A/N: Warning blood and death

CHAPTER TWENTY

Up on the battleship, Elise and Eggman were talking more.

"So Princess, what does it feel like to be in love?" Eggman asked.

Elise doesn't even look at Eggman, she keeps staring at the computer, where the Chaos Emerald is located. She tries not to blush or even blurt out she does love Sonic. She breathes again, she didn't even know that she was holding it.

She finally looks at Eggman, she gives him the best death glare she has, so wouldn't ask any more questions, that involves more about Sonic or love.

Eggman raises his hands in defense, he shakes his head and moves his ship to the side to go around the city back to where the gem is, but something unexpected happen the alarms went off and that made Eggman worry a lot.

"Huh?" Eggman was typing on his computer madly, trying to figure out what's going on. Eggman looked back up to his computer and widen his eyes. "The engines are malfunctioning!"

Eggman didn't believe this. "And what's this? Stop all engines now?!" Eggman was typing on his computer, trying to gain control of the battleship, but someone was stopping them.

Elise stood up with fear, looked around trying to find a place to get out but every door is steeled shut. With no engines running then the doors wouldn't open. She looked back at Eggman, hoping there's a way to get out.

When she was looking at Eggman type and couldn't find a way to gain control back.

Eggman was yelling at the computer. "...Why is this happening?" he fist his hands and punched the computer, he didn't want to die now when he was so close.

He looked back out to the window, and saw a island, in the middle of the ocean, close to Soleanna and he saw what would happen next. "No! We're about to crash!" Eggman put his hands on his head, trying to calm down, but he couldn't.

Elise was just standing there, moving up to the window, looking around the beauty of her city. She put her hand on the window and saw her own reflection. She how sad she is to die so young not able to see the friends she made after her adventure, see her citizens all happy, and the love of her life, Sonic. She reminded herself not to cry, she was strong, brave, and loyal.

She looked to the side of the battleship from the window and saw nothing wrong with it. She looked to the other side of the battleship, her eyes widen, she saw it was on fire it was close to one of the engine.

It all went in slow motion, she ran and grabbed Eggman from his computer giving her a confused look and making him duck onto the ground with her. The engine blew up, with glass flying everywhere and pieces of the computer breaking apart. A force pushed them off there feet and fell onto the ground. Elise and Eggman were unconscious.

Slowly, Elise started waking up with a blur in her view, she heard ringing in her ears, that made her clutch her hands onto her ears to stop them ringing loudly, after the blast. The ringing stopped, after a few seconds.

She sat up slowly and saw Eggman laying on his side, far away from her. She started to get up, to stand to walk up to Eggman. She stopped in the middle of the room, feeling pain in her head and on her stomach. She looked down at her stomach and saw her blue dress cut open, on the side of where her stomach is.

She put a hand on it, she felt the pain, and something wet. Removing her hand to her face, she panicked. She saw so much blood on her hand, she started shaking, couldn't feel her legs and fell down to the floor again, on her side. She was breathing too fast, heart beating fast, and starting to turn pale.

"Eggman...!" she tried screaming for help, but didn't get a response. "Eggman!" She looked at Eggman, and saw why he didn't respond. His head was bleeding and blood was showing on the ground, with a pale face, at that moment he was dead.

She lifted her body to look at the ceiling of the battleship, with her arms out on the black ground with glass everywhere, she felt her heart beat getting slower by the minute.

An explosion was heard. Then another. Another. Then another.

She could smell the smoke of the fire cutting off her oxygen and she was getting into more darkness by the second. She looked up at the ceiling, seeing it break apart, in pieces and the blue sky, now a dark black sky, in her blurry vision.

She was remembering the adventure she had: meeting Sonic, getting captured, getting saved, Sonic telling her to smile, almost kissed, getting captured again, Amy saving her, meeting Jasmine, captured again, falling in love, her first kiss stolen from Sonic, putting on her favorite blue dress and now back to capturing again.

She remembered the words Sonic told her, 'just smile'. At that's what she did. She looks at the darkened sky with tears threatening to come out but never did and said four last words to the world.

"I love you, Sonic..."

Boom!

Sonic, Silver, and Blaze were running to Eggman's battleship. Sonic is running faster than all of them. He wanted to get to Elise in time, but with Eggman's robots distracting them, they lost a lot of time.

Sonic is running and is only looking up at the battleship. When he looked back at his front view, what he thought he was close to more land, but there was none. He tried stopping himself, before he was near the end, he saw water. He almost screamed when he almost fell down, but was caught with a force field.

