Chapter Nineteen: Regrets
DISCLAIMER: I claim NOTHING shown in this story! The various video game characters and cartoon characters DO NOT belong to me! The lyrics of the two songs that will follow later on, ALSO DON'T BELONG TO ME! They belong to the rightful owners.
The atmosphere between them died when Richards finally walked up in front of them all. His arms were behind his back as he readied to begin his speech. "Today, we must push Eggman and his forces away from the city. Not many remain, so we must be precise and deadly on taking his operations out.'' the general began.
"And what operations are those?" Shadow asked in a smug voice.
"Munitions and super weapons.'' replied the general.
Memories of the Super Nuke and the Death Egg flashed inside their heads before they snapped out of it.
"Eggman's going to attempt to take us all out with a powerful beam weapon he had built overnight. With you snug in your rugs, he built a particle cannon, able to obliterate it's target which'll only leave dust.'' Richards continued, putting some fear to the heroes' hearts.
"The cannon will be reached in three separate groups. Two groups, one going left and the other right, will distract a number of Eggman's robots. The third group will go down the middle and attack the cannon head on.'' Richards said, pointing at the map of the city behind him.
"Group A who'll be going left will compose of the Avatar and his friends, along with the Pokemon trainers, Amy, and Stitch. Group B going right will have all of Sector V, Brandy, Whiskers, Jenny, Robot Boy, and Omega. Shadow, will be Group C.'' Richards finished, giving Shadow a glare at the end.
"I'm laser bait?" Shadow said, pointing to himself.
"Honestly, yes, you are.'' Richards replied with a smirk, while nodding yes.
"Thought it would be easy." Shadow said, shrugging.
"Group A and B be warned. Half of Eggman's forces will concentrated on the streets you're heading down, be ready, and be fast.'' Richards added. The heroes understood his warning. "Godspeed." he said before marching off. The heroes got up, stretched, spoke of the plan, some sharing how good, but still idiotic it was, ironically, it was the one thing they all could agree on. The heroes were still tired, feeling like their limbs would fall off at any moment. It was only 8:00 am, the time they set off would be 10:30 am, what should they do now?
Some of the heroes, such as Tommy, Lola, Gus, and Lilo weren't allowed to go, because of the mortal danger they could get themselves in. Strangely, they didn't complain as much as some times before where they found themselves in the same situation. Wanting not to cause disturbance with Robot Boy or Stitch, they wished them good luck and gave them temporary farewell hugs. Some went to the beginning of the road they had to run down, some stayed at the Sears Tower. Those who waited at their respective positions often found themselves worrying. This event was a bit much different from the other battles they shared before. The target was a cannon fifty feet long and twenty feet wide, what a weapon!
At the base of the Sears Tower, the gang sat in some of the chairs that were left behind. "I'm still hoping that Shadow doesn't try anything.'' said Katara.
"Most of us are. Join the club Sugarqueen!'' Toph responded.
"This is Shadow we're talking about! He'd try anything he comes up with!'' said Sokka.
"That's what I was afraid of.'' said Katara worriedly.
"Sonic's still out there though." noted the scarred Firebender.
"Even if we're lucky, Sonic would either be here, but I have a feeling he's already gone.'' said Sokka.
"Don't say that!'' Katara objected, standing up. The four weren't surprised the least bit. Katara would defend Sonic in any argument. The Waterbender and the fleet footed hedgehog both shared a strong bond of friendship with each other over the years, making Katara the one to constantly worry about the blue blur because of her motherly qualities which pay off in the end.
"I've seen what Sonic has done for us, our world, and this one! He would never fight against us!'' Katara exclaimed.
"He sure did fight for us last night when he lashed out on you.'' Sokka added. Katara angrily glared at her brother. Although, she couldn't handle it. Katara ran off in tears.
"Seriously! Even I don't need to be blind to see what you just did!'' Toph shouted.
"Well, I'm sure she-'' Toph cut him off by encasing him into the ground. She raised a fist at him. "I'll shut up now.'' he said cowardly, reminiscing about his past experience with the element of earth.
Katara ran up the stairs inside the Sears Tower. Her hair blew in the wind, due to how fast she was running. "Liars…they all lie!'' she said to her conscience. Katara finally stopped at a large rectangular window. She stopped in front of it. Katara wiped the tears from her eyes. Katara looked at some of the still rising clouds of black smoke. It darkened the sky even further. She put one of her hands on the window. Katara gazed at her reflection, noticing how much she changed. Becoming a master Waterbender, helping to save numerous dimensions, and soon to be the wife of the Avatar, truly a spectacle once thought about, but she wouldn't want to get too fed up with it and start gloating, it wasn't her at all. Katara rubbed her hand down on the window, lowering her head, and closing her eyes. Unknown to her, however, a black dot was coming at her, really fast. Katara finally looked up, opening her eyes and spotting the speeding object. The Waterbender quickly acted. She ducked down, covering her head. The window shattered, the pieces of glass luckily didn't injure Katara. Katara got up, looking to the walkway across from her. Standing up, his back turned to her, was Sonic himself.
The still demon formed hero, standing before her. He was in his Werehog form. Katara had no idea what to do at this point. She knows she wouldn't hurt him at all, but possibly stun him or tire him, but one problem came to mind; Sonic never stops, literally.
"Ka-K-Katara. Help me!'' he stuttered, stretching his arm out.
Katara felt safe. She ran along the walkway and stopped by his side. Sonic fell on all fours, breathing heavily. "Just stay with me, okay?" she said in a panicking voice.
"Huh, you still trust me?" the hero stammered.
"Of course, I'll always be by your side.'' she said, resting her hand on his shoulder.
Sonic felt safe as well, but like always, for the moment. Sonic suddenly groaned in pain, dropping to the ground by the pain that spread like wildfire, which erupted in his head and stomach.
"No…he's controlling…m-me again. Katara! Hurry, run! Save yourself!'' he told her.
"I'm not leaving you!" she exclaimed, tears forming.
Sonic heard a voice in his head, Thule's voice. "Let the suffering…begin.''
Sonic's eyes flared with red energy. He pushed Katara aside, getting back on his feet. Sonic roared at the girl. She quickly ran down the stairs, Sonic hot on her heels. He ran across the walls, as she ran down the stairs. He jogged across the walls like it was nothing, one hand digging through the wall, throwing small pieces of debris aflutter. Katara ducked and weaved to dodge the firing of the objects. Sonic ran faster across the wall. He got ahead of her. He stopped running and dropped. The demon hedgehog turned around in mid air, smashing his fists into the staircase, shattering them to pieces. Katara quickly jumped on Sonic's head, then from his head, back onto the staircase. "Sorry!'' she said, looking over her shoulder.
Sonic smashed his knuckles into the ground, giving chase again. Katara stopped for a moment. She looked over the edge, seeing she was close to the bottom floor. The Waterbender quickly ducked down, dodging a swing of Sonic's clawed hand. The frightened Waterbender hastily made her way down the staircase. The stomping, pounding, and heavy breathing coming from Sonic scared her even more. All she wanted to do was get somewhere safe. Katara snapped out of these sudden thoughts, hearing Sonic's roar behind her. She stopped dead in her tracks, turning to face the lunging demon Werehog. She formed water out of her pouch. She swung her arms from left to right, freezing his arms to the wall. He pulled and jerked his arms, attempting to free himself. Katara backed away slowly. She then turned around, ready to run, but she only stopped. If she did tell the others that Sonic is here, Shadow would take the opportunity to fight him, and probably kill him. Katara turned around. He was still struggling. He barked angrily at her with small roars and growls. Katara fully turned to face him. He growled viciously at her, wanting to fight her so dearly. Katara cautiously put a hand on his cheek. He stopped. Sonic let his arms loosen up. Katara turned the ice back into water and putting the water back in her pouch. Sonic faced her, tilting his head. Even though Katara showed that small hint of remorse, Sonic comes to his senses immediately. It seems that if he was treated well, he would come out of the evil control of Thule. Sonic grabbed her, pulling her into a hug. She tried to wrap her arms around his waist but he was too big. The broke apart, looking at each other. Suddenly, the wall behind Sonic bashed open, Mecha WereSonic tackling him. Sonic was thrown through the paneled windows, Katara following through.
Everyone who was on the ground looked up to the sudden outburst of noise. Katara was screaming for her life. Sonic was already farther down, but that didn't stop him from saving her. Sonic stretched his arms and grabbed her safely in his hands. He retracted them back, holding her close, as the pair readied for impact. Sonic smashed into the ground on his back, taking the blunt of the pain that sizzled up his spinal column. Katara sat on Sonic's chest. She quickly shook him, trying to wake him up. Katara looked up at the hole they were thrown through, Mecha came flying through it. "Katara!? Is that Sonic?" exclaimed Sokka.
"He just came out of nowhere, like Mecha did! Who by now, we should be worrying about!'' shouted back the Waterbender.
Mecha turned around, hovering down to the ground and dropping down in front of the two. Sonic's eyes immediately opened, the red energy burning fiercely. Katara's eyes widened, as she got off him. Sonic stood up, turning around to face Mecha.
"Still a demon. I figured you'd wouldn't try and find a way to reverse its affects.'' Mecha proclaimed wisely.
Sonic moved Katara with a gentle shove, signaling her to get out of the way. She listened and ran off to the side. "I guess I can rough you up a bit, then let Shadow finish you.'' Mecha said, raising his clenched fists.
"I'm sorry, but,'' said Silver, dropping down in front of Sonic, facing Mecha. "You're fight has been postponed.''
"And what is this? By any chance is your name Silver the Hedgehog?" Mecha asked in a kind manner.
"Yes, it is. Now, you must leave.'' Silver said, picking Mecha up with his psychokinesis.
Mecha squirmed and struggled in the tightening grip. "Tell Eggman; He better be ready.'' Silver said.
The insignia on both his gloves glowed brightly, and flashed. Silver quickly jerked his arms forward, firing Mecha through a building, after another, after another, until Mecha arrived at the beach. Mecha slammed through wall after wall, taking debris with him. Mecha crashed through one last wall, being tossed onto the beach and skidding across the sand, stopping at Eggman's feet. Eggman bent down.
"Don't be so motivated that you can simply attack them by surprise and expect not to be outnumbered. Never judge them Mecha, they're all stronger than they look." the doctor said, before walking off. Mecha pounded the ground with one fist, humiliated.
Silver turned around to Sonic. "So…you did listen to us!'' said Katara joyfully.
"I first blamed Sonic for the destruction of my world, but I helped him in the end. It's the same situation here. I will assist you on your mission.'' Silver explained, giving his promise.
"Thank you.'' Katara said.
The silence and calming peace was soon dissipated when Shadow suddenly appeared with chaos control.
"It's a hour and a half until we leave, are you guys rea-'' Shadow didn't finish his sentence.
He saw Sonic, glaring at him. Shadow sent a vicious look at him as well. Shadow quickly fired a chaos beam at him. Sonic leaped backwards, turning into his hedgehog form, and dashed up the building, making his getaway. Shadow shook his head in failure.
"Aang! Why didn't you do anything?!'' Shadow said, walking past him. Katara was utterly shocked.
Katara marched up to Aang. "You…y-you were on his side? This whole time?" she said, stuttering. Aang remained mute, not replying with a single word. Katara stiffened her look, huffing as she stormed off, dry tears beginning to form. Aang looked off to the side.
"I can't believe you would do this.'' said Toph, walking off.
"Good job, Aang. I hope you're happy!'' Sokka exclaimed, walking off with Toph.
Aang stood alone, broken. He then asked himself; Was it worth it?
Time passed quickly. The heroes had some final talks with each other before splitting up for the mission. It was now 10:20, ten minutes until the final fight for Chicago begins. The heroes were at their respective spots, ready and waiting. Aang looked over at Katara, she was talking to Dawn. The two shared laughs and hand gestures. Aang had slight curiosity, but he'd be lying if he said he it was only slight. Let's just say he was extremely curious what Katara and Dawn were talking about.
"All I know is that Shadow made Sonic run off again. Sonic's still here, somewhere.'' said Katara.
"I'm just surprised that I was wrong for once.'' Toph added.
"Attention!'' shouted the voice of General Richards. They all turned to him. His voice was gruff, his look was grim.
"Last night, Sonic killed…eighty of my soldiers.'' he reported, looking nervous and sad. The heroes exchanged looks, muttering to each other. Katara's eyes were widened, not only about the casualties and who committed them, but what they now must do.
"Sonic is now…our target. If any of you spot him, take him down, trap him, distract him…I DON'T GIVE A DAMN! Just…bring that damned hedgehog to me.'' Richards cursed.
"Did you tell the others about this already?" asked Sokka.
"Yes, I did. Carry on.'' Richards answered dryly before walking off.
"Well, Shadow must be smiling and overjoyed.'' Toph noted.
Katara knew Richards would say it. It's her worst nightmare come true. Even if the betrayal by her own love was worse enough, she must now hunt down and fight a friend that's so dear and near to her, no matter the cost, no matter the outcome, it had to be done.
