A/N: Konbanwa! Konnichiwa! Oyasumanasai! Whatever time period it is with you guys, I give you happy greetings. So the long awaited and dreaded chapter finally has come upon us. I really just want to say a big thank you to not only my Shadow's Rant followers but everyone who supported me throughout this story. In truth I was going to quit after the slip up in Shadow's Rant but...I don't know, I guess Shadow just came and somehow got me back into it.
And that's why everyone loves me, because I'm awesome and make people awesome.
Whatever Mister Cool Guy, well how's about we reveal our sweet present to them?
FINALLY! LONGEST CHAPTER TO!
Due to so many reviews in continuing this story and to bring back the Rants, we will be creating a bunch of one shots based on a character from the Sonic Universe(mainly Shadow.)
It'll have laughs, me, oc's, me, ranting your reviews, me, beat up Sonic's, me, random guys causing trouble...Did I mention that I'll be in at as well, because that's kind of important as well?
Okay whatever you say you self absorbed maniac.
Thanks for the compliment. I just love it when people like you say things like that, it shows how much you love KISSING MY ASS!
That's it I've had it with you! Start the story...(rolls up sleeves) LET'S GO SHADOW!
...The following events will now be cancelled as they are to mature and embarrassing for the audience...and the author
HELP!
Chapter 11: Prank Xtermination, Goodbye!
Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Cream, Silver, and Blaze. They had faced many challenges, from mad scientist, time traveling villains, mystical beings, and prophetical monsters. But this was by far the greatest challenge that stood in their path. It was supposed to be harmless, everyone was supposed to just get a laugh, which they did, but what they didn't come to expect was their prankee getting pissed off to unknown territories.
Well...actually Sonic was the only one oblivious of him going crazy but he claimed he would finally wear different shoes, which he still didn't do. They all had been put through a month of nothing but hell from this monster and they thanked the day that it was. Today was a day they were hoping to rejoice over...
It was the final day of April.
Which meant that Shadow's sick game had to come to an end. But none knew that Shadow was planning to end it all with his final bang.
"So...it's all come to this."
They all stood at the ready as if expecting Shadow to make a move at any given moment. All except one lone figure within their group, he walked up and it only made Shadow smirk with a chuckle.
"That's it! We will not be treated like your little play-thing's anymore Shadow, we've had enough!"
"Looks like someone's deciding to try and grow a pair..."
Everyone looked over to they're valiant hero. Once again he was going against all odds to stare the impossible, powerful, and psychotic of monsters in the eyes while everything fell apart around him.
"Stop all of this Shadow, this stupid game of yours needs to end now!"
Shadow merely continued to laugh before moving off the tree and walking slowly towards the group.
"Game? Whoever said this was a game...well I did quote that once, but you still don't seem to get it do you?"
"Get what!? That you're taking one small prank so far as if we've been doing this to you everyday. I mean sure we publicly tried to ruin you're reputation, embarrass you in front of millions, probably black-mail you, but we didn't do it! Well the last part we didn't do but you get my point. Shadow, just get over it! You've already embarrassed us, humiliated everyone who wronged you, just stop this stupid vengeance already!" Sonic growled.
Shadow stopped in front of Sonic with a blank look before he began laughing psychotically. Sonic and the others remained frozen as they watched Shadow go crazy over Sonic's supposed 'valiant words'.
"I'm so sorry...it's just that...I find it so hilarious you still think this is for vengeance. I mean originally it was, the first few were all part of vengeance, but as time progressed it soon became more of...entertainment."
Everyone nearly fell on their faces as Sonic twitched at Shadow's words. "Entertainment!? Then why did you keep spouting nonsense about vengeance and getting back at us?"
"Eh, I needed a good enough reason to actually do this to you all. Though I should thank you for doing this. I've never had so much enjoyment in my whole life, counting the times Maria and I used to prank the scientist.
Everyone remained silent as Shadow continued to laugh. "...You're crazy!" Silver piped up as everyone for the first time, agreed with him on being right.
Shadow shook his head at them before walking a good distance away and crossing his arms. "I may be crazy, but I want you to savor these last few moments of your life and what I do to you or may do to you."
