Hey guys, This is my first story so please be nice when it comes to comments ok? :) And also i hope you guys really enjoy reading this. I know i had fun writting this! One more thing, I do not own any sonic characters what so ever! Everything belongs to sega! Man i wish i owned sonic T^T *sniff sniff* Anyways , on to the story! X3

Second Chance

~The beginning of the end~

It's May on planet earth,Where everything is calm,quiet,and serene. The wind blowing through the trees causing the leaves to rustle and effortlessly fall to the grass below. You would imagine it to be like this everywhere but unfortunately it's not..

-Station square 5/10/11 1:57pm-

Screams could be heard from every angle as the citizens ran about the streets,trying to find shelter from the 20ft. metal beast that was rampaging through the town. The whole place was in ruins,light post bent or broken,cars flipped over or crushed,buildings knocked over,and the streets where no longer drivable. Of course that monstrosity belonged to none other than Dr. Robotnik himself. He was laughing manically as he sat in his chair,back at his secret laboratory. "HOHOHO! Those insolent people trying to run and hide when they are merely postponing the inevitable!" He chuckled. He was watching his creation destroy the city with the help of his monitors.

"Yes,tear down everything so that I may build my eggman empire!" He cheered. The robot was destroying everything that stood in it's way, no matter what it may be. Down below ,though, was a young girl. She was screaming frantically while trying to find her mother. "Mommy! Where are you mommy!" She cried. The robot noticed the girl and started to make his way towards her. She,unaware,continued to try and locate her mom. She finally stopped in her tracks when she noticed a giant shadow lingering over her. She slowly turned her head to see what was causing that. Of course when she realized it was the robot she began to run and scream for help. Unfortunately,she did not get very far because she tripped,due to a crack that was on the sidewalk. She started to cry when she saw the robot slowly close the gap between it and the her.

Once in front of her,it lifted its' leg so that it could crush her. Almost immediately it slammed its' foot down to finally rid of the pest. The girl squeezed her little eyes shut,ready for the impact. Nothing...no pain,no screaming,nothing. She slowly began to open her eyes,and to her surprise she saw a red echidna standing in front of her holding up the metal foot. The echidna turned his head to look at her and then he smirked.

"Don't worry kid,I've got this."

He then,used all of his strength and flung the robot a couple of feet away from them. He turned around and held out his hand for the girl to take. "The names knuckles,and you are?" He asked. "M-molly..." She mumbled as she took his hand. "Well molly,i suggest you run as fast as you can and get away from this mess." He said as he helped her up. She just nodded her head and began to run in the opposite direction of the robot. Before she could get to far,she turned back around and bowed her head.

"Thanks for saving me." "Heh no problem kid." Knuckles responded.

She then ran off once again. Before knuckles could turn to face the robot,he heard someone yelling at him from above. "YO KNUXS!" Knuckles looked up at one of the rooftops of a building. "What's the status?" The same voice called again. "Everyone is evacuated so we don't have to hold back!" Knuckles grinned as he yelled back. The owner of the voice just smirked. "Sweet!" It said as it jumped down from the building,landing 5ft. from knuckles. "Ah,nice of you to join me sonic." Knuckles mocked. "Yea yea,enough chit-chat! I think it's time to teach this thing some manners!" Sonic grinned and dropped down to a fighting stance.

"Couldn't have said it better myself" Knuckles said as he also lowered to a fighting stance. The robot struggled to get back up but eventually made it to its' feet. It began to walk over to where knuckles and sonic were at. Sonic smiled and started to run towards it. The robot responded by replacing its' hands with built in lazers. It aimed at sonic and started to shoot at him,trying to prevent him from getting close to it. Sonic effortlessly dodged them and continued to run up to it till he finally stood right in front of the metal menace. Sonic then quickly rolled up into a ball so that he could spin dash right through the head. Unfortunately for sonic,eggman had upgraded his robots so that they can read sonic's moves and react quickly.

