//------------------------------// // Double Boost // Story: Sonic and EQG Forces // by SonicAKG //------------------------------// Double Boost While Tails, Rouge and Rarity were on their mission in the Chemical Plant, the rest of the Resistance were waiting around in the base and taking a breather. Aside from finding Eggman's database, there wasn't much to do. However, not everyone could take it easy, such as Sonic who was pacing back and forth due to his impatience. He wasn't the only one as Rainbow Dash kept tapping her foot loudly. The two of them were eager for action. Strangely, Knuckles wasn't in the room along with the others. "I have to say, it's pretty nice to be able to take it easy for a while after that whole operation." Manic expressed with delight while doing a loud stretch. Immediately after he said, the Resistance computer started beeping loudly, indicating it had picked up something up. Everyone in the room groaned loudly while Manic just formed a displeased look on his face. "Thanks for Jinxing it, Manic." Amy dryly said as she and Sunset walked to the computer to see what the reading was all about it. "It looks like Metal Sonic has been spotted in the city." Sunset read. Hearing the name of his robotic double caught Sonic's attention as he stopped moving and listened carefully. "Is it another copy?" Shadow questioned. "Isn't Metal Sonic already a copy of Sonic anyway?" Pinkie brought up as she put her fingers on her temple. " So if they make a copy of a copy, what does that make this thingie? Can it even be called a copy?" "Why would Egghead even make a copy using the Phantom Ruby? He can just make more like usual." Sonic wondered. "I'll never understand that guy anyway." "Who cares what it is?! We're trashing it either way, Sonic!" Rainbow Dash eagerly said, placing her fist in her hand. This made Sonic turn to her. "You sure sound excited." He noticed. "Of course! I've always wanted to take a shot at this thing! It's a robot you!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. "Well, I can normally handle Metal on my own, but with the Phantom Ruby, who knows what he could do? Let's go, Rainbow!" Sonic said with enthusiasm as he did the thumbs up. Sonic and Rainbow Dash were running across a red stone bridge on the mainland, which was just on the city's outskirts. The bridge led towards a blocky hill landscape at the coast with different colored layered soil. "This is the area where Metal Sonic was spotted." Amy informed the speedy pair over the comms. "Weird. I don't see him anywhere." Sonic replied. "I figured a robot version of me would stand out pretty well." "Maybe he figured we were coming and is hiding because he's too scared." Rainbow Dash suggested, her voice full of confidence. "Doubtful. Just be on the lookout for anything strange." Sunset cautioned. Once Sunset finished her sentence, Sonic and Rainbow Dash suddenly felt the ground under them break, instantly launching them high up into the air. This was due to a Death Egg Sentinel suddenly rising up "Whoaaaa!" The two of them yelled as they along with various debris from the bridge were mid-air. Rainbow Dash flew down to a ledge behind the sentinel. Sonic jumped off the various broken bridge pieces and quickly joined her. "That was close." Sonic uttered with relief. Sonic and Rainbow Dash turned around to see the Death Egg robot bringing its arm down to try and crush them. Before it made contact, the two of them easily evaded its attacks due to their speed by jumping. They found themselves in mid-air once more. "Ha, what a slow poke. This will be easy!" Rainbow boasted. The eye of the Death Egg Robot began to glow red and it released a large red beam. Acting quickly, Rainbow Dash grabbed Sonic and flew away from the beam as it chased them. The laser ended up destroyed parts of the landscape instead. Rainbow Dash took her and Sonic around and underneath the machine's torsor before they came in front of its eye. The Death Egg Robot began to charge up up another laser. "I don't think so big guy!" Sonic taunted. Sonic and Rainbow Dash transformed into a combined blur and crashed through the robot's eye, making its head explode in a burst of flames and sending it tumbling in the water below. The two of them were now headed in the direction of a pit with a sewer line and fell in a tunnel of some sort. "Nice moves out there Dash." Sonic praised as he and Rainbow reached the ground. His comment made her chuckle. "It was nothing. I eat guys like that for breakfast." She answered. Sonic and Rainbow Dash then began to run out of the tunnel and approached the exit, which led them to another bridge. Once they got out of it, a familiar distortion