A/N there will be quite a few changes in minor details this chapter but don't worry, I know I will deliver the goods anyways.

Tragic Final Battle, Sonic vs Knuckles

The news was flashing all around the world about the sunspot it's beginning to grow to an abnormal size. It's also causing strange weather phenomena around the world. Luna and Artemis were watching through a T.V. on display in a shop.

"We have to do something about it soon." Artemis declared, he and Luna were wrapped in bandages due to their run-in with Malachite.

At Serena's house she prepared dinner for her family, the kitchen was a mess with scraps and dirty dishes, and cooking utensils.

"Okay." Serena cheered with a happy look on her face. "Everyone, thank you for waiting! This is Serena's special curry and rice! Everyone was staring at it with frightened looks."

"I'm so touched that you cooked dinner!" Father sweated trying to sound proud.

"Oh, dad." Serena smiled. "You're making such a big deal out of it!"

"Okay, everyone shall we dig in?" Father asked.

"Is this really edible?" Sammy scoffed, staring at the food.

"How rude!" Serena grumbled. "It looks bad, but the taste is for real!" She took a spoonful and ate it, everyone leaned inward to look at her reaction and she started to cry.

"What's wrong, Serena? Is something the matter?" Father asked. Serena gagged and let out her tongue and it was bright red.

"It's spicy!" She cried.

"I knew it." Sammy sighed.

Later everyone gathered at the Hikawa shrine.

"Finally, it's time." Mina sighed.

"I can't wait!" Lita said cracking her knuckles.

"I can't believe we've finally come this far." Ami added.

"Hey, hey Rei!" Serena called, she moved to Rei's ear and began to tease her. "Did you at least kiss Chad before you left?"

"Why are you asking all of a sudden?" Rei asked, blushing.

"Because if something were to happen, you'd regret it!" Serena teased.

"Nothing like that is going to happen!" Rei screamed. Serena fell flat on her bottom.

"Ouch!" Serena cried. "You're mean! I was just worried for you Rei!"

"It's none of your business!" Rei snapped.

"Serena, let's stop thinking about 'What ifs'." Mina suggested.

"Like me? When this is all over. I'm planning on having a full-blown romance!" Lita announced blushing.

"Love huh?" Thought Ami out loud. "Maybe….me to." Then everyone gathered around Ami for they were stunned at that response.

"What about you guys?" Rei asked, the girls gave teasing looks to Sonic and Tails. Who blushed in response.

"Well first we need to get the Island back to our world." Tails said, scratching his head.

"Then we need to give Eggman the boot from this planet!" Sonic added. "Then we might as well return home."

"Do you have to go?" Ami asked sadly.

"Afraid so." Sonic said. "After all that's me and Tails home!"

"Come on!" Artemis said, approaching with Luna.

"Everyone Makeup!" Luna ordered.

"Lita, Rei, give me the Chaos Emeralds!" Sonic also ordered. "For what's to come they need to stay with good hands and we'll need them all to be in one place when the time comes!" Lita and Rei reluctantly took out their emeralds and handed them to Sonic.

"Moon Prism Power Makeup!"

"Mercury Power Makeup!"

"Mars Power Makeup!"

"Jupiter Power Makeup!"

"Venus Power Makeup!"

"Ok me and Tails will go pay a visit to the Island, when our business with Knuckles is done, we'll be joining you guys soon." Sonic explained.

"Be careful guys!" Tails waved, and they sped off to Angel Island. The Sailors all joined hands and concentrated, when the moonlight shown on them they began to float in the air.

"Sailor Teleport!" Artemis shouted. A circle was embedded in the ground around them and they vanished and a dark portal was left in the circle.

"This is for when Sonic and Tails return." Luna explained.

"May everyone come home safely." Luna prayed.

"We're here!" Sonic announced, as they arrived at the Island in little time.

"Let's go to the palace and meet Knuckles!" Tails said.

At the North Pole.

"It's COLD!" Sailor Moon shivered. "How can you all act like there's nothing wrong?"

"Shut up!" Sailor Mars snapped. "If you stand up straight, you won't be cold! When it's cold it's cold no matter what you do!"

"This certainly doesn't bode well." Sailor Mercury said typing on her computer with her visor on. "Found it! A large amount of evil energy is being released from over there!" She pointed to the east at the volcano with Dark Flux coming out of it.

The Dark Kingdom, Beryl was watching the Sailors approach through her crystal ball.

