I know its been more than two days, but this is it. The chapter that I've been waiting for since I started getting ideas for this fanfic. This chapter would be the longest of them all. Whether you would like it or not is up to you.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Sonic characters in this fanfic. If I did, then there would be a game with all these characters by now.
Chapter 10: Demolition
It was the last day of the month. That meant that when it was midnight tonight, Cosmo and the teleporter flower will both finally become invincible. Tails went in the workshop to check on her. But when he got inside, the teleporter flower wasn't even there!
"Oh no, where is it?" Tails asked himself as he frantically searched through his workshop. But he still couldn't find the flower.
Just then, he heard insane laughing overhead. Tails went outside and saw Bokkun flying towards the Freedom Fighter HQ (which also served as Chaotix HQ until their base was rebuilt).
Everyone heard the laughter and headed to HQ. Bokkun broke in and held one of his mini TVs. "The boss has a new message for all of you!" Bokkun told them all as he put the TV on the table.
It turned on, and Dr. Robotnik began, "Well, well, well. It's been almost a month since we last met? But to get straight to the point, I used my super-extreme scanner and analyzed your plant from far away. I found out that if you destroy both the plant girl and the flower at the same time under a full moon, you not only gain the teleporting powers, but you will also make everyone under your command! I'll be unstoppable!" Then the doctor started laughing evilly for exactly 3 minutes and 46 seconds. When he finally stopped laughing, Eggman continued, "In other news, there has been a sighting of a familiar hedgehog around my new HQ. Care to take a look?" Then the scene switched to night time, and it seemed to be up high. Looking down, in the distance, they could see Sonic's mother. She seemed to be walking into the building that the recording was taking place on.
"It's probably just Dingo transformed as our mother to fool us into coming to the HQ." Manic hypothesized.
As if on cue, Eggman spoke, "And to prove that it isn't just Dingo transformed as your mother, I'll have Sleet try to transform the real Dingo into your mother. Ready, boys?"
"Yes, Dr. Robotnik." Sleet answered. He pointed his remote at Dingo, pressed a button, and transformed him. It was obvious that Dingo transformed as their mother wasn't even close to the real thing.
Robotnik concluded, "So I suggest that those three hedgehogs come to our headquarters as well! Here's the map to show you where to go." A map appeared on the screen. Everyone recorded the directions. After exactly 2 minutes and 17 seconds of displaying the map, Eggman asked, "You got it all? Ok, good. So meet me tonight at, oh, 11:00. I don't want you to miss the moment of truth! Now, if you actually plan to succeed, then you should bring as many friends as you can. The more, the merrier!" Then Robotnik started laughing evilly for exactly 4 minutes and 38 seconds.
Bokkun sniffed with joy, "I've never seen the boss this happy before!" He turned to Sonic and the others and spoke to them, "So for your explosion pay today," then he started calculating to himself with his hands. Bokkun then answered, "The explosion today is... a nuclear holocast!" He threw the bomb at them. Sonic and the others frantically tried getting the bomb out of the HQ, but it was too late. The bomb exploded. Everyone was covered with black ashes. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! IT WASN'T A NUCLEAR BOMB AT ALL! FOOLED YA!" Bokkun laughed as he went away. "This calls for a celebration snack!"
Sonic brushed the black ashes off of him and told the others, "We have to decide who's going. Then we can prepare."
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After hours of preparing, the brave group consisted of Sonic, Tails, Cream, Manic, Sonia, Sally, Bunnie, Antione, Shadow, Rouge, and Amy. They all followed the directions and got to the location by 10:50 p.m. Large, dark buildings were in the area, all surrounding one, very tall building. The moon was blocked by all the smog the buildings produced, but the tall building in the center seemed to go past above the smoke.
"I suppose this is a new Robotropolis for Buttnik." Sonic mused. He and the others were at the edge of the new city, and SWAT-bots were surrounding it.
