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Chapter 54
Hidden Base, unknown location...
Scourge growled as he threw the ice pack he had been using on his head since that fox/dragon freak had used that mental ability on him. The icepack to get rid of the fever he had gotten from the whole ordeal. He sat down in his command center's chair and looked over how everything was going and growled.
"That stupid kangaroo is messing up everything. And so is that fox/dragon freak. And those three alternates. Couldn't just have a simple "end of existence" for this world could we?!" snarled Scourge as he slammed a fist down on the keyboard. He sat back, deep in thought before he looked up at hearing something moving through the ventilation shaft above him. He drew a gun and fired up into the ventilation shaft and the sound of movement stopped.
"Heh. Got the little bastard. Stupid mice." growled Scourge before he started going over data his robots had collected over the course of recent events, including from those destroyed. He is however, unaware of the drop of purple blood dripping out of the bullet hole and hissing as it hit the metal floor.
Power generator room...
A figure climbs out of the vent leading into the room and drops down into the room. The figure stands up before spitting out a bullet as the heart wound seals up.
"Bastard's got good aim. I'll give him that." snarled Mayhem as he looked around the room and noticed the old style power generators lining the walls of the room and he extends his claws, "Heh. I'll make sure he dies this time."
He puts his claws through the generatos on his left and right at the same time, spasming as electricity courses through his body but ignoring it before he runs down the full length of the room, slicing through every generator. As he hits the end, he rips his claws out and stands there as the residual electricity arcs off his body. The claw marks begin glowing red before the generators all explode and lights throughout the base go out.
The power failure hits as Scourge is finishing up a backup plan on the computer and then everything goes dark.
"ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?! I THOUGHT I FIXED THE GENERATORS!" yelled Scourge as he puts his fist through one of the monitors in anger. He gets up angrily and grabs a flashlight. He grumbles angrily as he's forced to open the door manually due to there being no power and he looks down the darkened hallways with anger. He walks down them grumbling angrily, walking past long destroyed SWAT-Bots and Badnik shells. He eventually comes upon the Generator room and forces the door open. As the door is forced open, smoke bellows out of the room and he covers his mouth as he waves the smoke away from his face, taking a few steps back. Once the smoke cleared enough, he walked into the room and found the destroyed generators. He growled in anger before he noticed another smell along with the smoke. He began looking around, until he found it. He picked it up before quickly dropping it as his gloves had been burned through on the two fingers he had used to grab the object. He looked around before he grabbed a piece of shrapnel from the destroyed generators and used it to pick up the item. Once he had it reasonably secure on the metal fragment, he looked at it closely. Half a bullet left and covered in purple blood. The blood coated bullet soon burned through the metal fragment and Scourge tossed it aside as he drew the gun again and looked around, eyes showing pure rage.
"Alright freak, come on out! I know you're here!" snarled Scourge as he looked around the room cautiously as more and more smoke dispersed. He also began making his way out of the room as it was too cramped, making movement difficult. He stopped when he bumped into something and heard light growling behind him as something loomed over him. He looked up and sees a Venus flytrap like mouth lunge at him. He quickly spins and fires three shots but he sees the distant spark of bullet hitting metal down the now empty hallway.
"Tell me Scourge, was it easy being Sonic's evil counterpart or did you ever think of being a good guy?" echoed Mayhem's voice through the hallways surrounding Scourge.
"Oh what, you gonna try to make me regret my actions or something? Won't work pal!" snarled Scourge before he felt a sharp pain in his should and he looked and saw a large claw sticking out of it.
"No. I just want to know the type of hell to create for you." said Mayhem as he pulled the claw out and went back into the vents above Scourge. The green hedgehog quickly turned and fired the gun one-handed at the vents but he either misses or they really have no effect. He fires down the whole length of the vent shaft until the gun clicks and keeps trying to fire for several moments after the sound of movement disappears. He tosses the gun away in anger and gets up, holding his bleeding shoulder. He looks around on alert before acid blood coated bullets hit the ground in front of him and he looks up, "Surprise."
Mayhem then backhands him through a wall. Scourge crashes across the floor from the blow and he slowly gets up before tossing his broken sunglasses away as he grabs some rubble from the ruined wall as Mayhem walks into the room. Scourge throws the rubble like a throwing knife and Mayhem moves his head out of the way but not enough as it rips through his left face cheek, revealing his teeth and that the teeth go further back along the jawline than normal teeth.
