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BACK NEAR THE MYSTIC RUINS TRAIN STATION
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"Hey!" Chaos shouted, once the Angel Island team came out from the windy tunnel. "You're back! Where's Jack?"

"Jack's with the enemy," Tails muttered darkly. "EVERYBODY: Jack was a traitor. If you see him, you have to kill him, understand??"

"What?" Gus yelled. "Whaddaya mean, kid?"

"Jack is with whoever hurt Naka-san," Tails said. "If you see him, you need to kill him, before he can kill us."

Tails walked away from the crowd, pinching his sinuses. Great, he thought. A migraine. I just don't think I can handle the whole leadership thing...

A set of arms wrapped themselves around Tails' neck. Startled, Tails looked up to see Amy standing behind him, her eyes closed, a blissful look on her face.

"You're so brave, Tails," Amy whispered into his ear. "The way you tried to fight Jack for me...the way you're taking charge of these men...it just makes me love you that much more."

Tails closed his eyes, too. "We're only thirteen, you know..."

"So what?" Amy asked, pecking Tails on the cheek. "That shouldn't mean a thing..."

" It doesn't in most cases but I'd rather not...er, you know... "
Amy sighed. " I know, I know... " Suddenly an evil look came into her eyes. " But I can do THIS! "
Grabbing him, she began to kiss him. The two of them kept kissing, not knowing or caring that everyone else could see.
Sonic whistled. " Don't they need to breathe?"

"On the other hand, now I don't need to worry about her chasing after me. I have enough girl friends as it is. . . ." Sonic commented.

Void gave him a beady eye. " Name one. And Archie ones don't count because they're not in OUR world. "
Sonic began to speak, paused and then took a VERY deep interest in the ground.

" They are together. It is a perfect tiem to strike. "
" What about Eternal Champion? "
" Don't worry Gates. By the time he finds out the truth, we'll have the targets right where we want them. And then... we dispose of him. "

"Not archie?" Sonic asked.
"That's right." Replied Void.
Sonic took a deep breath.
"Sally from Saterday Morning, Sara from Sonic anima, that hedghog girl that was going to be in Sonic X-Stream, that nut case fan girl from Adventures of Sonic the Hedghog, and plus all those fan fics where Tails is a girl."
"All of which don't count as they're NOT from OUR universe. And show me ONE piece of evidence that shows the X-Treme person was a love interest! "
" Man, will you STOP embarrasing me in front of Knuckles and the others? "

Knuckles made like he was gonna hurl, and turned away from Tails and Amy, shaking his head. "Get a room, guys..."

Neither young 'morph made a move or gesture to acknowlege Rad Red's presence. Sighing, Knux turned to Sonic and Void.

"We need to get to stepping. We're all just standing around here, for God's sake!" Knuckles turned to eye Sonic. "Like those dummy versions of us in Sonic Adventure. The ones where all they did was stand in one place, like, before a fight, or when particular characters' story lines crossed over during gameplay."

Sonic whistled, and looked away from Knuckles. "SOMEbody plays too many video games."

"Look, that's not the point," Knuckles pointed out. "Get your troops together, True Blue. We need to get back at whoever's doing this, and now."

SCHEE-KOW!!

"What?!" Knux yelped. A smoldering crater about two feet in diameter appeared right behind him. Heads turned, to see Eternal Champion standing on top of the thatched roof of the train station, Jack cackling insanely beside him.

"It's time to finish what we started before, kiddies," Eternal Champion growled, turning to look at Tab. He pointed a finger at him, the fingertip glowing...

"Watch it, kid!" Big yelled, pushing Tab down. Another smouldering crater appeared where Tab had been standing a split-second before.

"That guy means business," Falcon said. "Gunrock! Ayame! The ol' one-two-three!"

"Right!" Ayame and Gunrock shouted. They jumped, Ayame hurling a cluster of surikens, Gunrock hurling a boulder, and Falcon shooting off a missile. Eternal Champion and Jack jumped, avoiding all three attacks, landing on the ground. A yellow blur, and a Taxi sped into both of them, crashing through the wooden train station. The taxi plummeted into the water, but the two enemies were nowhere to be seen.

"Rest in Peace, my wonderful taxi," BD Joe said, smirking anyway.

"What did you do?" Tails asked. He and Amy had stopped sucking face when they heard the first shot go off.

"I stole dis fugly stick from some weird cop in Station Square. Den I used it to keep the gas pedal down on my cab."

"Okay..." Tails shook his head. "What about Jack and Eternal Champion?"

"Not dead yet, kiddies," Jack hissed. he crawled back up the side of the trainstation using his daggers. Eternal Champion simply flew next to him.