He opened his eyes, and saw water. He panicked for a second, but he noticed he wasn't falling. He looked where the force was coming from and saw Silver.

Silver used his telekinesis to bring Sonic back on land. "Next time, watch where you're going, OK?"

Sonic nodded his head fast fighting his nerves and gave him the thumbs up. "Thanks, and I will!" if Silver wasn't here, then he would have a hard time getting out of the water.

Sonic, Silver, and Blaze all look at each other for a minute. Sonic was the first to turn his head, and see the battleship.

Sonic eyes went wide, he saw the battleship on fire. He was about to ask Silver to host him up in the air and throw him to the until more explosions came.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

They all have wide eyes, they all stare at the battleship going down to the island far from the city. They smoke darkened the sky, with little light showing, then they all stare as the battleship went down and exploded with its fire going everywhere.

"Elise!" Sonic yelled from the top of his lungs, bring out his arm. He breathing hard, like he didn't know how to breathe. He brought his arm down to his side, and stared at the fire.

He couldn't feel his legs anymore he fell slowly to the ground feeling the soft grass beneath his fingertips, taking deep breathes he stared at the grass looking at the visible tears fall on the grass for life. He punched the grass as hard as he could, and knelt more closer to the ground. He could never know how Elise really felt for him. 'Elise,' Sonic thought. It hurts his heart to say her name now. He closes his arm around his head, covering his face from the world, letting the tears fall free.

Silver and Blaze watch in horror, when they saw the battleship exploded in front of their eyes. They both close their eyes and turned to look the other way.

Silver reopened his eyes he stared at Sonic. Kneeling down, has his hands on his head, with his face pressed down, he thought he saw something slide down Sonic's face but he wasn't sure.

Than something clicked in his head that may resolve the problem. "Wait, there's still a way to change this." Blaze Turned around to look at Silver.

As for Sonic, Silver thought he didn't hear him, but he saw him lift his head from the ground with his arms and knees holding him up not looking at Silver's face, only to hear his plan.

"If we return to an earlier point in time, we'll be able to save her."

Sonic looked back at where the battleship is or was. He stood up thinking, 'It's the only chance to save her,', Sonic thought. "I understand." He wiped the dry tears and turned fully around to Silver and Blaze.

Sonic didn't want to wait any longer, he brought out his Chaos Emerald from the future, then Silver brought out his Chaos Emerald from the past. They walk up to each other, nodding their heads. "Chaos Control!" they yelled out. A spark flew from the gems and created a portal to an earlier point, to save Elise.

Sonic looked at where the portal is and ran to it. "Silver!" Silver looked back at Sonic. He threw his Chaos Emerald to him. "I can handle this myself. Besides, you've got somewhere to go to, right?" Sonic

knew Silver came from the future now, and now he must save it. Sonic could save the Princess himself, and maybe tell her how he feels about her. Sonic looked back at Silver, he put his hands on his hips and smiled at Silver and Blaze.

Silver is shocked, "You..." Silver wasn't able to finish his sentence, but he really didn't need to. Blaze was shocked as well, but she finally knew how to defeat Iblis.

Sonic looked at the portal, and back at Silver. "I'll make sure to change Elise's fate. And that in turn, should change your future, too." he gave them a thumbs up. "Thank you, Silver!" Silver looked at the gems in his hands and looked back at Sonic. "Yeah... Just save her."

Sonic nodded his head, "Of course I will, I love her..." Sonic whispered low enough, not for Silver and Blaze to hear. He ran to the portal and disappeared four hours earlier in the past.

Silver and Blaze look at each other and run into the portal, which would take them back two hundred years in their future.

Behind the scenes, Mephiles watched the battleship exploded. But Mephiles wasn't alone, he had Omega by his side.

"It looks like we killed the Princess and Dr. Eggman sir."

Mephiles turned to look at him. "Of course they are, but they aren't going to be dead for long."

Omega turned to him. "What do you mean, sir?" Mephiles kept reminding himself that this Omega is in the past, in the future he knew everything.

He turned to the robot and laughed. "Because old friend, Sonic isn't going to let the Princess die."

Omega turned to look at the exploded battleship and back at Mephiles. "What do you mean, sir?"

Mephiles laughed even more. "You'll see, you'll find out!" at that Mephiles walked up to Omega and touches his metal arm. "Once we're done with freeing Iblis. Then you can do the assignment, that I want finish!"

Mephiles used his evil laugh. He and Omega turned into black smoke going into the air, waiting for what's coming next.