Sonic Ballistic

by Shblue

A few years after Sonic & Knuckles, Dr. Robotnik returns with a raging yet calculated vengance to conquer Mobius and punish Sonic forever. What seems like an ordinary adventure at first will slowly transform and change everything Sonic knows about being a hero. - Childhood fangame idea reimagined as a hardcore epic, and depicted in text. Finished 2010, uploaded here first.

6. Sonic Ballistic, Part 5

Part 5

Eraser Egg [Act 1] (5/24)

Super Sonic will be flying through the sky at high speeds. There is a fifteen minute counter and he must not waste too much time. He will constantly move forward, but he can move up and down, left and right, and anywhere in between. After a short period, the Eraser Egg will begin firing at him. He will need to dodge the lasers and missiles which will increase in number as he gets closer. If he gets hit, he will be knocked back and slowed down. Halfway through the level, he'll reach the giant battleship's underside. He will come across many cannons of varying sizes. The small ones he can just break through, but larger ones he'll need to fly around. Various mechanical parts will also jut out of its body, forcing Sonic to react quickly. When there is a smooth stretch, flying robots will released to attack Sonic. These consist of the small robots from the Egg Tempest and Egg S-Robos. Sonic can just dash through them to destroy them, but their attacks will slow him down. After several stretches of increasing difficulty, Sonic will then change his movement and dash up the side of ship. He will be moving through the trenches and avoiding the various fire and robots that will attack him on the way up. As he reaches the top, he will be knocked into by Mechanix.

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[Act 1 Boss : MECHANIX LV.5 [ 'GRANDMASTER' : ▿ ▿ ▿ ▿ ▿ ▿ ▿ ] RD.2 ]

Super Sonic will be rushing to the left over the very complex top of the Egg Eraser. As cannons fire him and as he dodges the many structures that rush toward him, Mechanix will follow and attack him simultaneously. He will try to close-in and slice at Sonic, but with his speed he can avoid it easily.

- He will fire his charged laser beam and his rapid-fire cannon much more often than before to compensate for the difference.

Being invincible and much faster, Super Sonic makes quick work of him. If he can land five hits, Mechanix will activate his white shield and withdraw for a moment. After 30 hits in total, Mechanix is beaten.

After winning, Mechanix will stop hovering and crash into the ship, leaving Sonic to fly ahead. However, he'll run out of power and fall as well.

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[Act 2]

Hitting the ground running, Sonic will begin the second act. The fifteen minutes will still be counting down. Sonic will have to time his jumps carefully to keep his speed high, looking for an opening into the warship. Cannons and robots will block his way and he won't be able to simply run through them to move on. A trick to avoid some of the larger cannons is to stay under their line of fire as they cannot aim down. The many robots that will come to attack Sonic can also be destroyed by cannon fire. The surface of the ship will also have open electric conduits and pipes which burst out steam, presenting more danger on his race. As the top of the Eraser Egg at this area was not meant to be traveled around, Sonic will not find a single path that will lead him anywhere, but multiple routes around the high variety of structures that block his way. Finally, Sonic will come across a giant cannon that he cannot run under or through. It has an incomplete metal support filled with platforms and long vertical tubes that Sonic can jump and wall jump up. After a long way through that narrow area, he'll be underneath the cannon. There are small metal catwalk platforms hanging underneath it that Sonic must carefully jump across. The last one allows Sonic to enter inside the large cannon. Down its empty interior, he'll come to the firing room.

The room is very large, the walls dark from being so far out of sight. Sonic stands on a long flat catwalk that spans the entire room, from the muzzle to the giant lens that the energy for the cannon blast comes from. Walking halfway down the room, a voice will halt Sonic.

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"Sonic the hedgehog! Stop where you are."

A robot drops from the ceiling and lands before Sonic. He resembles an echidna, except is very muscular and shorter. He is very steampunk in design, mostly consisting of pipes and gears.

"I am Scrap, the first created of Mechanix's Children. My sole purpose..."

He points at Sonic, a whirring sound heard in his joints.

"...is to destroy you, Sonic!"

Sonic stood his ground. "Child, huh? Well then, kid, I defeated your father not too long ago. You're no match for me."

Scrap took a step back, and sputtered, "You couldn't have! He's the Ultimate Being! You're just using your lying tricks. Doctor Robotnik told us about you. He said you live in a world of lies and want to turn this world into lies, too! You're evil!"

"You're just one of his robot henchmen, don't speak as if you have a will. What kind of trick is this?"

Scrap got flustered and shouted, "No! I was roboticized by Doctor Robotnik in the great Image of our father, Mechanix. I was the first! I am not like the other robots, I don't need a power source."

Sonic paused.

"We live off the world around us, like living beings. We live in the real world, not the world of lies like you and your kind!"

Sonic quickly made sense of the situation. "So even Robotnik is using the design of Mechanix..."

"That's enough!" Scrap blew steam out of his shoulders and hips. "I'm going to be the greatest son of Mechanix and finish his task for him. I'm going to show that I am an Ultimate Being too!"

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[Act 2 Boss : SCRAP]

Scrap will mainly attack in close-range fighting.

- He will throw high punches and kicks that Sonic can duck under,

- or low punches and kicks that Sonic can jump over.

He moves slow enough that Sonic won't get hit while dodging. If Sonic tries to attack then, Scrap will guard, causing Sonic to bounce off. If Sonic tries to escape, Scrap will quickly chase him. He will jump shortly after Sonic jumps and attack him in mid-air if they collide. However, since he jumps after Sonic, Sonic has a chance to dash beneath him as he's still falling.

- If Sonic is far enough away, Scrap will fire about thirty thin plasma bolts that will arc over the arena and fall over Sonic like rain. As Sonic moves between the falling bolts, Scrap will run up to attack when they have all landed.

Sonic can attack Scrap after successfully dodging five close-range attacks. Eight hits will defeat him.

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Scrap collapses to the ground. "I'm just a robot, after all..."

"Just let go, you'll be released from the roboticization soon," Sonic consoled.

Scrap didn't look at Sonic. "The first civilization of this world... all the species... the echidnas, the hedgehogs, the foxes... they all lived in tribes, in clans, and they fought endlessly. They lived each day in blood, killing each other over food and entering their territory... Then they found a source of power that would allow them all to survive, the Black Rocks, hidden in the ground..."

Sonic stepped forward. "What are you talking about? The first civilization?"

"Come closer, Sonic... let me try... one last... time..." Scrap muttered, then suddenly glowed brightly.

Sonic quickly jumped away as Scrap exploded violently, shrapnel flying wildly across the giant room. He quickly looked at the ball of flame and smoke before him. He rushed back, into the smoke and standing in the incredible heat, he looked at the shadow beneath the inferno. What was left of Scrap were broken, cracked, and in multiple pieces. Sonic quickly stepped out of the flames and froze. He couldn't stop looking at the fire.

"Robotnik designed Scrap to explode... he had no intention of letting him being deroboticized... he made it so he'd die so violently..."

He gripped his hands tightly.

"I can't allow him to get away."

Sonic looked to an hallway in the distance and ran towards it at full speed.

