Chapter 63; supernova hatred, facing the past
Luke, Ruff, Shadow, Storm and Rouge entered the abandoned underground metro station. Following the tunnels they found a secret passage leading to a huge underground arena. Tails was there with black eyes and an evil smile.
"Your silly little games end here. You won't help your comrades anymore!"
"Father!" Luke said in despair "stop this madness. You're gonna destroy the world just to sadden Sonic's ancient self?"
"Yes! He shall feel the despair I felt that day!"
"Not if I have anything to say about it." Ruff said activating his duel disc.
"You don't want to fight me kid. Only the king can beat me if he could fight me."
"Don't listen to him" good Tails' voice was heard.
"Shut up! I'm in control not you!" Evil Tails said.
"I have already told you countless times. You can do whatever you want. My bonds with my friends and family can't be broken, least of all by hatred".
"I said shut up!" Evil Tails screamed silencing good Tails and then activating his duel disc as well.
"DUEL!"
"My turn! I discard junk converter to add junk synchron from my deck to my hand. Then I summon it and revive junk converter with its effect. Next I summon due to its own effect doppelwarrior! I tune junk synchron and doppelwarrior! Synchro summon! Race with me to victory junk speeder! I activate its effect as chain link 1 and my doppelwarrior's ability as chain link 2.
"Not gonna happen. I want let you spam synchro monsters! I activate infinite impermanence which slows down your speeder's effect so no tuner will be summoned!"
"Oh no! Fine then plan b. I summon 2 tokens due to the effect of my doppelwarrior. Then I use one of them. Link summon! Appear! Linkuriboh! Now with all 4 of my monsters I link summon apollousa bow of the goddess!"
"Impossible! You don't have that!"
"No. But my mother has it!"
"And what I have is also my children's belonging" Rouge said proud.
"Damn you. But it won't matter in the end!"
"I end my turn".
"I draw. Time to unleash my true power! First I discard a monster in our case red resonator to summon power giant! When power giant is summoned like this he loses level equal to the discarded monster so 2 which makes him a level 4. Next I summon mad archfiend! I overlay both of my monsters! Xyz summon! Rise from your evil lair! Outer entity nyarla!"
"Oh no! Not that!" Ruff said scared.
"I build the overlaying network with my nyarla! Xyz change! Appear! Outer entity azzathot! And now that he has appeared, your apollousa cannot activate her effect to counter me!"
"No!"
"Next I activate the spell xyz alchemy! By banishing an xyz monster I draw cards equal to its xyz materials! Azzathot has 3 so I draw 3! Next I activate the spell card command resonator! By discarding dark resonator I can add wandering king whirlwind from my deck to my hand! Now prepare to witness the power of my hatred! I have no monsters so I special summon crimson resonator!"
"Crimson resonator?!" Ruff said in shock "What is that?"
"Tails grew more powerful the same way Sonic did in his duel with Miles" Shadow murmured in horror.
"Now I play double summon to summon wandering king whirlwind! Now it's time to unleash the flames of hell! I tune crimson resonator and wandering king together! Scorch my opponents with your undying flames of rage! Synchro summon! Arise! Red rising dragon! Now for his effect! I can revive a resonator from my graveyard! welcome back crimson resonator! And now for my resonator's second effect! I can summon 2 resonator monsters from my deck since I control only a dark dragon synchro apart from my resonator! Say hello to creation resonator and synchron resonator! And now! It's time for you all to witness the full power of my hatred!" He screamed as his mark started shining brighter than ever starting an earthquake.
"What the hell?!" Rouge said in shock "Ruff get out of there!"
But he didn't hear her. Because he was frozen in terror.
In the jungle were Amy and her team were seeing the tribe preparing for the feast, their marks suddenly started unleashing the same blue shine as Tails'. The whole tribe looked at them in shock.
"What is going on?!" Aurora screamed in terror.
"I feel…. Hate!" Amy answered in pain "Tails is unleashing his hate!"
"Oh no! Luke Ruff!" Evelyn said realizing that they were taking on Tails.
At the same time inside the tree when Sonic and his team were sleeping, Sonic and Knuckles' marks also started shining illuminating the entire inside of the tree.
"Father you ok?!" Miles asked him in horror.