"Queen Metalia will be revived shortly." Beryl said. "I will not allow you to interfere!" She stood up and spoke to her army. "Whoever wants to give them a death sentence, come forward!"

"Please allow us." Said a female voice. "The DD Girls, to take that assignment!" Six girls who look like garden nymphs stepped forward.

"Wait!" Sailor Mercury called and the Sailors stopped marching. "The evil energy reading is growing stronger!" Then all of a sudden the blizzard stopped.

Back at the Island Sonic and Tails was standing outside the palace doors.

"Remember the plan?" Sonic asked.

"Right!" Tails assured. "Like you said, the girls are waiting for us, we need to hurry."

"Good!" Sonic said, giving Tails a thumbs up, and Sonic went inside first. Sonic ran down the palace walls until he found the shrine. "HEY KNUCKLES! COME ON OUT!"

"What do you want Sonic?" Knuckles grumbled running down from the shrine stairs.

"I hate to do this to ya." Sonic shrugged. "But I need the Chaos Emerald you have!"

"Huh!" Knuckles puffed "If you want it so badly then maybe you wouldn't mind fighting for it!"

"I knew you would be too hard headed to just be cool about this!" Sonic said cracking his fist and he and Knuckles charged at each other.

At D-Point

A strange mist surrounded the Sailors and they all put their guard up when something appeared in the mist. It was Tuxedo Mask hanging with his arms chained, chained to what is a mystery. He looked like he was completely beaten almost to death.

"Tuxedo Mask!" Sailor Moon whimpered. He groaned and Sailor Moon started to run towards him but was stopped by Sailor Mercury.

"Wait!" Sailor Mercury shouted. "It could be a trap!"

"This would usually be a trap." Sailor Jupiter added with a look of stupidity on her face.

"But.." Sailor Moon whimpered.

"You get targeted first because you're so simpleminded!" Sailor Mars shouted.

"I'll check into it right now." Sailor Mercury announced scanning the scenery.

"Help Me…..Sailor Moon." Tuxedo Mask begged. Sailor Moon tried hard to fight running to him. "Sailor Moon…"

"I just can't leave him like that!" Sailor Moon cried fighting through the other sailors and running up to Tuxedo Mask but the other Sailors tackled her down.

"But he's suffering! How can you ignore him like that!?" Sailor Moon cried. Only Sailor Mercury seemed to notice that Tuxedo Mask's eyes glowed red and he had an evil smile on his face.

"Everyone, watch out! He's a monster!" Sailor Mercury cried. The sailors looked behind them to see Tuxedo Mask shoot many vines out of his body and attempt to grab the Sailors but they managed to dodge it.

"Told you so!" Sailor Mars screamed.

"I'm so sorry!" Sailor Moon cried. Tuxedo Mask changed into one of the DD girls and the vines really turned out to be her arms and when they came back to her they reformed her arms. "Hey, monster! How dare you trick me? I was a fool for being so gullible, but you're bigger fools for crushing a girl's innocent feelings! Because, because, you've seriously made me mad! So now…"

"You talk too much!" Sailor Mars scoffed. Sailor Moon hung her head before talking again.

"Anyway!" Sailor Moon shouted and she did her pose, "In the name of the moon, I will punish you!" Then the other DD girls appeared behind their leader, the Sailors just gasped.

"Oh! Six?" Sailor Jupiter gasped.

"We were expecting your animal friends but it seems they're missing an action!" Laughed one of the girls. "You guys don't stand a chance against us in D-Point!" The girls vanished and the same setup with Tuxedo Mask appeared again.

"Sailor Moon, I love you." Tuxedo Mask said weakly.

"What kind of ninny would fall for the same trick twice?" Sailor Mars said, but to her surprise Sailor Moon rushed over to him again, and like before the Sailors tackled her down. "Don't fall for it as I'm saying that!"

"But what if he's the real thing this time?" Sailor Moon cried. Like before vines shot out of his body and they managed to dodge it again. The sailors rushed Sailor Moon away but Sailor Jupiter stood back and decided to fight.

"Don't underestimate us!" Sailor Jupiter shouted, attempting to use her attack.

Supreme!

Before she could use it, the illusion changed from Tuxedo Mask to Andrew.

"Andrew!" Sailor Jupiter cried. Then he got an evil look on his face and from underneath Sailor Jupiter the vines shot out and more vines shot out from Andrew and Sailor Jupiter became bound tightly by all the DD girls. As they all surrounded her. Sailor Moon and Sailor Jupiter attempted to free her.