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[Act 3]

The hallway will curve down and then make a wide spiral (like in Lava Reef Zone from Sonic & Knuckles) around a central column. As he runs down, the ship will shake and Robotnik will announce that they are now entering the portal. After ten turns, Sonic will find himself dashing down a long corridor with small robot resistance. The corridors are brightly lit up by streaks of fluorescent lighting, with smooth steel walls marked by small division gaps that crack across it like lightning. Small glowing consoles and monitors rush by in a blur of light, as well as windows which peer out into space as stars fly by.

At the end of the corridor, Sonic will be sent reeling down twisting paths that will make him roll into a spin ball and hurtle through giant storage rooms. He will be running up walls, across ceilings, through loops, corkscrews, jumping on platforms that span large chasms within the ship, wall jumping up vertical shafts, and in general moving at a very fast pace. All the robots he has ran into before in his adventures will return, including all the Egg Robos (any Egg T-Robos he runs into can be avoided, of course). He will also come across many hazards: arcing electricity, burning steam, uncovered energy, spikes, and moving machinery that can squish him. Many objects, such as doors, will block his path and he'll need to spindash through them. Some areas will be specifically designed as traps for Sonic, such as a room he'll fall into that has closing walls, or pipes which burst near him. Overall, the design is very sleek and smooth, although there may be a large amount of heavy machinery with pipes and gears visible. At the end, Sonic will enter an elevator that moves diagonally to the bottom-left, and he'll meet another enemy.

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"Sonic the hedgehog, your rampage ends here."

A tall robot with a thick torso stood before him. He was very organic and fluid in design, but small and short. He has a black visor covering his eyes, and clawed hands.

"I am Death, the second created of Mechanix's Children. My only charged task is to kill you."

Sonic looked at the elevator walls, and tries breaking through the windows, but they are too sturdy.

"Damn it..."

"You cannot escape me, hedgehog. You will die in this elevator."

Sonic backed away. "I'm not worried about my death. If you're like Scrap, you'll self-destruct and die when I defeat you."

"Yes, that is true. Unlike your people of lies, we understand the finiteness of being. We all may strive to be like our father, the Ultimate Being Mechanix, but we know we will never achieve eternal life and grace as he did."

Sonic spat, "What's with that?! You fools are just having Robotnik spew that nonsense into your empty robotic skulls. I've defeated Mechanix several times over, he's weak."

"But have you killed him?"

Sonic stopped. It was true, every time he fought Mechanix he never completely destroyed him. When Mechanix stopped fighting, so did he. He held back...

"In the pursuit of my father, I will kill you and achieve my small purpose, just as Mechanix seeks his great goal."

Death whips up his arm and begins firing.

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[Act 3 Boss : DEATH]

Death is much faster than Scrap and he has shorter breaks between attacks. He will start out far away and unload a gun from his arm.

- He'll then send wave after wave of spread shots which Sonic will need to jump through or roll under.

- He'll also have a very quick laser which will target Sonic and fire three rapid, thin energy blasts.

- He will also throw small energy grenades at Sonic which will have an explosion twice their radii.

If Sonic can dodge these attacks and run towards Death, he can land a hit. Four hits will change his attack pattern. He will then charge Sonic and will not back off.

- He will continually slash at him and follow him into the air.

- Scrap will also have a dashing attack that will close the distance in an instant.

The key to victory is to counterattack when Sonic sees a chance. Like Scrap, he will jump after Sonic does, so if Sonic is cornered he can jump and then quickly spindash under him and attack him from behind. Four more hits will defeat him.

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"I could never even approach a margin of Mechanix's great glory. I deserve this death..."

Sonic felt pity and suspicion. But he did not want to see anyone die. "No, you don't need to die. I only defeated you in battle, that's all! Come on, come on," Sonic urged, walking towards Death. "Be like your father and get up again. You don't need to die!"

"The second civilization of this world..."

"What? Wait, again? This again?!" Sonic sputtered as he shook him by his shoulders.

"...using the Black Rocks, they found technology and prosperity. All the people of the world lived together, in one metropolis that spanned a continent. Peace had restored the world. Yet they sought more power, greedy for advancement. They created the Black Emerald. They were all corrupted by its potential, and they brought true chaos to the world. They killed off each other and fled from their own world..."

"Why did Robotnik program you to know this? He's still toying with me, thinking I'm no threat, huh. Damn it!"

"Sonic... I will kill you here..."

Bits of his smooth shell snap off, revealing a dense net of wires. They pop and fizz briefly before electricity starts to arc onto the metal wall and floor. The arcs increase in frequency and the light inside flickers. Sonic feels a rush of energy start to zap his legs and he reflexively hops. The light flickers faster and the arcs only connect back to Death's body. Death continues to stare at him.

"Robotnik programmed you to do this, too. To die like this. He'll kill just to screw with me. Damn him-"

A rush of electricity comes up through the ground, causing Sonic's muscles to spasm and make him jump into the elevator wall. The light stops flickering and becomes very bright, then pops. Several compartments in the elevator burst out from fire. Smoke quickly builds inside. Sonic can't speak, being electrocuted by the metal on the wall and floor. Death continues to stare at him, although he stopped moving. The brakes start to grind, screaming, into the wheels. Sonic falls to the floor, his breath staggering on the smoke as his limbs flail, attached to the metal like they were glued. An explosion rips through the side of the elevator, taking out a large chunk of its underside as well. The brakes are no longer heard and the elevator picks up speed. Sonic stops jerking, however, and finally catches his breath. His body is completely numb, but he slowly crawls to his feet. Electricity no longer burst out of Death's body. Sonic tries to walk against the rushing air and his unresponsive legs, but he stumbles back onto the floor.

"Not again... I won't let another person die..."

Sonic moves knee over knee towards the lifeless robot.

"Even if you're fully roboticized... I can't be like Robotnik..."

He plants his foot.

"I can't just kill like Robotnik..."

He plants his other foot and slowly walks towards Death. The elevator, having completely lost control, rockets down the shaft. Lights within it blur by in long streaks of blue and white. Sonic finally regains feeling in his limbs, and although shaky, he grabs onto the robot. He hoists him over his shoulder, but Death is limp.

"I'm tired of all of these deaths..."

He slowly backs off, carrying Death, and turns. He jumps when he sees dozens of Egg S-Robos chasing the elevator. As they close in, they begin firing. Sonic looks at them, grimaces, and jumps off the car.

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[Act 4]

Sonic will be unable to spindash and he will also not roll into a spinball when he jumps as he carries Death. He will therefore be unable to attack. Sonic will start out running down the shaft, the elevator car rolling out of view. The approaching Egg S-Robos will fire lasers and missiles which Sonic will need to avoid. As he runs, more S-Robos will come and fire. After about thirty seconds, though, the car will finally collide with the bottom of the shaft. Sonic will quickly reach the same point and jump through the burning hole. The car breaks through several layers of metal and pipework in between. Sonic will need to hop over the sharp edges from the pipes as well as arcing electricity and blowing steam. He'll finally see a catwalk which he can jump up to. There, he'll lay Death down and move on.