"That tall building has to be the main base." Tails noted. "Eggman said that he'll kill Cosmo under a full moon. He can't do it under all this smoke, so Cosmo must be kept at the top, above the smog."
Sonic looked again at the SWAT-bots. They didn't seem to notice him yet. Sonic and the others huddled in and whispered, "Here's the game plan: We let those SWAT-bots take us to the main base. My siblings and I will make our way to where Eggman is and confront him, while Tails flies up to the top and rescues Cosmo. The rest of the team will attempt to bring the building down."
"So, that's your plan, is it?" Manic asked.
"That's pretty much it." Sonic answered.
Manic thought, then responded, "Well, I like it!"
Sonic gave a thumbs-up and got out of their huddle. He ran towards a SWAT-bot and shouted, "Yo! The main hedgehog is right here!"
The SWAT-bot looked closely at Sonic, then replied, "Dr. Robotnik is waiting for you. You and your friends follow me." Immediatly, more SWAT-bots surrounded Sonic and his friends, just to make sure the heroes won't suddenly run away.
"This plan of yours better work." Sonia whispered to Sonic.
Meanwhile...
Cosmo was tied to a chair while Eggman's henchmen and henchbots were partying around.
"This is the best night of our lives!" Grounder exclaimed.
Scratch agreed, "All we have to do is press the 'kill' button when our boss tells us to! But in the meantime, we can party on down! Ba ha ha ha!"
"You guys are so dumb!" Coconuts groaned. "We can't just 'party'. We have to open bottles of booze!" He shook a bottle of beer and flipped off the cap as the others cheered.
"At last my uncle will let us have the time of our lives!" Snively sighed as he sipped his martini.
"But what if those hedgehogs DO suceed?" Sleet questioned.
"I just hope Sonia comes along." Dingo whispered to himself.
"Now that you mention it," Bocoe began, "It would be wiser for Eggman to just kill the plant girl and the flower already! Then Eggman will already be the winner!"
"But if he did it that way, it'll show that he's just a coward!" Decoe said. "Our boss will be daring enough to make the heroes TRY to stop him!"
"Just stop talking and start partying!" Bokkun shouted with a mouthful of marshmallows, licorice, and pretzels.
Cosmo sighed, "You know something? I'm bored."
Everyone looked at Cosmo. Bocoe suggested, "Maybe we can have some fun with her. You know, before she DIES that is..."
"Ok, Bocoe. Let's play... Truth or Dare!" Decoe announced.
Meanwhile...
Sonic and the others were now at the tall tower. The base was a mixture of all the famous structures; it had the shape of the Empire State Building, the 'legs' of the Eiffel Tower connected to the building, and above the smoke they could see a silhoutte of the top of Big Ben.
"The boss is waiting for you at the 200th floor." The SWAT-bot told Sonic. "That means he's waiting halfway to the top."
Sonic told the SWAT-bot, "You don't have to take us there. If I can navigate through unknown jungles, I'm sure to find the 200th floor."
The SWAT-bot leered at Sonic, then answered, "Very well. Just don't try anything funny, or else we'll annihilate you." Then the robot headed to the outer edge of the tower property.
Sonic began to the others, "So while we confront EggFace and rescue Cosmo, the rest of you come up with a way to take down the building." Then Sonic, Manic, and Sonia went inside while Tails started flying to the top.
Amy looked at the Eiffel Tower legs and thought outloud, "I could swing my hammer at those legs and break them off. That way the building won't have so much support."
"But the hammering would create lots of noise, and then we'll get caught." Shadow noted.
Sally used NICOLE to scan the building, then told the others, "NICOLE says that inside the building there's a control room. One of the buttons sends a radio signal for all SWAT-bots to shut down."
Bunnie then spoke up, "I could find the button, but I need a certain someone to accompany me."
Antione immediatly announced, "I shall do eet!"
Sally was glad that the days when Antione had a crush on her were over, since he was now married to Bunnie. "Alright, you two. NICOLE said that the control room takes up the entire 60th floor, but it is heavily guarded." Sally told the others.
