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Ghost in the Machine: One-Shot Collection

Summary:

A series of random one-shot ideas i had that focuses on Metal Sonic, exploring his battles, evolution, and the reactions of those closest to him — including Dr. Eggman, Sage, Orbot, and Cubot. Throughout the collection, Metal faces increasingly dangerous foes, discovers more about his own identity and power, and strengthens the bond with his makeshift family, all while uncovering what it truly means to be more than just a copy of Sonic.

(I feel like Metal Sonic doesn't get enough love so... Here we are!!! i honestly don't know where i'm going with this but we will just have to find out, the One-shots might create an overall narrative but i dunno, most of the fics are connected in someway or the other unless specified otherwise)

(We might also get a little bit sappy in this... but who cares!!! I certainly don't)

Chapter 1: Golden Judgment

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

Eggman's fleet hovered forward slowly in formation, approaching a unidentified planet that hasn't been documented before.

Eggman sat in a chair in front of a massive console that can only be described at a mega computer, tapping rapidly as the screen lights up with data and formations.

Eggman stops typing and leans back in his chair.

He inhales.

"Ahhh," then lets out a satisfied breath staring at his mega computer. "Everything is running smoothly, as it should be."

A shift of glitching red code lines sparked next to him.

"AHH—" Eggman began.

"Father," Sage says as she appeared next to Eggman, the red glitching code lines forming her body.

"Oh.. sage," Eggman began before letting out another breath, this time from being jumpscared by his own daughter and not from satisfaction.

Eggman takes a moment and collect's himself, before turning toward his daughter.

"Is there anything you need sage?" Eggman says.

"Orbot and Cubot have requested we host a… what was the word…" Sage begins as she put her hand to her chin in a thinking manner.

Eggman goes to speak before Sage snaps her finger.

"Oh! It was called 'Family Game Night' i believe." Sage says as her eyes begin sparkling as the idea fills her mind.

Eggman looks at his daughter before putting his own hand under his chin as he begins to think.

'We will approach this planet in less than a couple days…'

He looks back at his mega computer.

'…i guess a quick game couldn't hurt.'

Eggman lowers his hand and clapped, starling Sage slightly.

"I don't see why not."

Sage's black and dark red tone flashed White and blue as Eggman answers, before flashing back.

Eggman pressed a button on his massive console in front of the mega computer and a compartment opened up in the middle of the room, a massive table big enough to fit five humanoid people lifts up from below the compartment and settles itself in the middle of the room.

"It can't be too long cause we still have an unrecorded planet to attend to," Eggman says as the table stations itself.

"Of course father," Sage says before vanishing in a static of red code.

Eggman walks over to the table and begins to set the five chairs around the table, not to far from each other, but not too close as to prevent cheating.

It doesn't take long for Eggman to set up the chair's, so he sits at the front of the table and waits for his daughter and his robotic son's.


The moment Sage vanished—

—she appeared elsewhere.

A sealed, dimly lit room.

Cold. Quiet. Efficient.

At the center of the chamber, Metal Sonic stood motionless, eyes dim.

Charging.

Waiting.

Existing.

Red static flickered.

Sage formed gently beside him.

"Big brother."

Metal's eyes flickered to life instantly, his bright red oval eyes brighting the room, almost like a searchlight, even though the glow was soft.

"…Sage."

His voice came out smooth—almost human like.

But there was still that robotic nature to it, too precise. Too controlled.

"Father has agreed to a 'family game night,'" Sage explained.

Metal tilted his head slightly, looking at Sage with an unreadable gaze.

"…Game… night."

He began to process the phrase.

"…Define: objective."

Sage clasped her hands behind her back, walking up towards Metal calmly before she begins to float, getting face to face with Metal.

"Entertainment. Bonding. Recreational engagement."

A pause.

"Big brother…" Sage begins.

"Father has been so busy recently with the discovery of this undocumented planet," Sage begins to float around Metal. "We finally have a chance to bond as a family again!"

