Alpha Ghost clearly had no more patience for talking, so he immediately went to strike at his youthful black counter-part. “Chill out!” Shadow exclaimed, zipped about him, taunting and mocking his old self.

“JUST DIE!” Alpha Ghost exclaimed and with one strike, sent his LifeSword blade right through our hero! “Don’t worry about mopping up your own blood, hedgehog. This was designed to burn on internally rather than cut them externally. So much more fun to watch ‘em writhe in pain!” Alpha Ghost laughed and Shadow hit the floor, grabbing his chest and stomach, screaming in agony! Then Alpha Ghost withdrew his blade from our injured hero.

“YOU MONSTER!” Fiona the hedgehog cried as a sword formed of fire sliced clear-cut through the titanium re-enforced door, “You will never harm him, nor anybody else ever again!” Fiona, followed closely by Kindar (who was likewise equipped with a sword, but this one forged of light) and rushed Alpha Ghost.

Both girls rapidly slashed and sliced at Alpha Ghost, but he proved tremendously faster and more powerful than either of them. While Alpha Ghost was distracted, Rouge the bat flew into the room, and took the wounded black hedgehog into her arms to get him out of the line of fire and immediately brought him to Eggman! “Fools!” Alpha Ghost laughed maniacally, “You’re far too weak to defeat me! An army of sword-wielding warriors could not defeat me!”

“You forget!” Kindar snickered, “We’re not ‘warriors’! We’re angry women!”

“That’s right!” Fiona backed her friend up, “And that’s much more terrifying!”

“You’re pathetic creatures. You stand no chance!” Alpha Ghost retorted, continually blocking and countering against his aggressors. Swords continually clashed against one another, one of light, one of fire, and two of life energy. The wild sword fight carried on and on, wild swings, clashes of blades, the walls about them turning into shredded cheese!

“I’ve had enough! You’ve killed innocent people! You hurt Shadow! I’ll never forgive you for what you’ve done!” Fiona screeched and charged at him.

“Fiona! Stop! Look out!” Kindar screamed to her friend. Far too late! Alpha Ghost struck against Fiona, breaking the fire sword she had from her rune bracelet, and she passed out from the burning interior pain. “MONSTER!” Kindar then rushed Alpha Ghost, and caught him off guard, and she had actually removed his right arm! “What the…?” Kindarspirit blinked.

Alpha Ghost examined his new-found bloodless wound, “You’re good, no mere human has ever gotten that close to me, let alone hit me,” he sneered, “But the loss of one arm is minor, and I can still crush you!”

“We’ll see who’ll be crushing who you sick-o!” Kindar replied, enraged. Kindar’s right-arm wielded blade proved to move much faster and more accurately than the now handicapped Alpha Ghost. “You can’t win like that! You’re right-handed, fighting with your left hand!”

“Even so, you’re not very skilled, I will win,” Alpha Ghost said, assumingly.

“You’re presumptuousness will be you downfall!” Kindar declared. The two then, continued to slash and strike, neither gaining any ground on the other. This lasted for what seemed like hours, but proved mere minutes, and Alpha Ghost knocked Kindar’s sword right from her hand! “Oh no!” Kindar exclaimed.

Then, Alpha Ghost grabbed Kindar by her throat and lifted her into the air, choking her, “You proved a challenge for a mere human girl. You die now. Good bye.” he then began squeezing on her neck and Kindar’s face turned bright pink from the lack of air! Kindar wildly kicked and scratched Alpha Ghost, but to no avail, and by then her face was blue and everything around her felt light and weak, but in that moment Alpha’s grip on her released! Kindar fell to the floor, dazed, dizzy and confused and she looked up to see a great sword of fire burning right through her attacker’s torso!

“That’s what you get!” a weakened Fiona declared, “For messing with my friends!” Then, the fire completely engulfed Alpha Ghost, and all his flesh was burnt off of a metal skeleton, which fell to the ground in pieces. The metal was clearly ancient, and it seemed that only the flesh of Alpha Ghost continued to hold him together. Kindar smiled and took a deep breath, then put her foot through Alpha Ghost’s rusted, already broken head and her and Fiona returned to the main room where Eggman was.

Eggman looked up, “I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is, Shadow got whooped! The bad news is, he’ll pull through just fine.” Fiona and Kindar laughed and ran past the fat scientist and embraced their hedgehog friend, who had just freshly woken up.

“I saw it in my dreams… you two defeated Alpha Ghost… didn’t you?” Shadow grinned.

“You bet, honey!” Fiona declared.

“I love you Fiona…. Great job, both of you, really!” Shadow then rested his eyes and smiled, “You two are really something…” he then fell asleep. Then, the bottom hatch opened and Eggman, Rouge, Scratch, Grounder, and Coconuts all made their get-a-way and Kindar, Fiona, and the later awakened Shadow used the teleport sequence to return to the surface. “Let’s go home…” Shadow smiled, “I have to stop by the grocery store on the way,”

“Why’s that?” Kindar asked.

“I need to get a new block of cheese, my old one is ruined by now!” Shadow laughed. They all laughed. Then, things were peaceful once again. Shadow and Fiona picked up from where they left off in dating, Kindar began rebuilding Forte, and the chaos emeralds were back in Shadow’s hands. Things were good.

The End…?