Author's note: This should be the last chapter. Read it and tell me what ya think. And remember, Janet's character is for lease; contact me via e-mail for details.
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Chapter 5: The Conclusion
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"That's a great idea, Janet," Tails said once Janet had finished explaining her plan. "I'm glad I chose you for my assistant."
"Then let's get to it," Janet responded. She yelled something in Japanese, and her plan was put into action.
Cream took the pizza box Sonic was carrying. She wound up and heaved it at the UFO with the excellent throwing arm she'd developed while playing fetch with her Chao.
Meanwhile, Rouge leaned over and used her polishing rag to shine Amy's tray until it sparkled. Shadow used a quick Chaos Control to return to the roof of the jail.
The pizza box hit its target perfectly. There was some cheese stuck to the box's interior, which made it stick fast so Eggman couldn't get it off.
CLICK! Shadow turned on the rarely-used searchlight and beamed its light directly at Amy, who held up her tray so it reflected the light directly at the pizza box.
Tails took off his glasses and passed them to Cream, who looked among the Chao and found the one with the best flight stat. She gave Tails' glasses to this Chao, and directed it up in the air.
Janet snatched the megaphone Knuckles had picked up and used it to yell directions to the Chao. "Up a little … forward some … no, that's too far … adjust the angle a little … go up a little more … yes! Perfect! Now hold still."
In accordance to Janet's directions, the Chao held Tails' glasses in the beam of light that was reflected off Amy's tray. The glasses focused the light right on the pizza box, setting it on fire.
There was a silence among the eight anthropomorphic (yes, I'm sure that's how it's spelled) heroes as the smoke and fire drove Eggman's UFO into a crash landing in the center of town. Shadow called for backup while everyone else held him there, and Eggman was re-arrested in minutes.
"Dr. Eggman," Shadow told the doc as he was being told into custody, "you thought you could get away with all this."
"Such a thing isn't possible, though," Sonic added, "when we all work together!"
Sonic, Shadow, Janet, Tails, Cream, Knuckles, Amy, and Rouge all took turns high-fiving each other. Every one of them high-fived every other, which would make for a total of 28 high-fives. Sorry, I'm a math nerd.
Once the high-fiving was done, Janet looked around at all the destruction. "Looks like things are a long ways from returning to normal. I doubt the government can pay for everything."
"Don't worry about it," Tails replied. "Prower Electronics can spare some money to help with the repairs. But one company won't repair all this."
"I'll try to convince Hedgehog Pizza to spare some dough," Sonic suggested. "Not literally, of course."
"I think the diner can spare some cash as well," Amy added.
"And there's got to be some extra cash in the museum's funds," Rouge concluded. "I bet if everyone chips in, we can save this city."
Sure enough, everyone chipped in, and the government had more than enough money to restore the city in a matter of days. Everyone was happy in the end.
Maybe you're wondering where everyone is now, or maybe you aren't, but I'll tell you anyway. The last time I heard, Sonic and Amy were getting "hitched" …
… Tails was getting contact lenses …
… Janet was getting a large raise …
… Knuckles was getting "NO LITTERING" signs and trash cans installed throughout the Master Emerald area …
… Cream was getting her Chao adoption center rebuilt …
… Rouge was getting her museum exhibition closed down in favor of a jewelry store …
… Shadow was getting that big searchlight dusted off …
… and Dr. Eggman was getting a double life sentence in a higher-security cell than the one he was in before.
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THE END
Note to Nail Strafer: It's been months since you did what you did with "Infinity Woods". I would appreciate it if you gave the fourth chapter of this story the same treatment, since when I wrote that chapter, it kind of fell flat. I believe that if anyone can do better than I did, you can.