"Zey'll never know we snuk past zem!" Antione declared.
"Be careful, y'all!" Bunnie said as she headed to the tower with Antione.
Rouge then asked the rest, "Now what?"
Cream suggested, "We could all have a Tic-Tac-Toe tournament."
"Let's have a Tic-Tac-Toe tournament." Rouge said.
Meanwhile...
"Alright Scratch, Truth or Dare?" Sleet asked.
"Dare!" Scratch answered.
"I dare you to drink 100 shots of liqour in 1 minute!" Sleet dared with a grin.
"Oh no, not THAT again!" Scratch gasped. He got out the liqour and started glugging. After 1 minute, Scratch asked drunk, "Did I win, or did I win?"
"You lost!" Grounder answered.
Cosmo exclaimed, "That's why you shouldn't drink so much!"
Bocoe whispered to Decoe, "Our plan is working perfectly! All we have to do now is ask the plant girl to tell us about the Freedom Fighters!"
So Decoe asked Cosmo, "Truth or Dare?"
Cosmo answered, "Truth."
Then Decoe suddenly took out a picture of Tails and asked her, "What do you know about this Freedom Fighter?"
Meanwhile...
Tails had been flying for a long time, but he finally made it over the smoke and at the clock faces. He looked into a window of the bell room and saw Cosmo tied to a chair. Tails could also hear what was they were saying, and he realized that Cosmo was just asked to talk about Tails.
Cosmo looked at the window and saw Tails there. She smiled at him and turned back to the others. "Oh, THAT fox. I mean, the others were fine to me, but him!" Cosmo told the others. When Tails then saw that she winked at him, he knew Cosmo was pretending.
"I see winking. Who were you winking at?" Dingo challenged.
"No one." Cosmo quickly responded.
"Oh, ok." Dingo said and sat down.
Cosmo continued, "Even when we first met, that fox was bad enough! He always tried to take me out for dinner. And he ALWAYS ate salad right in front of me!"
"You getting this, Grounder?" Scratch whispered. "The fox is a vegetarian."
"Hold on, I haven't finished putting the other stuff on yet." Grounder replied. He wrote on his notebook, "Uh Tal uv Faled Luv: Bi Gruder" (A Tale of Failed Love: By Grounder)
By the time Cosmo talked about Tails mutated form, Tails quietly used a wrench to unlock the window. Then by the time Cosmo explained how Tails wanted to get 'personal', he opened the window without a sound. After Cosmo told the others about Tails never having time for her, Tails made his way to the rafters.
"And by today, that fox is ALWAYS trying to find me!" Cosmo exclaimed. As if on cue, the rafter Tails was on broke and he got into view.
"Hey, there's that fox right now!" Bokkun shouted.
Meanwhile...
Sonic, Sonia, and Manic were making their way to the 200th floor. Every SWAT-bot they passed just looked at them. Soon, the three hedgehogs finally made it to the 200th floor. The only thing they could see were hallways on the edge of the entire floor and a door. Sonic and the others broke the door open. The room was very large, but also very bare. There were only a handful of SWAT-bots standing in front of the walls, more SWAT-bots around the mad doctor himself, a control panel, a computer monitor, and a roboticizer. Sonic, Manic, and Sonia didn't know what to expect.
"Well, well. It is about time you hedgehogs got here." hissed Robotnik. He looked at his watch and continued, "It is 11:10. And to think you were faster."
"You wanna come at me, Ro-Butt-nik? Then bring it on!" Sonic taunted.
Eggman Robotnik began, "That's the only problem. All I have are 20 SWAT-bots in this room. I could call for more, but then that'll still be too easy for you." He snapped his fingers and SWAT-bots that were standing behind the hedgehogs grabbed them.
"Hey, let me go!" demanded Sonia.
