Chapter 2
World of Dreams
Green had a good relaxing sleep at his small house located in the Aquatic Ruins Zone of Westside Island, as he was having a relaxing sleep his little Chao named Sprocket was also sleeping peacefully. Far away in Mystic Ruins Big the Cat and Froggy were sleeping in Big's hut, Nicolas the A.I was in sleep mode next to Green and far away in a remote location E-102 Gamma or just Gamma for short was in sleep mode in order to get his energy levels fully restored for combat.
As for Dr. Oliver Eggman, he was peacefully sleeping and dreaming of dreams where he took over the world or how his plans were met with success. However as these people slept there was more going on in the Multiverse then they realized, a being of great power from a world where dreams are reality summoned from forth Dr. Oliver Eggman, Big the Cat and Froggy, E-102 Gamma, Nicolas the A.I, Sprocket the Chao and Green the Hedgehog.
"What the heck!" Dr. Oliver Eggman yelled as he suddenly realized he was in some kind of odd castle.
"What the? Dr. Eggman! What are you doing here?" Green said as he saw the doctor.
"Green? What are you doing here and where the heck am I!?" Dr. Oliver Eggman yelled in confusion.
"Location unknown...target Dr. Oliver Eggman is here...no E-100 units detected" Gamma said as he scanned the area.
"Gamma!?" Green said in surprise.
"Where are we now Froggy?" Big the Cat asked his friend.
"Ribbit?" translated Froggy said "I don't know Big but it sure is scary and odd" and Froggy made sure he was close to Big and safe from any possible harm.
"Chao! Chao!" Sprocket the Chao said in excitement.
"Green...my scanners are going a bit crazy" Nicolas the A.I said while in his hand held computer form.
"Can someone please explain what's going on here before I seriously lose my temper?" Dr. Oliver Eggman said.
"Wait...are you saying that this place we're at isn't part of your evil plans doc?" Green asked the doctor.
"Of course it isn't, do you honestly think I'd be confused in one of my own bases or a location I studied about?" Dr. Oliver Eggman said.
"Unknown life form detected!" Gamma said as a being who had dark eyes that looked like an empty void floated in the sky around the group, the being had green hair, pink skin on his face, he ware a Phthalo blue bodysuit with green stripes on torso and feet, yellow toes and orange gem on chest as well as Purple crystal-like bracelets on wrist and angles and he had a purple cape.
"I'm lonely...all I want is to be with my brothers and sisters...are you the one's who heard my call?...can you help me become whole again?" the being said to the group.
"Interesting..." Dr. Oliver Eggman said as he looked at the being.
"Nicolas do you have any idea what or who that is?" Green asked his friend.
"...well...now let me think...nothing about this being exists in my database...though based upon my readings now that I've modified my scanners...we seem to be in some kind of alternate dimension and I'm guessing this being summoned us here" Nicolas explained.
"He has interesting eyes" Big said as he looked at the being.
Within seconds the being teleported away without warning and then a familiar voice that Green and Nicolas knew all to well was heard "darn! Void teleported again" and the being who said this was none other then NiGHTS the strange being who helped Sonic rescue Tails and Amy and stop Robo-Robotnik mk II in Station Square, back when the whole Chaos scenario was going on.
"NiGHTS! What are you doing here?" Green asked his ally.
"Oh Green! Good to see you again, though I wish that things could be better" NiGHTS said.
"Good to see you too NiGHTS but...can you please tell us where we are?" Green asked as he picked up his Chao Sprocket.
"We aren't in the Mystic Ruins" Big the Cat said.
"That's because you guys are in a dream world" NiGHTS said.
"Come again?!" Dr. Oliver Eggman asked with a bit of disbelief.
"I'll try to make it short and to the point, this place is called Maginaryworld. Its one of the dream worlds or dimensions out there where dreams come from, that mellow dramatic boy is a being called Void who shattered an item called the Precioustone into many pieces. Maginaryworld is ruled by a good friend of mine known as Illumina, however she vanished and sent someone called Lumina Flowlight to get help. I heard from Lumina Flowlight what happened to Illumina and came to try and learn more about Void and help out" NiGHTS explained.
"Wow...what exactly is the Precioustone?" Nicolas asked after he turned on his holographic body.
