Chapter Eight: The Worst Saved For Last
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New York City, Year: 2030, 11:30 am
A ruined street sat silent. Fires were ravaging overturned cars, chunks of debris lay across the street. Suddenly, an elderly shadow the hedgehog slammed down on the windshield of a car. Mecha WereSonic landed right on him, aiming his gatling gun right at his face.
"Face it Shadow, I'll always come back, and I'll always win.'' Mecha said "You're a fool for thinking that S-'' Shadow began.
"Don't even say it, you know I hate being called that, he's erased from history, and so shall you.'' Mecha said, pushing his gatling gun into Shadow's forehead.
From down the street, a portal opened, Kuki and brandy dropped onto the ground, the portal vanished above them. Mecha looked up and saw the two. "I thought I killed you!'' Mecha yelled, throwing Shadow back into the windshield of a car down the street.
Shadow rolled off the hood and coughed and spit. He looked to see Kuki. His eyes widened. "H-How, she's…NOO!'' Shadow charged, intent to stop Mecha.
Shadow fired a huge chaos spear into Mecha's back, launching him forwards over the heads of the two girls.
Shadow teleported in front of Kuki and Brandy. "Shadow? You're…older, and taller.'' she said.
Shadow kneeled down and hugged Kuki. "I can't believe this, you're alive!'' he said.
"What?'' she said.
"No time, start running, I'll explain later.'' Shadow told them.
Mecha tackled Shadow from his side. Mecha pushed shadow right through a glass window of an old jewelry shop. The two rolled away from each other. Mecha got up, taking one of the display cases and smashing it on shadow's head. Shadow fired a chaos spear into Mecha's chest, making him stumble backwards. "It'll take more than that to send me flying.'' Mecha said, kicking shadow in the gut. "Oh yeah? I'll send you flying alright.'' shadow said. Mecha tilted his head.
From outside, the two girls were standing in the middle of the street, waiting for shadow. "Where are we? When are we?'' Brandy questioned.
"I don't know, but something went way wrong.'' Kuki said, her hands clasped together.
A sudden red light shined from the inside of the jewelry shop. Mecha came flying out and bashed against a light pole behind Kuki and brandy, then dropped face first to the ground. The two looked to see hopping out of the window was Shadow in his Werehog form. He looked more menacing now that at this age his quills were longer and he had some others growing. "Step out of the way and get to safety!'' shadow told them, charging forwards. The two cleared a path for him. Shadow jumped on top of Mecha while he was still down. Mecha pointed his cannon and fired. Shadow went flying high into the air. Mecha retracted his cannon and armed his rocket arms. He fired ten rockets up at shadow. Shadow swung his stretched arms, destroying five. He suddenly teleported. Shadow reappeared in front of Mecha, back in his hedgehog form. His hands were above one another, a golden ball in the middle. "See ya' tomorrow.'' he said, firing the beam right into his chest. Mecha was sent hurdling in pain above the buildings and soon he was gone.
"How did you change from your normal form and Werehog form like that?'' questioned Kuki. Shadow turned to face them, raising his left arm. The two gasped to see the transformation device, except the button was glowing red. "How'd you get that?'' Brandy asked, filled with a surprising tone.
"I made it, had enough technology and Chaos Emerald energy to make it.'' Shadow said, lowering his arm. "
But Kuki…I can't believe it, you're okay!'' he said, walking up to her.
"What are you saying?'' she asked.
"I'll show you.'' he replied. He snapped his fingers, teleporting the three.
The three reappeared in a dirt area. There were a bunch of tombstones and
wooden crosses. "Here.'' he said, looking at a tombstone. Kuki and Brandy stood on both sides of shadow. Kuki gasped, putting her hands on her mouth. Kuki's name was on it. "You died in 2015.'' he said grimly.
"Oh my god.'' Brandy said in shock. Kuki dropped to her knees in front of it.
"How can this be?'' she said, putting her hands to her tear filled eyes. She looked to the right and saw something worse. Four tombstones that had the names of the rest of Sector V. Kuki shook her head. "No…No, no, NOO!!'' she cried.
Shadow looked away. Brandy came by Kuki's side and hugged her. "Who did this?'' Brandy asked, looking at Shadow. Shadow looked at her, but looked away again.
