Author's Note: This it! The final chapter, and then comes the Epilogue!
I do not own Sonic The Hedgehog. All rights belong to Sega.
Chapter 19: Reach for the Stars, Speak with your Heart.
It was happening all too quickly. Whatever it was that was inside deep within the park as Sonic had figured, it certainly was about to come out and sent out it's wrath. Tropical Resort was almost completely gone, sucked in by the monster that was becoming apparent. Huge long, gigantic arms were slowly coming out from each sides, as the first place the blue hedgehog had explored since coming here was disappearing rapidly.
"Wha-What is that thing!?" Sonic cried out upon seeing the tentacle-like arms after gasping in horror. He leaned back as his heart thudded against his chest inside, almost terrified beyond belief. "What has Eggman been hiding!?"
The cobalt hedgehog turned to glance at Yacker and the Wisps, expecting to see looks of horror on their expressions as well as confusion. But what caught him off-guard was that, yes they had the former part of emotion, they had the looks of dismay, disbelief and...heartbreak. Especially the cutest little alien who made mournful squeals and cries, his little heart breaking upon the reminder of his failure to save his mother, which he knew was what was about to come out and cause destruction.
Seeing the tears in the curl-headed Wisp's eye and the mournful look, even sensing it, Sonic's eyes widened as realization hit him, a horrified gasp as guilt rose up, as well as disbelief. Seeing his friend's expression not only made him remember that he was supposed to find the little alien's mother which he forgotten about and felt terrible for it, and his earlier mental claim that she'd been either in the Factory or in Eggman's Nega-Wisp Armor were both thrown out of the window, but he suddenly had a good idea what that thing was.
"No...No, it can't be!" He denied, shaking his head as he didn't want to accept the reality of the situation. How could he have been so careless!? The teenager scolded himself for not checking the Tropical Resort for any secret basements or even go around looking for the evil scientist's lab somewhere as he had to have been operating somewhere.
Speaking of the doctor, the man himself, sprawled upside down and still alive, moaned as he regained consciousness, feeling the mother of all headaches while trapped inside his Egg Mobile with the hatch underneath him. His vision was blurry at first as he tried to make sense on what was going on apart from the fact that he lost to Sonic yet again.
"Oooh, my head." Eggman groaned. "Who turned out the lights?"
He then rolled over slowly while trying to ignore the throbbing pain in his skull and slowly tried to push himself up while awkwardly stuck in an upside down small glass prison. As he did, the evil man could feel the elevator shaft shake, a loud roaring explosion and things being destroyed behind him. When Eggman looked behind him as best as he could, his eyes widened behind his sunglasses in pure horror as he saw not only his Amusement Park being destroyed, but what was causing it's destruction being apparent. Seeing the tentacles emerge instantly brought back memories that he chastised himself for forgetting, having been focused on destroying Sonic and his plans ending in failure.
"Oh my...!" He whimpered in fear, knowing what was coming up next.
"EGGMAN!"
Flinching a bit at the sound of his enemy's voice screaming out his name, and turned to see Sonic and the Wisps race up to him with mixed expressions of hysterics, fear, bewilderment and anger. From what Eggman could see, they demanded answers and from the looks of things, like a few times before, the evil scientist had no choice but to put all of his hopes to save the worlds to the young hero of Mobius, given the situation.
"What've you done!?" The blue hedgehog exclaimed, trying to keep his fear and fury settled despite that things are getting worse by the minute. "What'd you do to Yacker's Mom!?"
"Grrr...Well, seeing how you defeated me again, you stubborn little hedgehog, I have no choice but to say that I placed the Mother Wisp inside the basement of Tropical Resort, putting her into deep sleep while absorbing her Hyper-Go-On power." Eggman hissed angrily and fearfully, glaring daggers at the teenage hedgehog.
"Let me guess; she's so powerful that her waking up is too dangerous, right?" Sonic grunted, clutching his fist stop it from shaking, while Yacker and the other aliens glared in sorrow and anger at the man who had caused all of this to happen.
"That, and I couldn't afford in the park being destroyed, since my ultimate weapon had the power including the negative energy stored inside." The evil man explained, confirming the blue hedgehog's assumptions. "Any small leak would cause the place to blow up and have her awaken."
Sonic narrowed his eyes as he followed along the explanation. "So that she's fully transformed like this little guy here since their energy's been completely drained, and now she's so lost inside herself, seeing how dangerous the Nega-Wisps were, she's gonna destroy everything." He gestured at the Void Wisp who looked quite shaken itself.
Eggman nodded grimly. "Once she breaks free and destroys the park, the Mother Wisp will destroy us all in her enraged state."
"So it's the case of Chaos all over again...Mixed up with Dark Gaia...!" The cobalt teenager muttered in realization, horror mounting horror. He couldn't figure out what caused the leak to happen, unless it had something to do with one of his fights. If so...then he was part of the destruction.
But no, it wasn't his fault that this mess started. Not utterly, anyway. Even so, he couldn't let this new guilt drown him or eat him alive. He knew from that point on he had to do something to calm her down, to stop her from destroying everything and everyone, and somehow return her to normal. The blue hedgehog didn't know how yet, but he had to at least try!
"You know, if you hadn't messed up all of my plans, it wouldn't come to this." Eggman grunted furiously.
"Well, it's your fault!" Sonic argued angrily, pointing at his enemy accusingly, and the Wisps siding with the young hero. "You're the one who kidnapped her and all of her kids and their entire home, dragging them across the Universe with your tractor beams, stealing their energy and placing her inside a cramped area, draining her which has turned her into a monster! No wonder she's cranky and ready to wreck everything up in her confused state! You've no one to blame but yourself, Eggman!"
He panted emotionally, finally realizing that while he had blamed himself for two months over the last crisis, Sonic finally came to another realization which while he had wished to prevent it, another good thing came to mind as he was around along with Sun and Chip.
"In fact, if it weren't for me or Sun, Chip wouldn't have faced Dark Gaia if we died, and you still wouldn't have controlled that thing, like how you couldn't control Chaos! Seriously, stop touching things and beings that are beyond your control! Creating robots and machines and controlling them is one thing, but trying to control living life forms that are like you and I is just asking for death and darkness. That's just destroying everyone's future, even your own!" He continued.
"Then why didn't you take the easy route with me if you say as much, rather than keep on with the way we fight?" Eggman challenged.
"BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO KILL YOU! Unless, you kill my friends, yeah maybe, but only because I let my rage take control of me! Even then, I'd hate myself for it if I ended you for good!" Sonic shouted, tears forming in his eyes, struggling with his emotions as he decided that now was the time to reveal what he wanted to say for years.
That caught the evil man off-guard, while the Wisps looked greatly surprised themselves, before the aliens realized that like their cobalt friend, they hadn't wanted to take away lives, but for those who had done the wrong thing to learn from their mistakes, and change their minds on being evil.
"I told you, I've been wishing for years that you'd really reform. I wanted to believe that one day you'd finally accept that you'd never win, end your evil ways and move on and learn from your actions. Like Shadow did." The blue hedgehog continued, even as the destruction continued on. "Yes, I know sometimes there's no choice and maybe I'm a little too nice for my own good...but with you...taking away a life...that's not me. Robots and machines are one thing, but living beings? No way. I couldn't live with myself if I did something like that."