"Its a giant stone of great power kind of like the Master Emerald of Mobius but if the Precioustone is left shattered for far to long then all dream worlds will be destroyed including my world called Nightopia" NiGHTS explained.
"Interesting" Dr. Oliver Eggman said with a grin as he sneaked off.
"Can you explain why I am here since I am a robot?" Gamma asked NiGHTS.
"Its mostly because you have a soul of your own but partially because you have a Flicky powering you Gamma" NiGHTS explained.
"So NiGHTS what do we need to do in order to save Illumina?" Green asked his ally.
"We must help Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy recover the Precioustone shards located in the five worlds of Maginaryworld. Once we've found all the pieces we'll take them to the Temple of Light which is the center of Maginaryworld and save the reality of dreams and most of all our worlds" NiGHTS explained.
"Our friends are here Froggy" Big said to his little friend.
"Wait! Where's Dr. Eggman?" Green said as he noticed Oliver vanished.
"He most likely is up to something, we have to stop him before anything bad happens because of that buffoon" NiGHTS said as he led the group.
The first location the group went to was called Emerald Coast just like the Emerald Coast from Station Square but this place was different "this place is created from the dreams of people who enjoy the sun and relaxing on beaches" NiGHTS explained to the group.
"It looks like there was ice here..." Green said.
"The ice was made from Void but it seems like Lumina got Sonic and his dream team to the iceberg and now the ice is melting" NiGHTS explained.
"Can we fish?" Big said.
"Maybe once we stop Eggman and anything else that's making trouble" Green said.
"Eggman is our target do not forget that Big" Gamma said softly.
"Chao!" Sprocket said with a smile.
And shortly the group was transported from the Emerald Coast dream world to another dream world known as Fire Bird "where are we?" Big asked.
"Looks like a giant airplane much like the one's used by the United Federation" Green said.
"This world was once made for all those with dreams to fly high but now it's been trapped and had it's freedom taken thanks to the powers of Void" NiGHTS explained.
"Ohohohohoho! Soon this will be my new base to help me take over Maginaryworld!" Dr. Oliver Eggman said with a hint of triumph in his voice.
"Sounds like Eggman is up to no good, figures he'd be drawn to a world like this one in its current state" Green said.
"Well let's go kick that guys butt for being so mean" NiGHTS said in a mischievous manner.
The group traveled to the location Eggman was at and they stopped him from taking control of the Fire Bird just in time for the great phoenix trapped in the airplane to escape "looks like Tails and his friends got the Precioustone in this world to and now the Fire Bird is free" NiGHTS said with a smile on his face.
"I've got to get out of here!" Dr. Oliver Eggman said as Void opened up a portal and took the doctor with him.
"Where'd Eggman go now?" Gamma asked.
"Looks like Void has taken him to the Nature Zone" NiGHTS said.
"Sounds like a Zone on Mobius..." Green said.
"We have to get going fast" NiGHTS said as he teleported the group to the Nature Zone world.
"Wow! What a beautiful jungle" Green said with a smile.
"I agree Green but...look at that rot!" Nicolas said as he pointed to what looked like a mass of rot in the jungle.
"This world was made by the dreams of people who wanted to become one with nature...its a shame for about a thousand years a race has forced this dream on many and that the Overlanders hated this dream at least the ones that Julian and Oliver came from...but it was Void's powers that made the rot and his power is slowly destroying this place...we have to hurry fast!" NiGHTS said.
"Sounds like a place Julian and Oliver would like...destroying nature and...wait NiGHTS what did you mean by a race of beings forcing others to have this dream?" Green said to his friend.
"There's no time to explain the Metarex or planet Green Gate right now Green" NiGHTS said to his friend after he tickled the hedgehog for a moment before dashing off.
The group quickly found Dr. Oliver Eggman and they soon saw the dark pillars seen growing in Nature Zone vanish "it looks like Amy and her friends saved this world" Gamma said as he scanned the area.
"Will you lot please stop following me! Void needs my genius in order to get the world under our control!" Dr. Oliver Eggman said.
"...doctor...we must leave before all is lost..." Void said as he teleported himself and Dr. Oliver Eggman to the next world.
