Author's notes: To anyone wondering, I have been working on this fan story for TEN YEARS. I will continue to work on this one until I finish it and it will be the only one until then because of my own idea overload issues that I've been suffering. I WILL finish this story. I just don't know WHEN I will finish it.
Chapter 49
Egg Carrier...
Eggman looked out across the fortified Bean Folk Territories. His face having a serious expression as he looked out across the industrialized territories full of factories and automated defenses. The place was indeed a fortress but one thing stood out to him looking down at the territories. The lack of air defenses, or a lack of enough air defenses to give his flying fortress trouble. He remembered he had made the mistake as well in the original timeline but it had never been used as a base after he started trying to conquer all of Mobious. He had never thought to utilize anti-air because the only flier was a two-tailed fox that unconsciously alerted all of his defenses. Of course, the Tornado was never used to fly into the zone but it wasn't a fighter aircraft.
He brought his attention back to the present as he deployed Eggpawns in the thousands to assault the outer edges of the fortified zone. He watched through the ship's security cameras as the mutilated mobile factory Robotnik that Slothic had brought over from his universe rapidly constructed an army of Badniks but with the lack of Flickies or Critters powering them. Just how badly had this Robotnik screwed up to be turned into a zombie-like puppet built only to help undo the empire he once had visions of? Not like he could ask though. The Robotnik lacked a functioning mouth and functioning vocal chords and only had a tape recorder lodged in his mouth as a form of mockery that played back phrases that the Robotnik once said. Unless...
"So, how badly did you mess up to wind up in that sorry state?" asked Eggman through the ship's intercom system to the Robotnik stationed in one of the ship's many hangars.
"I...pushed...Sonic's...replacement...too far..." came the Robotnik's reply as the recorder rewound and fast forwarded to find the correct words.
"So you can speak through that husk of a body."
"Yes..."
"And how have your plans been working since you brought this on yourself?"
"Quite...well..."
"Really? Looks to me like your plans have fallen apart. Considering you're dead and now a puppet used to destroy your own empire."
"Metallix...Neo...perfect...war...machine to destroy that...fake...hedgehog!"
"Oh really? And what happens IF he actually succeeds in destroying your world's Sonic? You're dead and I'm guessing Snively is either dead or has joined them so that leaves no one to command your empire when, or IF that Metal Sonic you created succeeds in the final mission you gave it."
The alternate Robotnik is silent as it gains the mutilated expression of "oh no" at realizing that one flaw and Eggman laughs.
"You built the perfect war machine but one that lacked the ability to assume command when it finally succeeds its mission! Oh that's hilarious!" said Eggman as he laughed.
"SHUT UP!" yelled the recorder and the alternate Robotnik got an angry expression.
"Oooooh. Touchy now at realizing your own failure huh? I'd be impressed if I wasn't disgusted at how horribly you failed."
"And...what...about you?! Helping...Freedom Fighters...destroy your empire!"
"Oh this isn't my empire. My empire is in an alternate future of this timeline. Besides, I technically won against Sonic. Albeit in a very backstabbing way of doing so and that I had completely forgotten about that old plan to begin with."
"And...you're fine...with helping...the enemy?!"
"Of course. It's no fun winning in an underhanded manner. I broke apart a bond in the most dark of manners. There was no victory in that."
"Honor...bah humbug! Who needs it!"
"I see you got what you deserved from that one sentence. And judging from the teeth marks around your head, I assume you said some poor choice of last words when your Sonic, or his replacement, cornered you?"
The alternate Robotnik says nothing although the burn of his last words still linger in his mind.
"You did say some poorly chosen words, didn't you?" asked Eggman as he chuckled.
"Stop...snooping as usual...you annoying...alternate...failure of a Robotnik!" yelled the recorder voice.
"Oh I'm so insulted. Not like I haven't heard that from Momma every day she escaped."
"MOMMA?! WHERE?!"
Eggman laughed as the mutilated alternate Robotnik spun around on his treads at hearing Momma Robotnik be mentioned. It stopped spinning and the recorder made sounds akin to angry grumbling as it resumed making Badniks.
