How Rise Of Lyric SHOULD Have Ended

==Transcript==
Every now and then, a movie or videogame might not always do so hot with the ending. To be perfectly honest, some of these endings BLOW.
Take Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, for example. The game had so much potential... yet it failed said potential, in contrast to Shattered Crystal and the show itself.
To put it simply, Rise of Lyric bombed. And while it would be MORE than fun to go on about how it sucks, for the purposes of this editorial/fanfic, we will instead point out three of the ways that the game would have ended better.
Let's go through some, shall we?
Number 1: Eggman (Robotnik) as the True Final
Sonic looked around. "Okay... this Lyric guy is giving me SUCH a pain in the neck."
"No...!" Amy scoffed. "I would have NEVER known that had you not told me!"
"Makes me wish Eggman was here!" Tails added.
Knuckles pointed to Lyric. "Uh, why isn't that guy doing anything?"
True enough, Lyric was motionless.
"...Hold it," Tails said as he twirled his namesakes and flew up. to the serpent's face, waving his hand in front of his eyes. "Hello? Anyone there?"
Suddenly, Lyric's eyes shut off...like a pair of lights!
"What the-?!" Tails questioned in shock.
"Lyric" began speaking in a mechanical voice: "Vectortron 1.5 has now expired. Initiating self-destruct sequence and death speech: I have failed you, Robotnik. Control... alt... delete..." Anti-gravity disabled, he crashed down, laying down stomach first.
Soon enough, Robotnik stood on Lyric. "Sing thee to thy rest..."
"Robotnik?!" everyone shouted.
"Ah, Lyric... a masterpiece of mine." Robotnik said. "I needed his distracting precense to work more efficiently towards my TRUE goal: creating the Robotnik Empire! And there is NOTHING you can do at this point that will stop me!" He soon got into an Eggmech. "Let's be real here: I hate all of you equally."
Sticks popped up. "Wait, even me?"
"ESPECIALLY YOU!!" Robotnik shouted. "YOU... LOON!!"
"Oh." Sticks walked away.
"Oh, that's cold, dude," Sonic said.
"What?" asked Robotnik. "We're all thinking it!"
Tails, Knuckes and Amy were all uncomfortably silent, thinking in tandem: 'They must never know...'
Sonic did some stretching out. "Anyways, we have a match, and some music to play." He raised his finger. "Hit it."
Amy turned the radio on. "Yeah!"
(BGM: I Need A Hero, by Bonnie Tyler)
"Knuckles, flank left!" Sonic ordered.
"I'll do ya one better!" Knuckles ran to Robotnik's side. "FALCON PAUNCH!!"
"...Really?" Sonic asked.
*BOOM!!*
The mech was knocked over. "OH, COME ON!!"
"Yeah!" Knuckles cheered, punching the air.
Amy swung at the legs of the mech. "Going down!"
"No! Stop!!" Robotnik shouted. "This machine is delicate!!!"
"Oh, don't be a drama queen." Amy said, swinging again. "You can make more." She swung a third time.
"Tails? You up for this?" Sonic asked.
Tails began flying up, carrying Sonic in the process. "Alright, time to go all Rambo on this guy."
"Couldn't have said it better myself, buddy," Sonic added. "Okay, on three!"
"Got it!" Tails answered.
"3!" Sonic shouted.
"LET'S PLAY BALL!!" Tails tossed Sonic up, tethered him, and whipsmashed him against the mech.
*CRASH!!*
"TAKE THAT, YOU EGGMATIC FREAK!!" Tails shouted.
He ended up sending Robotnik and his mech flying.
"I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG~!!!!" he shouted.
So Scratch and Grounder popped up. "WAIT FOR US, YOUR UGLINESS!!" They ran off. A star twinkled in the sky.
"...That was random," Sonic spoke.
"Agreed." Knuckles and Amy said in unison.
Number 2: Doctor Shadow: Fast Mastermind
Lyric had been defeated.
Sonic rubbed himself up. "Now let's get the hell out of here..."
"Yeah..." Amy said. "Green craters with dull music just aren't my style."
"I need a bath," Tails added.
"And I need to take some classes, because seriously: who thought that making me an oaf was a good idea?" Knuckles asked.
"And yet...I feel like we're missing something," said Sonic.
"The... fact that I'm more self aware than usual...?" Knuckles asked. "Because I suddenly feel as though I'm not as dumb as I was previously."
As if on cue, the green liquid in the volcano suddenly turned into a glowing, red hot orange and yellow.
"What was that?!" Tails questioned.
Sonic tilted Tails's head down. "Uh, buddy? Still BECOMING a thing. That stuff is now natural lava."
"...Boy, do I feel stupid," Tails said.
"Wait, this isn't lava!" Knuckles said. "This is a molten titanium-gold ALLOY!! Eureka! I have deduced that we are in the world's largest steel production site!" He looked at a reflection in horror. "Oh God, I feel SMART!!"
