G.U.N Kitty Chapter 15B

Part 2 of 3: Decoe and Becoe's gigantic moment.

As Kitty had thought, Eggman had sent another group of robots to attack, this time much stronger ones than before. There were approximately two Heavy Hammer robots, three golden Cameron turtle bots and two Egg Knights, which again was equipped with arm cannons on their shoulders.

Kitty's strategy was indeed effective against these machines, but not as effective for her tastes. The RPG unfortunately only heavily damaged the two Egg Knights due to them having a shield in front which ended up taking the brunt of the RPG's explosion.

Even Topaz's grenade attacks did little damage. In spite of the fact she had hit each Heavy Hammer robot directly in the chest with a grenade; it only put minor dents in their armor.

Drat! Kitty thought frustrated. If those meddling yellow robots weren't standing in front of those big bots behind them, I could have done some serious damage with that RPG of mine!

Another thought then came to Kitty's mind, as she pondered, Just how did Eggman know to place them there anyway? Did he actually anticipate we would attack with our big weapons…? Or is it possible that he…?

That second possibility now deeply concerned Kitty, as she couldn't help feel Eggman had more of an advantage than he was letting on.

Either he has the base bugged to overhear all of our conversations, or we have a spy within our midst…

Kitty though could not give this matter anymore thought, as Sonic, along with Amy and Rouge came rushing into the room. Sonic then said boldly while running towards the robots, "Ok, scumbots, time for me to give you all a good old fashioned sonic smack down!"

Seeing her comrades in the room now forced the feline agent to forget about this problem and focus on the current battle at hand.

I'll worry about this later. Kitty thought firmly. It's time to take care of business!

And take care of business she would. Kitty then switched to the M249 SAW since she was currently out of RPG's due to the weapons bag being in the other room and decided to bait Eggman's robots to help Sonic and the others get into position to wipe them out.

Sonic meanwhile took full advantage of the heavily damaged Egg Knights he saw in front of him, as he quickly ran towards them and jumped high into the air and used a couple of homing attacks simultaneously within seconds to destroy these yellow bots to pieces.

Once they were wiped out, Sonic soon landed on the ground, looking on with satisfaction on this face. He was about to dust his hands, that is until he saw one of the Heavy Hammers directly behind him.

Sonic then turned around and saw it was ready to strike, as it had its hammer held high in both hands, wound up.

"Uh oh, this ain't good." He commented.

A split second later, it went to attack. Sonic though was easily able to avoid its powerful swing thanks to his super agility, running out of its range. After he cleared it, Sonic turned around and went to duel with both Heavy Hammer robots.

"Ok, bots, let's see what you're made of."

Sonic then ran between their legs, trying to bait them into attacking each other. Fortunately, they did attack, but not to the point where the Heavy Hammers robots hit each other in the process.

This routine went on for about fifteen seconds, as Sonic soon realized he wasn't getting anywhere with his current strategy.

Man, these big bots aren't knocking each other down!

During another run between their legs, Sonic glanced to the left and saw the Gold Cameron turtles, whom his comrades were currently battling. Seeing this soon put a grin on his face.

That gives me an idea on how to make this battle a whole lot simpler.

After clearing their legs again, Sonic ran towards the Golden Cameron turtles, where he currently saw Kitty and Topaz using their machine guns on their laser guns in order to render theirs attacks useless.

Sonic then told them after jumping on top of one of the robo turtles, "Head for cover, guys. This is going to get dicey."

"What are you talking about?" Kitty inquired, who by now had stopped shooting after seeing the blue hedgehog in their targeted range. Even Topaz stopped firing as well.

Moments later, the two Heavy Hammers came charging towards Sonic. It was at that moment, Kitty realized what he was trying to do. So, she said to others, "Head towards the back of the room, now!"

Most of them complied, except for Amy, who inquired after the others did as they were told, "Why? We're currently in no danger in this point."

Kitty though wouldn't take no for an answer, as she grabbed the pink hedgehog quite abruptly by the right collar of her dress with her right hand and dragged Amy out of harm's way.

"Hey, what's the big idea?" Amy demanded after she was in the back of the room.

Kitty though would have no time to explain, as she saw Sonic put his plan into action. The Heavy Hammer robots of Eggman's were within seconds of attacking, as they soon stood on the left and right side of him from behind. During that time, Sonic whistled towards the Golden Cameron turtles, who were stationed exactly on the left and right side of him, saying, "Yo, bots! I bet you can't hit from up here."

Sonic's taunts got their attention, as they turned away from the others and pointed their laser cannons at him.

Kitty now looked at this scene intently and could only marvel at Sonic's brilliant strategy here.

Two seconds later before the Golden Cameron Turtles could fire their lasers at him, the Heavy Hammer robots again held theirs hammers up high and wound up tightly, ready to pounce.

Sonic meticulously waited until these big robots were at the point of no return. Once they were there, in one quick motion, the blue hedgehog jumped high into the air. Exactly one split second later, the Heavy Hammers and the Golden turtle bots attempted to attack Sonic almost simultaneously.

Kitty during this time quickly pulled out her shield and said to the others, "Quick, everyone get behind me!"

Again, everyone complied, except for Amy. Kitty though would not give her a chance to protest, as she again had to drag her from behind before she could say one word to her.

After Amy was safely behind the shield, the chaos Sonic was setting up instantly ensued. Both Heavy Hammer robots on each side swung their gigantic hammers in near perfect synchronization. However, they completed missed the blue hedgehog. Instead, all three of the Gold Cameron robot turtles took the brunt of the blow from their big hammers, sending them flying all the room, where they unfortunately began to ricochet off the walls.

Even one almost came close to hitting Kitty and others. But thankfully, the feline agent's shield absorbed almost the full impact. Kitty however did feel some of the effects of having one robot turtle slam off upper part of her shield, but if left her with nothing more than a slightly bruised right wrist due to holding onto the handle on the back of her shield so tightly.

Once the turtles finally came to a stop, all three of them were now upside down, completely exposing their weak undersides.

Kitty and the others then charged towards them, as they would take full advantage of their helpless state.

Sonic on other hand soon landed on the ground and decided to give his first plan another shot.

"C'mon, you hammer heads!" Sonic challenged arrogantly while running towards them. "Try and hit me if you can!"

Sonic then ran through their legs, again heavily confusing them. Both Heavy Hammer robots were unable to pinpoint their target at all.

While this was going on, Kitty, Topaz, along with Rouge and Amy quickly finished off the weakened turtle bots within seconds. Thanks to solid teamwork, the four of them took care of business with ease.

