Author's Note: In response to how the last chapter was, I'm deeply sorry about how Eggman's demise turned out despite that this story played out differently. So to make it up for it, after the Epilogue, an Alternate Ending may be written depending on what you guys think of this.
By the way, this chapter will be a spoiler to a certain OC(which I own) who will make a cameo appearance.
I do not own Sonic The Hedgehog. All rights belong to Sega.
Epilogue: Sonic's Next Adventure.
Three days later...
The first day of knowing that Mobius was at long last free from the terror of Eggman had been very strange for everyone, especially for Sonic who, after celebrating at his and Tails' house with their friends(including Shadow and Omega surprisingly) which included the Chaotix, told everyone of what happened at the now defunct Amusement Park. While shocked by the news, everyone else didn't know what to really feel at first apart from the new sense of freedom, knowing that they didn't have to worry about their enemy ever again.
First night though had been a struggle. The cobalt hedgehog dreamt that the evil scientist fused with Yacker's Mother and transformed into a monster to the point that the teenager actually woke up screaming around 2:AM and Tails checked up on him, worried that something was wrong. After apologizing profusely for having accidentally woken up his best friend/little brother, Sonic decided to let the eight year old fox sleep with him, somewhat shaken but relaxed after a little while.
The second hadn't been so bad as Sonic distracted himself with spending a day out with Tails, Amy, Cream and Cheese and even visited Knuckles on Angel Island...after helping the echidna to get the Master Emerald back from Rouge who's stolen it again. The second hadn't been horrifying either, though he did wake up in cold sweat but thankfully not screaming. However, Tails' had a nightmare of the blue hedgehog's death for not coming home, and the hero of Mobius gave him much comfort and love that his little brother needed, and the two-tailed fox calmed down since then.
Today, Sonic decided that in order to fully gain the new sense of freedom, he would keep to his promise to Tails and they would go on their next adventure like they talked about almost a week back. After they had their planned lunch of Chili Dogs and Pizza for dinner the night before, the two best friends were now flying in the Tornado 1 high in the bright blue sky, passing by white fluffy clouds towards their next destination, with the blue hedgehog standing on the top wing of the plane as usual, enjoying the sense of freedom, while Tails was happily piloting happily as well.
"Ah...This is definitely living." Sonic remarked, stretching his arms out and smiled at the wonderful cool breeze that flew onto his face and into his quills. "Isn't it great, Tails? No Eggman to worry about, no giant killer robots, no one getting hurt. Just you and me on another great adventure."
"You said it." Tails replied, before admitting. "Still...It's kinda strange that Eggman isn't around anymore. I still can't believe that he's...gone just like that."
The teenage hedgehog fell silent on that for a moment, his smile fading into a small frown of uncertainty as he folded his arms. "Hmmm...Yeah, it is really weird not having to worry about him. To tell the truth, I kinda feel guilty for not being able to save him, no matter how evil he was..."
As he scratched the side of his face, Sonic sighed in sadness and decided to admit it. "Okay, I feel really terrible for not being able to save him, but at the same time, I know if I did, he'd most likely go with another evil plot and I'm scared to think that he'll come up with something much worse to the point that I won't be able to defeat him. It's...complicated, I know."
He then gazed down at his friend with a sad smile and shrug. "I mean, not even Eggman deserved to be eaten by a crazy possessed mother, even if how she ended up that way was his own fault."
"I guess you're right." The two-tailed fox nodded in agreement, before asking in worry. "You're not gonna end up like you did the last time, are you? I don't you to end up the way what happened during our last adventure, or hallucinate."
"Don't worry, bro. I won't. It'll just take a while to get used to this, but I'm not gonna let that get to me, and I won't let guilt, fear and sorrow eat me alive again unless I really make a mess of something or if I can't save you and anybody else. I promise." Sonic reassured, his smile warming up as he quickly regained confidence and winked at his best friend with a thumbs up, and he meant one what he said.
That made Tails feel better as he returned the warm smile, "I know you'll keep your promise. You always do, and I'm never gonna doubt you again."
Sonic chuckled and the two friends shared another nod with beaming smiles before they broke through the clouds, and their expressions turned to that of awe as they were reaching their destination, somewhere that the blue hedgehog has never seen before. A huge continent of vast and beautiful landscapes, with fields of green grass and colourful flowers, mountains that looked almost violet with snow, in the far distance a gorgeous looking city that had a modern mixture with a cottage village feeling to it, with buildings having pot plants on their balconies, and a huge clock tower resembling to that of London and in another place unheard of, and other far off places that looked tons of fun to explore stretched out far and wide.
Unaware to the duo, on top of the clock tower was a familiar former dark-blue hedgehog, now orange in fur colour with a scar on his right cheek left behind by one of the monsters during his and Sonic's adventures together, leaning against the wall behind him on the hedge just in front and below the clock gazing out at the sight before him.
Sun the Hedgehog, having spent his time looking for his place in the world after being freed from his curse and made a real Mobian. He had his arms folded as a familiar plane from the far distance caught his eye, which both were still violet, and he still wore his green sneakers. Though who was on top of the plane was what caught his attention and he couldn't help but smirk.
