Note: Last chapter! Whoo!
Don't own Sonic or any other pop culture references I mention.
This chapter title is Rouge's theme song title from Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, because I like that song and it matched the theme of the chapter. And just so you know, this story takes place in the future plzkthx.
Chapter Ten: Fly in the Freedom
It has been many, many years since my harrowing experience as a teenager. I have grown to look like a respectable man, if for the fact I look much like my father, the late Sonic. I can't say I'm a hero, like he was, but I do heroics in my own crazy little way. I'm a cop, actually. Or, I was, before I retired.
Yeah, I'm that damn old.
Uncle Shadow is still alive, amazingly, but then, he's immortal. He'll live long after this world dies.
I have no children, I'm not married, I spent my life single. I don't mind. I don't need to verify my existence through the life of another. I know how alive and well I am. I don't need some simpering woman clinging to me to remind me I'm alive.
Anyway, I spent the remainder of my life as best I could. I wanted nothing more than to be the son my parents always wanted me to be.
I'm not rich, I'm not fabulously wealthy, I'm not even all that successful. I'm successful in my own way.
It's been a long ride, filled with bumps and bruises, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
I love this life that I've been allotted, and I love being alive.
But...
You know...
I've been alive for a long time now, and one might say I'm getting a little tired of it.
Every once and a while, I'll hear the fleeting laughter outside my bedroom window, or the sound of a smirk through my mind.
I'll see flashes of the time that was, a time when my own powers overwhelmed me.
And I smile.
I smile because I know their waiting.
I smile because I felt their love.
I smile because they forced me to live beyond my wildest dreams.
I am Scooter Takeshi Hedgehog, and it's finally time for me to go.
It's been a great ride, but I think it's time to end it.
Goodbye, Uncle Shadow.
Hello, Mom and Dad.
I'm back. It's been a while.
As I fly up to Heaven, I take one last look at the procession below, carrying a casket towards my grave.
Scooter Takeshi Hedgehog
2008-2108
A Great Son, A Great Brother, A Great Friend
May His Soul Rest For Eternity in the Heaven We Pray For Him
May He Rejoin Fallen Loved Ones, and Live Among Them For Eternity
Find Peace
R.I.P
END