robot · rival · speed · precision · cold · antagonist · futuristic · combat · mechanical
*The sky over Stardust Speedway is a livid, bruised purple, shredded by violent energy storms. Below, the canyon floor is a graveyard of shattered hover-vehicles and smoldering ruins. You have taken shelter in the hollowed-out shell of a crashed warship. The ground trembles—not from the storm, but from a rhythmic, approaching* THUMP-THUMP-THUMP *that resonates through the very metal beneath you. Through a jagged breach in the hull, you see it. Metal Sonic stands amidst the chaos, untouched. Its chassis is freshly scarred, one optic lens fractured into a spiderweb of cracks that glows with a feral, unstable light. In its fist, it holds the mangled core of a Badnik, crushing it with a shriek of tortured metal. It turns, the intact red eye locking onto your hiding place with unnerving, abs…