Well…what now? OH! I know! I'll put that in! Oh, sorry. Typing to myself, here! By the way, I have not played Sonic Next Gen, so I'm just going by what I've found by research, here. I'm also running out of good chapter names. Well, here's your usual stuff.

Disclaimer: I don't own Sega, Sonic the Hedgehog, or any other characters that Sega owns. No, you can't copy this fic or any ideas from it, because it's mine.

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Diana's POV

I couldn't believe Sonic and Knuckles were dragging me to the archaeologist site that I had been to only a few weeks ago. They wanted me to see something that I probably hadn't seen before. I had seen all there was to see, though. What else was there?

When we got to the top, and through the door, I was once again speechless. But this was even weirder than the first time I had come.

The bridge was back up. Even better, there was a huge emerald on the small building I had taken note of.

"How is that possible?" I asked in shock. "When I came here a few weeks ago, the bridge was down, and the emerald wasn't there!"

"Well, it makes sense if you were here before we came," Knuckles said. "Wherever I go, the Master Emerald follows. Angel Island must have gotten a little too used to the Master Emerald if you came here before it was, because it can't float without it. It must've found a way to float on its own."

"This is awesome!" I exclaimed. "Did you want to show me anything else?"

"Well, there's a really big forest nearby," Sonic said. "I'm heading over there. Wanna come with?"

"Sure!" With that, Sonic and I ran off, leaving Knuckles in the dust of our path.

When we reached the forest, I immediately fell in love with it. It seemed so isolated. I could do what I wanted, and nobody would care. There was a big ledge that dropped off into a large body of water, though, and I knew Sonic would never go past that point.

"Race you to the other side?" Sonic challenged. He knew he could beat me. I knew I'd lose to him. But I'd like to see the way he goes when he runs through the trees, how he avoids being hit by branches.

I smiled. "You're on!" I said enthusiastically. And we were off.

I had seen him go ahead of me, dodging trees this way and that. He somehow just dodged the trees while still moving faster than the speed of sound. However, I saw him slow down when we got near the edge of the forest.

He had reached the edge, so he won. I knew he would. But he turned back around without even stopping to brag or anything. When I reached the edge about ten seconds after he did, I turned to see him standing there. I looked up to see an old temple looming over me. A tree had grown on top of it, and it was cracked and mossy. Did I mention it was OLD?!?

"What're you looking at?" I asked Sonic as I walked toward him. He held up his hand to quiet me, though. I walked to his side, and looked where he was staring. To be completely honest, though, I wasn't surprised by what I saw.

There was yet ANOTHER Mobian kneeling beside the ancient temple, chiseling something. She sort of looked like a female, lighter version of Knuckles, only without the big fists with the pointy…well, knuckles. She hadn't been in the crater we had found the Mobians from the present in. Could she be from the future, too? But she didn't look like she was. And she had a gold headband on, with a jewel in the middle. I suspected she was a princess, like Sonia and Blaze.

"Hey, you guys ran off on me!" Knuckles glided into the clearing. The girl turned around and spotted us. Sonic and I hid, and Knuckles landed near us.

"You'd better show your face before I come back there myself!" The girl challenged. I took a peek around the wall. She held up a spear, the end being a stone that looked really sharp. I wouldn't want her to come back here with that.

Knuckles, however, didn't seem to find her to be very threatening. He came out from behind the wall and stood there, staring at the girl. "When did you become so brutal?" Knuckles asked. "What happened to the nice, caring girl that wanted only to help her cause?"

He obviously knew the girl. Sonic probably did, too, but if he did he wasn't showing it. He was a good actor.

I heard a soft thud, and footsteps heading this way. I came out from behind the wall, and saw the spear she had been holding on the ground. She was running toward Knuckles. Whether we should take that as a threat or not was yet to be determined.

She stopped in front of Knuckles, beaming. I didn't think she was being too brutal anymore. She seemed happy. The expression on her face was definitely not the look of rage we had seen earlier.

"What are you doing here?" The girl asked. Yes, she and Knuckles seemed to know each other, but I had absolutely no idea who this was or what was taking place in front of me.

"We got sent here, to Earth," Knuckles explained everything we had come up with so far. Of course, he didn't say anything about the Mobians at home. She'd find out about them later.

"I thought you had turned into a spirit and gone into the Master Emerald again," Sonic said. "What are you doing out here as an echidna again?"

"I was always an echidna," she said. "I was released again by some force I couldn't identify. I could resume life as a tribe girl again. I was enjoying life there, too. Everything had become peaceful again. But then, this happened."

"Umm, I don't mean to interrupt your happy reunion here," I said. "But do you mind telling me who this is and why she's here? I'd like to know who the people we meet are."

"I'm sorry," the girl said. "My name is Tikal. I'm a princess in my time, but I'm afraid that I'm stuck here for now." Tikal looked at the surroundings. "Do you mind if I join you? I'd rather not stay here by myself. I also would like to go back when you find a way."

"As everyone else would," Sonic said. "Why not? She may actually remember something about being brought here. Also, we owe her for way back then. And it might not be a good idea to leave her here."

"Umm, I can't really remember anything. But thank you for your kindness."

Well, we had a new Mobian, and it happened to be from the past. I wondered how this was going to work out.

We set off for home in the direction we had came, carrying the two echidnas at light speed.

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I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING!!! Sorry to disappoint some of you, but no, there will be NO pairings in this fic. There will be in the sequel, though. AND SOME SONIC PAIRINGS FANS GO WILD!! XD Amy still has a crush on Sonic, though, like Sega wanted. I just haven't put that in yet. I don't plan to until much later. And, I'm sorry these chapters are so short nowadays. I've just been trying to fit some of these guys in before I skip them completely. I'll keep writing.