Author's Note: Time for the final battles! Warning: This chapter will be dark(which I don't normally do), but light at the same time, so be sure to bring in the hankies.
I do not own Sonic The Hedgehog. All rights belong to Sega.
Chapter 18: Sonic's Greatest Challenge.
Yacker had thought he'd be spinning far away from the Amusement Park and from any world that was close by, but somehow he managed to correct his position and maneuvered so that he could simply float without the risk of being carried away. Still somewhat weak from his failed attempts to free his now corrupted mother, the curl-headed Wisp held his forehead with his finger-less hand, his eye spinning like crazy.
As he was shaking his head to regain his senses, the little alien looked up to see that the main section of the park was being destroyed piece by piece, parts of it exploding and being sucked in by the Nega-Wisp Mother who was sitll in the process of awakening to begin her corrupted goal. While his eye widened in sheer horror and devastation, his heart beating and freezing on the spot, he then heard yelling below him.
"#$%?" The little Wisp squeaked, before looking down as while he noticed the elevator descending towards Mobius, the home planet of his two new friends who had done everything they could to save his kind, what caught his attention was a giant Nega-Wisp machine that was flying from the Docking Bay halfway onto the shaft. Inside the cockpit was, to his dismay, was the horrible man who had caused all this; who all the Wisps dubbed as Baldy Nosehair, was actually called Dr. Eggman, the enemy of the world he comes from.
But clinging into the flying machine the alien had never seen before was, to his shock, was the very blue hedgehog hero who had done so much for all Wisps, who had promised that everything would be alright, that he would be stopping Eggman once and for all.
Sonic.
"#%$%$(Sonic)!" Yacker screamed out his friend's name in Wisp language as he saw Sonic hanging onto the Nega-Wisp Armor while trying to climb up without falling over, in what the little Wisp realized was the ultimate battle. It didn't take the alien long to see that the teenager was attempting to stop the evil man, because he could sense it more than see, that the blue hedgehog had courage, determination and other feelings, knowing that he had to do this, or else all was lost and Eggman has won.
But despite this, the curl-headed alien feared that the hero of Mobius may not be able to win this even though he has done it millions of times before by now, and at that moment felt scared. It wasn't until he remembered what Sonic had told him earlier back in his home world, when the blue hedgehog confessed things to him.
"I know you do the same, Yacker. Looking out for everybody here even long before all of this started." Sonic told him.
He then looked up at the sky while adding. "You and I have a lot in common. Looking out for our friends because we're both willing to, and after today or yesterday, you and all of the aliens are my friends now. When I first saw you and a few of your buddies in trouble, I knew what I had to do. I know it's not easy looking out for everybody you care about, but one can only do their best. And hey, I think you've done a great job."
"#$%$&?" The cute Wisp muttered, surprised by the praise and reassurance.
"Tails and I wouldn't have known a lot if you weren't around. Okay, the translator not being 100% great a few times, but you really helped out a lot, buddy. You and Tails helped me through out this adventure. That still counts in helping your friends. So...Thanks." Sonic said fondly.
Those words echoed in his mind, filling his heart with great emotions while helplessly watching Sonic vanish along with Eggman and the giant robot around the corner of the park before back again and over the glass dome before flying down towards the larger planet. Sonic...his very dear friend...Yacker felt his eye fill up with tears. He felt his heart break due to already failing in saving his mother...the very thought of losing his cobalt hero and very dear friend as well...
No. Yacker refused to let that happen. Even though he didn't have much energy left and as the battle began with Sonic chasing after Eggman before being chased himself and vice versa, rescuing the Wisps that were held inside and the battle becoming increasingly deadly, the curl-headed Wisp knew what he had to do.
He was going to help Sonic in this battle.
"Whooooooaaaaaaaa!" Sonic screamed as he lost one grip of the Nega-Wisp Armor that was flying around the increasingly decaying Amusement Park, and his lucky grace was that, being a Mobian, he can actually breathe in space which he still didn't understand even to this day since humans are Mobians as well. He still managed to hold on while struggling to grab hold with his other hand again, with Eggman driving the robot all around the park just to get him off.
Eventually the blue hedgehog managed to begin climbing his way up despite that his enemy was flying around in the Nega-Wisp Armor very dangerously, though Sonic knew that it was to try and shake him off without committing suicide. Eggman seemed to notice the teenager making his way up towards the cockpit, because he looked over his shoulder and frowned furiously just how stubborn his arch enemy really is.
"You little...! Why do you have to be such a stubborn and irritating nuisance of a pest!?" Eggman demanded angrily.
"Why do you have to go and change the world from life into nothing but metal, and hurt so many lives!?" Sonic demanded back, quickly making his way closer to the cockpit and glaring eye to eye with the evil madman. "And don't think I'll ever forgive you for what you've done to all these aliens, to their home, to my best friend Tails, and what you're trying to do to the Universe! All for the same thing over and over again! I'm sick of it! I'm sick of you and your continuous plots to try and take over my home and force everybody to obey you!"
"And I'm sick of your continuous interference in stopping me from gaining my goal, little hedgehog!" The egg-shaped man bellowed back as he controlled the Nega-Wisp Armor around once more, eventually over the outside of the elevator shaft while attempting to ignore the destruction his park is going through. "It wouldn't come to this if you joined my side years ago, Sonic. We could have easily avoided it and all the other times you stopped me!"
"NO!" The cobalt hedgehog shouted, glaring at him. "I told you once and I'll say it again; I'll NEVER join with you!"
Before Eggman could make a response, Sonic punched and kicked at the Armor so hard once the latter knew they were somewhat safely over and on top of the shaft which created a surprisingly decent dents on the machine which made the former yelp in surprise and shock which the force of it nearly sent him falling off his seat and sending the Nega-Wisp Armor falling backwards. The blue hedgehog jumped off and somersaulted towards the roof and landed safely, some gravity making it as though he was standing upright, not upside down or facing downward.
The evil scientist cried out in alarm before attempting to quickly repositon himself and fiddle with the controls to maneuver the Nega-Wisp Armor the right way up even though he hit the floor hard a few times, already resulting a bit of more damage, but not as bad as it seemed. None the less, he managed to get it back up with a stumble and a groan before flying off, this time hovering over the floor, and the blue hedgehog quickly followed in high-speed.
"Invincible, huh?" Sonic taunted with a smirk, despite that he was still angry but he couldn't let Eggman play with his emotions right now, especially with everything was at stake still. "More like breakable to me. You never change in your giant robot designs, Eggman."
"That was just the layout of my latest creation." Eggman sneered, turning to fly his Nega-Wisp Armor backwards to take down the blue hedgehog. "This will not go down in your favor this time, Sonic! Today you will finally see what it's like to have a crushing defeat, right before I crush YOU!"
"Crush me? Ha! That's a sad attempt of a joke, Buttnik." The teenage hero scoffed, losing his smirk and glared hard. "You couldn't even crush a cookie even if you wanted to, let alone know how to bake one, without messing up the chocolate chips!"