"I didn't think we could be seeing each other again sooner than I thought, Sonic. Then again, you've always been one for adventures. Wonder what you and Tails have been up to in the last two months." Sun muttered to himself.
He decided to meet up with them when they reach the city he was currently in. But for now, seeing where they were going first in this region, he decided to let them have their fun before they would all meet up and catch up on things, because little did the orange hedgehog know, was that he was about to hear the story of Sonic's greatest adventure.
"Wow! There's the continent of Isalenna." Tails breathed in awe, his blue eyes sparkling at the sight. "I've never seen anything like it!"
The blue hedgehog whistled as he agreed with an excited smile. "You and me both, Tails. It's beautiful! I can't wait to check this place out! Let's try out that field first."
"Roger that, bro!" The two-tailed fox saluted, and after telling his best friend to hang on, which he can easily do, the eight year old kit descended down towards the beautiful fields of Sunshine Zone, making a perfect landing just outside of the field's entrance itself to avoid in ruining the grass and flowers.
Sonic and Tails climbed off and out of the Tornado 1 and observed their new surroundings, the sight before them much more beautiful up close than it was from above. There were sparkling rivers and lakes with birds happily taking drinks from, the leaves in the trees blew very gently in the breeze, everything that was a perfect picture for a lover of nature. The two adoptive brothers gazed around in awe and wonder, before a violet butterfly gently landed on top of the blue hedgehog's nose, surprising him as he blinked while trying to get a good look at it.
The two-tailed fox noticed this and tried to hide his giggles behind his hands, while the cobalt hedgehog smiled awkwardly before gently holding up his hand as the butterfly, apparently sensing this, hopped off of his nose and onto his extended finger so that he could get a good look at it.
"I guess this is the welcome committee." Sonic remarked, smiling fully as he and his little brother gazed at the butterfly before it flew away high up to continue it's own journey of adventures.
"I think the butterfly was really curious of you, Sonic." Tails thought as the duo watched it leave.
"Think you're right." The blue hedgehog agreed, before gazing at his best friend with an excited and happy look on his face. "You ready, Tails? Our next adventure awaits us."
"Ready when you are!" The eight year old replied enthuiastically.
Sonic grinned, cheekily announcing. "In that case...Race ya! Last one to wherever the road leads us is a rotten Eggman!"
Before Tails could respond, his adoptive hedgehog older brother took off running in high speed, causing the two-tailed fox to laugh while quickly flying after him with his two tails spinning, calling out. "Right behind ya!"
As they playfully raced through the beautiful fields of the place that was very new to them, Sonic laughed happily and in pure excitement, as he enjoyed the breeze as he ran, the sun's warmth shining down upon him and his best friend/little brother. The wonderful scenery that made him think about the one he fixed up inside his heart and he knew then that nature was part of him as well. To make things better, he hasn't had a single hallucination of the Werehog at all since before shutting off the last generator, and he always thought about the good times he had with Chip and Sun.
Just as he always thought about the friends he had with him, and the blue hedgehog never took them for granted, and he never will. Sonic embraced his life to it's fullest, the love he had for his freedom, his home, and most importantly, his friends who had become his family through out the years, having changed his life for the better, and while they do tend to have their fights and/or arguments once and a while, that would never break apart the bond they shared.
"WOOOOO HOOOOO!" Sonic cheered happily as he ran, and Tails flew right beside him, the latter laughing in excitement. "YEAH! Look out, Isalenna! Sonic the Hedgehog and Tails are about to see ya!"
Sonic and Tails continued to race through the new region where they would be facing their next adventure, meeting new friends and unknowingly meeting up with an old one to give more brighter memories, new ones to be made.
One journey was over, but for Sonic the Hedgehog, a new one was about to begin.
THE END
...Or is it?
Somewhere deep in a very unusual place far beyond where anyone could reach, in the sky was in the light of dawn, trees were black with violet coloured leaves, the ground looked rather dry despite the blue looking grass that looked fresh, and buildings that looked spooky and carved with tunnels leading to underground somewhere, was the familiar Egg Mobile that was out of fuel with it's occupant inside, supposedly to have died but by out of sheer luck, managed to survive and somehow found himself in this place.
Dr. Eggman, who had somehow managed to escape the Nega-Mother Wisp's stomach and found himself in an alien-like world in another part of the Universe. While he had very little idea on how he found himself in this place when he was meant to have met his doom via digestion, all he could think about was just Sonic the Hedgehog had defeated him again, and his own plan backfired to the point that he had no idea how to get back to Mobius.
Not to mention that he was stuck with the last company of five useless robots he wanted to be with right now.
"Faster, you idiots! Faster!" Eggman shouted at his minions, Decoe, Becoe, Bokkun, Orbot and Cubot who, in their attempts to evacuate themselves from the now destroyed Amusement Park, had also fallen victim to the corrupted giant alien's wrath and had been the first ones to find themselves in this unusual world. "The sooner we find the source of this place to get back to Mobius, the better! Put your backsides into it!"