"It's Tails! He is using his hatred to fight!"
"Oh no! This can't end well can it?" Marianna said in shock.
Tails' unleashed a dark red aura. He was screaming as his hatred engulfed him.
"It's time to go even further beyond than double tuning! I tune red rising dragon, creation resonator, synchron resonator and crimson resonator! With 3 tuners! TRIPLE TUNING!"
"Triple tuning?!" the entire team screamed in shock.
"RULER AND DEVIL BECOME ONE! UNLEASH THE DARKNESS OF HELL ON MY OPPONENTS AND ENGULF THEM WITH IT! SYNCHRO SUMMON! BEHOLD THE ULTIMATE MONSTER OF DESPAIR AND DARKNESS! RED SUPERNOVA DRAGON!"
"Supernova dragon?!" Ruff said trembling as he witnessed the arrival of red supernova dragon.
"It's over fool! Now you will experience all my wrath! What Sonic experienced by my good self's hatred when you all got your powers will be nothing compared to what you will go through at the hands of my dragon! You can't destroy it with effects! and now with my tuners resting in the graveyard it will receive 500 for each one! Supernova! Attack apollousa! Supernova blast!"
"AAAAAAH!" (Ruff LP 5700)
"I end my turn! Surrender to me before I decide to take this too far!"
"Never! I won't let you end this world! I draw! I summon forth junk synchron! Your monster may not be able to be destroyed by effects. But I have several synchros ready to outmaneuver it! With my synchron's effect I revive my converter! Now I tune them together! synchro summon! Race with me Junk speeder! I activate his ability!"
"I told you to stop! But you didn't listen! This is the end! Prepare to meet your doom! I activate the ability of my supernova dragon! If you activate a monster effect he banishes himself until the end of my next turn! Then all your field is wiped out!"
"What?!"
Supernova dragon flew high and then seismic tossed himself on Ruff's board banishing his junk speeder whose effect was negated.
"It can't be."
"End your turn. You have no move left!"
"I… I end my turn."
"Time to end this! I draw! I play pot of desires! I banish the top 10 cards of my deck to draw 2! Perfect! I summon once again crimson resonator! And then I play monster reborn! Come forth again! red rising dragon! Crimson resonator! Invoke dark resonator and barrier resonator from my deck! TRIPLE TUNING! SYNCHRO SUMMON! RISE AGAIN! RED SUPERNOVA DRAGON! AND NOW FAR STRONGER THAN EVER! "
"It's over… mom I'm sorry I wasn't strong enough" Ruff said dropping his tears.
"No! Tails stop this!" Rouge screamed.
"HE HAD HIS CHANCE! SUPERNOVA BLAST! AND BECAUSE YOU MADE ME MAD HERE! HAVE A PUMP UP SPELL TO TAKE 14000 DAMAGE!"
The moment the supernova blast was about to strike Ruff he raised his hand.
"I activate the ability of my copycat expert handtrap! I discard it to copy the effect of a monster in my deck by banishing it! I choose.. chthonian soldier!"
"WHAT?!" Tails screamed in shock.
"Ruff no!" Rouge screamed.
"I can't win mom! But I can take him down with me!"
And then the blast engulfed him. Luke couldn't hear anything anymore from the shock. He witnessed as Tails lost his life points but his mark prevented him from taking any real damage. Ruff on the other hand went flying and crashed on the wall behind him. When the earth stopped shaking and the supernova dragon disappeared, they saw Tails had vanished from a secret exit. They all rushed to Ruff. Rouge tried in vain to wake him up. Luke told Shadow and Storm to keep her back as he looked for Ruff's pulse. But there was no pulse. At that moment his breath started almost froze inside his body. He could barely breathe. With a lot of effort he turned to the other 3.
"He… he won't wake up… ever again" he said before his voice broke.
The whole underground and the tunnels were flooded by Rouge's scream of despair and sadness.
At the jungle T-bone felt it as soon as the marks stopped glowing.
"Ruff…" he said as tears started screaming down his face.
"T-bone what is it?" Aurora asked him.
"My brother….. he is dead!" he said hugging Aurora and sobbing.
"It can't be…. Ruff… is dead? He lost?" Aurora said as her tears dropped as well.
