Yes, it's true. The Jersey Devil is back and better and more sexy than ever. There are many reasons to explain my absence: 1. Computer Problems; 2. I was writing this last chapter and my flash drive broke, so I lost everything; 3. I was too lazy to write
I've decided to nix my previous idea of giving the final two fights each their own chapter, so you're getting both fights in one chapter. On the the legal crap...
Disclaimer: All Sonic Team characters are property of Sega. Deacon Sparks, Kane and Karen are all owned by me, Jersey Devil.
Chapter 12: The Final Battles
Setting: Deak vs. Chaos
Chaos was running wild in the streets of Station Square, tossing around cars and streetlights into buildings and into the ground. Chaos roamed the streets, leaving a path of destruction in the path behind it. However, this made it easy for Deak to follow.
"Looks like if I just follow all these piles of crap," Deak said to himself, "I'll get to that bastard." Deak continued to drive on his motorcycle down the streets, which where littered with burning rubble, a result of Chaos' rampage. All of a sudden, a loud explosion went off behind Deak and jolted him off of his motorcycle and into the street. Deak looked behind him to see where the explosion came from and who started it. As Deak rose to his feet, a tall, lean humanoid figure emerged from the smoke and revealed its self to be Chaos.
"There you are, you son of a bitch!" said Deak as he got into a fighting stance, "Ready for an ass kicking!" Chaos repsonded by forming a ball of chaos energy in its hand and launching it towards Deak, sending him flying backwards into the side of a parked car. Deak used the hood of the car to get up to his feet. Chaos slowly approached Deak. Deak pulled out his M-9 and fired four shots into Chaos' chest. The bullets were absorbed by Chaos' body. It fired the shots out of its chest into the midnight sky.
"Damn, this fight is gonna be tougher than I thought," Deak said to himself as he formed an electric sphere in his hands...
Shadow vs. Kane
Shadow and Kane where both floating in midair in their super forms. Shadow charged Kane and pulled back his arm to punch his wolfbat adversary, but Kane dodged the punch and grabbed Shadow by his throat and threw him out of the window of his lair into the streets. Shadow lifted himself to his feet and again hovered upwards. Kane quickly dashed to the window of his lair and watched Shadow regain his composure.
"Face it, Shadow. You cannot defeat me. I am too powerful," bragged Kane and he formed large, red balls of chaos energy in his hands and shouted, "CHAOS FURY!" Small burst of chaos energy shot out of the red balls of energy in Kane's hand and raced toward Shadow. The hedgehog did his best to dodge the attacks, but the last few shots of energy came into contact with Shadow, launching him into a nearby window on a brick building. Rouge looked on nearby, helpless to aid the one she loved.
"Shadow...You have to beat him," Rouge said to herself as she watched the action. Kane turned his head to face Rouge and remarked, "Don't worry, love, I'll be back real soon." Kane flew over to the window and saw Shadow laying in a pile of broken glass, struggling to his feet.
"You really are pathetic, Shadow," said a laughing Kane, "I was expecting more of a fight from you, but I guess I was wrong." Kane launched a beam of chaos energy toward Shadow. Shadow saw the beam heading toward him and Chaos Controlled out of the way. Kane turned around to see where Shadow was.
"Was this what you were expecting?" said a voice from beside him. Kane turned his head and was met with a rush of chaos energy to the chest, which caused him to crash onto the concrete of the street. Shadow launched another ball of chaos energy toward Kane, but the wolfbat used Chaos Control to move out of the way of the attack and position himself behind Shadow. Kane threw a chaos energy beam at Shadow from behind, but Shadow hovered above the attack and faced Kane.
"You're pretty strong Shadow," complimented Kane, "But you're still inferior to me."
Deak vs. Chaos
Deak and Chaos were in an all out brawl in a spacious area of Station Square, filled with bright, flashing lights, commercial billboards on titantrons and news tickers (AN: Think Times Square). All of a sudden, one of the titantrons blanked out and created a small explosion. This was a result of Deak, who used the electric energy in the screen to form an electric ball in his hands. He hurled it toward Chaos, who tried to dodge the attack, but the projectile was traveling too swiftly for Chaos to dodge it and it connected with its upper chest. The attack sent Chaos flying backwards into a window display of a department store. Deak quickly rushed into the window and began to search for Chaos, but after a minute of searching, he had no luck.