"Let's follow them!" NiGHTS said as he led the group to the next world using a portal this time.
The group seemed to be inside a tunnel but then they came out into sunlight and Green said "are we on a gigantic train?" Nicolas said.
"Yes we appear to be Nicolas" Gamma said.
"Awesome!" Green said.
"This world was made from the dreams of people who love adventure such as Sonic and Knuckles, but now its wild and with no destination, we have to stop the Riot Train world before it crashes or worse" NiGHTS said to the group.
"Wow we surely are going very fast" Big said as he looked around the place.
"Chao! Chao!" Sprocket said with a smile.
"We've got to hurry and fast!" NiGHTS said as he felt something, although he knew that Sonic and his friends had gotten the shards of the Precioustone from all worlds so far time was running out with only two shards left.
The group moved quickly and they found Eggman in time to witness the train get rid of its outer shell and then begin to grow wings and fly away. The group was then transported along with Dr. Oliver Eggman by NiGHTS to the next world and everyone including Eggman was in awe of the beautiful sight of Maginaryworld restored so far.
"Where are we now NiGHTS?" Green asked his friend.
"We're in the Fourth Dimension Space, its here that Illumina had her lovely dreams and was able to look after Maginaryworld...if Void isn't stopped soon then this world shall cease to exist" NiGHTS explained.
"...Green...it was wrong of me to help Void, we must stop him if our dreams are to continue existing" Dr. Oliver Eggman said.
"What's with the sudden change of heart Eggman?" Green asked.
"...um...well...I've seen now what this place is like and how important people's dreams are...I want to help to make up for helping Void make the complex areas trying to stop Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy" Dr. Oliver Eggman said.
"Alright...if you say so doc I believe you but I've got my eye on you" Green said with a smile.
"Let's go all!" NiGHTS said as he led the group.
By the time the group reached the end of the Fourth Dimension Space and entered the Temple of Light they got to witness their friends defeat Void.
"Why? Why doesn't the light return to the Precioustone? Why doesn't Illumina return? We defeated Void... the darkness that destroys dreams" Lumina said as Void was defeated and the Precioustone was almost complete.
"Lumina..." Sonic said to his little friend.
"Maginaryworld... is finished... The people who once dreamed about this world have forgotten about it..." Lumina said in sadness as it felt like Maginaryworld was slowly dying,
"That's not true! Your voice and Illumina's wish has touched us!" Tails said to Lumina.
"Don't say such a thing, Lumina!" Amy said to Lumina.
"That's right! It... can't be!" Knuckles said to Lumina.
Sonic Looked down and picked up a dark gem and said "What's this?" on the dark gem a transparent image of Void briefly appeared.
"Illumina... Why do you reject me? Lumina... Why do you hate me? You, and I, aren't we... the same?" Void said from within the dark gem.
Sonic Looked at the gem and walked over to Lumina "Lumina. Don't forget about him..." Sonic said to Lumina.
"That's!?" Lumina said in shock and surprise.
"Void... Anger, Sadness, Despair, and Emptiness... Aren't dreams born because everyone has these feelings? Don't these feelings make our dreams even stronger? Void... He was probably part of the Precioustone... He was part of a feeling that is necessary for dreams to come true" Sonic said to Lumina.
"Lumina... Can't you accept Void for what he is? Dreams probably can't exist without it... It's the same with me. When I'm down and I feel I can't go on any more... that's when I know I have to try harder! because I have my own dreams!" Tails said to Lumina as he thought for a moment.
"It's a dream because it hasn't been fulfilled yet... But one day you'll make it come true. You can live through each day because you have dreams! No matter how small they are" Amy said as she thought about her dreams and how many of them had yet to come true for her.
"Dreams don't betray us. When we lose ourselves... that's when we lose our dreams. It's not that dreams don't come true. We just give up on them. We know that... and you should know it better than us..." Knuckles said to Lumina.
Lumina slowly raised to her feet and looked up "...Thank you everyone. I was probably the one... who had lost myself in my dark feelings..." she said to her friends after hearing their encouraging words.
