A/N: I do not own Sonic the Hedgehog. I do own Vortex.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG Z

Showdown in space

Vortex was now flying out from Mobius' atmosphere, when he notices four incoming energy signatures.

"Huh?" Vortex looked and saw that these energy signatures were Super Sonic, Super Shadow, Super Silver and Burning Blaze.

The four heroes stop in front of Vortex, who was NOT happy to see them.

"So, it has come to this huh?" Vortex asked.

"You bet, this time your done for Vortex!" Sonic shook his fist.

"Dark Vortex, your reign of terror is over!" Silver said in a tone of justice.

Vortex laughs. "If you four think that your Super," looks at Blaze, "AND Burning forms are going to stop me, then your more naïve then I thought!"

"The only one naïve here is Silver." Blaze said.

"Blaze!" Silver protested.

"Enough chit-chat! Let's get this over with!" Shadow growled.

The heroes and Vortex first glare at each other ready for battle, for a moment, when finally…

"YEEEEAAAAAAAAH!!" the heroes and Vortex charged at each other, thus beginning the final battle.

Sonic attacks with powerful spin attacks, but Vortex blocks them all. When Sonic was going for another one, Vortex punched him in the belly, sending him backwards. Then Shadow charges at him, with a kick, but Vortex blocked it and blew him away with an energy blast shot from his hand, onto Shadow's belly. Silver charges at him with his psychic powers, to paralyse him, but Vortex dodged him and kick him in the back, knocking him away. Blaze shots fire balls from her hands at Vortex, but the evil cyber hedgehog defected them. Sonic charges at Vortex, followed by Shadow, with punches and kicks, but Vortex, blocked them with his barrier. Blaze charges at Vortex from behind and scratches him with her fiery claws, followed by Silver with his psychic powers.

"Come on guys, we're almost there!" Silver shouted.

"Huh?" Shadow noticed something.

On the other side of the barrier, Vortex was glowing in red and Shadow imidiatly recognised this.

"GET AWAY! HIS GONNA BLOW!!" Shadow shouted and flew away.

"Shadow?" Sonic stopped and wondered.

"CHAOS…" Vortex growled.

Sonic, Blaze and Silver now understood why Shadow ran away and so they did the same thing.

"…BLAST!!" Vortex roared and let's out a red dome-shaped blast all-a-round.

The heroes got pushed away by the blast into the ARK. They crash thru some platforms and walls, when they finally stop on a balcony of one of the towers of the space colony. Vortex chaos controls in and looks at the unconscious heroes, laughing evilly.

"Now to destroy Mobius!" Vortex said as he turned away, when suddenly…

"CHAOS SPEAR!!" Vortex was hit by a yellow spear shaped laser in the back. He looks behind and sees Sonic and Shadow up.

"Way to go Shadow, you sure kicked sand in his face!" Sonic gave Shadow, a thumb up.

"No time to celebrate!" Shadow said.

"Right!" Sonic said and he and Shadow charge at Vortex with punches and kicks.

"Ha, you can't touch me!" Vortex activated his force field, when Sonic and Shadow chaos controlled out.

"What the?" Vortex became confused, deactivating his force field. "Where did you go?" He looks around, when he got hit in the back.

"Huh?" Vortex looked back and saw Blaze who shot a fire ball from behind.

"You're thru Vortex!" Blaze said.

"I don't think so!" Vortex was about to use his machine gun on her, when…

"SONIC WIND!!" Vortex got blasted away by a blue gust of energy from Sonic.

"CHAOS LANCE!!" Vortex got blasted by red lance shaped lasers, from Shadow in his Chaos Boost mode.

Silver regained conscious and sees Vortex in daze.

"TAKE THIS VORTEX!!" Silver uses his power to levitate some meteors near by and throws them at him from behind.

"ARGH!" Vortex cried when he got hit.

"Alright guys, it's now or never!" Sonic charges at Vortex a kicks him in the belly hard, then gives fast punches all over his face, in the belly, then he grabs him by his leg and a spin-and-releases him to Shadow.

"Here we go!" Shadow double kicks Vortex across the face, then chaos controls all around Vortex, punching and kicking him. Then, he kicks him to Silver.

"Prepare to meet your doom!" Silver shouted as Vortex was flying toward him. "PSYCHIC CONTROL!!" Vortex was now glowing in green. He stops in the air and keeps mindlessly letting out punches and kicks around, and aimlessly shooting his machine guns and blasters. Then Silver charges at him and kicks him toward Blaze.

"Take this!" Blaze turns herself into a fire tornado, burning Vortex, then kicks it away.

"ARGH!" Vortex stops in the air. "GRRRR, you'll pay for-"

But before he could finish his sentence, he got beaten by Sonic, Shadow, Silver and Blaze from all around. The four kept punching and kicking all over and finally they hammer punch him down into the planet's atmosphere. The cyber hedgehog bursts into flames as he enters it and then…

CRASH!

Vortex crashed on the solid ground, of the wasteland, leaving a HUGE smoking crater. Tails, Amy, Cream, Cheese, Rouge, Omega, Eggman, Decoe and Bocoe walked over to it.

"Do you think he's gone?" Cream asked.

"Chao chao?" Cheese asked.

Then Super Sonic, Shadow and Silver, and Burning Blaze appear next to them.

"Sonic!" Amy said.

Sonic didn't pay attention, he and the other three walked over to the crater as the smoke cleared away. They look into it to see if they could find Vortex, but he wasn't there.

"He's not there!" Silver said.

"So does this mean it's over?" Blaze asked.

Shadow senses some chaos energy. "Wait! No! It's not over yet!"

They immediately got the answer to this, as a blast blew away the rocks at the bottom of the crater. Everyone looks down to the light and a figure comes out flying out from the crater and stops in front of them. As the light cleared, it reviled to be Vortex, but now, he was just skin, no cybernetic parts.

"Now you will know the true power of Vortex!" he laughed evilly.

"I guess it's not gonna be that easy after all." Sonic thought.

A/N: The battle is not over yet! Now our heroes are going to face Vortex in his final form, his true form! So, stay tuned for the next chapter of SONIC THE HEDGEHOG Z!! R&R, please.