12: Sonic and Eggman
"Let him go Eggman!" Sonic shouted.
"Hmmm… let me think about it… How about no?" Eggman said with a laugh. "Here's the deal, you all surrender, and I will let him live! Sound good?"
"…Eggman…" Said a very angry voice behind Sonic, who turned around and saw something he never expected.
Tails was absolutely furious.
"YOU LET MY SON GO RIGHT NOW!" Tails shouted.
"Jeez, did you not hear me? I said…"
"I don't care WHAT you said! You let him go now and I won't rip your mustache off after I completely trash your robot!" Tails said. "And that is only the first thing I would do!"
"Oh please! Like you would attack me with your precious little boy is right here, would you?" Eggman asked.
"Watch me." Tails said before charging at the bot at an incredible speed, before delivering a powerful blow to the machine's leg. While this didn't seem to cause any damage, it did knock him off balance, which gave Tails the opportunity to bend the cage bars apart just barely enough for Skye to escape before flying back to the others with his son in tow.
Though he seemed to be incredibly out of breath from that last part.
"What?! How did you?!" Eggman shouted.
"Trust me Eggman, trying to take Skye was a mistake…" Amy said. "Tails is really protective of him… heck, last time Starline tried that… well, I'm sure he told you all about it."
"Uh… I didn't give him the chance to, actually…"
"Well, let's just say it wasn't pleasant for him." Amy said. "There's a child here after all."
"… No matter! No matter how hard you try, you will not be able to beat this robot!" Eggman proclaimed.
"And… and what's so special about… oh… oh no…" Tails gasped out.
"Oh, so you finally recognized it, did you?"
"Tails… what's going on?" Sonic asked.
"That's… the super robot I've been working on…" Tails explained. "I made it to be virtually unstoppable!"
"Ok, but you put in a fail safe, right?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah, but knowing Eggman…" Tails said.
"He probably removed it…" Sonic concluded.
"And not only that, but I managed to solve the little issue you seemed to be having with this baby." Eggman said with a laugh.
Sonic could practically see the color disappear from Tails' face. "And that would be…?"
"… The power supply." Tails said as Eggman revealed the seven chaos emeralds.
"…Nerts…"
"This is the end, Hedgehog!" Eggman said before charging at the group.
"Jewel! Take Skye away from here!" Tangle shouted over to her best friend.
"Ok!" Jewel said as she took Skye's hands and flew away with the young fox in tow.
"So… got any ideas?" Sonic asked.
"Well, we don't have the Master Emerald this time… so wing it?" Tails said. "Maybe try to take and use the emeralds against him?"
"Sounds like a plan to me! I'll get his attention, while you all do your thing!" Sonic said as he sped towards the robot. "So Eggman, guess this means you aren't the greatest genius in the world!"
"How do you figure that?" Eggman said as he swatted the robot's hand at the hedgehog.
"Well, your ultimate robot wasn't really made by you, was it?" Sonic taunted as he dodged. "How does it feel to be completely outdone?"
"Please! He may have come up with the plans, but I was the one who made it work!" Eggman said as the robot threw a punch.
"Yeah, but that's only because he didn't have the Chaos Emeralds. I'm sure if he had just one, he would figured it out just as easy, if not made it better!" Sonic continued to taunt.
"Yeah right! That little runt would never…" Eggman started as he had his robot repeatedly throw out attacks, which Sonic was easily able to dodge.
"But he isn't so little anymore, is he?" Sonic asked. "In fact, he's become more of a hero than I have ever been, and more of a genius than you ever will be."
Everyone else began to launch their attacks at this point, but none of them were able to damage the emerald charged machine.
"Our attacks aren't working!" Amy shouted as her hammer bounced off of the machine.
"Keep trying! There has to be some kind of week point! There always is!" Knuckles said as he charged at the machine to try and punch it, only to be knocked away.
Espio tried throwing some ninja stars, but they just bounced off.
Tails created a few of energy cannons, but they were unable to do anything.
Shadow tried spin dashing into the machine multiple times, but he just bounced off of it.
Tangle tried to trip up the robot with her tail, but it was quickly grabbed and she was chucked into a nearby tree.
"Tangle!" "Mommy!" Tails and Skye shouted as Tails went to check on her.
"I'm fine, it'll take a lot more than that to keep me down!" Tangle said as she got up.
"We have to do something about that energy…" Tails said. "If we had the Master Emerald, or some energy from it, then we might have a chance, but…"
Sonic then got an idea. "Everyone grew up so much while we were away… and it is because of everything they went through these past fifteen years, that we will beat you!"
"SHADOW! HIT HIM WITH EVERYTHING YOU GOT!" He then suddenly shouted.
Shadow, who seemed to quickly catch onto Sonic's idea, took off his inhibitor rings.
He then charged into the robot with blinding speed, and managed to push it away from the group and the house.
"CHAOS!"
"Please, like that will do anything to…" Eggman started.
