Day: August 8, 2184
The team stood at the deck, where there 5 chaos emeralds shone in the middle. The team was about to approach the final battle, but they didn't even have all the emeralds yet. There were rumors spreading about that Sonic was scared about this battle, fearing that without his super form, he wouldn't be able to stand a chance against the dark monsters and the Dark Master. The Dark Master had been in cover this time, not once showing himself in battle. Perhaps it was because of fear, or because he wanted to play with the team's mind. Either way, he hadn't joined in battle for a reason, and they would soon find out.
Shawn and Tails sat in Shawn's room, playing the final mission of the Halo 3 campaign on the hardest difficulty known as legendary.
"So Tails," Shawn said, "how are you feeling about this final battle?"
"I'm feeling good, actually." Tails said as he paused the game, "Everyone might be scared since we don't have all the chaos emeralds, but I have a good feeling that we will beat them."
"I like your enthusiasm." Shawn said with a smile, "I wish everyone else had your enthusiasm."
"Thanks Shawn, but I want to ask something as well," Tails said, "Who do you think will use Destiny's Light? After all, it sounds like whoever is gonna use it won't make it out alive."
Shawn thought for a while and sighed. Tails raised an eyebrow in confusion.
"Who do you think Shawn?" Tails asked again.
"Tails," Shawn said, "To be honest, I think it's gonna be Sonic."
"What?" Tails asked, "Why would you think that?"
"Back when you first started fighting the Metarex, Cosmo said that Sonic was the only person who could defeat them. It seems the Seedrians look to Sonic as some god or something. So it makes sense, unfortunately, that it would be Sonic. I would think it would be Cosmo possibly as well, but something's telling me it's not her." Tails ears drooped down in sorrow, fearing that he would lose his brother at the end of this battle.
"Maybe Destiny's Light won't activate." Tails said, "Perhaps we just plain destroy the Dark Monsters and we won't need to it!"
"I hope so." Shawn said, "I don't want any more casualties. We were able to do that successfully at Marmolin and Greengate, so I want to keep the streak going. I mean, three is the magic number, right?"
"I'm sure that we will win with no casualties." Tails said.
"Either way," Shawn said, "I would get closer with everyone, because it might be the last day that we see them." Tails nodded his head. It was sad to think they were talking about who was more likely to die out of everyone on the group. Shawn also began to think about what the fortune teller was talking about back on Marmolin, when he said that they would win, but it would come with a cost. Perhaps it was that they killed Shadow, was that the cost? No, no it can't be. He wasn't aligned with us. He decided not to tell anyone about the fortune teller so that they wouldn't be to upset and know that one of them wasn't going to be returning to Mobius with them.
"Shawn, Tails." Knuckles said, through the intercom, "Meet us in the deck. We think we found where the dark monsters are doing this final phase thing." The two dropped their controllers and ran back to the deck, where everyone else stared at the projector displaying many red dots.
"What's this?" Shawn asked.
"Your computer did a scan for dark energy and found this giant fleet of dark monsters." Sonic said, "It seems like it would be where they're doing their final phase."
"How long will it take us to get there?" Amy asked.
Shawn checked with the computer, "It says we can get there in three days in slipspace."
"Let's do it then." Sonic said, "Tails, set us a little bit behind them so that we have some time to prepare the ship."
"Sure thing, Sonic!" Tails said as he set the coordinates for slipspace. The ship shot open a portal and the ship entered it, sending them into slipspace. The crew walked to the kitchen to go grab some food. The team prepared a delicious meal of succulent cheeseburgers, salad for the ladies, and some pastries. As the team ate, Sonic looked around him. Everyone seemed so sad, almost depressed.
"What's wrong guys?" Sonic asked.
"Well," Amy said, "It's just that this whole Destiny's Light thing is scaring us. We're not sure who's going to have to use it. Isn't it concerning you?"
"I'm sure we'll all make it out okay." Sonic said.
"How about we have another party?" Tails declared.
"For what?" Rouge asked.
"To celebrate that this war is almost over and that we can return home. And think about it, with Eggman dead, there will be no more threats on Mobius, so we will get to live the rest of our lives in peace!"
"That's a great idea Tails." Cosmo said.
Tails smiled and blushed, "Thanks Cosmo."
"Well I'm up for it." Sonic said as he stood up.
"Same here. I haven't been to a party since Cosmo came back." Shawn said.
"Let's do this then!" Amy said. Amy rounded up the girls and they ran into the party room and began to set up everything. Meanwhile, Shawn, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles sat in Shawn's room and picked up Halo 3. They decided to play Capture the Flag on Sandbox.