"I do so!" The evil man ranted childishly, before adding with a dark growl. "In fact, I'll be baking YOU, since you escaped from my pie factory! Yes, I've seen what has happened, and if you hadn't escaped-"
"If you say that you're gonna shrink my cooked up dead body in that blueberry pie and eat me, then you're even more insane than I thought." Sonic interrupted with a warning in his tone, his stomach turning as he then quickly dodged the attacks of the pincers that Eggman had his robot launch forward to try and stab him, but missed. "The only good thing about the factory is that it's not the "Bake Me Crazy" ride, or else you'd woulda been eating dead people by now, which is really gross, and horrible."
Eggman just stared at him blankly, with a huge sweat-drop. Not only that his own words yesterday disturbed him when he thought about the temptation of eating Sonic, which made him feel nauseous, but even Sonic himself thought of the same horrible idea and from the looks of it, his blue enemy looked a bit green in the face even just by thinking about it.
"Give me a break! Yes, I am evil, and yes I have thought of actually doing that, before I realized how horrid that idea was. But if I ended up doing that, that would make me a cannibal, which I'm not!" The evil scientist protested.
Sonic sighed in relief. "Oh, good. Glad to hear that Amy's right then. I've had enough nightmares of being eaten by a giant Werehog and had quite a scare of being swallowed up by a Whale twice today before realizing that he was helping me. Otherwise I wouldn't be here right now."
"Hmph! Well, let's see if you survive being baked by THIS!" Eggman declared, ignoring the fact that the blue hedgehog had survived digestion(much to his irritation) before pushing another button which the Armor's arms withdrew the pinchers and turned into huge vacuums, reaching up sky-high, even as the huge forms of twisters also threatened to suck up everything else in it's path, including Sonic himself who resisted the force that would've sucked him up as well.
Before the young hero could even wonder what was happening as he tried to reach the robot without getting captured, the familiar terrified squeals filled his eyes and the air, and for that instant his heart leaped into his throat, freezing on the spot as from the main part of the park, some of the Wisps that were trying to escape back to Planet Wisp were being sucked up and into the machine. Sonic gasped in horror as he could only watch the helpless aliens being unable to fight and were now trapped inside the Nega-Wisp Armor, once again captured against their will...
For their powers to be drained away and used until there was nothing left. All of his hard work to set them free, so that they can safely return home...the blue hedgehog felt like at that moment that it was all for nothing. His heart ached and broke, and knew that he had to save them quickly.
"GUYS, NO!" Sonic screamed, clutching his fists behind him as he ran. "Let them go, Eggman!"
"Sorry, Sonic. I need them to power up my macines! What better use are these aliens other than a power-source, hmm?" Eggman devilishly.
"You think that all the time with everybody that aren't your stupid rusty toys! That's why you're all alone with nothing but those robots, because you disregard all life in the universe! Even humanity! All you care about is yourself! You always did!" The blue hedgehog exclaimed, struggling to hold back his anger, as he knew that his enemy would enjoy this and taunt him repeatedly.
"That's not true!" The evil scientist bellowed angrily. "Remember the time when I saved Shadow's life? Or when I gave the Chaotix information about Metal Sonic? Or when I helped to drive back Black Doom?"
Sonic just rolled his eyes, "Yeah, those would be exceptions if it weren't the fact that you locked up Shadow and Omega inside that room after thinking that Shads was in a coma forever, and then used his blood to create a whole android army of him, then tricked him into thinking he was one of them when he lost his memories! That, and the other times were pretty much because if Metal Sonic or Black Doom won, there wouldn't be a world for you to rule! It's all you really cared about!"
"Oh okay, fine! You have a point there, which is the last one you'll ever make!" Eggman shouted furiously, as he felt burning rage and pure desire to destroy the blue hedgehog. How he hated the teenager for always ruining his plans. He fiddled with his controls once more as the Nega-Wisp Armor finished sucking in some of the aliens and the arms withdrew the vacuums before powering up with purple energy.
As Sonic watched, his eyes narrowed as they fired purple large lasers at him from the tentacles. The cobalt hero leaped from side to side and hissed as one nearly grazed him, but not enough to slow him down or even injure him even though the lasers were doing severe damage on the shaft. Ignoring the fact that he'd almost been vaporized, he sped up and got closer even as the giant robot then raised it's arms and shot out huge purple globs of stuff. To his horror, they formed into huge purple cubes, very much like the cubes from the blue Wisp.
'When he said that this thing's using the same power as my friends, he wasn't kidding!' Sonic thought to himself as he forced himself to run from side to side again, trying to avoid in even touching the huge blocks which, well, briefly blocked his view from Eggman even as they somehow slid away behind him.
"Some baker you are!" The blue hedgehog smirked as he escaped the last of the cubes and was right near the robot and Eggman. "Eat this, Egghead!"
Before the evil scientist could do anything, Sonic jumped and homing attacked one of the giant metal tentacles when it made to swipe at him, he jumped and attacked with a Spin Dash added, yelling out as he went. He struck it's shoulder next as he leaped, doing some more damage, causing the robot to creak and spark a little. The blue hedgehog then leaped away and as he began to fall to land safely, he was right in front of the cockpit with a hard glare at Eggman who's eyes widened behind his sunglasses in shock and surprise, apparently didn't see this coming.
Sonic took this chance to chuckle before pulling an eye-lid down and giving him a raspberry, and then gave the cockpit a good, hard kick. That not only caused the machine to stumble back, but for Eggman to lose control and stumble, almost flying out of his seat as he gave out a startled yelp.
"WAOH!" Eggman cried out, falling backwards and unknowingly pushing a button when his legs when upward and his right one hitting it. While the blue hedgehog landed safely on the floor and continued running and bracing himself for some kind of attack, a hatch opened up on one part of the body and to his relief and surprise, some of the Wisps, seeing that they were free, flew away quickly.
Except for one; a Cyan Wisp that Sonic recognized and, seeing it's hero in a fight against it's captor, flew around him and then beside him with a relieved and happy squeal to see him again. It took the fifteen year old hedgehog a moment to realize that this was the very first Cyan Wisp that he saved and had given him it's power unexpectedly.
"Well, hi! Haven't seen you in a while." Sonic greeted his friend, who beamed happily. "Wanna help in getting your friends back?"
The Cyan alien nodded eagerly with determination, more than willing as it wanted to save it's friends, to help the blue hedgehog who had done so much in saving it's kind, and also to give Eggman payback for the horrible things the evil man has done. Sonic smiled and returned the nod with a thumbs up.
"Couldn't agree more, buddy!" He told it, before turning his attention back to the Nega-Wisp Armor as the evil scientist recovered by getting back into his seat, while having received a bruise or two from the unexpected attack from the young cobalt Mobian.
"This is only the beginning, you little brat!" Eggman hissed, before he controlled the machine which began to glow brightly. The Nega-Wisp Armor then sped forward and flew over the duo as their eyes widened in shock before it appeared behind them. He turned it around and cackled madly as he now began chasing Sonic and the Wisp. "Now who's chasing who?"