"The fuck?" muttered Scourge as Mayhem ran his tongue over the now exposed teeth.
"I think you would have preferred not seeing my full jawline." said Mayhem chuckling.
"So you've got a few extra teeth. That just means more to punch out." said Scourge as he pulled out knuckled bracers.
"Oh please. I've seen your hitting power. You're not that-" began Mayhem before Scourge punched him through a wall.
Mayhem crashed out into the assembly line zone of the Anti-Tails Robots. He coughed as he slowly got up before rolling his tongue out in his mouth and spitting out three teeth. He looks surprised before he chuckles, smiling and revealing his teeth. Including the lost three that were already regrowing.
"Oh you're more fun than I thought Scourge. Been holding back much?" said Mayhem as he got to his feet and tossing the three teeth aside.
"More like I've had years to make myself better than Sonic." said Scourge as he shook the hand he used to punch Mayhem.
"Better? I'd laugh if it was true."
Scourge is suddenly in front of Mayhem and delivers several hits faster than can be seen normally. The impacts also creating sonic booms. The punches cave in Mayhem's chest and ribs before he delivers a haymaker to Mayhem's face and the sound of bones snapping is heard as the fox-dragon's head spins 180 degrees and he staggers back, only remaining standing due to his tails. Scourge pants heavily, letting his guard down a moment before he hears Mayhem laugh.
Mayhem's arms reach up and snap his head back into position as his caved in ribs and chest pop back to normal like they were never hit.
"I felt that headshot more than those hits. Heck, nearly drowning hurt more." said Mayhem chuckling, "My turn now."
Mayhem delivers a gut punch to Scourge hard enough to take the green hedgehog off his feet. Mayhem then spins and uses the arm opposite of the one used to gut punch Scourge, grabbing him by the neck as he does so and slams him into the ground, creating an impact crater from the hit. He then tries to stomp on Scourge who rolls out of the way quickly before doing a kip up to get to his feet and then delivering a spin-kick to Mayhem's face sending him spinning and sending several teeth flying due to the steel toes in Scourge's shoes. He wipes the blood off his lips as he turns back towards Scourge before a purple-red frill erupts from around his neck. Scourge freezes up a moment before Mayhem spits a red glob at him that hits him in the face and Scourge grabs his eyes.
"Ah! What the fuck is this shit?!" yelled Scourge as he tried to get the gunk off but it was like glue. Mayhem has the frill fold back up.
"A move I borrowed from a friend of mine." snarled Mayhem before he drop-kicks Scourge into one of the assembly machines. Mayhem gets up but stumbles a moment before coughing up some blood. He whips the blood off his hand and advances towards Scourge before a green spin-dash cuts through him much like the controlled Sonic did earlier and he staggers back.
Scourge uncurls a few feet away and shakes the blood off quickly but then has to throw his jacket off due to acidic blood coating it. Scourge also rips the glue-like gunk off his face, ignoring the facial waxing he just did. He's breathing heavily before he hears Mayhem chuckle again.
"Was this supposed to hurt?" said Mayhem as he turned towards Scourge, the spin-dash hole not healing.
"You're fucking bullshit!" snarled Scourge angrily.
"Yes, but this has actually been one of the more challenging fights in my life. Oh sure, none of the other fights will ever be known but you're the first enemy I've actually had trouble with. I either have to make myself weaker or I just straight up overpower the enemy. Unlike Razor, I WANT to fight. I want to see blood run!"
"Does that include yours?"
"Actually yes but I prefer my enemy's blood."
"And you're a good guy?"
"I walk a very small line between being a good guy...and being a villain. It's fun when you get it just right. Of course, I have to reel myself in before I kill someone whose not an enemy. But you know what I said."
"Am I really supposed to believe you want to see the world burn? You could have done that at the nuclear silo but you didn't! Instead you trapped me in some...mental torture that felt real!"
"And I told you, I'm related to TD. I bring harm to him, I erase myself."
"But he's...not...here..." said Scourge confused before it dawned on him and his eyes lose the angry expression before they grow horrified. Mayhem is suddenly in front of him, now more draconic than fox and fully healed.
"Ready for the next round?" said Mayhem as he towered over Scourge.
The green hedgehog quickly reacted and kicked one of Mayhem's knees, bending it backwards at a bad angle before running off towards the main command deck of the base. Mayhem fixes his knee and then slowly walks off after Scourge, growl-hissing as he does so.