By then, his tears fell freely, before Sonic sniffled and wiped them were in frustration, speaking out what he wanted to say, while Yacker and the Wisps looked on in sympathy at their hero and friend, the pure hearted Mobian who believed in the good and fought for every life that are worth saving.
"I know you'll just keep on going, and I know that you'll never change...but if I have to keep fighting you until the day we're both gone, then fine. I'll keep fighting for the rest of my life or until I have to get rid of you for good. But not now. Right now, I'm gonna see if I can save Yacker's mom and save the Universe. So, please, I'm asking you; Will the power of the Chaos Emeralds work on her like they did to Chaos?" He concluded, struggling to stop himself from crying.
While Eggman was disgusted with Sonic's way of life and how the latter viewed life, he had to admit that he was stunned by the teenager's words of wisdom, that his death would effect the blue hedgehog greatly before he would move on. The young Mobian foolishly believed there was some good within the man that would resurface one day, but at the same time accepted the path he was trapped in forever, and yet he still spared the doctor's life over and over again with a playful punishing acts either by him or one or some of his friends, while Eggman wanted nothing more than to kill Sonic repeatedly for foiling his plans.
The teenage hedgehog's heart was pure and bright, and would continue to risk his own life to do the right thing, no matter how scared he was.
"You are too nice for your own good, Sonic." The evil scientist grunted, before grumbling. "But we'll worry about that later, because given how you have the Chaos Emeralds, at this rate you're the only hope in-"
A loud boom and a violent shock-wave rocked the elevator shaft before he could finish which caused everyone to cry out in alarm and Sonic to almost lose his balance. They all looked up to see that the last protective shell of the park was then shattered like glass, a huge purple ball of light like an implosion being seen and growing bigger and bigger. The blue hedgehog and the aliens shielded their eyes while Eggman looked away. When the light dimmed, everyone gasped in horror and terrified awe as the park was gone, swallowed up by a massive maw that belonged to a giant monster that had finally broke free.
It was a giant Nega-Wisp, it's, or rather, her head almost shaped like a garlic bulb which like the other Nega-Wisps had no eyes and it's wide mouth with massive sharp teeth in place, with two horns on both sides of the head sticking out which were curved, a flower-like appendage with pink petals with an eye-like gynoecium and hair-like funguses around it's roots. At the bottom of the head were three layers of extended leaf-looking violet collar, with several ragged tentacles steaming out of the bottom. The two much larger tentacles that were the sources of what everyone saw earlier, and now they got a better look of them; the tentacles were much more ragged with appendgades resembling to heads with sharp jaws of their own and several pink eyes at the bottom.
"Oh no!" Eggman gasped in pure horror, his heart hammering wildly and every instinct of his body telling him to get out of there quick. "The Mother Wisp has become Nega-Mother Wisp!"
"Whoa...! That's Yacker's Mom? She's kinda...Huge!" Sonic cried out in shock with a sweatdrop. The Nega-Mother Wisp had to be at least around the same size as Perfect Chaos, or maybe either smaller or bigger, but definitely dangerous...All because Eggman had stolen so much of her energy which was where he mainly got most of the Hyper-Go-On power in the first place, and now it has transformed her into an uncontrollable monster with powerful negative energy.
No wonder the blue hedgehog had a hard time in finding her. Not only he didn't see this coming, but he hadn't even realized that the mother was the biggest Wisp ever.
"Still, you'd think there would be a little more of a resemblance." He added to himself.
Yacker felt even more horrified with what has happened and began to mournfully cry, knowing that if this was allowed to continue on, all life was gone. He knew there was only one thing to do, but the cute Wisp didn't know what to do considering how his own energy couldn't stop or free her. The other aliens held similar expressions, even the Void Wisp was shocked beyond belief. What also frightened everyone even more was that she was sucking in the debris of the Amusement Park.
"Oooookay...I think she's hungry." Sonic remarked, knowing that the lives of his friends, himself and even Eggman was at stake here, and while he wasn't the villain's number one fan, he had to do something fast.
The Nega-Mother Wisp glowed darkly, with all thoughts of revenge, destruction and hunger was all she felt. Seemingly not yet satisfied in simply devouring the park, she gazed down with her eye-less gaze at the elevator shaft, and towards the group who stared back in increasingly growing fear. Before either one could do anything to move, she roared so loudly that it created a powerful gust of negative wind which began to push Sonic, his friends and Eggman inside his cockpit back. The blue hedgehog and the Wisps tried to shield themselves and tried to stay in place while the evil human doctor held onto his seat for dear life.
Unfortunately it was so strong that the gravity of the shaft was lost and soon Sonic and everyone else were sent falling straight down towards Mobius, screaming. However, before Eggman could even reach half way down, one of the giant tentacles reached out stretching surprisingly and caught him inside his Egg Mobile in a tight grip, much to his horror.
"WOOOOOOAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Sonic screamed as he felt a flash of deja vu while plummeting down towards the planet. Before he ended up reaching it even half way, Yacker and the aliens, quickly recovering and seeing their friend fall to his demise, flew down and focused on what was left of their powers to save him by creating the protective floating sphere around him and themselves, slowing his descend and simply floating in space.
"#$%$#!" Yacker cried out frantically as the blue hedgehog, who blinked in surprise and realized that he was still alive, looked around to see that the aliens had once again saved him from death.
"Yacker! Guys!" He cried out in relief. But before he could express his gratitude, Sonic and his friends heard Eggman's terrified screams and looked up to see that, to their shock and no small amount of horror, he has been captured and was now being pulled towards the corrupted giant Wisp. Their hearts dropped to their stomachs as they saw what was about to happen.
"Please, don't eat me!" Eggman practically begged, placing his hands together as though he was speaking a prayer. "Can we talk about this?"
"No...! Eggman!" Sonic cried out, and while he wouldn't normally save his enemies, his heart froze up as this was too awfully familiar to him. Memories of a certain nightmare filled his vision, and the moment he thought of it, his eyes widened with a horrified gasp. "This is...just like...!"
Flash-Back: During the events of "Sonic and the Werehog"...
Sonic's Nightmare...
Sonic gasped as he saw Sun about to bring slam his jaws onto shut with Eggman inside his mouth and quickly looked away, squeezing his eyes shut and unable to look the gruesome fate the evil man was about to meet. But while he wanted to cover his ears to avoid in hearing the dying screams, again his body refused to listen to him. So nothing could stop Sonic from hearing the screams of Eggman which was cut off when Sun closed his jaws, and the blue hedgehog whimpered as he could hear the giant Werehog then chomp and crush his nemesis.
Back in the Present...
"...Just like that nightmare, only without the Werehog!" The blue hedgehog exclaimed. He never would've thought that one of his nightmares would actually come true, and even though he was always afraid that his nightmares of Eggman winning and taking over the world would be made a reality, never in his life that Sonic had thought that the nightmare of that would actually come true, but without a certain giant mutant hedgehog.
He turned to the aliens who, not wanting this even against their enemy either, nodded and attempted to float up in hopes of reaching Eggman. But the gusts of wind that blew once again and another tentacle reaching out for them forced Sonic and the Wisps to scream before the latter group flew away with their hedgehog friend, avoiding the corrupted giant alien and as far back from reach as possible. But that meant there wasn't a thing they could do in saving the evil man who was about to meet his doom.
