Sonic stopped Pachacamac as soon as they entered an entirely blue void. Pachacamac looked around to see images of other worlds, one with a somewhat obese plumber and one with a man in a green tunic clashing swords with a humanoid demon. The Chaos infused Echidna was confused by these images whilst Sonic simply smirked, though his confident expression quickly turned to one of severity.
"What is this place?" The red Mobian asked.
"Oh, this place? It's nothing special think of it as an infinite type of void, it's the infinite space between dimensions… I thought if we're gonna end this, we need to have no sort of distractions and more of an epic two on one confrontation… what do you say? Ready to end this?!" Sonic defiantly asked, as he exploded with power, his quills now gaining more height and a Crimson Gold aura and hue.
"Let's end this Hedgehog!" Pachacamac angrily stated, and in an instant the Pachacamac charged towards the mobian couple, though Sonic simply looked over to Rainbow in a sort of ' let's take him down together' expression and without a word, he grabbed her by the arms as she now span with her legs outwards as Sonic let her go, sending her rocketing forward directly into Pachacamac's gut, and in that instant the void around them changed to display a Castle in their general vicinity and the obese plumber from before was looking at them though his face seemed frozen though upon close inspection you would see his mouth closing very slowly, and without another word they were gone from that world.
"In this void, time moves slower and with every hit we change our venue, this battle will take place all over the multiverse!" Sonic explained, and now started to charge towards Pachacamac with everything he had, and the dark echidna caught Sonic's fist in his hands, which surprised Sonic, specifically because he could go at 1,000,000 times the speed of light.
"Nice update, now you'll die in this void of your creation!" Pachacamac said as he tried to strike Sonic, though Sonic dodged at the last second.
"Too slow Patchy, Rainbow! Excalibur can cut through anything but it has a mind of its own and will protect you from danger, so just trust it and use Solar Slash!" Sonic ordered, to which Rainbow tried to ask what that meant but before she could speak she felt her hands grip around the sword and she did a giant backflip before charging straight at Sonic and Pachacamac and Sonic teleported away at the last moment for Pachacamac to get the full force of the fireball created from Excalibur.
"Take this!" Rainbow defiantly yelled as Pachacamac now struggled to keep the fireball from exploding.
"Hehe, is this all you've got? I'm going enjoy tearing you apart!" Pachacamac said as he struck Rainbow sending her back into Sonic, both were in shock at this development, though what came next scared them beyond belief… Pachacamac was now letting the dark energy consume him and alter his form, to now have an even more menacing appearance.
"Now hedgehogs… prepare to meet your doom!" Pachacamac yelled out charging towards the two super mobians, with Sonic thinking only one thing…
Well good thing we're indestructible right?
They were launched away, as the scenery changed to a dark forest as a young boy on a horse was looking around for his lost companion, this scene faded as quick as it came and they were back in the azure void, space all around them.
"Give me your best shot hedgehogs!" Pachacamac taunted as he placed his index and 1st finger out and pulled them back egging the aforementioned mobian hedgehogs to attack him.
Great he's getting even more powerful, I can't use the super emeralds, that would tear apart the fabric of the universe, if I used them in this void, me and Rainbow are gonna have to combine our attacks to hopefully have enough force to damage him and transform him, it's not helping by his now rising power, we only have half an hour to beat him in this void. Sonic thought, the severity of the situation dawning on him.
"Rainbow, combine your Rainboom with my Sonic Boom and rotate around me we can do the Chaos drill, it's a move me and my younger self used against Eggman way back when, take my hand" Sonic said, offering his appendage to the Rainbow-haired mobian, whom took it without second thought and immediately they sped towards Pachacamac, and entered a twirling motion which created a drill construct from their speed.
"Chaos drill!" Sonic yelled and in an instant their drill construct obscured their bodies and the blurring effect from their speed encircled one another in a rainbow coloured drill that sped towards Pachacamac and struck him full on, and sent him to a universe with a young azure metallic boy running towards a castle with a skull on it, though as quickly as it appeared it disappeared in the blue.
"Argh!" Pachacamac yelled out in pain as the attack had damaged him greatly as his body now had scratch marks and signs of bruising from him trying to resist the drill.
