We finally come to the TRUE ending of Pranking Games. I must say, I along with Shadow...

Your welcome!

Ignoring. Have really enjoyed writing this story, especially this ending. I couldn't help but give an evil laugh as I reread it. It was just so...Shadow you know the words.

Let me just say that when you finish this story. You're going to scroll back up and reread this whole story to try and make sense of it. People have been mentioning it for the longest but most of the others ignored the fact of it.

Wow Shadow. For the first time, you said what I needed you to with no attitude, smug talk, or bad mouthing. I think someone's turning over a new leaf.

Oh shit really! Damnnit, the universe is about to be unbalanced. I'll be back, I need to go and ruin someone's happiness before things get crazy.

And that leaf was just burned. Let's just go onto the story before this guy does something crazy. SHADOW PUT THAT KID DOWN! CAN'T YOU SEE THE WEDGIE IS KILLING HIM!

Epilogue: The Last Laugh

It was everything he worked so hard to complete. All that he had come to accomplish led to this very moment, talk about payback. Hell he went beyond that, he showed them the meaning of hell, shame, and pity. Maybe he could save the events on some type of recorder and save it for the later generation, just so they can have something to learn from when they try to get in his way.

Shadow pulled out a chaos emerald and chaos controlled him and Amy down to the soft plains where all of the Freedom Fighters remained frozen and gawking at what they thought was their death.

"It was a prank all along...how could I not see this." Tails gripped the sides of his head as he began to shake it back and forth in pity.

"Maybe because I'm smarter than you, probably should take that into consideration before you go trying to smart talk me." Shadow laughed.

"I let that crazy hedgehog get the better of me...again." Knuckles crumbled while punching himself repeatedly. "So stupid."

"When have I not gotten the better of you? Hell, when have you ever not been stupid enough to let me?"

"How can you be so cruel and Amy this is so unlike you." Cream cried as she felt tears coming to the corners of her eyes.

"Cruel...eh I was going for heartless but I guess that'll do." Shadow shrugged.

"Sorry Cream, I really didn't want things to come to this." Amy gave an apologetic look.

"He made me feel so...weak." Silver shook as Blaze continued to hold onto him.

"I feel like this is the second or third time I've done it. I believe the score is Shadow 1, Silver Negative 3!"

Sonic slowly rose up and while his head was down turned to face Shadow who only gave a wide grin.

"Well well well Sonic. Looks like I've done what most call the inevitable or impossible, I've become the first ever person to truly break your will and spirit. Though like I said, this was you're fault to begin with, if you hadn't been dumb enough to try to prank me, none of this would have ever happened. You should have known that no one can ever pull something on me and expect to get away with it. How does it feel to know though you worked so hard to try and stop me, all you did was make an embarrassment of yourself. So what's left for you to actually say, I mean if you even have anything to say that is?"

Shadow looked down upon Sonic as everyone gave him a look from his attitude. Who knew Shadow could be so...twisted.

Sonic remained with his head down and Shadow smirked taking it as Sonic finally seeing his point across. He prepared to leave when a laugh stopped him. The laugh continued and Shadow slowly turned his head to glare at the person who dare laugh after what he had done to them.

Shadow didn't show it but was surprised when he saw Sonic holding his stomach as he continued to laugh.

"What the hell is wrong with you...

Sonic didn't say anything as he continued to laugh and everyone else stared at him like he was crazy until Tails began to do small chuckles before going into an all out laugh as well.

Shadow's mood soon turned angry as he turned towards Tails shooting a confused and piercing glare towards him. "What gives you the nerve...

Before he could finish everyone else were also laughing along with Sonic, even Amy was doing a few giggles as she tried to contain her laughing. Shadow's head began to go around as everyone began sending him into a confused state.

"WHAT'S SO FUNNY!"

As everyone continued laughing Sonic walked up to Shadow and slung an arm over his shoulder but quickly moved it back when he noticed Shadow's hated glare.

"It's just that, it's so funny to know that you of all people would go through all of this to get back at us. We really weren't expecting you to actually prank us like that, we thought you would have sulked or try to kill us, which you kinda did. But we didn't expect you to actually get extremely into the pranks." Sonic laughed while he rubbed the back of his head.

