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The Final Zone - Novelization in Description

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This is a Novelization of the original "Sonic the Hedgehog" final battle. I do not own Sonic or any of the characters mentioned below, all rights belong to SEGA, etc, etc...

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(Remixed) Music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTLq3F...

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Sonic the Hedgehog landed on his feet, and tensed for whatever would surely spring out at him next – Burrobots, Ball Hogs, immense swinging can openers, or whatever mad new invention Robotnik had devised to protect the Scrap Brain Factory…

…but nothing came.

He stood atop a long steel catwalk, suspended hundreds of feet over a massive floor of spikes. The catwalk was roughly ten feet wide – he wouldn’t fall off the edge easily – and the metal that lay before him was smooth and polished. Immense iron walls rose high around him, sporting a thousand blinking lights and signals humming in an incomprehensible mechanical jabber.

He was in the center of Scrap Brain now, dead in the middle of Robotnik’s great fortress and factory. There should have been hundreds of machines rising against him – but he saw none.

Something felt very wrong.

Sonic sprinted along the catwalk, expecting an attacker from any angle, above or below… but nothing came… and he stopped.

A massive doorway yawned open before him. Behind the door, Sonic saw a strange arrangement of metal plates scattered about the floor. His nerves tensed, he padded lightly into the room…

SHUNK!

Sonic leapt into the air, but the door had already slammed shut behind him. There was no way out but off the edge... or the sealed doorway in front of him.

“Good evening, hedgehog.”

Sonic felt the entire room shake, and the massive plates began to tremble… then his legs bent against his will as something roared up beneath them with impossible force… the floor beneath his feet was rising to meet the ceiling, but the rest of the room looked calm. Sonic leapt off the thing an instant before it crashed into the ceiling with bone-shattering force.

Sonic turned, and stared at the metal contraption. It resembled a piston, a great mechanical juggernaut that would have smashed him to pulp had he stayed on top of it. However, it was not solid steel. The whole thing was an assemblage of springs and Plexiglas, with a hollow space within that looked perfectly designed to cushion whoever rode inside.

From within the piston, Doctor Robotnik smiled at Sonic the Hedgehog.

“You’ve been quite the nuisance, you know. I’ll admit, you surprised me at first. I never thought any of those stupid creatures would hold a candle to my Badnik horde… but you’ve proven your worth quite nicely.”

“Cool. Now how about you free all the animals you have, and leave South Island for good?”

“Why would I do that, hedgehog? South Island… oh, it’s still so imperfect. Green hills and ruins of marble, starlit cities and underground labyrinths… nothing good could possibly come from such an inefficient setup. The Spring Yard only needed a little remodeling, but other than that… well, it lacks a plan, it lacks perfection.”

“You mean it lacks *your* plan.”

Robotnik’s eyes gleamed. “But it’s the perfect plan! The animals were useless, so I gave them purpose, I made them useful! Most of the natural world is fairly pointless anyway, so most of it was eliminated. Flowers, trees – bah! My machines will supply all the moving parts of the world!”

“Flowers create fruit, and trees pump oxygen into the atmosphere while absorbing carbon dioxide. Your machines just pump out carbon dioxide. Not only will this poison the atmosphere, but it’ll amp up the greenhouse effect a hundredfold – the world will become an oven! Your pollution will tear the planet’s environment apart, you have to know this!”

Robotnik snickered. “I can see how a stupid hedgehog like you would think that, but that won’t happen. It’s not part of my plan.”

“Are you really that nearsighted?”

“No. I plan to remain quite comfortable no matter what happens. Anyway, the Chaos Emeralds… ah, they were an unexpected factor in my plan. Regrettably, they were one of the few things my machines could not retrieve. When I saw you collecting them, I figured: why spoil a good thing? I’ll just take them from you now, and all seven Chaos Emeralds will be mine…”

“Six, you mean.”

“What?”

“I have six Chaos Emeralds… there’s a seventh?”

“Blast it!” roared Robotnik. “Ah, well. Six will be more than enough for my purposes anyway.”

Sonic snickered. “Tell me another one, egghead! I beat you before, I’ll do it again!”

Robotnik shook his head. “Haven’t you been listening? I let you get this far because I wanted you to. I let you get into Scrap Brain for a reason. This isn’t a battle – this is an extermination. Just as any fight with an animal should be.”

With a loud grinding noise, the great piston rumbled back into the floor, its passenger cackling madly…

…and then there was another great rumble, and Sonic dove out of the way as another piston rocketed out of the ceiling above him, slamming into the flooring… and as he hit the ground, another came up from below… leaping and bouncing madly, Sonic the Hedgehog kept one step ahead of the massive pistons as they pounded up and down all around him…

Robotnik was right. The extermination machine was perfect.

