Sonic and tails ran through the next zone, finding the next emerald gaurded by what looks to be a giant lobster.

"OK, is eggman running out of ideas? What with the lobster?" Asked sonic as a lobster was far from what he would have guessed.

"Muwahahaha, I see you have found me. My name is mecha-lobster. And I will be your DOOM!" The mecha lobster Exclaimed as it launched its claws at sonic and tails.

The claws made deep gashes in the floor. And with an explosion the claw returned to its place.

"OK, I see why you would be a threat, but I have faced against worse." Proclaimed sonic as he dogged the attacks. And damaging the mecha every chance he gets until.

"I-i-i se-see you hav-e damag-ed me-e to the-e point of explo-sion goo-dby-e." And with the last glitched words leaving the sparking lobster. The mecha exploded, launching another eggmachine out.

"Well I'll just have to do it myself now don't I." Said the Eggmachine as he shot energy at sonic.

With the second phase, sonic dodged the attacks and used openings to attack Eggmachine.

Eventually, the Eggmachine retreated, leaving the duo to grab the two emeralds and leaving to the next and last zone until eggmans flying fortress.

Aleph squealed at how sonic took down the lobster. "Oh celestia! That! Was! AMAZING! He jumped at the weak points and absolutely demolished that stupid lobster! I wonder if I can fight one? Only one way to find ou!" Aleph talked to herself excitedly as she summoned a lobster for her to fight.

Sonic decided to tell tails to stay behind and fix up the tornado as they had encountered some flying badnicks trying to stop them. Sonic shook his head, there's no way eggman is going to win.

Sonic went through the futuristic dystopia looking for the boss guarding the 5th and 6th emerald, only to be surprised when he finds only one emerald is here. So he follows the signal.

Metal sonic was watching his inferior self as he went straight for the emerald.

He could only shake his head. Such simple minded determination.

If he was in his other halfs shoes hw would have scouted the area first.

So when his fleshy counterpart was in the perfect spot, he lunged toward the hedgehog with immeasurable speed.

Sonic was surprised when a metal version crashed into him.

The metallic sonic looked like him but with no mouth and shiny.

"Looks like you got the short end of the straw, you got no mouth. The best part in my opinion." Sonic jabbed at metal sonic

However metal sonic had reaction as he attacked with ripid spindashes with pinpoint accuracy.

Sonic dodged the attack but was still surprised at the speed and precision of which metal attacked. "It seems like eggman somehow recreated my speed and improved it." Sonic said as he faced someone with the same speed as him but with a higher accuracy. He was sweating as he was in serious trouble.

The two clashed again, metal having the upper hand as his precision and was tougher metal made him a formidable foe. His metal was as strong as compressed steel.

Sonic was thinking quickly. Until it hit him. "Come on, you are a fake representative of me." Sonic jabbed again, this time angering metal sonic into attacking recklessly.

Sonic took advantage of that and attacked at metals weakpoint his chest, which is usually protected by an arm, but with metal attacking recklessly, the weak point was exposed.

Grinning, sonic attacked fast and hard, destroying the core of metal. And with the destruction of metals core, all he could do was escape.

And so metal used the last of his power to escape sonic. With a sigh of relief sonic sagged. He knew there was only two emeralds left, but he felt drained after fighting metal. He wasn't used to fighting someone on the same speed as he was. Worse still was the fact metal could hot harder. And was better at making calculations.

So with another sigh, sonic got up and took the emerald. And so when sonic returned to tails, he fell asleep to recover some of his energy.

Aleph was fangirlimg so hard. She had witnessed true awesomeness. After she had beat the lobster she had continued to watch. And the fight was perfect. She just saw a new rivalry being created between organic speed and inorganic speed. "Eeeeeeehhhhhh!!! Sonic was up against odds that were stacked against him and still won! He I so awesome! But also kind of like me which is awesome!"

And now she wanted to fight metal sonic. So she recreated metal from what she saw in the fight. She was going to have so much fun.

Metal sonic returned to egg island for one goal.
A angle chaos emerald. Even with the power of a single emerald, he would have the power to defeat the insufferable lesser being.

The emerald was gaurded by another eggmachine, but he simply walked passed as they had orders to not attack metal sonic.

The chaos emerald was a beautiful shade of blue. It radiated energy In waves of chaotic energies. With it in hand it will ascend into a higher form, and it will show it is the better sonic.

Eggman laughed as everything fell into place. Sonic with have a rematch against metal. Eggman would than swoop in and take the emerald, than use the emerald to summon and control the being trapped inside the ruby and then Noone will be able to stop him. He was an evil genius.

Author's Note

This one is a bit of a short chapter. But next chapter is going to be an intermission about rainbow dash.