Chapter Eight
Omega raised his arm, his hand folded and his machine gun emerged. The robot's engines activated and he hovered into the air, all weapons systems fully active.
Sonic dashed towards the robot and launched into a spin-dash, whirling towards Omega's direction and then launched into the air in a homing attack.
Omega grabbed the spinning hedgehog, anticipating the incoming attack, and threw him towards the ground, right into Tails. The twin-tailed fox rose up and dashed towards Omega, holding his wrench in a steady manner.
BLAM-BLAM-BLAM! Omega unleashed his missile pay load, trying to blow up the flying fox genius, but Tails avoided the incoming projectiles and smacked one right back at Omega. Omega's eyes flashed and the battle robot hovered aside, the missile flew by and Omega reached out, grabbing the missile in a heartbeat.
"YOUR TACTICS ARE FUTILE!" Omega whirred.
"No way!" Sonic cried.
With the missile's engines still running, Omega threw the missile and it flew towards a building. The missile struck a window and exploded, causing glass shards to fall and rubble fell into the street atop a passing car.
Omega unleashed his machine guns and fired on Sonic and Tails, trying to blast them to smithereens. Sonic dodged the shots and Tails hovered into the air, even as Omega followed him, trying to shoot down the fox.
Sonic ran to Tails' aid, he launched into a spin-dash and struck Omega, hitting him in the side as hard as he could with all of his strength.
"DAMAGE SUSTAINED!" Omega buzzed, "SONIC IS STRONG, DEFENDING! ALL COUNTERMEASURES ACTIVATED!"
He grabbed the blue hedgehog and threw him to the ground, then he morphed his hand into a gun and fired a bolt of energy at the speedster. The bolt hit Sonic and the hedgehog screamed as volts of electricity coursed through his body, stunning him in seconds.
Smoke rose from the speedster's quills and Sonic stood, struggling to stand up straight as his knees trembled. The hedgehog glared at Omega, clutching his shoulder with a grimace in his eyes.
Tails came to Sonic's side, determined to help him as best he could. Omega glared at the two menacingly, training his sights on them harder than he ever had before.
Facing Sonic and Tails, it felt like the training course that Robotnik had put him through. After destroying those dolls, taking down the hedgehog and the fox would be worth it.
Just then, his systems beeped and his targeting system gave out. Omega buzzed, his systems working multiple tasks all at once. First, he was repairing the damage in his side torso. Secondly, he scanned Tails, detecting... something. And third, he looked at his log, recalling the main assignment that he'd been given.
"CHAOS EMERALD DETECTED!" Omega buzzed, "EMERALD DETECTED! FOX HAS EMERALD!"
In the moment of distraction, Sonic recovered and rammed Omega, knocking him back. The robot's head spun in a 360, spinning wildly. Sonic came at him again with Tails following him, the two ganged up on the robot and attacked at once, but Omega recovered quickly and knocked them aside with the swipe of an arm.
Omega floated up into the air and fired a missile at the duo, Sonic and Tails dodged, but the explosive impact of the projectile by the spot they previously stood on knocked them over. Omega hovered back, observing the two as they regrouped, while he recalled his main mission directive.
What was his mission again?
Oh, that's right, capture the frog.
Now was not the time to go into hedgehog priority one mode, it was time to disengage. Omega pulled away and floated towards the train station, leaving Sonic and Tails be.
The two were about to go at him again, but Sonic stopped and held out a hand in front of Tails, watching Omega leave. And even then, they were both confused by the sight of the robot leaving.
Omega flew into the train station, startling a pair of workers and people in the area. He floated towards the ceiling, his eyes scanning the environment as he searched for the frog's signature. Omega activated his internal map, pin-pointing where the frog had gone off to. The frog had hopped near here, but where was it now?
He conducted a heat scan, searching the environment for any signs of the frog's path. Omega looked down at the floor, spotting a pair of glowing frog-sized marks on the ground leading from the building's entrance to the exit, leading to... a hotel.
"CONDUCTING SEARCH OF HOTEL!" Omega buzzed.
With his path pinpointed, he glided down and headed out of the station, heading to his next destination. It wouldn't be long until he had that frog, whatever it took to get it, no matter the obstacles...