sound was heard, stopping them in their tracks. "And here it comes." Sonic remarked. A flurry of red cubes appeared before the two heroes. They circled a purple energy source until they combined to form Metal Sonic. However, this one was somewhat larger than the ones that came before it and was surrounded with red pixels. "Yeah! Now we're talking!" Rainbow Dash cheered. "He's bigger than he usually is." Sonic commented, taking note of his robotic doppelganger's change in size. Hearing this made Rainbow Dash's eyes lit up with excitement. "For real?! Then I'm going to look even cooler taking him down!" She declared before she turned to Metal. "Come on, show us what you're made of!" Sonic slightly shook his head but did it with a smile on his face. Instead of staying to fight, Metal Sonic flew ahead with a large burst of speed, leaving behind a purple trail as he did. This left his two challengers perplexed by his actions. "Is he running away?!" Rainbow Dash yelled in a quizzical manner. "What gives?! Get back here!" Rainbow Dash then sped off in a hurry, leaving a rainbow trail and Sonic behind. "Can't let her hog all the action." He muttered to himself before he joined her in her pursuit of Metal Sonic. Sonic and Rainbow Dash chased Metal Sonic, gaining on him. While they pursued him, debris from around the two of them began to crackle with purple electricity and float. The debris then combined above to form several purple electric walls, each placed in different positions along the road. Rainbow Dash nearly crashed into one but she managed to maneuver around it, but this took her off balance. Before she crashed to the ground, Sonic placed her back up with a slight nudge. He gave her a friendly smile while she had a slightly embarrassed look. Sonic and Rainbow Dash moved around the laser pillars and got closer to Metal Sonic. When they did, Metal Sonic turned around to face them. His body suddenly began to be surrounded by robotic parts as a shield of some sort. Metal Sonic then launched the robotic parts at the two speedsters. Sonic and Rainbow Dash jumped in the air and using their speed, they each moved through the robotic parts. Rainbow Dash shoved them to the side while Sonic pierced through them as a blue streak. Doing this brought the two of them nearer to Metal Sonic. Sonic then charged into Metal Sonic as a streak, making him recoil while Sonic jumped back. Rainbow Dash then tackled Metal, which pushed both of them away from each other. Sonic and Rainbow Dash regrouped while in the air and this time, the two of them collided into Metal Sonic as a combined blur. The force of their blow sent Metal Sonic crashing to the ground and sprawling. "Yeah! That's what I'm talking about!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she and Sonic returned to the floor. "You can't let that get to your head, Dash." Sonic lectured. "It's gonna take more than that to take down Metal." True to Sonic's words, Metal Sonic flew right back and not too fazed by their attacks. His body suddenly began to glow dark purple before he released a barrage of electricity from his body. The bolts generated struck everywhere around the bridge indiscriminately, creating small explosions. Sonic and Rainbow Dash split apart when they saw the electricity nearly strike in their direction. Due to this electric surge, Metal Sonic began to draw in countless robotic bits and pieces created by the Phantom Ruby until they covered his body entirely. "Hey, what's he up to?" Rainbow Dash asked. "Is he trying that same trick again?" "It's not like him to repeat things. I think-" Sonic started to say. Sonic's sentence was cut off by Metal Sonic expelling all the robotic pieces off his body and straight towards him and his partner. A shower of metal was headed their way, causing the two of them to form looks of panic. "Wow!" Sonic cried out while he and Rainbow Dash slowed down. "It's like a robot storm coming towards us!" Rainbow Dash shouted. "If we get hit by that, it's over. And there's too many of them to plow through to reach Metal in time." Sonic observed. "Well, we better think of something fast!" Rainbow Dash replied. "It's getting closer and closer." Rainbow Dash suddenly got an idea as she nudged Sonic. "I got it! What if we were able to send all that stuff back towards Metal Sonic?" She suggested. "If we run fast enough and make a tornado, we could be able to pull it off." "I don't have any better ideas, so let's try that!" Sonic quickly agreed. Sonic and Rainbow Dash stopped running briefly. They then resumed, but this time, they ran around each other, starting supersonic speed. They couldn't afford to hold back. The two of them zipped