"So this was all a set up?" Shadow growled as he bared his teeth in Sonic's direction while everyone began to die down on their laughing.

"Yes and no. The initial idea was to prank you and try to get you to lighten up a little and get into the spirit of April. Butttt...you kinda went over board and we just had to go along with it."

Shadow began shaking as he faced down and began clenching then unfurling his fist.

"No hard feelings right Shadow buddy, but I guess we get the last laugh." He continued laughing.

Shadow began to darkly chuckle as his hand began glowing yellow. "You're right...I really do need to lighten up."

Sonic began to nervously chuckle as he backed away from Shadow. "You aren't trying to make another prank are you now Shads? April's over which means no more pranks."

"Oh I know, which means I don't need a reason to do this!" Without warning Shadow charged a chaos like blade and stabbed it into Sonic who's eyes widened as he coughed up drops of blood.

Everyone shrieked, screamed, or cried out before pushing Shadow back and using their respective powers to attack him. Knuckles beat at him continuously with Amy who pulled out her hammer and not even caring who she was attacking hitting at Shadow. Once they moved Blaze growled and began scorching Shadow to the highest temperature she could.

As Shadow hit the ground still laughing Tails stood over him with tears brimming the corners of his eyes while an angry glare was jabbed at the hedgehog below him.

Tails pulled out a ring and tossed it in the air above Shadow before walking away as it landed upon his prone form.

"No hard feeling, right." Shadow laughed before the ring made a beep and caused an array of explosions to where his body once lied.

Everyone crowded around Sonic's blood soaked form as his eyes were glazed over and he looked up. "Guess I...screwed up guys." His eyes widened one more moment before they slowly began to close.

Those who stood around remained silent as they began to cry, wail, or mourn their best friend. Tails moved closer to Sonic and fell to his knees with a shaking hand as tears flowed freely from his mournful face. He put his hands upon his cold chest and sobbed out loud from the loss of his best friend.

"SONIC!"

-Simulation Over-

Sonic shot up in a panic looking around noticing everything around him was bright. "A-Am I dead?"

"You could be." A deep and familiar voice laughed.

Sonic's vision began to fix and he found himself in what looked like a hospital room. "Where am I?" He began moving his eyes to examine the room and found that white curtains seemed to cover every wall of him. Sonic turned to where he heard the voice and jumped out of the bed clawing backwards on the floor feverishly and crashing into the curtains while throwing them in a disarray around him.

"YOU! STAY AWAY FROM ME KILLER!"

"Would you shut up and get back in the bed so I can get the helmet off." The voice asked annoyed than he already was.

"What helmet?" Sonic moved his hand to his head and felt metal. He looked up to see that wires connected to the top of the helmet as they went behind the curtains.

"You're trying to brainwash me into some type of puppet! Well it won't work!" He began pulling at the helmet but it wouldn't budge and he only made himself look like more of a fool.

His only other occupant made a deep sigh before pulling out a small gun and pointing it at Sonic. "You are doing to much movement. And what brain do you have to take control of?" He pressed he trigger and a dart shot right into Sonic's butt.

Sonic looked at it with wide eyes as he slowly began get drowsy. "Heyyyy, that was a douche move...Shadow." His eyes rolled back and he fell to the ground sucking his thumb while Shadow rolled his eyes and went to pick Sonic up.

"Lay off the fat food Sonic, shesh you're getting heavy."

-1 hour Later-

Sonic's eyes shot open and he looked around to see he was back in the bed. The curtains were down and he was able to see he had some extra guest joining him.

"Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Silver, Blaze, Rouge, Cream. Eggman?" As he finished, everyone began to stir as they slowly made their way up one by one.

When Tails saw Sonic's condition, he gasped in surprise and lunged towards him. "SONIC!" Everyone else heard Tails and ran to his side as well giving him hugs, words of comfort, and signs of affection. While they all continued to celebrate Sonic's good health, they were unaware of the lone figure leaning against the wall watching them.

"AHEM!" He cleared his throat as everyone turned to him and immediately shot hated glares towards him.