"You want them to let go? Ok!" Eggman chortled. The SWAT-bots put the hedgehogs into the roboticizer. "Back then when I imagined the three of you finally in a roboticizer, I'd just roboticize you already." Eggman told them. "But now, I want you to witness me being the leader of everyone in the entire world!" He checked his watch again and ended, "Which will be in about 10 minutes."
Meanwhile...
Antoine and Bunnie were heading to the 60th floor. The SWAT-bots thought that the two were going to accompany Sonic and his siblings at the last minute. Since they were programmed to know that no matter what, Eggman will succeed, the SWAT-bots let Antoine and Bunnie go.Both of them turned a corner and made it to the 60th floor. Down the hallway in front of them was a door with two SWAT-bots at the sides.
"Well, I guess those robots are the only things that stand between us and the door." Bunnie noted. "We need to get past them without them noticing us."
"Ah oui!" Antoine agreed. He looked around the hallway, then exclaimed, "Voila! I found some-ting!" Antoine pointed to a vent and explained, "We can climb vrough zee ventilation shaft, crawl unteel we reach zee control rum, and get out zat way!"
Bunnie used her roboticized arm to break off the vent gate. "How will you know where you're going?" Bunnie asked.
Antoine froze. "Er, I'm not sure. But eet always works en zee movies! I'll just eemetate 'em!" Antoine answered. He climbed into the vent and exclaimed, "See? Az eezy az taking bon-bons from a-- WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!" Antoine was being sucked through the shafts and kept moving all around the building unwillingly.
Meanwhile...
When Tails suddenly came into view, the henchbots of Eggman were waiting to see what will happen next, especially Grounder.
Cosmo then had an idea. "I can't believe it! Now you're trying to impress me by being a HERO?!" she exclaimed, pretending to be furious.
Tails got the idea, so he talked back, "Well it's the only thing I HAVEN'T tried!"
"But NOW you try?" Cosmo challenged.
"I needed to get my experiments done first!" Tails replied.
"So is that all you care about? Your experiments?!" Cosmo yelled.
Soon Grounder was right beside Cosmo, writing down the facial expression. So Tails grabbed a nearby empty beer bottle and shouted, "There were the only things that were there for me since you went out with..." Tails paused to think up of a name. "Hank!" And he threw the bottle, which conked Grounder out cold.
"Ha! You missed me!" Cosmo taunted.
"But I got more!" Tails shouted, holding more empty bottles. He threw two of them at Scratch and Coconuts, knocking them out. "I'll get you from afar!" Tails yelled as he threw a bottle at Snively, also conking out.
"Wow, that fox also has bad--" Sleet began, but he got hit by a bottle before he could finish.
"The fox has bad what?" Dingo asked, then he got knocked out by another bottle.
"The kitsune is out of bottles! What will he use ne--" Bocoe noted before he got knocked out by a chair.
"How come all of us keep getting cut--" Decoe asked until another chair conked him out.
Bokkun looked around the room and asked, "How come everyone is asleep?" Then Bokkun got hit by an end table, knocking him unconscious.
As Tails untied Cosmo, she noted, "I never realized you were strong."
Tails replied, "Well, if you work with machines alot, it gradually makes your muscles tougher." When he untied Cosmo, the large bell inside the room started bonging. Tails looked at his watch and exclaimed, "It's 11:15! We have 45 minutes until midnight!"
"Then let's get going!" Cosmo spoke as she grabbed the teleporter flower. She and Tails went down the steps to the highest floor. SWAT-bots were patrolling the hallways, making sure that the plant girl doesn't escape.
"Shall we continue our fake argument?" Tails asked.
"Let's." Cosmo answered.
Tails went first in the hallway and shouted, "Well at least give me back my antique chairs!" Then Cosmo threw a chair at a SWAT-bot
"You happy now? Or do you need some more?" Cosmo said as she threw another chair at a cluster of SWAT-bots.
Meanwhile...
Antoine finally was bursted out of a vent. "Where am I?" he asked himself. Antoine turned around saw SWAT-bots and a chair sliding towards him. "WHAAAAAAAAAA!!" he screamed as he started running away from the cluster. The SWAT-bots and the chair crashed into Antoine and kept sliding toward a window.
