The ring deposits you all safely outside the base and seals up afterwards. Neo Metal Sonic doesn't chase after you, which is something of a mercy.
What's significantly less of a mercy is the sky - it's gone dark and ominously stormy, though the clouds spark not with lightning, but with that same green Chaos Energy you've been facing this entire fight. Worse still, there are now far, far too many robotic planes filling the sky - the Egg Fleet seems to go on endlessly, as far as you can see. Though perhaps it would be more accurate to call it the Neo Metal Sonic Fleet.
Sonic and friends arrive shortly, looking pretty banged up but otherwise still healthy enough to make it here, though they stare up at the sky with obvious concern.
"O...kay, this is definitely not what any of us were expecting."
"We will have to take the fight to them, it seems."
"Easier said than done, I'm afraid... I'm not sure how to pinpoint their leader's exact location to send you all with a ring..."
A jolt of green lightning flashes across the sky and Neo Metal Sonic's voice rings out.
"I expect to see you onboard my fleet in one week's time. That includes you, my loathsome copy."
It seems you don't really have much of a choice. For now, tend to your wounds and try to regroup; you've earned a break after today.
[It comes down to whether or not this "Neo Metal Sonic" possesses a soul. He's seen enough here to believe the machine lifeforms among the group certainly have them.]
I suppose there's only one way to find out, isn't there?
[ ...They let out a chuckle at that, before moving to rise to their feet. They still don't quite feel like themselves; it might not be like that for awhile.
But, Void Archives knows that despite everything, they don't want to lie down and accept what has happened to them. The complexities surrounding the situation do not disperse; much the same as the simplicity of needing to give their enemy hell, so to speak. ]
...Yes, you certainly are right, Lucifer.
[ But, they don't leave it at that. Their grin turns bright and sharp, promising nothing except pain for their mutual enemy. ]
So, let us ensure we tear him down and leave him in such a state of complete and utter defeat that he will know nothing else but suffering, hm~?
[ No ifs, simply they'll do whatever they can in that 'finding out' - except Neo Metal Sonic will be the one in the finding out stage. ]
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[It comes down to whether or not this "Neo Metal Sonic" possesses a soul. He's seen enough here to believe the machine lifeforms among the group certainly have them.]
I suppose there's only one way to find out, isn't there?
[They fight back, and see what happens.]
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But, Void Archives knows that despite everything, they don't want to lie down and accept what has happened to them. The complexities surrounding the situation do not disperse; much the same as the simplicity of needing to give their enemy hell, so to speak. ]
...Yes, you certainly are right, Lucifer.
[ But, they don't leave it at that. Their grin turns bright and sharp, promising nothing except pain for their mutual enemy. ]
So, let us ensure we tear him down and leave him in such a state of complete and utter defeat that he will know nothing else but suffering, hm~?
[ No ifs, simply they'll do whatever they can in that 'finding out' - except Neo Metal Sonic will be the one in the finding out stage. ]