Falling Skies

Chapter 10

Finale

Talto awoke in a white and black limbo. He rubbed his head, not entirely sure what could've just happened. His eyes were heavy and his head was in pain. He stood up slowly and looked around. "Ugh… what the hell just happened? Did, am, am I… dead?" Suddenly something weird happened. "That depends." Talto's eyes nearly shot out of his head. "What the…who was that?" As far as he knew, there was no one in this endless void but him. But then three figures came across what seemed like a hill, or a mountain, a cave? Anyway one was blue, one was red, and one was yellow. Talto squinted his eyes trying to make out who was approaching. One stood out above all others.

Talto ran over the colorless hill. He stopped in front of the yellow figure. "DAD! Oh my God, I can't believe you're alive! Or, are we… you know…" Talto rubbed his finger across his neck. Talto's dad laughed. "Talto. You've grown up over the last 13 years without me. You've learned more than I could have taught you in a lifetime. You know where we are." Talto rubbed his chin. "So… we're not dead. But we're not alive either…so…we're between… we're…" He tapped his chin. "We're in the… 'Middle World' aren't we?" Talto's father nodded his head "That's right. And do you know who this is?" Talto looked at the Blue figure. "Is that…Sonic the Hedgehog?" The hero rubbed his nose with his index finger and laughed. He looked at the Red figure, who was now clearly red and black. He observed him closely. "Umm…. No dad, I can't say I recognize him. The character crossed his arms and closed his eyes. "Let me give you a hint." The character snapped his finger, and a small flame burned above his palm. Then it hit Talto elemental powers, a voice that somewhat resembled Eon's. "Are… are you BLADE THE HEDEGHOG!" Blade gave him a thumbs up. "Yep. I've heard you met my son." Talto was confused. "How did you know?" "I'm like Eon's guardian. He doesn't know it, but I'm always guiding him to the right track. Just like your father to you and your brothers."

"Yea, but… why are we here?" Sonic explained. "You see. When a hero dies, God sends him here. Some turn into guardian angels, and watch over other heroes. The others chose." "Chose what?" "They chose whether or not to die. They can chose to move on, or go back to reality. You know comas?" Talto nodded his head "Yea… that's sort of what this is." Talto thought for a second. "So right now… I'm in a coma?" his father sunk his head for a second. "Yea. Pretty much" Talto was a tad bit annoyed. "Then why didn't you come back! We need you dad, Sonic! Hell, we need Blade! I know you couldn't defeat him before, but now you have all of us! We can help you!" "TALTO!" his dad screamed. "We couldn't go back because we are guardians. Blade here is truly the only one that can go back. And that's only because his black emerald already resurrected him. The negative force of the chaos emeralds created it, so the positive forces will resurrect him again." Talto looked at him. "Really?" Blade closed his eyes again. "Yea. And according to my studies of Eons life… he has 5 of the seven." Talto moved his hands around. "Is that what Eon is doing here? He's looking for the emeralds so he can bring you back to life?" Blade nodded. "That's what we're looking for. You might not believe me, but the time-space continuum is being altered the more Finitivis is alive. So if we don't destroy him before the universe is destroyed… well… the universe will be destroyed. And his physical body is all that you saw there. His spiritual body is still on my planet. When you or Eon destroy him here. I'll destroy his spiritual body. And then it will be all over." Talto looked away in thought. "So, how did his spiritual self be left at your planet, and not come here with his physical self?" Blade answered him "I'm not sure, maybe because he wanted it to be hard for someone to actually kill him. But I guess he didn't expect this to happen." Blade pounded his fists together.

Talto's dad shoed his son away. "Well Talto, you better get back. You need to end this. And the worlds will be at peace. Finally." Sonic smirked. "Finish what I started." Talto began walking backwards, still facing the group. "So how exactly do I go back?" Blade explained "You just have to go back to where you entered." He pointed his finger towards the small strip of flat land that Talto woke up on. Talto nodded and began to walk back to the people. "But wait, what about…" right there they all disappeared into a blinding white light. "Hey! Wait! I-I have more questions. What about…" Talto also faded away as he walked after them.

