Chapter 12
"This ends today"
Thank you to maniax300 for his idea of Super Dusk
Everyone had made their way to the where the mourning parents crying over their deceased child. Rosy had backed off to give them a moment. Rouge was hysterical, holding Dusk's head. She didn't even know why she was reacting like this. Could her hormones just be reacting to finding out she had a child. Or could it just be that she had loved the boy, no matter who he was. Shadow even had tears running out of his eyes, something that nobody had ever seen before.
Eventually Knuckles broke the silence."No. I won't let this end this way. This kid saved our lives. I don't know him and , frankly, I don't care. We owe him though."
"I agree" Shade said. 'But what can we do Knuckles? He is beyond even our help. Death has him now and she will not release him so easily."
"He may be beyond our help but maybe not the Chaos Emerald's."
"But we don't know where they are." Amy said.
Shadow stands up and tosses the white Emerald to Knuckles "This one was on Dusk."
"Just a second" Sonic said. he dashes off.
He zips back in a second carrying 5 Chaos Emeralds.
"Now all we are missing is the blue one."
"Where could it be?"
Tails steps out."Let me try." He goes up to the computer and types in some data. "There" he points to the screen, where a beeping light indicated a location.
"It's here in this base but is in another room than the others so Sonic didn't see it. I need two others to come with me if we run into trouble."
"I'll go" Rouge said gently lowering Dusk to the ground. She gave him a kiss on the forehead (A.N that will be a running habit with her now. Just warning ya) and got up.
"I will to." Crash said.
"Alright let's go." Tails said.
The trio found the chamber where the Chaos Emerald reading was coming from. They opened the door and found none other than Metal Sonic inside the room. Metal Sonic looked up at them.
'Are you planning on beating up Robotnik today?" he asked.
"Yes we are" Rouge growled.
"Good enough for me." Metal said. He tossed the Emerald to them. "Give him a kick in the gut from me please."
Tails catches it "OOO...K" he said slowly and slightly suspicious.
Rouge caught his tone "Who cares as long as we got the Emerald." She hurried Tails and Crash back to the main chamber, where Knuckles had already set up the other six in a circle around Dusk's body. When Tails set the last one in its place, Knuckles told them to step back then he started his incantation.
"Chaos Emeralds! We call upon your help. We need you to heal this boy. He is a brave and valiant soul. His destiny is not over yet I can feel it. Please!"
It looked as though the Chaos Emeralds were not in a helpful mood today.
Please, God Rouge prayed Please save my son.
Then the Emeralds began to glow. They lifted into the air, along with Dusk, and started to spin. The glow began to brighten. After a moment it began to get uncomfortable. Everyone, including Knuckles, had to cover their eyes.
When the light finally faded, they all marveled at what they saw.
Kneeling on one knee, sword on his back, was a golden hedgehog with white chest fur, golden bat wings, and red streaks and stripe in his upturned quills.
"Dusk?" Shadow asked.
Dusk stood up and walked over to them. The pure energy he put off was mind boggling. He walks right up to Rouge and pulls her into a hug. After a second of shock she returns it.
When they break the hug, Dusk says to her "Thank you"
"For what?" she asked
"For saving me. For giving me the love that I never had. For caring."
"I'm your mother. I'm supposed to do that."
He looks up at her "Thank you, Mother." she blushes.
He looks at each of them. "Thank you all. I would be dead now if not you. Now it's time fight." he turns to leave.
He is almost knocked to the ground by a back glomp.
"DUSK!" Rosy yells knocking into him.
"Hey, Rosy." Dusk chuckles.
"I'm so glad you're ok" she said, tears forming in her eyes.
He wipes the tears away. "It's alright." He pulls her in for a hug and kisses the top of her head.
A tremor rocks the chamber. Dusk pulls away from his girlfriend and steps under the giant hole in the roof.
He turns to everyone. "If I don't return-"
"You will. Don't even talk that way." Shadow said. "NOW GO!"
"Right." He takes a deep breath and pulls his sword off of his back. The sword started glowing in the same way Dusk had. It lengthened and thinned out, except for the tip which grew out longer and curved into a blade.
Gem Buster had turned into a scythe.
Dusk looks at the scythe in awe then up at the thunder clouds forming. "This ends today." he said. He shoots up out of the hole and into the sky.
Sonic runs to the entrance. "Come on, guys" he calls.
"Where?" Amy calls.
"To the roof" Sonic tells his wife "I want to see Super Dusk kick Eggman's ass."
"Alright." Shadow says. And to everyone's awe he is grinning. To tell the truth Shadow wanted to see his son kick Robotnik's ass as well.
High above the compound Dusk rose to the same level Eggman was flying at. Now it looked like the robot was attached to a giant metal satellite.
"What the hell are you doing?" Dusk asked.
Eggman turns around looking shocked and angry "I thought I killed you already."
"I'm like a bad penny I always turn up." Dusk says, getting into a fighting postition. "What are you doing here?"
"It's my back up plan." Eggman says. "If my plan failed I would go up to my satellite and activate it."
"What will it do?"
"It will create a wave of energy and it will suck the life out of every one within a 50 mile radius."
"Soo. Why didn't you do that in the first place? Just sayin'."
"SHUT UP! I had a plan going."
"Enough of this. I'm going to blow up your little satellite and stop your plan."
"You can try. I set it for a 2 minute timer." he presses a button and a digital timer appears and it starts to count down.
