Chapter 2: more trial and error

(Jason's P.O.V)

I woke up, with Rose' arm around me again. I used my "teleportation" power to get out of bed. I tried creating my sword again after a few years, and found out that I could create more than just a broadsword, I could create ninja stars, throwing knifes, anything blade like. I heard Rose wake up.

"Can we go in a few minutes? I don't want to stay too long." I said as I threw her suit to her. She got up, got dressed and jumped on my back. I flew together with her to the lab, but before I arrived there, I was attacked by Jazz.

"So, you survived?" he asked almost sounding surprised. I put Rose on the ground and flew in full speed against his stomach. I punched him in his side as hard as I could and used my fire to hurt him even more. He grabbed my legs and threw me in the floor, creating a giant crater. I tried to get up, but before I could get out, he put his feet on my chest.

"This time, I'll make sure you die." Jazz said. I closed my eyes and teleported to Rose, grabbed her and flew as fast as I could to the time machine.

"I'll open it as fast as I can, then you go though it!" I said as I was starting it up. The portal colored all kind of colors and I jumped through it with Rose.

I could feel myself fall on a grass patch.

"Took you long enough." Mika said.

"We were attacked by Jazz, and Rose thought it was a good idea to sleep the night off." I said. Rose got up and looked mad at me.

"So, what did we miss?" Rose asked.

"Not a lot, did I miss anything?" Mika said.

"Jazz almost killed us, and he may have followed us to the portal." I said.

"So he can come here any moment now?"

"Before I jumped through the portal, I set a self-destruct sequence in motion, with just a second left, I jumped through." I scratched my head and laughed.

"So, what's the deal, what are we going to do?" Rose asked.

"Train up, find Jazz and kill him before he starts the massacre."

We walked to the same spot as we were during our fight against Eggman. The hangar was there, and we entered it.

"Who's there?!" we heard over the intercom.

"Sorry, we just saw this place and wondered if we could stay the night here." Rose lied.

"No, now get out!" the voice said. We walked out and just walked around, through Metropolis. I almost forgot how Metropolis looked like, with his tall buildings and multiple stores next to each other. The city looked so peaceful, no threat by Eggman, no alien attacks, nothing. People looked at us, maybe anthropomorphic animals aren't common yet. Anyway, we walked along until I heard people scream. We turned around and saw Eggman in his bowl flying around, creating havoc.

"Shall we help?" Rose asked. Mika and I grabbed her shoulders and pulled her away.

"We can't, it could change the future more then we plan to." I said. Mika looked at me.

"Maybe we were supposed to help them." He said. I shook my head.

"I don't want to risk it." I looked once more, seeing a blue blur attack Eggman's robots.

We left the city, and walked towards my father's lab. My father is a Mobian, who found a way to earth and he married my mother there. I saw the abandoned lab and entered it.

"Why are we here?" Rose asked.

"My father will be on earth for the next 10 years, so we can use this as a place to stay." I said.

"How are we going to find Jazz in this time?"

"I don't know, I guess we wait until we hear things about him, he used to live close to this house."

"Are we the only ones that survived Jazz' attack?" Mika asked. I scratched my head.

"Actually…" I said as I opened the door to my dad's living room.

"Jason, what took you so long?" Blaze the Cat said. She had a towel around her head.

"So you found the shower, and my dad's towels."

"I heard you in the next room, but waited until you guys were done talking."

"Where have you been? I've been looking for you everywhere!" Mika said.

"I've been here for the past month or so." Blaze said. We walked through the building and claimed a bedroom each.

3 years later.

We waited for an opportunity to strike, but no luck so far. Mika and Blaze have been hanging out a lot now, and Rose and I have been suspecting they have been dating. I have been training in a room in the basement, which had all kinds of mannequins and fire extinguishers in the ceiling. I have tried to learn more attacks, and so far I found out that I can burst flames out of my swords and even throw knifes in the mannequins and let them create big holes in them. Rose has gone out on supply runs almost every other day.

"Jason, any sign of Jazz yet?" Mika asked as he entered my computer room. I opened my scanner, in which I had some of Jazz' DNA. I finally saw a blimp on the radar.

"We got him! He's close." I said cheering. I walked out of my room and called out the rest.

"Everyone, we've finally spotted Jazz. So it's time to get revenge for all of our friends." Mika said. We used my dad's car and drove to a remote location. There was only a wooden house and a forest behind it.

"be careful guys, he can be anywhere." Blaze said. A young child, not older then 12 walked towards me.

"are you looking for Jazz?" he said. We nodded. The child grabbed my hand and pulled me inside. There was an old hedgehog, meditating.

"I've been expecting you all. And I will help you stop me. After 50 yeas of trying to travel through time to stop you, I realized that I was foolish for doing this. I can't even remember why I did it." he said.

"me neither, so, you'll help us stop yourself." Mika asked.

"no, I will do it myself." he said as he threw a sharp piece of metal towards me. I got hit right in my lung and fell down. He then walked towards Rose and made her vanish. Same for Mika and Blaze. He then walked towards me, still bleeding on the floor.

"I will stop this, but I can't use your help. This way you get to go back to the original timeline." he said. I nodded and let him do it. He made me vanish and everything went black.