Both Amy's team and Sonic's team were left stunned by the realization. Knuckles was a wreck. He was sitting on the side of the inside of the tree just looking in front of him without really seeing. Amy and her team left the tribe village for a while to mourn for their fallen friend alone. It all felt meaningless now. Finding the answers they were seeking… having ancient Sonic forgiven… what would it matter anymore? Ruff was gone. Both teams were ready to give up but they received a call each. Sonic received a call from Rouge.
"Hello?" he said unable to speak her name.
"Sonic" she said.
"Rouge I… I'm sorry. It's my fault. I carry the mistakes of my ancient self. It's my fault Ruff is gone. I.."
"Shut up and listen! Do not dare to give up. Ruff died a hero's death to save me and the others from Tails' wrath. So you better make sure his sacrifice isn't in vain! Find forgiveness and save the world! That's what Ruff wanted and died believing in."
"Rouge… I will!" he said giving the phone to Knuckles as they had nothing more to say and he needed to hear his wife's words. He then turned to old Sticks.
"What is the second test?!"
"You must go south this time. You will find a cave. Inside it there will be a small pond. Take the crystal with you. Having passed the first test it contains your worst and best attributes. You must enter the water with the crystal. If the waters accept you, you will be sent to a dimension between our world and the afterlife. There the spirits of my king's subjects will be waiting. The king must confront them and ask for their forgiveness. If he successfully makes peace with their souls the second test will have been passed."
"Very well. Let's go team" Sonic said as they all started walking towards the cave.
At the jungle Amy and her team received a call from Luke.
"Hello?" she said between sobs.
"Aunt Amy it's Luke."
"Luke… is Rouge ok?"
"She is fine. An emotional wreck but fine. We let her alone to mourn. But she called Sonic and ordered that he proceeds with the plan. She didn't have the courage to call you to say the same so she asked me. Do not stop. Find the answers. Ruff died for his hope to save the world. Let's not let him down."
"Amy was deeply moved "We will not let him down" she said closing the phone. She turned to her team.
"We will not let Ruff's sacrifice go in vain! We will beat Nibiru! Whatever it takes!"
"Whatever it takes!" they all said.
They made their way back to the village unaware that Wild Flower heard their statement that they would stop Nibiru.
Back home the Luke and the others took Ruff's body to Knuckles and Rouge's house. It was exactly as Tails was in the duel with Sonic when he was possessed by Nazo and the god cards. Wounds all over his body and burns all over his skin. Luke felt guilt that he didn't stand his ground and fight his father himself. Soon enough his mother Cosmo came.
"Luke are you ok?" she asked him while hugging him.
"I'm fine mom" he said wiping a tear.
"What about your father?"
"He escaped".
"I understand. How is Rouge?"
"Devastated".
"I'll go see her later then" she said about to go and get a glass of water when she saw Luke wiping another tear.
"Luke why are you crying?"
"It should have been me who fought dad. Ruff took my place because of my deck being weaker now. I shouldn't have let him" he looked at his friend's body "this should have been me" he said releasing his tears.
Cosmo saw what he was going through.
"It wasn't your fault sweetheart. It was your father's evil version's fault. You have to stay strong. Your team needs you more than ever now. Sonic made you leader of this team. You have to be strong".
Those were just the words Luke needed to hear. He hugged his mother and then sat down and closed his eyes trying to put his head in order.
Meanwhile Sonic and his team made it the cave. Sonic, Knuckles and young Sticks entered the cave as she was needed to help him enter the other dimension. Miles and Marianna remained outside.
Inside the cave there were crystals on the walls casting some light in the darkness. Eventually they reached the end of the cave where a small pond was. Sonic took off his clothes as Knuckles and Sticks turned around for it and entered the water. It was cold. Sticks handed him the crystal.
"Are you ready?" she asked him.
Truth was he wasn't. But he didn't hesitate.
"Yes"
"Alright. Put the crystal in the water."
Sonic put it in the water as Sticks pointed her staff at him and chanted for a moment. Suddenly bolts of blue lightning came out of the water and entered Sonic's body.
"AAAH! AAAAH!" he screamed as each bolt hit him like a knife made of lava.
"Sonic are you ok?!" Knuckles screamed at him.