Eggman turned his attention back to the fortified positions they were attacking and saw the automated turrets firing at the Eggpawns and Badniks as they advanced. Or at least, the ground variants. However, the SWAT-Bots targeted the air variants. He twirls his moustache, thinking on how to break the defensive line. However, his comm-link beeping got his attention and he answered.
"Yeeeeeees?" said Eggman calmly.
"Yeah. Got some good news and bad news." came Mayhem's voice over the comm-link.
"What's the good news?" asked Eggman cautiously.
"Good news; out of the twenty nuclear silo locations you gave us, there is only one functioning silo."
"And the bad news?"
"Bunnie and Rotor are unconscious and me and Razor are pinned down by Anti-Tails robots."
"THE LASERS HURT BUT I AM INVINCIBLE!" came Razor's yell as well as the sound of a chain-axe roaring over laser fire.
"Wait...Anti-Tails...oh of course. Anti-Tails would be a full on robot. Although...not important. How bad is it?" said Eggman.
"We're pinned down in one of the hallways with at least...uh...seventy or so robots between us and the main control room."
"How badly hurt are Rotor and Bunnie?"
"They'll live but not if we can't get through these robots."
"I thought you could warp reality!"
"YOU TRY WARPING REALITY WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO DEFEND TWO UNCONSCIOUS TEAM MEMBERS!"
Eggman pulled the comm-link away from his ear due to angry yelling.
"OH, THE REALITY WARPER CAN'T REALITY WARP BECAUSE HE'S PUTTING HIS TEAMMATES LIVES ABOVE HIS OWN, LET'S DEGRADE HIM FOR IT! I'M DOING MY FUCKING BEST HERE EGGHEAD!"
"You have some buried anger there. Why is that?"
"YOU'RE NOT MY FUCKING THERAPIST! Granted, most don't actually listen to me and piss me off BUT MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS! I'LL FIGURE SOMETHING OUT!"
"OOOOOOOOOOOOH! CHOP CHOP GOES THE ROBOT HEADS! WATCH AS THEIR NECKS SPRAY OIL LIKE FOUNTAINS OF BLOOD! ENJOY THE CARNAGE AS SPARKS AND BOLTS FLY! DON'T LET THEIR FAMILIAR FACES FOOL YOU! THEY'RE NOT A FRIEND'S!" sang Razor over the comm-link.
"WILL YOU SHUT UP?!" yelled both Eggman and Mayhem into Razor's ear.
"Awwwww! But I had the perfect ending to the song!" whined Razor as he split a Anti-Tails robot in half before kicking another into a wall hard enough to make it explode into pieces.
"Fine! What was it?!" snapped Mayhem as he kept the distortion shields around Bunnie and Rotor while looking for an opening to fight back against the many robots in the hallway.
"I forgot! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"I'm going to kill you one of these days!"
"But you won't be abe to! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"I'll gouge those stupid eyes out first!"
Eggman massaged his forehead in annoyance. Since becoming a good guy here and dealing with future, past and different dimensions, he was glad they were around to keep Bunnie and Rotor alive but the two were headache inducing.
"We'll contact you when we actually get this facility secured and locked down." said Mayhem as he hung up.
"What was the yelling about?" came Admin_Fun's voice as he entered the ship's command center.
"Oh the nuclear disarmament team's hit a snag. Apparently they were ambushed by Anti-Tails robots." said Eggman, still massaging his forehead.
"Anti-Tails robots? But...oh! I'm so stupid! I should have known Scourge wouldn't be that easy to remove from the whole equation going on here!" said Admin_Fun as he facepalmed, "Do they need assistance?"
"STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM ME ADMIN_FriendlyFire!" came Mayhem's angry voice over the comms.
"Does that answer your question?" asked Eggman dryly.
"He's going to hold that grudge to his grave isn't he?"
"If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say he might hold it beyond that."
"Oh wonderful. When he finally dies, I'm going to haunted by a vengeful ghost." said Admin_Fun sarcastically as he left the command center.
