-Episode 14: The Unifier Of Chaos (Series Finale)-
A/N: This is the very last episode of the series.
Perfect Chaos takes his form as the Chaos Emeralds begin to float around him. At the same time, Sonic arrives in the water-ridden ruins of Mobotropolis and looks up to see Perfect Chaos. He looks up in anger at the beast that has destroyed the city he had fought to protect for so long, everything he had worked for gone in the blink of an eye.
"I know now that I can't have been dreaming. This monster...sure is a menace." said Sonic as he looked up at Perfect Chaos.
At that moment, he looked up to see a very familiar-looking aircraft. The aircraft, simply known as the "Egg Carrier", belonging to his arch-nemesis, seemed to be on the offensive against Chaos.
"Robotnik!" Sonic said as he saw him.
"Is he gonna fight him?!" said Nicole through Sonic's comm.
"This Egg Carrier is my greatest creation! You have defied your master, you stupid beast! Now, it's time you were put down for good!" said Robotnik as he prepared the Egg Carrier's weapons.
At that same moment, Perfect Chaos charges up a powerful blast from it's mouth and fires it at the Egg Carrier, the beam shredding through the aircraft and bringing it down in an instant. Robotnik screams before he's killed in the Egg Carrier's explosion.
"Chaos...Just who do you think you are, anyway?!" said Sonic after seeing his lifelong nemesis die in the Egg Carrier's explosion. He jumps at Chaos and attempts to attack Chaos, to which the beast responds by knocking him back. In an instant, a large flash of light could be seen.
"Gh!" he exclaimed as the light appeared before him. He regained his vision to see someone he had encountered before: the one who sealed away Chaos in the past. The girl who had been appearing in his dreams.
"Tikal!" Sonic called out.
As his vision had finished clearing, Tikal begun to speak.
"My heart has always been inside the Master Emerald along with Chaos'. ..But now he's filled with anger and sadness...If he carries on, he'll destroy the world like he did so long ago!" said Tikal, desperation creeping into her tone with each word.
Chaos let out a roar to the heavens as the Emeralds are scattered and seemingly drained of their power. Tikal fell to her knees in despair and picked up one of the Chaos Emeralds that fell to the ground.
"He's absorbing the Emerald's power...If we don't act now, and seal him inside the Master Emerald, this will be the end of our world!" said Tikal as she looked up at Chaos.
"We can't just do that." asked Sonic. Tikal responded by looking at Sonic in confusion.
"His heart's still filled with turmoil, and his sadness will never go away...He'll just be trapped inside the Master Emerald forever with no end to his suffering!" said Sonic as he clenched his fists. However, at that moment, one of Chaos' tendrils grab Tikal and pull her into his core.
"Tikal!" Sonic called out as she screamed and reached out for Sonic's hand before being consumed within Chaos' core. Feeling powerless, he curses himself for not being able to save her...However, at that moment, Sonic hears a familiar voice call out to him.
"Sugah Hog!" said Bunnie, who ran in with a seemingly drained Chaos Emerald.
"Bunnie!" said Sonic as he turned around to face the cyborg Rabbit.
"Zonic!" said Antoine, who also came running in with another emerald.
"Sonic!" said Tails, who also came running in with the fourth emerald.
"Sonic!" said Rotor, who came in with the fifth and sixth emeralds.
"Bunnie, Antoine, Tails, Rotor! You're all here!" said Sonic as he watched them gather around him. The Freedom Fighters simply looked at Sonic and nodded, who returned the gesture by nodding back at them.
"That's six of them. We need one more." said Rotor, who was also looking around for a certain someone who was missing.
"Ze princess!" said Antoine as he pointed in the direction of the last one to arrive with the seventh Chaos Emerald, who was none other than Sally Acorn.
"Sorry I'm late. This was a pain to find." Sally said as she walked up to Sonic with a smile before giving him the last Chaos Emerald.
