Shadow facepalmed. Who is gonna break it to him that he has a problem?

That's when Shadow received a notfication via his G.U.N. communicator.

He read out the notification. "Chaos emeralds prepared, available for service".

Well, at least something is working at G.U.N.

Shadow prepared himself to chaos-control to HQ. He warped away, only to reappear a second or so later.

"Right, forgot something." Then he grabbed the other, very much baked, hedgehog and away there were.

After Shadow had received the emeralds out of the HQs secret vault room, Nyls asked Shadow about his plan again.

Shadow sighed and then spoke, "at first, we probably have to smash some robots. We probably could, no. I probably could do this without these, but no need to complicate things. We'll see from there. The corrupted AI is possibly gonna launch some nukes at us and …"

"N-nukes? The fuck Shadow? I do not want to be literally evaporated, man."

"You most likely won't be. Just keep me clear with these badniks and I can do the rest."

"M-most likely?! And how do you plan on fighting a thermonuclear weapon?", Nyls protested almost shouting.

"Who said one?"

Nyls facepalmed, aggressively shaking his head. "At least let me believe that we have some idea what we are doing, you crazy edgehog."

Shadow just looked away, talking indifferently. "I have a plan. You can't help on that part. If we survive, you have to pay for food on the way home."

"Taco Bell?"

"Hell, no, you won't get away like that. I'm not as cheap as or favorite rotten egg."

"Dude. You know, that really just helped my anxiety of you getting converted into sub-molecular state, not being ironic. If I die, at least, I won't have to pay your decadent culinary preferences. Thanks, man."

Shadow facepalmed once more as they both stepped out of HQ. The ebony hedgehog chaos-controlled them to near the weapons control base.

"You ready?", he asked opening the case in which the remaining six emeralds were kept.

Nyls swallowed a bit still taking in the surroundings then focusing on the gems. "Aren't emeralds supposed to be some sort of green?".

Shadow rolled his eyes.

"Argh… I hope I don't overdose on these. So how does this wo.. ohhohui…?"

And with those infamous words the emeralds started to circulate around them, some energetic aura surrounding both hedgehogs.

Shadow transformed into his well-known light yellow and red form surrounded with pure energy.

Nyls acted totally helpless and overwhelmed with what was going on. Every part of his body felt weird, but in some sort of new and awesome way. As he reached his super state he looked down on himself.

"Damn man, I'm piss yellow now! And I can fly."

"Not too much change to be real. Apart of the flying thing", Shadow scoffed.

"Fuck you! But hey, this feels awesome", Nyls shouted still struggling for controls and crashing into a Death Egg Robot demolishing it the process.

"I'm euphoric like on ecstasy, confident like on coke and have a buzz like being wasted. Without all the bad side effects and", he looked at the huge robot he incidentally smashed, "super strong too, hah". He flew a backwards loop. "Let's crush these bitches!"

Shadow smirked. Autistic crackhead.

Shadow and Nyls started to smash into what one could only assume to be multiple square miles worth of robots.

"You really have to stop help Eggman funding such shit if he can build so many damned bots."

"Yeah, yeah, noted."

Both hedgehogs clenched their teeth. After a few minutes they found themselves coming closer to the bases entrance.

"I see you're getting the hang of this", Shadow acknowledged indifferently.

"Still a little off with the flying thing, but err thanks, I guess?"

"Thought, you could need some motivation."

As the battle continued, the behavior of the badniks kept changing. They didn't attack head on anymore. It looked like one group of bots retreated far behind the front lines and were stacking on top each other.

Suddenly a blinding crackling ball lightning with the size of a medium skyscraper in diameter appeared in the middle of the badniks. As the light faded, Shadow and Nyls were both startled.

Of course, Shadow thought. Of course, it would use data of the titans.

A giant robotic figure levitated over the badniks. When it touched down, it made the ground shake over a dozen miles. And it looked disgusting. Standing on four legs with some snake-like head, having four jaws or something. His arms looked like they had some weird tumor around the shoulders holding a shield or a sword respectively. Especially disturbing was the coloring and loose hanging parts, which obviously remained from the fused badnik's pieces.

Just like what they found on the Starfalls. Like the AI fused them together to one disformed mutant titan.

"Now what the fuck is that?", Nyls screamed partly scared, partly disgusted ripping Shadow out of his thoughts.

"A fucking transformer faking ancient guardian titan bots."

"Well, even Megatron was pictured more handsome than that shit. Should we be concerned, Shadow?"

"Hardly", Shadow snarled, "Sonic has demolished the originals by himself. We are…well, me. as the ultimate life form, and you… That should count as two. Should be enough to smash a cheap copy."

Nyls crossed his arm. "Screw you." Then he switched in a battle pose again, levitating besides the other hedgehog. "So what's the plan Mr. ultimate son-of-an-insane-scientist?"

Shadow glared to the hedgehog levitating besides him. Then turned away, gritting his teeth again. "Keep the other bots outta the way! I'll handle this thing."

As the battle went on, Shadow and Nyls became increasingly stressed. Not just that the sheer amount of bots seemed endless, and they felt to be outnumbered by the remaining bots, but the huge monstrosity really seemed to become a threat.

Shadow couldn't really get to it the titan. It stood within a cybery force field or something. Shadow was grinding his teeth. He looked at his inhibitors again as suddenly Rouge, Omega and even Knuckles appeared smashing into the flood of robots.

Shadow glanced towards them. His agent colleague gave him a quick thumbs up and flirtatious wink. It wasn't only Rouge Omega and Knuckles, however, who appeared seemingly out of nowhere. The better part of the whole restoration stood there ready to fight. Amy, Tails, Whisper, Tangle and so on. Even Vector and the chaotix. They all were there to help.

"We got this, Shadow! You guys go fight that monstrous piece of scrap metal."

Suddenly the ground shook a bit. Then again. And again. Knuckles turned around seeing another huge battle bot appearing behind him.

"What are you calling scrap metal here, rodent?", an angry voice snarled over the bots speakers. "Beware my latest-generation-obliterator bot, muhahaha".

"Eggman", Knuckles shouted angrily before launching him at the crazy doctor's creation. Eggman hit some controls and the robot simply slapped Knuckles out of the way.

"Hush, you red freak of nature! I'm not here to battle you. Now stand beside! I'm here to safe my dear daughter, you imbeciles!"

Eggman's obliterator bot fired a massive orb into air. It started to levitate above the battlefield, before a massive pulse was fired from it, paralyzing the monstrous titan bot. Shadow grinned as he attempted crash into it by abusing himself as a living bullet.

"Now that's an EMP delivered by Eggman Enterprises standards", the doctor laughed to himself. It did seem to do the trick.

Shadow charged at the titan bot. "Chaos blast", he shouted just as he was piercing through it. An orange aura surrounded the hedgehog and shone out of the titan's chest. A massive explosion followed.

Shadow reappeared on the backside of the collapsing robot, a brief smirk tugged to his lips. That felt good, I have to admit.

The moment wasn't too long lived, however, as Nyls shouted, "Shadow! Look!", pointing up into the sky.

Shadow gazed up. Multiple contrails formed in the sky pointing directly to the battlefield.