URGENT NEWS: Well you guys, I've been thinking about this for a while now. I regret to inform you that this will be the finale of Sonic Meets Lyoko. I've loved doing this story so far but I've started losing interest in it. Don't worry though, I'm not gonna just give you a shitty finale and call it quits. I'm going all out for this chapter. If you all are angry for making this decision I don't blame you, but I really do hope you enjoy the final chapter. Honestly, it's actually my favorite. Out of all of them I think this will be my favorite chapter, this or chapter twelve.

It's been a blast writing this for the past year and a half. And I'm glad you all stuck with me for so long… so without further ado, here it is. Sonic meets lyoko, series finale. I hope you all enjoyed the ride. Because I have :)

The days turned into weeks and the weeks turned into months. The group of friends had been enjoying their times together and even fighting off XANA's attacks. Tails, Eggman and Jeremy had all collaborated and worked together, trying build the portal that would send sonic and his friend's home.

The Kadic academy's school year was just about to finish up. After this, they'd all be graduating and moving onto the next grade. Everything seemed perfect, well, except for the XANA attacks. But recently, XANA's attacks have been both less and less lethal and less frequent. It went from every other day to happening every other week. Finally, XANA's been inactive for a month. It's got Jeremy severely worried and with just a few days before the portal device is finished, they've got a lot on their plate.

What happens next; was just the beginning.

Sonic was looking at the schools lunch menu. His finger tapped his chin and he continued to scan today's special.

Chili-dogs.

"I… I just don't know what to say." He looked at the chili dogs that lay before him. "I don't know which to choose. I mean, each look like they were prepared with such special care and skill."

The lunch lady looked over the hedgehog dressed as a boy. "Kid, just take one. You're holding up the line."

"Are you insane? A chili dog can't just be 'chosen' by the flick of a wrist! It's got to be endowed." A word sonic himself didn't even know he knew or what it meant for that matter.

The woman rolled her eyes, "Look. You've got five seconds to pick one before I make you go to your table WITHOUT one."

The hedgehog gulped, "Oh look! Here's the perfect one for me!" He snatched the chili dog with a nervous smile and headed back to his seat. "Mean, grouchy old lady…" He mumbled as he took a seat.

Amy smiled at her boyfriend, "What's wrong Sonic?"

He sighed and looked at his lone chili-dog, "Nuthin…" He pouted as he took a small bite.

Jeremy was sitting next to Amy, typing away at his computer. Suddenly, an alarm went off. "And there it is. FINALLY, XANA is sending out an attack again." He looked over his friends, "You guys know what to do right?"

Amy and Sonic looked towards the blonde. "Actually, I kinda wanna sit this one out." Sonic quickly spoke.

The two looked at the hedgehog with surprise, "What?"

"Yeah, I've been going to Lyoko almost every time there's an attack. I really just want to relax for a little. I know it's important and all, but I don't think you need me to go this time, right?"

Sonic had a nervous smile. His actions were a little selfish, but nevertheless he was right. Jeremy sighed, "That's fine." He pulled out his cellphone and called Ulrich Odd and Yumi. "You guys, XANA's finally launched an attack."

They all agreed to meet up at the factory and discuss the plan later. Aelita had just returned from getting her lunch, "Hey everyone. Did I miss anything?" She smiled innocently.

"Yeah, XANA's launched an attack. C'mon Aelita." Jeremy stood up and waited for her to set down her tray.

Aelita sighed but knew she had to go. "Sonic, you can have mine if you want."

Sonic smirked and bent over to her tray, "Don't mind if I do!" He snatched the chili dog from her tray and placed it onto his. "It's a good day for me today." He smiled and took another bite into his chili dog.

"Alright, is everyone ready?" Jeremy looked over to his friends who had gathered at the factory. Odd, Ulrich, Yumi, Aelita and Amy were there to be sent to Lyoko and to shut down the activated tower.

They all nodded and stepped into the elevator. "Odd, Ulrich and Yumi are being sent first, Amy, you and Aelita will be sent next." Amy saluted as the door closed. Jeremy began to type in the code for virtualization but as he did this, something felt off. Why would XANA suddenly launch an attack now? Not to mention, there hasn't been any kind of news story relating to any kind of attack.

Whatever XANA was planning, Jeremy knew he had to be ready for it.

"Transfer, Odd. Transfer, Yumi. Transfer, Ulrich." Jeremy began, typing in his codes. "Scanner, Odd. Scanner, Yumi. Scanner, Ulrich." Their wireframes soon were full of color on the computer screen. "Virtualization!" Jeremy hit the enter key and the three warriors were soon felt a rush as their bodies were transported onto the virtual plane.

They were in the desert sector. "So far so good Jeremy." Odd looked around and without a monster to be seen, he quickly relaxed. "Alright, send the girls!" He shouted up into the sky.

"Roger that, Odd." Jeremy quickly typed in the code for virtualization. Aelita and Amy stepped into their respective scanners and awaited virtualization.

A short time passed and they both appeared on Lyoko. "Hey Odd." Aelita smiled to him.

"Hello girls. Glad to see you made it ok." Odd smirked and looked ahead.

The group looked ahead as well and could easily see the activated tower in the distance. "Looks like XANA's losing his touch." Yumi quickly spoke.

"I wouldn't count on it." Ulrich pointed over to the tower and watched as two lone hornets came from behind it.

"We're not gonna let a few hornets scare us now guys, are we?" Odd jumped ahead and started jogging towards them.

Yumi smirked, "He sure is lively today." She began to walk ahead with Ulrich following behind.

"Um, Jeremy. Could you virtualize our vehicles for us?" Aelita asked ever so nicely.

"Sure thing Aelita, gimme a few moments." Jeremy typed away at his keyboard and soon enough, the vehicles appeared on Lyoko next to them.