"Sonic, you're the only one out of all of us who can tap into the Emerald's true power. We can put our hearts together and form the power, but as the Unifier Of Chaos, you're the only one who can use it." said Tails.
"Go and save the day, hero." Sally said, lightly tapping Sonic's arm while smiling.
"Yeah! We're countin' on ya, Sugah Hog!" the others said in unison, with only Bunnie saying the last sentence.
Sonic looked at the stones and reached his hand out to them. Soon after, the Chaos Emeralds started to glow bright before they start gathering around Sonic and start spinning around the blue hedgehog rapidly, before Sonic absorbs the gems into himself.
"Hnn!" Sonic exclaimed as an immense burst of power exploded from him, transforming him into a bright, golden and powerful version of himself. He floated up to the others, who were all looking at him in awe and slowly landed, before smiling at all of them. Afterwards, he turns around to face Perfect Chaos, his red eyes full of steel determination.
After becoming Super Sonic by using his abilities as The Unifier Of Chaos to draw out the Emeralds' true power, Sonic is seen floating in front of Chaos, who proceeds to attack him immediately, to which Sonic responds by forming a spin dash and destroys the tendrils that were coming at him as if they were nothing.
"Hmph!" Sonic exclaims as he let's out a burst of power, showing his powerful new form, to which Chaos responds by roaring at him.
"I know your heart's in turmoil, but I'm here to save you." Sonic said, looking on with eyes full of resolve Chaos then proceeds to charge up a beam from his mouth, before firing it directly at Sonic, causing the hedgehog to react by going into a defensive stance as it finally hits him.
"Sonic!" Sally calls out, before she then sees that Sonic doesn't even have a scratch on him from the blast, to which she looks on with a smile. Sonic is then seen flying towards Chaos, dodging energy blasts all the while before he flies straight into Chaos, flying upwards inside the monster and hitting the brain, causing the monster to then roar out in pain, before Sonic then lowers himself down and floats in front of the monster and begins to speak.
"Chaos, you're hurting just like I am; filled with anger and sadness because something important was taken away from you. Even so, I'll still reach out to you and open your heart, I'll help you let all of that pain go!" Sonic said with a strong conviction, before he then proceeds to fly at Chaos as fast as he possibly can. Chaos then fires one, last powerful blast from his mouth. The blast hits Sonic and slows him down a little, but he continues to power on through. The scene then cuts to his friends.
"Sonic!" Tails calls out.
"Sonic!" Rotor calls out.
"Soneek!" Antoine calls out.
"Sugah Hog!" Bunnie calls out.
"Sonic!" Knuckles calls out.
"Sonic The Hedgehog!" Sally calls out, before her and the rest of the group then scream out in unison…
"DO IT!"
Sonic then lets out a scream and pushes through the blast and speeds towards the monster before grabbing onto the monster's enormous nose. Sonic then begins to focus his energy into an action that sees Chaos slowly fade. Once Sonic opens his eyes, he begins to see three hands place themselves on both of his own. He then looks to see his mother, father and uncle giving him a smile. He then returns the smile to the three of them and then all three of them close their eyes and focus their energy into subsiding Chaos' anger once and for all. Chaos simply fades into his original form, causing Tikal to be released from the monster's core and start falling from a great height.
"Tikal!" Sonic called out before flying towards the Echidna and catching her in time.
The scene then cuts to Chaos, who is seen floating down onto the debris where the other Freedom Fighters are standing, and faces all of them. Almost immediately, Sally notices something about Chaos' current state.
"Something's different now…" Sally said, before a flock of Chao then gather around Chaos.
"His destructive motivation is gone…" Knuckles said.
"Super Sonic's power must have caused his anger to subside…" Tails pointed out. Sonic is seen floating down while carrying Tikal and sets her down. As she walks over to Chaos, Sonic is seen turning back to normal. All of a sudden, a series of cute creatures appear around the Freedom Fighters. While the others wonder what they are, Sally turns her gaze to a figure in the distance.