"That was a dirty trick, but you've always pulled off things like that!" Sonic retorted, smirking a little despite that he couldn't attack right now and his and the Cyan alien's only hope was to avoid whatever attacks Eggman has. "Lucky for me, I'm used to being chased and managing to get away! This is nothing new."
"That's what you think, hedgehog!" The evil doctor sneered with that ugly grin of his, and summoned another laser right at the teenage hero and the Wisp who screeched, pulled Sonic's arm as one of the purple lasers would've hit him.
Before the blue hedgehog could give his thanks, to their shock Eggman's machine summoned more giant cubes that appeared and were now sliding straight towards them. This made things difficult as Sonic had to rely on his friend to help see where to dodge. He tried to run faster and hoped that the cubes would just disappear, and gasped as he looked over his shoulder only to see that they were getting closer and closer. At the Cyan Wisp's signal, he dodged to the left and felt sweat slide down his forehead while the overly large cube slid past him. Sonic then dodged to the right to avoid another and had caught a short break when the other two slid past him on both sides.
Unfortunately, the blue hedgehog failed to detect Eggman's robot to launch giant purple spikes that came paralleling down towards him, and Sonic was forced to try and narrowly dodged these attacks. But as he did, the young hero mistraced his step despite the alien's warning before both ended up hitting one which scraped Sonic on the right arm which caused him to scream as it hurt more than he thought, while the Wisp ended up poked in the stomach, making it squeal in pain as well. This was another distraction as the Nega-Wisp Armor then fired another laser which, while Sonic noticed and forced himself to ignore his injury while grabbing hold of the alien and ran faster, the attack hit the floor just behind him which sent the two flying forward, crying out in alarm.
The blue hedgehog rolled and tumbled while feeling the intense heat from the attack, but managed to place one foot onto the floor and repositioned his balance, once again running with the Wisp in his arms as it huddled in his chest.
"You okay!?" Sonic asked quickly to the Cyan Wisp who, shaken but thankfully still alive and with a couple of injuries as well has having some of it's energy drained, nodded. He sighed in relief, before glaring at Eggman behind him and then had another idea. "I'm gonna do something to get hopefully some of your friends outta that thing. When I say go, you move out of the way. 'Kay?"
While the little adorable alien had no idea what the blue hedgehog had in mind, seeing how serious he was made it nod with determination with a bit of a scared look, and worry in it's eye. He smiled reassuringly, "It'll be okay. I promise."
"You shouldn't be making promises that you can't keep, Sonic." Eggman coldly advised with a cackle. "They tend to break, just like you will!"
"Yeah, well, funny thing is..." Sonic began as he signaled his friend to fly out of the way to safety after letting go, before turning and began running backwards to fully face his enemy and finished. "I always keep my promises, and I won't be stopping now!"
"There's always a first time for everything, and once I'm done with you, your body will make a nice display when I rebuild this place!"
"Ha!" The blue hedgehog scoffed with a confident smirk. "We'll see about that...Baldy McNosehair!"
"BALDY McNOSEHAIR!? HOW DARE YOU!?" The evil scientist exclaimed angrily with his face turning bright red that it was almost practically steaming, pounding his fists so hard and so randomly on the dashboard as he was feeling more than just insulted over the latest nickname he'd been given, that he unknowingly pushed the same button that accidentally freed the Cyan Wisp earlier.
Not only did he see too late as both an orange and a yellow alien fly out along with others who most flew away, while the first two remained, much to his shock and dismay, and to Sonic's relief and surprise, but Eggman realized his mistake and sweat-dropped before pounding himself on the head for his own stupidity, which gave the teenage hedgehog a chance to stop running backwards and instead sped straight towards the Nega-Wisp Armor.
The two aliens, which he recognized as the ones he freed from Sweet Mountain, rejoined the Cyan Wisp. The blue hedgehog then leaped onto the same tentacle and homing attacked the same places he did before and once he was in front of the cockpit which made the evil man flinch in fright, the teenager gave it another hard kick.
This resulted in Eggman nearly falling out of his chair and hitting the release button for the third time, and while Sonic landed on the floor and ducked with the machine safely flying over him, a pink Wisp and a blue Wisp came flying out to which they, and the other three aliens that the blue hedgehog freed flew over the Nega-Wisp Armor and rejoined him as he then turned and gave the aliens a friendly greeting before chasing after his enemy once again, with his friends joining the battle, even though the blue and orange aliens nuzzled him on the face which made him chuckle, while the yellow one beamed and the pink one nodded in relief and greeting. The Cyan Wisp giggled at the cute scene despite the situation they were in.
"Sorry I'm late to save you guys." Sonic apologized as he ran. "I guess you wanna give this guy a good beating, huh?"
The orange, yellow, pink and blue Wisps all nodded, and the blue hedgehog nodded back in return, while smirking to himself that his taunt had made saving two aliens a little bit easier due to giving Eggman a good taunt that he knew was definitely worth it. The look on his face was priceless.
"How many taunting names do you have to come up with against me!?" Eggman demanded after he repositioned his robot and once again was flying backwards, facing the blue hedgehog and the aliens.
"Hey, it's not my fault you have a temper that's worse than mine and that you're a big sore loser." The cobalt teenager shrugged, before adding as he continued his taunts. "Besides, for an evil genius, you sure are unbelievably stupid in more ways than one."
"WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!?" The evil man demanded, getting more and more aggravated, right before commanding his robot to the power of rocket which it soon began to charge straight towards them in high speed, making the blue hedgehog gasp in shock and the Wisps to shriek in fright, since despite that most of them were already out of the robot, it still had the power of the Hyper-Go-Ons. The six of them quickly jumped, flew and dodged the attack as it hit the floor behind them, shaking it and almost rocking the entire shaft.
Even though shaken from that attack, Sonic refused to let Eggman see that he was getting increasingly scared but forced it down, mentally focusing on his courage and determination. So instead he answered as calmly as he could sound with a frown. "One, you never learn to stop going after the same goal over and over again, and two, you never knew that sushi always had fish until I heard your announcement earlier today! Seriously, you need to not take over the world and do what I do more often."
"Who made you the expert?" Eggman scoffed, more than a little embarrassed that even Sonic knew that the scientist had no idea about sushi until Orbot pointed it out to him.
"It's called learning geography and exploring the world to learn of different cultures. Look it up sometime." The blue hedgehog deadpanned. He knew that his enemy would didn't care about any of that, but he still felt the need to say it.
"Why bother?" The evil doctor asked, grinning madly. "Soon the world-no, the UNIVERSE, will be mine to rule!"
"Not in a million years!" Sonic shouted, as he and the Wisps continued running after Eggman, even as the latter commanded the Nega-Wisp Armor to use a combination of Laser, Spikes and Cubes which was a terrible combination.
"AHH!" The blue hedgehog yelped as the lasers were too close to home, before quickly jumping over an over-sized spike and then avoiding in getting hit by a giant cube and vice versa. The Wisps were struggling to avoid these as well to which he had no choice but to kick some of the spikes away from his friends and was almost stabbed by one in the process.
