Chapter 4

"...Why'd... How.. did Robotnik take over?" Tails' voice was small and quiet as he glanced around the place. "...It.. Doesn't make sense... Sonic and I... Always stop him. How..?"

Boom showed them a newspaper, to which Sonic read out loud.

"Hmmm...'Princess Sonia slain...Robotnic seizes throne...hunts down hot looking hedgehog but is unable to locate her...PRINCE SONIC ROBOTOSIZED?' This timestrem is WAY UN COOL!"

"Sonic's a robot now?" Tails questioned. He shook his head. "I refuse to believe that. Wait.. Prince Sonic? Sonic, you're a prince?"

"No." The blue hedgehog shook his head. "I don't think I am."

"I didn't think so at first myself.." A voice came out from behind a trash can.

Tails walked over, black eyes wide in wonder at what could be behind it. Sonic, a much older looking one, stood there, Robotosized yes, but tapping his foot like always, his arms open to Tails.

"Well keed...I'm Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiitinnnnnnnng!"

"S-Sonic?" the twin-tailed fox questioned.

"Yes. Now hug."

Tails gave him a hug. Followed by Boom and myself.

"They thought they got me? HA they weren't fast enough to catch ME!"

the blue hedgehog was interrupted by a robot, who he quickly told to go leap into the incinerator, and then he looked at Tails, Sonic, Boom, and I sadly.

"This timeline stinks doesn't it, keeds? My sister was killed, my mom went even deeper into hiding, and aparently that other green hedgehog is my brother...and he's so broke he may as well be a zombie..."

"I still don't understand, umm.. Me," the younger Sonic began. "How'd this happen? How'd Robotnik took over? What went wrong?"

The blue hedgehog hung his head.

"He...blew up my uncle chuck..." He pointed at Tails. "He said he'd get YOU and...and I surrendered."

"But that's why we brought Dad and you Uncle from the past," I said. "To make things right again."

"How are you going to do that freakazoid?" a punkish voice asked tiredly.

Boom snorted. "So much for being broken...this green one has a mouth on him.."

Manic Hedgehog dropped to the ground and Sonic fed him some chili, then introduced the exhausted spiny hedgehog. I glared at the green hedgehog behind my uncle. Black eyes glowed with hate at what I was called.

"Do not call me freakazoid, Uncle Manic!" I growled.

"Well, wake me when you...must work harder...must ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..."

Sonic sighed.

"Poor Manic...he works double time to smuggle stuff to the resistance...and Robotnic loves to yank his chains..."

"Robotnik makes me sick Sonic," Tails told him. "After what he did..."

"I know keed.."

Manic had curled up to sleep, then a jolt of electricity hit him from the collar around his neck, shocking him awak and back to the chain gang, his spines drooping.

Sonic motionmed the rest of us over to him.

"The entrence to the resistace secret hideout is ten kilomiters north as the Tornado flies. Get there and you may see some familliar faces. Now go, before the swatbots find you!"