SonicANIME2010 here again, bringing in another chapter.. so the popular reference I made in a previous omake shall be explained.. I was having Hayate reference "The Million Dollar Man" because of the similarities. Oh, by the way, I just watched "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the MOVIE 1st" online, so I have a lot of information I can use to analyze my opinion and takes on the angles I'm going with here. At the end of this chapter I will explain. So who's that mysterious blonde? Find out today. I don't own Sonic or Nanoha.

By the way: "Say in Japanese" "Device" -Flashback- "Mental Talk"

-BGM: "Little Planet" Sonic CD (USA) OST-

Sonic narrated the flashbacks of the battle against the Egg Colossus "Things can happen in a less than an instant. Things can change.. Time flows on."
Nanoha added about her injury and conversion into a Combat Cyborg "Some of the things that happen can do so without you having a say or any desire for them to happen to you.. but you have to choose to live with it."
Hayate narrated as the attack on Little Planet started, "But sometimes a new beginning can happen from the changes.. Things don't always have to be so bad."
Fate ended as a foreshadowing of her meeting the mysterious blonde on Little Planet "Families can be reunited, answers can be revealed, and lives can be improved with one change."
Sonic, Hayate, Nanoha and Fate finish: "Sonic the Hedgehog: Knight of the Night Sky is about to begin"

[Opening: "Eternal Blaze" Mizuki Nana]

Sonic: Knight of the Night Sky
Chapter 7
Reunion; Stop the assault on Little Planet!

[Non-Administrated Planet 97 "Earth": Little Planet: Palmtree Panic: early morning]
[No BGM]

Five white beams of the Dimensional Transfer touch downed on the ground of the early sunrise morning in this zone. From the beams came Sonic the Hedgehog, Reinforce, Hayate Yagami, Cyborg-mage Nanoha Takamachi and Enforcer-cadet Fate Testarossa; all dressed in their respective Barrier Jackets and Knight Clothing,

"This place is beautiful" Fate said in awe.

"Sonic-kun, how come when we go out fighting on your adventures we always end up in the prettiest of places?" Nanoha asked

"We're fighting to keep it beautiful." Sonic answered

"We remember our objective?" Reinforce asked, which got everyone to think about why they were there.

-Flashback: Arthra: earlier in the morning-
-BGM: "Inflexible Determination" Final Fantasy X-

Eggman's assault on the mysterious satellite was caught that morning on the scanners and Admiral Lindy called everyone up for a plan on how they were going to deal with the threat.

"Sonic, you've been there, to that satellite, right?" Lindy asked

"Hai!"

"Then your team will be dispatched.. demo.. take Fate-chan with you" the admiral ordered.

"Why?" Fate asked

"Admiral.. why put her on their team? That'd leave us one person down." Signum argued

"Reason why is because with Fate's power and speed, she can keep up with Sonic's team, and the Red team needs only three where they're going... Back to Angel Island.. you missed a few robots there."

"Wouldn't we need Testarossa to help deal with them?" Signum asked.

"Not if you guys have the Chaos Emeralds." Sonic tossed the mentioned jewels to Knuckles, "This'll be easy for you then."

"Why are you giving them the emeralds?" Lindy asked

"Little Planet already has gems of their own.. and I don't want to risk some big, reaction, thingy because of the Chaos Emeralds there." Sonic explained.

"What else do you know about this place?" Lindy asked

Sonic explained "The whole place is a mystery to me.. I do know that the planet has its own time loop thingy, like we can go back and forth in time on the satellite.. I had to do it several times because what Eggman did is plant robot teleport thingies in the past and they'd come out to the present... They are the main sources of it. I was the only one there last time, but I'm sure that if we stick together when we take a time leap thing, we should be able to come out at the same place."

"So.. destroy the devices and take out Eggman's forces already attacking.. that'll make sense.. Alright, you have your orders. Now go!" the Admiral declared.

-Flashback End-
[BGM: "Palmtree Panic" Sonic CD (USA) OST]

"We have to clear out all there robots here and take out the source of them.. to do that we need to find a way to the past." Sonic explained out.

"Hai.. we can start with clearing out the enemies here." Fate said

"Ano.. I think someone beat us to it already." Nanoha pointed out to the robots that were already cleaved in half when they got here, flowers grew at the spot of each dismantled robot. The girl tapped into her new cybernetic abilities and scanned the area with her eyes, "Eh? I can see faint traces of mana coming from the robots. Not only that, I can sense it too.. a mage is nearby."

Hayate looked impressed "You can sense traces of mana in the air too? That's cool!"

Sonic whistled "Sugoi Nanoha"

The girl giggled in embarrassment and modesty "Arigatou.."