Eggman saw this as well and even from the distance he could see that his enemy looked helpless and terrified, and he knew that screaming for help would not save him from his fate. It was right there and then that he realized that he had done this to himself, and had not heeded Sonic's warning until it was too late. Now he was about to suffer the consenquences of his actions.
"At Eggman's Interstellar Amusement Park, you can feel comfortable knowing your safety is our number one priority." His own voice recording spoke within the cockpit, which infuriated him over his own ironic speech. Trapped inside his Mobile and doomed to be devoured, all the evil scientist could do was pound his fists against the glass which was already cracked.
"Oh, shut uuuuuuuuuuuuup!" Eggman yelled angrily as he was then tossed right into the giant mouth of the Nega-Mother Wisp, Mobile and all, and that was the last thing he ever said, because the next thing that's happened, the Nega-Mother Wisp inhaled him the rest of the way and slammed her mouth shut with him trapped inside.
Sonic and the Wisps all gasped in absolute horror, colour draining from their faces and their eyes widened. Their hearts froze up as they could do nothing more than watch as the evilly corrupted giant alien had just engulfed their enemy, and then came the dreaded sight and sound of her swallowing him whole.
Dr. Eggman, formally known as Dr. Ivo Robotnik, the would-be ruler of Mobius and the whole universe had it not been for Sonic the Hedgehog...was gone.
"EGGMAN! NOOOOOO!" Sonic screamed, and while he was never friends with his enemy, had always hated him for all the horrible things he's done and had known that he'd never change, the blue hedgehog never thought that the evil doctor's life would end this way.
It has finally happened. Eggman's evil plot backfired on him so hard that he had just destroyed himself. Or rather, it had eaten him alive.
The cobalt teenager was unable to believe that his enemy's life ending would come to this. Never had thought that the man's death would effect him this badly. Before he could even think about of what to do now, the aliens' fearful cries was enough to snap him back to reality and when Sonic looked up, he flinched as the Nega-Mother Wisp roared again, and began to chomp and devour the elevator shaft and to his horror, beginning to reach out for Mobius, and if she succeeds, she will slowly but surely drag the other planets in as well...including her own home world.
"Oh no! At this rate, all of the planets are gonna be eaten!" He cried out in horror. Then, realizing that he was panicking which wouldn't help, as Sonic knew right there and then that he was the only one to set things right, breathed in and out repeatedly to calm down, telling himself and the aliens. "Okay, first off, don't panic."
The blue hedgehog said this after he noticed that they looked just as horrified as he felt. He then thought as quickly as he could, and while Eggman never got the chance to finish what he tried to tell him before the giant corrupted monster broke free, it hadn't taken Sonic long on what the evil man had meant.
In his own words, the reply to the teenager's question was yes, the power of the Chaos Emeralds will overcome the negativity of the Nega-Mother Wisp, but what worried Sonic was that there was a difference between defeating the negative energy of the Emerald's themselves after being used, and using the positive energy against the negative power of the Wisps. But as he closed his eyes to remain calm, his determination to still save the Universe and everyone else, to keep his promise to save Yacker's mother still burned strongly within his heart. So powerful that it drove away his fears, and he knew then that he had to at least try, and if he believed in all of his will power, he can accomplish this.
"#$%$#&$%$#!" Yacker cried out, turning to Sonic who, opening his eyes and quickly glanced at him, that the little alien was screaming away with a pleading look, and while he looked mournful with all hope of saving his mother lost, madly waved at her, then at the planets that were in danger of being destroyed.
Even without Tails' translator, the blue hedgehog knew what he was trying to say.
"You want me to stop her?" He asked, and the curl-headed Wisp nodded. The cobalt hedgehog frowned, but knew there and then that stopping her was the objective and nodded. "Well then, if you want me to stop her, I'll stop her! But I'm also gonna save her! I promise! I know what to do!"
Sonic turned his gaze at the Nega-Mother Wisp who was slowly eating away the elevator shaft, before telling his friends. "Guys, you gotta let me out of your sphere!"
"#%%$!?" The Wisps exclaimed in shock, wondering if he was crazy since if they stopped keeping him afloat, he'll fall. But he gave them a confident smirk.
"Don't worry, I'll be okay. You guys helped me with your positive energies through out this journey, and I can't thank you enough. Now, let me show you what I can do, and leave the rest to me!" Sonic told them, before simply floated and focused by closing his eyes.
As soon as he did, the Chaos Emeralds shone brightly and freed themselves from his quills, and as Yacker and the Wisps' eyes widened in awe, they somehow understood and reluctantly dismissed their power before carefully but quickly floating back away hoping for the best. Thankfully, the power of the Emeralds circled around the blue hedgehog who concentrated on absorbing their powers. He curled up slightly as the energy flowed into his body.
Sonic then burst into golden energy as he uncurled himself, his quills sticking up, his fur golden in colour with a glowing aura, and his eyes ruby red, having become Super Sonic once more. The aliens' eyes widened in awe at the astonishing event as the now golden hedgehog had burrowed the power of the Chaos Emeralds, and it was right there that Yacker remembered his friend tell him about using said power before in the past. The power that like the Hyper-Go-On, can be used for both good and/or evil.
And now Super Sonic was going to use it to stop the Nega-Mother Wisp.
Knowing what to do, and giving his friends a thumbs up, Super Sonic then flew straight towards the Nega-Mother Wisp who, unaware of the event even though she paused slightly when she felt a tingle of warm, unusual and powerful positive energy from close by, continued munching on the elevator shaft, slowly inching closer to Mobius. The golden hedgehog then hovered above her head in a safe distance and let out a loud whistle to get her attention.
"Hey!" Super Sonic called out to her. "Up here!"
The Nega-Mother Wisp stopped chewing up the elevator shaft, and hearing his whistle and voice, turned around to see the glowing golden hedgehog glaring back at her with great courage and determination, showing no fear at all.
"You hungry? How 'bout something more tasty and substantial, like me?" The hero of Mobius taunted, even though he hadn't meant to, he had to draw the corrupted giant alien away from the planets before he can fight her and free her from the negative energy. "Come and get it!"
She took the bait, and with a furious, destructive, and starving snarl as eating Eggman who was the cause for all of this as well as eating metal wasn't enough, because the teenage hedgehog seemed like a perfect meal for her as well.
"GRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAARRRR!" The Nega-Mother Wisp roared, and flew up towards him.
Super Sonic smirked before turning and quickly flew himself to lead the corrupted giant Wisp away from Mobius, Planet Wisps, Sweet Mountain, Aquarium Park, Starlight Carnival and Asteroid Coaster, giving the scared and worried Yacker and other Wisps a wink, and easily dodged the tentacles that the giant Wisp whipped in her attempts to try and catch him. Once he was certain that they were well away from the six planets, the golden hedgehog spun around and flew right past her in high speed in a trail of gold light before turning again and stopped, glaring up at her as the Nega-Mother Wisp turned with a furious frown, snarling darkly.
What happened next was the beginning of the ultimate real final battle. The Nega-Mother Wisp roared before spitting out multiple but small embers which as Super Sonic flew up towards her while dodging each one, they exploded behind him which made him mentally wince. He'd have to keep dodging them and avoid in getting hit as fast as he could. Then, as though deciding that she was to lure him into a trap of her own, she began flying away which made him grit his teeth in annoyance but went after her none the less. To make things more difficult, she then stopped this attack and then created a bunch of small asteroids similar to the ones in the last world he visited.
