10.
She was frozen… And not just because of the coffin she was in.
He was back.
He was staring at her.
He was grinning.
And she was terrified… From the insides of her stasis coffin, his already disfigured face appeared even more deformed and demonic than usual…
A cry of pure despair was locked in her throat, un-capable of coming out due to her imprisonment.
He was still grinning… His sharp teeth were showing a deviated eagerness… But not as near as his glowing brown eyes…
She could tell that he had an interest on her… A very dangerous interest… Dangerous for her!
He licked his lips in delight.
Cosmo's fear was matched only by her utter disgust. She wasn't the type who could ever harm or hate anything… But she openly despised this ancient, perverted being who just loved to stare at her with those malicious eyes.
Suddenly, he put his right 5-fingered hand on the coffin's surface… A strange energy flux came out from it, engulfing her own body…
She felt the new force… She felt her own strength back again… She felt reborn…
She also felt something different…
Sadness…
Guilt…
Love…
And regret.
Emotions that she knew very well, emotions that she experienced… But not her own.
Those were someone else's feelings… Someone else's memories…
Someone else's life!
"No… What have you done, monster? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HIM!!?"
She understood now… This was Void's life force.
She could see all of his remembrances.
He was born from her seed… Tails planted it.
Void was her and Tails's child.
He's all life has been a gigantic lie, a hoax orchestrated by this evil being who was keeping her captivated… The same being who just killed him in order to heal her disease.
She could also see his beloved ones.
Imaginary tears descended from the Seedrian's azure eyes, when she discovered that the two most important persons in his life, were the same of hers.
Blaze… Her best friend… Her sister… Was Void's True Love.
Tails… Her savior… Her guardian and lover… Void's personality was so similar to his.
Finally, she saw his last moments of life… On this dimension, at least… When he and his blazing princess disappeared through the flames…
Together.
Forever.
She felt that feeling once again… Guilt… And this time, it was her own.
He died for her.
Her only son died to let his mother live!
And she didn't even get to know him… To meet him… To love him.
However, she still had hopes… Or better, she had certainties.
Wherever he would have ended up… He would have not be alone. Blaze, her sister, his lover, would be with him. She forced a sad smile inside her mind.
"I wish the best for the both of you… Be happy." She paused and then, resumed. "Perhaps… One day… We'll be able to live like a real family… I'll be waiting for that moment…" She paused again and then, concluded. "Void, my child and Blaze, my beloved sister... Goodbye and Good luck."
In the upper, roofless part of the Hidden Palace, the God Gem itself, the Master Emerald, was glowing like never before, reacting to what it considered to be its natural enemy…
The one who controls Chaos… The one who wants to destroy it…
From the top spot of its altar, the enormous jewel was trying to resist its enemy's influence… Not to avail.
Ixis Naugus knew that him and the gem were made of the same material, pure concentrated chaos energy, therefore he knew that it could not resist his powers anymore than he could resist its own…
They were linked, they were nemesis and so, equal in everyway.
Or so he thought… The arrogant sorcerer.
"So… You came." He said, pretending to be surprised.
He slowly turned to face his unwilling yet, determined guests.
The three last hopes for this world's own freedom, stood tall in front of the mischievous and manipulative mage…
Tails, the Vessel of Intelligence, who's greatest strengths were his brain and his heart, along with the ability to fly… He stood in the centre of the trio.
Knuckles, the Vessel of Strength, the stubborn power house who's usually driven by blind wrath but capable of rational thoughts and un-suspicious wisdom… He stayed on Tails's left side.
Sonic, the Vessel of Speed, a being who's speed had no equals and the one who's dumb enthusiasm and pride has been able to keep the group united… He was on Tails's right.
All three of them were Chosen by Nature… Results of Natural Selection and therefore, embraced and perfectly accustomed to the undeniable Chaos that Life is…
Ixis Naugus was there enemy, Ixis Naugus was Order… Order meant as the supreme negation of the endless possibilities, of the Freedom that a chaotic world like this is bound with.
