Sonic GeneX: Doomsday
Chapter 28 - Tournament of Chaos 2
Stage 15 - Omochao's Battle Factory

Note: Sonic the Hedgehog and related characters are (c) SEGA. You knew that, right?
GeneX and related OCs are (c) 2BIT (TheGreatGator), the author.


"I feel something inside me, dark but also true.
I fear it, I must fight it, there's no telling what she'll do!
Darkness all around me, it confounds me... 
I fear I'm being split in two!!" - Fera's Rebirth; Sonic GeneX: the Series-Zodiac in Time


Previously on GeneX…
Tails and Fera teamed up with a number of allies to escort the gargoyles of Troblusk City to a safe place. Among the friends they met up with were Lucky, Rainbow and Aurora. They were able to make contact with Sonic's group, and learned of Razor's death.
Anubis was captured by Infinite in order for him to take control of the Covenant of Despair. After failing to capture the foxes in the subway, Despair is marked to be turned into Lost Ones.
Whisk has been helping her daughters from the future to search for something...but what?
Now, our tale continues...


Anubis was in chains, trapped in a cell and guarded by Lost Ones. Eddie could be heard cackling in the next cell over. "Would you be silent?" said Basker, who was in another cell close by. Somehow, these mighty agents of Despair had fallen this far. Once they were trusted minions of the Darkseeker, now they were basically awaiting execution. "Eee hee! Come over here and make me, metal-eyes!" Eddie laughed. Anubis growled softly as he listened to them. Then, he grit his teeth as he saw his cell opening! The Lost One-zombie Cuthburt stood there with lostalkers beside him. "Time for you to join us..." Cuthburt growled, pointing towards him, prompting the lostalker corpses to shamble towards him! Anubis' eyes widened, and he struggled, covering his body in fire to protect himself. "No! This is not how it ends for me!" he snarled. The creatures kept approaching, and the desperate Anubis shouted "STOP!!" Suddenly, the lostalkers stopped moving. What was more, Cuthburt was standing there with a blank expression. Anubis stared back, confused. "...Release me." he ordered. Eddie and Basker heard the rattling of chains from their cells, and Eddie laughed nervously. "Eeh heh heh... Rest in pieces, Anubis..." he whined. It was silent for a moment. Then, Anubis stepped out of the cell, tossing fireballs at the locks on his fellow Despair agents' cells! "Good news, friends. My necromancer powers work on the corpse-based Lost Ones! We are getting out of here!" he said with a triumphant snarl, Cuthburt and the lostalkers obediently following him out of the cell to release his allies. "Very good, Anubis. But where exactly is here?" Basker questioned. "Eee hee hee! Doesn't matter! Better out than in, I say!" Eddie grinned. Despair was back on the loose!


The subway train arrived in another city, and Guard was going to take the gargoyles the rest of the way to the GUN base that would serve as their refuge. Vanilla was there, apparently, so Cream decided to go as well, to check on her. While Tails hugged her and told her to be careful, Fera was talking to Rainbow. "Listen... The Chaos Key is going to be important to get away from those creatures. You may be the only chance to get it...the Chaos Crystal IS safe, isn't it?" she asked. Rainbow nodded. "Safe as my baby girl. Ohh, but I guess I should go get it! You're right, Wolfie, it can stop the Chaos Relics! Hmm, should I meet up with One first, though..." she murmured thoughtfully. Copter and the Babylon Rogues were already gone, and Tails felt it was about time for him to go as well. "I've gotta catch up with Sonic! You...coming with me, Fera?" he asked uncertainly. "Well, I'm not going into a GUN safe house." the wolf scoffed. As they were about to go, both of the kids' ProwerPhones started to ring at once! "Mee-yow!!" Lucky Jr. gasped, while Aurora calmly answered hers. "What's up? Wow, we got one major conference here!" she said. Curious, Tails and Fera glanced over her shoulder. Skye was onscreen, along with Lara, Pepper and Casey, all communicating through split-screen. "I thought it was time to touch base!" Lara said. "Ah, we don't have the emerald yet, Skye!" Pepper said, "We're following a spell mom cast to find it!" Lucky blinked a few times, looking at Lucky Jr's screen. "...Is mom Whisk?" he murmured. "Hey, Lara, tell the others what you told me!" Casey said impatiently. "We had to be seein' things!" said Juice from next to Lara. She shushed him. "Ahh, well... We saw the face of the hooded guy. He looked just like Sonic!" she reported. Tails grabbed the phone from Aurora. "What do you mean!? The second Doomsayer is Sonic?! What are you saying??" he stammered. "Chill, dad..." Skye muttered. Lucky Jr. shrugged. "He's not the Sonic from our timeline, that's for sure." he stated. "Unless from the future..." Melody said from next to Skye. Tails glanced at Fera. "Let's get caught up, can we?" he asked.

