Chapter 13 (Last Chapter!)
Before he could hit the ground, however, he crunched down on metal. A metal plane wing to be specific. "Ow. Tails, you got the Tornado!"
"You could have just waited, maybe, one more minute," Tails said, not taking his eyes off of the Wing Fortress in front of him. "Yeah, but that's boring," Sonic said, his eyelids covering the top half of his big eyes. They made it through the swarm of badniks no problem, and as Tails got the Tornado close to the Wing Fortress, more lazers shot out of it. By the time they were close enough for Sonic to jump onto the Wing Fortress, Tails was barely able to dodge the huge mass of red beams.
One of them tore through the wing of the Tornado right as Sonic hopped off. "Tails! What are you doing?" Sonic yelled down at the quickly falling plane. "I can fix it, I can fix it…" Tails mumbled nervously as he plummeted through the clouds and fumbled with the controls. "Just jump out! You can fly!" Sonic shouted down again, but it was too late. Tails was already out of earshot.
Sonic was in disbelief. He always knew Robotnik was evil and crazy, but not to the extent where he would just kill someone. Sonic felt the anger and rage boiling up inside him. Suddenly, all 7 chaos emeralds started floating around him. There was a bright flash of white, and a golden-haired, flashy version of Sonic stood there. "You're dead, Robotnik."
Robotnik was in tears laughing at Tails's demise when he heard a supersonic boom. "Oh no," he said sarcastically, pressing some buttons and grinning. Sonic was flying close to the top deck of the Wing Fortress when laser bars closed off the path in front of him. He whipped around to see that the same kind of lasers blocked him off the other way. "I don't have time for some trap," Super Sonic said, jumping up and kicking off the ceiling so hard that he went straight through the floor and out on what looked like a landing deck.
In front of Super Sonic was a jet that sat Robotnik at the front. Super Sonic could see through the cockpit glass that the mad scientist was sweating profusely upon sight of Sonic's new form. The jet's engines ignited and pushed the ship up in the direction of the strange 2nd moon that nobody had noticed before. "I can't fly like that! If only…" Super Sonic thought to himself, watching the jet get smaller and smaller.
"Hey Sonic! Hop on!" a higher-pitched voice shouted over the sound of a jet engine and propeller. "Tails! You're alive!" Sonic said, relaxing and changing back into his normal form.
"Of course. I can fix anything," Tails winked at Sonic, "Nice hair, too."
Sonic sighed, then hopped on the wing of the upgraded Tornado, which caught up to Robotnik's jet in no time. Robotnik's face displayed fear, anger, and confusion at the same time. Sonic smirked and then jumped at an exposed pipe to hang on for the ride. Tails gave Sonic a thumbs-up, and landed the Tornado.
Meanwhile, Sonic saw that the jet was coming up on what Sonic found to be Robotnik's new base of operations. A giant metal moon shaped like his face. Down below, Tails saw the giant Death Egg rise over the mountains and clouds on the horizon. "Uh oh"
Sonic felt the jolt of the jet locking on to the Death Egg, and then the tipping as Robotnik got out. He pushed off of the jet and played with zero gravity for a bit, then slid under the closing airlock doors. Sonic gulped in a ton of air, caught his breath, and ran into the next room.
The door slammed shut behind him as Sonic entered the cube shaped room. On one wall, metal plates slide open to reveal Robotnik's wide grin behind thick glass. In front of Sonic, a metal version of Sonic dropped down and crashed loudly on the metal floor. "I can see you have made Metal worse since last time," Sonic said, raising an eyebrow and pointing to Silver Sonic. "Nnng, shut up!" Robotnik spat, "I didn't have much time to make this one!"
Silver Sonic grinded forward, stopped, turned around, and grinded back the other way. "Oh my god, that's all it does!? HA!" Sonic laughed as he jumped from wall to wall, occasionally hitting the sad replica of himself. "Hey, I was busy…" Robotnik said when Sonic smashed Silver Sonic's head in, "working on this!" Robotnik shouted as he hopped in a gigantic robot mecha shaped like him.
"Oh boy," Sonic thought. The mecha had spinning spike hands, and was so big that Sonic could barely jump up high enough to hit it in its weak spot. It stepped forward, stopped, and shot its hands off like missiles toward Sonic. Sonic jumped over one and on the other, riding it on its way back to the mecha'as wrist. Sonic jumped to hit it and heard a pleasing *crack* right after he spun into a ball of quills.
A couple more careful and direct hits broke the mecha, and it crumbled to the ground in shards of metal and fire. Before Robotnik or Sonic could make some snappy comments to each other, the entire Death Egg started blowing up. Sonic went super and dashed out of a hole in the wall, and Robotnik was just yelling, "WELL THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE!"
Almost as soon as he jumped through the hole, Sonic thought, "How am I gonna get down?" Meanwhile, Tails was adding some things to the Tornado when he saw a bright flash of light erupt from where the Death Egg was moments ago. "Nice timing, Sonic," he thought, smiling at the idea of Robotnik getting his elaborate plans ruined by some mutant teenagers again.
Tails finished what he was doing, packed up his tools, hopped in the Tornado, winked to a Flicky, and took off in the direction of the explosion. As he was flying, more and more small animals rescued from being Badniks flocked behind the Tornado. Tails was so lost in the relaxing scenery, the hum of the propeller, and the feeling of wind rushing through his fur that he almost fell out of the plane when Super Sonic made his presence known.
"Hey," Super Sonic whispered, flying close to the napping fox, "hey TAILS!"
"Nice one," Tails grumbled back after regaining his balance, cheering up again as soon as he said that. It was too nice to stay mad at anything right now.
"I blew up the Death Egg. And I'm sick of being a hedgehog!"
Super Sonic landed on the Tornado's wing, then turned into normal Sonic, who transformed into Nick. "What now?" Miles asked Nick.
"First, we make up an excuse to tell our parents, then we live normal lives until Robotnik shows his face again"
"Ok, so business as usual?"
"Yep. I'm done being Sonic for a while, and the school's almost done being rebuilt"
After landing in the street outside of Nick's house to drop him off, Miles flew back to his hangar at his house. Miles was comforted by the dramatic orange and purple colored light from the sun setting reflected on the windows of his home and the ocean nearby. "Ahh, home," he sighed, banking the Tornado to the left towards his hangar.
Robotnik was defeated, and it was time to live a normal life, go to school, and spend time with their families. Of course, Robotnik wouldn't stay down for long, but they would just kick him back down.