Sonic and the others gave confused expressions towards the ebony pranker. "What do you mean last moments of our life?" Tails piped up.
Shadow turned his attention to the intelligent kitsune. "Glad you asked, why not you all take a look up in three, two, one...
Everyone slowly looked up and their jaws literally hit the ground at the object floating before them. "That..That can't be.." Sonic muttered.
"It's.." Cream couldn't finish as she instinctively moved to grab onto Tails.
-Scene Break-
Everyone in their cities began stopping what they where doing as they took notice of the sky being bathed in a sea of red. They knew this from many occasions and specifically only one could come to mind.
The Black Arms had returned.
Everyone shrieked, freaked out, began making last minute calls, saying their last prayers, or sneaking hardware and food out of shops unsuspecting to the owners.
As this went on, the crazy Shadow Fan was walking the streets holding a bottle of what was assumed beer as he noticed the people going crazy.
'Shesh what happened here, everyone watched Twilight? Justin Bieber had a concert? Oh no! I bet they're recreating the Harlem Shake without me!" He threw his bottle down and began walking towards the mayhem with a sense of anger.
'I leave for five days to hunt down my number 1 hero and everyone throws a party, I'll show them what for.' He saw a few people screeching and pointing up as he gave them all a confused look.
"The hell is wrong with you people?" He decided to finally take a look at what everyone was freaking out about and as he turned his head up time seemed to freeze for him. His eyes widened and his mouth was slowly agape as he fell to his knees.
"It's...It's..." The sky became blanketed in a shadow as the object turned itself to look at them. The Shadow fan sniffled as he wiped his arm across his running nose.
"It's so beautiful *sniff*"
-Scene Break-
Mephilles stood with his arms crossed behind his back as he watched the scene playing out before him behind the tough glass. "Pitiful creatures, they are so foolish in tampering with the emotions of the most powerful of being. That is why I have no remorse for all of you."
He began to laugh to himself before a figure came walking out of the shadows behind him and he quirked an eyebrow in their direction.
"About time you woke up."
"Begin setting up Prank X, I want this to be right above Earth's atmosphere for all to see their final moment." The figure chuckled.
"What about the Shadow still on the planet, I do not think he is finished in your negotiation."
"We need no use of him anymore, they are likely to destroy him during the cause. When he comes to report, I want you to send him back when the time comes and prepare the projector. I believe a message is in store for the people of Mobius, and the so called 'Freedom Fighters'."
If Mephilles had a mouth he would have been grinning on the spot. He bowed to his 'Master' and prepared to make his way back to the window as he waited for Shadow to return and send the message.
As he stared off, he heard another sound of footsteps meaning another member of their crew was arriving.
"When shall we be starting the Prank love?" A female voice asked as Mephilles's 'Master', chuckled and stroked a finger down the side of her face.
"Do not worry my little rose, we shall make sure that he pays for what he has done to you." He chuckled before it got quite and Mephilles rolled his eyes.
"Come, let us prepare for our...'presentation.'"
With that both people took their leave and Mephilles turned his attention back to the planet as he began to darkly chuckle to himself. 'Once that annoying Hedgehog and his friends are out of the way, I can soon take my place as all mighty-ruler of the universe!'
-Scene Break-
Shadow smirked at them all as they continued to gawk at their impending doom that began to turn to reveal it's true form. "If I must say, I find this a perfect ending. All of you coming to die by me."
Everyone remained fixated on the familiar object floating no longer in space, but now on nearly the edge of space and Mobius. It was Space Colony Ark. Or what was the Ark, It looked like Shadow had 'redefined' the Ark to be to his liking...literally.
"I thought Shadow's head was blown up as it was, guess I've been wronged..." Knuckles shook his head as he looked at the Ark strangely.
Somehow Shadow had redesigned it to look exactly like his head, with the eclipse cannon being the centerpiece for his nose.
"Shadow...you've gone insane." Sonic looked over to him with almost an empty expression, Shadow merely crossed his arms over his chest and began laughing to no end.