"We're ending this. NOW." Eternal Champion growled.

EC was about to power up another finger blast, but the roar of aircrafts overhead was appearant...

Every head turned again, this time to the sky. several jet planes were flying overhead, dropping men in black suits, holding assault rifles, down to the ground.

"What the hell!?" EC demanded. "What's going on?!"

"These are the Illumnati," Jack hissed gleefully. "They've come to kill the resistance, and take Sonic back to Mr. Gates and Mr. DeBeers!"

"Gates and DeBeers...?" EC muttered. The fight had already begun. The guns the Illumnati fighters had brought were useless in close-quarters combat, they couldn't risk shooting their own men. This gave the Sega characters a definite edge.

Knux busted the jaw of one Illumnati, then whirled around to kick another in the gut. Mew and Tab spraypainted the eyes of another pair of soldiers, while Combo busted some heads. NiGHTS, Vectorman and Gamma stood back-to-back, fighting of any approaching soldiers. BD Joe used another 'fugly stick' to beat off some of the enemy. Tails and Amy fought side-by side, Big bashed his fishing rod over some poor guy's head, Falcon focused his anger and betrayed feelings on Jack, the other powerstone fighters kicking the asses of the other soldiers, Sonic buzzsawed through the crowd, trying to take down any soldiers he could, Void and Chaos using their best attacks to fight, it was PURE HAVOC.

"I was double-crossed." EC hissed. He jumped into the air, and zoomed off into the distance.

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"They won't be able to win alone," DeBeers muttered, pounding his fist on the cool, marble counter. "SEND IN THE SECRET WEAPON! ISOLATE THE MOST THREATENING OF THE BUNCH, AND TAKE ROSE WITH THEM!"

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The battle raged on for almost an hour without interruption. But then...

"What the--?" Tails cursed, a large shadow falling over the fight, eclipsing the sun. It was large, but that's all Tails could make out about it.

"That's the Illumnati's secret weapon," Jack cackled. Falcon punched him in the head, sending him at Tails, who back-flip kicked Jack in the jaw.

The machine seemed to glow, whatever it was...five beams of light shot out. Each light struck a Sega character...Tails, Amy, Sonic, NiGHTS, Vectorman.

"What's going on??" Sonic cried. He vanished. So did the other four.

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Amy groaned, and opened her eyes slowly. Pushing herself to her feet, she looked around...there was nothing but darkness.

"Tails-chan!! NiGHTS!!" Amy called. Her voice echoed back to her, but there was no other responce.

"Nobody will hear you..." an evil voice seethed. Amy whirled, to see that she was facing a full-body mirror. Some kind of light was hanging above it...the only thing Amy saw was her own reflection. Amy leaned closer to the mirror, examining it carefully...so naturally, she was caught off-guard when her reflection reached out of the mirror and began to strangle her.

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"Yah!" Tails cried, flipping his evil reflection-self over him with his feet. The two kitsunes were up quickly, and duking it out again.

"Who ARE you??" Tails demanded.

"I'm you, of course!" The reflection answered back. Tails saw clearly that this kitsune could very well be his genetic double...except that his eyes were slate-gray, instead of sky blue.

the reflection punched Tails in the gut, then sent him flying deeper into the darkness.

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NiGHTS, Vectorman, Sonic, all five of them were caught in a deathlock with their own evil reflections.

"What's going on?" NiGHTS demanded of his reflection.

"Can't you tell?" his grey-eyed counterpart shot. "We're an incarnation of the evil that resides in EVERY being! This is the final battle do decide which will prevail, good or evil, light or dark!! HAHAHA!"

Sonic of course, was fighting Shadow.
"Come off it!" Sonic hissed giving his twin a head based that sent them both on their backs. "I'm sick of hearing how there's evil in everyone. The only evil that exists within us all is the darkness we ALLOW to enter us. We have free will. THe only darkness in us is the stuff we put there. Good and evil don't exist as a balance. That is change quaote unquaote 'chaos' and stagnation, quaote unquaote 'order's' department. Good and evil are opposing forces, each trying ever so hard to over come to the other. It's free will that decides which wins!"

"Hah! Hah!" Amy grunted, blocking her reflection's hammer with her own. The fight was going nowhere fast, but Amy was getting tired, and the reflection showed no signs of fatigue.

'This gets more and more hopeless the longer I fight,' Amy thought bitterly. Tears began to run down her face, tears of anguish, hatred, and utterly, deep down inside, defeat.

"I could never beat the system," Amy said, cursing. "I was doomed right from the start--unh!--ever since Sega stuck me with such crap levels in Sonic Adventure. Right from there, I was screwed. I've been blacklisted. Unh! Tails and I are in the same boat...we have a very dim future..."

