"Relax Knuckles he's not that much of a threat is he? I mean after the butt kicking I gave him before on the Lost Hex it should've left him with hardly any supplies, he can't really be planning a whole invasion?" I questioned.
"He somehow found a way around that problem and he's now destroying the city!" Knuckles replied to my surprise, I never thought that Robotnik was this resourceful I mean I know he survived after being stranded in space. Then, through sheer-dumb-luck found the Time-Eater and then made another plan to take me down but seriously coming back from falling straight to Mobius' surface and with little to no supplies, it makes sense at least for me, since I'm a mobian and naturally have a lot more endurance than Robotnik to survive falls like that and the fact I don't really need supplies with my having my speed and all.
"Seriously does he ever give up?" Tails asked.
"Come on Tails if this and other experiences have taught us anything it's that Eggman will never give up, you could say he's the egg that doesn't crack under pressure" I laughed, trying to add my own failed humor to the situation.
"Ugh, Sonic you don't know how much that hurt" Tails said, face-palming and shaking his head in a sort of 'No… Just no' type of fashion.
"Anyway, you ready to go?" I asked my red headed friend and best bro, at that moment Tails' workshop roof came off and I was confronted by Robotnik in a new robot, which was a mechanized hedgehog in which he piloted. It had a Red and Blue tint to its metal, and also had metallic quills on its head, needless to say, I wasn't really all that afraid.
I mean come on Eggman already made Metal Sonic this is just a slightly bigger version of him. "Yo Eggman should I be flattered or creeped out you care this much to come to me and made a new Mech in the shape of me?" I asked, taking one step back and getting into my battle stance.
"I think a bit of both 'Big bro' " Tails laughed.
"Why are you here Eggman?" Knuckles asked.
"Why my dimwitted Echidna I'm here for you three" Robotnik answered.
"What do you...?" I began, but before I could speak I got shocked but electricity and it affected all of us, it made my rage boil over to see Tails in pain and hurt, before him, Knuckles and I passed out from the sudden shock.
Eggman's Base
I woke up in chains and in Eggman's Base. I had been here before, in my days as a freedom fighter, before leaving Knothole to live near the city, to just chill, instead of being subject to Queen Sally and her constant orders...and her slaps.
I looked over to see my friends all contained within suppression cells, I felt an anger start to fill in my body that threatened to release 'him' again, but I kept my cool until 'he' showed up.
"Ah Sonic, or should I call you Maurice? How are you sleeping hedgehog? Wake up" Robotnik mocked, but what surprised me was the name he called me by, I had only ever been called that when…
"Wait... did you call me Maurice? How do you know my real name?" Maurice asked.
"Easy I think it was Mephiles who stated, just as a chicken comes from an egg or a flower comes from a seed, everything has an origin! That got me think me thinking, how did I become Robotnik or how did you become Sonic the hedgehog?" Robotnik replied, to my surprise, but what came next surprised me even more.
"It made me think about this other consciousness in my head, a fraction of positive will in a mind of darkness, I believe his name was Kint or something, I only just discovered him recently in my mind and he kept leading me to something, to a facility, which seemed to be owned by someone, I looked at the video feed still readable and not taken by G.U.N, which surprised me, but what surprised me more is the figure in my brain appeared there on the video feed and a green familiar but different hedgehog was on the video feed too, at that moment I realized and regained my memories from my other life. I CREATED YOU AND MADE YOU WHAT YOU ARE TODAY! BUT IN SPITE OF THIS! I also owe you my life you remade me in the image of a God so I thank you, Maurice."
Robotnik answered, to which a tear fell down my face at the fact that Robotnik hadn't crushed my hope of my friend actually being alive and now I knew he wasn't completely corrupted I had nothing holding me back I just needed to hear him say that, now I could try to get him back.
I started to accelerate my hand movement and started to see my hands blur and I pulled my hands through my chains and confronted Robotnik who was standing in the middle of the room, a smirk adorning his features, this usually would ensue with a plethora of his robots coming to defend him, but at the moment, nothing, I was mystified by how unprepared Robotnik seemed, though I was silent at the sound of his voice.
"Well done Maurice, truly. Though I must ask, before we start our always clashing dance of insanity, which should end in one victor. Why don't you explain to everyone our story? Since I left some things out" Robotnik questioned.
I stood there, and decided there was no reason for me to hide my true self anymore, might as well recount my past to them.
As I retold my past to them I could see the heartbroken and puzzled faces on them as they asked question after question to me.
"Guys I'll answer all of your questions later" I replied, if I win this battle that is, was one of the thoughts going through my mind at that moment.
