Multiversal Wasteland

Several universes were getting destroyed in the span of seconds.

Even if Opaline was doing nothing but absorbing magic from several worlds at the same time, some of them could not resist the drain, and therefore, it didn't took them long to die and be reduced to nothing.

Of course, those who could approach to the open door that allowed them to stare at Opaline had to watch in horror how she was draining so much magic from so much worlds, and even worse: Killing said worlds in the process. Heck, some even had to see themselves turned into dust after their world's magic was drained.

Opaline, however, didn't seemed to mind so much destruction. All the opposite: She enjoyed it, she liked it so much that she wasn't going to stop now until she had drained enough magic to be unstoppable.

And once she is unstoppable, then she'll rule over every single universe, and nopony would be able to stop her no matter how much they tried... Or so she believes, anyways. But if we're being honest: She didn't got a single hit, like, two chapters ago, so maybe she isn't so wrong on the "unstoppable" department.

Noticing how bad this situation was getting, Sunset had no option but to communicate with FS. "Um, boss?" She called out through her dimensional watch. "We have a massive problem: Opaline's striking right now!"

"I already noticed that, Sunset!" Future Sonic replied from the other side of the watch with concern.

Universe 250954

In the Secret Society's HQ, all the alarms were sounding in red, meaning they were at maximum alert.

The entire place was a chaos: Every single member was trying their best to stay on their stations and prepare themselves for the battle, but now that Opaline already arrived, they were a mess into preparing everything.

"Our alarms have been sounding like crazy for the past five minutes, and I'm already running out of patience!" Future Sonic told Sunset through his communicator. "Heck, even some of our members have died by turning into dust because their universe was destroyed! This is going beyond ourselves, and I don't know how longer I can take before snapping!"

"Can't you sent anyone here to hold her back for a bit until everything's ready?!" Sunset asked with concern. "Maybe Team A, or even Team T?! Someone has to at least try and pull her back before this gets even more out of control!"

"All the teams are busy right now, Sunset." Twilight interfered in the call. "All of them are on their stations, but like FS said, this is a mess we're not used to deal with! It seems we're not as ready as we thought we were."

"Then what the hell are we supposed to do?!" Sunset asked in panic.

"That critter you mentioned that guards the multiverse. You'll have to go and ask him yourself, Sunset." Future Sonic instructed. "If he knows anything about holding his own power back, then he must know a way to at least distract Opaline long enough before we arrive."

Multiversal Wasteland

Sunset's eyes widened in panic after hearing what FS just said.

"What?! B-But Chip is in 220822 Sonic's universe!" Sunset pointed out with concern and panic.

"Then pray to your gods that Opaline is dumb enough to not attack unless she feels attacked." Future Sonic stated, then cut off the call, leaving Sunset and her friends on disbelief.

"That is the same guy that took down Tirek with just one kick on his face?" Zipp asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I've been wondering the same crap for the past year, Zipp..." Sunset said with wide and concerned eyes.

Suddenly, the ground in their universe started to shake violently, and that's because the X portal that suddenly appeared started to move onward, with the intention of swallowing their world or make irreparable damage. This made the ponies and baby dragon panic, but Sunset decided to stay calmed and serene.

Then, she lightened up her horn and surrounded the massive portion of earth where they were standing, which made her grunt in pain since she was pretty much using magic in excess, but she didn't cared.

Soon, the portion of earth was separated from the rest, startling the other six ponies and Sparky, but Sunset did not faltered and kept pushing herself to the limit, then levitated the portion of earth to cross the portal, and so, they entered the Multiversal Wasteland in the process.

Once Sunset realized this, she stopped using her magic and fell on her belly onto the ground, exhausted of using so much magic, while her friends rushed to her in worry, specially Sunny.

Yet Sunset was also smiling despite feeling so tired, because just like she expected, the portion of earth she levitated was still floating even without magic. That's because there's no gravity in the Wasteland, which means that they would still afloat so long as nothing hits them and makes the portion of earth fall.

"Sunset!" Sunny said in panic, kneeling down and checking that she was fine. "A-Are you okay?!"

"As okay... as I can be..." Sunset replied, panting heavily for air, then slowly sitting down on her place. "I just need to catch my breath... That is, if Opaline won't spot us..."

She looked up with a frown at the Fire Alicorn, and even if she had her eyes closed while still draining magic, Sunset felt that any wrong move could make Opaline attack them with no mercy.

She also started to look around, and she noticed that there were other inhabitants from other worlds doing something similar to her: Some were ponies that also stood on massive portions of earth floating in the wasteland, others were Mobians either flying or standing over the floating purple crystals around.

It seems that Opaline has opened enough doors across the multiverse, and now, all these world have access to the Wasteland, which only exposed how powerful she has become thanks to the Paradox Prism.

"Well, FS said that Opaline has to be hold back while he arrives along the Society." Hitch pointed out, then he looked at Sunset. "Isn't there anything that you can do to contact that guy he mentioned?"

"I have no idea on how to contact the Multiverse Guardian." Sunset said with concern and a frown. "They looked so weak and defeated when Opaline launched them against Sonic. I... I honestly don't know if there's any way for us to contact him and ask for his help. Not right now, anyways."

