Earth 597

Bygone Island

Dr. Eggman was on the cusp of a great victory, that blue beaver was finally done for!

The room inside his high tech fortress was dark, the lights off as the mad doctor held up a blunt weapon, eyes darkening as he prepared to land the finishing blow. "Sonic the Hedgehog. At last I, the great Dr. Eggman, have you right where I want you... And now, the final blow! NYUGH!!!" The doctor brought his weapon down upon the hedgehog, which turned out to be nothing more than a stuffed plushie resembling the hedgehog. He kept attacking the plush with his weapon; a wooden spoon, and continued to do so until he slipped on a wrench on the floor, causing him to yelp and fall onto the floor, injuring himself while the plush simply sat there, grinning goofily. The incompetent doctor sat up and pouted, crossing his arms as he huffed, "Curse you, Sonic!!! You've once again bested me!!! How do you keep doing it!!!"

His little temper tantrum was cut short by a blaring notification on his massive monitor. Curious, Boom Eggman turned to the massive screen and saw that one of his Flybots had picked up something while spying on Sonic and his friends. Standing up straight, and giving the Sonic plush a hard punt across the room, Boom Eggman walked over to his chair and took a seat.

Boom Eggman's attire consisted of militaristic garments; set of gray goggles with flappable green lenses, along with a pair of blue pince-nez glasses, covering his eyes. He wore a red jacket, which featured yellow cuffs, golden buttons, a yellow flap, and coattails hanging from the back. He also wore white gloves, dark gray pants with lighter gray stripes on the sides, and a pair of high-rimmed black boots. On his right wrist he had his wrist communicator to not only contact Orbot and Cubot, but to control some of his robots too.

Typing in a set of commands on his holographic keyboard, Boom Eggman began to bring up the live feed from his Flybot, resting his head in his palm in an annoyed fashion when the footage began to buffer and not render. To his right, the giant door to the room slid open and in came in Orbot and Cubot, the former holding a cup of coffee on a silver plate.

"Here you go, boss!" Orbot said cheerily as he placed the coffee onto Eggman's desk, to which the goofy doctor "oohed" at before taking the cup to his lips and taking a sip. His eyes lit up when the live footage finally rendered and stopped buffering.

Only to spit the coffee right back out and onto Cubot's face as he took sight of what he saw on the screen. "WHAT THE WHAT?!" He screeched as he stood up, sending his chair back as he leaned forward to really take in what he was seeing.

Metal Sonic, charging down from the sky, right toward Team Sonic, who were surrounded by destroyed robots.

"Cubot! Did you accidentally send out Metal Sonic while dusting the console again?" Boom Eggman turned to ask his robot underling.

The yellow robot raised his hands in defense, "Wasn't me, boss." Cubot defended as he hovered over to the broom closet and opened it, revealing that Metal Sonic was still offline, hanging in there like a coat on a rack. "He hasn't woken up since that whole video game fiasco."

Now Boom Eggman was confused. "If that's the case." He turned to look back at the robotic hedgehog on screen and squinted as his brain went to work to try and figure this out. "Then who's that?"

The Canyon

Team Sonic knocked down the last of the Egg Gunners with a combined attack from Sonic and Knuckles, clearing the area of any enemy forces. The group of heroes celebrated with cheers and high fives. Despite how tough those new robots seemed to be, there was nothing that could stop Team Sonic.

But that was all about to change.

Something fast and dangerous shot down from the sky and slammed down in front of the team, kicking up sand and sending them sliding back slightly. Moving their hands and arms from their eyes, they each saw a set of red eyes glowing from within the sand.

A pair of familiar eyes.

Once the dust cleared Team Sonic saw Metal Sonic standing there, looking at them menacingly with tightened fists.

"Metal Sonic." Boom Sonic announced as he got into a battle ready stance.

"So Eggman is a part of this!" Tails said in realization, twirling his namesakes and taking to the air, holding his wrench.

Unlike her friends, Amy noticed something... off with Metal Sonic. The way he was staring at them, it wasn't the same cold, emotionless stare that they were accustomed to. No. This was different. There was something different about the way Metal stared at them, she didn't know how she could tell, but there was pure hate radiating off of him.