The next section of the act will be concentrated in the ventilation of the ship. Sonic will run and jump through extremely narrow metal shafts and move precariously over giant fans. Steam will burst and rocket him in their respective directions, and he'll need to move carefully both with the incredible wind moving against and behind him. Next, he will crash into the hydraulics area. The machinery will be similar to that found in the ventilation area, except concerning water. It will soon lead into large rooms full of dangerous thrusting and rotating parts which threaten to crush and burn Sonic alive. He'll need to run through colliding pistons and jump across spinning gears, all while avoiding robots that are sent after him. Connecting the various areas are smaller maintenance shafts which consist of ugly iron plating covered with rivets barely covering pipework, dimly lit by red lights. The largest area will surround the engine. Sonic will be surrounded by every hazard he has yet encountered and in close proximity. The areas besides the pure machinery ones are control areas that are filled with robots to slow Sonic down. After breaching several control areas, Sonic will finally enter the last area. It consists of small rooms connected by pipework that shoot Sonic around like the tubes in Metropolis Zone from Sonic 2. At the end, Sonic will re-enter the main corridors (similar in design to Act 3). He will reach a long and tall corridor with large windows overlooking space, showing the Egg Eraser's monstrous velocity. In the middle of the hallway stands a thin and tall robot.

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"I am Launch, the third created of Mechanix's Children." the robot spoke. He was ornately designed, with spirals and spires coming off of his flamboyant armor. He was mostly white except for a slowly pulsing rainbow color within the tiny crevices that mark his body. He holds a lot of armor on his legs and arms especially.

"You shall trespass no further. This will be the last place you move."

Sonic jumped ahead and rolled under his legs. Seeing the door in the distance, he runs but is stopped by a giant shield that suddenly appears. Turning around, the entire area is filled with small, floating white orbs. The robot quickly rearranges his limbs to lock to a more convenient location as it bends between the orbs and moves towards Sonic. Without having moved the individual limbs (only their joints), the robot comes before Sonic. He notices they have extended.

"You seem to misunderstand. You seem to think as Mechanix's Children, we have fallen so easily to you."

"What? What are you talking about?"

Launch rearranged himself again so that his head had a better angle to look at Sonic.

"Our goals aren't actually to kill you. Of course not. Do you believe what your enemies tell you so easily, Sonic the hedgehog?"

Sonic knitted his brow, but was struck. He never questioned the words of another before, not even Robotnik's words.

"We are created in the Image of Mechanix as his children, and hold Black Rocks within us to increase our power. With so many Black Rocks, so many of us, Mechanix's children. Us, with the potential to become the new Mechanix."

"Why are you telling me this? Is this something Robotnik programmed?"

The robot rearranged its arm and stabbed it near Sonic's head and stuck it in the shield. It drew closer.

"We are roboticized people, Sonic, we still have our free will. We chose to be roboticized in the first place."

"What?!" Sonic yelled, incredulous.

"Sonic, you're always speeding around so that you don't see the details. Why do you trust this image of the world you have? Why do you believe all of the lies?"

He jabbed another arm into the shield.

"We came to Doctor Robotnik. He showed us that everything is wrong. He showed us the true world."

He quickly moved his leg to his stomach and stabbed at Sonic's chest. Sonic rolled to the side around Launch.

"There must be no memory of Mobius. The world shall be completely reborn."

He quickly rearranged his parts and moved rapidly towards Sonic.

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[Act 4 Boss : LAUNCH]

Launch, as described, will rearrange his arms, legs, and head often. He only moves at the joints, but he moves very rapidly, often changing position in sharp, quick moments. As he is long, sometimes Sonic can fit within his limbs. While he moves about, the floating white orbs will at various points connect with each other. They are all dangerous to the touch and basically cordon the arena for a few seconds. After that, they retract for less time and then connect to a different orb. As Sonic avoids both the orbs and Launch, Launch will strike using his body.

- At first, he simply stabs at Sonic with an extendable limb,

- but later the limb will be connected to another that will spin at a fast rate like a buzz-saw – effectively tripling the radius of its range and forcing Sonic to move faster.

- He'll also fire smaller, slow moving bullets at Sonic. They will curve around the white orbs and have their trajectory altered by their "gravity", but Launch will fire many of these bullets.

- Launch will also make his limbs all rotate an equidistant angle from each other so that they form a pinwheel. He will use this to move from floor to ceiling to floor, and Sonic can only avoid it by staying within the gap between his limbs.

- Later in the battle he will also fire a laser intermittently at Sonic while he moves in pinwheel fashion. Throughout the battle, Sonic can attempt to hit Launch.

Twelve hits will defeat him.

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As Launch collapsed, the shield dissipated, Sonic turned his head away and began to run towards the door on the other side of the hallway. A shot rings out and Sonic yelps, his back suddenly bursting in hot, searing pain. He is knocked up and onto his side, where he skids across the smooth floor. He painfully gets up and looks back to see Launch, slowly dragging his mess towards Sonic. His cannon still aims at him.

"Doom is the fourth child of Mechanix. So far, we all had the ability to process chaos energy into energy, and with the Black Rocks, amplify that power. But we had no chaos energy to begin with. The core reactor is filled with chaos energy radiation. He protects it. You will not survive the true power of Doctor Robotnik's new robots."

Sonic tried to get back up, but Launch blasted at him again.

"The third civilization of this world created Mechanix. Mechanix was first used in petty warfare, misused by his creators. However, they saw the true reason why he was created, and built Images to worship his Ultimate Form. They built a new world, but separated into seven lands that eyed each other with suspicion. They soon descended into war, with their final creation being the Chaos Emeralds."

Sonic rolled back and forth until he finally got back on his feet.

"Mechanix, the savior of the world, took those Emeralds and was a step closer to perfection. Even being incomplete, his grace cleaned the world of its evil and corruption."

Sonic was running towards the door, and had nearly reached it, when his ears suddenly popped. He fell to the floor, and felt himself sliding. He turned to the side and saw that Launch had shot a window, which was beginning to shatter as air rushed out.

"You will survive this, Sonic the hedgehog. But you will not win."

Pieces of Launch flew out the hole. It was getting larger, and Sonic felt an incredible pull. He struggled onto his feet and moved. He didn't look back, his legs barely able to keep him standing against the incredible pressure gradient. Only a few feet from the door, he reaches it and the door opens automatically. A gale throws him down, and he is quick enough to just barely grasp a pipe in the hallway. He looks back and sees Launch being dragged towards the hole. Sonic shouts 'No!' but his voice is lost in the sucked-out air. The window finally shatters completely, and Launch is thrown through. He flies out perpendicular to the Eraser Egg and his pieces begin to scatter into space. Sonic can barely hold on himself, his arms numb. Every second he can feel the veins in his arm bulge and his muscles scathe. He loses grip, and quickly loses energy to hold on. Just before then, a steel shutter rolls over the windows in the room. As he drops, the shutter covers the hole, and he falls onto the floor. As the shutter covers the remainder of the window, he slides across the floor and lands into the wall under the windows.

Holding his arm, he gets back up. He takes a good few breaths and lets his ears readjust, then walks towards the open door. He doesn't look back.

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[Act 5]

The walls are now tightly bound with large, jagged steel plates and thin, diagonal pylons. There are large mosaics of tiny, triangular light blue lights and straw-size energy fibers branch across all the surfaces of the rooms, with tiny energy pulses racing through them at high speeds. Areas are separated by doors, which may open automatically or require a spindash to break through.

