//------------------------------// // Heart of Cold Steel // Story: Sonic: Friendship is Eternal // by VGFanatic20 //------------------------------// Sonic got ready for what Metal had in store for him. Metal charged at him and grabbed his arm, pulling him toward its oncoming fist, doing that a couple more times before pulling once more and letting go as he punched him again sending him into the air. Metal jumped up and kicked him to the ground. Sonic curled up and bounced off the ground straight up to Metal. Hitting him hard before uncurling and kicking him away as he fell back down and landed. Metal regained his balance and landed on his feet before charging again, with its arm ready to punch. Sonic ducked below the punch only to be kicked in the face and sent rolling on the ground. "That all you got?" Metal asked. Sonic stood up, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth. "Not by a long shot Chrome Dome" he taunted before he started to draw in energy and began to glow a light blue. Within a second he moved from where he was standing to Metal, punching him into the air before following up with a kick after chasing. Knocking the bot around using his Light Speed Attack before catching Metal in his Bounce Attack and slammed him into the ground before bouncing onto him a couple of times. Metal stood slowly before laughing again. "What's so funny tin grin?" Sonic taunted. "Just the fact that with new parts, come new toys" he said holding an open palm at Sonic. A red dot in the center that was charging energy. "Aw crap" Sonic said before dodging the blast. Metal lifted the other arm and started firing both at him. Sonic kept dodging, doing his best to not get hit. Metal stopped and charged at him, taking him by surprise and tackling him through a building before lifting him up and throwing him onto the ground. Sonic started to get up, now on his hands and knees. He fell from a sharp pain in his side from Metal kicking him. The bot didn't stop there, he kept kicking. "Is that all you're worth? You useless sack of flesh!" he said before punting Sonic into a wall. Sonic hit the wall and fell to the ground in pain. "This just proves you are the copy. And I am the original" Metal said charging both his hands to finish Sonic. Sonic just got to his knees, not seeing any way out of this. "Come on Sonic! Don't let that piece of scrap metal beat yoDash called out from a nearby roof. Sonic looked up to her. Metal ignored her, still charging up. "There's no way a bag of bolts can beat you! You're the Blue Blur for crying out loud! And you're my friend! You can't lose!" she cried out. Metal turned to her and took aim. "Be Silent" the bot said before being tackled by Sonic. Interrupting its charging energy. Sonic jumped into the air before charging a bounce attack, striking the limbs of the bot as hard as he could to disable them before bouncing high into the air. "I've never done this before…but there's no room for hesitation" he said as he started to focus Wind and Sound into his right arm. Until a ball of wind formed above his fist, multiple ribbons spiraling around Sonic's arm from the ball. He started to dive toward Metal Sonic. As soon as he got close enough he punched the bot in the chest. "Sonic Boom!" he shouted as the energy exploded with the force of a sonic boom. The sound of one too. Glass broke as building shook. Sonic was thrown back from the recoil landing on his back. The energy soon faded, and Metal could be seen with a hole in its chest. "How…is it possible…" the bot said as its eye panels went dark. "Sonic!" Dash called out as she flew down to her friend. "That was awesome!" He smiled at her, "thanks Dash" he said before wincing in incredible pain. "What's wrong?" she asked. "I think my arm is broken" he said with a chuckle. Dash just shook her head before taking flight again. "I'll go get Fluttershy, be back in a jiffy" she said before racing off to get her. With Shadow and Trixie Shadow was trading Trixie blow for blow. Their bodies each taking a brutal beating as they fought. Shadow dodged a Chaos Spear and kicked her into the air. Trixie recovered with a back flip and fired some meteors at Shadow. "That's..." Shadow dodged the meteors, before seeing her conjure up a blade. "Swift Strike!" she said releasing the blade. Shadow used Chaos Control to dodge it and appear behind her. "So you want to use the moves of the one whose blood is in my veins?" he asked. "Fine then we'll play it that way" She turned and attacked him, but it was an illusion. Shadow could be seen leaving a trail of these illusions, each one firing a Chaos Spear at her. She laughed. "Your illusions can't fool me" she said before the attacks hit her and she screamed in pain. "They may be fake, but their attacks are real" he said from behind her before sending her to the ground with a punch. She crashed into the ground before making illusions of herself that attacked him. He dodged the attacks before heading straight for the real one and punching her in the face. Catching her head with his other hand. "Chaos Spear" he said as he shot her point blank. She screamed before conjuring an Ursa Major claw and swatting him away. She was now more corrupted, her coat a bright red. While her mane and tail where a lighter red. Shadow just looked at her before releasing his inhibitor rings and powering up. His whole body turning bright red as an intense red aura surrounded him. The ground shook from how much energy he was building up. "I'll show you my Ultimate Power!" he said. She just laughed. "Go right ahead and show me" she said, confident in her abilities. "Chaos…" he charged at her and grabbed her by the neck before pinning her to the ground, absorbing her Chaos Energy, reverting her to her original color scheme and clearing her corruption. "BLAST!" he shouted. The energy within him exploded outward, forming a red bubble that pressed Trixie into the ground as it tore away at her. Her screams of agony could be heard as Shadow released the last bit of energy in a mighty explosion. The energy soon died down as Shadow landed at the edge of the crater, his rings back on. He was panting heavily. Twilight went over to him before stopping halfway when she saw Trixie rise out of the crater and buck Shadow hard in the back. Sending him toward a wall. He hit the wall and fell to the ground. Twilight glared at her. "Oh come now Sparkle, you want some of this too?" she taunted. Twilight just glared at her as her anger rose. Her mane and tail bursting into flames before she rammed Trixie, following up with different spells to pummel the blue unicorn with. Trixie could be heard screaming in agony as she was relentlessly pummeled. Shadow looked at that and smiled, before turning his attention to the clouds. He stood up and held his hand to the sky, moving it a bit to make the clouds start to swirl. "Let's see if I can make this work" he said as he kept doing that before stopping, the clouds still swirling as the lightning began to crackle in them. Progressively getting stronger and faster as he focused his energy into it. With Blaze She was barely conscious. Her left hand on her side as the blood kept coming forth from it. "Silver…..Marine…." she said weakly as she reached out to her friends before her head dropped and eyes closed. She laid there, unmoving. Her eyes shot open, revealing her cat pupils as they narrowed. With Shadow and Twilight Twilight panted as her fire died down. Trixie stood and rammed her down before looking at Shadow and then where his hand and eyes were looking. She saw the lightning crackling in the clouds and freaked out. "Dammit!" Shadow said before Twilight suddenly got up and bucked Trixie. Knocking her to the ground before using her magic to pin her down. "Do it now!" she shouted to Shadow. "Chaos…" he began to throw his hand down. "Judgement!" he said before all the energy built up in the clouds crashed down onto Trixie. Creating a great explosion of energy as she screamed in utter pain and torment from the energy ripping through her. The energy dissipated and the clouds faded. The skies were bright and clear again. Twilight smiled before running over to Shadow who started to fall forward. She used her magic to catch him and lay him down gently on his back. "We did it" she said happily. He smiled at her. Glad it was over. The red emerald laying right next to him. "Yes…it's over" he said happily.