I feel so bad for this...

It's hilarious, really, the lengths which I have avoided writing my own fanfictions, and this one specifically. I first posted this fanfic way back in late 2010, I took it down, and then brought it back, took it down again, and brought it back again.

What's wrong with me? I'm minding my own business, walking out along the backyard, just to fantasize about what I'm "gonna" write, and I get so energized about things I want to put on screen, to the point where I find myself muttering the characters' lines to myself. And then, when I'm in the house when I finally have the chance to follow through with those ideas...

...I stop, I slow down, my enthusiasm wanes like pouring orange juice down the toilet. And I always am sure, when I'm actually in front of the computer, to do just about everything before fanfiction, be it checking the latest MOnster Hunter: World mods on Nexus, or trying to play Monster Hunster XX on Citra just for the sweet 60fps, as though MHW isn't already good enough. By the time I get to writing, I barely have enough inspiration left to make out a single paragraph.

Why, why do I keep doing this to myself? Why do I lead myself and the readers on to believe that I'm "working on it" when I'm not? I just took up this "Goku in the MCU Challenge"; I committed with someone else to write that; I committed with my brother to write our own fanfic together. I can always picture the scenes, I can feel them, they're so beautiful to me; yet before the comuputer screen, I feel nothing.

Why don't I just delete these documents and leave no trace when I myself care so little about them? Maybe Dad is right: I don't come off as lazy, I am lazy...

...but if I'm not lazy, then I need to prove it: write the fanfics like I think I will: Follow through. This has gone on for 10 years now: write or don't, it's that simple.

This is my first and greatest fanfic I've ever posted on the internet, yet I've treated it with so much neglect that's become an even bigger joke than a Monty Python film. Well no more: I'm finishing this story even if it kills me. Because that's how much of myself I've put into it, into Sonic, into Avatar, into Fanfiction.

So I just wanna say sorry for wasting everyone's time for anyone that cared about this fanfic. I'm gonna follow through.

Once more: On with the Season 1 Finale!

Book Four

Metal

Chapter Eight

Deep Inside Of...

"...And that's basically how we got up here." finished the young warrior to the the girls.

"So lemme' get this straight," Toph began,"Robotnik kidnapped us just so he could make an exchange for one magic rock? That's stupid! He's got the other six; he couldn't get it himself?"

"Maybe there's something special about that one?" Katara considered."Or about having all seven?"

Sokka shrugged his geared-up shoulders."I dunno, maybe he's just really paranoid for some reason. But whatever, now that I've found you guys, we need to find a way out of here before the guy wises up!" he announced, gesturing out the entryway.

"...Which takes us back to where we started: How?" the blind girl repeated.

Instead of holding his chin, Sokka scratched the back of his head audibly."...erm, Look, I don't know, okay? I just assumed that after Aang beated Eggman..."

"You mean Dr. Robotnik," Katara corrected.

"...Whatever-that we'd just magicly pop back to the Fire Nation the same way we left; I mean, that's how this guy's been doing it, right?"

"Yeah, but that's assuming Twinkle Toes can beat'em at all," Toph argued," I don't know about you, but what I saw back in that control room was worth ten Sozin's Comets. How're we supposed to top that?"

Sokka hunched over."ugh, Listen, I already told you, Aang has the last one! And what makes me stronger without touching it should make the Avatar invincible. And even if we can't use it to get back, they're still the...ya' know, the ships...!" he staggered.

"Ships?" the blind girl wondered.

"Oh, hey yeah!" Katara remembered,"While we were in the control room, Robotnik showed us these huge airships that flew around the station; I guess Sokka saw them too..."

Toph cocked her head skepticly."I'm sorry, 'airships'? How could there be airships where there's no air? And even if there are, how're we supposed to get to the ships if we can't breath?"

A shy ahem permitted the trio's attention. They turned to see Azula with her left hand raised, though her meek expression betrayed her character. "Um, that might not be the case..." the firebender explained,"The ships we saw weren't the same as a conventional dirrigible. They looked like they were being propelled by some kind of internal combustion engine. The Fire Nation were acually working on prototypes of that nature, though they never made into practical usage. The point is, any form of combustion should be chemically impossible without oxygen..."

Silence...

"...That's science for 'air' ," she translated.

"...Which means whatever air supply the station has, it's also surrounding it from the outside! Good thinking, Az-uh...zula..." the warrior sputtered.

"erm-No problem, heh..." the former princess replied sheepishly, reverting her eyes to a wall and plaiyng with her long hair.

Sokka observed the remnants of tears across the firebender's cheeks; he honestly wondered what happened in this room, but he'd ask about that later."...This is good; if we have to run, we have a plan B. All we have to is find a safe way to get to those ships; so when Aang takes down Eggman..."

"Robotnik," Toph corrected also.

"Whatever!-we'll be able to get back on our own." he elaborated, walking out into the hallway.

"You're leaving out the part where we have to navigate through a mega-huge space station, fight through swarms of machine monsters, and operate an impossibly advanced spaceship, on the off-chance Aang can beat Robotnik," the earthbender reminded as the girls walked out with him.

"Hey, I've flown an airship once, and made designed for sub-immersible ships; I think I know my way around a little engineering. Besides, I've been tearin' through this place all night; these guys're easy," Sokka smirked, raising his new weapon.

Just then, a pair of Artificial Chaos dropped down on either end of the teens.

"...Except for these guys...these guys are horrifically deadly..." Sokka recalled, trying to keep his "cool".

The creatures produced their tentacles to strike; but before they could, a not-so mysterious force rented their liquid bodies right out from their robotic heads, causing them both to clang to the floor simultaneously.

"Ah, finally, some water!" Katara said, allowing the liquid to envelope her arms.

"...Anybody else need to armor up?" Sokka inquired.

Azula sniffled a bit."I...no, I think I'm ready..." she replied, wiping off her sorrow.

"Eh, I'll just pick up the metal as we go," Toph resolved.

The former waterbender cocked his gun."Then let's go."

Sonic came to Yu Dao to save the town, he came to this mountain to save the mayor, he went down to the dungeon to save his friends; but now, as his limp body dangled by this woman's grip, eyed by both Gow and his band of merry morons while carried towards the door to the aforementioned "client", he wondered how the heck he was supposed to save himself. June pushed open the door to a rather fancy looking abode given the location, adorned with nice rugs, furniture, a window to over look the massive hanger of a cave full of weapon crates and tanks as well as a huge green zeppelin, and paintings so fine that this had to be the not-villian's room. And on the other end, facing a fire place that glowed menacing green fire, was the familiar silhouette himself - yep, definitely not a villain...

"Here he is, Boss,"June began,"The fabled Blue Spirit - turns out he's just another talking rat."

"Woman, I am THEE talking rat!" Sonic snapped.

Oblivious to the strange remark, June simply tossed the blue hedgehog onto the nice rug belly first; she then yanked Sonic's ear back (painfully, as intended), pulling his head up so that he could see her client, still watching the green fire."And I'm gonna need a bonus; given the number he dealt to your forces, you know it's worth it."

"Of course," Long Feng replied,"You'll be given twice General Iroh's weight in gold for this one."

June chuckled, crossing her arms."I love my job."

Long Feng finally turned his head, just enough to eye the new prisoner.

"If you want to have a staring contest, you need both eyes to do it..." remarked Sonic.

"An exotic rock merchant..." Long Feng slowly recited, turning around fully."Were this not the Earth Kingdom, I'd think myself to be surrounded by imbeciles."

"Oh no, their all imbeciles: that trick works all the time in my world..." The hedgehog rolled his eyes gleefully, before his back was brutally stomped on by Gow."See, if you weren't an imbecile, you would've known I can't feel that."

"Leave the creature be," Long Feng ordered."I want to speak with it alone."

"What am I, an amorphous blob? It's pretty obvious what my gender is." Snarked Sonic as the other two left the office, Gow of course slamming the door shut.

Long Feng turned around fully."For the record, I knew that you were hiding in the library," he stated as he sat down before Sonic, pouring himself some tea,"I'll be willing to forgive that boy of his treachery as soon as he completes his assignment."

"Yeah, sure ya did," remarked the hedgehog,"So what I've gathered so far, you're the villain, right"

"Villain?" Long Feng's eyes narrowed,"This entire continent is in chaos, The Earth King is missing, the Fire Nation constantly threatens to rekindle the flames of war upon my people, and all those that have the power to stop it are a gang of bickering children, but I'm the villain?"

"You're rampaging all over the world, raising villages to the ground, hurting who knows how many innocent people, instead of telling whatever problem solving kids you're talkin' about about whatever's going on out here, which you could have done the entire time instead of causing all the above first - me thinks you want a war." Sonic raised his brow.

"Contrary to your woefully misinformed opinion, I want the opposite. Let me tell you a story..." Long Feng sipped his tea."Long ago, the four nations lived in harmony, but then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, the master of all four elements could stop them, but when the world needed him most..."

"Don't tell me," Sonic guess," he vanished?"

"...for the last hundred years," Long Feng added," and only just now has he returned. Yes, he won the war, yes, he saved the world, but did he restore balance? Not at all," he growled,"Instead of killing off Fire Lord Ozai, along with his bloodline, the Avatar, in his oh so coveted mercy, spared his life and allowed his son to rule the Fire Nation, just as it would have happened if the Avatar did nothing," he irritably arose from the floor,"And the rest of us simply have to accept it? To believe the world is finally at peace fresh from a century of fighting and death? It is inexcusable! I refuse to wallow in this gutter as those impudent brats frolic over the ashes of my labor. I WILL restore order to the chaos they have cost me!" he flung his cup, it shattering against the wall.

Noting this, Sonic blinked."I'm sensing a not very nice history between you and these 'kids'..." he smirked,"Now I get it! You're not just a villain, you're a villain out for revenge! Dude, I love revenge stories! Especially the part where the villain loses even harder than the last time!"

Long Feng face was flushed with rage; but then he breathed, his composed demeanor return."I don't care what you think of me. What matters between the both of us is that you and your people have been interfering with my agenda. Of all you bothersome little creatures, it is your description that is reported to me the most frequent. I can only assume that you are their leader.

"You assumed right, Mr. Crabs," Sonic replied."We're called the Sonic Heroes: epic adventures and world-saving is our forte!" he announced, claimed honestly.

"If you want to save the world, why are you defending the tyrants?" Long Feng asked,"Avatar Aang and Fire Lord Zuko have neither said nor done nothing about the Fire Nation colonies, mines, and military bases scattered throughout the land; They called it piece, but it is painfully obvious that the Avatar does not care about the Earth Kingdom, and will likely side with the Fire Nation once the war rises anew." He held out his hands."But you could stop them, just as you've been stopping entire armies ever since you appeared. You and your friends should be helping us; standing up for the weak instead of inadvertently serving those whom are unjustly in power."

"Yeeeaaah, sorry, Shawshank Redemption, maybe it's just your mustache but I don't trust a word you say," Sonic affirmed,"Especially considering you're side locked up all my friends. Anybody that does that is my enemy for life."