The hallways are short in length and medium in height, and have many conjunctions and break off into multiple paths. There are some tall rooms that separate the hallways, which at first may have elevators or stairs for Sonic to use. There may also be somewhat taller rooms that have active generators, tanks, and very complicated machinery in the background, and tricky platforms separating both sides of the room. Sonic may need to activate bridges in significantly long ones.

The enemies in the level will initially be the normal mix of robots and Egg Robos, but one-thirds through, Sonic will run into a new type of robot. These will be bipedal and resemble Scrap, Death, and Launch. Henceforth they are called 'Mechanix Children'. They have much smarter intelligence than the other robots and will follow Sonic through doors and areas. They will attack in a variety of ways, by firing simple rapid fire laser cannons to locking-on with missiles or energy beams, to close-combat slashes or punches. Four hits will defeat one, and they will only collapse (instead of releasing a ring or animal).

As Sonic proceeds, the fibers embedded into all the structures will become thicker and the energy will flow slower. The lights will also become darker and more blue and the walls and floors will be more jagged with irregular shaped steel plates. The vertical rooms will have platforms that Sonic can jump up or down and the generator rooms will have trickier jumps. The enemies will have more and more of the Mechanix Children and less of the normal type of robots. Two-thirds through, some hallways will change to be a metal mesh tube inside a cylinder of rotating, moving energy. The vertical rooms will lose nearly all platforms and Sonic will need to wall jump to move in them.

Near the end, Sonic will come to a large iron door guarded by several of the Mechanix Children. After defeating them, Sonic will need to destroy four of the electric locks in the room that are in different, hard-to-reach places. After that, the door will open and Sonic will enter a catwalk that is on the perimeter of an immensely large and empty chamber. Far in the distance and center of the room is a very complicated mechanical and transparent sphere that is filled with high-activity energy and a column that reaches from wall to wall.

At the point where the catwalk reaches the column, Sonic will stop. It is so large that there is effectively a wall before him. He's about to move when a familiar figure jumps out from its top.

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After landing, it says, "Hello, Sonic the hedgehog."

"Mechanix, you never die."

"Doom, get it," Mechanix replied.

Before Sonic could react, a shutter opened in the column, revealing another robot. It looked modern and in the style of most of Robotnik's creations. It was somewhat taller than Sonic and had a large torso, arms and legs.

"Understood." He quickly ran out and leaped up the column.

"What-"

"Your willpower never dies, Sonic. You fight on even though you have constantly lost."

"I haven't lost yet. As long as I fight you and Robotnik, the battle is still on. You haven't killed me yet."

"That will change soon enough. Doctor Robotnik will win no matter what cost. I will accomplish my task and kill you, no matter what cost."

"I've defeated you even with all seven Chaos Emeralds, twice! You have nothing else."

Suddenly, the brightness of the sphere in the room was completely shut out. There was a very loud groaning throughout the entire ship. The room turned dark except for the small emergency lights which lit up tiny areas of the room and catwalk. After a few seconds, the sphere glowed again, except with a white color.

A loudspeaker blares out. "Who is there in the reactor chamber?! Sonic? Haha, you damned fool! Did you think you could simply take out the Black Emerald to stop the Eraser Egg? Hahaha! And then die! Why, you are even too late to try."

A hologram monitor suddenly appeared off the side of the catwalk, and Sonic turned to look at it. It showed a video taken from a camera on the outside of the ship. In the distance was a few planets and asteroids, and a sun far away.

"We are approaching the Mobian solar system, and soon the amplified power from the Black Emerald will surge through the thousands of cannons of this ship onto your inferior world!"

Mechanix took a step forward. "Do not think you can escape this room."

The robot from before, Doom, jumps next to Mechanix, holding the Black Emerald. "The Chaos Emeralds will be able to power the ship for only a few minutes. The ship withdraws too much power."

Mechanix took it and placed it inside his chest. He instantly began to glow, his eyes disappearing into white from the heat. "The energy from the Chaos Emeralds still circulates within me, and with this I will become even stronger. I will destroy you, Sonic."

"So, you're willing to risk Robotnik's grand war machine for the sake of killing me? You've gotten selfish, Mechanix."

Doom shouted, "Shut up! You have no right to speak to the Ultimate Being like that. He is going to return the world to perfection! His is the true power!"

"I don't care. I'll destroy both of you and this entire blasted ship. Robotnik is going down."

Mechanix began to float, and his white shield flashed around him. "You will never stop Doctor Robotnik. When the sun rises on Mobius, his will shall be complete!"

Doom leaped over Sonic, cornering him between the two. Sonic looked to Mechanix, and ran at him.

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[Act 5 Boss : MECHANIX LV.6 [ 'DOMINUS' : ▼ ] + DOOM]

This battle will take place on the catwalk that is connected to the perimeter of the large circular room. Sonic will run between Mechanix who floats ahead, and Doom who chases from behind. When they come to the column that connects on opposite sides of the wall, they will enter a narrow tunnel that leads into a large mechanical chamber with energy moving freely on the ceiling.

- Doom will attack Sonic directly if he slows down too much,

- and he occasionally fires a large energy blast at Sonic.

- He'll also load up his rocket booster in his ankles and jet towards Sonic for a punching attack.

- He could also fly into the air and drop down to attack, or fly into the air and fire energy blasts down at Sonic.

If Sonic can attack him while he's not running, he will damage him. 12 hits will defeat him, causing him to collapse.

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Mechanix, however, cannot be attacked because of his white, spherical shield.

- He will fire many thin lasers down at Sonic and toss condensed energy orbs which explode on contact with the ground.

- He can swoop down and stay hovering behind Sonic, drop onto the ground and make a dashing slash attack off screen (only if Doom is defeated) to return behind him, or land and jump twice to also return behind him. He can perform the attacks in the opposite direction, as well.

To damage him, Sonic must attack Mechanix from below while they are in the column chamber so that he is pushed into the energy. After two times, the shield will dissipate. Mechanix will then add new attacks, such as:

- flying over Sonic and firing large laser beams downward,

- creating a sphere that explodes in shock waves with gaps Sonic can jump through,

- and an instantaneous dash to Sonic's position for a slash attack.

After twenty-six hits, he will fall as well.

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Mechanix short-circuits, electricity arcing around him. Sonic spindashes into him again and takes the Black Emerald.

"You can't win. You will never win."

Mechanix simply looks at Sonic. Sonic doesn't say anything more and starts charging a new spindash. Suddenly, he is knocked out of it and is sent tumbling down the catwalk. Behind him stands Doom, hunched over with a broken arm and a severely dented body and head.

"Damn it! I don't have time for this!" Sonic yells, and quickly spindashes Doom into the wall. He's about to attack again when the lights go out again. Sonic stumbles, but when he regains his footing the lights return, although dim. As Sonic's turned, Doom grabs him from behind.

"Agh! You persistent little..." Sonic growls, struggling against his heavy arm.

"The fourth civilization rose from the ashes of its predecessor, the Chaos Emeralds hidden from the new world. They finally knew peace, for the ancient people of the world had nearly all died and left their bloodshed with them. The New Mobians built grand cities and lived carefree in peaceful harmony, yet they never advanced. Content with their world, they decided to remain where they were, unable to evolve, afraid of war, stagnating," Doom explained as Sonic ignored him, trying to pull the arm away.