[POV: Mysterious Mage]

The blonde watched the group of mages since their landing from close by, her gaze was analyzing the group, but mainly Fate in particular. She spoke to herself in a voice that sounded exactly like Fate's, "She looks exactly like me. Could she be me? Could I be in some alternate universe? No.. wait"

She took notice that Fate's dominant device hand was her right, and not her left like this mage, "Her dominant hand's different.. opposite of mine.. I have to get to the bottom of this.. who are they? Time to show myself and get answers.. Sisterhood ikuyo."

"Yes, sir!" the blue orb at the hilt of the device declared; a male voice came from it. The mysterious mage leapt from her vantage point and went to confront the mages from afar.

[POV: Blue team]

Reinforce led them on, "We can worry about who this individual is if we meet them.. for the moment, let's focus on our task.. Let's go."

"Hai!" the team took a few steps towards the first launch hill before they were stopped by a loud voice.

"Stop right there!" a voice that sounded exactly like Fate's shouted out

Everyone stopped and looked up to see the mysterious figure, their vision of her was clouded by the rising sun's cover.

Fate was especially shocked by the voice 'It.. can't be...'

"Who are you? What are you doing here?" The figure demanded an answer.

"We're mages of the Time-Space Administration Bureau,Special Mobile Force 97" Reinforce gave the first answer.

Sonic followed suit "We're here to spoil the plans of the fat jerk who attacked this place."

[BGM: "Look-a-like" Sonic the Hedgehog OVA OST]

The mysterious figure leapt down from her position and revealed herself to the group. Her face, eyes and body looked exactly like Fate's. The only differences were the green bows tying her hair slightly differently, her broadsword device, and her barrier jacket, which consisted of a light green and sky-blue zipped up sleeve-less shirt and a small skirt combo with a light blue cape flowing down her back, leg high light blue socks and plated boots with blue fingerless gloves on her hands. The girl's eyes locked on with Fate's identical ones.

Fate instantly recognized the new girl, but she kept her realization down to a low whisper "Alicia..."

Nanoha rubbed her cybernetic eyes under her eye-lids before opening them again to confirm what she saw 'Two Fate-chans?'

Sonic, Hayate and Reinforce just blinked as the two Fate look-a-likes stared at each other.

Fate's next words to the girl shocked everyone but her, "You're supposed to be dead."

"I should be... that explosion... I don't know how.. but I woke up here.." the girl replied

"Alicia..." Fate spoke louder of the girl's identity

"You know my name... and you look like me... what happened to kaa-san?" "Alicia" asked.

Fate lowered her head in silence, she couldn't say anything on that. A clear of the throat guided the duo's attention to the others, "nani? Sonic?"

"Ano.. are we missing something here? Fate? Who is she?" Sonic asked

"Oh! Minna.. this is Alicia Testarossa.."

Alicia bowed politely "Nice to meet you all, sorry if I accused you of anything."

"It's no problem." Reinforce accepted it easily.

"Demo..how could you be here? The explosion that was caused by the experiment Kaa-san was working on said to have killed you." Fate asked

"To be honest.. I don't even know.. It all happened so fast." Alicia started to explain.

[Flashback: the day of the explosion]

Alicia narrated as she saw the explosion in the lab Precia was working in from her house, "I was practicing my magic for my studies when an explosion of the experiment kaa-san was working on destroyed the house.. I saw the blast heading for me from the balcony, I ran inside and covered my eyes. Everything went dark and I thought I was dead."

[Little Planet: Collision Chaos: Present Zone]

Young Alicia woke up in a patch of grass, her magic notes and pen were nearby the place of her landing, her narration continued "I woke up in this weird place. I couldn't really describe it.. the colors were all surreal.. I had to pinch myself to make sure this was real.. then I realized I was alone.. no kaa-san.. I was confused.. I looked around." the girl wandered around the place, looking in awe of the beautiful scenery and peaceful animals,

"It wasn't easy.. but I found myself able to adapt to this place.. and it's unusual time-travel abilities.." Alicia found design blueprints for a device amongst her notes and studied them to figure out how to make a device, she followed the plans and designs and with the technology from the "Wacky Workbench", made her own device, "Using this place's abilities.. I made my own device and and self-taught myself the rest of the magic I could."

She trained herself to wield her device and cast spells for defense in case. Nevertheless she didn't need it too much as she was able to live in peace.

"I lived peacefully...until they came.."

The night of Eggman's assault came and Alicia found herself having to fight to protect her new home.

-Flashback End-
[No BGM]

"This place saved my life.. and I want to help it now" Alicia spoke.

"I remember right, last time I was here, I had to use the planets own time-travel power to destroy the machines generating.. although I'm not sure how we can do that because I had pass through a gate at top speed before being sent to that time." Sonic thought out loud.