Suddenly he could hear explosions, screaming, and a familiar voice. The center of his vision came into focus slowly. "Talto get up! Oh God…please, please Talto get up! Please." Jinx, I'm sorry there's nothing more we can do." Talto sat up and inhaled loudly, catching his breath like his heart just stopped because well… it did.

Jinx was crying right in front of him. At first his head dangled, but then she hugged him and his chin was forced up onto her shoulder. "TALTO! Oh thank God your alive!" Tears poured down Talto's back. "It's good to be back…Jinx." Yuso sat behind him. Smiling bigger than he ever had before. Yuso helped Talto stand up. Whizzing could be heard above them. Eon was having an all out battle with Finitivis in the air. Beams of energy charged between them, sparks and fire surged and fell around Talto and them. Talto looked at Finitivis who was swirling around Eon, obviously planning something. Seeing that Eon was simply fueling his form with rage, Talto remembered an old story Sonic would tell him. "The servers are the seven chaos." He said out loud. "Chaos is power, power enriched by the heart." His eyes turned purple and flames surged around him. "The controller is the one that unifies the chaos!" He concentrated on the power of the chaos emeralds that Eon had in his possession. He shot into the air, now a bluish color, his coat and shoes were white now instead of their usual black. He intercepted Finitivis in mid air and grabbed his fist. He flung him across the courtyard still floating. Eon drifted next to him. They looked at each other and nodded their head. "Let's do this."

They both shoved out there hand. "Chaos…" They put out their other hand. "RIFT!" A black void shot out from them and out at Finitivis. He saw this and quickly evaded. Other voids shot at him, all failing. Talto and Eon charged at sound breaking speeds towards Finitivis. "ENOUGH!" Eon screamed. "I'M TIRED OF THIS ASSHOLE! LETS JUST KILL HIM NOW! HE'S RIGHT WHERE WE WANT HIM!" Talto knew this was Eon's rage getting the best of him. "No! wait!" they spun around him for a couple seconds.

"NOW!" They shot up into the air spinning into a circle. The wind force sucked Finitivis up with them. They stopped nearly on a dime, Finitivis continued into the air, all the way into space. "Chaos…BLAST!" A destructive orb of fire and energy exploded. Finitivis disintegrated in space. "YES! YES! YES! FINALLY! THAT BASTARD IS GONE FOREVER! HAHAHA!" Talto looked over at the now celebrating Eon and grinned. Talto sunk to the ground. Eon's flames shut off and he fell to the ground, without Star's comfort there. But it wasn't long before she was there next to him. Talto smiled now realizing that it was over, at least for him. Eon had to deal with more on his world. Finitivis' spiritual self was there, but he trusted Eon, and his dad. They would get the job done.

Jinx ran up to him, and so did Kate. They both at the same time hugged him. Somewhat of a bad idea then struck him. "Umm. Are you two?" Kate smiled and rubbed Talto's arm. He looked at Linci and almost twitched. Both of his brothers laughed hysterically. Eon slowly regained conciseness as Star petted the top of his head. His leg kicked. "St-St-Star?" He murmured. She hugged him and teared up. "Oh thank God… I thought I lost you!" Eon was still half awake. "Ha…not yet." "Eon…there's something I need to tell you." Eon brushed the streams of hair on the top of star's head. "I love you to." She jerked his head back and sucked on his lips hard. Their hands cradled each other's head. Talto laughed in relief, truly over the fact he wasn't the only one about to have this his weight on his shoulders.

Weeks past. The citizens were being escorted back into their once lust city of Mobotropolis, now renamed "New Mobotropolis." Talto and the others looked through a pair of binoculars on a balcony at the foot of the mountain range. Which served now as a monument to the brothers' heroism. Yuso lowered the binoculars from his eyes. "There it is guys… New Mobotropolis. You know Talto, the people have voted for us all to be on the council, even you, Eon, Star. Eon smiled. "Thanks but no thanks. Me and Star really need to get back home. It's been nice serving with you. He said it like he was saying goodbye to old war friends. Which he was. They all said their goodbyes and took off into space with one of Eggman's old star ships. Talto and the others looked into the sky as a white dot soured across it. Talto saluted it. "Good luck. Bring Blade back. Save the universe." Jinx rubbed Talto's arm as he said that. Yuso looked back at the city, Linci leaned against the railing. All of them were at peace. All of the world was at peace.

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