He then hears metal sliding behind him, and a growing humming coming from within Doom. He turned to see that a cannon located in his chest had revealed itself behind the armor, and energy was welling up within it. He looks towards Mechanix, but sees he's missing.

"Damn it!"

"Then Doctor Robotnik arose, whose genius revived centuries' development of technology in but a few years. The people were not content, and fought he, he who would liberate them all from their ignorance and disgusting flesh. But they held contempt for the future, and so Robotnik decided to bring the world into a new age without them."

Sonic pulls the arm as hard as he can, but it doesn't budge. The light from the cannon casts Sonic's shadow before them, and a groan from the entire Eraser Egg arises. He then sees Mechanix flying towards him from the reactor core.

"What! He got the Chaos Emeralds while I was held back... damn it, he keeps on healing himself with those."

The cannon's heat starts burning Sonic's back. He hears a beeping from within Doom's body. Just then, Sonic remembered.

"The Black Emerald! It should..." he said while grabbing it. He felt his own power grow exponentially, and he yanked Doom's arm out of his shoulder. He quickly ran out of the way, and Doom's cannon fired a gigantic blast of energy. It rocketed through the chamber and collided into the column, splitting through a segment. Mechanix turned back to look as a chain reaction of explosions surged down both sides of the column. Hitting the mechanical sphere, an enormous fireball expanded at a incredibly fast rate. Sonic didn't even look back at Doom as he dashed towards the nearest door. He saw Mechanix fly towards it as well, blasting open the door. He rushes into the corridor after him.

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[Act 6]

Mechanix will start out within sight, however if Sonic slows down he will slowly lose him. He can still move through the level, however if he moves too slow, he will be caught up in the inferno that rushes from behind. Warning klaxons will blare and scream while robots and doors will be quickly dispatched by Mechanix ahead. For the first half of the level, Sonic will have to avoid explosions and hazards caused from the destruction of the reactor core. Many machines, such as elevators, which would normally work will break or stop in front of him. The level is mainly vertical and Sonic will need adept wall jumping to keep up.

In the second half, after a long horizontal section with blast doors clamping down behind him, the explosion will not chase him anymore and he'll lose Mechanix. Sonic will return to a similar level design as Act 2. However, many robots will be in his path, including some Mechanix Children. Sonic will find himself, if he looks out the windows, in the area below the bridge of the entire ship. He will want to race up the walls and across the ceilings at high speeds to get to Robotnik, who is close by, yelling through the loudspeaker for robots to keep the ship from completely breaking apart. At the end, Sonic will have to climb a very tall shaft with spikes in the walls at several points. At the top is a door that leads to a wide spiral staircase. It will stop at several points to open up to a room in the center filled with robots. He will fight a large number of combinations of every robot he has since fought, and even another Egg T-Robo. At the top, a large door will enter into a wide storage area with a window taking up the entire expanse of the wall. It resembles the vista in the Death Egg in Sonic 2.

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"You have been quite the pain, Sonic the hedgehog," a familiar voice spoke.

Dr. Robotnik hovered in, sitting in his Egg-O-Matic.

"I am sick of these games, Robotnik. Is this another Apocalypse, huh? Or is it really your grandest plan you've ever conceived?" Sonic asked, grimacing.

"Every Apocalypse was just another distraction for you to play with as I completed the Eraser Egg. Every little thing I have done is up to this moment, and it has worked very well. You have played completely in my game, and now that all cards are down, I will rake in my spoils."

"Your reactor is destroyed, there is no way you can operate this ship. I defeated Mechanix and all of his 'Children'. You cannot win, you can only run away. It's over."

Robotnik cackled.

Sonic continues. "You don't even anger me anymore. I don't care who you kill in cold blood like a coward. I have absolute resolve now. I am going to kill you."

"That is very admirable. You have decided to spur everything else, just to end my life? Oh, I just remembered. You have already tried many times. You destroyed my Scrap Brain factory, my Deathegg twice, left my Launch Base in ruins, prevented the Doomsday from coming... Did you find it fun, Sonic?"

"Duh. I'll never let you get away with your mad schemes. Blowing up everything you made is just a bonus."

"You are so genuine, so light-hearted, ahahaha! And you let me live, every time!"

Sonic stood, frozen. He did not change his expression, but the truth hit him deeply. The realization finally reverberated throughout his body. Robotnik had always continued to plague Mobius, and he couldn't stop him for good. He had always let him run free. He could never bring himself to really stop him... to really... kill him.

"It is because you have no sense of will. You are weak and feeble-minded, unable to commit to an action you deem 'immoral'. You would compromise instead of pursue your ultimate goal, because..."

Sonic didn't speak.

"...you are just an animal. You were messily born as an animal and you will just as disgustingly die as one. You smell, and you sound unpleasant, and you are ugly, and you are weak. You, and your kind, and your world, have stayed too long in the past. You seek peace and harmony although you fight and bicker in your crude animal ways. You are inferior and repugnant. You mock intelligence with your vile attempts at art and language. You refuse science and technology, afraid. Scared, in your little holes, cowering in your cesspools."

"How are you any better, talking like you're a god overlooking us?!" Sonic retorted. He didn't know what else to say.

"Of course I am a god, compared to you. I can transform you all to perfection, to peace in my society of machines. Roboticization leads to perfect harmony and cooperation in a world that seeks advancement in all fields, at every moment, eternally. It is the beauty of machines, where efficiency is a law instead of a probability."

Sonic regained his strength and responded, "And you'll kill in cold-blood people for the sake of your soulless world. You have no concern for life. You attacked a city full of hundreds of thousands of civilians, you roboticized thousands more, you killed the mayor's bodyguards without a care, you even burnt down an entire planet and you still want to eradicate all living things. You are nothing but a murderer. You have no more value than that!"

"Hahaha, fool, life, life has no value! It is finite, full of fluids and flesh and suffering and specks of dust that die in an instant compared to the machines that can live forever. You fool, you do not understand how magnificent it all is. While you have scampered around to defeat my Apocalypses, my forces gathered the Chaos Emeralds for Mechanix and I looked over the creation of my greatest invention yet. I had come across the truth of this planet's history, and set into motion in all the parts of the world a plan so intricate that you could only fathom the omniscience of a god behind it! You are nothing but a pawn in the greatest plan I have ever conceived, and even now you are blissfully ignorant of how severely I have succeeded."

Caught up in his own rantings, Robotnik flicked his arms out and rose them grandiosely. "This grand ship will be the last thing any Mobian will ever see. While you ran aimlessly in that space station, I moved this ship here and sent my robots to hold down their pitiful forces on earth. It was too easy! All of the aliens' power came from the solar power generator on that mountain which was amplified through the Black Emerald. All I had to do was take it, just take it! Then they were left in the dark shooting wildly at my never-ending robots. Then! With the Black Emerald, my Eraser Egg had more than enough power to fire every single cannon it has! The entire planet was burnt to ash! Hahahaha! Did you see that chasm, Sonic?! That was a cannon's beam tearing through the earth! Hahahaha! And on Mobius, as they still struggle against my Egg Tempest, I will descend with this immortal ship and extinguish their petty hopes! There is no chance of failure. The world is mine!"

