So this is it now, the final chapter of this story. It has been an honour to be in this story, and I hope there will be many more stories about us in the future. Anyways, enough being serious now. I don't own any of these characters except Kit Kat. The story belongs to KawaiiKaren who is also known as Bell in the story.
Our Hero's Celebration
Needless to say something had happen. Bell and Shade saved us all. (see the original story ::A world beyond me::)
But where were we? Aw man, not again. I looked at the hole in the ceiling and the place we are in now, and put two to two together (whoa tongue twister right there). It was plain and simple. We fell.
I took at look around for the others. Everyone was here except for Shade. Wonder what happened to her? Bell was back to normal now. She wasn't wearing the Nights costume.
"YOU STUPID KIDS! L-LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO MY RESTAURANT! LOOK AT THAT H-HOLE! IT'S AS B-BIG AS J-JUPITER!" someone yelled.
I quickly jump to my feet and was in a battle stance. We all took a look at some lady.
"Look lady, we're sorry. We just fell through the sky, and- hey, that's no way to talk those who helped save the world." Rah pointed out.
The woman's eyes tweaked as she turned on the television hanging in the corner.
"In latest news, Sonic Takeshi Hedgehog as done it again, saving the ARK from a deadly collision into earth previously today. Although we may have not known him well, Shadow Robotnick Hedgehog will forever be engraved in our memories and our hearts for his sacrifice. And in other news..." The news anchorwoman said.
"It's been all over the news. It's one thing to fall on in and crash through my roof, but it's another to just barge on in here and say that you sorry excuses for animals, even the darling girl over there, such as yourselves to go off say you did this world any good." Her head was red like a chili pepper and fire began to blow from her every breath.
"SO YOU LITTLE MONGRELS BETTER DO AS I SAY! UNTIL YOU PAY OFF THESE REPAIRS OR REPAIR THEM YOURSELVES, YOU WON'T BE GOING ANYWHERE, ANYTIME SOON!" The woman stomped over and grasped Rahn's hat's chin strap as his whole body, since he was the one to speak up, and her eyes were practically bugging out.
"GOT THAT?" She then planted him down onto the carpet and flicked off any lint there could be on her dress, like there was any.
Rahn's eyes focussed steadily on her, taking precautions not to talk back to the imprudent woman.
"So what now?" I asked the others. One word. Opps.
Just when I thought that lady was scary enough, she made a look that would of made Satan cry back to his mommy.
"I know just what to do with you, my little munchkins." Boy, this woman had issues. Not the normal issues, but the major issues.
*~* Hours later... *~*
"Come on boys, pace it, pace it!" She coached.
"Why do we have to carve the tiles that were on your roof out of plain boulders and rocks?!" C-4 asked angrily.
"Its been at least four hours and we still aren't finished carving our FIRST tile out of stone! Couldn't you just buy them and make us repair your roof?"
That didn't penetrate her shield of excuses.
"Pffffffft, I made my tiles out of rock, you can too! So you better hurry up if you plan on escaping your debt pretty soon." The woman then stepped away. BLAH!! Sheesh, who but the stick up her rear and turned it sideways.
When the coast was clear, we spoke amongst each other.
"What are we going to do after this? What's our objective here? She doesn't seem to recall or even think that Bell and Shade chaos controlled the ARK away from Earth's orbit." Rahn asked, pecking away at a few stones with a pickaxe.
"We should escape this insane lady or we'll be here for an eternity making tiles for her stupid restaurant." I groaned. If I stayed here any longer, I'm gonna kung-pow that over size chicken ball to the next dimension.
"Hey, Nokame, you told me and Bell when we first met you that Tails was responsible for all this chaos...and that he made a machine that transfers objects between dimensions and stuff like it did to us." C-4 recalled.
"So we got to start searching for a way to get to the Mystic Ruins. We should get a map...Let's see. There should be tourist brochures or newspapers around here somewhere." Nokame said peaking inside. He was right. There was a little metal rack filled with mostly newspapers.
"Go in..."C-4 muttered as he, Rahn and Nokame sort of backed away. I looked around to see who would be the idiot who would be sneaking in, but I then realized that it was I to go. Some friends. I love them too. I swallowed a lumped down his throat and slid the door open and walked on in. Whistling, I retrieved the object of desire and hurried back out of the clear. She was too busy talking on the phone, but she bent over to pick up something. I had a evil thought to go over there and boot her, but quickly threw out that idea. Who knows my foot might get stuck in one of her butt cheeks.
"PHEW! Close. So um, now what?" Nokame already had his head buried into the map on one of the pages while the others watched beyond his shoulders.
"Where do you think the Mystic Ruins are? A majority of Station Square makes up this map and the rest of it is just ocean. And Station Square grew a lot bigger since last Sonic Adventure too." Nokame scouted the premise and turned his attention back to the map. His index finger trailed over the vast illustration until it went over a building to large to go unnoticed. It was the Station Square Hotel located right next to Emerald Coast Beaches.