around in a circle, getting faster and faster with each lap while the debris closed in on them. Shortly afterward, a small vortex formed. The two of them picked up the pace and their vortex gradually transformed into a tornado. The tornado began to stabilize as Sonic and Rainbow Dash continued to run. Eventually, it collided with the all the metal sent by Metal Sonic. The tornado held the debris in a swirl. "Ok, we're going to need to time this right, ready? Rainbow Dash instructed. "Ready!" Sonic yelled back. Sonic and Rainbow Dash ran for a bit more, keeping the debris cycling. When the direction was just right, the two of them came to a sudden stop and slid across the ground. With them no longer keeping the whirlwind stable, it slowly fell apart. In the process, the wreckage it contained was launched in Metal Sonic's direction. The result was Metal being assaulted by a barrage of metallic pieces all over his body. This was too much for the robot to handle and Metal Sonic was blown back, landing on the floor with his knees. He then slid back a few feet. "Wow, I can't believe that actually worked." Rainbow Dash expressed with slight disbelief. "What am I saying? Of course it worked!" "Just keep that kind of thinking up. Cuz it's not over yet." Sonic warned. The two teammates saw Metal Sonic rise into the air, his body beginning to emit a purple electric pulse. The electricity then began to turn yellow until Metal Sonic was covered in a giant energy field. Sonic's metallic rival then charged towards the speedy duo at an incredible speed, leaving behind a purple electric trail on the ground. "Watch out!" Sonic screamed as he and Rainbow Dash barely dodged Metal Sonic's maximum overdrive attack. However, the two of them were blown away from each other due to the force it left behind and crashed to the floor. "What was that?" Rainbow Dash wondered as she rose up, somewhat dazed. "His maximum overdrive attack." Sonic explained. "It's pretty nasty. But he should-" Sonic was cut off by Metal Sonic coming straight towards him and comarde once more in his energy field, taking him by surprise. This time, two of them had a close call as they just managed to dodge at the last second by jumping apart. They didn't get away unscathed though. Sonic's sleeve was slightly burned due to being close to Metal Sonic's field while Rainbow Dash's right wing was missing the top portion and smoldering. "He shouldn't be able to do it twice in a row like that." Sonic continued. "But I guess due to the Phantom Ruby, anything's possible. What a pain." "So I guess that leaves out dodging. He'll get be bound to get us if we continue with that." Rainbow Dash responded. "In that case, I guess we'll have to take him head-on." Sonic decided. "I'd say it's time for the two us to team up. It doesn't matter what Metal throws us at us. We can take him." "I like the sound of that." Rainbow Dash agreed. "Yeah, let's show this toaster what real speed is." Sonic and Rainbow Dash turned to see Metal Sonic flying back to them with his energy field. The two of them got in a runners stance to charge up their speed. After a while, they leaped in the air, surrounded by blue and rainbow colored energy. They slapped hands before they came down on the ground. "Double Boost!" The two of them yelled in unison. Sonic and Rainbow Dash burst ahead, pushing their speed at a higher rate than usual. Sonic was surrounded in his boost while Rainbow Dash left behind a small Sonic Rainboom. As they ran together, their speed combined and shrouded both of them in a white aura of speed that gave off blue swirls. They approached Metal Sonic, getting in closer and closer until.... *Boom!" A large explosion erupted in the center of the bridge. From the flames, Sonic and Rainbow came flying out while red cubes dispersed. They both landed on the ground and slid to a stop and observed the aftermath of their clash with Metal Sonic. "*Whew*, that was tight." Sonic expressed with relief while placing his hands on his hips. He then faced his quick companion. "How you holdin' up, Dash?" Rainbow Dash had her hands her knees while panting. "That....was....Awesome!" Rainbow suddenly cheered as her eyes lit up with joy while sporting a huge grin on her face. "Did you see that?! I was so cool back there! That old buckets of bolts didn't see what hit him! What a slowpoke! It was me...." Rainbow Dash continued to brag about the victory and make various fighting poses, causing Sonic to roll his eyes with an amused look. It seemed like she already forgotten that he had helped too. While Rainbow was busy gloating, from behind her, Sonic noticed the red cubes that emerged when Metal Sonic was destroyed were