way, it'll be easy for us to just storm in the destroy the damn thing!" Sonic smiled. "Alright then, so it's decided! We move out tommorow morning and charge right in there! And we should also get a day's rest as well!" Tails nodded. "Good idea. Since this village is so isolated, Eggman will never find us here!"
"You got that right, lil buddy!" Sonic exclaimed. "But how'd you find out about the relocation. Its not like Baldy McNosehair would just come out and say that he's moving the Death Egg." "Tails managed to decrypt one of Eggman's files saying he's going to move it. He's currently trying to decrypt the one that has the new location, but no luck avail" Erma said. "Not only zat, but zis will take a while to figure out, and ve need to move tommorow" Sealia piped in.
"Kay, so we move out tommorow gang" Sonic said. "Hell yeah, we gonna storm in and kick some eggy ass!" Flip exclaimed. Guntiver laughed. "This is crazy. Smart but crazy." Everyone started cheering and high-fiving each other thinking how the look on Eggman's face was gonna be after his entire base was destroyed. Silver held both his hands up and shouted over the cheering."Hey everyone, calm down! Wait I still gotta tell you who the traitor is!" Everyone stopped cheering and exchanged worried glances. They knew who the traitor was since Silver had told them, but since Sonic had a short memory loss of what happened on the Death Egg, he just sighed. "Alright man, just tell me who you suspect this time" Silver frantically shook his head. He swallowed the lump in his throat and began to speak. "I don't suspect it this time! I know who it is I swear! You just gotta trust me on this one!" He looked at everyone else who were all nodding their heads implying that Silver should tell Sonic. Erma just glared at Silver. He then looked over at Sonic who impatiently was tapping his foot."Cmon just tell me already! Enough with the suspense!" Sonic exclaimed. Silver took a deep breath and started talking. "The person who is responsible for turning on the Freedom Fighters, the person who is responsible for the act of betrayal, the person who is responsible for the fate of my world is none other than..." Silver looked down at the floor.."Princess Sally Acorn, founder of the Freedom Fighters, daughter of King Maximilian and Queen Alicia Acorn, sister of Elias Acorn and now Mecha Sally, top commander of the Egg Army." He then looked at Sonic whose eyes were wide open. Tails put a hand on Sonic's shoulder. "Sonic, are you all right?" Silver then realized he forgot to add the reason why he needed to stop Sally. Hopefully what I'm about to say cools him down. The telekinetic hedgehog spoke. "But don't worry, that's why I'm here! I'm gonna save you all by-" Silver didn't get a chance to finish his sentence because Sonic had grabbed Silver by the neck and had blasted out the door of their cottage. Everyone gasped and started chasing after Sonic shouting "Stop!" and "Don't hurt him!" Sonic heard everyone yelling his name to stop but he ignored them. He didn't care what his friends were saying. What he did care about right now was ripping this psycho-kinetic freak apart limb from limb. Sonic had always tolerated the accusations made by Silver on his friends, but this was taking it WAY to far. Sonic sped up faster his mind racing with furious thoughts. Silver screamed as he was literally DRAGGED by Sonic so fast. Luckily there was alot of snow so it didn't hurt that much but it still hurt! Oh man, looks like a struck a nerve! Alot of them! Sonic abruptly came to a stop as he threw Silver into a nearby iceberg. The white hedgehog slammed into the iceberg and groaned as he tried to steady himself. He failed to however, notice Sonic running towards him and the blue speedster started throwing punches at the psychic hedgehog. Silver cried out in pain as he was rapidly punched back and forth and tried to fight back. But he could only raise his arms up in defense, which did nothing since Sonic was pounding him really bad. Sonic then grabbed Silver by one of his quills with one hand and used the other one to rapidly punch him in the stomach.
"Ooof! Oww! St-top-OW!" Silver yelled. But the more Silver begged, the more angry Sonic became. "Who do you think you are to say that! How dare you accuse Sally about being a traitor! She would never do that! She was always the positive one and she kept the team together! Don't you dare say that ever again!" Sonic yelled. Silver saw an opening as Sonic punched him and he managed to escape Sonic's grasp, dodge a punch and then threw a punch of his own. Sonic just grabbed it, and flipped Silver over him."Gaahhhh!" Silver yelled as he fell on his back. Before he could get up, Sonic spin-dashed him back to the ground, grabbed one of Silver's quills as he was flying over Silver and took the other hedgehog with him. Both flipped and tumbled around in the snow yelling and throwing punches at each other.