"Hey, maybe we could start looking around there." They all shrouded the newspaper.
"But how do we ditch the evil slave driver?" I asked. There were wooden signs staked not far off. There, the address was shown.
"Parkway street, 13207 NW" They were located in the middle of Station Square's more natural tourist attraction restaurants. Not too far off from the suburbs but it still was a long walk.
"Ah, it's further away than I thought. A cab's too expensive. A bus isn't that reliable...We probably don't have the right money to pay the bus fare anyway. God, I didn't know that that nice urban spot was the downtown region in Station Square. Oh well, our money might not be worth anything. I wonder what kind of currency they take here. It can't be one of ours, too many of them to count."
"And how are we going get money anyway? Madam Ballistic isn't tending to let us go in a couple of days, you know and we aren't even getting paid to work like this."
"We'll escape this place, we can fight can't we?" Rahn said.
"Are you little demons working or just standing around mumbling behind my back?" The restaurant keeper asked going to them, sniffing at them as if they carried a putrid stench. Nokame ran behind me and stealthily slipped me the map, which I placed in one of my pockets.
"Something's amiss...And you're keeping it away from me! Now cough up whatever it is! NOW!" She demanded.
"You really want to know?" I asked with a smile. My hands were behind my back with a special present for her.
"Tell me, damn it!"
"We'll tell you. What we've been meaning to say is, 'DIE IN HELL'!" I shouted.
CONK! I withdrew my frying pan back to wherever it went. That felt really good.
"Now that that's settled..." C-4 began.
"Let's tie her up. If word gets out that, 'EVIL ANIMALS, and a girl, ATTACKED POOR HELPLESS MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN' we'll be on the run with a lot of problems. We have to make sure she'll never get out. Well not for a long while. Just enough for her mind to drive her to the mental institution." Nokame said.
"Let's throw her in her basement or something." C-4 suggested.
We hauled her into the door and her arms and legs loosely slapped the floor. A shriek was heard...my shriek. Wait second. That's not right. Oh yah, it was Bell that screamed. Whew, good thing too. I thought I had a girlie scream.
"You...killed her?" she asked falteringly.
Hell no, we nodded our heads in disagreement.
"We're not murderers or anything! She's just unconscious, jeez!" Rahn said.
"What took you?" Serena asked.
"Well thanks to Nokame we can finally figure out a way to get back home. A little gratitude could be nice." C-4 rambled giving Nokame a little credit.
Serena's expression had turned gloomy and melancholy, frowning slightly.
"What's wrong, Serena?" Nokame clearly could see her sour face a mile away.
"Oh, it's just that...this was sort of fun, you know. And now it's all of a sudden coming to an end."
Now we all felt a little at loss as our last hours together might be our last since some of us live far away from each other, so far off...I wouldn't imagine seeing anyone in person who lives even one state away, and even less a country or continent. We all knew that we had to go back home. I had a friends and family to think about. Who knows how long we've been gone for? My parents would be freaking out right, because I was gone. I'm the only child they had so they had some extra love there. My new friends though are like my brothers and sisters to me, and I could just leave them behind too.
"Well I miss my mom, dad and my brother...can't live without them for long. Besides...I feel, no, I KNOW we'll meet again in person sometime soon in the near, or distant, future maybe to save the world again possibly." Bell quoted.
Hopes were brought up again, soaring in everyone's hearts.
"So let's find Tails and get him to whip us back into our world." I encouraged.
*~* Station Square Monorail Station *~*
"Well the total cost for all six of you to board the monorail is... ( 600 (A/n: The currency is rings...) "
"Why do we even have to pay? Sonic didn't pay...Neither did Tails...Nor Amy..." C-4 murmured.
He looked at him with a stern face showing no mercy.
"Look, they have 'special' privileges that you kids don't...Any alliance of Sonic's is well worth a few rings to hitch a ride to the Mystic Ruins."
"A few rings he says..." Bell murmured.
"So you're saying that Big the Cat and E-102 Gamma are close friends of Sonic?" Nokame was being sarcastic...
"You tourists are sure persistent when it comes to a lower fee...But you're only making me double it."
Shocked, and enraged, Rahn fought against his need to retaliate with his sword and bit his lip.
"We're better off walking there." Rahn mumbled
"No you aren't. The only thing from here to the Mystic Ruins is a nice vast sea with deadly salt water. But luckily, there have never been any crazy accidents with our monorail services before that led to severe deaths or injury because of the salt...Besides, you'd float up anyway since there's so much salt. But even when there are no potentially dangerous hazards and sea creatures, you still will get tired of SWIMMING all the way there. Now if you're willing to collect enough rings by the end of week, then I'll be there to hand you this bundle of six tickets to go."
"But where are we going to get that kind of money?" Serena asked.
"Two words; part-time job."
In reality, we were no better off than we were at that old hag's restaurant.
