Silver trudged through the snow along with Sonic and Tails. Sonic was yawning to himself, but was content seeing as how he had a jacket on to combat the cold. "How far is this city? I don't see any buildings around."

Looking back Silver shouted, "Not that far. It's just up ahead." Two cliffs were on either side of the group. From the cliffs sometimes hung metal, occasionally another Mobian would be walking, and they would pass them by. Sometimes they waved, sometimes they didn't. It was obvious they were more concerned with the cold than with others. But they went on their journey. Snow continued to fall from the sky, and clouds stood above in the air, grey and white.

"Silv, you did say this was one of the largest cities on the planet. How large is it exactly?" Sonic looked around still finding no signs of a city.

A chuckle escaped Silver, "Well, if nothing has changed, then it'll still be the third largest city in the world." Sonic and Tails looked confused, "I won't say much, but it'll be a surprise." The fox and the hedgehog looked at each other for a few minutes, still confused over what Silver was babbling about.

"Are you sure this place is even here still? I mean, with us being here and all..." Sonic trailed off as he folded his arms.

"That is a possibility," Silver paused as he seemed to look at nothing in particular for a little bit. "I'm sure everything will be fine."

Soon enough a cave came into view and the three of them entered. The cave was made of ice and deep within it appeared as if there was metal pillars holding the structure together. It went on for a mile until the ice turned into metal. Sonic and Tails looked around everywhere, obviously confused as to how this place was one of the largest cities in the world. The corridor that they were in was about 30 meters wide, and there were some other Mobians walking around, occasionally a few humans would also walk by. Sometimes a group of Humans wearing vests and holding guns walked past, and sometimes it was a group of Mobians. No one cared to stop Sonic, Tails, or Silver, seeing as how they looked the same as any other passerby would look.

The corridor was made of a grey metal. On the ceiling were lights that shown dimly. Occasionally there would be a television screen on the wall with the weather forecast for outside, or it would have the news of what was going on around inside. For every quarter mile that they passed one there was a stream of blue light coming from the ground and entering into the ceiling against the walls on each side. Tails looked at it for some time, but made no comment on it. Security seemed to be more tight than usual due to the airing of Eggman speech. Granted, Silver got lost a few times. Although he acted as nothing has changed, there were plenty of differences than he was use to. There were new corridors, and the technology was slightly less advanced than it should be (which wasn't too odd but it still troubled the hedgehog). There was one or two times where he had to ask for directions which was extremely embarrassing. He could hear Sonic's laughter and it made the albino blush. Soon enough the corridor made it to a large, circular room. There was a small circular platform in the middle with some Mobians and Humans standing on it. The group walked onto it and waited too for something to happen. Tails and Sonic stood there awkwardly, waiting for anything to happen. It wasn't until a few minutes later that a Mobian came by the outer edge of the platform. Suddenly a hologram appeared before them, they typed in a few things, and the platform began to descend deeper into the earth.

About a minute passed until they reached a smaller room that led into a smaller corridor. It was about 15 meters wide, but it looked exactly the same as the other corridor, be it smaller. The group headed off once again, still confused as to what was going on. Eventually they made it to a door that looked similar to the door at Silver's home only it was a lot bigger.

Sonic, once again, looked around. "Silver, are you positive this is a city? It looks more like a maze."

Silver sighed. "Yeah, but no one usually comes here since it's so cold, and no one cares to leave either." Silver motioned Sonic and Tails to go in first and the door automatically opened as soon as they got near. As it opened steam came from the sides and revealed what was behind.

Tails and Sonic stood there gawking at the city. They were standing on a ledge made of ice. The drop down went down for miles and miles. Before them was the largest city that they have ever seen. It was like a cavern, made wholly of ice. On the ceiling of the cavern was a large circular device. It was hard to tell how big it was, but it was large enough to take up about 1/3 of the ceiling. It laid in the very middle of the ceiling, and it was circular. It looked like a giant generator. Blue liquid and light pulsed through it. Four separate giant chains each were attached to the generator. The chains were attached to a structure that was within the walls of the cavern. Below was the city. In the center of the giant cavern were huge metallic buildings. Most reached up only half way to the ceiling, however quite a few reached 2/3 to the ceiling, and one almost touched the generator that was sitting atop. From the ledge they saw, integrated into the ice, were smaller ledges. On the ledges sat houses where the people lived. Who knew how many ledges there were. Looking to the left one saw that the cavern even continued onward. There was a small tunnel, perhaps a mile tall, that led to even more buildings. Silver was even caught in the moment. Everything was different than he had expected. In his usual time there were no large buildings, in fact there were barely any large buildings at all. The city looked so much bigger than he remembered, and different. There were some similarities, although they were very little and the only thing that held true to his time was the generator that hung atop of the cavern, even still it looked different.