Nuclear Silo Alpha-Zeta-9B...
Mayhem ripped off some nearby wall paneling to use as a shield to protect himself from the laser fire as the laser burns he already received rapidly healed. Razor meanwhile looked like laser burned swiss cheese but kept swinging the chain-axe at the robots with reckless abandon and insane laughter. After his injuries heal, he throws the paneling like a shuriken and takes the heads off of three robots. The paneling becomes embedded in another wall, pinning one of the robots against it.
He turns to fight more of the robots but finds one with a laser shotgun and within lethal range, aiming for his chest gem.
"Oh you annoying-!" snarled Mayhem before the laser shotgun discharges and hits the gem which then explodes. Blasting back both Mayhem and the robot. Mayhem crashes onto his back and the robot also crashes onto its back. It begins to get up before a Earth-coated Kangaroo foot slams down on it.
"You okay?" asked Razor as he ignored every laser hitting him in the back as he looked at the downed Mayhem.
"I've been playing fair...I've held back...now...I'M FURIOUS!" snarled Mayhem as he got up angrily, the broken fragments of the fake gem having embedded themselves in his skin but are slowly dissolved by his acidic blood. His right arm has several tendrils erupt from it. The tendrils while mostly black, end in red tips with ethereal screaming coming from said tips.
"Oh he's very much fine. My turn to watch over the two Mobians then?" said Razor not at all worried as he moves defensively in front of the two downed Mobian members of the team as Mayhem advances towards the robots, his distortion field now surrounding him. Razor reclines on his tail as he summons a bag of popcorn, "Oh I love watching him get angry. Always so unique."
The robots turned their attention solely on Mayhem who began to quickly advance on the Anti-Tails robots before he appeared in front of one suddenly and ripped its head and spinal column out of the body before using it to bludgeon another into deactivation. He then impaled one of the robots with the tendrils and it spasms violently as the tendrils puncture several vital systems in the head and torso before it turns and open fires on several other robots, gunning them down before the tendrils rip the robot apart from within. Mayhem extends his claws on his other arm and cleaves one of the robots in half before grabbing both halves as the cut marks begin to glow red and throwing them into large groups of the robots. The halves then explode into red-black Ice, freezing those caught directly in the blast while impaling those on Ice spikes not directly in the blast. The robots begin to fall back, still firing but their numbers rapidly depleting.
"Hey Mayhem, try not to break the world. We are trying to save it remember." said Razor as he ate some popcorn.
"Shut up! I'm not some little kid who can't control my powers anymore!" snarled Mayhem as he flayed one of the robots.
"Eggman's right. You do have a temper."
"Not now!"
"Oh fine. Kill my fun. Maybe you should have died in that river..."
Mayhem stops fighting the robots and angrily turns towards Razor who sweat-drops.
"Did I say that out loud? Oopsie-Daisy."
Mayhem is suddenly in front of Razor, grabs him and throws him at the robots.
"Look ma! I'm flying! I'm flying!" said Razor as he flapped his arms like a bird before he smashed through the reinforced doors of the central control room with little blue birds fluttering around his head.
"Hey look! He's not the only one who can't get stars!" said a rabbit wearing red overalls as he popped out of a nearby vent before going back into it. The robots fire at Mayhem but begin retreating due to a lack of numbers and getting a retreat order. The tendrils erupt from the chest of one of the retreating robots, holding the power core. Mayhem then rips the tendrils out and looks at the core before using the tendrils to crush the core just enough for it to begin overloading.
"Hey! You forgot something!" yelled Mayhem as he threw the overloading core at the robots. One of them catches it and gains a "why did I catch this?" expression before the core explodes and it takes out 90% of the retreating Anti-Tails robots. Mayhem then walks over to the reinforced doors.
"I don't want to fly anymore ma..." mumbled Razor in a daze before Mayhem uses his glowing red claw to cut the hinges on the door and it collapses into the room, with Razor's head being buried in the metal flooring. Mayhem walks into the room ignoring Razor and he looks over the control panel. He then activates his comm-link.
