Sonic Apocalypse

Chapter 67 - The Metallic Armada

Metal Sonic and Emerl stood proud and tall atop the shoulders of a giant Death Egg robot. Joining them were several other Death Eggs, as well as colossals, arachnomechs and many more base androids. Ahead of the Alliance was an unspeakable quantity of hellish mechs waiting to pounce on them like the pray they were soon going to become. But in light of the situation, it was theorized that this armada of androids would be the last the Alliance would ever face, assuming they survive the conflict. But those assumptions couldn't be dwelt on for much longer as the team needed to focus all of their attention on the battle at hand. Whether or not the Empire still had more forces to supply themselves with would be decided afterwards.

Blaze and Silver quickly made their contributions known as they had already begun their efforts in crunching these staggering numbers. Without fear nor hesitation, the robots became their prime target and they did anything they possibly could to defeat them. Seeing those two take on an entire armada alone, with a surprising amount of efficiency, gave the rest of the Alliance enough courage to charge into battle themselves. The interdimensional lovers wasted no time in their efforts, and that alone was enough of an incentive for even the lowest ranks amongst the Alliance.

During their time alone, Silver and Blaze were able to cut into the blockade quite smoothly. They were able to defeat an entire Death Egg robot, as well as a few minor androids, in the span of about two minutes. The more battles they partook beside each other, the more their chemistry had grown. And it was beginning to show. It was time to see if the others could prove something similar.

Shadow would be the first to display his tactical excellence, whom was closely followed by Sonic. The chaotic hedgehog swiped a Chaos Spear across a small handful of androids, they're disablement allowed Shadow to leap off of one of their heads so that he could latch onto the hand of the closest Death Egg robot. With the towering robot unaware of his strategy, Shadow had the perfect opportunity to lauch a devastating attack on it. As he carefully skated up its arm, another Death Egg took notice of the ebony hedgehogs movements and began to lock its missiles onto him. Fortunately, Sonic was able to discover the robots intentions and warn Shadow before what could've been a calamitous event.

"Shadow! Look out!"

Heeding the speedsters warning, Shadow propelled himself off of the robots arm. In turn, the missiles that would've struck Shadow landed into its partners arm. The damage was so devastating that it forced the mechs limb to detatch from its body, causing the androids below to share an unfortunate fate in which the arm collapsed on top of them. But only three missiles now remained, each of which were returned to sender. Shadow flexed his acrobatic skills by kicking each of the missiles back at the robot, striking it in the head where one of its core generators sat.

Shadow did impress his comrades but a price came in the form of free fall. Shadow was now falling through the air, strategizing a method that would allow him to land safely as he did. Luckily Jet noticed the hedgehogs vulnerability and swooped in to save him right before a Death Egg would slap him into the concrete.

"So uh...what now?" Shadow said awkwardly as he laid in the hawks arms.

Jet observed the Death Egg whom had its attention focused onto the two, assuming the two were going to retaliate in some form.

"Don't you have some sort of weird electric sword thing?" inquired Jet, referring to Shadows Chaos Spear.

"You mean the Chaos Spear?" clammered Shadow as the constant aerial maneuvering made the hedgehog feel queasy. On top of that, he couldn't lay in Jets arms comfortably, nearly slipping from his grip if he were to squirm even in the slightest.

"Yeah! I'm gonna fly around this big thing and you'll cut it up! We'll figure out what to do next in the meantime."

"Sounds good! Just make sure you hold me tight, okay?" said Shadow as he started to put Jets plan into fruition. All the while the romantic implications of his recent comment were unknown to him.