Seeing these made his eyes widen as an idea formed into his mind. The golden hedgehog smirked again, hoping that it would work.
"How about this, then!?" Super Sonic shouted, boosting into one of the asteroids really hard and sending it back to the Nega-Mother Wisp, hitting her left tentacle just as she reached out to try and surprise him, only to be surprised herself by his own attack. She roared in pain while withdrawing her tentacle arm. The golden hedgehog they then kept on flying while hitting as many asteroids as possible, and she attempted to repel back, Super Sonic was faster and managed to keep on hitting her until her own attack ran out.
When it seemed like she stopped moving and appeared to be dazed, he used this to his advantage and zoomed straight towards her with a battle-cry to hit her right above the mouth and into where the eyes should be. But as he did, to his shock it didn't do much damage and was sent backwards slightly. Crying out in alarm and being recoiled by his own attack as he spun out of control, Super Sonic quickly corrected his position and hovered in space with wide eyes before flying upward just in case she attacked up front.
"Man, she's got tough skin! Guess I'd better find her weak spot, quick." He thought to himself as he looked for the Nega-Mother Wisp's weakness. It wasn't until the eye-like gynoecium with the pink petals caught his attention. The golden hedgehog then wondered if maybe that was the weak spot. "Only one way to find out."
Super Sonic flew in quickly as the Nega-Mother Wisp recovered enough for her roots to shoot up to try and strike him, but he easily dodged by maneuvering out of the way and then with a yell he hit the eye hard. It worked and the giant corrupted alien roared in pure agony, recoiling downward while the teenage hedgehog flew up out of the way. As he did, he noticed one of the petals fall off and drift into space. This made him realize that if he can make all of the petals disappear, he may have a chance in using the power of positive energy to restore the giant Wisp to normal. He had to make it count and be careful at the same time.
Before the golden hedgehog could attack again, the Nega-Mother Wisp roared which made the same gust of wind as earlier, and Super Sonic tried to stop himself from being blown away, but was sent flying backwards and screamed once more far away from the corrupted alien. By the time the teenager regained his balance, he found himself back to where he started while his opponent fired more ember at him. Reacting quickly to avoid in getting hit, the young Mobian flew up towards her and flew past the fire attacks even though there were lots more than the last time.
"I gotta get back to that eye, fast!" Super Sonic grunted, only to gasp as the tentacles came flying at him and unharmed from the embers, forcing him to dive and fly high to avoid all of the attacks as well as the tentacles from grabbing him, or in this case, eating him since they both head mouths as well.
"Whoa! AH! WOAH!" He cried out while dodging as best as he could, trying really hard not to panic and focus. 'If I'm not careful, I'm hedgehog food!'
By the time the embers were done, the tentacles almost engulfed him but the golden hedgehog easily dodged again before having another idea as he got closer. Hitting the asteroids to distract her as she roared in pain when her arms were hit repeatedly, Super Sonic managed to keep the arms away from him before flying as fast as he can with the Chaos Energy within him, flying around and around and around the Nega-Mother Wisp who was becoming more and more frustrated that she attempted on chomping him with her mouth, but repeatedly missed.
"I'm sorry! I don't mean to upset you, but I don't have a choice!" The teenage Mobian cried out to it, and while he didn't think that his voice could reach her yet, he had to at least try while he attempted to find a way to return her to normal.
She responded with a threatening growl, the negative emotions making the Nega-Mother Wisp want nothing more than revenge, destruction and everything and everything to devour and will not stop until she got it. The giant corrupted alien attempted to swipe at him with her lower tentacles, but the golden hedgehog flew up and hovered above her before he dove and hit the eye three times as hard as he could while she spun, the Wisp becoming dizzy and roaring in pain at the same time. When Super Sonic flew back up, three more petals were falling off and he attempted to quickly keep on going as he didn't want to hurt her anymore than he was forced to do.
However, the Nega-Mother Wisp, stopped spinning and began to recover but was just as furious now. She roared very loudly which sent out a huge surge of negative winds in every direction that the golden hedgehog had to stop what he was doing. He struggled against the gust while trying to prevent himself from being blown away again. When it seemed to have stopped and he managed to get a glimpse at the giant corrupted alien, Super Sonic gasped in shock as her tentacles seemed to glow with purple energy and she began swiping wildly while flying up straight towards him. This wasn't good at all.
"Uh, oh!" He yelped with a bit of fright, and flew back only to sense something behind him. The golden hedgehog looked over his shoulder and his eyes widened when a purple laser seemed to appear out of nowhere heading straight towards him. His heart hammering in growing panic while he tried to remain calm, Super Sonic flew out of the way only to be hit by a tentacle when the Nega-Mother Wisp successfully caught him off-guard.
The force of it knocked him back as he screamed out in pain and in alarm before righting himself again, hissing while placing a hand to his chest. Super Sonic was pretty certain he'll be having a bruise there for a while if he got out of this fight alive.
"Ow..." The golden hedgehog softly groaned, but as he looked up, his eyes widened as the Nega-Mother Wisp fired more ember and asteroids in her wake, focring him to ignore his injury and fly forward and repeatedly dodge as best as he could, though it was getting more and more difficult as each fire and rock nearly got him quite a number of times, followed by another huge laser aimed at his direction.
As Super Sonic avoided that, he was unfortunately distracted enough for one or two embers to catch him off-guard and was hit hard which caused him to scream in pain at the burns that exploded twice. He nearly began to fell before quickly keeping himself afloat, though he could feel himself become increasingly exhausted and panted, holding his left shoulder that was injured, wincing. It didn't help that his battle against Eggman left him with very little time to recover for this fight and then he began to think that maybe he wouldn't be surviving this. His heart began to become filled with the dread and fear of dying today, but he forced himself to fight those feelings, knowing that he had to do this.
The giant corrupted alien roared as she dove straight towards the teenage hedgehog who saw that she had her mouth wide open and had somehow gotten really close enough that he realized, to his horror, she was going to eat him. Finding himself frozen as he gasped, unable to move out of the way in time as the gripping fear held him in place, his heart stopping for that split second. Then he remembered that he still had the Chaos Energy, and whether it was in his body or one of the Chaos Emeralds, he could still teleport if he was lucky. Bracing himself as he screamed, Super Sonic was soon engulfed into the giant mouth to which the Nega-Mother Wisp closed shut and trapped her prey inside.
"Chaos Control!" Super Sonic shouted quickly just as soon as the giant teeth closed around him as he had found himself trapped inside the darkness of the mouth, with his aura being the only light to help him see, and desperately hoped that Chaos Control will get him out, otherwise he had lost and would soon be sucked in and swallowed up to suffer the same fate as Eggman.
Thankfully it worked, as the golden hedgehog vanished from within the mouth seconds before the Nega-Mother Wisp attempted to swallow him. He reappeared safely back outside and right above the giant alien who held a sinister, evil twisted grin as she believed that she had eaten him alive. Super Sonic wasted no more time as he dove right into the eye again, using his Super Spin Dash to attack the same way he did with Dark Gaia's three eyes, resulting the corrupted Wisp to roar in agony and shock, more and more petals falling off as a result with each attack.