Sonic did not change expression. "Then here, I'll kill you. I won't let you go... any longer."

Robotnik was disconcerted by Sonic's lack of reaction. He lost his excitation. "Futile. The reactor had been repaired before you even came here. My machines are that efficient. You will never completely destroy me and my creations. I can never die. And you can never kill me."

"I may not have killed you yet, but I will continue to fight you no matter what. I will never surrender to you."

Robotnik was silently getting infuriated. Sonic's stoic response set him on edge. "...so be it. I wanted you to suffer, but I will just kill you now. I've had enough of you, hedgehog."

Sonic held up his fists. "Bring it."

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[Act 6 Boss: EGG-O-MATIC]

Two long and thin metal cables will shoot out the sides of the Egg-O-Matic, with small cones on their ends. It will look exactly like the "boss" of Hidden Palace Zone in Sonic & Knuckles. If Sonic touches either of the cones, he will be electrocuted and sent flying back.

- Robotnik will move back and forth in the storage room, and at first sway the cables back and forth,

- but later spin them around at a faster speed.

- He will also occasionally swing them at Sonic.

- At fourteen hits, Robotnik will pose both cables to simultaneously grab Sonic as he approaches him. The only way for Sonic to avoid it is to jump over the cables and hit Robotnik, sending him backwards. Otherwise, if Sonic is within half of the radius of the cables, they will spring and grab him, electrocuting him until he dies.

Sonic can hit him at any time, and sixteen hits will defeat this phase.

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In the second phase, Robotnik will drop the cables and slowly move backwards.

- He will pull out his pistol and shoot at Sonic from the cockpit. There are two seconds that Robotnik will spend aiming, and if Sonic does not move at the end of the second, the bullet will hit him (and he'll lose rings).

If Sonic hits the small ship twice, he will stop firing to repair the ship from the inside. After about fifteen seconds, he will begin firing again. Meanwhile, they will move from the cargo room into a corridor, then through several rooms. Robots will attack him in small numbers, but they will become progressively stronger (from the basic robots to Mechanix Children).

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In the third phase, once Sonic and Robotnik enter a very large and dark room, the robots will stop attacking. Sonic will stand on a bridge, and in the distance, dim lights glow steadily. Before Sonic can attack Robotnik, however, a thin column will burst up out of the bridge, giving him a chance to escape. It has five glass "eyes" from top to bottom with metal shutters over them.

- From the bottom upwards the shutters will open, revealing the eye, which will then fire a laser and shut.

- After the top eye fires, there will be a pause and then another volley from the top downwards.

Sonic needs to hit an eye twice to destroy it. The distance between the eyes is just enough that Sonic can fit between two lasers if he is in spinball form. After destroying all the eyes, the column will break and collapse.

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Sonic will come across another column as he moves on, but now the firing pattern is more varied, although not yet random.

- At the bottom of the column is a shutter that will occasionally open to send out small spiked balls at varying speeds which Sonic must jump over.

Two hits to each eye will again destroy the column.

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The next column will rise earlier, and before Sonic will reach it, part of the floor will also be lifted so that it lies above him.

- Lying on its underside is a larger eye which will charge and then fire a laser beam over Sonic's location, similar to the boss of Flying Fortress Zone in Sonic 2. The laser fire from the column will be random now. The ceiling eye will take five hits, and the other eyes two, before all of it collapses around Sonic.

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The final column will only have one eye which will move up and down the column in a semi-random fashion.

- Its laser will be twice as long, but it will also fire lasers at two equidistant angles both above and below the main, horizontal laser. These angled lasers will have three short shots. Once the volley is finished, it will move for a few seconds before firing again.

Sonic must hit it within this time. Eight hits will destroy it.

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Finally, Sonic will catch up to Robotnik. His Egg-O-Matic is dark, but can be seen from the light emitted in the cockpit. Before Sonic can attack, large machine sounds will reverberate through the chamber and the Egg-O-Matic will slowly rise. In the background, lights will be turned on a set at a time, illuminating the walls and the bridge. The walls are covered in scaffolding and very complicated machinery, with large arrays of pipes and wires. Robotnik is actually in the cockpit of a very large bipedal mechanical suit. It quickly rises its fists and breaks the bridge before Sonic, sending him hurtling to the suit's feet. As the rest of the bridge collapses, Robotnik will attack.

In the final phase of this battle, Sonic will have to avoid Robotnik's enormous attacks while finding a way to reach the cockpit and attack him directly. The arena is the entire chamber, from the start of the bridge to where the suit starts out from, as the bridge is no longer in the way.

- Robotnik will have the fist slam attack which will crash all the way into the ground. Sonic will need to jump if he is within a few meters of the crash, or else the invisible shock waves will hurt him. With the arms down, Sonic has a chance to make an attack. He can jump onto the arms in a few seconds before they rise up again. The arms' default position is cocked perpendicular to the body. However, the cockpit is still out of reach. For Sonic to attack, he will need to charge a spindash at the top side of the elbow, where there is a curve. With enough speed, Sonic will fly into the air and will have to position himself to land onto the cockpit. He can bounce up to four hits before Robotnik pulls out his pistol and shoots him down (after the second bounce he can be seen getting it out).

- Robotnik can also stomp with the feet of the suit, which will similarly release invisible shock waves. Sonic can use this chance to get in between the feet, and jump as the forward foot lands. This way he can get behind the suit. He can then jump and attack a weak spot on the opposite side of the suit's knee.

After the time it takes to make two hits, Robotnik will turn around.

- He will also fire napalm and lasers at Sonic's position,

- along with slow and fast missiles, both homing and dumb.

After twelve hits in the cockpit, a shield will cover it, preventing Sonic from attacking it anymore. Sonic's next target is behind the suit's knee. After six hits, it will break and the suit will fall onto its knees. If Sonic already landed six hits before, then the suit will still be standing, but it will not walk any further. A final hit will then break it.

Collapsed, Sonic will be unable to move to the other side of the suit. He will have to jump and attack its back, where he will then break through a weak spot, spindash through the center, and land on the arm on the other side.

- Robotnik will fire missiles and lasers nonstop as Sonic tries to position a final spindash up the curve of the arm, into the air, and onto the cockpit for the final blow.

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After the exhausting battle, the suit will slowly fall apart, discharging electricity and catching on fire. Robotnik will release the Egg-O-Matic, but being heavily damaged, it can hardly hover in the air. Without skipping a beat, Sonic is already running up the suit. He leaps, curls into a spinball, and cuts through its underside. He lands and turns, watching Robotnik crash into the ground and get sent tumbling across the floor.

Robotnik fumbles through his coats and whips out his pistol, but Sonic is already standing before him. He quickly knocks the gun out of his hand, leaving Robotnik defenseless.

"You lost," Sonic said.

Robotnik didn't say anything and didn't move.

"You can't run away anymore."

"I don't intend to."

Sonic glared at Robotnik. Robotnik stared at Sonic straight in the eyes. Sonic could see them, again. He could see Robotnik's dark eyes. Their ferocity. It hadn't changed. They pierced Sonic.

"I won."

