Multiversal Chaos: Beginnings of Time Chapter 7: A Modern World Life Is, a x-overs fanfic

Multiversal Chaos Chapter 7: A Modern World Life Is

In the Previous Chapter:

"All in a day's work of a hero. Two down, five to go."

"That's 120 rings off my bat. Yours, Sonic?"

"How do you know Cream?"

"City Escape Zone... The only level in Sonic Adventure 2 that I enjoyed. Looks like I'm the better one for this area."

"I.. I don't get what you mean..."

"Name's Antonio the Hedgehog. Speed's my game, and Sonic's my father! But you can call me Toni."

Disclaimer: As said in earlier chapters, I own only Richard and Gus.

Current Music: White Space Medley (Sonic Generations)

The Sonics, Toni, and both Richards stopped by the sculpture of Crisis City Zone from Sonic 2006, and standing beside it was a Toni examined the sculpture for a while with narrowed eyes, and then he snapped back in realization, and turned to Richard.

"I know this place!" Toni said. "This is Crisis City, right when my father Sonic was catapulted into the future, where something called Iblis controlled the entire world. Even thinking about it made me shudder in fear every time, with all the chaos in that place at that time."

Richard was frowning as he heard Toni, and then replied. "Yeah... It was also the future which Silver the Hedgehog had to suffer in. It was by luck that you were never in that kind of future."

Modern Sonic, however was confused. "Say what?" Modern Sonic blurted with confusion. "I never had any adventures in the future, not any that I remember."

"Then it's concluded that this Sonic isn't the same one who went through the 2006 arc." Richard mentally concluded.

"Indeed." Mimir replied inside Richard's mind in a calm voice. "I scanned all the Sonics, and the Modern Sonic had no memories regarding the incident."

"Huh. Let's see which eras he remembers." Richard assured Mimir. "Besides, are you sure Ares is fine being sidelined for a while?"

"Checking." Mimir stoically stated, and there was echoing footsteps inside his mind, owned by Mimir walking through his mindscape, and the footsteps stopped, only to start again louder with two sets of footsteps sounding in his mind, causing Richard to wince from the noise inside his head, before the footsteps stopped.

"For Christ's sake, Mimir!" Ares bellowed inside Richard's mind. "I already know what Richard's thinking, and it wasn't worth silencing the entire area just so that you could beat me into a pulp, and why? Because I refused. If you and I were both real humans, then you would be breaking a few rules about human rights!"

Richard just imagined what Mimir would have done to Ares, if Ares was all riled up, and then mentally sweat-dropped at both the fact that Mimir forced Ares to give his reply, and the fact that Ares knows human rights.

"Note to self, stay the hell away from gods fighting in my-" Richard mentally noted.

"You do know that we can read your thoughts, right?" Mimir interjected.

"Merde! (Shit!)" Richard mentally cussed, while mouthing it physically.

"Do know that if you really want to swear, do it in English, although we still can understand all other languages as well as we can understand it. And please, do have a sense of censorship. We can't have our avatar having a cuss fit." Mimir warned.

"Fine. But if I hold this mental chat any longer, the others will think I'm crazy. So Ares, how do you plead?" Richard asked.

"Don't care. The temporary powers replace the need of me, and it's good for me, as I can spectate and learn some new skills."

"...I'll get back to that after I defeat Time Eater." Richard finished, before he refocused back to the outside world.

By that time, all Sonics, his younger self and Toni are all gone, and Richard looked around, before he was going to go into the sculpture/teleporter, and found Shahra floating near the entrance.

"Why are you here, Shahra? I thought that you had to be with your master." Richard asked, anxious about the reason and being suspicious that she has something to say.

"I have come to help ease your suspicions about Antonio the Hedgehog, as it seems that you aren't fully trusting him." Shahra replied, confirming Richard's suspicions.

"...I see." Richard replied, pausing momentarily. "You're right about that. Antonio almost seems like a copy of Sonic, save for the fact that he can control his Chaos power. But the question is this: How did he get you and Caliburn? I thought that you were bound to be Sonic's servant."

"You are correct, however, this also applies to later generations if the item I am bound to is inherited by a son or daughter, and the rights are passed to them. Caliburn, although refusing to admit it, has also been bound to Antonio. I am happy to be in his possession, and so has Caliburn, although he never voiced his approval. " Shahra explained.

Richard let a long sigh, relieved that he can loosen his worries a bit, considering that Toni has rightfully got these item

"Guess I have to chase after them. Maybe by the time I enter the zone, they'll be back. Are you coming with me, or is it best to stay?" Richard asked.

Shahra simply just nodded her head, stating that she will stay.

"Very well. Tell Toni that I currently hold good respect and trust for him, and that'll ease his worries." Richard said, before he went through, but not with Shahra giving him a kind wave to send him off.

