Wassup FFN?
Holy crap on a crack this fanfic is easily going to be my longest so far, which seems appropriate for my 20th piece. It's definitely the one that's taken me the longest! I was definitely wrong before when I guessed this wouldn't be very long! Just a quick message to prepare you all for a slight twist at the end compared to the original scene in the series. You'll know it when you read it. Enjoy!
Peace out! xx
Later on, after Tails went back to the deck after finishing his repairs and taking over the auto pilot, Sonic returning to the deck where he found everyone including Knuckles and Tikal, they decided to relax and continue roaming the galaxy. Sonic and Knuckles got to playing a chess game, Sonia and Rouge had tied down Blaze and starting doing some make up trials on her, Tikal and Cream were nurturing Cheese and Manic, Shadow and Silver were star gazing, bored out of their minds.
Meanwhile, Amy was slowly making her way to the deck where she stumbled across Cosmo unfolding her 'surprise'. The automatic door opened to one of the larger rooms where the fuchsia hedgehog found the young girl decorating the room in streamers, balloons and a large red banner printed 'THANK YOU EVERYBODY'. Amy looked around, staring at how much work she'd done by herself, Cosmo still unaware of her presence in the room.
'What's going on in here?' Amy asked, startling Cosmo.
'Oh, now it won't be a surprise.' Cosmo sighed.
'Tails told me you were up to something. Want a hand?'
'Oh, no no. I couldn't ask that, it's for you as well and-'
'It's ok, you shouldn't have to do it alone.' Amy cut her off before she grabbed the other end of the banner and began hanging it.
Cosmo gave her a smile and thanked her before the pair got to work setting up Cosmo's surprise for everyone. They remained together in a comfortable silence while they decorated their own ends of the room, Cosmo feeling a little awkward and worried the fuchsia hero still had her doubts about her. She wanted to say something, but not only did she not know how to bring it up, she feared if she screwed up she'd meet the hammer.
'I don't hate you, you know.' Amy said out of the blue, snapping Cosmo from her thoughts.
'Oh, uh, really?' Cosmo stuttered, wondering if Amy was reading her mind somehow.
'I know to begin with I was harsh, thinking you and Tikal were here to take a crack at Sonic. I know I was being ridiculous, and I'm really sorry. You know, for being a bitch and all.'
'Oh, no apology needed. I know how much you care for him, I really think he cares for you the same way to be honest.'
'What, really?' Amy asked, turning around to look at Cosmo.
'Yes, he's just not quite ready to admit it yet. From what I can gather I think it's partly because he's shy and also because he wants to protect you.' Cosmo smiled, now facing Amy.
Amy smiled to herself, soaking up the thoughts that others thought Sonic returned her feelings. She held in her squeals of glee and delight before taking in a deep breath and thanking the pretty Seedrian girl and telling her how she was glad they could be friends, much to Cosmo's delight. They fell back into a comfortable silence for a little longer before Amy finished her side and walked over to Cosmo to gather more decorations.
'So, how about you and Tails then?' Amy winked.
'I don't understand?' Cosmo tilted her head and arched an eyebrow.
'Oh, Cosmo, don't be so dim? It's obvious you both have chemistry.'
'Chemistry?'
'The hots?'
'I'm sorry?'
'Cupid's hit you both?'
'Huh?' Cosmo lost her manners for a second, growing frustrated and increasingly confused with Amy.
'YOU LIKE EACH OTHER, SILLY!' Amy exclaimed, trying not to laugh.
'Oh! I get it now… Oh? Oh! What? No! I really don't think so, to be honest I think he finds me annoying.' Cosmo sighed.
'If he found you annoying or anything along the lines of that, then why would he spend so much time with you?'
'Well, uh… I don't know?'
'I'm not saying I'm a genius or anything, this is Rouge's field of expertise, or so she claims. However, it's pretty obvious. Now, come on, everything is basically done in here. I'll go and get the others and say you wanted us to meet you here in say fifteen minutes?'
'Oh… uh, ok! Thank you, Amy!'