Amy again used her Piko Hammer to crush the underside of one Gold Cameron turtle into its internal circuits, resulting in it quickly shorting circuiting and exploded into pieces.

Topaz meanwhile fired a grenade from her M32 MGL, directly hitting the underside of another Gold Cameron robo turtle with it, causing massive damage to the golden shelled machine. Like with Amy's, it too soon short circuited and blew up.

And of course, Rouge finished off the last one with her signature screw kick, instantly destroying it to bits on contact.

With them out now of commission, Kitty said to her comrades "Well done, guys. Now let's finish off those last two metal monstrosities."

"With pleasure." Amy replied firmly, clutching her hammer tightly.

And with that, they all ran towards them.

While this was going on, Sonic continued to take it to Eggman's robots. His blazing speed was just too much for them to counter.

Sonic though grew tired of running around the Heavy Hammer robots and soon stopped in front of them, saying while waving his hand towards them in a taunting gesture, "Ok, I'll stand right here and give you one chance to hit me. You think you can do it?"

By this time, the Heavy Hammer robots were heavily confused internally due to Sonic running around them so many times. However, they soon cleared their heads and quickly prepared to smash the blue hedgehog with their big hammers.

Sonic of course was ready to counter their attacks when they came near him.

Thankfully though, he wouldn't need to bother this time. Before either Heavy Hammer could attack him, two grenades came flying in from behind, hitting each directly between the eyes.

Sonic was a bit startled by this move, as he saw the grenades exploded violently on contact, where both Heavy Hammers soon lost their footing from being seriously stunned and fell to the ground flat on their back.

As an added bonus, even their helmets were knocked off from Topaz's attack.

Sonic then turned around after this and saw his friends rushing in to finish the job.

Rouge quickly jumped into the air a second later and performed another of her screw kicks, cutting the Heavy Hammer in two from the waist up. Again, her attack severely damaged this machine, causing it to short out and blow up.

Sonic meanwhile was about to finish off the other Heavy Hammer, but Amy beat him to it, saying after running by him, "Allow me, Sonikku."

Amy then ran up from behind while it was still on the ground stunned from the grenade attack and winded up her arms with her Piko Hammer held high and swung at it with all her might.

The pink hedgehog's swing was right on target, smashing it large head into its neck. Amy did this about seven times, just to make sure it was out of commission.

"Ok, I think that's enough." Kitty told Amy. "I'm sure it's dead by now."

Amy finally did stop, soon taking a few deep breaths since she had swung each time with such effort, it left her gasping for air.

Kitty also deep took a deep breath, commenting, "Well, that takes care of them." She then looked over at Sonic and said with sly smile, "Nice strategy by the way. That was quite a clever trick you pulled off back there."

Sonic though just shrugged his shoulders, replying, "Eh, it wasn't that complicated really. I knew they would try to swing at me whenever I was close by, so I decided to take full advantage of it."

"I see… well done." Kitty stated.

However, the feline agent was soon in deep thought again, as she added, "Although, I think we may have a problem on our hands."

"What do you mean?" Topaz inquired.

"When we went to attack Eggman's robots in that room," Kitty explained. "He had them in a formation where our big weapons would be mostly neutralized."

"What are exactly are you trying to say?" Amy asked, now concerned about this herself.

"It means..." Kitty replied. "That I think Eggman is somehow getting a heads up of our strategies ahead of time."

When Kitty put it that way, everyone looked on with concern on their faces, except for Rouge, who said, blowing it off again "Eh, It's not that big of a deal really."

"And what makes you so sure of that exactly?" Kitty inquired, glaring at the manipulating bat a bit suspiciously.

"Because, Catgirl." Rouge replied firmly. "Eggman is a brilliant scientist. He can make adjustments on the fly."

"But how is able to know what we're going to do when I mentioned our plans to you guys not even a minute before attacking?" Kitty inquired. "That's not something you can really plan for."

"That statement on your part right there proves to me you're still underestimating that mad scientist even now." Rouge said with a frown. "Haven't you figured out by this point you have to be ready for anything for anything he throws at you?"

Kitty though felt this was more of Rouge's subtly way of telling her she knew more about Eggman than she was really letting on.

"How do you know all of this anyway?" Kitty interrogated, crossing her arms together "Are you saying you've recently spent some time with Eggman?"

Rouge though pulled off a brilliant comeback, replying, "Yes, as a matter I have. Before I became a G.U.N agent, I was one of assistants back on Mobius."

Kitty now was at a loss for words, as Rouge added, "That's why I'm not taken surprised by what Eggman does anymore, because I know most of his tricks by heart now."

"If that's so true, then how do you explain him making adjustments within thirty seconds of us attacking?" Kitty shot back.

"Maybe it's because he has cameras and recording devices around the base that picks up our every word." Rouge countered. "Did you ever think of that?"

"Really? Are you sure it's not because someone was leaking the battle plans under our noses?" Kitty interrogated.

"I told you." Rouge shot back, deeply annoyed now by her accusations. "I was trying to take them by surprise. What's so difficult to understand about that?"

Kitty though wasn't buying that one bit.

Topaz however did, as she said to Kitty, "I think Rouge might be onto something here. It wouldn't be that farfetched to say Eggman is able to monitor our words and actions."

"Well, I guess that might be true…" Kitty replied softly, pondering it over. "Still…"

"We don't have time to worry about that now anyway." Rouge told her. "Even if he is getting a head's up on our plans, we can still beat him regardless."

Kitty again was in deep thought, as she didn't know what to think about all of this now. Rouge though interrupted her again, saying, "Look, save the thinking for later, Catwoman. Have you forgotten we have two hostages to rescue here?"

"Rouge makes an excellent point." Topaz replied. "We need to keep moving and find the President and Cream before Eggman harms them, or worse."



Kitty finally sighed heavily while rolling her eyes, answering with reluctance, "Fine. Let's go."

She and Topaz again went to pick up their weapons bag in the other room and then headed up the stairs with the others.

However, Rouge stayed behind a bit, as Eggman soon came over her radio receiver and said scolding her, "How could you tell them our my ability to overhear their conversations? Are you trying to ruin this plan of ours?"

"I didn't have a choice, doctor." Rouge replied firmly. "Would you rather she found out you're picking up most of her words now through my two way radio?"

Eggman let out a groan, saying with disgust, "That agent Katswell is too smart for her own good. I'm going to have to take that meddling cat out and soon or risk having her spoiling everything."

Rouge strangely didn't object, as she replied nonchalantly, "Do what you gotta do, Eggman. I won't stop you."