"Well, we're out of time, if you haven't noticed!" Zipp pointed out with concern. "There's gotta be something, anything!"

"Our homes are at stake here!" Pipp pointed out as well in fear. "Isn't there, I don't know, a magical object from Ancient Equestria that can save our flanks right now?!"

Sunset was so conflicted right now. Her friends seemed to be looking up at her for an answer, a clue, anything that could make them feel safer, because they were all scared, scared that their reality could be wiped out by this new Opaline at any second now.

And yet, Sunset had nothing. No clue, no answer, no anything. The entire multiverse was dying, and she had nothing to make them feel safe or hopeful.

She couldn't save her friends this time, and that hurt her soul in ways no from anything burn could ever do.

However, and just as she started to feel more and more hopeless by the minute, the entire environment was suddenly covered by a the color purple, and that confused the Mane 7 and Sparky, as they all started to look around themselves with startled expressions.

"Okay... This is new." Sunny muttered. "Sunset? Anything happening that you're familiar with?"

"No... Not at all." Sunset replied with concern.

Yet a dramatic gasp from Izzy as she looked up called the others' attention, and when they all looked in the same direction than her, their eyes widened, and they all gasped as well

What were they watching? A giant, purple moon slowly descending from upwards, until it stopped moving right behind Opaline. The Fire Alicorn opened her eyes once she noticed the moon's presence, so she turned around and prepared to face it... But she found nothing there anymore.

That confused her a lot, but then her eyes widened, and a gasp was cut from her throat when several purple spears appeared out of nowhere and traversed her back, her hooves, and her throat as well.

This made everyone's eyes that were staring at Opaline widen in shock, but it made Sunset's jaw drop as well, because whoever was the moon that was there a moment ago and now disappeared seemed to be powerful if they stabbed Opaline that badly out of nowhere.

Opaline, on the other hand, was also terrified at whatever just attacked her, because she never saw it coming, and even if she was not bleeding, the stabs didn't stopped from hurt.

"You dare to take away my job?" A sinister voice that mixed a male and a female tone spoke, and soon, the moon from before suddenly appeared, but it started to glitch and shift its form, until ti turned into a familiar hedgehog without being him. "You must be a special one if you wanna take Death's place."

Opaline's eyes widened in terror at the figure in front of her. "...S-S-S-Sonic...?" She managed to mumble weakly.

However, that only made the figure in front of her's eyes widened, then they frowned in anger. "Sonic?!" They said, then they closed their right hand into a fist while pointing it at Opaline, which made the spears in her body get deeper and make her groan in pain. "I have the power to wipe out planets with just a single snap, and you dare to low it down on a power level of the ones like Sonic?!"

After shouting this in anger, they closed their other hand in front of the Alicorn, making the spares go even deeper in her body, which made Opaline groan in pain, while everyone else that was watching this cringed in disgust, and Misty even ducked down to cover herself from watching such a thing.

"I am the all-consuming void. I am oblivion. I am nothing." The figure said with anger and a glare towards Opaline. "I've been named in many ways for the past 30 thousand years. To you? I am The End."

Once The End revealed himself, his body started to glimmer in an intense white light that made Opaline close her eyes for a moment. And when she opened them again, she panicked.

The End has now adopted Supreme's form, the final Titan of the Starfall Islands that Sage used to sacrifice herself against The End before he blew up Equis. Now, The End was going to use the same weapon that defeated him once to finish Opaline... But he knew the Titan needed an upgrade.

So, still controlling Supreme, The End ducked down, and from Supreme's rockets, 5 extra arms came out of nowhere and revealed themselves, marking this way a new upgrade for the already powerful Titan.

With this upgrade done, The End looked over at Opaline with anger through Supreme's face, then he grabbed her with one hand, and then wiped her away towards a group of rocks that came floating, because they were rubble from some universes that ended up crossing the open portals.

Opaline rolled painfully in the ground, while the spears around her just got deeper inside of her body. Of course, this made everyone else smile, since it seemed that the distraction to keep Opaline busy has arrived.

"I have no idea who's this guy or where he came from, but I'm glad he's here!" Hitch said with a smile.

"Looks like someone's gonna give Opaline a battle to remember!" Zipp added with a smirk.

"Let's hope that "The End" knows what he's doing. Also, I might as well ask him later about what he meant with "Opaline taking his job"." Sunset said with concern, but also smiling at what The End was doing.

Yet, Opaline growled in anger from her place, then made a massive explosion just by releasing some energy, which startled everyone but The End. Then, Opaline used more energy to heal herself and burn down the spears incrusted in her body, then she cracked her neck and grinned sinisterly at The End.

However, The End roared in rage through Supreme and stood ready to fight, while Opaline herself took fly and made her horn and wings light up in fire.

A massive battle for control was approaching, and many people were going to witness it...

Universe 220822

Tails guided Sonic back to Ouranos Island, the last of the Starfall Islands.

There, Sonic found himself surprised when they approached the zone where the final fight against Supreme took place 2 years ago. But not only that was surprising: The fact that there was now a tower were Supreme appeared was it, because that tower wasn't there before.

