So, what else is left after that final battle? Well, we still need to tie some loose ends up, aren't we? So, here is the sort of a final chapter, as the next one is an epilouge.
Before the chapter though, anyone reading this saw the TMNT season finale? Wasn't it awesome? Probably one of the better season finalies I have ever seen!
Okay, ignore my fanboying here, time to kind of end this! Enjoy and leave a review if you have something to say!
It was all too good to be true at that moment. Not only did this large group have just taken place in a giant multi-universe adventure, but they also managed to achieve their goal of saving their friends and families and, essentially 3 universes. And now their friends, who beat the big threat and saved the group's relatives, who also almost died from fighting that robot, were now descending towards the streets they were all at.
Sonic was holding Rayman's hand, as the later used his helicopter hair to slow the fall. Once they were close enough to the ground, Sonic let go of Rayman and jumped down; Rayman landed right next to him.
"Sonic!" Tails was the first to greet them as he ran right into Sonic, hugging his best friend for almost losing him. Sonic playfully petted his head, like he always did after a job well done.
Sly also came to greet the 2. "We started to get worried once you pretty much laid dead there." He told Rayman. "It's great to see you are alive." The raccoon added with a smile.
"It's great to be alive." Rayman replied.
The next to speak was Michelangelo, who got everyone's attention with a loud shout of "Booyakasha!" while Ratchet and Clank and Jak and Daxter high-fived each other in their own ways and arm play.
Toothless was the next to react to the happiness, licking Hiccup all over the teen's face. "Uhh… Really, Toothless?" He asked the dragon as he got away from the sticky tongue, hearing Merida laughing at the event. "You know that doesn't wash out." He scowled Toothless as the dragon let out a sound that was translated into laughter.
Before Hiccup could say anything else, he felt Merida warping him in a hug. He wasn't really sure how to react to the gesture, so he just returned the hug. "Ye weren't as bad as ah thaught ye Vikings are." She said.
"Um… Thanks, Merida. You weren't half bad yourself." He replied.
The 2 broke apart from their hug, looking a bit into each other's eyes before a cough by one of their teammates brought them back to reality. They were all looking at them with amused looks, like they expected something to come. "Whit?" Merida asked.
Daxter let out a frustrated sign before he hung on Jak's shoulder. "Oh, come on! Will you 2 just kiss already?! You are worse than him" He pointed to Jak. "And his girlfriend!"
They were both shocked at the ottsel's words. "Oh, no." Hiccup started. "We are not together. Our families are enemies; she doesn't want anything to do with…" Hiccup's words were cut by Merida who grabbed his shoulders and kissed him.
The entire team cheered at the event, clearly happy for their friends.
This might not have been Hiccup's first kiss, but it still felt like a new experience for him. When Astrid kissed him a few times, before they decided to remain friends, but only whenever he did something stupid and survived or when he did something that made her happy and she made it last for exactly a second before backing away. Merida, on the other hand, was letting him enjoy this a little more; even allowing him to kiss her back, something he realized he never did before. It also helped that he thought she looked beautiful when he first saw her.
Merida had nothing to compare this to, as she was never in a relationship with anyone from either her group of suitors, or a local villager. But even so, the move she pulled almost on impulse made her feel like this was meant to be. As the kiss got longer and longer, she realized that he was what she never knew she wanted. He was funny, smart, a pretty skilled fighter when the time called for it and they actually had a lot of similarities. He also looked quite dashing in that armor, she had to admit.
When their lips parted away, both looked back towards their friends to see them grinning at them. Both cheeks burned with red when they realized they watched the display of open affection. Toothless pushed Merida towards Hiccup with his tail, encouraging the Viking to catch her before she falls and triggering more red on their cheeks.
Soon after that, the civilians of New-York appeared back in the city; regaining their senses shortly. The team quickly got out of sight, as it will be wired for a dragon like Toothless, or an alien like Ratchet to be seen without causing panic and mayhem.
"Dudes," Michelangelo spoke up after everyone hid in a nearby ally. "I will go on alone from here, I don't want to hold you 2 back from stopping the war between your families." He addressed Hiccup and Merida.
Hiccup face palmed at this. "I completely forgot! How are we going to stop this fight?"
Merida appeared to be thinking quickly through some options before she turned her gaze towards him. "Ah have an idea. Whin we get back, jist fallaw whit ah da." She told him and he nodded.
"Call us when you can, Mikey." Sonic told him with thumbs up, which Michelangelo returned before Ratchet activated the dimensionator, and sent everyone back to Sonic and Tails's house.
Michelangelo hurried up towards the sewer hole that leads to his family's home, and quickly navigated through the pipes until he reached the lair he thought of as home sweet home. To his relief, he saw everyone back where they were before the entire catastrophe happened. "Guys! You are all okay!" He screamed with joy as he ran to hug his 3 brothers."