Metal looked at Sage before he lifted his right arm, and pat her on the head.

"…Acceptable."

Sage pouts a little at the head pats, but doesn't move.

"…I shall participate."

Sage brightened up instantly, before lunging at Metal and wrapping him in a tight hug.

"Thank you so much big brother!"

She says before vanishing in a flash of red code.

Metal looked toward the door of his designated room, and lightly activates his boosters, and slowly hovers his way toward the command room.


The door to a room slid open.

Cubot was pacing in circles.

"I'M TELLING YOU ORBOT, WHAT IF HE DOESN'T LIKE BOARD GAMES—"

"Cubot, you are a board game."

"HEY—"

Red static appeared in between them, before Sage manifests in place of the red code.

"Brothers."

"SAGE," Cubot jumped… somehow. "YOU SCARED MY CIRCUITS OUT!"

Orbot straightened.

"Ah, Sage. Is it time?"

"Yes. Father is waiting."

Cubot gasped.

"WAIT—did you invite Big Brother Metal?!"

"…Yes."

"OH THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME—"


Eggman tapped his fingers impatiently.

"…They're taking their sweet time…"

Then—

A massive steel mechanical door on the left opened upward.

Sage floated in first, Followed by Orbot, then by Cubot, then Metal Sonic floated lightly behind them.

Eggman smirked.

"Ahhh, the whole family."

Sage takes the seat across from Eggman, with Orbot and Cubot taking diagonal seating across from each other.

Metal walked to the last chair, and stood behind it.

"…Awaiting instruction, Doctor."

Eggman gestured.

"Sit, sit! we're about to—"

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

The entire ship VIOLENTLY SHOOK.

Lights flickered.

Cubot screamed.

"WE'RE UNDER ATTACK—?!"

Eggman stood up and ran toward his console before the mega computer.

"What the—?! Report!"

The screen on the mega computer switched, it then showed around 10 of the ships in Eggman's Fleet being blown up by a singular beam of pure energy.

"What the?!"

The screen switched to the camera on the top of the command ship, the one the five of them are currently residing in.

A silhouette descends from an explosion of one of Eggman's ships.

Tall.

Green.

Perfect.

PERFECT CELL. (Though the Egg family doesn't know that) :D

A smirk carved into its face like it belonged there.

"Who is that!?"

Before anyone can answer a voice echoes through the speakers.

"Salutations Dr. Robotnik, Your reputation precedes you. Bring me your strongest fighter or face—"

The being raised an eyebrow in confusion.

Sage floats next to Eggman, also observing the mysterious figure.

"Face what?" Sage says.

"…Did this thing just forget it's own threat," Eggman began before—

A series of mechanical whirring sounds echo through the speakers.

"Huh?" Sage mutters.

Eggman adjusts the camera angle lower.

A puddle of silver-like liquid appeared before it began to maneuver and morph it's shape.

"Wait a minute…" Cubot muttered as quietly as he can.

The puddle formed itself and rising from it is none other than—

NEO METAL SONIC.

Eggman, Sage, Orbot and Cubot immediately turn around to where Metal had been moments ago.

But Metal is no longer there.

A hint of panic crossed Sage's face.

"Big Brother!" she says frantically as she looks back at the screen.

Through the complex surveillance system's in Eggman's fleet, Metal's voice came through the speaker.

"Then prepare to kneel before your master."

Cubot started bouncing.

"He did the cool thing!"

The unidentified being's voice came through again.

"Perfect."

The being lifted its right arm up, before pointing it forward and around 5 of Eggman's ships came flying down toward the command ship.

"IT HAS TELEKINESIS!?" Sage shouted in worry.

"METAL!" Eggman screamed toward the screen.

Metal raised his hands and two blasts of plasma shot forward blowing up two of the ships, before Metal blitzd forward and kick another two ships sending them to the side off the collision course with the command ship, before curling into a tight ball and spin dashing through the fifth one and straight toward it's opponent.

Orbot and Cubot began cheering, "That's our Big Brother!"

