Chapter 29- Unbreakable Tenacities

Surge kicks off putting on some speed and during the sprint accelerates even faster without losing horsepower from adjustment, channelling electricity around her right hand.

In the meantime, Starline's entire body pauses in complete shock. "I…I…I thought…I broke her will to fight…"

Mighty in brief glances back to see the approaching Surge and by the skin of one's teeth, flips backwards for Surge to hit Starline with a high concentrated electrified blow to the chest, sending the platypus reeling, flipping to the ground from the impact.

Surge gives Starline a death stare, with her hair spiked up and emitting an electrical discharge aura. "Get up Starline! Remember I am a failure, right?"

Standing on one knee, Starline's fingers twitch as his mouth begins to tremble in fear. Surge propels herself forward at a much faster rate, giving Starline no time to dodge her incoming strike. Starline tries to attack back but Surge skilfully evades each of his blows.

Mighty observes the quarrel, admiring Surge's improved physical prowess despite her wounds. "Surge is giving rise to more electricity than before, eclipsing her previous aptitude, but how did she do it?"

Surge carries on evading and countering, pointing out how she manages to provoke such an awakening to her electromagnetic propulsion to this extent. "At the brink of utter collapsation upon my physical and mental wits end, the positive and negative energy of my electromagnetic propulsion came crashing together and indirectly supercharged themselves granting me a huge augmentation with my ability. But, this can also break my body if i don't exert this overwhelming amount of electricity pulsing through my veins."

For his part, Starline starts to feel increasingly uneasy. "How…she's a mere "extra"...a complete incompetent lifeform...THIS CAN'T BE!"

Surge slingshots Mighty to Starline's direction, who curls up into a tight concussive ball and rams into him, blowing Starline away spiralling.

Starline emerges from the rubble, exasperated to no end. "I need to focus on using the red and blue Power Core if I want to stand even the slightest chance, and then when the opportunity seems right, fire the Tricore Blast at one of them."

Starline makes use of the blue Power Core at its upper limit to blast forward past Surge. "I need to take the armadillo down first, due to his incredible dexterity to link up with Surge this well."

Unfortunately, Surge caught up with Starline by twisting herself at insane speeds, much to his astonishment. "Don't tell me…she's become this fast! Even when using the blue Power Core to its fullest extent!"

Kit shortly arrives on the scene, seeing Surge grinning like she always does. "There she is…the Surge i know!"

After being blasted back by another one of her highly concentrated electrified blows, Starline screams with annoyance. "CURSE YOU, SURGE!"

Surge with her usual go-happy grin, rushes at him to follow up with one more jolting hit. "I CAN HEAR YOU LOUD AND CLEAR, STARLINE!"

Before she could, however, Starline fires out a fully-powered Tricore Blast. Mighty took the full-frontal hit from the blast, looking back at Surge. "I will endure this, but promise that you will defeat, okay?"

Surge responds back with a nod, as Mighty pushes forward acting as a shield for Surge. With some difficulties on the way, Mighty was able to withstand Starline's beam long enough until Starline exhausts the Power Cores energy provision and needs to recharge.

This gives Surge the opportunity to strike, remembering Mighty's words.

"I may be seen as a failure in your eyes, but that doesn't matter anymore. I am who I am, before or after your experiment on me…right now, I am your worst nightmare, Starline!"

Surge raises her hand and extends her palms in front of Starline, generating a condense electrical energy sphere before transmitting all of her power forward to launch her attack as a mighty electrifying energy blast, dubbed "Indra Strike".

Starline flashes back to the Thunder God striking the same pose that Surge is doing, struck with immense fear like no other. "N…N…NO IT CAN'T BE"

The smoke clears showing a beaten and tattered Starline lying on the ground. Surge tries to deliver the killing blow, but Mighty stops her. "There is no need for that, you have already won."

Surge hesitates but soon stops herself from killing Starline. Suddenly, from all that had happened parts of the temple started to crumble. Chunks of the ground shatters with Starline pummelling to his supposed death.

For the time being, Metal Sonic, Sage and G-23 wander off to Spagonia. A nation state on Earth known for its rich cultural heritage which has been described as the art capital of the planet.

Sage was about to initiate the process of restoring the Chaos Emerald back to normal, until she experienced the sensation of someone touching her arm. "Whomever here, reveal yourself now!"

A bitterly cold haze soon surrounds the area, as Kori appears behind Sage, Metal Sonic and G-23

Sage lays her robotic red eyes on her opponent, aware of their identity. "Kori, Chronos's General Rank No.3: "The Ice Queen".

Kori manifests dozens of icicle thorns and attacks the trio with them, as they all manage to evade her starting attack. Metal Sonic quickly advances at his utmost level of speed, encompassing an energy field that lets him penetrate any substance caught in his path.

Doing so, while ignoring Sage's warning. "Metal Sonic! We have to attack rationally!"

Metal Sonic goes through Kori's harefooted hails of thorns and unveils his sharp claws, clashing with the General headfirst. Metal Sonic goes on to utilise the abilities and skills he has replicated e.g., Shadow's chaos powers, Silver's ESP, Knuckles's super strength and Espio's invisibility to great efficiency, which gave him the brief advantage over Kori.

The latter decides not to hold back and unleashes her full power state, throwing out ice constructs, projectiles and attacks that are able to go through Metal Sonic's impenetrable force-field, along with his energy surges. Sage helps out her mechanical "brother" with an energy shield that narrowly pushes back Kori's icicle dragons. G-23 comes from behind, having collected data on Kori's fighting style takes Metal Sonic's place and challenges Kori.

Mini revenge arc finished, now with Metal Sonic and his crew against Kori, Chronos's Ice Queen.

See ya!