Which didn't make any sense, Metal was a robot. He wasn't sentient.

Right?

"Guuuuys?" Boom Amy drawled out uncertainly, slowly tightening her grip on her hammer as she looked to her friends. "Something doesn't feel right."

Boom Sonic, ever the cocky hero, snickered, "Yeah. You're right Ames. What's not right is that Metal isn't smashed yet!"

"No!" Amy groaned, feeling a headache coming on. "I mean that this doesn't make any sense! We literally trashed Metal Sonic a few days ago during that video game incident. How did Eggman repair him so quickly? And why would he use him so soon?" She looked down in thought, "Something's not right."

"We'll figure it out later." Boom Sonic said with a roll of his eyes before smirking. "Right now, we've got a tinker toy to deal with!" Without warning, Boom Sonic shot forward toward the metallic duplicate, intending on sending him to the scrap heap with a good ole' fashioned Spin Attack.

"Sonic, wait!!!" Amy shouted, but it was for naught.

Because to their absolute shock, Metal moved first.

They didn't even see him move.

One moment he's standing there, the next he's in front of Sonic.

Boom Sonic didn't even get the chance to react before Metal Sonic kicked him in the side of the head with his foot, sending the blue hero directly into the side of the canyon. Team Sonic looked on in pure shock and fear as their leader fell from the wall and landed in a crumpled heap.

They all slowly turned to Metal, his eyes glowed brightly.

Uh oh.

Metal took one look at the group and began to walk forward, his eyes shining with hatred as he stalked closer to them. They took a nervous glance at one another before Boom Knuckles grit his teeth and charged forward, rearing back a punch before throwing it forward. His punches were strong, no Eggman robot could withstand his power.

Not this time.

Metal caught his punch.

He caught it.

Knuckles stammered and blubbered in confusion as he looked down at Metal, who simply regarded him with a head tilt before bending Knuckles' fist back, causing him to scream in pain, before Metal kneed him in the jaw, sending him to the sky.

The echidna landed behind him, creating a dust cloud, and struggled to get back up.

Metal paid him no mind.

No, instead, he had other fish to fry.

He shot forward at impossible speeds, his turbine whizzing as he stopped in front of Amy and punched her in the throat, grabbed her hammer as she held her neck, and slammed her side with it, the sheer force sending her crashing into Sticks, sending them both to the floor.

The robotic hedgehog flew upward, discarding the hammer, before appearing behind Tails and slamming him to the floor with both hands. Metal Sonic flew down and landed on top of the poor fox, he would've chuckled if he could. His optics darted to the left as a boomerang soared towards him.

He caught it in his hand and crushed it.

Sticks gawked at the sight before he was on her in milliseconds.

What the what?!

She had no time to react as Metal elbowed the side of her head, sending her down as he grabbed her by her hair and swung her around, flinging her into the sky. As she flew, he appeared above her and grabbed her by the neck and flew forward at impossible speeds.

He threw her forward and flew right past her, stopping in the middle of her flight path with folded arms.

He then front flipped and kicked her to the ground with his heel.

She wasn't getting up from that.

He looked down to see the inferior version of his loathsome copy running toward him. Metal's eyes brightened. Finally! With a boost of his turbine, the metallic menace met Boom Sonic in the middle and seized him by the throat. "Too slow!" Metal thought as he dragged him along for the ride.

"WHAT THE WHAT?!" Was what Boom Sonic thought as he felt his neck become seized by Metal. "This doesn't make sense! When did Metal become this strong?! T-This... FAST!!!" He barely had time to think as Metal shoved him into the wall of the canyon as he flew, dragging him through it. Boom Sonic grunted and bit back his pain as he felt his back tear from the rocks and his neck bleed from Metal's grip.

Metal Sonic threw the hedgehog forward and boosted after him, delivering punch after punch before activating his diamond shield and exploding it, sending Boom Sonic bouncing off the sandy ground. He didn't get a moment of reprieve as Metal stomped on his chest, winding him and causing all the air to leave his lungs.