As soon as sonic was in the air ready to strike,the robot had swung its' hand up in front of its' face and caught sonic. "What the-!" Sonic uncurled himself and tried to escape but to no avail. The machine tightened its' grip on sonic. "AH!" Sonic shouted from pain. "Dammit sonic! Why are you always so reckless?" Knuckles whispered to himself. With a loud battle cry,knuckles ran up to the robot and began to punch the metal foot. The machine just simply lifted its' foot and kicked knuckles a distance away from them. Due to the immense force behind that kick,knuckles was out cold in a matter of seconds. "Knuckles!AHH!" Sonic screamed as he was squeezed tightly again. Sonic mentally yelled at himself for being captured so easily. Before the robot could squeeze again there was a loud sound that could easily be mistaken for lightning. Not a moment later,sonic was falling to the ground.

"OH CRAP!" sonic yelled,for he was caught off guard.

When he stopped falling,he realized that he didn't hit the ground. He opened his eyes to see something he did not expect. Shadow had caught sonic before he could hit the ground."Shadow?...sooo...what brings you to the neighborhood?" sonic casually said. Shadow just blankly stared at nothing in particular then just dropped sonic. "Ow...rude much.." Sonic stated as he rubbed the back of his head and glared at shadow. Shadow paid no attention to the pouting hedgehog on the ground; He just stepped over him and walked up to the robot. He then,extended his arm and formed a chaos spear in his right hand. With a simple movement of his arm,he threw the neon green spear at the robot while yelling "chaos..SPEAR!"

It hit the robot spot on in the arm causing it to lose it. It wobbled around a bit before regaining balance. The robot,now furious,used its one good arm to try and shoot shadow with its' lazer. Shadow easily avoided the blasts and tried to get close to the robot so he could chaos spear him again. Of course,because it was upgraded,the machine could read shadows' moves as well. It turned its lazer arm back into a hand,and picked up a near by car to throw at shadow. Before shadow could chaos spear it,sonic spin dashed right through it cutting it in two. "Ha ha beat you to it." Sonic mocked. Shadow just shot an irritated look at him. "Sorry,but hey we can settle this later,right now we need to get rid of this jerk-bot."

Sonic stated. Shadow just nodded his head in agreement. Before sonic could say anything else,the machine began throwing everything it could at the two hedgehogs. As they both dodged,sonic got an idea. "Hey shads! Apparently this thing can keep up with our speed-" He then smirked. "-But lets see if it can handle BOTH of us at the same time." Shadow also smirked and dropped down to a running pose. Sonic did the same.

"On my mark...NOW!" Both hedgehogs ran at full speed towards the menace.

They zig zagged,turned and spun around. It tried to watch both of them at once,but being unable to,it got confused. This was sonics and shadows time to strike. It was a constant back and forth thing. Shadow would hit it then sonic,shadow,sonic,shadow,then sonic again. This continued till the robot was about ready to tip over. Both sonic and shadow landed in front of the bot. Sonic looked over to shadow and said "You ready to end this?" Shadow looked over to sonic and smirked. "Alright then...lets do this!" Sonic shouted as he and shadow both jumped up into the air and curled up. They spin dashed right into the chest of the robot,causing it to completely lose balance and fall over. They landed behind the robot,who was already beginning to sizzle and spark.

"Heh,didn't stand a chance." Sonic smiled. Shadow just crossed his arms over his chest. A groan suddenly erupted from the background. Knuckles walked over to where sonic and shadow were. "Ow...that thing packed quite the punch.." He groaned. "Yea well, I'm getting fed up with all of these attacks on innocent people. I think I'm going to go pay eggman a visit." Sonic stated. "Well I'm going with you so I can repay him for the headache I now have." Knuckles growled. "Fine with me...Shadow are you gonna come?" Sonic asked. "Hmph... why not.." He plainly responded. "Alright its settled then, lets go drop by and say hi to ol' egghead." Sonic smiled.

-Secret laboratory 5/10/11 2:35 pm-

Dr. Eggman slammed his fists onto his keyboard in anger. "Blast it! That blue rat always interferes with my plans!" He shouted. "He must have some kind of weakness...I'm just not seeing it...hmm-" His thoughts were interrupted by an alarm going off on his computer. "Intruder alert!Intruder alert!" "What in blazes-!" Eggman thought.