"God dammit! Where the hell is he?" complained Deak. As he turned his head, he was met with punch to the face by Chaos. The force of the punch sent Deak stumbling backwards over the nearby cashier counter. Chaos approached the counter where Deak had stumbled upon, until a flash of light at its eyes attracted his attention. Chaos turned around and saw a security guard holding a flashing and pointing a gun at it.
"Freeze!" said the security guard. Chaos turned around and glared the guard in the eyes. The guard fired two shots at Chaos and the humanoid figure absorbed the bullets and fired them back at the guard, killing him instantly. Chaos then turned around and saw Deak crouching down on the counter he had previously fell over. Deak stretched out his arms and let out an enormous amount of electricity towards Chaos. The electricity rushed into Chaos' chest and sent him flying into an elevator. Deak rushed toward the elevator but the doors closed before he could get to Chaos. Deak noticed a nearby door that had a sign that read "STAIRS". Deak opened the door and began to rush up the stairs, checking each floor to see if Chaos was there. Just as Deak approached the door at the fifth floor, he heard a loud crashing noise from inside the door. When he opened it, he saw that the door to the elevator shaft had been blown down and he saw Chaos on top of it in a fighting stance.
"You know, you could've just gotten off normally," joked Deak, "No need to knock the damn door down." Deak rushed toward Chaos and formed an electric ball in his hands, but Chaos stepped toward Deak , grabbed him by the waist and tossed him over its head. Deak collided head first with a mannequin, it collapsing onto him. Deak threw the mannequin off of his body and leaped to his feet. Chaos rushed to Deak's side and fired a beam of chaos energy toward him. However, Deak ducked down to avoid the attack and pressed his hands on Chaos' chest. All of lights around the two combatants blew out and surge of electricity rushed throughout Chaos' body, which sent it flying to the other side of the room. Deak chased after Chaos. When he was close to it, he hopped up on a nearby counter and jumped off it in order to get a height advantage on his opponent. However, just as he was about to form a ball of energy, Chaos grabbed him in midair by the throat and tossed him out of a nearby window. Fortunately, Deak was able to regain his composure and land on his feet in the middle of the street. However, once he landed, he noticed a piece of glass sticking out of his upper left arm. He yanked it out and he instantly felt a sharp pain and blood began to run down his left arm.
"Shit!" reacted Deak, " Just what I need!" He then glanced up at the window he was thrown out of and noticed Chaos standing where a sheet of glass used to be. It jumped out of the window and landed on the nearby sidewalk. It conjured up a ball of energy and threw it at Deak. Deak ducked and rolled to his right in order to avoid the attack. The attack missed Deak and hit the fuel tank of the car behind him, causing a great explosion.
"Enough screwing around," said Deak in a serious tone as he rose to his feet, "From this point on, you're my bitch."
Shadow vs. Kane
Shadow and Kane had taken their battle to the streets of Station Square. It had been a back and forth affair with much offense. This left Shadow breathing heavily after a while.
"What's wrong Shadow?" taunted Kane, "Are you tired already?" Shadow smirked has he stared down Kane.
"Nope. I'm just getting started," replied Shadow. Kane formed an enormous red ball of chaos energy in his hands.
"Well, let's see if you can handle this!" shouted Kane, as he launched the ball of chaos energy towards Shadow at a very fast speed. Shadow floated upwards, narrowly missing Kane's attack. The ball of chaos energy collided with the side of an office building, causing an explosion which shattered the windows of the ten floors above and below the blast. Shadow Chaos Controlled behind Kane and went into a spindash. Kane fired a beam of chaos energy toward Shadow, but it reflected off of Shadow's spindash and nailed Kane in the chest. Shadow followed up the attack by spindashing Kane into the concrete ground in the street. The attack formed a dent in the street in the shape of Kane's body. Shadow hovered down to the street to take a quick rest. Almost immediately afterwards, Kane flew up from the hole in the ground and smirked at Shadow.