Eggman and Sage both gain huge smiled on there faces, as they watch Metal destroy, deflect and counterattack all at the same time.

"That's my greatest creation!" Eggman gloates with a heavy sense of pride in Metal.

The unidentified being opens it's arms wide as Metal closes in, and right as Metal is about to hit it it clamps it's hands around Metal's ball like form stopping Metal entirely, but not without strain on the being.

The Egg family's faces immediately turn into ones of worry and annoyance, annoyed at the fact the being blocked Metal's spind dash, but also worried that this thing also has Metal in its grasp now.

The being then clasps its hands down harder, forcing Metal to uncurl itself from its ball, before the being grabbed Metal by his mechanical throat with his left hand.

Metal's crimson eyes flickered and flashed for a second before his core emitted a large electrical pulse that spread down through Cell's arm, to his main body.

Cell then spins in a clockwise fashion once before throwing Metal downward.

The Egg Family all clenched their teeth (well the two that do at least) in pure seething rage, all of them want to jump in and help, but they all know that Metal would only get distracted with them there and attempt to get them to safety instead of fighting.

Metal collides with one of Eggman's ships, the ship explodes on impact, before Cell crosses his arms and expands them outward, cloning himself 3 times so that there are 4 Cells.

"IT CAN CLONE ITSELF!?" Eggman once again screams at the massive monitor.

"That's not good…" Orbot muttered, slightly afraid.

Sage doesn't speak, she just stares at the screen, at Metal specifically.

The Cell's rush forward toward metal, and starts to wallop on him, one punches Metal, another comes from behind and also punched, another comes from Metal's side and grabs him before throwing Metal forward.

Metal steadies himself as the Cell's begin closing in, he brings him hands up to his chest and energy begins to spike, as a diamond shape shield appears around Metal, as 3 of the Cell copy's begin to wail on the shield to no avail.

Eggman stands up quickly "BLACK SHIELD YES!!"

The main Cell floated a few feet away, before putting his pointer and middle finger on his right hand on top of his forehead, energy gathered around his fingers, before Cell pointed it at Metal and released the energy, the moment the energy beam hit the shield it shattered instantly.

"NOOO!!" Eggman yells.

"Big Brother…" Sage whispers to herself.

Orbot and Cubot just watched in silence, deeply worried.

Cell and his copies began to wallop on Metal again, punch, after punch, after punch, until Cell pulled out the peoples elbow and sent Metal down toward the command ship.

The command ship shook as Metal landed roughly on the top of the ship.

Eggman losses his balance slightly.

Orbot and Cubot swirl into each other, before hitting each other and falling to the ground.

Sage, who is floating, doesn't care that the ship is shaking, she's more focused on worrying about Metal.

Eggman regains his balance and moves the camera on the screen to have both Cell and Metal in the frame.

Before the voice of Cell come's through the speakers.

"Tell me," he starts as his clones flow back into one main body. "Does a machine like you experience fear?"

Eggman and Sage start seething.

Metal gets up, and raises his right arm in the air.

"Not anymore."

Metal closes his hand and a massive flash of light blue light explodes outward, a massive Metal being rises from behind the command ship as Metal decides to go—

METAL OVERLORD

Cell raises is right arm and shoots a blast of pure energy toward Metal, Metal swings it's now massive claw at the blast and redirected it to the side harmlessly, before summoning five crystal projectiles and launching them toward Cell.

Eggman, Sage, Orbot and Cubot are cheering for Metal so loudly, it wouldn't be a surprise if he actually heard them.

Cell dodged and weaved through the crystal projectiles, the last one connecting, but Cell managed to activate a barrier at the last second allowing him to block the last crystal projectile, in an instant Metal Overlord appears in front of Cell, Cell's eyes widened slightly before Metal punched Cell's shield and sent him flying.

"YESSSS!!!!" the entire egg family cheered at once.

Cell goes flying into little planet… before the planet disappeared.

The egg family's eyes go wide at the entire planet vanishing.