"Uh... What's with this giant tower?" Sonic asked confused once Tails and him stopped in front of the tall building.

"This tower is where the trial to turn Cyber Corruption into a power up resides." Tails replied. "Or so that Cyberspace book said. It mentioned that whoever managed to defeat the Titans had to come here and put his own strength into a test, to see if they're worthy of this new power."

"So not only I have to climb this big ass tower that seems as tall and tedious as the ones from Rhea Island, but now I also have to pass as test?" Sonic said with a frown. "I really hate tests..."

"Come on, Sonic. Give it a try!" Tails told him with a smile. "Look it like this: If you pass the test, you'll have a new power on your sleeve, and you can take Opaline off-guard!"

"I know this is good and convenient for us, buddy, but it doesn't makes it any less stressful to know that I have to go through whatever that thing has in store for me!" Sonic pointed out with concern. "Do we even know if I'll get a power-up for sure? What if I'm actually heading towards a trap instead?"

"If it is a trap, then I'll know you'll be fine." Tails said with a confident look. "You have been though worse, anyways. Why not enjoy the sense of adventure for a minute before getting serious against Opaline?"

"Because I fear that she might hurt our universe while I do this." Sonic said, now looking down worried, and Tails noticed his expression with worry as well. "Tails, she has gotten so powerful, and you almost died because of it. Just look at your chest! She left a giant X scar on it!"

"Well, yeah, but you gotta admit that it looks kinda cool!" Tails said with a mocking smirk.

"Oh, I know. It looks dope as heck." Sonic agreed. "But what it represents... Buddy, I almost lost you today. I couldn't live with myself if Opaline attacked this place, and you guys are all facing her while I'm busy with something that, while being necessary to take her down, still leaves me out of the battlefield for a moment. I can't loose you, nor anyone else. Not knowing that my "Canon Event" can still happen..."

Tails could definitely understand Sonic's concern, so he went ahead and hugged him, which confused Sonic a bit at first, but he still smiled and hugged back.

"Sonic, we are all afraid as hell of Opaline." Tails pointed out. "It is true that she has gotten powerful, but like you said, that's precisely why we're doing this, why you're doing this. You might be the multiverse's only hope. And if any of us dies, I know you'll be devastated, but also impulsed to finish the job and save all the other worlds in the process."

"...You might know me better than I do, man." Sonic said mockingly with a smirk, then he looked back at the tower and sighed. "Climbing that thing won't be easy... But it only makes it funnier for me!"

Now that Sonic was smirking, Tails smiled, because he could tell Sonic's confidence was getting back.

"I'll be back before you have a chance to miss me, bro." Sonic told Tails with a wink. "Here. We. GO!"

With that being said, Sonic boosted towards the tower, and he began to use the platforms around that only he could see, because in Tails' perspective, he was just floating around, but that didn't stopped the young fox from smiling and nod firmly at his brother's determination to get that new power to defeat Opaline.

"Good luck, Sonic. You might not need it, but our fate is in your hands..." Tails said with a determined smile.

It wasn't any difficult for Sonic to climb the tower.

If anything, it was harder to climb the fifth tower on Rhea Island. Gosh, he hated that tower with his soul, there was no doubt about it, but he couldn't complain right now. He had a job to do.

Sonic walked ahead and looked around confused, though, because there was nothing at the tower's top.

"Enter, hero." A voice suddenly spoke, startling Sonic a lot, so he started to look around confused and with a frown.

"Whoa!" Sonic exclaimed, standing ready to fight if necessary. "Who are you? Show yourself!"

Suddenly, a white light shone brightly and almost blurred Sonic's sight, but when the light faded away, he looked ahead surprised: There were two giant grass statues with the form of the Ancients around. And in front of him, there was a giant Koco with a golden seat and a golden belt around.

Behind said Koco, there was an Ancient, one who's body could not be seen from their hips to the top.

"You may call me "Master King"." The Ancient, Master King, told Sonic with a deep and bossy tone. "It is as close as your limited language will manage."

"Wow. Somebody's feeling high and mighty." Sonic said with a mocking smirk and a raised eyebrow. "Anyway, my friends say you're the one that can turn the Cyber Corruption into a new power? Is that right?"

"Your companions are correct." Master King replied. "I am loath to give them any reason, but I must if I am to preserve my legacy."

Sonic crossed his arms and looked at him confused, but decided to let him keep talking.

"I was the leader of my people. I led them away of their doom. I oversaw the colonization of this planet." Master King revealed and continued. "I directed the installation of Cyberspace, I ordered the construction of the Titans. I have been the guiding voice of my people for longer than you can imagine. I even ordered the retreat to Mobius if everything failed."

"And now you're a rock in a chair." Sonic told Master King with a bored expression, because as much as he liked to meet the Ancient's leader, he was on a rush right now.

"You are insolent!" Master King said with anger and offense.

"Yeah, and I'm short on time." Sonic pointed out with anger as well. "There's a crazy witchy Alicorn that's gonna kill us all if I can't get this power up, so if you want me to save your legacy and the home universe your people grew in, you're going to fast-track this new power process."