"WOULD YOU JUST LISTEN TO ME? LET ME EXPLAIN!" Silver yelled. Sonic responded by grabbing Silver and flipping him on the bottom so Sonic was on the top.
"I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR EXPLAINING! JUST SAVE YOUR BREATH AND NEVER SHOW ME YOUR FACE AGAIN! AND GET A LESS STUPID HAIRCUT, YOU LOOK LIKE YOUR WEARING A DAMN PLANT ON YOUR HEAD!" Sonic countered back. Silver's anger began to boil as he punched and flipped Sonic on the bottom and began repeatedly punching his face. "THAT DOES IT! NO ONE MAKES FUN OF MY HAIR! NOT YOU, NOT SCOURGE, NOT ERMA, NO ONE!" The two wrestled each other in the snow for a while before Sonic kicked Silver off him and spin-dashed him repeatedly in the snow. He then grabbed Silver and threw him off the slope and onto the ground below. Silver landed with a thud and Sonic jumped down after him and charged at him while he was getting up. Before Sonic's heel could make contact with Silver's face, the telekinetic hedgehog used his psychokinesis to halt Sonic in midair. Sonic struggled to break free, but it was pointless. Silver smirked.
"It's no use", he said before levitating Sonic higher off the ground. "Take this!" He then proceeded to slam Sonic on the ground multiple times before turning him on his side and sent him hurling into a wall. "Unngghh!" Sonic shouted as pain shot up his body. He slowly slid down the wall and onto his knees before he saw an iceberg sent hurling toward his face. Luckily, Sonic used his speed to slide under the iceberg and curled into a ball before launching himself at Silver. He slammed Silver in the gut and the other hedgehog grunted as the wind had been knocked out of him. Silver fell down on his back and Sonic grabbed him by the fur on his chest and threw him high in the air before jumping up and homing attacking him back up on the slope. Silver fell face-flat on the snow and struggled to get up. Sonic was a really strong opponent. He was not to be underestimated at all. Silver felt weak and he knew he was going to lose this fight. He shut his eyes as Sonic jumped up and landed on the same slope as him. Come on, Guntiver. Where are you? Where's Amy when you need her? Silver thought as his mind raced with thoughts. Silver opened one eye and looked at Sonic who was charging up his next attack. Sighing in defeat, Silver said "just finish me off already". Sonic's expression didn't change from the furious glare. "Gladly" was all he said before boosting into Silver sending the other hedgehog careening into a nearby shop. Silver crashed through the window, but the whole wall came down from the impact. Buildings in Holoska weren't built that sturdy so it was really easy to tear them down. As Silver struggled to get up from the remains of the shop's wall that had half buried him, he only had one though in mind. That. Fucking. Hurt. ALOT. Sonic merely dusted himself off as if it were nothing and smirked at Silver who glared back. "That's what you get for accusing Sally of being the traitor. Maybe now you'll learn your ways and stop trying to attract attention, silverfish". The others finally arrived when Silver had crashed into the shop and they ran up to him to see if he was okay. Amy stomped up to Sonic, who looked at her in confusion before he was harshly slapped on the cheek. Sonic was more than shocked. Amy Rose, his number one fan, self-proclaimed girlfriend who loved him more than herself and hated seeing him get hurt, had just slapped him. HARD.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT SONIC? YOU NEARLY KILLED HIM! WE TOLD YOU TO CONTROL YOURSELF AND THERE YOU GO, BEATING THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF SILVER! YOU DIDN'T EVEN LET HIM EXPLAIN WHY HE EVEN SAID THAT!" Amy practically shouted at him in his face. Sonic grew mad and shouted back "WHAT'S THERE TO EXPLAIN? DID YOU SEE HOW HE ACCUSED SALLY OF BETRAYING US? WHY, JUST BECAUSE SHE'S ROBOTICIZED AND WORKS FOR EGGMAN NOW?" "DID YOU EVEN BOTHER TO ASK HIM WHY HE SAID THAT OR WHAT WAS HIS REASON?" Amy retaliated back. Sonic opened his mouth to retort back, but closed it when he realized he had nothing to say. As much has he hated to admit it, Amy was right. The other hedgehog had been in the middle of explaining why Sally would be the downfall of the Freedom Fighters when he had lost it and lashed out at the guy. Sonic looked at Silver who was struggling to get up with Flip and Sealia helping him stand up. Sonic then looked at Amy who still looked downright pissed. He then looked at Tails and the Arctic Fighters. T-Pup was hiding and whimpering behind Tails and the fox was trying to calm him down. Guntiver sadly shook his head, while Augustus crossed his arms and looked away. Erma just shook her head slowly. Even though she didn't like Silver, not even he deserved this kind of beating. Sonic looked in horror at his hands and took a few deep breaths. Amy suddenly frowned, noticing Sonic's strange behavior.