Aelita thumbed him up, "Thanks Jeremy!" She jumped onto the overwing with Amy jumping on as well. Odd jumped onto his overboard while Yumi and Ulrich jumped onto the overbike.

The ride to the tower was short and while everything seemed easy, Jeremy knew better than to look at this as an easy victory. "Keep on your toes everyone. I don't trust this one bit." Jeremy frantically looked around on the screen. He looked in every direction he could.

"C'mon! Relax Jeremy! I'm sure XANA is just showing us he's still around." He slowed to a stop as the hornets readied themselves. "Alright you freaks, gimme all you got!" Odd jumped off the board and began to hop around with his fists up, as if he was trying to fight them. Strangely enough, the hornets didn't fire. They just floated there, waiting for Odd to make his move.

"Be careful Odd…" Jeremy said in a low tone.

"Well if you guys aren't going to fight back!" Odd aimed his arm towards them both. "Laser Arrows!" He fired three, both hitting dead on and caused the hornets to explode. "Hah! I still got it!"

The others quickly arrived and hopped off their vehicles. "Well that's it then. Aelita, head on into the tower." Ulrich sighed and got off his bike. "This is kind of disappointing. I was actually hoping for a little action today." He leaned against the bike as he watched Aelita run into the tower.

Amy on the other hand was actually starting to get a little worried, "I don't know. This doesn't seem right, don't you think?" She looked over to Yumi who was starting to feel the same way.

"Hey, don't worry about it. We took down the kolossus didn't we? What else could XANA throw at us? Plus we've been taking down all of those monsters from Sonic's world. What else could XANA possibly show us now that would affect us?"

Aelita did several flips and tricks as she floated up onto the platform. She placed her hand on the floating console and watched her print fade away. The screen went blank and showed the words:

Aelita.

Code – L.Y.O.K.O.

Aelita smiled as she watched the TV screens behind her fall into the dark abyss below. "Alright Jeremy. Tower deactivated." She jumped from the high platform and soon appeared outside.

"Whelp. That's the end of that!" Odd smiled, "That was pretty boring. Maybe XANA really is losing his touch."

Jeremy watched the screen. "Maybe he's right… I mean, the tower's been deactivated…" Jeremy sighed, "I must have gotten worried over nothing…" Jeremy let out a sigh of relief. Suddenly, an alarm began going off…

Sonic was enjoying himself, with his friends leaving the table, he took it upon himself to take the chili dogs on their plates and finish them all. "Oooh… It's great having friends…" He laughed lightly to himself and rubbed his stomach.

There was suddenly a crack of lightning.

"Hmm?" Sonic looked out the window, "That's… odd…" He sat up and walked over to the lunchroom's window. "Why is it getting dark out so… soon…" His words were slowed to a stop as he looked up to the sky.

"What's going…?" Jeremy looked over the screen, "The… The digital sea?!" He immediately shouted.

Back on Lyoko, the group of friends felt the earth underneath them violently shake, causing them to fall onto their backsides.

Amy rubbed her back, "What's going on…?" She looked around and quickly noticed the tower, "Wh-What?! T-The tower's red again!"

Everyone looked back to the tower, "What?!"

"You guys!" Jeremy's voice echoed, "GET OUT OF THERE!"

They all glanced at each other for a quick moment, "C'mon let's get to our vehicles!" Ulrich and Yumi jumped onto the overbike. Odd jumped onto the overboard while Amy and Aelita jumped onto the overwing. Just before they took off, a loud, glass shattering roar was heard.

It was one that Amy recognized.

"Oh no…"

"Go, go, go!" Ulrich shouted to everyone. Their vehicles took off as a large pillar of water burst up from behind them, consuming the land they once stood on.

Jeremy couldn't believe what was happening; He looked at the super scan with sheer disbelief. "That's it, I'm de-virtualizing you all now." Jeremy quickly stated.

"Please hurry!" Odd shouted as he dodged pillars of water.

Sonic, along with the rest of the school stepped outside of their classrooms and watched the sky. "This isn't good…" The hedgehog stated.

The clouds that were high in the air began to swirl. Lightning constantly struck and the wind continued to pick up speed. Sonic looked around frantically, "Maybe it would have been a good idea to go to Lyoko anyway…" He pondered for a moment. Just then Shadow came up from behind.

"Sonic." He simply said, "I think we should go to the factory."

Sonic looked to his friend, "I think you're right."

Suddenly, another crack of lightning roared across the sky, causing both hedgehogs to look up in surprise.

A black ball fell from the sky and smashed into the ground next to them. Both of them jumped back and readied themselves. The ball soon opened up, revealing the Mega-tank, but instead of attacking; there was a TV screen where the Eye of XANA would be.

Odd did several tricks on his overboard, dodging giant pillars of the digital sea as it sprouted from its usual resting place. "Jeremy, it's getting pretty hot out here!" He quickly braked as he saw a pillar of water shoot out in front of him, nearly hitting him and his board. "Woaah!" He flew to the right as the pillar changed direction and aimed for him.

"All right! That's it! You've been de-virtualized!" Jeremy sighed and leaned back into his computer. He was completely frustrated. The super scan had been going off continuously, meaning that multiple towers were being activated, including the one they just deactivated.

Suddenly, a news screen popped up onto one of the desktops. "What's this…?" He leaned in close to get a closer look at the sudden newscaster.

Odd, Yumi, Ulrich, Amy and Aelita soon appeared in the elevator and walked up to Jeremy. "Jeremy, what's going on?" Aelita ran over to him.

"I don't know…"

Sonic and Shadow watched the Mega-tank. The screen flickered for a moment, turned to static and then back to black. Soon, red eyes glowed from the darkness and out of it stepped a blue, metallic hedgehog.

