Hello, guys! Long time, no see, huh?

?: For Khrista's stories, that could be considered true.

Huh? Scribe, what are you doing here?

*a girl with chocolate brown hair, green eyes, and a backpack full of writing paper moves in to sit next to the author*

Scribe: I wanted to check in on you and your writing progress, considering how much attention you've been giving your Fanfiction stories recently. If you don't mind me butting in, that is.

Uh...not at all. You kinda did that already with my Transformers/Justice League fic, so I guess this works, too. Do you want to handle the disclaimer about the story, then?

Scribe: Sure. The only characters that Nexus - aka, FourthWallBreaker - owns are myself, Khrista, and Joshua. If Nexus did own the rights to a comic book for Sonic the Hedgehog, I'm pretty sure that she would have botched it up by now.

And I agree with that statement! Now, onto the chapter!

Chapter 1

A girl wearing a sky blue T-shirt and blue jeans with dark brown hair and ocean blue eyes let out a whoop as she flew around the countryside at high speed. Summer was in her sights, and the teen was more than happy to get out of school and spend time with her Pokemon with no one was breathing down her neck and asking unneeded questions.

Ever since Khrista and the others had gotten back from the Pokemon World, they had been considered famous by kids and adults alike. Many people had already tried to gain access to their Pokemon through her PokeDex, but they learned rather quickly that the only Pokemon she could bring over were hers. At school, she had been considered popular only because she could throw fireballs whenever the sidewalks needed to be shoveled and ice needed to be melted off the road.

Of course, there were the occasional request that she bring one of her Pokemon and have a quick sparring match with them, just to show a little of what she could do in that other world. Mostly, she would spar with a Pokemon about her size - Gawain the Gallade or Genevieve the Gardevoir, usually. However, if someone had a specific request to see a Pokemon, Khrista might let them come out and converse with them, the teen oftentimes acting as a translator. Recently, a friend had wanted to meet her Swampert, who she had named Swamp. Khrista had allowed the two to meet, then allowed the friend to be Swamp's temporary Trainer in a spar, to give them a feel for what a Pokemon Battle might be like.

Khrista took in a breath of crisp, morning air as she circled the woods that were near her neighborhood. Thanks to her time in the Pokemon World, the teen had obtained abilities that most humans - in fact, all humans - didn't normally have.

[a/n: here comes the kind of thing that fills in on what you might have missed in the last Chronicle story. You have my permission to skip the following paragraph if you know what happened in "I Choose You!"]

About a year or so ago, Khrista and a selection of other kids from her area of the world were taken by a certain Galactic cretin (also known as Cyrus) when he had managed to actually take over the world. Khrista and her cousins had managed to assist a group called the Underground in a final battle type of senario, and the girl had managed to gain new powers at a price: she was now part Pokemon. Part Mew, to be precise. This means that she can access any Pokemon move whenever she wants to - with the after-affect of being weakened by whatever Type is strong against the move she wants to use, of course. Thus explaining why Khrista was flying through the air and was capable of sparring with Pokemon.

[a/n: Okay, back to the story.]

While Khrista was mulling over memories of the past, something small and very fast flew at her out of nowhere, causing the teen to stop short in surprise as the said something hit her chest. The impact caused it to start to fall to the ground, and Khrista moved quickly in order to pick it up, surprised to find that the creature was, in fact, a bird that wasn't natural to the area.

"What is a Flicky doing here?" Khrista asked herself, frowning down at the light blue, big-headed bird in her hands. Taking note that the bird was knocked out and probably wouldn't respond to a telepathic prodding too well, she muttered, "I've got to go find Joshua." She promptly turned and flew back the way she had come. It wasn't long before her hometown was on the horizon.

As Khrista landed on top of her home's roof and slipped into the window, she nearly fell off the building in surprise upon finding a boy with brown hair and hazel eyes with green specs standing in her room. He was wearing a simple blue T-shirt and an identically-colored pair of Bermuda shorts.