Brandy got up and looked at the left side. She gasped, putting her hands to her mouth. Two tombstones, side by side, one was 'Jenny Wakeman' the other said 'E-123 Omega'. Brandy looked behind them and saw the name 'Katara', 'Toph', and 'Misty'.
She backed up, her lip quivering, lost for words. "This is how it ends.'' Shadow said, stopping next to brandy. Brandy sobbed, "B-B-But who? WHO DID THIS!?'' Brandy exclaimed, tears streaming down her face.
Shadow walked away. Brandy looked around the area again. "What about Sonic?'' she asked quickly.
Shadow stopped, looked over his shoulder. "You don't wanna' know.'' he said, then continued walking.
What is this? What happened that made this future? Who is responsible for the deaths of our heroes? Is this how Earth's future will end up? A question is to be answered, problem is, the answer will shock your mind.
Avatar Dimension, Ba Sing Se Lower Ring, 9:25 am
The group of heroes ran down an empty street. The huge Iblis followed after them. "How are we suppose to beat that thing?!'' exclaimed Max.
"I don't know, just keep running!'' Sokka answered.
Suddenly, in the distance ahead of them, a portal opened releasing huge slew of chaos spears fired out of, towards Iblis's head. The chaos spears all made their mark, damaging the molten armor covering his head. Flying out of the portal was Shadow. He landed behind the group, making his chaos sword appear in his right hand. "If you guys got any bright ideas, do it now.'' he said, leaping up at Mephiles.
"Shadow.'' Mephiles said, flying down at him. Shadow swung his sword, cutting a swath on Mephiles, purple gas leaked out from the cut.
Shadow's hover shoes fired up and he flew up to Iblis's green eye on top of his head. Mephiles fired a purple beam right into shadow's back. Shadow was lunged forward, Iblis swung his huge hand which smacked shadow, sending him down into the ground.
Mephiles grabbed him by the neck, shadow let a burst of energy out, making Mephiles hover back. Shadow swung his sword, releasing a volley of chaos spears. Mephiles swung his arms to both sides, firing a wave of purple energy. The wave blasted through the chaos spears easily.
"I don't have time for you.'' Shadow said, teleporting.
Mephiles looked up on top of Iblis's head, seeing shadow stand over Iblis's skull. Shadow's sword resonated with red energy. He drove it down into Iblis's head, making the monstrosity bellow in pain. Shadow pushed it in further. A red aura built around him. He began to strain, all his energy was being sent into the sword. "START RUNNING…NOW!!'' Shadow yelled down at the group.
The group started headed back to the entrance to the city. Shadow grunted and strained, the amount of power being surged was really hurting him. "Chaos…'' Shadow said. Mephiles flew up at him. As soon as Mephiles punched him in the face, shadow yelled; "BLAST!!'' The giant red dome of chaos energy blasted through a series of buildings, sending lava flying everywhere.
A blot of it landed in front of the others. "Whoa, way too close.'' Sokka said, filled with relief.
"The entrance is down here! Come on!'' Ash said, heading down the street. The group stopped in front of the entrance, which was already destroyed when the army of robots besieging Ba Sing Se. "Don't forget me.'' said Shadow, limply walking towards them, his sword being dragged on the ground.
Ash and Dawn hurried over to him. Shadow fell to his knees, then on his hands. "Are you alright Shadow?'' asked Dawn, filled with concern.
"Yeah…I need time though, my energy will rebuild fast, but now is not the time for me to fight.'' he said, slowly getting on his feet. "
Why'd you come here?'' asked Ash.
"I need to find Sonic, and make him pay.'' Shadow said, walking past them, making his sword vanish with a wave of his hand that was holding it.
"What do you mean 'Pay'?'' asked Max.
"You'll try and stop me if I told you.'' Shadow said, stopping in front of the group of the others.
"You're not trying to fight him, are you?'' asked Brock.
"Much worse than that.'' Shadow replied, getting his green Chaos Emerald out.
"So don't try and stop me, I'm going to Tokyo.'' Shadow told them, waving his emerald to create a portal. "
Tokyo? Why there?'' asked May "I've heard news way before about something going down there.'' Shadow said.
"What about us?'' said Katara.
