Metals POV

It, took, five, whole, days....to beat this freak down! Five, whole, days! I know fights like this can go on for awhile but seriously?!

Sigh...if I've learned one thing here, it's that I need to get stronger, so much stronger, so that I don't struggle with enemies like this. I know I'll face more like Solaris...it's how this works. What's next huh? Dark Gaia? Final Hazard? Nega Mother Wisp? Fucking Nazo?!

This fight has taken its tole on me that's for sure, I'm back to my base form but the red aura is still there. I'm currently floating still in the black void, severely damaged, holding my left shoulder as my arm was limp. My body was cracked all over, one of my eyes had stopped working, my jet engine flickered from time to time and my voice system was slightly damaged.

I stared into the bright light that was Solaris' dying body, watching as small balls of white energy shot off in random directions. But I knew something, Solaris was dead as was Discord, but Mephiles...he's still there, for now at least. His very being is breaking down, there should be enough of him there to speak. "D-Don't gi-give m-me the si-silent treatment." My voice was glitching out, it felt...strange.

I got a reply from an echoed voice that seemed to surround me. "What do you expect me to say? You've won? I'll be back? There is a greater power at work here? Let me die in peace, leave me, now!"

"Y-You a-are in no pos-position to t-tell me wh-what to d-do!" I yelled. "Y-You des-destroyed my h-home! Tried t-to k-kill my fr-friends! Not to-to mention h-holding someon-one I-I hold d-dear hostage! I-I de-deserve t-to know w-why y-you targeted m-my world spec-specifically!"

He was quiet for a few moments. "I guess now it doesn't matter what I tell you know that I'm about to cease to exist." He sighed and the light slightly dimmed. "I myself didn't target this world, my 'master' did. To be honest I was only doing this to become Solaris again, I didn't care about what happened to this world afterwards, I just wanted to fulfill my purpose in life, but you've destroyed everything that I have, what I lived for, do you feel proud? Proud that you've killed someone just trying to accomplish what his very existence tells him to do? Trying to fulfill my life's purpose?"

"D-Don't try t-to turn thi-this around Me-Mephiles!" I countered. "Y-YOU ARE A CR-CREATURE OF DAR-DARKNESS A-AND TORE M-MY REALITY APART!!! YOU ARE N-NOT T-THE VIC-VICTIM!!!"

"I suppose I'm not."

We both remained silent for awhile, my self-repair systems had somewhat repaired my speech but stopped for some reason. "Are you p-proud?"

"What?" His voice now sounded weak and the light had noticeably dimmed.

"I said are y-you proud?!" I repeated. "Taking someone dear to me! Destroying my home, everyone on this worlds homes! Their lives possibly ruined by your ac-actions! All for what? So you could feel complete? Th-There's something else t-that can help you feel complete y'know? It's called marriage! Or at least some f-form of a romantic par-partner!"

"And where would I find someone willing to actually give me a chance? MurdererHarmony.net? Not many women want to be with someone who's soul purpose is to destroy time itself."

"There are people out there that are evil like t-that you know, all you had to do was look, but it's too late now."

"It's not too late..." I just looked at the light with a glare. "You could save me, let me go so I can try to find that someone. Please!" I could hear the desperation in his voice, he obviously wanted this deeply...or he was trying to trick me. "I beg of you, give me at least one chance of actually living."

I just glared at him. "No...after all of this...I have no mercy left to spare you. You die here, you die now."

He was silent as the light began to fade completely, but not without one last warning. "The great disaster is coming, the dark swarms will be free, the one who forges evil will survive and the one with the body of bones will exact his revenge...and the master of power, will come for you. He'd my warning Metal Sonic, your face I remember as the last thing I see, you, will, die!" With that he was gone, with a flash of light things started returning to normal.

A few moments later I stood on the edge of the floating island, looking out at the still damaged Equestria. The light had fixed the world, but the damage was still done, time was returning and the Apocalypse Magic had caused the worl to become...corrupt in a way. The sky was red and the clouds were black, cracks in reality riddled the landscape, buildings fazed out between repaired and damaged like glitches in a video game. I looked up at the sky where a ball of red energy was morphing and twisting, the Apocalypse Magic that Discord and Mephiles had been using. "I guess it'll disappear in time..." I began to limp towards the castle, still holding my malfunctioning arm that refused to move.

As I was about to walk through the hole in the throne room I spotted something out of the corner of my eye, something that caused me to feel anger, sorrow, hate, empty, confused and helpless at the same time. There lay the body of a girl, a large red puddle underneath her and a red patch on her chest. This wasn't just any girl, no, this was someone I had been looking for, for a long time.

I quickly made my way of to her body, falling to my knees as I reached her. Black liquid that I guess was oil began to slide down my cheeks like tears. I shakily reached my working arm over to her face to move a bit of hair from her face...her sweet...beautiful...perfect face...

As I looked at her, laying there, lifeless, I began to feel darkness growing inside me. Like the Dark Super Sonic darkness, but much, much stronger. The ball of energy in the sky shot down towards me and my body absorbed the large amount of Apocalypse Magic. I began to black out, my body...changing...into something else. I could feel my body growing, my metal skin cracking as something broke out from within.

It hurt...it hurt like hell. In my pain, my negative emotions and my darkness, I could only yell out one last word before completely blacking out and letting something else control my body.

"SAMANTHA!!!"

Author's Notes:

Shit is getting deep now

And no he's not turning into the fucking werehog