He grabbed the back of his head and slammed it to the ground. He then did it again, and again, before raising his foot and slamming it on the back of his skull, digging his face into the dirt. His eyes were glowing menacingly as he grabbed the hedgehog's quills and and spun him around before delivering a nasty kick to his back, sending him flying.

A wrench was headed right toward him.

Metal didn't even turn around before teleporting behind the fox that had thrown it and karate chopping the back of his neck, shutting him down. But before he let him fall to the ground, Metal grabbed his tails and held on tight. He then spun him around and around before hurling him into the dirt.

Metal Sonic then dove down and landed in a crouched position, eyes glowing with malice.

He was having fun with this.

He saw the red one running toward him.

Time to toy with them some more.

He avoided and dodged every punch thrown, which wasn't hard as this echidna was a lot slower than the one he was familiar with. Although he could tell that the simpleton was shocked that he was as fast as he was. Metal redirected one punch before delivering a single strike to Knuckles' throat. As he staggered back, Metal grabbed his locks and pulled him forward, kneeing him in the gut before firing his chest laser, sending the echidna soaring across the canyon.

As Knuckles landed next to his friends, Amy slowly got up, badly bruised and bleeding. She rubbed her throat with her hand and croaked out, "S-Since when w-was Metal Sonic so... efficient?"

"So... brutal?" Sticks added, holding her arm.

Boom Sonic trudged over, eyes wide with fear, "He's.... he's faster than me...." His eyes were shaking as Metal began walking to them, a red aura surrounding him and kicking up dust in his wake. His eyes glowed. Sonic scowled, "Even when he had that gameplay data Eggman recorded he wasn't this tough."

"He's... not... gonna... stop..." Tails managed to get out as he slowly got to his feet.

Boom Sonic looked to his friends and seriously said, "Guys, I have a plan."

Metal wondered what those imbeciles were up to. He was curious. Nothing they could do would stop him, so what was the point? They were starting to bore him now. They weren't even the real deal. But he would get satisfaction out of their demise. He could just pretend that they're his loathsome copy and his annoying friends.

That would make it all the more sweeter.

He saw the red one, pink one, and the badger run off.

Cowards.

No matter. He would kill them later.

His sole focus was on the blue imposter before him.

The blue buffoon took a step back and shouted, "COME AND GET ME!" With that, he turned and ran.

If you could even call it that.

Metal shook his head. How amusing. His red aura diminished as he took to the air and flew after him.

It didn't take long for him to catch up, how boring, where was the thrill. He would ensure that this one would meet a most painful end for making this as boring and one sided as possible. He didn't even go full speed to get ahead of the hedgehog, but he managed to do so and turned around, intending on ramming right into him.

Metal didn't expect the imbecile to jump in the air and throw out an electric whip from his communicator. Nor did he expect the fox to catch it and swing him around.

Wait...

"TIME FOR A SPEEDING SWING SURPRISE!!!"

The next thing Metal knew was that he was kicked in the side by Boom Sonic and sent flying into the wall of the canyon. He shook his head and slowly got up and readied himself for retribution. But felt something fall on his head.

A pebble.

He looked up and saw the rest of those idiots standing there with smug looks on their faces. The red and pink one slammed their fists and hammers down and created a landslide. The boulders landed right on top of him.

Seemingly crushing him.

Team Sonic let out a combined sight of relief, sliding down the canyon to meet up with Sonic and Tails. They walked over to the two, exhausted beyond belief. Metal Sonic had never been that strong before. Eggman had really stepped up his game.

"I can't feel my everything." Knuckles groaned as he fell to one knee.

"I don't get it." Boom Sonic managed to get out before falling on his rear in exhaustion and pain. "Egghead's never been that brutal before."

"Maybe you were right?" Sticks whispered as she held her arm. "Maybe this wasn't Eggman."

"But who could gain control of his tech?" Boom Amy questioned.

"Our best bet is to find Eggman and—"

Tails was cut off by a metallic and electric kind of sound... coming from the boulders.