He looked up at his many monitors that sat above his desk. "WHAT! IT CAN'T BE! What are they doing here!" He panicked. "...Wait...-" A grin started to form on his face as he stared at the screens. "-...Heh heh heh...I've got you now." "Got who?" A voice from behind asked. Eggman spun around as fast as he could,only to see sonic and friends standing in the entrance. "But..how did you-" Eggman was interrupted. "Hello,your talking to the fastest thing alive but enough about that,we're here to stop your evil plans once and for all." Sonic said.

"What! Little ol' me with a scheme!" Eggman acted innocent.

"Whatever, now shut up and listen." Knuckles threatened while popping his knuckles. "We're tired of your stupid plans for world domination and we're here to try and talk you into giving up." Sonic started. "HA! Your wasting your breath hedgehog. I'm not going to quit just because you told me to!" Eggman laughed. Knuckles was already getting annoyed and tried to walk up to eggman. Sonic extended his arm in front of knuckles indicating that actions right now are unnecessary. Knuckles growled but stepped back again. "Why are you so set on ruling the world? Why can't you live in peace with everyone else?" Sonic continued. "Do you not see that I am better then everyone else? I must rule over them so they won't think otherwise." Eggman said.

"But that's not a reason to-" sonic was cut off. "I am tired of this. You are just wasting my precious time." "But-" "ENOUGH!" Eggman finished as he pressed a button on his keyboard. The ground began to shake and rumble. "What did you just do!" Knuckles asked with anger in his voice. Eggman simply smiled. "Since you came all the way here,I'm going to show you my newest creation!One that is unbeatable!" Sonic glared at him for being hard headed. Suddenly a large metal sphere began to descend from the ceiling of eggman's laboratory. It made a strange buzzing noise as it did so causing Sonic,knuckles,and shadow to feel uncomfortable. Once the sphere finally made it to the metal floor,eggman typed in some things on his computer.

The sphere began to open making a hissing sound while releasing smoke onto the laboratory floor causing everyone to shield their face. After a moment, the sphere had finally opened completely. The metal container re closed itself and receded back into the ceiling. All was silent since everyone was waiting for the smoke to clear up. Eggman just rubbed his hands together in excitement. Once the smoke completely vanished,everything was visible again;nothing was there except for a small puddle of purple goo. Of course it didn't seem like much but they kept their guard up anyways. The goo began to shake;It then started to form itself into something. It grew and grew and grew until it was about the size of...well,big the cat!

After it stopped growing,it kind of just sat still,occasionally wobbling like it was a jell-o cake. "That? That's your unbeatable creation?" Knuckles mocked. "It looks like something that would get stuck on the bottom of your shoe!" He finished. Knuckles was laughing so hard that he didn't have time to avoid a hit. "OOF!" Knuckles huffed as he was sent flying backwards. Apparently that thing could use its own body goo to shoot at others like bullets. "That's what you get for laughing at it knuxs." Sonic simply stated while shrugging. "Shut it hedgehog!" Knuckles angrily said as he got up. "Stop goofing around and lets destroy this thing already." Shadow said. "HOHOHO! You really think you can destroy it! Not everything is as it seems...Good luck!" Eggman gloated. " I don't need luck! All I need is my fists!" Knuckles shouted before he ran up to the purple blob and punched it.

He was constantly throwing punches,but they had no effect on the creature. It simply just jiggled around every time it was hit. "Erg!Why won't this thing fall over!" Knuckles was already getting frustrated. "Hold on knuxs! I'm coming!" Sonic shouted before he curled up and threw himself,trying to spin dash through the blob. He had succeeded in hitting it and formed a big hole in the middle. Sonic landed behind the creature with a smirk. "Right on the target!" He cheered. "Oh don't get to excited sonic! Just wait a second." Eggman laughed. Sonic looked over to eggman with a confused look,then back to the blob. His eyes were wide when he saw the giant hole he had made,not two seconds ago, was already filling back up with goo. "What!" "HAHAHA! I told you that it was unbeatable!" Eggman laughed.

"The day's not over yet doctor!" Shadow stated as he formed a chaos spear in both his hands. "chaos...SPEAR!"