"Aww how touching Maurice… But now let's get to the business at hand, since I helped you become a hero, and you helped me become a God I'll make you a deal, You send me to a new world to conquer and I'll never come back to world" Eggman offered, a smirk appearing on his wrinkled face. I thought for a moment I wouldn't know where I would be sending him and even worse I would be bringing my Painful Past to some other world, whether that was in the realm of Mario, Megaman or any of my other friends I knew from around the many dimensions.
Additionally, I don't know if the world I send him too will be able to end him. And finally, I want to end him, not some dimensional hero from another world who succeeded where I would fail. I decided finally that I would fight him in this new world if he let my friends go.
"Wonderful absolutely splendid, we continue our Sad Saga into another world where our last crescendo and coda will be before the symphony of battle burns us both out and we fade as the instruments come to a climatic end!" Robotnik flamboyantly explained.
"Ok fine Eggface let's just get this dimensional rocket-ship off the ground!" I replied, honestly fed up with how mundane and boring fighting Eggman had become, there was no flair to it anymore. Even though I was still haunted by the memory of Kint I saw Robotnik as a separate person from his friend and as such made him a laughing stock in my own mind to laugh at. This allowed me the ability to laugh at Eggman/ Robotnik, but now strange it may seem, since he now knows who I truly am the fun of fighting him now became a fight with someone who knew me.
"Let's bring Tails along for the ride!" Robotnik cackled and used his new Egghog Mark 2 to grab Tails with its extended-able arm. I acted quick and severed the arm from its socket and grabbed Tails before the hand of the Egghog fell straight to the ground.
"Let's not!" I replied as Tails was shocked by how quick I reacted to that moment.
"Sonic, how did you?" Tails asked.
"Well since I got infected with negative chaos energy I am essentially a Chaos generator, I can manipulate it in several ways, including buffing up my attacks, and since I can move at the speed of light. Well, you do the maths" I replied, somewhat in a harsh tone.
"Now Eggman let's finish this and if you want to go to another dimension, well I'll have to get our tickets punched!" I said, blasting at Eggman at the speed of light and tearing his robot a new one and skidding to a halt as his Mech started to fall to pieces. Or so I thought.
As I started to try to celebrate I saw the Mech pieces start pulling itself back together and reform into a new form. It had now Rocket launcher shoulder blades, a giant axe and was now donning giant versions of my famous sneakers, as well as gaining more spikes on its back. "Oh Come On!" I yelled frustrated at this change in development.
"Oh haha! Did I forget to mention my newest creation can heal faster than you can destroy it?" Robotnik laughed.
"A regenerating, giant metal me? Jeez, the first sign of you running out of ideas Eggy!" I laughed, trying to dissuade the fact that this was actually one of Robotnik's best plans yet, I had to end this now before anyone else gets hurt.
"Seems to me that you're cracking under the pressure Sonic, no more good punchlines or clever quips?" Robotnik responded.
"Aww dang, final battle time and me without any sort of good one-liners, the world is coming to an end" I mockingly stated, as to have one last laugh.
"Well I might as well pull out all the stops" I said, as I started to concentrate and place my hands out in front of me and start to summon negative energy in 4 separate pools of color and then my clones rose out of the pools; Crimson, Lightning, Tang, and Jade, who I had summoned only once before.
They were all chaos embodiments of certain traits; Lightning is Yellow and has the ability to move at the speed of light and also could detect any electricity use anywhere and as you can guess has a natural link to electricity as well as being the smartest out of our little group.
"This is Eggman? Well, this should be fairly easy!" My red clone, Crimson stated, he's essentially the powerhouse of our little group, just envision if I was Shadow back in the day, when he was more ruthless.
"Great, I finally get some action!" My Orange Clone, Tang stated, he's the eager one and also most easily distracted of our group, he started stretching nonchalantly, as though Eggman wasn't there.
"I guess I'll do this, but afterwards, I just want to relax" My Green Counterpart stated. I don't really want to call this guy Jade since he's the original me and therefore just a counterpart of me.
"ROBOTNIK! MEET THE CHAOS KIDS!"I yelled in sheer defiance.
"How is this…" Robotnik exclaimed
"...Possible? Well, I guess you could say it's 'What I'm Made Of!' "I interrupted.
"And if you think that's impressive, get a load of this Eggman!" Crimson stated.
I started to focus on positive images; how this would end and how we would all be laughing at the end of this, and how while yes my secret's out I can still hope for a light of friendship to burn brightly.
I envisioned the power of my Chaos form, or you would know it as 'Super Sonic' and at a moment's notice, my body suddenly erupted with positive chaos energy turning me into my golden chaos form. Which is like my original Super form but now my body was totally golden, even my face, skin and shoes were emboldened by this power boost.
"Let's make this final battle quick Eggman!" I stated, with a stone conviction.
"Let's Hedgehog!" Eggman replied, now regaining his charisma.
