Sonic Returns

Chapter eleven: Finale

From what he remembered, everything had been darkness.

Sonic remembered only flashes; the battle with metal, grabbing the chaos emeralds, his fall and plunge into the cold, dark ocean. He remembered the water filling his lungs, and the sunlight slipping away as he sank into the deep, dark waters. The blue blur saw images of Amy Rose diving into the water, swimming down and reaching for him as everything went dark. He had a vision of breaking the surface again, as he was slowly dragged back to shore.

"NO , NO! TOO MUCH WATER! I'M DROWNING!" The blue blur wailed, flailing. "AHHHHHHHH!"

Sonic's eyes suddenly opened, and he shot up in bed. Having heard his screams, Amy came running into the tent.

"Sonic! Are you all right?" The pink hedgehog put her hand on Sonic's shoulder. "I heard you crying out!"

"The water..." The blue blur shivered, as Amy Rose hugged him. "The water..."

Sonic I'm so glad you're awake!" Tails walked in, then Saw how his friend was reacting. "Amy, what's wrong with him?"

"I don't know, Tails!" Amy replied worriedly. "He just woke up, shaking and yelling."

"The water..." Sonic Muttered. "The water..."

"Oh no, his almost-drowning must have traumatized him." The two-tailed fox said sadly. "Now, he'll never want to go swimming again."

At that moment, Agent Stone came through the flap of the tent the blue blur was resting in. Looking over the three mobians, the government agent began to speak;

"This country owes you a debt for stopping this dangerous threat." Julian 'Snively' Stone explained. "As a thanks, we have covered up everything in regards to your existence to the public, as well as making sure yoiu can have a safe journey home. Don't worry, we'll take of everything."

"Thank you so much for sitting this tent up for used to hide in, Agent Stone, as well as all of your other help." Tails thanked him. "By the way, what branch of government did you say you worked for?"

"Oh, I've been assigned to a new branch, a top-secret group, revived after fifty years of activity, due to all the trouble with Dr. Eggman." Agent Stone continued. "We are called the guard unit of nations... but we prefer to be called G.U.N." The secret agent waved, walking out of the tent. "Needless to say, if we have any more trouble, we'll be in touch."

After Agent Stone had left, Amy rose looked back at Tails.

"Well, that takes care of all of those problems." She motioned over to the table, where the seven chaos emeralds rested. "But what are we going to do with those things?"

"Sonic and I talked about that a few days ago." Tails replied, smiling. And I think we have the perfect place to keep them safe..."

...

Sonic and Tails entered the portal, and arrived in the bizarre realms of the special zone. They found themselves in front of an endlessly spinning maze, surrounded by psychedelic colors and images. Both mobians had to close their eyes to keep from getting dizzy.

"Whoa, this place is sooo trippy." Tails shook his head. "Are you sure it's safe to leave all the chaos emeralds here until we need them?"

This is the perfect place to keep them safe, buddy." Sonic replied, as he and Tails held the emeralds in their hands. "They'll be safe from the bad guys in here. And we're the only ones who can brave this craziness, if we need them again."

The two tossed the eight emeralds out into the crazy lights and flashing colors, before departing back through the portal together.

...

"Hay, Tails?" Amy asked, slurping her drink. "Can you pass the popcorn?"

A few days later, Sonic, Amy, and Tails were back in the house, sitting in front of the television. The blue blur had mostly gotten over his ordeal. The three of them were laughing at Dwayne Johnson's antics in a comedy film, while munching away on a gigantic bucket of popcorn, and guzzling large cups of Dr. Pepper. The trio were so busy with the film, they failed to hear footsteps coming up to the door, and the click as the door was unlocked. Tom and Maddie came in and sat their luggage down, and turned on the lights. The two heard several voices talking from the living room, and both walked down the hallway.

"Sonic, didn't I tell you not to have the neighborhood kids over?" Tom said, surprising the trio. "It's not- oh boy..."

The two humans and three mobians just sat there, staring at each other. There were several minutes of silence, before the blue blur finally spoke up:

"Uhhhh... Tom, Maddie?" Sonic muttered, as Tails and Amy waved at the two humans nervously. "I have two friends of mine I'd really like you to meet..."

-The end, for now-

(well, that's the end of my sonic story! If I get enough positive response and feedback to this story, I will follow up with the sequel I set up here. Anyway, if you have any questions about the characters, the plot or the narrative, please feel free to PM about it! Anyway, that's all for now, and I hope you enjoyed my story!

Okay, for story note purposes, I am going to state that in my stores, the characters ages do not match their games counterparts. In my universe, Sonic is about 18, Amy is about 18, Tails is about 12, and knuckles is about 18, this is their level of maturity in human years. Thank you.)