The Nega-Wisp Armor was then controlled to use Drill, but instead of drilling into the elevator shaft as Sonic feared, it floated up and began spinning downward towards him with Eggman laughing manically in the process without getting dizzy. The aliens used their combined strengths to push him out of the way just as the giant robot hit the floor hard, causing a massive quake that nearly made the blue hedgehog lose his balance. But now he was being chased again and to make things worse, the evil doctor wasted no time in using the same strategy of using the three previous attacks prior of using drill.
"Look out!" The cobalt hedgehog exclaimed, risking himself in using homing attack to knock away the purple spikes despite in getting hit himself, screaming in agony at the sharp and burning sensations before the Wisps quickly pulled him to safety once more, attempting to counter attack by hitting the robot themselves, the Laser and Rocket Wisps hitting tentacles that attempted to suck them and the other three of their kind up once again. Despite the damaged by both Sonic and the two aliens which was beginning to make the machine slowly break apart, it was tougher than any of them thought.
Sonic winched as he was gently but quickly set back down onto the floor and his heart pounding furiously in his chest, and the three other aliens that had saved his life were flying by his side with very worried expressions. Even without the translator, he could tell that they were scared; not just because of what Eggman was doing and what he could do, but that the blue hedgehog was reaching his limit and could very well be dead if he didn't do something to stop this soon. At the rate this was going, he was scared that maybe this will be the day that he will end up losing and everything he fought for would be for nothing. The fear and nightmares of his enemy defeating him and ruling the world, the universe, could very possibly come true.
'No!' The blue hedgehog chastised himself firmly after realizing what he was thinking and having allowed his fears, doubts, and guilt begin to creep up again, mentally shaking his head as he squeezed his eyes shut for a moment. 'I've defeated him everytime! I've almost died during those fights but I always manage to come out and win! This is no different! I can do this!'
"T-thanks, guys!" He thanked his friends after opening his eyes, and despite his injuries, he ignored those and gave the aliens a thumbs up. The Wisps, including the ones that had held Eggman back and rejoined them, all beamed at him with looks of determination in their eyes, and for that moment Sonic thought he could feel it from their chests, just as his own was in a mixture of his feelings he had began to re-develop, and feelings that made him who he is.
The blue hedgehog smiled back briefly in relief, before glancing over his shoulder with a hard glare at their enemy and snarled with a deep frown. "Is that the best you can do?"
"Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" Eggman laughed manically despite the fact that his 'invincible' robot was badly damaged and one part of it beginning to fill up with smoke and burn. "This is just a warm up, little hedgehog! I have one trick up my sleeve...and that is VOID!"
Sonic gasped in horror when he heard this, his heart freezing up along with his blood, the sheer terror quickly made known on his expressions as his eyes widened. He knew exactly where this was about to go, and given how powerful Void was when he briefly fused with the corrupted Violet Wisp earlier, this wasn't going to end well if he and the aliens were swallowed by this attack.
"Oh no...!" He whispered, his voice shaking with fear. No soon had Eggman shouted the word and pushed another button, the mouth of the Nega-Wisp Armor opened up to reveal a giant black void that began swallowing the blue hedgehog and the aliens up. Sonic quickly grabbed hold of the Wisps, holding them tightly in his arms before the attack was formed and continued to run as fast as he could to resist it.
The powerful winds of the Void began sucking almost everything up, while the cobalt hero forced himself to keep running and resisting until the attack could stop. Even so, it didn't seem to be ending no matter how hard the blue hedgehog resisted the pull and the aliens holding on as long as possible, and he could feel himself being strained by the combination of his injuries slowing him down which made his fear get even worse, and the powerful winds of doom starting to pull them in. Sonic none the less forced himself to keep trying, getting more and more desperate by the second.
"Come on, Armor! Bring me back those life supplies and engulf that blue bozo into oblivion!" Eggman shouted at the machine in frustration, pounding at the dashboard once again furiously, irritated that Sonic was still resisting it.
"They're not life supplies, or batteries, and they're definitely not fuel or engines!" Sonic shouted, not risking to glance over his shoulder as he focused on getting himself and the aliens away from the Void, but made his voice loud enough for his enemy to hear. "They're living beings who were happy, safe and free in their home world 'til you showed up and kidnapped them and their entire planet!"
"You harnessed their power since they allow it, you stubborn little pest! And yet you let them go free! Why waste such potential?" The evil man argued.
"Because I'm not a monster like you! I never was and I never will be!" The blue hedgehog screamed in anger. "I don't want to hurt these aliens, especially how you did today like what you did four years ago!"
"Spare me the past memories, Sonic!" Eggman growled darkly, secretly fiddling with buttons that opened up a small container of seven glowing objects as he suddenly a feeling that his back-up plan may be needed after all. "Because soon you will be nothing BUT a memory!"
"Fine, but that'll be after I beat you up at least one more time!" Sonic yelled back, still fighting against the Void even though it was starting to die down. Even though a part of him was still encouraging him to not give up, that he will make it home back to his friends, his family, and keep his promise to Tails, he meant what he said to Eggman just now, and the other part of him ached at the very thought of never being able to anyone again. Not the first time it happened, and he always managed to beat the impossible, but there was a chance that everything would change this time.
'At least I can say that...I saved the Universe after I stopped him.' The blue hedgehog thought to himself, struggling to hold back his emotions and the urge to cry. But he had to focus on his task even if it meant never being able to go home.
"Enough playing around. Seeing how you're still too stubborn to die even with the Hyper-Go-Ons, I think it's time to pull out the big guns!" Eggman hissed, deciding that he had the one advantage that Sonic always managed to use against him in the past, but this time it was in reverse.
Just before he could however, there was a loud squeal coming from above just as the Void had finally stopped and Sonic almost stumbled forward. The squeal grew louder and the next thing the evil scientist knew that something hit the Nega-Wisp Armor from behind and caused him to stumble forward in his seat.
"WHOA-OMPH!" Eggman yelped before smashing his face into the dashboard, rather painfully. The force of it caused the small container to withdrew back underneath and vanish, and the large robot to fly forward, almost hitting Sonic and the aliens who cried out in alarm and ducked just in time, the blue hedgehog rolling over before stopping and dropped onto his knees.
Sonic panted as he glanced down at the shaken but fairly okay aliens, asking worriedly. "Is everybody alright?"
The Wisps nodded with squeaks of their language, but he knew that they were okay. Though before he could sigh in relief, the blue hedgehog and his friends looked up to see the Nega-Wisp Armor spinning around and around with Eggman tumbling and hitting the windshield, seat, dashboard, seat and floor as he went.
"Ow! Oh! Ouch! AH! Omph! Ogh! OW!" The evil man grunted and cried out as he went while struggling to reposition himself during his painful unexpected roller-coaster ride.
Eventually he managed to regain control and turned the robot around even though he was suffering a couple of bruises, and a crossed-bandaid on top of his head, before demanding. "Who did that!?"
Everyone looked to see, to Sonic's shock and even to the shock of the Wisps which he let go and they simply hovered around him, was a very familiar white Wisp with a very cute blue curl on it's head, floating at Eggman's cockpit level and glaring at the evil man who hadn't expected to see something so small launch a surprise attack on him either.