"All the worse for you, then," Long Feng tilted his head."Now that you and your precious firends have been detained, my resistance can finally regather its strength and invade the Fire Nation itself. By the end of this year, not only will the war be over for real, but the Fire Lord and his royal bloodline shall be no more," he smirked,"so yes, I will have my revenge."

"Well I got some bad news for you, Hades," began Sonic."First, you haven't captured all of my friends, and I'd really love to see you capture my rival. And second, not only will you never get your revenge, but I'm gonna personally make sure you guys never even set foot on the Fire Nation."

"And how exactly is a crippled little rodent going to do that?"

Sonic grinned."Just...like...this..."

*toot*

The soft but pungent noise brought complete silence to the room...

Long Feng blinked in disgust,"...did you just...?"

"Excuse me," Sonic said,"that was just my super-fast metabolism burnin' out the last of that toxin..." he explained as he casually pushed himself to his feet and dusting himself off.

"WHAT!?-" Long Feng sounded just before a blue blur pinned him to the wall.

"Telling your henchmen to leave you alone with the only one who can stop you just to have a monologue...," the hedgehog deadpanned, cocking his fist,"but you're not the frikkin' villain, right?" he asked before swinging his fist.

Meanwhile, in the hanger, the breaking of glass was followed by the scream of Long Feng fading into audibility as his body slammed painfully onto a wheeled cargo of produce, causing the whole thing to collapse to pieces.

"MY CABBAGES!" cried the merchant, clutching his head. He flung an accusatory finger."Long Feng! You said you would ensure my cabbages your utmost protection! IT WAS ALL A LIE!"

In a beat, Sonic landed on Long Feng's gut, the man grunting."No insurance plan in the UNIVERSE can stop me!" he cried heroically, causing the merchant to scream like a ninny and run away.

All the alerted renegades swarmed the hedgehog with floating stones and spears.

This only made Sonic grin wider."Okay, then. You want me to save the world? It's time for the final level!" he shot into the air as a ball and spun straight into the army.

Final Rush

An explosion erupted through the violate-blue wall. The Avatar lept through the smoke a second later, only to discover that not only was he outside again, but now he was helplessly plunging down towards the earth with nothing to break his fall, causing the boy to scream and flail his limbs crazily.

Something, however, caught his eye: while there were several floating platforms out of reach, he could see nearly within his path a yellow rail that curved down at a steep angle. The airbender used the somehow artificial air to adjust his trajectory so that he could land on it; but due to a slight miscalculation on his part, his feet were the first make violent contact with the railing, resulting in him sliding down against it at extreme velocity.

Aang wobbled around his arms and body, just trying to maintain balance as wind blew against his sacred airbender garb. He sped through three floating hoops that made a rather indescribable sound as he continued his periling descent.

Four red, bird-looking machines flanked the Avatar from above, releasing rockets that flew parrallel with them. Aang shot two fireballs each for the rockets on one side, and for one of the machines; it was knocked into the one behind it, taking them both out. He shot two more at once on the other side, and sent a wave of air that destroyed the remaining machines.

As Aang continued to grind, the soles of his delicate shoes were slowly being burned away by the great amount of traction; upon realizing this, he promptly jumped up over the end of the rail just in time, clearing a long, flat platform with another rail connected to it, and created an air scooter before landing on the next rail and blowing down at an even faster rate.

The rail eventualy met up in between two more rails, all three parallel to eachother. Three green machines flew in from behind and immediately zipped twenty feet in front of the Avatar. They turned around to face the boy, somehow able to maintain their vectors backwards. Within a span of two seconds, Aang saw the one in the middle's dual cannon begin to glow; the airbender quickly navigated to the rail on his right before the machine released two wide beams of light. The machine on the right simply mimicked the first one, charging its light cannon and forcing Aang to return to the middle rail before it fired. The middle repeated its attack, Aang retrating to the left rail before it fired again. Then, catching the young Avatar slightly off guard, the left and middle machines charged their cannon at the same time, causing Aang to revert to the right rail before they fired. Afterwards, the right and left ones charged, making Aang return to the middle rail before they fired once more.

Deciding enough was enough, the Avatar accelerated his speed two fold to retaliate. As all three began to charge their cannon, Aang pounced onto the middle one's right canon, causing the machine to spin rapidly as its cannon automaticly fired, taking out its metallic brothers. The unit wobbled and sputtered away from the rail, nearing the station's exterior. Aang monkeyed on top the machine, raises his hands, and slammed them against it, blasting it downward with an air colomn, proppeling himself up several feet. His left foot landed on a much smaller floating machine as he punched a fireball at another one between him and the wall; Aang kicked off the machine and blew it away as well with an air current in mid-flip before dashing against the shiny metal wall, his left hand and right foot making beif contact before he air-boost-sprinted far up the exterior, intent on getting back inside somehow.

However, this action seemed to have been anticipated by Eggman, as there were dozens of black, floating, red-glowing mines lined unevenly up in three rows, forcing the airbender to perilously swerve left and right, barely missing mine after mine; one mine he couldn't avoid, he blasted it with air to produce a sheild-effect as it exploded.

"AAAAAAAWWW-YEAAAAAAHH!", cried the blue blur as it bolted straight into one of the renegades. It then quickly ricocheted off of another one, knocking her into a wall and pacifying her. The blur repeated the same trick with five more renegades until finally schreeching to a haul, revealing itself to be Sonic the Hedgehog. Two of the renegades tried to flank Sonic by standing on either side of him and simultaneously firing two rocks at him. Sonic merely ducked, and the two renegades ended up knocking eachother out.

"And I thought earthbenders were tough," complained Sonic.

A mean-looking man came at him with a spear; Sonic pinned the blade to the dirt with his heel, ran up the shaft, and round-house kicked the man in the face. As he touch down, he grabbed the spear and used it to block the downward swings of a man and woman's swords; he prodded the woman's boot with the spearhead and jabbed the other end of the shaft into the man's stomach, then jumped and spun, knocking the away with either end, landing stylishly on his feet and free hand with the spear behind him.

The hedgehog turned his attention up to the tank in front of him; he figured the renegades could do serious harm to helpless towns with such machinations; but fortunately for the townsfolk, Sonic was the bane of machines. He rushed to the nearest crate of explosives and snatched a few dynamite sticks, igniting the fuse of one by scratching the wick against his quills. With an open grin, he pulled back, and dashed away; he flipped opened the hatch of one tank and flung the lit stick within, slamming the hatch shut, before the tank was warped from the inside from the explosion. He buzzed throughout the hangar, throwing all the dynamite into the tanks and watching them explode (while hoping no one was in them...)

Sonic zipped back to his former position, planting the spear proudly into the ground."And just like that, no mo' tanks." he smirked, until the edges of his quills trembled at a recently familiar sensation...

Sonic quickly shifted to his left to dodge the long tongue that whipped the space Sonic was no longer in, watching it recede into the mouth of the growling shirshu, June riding atop the beast; Gow stood beside, his hammer ready.

"I gotta thank you for nailin' me with that cheap shot earlier," Sonic gestured at the monster with an open palm "trial and error is the best way I improve."

"I'm gonna bag you for a mint, you talking vermin!" snarled June as she crackled her whip, making Nyla pounce for the hedgehog. Sonic intercepted the head of the shirshyu with a homing attack, leaving the shocked June wide open for Sonic swinging the spear shaft against her head, knocking her off her mount an rolling on the dirt. Gow slammed his hammers on the ground, forcing a pair of boulders up and lauching them both for Sonic, Nyla whipping around for another pounce in the same instant. Sonic kicked one boulder back into the shirshu's sensitive nose, and kicked off the other boulder, spinning right into Gow's head. Of course one homing attack to Gow's hard skull clearly wasn't enough to down the soldier, and so Sonic spun into his head in succession from various directions, the dizzy Gow eventually toppling over like a tree.

Sonic stopped again, sighing as he wondered when evil henchmen were ever useful."Ya'know, for a hedgehog that destroys machines for a living, I'm not used to hurtin' people this much, but I gotta say, I get the appeal..." he gloated as he rested the spear over his shoulder; then he ran off to destroy some more machines.

Amy moaned quietly."Silver, my nose is itchy; do you thing you could find something with your mind to scratch it?" she asked, hoping the other hedgehog still had some semblance of sense.

"...sssecret tunneeeeel, sssecret tunneeeeel..." Silver sang, clearly having none left.

"Don't worry, Amy, Sonic will rescue us soon," Tails consoled.

"No, I know that," Amy replied,"I'm just uncomfortable."

"You seem to be very confident in your blue friend," the mayor observed,"But he was captured as well. Are you sure he will escape?"

"Trust me, Mayor" Tails smirked,"Sonic has definitely escaped by now." he assured, looking optimistically at the ceiling."I'll bet that as we speak, Sonic is taking on the entire renegade army, wiping the floor with them, and kicking their leader to the curb..." the fox said "He'll remember to free us when he's done. Seriously, this happens all the time."

"So..." the mayor blinked."...we wait?"

"We wait..." Tails affirmed.

Just then, the ground exploded as a familiar white boxing glove shot upwards. In came Knuckles."Guys!"

"...Or that happens..." Amy added."Hi, Knuckles!"

"Hi, Amy," Called another voice, as Rouge jumped out next to Knuckles."So, how soon did you get captured?"

"There're more of you!?" the mayor gaped.

"A lot more," Tails answered."Some people find it annoying how many friends Sonic has..."

"Father!"

The mayor gasped, as Kori emerged from the ground as well."Kori!" he cried happily.

"How'd you guys know we were down here? How'd you even find eachother? Is Shadow here" Tails raised a brow.

"No more questions!" Kori snapped."We must leave, now!"

"But I 'tought we were gonna wait for Sonic..." Big reminded.

"There's no time to wait for Sonnek, giant cat," Kori said,"This entire base is going to be reduced to ashes!"

The four were still within the halls, battling the GUN security drones as they made their way to the outside.

Sokka and Azula fired rapidly at the floating Lazer Beetles, the former at some point figuring out how to gauge the weapon's calibur through the amount of pressure placed upon the trigger.

Katara used her water tentacles to absorb the beams fired by the large Hunters, whipping one's sheild clean out of its pincer and pulling its leg out from under it, making it fall over and, in the same movement, spun and sent the water around its sheild and against the right of another robot's head, knocking it on its left.

Toph pressed her small hand against the metal wall, pulling out a jagged metal circle like a suction cup; she threw it like a shuriken, diagonaly slicing through a drones head, taking it down.

The firebender blasted at a drone that blocked the blue fireball with its sheild; this reaction was intended, as she ran quickly and slid under through the sheild between the drone's feet. She got up and nailed the unit in the back. The former princess could only turn around soon enough as to see another drone priming its lazer before a liquid tentacle consumed the weapon, causing the machine to blow half its own arm off, toppling over.

"They're more coming from behind!" Toph announced.

The other three turned around to see a second wave of Lazer Hunters, accompanied by a squadron of brawny, hovering Lazer Hawks.

Toph grabbed the end of a metal panel on the floor and pried it apart, pulling it upwards to serve as some cover as the drones opended fire, which she, the fire, and nonbender promptly huddled behind while the waterbender covered the opposite by surrounding herself with thick, octopus-like liquid tentacles that whipped to and fro to block the lazerfire.