Amy smiled before bidding the young girl goodbye and disappearing behind the automatic doors, probably up to the deck where she guessed everyone would be. Cosmo couldn't help but get to thinking about what Amy had said about her and Tails. He couldn't possibly feel that way, not like Sonic and Amy? Although there was nothing definitive on that. Was there? Could he?
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'So what's going on again?' Manic asked.
'I don't know, Amy just said that Cosmo wanted us all to be in room three around now.' Blaze shrugged.
'Then where has she gotten off to?' Shadow questioned.
'Oh, she'll be here soon.' Rouge smiled, knowing exactly where Amy was…
The gang continued walking down the corridors of the Blue Typhoon, headed towards room three, as Amy instructed, where they found the automatic doors to be locked from the inside. Tails arched and eyebrow before entering in the PIN on the security system, only to for him and the others to be startled by streamers and balloons of all different colours and a young, female voice yelling 'SURPRISE'.
'Cosmo?!' Knuckles exclaimed, his heart racing from fright.
'Surprise everyone! I wanted to do something to say thank you!' Cosmo smiled.
'It's beautiful, Cosmo!' Cream exclaimed before embracing her in a tight squeeze.
'You did this all yourself?' Sonia asked.
'Well, I had some help after a certain someone stumbled across my surprise.'
'Who?' Silver asked excitedly.
'Me.'
Everyone turned around to see where the voice came from, only to find Amy standing in the doorway. Rouge flashed her a proud smile as she scanned her up and down, as did everyone else, the boys a little more in shock than the girls. Amy was no longer fashioning her everyday red sports dress, but a beautiful hot pink party gown. Strapless and clung to her petite body down to her hips, sparkling with beautiful diamantes all over. It flowed out a little from her hips down to the floor, still the same beautiful rose colour that matched her complexion and brought out her eyes.
'Wow, Amy! You look gorgeous!' Cream exclaimed.
'Thank you, I promised Cosmo I'd dress for the occasion.' Amy said casually before throwing Cosmo a wink.
'Lookin' hot, hun! You really out did yourself!' Rouge applauded.
'Agreed! Sonia exclaimed as Blaze and Tikal grinned and nodded to agree.
The girls crowded around the fuchsia hedgehog, admiring her dress and embracing Cosmo for hosting such a beautiful party for everyone, while the boys stared on in shock and awe. Sonic's eyes were unmistakably fixated on Amy, unable to deny how truly stunning she was. Knuckles was quick to snap out of his own trance and make the rest of the boys aware of Sonic's gaze.
'She looks great, eh, bro?' Manic winked.
'Huh?' Sonic shook his head as if to wake up.
'Rose?' Shadow arched an eyebrow.
'Oh, right, Amy. Yeah, she looks… uh…'
'Twenty Mobiums says he chickens out!' Knuckles exclaimed, quiet enough for only the boys to hear.
'Nope, forty says he grow a pair and says something!' Silver upped the anti.
'Oh, come on, guys. Give it a rest?' Tails laughed a little and rolled his eyes.
'You're only saying that because you know we're waiting on you and Cosmo as well.' Knuckles smirked.
'Pfft, yeah and no one is waiting around for you and Rouge?'
'W-What? I don't know what you- now let's not change the subject!'
The boys began to laugh at each other before dropping the subject to fire up the speakers and blast all of their favourite tunes. Cosmo and Amy brought in some food before everyone got to having a great time. After a short time, Sonic spotted Amy at the side of the room, staring out the large window into the galaxy. He felt a nudge to find both of his persistent siblings were practically begging him to go and talk to her. He shrugged and figured it couldn't hurt, plus he couldn't negate the fact Amy looked like a goddess tonight.
'How you doin', Ames?' Sonic said with his usual grin, melting the rosy hedgehog's heart.
'Oh, hey there, Sonic! I'm fine, just taking a breather.' Amy giggled, trying to remain calm in her hero's presence.
'That's understandable, you and Cosmo did an awesome job putting this together. Thank you.'