"Moon Tiara….."

"Fire…."

But the DD girls moved in closer to Sailor Jupiter. The Sailors had to stop the attack.

"We can't! Jupiter will get caught in our attack!" Sailor Mars said frightened.

"Don't worry about me!" Sailor Jupiter struggled to say. "Hurry, go to where Queen Beryl is!" The DD girls attacked Sailor Jupiter with lightning running through the vines.

"You've…...got some nerve…..using electric shock…..against me!" Sailor Jupiter smirked trying to hang on.

"What!?" Shouted the DD girls. Jupiter attempted to use her attack anyways.

"Supreme Thunder!"

"You impertinent little.." One of the girls laughed and the lightning shot them all off her. The lighting hit the ground and the resulting crash caused a giant formation of sharp icicles to stick up and spread out from where the lightning hit. They all looked and gasped in great despair at what they all saw. They all ran up to Sailor Jupiter whose body was slightly charred, due to the lightning she used and the attack by the girls. However she used all her strength in that attack so she looked as if the end was near. In her weak condition the cold air wasn't good for her condition.

"Jupiter!" All the Sailors cried.

"Everyone.." She said weakly.

"We're coming to help you!" Sailor Moon cried struggling to climb the formation of icicles.

"I'm done.." Jupiter continued. "Instead…...everyone hurry to where…...Queen Beryl is."

"No!" Sailor Moon cried, reaching for her. "We can't! We have to all go together! Lita, remember what you told me? That you'd have a full-blown romance when you got back! That's what you told me." Sailor Moon began to sob and tear up. "You shouldn't lie! The king of Hell will yank your tongue out!"

"There's no time for…...crying, princess." Jupiter said, as her eyes began to close. "Come on, cheer up!" Her eyes closed, she is now dead, the rest of the Sailors gasped as they realized that Jupiter was now gone.

"LITA!" Sailor Moon screamed. "YOU CAN'T DIE!"

Back at the Island

Sonic jumped along the walls towards Knuckles and tried to give him a kick to the head from behind but Knuckles swung his fist around and punched and he blocked Sonic's kick.

"Huh your eyes are quicker than your feet!" Sonic scoffed.

"You won't win this!" Knuckles roared, he threw a punch at Sonic but Sonic flipped backwards thus dodging. Sonic tried spin dashing but Knuckles caught him and kicked him back and he hit the wall.

"Not bad!" Sonic said coming out of his spin. "Anytime now Tails! We can't waste time!"

Back at D-Point

"Come on let's go!" Sailor Venus said, sounding brave.

"No!" Sailor Moon squealed.

"Sailor Moon!" Sailor Venus said disgustedly.

"If this is what we have to go through, we should just give them the Silver Crystal." Sailor Moon cried.

"What are you saying!?" Sailor Mars shouted angered.

"That's right. That's what we should've done from the start!" Sailor Moon cried rushing towards the volcano. "Listen, Queen Beryl! You can have the Silver Crystal!" The other Sailors caught her and stopped her. "Let me go! Because I have this, that's why Lita… I just want to get this over with and go home…" To shut her up Sailor Mercury smacked Sailor Moon across the face.

"I'm sorry." Sailor Mercury uttered. "But please understand. Don't waste Jupiter's death." There was a silence until the computer started beeping. "They're coming! You three go on ahead. I'll hold them here."

"But!" Sailor Mars said, frightened.

"Past this point, we'll need your powers since you have stronger attacks." Sailor Mercury explained. "Besides I'll catch up with you guys when Sonic and Tails get here!"

"Ami, you're not going to.." Sailor Moon stammered.

"I won't die." Sailor Mercury said, but her tone sounded as if she wasn't so certain.

"That's a promise?" Sailor Moon asked.

"Yes!" Sailor Mercury smiled. Venus and Mars pushed Sailor Moon towards the volcano and Sailor Mercury took her stance and got ready to fight. "Come and get me!" In the distance another illusion was made and this time it was Greg instead of Tuxedo Mask, luckily Sailor Mercury didn't fall for it. "So, I get to see this kind of illusion too." She tapped her earring and the visor turned on and it showed the truth but suddenly the screen became distorted.

Fire erupted from the ice and the blaze began to race towards her and she used her attack.

"Bubble Spray!"