Getting bold, Azula decided to exit the cover, and run and jump through the water tentacles as she swirled around her fingers in a familiar manner, charging some lightening. As the firebender did this, Sokka got the guts to arise from Toph's cover as well and aim his weapon toward the opposing fire and pull the trigger hard. Both attacks tore through the remaining drones on either end of the hallway, followed by silence.

"So this is what being awesome is like..." Sokka lamented, caressing his weapon.

"Eh, you start to take it for granted after a while..." Toph added.

"GIVE ME A BIG, FAT BREAK!" the twitching scientist whaled, pulling on his glorious mustache as he beheld the feed.

Oh, he could see it now: another series of endless failures, the constantly growing number of young thrill-seeking enemies, unbearable belittlement and condescension of the masses, a b-grade comedic cartoon starring Jaleel White...

The more he acknowledged the inevitable, the more he just wanted to give up the ARK and get it over with! The foundation of his ultimate scheme was being negated before his very eyes! Here he was, the greatest mind in the history of two worlds, semi-limitless power betwixt his palms, brought down by overly stimulated hormones and magic. It was a mockery of his Grandfather's legacy!

No, he could not let this happen - he WOULDN'T. It was his destiny to...to...

Destroy them...

...wait...That was it...he had limitless power...so why wasn't he using it? He could end it all, he could own this world and all that therein, he could have that arrow-brained brat kneeling at his feet by sunrise; all the doctor needed was a little...petty threat.

Destroy them all...

At this epiphany, Eggman began happily typing away at the keyboard, preparing the countdown, setting his newly formed plan C into motion. This little space skirmish wasn't over yet - halfway at best - and why not? In reflection of all the nostalgia, he might as well embrace it all the way.

An unlucky Egg Pawn was sent flying off a platform, courtesy of the young Avatar.

Aang's arms slacked, clearly winded from his high-speed daboggle.

"Attention! Hello? Testing 1-2-3...!" a familiar voice rang throughout the vicinity, tensing the boy as he turned in multiple directions.

"Where is he?" Katara inquiried.

"I don't feel him anywhere..." Toph wondered.

"I have seriously underestimated you kids, haven't I?" Eggman's voice fake-marveled, "I thought I had the edge with technology, but once again, I've been proven dead wrong! Truly, you benders are a very facinating sect of mankind, Ho-Ho! Such a shame a foot has to put down and end it all; but I simply don't have the time for this anymore, so listen closely..."

"Have any of you by chance caught a glimpse of that enormous, pointy extension of the station?"

Aang recalled his vision. He looked around, and inevitably spotted the massive point that could've been seen from Earth via telescope.

"I bet you've all been wondering just what the hell that thing is?" he mused, with a slight hint of agitation,"It's called the Eclipse Cannon - that's right! It's one huge cannon, the biggest cannon ever constructed, capable of wiping out entire land masses in a single blast! And guess which land mass where floating above at this very moment?"

"He's not talkin' about..." Toph stumbled.

"I think he is..." Sokka confirmed.

"So now I think we understand eachother..." Eggman continued, leaning contentedly back in his chair, watching the ever decreasing numbers on the monitor,"You have less than ten minutes to surrender to me my emerald and end this childish resistance before I provide a solution to your Fire Nation problem myself...

"...by wiping the entire continent from the face of the earth!"

Aang's heart skipped another beat.

"I await your response...Avatar..." the doctor concluded, turning off the intercom and calmly strolling out of the room.

"This is bad..." Katara grimaced.

"Ya think? He's gettin' ready to blow up the flippin' Fire Nation!" Toph retorted."We gotta find Aang, now."

"Forget the Avatar! We'll take down Robotnik, and claim this station for ourslves!" Azula announced fiercely, a maniacal grin spread across her face.

An awkward stare from the other three...

"...er-Sorry about that; I was in a mode..." she apologized, still adapting to her return to the front line.

"Well, crazy-aside, that doesn't sound so bad..." Katara considered,"I think we should head back for that control room and stop him. Toph, do you remember the way?"

"Maybe, I haven't had a chance to really memorize this place..." the earthbender replied.

Sokka sighed."No, we shouldn't; we still need to find an escape," he reminded.

"What? Didn't you hear what he said?" the waterbender inquired.

"I heard him calling out the Avatar, who is probably hauling wind straight for him. Eggman is Aang's fight; we'd only get in the way."

"The only thing we'd be 'getting in the way' of is the Fire Nation getting blown up!" Toph retorted.

"Granted, but he might just be bluffing; it could all be a trap set for us," the warrior speculated.

"Sokka, why are you so afraid of him? He's just one person; I'm not even sure he's a bender," the water bender responded.

He laid his gloved hands on her shoulders."Then we have nothing to worry about when Aang faces him. We need to get outside," Sokka firmly re-resoluted.

Katara took note of his alien clothing...

Cannot...trust...

Katara shook her head."...Okay, let's get outside," she agreed halfheartedly.

Sokka turned to the other girls.

"Makes sense..." the firebender mumbled.

"I just wanna get outta here..." Toph said.

The Avatar plopped to his small knees, unable to comprehend the threat just given."How could I let this happen?"

His mind flashed back to all the faces in the Fire Nation he'd ever seen. He remembered that nice girl from the school, the bully who tried to assault him, the "Flame-yo's", who are actually quite popular these days, the indigenous fishing village of Jang Hui, all the commoners he scammed in Fire Fountain City, even the woman who portrayed him in the play.

Zuko, Ty Lee, Mai, their families, General Iroh, Ozai and all the bad people; he didn't care, good or bad, they were all about to...

How could someone even want to do something so...so...

It wasn't fair. Everything he ever worked for was on the verge of obliteration and... and he himself, the Avatar, could nothing about it!

Aang had never felt so helpless in his entire life. The worst part of it was that even if he wanted to give Eggman the seventh emerald, he couldn't even find his way back into the station!

Aang stopped on that thought for a moment, and produced the jewel from his robes, cupping it in his hands and scanning it. " 'One of seven'..." he remembered."...If you really are one of seven...then that means you must have a connection to the others!" he considered, actually talking to the stone. This was not strange - there was so much energy emanating from the emerald, it felt alive.

"Maybe you can show me where your siblings are?" he wondered. After all, if Eggman cared about them so much, he must be watching over them wherever they are.

Aang thought it was worth a shot - he honestly had no more options. The young Avatar folded his legs inward, and clenched the Chaos Emerald tightly, closing his eyes, and attempting to merge his spirit with the jewel, in effort to contact the other six...

His eyes soon shot open, his brow raised in confusion."Wait, what?" Instead of finding the emeralds, however, the airbender received a strange couple of images in his mind which were rather difficult to interpret. The Avatar then curiously closed his eyes and resumed meditation...

Countless pictures and sounds and voices blew through his head, too fast and too strange to understand: not only did he see visions of Eggman, he also saw a grinning blue hedgehog with red shoes running through the hallway at an incredible speed, a fox inside a large violate vehicle with legs shooting at the machines, a red echidna saving a female bat from a fall, a pink girl hedgehog in a dress pleading with a black hedgehog who was trying to ignore her, the supposed "Eclipse Cannon" firing and destroying part of the moon, the fox battling Eggman, the blue hedgehog and the black hedgehog running alongside eachother outside the space station, an enormous orange reptile roaring into the heavens, the blue hedgehog trapped within a glass cylinder, Eggman pointing somekind of weapon at the pink hedgehog, an image of an old man tied down in a chair that resembled Eggman, a tear dripping from the black hedgehog's eye, the echidna talking to a big green jewel that started glowing, a pair of golden hedgehogs gathering a growing ball of energy in front of them...

"Chaos...CONTROL!"

Aang snapped back into the real world, staggering back an dropping the emerald. He breathed loudly gazing in awe upon the enchanted stone; he gradually calmed down...

" 'Chaos Control'?" he repeated quietly, the only clear words heard in his mind"...It looks like you've got a memory of your own..." Aang realized; apparently, there was more to this vessel than Eggman was letting on. A part of him wanted to learn more, but he had something more pressing at the moment."...but It's not helping me; I need to know where the other Chaos Emeralds are," he announced to the rock, picking it up and continuing his meditation, this time he found what he wanted...

He envisioned zipping though the halls at great pace, turning and swerving all across the station, until slowing down in a dark room with a giant pillar at the very center of the station. As he got closer, the pillar opened up, revealing six lights of varying colors.

I found them...

Immediately, his eyes and tattoos glowed, air began swirling around him, making him levitate higher and higher until he was covered in huge, spinning sphere of wind. The fully realized Avatar blasted forth back into the massive satellite.

With the spear from earlier in his hands, Sonic spun through the air like a giant buzzsaw, severing the chains of the harness that held the airship against the ceiling. The massive blimp dropped down, the collision with the ground kicking up a huge cloud of dust as the ship crumpled to pieces from its own weight, engulfing the hangar in grey smoke. The Earth Kingdom renegades poured out of the hangar as they screamed, fleeing from the destruction.

When it all finally cleared, there was but a hangar of metallic wreckage, everything in the room reduced to scrap, and at the summit of the newly formed junk yard happily sat Sonic, propping his head against a leaning girder as if it were a beach chair. The hedgehog took the mayhem all into his nose, and exhaled."I love bein' the hero..." he contentedly rubbed his nose with his finger.

Tails, Kori, and the rest of the familiar company rushed into the ruined hangar with shocked faces (at least Kori and her fatherwas shocked anyway).

"This place looks like it was struck by a hurricane!" Morishita gaped as his widen eyes scanned the damage.

"More like a Hedge-icane!" Sonic cockily retorted as he bounded off his resting place and epiccly landed before the group."No need to shower me with praise or give me the key to the city, Mr. Mayor, doing the right thing is a reward unto itself-hey is that Knuckles-" he was rudely cut off as Knuckles' knuckles plowed into his snout, the back of his head sliding against the floor."Ah mizzed u too, Knux..." the poor hedgehog blurted as his pupils twirled about their sockets.

"You IDIOT!" Knuckles barked, his post-Sonic-hitting fist clenched."What have you done!?"

Sonic naturally arose irately."uhhh, I think I just stopped the badguy - thanks for nothin', bro." he leered at Knuckles.

"I think what his fist was trying to say," Rouge explained," is that now that you've defeated these badguys, they'll be completely vulnerable against the army of the original badguys that's coming right this way, i.e., the Fire Nation."

Sonic blinked."Isn't that a good thing?"

"No it is not!" the mayor answered."Have you not seen what the Fire Nation does to earthbenders!? The lucky survivors will rot in cages for the rest of their lives!"

"That bad, huh?" Sonic raised a brow.

"The Fire Nation military is bringing a thousand men strong, with waves of tanks and a fleet of airships - they'll run this whole mountain to the ground," Kori said.

"A fleet!?" Sonic repeated."Ain't that a bit overkill?"

"You just don't get it, Sonic!" Knuckles growled."The Earth Kingdom and the Fire Nation were at war just a few months ago, and the Fire Nation lost! But now, there's this whole army of Earth Kingdom people fighting them; the Fire Nation's gonna get all up in that business!"