"Do you really think that could defeat me Shadow?" snarled Kane, "I am the Ultimate Life Form. You can never defeat me!" Kane launched an abundant amount of small red balls of energy toward Shadow at an extremely fast rate. Shadow used Chaos Control to dodge Kane's balls of energy.
"No, Kane, I am the True Ultimate Life Form," barked Shadow, "All you are is..." a small smirk came across his face, "...a faker." This enraged Kane.
"I'll show you 'faker', you bastard!" screamed Kane as he launched a crescent shaped wave of chaos energy out of each of his hands. Shadow hovered upwards to avoid the attack, but the waves of energy shifted upwards and slammed into Shadow's chest. The attack sent Shadow flying into the midnight sky, over the building behind him and into the roof of a car parked near the other side of the building. Kane flew over the building Shadow had gone over and spotted him on top of the roof of a white car. He formed a white, glowing ball of chaos energy in his hands and launched it at the car. Shadow noticed the ball of chaos energy rushing toward him and Chaos Controlled out of the way. The ball hit the white car, causing it to explode. Kane smirked until he saw Shadow hovering in front of him.
"You annoying pest!" said Kane angrily, "I'm going to finish you once and for all." Shadow got into a fighting stance and the two adversaries charged each other...
Deak vs. Chaos
Chaos had been keeping Deak on his heels with a series of fast attacks of chaos energy. "Dammit, this son of a bitch won't quit," Deak said to himself in a frustrated tone as he took cover behind a car to get a quick rest, "I need to get the upper hand against this guy and quick."
Suddenly, the car Deak was hiding by was lifted in the sky. He looked up and saw Chaos lifting the massive car over its head with ease. Chaos attempted to smash the car over Deak, but the porcupine was able roll through Chaos legs. Chaos dropped the car and attempted to turn around to face Deak, he was met with a rush of electricity to the chest, sending it slamming head-first into a newsstand. Deak rushed over to attack Chaos, but Chaos jumped to its feet and blasted Deak with a shot of chaos energy, sending him flying into a nearby titantron, causing the screen to crack. Deak fell down from the screen and crashed violently onto the cement of the sidewalk underneath. Chaos approached Deak and picked him up his legs and began to swing him around by it over its head. Chaos let go of his leg and Deak crashed jaw first into a traffic light hanging from a lamppost and then fell to the ground. Deak slowly got up on his two feet. He felt some dripping down from his mouth and looked down and saw it was red. He spit on the ground and he quickly realized he was spitting blood.
"No big deal," said Deak, shrugging his injury off, "Just a little blood." Deak saw Chaos approaching him and got into a fighting stance. Chaos shot a beam of chaos energy toward Deak, but Deak fired a shot of electricity at his feet, launching him into the air, over the attack. Deak charged two electric orbs in his hands and fired small electric shots at Chaos at a very fast rate. All of the shots Deak fired hit Chaos, stunning the creature. Deak landed on his feet cleanly, spread his palms on the concrete and released currents of electricity from each hands, both of which impacted Chaos. The attacks shot Chaos backwards into a lighted billboard sign high in the sky. Sparks flew from the sign upon impact and Chaos fell over a hundred feet onto the ground. However, a canopy top below the ad broke the steep fall. Chaos got up from the fall rather quickly, but when it got its eyes looking head, Deak was in its sights. Chaos tried to rush Deak, but he sidestepped to his left and Chaos ran past him. Chaos stopped when it realized its mistake and formed a ball of chaos energy in its hands. Deak also charged an electric ball in his hands. They released their attacks at the same time and the two energy-filled orbs collided with each other, creating an enormous explosion that sent both Deak and Chaos flying backwards. Deak crashed through a wooden wall that was set up for small paper flyers while Chaos crashed through the front windshield of an SUV.
