Finally we've reached the last chapter of this story. I am very satisfied with how many more ideas went into this one than the previous story. Anyways, time to end this and find out the fate of Sodor!
Chapter 11: Mephiles PT 3
It took about 5 minutes for Sonic to fully register what Tikal had told him. Her hands remained gripped to Sonic's shoulders as the hero was on his knees looking down letting his tears slip to the ground. A few sniffles escaped Sonic as Big rubbed his back. Choas just crossed his arms and shook in head in complete shock over this event. Shadow looked away closing his eyes. The Boos sighed and looked at each other. Kingape and the Metarex bosses didn't know what to think. Excluding Kingape, the bosses hated Thomas...but they weren't the ones that killed him. And now that he was gone, the Metarex felt...uneasy.
"Sonic...we have to rely on Lady now. Maybe she can revive him." Tikal assured him.
But Sonic thought differently...he could feel a darkness inside him growing...a hidden anger and malice consume him. Tikal could feel the energy in Sonic changing rapidly and she stood back.
"He...killed Thomas...he...he..."
"Sonic calm down...we need to think this through." Shadow said.
"How...can I...think about a plan...when..."
Sonic gritted his teeth and his fingers gripped the floor. A dark aura began to surround him...Shadow remembered how this had happened last year.
"Oh no." Shadow thought.
"Sonic you shouldn't be giving up now, that's not what you heroes usually do." Pale Bayleaf said.
"We'll admit you're not weak, there's always some kind of plan to be made." Black Narciussus said.
"Uh...guys why is that other Sonic copy awake already." Yellow Zelkova asked.
"What? What are you-" Red Pine cuts himself off.
Everyone except Sonic turns to his demonic copy who is now standing with his head tilted and mouth open revealing his yellow sharp fangs. He is also floating off the ground and smiling big.
"He's feeling the true anger inside him...he should embrace it." Sonic. EXE sneered.
"He's need to get under control before something he does something stupid." Shadow said.
Sonic. EXE just turns his head towards Shadow and keeps it tilted at a creepy angle.
"Why? It's too late to change him...even I can feel his rage...I am him after all. Unlike you FAKER!" Sonic. EXE laughed.
Shadow growled but knew this was no time to fight. Besides unlike him, Sonic. EXE managed to heal from Mephiles' powers in a short time and could not be controlled. Seeing Shadow wasn't going to make a comeback, Sonic. EXE floated over to Sonic who was slowly turning into Dark Sonic, his pupils and irises were already gone and only his white eyes remained. Sonic. EXE then put his clawed hand on Sonic's shoulder.
"Embrace your anger Sonic...after all...we all want revenge on Mephiles for everything he's done. All the murder, the destruction...especially your friend Thomas." Sonic. EXE sneered.
Dark Sonic finally got up and faced him, everyone else backing away.
"How can I trust you? You're evil, you're an evil spawn of me from another dimension. How do we know you'll just try to takeover when he's dead?" Dark Sonic asked.
Sonic. EXE scoffed and put his hands on his hips.
"You think I want to be here? I only care about getting revenge on that crystallized punk and getting back to killing and torturing in my own world. I'm willing to become good just this once." Sonic. EXE said.
Tikal bravely stepped up to Sonic. EXE, almost getting smacked by Sonic. EXE's longer spins.
"Please Sonic. EXE, why do you have to torment people? What purpose is there?" Tikal asked.
Sonic. EXE turns to her with a frown.
"It's my business, and it's the only thing that makes me happy. And still continue to do it, consider you all lucky." Sonic. EXE growled.
Tikal touch the demonic hedgehog's hands and felt the strong evil energy in him.
"I see." She sighed.
Muffle Mountain...
Tails and Percy had arrived at Lady's workshop where the magical energy had felt a great disturbance in the force. She sensed Thomas no longer alive.
"It can't be...no...IT'S NOT TRUE!" Lady gasped as tears formed.
Percy was confused by her outburst. Tails was busy shoveling the Sodor coal into her firebox.
"What's wrong Lady?" Percy asked.
Lady looked up at him...she really didn't want to tell him, but she had too.
"Percy...Tails...Mephiles has killed Thomas." Lady cried.
Percy felt his whole body go freezing cold and Tails dropped the shovel he was holding.
