Bright pink flower petals flew everywhere as Sonic, Shadow, and Silver smashed into Cosmo and Dark Oak. Penny finally burst into tears...this was too much for her. She couldn't believe it... first, it was Molly, and now Cosmo.

"Oh, no, Cosmo!" Cream sobbed.

Tails shuddered as he opened his eyes. More tears streamed his face as he looked out to the place where Cosmo once was.

"COSMO!" Tails yelled.

...

Lucas slowly opened his eyes. He was in a white place. He looked down guiltily. "Earthia was right. My thirst for power destroyed my people. And bought nothing but pain and suffering to the galaxy."

A bright light appeared, and Lucas looked up. "Lucas..."

Lucas gasped.

Earthia floated in front of him, holding out her hand. "It is over now. The galaxy is saved!"

"Earthia!" Lucas smiled gently, closing his eyes. "I feared I will never see you again!"

"We have a second chance, now, Lucas. The time has come for all creatures to live in peace. Including you and me."

Lucas hesitantly placed his hand in Earthia's, and the two faded away in bright light.

...

In the Blue Typhoon, everyone was grieving Cosmo's death. Cosmo spoke to them all as flower petals floated around.

"Thank you all for your friendship. Before I met you, I didn't believe in myself. My clan was wiped out by the Metarex. I felt like I was helpless, and couldn't do anything to stop them. But because of you, I learned that I didn't have to stand by and watch the Metarex take over! I could do my part to fight back, and help restore my clan."

Cosmo's eyes filled with tears. Her roses on the sides of her head started to fall. They floated silently to the ground.

"I just wanted you to know that I'm happy now. Because I fulfilled my destiny."

Her voice soon reached Tails. "Remember, I'll always love you and be with you. Don't be sad, Tails."

Tails gasped, looking up. Through his blurry vision, he could've sworn he saw a ghostly figure of Cosmo smiling gently at him.

"Whenever you miss me, just look for me, right here beside you."

The ghostly presences of Cosmo smiled, sighing as she disappeared within Tails.

Tails smiled sadly, gazing ahead.

...

Sonic sadly glanced at the flower petals floating around him, Shadow, and Silver. "Goodbye, Cosmo." Sonic and Silver thought.

The two hedgehogs glanced at Shadow, and they nodded.

"CHAOS CONTROL!" Sonic, Shadow, and Silver yelled as they formed a ball of Chaos power and hurled it at the planet.

...

"The seeds of my clan will spread through the galaxy and find places to grow. I'm at peace." Cosmo closed her eyes, allowing a few more tears to spill. "Now... goodbye." She whispered.

...

"No!" Eggman gasped, leaning back into his chair. "The planet egg is about to release its power! We have to get out of here! Activate emergency egg drive!"

"It is impossible for us to go in a warp space," Decoe grumbled.

"Nothing on this ship is working! Including the engines!" Bocoe muttered.

"We don't have power, remember?" Bokkun asked, glaring at the doctor.

"Oh, yeah. I forgot." Eggman smirked. "It slipped my mastermind!"

Eggman, Bokkun, Bocoe, and Decoe burst into laughter.

...

Sonic grunted as the planet egg's power started to release. "If the Planet Egg releases its energy, the others won't have enough time to get away!"

Silver glanced at Sonic. "We have to move!"

The two hedgehogs nodded. "CHAOS..." They began.

Shadow zoomed over and punched Sonic and Silver in the guts, cutting them off. The two let out a yell as Shadow pushed them upward. "Hold on, Shadow!" Sonic yelped.

"What are you doing?!" Silver yelped as well. The two fell unconscious, falling down.

"Sorry, friend, but I'm taking over. After all, we wouldn't want you to hurt yourself, now, would we? And Penny needs you, Sonic." Shadow said, releasing his rings. He raised his hand at the planet. "CHAOS CONTROL!"

The bright planet egg vanished.

"Hey!" Vector said. "What just happened?!"

"Where's Shadow?" Charmy asked.

Eggman frowned sadly. "He's gone..."

Penny's eyes widened, and she sank to her knees. Shadow was gone once again.

A second after Shadow caused Chaos Control, a bright light filled the area where the Planet Egg and Shadow were.