By the time he flew back away as the giant monster nearly swiped him with her tentacles again, Super Sonic saw that he was almost there due to being only one petal left. But even as he was almost done with the battle, he was reaching dangerously close to his limit. He only have enough energy left to finish the battle since it had been long and hard, and his last battle exhausted him. It broke his heart knowing that the last of the Chaos Energy would leave him once he finished this battle, because after that, he wouldn't have any at all to get safely home.
"After I save Yacker's Mom, I won't have any strength left to get back. I'll never see my friends again...I guess...I guess going to Eggman's Amusment Park was a one-way trip for me. But hey, at least I can be proud to say that I saved not just my home, but other planets too, and saved the Universe. I got to explore new worlds no one in Mobius have even seen. Got to make friends with aliens that are super friendly and kind and darn cute." Super Sonic told himself as he watched the Nega-Mother Wisp howl in agony and slowly lose more sense in her already enraged and confused state. Tears began to fill his eyes and his heart aching.
But knew that in the end, he had to do this. For the sake of the Universe, for everyone...for his friends. His family. Super Sonic was gonna miss them, but he was very happy to have met them and have them in his life. The freedom he had in being able to run and go on adventures, whether it was solo or with company. Both occasions had been really fun. He loved his home and everybody in his life, and he will be watching over them once he was gone. The golden hedgehog just wished that he could properly say goodbye to them, to tell them everything he wanted to say with all of his heart.
'This is it. Time to end this.' He thought to himself firmly, powering up as hard as he could with the last of his strength, his will power surging with the thoughts of everyone he loved, the world he was born in, and everything he went through. The teenage hero of Mobius had to make this count with one last attack, even as the Nega-Mother Wisp's eye began to glow in purple as well.
"YACKER'S MOM!" Super Sonic shouted to get her attention with great courage. "Everything's gonna be okay! I'm sorry that you had to suffer like this, that the evil man your kids call Bald Nosehair, who I know as Dr. Eggman, had kidnapped all of you and your home and being used to try and take over the Universe, and everything that's happened in the last few days. I'm really sorry that I didn't find you on time!"
The young Mobian focused hard on his power, while continuing to try and get his words through the corrupted giant alien who was slower in charging up her power as her eye began to glow and get bigger and bigger. He felt himself strained by powering up the last of his burrowed energy, but he ignored it.
"But if you just speak with your heart, if we can relate and communicate, then everything will be okay!" He continued, his golden aura glowing brighter as he charged up. "Don't let the negative energy consume you! Fight it with all the positivity that you still have within you! Think about your beautiful home, all of your children! Think about Yacker! He's been really worried about you, because he loves you! Just as much as you love them!"
The purple energy in the flower only grew as the Nega-Mother Wisp growled, yet Super Sonic's words seemed to have some effect, because the power was weavering and fading. She was slowing down, and deep inside her corrupted shell was the true Mother Wisp who, upon hearing him speak made a mental tear fall. All thoughts of everything she held dear was everything that the young hero had known.
"I promised to return you back to normal, to get you, Yacker and all of the other aliens back to your world so that you can be free again, and that's what I'm going to do! With all of my power!" Super Sonic declared boldly, glowing almost as bright as the sun. "Just hang in there, and I'll free you! Here comes SONIC!"
The Nega-Mother Wisp was about to fire when the golden hedgehog powered up and prepared to launch his final attack. As he did, he allowed a few tears fall free while thinking about the last time he ever saw his best friend/little brother.
'Tails...I'm sorry. It looks like...I won't be able to see you back on the ground. Or go on another adventure with you like I promised. Heh...I guess...the Amusement Park is the closest we're gonna get. I love you, little buddy. I'll always be with you and everybody else...in your hearts. Sayonara, guys. I'll miss ya's.' The teenager thought, silently crying.
Yet he let a smile form before focusing back on his final task with a frown of determination.
"CHAOS CONTROL!" Super Sonic shouted, charging and diving straight towards the giant corrupted alien one more time and even as she fired her laser, he easily cut his way through the most powerful laser even as he grunted against the pressure but managed to dissipate it before boosting his way right into the eye with a shock-wave impact, the power of positive energy from his body spreading onto the giant alien who roared in pure agony with the last petal falling and disappearing.
The attack worked, as the golden hedgehog flew back away to a safe distance in pure exhaustion, while the Nega-Mother Wisp growled in pain and defeat. All of the negative energy that corrupted her began to seep out from her body, a bright light covering her body the same way as the other Nega-Wisps when they returned to normal. The light shone so brightly that Super Sonic had to shield his eyes before it eventually faded. As he weakly looked up panting as he had reached his limit, and while it wouldn't be enough to kill him, he wouldn't have any left to fly back, and would be fated to be floating lost forever in space, which he accepted without any regret.
When the light faded, the Nega-Mother Wisp was gone. The true Mother Wisp had been restored to her true form, a giant pink Wisp with heaps of tentacles, two blue fluffs on her torso, three eyes and lots of antennas on top of her head. She looked a bit tired, but none the less fully restored and much more gentle, all of the negative thoughts gone. In Super Sonic's opinion, she definitely looked like a mother.
He managed to smile in victory and relief as he panted, before the last of his strength finally left him, his eyes closed and he lost consciousness. The young hedgehog fell backwards as the power of the Chaos Emeralds left him, returning him back to normal, blue fur and all. Thus Sonic was unaware that the Mother Wisp, seeing how he had almost sacrificed himself to save her children and home, and had risked his own life to restore her to normal, flew over quickly to catch him, wrapping one of her giant tentacles around his waist and gently held him, lifting him half way to her face.
The giant alien gazed at him with a look of guilt in her eyes, her heart nearly breaking for everything this small, gentle, brave, strong and caring young Mobian had gone through for not just her sake, but also for the sake of her Wisp children. The Mother Wisp felt terrible for the near destruction she'd caused in her enraged state, yet Sonic the Hedgehog was brave enough to confront her and use his own power to restore her back to normal, and to save the Universe.
"$%#$%$%#..." She muttered in Wisp language, as though sympathized with the cobalt hedgehog, carefully caressing him on the head with another tentacle as the unconscious teenager moaned at the gentle touch. A young stranger who had gone out of his way to do the right thing. The complete opposite of the man whom, now inside her stomach, had caused such near disaster.
"#$%#!" A smaller Wisp's voice cried out from the distance, causing the giant pink alien to look up and saw, to her happiness and relief, was Yacker who, along with thousands and thousands of aliens who had been freed, fly over towards her and the unconscious Sonic. The smaller Wisps hovered around her, before they saw the condition that the blue hedgehog was in and all looked horrified and devastated. Yacker and those who had been saved by their hero the most.
The curl-headed alien felt his heart break, hovering over to Sonic as he feared for the worst while calling out to him, hoping that he wasn't dead and was just unconscious. Yacker's eye welled up with tears as he gently nuzzled the cobalt hero's face and then hugged him, beginning to cry. He blamed himself for the blue hedgehog's sacrifice, fearing that he would never get the chance to fully thank him. His mother gently patted him on the head, causing the younger Wisp to tearfully look up as they communicated in their langauge, with the giant alien holding a sympathized but reassuring look in her eyes.