"Joshua," Khrista identified, "what are you doing in my house? Alia said that you were getting ready to go on a cruise with your parents."

"We thought the sea wasn't exactly a good place to be," Joshua responded. "My parents are downstairs asking your parents if they want the tickets. The Carlsdales already declined."

Khrista raised an eyebrow at this. "Okay... Any particular reason that you're in my room?"

"We need to talk," Joshua replied. He dug into his pocket and removed from it a small, handheld device that looked like a blue Gameboy Advance. "I've been picking up strange readings from the area lately - mostly from your house. I wanted to check it out."

"Strange readings?" Khrista asked. "What do you mean by strange?"

"Like, 'every other day there's an energy spike' strange." Joshua motioned to Khrsita's room, complete with its white walls, fluffy pink carpet, and posters of video game franchises Khrista had come across over the years. "It seems to originate from here."

Khrista frowned. "From my house?"

"From your room." Joshua waved the Gameboy around, most likely trying to find the source of the whatever-it-was. "I have a bigger one at my house in the basement, and it picked up the energy spike a few days ago. I've been trying to figure out why it's been going off ever since." His eyes went to the small figure in Khrista's arms. "What's that?"

Khrista glanced down at the bird. "Oh, this? I'd almost forgotten that I had it." She adjusted the blue bird's position in her arms. "I found it this morning when I was out flying."

Joshua leaned forward to inspect the Flicky, only to have his device suddenly start beeping like crazy. Looking at the device quickly, he surmised, "The energy spike I got from your room a few days ago is exactly the same as the one I'm getting from the Flicky.." He looked at the bird again. "How do you think it got here?"

Khrista frowned, then made her way over to a bookshelf on the wall opposite her bed, which was by the door. "I think the answer's somewhere in here...aha!" Khrista removed one of the books and started to flip through it, careful not to jostle the Flicky.

Joshua came over. "Sonic the Hedgehog Comic Encyclopedia?"

Khrista nodded. "I got it a few weeks back from Barnes&Noble, to keep track of all the characters Archie Comics uses." She pointed to a page with a lot of text and a few well-drawn pictures of Flickies. "According to this, Flickies can travel from Zone to Zone with very little trouble - there's a natural Warp Ring that they use on Flicky Island to go from Sonic's Zone to theirs." She closed the book with a snap and placed it back on the shelf. "It would only make sense that there might be a Warp Ring from the Flicky Zone to our world."

Joshua gave his cousin a strange look. "You have been reading too many comic books."

"Yeah, sure. And you've been playing too much MegaMan lately with Matthew when our band isn't practicing - you almost look like Rock, minus the eyes."

Joshua sighed and shook his head. "Look, I've been trying to figure out what exactly Maria did that caused Neo-Earth's history to change, but I haven't found anything in the games. It's like she doesn't even exist."

"It goes back to that Multiverse theory she told us about before," Khrista replied. "Different worlds have different actions. Like how the main games say nothing about the Pokemon Explorers, but we know that they exist - they just live where the human's can't. The other worlds do exist, but Maria can go where the main events don't necessarily happen without other things taking place."

"...That made no sense," Joshua stated flatly.

"She went to an alternate reality," Khrista stated, annoyed that her explanation hadn't worked.

"I know that! I was just wondering if there was some sort of...ripple effect or something!"

"Ripple effect?"

Khrista and Joshua froze upon hearing the chirp-like voice. The two looked at each other before they started to look around the room in order to find the source.

"Looking for me?" a voice suddenly chirped in Khrista's ear. Khrista jumped at the sound of the voice, causing those in the room to suddenly burst out into laughter.

Khrista's head turned, and she caught sight of the Flicky, sitting on her shoulder. "Yeah, I kinda was," she admitted. "It's good to see that you're all right after bumping into me like that."