starting to spiral. "Rainbow Dash?" He said as the cubes began to spiral faster. Rainbow Dash didn't hear him. She was too busy gushing over her actions. As she went on, a giant pink hexagonal outline formed around the cubes while crackling with yellow electricity. This made Sonic's face shift from one of curiosity to one of concern. "Rainbow Dash..." He said a bit louder than before, but she still didn't pay him any attention. The outline and the cubes began to grow larger and larger and gave off a many pink flashes. This made Sonic's eyes fill with panic. "RAINBOW DASH!" Sonic yelled, which finally got her attention. She stopped the poses she made and turned to Sonic with an irritated look. "What?! What are you yelling for?!" Rainbow Dash demanded A giant pink flash suddenly occurred and made the same noise as the Phantom Ruby along with the sound of a piece of the bridge collapsing. Hearing this caused Rainbow Dash to freeze in place. She then slowly turned around to see the source. What she saw made her jaw drop while Sonic looked on with a stupefied appearance. Towering over the two of them was the upper body of a two-story tall giant Metal Sonic. It had a more hefty design, with extra armor around its shoulders that had pipes coming out of it. Instead of a mouth, it had a yellow energy cannon protruding. Metal Sonic's eyes were now red and slanted, with his claws appearing to be sharper than before. On his chest was a glass container that stored swirling red energy cubes. The giant Metal Sonic released a piercing electric sounding roar. "Oh, that's why you kept calling my name..." Rainbow Dash realized in a small tone while she and Sonic began to back away slightly. "I don't think I need to tell you this but....RUN!" Sonic suggested with urgency. Sonic and Rainbow Dash bolted away from the Titanic Metal Sonic, which instantly began to pursue them. While Metal Sonic moved much slower than before, it destroyed partss of the bridge with its mobility. "What do we do? What do we do?!" Rainbow Dash frantically asked as she flew next to Sonic. "One thing's for sure. We can't let it near the city. A thing that huge is going to wreck that place. We're going to have to stop it here." Sonic decided. Rainbow Dash looked a little uneasy at Sonic's suggestion. Her mind then drifted to thinking about the situation she was in. How cool would it be if she actually managed to take down something like this? Despite feeling nervous, she started to feel a little thrilled as well. Sonic and Rainbow Dash were a considerable distance away from Titan Metal Sonic due to their superior speed, meaning the behemoths rampage was only damaging the bridge. It seemed the two of them were safe. However, the robot aimed it's face downwards and suddenly, a flashing red bomb with Eggman's insignia was released from its cannon. Many more of them followed soon after. The bombs bounced across the bridge towards the two speedsters, flashing yellow while they did. One bomb managed to appear a few inches away from them and suddenly exploded, leaving a small flare. Sonic and Rainbow Dash flinched as a consequence of the burst. More bombs started to catch up to the two of them and detonated, creating a barrage of blazes. In order to avoid getting caught in the blasts, Sonic and Rainbow Dash slowed down and maneuvered around them, racing around the bridge. , They managed to evade serious damage but were slightly affected by the aftermath of the explosions, placing their arms up to guard against them. "Dash, *grunt* you OK?!" Sonic cried out amongst the outburst. "I'm *flinch* fine! It's gonna take more than this to put me down!" His ally proudly responded. The blue duo soon moved through all the explosives unleashed by their colossal foe. Though they had some smoke and a few black spots around them, they were fine. Furthermore, Titan Metal Sonic was still quite far from them. But the giant was done yet. In its mouth cannon, Titan Metal Sonic started to gather purple energy and raised its head forward. The super fast partners turned back to see Titan Metal Sonic charging an attack and knew what they were in for, forming alarmed faces. "Incoming!" Sonic yelled as Titan Metal Sonic unleashed a large purple laser towards him and Rainbow Dash. Sonic and Rainbow Dash diverged away from each other to move out of the way of the robot colossus's ray, which completely devasted the part of the bridge they were on and reduced it to mere rubble. The beam then moved down from that area, destroying the path of the bridge that came before it. The earth shattering force of the blast and the ground splitting apart blew sent both the Blue Blur and the Rainbow Trail away in the