"I thought you wouldn't." Eggman said while grinning.

He then added, "Anyway, it soon won't matter if I know her strategies or not, as I have a surprise for her and the others within the next couple of floors. It's a big one to put it lightly."

"Really?" Rouge technically didn't know what he referring to since she didn't see this huge robot of his, but replied, "Just make sure you don't use it to injure Topaz."

"Relax." Eggman replied, reassuring her. "It'll mostly be going after Agent Katswell and that pink brat. Topaz won't even be a main target of its attacks."

"You better be right about that, Doctor." Rouge said firmly. "For your sake."

Eggman though didn't answer her, as he instead cut the feed to get ready for Phase two of his plan.

While was going on, Commander Towers on the main G.U.N navy ship continued to monitor the progress of his crew repairing the X-Tornado. Not surprisingly though, it was not getting fixed as fast as he would have liked it.

Seconds later, one of his soldiers ran up to him and said, "Sir, we got a situation."

"What do you mean by that exactly?" the G.U.N Commander.

"We've received word from HQ back at Central City that an unknown civilian is requesting a ride out here to help with the battle."

"What?" Commander Towers looked at him firmly and demanded, "Who dares asks such a ridiculous request from me?"

"From what I could gather, Commander, it appears to be one of the creatures from the planet Mobius."

"Which one exactly?" Commander Towers inquired further.

"I don't know his name, but he has red fur, large white gloves and a short fuse."

Commander Towers instantly recognized who the solider was referring to, replying, "Well, why didn't you say so? Quick, get him out here right away! He can be a big help to our cause."

"As you wish, sir."

Back in Eggman's base, Rouge soon caught up with the others. Fortunately for her this time, she was able to catch up to the others before Kitty could notice she wasn't among them. Once they arrived at the top of the stairs, Sonic and the others made a bizarre discovery. The door would not open this like the ones before it.

"That's strange." Topaz commented. "Why is it this door is sealed and the others weren't?"

"I can only think of one reason." Kitty replied with a frown, looking at it intently. "There must be something in the next room Eggman does not want us to find very easily."

"Yea, but what exactly?" Sonic inquired, putting a hand under his chin to think.

While this was going on, Bokkun, who happened to be on the other side of the door was planning to ambush them.

Back on the other side, Kitty deeply pondered how to open the door without having to use her weapons. She then snapped her fingers together and stated, "I think I know how to open this door.

"How?" Amy inquired with curiosity.

"With this." Kitty quickly pulled out a C4 explosive package from her weapons bag and held it up where everyone could see it.

"You really think that dinky looking box is going to break down the door?" Rouge inquired with a frown.

"Just watch." Kitty replied firmly.

The feline agent then attached the box to the door using some duct tape and soon walked back five feet. Once she was in position, she told the others sharply, "Stand back, everyone."

All her comrades complied with this since none of them wanted to risk getting hit by flying metal debris or the explosion. After they were out of range, Kitty handed Topaz the remote detonator and said, "Count to five and then press the button."

"Why do you want me to do it?" Topaz asked puzzled.

"Because, I'm going to be using this." Kitty explained, now grabbing the M32 MGL, holding it firmly in her hands.

"Why do you need to use grenades if we're going to blast the door with a C4?" Topaz inquired.

"This will be a precaution just in case the door is booby trapped." Kitty replied firmly. "It doesn't hurt to be too careful when dealing with Eggman, right?"

Topaz couldn't argue with that, so she soon started counting to five in her head and prepared to press the button.

Bokkun meanwhile was getting into position himself, as he planned to attack them using his signature kick after the door was blasted down.

Seconds later, Topaz hit the button on the remote detonator. Within moments, the C4 ignited and exploded with fury.

Unfortunately though, it didn't blast the door down, but did put a large hole in it instead.

Bokkun then waited until the explosion died down and quickly pounced, attempting his signature kick with speed and power.

However, his timing couldn't have been worse. The second he came flying through the hole in the door, Kitty had already pulled the trigger and fired a grenade into the exact same hole.

Bokkun never saw the grenade coming and was hit directly in the face, knocking him violently backwards into the next room on contact after it exploded.

Kitty and the others happened to witness this, making all of them look on deeply puzzled.

"What in the world was that thing?" Amy asked.

"I don't know." Kitty replied firmly. "Let's check it out."

They all then entered the room, climbing inside the hole as a way in. There, they saw Bokkun, who was on the floor, completely stunned with his eyes spinning.

"So, it was Eggbelly's little troublemaker!" Sonic commented with a frown.

Kitty, who never saw him before, asked, "What do you mean by that?"

"I'll tell you later." Sonic replied with a frown. "Let's just say, it was nice to see him on the receiving end of a bomb for a change."

Since Bokkun was now no longer a threat to him, Kitty and the others quickly walked past the small robot, soon examining the room they were in.

"Strange…" Kitty commented, looking all around. "The ceiling in this room is two to three times higher compared to the others."

"Yea, you're right." Topaz said. "What does that mean exactly?"

"I don't know… but I rather not find out." The feline agent answered. "Let's just keep moving."

"Good idea." Sonic chimed in.

They then headed for the next door on the left and went to open it. However, before they could, Kitty turned around a bit startled towards the middle of the room.

"What is it?" Sonic inquired.

"I thought I saw something moving." Kitty answered, looking around again intently.

"Ah, you're just too paranoid." Rouge said non chalantly.

Kitty though was not convinced of this at all, but since they needed to keep moving, she decided to let it go this time.

She and the others then entered the door. And when they did, they all found a big surprise.

"Look, it's the President." Topaz commented.

Indeed it was, as they finally found the room Eggman was keeping him in.

"Quick, untie him." Kitty ordered. "I'll call it in."

Rouge though butted in a second later, saying, "Allow me."

Kitty was a bit skeptical about Rouge wanting to do it, but decided to let her.

However, the moment Rouge tried to get in contact with G.U.N; the jamming signal was still there. Rouge tried several times to reach them, but was unable to.

"Shoot. Looks like Eggman's jammed my radio frequency." Rouge commented with a frown.

"Let me see." Kitty replied, not 100% convinced.

But unfortunately, it was as Rouge had said. All Kitty got was static.

"Great, now what?" she pondered.

Just then, it hit her. Wait a second… Let me try something here.

Kitty now pulled out Tails chip from her pocket and attached it on a slot on her wireless radio receiver. She then tried to get in contact with G.U.N again, this time getting through.