"Thomas...is dead?" Percy whined.
Lady winced at Percy's cracking voice. Tails angrily punched the coal truck.
"Mephiles has really done it now." Tails said.
Percy could not believe what he had heard...his best friend was dead.
"NO! NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Without warning Percy reversed out of the workshop much to Lady and Tails' surprise.
"PERCY WAIT!" Tails yelled.
But Percy didn't bother and raced through the tunnel and through the magic buffers. Tails quickly put one more pile of coal in the firebox and hopped into Lady's cab.
"LADY! WE NEED TO GO!" Tails yelled.
"Let's hurry!" Lady said.
She whistled and raced out of the workshop hoping Burnett Stone wouldn't notice she was gone. They had to catch up to Percy and save the others quickly.
Magic Railroad...
Percy used the magic's power and turned himself around so he was racing forwards and needed to get back to the island. He needed to find Mephiles and make him pay, he didn't know how he would do it, but he would find a way. Lady however much faster than Percy and started to catch up.
"PERCY STOP! YOU'RE GONNA GET KILLED AS WELL!" Lady shouted.
"BETTER ME THAN THOMAS!" Percy shouted back.
Tails flew ahead and landed in Percy's cab, he needed to manually stop him before he reached the buffers.
"Sorry Percy, but it's for your own good." Tails whispered.
He put on the brakes making Percy slow down, but Lady accidentally rammed into the back of him and push him right through the buffers.
Island of Sodor...
Once again the Boos and Metarex soilders were surprised to see Percy come through, but this time they were in awe over seeing the magical engine. Lady remained close behind Percy as they went down the line.
"Percy please...I can sense where Thomas, Shade and Metal are, I'll get them. But I need you and Tails to get the others." Lady said.
They finally stopped at a destroyed Knapford Station. Percy sighed.
"I'm sorry...it's just...why does this have to happen?" Percy asked.
"I don't know...but know this Percy, he won't be dead forever." Lady assured.
This made Percy smile a bit, Lady smiled as well.
"Now go find the other engines, Tails go find Sonic." Lady said.
"Yes ma'am the boys said and they left. Lady then teleports away.
Location Unknown...
Shade, Metal and Lyric were still fighting against the monstrous Dark Gaia while Mephiles had gone back to the Island leaving them to their doom. They had dragged Thomas' body to a safe place out of the way. Shade had teleported towards the monster and stab 2 of it eyes. Neo Metal Sonic had pierced two others. And Lyric managed to bash away any incoming meteors and evade the claw swipes of Dark Gaia long enough to destroy 2 more. This left only the one major eye that was open in the middle. But they were losing thanks to getting hit by the claws and even more meteors.
"UGH! WE CAN'T REACH THAT EYE!" Shade growled.
"HE'S TOO POWERFUL!" Metal yelled.
"There's nothing else we can do!" Lyric thought.
"Why are you even helping us to begin with?" Shade asked.
"DO I LOOK LIKE I'M TRYING TO DIE?" Lyric argued.
Suddenly Lady appeared beside them in a flash of gold dust and was surrounded in a golden aura barrier. The three could not believe what they were seeing.
"Lady!" Shade gasped.
"You're here!" Metal gasped.
"Who are you?" Lyric asked.
"There's no time for introductions...we need to stop this beast now!" Lady said.
"How?" Shade asked.
Lady closed her eyes and made all three of them be consumed in a golden aura. They felt much more powerful.
"Hey...all this energy...is empowering me." Metal said.
"I feel GREAT!" Lyric said.
"Now we shall be able to bash through anything Dark Gaia has to throw at us. LET'S GO!" Shade said.
The three nod and flew together towards the massive eye. Dark Gaia angrily tried to swipe at them but his claws bounced off them and so did the meteors. As soon as they made contact with the eye, it explodes and so does the rest of him turning into a massive cloud of purple dust. Lady noticed Thomas' mangled body nearby, she could barely look at him in that condition.
"Come on Thomas, I'm gonna take you home." Lady said.
When the three came back...they saw Lady couple up with Thomas' body.
"You can fix him right?" Shade asked.
Lady only nods and Metal rubs Shade's shoulder. Then all the attention is put on Lyric.
"What? I can't join in for once?" Lyric pouted.