"Oh crap." Dusk move towards the satellite, only to be blocked by the Egg Overlord.
"Not this time, boy." Eggman said.
Dusk stopped and got ready to start his attack. "I'm going to take great pleasure in kicking your fat ass."
Dusk charged. Eggman brought up what remained of the Egg Overlord's sword to block him.
They collided in midair. They were pushed a part by the sheer force of their attacks. They were so evenly matched that their attacks just bounced off of each other.
Dusk had change his tactics. He was thinking how when the scythe began to move on its own. It swiped itself in an x and blasted the energy at the robot. It seemed to affect the robot, as it shot back when the energy hit.
Eggman noticed his new weakness and kept his distance. He fired missiles from long distance. Dusk just cut them out of the air. Then Dusk saw an opportunity. There was a weak spot on the armor just above the somach area.
He zipped in underneath the latest barrage of missiles. He brought the scythe forward and slashed it through the weak spot. The entire machine fizzed and jittered as it shorted out. The rockets on the feet failed and made the robot fall.
Right into the satellite.
Before he could fall to his death, Dusk grabbed Robotnik and threw him onto the roof of his base. He landed with an "Uphh"
The satellite began to combust and explode. It began to fall from it's vantage point over the city.
It was falling right onto the roof of the base, Where his parents, Rosy and everyone else was.
He had to move quick or else they would all be killed. He flew as fast as he could to where they were all standing. Shadow and Sonic were trying to get everyone off of the roof but they were too slow.
No time he thought.
He knows what he has to do. he flies down to the bottom of the giant projectile. and grabs it. He calls upon the strength he prayed for. This will be hard physically but even more emotionally.
Rouge looks up and sees Dusk at the bottom of the falling satellite. "What's he doing, Shadow."
Shadow looks up and gasps, "He's doing what I did with the ARK all of those years ago. He's going to Chaos Control It!"
They all look up at the sound of a voice yelling "CHAOS-
"NO! DUSK DON'T!" Shadow and Rouge said together.
-CONTROL!" He finished and in a bright light the falling hunk of exploding machine and the debris all disappeared.
Three seconds later a giant explosion in space filled the sky.
"This time I finally got him." someone said. They all turned around. Robotnik is standing there laughing and congratulating himself. He looked over to see 12 pissed off Mobians ready to rip him apart.
They're distracted by Crash saying "Look!" and pointing to the sky.
They all look up. They see a flash of gold falling down and as they saw it getting closer they see it is Dusk, still in his super form. He was falling fast.
He hit hard.
The crater was 5 feet deep. In the center of the crater was another 6 inches in which Dusk lay. The gold glow of his super form faded away. The Chaos Emeralds scattered, their job done. Shadow got over to him first, checking his vitals. Rouge walked over, both hands on her mouth.
"Is he-?" she asked, unable to finish.
"He's just unconscious. He's exhausted." Shadow said. Rouge sighed in relief.
Shadow picks up the unconscious Dusk, who was now snoring, like a child and carries him out of the crater and lies him down to rest. Rosy goes and sits by him protectively.
Shadow turns around from putting Dusk down, cracking his knuckles. "Now where were we, Robotnik?"
"We were at the part where you let me go with a warning." Eggman said hopefully.
Shadow leans in "Nice try" he said. He picks him up by his collar and nails him in the face with his fist.
Eggman goes flying. He shakily stands up. "Nice hit Shadow, but I think that's enough for now. He pulls a remote from his pocket. The husbands and fathers get in between him and their wives and children. Eggman presses a button on the remote and a tractor beam comes down and takes him into the Egg Carrier. Shadow dives for him, but he rises just out of his reach too fast.
"Darn it." he says.
"He'll be back" Sonic says.
Shadow looks up at the Egg Carrier.
"We'll be ready."
Just then a thought hit Rouge. "Shadow?"
"Yeah, honey?"
She looks up at him "Where are we going to live?"
Shadow- actually didn't have an answer.
Sonic slaps him on the back. "Don't worry I'll hook you up. I can find you a nice place for a nice price as well." He smiles.
Shadow gives him a smirk. "Alright. Thanks, Sonic."
"No problem, Shads."
"Don't call me that."
Everyone laughs.
Dusk stirs. He pops up
"Where is everyone!? Are they alright?! Did it work?!" He says so fast almost no one can understand him.
"Dusk!" Rosy said, hugging him. "It's over. You saved us from the falling satellite and the debris. I'm glad you're okay." She snuggled him, not caring who was looking.
He hugged her back. Then, like her not caring who was watching, brought her up for a kiss.
"Awwwww." Everybody said.
Rosy broke it off. "Do you MIND!" she yelled.
Everybody suddenly got interested in something else. Sonic and Amy went with Shadow and Rouge to discuss housing prospects. That would be needed, considering the apartment had been leveled. The echidnas known as Shade and Knuckles (Who he had to thank for his "Resurrection") were breaking up a fight between Crash and Bash (Bash had called Crash a hippy). The two tailed fox Tails and his wife Cream the Rabbit, were busy looking over their daughter, Miley also a twin tailed fox, to make sure she was alright.
He, on the other hand, had something more important to observe. The beautiful girl in his arms. He smiled at her, and she smiled back. Finally their lips met.
And they shared that perfect piece of forever.
The End
A.N. That is the end of the official story. The epilouge will be out next week. I think I did a good job, huh?
To God alone be the Glory.
Into the shadows I go
DTH
