IMPORTANT A/N: okay guys here's the last chapter I'm sorry it took so long and I'm sorry if it's a terrible ending but I've got so much to do since I went back to school and all. BUT make sure you read the A/N at the end to see what I'm coming up with next.

(oh and if there are some mistakes in grammer or spelling sorry didn't have much time to check I'm doing my best though.)

Chapter 18: The Final Battle

Shadow held Amy to him tightly lifting his emerald over his head. He looked at Marie. "You ready?"

"Yes." She nodded as she hugged Todd close.

"Do you have to hold on to him that closely?" Shadow remarked.

"DAD!" Marie blushed as she looked away.

"Shadow now's not the time for your fatherly overprotection instincts to take over." Amy scolded.

"Sorry I'm not use to all this touching stuff." He said eyeing Todd with that look of 'I got my eye on you boy'.

Todd only sweat dropped as he held on to Marie. "Here we go." Marie closed her eyes and she disappeared. Shadow and Amy followed after them.

Marie stood still with Todd in front of the entrance to the underground liar. "This is it." She said as she took a deep breath.

Shadow and Amy appeared a moment after them. Marie you must be careful there's no telling what could happen now." Shadow warned her.

"I understand." Marie walked up to the wall and pressed on one of the bricks the wall lifted and the four of them entered the chamber. Marie was somewhat calm looking on the outside but on the inside she was terrified. Her hand clutched around Todd's tightly while her mom and dad followed behind them. They came to the open area at the end of the staircase. They looked around but what really caught their attention was Knuckles and Rouge. They were chained to a wall on the other side of the room.

"Mom Dad?" Todd ran across the room followed by Marie.

"Wait!" Shadow yelled but to no avail they didn't stop. "Amy be on your guard."

Todd pulled the gag from his mothers mouth as Marie worked to the same for his father. Rouge gasped. "Get out Todd it's trap!"

"What?" They said in unions.

Suddenly all four of the new intruders were floating in the air each unable to move. Marie knew what it was. "Chase."

"What did you say?" Todd looked at her from the corner of his eye.

"She's talking about me." Chase stepped down from some stairs as she entered the room from another corridor. "I'm her lover." He said with a slick grin.

"Who the hell are you?" Todd yelled.

"I'm Chase. I'm the reason Marie's been ignoring you the past couple of months."

"What?" Todd asked confused.

"Marie always had a soft spot for me didn't you?" He moved his index finger in a monition that meant come, it caused Marie's body to move to the open space right in front of him. "Although I soon found I had competition for her affections." He looked at Todd harshly. "I couldn't have you getting any the way." "I knew that Marie liked me I just had to find a way to get her to hate you and then she'd be under my exploitation." "It was all too easy really." He circled Todd. "It only took me one shot to take you out of the picture." "I knew that Marie was insanely jealous of any other girl that would even look in your direction." "It was so simple manipulating that girl into kissing you like that and Marie just happened to be in plain sight of it all." He smirked looking over his shoulder at Marie. "You're so distrusting." "And after seeing such a display of betrayal I just be there for her when she needed me and so she was mine."

"And yet you lost her and she hates you now." Todd smirked. "She'll never love you."

"She would if I hadn't allowed her to find out the truth. She was no longer needed so there was no reason for me to keep up the charade." Chase said a bit of tenacity in his voice.

"Charade?" Marie looked at him. "What is this all about Chase why have you been doing this to me and if you don't need me why are you still doing it!"

"I think I should answer that question." Kent stood in a large doorway his arms folded across his chest. "I think I should explain considering I now have my results."

"Who are you?" Marie questioned as she looked at the stranger.

"I'm the one in control of this little experiment."

"Experiment?" Shadow was the first to speak this time. "What do mean experiment."

"Ah you must be Project Shadow." "It's a pleasure." Kent walked up to Shadow. "So you're the mysterious Shadow are you. I've read a lot about you in the government files."

"What do you want with my daughter?"

"Oh yes your offspring actually caused a lot of trouble with my experimentations." He looked at their confused expressions. "Let me elaborate." He made a motion to Chase who then snapped his fingers and a wall flipped revealing Sonic who was chained to the wall. "This is who most of this is about it's about him."

"Sonic." Amy gasped.

"Amy…" Sonic lifted his head up slightly he looked at her and then at Marie. "Amy…"

"He's suppose to be dead!" Amy screamed.

"Yes that's what everyone thinks isn't it." "Well it just so happens that the government was working on a little project at the time of Sonic's death." "We wanted to be able to program minds to do as we pleased." "To be able to have unquestioning creature to do our biding and one who'll take out any target." "The project was in a DNA stance as it were and our scientist need someone one test it on." "And you see we thought who better than Sonic the hedgehog." "And we were lucky enough to acquire his corpus." "As you can see the tests worked fine." "Now the last phase was testing his new internal DNA resignation." "Now to why this is I have no idea but his mind was constantly overshadowed by a strange desire to find someone." "After a deeper examination we found that the person he was so infatuated with was none other than you." He pointed to Amy. "You Amy Rose." "But we weren't going to let this stop us." "We simply made you his DNA target which he took to quite well." "He remembers nothing but the thought of you and that he was to do as we told him." "Sadly his desire to have you was more powerful than our control on his mind." He sneered at Sonic. "But what made it eve more difficult was realizing the small flaw in our design of the DNA recognizer."

"What are you saying?" Rouge was following along with his story quite well.

"Ah Rouge the bat a most famous escaped criminal." "Well miss you see we neglected to seek out the information of offspring." "You see when Amy gave birth to her daughter she passed on half her DNA. When we sent Sonic to get his target his mission was breeched."

