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"Tremble in fear fools! I am Dr.Eggman, greatest of party crashers!" Eggman's latest mecha had risen to the height of the rooftops. Its shiny colors and carved metal shell was eerily similar to its prisoner, Omega, that was embedded in the chest of the massive robot.

The doctor began to roar out in his classic evil laughter, praising his creation and rambling about the incompetence of the heroes. Taking a step up from his seat, Eggman plants a foot on the dashboard of his little control cabin, throwing his hands in the air, "I simply must thank you all for gathering here in one place. It makes destroying you all much easier."

You took a step forward and stared down Eggman's diabolical glare right back, smirking as you knew no matter what you'd win.

"Whatever you say Dr. Your eternal rival might be MIA, but you'll still have to get through the rest of us still!"

Eggman sat back in his chair, readying his attack. He stifled his nose in disgust at your emotional positivity, "What are you, Socrates? Save me the poems and let the party crashing begin!"

Behind you, your crowd of heroes cheered as they readied themselves for a celebratory battle with their most classic enemy, in the most classic way possible. It was almost like a gift.

It was a standoff. Who would make the first move.

Moments of silence as the two stared at each other, Eggman's glasses brightened with the light from his mecha, while your (e/c) eyes stared back with the joyful lights of your party.

"RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAA!!!" It was Vector, the reptile throwing a finger forwards as the crew rushed to attack Eggman's robot! "Tials, use your computer thingy to mess with him."

"Custom coding coming up." Tails smiled and pulled out a small device from some mystery pocket, flying forwards as to get a closer reading on the robot that bat at him like a fly.

You charged forwards with the rest of the hyped crowd. You were sheer fighting power. The power of your war-torn brain thinking up every situation. Clawing away at Eggman's face, maybe even trying to punch a hole right through the chassis. Or, ripping Omega right out of the chest of this latest egg mecha.

"I GOT IT! Flying guys, try to bust open the cockpit from me will ya!?"

Charmy, Cream, and a newly repaired Gemerl flew right for Eggman, the doctor unphased by the onslaught of attacks. He may be cocky, but he was also prepared. As Gemerl burst through as the first attacker, he was grabbed by small veins of electricity that shot out of Eggman's mecha. He went down, short circuited, and remained in the clutches of Eggman.

"Ha Ha! That's two backwards robots back under my control. Thank- HEY!" As Eggman began to ramble on about this small success, Tails and Rouge had snuck onto the back of the robot.

"He's distracted, let's go (Y/n!) Time to bust this thing open." Vector grabbed your body with his large claws and threw you right at the robot's massive arms. Something Knuckles and Sonic used to do.

"Nice move Vector!" You landed with all fours, planted to the metal surface while the crocodile behind you had to wrap himself around the smaller section of the arm just to hand on.

Vector's claws managed to keep him up, "Phew, right!"

The two of you noticed Rouge and Tails making their escape as Gemerl was successfully released from Eggman's grasp. The Dr. hollering about their effort to stop him.

"How dare you!" With a suddenly higher and very unnecessary rage, Eggman whipped out a small pistol-like weapon from a sidebar in his cabin, turning his head to face the intruders flying away behind him. "Hack into my systems? HMPH!"

He aimed the device right towards Tails, finger on the trigger. And now you were pissed.

'No more deaths.'

Without thinking, you leaped forwards towards the cockpit, running up the robot's arm and jumping ontop of Eggman, who screeched in confusion as you yelled at the diabolical man, "Fuck no! You're evil but hell I've never seen you try to kill before."

"Get off of me you vicious (m/s)! I'll pop you too!"

In the scramble, Eggman pulled the trigger, firing off the weapon in an electrified boom that rattled through the air. A blast of streamline blue energy flew through the air at unsightly speeds in a failed attempt to shoot down Tails and Rouge, narrowly missing them as it punched a 3 foot wide hole into the building closeby.

"Whoa!" The fox yelled in concern as that could have been him.

The pistol was now recharging, giving you a change to try to grab it from him again. One of Cream's chao raced around the air and bonked Eggman on the head, sending his forehead right into the console. His arm flew back and let go of the pistol while the impact turned on many mystery buttons.

One such button triggered Omega to speak again, the angry robot yelling at Eggman who 𝙼𝚄𝚂𝚃𝙳𝙴𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙾𝚈𝙴𝙶𝙶𝙼𝙰𝙽𝙰𝙽𝙳𝙴𝙶𝙶𝙼𝙰𝙽𝚁𝙾𝙱𝙾𝚃𝚂 no matter what.

Cartoonishly flailing your own arms around, you caught the pistol and swung it around to face Eggman, who was now sitting upright in his chair. The air was heavy as you realized you were trapped in the reinforced glass bubble cabin with Eggman. He must have closed it when he fell forwards.