"Metal…" Sonic muttered

A news van suddenly pulled up and out came the familiar woman, Scarlet Garcia. She ran over to the Mega-tank with her news team. She quickly fixed her hair and looked down at Sonic and Shadow, who she thinks at the moment are students. "Alright, is my hair OK?"

"You look great Scarlet." One of the camera men complimented.

She smiled, "Alright, thanks."

"We're live in three, two, one…. Go!"

She put on a concerned face and slightly stepped out of the way of the Mega-tank "Hello everyone! This is Scarlet Garcia, reporting to you live from Kadic academy! A school where the strange things occurring seems to center! I'm standing in front of a mysterious black ball that fell from the sky!" She moved out of the way completely as the camera zoomed in. "This strange ball has a Television screen on it, what it's going to be used for is, at the moment, unknown to us!"

The storm that had brought the Mega-tank was still raging into the air with lighting strikes still cracking across the sky and the wind still being as violent as ever.

"Here we have two students who seem to have been near the ball when it landed!" She grabbed Sonic's arm and brought him over.

"H-Hey!" He shouted.

"Excuse me, son. What's your name?"

Sonic blinked for a moment, "U-Uh… S-Scion."

"Scion, what did you see as the ball was falling from the sky?"

Sonic looked at her with a puzzled face, how did she know it was a ball when it landed? "I saw it um… fall?" He was a little nervous. "Um, excuse me but how did you know that this thing was a ball before it hit the ground?"

Scarlet looked at him, "Because this isn't just happening here."

Sonic's pupils shrunk. "That's DEFINITELY not good."

Just then, the TV on the Mega-tank's face showed an intensely bright light which caused Sonic, Shadow, Scarlet and her crew to shield their eyes. "Greetings Humans!" Metal spoke in his robotic voice. The group watched the screen, "I am metal sonic! Strongest of all XANA's warriors!"

Metal's robotic eyes narrowed, "As you all may have noticed, the sky above you does not seem as friendly as they have been currently this day. This is because…" He paused with an evil smile on his face, "This is the end of your freedom as you know it."

Sonic grunted and took a step forward. "My master has told me to inform you all of this! So that you may attempt to pathetically defend yourselves against his INFINITE army!"

Jeremy and the gang watched the news screen on the desktop. Listening to Metal Sonic's speech.

"My master has also ordered me to send a message to Jeremy belpois, Aelita Schaeffer, Odd Della Robbia, Ulrich stern, Yumi Ishiyama and Sonic the Hedgehog…"

Jeremy clenched his teeth.

"My master has been gathering the energy he needed for this strike. You have no chance of victory. The towers you need to deactivate so desperately have all been completely isolated. Without ANY land for your 'Key' to walk on, you cannot reach your precious towers. You also may have noticed the sheer number of towers TO deactivate." Jeremy quickly glanced over to the super scan. It was still going off.

"Even if you had found a way to get to these towers, say your vehicles it would take years to deactivate them all… Not only that, my master is now taking matters into his… own hands…"

Amy gasped, "I… Knew it…" She began to shiver.

"What is it, Amy?"

Ulrich looked to her with slight concern.

"The monster that was attacking us on Lyoko wasn't one of XANA's…"

An image popped up onto the screen showing the monster that had been attacking the warriors on Lyoko.

Sonic's face was frozen with fear, "It… can't be…"

The loud, familiar roar filled the air.

Dr. Eggman had stayed in his classroom. Watching the news with his students "It's… the god of destruction…"

All three of them spoke in unison, "Perfect Chaos."

"My master is no longer sitting idle by and watching you defy his will any longer. It's do or die time. In just a half hour, the global invasion of this planet will begin. Use your last minutes sparingly." Metal's laugh echoed before the screen flickered once more and shut off.

Shadow looked at Sonic and Sonic looked to Shadow. "Time to go Shadow."

Shadow nodded. They both tore off their disguises and looked towards Scarlet. He handed her a walkie-talkie "Listen Scarlet, it would be best if you left as fast as you can. I also need you to hold on to this. My friends may need your help in all of this madness."

The news woman looked at him in disbelief. "I-You-Sonic-"

"Can you do that for me? Please? I don't want anyone to get hurt."

Scarlet looked at him with slight concern, "Yes, of course." She smiled, "Alright! You heard the hedgehog, let's get a move on!" The news crew shouted in unison and quickly jumped into the van, "Good luck, Mr. Hedgehog!" Scarlet shouted as the van drove away.

Sonic smiled and watched her drive off, "Sonic!" A familiar voice shouted

"Tails!" Sonic jogged over to his best friend. Beside him was Knuckles who looked just as worried as sonic.

"C'mon, we've got to head to the factory and discuss a plan with Jeremy." Sonic looked over to Shadow with a serious expression. They both nodded and followed Sonic and Shadow.

This was it. This was the big one.

The group of four soon arrived at the factory where they soon found themselves in the super computer room. They all gathered around the chair that Jeremy was sitting in. He had been silent for a few minutes and was obviously trying to think. They all gave him the time he needed and made sure to keep quiet.

"I…"

They leaned in close.

"I don't know what to do…"

There was silence. They all looked at Jeremy with utter surprise. "I've thought of every possible angle, anything we could have done. If the land had just been destroyed we could have used the vehicles to get Aelita to the towers, but with XANA actually, physically there… I don't know what to do. If there was still land I'm sure sonic or shadow could zip Aelita from tower to tower faster than XANA could strike them down… but there's no land!" He buried his hands into his palms.

"Not to mention the sheer number of towers being activated! There's like, a limitless number of towers in lyoko! I stopped looking at the superscan after it passed 100! Four towers were bad enough, but this is ridiculous!"