As it turned out, Tails chip was a device that boosted headset's reception, as well as blocked any signals to jam the frequencies.

Deciding to call them in private, Kitty stepped into the room with the huge ceiling again and said, "Agent Katswell to G.U.N, do you read me?"

At first there was no answer, but eventually the G.U.N Commander picked up, saying, "Commander Tower here. What's going on, agent Katswell?"

"I'm pleased to report that we've found the President and are attempting to rescue him now." Kitty replied.

"Excellent work, agent." He said with glee. "You really came through in the clutch on this mission. Well done."

"Thank you, sir, but the mission's not over yet." She told him softly.

"What do you mean?" he inquired puzzled. "You found the President. What other reason to do have to possibly stay there any longer?"

Kitty however didn't give this question a lot of thought, as she again saw something move in the shadows that made her eyebrows arch.

"Agent Katswell, are you there?" he demanded five seconds later after she gave no answer. "Answer me."

Kitty then came on the line and answered with suspicion, "Sir, I may have to call you back."

"And why is that exactly?"

"Let's just say, sir, I don't have a good feeling anymore about this room I'm in now." Kitty explained.

The G.U.N Commander was tempted to push it, but decided not to since he was now happy with her work. "Oh, all right. When you think the room is secure again, call me back, understood?"

"10-4, Commander." Kitty replied, soon signing off.

Sonic then came out of the room, as he saw Kitty tiptoeing around the room.

"What's up?" he asked

"There's something very wrong with this room." Kitty replied. "In fact, now that I think about it, the way we rescued the President was just way too easy. It's like he was here just to bait us into letting our guard down."

Sonic now pondered this over too, as he realized Kitty was making a lot of sense.

Moments later, he saw a large metal hand creeping up on her behind, making him gasp in horror.

"Sonic, what is it?"

"Not wanting to tip off what he saw, Sonic instead swiftly reacted by running towards the mysterious machine and tried to spin dash it, shouting to Kitty a split second before attacking, "Duck!"

Kitty though was so startled by Sonic's abrupt movements, she instead turned around, where she saw him getting grabbed by the large metal hand and then thrown across the room, where he bounced off the wall and landed on the ground in a heap, seriously stunned.

"Sonic!"

Moments later, it then tried to smash the feline agent into the ground with the same metal hand. Kitty though was able to evade it thanks to her high agility, as she dived out of harm's way.

After getting back on her feet, what she had before finally came out of the shadows. It was none other than Decoe and Becoe controlling the massive E-18 Guerra-Hard of Eggman's.

Topaz and the others, including the President finally came out of the room to see what the commotion was. And when they finally did, they too gasped in horror.

"Oh my goodness! Look at that size of that thing!" Amy commented in shock, pointing at it.

"Well, well, well… lookie what we have here." Decoe commented with glee to his brother. "Dr. Eggman's trap worked exactly as planned, wouldn't you say?"

"And why wouldn't it?" Becoe replied. "After all, I knew they'd be foolish enough to try and rescue the President of Central City."

"Just who are you clowns exactly?" Kitty demanded.

"Don't worry, you'll find out soon enough." Decoe replied. "Especially after we smash you and the others into rodent parfait."

"Keep dreaming, metal heads." Sonic retorted, now standing up. "You're not turning me into any dessert."

"We shall see about that." Becoe countered. "Now let's rumble!"

Kitty by this time was feeling very uneasy inside, as she had no idea how they were going to beat such a metal monstrosity. She then looked over and saw the President and realized he was in grave danger out in the open.

Deciding to take no chances, Kitty told Amy, who was next to him, "Quick, escort the President to the room we found him in right away!"

"Why do I have to do it?" Amy protested. "I want to help Sonic and the rest of you guys."

Moments later, Decoe activated the right hand to try and smash Kitty again into the ground. Kitty though evaded it with ease, replying while running to the left, "I don't have time to argue with you about this. Just please do as I ask and get the President to safety."

When Kitty put it that way, she finally swallowed her pride and responded with a groan, "Oh, all right." She then grabbed the President by the arm and said, "This way."

The President didn't object at all to her suggestion, as he too was deeply concerned about this huge robot of Eggman's. Once they were inside the room again, Amy told him, "Wait here until we take out this thing."

The President nodded his head in agreement, with Amy running out of the room a few seconds later.

While this was going on, Decoe and Becoe continued to try and smash their targeted foe, mainly Agent Katswell. Eggman had again instructed them as a precaution before the fight to only rough up Sonic and Rouge at the worst and injure Agent Topaz to the point she would have to leave in order to get out of there and receive medical help.

Sonic though took full advantage of them not focusing mainly on him. He then said to Eggman's assistants while running around, "C'mon, hotshots, try and take me out with that big, bad bot of yours."

Deeply annoyed by Sonic's taunts, Decoe said to Becoe, "C'mon, let's smack this blue furball around for a bit."

"With pleasure." Becoe replied firmly.

The two of then tried to operate the E-18 Guerra-Hard's large metal hands to try and knock Sonic for a loop.

Sonic though was too fast for them, as he soon went underneath its metal legs to try and confuse Eggman's bots.

While the blue hedgehog kept them busy, Kitty and Topaz took full advantage of this, as they both loaded their big weapons to try and do some damage against this huge robot.

With her RPG-7 now loaded, Kitty decided to take a chance. In spite of the fact she was only down to five RPG's left, she knew it was the only way to try and weaken the E-18.

Before she took a shot though, Topaz suggested to Kitty, "Let's fire our weapons simultaneously."

"Ok by me." Kitty replied, giving her a nod.

Sonic meanwhile jumped into the air while behind them and then attempted to spin dash the back of the E-18 Guerra-Hard to try and knock it off balance. Unfortunately though, Sonic's attack was almost completely ineffective due to its huge metal mass, as he instead bounced off of it without so much as a dent.

Moments later, Kitty and Topaz quickly fired their weapons, with Topaz firing two grenades to Kitty's one RPG.

But sadly, their attacks would do little damage. The grenades barely even put a dent in its huge metal structure. As for Kitty's RPG, Decoe took it out with ease, using the E-18's right metal fist to blow it up in midair.

By now, both Kitty and Topaz began to sweat alot inside, as they realized their heavy artillery was completely useless.

"Now what?" Topaz inquired.

Rouge though answered the question for them, as she said crossing her arms together, "All right, enough of this nonsense. It's my turn now."

She then flew into the air and went to attack. However, as she did so, Kitty couldn't help but have another concerning thought cross her mind.

Did she really just intentionally wait until we looked bad before stepping up the plate?