*~* Somewhere... *~*
"Welcome to Mc. Ronald's. May I take your order?" I went through the microphone. My place at last. Not exactly the restaurant I wanted to work for, but close enough. Even though I was suppose to take orders only, I couldn't help but do the cooking as well. There was a bunch of windows between the drive through, so they can see the food being prepared. I decide to show off a little when it comes to cooking. Throwing up my pan I got a couple of hamburger meat and toss them in the air as well. Catching my pan I caught the meat. Using my yo-yo, I grabbed the drinks. My yo-yo wrapped around the cups and then hit the button with it. I hummed a tune while doing all of this. My co-workers didn't complain. They were having a break and were watch me do all of the work with ease. People began to crowd outside as I was doing my work. In the end 23 burgers with fries, 20 large drinks, 3 milkshakes are done in less then 10 minutes. That was a new record in this building. Oh man I'm in heaven. All of a sudden I was grabbed from behind and dragged out the doors. It the others. It took all of them to drag me out of my job. Everyone in the restaurant stared at us.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…*Takes another deep breath* NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" I screamed. "I belong here! Screw my old life1 I belong here. HERE! You hear me! HERE! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!"
One of them took out my frying pan and knocked my head senseless, and gave it back to me.
"Thanks." I replied. "I need that."
They informed me that they found Sonic and the others and we are on our way home now. Great, I think.
*~* Back to the Mystic Ruins *~*
Nokame, dabbing his head with a towel. He peered at us, so glumly.
"It's ready...Well, after a pretty short period of time, I guess we'll have to say farewell."
"Yeah, who knows how long our parents have known that we were gone." C-4 said.
"Well we all have e-mail addresses, right? We could still chat online..." Bell brought up.
"But it still isn't the same, you know? There's never going to be another chance to see you all in such a very long time, maybe they'll never be another one." I added.
Serena whispered something that I didn't hear clearly, but knew that it's something about missing us. I took a look at Rahn. For once, Rahn was busy grinning his mouth off.
"Ah come on, we'll cross fates again. That's how video games are. Well, the FATES in them. Just look at Final Fantasy."
Tails approaches us, nudging his scalp with a wrench.
"Uh, don't you think you ought to go now? Who knows when the portal closes..." Tails stared beyond at the vast sea beyond his small cliff.
"It eventually...closes?" Bell uttered to him. He nodded.
"Well, it's pretty unpredictable. I'd leave while it's still open or it'll shut for a quite a while. From 2 months...to 20 years." Tails explained.
We all went on inside Tail's cramped shack. There was the device that was to take us home. It looked like a capsule that had a door you could slide open. Tails herded us inside.
"One at a time." Tail pressed a few knobs and spun a couple of dials.
"I'll go first." C-4 declared courageously.
"It's been a pleasure doing business, Bell. KawaiiKaren88, isn't it? See you around on the blasted Internet!" C-4 dematerialized before our very eyes.
"Okay, second?" Tails asked. Nokame handed Serena's a bouquet of blossoming Sakura flowers.
"Uh, yeah, picked them from one of the trees around the Roller Coaster. Think of it as a farewell present."
"Ah, thanks Nokame! They're simply wonderful! I'll miss you so terribly much!" Serena threw her dear arms around him and hugged him to her before letting go.
His face crimson, the turtle went ahead and vanished within seconds.
"Uh, who next?"
I stepped up. Well this is it. I took a deep breath in. My heart ached with sadness that we are departing, but I knew that this time will come.
"Hey, Bell! If you ever get the chance, e-mail me a photo of yourself! Bye for now! I already gave you my screen name! Remember?" I waved to her. And then it was all gone.
*~* Home, well kinda *~*
"Oliver! Wake up man. Hey we found him! He's over here, but he's little bit dazed." Did he just say my real name. It was Dex of my four best friends was there. He picked me up from the ground set me up right. I was outside in a school park.
"You okay? You had all of us worried. Where were you?" he asked. Was it all just a dream? If so, how did I get out here? So many questions that are need to be answer. Dex and Doug, my other friend, helped me up. Kyle, you guessed it my other friend, gave me something.
"Hey Ol,(one of my many nicknames) you dropped this. Hey it has your name Kit Kat." He said handing me the hat.
I smiled. I knew what happened. It wasn't a dream at all.
"You guys are not going to believe what happened to me." I said while place the hat on my head. I looked at the others. They were staring at me.
"What?"
"Oliver, you're a cat!" Doug said to me.
I looked down and just smiled. Looks like I got something to prove I was somewhere else. Taking off the hat I return back to my human self.
"You better start explaining what you just did there, because you are way beyond my world." Dex said still amazed at what just occurred.
I laugh and agreed, but we should go back to my house to tell my parents. My parents were happy to see me. At first, they didn't believe me, but the moment they saw my transformation they had no choice but to believe me. It was then all agreed. I had to search for the others, to see if they are all right.
THE END
Or is it?