Jeremy slumped into his chair and continued rubbing his face. "Deactivating the towers isn't an option anymore. The only way to beat XANA now would be to actually destroy him. But I haven't come close to finishing my virus program and there isn't nearly enough time to even attempt to finish it…"

Everyone was beginning to lose the confidence they once had.

"It's hopeless. XANA's won."

"No he hasn't!" Sonic suddenly shouted.

"I refuse to be beaten by him! If your virus program isn't finished… then I'LL be your virus program!" Sonic slapped his fist against his chest with a small smirk.

Jeremy looked at him with a confused look, "What are you talking about?"

"XANA's actually, physically on Lyoko now right? This means he's now able to be attacked!"

Jeremy began to think, "But he's BECOME the digital sea! One touch and you're devirtualized for good!"

The words hit home and sonic felt a little discouraged, "That… may be true…" He pulled out a chaos emerald, "Then again…" He clenched his fists.

Jeremy looked at him, "Sonic. I know what you're planning and there's no way it'll work."

"Super sonic is the only chance we've got Jeremy and you know it."

"Sonic, what about what happened just a few months ago?! Do you want to repeat that?!"

"What choice do we have?!" Sonic shouted.

There was suddenly a loud explosion outside. They all glanced up to the stairs. The group quickly hurried outside to see what was going on. When they made it to the manhole, what they saw was horrendous. Mega-tanks, hornets, Krabs, Tarantula's and Kankrelats all wreaking havoc across the school and they could only suspect the same was going on in the city. Jeremy looked over the destruction and then looked to sonic.

Sonic looked back with a small tear in his eye, "It's the only chance we've got."

Jeremy groaned, "I don't want anyone else to get hurt… Fine, let's do it!"

"I think it would be best for me to deal with these pests first…" Sonic clenched his fists, "Let's do this!"

The emeralds all suddenly appeared around sonic and caused him to start floating in the air. Sonic looked over the destruction and growled, "That's the end of this XANA!" Sonic's fur began to glow and his eyes started changing colors. "IT'S SUPER SONIC TIME!" The power of the chaos emeralds burst through the air, sending a powerful shockwave throughout the forest and school.

"Go sonic go!" Amy shouted.

Sonic burst forward with unimaginable speed and began to tear through the monsters within instants. People being terrified and under attack were suddenly freed from their attackers, as well as recognizing the golden aura that passed them by. Sonic floated up into the air and looked around, "I can't save everyone…" He sighed and floated back to his friends.

"Shadow, I need you to stay here and protect Jeremy and Aelita."

Shadow looked at his former rival with a smile, "I'd be glad to."

Sonic turned to the rest of his friends, "The rest of you need to spread out and start evacuating the city!"

"Right!" They all spread out and went on their way through the school.

Sonic turned to Jeremy. "Let's get this over with." Sonic grabbed ahold of Jeremy, "Chaos… Control!" The two glowed brightly for a split second and soon disappeared. They both reappeared inside the super computer room.

"With the chaos emeralds inside your body instead of outside, maybe the scanner will be able to contain all the energy. Since all the energy is flowing inside you and not flying outward in all directions like before." Jeremy began typing code into the super computer while sonic transported inside.

He looked at the scanner with slight hesitation. Last time he had entered it with chaos energy he had been trapped inside for nearly 20 years.

"Like you said sonic. It's our only option." Jeremy's voice echoed in the room.

"Right." Sonic stepped inside and turned around.

"Transfer, Super sonic!" Jeremy began hitting the keys with precision.

"Scanner, Super sonic!" He watched Sonic's wireframe flash gold on the screen and watched its spines shoot straight upward. He watched Sonic's 3D model on the other screen flash gold as well and watched it spin.

"…VIRTUALIZATION!" He pressed the enter key with all his might.

"WOOAAAHH!" Sonic shouted as he felt overwhelmed with the familiar presence.

Inside the desert sector of Lyoko, XANA had begun firing beams of energy throughout the air. Perfect chaos' power felt incredible and XANA was enjoying every second. Suddenly, the sky flashed colors for a second XANA stopped his rampage for a second and looked up.

"Hey XANA!" XANA looked towards the voice and had no time to react as sonic smashed his fist into perfect chaos' face. The monster roared in pain as sonic zoomed past it.

The golden hero slowed to a stop and turned around to face the monster. Sonic looked at his hand, "Hmm. I guess in my super form, the digital sea doesn't affect me." Sonic smirked, "Then this should be a piece of cake."

"Sorry to disappoint you sonic, but that's not the case!"

Sonic frowned, "I had a feeling that would happen…"

"Don't be too disappointed sonic, it's amazing how powerful your super form is on lyoko! Your attack and defense stats are at 99%! Before this, it wasn't near that!" Jeremy was astonished, even during their final battle, sonic and his friends continue to surprise him.

"So, that's the good news." Sonic looked down to XANA with a fierce look in his eyes, "What's the bad news?"

Jeremy continued typing, "Your attack and defense stats are phenomenal, but you're not invincible. I'm amazed at the fact that you didn't immediately devirtualize when you struck him in the beginning, but what did happen was that you DID lose a life point."

Sonic pondered for a moment, "You mean I just lost one?"

"Yes. But don't take this lightly. XANA's got 1000 life points, which completely outshines your high defense and attack and your measly 100 points."

Sonic scoffed, "He's such a cheater…" Sonic sighed and looked up at the sky, "So give me the long story short version of this explanation."

"Long story short, every second you touch XANA you lose a life point. Your attacks need to be fast and powerful if you're going to deal enough damage to eliminate him. This is all up to you sonic. XANA's materializing his monsters in the real world as we speak."

Sonic fixed his eyes on XANA, looking at all the details XANA was able to copy directly from the real perfect chaos. "How much damage did I do to him with my first strike?"

