After a very happy birthday, I've became more motivated to work on this chapter since I've gotten Sonic CD HD as my present for nostalgia's sake. Speaking of Sonic CD, the mechanical doppelganger Metal Sonic appeared to cause trouble and he figured that dealing some pain do his victims would be more satisfying than going after the shards that Knuckles have. Whether things are going to good or bad will depend based on what happens in this next exciting chapter of Sonic Sega All Stars: Subspace Unleashed!

The blue intruder glared constantly at his human targets, observing their appearance and scanning them for information. Ryo had a bad feeling about this mechanical hedgehog's sudden appearance and made sure that his arm is held right in front of Honey for her protection. The fighting idol herself was deathly afraid since she knew that this is a very destructive foe despite his small size and the red eyes didn't help much. They both felt cornered since one single move would trigger this blue robot into attacking them on sight since he did came here for the Master Emerald shards after all. Metal Sonic emits a series of robotic screeches while raising his clawed right hand in a demanding manner. Ryo's heart beats faster than the speeding bullet and his face was severely sweaty in fear, thinking of the right word to say while he's being watched by him.

"If you are looking for the Master Emerald shards, then I suggest you leave us alone and go find the right guy to pick a fight with," he said.

This didn't faze the robotic opponent a bit since his thrusters flared even louder, which as a good sign that he's getting ready to attack them head on. Ryo backed up even closer to his girlfriend to protect her while Honey cowered behind him for protection. Metal Sonic backed himself up a few feet and charged dead at them in pursuit of his first victims. Both of them closed their eyes and flinched in hopes that luck would be on their side to save them. Beat arrived just in time to deal a flying drop kick to knock the Sonic doppelganger away from them and landed onto the ground from the impact. The blue robot flew a few feet from the impact of the force and shook his head in pain from the attack. Ryo and Honey opened their eyes and saw that Beat actually saved them from the metal hedgehog's wrath and that he showed up in the nick of time.

"Are you two alright? I came here as fast as I could and the other should be here soon to help," the concerned rudie said.

"Yeah, it's good that you've came here to our aide. I knew that I couldn't do a thing since Metal Sonic would give a human like me a hard time. Not to mention that Honey could have been harmed if I involved her in this," said the Japanese boy.

"It's good to hear that you were worried about protecting me despite the odds of you against him. Doesn't Metal Sonic know Bark and Bean since they knew about him?" she said while dusting her red dress.

Before they could say anything else, they heard a loud mechanical screech and it came from the fully recovered Metal Sonic. He glared at Beat and scanned him to know everything about his new opponent's strengths and weaknesses in battle. The rudie was scowling at him and had his paint cans ready to put up a fight.

"Come on blue boy, let's show you how you should never mess with the New GG's allies!" he shouts in a cocky manner.

The blue doppelganger charges at Beat head on for a tackle of revenge. Things were really getting serious from this point. The rudie smirks and did a backflip to dodge the speeding robot's attack, thus fooling him easily unlike his blue organic rival. He did a few air tricks to regain his balance for another round of ass kicking against his new enemy.

"Is that the best you can do, tin can? And I thought you were really faster than Sonic!" says while preparing for a divekick.

Metal Sonic's eyes flashed brighter momentarily to express anger and he charged at him during at skating punk while he dives. Beat pulled out a few spray paint cans and sprays a massive paint cloud to block his foe's vision. The paint eventually blocked his point of view, causing him to stop inside the cloud and try to waft the colorful cloud away due to blindness.

Beat grinned and yelled, "Big, you're up!"

His fishing line eventually hooked right on the thruster in the robotic doppelganger's back and yanked him towards the solid ground really hard.

"Good thing I managed to get here on time. No one messes with my buddies on my watch!" the purple cat bellowed.

Metal Sonic eventually recovered and tries to fly away from the cat's grasp at full speed with Big's reeling him in like he's a "big one". Despite Big's strength and good reeling skills, Metal Sonic's speed and aggression was enough to put up a good fight in this hooky battle. Both Toejam and Earl headed where their massive buddy was and got their Trap-o-Matic jars ready for capturing.