"You'll stay here, all of you stay together and get the city back in shape, Zuko is probably on his way too.'' Shadow said, walking into the portal then vanished.
The heroes sat silent. "What do you think he's going to do Sonic?'' asked Misty.
"I don't know, but by what he said, it doesn't sound good.'' Toph commented.
"Let's just hope Eggman didn't have reinforcements planned to come here.'' Ash added.
What is Shadow going to do to Sonic? What lies in Tokyo? What ever is going on is about to change the course of this new war.
New York City, Year: 2030, 11:50 am
The elder Shadow, Brandy, and Kuki sat in a small room at the resistance base. "How can this happen? Who did all this!?'' exclaimed Brandy, getting up.
"If you were to know, it would shock you more then it did me.'' Shadow replied.
Brandy had a face of confusion on her face. "What about the others? Aang, Ash, Sokka, and everyone else?'' Kuki brought up "They're off in other states, countries, or dimensions, on missions to reduce Eggman's supply lines or reduce his numbers of robots.'' Shadow explained.
"I still want to know, who did this all!'' exclaimed Kuki.
Shadow looked away, not answering. "It was Mecha wasn't it.'' Kuki answered for him. Shadow looked at her about to say something, but a sudden noise stopped him.
The group went outside and saw a blue portal. "What's going on now?'' Shadow said.
Walking through it was normal old Sonic. "Sonic? Sonic you're here!'' Brandy said joyfully, running over to him.
Brandy kneeled down and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Why are you here? Actually, where are we?'' Sonic said confusedly.
"You.'' Shadow muttered, charging at sonic. Shadow pushed Brandy out of the way, and grabbed Sonic by the throat, raising him off his feet. "Shadow? What happened to you?'' Sonic said, nearly choking the words out "You're in 2030, our future!'' Shadow yelled angrily.
"What I do?'' Sonic protested.
"You've doomed us all, that's what!!'' Shadow shouted, smashing Sonic into the ground, back first.
"Shadow! What's gotten into you?'' Kuki yelled, running over to him.
Shadow pointed his open palm at Sonic's face, a golden glow filling it. "Let him go!'' Kuki demanded. Shadow looked at her, then back at Sonic. Shadow growled, about to fire the chaos spear, when suddenly, he was grabbed by one of his quills.
Mecha WereSonic, this future's Mecha, was the culprit. "Hello Shadow, miss me?'' Mecha said, tossing Shadow down into the street. Running to the three below was the older Tails and Knuckles.
"Mecha again?'' Tails said, then he noticed Sonic.
"It can't be! Watch out Knuckles, he may try something.'' Tails said, pulling out a 9mm.
"I've been waiting for this, for a very long time.'' Knuckles said, punching his fists together.
"Hold on! I don't even know what're you two are talking about!'' Sonic defended himself.
Suddenly, Shadow impacted the ground in front of them. Mecha hovered down to the street. Mecha noticed Sonic.
"Who are you suppose to be?'' Mecha said.
"Mecha! Wait…you don't know who I am?'' Sonic said, filled with confusion.
"Wait a second, you're Sonic the Hedgehog aren't you?'' Mecha said, his voice sounding angry.
"I don't like this.'' Sonic muttered. Mecha fired his chaos cannon. Shadow stood up and created a golden shield for the blast to smack into. Mecha ceased the firing and retracted his cannon back inside.
Shadow pressed his transformation device, turning into his Werehog form. Sonic sped by his side. "Since when did you get a transformation device?'' sonic asked "Not the time.'' shadow replied darkly. Mecha grabbed the two heroes and tossed them forwards. Sonic regained control, he spun over to the right, dodging Mecha, but sonic formed into a ball and homed in on his foe. Mecha turned around and was hit in the face by Sonic. Shadow stretched both his clenched fists over Mecha and dropped the two huge fists on his skull. Mecha sank back down into the concrete road in a blur. Shadow turned back to his normal form, firing twenty chaos spears out of one hand. Mecha fired his chaos cannon, blasting through all the chaos spears easily. Mecha teleported behind shadow and fired his cannon, sending Shadow down into the ground, face first with a loud bang. Sonic lunged from behind, but Mecha swung his metallic fist into Sonic's stomach, also sending him to the street. Sonic got up, shaking his head from the landing. Mecha landed behind the blue hedgehog, making sonic turn around hastily to dodge a fist. Sonic grabbed his arm and spiral kicked Mecha in the face. Sonic then proceeded by giving Mecha an uppercut, throwing him into the air. Shadow came in and grabbed his metallic quills, tossing him higher into the air. Sonic and Shadow teleported side by side above Mecha to both kick their feet into his back.
