Shadow X

A Dangerous Gamble

The final fight had started between Knuckles and Gemerl had started. 

The bell rang as Knuckles and Gemerl ran after each other, Knuckles letting out a war cry. Knuckles threw a heavy punch, but Gemerl jumped back dodging it and throwing an axe kick. Knuckles caught the kick with his arms as Gemerl was thrown back. On the way back down, Gemerl started to twist, hoping to slam down on Knuckles. But Knuckles slid back quickly, Gemerl missing him as Knuckles put it in a full nelson hoping to break the bot. But things went badly when Gemerl started to spin dash.

"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON!?" Knuckles yelled as he held on for dear life. Up in the stands, Shadow was utterly shocked, thinking he was the only one that could spin dash. 

Gemerl shot into the air, carrying Knuckles with him inside the spin dash. Knuckles was barely holding on when Gemerl slammed into the ground, leaving Knuckles on his back. As Knuckles was getting up, Gemerl slammed into him again and knocking him over. Germerl came in for another hit and Knuckles rolled away, throwing a punch and slugging Gemerl. Gemerl backflipped, sticking the landing as Knuckles came up swinging. However, Gemerl was not only dodging the punches, but matching Knuckles as well, raising its leg up and kicking Knuckles off to the side. As he was getting up, Knuckles turned and saw Gemerl coming with a fist before it slammed into his face, knocking him out. 

Knuckles started coming back around not long after, looking on as Gemerl was given the Chaos Emerald. However, something was wrong. Gemerl's eyes started to get a red tint where they used to be blue, twitching about when it put the Chaos Emerald down and spin dashed into the crowd and smashed the stands. Everyone ran away screaming except for Shadow, Knuckles, and Rouge. The three launched after Gemerl when the robot turned around, spin dashing all three of them away. 

"Now do you get why I thought this was a bad idea!?" Shadow asked Rouge, running after Cream to keep her from being crushed.

Amy ran after Gemerl, hammer at the ready when the robot picked off a piece of metal, using it to defend itself and disarming Amy. Jumping into the air, Gemerl copied Amy by her moves and was about to bring the pipe down when Shadow jumped to intercept, breaking the metal and moving his leg around licking Gemerl with his heel. Gemerl landed on the ground and saw Shadow running. However, as Shadow neared Gemerl released a yellow energy discharge, knocking Shadow away and taking off into the city with Shadow, Knuckles, and Rouge hot on his trail.

"What's wrong with Gemerl?" Knuckles asked.

"The robot was originally from Robotnik, capable of copying moves." Rouge answered. "From what we understand, it was originally meant to beat Shadow blow for blow but wasn't durable enough until..."

Shadow scowled. "Until G.U.N started poking with technology it didn't understand. The Chaos Emerald reverted it back to it's primary objective and now it's got the muscle to boot."

Knuckles charged forward, but Gemerl matched him blow for blow hitting him with the same force. Gemerl spin dashed, bouncing off of Knuckles and Rouge then hitting Shadow. 

"The thing must have some weakness." Shadow thought as Gemerl started to run away. The three gave chase, with Shadow asking if there was a fail safe device.

Rouge was a little nervous as she tried to keep up. "It wasn't supposed to fail so...no." Rouge answered nervously. They made it to the ocean by the time Shadow and Knuckles could catch up while Rouge fell behind, to winded to keep up with the two. 

Maria was in her grandfathers car as she Cream and Cheese followed. "Gemerl must've led them to the sea because it knows Shadow hates water." Maria commented.

Shadow growled in frustration. "Knuckles, I'm popping off the rings. Get back!" Shadow warned as his inhibitor rings flew off and the chaotic energy surrounded Shadow. Shadow increased his power into Chaos Wrath, the energy around him turning into a red flame. "COPY THIS!" Shadow challenged. Gemerl sparked up as its eyes glowed, an odd blue energy surrounding it. Shadow slammed into Gemerl, but Gemerl stood it's ground matching Shadow's energy output. "it can't keep this up forever. It'll burn out sooner or later." Shadow thought as he released a Chaotic Blast. However, Gemerl also released its energy and matched Shadow's causing a massive explosion. Shadow blasted through the smoke, determined to tear Gemerl apart. But Gemerl was also extremely clever, seeing the attack coming as it shot out a blue spear made of energy and it hit Shadow dead on, forcing Shadow back as he took a knee. 

Rouge came up. "You can't beat it with brute force!" She warned as Shadow started to loose his wind. But that didn't stop Shadow as he launched himself in a vain attempt, but Gemerl matched him. What he didn't expect was a kick to the side from cre-CREAM!? As Gemerl started to study the bunny, a blue ball smacked the head around. Knuckles helped Shadow up, giving him the inhibitor rings as Shadow put them back on before he burnt out entirely. "How are they fighting Gemerl?"Rouge asked in shock. They were just a couple of kids, the weakest of the bunch. So why-?

"Because they hit at the same time." Shadow stated. "Gemerl can only copy one thing at a time. It's programming must make it so that it has to scan anything new and those two aren't giving Gemerl a chance to do that making him useless."

Knuckles nodded. "So let's-"

"We can't." Shadow cut him off. "Gemerl knows all our moves, but knows nothing of Cream and Cheese. He looked up, seeing Gemerl still getting the parts kicked out of it. "We have to let them win this fight.

Cream came up into the air, Gemerl trying to copy her when Cheese smacked the head back and Cream slammed her feet into Gemerls face plate, shattering the robot as it fell into the ocean. Cream landed, exhausted but unharmed as she looked at Shadow. "Are you ok?" She asked concerned.

"I'm fine Cream. Thanks to you." He stated, putting a hand on her shoulder. He then looked at Rouge, an understanding forming between them as Rouge called the President, telling him that all experiments with Robotnik's tech should stop until further notice.

Shadow turned, looking at the ocean and hoping trouble was over with Robotnik's tech.