"Agh crap!" said Deak to himself. His entire body was now in pain as he slowly dragged himself to his feet and he dragged himself onto the other side of the wooden wall, waiting for Chaos to appear and preparing himself for its next attack.
Shadow vs. Kane
"Have you had enough yet Shadow?" asked Kane in a snicker. Shadow did not answer Kane's question and rushed over to him. Shadow pulled back his fist and drove it into Kane's chest. Shadow backed up and spindashed Kane through the window of a skyscraper. Shadow dashed through the window he had sent Kane through but as soon as he passed, Kane fired a silver beam of chaos energy into Shadow's chest. Shadow was launched backwards and he fell violently on the concrete road. Kane emerged from the broken window and smirked at what he just did to his adversary. Kane flew down to where Shadow had landed and picked him up by his chest fur. Kane spit in Shadow's face and threw him violently into a lamppost. Shadow got up to his feet and wiped the spit off of his face. However, Kane followed up the throw by launching a chaos energy beam at Shadow. Shadow ducked and rolled over to his left and narrowly avoided the beam, which split the lamppost in two. Shadow picked up his head to face Kane, but when he looked ahead, no one was there.
"Looking for me," said a voice from behind. Shadow turned around and was hit in the face with uppercut from Kane, his punch fueled by an orb of chaos energy covering his whole fist. The punch sent Shadow flying into the dark sky. Kane flew up and as Shadow came back down, nailed him in the back with a Crescent Kick, once again fueled by chaos energy, to keep Shadow in the sky. Kane then Chaos Controlled himself higher in the sky, to where Shadow was. Kane gave Shadow a five-punch combo to the ribs and followed up with another chaos energy-fueled Crescent Kick. The next couple of minutes were spent by Kane doing anything to keep Shadow off the ground, using a wide variety of punches and kicks, all enhanced by chaos energy, and even sometimes just flying into him to create a hard impact. After a while, Kane had let Shadow fall close to the ground before giving him an uppercut to chest. Kane followed up by flying above Shadow and driving him into the concrete by just stepping on his back and letting gravity bring them down. Shadow hit the pavement with such a high velocity that is caused an enormous dent around Shadow's body. Kane flew several feet above Shadow's body. He conjured up a huge orb of chaos energy in his arms, one twice his size. Kane took a good long look at Shadow, his eyes barely open and grasping his chest in pain.
"Well, I guess this is the end," said Kane with an evil smile, "I have to say that I am much disappointed with your effort, Shadow. I was expecting more of a fight, but we can't always get what we want, can't we?" Shadow did not respond, he just lay there motionless. "I can't believe it. I lost. I...failed," Shadow thought as he stared up at Kane.
"And don't worry about your batgirl friend, Shadow," continued Kane. "I'll take good care of her," he said evilly. This statement hit Shadow like a ton of bricks. "Rouge! I can't give up now. I have to keep on fighting...for her!" Shadow thought to himself as Kane prepared his attack.
"Goodbye, Shadow the Hedgehog!" shouted Kane as he released the immensely sized ball of chaos energy at Shadow. The ball of chaos energy hit the dent and exploded upon impact. A large cylinder of red light light formed around the dent in the street and shot upwards by several hundred feet. When the light cleared, there was nothing visible in the dent, except for the fact that it had turned entirely black.
"Ha! My attack must've turned him to ash. I am truly the strongest," laughed Kane.
"I wouldn't celebrate too early," shouted a voice from the top of a building on the corner behind Kane. Kane turned around and what he saw made his blood boil. There stood Shadow, with his arms crossed and a huge smirk on his face.
"That was an impressive move," said the hedgehog. Shadow created two golden balls of chaos energy, which covered his clenched fists, and charged Kane, "But now it's my turn!"
Setting: Station Square Train Station
The scene at the Station Square Train Station was a bleak one. The room was consumed with darkness and fear. Amy, Cream, the Chaotix, Sonic, Tails and Knuckles had all taken cover there to stay away from the action.
"We shouldn't be here," complained Sonic, "We should be out there, helping Shadow and Deak. That's it! I'm go...exhale..ing...to.." That was all Sonic could say before he collapsed to the ground for shortness of breath.