"Sonic..." she began but didn't get to finish as Sonic spoke "I...gotta go..somewhere..alone" he said before turning around and running off in the opposite direction. Tails started to walk after his brother, but Amy stopped him with her arm. "I'll go talk to him. You just make sure Silver is okay". Tails looked at her in confusion but decided not to argue. "Okay, just be careful" he said before turning around and walking to Silver who had managed to stand up, but fell back down, this time on top of Flip. The penguin yelped as he struggled to get Silver off but the hedgehog was too tired. Amt turned to run off in the direction Sonic went. Sonic... what's happening to you. She thought as she ran. Meanwhile, unknown to everyone a figure was watching everything from a high slope on a mountain. The figure snickered when he saw Sonic run away and Amy chasing after him.
"It's time Sonic, my loathesome copy", the figure said as menacingly look down at the village where lights were shining ever so brightly in the night for the Christmas season. "TO MEET YOUR END" the figure let out a maniacal laugh.
Meanwhile with the Arctic Freedom Fighters,
"OOOOWWWWWWW!"
"AUGUSTUS, YOUR GONNA RIP HIS BEAK OFF!"
"WELL, HE WOULDN'T SHUT HIS BEAK SO I HAD TO SHUT IT FOR HIM!"
"Stop lying. You know you like Sealia, Augustus just admit it!"
"FLIP, FOR THE LAST TIME-THAT'S IT, COMERE! I'M GONNA RIP MORE THAN THAT BEAK OFF!
"WAITWAITWAITWAITWAITWAITWAITWAIT! AUGUSTUS CHILL! WE CAN TALK ABOUT THI-OWW MY LEG! WHAT ARE YO-OOHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNOOOOO-" Flip's screaming was cut off by a punch to the face as he smashed against the wall knocked out in an awkward pose with him upside down. Guntiver facepalmed himself while Augustus was cracking up on the floor. Erma smirked at the sight. Their bickering never got old.
"sigh-Those two go at it all day long, don't they?" she asked Sealia, who was giggling at the sight. She wiped a tear and smiled at her friend. "Yes, mon ami, zis alvays shines ze light in our day". She turned to Silver who was sitting on the couch, relaxing and healing from the beating he had gotten from Sonic.
"How are you feeling now,mon ami?" she asked. Silver smiled."I'm better now Sealia, thanks for the concern." He then looked at Tails who was sitting right next to him. Silver couldn't help but feel bad for the kid. With the whole Death Egg crisis going on and to top it if Sonic nearly going insane, Tails' days so far had been pretty dark. He tapped Tails on the shoulder who was lost in his thoughts. He jerked his head toward Silver in surprise.
"Huh-yea, what" he asked completly dazed out. Silver looked him in the eyes. "You gonna be okay, Tails?" Tails quickly nodded. "Uh-yeah I'm gonna be okay-don't worry about me-i'll be fine" he said way to fast. Silver frowned. Tails just sighed.
"I'm just not sure what's going on with him. He wasn't himsellf when he first woke up. I mean he got mad so easily when we kept questioning him about how he didn't remember. He even swore out loud. Sonic never swears. I'm just worried about him". Silver looked at Tails with sadness. The poor kid seemed so stressed out. He put a hand on Tails' shoulder.