It was almost impossible to keep Tails from running off, and it was almost even more impossible to keep Sonic from exploring every mile of city. Granted, Silver managed to keep the two in check. Besides, Silver only needed a few things, food, power cells, and to get rid of some junk he had in his house. Which he could manage to get it all done fairly easy. Yet it was that Silver knew that the two wouldn't want to leave so soon. Again, Silver did get lost often on, asking some of the civilians that lived there were he could sell some of his junk, and often he had to stop to look around to figure out if he was going the right way. Silver could have sworn that Sonic made off to explore the city everytime he was lost.

Tails pointed toward the generator and asked, "What does that generator do?"

Silver looked at it. "Its an anti-gravity generator, it keeps the floor above from falling in on itself."

Tails looked at it for some time, "Are all cities underground?" The fox looked at Silver.

The hedgehog shrugged, "It depends on what city. The larger ones are underground, but the smaller ones are on the surface. Of course that could be wrong since the city is entirely different than I remembered." They walked on, occasionally talking to each other, asking Silver questions about his time. If he deemed the information unimportant, he told them, but if it was something that would change his present if he did send them back, then he kept the information to himself.

As they reached a store, Sonic commented, "Man, it's gonna be impossible to find anyone in this big city."

"Actually..." Silver turned his head slightly toward Sonic. "It wouldn't be too hard. All we have to do is watch the news. Knowing your friends they're gonna be really confused as to where they're at and cause trouble. Besides, it'll be easy to find that Echidna."

"Why's that?" asked Tails.

"Well, he was the last Echidna in your time, right? So that means they're extinct now." They entered the store, bought what they needed, and left to find whatever else that was on Silver's shopping list. Sonic had to hold the heaviest of items. They walked around a small area of the city, not wanting to walk to far away from the exit in fear that it would take them until midnight to get home and that they would get terribly lost. However, they had no issue in resting in the nearby parks. Sonic rubbed his hands together, still feeling cold.

All of their ears seemed to perk up at the noise of a nearby group. They were talking about something that seemed to spark all their interests:

"Hey did you hear, Eggman is going to attack the city." Came one voice.

They heard another voice, "Hey wasn't Eggman that one guy who suddenly disappeared along with Sonic and the other famous heroes?" Sonic's ear turned ever so slightly upon hearing that.

"Yeah. Isn't that weird or what? Maybe there was some worm hole. I call a conspiracy though. How much you wanna bet that there are conspiracy theories on it right now?"

"I call bull. It has to be some crazy villain pulling on everyone's tail." There was a pause. "But you know, if it is Eggman, how much you wanna bet that the other guys are here as well. Now that'll be creepy."

The voices died down after that, probably because they had walked away from the area. Still, the information that they had gotten was quite helpful, be that it was a little too convenient. Sonic smiled to himself though. "Well that was convenient. I guess we should hang around here more and wait till that egg head shows up." Casually, Sonic placed his arms behind his back, reclining on the bench.

Silver looked back at Sonic, a frown spreading across his face. "They're only rumors. We don't know if anything is going to happen. Besides, I doubt the police force will allow Eggman to attack this city." He turned away from Sonic and looked at the ceiling, something hit him. "Wait, if Eggman never existed between the time I transported you all from the past, that means Nega doesn't exist." It took some time for Silver to process this in his head.

Tails was lucky enough to snap him out of it. "I suggest that we wait around the city for an hour or two." Silver looked over at Tails, gave a small sigh, and agreed. They walked around the city more, sometimes asking people if they saw a 'strangely similar looking echidna-like Mobian walk by', or someone that looked mysterious. They either shook their head, described someone entirely different as to whom they were looking for, or waved them off. One person, however, did describe someone that did sound like one of Sonic's friends, but upon arriving on the scene it was just someone who happened to look like an echidna (it just happened to be a red female hedgehog with really long quills).

After about an hours search, Silver stretched his arms in the air and yawned. "I think we should be getting back home. I don't think anything is going to happen and I'm getting a little hungry."