"Oh yea, Sonic, you're in fighting shape," replied Amy sarcastically, "You need to rest. Just have faith in Shadow and Deak. They'll pull through for us."
Meanwhile, at another part of the train station, the Chaotix were watching over the unconscious Karen.
"I'm bored," complained Charmy. Espio and Vector rolled their eyes at Charmy. Vector came over to Charmy.
"We gotta watch over this girl for Deak," replied Vector, "We promised him that we would." The eyes of the light blue foxgirl slowly opened and she saw a crocodile talking to a young bee. She heard the crocodile say, "We told him we'd take care of her, so let's do just that." Karen's eyes shot wide open at this and she crawled backwards to the wall. Vector saw her scamper.
"Oh good, you're up," said Vector. He and Charmy approached Karen, but she hopped up to her feet and got in a fighting stance. Vector began to talk, "No need to w-umph," was all he could get out before he was met with a roundhouse kick to the face.
"You're not taking me hostage, you bastard," screamed Karen, "I'm a black belt in karate and I'll beat the green out of your ass." Vector got and tried to explain himself, but Karen gave his a crop to the throat and a fist in his face.
"Stop, Karen!" shouted Espio from behind, "He's not gonna hurt you!" Karen turned around, set to attack, but she stopped when she saw the purple chameleon.
"You were the one who was with Deak, right?" asked Karen. Espio nodded "yes" and introduced himself. He went on to explain what happened in the warehouse and how Deak had saved her.
"So Deak risked his life to save mine?" asked Karen.
"Yep," replied Espio.
"Where is he?"
"I don't know. He went on to fight Kane," replied Espio. All of a sudden, a flashing bulletin appeared on a nearby television screen. A female news reporter was sitting at a news desk to read some breaking news.
"THIS IS BREAKING NEWS. A NEW DEVELOPMENT IS UNDER WAY IN THE TAKEOVER OF STATION SQUARE. IT SEEMS THE ROBOT REBELLION HAS DIED DOWN, THANKS TO THE RETURN OF OUR HERO SONIC THE HEDGEHOG. HOWEVER, THERE ARE OTHER FIGHTS TO BE WON. WE HAVE FOOTAGE FROM A LOCAL DEPARTMENT IN STATION SQUARE. IT SHOWS TWO CREATURES IN AN ALL OUT BRAWL INSIDE. REMEMBER, THIS IS A CHANNEL SEVEN EXCLUSIVE."
A black and white video was shown of the fight Deak and Chaos had in the department store earlier. The tape ended with Chaos throwing Deak out of the window.
"Oh my god! Deak!" screamed Karen in horror. She began to run for the exit, but Espio grabbed her arm and said, "You can't leave here. It's too dangerous." Karen broke from Espio's grasp.
"I don't care," she replied, "I'm going to him. I know where he is because I've shopped at that store before." She ran out the exit and set off to where Deak was fighting.
"What do we do now?" asked Charmy.
"We follow her," replied Espio and the Chaotix raced after Karen.
Deak vs. Chaos
Deak was searching all over the spacious area of Station Square for Chaos, but he had no luck. "Maybe that last blast took him out," bragged Deak. However, that was not the case, as a parked car was being hurled in his direction. Deak turned around in time to spot the flying car and threw a shot of electricity at it, causing a midair explosion. When the smoke cleared, Chaos stood several feet way from Deak. He smiled at his opponent and charged up an electricity ball in his hand. Chaos threw a ball filled with chaos energy at him. Deak sidestepped to his right to avoid the attack and fired the electric ball he had in his hands at Chaos. The ball nailed Deak in the chest, sending it backwards into the street. Deak raced ahead and jumped off a car that was burnt from a previous explosion. After hopping off the car, Deak rapidly fired small shots of electricty at Chaos, taking it off of its feet. Deak approached Chaos, but the creature swept Deak off of his feet. Chaos got up and began to crush Deak with its arms. Deak could feel his ribs breaking from Chaos attack. Deak tried to form some electricity around his body, and he was successful. The electricity shocked Chaos and broke its attack. Deak dropped to the ground and began to clutch his chest in pain. Chaos snapped out of its trance and picked up Deak by his quills and began to swing him by them over its head. It lead go and Deak went flying back into the wooden wall he had been blown through earlier. Deak was in a pile of dirt and was covered in it from his waist down.
