Eggman stood in the main control room of his current base of operations, a large number of Egg Pawns behind him as he watched the recordings of the Black Arms attacks on Westopolis and Station Square, as well as his own fortresses and G.U.N. facilities. "Those idiots, they're destroying everything!" He snapped in anger. "How can Pinkie have a good life in the city and be happy, if there is no city!?" He slammed his hands down on the main console in front of him.

Over the years he had let go of his own selfish desires, having been shown so much kindness by Pinkie, who continued to bring a smile to his face.

"I'm at my limit, I have no choice!" He turned to his robots. "Send in the Eggman Fleet, charge!" The Egg Pawns all nodded and ran out of the room to prepare the battleships while grabbing various weapons from racks along the corridors.

Eggman turned back around to look at the recordings again. "Don't you worry Pinkie, I won't let you lose your home like I did." He reached under the collar of his jacket and pulled out a locket, opening it to reveal a small photograph of three people, a man, a woman and a baby. "I'll do whatever it takes to keep your family together...so you won't have to go through what I did."

After wiping a few tears from his eyes he turned to the last robot in the room, Metal Sonic 3.0, or as he liked to be called...Shard.

"Are you sure that you want to go out there again, after what happened the last time you want out to fight?" The doctor asked in a dark tone, remembering what Dr Robotnik had Metal Sonic do to the black robot hedgehog during the fight against the freedom fighters.

"Hey, I'm the only one of your robots that hasn't had the pleasure of meeting that ball of energy." Shard replied with his usual cocky attitude. "Besides, that Metal Sonic was hand crafted to beat me, though I did manage to bring him down with me. These aliens are literally cannon fodder for that mutant starfish, I'll be fine." Shard flashed Egg,an a grin before flying out through a hatch in the roof.

Eggman just looked up as he flew away, beginning to think that rebuilding Shard may not have been the best idea he's had.

A few hours later

Pinkie and Shadow appeared on the roof of some sort of temple, but felt as if the ground was moving. Looking around they saw that a large amount of huge temples with pulsating red blobs underneath them were all flying through the sky like a fleet of battleships.

"Wow, if the aliens had this with them, I wonder why they didn't just use it in their attack on Westopolis." Pinkie commented as she leaned far off the edge while looking down, but somehow not falling off.

"I don't think the Black Arms are smart or have any common sense Pinkie, especially that Black Doom guy." Shadow said as he held the end of Pinkies tail while looking away to keep her from falling off. "If they did they would still be using those giant beams that they shot down from the sky to obliterate the worlds superpowers, we have no defence against that."

"Oh yeah, why aren't they using those things? They seemed to be really effective." Pinkie stepped back and Shadow let go of her tail. Turning her head Pinkie smiled in glee. "Look daddy, battleships!" She exclaimed as she hopped up on Shadows head and pointed towards the incoming fleet. "It's Ivo's ships! HI COUSIN!!!" She yelled as she waved her hoof.

Somehow, Eggman managed to hear Pinkie from miles away. Everyone had built up a sixth sense that allowed them to hear Pinkie addressing them from anywhere at anytime. "Pinkie? Is that you?" Eggman spoke from a loudspeaker.

"YEAH, ME AND DAD ARE ON THESE COOL FLYING TEMPLES!!! YOU NEED HELP TAKING THEM DOWN?!"

"Why yes, I could use some assistance, there are five energy crystals on the larger temples, destroy all of them to bring them down. My battleships are dropping robots to deal with the Black Arms and are providing covering fire, one of my commander robots are aboard the fortress a few temples ahead of you, meet up with him and he'll assist you."

"WILL DO!!!" Pinkie jumped off of Shadows head and took a running stance. "Well, let's destroy this place."

Shadow smirked and took a stance beside his daughter. "Couldn't have said it better Pinks." With that they both dashed off towards a dash panel that sent them flying over to the next temple.

As they reached the entrance of the temple they came across Dooms Eye again. "Shadow, the scientist is trying to-"

"Get it through your thick skull man! I, don't, work, for, you!" Shadow stated as he grabbed Dooms Eye, curdled him into a ball and tossed him inside of Pinkies party cannon, allowing his daughter to aim at one of the smaller temples before firing. Dooms Eye shot towards the large blobs keeping the temple flying and caused a large explosion, causing the temple to fall apart. "Some people never learn."

"Wanna bet that he still tries to act as if you work for him the next time we see him?" Pinkie asked.

"That will most likely be the case, let's just go get the emerald that's here." Shadow groaned.

"Wait, why does he want you hunting for the emeralds when his troops are always in the same area as them?"

Shadow stopped dead in his tracks and looked at his daughter, realisation hitting him like a ton of bricks. "These guys aren't just stupid, they're completely retar-"

He was cut off by Pinkie putting a hoof over his mouth. "You shouldn't say that word, you don't know who will get offended, Thai sis the Internet."

"What, I'm just stating a fact that these aliens are mentally retarded, I'm not disparaging the differently abled."

"I think it's just become a word that powerful groups use to feel like they're doing the right thing now."

Shadow crossed his arms and looked away. "Well that's retar-"

"Let's just get going, the chapter's almost done and we haven't made any progress!"

Shadow nodded and they entered the first temple. Taking out a few enemies they held onto a ring that brought them up to the exit before using another dash panel to move to the next temple. For some reason they landed on a large looped platform which they rushed over and dropped onto the next temple.

Questioning img why a temple would have such a structure, the two encouraged two Egg Pawns that were taking on a few Black Arms that were gaurding the first power gem.

As the enemies were cleared Pinkie and Shadow both jumped and performed a synchronised homing attack on the large green sphere, destroying it. Before the large temple could fall the Egg Pawns jumped onto a nearby battleship and Shadow and Pinkie jumped to the next temple.

As they were about to push forward a large alien jumped in front of them. The two took fighting stances, only to be surprised as a red beam of energy shot through the beasts chest, causing it to fall on its side. Looking up they saw Shard floating there with his arm cannon held out. "Was that good timing or what?"

Author's Notes:

So, I'm diving way into the comics now to bring you one of the lesser known Metal Sonic's.