The Flicky seemed to smile, delighted that the human actually cared. It looked around, a curious look on its face. "So, where am I?"

"On Earth," Khrista replied. "Specifically, my bedroom."

"Earth?" the Flicky repeated, cocking its head to one side. "I haven't heard of that name before." The bird let out a sigh and bowed its head. "But its definitely not the one that I was looking for. Looks like I'll have to try again."

"Where were you looking for?" Khrista asked, frowning. "If you need help, I know a couple people who might be able to get you where you need to go."

"Make that one," Joshua corrected. "Maria disappeared practically as soon as school got out, remember?"

"For where?"

"She said something about an invitation to some sort of tournament."

"Oh." Khrista let out a sigh. "Well, is Liz still here?"

"Last I checked."

The Flicky let out a long sniffle. "Do you really think they'll be able to get me to the home of the legendary being that contains eighteen different Types from another world? Because that's kind of who I'm looking for. Every world I end up on, though, points me in a different direction."

"A being with eighteen Types?" Khrista repeated in surprise. She looked down at her shirt, which was still sky blue. "Well, I've got access to them, but I wouldn't necessarily call me a Multi-Type kind of girl."

The Flicky on her shoulder stiffened, and it looked at Khrista in shock. "What's your name?" it asked cautiously.

"Uh...I'm Khrista, and this is my cousin, Joshua," Khrista replied, motioning between herself and her blue-themed relative.

The Flicky's eyes widened. "What luck! I've been scouring the multiverse for you!"

Khrista gave the bird a look of surprise. "You have? Why?"

"We've got a BIG problem on my world, and I've heard from a few people that you guys might be able to help us out!" The Flicky looked between Khrista and her cousins. "What do you day? Can you help?"

"Well, I'd certainly be more than willing," Khrista answered. She looked over at Joshua. "What do you think?"

Joshua, who had been frowning thoughtfully at the Flicky, turned his gaze to Khrista. "There's something off about this bird, Khrista. I don't think we should trust it."

Khrista frowned in response. "What makes you say that?"

The Flicky frowned, as well, making the blue bird look like its feathers were starting to slide down the front of his head and cover his eyes.

Joshua held up his Gameboy-like device. "I made this specifically to look for metallic signatures that don't necessarily belong in the area," he explained. "The fact alone that a Flicky bird - a being organic in nature - would match the metallic signature exactly worries me."

Khrista blinked, and it took her a moment to register the fact that Joshua had used telepathy to talk to her. Her frown deepened, making it look like her blue eyes were darkening. Why would a Flicky have anything metallic on it? Robotnik tried to go after them in the Prime Zone, meaning that they'd probably have an adversity to the stuff.

"Exactly." Joshua turned his attention to the Flicky on Khrista's shoulder; the bird was looking increasingly nervous. "Meaning that something is definitely wrong here."

"Why are you looking at me like that?" the Flicky asked nervously. When Joshua didn't answer, the blue bird took off from Khrista's shoulder and attempted to fly out of Joshua's line of sight by going behind his cousin. However, Joshua simply moved around and started to lift the device in his hands.

"What are you doing?" the Flicky squeaked. "Please, tell -"

The bird never got to finish its statement.

Joshua threw the Gameboy-like device at the big-headed bird and hit it in the face dead-on. As soon as the two connected, both exploded.

Khrista jumped in surprise as the remains of the two fell to the bedroom floor...only it just looked like a pile of parts and a puddle of oil that was staining the carpet.

"W-what?" She looked at Joshua. "How did that happen?"

"The energy was starting to spike again, like it was ready to send us all without warning," Joshua replied. "And you said the organic ones can use Warp Rings, so I put two and two together." He walked over to the Robo-Flicky's remains and sifted through the parts. "A lot of this is too far advanced to be something from Earth, no doubt about that. And the Pokemon world hasn't invested in robot production. That leaves us with one place that might have access to Flickies..." Joshua came up with a small, golden ring that had most likely been the power source of the 'bot.