"Hehe, did some damage to ya, so to answer your question, NO that's not all we've got!" Rainbow said, looking to Sonic, both of them sharing smiles of equal eagerness and happiness apparent on them. Though something seemed to unnerve them, and whilst they had seen the damage that their attack at done, something was making them uneasy.
Sonic felt something tug at the back of his brain and then felt Crimson's consciousness talk.
Yo Sonic, there's a big tear in the space-time continuum here, you mind patching it up? Crimson sarcastically asked.
Crap, I almost forgot! Since I opened a breach and haven't stopped it's caused a spatial rift or anomaly, essentially this breach will evolve to create dark matter, and it will eventually build up to form… Sonic stopped, almost as if the next phrase would destroy the universe.
To form what!? Crimson asked, very overtaxed as he started stopping Tirek's blow against Applejack.
A black hole Sonic gravely stated.
Oh great, well how long do we have till the universe is destroyed? If space movies have taught me anything Crimson joked, as he stopped Tirek's attack towards Applejack.
I'd say a solid 12 minutes Sonic calculated.
Well, first off why such an awkward number? 12 really? And second off, I'd advise that you'd hurry the hell up! Crimson worriedly said, as he pushed Tirek back with a Chaos Barrage.
Yeah, yeah hurry up, "OK rainbow we need to take him out now! We don't have much more time, now I need you to do something, I need you to purify him after I attack with my deadliest Chaos Attack, after I damage him you take him out, purify him with your energy and run as fast as you can out of here, and have one of the clones contact the Zone cops and take Pachacamac to the Zone Prison alright?" Sonic requested.
"NO! If you do this it'll drain you completely, and you could die!" Rainbow refused as Sonic had offered his hand to her and she smacked it away.
"I'm sorry I won't be able to make it to our date, but this is concerning the whole universe Rainbow, if you don't do this the whole universe will be destroyed, please Rainbow… For me?" Sonic asked, joking at the mention of their ever approaching 'date'. Though to respond to the comment she hit him across the face.
"Can you be serious about something for once in your life?! Sonic I can't hide that I care about you, but I don't think you know how much, you see before you came to our world, I didn't have any troubles ,I was totally detached and happy with my friends and was the fastest in the school and what I thought was the universe, but then I met you, who totally destroyed my expectations and realities on speed, going at speeds I thought were impossible and you totally understood me better than my friends ever could because of our love of speed. You were willing to sacrifice yourself to save us all, and have done it many times over from what your friends had told me, you were a hero, and more than that a textbook example of what I wasn't, I never thought that someone like you could exist or even give me such excitement and fun. And in the short time I had known you I had developed such a feeling of happiness when I was with you. I don't think that you're world decided to turn me into a hedgehog just because of my speed I think it was because of my relation to you, just know you'll always hold a special place in my heart" Rainbow said, though her speech was cut off by Pachacamac charging at her with a chaos blade drawn through instead of her taking the blade Sonic did. Demonstrating a thousand times over why he is a hero.
"Ugh.. That… hurt" Sonic said in a somewhat jokey, light-hearted approach to laugh off the severity of the situation.
"SONIC!" Rainbow yelled as he struck Pachacamac through the chest, causing him to bleed, though his blood now the same colour as oil.
"Agh… Rainbow, what have you… you've got to get out of here now, since you've stabbed a mobian Excalibur will start denying you energy…OK… I'll use Divine Supernova to purify him… then… you… GET OUT OF HERE!" Sonic yelled, leaving Rainbow in shock at Sonic's tone.
" You meddling hedgehog, you will not slay me!" Pachacamac yelled in defiance as he started flowing with a discharge of his chaos blood crackling and dispersing his energy alongside the void.
"Sonic, I won't leave you, you need to come through too!" Rainbow yelled back in anger.
"YOU'D JEOPARDIZE THE WHOLE UNIVERSE FOR ME, RAINBOW I'M NOT WORTH IT, GET BACK AND GET READY AS SOON AS I RELEASE THIS ATTACK GRAB HIM AND GO!" Sonic said as his body started dissipating, and became part of the void.
"You will not banish the darkness!" Pachacamac furiously roared as he started rising in the void and discharging more of his chaos energy.
"Hm we don't have much time, see ya Rainbow, it's been short but sweet …Love ya… See ya around" Sonic said, as he kissed Rainbow, surprising her and as quickly as their lips connected he left… a feeling of bliss on her mind, though that kiss was more tragic by the one she had received it from… her true love… whom was about to die.