'It's not me you should be thanking, I just helped a little. Cosmo deserves the credit.'
'Well, thanks all the same.'
'I'm glad you're having a good time.' Amy smiled, only to receive a genuine smile in return.
'You know, Amy, you uh… you look, um…' Sonic stammered.
'Sorry?' Amy arched an eyebrow.
'I was just saying you look… really pretty tonight.' Sonic said awkwardly as he let out a sigh of relief.
'Thank you, I'm glad you think so. You look pretty great yourself.' Amy smiled back, proud of how cool she was playing it.
'Well, I didn't exactly go to any effort.' Sonic blushed and scratched his quills.
'I know.' Amy said confidently before turning back to face the galaxy.
Sonic's eyes widened at Amy's short but bold statement, before unable to hide his blushing cheeks and quirky smile before he stayed by her side, star gazing with her. Knuckles and Silver were eavesdropping on the whole conversation, and had Sonic been looking, he would have seen Knuckles handing over forty Mobiums to the grey hedgehog…
'Good news! A Chaos Emerald is close by!' Tails exclaimed as his sensors began flashing.
'That's better than good news! Where is it? How close?' Sonic asked, dashing to Tails' side.
'The monitors are saying it's not far in front of us?'
'Hey guys, there's a meteor almost directly in front of us!' Blaze exclaimed.
'Are you sure?' Silver questioned.
'Really, Silver?' Blaze glared at her futuristic companion.
'Stupid question… Such a stupid question.' The grey hedgehog muttered to himself.
'I see it, is there a chance you can pull it in?' Sonia asked.
'Surely you can, right, buddy?' Manic asked, looking at Tails.
Tails nodded before keying in a few commands into his control panel. Suddenly, two large claw reached out in front of the Blue Typhoon and towards the meteor, grabbing it at full force and beginning to drag it back in. Much to the gang's surprise, the large rock was struggling against their grasp, as if it had a mind of it's own. Everyone watched on intently, staring at it in silence for a few minutes.
'Please tell me that isn't just me?' Rouge questioned.
'Tails, I don't think that's a meteor…' Tikal arched an eyebrow.
'Is that a…' Cream trailed off.
'It's a spaceship!' Cosmo exclaimed.
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'We thought a minute there, you were going to crush our craft!' The small being exclaimed.
'We're sorry, we thought you were a meteor.' Amy smiled.
'For your information, our 'meteor' is a highly advanced spacecraft. Much more advanced than anything you could even begin to comprehend!' Another small being exclaimed.
'Oh, quiet down, Momo. You've already met him, this is Lou and I am Lilan. We are Marmolians.' A more polite Marmolian stated.
'It's nice to meet you all, what has brought you to this part of the galaxy?' Amy smiled politely again.
'Our planet is sick and we are trying to find someone that can help us heal it.' Lou explained.
'Didn't happen to come across a Chaos Emerald, did you?' Shadow huffed, rather harshly.
'Hmm? Oh, you mean this?' Lilan asked as he revealed the light blue Chaos emerald.
'Great! Thank you so much!' Cosmo exclaimed.
'Woah, woah. We didn't say you could have it?' Momo scoffed.
'That's our emerald now hand it over!' Knuckles shout before attempting to pounce on Momo, only to be held back by Manic and Silver.
'Don't mind him… Now, we really need that emerald to save the galaxy, it's really important to us.' Sonic told them with a sweet grin.
'Hmmm, if you take us home and help us restore life to our planet… then we might give it to you.' Momo bargained.
'Well, it's worth a shot.' Blaze shrugged.
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'Here, it's yours. We thank you kindly for bringing us home, and hope you will stay and help us?' Lou said as she handed over the emerald to Sonic as they landed on their home planet.
'Of course we will.' Tikal smiled.
'Planet Marmolim is such a magical place, I'm sure you'll want to explore.'
'What makes you think that?' Shadow arched an eyebrow.
'We have everything here from fortune tellers to magic charms and even powerful love spells!' Lilan exclaimed.