Suddenly they hear someone screaming from the sky, looking up, they spotted Dark Oak falling down and he lands right on Lyric tackling him down. When they got up they nearly got to fighting when Shade stopped them.
"Dark Oak where did you come from?" Shade asked.
"I was trapped within that monstrosity." Dark Oak dusted himself off.
"Huh? Mephiles sure is weird, BUT WE'RE GONNA KILL HIM!" Metal growled.
"Come, let's head back to the island." Lady said.
Island of Sodor...
Everyone had gathered outside the battleship where Tails was explaining a few things...and of course he was freaked out by Sonic. EXE.
"Uh...so you killed me in your dimension?" Tails asked horrified.
"Ah yes...you were one of my first victims. Don't make yourself the first in this one!" Sonic. EXE sneered.
Sonic was still in his dark form but was able to control himself...at least a bit.
"YOU KILL HIM AND I'LL WRING YOUR NECK!" Dark Sonic warned.
"Relax I'm just joking." Sonic. EXE rolled his eyes.
"Hey look!" Big pointed out.
Everyone watched as Lady, Shade, Metal and Lyric arrived with Thomas and Dark Oak, but they didn't say anything.
"Lyric?" Dark Sonic gasped.
"Long story." Lyric said.
Dark Oak caught the Metarexs' eyes and they gasped.
"DARK OAK SIR!" Kingape gasped.
Bayleaf and Narcissus quickly raced over and helped the limping leader towards the others.
"Sir are you okay?" Pine asked.
"I'm fine...I'll recover. Just glad to be rid of that hedgehog for now." Oak snarled.
"Finally we're back together again." Zelkova cheered.
Everyone else just stayed silent as Lady pulled Thomas' body towards them, the sight of him caused Sonic's dark side to slowly vanish and he returned to his normal blue self...but now sadness took over. Tails covered his mouth in shock, Big and Kingape just gasped, the Metarex bosses just grunted in disbelieve. Tikal clasped her hands together and Chaos rubbed her shoulder. Percy then arrived to see Thomas.
"All the engines are safe in hiding...but...Thomas..." Percy gasped.
"Percy, everything will be okay." Shade said.
Then she pulled out the seven chaos emeralds, they circle around Thomas and Lady unleashes some magic gold dust to cover the chaos emeralds increasing their power. Everyone watches as they began to circle faster and faster around Thomas and engulf him in a bright golden light. A minute later the light vanishes and everyone is dumbfounded by what they were seeing. There in the middle, living once more, was Thomas the tank engine, only now as Super Thomas. Percy moved closer.
"Thomas? Is that you?" Percy asked.
The gold and blue engine smiled.
"Hello Percy." Thomas said.
"THOMAS!" Percy whistled.
Everyone cheered, but it was quickly interrupted by a familiar evil laugh. Everyone turns forwards to see Mephiles standing there cracking his knuckles.
"So...you think you've beaten me huh? Sure you've gotten back the Metarex leader, you saved Thomas' body, and you defeated every single enemy I've thrown at you. But I STILL LIVE!" Mephiles yelled.
Sonic. EXE stepped up closer.
"YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR SENDING ME HERE!" Sonic. EXE snarled.
"Hah, your pathetic! Just like the real sonic!" Mephiles pointed to the blue blur.
Then Mephiles noticed that Thomas was alive and golden.
"WHAT? HOW DID YOU COME BACK? I KILLED YOU!" Mephiles growled.
Thomas smirked as Lady moved closer.
"You can thank me for that!" Lady smiled.
Mephiles could quickly that mass amounts of golden energy in her, it almost made him stagger back.
"YOU! You must be who was stored in those buffers. Well then I guess I'll have to get rid of you in order to destroy this island completely. YOU'LL ALL BE DEAD VERY SOON! NO EXTRA POWERS WILL SAVE YOU NOW!" Mephiles growled.
Everyone got ready, of course except Percy who back a bit. Lady however was still smiling.
"Just go ahead and try." Lady said.
"Very well!"
Everyone was shocked at what happened next. Mephiles flew at Lady with a purple orb ready to smash into her face, however as he made contact, he is suddenly forced back and slams into the ground hard. Lady didn't even flinch as Mephiles rubbed his head.
"What? How is that possible?" Mephiles gasped.