If ever in a time when the most worse of things can happen, right now was definitely a time period Katara didn't want more bad things to occur. However, how can anyone stop fate? Especially when it's their own. Five minutes until their mission would commence. Katara was sitting against a light pole. "You okay there?" asked Silver, stopping in front of her. "Yeah, I'm trying to.'' she replied sadly.
Silver sat down next to her, sighing. After a brief moment of silence, Silver spoke up. "When I first met Sonic, I hunted him because I was told by Mephiles, who at the time I didn't know his name, he helped me. He told me of this Iblis Trigger, the one who will bring about Iblis and my world would be destroyed by his fiery wrath. I found out though, there was no such thing as the Iblis Trigger, Mephiles just made it up." Silver began his story in a plain mood.
"How did you and Sonic resolve it then?" she asked.
"The problem was, Mephiles killed Sonic, releasing Iblis from the Princess of Soleanna known as Elise. Mephiles, with the seven chaos emerald, joined with Iblis to become Solaris. With Sonic dead, we all had no hope.'' Silver continued, changing his tone into a grim one.
Katara looked worried herself. "The only choice we had was to collect the seven chaos emeralds and Elise brought Sonic back to life…with a kiss, to be more exact.'' Silver said. Katara cocked her eyebrows, truly confused.
"After that, Sonic, Shadow, and I went super, and defeated Solaris. Peace was brought back to my world for good.'' Silver finally finished.
"I'm curious, may I ask you something?" she asked.
"Go ahead.'' he replied.
"When it was over, did you think about what you fought for?" she asked.
Silver had a curious look, stumbling through his thoughts to guess what she was trying to ask of him. "Was there a reason you went so far to protect your world? Someone you fought for?" Katara asked again. Silver now knew.
"I fought to bring justice. I fought for Blaze, a good friend of mine.'' he answered.
"Blaze, she was amazing. So talented, brave, sweet, and-''
"You loved her?" Katara interrupted, smiling.
Silver slightly sweated at her remark. "She sacrificed herself. I haven't seen her ever since.'' he added.
"So was it worth it? Did you feel proud when you accomplished your goal for someone you loved?" she asked another question.
"Yes, indeed it was. Why are you asking these questions though?" the future warrior asked.
"The whole thing you explained, about fighting for someone you loved, I wish I had the same kind of thing right now.'' she said, burrowing her head in her knees.
Silver recently heard of Katara's misconception with the Avatar, he understood her pain. As soon as Silver wanted to say another word, a humvee stopped by. "It's time! We're moving out!'' said the gunner, before the humvee drove down the street, followed by ten more. Silver stood up, sighing.
"If this war has another reason for me to fight in it, I think I found it. Helping you.'' Silver said with a smile, holding his hand out. Katara looked up, returning the smile. Katara put her hand in his, the future fighter helped the tan girl up on her feet, and they proceeded down the street, together as friends.
A humvee on the right street drove out of control as it headed toward a car that was overturned, it's back end sticking up. The army vehicle drove at it's edge, driving the humvee into a short barrel roll. Bombs and artillery shots from Eggman's weapons at the beach rained down on the street.
"This is seriously…too much!!" Brandy exclaimed, hiding behind a van which the engine was on fire.
Kuki and Abby smacked their backs into it, looking down the street. "Nice of you to join me.'' Brandy greeted them. "It was the only spot that wasn't get shot at.'' said Abby, continuously peeking her head out. Abby fired a few shots out of her 2x4 technology weapon, hitting three robots.
"We're never going to get down this street without these fools in our way!'' Abigail exclaimed, hiding behind cover again.
Knuckles walked by, holding an explosive tank of propane. He lunged it forward. Tails flew by in his repaired Tornado. He fired a missile at it. The propane tank came inches to the army of robots that impeded their path. The missile hit the propane tank, exploding with an echoing boom and spreading fire that fed away at the robots. "Reinforcements have arrived?" said Kuki.
"You bet!'' said Knuckles, running down the street.
They all ran down the street hastily, wanting to get through what ever robots Eggman had waiting for them. "I'll clear what they have ahead, but I'll have to go back to refuel, so it could take a while!'' Tails yelled.
"Just do it Tails!'' replied the guardian.
Tails entered battle mode. Out of for ports on each wing, launched two missiles. The barrage of eight missiles swerved through the air down at groups of clones, robots, and Egg tanks. The powerful missiles finally made their target. Everything exploded, taking chunks of earth out of the ground, and even shattering the windows. Egg tanks fired their double beam cannons. The powerful shots hit three Abrams tanks, throwing them into the air.
"GET OUT OF THE WAY!!'' shouted Nigel, heading for safety.
The huge army vehicles banged into the concrete street, letting small pieces of armor splinter of the hull. Egg titans marched down the street, firing their gatling guns. Ash's Pikachu ran in zig zags, dodging explosions and bullets alike. The mouse Pokemon's body illuminated with thunder. Pikachu leapt forward, using volt tackle to spear straight through the egg titan's chest, landing behind it. Bunneary hopped past Pikachu, followed by Dawn, Blaziken and May. "Ice beam! Now!'' Dawn exclaimed. The bunny Pokemon fired its ice beam, freezing five more egg titans. Ash's Gliscor punched each one with its powerful claws, shattering the robots into nothing but bits.
Brock's Steelix let out a powerful screech. The attack erupted through a crowd of metal clones, disintegrating each and every one of them. "Move up!" shouted one soldier. Katara, side by side with Toph, charged at a drill bot. Katara froze its legs. Toph raised a pillar of earth from under it, snapping off the legs and sky rocketed upwards. Aang, using his glider, flew up to it quickly. He folded the glider back up, holding it over his head. He swung it down, firing a gust of wind at the heavy robot that shot it back down at a large group of Egg tanks, culminating in one loud earth quaking explosion. Aang landed a few feet behind Toph and Katara.
"Let's keep going! We're making good progress!'' said Sokka, stopping by her sister's side before running forward again.
Katara knew Aang was behind her. She wore a scorned look before running forward with Toph, leaving the Avatar all alone. Aang's head lowered in shame. He looked up at the clouds. Aang then remembered something someone told him once.
"Is it true that I can change my destiny?" he asked himself, still looking at the clouds, like he was waiting for an answer. Aang unfolded his glider, taking off again.
"I'm just making sure Kuki. Are you sure you're still up to fight?" asked Wally, stopping Kuki before continuing.
"Of course Wally,'' she said with a sweet smile, putting a hand on his right shoulder and kissing him on the cheek. She broke apart, blushing slightly. "Let's go!'' she said, hiding her giggle.
"Oh! R-right.'' he stammered, following her, with the rest of Sector V behind them. "I knew she'd do it.'' said Abby.
Watching from atop the Sears Tower, was Sonic. His eyes, fully filled with red, looked sad. He felt guilty, again. Sonic can't help it when he's being forcefully controlled by a hell born demon. This spell that was cast on him made it worse. Sonic remained in his hedgehog form. Sonic lifted his hands, looking at them. He had claws, claws in his normal form! He still couldn't get over it. The image, the forced anger episode he's forced into at any time by Thule's will, these were just some of the reasons he was disturbed about. He clenched his fists at the sound of explosions in the distance. Sonic knew they had already commenced their mission. While they all go on a life threatening experience for the better of the entire city, Sonic remains standing by himself on a dreadful experience with absolutely nothing to do, or help anyone.
"How the mighty have fallen. Don't take it seriously my friend,'' said a voice from behind.
Sonic merely looked over his shoulder. Ultimus appeared in a flash of blue light. Sonic turned his head back to the city, not caring of Ultimus's arrival. "The spell is still bounding you I see. Have you not figured it out yet?" Ultimus asked.
"IS THAT SUPPOSE TO BE FUNNY!?!" Sonic snapped angrily, turning his waist around to look at Ultimus. Ultimus showed no expression. Nothing but a blank look was plastered across his face.
"All you did was give me a stupid riddle to solve! Why can't you be wise enough to step up and plainly tell me how to rid myself of this curse!?" Sonic continued his outburst in a vicious manner.
Ultimus felt nothing but pity for the hero. "I look at you now, then I remember you before this situation even occurred. The only outcome that there is that you had more control before this curse fully changed you.'' Ultimus spoke in a well mannered and gently voice.
"I've seen enough! And by the heavens above, I'VE HEARD ENOUGH!'' Sonic roared, swinging his arms.
"All I want is to end this war. I want to stop Eggman…but I can't fight him.'' Sonic said, simmering down, turning back around to the city.
"And why is that?" Ultimus asked, already knowing the answer.
Sonic remained silent, feeling to guilty to admit the answer. Ultimus took in a breath, having to answer it for the blue blur. "It's because you have to fight through yourself.'' Ultimus said in a wise tone.
Sonic felt like he was just stabbed, mortally. "You can't get over your own problems still, can't you?" Ultimus asked, raising an eyebrow.
Sonic slightly nodded his head. "I see. Let's not continue this. I already see how much it's eating away at you.'' Ultimus added, walking up to Sonic's side.
"Have you heard of the Ring of Rebirth?" he asked.
"No.'' Sonic replied with a dull tone.
Ultimus nodded his head, taking things into consideration. "It was an ancient artifact. Some even call it a weapon, but it is not.'' Ultimus began. Sonic garnered enough motivation to at least pay attention to what Ultimus was talking about, at least it gave him something better to do than harm himself.
"It was forged by my father, Ultima. My family was the best I could ask for, we all lived such happy lives. He and the other ancients forged this ring, so we could better ourselves and solve what ever problem crossed our path." the ancient hedgehog continued.
Sonic slightly turned his head, gaining interest. "It was able to bring back anyone to life, complete anything back to its original status. I tell you of this because, Omega has it.'' Ultimus finished.
"Why does he have it?" Sonic exclaimed, turning to face him.
"He, Shadow, and Jenny found the ring at the Temple of Fate. The purpose they took it I don't know why.'' Ultimus explained.
"I'm guessing I have to get it back then?" Sonic said, stiffening his arms.
"Do not ask me for what path you should take on your journey. This is your chance, and one path to take.'' Ultimus said, holding a hand up. Sonic scratched the back of his head, sighing.
"I just hope this goes well.'' Sonic said in a regretful tone, leaping off the building.
Shadow cut through a line of metal clones, their dismembered limbs dropping by their side. Shadow looked closely. Far in the distance he could see the beach, and the large silhouette of the particle beam could be seen.
"Almost there.'' Shadow said, readying to charge again.
He swung his sword left, diagonally, right, and just every direction that involved a part of Eggman's robots losing a limb. Shadow fired about five chaos spears out of one hand. A group of metal clones dodged it. They fired a rocket barrage down at him. Shadow put up a chaos energy shield around him, blocking the rockets that pounded against the shield violently. As soon as the shield vanished, he was punched from behind, thrown forward. A metal sonic clone grabbed two of his quills, flinging him into the side of a car. He smashed the car inwards. Shadow fired chaos spears at the robots responsible for this. The robots turned to dust when they were hit by the power of Shadow's abilities. A metal knuckles clone landed behind him, throwing its spiked fist at him, which he luckily ducked, and turned around in the process from. Shadow held his sword up, the tip pointing down. Two metal clones came from behind. Shadow teleported. The three clones looked around, dumbfounded. Shadow reappeared right above one. He jabbed the sword down into the clone's nerve processor. Shadow let out a burst of energy, blowing the other two clones away into nothing but bits. An egg jet flew down at him. Egg jets had one afterburner, completely made out of hardened steel, and a mouth with teeth painted on both sides of its nose. The jet let loose its machine gun. Shadow quickly dashed forward down the street hastily. Shadow quickly took a chance and leaped up at the jet. He held his sword back. The ultimate life form then proceeded with slicing the jet down the middle, both halves come crashing down into the ground, exploding into flames. Shadow landed in front of the roaring piles of burning metal, his back turned to it. Shadow turned around, widening his eyes to see Mecha WereShadow fly through the flames and tackle Shadow head on to the ground. Shadow banged his fist on Mecha's skull repeatedly. Mecha let out a burst of chaos energy, creating a huge crater in the ground for both to fall in.
Shadow sat up, covered with some dirt. He looked off the side, seeing Mecha beginning to stir. Shadow quickly crawled for his sword, grabbing it in his hand. He got up, quickly turning around, holding his sword up, but Mecha was gone. "Getting a bit too jumpy there, aren't you?" said his voice.
Shadow was suddenly blasted in the back by Mecha's Chaos Cannon. Shadow smacked into the other side of the crater. Mecha tackled him in the back, pinning him so he couldn't move. "Did you really think if you went alone, it would be easy?" Mecha taunted his foe.
"No. In fact,'' Shadow began, suddenly vanishing.
Shadow reappeared in the middle of the crater, letting loose a fully charged chaos beam. The charged beam of light hit Mecha in the back and shot him through the crater wall, and continued going forward, underground! Shadow leaped out of the crater. Shadow landed on the street, scanning around, waiting for Mecha's counterattack. The ground beneath Shadow's feet began to quake and shift. Shadow dashed forward immediately, sliding around in a circle to face the spot he was just standing.