She then gestured her children to follow her as she hovered towards the six planets, mainly to Mobius. Yacker and the other Wisps, looking rather relieved that Sonic may be alright, followed her, only to stop just about in the same spot as where Eggman's Incredible Interstellar Amusement Park was when they heard a loud, dreaded sound behind them. Turning around in alarm, all of the aliens held horrified expressions as the released negative energy from the Mother Wisp, seemingly with a will of it's own, began to form into a large purple implosion, in the size of a black hole.
The Mother Wisp, Yacker and the other aliens, gazing at all of the worlds including both their own and Mobius, and then at the still unconscious hedgehog in the female alien's tentacle, all shared a glance and nodded. Through their own communication, the alien mother gestured Yacker and some of the aliens to take Sonic back to his home planet. Yacker nodded and gestured some of his brothers to help him, before their mother gently let the teenage hero go and letting them use their powers once more, carrying him away while the rest of the aliens turned their attention back to the implosion.
"$#$%$%&%!" The Mother Wisp exclaimed with determination as she and the rest of the gathered Wisps, despite having only just returned to normal, began to glow brightly in colours as they all began to use their powers to block and hold back the forming void that threatened to swallow up everything.
'Where...Where am I? Is this...is this the afterlife?' The foggy thoughts echoed in Sonic's mind as he felt like he was floating in an emptiness of white light, in a lying position. His eyes were still closed as the cobalt hedgehog felt so tired, yet so in peace. The last thing he remembered was saving the Mother Wisp, returning her back to normal before passing out.
After that, everything was a blur. Considering how he was floating in nothing but white light all around him, Sonic had figured that he is dead. Maybe in limbo and waiting for angels to find him and carry him off to the other side. Yet somehow he felt like he was being carried by small creatures to somewhere, but couldn't see them.
Either way, he was relieved that he managed to save the Universe, and everyone in it once more. While he felt sad to leave everyone he loved and the world he was born and grew in behind a lot sooner than he would've liked, Sonic can at least be in peace knowing that they were all safe. Being dead was a scary experience, though. But if what they say is true, then he wouldn't be lonely here. The teenage hedgehog could finally get to see his late Uncle who would greet him and keep him company. Maybe meet his grandparents he never got the chance to.
"Sonic..."
"...Huh?" Sonic muttered tiredly, hearing a familiar voice echo, green bright light form above him. Moaning as he slowly opened his eyes, he winced at the brightness before his vision adjusted itself, holding a hand over them to shield it. To his surprise as the light faded slightly, was a near-silhouette of a very familiar and welcoming pixie-dog figure hovering gently over him.
"Sonic...It's time to wake up." He whispered kindly.
"C-Chip?" The blue hedgehog weakly inquired, wondering if this was a hallucination or a vision, which confused him since his dear friend said that it was time to wake up. If so, would that mean...
Before he could ask, he was dismayed that Chip vanished, but the warm smile on Light Gaia's face put Sonic at ease, it sewed his heart back together and the teenage hedgehog couldn't help but smile back before he was blinded by the light and once again his vision blurred...
When Sonic was starting to come to, groaning as he regained consciousness even if just briefly, he weakly opened his eyes as he found himself floating in a vast of bright colours. All around him were lots and lots of aliens, some whom he recognized, including Yacker who, gazing at him with great worry, looked utterly relieved that the blue hedgehog was awake which almost instantly told the young hero that he was still alive, and the rest whom he hasn't seen before.
'Y-Yacker...?' Sonic thought, seeing that the Wisps were carrying him to safety, straight towards his home planet, before exhaustion got to him again and he passed out, letting the aliens continue their task of taking him away. Fully unaware of what was happening behind him as Yacker and some of the aliens that helped him defeat Eggman flew him straight towards Mobius like a shooting star.
The Wisps carried Sonic all the way back to just behind the small hill where he and Tails had spotted the elevator shaft which was now just a broken building reaching to nothing, and dismissed their magical sphere that protected him, using some of their Hyper-Go-On energy to heal most of his injuries. They gently set him down as he found himself standing on the ground, having regained consciousness fully this time, wobbled a bit and leaned foward, his hands on his knees as he panted.
Yacker and the aliens hovered away a bit to give the blue hedgehog some space to fully recover, and he looked around with his eyes to see that he was, much to his happiness and relief, back on his home planet, alive and well. It nearly brought him to tears that he once again managed to survive the impossible, thanks to his new friends as he had realized that, with some very likely assistance from their mother who, in gratitude, carried him here and let the other aliens do the rest, he managed to keep to his promises after all.
'...I'm home. Back on Mobius.' Sonic thought to himself happily, as he managed to fight back the urge to simply cry in joy, and instead tiredly smiled at the Wisps with a thumbs up. He couldn't believe that they went out of their way save him. 'Heh, guess we really do have a lot in common.'
"Sonic!"
Blinking and almost instantly his strength returning to him, the blue hedgehog looked up to see Tails fly over towards him with a very relieved expression as fast as he could, utterly happy that his best friend/big brother was safe and sound. Sonic shared that feeling, because seeing his little brother safe as well really had him in tears.
"Hey!" He called back, waving happily. The blue hedgehog waited impatiently as the two-tailed fox landed in front of him and jumped into his arms, nearly toppling the teenager over, but he hugged the eight year old back none the less. The two reunited adoptive brothers laughed emotionally with tears leaking in their eyes. Sonic never felt so happy in his life like he was now, not wanting to let go of his sweet little brother, almost crying as he gently kissed Tails on the head again.
"Oh, Tails..." Sonic whispered softly. 'I thought I'd never see you again.' He wanted to say, but decided against it. When Tails started crying in happiness, his tears soaking the hedgehog's chest, the latter simply rubbed the back of the young kit's head.
"You're back...!" The eight year old sobbed.
"Shhhhh...shhhhh...It's okay, li'l bro. Everything's okay." The fifteen year old soothed comfortingly, holding back his tears. They stayed like this for another moment before reluctantly let go, beaming smiles at one another.
"Are you okay!? Man, I can't believe you made it through that!" Tails exclaimed, wiping away his tears.
"You thought I wouldn't?" Sonic asked jokingly, giving him a wink and smirk.
His best friend shook his head, rubbing the back of his head. "The only thing I was thinking about was getting pushed into an elevator."
"A hedgehog's gotta do what a hedgehog's gotta do." The blue hedgehog replied, rubbing his nose. Before Tails could say anything, the teenager held out his fist, which he smiled happily even further, the two sharing a bro-fist.
"Great job, Sonic." Tails praised.
Sonic smirked. "Thanks. Though I had a little help during the last parts. First with Yacker and the aliens helping me with Eggman, and then the Chaos Emeralds in saving their Mom."
"Huh? Eggman had the Chaos Emeralds?" The two-tailed fox asked, shocked and surprised.
"Yeah, to both try and get rid of me and, well...to hold her back since she went all crazy and, uh..." As he trailed off, the blue hedgehog suddenly remembered what happened before his fight against the Nega-Mother Wisp as the full realization dawned onto him. He then sighed as his smirk faded into a look of sadness. "I guess he kinda figured that I'd be able to turn her back to normal, even if he didn't want that to happen."
"Speaking of Eggman, where is he?"
