Ch 23: Showdown with a Demon
"We need to get to the center tower, Sonic has to be there, Its the source of this dark energy." Tails yelled over the fighting they were in. There are many soldiers, hedge-knights, and metal hedgehogs. Tails, May, and Shadow are fighting with fire in their hearts. With the help of her armor, May can actually match Tails and Shadow.
"Ok, lets go then. Chaos Control!" Suddenly all the enemies fell to the ground. The metals all exploded. "Let's move!"
They arrive at the main entrance to the tower. There is a huge hedge-knight blocking the way. It appears to be the grand cross warrior from the holy island, Bruiser. He's still big and stupid though. "Gwahaaha. Your not going anywhere small fry. Your gonna be flat in a minute."
"Oh, I'm soooo scared." Said Tails sarcastically. "I'll take you down myself." Tails charged at Bruiser, but he stopped just before he got there. Bruiser had crashed down a huge hammer with spikes into the floor. "Whoa."
"Don't underestimate me ya little runt, I'm not as slow as you think I am." He instantly pulled the hammer out of the ground and started to spin it around. He was using his feet booster to stay off the ground. Then a booster came out of the end of the hammer. He started spinning faster until you couldn't see him very well. It started heading towards Tails.
"Holy crap, is he crazy?" Tails waited for him to stop, but he just kept going. "That's enough." Tails shot an ice beam at him. He was instantly frozen. Bruiser started wobbling and then fell over. In a few seconds he broke free. He tried to strike Tails with the hammer again. When it hit the ground, Tails jumped up and ran up the hammer and hit Bruiser really hard on the head. It seemed to work pretty good. Bruiser is out cold.
"Good job Tails, now lets continue." They run into the door and go up the curved stairway. They make it to the second floor. There is a big metal door across from them. Tails runs across the room and touches the door. Then something happened, Tails was on the floor for no reason. Shadow runs over to him. "Tails, what's wrong, c'mon get up. This isn't funny."
"I...I...ca...n't...mo..ve..." Tails was paralyzed.
"Hahahaa, Your so stupid fox. It'll be your undoing." Suddenly another hedge-knight appeared. He is a grey hedgehog, wearing a dark blue tech cloth, and White and blue tech armor. His armor is basically just like Falcner's except not as good, and it's white and blue. The helmet is sleeker also. It covers the top center spine and the bottom right and left ones. There are no added spikes on the forehead on the helmet. His whole armor is built for speed. He has jets on his feet like the rest, but he has three jets on his back. "Allow me to introduce myself, I am called Mach. I'm the second in command of the grand cross. That door has a paralysis current running through it, anyone that touches it will be paralyzed for 3 minutes. Now I'm going to kill you."
"Hold it right there, your fight is with me first." Shadow stands up and faces Mach. "Your going down. Chaos Control!" Nothing happened. "Huh, what is this...I cant use chaos control."
"This tower is under a seal that prevents anyone from using any form of time control. We know about you, Shadow. and your nothing without your special trick." Mach disappears and hits Shadow, it sends him flying into the wall. He gets up like nothing happened.
"Your fast, but you don't know what your dealing with. I'm the Ultimate Lifeform, and you will lose." Shadow charges at him and then vanishes. He is going really fast. Mach vanishes also. Suddenly Shadow is on the floor. "Nice try." Shadow punches the air and Mach reappears holding his stomach. Mach flashes past Shadow, but in a few seconds Shadow kicks behind him, but he gets punched from the front and falls down. Shadow is getting beat up pretty badly at a high speed. "I've had enough." Shadow becomes silver and glows white. Shadow grabs Mach by the neck in a split second.
"But...how...did you. Without the emeralds..." Mach looks very frightened.
"I told you, I am the ultimate Lifeform, Shadow the hedgehog. And now your done." Shadow just punches him and he goes flying through the wall and into another part of the castle. Shadow goes normal again. He looks over to see Tails and May hugging. "I told him didn't I, but he didn't listen."
"Shadow, thanks for the help. We gotta keep going." Tails opens the door this time without freezing up. They are another floor up and there is someone in the center of the room. It's Lena, she has her armor on this time. It's all pink. Her tech-cloth is red. She looks pretty average in strength.
"Huh, how'd you get this far. Who are you people? He should have finished you off! Hey, soldier over there, kill them, while I leave." Lena was talking to May.
"Are you talking to me?"
"Yes, of course I'm talking to you! Now finish them off like a good soldier."
"Uh, I'm with them you Idiot!" May is just looking at her. "I'm Tails' girlfriend."
"Hahahaa, your his girlfriend. Well, I guess filth like to stick together. Guess I have no choice but to kill you three." Lena pulls out two swords that are electrically charged. "I challenge tramp girl to a duel."
"Why should we, all three of us will take you down. Oka-" Tails was about to finish when May stopped him.