"The war doesn't just concern the Earth Kingdom, Sonnek," Kori added," but all nations - the entire world. If these two army's fight again, and the Fire Nation destroys them," Kori paused," the entire world will be engulfed in endless war all over again."

At her every word, the blue hedgehog's pupils shrank."...ohhhh crap..."

Cosmic Wall

A pair of wide doors split apart as the four dashed through the opening, only to skid to a halt before almost slipping over the edge, as there was no more floor to traverse. They beheld another vast chasm of the space station, this time filled with dozens of flat, colored, floating platforms, floating boulders, and other floating things, including armed floating security drones; and to top it off, they had a perfect view of the earth.

"Alrighty, Sokka," Toph began,"We're outside...now what!?"

The kids turned around to (minus Toph) see another score of drones headed their way, and preparing to open fire.

"JUMP!" was Sokka's answer, the four holding hands and attempting to leap to the nearest platform, inadvertently launching themselves roughly thirty feet in the air, screaming all the way.

"Waaahh! Why are we flying!?" Katara cried.

"I DON'T KNOW!" Sokka shrieked.

They landed at the end of said platform, Toph bouncing off the edge and Katara lunging forth to grab her friend."Don't worry, Toph!" she announced before using all her strength to hall the dangling blind girl back up. This proved unwise, as she ended up hurling the earthbender back into the air.

"Why're we so strong all of a sudden!?" Katara wondered.

"It's the gravity; it's weaker out hear somehow..." Azula reasoned.

"Hang on, Toph, I've got youuuuuuUUUUH-!" was the noise Sokka made as he leapt up to catch the screaming girl, flying upwards like an airbender. As he wrapped his arm around Toph, another Gold Beetle appeared in their path above. Sokka aimed his weapon as best as he could, the force of its own blast propelling the two back down onto the platform where the fire and waterbenders caught and stabilized them. A Lazer Hawk and ( as with the scenery) floating Artificial Chaos flanked them. Before the Hawk could shoot, Katara seized the Chaos's water body, converted them into tentacles, used them to grab the large drone, spun at three-sixty degrees, and flung the unit into destinations unknown, courtesy of the low gravity.

More drones intercepted the four.

"Everybody, do what I do!" Sokka announced, leaping up to a higher platform.

"You mean 'eat meat and not bend'?" the blind girl cracked before Azula and Katara jumped with him the waterbender holding the earthbender's hand (much to the earthbender's dismay). The group continued to bound from platform to platform, attacking any offensive drones that met them; though Toph could not fight, as she could see essentially nothing."Grr, why are we even out here!? I thought we were looking for a ship!?" She reminded as she and Katara soared up high.

"Relax, Toph, everything's going to work out. Besides, you gotta admit, this is pretty fun!" Katara beamed.

"For seeing people maybe!"

As Azula sailed to the next platform, she caught sight of a strange-looking drone on her immediate right: it resembled one of the Beetles, but was surrounded by six objects that slowly separated from the drone. Before she could have another thought, the six objects barreled towards her like a swarm of buzzard vultures. In the same instanced, the firebender had an epiphany about one of her more advanced techniques. She quickly swung her legs in front of her and fired with all her limbs in the same direction, causing the former princess to literally fly in the opposite direction like a living rocket. She spun and twirled and looped till she had what could be considered a decent grip on this ability. She realized the missiles were still perusing her; a thoughtful smile appeared on her face. She flew all the way back to her point of flight, then out from behind the drone, leading its missiles back with her, destroying the unit.

The four eventually made into another opening in the ARK, which lead down to wide, a semi-triangular-shaped shaft with various non-floating platforms hanging off the walls. As they breezed down, they were caught off guard by an Artificial Chaos clinging to the bottom of one of the platform, predictably assimilated by Katara and splashed into another Lazer Hawk.

They touched down to the ground; noticing a doorway in front of them, they skipped through it, finding a pair of Laser Beetles that Azula immediately destroyed with two furious kicks of blue flame. There was a tall step which they hopped over; they now stood before another strange platform sitting just before a gate of yellow, horizontal light beams.

"Great. What now, fearless leader?" Toph inquired.

The "leader" stroked his chin."I guess we should hold a perimeter until Aang finds us..." Sokka mused, right before more Laser Hawks and Beetles poured in through the doorway.

The group backed up and taking stances, accidentally stepping on the platform, putting enough pressure onto it for the light gate to disappear, the platform (actually a tram) speeding out of the apparent exit and carrying the frighten four with with. It traveled on a glowing rail that trailed abroad outside the station.

"Can't anything for once just happen the way we think it will!?" Toph wondered loudly.

"Toph, there are boulders in the way. Bend them!' Katara announced.

Her eyes widened."No way...There's earth up here? Finally!"

"Well, technically there from space so I don't think they would qualify as earth..." Azula started.

Regardless, the Blind Bandit felt for the boulders, and bent them out of the path of the futuristic tram. The tram lead to even more alien machinery; there were ledges with strange cylinders whose tops went up and down, hovering green and orange panels with horizontal line/lights that corresponded with their color.

"What is the purpose of all these devices?" Azula wondered.

"I don't know, but they're are so many..." Sokka added, then smirked,"bet' I can hit more stuff then you..."

"You're on," the firebender retorted.

The two began competitively shooting at every destructible object passed by, from cylinders to drones to even boulders that didn't even pose a threat to them.

After a bit more target practice, the tram lead into an orange tunnel going slightly downward.

"It looks like it ends somewhere around here..." Toph announced.

"Aw man! Just when I was getting high score...!" Sokka whined.

"I think there's something more important happening than your hit percentage..." Katara reminded, looking back.

"I know, saving the universe, sorry..." the teen warrior consigned.

"Actually, I was talking about that thing..." the waterbender replied, pointing behind the group. The rest turned to see an enormous drill spinning right for them.

"Where did that come from!?" Sokka vocalized.

"As if it matters..." Azula replied, already in the process of charging a lighting bolt and firing at it directly. Though it wasn't destroyed, sparks flew as it slowed down completely; the tram continued on.

A huge air tunnel swirled across the hallway, sucking in all sorts of unfortunate badniks towards the Avatar's wind sphere and shredding them to pieces behind him as he rocketed through.

No machine was safe; turtles, fighters, and hammer mech alike were all torn apart before they could even react to his presence. Six Egg Fighters with sheilds attempted to brace for impact, but only lasted half a second as the Avatar blasted a torrent of fire from his mouth, converting them along with a portion of the hall to a glowing, molten mess before being instantly cooled from the air sphere rushing past. Three Egg Gunners flew away from the Avatar in a similar fashion to the three green machine encountered earlier, fireing their missles and bullets in utter futility. The Avatar sent a vertical air blade that split the middle one in half; the blade was immediately expanded outwards, shoving the two halfs against the other two against the walls on either side, crushing them further as the Avatar blew past them. It was clear that nothing could stop this fully realized thirteen-year-old.

Making back inside the station, Sokka, Katara, Toph, and Azula stepped into a familiar looking room with glass flooring, windows that showcased the stars, and a circular panel in the center of he floor.

"Huh, deja'vu..." remarked Toph.

Looking around, Sokka noticed another large metallic device sitting on the floor to the right; it had a wide set of buttons and a glass screen suspended above."Hey..." he smiled,"I bet I can using one o' those thingys to find a way out of here!" he beamed, running over to it.

"You're not serious, are you?" commented Azula,"We don't even know what to call it."

Katara raised an eyebrow as well.

"Yeah, but this isn't first one I found either. You'd be surprised how far I've gotten just by wingin' it..." Sokka replied, laying his weapon on the side and randomly tapping the keys like monkey, his tongue stuck out. "You never know, maybe this is where Eggman keeps the...the uh, what do they call'em?"

Escape...pods...

"...the escape pods," Sokka considered," or maybe I can turn off the cannon from here..." he mused.

" 'escape pods'?" Katara repeated to herself.

"Well, you've got five more minutes before it goes off; better do something, Snoozles," Toph reminded.

"Noted," he replied.

How...does he know...?

Katara seemed to bare a befuddled expression on her innocent face."Um, so, is there anything I should be doing?" she inquired half halfheartedly.

Sokka wasn't looking."Ugh, I dunno, maybe just, er, stand in the middle of the room or something? Like, set a perimeter, incase more machine monsters find us, that'd be good..." he rambled, not really paying attention to what he was saying.

The young waterbender complied nonetheless, slowly pacing onto the wide panel, facing the entrance/exit. It was not long before the girl found her eyes redirected to her brother, still messing with the machine, with no sense of anxiety on his face whatsoever, as if...as if he knew how to use it...

He does...

Come to think of it, the young warrior has so far shown a surprising amount of intuitiveness and wisdom as they traveled throughout the gargantuan man-made satellite. Even when stranded in the middle of outer space, he showed no fear or apprehension like he usually would, but those times were due to the fact that he didn't... know any better...

What does he know...that you don't...?

Of course, Katara knew this was probably stemming from his instinct to lead his loved ones to safety, that he does all the time. Still, it was never with as much optimism as what she was seeing before her. The waterbender's gaze shifted to his alien clothing, and down to that bizarre cannon-like weapon leaned near his feet.

The Weapon...

"Um...so, Sokka, where did you...say you found that thing again?" she managed to ask.

Sokka stopped typing for a moment."What? This thing? I just saw it on the floor somewhere; I don't remember where, but it was in a room...somewhere..." he explained, resuming his typing.

Doctor...gave him...

"...a..." she swallowed,"...and...the suit...?" she choked.

"It was in a crate in some storage room; I thought it could be armor..." Sokka responded nearly without a beat.

Doctor's armor...

Katara recalled also the peculiar precision Sokka employed in utilizing said weapon, almost like someone...like he learned how to use it...

Doctor...showed him...

"You nervous about somethin', Sugar Queen?" Toph inquired,"your heartbeat just went up a few notches..."

"Hm? Oh, I'm fine, I just...need to sit down for a minute..." she dismissed, reverting to a sitting position on her knees. It was then that the teen's vision caught upon a anomaly that especially perturbed her: completely surrounding the panel she was sitting on was what appeared to be a groove between it the rest of the floor; she couldn't sight the bottom of this groove, as if...as if it trailed through the floor itself...as if...as if the whole panel were meant to be detached...

Fall to your death...

...Katara then remembered that painful conversation with Azula, before her brother had found them, before the former princess opened up to Katara; what she told her about the waterbendeing machines, how it was all so convenient, how she was humiliated by her brother in that duel, and for a time, he was...

Dangerous...

...better then her...

He is jealous...

...and then she remembered something else Azula had told her, something she originally believed to be such a heartless, sadistic statement that was meant simply to hurt her. But now, as Katara sat in that spot, her eyes widened, her heart rate increasing, one or two drops of moisture near her brow, staring on utter horror at the person she never thought could turn on her, even more so than Aang...

He betrayed you!

...it all seemed so possible...

He will kill you!

"All I ask is that when you get launched into deep space, your brother's power driven eyes the last thing you see, just remember - the evil psycho princess tried to warn you."

STOP HIM!