"How… did." Sage muttered.

Cell reappeared above Metal Overlord, a scowl on his face as little planet stayed suspended in the air above Cell, Metal looked up toward Cell before Cell threw his hands downward before little planet gones crashing down toward Metal,

Little planet plummeted.

The command room fell completely silence with worry.

Even Cubot didn't speak.

"…No…" Sage whispered.

Her voice was shaking slightly.

It didn't sound as it normally did, not digitally, not perfect, but human.

Eggman slammed both hands onto the console.

"METAL—MOVE!!"

Little planet Crashed Down onto Metal Overlord.

The screen WHITED OUT.

The shockwave hit the fleet, extremely hard.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

The entire command ship rattled violently, the chair's that were at the table fell over hard, multiple different tools scattered around hit the ground making Metallic clanging sounds.

Orbot grabbed onto the table.

Cubot clung to him tightly.

"I DON'T LIKE THIS GAME ANYMORE—"

Eggman was sent flying into the table from the rattling.

"Agh—!"

Sage flew over to Eggman to check if he was alright.

"Father—"

"I'm fine Sage," Eggman interrupts before looking back at the screen. "Is Metal alright?!"

The four of them look back toward the screen.

The white light faded.

Where Metal Overlord once stood, there was nothing, just fire, debris and a familiar silhouette falling toward one of Eggman's ships.

"…No…" Sage said quietly.

Her voice quiet, smaller, more vulnerable than usual.

Eggman stood up and rushed over to the console to track the figure on the surveillance feed.

The camera zoomed in to show Metal Sonic, back in his NEO form, crashing into one of Eggman's battleships, the ship igniting in fire shortly afterward.

Cell descended slowly through the flames, a few seconds later.

His voice filtered through the speaker's of Eggman's console.

"Fool… You're dealing with the ultimate lifeform."

Eggman's hands tightened on the edge of the console.

"…He dares…"

Metal moved shortly afterward, standing up slowly but deliberately.

He raised his right arm up level to his chest, and in Metal's right hand, a decently sized… red emerald.

The egg family's eye's widened at the sight of the Red Chaos Emerald.

"When did he…?" Eggman muttered, trying to remember when Metal acquired the red Chaos Emerald.

Metal's voice filtered through the speakers.

"I already possess his data," he says as he lifts his arm up more.

"Observe."

"Chaos—"

Cell vanished in an instant, then reappeared in front of Metal, then struck.

"—Con—"

Cell then slammed Metal into the hull of the battleship.

Cubot covered his face.

"I CAN'T WATCH—"

Cell appears again and rushed forward an aura of yellow energy surrounding him.

Cell reals his right arm back ready to deliver a potentially fight ending attack.

"METAL!!" the egg family screams in unison.

"—trol."

A flash of green flowed out from the chaos emerald, before everything in and around the fleet of Eggman's battleships, stop.

Eggman, Cubot and Orbot froze as well.

But Sage, isn't affected by the effects of Chaos Control, and isn't frozen in time.

Her eyes widened, as she realizes that Metal managed to get chaos control off successfully.

Metal lifted his head to look Cell directly in the eyes as he's frozen in time, Metal's optics scanned Cell, Lines of data started to flicker across Metal's black visor.

Sage noticed the lines of code, and her eyes widened even more.

Metal's voice echoed through the speakers, for only Sage to hear.

"Lifeform data… successfully copied."

A pause, before Metal's eyes flash a bright crimson red.

"Scum."

Sage get's a huge smile on her face hearing that.

'It's over now!' she thinks.

Metal launched forward right arm outstretched as carved Cell's left arm clean off before time resumes for everyone.

Cubot is the first to speak.

"…WAIT THAT WAS AWESOME—" even tho he didn't physically see it, he knows what the concept of Chaos Control is.

"Big Brother copied the creatures Bio-data," Sage says with clear excitement.

Eggman gets the biggest shit eating grin on his face at hearing that.

"YES!!! THAT'S MY SON!!" Eggman shouts in pure pride.