"Shadow! You've got a lot of nerve to be here after what you did." Knuckles spat as he began to move towards him with clenched fist.

Shadow just looked at him with a bored look and shook his head. "Idiot."

Everyone else began to watch cautiously as Shadow made his way over to a chair and sat down a layed back sense of manor. He didn't even mind that everyone he was surrounded by were imagining of ways to give him bodily harm so as not to survive this time.

"You still haven't figured it out huh? I guess it's something to be expected from you all anyway, seeing as you let me capture you so easily."

"What are you talking about Shadow, you've got some explaining to do after that little stunt you pulled." Tails cried jabbing his finger in his direction.

Shadow merely smirked as he waved him off. "Even you didn't figure it out, and I expected more out of you Tails."

He walked over to a covered part of the wall and went to yank down the sheets that covered it. "Before I take this down, would anyone tell me what day it is?"

Everyone grew confused looks as Shadow still awaited for someone to tell what day it was. "April 31st, does it matter?"

"Actually it does, because today is not April 31st it is actually the beginning of April." Shadow leaned against the wall shrugging his shoulders with a smug look across his features.

"What are you talking about? Today is not the 1st, even you know that." Silver was annoyed and was not up for one of Shadow's mind games.

"What was the last thing you saw before you woke up?"

Everyone was getting angry now and they all responded to his next question. "YOU KILLED SONIC!" They yelled in unison.

Shadow began to chuckle as he walked over to the sheets and put a hand on it. "I'm afraid you've all been pranked."

He pulled off the sheets and everyone gasped as they saw multiple screens as they showed videos of everyone being pranked during Shadow's little endeavor.

"You video taped what happened." Sonic looked to him confused as Shadow's face grew a scowl and he rubbed his temples in annoyance.

"It was all a trick. None of this really happened."

Everyone once again grew confused looks to Shadow. "What are you talking about?" Blaze scratched her tilted head in thought.

Shadow rolled his eyes as he pulled out a chair. "Fine, but take a seat because this may take a while." Everyone took a seat close to Sonic just in case Shadow tried to pull something as he sat back in thought.

"Let's see...I guess it all started last week. I was doing one of my routine repairs on my bike when I saw you all passing by. Now usually when I see all of you walking by, I get away as quick as I can so as not to be included in whatever hair-brained activity you're planning. But you caught my attention when I found you conversing with Eggman."

"Wait..that was a long time ago, a week before the pr..." Knuckles stopped himself as his eyes widened and he slowly sat back down while everyone else began to think the same thing.

"Continuing. I began to follow you all and listened in on what you were discussing. At first I really didn't believe you would try to prank me, I took it as you all making some stupid suggestion or whatever."

"So how did you find out?" Amy piped up the thought that was on everyone's mind.

"I was coming to that. The next day, the commander laid me off of work, telling me to take a break for the whole week and I knew things were suspicious. You all avoided me as if I were a plague and I came to the conclusion that you actually were telling the truth. So I began to think of my next course of actions...

"I knew what you're prank was, but I didn't want to ruin it for you all, that would have made it so easy. So then I came up with the greatest idea yet. To prank you with no prank at all."

He waited for them to react, but they all remained silent and Shadow sighed in annoyance.

"Let me make this simple. I tranquilized all of you while you were sleeping and put you all into an induced trance so as to keep you from waking up. I then hooked all of you up into a simulation where I let you see what would have happened had you tried to prank me." Shadow finished with a raised eyebrow for them to react.

"So none of this was real?" Tails asked.

"Not one bit of it."

"All a trick to trick us into thinking we tricked you into thinking you tricked us back?" Knuckles rubbed his head.

"If you're trying to just say I tricked you then yes that's how I see it."

"So you didn't ask me out?" Amy said with a little disappointment in her tone.

"Yeah. I don't know what simulation Shadow was thinking on that one. Not being mean but, yeah, you're a bit clingy." Shadow put his hands up while looking away.

Everyone began to think things over as they came to a conclusion that he was right. He did seem to act very strange during the time they were in the simulated nightmare of a realm.

"So yes that was the prank all along. A prank which wasn't even real." Shadow laughed as he began to exit the room. "Maybe now you'll learn not to ever try to cross paths with me, unless you'll feel the snakes bite."