Nearby the old sorcerer, a few meters on his right… There she stood.
Beautiful as ever, young as the vulpine remembered… And still frozen.
The Kitsune's aqua eyes glued themselves on the stasis coffin in which Cosmo slept in… Hardly resisting the urge to cry in commotion. He then re-diverted his gaze on the awful image of his greatest enemy yet.
The sole proclaimed Iblis grinned, of course, and started to spoke with his ancient, asthmatic voice.
"You don't think you can stop me, do you? I am a God, you fools! I am the Writer of this story and I have absolute control over everything that there ever lived! I AM…"
"An impostor!" Interrupted Tails, ending the sentence for the old mage.
Naugus stopped dead on his self-inflating speech… In hearing the fox's sudden words, a whole new emotion became visible in his deformed facial features… Bemusement.
"What… Did you… Say?" He asked, clearly irritated by the kid's disrespect.
The "kid" in question, was now smirking like Satan before an easily corruptible soul… Yes, he was THAT confident.
Tails answered the dark mage's question.
"I said… You are NOT a God! You are not The Writer! And you're certainly NOT the controller of everything… You're Gerald Robotnik, aren't you!?"
Naugus's bemusement was now turned into pure shock… Something that he wasn't accustomed with.
Both Knuckles and Sonic diverted their heads on the clever fox, they were quite surprised as well.
Tails's smirk never left his face.
"It was easy to imagine… It's the usual story, really, it's almost a cliché! The mad scientist that falls victim of his own invention, absorbs a lot of energy and become an even more crazed freak with Godlike powers… In this case, YOU!" He solemnly uttered while pointing his furry gloved hand on the not-so omniscient, long bearded creature, who was still in shock. Tails continued. "You can do a few tricks, I'll admit it… But you're not invincible and you're definitely NOT in control of anybody's fate! You're just the average villain who wants to take over the world, with an over complicated scheme and a lot of sheer luck… That's it!"
At this insulting statement, Naugus did what any average villain would do when the hero finds out the truth about his plan… He laughed maniacally in order to mask his obvious awkwardness.
"Yes… You're the Vessel of Intelligence alright…" Chuckled, the individual once known as Gerald Robotnik, patriarch of the Robotnik dynasty and direct ancestor of Ivo Julian, commonly recognized as Doctor Eggman. "… But that changes nothing!! I'm still the chosen messiah of the Ancient Walkers… Everything has been created and disposed for my arrival!"
"Nonsense… You're even more delusional than Eggman used to be!" Taunted the fox.
"Tell me, then… How can you rationally explain everything that happened to you, uh? How can you explain your own life and all the incomprehensible things in the world? The similarities between you and that plant girl with Merlin and Earthia? The flawless realization of MY Ancient Prophecy? The existence of something like the Master Emerald? How can you explain Nature, Life, Chaos itself… If they're not a superior entity's doing?" The sorcerer solemnly questioned.
To his displeasure, the rational part of Tails didn't have an answer for this…
"You can't."
… But someone else had it.
Everybody turned their collective attention to the relaxed and, suddenly, wise form of Knuckles the Echidna.
"Certain things happens without a reason… Things that we cannot explain… That we're not bound to know. Nature, Evolution, Life and Death, Rationality and Logic… Even your precious Order… Are ALL part of this mess… Are ALL part of the Chaos we live in… And ALL we can do about it, is stop worrying and start enjoying what the endless possibilities of Life could offer… Simply put, we just have to Leave and Learn!" The echidna solemnly added.
Tails and Sonic stared at him with baffled yet, admiring gazes.
"Ehm… Don't you think it's a little to easy, that way?" Tails retorted.
Knuckles just smiled at his younger friend.
"Perhaps… But sometimes, the best explanations are the simplest." He said, finally understanding the true meaning of his former phantom guide's words…
Ixis Naugus wasn't pleased by the echidna's blaspheme answer. Not pleased at all.