"Buttons, buttons, buttons! Man, can't there ever be at least one wheel or lever or-" the former waterbender was unable to finish his thought as his whole body convulsed and writhed uncontrollably; he was immediately dragged away from the computer and across the floor by an outside force, only stopping before his sister, her arms posed in a rigid waterbending form."GRRRUHAH! K-Katara! W-what...are you doing!?"

"Shut up!" was her tearful response, even more shocked of herself then her brother as he grunted and squawked loudly in agony.

"What's wrong with him!?" Azula said, turning around towards the commotion.

"What the-Why the heck're you bloodbending Sokka for!?" Toph demanded.

"Bloodbending? They can do that?"Azula wondered.

"I-I don't know! Oh, why did you have to tell me those things about Sokka!?" the distraught girl cried.

"I was crazy when I told you those things! You're not supposed to listen to crazy people!" the firebender hastily explained.

"When was it, Sokka? Was it after the War? After the meteor? When did you side with Robotnik!?" she demanded, not believing her own words.

"I...I don't even know...what-grf-you're talking about!" Sokka cried.

The blind earthbender raised her hands, speaking slowly."Katara, you are overreacting. You need to calm down, and let go of Sokka..." she tried.

CRUSH HIS BONES!

"Am I overreacting!? It all makes sense when you think about it! Who else could've told him about the water monster, how to use that weapon, or how to get up here in the first place!? WHO else, Toph!?"

"Well, it certainly wasn't me, that's for sure..." replied a familiar voice once the bulwark flew open.

Katara gasped as she spun to the doorway."Dr. Robotnik-!" she was cut off as all four of the teens were instantly sucked within the confines of the Chicken Vacuum.

Dr. Eggman, seated within his signature Egg Mobile, marveled at his genius once again, leaning back into his seat as he stared at his invention."Why did I ever stop using this thing?"

The Avatar burst through the final door, at last touching down onto the thin bridge of the central control room; his arrows faded back to normal as he went out of the Avatar State.

The first thing Aang observed was that the room was empty, he wondered where Eggman was off to. But that wasn't important now, as the airbender had to figure out how to stop the Eclipse Cannon. He ran across the bridge to the main computer terminal, scanning its broad complexity. There were so many buttons and keys the young Avatar couldn't possibly know where to begin to learn which one did which. A part of him was glad he didn't take Sokka with him, who would've pressed everything at random like a primate. The screen above was cluttered with unknowable information that it was almost giving Aang a seizure just looking at it. Suddenly, a synthetic feminine voice out of nowhere calmly announced, "Eclipse Cannon firing in minus three minutes...", effectively translating the text shown. In retrospect, Aang wished Eggman were still here, since he was seemingly the only one able to stop the countdown, or, at least he assumed, his mind recollecting those images. He pondered this whilst impulsively laying his hand against a single key, accidentally causing the whole platform - Aang startled - to rise atleast four feet high while it rotated by ninety degrees along with the terminal. The bulgy, organic-looking membrane also retreated up the pillar a few feet...

The Avatar turned to his right to see a multicolored glow radiating from his previous position, as well as sensing great quantities of energy flowing out of that direction. Is that it?

Aang cautiously stepped around the platform, the sense becoming stronger and stronger until...until the boy stood right in front of them, for in front of him, wedged into an X-shaped stone, were the other six Chaos Emeralds.

He felt the energy within his clothing intensify; he took out the last emerald and noticed an empty diamond-shaped space in the center of the X. Overtaken by curiosity, Aang inched a little closer to the emeralds, motioning to place the ivory emerald into the depression. Just before the jewel was actually plugged in, however, a small electrical current sparked out and ended at the emerald's point, and that's when the Avatar felt it...

He felt a taste of the unlimited, measurable, the ultimate power of the seven emeralds combined, singing throughout his body. It was terrifying, it was exhilarating, and it was all in his grasp. His dream could be realized, everlasting peace would be ensured; not just for the world, but for the universe itself! No more war, no more hate, the Air Nomads would be restored, all disease and death would be nullified, every tragedy would be erased from the very passage of time and give rise to a perfect reality!

AND YOU SHALL BE ITS GOD!

WHAT AM I THINKING!?

The Avatar reeled back, the emerald with him; he breathed audibly.

Aang couldn't believe what went through his mind - he was willing to take advantage of an unknown power not even native to this universe to undo the boundaries placed upon by the spirits - pain, death, suffering, all just as natural as comfort, life, and happiness, without which, all life on earth would descend into total chaos - there's no such thing as "perfection"! And his personal vision of paradise, no matter how wonderful to his ears, would be a grand illusion where nothing matters, that would only satisfy himself and no one else.

The existence of these gemstones alone could eat away the very balance of the earth - the exact thing Aang existed to preserve. He could never allow this power to be obtained by anyone, not even himself, and much less Eggman; it could easily be used to destroy the planet itself, let alone the Fire Nation.

But what was the Avatar to do? He had no idea how to turn off the cannon manually, and he had doubts Eggman'd turn it off for him unless he promised him the last emerald. The only way he could stop it on his own would be to take all seven emerald for himself; it wouldn't that bad an idea, perhaps he could divide them among his friends and...

many gods...

No, he couldn't even stand the idea of Zuko having one; what made him think his friends wouldn't eventually grow power hungry once discovering their true potential?

"Eclispe Cannon firing in minus two mintutes..."

There had to be another way, more than just two black and white choices, like with the defeat of Ozai - he ended the War without having to take his life, he just needed to learn that...

"In the era before the Avatar, we bent not the elements, but the energy within ourselves..."

Hang on, would that work? Aang had no other option; if he was going to try to do that again, he needed to do it quick.

The earth trembled under the rolling treads of tanks, the stomping of armored komodo rhinos, and the swarm of Fire Nation soldiers, spearman and firebenders, and encompassed the horizon as far one could tell, illuminating the land with a firmament of lanterns and torches. The moon was blotted out by a whopping eleven airships in V formation - this was the Fire Nation army, as it flooded the canyon to the secret rebel base, intent on pure destruction in the name of the Fire Lord.

Sonic and co. beheld the impressive force from their vantage point on the cliff.

"The renegades do not stand a chance!" Mayor Morishita whaled.

Sonic slouched his tiny upperhalf over, as the gravity of the situation sank in his large head: this is what those dumb earthbenders were up against now. An hour ago, they could have put up a decent fight at the very least, until...

His eyes dropped downward: until he sped in destroyed their artillery, and forced the soldiers to run away like cowards. All those guys were probably close by, stumbling all over eachother as they try to mount a defense. But they didn't stand a chance, thanks to Sonic. His gut sank."...They're gonna die..." he realized.

"huh?" Knuckles muttered.

"They're all gonna die," Sonic said a little louder."The earthbenders, they can't make it, and it's all my fault..." he lamented, making it clear to himself and every one the stakes.

"Well, at least you'll go down in history as a Fire Nation hero..." Rouge shrugged, simply coping with the dread with dark humor.

Big just scratched his head in confusion and depression, his long ears dipping."But I 'tought' 'dat they were the good guys..."

Kori whipped her head at the giant cat in disdain."There are no 'good guys' in war; the Fire Nation will annihilate the rebels, just as the rebels have aspired to annihilate the Fire Nation. The only one who can stop this cycle of hatred is the Avatar."

"Who isn't here..." Tails added sadly.

They saw the remains of the renegades, futility assembling their first and last stand against the true Fire Nation warmachine; at the front of the poorly organized army were Gao and June, riding atop their Ostrichhorse and shurshyu respectively, doing their best to stand against their superior foe.

"Attention, foolish anarchists!" called a voice from the lead airship. From his magnificent view, the old man announced through his blowhorn, "This is War Minister Qin! I shall grace you maggots with one chance to lay down your arms, and surrender to the Fire Lord; if you refuse, then on the Fire Lord's behalf, none of you will survive!" He threatened with an unseen sneer, as this was what he has been waiting for all this time.

That was all June needed to hear." I'm out..." she resolved, cracking her whip and making Nyla twirl around and sprint off in the opposite direction.

Gow honestly couldn't blame her."Well, men, I guess this is the night where we die for our country! Let it be known that it was at the hands of Fire Lord Zuko and the failure of Avatar Aang that the Earth Kingdom was forever lost to its children! NEVER SURRENDER!" he shot his fist up for all earthbenders to see.

"NO MERCY!" War Minister Qin flung his arm outward for all firebenders to attack.

The greater and lesser armies charged for each other, the vast distance between them quickly shrinking.

"Um, um..." Sonic frantically whipped back and forth between the opposing sides."Okay! Let's take down the big red scary airships...!" he hastily decided, getting ready to dash.

"Wait, Sonic!" Silver finally reached lucidity, throwing out his hand."If you take down the Fire Nation, then the Earth Kingdom would get blamed for it and that would start a war!"

"Well, I think I've done enough to the earthbenders, don't you!? You wanna just finish'em off!?"

"Wha, no!" the drunken Silver still struggled with his speech, "That'd start a war too!"

"Duh, well, um..." Sonic's mind raced faster than his feet "...I'll just run right in between them and tell'em not to fight!"

"Oh yeah," Knuckles glared, "Like all those hardcore blood-crazed warriors are gonna all stop at once and listen to one tiny hedgehog - they won't even see you!"

"No matter what we do, we can't stop this..." Amy breathed.

The exasperated Sonic turned back to the armies, as it was becoming more apparent that he was a slave to watch this: what was he supposed to do? Who was he supposed to fight? All of them? No one? Watch them die? Sonic clutched his head, gritted his teeth, and shut his eyes. He tried his best not to listen to the up and coming carnage, to the rapid stampede of komodo rhinos, to the galloping of ostrich horses, the beasts carrying riders with their spears lowered at their respective enemy, to the chorus of baneful roars sounding from the throats of every soldier ready to throw their lives away for nothing.

...run...away...

He really should, running was all he was ever good at: running from Eggman's lasers, running from a committed relationship with Amy, running from a healthy non-chilidog-based diet. Sure, Sonic, just keep running away from everything, from your past, from your real name...

...from your robot parents...

*pulse*

Sonic was jolted out of his silence by a sudden but familiar wave of energy; it was of such magnitude that it seemed to spread across the world itself.

"Woah!" Knuckles eyes flashed."Anyone else feel that!?"

"Actually, yeah..." Silver sluggishly confirmed, "It felt like a..." he drolled.

Sonic's attention was brought skyward. Aside from the approaching dawn, some other light skid through the atmosphere, something small, yellow, and was just what Sonic needed to see, as his signature wide smirk lined his cheek." No...hedging...way..." He spun around to his friends."Tails! Knux! Sonic Overdrive!"

"Got it!" Knuckles understood.

"Leave it to me!" Tails added.

"Huh?" Kori raised a brow.

Sonic and Tails leapt off the ground, Tails grabbed Sonic's legs and Knuckles grabbed Tail's legs; Knuckles swung the two in a wide circle, spinning on his heels as they kicked up a small tornado. With a yell, Knuckles released them at the perfect time, slinging them into the sky. Sonic and Tails soared over the airships, no doubt confusing some firebenders.

The wind surged against the flying duo, as they grew closer to their target; as soon as they began to lose momentum, Tails was up."It's all you, Sonic!"

"Just how I like it!" Sonic grinned, his game face returned.