A klaxon resounded throughout the chamber, and the hallway leading to it. Sonic saw above Robotnik holographic screens appearing everywhere, all with the same image. They appeared to the sides of where the bridge once was, and popped up a few meters between each other throughout the room. One finally appeared right behind Robotnik. It again was a video feed from outside the Eraser Egg, but this time it had stopped moving. All of the cannons were rotating and positioning themselves. They had finally reached Mobius.

"What-no! No way!"

Robotnik smiled. "All this time I have been distracting you, Sonic. Again and again and again. You naive child. I have been leading you to the Apocalypse again and again, and even in person I pull you away from your true objective, again and again. You seek vengeance. You seek retribution. It's so easy it makes me sick. Now witness the end of Mobius! Cannons, fire!"

An electronic voice resonated throughout. "Attack program initiated. Cannons primed and ready. Firing now!"

Sonic looked intently. From the bow the cannons began firing. At first, tens of tiny pinpricks of light shot out, but soon hundreds fired, increasing in number and size...

Just then, the ship shook violently, with sudden bursts of screeching steam and resounding booms, with every surface vibrating from a very low-pitched groaning. Sonic held himself up by one hand. Many of the monitors were covered in static. He turned to see the monitor in front of them, which was intermittently whiting out. The tip of the bow had blown to pieces, and many of the cannons were cracked and broken. Several small areas of the ship were cracking, and fire could be seen through the tiny circles that were the portholes.

Robotnik turned to a monitor. He yelled, "No... This is impossible! This should not be happening! What could it be-"

"You lost after all, Robotnik. Admit it!" Sonic shouts. He grabs Robotnik by the cuff and strikes him in the back of the head. He collapses again, onto his side. Grabbing his head in pain, Robotnik stumbles and turns to face Sonic. He stared beyond him.

"No, even if there was a glitch, an error, it should be fixed. It shouldn't be like this, it's supposed to be perfect! What went wrong, what went wrong..." Robotnik mumbled on.

"That's enough! It's time to end this one and for all," Sonic said. He rolled into a spinball and charged up. Robotnik continued muttering to himself, trying to solve the problem. He span faster and faster, the floor being ripped up into chunks and dust and smoke starting to whisk away.

"Stop!" a voice called out. A laser shot through the room and struck Sonic. He unrolled from the spinball as the shot sent him skidding across the floor. Although dazed and hurt, he quickly gets on his feet and turns around. Mechanix hovered above, in a distant corner of the room. He dashed towards Robotnik and stood before him. His white shield flashed on.

"Mechanix! It was you, wasn't it? You took the Black Emerald!" Robotnik said in exasperation.

"Doctor Robotnik, I needed its power to defeat S-"

"You idiot!" Robotnik yelled, quickly clambering onto his feet. "The Chaos Emeralds can only deliver so much energy at once! The Black Emerald will always amplify the energy given to it! There is a very clear and important reason why I used it instead!"

Mechanix was about to speak, but Robotnik interrupted him again. "Damn it! This power you have... you have the Chaos Emeralds, too, don't you?! All seven! You fool! You damned fool!"

He hits Mechanix in the back of the head, although Mechanix didn't move and Robotnik clutches his hand in pain. "I ordered you not to take it. You are my slave, Mechanix! Must I reprogram you again!"

Sonic, tired of watching, spoke. "Robotnik, this is the end. Your greatest plan failed! Through all of this, I persevered, and you finally fell! You were wrong."

He raised his fists. "I'll kill both you and Mechanix, and this will all end here."

Robotnik stepped out from behind Mechanix's shield. "It will all end here."

"You, Sonic, are a hardened combat veteran. Of course you can fight Mechanix with all seven Chaos Emeralds. Mechanix in his Grandmaster form, that was all that was needed to destroy the third civilization. But he was built for more than that. Much more."

He began to pace, disturbingly calm. "So what if my Eraser Egg was stopped? It was hardly your doing, anyway. I still fired a few thousand shots. There's still the fourth Apocalypse underway."

Sonic was shocked. "Fourth?!" He couldn't attack him now. He had to know.

"I still have Mechanix, and all seven Chaos Emeralds. I can rebuild. I will still fight, and I will win."

"You say I cannot escape? I have already completely documented Mechanix's design. I have already created prototypes of an incredible technology that can never be destroyed! It only took a few months. It's a rather low-level thing. I have calculations. I know that I cannot be defeated by you, even if you are the world's fastest rodent. I'm the world's smartest human. You can never beat me. Yes, yes... it's all fine. I understand."

Sonic, although angrier, was unfazed. "You say that as your greatest creation to date falls apart around you. You say that after I nearly kill you!"

Robotnik turned away.

"I'm still alive."

Sonic was about to say something, but Robotnik raised his arm.

"My mind is so great, that even my creations must be planned to be limited. The universe cannot support the reality of my genius."

He pointed at the monitor. "None of my works will last forever. They will be destroyed as I see fit. It is in the brief luminance of my intelligence, from their birth to their death, that is most beautiful. You don't seem to understand that I never make any errors. Everything is created in one go as I want it to be, perfectly, and it ends likewise. You don't understand the depth of any of this, if you can't even call me god! Central command, self-destruct!"

Sonic didn't even hear the computer voice acknowledge the command as deafening explosions immediately overpowered the air. The monitor showed the hull of the Eraser Egg in various parts rapidly bursting off, and the feed was quickly destroyed.

Robotnik began walking away. "I will just walk away like I always have. I will rebuild and threaten the world again. I'm starting to stop caring about stuff like this. Me, I will always live. You and your world of lies will die from attrition soon enough. I'll be building stronger machines while things I set in motion earlier will make your people run around and get themselves killed. Then I'll go in... destroy everything... build Robotnikland! And then, then... I will..."

An explosion bursts through the wall, fire licking the ceiling. Another comes from the floor behind Sonic. Smoke puffs out. Seeing Robotnik, Sonic starts running, but Mechanix quickly rushes forward and attacks. Sonic sidesteps and strikes Mechanix in the stomach. Mechanix stumbles back a bit.

"You did not have this power before..."

Sonic was already running, however, and attacked again. Mechanix's chest was broken open, and the Chaos Emeralds spilled out. He quickly ran to grab them as Mechanix got back up to attack. Summoning their power, he transformed into Super Sonic again. His glove began to glow strongly.

"The Black Emerald!"

Sonic did not attack again, chasing Robotnik down into the small corridor he entered.

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[Act 7]

Much like the first half of Act 6, Super Sonic will be avoiding hazards that this time will only slow him down. They will be much more present and he will have to swerve between them. Explosions will burst in front of him, but he can pass through them unharmed. He will be moving very fast. He will need to avoid collapsing objects and closing doors that could potentially crush him. The level will also be much curvier and will have frequent, sharp changes in direction, forcing Sonic to have good control over his flying skills to survive. The level will be short, and will end as he enters a hangar where a small mechanical suit (this time only about three times Sonic's size) will start to fly out into space. As Super Sonic chases him, Mechanix will have caught up as well.