Master King closed his eyes and thought about something after Sonic spoke. "You remind me much of another. They vexed me then just as much as you do now. They also gave everything to stave off a bigger menace."

"The End..." Sonic muttered with a frown, and for some reason, he wasn't as mad as he thought he would by mentioning his name.

Master King opened his eyes again and looked down at Sonic. He was very hesitant about this, but if the menace that Sonic was talking about was that dangerous, then he had no choice but to comply.

"...Very well. Step forward, and I shall temper you into my finest weapon." Master King declared.

Sonic nodded, then stepped forward and waited for a few seconds, and then he suddenly disappeared.

Sonic suddenly re-appeared on an empty room, where several Silver Guardians appeared.

"On your mark.... Start!" Master King's voice echoed suddenly around the room, startling Sonic.

Yet that didn't startled him as much as the sudden attack of one of the Silver Guardians that sent him backwards. He stood up again and shook his head, then felt surprised that all the Silver Guardians were moving faster than usual, but Sonic knew he was against time and couldn't waste any second.

So, instead of planning out a strategy, he just jumped in the air and constantly spammed Cross Slash, one of his many skills, until he defeated all the Silver Guardians without sweating.

Once this first trial was done, Sonic was teleported out of that room.

In the next room, Sonic encountered himself on a very similar one.

Yet that's not what bothered him: The fact that there were four Shells on every corner of the room did.

Sonic frowned, but then he remembered that he had the ability to make time stop around him, and considering he was short in time, he decided to use said ability and extend it a little longer. Now, with time going slow, he analyzed his surroundings: The Shells were always vulnerable without the shell.

This meant he needed to make those shells come off of their bodies, and he already had pictured an strategy on how to make them fly away, while he takes down the rest of the enemy.

So, Sonic resumed time to normal and put his plan in action. He approached close enough so the shell could open and act like a saw while trying to hit him. Sonic used his homing attack against the robot the second the shell opened, and then started to hit the machine with everything he got.

However, the shell was coming back fast, so he parried in the last second the attack, then kept punching. The shield tried to hit him other three times, but he still parried and punched the machine until he destroyed one of them.

He repeated this same process with the other three Shells and won, meaning the second challenge was over.

With that, Sonic was once again teleported out and onto the next trial.

Sonic reached the zone of the next trial, but he immediately disliked it.

You see, there's this set of six enemies that look like Soldiers, but they walk like wolfs. These pieces of crap had the objective of surround Sonic in a massive tornado before attacking him one by one, so Sonic has to parry every single one of them in time to make the tornado stop and then hit them all once they're in the ground.

These enemies were, unironically, called Wolfs (no, that's not badly written, go and Google it), and they were probably the enemies Sonic hated the most to deal with in the Starfall Islands.

Still, they were not going to stop him from getting his new power up, so he parried them all and then proceed to destroy them with his Homing Attack. After repeating this exact process at least three times (these wolfs were faster than the regular ones), Sonic cleared this third stage, and he smirked confidently.

After that, he shone brightly once more and got teleported into the next challenge to beat.

The fourth challenge was something Sonic was very familiar with, and he even smiled.

This next challenge was a Ninja, one of his favorite enemies to beat down because they always represented a challenge, even though he knows their moves pretty well.

However, the moment this Ninja moved in front of him, so he parried him, and then the Ninja teleported away to hit him in another zone, Sonic felt surprised, but he still smirked, because this was the kind of challenge he was expecting: Something familiar, yet totally new and unexpected at the same time.

So, Sonic parried another attack, and before the enemy teleported away, he quickly charged a Spin Dash, then charged against the Ninja's face, then jumped to the air and kicked the ninja backwards.

He had to repeat the process four more times, and he had to be fast, because the Ninja could recover some energy, and even hit him when he less expected it. Still, he managed to come out on top and defeated the Ninja, clearing the fourth stage and now being teleported to the next and final one.

Spoiler alert: He's gonna hate it.

The final challenge was upon him, and guess what it is about?

Well, Sonic's gonna tell you, because he suddenly didn't appeared on the same room than before, but instead in Kronos Island... Not so far from the zone that marks the beginning of the battle against Giganto.

"Aw, crap!" Sonic said out loud with a frown. "I have to take down that thing again?!" He rubbed his face and passed his hands over his quills. "Fine! But let's make it quick! And please, Kellin, don't you dare to start singing out of nowhere!"

With that being said, Sonic boosted away towards Giganto, ready for the fourth round against it.

Multiversal Wasteland

Universes rumbled hard enough as the fight between The End and Opaline unleashed.

Still controlling Supreme, The End launched a bunch of purple spheres of energy towards the Fire Alicorn, sending her backwards and crashing against another floating crystal. Yet Opaline used this crystal to impulse herself towards The End, then she used her magic to materialize daggers that she throw at Supreme.

The daggers all sticked on Supreme's chest, but The End didn't seemed to suffer. Instead, he just opened the Titan's mouth and launched a massive laser beam towards Opaline.

However, Opaline didn't felt intimidated by this move, and she even received the attack with glee. She literally flew through the laser, and then she prepared to hit The End with her front hooves... Just to be suddenly grabbed by Supreme's right hand, as the Titan tried to crush her with its bare fist.