Tails let go of Sonic's ankles, and the two pressed their feet against eachother, bending their knees; at the same time, Sonic and Tails kicked off, adding even more thrust for Sonic as Tails plummeted downwards, the flying fox silently cheering with a thumbs up.

"BLAST AWAY!" Sonic cried, curling into a ball and performing a homing attack with all the inertia of a meteor, the living projectile rocketing straight for the yellow light. Sonic was aware it was just the one, but he had all seven stored within him for a time; maybe, if he had enough energy left, and this one could give him just a little more, he could do it for just long enough to...

Sonic broke from. his ball form and snatched the Chaos Emerald out of the sky.

The two armies were twenty feet from killing eachother, right before they and the land were bathed in a sudden light, halting every soldier in their tracks as they looked up in confusion.

A source of light grew above the airship fleet, streams of light gleaming off of the ships. The entire valley was lit with the light.

Kori and her father beheld the light with expressions of pure awe; Knuckles, Rouge, and Silver shielded their eyes as they smiled knowingly.

Tails landed roughly before them, panting from the effort."Don't blink," he smiled up at Kori."You're about to see something awesome..."

The area was shocked with a sonic boom, parting the clouds as Super Sonic dove straight for the airships. He plowed through them in one golden streak, knocking hundreds of firebenders and War Minister Qin off their feet; this forced the ships to rapidly descend into an emergancy landing.

The same golden streak sped through the ranks of either army, skewering Fire Nation tanks if not toppling them to the side. Before any soldeir knew what happened, they found their swords, spears, and sheilds shattered to peices, and their armor torn from their bodies, leaving them in tanktops and shorts. The terrified war beasts bucked their riders off and fled the spectacle.

Super Sonic grinned as he flew back into the sky for the grand finale, flying in a wide golden circle, kicking up swirling wind that culminated in a massive tornado. This softened the landing of the falling airships, and forced the crippled armies to run away screaming for their mothers. The armies parted from one another, ending the battle right before it actually began.

"It's a miracle..." Mayor Morishita breathed, holding her daughter in astonishment.

"Nah," Knuckles shook his head, his arms crossed, "That's Sonic The Hedgehog."

War Minister Qin Staggered back to his feet."What on earth...!?"

"Wrong!"

Qin whole body tensed in fear at the gloved finger pointed at him from just outside the broken wind sheild. That finger wagged as Super Sonic tsk'd at the man."I'm not from your earth, buddy. I'm somthin' you've never even dreamed of. You thought you could have your battle and your war, but not while I'm around! Remember my name: I'm Sonic, Sonic The-" unfortunately, Sonic had finally spent the last of his Chaos energy, instantly reverting into his regular blur self and momentarily floating in awkward silence "...dude who talks too long..." he muttered right before dropping away from Qin's view.

Sonic screamed as he flailed his limbs helplessly, slamming face-first into the dirt. When the smoke cleared Sonic pressed his fingers against the ground, and pulled his big head out of the hole he made. The blue hedehog sighed."Gonna have to give myself a D for that ending..."

Within the bridge of Eggman's flagship, the teens were being fixed to the wall two feet off the floor by a couple of Egg Fighters, their wrists and ankles restrained by metal clamps. Dr. Eggman aimed the Shadow rifle right at Katara face, rapidly pulling the trigger, but nothing happened. He shrugged, tossing the weapon aside.

"You really had me there for a moment..." the doctor began.

Toph, on the other hand, had most of her body placed inside of a hovering Artificial Chaos' liquid body, with only her head sticking out.

"...I honestly thought I my greatest plan possibly to date was about to go up in smoke before my very eyes," he mused, pacing in a circle, his fists folded behind his back, glancing at the kids on and off,"I suppose it was due to my being so accustomed to failure; welcoming it almost..." he sighed, resting the back of his hand against his forehead in false regret,"Such a shame that chapter of my life is finally over..." he stared at the kids, waiting for some cliche response.

When the blue robots retreated, Katara took the opportunity to offer that response,"How could you? Threatening to take the lives of so many people?"

"Ah! I was hoping you'd ask that!" Eggman beamed, snapping his fingers, silently ordering one of his robots to bring him a glass of water,"I've recently had a bit of an identity crisis - I was utterly stumped on how an individual with an unparalleled cranium such as mine could fail at such a trivial objective so many times..." a robot hastily ran up to the doctor with the water, careful not to spill a drop; Eggman took the drink and gobbled it up in a fraction of a second before carelessly toss it aside, it shattering on the metal floor,"I mean really! First it was just one person who got lucky, and then it went a point where almost anyone could be beat me!" a maid-bot rushed out of nowhere to clean the mess up while the scientist continued to pace around the room, peering out the incredibly large windshield,"As if my overall existence was to provide a means of periodical entertainment for the adolescent animal kingdom..."

"Blah, blah, blah, all I'm hearin' is 'I'll feel really old and wimpy so I'm gonna take over the world and no one will ever call me fat again'. Get to the point!" demanded Toph, never backing down no matter what the circumstances.

"My POINT, Miss-cocky-little-girl-whose-body-I-could-easily-use-for-substitute-rocket-fuel!..." he continued, spinning around on a dime,"... is that I think it's about time I start following up on my empty threats: I'm going to depart from this dead-end space station with my entire armada at my disposal to personally conquer this planet one city after another; I'll probably start with that big one with all the walls," he mused, waving his arms in the air lazily.

"But...but wait a minute!" Azula remembered,"what about that deal you arranged? You said you'd stop the cannon if the Avatar gave you the jewel. What if he's in the control room waiting for you?"

"Oohoo, but that's the irony of it!" Eggman cheered, trotting to a chair and keyboard that rose from the floor; he sat on it and typed the keys. Apparently, the huge windshield that nearly equaled the width of the bridge doubled as a monitor; he was already setting a course for Ba Sing Se."I don't even care about those stupid rocks anymore! I've got all the firepower I need to devastate your world within the month! A bit lengthy by my standards, but it'll all be worth it in the end. And with that in mind, does it really matter whether I stop the Eclipse Cannon or not? I'm still going to annihilate the Fire Nation eventually!" he folded his finger together, rocking back and forth in his seat,"The best part is that I get to see your terrified faces through it all. You're going to be the ultimate witnesses to my ascension to world-overlord; nothing will go unseen by your account - nothing except for the Avatar slowly starving to death inside an impossibly advanced space station that is..."

The very implications of his speech was emotionally buffering enough.

"So you're just going to wipe out an entire race for no reason? That's madness!" Sokka cried.

"NO!" spontaneously roared the doctor, throwing his fingers towards the young warrior." 'Madness' is squandering your youth searching for seven magical emeralds, only for some patch of walking blue roadkill to come out of nowhere and hop on your destiny like it wasn't even yours! Then he comes back, and does it again, and again, AND AGAIN until you realize that all those fuddy duddy insults he's thrown at you over the years turn out to be nothing short of the the naked truth! Well let me tell you something - by sunrise tomorrow, this world will know who it's true master is, and there's no blue hedgehog, no two-tailed fox, or red FLIPPING echidna that's going to save you now! So get used to it!"

The four were outright a gust: what they saw as a planetary threat moment ago now seemed the most deranged man to ever walk the earth.

Two floating robots entered the bridge."doctor..."

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT, ORBOT!?" Eggman demanded, glaring at the robots as if he were the hedgehog in question.

Orbot appeared to pick this up, the supposedly heartless machine even startled."er, the Avatar is currently headed for the docking bay..." it trembled.

"What!?" Eggman barked, which was the question the four thought, Katara allowing the same word to quietly escape her lips.

The mad doctor twitched visibly at this news."I should've seen that coming," he lamented, a diabolic grin spreading,"I guess he didn't take my threat seriously. I'll be right back..." the doctor slowly walked out the entrance, the door coming down behind him, it echoed with a demoralizing thud.

During the encompassing silence, Cubot swerved his blocky head between the door and the teens."...Well, that escalated quick!"

The Avatar air-scooter-ed out the door into the docking bay and stopped.

Aang hoped his decision was the right one; he simply could not allow anyone else to have that kind of power. He ran to the edge to see Eggaman's flagship floating a couple hundred feet away. Aang had a feeling that was where his friends were right now...

"I'm sooo happy to see you've made it this far, Avatar Aang!"

Aang wheeled his head in multiple directions in futility.

"You've completed all the levels, and now it's time for your reward...!"

An huge red blur shot up from below, causing the Avatar to fall over backwards. He looked back up to see an enormous winged mech with a gatling gun for aright arm and a massive drill for a left; it had along tail like dragon, and on the top sat the enraged Doctor Eggman, in person, within a protective glass covered cockpit.

"Get ready! It's time for the Final Boss!"

Egg Dragoon

As The Avatar glided down a rail, the giant mech parraled him to his right, and immediately swiped at him with its electricly charged drill, forcing Aang to zip to the far left rail before a gap was sliced through the other two rails. Aang tried to shoot multiple fire balls at the mech, but they did nothing to the flying monstrosity.

"HO HO! IT'S GONNA TAKE MORE THAN THAT!" taunted the madened scientist, blasting far into the airbender's path, the mech backflipping to create an electrical wave that slid along the rail.

Aang leapt off his air scooter just before it was extinguished by the wave and made another one in the same motion, inrcreasing his speed.

The mech's mutli-barreled cannon began rotating at the same rate as its drill; Eggman started firing upon the railing, creating various gaps that the Avatar had to avoid or jump over.

Aang neared the colossal vehicle.

"NOT SO FAST!" Eggman cried before the mech's cannon split apart, releasing a huge fireball that forced the Avatar to leap high into the air, the missle destroying a good portion of the rail.

While still airborn, Aang put a great deal of energy into a single kick, generating an equaly huge fireball that impacted against the windsheild, the entire mech reeling away, from the blast, Eggman rocking about the cockpit.

"So it's gonna be like that, is it!? I could do this all night!" the doctor announced. His seat then lower down through the mech into a secondary cockpit into the lower midsection."You know what they say: vengence is best served cold!" As Aang landed, the legs began fireing ice bombs out of its feet, the Avatar either dodged or firebended the projectiles; he quickly gathered up the mist and thew it onto the windsheild, breifly obscuring the doctor's view. Growling in annoyance, Eggman turned on the windsheild wipers to clean away the mist soon enough to see Aang coming at him with his two feet shooting forward, air blasting the mech further away, cracking the windsheild.

"Hello!? Interceptors!? I could use some assistance!" Eggman commanded for some support, ascending back up to the primary cockpit.

Soon after, a trio of familiar looking green robots sped past the Avatar as the mech retreated to the background, spitting mines out of its cannons that floated into the Avatar's path. As Aang avoided the lazer and mines, he used airbending to redirect the mines into the robots, destroying them as more came to take their place; he continued this strategy until it looked like they were all gone. Aang turned around to see a much bigger green robot, this one with arms, quikly gaining on the airbender. He tried bending at it but it appeared impervious as it release its own series of lazer beams that the Avatar was forced to dodge. Eggman's mech returned to Aang's front to overwelm him. Thinking fast, Aang put the brakes on his air scooter, slipping under the green robot and accelerated, hurling a mighty gail of wind that sent the the metal hulk flying back to its creator; and its detroyer, as Eggman intentionally impaled the robot with the mech's drill and threw it back at the boy, who jumped and kicked off of the dead machine, and wrapped persistently his limbs around the mech's right leg. Realizing this, Eggman jerked the steering mechanism in million directions, the mech twirling and looping like crazy, soaring into different sections of the ARK.