Mecha plummeted back down into the earth in a matter of seconds. Sonic and Shadow landed on the ground, the crater which Mecha lay in sat in front of them. "You think he's gonna' get back up?'' Sonic asked, looking at Shadow.
Mecha ironically appeared in front of the two and punched them both right in the face. Sonic went sliding across the street, Shadow landed on his feet, his hand sliding on the ground until he stopped. Shadow charged, leaped up and punched Mecha in the dome. Shadow sent both his fists into Mecha's power source, but Mecha countered by scratching shadow across the face. Shadow backed away, but once he looked back at Mecha, he had a full face of anger. Mecha teleported behind Shadow, who gave Mecha a kick in the chest, then shadow turned around to throw his fist at him. Mecha caught his fist and twisted it. Shadow dropped on one knee. Mecha kicked shadow in the face, to knock shadow to the ground. Sonic flew over to grab Mecha by his shoulders. Sonic was upside down until he lifted Mecha off his feet and tossed the titanium robot forwards to crash into a truck trailer. Sonic transformed into his Werehog form. But Mecha was already charging with a fist ready. Sonic hurdled his fist as well. The two foes' fists collided with one another. Sonic grabbed Mecha by his shoulder and pulled him on to the ground. Sonic leaped up and down at Mecha, both his fists held over his head. Mecha suddenly teleported. Sonic raised an eyebrow. Mecha reappeared behind Sonic, while he was still coming down, and fired his chaos cannon point blank into the hero's back, forcing sonic down into the concrete street.
Mecha retracted his cannon back inside when he landed on the ground. Sonic put a hand on the street, pulling himself forward. Mecha grabbed Sonic by the back of his head and leaned his head down. "I don't know how its possible, but I'll end you right here, right now.'' Mecha said, before letting go of his head and transforming one of his arms into his gatling guns. Kuki and Brandy watched from afar. "We need to help!'' Kuki said.
"Are you crazy? Did you see what Mecha did?'' Brandy said. "And if we don't do something, they'll be two new tombstones added, so come on!'' Kuki said, running straight to Mecha. Brandy followed afterwards.
Sonic's right fist glowed light blue, his eyes narrowed angrily. Sonic got up and sent that fist right into Mecha's chin, knocking his head clean off, also sending Mecha fly backwards into the air. Kuki and Brandy stopped by Sonic's side to help him up. The three looked forward to see Mecha's feet down and the rest of his body hidden. "You…you knocked his head off!'' exclaimed Brandy.
"You beat him! You did it Sonic!'' Kuki exclaimed happily.
"No, you weren't even close.'' Mecha said, except his voice sounded familiar, something like Sonic's voice in his Werehog form, but much darker and deeper. Mecha rose up to reveal he had six quills, just like Sonic. Three different quills had their tips made out of silver metal, the other three were burnt and the bare flesh could be seen. Mecha turned around. The three looked in complete horror to see that Mecha was no robot, he was wearing a helmet. They saw Sonic's Werehog face. Mecha's right eye was gone, the right part of his mouth was burned and rotted off so you could see his bare jaw, along with his bottom fang. The other half of Mecha's face was burnt black, but some of the dark blue fur remained. "Mecha is actually Sonic!!!'' Brandy exclaimed, marching back, along with Sonic and Kuki.
"Yes, it is true, I'm your inevitable Sonic the Hedgehog. Your self doubts will get the better of you, you go mad, you get anxious, but get yourself killed…….this is the end result.'' Mecha said, sticking his arms out to the side slowly. They were disgusted by his etched voice, and that they could see the one half of his skin that covered his mouth burnt off to reveal his bare teeth when he talks. Mecha turned around quickly to grab Shadow by the throat who attempted a sneak attack. "You fool, trying to attack me without warning.'' Mecha said.