"BLAST!" Shadow shouted before the entire area was engulfed in a massive explosion of energy…
When the dust cleared, it became clear what Sonic's goal was there.
"WHAT?!" Eggman shouted as he suddenly became unable to move his machine, which suffered quite a bit of damage from that attack.
"You really should of done your homework Eggman. If you did, you would know that Shadow's been charged up on Master Emerald energy for quite a while now!" Sonic said.
"Good think you remembered that, it's easy to forget considering how long it's been since they started doing that." Tails said.
"Wouldn't of remembered if I didn't just find out about it the other day." Sonic said with a laugh. "So… let's finish this."
And so, everyone stood together, ready to do just that.
Shadow fired several chaos spears.
Knuckles threw rapid fire punches, while Rouge hit him with a drill kick.
Whisper used her bike's spike function to cut straight through the robot's leg.
"Go Team!" Charmy cheered as he waved a tiny flag, while Vector and Espio attacked the machine.
Silver fired a blast of psychic energy.
Blaze fired a massive fire ball.
Amy smashed it with her hammer.
Finally, Tails and Tangle did a rolling combo attack.
"Awwww… that was supposed to be our thing!" Sonic said as the two of them landed in front of him.
"Well excuse me for wanting my favorite combo move to be able to be done with my wife." Tails said with a laugh.
"It took us weeks to get that down." Tangle added.
"Alright, fine. I guess I can accept that." Sonic said with a laugh. "Ready to finish this?"
He held out his fist.
"Ready." Tails said.
Their fists connected.
"DOUBLE BOOST!"
The two suddenly shot forward at a blinding speed, and tore a massive hold in the chest of the robot, completely destroying it.
"And that, is how it's done!" Sonic said before fist bumping with Tails.
"You said it. Felt great to do that again after so long." Tails said.
The two of them proceeded to walk back to the group.
"Now that that's done…" Tangle said before charging at the robot. "WHERE ARE YOU SO I CAN TEAR YOUR HEAD OFF?!"
"… Uh…" Sonic was completely dumbfounded.
"Yeah… she is waaaaay more protective of Skye than I am in case you couldn't tell… she just has much better control over it than I do." Tails explained.
"Uh… yeah, I gathered that."
"He's not here!" Tangle shouted as she chucked a hunk of metal to the side. "HOW IS HE NOT HERE?! WHERE DID HE GO?!"
"Don't tell me he got away…" Amy groaned out.
"To the contrary! I am right here!" Said Eggman from behind everyone. "It's a good thing Starline had a spare one of these I could borrow."
The first thing they noticed was the Warp Topaz in his glove, the next was Jewel, who was on the ground, hand on her head. The last… was Skye.
"Skye!" Tails shouted before he began to run towards him.
"Ah ah ah!" Eggman said before he aimed a blaster at Skye's head. "One false move, and your precious little boy is history!"
Sonic growled at this. They were stuck. Even he wasn't fast enough to save Skye here…
"Now, if you don't mind, I will be taking my chaos emeralds, and my hostage here and be on my wa-GRRRK!" Eggman said before getting cut off by something, or rather, someone, no-one expected.
Skye.
His tails had twisted together and were rammed into Eggman's face… and then some.
Everyone just stared in shock at the fox's super extended tails as Eggman fell unconscious… except for Tangle who just had an incredibly proud look on her face.
"THAT'S MY BOY!" Tangle said as she ran over and gave her son a hug, which Tails joined in on not much later.
"Guess that explains the tree climbing." Sonic said with a laugh.
Everyone then proceeded to praise Skye for his bravery, and for knocking out Eggman, which made the young fox very happy.
"I hate to be the bearer of bad news… but we have something that needs to be addressed." Shadow said.
"We do?" Tails asked. "What are you… oh."
Shadow was holding the Chaos Emeralds and the unconscious Eggman, with the Warp Topaz removed from his possession .
Everything needed to send Sonic home was here.
"Oh, I guess… it's time for me to go?" Sonic asked.
"I… I guess so." Tails said, starting to tear up. "It…really was great to see you again."
"Take care of our past selves, ok?" Amy said.
"…About that…" Sonic said.
Tangle and Silver then started to look very worried, which Tails immediately noticed.
"…What's up?" Tails asked.
"I guess we're having this conversation now… aren't we?" Tangle asked.
"Seems to be that way…" Sonic said before sighing. "What if… I didn't go back?"
"Why wouldn't you go back?" Tails asked.
"It's just… look at all of you. You are all so happy now, and it was all because me and Eggman weren't in the picture… what if us going back changes everything?"
"Amy and Whisper might not of joined G.U.N. …Rouge and Knuckles wouldn't be engaged… Tails and Tangle wouldn't… well, have all of this…"
"…Seriously?" Tails asked. "THAT is what you are so worried about?!"
"Huh? Aren't you worried?! Everything you have right now could be gone!" Sonic said.
"Why would it?" Tails asked. "After all, you will make sure that we will be happy, won't you?"
"… What do you mean?" Sonic asked.
