Chapter 21- Encounter With The Devious Tactician, Part 2

However, Mighty gets right back up. "Huh, thanks for the pain Surge. It is practically the only thing keeping me conscious…But I will defeat you, even if it means I have to push past my limits to do so."

They clash again and Mighty leads with a left straight punch that Surge parries upward. Then Surge keeps her hands on the inside of Mighty's guard and directs Mighty's right arm away from his body. While pushing Mighty's arm down to leave his body exposed, Surge chops Mighty in the neck with her right arm and then combos that with a clinch knee to the head in an attempt to knock Mighty unconscious again. Mighty roars to the depth of his lungs and lifts off a chunk of the concrete and aims it at Surge, who punches it back. Mighty returns fire and Surge does the same until their flurry of rapid-fire punches completely destroys every piece of the concrete, Surge unleashes a bolt of lightning directly at Mighty's head.

Mighty blocks the attack with his arm in a x-shaped position, pushes back into a brick wall. "I would have perished if I didn't block."

Both are attacking each other faster than ever, putting all of their efforts into overpowering each other. Surge beats Mighty in their brief hit struggle and lands a combination of punches to his face, and tries to throw a counter right straight. But, Mighty avoids it and lands a deep elbow strike to the stomach. What Might didn't know, Surge has been accumulating enough electricity for one devastating attack. Mighty realises too late and lands a powerful uppercut, but Surge tanks the blow with blood coming from her nose and lips before discharging her remaining energy to create a large electrical explosion.

After the explosion, Surge rises from the rubble with some difficulty as she's out of energy. "ha..ha…ha..I…won…"

However, Mighty emerges from the smokescreen and lands another right hook across his opponent's face, finally defeating Surge. "I took a massive gamble and hardened my entire body at the cost of losing at least 90% of my energy reserves, but it was worth it. I am part of the Top 5 of the Resistance for a reason."

Surge lies on the crater, badly beaten and severely drained of energy. "Kill me then, you deserve it"

Instead, Mighty reaches out his hand for Surge to get back up. "Nah…not only did you impress me on how strong you were, it wasn't part of our deal."

Surge looks away and reluctantly takes Mighty's hand. "I was hunting down the scientist that had made her life a living hell. From one of the sources I got from one of Chronos's foot soldiers. He recently became part of their organisation."

Mighty nods in response, and makes a different deal with Surge. "How about this, if you agree to join our side. I will help you find this scientist."

Surge agrees, as Kit rushes to her side. "Surge! Are you okay?"

Vector finds Mighty, who waves back at him. "Hey Vector, everything is solved now. We have a new addition to the team!" much to Vector's surprise by Surge aligning herself with them after everything that has happened not that long ago.

Elsewhere, Amy and a couple of G.U.N solides make their way to Arsenal Pyramid, acting as a weapon factory that pumps out munitions that Chronos uses for their war efforts. It is located at the dried-out part of Green Hill. Koshinuke, one of Chronos's Generals, was chosen to guard the area after hearing the Resistance's recent act on their outer space base. Amy's squadron rush towards the pyramid-shaped factory to attack it and open up a path for the Resistance after learning that the pyramid is one of Chronos's main bases supplying their warmongering effort. They infiltrate the factory and are cornered by numerous Badniks and Chronos's henchmen, with one of the G.U.N soldiers questioning the possibility of getting through all of them. Amy orders everyone to advance, but at that moment, someone bombards her dangerously fast and takes away Amy with him, much to everyone's horror. However, She keeps ordering them to go before she is completely taken away. This reinforces their fighting spirit, as they valiantly charge into battle.

The shockwave created by Konshinuke's attack sends Amy flying back, Koshinuke menacingly walks towards Amy with a mixture of a vexation and undaunted expression on his face.

Koshinuke is already in his unbridled monstrous state. "Having experienced that mortifying loss after those damn brats! No longer would I underestimate any of you Resistance pests!"

Koshinuke uses all of his momentum to ram into Amy with incredible force, as she crashes into another platform above them and pinned down by Amy into a wall. Koshinuke punches the disoriented hedgehog and barrages her with rapid-fire punches, not letting her get the chance to counterattack. Amy only just evades Koshinuke's punches and barrages him with multiple heart-shaped energy spheres at once. The blast doesn't do that much damage and Koshinuke slams Amy into the ground.

He then grabs Amy by the hair and gut-punches her to the extent that she goes flying and vomits while in the air. Amy slowly recovers and Koshinuke cruelly taunts her. "Stand down…weakling!"

Amy retaliates by combining all of the remaining heart-shaped energy energy spheres into a huge one at full force.

Amy gets up and winces from the pain using her last resort move "Heart Breaker", and fires a massive energy blast barrage of the same attack. "I can't win unless I go past my limits!"

Amy gripes in pain but continues to use more of her "Heart Breaker" to keep Koshinuke's back. But, this has no effect on Koshinuke who emerges from the smoke and punches Amy in the face. Amy falls to the ground and attempts to recover, only for Koshinuke to subduing Amy by slamming her head into the ground.

Koshinuke reiterates that Amy should stand down, but Amy remains undeterred and refuses to do so. "I'll never stop fighting, even if it seems pointless to keep on fighting."

Koshinuke falls back for a moment, as Amy catches her breath after being dealt so many brutal blows. She lost track of Koshinuke, who is moving at all direction at high speed to gather momentum. Koshinuke delivers a devastating kick that both knocks Amy unconscious and decimates the surrounding area.

Koshinuke emerges victorious from his bout with Amy. Find out what happens next.

See ya!