"That would be the reverse polarity forcefield I have set up in this lab." A familiar voice replied. "Project Vector was a failure, but I accounted for this. It WAS an outdated model, after all."
"Shadow?!" Tails asked.
"Who else, but he who has the least appearances?"
In a flash, appeared Shadow the Hedgehog, wearing his scarf like before... but also a black doctor coat. "That is DOCTOR Shadow to you. And judging by our previous fight, do you not wish to know how I fit into this entire adventure for you four?"
"You only appeared once," Tails answered, "for a random fight that made no sense."
"Wrong." Shadow corrected. "I was gauging the four of you to see whether or not you'd be ABLE to withstand this experiment."
"Wait... say that again?" Amy asked. "How does THAT make sense?"
"Your whole adventure was an experiment." Shadow said. "You see... I was attempting to unravel the secrets of an ancient civilization of snake like beings, but I needed a way to incubate my own clone, so I turned to the brilliant Robotnik for assistance. He created the exo-armor, and I created the bio-form. Thus, Pyric was born. Afterwards, I dismissed him and began taking predictions on the survival rates of this newly restored species. Would the old species survive and conquer, or would the new life now kill it off? I predicted your survival rate to initially be 20%, but after our encounter? 50%."
"So that's a win," Sonic spoke.
"There IS, however... one factor I did not appreciate." Shadow pointed to Sticks, who was randomly walking by. "YOU!!..."
(BGM: South Island, from Sonic OVA OST)
Sticks turned around. "Hm? Me?"
"You may know everything that I'M going to do, but that's not going to help you, since I know everything YOU'RE going to do! STRANGE, ISN'T IT?!?" He dashed forward. "GYAHH!!"
"WHOA!!!" Sticks cried as she ran away.
"Enough talk, though!" Shadow said, slowing to a halt.
Sticks grabbed a bag. "Well it's great knowin' you all, but right now, I'm heading to a beach! Later!" Like that, she was gone.
"And by the way, Knuckles." Shadow said. "The fluid below you is a MIXTURE of magma and molten titanium-gold alloy."
"Well obviously!" Tails said. "I thought that was common sense!"
"Of course you would think that," Shadow said. "So, well... now might be a good escape." He added. "Given the change of color, it will not take long before this place erupts."
"Then why are you in there?!"
The black hedgehog looked up to see that the gang had already gotten out.
"True..." Shadow warped out of the volcano, to where Robotnik resided: a cliff at the distance.
*BOOM!!!*
Robotnik opened his jaw. "...Oh man... did not think your expire end would do so hot..."
Shadow reclined, studying from a biology book. "You were always more of a mechanic, Doctor. Never looking into bio-physics or bio-technology."
"Oh, and you have?" Robotnik inquired.
"That's how Lyric came to be in the first place." Shadow said, taking a sip of wine.
"Right... never do that again, please." Robotnik said.
"Well this entire plot of events, as I feel, was a waste of time." Shadow said. "Let us never mention this again."
"Agreed," the rest of the gang replied.
Sonic turned to the fourth wall. "So, that's two different endings so far that were better than what we ended up with in the actual game. Pretty good, right? Well... the last one will be a cut above the rest."
Ending 3: Super Sonic
It was at a point before the crater entrance.
Amy spoke up: "Alright, is everyone ready to do a thing?"
"I am," Tails answered. "What about you, Knuckles?"
"Oh you know it." Knuckles answered.
"Uh, what's the thing?" Sonic asked.
"Notice how the Crystals are like the Chaos Emeralds?" Tails asked.
"Woah, back up a little." Sonic said. "What are these 'Chaos Emeralds'?"
"They are!... theoretical emeralds that are said to be imbued with Chaos energy." Doctor Shadow dropped from the crater.
"And how many are there in all?" Sonic asked.
"You're a doctor?!" Knuckles asked.
"7, and yes." Shadow answered. "We went over my significance, and in any case, me and the doctor realized that this Chaos energy resided in some of these crystals as well." He then added, "After doing much research, I noticed that Sonic seems to resonate with said Crystals."
"Right. YOU noticed it." Sonic said.
Doctor Shadowed chucked at that. "Alright, well it wasn't entirely me."
Robotnik soon popped up: "That D-bag Lyric screwed me over! So I needed someone who also had a brilliant mind." He notioned to Shadow. "And given you... well, we made this fail safe."
Behind Robotnik was a machine not like any other. Shadow and Robotnik pronounced: "We present to you: The Chaos Synthesizer."
"The Chaos Synthesizer?" Sonic repeated.
"It's part of Chaos Alchemy." Tails said. "You take several crystals to synthesize into one Emerald each, with the Emeralds being at the most advanced stage of Chaos Fusion. With seven of those, you should reach a form unprecedented in power and strength... though the cost required would be gold, since gold is the best conductor."