"...Yacker!?" The blue hedgehog exclaimed in disbelief. While he was greatly relieved that his closet alien friend hadn't been captured after all, then saw just how exhausted the cutest little Wisp was; he was panting very heavily, his body covered in injuries worse than Sonic had, and looked utterly drained of his energy but strangely not in the process of becoming a Nega-Wisp. Made his heart drop as he tried to figure out what his friend had been up to. At the same time he couldn't believe that Yacker had just came in to save him and the other Wisps.
"What!? Where did you come from!?" Eggman demanded, before shaking his head and shouted. "Oh, forget it! You look too weak for my Nega-Wisp Armor anyway, clearly not enough Hyper-Go-On energy, so I'll just get rid of you first!"
"DON'T YOU DARE!" Sonic shouted, immediately taking action as he ignored his own exhaustion and injuries, racing forward to save Yacker before he could end up killed. Just as the machine was about to swipe the little alien, the blue hedgehog jumped onto it and raced towards the shoulder.
"Not again!" The evil scientist complained, crying out in alarm as Sonic spin dashed into the shoulder and causing parts of the Armor to fall off and begin to burst into flames, continuing his attack until he kicked the cockpit once more, sending Eggman off his seat and as luck would have it, freeing the last seven Wisps, two Wisps staying to join Sonic's side; a green one and a violet one, which explained why the machine had the power of Void in the first place.
While that happened, no one was aware that the small container of the seven glowing rainbow stones also falling out and landed just in front of the other five Wisps who noticed and hovered towards the box curiously, wondering what it was before turning their attention back to the situation.
"Hurry, go!" Sonic instructed as he began to land, while the two aliens, the Hover-Wisp more than willing to obey, and the Void-Wisp, emotionless but having some sense to listen, both did as they were told. Yacker was about to follow when he saw that the Nega-Wisp Armor, forced backwards and becoming more and more damaged with it's tail snapping off, was about to fire Laser as Eggman quickly sat back up.
"Out of my sight!" Eggman shouted, firing the laser once more.
Sonic was about to dodge when he saw that it was being aimed at Yacker, and despite that he knew that it was a trap, his eyes widened in horror as he couldn't let this happen. "Yacker, watch out!"
The curl-headed Wisp looked and his eye widened in terror, feeling too exhausted to move no matter how fast he tried and could only float there frozen. But his horror of his life changed to the horror of the life of his blue hedgehog friend who, without hesitation, leaped up and with his arms spread out, was using himself as a shield when the purple laser fired and hit him on the spot, trapping him in mid-air and engulfing him rather than vaporizing him straight away.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Sonic screamed in pure agony as he could feel the electrical, fiery and extremely painful power of the Nega-Wisp Armor's laser struck him to the very core, unable to escape and no matter how hard he tried to hold on, he was quickly beginning to lose his strength. It was just like the time when he'd been trapped in Eggman's machine that stripped him of the Chaos Emeralds, only more lethal and that it was to kill him this time, merely than keep him captured.
"$%#$%!" Yacker and the other Wisps, including the Violet one, all exclaimed in pure horror to see their hero and friend having risked his own life to save the curl-headed alien's, and was now about to die right before their very eyes.
"Bwahahahahahahahaha! AH HA HA HA HA HA HA!" Eggman cackled loudly and victoriously, enjoying every moment of his enemy's slow and increasingly painful death begin to happen right before his eyes. "YES! Finally, you're finished, Sonic the Hedgehog! Now NOTHING WILL STOP ME!"
"S-Shut up, Egghead!" The blue hedgehog grunted, screaming again before adding as he tried his best to keep himself conscious despite the fact that he was starting to reach his limits. "NNNNGGGGH! I-I'm not gonna l-lose to y-you!"
Yacker was horrified to see that Sonic had done what he did, and still had the determination and resolve to keep going despite that he was losing his life. In that instant the Wisp saw memories his time with the blue hedgehog and Tails flash right before his very eyes; their first meeting, how he explained to them and pleaded Sonic to save his kind, to their conversations during their journey, the happy moments like sharing chocolate, the emotional times when the young hero thought all of the aliens were going to die and blamed himself, the comforting times, their talk on Planet Wisp and watching the sunrise on the said planet, which was the best moment of their lives and they wanted to treasure it forever in their hearts.
Tears formed in the curl-headed Wisp's eye, his heart breaking at the fear and pain of losing Sonic, after losing his mother. It was then he knew that he had really do what the blue hedgehog had did for him and all of his kind. With his own determination and not hesitation, the little alien gave out a very loud scream as he began to glow in bright light, using his own power of boost along with a few other skills that only he and his mother could do, combined with a Laser.
He then flew forward and threw himself right into the firing line of the purple Laser, which not only broke it's connection on Sonic who gave out a pained and surprised cry before falling and landing in a crouch on one knee, panting as he was badly injured, but not severely, but also strike back at the Nega-Wisp Armor, which the laser backfired and hit the machine in it, sending Eggman backwards once more.
But as the blue hedgehog looked up to see what happened, his emerald eyes widened and he gave out a horrified, devastating gasp when he saw that what happened, as the laser engulfed the very alien he'd just risked his life for, and now had done the same for him, but using his own power at the same time, leaving him looking very drained and twice as badly hurt.
"YACKER!" Sonic screamed, reaching out for him, while the aliens behind him gave out horrified cries for their brother. "Noooooooo!"
Hissing in pain, the teenage hedgehog ran and jumped, catching Yacker who had used up the last of his energy and feel backwards. Sonic held him tightly in his arms and tumbled and rolled before landing on his side.
"Whoooooaaaaaa!" Eggman screamed as he too rolled, but his machine hit the floor hard and crashed onto the floor, coming to a stop and seemingly out for count. The evil doctor in the meantime hit his head so hard that he ended up unconscious. But no one paid any attention to the madman's situation at the moment.
Panting, before slowly pushing himself up with his right hand and painfully kneeling on both knees, Sonic gazed down at the deathly pale and severely weak alien lying in his arms, his small body dangerously cold but not enough to turn him into a Nega-Wisp. But rather...simply dying.
"Yacker? Yacker! C'mon, buddy, speak to me! Speak to me, please!" The blue hedgehog begged frantically, shaking him and fearing for the worst. To his and the other Wisps' relief as they flew over, Yacker weakly opened his eye, making a weak squeak, looking up at him.
"#$%$#?" The curl-headed alien muttered tiredly.
"Hey, li'l guy." Sonic responded with a tearful smile, attempting to assume for the better and that there was still a chance to save his friend, hoping that the other aliens' power of healing can restore the Wisp. "I missed ya'. What you did there was crazy."
Yacker said something weakly in his language, feeling his strength slowly leaving him, as he knew what was coming. He attempted to apologize for putting the blue hedgehog through everything that's happened, believing that he hadn't been strong enough to help much at all, feeling so helpless for being unable to save his mother. The adorable little alien began to tear up again.
