Book 1: Sonic the Sparrowhog: The Diamond Castle

Sonic, Shadow and Silver were standing in the Pixie Dust pool as their alter-egos, in front of Queen Clarion.

Clarion: "Aaron, Stark, Mag, I'm glad you could make it here in time. I have probably one of the most difficult missions for you"

Shadow: "No! Nein! Nyet! Nada! There's no way I'll ever stop calling you old"

Clarion: "That is not your mission. Not that I would mind if you stopped. But getting back to important matters, you might know that there is a large, possibly infinite number of universes"

Sonic: "So?"

Clarion: "Significant events are supposed to take place at exactly the same time in every universe"

Sonic: "I still don't understand"

Clarion headed inside her palace. "Follow me"

The queen led them to the main room, which had something that looked like a portal in the middle. "This is what happens when something goes wrong in one or more universes and the rule is not followed"

Sonic: "A time-space rift?"

Clarion: "Exactly. Every time-space rift leads to a universe where something is wrong and the time when that significant event should take place. If this is not fixed, then, sooner or later, a catastrophe will happen"

Shadow: "And we are supposed to fix this?"

Clarion: "I'm sending you because you are the only ones who can do it"

Sonic: "How will we know what exactly to fix?"

Clarion: "You won't. The best I can do is give you this" she pulled out an amulet. "In a universe where events don't take place correctly, this amulet will be cracked. And the more you correct in that universe, the more the cracks will heal"

Sonic took the amulet. "I'm still not sure whether it will help considering that we might not find what to fix"

Clarion: "It's better than nothing. Before you go, one more thing: travelling between universes is complicated. You will be human sized and will have no wings in every other universe"

Shadow: "So no flying? It won't be too much of a challenge if you ask me"

Sonic: "But you won't have anyone to call old"

Shadow: "Good point"

Sonic stepped through the rift, followed by Shadow and Silver. The rift closed behind them.

Sonic: "So this is what it feels like to have no wings"

Silver: "I'm already feeling heavier"

Shadow: "You can't feel heavier just without wings. It's the Pixie Dust that makes you lightweight"

Silver: "Then it's from eating all the chocolate last night"

Sonic: "You ate all the chocolate?"

Silver: "What? Who told you? I'm going to...oh. Right"

Shadow: "Let's move on. I think I see a small village in that direction"

They set off for the village, passing by a poor-looking house. Sonic stopped for a moment to listen to the music coming from there. It was definitely two girls singing.

It's so rare to find a friend like you
Somehow when you're around the sky is always blue
The way we talk
The things you say
The way you make it all okay
And how you know
All of my jokes
But you laugh anyway

If I could wish for one thing
I'd take the smile that you bring
Wherever you go in this world I'll come along
Together we dream the same dream
Forever I'm here for you, you're here for me
Oh ooh oh
Two voices, one song

Shadow: "Are you coming?"

Sonic: "Yeah. Sorry"

Sonic noticed that something was glowing in his pocket. It was the amulet given to him by Queen Clarion. He pulled it out of his pocket to check it. Even though the amulet remained cracked, it was certainly glowing.

Shadow: "Whatever we did, we did it right"

The glow faded as they stepped away from the house.

Sonic: "You've got to be joking!"

Silver: "Maybe the amulet ate too much chocolate"

Shadow: "No, that's you"