'Love spells?!' Amy exclaimed to herself, loud enough for the girls to hear and giggle.
'Love spells?!' Sonic whispered nervously, loud enough for the boys to hear and struggle to hold back their laughter.
'I sense great chemistry between two of our saviours.' Lou arched an eyebrow as he eyed off Sonic and Amy.
'It's about time someone else saw it.' Rouge smirked, making Blaze and Sonia giggle.
'What? Uh, I don't know what you're-
'They like each other a lot but my brother here won't admit it.' Manic smiled as he gestured to Sonic.
Sonic and Amy began turning vibrant red as they felt as though they were shrinking down to the size of the Marmolians. The others began looking at them and struggled at attempting to hide their attempts to giggle as Momo, Lou and Lilan surrounded the two hedgehogs and tried to work the two out.
'We must take them to Romance Rock! We must bind them for all eternity!' Momo exclaimed before taking both Amy and Sonic's arms and running, Lou pushing them along.
'Feel free to explore the city! Get your fortunes read and try out some charms! You'll have a wonderful time!' Lilan called out before chasing after the two blushing hedgehogs and the two other Marmolians.
'I look forward to seeing how this turns out.' Tikal smiled.
'Twenty Mobiums says he bolts!' Knuckles exclaimed.
'After last time, fifty Mobiums says this sets it in place!' Silver exclaimed.
'Oh dear…' Cream giggled as she turned to Cosmo.
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'Well, if the boys are going to eat and be boring, how about we go and check out what this place has to offer?' Sonia suggested.
'I guess so, although I must admit I don't believe in all this ridiculousness.' Blaze shrugged.
'You don't believe in fortune tellers and charms?' Tikal arched an eyebrow, slightly offended.
'Oh, no offence or anything Tikal. It's just that I know you're telling the truth, you can actually see it, whereas these people claim a glass sphere sees it. I just don't get it.'
'I think whether they're true or not, it's still fun.' Cream smiled.
'Yeah, and if Sonic grows a set in the next hour or so and admits how he feels about Amy, we'll know it works!' Rouge laughed.
'I hope for Silver's sake, after betting Knuckles again, it happens!' Cosmo added.
As the girls wandered into the nearest tent, where they found and elderly Marmolian, they all sat down and asked to have their fortunes told. Rouge, Blaze and Cosmo were all predicted a near future with romance, causing them to blush and second guess entering the tent. Whereas Sonia was predicted success, and Cream predicted happiness. Meanwhile, Sonic and Amy had just finished being dragged to Romance Rock by the three Marmolians they'd saved earlier. They exchanged a few awkward looks before blushing, too nervous to say anything to each other.
'Oh my, Chaos, I can't believe this is happening. I wonder what Sonic is thinking? Is he happier to be here? I hope he is, because this is so romantic!' Amy squealed in her head.
'Jesus, this is ridiculous. I don't believe in this shit to begin with but even worse it's so much pressure! I wish they'd lay off and let me tell her how I feel in my own time… Well, that settles it. I just admitted it to myself?!' Sonic thought, having a minor panic attack internally.
'This is the infamous Romance Rock, the couple must smash in their first step to an eternity bound together.' Lou stated proudly.
'It's said to be the most strongest force in the galaxy, very difficult to break.' Momo added.
'Oh, ok then, what a shame. Well, I guess we'll give it a go anyway. Do you wanna go first?' Amy offered to her hero.
'No, no. After you.' Sonic blushed as he scratched his quills.
Amy shrugged it off before summoning her hammer, much to the Marmolians surprise, before she took one swing at it in the attempt to merely satisfy them, even though truth be told she was determined to shatter that rock. She gave it a loose go, only for it to break into a million pieces, much to everyone's surprise. Seconds later, Sonic disappeared for the city, leaving a cobalt streak behind him.
Amy hid her hammer again and let out a disappointed sigh, slightly embarrassed at Sonic's departure, feeling as though that revealed how he really felt. She shook her head and gave the Marmolians a sad smile, only for them to exchange serious and curious looks before turning back to her.