"We could combine the sign-posts with Dimension Transport.. Reinforce can do that, ne?" Nanoha provided a smart solution.

"Hai, that could work." Reinforce agreed.

"Ano.. I know who Fate is now.. who are you?" Alicia asked

"Sonic the Hedgehog, Knight of the Night Sky" the blue hedgehog introduced himself politely.

"Takamachi Nanoha," followed by the cyborg-mage

"Yagami Hayate" The mistress of the Night Sky introduced herself

The silver haired unison device finished "Reinforce"

Fate introduced herself once more "Fate, Fate Testarossa"

Reinforce got on task, "We have our objective to do now.. can you fight, Alicia?"

"Hai.. I've been practicing my own magic for some time; with my device Sisterhood; I'd estimate I'm about a AA now.." Alicia answered as she held her mana-broadsword in her left hand.

"Sisterhood?" Fate asked

"A little bit of wishful thinking.." Alicia explained, then thought to herself 'maybe not so much now.. I still have some questions for her.. but not with everyone else here.' with her sword in her left hand she called to it. "Form One please."

"Axe Form" The device declared and a long pole comes from the hilt of the device, the weapon morphed into a large axe-spear combo with a blue gem in the middle, the front of the face had an axe while the back had spikes coming from it.

[BGM: "Palmtree Panic ~Present" Sonic CD JP/EU OST]

Now they came to their first obstacle, which was a large hill that they'd have to run quickly enough to make their advance, as Sonic explained. They decided to take a simpler route, flying..

"Raising Heart, Axel Fin!" Nanoha called to her device, with the reply "Axel Fin" wings sprouted from her feet as she slowly took flight

"J-jotto! Nanoha! You don't need-"

The blue hedgehog tried warn her but his plea fell on cybernetic, yet deaf ears as Nanoha wasn't able to handle the combined speed of both her natural flight she was given from part of being a cyborg and her Axel Fin spell. The mage lost control of her speed quickly and was sent into a humorous impact with a palmtree. To add to the humor, a coconut broke on her head and spilt it's milk onto the embarrassed girl.

"To... do that.." Sonic sighed

Hayate burst out into laughs over Nanoha's little mishap, "Having a little trouble with your new flight, Nanoha?"

"Mou, Hayate-chan, I'm used to Axel Fin." Nanoha quickly cleaned herself off.

"You'll have to practice using both your natural flight and the spell as a boost if you want to continue with it." Reinforce noted

"Eto.. Fate, what are they talking about?" Alicia asked her sister while suppressing her own giggles.

"It's a bit of a long story, Alicia..." Fate equally suppressed hers as well.

"We can explain more as we go" Sonic suggested then turned again to the first obstacle, "Okay.. Let's try this again."

Attempt #2 at the first launch cliff didn't turn out well, Nanoha tried again for the Axel Fin, only this time she crashed into the face of the cliff with her arms and legs spread out.

"I'm okay!" Nanoha walked back very much dizzily to the group, who, even Alicia, found their palms meeting the mutual friend, the face, once more.

Fate let out a sigh, "Ano.. Nanoha.. try that again without the fin."

"Hai..." Nanoha reluctantly dismissed the fins and tried to fly with her new cybernetic ability and found that it worked, and she can maneuver freely too, "It's working."

Attempt #3 went by with no issue this time, and they moved on to advance. After a few waves of kamikaze robots dismantled by Alicia and her pole-axe, they moved on. There was little delay through the natural obstacles, the robots were small and easily dealt with, after a few minutes they found their way to the sign-post that read out "PAST"

"That's the sign, we have to get it spinning fast enough to work though." Sonic noted

"Maybe I could hit it hard enough?" Nanoha suggested, "I'm not sure if I'll be strong enough though."

"We can only try." Reinforce set up a wide purple belkan triangle to initiate a dimension transfer.

The cyborg-mage gave the sign a wind up and the punch, which hit the sign so hard, its spin was almost like a propeller from an airplane, a bright flash occurred when the transport and the sign combined their powers and the team was sent into a time jump.

[Palmtree Panic: Past Zone]
[BGM: "Palmtree Panic ~Past" Sonic CD (USA)]

Upon exiting the time leap, the team, still gathered, found themselves in a beautiful, pre-historic like version of the zone they were just in, primitive trees, purple mountains and a luscious turquoise sky blessed the scene.

"Oy.. Nanoha.. nice punch you got there.." Sonic complimented.

"Ah.. Arigatou, Sonic-kun" Nanoha blushed in modesty, then gazed at the scenery.

"Whoa... pretty..." she and Hayate noted.

