It's arrived, the last chapter! Thanks to everyone who's reviewed you've made me happy! Be warned that this chapter is very weird (but so is the whole story so that's not new is it:D) Anyway, enjoy and please REVIEW!

Chapter 13:

The Apocalypse, Chuck E. Cheese and the Final Chapter

In the morning, the group was again up and running. If you could call watching TV 'up and running' that is. So far, nobody had taken notice that the sky was blood red outside. Probably because no one had been outside.

"Hey, has anyone brought in the newspaper yet?" Knuckles asked.

"Since when do you read the newspaper?" Rouge asked.

"Since when do you read period?" Sonic said beginning to laugh at his own joke.

Knuckles threw an apple at him and Sonic decide to shut his mouth. Cash told everyone that he'd go get the newspaper and everyone thanked him.

Cash walked outside and looked in the sky. He gasped and bolted back in the house screaming at the top of his lungs.

"IT'S THE APOCALYPSE! IT'S THE APOCALYPSE!" Cash yelled.

"The apocalypse? What do you mean by that?" Rouge asked.

"Ignore him. He yells random stuff constantly." Radar sighed.

"I went outside to get the paper and the sky… it's red and scary!" Cash said hastily.

"Yeah, sure Mr. Fantasy. I'll go out and get the paper and check. There is no apocalypse." Radar sighed again.

He walked outside and looked at the sky.

"Holy crap! The abomination is right!" Radar muttered.

Radar ran back into the house screaming at the top of his lungs as well.

"IT IS THE APOCALYPSE! IT IS THE APOCALYPSE!" Radar yelled.

"Told ya so." Cash said before going back to screaming.

Knuckles, Rouge, Shadow, Espio, Tails and Sonic all glanced at each other. The apocalypse? They all went over to the window and looked out to see the sky blood red as well. They all began screaming too. The whole household was screaming at this point.

Two hours had passed and everyone was still screaming except Shadow who had calmed down. He was currently hiding under the sofa with a pillow over his head to try and muffle the yells. Suddenly, all the noise stopped. Shadow poked his head out from under the sofa and found everyone on the ground panting and gasping for breath.

Shadow crawled out from under the sofa and smirked. He looked around again. Sonic and Cash were having spasms, but everyone else was just breathing hard.

Everyone calmed down and they went back to doing whatever they were doing before. Knuckles then asked if anyone had brought in the newspaper. Nobody said anything about him saying that two hours ago. Shadow noticed though, but he stayed silent. Then Sonic made the comment about him not being able to read and then Cash went outside and came back in screaming again.

'We all know it's the apocalypse Cash you don't have to say it twice you dumb cheetah.' Shadow thought.

Nobody acted liked they knew. Radar went outside again and came back in agreeing it was the apocalypse. This was too weird. Knuckles, Rouge and the rest went back over to the window and they all began screaming again. That just happened! Was Shadow the only one noticing this?

"Guys, you just did this a couple minutes ago." Shadow said.

Nobody heard him because they were all screaming.

"SHUT UP YOU ANIMALS!" Shadow yelled.

Everyone fell silent and looked at Shadow who had foam coming out of his mouth.

"MAD HEDGEHOG! MAD HEDGEHOG!" Rouge yelled.

Shadow wiped his mouth off and began yelling again.

"You guys just did all this a couple minutes ago! Why are you repeating what you just did?" Shadow asked.

"What?" everyone asked in unison.

"Knuckles, you've asked for the newspaper twice, Cash you've screamed it's the apocalypse twice along with Radar. And then the rest of you all went over to the window, looked out and began yelling TWICE! Why are you repeating yourselves?" Shadow asked.

"It's the apocalypse? Aaaaaahhhhh!" Knuckles yelled.

Everyone caught on and began screaming again except Shadow who smacked himself in the forehead. Then, everyone picked him up and threw him out the window and Shadow was swallowed by the apocalypse.

Shadow woke up in his bed yelling and sweating. He looked around. He was in his bed? Shouldn't he be in a dark place? He looked at the clock: 12:19p.m.

Shadow sighed and then began laughing. IT WAS A DREAM! Shadow got out of his bed and looked out the window. The sky was clear blue and there wasn't a cloud in the sky.

Shadow walked downstairs and Knuckles was reading the newspaper. Shadow smiled. He looked out the window again. Clear sky again. He smelled breakfast that Rouge was cooking and smiled even bigger. Everything was going to be okay. There was no apocalypse.

At breakfast everyone was discussing what they should do today.

Shadow put in earplugs so he couldn't hear Tails' idea. And here it comes…

"CHUCK E. CHEESE'S!" Tails yelled.

Shadow took out his earplugs.

"Yeah, that's fine with me. I love that place." Sonic agreed.

"Is it dark?" Espio asked.

"Some parts are." Sonic replied.

Espio smiled and everyone else agreed to go there. Unfortunately, since Shadow had his ears plugged he didn't know where they were going.

"Where are we going?" Shadow asked.

"Weren't you listening?" Knuckles asked.

"I uh… zoned out." Shadow replied.

"We're going to Chuck E. Cheese!" Tails replied jumping up and down in his chair.

"What's Chuck E. Cheese?" Shadow asked.

"Geesh, the things you miss when you're encapsulated on a space station for 50 years…" Sonic muttered.

Shadow ran over to Sonic and pushed his head into his scrambled eggs.

"So, what is it?" Shadow asked sitting back down in his chair.

"You'll see when we get there." Rouge said smirking.

Chuck E. Cheese's

Shadow walked in and stood there. A big mouse or rat or chinchilla or whatever the thing is, was walking around greeting kids. Babies were crawling around and wailing and kids were saying they didn't get enough tickets. And don't even get me started on all the noise. Shadow's eyes twitched and then he fell down.

