SONICALLY FOREVER AFTER
FINAL PART
Sonic and Tails kept climbing up the stalk, and saw the evil queen. "Man, this stalk managed to be even taller than her!… It's perfect! Tails, while I reach the top, I need you to do me a favor, and fly around queenie over there, take the jewel from her if you can find it, then fly back here while getting her to chase you!"
"You got it!" Jumping off one of the stalk's leaves, Tails flew off towards the queen, who was getting closer to the Sky Sanctuary. He saw a slightly open pocket on the sides of her dress, and dove right inside.
Kicking away the giant wads of pocket lint, Tails looked around through the assorted, regular-sized objects. Lipstick, compact powder, a paperclip, pennies… He then saw a glowing, blue object, and dug through some of the lint. "Got it!" He exclaimed, before flying out of the pocket and flying around the evil queen's head.
"Now, as a start to my new reign of power, I will conquer the… Hm?" At first, the queen swatted at Tails like a fly, until he flew right in her line of vision, holding up the jewel.
"Hey, look what I got! Come and get me!" He then stretched out his mouth, making faces at her. "Nana-nana-naaa!" Tails blew raspberries at the queen with his tongue, then flew away.
Insulted and furious, she chased after him, constantly trying to grab him with her hands. "Get back here you fuzzy brat!" The queen then pulled out a butterfly net, and tried to catch Tails with it, only for him to be far too fast.
With her being too distracted by catching the fox alone, Tails took the chance and dropped the jewel for the others to grab. Knuckles took out a baseball glove, and dived for jewel, which was caught perfectly. Thankfully, the queen didn't notice this trick, and began climbing up the beanstalk after Tails and Sonic.
"Obnoxious little hairballs, the both of you…!" The queen was far more distracted by them, that she had no idea how far she had gone up the stalk, and was oblivious to the fact that the rest of the heroes were getting ready to chop down the stalk.
"Here goes nothin'!" Focke-Wulf said, trying to chip away the beanstalk, only for the large, green blob to close its eyes in pain. The entire axe was stuck in the stalk itself, and didn't seem to have any effect. "What da…?! What kinda nonsense is dis?!"
"Alright, no one panic, Sonic and Tails should be fine, uhh…" Pin scratched her head, then tried to use assorted, blasts of magic to knock it down. Dragon Breath and Ffuzzy Logik then attempted to break the stalk with their weapons, which were useless.
Grounder retracted one of his drills, and made a saw emerge from his hands. Yanking it away from him, Espio tried cutting down the stalk with it this time. The teeth of the saw were soon filed down, rendering it unusable. "I can't get a single scratch on this thing!"
Pulling her hammer out, Amy then tried knocking the stalk down, only for her whole body to shake upon impact from just how strong it was. Knuckles did something similar by punching it, and instead had to pull his hand away in pain. Running out of options, Davy Sprocket grabbed Scratch, and began slamming his beak onto the beanstalk. "Hey, what are you— Ow!" After a few tries, Davy gave up, noticing Scratch's beak being bent and crooked.
"Sorry, thought your skull was numb enough to handle it." Davy joked before dropping him. Scratch got up, rather annoyed, while straightening out his beak to normal.
Antoine huffed. "Eez zere no way to knock zis thing down?!" He kicked the stalk lightly, and turned away from it.
It began shaking, as did the evil queen at the near top, about to grab Sonic and Tails. "What the?!" She looked down, allowing Tails to lift Sonic by his arms and fly him down safely. "You two aren't getting away! I will— Eek!" Losing balance, she began clinging onto the stalk for dear life.
Unable to keep herself from falling, she screamed as both her and the beanstalk came crashing down like a giant tree. A giant, queen-shaped hole was soon made, as she was no longer able to hold onto the stalk.
Trying to get up from the ditch she was in, the evil queen was then met with the giant stalk hitting her on the head, knocking her out unconscious. Sonic and Tails landed safely, while Knuckles held the blue jewel. "That was a close one!" Sonic said, wiping his brow, and was then hugged by an excited Amy.
"How did you even…?" Espio glanced at Antoine, who shrugged sheepishly.
Knuckles held up the jewel. "Uh, fairy? Are you in there?" Appearing from the blue stone, the fairy sighed in relief.
"Y-yes, I'm a bit shaken up, but unharmed! This has been… Quite a day. I must apologize, as I'm the one who dragged you into this world just because I'm… Not exactly bright and cheerful when woken from a good rest. Honestly, it was a bad idea… Mainly because I had to be stuck with that sorceress for a couple of hours."
"Hey!" Pin snapped back.
Dragon Breath lightly chuckled. "Right, let's just all go back home, before the queen gets back up—"
"Hold on, Dragon… We are forgetting about milord's insane cousin!" Ffuzzy Logik then pointed to Dr. Warpnik, who was trying to escape… Via the pipe organ he was playing. The fairy then opened up a portal to a dimension full of fish, as Ffuzzy Logik ran over to grab the doctor.