Don't worry, tommorow when we storm the Death Egg, you won't have to worry about any of this. Sally will be saved and Eggman will be stopped". Tails felt a little better at the thought and smiled at Silver. "Thanks Silver, that actually helps me alot". Silver chuckled. "No problem. C'mon let's watch some TV". Tails' face lit up with excitement as he loved watching TV. Soon after, Sealie, Erma and Augustus joined in. Flip even recovered from Augustus' punchout and sat down with the rest of the gang. Guntiver smiled at the bonding. Everyone was laughing and having fun. Now all we need is Sonic to join us. Hopefully Amy can make him cool down. Guntiver shook is head. Of course Amy could make him feel better. She had her trusty Piko Piko Hammer. Shaking away the thoughts, Guntiver went to join his friends. Unknown to anyone, the figure was watching them through the window of the cottage. He turned around and gave the signal to a bunch of other figures who raised their guns and got ready to attack. The leading figure who gave the signal and chuckled darkly. "Now Sonic, you will face the same kind of humiliation I did years ago. Tonight will be your end!"
Meanwhile with Sonic and Amy
Sitting on the edge of a frozen lake, Sonic looked up at the night sky. It truly was an amazing view. There was light snow falling as well as millions of stars in the sky. Sonic just looked at the stars lost in his thoughts and didn't even hear the panting and footsteps behind him. It wasn't until he felt a tap on his shoulder he turned around shocked to find Amy Rose sitting right next to him, looking at him with a frown. "You made me run all this way without stopping and here you are relaxing by the lake". Sonic didn't answer. He sighed and looked up at the sky.
"Amy, do you think I'm selfish?" Sonic asked. Amy frowned at the response. How could Sonic think like that? "No. Your not. You risk your life to save everyone on this planet so how are you selfish?" Sonic then looked at Amy. "Then why did I let my emotions get the best of me and attack Silver?" "You were just mad since he said-" "Do you see? I attacked Silver because I didn't care if I killed him. I knew if Sally dies, then I won't be able live anymore. See? I only do this for myself!" The poor hedgehog was suffering from the inside. Amy just looked at him with sadness.
"That's not true. You only cared for her well-being because she is the one that can lead New Mobotropolis since Elias dissapeared. You know the citizens won't survive with Naugus in charge. Your not selfish Sonic the Hedgheog. Now get up and go shake hands with Silver". Sonic couldn't help, but smile. Amy always knew how to make someone feel better. "Wow, how corny". Amy playfully punched him in the arm. "Oh, shut up". They both giggled and smiled at each other. If it were up to them, they could've just kept staring in each others eyes the entire night. But it wasn't up to them. Things always tended to mess up at the wrong moment. A huge explosion suddenly shook both hedgehogs away from each others gaze.
"What the hell was that?" Sonic yelled. Amy looked in the distance and her eyes went wide when she saw fire. "In the village! There's a fire!" "Oh no! Tails, T-Pup, Silver and the others.." Sonic suddenly scooped up Amy bridal style and sped off toward the village. Whatever is going on, I hope everyone is okay.
Back at the village
Fire. That was the only word that came to Sonic's mind as he raced across the once colorful, snowy village that was now a fiery mess of torn down buildings ad civilians screaming. Sonic looked in horror at what was happening. He knew he had to protect these people, but also find his friends. While he was speeding through, Amy who was in his arms gasped as she saw the cause of this mess.
"Sonic, look!" she yelled. She pointed to the church that was a blazing inferno. Sonic looked where she had pointed and gasped in horror. There were robots everywhere around the church. Egg SWATs fired their flamethrowers without mercy. People screamed as they were captured and their homes were destroyed. Sonic sped up, anxiety increasing by the second. Tails, everyone where are you? Sonic suddenly came to an abrupt stop as he looked in horror at what used to be their cottage. Amy covered her mouth with both hands.
"Sonic!" Tails' voice sounded. Sonic quickly turned his head to find his little brother and robot dog come running towards him. Tails stopped in front of Sonic and gasped. The poor kid was out of breath. Sonic out both hands on Tails' shoulders.
"What the hell is going on? Why is the village under attack by Eggman's robots?" Sonic asked. Tails looked at him with a worried glance. "It's Tundra! He found us and attacked. The Arctic Freedom Fighters along with Silver are fighting them right now!" Amy pulled out her hammer. "We got to help them!" she exclaimed. Sonic nodded. "Let's go smash some bots!" They all ran off in the direction where Tundra and his goons were attacking. When they reached there, they found the Arctic Fighters engaged in a heated battle with Tundra and his men. Silver and Tundra were both fighting each other. Tundra glared at Silver.