"I'm dying!" Shadow yelled. "I'm supposed to spend my whole day in here?" Shadow asked still on the floor.

"I wouldn't lie on the floor if I were you." A clerk said.

Shadow immediately jumped up and went to find everyone else. He found them at a table eating pizza. Cash and Tails were dancing around Sonic and Radar trying to get them to buy tokens for them. Shadow sat down in a chair next to Knuckles.

"So whadya think?" Knuckles asked.

"I'm at loss for words…" Shadow muttered.

"In a good way or bad way?" Knuckles asked.

"Bad way."

"Don't worry. I hate this place too. I just manage somehow." Knuckles said. "And to tell the truth," he lowered his voice, "the pizza isn't all that great."

Shadow picked up a piece and sniffed it. It had a weird aroma to it. Shadow decided to just drink some Mello Yellow instead. He and Knuckles cowered together in a corner while everyone played games. Rouge came over to them and shook her head.

"You two hate everything don't you?" Rouge asked.

"What makes you think that? I like a lot of things you all do, just not this place." Knuckles said.

"Whatever." Rouge said walking away.

Shadow began to look around again. He hated the place even more now. The noises were getting on his nerves. He took out his gun and clutched by his side. Just in case…

The gang had been at Chuck E. Cheese's for two hours now. Shadow and Knuckles remained in the corner writing their wills. There were twenty bullet sized holes in the ceiling where Shadow had shot his gun from annoyance of the place. Then who should walk in, but Vector and Charmy. Charmy spotted the echidna and hedgehog over in the corner and zoomed over to them crashing into the wall once he arrived. Shadow and Knuckles glanced at each other.

Charmy got up and dusted himself off. He then glanced back and forth between the two.

"Shadow and Knuckles are in Chuck E. Cheese's! It's a sign of the apocalypse!" Charmy yelled at the tops of his lungs.

"Why does everyone keep talking about the apocalypse?" Shadow asked.

"Because it's coming today!" Charmy yelled.

"The apocalypse? As in the end of the world?" Knuckles asked.

Charmy shook his head and Knuckles began screaming. Shadow covered his ears and then slapped a hand over Knuckles mouth.

"How do you know this?" Shadow asked Charmy.

"Vector told me."

"And how does Vector know this?" Shadow asked.

Suddenly a TV crashed through the ceiling and landed on Knuckles. It turned on once it hit him. A woman was one there and she was yelling.

"IT'S THE APOCALYPSE!" the TV yelled.

Shadow and Knuckles looked at Charmy, then the TV, then back to Charmy. Then the roof of Chuck E. Cheese's ripped off to reveal and blood red sky. Shadow was fed up with this. It had to be another dream. He pinched himself, but he didn't wake up.

Shadow looked around for proof that this wasn't a dream. He spotted Amy and Sonic attached to each other in a big hug staring at the sky. Then Sonic kissed Amy and Amy kissed Sonic. Yeah, this was real. In Shadow's dreams that would never happen. Sonic would set fire to Amy and Amy would do the same to him. This was real.

By now everyone was screaming and running around frantically. Knuckles pushed the TV off him and he and Shadow stared at Charmy. Well what do ya know? The annoying little bee was right for once. All the people were running out of Chuck E. Cheese to try and get home. Now it was just the gang in the place. Everyone ran over to Shadow and Knuckles and Charmy.

"Shadow what did you do?" Rouge asked.

"What? I didn't do anything!" Shadow said.

"Fess up Shadow, only you can cause the sky to turn red. Who'd ya kill?" Sonic asked.

Shadow glared at him.

"I didn't do anything Sonic!" Shadow yelled throwing his gun at Sonic.

"It's the apocalypse!" Charmy yelled cheerfully.

"It is?" Tails asked looking at the sky.

"Just look at the TV." Charmy said.

Everyone turned their attention to the TV to see the woman on it screaming again. Everyone began screaming and this time Shadow did too. Then, a black hole opened up in the sky.

"We're gonna get swallowed by the apocalypse!" Knuckles yelled.

"No we're not…" Tails said.

"You all are gonna be swallowed by the apocalypse! I hope you had a good life." The TV yelled.

"Never mind… yes we are." Tails muttered.

Then the wind began to stir and everyone was picked up off the ground. Everyone began to be slowly headed towards the hole. They all decided they couldn't do anything so they did their favorite thing.

Sonic ate chilidogs while he was being sucked towards the apocalypse and was on his 57th one when he was swallowed. Tails worked on an invention, pushed the button and was turned into a blue-jay. He was a bird when he was swallowed. Knuckles was staring at the Master Emerald while Rouge was clinging to him. Knuckles forcefully tried to pull her off but she kept a firm hold. Shadow was shooting his guns manically at random targets; shooting a plane that was going to Jamaica in the process. Espio was sleeping (wow that's thrilling). Radar was listening to his I-pod trying to drain out Cash's obnoxious signing. Charmy and Vector were playing cards with each other and Charmy yelled he won right before being swallowed.

Now everything was wrecked. The only people left from Sonic and co. were Big, Cream (and anyone else I forgot). Cream flew off to Tahiti and Big tripped over an ant and rolled down a hill into the sea.

And excusing the fact that Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Rouge, Shadow, Espio, Radar, Cash, Charmy and Vector were all swallowed by the apocalypse… They all lived happily ever after. Except the author who later gets beaten up by everyone for making them be swallowed.

THE END……… or is it?

Yes, that was an entirely random end and sorry if it wasn't all that great. I typed the end very late at night. I'm taking a break from Sonic fics write now. If anyone's interested, I'm going to start a POC (pirates of the Caribbean) fic. After that, I'll probably return to writing Sonic fics. I hope you liked the story! Knuckles-101