"We'll if it ain't that rust bucket that Knuckles told us about. I think it's time for us to give him the special treatment. You know what I'm sayin', Earl?" the red alien asked his buddy slyly.

"Yeah, TJ. I'm ready to raise the roof up in this park if it's to trap this crazy foo," said the yellow alien.

They both hauled their special jars the Metal Sonic without knowing what the mechanical demon had up his sleeve. He clenched his claws and gathered some energy required for his next technique to much of Big's confusion. He did his infamous Black Shield technique to not only protect himself from the jars, but break part of Big's line. The empty, torn line lands slowly to the ground as Big quickly reels it in before anything else would happen to his precious pole. Toejam and Earl were both speechless after their precious jars were immune to Metal Sonic's Black Shield and dropped their jaws within minutes.

"Oh snap! I guess the jig is up like being caught hula dancin' with an Earthling, homie," Toejam said in a panicking manner.

They both cowered as the blue hedgehog glared at them for what they tried to do with the most frightening pose ever. He was the type of robot that doesn't like to be humiliated by anyone that wasn't his rival and he would destroy anyone that attempts to do so due to his cruel nature. Before he could attack, an explosion of sakura petals happened behind him and he was attacked from behind by a mysterious force. It was Kasumi, who had arrived just in time to deal some pain to the mechanical avenger that dared to attack her allies.

"Time to make sure that you never try to ambush a friend of mines!" he said with a serious look on her face.

She continued with an aerial combo of kicks that dealt heavy damage to the 3 foot tall robot with grace and fury. Before she could deal the final blow, Metal Sonic retaliated by dealing a heavy punch to her stomach. This caused the blue kunoichi to gag for air from the attack and shocked all of the spectators that were there. Honey was the one who was shocked the most since she realized that he managed to use a famous technique that only she would know how to do. She gripped her hand in front of her chest and felt like her emotions were seriously feasting on her thoughts.

"Honey, what's wrong with you?" Ryo asked.

Kasumi was eventually knocked against the ground by another attack from Metal Sonic as the fight continued hopelessly. She became unconscious due to the force of being flung against the ground and the injury to her stomach.

"He did my technique out of nowhere ….. to defeat Kasumi like it. It's as if he just looked at us to know who …. we are and use our own techniques to his advantage. Now we shouldn't really underestimate him at all," she said before watching Toejam being chased by Metal Sonic.

"Damn, he's after Toejam! We've got to stop him before it's….."

Metal Sonic had already launched a jar similar to the Trap-o-Matic ones to entrap his helpless foe. Before Earl could run, he was shot by another one of the jars as well and became another sphere like his buddy. Big couldn't help at all since he was busy repairing the line to his pole later what happened earlier. Metal Sonic gazed at the sphere to see what cruel things he could do with it while they're trapped as Ryo grew worried for them. Beat skates at a speed of a maniac in response since he knew that his fellow New GG members were under attack by the metal menace.

"Stay the hell away from my friends, you metallic piece of scrap metal!" he shouts while aggressively skating towards the scene.

This then gave Metal Sonic the idea that he should defeat his organic foe with his own tricks before crushing the helpless foes before him. Beat leapt dead at him to deal a heavy kick at the robotic doppelganger, until he decided to sprout a pair of skates of his own under his red metal feet. Metal Sonic eventually disappeared from his sight before Beat's eyes, which caused the rudie to grow cautious. Before he could have responded, he eventually gagged as if something big attacked him in his exposed back. Metal Sonic had warped dead behind him to kick him in the back with such skates as payback for interrupting him earlier. Beat dropped dead to the ground and cringes in pain from such a deadly blow. Metal Sonic glanced at his defeated foe to much of Ryo's anger and focused his attention to him since that was his original target.

"You are going to pay for hurting Beat, you meanie!" Big beamed as his new line flies straight at Metal Sonic.