"Well let it be known that you and your friends are the reason this happened."
Blaze growled and stepped up as her body and arms began to flare up with her pyrokinetic powers. "You will not get away with this, we will stop you no matter what." Everyone seemed to follow in tow with her as they activated their respective powers or weapons.
"End of the line Shadow." Knuckles punched his fist together as he glared ta him.
"Oh but my dear friend Knuckles, I already have." He raised up a small device with a small red button and grinned.
"One click and you all with this world will go bye bye in an instant." Everyone was struck with a realization of what he meant as they powered down or put down their fists.
"Good, seems you all do know when to be obedient."
"What do you want?" Sonic gritted through his teeth looking down at his shoes.
"Whaaaat?" Shadow smirked as he leaned towards Sonic.
"What do you want us to do, in order for you to stop this madness?" He clenched his fist as he slowly looked up at Shadow who began to walk away from them.
He stopped a good distance away and crossed his arms behind his back. "Hmm...I'll be generous to you all, seeing as this is your last moments. If you can somehow convince me in some possible way, not to lay waste to everyone here, I'll stop everything I'm doing and apologize to everyone I've harmed."
"How do we know if you're telling the truth?" Knuckles steeped up still cautious of Shadow's true motives.
"I wouldn't have given you this valuable opportunity and you're still standing here so that means something. Just for that comment you only get half an hour to come up with something." Shadow shrugged his shoulders as everyone smacked Knuckles upside the head for his mistake.
"What did I do?" Knuckles asked annoyed as they once again repeated their actions.
"Good luck." With that Shadow chaos controlled away and left them to their last few minutes.
"What are we going to do, how the heck are we supposed to convince, not only a man who hates us, but doesn't even know the meaning of 'kindness' if it was thrown right in his face?" Silver began ranting as he moved back and forth from his spot.
"What can we do? We don't have the Emeralds, our only people who could help benefit us are missing, and we have half an hour to figure out how to save the world!"
"Actually we only have twenty nine minutes to...
"Oh put a sock in it Tails!" Knuckles growled at Tails resulting in both of them beginning to stare daggers at each other.
"Maybe if you had done that earlier, we could have had more time to figure something out." Tails fired at him.
"Oh you think just because you're so smart that you know everything." Knuckles shot back at him.
"Well act least I'm smart, you can't even tell an apple from and orange!"
"Oh yeah!?"
"Yeah!"
"YEAH!?" Knuckles pushed himself into Tails face.
"YEAH!" Tails pushed back at him. Cream soon got between them and pushed the both of them away and put her hands on her hips.
"What are you doing? You two are supposed to be best friends, not fighting over who was wrong or right. We need to be working together in order to find out a way to stop Shadow from harming everyone, and in order to do that, we need you two to work together. Don't let Shadow tear you apart...not like this."
Cream's look softened on the both of them and they both ceased their actions as Cream smiled and stepped back from them.
"Cream's right...we shouldn't be fighting like this."
"We're friends, and even with the world falling apart around us, we remain friends." Knuckles extended his hand as Tails smiled and they both shook on it while Cream and the others smiled at them sorting things out.
"So now what do we do? We don't have that long until Shadow comes back and I don't think giving him a box of chocolates going to work." Silver went back to his frantic state as Blaze began trying to calm him down.
As everyone continued formulating plans and ideas, Sonic stood off to the side as he scratched his chin in thought. 'I've been saving this for a time when Shadow totally went rouge and he was to blind to actually understand, that may not be the case now but we've got to try.'
"Guys! I have an idea." Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to the only person who actually had a chance of stopping Shadow and his crazy scheme.
"Well...don't keep us in the dark." Knuckles urged for Sonic to continue.
"I've actually been saving this idea as a prank when Shadow is so out of it he truly won't understand what's happening. Though this is not the situation, there is a slight chance that it could work." Sonic began pacing back and forth as he made hand motions to indicate his idea.
"So what's the plan?" Silver asked but Sonic didn't seem to notice his words.
"In order to go through with his plan, the person to execute it has to have bravery, no sense of being humiliated, possibly ridiculed for the rest of their life, and femanish features."
