Hehe, that's right! I didn't update yesterday! Why you ask? Hey! MY birthday, MY rules goddammit!

That and I didn't have any time to finish it… what? I didn't know we were actually doing something for my birthday! –cough- Anyway, here it is: the dramatic conclusion!

Chapter Fifty- The End

Tails paused and looked up, "Ugh… she spelled out the number again." He mumbled. Then he continued up the stairs towards Sonic's room and knocked on the door.

Sonic opened the door and stared up at Tails, "Hey…" he mumbled.

"I heard from Knuckles that you and Shadow going to fight to the death in just twenty minutes." Tails said, "What's really going on?"

"For once Knuckles isn't exaggerating." Sonic said with a shrug, "Shadow challenged me so I couldn't say no."

"Well… Knuckles is taking bets in the front yard… and he's charging admission."

Sonic groaned, "Well, let him. It doesn't matter anyway."

"And he's having the Chaotix team construct a stadium for the fight." Tails continued.

Sonic paused, "Wait… he's building a stadium in the backyard?" he asked.

"The backyard?"

Sonic and Tails looked down the hall to see Knuckles glaring at them, "Great… now they have to tear down the one in the front and restart in back." He mumbled. Then he went down the stairs shouting for the Chaotix to stop building.

Sonic rolled his eyes and went back into his room, "I'm not worried." He said, "Shadow shouldn't be that hard to beat, right?"

"I saw him downstairs tearing phonebooks in half."

Sonic swore under his breath, "Well, it's too late to turn back now." Sonic insisted, "I'll just have to hope for the best."

"Sonic this is a death match! One of you is going to die!" Tails shouted.

"DO YOU THINK I DON'T KNOW THAT?" Sonic finally screamed, "I'M FREAKING OUT! I HAVE TWENTY MINUTES TO GET READY FOR THIS FIGHT, KICK THE SHIT OUT OF KNUCKLES, AND GIVE THAT GODDAMNED BOX TO AMY!"

After his explosion Sonic seemed to calm down. He sighed and sat on his bed. "Tails, do me a favor?" he asked.

"Sure, anything."

"I want you to go downstairs and get Shadow into saying something about the story. That should buy me some time." Sonic said standing up again.

Tails smiled, "My pleasure." Then the kitsune turned and ran off to the basement.

Sonic picked up the box. He stared at the black cube sitting in his palm for a moment before putting it down again. "I'll just beat up Knuckles first…" he mumbled to himself.

Downstairs…

Tails went down into the basement and saw Shadow on the floor bench pressing the couch. He stared for a moment but then approached him, "Hey, Shadow…" he said.

Shadow threw the couch down and stood up, "What do you want?" he demanded angrily.

"Actually it's about this fight, are you sure this is such a good idea?" Tails asked.

Shadow glared down at the kitsune, "Are you questioning my superiority to Sonic?" he demanded.

Tails took a step back, "Calm down, Shadow…" he said holding up his hands, "We all know you are the ultimate life form."

"Damn right!" Shadow shouted, "I don't care what those bastards at SEGA wrote in the script…" he added in a mumble.

Tails stared up at Shadow sure he had completely lost his mind, "I'm just saying, think of all you guys have to live for. You really shouldn't go through with this."

Shadow only continued to glare, "Sonic sent you down here didn't he?" he asked.

Tails felt his face flush, "Of course he didn't…" he said.

"And he told you to try and get me to stop the fight. Or did he tell you to make me get attacked by those therapists again and you just decided to try and talk me out of the whole thing first?" Shadow demanded.

Tails just stared back up at Shadow for a moment then turned and ran up the stairs again.

Shadow watched him go and then looked at the clock on the wall. Ten minutes left. Just enough time to beat the shit out of Knuckles. He went out the backdoor to find Knuckles being held in a choke hold by Sonic. He stared for a moment then just leaned back against the door to watch and enjoy.

He paused from watching Knuckles suffer and looked up at the huge stadium that had appeared in the yard. Espio and Charmy stumbled out looking exhausted closely followed by Vector.

"We did a nice job, eh Shadow?" Vector said with a smile, "Of course if Espio and Charmy weren't slacking off the whole time then maybe we could have finished it faster…"

"WHAT?" they both screamed, "You didn't do anything! We built it!" Espio shouted.