"Geez, do I have to spell it out for you? You know about everything that happened to us here. You can guide us towards this future! You can make sure that we have our happy lives just like you want us to! And we won't even have to do all of it without you!"
"I thought that was why you were going around and catching up with everyone in the first place…" Tangle said. "THIS is why you were so worried this entire time?"
Truth be told, because of her conversation with Silver the other day, she already knew all of this, but she just wanted the hedgehog to admit he was being dumb.
"Uh… yeah?" Sonic said. "Do you seriously trust me to do all of that?"
"Dude, how many times have you saved the planet?" Tangle asked. "It's like I said during that whole virus thing. You're Sonic The Hedgehog! You'll set this right. I KNOW you will!"
Sonic just smiled at the memory. "Thanks… I guess I was just being…"
"Silly?"
"Paranoid?"
"An idiot?"
"Yeah, those…"
"So, feeling a bit better about going back now?" Tangle asked.
"Yeah, I think I am." Sonic said.
"We'll be counting on you… little bro." Tails said as he pulled Sonic into a hug.
"I may be younger than you right now, but I am still the big bro." Sonic said as he hugged back.
"Just let me have it this one time."
"Fine…"
And then, everyone else joined in, except for Shadow, who just watched.
"Just… one more thing Sonic." Tangle said before she pulled a camera out of the house with her tail.
Sonic smiled as he got into position to take a picture with Tails, Tangle, and Skye.
His first picture with his family.
When Amy took the picture, Sonic was surprised that it developed right from the camera then and there.
"A lot higher quality than polaroids, if I do say so myself!" Tails said as he took the camera and picture from Amy. "Good thing I always take this with me to these gatherings, thanks for grabbing it Tangle."
Tangle just smiled, before Tails gave the picture to Sonic. "Just a reminder of what you're fighting for."
"Right, thanks a lot."
"*Sniff* Well, you better get going. Take care!" Tails said.
"Right… take care of yourselves." Sonic said before he kneeled down to Skye's level. "Take care of your parents for me, ok Skye?"
"I… I will." Skye said, seeming to begin to figure out what was happening, as his eyes were filled with tears.
And so, after a pat on his nephew's head, Sonic turned towards Shadow, and took the Emeralds and Eggman from him.
"Thanks for everything." Shadow said as he extended his hand.
"Same to you." Sonic replied as he shook his hand.
"Sonic." Silver said before stepping forward. "This might be obvious, but you really shouldn't mention any of this to any of us in the past. It could cause some… issues."
"Alright, you're the expert on this I guess." Sonic said.
And with that, he turned into Super Sonic.
"Before I go, I just want to say how proud I am of all of you. I always worried about what would happen if… well, if I wasn't in the picture anymore. But now, I know that even if that does happen, you will all be fine. So thanks, and I wish you all the best!"
"Same goes to you, Sonic." Knuckles said.
"Sorry I can't make the wedding Knux. I'll make it in my timeline though." Sonic said.
"You better."
Sonic just smiled.
"And Amy? I hope you find someone one day." Sonic said.
"Thank you Sonic."
"And one last thing…" Sonic said before he had a massive grin on his face.
"HEY WHISPER! SILVER HAS A HUUUUUUUUUGE CRUSH ON YOU!"
"Wait… huh?" Whisper said as her face turned red.
"SONIC, YOU SON OF A-"
"Chaos Control!"
And just like that, the area was covered in a blinding light. And when it faded, Sonic and Eggman were gone.
"Bye Uncle Sonic…"
The End.
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And so, it (finally) comes to an end.
Hope you liked that little twist with Skye there, I had the idea in my head from the beginning, and I had to use it.
Also, that little bit with Sonic outing Silver's crush has an interesting story behind it. I said before that I was thinking about rewriting this story for a while. I actually had a good idea of what I was going to change in that rewrite. One of those was that Tails and Tangle wouldn't be together yet, but rather still crushing on each other, while Silver and Whisper would be the ones who were already together… aside from Knuckles and Rouge. I was planning on having Sonic reveal Tails' crush on Tangle before going back in time, but because I decided against the rewrite, I decided to switch it to this! Just something I thought I would share.
Anyways, the main story is done, the sub stories are done, so there isn't anything left… right?
About that… every good game has a good post game! Sonic still has work to do in his own time, and there are still some stories left to tell that didn't quite make it into the main story.
As such, I am happy to say that, along with a sequel to this story, I am going to be continuing this one, with what I will be calling the post game!
Basically, the sequel is going to be for Tails and crew in the future, while the postgame is going to for Sonic in the regular time.
Gonna be a bit before I start posting those, I want to get further along in writing them… hopefully this good groove I have going lasts a bit so I can finish them. Who knows, I am writing this over a week before I post it, so maybe everything is ready… yeah no, I got a good bit of the sequel done, but not all of it. It will be a bit, but I will do my best. Post game does have the first chapter done though, so I will post that tomorrow!
So, I hope you enjoyed the main story, and I will see you next time for Chapter 1 of the Post-Game: Return and New Power!