This move unfortunately again only began to enhance Kitty's suspicions of whose side Rouge was really on.

Rouge meanwhile soon flew towards the head of the E-18 and commented loudly while glaring at Eggman's assistants, "You morons are better at controlling this machine than I originally thought, but let's see you try to school me with it."

"Oh, don't worry." Decoe replied. "We have ways of dealing with meddling bats like yourself."

Rouge then said softly to them where none of the others could hear her, "Ok, boys, let's put on a good show, shall we?"

"We intend to." Becoe answered, firmly grabbing his part of the controls.

Within seconds, Becoe implemented the controls of the right metal hand of the E-18 Guerra-Hard to try and swat Rouge hard.

Rouge unfortunately wasn't expecting them to attack so aggressively, as she was forced to take evasive action, just barely flying out of the way.

"Hey, what's the big idea?" Rouge demanded softly.

"Just doing what the Doctor told us to do." Decoe retorted smugly.

"Which is none other than roughing up your batty hide." Becoe added a split second later.

Again, Decoe and Becoe attempted to take a swing at Rouge, this time with both metal hands. Rouge by now was fed up with these two. After evading their attempts to hit her again, the manipulating bat decided to play their game right back at them.

Rouge then used a strong flying roundhouse kick in midair to level both of Eggman's assistants onto the floor underneath them. In fact, her kick was so strong; it almost knocked them out of the Eggmobile they were using to control the E-18.

Kitty, who happened to be watching this from the ground below, soon figured out the E-18's weakness. "If we can get the top and take out those two robots of Eggman's," Kitty commented, "this huge robot should be rendered useless."

"Problem is though, who can we get besides Rouge to accomplish this task?" Topaz inquired.

"Allow me." Sonic offered with a grin.

"And how are you going to get up there exactly?" Kitty asked with arched eyebrows.

"Simple, I'll just run up there." The blue hedgehog replied confidently.

"On a 90 degree angle? Not possible." Kitty reiterated.

"Just watch me." Sonic countered, getting his feet into place to take off.

However, before he could take one step, something in the corner of his left eye caught his attention, making him slightly turn his head in order to get a better look at it while.

"What's the hold up, Sonic?" Kitty inquired.

What he saw was none than other Bokkun, creeping up from behind to ambush Kitty, quite angrily too. During the battle with the E-18, he eventually regained his focus after getting blasted with a grenade. Bokkun was quite enraged at being hit by Kitty's earlier attack to say the least, as he now was in process of retaliating.

Within moments before he could strike, Sonic quickly reacted. He then tackled her out of harm's way before Bokkun could execute another of his signature kicks, completely missing her by inches.

Instead, he went flying directly into the E-18 Guerra-Hard, hitting it directly in the frontal part of the right upper knee. This in turn caused the huge robot to almost lose its footing, as Bokkun's attack was very strong indeed. In fact, it was all Decoe and Becoe could do to right their machine again from toppling over.

While this was going on, Kitty normally would have demanded why Sonic had tackled her, but soon saw why herself.

Decoe and Becoe meanwhile saw who was responsible for what happened, as Decoe picked up Bokkun with the right metal hand and shouted angrily, "You meddling moron! You could have toppled this machine over and then we would have lost!"

"I'm sorry. I was really trying to take out Agent Katswell." Bokkun explained hesitantly. "I didn't mean to hit you guys."

As they glared at him further, Bokkun pleaded, "Please let me go so I can help you out. I can assure you that mistake won't happen again."

"You bet it won't." Decoe replied angrily.

"Because you're about to take a trip outta here!" Becoe added.

And with that statement, they flung him as hard as they could against the wall, causing the small flying robot scream in fear while he was in midair. The E-18's throw was so strong, it even Bokkun crashed directly though the wall, putting a moderate sized hole in the process.

Once he was gone, Decoe muttered, "Good riddance to that bum."

"Indeed." Becoe reiterated. "Now then, back to business."

Moments later, they saw Rouge attempting to strike again, as she was attempting another roundhouse kick aimed at their heads. Eggman's assistants though were ready for it this time, as they ducked underneath and then used the controls to grab Rouge with the left metal, where they then heaved her towards the ground below. However, they barely put any muscle into it this time since they knew she had to be kept alive for now.

Kitty, along with Topaz and the others watched in horror at Rouge's decent, but since she was thrown with very little velocity, Rouge was soon able to slow her fall with her wings and then land onto the ground safely.

After she had landed, Sonic then sprang into action, as he quickly ran up the E-18, eventually coming to a stop on the right shoulder of it.

Decoe and Becoe soon saw this, as Sonic now waved at them tauntingly, saying with arrogance, "Yo, metal heads, I bet you can't hit me up here."

"Want to bet?" Decoe countered.

Eggman's assistants then used the controls to try and smack Sonic off with the E-18's metal hands. However, that proved to be easier said than done. Thanks to his high agility, he easily evaded any attempt to swat him, as he jumped from one shoulder to the next without even breaking a sweat.

"Stop jumping around so much, hedgehog." Decoe said, now starting to lose his cool while controlling the machine.

But Sonic though wasn't about to do that. He continued this game with him, as he evaded their attempts again and again.

This soon went on for over a minute, with the exact same results as before. Sonic by this time eventually grew tired of this and decided to finally hit them where it hurt.

When they attempted to smack him again while he was on the right shoulder, Sonic countered their move, as she spun into a ball this time and hit both of Eggman's assistants with a spin dash directly to their face.

This move on Sonic's part stunned both robots hard, even almost knocking them off their feet.

"C'mon, step it up." Sonic dared them. "Hit me if you can!"

"All right, you asked for it!" Decoe shouted with rage.

The two robots then began to use the controls even more aggressively, giving it nearly everything they had to try and hit the blue hedgehog.

But again, it was all for naught. Sonic easily evaded their attacks, where he soon hit them this time with two spin dashes, one on the left and right shoulder.

Decoe and Becoe's eyes soon began to spin, as Sonic taunted them further with arrogance, "You're too slow!"

This taunt angered Eggman's assistants even more, as they gave quickly it another shot.

To no one's surprise though, Sonic schooled them once more with ease, again evading their attempts to hit him and then countered with three successive spin dashes, all in a span of three seconds.

By this point, Decoe and Becoe groaned in pain, as they slowly got back on their feet after being nearly knocked off the Eggmobile.

Sonic during this time was just laughing, as he was enjoying their suffering way too much.

Kitty meanwhile shouted to him from above with a bit of annoyance, "Ok, enough goofing around up there already, Sonic! Take them out already so we can get a move on!"