Sonic grabbed Mecha by one of his quills and threw him over to a building wall on the side. Sonic bit down on Mecha's neck. Mecha punched Sonic in the side of the head, knocking him off. Mecha was tackled into the wall by Shadow, but Mecha elbowed him then punched him in the gut, throwing shadow to the building opposite of the one they were standing by, crashing through one of the windows.
Sonic punched Mecha five times, then five more times in his power source. Mecha grabbed Sonic by the throat and lifted him up. The cannon came out. "My turn.'' Mecha said, firing the cannon. Sonic was thrown a mile down the street until he landed. Mecha walked back into the street and picked up his helmet. Mecha put it on, the two glowing gold eyes came on. Mecha's jetpack came out and he blasted forwards down the street to challenge Sonic again.
"Great, just as if I thought things couldn't get any worse, I find out I become the one responsible for nearly ending the world!'' Sonic thought to himself. Mecha came inches to Sonic. Sonic, however, ducked from Mecha's sudden charge. Mecha teleported behind Sonic to fire his cannon, but sonic was already in the air then dive kicked right into Mecha's head, bringing him to the ground. Mecha rolled on his back and fired his chaos cannon. Sonic spiraled around in the air. Mecha flew up, grabbing one of his ankles then flying back to the ground to smash Sonic onto a car. Mecha flew high up into the air then went into a nose dive down at Sonic.
Sonic widened his eyes and quickly jumped off onto the street, seconds before Mecha impacted the car, turning it into a hunk of blazing embers.
Sonic's right hand was on the ground, his left leg was sticking out, this is how he landed. Mecha's black silhouette rose up, then looked at Sonic. Mecha teleported face to face in front of our hero. Sonic took his left leg and did a short jump to kick Mecha across the face. Sonic did a spin dash right into Mecha's chest, then Sonic powerfully kicked Mecha in his power source, sending the mechanized monster down to the ground again. Sonic changed into his Werehog form. He raised his arms in defense. Mecha's blast from his chaos cannon hit sonic immediately when he turned into his Werehog form. Sonic swung around by the blast and saw he was coming right toward a building. He drove his claws into the wall to stick to it.
Sonic saw Mecha tackle him right into the building. Mecha was holding onto sonic, crashing through two more floors before stopping in mid air. Mecha hovered down and slammed Sonic into the ground. Mecha raised his fist over Sonic's skull. Sonic's eyes widened. Sonic grabbed the fist and tossed Mecha out a window, while still laying down. Sonic jumped out of the broken window and straightened himself out to catch up with the falling Mecha. Sonic stretched his right arm, but Mecha moved out of the way and fired his chaos cannon. Sonic took yet another painful hit and was thrown back through another wall of the building he was just in.
Sonic coughed and wheezed, the smoke around him was just enough to make him gag. He threw the piece of debris off his back and stood up. He heard Mecha coming, he had an idea. As soon as Mecha teleported onto the spot Sonic was once lying, he wasn't there. "Where are you?'' Mecha asked, looking around. Suddenly, the floor beneath him crumbled. Sonic grabbed him by the ankles and the two fell through floor after hole exchanging punches to each others craniums.
Outside of the building, Kuki and brandy were kneeled beside shadow. "You think you're going to be alright?'' asked Kuki.
"Don't worry, I always make a comeback.'' he said, sitting up carefully.
The building behind them boomed, smoke came out from it in a massive formation. The building began to topple. "Hold on to me!'' Shadow exclaimed.
The two put a hand on Shadow. He closed his eyes and in just a second they teleported.
The building snapped in half, the top half crumbled and crashed onto the ground in a gigantic cloud of gray smoke. The boom was loud that it made its noise across half the city. In the midst of it, the three heroes reappeared on a slab of concrete. "Wow, those two sure can make a mess.'' Brandy said.
Suddenly, a hand popped out of the ground, it was Sonic's hand. He pulled himself out of the rubble and shook his head rapidly, until he put a hand on his forehead, rubbing it. With some bruises and deep cuts, the battered hedgehog marched to the three heroes. Brandy ran over to him first. Sonic's eyes began to close, he collapsed, but brandy caught him. Kuki and Shadow rushed over to her. "We need to get him to safety and fast, Mecha gets up quite fast.'' shadow said, making the green chaos emerald appear in his hand. Shadow raised the emerald up and the three vanished. A whole slab of concrete flew up into the air, Mecha jumped into the air and began looking around hastily. Once he noticed they got away, he roared into the sky with vicious anger.