"That's preposterous! Everything happens for a reason! Everything has an explanation!" He yelled in frustration.
"Oh yeah? Explain this then… When you absorbed the energy from the Master Emerald… HOW IN THE HOLY HIGH HELL DID YOU END UP WITH THAT FUCKED UP ASPECT OF YOURS!!!?" Shouted the angry echidna.
The gruesome looking one-horned, one-clawed handed freak currently known as Naugus… Found out that he couldn't answer that fairly reasonable question. He put a face.
A grinning Tails went into the argument.
"Right! And after your transformation, why did you invented all that stuff about being an ancient God, a devil, Iblis and stuff, in the first place? Did you wanted a whole new background because your true story sucked?" Remarked the vulpine.
Naugus was now even less pleased.
Finally, a particularly eager Sonic entered in the debate.
"Yeah! And what about that stupid name of yours? Did you wanted to sound ominous and cool? What was that again… Pixies Chorus?" Chuckled the hedgehog.
"No, I think it was more like Ictus Bogus!" Corrected an already laughing Tails.
"Fuck no! It was Lupine Jackass!" Added an hysterical Knuckles.
They went on and on…
"Hocus Pocus!"
"Phyllis Birdies!"
"Angus Fungus!"
"ENOUGH WITH THIS!!!!" Cried the distressed sorcerer.
The three Mobians stopped their "innocent" mocking at Bogus… Ehm, Jackass? Whatever! They stopped their mocking at that idiot's expenses. Yes! He's an idiot! I can finally say it!
IDIOT! IDIOT! IDIOT! HA HA HA HA HA!!!
"HOW DARE YOU DEFY ME!!!?" The idiot shouted while his body started to be encircled by rather ridiculous and cheap thunders of rage. "I AM THE MOST POWERFUL BEING IN THE UNIVERSE!!! I HAVE THE POWER!!!"
"Aaaah, shut up, He-Dork!"
Before the freak of un-nature could even register it… Sonic came at him at his trademark break-neck speed and gave him a super fast uppercut that sent the bewildered mage to the sky… Only to get grabbed by an already flying Tails, who started spinning in circle at lightening speed with the screaming jerk in his grasp. Once he got enough momentum, he released the horn-freak, who just flew right into Knuckles's waiting, eager fist!
The impact that followed did send the pathetic magician right into the Master Emerald's shrine… Leaving a cartoon like silhouette in the marble.
Everyone laughed at the old crook's misery… Even the God Gem glowed in amusement.
"Man… You're soooooo pathetic! I can't believe I had so much fear of you, in the first place!" Mocked the now goliardic Kitsune.
Naugus was livid… To say the very least.
Then he calmed himself and slowly raised from the ground… Apparently unharmed.
His three adversaries ceased their laughter and went serious as well.
"Very well… Since you think I am just another cheap villain… I'll tell you about MY Evil Plan to take over the world!!!" He now had their attention. "You see… Even with my divine powers, killing every single undeserving being would have take too long… That's why I collected this peculiar item… AN ITEM THAT I FOUND ALONG WITH COSMO!!!"
Both Tails and Knuckles's expressions went pale… They knew of what "item" the sorcerer was talking about.
Sonic didn't understand the situation but seeing his friends in that condition, panicked him as well.
Naugus grinned like the monster he was while the inevitable, deadly words of knowledge came out from the mouth of the frightened kit.
"… Project: Doomsday… You had it for all this time!" A now shaking Tails muttered.
Sonic and Knuckles just stood there… Petrified.
It was Ixis's turn to laugh.
"I just don't like to waste things… Eheheheheheheheheheheheh! It is still intact, lovingly conserved in the Sanctuary dimension I've been trapped for so long… And once I'll take the necessary energy from the Master Emerald, I'll be able to open an inter-dimensional door big enough for the missile to pass… AND DESTROY ANY LIVING BEING ON EARTH!!! I SHALL CREATE MY PERFECT ORDER FROM THE ASHES OF THIS FILTHY WORLD!!! AHR AHR AHR AHR AHR AHR AHR!!!"