"Yea, yea, keep your shirt on." Sonic replied nonchalantly. "I'll be done with these bozos in a sec."

However, that would not happen. Since he was now too full of himself to keep his guard up, Sonic was abruptly blinded sided by the E-18 when he wasn't looking, as he was backhanded by its right metal hand from behind, sending him flying into the wall nearby and slamming into it with full force, eventually falling to the ground below Again, due to Eggman's orders, the blue hedgehog was not smacked as hard as they would have wanted to.

"Sonic!" Kitty quickly ran to aide, where she saw in a heap nearby. Amy soon ran over to him as well, looking on with horror as she did so.

Once she got to the blue hedgehog, she knelt down next to him and asked with concern on her face, "You all right?"

Sonic thankfully wasn't too hurt from the collision, but had the wind knocked out of him a second time. "Yea, I'll be all right." He muttered with a groan after sitting up. "Give me a sec here."

Ah, great… Kitty thought, turning to look at the huge robot with a frown on her face. I guess it's up to Rouge now, and who knows if she can be depended on."

However, Rouge would not be the next one to attack. Instead, it was the girl who loved him most did. Seeing Sonic banged up again greatly enraged her, as she ran towards Decoe and Becoe with rage.

"No, Amy, don't!" Kitty shouted with warning, extending her right hand towards her.

But Amy wasn't to about to listen. Once she was close enough to the E-18, she went completely berserk on it, hitting it again and again with hammer attacks on its legs to try and damage the huge E series machine.

"I'll teach you to hurt with my Sonikku!" she shouted while swinging her weapon.

However, her Piko Hammer, like the RPG and M32 before it, was completely useless. The only thing her hammer was doing was making a loud clanging sound whenever she striked.

Decoe and Becoe at first were amused by Amy's so called assault, but eventually grew tired of her temper tantrum, now deciding to put an end to it. They then picked her up abruptly with the right metal hand of the E-18 and held her tightly inside of it.

"Amy!"

Rouge quickly flew up to the head in response to this and said to Eggman's assistants, "All right, drop her and fight a real opponent already."

Amy was a bit insulted by that comment of Rouge's to say the least, as she frowned at her.

"Sorry, batty." Decoe retorted smugly. "But we have free dibs on this one."

"Yea." Becoe added. "And we're not about to pass on an opportunity to smash a rodent when given the chance."

Rouge now was torn inside. While she didn't care too much what happened to Kitty, she didn't have any personal vendetta against Amy, so she reiterated firmly, "You better let her go if you don't want me to wallop the both of you."

"That's what you think, batgirl."

Decoe then took her completely by surprise, as he used the right metal hand of the E-18 Guerra-Hard to flick the manipulating bat into the wall behind her, seriously stunning her in the process.

Kitty meanwhile finally had all she could stand, as she now ran towards the E-18, this time with her M249 SAW firmly in her hands. Her plan was to try and shoot Decoe and Becoe off of the main control area if possible.

However, any attempt to pull this off was quickly derailed. Decoe and Becoe saw what she was trying to do and easily countered it, as they used the right metal foot to try and kick the feline agent away.

Kitty though attempted ducked underneath its metal foot, but wasn't completely successful. While she escaped harm, her gun on the other hand was knocked completely out of her hands, where it hit the ground and rolled to the ground nearby out of her reach.

Kitty now gasped in horror, as she didn't how to get out of this mess. With her weapons bag out of reach as well, she was helpless to fight back with anything else.

"Aw, what's the matter, furball?" Decoe taunted. "Can't fight with your own bare hands?"

"Too bad for you." Becoe added. "Once we take care of this whiny brat, you're next."

Topaz, who had taken Kitty's place in looking after Sonic, soon saw the dilemma herself, as she grabbed her M32 and attempted to fire. That is until Decoe saw her trying to attack and said to her before she could pull the trigger, "Go on, G.U.N agent, shoot! We won't feel a thing since we'll be using this hedgehog as our shield."

Topaz instantly froze after hearing that remark, as she couldn't bear to take chance at hurting Amy.

Ten seconds soon passed, as Decoe and Becoe waited anxiously to see if Topaz would take the shot. When they finally realized she wasn't going to, Decoe said, "Enough of this nonsense. I think it's time we subtracted the number of these foolish heroes in this room, wouldn't you agree?"

"I couldn't have it said it better myself." Becoe reiterated icily.

And with those words, Eggman's assistant implemented the controls to have the metal hand squeeze tightly around Amy where it would soon crush her.

Kitty, along with Topaz looked on in deep horror, as they couldn't believe what they were seeing. Even Sonic and Rouge did likewise once their heads cleared up.

I can't believe it. Kitty thought, trying to not lose her composure. I wasn't able to save her. How could this have happened?

She then thought with her head down and eyes shut in anguish, I'm so sorry for letting you down, Sonic. Please forgive me.

Kitty's fears of failing him though thankfully would not come to pass. Out of nowhere, she heard a loud crashing sound from behind, making her look up.

While the smoke cleared, she thought with a gasp, Could it be…?

Indeed it was. With blistering speed, a red blur came charging through the smoke and went after the E-18 with its right fist swinging as hard it could, aimed directly at the back of its right ankle.

Its attack was so strong; it rattled the large robot fervently all over, even almost knocking it to the ground flat on its back due to its right leg now being completely off balance. This jarring attack even caused the E-18's right metal hand to let go of Amy, where she soon fell the ground below.

Kitty though caught her in midair before she could hit the ground and injure herself further.

Decoe and Becoe meanwhile were so taken by surprise; it left them very rattled inside.

"What in the world just happened?" Decoe pondered.

"And more importantly," Becoe added. "Who dared to sneak attack us?"

That mystery was soon revealed, as a familiar echidna soon stood before them.

Kitty soon saw him too, making her look on with delight.

He came! Knuckles actually came!

Decoe and Becoe's reaction on the other hand was one of disgust. "So, another rodent joins their ranks, eh? No matter. He'll just be another one for us to smash up." Decoe had said that last line while smacking the E-18's fists together.

"Don't bet on it." Knuckles countered, holding his fists up high.

"All right then, tough guy." Becoe challenged. "Show us what you're made of!"

And with that, the battle was on.

Decoe and Becoe then had their machine run towards Knuckles and tried to smash the red echidna into the ground with the E-18's metal fists.

Knuckles though was ready for them, as he eluded their attacks with ease, soon jumping towards the wall nearby, where he began to climb it.