"Shhhh...It's gonna be alright. You'll be okay. You'll get better. Ya' just need to rest for a while." The blue hedgehog whispered comfortingly, gently using a finger to wipe away the Wisp's tear. Though it was more to comfort himself and to reassure himself and everyone that the little alien will make it, despite that it wasn't looking likely, but he refused to believe this reality.
Immediately the other aliens except for the Nega-Wisp since it lost it's Hyper-Go-On earlier glowed together to restore their brother's strength, glowing in a rainbow of light as did Yacker, and Sonic continued to hold him to comfort the weak alien. However, as they kept on, nothing seemed to happen and the other Wisps were becoming steadily exhausted until the dying Wisp shook his head, saying to his friends to stop. They looked shocked as they were forced to stop. The blue hedgehog looked dismayed as well.
"What? Why won't...why won't it work this time?" Sonic whispered shakily, horrified. "It worked before on one of your friends...it even worked on me...! Why?"
Racking his brain quickly, the teenage hero then came to a sudden realization as his heart shattered once more, knowing what did happen. "That laser of Eggman's...it had a side-effect on you and now...it's like...like poison...!"
"$%$%$%&..." Yacker barely whispered, shakily holding up an arm up towards the blue hedgehog who, feeling all hope diminish rapidly, sorrow, loss and heart-break as well as guilt rising up.
"Oh, Yacker...I'm...I'm so sorry...!" He choked, his voice full of tears which also developed in his eyes, gently holding Yacker's arm in his hand. "It's all my fault..."
The dying Wisp slowly shook his head, indicating that it wasn't the blue hedgehog's fault, wishing that he could understand him. He wanted Sonic to understand that he was his very dear friend...he wished that he could say goodbye in the same language. Apparently the fifteen year old understood via expression and in the eyes...gazing into his very soul and tiny but pure golden heart.
"Don't say that...Don't say that...that this is goodbye...Please, hang in there, buddy...everybody loves you..." Sonic began to sob, adding tearfully. "I love you...!"
Hearing these words gave Yacker such comfort, his tearful expression looking as though he was happy despite that he knew...he wouldn't see them again, and hoped that his Mobian friend could still save his mother, and apologize to Tails for him for not being able to have a final goodbye. To everyone's dismay as he gave all of them a final look, he slowly went limp in the blue hedgehog's arms, his eye closing, unmoving.
"Yacker? Yacker?" The teenager cried again and again, until the sudden and horrible realization hit him and the other Wisps like an asteroid, the tragic truth that dawned onto them.
Yacker was gone.
"Don't leave us...!" Sonic pleaded, tears falling freely and finally began to cry for the loss of yet another dear friend, this time much, much worse.
It was the repeat of what happened to Shahra all over again, except he knew...nothing was going to bring Yacker back.
"Don't leave me!" He screamed in anguish, pulling his dead friend's body to his chest and cried his heart out, some of his tear drops plopping onto Yacker. "Come back...! Please, come back! Come back, Yacker!"
As Sonic cried for the painful loss of one of his very close friends, the other Wisps huddled around him as they felt the tragic loss of their brother, and began crying their own hearts out, mourning and tears falling. Even the Pink and Violet Wisps both teared up despite that the latter lost most of it's ability to feel, but even Yacker's passing broke through the dark shell it was in.
'Someone please...help! Anybody! Please...please bring Yacker back to life! Give me any kind of healing power...to bring him back to us!' Sonic thought in his mind, and for a brief moment wished with all of his heart for even the Chaos Emeralds to give him the power to bring back the Wisp, even though he didn't know that they were actually right there.
Because as though hearing his prayers and greatest wish, the container holding the crystals cracked open, as the seven gems revealed inside began to glow brightly, and began to float into the air. The Cyan, Blue, Pink, Green, Orange, Yellow and Violet Wisps suddenly heard the unusual sound and, looking up and turning to see what was going on, their tearful eyes widened in surprise, confusion and wonder. Sonic heard it as well as he slowly looked up upon hearing his other friends' confused sounds, and his eyes widened in shock, awe and surprise. He knew exactly what they were.
"The...The Chaos Emeralds? What're they doing here?" The blue hedgehog asked, blinking for a moment. He then realized the answer to that and sighed in exasperation despite the situation. "Ugh...Guess Eggman had a back-up plan to try and get rid of me."
What happened next was such an astonishing event. The seven Chaos Emeralds glowed more warmly and brightly, drifting over towards the group, and, being familiar with their energy, Sonic could feel it in his veins despite that they weren't glowing into his body. As he wondered what was going on, Yacker's body began to glow in warm rainbow light of the same energy.
"Huh?" He muttered, feeling the warmth and looked down to see this, before the alien was floating from his arms and the Chaos Emeralds circled around him, and then lifted him up into the air like some kind of ceremony. Sonic stood up as he and the other aliens watched on in awe as the seven crystals did their work, giving off radiant light.
The blue hedgehog and the Wisps soon felt hope rise in their chests as they wondered how the Emeralds were doing this, as even he had never seen anything like this before. Not in a resurrection ceremony, anyway. Then, right before their very eyes, colour returned to Yacker, his injuries all healed up and, as though awakening from slumber instead of death, the cutest Wisp slowly blinked his eye open and, newly revived and in confusion, he repositioned himself in mid-air as he wondered what was happening before memories returned and he was stunned, realizing that he was back.
Sonic gasped in awe and soon relief and happiness that, by miracle and his own wishes, the Chaos Emeralds granted them and had brought Yacker back to life. The aforementioned alien looked about and squealed happily, fully restored and just as energetic as he ever felt before. The other Wisps, even the Violet one, cheered on happily before they all flew up to reunite with their brother. The blue hedgehog smiled happily himself, tears of pure joy replacing the ones of sorrow, while the Chaos Emeralds, as though their work not yet over, flew down and surrounded him while he looked at them in gratitude and relief.
"I dunno how this happened, but you heard my pleads and brought Yacker back to life, right?" He asked, as though the emeralds would hear him. The blue hedgehog smiled emotionally at the seven emeralds, knowing that his heart's wishes and their power had made a miracle once again. "Thank you!"
The Chaos Emeralds then tucked themselves into his quills and while Sonic had no idea why they didn't simply fly back to Mobius yet, he decided to worry about that latter and turned his attention back to the aliens who cheered on happily, with Yacker playing with his friends before gazing down at his Mobian hero and friend and felt even more happy to see him.
"Yacker!" Sonic cried out happily, holding out his hands and the little alien instantly flew down towards him and right into his arms and they embraced in their own happy reunion. The blue hedgehog was laughing and crying as he held Yacker in a hug. "Oh, Yacker...! You're okay! I'm so happy that you're back."
Yacker, while tearing up himself, gently wiped away a single tear from the cobalt teenager's right eye, and it made Sonic even more soothed, knowing that this was real, and everything was finally looking up.
The blue hedgehog's smile widened as he gazed at his friend. "You're the bravest and most caring alien I've ever met. Welcome back, buddy."