Sonic winched a bit, scratching the back of his head uncomfortably. "I know that it wasn't her fault that she was all negatively crazy but...She...she broke out of the basement he trapped her in and when the whole place fell part, she freed herself and...had him for lunch."
"What!?" Tails exclaimed in shock, his eyes widening in disbelief. "You mean he's...!?"
"Yes...He's gone. No one will ever see him again. It's even worse that he did it to himself and his plan backfired on him so much that it finally destroyed him." The blue hedgehog said, rubbing his arm as he still felt shaken by the evil man's untimely demise. He sighed and admitted. "I was never his biggest fan, but...I didn't think him being gone like this would feel so...I-I dunno."
His younger friend stared at him in full disbelief, almost blanching at the thought of Eggman being eaten by the Nega-Mother Wisp. "Whoa...I dunno what to think of that, either. I mean, I can't blame Yacker's Mom for that either, it's still...really scary."
The blue hedgehog gave him a sad smile, and gently ruffed his head which made the eight year old blink as the teenager said. "Hey, anybody who says that they want to be eaten would be way beyond crazy and out of their minds. Even Egghead wasn't that crazy."
"Yeah..." Tails muttered, giving out his own sad smile.
"On the bright side, at least we don't have to worry about him anymore." Sonic added, turning to stare at the sky, only for both of them to blink in surprise to finally notice the display that was happening while Yacker and the other Wisps had quickly gone back to help their mother and the rest of the aliens to hold back the black hole that was forming but thankfully beginning to disappear.
The curl-headed Wisp and his mother, using their powers to gather the now freed Hyper-Go-On since Eggman's Nega-Wisp Armor was destroyed, and turned the rest of the Nega-Wisps back to normal before they all banded together. With their great powers, the implosion that was the size of the Mother Wisp was gone before it could fully be formed.
Back on the ground, Sonic and Tails watched on in awe as the former let out a whistle, saying. "Didn't see that one coming."
Before his best friend could reply, the two Mobians heard a familiar girl's voice calling out Sonic's name, making the blue hedgehog flinch, his quills sticking up and making him stand on the tips of his shoes once again before they looked over their shoulders to see, not just Amy who was charging straight them happily, but to their surprise, Cream and Cheese, Shadow and Omega(which made Sonic relieved that they made it out before the destruction happened), and surprisingly both Knuckles and Rouge who came at them unhurriedly
"Oh, Sonic! You're okay!" Amy exclaimed happily, nearly glomping Sonic over as she hugged him tightly before he could make a run for it.
"Whoa! A-Amy! N-Not so tight, please! You're crushing me here!" The blue hedgehog struggled to push her back, even though he was happy to see her and everyone else again. To his relief, she loosened her grip on him, though she did snuggle her head against his chest.
"My sweet, brave hero! I knew you'd come back safe and sound!" The pink hedgehog hummed happily, her eyes leaking with tears.
"I'm not surprised to see you and cutie-Tails still alive and kicking, big blue. Had any trouble getting back?" Rouge asked, smirking.
Sonic smirked back. "Well, sort of. All things considered, everything's back to normal. Better even."
"What're you guys doing here?" Tails asked, curiously.
"I was heading back to Angel Island after spending hours trying to find her and having spend the night at Tropical Resort, when I saw the entire Amusement Park begin to explode and a huge monster appear. Then I saw Sonic having used the Chaos Emeralds to chase it away, so I came here to see if he made it." Knuckles explained.
"Which he is." Shadow scoffed, rolling his eyes. "Omega and I weren't back here for even ten minutes before the whole place began breaking down. Care to explain why?"
"Long story." The blue hedgehog shrugged, adding as Amy finally let him go. "All in all, I turned Yacker's Mom back to normal and, given that huge black hole from the negative energy, I think it was the same that I freed her from with the Chaos Emeralds, which is also part of said story."
"Mr. Yacker's Mother was that monster?" Cream asked curiously, surprised, and she wasn't the only one. Amy, Knuckles, Shadow and Rouge held stunned expressions while Omega held a look as though he was blinking in surprise and confusion.
"Sounds like it's a very long story." Amy remarked, and both Sonic and Tails nodded in agreement.
Sonic then turned to Knuckles and couldn't help but tease. "Were you worried that I'd end up a goner?"
"Hey, I told you yesterday. I'd never forgive myself if anything happened to you." The red echidna replied with a smirk, before quickly adding. "But I knew that you'd be fine. As always."
"Awwww...Just admit it, Knuckie. You were worried about big blue." Rouge teasingly cooed with a giggle, which made Amy, Cream, and Tails giggle while Sonic covered his mouth to stop himself from bursting into a hysterical laughter. Cheese giggled while Shadow just rolled his eyes at the scene.
"HEY!" Knuckles protested, his muzzle glowing pink in embarrassment, and blurted out without thinking. "I was not worried! And don't think you're off the hook, you batty thief! You still owe me for that letter you sent!"
"You tricked Knuckles to go to the Amusement Park?" Amy asked, her eyes wide in disbelief, before giggling even further. "And here I thought it was Eggman, given on what you said about spending the night at Tropical Resort."
Then realizing what she said, the pink hedgehog turned to her 'boyfriend' and asked with some hope. "Speaking of which, did you give him the clobbering he deserved?"
"I gave him a ten-time clobbering and then some. I'm just sorry that you guys can't give it to him now." Sonic replied, sighing as he bit his lip, again not looking forward in giving out the news but he hid it with a shrug. "Especially since he's out of the picture for good."
"Huh?" Amy, Cream and Knuckles all echoed, surprised and at first confused, before realizing what the blue hedgehog meant given the words he said, and the expression he and, to them, mostly Tails held. Shadow on the other hand, while stunned by the news, didn't seem that surprised on what his rival was saying.
"So he's gone, then." The black hedgehog stated. Sonic nodded to confirm it.
"That does not compute." Omega stated, sounding disappointed in not being able to annihilate the evil scientist himself.
"Sorry, Omega. I know you wanted to get rid of him, but uh...super, long story." The blue hedgehog shrugged apologetically, before hearing a tinkering sound and looked up behind him as he and the others saw Yacker fly back down towards them. The cute little alien, to which Amy and Cream both cooed at just how adorable he was, looked so happy that it was contagious and Sonic and most of his friends found themselves smiling.
While Sonic had a feeling he knew what Yacker was saying, Tails had pulled out his translator and read on what the cutest Wisp was saying, translating to everyone, mainly to the blue hedgehog. "Uh, he said 'Thank you for saving us and Mama.'"
"Mama?" Rouge and Shadow chorused in surprise, the latter having raised an eyebrow.
"He think he means Yacker's mother." Amy whispered in her attempt to explain.
"You're welcome." Sonic replied to Yacker with a grin and a bow, before replying. "Thank YOU for saving us!"
Yacker waved a tentacle as he responded in Wisp language, which Tails translated, for once very clearly this time. "He says 'You are welcome'."
"That thing's translating pretty well." The blue hedgehog remarked, amazed that it didn't sound silly or in gibberish this time.
The two-tailed fox nodded happily as he explained, "Yeah, I finally got all the kinks out. We can talk to them perfectly now."
"It's really nice to meet you, Yacker. I'm Amy Rose." Amy spoke up smiling brightly.
"My name is Cream, and this is my friend Cheese the Chao." Cream introduced herself, and Cheese squealled happily. She then introduced the others. "And they're Knuckles, Shadow, Rouge and Omega."