Jeremy looked at the screen for a moment, "Seems like you took 20 points away from him."

Sonic pondered for a moment, "What would happen if I were to devirtualize while touching him? Even in my super form?"

"I can't say for certain, but you'd most likely be wiped from existence. Just like usual." Jeremy sighed, "This is the end game, Sonic. No matter what happens, the struggle against XANA ends here. Whether we win or lose."

Sonic looked down to XANA, examining him. The green eyes were still present but where Chaos' brain once was, there was a ball with the Eye of XANA on it. There were large spikes on XANA's back that got smaller the farther down his back went. The beast roared with anger as it looked up towards sonic.

"This is it. It's time to end this!" He filled himself with energy and burst forward, ready to throw another powerful attack…

Tails flew high above the school and looked around for anyone in mortal danger while Amy and Knuckles were on the ground, waiting for Tails' instructions.

"Tails, what are we doing?" Knuckles' voice came in through the walkie-talkie in Tails' hand.

"We need to find a place to get everyone in the city to, a place we can keep an eye on everyone and away from XANA's monsters!" Tails gazed above him and watched as a hole was opened up in the sky. Hornets, Krabs, Mega-tanks, Bloks and so on were falling from the sky and wreaking havoc everywhere they landed.

"What about the factory?" Yumi suggested.

"Yeah, I think it's plenty big enough! And we know that place inside out! It should be perfect for keeping everyone safe!" Ulrich added in.

Tails pondered for a moment, "Alright then! Sounds like a plan!" He switched his walkie-talkie to private mode and began to speak, "Hey; is this Scarlet Garcia?"

There was a slight hesitation before a voice began to speak, "U-Um… Yes. Who am I speaking to?"

Tails smiled, "This is Miles 'Tails' Prower, Sonic the hedgehog's best friend!" He began, "He told me he had given you a walkie-talkie in the event that we needed any help from you! Can you still give us help?"

"Of course I can!" She quickly retorted, "If Sonic needs my help then you can bet I'll lend a hand!"

The fox could feel a bigger smile appear on his face, "Alright then! I need you to get the word out! Send it out over the radio, television, twitter, ANYTHING! Tell them that if you want safety, then you need to come to this address immediately!" Tails quickly gave Scarlet the address of the factory.

"Alright! You can count on me!"

"Thanks a lot Scarlet! You're a life saver!" A confident smile grew on Tails' face. He switched off private mode and put it back on public, "Alright you guys, whenever you save someone make sure to tell them to head to the factory!" Tails put it back on private mode and sent a signal to shadow.

"I'm here. What do you need?" Said the black hedgehog.

"Shadow, we're going to be sending people your way! Let them into the factory and protect them with everything you've got!"

Shadow looked at the factory for a moment, "Are you sure this place is big enough for everyone?"

"It's the biggest place in the entire city. It has to."

Shadow sighed, "I guess you're right. Alright then, send them here. I'll make sure none of XANA's monsters get passed me." He smirked. "This should be fun…" The hedgehog cracked his knuckles and noticed people running over to him already, along with a Krab chasing them not far behind.

Sonic dashed by XANA and fired attack after attack onto XANA. He dashed one last time as he heard the monster shout out in pain. He turned with a smile, but it soon faded as he watched XANA fire a beam of energy that hit him dead on. "GAAAGH!" He spun violently in the air but soon came to a stop. He rubbed his head and looked up, "Jeremy, what am I at?"

"You're at 93 Life points! You've also brought down XANA down 100 points! He's down to 880!"

Sonic smirked, "if this keeps up, I should be able to deal with XANA without much trouble at all!"

XANA gave a powerful roar that sent a shockwave throughout the Lyoko world.

"What's wrong XANA? Getting mad?"

Suddenly, watery tentacles shot out from below sonic, from the digital sea and began chasing him.

"Waah!" Sonic burst forward and dodged the tentacles, "This is new." He looked back as he was flying. He smirked as he burst forward with insane speed and got into a spindash. He plowed through XANA's face and out the other side, uncurling and looking back to see his damage, "How much that time Jeremy?"

Jeremy smirked, "Fifty points of damage! And now you're down to 91!"

"Alright! You're through XANA!"

"Chaos… SPEAR!" Shadow fired a beam of yellow energy that plowed through several monsters. Dozens of people were swarming into the factory trying to get to safety. Shadow hovered above them all, his hands glowed. "None of you monsters will get through me!" He smirked. "SPEAR!" He threw another bolt, blowing up a Krab.

"You can handle the small fries…" A voice echoed; Shadow immediately knew who it was.

"But can you handle me!" Metal sonic burst from under the bridge, leaving a gaping hole and cutting its support. "HRAAH!" Metal spun and roundhouse kicked shadow into the factory.

"Ugh… this isn't good…" Shadow grabbed his walkie-talkie, "Knuckles, I need you to take over at the factory for me, Metal's here."

"Roger that!" Shadow growled and flew up, "Alright then." His hands glowed, "let's finish this. Once and for all."

"You read my mind, ultimate life form…"

The two of them dashed at each other, grabbing each other's hands and pushing on each other. "Forget it, Shadow! You can't win!"

"Wrong." Shadow began to spin in the air, grappling onto metal in the process. Metal, unable to get himself situated, spun along with shadow. "Take THIS!" Shadow fired metal into a building, "Chaos…" his hands began to glow brightly until a giant yellow orb hover above his head. "SPEAR!" He threw it with all his might and watched it explode onto the rubble metal had landed in. Shadow smirked, "Hmph."

"Don't celebrate too soon!" Metal came bursting from the ground below and launched a devastating punch into shadow's jaw, causing him fly high into the air. Metal smirked and flew higher, catching shadow as he began to peak. "Down you go!" He flipped and drop kicked the black hedgehog until he smashed into the rocky earth below.

