The 25 Years of Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) Part 4: Last Story

Mephiles is seen sporting an evil look as he finally seems prepared to merge with Iblis and destroy the world. Using his purple emerald, Mephiles blinds Sonic and Elise, who were continuing their stroll from where Sonic's storyline left off. When they were distracted, he rises from the ground and launches an energy beam that impales Sonic through the back, killing him instantly. Elise frantically attempted to revive Sonic, but upon discovering that he is indeed dead, she cried in despair, releasing Iblis. At this point, Mephiles absorbs Iblis, mutates into a monster known as Solaris and then created his own world to destroy time itself. Continuing from where Shadow's story ended, he and his friends recovered from their battle with the Mephiles clones and Shadow notices the green and yellow chaos emeralds that Mephiles left behind. These created a blinding flash that sent Shadow, Rouge and Omega to the time-space rift formed by Solaris. Meanwhile, in Soleanna, Amy, Tails and Knuckles noticed a large bright light that engulfed the city. When the light faded, they realized that they had also been transported to the rift where all of the previous levels in the game existed. Amy was the first to spot Silver, who had been teleported there as well by the chaos emeralds that Blaze used to seal Iblis within her. Everyone noticed that they had all been brought to the strange place, even Dr. Eggman. As they tried to understand what was happening, Dr. Eggman revealed that Iblis' seal had been broken. It was then that they turned and saw Elise, cradling Sonic's body in her arms. After a few realizations, Eggman revealed that Solaris was about to bring about the end of the world by destroying time itself, and that, being a transcendental life form, it couldn't be defeated in the present as it existed in all timelines, so defeating it in the present would do nothing. Silver refused to give up, and suggested that they team up and destroy Solaris in the past, present and future all at once, but Shadow quickly shoots that possibility down, stating that, with Sonic dead, Solaris was completely unstoppable.

With Amy upset over Sonic's death and their impending doom, Elise recognized a familiar wind in the air that made her come to believe that Sonic may not be entirely dead yet. Silver, furthering Elise's observations, explained that they can use the chaos emeralds to revive him. After a lengthy search on the part of Tails, Omega, Knuckles, Silver, Rouge, Amy, and Shadow, they found the chaos emeralds and revived Sonic, with Elise's kiss transforming him into Super Sonic. Super Sonic used his power to transform Shadow and Silver into their super forms. Together, the three hedgehogs fought Solaris. The three used chaos control on Solaris causing the monster to be torn apart in a time loop. Sonic, now back to normal, traveled with Elise to a point in the past where they found the "Flames of Disaster" and its birth. Elise realized that if she puts out the Flames, Solaris will never exist, but she and Sonic will never meet each other, which Sonic confirmed. Overcome with despair, Elise begins to cry and shouted that she does not care what happens to the world as long as she and Sonic were friends. Though Sonic was clearly unhappy about this as well, he tells Elise to just smile and manage to convince her to abandon their meeting. She confidently puts out the flame, eliminating Solaris from existence once and for all.

Time rebooted back to the Festival of the Sun, only Eggman does not attack this time around; in effect, none of the games events ever actually happened. Elise is in her boat waving the audience as Sonic ran through the public, the "wind" of his speed making Elise lose one of the feathers in her hair. A maid asked her if everything was alright, and Elise said that she thought someone was calling her. Another maid replied that it was just the wind, and Elise said that it might be, but that it felt familiar somehow, and smiled, apparently knowing who it was. She continued with the festival as Sonic watched from a rooftop. The game ended with Sonic watching Elise's feather flying into the night, also smiling.