Scourge ran through the halls of the base, not going Sonic-level speeds due to wanting to avoid detection and just so he didn't have to backtrack incase he went past the room. His heart was pounding in his chest. This wasn't normal. This guy had messed with his head last time but this...no way this was real but he didn't care. He needed to go with Plan C right now. Too much heat now. His eye caught sight of the room marking and he skidded to a halt before forcing open the door, ignoring the pain from his wounded shoulder as he did so. Once inside the room, he threw every switch in the room. The brat was right, installing the backups in another room was a good idea as the emergency lights turned on throughout the base. He ran out of the room, switching to full speed this time and he skidded to a halt in front of the door leading to the command deck. He forced that door open too and scrambled inside. Inside only one terminal was active but it was the correct one. He ran over to it and began inputting several different lines of code before hitting the "Enter" key on the keyboard and looked off to the right side of the terminal as a sealed big red button rose into view. He flipped the glass covering off and got ready to hit the button before he suddenly smelled sulfur.
He was suddenly slammed into a line of several other monitors by a backhand catching him across the chest. He tried to get up off the table before his face was smashed down into one of the monitors and then tossed into a wall where he collapsed. He opened one eye slowly as his head rung from the impact with the wall. He went to feel the other side of his face before he pulled away in pain; glass was now lodged in that side of his face. He growled as he got up but then the anger left his eyes and he felt his heart skip as he looked at his attacker. The freak looked nothing like a fox or a dragon now.
Eight eyes, four on each side of his skull and of red and purple coloration. Fully exposed jawline, showing that the freak's jawline wrapped around his skull. The tendrils that he had coming out of his arm at the nuclear silo were now coming out of his back, tipped in the same red tips with ethereal screaming within said tips. In his chest cavity was a purple gem the size of a Chaos Emerald but looking into its reflective surface as he was now...Scourge saw his death within it...
Before Scourge could react, the monster's claws had wrapped around his throat and had slammed him against the wall again.
"Keep watching Scourge. See your oblivion." snarled Mayhem as he forced Scourge to look into the purple gem. Scourge struggled, trying to escape the claws but they were too strong. As he resisted, he found that he couldn't look away from the gem, no matter how hard he tried. He found the death shown within calling to him and he felt...weaker the longer he looked into it, like something was pulling the life out of him. He tried to punch the gem, trying to break it but he couldn't get any leverage. Scourge kept trying to resist, until he spotted a piece of glass nearby from one the monitors his face had broken. He reached for it even as his vision began to grow black...
He was snapped out of the blackness when he felt a sudden burning sensation on one of his hands and he was on the ground again. He looked at his burning hand and saw it now coated in the acidic blood. He looked and saw Mayhem trying to get the glass shard now wedged into one of his left eyes. Scourge stumble-jumped to his feet and ran for the button as Mayhem got the glass out of his eye and turned towards Scourge angrily and gave chase. Scourge basically collapsed onto the terminal with the button before reaching under the terminal's underside and quickly swinging a pipe into Mayhem's face sending him crashing onto the table where he had previously thrown Scourge. Scourge blinked dumbly. The brat's suggestion had save his life again. Had he been psychic all this time, or did he just have good ideas? He snapped out of the stupor as Mayhem began getting up again. He threw the pipe and the recovering Mayhem didn't see it as it hit him in another one of his left eyes and he roared in anger as he staggered back before charging Scourge. Scourge smashed his fist down onto the red button, effectively breaking it in the process.
"Self-destruct activated. Please evacuate, unless you are an annoying hedgehog. In which case, please perish." came an old automated voice for the base before...
The long abandoned and forgotten underwater base which was also displaced into the Special Zone during a failed experiment sat under the Mobian Sea seemingly lifeless, before the metal fortress suddenly exploded in which the displacement split the resulting debris between being under the Special Zone's Sea and under the Mobian Sea.
Egg Carrier, 3 hours later...
A soaking wet Mayhem dropped Scourge's skull onto the table Admin_Fun was sitting at, startling the Zone Admin from the skull's suddenly appearance. He then looks between Mayhem and the skull before he picks up the skull and looks it over with a scanner. The result reads as 100% Scourge's.
"You got him. Where was he?" asked Admin_Fun.
"Under the sea. Bastard was a headache. Now, I'm going to the infirmary." said Mayhem not looking at Admin_Fun.