Lindy Harlaown detected a strange disturbance and tried to establish a communication with any of the devices, and surprisingly she had great success in doing so, "Everyone okay? The Arthra picked up something... and eh? Nani?" she saw Alicia through Sonic's Freiewind comm.

"Lindy-san?" Sonic asked, "What is it?"

"T-there's two Fates!" The admiral pointed out Alicia, which got giggles from the group.

"Actually that's Alicia" Nanoha noted, "We'll explain when we get back."

"A-alright.. sorry for the interruption." a speechless Lindy ended the call.

"Well.. that was awkward.. Regardless. We have a job to do" Reinforce noted.

"Hai.. let's go" Sonic guided the group through the tough terrain of the past zone.

There was plenty of robots to go through on this one and they didn't waste any time dealing with them. The team went through several loops, high jumps and aerial maneuvers to advance on through the pre-historic zone. Eventually they came to a medium sized blue device that had lightning running through too conductors, this was the machine they were after. The machine was scrap metal in a matter of seconds with Alicia's slicing attack. In no time at all, the robots linked to the device were destroyed that instant. Much to the surprise of the mages a small green gemstone landed where the machine was just at.

"Ano.. Sonic-kun?" Hayate asked hoping for some insight on the gem.

"This happened last time too with the robots self destructing.. as for the gem.. that is a "Time Stone".. similar to a Chaos Emerald, but it doesn't grant unlimited power.. I think it lets whoever collects them all control the time here.. I found them last time and I was able to stop Eggman from influencing the future of the place."

"This planet has its own future?" Nanoha asked.

"Hai.. That's where Eggman's hiding out.. He used the future's advanced tech to build his forces up last time.. The same should be done here, we have to do the same thing through the future gate." Sonic noted and the group pressed on once more.

With little to no resistance, the group found their way to the mentioned "Future" gate, with another display of Nanoha's new strength, the sign spun once more and the dimension transfer kicked in again.

[Palmtree Panic: Good Future]
[BGM: "Palmtree Panic ~Good Future mix~"
Sonic CD (USA) OST]

If the pre-historic past of the zone was awe-inspiring enough, the future was just as beautiful to the eyes. The good future was mechanized but is bright, vivid, colorful, and clean. The star-shaped plants and trees were mechanical and acted as water transporters. Many plants adorn the area as well, and the region seems to be entirely water-powered. Definitely calendar material.

Alicia seemed to be in constant awe as she gazed at the beauty "So.. beautiful..."

"I know... let's keep it that way." Sonic declared.

The team pressed, unfaltered by any robots as only birds soared peacefully in the zone. Eventually they came once more to a clearing where Sonic immediately stopped.

"Eh? Why'd we stop?" Alicia asked.

"Cause we're waiting for Eggman" Nanoha answered bluntly and tapped into her cybernetic eyes once more, "He's coming this way.. Look out! He's coming down" everyone jumped out of the way at her command.

[BGM: "Eggman Battle" Sonic CD (USA) OST]

"Oh ho ho ho ho ho!" Eggman's laugh filled the air as he came down with a hard slam on his walker-tank. This one had bounce pads attached to the arms and spikes on the feet. The pads and armor of the walker-tank was surprisingly pink in hue, much to the doctor's disgust.

Sonic sought to teasing him right away "Nice walker color there, Eggman. Didn't peg you for the pink type."

"ugh... Ran out of red paint.." Eggman groaned

"So that's why you're using pink? What's wrong with pink?" Nanoha asked, waiting for the doc's way out of this one.

"Well.. you see.. uh... I'm not that evil of a scientist, I am a bit of a feminist and there's nothing wrong with pink."

"Smart answer" Nanoha was content with it.

"Wasn't there a saying "Real men wear pink"?" Hayate thought out loud.

"And some shirts.." Reinforce observed.

"Heh heh.. just like Sonic's underwear (the cloth under his armor) is pink.." Hayate sent to the others in the party mentally and gestured to the gaps in the arms and legs of the mentioned hedgehog's armor, part in design to show a little bit of it.

"Oy oy! H-Hayate! N-not here!" Sonic blushed in embarrassment.

'Sonic-kun, there's nothing wrong with having a feminine side. It helps to attract girls.' the cyborg-mage (Nanoha) teased.

"Ano..Fate.. does this happen a lot?" Alicia sent to her sister between giggles.

"Hai.. It's to help relieve stress and have fun." Fate sent back.

A mental clear of Reinforce's throat ushered the attention back to the doctor in the pink egg-walker.

"Okay.. we know you're here.. what do you have for us now?" the impatient hedgehog asked

"Heh heh.. I thought ahead with your possible interference, these bumpers repel any spells you can throw, and don't bother attacking from behind or underneath because there's spikes."

