Chapter 34- We Are The Resistance!

Dr. Eggman launches his Egg Dragoon's freezing waves at Zavok but he nullifies it with his scorching aura, unimpressed by the Doctor "Is that really all you got, Eggman?"

Dr. Eggman, out of rage at being mocked by Zavok, employs more of his drills for the electrified explosions to paralyse the Zeti. This momentarily works, as Dr. Eggman reconfigures the arms of his mech suit into massive blocks to flatten Zavok. The Zeti, with some difficulty, breaks free and crushes the blocks with his bare hands. Zavok goes on to strike the head of the Egg Dragoon with a blazing stiffen right hook, Dr. Eggman attempts to fight back with two downward straight punches but Zavok ingeniously circumvents away from them and thrashes his mech suit.

As a last resort move, Dr. Eggman manages to slam Zavok into the ground and reconfigure his mech's arms into cannons, igniting a giant explosion from which hundreds of other smaller beams sprout from the crater. Zavok manifests his aura as a barrier and smashes straight the cannon and into the Egg Dragoon's mid-section, triggering an explosion of energy in the form of a raging fire devilish beast. The resulting collison completely obliterates the mech suit, leaving Dr. Eggman defenceless.

In his tattered clothes, Zavok smirks at the scenery he so dreamed of, a vulnerable and (defenceless), Dr. Eggman. "Now you will die by my hands, then I will kill that robotic AI of a daughter (Sage) of yours as well…HAHAHAHA!"

Zavok hurls a large energy blast at Dr. Eggman, as the attack bears closer to him. Dr. Eggman reflects on the time spent with Sage. At first, he would still treat her aggressively when annoyed. However, despite Sage not being a living being or his family, the doctor gradually began seeing his creation as a "very adorable, personable program" and his "daughter", a feeling that was mutual.

Zavok's attack seemingly kills Dr. Eggman, until the smoke clears showing Dr. Eggman had absorbed the blast in a sleek mechanical suit with its base design resembling his Eggrobo (Sonic Lost World) with the Egg Dragoon's wings at the back at a relatively size for the suit. Powered by both the Chaos Drives and the syphoned energy from Cosmo before she falls unconscious, Dr. Eggman begins his fierce counterattack. "I may be a () but those who threaten to kill my daughter, are going to pay!"

Seeing Dr. Eggman's second wind of determination, spurns Zavok's fury to their boiling point. "EGGMAN…I KILL YOU IF IT IS THE LAST THING I DO!"

Zavok unleashes a destructive fiery blast towards Dr. Eggman, who hardened his forearms with spiked knuckles and blasts forward into the blast in a x-shaped position. He emerges from the blast with little damage whatsoever and from the palm of his left hand, shoots out his Egg Dragoon's signature electrified drills that are able to paralyse Zavok long enough for his empowered kick to his face.

Dr. Eggman gleefully shouts the Zeti, with a wide smirk on his face. "Cmon, Zeti! Don't tell me that all you can do, especially against a "lowlife" like me! HAHAHA!"

Zavok shines red and bursts out a blazing storm of intense fiery energy from all over his body, to push back Dr. Eggman. He releases a rapid array of dangerous attacks that blasts Dr. Eggman back through several trees, having his wings to protect him.

Zavok appears above Dr. Eggman, outraged that he's being bested by Dr. Eggman of all people. "You pathetic, washed-up piece of garbage! Has wearing all that garbage made you lose a few brain cells? I just need to break you right through that suit of yours…as simple as that."

Just then, Dr. Eggman begins to maniacally laugh, louder and louder, further inciting Zavok's rage. Just then, a brilliant burst of light surrounds Dr. Eggman, using a move that resembles Shadow's Chaos Blast.

Zavok confronts this by charging up a gigantic blistering energy sphere and the two attacks struggle against each other, but Dr. Eggman's energy is indeed too much for Zavok to destroy, and he is overwhelmed by the explosion. Dr. Eggman starts panting heavily, and looks upon the skies. "You know, Zavok. We aren't so different, except for one thing. I have someone that I want to protect…for the first time."

Occurring correspondingly with everyone's battles, the second group consisting of Knuckles, Sally and Blaze secretly went to the final Gaia Temple. However, they find the place already demolished by Infinite before he arrives at Metropolis.

Around nighttime, the Resistance recuperated having endured heavy losses in some shape or form.

Cosmo is stuck in a temporary comatose state, majority of their forces at Metropolis were taken out, they returned with only four out of seven Chaos Emeralds restored and Shadow has too been banished into Null Space. To make matters worse, they have two weeks to figure out a counterattack before Chronos not only wins the war, but achieves their dream of their "brand new world".

All signs of hope have been lost and the heroes are at the verge of giving up, except for Knuckles, Espio, Sally and Blaze.

Tails solemnly says out loud, to Knuckles and co. "Whatever we do to persist against Chronos, they are always one step ahead of us and their forces are too powerful. Do we still have a chance of winning, especially in the state we are in?!"

To Tails's surprise, Knuckles agrees with his point. "Maybe we don't stand a chance against Chronos, maybe we never did in the first place. Our attempts may have been too idealistic with the path of victory for them beyond our reach now. But, what about the lives we lost, who fought for this nightmare to be over. While it is true that in our current state we are too weak to stand, however aren't we the Resistance? We never give up till the bitter end for the freedom of all lives and spread hope to those in need of it!"

Knuckles heroic speech manages to lift everyone spirit and reignited their will to fight on, as they put their all for the following week towards the upcoming final battle.

Close to the final battle, with the Resistance Vs. Chronos war. Next chapter would be the start of the third part of the story.

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