It put out the fire and the DD Girls shot out from the cooled rock and they circled and created a sphere of fire and tried to hit Sailor Mercury with it but she managed to dodge it, then she scanned it.

"It's an illusion, but it has real heat!" She read. She got a better look at the DD girls and she made a discovery. "Okay, the origin of this illusion is the stone on her forehead!" The fireball moved towards her and she continued to pound the keyboard. "I'll have to get rid of the origin of the illusion." She raised her arms to the air and called out her attack.

"Bubble Spray!"

A bubble enveloped Mercury as the fireball engulfed her. Inside the fireball Mercury was fine but the DD girls wrapped their vines around Mercury and they hit her with strong fire magic.

"Hurry up and turn into a roast pig!" The lead girl shouted.

"How rude!" Sailor Mercury said weakly.

"Then how about a baked potato?" The second girl mocked.

"DIE!" The lead monster shouted, turning up the juice on the fire magic, Mercury screamed in pain and weakly raised her arm with the computer in it.

"Looks like…..this will…..be the last time I use this." Sailor Mercury groaned weakly. She used what's left of her strength and used the computer to smash the gem on the girl's forehead. The fire dispelled and there was a crater of icicles.

"Damn her!" The lead girl shouted. "I can't use my illusions anymore!" They raised into the air and vanished.

The other Sailors looked back to see a crater and a dead Sailor Mercury in it.

"Ami's….Ami's." Sailor Moon cried. "Ami's Dead!"

"Don't cry like a baby every single time!" Mars said firmly. Sailor Moon looked back at her. "Remember, more enemies will be coming at us!"

"But..But I never expected something like this.." Sailor Moon whimpered.

"Damn it Sonic where are you!?" Sailor Venus thought.

Back at the island Sonic was spinning at Knuckles but he went low and managed to punch Sonic in the stomach and he launched him upwards and he hit the ceiling. He curled up again dashed at Knuckled and he drove him flat into the ground making a small crater and knuckles lying in it.

"Not bad!" Knuckles breathed standing up. Sonic and Knuckles were both breathing heavily and in a standoff.

"Tails what are you doing? Hurry up!" Sonic panicked in his head.

Back at D-Point a red circle surrounded Sailor Moon in the ice. Sailor Venus was quick to notice it and she pushed her out of the way just in time for the vines to snare Sailor Venus and raise her into the air.

"Stop it!" Sailor Moon cried. "You can have the Silver Crystal, just let Mina go!"

"If you do that I'll never forgive you!" Sailor Venus shouted. They pulled her into the ground and the others looked down and saw nothing but only heard voices.

"Fool!" The Lead DD girl shouted. "Begging for her life won't do you any good! We'll take the Silver Crystal after we kill all of you! Then we can focus on the Hedgehog and take the Chaos Emeralds! First we'll take care of this one!"

A bright glow came from the hole and Venus wailed in pain.

"MINA!" Sailor Moon screamed. Sailor Mars grabbed her arm and pulled her away. Under the ice Sailor Venus managed to raise her finger and use her beam.

"Crescent Beam!"

She pointed directly at one of the DD girl's head and it obliterated it as she roared in pain. They let her go and she was burning in midair under the ice and it shot up and Sailor Venus was laying in the geyser of icicles with the vines of the one DD girl she destroyed still around her, but she to is now dead.

Back at the island. Sonic charged at Knuckles and Knuckles charged back and Sonic kicked at Knuckles and Knuckles punched at Sonic they both managed to successfully strike each other at the same time.

"Sonic!" Tails called waving the Chaos Emerald above his head, in the air, atop the steps to the Master Emerald.

"What!?" Knuckles gasped.

"That was a distraction!" Sonic laughed "For now we will have to leave and help our friends, but we'll settle this later! Come on Tails!" Sonic rushed out the door with Tails catching up and Knuckles just screamed at his failure and punched the ground.

"Way to go little buddy!" Sonic said racing through the halls back to Hikawa. "We gotta get to D-Point!" Tails nodded and they both raced.

At D-Point

Sailor Mars was finished taking Sailor Moon away from the sight of a dead Sailor Venus. Only Mars and Moon remained alive.

"Sailor Moon." Sailor Mars said.

"What?" Sailor Moon sobbed.

"We always fought, but it was fun." Sailor Mars said, slightly sad but trying to hide it.

"Why are you saying that!?" Sailor Moon screamed.