People were still running into the factory but some had been watching the fight between the two.

"So much for the ultimate life form," Metal landed onto the ground, changing his arm into a gun and pointed it to the hedgehog's head. "You tried so hard… and yet you failed."

"Not on my watch! HRRAAAHH!" Knuckles plowed metal in the face with his powerful fists.

Metal was launched away, tumbling on the ground in the process.

"You alright shadow?" Knuckles grabbed his hand, pulling him up.

Shadow rubbed his head, groaning. "I'm alright… that attack knocked the wind out of me. It seems he's gotten even stronger than before."

Metal sonic stood up and began to walk over to them, "If you thought that was enough to finish me off, you're sadly mistaken…"

Shadow looked at knuckles, "You need to protect everyone else. I'll handle him."

Knuckles was shocked, "Are you sure? You said he was stronger than before!"

The black hedgehog smirked, "True, but it's nothing I can't handle. Now get going!" Shadow dashed forward and plowed into metal sonic, sending metal and himself away from the factory. "It's time to finish this metal!"

Metal kicked him over, "I couldn't agree more shadow."

Blow after blow, sonic dashed past and through XANA, giving him everything he had. Several cries of pain roared from XANA as he could do nothing from Sonic's near invincible power. But the lower XANA's life points got, the stronger his defenses got. Sonic floated up and looked down at the Perfect Chaos Reincarnated.

"Jeremy… what am I at?"

Jeremy glanced at the screen. "You're down to sixty five life points."

"And XANA?"

"He's down to six hundred seventy."

Sonic smirked, "This is gonna be close." He clenched his fists, "Time to blast through with sonic speed!" He rolled up into a spindash and began to glow. "This is it!" There was a thunder crack as sonic burst forward with insane speeds. "Sonic boom!" He shouted as he plowed through the ball eye of XANA where Chaos' brain would be.

XANA shouted in pain as he doubled over and dissolved into the digital sea.

Jeremy jumped up and looked at the screen. "X-XANA… he's… he's…"

Sonic quickly uncurled and floated above the sea, looking down.

"You did it! Sonic I can't believe you did it! XANA's gone!"

Sonic was silent, looking down at the digital sea.

"C'mon! Celebrate! It's over! XANA's not on the screen anymore!"

"This isn't over Jeremy."

Jeremy fell silent. He looked at the TV screen, "you're right…"

Just then, a giant mouth burst from the water, "GAAH!" Sonic reacted and tried to climb up into the sky, but the mouth slammed shut on him before he could do so.

"Sonic!" Jeremy grabbed the monitor.

"J-JEREMY! H-How many—" There was static, "Life points do we have?!"

Jeremy looked up at the screen, "XANA'S got two hundred life points left! B…but you…"

"JUST TELL ME!"

"You've only got twenty-one, and it's getting lower."

"Then it's time I end this!" Sonic shouted and burst through the watery mouth, stopping his life points from getting any lower.

Shadow flew back and hit the wall. "Uggh…" He groaned and looked up to metal.

"Well, Well, Well… How the might has fallen. Shadow, the ultimate life form, yielding to me."

He coughed, "it's not over… till it's over…"

Metal grabbed shadow by the neck and held him up, "Your time is up Shadow. It's been up for a very long time."

Shadow smirked, "I don't think so…"

Metal looked at him with curiosity and then heard to clinks. "W-what the… Y-you're inhibitor…"

Shadow's eyes grew red and he grabbed metal, digging his fingers into his metallic armor. "Chaos…"

"W-Wait! You'll die!" Metal took a step back.

"BLAST!"

A bright light engulfed the sky.

Sonic watched XANA below him, it looked like he was charging up one of Chaos' powerful beam attacks. Sonic looked up into the sky, "Jeremy; if I don't make it out… Tell Amy…"

Jeremy sighed, "I will…"

Sonic clenched his fists. "Bring it on XANA!" He burst forward with his fists ready to deal the final blow.

XANA roared and fired a powerful blue energy beam.

Sonic's fist clenched, "Now I'll show you! RAAAAHH!" He threw his fist forward and began to plow through the energy, splitting the blast in two. Sonic's life points began to dwindle as the blast struck him. "HURGH…" he propelled himself forward. "This is it!" He gave one last push and plowed through XANA; finally hitting the floating ball that floated around inside.

XANA roared in pain once more and began to glow.

Sonic was still inside XANA.

There was an explosion that sent shockwaves throughout all sectors of Lyoko. Suddenly, the screen glowed white and then shut off.

"Wh…what…?"

Jeremy began hitting keys, "Nothing… the super computer is…"

Suddenly, all the monsters attacking suddenly shut off and collapsed onto the ground.

Odd, Aelita, Ulrich and Yumi all began to look around.

"Does… this mean…?" Aelita began.

"Yeah! Sonic won!" Odd jumped up into the air.

Everyone began to cheer.

Knuckles watched the light engulf the sky and went to follow its source, "Shadow! Shadow, where are you?!" He flew in the air, looking down. He gasped when he flew into a field and saw a charred hole. He flew down to find an unconscious shadow. He smirked, "you always push yourself to your limits. He looked on the ground and saw bits and pieces of metal sonic, along with half of his broken head.

Knuckles laughed and picked him up. "C'mon, let's go find the others." He put him onto his back and began to walk over to the factory.

After a time, everyone gathered inside the factory, waiting for Jeremy to come out. He had texted his friends to wait for him outside while he works on the super computer. Aelita was the only one allowed inside.

"What do you think's wrong?" Yumi looked at Ulrich.

"Think something happened to sonic?" Odd jumped in.

Knuckles walked in with an unconscious shadow on his shoulder, "Hey guys. Someone's been sleeping on the job." He laughed at his joke before looking over everyone's face, "Alright, What's going on?" He set shadow down and looked over everyone.