The ground imploded, Mecha hovering up into the air. "And I thought I was the one making dramatic entrances.'' Shadow said out loud. "
Very flattering Shadow, let's see what you make of this!" Mecha yelled angrily.
His arms transformed into drills. He fired the two out of his arm ports. With fire blowing from behind them, the twin drills circled and swerved. "It just keeps getting better, doesn't it?" Shadow exclaimed, turning around to dash at hyper speed. Mecha flew after him as well. One drill burrowed underground, the other one boosted forward. Shadow quickly put his legs up, the drill flying right under him. The other drill came right out from under him. Shadow used Chaos Control and teleported on top a building. "Too close.'' he muttered, breathing heavily.
The two drills suddenly blasted apart the ground beside him, flying straight up, then back down at Shadow. Shadow, at the right moment, struck his sword down, but cut the drill in half. He blasted the other one apart with a well aimed Chaos spear. Mecha came up through the hole his drills made, hovering in the air while he glared at his nemesis.
"What are you going to do with no hands?" Shadow asked, pointing his sword at him. Mecha snickered at his question. Out of the empty ports, replaced two new hands.
"Oh, of course.'' Shadow mumbled dully, with a sweat drop.
Mecha charged down at Shadow, one fist ready. Shadow did a back flip, leaving Mecha to slam his fist into the ground, breaking it open. Shadow walked over to the hole, looking inside it. Mecha flew up, firing his chaos cannon right into Shadow. Shadow was thrown of the building with extreme force. Shadow hit a corner of a building, then fell directly down. Mecha grabbed Shadow by his wrist and flew back up to the building. Mecha tossed Shadow down on the ceiling carelessly. Shadow looked up at Mecha while laying on his chest, he had a tired gaze. "You seem so strong at first, but only find yourself in the dumps right after that.'' Mecha claimed. "Don't try and act like you know me Mecha! We're nothing of the sort!'' Shadow snapped, getting back on his feet, and firing five chaos spears. Mecha used chaos control to dodge them all. He reappeared in front of Shadow. The hedgehog wouldn't take one more punch, so he let out a chaos blast. The red dome of energy wiped the entire upper half of the building, curving it inwards. Shadow and Mecha lay apart from each other in the wrecked building. Electrical wires dangling, debris and dirt covering the floor, tables were flipped over, and small fires burned. Shadow sat up, his head spinning lightly from the sudden release of energy. Mecha armed a new weapon of his, flamethrowers. Shadow gasped suddenly when he saw the appearance of the dangerous pyro weapons. Mecha let loose an endless stream of flames. Shadow created a shield around himself. The wall of fire wrapped around the shield like the tentacles of an octopus.
"Come now Shadow! Are you truly scared of me?!" Mecha exclaimed, laughing maniacally.
Mecha armed his chaos cannon while continuing the onslaught of fire. The powerful weapon began to illuminate from the inside as it charged further. Small blue energy balls sputtered out of it, the beam was almost at is peak. Shadow fell to a knee, still holding his arms up to keep the shield going. "GOODBYE, ULTIMATE LIFE FORM!!!" Mecha yelled victoriously.
The powerful beam shot out of the cannon, with a continuous amount of rings around it. The beam connected with the shield, blowing it apart and blasting Shadow out of the building, creating a massive hole. With scars and bruises, the weary hedgehog flew down. All of a sudden, he was grabbed by his ankle. Shadow swung and bumped against the building, waking him up. Shadow shook his head wildly. Shadow looked to see a stretched out arm holding his ankle. He looked up to the source and saw; Sonic, in his Werehog form. Shadow didn't know if he was shocked or confused, but soon, anger took over.
"This still doesn't change anything! YOU HEAR ME!?" Shadow exclaimed, waving his fist at him. Sonic rolled his eyes.
Shadow grabbed Sonic's arm, shocking him with a surge of chaos energy. Sonic was jolted by the high energy levels, letting go of Shadow only. Shadow safely activated his hover shoes, stopping in mid air. Sonic stretched an arm far up, throwing himself up the building further. Shadow was ready to charge but Mecha suddenly tackled him, both heading down towards the city streets. Shadow fired up his hover shoes, controlling where they go. Shadow then grabbed Mecha and tossed him backward while the titanium menace was upside down. Mecha smashed head first through a paneled glass window. Shadow wished not to waste more time. He wanted to focus on the mission. Which when you think of it, is surprising that he rather not go after Sonic. Maybe it's because he already knows Sonic's going to get what's coming to him.
On the right road, a huge blockade of cars and wreckage was set up to block the heroes path. "I'm not the least bit surprised.'' said Brandy in a bored tone, as she was laying against a car.
"We've been sitting here for over twenty minutes! I can't handle it anymore!'' shouted Whiskers, about to run out of cover. Brandy grabbed him by his ears and pulled him back behind safety.
"They've got robots watching for a single movement, do you really want to end up a cooked rabbit?" Brandy explained, asking him daringly.
"That depends." replied Whiskers. Brandy couldn't handle it, she slapped him across the face.
"We just got word from Richards. An AC-130 gunship will be flying over soon to take out that wall and any robot near it.'' Jenny told them all. "How long?" asked Wally tiredly. "About…ten minutes.'' Jenny replied, shrugging while smiling.
Wally fell on his back, sleeping. "That boy seriously needs to stop staying up at night!'' Abigail commented.
A rocket hit the road ahead of them. "Looks like they're not going to sit around and wait for us to come out!" said Omega, arming his rocket launchers.
"Hold em' off until the AC-130 arrives!'' Jenny yelled out, flying up into the air.
Omega spun in circles while flying down at a horde of robots, letting his rockets fly. The pulse pounding shots exploded the group of robots into chopped steel. Omega landed in the middle of the wreckage, arming his gatling guns. Jenny ran past him, cutting five robots in half with her shiva swords. Jenny launched one that pierced through the hip of en egg titan, exploding it into pieces. Robot boy flew over head, firing concentrated heat blasts. The balls of burning pyro spread like wildfire on what ever they touched or impacted. Sector V ran up the middle, firing wildly at robots who were hiding in windows on the left and right buildings. The corpse of one egg gunner fell and smashed on top of a car. Soon, all the heroes regrouped in front of the large wall of vehicles and debris.
"Was that all? Way too easy Eggman.'' said a nervous Jenny, looking around for any signs of an ambush.
A sudden whirling noise from behind caught their attention. Five drill bots tunneled out of the ground, firing their pulse cannon that was on top of them. The heroes spread out when the beam hit the wall, but still didn't harm it. Omega flew towards one, landing on top of it. He grabbed the gun's barrel. The drill bot waved and moved itself violently to get Omega off. Omega bent the barrel down into its head. Omega then smacked the back of the gun which caused it to fire. The drill bot suddenly walked back and forth. Lights beamed out of its body, signaling its destruction. Omega fired up his boosters, flying up into the air. The bot exploded, the resulting blast radius fired the drill bots on its left and right to smash into the building next to them. Metal Sonic arrived, tackling Omega from behind. Omega was smashed face first into the concrete. Metal locked Omega's arms behind his back.
"You think too highly of yourself, time to change that.'' Metal threatened, aiming his machine gun at Omega's head.
Brandy came in, swinging her foot and knocking Metal across the head. Omega got up, and grabbed Metal by his ankles. Omega turned around and flung Metal across the air. "Good teamwork, huh?" Brandy said, winking.
"Roger that, thank you.'' he replied.
Metal Knuckles arrived, searching the immediate area. He grabbed a nearby car, but revealed to have Hoagie and Wally behind it. Metal's eye looked confused. He turned to face them.
"Shoot him quick!'' exclaimed Hoagie, firing his 2x4 weapon.
The lasers ticked against Metal, making him laugh at their sad attempt to cause pain. "You're going to need a miracle to escape me, so start hoping to the sky!'' Metal threatened, raising the car up.
Metal Sonic suddenly flew down and knocked Metal Knuckles to the ground, dropping the car on both of them. Hoagie and Wally looked astonished.
"Did you hope?" Wally whispered.
"No, I thought you did.'' Hoagie replied.
"Well, come on! Before those two get back up!'' Wally exclaimed, getting to his feet and running down the street.
Metal Knuckles tossed Metal Sonic off him. "We must defend the blockade for a few more minutes.'' he said.
"And…why's that?" Metal Sonic curiously questioned.
"A quarter of Eggman's forces are heading there right now. The heroes are getting tired, and when they see our reinforcements, there will be less heroes in the world.'' said Metal Knuckles before taking off into the air.
Sonic just made it to the top of the building, throwing himself up on the edge and sat down carefully. "I should've figured he wouldn't thank me, oh well.'' Sonic said to himself, shrugging his shoulders.
Sonic pressed the red glowing transformation button, reverting back to his hedgehog form. Sonic breathed out, then yawned. It was an odd situation now. Actually it's more of a stressful one. On one side, the heroes wish to fight with Sonic. On the other, they want to fight Sonic. To bring peace to both sides wouldn't be easy, the only problem in it is how he does it. Such situations like Sonic's are likely to cause even more trouble. Sometimes, however, when you're off pondering in your own world, you can't see what's coming to you. A black ball appeared behind Sonic. Sonic's head lifted, his eyes formed into an angry gaze. The evil demon Thule stepped out of it, the ball vanishing into thin air behind him.
Sonic got up, facing Thule. "Sitting on the job again? I'm beginning to think you're starting to lose your touch.'' Thule claimed.
"You know nothing.'' Sonic retorted.
"Oh do I? Who are we all to judge anyone's abilities and will fight on for a sole purpose in life? I think you've lost care in this, that is why you only feel sorry for yourself in the end.'' Thule replied.
"As of now, I don't feel anything.'' Sonic snapped. He fired his red beams out of his eyes. The beams connected with Thule's gut, throwing him off the building. Sonic ran to the other end hastily. When Sonic ran off the edge, Thule reached up and grabbed the hedgehog. Thule proceeded by throwing Sonic through the window near to where Thule was. Sonic slid across the ground, but he stopped himself by digging his fingertips into the carpeting. Thule dropped down by the window. He fired a straight beam of misty black energy at Sonic. The energy of course shattered through the window and made itself to Sonic. The hedgehog quickly acted by dodging to right, then running around the whole room. Thule punched the window, shattering it to let himself in. Sonic put one hand lightly above the floor to drift back around and charged at Thule. Thule sent a fist at him, but Sonic ducked down, grabbed his wrist and kneed the evil demon in the chest, knocking him back. Sonic charged up a spin dash and rammed Thule in the gut, throwing through five cubicles. Sonic grabbed a metal pipe that broke off from the ceiling, batting it in his hand. Sonic approached Thule as he was attempting to get back on his feet. Sonic raised the pipe back and readied to beat Thule into a pulp. A hand grabbed the pipe. A foot kicked Sonic in the back and was thrown over Thule.
There stood the infamous Mecha Weresonic. "Sneaking up on your foes to get the upper hand on them? Now, Sonic I think both you and I know about this,' Mecha began.
Sonic got back on his feet, his eyes glowing as the hedgehog became enraged. "I'm the only one who does that.'' Mecha finished.
"For once, listen to me pal. Now is not the time!'' Sonic warned him, swinging his arm across.
"You mean I'm not good enough? Well, funny thing about that…'' Mecha said silently. He armed his pulse rifle, already forming a large ball of yellow and orange energy at the tip of the barrel.
"MAKE TIME!!'' thundered the cyborg villain.
The ball of energy dropped on the ground, and like a torpedo, drove forward. Thule got up, being hit by the blast. Sonic rolled out of the way as the energy ball pushed Thule through the wall and into the next room. Sonic turned his head forward, seeing Mecha punch him in the face. Sonic stumbled back, holding his nose. Sonic growled viciously. Sonic charged forward in a ball. Mecha stomped the ground, raising the earth up. Sonic went up the small piece of floor that went up, but instead he went off the side and dived foot first into Mecha's skull. The ground shattered sending both onto the next floor.
Mecha grabbed Sonic by one of his quills and tossed him into a wall, as he got up himself. Sonic dislodged himself from the wall. Mecha used chaos control to appear right in front of him, throwing a punch. Sonic ducked down quickly. Mecha's fist was stuck in the wall. Sonic quickly got around him, standing behind Mecha. Sonic stretched his back backwards, accumulating energy within his body and focusing on his eye beams. Sonic got to the point where it charged enough. Mecha finally lodged his fist out of the wall, but as soon as he turned around, two large red beams impacted hard into Mecha's chest, blowing through the wall and so after. Mecha finally fell through one last wall, but getting back up slower. The ceiling above crackled. Thule crashed through, dropping behind Mecha, snarling furiously. Mecha turned around, ready to fire his chaos cannon, but Thule picked him up and held him over his head. Thule tossed Mecha through a wall, but Mecha teleported back to jab his arm, which he transformed into his spikes. Mecha, with his other hand, punched Thule in the face. Thule finally got the chance to grab Mecha's fist. Thule grabbed the spike that was embedded in his gut and took it out, the wound healed automatically. Thule tossed Mecha over on his hip, then kicked him like a soccer ball.
