Me: Hey bitches! This is AK here with the final chapter.

Amy: Its over? Aaaaawwww.

Cream: Don't be upset, Amy.

Me: Cream's right. Besides with this story over, I can now focus more on the AutoKnights.

Vector: Until someone else sends you an idea.

Me: Until then.

Sonic: Well AK, are you ready?

Me: Yep. Let's do this. I do not own Sonic the Hedgehog or any other characters in that universe. That being said, please enjoy the final chapter of, Of Chao and Hedgehogs.

Of Chao and Hedgehogs

Chapter 11: The Standoff

(Station Square Hospital; 12:15 AM)

Shadow and Rouge had just arrived at the hospital and went straight up to Amy's room. Omega was still there with her. So was Rose the Chao. Amy was asleep but awoke when Shadow nudged her.

"Wha…Shadow? What are you doing here so late?" she asked groggily.

"Amy, do you know anything about what's happening with Sonic right now?" Rouge asked.

Amy sat up and shook her head. Shadow and Rouge then proceeded to tell Amy everything that happened in the short time since Amy was admitted to the hospital. Everything Sonic had said and done was told to the pink hedgehog. When they were done, Amy was absolutely shocked.

"No way! Sonic would never use a gun!" Amy cried.

"Silver and Blaze saw him with their own eyes. Even Cobalt had a strap of bullets around him." Shadow said.

Rose's eyes bugged out when she heard that.

"So what do you need ME for?" Amy asked.

"Sonic's gone crazy, Amy. He won't listen to us. But maybe he'll listen to you. You can stop him from making a big mistake. He wants to kill Eggman." Rouge said.

"Why would he want to do something like that?"

"I think it's because of what Eggman did to you." Shadow said. "It's like when he saw you beat up like this, something in his head just snapped."

"So you want me to talk to him in hopes of calming him down." Amy said.

Shadow and Rouge nodded.

"Well I would happily do it, except that I don't think I'm allowed out of this place for a few more days."

Shadow stepped forward and held out his green Chaos Emerald.

"Amy, I want to lie down, close your eyes, and relax." Shadow said.

Amy looked at Rose with a hint of doubt. But the two of them trusted Shadow. Rose went over to Rouge and Amy lied down and closed her eyes.

"What are you doing, Shadow?" Amy asked.

"I'm shortening your stay." Shadow said. "Now relax."

Amy complied with Shadow's instructions and began to breathe slowly and steady. Shadow closed his own eyes and began to concentrate his power into the Chaos Emerald. The green glow on the emerald began to intensify and then it rose out of Shadow's hand and float above Amy. Shadow raised up both of his hands and then a bright green aura came from the emerald and it surrounded Amy's body entirely. Then all of her injuries disappeared. Even her hair band was repaired. The glow on the emerald died down and the emerald itself fell back into Shadow's hands. Amy opened her eyes and looked at herself with joy. Rose flew over and hugged her.

"Thanks, Shadow." Amy said.

"No problem." Shadow said. "Now get dressed let's get going."

Amy got out of her bed and out on her trademark red dress and her boots too. Then all of them, even Omega, left the hospital. Amy and Rose hopped on Omega's back and then all of Team Dark headed for Soleanna.

"I'm going on ahead. Chances are Knuckles won't even pull the gun on Sonic. And he might have to." Shadow said.

Shadow warped away with Chaos Control.

"Knuckles has a gun?" Amy asked.

"It's Shadow's gun. But he gave it to Knuckles." Rouge said.

(Right Outside Soleanna; 12:30 AM)

Dr. Eggman had his hovercraft in full throttle and he was doing everything he could to make it go faster. He knew that Sonic was pissed but he would have never believed in his wildest dreams that Sonic would pack heat. He saw Soleanna up ahead and tried to get into the front gate. But he was stopped by a spinning hedgehog drilling a giant hole right through the middle of his craft. Eggman fell to the ground and the cyan Chaos Emerald fell in front of him, he tried to grab it but a familiar red shoe came down on his hand. Eggman screamed in pain and looked up to see Sonic staring at him with the coldest look anyone had ever seen before.

"S-S-S-Sonic." Eggman stuttered. "L-l-look I know what I did to the girl was wrong. I know that!"

"You should have thought of that before." Sonic said in a very dark tone.

Cobalt came out from behind Sonic and he still had that strap of bullets wrapped around his body. He pulled a magazine out from behind his back and handed it to Sonic. Sonic took the mag and inserted it up into his gun. He then cocked the gun and held it up to Eggman's head.

"I'm ready to have a life of peace, Eggman. And I can't do that with you still alive."

Eggman couldn't believe this was happening.

"Hold it, Sonic!" it was Shadow's voice.

Sonic turned around and saw everyone there. Everyone except for Rouge that is. Shadow had his gun returned to him and he had it pointed at Sonic.

"Put it down, Sonic!" Shadow said.