Orbot begins to clap… for some reason.

Cell staggered back a bit, staring at his missing limb, before turning to Metal.

His voice echoed into the speakers.

"It'll take more than that to kill me, PUPPET!"

Cell's right arm regenerated instantly.

Eggman's smile dropped. "Of course it has regeneration… why wouldn't it!"

Cell then surged forward, that same yellow aura surrounding him, as he grabbed Metal by the chest and slammed him into the battleship there are on, before Metal chest began glowing yellow with plasma energy, after a second Metal released the beam launching Cell upwards before Metal gave chase.

On Eggman's console a flashing red light appeared.

Eggman looked over toward it. "huh?" his eyes widened as he realized what light was flashing. "Chaos Energy!?"

The entire family looked back at the screen, now curious about why Chaos Energy is being detected and in such a large manner that the alert for it is going off.

The camera zoomed in upward, showing Metal and Cell face to face suspended in the air, until seven emeralds appear around Metal.

Red.

Yellow.

Teal.

Blue.

Purple.

Silver.

Green.

Everyone's eyes widened (minus Cell's) at the sight off all seven chaos emeralds.

The Emeralds slowly began to circle Metal's body.

Orbot spoke first, "…when did he acquire those…"

Cubot slowly turned his head toward Orbot.

"I DON'T KNOW AND I'M TOO SCARED TO ASK—"

Eggman didn't respond, he couldn't, his goggles reflected the glow of the emeralds through the screen as his grin slowly, slowly returned.

"…He's been collecting them…" Eggman muttered, voice low.

"…right under my nose."

Then his grin widened, "That's my boy."

Sage hovered forward slightly.

Her eyes were locked onto Metal's through the screen.

Just watching, no blinking, no analyzing.

"…Big brother…" she whispered.

On screen, the emeralds began to spin faster around Metal as the speaker's pick up Metal's voice again.

"I know, now i know—" Metal starts as the seven emeralds begin spinning around him so fast it seems like a rainbow halo is surrounding him now, before they close in on Metal, in a flash of bright light before—

SUPER NEO METAL SONIC.

Decides to take center stage.

"—Everything about you," Metal continues as he turns super, then he moves his left arm up and begins to tap his forehead with his pointer finger. "Insect."

The command room of the ship was flooded with a golden light.

Cubot screamed.

"HE WENT SUPER—HE WENT SUPER—HE WENT SUPER—"

Orbot grabbed him.

"Yes Cubot we can SEE THAT—"

Eggman slammed his hands onto the console again.

"YES!! YES!! YES!!"

His voice cracked with pride.

"THIS is perfection!"

Sage was the quietest, she didn't cheer, didn't speak at all, she just stared eyes wide. "…Beautiful…"

Back on the battlefield, Cell and Metal continue there staring contest, before they both vanish in flashed of gold and green.

The fleet of Eggman's ships begin to shake heavily, and Cell and Metal begin trading blow for blow constantly as they fly through the air.

Eggman stumbled "Track them!!" he yelled at his console as it begins to try to keep up.

It struggled heavily, only catching blurs of gold and chrome that tore across the space inbetween the fleet.

The blurs fly upward shockwaves continuing to fly outward from them when they collide, they fly through the clouds, vaporizing them in the process.

They kept clashing.

Again.

Again.

Again.

Metal struck again with a punch, Cell would block it the best he could, then he would counter, then Metal would catch it and crush Cell's wrist, then Cell would regenerate instantly.

The sky itself began to fracture due to the force of the blows from both Metal and Cell.

Gold and green streaks tore across the sky faster than Eggman's systems could properly track, they only caught glimpses and impacts.

BOOM.
BOOM.
BOOM.

With each collision, ripples echoed through the immediate area, these ripples would probably reach space.

Eggman gripped the console's edge's tighter.

"Increase predictive tracking!! I want their trajectories NOW!" Eggman screamed at the computer, his voice filled with worry now.

The computer responds.

