Did anyone notice that little dragon ball z reference I added in the last chapter? I was hoping someone would comment on that. I kind of got theses lat couple battles from Kingdom Hearts 2's battle against with Xemnas. By the way if there's anyone who doesn't know what Seraph form looks like, go to Well enjoy.

Chapter 22

"Hahahaha," Copy X laughed from his throne which was in an endless abyss of darkness. "S-so, Zero you've finally made it."

Zero pointed his saber at his long time foe with Sonic at his side. The evil Reploid couldn't help laughing upon seeing Zero and Sonic. They looked so pathetic to him. They actually thought they had a chance against someone as powerful as him. "T-truly Zero, you and your furry friend here aren't thinking of fighting me. I have t-he power of b-both the Baby Elf and the seven Chaos Emeralds. With both these p-power sources I will become invincible. A g-god even."

"A god?" Sonic blurted. "Puh-lease."

Copy X's smile faded into a frown of annoyance. He angled eyes towards Sonic and switched his arm into buster mode. "I wasn't talking to you rat b-boy."

He fired a blast at the blue hedgehog hitting him dead in the chest. Sonic flew back a few feet and finally fell to the ground. Zero ran to the fallen hedgehog's side helping him back up. Sonic coughed a little bit and looked gave an evil look towards Copy X.

"T-that's what happens when meddle in the affairs of others," Copy X said.

"That's it!" Sonic shouted as burst at the evil blue Reploid. "I've had enough of you and your stupid stuttering!"

Sonic jumped up and curled into a ball. With all his might he threw himself into a homing attack. He rammed into the same energy field Zero did before, but this time he wasn't backing down. Though he could barely take the burn of the hot energy against his flesh, Sonic was determined to destroy this new foe. Copy X continued to sit at his throne in a calm matter. Sonic continued spinning on as he could feel himself pushing through.

"Almost there," Sonic said in his mind. "Just a bit more."

Copy X's eyes widened upon what he saw. Sonic was….cracking his energy field. Copy X arose from his seat and pointed his buster at Sonic. He was going to blast him right after the shield collapsed. Zero took notice of this and leaped forward as he too began to push against the shield. "It can't be!" Copy X shouted. He had never witnessed this kind of power in Zero before.

"Just a little bit more," Zero said continuing to push on.

"Now," Sonic shouted and together, he and Zero broke the energy field. Copy X smiled an evil as he fired his cannon knocking the Sonic back. Zero angled his eyes and he prepared to make a slash at his opponent, but he was interrupted as a blinding white flash engulfed the area around him, Sonic and Copy X. Then after a few second, Copy X was engulfed in the light leaving Zero and Sonic. Zero looked over to Sonic who was getting up off the ground. The blue hedgehog then ran to his friends side, amazed at what they had.

"HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!" came Copy X's voice. "B-behold, the t-true NEO ARCADIA!"

Zero and Sonic took a few steps back looking up. He and Sonic were looking at the largest castle they had ever scene. Surrounding the castle were small battle ships. Sonic let out a smirk and he looked at Zero. "No problem right?"

Zero looked over to Sonic and gave him the same smirk. "Not a problem at all."

The nodded as they ran forward. Zero stopped and grabbed Sonic's arm, pulling him back. He could tall tower like structures arising from out of the heading his way. Like someone was setting up dominoes.

"Sonic get behind me and stay close," he shouted the towers continued his way. Sonic did as he was told and with that, Zero shot forward slashing his way through the buildings. It didn't take long, once he had made his way he made a finishing move position with his eyes closed. The moment his eyes was when a slash mark appeared on the tower behind him. After a few seconds wait all the towers had collapsed. Sonic coughed out a laugh with impression. He didn't even know that Zero could do that.

"Great job," Sonic said and he and Zero continued on.

(Meanwhile)

Amy slammed her hammer on the water pool before her causing the water to part like the red sea. Leviathan struggled in trying to conceal herself in the water as it rocked back and forth knocking about. Amy then threw her hammer into the water. She could hear the impact of it slamming into and a something as it soon returned to her hand. Amy smilled upon seeing Leviathan fall into the water valley.

"Piece of cake," Amy said as she began exit the room.

(Back to Sonic and Zero)

Sonic and Zero made their way to the castle. Zero stopped and looked up at the small ships that didn't seem to notice them yet. "You know there's something strange about this castle."

Sonic also noticed the problem and he dashed off. A few seconds, he returned next to Zero with a look of worry on his face. "There's no door. How do you make a castle without a door?"

Zero looked up upon hearing that comment. Grabbed Sonic's arm and prepared for a leap. Sonic took the hint and he too kneeled over. "Ready," Zero asked.

"GO!"

With all their might, Zero and Sonic lunged into the air towards one of the ships. Zero stabbed his saber into it and used the falling ship as a leaping platform. Sonic then took the lead as he pushed himself into a homing attack. He threw himself through another ship and kicked off it. He looked back at Zero who was no too far from behind him.

"I can see the top from here," Sonic called. Zero replied with a nod and the two continued their accent.