Both spears flew at the blob,who didn't even try to dodge. Once the spears imbedded themselves into the blob,they stayed in place for a moment before the blob began to jiggle,then absorbed the spears. "What the hell?" Shadow was stunned. Not a moment later,the spears were thrown back at him with more speed. "!" Shadow had no time to say anything as he jumped out the way. "Is there anything this thing can't do!" Knuckles shouted while he was ,still,trying to punch the goo. The goo began to make a strange sound. "What's it doing?" Sonic asked no one in particular. "Oh crap!" Knuckles panicked. After another punch from him,his fist got caught inside the blob. "I think it's trying to eat me or something!" "Dammit knuckles! And you accuse me of being reckless!" Sonic stated as he tried to pull knuckles out of the blob. "Shadow! A little help please!" Sonic struggled to say.

Shadow just rolled his eyes,formed a chaos spear,and threw it at the blob,close to where knuckles fist was. Both sonic and knuckles fell over as the blob released them. "Enough fooling around! Destroy them!" Eggman demanded. The blob suddenly made a low rumbling noise as if it was growling,and dissolved into the cracks of the metal floor.

"Where did it go!...Keep your guards up guys..." Sonic whispered. The blob came shooting back up out of the cracks and reformed itself,but instead of just one blob there were three. "OH! It seems you each have your own monster to battle!" Eggman smirked. "Now then...ATTACK!" He shouted while throwing a fist in the air. All three blobs jumped at their enemies while sonic,shadow,and knuckles rolled out of the way. "How are we supposed to beat these things?" Knuckles shouted from across the room.

"It has to have some kind of weakness!" Sonic added in. "What if it doesn't!" Knuckles said. Before sonic could respond, the blob started to shoot goo at him. "AH HEY! Watch where ya shoot those things!" Sonic yelled at it. Sonic had to continuously dodge left and right because the thing kept shooting at him. All this was happening while shadow was throwing spears at his and knuckles was punching and kicking his. Eggman just sat in his big metal chair,snickering to himself. "Yes...keep running and fighting...your just going to wear yourself out." "How is it that this thing can keep up with me!" Sonic yelled. He threw himself to the right,so he could avoid the goop that was just thrown at him. Sonic got up and was going to try and attack the blob but ceased movement when he saw that it wasn't even behind him. "What...where'd it-"

"Sonic! Behind you!"

Shadow shouted from the opposite side of the room. "Huh..?" Sonic turned his head,only to see the blob wobbling right behind him. "OH CRAP!" Sonic shouted before he ran. Unfortunately for sonic,the blob had shot some goo at him,which got him on his leg. Sonic stumbled,then fell over. He tried to get back up but found it impossible. "What the-" Sonic saw that his leg was basically glued to the floor. "Oh...this is not good..." He thought. He tried to jerk his leg away,wiggle it free,and rip the goo apart...nothing worked. The blob started to crawl over to where sonic was sitting which caused sonic to have a terrified expression. Shadow saw that sonic needed help so he ran over to him to try and distract the blob. "chaos..SPEARS!" Shadow yelled as he ran in front of sonic and threw multiple neon green spears at the blob.

A couple of them hit it in the chest while some others missed and hit the wall behind it. Unknowingly,one of shadows spears had hit a fire extinguisher that was on that wall. It started to leak cold air onto the back of the blob. Shadow was about to strike again but stopped when he saw the blob wiggling around. Soon after,the blob was frozen solid like an ice sculpture. "...What...just happened?" Sonic asked. Shadow was just standing there,trying to process what had just happened. Then it hit him. "...Of course!" Shadow could have slapped himself for not thinking of this 6 minutes ago.

"What?" sonic asked more annoyed. "I think I should just demonstrate." Shadow responded while walking over to the frozen enemy. Once in front of it,he simply just punched right threw the ice. Sonic flinched from the noise the ice made. Shadow then quickly yanked his hand back,causing the whole structure to crumble and fall apart.

"...ooh..." Sonic said as he realized what shadow meant. "Well,now that we know it has a weakness...you mind breaking this too?" Sonic added in while pointing at his leg.