Sonic dizzily walked through a ravaged hallway, nearly tripping over, so he had to lay his body against the wall for a moment. Mecha slammed through the wall, dropping in front of Sonic. Mecha quickly lifted his head up from the ground, gasping when he saw Sonic. Mecha quickly fired a shotgun like laser blast, blowing Sonic down the hall. Mecha looked at his new weapon. The front was flat, with six gun ports all around it. "I love upgrades.'' he said to himself, grinning evilly from behind his helmet.
Thule bashed his way through the same wall Mecha was thrown through. Mecha turned around immediately. "There you are!'' Thule said, charging at him. Mecha pointed his new weapon at him, firing a shot, smoke rising from each gun port. The six bullets connected and exploded, throwing Thule diagonally through two walls, breaking some leaky pipes, letting water drench the floor. Mecha transformed the shotgun back into his arm. Mecha spotted Sonic, still on the ground, and crawling away. Mecha stormed at him, splashing the water that already filled the hall. Mecha reached for Sonic. Sonic quickly rolled on his back, firing his eye beams right into Mecha's face, throwing him up three floors. Small chunks of debris rained around Sonic as he staggered to his feet. Thule's hand grabbed the edge of the broken wall. He peeked his head, opened his mouth and fired a blaze of fire. Sonic jumped up through a hole that was above him. Sonic latched onto the edge, falling loose one hand, dangling in the air. Thule walked over to the spot, looking up at Sonic. Thule smiled and chuckled. Fire began to form in his mouth. Sonic looked back up.
"BYE, BYE!'' Thule shouted, firing the huge stream of flames up the hole. Sonic let go, then spin dashed into the floor below him. The fire burned up through the building, causing more of it to spread. Sonic got on his feet, holding his forehead. Thule appeared behind the blue blur with the use of chaos control. Sonic jumped forward, turning to face him. Thule chuckled as he took a step forward. Flying up the hole, landing to Sonic's left was Mecha. Sonic crackled his fists, "Bring it on.''
Richards was at the base of the Sears Tower. He was looking through a pair of binoculars, spotting the black cloud of smoke that was coming from the building Sonic, Thule, and Mecha were battling in.
"Sir! The AC-130 is in our air space, you should have a visual.'' said the major over a COM link.
Richards looked up at the sky, seeing the roaring engines of the heavy duty plane. "Pilot, have your gunners aim at the building with the smoke cloud rising from it, use what ever you got on it!'' Richards ordered.
"Roger that, may I ask what we're firing at?'' replied the pilot, directing the plane towards the burning building.
"We got three baddies in that building, and I'm not to lose them again! Now destroy that building with all you got!'' Richards demanded.
"Yes, sir, out.'' said the pilot.
In the left street, Amy batted away three metal clones, then jumped up and smashed her hammer on the head of an egg titan. She catapulted herself into a back flip, landing safely on her feet, watching the egg titan topple and explode. Amy looked through a pair of buildings, seeing the image of the black cloud of smoke rising from the building. Amy quickly hurried over to the others.
"Has anyone seen Sonic yet?" she called out.
"What does she want?" Toph exclaimed, raising a pillar of earth from under an egg tank then launching it at three egg titans.
"She wants to know if we've seen Sonic!" Sokka answered, ducking a punch from an egg titan.
"Out of my jurisdiction! Duh!'' Toph said, waving her hand in front of her eyes.
"No, not us Amy!'' Sokka informed the pink hedgehog.
"What about Thule or Mecha?" Amy kept asking, as she ran.
"Not the slightest hint of em'!'' answered Ash.
Amy stopped in her tracks, she knew the answer. "That building. They're all in it!'' she exclaimed in her head. The AC-130 passed overhead. "No…no, no, no, NO!'' she screamed. The AC-130's 105 mm howitzer pointed at the mid section of the building, two floors up from there, Sonic, Mecha, and Thule were still fighting. "Ready to fire in, three…two…one…FIRE!'' said the weapons captain.
The huge gun fired a single round. Amy only watched in terror. The powerful round impacted the building, blowing the mid section apart into a ball of flames and smoke. Inside, the three were tossed to the ground, there world began to tip sideways. The top half of the infrastructure began to peel off, metal beams and support columns twisted and clanged together as the building began to topple. Sonic hopped from one desk to another, holding onto the legs, as each one he grabbed, fell down. He dug his claws into the floor.
"What do you know, they did come in handy." he said, smirking.
Sonic began to climb up the failing infrastructure as quickly, and most definitely, carefully as he could. Sonic's ankle was suddenly grabbed by Thule's sharp claws. Sonic croaked in pain. Sonic held onto the floor with one hand, looking down at Thule. Sonic kicked Thule in the face, causing him to fall down into the abyss of the building. Sonic planted his feet on the wall then sprinted up it, seeing daylight. Sonic boosted forward and came out safely, flying through the air. The upper half of the building finally fell down and smashed through some more smaller buildings, creating a massive quake, and earth shattering bang. Sonic wiped his forehead with relief.
"Don't get use to it.'' said Mecha.
Sonic looked directly forward to see he was flying towards him. Mecha raised a fist back. Sonic spin dashed at him. Mecha instead threw his fist, hitting Sonic extremely hard. In ball form, Sonic was like a meteor that plummeted down into the streets in a matter of mere seconds. Mecha landed in front of the crater lay, unconscious in. Mecha jumped down in it, and picked Sonic up.
"Now, let us finish this battle…FOR GOOD!!'' Mecha said angrily, raising his other hand, formed into a fist, back.
The AC-130 flew back toward the right road. Below, Eggman's forces yet again suppressed the heroes. The massive plane's 20 mm cannon was ready, and fired. The repeating shots boomed, tearing the wall of debris apart, even destroying the robots that were near it. The heroes stayed well behind cover, holding their arms over their heads, some uses their hands to plug their ears. One last shot hit, it was done. All the heroes came out of cover and regrouped in the middle of the road. Nothing but smoke, parts of the robots, small burning fires, and one open gate lie in front of them. "That's it! Let's move forward!'' shouted Jenny. Military soldiers, M1A1 Abrams tanks, and the heroes moved on in. The smoke cloud suddenly cleared. All the heroes stopped in their tracks, awe shocked. The whole street in front of them was filled to the brim with Eggman's robots and metal clones. Metal Sonic and Metal Knuckles dropped down in front of the massive army. "Now…where do you think you're going?" Metal Sonic said slyly.
Sonic rolled across the ground, then quickly jumped backwards, landing on his feet, just before Mecha stomped his foot down. Sonic ran at Mecha in a crouched position. Mecha quickly swung a fist, but Sonic spun around it and sent a fist up into Mecha's chin. Mecha flew into a back flip, but landed on his feet.
"Why do you even care anymore? Your friends don't trust you anymore! That is, if you can call them friends!'' Mecha hissed.
"I'll make the time.'' Sonic remarked.
Mecha fired his gatling guns wildly. Sonic cart wheeled to the left, formed into a ball and charged at Mecha, knocking him off his feet. Sonic spun back around, exiting his ball. Mecha got on one foot, using one arm to fire his gatling gun. Sonic quickly stepped off the building, holding onto the ledge. Mecha changed the gatling gun into his rocket launcher. The villain fired a single rocket, hitting the spot Sonic was holding onto. Sonic fell down, the wind blowing against him. Sonic quickly got on the building, sprinting down it. Mecha flew down after him, the fire out of his jet boots blazing wildly. Sonic made it to the street, sprinting madly. Mecha flew straight after his sworn enemy. Sonic quickly jumped onto a light pole. Sonic chopped off the end of it, turning around to face Mecha. Mecha raised his claws back. Sonic swung the metal bar, making a loud clank, throwing Mecha down to the ground. Sonic tossed the bar aside, then dove down at Mecha with his foot aimed for his chest. Mecha's glowing eyes quickly came back on. His chaos cannon extended out of his power source and fired. Sonic crossed his arms in front of his face. The powerful beam impacted Sonic and tossed him across the air. Sonic smacked against a building, then let gravity pull him down face first onto the ground. Mecha dropped by his side, picking him up by the throat, then smashing him skull first into the ground. Sonic sat there, upside down until his legs fell loose and his limp limbs dropped down flat. Mecha armed his dual spikes. He raised both up. Sonic fired his red beam eyes into Mecha's power source, making a bright flash and firing Mecha back, across the ground. Sonic transformed into his Werehog form with a press of a button. He ran on all fours, roaring like a monster.
At the beach, Eggman gazed at the large cannon in front of him. It was silver, the Eggman symbol on its barrel. A piece of thin metal came up shortly, then stretched out a few inches on the left, right, and underside of the cannon's barrel. Mecha WereShadow hovered down, dropping by Eggman's side. "The heroes from the right road have been stalled, but the left road has remained clear, and Shadow is coming up the middle! We need-" he was cut off by Eggman.
"No need to worry. I shall give the heroes a reason to start retreating.'' Eggman said, holding a hand up. "What of the AC-130? It's flying over the ocean in the middle of a turn and heading directly at us!'' Mecha informed in a hyped tone.
"Then it's time for the Egg Blaster's first test run." Eggman replied with a grin. The cannon then rose up, turning around slowly.
The massive AC-130 gunship made its way around, on course for the beach. "General sir, the beach is our sight. We're preparing our weapons to destroy Eggman's cannon, out.'' said the pilot.
Eggman stepped to the end of the beach, grinning. The cannon finally turned all the way to aim at the gunship. "Power on!'' Eggman ordered. An egg titan holding a green glowing canister put it in the back of the cannon, pushing it up inside it, closing the hatch. The glowing green canister had a red dial on the side of it. "Prime it!'' Eggman shouted again.
The red dials slowly glistened in intervals. Once it finally filled up, the inside of the cannon sparkled with energy. Eggman smirked once more, "FIRE!'' he demanded, pointing at the gunship. The cannon fired out an emerald green laser, which brightly resonated and had a mixture of ripples and rings around it. The vicious looking beam blasted off the right wing, also ripping through its side. The huge aircraft maneuvered to the left, with a dark trail of smoke coming from the tail, and a blazing fire from its side.
On the left street, the heroes broke through the line, seeing the beach ahead of them. "There it is guys! Come on!'' shouted Brandy, charging forward.
The looming shadow of the AC-130 flew over them, they all looked in horror. But where it was heading, was much more horrific; The Sears Tower.
Mecha grabbed Sonic by his throat and teleported himself and Sonic on top the Sears Tower. Mecha tossed his limp body to the ground.
"See what this does?! It only brings about the inner evil of you! You can't help but question your ability to compare to my own! Face it hedgehog, you're out of your league when you face me!'' Mecha preached impatiently.
Sonic raised his head up. "Empty words…Mecha…for an empty…being.'' Sonic scuttled out the words.
"You dare threaten me? What possible reason do you have to smart talk the one who's about to kill you!?" Mecha hissed angrily.
"Your plan. You ain't going to kill me.'' Sonic said weakly.
"What then? WHAT REASON DO YOU HAVE?!?!" Mecha thundered ferociously, stomping the ground once.
Sonic pointed behind him. Mecha turned around to see the hulking AC-130 crash right into the top of the building, spinning around in a slow movement until it plummeted down into the streets below in a humongous cloud of fire. Sonic tackled Mecha to the ground, bashing his fist into Mecha's face.
"You're lucky this building won't give way.'' Sonic muttered bitterly to his foe. Sonic was kicked off by Mecha's feet.
"You're lucky you have all that energy inside you, or you'd be dead by now!'' Mecha snapped.
A good part of the building was gone, leaving fires to feed away. Mecha charged first. Sonic grabbed Mecha's elbows, keeping him back. "Why sell your life so easily? Your friends will become your enemies, because of me!" Mecha taunted, as he laughed in his face.
Disgusted by his attitude, Sonic used his own head to bang against Mecha's, separating the two. The two spun in circles dizzily. Mecha got back control of his dizziness, charging at Sonic immediately. Mecha rammed Sonic off the building, Mecha following closely. Sonic raised a fist back, glowing red energy swarmed around it. Sonic stretched his fist right into Mecha's gut, damaging his power source. Mecha spun out of control with a trail of gray smoke following him, until he crashed through the window of a building. Sonic turned himself down, seeing where he was headed. Sonic saw a huge group of Eggman robots filling one street. In front of them, a few outnumbered heroes.
"So tell me, how does it feel when you heroes lose?" Metal Knuckles said, with a cocky attitude.
"We'll never give up, you blockhead!'' exclaimed Whiskers, who Brandy quickly grabbed and put her hand over his mouth.
"Poor little creature, you need a lesson,'' Metal Sonic said, stepping forward.