Knuckles simplified it: "These crystals become emeralds. You can use SAID emeralds to go Super Saiyan."
Sonic was pumped up. "Well alright then! Bring it on!"
"Initiating Chaos Experiment." Shadow said.
With that, Sonic stepped into the Chaos Synthesizer.
Tails, Knuckles and Amy all began loading the crystals onto the different fusing stations. "Alright, the Emerald Fusing stage is ready to begin."
Robotnik turned on the Emerald Pressurizer. "BEHOLD!!"
The crystal piles were closed in by emerald molds, with intense pressure and heat molding the crystals into emeralds, the Chaos energy starting to increase exponentially. Soon enough, the molds were lifted up, revealing Chaos Emerald prototypes.
"Voila," Shadow said. "Chaos Emeralds...artificially made, that is."
"EUREKA!!" Robotnik cried in joy. "WE'VE MADE CHAOS EMERALDS!!"
"Now for one more step." Shadow looked at Sonic. "Reach the peak of Chaos Form. Make me and Robotnik into scientific legends. VANQUISH THAT OF WHICH MUST NOT BE NAMED!!"
Sticks popped up. "So... hold off on the vacation?"
"You have clearance, Sticks." Tails said. "Right now, we're about to see science happen."
"Does it have something to do with a cross-eyed moose?" Sticks asked.
"LOOK! ALIENS!! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!" cried Knuckles.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!" Sticks screamed before she ran off. "THEY'RE COMING FOR US!!! IT'S THE END OF DAYS, MAN!!!!"
"Smart move," Tails said. "That should keep her away for a little while."
Sonic raised his finger. "Hit, MY music!"
(BGM: Megalovania, by Toby Fox)
The emeralds began pulsating with intense energy, circling around Sonic fast, then faster, then faster, capping off at 1500 revolutions per minute. Sonic began levitating, energy flowing through him like never before. For a brief moment at first, he turned gold... but then he flashed gold again, and again, and again, until instrumentality crashed: he had achieved the Chaos status... as Super Sonic. His gold body shone brilliantly.
"Whoa...!" the gang put on their sunglasses.
"WE HAVE MADE THE CHAOS FORM!!" Robotnik decreed. "NOW VANQUISH THE ENEMY!!"
Sonic nodded. "I'll be right back." He zoomed upwards, soon coming in contact with a (for the first time) surprised Lyric. "Oh you are SCREWED, buddy."
"Impossible...!" Lyric hissed.
"Uh, wrong." Sonic answered. "Chaos Physics. I WIN!"
*BOOM!!*
Sonic hit Lyric with a Super Sonic Boost, incinerating him.
...
"And that's how I basically got everything figured out." Sonic said at a café with Batman and Superman.
"Sweet." Batman said. "So then what did you do?"
"Well we shut down the crater, flew away from the crater, and smiled for the camera." Sonic answered.
"Ahem..." Superman said. "That catchphrase... kinda sounds a little familiar, to be honest. Almost as if I've been using it plenty of times before."
Sonic chuckled before taking a sip of his latte.
"Could you imagine how lame it would have been if we just fought the guy without Chaos Emeralds?" Tails asked. "A TOTAL waste of time!"
"Yeah." Sonic agreed. "Plus millions of poor reviews on Rotten Tomatoes."
"I hear you," Superman concurred.
"Ditto," Batman added.
"So now what?" Superman asked.
Sonic sat there and thought about it. "Huh... I don't really know. I might just join the Olympics this year. You know, get that adventure out of my system."
"How did they let you in the Olympics in the first place?" Superman asked. "I mean, aren't you literally faster than the speed of sound?"
"Eh, it was some kinda publicity thing I guess," Sonic said.
"In fact, now that I think about it, how do you not demolish your competition in the running sports?" Superman asked. "What, do you experience stage freight-"
"Okay, I admit that logically speaking, none of those make sense." Sonic sighed. "Pin it down to Nintendo logic."
"Ooo... that's a good point." Batman said. "It's a good thing that MOVIES make more sense than videogames."
Sonic took a sip of his latte, and rebuked: "Bat Credit Card."
"Say what?" Tails asked.
Batman sighed. "Oh man... you know about the Bat Credit Card, don't you?"
"Who'd a thought that Joel Schumachcer actually had it in him to give you a Bat Credit Card?" Sonic asked. "Seriously, you should chill out, man."
"I'm more than chill, thank you." Batman said. "You wanna know why?"
"Uh... why?" Sonic asked.
"Because I'm Batman." Batman answered.
"...And suddenly, I'm gone," Sonic said as he left. "Pay for my latte, will ya? C'mon, bud."
"Right," Tails answered as he followed.
Conclusion
Nothing else to really say here. That's our thoughts on how Rise of Lyric should have ended. If you think it should have ended differently, feel free to tell us in the comments below.
Ego-Man out! Also peace.
Category:Alternate Endings