Opaline grunted painfully as she pushed her back and her four hooves to make the hand stop crushing her, but then she reminded something that made her feel a bit stupid, so she simply teleported away.

After that, the Fire Alicorn charged up another beam with her horn and shot it towards Supreme, pushing the Titan backwards a bit, but he took advantage of this to shot more purple spheres of energy to her, which made Opaline's eyes widen, so she redirected the laser to be divided in multiple and hit the spheres.

The spheres were destroyed, but The End didn't finished there: He approached Opaline and grabbed her with Supreme's teeth, then once again tried to crush her down.

However, Opaline didn't wasted time in this occasion, and she teleported away immediately, then reappeared, multiplied herself multiple times, and then she made all her clones spin and turn themselves into drillers, then all the clones launched themselves in sacrifice against Supreme's protected body.

Of course, all the clones died, but they also managed to make a lot of damage to the machine, although The End kept not flinching, and he even started to charge up the laser of the mouth, something Opaline noticed.

So, instead of trying to stop him, she charged up her own laser and blasted against him, while The End shot as well, and both lasers crashed and made everything around rumble violently, even making some of the watchers of the battle almost fall from their place, Sunset and her friends included.

"This is already way too intense compared to our battle against our Opaline!" Pipp managed to scream in fear.

"And I feel is just going to get more violent!" Sunset said with concern, also shouting.

Soon, both of them stopped launching their lasers, but Opaline didn't wasted time and traversed Supreme's chest, grabbing The End and pushing him outside of the machine.

Of course, this made Supreme explode in thousands of pieces and be reduced to nothing, although the Titan's sniper fell off and started floating around, while The End and Opaline started to punch each other in the air, as they headed towards a floating Crystal, were they ended up crashing and separating from the other.

However, The End quickly recovered and shifted his form, once again looking like that giant snake with hair and purple deadly eyes, staring down at Opaline and roaring in rage at her.

However, Opaline didn't flinched, and she launched herself against The End. The snake and the Fire Alicorn kept fighting, hitting each other, shooting laser beams, and even "accidentally" hitting other universes in the process, which made the entire multiverse rumble, but that didn't stopped the fight.

Yet Opaline eventually grow tired of this fight, so she simply decided to stop holding back and made a bunch of chains surround The End and trap him.

The End thought this was nothing and tried to brake free... But he couldn't. He tried to focus his energy on getting himself free... But all he did was make the chains tight even more, and that made him panic. Everyone else around looked at him with worry, but Sunset specially looked absolutely terrified.

And then, Opaline appeared right in front of The End's face. "You call yourself "The End", don't you?" She asked. "I've read about you. About all the planets, civilizations, all the stars around the cosmos of my universe that you destroyed. I admire your work... Or used to, anyways. They said you are a powerful force, but I have you tied into my magic with no chance of escaping. You're not so powerful anymore now, are you?"

The End just frowned and glared. "So what? Are you gonna destroy me?" He asked and then snorted. "I am nothing. You can't destroy nothingness itself."

"In other words: You are dead incarnated on a physical form." Opaline raised an eyebrow. "That'll explain why you said I was taking your job away... Oh well."

With that being said, Opaline approached The End, then stabbed his forehead with her horn, and then started to cast a spell that made her eyes glow brightly in white.

With this, The End's eyes also glowed in white, and then he started to constantly shift his form: The purple moon, Supreme, Cyber Sonic, a wolf, the giant snake, an Ancient, and finally Cyber Sonic again, which's body started to crack like an egg, which only made everyone else around panic at the sight.

"Oh no..." Hitch said concerned, covering Sparky's sight.

"Sunset, please tell me he's not going to––" Sunny wanted to plead.

Yet the inevitable was coming, and just before it happened, Opaline grinned. "You said I took away your job, didn't you? Well, it happened now: Mr. "Death", you've been replaced!"

With that being said, The End's body cracked more and more. He was screaming in pain and fear, because unlike when Sonic and Sage defeated him, he couldn't feel his presence anywhere else on his home universe or in another one... That meant that if he exploded now, he was dying for real.

And dying he did, because the cracks on his body shone brightly, and then, he exploded on a big scale explosion that made everyone around the Multiverse Wasteland duck down to not fall from their places.

When the explosion was over, everyone looked ahead, and they all gasped in horror when they saw that The End was gone, while Opaline was still intact even after The End literally exploded on her face. Even worse was when Opaline grinned and started to laugh loudly like a maniac because of her success.

"Ah! The feeling of being over everyone is... Simply divine!" Opaline said with glee. "To think I spent years trapped on that damn castle... Now here I am, ready to drain 'till the last drop of magic in every single universe!"

Or so she believed, because suddenly, a bullet passed by and rosed her skin, making her eyes widen in panic, so she turned around and looked at who shot at her.

Behind, and standing over one of the floating crystals, FS came out of a heptagon-shaped portal and pointed at her with one of his bracelets, which made a gun, that immediately retracted back, and FS just stared up at Opaline with anger, while the Alicorn stared back with the same anger, and the portal behind FS closed.