Sonic kept releasing cries of pin as hiss eyes rolled to the back of his head. He felt he would faint when suddenly he found himself dressed again in a weird place next to ancient Sonic. It was like they were standing in the middle of space on a white platform.
"Woah. Is this the afterlife?" Sonic asked his ancient self.
"No. It must be the dimension the archpriest talked about."
"But where are your subjects?" modern Sonic asked him.
Suddenly they saw the same forms of spirits that appeared on top of the duel tower appearing in front of them they took the forms of people dressed in ancient Egyptian clothes. Sonic managed to notice some of his friends in ancient clothing theorizing they were their versions of the past. He also noticed ancient Sonic's appearance shifting from a copy of modern Sonic to the costume of a pharaoh. Sonic knew his ancient self had to do this alone. Ancient Sonic took a step forward.
"My subjects…."
"My king" ancient Knuckles said with modern Sonic suspecting he was some kind of general.
"So Tails' hatred caught to you my lord?" ancient Amy asked him. She was dressed like a queen.
"Yes." Ancient Sonic said looking down.
"You doomed everyone in the future with your actions!" Ancient Jet screamed at him. He was also dressed royally.
"My brother.." ancient Sonic tried to say.
"Brother?" modern Sonic thought "I and Jet existed as brothers at one point in time? That's new".
"You doomed them and us!" Ancient wave screamed.
"My people… I'm sorry. I made a lot of mistakes. Nazo made me think I should be a conqueror rather than a king. I created the illusionary beasts lying to myself it was for the defense of our country. In reality I was planning to kill everyone of our enemies. I'm sorry. I don't deserve to ask for this but… please forgive me. It's my fault of what happened to me and Tails and all of you. Not my future self's. He has become what I wasn't. A loving, caring and loyal man, friend, husband and father. He has time and time put his life at stake for everything he loves. He doesn't deserve to die because of that creature called Nibiru. Please forgive me. Forgive me so he can save the world and his world."
Sonic was moved by his words. But his ancient self's people weren't that much.
"Why do we have to end our hatred for you? You destroyed us all. If it wasn't for your son back then the nation would have ended after your death!" Jet screamed at him.
"Give us one good reason we should end our hatred and we will end it." Knuckles mocked him.
Ancient Sonic was about to beg them when he noticed a man on their left sitting down hugging his legs looking to the horizon with an empty face. Both Sonics approached him despite the ancient egyptians' challenges. When they saw his face they felt like electricity stroke both of them.
"Ruff?!" Sonic said in shock.
Outside the cave Miles and Marianna were sitting on the ground hugging and mourning for Ruff.
"I just don't know anymore if it will be worth saving everyone. Without Ruff…. I always saw us all as the next legendary duelist team. But now…"
"It's gonna be ok Miles. He would not want us to live in sadness. So I'm not planning to."
"I love you" he said kissing her "and as for the kid… I say if we make it out of this alive… maybe we could give it our fallen friend's name."
"That would be great" Marianna said.
"Too bad you won't live to give birth to your child!" an unfamiliar voice said.
Miles and Marianna looked and saw a man filled with scratches and bandages and with his right eye covered in a patch like a pirate, pointing a gun at them.
"Who are you what do you want?!" Miles said when he saw the gun.
"To end your father."
"What? You're the hitman?! Knuckles said he disposed of you."
"Yeah he did alright. Dropped me at the fangs of a tiger. I barely made it out alive. So I will dispose of him too."
"Why are you doing this?! We're trying to save the world from the rock coming from space to end all life. If you kill us you will die too in 4 days!" Marianna said.
"I don't care! I only care for the giant amount of money I will receive once I'm through with all of you. Life is of no use to me."
"You're sick!" Miles said blocking the entrance to the cave.
"Get out of the way kid. I don't have to kill you too."
"You are not getting to my father!"
"Too bad" he said raising his gun "I gave you a chance too" and pulled the trigger.
Knuckles kept watching helplessly as Sonic was hit by the lightning bolts. Suddenly one of the bolts flew outside of the cave and shattered the bullet heading for Miles then hit the hitman's gun causing him to drop it. The bolt also activated his duel disc.
"A duel disc?! Perfect! Duel me!" Miles said activating his own.