"ERROR: SPEED EXCEEDS CALCULATION LIMITS."

Eggman's eye twitched violently.

"OF COURSE IT DOES—"

Orbot is still clung to the side of the table, voice shaking slightly.

"I…I believe Big Brother os matching him blow for blow…"

Cubot immediately snapped back:

"MATCHING?! HE'S WINNING! HE'S TOTALLY WINNING! RIGHT?!"

No one answered.

Sage… still hadn't moved.

Her eyes followed every flicker of gold.

Every movement.

Every impact.

Every microsecond.

"…Big brother is adapting," she whispered.

Cell lunged forward again, his aura flaring violently, before he vanished and reappeared behind Metal in an instant, delivering a devastating kick that aimed to slam into Metal's side.

But Metal caught his leg mid-swing.

A pause, before Metal threw Cell backward before flying upward.

Cell then stabilized himself and began spewing out Cell jr's from his… weird tail thing…

The command room went dead silent after that.

Even the alarms felt quieter.

Cubot spoke first.

"…why did it just… give birth."

Orbot didn't even have a snarky remark to this.

"…I am… deeply uncomfortable."

Eggman's face twisted in disgust.

"Disgusting… biological nonsense—"

But even he didn't look away.

Sage didn't react outwardly, but her hands clenched tightly.

Metal then raised his right arm and swung it, four distortions split from him, and 4 base Metal Sonic copies appeared in front of him.

"YES—!" Eggman slammed the console again.

"METAL WAS ABLE TO COPY THIS THINGS ABILITIES!!"

It didn't take long after that for chaos to erupt again.

The duplicates of Metal and the Cell Jr.'s began to collide midair, creating explosions, firing off energy blasts, and creating more shockwaves.

The sky began tearing apart again with each of the clashes.

Cubot grabbed Orbot again.

"WHY ARE THERE MORE OF THEM NOW—?!"

The main Metal and Cell continue to clah violently.

Until Cell manages to knock Metal upward above the chaos, Metal then brought his hand to his chest before forming them like a triangle, as energy began to gather in his hands.

"Shin…"

A pause, as the energy in his hands spiked.

"Ki…"

Eggman leaned forward, eyes WIDE.

"What is he—"

Metal's voice sharpened.

"—Ko…"

Cell's voice came through the speakers again.

"Don't you dare—"

"—HO!!!"

Cell didn't even get to finish his sentence before a massive golden beam blasted from the energy that gathered inside the triangle, the beam is bigger than anything that Eggman and the others have seen Metal use before, It hit Cell directly, before also encasing the duplicate Metal's and Cell Jr.'s in the radius as well.

The beam swallowed everything in it's path.

It carved through the sky like a divine judgment, tearing apart clouds, ripping through the battlefield, and completely consuming Cell.

The command room went dead silent (for like the 5th time)

Not even Cubot screamed.

The only bit of sound there was, was from the hum of the ship.

Eggman's goggles reflected the golden beam.

"…That's it," he whispered.

"Stay down…"

Sage didn't blink.

Her eyes tracked the beam's center point with absolute perfection.

"…The energy output is still rising…"

The beam expanded even more.

Then, the moment the beam hit the surface of the unknown planet.

It detonated.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

The explosion dwarfed everything before it, seemingly packing more power than a nuclear bomb.

A massive sphere of golden energy erupted outward, vaporizing debris, tearing apart most things around, and forcing Eggman's fleet to pull back formation just to survive the shockwave of golden chaos energy.

Cubot clung tighter to Orbot.

"IS IT OVER—?! PLEASE TELL ME IT'S OVER—"

Orbot adjusted his posture, voice trembling slightly.

"I… I would like it to be…"

Smoke. Fire and ash filled the immediate area.

At the origin point of the beam.

The floating golden form of Super Neo Metal stood, before he blitzed down toward the planet, specifically to where the beam had landed.

"…Big brother…" Sage whispered.

Eggman's grin slowly returned.