Crisis City Zone Act 2 (Modern)

Current Music: Crisis City Modern (Sonic Generations)

Richard started off the zone running down a metal grated ramp that had hot magma surrounding the area, making Richard sweat profusely from the heat, and jumped across a gap in the road, with the help of Homing-Attacking three mini versions of Iblis, being smaller phoenixes, passing by ruined building with rubble stacked on the footpaths and some of the piles igniting intensely with a orange flame that matched the burning sky above in colour. He also Homing-Attacked a few Iblis Hands, which were hands of molten lava reaching out to grab and burn any living being near them, to traverse a part of the road that is broken into many pieces and formed a shallow line of steps leading upwards,

He ran through a Boost Ramp, which he accidentally almost tripped on, making him fly in the air wobbling, and causing a landing that made Richard stumble forwards, before he caught himself before he went past the edge of a broken part of the highway, where the small rocks that he pushed landing into the magma below, causing a series of plops and some sizzling, reminding Richard, that he should not even touch the lava. He continued his run-through of the zone, and was met by a fork where there were two roads, and Richard took the left, making sure to avoid falling as he took the higher path, and using a combination of pulleys and Jump Pads to scale a destroyed skyscraper, and jumping across the tops of buildings to get to another Boost Ramp, which led him to another section of the destroyed where lots of Boosts Pads were placed in a line.

They caused Richard to run through at fast speeds through a loop-de-loop, and making it through a destroyed building, with lots of platforms, and at the end, a lava stream that is obstructing his path to the next building. Richard screeched to a stop, causing some sparks to fly from the momentum, and he observed his surroundings thoughtfully, noticing that there was a rock platform suspending on the stream of lava, and Richard went on it, before proceeding to ground-pound it a few times, causing it to be low enough for Richard to pass through a hole, and the moment he stepped off, the lava stream pushed the rock platform back up, and surprisingly did not splash lava where Richard was.

He then proceeded through to the next building, which made him use his platforming skills just as much as the last building, including some rock platforms suspended by streams of lava which he had to ground-pound, except halfway through the building, he had to go to the bottom of the building, where there were a mix of metal and rock platforms, with a pool of lava right at the bottom. He managed to escape the building with a Boost Ramp,

He landed onto the final section of the stage, where he dashed through the broken highway, which now had flames spurting from cracks on the road, and had to fall a few times, as he was met by blockades of cars and debris, and used Boost Rings to stay above the lava, before he saw a tornado filled with flames standing just behind the Goal Ring, menacingly approaching it, threatening to swallow the area where the Ring was, which would make it impossible for Richard to escape.

There's no goddamn way I'm dying here just because of a moving flame tornado! Richard frantically thought, before he ran faster, and managed to grab the ring, which immediately teleported him back to White Space, a second before the flame tornado engulfed the area.

That was goddamn close, were Richard's last thoughts before he was sent back.

Current Music: White Space Medley (Sonic Generations)

Richard went out of the statue, only to be met by Toni, who had a worried expression on his face. Both Modern Sonic and Adventures Sonic were exchanging storeis of their own adventures, with Classic Sonic quietly eavesdropping on them. Younger Richard was simply looking around, curious about this very place.

"Thank god you're back, Richard." Toni said with relief. "I was so worried when we found out from Shahra that you went alone."

Richard sighed at this. "I held my own. Then again, to tell you the truth, I used to run these stages with Modern Sonic, or the father you know.

"That's a relief. That stage was quite scary to be honest, as that flame tornado-"

"You don't need to finish that. After all, we all did this stage."

After a while, the sculpture returned to its full colour, and so did the frozen Gus and Blaze. When they were both fully freed, Blaze looked around, only to realize that there were actually 4 Sonics, including Toni, who bears minimal difference to Sonic.

"What!?" Blaze cried in surprise, and then switching to a furious tone, as she raises her hands and ignite them into flames to attack them. "I demand a explanation of this, or I'll burn you Sonic imposters to ashes!"

Richard just came over to Blaze's side, and put a hand on her right shoulder, which surprised her and got her attention, but Richard's calm expression gave her a sense of safety.

"They're not copies or impostors of Sonic. They are all real Sonics, only from different times." Richard explained, pointing to Toni before continuing. "Especially this one, who is Sonic's future son."

"No wonder they seemed familiar, yet different in appearance..." Blaze said, while putting her hands down and extinguishing the flames on her hands.

Richard just gave her a assuring smile, and then he walked to Gus, who watched the entire thing happen.

"So Gus, anything you learnt from Blaze? The skill I gave you should give you any basic fire magic the moment you learn to use it." Richard asked.

"It feels like it..." Gus replied, unsure about his answer. "I had a tingling feeling when I saw her hands burst into flames, as if it was some clue to learn something..."

Richard sensed the uncertainty in Gus's voice, and drew the shield of Heaven's Will, and positioned it to guard his chest.

"Try to conjure something up. Don't worry if you manage to make it work, because this shield will protect me." Richard said.

Even with Richard's words, Gus bore a worried expression, as he rose his right hand, and closed his eyes to concentrate.

'Okay. I have to find that tingling feeling again, so that I can somehow copy what Blaze would do, which is a basic Fireball.' Gus thought 'I got to trust Richard for this one. After all, he's stronger than me, and I can't stay weak and helpless.'