Moments later, at a resistance base in Manhattan, the four sat in a tent. The opening remained as it was. There was dead silence among our heroes. "How did it happen? What caused him to become Mecha!?'' exclaimed Brandy.
Shadow kept his head down, and his eyes were remained shut. He looked over at Sonic who was standing at the entrance to the tent, not moving an inch. "I was hoping you wouldn't have figured this out until I would send you away, but if you want to know, I guess there's no reason to argue.'' shadow replied. Kuki and Brandy exchanged looks, then stared back at shadow. "It all began in 2013.'' Shadow began.
"It was at the cave Sonic has been living at. The twenty one year old Sonic was getting ready to leave. At the moment, I hadn't heard he was leaving.'' Shadow said.
Sonic grabbed hold of his transformation device on the dusty wooden desk. He picked it up, staring at it for a moment. A sudden whirling noise caught Sonic's attention. He turned to the cave entrance and saw the silhouettes of a 13 year old Tails and a 20 year old Knuckles. Sonic narrowed his eyes and turned back to the desk. "What're you doing here?'' he asked blankly, strapping on the transformation device.
"We know what you're doing, and you can't do this! Its crazy!'' Tails exclaimed, trying to persuade his old friend. The blue button glowed for a second then continued its normal resonating.
Sonic turned around, "Don't try and stop me, I'm going to end this once and for all.'' sonic said "For once Sonic, listen to Tails, going to Eggmanland all alone? That's suicide!'' Knuckles joined the yelling.
"Eggman will be thinking the same thing when I confront him, thinking he can stop me.'' sonic replied, turning back to the table. Tails wept tears, extremely worried for his friend. "Come on Tails.'' Knuckles said, putting a hand on the fox's shoulder. Tails turned to the entrance and walked silently with Knuckles following him.
"I had no idea why he was doing this. Telling Knuckles to back off isn't surprising, but Tails was just over the edge.'' Shadow continued.
"What happened after that?'' asked Brandy.
"Amy came.'' Shadow said. Sonic made motion, but only his head moved. "Amy went in, and had her last talk with Sonic.'' Shadow said.
Sonic strapped his gloves on tight, he checked his shoes, clicking them against the ground. "Sonic?'' a voice said.
Sonic turned around to see his love, Amy Rose. The 17 year old hedgehog war wearing a light pink tank top and jeans. Her quills flowed down her back, making Sonic gaze at her in wonder, but he barely showed it. "What do you want?'' he asked in an empty tone "Stopping you from making the stupidest mistake of your life!'' Amy yelled, her voice raised throughout her voice.
Sonic stood still, a blank expression on his face. Amy marched over to him. "You've never acted like this! So please come back to me, my Sonikku, don't leave me.'' Amy said, resting her face on his chest. Sonic felt what she was trying to tell her.
"If I-I lose y-you, there's nothing for me. I love you Sonic! Don't you love me too?'' she said, looking into his eyes with her tear strained ones.
Sonic's fists were clenched by his side, he had no change in expression. "Listen to me, and listen to your heart, is it really worth it?'' she asked, putting her hand on his right cheek and leaning in to kiss him on the lips.
Sonic grabbed the side of her face, caressing her quills. Sonic brought her closer, deepening the kiss. But then, about five seconds later, he broke away.
She looked at him with a confused look. "I do love you Amy, but I'm not going to rest knowing that Eggman's still out there, I have to do this.'' he said, walking past her.
Amy stood there awe shocked, shivering because of the coldness that swept through her, Sonic broke her heart. "So this is it?!!'' she yelled, turning around. Sonic stopped just a few feet away from the entrance. Tears fell down her cheeks and splashed onto the ground. "Ever since all we did! All the people we saved with the other heroes! It ends here, huh?!!'' she yelled, while sobbing.
"How can you do this? Why are you making this decision?'' she shouted angrily, the tears flying from her face when moving forward a step.
Silence fluttered between the lapse. Sonic looked over his shoulder, "Cause' I'm a hero.'' he answered, then jumped out of the tunnel.