'How odd?' Lilan stated.
'Not really, it's not exactly a rare occurrence.' Amy mumbled.
'No, what's odd is he feels for you so strongly yet he still ran away?' Lou arched an eyebrow.
'Huh?'
'You don't see it? Because it's blatantly obvious to us.' Momo smiled.
'You're kidding?' Amy smirked.
'Go and see a few fortune tellers… they'll tell you.' Lilan winked.
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'Is that Sonic?' Knuckles asked as he noticed a flash of blue headed towards him and the boys.
'Hide me?!' Sonic exclaimed as he screeched to a halt in front of them.
'That answer your question?' Shadow questioned the echidna.
'What happened, pal?' Tails arched an eyebrow.
'They took us to some rock that was part of the steps to bind us for eternity!' Sonic exclaimed.
'So?' Silver smirked.
'They told us to move onto the next step we had to smash the rock, but it was next to impossible so I wasn't worried. But the girl crushed it into little pieces without breaking a sweat?!'
'You bolted straight after, didn't you?' Manic face palmed.
'See, it's only now that I realise how stupid that was. Dammit!'
'Ah, don't worry about it. Come and get a feed, let the girls deal with it.' Silver smiled.
'Yeah, but after that then Faker has to deal with them.' Shadow smirked.
'And if history dictates anything, that won't be pretty!' Knuckles added.
'Thank you for captioning my nightmare!' Sonic snapped.
As the guys tried to laugh it off and get a substitute for chilli dogs into the cerulean hero, Amy was shuffling her way into the main street looking for the rest of the girls. Momo, Lilan and Lou had left her a short while ago to find their other friends and suggested she explore the city, although she certainly wasn't feeling up to it. She walked past a few small markets, ignoring the Marmolians throwing 'love' charms around her neck because she was 'exuding romantic fail'.
'Stupid hedgehog. I swear one day I'm going to show him what for. Stupid hero, dumb, jerk, stupid, blue…. Argh!' Amy mumbled before finding the girls walk out of a tent.
'Hello, Amy! How was Romance Rock?' Tikal smiled.
'You're brother's an idiot.' Amy huffed, turning to Sonia.
'Oh, for the love of Chaos, what did he do now?' Blaze rolled her eyes as Sonia placed a friend hand on Amy's shoulder.
'What he does best.'
'He ran away?' Sonia arched an eyebrow.
'Bloody sook.' Rouge mumbled.
'What happened?' Cream asked sadly.
'Long story short we had to smash the rock even though it was meant to be next to impossible and I managed to do it easily, so he must have freaked out.'
'How strange?' Cosmo said.
'Not really. I overheard one of the Marmolians that gave me this charm that I should go to some pond with him and then we will fall desperately in love with each other.' Amy mocked, still quite upset.
'One of them said something like that to us too? Would hurt to give it a try?' Sonia smiled as she tried to lift up the fuchsia hedgehog's hopes.
'We could set up a trap and make it next to impossible for it to fail!' Rouge exclaimed with glee.
'Let's do it!' Blaze and Cream exclaimed.
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'Alright Amy, now you just go and wait up on the hill for Sonic to see you. Knuckles had a word with him, he'll stop and talk to you, trust me.' Rouge winked, hiding behind a large group of trees with the girls.
'How'd you manage that?' Amy asked.
'Are you seriously asking that question?' Blaze arched an eyebrow, only for Amy to nod.
'Ok, ready?' Sonia asked.
'Wait! Some is already there… It's Tails!' Cream exclaimed.
'Do you think you could get him to move, Cosmo?' Tikal asked with a sly smile.
Oh, uh… Me?' Cosmo blushed.
'Yep.' Rouge smirked before pushing Cosmo out into the open.
She froze solid before shooting the ivory bat a look, who merely shrugged and coaxed her to walk forward. The green Seedrian carefully made her way up the hill, around the trap and towards Tails who appeared to be looking over the magical city. She had no idea how she was going to do this without getting given crap for it later, then again, she figured she had no choice.