Lara explained what went down at Eggtopia, and then Pepper discussed the mission Skye had sent her and her sister on. "We're looking for the exact Chaos Emerald that Skye used in his time machine." she explained. Tails rubbed his chin. "Wait a minute... The Chaos Emeralds can't be duplicated through time travel. Only one of each exists throughout time." he said. "That literally makes no sense." Fera scoffed. "I didn't make the rules..." Tails sighed. Skye nodded from his screen. "Well, I modified the Chaos Emerald for time travel. As long as it's part of my time machine, it can act independent of itself in time. But as you know...I was only able to go to this time. And I can't get the machine working again..." he said awkwardly. Tails scratched his head. "So...you want to double up on the energy signature of that same Chaos Emerald? That's a risky move..." he said. "The whole time travel plan was risky." Lara stated, "But if we make this work, we can change the past and save everyone!" That notion immediately brought Tails' thoughts to SPOT and Razor. They could prevent them and others from being lost. "This idea that Sonic becomes the Doomsayer is...concerning. But having the power to travel through time would be perfect! We could fix everything easily!" he said. "I feel like I know why this is a bad idea, but I can't remember..." Lucky murmured, "Oh, well! I wanna see Whisk, so I'm in!" he smiled. Fera folded her arms. "Time travel... Well, why not? I could have another shot at Gunner." she mused. It all seemed to be settled. "Alright, so...where do we meet?" Tails asked. Whisk took the phone from Pepper. "Spell's leading to good 'ol Central City!" she smiled. Tails and Lucky froze. "Mee...yikes. Central City? Whisk! Central City is overrun!!" Lucky gasped. Tails produced his Tornado remote and sighed. "Let's see... Tornado 2 went down... We need a few seats... The Tornado-1 and the Tornado-X sound good!" he said. "Not great with names, are ya, dad?" Skye chuckled.


After a fairly uneventful flight, in which Tails had to remotely pilot both planes, the group arrived at the outskirts of Central City. Along with Fera, Lucky, his son, and Aurora had joined them. Not long after landing, they located the Hurricane, which had brought Lara and Juice. Moreover, Lara had met up with Melody, Skye, Casey, Argyle and a white hedgehog named Venice. "Never did I suspect that I would end up a babysitter today..." Fera grumbled as the kids gathered around. "I think I'm at least as old as you!" Venice grumbled back. "Who cares?" Argyle sighed, "We're all here to beat the Lost Ones, right? Speakin' of, shouldn't we be meetin' Minnie and her sis?" he asked, blushing lightly at the thought. Before anyone could say anything to him about that, Whisk and her daughters flew over from above. "Hey, Lucky! Guys! Follow us, we know where to go!" Whisk announced. Lucky and Junior waved, while Tails looked out into the city anxiously. The streets seemed ominously empty. "Everyone, stay alert. Those creatures could be lying in wait for people. We have to assume they know the Emerald is here, too." he said. "I dunno. I think they moved on when they ran outta souls to munch." Casey stated. "I'm not getting them on radar..." Melody mentioned as she looked at her ProwerPhone screen. "You honestly think you can track them?" Fera asked. "Hurry up, guys!!" Pepper shouted, hurrying the group into following after them. Tails and Fera kept alert as they traveled with the others, and soon Whisk's spell led them to a familiar area of Central City. Tails recognized the building as the Gimmie Shelter, one of Eggman's old bases. "Ahh... Maybe that's why the Lost Ones left. They figured the emerald was safe in Eggman's possession." the fox mused. Lucky scoffed. "Well, I don't see Eggman around, either! I'm goin' in!" he said, hurrying through the door. "Wait, Lucky! ...He's always reckless, isn't he, Miles?" Whisk sighed. "...Why'd you call me that?" Tails whined. "MEE-YOW!!" Lucky screeched. "Of course he's in trouble! After him!" Lara shouted, leading the charge into the base! They stopped quickly when they saw that it was just Omochao that had spooked Lucky. "Welcome, guests! This is Omochao's Battle Factory! Ready to prove your strength and win a prize!?" the robot shouted cheerfully.

