Eventually, they made it to the base, where the resistance was watching a live feed of the outside of the Death Egg. Sonic noticed Shadow leaning back in a couch, and quickly went to join him.

“Aw, how’s my loner doing?” He kissed his cheek.

“Sonic….” Shadow huffed, rolling his eyes before glancing to the live feed. “It’s about to explode soon….”

“Can’t wait.” Sonic smirked. “I want that place gone for good.”

“If he’s made multiple before he’s gonna make more, Egglet is kinda dumb.” Kathie squawked popping out from behind the couch.

Sonic jumped slightly in alarm before just laughing. “Yeah, you’re right.” He then glanced to the live feed. “As long as this one is gone, though….” He gripped a bit onto Shadow, who looked to him curiously. “I want this one gone….”

“Ah well, the light show should appease you then.” Kathie went back behind the couch. “Tell me when it’s done I wanna know when we can go collect the scrap from the upper atmosphere.”

Shadow rolled his eyes as the two looked back to the live feed. Only a second later, the Death Egg exploded, and everyone cheered. Sonic smiled happily as he watched his friends.

“Oh it’s done now.” Kathie popped back up from behind the couch. “That’s good.”

Sonic nodded as Tails cheered. “Infinite should be weakened now!”

“Well, that works out nice.” Cass commented from the corner.

“Let’s go then!” Sonic cheered. “To Metropolis!”

“Who’s going this time?” Marklin asked.

“I'll go along.” Tails said.

Sonic smiled brightly, ruffling Tails’ fur. “Awesome! You coming too, Marklin!?”

“Haven’t I been shoehorned to translate for Gauge.” Marklin commented

Gadget looked miffed, but Sonic continued like he wasn’t. “Gadget’s gonna stay here. What? Do you not wanna adventure with me?”

“No.” Marklin snapped.

It was too late, though, as Sonic had already pouted, grabbed Tails and Marklin’s hands and ran out. Marklin huffed and submitted to being dragged to city place I forgot the name of. Metropolis don’t make me delete the plot man, let me call it whatever

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Sonic raced on top of buildings, almost falling a few times.

“You could maybe not FALL!” Marklin screamed as he was dragged through the air.

“What would be the fun in that!?” Sonic laughed as he jumped to another roof, seeing spikes at the bottom of the gap.

“BEING ALIVE!” Marklin screamed.

“Life is overrated!” Sonic grinned.

“You’re a little shit you know that?”

Sonic skidded to a stop on one of the roofs. “I mean, I have actually died before, so life really is overrated to me.”

“Sonic! There they are!” Tails called, pointing to a distant roof, where Eggman, his robots, and Infinite were waiting.

“Of course! Why wouldn’t our adversary just be chilling on a rooftop!” Marklin huffed and glared at the group on the roof.

“Heh, for having an IQ of 300, the guy sure is dumb.” Sonic laughed.

“IQ isn’t common sense.” Marklin hissed, but also being the cat who has no filter or sense.

Sonic simply shrugged before grabbing onto Marklin and Tails, jumping buildings until they reached Eggman and possy.

“Welcome, Sonic. Glad you could make it to your funeral! Infinite, do it.” Eggman called, gesturing at his little fluff- I mean assassin.

Infinite formed something in his hand, calling out, quite calmly, “Take this.” before tossing it out, it becoming a large portal like thing.

“What is that?” Sonic questioned, glancing back at his friends.

Eggman laughed powerfully, “That, my spiky little enemy, is null space!”

“Null Space?” Sonic tilted his head before gesturing to his friends to get back. Tails backs away, going behind a thing. Marklin, being Marklin, remains standing in the open.

“It's a little something that the Phantom Ruby cooked up, a closed-off space where absolutely nothing exists! Good-bye, Sonic, my soon-to-be-eradicated nemesis. Enjoy all the nothing!” Eggman called, a over eager joy dripping in his voice as he cackled, thinking of his adversary finally gone forever.

The portal started to suck everything in; Sonic tried his best to stay on the ground. Marklin was a Marklin and did a Marklin plot thing and slipped with the portals force. Sonic tried to grab him, but he started to lose his footing. As Marklin was sucked in, Sonic was grabbed by a suddenly appearing Gadget.

“Buddy, no! You’ll be sucked in too!” Sonic shouted, and sure enough, the two were sucked in as well. The portal closed as Tails started in shock.

“But I thought we destroyed the power source!”

Eggman ‘tisked’ and smirked at the fox. “Since you -always- destroy the power source of my weapons, I decided to learn from my mistakes. I had a back-up power source created under Metropolis!” Eggman gestured widely and laughed and stroked his moustache, glaring at the now helpless fox, as he felt his true sweet victory for once in his goddamn life.