CRASH! All the SWAT-bots, the chair, and Antoine slid out the window. Antoine fell a long way down, but then managed to grab on a ledge before he could fall down longer. "Zat was close." he sighed. Antoine looked up and saw a monstrous looking face stare back at him. He yelped and shut his eyes, but kept his grip. When Antoine looked again, he saw that it was just a gargoyle. He climbed up the gargoyle and looked through the window in front of him. Inside, lots of monitors, keyboards, and control panels scattered the room. "Zere eet eez!" Antoine exclaimed. He crashed through the window and went inside. Antoine searched for the door and opened it.
"Freeze, intruder!" one of the SWAT-bots guarding the door ordered. Antoine shrieked and frantically swung his sword around, shouting gibberish that was supposed to sound like karate yells.
"Antoine!" Bunnie shouted. Antoine looked around and saw that he actually managed to slash the robots to shreds. "Come on, let's press the magic button." Bunnie told him.
"Oui, yes... wherever eet eez." Antoine mused as he gazed upon all the control panels.
Meanwhile...
"5... 4... 3... 2... 1... Zero." Robotnik counted down. He turned on the monitor only to see all his minions unconscious and both Cosmo and the flower gone. "No, it can't be!" Eggman growled. "WAKE UP!"
The henchmen woke up with a jolt. "Hey, where did those plants go?" Coconuts wondered.
"And where is that two-tailed fox?" Snively asked.
"That kitsune came in here?!" Eggman yelled. "Arrgh! They could be anywhere by now!" He turned to the hedgehogs and exclaimed, "That's it! All of you are getting roboticized if it's the last thing I'll do!"
"I will never let you do that!" Everyone in the room turned around and saw a hooded figure in the doorway. Taking off her hood, she continued, "You shall never roboticize my children!"
Everyone else was so still, including the SWAT-bots. Eggman regained his senses and yelled at the robots, "What are you standing around for?! Fire, fire, FIRE!!"
Just in time, Manic picked the lock on the roboticizer door, then Sonic immediatly pushed his mother out of the way of the bullets. The bullets then hit the roboticizer, the computer monitor, and even at other robots. Soon, these things burst into flames.
"Relax, everybody!" Manic calmly told his family members. "The fire's there, and all of us are here at the doorway!"
Dr. Eggman laughed, "So you think you have won already, huh?" He took out a remote control and pressed a button. Looking out of the window, the four hedgehogs saw at the edge of the city something massive rose from the ground. It then stomped its way through the buildings and toward the main base. "It won't be long before my Egg Titan will come and finish you off once and for all!" Dr. Robotnik laughed.
"Hold on, Egg Titan? You mean it's going to be easier to destroy than the Egg God?" Sonic asked.
Eggman replied, "Uh, no. In greek mythology, Titans were considered to be far more supreme than gods and ruled the universe!" (Author's note: If that little fact is actually not true, then blame the movie 'Remember the Titans' for fooling me.)
"Huh. Ok..." Sonic said. The mechanical monster stepped closer and closer while the fire started spreading to other floors via electrical cables lining the walls. "I can still take it on."
Meanwhile...
Cosmo and Tails just finished their 3rd floor of battling SWAT-bots. "Going down to the next floor!" Tails announced. He and Cosmo went down the steps and onto the 4th highest floor, only to find it covered in flames.
"Now what?" Cosmo asked.
"I suppose we have to get back to the top! But this time to the VERY top!" Tails suggested.
"As long as it's away from the fire." Cosmo replied. She and Tails hurried back up the stairs through the bell room and up outside on the top.
"We're safe for now. All we have to do is find a way down." Tails spoke.
Meanwhile...
Antoine and Bunnie were still checking all the buttons when they noticed some of the lights going off. "I'm not sure what's going on, but it must be bad." Bunnie noted.
