24 ÜberCharge (Part 3 and last)

<div id="i4c-draggable-container" style="position: fixed; z-index: 1499; width: 0px; height: 0px;"><div data-reactroot="" class="resolved" style="all: initial;"></div></div>Metal Sonic, and indeed everyone in the island, stared at me like had grown two pairs of robotic heads in my ass. Okay, weird comparison, but still, that should serve to show just how freaked out they were when I basically put a 'I am your father on Metal Sonic'.

"... what." Metal Sonic muttered, too flaggerbasted by my words to do little more than float in place and look at me with wide eyes, alongside the others.

"Well, when you think about it, he's right. I mean, Metal Sonic IS the only successful Badnik he has made..."Silver whispered loudly enough that I could hear him. "I too would treat my best creation as my baby."

"Yeah, but Metal Sonic has tried to betray and destroy him several times in the past."

Too bad I only paid them enough mind to hear them. The shock was enough for me to rip the Master Emerald off him and chuck it towards Knuckles, who being as stupified as he was like the others could do nothing but stand like a moron as the giant gemstone hit crushed him like a piano. Ha!

Yeah, I still didn't like the guy. Yeah, I'm an hypocrite. No, that might not change in the future.

Anyway let's keep the story rolling. Cutting Metal from his source of power had the desired effect. The REAL desired effect that is, the one I didn't think would happen, believing simply that he'd still be huge, but weaker.

Him shrinking to his normal form while screeching, that is, going from a hundred-foot metal dragon to not being taller than Sonic. As soon has he returned to his base form (and I mean bas base form, since he was shorter and less spikier), the others ganged on Metal and proceeded to beat the shit out of him, even though he was fighting really mean despite being unable to move.

"Eggman!" I heard from behind me. It was Vanilla, Cream and the robots, who were running up to me. "Are you alright? He got you several times!"

"I'm fine, whatever this power I have has made indestructible." And the Charge chose that exact moment to disappear. Well, it had to happen sometime, I mean, even the maxed out ÜberCharges from Mann vs. Machine dont' last longer than twelve seconds. "Well, as the saying says, easy comes easy goes."

"Yeah but before it went, you were kicking Metal's metallic butt!" Cubot exclaimed.

"Yup, that I did cube, that I did."

We watched as the Restoration kept attacking Metal Sonic with all they got, kicking, punching, hammering, crushing and kunai-ng the hell out of him, but no matter what they did, he just didn't give up. Like a certain evil doctor...

And there was also the 'that makes me your father' bit...

"Wait!" The all stopped attacking him when I spoke, though Gemerl stopped the moment my mouth closed. "Don't destroy him!"

"What do you mean 'don't destroy him'?" A lemur that had come with the Resistance said in an incredulous tone. "He nearly killed you, we could hear the screams!"

"I think I can get him to do as I did if you let me."

"Do as you did?" The lemur said confused, before Rouge spoke on her ear. "Oh, become a good guy!"

"Wait a minute, does that meant that the father thing-" Charmy began to say before I cut him off.

"No, but I still want to try to change him if I can."

"Unhand me you filthy meatbags!" Metal Sonic screamed as I approached him, Shadow and Sonic's hold on him getting weaker and weaker despite their efforts. I had to act fast before he got loose, another fight started and ended up as junk. Even though I didn't see him as my son, I still wanted to try and see if he could change, if only so that we wouldn't have to deal with him in the future. "It doesn't matter how many times you defeat me, I will bring Doctor Eggman-"

"SHUT UP!" I shouted at him at the top of my lungs. Metal looked at me with shock and a bit of fear, and stopped struggling.

"My ears!"

"Cubot, you have no ears, and shut up!"

"Release him, I want to talk to Metal without him being treated like some prisoner." I ordered them. Sonic promptly stood away from Metal, but Shadow stared at me for a few secodns before letting go."

"If the robot tries anything, I'll put it down." He grumbled before walking away.