"No, I will fight her." May extends her pole weapon. Each blade on the end glows with energy. "She needs to watch her mouth."
"Watch my mouth, Im just stating the truth. Nobody tells The most beautiful woman what to say. I bet I could even take him away from you. Your just an ugly little-" Before she could finish May whacked her across the face. There is a cut on Lena's cheek. "You cut my face, NOW YOU DIE!" She starts a flurry of strikes at May. She is dodging most of them. The swords are clashing against the pole. The fight looks like a dance. They are going nowhere. May suddenly rolls under Lena and strikes her in the back. It knocks her down. There are sparks coming out of her armor.
"You may be pretty, but your weak, why did they even put you on the team?" May is about to hit her some more when she teleports out of the room. "Wow, I win."
"Way to go May. You did great." Tails goes over to May and gives her a kiss. "She was all talk and no action. Well we gotta finish this. Up one more floor." They all run through the door and up to the last floor. "Cinos, your tyranny ends here."
"Well, Tails I'm surprised you made it this far. You sure are dedicated to defeating me." A demonic voice said. "You realize you will die here. Go, destroy him."
Falcner appeared out of know where. "This'll be the last time Cinos will see your face. I've been waiting for this moment for ages." Falcner turns around and faces Cinos. "I will be king once again."
"Wait, I'm confused...What about us." Tails asked.
"WHAT, you think you can stop us, Falcner. I will personally destroy you first." Suddenly four people appeared in the room.
"Cinos, we're sorry, we couldn't defeat them. But we will work together to destroy them." Said Lena.
"You...failed me. Now you will all die." In a split second The four grand-cross warriors exploded into nothing. "And your next Falcner." Cinos was about to strike, but Tails went up to him. This caught Cinos off guard. "You think you can stop me. Muahahaa."
"Sonic, don't you remember me, Tails, your best bud. Please stop this madness." Tails has tears is his eyes.
"I remember you, but I'm afraid I hate you. I have unlimited power now, and I will destroy all in my path." Cinos hit Tails and Falcner and they shot into the walls. "I've been glad to be away from earth. I was getting fed up with you and everybody else. And I hope Eggman destroys them all."
"No, Your not Sonic, you imposter. He would never say things like that." Tails is really crying now.
"Oh...I am Sonic, you just don't really know me, I never liked you, you could never do anything by yourself. Your so weak. You don't even know when there is a trap. This is my revenge for you being so stupid. All of this is your fault, you caused your friends to all die, your wasting your time. You cant cure me because I have been like this forever." Tails falls to his knees with more tears in his eyes.
"It's all my fault, just kill me now. I don't deserve to live..." Tails falls to the ground and doesn't even try to get up.
"Tails? What are you saying. You can't just give up." Shadow looked at him. "Cinos, your going to pay for all you've done. I see right through your lies. Your not Sonic. Well not anymore." Shadow turns super and glows brightly. "It ends here, Cinos." Shadow Flies towards Cinos with the speed of lightning. They are fighting super fast, Unfortunately Cinos is winning. "Such power, how did you get it?" Cinos lands a punch on Shadows back. It sends him flying into and through the wall. Cinos goes after him out of the castle. "I have no choice, Time to go hyper."
"There you are, Shadow. Your such a fake hedgehog. Your power is old and faded." He goes to hit Shadow but is bounced off. "What. You cant have more power can you." Black clouds start coming with lightning everywhere. A bolt hits Cinos and sends him back. He keeps being sent back until he is 50 feet away. Shadow starts glowing brightly brighter than the sun. The ground begins shaking and parts of the castle get destroyed by lightning. Shadow is now flashing the many dark colors and glowing brightly. His eyes are white for a few seconds. "Im...possible...how..."
Back inside the castle Tails is still laying on the floor. May is by him. "C'mon Tails, please get up. Shadow is right, Cinos is tricking you, he's not the real Sonic. Please, you've got to try, for me. For yourself...please. I don't want you to die. Shadow is holding him off, He can't beat him alone. Please..."
"I just, froze. Hearing him say all that. He sounded like it was true." May leans down and kisses him.
"He was bluffing, now please help Shadow. I'll help, along with Falcner."
"Ok, but I need some time to charge up my power." Tails gets up and focuses his Crystal sword.
Outside the battle is raging madly. Cinos has his hands full fighting Shadow. The only part of the castle that is left is the main tower. Shadow is already tired even in his hyper form. "I cant keep this up for much longer." He continues to fight Cinos.
"Your already losing power. Now it's time to finish this." Cinos starts gathering more power than ever. Dark energy starts surrounding him. He is about to vaporize Shadow with the dark energy when he stops suddenly. "What is that energy? No...not Tails. I thought he gave up...I have to kill him now." Cinos starts blasting towards the tower.