The heroes sent glares at Metal Sonic. "A LESSON IN PAIN!'' Metal shouted, arming his machine guns.
Suddenly, Sonic impacted with great force, sending a powerful shockwave across the ground. The force of the impact destroyed about twenty robots! The heroes looked to their enemies in front of them. They were all on the ground. The heroes gasped at who they saw standing up. From where they stood, his black silhouette graced them.
Metal Sonic and Metal Knuckles got back up, turning around to see who was responsible. "It's Sonic!'' Metal Sonic exclaimed, looking at Metal Knuckles. "Forces! ELIMINATE HIM!'' Metal Knuckles ordered in an echoing voice.
The other robots rose up, stalking towards Sonic. Sonic readied his fists. The two glowed a resonating red. Sonic then let them loose. His two fists grew large and his arms stretched out, wiping out all the robots around him. The robots were turned into nothing but scrap, and possible spare parts for Eggman when he needs them. Sonic retracted both his arms, clenching both, as he snarled at the two metals that were left. The two metals exchanged looks. "We can take him.'' Metal Sonic commented, turning to face him, along with Metal Knuckles.
"All forces! Pull back to the beach! NOW!'' Eggman ordered over the COM link built into the two metals. The two metals growled as they stared angrily at Sonic, who was waving goodbye.
"This isn't over Sonic! We'll face each other again!'' Metal Sonic informed, pointing at him.
"I'll be waiting.'' Sonic commented, crossing his arms. The two Metals set off into the sky.
Sonic unfolded his arms, looking at the group of heroes before him. Omega's red eyes shimmered, knowing the mission Shadow informed him of. Omega took a step forward, but Jenny stopped him by grabbing his hand. Omega looked at her, confused. Jenny shook her head slowly. Omega took her look as a warning, and stepped back. Sonic took one step back, knowing something is wrong. Sonic huffed, and leaped up into the air, landing on a building roof. The others from below remained silent, but questionable.
On the left road, the heroes made it to the beach. Bullets were already being shot at them. Aang put up a large defensive stone wall to shield them. All the heroes grouped behind the wall.
"I thought that huge plane was going to help us out here?" Sokka pointed out.
"It was shot down! Were you blind? I bet Toph even saw it!'' exclaimed Amy. Toph herself, giggled ridiculously at Amy's remark. The wall was pounded by a rocket barrage.
"We can't just sit here! Aang, take Katara, Toph, Zuko, and Amy to the left as soon as you drop the wall. Trainers, tell your, whatever they're called! To attack from the right flank, ready?" Sokka explained.
"Pokemon, Sokka, remember it next time.'' Ash said with a dull look. "Ready…DROP!'' Sokka exclaimed. Aang drove the wall down into the earth. Aang put the massive wall back into the ground, the heroes made their run.
Steelix pounced over the heroes and smashed on top of a group of egg titans, letting out a sonic screech, blowing even more to bits. Katara summoned a huge wave of water out of the ocean and swung it down on the robots, washing them away. Amy batted two metal clones away, then smashed her hammer down onto the barrel of en egg tank, causing the whole tank to lean down forward. A drill bot surfaced in front of her. She raised her hammer. Suddenly, Jenny landed on top of it, driving all her shiva swords down into its core processor. Coming from behind, was the rest of the heroes from the right street. Jenny formed the shiva swords back up, then picked the drill bot and tossed it at a group of flying metal clones, which were wiped out of the sky by the huge hunk of metal.
Omega was flying above the ground, and fast. He turned left and right, firing away with his gatling guns. Metal Sonic fired his core blast from above, burrowing Omega into the ground. Metal hovered slowly down towards him. A pair of rockets came out of the dust. Metal maneuvered to the right, then looked back down, only to see Omega punch him across the face. Metal crashed into the sand. He got up from his crater, growling.
Aang swung his arms in circles, releasing a wave of fire that burned through and exploded a line of ten clones. Sokka ran past the Avatar, swinging his sword at an egg titan's legs, causing it to fall backwards.
"How many more are there going to be?" Sokka whined.
"More than you know!'' exclaimed Aang.
Eggman watched the frantic battle continue in front of him. Eggman's hover ship arrived, he smiled. From afar, Sonic landed on a building that was in front of the beach. He looked at all the heroes, spread out in the hectic battle that continued. Sonic's eyes widened when he saw Eggman getting in his hover ship. "Not this time.'' Sonic said, readying himself to jump.
"Help!'' shouted a familiar voice.
Sonic looked on the beach, seeing Toph becoming surrounded by egg titans. "Why is an Earthbender on sand?!" Sonic exclaimed.
Sonic looked between Eggman and Toph. Sonic shut his eyes, cringing them. He didn't want to feel guilty for letting another person down, not again. Sonic jumped down towards the beach, to rescue a friend. Toph had experience on Sandbending, what she wasn't too familiar with any serious attacks. She tried anyway. Toph created a ball of sand and fired it at en egg titan. The sand merely knocked it to the ground so it could get back up again. Sonic suddenly landed behind her, and picked her up. Sonic swung his other hand around in circles, using his claws to rip the chest power core off of each of the robots. All the egg titans collapsed simultaneously. "You alright?" Sonic asked. "Thanks a lot Sonic!'' she said joyfully, hugging him. Sonic smiled and felt joy in his belly. "You might want to rethink the terrain you're fighting on.'' Sonic implied, putting her down. Sonic was then suddenly tackled by, guess who, Mecha WereSonic.
The two skidded across the ground, with Mecha on top, and Sonic face down on the sand. The two stopped. "You're going to have to try a little harder than that to get rid of me!'' Mecha said to Sonic's ear.
Sonic butted the back of his head against Mecha's snout, recessing Mecha back. Sonic began to elbow Mecha as soon as he began to get back on his feet. Sonic reached both his arms back, grabbing Mecha by his shoulders, and tossing him over his head and into the sand. Sonic bashed down his fists on Mecha's body repeatedly. A sudden blue blast hit Sonic in the hip, it was Mecha WereShadow.
"Great timing, friend. Let us finish this trash!'' said Mecha WereSonic said, marching towards Sonic's motionless body. The two titanium menaces stood before Sonic, looking at their with malicious looks. Aang drove his staff through the head of a metal clone, then took it back out. He saw in the distance, the position Sonic's in.
"Guys! Look, it's Sonic!'' Aang shouted.
The rest of the gang ran over to him, becoming shocked. "We gotta' help him!'' exclaimed Katara, charging forward. The gang followed her closely, running through the remaining forces that were left on the beach.
Mecha WereSonic readied his sharp spikes, Mecha WereShadow with his power drills. "It's over.'' said Mecha WereSonic, raising it up.
Mecha was suddenly grabbed by a water tentacle that wrapped around his waist. He was hoisted up and tossed out to the ocean. Mecha WereShadow fired his power drills. Sonic quickly woke up. The blue blur knocked Mecha out of the way and grabbed both drills by the back, just inches close to the gang. Sonic's feet began to pull forward, and take up a number of sand. The drills then turned around, heading directly back at Sonic. Sonic tossed the one in his right hand away, but the left one was too fast. Sonic's eyes widened in pain as the drill's tip gouged him in the stomach. Sonic grabbed both sides of the drill and pulled it out, blood dripping from its tip. Sonic covered the deep wound with his large hand, to hold the bleeding. A handful of Eggman's robots were left, but quickly disposed of. Sonic limply walked forward to the gang. Amy's eyes alit with tears as she ran over to him. Sonic fell to his knees in front of the gang, breathing hoarsely. The gang surrounded him. Amy came in and slowly walked up him. Sonic looked at her with one eye. Amy couldn't bear it anymore, she broke into tears, at long last of seeing him again. Amy hugged him, crying into his shoulder. The gang stepped back, touched by this moment.
The two Mechas and two metals regrouped behind the group. "Sonic!'' shouted Mecha Weresonic. The gang turned around, Amy moved out of the way so Sonic could see him. "Know that this was just a victory for this city. The war rages on. We'll meet again, and you know it." Mecha hissed, pointing at Sonic. The four servants to Eggman activated their jets and lifted off into the air. Once it was over, the heroes regrouped in the middle of the beach. Soldiers began to deconstruct the Egg Blaster cannon, some were ordered to bring back specific parts to Richards so it could be studied on how Eggman's been developing such effective weapon systems.
"I'm just glad to see you again!'' said Katara, breaking away from the hug she gave Sonic.
"Yeah, me too.'' Sonic replied tiredly.
A large bandage was put around his waist to cover the deep wound. Shadow, Jenny, Omega, and Robot Boy watched from a few feet away. "Omega, when you're ready, take the move.'' Shadow muttered.
"I'm always ready.'' Omega said, activating his boosters.
"Let's start looking forward to having a break before, well you know, Richards sends us somewhere else.'' Sokka said relaxingly as he sat down on the sandy ground.
"That is, if we're even lucky to get some rest. Eggman's still out there, and he won't take this loss undoubtedly.'' Zuko explained.
"I'm just looking forward to eat!'' exclaimed Ash with a smirk.
"You got me there." Toph added.
Sonic looked happy at all their joyful expressions and laughs. His ear suddenly twitched. "Move!'' he exclaimed, shoving Katara out of the way, revealing Omega from behind who flew in and grabbed Sonic, then headed straight back up.
"Let's go.'' Shadow said, holding his green emerald and causing chaos control to teleport Jenny, Robot Boy, and himself to follow. All the heroes gave chase to Omega.
"What is his problem!?" exclaimed Amy angrily.
Omega flew through the ravaged city streets. Sonic punched Omega repeatedly. "Put me down now Omega!'' Sonic demanded.
"Negative, your insecurity must be dealt with now.'' Omega replied, throwing him down towards the street.
Sonic landed on his feet, skidding backwards, with his claws dug into the ground to stop. Sonic removed his hands from the ground, looking up. Omega dropped down a few feet away from him. As soon as Omega landed, Shadow, Jenny, and Robot Boy appeared in front. Sonic narrowed his eyes viciously.
"What will this accomplish, exactly?" Sonic asked immediately.
"Peace.'' Shadow answered.
"Are you an idiot?! How will this bring peace? The entire planet is in fear, people are dying, cities are being destroyed, and you think the simple act of ending me will bring PEACE!?!'' Sonic yelled violently.
Shadow remained silent after this. "Exactly! This is why-'' Omega fired his rockets at him. Sonic was knocked to the ground by all of them.
Sonic sat up carefully, but he groaned from his chest injury while trying to sit up. Shadow unsheathed his Chaos Sword, letting its tip touch the ground.
"I've become tired of taking orders from those who don't choose to take things into their OWN hands. It's weak!'' Shadow pointed out.
"And…for some reason…you think breaking Kuki's heart is really worth…killing me? You might want to rethink that pal.'' Sonic snapped, rising to his feet carefully.
"You don't need to bring her into this.'' Shadow implied.
"You idiot. SHE'S ALREADY IN IT! You're just too ignorant to listen to those who care about you! Trust me when I say this, but killing me won't get Kuki to like you as a friend, she'll think you're a freak!'' Sonic roared. Shadow fired a Chaos Spear at him. Sonic rolled to the side to dodge it.
"I will not stand here and take your pathetic accusations you shoot at me!'' Shadow yelled, pointing his sword at him.
"Is it cause they're true? Yeah, it is.'' Sonic remarked.
"That's it! GET HIM!'' Shadow ordered.
The three powerful automatons charged at him while flying. Sonic moved to the side to dodge Jenny, he grabbed Robot Boy by the face and planted him into the ground. Omega, however, tackled Sonic, then repeatedly punched him across the face. Sonic grabbed the top of Omega's head and spun him around. Omega was spinning like a tornado until he smacked against a light pole, dropping to the ground. Jenny fired her laser limbs full blast. Sonic grabbed Robot Boy and tossed him at the path, blasting him instead. Robot Boy plummeted into the ground with a boom. Jenny looked at him with a shocked face. Jenny looked back at Sonic with an angry look, as tears shed, she continuously fired lasers at him, screaming. Sonic ran back, on all fours, dodging the quick blasts that made burnt marks on the ground. Sonic was blasted back by a blast from Shadow's chaos sword. Sonic rolled across the ground, bruising himself. Jenny grabbed Sonic by his quills and swung him against a car back and forth. Jenny hovered up, holding him by his wrist. Sonic's eyes fired out red beams, knocking Jenny back. Sonic came down, with Shadow waiting below. Shadow fired a chaos beam straight up. Sonic put up a defensive red shield around him. The beam wrapped around the protective field, but it dispersed, letting Sonic come down safely. Sonic landed in front of Shadow, lowering his arms, which also dropped the shield. "Wow, forgot I could do that.'' Sonic mumbled.