Ulrich looked to knuckles, "I'm not sure. Jeremy hasn't come out of the factory." Ulrich sighed.

"We did it you guys!" An excited Amy shouted as Tails lowered them down.

Their smiles disappeared as they looked at everyone. Silence consumed the air.

Footsteps could be heard from inside the factory and soon out walked two figures, a pink haired girl and a blond wearing boy.

"Jeremy!" Amy shouted, "What's going on here?"

Jeremy looked at Amy with a sad look, "I'm sorry, Amy but…" He held out a white glove. "This was all that was left in the scanner."

Everyone gasped.

"No…" Amy took a step forward. "I can't believe…" She sobbed for a moment.

Shadow groaned and stood up, "What the heck is all the noise…" He looked over to Jeremy and saw the white glove in his hand. "Oh…" He sighed and looked away, crossing his arms.

Just then, a bright light consumed the clam sky. The group looked up in horror as they thought sonic had failed in his mission to kill XANA. "No! It can't be!" Lightning was striking the ground, the wind was roaring and a familiar sound could be heard…

"LOOK OUUTT! GANG WAAAAYYY!" A blue streak flew across the sky "HEDGEHOG COMING THROOOUUUGGGHHH!" the blue streak flew above their heads and crashed into the street behind them along with the chaos emeralds.

Shadow chuckled, "He never ceases to surprise me…"

"It's Sonic!" Everyone shouted. The group wasted no time running over to the small crater their blue friend created.

"Ugh… Last time I try something like that…" He sat up and rubbed his head before looking up to see a pink hedgehog tackle him to the ground once more. "Woah! Amy!"

"We thought you were gone sonic!" Jeremy shouted.

Sonic chuckled, "yeah, that happens a lot." He smiled, "But I'm here now aren't I? So, did I win?"

Jeremy couldn't help but laugh, "Yeah sonic. You won."

Sonic sighed deeply, "eeeyup. I knew it." He smiled.

The group cheered, and there was even a celebration afterwords. Since the super computer would not turn back on, there was no return to the past. The present was stuck as it was. A press conference with sonic speaking on behalf of his friends was soon arranged. Jeremy and the rest of the gang were behind sonic.

"Hello everyone! My name is Sonic! Sonic the hedgehog!" He smiled to the cameras and people crowded around him. "As you all know, today, an attack on the world was launched by the same monster that attacked you several months ago!" Sonic looked back to Jeremy with a smile. He looked back towards the crowd, "I can tell you today that the monster that attacked today and several months ago has be defeated!"

As soon as sonic was finished speaking, the crowd cheered again, screams of joy echoed throughout the area.

"But I couldn't have done it alone!" He turned and motioned for his friends to come forward. "These great heroes fought with me to defeat the menace that attacked us all!"

The group stepped forward and bowed to everyone.

Sonic smiled brightly and turned to Jeremy, "Jeremy, the Mic's yours." Sonic handed the mic over and stepped away.

"Thank you, Sonic. The menace known as XANA was a rogue computer program on what was once the super computer in the old factory near here!" He began, "He was capable of taking over humans and controlling anything that ran on electricity!" Jeremy looked over the crowd, "But now he's been defeated and it's with a heavy heart that I must also be the one to tell you that our new friends, Sonic and the rest of his friends, are going to be leaving today as well.

Sonic coughed, "WH-What?!" The rest of the group followed.

Jeremy turned around and smiled, "Yeah, I finished the machine a few days ago. I just didn't want to say goodbye yet." He sniffled.

Yumi, Ulrich, Odd and Aelita looked at each other with surprise. "They're going home?"

Jeremy nodded and then looked back to the crowd. "If you'll all follow me to the factory, we'll begin saying our goodbyes!" Jeremy stepped off the stage and began walking to the factory.

The walk to the factory was short. The group was anxious to reach the factory as it seems as so they'll be saying their final goodbyes.

As they reached the factory Jeremy stood in front of a large tarp. As the group approached the tarp they admired the large contraption under the tarp. Jeremy smiled and turned to everyone. "This is the trans dimensional portal device that Dr. Eggman, Tails and I worked on together."

Tails took a step forward, "But we were nowhere near finishing it a three months ago!"

Jeremy smiled, "Yeah, I know. I asked Eggman to help me and he was happy to help."

The large doctor smirked, "I was beginning to get bored here. Your friends kept you busy enough so that you wouldn't disturb us." He twirled bits of his moustache in between his fingers.

Tails grunted a little but then looked to Jeremy, "So it's… really finished?"

Jeremy nodded and then pulled the tarp down. The portal device was a large arch that looked sort of like an enlarged scanner. "Eggman found the schematics for the Scanner on the super computer and was able to use its transportation function to Lyoko." Jeremy walked over to the controls and hit a few keys. "Eggman won't tell me how he did it, but he managed to directly link our worlds together when I switch this on."

Jeremy looked back to his friends, who at the moment had bright smiles on their faces, "The only problem is that it's a one way trip. Once you guys go in, there's no coming back."

Sonic smiled, "Well. That's certainly familiar." He took a step forward. "Alright then." He turned to his friends, "I guess this is goodbye to everyone."

Sounds of crying could be heard from the crowds behind them. "We don't want you guys to go! We just started getting to know you!" and other phrases could be heard.

Amy, Tails, Knuckles and Shadow all looked to each other and to the rest of the team.

They all knew this day was coming, but they had no idea it was going to be this soon.

Sonic smirked, "C'mon you guys; you aren't turning chicken are you?" He held out a hand to everyone.

A certain black hedgehog smiled, "I guess I'll be the first." He took a step forward and stood behind the blue blur, hands crossed and standing up straight.