Being grabbed by the neck, Warpnik gagged. "W-wait, we can work something out can't we, Sir Fluff? I can be… A pretty mermaid for this world!" Not wanting to hear any of it, Ffuzzy Logik lifted him by the pants, then kicked Warpnik's rear, sending him into the Warp of Confusion once again.
"Off with thou!… Now then! Let us all return to Mobius! Hopefully Princess Acorn and the one desperado are unharmed!" The knight declared, entering a newly made, blue portal from the fairy along with everyone else.
However, before leaving, Antoine turned back to Bunnie. "Eet was… A pleasure to 'ave vou as a friend, Bunnie. A shame zat vou cannot come with us, I don't think I could 'ave overcome zat dragon if—"
"I'm just happy to have met a hero in action!… You are one, just like Beo said, sugar!" She then kissed him on the cheek, surprising him. "Maybe we'll meet again, but just in different lives!… Until then, goodbye!" Antoine just stood there, frozen in place. Sonic came back over to him, and dragged him into the portal. Dazed, Antoine waved goodbye.
Meanwhile, the evil queen finally got back up, returned back to her normal size. She groaned, and dusted herself off. "Ugh… Maybe I should just go into politics…"
"You know… You had such a drastic change in personality earlier." Sally pointed out, sitting there along with Batch Cassidy, supposedly giving up searching the cave any further. "One moment you were panicking over your friend, the next you had calmed down upon encountering me. Were you feeling alone?"
He flinched. "No… I was just worried about him… Not because he's my friend though!" The badnik answered, turning away. "Because… Dr. Robotnik would chew us out if something happened is all… I wouldn't care if he returned right now, or in—"
A blue portal opened up. Sonic, Antoine, and Tails came out. "Sonic! Antoine! Tails!" Running over towards them, Sally embraced Sonic, everyone else followed them shortly after.
"Davy?!" Batch exclaimed.
"Finally! Out of that demented world! It's actually good to be in normal Mobius— Oof!" Davy was quickly lifted up by the other robot, who nearly tackled him. "H-hey! Cut it out! What's gotten into you?! I'm happy to see you too, for once, but…!" Kicking around, Davy Sprocket began whining and struggling. "Put me down! This is weird!"
While everyone else was being sappy over getting out of the other world safely, Knuckles looked at the jewel. "I think all of you learned your lessons! None of you shouldn't be fighting over something so powerful!… I warned you guys about it, now I think it's a good time to put this baby back where it belongs." Pin, Scratch, and Antoine all flinched in unison when they heard that.
"But what about keeping Mobius in peace?" Antoine asked.
"Or me being the best magic user there could be?!" Pin complained.
"You can all achieve those things without wishing for it!" Sonic pointed out, still in his hug. Antoine nodded slightly in agreement or understand, while Pin continued pouting. "It's more satisfying to get what we want through hard work, rather than right away!"
"But Dr. Robotnik ordered all of us to get the jewel!" Scratch explained further. "If we don't grab it, we'll never hear the end of it!"
Ffuzzy Logik sighed, then glanced at Knuckles. "Tis true… Perhaps we can make some sort of excuse, and tell milord that it was not here. I hate to lie to him, but…"
"Our options are slim, Scratch! We don't wanna go back in there because of that fairy lady getting annoyed with us! C'mon, Ffuzzy-Fface!" Dragon Breath continued, as both he and Ffuzzy Logik soon left the Mystic Cave.
"We should be fine… As long as no one was left behind… I don't want to risk that a second time." Batch Cassidy finally put Davy back onto the ground, who was finally getting comfortable with the hold. "Let's just say that… This place collapsed on itself or somethin'… Yeah." All of the badniks then took their leave, much to Scratch and Grounder's chagrin. Sally waved to Sir Ffuzzy Logik, slightly annoying Sonic.
"I think for once we should the robot's idea and also get out of here." Tails suggested. Everyone except Pin, who was pulled away from the cave by Amy, all started exiting as well. The only ones remaining were Knuckles and Espio.
Going down a path in the tunnels, Knuckles was relieved that things were ending well. "We'll put you back where everyone found you, then make sure you remain undisturbed while you rest for the next couple years!" He explained to the fairy, who was back inside of the jewel.
"That would be ideal…" Yawning, the fairy seemed to have fallen back asleep already, while Focke-Wulf was last to come out of the portal, which closed up.
Bearenger had also caught up, and found his partner. "Duhh, there you are! Did you get the jewel?" Brushing himself off, Focke-Wulf grumbled.
"Forget it, Bear! Dat thing ain't worth da nonsense we all had to go through! We're just gonna have to tell da boss to take it herself!" Storming off, Bearenger was completely shocked, and confused by Focke-Wulf giving up on the jewel so suddenly, but went along with it.