Shadow fired a barrage of chaos spears. Sonic swung his fists while jogging to the left, knocking the chaos spears into different directions. Sonic skidded to halt when the chaos spears were all gone. Sonic fired his red beams at Shadow. Shadow used Chaos Control to appear in front of Shadow to punch him in the gut with both his feet. Sonic tumbled in rolls, directly at Omega. The powerful robot armed his laser shots. At the last second, Sonic's back was turned to Omega. Omega let loose the twin laser blasts, shooting Sonic back across the ground. Sonic held his wound carefully, a stinging sensation was all that he felt. He felt lower than dirt. The four surrounded Sonic. "If only you made the right decisions, this wouldn't have to happen.'' Shadow said calmly. Sonic raised his head, looking at Shadow in front of him.
"I HAVEN'T EVEN MADE THAT CHOICE!!'' Sonic up roared, pounding a fist to the ground.
Shadow huffed with a smile, "I don't care.'' he said.
Watching from above, was Thule and Azula. "Now shall you do it?" asked Azula. Thule looked down to the right street, seeing all the heroes nearing the site.
"Oh yes, I shall.'' Thule said in an evil tone. He raised the Emerald of Demons to his mouth. "Created from fire, rise to destroy, fight because of hatred, ARISE FORCES INSIDE!!'' Thule shouted.
Sonic's eyes burned red energy. Hs began to growl. Shadow walked over to him, raising his sword over his head. Shadow drove the sword down, but Sonic grabbed it the blade. Sonic got up and twisted Shadow's arm, then shot his eye beam point blank into his face. Shadow tucked and rolled all the way down the street. Sonic grabbed Omega's arm and tore it off, crunching it into pieces. Sonic grabbed the one armed robot by his ankles and swung him through a street level window. Sonic swung his claws, tearing open a spot on Jenny's chest. Robot Boy charged at him. Sonic grabbed him by the throat, and held him up. Sonic tore both his legs off, tossing both halves aside. Sonic breathed heavily and viciously. What he didn't know was what was behind him.
Sonic turned around to see all the heroes, gazing at him in total awe shock. "What?! YOU WANT TO BETRAY ME TOO?! HUH?!?" Sonic shouted violently at them all.
"Sonic…'' Amy said sadly, holding her hand out. Sonic grabbed a nearby car and tossed it at the group of heroes. Aang and Toph sunk the ground, the car slammed onto both sides of the hole and rolling if continuously. Aang and Toph rose the ground back up, seeing Sonic charging at them, their friend, their one chance for hope, fighting against them.
Brother my Brother
Tell me what are we fighting for
We've got to end this war
We should love one another
Oh, can't we just pretend
This war never began
We can try
Brother my Brother
Shadow pointed at Sonic, his lips saying 'charge!' Pikachu sent a thunder blast at Sonic. The electricity conducted around Sonic, making him wince his eyes in pain. Sonic charged forward again.
We face each other from different sides
The anger burns can't remember why
Sonic grabbed Ash and tossed him aside. Blaziken dove down with a fire kick. Sonic grabbed his foot and tossed the fire Pokemon into a parked car. Toph launched a boulder at him, regrettably. Sonic turned to the massive boulder, grabbing it with his claws.
It's kind of crazy to cause so much pain
Our foolish pride makes us hate this way
We watch our world fall apart
Sonic threw the giant rock at the gang. Toph and Amy jumped out of the way. Sonic looked to his left, seeing Katara.
Tell me what good is winning
When you lose your heart
Brother my Brother
Tell me what are we fighting for
Isn't life worth so much more?
Katara formed two water tentacles around her arms, sniffling sadly. Sonic charged at her. Sokka stood in her way, swinging his sword, cutting a gash on his arm. Sonic stepped back, then growled. Sokka grabbed Katara's wrist and ran away. Katara could not muster up the strength to believe it, she had to fight Sonic.
We should love one another
Oh, can't we just pretend
This war never began
Tell me why
Brother my Brother
Apache helicopters swarmed in from above, firing their missiles at Sonic. Sonic knocked one away, but was hit by three more. Zuko fired a blazing ball of flames, shooting Sonic forward again. Sonic growled as he rose back to his feet. Sonic stretched his arms and grabbed the underside of one Apache and yanked it down. The helicopter dropped straight down and exploded. Sonic grabbed the flaming wreckage, not aware of how it was burning his hands, and tossed it his mighty strength at another Apache. The hunk of burning metal collided with the airborne attack chopper, both culminating in one bright explosion. Jenny fixed herself quickly and fired her laser limbs at Sonic. Sonic was being shot and attacked from every direction.
Yes
We can try
Brother my Brother
Yes
Let's take a moment to look deep inside
And say we're willing to give love a try
Amy got back up, Sonic's foot stepping down in front of her. Sonic glared at her angrily. Amy quickly got up, and hugged him. "Please quit! No more!'' she cried.
We're not as different as we seem to be
There's so much more to me than what you see
It don't have to be this way
Think about the consequences
Then turn around and walk away
Sonic changed his sincere look back to an angry one. Amy quickly retreated from Sonic. He clenched his fists by his side and roared at the poor girl. Amy held her Piki Piko hammer in her hands. "I'm so sorry, my Sonniku.'' she muttered to herself.
Brother my Brother
Tell me what are we fighting for
Isn't life worth so much more
We should love one another
Oh, can't we just pretend
This war never began
Amy swung her hammer across Sonic's face, when he charged at her. She let out a helpless scream when she did. Sonic fell on his gut, the stinging and burning sensations swooped up into his system because of his gut wound. Dawn's Bunneary fired an ice beam at him. The ice beam froze Sonic's whole body. The heroes looked helplessly at their friend. Sonic's eyes suddenly opened again, the ice covering him shattered into a million pieces. Sonic fired red beams from his eyes. Toph was knocked off her feet when it hit right in front of her, but Sokka caught her.
Tell me why
Brother my Brother
Brother my Brother
Tell me what are we fighting for
Isn't life worth so much more
Sonic grabbed a destroyed tank and held it over his head. Sonic then lunged it across the air. The tank headed down towards Katara! Aang quickly picked her up and ran to safety. Katara's arms were wrapped around Aang's neck while he looked at him. "Why haven't you attacked him yet?" she asked in an angry tone, still thinking he's on Shadow's side.
"Because it's not worth breaking the heart of the one I love.'' Aang replied, kissing Katara by surprise.
Katara's eyes were widened, but they soon closed, as she returned the kiss. The two broke apart, smiling at each other. Aang put Katara on her feet. "Ultimus said Sonic needs to open his heart for him to be cured, did you understand that all, because I didn't.'' Aang asked.
"We need to get him to see the light!'' Katara exclaimed, turning to look at Sonic, fighting the others.
We should love one another
Oh, can't we just pretend
This war never began
Tell me why
Brother my Brother
Jenny helped put back Omega's arm and attached it back to the socket. Sonic lunged at the two. Omega quickly fired a blast of fire. The fire scorched away at Sonic, burning half of the mask on his face. Sonic slid in a slow circle, holding his face. Sonic dropped on one knee, moaning in severe pain. The heroes grouped back together, looking at him for a response. Sonic looked with his other eye. It was filled with pure hatred and evil. Sonic grabbed the other half of the mask and tore it off, revealing his skeletal face, as he roar to the heavens above.
Well I wanted you, I wanted no one else
I thought it through, I got you to myself
You got off
Every time you got on to me
I got caught up
In favorable slavery
Was it wrong? Was it wrong?
Sonic then lunged forward, his claws out and his face formed into a violent expression.
I guess it wasn't really right
I guess it wasn't meant to be
It didn't matter what they said
'Cause we were good in bed
Aang and Katara were pushed to the ground by Sonic, as he kept both down with his large hands. He picked both up and tossed them forward. The two formed bruises and some small scars from the sharpness of the road.
I guess I stuck around so I could watch us fight
For all the wrong reasons
No, it didn't really matter what I tried
It's just a little hard to leave
When you're going down on me
I guess I stuck around so I could watch us fight
For all the wrong reasons
"BRING HIM DOWN!'' shouted Shadow, charging forward. Shadow swung his sword at Sonic's arm, creating a minor gash. Shadow skated across the ground backwards, while firing chaos spears at Sonic. The spear hit Sonic back and forth, merely making Sonic twitch and move his shoulders back and forth. Sonic roared angrily to the sky. He grabbed a bus and threw it forward. Shadow charged towards it. Behind him on the ground were the heroes, open for a hit. Shadow formed himself sideways, spinning the sword down, and cutting through the bus's middle, throwing the left and right halves off to the side, leaving the heroes to be safe. Shadow quickly sheathed his sword and started firing Chaos Spears rapidly at Sonic.
Well you know my friends
Well they know your enemies
I'd pretend
Not to hear what they said to me
'Cause I got off
Every time you got on to me
Was is wrong
To go along with insanity?
Sonic was repeatedly hit by the oncoming forces of Shadow's chaos spears. Katara froze Sonic's legs to the ground, regrettably. Sonic broke the ice with his fists, and charged at Brock's Steelix. Sonic grabbed onto the horns on its side. Sonic actually lifted Steelix and flipped him over with all his strength, right into a building, and continued rolling inside. "Steelix!'' shouted Brock, running over to it.
Was it wrong? Was it wrong?
I guess it wasn't really right
I guess it wasn't meant to be
It didn't matter what they said
'Cause we were good in bed
I guess I stuck around so I could watch us fight
For all the wrong reasons
No, it didn't matter what I've tried
It's just a little hard to leave
When you're going down on me
Shadow was thrown against a light pole, cracking it and causing it to fall into the street. Soldiers fired their weapons at Sonic. Some bullets penetrated, some didn't due to the rough hide of the suit that covered Sonic's body. An Abrams tank fired a round. Sonic quickly kicked it, and the powerful round blew a chunk of a building out of the structure. Sonic grabbed a large block of debris, holding it over his head. Sonic leaped towards the tank. The tank crew quickly scuttled themselves out of the tank and to safety. Sonic smashed the massive chunk of debris on the tank, flattening it like a pancake. Sonic tossed the remains of the debris wall like a Frisbee at a group of soldiers. The rock wall smacked them like baseballs and sent them flying.
I guess I stuck around so I could watch us fight
For all the wrong reasons
All the heroes fired at him at the same time. Icicles from Katara in Sonic's right arm, rocks from Toph at Sonic's back, fireballs from Aang and Zuko to Sonic's gut, chaos spears from Shadow to Sonic's legs, and more. Sonic dropped to the ground. "Everyone! Pile on him! DO NOT LET HIM GET BACK UP!!'' exclaimed Shadow, jumping on Sonic, wrapping his arms tightly around Sonic's neck, keeping him in a headlock. All the heroes piled on him, keeping his limbs from moving, and weighing him down, so he couldn't even breath a breathe of air.
I guess it wasn't what I wanted,
It wasn't really what I thought,
I thought it was the day I got, I want it all to go away,
I guess it wasn't what I wanted,
It wasn't really what I thought,
I thought it was the day I got,
I want it all to go away,
Horrible images popped into Sonic's head. Images of him about to be attacked by each of the heroes. He saw Shadow drive his chaos sword toward his heart in one hallucination, but he dropped down a black hole into a burning pit of fire. Behind him was a giant Dark Sonic, chuckling evilly, as it smashed its hand down on him.
I guess it wasn't what I wanted,
It wasn't really what I thought,
I thought it was the day I got,
I want it all to go away,
I guess it wasn't what I wanted,
It wasn't really what I thought,
I thought it was the day I got,
I want it all go away
An image of him becoming Dark Sonic, watching his future self die in the explosion at Eggmanland, and the heroes all swarming at him appeared in his head. His eyes shot open. Rays of red light came out of the pile, and then, a red dome blew all the heroes off of him as he roared to the clouds above. The heroes smacked into buildings, rolled across the ground, or were tossed into something.
I guess it wasn't really right
I guess it wasn't meant to be
It didn't matter what they said
"Stop this, now Sonic!'' shouted Katara. Sonic was only attracted by the sound of her voice, to throw a car at her. Omega flew by and grabbed it in his hands. Omega swung it around once, then let it fly. The car smashed right into Sonic, it exploding right on impact. Sonic ran on all fours at Omega. Sonic sent his claws scratching right across his chest, knocking him to the ground. Toph shot a mound of earth at him. The powerful earth wall shattered against his back. Sonic turned around, giving off a malevolent glare.
'Cause we were good in bed
I guess I stuck around so I could watch us fight
For all the wrong reasons
Sonic was tackled by Jenny, then thrown at a building wall by her. Sonic grabbed a chunk of debris and tossed the mound of brick at her. The chunk hit her directly in the chest, throwing her to the other side of the street. Aang fired a swing of air at Sonic. Sonic swung his arms to dissipate the air. Sonic grabbed Aang by his shirt and tossed him to the ground. Sonic raised his foot over his head. Zuko fired a quick fireball that hit Sonic and sent him rolling down the street. Sonic found Amy, standing by his side, holding her hammer while her arms were shaking wildly. Sonic looked out the corner of his eye, snarling. Sonic got to his feet, towering over Amy. She looked up at him helplessly. Amy lowered her hammer, then dropped, while tears were flooding down her cheeks. Sonic raised both his fists back, but he was stopped when Amy embraced him in a warm hug. Sonic slowly lowered both his arms. Amy shifted her head in his furry chest, sniffling with despair and sorrow. Sonic was going to return the hug, but Shadow's Chaos Sword impaled him in the back. Sonic's eyes burned ferociously, as he turned around to face Shadow.