"Shit! I can't take anymore of this abuse," Deak thought to himself.. Almost instantly, Chaos hopped through another opening in the wooden wall, grabbed Deak by his neck and threw him out of the hole he came through. Deak landed in the front windshield of a parked car.
Meanwhile, not so far away, Karen and the Chaotix arrived at the department store that was shown on the news. "Where's Deak?" asked Karen. Espio scanned the area and then said, "There he is!" and pointed over by a red car, whose windshield Deak was sitting through. Chaos approached the car and lifted Deak up by his underarms. Chaos tossed Deak into the air and when the porcupine came back down, it gave him a roundhouse kick to his back, sending him flying onto a median between two streets in the area. Deak used a nearby bush to help himself up to his feet. However, Chaos was just a few yards away and it had Deak in its sights. Chaos worked up an enormous ball of chaos energy, one that was the size of Deak's body. Chaos launched the energy ball at Deak with great force. The size of the attack, the close distance between the two combatants and the force behind the throw caused a great deal of pain to Deak when the ball of chaos energy hit him. He was hit with such sheer force that he was jolted into the sky and was once again knocked through the wooden wall and bounced around inside for about five yards in.
Karen had witnessed the entire partaking and tears began to form in her eyes. She tried to charge Chaos, but Espio and Vector held her back.
"Are you crazy!" shouted Vector, "That thing will kill you!"
"I don't care! I need to help him," said Karen through her tears. But she knew that it would be foolish to try to attack Chaos. "You gotta fight through it, Deak. I know you can beat it. I have faith in you," she silently though to herself as tears began to sting her eyes and run down her cheeks.
Meanwhile, Deak was lying face down in a pile of dirt. "Too much...pain...Can't continue," Deak thought to himself. However, something seemed to come over him because found the energy to get up to his knees. "I feel something coming over me. I can still keep going. I gotta fight this bastard. I CAN BEAT IT!" Deak got up to his feet and then began to look out the other side of the hole and seeing what was outside, an idea hit him and a smirk grew on his face.
Outside, Chaos had believed that it had won and began to walk away from Deak. However, one by one every light and screen blew out and after a while, the whole area was consumed in complete darkness, except for a glowing light inside of the wooden wall. Chaos turned around and saw the light. It started to approached the glowing light. But a figure emerged from the hole in the wall. Chaos stopped in its track when it saw who was there: Deak. Deak was surrounded by a round, light-blue aura, made up entirely of electricity. It looked like his fur had turned completely white from all the light that was reflecting on him. Chaos fired a ball of chaos energy at Deak, but the aura acted as a forcefield and the ball of energy simply bounced off of the electric sphere that was surrounding him and shot off into space. An devilish smirk came across Deak's face.
"Say goodnight, bitch!" he yelled at Chaos. He released an uncountable number of small electric balls of Chaos, and they all hit their target. The combined force of the shots knocked Chaos high into the sky. Chaos was knocked into a tall tower and the contining shots kept it pressed up against the walls of the tower. Deak then got into a croutching position and the aura around him began to flow into his hands, which where pulled into his chest. Several seconds later, all of Deak's remaining electricity was now in his hands
"LET'S SEE YOU HANDLE THIS SHIT YOU MOTHER FUCKER!" Deak shouted at the top of his lungs. He released an enormous beam of white light from his chest onto Chaos. The beam was five times taller than Deak and raced toward Chaos at a very fast rate. Chaos never stood a chance against the attack and the sheer power of the electric beam caused its body to liquify and explode the very second the beam impacted it. The explosion that formed upon impact formed a clean hole in the side of the tower the size of beam. Deak witnessed the explosion and smiled when he saw the hole through the tower.