"Whoa! Is that a star?!" Bokkun asked.

"I do not think so," Decoe said. "But what is it, Doctor Eggman?"

"I'm not sure," Eggman said. "But it appears that Shadow had stopped time in that spot."

"What do you think happened to Shadow?" Bocoe asked.

"Who knows. He just made a risky move. And unfortunately, it may have been his last."

"He used Chaos Control," Rouge said.

"It must've taken all the energy he had left!" Knuckles muttered.

"Shadow..." Penny whimpered. Chris wrapped an arm around her, and she cried into her brother's shoulder.

"Everyone okay?" A familiar voice asked. Everyone turned around to see Silver there, alive but bruised.

"SILVER!" Penny and the others cried happily. Penny hurried over to Silver and grabbed his hands. "You're okay!"

"Yeah..." Silver looked down.

"Where's Sonic?" Penny asked.

...

Tails walked out on the damaged deck of the Blue Typhoon, staring at the place where Shadow and Cosmo made their final moves. Hearing a footstep, Tails turned to see Sonic looking at him.

"Sonic?" Tails asked, looking around to see if Cosmo was there if she didn't die after all. But Sonic's face told Tails everything.

Sonic walked up to Tails, who took a step back. "Uh, Sonic, I know you're mad at me, but, I..."

Sonic gently grabbed Tails' hand and placed something small in his palm. "Here, Tails." Sonic closed his eyes in grief. "Sorry. I looked for Cosmo, but this is all I've found."

Tails' eyes watered at the seed resting in his palm. "A seed?!"

His eyes filled with tears again. He slowly walked up to Sonic and buried his head on Sonic's shoulder. "Oh, Sonic." Tails sobbed, looking at the seed. "Why did this have to happen?" He pounded his fist on Sonic's chest, but the blue hedgehog didn't even flinch. "It's...just not fair! Now I'll never see her again! She was...she was my friend! I loved her! I miss her! She can't be gone..."

Tails shuddered a sob as he fell to his knees at the blue hedgehog's feet.

The two said nothing as rays of light filled the sky.

...

"It's amazing!" Bokkun gasped at the rays of light.

"Those are all planet eggs!" Bocoe said.

"There must be thousands of them!" Decoe added. "Or millions of them!"

"But... where are they going to?" Bokkun asked curiously.

Eggman smiled. "They are all returning home. To the planets they came from." He smiled. "Quick! Take a picture of me with them!"

The robots frowned. "Impossible!" Bocoe said.

"The camera batteries are completely drained!" Decoe said.

"You even used the batteries to help Sonic and Silver?!" Bokkun snapped.

"We were told to send all power to the Blue Typhoon!" Bocoe said.

"Yeah. We just followed orders!" Decoe said.

"TINHEADS!" Bokkun snapped accusingly.

"HOW DARE YOU?!" Both robots yelled.

"Quit bickering and get to work restoring power to the Egg Drive!" Eggman roared.

"Right away, doctor!" The robots saluted.

...

Penny sat on her knees, thinking of Shadow's final words to her. The words I love you swarmed around in her head. She was still shocked by the whole thing.

She felt a hand on her shoulder and looked through her teary eyes to see Sonic kneeling in front of her, looking at her with sympathy in his green eyes.

"Sonic..." Penny gasped.

"Hey.." Sonic began gently, but Penny slapped him. He cupped his cheek in pain. "Hey! What's the big idea?" Sonic yelped, tumbling backward from the force of the slap.

Penny glared at him. "I'll tell you the big idea!" She snapped, tears flowing down her eyes. "I thought I would never see you again! Watching you getting fired at Dark Oak, I feared the worse!" She stood up, clenching her hands. "I was afraid...that I wouldn't get to say..." She hiccuped. She looked at him. "Sonic, I..."

Sonic smiled softly, pulling Penny to his level and giving her a hug. "I love you." He whispered.

Penny's eyes widened, and she grabbed him in a huge hug. "I..love you, too." She said slowly, closing her eyes. "Please don't scare me like that again."

"I won't," Sonic promised gently, holding her tight in his grasp, closing his eyes.

She smiled, hugging him back.