"Good job Snake. Head back to base"
"Got it"
Snake had just completed his most risky mission yet: saving the world from the depths of Foxhound. Snake had to temporarily leave smash in order to do his mission but he can't help but think about what his adopted son Sonic told him just before he left.
"Do you really have to go?" Sonic told him. Those words echoed in his head.
"I'm sorry kid but this is important. Your old man has to save the world once again. Don't be so sad. You have your friends at Smash to take care of you while I'm out. It'll only be a week anyway." Snake remembered telling him. Sonic suddenly held on Snake's leg, pleading him to not go. Snake held back tears as he shook his boy off his leg. He hated that he did that but he needed to save the world.
When he got back to base, he noticed that something was wrong. Otacon was crying, Meryl was hugging him and his daughter Sunny was consoling her crying dad.
"Otacon? What's wrong?" Snake said. Colonel Campbell approached him, removing his hat.
"Snake… . I've got some bad news…" Campbell said. Snake began to worry. What bad news is the Colonel going to give him?
"It's about Sonic. This morning, they found that he committed suicide by hanging" Colonel began.
"I'm sorry Snake, but your son is dead"
At that moment, the world completely stopped for Snake. He didn't just hear that. That his only son Sonic had killed himself. He felt the whole world shrinking around him.
"You're kidding right? Is this one of your sick jokes Colonel? Sonic would never-" Snake began.
"I'm sorry Snake, but I'm afraid it's true" Colonel said.
"No no no no… " Snake repeated to himself. He could believe what he was hearing. He knelt down on the floor, fighting back tears.
"I'm sending you back home so you can recover from all this" Colonel said. "You'll leave in the morning"
When Snake came back to Smash for the funeral he couldn't believe how many people were in the funeral home. The fighters, Sonic's friends and family, and even his 2 exs Shadow and Exe. They had all come to say goodbye to Sonic, who laid peacefully in the casket. It broke his heart.
The rain poured down as all the fighters stood before the grave before them. They all sobbed as the casket was lowered into the grave. A picture of a smiling blue hedgehog stood next to it. The tombstone read "here lies Sonic the Hedgehog. Hero. Fastest thing alive." The fighters were devastated. Snake was too, but he tried to hold in his pain so no one saw him as weak.
After the grave was buried, everyone left for Smash Mansion. Snake didn't move from where he was standing as everyone left.
"Come on Snake, we gotta go" Ken said. Mario put a hand on Ken's shoulder.
"Let's give him some time alone," Mario said. Ken nodded and they both left. Snake stood in the rain at the grave before him. Was today even real? Why was he standing here in the pouring rain, staring at this tombstone where buried underneath was his only adopted son? Many years ago, Otacon had found a baby hedgehog on their doorstep. Snake refused to keep it at first but the baby's cute smile got to him. They raised it, cared for it, then Smash Bros came along and gave both Snake and that hedgehog an invite to the most ambiguous fighting tournament in history. Snake didn't return the following year but now he's back again. And now, he's standing here, his son six feet underground, after Mario Shulk and Palutena found that he committed suicide by hanging. What was he gonna do without him now?
Snake looked around, no one else was here with him. He felt like he could let his guard down now.
He suddenly kneeled to the ground, screaming to the lighting that struck the sky.
"WHYYY" Snake yelled to no one. "Why am I such a terrible parent? This is all my fault! I should've been there for him! Why why why!" He let all his emotions out at once. He didn't bother to wipe his tears as they blended in with the rain hitting his face. No one was here and that was good because Snake knew that even Kirby would think of him differently if he saw him cry.
Snake got up, the rain still pouring, his pants and hands covered in mud. He'll do the laundry later, or never.
"Sonic, you can't hear what I'm saying. But I hope you never forget that you are loved. By me, By Miku, by the fighters, By Shadow, by Exe, everyone. We all love you" Snake said. He started at the grave one more time before turning away.
"Until we meet again" Snake said. He began his long walk to the mansion. The next few days would be hard for him and everyone else.
The fighters, ahead of Snake, were chatting as they walked home.
"So he's just dead? Like that? We'll never see him again" Pit said.
"I'm gonna miss him so much," Roy said.
"We've never lost a fighter before. Not even to a villain fighter going on a rampage" Ryu said.
"I remember when we used to race together. And now when I finally see him again, he dies" Banjo whimpered. Kazooie handed him a tissue from inside the backpack.
"Poor Snake. He's gonna take this harder than any of us" Peach said.
"And Shadow" Samus added.
"And Knuckles, Sonic.exe, Miku.." Daisy listed. "Everyone that was ever close to Sonic"
Ken suddenly stopped in his tracks.
"Did anyone else hear that?" Ken said. "It sounded like Sonic"
"Sonic's dead Ken. It's probably just in your head" Shulk said. "Let's just get back home"
Everyone continued to walk home. Where one less fighter would be there.