"Hey, Eggman. Got a problem here. Looks like someone's rigged a remote control launch mechanism to bypass the manual launch controls." said Mayhem calmly despite his recent anger outburst.
"WHAT?!" yelled Eggman over the comm-link.
"I said, someone rigged a remote control launch system to bypass the normal system."
"I heard you smartass! Can you disarm both?"
"Maybe."
"Maybe?! What do you mean 'maybe'?!"
"I'm not good with electronics okay? I mostly just rip and tear until the things shut down."
"Well don't do that here! You might accidentally launch the warhead! Or warheads if the silo is automated! Which is it by the way?"
Mayhem looks into the segment of the facility housing the warhead and his ears flatten.
"Shit...automated." replied Mayhem as he looked at the facility's assembly platforms.
"Be EXTREMELY careful then!" said Eggman, now being absolutely terrified of something going wrong.
"Yeah, no, I'm going to launch this facility's entire supply of nuclear warheads."
"That better be a poorly timed sarcastic joke on your part!"
"Why do I bother?" muttered Mayhem as he ripped off the lower segment protective paneling on the main control desk and began looking over all the different wires. He reaches for a wire set before a green spin-dash slams into him and knocks him into a nearby wall. One of his ears then gets a bowie knife lodged through it and pinning it to the wall. He growl-hisses in pain at the knife but looks at who attacked him and glares at Scourge as the hedgehog looks at him.
"This is what they sent to disarm this place? The half robot rabbit, the walrus, an insane kangaroo freak, and a fox freak? How desparate are you losers?" said Scourge with a smirk.
"Eggman, permission to brutally kill Scourge?" asked Mayhem through his comm-link, ignoring Scourge entirely as he glared at the green hedgehog.
"One second. HEY ADMIN FUN, DOES MAYHEM HAVE PERMISSION TO KILL SCOURGE?" said Eggman before moving away from the communication hub and yelling for Admin_Fun.
"PERMISSION GRANTED!" yelled Admin_Fun back.
"Permission granted." said Eggman calmly.
"Good. Because I always wanted to kill a hedgehog." said Mayhem as he reached up and ripped the knife out of his ear, his blood already eating away at the blade.
"Tch. You don't scare me." snarled Scourge.
"Oh, but I should. I really should." said Mayhem as the ear wound quickly healed and he looked at the knife in his hand, "You know, this knife would have done you some good if you hadn't wasted it on my ear. Having industrial grade acid for blood makes bladed weapons rapidly useless."
"I've got others freak."
"I figured you would but do you think you can win against me with just knives?"
"Which is why I came prepared!" said Scourge as he quickly drew a gun and fired it right into Mayhem's head, dropping him. Scourge chuckles as he spins the gun on his finger but stops when he hears Mayhem chuckling as well. Mayhem sits up, the bullet wound visible on his forehead. He extends his glowing red glow and puts it into the wound before pulling the bullet out on the claw's tip. He then flicks the bullet away as the wound rapidly heals up.
"That hurt, you know. That actually hurt. I've never had someone surprise me like that. Usually I do the surprising...and then the enemy's dead. But here you are. The one person that has actually shot me and actually hurt me." said Mayhem as he slowly got to his feet.
"What the hell are you?" snarled Scourge as he readied the gun again.
"I'm a future nightmare spawn related to TD. How's that for an answer Scourge?" said Mayhem as he smiled, revealing his razor sharp teeth.
"More like an annoying freak!" snarled Scourge as he fired the remaining eight rounds at Mayhem, all of them hitting vital locations but they do nothing as the wounds heal up and Mayhem makes hacking noises before spitting the bloody bullets at Scourge's feet, the bullets rapidly dissolving. Scourge growls before throwing the empty gun at Mayhem who catches it and then crushes it like its made of glass.
"Want to know what's funny? TD is my great-grandpa. Grandpa was a big brute. Dad though was a psychic hunter." said Mayhem as he had the tendrils retract back into his arm.