Lumina received the dark gem from Sonic and walked up to the Perfect Precioustone. In the Temple of Light. Lumina stood before the Perfect Precioustone with the dark gem. Lumina flew up to the Perfect Precioustone and inserted the dark gem into it, resulting in her getting pulled into the Perfect Precioustone. There, the dark gem transformed into Void and a column of light shot into the Temple of Light which repaired the Perfect Precioustone. Inside the Perfect Precioustone, which now glowed brightly, Lumina reaches her hands out to Void who hesitantly grabbed them. Lumina and Void then merge together in a ball of light and Illumina emerged from them fused together.
Everyone was shocked and surprised to see this happen especially NiGHTS who was friends with Illumina, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy were floating in a transparent tunnel and looking behind them. Illumina then appeared behind them while NiGHTS, Big the Cat and Froggy, Sprocket the Chao, Nicolas the holo-lynx, Dr. Oliver Eggman, E-102 Gamma and Green the Hedgehog watched Illumina as she spoke to her friends that restored her.
"Thank you... Now Maginaryworld will become an even better world than it was before. I'm sorry... I'm the one who lost myself and almost lost my dream... Maginaryworld and people's emotions are fragile. It doesn't take much to crush them... Even the strongest of people have dark emotions in their hearts. We must be stronger... Emptiness does not conquer dreams... Dreams conquer the emptiness..." and with that Illumina sent Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy back to their own dreams and within minutes from that point they'd wake up wherever they went to sleep.
Illumina then turned her attention to the group NiGHTS led plus Dr. Oliver Eggman, Illumina was truly beautiful she had a pink dress, a lavender shirt with long sleeves, two tails and a pair of cyan wings on her shoulders "Illumina...what happened?" NiGHTS asked his friend.
"I had doubts and fears and lost sight of my dream for Maginaryworld, when this happened I was divided into two beings called Void and Lumina Flowlight...you did a good job keeping Void from gathering the Precioustone pieces, both he and Lumina had to become one and understand each other in order for me to be reborn...thank you all" Illumina said to her friend and his friends.
"No big deal Illumina" NiGHTS said with a smile on his face.
"Illumina...I'm glad to have learned about Maginaryworld and about you and everything else about this place, because now I'll dream about you all and make sure to write about you all in my journals" Green said with a smile and excitement.
"I'm glad to have met you as well" Nicolas said.
"You're a pretty lady" Big said.
"Ribbit! Ribbit" Froggy said but translated it was "you're surely a nice lady miss Illumina" and Froggy hopped up and down as he said that.
"Chao!" Sprocket said with a smile in his Chao language.
"You're truly a being of great power Illumina, I am honored to have encountered a creature of such radiance and power while on my mission to try and reprogram the other E-100 units" E-102 Gamma said to Illumina.
"I have to say...you're surely a very beautiful and radiant and remarkable woman" Dr. Oliver Eggman said as he felt like he was in love with Illumina.
Illumina smiled to her new friends and said "NiGHTS, Big, Froggy, Sprocket, Green, Nicolas, Gamma, Oliver...thank you all. But before you all go you must know this, a being of great power who lives within dreams is coming to the world of Mobius and he has dark plans against your world and many other worlds in the whole of creation. Also Oliver, you're a good man, please try and look for the light. Though you have dark plans towards your former friend Green, I know that one day you'll be able to turn from dark to light and help Green with many things. As for you Green or Nazo my old friend, it is good to see you again as a mortal, I hope I can see you as Nazo again someday but for now...it is time for you all to return to your dreams. Take good care NiGHTS" Illumina said as she sent everyone back to their dreams, except for NiGHTS who went back to his own world.
The next day Green wrote about the amazing adventure he had into a world made out of people's dreams and he wondered what Illumina meant by what she said, but he hoped someday Dr. Eggman would once again be the hearted Dr. Oliver once again. He also wondered what NiGHTS was talking about when he said Metarex and a planet called Green Gate, Green the Hedgehog and Nicolas decided to keep themselves ready for whatever those were and what NiGHTS meant by what he said about the Metarex but for now the two kept an eye on anything Dr. Oliver Eggman might be up to and they made sure to write to their friends and to take care of Sprocket so he could be a good Chao.
But those were questions and hopes for the future because Dr. Oliver Eggman wasn't so easily moved from his evil plans to take over the world so easily though he did have a small change of sorts happen to him.