Palkia fired a Water Pulse at the group, hitting Bowser and launching
him into a wall. Dialga used Ancient Power to launch a large piece of
the floor at Fox and Falco, but they dodged the attack, not realising
they were moving towards Palkia.
"Fox, Falco, look out!" shouted Ness. Sonic managed to pull them out
of the way just before Palkia used Spatial Rend.
"Those chains they're bound by", said Sonic. "They seem sort of
familiar".
"That's because they were made using Chaos Emeralds", said another
creature. He resembled Sonic, but was differently coloured, black and
red instead of blue.
"Shadow? How did you get here?" asked Sonic.
"You tell me", said Shadow.
"I'm guessing that Palkia creature distorted space with that last
move, inadvertedly sucking you from your original world to here due to
your connection with these Chaos Emerald things", said Uryu.
"That sounds about right", said another creature. This one was small
and yellow. It resembled a small, bipedal fox with two tails.
"Tails?" said Sonic in surprise. "Alright who else is here?"
Sonic looked around to see Amy, Knuckles, and Espio had appeared as
well.
"Alright, here's the plan", said Uryu. "Sonic and his friends, along
with Chad, Samus, Lucas and Ness will keep Dialga busy, while Mario,
Luigi, Yoshi, Kirby, Link, Pikachu and the Pokémon Trainer will deal
with Palkia. Meanwhile, Snake, Dengaku Man, Donkey Kong and I
will focus on destroying the chains. Everyone clear?"
"Clear", said everyone together.
"Seems like as good a plan as any", said Espio.
"Yay! I'm on the same team as Sonic!" cheered Amy.

Antroz, Chirox and Gavla waited in the shadows. They could hear
footsteps approaching. They could hear twelve pairs of feet running
down the corridor towards them.
Antroz turned to the human who was accompanying the three Makuta on
this mission. "Light, what do you see"
"There are three of them approaching now", replied Light. "From what
Orochimaru told us, their headbands identify them as ninja from the
Village Hidden in the Leaves".
"Well, two of them are adept at moving quietly", said Chirox. "I
didn't hear them coming".
As Naruto, Shikamaru and Kakashi entered the room, the three Makuta
struck from the shadows.
"We've got company!" Naruto called to the others. Sora summoned his
Keyblade and slashed at Gavla, but the batlike Makuta dodged the
attack. Axel threw his chakrams at Chirox. Antroz stabbed one of his
blades through the two chakrams, pinning them to the wall. Chirox
leapt at the remaining GRF members, but Xion blocked the attack with
her Keyblade. "I'll hold them back", said Xion, barely managing to
hold back the Makuta bearing over her. "You go on".
Roxas summoned his Keyblade. "Not alone you won't", he said.
Axel re-summoned his chakrams. "We'll try to draw them away, or at
least hold them back to buy you some time", he said to the remaining
GRF members. "Now go!"
Sora, Metaknight, Naruto, Kakashi, Shikamaru, The Doctor, Kazuki, Bo-
bobo, Beauty, Gasser, Tahu, Takanuva, Vakama, Lewa and Lucario ran on.
L, however, stayed still, staring at a single figure standing on a
high ledge above him.
"So L, we meet again", said Light.
"Hello Light", said L. "Or do you prefer Kira?"

Amy swung her hammer at Dialga's head, but it seemed to do nothing to
the huge Pokémon. Espio threw some shuriken at Dialga, but they
ricocheted off his thick armour. Knuckles ran at the legendary
Temporal Pokémon, but was caught off guard by a tail attack and was
sent flying. Ness and Lucas both fired bolts of PK fire at the mighty
dragon, only to see them hit Dialga but do no damage to him.
"Nothing we can do is working!" cried Amy.
"Out of the way", said Shadow, stepping in front of the pink hedgehog.
"Chaos Control!"
Shadow attempted to freeze Dialga in time, but something was wrong.
"What? How can..." he thought when he realised it was he who was frozen.
Dialga unleashed his Roar of Time at the nine creatures who were
fighting him. Chad stepped in front of the others and appeared to
catch the blast with his hand.
It was then that Tails noticed something. The chains were connected to
the gems on the two Pokémon.
"Hey guys!" Tails called to Snake and Dengaku Man, who were still
trying to destroy the chain. "I have an idea".
Meanwhile, Fox and Falco fired their blasters at Palkia, but to no
avail. Pikachu launched a bolt of electricity at him, but it had no
effect on him.
"Trainer!" called Link. "Does this thing have any weaknesses?"
"Well, yes, Palkia does have one weakness" said the Pokémon Trainer.
"Well, what is it?" asked Fox.
"Dragon type".
"I have an idea", said Fox, running towards Dialga, who began charging
another Roar of Time. As soon as he fired it, Fox leapt to the side,
barely dodging the gigantic blast, which flew on and hit Palkia.
Dialga attempted to launch another Roar of Time, but at that moment,
Chad reversed the first shot back at him. Both legendary dragon
Pokémon flew back, but stopped and crashed to the ground when Chad and
Donkey Kong grabbed their chains.
"Now, quick! Sonic! Shadow!" called Tails. Extract the Chaos Emeralds!"
Sonic and Shadow (who by this point had snapped out of his Dialga-
induced time freeze) leapt at the two Pokémon.
They removed the Chaos Emeralds from the two mighty Pokémon,
shattering the chain as they did.
"We did it!", said Tails, who seemed to be celebrating, along with
Lucas, Ness, Kirby, Dengaku Man and Pikachu.
"Don't celebrate so early", said Sonic. The fight's not over yet".
He stopped when he saw the expression on Uryu and Shadow's faces while
they were looking at the sky. Several worlds had appeared in the sky;
the world of trophies, Mobius, the four Guard Worlds, and many others
they could not recognise. Fragments were breaking off them and moving
towards Galaxii Utopia.
"Sorry Sonic", said Shadow solemnly. "But you're wrong. It is over".
"Not yet..." said Ness, in a voice that was not his own.
Everyone looked round to see Dialga and Palkia returning to their feet.
"We will slow the merging as much as we can", said Lucas, also in
another's voice. But the rest is up to you and your friends.
Dialga and Palkia began to glow: Dialga in blue, Palkia in purple. The
worlds in the sky also began to glow, their destruction slowing.
Sonic nodded, and ran out of the room at top speed, the others running
behind him.
As they left the room, they were joined by Captain Falcon, Tokiko, Don
Patch and Pit.
"Room for a few more?" asked Pit.
Sonic grinned. "Just a few".

"So, once we reach Galaxia and his council and stop them, the merging
will stop, right?" asked Naruto.
The Doctor sighed. "I don't know, Naruto. I just don't know".
"Galaxia and his council..." mumbled Sora.
It was then that he remembered Commander D's last words.
"The council are corrupting him. You must stop Galaxia's council",
Sora repeated to himself.
The Doctor turned his head, suddenly interested "What did you say?"
"Those were the last words Commander D said", explained Sora. "He told
me that the Commanders had had been modified by Xemnas, and that
Galaxia's council were corrupting him. I don't think this is Galaxia's
fault".
"Yes", said the Doctor, as if something was suddenly making sense.
"What is it?" asked Metaknight.
"I know what Galaxia is", said the Doctor.

Aizen unzipped a hole to Hueco Mundo, and he, Szayel and Ulquiorra
stepped through it. Aizen knew the illusion of his dead body would not
fool the Makuta for long. Besides, he had what he had come for.
The hole had almost closed when the six Bohrok Kal arrived. They saw
the damage immediately.
The remaining four experiments had gone.

We're nearing the end of Rise of Galaxia now. The final fight of finality is imminent. So review and vote on the poll.