"LET'S END THIS… DIVINE SUPERNOVA!" Sonic screamed as he released all his energy in a bright light and an explosion occurred in the void, and this caused Rainbow to do something she felt that her pride wouldn't let her do for the longest time…
Cry… she had let the first tear fall from her eye as she saw this explosion and reluctantly pushed her feet forward and blasted off towards the now cured Pachacamac, whom now had the appearance of his tribal chief garb. Though Sonic was out of sight. And the void was becoming unstable, from the sudden jolt of positive energy it had received.
Needless to say through teary eyes she still complied to the hedgehog's wishes and took the elderly Echidna through the void opening and Crimson quickly came to her side closing the void behind her, before pulling her out of the way of another one of Tirek's attack, and placing on the ground, though her distraught form still unnerved Crimson.
"Guys, let's end this now! Chaos Divination!" Crimson yelled as he struck Tirek in the gut his hand emanating a golden glow, and instantly transforming Tirek into his weakest form.
The other Chaos kids, mirrored this technique and before long, all of the villains had been purified, though the Chaos Kids were very much exhausted as that purification had drained them of a lot of energy.
"Hehe… looks like… we did it… guys… we finally did it, the world is safe, we need to get back to Knuckles, but we need to talk to Rainbow about what happened" Crimson suggested as he walked over to the crying female hedgehog, tears constantly abundant in her eyes as Crimson could tell without her even displaying it that Sonic had sacrificed himself again… and he may not come back now.
"Hey RD… listen… alright… he would never put you last on his priority and you were so important to him that he put you first… we need to happy for him… he's in a much better place now… a… a place where he can't be slowed down and he can run to his heart's content, and maybe one day he'll come back" Twilight soothed as Rainbow started crying her heart out into Twilight's shoulder, leaving her shoulder stained by her shattered heart.
"Hehe, yeah I would be in a better place, if I was dead, but I gotta honor my date thing with you… well it couldn't be that bad really" Sonic spoke as light started streaming together to form Sonic, though in a light particle form.
"Hey Rainbow sorry about the crap connection, here in the chaos force reception's pretty crap hehe" Sonic joked, though Rainbow now over- flowed with joy and she tried to grab him but went through his body.
"I should've told you, my body is moving so fast I can't be touched. Listen can you bring Tails to me there is something I need to explain to him" Sonic requested, to which Jade obliged and brought Sonic's brother to him.
Sonic then decided to place his hand on Tails' head, and in an instant Tails woke up to find himself in a white void, alongside his brother, whom has his always happy go-lucky smile on his face.
"Hey Tails… I know you're mad at me, but please I want to make things right, right now… I know that you want to stay with Sally, and I'm totally letting you do that, whatever you choice you make I'll totally support, though don't think I won't keep in touch little bro". Sonic happily joked, callously and absent-minded of the whole fight they had had an hour ago almost.
"What is this place?" Tails pondered as he kept looking around at the empty space.
"It's my mind, I decided to have a little bit of chat and for us to come to an agreement, you and me talk to talk like we used to and try to calm and respect each other's decisions" Sonic explained.
"To be honest, I'm so sorry, I got mad because I wanted you to let me decide for myself, but in my stupidity I nearly destroyed Mobius, our home with my aunt Sally, and the rest of the family, even my parents and I'll never be able to forgive myself, so whilst I may want to join you I can't I need to pay for my crimes" Tails rationalized.
"Tails, you were just angry it happens to the best of us, and really you shouldn't have to make up for my mistakes, you were totally innocent, it's my fault this started, not trusting you, or believing you could do things on your own. But the thing is I won't be able to pay for my actions, I'm going to be going to the Chaos Force and be taught how to connect and expand my training past what Tikal and Chaos have taught me, I'll still visit you every once in a while, and take care of Rainbow for me alright, you seem to be better with the ladies than I am " Sonic half-heartedly joked.
"I'll do my best Sonic… I promise big bro.. And you … AGH!" Tails yelled, and suddenly they were both pulled back to reality as Monkey Khan and G.U.N. Soldiers surrounded the group of Chaotic Mobians and deployed electric containment nets for each of them including the Chaos Kids.
