Red lightning begins to crackle down from the sky, and storm winds kick up clouds of dust all around the battlefield.
INFINITE: You fools.
Amy gazes up, struggling to keep the fear out of her expression.
INFINITE: You think you can hurt me? You think you can touch me? IMPOSSIBLE! I am INFINITE!
He raises his hands with lightning flashing all around. His replica army dissolves, and the red, distorted energy making them up converges and masses together at a single point.
Cut to Emm and Sonic. The peak of the tower is in sight. Emm grapples, and launches the pair upward as hard as she can manage.
Cut to Team Tails. Before them is a gate with a sign reading 'Reactor Core'. Behind them is an army of smashed robots. Omega smashes the lock on the gate, and the doors rumble open.
Cut to the battlefield. The mass of red distortion starts to shape. It forms four legs, then a tail, then a head, then wings, then a second head, then a third. It looks like some horrible chimeric amalgamation of Perfect Chaos, Metal Overlord, and the Biolizard. The Resistance army is a scattered colony of ants before its massive size.
INFINITE: Disappear.
The three heads each fire a beam of dark, Null Space energy out of their beams sweep through the resistance ranks, and in a few seconds, half the combatants have vanished. The rest run in all directions, trying to avoid the same fate, but one by one, they are swept up. Vector, Espio, Knuckles, Amy, Silver, Shadow. And then the battlefield is empty, save for Infinite and the nightmarish being he has created.
The army has vanished to Null Space. Countless soldiers look around, confused and scared.
KNUCKLES: What the hell was that?
SILVER: Did… did we just lose?
AMY: No, there's still a chance.
Sonic and Emm stand on top of the Imperial Tower, staring up at the violent, red sky.
AMY (narration): We just have to believe in the others.
Sonic leaps into the air, as high as he can, then turns back towards Emm, and reaches out his hand. Emm shoots a wire at him, and he catches it. Sonic then starts spinning in midair, the rotation giving momentum to Emm's flight path as she reels in the wire and flings herself straight at the sun.
EMM (internal): So I never got my shot at defeating Infinite after all. That's okay though.
She flies through the air, feet from the sun, then inches. She holds up her prototype ruby.
EMM (internal): I was still able to help. With my own strength, in my own way. And with the support of my friends.
Her body begins to glow red as her hand touches the sun.
EMM (internal): I'm really glad that I got to do this.
The red light intensifies, then emanates out from her body in a wave. It dissolves the sun as it passes through it, wiping away the stormy, apocalyptic red, and revealing placid evening blue, as if the sun was never there in the first place. The wave of energy sweeps out past the boundaries of the city, and erases the chimera monster as well. The disoriented Resistance appears back on the ground as the last of the Null Space is cleared away. The light of Infinite's Phantom Ruby flickers out as the red wave passes through it, and Infinite falls out of the sky, crashing hard to the dusty earth. He rolls onto his back, and tries to regain his power, but Shadow teleports over him, holding a combat knife.
INFINITE Please… don't kill me…
Shadow brings the knife point down, and shatters the Phantom Ruby on Infinite's chest. He then holds the knife to the jackal's throat.
SHADOW: You killed plenty of ours. It's only fair.
INFINITE: No! Wait!
AMY (off-panel): Shadow!
Shadow turns to look back at the resistance leader.
AMY: Leave him to me.
Shadow glares at Infinite, but then backs down.
SHADOW: Fine. All yours.
Shadow turns to walk away, but Amy stops him.
AMY: Hey!
She extends her hand.
AMY: We won. Congratulations.
Shadow shakes the offered hand.
SHADOW: Yeah.
All around, the resistance is raising a raucous cry of celebration.
Atop the Imperial Tower, Sonic helps an exhausted Emm back to her feet.
EMM: Hey… that was pretty cool.
SONIC: Sure was.
Sonic's radio crackles to life.
TAILS (via radio): Sonic! Mayday, we need help!
SONIC: Tails! What's happening?
TAILS (via radio): We messed up! We found the reactor, but it's… the reactor...
Cut to the reactor interior, where the immense Death Egg Robot looms over a cavernous underground chamber. Team Tails is diminutive before it.
TAILS: It's a robot!
Cut to the cockpit of the robot, where Eggman sits confidently.
EGGMAN: That's right, fools! And this robot isn't just the guardian of an immeasurable power core. It also contains…
Cut to Tails panicked face.
EGGMAN (off-panel): The second Phantom Ruby!