"As you wish. Prepare to face a power beyond anything you have ever seen!"
"Duel!"
"I'll start this! I activate from my hand the field spell ignister Ailand! Next I use its effect since I control no monsters in the main monster zones I can summon forth pikari ignister! With its ability I add aidle reborn from my deck to my hand! Now I use my pikari for link summon! Appear linguriboh! Now since my field effect can be activated over and over I'll use it again! Link summon! Appear! Achichi ignister! With achichi's effect I add bururu ignister from my deck to my hand! Then I link summon with linguriboh and achichi! Link summon! Appear! Cyberse widkid! Ignister Ailand effect again! Come forth bururu ignister! With bururu's effect I send doyon ignister from my deck to my graveyard! Link summon again! widkid and bururu make way for dark Templar ignister! Next my field spell activates again! I summon forth doshin ignister! Next because I summoned it to my templar's link I summon forth as many cyberses as I can from the graveyard to his links! But I chain linguriboh's effect in my graveyard! it tributes doshin to revive itself! Now I can summon 3 monsters! I summon forth pikari achichi and bururu! I link summon knightmare phoenix with bururu and linguriboh."
"What are you going for? Apollousa wind Pegasus and light dragon? You're gonna lose this way."
"No. I was given something more from my client for this! I activate aidle reborn to summon back doyon. Doyon's effect revives bururu. Next I link summon again! this time knightmare phoenix and doyon will make way for knightmare Cerberus! And now! Because I control an ignister monster I can summon hiyari ignister from my hand!"
"So you got a monster of each attribute on the field. Now what will you… wait… no! not that!"
"Yes! I link summon with ALL of my monsters treating dark Templar and Cerberus as link ones!"
"What?!"
"When the six attributes become one the ultimate deity shall descend to this world! Link summon! Descend! The Arrival Cyberse ignister!"
"No!" Miles screamed in horror.
"Miles? How powerful is this thing?!" Marianna asked him worried.
"It gains 1000 points for every different attribute he used! He used all 6!"
"6000 attack points! And it is unaffected by all effects! There is nothing you can do but squirm against it!"
"No! I will beat it!"
"As you wish! I end my turn with two face downs!"
"My turn. I draw. Your monster has a fatal flaw. It's very weak to kaiju monsters!"
"You think I don't know that? I activate my continuous trap! Mask of restrict!"
"You gotta be kidding me! Fine I set a card to the same column as the Arrival. Then I summon forth mekk knight indigo eclipse in defense mode in the same column. Then thanks to his effect he moves to a different column opening the previous one for another knight! Come forth blue sky! I use his effect. I add mekk knights to my hand up to the number of your cards in his column. The arrival is there so I add purple nightfall. Now I use…"
"I activate my other set! Summon limit! We're both restricted to 2 summons each! And you just used up yours!"
"No way!"
"Yes way! and you left your blue sky in attack mode. Too bad."
"I end my turn."
"I draw! I activate the arrival's effect! Once per turn it destroys a monster on the field and summons a token to my side! I destroy indigo eclipse! Now Arrival! Attack blue sky! Ultima attribution!"
"AAAAAAAAHHHH!" (Miles LP 4000)
"Miles are you ok?" Marianna asked him.
"I'm fine…. But this thing.. it's too strong…."
"I set a card and end my turn".
"And his has all these floodgate traps to slow me down even more. How do I get out of this mess?"
"It's your turn kid."
"Fine. I draw. I summon Aleister the invoker. Thanks to his effect I can add invocation to my hand."
"I activate my set card. Vanity's emptiness!"
"WHAT?! You cheater! This is forbidden!"
"I play with my own rules! Now you can't special summon!"
"Damnit. I play the spell card spellbook of knowledge. By sending aleister to the graveyard I draw 2 cards. Then I…."
"Out of moves kid?"
"Damnit. I can't special summon my mekk knights or my invoked monsters. How do I win?"
"Stop wasting my time and play already."
"I set a monster and end my turn."
"Fine then. I draw. The arrival! Destroy that monster and give me a token!"