Shadow walked over to the extinguisher,grabbed it,and walked over to sonic so he could spray and brake the goop on his leg. Afterwards sonic jumped up and smiled. "Thanks shads!" "WOAH!" Knuckles shouted as he was thrown from where he had previously been. Both sonic and shadow looked down at knuckles,who was laying on the floor,in front of them. "YO knuxs...shadow found out this things weakness!" "Great...now lets just get this over with so I can go home and sleep for a month." He stated with dizzy eyes. By now the two blobs had crawled over to them and was about to attack again. "GAH! Lets hurry and get rid of them!There's only two left!" Knuckles pointed out. Both blobs shook and jiggled as they began to multiply. Soon, the three of them were surrounded by purple blobs. Sonic looked over to knuckles.

"Way to go knucklehead!" Knuckles just shrugged,as if it wasn't his fault. "Now what?" Sonic asked. Shadow thought for a moment. "...I've got a plan but...we need another extinguisher..." Sonic just smiled,zoomed off so fast you wouldn't have even guessed he moved,zoomed back,and held up an extinguisher. "You mean like this one?" He casually said. Shadow smirked. "Exactly...now here's the plan..." He whispered in sonic's ear. Sonic nodded his head and lowered to a running pose. "You might want to move out the way echidna..." Knuckles just jumped up out of the circle of blobs. "...ready?...GO!" Shadow shouted. Both hedgehogs ran at super speed ,around the army of blobs, and began to spray the cold air on them. They added in their own cold air by running in a big circle,causing a tornado.

The blobs inside the whirlwind were starting to freeze up. Some tried to escape but couldn't. Sonic and shadow didn't stop until the extinguishers were empty. They both skidded to a stop in front of knuckles. The three fighters stared at the many ice statues that stood before them. "Alright...lets get cracking!" Knuckles said as he ran up to the blobs and began to punch the hell out of all of them. Sonic and shadow joined in as well,destroying everything they could. Finally when the deed was done,they all just smiled and congratulated themselves.

"...It...can't be..." Everyone looked up to where eggman was sitting. "Y-you...destroyed...my indestructible creation...how...?" Eggman said,barely above a whisper.

"Because we're the best of the best!" Knuckles laughed. "Now lets destroy this entire lab!" He finished. "Uh..don't you think that's a little harsh?" Sonic asked an eager knuckles. "No...why?" He stupidly asked. "You...you ALWAYS ruin my plans! I can NEVER WIN against you...you little...I...i quit..." Eggman slowly said. "? What did you just say?" A shocked sonic asked. "...I'm done...losing to you..." "So does that mean you'll stop-" "...I'm done losing to you...forever.." "What do you mean "forever"?" Shadow asked,suspiciously. "I can't lose to you...if we're both DEAD!"

Eggman shouted as he typed something on his computer. "WHAT! You're not really going to-" Sonic was interrupted. "Self-destruct activated!" A voice said. "C'mon guys I think we need to leave!" Knuckles freaked out. "Your not going anywhere!" Eggman laughed while pressing multiple buttons on his desk. Soon,every exit was closed off with everything imaginable,chains,lazers,and metal doors. "What do we do?" Sonic asked. "...I don't have my emerald with me but...i think I have enough chaos energy to teleport us out of here.." Shadow quietly said. "What about eggman...?"

Sonic asked. They all looked at eggman,who was laughing crazily,pulling on his mustache,and spinning around in his chair. Shadow shook his head. "There's nothing we can do for him now..." Shadow plainly said. "10...9...8..7..." "Come on...lets go..."Knuckles said as he walked over to shadow. "..6...5...4..." Sonic glanced at eggman one last time before he walked up to shadow. "..3...2.."

"chaos CONTROL!" "...1..."

The trees rustled and shook as a strong wind blew past them. Birds of all kinds,flying off into the sky,trying to get away from the strange noise they had heard. Unknown to everyone that something strange and tragic had just happened. At least life would be a lot safer for the people of station square. Unfortunately, no one would have ever guessed it to also be the beginning...of the end...

Sooo...how was it c: i wanna hear what you all have to say! . plz be kind.