"You're…!" Sally said in shock upon seeing Tikal, who then stops in front of Chaos, before turning around to face everyone and starts to speak.
(OST: Sonic Adventure – Goodbye)
"These are the Chao you have been protecting." She started with a smile, referring to the adorable creatures that surrounded the Freedom Fighters.
"Their life continues on in this world, as it has for generations. That much… is enough… Thank you all so much." Tikal finished, before then turning around to face Chaos. She reaches both of her hands out before her and Chaos float upwards and fade into the afterlife.
In the immediate aftermath, families and friends of Mobotropolis are seen reuniting with each other in joy as the crisis has now been averted. Although the atmosphere has been marred by the lives that were lost in this tragedy.
Sonic is then seen looking up at the sky, before mouthing the words "Thank you" to himself, or rather, to his parents and his uncle. Sally then walks up to the hedgehog and stands next to him before she begins to speak.
"I…I'm so proud to know you, Sonic The Hedgehog...I hope you know that." Sally said with a pure smile on her face.
"Ditto, Sal." Sonic said softly, before turning to face her, which causes Sally's expression to soften. His pure smile radiates even the darkest of times.
"It's thanks to you...that I'm the hero I am! You're my reason that I give it my all! You're my reason to go on!" Sonic said to Sally, bearing his heart out to her. For a moment, the shot just focuses on the two of them looking at each other, as if there's nothing but love between them at that moment.
The last shots focuses on the Freedom Fighters looking at the sun finally shining through the parting clouds in the sky, before coming back to Sonic and Sally by themselves, looking at that very same view together, looking out to a brighter future. Clips of many moments throughout the series play from the original SATAM series to this series.
-Epilogue-
The gentle breeze blows through the forest as petals started to fall down from the trees, where Sonic is seen tending to his Uncle's grave beneath a large tree in front of him. He looked up at the sky and began to whisper, as flashbacks of Uncle Chuck appear on screen.
"Uncle Chuck… I still miss you, everyday. I finally learned about what happened to my parents, and I don't blame you for trying to protect me from that… Still, from this day on, I'm gonna keep movin' forward and I ain't gonna look back. So… so… " Sonic finished as he starts tearing up towards the end of the flashbacks. In that moment, a familiar hand was seen on Sonic's shoulder, who turned around to see Sally and gave her a smile. After some time passed, she began to speak.
"I can't believe it's finally all over.." Sally said, looking up at the tree as the petals fell from the tree.
"Yeah… " Sonic said, trying to fake a smile, something Sally sees through immediately.
"Sonic…" She said, her tone hushed and sincere.
"It's just… now you guys know what I really am, the Unifier Of Chaos… do you still want to be around me?.." Sonic asked, evidently scared of losing the people he cares about. Sally responds to this by gently grabbing his hand.
"Sonic…I don't want to leave you. I can't, not after everything we've been through. Sure, you're hard to deal with sometimes and you act recklessly, but… you're still you. You being the Unifier doesn't change the fact that I… I… " Sally said, before she starts hesitating to say her true feelings aloud.
"Sal?.." Sonic asked quietly, before…
"I love you, okay?! I love you so much! It took me so long to realize that… and I wanted to tell you that I still loved you, even after we broke up… but I…" Sally confessed as she started to tear up during the last sentence. Sonic replied by wiping away her tears and giving her a smile.
"I… I love ya too, Sal. Always have, always will." Sonic said to her with sincerity.
( OST: Sonic 06 – In The Forest, 1:25)
"Are you gonna leave us one day, Sonic?.." Sally asked, looking him in the eyes, filled with love.
"Even if I do, I'll come back. For the girl who stuck by me for all these years." Sonic said, before the two of them finally kiss. The final shot focuses on the couple as the camera zooms out, all while the petals fall from the tree and blow in the wind ever so gently. The world, and their worries, just fade away around the couple, just before the screen fades to black one last time.
-The End-
