Chapter 26: The Conclusion

Unknown region of space:

The heroes on the ground saw the light and the explosion, and were questioning what it was.

"Look!" Amy pointed at the void, which was shrinking swiftly.

"Yeah!" Luigi and Tails cheered. "They did it!"

Just then, there was a bright light that engulfed the entire universe. When it cleared, the heroes found themselves in front of Peach's Castle.

"Sonic!" Tails exclaimed, running to his friend and giving him a high-five. "You did it!"

"Mario! You're alive!" Luigi shouted, tackling his brother and hugging him.

"Yep." Sonic said grinning. "We did it."

"We won!" Mario exclaimed, trying to get Luigi off of him. The sight of the brother's wrestling and Mario's words prompted everyone to cheer and laugh.

Princess Peach walked to Mario and Sonic. "Thank you both for saving my kingdom, and the whole universe." She said gratefully.

"Heh, no prob." Sonic grinned.

"No problemo." Mario agreed.

"Well," Sonic looked around him. "We'd better get back to our own world."

"Yeah." Tails nodded.

Mario nodded, and then looked at Sonic. "Thank you for helping me protect the kingdom."

"Hey, what're we for?" Sonic asked, shaking Mario's hand.

Luigi walked to Tails and hugged the fox tightly. "I'ma gonna miss you." He said, tears rolling down his face.

"I'm going to miss you too Luigi." Tails said, trying not to cry.

Knuckles looked at Yoshi and nodded. "It was nice meeting you." He said.

Yoshi nodded back. "Yeah. It was fun."

"I'm going to miss you Toad." Cream said to the fungus. "You were a great friend."

"Chao!" Cheese agreed.

"I'll miss you too Cream."

"Well," Eggman said nonchalantly. "I don't know about you, but I'm going to stay here."

"WHAT!?" Bowser roared. "Because of YOU the entire universe almost got destroyed!"

"Well I…uh…YIKES!" Eggman quickly began running from the enraged Bowser.

"GET BACK HERE!" Bowser roared angrily, making everybody else, even Shadow, laugh.

"Well," Sonic turned to Mario. "See you around."

Mario nodded. "Yeah. See you around."

Sonic, Shadow, and Silver took out the seven Chaos Emeralds and held them together. "Chaos Control!" They shouted in unison. In an instant Sonic and his friends from Mobius were surrounded by light. When it cleared, there was no sign of them.

"I'm gonna miss them bro." Luigi sighed.

"Me too." Toad agreed.

"They were fun to hang around." Yoshi nodded.

"We'll see them again someday." Mario assured them.

"Hey Mario!" Bowser roared, startling everybody. "I'll see you later!"

"OK." Mario nodded, and then he realized that Bowser had the princess with him. "Oh you little—" Mario and Luigi quickly began running after Bowser as Wario and Waluigi laughed.

"And now things are back to normal!" Waluigi exclaimed.

"Yep." Wario nodded. "Now let's go steal the money from the castle."

But before they could begin walking they were flattened by the ground-pounding Yoshi.

"Ungh!" Wario groaned. "Maybe another time!"

"We weighs almost as much as you!" Waluigi retorted.

And so, the threat that Dimentio posed to the universe ceased to exist. And Sonic and his friends returned to Mobius. Whether they will ever join forces with Mario again, no one knows.

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The end