He responds by simply launching a new fishing line out of his hand at Big's and hooked onto it for his next dirty trick. Big screams as the line is being tugged at and was eventually pulled towards his smaller enemy. Metal Sonic reenacts a familiar move of Knuckles's to attack Big in his massive belly and singe his entire body with flames. Big landed onto his back from the attack and his entire body was scorched due to the flames involved from Metal Sonic's attack. The mechanical menace clicks like a madman and watched as his defeated opponents surround him to much of his sadistic glee. Ryo watched as most of his friends were singlehandedly defeated by this small, yet destructive robot with the feeling similar to something from his past.

That bastard! We need to do something about him fast before things could get any worse. Knuckles and them should be on there way here and he might target them since they have the shards. But if I confront him the way he is now, he might defeat me or even go after Honey first.

Metal Sonic prepares a familiar gesture of Kasumi's and begun charging a blue amount of energy in the palm of his hands. He is basically attempting to obliterate both Honey and Ryo with the Torn Sky Blast technique since he always like to scan his opponents before battle in case of emergencies. Out of the blue, a bomb attacked him from behind and it triggered him to launch the powerful blast behind him in self defense. Honey and Ryo both gasped in response to this random miracle that stopped the blue killing machine's next tactic. Another bomb landed onto his head and damaged it severely to his surprise.

"Yo, Metalhead! Why don't you stop pickin' on our pals or else we'll reduce you into rubble like the many walls we've crashed before!" said a familiar voice.

Like Metal Sonic had done, both Honey and Ryo looked above themselves to see something that really blew their kinds. A massive colorful blimp hovered above them and it appears that the Bonanza Bros. and B.D. Joe are in control of it for a dire situation like this. The blue and red thief's had bombs in their hands ready to bombard their Sonic-esque enemy with their secret tactic. The couple both smiled since they knew that these selfish thieves would go out of their way to help their allies.

These guys went a long way from what they would usually act like. Now Metal Sonic will have no choice but to retreat now if they don't mess this up.

The now enraged doppelganger flew towards the blimp at full speed despite the dynamic duo showering him with bombs. He does a few Quick Steps to dodge each one and launched his new fishing reel towards the blimp itself. B.D. Joe took out his special Taxi Drone mine since he had been saving it for an emergency like this.

"Now to light this baby on fire for the team. This is what you get for attacking our leader and his allies, metal punk!" he said with grin.

The miniature car itself was thrown onto the reel and lowered it due to its weight to the blue robot's surprise. The reel was completely tangled and Metal Sonic desperately reeled it towards him despite not knowing of a large bomb that fell towards him at full speed along with a rocket that was launched from afar (possibility launched from Blaze's police rocket launcher). Both explosives managed to hit it him and caused a massive explosion due to the chain reaction from the mine itself, creating a massive ball of fire. Everyone ducked for cover and winced as the explosion beamed loudly to the point of waking up the wounded that were defeated by Metal Sonic earlier. Beat slowly got back to his feet despite his back pain skates slowly towards his kunoichi ally.

"Ka…kasumi, are you alright?" he said as he noticed her body moving slightly.

Both Honey and Ryo helped Big up as he still dazed from his burning attack from earlier since it was the perfect opportunity to help everyone. Ash, who showed up a little too late, looked around to see what happened and noticed Beat helping Kasumi up from her last attack.

"Oh my, what happened here? I wonder if nothing serious happened with Kasumi at all," he said while pointing his legs inward from fear.

He walked over to her in concern and noticed that her mouth was slightly bleeding from that gut punch earlier. As Beat held her, she looked at her muscular friend with a look of agony while trying to stay awake.

"What heartless bastard did this you? Tell me who did it!" he said loudly.

Just the sounds of Metal Sonic sparking in pain were enough to get the burly ex-Syndicate member to look at him from below. Despite the powerful explosion damaging him, he was still alive and very angry at his aggressors despite sustaining enough damage from the attack. Toejam and Earl were already freed from their cramped prisons when Honey and Ryo cracked the duplicate Trap-o-Matic Jars that Metal Sonic had created. The muscular man clenched his hands in anger and prepared to leap at his aggressor to unleash his wrath. He eventually launched himself at the speed of the bullet and executed an effeminate battle pose before the wounded robot.