(Meanwhile)

Shadow shot through the air at full speed with his fist straight out. Harpuia began to take in energy as Shadow drew closer. Shadow's eyes widened upon noticing this so he began to take in energy as well.

"SHADOW!" Harpuia shouted at the top of his lungs.

"HARPUIA!"

(Meanwhile Again)

Knuckles slammed his into the ground causing a powerful shockwave. Fefnir maintained balance as he hadn't felt a thing. The red, orange Reploid looked at the ground and then at Kncukles and Tails. "What was that?"

Knuckles smiled showing off his sharp. "Give it some time."

Fefnit arched an eyebrow as he feel the ground below him begin to quake. Then all of the sudden pillars of rock began to jut from out of the ground slamming into Fefnir.

(Back to Sonic and Zero)

Sonic grabbed Zero's arm just as could feel them losing momentum and began to run up the side of the wall. The top of the castle was only a few steps away. With all his might Sonic flung his partner into the air. Zero pointed his Saber straight up cutting the air ahead. Then he finally saw it….

"The top of the castle," Zero said to himself. He clicked his heels and his boosters shot him down onto the castle door. Sonic arrived shortly after to see there was a door before them. A strange purple aura began to erode from it. "Looks like we'll have to destroy that core before we can reach our prize."

"Not so far," came Copy X's voice. Soon after, a group familiar robotic hedgehogs appeared.

"M.S. 5?" Sonic said in his mind. He narrowed his and him Zero charged forward.

Zero slashed three of the three robots causing them to disappear. He was then grabbed from behind and lifted into the air. Zero clutched his saber and quickly stuck it into the M.S 5 clone's head. Sonic blasted his way around the area as he destroyed the robotic clones of himself. These seemed to be weaker than the original M.S 5 that Eggman had built. Sonic was enlightened at the thought and continued to attack.

(Meanwhile)

Ciel sat in a chair inside Tails' ship. She was worried to the max. She could a tear develop in her eye. Cream entered the room with Cheese floating not too far behind her. Upon seeing the human girl's face, Cream couldn't help feeling like crying too. Ciel walked over to the little rabbit and pulled her into an embrace. She knew she had to stay strong for Zero. Ciel slowly stroked the little rabbit's hair. In many ways Cream was similar to Ciel's friend Alouette. The way she had that little Chao with her reminded Ciel of the teddy bear that Alouette always carried. "It's gonna be okay sweetie."

(Back to Sonic and Zero)

"C'mon is that all you got!" Zero shouted making his way toward the door's core. Sonic stayed behind to handle the enemy. Zero brought his saber down on the core causing sparks to fly. He could feel that he was damaging the core as he began to sink forward. After a few seconds of pushing on, Zero finally destroyed the barrier. The doorway slid open revealing a bright light. "Sonic!"

Sonic lunged at an M.S. 5 and ripped its arm off. Upon hearing Zero shouting his voice Sonic made a run for the door pulling Zero inside with him.

Zero held his Z-Saber tight and kept his focus forward while Sonic looked about the area (yet again). He was in a white room that had a throne before him, and sitting down in the throne before was none other than Copy X in his Ultimate Armor. Sonic narrowed and assumed his fighting stance. And so the fight began; Zero lunged forward with Sonic right behind him. Zero swung his saber with all his might but it was blocked by the hand of the evil, blue Reploid. Zero's pushed down in while floating in mid air. Copy X was still sitting at his throne, blocking the attack with ease. Sonic then jumped in with a midair drop kick. Copy X came in with his other hand grabbing the hedgehog's foot. "Pathetic."

Copy X's eyes began to glow and a pair of familiar cannons appeared behind Sonic. The cannon's were identical to that of Fefnir's; in fact, they were Fefnir's cannon. Copy X smiled at the two who continued to defy him. They were oblivious to what was going to happen. He quickly his head at Sonic and gritted his teeth. This caused the two cannons to point at Sonic, firing blasts after blasts of fire at the blue hedgehog. Two groaned and moaned with each hit. Zero looked at his fallen comrade and then back at Copy X who was still smiling. The red Reploid finally pushed off and helped Sonic onto his feet. Copy X was still sitting at his throne with a calm expression. His eyes flashed again and a pair of twin sabers appeared next to him. Sonic laughed a bit and dashed forward again. He curled up into a ball and swerved between the sabers. Copy X stuck his hand out again and caught the blue blur pushing him away. Sonic pushed himself through the air spin ball mode and brought himself around to Copy X. Copy X let out a small smirk. "You are most annoying."

He caught the hedgehog once again, this time he held him in place with an open palm. "Zero!"

The red Reploid came crashing through the air with his saber in hand. Upon landing, he came into a slash. Then another, and another until he broke out with a large assault of slashes. Copy X let his grip on Sonic go as he was being attacked. Sonic caught himself in midair went into one final homing attack. Sonic went through Copy X and the throne. Zero jumped away, exhausted.