"NOOOOOOO!!!" Cried the two-tailed fox while launching himself over the madmen, the echidna and the blue hedgehog followed suit.
"FOOLS!!!" Shouted Naugus while clapping his infamous crablike hand.
The three heroes found themselves stocked inside solid ice of the same kind that trapped Tails before. Only their heads were left free.
Without wasting anymore time, the crazed demon jumped right on the green God Gem on the top of the shrine and started stealing it's energy… Once again.
"NO! STOP IT!!!"
"YOU STUPID FUCKER!!!"
"This is bad… No. This is MONDO BAD!!!"
They all shouted to him but it was already too late… Above Naugus's head, the portal was already opening…
It grew larger… And larger… And larger…
The dark mages laughed harder… And harder… And harder…
And then… When all hopes seemed to be lost…
I added a twist!
"What is that?" Asked Knuckles to no one in particular.
Sonic flinched.
"IT'S SHADOW!!!"
Indeed, the un-mistakable black and red silhouette of the Ultimate Life Form, came out of nowhere at light speed and, before the utter bewildered Naugus could do or say anything…
The hedgehog entered the portal.
"SHADOOOOOOW!!!" Tails, Knuckles and Sonic cried in chorus… But to no avail.
Shadow the Hedgehog was gone.
"Well, dear sibling, here goes nothing…"
"Gee, Brother… If somebody would have told that I was going to die by saving the whole world from a nuclear missile… I probably would have killed it and devoured its flesh!"
"……."
"What's wrong, Shadow? No angry reply, this time?"
"……."
"Shadow?"
"… Mephiles… Brother… You do know that in order to ensure the total annihilation of this menace and seal the portal… We will have to sacrifice a life force, do you know that?"
"Yes, of course I know and… Believe it or not… I'm ready to do this with you… Together until the end, right brother?"
"That's the point… There is only need… Of ONE life force… Not two."
"…. W-what are you saying?"
"Mephiles?"
"Y-yes?"
"Will you do me a favor?"
"Anything!"
"Please… Take care of Amy for me."
"NO! WAIT!!!"
"I'm coming… Maria."
"DON'T DO IT!!!"
"Sayonara… Mephiles the Dark."
"BROTHEEEEEEEER!!!!"
It came the light…
It came the noise of the explosion…
And then… The portal was closed… Forever.
No one of the witnesses dared to utter a single word. Too much was the shock. Too much was the sadness. Too much was the rage!
Naugus was furious… So furious actually, that he failed to immediately notice the interesting developments that were happening right behind him… Then, he noticed some of the Master Emerald's unlimited energy departing from it.
A sudden and very tangible fear found its way inside the former human's blackened soul… He slowly turned from where he was…
And he saw them. His three enemies. His three former captives, freed from their own prisons...
With the 7 glowing Chaos Emeralds floating around their bodies…
And very angry.
The came-out-of-nowhere, re-colored gems managed to regain their own energies from their mother source without the help of any fancy litanies or complicated machinery… They just did it… Driven by the sheer force of the three heroes' emotions.
They stood still in their spots while the jewels started spinning around them… They went faster and faster and faster…
Until they disappeared, in a mighty flash of golden light.
Naugus had to cover his eyes to prevent damage in his viewing sight. When he reopened them… They grew 10 times larger.
There they were… The Chosen Ones… The creatures who had been gifted with the ability of controlling Chaos… The three Vessels at their full potential…
In their Chaos Forms!
The once cobalt blue color of the robotizied, furry hedgehog known as Sonic… Was now bright gold, his eyes were glowing red and his quills were all pointed toward the sky.
Knuckles's once red fur was now a glowing cerulean, just like his eyes… And over all, he looked even more menacing than the echidna already used to be.
And ultimately… Tails. His orange-yellow foxy fur was now bright like the sun itself and his 3 head bangs seemed to be longer than they were before… Even his tails looked bigger and more fluffy yet, menacing than ever. His eyes were blue but without pupils.