And yet…

Robotnik, for all his genius, for all his incredible intellect, could not foresee that which he could not calculate. Sonic was no machine driven by servos and gears, but an organic life-form. He slipped through the cracks, he squeezed through every open space in a flash, he could bend and twist in ways no machine ever could… and the Egg Pistons, with their rigid shape, could never hope to catch up to him…

…suddenly, all four Egg Pistons froze, and retracted back into the floor. Sonic frowned. This seemed suspicious…

With a loud buzz, a small red light bulb on the far wall bathed the area in a crimson hue. A long arc of electricity hummed into life over Sonic’s head. Even as he watched, the arc condensed into four crackling electric orbs – that shot at his face with stunning speed!

Sonic sprinted across the room, and they all slammed, one by one, into the walls, the ceiling, the floor, they were just too slow, much too slow!

…but with a tremendous rumble, the pistons began to move again, and Sonic leapt away as the pistons began to roar up and around him again… but they were all moving at once this time, even he couldn’t squeeze out of this…

There!

Within the nearest piston, descending from the ceiling, Robotnik was laughing horribly. It was almost over, he would see his foe crushed in an instant…

But an instant was all the time Sonic the Hedgehog needed.

Sonic hurled himself at the piston, curling into a ball, letting his spines smash through the Plexiglas and metal… and as he uncurled, he saw Robotnik cringing away from him…

“What’s in here, doc? Ooh, this looks expensive!”

“Don’t touch that!”

But it was too late, the hedgehog had curled up again, and his spines were tearing into the control panels within the piston, missing Robotnik by inches, shredding programming and wiring and steel circuitry into a powder…

“No!”

In a second, a thousand glitches had been permanently welded into the Scrap Brain’s master programming system. Outside, the lights began to fail everywhere as the electric current went haywire; some exploded, and others simply faded into blackness.

“No! Get out!”

Robotnik’s foot lashed out, and dealt Sonic an unexpected kick. Sonic fell out of the piston…

…but it was too late.

Robotnik leapt out of the collapsing piston, and tore past Sonic at an astonishing speed. By the time Sonic was on his feet again, the mad genius had already opened the far door and sprinted out of the room. Sonic dove for the doorway as it shut behind Robotnik, and slipped through – he felt the wind on his ears as it slammed shut behind him!

“All right, Egg-man. It’s time to end – what?”

Doctor Robotnik had leapt into that strange hovercar, which he’d left just beyond the door, and was roaring away. The catwalk ended abruptly in front of Sonic, and everything beyond it was lost in the shadows. If Robotnik vanished now!...

Sonic ran, ran like he never had before, and leapt into the air. He missed the top of the hovercar, but his spines slammed into the bottom of the thing. A low explosion tore out the side of the strange contraption, and Robotnik screamed in frustration.

The hovercar was falling at last.

The lights were going out in Scrap Brain forever, and the greatest scientific genius the world had ever known was plunging into the ruins of his own creation. Screaming and swearing, Doctor Ivo Robotnik roared a last, furious lament of frustration and rage at the one who had, against all odds, against every plan, finally defeated him:

“I – HATE – THAT – HEDGEHOG!!!”

Sonic gazed down into the great black void before him, and shook his head. If Robotnik survived the fall…

…no way. That was impossible.

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Two days later, Sonic sprinted across Green Hill with a wide smile on his face. Animals were all around him, bouncing across the grassland without a care in the world. He didn’t know what he’d do with the Chaos Emeralds, but…

...and then he did.

Sonic screeched to a halt. Without thought, without reason, as though he was possessed by the Emeralds themselves, the young hedgehog raised his hands into the air, and let go of all six Chaos Emeralds. They flew out of his hands, and swooped around in a tight circle. A brilliant light overcame his eyes…

…and when the light cleared… Robotnik’s last influence was gone.

The smoggy cloud in the distance had vanished. Thousands of wildflowers bloomed around Sonic’s feet. The dying trees stood erect and green once more, and the sun shone on Green Hill like it hadn’t in weeks.
The environment of South Island had finally been restored.

Sonic gazed about in bewilderment for an instant… and then leapt into the air, his triumphant shout echoing across Green Hill and causing several nervous animals to glance up in surprise.

“YEAH!”

Sonic the Hedgehog had won.
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Morgan-the-Rabbit's avatar
Again, nice work! I did a comic page with this scene in, so I know how hard it is to get the background right! You did a good job :-)