Decoe and Becoe quickly saw this and prepared to smash him into the wall. However, Knuckles had fully anticipated this. Once he was at the right height, he stopped and waited for them to attack.

"So, giving us a free shot, eh?" Decoe commented. "How nice of you."

Decoe then activated the controls, trying to use the right metal fist to crush the red echidna. But again, Knuckles was ready for them. He then jumped off the wall within one split second before the metal hand could hit him and soon went gliding towards the chest of the E-18.

Once he was in position, Knuckles again went to punch this huge machine with all its strength. His attack again was right on the money, hitting it directly in the chest. This in turn caused the E-18 to lose some of its balance due to being hit with such power.

Seeing their robot a bit wobbly, Knuckles initiated phase two of his attack. While Decoe and Becoe attempted to right their machine again, Knuckles took full advantage of their predicament, as he ran from behind after landing on the ground and then punched the E-18 again, this time directly on the back of the left ankle.

Since it was already a bit off balance, Knuckles second punch finally knocked it completely off balance, as the E-18 Guerra-Hard soon slammed onto the ground, flat on its back.

Kitty, along with Topaz and Amy, who happened to watching this battle, cheered him on loudly. Even Sonic gave his approval, as he said with a thumbs up, "Well done, rad red. Nice to see you finally get your priorities in check."

Before Knuckles could respond to his comment, Kitty walked up to him and hugged the red echidna tightly, saying softly, "Thank you. I had almost given up all hope you would come help us out."

Knuckles was again surprised by her affection, but didn't try to resist it. Instead, he smiled slightly in response, even blushing a bit.

She then added with a deep smile, now putting her hands on his shoulders while looking him in the eye, "And yet, here you are. You have no idea how happy you've made me."

Knuckles was nearly speechless by her kind words, as he could only muster up awkwardly in response, "You're welcome, Kitty."

Most of their comrades looked on a bit baffled, as they never saw Kitty this friendly with Knuckles before. Even Amy was taken a bit back by it too.

Rouge on the other hand just glared at them with a big frown on her face, as she was not thrilled to see any female, especially Kitty for that matter, cutting in on her turf.

Moments later however, Decoe and Becoe finally righted their E-18, as it was now standing on its own two legs again. This time, they were deeply enraged.

"Very clever of you, echidna." Decoe said with anger in his voice. "But you won't succeed against us if you try to pull that stunt again!"

Knuckles though by this point was more amused than intimidated by their threat. He then said to the others, "You guys go on ahead. I'll cover for you in the meantime and manhandle these two robots and their big, bad machine."

"What, by yourself?" Kitty inquired with deep concern. "But there's way you can beat this monstrosity all alone."

"Don't worry about me." Knuckles replied confidently to her. "I'll handle this E series robot of Eggman's no problem. And besides, it's time I did my part to restore peace to this world anyway."

Kitty was about to protest further, when Rouge finally spoke up, saying, "I think Catwoman here makes a good point. You'll need a partner to help you school these guys and watch your back." She then looked at Knuckles intently with a sly grin on her face, adding, "And who better for that role than me."

Knuckles was less than thrilled by this proposal of hers to say the least, replying with a frown, "No way. I don't need your help, Rouge. I'm perfectly capable of handling this robot just fine on my own, thank you."

"Oh yea, and just who's going to go up on top and trash those two robots controlling the E series then?" Rouge countered. "You?"

Rouge's argument about this point unfortunately left Knuckles without a rebuttal, as Kitty soon said, surprising the red echidna, "I think she has a point there."

"What, you can't be serious!" Knuckles protested. "You want me to work with her?"

"If it means defeating Eggman's robots, then yes." Kitty answered. "That's the most important thing now, right?"

Knuckles couldn't argue with that statement, as he said with a sigh, looking at Rouge, "All right, fine, you can help me."

Rouge flashed another sly grin at him, saying, "I guess you're not as stubborn as I originally thought."

Before he could say another word to the manipulating bat, Decoe finally was fed up with waiting and attempted to smash Knuckles into the ground again with the E-18's metal fists.

Knuckles though saw it coming, diving out of harm's way. Decoe then said angrily to them, "Enough of your silly bickering! It's time we finished this once and for all."

"With pleasure." Rouge replied firmly. She then turned to Knuckles and said, "Let's trash these bots, Knuckie."

While Knuckles hated that name she called him, he quickly overlooked it and got down to business. Before Kitty went to leave with the others, she said to Knuckles and Rouge, "Good luck, guys."

She and the others then brought out the president from the other room in order to get him completely out of the line of fire, where they soon ran towards the door with the next flight of stairs and climbed up it.

"Should we really have let them go just like that?" Becoe asked his brother with concern.

"Relax; they aren't going anywhere, at least not for a while." Decoe replied slyly. "The only way to open the next door, unless they use brute force, is with a key card. And it just so happens, I have it in my possession."

His words were indeed painfully true, as Kitty saw the next door was locked and sealed tightly. To make matters worse, this metal door was not the last one. Instead, it was almost twice as thick in density.

Kitty tapped on the door to see how thick the door really was, and was alarmed to find out it was indeed very thick.

"This door is going to take some heavy duty explosives for us to break through." She commented with a sigh.

"Can't you just use another C4 box?" Topaz suggested.

"I don't think one will be enough this time." Kitty replied. "The last door wasn't nearly as thick, and it only put a moderate sized hole in its structure."

"So what do you suggest we do then?" Sonic inquired.

Kitty soon answered after a brief pause, "Let me think."

While breaking down the door would not be an impossible feat for her, she wondered how many explosives it would take to accomplish this task. Not to mention the risk of whether it would be worth it or not was also a concern. Since she and Topaz were running low on weapons, blasting though the door with explosives may indeed be too high of a price to pay in the long run, especially since she wanted to save a few for whatever robot Eggman had in store for them up ahead.

Meanwhile, the battle between Knuckles, Rouge vs the E-18 was about to commence.

"If we double team these wannabes, we should easily overpower them." Rouge told Knuckles confidently.

"Whatever." He muttered. "Let's just take care of business, shall we?"

"Sure thing, echidna." The manipulating bat replied with a sly grin.

Moments later, the battle was finally underway. As the Decoe and Becoe charged towards them in the E-18, Rouge said to Knuckles while getting airborne by flapping her wings, "Keep them preoccupied for now. I'll sneak attack these bots from behind."

"Right."

However, Decoe and Becoe didn't focus on Knuckles first, as they considered Rouge the bigger threat. When they saw her flying towards them, Decoe used the controls on his side to try and smack her to the ground.

