Chapter 16: Finale - Part Two

Sonic rolled to the left and dodged the tentacle as it smashed the ground where he had once stood. The others broke off to surround chaos and hopefully distract him. Cheq pulled himself to the side. He had used his power and he would help again when his power had returned. All he could do at the moment was watch and wait for his moment...

Chaos tentacles writhed around the floor and in the air. Sonic he decided to wait for a distraction and began to creep around to the back of Chaos. Tails flew up into the air and whipped out the teal emeralds remains. He grasped in tightly.

"For all the good in the world" he said.

Tails fired his emerald at Chaos who immediately reacted. His tentacles flew around towards Tails who began to dodge them with ease. Every time he got a chance he absorbed a little more energy. Sonic saw his chance and flew out of the shadows and began to run round the chamber firing his emerald. Chaos emitted a strong light from which spears came and embedded themselves in the ground behind Sonic. Amy readied her emerald and saw that Sonic was going to get caught by an arrow from Chaos. She fired a bolt at Chaos which he absorbed as soon as it touched his body.

Chaos began to attack Amy now ignoring the emerald fire. She was able to dodge the tentacles and fire her emerald a few times before a tentacle caught her mid-jump. She rolled to the side and Chaos picked her up before flinging her into the wall. Chaos tentacle then covered the emerald and brought into his body. It now floated inside Chaos emitting the purple light it had before.

"I..am..now..closer...to...it" said Chaos in an eerie voice.

Sonic ran over and picked up Amy before bringing her to the entrance. He placed he down and felt her pulse. It was strong. Sonic breathed a sigh of relief before speeding off to fight more. Cream was worried about using her emerald. If it took Chaos power it would attack her and she wasn't sure she could take a hit from it. Cream shook her head. She lifted her emerald and fired with its light. Chaos noted the light beam and he began to grow over Cream.

Chaos was now much taller and wider engulfing the whole podium in the centre. Cream kept firing. Unafraid of the damage she could take. Rouge noted the fact that Chaos was going for Cream and she had just reached her vantage point on the ledge around the chamber. She brought out her emerald and began to fire hoping to draw attention from Cream. It worked and Chaos turned. But, instead of turning towards her he created a completely new side complete with the same faces on the other aside. Rouge was taken aback by this and failed to see the tentacle aiming for her. A the last minute she saw it and rolled to the left as the ledge blow her shattered under the weight of the tentacle. Rouge missed the ledge and decided to fly back up but she had forgotten about her wing.

Rouge screamed out in pain and tumbled towards the ground. Shadow, who had been secretly firing beams, saw that Rouge was about to hit the floor and charged over and caught her in the nick of time. She was knocked out still from the shock but still alive. Shadow put her down and looked up. Chaos had just swept up Rouges emerald and Creams who now lay on the floor not moving. Tails and Sonic were still firing strong.

Tails was dodging the tentacles really easily and his emerald was almost half full. He knew if he kept going he would be alright. Chaos was now annoyed with him and formed a giant hammer in the air which swung with full force into Tails, who fell immediately to the ground. Knuckles, who had been helping Rouge get up before preparing to fire decided his emerald was not strong enough and fired a Chaos hail at him. All Chaos did was absorb the stones and transform them in his body. The shot back out at Knuckles as spikes which he dodged by forward leaping over them. He ran over and punched Chaos. Instead of injuring the creature, Knuckles was sucked in and repeatedly shocked by electricity. He was pat back out minus the emerald to the feet of Cheq who had nearly regained full power.

Sonic and Shadow were all that remained and Chaos knew this as five emerald colours floated inside of him. Sonic was finding it hard now as Chaos was focussing all his attacks on him. Sonic then miscalculated a jump and got hit, dropping his emerald. Chaos shot for it but so did Sonic who then grabbed it first. Chaos also grabbed it and pulled it towards him. Sonic was also pulled and flew straight through the jelly like body of the creature and smashed into a nearby wall. Shadow remained. All he did was walk round in circles around Chaos. Chaos began to fire everything at him and Shadow took it without ever losing grip of the emerald.

Then, Shadow was caught by surprise by a loose chaos sword and he hit the ground. The emerald rolling tantalisingly towards Chaos, who absorbed it easily. Chaos then glowed strong. The emeralds inside of him began to spin and form a bubble of pure white chaos.

"Prepare..for...the..ultimate"

The power began to spin quickly and jutter forward. The roof opened up into holes as chaos from around the world began to go into Chaos. His body shook with a foreboding laughter as he took aim towards Shadow.

"Good..night...one..full..of..chaos. Ultimate CHAOS!"

The beam then shot forward. The next scene seemed to happen in slow motion. The attack shot forward and Shadow thought it was the end. Cheq ran on as if from nowhere and leapt in front of the beam and took its full force. The shockwave of the attack sent Shadow backwards into a beam of the chaos light that now shone down through the clouds of the storm and the ceiling. Cheq fell to the floor still smoking from the attack. He was dead. Chaos now reeled in pain. It had taken a lot to do that attack and he was now injured. Shadow then looked up into the light.

This is it he thought the end

Then he felt something. He felt power and lots of it. He looked at his hand which was now turning a golden colour. The light then shone from Shadow and blinded Chaos.

When it dimmed, Shadow was now hyper. His quills had grown and stood in an arc over his head. His gloves were now a bright gold and his fur was also a bright gold. Chaos now screamed and the light disappeared but Hyper Shadow remained. Shadow then ran forward and began to let rip into Chaos. Chaos tried to attack him but Shadow was now faster than light. Shadow jumped away from a tentacle and began to run round the room almost vertically. Chaos tried everything but kept missing. Shadow leapt and performed a spinning double kick which collided with Chaos. Again Shadow leapt from the wall and performed the same attack and again hitting Chaos, who was now screaming out in anger and pain.

Shadow then floated down in front of Chaos. He held his hands in a circle in front of him and began to form a white light of pure Chaos energy exactly like Chaos had. The emeralds that had been scattered across the field of the battle now floated up in the air and rejoined with Shadow. They floated in a circle around Shadow giving him that extra energy he needed. He closed his eyes and focussed before opening them and saying:

"Good night Chaos. ULTIMATE CHAOS!"

The beam of light shot forward and there was no one to save Chaos. He took the blow straight to the gut and it opened up Chaos easily. Chaos then faded in front of him and the Chaos emeralds shattered with a high pitched scream. Shadow fell down and a bright light filled the room.

Sonic looked up from the floor and saw Shadow being held aloft and seven different energy beams shooting into him. The final green light laughed before entering his body. Shadow hit the floor and Sonic returned to his state of unconsciousness.

End of Chapter 16