"No one can mess with me, I'm from the CPZ," Deak said weakly, before collapsing on his hands and knees. Karen and the Chaotix rushed over to Deak's side and Espio and Vector lifted up Deak to his feet by putting each of his arms around their shoulders.
"Wh-where's Karen?" asked Deak weakly.
"I'm right here," said Karen from the side of Espio. She placed her face right in front of Deak's and placed her hand on Deak's cheek. Tears once again began to form in her eyes.
"Don't worry 'bout me," reassured Deak, "I'm fine aside from the fact I feel like complete shit." Vector placed Deak on his shoulders and they were off to take Deak to the hospital.
Shadow vs. Kane
A golden orb of chaos energy impacted the brick wall of a small apartment complex, causing the building to explode.
"Ha! You missed me, Shadow," laughed Kane, "And it looks like you killed quite a few people in the proce-" Kane was interrupted by a punch to the gut, courtesy of Shadow. Kane clutched his chest in pain and gave Shadow a menacing stare. Shadow charged into a spindash and locked on Kane. However, Kane was able to dodge Shadow's attack with ease and just as Shadow got out of the spindash, a red, glowing ball of chaos energy thrown by Kane nailed Shadow in the face. Shadow fell the ground violently. Shadow used a nearby lamppost to pull himself back up to his feet. Kane fired a ball of chaos energy at Shadow, but the hedgehog was able to dash out of the way. Kane threw another energy ball, but Shadow dodged that one as well. Kane tried again, but the third time was not the charm as Shadow once again was able to avoid the attack by dashing ahead into the street.
"He still has too much energy left," Kane thought to himself, "I need to tire him up, then I'll go in for the kill." Shadow conjured up a golden energy ball in his hands and tossed it at Kane. Kane used Chaos Control to dodge the attack. Kane appeared behind Shadow. Shadow tried to spindash into Kane, but the wolfbat once again used Chaos Control to avoid Shadow's attack. Shadow broke through the window and could not stop until he broke the window on the other side of the building. Shadow fell hard on the concrete of the sidewalk. He hopped up to his feet and when he looked ahead, he saw Kane chuckling to himself. Shadow was engulfed in rage at Kane's mocking laugh.
"I'll give you something to chuckle about," said Shadow in a fit of rage. He jumped into the air, formed golden energy balls in his hands and threw them at Kane. Kane chaos controlled once again and the attacks missed. Shadow stared ahead and saw no signs of his opponent. He looked behind him and saw nothing as well.
"Look up, Shadow," said a voice from above. As Shadow did so, a ream him hit Shadow and his entire body was surrounded by a red aura. Shadow tried to charge Kane, but he couldn't move any part of his body.
"Now," said a smirking Kane, "I have complete control over you." Kane grabbed the red beam that stuck out of the aura, like a rope. Kane began to swing the helpless Shadow around. He smashed the hedgehog into anything he could find, cars, lampposts, walls and windows. After a while, Kane tossed Shadow into the midnight sky and on his trip down, gave him a Crescent Kick into the pavement of the street. Kane flew down into where Shadow had landed. He grabbed Shadow by his chest fur and tossed him into a nearby parked car. The force that Shadow hit the car with, caused an immense explosion, which formed burn marks all over the hedgehog' back.
"Face it, Shadow, you're too weak to defeat me. Give up now and accept your fate," said Kane, who was hovering several feet away from Shadow. Shadow was nearly unconscious, but he began to have a flashback to a time that he and Rouge were together at Knuckle's mansion at Angel Island.\
FLASHBACK
Rouge and Shadow were snuggling with each in bed. Shadow was resting, looking up at the sky, but Rouge's face was resting on Shadow's chest and had a worried look on it. Shadow noticed that Rouge looked worried and confronted her about it.
"What's wrong, Rouge?" asked Shadow.
"Nothing," replied Rouge. Shadow knew this wasn't true.
"It's Kane isn't it," said Shadow, "You're a little afraid of him, aren't you?" Rouge nodded "yes".
"Don't worry, Rouge," assured Shadow, "I won't let Kane hurt you."
"Really," said Rouge.