"Guys please!" Vector said holding up his hands, "I'll only deduct half your pay!"

Boggly Woods…

Punio was sitting outside the Great Tree when he heard a loud scream and a large green crocodile landed in front of him.

Vector sat up and rubbed his head, "Gee, that 'lil Charmy sure packs a punch…" he mumbled.

Back at the house…

Shadow watched as Vector flew off into the distance and looked back down at Charmy who was steaming. "Nice shot." He said.

Charmy and Espio stormed off and Knuckles, who had managed to escape Sonic's wrath, ran up to the entrance as a crowd of people ran around the side of the house and held up tickets that Knuckles had sold him mere minutes ago.

Shadow shrugged and went into the stadium. Sonic watched him for a moment then followed.

Inside Amy was watching from the living room window. She sighed sadly as Sonic went into the stadium and looked away. Tails came into the room, "Hey Amy. What's wrong?" he asked, noticing her stressed look.

"I'm so worried about Sonic." She said, "What if Shadow hurts him?"

"Don't worry; Sonic can handle himself." Tails replied, "Come on, don't you want to be there to support him?"

Amy paused but then nodded and followed Tails out the back.

Sonic walked into the arena and looked around. There was a single circular ring in the middle and seats all around with three large entrances spread out evenly. There was even a second level hanging over the first. As he looked up he saw Liz sitting in this balcony still typing on her laptop.

Hundreds of people were flocking into the stadium to watch; half of them were fangirls of either Sonic or Shadow… some both. Sonic even thought he saw the Queen of England sitting somewhere on the second level but looked away from the crowd and up at the ring where Shadow was standing waiting for him. He glared up at the black hedgehog and jumped into the ring. "Ready to go down, faker?" Shadow said menacingly.

Sonic didn't respond. He looked over as Dana climbed into the ring wearing a black and white striped referee shirt, "Alright hedgehogs, here are the rules… no rules. Just kill each other, okay?" she smiled and stepped out of the ring and blew a whistle.

Amy, who was sitting next to Tails in the front row, bit her lip nervously, "Be careful Sonikku." She mumbled.

Shadow was about to leap at Sonic and attempt to rip off his head when he cried out and fell to his knees. Sonic stared for a moment at but then saw a scalpel protruding from his leg and his eyes became wide, "Oh shit it's them!" he shouted.

Shadow looked down at his leg and his eyes became wide as well, "Oh God! Not her again!"

Suddenly all three doorways slammed shut locking everyone in. A second later a voice rang over the intercom-

"Espio and Charmy were able to install an intercom in just twenty minutes?" Shadow asked.

Yes. Now shutup.

"Wait, I-"

THERAPISTS!

"AUGH!"

Hello Sonic Team! Looks like we caught you at just the right time; there's no where to run this time and no authoress to save you!

Tails glanced around urgently, "It's Kaute!" he mumbled sinking down in his seat, "Eggman and Science Teacher must be in here too!"

"What are we going to do? There's no way out!" Amy whispered.

"I have an idea!" Tails said pulling out a cell phone. He hid under his seat and Amy heard him whispering into it.

A moment later the samurai cashier jumped down from the balcony and landed, sword drawn, in the center of the ring.

A moment later Science Teacher and Eggman followed. "I must admit, I've never been happier to see you, Sonic." Eggman said with a malicious smile.

Sonic sighed, "What do you three think you're doing?" he demanded, "You know we can kick your butts. Why do you even bother?"

"Who do you mean by 'we'?" Kaute asked gesturing at Shadow who was struggling in a straightjacket again.

Sonic glared at him, "Great time to question the writer, Shadow." He mumbled.

"Wait just a minute here!"

They all paused and looked as Knuckles jumped into the arena, "That's the spirit, Knux!" Sonic shouted, "Come on, let's beat these losers down!"

"What? No I'm not here to help." Knuckles replied, "I just need to address the audience." He turned away and looked at the crowd, "Attention everyone: It seems as though Shadow has been disqualified from the match due to mental instability-"

"UNTIE ME AND SAY THAT YOU FUCKING RED BASTARD!"

