Josh, Manik, Sonia, Shade, Dominic, and Lara were dealing with look-alikes of Sonic, Shadow, Knuckles, Sally, Rouge, and Espio. Josh was dodging every shuriken Espio threw at him, Manik was matching Sonic's speed, Sonia was handling Sally, Shade and Shadow were a Chaos Spear battle, Dominic was handling Rouge, and Lara was battling her own father. Espio disappeared at the base of the tree where several of his shuriken were lodged and reappeared on one of the branches. He jumped down and onto Josh's back. Josh was desperately trying to shake Espio off to no avail.
"Let go! Get off, you poseur," Josh yelled.
"No way! This is way too much fun," Espio said before Josh turned to look at the audience.
"You probably don't know how we ended up like this or why these guys are even here, so I'll just have to bring you up to speed." Josh then threw Espio off his back and walked off-screen. He walked back on-screen, pulling a different background featuring him, Manik, and Sonia relaxing lakeside.
"This is how it all started. Manik, Sonia, and I were just relaxing at a lake we found near New Mobotropolis. It was actually a pretty cool place we could go to just to unwind."
"Man, it feels seriously great to be here," Manik said with his feet in the water.
"I'm with you there, 'Nik. This feels great," Josh agreed before diving down to the bottom of the lake.
"Josh? Are you alright?"
"Manik, relax. He's okay. He's got the same kind of powers we do," Sonia said.
"Guess that's true," Manik said. Seconds later, a fountain of water rose from the lake with Josh at the center. Sonia and Manik watched as they watched their controlled the water with ease.
"Incredible!"
"Lookin' good, Jo!"
"Thanks! Feelin' good, Manik." Josh then jumped down and created a vortex of air to soften his landing. He then let the water fall back into the lake to make it look like nothing ever happened.
"Nice display of aerokinesis, Jo. Your powers are pretty cool," Manik complimented.
"Pretty soon, you two are going to have unleash your powers under the right circumstances," Josh said.
"You're right, Josh. Pretty soon, we have to show our powers off and let our parents see how powerful we are because of you," Sonia said. Josh dried himself off before he, Manik, and Sonia started the walk back home to New Mobotropolis. When they came into the city, they saw Rocket talking to Elias about a matter that had just emerged.
"I haven't seen her in a while, sire. Sorry," Rocket said.
"It's quite alright. Sally might be back soon enough," Elias said before walking off. Josh walked up to Rocket with a confused look on his face.
"Dad, what was all that about?"
"Sally mysteriously disappeared late last night. That makes Sally, Sonic, Knux, Espio, Rose, Rouge, Shadow, Silver, and Blaze."
"Mom's missing," Josh asked.
"Yeah. No one knows what happened to them but they better show up soon. Elias is breathing down my neck about his sister's disappearance. Someone better find her fast. Otherwise, I'm getting thrown outta here," Rocket said.
"Can we help?"
"No, you can't. This is a matter the Kingdom of Acorn's dealing with. You can look for clues to the disappearances, but you can't help us find them. I'm sorry, Josh." Rocket then walked off, leaving Josh disappointed that the younger version of his own dad doesn't trust him. Sonia saw the disappointed look on her boyfriend's face and walked over to him.
"What's going on," she asked, putting her hands on Josh's shoulders
"Disappearances, my dad doesn't trust me, et cetera. Nothin' important," he said.
"Why would he not trust you?"
"I'm not sure. I guess it's 'cause he thinks I won't be useful in finding everyone who disappeared." Josh then got a determined look in his eyes.
"But I'll prove him wrong. We're gonna find everyone who's disappeared. Then he'll see that I'm a core asset to New Mobotropolis," Josh said.
"And we'll be there to help, Josh," a voice said. Josh, Sonia, and Manik looked to see Lara and Shade there.
"Shade, Lara. How'd you guys get here?"
"I just used my chaos abilites to send myself, Lara, and Dominic here," Shade answered.
"Dominic's here too," Manik asked.
"You bet I am," a voice said before a figure came out of the bushes. The figure was a hedgehog with brown fur, ice blue eyes, a leather jacket, black sunglasses, black fingerless gloves, and a pair of black boots. His name was Dominic the Hedgehog, future son of Scourge the Hedgehog and Fiona Fox.
"Hey, Josh. Pleasure seein' you here in the past. How'd you get here?"
"Just went over to Marcus', used his dad's old time portal, and the rest is history as you can see," Josh responded.
"Anyway, we're help to help, Josh. We'll help you and then go back to the future. Simple as that," Dominic said.
"Too bad. This place is the best. I mean, look around. This is a perfect city."
"Yeah, you're right. It does look like a good city to live in. All right. After we're done, we can stay here for as long as we can."
"Then let's find those missing people," Josh said before holding his hand out.
"I'm in." Manik then laid his hand on top of Josh's, followed by Sonia, Dominic, Shade, and Lara. Their mission was to find out what had happened to Blaze, Shadow, Sally, Sonic, Silver, Amy, Knuckles, and Rouge.