The four hung in their restraints, their hope dead and buried, nothing to comfort them aside the distant beeps and hisses of the lifeless ship...

"...I'm sorry I bloodbended you earlier..." Katara broke the silence...

"I'm sorry I tried to save you all by myself..." replied Sokka.

"I'm sorry I made you think your brother was evil..." Azula added, as manipulating others to make the wrong choices seemed to be the only thing she was good at...

"...And once again, I have nothing to contribute to this conversation; I feel so left out sometimes..." Toph lamented...

"I can't believe we're actually gonna lose this time..." recapped Sokka,"I mean, we're the good guys; the good guy're never supposed to lose...right?"

"Not true, I recall besting you and the Avatar myself more then once..." Azula reminded.

"Those were just setbacks," the warrior defended.

"Yeah-huh, that's was the bad guy's always say," the firebender persisted.

"Call it what you like; 'cause in the long run, we eventually won the War and saved the world," Sokka established,"what's happening now is...just so unreal...And if Eggman get's that last Chaos Emerald...he'll be unstoppable..."

It was at this statement that Katara's being perked up, smiling slyly,"Yes, he will be unstoppable..."

"Yep, unstoppable..." Sokka repeated.

"You might say, that he'll become a powerful, destructive force..."

"Yeah, I suppose..." Sokka considered.

"...that, left unchecked, will intentionally consume the universe and everything in it..." she eluded.

"Well, I dunno about the whole..." he remembered,"...no."

"Yes."

"Noooo..."

"Oh, yes..."

"He's not a force, it doesn't count..."

"Admit it, Sokka! Aunt Wu was right this whole time! The meteor changed the course of the entire universe, and now we're feeling the effects of it! Hah! In your face!" she gloated, wobbling her triumphant finger towards her brother the best she could.

"You're right, Katara, Aunt Wu was a real fortune teller; sure, an entire continent's about to be annihilated and the world as we know it'll be warped into some crazy, egg-themed society, but hey, at least ya put Sokka's money where his mouth is..." the earthbender grilled her friend.

"r-Right. I'm Sorry..."

Toph's words seemed to echo within Azula's mind."...his mouth...That's it!" she realized.

"Yes, It's sorta' my substitute for bending..." Sokka explained.

Ignoring Sokka, Azula took a few deep breaths before blasting a blue fireball out of her own mouth, destroying the Artificial Chaos that held Toph captive, who touched down on her foot and hands.

"AAAIIIEE! There're escaping!" Cubot shrieked, pointing at them as though they were B-movie monsters.

"Engage Defense-Mode!" Orbot announced, his tiny fists raised to either side of his round head.

"Bring it on, tin cans!" Toph pounded her fists together.

But instead of drawing weapons or shooting lasers as every other mechanical foe they've face so far, Orbot and Cubot quickly compacted their bodies into an orb and cube respectively, dropping to the metal floor with anticlimactic clanks.

Toph's blind eyes blinked."...huh..." she lamented, before turning around to free her friends.

"Alright, Azula!" Sokka cheered, as the blind girl climbed up the up the wall to pry off the their clamps with her bending.

"It just came to me, Uncle Iroh tried it on me once," Azula elaborated after she came to the floor, the others following.

"I'll bet. So, Toph, how much time do we have left?" Sokka queried.

The drenched Blind Bandit paused to recount the minutes, then gasped."We're too late! The cannon's already fired!"

The three gasped in horror, ecpecially Azula."No...Zuko..." she wept.

"...But, wait. Shouldn't we've heard it go off?" Katara broached.

"Good point. Then again, it has been theorized that you can't hear anything in space..." Sokka recited, making Azula cry even louder.

"Sokka!" the waterbender rebuked.

"What? Science can be sadistic sometimes!" the former waterbender whined.

"Well, I can hear you two yappin' and we're in space, so somethin' must've gone wrong..." Toph reminded.

"What if Aang gave Eggm-I mean Robotnik the emerald?" Katara wondered.

"But...But Eggman said he didn't care about the emeralds anymore..." the teary-eyed princess recollected.

"It's either that, or Aang figured out how to turn off the cannon himself; but I can't see how..."

The warrior was interrupted by an alarm sounding throughout the flagship, countless robots of various shapes and sizes headed for the bridge.

"We got trouble..." Toph announced, sensing all of this.

"D'oh man! Where's my light cannon!?" Sokka panicked, whipping in several directions to find his beloved space weapon, before his gaze fell the upon the chair and keyboard Eggman left vacant,"Waitaminute, that's right! This is exactly where we were trying the get to!" he recalled, running over to the chair.

"Are you really going to start this conversation over again?" Toph smarted.

"As long as I don't get bloodbended again..." Sokka retorted as he took a seat, scanning the keyboard,"Look, same plan as before - you guys hold off the machines while I figure out how to control the spaceship."

"It looks like we don't have much of a choice..." Katara affirmed, gathering the water from the remains of the Artificial Chaos' remains.

Azula and Toph asserted stances as well, before the entrance jerked open, revealing a horde of angry robots that move in to assault.

The mech skidded against an extention of the ARK, ramming aside a score of asteroids, all in Eggman's futile attempt to force the Avatar off of its leg.

Adjusting the mech's posture in the right position, the doctor aimed the its cannon at Aang; the boy let go before the mech's own leg was shot clean off. Eggman saw that coming; he didn't care.

Using the air to soften his fall, Aang landed on top of a giant green cylinder that revolved. It completed its revolution just in time for Aang to see the mech pointing its drill at him, and to his suprise, it fired out like a spinning rocket of death. The suprise forced Aang into a brief Avatar State, making an air shield around himself that held off the drill for a second, long enough for it to give up its attack and fall out of sight. His eyes and tattoos still glowing, the Avatar launched massive fireblast at Eggman, who countered by fireing a large ice bomb out of the mech's cannon, creating a wide steamcloud that blocked eachother's view comepletely, until the mech lunged down through, Eggman screaming a mad battlecry as he prepared to bring the drill down onto the Avatar, who, turning back to normal, dove off before the cylinder was crudely sliced in half. Aang wheeled around rabidly to conjure a cyclone that enveloped his legs to allow floatation to ascend before the mech swung at him horizontaly. Eggman relentlessly slashed at the Avatar, bashing and cutting away cylinder after cylinder in his wake as the airbender dodged each strike. When enough distance was put between him and the mech, Aang grabbed the surrounding asteroids with his bending and hurled them at the doctor, who guarded with his cannon or parried them with his drill. Converging into the Avatar State again, Aang reconstituted the cyclone into his signature air sphere, pulling back and then charging for the mech. Eggman got the better of mighty airbender once again, the mech quickly seperating into two sections, the Avatar breezing through as if nothing was there. The Avatar put on the brakes and turned back to see the mech seemlessly recombine itself, turning to face him as well.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" Eggman cried insanely before rushing the Avatar with his drill once more.

The three benders continued to hold the bridge, taking out any moving mechinization they saw enter.

Azula punched and kicked with every form she knew of, never missing a single shot of blue flame. Katara used the limited amount of liquid she had to whip the weapon out of every robotic hand that the firebender couldn't intercept, and swiped at their eyes when she had an opening. And as far as the robots were concerned, Toph might as well have been accused of bloodbending also; having spent the afternoon trying to manipulate the significantly purer metal of the space station, the far cheaper units were at her mercy, the fast-learning earthbender immobilizing them and sending them flying back out the entrance.

"Sokka, any luck with the controls!?" Toph inquired, not expending as much energy as the other girls.

The former waterbender couldn't tell why, but his usual apprehension towards extraordinary things returned as he sat there motionless in the seat, his jaw dangling in hesitation, his fingers positioned as if he were about to press a single key anytime soon, which he had not done since the machines came in; perhaps it was to be accociated with feeling the blunt of his sister's misplaced fear."I uhhh..almost umm...err...maybe...I...think i've ...duhhh..." was all he could say, mesmerized by the gigantic monitor.

"Excuse me, were on a time limit here, it's not like you're performing brain surgery. I thought you liked science...!?" Toph reminded.

"I know, but this is different; it's rocket science! I just don't wanna make a mistake..." Sokka urgently explained. Covering his eyes with his hand, Sokk nervously wirled his index finger 'round and 'round until it fell upon a random key.

At that moment, a large tuning fork-shaped joystick popped out from the keyboard, predictably causing the teen to cringe. When nothing happened, he beheld the object, slowly pressing a finger against it, making it lean to the left. Without warning, the room around him tilted left as well, the other teens stumbling onto the floor along with the robots, who slided at the end due to their weight.

"er-Sorry!" Sokka peeped, quickly attempting to rectify his mistake by grabbing hold of the stick and forcing it back to a straight posture; physics responded by rocking the entire vessal the other direction, flipping his friends to the right and flinging the robots to the other end, fataly damaging the units. The ship stabalized soon after.

"Please tell me you just found the steering mechanism?" Azula groaned, hoping that wasn't the Eclipse Cannon.

He blinked in realization."I...think I did!" Sokka beamed,"Oh-ho yeah! Make way for Sokka the ship-bender! Now all I have to do is figure out how to make it go forward..." he wondered, unaware that the ship's navigation systems were voice operated.

"...Command recognized..." read the unreadable text on the monitor, right before the rocket prepulsion kicked in, the entire vessel lurching forward and tripping the benders on there backsides once again. They stared at the boy in awe.

"Woah, you really are a ship-bender..." Toph marveled.

The Eggman and Avatar soared around at a distance from the space station through the hive of asteroids. Aang continued to hurl the space stones at Eggman while the doctor kept on firing his cannon.

The mech swung and slashed with its drill, creating multiple electric energy arcs that even the Avatar had to dodge, whizzing up down left and right as asteroids were carved in twos.

Aang got an asteroid, crumbled it into pieces, and jammed them into the mech's cannon barrels before it could open fire again; he then engulfed the mech in an eruption of flame. The mech's tail whizzed out from the fire, slapping the Avatar some sixty feet away. Eggman drilled for him again, but the Avatar saw it coming, dashing toward him and purposely allowing his air sphere to extinguish as he breezed by it, the ends of his robes singed by the electricity; in the same instance, he rotated and used a firy downward slice to slice the drill clean off the mech at the joint and, in the same spinning motion, kicked the mech away with a wind blast. Aang then grabbed three asteroids and squeezed them into giant circular razor blades, one twice as wide as the other two; he swung them at the mech, the two small ones severed its wings while the large one and split the whole thing's lower portion off in a way it wasn't meant to be.

Horrified by the child's power, Eggman detached his Egg Moblie from the mech altogether, and bolted hastily back for the ARK. A futile gesture indeed, as the fully realized Avatar summoned another air sphere and rocketed for him, battering what was left of the sparkleing mech far out of his path.