Copy kneeled over out of his throne and slowly lifted his head towards Zero and Sonic. The two heroes looked at each other with smiles on their faces. It was finally over. They had defeated the ultimate evil. "Z-zero," came the voice of their enemy. Zero took a few steps forward and pointed his saber at Copy X's head. The blue Reploid looked up; he had black fluid which was most likely oil leaking from his mouth. He smiled upon seeing the determination on his eyes. "This isn't the end." And with that, Copy X faded away leaving the baby elf and Chaos Emeralds behind. Sonic's eyes widened with extreme happiness.

"Sonic!" the blue hedgehog turned around to see Amy, Knuckles and Tails running at him with open arms. Sonic tried to move away from Amy but it was too late, she had already caught him in an embrace. "Oh Sonic, I'm so glad you're okay. I thought the worse for a moment. But then I thought about all the other adventures we'd had. I knew you weren't the kind to let a girl down."

Sonic's face reddened up. He could feel all the air in his body just leaking out. He pushed Amy off him and hid behind Zero. "It's glad to see you're all okay," Zero said for the young hedgehog. "Well now all we to figure out is how to get back."

"HAHAHAHAHAH-aaaa," echoed a glitch robotic voice. "You d-don't."

Zero and Sonic's eyes widened and jumped back into battle positions. Knuckles pounded his fists together, then all of the sudden a portal appeared right in front of him. The echidna jumped back upon seeing it, and then a smile spread across his face upon seeing Ciel and the others on the other side. "Quick!" Ciel shouted. "You don't have much time left."

Knuckles nodded without thinking and then jumped through. He looked back at Tails and Amy who were confused on what to do. "C'mon you two." Tails looked at Amy and he pulled her through. Amy reached her hand back through reaching for Sonic and Zero.

"Sonic c'mon," she yelled. "It's closing. Hurry."

"We're not going anywhere," Zero calmly replied. Amy's eyes began to water up. Sonic looked back at her with his famous smile on.

"Don't worry Amy," he happily said. "We'll see you in a few."

Amy was still attempting to reach for Sonic with Ciel gently holding her back. Amy slowly pulled her hand back as the portal began to shrink in. When the portal finally closed Amy burst into tears and fell to the floor. Ciel kneeled down next to her and held onto her. "It'll be okay."

Sonic reached his hands towards the Chaos Emeralds which were still hovering over the ground around the Baby Elf. They emeralds began to spin around faster and faster while maintaining a powerful glow this caused Sonic to glow as well. After the flash cleared Sonic was made into a new Hedgehog. His body was now pure gold and his quills stuck straight up. His eyes had turned from blue to red. He was now Super Sonic.

"Impressive," Zero said with a slight smile. "Now let me show you mine."

Zero's body began to glow for a moment. His body had turned from dull red to a beautiful silver color. "You don't all that different, but you still coo with that silver on."

"F-fools," Sonic and Zero turned around to see Copy X who also had a new look. "Behold, I am now in my Seraph form."

Copy X's was now as big as a ship. Around his head was what looked like a strange halo. He no longer had legs; instead there was now a long cone structure in its place. His arms floated in mid air unattached to his body. He had three wings on each side of his back; they weren't attached to his body either. They were floating on what looked like to be two halves of a ring.

"Wow," Sonic calmly said. "Just when I thought you couldn't get any uglier."

"You w-will pay for that with your life." Seraph X lifted his enormous arm into the air causing the space around him to change. The three were now floating in what looked like lime green spirals. Zero eyed Sonic and the hedgehog replied with a nod.

Sonic flew forward leaving behind a streak of golden light. Zero came flying behind with a saber glowing bright green. Seraph ignored the two and began to fly away. Small glowing star like things came flying back. Zero shot ahead and tried to slash the stars away. One of the stars exploded which caused small lasers to emit in all directions. Sonic shot around dodging the blasts while Zero deflected one of the blasts. The deflected laser made its way towards Seraph X piercing his armor. The angelic Reploid stopped and turned around. He lifted his left hand and shot it forward. The enormous hand came slamming into Sonic pushing him away in the distance. Zero scowled at the hand as it flew away.

"Go!" Sonic called from the long distance. "I'll handle this."

Zero nodded and then blasted forward. He had his saber pointed straight out. Seraph X's eyes began to glow red and he lifted his remaining hand. A large of energy appeared in front of it. Sonic pushed against the hand with all his might. This wasn't going to be easy. Sonic began to take in energy causing a loud yellow aura to emit from his body. He quickly pushed off it and flew away from it. He maintained a distance and looked over his shoulder. It was still following him Sonic turned his attention towards the enormous Seraph X and noticed Zero charging straight into the ball of energy. "ZERO!" he shouted and then blasted over to them; giant hand still following. The giant ball of energy was finally released. Zero was still flying forward; once the blast reached him he put his saber out. The blast pushed against his saber. Zero barely managed to hold it back. He pushed with all his might. "Out of the way."

Sonic came in from behind Zero and pulled him up out of the way. This lead the evil hand of the Seraph X to come crashing through both the green energy blast and X as well.

Well the final chapter's coming real soon so stay tuned readers.