"Sorry, Shadow. I can't do that." Sonic said.

"I'm warning you, Sonic! Put it down or WILL shoot you!"

Sonic just glared at the ebony hedgehog. "So what's up, Shadow? You siding with Eggman again?"

"I'm not siding with anyone, Sonic. I want to see Eggman defeated as much as you do, but this is not the way to go."

"You're one to talk. You've killed how many people?" Sonic argued.

"That was before I knew who I was. I was confused and I regret it every single day of my life. Trust me, Sonic. You don't want to live with that kind of pain!" Shadow said.

"He's right, Sonic. This isn't you at all. What happened to you?" Tails asked.

Sonic looked away from them and back at Eggman.

"I woke up, Tails. That's what happened." Sonic said. "And now, I'm going to end all of our troubles once and for all."

"Sonic, please!" Blaze cried. "You're not a killer!"

Sonic ignored her and then he slowly began to pull the trigger. Shadow meanwhile began to do the same thing with his gun.

"WAIT!"

Sonic knew that voice all too well. He looked to his left and saw Rouge and Omega there. Then he saw Amy climb down from Omega's back. Rose flew over and landed in the pink hedgehog's arms.

"Amy?" Sonic muttered.

"Sonic! What's happened to you?" Amy cried.

"Chao chao chao!" Rose said.

"Don't interfere, Amy! I'm doing this for you!" Sonic said.

Everyone was taken back a bit by that.

"What do you mean, "for me"?" Amy questioned.

"What he did to you was unforgivable, Amy!" Sonic shouted.

"Look at me, Sonic! I'm fine! Shadow healed me!"

Sonic looked up and down Amy's body and saw that she was right, all f her scratches, bruises, and scars were completely gone.

"Nonetheless, I have to do this. If I don't, this world will never see peace." Sonic said.

Rose jumped out of Amy's arms and went over to Cobalt. They started to argue in Chao language. But in translation, it went like this.

"Why aren't you stopping him from making a horrible mistake?" Rose asked.

"What mistake?" Cobalt retorted. "This world is way better off without Eggman and you know that."

"But killing him is not for us to decide!" Rose shouted.

"Do you not remember what that fat bastard did to you and me? This is payback, Rose! And I want to see him suffer just as much as we did!"

"Cobalt, listen to me! Yes. What Eggman did to us, I will never forgive him for it. But I never wished death upon him."

Cobalt just looked at Rose confused. "Why not?"

"Because it's not who I am. You have to understand. What he did to us was horrible. But you and I have Sonic and Amy now. We have to move on. Don't you get it, Cobalt? If you let him pull that trigger, the two of you are no better than Eggman himself."

Cobalt just stared at Rose and then down at Eggman. He wanted so badly to see Eggman hurt, but he knew too well that Rose was right. He didn't want to stoop down to Eggman's level. Sighing, he lowered himself to the ground and removed the strap of bullets from his body. He dropped it on the ground in front of him and Rose hugged him.

"What are you doing?" Sonic asked his Chao.

"He's doing the right thing." Amy said. "Sonic, please follow him and put the gun down."

"No." Sonic said.

Amy started to tear up. She fell to her knees.

"You're not Sonic the Hedgehog!" she screamed. "The Sonic I knew would never resort to this! He would always take the high road and do the right thing! I don't know who you are anymore! But just tell me this! What happened to the Sonic I used to love?"

Amy started bawling her eyes out right there. Sonic was then over rushed by mixed feelings. Sorrow, sympathy, love, sadness, realization, anger. He couldn't take it. Seeing Amy cry just made him…

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Sonic screamed at the top of his lungs. He then staggered backwards and just stared at the gun in his hands. He threw it away and then he turned around and fell on his own knees. Amy got up and ran over to him. So did everyone else. Omega stayed with Eggman to keep an eye on him. Sonic was breathing very deeply as if he had just realized what he had done. His breathing grew even deeper and he leaned over forward, and threw up.

"Sonic, just breathe." Silver said.

Sonic yakked up the last bit and then he started crying.

"Sonic…" Amy muttered.

"I'm so sorry, Amy." Sonic sobbed.

Amy wrapped her arms around Sonic and gave him a gentle comforting hug. Sonic stopped crying for just enough time to look at her.

"I forgive you, Sonic." Amy said.

"We all do." Espio said. "Right everyone?"

Everyone smiled and agreed with what the chameleon said. Sonic smiled and stood back up.

"But what exactly ARE we going to do with Eggman?" Silver asked.

"I will take him back to Prison Island. And to make sure he doesn't get out again, I will personally guard his cell at all times." Omega said.

Everyone liked that idea. Well…except for Eggman. Rouge put cuffs on Eggman's wrists and then Omega picked him up. The robot then took off for Prison Island.

"Come on, hedgehog. Let's get you home." Vector said.