Suddenly, a fire lit up inside of her.

"...but we have each other. We don't need Sega, Nintendo, Sony, Sonic, Knuckles, Eggman...While it's great to have friends, when you're left for dead, all you have left is EACH OTHER. And I'm going to escape with my Tails-chan. ALIVE. And we'll live together, like Vectorman, NiGHTS, Gamma, Big...but we won't be ALONE!!"

Amy pushed her reflection back, then charged her with her hammer over her shoulder. She jumped into the air, and brought the hammer down onto her reflection's head--crushing her skull.

The darkness around Amy faded into a soft light. She was shocked to see that all around her, her friends were fighting their reflections--Tails, NiGHTS, Vectorman, Sonic. They were appearantly still in the darkness like she had been moments before. She looked around for her reflection's body, but it was gone...it had only been an illusion.

With a scream, Amy ran at Tails and his reflection. She could tell in her heart which was the real one and which was not--not to mention that the real one was cut, bloody, panting, exhausted, and the other seemed fine. The same with Amy and her reflection.

Aiming the blow just right, Amy decapitated the Tails reflection. Tails shook his head, emerging from his own darkness.

"Amy-chan," he whispered, looking at NiGHTS, Sonic, and Vectorman.

"They'll be harder to fight than ours were," Amy said. "They're stronger than us."

Tails nodded. "We'll do it," He muttered.

"And I DECIDE Shadow, that your history!" Screamed Sonic diving at his copy which had been expsecting Sonic to lose his cool in that matter, since when was Sonic anything but the 'cool dude' on the block?

" Oh please, Sonic! You think you can win? I'm darkness, and in the end, darkness will be all that's left in the world! "
Sonic pulled back his fist. " Ah, true. But you're not darkness, you're just a hedgehog that REALLY needs a bath! "
THWACK
Shadow fell to the ground, KOed. Around him, Vectorman and NiGHTS were destroying their evil sides. Sonic noted with embarrasment that Amy had won first.
_ Man, I think I spent too much battle time being philosophical! _
" That was tough, " panted Tails. " Nearly died there! "
" But we DIDN'T, " said Amy. " And if THAT is all those Illuminati guys can throw at us, then this battle's gonna be a piece of cake! "

" They beat the darkness from within them. "
" And so a $5,000,000 project goes to waste. ****! "
" Ah, but we can still beat them. Send in Jack. Get him to isolate Amy from the others; then we can use the depression drug on her again. "
" She beat the last one. "
" That was because of the kitsune. Alone, she is weak. "
" And together, we are strong. "
" And how come we're just sitting here talking in sinister voices instead of doing it? "
" Hmmm...good point. "

Meanwhile, Microsoft's Fighting Legands warriors were getting a final visit from the eturnal champion. One tried to cut him with a blade, it sliced the komoto he was wearing in half, but being a life form of pure ki, it did himself no harm. He then blasted him away with a white star blast.
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Amy stood up looking proudly at the setting sun. She had lived another day.
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Sonic groaned. "Come on, Tails, let's finish those guys off..."

"Right," Tails nodded. He and Sonic went to help Vecty and NiGHTS, but something drew Amy away from it all...

She found herself standing in a singular room. Nobody was there. There were four walls, a ceiling, a floor, all plastered gray. In the room was a single pedastle, and on the pedastle was some kind of manuscript under a glass case....Amy began to read it.

"Our job is to wipe out all the used up characters. We will stop at nothing to complete our mission, this slip of paper is our bond to that word."

"This is what controls it all, huh?" Amy asked quietly. "This is what's been putting me through hell and back since the first page, this has been what almost took me and my friends' life??"

Snorting, Amy smashed the glass case with her hammer. She took the slip of paper in her hands, examining it carefully. Then, satisfied that there was nothing left, she ripped the paper in two.

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The Illumnati soldiers on the ground shimmered, and disapeared. Jack did as well.

"What the--?!" Knuckles cried. "Where'd they go?"

The shadow hovering over them all disapeared, too...NiGHTS, Vecty, Sonic and Tails appeared back on the ground.

"Where's Amy?" Knuckles asked, running up to the four.

"She was with us before, but we got seperated!" Sonic cried.

"There she is!" Axel cried, pointing up. "She looks like she's...fighting..."

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"This is it!" Amy shouted, pointing her hammer at the...being...in front of her. It was nothing but an energy beast. "You're the essence behind it all! I'll kill you if I have to!"

Amy and the beast were just hovering in the air. Nothing was keeping them aloft except for the beast's power...