"What's up with you?" Raphael asked him, as Michelangelo let go of his brothers and ran right into April and Casey who were sitting on the same couch.
"Mikey, what's up?" April asked him but he was too energetic and happy to notice.
"Where's Splinter?" He asked with a wide grin on his face.
"Meditating." Leonardo told him. "Why do you…?" Before the leader could have finished, Michelangelo was already out of sight.
"What has gone into him?" Donatello asked.
As all of them went into the dojo, they saw Michelangelo warping Splinter up in a hug. "I am sorry for interrupting your meditating, Sensei. I just missed you so much, and I am so happy that you are all back!" He let the entire sentence fly out fast from his mouth.
"What is the meaning of this, Michelangelo?" Splinter asked sharply.
Michelangelo let go of Splinter before he told them what happened. "Okay, so we were all hanging out like usual when suddenly, you all vanished!" He screamed while spreading his arms around. "So, I called Sonic and he said that the same happened with everyone where he lives with the exception of him and Tails. Then, Tails came and picked me up in his plane and we flew back to their house where Sonic was with a raccoon thief guy from another universe or something. And then, we went to another universe where we met this human red-head princess and she led us to a boy she hated but then kissed who had a giant black, but kind of cute, dragon!" He held his hands up in the air to describe Toothless's size. "There were also an alien with a robot on his back, a human with long ears that had an orange market, I think, on his shoulder and some guy that had no limbs. So we then learned that you were all kidnapped by Eggman and his duck robot friend and another girl-ish robot and we fought their army to bring you back because they wanted to dominate all 3 universes and then Sonic and this Rayman guy kicked their butt and now after they won I'm here telling you all of this!" Michelangelo breathed heavily as he ended, trying to regain a normal breathing pattern.
His brothers, sensei and friends looked at him with questioning look because of all they just heard.
"I'll call Sonic later, so that he could tell you it's not made up." Michelangelo signed at their reaction. "Anyway, I'm hungry. Who's up for pizza?"
Back in Sonic's house, Tails set the universe jumper to reach Hiccup and Merida's universe. "So, what is our plan exactly?" Hiccup asked.
"It's camplicated ta explain." She told him. "Jist ga with it."
Sonic turned to Ratchet, Jak, Clank, Daxter and Sly. "You guys wait here, we will be back soon." They nodded as Sonic, Rayman, Hiccup, Toothless and Merida jumped into the portal.
Back in DunBroch, everyone came back to where they were when the war started. The other dragon riders were also back in the sky on their dragons, in the same position they were, when Astrid noticed something. "Where is Hiccup?"
The Scottish archers that were under Merida's lead were about to open fire when they noticed their princess wasn't on Angus's back.
Stoick and Fergus also resumed what they were doing once they disappeared, which was charging at each other. Both kings towards one another, war screams coming out harshly out of their mouths. A second before their swords clashed, a scream caught their attention. "Stap!"
The fighting and screaming stopped for a second, as both Fergus and Stoick ceased their attacks when they noticed Hiccup and Merida. "Ah… have an annaucment ta make." Merida began as she and Hiccup marched forward a bit, so that her message will be clear to everyone.
"Merida…" Fergus addressed his daughter. "Can't this wait, lass? We were jist aboot ta..."
"Hiccup…" Stoick said at the same time as Fergus. "What are you doing with that girl?"
"Please, dad." Both said at the same exact moment as they looked at each other. Hiccup gave Merida a look that said "Now it's time to initiate that plan of yours." And she nodded at him.
Merida took Hiccup's hand and lifted both of their hands into the air. Gasps of shock and fear started to be heard throughout the battlefield about what was seen and what it implied. "Ah, Princess Merida af the clan DunBrouch, has chaasen Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III af the Viking isle af Berk ta be ma suitor." She finished.
The reactions of shock just grew louder and louder after Merida made the announcement. Hiccup himself was shocked at what she just said. "That's your plan? Come over to our parents and say "Hey, we want to get married out of nowhere."?" He asked.
"Jist let this play oot." She replied.
"Merida, whit are ye thinking!? He is a Viking! Ye can't marry him!" Fergus declared.
"Same goes for you, Hiccup." Stoick agreed with the Scottish king.
"We would like to differ…" A voice was heard, and soon after Toothless came out of the portal the 2 teens walked out of, with Sonic and Rayman on his back.
The 2 heroes stood before the 2 kings, each hero knew one king personally, and bowed their heads slightly.
"Sonic?" Fergus asked.
"Rayman?" Stoick asked at exactly the same time, causing both to look at each other in surprise, as each knew one of those creatures.
"You might not know this," Sonic started. "But your children just worked together along with us to save you from a multi-universe catastrophe."
"Merida was against Hiccup at first, but then both realized that they work better alongside each other than against each other." Rayman added.