All their angry gazes were undeniably stocked over the sorcerer's terrified form, who, just like any cheap villain would do in this kind of situation, was stubbornly denying the obvious…
"NO! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT!! I DEMAND TO KNOW!!!" He cried like the big ugly baby he was.
They all smirked.
"It just happened." They answered in unison… As if they were a unique entity.
"W-what are you going to do with me?"
Their smirk grew even larger.
"We'll just… Improvise!" Their collective answer.
A certain well-known dead Sniper would have been proud of them.
Before Naugus could even try to escape… They were already on him, beating the hell out of vicious skin.
Tails used his lethal namesakes as devastating whiplashes, Sonic spin dashed him and Knuckles… Was just mauling him with his huge fists.
When they grew bored of it, they all darted toward the sky… They all flew in the sky… And summoned enough energy for their last attack.
From the position he was, the bloody beaten limp form of the once mighty God, could look in the eye of his own demise…
They were now ready…
"CHAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSS…."
… To end this…
"BLAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSST!!!"
… Once and for all!
A humongous beam of red energy was launched from their respective hands, hitting the doomed sorcerer with deadly precision.
In the last moments of his pathetic and obnoxious existence… Ixis Naugus could only think one last sentence…
I… Hate… Them. Hate them. Hate them. Hate them. HAAAAATE THEEEEEEM!!!!
A cheap villain until the very end.
After the explosion, nothing was left of him… Not even his ludicrous horn.
Invincible my ass!
The three Mobians slowly descended to the soil again, their Chaos Forms faded away and the their natural fur color, along with their average physical details, returned. They exchanged looks of approval.
The now normal two-tailed fox was about to say something important, when…
"TAILS!!!"
… A familiar voice called his name… A sweet, caring, feminine voice he was afraid he would have never heard again.
Tails slowly but convincingly, turned… And there she was… Freed by her former prison…
The beautiful and young form… Of Cosmo the Seedrian.
The vulpine's mouth was agape.
The plant girl's gaze was brighter than ever.
Soft tears started their joyful descent from the two kids' respective eyes.
"Cosmo…" He replied through sobs of happiness.
Both of them darted toward each other and embraced tightly in the middle of their path, without any intentions in letting the other go.
"You don't know how much I missed you…" Tails muttered in the girl's ear while caressing her soft leaf like hair, still crying.
"I love you so much, Tails… Please, don't leave again!" She practically begged him.
"I won't… No matter what… I won't…"
Then, both Cosmo and Tails stared at their eyes… It used to be heir favourite activity, after all… Until now.
Without even blushing, as they usually would do at this moment, their lips gently united themselves in a sweet, childish kiss.
Knuckles and Sonic just pretended to do something else and left the two lovebirds to their precious moment... The two adults were grinning between themselves.
After a few heaven like minutes, the two children's lips departed from each other… They're eyes were full of joy.
Finally, Tails spoke.
"Let's go home."
Cosmo just nodded and cutely smiled.
In the meantime, Sonic and Knuckles managed to recover all the Chaos Emeralds and so, they were ready to go.
Everybody put an hand over each other's shoulder while Tails and the other two Mobians used three of the emeralds in their possession to call up a Chaos Control.
In a flash of green light, they were all gone.
When they returned to Knothole with the 7 Chaos Emeralds in their grasps, they were greeted like heroes.
Tails hugged his mother, Sally, tightly and lovingly and then he officially presented his girlfriend, Cosmo, to her. She eventually greeted her once she managed to surpass her initial shock…
Sonic met up with Bunny again, he was glad that she survived… He found the courage to tell her about his true nature (or un-nature, if you will), she just sweetly smiled and kissed his synthetic lips… He danced on fluffy clouds for the rest of the day… Not figuratively.
Knuckles found his sister Tikal, and, to the female echidna's utter joy, he forgave her… Then he confessed his feelings toward her and the fact that he would love to see their own child grow up… She was on tears. The two siblings and lovers embraced each other tightly and kissed, not caring about others' opinions. Knuckles eventually left a comment or two about Tikal's war attire… She blushed madly at that.