"I just take my time to make sure I can take this witch down, and all I find is chaos." Future Sonic said, before lowering his hand and smirk. "Oh well. I didn't wanted this to be easy, anyways."

After saying that, FS removed his coat and threw it away, indicating that he was serious on this battle, something Sunset noticed with widened and panicked eyes.

"Isn't that FS?!" Zipp asked with shock.

"...Yeah... He is..." Sunset replied in disbelief.

Meanwhile, Future Sonic removed his dimensional watch and then pressed a button over it. "Nicole?"

"Yes?" Nicole appeared as a small hologram.

"Evacuate the HQ. Put everyone in line and give Twilight the leadership role now." Future Sonic instructed.

"Hang on, hang on... What do you mean give Twilight the leadership role?!" Nicole asked with panic and widened eyes.

"Activate protocol "Hedgehog's Failure". That's an order." Future Sonic stated, but not looking at Nicole. Instead, he just stared up at Opaline with anger.

"Wait, no! Sonic––" Nicole tried to say, but FS turned his watch off, and then threw the watch away as well, while it simply started to float around the Wasteland.

Then, FS jumped to a piece of rubble floating by and stood over there, still glaring at Opaline.

Opaline glared back. "And who are you supposed to be? Besides a pest of the Secret Society."

"I am the pest that started the Society, Opaline." Future Sonic replied with a frown. "The one that's been too close to catch your tail so many times, and yet still failed."

"Oh, so you're their leader?" Opaline asked with a smirk and a raised eyebrow.

"And I've been hunting you down for the past year." Future Sonic replied, then he made a pair of golden with white swords come out of his bracelets, showing them off to Opaline. "Today, the hunt comes to an end!"

"Then show me what you got, pretty boy!" Opaline said mockingly with a laugh.

With that being said, FS growled and launched against her, while Opaline launched at him as well, as the former's swords and the latter's horn crash between each other, before they started to fight around at the speed of sound, jumping over and hitting everything but themselves.

Meanwhile, Sunset watched what FS was doing, and she felt completely terrified, also having a bad feeling.

"...This cannot end well, can it?" Sunset muttered anxiously.

Universe 220822

In the end, Sonic didn't had to take only Giganto down: He also had to defeat Wyvern and Knight again.

Defeating Giganto wasn't hard, thankfully. Defeating Wyvern, on the other hand... It was freaking torture, specially because he barely could calculate his parries, but at least he managed to, anyways.

Now, he just defeated Knight, because he raised the sword and split the Titan in half with a warrior cry.

The Titan split, and one of the half's began to descend slowly, making the entire Titan's body explode. Knight turned into another one of those giant spheres that reduced little to little, until it exploded completely, leaving no trail of what the Titan once was.

With the Titan defeated, Sonic completed Master King's trial, and so, he was teleported back with him.

Once Sonic returned with Master King, he smirked as he looked at his own body.

"I can feel it!" Sonic said confidently, with the Cyber Corruption around him turning now into a new hidden power deep inside of him. "Oh, I can't wait to let loose!"

However, even if he passed the trial, Master King didn't shared Sonic's enthusiasm. "But you most." He ordered, regarding of the fact that Sonic wanted to go all out with his new obtained ability. "That power is a fragile thing and It was not meant to you. It has been synchronized to your form as best it can, but if used recklessly, the power will leave you entirely."

"Huh." Sonic said amused, as he looked back. "Well, I'm used to hold back, but if I go Super Sonic to try this new thingy out, I won't make any promises." He stated with a smirk.

Suddenly, however, Master King closed his eyes, then opened again and looked at Sonic seriously. "I feel that your enemy's approach is nigh. Go. You have been given all we can give you. I... can do nothing more for this universe's people. I entrust the rest to you, chosen one."

Sonic smiled after hearing that, and as usual, he was ready to reply in a mocking way... But he regret it and decided to just clear his throat and nod at Master King, then he turned around and left the room.

Sonic opened his eyes, and now, he was back at the top of the tower.

He started to look himself around, and while physically speaking he was still the same, he also could feel more powerful, something he liked it, because that's precisely what they need in order to defeat Opaline. Maybe this new power could be the key to her definitive and inevitable downfall.

So, with a huge smile, Sonic charged up his Spin Dash, and then launched himself from the tower, skydiving towards the ground, before curling into a ball and then land in the ground like a Super Hero.

With that, Sonic then boosted away and towards the center of Ouranos Island, where he had the feeling he would meet his friends and Eggman again after completing the trial. And he was right, because as he approached at top speed to the center of the island, he saw the four figures in the distance and smiled.

When he was close, Sonic slid to a stop and smiled. "Sup, guys!"

"So? Did you did it?" Sunny was the first one to ask with a smile.

Sonic snorted and placed his fists on his hips. "Naturally!" He replied confidently.

"Good." Tails nodded, then he got serious. "If you have that new power ready, then we should go back with the rest to Mobius and head out there to the Multiversal Wasteland. I feel that Opaline's actually moving as we speak!"

"I agree. The more time we spent here, the more we waste! We have to be out there, beating Opaline already!" Zipp said with concern.

"Well, you four should go. Cyberspace is still not ready, but I'll have it!" Eggman stated, then he turned around and prepared to boost away.

