Author's note: This is getting difficult because I mixed up. Darn it.
File 10 This is Where it All Ends
Entry 4 The Ultimate Price for the Ultimate Weapon
Tails fought against Amy and Sonic. "She's hurt!" he whimpered.
"Tails!" Amy cried, pulling back against the little fox's strength. "What's gotten into you?"
"…" Sonic knew. He hadn't said a word about it. Didn't Amy know…? Tails loved her.
When Tails had heard Miserie answer his question, he had gotten a bad feeling. As if maybe… But he had shaken away his next thought. She was burning up. The lasers around her, they were just…searing away at her fur. She was going to burn!
A thump behind them…? Sonic and Amy suddenly had a new surge of strength.
"you want her safe, right, Tails?" Sonic said. "Then help us get rid of these guards!"
Tails looked up and grimaced at the large group of guards in front of him. This was not his day.
"I don't think the plan is working." Knuckles blamed.
"Shut up and climb, you imbecile." Shadow pushed Knuckles up their third flight of stairs.
"I'm climbing, I'm climbing." Knuckles said, moving even slower. Shadow sighed. Only what felt like hours ago, Guards started pulling out. Shadow had decided to follow them, but Knuckles, who saved himself by a margin, couldn't climb a staircase. "Shadow."
"What?" Shadow asked irritably. "Move faster, you worthless echidna."
Knuckles slowed down on purpose. "I was going to say something nice, but…" He growled.
"Fine." Shadow said. "I'm sorry." He spat.
Knuckles smiled and started moving faster. "You changed since the last time we met."
"Don't get used to it, echidna."
"My name is Knuckles."
"I know that!" Shadow snapped, pushing Knuckles unceremoniously onto the fourth floor. "Let's go."
Knuckles stood up and winced. "Which way?"
Shadow looked around. He could smell burning fur. "What the…" he asked.
"That smell…" Knuckles said.
"It's from over there." Shadow said, pointing to his left. Knuckles took a step and a blaring alarm went off. "Hell no." Shadow said loudly, and He pulled Knuckles towards a ladder. "We're going this way."
Sucking it in. All this energy. All this energy…she would explode!
Miserie felt beyond anything she had ever felt before. As if she was soaring…
The sounds behind her were behind her, way behind her. She couldn't hear them anymore. She was so close. She was going to reach it…Ultimate power!
But she faltered. She couldn't use the ultimate power…she wasn't the ultimate being…she was…the generator and he was…
Shadow was…
She needed Shadow! He was the one who could channel all this energy and make good of it! But without him…She would explode.
Tears now. They dissolved before they escaped her eyes. She was too hot. She would die soon.
She was calling to Shadow, but could her hear her?
She called Tails. Then Amy. Then Sonic. Then Knuckles. In despair, she called for Talon too. She need someone to contact Shadow! He was too far away!
Ultimate power was reachable with two emeralds…to super charge it, she needed three. To cause a nuclear explosion, four. To supernova, five. To implode, six. And to destroy galaxies…seven. Shadow didn't know that. Otherwise, the ultimate life form would have destroyed the world years ago. But Miserie had just learned her fate…
The Ultimate power…how much longer could she hold it?
Amy slammed her hammer down, causing a quake. Talon steadied himself.
"You trusted me," He sneered. "You bought my story, hook, line, and sinker."
Tails was angry. "You lied to us." He said, almost too calmly. Amy remembered that Tails, when he got too angry, became so calm it was scary.
Sonic was raging though. "He played us…so many times!"
Talon looked over their shoulders. "…Almost finished." He said, with a smile. "Soon, she'll have the energy we need…and we'll harness it and purge this land!"
Amy turned backwards. The girl fox she had once known…the black fox with green eyes… She had changed. She was a pure white color, the scar over her eye had turned completely black.
"…!" Tails said.
"You're lucky to be seeing this!" Talon said. "Since you're going to die, let me just tell you want's going on!" He laughed. "You see, Miserie's blood is made with the shards of that red chaos emerald! Somehow, that allows her to harness all the energy she needs inside of her…and this energy is enough to destroy you all! But we weren't sure if Miserie was the one! So we made an android of Master Robotnik and"
"You mean, EGGMAN?" Sonic gaped.
Tails nodded. "That must be it…" He said. "They used it to spy on Miserie and Shadow."
"Due to the Professor's description of Miserie, we knew she had to be the one. But we needed to get her here… with someone monitoring the movements…And I, Major Talon of C Squad…"
"You tricked us!" Amy cried. "By fooling us with that phony story… you could tell what we were going to do!"
"And I told Rosemary…I told her everything!" Talon laughed. "What's my reward? Her, of course. I can keep the little fox girl after I kill you!"
Tails was so deadly calm Amy could feel cool air rising from him. "How are you going to live?" He asked. So quiet…Amy had to lean in to hear it.
"Me?" Talon grinned again. "Well, I'm nowhere near this. You're talking to a projection."
"A projection…?" Amy recalled him steadying himself. "But…?"
"I'm a fox! Cunning and swift! I could say less for you, Prince Miles."
Tails wasn't fazed. He was smiling. "…It won't work." He said.
"…?" Talon asked, and he laughed. "Wishful thinking won't help you, Prince!"
"…Wishful isn't quite it." Tails said, still soft. "It's…" He grinned now. "Shadow."
"Shadow…?" Talon's image asked.
"You're damned right, you lowlife." Shadow sneered. Amy looked behind the guards… And there was Shadow and Knuckles.
"How did…?" Sonic looked at Tails.
"I saw Knuckles. And I figured he'd be with him. Shadow and Miserie…they were created together. So Maybe…Shadow can stop this."
Shadow grinned. "This will be no problem." He said. But Amy was worried.
If Sahdow didn't do what he had to do right, they would all be dead!
If Shadow doesn't figure out how to get the Ultamite power, will everyone die...?