No, it didn't matter what I've tried
It's just a little hard to leave
When you're going down on me
I guess I stuck around so I could watch us fight
For all the wrong reasons
Shadow lunged upwards, then dove down towards Sonic. Sonic stretched his fist out at him. Shadow swung himself into a frontward's roll, Sonic's stretched arm going right under him. Shadow landed on Sonic's back and dislodged the sword from Sonic's back. The angry Werehog roared furiously. Shadow jumped down in front of Amy. "Shadow!" Amy exclaimed, running around him, and blocking his path. Shadow pushed her out of the way. Sonic sent his fist right into Shadow's gut, throwing him across the street.
Jenny charged down at Sonic. Sonic grabbed her by the ankles. Omega flew from behind. Sonic hoisted Jenny up then smashed her on top of Omega. Their two bodies lie on top of one another. A blast of fire hit Sonic in the back. Zuko and Aang both fired fireballs out of both their fists. Sonic swung like a tornado, catching the fireballs, spinning them around in the small tornado, then reflected all the fireballs back at them. Aang put up a defensive earth wall. The combined forces of the fireballs blew the wall up, blowing Aang and Zuko across the ground. Katara skated across an ice path she created. Sonic spotted her coming. Sonic smashed his fists down on the ground, rattling the earth. Katara quickly made an ice ramp and went flying off it just in time before it shattered like glass. Katara had no way to land, this was going to hurt extremely bad. Katara shut her eyes and feared for the worst, but then she landed, softly. Katara opened her eyes to see Sonic holding her in his arms. Katara's eyes widened. After that attack, he saved her anyway? Katara knew Sonic was still inside, cooped up by the demonic forces taking root inside his heart and mind. Sonic slowly put her down. She smiled warmly at him.
"GOT YA!'' shouted Sokka, latching onto Sonic's back. Sonic growled and snarled vigorously.
"SOKKA! Get off him, now!'' Katara demanded.
Sokka banged Sonic in the skull with his boomerang. Pikachu used iron tail and swung it at Sonic's face, making Sonic stumble sideways. Sokka hopped off Sonic's back as he finally fell to his knees. The heroes surrounded Sonic, in a large open circle. Sonic in the point blank middle of it. Shadow stepped past Amy, glaring at Sonic. Shadow gripped his sword tightly. Amy grabbed Shadow by his wrist, pulling him back.
"You can't do this!'' she cried, tears rolling down her cheeks. Shadow turned around, grabbing her shoulders.
"I CAN, and I WILL!'' he said angrily, pushing her back, where Katara was.
Katara held Amy back, in her arms, where both tried to resist the action of crying. "You've only spread fear and hate to the people of this city, this world, and every other dimension you enter!'' Shadow exclaimed, while still marching.
Sonic was then hit by a quick chaos spear shot by Shadow, who dropped onto one knee. "All you did was cause pain and suffering! Nothing you did benefited this war closer to an end!'' Shadow ranted.
Shadow shot another Chaos Spear, hitting Sonic in his other leg, bringing him on the ground. Sonic clenched a fist and pounded it on the ground, while raising his head up.
"A hero…HA! You don't even belong the title. You shouldn't even be called a good guy! All you are is worthless, self inflicting, and WEAK!'' Shadow continued his rant.
Sonic sat on his forearm, looking at Amy. Amy turned her head around to look at him. Her eyes shimmering from the amount of tears that flowed from her eyes. Amy then turned all the way around. Shadow raised his sword up, then it all went dark, and red. The sword was driven into Sonic's back, wincing the demon Werehog in extreme agony. Amy cried out loud, repeatedly saying things like 'why', screaming at Shadow why he's doing this, and cursing. Sonic's eyes began to dim, he couldn't hold on anymore. "Sonic! I-I…l-l-love…you! Dammit! I love you, Sonic the Hedgehog!!'' Amy screamed, spilling her heart out. "And…and, I-I love you too…A-Amy.'' Sonic murmured.
No matter how low he said it, Amy still heard his reply. This, however, was the cure. In the most damned of situations, when we find ourselves emotionally weak at seeing our loved one suffer so, it can bring out the purest of hearts.
Sonic's whole body illuminated with blue, covering his body so he couldn't be seen. Shadow was blasted back, along with his sword. Sonic's body lifted up off the ground, his limbs hanging loose. The blue aura around him turned into a concentrated ball that hid him inside it. The heroes gazed with amazement at its utter bright light. Finally, a circular wave shot out from it. It was a powerful blast of wind that passed through the heroes. Shadow's green emerald appeared in his hand, then it hovered over to the light. Suddenly, six more colored lights appeared around the ball of light; the rest of the Chaos Emeralds. Shadow glared at it with envy. Shadow rose to his feet and used Chaos Control to teleport inside the spherical glowing ball. Immediately afterwards, a blue beam shot up into the clouds for a few seconds. The beam then vanished slowly. The ball surrounding Sonic finally vanished as well. Another miracle was then shown. Dropping on the ground was Sonic, in his golden glowing super form, as a hedgehog. The heroes looked at him bewildered, but most of all happy. The spell gone, the suffering done, Sonic has finally been brought out of the darkness, and into the soft cooling light.
Sonic smiled happily at all the heroes around him. Those who followed Shadow's short occupation changed their minds instantly when they saw Sonic back to normal. "Sonic. SONIC!'' Amy screamed joyfully, running to him.
"Amy.'' Sonic mumbled, smiling, as he began to walk forward. Amy had tears flying off her cheeks, not tears of sadness or despair, but happiness and love. A hand grabbed Sonic's shoulder, and he instantly vanished. Amy stopped in her tracks, confused and worried.
Sonic was thrown to the ground, rolling on top of the Sears Tower. Sonic turned around, seeing Shadow, in his super form as well. Sonic turned around, rising slowly while glaring at his rival.
"For so long I've waited for a showdown that involved us in our super forms. What an experience! I actually see you as a worthy rival while in your super form." Shadow taunted immediately.
"Reluctant that I had love to bring me back, or else I'd be kicking your butt while still in that demon form!'' snapped the speedy hero.
"Would you be willing to go through it all again, though? All the pain you've caused to everyone?" Shadow willingly defended himself.
"What about you? Did you see how Kuki looks at you now?" Sonic replied calmly.
"Don't push it Sonic. Your snappy attitude and reckless actions bring more pain! Don't give me a history lesson on friendship!'' Shadow barked.
"Why? Because you'd fail?" Sonic remarked.
Shadow growled at his sly comeback. Shadow proceeded to fire a huge beam of chaos energy. Sonic created a huge bubble shield around himself, which overpowered the Shadow's beam and forced it to only flow around Sonic's shield. Sonic dropped the shield but was tackled by the flying Shadow. Shadow held Sonic by his throat, flying across the air. The two struggled to force the other to stay still, but they were of equal strength. Shadow finally had Sonic tackled through a building window. The two crashed through walls and desks, taking everything with them. The two finally came out the other end of the building. Sonic let out a burst of chaos energy, throwing Shadow against the building. Sonic flew directly at him, throwing his fist at him. Shadow ducked down, flying under Sonic. Sonic turned around only to be hit by one large chaos spear. Sonic was stuck to its tip as it ripped through the building behind him, sending shards of glass and debris everywhere. Sonic waved his arms, causing the chaos spear to vanish into gold dust. Shadow appeared right in front of Sonic, throwing a punch. But Sonic grabbed his fist, and with his other punched Shadow repeatedly in the face. Sonic swung Shadow in circles until he let go. Shadow speared through two buildings until smashing into a ravaged street. Shadow rose up again. Chunks of rock sticking up from the ground, craters, debris, overturned cars and trucks were quite a horrific sight in this street. Sonic passed by a building and slowly came to a landing a few feet away from Shadow.
"You've only distrusted everything told to you! Kuki's been on your side for a long time! Now that you've turned your back on her, you think killing me will bring amnesty between you two? I'm sorry to break this to you, but you're a full blown idiot if you think that!'' Sonic preached, firing multiple energy Chaos spheres. One smacked Shadow into a car, spinning the automobile across the ground, while Shadow lay flat on the ground.
"I find it hard to comprehend any good that will come out of this. I sure won't be happy.'' Sonic joked.
Shadow fired Chaos Spears immediately as soon as he got up. Sonic deflected five, but three more caught him off guard. Sonic skidded on his feet, and his back slammed against a building, creating an outline in it. Sonic quickly fired a beam of chaos energy forward, directly into Shadow which prevented him from tackling him into the wall. Shadow smashed against a building, dropping on the ground. Sonic put his arms apart from each other, an energy sphere forming between the middle of both. Sonic stuck both his hands out, firing the sphere. Shadow swung his foot, kicking it back. Sonic was smashed through a building window, then rolling across the ground on the other side of the building. Shadow flew through the amount of holes that layered there selves through the entire bottom floor of the building. Finally, Shadow made it outside. Sonic flew through the holes and grabbed Shadow by the fur on his chest.
"Stopping Eggman is the way to end this war, not killing me!" Sonic exclaimed. Shadow punched Sonic across the face. Sonic shook his head, then returned the favor with a much more powerful punch. Shadow was shot at a building, blowing up a good quarter of it. Shadow stepped out of the broken window, holding his forehead.
"Why are you even bewildered at my actions? You know you won't be able to stop yourself from going to Eggmanland, so why try and stop you?" Shadow said, shooting twenty Chaos Spears.
Sonic dashed immediately into the sky. Lightning crackled when Sonic made it up to the clouds. Shadow appeared opposite from Sonic. "You're gone the distance to stop Eggman, but only fail in the end! How can we rely on someone who's going to put this war in Eggman's favor?!'' Shadow shouted angrily.
"I know my destiny, that's why! My responsibility is to save the world!" Sonic barked.
"And when that time comes, what then? This world will only suffer from you because you lack good judgment! I was born to do things like this, and I'm not going to let you put this world into an endless time of pain.'' Shadow said, raising his fists.
"We'll see…we'll see.'' Sonic mumbled.
Shadow shot forward, as did Sonic. The two collided, lightning shooting down in-between both of them right on impact. Shadow kneed Sonic in the gut, firing Sonic down back to the city. Sonic crashed through a building, then smashed through a small water tower, showering the streets below with water. Sonic landed, his feet digging into the ground as he skid backwards. Sonic pounded his fingers into the ground, stopping himself. Sonic quickly looked up to see Shadow diving directly at him. Sonic put his hands up, pointing at Shadow. Two glows of energy formed in both his palms. Shadow raised both his fists back, letting gravity pull him down at Sonic. Shadow's fists glowed red. The two sent each other two glares. Shadow pounded his fists down, Sonic fired the two energy shots, both at the same time. The overwhelming power exploded into a ball of white light amidst in gray smoke.
The two rivals sat in a large crater that filled the whole street. Sonic crawled out one end, Shadow crawled out the opposite end. The two stood up at the same time, and turned around to each other. After a brief silence, Shadow was first to speak. "You ever considered yourself a true hero? Or do you ever think of it when you're busy losing your mind?" Sonic sneered at him, but controlled his anger. "You should look in a mirror, and say that again, you'll get a much better answer.'' Sonic retorted cleverly. Shadow was beginning to get sick of Sonic calling him out, telling him that he's the monster in this situation, Shadow wouldn't stand for it any longer.
"After so many years, I can't believe you would turn your back on the others! Have you ever stopped questioning me, and instead, YOURSELF!?!" Shadow exclaimed.
Sonic has had dangerous temptations, usually temptations that took over his mind and forced him to do evil things. He attacked his friends, and now that he thought of it, Sonic realized he might've killed Robot Boy. Sonic's snappy attitude was quickly diminished by these thoughts and questions. Shadow grabbed a chunk of earth out of the ground and fired it at Sonic. Sonic quickly snapped out of his trance, and flew to the left. Sonic charged forward, firing energy spheres. Shadow knocked them all in different directions, blowing parts of the buildings around them away. Shadow fired a red chaos beam. Sonic took the shot and was blasted up above the city , then flew diagonally back into the destroyed streets. Sonic crashed onto a trailer truck's hood, crunching it inwards. Sonic inched a bit, trying to sit up. He finally did, rubbing the side of his head. Sonic saw a large silhouette encompassing around him. Sonic looked up. The wreckage of an MH-53 Pave Low came nose first down at him. Sonic gritted his teeth and widened his eyes right as soon he used chaos control. The huge helicopter exploded on impact in a plume of flames.
Sonic reappeared in the middle of the road, breathing in. "Too close.'' he muttered.
"How does it feel?" asked Shadow, already standing before Sonic.
Sonic raised an eyebrow at his question. "How does it feel to be hated by ones closest to you because of who you'll become?" Shadow said.