"Eggman––" Sonic tried to warn with a frown.

"Hedgehog, that Alicorn took away from me something I loved with my soul, and I didn't appreciated it enough until it was gone." Eggman cut him off. "I'm on your side, for real this time. I don't desire to conquer anymore. I just desire to burn that pony's bones until nothing remains!"

With that being said, and after sending a ver uncomfortable chill down the heroes' spines, Eggman closed the capsule and boosted back to Chaos Island, leaving the heroes behind.

"You guys really think he's on our side?" Zipp asked with a frown.

"He did worked out with us in these islands before to help Sonic defeat The End, but... I don't know." Sunny said with honesty and a slight frown.

"I say we let time speak for itself and tell us if he's helping for real or not." Sonic said with a shrug.

"But if you ask me, I think he actually is helping." Tails confessed. "I mean, why would he want to help the very same Alicorn that killed his daughter?"

"Hmm... I guess that's a good point." Zipp confessed.

And then suddenly, an heptagon-shaped portal opened to reveal Boom Sonic, coming out from it.

"Uh... Sonic 2?" Sonic asked confused. "The hell are you doing here?"

"The hell am I doing here? The hell are you doing here?!" Boom Sonic replied with anger. "I thought you guys would be out there already, planning something against Opaline or fighting with her!"

"Wait... Planning or fighting with Opaline?" Sunny asked with wide eyes. "What do you mean? What happened?!"

"You guys don't know?!" Boom Sonic asked concerned, but then realized something and facepalmed. "Of course you don't! Opaline would never attack her own universe knowing it could kill her..."

"Dude, what the hell are you talking about?!" Zipp asked with concern and wide eyes.

"I'm talking about how Opaline is fighting against FS right now!" Boom Sonic replied with a frown. "She has started her conquer already! And she killed the one that previously fought her!"

This concerned the others, and it also made Sonic frown. "Where are they?!" He demanded an answer.

Multiversal Wasteland

Yeah, regarding Sonic's question: They're still fighting across the Multiversal Wasteland.

Future Sonic was making sure to make a good use of all his weapons he had at hand. The swords were just the beginning, but he was very skilled with them, because even if Opaline was more agile now and could dodge his attacks easily, that didn't made her untouchable, because FS managed to cut her chest twice.

Yet Opaline could regenerate, a new ability she gained recently, and now she was a pain in the ass for FS, but that wasn't making this fight any less fun for him.

If anything, it's making him feel more alive than ever, because it's been years since he has fought for the last time, more specifically to kill the Eggman of his world. Well, he also fought MC through his mansion when he went to capture him, but that was like a year ago. Still, it wasn't the time to focus in the past, but rather stand in the present, and the present needed him to hold back Opaline for a bit.

So, he launched one of his swords like a boomerang, trying to hit the Fire Alicorn, but she burned down the weapon, so FS jumped and attempted to hit her again with the sword he was holding on his hand.

That, however, only lead to Opaline lightning her horn up and then melting that other sword as well. But that's what FS wanted her to do anyways, because as soon as he was face to face with her, FS made a dagger with his bracelets, and then proceed to cut her throat, then jump backwards after that.

However, FS felt terrified when, instead of blood, fire came out of the cut, and then Opaline coughed a bit, before looking ahead at FS with anger, then shooting a massive fire blast against him that sent him backwards.

This caused FS to roll over a piece of earth rubble floating near by, and he then kneeled painfully, as he tried to look over his body and see how badly injured he was... But he had not time to, because Opaline suddenly teleported in front of him with a sinister grin, and then she blasted him away again.

This made FS crash against a floating crystal and groan in pain, as he painfully held his stomach while trying not to vomit in pain, something Sunset noticed from her place with wide and panicked eyes.

"CHIEF!" Sunset shouted from her place, also extending a hoof to him.

FS heard her voice and slowly looked at her and her friends over their floating portion of earth. They were all looking at him scared, because he was loosing for a lot, and he has barely done anything to fight back... But despite everything, he smiled at them, then he slowly stood up and grabbed his arm.

"...As long as I can still breath... I won't stop fighting. And neither should you." Future Sonic told them, but more specifically to Sunset, with a smile.

After that, he jumped in the air, brought out a pair of daggers with his bracelets, and then stopped time for a minute, which would consume a lot of his energy, but he didn't cared anymore.

Soon, FS jumped ahead and started to cut Opaline's body through several zones that'll usually would be lethal, but he only wanted to slow her down. Then, he made time go back to normal, and Opaline groaned in pain when she felt all the cuts on her body, but then she found herself shocked when FS cut her head off.

This also made everyone else around that witnessed that gasp as well, and Misty even had to resist the urge to vomit by looking away because of what happened.

Sure, Opaline was not bleeding, but instead, fire was coming off the two sides of her neck. Yet this is exactly why Opaline's head growled in anger, while the two lines of fire coming from her head and her body connected again, then made Opaline's head got back in place, and she looked at FS with anger.

"...Guess I'll die..." Future Sonic said mockingly with a smile.

"Oh and you will!" Opaline replied with anger, then she made metallic and resistant chains attach to FS' extremities.