"You're the one who attacked the beauty of this place, I won't let you harm it." Alicia stood in front.

The mad doctor instantly noticed that Alicia and Fate looked the same "What the? There's two of you? How?"

Alicia took flight "Sisterhood!" "Aqua Smasher" the device declared and from the girl's right hand came a flash of blue mana that blasted the doctor, the spell also had an added affect of the water element that soaked the machine and it's doctor.

"Really? Is that all you can do? Oh ho ho ho h- eh?" Eggman's taunt was interrupted as static came of from the machine, not only short-circuiting the machine, but also giving the doctor a little shock, "Gaaaah!" and with an explosion the doc's mobile ejected itself from the machine in a smoldering, smokey mess.

The blonde mage then approached the mobile and slammed it with the face of Sisterhood. This one hammered deep into Tidal Tempest. Forget about it! He's gone!

[BGM: "Act Clear" Sonic CD US OST]

Alicia twirled her sword in a show of skill before returning it to her side, "He's what we're up against?"

"Hai.. he gets repetitive and predictable though." Hayate answered.

"Where next?" Nanoha asked

"Collision Chaos... last time I was there something was being built. I didn't stay long enough to find out." Sonic replied and the team took off for that location.

[Arthra: In orbit of the planet: Lindy's office]

"Bzzzzzt" the door leading inside the admiral's office rang out.

"Hai.. Come in." Lindy answered.

"Excuse me" Quint Nakajima entered and saluted; today her outfit was the same as the female equivalent of those in the Special Mobile Force 97.

"Ah.. Quint.. Nice uniform. When you had this arranged I was a little surprised, barely managed to get you one in time."

"Arigatou." the woman stood and attention and with a salute she announced "As of today, TSA Investigator Quint Nakajima will be transferring into Special Mobile Force 97. It'll be a pleasure working for you."

"Good.. so, why did you want to transfer here? I thought you had two to take care of at home"

"My husband's on Mid-Childa, and the Takamachi girl could be a good influence on my own daughters who are themselves Combat Cyborgs."

"Speaking of your husband, does he know of this? And what about your old team?" Lindy asked

"They'll send someone from another squad to replace me in my old unit.. as for my husband, he knows and he says he'll visit from time to time to see how we're doing." Quint confirmed.

"Well then.. dismissed. You can go help your daughters move in" Lindy dismissed the invesitgator.

"Hai, arigatou-gosaimasu" the woman saluted and dismissed herself.

"I'll have to let the others fighting out there know when they get back... I hope they return safely." The admiral thought to herself.

[Angel Island: Hydrocity]
[BGM: "Miscasting"
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's OST]

Knuckles, Vita and Signum were tasked with janitor duty of the island, and they weren't too happy about it.

"Grr.. why do we have to go around picking up the stragglers?" Knuckles griped

"Serves you right, red mutt for leaving them in the first place." Vita noted coolly.

"Oy! I didn't see you come up with any ideas, pettanko!" the mutt barked back

Vita was steamed with the echidna's shot; with Graf Eisen held high she charged for the mutt in fury, "Grrr... Come back here you red rodent!"

Signum sighed 'Why'd I have to be put with these two? Where's Testarossa or Thing (Nanoha!) when you need them... I'd rather have Hayate or Arf...' and with little effort she placed the bickering red duo under binds, converted Laevatein into Bowgen form and wiped out the straggling robots with Sturmfalken. After their job was done, one dimension transfer brought them back to the ship.

[Little Planet: Collision Chaos]
[BGM: "Collision Chaos ~Present~"
Sonic CD (USA) OST]

The group made their trek to the slightly mechanized forest with a well-established casino. Neon signs line up across the casino, which seem to be Japanese writing but may actually be illiterate. A lake is shown at the very bottom of the region.

"This is where I woke up.." Alicia observed, "from that time..." she added to herself.

"Alicia.." Fate spoke softly..

"Ano.. minna.. could you leave the two of us alone for a brief moment? Onegai?" Alicia requested of the others.

"Hai.. we'll look on ahead to get a look at the robots we're up against here." Reinforce acknowledged and guided the others in the party away from the two Testarossas.

[BGM: "Yuna's Theme" Final Fantasy X OST]

Once they were alone, Fate asked Alicia "What did you want to ask?"

"You knew my name, you look just like me, what really happened after that explosion? That's all I remember.. What happened to kaa-san?" Alicia asked

Fate spent the next few minutes explaining everything to Alicia after that explosion, how she was created to be a clone of her, the Jewel Seeds, and Precia's fall into Imaginary Space at the Garden of Time. After everything was said, the girl was in tears.