"If this is all about Sonic then how did Chase get involved?" Marie questioned.

"Good question. You see this is a trail run and we can't just leave our experiment on his own so I had Chase stay with Sonic undercover of course as his student." "Chase would bring Amy to Sonic and then the test would be complete." "But he accidentally ran into you Marie before he found the real target, your mother." "It's your cursed appearance really you look so much like your mother no wonder he took you instead." "And since you share half your mother's DNA he assumed you were Amy." "But now that you all no the real story I'm going to have to put you all down." "I can't have you running about telling people the truth now can I?"

Sonic was watching Kent with a glare. "It's you…you and everyone around me that's causing the problem!" He began to spin in his pinball form. He broke free.

Sonic was gone no where to be seen. "Where is he?" Kent looked around hastily. Suddenly he was pushed.

"He's still here." Chase whirled around as felt a breeze past by.

"I won't let you get in my way." Sonic pushed Kent to the ground. "No one will stop me this time."

"I beg to differ Sonic." Chase pushed his mental powers onto Sonic griping his body still.

Marie thought hard 'there's got be something I can do…' She looked at Chase and his surroundings. He just so happened to be standing underneath an ancient chandler that was tied up by a rope. Marie closed her eyes 'I can do this.' Marie's body transported.

"The girl!" Kent yelled.

She reappeared next to the rope because she had disappeared Chases mental grasp was lost on her. She pulled the rope loose quickly. The chandler fell onto Chase. He lost his mental power on everyone.

"You're going to regret trying to control me." Sonic pulled a dagger from his waist. "See you in hell." He stabbed Kent. Sonic's body then began to spin. It was spinning out of control. "I won't let them stop me!" He shot like a pinball around the underground liar.

"Sonic stop!" Knuckles yelled. He looked at Shadow. "We've got to get out of here this place is coming down."

"Shadow grabbed Amy. "Come on we've got get out of here." "Marie come on."

Knuckles was pulling Rouge to the exit. "Wait where's Todd!" Marie looked

Marie tore from the group and ran back toward the inner chamber. Knuckles was holding Rouge back. Shadow ran to the bottom of the crumbling stairwell. "Marie!"

Amy felt someone behind her she turned around Sonic was there. He pulled her up the stairs his hand over her mouth. "Let me go!" She screamed when he release her.

"Amy wait." He pulled her close to him in a hug. "I'm sorry."

Amy stopped her resisting. "What did you say…" She looked into his eyes they weren't glazed over with lust and evil like they were the night she killed him.

He winched in pain he a large cut over his left eye and a giant gash over his chest. "All the things I did before…they were wrong."

"Sonic…" Amy couldn't believe it.

"I just wanted you know…I won't let myself go again…you need to get out Amy I'm going to make sure this place is destroyed."

"Sonic why are you-"

"I told you before." He pushed Amy toward the up level of the staircase. "I love you Amy." He disappeared.

Amy's eyes were teary. "Goodbye…Sonic the hedgehog."

Marie ran through the falling rocks and debris. "Todd where are you?" She covered her eyes with her arm as she looked for him. Suddenly she tripped over something a fell. She looked behind her and saw Todd's body. "Todd!" She moved towards him and wrapped her arms around his body. "Oh Todd…" He wasn't conscious he had been knocked out by a hit to the head with a rock. "I want let you go Todd…I'll save you." She closed her eyes tightly. 'I can do this…I can save him I wont let him die…" She held him to her closely. The area around the glowed like her body and eyes as the two bodies disappeared just as the lair collapsed.

Shadow Amy and the others had made it safely outside and were standing in the middle of the park. Rouge was hugging Knuckles. "Knuckles what if he didn't make it out…" She cried.

"Don't talk like that." Knuckles hugged her back. "He'll be fine."

On the other side of the park a light was just vanishing and Todd and Marie were laying on the ground together. Marie was breathing heavily as she looked down at Todd. "Todd wake up please wake up." Her eyes were closed slightly as she leaned over Todd. "Oh please Todd please open your eyes…I can't go on without you Todd…I love you." She couldn't hold herself up any longer she fell on top of him not knocked out cold.

Marie rolled over in her bed her eyes cracked open. She gasped as she sat up suddenly. She was back in her room. What happened, how did she get home. It couldn't of just been a dream. She got up and ran downstairs. Her mother and father were still sleeping. She ran outside the day was just beginning the sun had just started to rise. She ran all the way to Rouge and Knuckles house. When she got there she ran behind the house and began climbing onto the roof. She went opened the window and climbed in. It was kind of dark in the room but suddenly a light came on. It was a lamp next the bed. "I thought you'd never get here." It was Todd he smiled at her he had bandage wrapped around his head.

"Todd!" She was at his side in a second. "I'm so glad you're okay."

He held her tightly in his arms. "You know I'd never leave you."

"Todd I you know that I love you and only you. I promise." She hugged him tighter.

"Yes." He held her head to meet his. "And I'll stay by your side forever." He kissed her deeply.

Marie smiled. "I'll stay with you Todd because I love you." She laid down with him and the two fell asleep as the sun finally rose.

The two grew up together and they lost they're love in one day or so they thought but now they were finally in each other arms once more and this time they were there to stay.

END

IMPORTANT A/N:

Yes a sucky ending I know but they can't all be perfect. (I wish -.-) But I can tell you I've got 2 new stories I've started. If you want more on the new stuff I'm coming out with check out the next page. You'll fine a short summary and even some sneak previews.