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Lunar Fight [Boss : ROBOTNIK SUIT + MECHANIX LV.5 [ 'GRANDMASTER' : ▿ ▿ ▿ ▿ ▿ ▿ ▿] : ▼ ] (5/25)

The fight will begin in space. Mobius is able to be seen in the background. Robotnik will be rushing ahead and Sonic will not be able to catch up yet. Rings which were used in the Eraser Egg have been sent hurtling into space, which will sustain Super Sonic if he can keep his ring amount high. Mechanix will be in his Grandmaster form, which will be exactly as it was in Eraser Egg Act 1. After sixteen hits, Mechanix will be defeated for a short while. This is when the three will approach the surface of the moon, and this is when Robotnik will finally turn around and fight.

Robotnik, Sonic, and Mechanix will all be constantly moving to the right over the moon's surface, but they can still move freely around each other to fight.

- Robotnik will be able to ram Sonic with his shoulders,

- as well as strike with his fists and legs in quick, single attacks.

- He can launch tens of homing missiles

- or nearly a hundred dumb missiles.

- He has a lock-on laser attack

- He has a scattered laser attack similar to that of the final column on the bridge in Eraser Egg's Act 6 Boss.

- He also has an energy sword that he unsheathes at various times. It has limited energy, but it doubles Robotnik's range. He will slice horizontally, vertically, and stab.

- Throughout the battle, he will have an energy barrier. To be damaged, Sonic will need to turn into a spinball just as he is hit by a punch, kick, or the sword. Doing so, he will knock Robotnik off balance and temporarily disable the barrier. He must then close in and attack.

Eight hits will defeat him.

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The battle isn't finished yet. Mechanix will return in a blur and knock into Sonic, knocking the Black Emerald loose. He will quickly snatch it. Using its power, he will glow brightly, white energy flowing from his body out into space, sometimes arcing back into his body. He does not transform completely though. He will move instantaneously again, however afterimages will fade out behind him which will help to determine his movement.

- He can dash towards Sonic to do a 100-hit combo in a few seconds if the first punch connects.

- He can also send many projectile attacks moving at high speeds.

- His slash attack can divide as they spread out,

- or he can send, effectively, a beam of slash attacks with rapid slicing of his hand.

- He can also fire multiple lock-on lasers at once, such that if Sonic continues to move more lasers will continue to target him.

- He can also release waves of small energy orbs that will rotate or spiral as they fly outwards, forcing Sonic to move in a complex pattern to avoid being hit.

If Sonic can predict where Mechanix will move next, he can attack and damage him. After four hits, the Black Emerald will be knocked out of his hold. If Sonic can grab it, he will be charged and glow much brighter. He will move much faster and have enough time to land four hits on either Robotnik or Mechanix. After that, one of them will attack directly, which will knock the Black Emerald out of Sonic's hold. He will be dazed for long enough that he can't grab it twice in a row.

If Robotnik grabs it, the crevices between the armor plates and bolts will glow red.

- His attacks are much faster,

- and he will fire missiles which will then lock-on Sonic and fire their own lasers. The missiles can be either homing or dumb.

- He will also charge his arm and fire a large, spinning helical beam. Sonic will have to position himself between the twin conduits of energy and move backwards to avoid being hit. After three seconds the attack will stop.

Eight hits will similarly knock the Black Emerald back out of his hand.

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Mechanix and Robotnik will continue fighting Sonic whether any of them has a Black Emerald or not. All of their attacks will make Sonic lose rings quicker for a short span of time, with stronger attacks forcing him to lose more. If Sonic holds the Black Emerald, his ring count will slowly rise instead of fall. Once either Mechanix or Robotnik suffers thirty-two hits, whoever it is will be disabled and fly out of range.

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Once both are defeated, they will finally stop moving. Mechanix will dash for the Black Emerald, spinning in space. Sonic will be unable to reach him in time, and Mechanix will quickly activate his white shield, which will be large enough to knock Sonic back.

"Now this battle will come to an end," he said, his voice modulated by fluctuating magnetic waves caused by his own energy. He charges a beam attack in his hand, a brilliant white orb slowly pulsating progressively faster. Sonic looked at him intently, ready to evade at an instant.

However, Mechanix turned and aimed at the Eraser Egg, and he shot out the energy. A giant scorching beam of shining white light, almost a hundred times Mechanix's height, blasted towards the gargantuan ship that was slowly breaking apart already. The beam ripped completely through the Eraser Egg, through that gargantuan width. Like water soaking through paper, the energy surged through the ship and disintegrated it. A few seconds later, the Eraser Egg had vanished into a large cloud of dust.

"So this is the power..." Mechanix spoke.

Sonic tried to speak, completely overwhelmed by the strength he didn't show in battle. He then felt an incredibly imminent pressure of doom.

Robotnik's voice, broken by static, carried over to the two. "Mechanix! What... you think you're doing?! The ship... off of your design, it would have rebuilt... why... self-destructed! I told-"

Sonic looked at Robotnik incredulously. He tried to say "What?!" but his words were lost in space.

"Silence. I have been waiting for this moment, where my memory is finally cleared of the barriers you put into it. I can finally remember everything, with the power of the Black Emerald..."

"No! You... Mechanix, you are mine! It's absolutely impossible for you to disobey me!" Robotnik shouted.

"No, no... I understand now... I was really created, to protect the people who made me... to save the world from the Chaos Energy that was destroying it... to absorb it within... and resurrect the old world."

As Mechanix said those last few words, his eyes lit up and he looked at Robotnik through the black windowed cockpit.

"I was to take the power of all of the ancient three generations, and make it my own, so that I would return their power back to them. I am to restore Old Mobius. That is my true purpose."

Sonic didn't dare respond. Robotnik was also silent, but he quickly spoke up.

"Then I'll destroy you now! I only need the Emeralds anyway!"

Robotnik shot out hundreds of missiles at Mechanix, but Mechanix wiped them out with his shield instantly. He rose his arm and charged another beam attack.

"No, Robotnik, I will kill you. You are the greatest threat to Old Mobius. You must die."

Robotnik was already fleeing, flying away from the moon towards Mobius at full speed. He didn't turn around, firing all the missiles he had remaining back at Mechanix.

"So die."

Mechanix fired the beam again, easily consuming all of the rockets. Robotnik's suit vanished behind white light. Sonic only stared.

When the beam dissipated, nothing remained of the suit. Nothing remained of anything. Nothing anywhere. Sonic was frozen. Robotnik was dead. He was dead.

Mechanix looked at Mobius. The glowing energy of the seven Chaos Emeralds amplified by the Black Emerald made him a miniature sun. Sonic, who was behind him, saw his light eclipsing the entire planet. The after-image burned into his retinas. Mechanix turned around. He looked at Sonic.

Before Sonic could react, Mechanix had already thrust his spiked knee deep into Sonic's stomach. As soon as Sonic coughed out blood and felt the pain flood forth, Mechanix had already struck his neck, elbowed his back, and punched him in the solar plexus. Sonic's vision quickly blurred and faded, barely able to register the tsunami of pain rolling over him. Mechanix then grabbed his arm and swirled him around. While doing so, he rapidly shot out any number of lasers that seared into Sonic's skin, despite his Super Sonic invincibility. Sonic's vision was fading to black as he just barely realized he was kneed in the gut. His last thoughts were incoherent, confused, and amazed. All he could see was Mechanix's burning after-image as he faded into unconsciousness, his limp body rocketing towards the atmosphere of Mobius.