"At leest zee button eez right in front of us!" Antoine announced as he pointed at the button. He and Bunnie pressed the button before it burst into flames in time with the others.
Meanwhile...
"WHY?!" Shadow yelled as he saw Cheese the Chao won against him. "How could I lose against such inferior opponent?!"
"You should never underestimate Cheese when it comes to tic-tac-toe!" Cream told Shadow.
"But I am the ultimate life-fooooorrrrrrrrmmm!" Shadow shouted.
"Uh, guys? I think the SWAT-bots are shut off." Sally noted. In the distance, the SWAT-bots that were guarding the property slowly fell over.
"That's my cue!" Amy announced as she got out her Piko-Piko Hammer and started whacking an Eiffel Tower leg.
"I think we shouldn't let our guard down yet." Rouge spoke to the others as she was looking in one direction. Everyone looked around and saw the largest mechanical robot they ever saw.
The machine had a basic reptile shape, but it had 2 different pairs of arms and two large legs. Its front pair was very muscular, and both hands had metal fingers sharp enough to slash something. The second pair was thinner, yet flexible like tentacles, and at the end of each arm was a large gun. Each foot had spikes underneath, and the legs shifted so the robot can be crawling or upright. Its tail was very long, and at the end of it three, large metal bands curved inward to form a claw.
The robot grabbed on to the building with all limbs, which included the tail, then started climbing up it.
"The robot's not the only problem!" Shadow exclaimed, pointing upward to the building. The tower had flames growing on some of the floors.
"Cosmo and Tails are up there! I must save them!" Cream declared. Before anyone could protest, Cream grabbed Cheese and started flying up to the top of the building.
A few minutes later, Antoine and Bunnie made it out of the towering inferno. "Where's Cream and Cheese?" Bunnie asked.
"They went up to save Tails and Cosmo." Shadow answered. "We can't stop them now."
Meanwhile...
Cream had flown for a long time. She made sure to pass the robot without it noticing and made her way to the very top.
When Cream and Cheese had climbed over, Tails exclaimed, "What are you doing up here?"
"We're going to save you!" Cream responded.
"But we can't find a way down!" Cosmo noted.
To make matters worse, Miles had flown up and got on the top as well. "Well, well, well. I certainly hit the jackpot!" Miles laughed. "I not only get the target, but I also have fun with my past victims!"
"What are you talking about?" all the others asked.
Miles laughed some more, "I guess I'll have to educate you on what I mean!" He grabbed Tails and began, "Lesson one: Does the following scene look familiar to you?" Miles then pushed Tails' lips against Cream's.
Cosmo answered, "You just re-enacted Tails and Cream's kiss!"
"But I never kissed Cream before! Honest!" Tails exclaimed.
"That's where lesson two comes into play," Miles continued. "Does the scene look even MORE familiar to you?" Then he kissed Cream right on the lips.
"So YOU were pretending to be Tails at that time?" Cosmo asked.
"Why not?" Miles replied. "I heard about your situation, so I decided to shake things up a bit!" At once, Tails, Cream, Cosmo, and even Cheese were right in front of Miles, scowling angrily. "Ok! I give up!" Miles shouted as he started running off the tower and jumped off screaming.
"So, you really DON'T have an interest in me?" Cream asked.
"Of course I don't have an interest!" Tails responded. "I mean, I still like you as a friend, but not as a girlfriend!"
"It's ok. I always knew you were in love with Cosmo." Cream spoke.
"Hey!" Tails shouted. He then shrugged and replied, "Ok, it is true. Just don't mention it a lot. Until we're older."
Cosmo then reminded, "We still need to find a way to get down before the fire comes up!"
Meanwhile...
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" yelled Miles as he fell down. Scourge and the others held a net and caught Miles. Miles started telling Scourge, "I'm sorry, but I failed to kill Cosmo for you."
"I know." Scourge answered. "If you suceeded, you wouldn't have fallen 400 stories to the ground."
"So now what?" Alicia asked.