I blasted straight towards Eggman and so did my clones at light speed so Eggman couldn't track us. We destroyed the limbs of the Mech and tried to directly strike Eggman only to be stopped by my Metal Clone, which gave the Mech time to reassemble. "Dammit, we can't do get anywhere if this thing keeps healing!" Crimson stated.
"Yeah, but what are we gonna..." I began, but couldn't finish as we got struck by a metal fist, and were launched into the wall, we looked to our right to see our friends still in the suppression cells.
"Ugh, Tails, Lightning! Free our friends, we'll take care of Eggy over there!" I said, a commanding tone taking hold in my lips.
"Right Sonic!" Both Lightning and Tails replied.
I, like my clones broke out of the wall and started to head straight towards Eggman and struck it directly in the cockpit, which sent it flying out of Eggman's base and into the 'dusty desert'. "Good hit Sonic, now try mine!" Eggman replied as he struck back at me with deadly force, but I grabbed his fist and punched through the joining's of the Mech, to which I started to feel was taking a toll on me, and my energy started to drain faster and faster and I started drawing sharp and quick breaths.
"Ugh, come on stay down!" I stated by my fourth sharp breath, I was wheezing for breath and my Golden Chaos Form started to lose its gleam and started to turn grey, as a signal that my form was starving for more energy. Crimson looked at me and showed a face of compassion, as he knew what was wrong with me and he, without saying a word turned into a ball of red light and was absorbed into my body.
My body started turning Red and I pushed forward on the energy boost that he gave me, I struck the robot again and launched around 5 miles away, and continued, not as sharply, breathing, hoping this battle would be over soon. "Jade, Tang! Let's try the Whirlwind of Wildfire!" I yelled, they looked over to me and with a nod, we were preparing.
"Chaos matter!" Tang yelled as his hands lit up and tiny particles started to gather and made the form, flint, and steel. "This will be just like in the movies" Tang said as he put the flint and steel above me and started to scratch the two materials together and I created a windshield to elevate the sparks just above my quills as I was in a 4 point start position.
"This will be a bit different from the movies, " I said Jade and Tang kneeling in the shield and in the same 4 point start as me. I started to let the sparks come down to my quills and start to burn a little from my fur and let it become a fire, that I manipulated with my wind and made into a makeshift fire shield.
"Whirlwind of Wildfire!" We shouted as we speed around the Mech and started to create a flaming tornado that swallowed the Mech whole.
"That...should…do...it" I said, huffing for breath, as doing something like making that fire tornado took a lot out of me, I stumbled, and dropped to one knee and my vision started going black. Jade and Tang looked towards me and got absorbed back into my body.
I was now feeling a lot better since I got my energy back from my clones. I started to head back to the base and was pleased to see my friends all free, Shadow, Silver, Amy and the rest of the Sonic crew.
"Yo guys how you been?" I said, as I not so easily stumbled towards my friends.
"Sonic when did you get this power?" Shadow immediately asked.
"Well to be honest with you I…" I began, only to be struck again by a metal fist, courtesy of Eggman.
"I'm not gonna lie Eggman, pretty cheap shot!" I stated, as his mech started walking through looking broken and damaged beyond repair.
"Oh if you think that was shocking check this out!" Eggman replied.
At that moment, his Mech was totally healed and clear of any burns I had inflicted on it. Only one thought came through my brain,
"Oh freaking fantastic!" I said out-loud as I ran straight forward to attack Eggman but was met with a spike on its body colliding with my body and flinging me across the base. I was starting to feel woozy and as I freed myself from the wall. I thought I was nearly home free, I just had to face Eggman one last time.
With no other options, at my disposal, and with my friends at risk. I decided to give this final battle everything I had. "Argh!" I cried as I transformed back into my Golden Chaos form.
"Sonic! We can help! You don't have to do this alone!" Tails yelled to me.
"I know Tails, but at this stage there is nothing you can do, Listen guys, there is not much time, so I just want to say I'm sorry for lying to you and not telling you about my past, if I make it out of this ordeal I'll tell you everything about me" I said, taking one last look at my friends before the real adventure began, Tails was tearing up and Amy was accompanying him, I flashed my trademark grin and gave a thumbs up to them, and sped away to face Eggman.
"Eggman let's end this!" I said as I jumped on his cockpit and was face to face with him.
"What are you…" He tried to ask, but I answered already by forcefully absorbing Lightning back into my system, and using the energy boost I got from him I started to rotate my arm at light speed and started adding my own Chaos energy to make a portal to a new world.
To which, both me and Eggman were sucked into.
"Agh!" I screamed as I fell through the dimensional barrier and looked down at the world I was entering, which I was falling into from the sky to enter, where have you heard that before?
As I landed I could only think one thing.
I will come back.