"What the hell are you doing Khan? We're not the bad guys these guys are… take them, not us" Sonic asked.
"Chaos beings and unknown entities from another dimensions you are under violation of the Acorn law of possessing unknown power,that directly threatens the monarchy, you will be put on trial and questioned for you involvement in the possible creation of a black hole and disruption of the acorn kingdom" Khan read out.
"What the hell? Khan please don't do this… they had done nothing wrong you can't put them on trial and accuse or even suspect they were responsible for this calamity, you don't know all the facts, accusing in a court of law, from what I can tell from my last ordeal with the justice system, without evidence is a complete farce, you have to have evidence" Sonic pleaded.
"Well… Tails is with him I think this this is proof enough, Miles Tails Prower was consorting with an enemy of the acorn kingdom therefore he is lawfully found guilty of crimes of treason and direct attack on the monarchy" Khan said, as he had an ever increasing smug look on his face, looking as though he had beaten Sonic at his own game, by playing that recorded clip of Sonic admitting Tails was involved with Tirek.
"Please Sal… you can't let Tails go to Mobian jail… please Sal… you love him don't you, you can't stand for this" Sonic pleaded as Sally was also present at the Master Emerald Shrine.
"I'm sorry Sonic the decision is final" Sally gravely stated, as she callously and almost unforgivably dismissed Tails, this destroyed Tails soul as his family had now given up on him, he had nothing to live for.
Tails, I can't help you now, I need to know because I still want to make the decision do you want to come with me, or stay in prison? Sonic mentally asked to Tails, whom surprised Sonic with his answer…
Please take me with you big bro, I can't… I need to, I don't want to go to Jail or have Sally see me this way please Sonic take me with you. Tails replied, to which Sonic nodded his head and in an instant slammed his hands on the ground, which made a giant golden explosion of light and when it cleared everyone was gone.
When the group opened their eyes they found they were at Tails Workshop, surrounded by tools and other mechanical devices."OK Chaos Kids take everything that you can find of Tails' tools, and I'll teleport the Tornado and everything else to our secret base… hurry I don't think it'll take long for them to find us… Chaos Control!" Sonic yelled, now ending up in the old lab, Kint's lab this place whilst bringing back memories of those good times still made Sonic feel welcomed, as he teleported the first two tornado fighter jet's into this lab, and when he got to the secret underground compartment of Kint's lab where Sonic was tested on his speed all those years ago he teleported the Hurricane Mech.
When everything was set up in Kint's lab, the group agreed to head to bed, All of the Chaos Kids, sleeping alongside the significant other in the mane six when the Chaos extended the lab to have multiple rooms to sleep in.
When Sonic and Rainbow got their chamber, Rainbow looked over to Sonic and in the midnight moonlight they shared a passionate kiss that threatened to be almost faked, though the emotions they fetl for each other were real.
"Sonic, never scare me like that ever again, alright I couldn't live without you, you are my everything and I couldn't imagine a world where you don't exist in my life anymore" Rainbow lovingly expressed to Sonic, to which he replied.
"I'm not going anywhere, Rainbow you can't get rid of me that easily, otherwise who would be there to cause some dimensional chaos every once in a while" Sonic joked.
"I love Sonic" Rainbow stated, as they shared another kiss and Sonic's particles reformed giving him his now dark blue shade of fur and mobian appearance, and he replied.
"I love you too Rainbow" Sonic said, his mind now fluttering to his imagination, though what he envisioned scared him…
He found himself in a dark void, almost a room where the lights had turned off and when the lights had been activated the figure he saw shocked him awake as he felt the last words on the nightmare haunt his very soul…
Mephiles is coming.
Sonic looked to the window to see that nothing was there and now assuming that it was just a bad nightmare returned to his mobian girlfriend.
Though as he closed his eyes the Moon gained more light eerily, and a single crystalline hand formed on the wall, pulling back to reveal an all too familiar mobian in the likeness of shadow, though composed of sharp crystal which seemed to slice through the soul.
The eyes of this creature looked towards his sleeping adversary, and he only thought one thing…
You're time will come… Iblis Trigger… and it's coming sooner than you think, for Mephiles is the reaper who has come to collect.
And without saying another word he disappeared, leaving only Sonic and Rainbow in their hopeful bliss of a new day, that may never come…