"I'm much more powerful than you." Lady said.
"OH YEAH?"
Mephiles tried again planning to punch her, but the gold dust barrier bashed him back and he hits the ground again.
"Argh...NO! I CAN'T LOSE! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!"
Mephiles got up staggering around, he was feeling weaker. Sonic and Shadow immediately dashed at him and home-attacked him back down. Then Metal and Shade ran at him and sucker-punched him a few feet away.
"HOW? HOW AM I THIS WEAK! IT MUST BE THAT GOLD DUSTY STUFF SHE HAS ON HER! Such as amazing power...I'M GONNA CLAIM IT MYSELF!" Mephiles vowed.
He got up and tried one last time, but was met with defeat when Thomas rammed into him knocking him far down the line. When Mephiles tried to get up, he saw Sonic. EXE coming straight for him. For the first time, Mephiles actually felt afraid. Before Sonic. EXE could come in contact with him, Mephiles warped away.
"Ugh, where did he go now?" Sonic wondered.
"I think I know." Lady said sensing his signal.
"Where?" Sonic. EXE asked.
Radical Highway...
Mephiles had chosen a place to hide thinking they would never find him. He ached and he felt so much pain. He had never been able to feel such pain before. He sat on top of bridge supports looking down at the city.
"I can't believe I'm losing. That engine is very powerful...ugh...why did I bother trying to bring people from other dimensions, in fact why did I bother getting help at all." Mephiles whined.
"MMMMEEEEPPHHHHIIILLEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!"
"Oh no!"
Mephiles looked ahead of the bridge to see Sonic. EXE standing there holding a thumbs up. Mephiles felt scared...his dark soulless heart feeling smaller and colder. Sonic. EXE had no heart...and no a soul...he collected them.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT?" Mephiles shouted from where he stood.
"So many souls to play with, so little time, wouldn't you agree?" Sonic. EXE laughed.
Mephiles shuttered and decided to run for it. He went to fly but realized he had his powers stolen by Lady and he plummeted to the ground crashing onto the concrete. When he got up, he saw Sonic. EXE standing right in front of him, his head tilted to the side and mouth open wide.
"Going somewhere?"
"GAH!"
Mephiles raced passed and ran for it on foot, but Sonic. EXE floated up next to him.
"Here I come." He teased.
Mephiles ran faster and the demon kept up. They raced up and down slopes, jumped a few gaps in the road, and zoomed through a few loops. Mephiles couldn't understood why the highway was built this way. Sonic. EXE would constantly disappear and reappear around him and taunt him.
"You're too slow!"
"SHUT UP!"
"You won't be ready for round 2."
"GO AWAY!"
"YOU'RE GONNA DIE!"
"NO!"
Eventually they reach a long stretch of road and Sonic. EXE eagerly tackles him down. The two wrestle around for a bit before Mephiles gets on top and angrily starts to pummel him, but his punches took no effect and Sonic. EXE was laughing in his demonic way. Sonic. EXE claws Mephiles in the face before flipping them over, picking him up and pushing him away.
"I'M GETTING TIRED OF THIS!" Mephiles shouted.
"Oh I bet you are...WELL SO AM I!" Sonic. EXE shouted back.
The two angrily charge each other and collide and a massive explosion rocking the highway. A massive dust cloud engulfed the area for a few minutes. When it cleared, Sonic. EXE was still standing and Mephiles was lying on the ground coughing up blood.
"Ugh...no..." Mephiles clawed the ground.
"Aw...still not giving up are we?"
"FUCK YOU!"
Mephiles slowly got up and went to punch the demon who blocked it, then the demon punched him back twice. Dazed, Mephiles staggered back before EXE went behind him and held Mephiles in place.
"HEY WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
"HOLD STILL!"
Suddenly the two see two blurs of gold heading straight for them. Mephiles recognized them and screamed in horror.
"NO! NO! NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Bolting for them was Super Sonic and Super Thomas smirking.
"Together?" Super Thomas asked.
"Together!" Super Sonic said.
It only took a second...during that second, EXE had warped out of the way, and Super Thomas and Super Sonic collide with Mephiles so hard, he ultimately explodes in a cloud of purple particles and fade out of existence, he was finally destroyed. Seeing he was gone, Sonic and Thomas cheered.