"Damn, I can't let him get to Tails." Shadow races toward Cinos. He's not gonna make it in time. There is too much of a gap between them. Cinos blasts open the wall. Tails is gathering power still. May and Falcner are using their armor to create a barrier around Tails.
"Oh no you don't. Die." Cinos launches an energy blast right at May. It sends her into the wall and destroys her armor. She looks like it was too much for her body to handle. The tech cloth is badly burned and ripped in small spots. May's breathing stops.
"MAY...no." Tails looks at her.
"You bastard, Now you've gone too far!" Shadow is super mad. He is glowing red all over. He grabs on to Cinos. "CHAOS...BLAST!" Suddenly there is a huge red explosion that engulfs Shadow and Cinos only. Shadow uses his last energy to keep the explosion enclosed. The energy is too much and the fake emerald also explodes. There is a ton of smoke everywhere. After the smoke clears only Falcner and Tails are standing up. Cinos is on the ground along with Shadow. They both look dead. But Cinos starts moving a little.
"Your still alive, even after Shadow sacrificed himself...after all the lives you destroyed...What you did to May. Can never be forgiven." Suddenly white energy appears all over Tails' body. The light glows brighter and brighter. He holds both his hands in front of him. "Goodbye...Sonic." A light shot directly at Cinos and it covered the entire room. The energy has engulfed the entire tower.
"NOOOOOOOOOO...AHHHHHH!" The demonic cries come from Cinos' body. The white light fades. Tails drops to the ground crying.
"I did it, but...May...Shadow. I have failed them." But then Tails heard something that made him look up. The sound came from the wall behind him. "May...your alive." Tails runs towards her. She is still very tired looking like she just woke up. She has tears flowing down her cheeks.
"T-tai-ls...look...blue hedgehog..." May falls asleep after saying this. Tails turns around and sees Sonic laying there. The seven chaos emeralds are all around him, laying on the ground. Tails runs over to him. He sees that he is breathing.
"Man, my head hurts." Tails quickly turned around. Shadow is sitting up and holding his head.
"Your...alive too. But I don't understand. How?" Tails looks at his sword. "The holy power. It saved them."
"It looks like you saved us. That explosion I made. I lost all control of myself." Shadow gets up and walks over to Tails. Suddenly there is a rumbling. They look up at a huge demonic cloud with 2 red angry eyes.
"THis is FaR fRoM OvEr, YoU HaVeNt seEn tHe LaSt oF mE." The cloud went straight up into space and left. It's warped voice sounded weak and angry at the same time. Then more rumbling is happening.
"The whole place is collapsing." Said Falcner. He pick up May and gives her to Tails to carry. "Hurry, Lets go."
"What about Sonic?" Tails yelled over the loud noise.
"Don't worry I'll get him. Tails, Falcner...just go, I'll catch up." Shadow runs back to Sonic and picks him up. "I'll save you, but don't you dare get possessed ever again. Chaos Control." Shadow vanishes with all the emeralds. He reappears at the Tornado3 at the gate of the castle. In just a few minutes Tails joins him with May in his arms.
"We can just stay here for a while. I Talked to Falcner. He plans to reverse all the bad things Cinos had caused. He's gonna tell the people that Cinos has been destroyed. Were going to the hospital wing in this castle." Shadow put the chaos emeralds in the Tornado3 and one in the engine. They all go to the hospital wing and set Sonic and May in a bed. After a day May is fully healed and walking.
"Tails, When do you think Sonic will wake up?" Said May curiously.
"I don't know, but I wouldn't worry about it, he should wake up soon. I'm just glad its finally over." Tails sits on one of the beds.
"Tails, I'm glad you came here. I love you." May got on the bed and layed her head on his lap.
"Now we can be together without any worry. No one will hurt you ever again." Tails leans over and kisses her on the lips for a while. "Just have to wait and see where life takes us." They just hold eachother in the hospital room for the rest of the sunny day.
-Fin-
All SEGA characters belong to SonicTeam. I do not own them in any way or form (Or id be rich). The terms Sonic the hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Amy Rose, Knuckles the echidna, Rouge the bat, Shadow the hedgehog, Dr. Ivo Robotnik, Maria Robotnik, Professor Gerald Robotnik, Chaos Emeralds, Master Emerald, Super emerald, Metal Sonic, Space colony Ark, All belong to SonicTeam.
The terms Sol sine, Grand cross hedgeknights, Master Zuyen, Kaida the fox, Morgan the fox, May Mizuki, Crystal Sword, Milar Prower, Mia Prower, King Cinos, Falcner the hedgeknight, Mach the hedgeknight, Necro the hedgeknight, Bruiser the hedgeknight, Silia the hedgeknight, and Lena the hedgeknight are all mine. I made them up so they belong to me. This story cannot be used anywhere but what is gonna happen. You cant be done i need more." Said Tails.
"I'm the author, don't worry, there will be a sequel soon. Maybe within the next 2 weeks." Stated Jimthefox.