"Yeah, we already met." Knuckles pointed out with folded arms, while Rouge gave her own hello, Omega said his greetings, and Shadow simply shrugged with a soft 'Hi', which had Sonic roll his eyes at the ultimate lifeform's way of greeting but said nothing and just smiled.
After Tails translated Yacker's friendly greeting to those the latter hasn't met yet, the little alien then explained something else to which the two-tailed fox translated to Sonic. "Yacker says that 'Mama asked me to thank you for her, and that she was worried when our planets were pulled away after Baldy Nosehair appeared'."
Amy and Cream both giggled at the mention of Eggman's newest nickname, while Rouge laughed, Shadow smirked in amusement and Knuckles went into a hysterical laughter, with the pink hedgehog breathing. "I-I still can't get over just how funny that new name for Eggman is...Ha ha ha!"
"I wish you could've seen his face when I called him Baldy McNosehair as I fought him! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!" Sonic laughed while Tails giggled. "It was awesome!"
"A-anyway," Amy giggled as she and everyone else began to settle down, smiling warmly. "You really have a nice mother, Yacker."
"Just like my mother." Cream added happily.
Yacker blushed, before saying something again.
"Whoa...! He says that 'Mama gave us life and raised us. She even made the planet we live on'." Tails translated in awe, which shocked and amazed Sonic and everyone, glancing up at Yacker while the blue hedgehog glanced back and forth between the small alien and up to where Mother Wisp, who by now was hovering patiently and in a safe distant to avoid in being seen by the rest of Mobius, was waiting with the rest of the Wisps, and then back to Yacker.
"No way!" Knuckles exclaimed in disbelief.
"Wow! A whole planet!?" Amy exclaimed in awe.
"Whoa...What a feat." Sonic remarked with wide eyes, blinking. He then said to Yacker with a sweatdrop. "You'd better not do anything to get on her bad side."
"You can say that again." Rouge muttered under her breath, almost speechless herself. "Colour me impressed, 'cause that's one strong and loving mother."
Even Shadow was surprised. "Unbelievable. She is incredible."
Yacker chirped again and whirled around, gesturing up at his mother, family and even his home along with the other four planets were peacefully floating. Seeing this made Sonic feel sad as he knew what this meant. Deep down he knew that the time has come, but in the end, it was for the best. He'll deeply miss Yacker, especially having almost lost him forever, but he was happy that the curl-headed alien along with the rest were finally safe and free.
"Oh great." Tails groaned in sadness. "He says, 'I won't. Mama and I have to go now. Goodbye my friends'."
"Awwww. Already?" Cream sighed, sad and disappointed.
"Chao..." Cheese moaned in sadness.
"Oh, we only just met." Amy echoed.
"Just when I got this thing working." The two-tailed fox sighed while gazing at his machine.
Sonic shrugged sadly, but he assured his friends. "Better late than never in both occasions, buddy."
"He has a point. They have to go home sooner or later." Knuckles agreed, even though he wished he could've gotten to know the Wisps a bit better. Shadow and Rouge both nodded, while Omega responded by his usual 'Affirmative'.
"Hey, could ya' tell your Mom that I said thank you to her for me?" The blue hedgehog asked Yacker, who nodded and no one needed the translator to say that he will tell his mother. The cute alien held a very emotional look as even he knew that the time has come to part ways. Sonic smiled emotionally and held up his hands warmly, and Yacker immediately flew into his arms for a final embrace. Tails joined in as the three friends shared their last group hug with tears leaking in their eyes, and the other Mobians held different reactions but all smiled none the less. Amy and Cream both looked ready to cry, Rouge wiped away a tear, Knuckles sighed and tried not to shed a tear, even Shadow's expression softened.
"We'll miss you, buddy. But we'll always be friends. Remember that." Sonic whispered to the curl-headed Wisp.
"Don't forget about us, okay?" Tails added, sniffling.
They stayed like this until the trio reluctantly let go with emotional smiles, before Wisp then held up his arm, and while everyone else looked confused, Sonic knew what this mean and cheered with a wide smile.
"Right on!"He cheered and jumped into the air, happily giving Yacker a high-five, and Tails, seeing this did the same with the cute alien who giggled. Everyone else smiled happily(except Shadow who simply smirked, Rouge who folded her arms with a smile, and Omega who stood there) before the two young heroes landed on the ground and the Wisp flew around them squealing, shaking hands with Cheese who beamed happily, and they each gave their goodbyes to the little aliens.
"You take care, Yacker." The blue hedgehog told his alien friend with a smile. "Make sure you and Mom don't get separated again, 'kay?"
Yacker nodded and with a single tear formed in his eye, waved a goodbye for the final time to Sonic and Tails, and to their friends before he flew back up to reunite with his mother and family. The Mobians back in their world watched as the Wisps, including the Mother Wisp who waved a goodbye to the young heroes who have saved them all, flew back to their home planet before they all used their powers to not just magically transport Planet Wisp back to where it came from, but also Sweet Mountain, Starlight Carnival, Aquarium Park and Asteroid Coaster back to their places and galaxies in the Universe, vanishing from sight.
Sonic and his friends, while saddened to see the aliens off, all smiled in relief and happiness as peace as finally been restored. Not just to the five planets that have gone through so much, but their own as well. The blue hedgehog gazed at the sky with a content expression on his face, before blinking in confusion as something caught his eye. For a split second, he saw the familiar pixie-thing, faintly floating who gave him a wave and a smile before vanishing from sight, to which he realized for the final time.
Sonic was surprised to have seen what he thought was a hallucination of Chip, but then smiled as he knew, right there and then, that he was finally healed from within. After four long years of conflict, and while the ending wasn't what he had in mind, he'd take what he was given. Mobius was finally free from the terrors of Eggman. The blue hedgehog had conquered his own fears and doubt from the last two months. He, with the help of his friends, saved the Universe from devastation. Yacker was finally reunited with his mother, and had returned home.
The blue hedgehog was free himself. Free of his enemy forever. It would take a while for the teenager to get used to the idea of not having to worry about the evil scientist ever again, but he'll get over it.
'Thank you, Chip. Even though you weren't really there, you guided me along with my friends. And Yacker...I'll never forget you. I'll always be with you, reaching out for the stars.' Sonic thought to himself as he smiled warmly, feeling true peace and a new sense of freedom.
"Sonic. Are you okay?" Tails asked, tugging the cuff of his best friend's glove as he and the others noticed the blue hedgehog's silence.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Sonic replied, smiling down at his little brother. "Guess I was...speaking with my heart."
His friends all looked confused by this statement, but all smiled as the blue hedgehog chuckled, giving them a thumbs up and a wink. He had a lot to tell them, and he really couldn't wait to share his and Tails' story of their adventure before Sonic and everyone else returned their gaze to the sky, as the day was slowly coming to an end.
With a new one on the horizon. The beginning of a brighter future.
A/N: The wraps up the chapter! The Epilogue is up next and thus ending the story all together! I know none of you were expecting the demise of Eggman this way, but this is a "AU" story, so Sonic is finally free of him. Both here and in another story series he is in(The Sonic characters make their debut in "Sailor Moon Continuum-Hydaelyn Saga"-The third Saga of the Continuum series).
See you later!