Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Sealing Fate of New York City

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10 Minutes Until Impact

Sonic and Mecha rammed each other endlessly at blistering speed. The two clashed, both clasping each others fists. Sonic fired a burst of energy throwing Mecha back. He formed into a ball with multiple spikes around him. A golden aura appeared around him. He dashed at Sonic, the golden hedgehog put a shield around him. Mecha impacted him, but bounced off him like a pinball. Mecha crashed through a skyscraper, ending up smashing into a car. Sonic bulleted down towards Mecha. Mecha got to his feet, he aimed his cannon arms.

Two blasts fired out from the ports. Sonic spun into a ball, he went straight through the blast and pounded Mecha into the ground. Sonic was punched and sent flying through three buildings, he stopped in mid air. Mecha teleported in front of him and threw a series of quick punches at Sonic. Sonic managed to dodge each one until he winded up a punch and hit Mecha in his power source. The super powered Mecha was thrown into the ground, making a large crater. Mecha flew back at Sonic, but teleported before he came close to his hedgehog foe. Sonic looked around, all he saw was rain and the thunder booming across the clouds. Mecha reappeared behind Sonic right when lightning flashed behind him. Mecha sent a powerful punch into Sonic's back.

The super powered hedgehog crashed into the ground making a path of ground go inward. He came to a halt, Mecha came diving down at him. Sonic teleported away. Mecha smashed into the ground, but it had no effect against him. Mecha turned around to see Sonic flying right at him. Mecha fired a blast out of one of his cannon arms. Sonic put up a shield, however, Mecha fired another shot from his other cannon arm. It broke through Sonic's shield throwing him into a building. Mecha rammed right into sonic, he then continued by punching sonic in the stomach and his head. Sonic grabbed Mecha by the throat and tossed him threw the lower part of a building. Mecha bounced across the street on the other side, until he came to a halt. Sonic teleported above him, and dived down at him with his foot first. Mecha grabbed his foot and smashed sonic into the ground with his quick reactions.

Mecha grabbed sonic by the throat, sonic raised his foot into Mecha's chin releasing himself from his grip. Sonic fired a beam into Mecha's center throwing him high into the air. Sonic fired off the ground after him. Mecha teleported, and appeared behind Sonic. He slammed both his fists into his dome, forcing sonic to spiral down into the ground, resulting in a loud boom. Sonic got out of the crater he lay in. All around him, fires broke around him. Destroyed attack helicopters and tanks were left in ruins. Soldiers lie dead in the streets along with the bodies of destroyed metal clones. Sonic lowered his head in shame, he brought this war to the city. He looked up to see Mecha flying down at him. Sonic launched upwards at him. The two collided, sonic went crashing back into the street. Mecha went flying through the air but stopped himself, then dashed back towards Sonic.

Sonic saw the incoming Mecha, he fired two large beams of golden energy up at his mechanized nemesis. Mecha formed into a ball and shot right through it. At the last second, when Mecha was inches from impacting sonic, the hedgehog kicked Mecha right into a building, while still in ball form. Mecha crashed through every wall of the bottom floor of the building. Sonic teleported on the other side, Mecha stood feet away from Sonic. "We can fight all you want, but there will be nothing left of this city sooner or later.'' Mecha laughed.

"What are you talking about?'' Sonic asked quickly.

"The impending doom that's approaching this city.'' Mecha continued. Sonic's eyes somewhat shuttered at his comment. "Eggman's super weapon.'' Mecha answered.

"Where is he?'' Sonic demanded to know.

"Why don't you ask him?'' Mecha pointed behind Sonic.

Hovering in the air behind him was Eggman in his hovership.

"Eggman'' Sonic muttered angrily to himself.

"What he says is true Sonic, a super nuke is heading for the city, and there's no way you can destroy it.'' Eggman told him.

Sonic's ears twitched, he flew into the air, Mecha flew just under him. "Prepare to lose this war Sonic!'' Eggman said laughing evilly as he flew away.