FS noticed this, but the didn't fought back. He had no energy left to do so, anyways, and he was also very burned in several zones to even stand up and walk away.

And then, Opaline did exactly what she wanted to do: She made a giant spear appear in front of FS' chest, and she slowly approached it to it, but FS didn't flinch a single but, which surprised Opaline as she raised an eyebrow, but it made everyone else panic, specially Sunset, because she knew what was coming.

"TWILIGHT!" Sunset called out from her dimensional watch. "FS! H-He's about to––"

However, before she could speak, a heptagon-shaped portal opened not so far from where Opaline had FS tied up, 220822 Sonic and Twilight came out of it, just for their eyes to widen in panic at the scene before them.

"Any last words, One-eyed Sonic?" Opaline asked FS with a sinister grin.

"Yeah... Get a new haircut. That thing you dare to call a mane style is a crime for fashion." Future Sonic replied with a mocking smirk, not afraid at a single bit of the fact that he's about to die.

That was the last straw in Opaline's already lacking patience, so she didn't waited anymore and launched FS against a rock, and right before he had time to react at the attack, Opaline also launched the spear to him... And since FS could not react in time, the spear traversed his body, passing right through his heart.

The weird thing is that FS didn't made any sound when the spear finally killed him, or at least, he had no memory of if he screamed in pain or not. He simply felt weaker, and a bit sleepy, but not that much in pain.

Yet everyone else around was a different story, because Sunset, Twilight and Sonic stared at FS with disbelief, terror, and widened eyes. They just witnessed how he was killed, how Opaline had no mercy over him, and yet FS didn't seemed to mind. Opaline, on the other hand, started to laugh maniacally at her win.

Misty noticed this, and she looked up at the variant of the mare she defeated along her friends with fear and some tears, because it was one thing hearing that Opaline has killed before, but actually see it? It was horrible.

Sonic and Twilight didn't wasted time into rushing down to check on FS, and neither did Sunset, while her friends stood behind, and Sonic's friends came out of the portal he came from with Twilight as well, but the moment they saw what happened to FS, they all gasped in shock and horror.

"Chief!" Sonic called out, and soon, Twilight and Sunset caught up, with 220822 eventually coming down as well. "What the... How did this... What happened?!"

"...Took you... long enough, Sonic..." Future Sonic replied to Sonic weakly with a smile. "I just... held her back as much as I could... Stupid, right?"

"Stupid?! That was straight up the most idiotic thing you've ever done!" Twilight shouted in anger, but also with some tears flowing off her eyes.

"You... You knew you were going to die, didn't you?" Sunset asked, tears also falling from her eyes.

"Did I know? Maybe." Future Sonic replied with a chuckle, then he coughed some blood while laughing hysterically. "I did knew that the chance of dying was pretty high, though. I just thought that I could change my fate."

"Wait... You knew this was going to be your way of dying?!" Sunny asked in shock with wide eyes.

"I've known for a long time that my corpse would lay in the ground after giving my life for a bigger cause." Future Sonic replied with a little smile. "That's not a Canon Event, if you wonder. That's just how I die... I always knew it'll be like this, even before killing my Eggman with my bare hands."

Sonic's eyes widened after hearing that. "Y-You... killed your Eggman?"

"Yeah..." Future Sonic replied weakly, then he cough again, and then he removed his eye patch, showing of a massive scar over his dead eye that was grey instead green. "This scar was made by his machines... After those things killed my parents."

"...That must be Canon 'cause it happened to me..." Sonic said with a snort, but he also started to tear up.

"I... I don't know how brave or dumb this was... But I don't regret doing anything." Future Sonic said, then he opened his hand to Sonic, and Sonic knew what he wanted to do, so he grabbed his hand with both of his. "I'm just sorry that I wasn't the kind of leader you expected. All that chasing was... Stupid. But at least I could do a few good things in my life... Now you have to finish the job, man."

"B-Boss..." Twilight called out with a trembling voice, also tearing up harder.

And then, Nicole suddenly appeared, kneeling and looking down at FS in horror. "S-Sonic... N-No..."

"...You are... the best of us, Sonic..." Future Sonic told his variant, and then he smiled weakly. "You're going well so far... Now... Don't... stop... fighting..."

Those were FS' last words, before he let out his last breath and closed his eyes, but his smile never faded away even as he left this world. In the end, he died as a Sonic: Smiling 'till the very last second of his existence.

It didn't took long for Twilight to let out a very painful scream of sorrow that also sent a massive energy wave around, while Sunny and Sunset just let out silent tears at someone's death, and Sonic... Sonic just stared at his lifeless corpse, not believing that he was gone forever... If only he got here earlier, maybe he'll still be alive.

Even with all his flaws, Future Sonic died as a hero that gave his life for the multiverse's sake.

Author's Note

So long, FS. You might have been a jerk at times, but you were still a Sonic at heart.

Oh, and yes, The End came back just to be destroyed again. Would we ever see him/she/them ever again? Hell no, since this is the end of the saga, so... Farewell to you too, The End. You came here to stand your place, and still died out anyways.

Next episode: Sonic unleashes the hidden potential of Super Sonic. Stay tuned!