"You are going to regret pissing off a drama queen like me! Time to send you back to where you came from!" Ash yelled before dealing a powerful slap to Metal Sonic's head

Before he could retaliate with another attack, the burly man dealt even more powerful strikes to his smaller and weakened body. This definitely left Kasumi and Beat speechless since they least expected him to be this strong, even Honey and Ryo had no words to describe this ironic situation. The last attack Ash dealt was a powerful knee to the robotic doppelganger's core, which sent him flying over the Serene Streets. Soon as he landed to the ground gracefully, seven green shards fell to the ground and caught everyone's eyes. Both BD Joe and the Bonzanza Bros. managed to reach the ground safety as the Get-a-Way Blimp flew away from the park for maintenance. Kasumi walked herself towards her ally despite her pain and did an appropriate bow for thanking someone.

"Thanks for helping out Ash. We couldn't have defeated him without you," she said before raising her body, "We knew you were strong, but we didn't know that you were that strong."

He blushed in embarrassment and did a generous pose as the others were more worried about the fallen gems.

"Oh, your making me blush Kasumi. It was worth it since we are friends after all. But the real question is why is he here for these shards," he said.

"Because he wants to collect them just like we are doing so, but for the Legion of Subspace," Knuckles said while entering the scene.

Everyone turned to see that Knuckles and the gang were back from their meeting and bought some new friends that they've never seen before. Dr. Zan, Max, Skate, and Blaze were already amazed at how they managed to survive unscathed despite how dangerous Metal Sonic was based on what Knuckles had described. Blaze wasn't really too surprised like the others since she did help out with the rocket launcher from the police car that she and Axel had used. Honey was the first one to confront them since he was the type to like to greet new friends with a smile.

"So you must be Axel's fiends that he was talking about. Then it's actually nice to meet you all in person and I hope that things were worked out with the shards," she said politely.

"Why thank you, Honey. We already know all about you since Axel and Knuckles had told us everything. Don't worry about the shards since we already gave them to him and we somewhat helped out with that rocket that we shot. It appears that you managed to find some from Metal Sonic by now," she said before they both looked at the guys observing the shards.

Knuckles collected the six shards carefully and checked his tracker to see how much was left with a smug grin. The tracker specifically said that there were only six shards left to go if what he managed to nab counts.

"I don't know how the heck you guys managed to defeat him, but I'm honestly surprised that you managed to steal the shards from him. All we have is about six left and we can finally be finished with this crazy hunt," he said triumphantly.

"Does that mean that were almost done? If so, then I guess we could help out Sonic and the others with the Chaos Emerald hunting since our work here is almost done. And fighting that metal punk here wasn't that easy either," Beat said as rubs his sore back.

"That's pretty tight, Knux. It's good to see that the progression is getting betta than eva. But I'm pretty sure that our big boy Big would want to find his little buddy Froggy after we're done with this," Toejam said before glancing at the sad Big.

"I hope he's alright, being alone in this big world. It's good that we're almost done with our objective, but I miss my Froggy," he said sadly.

"Don't worry B.I.G., we'll find your little buddy sooner than we think. It just takes time to do so and my crazy driving isn't enough to speed things up," said the taxi driver after patting Big's back.

Big looked at him and smiled since it feels good to have some understandable friends that are willing to do anything for him.

"Not to interrupt anythin' or so, but we should take credit for what we've did to that metal loser since we managed to weaken him while everyone else were havin' trouble," Robo said slyly.

Ash shoved him aside out of frustration and confronts Knuckles with what he needed to say.

"While these two cretins did at least weaken him, I did most of the work to defeat that metal ruffian and send him flying like a butterfly. In other words, this queen deserves most of the credit," he said while flaunting his muscles.

Ryo and Honey were still conversing with Blaze and the others while everyone else told Akira and the guys about how things went with Metal Sonic during this situation. The same mysterious creature that was following them earlier appears in the form of a moving puddle and snaked its way towards the gang. Jacky was done laughing at being told about Toejam and Earl's creature until he noticed the aquamarine creature heading towards them.

"I hate to make things less upbeat, but there appears to be a living puddle heading towards us!" he shouts.