"Mobius," Khrista stated, eyes wide. A frown came over her face. "But how do you think that Eggman might have found out about us? I mean, it's not like he could have traveled to the Pokemon World." She paused. "Could he?"

"I don't think he ever went there, considering that there was already an alternate on that world, from what Maria's told us," Joshua responded as he continued to go through the robot's remains. "However, that doesn't mean that Cyrus didn't go to him. That 'K' we found on the device Cyrus used to get away is probably a version of Eggman's symbol."

Khrista frowned. "But how is that possible? Eggman uses his face in the games, not a letter."

Joshua thought for a moment. "It could be that this Eggman is an alternate version of the one we know from the video games," he suggested.

Khrista frowned, but then her eyes widened. "That's right! In the comics, Eggman replaced Robotnik at issue 75, because he had come from a world that no longer had a Sonic, and the vacuum needed to be filled. Maybe one of the alternate dimension 'Eggmans' managed to interact with Cyrus in some way."

Joshua nodded. "A sound theory." He help up the ring again. "But how to reach that place is going to be another matter."

"What do you mean? We got to the Pokemon World just fine."

"Because we were dragged there, and Maria got us back out again. If we're going to head to this version of Mobius, we're going to need someone - or something - that can get us there."

"The bird was probably capable of doing that," Khrista remarked, motioning to the remains of the Flicky. "Maybe you could put something together using it's remains."

Joshua shook his head. "That would take too long. We still have our parents downstairs, and if I do get it done, you might already be out on that cruise."

Khrista's eyes narrowed upon hearing this. "Well, what do you suggest, then? We all hold the ring and I use Teleport on us?"

"Actually, yes."

Khista stared at her cousin in surprise.

"Just hear me out." Joshua held up the ring. "This is obviously one of the rings you can come across on Mobius, and even though I can't use it, I can still sense the power that's emanating from it. If you can tap into that power, we can probably get enough energy out of it from a one-way trip to Mobius."

"One-way?" Khrista repeated.

"We both know that a ring's power doesn't last for long once it's been tapped into, and we can always pick up another ring if we want to go back." Joshua held the ring out to Khrista. "What do you say?"

Outside of the bedroom, the two could head footsteps approaching the door.

Taking this into account, Khrista nodded. "All right. Just give me a minute to get a few things." Going for her bed, Khrista got on her knees and thrust an arm underneath it, coming up a moment later with a red backpack and a red device that looked very much like a 3DS. "Like it or not, we might end up needing some help."

Joshua nodded. "I already have mine, so I'm ready when you are." He held out the ring towards his cousin

Khrista dropped the red device in her backpack and threw it over one shoulder. "Here goes nothing."

She reached out and wrapped her right pointer finger around the ring, closed her eyes, and concentrated on sending the ring home along with herself and her cousin. Without hesitation, Khrista's shirt when from sky blue to gold, and the ring responded instantly, a bright glow coming off it. When the glow seemed to have filled the room, it suddenly vanished...taking the kids with it.

"Kristine?" a voice called. "Kristine, honey, are you in there?" A woman with bright red hair and blue eyes opened the door. "Your fa-"

She stopped short upon seeing the room empty except for a few mechanical parts on the floor and the bedroom window wide open from Khrista's entrance into her room. "Robert!"

Heh. Looks like Khrista's going somewhere Mobius-ish. You'll see what my version of the world's like...the next time I post!

Scribe: Considering that college isn't exactly the best place to be if you wanted to post things...as we don't know how busy Nexus is going to get. I'm glad that she's managed to stock up on how many chapters she has written for some of these worlds.

More on that later, if anybody really is curious. So, PM, review, follow, favorite - I don't care! Just do something that lets me know you guys are reading it and are going to stick with it! I know that eclipse is probably going to read this, but I want to know about the rest of you, too! So, see you next time I'm on the web!