"Amy came to me when I was with Omega, Cream, and Rouge. We couldn't stop her crying, it was horrible. I wish I could've taught Sonic a lesson, but he was gone.'' shadow said. "I'm right here! Come and make your choice Shadow! TAKE IT!!!'' Sonic furiously yelled, turning to him.
Shadow looked at him with discrete, not caring what he said, shadow shook his head in a disappointed fashion. Sonic stormed out of the tent. Brandy attempted to pursue, "Let him go.'' Shadow quickly commented. Brandy stopped and looked at the ebony hedgehog. "He just figured out he nearly ends the world as his future, I think he needs time to cool off.'' shadow said "This isn't funny Shadow!'' Kuki stood up.
"Do you want to hear the rest of not?'' Shadow asked, looking at her with a raised eyebrow. Kuki sat back down, understanding what he was trying to say.
"After that, Sonic left to our dimension and single handedly attacked Eggmanland.'' shadow began "But why?'' asked Brandy.
"Sonic felt as if it was his responsibility, he had abilities we didn't, at that time, he was our best chance to stop Eggman for good.'' Shadow explained.
"Anyway, Sonic destroyed millions of Eggman's robots and metal clones. He switched between hedgehog and wWrehog so fast, not one robot touched him.'' Shadow said.
"So how'd he win?'' Kuki asked.
"He didn't. Eggman won, for good.'' Shadow said grimly.
The two shortly gasped. "Do you remember when Sonic left to visit the Avatar dimension for the third time?'' Shadow asked.
"Yeah, when he came back he told me about a robot that looked like…'' Brandy trailed off, realizing what sonic told her.
Shadow nodded, "Eggman traveled to 2013 and was sent to Eggmanland. Sitting in his chair at the top of his tower, Eggman sure was confused where he was, but then Sonic came.'' continued Shadow.
"How do you know all this?'' asked Brandy hastily "General Richards sent satellite pictures to me, plus there was a small squad of G.U.N. soldiers nearby who saw it all happen.'' Shadow answered for her. Brandy sat back in her chair, emotionally defeated.
"The tide turned on Sonic when the three original metals arrived and beat the hell out of him. It was there, that single point in time that changed the course for humanity, forever.'' said Shadow.
"What happened to him then?'' Kuki asked curiously.
"Sonic was beaten and nearly dead. He was thrown to the ground, in his Werehog form, there, Eggman finished the job.'' Shadow said.
A dirt covered WereSonic smashed into the ground headfirst. He slowly lifted his face, covered with scars and the blood that dripped from them. From the top of Eggman's tower, the evil scientist grew a smile of victory. "Time to finish Sonic, forever!!'' Eggman laughed, pressing down on a red button. A sliding hatch opened up from the middle of the tower, a horde of rockets fired out of them, straight down at Sonic.
Sonic looked up to see the impending doom with his death written all over it. He closed his eyes and let out his last breath. "NOOOOOOOO!!!'' he yelled to the heavens. The rockets came together and impacted him, in a massive ball of fire.
Shadow looked at Brandy and Kuki. Both were looking down at the ground in complete shock. "S-So what happened after that?'' Brandy, being afraid to even ask anything more.
"Once it reached, the news that Sonic was dead, it all went bad. I was with Tails, Knuckles, Cream, Rouge, Vanilla, and the Chaotix at Cream's house. That's when it came on.'' Shadow began. "Eggman got control of the network, his ugly face came on the TV, and every single other one in our world, telling the news of Sonic's death.'' Shadow said.
"I can't believe it, that's just disgusting!'' yelled Brandy, standing up.
Kuki grabbed Brandy's wrist and sat her down. "It got even worse. Eggman also broadcasted his speech to Earth as well. He showed everyone on our world, and Earth, Sonic's remains. His body was torn to shreds. His left arm was blown off, so was his right leg. Amy came in as soon as the image was on TV.'' shadow continued the horrifying story, lowering his head in the process.
"She dropped to her knees, her eyes overflowing with tears. We couldn't calm her down for the next five days.'' Shadow finished, looking up at them. "So this is it? Sonic's gonna betray us in the end?'' Kuki said.
"I wouldn't say betray, but yes, he'll be your enemy. In 2013 he'll go to Eggman, but fail in the process, thus becoming Mecha Weresonic.'' Shadow told them.