"It's the same cause with you, pal. Except, you chose early.'' Sonic replied, firing a large Chaos beam.
The beam hit Shadow and shot him all the way down street into an intersection. Sonic came diving down, his foot aimed down. Shadow hovered up then shot off to the side, Sonic impaling the ground with his foot a second after Shadow moved. Sonic dislodged his foot from the earth, facing Shadow. "It's a time where we should be helping each other. Not violently betraying a close friend just because of your self doubts!'' Sonic proclaimed.
"My doubts are clear and visible to everyone! You know that! Sonic, you will become the end of this world! And you're okay with that?!" Shadow exclaimed.
"My past has all culminated to this day, and every one after! It's only up to ME and ME ALONE to decide my fate!'' Sonic retorted angrily, defending his position. Shadow released a wave of chaos energy by the swiping of his hands.
Sonic spun around, teleporting himself behind the wave then punching Shadow left and right. Sonic kneed Shadow in the gut, then hovered back to fire a strong beam of Chaos energy directly into Shadow's gut. Shadow rocketed down the street, not touching it the slightest. Shadow finally crashed into an overturned car, causing it to explode. Sonic teleported over to the spot. Shadow rose out of the fire, shooting a red beam of chaos energy. Sonic created a tornado formed out of chaos energy and shot it forward. The massive chaos tornado buckled through Shadow's beam, and picked Shadow up. The tornado began to spin him around rapidly. The tornado ripped apart the walls of buildings, taking it into the strong current. The tornado turned left and went into a building, tearing it apart from the inside. The tornado then glowed brighter. The tornado exploded, shooting a beam of yellow energy into the sky.
The building soon toppled into nothing but rubble. Sonic lowered his arms, wearing a disgruntled face. Suddenly, Shadow rose out of the rubble, a aura of spiking energy around him. Sonic raised his fists immediately. "I thought you would be a savior to this world and all others, but fate has already shown me…I WAS WRONG!!'' Shadow yelled in an infuriated tone, shooting thirty Chaos Spears.
The powerful Chaos Spears smacked Sonic and the buildings behind him with tremendous force. Shadow growled, flying forward at the cloud of smoke. The smoke cleared, revealing a stunned Sonic. Shadow raised a fist back and sent it across Sonic's face. Sonic smashed through the building behind him, ending up in another street. Sonic quickly got up, picking up a car next to him. Shadow teleported in the middle of the street, turning his head left and right, looking for a trace of his foe. Sonic suddenly drove the car nose first down onto Shadow, resulting in a explosion. Sonic landed on the ground again, quickly forming a chaos energy sphere in both palms. Shadow walked out of the fire, with the same angry squint on his face.
"I always found you one to never listen to reason. Why is that exactly?" Sonic asked.
"Because I know the reason between what's right and wrong." Shadow naively replied.
"There you go again! Gee, Shadow you never understand what the aftermath of your actions is going to be!'' Sonic argued.
"It's the same case with you.'' Shadow snapped, firing Chaos Spears.
Sonic swung his arms while walking backwards, deflecting the chaos spears to fly off left and right. Shadow finally charged forward and kicked Sonic in the gut, knocking him to the ground. Shadow quickly picked him up and tossed Sonic into a light pole, cracking it in half. Shadow grabbed the top half which broke off and jabbed it down on Sonic. The blue blur quickly teleported out of the way. Shadow took the pole out of the ground. Sonic appeared on the ground. Shadow sensed this and quickly threw it like a spear directly at the blue hero. Sonic flew to the right, the pole burrowed into the ground. Shadow tackled Sonic. While on top, Shadow continued to punch Sonic in the face. Sonic let out a chaos energy sphere right into Shadow's face, firing Shadow back into the air. Shadow was put into a back flip, but got right side up again.
Sonic once again spoke. "We can both continue this senseless fight until half the city is leveled! You can either stop what you're doing or keep fighting me until one of us goes down. What's it going to be? Betrayal? Or breaking your friendship with Kuki?" Sonic asked, crossing his arms. Shadow squinted his eyes, and gritted his teeth.
"Stop…MENTIONING HER!!!'' thundered the Ultimate Life Form.
"Why Shadow? Because you know this will ultimately bring about lonesomeness to you? Kuki wants what's best for you! She just wants to see you safe!'' Sonic implied, making hand gestures.
Shadow looked away, his eyes closed. "I am doing what's best for her, saving her from you!'' Shadow retorted, firing a huge red ball of energy down at Sonic.
Sonic quickly put up a shield, but it was far too late, the ball impacted and erupted into a bright explosion. Shadow flew down with relentless determination. Sonic was pummeled into the ground by Shadow then grabbed by the shoulders and tossed into a building. Shadow fired a beam of chaos energy directly at Sonic. Sonic put up a quick defensive energy shield. The beam hit with extreme force, but Sonic held on. Sonic pushed the shield forward, redirecting the energy blast back at Shadow. Shadow teleported out of its path. Shadow reappeared, but was quickly punched in the face by Sonic. Shadow rolled across the ground until he stopped on his stomach. Sonic stormed over by his body.
"Why can't you stop? I'm not trying to kill you, I'm trying to get enough sense into that thick head of yours to make you stop! Being alone on your own path isn't the right choice. Sometimes being alone isn't the right choice, especially for the situation you're in.'' Sonic told him, pointing at him.
"I don't need any of your lectures!'' Shadow exclaimed, turning his head to him. Shadow's eyes were glistening red in the whole eye.
Shadow suddenly had an red aura surround him. Shadow fired a red chaos spear directly into Sonic's gut, blowing him miles down the street. Sonic got back up, spotting Shadow fly at him at super speed.
"DON'T' SAY ANOTHER WORD!!!" Shadow yelled furiously, firing a huge red beam.
Sonic raised a tanker truck up with his chaos powers and shot it at the huge beam. The result was a bright explosion that shattered every window off any building in the vicinity. Sonic luckily had a shield to protect himself from. Shadow landed on the ground in front of his foe. Sonic quickly put down the shield and formed a chaos formed tornado around Shadow. Shadow looked left and forth. He fired a Chaos Spear, but it only bounced back and hit Shadow.
"What…a-a-are you…doing?!" he asked, stuttering.
"Taking the power back!'' Sonic shouted, clenching both his fists, and sticking them up.
Bolts of yellow lightning hit Shadow, dragging the Chaos Emeralds out of him. Bolts came out to hit Sonic as well, but he had to do it. Once all seven emeralds were out, Sonic squinted his eyes, and yelled; "CHAOS CONTROL!!''
The seven emeralds suddenly shot up into the air, leaving a stream of their own color behind them. The emeralds then shot off in seven different directions, gone. The tornado instantly vanished, leaving Shadow unconscious, back in his normal form again. Sonic stood there, tired, in his normal form as well. "Good…riddens.'' Sonic said, being out of breath.
"SONIC!'' shouted Amy's voice. Sonic's whole body warmed up. He turned around to see the pink hedgehog running towards him. "Amy.'' he smiled, turning around. The rest of the heroes were following behind her. Amy jumped into Sonic's arms.
She broke from the hug, and kissed him by surprise. The two closed their eyes. The rest of the heroes gathered and had smirks on their faces.
"Okay you two, I think that's enough.'' Sokka said.
Sonic and Amy broke from the kiss, blushing with embarrassment. The group saw Shadow. "Uhh, Sonic?" said Ash, pointing at Shadow.
Sonic turned around and lowered his head. "I had to force him out of his super form. I sent the emeralds…somewhere. Who knows?" Sonic replied.
"Is he going to be alright?" asked Kuki, confronting Sonic in a worried tone.
"Yeah, he's just unconscious, for the moment." Sonic answered.
Kuki sat on her knees, looking at Shadow with a disappointed, but still saddened look.
"Now with Eggman gone, where do we go? He's going to make his move again sometime soon.'' Ash implied.
"I can say that Eggman isn't gone, he'll never rest," Sonic said, lowering his head.
The heroes looked at Sonic, thinking he had something else to say. They were right, but it's something they won't all agree on. "We have to split up again.'' Sonic told them, lifting his head back up.
If it was hard enough to tell them, convincing them was twice as hard. After a few arguments supported by the heroes, they all agreed. The group headed to the Sears Tower. Military soldiers, once spotted Sonic, immediately held their weapons up at him. Amy was holding Sonic's arm, looking worried. Richards was looking at a map on a table. He looked over his shoulder once, then back again, forming an angry squint when he saw Sonic.
"Why aren't you shooting him ye-"
"Stop it now, General.'' Sonic said, raising his hand up by the side of his face.
Richards wore a strange look. "I'm not here to fight. And even if your men do, I'm not going to return the favor for what ever bruises I get, so just listen.'' Sonic said calmly.
Richards lifted his chin up an inch, paying attention. "Eggman ran off like usual, I sent the emeralds off, where, I don't know.'' Sonic began.
Richards nodded his head for the info Sonic has given. "What happened to Shadow?" Richards asked, gesturing his head to point at him. Kuki was holding Shadow with his arm over her shoulder, still unconscious.
"I had to force him out of his super form. He'll wake up soon." Sonic answered.
"I see. So, are you no longer messed up in the head?" Richards asked, walking up to Sonic.
Amy gripped Sonic's arm tighter. Sonic turned his head, holding a hand up, signaling it was okay. Amy let go of his arm and backed up. Richards stopped in front of the blue blur, looking down at him.
"I hope you're on our side.'' Richards said, holding out his hand. Sonic grabbed it, shaking it, giving off his classic smirk.
"Until the end.'' Sonic stated.
After a few moments, Sonic created separate portals for the heroes to go back to their dimension. "Is he holding on?!" exclaimed Tommy's voice.
Sonic turned his head to the source. Tommy, Lola, and Gus were standing around a small bed with Robot Boy's bottom and top half on it. Sonic's face went to utter shame. He was responsible for their pain, something like Shadow said. Sonic didn't want to get to hopped up on the idea that Shadow had more common sense than him, so the blue blur walked over to the table. Jenny walked over from the right, looking at Robot Boy, sighing heavily.
"Is he going to make it?" asked a frightened Lola.
"Not sure, Lola.'' Jenny said with sensitivity. Lola put her hands to her eyes to hold back the tears.
Sonic stopped behind them. Tommy, Lola, and Gus, turned around, glaring at Sonic angrily.
"Don't you dare touch him!'' shouted Tommy, stretching his arms out, as did Lola and Gus.
Sonic lowered his head again, feeling even more shameful than before. "Can't help if you won't let me.'' Sonic told them.
"You've done enough!'' Tommy barked at him.
"Guys,'' said Jenny. They all turned their heads. "I've seen the bad in him, then I realized he's still one of us. Give him a chance.'' Jenny suggested. The three exchanged looks, then moved out of the way. Sonic smiled at Jenny and winked.
The hedgehog stopped in front of the table. He grabbed the glowing button on his transformation device. He sniffed in through his nose. A surge of energy crept up around Sonic's hand. It was glowing blue in his palm. Sonic waved the mass of energy across Robot Boy. Both halves brightly illuminated themselves. The wires from both halves instantly connected and the parts grew back together. In a sudden flash, Robot Boy sat up, still in his super form. "Robot Boy!'' the three kids exclaimed, hopping to hug him. The automaton gratefully returned the hug. Sonic smiled happily, he turned around and walked away.
"Hey, Sonic!'' shouted Lola. Sonic turned around to the call of his name. He too was hugged by all three of them. Sonic smiled embarrassingly. The three broke the hug and ran back over by Robot Boy's side. Sonic sighed with relief, glad to get something off his back.
The heroes stood at their respective portals to their home dimension. "Why can't I come with you?" Amy asked, pulling Sonic's arm.
Sonic smiled at her request. "It's too dangerous, Amy. If we encounter Eggman's robots there, they'll go after you, knowing capturing you will attract me. You'll have Tails, Knuckles, and Cream, when you get back.'' Sonic assured to her.
Amy looked off to the side briefly, then back at him. Amy threw her arms around his neck, hugging him gently. Amy broke apart and kissed him on the cheek, while both her hands on his face. Amy turned back around and walked over to Tails and Knuckles. Sonic turned to the portal behind him, seeing the gang all looking at him.
"Kuki?" Sonic spoke up. Kuki answered his call by turning her head to him.
"When he wakes up, don't let him leave, have a talk with him. Both of you need it.'' Sonic told. Kuki nodded in agreement.
"We'll see each other soon. If you happen to find a chaos emerald, keep it somewhere small and tight, Eggman's radar can't find it that way.'' Sonic added.
The heroes finally walked into their portals, each one disappearing after each group fully went in. "You ready, Sonic?" asked Aang.
"Lead the way, Avatar.'' Sonic said, gesturing his hand.
Aang and the gang walked inside, Sonic following them inside. After they all went in, the portal vanished into thin air, leaving nothing but silence. The crackling of fires still burned, the smell of carnage…still lingered in the ravaged city of Chicago, Illinois.