air. Though she was stunned for a while, Rainbow Dash was able to float in the air safely a few moments later and regain her balance. However, Sonic wasn't so lucky. With the ground gone and the powerful impact of the blast knocking him senseless, he started to fall down to the water below. "Sonic!" Rainbow Dash shouted with distress. Rainbow Dash acted on impulseand flew towards her descending friend. Just as it looked like Sonic would fall into the water, Rainbow Dash grabbed his arms. She then pulled the two of them higher in the air. "Sonic, say something!" She cried. Sonic shook his head to regain his senses. He looked up to see Rainbow Dash and gave her a grin. "Looks like I owe you one." He said with gratitude.Sonic then looked behind him and noticed there was only a small fraction of the bridge remaining after Metal Sonic's attack. Seeing this caused a frown to form on his face face. "The bridge can't take any more damage." He observed. "If we're going to stop Metal, it has to be here." "Ok. We can do this. I mean, we took out one of these Death Egg robots earlier." Rainbow Dash brought up. "We found a weak point on it. I'm pretty sure it's the same for this thing." Sonic took Rainbow Dash's words into consideration and examined the incoming Titan Metal Sonic. Most of his body was metallic and attacking there wouldn't do any good. His eyes then landed on his center, which had the glass container. A smirk emerged on Sonic's face afterward. "Well, it'd probably be smart to hit that important looking glass on his chest." Sonic suggested. Rainbow Dash then took a look at the area for herself, recognizing the fragility. "Duh!" She exclaimed. "Ok then. On my mark...3...2.....1!" Sonic instructed. Rainbow Dash tossed Sonic in the air before she joined him not too long afterward. There, the two of them grabbed a hold of the other's arm and transformed into a combined streak. With their united speed, the streak moved at a blinding rate towards the weak point of the robotic giant and smashed into it. This resulted in a crack forming slightly. Sonic and Rainbow Dash weren't done yet. The two of them continued to dash through Metal Sonic's glass core, each attack forming a fissure on his weak spot. After hitting it one more time, they were mid-air and prepared to strike once more. Before they could, Titan Metal Sonic lowered his head and charged up a purple beam on his cannon again. "Sonic, he's going to fire another blast! We can't let it hit the bridge!" Rainbow Dash pointed out. "Yeah, I know. It seems like to stop it, we're going to have to take it head-on." Sonic determined. "You up for another Double Boost?" "Heh, do you need to ask?" Rainbow answered. Sonic and Rainbow Dash let go of each other's arms and built up speed, which was shown by a blue/rainbow aura beginning to shroud them just as Metal Sonic continued to ready his laser. Once they were prepared, the speedy partners slapped hands. "DOUBLE BOOST!" They both yelled in unison at the same time Titan Metal Sonic's ray was fired as he lifted his head slightly. Sonic and Rainbow Dash dashed side by side, covered in a joined rainbow bluish field and breaking the sound barrier. They collided with Metal Sonic's laser, placing both attacks in a deadlock. The pair pushed with all that they had against their enemies foes. Doing so caused them to release small white bursts of air around them. Slowly, they began to move through Metal Sonic's shot until they plowed right through it. Due to the angle that Metal Sonic fired his laser, this resulted in the speedsters charging straight into his glass core and shattering it. This caused Metal's body to turn into a pink hue before he broke into many pink shards. The end result saw Sonic and Rainbow Dash moving down towards the water. Rainbow Dash used her ability to fly to grab Sonic and whisked the both of them to what was left of the bridge. When they landed, they both nearly collapsed on the floor. Sonic crouched while Rainbow knelt down. Performing two double boosts in such a short span of time was pretty draining. They took time to catch their breath. "So...*huff* you're first *huff* Metal Sonic fight and he goes all super robot. " Sonic quipped. "I'm *huff* jealous. He didn't do that for me *huff* until a couple fights later. I *huff* thought we had something special." "Well of *huff* course he had to bring his *huff* A game. He was against the two of us. *huff*." Rainbow Dash cried. "That was great though!" Best *huff* fight ever! "For now." Sonic replied. Sonic extended his hand out in a fist towards Rainbow Dash. In response, Rainbow Dash made a fist and the two of them fist bumped as sign of celebration for their victory.