"But I thought you could heal?"
Mayhem turns towards him slowly and the Zone Admin winces at the pipe still lodged in Mayhem's left eye.
"I'm not a Hybrid. My healing takes energy and right now, I am VERY exhausted because the bastard triggered the base to self-destruct AND I had to swim several feet down to get to the base and then that same distance coming back to the surface. I have a pipe lodged in my eye and I have at least three broken ribs. Now, I'm going to rest after I get help removing this pipe. Good day!" said Mayhem, snarling the last part before walking towards the infirmary.
Admin_Fun watches him silently walk by before looking at the skull.
Meanwhile, Mobian Sea Coastline, unknown location...
An odd-looking storage pod sat under the water. A screen on the pod suddenly lit up with the words "cloning complete" before it opened, causing it to fill up with water. The occupant inside quickly swam for the surface, or tried to.
'Dammit! I told the brat to put it near the shore, not so far out I fucking drown if I'm forced to use the damn thing!' thought the figure as he kept swimming, feeling his new lungs already ready to collapse on him. As his movements become slower, something grabs him and he expects it to be a shark and turns to punch its nose but instead he sees a colorless Metal Sonic and he stops but then grabs his throat due to the need for oxygen becoming unbearable.
The two break the surface of the water and the Metal hedgehog throws the green hedgehog onto the nearby beach. The green one rolls across the sand before coming to a stop and coughs up water while gasping for air. The Metal hedgehog lands and glares down at the green hedgehog scanning him over. The metal hedgehog then notices the katana still lodged in him and grabs the hilt before pulling it out. He then scans it.
Analysis...Mobian Steel
The Metal Hedgehog breaks the katana in half before throwing the broken pieces into the ocean.
"I could have used that dumbass..." snarled the green hedgehog as he got to his feet.
"Identify yourself or be terminated." said the Metal Sonic emotionlessly.
"What? Never seen an Evil Sonic before?"
"Target identified. Sonic. Terminating."
The Metal Sonic brings out its wrist-blasters and points them at Scourge.
"I'M NOT SONIC YOU HUNK OF JUNK! I said EVIL SONIC! EVIL!"
The Metal Sonic pulls its arm back but keeps the blasters ready.
"Explain."
"I don't have time for this! I'll make it simple. Judging by your reaction, you want Sonic dead. I want Sonic dead as well. Same team, got it?"
"Processing...acceptable."
The Metal Sonic puts the blasters away.
"So, got a name?"
"Unit identification: Metallix N3-0."
"Alright, Metallix Neo. I'm going to lay low because I've got too much heat on me for what I've done and with a Zone Admin here, I don't need to get caught by Zone Cops."
"Zone Cops...searching...data not found."
"Lucky you. Point is, I'm getting out of here before I get killed. AGAIN." said Scourge turning away before he stopped and looked back at Metallix Neo, "However, I will give you some combat advice. If you get a hold of a fox, or a fox doll and you see a little orange gem on a metal rod connected to his head...crush that gem. You'll take out two birds with one stone. And that would make everything easier later."
"Weakness of target, Tails Doll, identified. Power gem. Secondary target by removal of gem from existence?"
"That freak fox/dragon with a chest gem."
"Data not found on 'freak fox/dragon with a chest gem'."
"Oh you can't miss that freak." said Scourge before he ran off, but not at Sonic speed due to wanting to be thought of as still dead.
Metallix Neo watched him before he did an internal systems check and found about 74% of his systems were either critical or had already failed. He looks at his wrist and presses a button and a nearby portal opens a mobile repair factory comes out of it. The Metal Sonic goes inside it as several screens come online, showing various battles before against Slothic, Frenzy and Ravager; including the Super Collider fight. However, two new screens are added. The damage TD's katana had inflicted and Shardic Overlord.
Unknown Energy Source detected
Searching known files...
Searching...
Searching...
Files found
Files identify energy as Chaos Energy
Source of Energy; either Chaos Emeralds or the Master Emerald
Source from battle: The Master Emerald
Issue detected
Issue: Unit Metallix N3-0 is not compatible with Chaos Energies
Solution: Unit's systems require ability to vent Chaos Energy before systems are damaged from exposure
Upgrading Unit Metallix N3-0...
The factory closes up and begins working on upgrading the Metal Sonic as it stands within silently, its optics looking over every recorded fight silently.
END CHAPTER
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