"You wretched child! You have nothing! You ARE nothing!" The beast screamed.
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Ack!" Amy cried as the beast hit her in the jaw. she flew backwards, and crashed into Angel Island, and began to fall.

"I'm coming, Amy-chan!" Tails cried. He flew, catching Amy in his arms, and slowly set her on the ground.

Amy stood up weakly, and pushed Tails back. The energy beast landed in front of her. The Sega characters formed a ring around the two, keeping them in.

"I hafta fight this on my own," Amy said, pulling out her Long Hammer this time. "I don't need any help--I want to beat this monster by myself!"

"Just believe in yourself," Tails muttered under his breath.

Amy jumped at the energy beast, and swung down with all her might. The hammer passed through the beast, like it was nothing!! The beast swiped with a paw, slapping Amy down again. She whimpered, and pushed herself up slowly. The beast approached slowly, and knocked her down again!

"Ugh..." Amy spat blood, coughed a couple times, and again pushed herself up. Blood was streaming down the side of her face.

"Amy!" Sonic called out. Amy glanced up...Sonic held four chaos Emeralds in his hands!

"How did you--?" Amy asked, eyes wide.

"Void got them all for us while we were locked inside that thing. Just TAKE THEM!" Sonic threw the emeralds to Amy. She caught them all. Chaos, next, drained the three Emeralds from his body, and tossed them to Amy as well. Tails ran up to her, and placed fifty rings on top of the emerald pile, and backed away.

There was a large flash of light. Amy stood, her pink fur turned gold, her eyes red. Her quills curled upward, and her body was surrounded by gold flames.

"Super Amy," Knuckles nodded.

"Rrrrrrrrr-YAAAAH!!!" Super Amy screamed. she swung her hammer in a wide ark, this time it hit the beast, sending it flying into the mountainside. Super Amy leapt, and brought the hammer down on the beasts' head--crushing its skull.

The beast shimmered, and disapeared. Super Amy sighed, and powered down. The seven Emeralds split up, and went back to the places they had started at.

"It's over," Amy said, looking up to the sky. "Finally...it's over."

Amy's power aura went out like a light, her fur and hair turned back to it's orginal color, (abit longer than before) and as her eyes chanced back as well, but they wern't her normal planet green eyes, they were like Sonic's: emerald.
She landed on the concerte out like a light.
Sonic pushed Tails out of the way to check on Amy himself. She was breathing, and her heart was beating. Thank God.
"Stupid . . . stupid . . ." Sonic whispered.
"Huh?" Said Tails confused.
"Tails, I've gone super more times than anyone, and using the emeralds have side effects, my eyes turning from brown to green, along with the incressed length of my quills are just the phyical ones. I STC super Sonic is evil, it was there way of doing the price of power. But the real price is just as bad. Every time I go super, I run the risk of having a heart attack. So do you and Knuckles."
"WHAT?"
"The mortal body was never meant to be pushed to such exterms! It's like putting explovie shell from a battle ship in an old fashioned cannon! I did this because knew she would be killed if she didn't use them. But still, there was a risk, epsically the first time."
DeBeer's was dead.
He had tried to use all the mystical energy of the Illuminati to defeat the enemy. Instead, he had been beaten and his mind had bene destroyed.
Gates stared at the corpse with anger. " You idiot. Your trick failed an dnow we are leaderless. And worse... "
He gestured to the runis of the Illuminati base. The walls had been shattered, the computers had explode and burnt, and now the remains of the once-mighty cult were gaping open for the world to see.
" Centuries of work, wiped out in seconds! We are finished! "
Gates spat at the corpse and walked off.
_ Amy was stronger than we thought. Obviously we had been stupid in thinking we could defeat such popualr icons; they had hidden strength we could only ahve dreamed off!
_ No matter. Doesn't concern me. I'm just a businessman. All Ihave to do is get away before that idiot Onishima gets here and take my place at Microsoft. And that will be that. Neat. No loose ends... _

Amy lay in the hospital bed, her eys closed, Tails at her side. The doctors said she'd be awake in a few days. Ironically, they'd placed her next to the unconscious Yuji Naka.
Tails held her hand tightly and kissed her lightly on the forehead.
" Get well soon, Amy. "
he stood up and left to tidy up her home for WHEN she got better.
Amy just lay there, dreaming. Dreams thatw ere calmer and happier tha those of just two days ago. In the space of two days, she'd found out that she wasn't worthless. After just two days, she'd made friends and a lover.
After juts two days, she no longer had tears.

FIN

" I didn't want you to get the idea that heroism was a man with a gun. "
Atticus: To Kill a Mockingbird

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