One of the lenses in his glasses was broken and his nose was even more red, his mustache ruffled in such a fashion that if Eggman saw it he might just faint. But he smiled at you and narrowed his eyes menacingly, as he saw you pointed such a lethal device right between his covered eyes.

"Go ahead (Y/n), finish the fight. It's just killing off another supervillain, right?"

You forze, breathing hitching as you took in the villain's words. The burning chaos around you fell silent in your hesitant ears that flicked back in concern. How would Eggman have such audacity to say that- There's no way he'd even- no....

"No, I'm not (N/n). Not anymore."

While you were distracted with your own thoughts and reveling about Eggman's words, the Dr. lowered the glass bubble again as you stood perfectly aligned with a drop off.

"Shame, thought you might want this back! OORAH!" Eggman threw a (a/c) piece of decorated, plated metal right towards your chest. The familiar, heavy piece of armor knocked you back, tripping you backwards as you free fell back to the ground. Eggman had tossed your wrecked helmet right at your chest.

With a thud, you landed on the rough, destroyed street below you. Dust flew into the air as smoke whisked into the sky around you. Fire breached through alleyways and danced up fabric banners hanging on nearby buildings.

Clenching your side, you tried to get yourself up as Eggman's mech leaned down to face you, "You put up a decent fight. But I'm afraid it's time to finish this. So much for defeating all of you."

A small light caught Eggman's eye behind you, up, up in the sky. It started as a small blue streak in the dark night but eventually began to approach as a fiery bombardment, "OH, NOW what!?"

As the firebomb hit the ground behind you, the heat burned into your (f/c) fur, sending soot and ash into your backside. You thought this may have been some Eggman reinforcement, or something just for you, but if Eggman was surprised... then...

You turned your semi-broken (e/c) eyes to look at whatever bright figure was emerging from the flames.

"Hey guys. Miss me?"

Sonic.

. . . . .

"Looks like I'm unfashionably late. What's up?" Sonic stepped forwards and helped pick you up back to your feet. Your gaze was everywhere, examining not only Sonic, but the reactions of all your and his friends behind you.

Amy and Tails were flabbergasted, mouths wide in shock at the sudden return of their best friend. Sonic still kept his eyes on you to make sure you were ok while Eggman screamed in his robot's control box. "NO NO NO! I HAD THEM. I WON! HOW DID YOU EVEN GET BACK HERE!?"

Sonic, still, ignored the childish screaming man as he let go of you, able to stand on your own, "Are you able to keep fighting? If not I can totally take this one."

"No, he just knocked the wind out of me." You looked at the helmet in your hand, basically cracked in half at this point form all the damage it's been though. Bashed and scratched, you put it to the side and smiled, ready to carry on. "Let's finally get some peace."

"First to do their part has to buy the other lunch for a week." Sonic knelt down, placing both hands forwards as he got ready to race after Eggman, while you would go save Omega from the clutches of the mech.

"Only if you're fine with buying (favorite food) all week."

And the two of you charismatic heroes were off! Chasing Eggman as he stumbled back, baffled as a streak of blue and another of (f/c) raced up his mecha with ease. You left Sonic to what he did best, beat up Eggman, while you jumped on the mecha's leg to clamber your way back up to Omega, his voice module still online.

"𝚁𝙴𝙻𝙴𝙰𝚂𝙴 𝙼𝙴, 𝙸 𝙼𝚄𝚂𝚃 𝙵𝚄𝙻𝙻𝙵𝙸𝙻𝙻 𝙼𝚈 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙶𝚁𝙰𝙼𝙼𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙳𝙴𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙾𝚈 𝙴𝙶𝙶𝙼𝙰𝙽 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝚃𝙷𝙸𝚂 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙴 𝚃𝙷𝙰𝚃 𝙷𝙰𝚂 𝙸𝙼𝙿𝚁-𝚂𝚂sss...𝙾𝙽𝙴𝙳 mmmy 𝙿𝙷𝚈𝚂𝙸𝙲𝙰𝙻 𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼. 𝙵𝙾𝚁 𝙼𝚈 𝚆𝚁𝙰𝚃𝙷 𝙸𝚂 𝚄𝙽𝚆𝙰𝚅𝙴𝚁𝙴𝙳."

"Save that enthusiasm for when I get you out of here." You held onto one of the railing protruding from Omega's chassis, looking for a way to disconnect from the main mecha. A small, twistable and releasable tube connected Omega to the machine, but more straps and wires held him down.

"Sorry about this." You jumped into the small crawl space to cut him free, kicking your feet in Omega's face as he continued to yell aggressively.

"𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝙰𝚁𝙴 𝙸𝙼𝙿𝙰𝚁𝚁𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙼𝚈 𝚅𝙸𝚂𝙸𝙾𝙽 𝙸𝙽 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙷𝙴𝙰𝚃 𝙾𝙵 𝙼𝙾𝚁𝚃𝙰𝙻 𝙱𝙰𝚃𝚃𝙻𝙴." Omega attempted to shake his head, making it harder for you to reach each wire, nevertheless as Sonic fought with Eggman above.

"ALRIGHT!" You shuffled to the side the best you could while still cutting each wire, and firmly grasping the disconnection tube. "Is this better??"

"𝙽𝙾"

Huffing, you jumped behind Omega with just enough space to cram yourself in. Now, was the test of strength. You planted your feel on Omega's back, while your own spine rested in the empty space of the mecha.

WIth all the strength you had left, you struggled to push Omega out with your legs as they began to shake from the weight of Omega. "For just half a body and head you're heavy AF! GHA!"

Omega was freed, laughing in some strange robotic fashion as he blared, "𝚄𝙽𝙻𝙴𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝚂𝚃𝙾𝙲𝙺𝙿𝙸𝙻𝙴𝙳 𝚆𝚁𝙰𝚃𝙷!"

As he landed on the ground, Omega whipped around and began blasting Eggman's mecha to pieces with what limited ammo he had left. However, the barrels on his arms quickly faded, nothing but smoke falling from each gun. "𝙰𝙼𝙼𝙾 𝙳𝙴𝙿𝙻𝙴𝚃𝙴𝙳."

Omega was literally falling into pieces, crumbling, as his heavily damaged arms fell off after their rather successful final use. Walking forwards, you grabbed his head as his body fell to the ground, destroyed and powerless, "Well you did your part."

"𝙳𝙾 𝙽𝙾𝚃 𝙿𝙰𝚃𝚁𝙾𝙽𝙸𝚉𝙴 𝙼𝙴." Omega's eyes glew softly as he spoke. You laughed gently as you took a step back to let Sonic finish his part of the deal. You rescued Omega, so your job was done. Free lunch for you, haha!-

"𝚃𝙷𝙰𝙽𝙺 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝚂𝙼𝙰𝙻𝙻 (𝙼/𝚂) 𝙵𝙾𝚁 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝚂𝙴𝚁𝚅𝙸𝙲𝙴 𝚃𝙾 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙳𝙴𝚂𝚃𝚁𝚄𝙲𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽 𝙾𝙵 𝙴𝙶𝙶𝙼𝙰𝙽. 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝙷𝙰𝚅𝙴 eearrnneed.... 𝙰 𝚃𝚁𝚄𝙴 𝙰𝚂sset......"

"Omega? Are you still broken?-" You tossed around the broken robot's head as he let out a high pitched blaring sound.

"𝙰𝙲𝙲𝙴𝙿𝚃 𝙾𝚁 𝙹𝙾𝙸𝙽 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙿𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚂𝙷𝙴𝙳."

"Alright, alright. Let's get you to Tail's, I'm sure you want your body back so you can get back to ripping, and- tearing."

Jumping to where the rest of the cast had gathered, you handed Omega to Tails while Amy ran past you to Sonic, who just finished off shoo-ing Eggman back to wherever he planned his schemes.

"IS THIS A VICTORIOUS GROUP HUG!?" Tangle grabbed you with her tail and pulled you into the tightest reunion, and victory, hug. Your face grew red in embarrassment and the fact you were about to explode from pressure, but yet, you kept a happy face.

After a few moments you were let go to let everyone, indeed, reunite. Tangle and Jewel talked about their now on-fire hometown, Tails and Amy kept talking with their short-lost best friend and hero, and a black dragon came forwards to pat your back.

"Good job kiddo."

"Kiddo?-"

"Ah, sounded better in my head. Nice job out there. Now, we can all finally get that peace we've been fighting for."

Wrapping an arm over your shoulder, you and your friend looked out across the field of destruction as the sun rose. The smell of smoke became replaced with the air of a new day. Leaves from the nearby orchard blew in the wind and the smell of fresh outdoors filled the atmosphere. A scene of destruction slowly began to heal as heroes and civilians alike came to help, united in the face of a darkness that perished with the light of today.

Yesterday was cold, a barren place filled with nothing worth saving. But now, it would never be just as cold outside ever again. Never again, now that you are here.

Here to stay.

There it is my readers. The end. La Fin. Finale.

I want to thank everyone who spent time reading, commenting, and getting involved in art pieces for this small little book that means a lot to me. The Metal Virus Saga may not be my story, but it brought me into this storytelling party of the Sonic Fandom I've had to much fun with. From sorrow to surprisingly funny moments, this has been a fantasy journey.

Thank you all.

Chapter Length @2380 Words