"Battle...factory?" Juice murmured. There were other scattered expressions of confusion as well, so Omochao saw the need to explain. "It's kind of a fighting dojo! And you're in luck! Today we're hosting a tournament for a grand prize!" the robot stated, motioning to a large screen on the wall behind him, which displayed the cyan Chaos Emerald! "Yaah! That's it! That's the emerald I need!" Skye babbled. "Of course it is..." Fera sighed. The screen's display next changed to a tournament chart. There were 16 competitors planned, but quite a few unfilled slots on the roster. "I'm glad you all showed up! I was beginning to think we'd have to cancel! For some reason hardly anyone was coming!" Omochao stated. Lucky Jr. looked at Casey and whispered "Could even a robot be this clueless?" As if to answer him, Alpha emerged from somewhere in the base and playfully skipped to Omochao's side! "Weeee! Is it playtime yet? I wanna play, blue Char!" the crazed robot babbled. Tails chuckled awkwardly, and then took Skye aside. "This tournament is probably filled with Eggman's robots as competition. We should have no problem winning, but... it might take time we don't have. Who knows if the Lost Ones have REALLY abandoned this city. You should take some of your friends and try to find where they're keeping the emerald while the rest of us compete!" he suggested. Fera had been listening, and nodded. "That's actually quite prudent. I should lead the search." she suggested. "Are you kidding?" Lucky told her, "You're the toughest one here! You gotta fight!" he said. Omochao suddenly hovered over them at this point. "Whatcha talking about? Oh! Have you decided who's gonna compete?" he asked. They all jumped, nervous about their plans being overheard. "Ahh, give us a moment!" Tails stammered. They'd have to choose the teams smartly...

The Gimmie Shelter was already sort of a battle arena, but Omochao had dressed it up a bit for this event, adding ropes like one would find in a boxing or wrestling ring. They would be fighting there, the 16 competitors split up into 8 matches for round 1. While the matches began with a fairly simple bout between Casey and Aurora, Tails chatted with Fera on the sidelines. "Fighting here like this... Makes me think of Emerl." he murmured. "And who was Emerl?" Fera wondered. Tails let out a sad sigh. "He was a robot we were training to fight... You could say he was our...first rookie." he murmured, "But Eggman captured him, and activated something bad in his program, and there was no choice but to destroy him in the end..." he said, a stray tear leaving his eye. Fera raised her eyebrow. "Hm, I see..." she murmured. Tails then looked more hopeful. "After that, Eggman built a similar robot called Gemerl, kind of like Emerl's little brother. When Eggman was defeated, I repaired Gemerl, and he's been watching over Cream's family ever since. In a way, Emerl lives on in him..." he said. "Is that what you think?" Fera grunted, "You think you can 'fix' me, and then Felicia will live on?" she snapped. Tails looked at her timidly. "Wha...I...no. You're the same person..." he babbled. "Oooff!!" By this point, Casey had been well and truly trounced. "Ughhh, I shoulda known I was no match for Punchy's daughter..." he groaned. "Alright! Next match!" Omochao announced.