Sonic looked back towards Silver. "I can handle myself in this city, you guys can head back." Silver gave Sonic a look, not willing to let him out to make trouble. "You know, knowing Knuckles, I bet you he's gonna be in the sewers." Not even a few minutes later a loud explosion was heard from the opposite end of the city. Everyone looked around, and soon smoke was rising into the ceiling of the cavern. That, itself, was a danger. "I guess that egghead finally came to play." Sonic looked back at Tails. "Come on Tails, we got some eggs to mix." At that, Tails nodded his head. He flew up to one of the rooftops, holding Sonic in his hands. Silver followed after, floating to a rooftop to see what the damage was. The police force was already on their way to deal with whatever had caused the destruction, however they were more worried about the smoke than the actual issue.

Sonic rushed toward the destruction, and Tails went after Sonic, leaving Silver trying to catch up to the two, floating right by as Sonic made his way over the buildings. Looking toward the ground, the police forced was trying their hardest to keep everyone calm. The closer it was to the destruction, the more panic everyone was in. The ledge in which Eggman had entered through was another city gate about a few miles away from the one that the group of heroes entered through. From the smoke was a large robot, made from both the technology from the past, and from the technology of the present. It stood on two legs and had two arms and hands. It looked very humanoid, however it didn't really have a body and looked as if it was put together in a hurry. Eggman was floating within his own contraption, hand against his face with a utmost bored expression.

In a blind rage, Silver broke off a piece of ice from the cavern and threw it at Eggman with his powers. It missed, just barely, however it forced Eggman from his apparent trance. He looked down to see the heroes, standing there. Sonic had a smirk on his face, whilst everyone else was frowning. "I guess I wasn't the only one who was caught in that time rift," Eggman spoke, more to himself than anything.

Before Sonic could speak, Silver shouted. "What do you want Eggman?"

At this Eggman started to laugh. "Why, to rule the world of course! Plus this technology can help me harness the chaos emeralds power and finally get rid of you all!"

Silver scowled, "Why can't we work together? I want to fix this mess I made, and you all want to get home anyway. It would be easier!" Although it was the most reasonable thing to say, everyone started to glare at Silver. Eggman merely started to laugh as if there was no tomorrow. The albino was not pleased, and he started to growl at the Human.

Just as he was about to raise his arm up to rip another piece of ice from the cavern and fling it at Eggman, Sonic stopped him. "Silver, calm down." The white hedgehog lowered his arms, his powers fading away. Sonic directed his attention toward Eggman, "You know, Eggman, Silv does make a good point, plus we all know how this is gonna end. But I guess you don't want to put that empty skull of yours to work, so I'll just save the day as usual" The blue blur clenched his fist, a smirk growing.

Eggman made some grumbling noises. "Go, E-Prototype!" The robot, once again, came to life, but before it could make a move, Silver impaled it with a long piece of ice that he managed to pry off of the ice wall. Sonic made a low pitched whistle, and Eggman was left gawking at the destroyed robot. The robot keeled over then hit the ground and fully shut down. The Doctor's attention turned toward Silver, who was floating above the ground.

Before anyone could comment, Silver pointed at Eggman. "If you get in my way, or dare attempt to ruin this timeline, I'll be sure to stop you!" He clenched his fists, a green aura surrounding the hedgehog.

"We'll just see about that." Eggman turned his own machine around, and fled from the way he came. The white hedgehog relaxed himself, and set his feet down upon the ground looking at Sonic who just nodded at Silver. The victory didn't go celebrated though, as the police force soon arrived, and aimed their guns at the group. They were garbed in black, some of them having a cloth covering their mouths. Sonic placed his hands on his hips, leaning to the left.

Eventually one of the policeman shouted from the line: "Put your hands above your head and lay down on the ground!"

The blue blur grinned even wider. "Does the police force always greet your heroes this way, Silv? Can't you do something. This is your time after all." Sonic glanced back at Silver, who was practically ready to throw a scrap metal at Sonic's head for making such a jab at him.

"Hey, stop talking!" Shouted one of the gunman.

"Jeez, you all call this some celebration? You guys are ruinin' the fun, I'm out of here." Sonic turned back and gave a wink to Silver and Tails. The blur turned back and zoomed off, drawing the attention to the gunman, allowing Silver and Tails to have a chance at a escape.

UPDATE 3-19-16 : minor grammatical fixes and dialogue added to fix potential plot holes