'Hello, Tails.' Cosmo smiled as she walked up next to the kitsune.
'Hey there, Cosmo.' Tails smiled.
'What are you doing up here by yourself?'
'I was just thinking how much I love working with my awesome teammates… especially you.'
'Oh! Uh, really? I haven't done anything?'
'You did, though. You were the one that found us and asked us to help you defeat the Metarex, don't ever forget that… You're not sorry you found us, are you?' Tails chuckled.
'What! Of course I'm sorry, how could you think that? WAIT! I mean I'm not sorry, that came out wrong!' Cosmo stumbled on her words.
'It's ok, I know what you meant. Anyway, I'll see you later Cosmo!' Tails said as he began to walk away.
'Wait, Tails! Hang on just a-'
Cosmo was quickly cut off after tripping over a rope… the rope. In her flustered attempt to regain herself and apologise to the yellow kitsune, she had completely forgotten about the trap, let alone it's whereabouts, causing her to trip over it and headed for an almighty face plant. Tails quickly turned around, hearing her scream before catching her. Seconds later they were sprung upwards, flying through the air with a second much to their shock. It quickly subsided as the reflection from the pond dazzled in their eyes, causing them to stare in each other at all before falling in the pond, holding each other.
'Are you ok?!' Cosmo exclaimed.
'I'm fine, you? Oh, look at how beautiful the moon is?' Tails smiled.
As the duo stared at the giant planet before them, Amy and the other girls stepped out of hiding to look at the happy 'couple' in the pond. The girls eventually turned to Amy, whose eyes were hanging out of her head, mouth agape and face pale. It was only a matter of seconds before-
'ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?! WE GO TO THIS TROUBLE FOR THAT STUPID BLUE HEDGEHOG AND IN THE END I HAVE TO SIT BACK AND WATCH YOU TWO GO GAGA OVER EACH OTHER?! THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT-'
'Sonic will never hear the end of this…' Sonia smiled, causing the rest of the girls to giggle.
'You can all do what you want, but I'm going save him!' Amy exclaimed before jumping into her small ship and leaving the Blue Typhoon.
'Dammit, Amy!' Knuckles exclaimed before returning to the shattered pieces of the Master Emerald.
After shooting at Dark Oak's beasts, Black Narcissus and Pale Bay Leaf, using the Master Emerald's powers with the Sonic Power cannon, it shattered into hundreds of little pieces, as did Knuckles' heart. Rouge could swear she'd never seen him so emotional, happy or sad. He tried to see the light in it, being that the Metarex were now seriously weakened and unable to move. The watery planet began to rapidly expand, taking the Metarex leader and Sonic, unbeknown to him, with it. Amy insisted on saving her hero after he is rendered unconscious and begins dreaming he is in battle.
'Someone must go after her!' Blaze insisted.
'How?! Shadow and Silver are already out there and we can't get anything else trapped?!' Manic exclaimed.
'What, so we just leave her and our brother to drown?!' Sonia cried.
'What are we going to do?!' Cream cried.
As the gang aboard the Typhoon continued to argue in frustration and fear for Sonic and Amy, the fuchsia hedgehog was headed full force towards the watery planet surrounded by large roots before her ship got tangled up in the vines, seconds away from being crushed. Quick to think, she ejected herself from the craft and leapt into the planet, determined to continue what she set out to do. Little did she know, she would be rendered unconscious in the process. As she floated down towards her hero, he gradually came to, seeing her limp body float down towards him.
He quickly snapped out of his hazy trance as he watched her head towards him before he jumped into action. Even though Sonic's ultimate weakness was water, he was determined to catch her and bring her back to safety. She fell into his arms like they were made for her, before slowly bring her arms up to his as if she was slowly waking up.
'Sonic…'
'Amy?'
Sonic stared down at the rosy hedgehog in awe, unable to deny how beautiful she look, despite the fact she was unconscious. Suddenly a large energy sphere surrounded the pair, making them fully both come to and healing them. The rest of the gang watched on in amazement as the two hedgehogs held hands and floated back towards the Typhoon. Just as surprised as they were.