"You won't have to, and besides no one tried to put you down when you were a bastard." I replied before turning to the glaring Metal Sonic, knowing perfectly that my words stung him deep. "Look, I get it, you don't see me as your maker, or you do but not as I am right now, and want to get the old Eggman back to keep walking the path of villainy, am I wrong?"

"Yes, and I would electrocute you a million times and clone Eggman from whatever ashes would be left if I had to!"

"That doesn't make any sense. I mean, blood can't be ashefied" I heard Sonic mutter behind me. I ignored him.

"But... Metal Sonic let me ask you something: how many times have I tried to take over the world in the past?"

"Countless times, and each more glorious than the previous one, even when I wasn't involved." Metal replied. "If not for that meddling blue hedgehog, Eggman-"

"Exactly, and how many times did I succeed?" I kept asking.

"Several times, actually, and not just with Mobius."

"Yes, but did any victory last longer than five months?"

THAT made him stop glaring and start thinking.

"...sans the war, none."

"Exactly; it may be, but I'm fairly certain now that being evil means you'll always lose in the end, and the more complex and dangerous way to conquer the world, the greater the disappointment and shame. Helping people with simple things, though?" I was, of course, referring to the 'succeeding at being good feels good' lifestyle I adopted. "Another thing, did someone, anyone that wasn't you genuinely like, respect, or even look up at me, instead of cowering in fear, forming guerrilla movements or simply ask for Sonic's help? And mercenaries, loonies and would-be allies don't count."

"...no."

"Exactly. No one, and I mean no one liked me then, and neither you." I replied. "And after putting two and two together, I realized that keeping going and not changing was simply not for me, plus an epiphany that made me realize that being evil is bad for both your body, and your soul."

"I have no soul."

"Well, as far as I care souls are metaphorical, not necessarily real, but if you're one of those, as long as something can think, then it has a soul, and therefore you have as soul. As simple as that." I said. Yeah, Mobius had gods and ghosts and none of them were machines, but I watched The Iron Giant and played Mass Effect.

"Metal, you can do like me, or keep acting like an emo kid obsessed with resurrecting my evil self, and get you ass beaten like a rented mule. If you want to leave and cause chaos and mayhem, I won't stop you, but I won't help you when the Restoration has enough of you and decides to get rid of you for good."

He stared at me, and I at him, for what seemed an eternity, with the others standing behind us and waiting for his response.

Then, he made his decision.

I watched as Metal Sonic jumped off the island and flied away until he disappeared in the horizon. All without saying a word. I sighed. It was better than him ranting or just plain attacking us again, but still, just saying a couple words, if only to insult me...

"You are letting him go?" I heard a voice say behind me. Turning, I saw it was Shadow. "I understand your gesture, but this is Metal Sonic we're talking about. He didn't learn to be evil, he was made evil. Plus, he's a robot, a machine."

"Hey, robots can become good without resets!" Cubot complained as he pointed a finger at an annoyed Shadow. "We were made evil from the beginning, and now we're good guys!"

"Gemerl started mean and he became good too!" Vanilla agreed.

"And don't forget Omega."

"Actually, Eggman built us to serve as a foil to Metal Sonic."

"What's a foil?"

"Well I'm relieved that he never tried to actually touch the Master Emerald before. Imagine if we had to fight THAT!"

"I'm more worried about what happened to Eggman." Tails said. "When Sonic becomes super, his skin doesn't glisten and his eyes don't glow gold like that."

"That can wait kid. As for you Shadow, what else would you want me to do, destroy him? Yes, he did bad things before, very bad things, but so did I... and so did you." I told Shadow, making him look away with a frown. "Besides, what could he do now that he has nothing left? Organize the now-annihilated Badnik army? Try to harness the power of a now heavily defended emerald after seeing me get superpowered by it? Try to change a future he probably accidentaly helped in happening? Get help from a platypus in... the run..."

Darn it.

"Platypus in the run?" Tails asked, confused, before Vanilla s

"The evil doctor who electrocuted him! He got away through a portal!"

I had genuinely forgotten about Starline.

"Darn it!"

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