Mecha charged and tackled sonic in the back forcing him into a building. Mecha dragged his body across the building making a swath straight through the structure. Mecha finished by flinging Sonic down into the street. Sonic opened his eyes angrily, he spun into a ball, then teleported. Sonic appeared in front of Mecha and tackled him in the stomach with the power of his spin dash. Sonic smashed Mecha into the wall of a building. Sonic grabbed him by the throat and flung him back towards the street. Mecha stopped in mid air, he charged back up at Sonic. Sonic drove his foot down at him, Mecha spun around sonic and elbowed sonic in the head. Mecha punched left then right, Mecha attempted to knee Sonic, but the hedgehog grabbed his ankle and tossed him down into the street with great force.

Mecha slammed onto a semi truck. Mecha got up, but was quickly slammed into the ground by Sonic. Sonic punched him wildly, Mecha fired his chaos cannon, but it was much stronger now that he's in his super form. Sonic lunged into the sky, but stopped himself. Mecha flew up to where Sonic was. The two stared each other down.

"Look Sonic.'' Mecha pointed behind him.

Sonic looked behind him, he saw a path of fire going up the clouds. It revealed itself, sonic widened his eyes. The huge super nuke flew into the sky, heading for space. Sonic turned back to Mecha, glaring at him angrily.

"You came so far, you betrayed the trust of your friends, you were fooled by Eggman, believing that you killed me?'' Mecha said.

Sonic continued glaring at him. Mecha chuckled evilly, "You never stood a chance, and today it will end!'' Mecha continued.

"Prepare to say goodbye to your life and all of your friends Sonic The Hedgehog!!!'' he thundered.

Mecha armed his cannon arms and his chaos cannon. They all charged up together, from within the streets, the Pokemon and the trainers looked up at the two glowing golden dots.

"Come on Sonic, we believe in you!'' Dawn cried.

Sector V watched from an intersection. "Show em' what your made of!'' Numbuh One shouted.

Jenny, Brad, Omega, and the gang watched from a war torn street. "Please Sonic, I believe in you!'' Katara shouted. "Give it your all!'' Brad yelled.

Sonic held his hands out, two enlarging glows of chaos energy started to form and grow. A red glow came from Mecha's chaos cannon, his two cannon arms had golden glows coming from them.

"FEEL MY POWER!!!'' Mecha thundered loudly, firing all three shots.

The cannon arm shots came together, the chaos cannon blast twirled around the cannon arm shots. Sonic narrowed his eyes, "THIS WILL FINISH IT FOR GOOD!!!'' Sonic thundered.

He fired two thick large beams of golden energy. The two super blasts came and shot through each other. Mecha was hit in the center by Sonic's blast. Mecha's blast hit sonic dead on in the stomach. Two huge explosions occurred, the echoing boom of the explosions rattled across the sky. The heroes below gazed at the huge light. Mecha was out of his super form heading for a skyscraper roof. He slammed onto the roof, he got up, a hole was left in his power source. Static electricity sparked from his inner circuits.

"Damn HEDGEHOG!!!'' he yelled to the heavens above.

Sonic was lying in the middle of Times Square. He was still in his super form. Sonic rose to his feet, he remembered the nuke Eggman mentioned. Sonic dashed up into the sky, he flew above New York, looking across the huge metropolis. Eggman saw the incident. "Mecha, Mecha come in!'' Eggman spoke into his communicator on his hovership.

"Yes doctor?'' Mecha replied in pain.

"You're still alive! I'm amazed you survived that blast.'' Eggman said.

"Sonic is still alive as well, he's hovering above the city.'' Mecha informed the doctor.

"Do not fret, the nuke cannot be stopped.'' Eggman replied, smirking evilly.

He flew his hovership through the streets of New York. Sonic looked across the city, he lowered his head. In space, the nuke stopped and headed diagonally down at New York. "If this is how it must end, then I will do it.'' he clenched his fist.

Sonic stuck his hands out, two glows formed in his palms. He winced in pain, golden energy started to span out from his hands. A shield is what he was creating, as it slowly started to form. The true meaning of how Sonic dies, a pure sacrifice. His fate has been sealed, to protect New York and all the heroes that reside within the city, his life must be sacrificed to do so. The nuke is headed for him, our famed hedgehog hero has his final minutes of life before the nuke impacts. Get ready for the most heart wrenching scene in this story.