Scourge sighed, "I think we should just abort Operation: Power-Up. There'll be other times to stop those Freedom Fighters."
"Besides," Fiona Fox began. "It's a lot more fun when the heroes are always there for us to stop them!" The Supression Squad drove away.
Meanwhile...
While Cream and Cheese were looking around for a way down, Tails and Cosmo sat near the edge and talked about all that has happened since her return.
"So, you were captured by the Supression Squad while your evil twin posed as you?" Cosmo asked.
"Yes." Tails replied.
"And back when I first landed on this planet, you were secretly split between me and Fiona?" Cosmo then inquired.
"That's right. I had shown strong feelings for you, yet I also had feelings for Fiona too. That was the reason why I got very nervous since you returned." Tails explained. Then he added, "But now, I got over the fact that she's with Scourge now, and that I never actually loved Fiona. All it comes down to is that--"
"I love you." both Tails and Cosmo said at the same time. Before they knew it, they were in deep liplock. (Author's Note: Wow, I've been writing a lot of these lately. Now, as one of Jehovah's Witnesses (see my profile), I do not encourage kids to make love relationships and go into kissing. This kissing scene is one of those 'don't try this at home' sort of things.)
After Tails and Cosmo finally pulled away, they decided to join Cream and Cheese in finding a way down. They couldn't use the stairs, or else the fire would get them. There wasn't any way to climb down, and there wasn't any materials in sight.
"Maybe we could use our flying ability to at least make the fall smoother." Tails suggested. "If I twirl my tails and Cream flaps her ears, we might create enough air resistance to have us fall slower."
"Great idea, Tails!" Cosmo agreed.
So Cosmo hung onto Tails while Cheese held on to Cream. Both Tails and Cream stood at the edge, then dropped off. Tails twirled his tails while Cream flapped her ears. Soon they were falling slower, until they all made it down safely.
"Now all that's left are Sonic and his siblings." Tails said.
Amy, meanwhile, had just broke down the first tower leg. "One down!" Amy shouted happily. She headed towards the next leg and started whacking it down.
Meanwhile...
Sonic, Sonia, Manic, and their mother had kept hurrying around the tower to find the stairs.
"This way!" Sonic announced, heading down a hallway that led to a window. But when he got to the window, the Egg Titan was peering through with leering robotic eyes. It then slashed off part of the tower, making a cutaway of the floors the robot was on. Sonic, Manic, and Sonia quickly got out their instrument weapons and fired at the machine. All the lasers directly hit the robot, yet there wasn't even a mark.
"Ok..." Sonia began. "If our weapons won't damage this robot, then--"
"A more direct attack will!" Sonic shouted as he sped towards the robot and launched himself off the building.
"Sonic, no!" the other family members warned, but it was too late. Sonic had hit a force field, but not any force field. This one was electrical, so Sonic got quite a shock, literally.
"YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!!" Sonic yelled as he was being electrified. He then got knocked off and fell back on the building in front of his family members. "Don't worry, I'm fine." Sonic managed to say as he got up. "Believe me, I encountered worse."
"Come on! The stairs are right this way!" Sonia announced, pointing in a direction. But when they moved that way, the Egg Titan moved its tentacle-like arm infront of them, pointed a gun, and rapidly fired bullets. The hedgehogs quickly went the other way, but the other arm was in their way and fired more missiles. They dodged them, but the missiles hit other parts of the building that made it a bit more unstable. Sonic and the others looked down from the edge and saw the feet and tail ready to kill them if they dropped down.
"It's a good thing this robot is not a big, dangerous one or else this would be REALLY difficult!" Manic grumbled with sarcasm.
CLANG! The second tower leg got knocked off. The building started to groan as it leaned toward the unstable side.
"And to make matters worse, the building is now imitating the Leaning Tower of Pizza!" Manic shouted.
"It's PISA!" Sonia corrected angrily.
"No time to argue now! The only way left is up!" their mother pointed out.