"Not just yet. The monster you destroyed was insurance seller. When he is sent to the graveyard by an effect I gain LP equal to his defense points so 2100!" (Miles LP 6100)
"So you will survive with just 100 LP. It still doesn't matter! The Arrival! Attack him! ULTIMA ATTRIBUTION!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" (Miles LP 100)
"Miles!" Marianna screamed as he was sent flying and crashed on the rocky surface of the cave's entrance scratching his back a lot.
"I guess this is the end. You're too injured to continue. So I'm just gonna… what?!" he said in shock as Miles stood up with a lot of effort and put his hand on his duel disc ready to draw his next card.
"You still plan to win?!"
"Yes!"
"Idiot! I have 3 floodgates and an invincible monster! What are your odds?!"
"Slim. But I will do it!"
"Fool. I end my turn."
"The truth is" Miles thought "I got no way of beating this monster in my deck. But I can't lose! Everyone is trying their hardest to save the world! I have no right to do any less!"
Back in the cave the bolts of lightning kept striking Sonic's body but he had fainted now. He was just floating on the water eyes closed.
"Is he dead?" Knuckles asked Sticks.
"No. He is on the other side. If he passes the test, he will be back to normal."
"And if not?"
Sticks didn't answer. Knuckles cursed.
"Come on Sonic. You can do this! My son isn't gone for nothing!"
The Sonics were looking at Ruff sitting in front of them with an empty look. Ancient Sonic turned to his people.
"What is he doing here?"
"He came shortly before you arrived."
"Why is he here? He was killed by Tails. He should be in the afterlife."
"What does it matter to you?" ancient Knuckles asked ancient Sonic.
"He is your future self's son!"
Ancient Knuckles looked surprised for a minute but then got calm again.
"More blood in your hands I guess."
"No!" modern Sonic shouted his voice echoing across the dimension.
"What?" ancient Knuckles looked at him.
"This is not on my ancient self's mistakes! Ancient Tails killed him! And you know what?! He is not staying here! He is coming back with me!"
"What did you say?!" ancient Amy screamed at him.
"He is dead. He belongs to the dead!" Ancient Jet added.
"I don't care! I won't let the mistakes of my ancient self take anyone of my friends or our families away!"
"Then we will make you join him!" ancient Wave said as the people of Egypt started walking towards them, Amy Knuckles, Jet and Wave revealing their marks. Ancient Sonic however got up and stood in front of them.
"Out of the way my king." Amy said spitting on speaking the word king.
"No! You can do whatever you want to me. But what my modern self and his friends are going through… I won't let you cause them any harm!"
"You will be punished for what you did to us!" a soldier screamed throwing a spear towards Sonic who was standing next to Ruff. Sonic for a moment feared he would be impaled and closed his eyes. Suddenly he heard a gasp of shock and opened his eyes seeing the blade of the spear inches from his face covered in his ancient self's blood. Ancient Sonic was looking at his people in determination as he grabbed the spear and with a lot of pain removed it.
"What do you think you're doing?!" Ancient Amy screamed.
"What I should have done last time! Protecting my loved ones!" Ancient Sonic screamed back.
This time his people were moved by his selfless bravery. Ancient Amy approached him.
"So… you really have regretted what you've done."
"Yes my love. Please" he said taking her hands "forgive me for everything. Forgive me so I can help my future self save his world."
"I forgive you" she said kissing him. The rest didn't know what to do until Amy turned to them.
"Bow to your king. He deserves our mercy."
Knuckles looked at her for a second then kneeled.
"All hail the pharaoh!"
The rest of ancient Sonic's people kneeled and repeated the phrase. Sonic looked at his ancient self in awe. He had done it. The second test was passed. Ancient Amy turned to modern Sonic.
"I can sense your son fighting close to you. There is a grave danger near you in the world of the living."
"What?! No! Miles! I got to get to him!"
"Don't worry. We will help him. And…" she looked at Ruff "take him too. It isn't his time yet."
"Thank you" modern Sonic said as the whole dimension started turning white.
Sonic opened his eyes and saw he was back in the cave. Knuckles and Sticks were still there. Before they could ask him anything a surge of power was unleashed by Sonic's mark in a form of blue aura.
Back outside the cave Miles felt the aura coming from the cave. He saw a blue ball of energy coming from the inside and merged with the top card of his deck.