"I heard you tried to kill my son" he said, growling. Silver's expression turned to shock. He knew damn well Tundra was talking about Rotor. This guy is Rotor's father?! Man, that's cold! Silver glared at Tundra.
"Well, I'm about to make you wish you never joined the Eggman Empire!" Silver held his arm back, ready to blast Tundra. But Tundra didn't move. He just stared at Silver, waiting for him to make his move. Before Silver could attack, he was slammed by a brute force in the back. He cried out as he fell forward. Quick as lightning, Tundra took his laser gun out and fired three shots at Silver as soon as he fell. They all hit Silver and the white hedgehog screamed as the shots pierced his fur. Tundra walked over to Silver ready to finish him off. But before he could go any closer, Guntiver stepped in front of Silver and gave Tundra a hard uppercut that sent the walrus on his back. "Nobody messes with my friends! You may be Rotor's father, but that won't stop me from hurting you!" Tundra got up and lunged at Guntiver shouting curses and tackled him. Both men rolled around, trying to get the best of each other. Amy saw Guntiver was in trouble. "We have to help him!" Before anyone could move, the thing that attacked Silver stepped in their way. The figure let out a laugh.
"It's been a while Sonic, my loathesome copy" he said. Sonic's face read utter shock. Of all people he hadn't expected this guy to come back. Tails and Amy looked at the figure in fear, especially Amy. The figure had a blue color on his armor, a torso with a hole to fire a laser, rocket boots, spiky head and glowing red eyes. Sonic knew this guys was worse than the demon himself as he had tried to kill Sonic and his friends many times, and has almost succeeded in doing so. Sonic finally got the urge to speak up and his voice cracked when he said the figure's name.
"Metal Sonic?!" he said. Sonic couldn't believe it. This was the same person that had tried to kill Sonic by kidnapping Amy back on Little Planet. This was the same guy who had tried to trick Sonic and his friends by taking over Eggman's empire and faking himself as the mad doctor himself. Hell, this was the same monster who put Antoine in a coma! Metal Sonic let out a laugh as he was amused by the Mobian's surprise. "Miss me Sonic? Because I certainly missed you... missed trying to rip you apart!" the robotic hedgehog let out a maniacal laugh that could even make Eggman look like a kid. Sonic's eyes narrowed down into slits. One, he hated Metal for all the things he had done, and two his jokes were just as terrible as himself.
"What, so eggy finally got rid of the silent killer and put Mr. Creepy back online? Wow, that's so not like him considering the last time you had a voice chip!" Sonic spat. Metal stopped laughing and glared at Sonic. Amy backed away in fear. She loathed Metal. Ever since she had been kidnapped as a little kid, this robot always haunted her in her dreams. She feared this robot alot. Sonic saw this and stepped in front, shielding his friends. "Amy, I'll handle Metal. You go help Silver and make sure he's okay. Tails, go help out the Arctic Fighters in taking out eggy's goons." Tails nodded. "Cmon T-Pup, let's smash some robots!" The two ran away. Amy however stayed. She pulled out her hammer. "No way, Sonic. This guy is a monster and you know as well as I do, Metal is far too strong. I'm gonna help you take him on!" Sonic knew that was a horrible idea since Metal was too strong even for her and he could just capture her, and use her as a hostage and kill Sonic. "No, Amy. This is my fight. This guys wants to prove who the real Sonic is and I'm gonna show him. Besides Silver needs some assistance". Amy frowned. "Sonic Maurice Hedgehog, I'm not leavin-" "No Amy, just please believe me. I got this". He looked at Amy and gave her one of the looks Tails always gave. Amy stood her ground and looked him in the eye. Metal stood and watched with amusement. Oh how these fleshies didn't know that tonight was going to be their demise, no matter how hard they tried. Finally after a long stare-down, Amy threw her hands up in defeat. "Oh fine, you win! Just be careful, okay?" Sonic smiled. "Okay!" He exclaimed giving her a thumbs-up and his trademark grin. Amy ran to help Silver who was trying to recover from the laser shots. Sonic slowly turned to Metal, who was just staring at him, as if he were waiting. Man, talk about creepy, Sonic thought. Hard to believe this guy thinks he's me. Metal laughed at the commotion that just happened and got ready in a fighting stance.