Alicia was shocked to learn what happened. Her own mother was driven insane from her "death" so much so that she created a clone to act as a replacement until she could find this "Al-Hazard" place that could "revive" her. She at first was speechless after everything was said, but she also didn't approve in the end. To comfort her "clone" she pulled her into a comforting hug,

"What kaa-san did was foolish... kaa-san was foolish after I "died"... wasn't she..."

"Foolish?" Fate stared deeply into the eyes of her original self.

"Hai... As much as we may want it, the dead don't come back. The same goes for the time lost. Kaa-san was always at work, and I never got to spend too much time with her back then. Demo, I held on to hope, no matter how much time kaa-san spent at work, I always waited for her, waited to spend time with her. And you have my memories, you should know this as well. You remember the picnics, all the time we could spend together.. At least, until the accident.."

"Demo, kaa-san planted those memories inside me, after the accident, she didn't spend as much time with me as she did with you. She created a familiar, Linith, to teach me my education and magic. She disappeared after she said there wasn't anything left to teach me. When kaa-san threw me away that day; she told me I was nothing more than a botched failure, and she despised me. I was shocked and it was painful. But, I was saved thanks to Nanoha and my famialiar, Arf, I went home, to confront kaa-san, I tried to help her, but she threw aside the help and fell with what we thought was your body into the dimensional rift." tears once again fell from Fate's face.

Alicia embraced the girl in a hug, "Before the accident, I remember kaa-san asking me what I wanted for my birthday. I told her I wanted a baby sister, so that way I wouldn't be alone when she was at work. She made me a promise. You're not a failed clone, you can be my imouto. You can call me "onee-chan" if you want."

"Really?" Fate asked

"Hai" a bright and cheerful smile found its way where it belonged on Alicia's face.

"Arigatou... demo.. Lindy-san.. the woman who called us earlier, is going to adopt me.."

"Then she can adopt me too, your onee-chan isn't leaving you. I already lost kaa-san.. I'm not about to lose another of my family, "clone" or not, you're still my imouto, and you're still yourself." Alicia stroked Fate's hair.

"Arigatou.. Alicia-onee-chan." Fate sniffed

"Now.. let's go back to the others, imouto" Alicia took Fate's hand and returned to the gathered party.

[BGM: "Collision Chaos ~Present" Sonic CD (USA) OST]

"So, Sonic-kun.. what's with this place?" Nanoha asked.

"Well.. truth be told I can only tell ya about the enemies... I kinda sped through this area against the clock.. So I can't help much on terrain" Sonic said

"I can help with that.. I've lived here long enough to travel the whole planet." Alicia offered.

"Great.. you can help me guide then?" Sonic asked

"Hai.. lets go"

The team bypassed the first tube-like ramp through flight, and flew on. Under Alicia and Sonic's guidance, the terrain and robots were no trouble at all. The robots attempted to bar their path with blades that they shot at the team, only the blades were weak enough to be easily deflected and they were quickly dispatched. There wasn't much issue in the terrain, although constant spring ramps annoyed Nanoha to no end because of how repetitive they occurred. And eventually they reached the PAST sign-post. With another swing and dimension transport. The group time-leaped to the past.

[Collision Chaos: Past Zone]
[BGM: "Collision Chaos ~Past~"
Sonic CD (USA) OST]

Upon landing in the past, the team found several differences in the environment, most of the casino features were gone as they were still in construction. The land and sky tints were orange and bright.

"Where's the casino?" Nanoha asked

"We're in the past..its under construction." Sonic explained, "I think the terrain's similar to the present.. gomen Nanoha, you'll have to put up with the spring launch things again..."

"Mou.." the cyborg-mage pouted.

And they continue their trek through the zone. Most of the obstacles could be bypassed by flying, with the exception of the spring and launch hill ramp combo that once again irked Nanoha to no end. After a few minutes they make it to the device they were after.

A good slice from Sisterhood did the trick and another Time Stone dropped, Alicia held it up "This is what's being used to power the machines?"

"Somewhat.. it doesn't look like it gave it much power though.." Sonic replied, "Eggman was sent pretty far away.. I don't think we'll need to make a trip to the future.."

"Can we do so anyway? I have something I want to show you." Alicia requested

"Uh... okay.. I think the Future gate's up ahead" Sonic agreed, a few more minutes later they found the gate. With another spin and Dimension Transfer the team hopped into the future.

[Collision Chaos: Good Future]
[BGM: "Collision Chaos ~Good Future~"
Sonic CD (USA) OST]

Upon landing in the future the party found the place to be a very inviting, futuristic and peaceful casinotopia. The scenery was aligned with metallic buildings and structures that could only add to the peaceful merge of technology and plantlife. The zone had a peaceful blue nad green theme of colors to it.

"Sugoi..." Nanoha gasped in awe with the others who haven't already seen the place also admiring it.