"What trickery is this?!" the hitman said in terror.
Miles closed his eyes and saw ancient Sonic with his people. He gave Miles a card.
"Win this"
Miles opened his eyes again and saw he was back on the dueling field holding his drawn card, he looked at it recognizing it as the given card.
"Thanks ancient Sonic" he whispered as he activated the card.
'I activate the spell card lighting storm!"
"Lightning storm?! There is no such card!"
"There is now! It works either as raigeki or harpie's feather duster! I choose haprie's feather duster! All your floodgates are gone!"
"Noooo!"
"Now I tribute your arrival! Come forth! Gameciel the sea turtle kaiju! Next I summon dinowrestler pankratops! And finally! I activate the spell invocation! I remove aleister the invoker from my graveyard and achichi ignister from your graveyard to invoke invoked purgatrio! And there is more! With invocation's effect I return it to the deck and my aleister to my hand! By discarding aleister purgatrio goes to 3300! And because you have 3 monsters he gains even more power 600 more to be precise! He has a grand total of 3900! And the best part! He can attack all your monsters and pierce through defense!"
"No way!"
"Purgatrio! Attack the tokens and gameciel! Flaming inferno!"
"AAAAAAAHH!" (Hitman LP 0)
"You did Miles you won!" Marianna jumped from joy hugging him.
Sonic who had worn his clothes again, Knuckles and Sticks exited the cave and saw the scene.
"You again?!" Knuckles said angry.
The hitman saw Sonic.
"The king! Money here I come!" he said raising his pistol.
Suddenly a growl was heard. They all turned around and saw the same tiger that Knuckles tried to have eat the hitman. The latter got scared to death.
"No! Not you again!" He screamed raising his gun towards it.
"Oh no you don't!" Knuckles screamed throwing a rock to the hitman's hand.
The sound of bone cracking was heard. The hitman screamed grabbing his right hand. The tiger smelled the blood on Miles and started walking angry towards them. In their luck however the hitman grabbed his gun and fired in his horror drawing the tiger's attention again. Taking their chance they ran towards the tree. Sonic looked back for a moment and saw the tiger cutting off the hitman's hand as he screamed in pain. They then started running towards the tree as fast as they could.
Back home as the team where discussing how Ruff's funeral should be should they stop Nibiru when he walked in on them.
"What the hell? You're discussing my funeral? I'm not dead as you can see what sick joke is that?!"
They took a moment to process the situation then all rushed to hug him with tears in their eyes. After the big emotional reunion and confusion on Ruff's part they asked him how he was alive when Tails' rage killed him in their duel. He said he only remembered being in weird place like space and that Sonic dressed like a pharaoh reached out to him along with the rest of the singed ones also dressed like ancient Egyptian residents. Rouge immediately called Sonic who explained the situation and how his ancient self was forgiven by his subjects and that it was him and them who brought Ruff back. Thanking them a million times Rouge hang up and they all partied slightly for Ruff's return. Sonic informed his team of the news and Knuckles started running around like a maniac from happiness. As Miles and Marianna tried to stop him Sonic asked the two Sticks.
"So. I passed the second test. What is the last?"
"You will learn tomorrow."
"I lost the crystal at the cave. Is it needed for the last part?"
"No. It has served its purpose. Now rest. For the hardest test will be tomorrow."
"Ok" Sonic said.
Before that though he headed outside and called Amy.
"Hey Sonic" her voice was heard.
"Amy perfect news! I passed my second test and Ruff is alive!"
"What?! How?!"
They spent half an hour talking with Sonic narrating Amy what happened. After his narration Amy sighed in relief.
"Thank god! Ruff is safe. You're almost there."
"I can see this end of this my love. We're gonna make it! Nibiru can't stop us!"
"We will."
"Just one day left for each of us."
"Sonic wait! The full moon will appear here first! We're gonna learn the answers tonight not tomorrow night!"
"Perfect! Call me when you know ok?!"
"I will!"
"Good night my love. We will make it through."
"Good night. And good luck tomorrow."
Amy closed the phone just as the feast was beginning. She informed her friends of the news. The kids were ecstatic. Wave and Jet were happy as well. With lighter hearts they started dancing with the tribe. It was gonna be a big night. And not pleasant at all.