Espio and Rotor did manage to survive the battle… Although not without a price… The walrus was missing one leg and the chameleon lost his characteristic horn… The returning group greeted them as well.
Amy Rose was alive too, much to Tails's surprise. He really thought that she was a goner after falling in the ocean when they went to South Island. She told him that Shadow saved her…
And that topic forced the kit to tell her the truth about the heroic twin brothers' sacrifice.
She cried, of course, she almost ripped off her own quills in despair… The dark duo, the one-bodied siblings… The two hedgehogs she loved with all her might…
Were simply gone.
She would have to live with this… Eventually.
As Maximillian Acorn informed them, the result of their attack at the outskirts of Robotropolis turned out to be catastrophic, not only they couldn't take back the city but now, Doctor Eggman would have had enough time to reorganize his troops and invade Mobius.
The three heroes smirked at this…
That was definitely NOT going to happen.
Epilogue.
For every beginning… There must be an end.
The only problem now is… How am I going to properly end a saga like this?
This has been a saga that took everything from me… My emotions, my feelings and even some of my personal issues… A story in which I questioned my dubious abilities as a writer… And, hopefully, a story that would inspire someone else's work… Perhaps, I'm just a little delusional, now… But the question remains…
How am I going to finish this?
Should I put a nihilistic ending in which everybody dies?
"NO!"
Ok… How about an Hollywood like happy ending?
"NO!"
A musical ending with an important morale?
"NO… Oh wait. That could work!"
Thanks for the suggestion Myself!
"No problem, Me, anytime…"
Very well then… On with the Epilogue!
The infamous Dr Eggman was not a happy person… As a matter of fact, he was pissed like the whole infernal pantheon after losing a chess game against Weird Al!
Where the heck did that come from?
His big brown mustaches perched nastily for his inconceivable rage. He couldn't tolerate the idea that a bunch of talking animals had been almost able to invade his precious empire capitol… They would have paid for their defiance, that was for sure.
Too bad that a certain group of three "talking animals" wasn't on the same opinion…
Right now, one of the doctor's floating radio came visiting the madman himself… And it had a message for him!?
"Hello there, doctor…" Started the very familiar, much to Eggman's dismay, registered voice of a certain vulpine wonder he used to know. "… If you're listening this message then you just met up with one of your radio I managed to reprogram… I've only one short thing to say to you, Eggbutt… Redirect all of your floating cameras to the eastern zone of your 'empire' and… Enjoy the show! Eh eh eh…"
The now utterly irate scientist was literally fuming his brain out! In a burst of rage, he crushed the little radio in front of him with his bare hands and then, he decided to follow his long time rival's suggestion and ordered all of his cameras left to fix themselves on the aforementioned zone…
What he saw, scared the Hell out of his large butt.
Outskirts of Robotropolis.
05:30 am of the new day.
From their high position, Tails, Knuckles and Sonic had a very good view of the dawning sun behind the not anymore ominous sight of the dark city.
Today was a very special day for the kit. It was his birthday… And he was about to start the party, along with his two best friends and companions.
He knew that he wouldn't have been able to make it so far, without their precious help. He smiled at them and they smiled him back.
Then, they all returned their gazes over the magnificent view in front of them… They noticed a few floating cameras in the distance, registering their every moves…
They all smirked… And braced.
Seemingly out of nowhere, the 7 Chaos Emeralds started to encircle the three Mobians.
It was time for this party to blow!
Hit the Music!!!
Can you feel life movin' through your mind,
Ooh, looks like it came back for more!
Yeah yeah yeah!
Can you feel time slippin' down your spine,
Ooooooh, You try and try to ignore!
Yeah!
They could already feel the Power while the sacred gems began their spinning ritual…
It was intoxicating, yes… It was dangerous and potentially addicting, yes…
But in their hands, this power represented something different… It was Freedom… It was Life and Will to Survive… It was Chaos!