Everyone eventually noticed it and grew cautious from its sudden appearance alone as it inches closer towards the group. Knuckles was hoping for it to be here since the tracker informs him that the remaining five shards had to do with him.

"I'll deal with him right here, even if I have to rip them shards out of his watery body!" he said before dashing at it.

"Him? Remaining shards? Watery body? How the hell does he know what that thing is? What the funk is going on around here?" Toejam said while straining his brain on situation at hand.

Earl grew worried about his buddy, but knew that he should be more concerned about the creature that appeared before him and his allies. Kiryu looked dead at the intruder and knew that it wasn't even human since it lacks a defined shape despite being able to crawl like a speeding slug. Axel had a bad feeling like this since he guessed that Mr. X had created this being to attack them while he's gone. The creature eventually stopped moving as Knuckles stopped in front of him and slowly revealed its true form. Honey and Blaze widened their eyes while trying to comprehend the creature's form as the gang grew anxious. Big recognized that creature after witnessing it transform and notices that it reminded him of what happened to Froggy years ago.

"It's that blue thing that ate Froggy a while ago! Maybe he has something to do with his disappearance!" he shouts while rushing after Knuckles.

"Hey Big, wait! You don't know if it's too dangerous to confront!" Beat says while reaching his hand out.

The creature indeed was Chaos himself and it turned out that he did his fair share of shard hunting if what the tracker depicted was true.

"I don't know why did you are after the Master Emerald after you're freedom but you are definitely going to…"

Chaos threw the shards that he had at Knuckles' feet and just watched him, which really did surprise the echidna since he expected him to be hostile like their last encounter. Everyone else was surprised at this too since this really made the question if he was an enemy or ally for such a questionable move. The red echidna looked slowly at the shards themselves and looked back at him to wonder what he's up to. The watery creature points at the gems and nods since he wanted him to take them as a reward. Knuckles, while still surprised, nodded and slowly picks up each gem while watching him carefully.

I don't know, he doesn't seem that violent and he really wants me to take the shards from him. Perhaps he does want to help us recollect these things so that he could rest in peace. If that's the case, I'll keep an eye on him to see what he do next.

"Chaos, I wonder what you are doing all the way out here. I can tell that you must be very cranky for that metal monster from awakening you from your slumber. I do appreciate that you managed to give me all the remaining pieces of the Master Emerald and that you seem very well behaved for now," the red echidna boasted.

Big confronts Chaos and wheezed from the running he had done just to go reason with the mysterious creature.

"If you're that blue guy that I've fought a while ago, I really want you to tell me where's Froggy," he begged.

The ancient Chaos Emerald guardian ran towards the east which prompted Big and Knuckles to follow him to see what he does next.

"Where is he going? Is he trying to lead us somewhere?" Beat said before chasing after them with his squad following him afterwards.

As Chaos stopped right in front of the path needed to lead them to their parking spaces points towards the exit. He squints his yellow eyes slightly to let the others know that he's serious about this.

"You're saying that we should get back in our vehicles. Where would you want us to go?" Big asked.

Chaos showed them what appears to be a screw with an Eggman symbol embedded on it, which gave Knuckles a clue of what he's implying.

"You managed to see one of Eggman's many hideouts to find Froggy? Good going for a fellow Emerald Protector like myself. I guess that we have to follow you in order to find it, right?" said the astounded echidna.

The watery creature nod and ran down the rocky path for his next destination. Kiryu, Akira, Honey, Jacky, Ryo, and Axel had approached their allies to see what happened with their unexpected ally.

"Where is he heading to, Knuckles?" the Yakuza member asked.

"I don't know, but he wants us to follow him. Now that we managed to get most of the Master Emerald shards, we're going to help Big get his friend back and he might have to do with the last shard," he said.

"That means that we are close enough to completing our main objective. I guess we can tell the others that we can leave now since they have their car a few yards behind us," Akira said boldly.

Knuckles, Big, B.D. Joe, Beat, the Bonanza Bros., Toejam Earl, Akira, Jacky, Ryo, Honey, and Kiryu ran down the road to leave this park for their next destination. Axel glanced at Shiva to let him know that it was time for him to leave.