Everyone looked among each other as they noticed Sonic seemed to be looking at one person in particular. Everyone also noticed and they turned to the lone figure who Sonic began nodding it.
"Oh no! No NO NO! I will not go through with your stupid and idiotic plan, not in a million, trillion years..
-26 Minutes Later-
Shadow appeared back onto the field with his arms crossed and tapping his foot. "Times up, I really want to hear what you guys have to say to save your asses."
He noticed the slight wind and saw that the field was deserted. "If you're planning to ambush me then I see no point in doing that."
"Shadow?" A soft voice asked.
Shadow stopped what he was doing and looked behind him as his eyes widened and he gasped. "It can't be...Maria?"
Maria stood off with her back turned to Shadow as her golden mane flowed in the wind. "MARIA!" Shadow began to take off towards Maria as she slowly began turning towards Shadow's voice.
"Shadow...is that really you?"
Shadow drew ever closer to Maria and reached out his hand to grab her with a smile growing on his face. "I should be the one asking you that..."
The figure turned around and revealed it to be Silver who was dressed up to look like Maria. "Come give me a kiss Shadow!" Silver gave a wide smile not noticing that he had just made his wig fall off.
Shadow began laughing in happiness before he noticed what Silver had just done before he stopped and began to laugh evilly. "Oh I'll give you a kiss 'Maria'!"
Silver opened an eye to notice Shadow coming dangerously fast with a twisted look and shrieked. "Shadow WAIT! Yo-You're..coming to fast. Wait? Why are you charging that chaos spear...It's me! Maria...I love yoAHHH!"
*AUTHOR INTERRUPTION!*
Shadow! No! I said you are not allowed to type this out, skip this scene and go the next.
No! This is to good to skip! Who doesn't wanna watch Silver getting his ass kicked, especially when I'm the one doing it?
But this story is rated between K and T I will not allow you to put Rated R things in here! Give me the laptop Shadow...
No!
Give it here!
Never! The public must read this! Silver tried to pick himself up but Shadow stomped his foot into his back and grabbed his head before proceeding twisting his body to shove his head up...
Hey! Give me that back, It was getting good!
No Shadow that's enough! Shadow...quit taking off your rings. Quit charging that spear. Quit aiming it atOH MY GOD!
...
*Back to our Story*
Silver lied on the ground pitifully crying as Blaze tended to him and the others stood in front of the both of them.
"Did you honestly think I would fall for a trick like that!? You bring me a very good reason to end you all." Shadow dusted off his hands as he pulled out the remote.
Sonic remained clenching his fist as he watched Shadow move his finger towards the button. "No...
"Goodbye Freedom Fighters." Shadow laughed before pressing the button as a loud 'bing' resonated from the area.
"But you gave us enough time to carry through with switching the remotes." Sonic smirked.
Shadow's face fell and he began pressing the button over and over again. "That's impossible!"
"And so is this!" Knuckles ran up to the unsuspecting Shadow and delivered a brutal punch that sent the ebony flying and landing on the ground with a hard thud.
Shadow remained lying on the ground as Blaze walked over to them holding Silver who had slowly recovered on her shoulder. "Is...Is it over?" She looked towards Sonic who gave a nod and sighed.
"Yeah...I think it is." He pulled out the real remote and handed it to Knuckles who squished it in his palm.
"Hooray! We did it!" Tails pumped his fist in the air as everyone else began to celebrate amongst themselves. Even Sonic grew one of his usual smiles and joined the gang in their celebration.
BOOM!
They all stopped what they where doing and turned to notice that where Shadow was had just exploded. They looked among each other with confused expressions and began to walk towards the flames dancing across the ground.
"Blaze think you can give us a hand?" Sonic turned to Blaze who nodded and held her hand out to bring the flames to her palm and diminish them, leaving nothing but the smoke left. When it cleared everyone gasped in shock as they saw the image before them.
"That...That's not possible..." Sonic shook as he took a step towards the burnt figure and fell to his knees.
"Oh but you better believe it Sonic."