In the middle of Times Square, Omega and Jenny were looking up at the shield enclosing the city. Kuki was running down the street, ahead of the other operatives. She saw shadow limping down a street to her left. She gasped and ran towards him. Shadow was holding the stab wound with his hand. Kuki was lost for words, shadow's hand that was covering his wound was soaked with blood.

"Oh my…Shadow are you okay?'' she said hugging him.

"It's alright…I-I'll make it.'' said shadow, patting her back with his other hand.

From behind Shadow, Brandy came running. "You guys see that?'' brandy pointed up into the sky. The two saw the golden dome forming around the city. "Come on let's get to the others!'' brandy said running for Times Square. "Can you walk?'' Kuki asked "Yeah, I can, let's go.'' he said, being careful while running.

The three stopped and stood with Jenny and Omega. They all looked up to see Sonic creating the huge dome shield. In just minutes, all of New York City was protected by a huge golden energy dome.

"Wait…wasn't Sonic suppose to teleport everyone out of the city?'' Brandy whispered to Kuki

"Yeah, why isn't he?'' Kuki said looking back up.

"Sonic wouldn't do it.'' Shadow said.

"Huh?'' Kuki said. "Sonic wouldn't let an entire city fall, even if it means sacrificing himself to protect it shadow said looking at Brandy.

Brandy had a face of worry, then looked back up at Sonic. Sonic stood in the center of the top of the energy dome. He fell on all fours, "Now…one more thing left to do.'' he said to himself. He placed his hands on the shield. A dome of energy went throughout the whole city. The heroes saw the golden wall heading for them. But it passed through them, doing nothing.

"Was that suppose to teleport us?'' Kuki said.

Eggman was flying for Times Square with every clone that sieged New York coming from every street, coming for Times Square. When the dome of energy passed through them, Eggman and every single clone vanished. They all reappeared, around Sonic. Eggman looked around nervously. "What just happened? You!'' Eggman pointed at Sonic.

Sonic looked up at him, "I'm not going down alone Eggman.'' Sonic said.

Eggman whimpered, "Clones! Destroy him! Metal Shadow come with me!'' Eggman ordered.

Eggman and Metal Shadow stopped in the air, metal shadow created a portal, and the two went through it, the portal quickly vanished. Sonic was breathing heavily, mostly in pain. From every side and corner, metal sonic clones, Metal Shadow clones, and Metal Knuckles clones, surrounded him. Sonic looked up, the missile came through the clouds, heading for him. Sonic shut his eyes and stood strong, the clones all charged down at him. The nuke smashed through the clones and impacted Sonic, dead on. A huge gigantic explosion formed, a one hundred foot mushroom cloud flew into the air. The heroes stood within the city, perfectly safe.

"No'' Brandy muttered.

The smoke from the nuke started to slowly die down. The radiation from the nuke was destroyed by the power radiating from the dome shield around New York. Six chaos emeralds shot across the sky and vanished in an instance. Within minutes, the shield disappeared. Sonic's body fell down towards Times Square. Omega launched into the air. Omega flew under him and grabbed his body, he was back in his normal form. Omega flew down to the heroes, he landed in the center of Times Square and rest Sonic down on the ground. Brandy, Kuki, Shadow, and Jenny ran to Omega. Omega took a few steps back. Shadow and the heroes stopped in front of his body. The dark blue chaos emerald was falling down towards them. Shadow teleported under it and grabbed it, then teleported back to the ground. From afar, Mecha was standing on top of the Statue of Liberty. He took off into the air, he created a portal and flew into it, shortly after it vanished.

Brandy dropped to her knees, in front of his body. Sonic's eyes slowly opened, he looked at brandy with a small smile. "Hey'' he said weakly. Brandy sat awe shocked, she wrapped her arms around his neck. Sonic put his hand on her back and patted it. She broke apart from the hug, whimpering, on the verge of tears. "I don't think I'm gonna' make it.'' he said weakly "No! Don't say that!'' brandy cried. Sonic did one small laugh, "I'm sorry…I-I didn't…believe you.'' he said…