Rouge though was ready for it this time, easily dodging the large metal hand that came at her by flying higher into the air.

Knuckles meanwhile decided to use try Rouge's strategy, but visa-versa since she was the main target at this point. He then climbed the wall again and stopped at a designated height. Once he was there, he again jumped off the wall and glided towards the E-18 from its backside.

As soon as he was close enough, he again winded his right fist while in midair and hit the E-18 Guerra-Hard directly on the middle part of its back. Knuckles' attack again was strong enough; it rattled the E-18 all over on impact, taking Decoe and Becoe completely by surprise.

Rouge then took full advantage of the E-18 becoming a bit wobbly again and flew towards the top of it. Once she was there, she unleashed several flying roundhouse kicks to their metal heads of Decoe and Becoe, knocking them backwards against the inner shell of the Eggmobile, as well as seriously stunning them.

While they tried to get their focus back, Rouge commented with a sly chuckle while still flying in midair, "I can't imagine what Eggman was thinking when he let you two morons pilot this huge machine. He must have either very desperate or very stupid."

That comment of hers though deeply angered Eggman's assistants, as they instantly reacted by violently swinging the E-18's metal fists at her again. Even though Eggman had told them to not do anything more than rough her up, neither of them really cared about this order anymore.

Again, Rouge evaded the metals fists, using her flying ability to bob and weave when it came close to hitting her.

Knuckles meanwhile climbed the wall again during this time, climbing alot higher than before, where he stopped directly from behind at the same height as Decoe and Becoe. He then whistled at them from behind in order to try and confuse these robots.

Becoe unfortunately bit on it, causing him to turn his head and look back.

Rouge instantly took advantage of his blunder, as she flew towards them now. With only one metal hand swinging at her since each were controlling one, she easily flew past the swings by Decoe and then leveled both of them with another strong flying roundhouse kick in mid-air.

Once more, her attacks hit them hard, knocking both of Eggman's assistant onto the floor of the Eggmobile.

Rouge soon chuckled at them while they groaned in pain, commenting, "Such child's play."

However, they soon stood up, now even angrier than before. But unfortunately for them, Decoe also saw Knuckles from behind, as the red echidna said to them in a bit of taunting like manner, "Well, looks like you two bots are in a bit of a pickle."

"You attack one of us, and the other's going to swallow you alive." Rouge added, looking at them with a sly grin.

Decoe and Becoe now looked on in a bit of a panic. These two indeed had them in a very difficult spot. As they looked back and forth at each of them, Becoe inquired, "How can we take on both of these rodents on at once?"

"Or better yet," Decoe added. "How do we do so without getting blindsided?"

"I think it's time you boys admitted defeat." Rouge told them firmly. "So hand over the keycard to the following room and we'll let you live."

Decoe and Becoe though weren't about to comply with her terms, as Becoe shouted at the manipulating bat, "NEVER!

"Very well then, you asked for it." Rouge replied.

Becoe by this time was in a bit of a panic, as he didn't what to do. However, Decoe came up with a plan, saying softly to him, "Follow my lead."

Moments later, Decoe initiated the controls to make it appear he swinging the right metal fist at Knuckles. However, he was only pretending to in order to get Rouge to bite.

Rouge indeed did bite on this unfortunately, as she instantly came flying in to attack with another flying roundhouse kick. But as Decoe had planned it, he quickly had the metal fist change direction, now swinging it directly at Rouge instead.

Rouge then tried to stop once she saw this, but couldn't slowdown in time. She could only watch in horror as the metal fist came flying towards her at full speed.

Thankfully though, Knuckles was there to bail her out. Within seconds after the right metal hand came swinging at him, the red echidna quickly reacted, as he jumped off the wall and started gliding towards Eggman's robots.

Once he was close enough, Knuckles punched Decoe on the back of his head hard from behind. This in turn abruptly knocked the yellow robot forward, resulting in him bumping the lever he was controlling. The right arm in which was controlling then erratically went off course, making it completely miss Rouge. Instead, the metal fist swung towards the ground due to its controlling lever being shoved all the way forward.

Rouge looked on deeply baffled, as she did not see Knuckles make his move until just seconds ago.

Becoe though saw what he had done and said to him in anger once the red echidna was inside the Eggmobile, "You just had to spoil our fun, didn't you? Well I'm going to let you have it now."

Becoe then went to retaliate for blindsiding his brother by swinging his fists at him in order knock him out of the Eggmobile. Of course, this move on his part was completely folly. With neither robot being built to fight, Knuckles evaded the swings Becoe threw at him with complete ease.

Rouge meanwhile saw a golden opportunity and decided to go for the kill. She then flew ten feet above the E-18 and shouted to Knuckles before executing another screw kick, "Out of the way, idiot!"

Knuckles quickly looked up after she had said that, as that remark got his full his attention, even angering him a bit. However, once he saw her heading towards the Eggmobile he was currently standing in, he instantly bailed out, as he immediately jumped out of Eggmobile.

"What's the matter, echidna?" Becoe challenged while seeing him abandon it. "Giving up already?"

Unfortunately for him, Eggman's #2 assistant soon saw why Knuckles had indeed jumped ship. Seeing Rouge within seconds of striking made him scream in terror.

Decoe during this time finally cleared his head, as he asked, "Hey, what's with all the yelling?"

"Look!" Becoe shouted, pointing above.

Decoe then saw it too, as he also began to scream in a panic.

The two of them tried effortlessly to get the E-18 to counter Rouge's screw kick. But by this time, it was too little, too late. Rouge soon made direct contact with the middle part of the Eggmobile, blasting it to pieces.

Within moments, Decoe and Becoe were sent flying from the manipulating bat's attack, where they soon fell towards the ground below and slammed against it hard.

Knuckles during this time had jumped onto the wall nearby, using his climbing ability to stay in place while he watched Rouge's devastating attack on the E-18.

Speaking of the E-18, with the Eggmobile on top of it cut to pieces, this huge robot of Eggman's soon toppled over and fell to the ground in a heap. Thankfully for Decoe and Becoe, neither of them was hit by the E-18 during its fall, but their troubles were still far from over.

Seconds later, Knuckles and Rouge landed onto the ground below and soon walked over towards Eggman's assistants. With their huge robot now kaput, Decoe and Becoe looked on deeply frightened.

"Well, so much for your big, bad robot." Rouge taunted. "I guess you're out of luck now."

"What are you going to do to us?" Becoe asked with a whimper.

"Oh, not much really." Knuckles added with a grin. "Just the usual."