"What the hell does psychic mean?" snarled Scourge and Mayhem laughs.
"You don't know what psychic means. Oh that's hilarious! That is absolutely hilarious!" said Mayhem laughing.
"Stop laughing!" snarled Scourge as he did a roundhouse kick on Mayhem but the fox-dragon quickly catches it and then grabs Scourge by the throat and slams him into the wall and glares into his eyes.
"But you want me laughing. Every second I'm not distracted means you're closing to dying. Unless you're pulling some bullshit body double shit. In which case, this body is going to die." said Mayhem before choking the words out of Scourge's throat, "No. No talking. You interrupted me. Dad was a psychic hunter. Meaning, he wasn't strong physically but mentally he was a nightmare. Me? I've been playing moderately fair. Going all out only against Infinite because he is actually a threat to my future with the only other time going all out being to stop that Planetary Roboticization Beam. But you...you're not worth going all out, but I'm going to. Why? Because why not? You're not important. You're just a side threat who wants to see the world burn. But guess what?"
Scourge just glares at Mayhem before Mayhem leans in and whispers something that makes Scourge's eyes widen before Mayhem throws him through the window looking into the nuclear silo. He then looks down at the control panel and buries his claws into it before dragging them through it and causing it to explode. Warning sirens begin to go off as Mayhem climbs into the silo as well and walks towards the recovering Scourge. Scourge stumbles as he stands up but recovers and gets into a defensive stance.
"Enjoy this fight Scourge? You're about to get your wish. Everything burned away! How's it feel?" said Mayhem as he gathered red-black energy in his claws, ethereal screams coming from the energy.
"You're one of the good guys though! What the hell is wrong with you?!" snarled Scourge.
"Oh there's a lot wrong with me. I just don't care sometimes!"
Mayhem throws the red-black energy spheres at Scourge and upon impact, they explode with ethereal screams echoing from them and Scourge drops to his knees, overwhelmed with fear.
"What...what is this?" choked Scourge as the fear was too much for him to just fight through.
"Fear. An element from the universe I call home. Isn't that fun? Although, mine elemental version isn't as strong as like Fear Dragons but it can overpower most people. Such as yourself." said Mayhem as he grabbed Scourge by the head.
"You...bullshit freak..."
"No...what's next is bullshit. Enjoy the feel of nuclear fire." said Mayhem as he used his glowing red claw to puncture the side of the nuclear missile as it launched. The claw mark causes it to explode though and Scourge is consumed by nuclear fire.
Meanwhile...
Mayhem glared down at Scourge as he thrashed in pain, his eyes unfocused.
"That's psychic." said Mayhem as he went over to the control panel again. He found the wire set he was going for on the main panel again and ripped them out before ripping the remote control launch system off the main panel. He then had the silo close before running his claws through the panel to make sure the silo can't be used. Razor finally pulls his head out of the metal flooring and gets himself unstuck from the door as well and walks over.
"Did you have to do that to him?" asked Razor as he rubbed his head.
"Yes. He hurt me." said Mayhem calmly.
"I had to chop off your head."
"To save my life. There's a difference between the two."
"So I don't have to worry about you being angry at me?"
"As long as you take back that river remark."
"Fine. That was a slip up anyway. Besides, things wouldn't be as fun if you had died."
"Others would disagree."
"Oh let them be angry at how OP you are. I'm OP too but I could care less! Now, what do we do with green Sonic?"
"Leave him. He's literally doing the lame body double bullshit."
"Oh fun. So that means he knows how dangerous you are now as well."
"Let him. That memory's going to burn into his mind. I can't beat Infinite, currently, but I can make Scourge's life hell. Come on, let's grab the other two and get out of here." said Mayhem as he walked by Scourge who was still thrashing in pain. He went over and picked up Rotor as Razor picked up Bunnie. The two left the nuclear silo unaware of the remains of Omochao army discretely making its way into the nuclear silo and dismantling electronics and collecting nuclear material from the warheads that are not in use.
END CHAPTER
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