Knuckles glanced at Shadow then continued, "It seems as though Sonic will be fighting the 'Allies' instead of Shadow now. So if everyone could please give me their tickets I'd be happy to resell them to you for the new fi-"

Before he could finish Sonic picked up Knuckles and threw him out of the ring into the wall. Then he turned around again to face the Allies.

"He's annoying." Science Teacher mumbled.

"You have no idea." Eggman replied, "Anyway, why don't we just kill all of them and get this over with."

Kaute whistled and several people in the audience stood up and pulled out swords. "OH GOD THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!" Tails screamed from his seat. Then he stood up and ran up the stairs and hid in the balcony.

Amy stood up on her seat, "Don't let them get to you Sonikku! Take them down!" she cried.

Sonic blushed, "You three are going to be sorry you ever showed your faces around here!" he said.

Shadow was trying to inch his way to the side of the ring.

Sonic glanced at him but then looked back, "But at least open the doors and let all these innocent people out!"

"Why, don't you want your fans to see you die?" Eggman said with a smile.

Luckily for Sonic the fangirls were on his side; about a dozen of them leapt onto Eggman's floating device and began to beat on him for even suggesting such blasphemy.

Kaute and Science Teacher just stared for a moment while Eggman was being beaten on but then joined in the scrap trying to kill the fangirls. Sonic also leapt in and just started beating on all of them, fangirls included.

Suddenly one of the doors to the exit exploded and Komodo ran in looking quite distressed. She didn't take any notice of the fight going on and instead screamed, "LIZ IS DEAD!"

Everything stopped.

There was a long pause and then Sonic asked, "E-excuse me? Did you just say Liz died?"

Komodo held up a note, "She was pushed over Reichenbach Falls by the person who stole the eight!" she said, "She wrote this note before and explained it all to me!"

"Wait… Liz can't die in the future she-" Sonic paused and looked up at the balcony at the Liz sitting with her laptop, "OH MY GOD!" he screamed, "YOU'RE THE ONE WHO TAKES OVER THE WORLD!"

Liz stopped typing and stared down at him, "I beg your pardon?" she asked.

"If Liz isn't going to conquer the world then it must be you!" he shouted pointing at her.

"Ah, Sonic seems to know a lot about this business but perhaps I can explain it better."

Komodo turned around to see Liz standing in a very wet trench coat with her pipe in her mouth, "You're alive!" she shouted.

The Liz in the balcony shrank down in her seat and swore under her breath.

"Yes I am." Liz said walking past Komodo into the arena, "You see, when we arrived at Reichenbach Falls I spotted another grouping of letters at the base of the rock. They rearranged to the sentence 'Liz made a pact with herself.' Of course this means absolutely nothing to any of you but to Liz and me it has significant meaning.

"You see a long time ago when this story was deleted Liz said she never wanted to type it again so she promised herself she never would. She abandoned her old account and made a new one to keep writing her old story, Keeper of the White Rose and didn't at all plan to continue this one. Nonetheless, people messaged her and asked where she had gone and what happened to her story. Of course, Liz was very unhappy about it but she put the story back up anyway."

"What does this have to do with anything?" Sonic asked.

Liz turned and pointed up to the balcony, "She is the fiend who stole chapter eight!" Liz exclaimed, "The writer stole the chapter in an attempt to lure me away and kill me so the story would end!"

Everyone was now staring up at Liz, "Alright!" she shouted standing up, "It's true! I stole your damn eight and left all those fake clues to lead you around aimlessly! Then the chapter left behind that real clue and you figured it out before I could kill you. But how in hell's name did you survive that fall?"

Liz only laughed, "Silly, I have authoress powers too, remember?" she replied.

Liz glared, "You and your stupid plot holes." She shouted, "This whole story is a stain on the face of literature! How do you sleep at night?"

"You're the one writing this you know." Sonic reminded her.

"SHUTUP! I WAS FORCED!" Liz screamed.

"Enough of this silliness." Liz said taking the pipe from her mouth, "Where are you hiding the eight?"

"Right here!" Liz pulled a flash drive out of her pocket, "Take the damned thing!" she threw the drive down and Liz caught it.

Liz smiled, "There were other ways to go about ending the story, dear." She said tucking the flash into her coat, "In fact I think Tails has already, unknowingly, taken steps to the end."