"How touching. Now with the interuptions gone, we can finally have our fight Sonic." Sonic glared at Metal and got into his own fighting stance. "Yeah, and your gonna get destroyed just like every time Metal!" Metal laughed. "We'll see about that". And with that, both hedgehogs charged toward each other shouting battle cries. Sonic faked a punch to the left than tried to hit with the right, but Metal blocked it and tried to kick Sonic, but the organic hedgehog jumped out of the way. Both then grappled arms trying to get the best of the other, but they were both evenly matched and gave up. Sonic then leapt up and homing attacked, but the Metal did the same and both homing attacks collided. They kept this one for a while until neither prevailed and got back on the ground. Sonic started running while Metal flew beside him. Both were equally fast and split directions, one going left and the other going right. Sonic looked to his left to see Metal on the other side of the lake. Metal looked deadly and wanted to win this at all costs. Well, that's not gonna happen! Sonic thought as he raced Metal. He turned left and Metal turned right when they both made it to the other side. Now the two hedgehogs were charging towards each other. Metal sped up as well as Sonic, both attempting to run the other down. However Sonic knew this fight was at a stalemate and decided to trick Metal. He held his arm back as if he was going to punch Metal. Metal Sonic saw this and got ready to block Sonic's punch. But before the hedgehogs collided with each other, Sonic jumped and thrust his foot out catching Metal on the chin. The robotic hedgehog flew back into a wall but flipped himself back so he landed feet first and used the momentum to charge right back at Sonic, boosting into him. Sonic managed to cross his arms to block the attack but he instead was pushed back in the snow. He fell down, taken back by the force of that attack.
"He's really not kidding around this time" Sonic thought, "I gotta step up my game if I don't want to get spin-dashed apart!" Said hedgehog as his foot lashed out just as Metal was charging at him. However Metal caught Sonic's foot and flipped him over Metal's head. Sonic landed face-first in the snow. Growling, he turned around and curled into a ball before spin-dashing towards Metal. The robot just kicked Sonic away like a football and pile dived Sonic to the ground.
"Gahhh!" Sonic cried out as Metal Sonic's claw was still gripping his neck. Metal just tossed Sonic into a wall before flying toward him and punching him through the wall. The whole wall just collapsed after that and Sonic slid across the ice as he fell. He slid toward the edge and fell off but managed to grab the edge at the last second as he held on to dear life. "Uh oh, not good!" Sonic yelped in fear as he saw the ground below him was a long drop and there were also sharp icicles pointing up at him. Sonic tried to haul himself back up, but the ice started to crack. Metal then stomped over to Sonic and laughed at the other hedgehog's misfortune.
"Oh Sonic, look where we are now. You were gloating about how I was going to get destroyed, but look now. This is your end. Of course, despite my function is to destroy, I will give you one last chance to redeem yourself. I'll let you live and you and I team up to become the world's greatest conquerers. You get half the world, I get half the world and then we could both overthrow Eggman and his army and eliminate anyone who gets in our way, hmm? What do you say dear brother?" Sonic just glared at Metal. How dare he ask Sonic if he wanted to take over the world? "Fuck you Metal, I'd never even dream about teaming up and taking over the world with you. I'd rather die." Metal couldn't believe it. Sonic was refusing such a fine offer. What kind of an idiot was he. Metal then glared at Sonic. Well, if the hedgehog would rather die, then Metal would gladly fulfill that wish.
"Hmph, your wish. Goodbye Sonic". Metal then stomped the ground really hard and the ice completly shattered on the impact, as Sonic plummeted down to his death, screaming. Sonic looked down to see he was heading right for the spiky icicles. He then looked and saw that the impact of Metal's foot had cause the ice to completly break apart sending big platforms of ice falling with Sonic. No, I'm not ready to go just yet, Metal. Spinning into a ball, Sonic launched himself on the platform below him and steadied himself. Just before the platform made contact with the spikes, Sonic leapt off, the momentum giving him more air and rapidly homing attacked faling platforms and got to safe ground. He got up and blasted across a wooden bridge and into the caverns. Metal had seen this happen and roared in anger. He was so close. So close to killing that damn hedgehog and he still manages to survive. "No matter, he is just delaying the inevitable", Metal said before jumping off and blasting after Sonic in the treacherous caverns.