"If Shadow's going first, I guess that makes me second!" Knuckles shouted and bashed his knuckles together. He ran over and placed an arm over Sonic's shoulder.

Tails and Amy laughed and ran up to the group of three. "Count us in, Sonic!" They said in unison.

Sonic smiled and turned to Jeremy, "Alright Pal, We're ready to go home." Sonic walked over to Jeremy and held out his hand. "We had a rocky start, but in the end we became good friends."

Jeremy sniffled and grabbed the hedgehogs white glove, "Best friends." He said back.

The rest of the group ran over to sonic and his friends.

"Wait!" Odd shouted, "If you're leaving then… Take this back with you! It's a CD I did a few months ago. I want you guys to have it so you can remember me!"

Sonic looked at the CD with slight surprise but snatched it, held it up into the air and inspected it. "A CD huh? I'll have to give it a listen when we get back to Mobius! I'm sure the people back home would love to listen to some earth tunes!"

"You might be disappointed." Yumi shot in, causing everyone to laugh. She walked up to Shadow and handed him a wooden sword. "I was using this to fight off XANA's monsters when he was attacking so it's a little worn out but, I'd like you guys to bring it with you, to remember me by." She smiled and bowed to the black hedgehog.

"Hmph. Using a wooden sword to fight off monsters? Pretty stupidly brave of you." He looked at Yumi who had a slight frown, "But, I'm sure it's all you had." He took the sword and held it up in the air, "I'll make sure this is put up in display." He looked down to Yumi whose frown turned into a smile. "Thanks." She bowed again.

Ulrich grabbed a soccer ball and walked over to Knuckles, "This is the team's soccer ball. They gave it to me when we made it to the play offs. I want you to have it instead Knuckles." He handed the ball to knuckles.

He took the Ball into his hands and lightly tossed it up and down. "Huh… I've never played soccer before… Maybe while I'm guarding the Master Emerald I'll have some fun with it! Thanks a lot Ulrich!" He put it under his arm and gave Ulrich a thumbs up.

Jeremy walked over to Tails and held his black laptop in his hands. "Here you go Tails, I want you to have my laptop."

Tails looked at it in awe, "N-No way! Y-You're giving this to me?!" He cautiously took the laptop from Jeremy. "But—"

"I want you to have it. A little gift to remember me by, keep it safe, Tails." He smiled and hugged the yellow fox.

Aelita ran up to the blue hedgehog, "Sonic."

Sonic smirked, "Aelita."

She held in her hands a small toy that looked something like an elf. "This is something very close to me." She held out the toy in her hands, "his name is Mr. Puck."

Sonic looked at the toy with fascination.

"I know it's not much but… I'd like you to have this."

Sonic held out his hands as Aelita lowered the toy into his hands. He looked to her with surprise and delicately held the toy, "Are you sure?"

She nodded, "I know you'll keep it safe sonic." She smiled and took a step back.

Sonic looked to his friends, sadly they had no memento's to give back to the group. "Well, this seems a little unfair." He reached into his 'pocket' and pulled out a shining gold ring. "This is one of the rare power rings that appears in my world not very often. I've kept it with me as a good luck charm this entire time. It doesn't serve me much of a purpose anymore since I've absorbed tons of power rings before this one."

He handed it Aelita.

"That IS one of the brightest shining one's I've ever seen though."

Aelita held it up and showed it to everyone.

"There's a memento for you guys to remember US by." He smirked.

Jeremy looked to the group of five multi-colored animals, "We're going to miss you guys."

Sonic sighed, "We are too."

Eggman pushed passed them all, "I'M NOT." He hit the start button and jumped into the portal as soon as it opened. "SEE YOU LATER SUCKER'S!" He disappeared.

There was an odd silence that soon erupted into laughter.

"I guess this is goodbye for us." Sonic walked over to Jeremy one last time and held out his hand.

"It sure is." Jeremy grabbed Sonic's hand and gave it a firm shake.

Sonic tried letting go for a moment but it seemed Jeremy refused to do so. He couldn't help but smile as the rest of his friends began walking over to them. Sonic looked back to his friends and motioned for them to come over. The two groups met and a big group hug was soon formed. "See you later, Team Lyoko." Sonic said.

They broke away and sonic and his friends walked over to the portal.

"See you later, Sonic Team."

"I hope we can meet again soon you guys!" Tails was the first to step through the portal.

"Goodbye!" Knuckles jumped in next.

Shadow saluted goodbye, "Adios." He walked in.

Sonic Grabbed Amy's hand and waved goodbye. "See you." Sonic gave a final thumb's up and Amy smiled as they walked in together.

Team Lyoko looked to each other. Jeremy walked over to the portal and shut off the machine. "Goodbye." He said with a slight sob. He wiped away some tears and looked back to his friends. "I guess we should head on home you guys." Jeremy realized that the crowd was still behind them. He smiled nervously. "Thank you all for coming! But I think it's time for everyone to go back home!"

The crowd soon dispersed and Team Lyoko all walked back to the school together…

And so ends my longest running FanFic ever (So far). 25 Chapters, 38 favorites, 27 follows, 97,420 words and 162 reviews (to date). It was a blast guys. I'm sorry I had to end it so abruptly and I'm sorry it took so long to finish writing this. I've had serious writers block regarding this story and there was no way I could have come up with ten more chapters and then this finale. I hope everyone who's read this story enjoyed it and had fun reading it.

I'm also glad I was able to start up the Sonic and Code Lyoko crossover section, and that there are a few fanfics that followed my own. I started this fanfic when I was just starting out here and writing it has helped me a lot. Out of "The Betrayal of Haruhi Suzumiya" and "The Mistakes of Haruhi Suzumiya" this is definitely my third favorite fanfic. Thank you all again and I wish you the best.

~SXR123