Everyone turned their heads and were greeted with the grinning man who had just fooled them all once again being portrayed on what looked like a big screen.
"Shadow!" Knuckles growled as he turned his head to glare at our ebony trickster.
"There's an old saying for something like this...fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, well, shame on me and judging by my little friend down there, I guess he suffered my luck." Shadow indicated to the robot version of him that had just been destroyed.
"So...who's truly been pulling the strings, you or the robot?" Sonic asked with his back still turned.
"Hmph, there were a few times where it was the dummy, other times it was me. I'm still a little confused on which of us did this prank or that prank."
"Well there's still no point to your plan. We've already crushed the remote and it's over." Tails shot at Shadow who quirked an eyebrow and chuckled.
"On the contrary Tails, you've been fooled twice, for I hold the true remote with me at this very moment."
Everyone stepped back in shock as Sonic rose and turned his attention to look up at Shadow with an empty look. "But..how?" Cream gasped.
"Hah, did you actually think I would be dumb enough to send myself down to meet you all and show you the remote I'm going to destroy you with in you're faces. You must really be taking me for a Knuckles right now."
"...Hey!" Knuckles yelled as he understood what he meant.
"So...this is it then...you're going to kill all of you're friends, enemies, and the people you swore to protect no matter what...for amusement?" Sonic said with a empty tone no one had ever heard from him.
"In truth I never really liked a lot of you, always a nuisance you were, and I'm sure Maria will still forgive me for my actions. So yes this is the end...but I do have one more thing to show for you Sonic which may come as a shocker."
He snapped his fingers and a familiar figure walked over to him as she pressed herself to him, gave him a quick peck, and handed him the remote.
"Hey guys!"
"AMY!" Everyone present nearly had their brain shut down for overtime as they watched, the girl who loved to chase Sonic hold Shadow as if he were Sonic finally acknowledging her feelings."
"But why..."
Amy giggled and waved her hand in a dismissive tone. "Well after Shadow tricked me into thinking he was Sonic, he kinda asked me out on another real date and said he would protect me as long as I stuck with him. We sorta hit it off from there, right Shady."
"Of course Rose." Shadow directed a smuggish look towards Sonic as he pulled Amy closer and both engaged in a heated kiss.
Sonic gave a twitch as he watched the scene play out before falling to the ground supposedly in shock. Everyone else were rubbing their eyes or slapping and pinching themselves to wake up from this twisted dream.
Shadow and Amy slowly stopped and Shadow held her close with the switch in his other hand. "I bid you all ado and my final words...
He pressed the button and the Eclipse Cannon charged before exploding off a giant beam of blue and green. Everyone seemed to make their last prayers and gave there loved ones final atonement's. Sonic and his gang held onto the closest person to them and shut their eyes to await their destined fate.
The beam came act least a foot above the ground before suddenly exploding into a beautiful wave of spectral colors, that would put the northern lights, meteor showers, and shooting stars to shame.
Everyone slowly opened their eyes, thinking to see themselves standing at the golden gates but were very shocked to find themselves alive and witnessing the beautiful event. They were all shocked and then two words where resonated across the world. Two words that would live in their thoughts, live in their dreams, and haunt them even in their after-life.
"April Fools!"
Yes! You saw that I saw that and it was awesome! I literally ended this story with a BANG! You may be wondering why N.E.W. isn't here to say his whole lecture but he's slowly recovering at the moment.
No I'm not! Let me out of this chair already!..
Ignoring him! Like I said, this is how Shadow should be portrayed. Showing who all the wannabees out there are and proving...that if you come in my way to try and ruin me? Well you better have a doggy bag because I'm gonna make you throw that wish up over and over again.
Now in the dying wishes of our author he may be saying some corny shit like, 'well guess this is the ending and I'm so sad to see this go' WRONG! Because I don't end my story until I say so.
Any great man should know you never end a story without the most important thing ever! EPILOUGE! So you in the final and last installment of Pranking Games!
Untie ME SHADOW! I NEED TO USE THE RESTROOM!
FINE! Their! Now go.
...Never mind.
;D