The matches progressed quickly. Melody found herself faced with Police Chief Paynson, who was too flustered by the idea of fighting the adorable rabbit to harm her. "What am I even doing here...?" he groaned upon forfeit. "Hey, I gotta tell you about Razor, anyway..." Tails told him, sad to bear this news. In the meantime, Cosmo the seedrian made quick work of Copter's old boss, Dave. "Owwww! Why are you so rooough!?" Dave groaned when she caught him in a leg lock. Lucky faced down Alpha, gulping at the realization that he had no weapon. "Niiice robot..." he stammered. Alpha stopped short. "I'm a nice robot? Yay! I'm a nice robot! I'm not brok-ed!!" he cheered, flying out of the ring and losing by technicality. "I really am lucky..." the feline sighed. Venice wasn't so lucky, as he found himself face to face with Chaos Gamma, the guardian robot of the Gimmie Shelter. "Intruders! I will eliminate all of you!" the robot declared, firing at the hedgehog rapidly. Venice dashed to avoid the shots and then pushed the robot into the air with a psychokinetic attack! Chaos Gamma crashed to the floor next to him. "Initiating recovery mode!" he said, exploding and flinging Venice onto his back before re-emerging from the smoke perfectly fine! "Owwww, that made no sense!!" Venice groaned. Tails found himself faced with Battle Lord Kukku of all opponents. "What are YOU doing here??" he stammered. "My whole armada was turned to Lost Ones! It's all your fault! I will be avenged on y-ooof!!" Tails took him out quickly using a tailband-powered tail whip. "I don't have time for your vengeance today!" he said as Kukku laid on the ground, wheezing. "I hate you..." he gasped. Next, Argyle was faced with Phi, a leftover mass-produced version of Emerl that was hanging around the Gimmie Shelter. "Attack! Attack!!" Phi shouted, swiftly peppering Argyle with high-speed hits! "Agh! Hey! Cut it out! Why are you so fast!?" he groaned, collapsing quickly! The final match of round 1 was Fera against Whisk. The divine started teleporting around Fera, laughing. "Haha! How are you even going to hit me?!" she teased. "I'll just miss really well..." Fera smirked, lobbing a ball of dark energy...directly towards Lucky! "Meee-yow!!" he yelped. Whisk teleported out of the ring to defend him, but the attack fizzled out before hitting her! The wolf smirked. "I trained with GUN. I learned a few things about tactics..." she said while Lucky hugged Whisk, his disqualified girlfriend.

"Okay! It's time for round 2! The quarterfinals!" Omochao announced cheerfully. "Excuse me, why are Dr. Eggman's robots competing?" Cosmo asked. "They entered!" Omochao replied. That seemed to be all the explanation they were going to get. The first match of the quarterfinal pit Aurora against Cosmo, and while they squared off, Fera stepped over to Whisk. "...I'm sorry..." she murmured. "We're technically on the same side, no biggie!" Whisk smiled, "...Hey, didn't you have, like, a memory problem? Boy, I can relate..." the divine added. Fera folded her arms. "You can relate to your former enemies pretending to be your friends while hiding your past from you until your memory just happens to come back through head trauma?" she questioned. Whisk rubbed her chin. "Uhhh... I don't know. Hey, wait a minute! You're in that weird memory flash I had! You saved me from GUN before!" she said suddenly. Fera's eye widened. "Huh? ... Hmm... Ah, yes, that was long ago. You had a Chaos Emerald. You were babbling something about Soleanna. Somehow I doubt you were on your way to see Princess Elise at the Sun Festival..." she murmured. "That was when Sonic, Gemini and Copter fought Solenix!" Tails chimed in. They looked at him. "If Whisk hadn't gotten the Chaos Emerald to us, the world might have been destroyed then!" he explained. Whisk chuckled softly. "Oh! So that's what it was... How funny! We both helped save the world, and we both forgot about it!" she said, grinning at Fera. The wolf sighed. "I think I was just in it to mess with GUN..." she murmured. They heard yelling, and looked to see that Cosmo had Aurora in a chokehold. "What has that girl been through lately...?" Tails wondered.