"I have to say it, just in case something happens." Sailor Mars laughed.

"We said we weren't going to talk about 'what ifs'!" Sailor Moon screamed.

Then the five remaining DD girls appeared and Sailor Mars Stepped forward.

"Oh, wait!" Sailor Moon cried, catching her shoulder. "I understand! I'll do the rest by myself! I'll beat them all and beat Queen Beryl, and I'll come home, so, Rei, go back home ahead of me! Make sure Sonic and Tails don't follow! I don't want you guys to die!"

"You still have the final big battle ahead of you, so conserve your energy." Sailor Mars said smiling at Sailor Moon. Then she became really cheerful. "Oh come on, no one says I have to die!" She pushed Sailor Moon off her and winked at her. "Okay, Rei's gonna go take care of them real quick!" She charged into battle.

She aimed her fire but the DD girls went underground and created a giant snake of ice rocks underneath her and it snapped Sailor Mars up like a snake and it stopped and made a big pile of rocks.

"Rei?" Sailor Moon whimpered dead inside. One DD girls popped out of the ground next to Sailor Moon and it tried to grab her with the vines, but a strong fire shot out of the pile and incinerated the girl. "Rei!"

"How dare you!" The lead girl screamed as lights shot out between the cracks and Sailor Mars screamed in pain. The pile blew up and the DD girls rose up from the pile and stared at Sailor Moon.

"Now, that finally leaves just the princess." The lead girl laughed as she showed Sailor Mars's body wrapped in vines and completely motionless.

"REI!" Sailor Moon screamed.

"Prepare to die!" One of the girls shouted readying her vines, but Sailor Mars grabbed onto the vines.

"I'm not done yet." Sailor Mars, struggled to say.

"FIRE SOUL!"

The fire traveled up the vines and incinerated the girl. There was an explosion and Rei was laying inside her own formation of icicles.

"Just like you said…..I should have kissed Chad." Sailor Mars said. "I really wish I had." She closed her eyes for she, like the others, is now dead.

The three other DD girls watched from afar as Queen Beryl spoke to them.

"Leave her to me! I need you three to wait in case Sonic and Tails come your way!" She ordered.

"Yes my Queen!" The last DD girls responded.

The Hikawa shrine Sonic and Tails arrived but everyone was starting to take notice of the world becoming dark.

"Hey Luna! Artemis! We're back! With one Chaos Emerald more!" Tails said happily.

"Good." Luna smiled. "Hop through this hole and you guys will arrive at D-Point! Be quick I have a bad feeling about something happening there!"

"Don't worry!" Sonic winked. "We'll protect them!" They smiled and Sonic and Tails jumped into the portal and it closed.

Meanwhile Sailor Moon was curled up and was mourning the deaths of her friends.

"Mina, Ami, Rei, Lita." She cried. "I know, this is just a dream. It's just a dream. When I wake up, Everybody will say, 'Good Morning!' just like always. And Rei will call me, 'Clumsy Serena'…" Just then She felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned and saw the spirit of Sailor Jupiter looking at her, in fact the spirits of the other sailors were there to.

"Come on, cheer up!" She said.

"Serena be strong!" Sailor Mercury smiled.

"Don't give up hope!" Sailor Mercury added.

"Serena stand up!" Sailor Mars encouraged. Sailor Moon turned and smiled at her ghostly friends. "We'll always be together!"

"Everyone!" Sailor Moon cried, they all were silent.

"Now, run!" Sailor Mars ordered with a smile on her face.

Sailor Moon smiled and nodded.

"Okay!" She smiled. She turned and began to run towards the volcano. "That's right! I'm not alone! Never alone!"

At Eggman's base as it turns out his monitor was still there, he kept watching the whole thing. Scratch and Grounder were out taking care of a special task. As it turns out he was watching the whole thing.

"OH! HOHOHOHO!" He laughed eating a bag of popcorn. "So! All but the princess is dead! This will make things much easier to make them my servants! Oh I can't wait to see how this turns out! Maybe Beryl will be the only thing I'll have to worry about." Then he went to the intercom and made an announcement.

"Soldiers of the Eggman Empire! Ready our other secret weapon! I'm going to prepare the Earth for my coming! Start the countdown to victory!" All the robots cheered and Eggman smirked and went back to his monitor to see the rest of the battle.

The Dark Kingdom Endymion was still lying and taking the energy of Metalia, he rose up, gave an evil laugh and put on an evil smile.