The cute curl-headed Wisp blushed bashfully, but beamed none the less and nuzzled his head in Sonic's head, as they were soon joined by the other seven aliens and hugged and nuzzled both of them, all eight Wisps squealing and cheering, while the blue hedgehog laughed both in happiness and at the ticklish sensation.
Unfortunately, their celebration and reunion was cut short, because behind them the Nega-Wisp Armor, having lost both of it's vacuum parts when the laser was launched back at it, crackled back to life, sparks and fires litting up here and there, but still able to move and once again hover. Hearing this made Sonic and the aliens whirl around in confusion, and their eyes widened in shock as he gasped, seeing that it wasn't over just yet and had actually forgotten about that thing and it's pilot. Inside the cockpit was a fully awake and fully enraged Eggman as he had regained control of his machine that is now more than badly damaged but still movable to keep on fighting.
"Eggman!" Sonic grunted, letting go of Yacker who hovered by his left as they and the other Wisps, the aliens scared that their enemy was still alive, all glared at the evil doctor who still refused to admit defeat.
"This isn't over yet!" Eggman shouted, utterly dead serious this time. "You may have taken away those little aliens, but I still have one trick up my sleeve, one that you will never overcome even with them by your side!"
"And what is that?" The blue hedgehog challenged, standing in defense just in case, though he had a feeling that he knew the answer, which were with him right now already and felt that the evil doctor had it a little reverse.
The man chuckled darkly with a twisted smirk. "Something that you always tended to use every single time...I HAVE THE CHAOS EMERALDS!"
But as he gestured at the capsule beside him and expecting a glow, there was an awkward silence as he then realized that nothing was happening. Puzzled, Eggman looked down and pushed the button just in case, only to realize that the container that held the said emeralds was gone, leaving nothing but an empty hole in the cockpit.
"What!? They're gone! Where are the Chaos Emeralds!?" He cried out frantically.
"Sorry, Egghead. But to you mean these Chaos Emeralds?" Sonic's taunting voice inquiried, and when Eggman turned to see what the blue hedgehog was talking about, to his shock was at least one of the emeralds, a dark blue one, was being tossed and caught by Sonic's hand as the teenager had a smug smirk on his muzzle as he had brought it out to reveal that he had the Emeralds once more.
"NO! It can't be!" Eggman exclaimed, his hands on his head in shock and disbelief. It wasn't until he realized that he must've accidentally released them at some point when Sonic had been attacking him.
"Some trick that was." Sonic laughed a bit as he placed the blue emerald back within his quills for safe keeping, while the Wisps couldn't help but giggle at the evil man's misfortunte. "Looks like all you've got left is that over-sized broken toy you're sitting in. Too bad, ya' dumb clown."
That made the egg-shaped villain growl as he threw yet another tantrum, pounding his fists onto the control panel. "I HATE YOU, SONIC! Why did you have to come up here and ruin everything again!?"
"Well, who was the idiot that left the keys to the elevator in the first place?" The blue hedgehog asked back with a hard glare, but surprisingly calm. "Besides, this thing sticks out like a tall tower, and I knew straight away that something was suspicious and it had your name on it. Which your ugly face painting on the doors pretty much confirmed it, and what you did Yacker and his friends and family was the true evidence that you were up to no good again!"
Upon hearing the first part, Eggman groaned and facepalmed himself as he knew instantly who was responsible in leaving the keys behind. "I knew I shouldn't have left Orbot and Cubot to make the last arrangements. I should have made Decoe and Becoe done it instead."
"Too late for that now. Because wishing to change the past won't solve anything 'cause once it's done, you can only make sure you don't make the same mistakes again. I know that more than anybody, especially now." Sonic responded, admittedly surprised as he and the Wisps heard this even though he knew that they weren't meant to.
"You think I don't know that!? You think I haven't learned from my mistakes!? What's wrong with a simple wishing!?" He asked angrily.
"Because sometimes it will only slow you down, and keep you from facing both reality and what you really do have!" The blue hedgehog yelled out. "You know, I've been wishing for years that you'd really reform, that you'd really just give up with your taking over the world dream and accept the way things are, and I tried to give you a second chance. I kept foolishly hoping that you'd see that you'll never win, but I guess we're both stubborn in our own ways."
"Well, we can certainly agree and disagree." Eggman admitted, before adding. "And I thought you hate slowing down."
"I do! And what I also hate that I try hard to move on from the past horrible things you've done, but each time you're a constant reminder that you'll never change, that you'll always be an evil monster with a rotten-egg-shaped human disguise! And don't get me started on what happened two months ago, because even though both Sun and the Werehog come from me, the main reason for their creations, both the good and the bad...ARE ON YOU!" Sonic argued.
This made the evil doctor raise an eyebrow at this with an amused smirk. "Now looks who holding back in the past, hmm? Still can't get over it?"
The blue hedgehog shook his head, "At first I...I couldn't. The whole thing back then was all your fault, but...I felt responsible because I couldn't stop you from splitting the world apart. I hate you for that, just like I hate you for all the horrible things you've done. What really got to me was that I was scared. I was scared of myself, I hated myself for failing, and even though I did make things right with Sun and Chip, and the Werehog is gone, I couldn't stop blaming myself, and I didn't give myself the chance to earn self-forgiveness either."
Sonic paused for a moment as the aliens gazed at him worriedly, while he lowered his gaze. "For two whole months, even though I managed to get back to my feet, I repeatedly couldn't handle the guilt within me, because of how much I love my planet, my entire home, and all of my friends. Yesterday, seeing you again made it worse that I even started hallucinating. My guilt, fears and sorrow nearly took me over completely, almost letting them swallow me whole, that I was losing myself. But now..."
Sighing to regain his composure, he glanced up with confidence, and determination fully in place along with courage deep in his heart and shown on his expression.
"It's thanks to everybody I've seen yesterday and today, and even a hallucination of a friend, I finally found it inside me to forigve my own actions and mistakes, because I had atoned for it: I saved the world with the help of my friends, I overcome my fears, and guilt and the hallucinations, and re-learned the most important lesson. All of my friends, both old and new, even those I'll never see again but never will forget, they're always with me no matter where I go, inside my heart! We're part of each other's lives and always will be!" He continued.
Sonic smirked and continued before Eggman could speak. "Even though when we first had our final battle that I haven't met Tails or anybody else yet, but I still had some friends in all those cute critters, and my parents, too. But I've never given up back then, or the other times, especially when I met everybody through out the years, and I won't start now! We're gonna reach for the stars tonight, even though they look pretty far."
"That whole line of speech is rather touching. I'm getting nauseous!" The evil doctor complained in disgust.
"At least I do a better job at it than you and your Attraction annoucements!" The teenage hero pointed out, as he and the aliens stood in defense, and asked his friends besides him. "You guys ready? Let's give Baldy Nosehair a real crack of a lesson together!"
The Wisps couldn't agree more as they had all been deeply touched by everything that Sonic had said, and Yacker was more than relieved to hear that his blue hero and friend had finally found it within himself to forgive his own past deeds and overcome his guilt and fears. So they all prepared themselves for the final battle right before them.