Chaos Gamma intimidated Melody out of the tournament, and though Lucky tried to avenge Whisk against Fera, he had even less of a chance without his key. This left Tails and Phi. "Attack! Attack!!" the robot shouted, speeding over to Tails! "This really takes me back!" he yelped, blocking the speedy attacks with his tails! "At this speed... Yeah, I think he's copied Sonic somehow!" the fox murmured, gasping as Phi quickly dashed behind him. "Alright, time to break out an old classic!" Tails grunted, producing a boxing glove on a chain and flailing it around his body to knock Phi back a bit! The robot leapt up in a ball, unleashing a homing attack on Tails to knock him off balance before spin-dashing into him, knocking him into the ropes! "Oh no! Dad!!" Melody cried. Tails bounced off the ropes, spinning his namesakes to soar above Phi! "All your tricks are old data! I'm stronger than I was then! Hyaaaa!!" He scattered dummy rings around Phi to trap him, and then dropped down, slamming the robot with his powerful tails! This time, he fought without the tailbands, but when the dust settled, Phi still sparked and dropped to his metal knees! Tails would move on to the semifinals!


Meanwhile, Lara, Skye and a few others went looking for the Chaos Emerald on their own. It didn't SEEM to be a large base, so surely it wouldn't take long to find, right? However, Eggtopia didn't seem to be a large base initially, either. They soon found themselves lost among a maze of hidden corridors. "Geez, I hope we'll be able to find our way back..." Pepper murmured. "At least there are no robots down here!" Minnie said cheerfully. "Why ain't I fighting in the tournament? I'm SONIC'S son!!" Juice complained. Skye rolled his eyes, scanning around for any sign of the emerald with his ProwerPhone. "We all know who is whose son..." he grumbled. "Focus, everyone! There could be traps anywhere!" Lara warned. "Traps traps traps!! Anywhere! Wheee!!" Alpha's voice made the group jump and made Lucky Jr. screech. "Oh, it's just the dumb robot..." Junior sighed, holding his heart. "I'm not dumb! I'm nice! You said so!" Alpha said, pointing angrily, "How dare you!" Juice looked at Skye awkwardly. "How dare he call him nice or dumb?" he whispered. "Who can tell with that bot..." Skye sighed. Alpha then leaned against the wall, pressing a hidden switch. "I found a secret!!" With that, a trap door opened under them; In fact a series of trap doors opened, dropping all of them including Alpha down into a trap below as they screamed!


Tails faced Cosmo in the semifinals. She was quick to pin him to the ropes, an intense look in her eyes as she started hitting him. "I'll...beat you! I'll show you!!" she shouted, breathing hard. "Cosmo! C-cosmo!! I-I'm sorry!" Tails said, bearing her blows without fighting back. "No! I don't want you to be sorry!!" she shouted, her strikes softening. Tears started to fall from her eyes. "I'm watching another world die... I have to be strong... Strong enough to carry on alone..." she sniffled, dropping to her knees. Tails patted her on the head. He knew she had a crush on him, but he also knew based on Melody who he ended up choosing. "I'm sorry..." he whispered. "Ahhh... Not sure how to call this..." Omochao babbled. Naturally, Cosmo was too emotional to continue, so she dropped out of the tourney. This left Fera to take on Chaos Gamma. It was a bit of a brutal fight, with the robot ruthlessly shooting at her while she fought back with dark flames and lightning! The robot tried to take her out with his cheap recovery mode. "Hah! Nice try!" Fera scoffed, warping up above as the robot exploded! Before Gamma could emerge from the smoke, Fera unleased a terrible blast of dark energy down at the robot, reducing it to scrap metal! Tails watched with a gulp. She was his opponent for the final round!