"HOORAY!" Thomas cheered.
"THAT WAS INCREDIBLE!" Sonic cheered.
EXE then comes over clapping.
"Nice work...took you two long enough." EXE said.
"Whatever, let's get back to the island." Sonic said.
Island of Sodor...
After hearing the news, everyone decided to celebrate well almost everyone. Lyric has disappeared during the whole chaos presumably back to his base. The Metarex were also about to leave but Kingape wanted to say his goodbyes.
"It was nice working with you all, but it's time we revert back to our old ways." Kingape said.
"Heh, whenever your commanders want to fight, we'll be ready!" Sonic said.
Kingape actually hugged Big who hugged back, much to everyone's shock.
"Take care Big, you really proved yourself." Kingape said.
"Aw thanks. I did my best." Big said.
Eventually all the Metarex left with Dark Oak vowing to destroy Sonic and his friends another day. Then the Boos all retreated back to the mountains until the island was restored. This left Thomas, Lady, Percy, Sonic, Tails, Shade, Metal, Shadow, EXE, Tikal and Chaos.
"Hey so what happened to Dark Guardian?" Tails asked.
"Oh he was destroyed when the clone of Dark Gaia was destroyed." Lady explained.
"Hmm...well I guess everything is back to normal." Sonic smiled.
"Define normal." Shadow said.
Everyone saw there was a lot of destruction. But Lady let off some steam.
"Don't worry, I can put everything together again."
She closed her eyes and she began to glow, and instantly, the whole island was finally restored like brand new. No more fires, destruction, injuries or anything else like that. A few minutes later everyone recognized Sir Topham Hatt's car pulling up.
"Ah I see Lady here has restored everything! Well done! My, after so much chaos, I think there's gonna be a bright future ahead of us." STH said.
"Indeed sir, glad we could help." Shade said.
"Well done to you all, and Thomas, Percy, Lady, you three are really useful engines." STH said.
The three whistle happily, though it annoyed Shadow. STH didn't bother to question where EXE had came from.
"So EXE, you heading back to your dimension now?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah...although I may be back to see this movie Tikal and Chaos are making. How much longer?"
"It should be just 3 days. We should hold a movie night here on Sodor." Tikal suggested.
"That sounds like a great idea." Thomas said.
"Then we'll do it!" STH agreed.
"Hmph...I won't have time for that." Shadow looked away.
"Typical Shadow." Sonic rolled his eyes.
Shadow smirked before looking to Thomas.
"Thomas, nice work. You're learning...just remember who the ultimate lifeform is." Shadow said.
He walked away while everyone rolled their eyes.
"Hey Shadow, what about our race?" Sonic asked.
"Another time...you'll need rest since you're in no shape to beat me." Shadow smirked.
Before Sonic could retort the black hedgehog had warped away.
"Faker." Sonic muttered.
Meanwhile, Tails was confronted by EXE.
"So...you really are going to be killing more in your dimension?" Tails asked nervously.
"You bet...wanna join me?" EXE grinned.
Tails backed away.
"No thanks."
"Thought so...hehehe..."
He loudly laughed demonically before flickering away. Tails rubbed his head in relief, only to feel someone behind him. Turning around, EXE roars in his face before finally warping away. Tails just fainted on the spot.
Three days later, all the engines gathered at Tidmouth sheds where in front of them was a projector lighting up a large screen for the movie. Sonic, Tails, Metal, Big, Shade, Tikal and Chaos had invited EXE, Blaze and Marine to watch the movie which they were happy to do. Knuckles couldn't come since he was guarding the Master Emerald. Shade nudged Tails and gestured to Sonic and Blaze who were sitting next to each other, their gloved fingers slightly touching. Down below, Lady had warped herself besides Thomas.
"Thanks Lady for everything." Thomas said.
"You're welcome, you were very brave." Lady said.
"Just promise me one thing...you'll always be here for us...for me."
"I promise Thomas...I'll always be here for you all..especially for you."
THE END
And finally that ends the story! It's been quite awhile since I wrote the first chapter and this has definitely come a long way. Well, hope you all enjoyed this! There is now one last sequel called "Sonic Chronicles: Blue Steam" now available to read if you want. Anyways, KINGSTRIKER OUT!