"But can't we stop him from going? Like persuade him to stay!'' Brandy brought up, feeling happier that they could save Sonic. "Try what you want, Sonic won't listen, he'll go anyway.'' Shadow strictly said. Brandy sat back on her chair, defeated. "There's also something else.'' Shadow remembered.
"What's that?'' asked the two.
"Back in your time 2009, Eggman will send a destroyer device into the Earth's core.'' shadow said. The two widened their eyes. "How in the world can it withstand that heat? Is Eggman actually getting stupid?'' Kuki exclaimed.
"That's the plan, he wants it to melt, that's when it explodes Kuki.'' Shadow informed.
"Never mind then.'' Kuki said, scratching the back of her head.
"I don't know how long the time limit was, but once it hits zero, the device will explode by the heat and the Earth will be destroyed.'' Shadow said.
"That's not all, he'll also teleport all the heroes from their dimensions onto Earth so they can all die together.'' Shadow added.
"This gets worse and worse every minute.'' Kuki said, holding her head.
"Wait a minute, how is Earth not destroyed here then?'' Brandy asked "Cause we stopped it.'' Shadow told them.
"Then why should we worry?'' Kuki asked.
"Sonic's the one who stops it. Since on Earth its 2009 and on Sonic's dimension its 2012, no matter what happens in either dimensions, we lose Earth or we lose Sonic as he becomes Mecha.'' Shadow told.
"So then Sonic must live until the moment when he gets rid of the destroyer device, right?'' asked Brandy.
"I hope so, then it'd be strange to tell on how he became Mecha.'' Shadow inquired.
"This is just too much, what are we suppose to do?'' asked Kuki.
"You have a few options, once I send you three back to Earth, Eggman won't send the device to the core because its not finished yet. So it'll end like this, you kill Eggman, Sonic won't become Mecha, but if you fail to kill Eggman, he'll go into hiding until 2013, that's when Sonic will come and you know the rest, or…'' Shadow trailed off.
"Or what?'' Brandy asked, sitting up in her chair.
"The heroes and you guys from your time will have to…kill Sonic. That way, Mecha won't exist, you can get your shadow to get rid of the destroyer device and possibly get Eggman.'' Shadow finished.
There was a brief silence.
"ARE YOU CRAZY?!! We should kill Sonic? That's insane!!'' Brandy yelled.
"It's the one way out of the others that you'll win with no problems.'' Shadow replied quickly, crossing his arms and sitting back in his chair. Brandy put her hands to her eyes and took in a deep breath.
"Listen, we have to try one of the others. We can't kill Sonic.'' Kuki said.
"The other ways, we'll still lose.'' Shadow implied.
"Eggman's the one who builds Mecha, get rid of him, no Mecha in 2013 and forever, that is, if you can.'' Shadow explained, standing up out of his chair and walking out of the tent. Kuki sighed, then looked at Brandy. Brandy had her knuckles holding her head up, looking glum. "We can stop all this Brandy. We just need to make a choice.'' Kuki said, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"But which one is right?'' asked Brandy. Kuki took her hand back, starting to realize, what path should they take to save the world? A whole lot can, and will happen if a choice isn't made. Can't they actually rid Eggman from time forever? If they don't, time will pass and an arrogant Sonic will go to Eggmanland only to be killed in the process and begins his transformation into the notorious Mecha WereSonic. A whole lot of paths and one ending, which will they choose?
The four gathered outside. "I can send you three back to your time, where you'll end up I don't know.'' shadow said, raising his green Chaos Emerald. Kuki quickly ran to embrace the hedgehog. Shadow looked down at her with a confused look, but he smiled. "We'll stop this all Shadow, I promise.'' she said, looking up at him, teary eyed.
"I know you can, stay strong.'' Shadow said. Kuki walked backwards to stand in-between the other two. Shadow stretched his arm out, a green beam fired at the group of three and they teleported in an instance.
Destiny can hold many flaws. They may end in a way we won't like, but that's the aftermath of the choices we make. If our heroes can't stop Eggman this time, there's no way Eggman will show himself again until 2013 arrives so he can kill Sonic. With their task in motion, can they accomplish this feat? Can they stop fate? Can our heroes win this war? All this and more as this climatic war goes on.