"What?" Tails asked peering over the edge of the balcony near Liz, "I didn't do anything."

"Ah, but weren't you on the phone just a few minutes ago?" Liz said with a smile.

Just then a rather large woman in a stop and shop uniform came in through the destroyed entryway. She looked around for a moment then spotted the cashier in the ring, "Kaute!" she screamed.

He let out a small scream, "Oh God it's the manager!" he shouted dropping his sword. The other cashiers scattered into the crowd to hide.

The manager strode into the ring and went up to Kaute, "Have you been running that cashier mafia again?" she demanded, "I told you if I caught you messing around with that again it'd be you job!"

Kaute fell to his knees, "Please no! I can change!"

"Kaute, you're fired!" she shouted. At the word 'fired' Kaute collapsed onto the floor and let out a strange gurgling noise.

Tails, who was standing in the balcony, gave out a cry of delight, "Finally!" he screamed.

While everyone else was watching Kaute, Science Teacher had picked up Shadow, who had been knocked unconscious when he fell off the ring and hit his head, and was sneaking towards the door. However, she was stopped by an old man in a blue suit and graying hair, "Lorraine?" he said with a smile.

Science Teacher dropped Shadow and stared, "What the hell are you doing here?" she demanded.

"I received a call from a young fox who was under the impression that you were going to dissect his friends." He replied, "I thought it would be a lovely idea to drop by and see how my ex-colleague was doing."

Science Teacher's eye twitched, "Back off Jonathan." She mumbled angrily.

"I see you haven't changed much." He replied, "Tell me, is it true you're currently involved in a plot to take revenge on a band of video game characters?"

"SHUTUP!" Science Teacher screamed covering her ears. Then she ran out the door, and the man followed her.

Eggman just watched her run away, "Crap. Now I'm alone." He mumbled.

"No, I believe Tails called someone for you too." Liz said.

A SWAT team stormed in the door and surrounded Eggman, guns raised.

Eggman swore aloud and they led him off to jail. Yay!

As they led them out the door Liz smiled and replaced her pipe in her mouth, "Good work, Tails." She said, "Quite a show."

One of the SWAT members paused as he was leaving and looked at Liz, "Hey! You're that girl!" he shouted, "You're the one who robbed that bank and escaped prison and disap-"

Before he could finish Liz had kicked him across the face and knocked him out, "Well, seems as though I've overstayed my welcome." She said, "Farewell friends, perhaps our paths shall cross again someday!"

With that she tore off her coat and hat and ran out the door. A moment later they heard shouting and wheels screeching in the distance.

There was a momentary pause but then Komodo coughed loudly into her hand and glanced up at Sonic. He stared for a moment then paused and looked at Amy standing there in the crowd.

He took out the box and went up to her, "Amy…" he mumbled, then he opened the box and held it out to her, "Will you marry me?"

Amy let out a psychotic squeal and tackled Sonic to the floor, "YES!" she screamed. She pulled the ring out of the box and slipped onto her finger.

"Awww." Komodo sighed, "That's so cute."

"What a nice ending." Tails said, "Everybody wins."

"Except me." Kaute said raising his hand.

"Yeah, I have to find a new head cashier too." The manager mumbled.

The Liz in the balcony smiled widely and slipped on a pair of sunglasses, "Just call me employee of the month!" she said happily. Then she jumped from the balcony onto the ring and picked up Kaute's sword and ran out the door. The manager ran after her shouting angrily.

Sonic stared after for a moment but then his eyes grew wide, "OH GOD!" he screamed, "SHE'S GOING TO USE THE CASHIER MAFIA TO TAKE OVER SEGA AND FANFICTION DOT NET AND DESTROY THE WORLD! I have to stop her!"

He tried to run after her but Amy was already dragging him off to look at wedding dresses.

A moment later people decided that it was all over and began to leave. Just then Hannah walked into the stadium and glanced around, "What did I miss?" she asked Komodo.

Komodo just shrugged, "Nothing important." She said. Then she walked away into the sunset… even though the sun had already set…

Fin

It's over!

And if you're expecting a sequel then you shouldn't be. I may write a continuation of the Future Looks Bleak but I haven't made up my mind yet.

EDIT: uh... okay... SO I LIED! Go look at the sequel that I'm currently working on.