"…Yes…"

Then—

The light slowly faded, in the center of where the beam had collided with the surface of the planet making a crater, Cell reformed and stood tall, before screaming and a massive yellow aura appeared around him.

Cubot screamed.

"WHY IS HE STILL ALIVE—?!"

Eggman slammed the console… again.

"OF COURSE HE IS!!!!!!!!!"

Cell then brought his hands to his side energy gathering between them in a ball-like fashion.

Metal copies the motion.

And at the same time… there voices echo through the speakers.

"KA—!!!"

"What are they doing now!" Eggman says slightly panicked.

"—ME—!!!"

"I DON'T KNOW AND I DON'T LIKE IT!!" Cubot screams.

"—HAME—!!!"

"PLEASE LOWER YOU VOICE MODULATOR CUBOT." Orbot screams back.

"—HA!!!!"

Two beams of bright blue energy shoot towards each other as Metal and Cell unleash their Kamehameha's, the beams collide with each other between Metal and Cell, a bright flash of light blue exploded outward as the beams collide, making the screen in the command room go completely blue for a few seconds.

Eggman and Sage cover there eyes, trying to not be blinded by the sudden bright light.

Orbot and Cubot don't react as much… but they do scream.

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!"

Before everyone can gain their bearings, Cell's voice pieces through the speakers.

"I am not only the greatest warrior in the universe!," He begins before the energy in his hands begins to increase 10 fold. "I AM ALL OF THEM!!!"

The beam that came from Cell began to expand and grow bigger and brighter, before it begins to overpower the beam that came from Metal.

The beam fully consumed the silhouette of Metal as it kept going forward.

"METAL!!" Eggman shouted clearly panicked now.

"BIG BRO!!" Orbot and Cubot yelled.

Sage… didn't speak, just stared, around her multiple lines of red code appears and began glitching violently.

Cell's laugh echoed through the computers speakers.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA—"

Everything stopped again.

Sage swirled her head toward the screen so fast it would have worried Eggman, if he was able to see her right now.

A familiar voice echoed through the speakers.

"If you are all of them—" Metal starts before he shoots a beam through Cell's chest, time speed's up again as Eggman, Orbot and Cubot's expressions immediately change into ones of immense happiness seeing their son/big brother still alive and well.

"Then so am I." Metal finished.

Cell then turns around and begins to gather more energy in between his hands.

"I'll never lose, to a machine, LIKE—"

Cell doesn't get the chance to finish that sentence, before time briefly stops again.

And in an instant Metal is holding the red chaos emerald in his left hand pointed directly at Cell's face.

"CHAOS—"

The chaos emerald begins to glow extremely brightly.

Time resumes again.

"—BLAST!!"

The chaos emerald emits a bright red glow before—

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

A massive red beam of pure chaos energy shoots outward at point black with Cell's face, the energy that Cell was gathering in his hands immediately fizzles out as Cell realizes what's happening.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Cell's scream gradualy fades into nothing as the chaos blast fly's outward and into space.

The entire command room erupts in cheers.

"YES METAL!!!" Eggman screams.

"BIG BRO!!!!!" Orbo and Cubot yell.

Sage's eyes are sparkling as she begins to levitate around the room.

Once the red smoke dissapeares, Metal appeares holding the red chaos emerald in his right hand now, and a strange mass of something else in his right.

Metal looks up at the command ship, before thrusting his right arm out straight showing the mysterious cluster of, whatever that is to the camera, before his voice filteres through the speakers.

"I'll crush you!" he says as he crushes the mysterious cluster.

Metal's goden body flashed back to normal for a second before returning back to normal.

Eggman hit a button on his console.

"Metal your time in super is almost up return to us."

"Affirmative," Metal says as he nods, before blitzing back toward the command ship.

"And Metal…"

"Yes."

"I'm proud of you, my son."

"Thank you—"

A pause, before Metal continued.

"—father."

Notes:

Yes this was literally just the Metal Sonic vs Cell death battle but with Eggman, Sage and Orbot and Cubot watching...

 

Sue me.

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