'W-What was that?' Amy stuttered as they landed on the outside of the Typhoon.
'Uh, I don't know.' Sonic answered still holding her hands.
'Guys, look!' Silver exclaimed, pointing towards the watery planet.
Everyone turned to look back at the planet that the hedgehog pair had just escape to find it was transforming, condensing into what looked like a giant seed, the Metarex revealing it as Final Nova. As it finished transforming it began pulsing, sending out rays of light that began sucking out the life of everyone, except Cosmo. The young Seedrian girl panicked, unsure of what to do, before Sonic, Shadow and Silver managed to grab the Chaos Emerald and turn into their Super forms before fleeing the Typhoon in the attempt to destroy Final Nova.
As the others collapsed on the ground, slowly beginning to drown out, Cosmo began to cry but watched on as the Super Hedgehogs headed full force for Final Nova. Suddenly, the 'giant seed' created a powerful force field, sending the three hedgehogs flying backwards before freezing them in their places, completely immobilized.
'C-Cosmo… H-help.' Cream mumbled as she crawled to Cosmo's side.
'I'm so sorry, Cream. I'm going to fix this, I swear everything is going-
'Cosmo? Cosmo, my darling daughter.' An enchanting voice cut her off.
'Mother?' Cosmo whispered.
'Cosmo, my love, you can save them. You must destroy Final Nova and the Metarex once and for all. Remove the magenta amulet from your chest, you will then transform into your final phase. Head for the planet, and destroy it, all will be ok, my child.' Earthia, Cosmo's mother said gently before her voice disappeared.
'C-Cosmo, don't d-do it.' Tikal begged.
'It's all going to be ok.' Cosmo smiled before running towards Tails and sitting him up.
'Cosmo? Cosmo! Don't go, don't do it!' Tails exclaimed as he came to.
'Tails, listen to me. Once I'm fused with the planet, fire at Final Nova with the power canon, then-'
'Cosmo, that will kill you!' Tails cut her off.
'No, I can remove myself before it hits. Everything is going to be ok, now go!' Cosmo exclaimed before gently kissing Tails' forehead and running…
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'C-Cosmo! G-Get out of here!' Sonic stammered, still frozen.
'Once I fuse with Final Nova, all three of you must head straight for the power cannon. Understand?' Cosmo instructed.
'Cosmo, n-no!' Silver exclaimed.
Without another word, Cosmo removed the amulet from her chest, radiating an illuminating light from her being and throwing the three hedgehogs back towards the Typhoon, allowing them to head for the power cannon. The young girl was no longer a young girl… her hair immediately grew, flowing down her back as the roses in her hair burst into bloom. Her tiny figure blossomed into that of a woman as her dress flowed down her legs and her shoes changed to stylish heels.
She then dashed through the force field and fused herself with Final Nova, immobilizing the final Metarex being. Everyone stared on at her beauty, finally regaining their energy, amazed, scared and shocked. Cosmo then raised her arms and looked back at the Typhoon before giving a slight nod, as if to tell Tails to fire at her.
'Now, Tails.' Cosmo smiled.
'I can't do it!' Tails exclaimed.
'We have to trust her, she can do it!' Knuckles exclaimed.
'She will live, and we can all go home.' Sonia smiled.
Tails hesitated for a little longer before beginning to cry, his hands still resting on the trigger before Sonia, Amy and Cream came to his side… and helped his fire. All of a sudden, a huge explosion went off after they fired, far more abrupt than expected. Seconds later, Sonic, Silver and Shadow returned back to the Typhoon, slowly relieving themselves of their super forms and watching the explosion continue.
Everyone waited nervously for Cosmo to return… did she survive? The light suddenly disappeared, as did Final Nova into millions of little particles… leaving a beautiful, graceful Seedrian woman floating in the air with a large grin on her face before she made her way slowly back to the Typhoon, met by cheers and cries.