"So, if your kids want to achieve peace between your kingdoms in a natural matter, why deny them the possibility? Wouldn't it be better if you join forces instead of try to destroy each other?" The hedgehog continued.
"You will have a bigger army, as well as the dragons on your side and your successors get to be married for liking each other. Sounds like a pretty good deal." Rayman concluded, even though he had no idea what he said actually meant, he picked up on how this politics work while listening to Hiccup and Merida talk before the big battle.
After a few minutes of silence, probably due to the leaders considering what they just heard, Fergus nodded at Stoick, who nodded back. "Due ta recent events, we have reached a tamparary truce!" Fergus's voice boomed over the area. There was a bit of silence for a while before cheers were heard at the cancelation of the war.
After a bit more conversing between Sonic and Rayman with the 2 kings on how they won't regret that decision, the 2 turned to face the new couple; who still held hands.
"Take care of yourself and your kingdoms." Sonic told them with a smirk.
"And don't forget to update us whenever something happens." Rayman added.
"Ah still have ma Miles Electric, ah will tell ye guys if samething does happens." Merida said with a nod. She quickly gave both Sonic and Rayman a hug. "Thank ye." She said.
"Thanks to you as well." Sonic thumbed them up as Toothless licked both of their faces. "You as well, Toothless." Sonic petted the dragon through a few giggles.
"We better had back." Rayman then told Sonic, while petting Toothless as well. "They will probably want to explain them what happened."
Sonic nodded as both him and Rayman waved good-bye to everyone and jumped into the portal.
"Well…" Hiccup said as the portal closed down. "I guess we have some explaining to do for you, guys." He gestured to both kings and the rest of the presents. "Hope you like a good story…" He said before he and Merida told everyone what happened.
Back in Sonic and Tails's house, Tails handed Rayman, Sly, Ratchet and Jak a Miles Electric unit; so that they could all be in touch for whenever reason. Because all of them shared the same universe, Ratchet has managed to find an arrangement so that everyone could catch a ride on his and Clank's ship. Everyone bid Sonic and Tails goodbye as the ship started and went through the portal.
Jak and Daxter were the first to drop back at the Naughty Ottsel, just in time to continue their date with their girlfriends. "Boy, do we have a story to tell." Jak told them as he and Daxter walked into the pub and sat at the table that their girlfriends sat near.
"And Jak will be a great teller because he mostly sat at the side and watched me save the day." Daxter added with a proud smirk. "So, he picked up more details about my awesomness!"
Sly was the next one to return to what he was doing, as Ratchet flew above Sly's team van which was currently on the run from some cops. Sly jumped off the ship, landed on the van's roof and quickly slid into the passenger's seat. "Hey, guys." He told his friends, who were shocked to see him.
"Sly?!" Murray asked in shock.
"Where have you been?!" Bentley screamed with shock.
"It's a long story." He signed. "I'll tell you once we get out of here." As they continued to drive away from the pursuing cups, Sly managed to signal Ratchet that he reached his target.
Ratchet and Clank dropped Rayman back in his own world, and left shortly after they saw him reuniting with Globox and Barbara. The 2 returned to their vacation sight, where they found the spot Talwyn and Quark were in and both told them the story about what happened.
Tails finally closed the universe jumper, giving it its much needed break.
"That was sure something, wouldn't you say, Tails?" Sonic asked his best friend.
"Yep." Tails replied, before a thought stroke his mind. "Say, what did you guys do with the Emeralds? You didn't leave them there right?"
Sonic shook his head as he pulled all seven Chaos Emeralds, now back to their original size, out of his pocket. The Master Emerald was inside the house already.
"Awesome job, Sonic." Tails said as he gave Sonic a bro-fist, which the hedgehog gladly returned.
"Same goes to you, Tails. I wouldn't have managed to build this thing by myself." He added.
"And the rest of the guys deserve credit as well."
"True that." The hedgehog thumbed him up.
"So, we should take the Master Emerald back to Knuckles, shouldn't we?" The fox asked.
"Nah." Sonic shrugged. "That can wait. I need to rest after this crazy adventure." Tails giggled as both he and Sonic just lay on the couches in their house, finally able to relax after that ultimate adventure
Okay, I'm getting this out of the way now. I prefer Hiccup being with Astrid and Merida staying single like how it is in the original movies. HOWEVER, I think that if there was a chance of Hiccup ever breaking up with Astrid(Which will never happen, as the HTTYD 2 clearly showed), I think him and Merida will make a good match. I don't even know why, there is something about this idea that works in my opinion(As my "Favorites" section clearly shows) and since I knew I'm making both of them a part of this team up, I decided to give this a shot. Let any Hiccstrid fan who stumbled across this story wipe the floor with me I guess.
I tried to keep the reunions short and to the point, as I had Mikey tell the others what happens, and let the others tell everything again felt... unneeded.
Like I said, an epilouge is ahead of us! I'll see you then!