But you can hardly swallow,
Your fears and pain.
When you can't help but follow,
It puts you right back where you came.
Locked in their room, the current Mobian Council's members were debating about something important (unlike politicians usually do) and each and every one of them was equally determined and motivated in doing the best for their country.
Sally Acorn, her father Maximillian, Bunny Rabbot and the two new members… War heroes, Espio and Rotor, were all shouting for making their voices heard…
Well... Most of them were shouting… Espio was just sleeping.
He was still him, after all.
Live and learn!
Hanging on the edge of tomorrow,
Live and learn!
From the works of yesterday.
Live and learn!
If you beg or if you borrow,
Live and learn!
You may never find your way.
Whooooa, yeah!
Tikal and her loyal subjects were back in Westopolis… Surprisingly enough, the city was under reconstruction… Due to their efforts in the war, the Mobian Council gave them the permission to build there on state, much to G.U.N.'s displeasure.
Inside her personal tent, Tikal the Echidna, neo-elected queen of this new born kingdom, was caressing her belly, where the soon to be new born prince was slowly growing. She looked more solar and happy than ever… And of course, she would wait for her future husband and king to return and live with her… Until Death would say otherwise… And, perhaps, even beyond.
Can you feel life tangle you up inside?
Yeah, now you're face down on the floor!
Oh!
The Chaos Emeralds were spinning faster… The three Mobian warriors were almost overwhelmed by their energy.
Almost there…
But you can't save your sorrow,
You've paid in trade!
When you can't help but follow,
It puts you right back where you came.
Amy Rose was mourning about her tragic losses… She didn't know how could she possibly overcome her sorrow…
She was walking inside the Great Forest… When she saw him… Right in front of her… With his un-mistakable snaky eyes.
Mephiles was alive… And he was there for his rose. He survived thanks to his brother's sacrifice and now… He was a unique being… With a unique body.
She cried.
He cried.
They both embraced and kissed.
Together… They will overcome their sorrows… And live their lives as they wanted.
Together!
Live and learn!
Hanging on the edge of tomorrow,
Live and learn!
From the works of yesterday.
Live and learn!
If you beg or if you borrow,
Live and learn!
You may never find your way.
Hey, whoa, whoa,
Oh yeeeeeeeeeeeah!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
They were starting to change… The transformation was almost complete.
There's a face searching far, so far and wide.
There's a place where you dream you'd never find.
Hold on to what if?
Hold on to what if?
Encased in their frozen sleep, stood the two eternal lovers…
Blaze and Void… The Blazing Princess and her Charming Prince…
United in their frosted coffin… In the Sanctuary dimension… Their new kingdom… With no one daring to disturb them. A love that surpasses time itself. A love that defies death.
Inside their common coffin, they were embraced… Their faces were serene… In the tranquility of their own crystal world…
They would always be together…
Forever and eternally.
Live and learn!
Hanging on the edge of tomorrow,
Live and learn!
From the works of yesterday.
Live and learn!
If you beg or if you borrow,
Live and learn!
You may never find your way
Cosmo sat in the middle of the flower field she loved so much… The ancient ruins zone was her and Tails's secret place… And in such a beautiful place… She would have waited for him.
Her savior, her protector, her guardian angel…
Her fox.
Live and learn!
Hanging on the edge of tomorrow,
Live and learn!
From the works of yesterday.
Live and learn!
If you beg or if you borrow,
Live and learn!
You may never find your way.
And the transformation was complete.
Tails, Knuckles and Sonic were in their Chaos Forms, ready to end this story once and for all…
And to begin another one… A whole new chapter in their life, new as the sunrise went…
They looked each other into the eyes and spoke…
"Happy Birthday, Tails!"
"Thank you, guys… Now, LET'S KICK SOME BUTT!!!"
And the three chosen heroes of this adventure, darted toward the city… The horizon… And their uncertain yet, intriguing future…
Can you feel Life? Because, they can.
The End.