"C'mon! Let's finish this!" Sonic declared, ready for round 2.
"Yes, indeed! And this time, I WILL WIN!" Eggman shouted, piloting his robot to fly backwards once more, and the blue hedgehog and the Wisps gave chase after him. The evil doctor attempted to use the last of the Nega-Wisp Armor's power to attack once more, commanding the machine to flare out another yet weaker laser than before.
Sonic and his friends, despite that Yacker was the only one healed, were fueled with determanination and courage as though their friendship and the blue hedgehog's words had given them new strength to keep on fighting, their spirits renewed and shining brightly so bright like the stars in the sky, each other's friendship and loyalty making each one faster and stronger made them easily dodge the attack, and even the Spikes that appeared to which the blue hedgehog kicked and punched some out of the way while avoiding the sharper points, and sending them straight back to the Nega-Wisp Armor where they impaled the heavy metal on the body and already broken arms.
Eggman was shocked to see this, before furiously and practically bashing on the dashboard to come up with every attack his already malfunctioning creation had left. It commanded it to swipe at the group, but Sonic bashed one away, while the Rocket Wisp smashed the other, Yacker giving both a power of boost to increase their speed. More smoke and sparks began flying out, as Eggman yelled before having the robot to use Hover and flew over them and to their dismay was now once again chasing after them. Laughing evilly, he then had the Nega-Wisp Armor use Cube, more Spikes, another set of Lasers, which Sonic and the Wisps managed to dodge. Their enemy instantly lost his smirk and was severely aggravated.
"Fine! ROCKET AND DRILL!" Eggman shouted, using the combination of both attacks to which the Nega-Wisp Armor flew into the air and both drilled and rocketed down towards them in order to crush the blue hedgehog and recapture the aliens. Both Yacker and the Cyan Wisp used a combination of their own Laser to hold it back while the green Wisp used it's power to pull Sonic and everyone else safely away by going underneath the machine as it safely crashed in front of them and now they were back in chasing after their enemy.
Sonic used this chance to speed up and just as his long-time enemy spun around, he jumped and homing attacked it in the same weak areas before kicking at the cockpit once more, sending Eggman backwards once more and the machine to malfunction once again, fires breaking out and the Nega-Wisp Armor breaking apart even further. But the blue hedgehog wasn't done there as while the Void Wisp used it's power to suck up the broken pieces that threatened to crush all of them, he spin dashed right into the middle of the robot, his quills slicing through the metal.
As the cobalt hero of Mobius landed safely and rejoined the aliens, the Nega-Wisp burst into flames and so did the control panel from inside, much to Eggman's shock and horror as he began to realize that he was about to lose yet again.
"You...YOU...YOU HORRID LITTLE HEDGEHOG!" The evil man bellowed, beyond furious now.
"Time to wrap this up!" Sonic declared, turning to his alien friends as they knew what they had to do; combine their strengths together to finish this fight once and for all. "Here we go!"
Yacker and the Wisps all cheered, and they waited for Sonic's command.
"BOOST! LASER! DRILL! ROCKET! HOVER! CUBE! SPIKES! VOID!" The blue hedgehog cried out, thinking of nothing but his friends, listening and speaking with his heart, and all of his friends by his side related with their hearts as well, being able to communicate even without Tails' translator, and all the while, he smiled.
He didn't even need the Chaos Emeralds this time. All Sonic needed was the strength and powerful connection he had with everyone he held deeply inside. His friends...his family.
One by one, Yacker and the other Wisps attacked and struck the Nega-Wisp Armor, damaging it even further and by then Eggman was feeling the intensed heat and now it was his turn to be completely afraid. What happened next made him gulp nervously with a large sweat-drop, as Sonic jumped into the air and his alien friends returning to his side, all of them including the blue hedgehog himself all glowing in a vast of bright colours that felt so right to the teenager, like a rainbow of light that shone like a large star.
"Oh no...! Perhaps I should...take my leave!" Eggman squeaked slightly, trembling and shrinking back in fear as he slowly reached for the emergancy exit. Unfortunately for him, it was too late.
Sonic curled up into a tight ball as the Wisps lended him their power one last time as they prepared for the finishing move.
"FINAL UNLIMITED COLOUR BLASTER!" The blue hedgehog shouted as he and the aliens shot out straight towards the Nega-Wisp Armor, smashing right into it's torso and sending it flying and tumbling backwards with the evil doctor inside.
"AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!" Eggman screamed while unknowinlgy hitting the said emergency button which, unoperative, sent him and his Egg Mobile flying out and over the hero and the aliens, hitting the floor hard and landing upside down. The Nega-Wisp on the other hand burst into flames and toppled and crashed onto the roof of the elevator shaft several times before coming to a stop, one piece of it being sent into space, and the main part of it just laid there, nothing more than a pile of useless junk now.
As for the piece that went flying, it exploded like a fireworks display in the shape of Eggman's trademark logo, meaning that his plans have once again blew up in failure.
Sonic landed on the floor a good ten feet behind the cockpit, panting but victorious as he stood up and turned to the Wisps who flew down towards him. He gave them a thumbs up with a think and a bright smirk.
"Great job, guys! That was way past cool!" He praised proudly. "Thank you."
Yacker and the Wisps beamed and cheered happily, circling and flying all around the blue hedgehog who had been their hero and was their true friend. He chuckled happily himself, feeling like it was finally over, that they can all go home to their planets with another victory.
"Yeah! We did it!" Sonic cheered, even as the elevator shaft had been almost ripped into pieces and couldn't care less as to why he was still standing due to the unusual gravity.
But as they celebrated, the entire shaft rocked with a very loud boom coming from the Interstellar Amusement Park. The quake was so strong that the teenage hedgehog stumbled and the aliens suddenly looked up in alarm to see what was going on.
"Whoa! Now what!?" The cobalt hedgehog exclaimed, his cheery mood all but gone in an instant and wondered what was happening now.
Yacker, gazing at the Tropical Resort above them, gave out a horrified squeak as purple energy began to flow out from newly made holes, his eye widening as up until now, he completely forgot about the one thing he knew was causing it. Sonic looked up and saw what was happening. He gasped once more his eyes emerald eyes widened that the Park was beginning to be sucked in, but strong purple energy began flowing out and mutate.
Deep within the basement, the Nega-Wisp Mother snarled and growled as the container holding her couldn't hold much longer. Finally the cables snapped and broke and the glass shattered, wrecking everything in the room and flying everywhere. Alarms blared like mad, which only increased her dark, negative power as it was irritating.
Back to where Sonic and his friends were, pieces upon pieces of the place were sucked in, as something very large, angry and possibly evil was beginning to emerge.
"This...might not end well." Sonic said simply, facepalming himself in order to mask just how terrified he suddenly felt right now, having no idea what was going on except that terrible destruction caused by Eggman was about to take place.
It seems like victory was really short lived.
A/N: The final battle and ending are about to take place in the last chapter which is coming right up! Sorry that the second part of the Eggman showdown was shorter than the first part, but things are really becoming intense. The ending will also be slightly different, but at the same time mostly the same.
See you later!