Sonic complied and decided to take it slow in getting back home. When he reached his house, everyone else had gone back to their own homes. It was just Sonic, Amy, Cobalt, and Rose.

"Can you come in for a second? I need to talk to you." Sonic said.

Amy nodded and stepped inside Sonic's house. Sonic turned on the light and closed the door.

"So what's up?' Amy asked.

"Well…" Sonic began. "Do you know the reason I went crazy?"

"I thought it was because Eggman tried to kill me." Amy said.

"Well, that was part of the reason but it wasn't the main one."

"Well then what WAS the main one?"

"Well…promise me you won't scream first."

Amy nodded.

"I only said this to Cobalt a few nights ago. But Eggman has hurt a lot of people, but when he hurts someone I love, I just lose control sometimes."

"Wait…did you just say "love"?"

"Y-yes." Sonic stuttered. "Amy…I know you may have never seen this coming but…I love you. I love you almost as much as I love running."

To Amy, hearing those words come from Sonic's mouth was way too good to be true. But this was true. She wasn't hallucinating or anything like that. This was happening. The blue blur was telling the pink rose that he loved her.

"Sonic…..do you really mean it?"

"Of course. I've been fighting a strange battle of feelings in my head for quite some time now and I had no idea why. Whenever I saw you the feelings came at me more and more harder every time. It all added up to just one thing. It was love. I have never said this to any girl before. I love you Amy Rose. And something inside my head is telling me that I always will."

Now Amy was absolutely sure this was real. Only the real Sonic the hedgehog could speak words so true. But then she did something that Sonic, Cobalt, nor Rose expected her to do. Instead of letting out a squeal of joy, she fell to her knees and began to cry for the second time that night.

"Whoa whoa whoa! Amy! What did I do?" Sonic asked frantically.

This was obviously not the reaction he was expecting.

"You didn't do anything wrong, Sonic. It's just that…" Amy sniffled. "You have no idea how happy I am!"

Sonic smiled.

"Oh yeah. People cry sometimes when they're happy too."

"You wanna be even happier?" Sonic asked.

Before Amy could lift up her head to ask what he meant, Sonic tilted her head up himself and connected his lips to hers thus creating their first kiss. Amy's eyes bugged out in surprise but then she wiped her eyes and fell into the kiss herself. They both had their eyes and their hands wrapped around the other. They were making out with a passion that none of them had ever felt before. Then Sonic's tongue began to slide across Amy's lips begging for entrance to her mouth. Amy opened up her mouth and let it in. Then she started to play with Sonic's tongue with her own. The two of them made their way to the couch and they fell onto it with Amy being on top. After twenty minutes, they stopped making out and looked into each other's eyes.

"You wanna spend the night here tonight?" Sonic asked.

Amy was taken aback by another surprise.

"Just you and me. Nothing else." Sonic said.

Amy lied her head down on Sonic's peach stomach. "Absolutely."

Amy closed her eyes and she was already asleep. Sonic got a blanket and then he put it over himself and his girlfriend. He just stared at Amy admiring how cut she looked, until finally, he fell asleep too.

Epilogue (Ten years Later)

Everyone did finally have a peaceful life. Eggman was never able to escape from Prison Island again with Omega guarding his cell. The Chaotix Detective Agency became a thriving business and the money they got helped pay for the tutors they hired to help Charmy get through High School. Tails and Cream spent all of High School together. When Cream was a freshman and Tails was a sophomore, Tails admitted his feelings to Cream and the two of them have been going out ever since. As for the Babylon Rogues, Jet and Wave DID eventually end up together. They have a very hard time being romantic but they're working on it. Storm tried to date a few girls, but he had no luck and decided to stay single forever. Knuckles and Rouge got married and Knuckles even made Rouge a bigger house as a wedding gift. Shadow and Tikal also tied the knot. Silver even proposed to Blaze during THEIR wedding. And just as Silver promised, as soon as he and Blaze got back from their honeymoon, he went out and bought a Chao. As for Sonic and Amy, they were the very first ones to get married out of all of them. The whole world was there to see the wedding of Sonic the Hedgehog and Amy Rose. Amy is now pregnant with a girl and should be expecting in three months. Cobalt and Rose lived out the rest of their days in total happiness. But then again, so did everyone else.

That's the dream, isn't it?

Amy: Me and Sonic get married? Oh, AK! Thank you!

Me: No problem, Amy.

Silver: It was a great story, AK.

Espio: It really was.

Me: Do you really mean it?

Tails: Of course we do!

Cream: I guess now you have all the time in the world to work on the AutoKnights now, huh?

Me: Yeah…but I liked working on two stories at once.

Shadow: You mean?

Me: Yes. If anyone else out there has a story idea for me, PM your idea to me. I am openly taking suggestions for stories and I will gladly except them. And thanks again goes to Gargel for sending me THIS particular idea. I'll see you guys next time or in the AutoKnights if you want. Until then, as always, peace bitches.