"What did you want to show us?" Sonic asked Alicia

"This way" The elder Testarossa sibling guided them through the futuristic paradise until they reached a small hut at the base of a clearing that had pieces of chains left over, the chains looked like they were cut some time a go.

Sonic recognized the place quite well as this was the original spot where Eggman chained Little Planet to Never Lake, the team could get a clear view of said lake from the satellite.

"When I woke up here I found this small base area that I used as my home for a few days, after that I moved on to explore the world, living off the land as I went. I found this chain and could tell right away that someone saved this place from being used and exploited in a cruel way." Alicia explained.

"Uh.. that would be me. Eggman tried to use the place as a front to launch one of his campaigns to take over South Island and the world.. I didn't want that to happen. So I went by myself to stop his plans. This was also the place I met Metal Sonic.. Didn't like him much back then either, he kidnapped Amy Rose, a friend of mine." Sonic retold his events on Little Planet and ended on the chain breaking and the planet disappearing.

Alicia looked back in her memories, she remembered landing on the planet and finding the chain, so it had to be just after he saved it, "So that was you... You're the one who saved this place that served as my savior from the explosion.. Arigatou.. Sonic.. for all you've done." the girl stroked the small hedgehog's fur.

Sonic's cheeks flushed a bright red in modesty and part of the affection "I-it was no problem.."

Alica stood, "We still have to save this place before we leave again.. let's go."

"Hai!" The rest of the party agreed and pressed on.

With the addition of Alicia to the party; the team's campaign to save Little Planet continues... will they win? What more could they face up with? Two zones are down, and five are left.

[End of Main Chapter]
[Omake #1: Alternate Alicia reunion]

Fate gasped at Alicia, "Aren't you're supposed to be dead?"

Alicia smiled "I got better!" causing Fate to facefault comically, said action brought giggles to the girl.

Hayate and Reinforce joined in the laughter as did Sonic, two got the joke Alicia made, while Sonic laughed at the reaction.

[Omake #2: Nanoha and the wall]

Nanoha tried to use her Axel Fin to fly over the wall, but once again she found herself on that cliff.

Fate flew over to the staggering cyborg-mage in concern "Are you alright, Nanoha?"

A very dizzy Nanoha replied "I'm Bobbin, are you my mother?" bringing Fate to another facefault.

Sonic, Hayate and Reinforce all laughed at the joke reference, "She's alright!" Hayate said between giggles. Alicia however was a bit confused at the joke, regardless giggled at the reaction.

[Omake #3: Continuing the events from Nanoha's weigh in[

His face a deep, dark red from seeing Nanoha in only a towel, Sonic ran off, only to be quickly caught by Hayate and Reinforce.

"Ara? Sonic-kun?" Hayate asked, "What's wrong?"

Reinforce teased the hedgehog on his blush "He's blushing, Hayate.. what happened? Catch Nanoha in an ecchi situation?"

"Ah.. um.." Sonic sputtered out nonsense.

"Tee hee. He's blushing.. kawaii~" Hayate dragged the hedgehog into their room with Reinforce in tow.

The silver-haired bombshell decided to tease the hedgehog a bit more by showing him the best of her figure "You know you want to look" she added in a tease.

"A-a-a-ah.." Sonic twitched in nerves as Hayate locked the door.

"Sooo uptight.. we should change that.. loosen up.. we girls don't bite." Reinforce smirked and quickly hopped into Sonic's body for a unison, "I kinda like this body" the unison device took control and felt up her hedgehog host's body in a teasing manner.

Hayate gave the device-in-hedgehog a playful slap on the tail "Looking good there."

"Thank you" Reinforce thanked her master.

Sonic quickly found his control "G-get out!" and forced the device out, his expression bearing yet again the dark blush.

The duo giggled pervertedly as they could see the fun they can have with their hedgehog friend, and they spent the next hour teasing him about it. It was all clean, somewhat, as they were still clothed.

An hour later Sonic was shaking "N-no more. Onegai.." to his surprise they stopped.. and the hedgehog found himself in a calm and comforting hug.

"Gomen.. Sonic-kun... we might have gone a bit overboard.. we just couldn't stop ourselves after seeing how cute you could look." Hayate said.

Reinforce added "We'll tone it down in the future.. We're just only trying to get you used to hanging around with the opposite sex."

"H-hai.." Sonic let out a sigh, tired, and settled for a nap.

[Back with Nanoha and Fate]

Soon after Sonic left, Nanoha dragged Fate to their own shared room for a bit of teasing.

The cyborg-mage kissed Fate on the cheek as she teased the girl with her own figure, "Fate-chan.. what's wrong? Am I.. too much?"

Fate had her own episode of sputtering "N-nanoha.."