"I love you, Rouge. I promise Kane will not hurt you," said Shadow in a serious tone. Rouge gave him a kiss on the lips as a thank you.
END FLASHBACK
Shadow's eyes shot wide open after his flashback. Kane formed an enormous ball of energy is his hands and chucked it at Shadow. Shadow hopped into the air to avoid the attack and stared down Kane.
"I made a promise to Maria...and to Rouge, and I'm gonna kept them," Shadow thought to himself. Kane fired red balls of chaos energy at Shadow, but he was able to dodge all of them. Shadow charged Kane and began to rapidly throw punches at them. Now completely focused on his task, Shadow nailed punch after punch at Kane. Kane tried to block them, but Shadow's fists were moving too fast for the wolfbat to keep up with. Shadow seemed to hit Kane a million times and he followed up with a roundhouse kick to the face, one that was fueled with chaos energy. The impact of the kick sent Kane crashing into the street, causing an enormous hole where he landed. Shadow flew down and set his feet just a couple yards away from the hole in the street. He formed two golden, glowing embers of chaos energy. The chaos energy took the shape of flames in each of Shadow's hand and they reached a height of ten feet. As Kane began to crawl out of the hole, Shadow clenched his hands into fist and began to extend them in front of his chest. When Kane crawled back onto his feet, Shadow finished the movement of his hands, having them fully extended in front of him with his hands in fists.
"Kane, your reign of terror has ended," said Shadow, "CHAOS DESTROYER!" Shadow released the chaos energy that was stored in his fists. The two embers began to spiral around each other and raced toward Kane at a very high speed. The two embers impacted Kane in the chest. The awesome force and power of the attack catapulted Kane into the sky. Kane was jolted at a very intense speed and nothing could break his fall, not even buildings or billboards that he shot through. Kane had a look of complacency as he was shot up high into the midnight sky.
"I underestimated you strength, Shadow. I have no one to blame for this defeat but myself. But I will avenge this defeat. I promise you that, Shadow!" Kane thought to himself as his line of travel took him over the ocean. Meanwhile, back in the streets, Shadow smiled as he saw Kane's body fly into the stars.
"It's over," said a satisfied Shadow, "It's finally over. Now to get Rouge. CHAOS CONTROL!"
Setting: Kane's base
Rouge had been standing there, chained to a pole, for at least an hour. Thoughts were running through her mind a mile a second.
"It's been too long for me to wait here. Where's Shadow? Maybe he's hurt...or worse. NO! He can't be. He has to win. He's the ultimate lifeform. I love him, I need him with me. He can't be defeated by Kane."
All of a sudden, a blue aura of chaos energy filled the main room of the base and broke Rouge's chains. Rouge, happy to be free, rubbed her wrists to bring back feeling to them. A black figure appeared in the center of the aura and slowly approached her. Rouge took caution to whatever might stand in from of her. As the blue aura disappeared, the identity of the figure was revealed. It was a black and red hedgehog with a tan muzzle and white chest. It was Shadow the Hedgehog.
"SHADOW!" cried Rouge in happiness. She immediately rushed into his arms and they began to kiss deeply. Rouge had tears of joy streaming down her face as she kissed her hero. They briefly broke their kiss.
"I knew you could do it," said Rouge, " I never lost faith in you."
"I couldn't have done it without you, Rouge," replied Shadow, "You gave me strength to carry on. I love you, Rouge."
"I love you too," replied the bat. They started to kiss again as the sound of police sirens could be heard in the distance.
Well, there you go. Deak and Shadow both pulled through and thwarted Kane's plans. This is definitely the longest chapter I've ever written, but it's the most important one of my story so it should be. There's probably going to be one more chapter after this just to tie everything up. I wouldn't say it's an epilogue because I'm planning it to be the size of a normal chapter, maybe a little shorter. But it's been a fun ride and I'd like to thank everyone who gave me reviews and said they liked my story, cause that's what kept me writing. And once again, I apologize for waiting two and a half months to write this up. Well, its 3 in the morning, I should get some sleep. Good night.