Meanwhile back with the Arctic Freedom Fighters
There was chaos everywhere. Buildings on fire, people screaming for their lives, as they ran. Egg SWATs and legionized soldiers stormed the village. However the Arctic Freedom Fighters, along with the help of Amy, Tails and Silver managed to halt them and were pushing Eggman's forces back. Erma kicked an Egg SWAT and punched a soldier. "Keep pushing them back everyone, we're almost there!" She yelled as she spin kicked another soldier. Augustus was tearing through the Egg SWATs without any problem, since he was the brute of the team. Flip, Sealia and Tails were doing okay, with the exception of the burns and scratches they had. Amy and Silver were back to back fighting off a horde of Egg SWATs and soldiers. Guntiver was still going at it with the Holoska Regional Egg Boss Tundra Walrus, father of Freedom Fighter Rotor Walrus. They both grunted as they wrestled with each other. Tundra may be old, but he was still very strong. Luckily, Guntiver was doing good against the walrus.
"You Freedom Fighters don't stand a chance against the Egg Army! We are too powerful with our advancements and superior technology! Just surrender and join the Eggman Empire if you value your lives!" Tundra yelled. Guntiver just punched Tundra, got up and dropkicked him on the ground. "Never! We will never work for someone murderous like Eggman! How about you guys just rebel against him and join us so we can eliminate that threat! Mobius can be at peace!" Tundra glared at Guntiver before grabbing him and kneeing him. He then punched Guntiver hard in the face, and kicked him down. He then proceeded to stomp on Guntiver like a madman. "Yeah, well at what cost? To go back to the weak people we once were? Is that what you want? Well that's not happening! Eggman has made us stronger! With him leading us, there's no one that can stop us! We used to be good before, but now we are BETTER!" Tundra shouted as he stomped on Guntiver harder. The artic wolf was gasping, trying to stop Tundra, but it was no use. Tundra then lifted Guntiver by the neck and threw him into a nearby tree. He then took out a gun, not a laser one, but an actual gun that could kill. He aimed the gun at Guntiver, who was struggling to get up and smiled. "We are much stronger now! Destroy the weak! You are all pathetic!" Before he could pulled the trigger, the gun was snatched out of Tundra's hand in some cyan energy and was carried to Silver who held it in his hand. Tundra gaped in shock at Silver who just smiled.
"You say we are weak, right? You guys think your stronger and superior, huh? Then how come we are pushing your forces back and destroying them?" Tundra looked at his army and noticed that they were starting to retreat. H growled at their failure. How DARE they. This was a sign of weakness and Tundra was not going to tolerate it. Army or not, he would have his victory today. He then lunged at Silver in an effort to grab the gun, but the telekinetic hedgehog just sidestepped the walrus and let him fall face-first in the snow. Tundra growled and tried to attack again, but couldn't move. He then saw the cyan energy around him and Silver with his palm out facing him. Silver then walked up to Tundra and put the gun to the walrus' head. Guntiver gasped when he saw this. Silver glared at Tundra, whose eyes were now wide with shock.
"You said that we didn't have the courage to do anything. That we were always peace-makers and never supported violence and that's what made us weak right?" Silver's finger slid to the trigger. Tundra shut his eyes, not wanting to see. But instead of hearing a gunshot, he heard a click and saw that Silver had unloaded the bullets when he snatched the gun away and there was nothing in the gun. Silver then spoke. "That's because we're not monsters like you" he said before turning the gun upside down and smashing against Tundra's forehead, knocking the walrus out cold. Silver then threw the gun down and ran over to Guntiver to help him. The arctic wolf laughed. "Man, you had me worried there! I thought you were gonna shoot Tundra dead right there!" Silver grinned. "Of course not! Tundra is Rotor's dad and I would never hurt anyone's family. Despite his father betraying him, I'm sure Rotor still loves his dad and wouldn't want him to get hurt". Guntiver nodded as he stood up. He looked at the village, which still had some of Eggman's forces fighting. "Cmon, let's go take out the remainder of these bots!" Guntiver said as he and Silver ran off to liberate the village.
In the distance at a large cavern, a loud boom was heard followed by an explosion, that showed there was a heated battle taking place.
TO BE CONTINUED