About a week later, Sonic was hanging out with Tails, Sally, Antoine, Amy, and Pin in the Acorn Kingdom.
"So… C-can I become a Freedom Fighter?" Amy asked, looking hopeful.
"You're young… But somehow you're rather experienced, just like Tails is. Especially between the Dust Hill Zone incident, and what went on in that other dimension from what you just told me." Sally then shook Amy's hand. "It would be great to have a female addition to the team!"
"Oh good, I don't have to use my magic to force you to say 'yes'… Guess I came here for no reason." Pin said to herself, giggling, while Tails lightly bopped the girl with his elbow.
Sally then looked at a clipboard. "Speaking of which… We're supposed to get another girl on the team besides Amy. Before you ask Pin, no, it's not you." The sorceress rolled her eyes, as a door then opened.
"Excuse me? Is this where I'm supposed to meet the princess?"
An orange rabbit Mobian stood at the door, having metal parts on her lower-half and left arm.
"My name's Bunnie… More precisely, Bunnie Rabbot!"
Antoine was completely shocked, and his toupee nearly jumped off his head. Sonic just smirked, knowing full well about the near exact same girl from the other world. "Looks like the fairy was able to grant someone's wish, if that was theirs." Sonic joked to Tails, who was still standing there along with Pin.
Shaking a little, Antoine noticed the robotic limbs. "Ee… Eet's a pleasure to meet vou, Miss Rabbot?… I h-hope I'm not being eensensitive if I ask… What happened to your body parts?" Rather than being offended, the rabbit giggled.
"These, sugar? I had a run in with one of Dr. Robotnik's machines when he and his badniks were up to no good. I got cocky, and ran straight into one of those things that converted organic matter into metal…"
Pin held up her wand, trying to show off. "I could probably find a way to change you back, maybe!"
"No need, hun. Took a while to get used to, but actually, these have a pretty good use! I actually might have to thank him and the badniks for the transformation, partly!" Brushing her ears to the side, Bunnie was then approached by Sally.
"Well then, you and Amy can start training today!… Antoine, would you like to guide them?" He flinched slightly, but nodded eagerly.
"Oui! O-of course, Princess Sally! Right zis way!" While he guided Bunnie, Amy was about to follow, but then looked at Sonic.
"Can I have Sonic train me instead, Sally?" She wondered.
Before Sally could answer, Sonic quickly ran out of the room, leaving nothing but a dust cloud shaped like him behind. "I'm sure he could— Sonic?"
"Hey you jerk! You have all the time in the world to help Amy! What gives?!" Pin shouted.
"Sorry Sal, Pin!" Sonic yelled while exiting the castle, Tails joining him. "But Tails and I have an appointment… With lunch! Gotta juice!"
With that, he zipped across the fields, heading for the town where Jack's was…
THE END
BONUS EPILOGUE
Waking up in the middle of the night, Davy Sprocket looked around, then next to him, surprised.
"Cassidy! What are you doing in my room?! Much more, my bed?!"
He got up slowly, missing his coat and hat. "Uhh… This isn't my room you mean?… How was I supposed to know?… It's dark." The other robot tried to rub his eyes, but instead smacked himself with his bulb-hands, which were glowing.
"You should be able to see with those, which woke me up!" Davy retorted. "Are you going to leave, or what?"
"… No. I'm comfortable." About to flop back onto the bed, Batch felt his arm lifted up, as Davy began unscrewing the spheres off his wrists.
"For pete's sake then, let me at least remove these so they don't keep me awake!" Popping them off, he then put tossed the spheres, and groaned. "I really hate your guts, you know that?!"
There was a pause, before Batch answered. "No you don't, Davy… If you did, you would have kicked me out by now." Davy wanted to object, but the other robot then began going to sleep. He gave in, and did the same, somewhat annoyed.
((And that's the end!
I considered making a character guide but decided not to, because that would add more work for me, which I don't want for now…
I didn't want it to end with Sonic ending up with either of the two love interest girls, because it just stirs up drama. Ian Flynn- the current writer of the Archie Comics, does the same thing for that reason. So for now, Sally and Amy are there, potential love interests, but just friends.
Antoine meanwhile got the girl kinda, because him and Bunnie are my OTP, guilty as charged. There is literally no one who gets upset when those two are paired up. Heck, borderline gay robots cause less controversy at this point. Not like AoStH had never hit those notes a few times before. :V
Either way, it was a blast writing all of these. I thought Skypatrol was gonna be the end, but then those last three ideas came around, and I really had fun writing them!
I'm going to take a small break from Sonic writing now though, so I can work on other things for a short while. I will return to it though… For a third Mean Bean Machine story! Gasp!
I hope you enjoyed the ride as much as I did! Thank you for reading!))