The powerless genius franticly avoided another series of humongus fireballs. The Avatar created a wind tunnel that surrounded the pod, curving upward and expanding into a huge typhoon, taking in scores of asteroids that violently collided with Eggman's pod, until the docter suddenly found him self at the center of the storm, his pod pressed in between two boulders.

Th Avatar ascended in front of him; the tiny vessel was continuously squeezed, bending the metal and cracking the glass as it became thinner and thinner, the helpless doctor further crammed within his own vehicle.

Unbeknownst to them both, the remains of the mech spiraled all the way towards the port of a certain flagship, crashing into it; and as with any E-series mech, the ruptured and overly-charged power core detonated, creating a gargantuous explosion that criticaly damaged the vessel.

The four were rocked off their feet once again, even the warrior slipped off the seat; they screamed as the bridge turned sideways.

Sensing something was wrong, the Avatar peered behind the petrafied antagonist to see the flaming ship, well beyond any self-locomotion, gradually flip on its side and curve into a crooked nosedive, plummeting striaght down into the earth's atmosphere.

KATARA!

HIs tattoos and eyes dimming for just a moment, the Avatar blasted down for his friends, hauling Eggman down with him.

The battleship descended further away from Space Colony ARK, the pink-hot friction stripping away the hull; the huge vessel itself was on the brink of tearing apart.

The Avatar barreled closer to the ship, deflecting incoming pieces and evading larger ones. In the same instance Eggman's pod was evisorated around him and left him comepletely exposed, the Avatar expanded his sphere so that Eggman could be sucked in with him. He sped past the burning vessel, gaining friction of his own, navigating in its path. He turned around and intentionaly slowed down, allowing himself to be on a colision course with the flagship, inevitably crashing through the windsheild of the bridge.

It appeared as though time froze: the four, especially the waterbender, opened their eyes just long enough to see their friend, bursting back into their lives before they were snuffed out. The Avatar pulled out of his robes the ivory jewel that changed everything in one day, and would restore it in but a moment.

"Chaos CONTROL!"

Every living thing in the deck was consumed in the white light, and as time moved again, they're was not a soul to be seen before the bridge as well became engorged in fire.

Sonic popped open one eye to see what looked like a huge fire ball in the distant sky, ripping apart into smaller fragments, destined to land safley into the ocean nearby.

The blue hedgehog chuckled to himself, and squirmed into a more comfortable position on the tree base he was sleeping against; something told him he wouldn't have to worry about Eggman for a while...

Fire Lord Zuko sat meditatively before the turtleduck pond in his royal garden, absorbing the moonlight. He knew he should've been in bed right then, as Long Feng stated, but he it simply didn't sit well with him to be fast asleep while his freinds were searching for the emerald and the world on the brink of a whole new war.

Suddenly, a crackle of light from above nudged him out of his trance; he looked up in the sky and saw nothing. But then, several sparks of electricity formed from nowhere in a general point in space until a blinding flash force him to turn away for a split second, multiple screams to be heard as at least six figures splashed into the man-made pond before him.

The monarch blinked twice, gazing upon the lake for any further movement...

He got his answer when Aang whipped out of the pond, bewilderedly scanning his latest environment, noticing Zuko at some point.

"WE MADE IT!" he sounded, sturring the others up from the surface.

"We made it!?" Sokka repeated, realizing where he was,"WE MADE IT!"

"We're HOME!" Toph cried.

"You did it! Oh, Aang...!" Katara started before tackling the Avatar and kissing him passionately. The airbender fully embraced her, having not done so forr a long time (which was only about thirteen hours).

"g-Guys, what happened!?" he asked, standing up

"ZUKO! You're not going to believe it!" Azula shreiked happily, almost violently clamping his hands around her brother's shoulders,"I was up in space and stuck in a dark room with your friends and all I could think about you and Mom and how nobody loves me and I don't wanna be evil anymore I missed you so much!" she broke into tears of joy, hugging her speechless brother fiercly.

"b...where...who...Sokka, what are you wearing-"

"We did it Zuko..." the warrior interrupted,"He was getting ready to destroy everything but we stopped him, Aang stopped him. It was by the skin of our teeth, by we actually saved the world..."

"oop! Hold that thought..." Toph announced before quickly taking a stance and jerking her fist up in a seemingly random direction, as the sound of earth displacing and a grunt of pain was heard in the background, catching everyone's attention. They all turned to see Eggman frozen in a sneakinf away position, his face mushed into the stone slab the Toph summoned. His broken spectacles slipped off as he fell flat on his back, momentarily unconscous.

The children huddled around him.

"Gentlemen," Katara began in a mock aristocratic tone of voice," I present to you: the High Emperor Eggbotnik Supreme!" she joked.

"More like 'Baldy Mc Nosehair Supreme' !" Toph added, causing them all to laugh or at least giggle, which sturred the scientist awake, his expose eyelids cracking open, revealing a set of baby blue iris.

It didn't take long for Eggman to access what just happened."...ummm...parley?"

In a clever scene transition, Eggman found himself chained up and holding the bars in the back window of a police carrage."JAIL!? I can't go there! I'm too pretty for jail! They'll mop the floor with me!" he freaked out.

The group, now with Chief Hakoda, Suki, Bato, and Master Piandao, were all just outside the palace, a squad of officers preparing to ship the doctor to the royal prison tower when the order was given to depart.

"You should've thought of that before threatening our lives," Zuko reminded,"Now, you're going to pay for your acts of war the same as my father - life inprisonment."

"But please, I don't deserve this! couldn't I just have community service for life or...or...wait a second..." Eggman remembered, his comical demeanor vanishing,"I set the Eclipse Cannon to go off ten minutes ago; how is all of this still here!? Don't tell me I missed...!?"

It was clear that everyone was wondering that as well, except the Avatar, who stepped forward."I stopped it Eggman," he revealed.

"You WHAT!? HOW!?" he demanded, his visible eyes bulging in rage.

"By doing the only thing I could: I used energybending to take the Chaos Emeralds and scattered them across the four corners of the earth; far out of anyone's reach, including yours! It's what you get for abusing that space station."

"Excuse me? That was MY station we were in! I do what I want with it!" the doctor blurted out.

"No, it wasn't!" Aang replied, holding his staff firmly against the ground,"Space Colony ARK was meant to be a beacon a of hope and prosperity for your world; but you sought to steal your grandfather's greatest creation for your own selfish imparative! It was never meant to destroy planets, Eggman; it was meant to protect them. And now, your going to pay not only for the crimes you committed on this world, but yours as well! Take him away!"

The rhino went off, and the carrage carring the flabbergasted Eggman to his sentence.

"THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE! I can't be defeated like this! I should be worshipped by now! oh WHYYY, WHYY can't I ever wiiin!?..."

As the doctor's voice faded away, so seemingly did the woes of the world; peace had resumed as if it were never disrupted.

A pridictable awkward glance at the young Avatar...

"Did you understand a word you just said?" inquired Toph.

"It...came and went..." Aang tried to interpret.

"You did it, Sokka, you fixed everything..." Suki praised, hugging her boyfriend affectionately.

Sokka hugged back."Yeah, well, I was just helping..."

"Ya did more than help, Sokka..." Hakoda started,"If it weren't for you, we would've never been able to know how to stop him."

"And spirits knows what would've happened then..." Bato added.

"There wouldn't of even have been a war to decide..." said Katara.

"And it's probably an understatement by now, but I wanna say it anyway: I'm proud of you, son." the chief concluded, laying his hand on his son's shoulder.

The family hugged; it was a touching picture...

"...But you still have to apologize to Aunt Wu for smearing her!" the waterbender reminded punctualy. Everyone had their own manner of sighing.

"Um, yeah, this is good and all, but I'm reeeaally hungry; so, if ya don't mind, I'm just gonna help myself to some leftover hippocow..." the former waterbender lamented before dashing into the palace.

When he was gone, Katara's gazed shifted to someone else."h-Hey, Azula...?"

She turned to her.

"Did you mean it when you said I had the strongest will?"

Azula recalled her statement."Well I...yes, I did..." Azula replied.

"Stronger than Toph?" the waterbender added with a smile.

"The strongest." the firebender answered with a smile.

The remaining males (and Suki) glanced at Toph.

"Meh, meaningfull talk, kind words, you know how it is..." the earthbender shrugged; though inwardly, she was happy for her.

Aang seemed to smile for her."Well, all I need to know is, the world is saved, and there's not a force in the universe that can change that now..." the Avatar finalized, more confident in is own word than ever before.

The wife of Mayor Morishite looked to and fro from the look-out, trying to see anything; her attention snapped to two figures walking to the gate; she recognized them as her husband and daughter. She jumped off the look-out in excitement and softened her landing with earthbending. The three ran for eachother and hugged fiercely, tears seeking freedom from their eye-lids. Kori opened her eyes just once, turned around, and managed to see Sonic The Hedgehog and his friends, illuminated by the orange sunrise hue, on the edge of a plateau, smiling and resting his fist on his hip. The hedgehog winked, and he and the other sped off into the horizon.

Kori smiled, and tightened her hug.

"So what do we now?" Tails asked as he flew alongside Sonic.

"Methinks we should find our ship and the other guys," Sonic considered.

"No need to worry about old Shadow," Rouge chimed in."He's somewhere in the Fire Nation gaining information."

"The Fire Nation..." Silver looked down as he flew next to Rouge."That's definitely our next stop; that's supposed to be where Avatar Aang lives."

"Oh yeah," Knuckles agreed as he ran,"Eggman's still up there in the ARK; if he's the hero everyone says, we gotta warn him first."

"And since I can't fly and am too scared to try running along a thousand miles of open ocean," Sonic admitted shamelessly,"We're gonna need that ship ASAP."

"I guess we're running into a whole new adventure," Knuckles shook his head but smiled nonetheless.

"And everything will turn out okay as long I have my Sonic by my side!" Amy beamed, unnerving Sonic by nuzzling her cheek into Sonic's while maintaining the same speed.

Normally, Sonic would have nudged her apart; but after that tiny identity crisis had had before saving the day, something was nudging himself to mix things up...

"What the hell..." Sonic muttered as he wrapped his arm over Amy's shoulder, bringing the red-flushed hedeghogette even closer. This surprised everyone else."It's a new day and a new adventure! LET'S GO!" he cried as he blasted off with Amy in tow. The Sonic Heroes dashed after him to the horizon.

"Guys! Slow down! I'm not dat fast!" Big called out for them, shuffling as fast as he could.

All was silent across the desolate wasteland that was once Wu Long Forest, the site of the final decisive battle of the Hundred Year War; it had since been abandoned by all wildlife in the wake of the great fire brought on by the power of Sozin's Comet.

The imbalance...has been weaved...

Suddenly, an ominous light radiated from above the clouds. They split apart as a column of teal luminescence dropped down to the ground, reaching a familiar naturally formed stone pillar, forming a residual sillouette of the Avatar removing Ozai's firebending. The light seemed to cover the pillar like a blanket in a manner that eerily resembled energybending, turning from teal to green as it traveled down and snaked across the wasteland, until it reached to ocean, transferring from green to blue as it slowly continued into the horizon.

...And Order...shall yeild...to Chaos...