"What a tournament! Now it's time for the finals! Ring-outs no longer apply! The winner is the first to knock out their opponent!" Omochao announced as Tails awkwardly met Fera in the ring. "Should one of us...throw the fight? We are on the same side..." he suggested. A jolt of dark lightning shot past Tails' side, and Fera motioned for Tails to come at her. "You've proven your bravery to me, but now I want you to prove your mettle! Show me that I'm not following you for nothing!" she shouted, baring her teeth at him like a rabid wolf. Tails processed her words and nodded, charging at her to start the fight! Fera scoffed and warped herself out of his way, making the fox stop short and look for her, only to be grabbed in a headlock by the wolf! "You're soft! You stay in a lab while your friends fight your battles for you!" she growled while Tails struggled. His two tails coiled around her waist, and then started to spin, the power of his tails causing them both to go flying apart when they did so! Fera warped again, landing on her feet, and tossed balls of dark energy towards Tails as he struggled to get up! The attack tossed him into the ropes, and he used them to climb to his feet. "Yeah... you're strong, Fera... And I use my friends to prop myself up... Just imagine if you let friends add their power to yours!" he said, smirking at her. Fera was taken aback. Why was he smiling? She was kicking his ass. "Where are your friends now, hm!?" she shouted, launching black lightning from her fingers towards the weakened fox! Tails jumped onto the ropes and bounced up off of them, spinning his tails to fly over the lightning! "Riiiight... here!!" he shouted, whipping out his boxing glove on the chain and swinging it across the arena to smack Fera! Growling, Fera warped above the fox and fell onto him, both of them tumbling back to the ground! In moments, they were on their feet and grappling, hands clasped together as each tried to push the other back! "You think your machines are your friends! Pathetic!!" Fera snarled. "Unnh!! N-no...not that. The person I'm fighting. That's what I meant." he grunted. Fera's one good eye looked at him in confusion. "What is your deal??" she panted. "Don't you see... I'm fighting hard because you want me to... as a friend." the fox huffed.

The lights suddenly went out. "Mee-YOW! What's happening??" Lucky gasped. "Nobody panic! I have a flashlight!" Paynson stammered, a light beam shakily moving around the room. It hit upon Omochao, who was floating in the air slowly, his eyes glowing an unsettling red color. "I c-c-can't belive you diiiiid that to me... W-w-why would you doooo something like th-th-that?" Omochao said in a distorted, glitched voice. Tails and Fera looked up at him quizzically, and then an ominous laugh in the dark caused Tails to gasp and grab Fera in a nervous hug! She didn't really notice that because she recognized the voice. "That's... Eddie. So, that robot must be an illusion..." she murmured. "Or perhaps a manifestation of fear?" came the voice of Basker. Paynson fumbled with the flashlight, finding both Basker and Anubis standing by a door leading deeper into the base! "The-the Covenant of Despair!?" the officer gasped. "Wh-what do they want?" Melody asked. Anubis sneered, and screams were heard in the dark as his mummies surrounded and seized Melody, Cosmo, Dave, and some others! "We wish to secure safe passage off this world, to escape the Lost Ones. But...before we do that... There's a score that we must settle, Fera!" he snarled. Tails let go of Fera, looking around for their friends that were under attack from the mummies. "Melody! Cosmo! Everyone, hang on!" he shouted. Fera sneered at Anubis. "Isn't it my score to settle with you? I would think your score is with Howler. Seems he sold you out to the Lost Ones, just as he intended to sacrifice you to his schemes before!" she shouted. "Eeee hee hee! If we kill the fox boy, we can get in good with the boss again! Eee hee he'll see that we're taken care of!" Eddie cackled. "You're fools if you believe that..." Fera groaned. "Either way...come find us, Fera. Let's settle this!" Anubis sneered. The flashlight went dark, and a moment later the lights came up, leaving Tails and Fera alone...

To be continued...