"Hee hee.. Kawaii." Nanoha gave a teasing hug, "Maybe later I can have more fun.. right now I'm tired.. You can sleep with me if you want."

The duo took a nap.. nothing else ecchi happened afterwards.

[Omake #4: The Testarossa "Twins".. How related they are]

After the moment with the chain, Alicia took some time to talk to the others in the present before they moved on to the next zone.

"So.. Fate, how do you know the others?" Alicia asked

"Well... I don't know Hayate, Sonic or Reinforce too well because I only met them a month or so ago.. as for Nanoha..." Fate gazed at Nanoha for a second "I'm her wife!"

"Huh?" Everyone was taken back.

Alicia had a few moments of thought "Hmm.. Fate's already picked someone... now I need to pick too.. aha!"She clung onto Sonic "Then I'm his wife!"

"EEEEH?" Sonic blinked in complete shock.

"Like hell you are!" Hayate and Reinforce clung onto Sonic's other arm and he was in the middle of a tug-of-war.

"Well... Reinforce.. at least we can say the two are related.." Hayate sent mid-tug

"Very.. now help pull!" Reinforce sent back

Well.. well.. well.. Sonic's got himself a bit of a harem going now doesn't he.. Alicia's got some competition here.

[Omake #5: No choice but to participate]

At the Yagami residence, Shamal, Hayate and Vita were ready to leave to participate in a cosplay event.

"All right, we'll be participating in Cosca, is everyone ready?" Hayate asked as she wheeled herself up to Shamal and Vita while holding a pamphlet that said "Cosplay Cafe"

"Yup, everything is ready!" Shamal declared as she held a bag that had the cosplay costumes in it.

"Hayate, what's Cosca?" Vita asked

"To put it briefly, it's a cut down version of Komike. But there are plenty of layers in events like this so it's the perfect place to feast your eyes on cosplay" Hayate explained.

Reinforce, Signum and Sonic walked in with something to say.

"Master Hayate." Signum started

"We'd like to have a word with you" Reinforce followed suit

"Please, please please!" Sonic ended

"Hm? What's up with you three?" the wheel-chair bound otaku asked.

"I will gladly take the responsibility of guarding the house today!" Signum declared, trying to get out of going.

"No, please order me to watch the house!" Reinforce argued her way of getting out.

"Please make me watch the house!" Sonic ended his own case, he did not want to go to the event.

"Everyone. Takes. Part." Hayate had a dark aura as she held a paper fan, still sitting in her wheel-chair.

A simultaneous gulp was heard as the three were sweating and they had the same thought running through ther head "So we don't have the right to say no?"

Sonic quivered under the influence of his nerves, "I'm suddenly scared.." Comfort was found as his shoulders were patted by the two women behind him.

"I know how you feel" Signum sent to him through mental telepathy

"We're feeling it too." Reinforce added

"Wait a second, where'd she get that fan thing?" Sonic asked

"Don't know.." Signum replied

"I think it's a standard accessory." Reinforce speculated.

So the morale.. Do not say no to Hayate's Cosplay

[Ending: "Spiritual Garden" Tamura Yukari]
[End of Chapter 7]

Author's Notes:
Translations from previous chapter:

Arigatou: "Thank you"
Komike: Comiket, Japanese manga/anime convention
Layer: Cosplayer who takes cosplay a bit more seriously
Sugi: "Next"
Sugoi: "Amazing"
Pettanko: "Flat-chested girl" in Japanese
Ikuyo: "Let's Go" (in japanese in this context)
Baa-chan: "Old Lady" (In the context Knux used at Hydrocity)

Challenge: are to identify references, first one is from an old comedy show and the second from a timeless classic of a PC video game..

Now for some explanations and theory: In the Nanoha Movie 1st its explained that Alicia, the girl who Fate was created as a clone of, supposedly died in a prototype generator meltdown the resulted in an explosion, however Preica was still alive after that blast. And Precia fell into Imaginary Space with Alicia's lifeless body in the end of the original series, however, there's no real proof that Alicia died that one day.. No solid proof that the body Precia fell with was Alicia's.. Now here's the thing, after watching the movie, I noticed that Precia didn't realize the promise she made with Alicia until she was falling in Imaginary Space. And she herself mentions it "I've always been like this, never realizing things until it's too late." . And here's another thing, what Alicia said to Fate, "As much as we may want it, the dead don't come back" That quote was what Linith, Precia's familiar created to teach Fate magic, told Precia.

Knuckles, Knuckles Knuckles, really needs to watch it around girls.. And oh poor poor Nanoha, she's having adjustment issues with her combat cyborg powers.. funny how she ends up hitting that palm-tree.. and then a wall... she'll be fine.