"Since this floor is too damaged already, we'll go up to the top." Sonic replied.
Sonic and his family had hurried toward the top of the building. They made it up the top floor and entered inside the clock. The only path to the bell room was by swinging across with the ropes of the counterweights, then climbing up the pendulum, then crossing the gear train, then riding the escape wheel towards the anchor, then finally by climbing up the anchor and going up the stairs. If you didn't understand what I just said, stop reading this fanfic, go search all over the internet for info on how pendulum clocks work, then come back and comprehend how to get to the bell room.
"It looks complicated, but we'll handle it!" Sonic told the others. He and his family grabbed on to a rope, then started swinging until they could reach the next rope. They continued this method until they could reach the pendulum's rod. Once they got on, the hedgehogs climbed up the rod, careful not to be shaken off by its swing. Afterwards, they got off and crossed the gears until they were at the escape wheel. Each hedgehog got on a tooth of the wheel and rode up to the anchor. One by one, the hedgehogs got on an arm of the anchor when it hit their place. Finally, Sonic and the others crossed the rocking anchor and went up the stairs until they were at the very top.
"This is as far as we could go, but there just has to be a way to get down safely!" Sonia announced.
"The main thing is that we're all together now." their mother told them. The Egg Titan soon climbed up the top and was face-to-faces with Sonic's family.
"Together to the end, that is!" Sonic exclaimed.
"Sonic, I have a confession to make." Manic began. "I was the one that took your chili dog that one time!"
"What?!" Sonic shouted in shock.
"Enough! We have to get off now!" Sonia yelled. So the family of hedgehogs joined hand in hand, then jumped off. Everyone landed into the arms of the others waiting down below.
CLANG! The third tower leg broke off. Then the tower started to lean back and forth. Once the last tower leg couldn't take the weight, it broke off and the whole tower crashed down. The Egg Titan was too late to get off, so it plummeted to its destruction.
Eggman and his minions got out of the rubble, everyone bruised and burnt.
"Hey, we survived! Ba ha ha ha!" Scratch laughed.
"Wow, that was fun! I want to do it again!" Grounder exclaimed.
Coconuts yelled, "You fools! Eggman's plan has failed! We can't just do it again!"
"And the plan was so perfect, too!" Snively complained.
"I could turn Dingo into a super robot, but the plan is pretty much busted anyway." Sleet groaned.
"I just wonder what went wrong?" Dingo asked.
"Maybe Eggman made the mistake of waiting until a special moment instead of just killing the plant girl right away!" Bocoe suggested.
"Or maybe we shouldn't have entertained her for the opportunity to know about the Freedom Fighters!" Decoe responded.
"Who cares? We finally had a party!" Bokkun yelled happily.
"That's it!" Dr. Robotnik growled. "If I ever see those animals once again, I swear I would pulverize them once and for all!" He turned around to see Sonic and the others glaring at him. "I surrender!" Eggman pleaded. He and his minions ran away to build a new base somewhere else.
Tails checked his watch and declared, "It's 11:59! That means that Cosmo is about to become invincible!" He turned to Cosmo happily. "Now you can stay with us forever!"
"...Actually, I have to go to my home planet." Cosmo told him sadly.
Tails was distraught. He really thought that Cosmo would have wanted to stay on Mobius with him. "Oh. I see." he said quietly.
Cosmo then reassured him, "Don't worry, Tails. I'll be seeing you again soon." When it was midnight, a bright light shone around Cosmo and stayed like that for a couple of minutes. Once the light stopped, Cosmo and the teleporting flower were gone.
"Come on, everyone! Let's celebrate with chili dogs!" Sonic announced.
"Yeah!" everyone else (except Tails) cheered.
"And pretzels and wings!" Manic shouted.
"Dogs, pretzels, wings!" they chanted as they paraded back home. Tails was the only one that wasn't as lively as the others. All he did the rest of the night was stare at the night sky.
Yep, that's pretty much it. But its not over yet! Read the epilogue!