Sonic, Knuckles and Rouge run up to the ruins's temple rooftops where they find an alien star meeting their their eyes with it's own.

Sonic taunts "Having a little trouble with G.U.N. agents... are we?"

Star chuckles "What a pitiful bunch..."

Knuckles knocks his fists "Care to repeat that?" and getting into a fighting stance.

Star continues "We're not here to exterminate these poor creatures. On the contrary..."

Confused, Rouge inquieres about the alien's contradiction "What are you talking about?!"

Star chuckles again "All will be revealed... tomorrow."

While heroes traded their glances, Star commands "BLACK BULL!! I SUMMON YOU!" From the bottomless pit flies up an enormous monstrosity looking like a grey/red fat caterpillar having 1 eye, 2 front small for its size hands/feet, plus mutated wings on it's back.

Star commands "Black Bull! Show theese fools your true strength and burn them to the ash" on this note Star flies away. Bull gives the same roar that Rouge heard from communicator.

Sonic got hyped "Now we're talking! Bring it on big guy!"

Rouge expressed her disgust "Man, what an ugly beast!"

Knuckles focused "You're going down!"

Sonic ran and getting Bull's attention. Unknown to it, Knuckles was hitting the body from either of sides, while Rouge deliveres a drill kick from above.

Black Bull slams its body to the ground causing a shockwave, knocking away Sonic and Knuckles

Just when they were about to fall, Rouge quickly catches them and flies them back to the roof. Sonic says "Man, that earthquake contuse everything standing, we could avoid the shockwave by jumping." Knuckles gets frustrated "Alien's body seem to be impervious to my attacks. What to do?" Rouge looks up "What G.U.N. beetles are doing here?!"

The small robots made by mankind forces, were flying toward battlefield. Riffles attached their bottoms opened rapid fire at Black Bull. Bullets hitting the body ricocheted from it. But some of fire nailed into monster's now bleeding lone eye.

Enraged, Black Bull roars, charges some orange orb in his mouth and spits the flames toward robots, blasting them.

Rouge deduces "Sonic, charge you spindash! I'll load you with some thunder! When I do that, Knuckles, you throw Sonic at the monster's eye! That's his weak point!"

Knuckles replies "I got it."

Sonic charges his signature move "Ready anytime!"

Knuckles and Rouge take Sonic into their hands, charged with thunder, in Rouge's case.

Echidna asks "Already?!" Bat replies "Anytime, now!" Both mobians synchronizingly leaned a little back and quickly spinned their respective keeping arm, throwing Sonic toward Black Bull.

Sonic boasts "BLAST AWAY!" Spindash lands on monstrous eye, delivering a damage. Spindash leaps from eye and soon follows with a 10-hit combo of hooming attacks.

The blast energy drops and Sonic lands on the ground, leaving Black Bull roaring in pain. The monster flies higher and blows fire at hedgehog, which he effortlessly evades.

Now Rouge was getting annoyed "I can't carry you guys high enough to reach the beast. We need to find another way!"

Knuckles noticed something from afar "There're boxes. Bet we can find something inside of them."

Black Bull turned his attention toward duo and blew a large beam of annavoidable fire at them. Sonic stands between them and blasts his windmill putting out the fire "Lead the way, Knuckles!"

Soon as they reach boxes, Knuckles smashes them and voiced his findings "Springers!" Rouge looks up "The stem up above, could be used as railway!" Sonic jumps onto springer "Leave this one to me, guys!"

Black Bull unsuccessfuly tried to burn Sonic grinding on the stem. The hedgehog counters with hooming attacks.

The massive amount of hits to a single eye made Black Bull blind. Who panickingly enraged tried to find his enemy. The beast was aimlessly flying around the forest, agonizingly roaring until it crashed into a gigantic mountain and caused the whole debris squashhing to a pulp.

Sonic celebrates "Yeah! End of the line for you!"

Rouge joins "All in a day's work!"

Knuckles boasts "Your invasion will not go unopposed!"

G.U.N. HQ

Soldier enters the Commander's chamber, salutes and begins his report "Commander! COM Sector B3 are reporting that the black aliens have successfully been driven out of Westopolis. We've contained them in the wasteland and they're completely cut off from their forest support."

Commanders turns his gaze toward his subordinate "Well done, Captain. What about Shadow?"

Captain responds "Sir! The Beetles signted Shadow in the wasteland with the black aliens."

Commander Towers orders "Alert all field commanders in Sector B. I'm authorizing full use of all tactical weapons. I want both black aliens and Shadow stopped and buried. Failure is not an option."

Captain replies "Yes, Sir! and leaves.

Smirking Commander mutters "It's over, Shadow. You will finally be exposed and eradicated for the evil that you are!"

A/N: Next chapter we return back to Shadow. What's gonna happen next?

How was dynamic between Sonic, Rouge, Knuckles? Complementary? In-Character?

Suggestions and constructive criticism are welcome in reviews. See ya on Stage 4.