In Royal Hills Zone, Maximilian is surrounded by several destroyed Badniks as he wields the Sword of Acorns. However, he is blindsided by an unseen assailant and loses his sword.
The young prince sits up and looks around but his attacker is too fast. He reaches for his sword, but is attacked again. This time, he loses his Rings.
As Maximilian lies on his stomach, he tries to pick himself up. But a robotic foot presses him back down.
Metal Sonic pulls back its arm. It then focuses its eyes before striking with its claws.
However, Metal Sonic is Spin Dashed in the torso before it could slash the young prince. The robot hedgehog skids backwards and glares at Sonic.
``Hey! Pick on someone your own size!'' Metal Sonic beeps and buzzes as it points at Sonic. ``Yeah, like me.''
Metal Sonic watches as Alicia pulls away Maximilian's body. Though his attention goes right back to Sonic when he states ``If you want him, you're going to have to deal with me first.''
Sonic revs up his Super Peel Out. And in response, Metal Sonic charges up his engine.
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Sonic and Metal Sonic clash over and over. However, as Sonic gains the advantage, Metal Sonic reveals that he has a Chaos Emerald, which barely surprises Sonic.
Metal Sonic then places the Chaos Emerald in the middle of his chest. As his robot counterpart powers up, Sonic is left unamused.
Metal Sonic now has the advantage over Sonic. He strikes Sonic, causing him to lose all of his Rings.
After recollecting all of his Rings, Sonic leads Metal Sonic away from the battlefield.
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Using the terrain to his advantage, Sonic manages to hold his own. He dodges whenever Metal Sonic attacks, which causes the robot to either crash or leave itself open for a counter-attack.
Soon enough, Metal Sonic adapts and begins destroying any of Sonic's environmental advantages with his V. Maximum Overdrive Attack. And he would block any of Sonic's attacks with his Ring Spark Field.
This doesn't discourage Sonic though. If Metal Sonic is going to use any power boost he can get his claws on, there's no reason Sonic can't do the same.
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Sonic begins using item boxes that he stumbles upon.
When Sonic acquires a shield, Metal Sonic breaks it, but Sonic takes no physical damage. Metal Sonic continues to attack, but ends up taking damage instead when Sonic becomes invincible. And the power sneakers make Sonic too fast for Metal Sonic.
However, Sonic runs out of useful items and is once left to defeat Metal Sonic with his own abilities again.
Metal Sonic charges for Sonic, but is blindsided by a Spin Dash from someone else.
Sonic turns to the newcomer and he sees another hedgehog. This blue hedgehog looks just like him, but with brown hair at the front.
Sonic: Dad?!
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End of Chapter 6