Team Sonic immediately shot up to their feet and watched the mountain of boulder with fear and horror in their eyes.

"Th-There's no way." Boom Sonic shook his head.

"E-Eggman's robots aren't that durable!" Boom Tails squeaked in fear.

(Play battle music from 3:24)

They watched closely as the boulders shook before exploding into the sky as a massive, red, flaming aura brightened the canyon. And inside that aura was Metal Sonic, not even slightly damaged. His heavy footsteps echoed throughout the canyon as he walked over menacingly to the heroes, eyes not leaving theirs.

His optics were also glowing red, showing nothing but pure, murderous intent as he drew ever closer to his prey.

Boom Tails took a step back before falling on his rear.

Boom Amy shook in fear.

As did Sticks.

Boom Knuckles' jaw fell to the floor.

Boom Sonic took a step back in fear.

Tails' instincts kicked in as he got up off the ground and turned to make a run for it. Only to come face to face with Metal Sonic as he skidded to a stop in front of him. Everyone turned around and braced themselves.

Boom Sonic hurled his electric whip forward, hoping to ensnare Metal to leave him open for attack.

Metal Sonic would've scoffed as he caught the whip with his hand and pulled heavily on it, pulling Boom Sonic right towards him. He punched the hedgehog, sending him back before tugging again, repeating the action again and again, using him like a lethal yoyo on a string before spinning him around in the air several meters up in the sky before bringing him back down.

The hedgehog's air left his body as his back collided with the ground, a scream not escaping him.

Metal flung him into the air again and spun him around before slamming him down again, creating a hole where he landed. He then activated his turbine and shot into the air, taking Boom Sonic with him, using him like a yoyo again before curling into a ball and doing so again, this time with more lethalness added to it.

He then delivered a massive spin dash to his core, sending the hedgehog flying again before spinning him around in a circle before releasing him, uncurling only to watch as the hedgehog crashed against the wall of the canyon.

Metal was on him in seconds.

Team Sonic watched in horror, tears pricking their eyes, covering their mouths with their hands, as Metal Sonic slammed both of his feet into Sonic's chest.

Metal flipped back and folded his arms. "I've let you live long enough." He thought before laying into him. Punching his gut, chest, face, his entire body in a flurry of hits invisible to the eye before seizing him by the throat and dragging him into the air, creating a trench in the canyon before zooming upward.

"YOU'RE DOOMED!!!" With a mighty toss, Metal Sonic threw the blue leader back down into the canyon, creating a massive crater where he landed, managing to blow the injured Team Sonic off of their feet. Metal Sonic looked down in disdain before folding his arms and landing softly on the ground.

Standing before the crater, he watched as Team Sonic slowly got to their feet. But they weren't in any condition to fight.

And Metal knew that.

Team Sonic could only look on in horror, the raw fear of death looming over them for the very first time. They weren't going to make it out of this unscathed.

And they knew that.

After all, Metal Sonic just completely demolished their leader without even trying.

And as Metal's eyes pierced their very souls, they knew that they were next.

Author's Note

Hey all, Merry (Late) Christmas!!!

Sorry for the lack of updates and for the short ass chapter. Between Christmas, my cancer diagnosis, and all around a bunch of bullshit, I've barely had any time to write. So, as a late Christmas present, and as the final chapter of the year, I give you what is most likely my most brutal fight scene yet.

Holy shit, SMBZ anyone?

Not gonna lie, I even surprised myself with how brutal I made this fight.

This chapter was meant to be longer, but there's no way I'm gonna get what I wanted to get into this chapter before the New Year and I wanted to at least give you guys something before 2025.

In regards to updates next year, it'll all depend on how I'm feeling during chemotherapy and shit.

That'll be fun.

Also saw Sonic 3.

Fucking masterpiece! 10/10!!! It's peak!

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this short, yet long fight scene chapter.

Not much plot progression, but it's something to tide you guys over as I get shit sorted out.

Anyways, thanks for the support this year, hopefully next year will be even better.

Happy New Years, and stay safe you guys!