He was about to leave everyone to their thoughts when Knuckles stopped him. "Wait, what about Rouge, Eggman, and the Commander? They're still in the trance."

Shadow merely shrugged as he began walking off. "They must not have faced a traumatic experience yet, don't worry they'll be waking up pretty soon."

-With Commander-

The commander was still frozen and locked under his desk as Shadow had left him dressed up in a shadow suit.

"Get in their you!" He heard some men talking outside of his door as someone seemed to be complaining before they shoved him in and locked the door.

"HEY! Let me out! I'm gonna call the president on you guys!" He made a deep sigh and began to walk around the commander's office.

"Huh, wonder what the big captain keeps laying around in here."

Commander heard him rummaging around in some of his personal belongings before he saw two legs swing into his chair and begin spinning around. The person was soon identified as the crazy Shadow fan who wore a bored look across his face.

"What am I supposed to do to entertain myself?" He noticed the commander under the desk and a malicious grin began to grow on his face.

The commander found himself still frozen and began to sweat bullets at the predicament that he was in. The crazy Shadow fan just began to evilly chuckle as he began unbuttoning his shirt.

"Dear Diary, JACKPOT!"

-With Rouge and Eggman-

Rouge found herself trapped inside of a vent with her only occupant being Eggman way above her as she was forced to listen to his nonsensical complaints.

"If he does not shut up, I swear I'm going to burst a vein!"

"Oh my gosh, these infernal walls are to much, I don't think I'm gonna last any longer."

"I can't last listening to you're voice any longer!" She yelled even though he still couldn't hear her.

"I've been holding it all day and now it just wants to come out..."

Rouge raised an eyebrow in thought. "What are you talking about." She muttered to herself.

"Uh-oh, here it comes!"

Rouge's eyes widened as she understood what was about to happen. "No no NO NO NO NO!"

Eggman unleashed a fart so loud it began bouncing off each wall as it came closer to Rouge's cell.

"NOOOOO!" Rouge yelled as she gripped her throat and began clawing at the walls surrounding her and punching as the vent to escape.

"Oh MY GOD! I do stink...I think I'm gonna...BLEH!"

-In the Real World-

Tails was walking to the room in order to see if the other three had awakened. He put his hand on the knob and walked in with a smile on his face.

"Good to see you guys awake."

"YOU FAT BASTARDDDDDD!" Rouge yelled as she sat atop Eggman choking his lights out and smacking him back and forth while he writhed on the bed. The commander was in a corner rocking back in forth as he muttered to himself and silently cried all of his pain away.

Tails kept the smile he had as he slowly began to shuffle out of the room and slowly closed the door leaving the three of them to their own works.

And Pranking Games is finally finished!That's right kiddies, the greatest Prank of all was no prank AT ALL! It's foolproof. Shadow suggested this from the beginning and he knows he pranked the lot of you.

I have to say that ending, it gets me every time.

I hope you all liked the chap and I really hope everyone liked the story. I know this isn't one of the best pieces of work, believe me when I read through this I couldn't help but wonder why I've been slacking in my writing department. But I'm extremely happy to know how many people followed and supported me throughout the story.

Yeah, Yeah like I said, when you make a story involving me. You're bound to get a lot of viewers. Let this be a lesson to the lot of you out their, you want to be famous just headline your title or pen name with Shadow the Hedgehog, makes you a lot more famous.

Like I said, I'm thinking about making a story full of multi-shots based on the lot of the Sonic company and exploring into their personal lives.

It will include a lot of crazy moments, you'll see lots of Sonic characters plus some extra, sleepovers and twisted tales. You can also suggest ideas for any adventures you want the characters to do and I'll probably allow a couple of OC's in later chaps.

Once again I thank not only my Shadow's Rants supporters who gave me the inspiration to write this but I also thank everyone else who has helped me throughout the story. I'll probably have a new story up and running soon.

And you need to work on that forum of yours! The people need to hear my words!

Whatever you say Control Freak. Well see you guys later and hope you all enjoy the rest of you're fics.

:P A story well done!

But we didn't even cook it! TROLL MODE!