Chapter Twenty-Five: Returning Home
December 4, 2023 at 9:18 PM
โ I'm Sorry! I'm really sorry! I didn't know that there are those who can change... And for the better. โ with tears in his eyes, the demon repented before the reformed villains. Then he turned to Alice. โ And you will forgive me too, Princess Elice.
Sonic came forward alone and spoke:
โ You were wrong, Mephiles. People can change if they themselves want it or if someone... Let's just say... pushes them a little to do so. But not intrusively, which will only push them away from it. Apparently you didnโt realize this and we all feel sorry for you for this, because you yourself could have become better much earlier than now. You can choose to take a different path yourself and show your best side, or you can remain alone and be a corpse forever along with the multiverse that you are so eager to destroy. The choice is yours.
โ But ever since I was born, separated from Iblis, all I did was quarrel with everyone, set everyone against each other, kill and destroy. I donโt know at all what itโs like to be good, because Iโve never lived like this myself and didnโt realize it before from the example of others. Especially about feelings such as pain, love, care, fear and joy.
Elice extended her helping hand to the crystal hedgehog and helped him up, saying:
โ Iblis will teach you all this now.
Mephiles turned questioningly to Iblis, and he again inhabited him. This time he became Solaris, but not in the guise of a huge monster, but similar to the same crystal hedgehog with white wings, like an angel. The mind of Iblis pointed to the mind of Mephiles at the corpse of Amy, to which Sonic two ran up and hugged him with tears in his eyes. Solaris descended towards them, extended his right hand towards the hedgehog and healed her mortal wound. Amy's eyes widen and she takes a breath.
โ AMY!!! โ Sonic two screams and hugs her with tears in his eyes. โ How you scared me!
โ It's okay, Sonic. I will live. โ the hedgehog answers and also hugs him back. โ Is this really happening or am I still dead?
Solaris returns to Elice. Iblis leaves the body of Mephiles and moves back into the body of Elice.
โ Thank you. โ the demon thanks her, and she wipes the tears from his eyes.
Sally, deciding that they no longer need that device for Mephiles, throws it aside and breaks it.
โ Okay it's all over Now! โ Sonic alone says to himself.
โ Not yet. There is one unfinished business left. โ Tikal answers, opening a portal from the ring to home to Wakowski.
Two echidnas and foxes are the first to enter the portal, and Sonic alone is in no hurry to follow them. He stayed and decided to say goodbye to Sonic two, Sonic three, Sally and Amy.
โ Well, that seems to be it. With your help, we did everything and so now you will all find yourself at home. โ he says.
โ Fine. โ says Sonic Three.
โI donโt even know what to tell you.โ I'm... Very... Grateful... I mean... In short, I want... I don't know how to formulate this. Just know that...
โ Come on! Thereโs no other way! โ Sonic two answers.
โ We never leave our own people in trouble. โ Sally adds.
โ We wonโt forget about you... And most importantly, never forget about us. โ Amy advised.
โ Okay and thanks for everything. โ Sonic alone says and hugs both Sonic's including Sally and Amy. Heading towards the portal to Wakowskiโs home, Sonic alone turns to them and asks: โ I hope weโll see you again someday?
โ Believe me! We will also hope. โ Sonic two answers.
โ Of course, this time under good circumstances, and not under dangerous or accidental ones, as was the case with the Tikal spell. โ Sonic Three added jokingly.
After receiving the answer, Sonic-one enters through the portal ring and the portal closes behind him.
โ Let's! โ says Tikal and Tom presses the button on the Makhina Disintegratorus and the green Rubik's cube, along with the spoiled spell inside, slowly evaporates, first becoming translucent, and then completely disappearing. The corrupted spell was undone.
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The first one to shine with a bright glow and then begin to slowly disappear was Infinite. He himself couldnโt wait to return home to his world. Following him, Zavok slowly began to evaporate, smiling and looking somewhere at the sky. Princess Elice and Mephiles were the next to disappear, looking at each other goodbye. Scourge was the next to slowly disappear with a slightly fearful look in his eyes, and Fiona disappeared, crying with joy. When it was Metal Sonic and Omegaโs turn to disappear from this universe, the former said goodbye to the latter and showed an outstretched middle and index finger, making a reference to the meme with the disappearing guy. Silver looked at his right hand and, realizing that he, too, would return to his universe, smiling, closed his eyes. Shadow and Terios were the next to disappear, looking at each other and smiling goodbye. Second to last in line, Eggman himself disappeared, also smiling, looking at Sonic two and waving his hand goodbye to him. Now two Sonic, Sally and Amy began to slowly shine and disappear.
โ Goodbye! Be happy! Sally says, waving goodbye along with her Sonic.
โ And you too, be happy! โ Amy also answers them with her Sonic.
There's a flash and they're no longer there. Then the sea began to shine, as Chaos itself was, and then he, too, disappeared from this universe. No one else except him held the remains of the destroyed oil station and they sank to the bottom of the ocean.
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The next day, TV news channels talked about an old Soviet oil station in the Pacific Ocean, which was destroyed and buried by a submarine due to unknown circumstances. Dwayne Johnson, also known as "The Rock", became the new President of the United States, thanked Sonic and his friends and those who faithfully protect him for getting rid of those aliens from other worlds and fully appointed Sonic the Hedgehog as a hero . At the same time, he dropped all charges against him and forbade the military and others from hunting him and everyone who knows and protects him. Thus, Sonic was now declared a legally obedient citizen and had every right to live among people, and the Wakowski family was deprived of a travel ban and could go abroad wherever they wanted. Sonic's life improved after that and now he realized that he couldn't rely on spells that erase his memory. Over time, everything will work itself out, sooner or later. Now everything seemed to be the same as before, but this time all of humanity still knows about Sonic, but does not hunt for him and does not even pester him and his friends.
Tikal also returned home with a calm mood and a clear conscience, knowing that she had already fulfilled her role here and they would no longer need her. Moments like this that end like this can be called a happy ending.