"Hmmph, you don't need to tell me since Electra had already informed me that we had to follow that creature to our next location," he said arrogantly, "Ellie! Ash! We have to get out of this place or else Metal Sonic might follow us."

"Considering the damage caused to him, I don't think we need to worry at all. I can tell he might retreat back to his creator and get himself fixed before facing us again," the macho criminal boasts as he followed his two partners down the road.

Axel faced his fellow allies with a worried look as if he were to never see them again. He watched as Skate, Dr. Zan, Max, and Blaze watched him for any other orders. This was quite the emotional scene since he really didn't want to leave the crew that he had fought with for years.

"Well, I'll be leaving toward with them to stop the Legion of Subspace. You guys can take care of things in the city while I'm gone," he said bluntly.

He turned around to depart until something touched the back of his shoulder. He looked back to see that it was Blaze who stopped him and she looked at him with even more worries than him with the look of a concerned lover.

"Wait, Axel! Take me with you since you'll be needing at least someone from this city to fight by your side. I'm worried that something might happen to you if Knuckles's friends were already wounded by a powerful foe like Metal Sonic. Please trust me, Axel!" she said in a serious tone.

Axel looks at her and thought deeply about her words since he does care for her as more than just an ally. She waited silently for an answer while having this moment with her beloved partner.

"Alright, you can go with us. But I really don't want you to get hurt. I think I can trust the others to stay behind for now," he said with a smile.

Blaze smiled back at him and felt heart beating with feelings of hope and bliss. The two held hands and ran together to the point of disappearing from the remaining Police Force's views as they kept watching. Skate looked back at Max and Dr. Zan for some of his usual recital of anything interesting for their missions.

"I really hope that Axel and Blaze can get here when this whole subspace mess is over since things will be more boring without them here," he said.

Before either one could respond his words, a flash of white caused all of them to be petrified into statues. This wasn't any form of unexpected phenomena since it appeared that they were shot by something special. Elise herself levitates towards the ground while sitting in a "chair" of flapping bats and holding her own Petrification Gun. She looked at her victims with a sensualized face and licks her lips in sadistic glee.

"It appears zat zese fools vere too foolish to look out for zere own surroundings. I vould have loved to feast on zere blood, but zee boss vouldn't have approved of it," she said in a taunting manner.

She looked towards the moon to see the severely wounded Metal Sonic leaving this park for repairs as he emits even more electrical sparks. She giggled slightly and orders her loyal bats to lift her new prisoners for the Legion of Subspace.

"It's a good zing zat Jack is novere to be found around here. Because he not only destroyed my original wings, but defeated me in the most humiliating vay possible. Now vat I have to do is using my sexy appearance for other purposes like getting some information from a certain someone," Elise said while flaunting her large breasts.

She noticed a green anthropomorphic bug hiding behind a rock as it is eventually lifted by her bats. The bug did a cartoonish scream and tried to run for his life. Without knowing where he was running, his face eventually met the vampiress's awesome rack and bounced back into the ground. Scared and confused, the green bug shivers as Elise got her scary face even closer to his sweating one.

"Listen and listen vell, little bug. You better be lucky that I don't have a taste for green blood, or shall I say "bug juice". I'll let you free if you tell me vere the frog is," she said in a seductive manner.

Bug gulped and shook in fear as he felt trapped by this bloodsucking seductress and her fellow insectivorous bats.

Metal Sonic his shiny metal ass handed to him by Ash and a few of his friends in battle despite a select few being beaten easily by him due his Copycat Ability. Chaos appears to hand over the last few Master Emerald shards to a fellow Emerald Protector and promises Big that he'll show him where Froggy is. Blaze decided to leave with Axel to help out on their hunt with the rest of the group becoming new victims to the Legion of Subspace. That someone is none other than Elise and he appears to be threatening someone else (who was a wacky bug from the Saturn Era) and asking where the location of the frog was since she couldn't hear them. We'll see how thing go next week and I promise that we'll finally see what the villains are up to within these next few chapters. Like Zomom would say "Gotta go, dinner time!".