"So what do you guys plan on doing at the party?" Knuckles asked.
"I'm sure Tails plans on trying to dance with Cosmo again." Sonic said.
Tails began to wildly blush, "What? No, of course not! Cosmo is a friend."
"A Friend that you love." Knuckles added, "Come on Tails, we all remember you told Cosmo you loved her back at the end of the metarex battle."
Tails looked away, "Shut up." The group broke out laughing as the twin tailed fox picked up his controller.
"Come on," Tails said, "Let's just play." Everyone else acquired there controllers and began to play. Shawn and Tails put their skills to the test as they took on Sonic and Knuckles, not to be confused with the team of Knuckles and Sonic (Authors Note: If you got that joke, comment below). In the end, Tails and Shawn beat Sonic and Knuckles 3-1.
"Whatever!" Knuckles yelled, "This game is broken! I shot at Tails fifty times with the battle rifle and he barely got hurt!" The guys broke out laughing at the anger of Knuckles.
"I would've beaten you guys if Sonic hadn't decided to try and be 'stealthy'." Knuckles said.
"Says the guy that only got one kill in that entire match." Sonic said, "And that was because Shawn went to use the bathroom!"
"Guys!" Amy said through the intercom, "The party is ready!" The guys got up and ran to the party room. When they entered, there was a mass amount of food on a table, filled to the brim with chili dogs and hamburgers. There was also a dancefloor with Amy, Cream, Rouge, Cosmo, and Jane awaiting their friends to join them on the dancefloor. Amy and Cosmo had arranged the music that would be played throughout the night, including electronica and dubstep for their dancing needs, and slow music for when they wanted things to get romantic.
"Wow guys!" Tails said, "This is amazing guys!"
"Yea," Knuckles said, "you really outdid yourselves this time!"
"Quite impressive if I do say so myself." Sonic said. Shawn just stared in awe. Never had he seen such an elegant setup before in his life. Throughout his entire life, Shawn didn't have the luxuries unlike the rich. He felt bad for making such a big jump in luxury so fast, but it felt nice to be treated so kindly. Everyone danced their hearts out and enjoyed having each other's company before the end of the war would approach them.
Day: August 11, 2184
The group sat in their chairs or stood and awaited their final battle to appear before them. No one said a word, and only silence filled the air. Finally, the ship exited slipspace and they found themselves in front of a massive fleet. It had three giant motherships surrounded by almost hundreds of smaller ships.
"There's so many." Tails said.
"The dark energy readings are off the charts!" Shawn said. Suddenly an image appeared overhead.
"You are all fools." The Dark Master appeared before their eyes on the overhead, except he had tubes entering his body and it had a black fluid in them. "You mortals think that you have what it takes to stop a pure form? Ha! You think that your light will save you? That this source that you call hope will give you the strength you'll need to survive the manslaughter that you will witness. None of you will survive. I will enjoy watching you all suffer, as you cling onto bare life whilst floating aimlessly in space, and I will enjoy using your corpses as target practice. And once you have all been destroyed, I will begin the final process of filling my body with the purest dark energy and being the trigger. Once I activate it, I shall sink this entire universe into complete and utter darkness. In which afterwards no one will survive, and the Dark Monsters shall seize anything and everything. Goodbye Sonic, it was nice knowing you the 10 seconds I did."
Soon after, missiles and lasers began flying toward the Blue typhoon.
"Tails, activate the shields now!" Sonic commanded. Tails sat in disbelief.
"They won't do anything Sonic." He said, "We're doomed." The group huddled together and prepared for their lives to meet there doom. Suddenly, missiles and lasers appeared behind them and took out the missiles and lasers attempting to hit there ship.
"Huh?" Sonic wondered. The group got out of the huddle and witnessed 4 ships appear around them. Then, a voice appeared through the intercom.
"You didn't think we'd just leave you behind to have all the fun did you?" Sam, the gold knight from Enchantic said.
"Is that the knight from Enchantic?" Shawn asked. Then, another ship appeared to be some sort of space bound pirate ship.
"Ahoy me maties!" Captain Scurvy said through the intercom, "How me favorite land dwellers doing?"
"Scurvy!" Knuckles said.
"Hello Shawn." Brads voice came through the intercom, "I'm helping on behalf of Jeremy."
"Brad?" Shawn asked.
"We knew just giving help for Cosmo wouldn't be enough." Silver's voice also popped through the intercom.
"It's everyone from the planets we've seen." Sonic said.
"I've got a crunch for a fight, maties." Scurvy said, "We may not know much about space, but we sure do know how to pick a fight! Let the war commence!"
End of part 36