"E-easier said than...done, doctor." Becoe panted, pushing as hard as he could as he and his other robot companions pushed rundown Mobile on the ground since it couldn't fly at the moment, let alone move. "T-this thing is...way too heavy."
"And Technically, we don't have backsides, boss." Orbot piped up, not even making the effort in pushing the evil scientist's ride.
"I'm exhausted..." Decoe complained, feeling a strain in his metal parts. "I wanna go home..."
Bokkun groaned as he could barely fly himself, whining. "Ooooh! I think I pulled a joint in my back, and my arms are killing me."
That really didn't put Eggman in any better mood as he shouted angrily at them. "I don't care! Quit complaining and just push! We have to hurry! The sooner we learn how the negative energy within the Nega-Mother Wisp's stomach created a portal that led us here, the better we can learn it's connection to this new planet."
"Are you sure it's not the Underworld we've been punished to go to?" Decoe asked doubtfully. "I mean, unless it's the case of that silly story of Pinocchio, there's no way anybody would survive digestion, and robots have a much less than zero of a chance of staying function."
"Since when was there a Silicon Underworld for robots? That kind of Silicon Heaven stuff is made up from that comedy TV show everybody seems to like!(1)" Becoe pointed out in annoyance with a skeptical look.
"For all we know, we're stuck in another dimension where there's nobody around." Bokkun grumbled in annoyance.
"Maybe for now, but we will return! That fool Sonic thinks I'm gone for good, and while I do admit I thought I was as good as dead back there, it's pure luck that we survived to be here. This is my chance to get my next revenge on that infuriating hedgehog!" The evil doctor replied to Bokkun and ignoring what both Decoe and Becoe said since both sounded like complete nonsense.
"Of course you will get Sonic next time, boss!" Orbot praised as convincingly as possible, even though almost everyone else knew that he was being just as sarcastic as ever. He then muttered silently to himself, "Assuming we get out of this place without the Chaos Emeralds or whatever else we find...if we do not get destroyed by whoever runs this place."
The only one who didn't get the sarcasm was Cubot who, while pushing as well, was thinking more about how his voice has returned to him.
"I feel like my old self again! All I wanna do is talk, talk, TALK!" The yellow cube-shaped robot exclaimed happily, before asking his fellow robots. "Hey, remember when we were chasing those alien guys? What's up with those guys, anyway? They sure were funny looking. Smelled good, though."
"You can't smell anything! You can't even taste or even open your mouth!" Bokkun angrily pointed out, which was only annoying their creator to the point of hopeless and dismay.
"Ugh..." Eggman complained as he slumped in his chair in frustration, gazing up at the sky from within the Egg Mobile, silently pleading to himself. "What I wouldn't give for the maddening silence of a wasteland about now."
All the while Cubot continued rambling on and on and on ad nauseam as the other robots just listened and pushed, with the first three groaning in dismay with sweatdrops, mentally wishing for their stupidest companion to simply shut up, and Orbot simply just leaned and hovered against the Egg Mobile with a care in the world.
Unknown to Eggman and his remaining robots, high above one of the darkest buildings of the city of the unknown world, was a figure of a tall person in a black cloak, long tentacle arms in snake skin, black boots with laces in snake designs, his hood covering his face, except a trace of a large skin, dinosaur like muzzle, if not of a T-Rex's head, it's teeth shown as he breathed deeply, observing the new strangers slowly approaching.
"Another evil one has arrived." The figure spoke in a deep-ish male voice, seemingly emotionless at first. However, he did frown as he muttered to himself in a hint of concern. "Yet, the more arrive, the more those who have been punished by the chosen of the Emeralds of Light and Darkness will make their escape."
This has gone on for far too long. If something wasn't done soon, all was lost. He gazed up at the dawn sky. "I can only hope that the abominations of Time, those who seek destruction or assurance of Time itself, both here in the Prison of Evil, and in the Universe, does not get destroyed, do not seek or escape their places. If they do, then our only hope is for the chosen one to return that corrupted Tribe Leader back here and save all existence."
Because he knew that if the foretold prophecy comes true...then all those of evil that have been brought here for all eternity shall be released and wreck havoc across all worlds.
This was just the beginning of the greatest challenges for those in the outside world if things get out of control in this one...
Especially for Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends who remain unaware of this world.
THE END?
A/N: Thus ends the story of Sonic and the Power of the Wisps, and whether I do end up going a different version of Sonic Generations(but not Lost Worlds or Forces, sorry fans of those games) or not, think of a new original story or not is left to debate. Haven't figured it out yet, but I scrapped the original Epilogue I had for Eggman due to the dislike of what happened to him in the last chapter and made a similar one instead.
Oh and whether I do make an Alternate Ending or not is entirely based on what you guys think after reading this chapter.
Thank you all for following this journey and liking this story. I will eventually finish the prequel to it(Sonic and the Werehog) one day, but until then, farewell for now my friends, and we shall meet again.
Remember to reach for the stars and speak with your hearts. Goodbye!