Gus begin to exert more concentration, as he tried to summon a fireball, as his face crinkled up.

'Come on... I have to at least try. Where's that feeling? Where is it? I feel like I'm getting closer. And now... I can feel it!"

At that moment, the palm of Gus's right hand glowed orange, as a ball of fire the size of a marble appeared, and it swirled around, gathering more flames into the ball, slowly expanding it to be the size of his whole hand, and he suddenly opened his eyes and fired it at a very fast speed, causing it to leave streaks of flames, and it hit Richard's shield with such force that Richard was knocked back by a metre, with Richard slightly losing grip on the shield.

"Damn!" Richard exclaimed with awe. "That must have been hard, Gus! I grew accustomed to holding this shield, and to make me lose grip on it even slightly, you must have hit it hard. I think that this is no regular fireball! It should be given a grander name!"

Gus smiled at this compliment. "Thanks, Richard!" He replied. "Even I felt that fireball's force. As for it's name, when I got that feeling, it felt like that the fireball was fired from a gun with lots of force. So I should dub it... Flame Bullet."

GUS, NEW SKILL GET!: Flame Bullet

A slight twist to the basic Fireball spell, this variation, although the same size, packs more damage than its normal version, and even contains a lot of knockback. The consequence, however, is that the spell is harder to cast and exhausts more stamina or mana when used.

"Good to have something to protect you, Gus." Richard said. "But right now, only the Sonics and I can save this world. I'm sorry if I have to leave you alone for a while."

"I see... So the other two Sonics, excluding the Modern and Classic, are also Sonics of different times?" Gus asked.

"Yes." Richard replied, not wanting to say anything further, to prevent Gus from being confused by the fact that the timeline of this world is twisted. "And we still have Link to save. If you head left, Gus, you'll find Zelda and Impa in different areas."

"Thank god..." Gus said. "At least I'll have some allies if we're attacked. I'll get to them now."

Gus was prepared to run off, but before he could go, he heard someone say "Wait!", and he turned around, only to be hugged tightly by Richard.

"Just something to give you luck, friend. Be safe and don't die, alright?" Richard told Gus in a caring tone.

Gus smiled, and hugged Richard back, and they seperated. Gus gave Richard a wave as he ran off.

Richard then turned around, and called the Sonics, Toni and his younger self to follow him, and they made it to the front on the sculpture of Rooftop Run.

"Well." Richard said. "You know what to do."

The group went into the sculpture, ready for whatever is on the other side.

Rooftop Run Act 2 (Modern)

Current Music: Rooftop Run Modern (Sonic Generations)

The group appear through the purple portal, and run through a alleyway, knocking out some of the enemies that are blocking the road, and managed to reach the top of the buildings through a set of platforms leading up, and used the balloons to reach a area that is separated from the block of building, and having a clear view of the whole world around them. The entire town was engaged in a carnival, with sets of flags hanged around, and confetti floating everywhere, and the sky is filled with hot air balloons of various colours. Everyone stopped, and they took the moment to enjoy the environment. Richard took the moment to ask Modern Sonic something.

"Hey, Modern Sonic." Richard asked politely, trying to avoid annoying Modern Sonic. "Do you somehow remember this place?"

Modern Sonic put up a thinking pose, before shaking his head and answering, "I feel a sense of deja vu, but I can't put a finger on it."

"I see." Richard thought. "Sonic Unleashed was within the modern Arc, and he does have deja vu at least. So his memories will return about this place after we clear it."

The group resumed their path through the zone, jumping off the building, and grinding on hand-rails, making their way across the town, even passing a few points of interest such as the town hall, and a fancy mansion, avoiding traps on the way, with Richard even almost being impaled by a falling spike platform, despite having the same control over speed, and having to switch lanes to avoid spiked barrels to jump off a ramp and fly in the sky, and land running on a set of rooftops, everyone trying to keep their balance throughout the challenge.

They then made their way to a platforming section, where they jumped through, to reach a set of ancient rails, which led them right to the bell tower, which they ran up, defying gravity. Their trip didn't go smooth, as Egg Chasers has aimed lasers towards them from their front, and they dodged them with great ease, before launching off the edge of the tower, and flying high up in the sky. Richard looked at the ground, and regretted doing that, as he let out a terrified scream, as they landed on another set of rails sliding straight down in 180 degrees, making whatever things that Richard was going to vomit fly back into his throat, and they landed back onto the ground of the town, and continued running, with Richard stopping for a moment to retch for a while, before chasing after the group.

They managed to go through another section of the town, and used balloons to get from one end of the block to another block of buildings, and they managed to go through a area filled with spike platforms, only to escape just before they landed, and went through a loop-de-loop, and they ended up meeting another set of Egg Chasers that are aiming towards them right on a runway, unable to be reached via Homing Attacks. They were in a unfortunate situation, but Richard took a moment to look forward, taking note of the environment, and finally found a way to get rid of the Egg Chasers, which is to knock the Egg Fighters inhabiting the runway, and use them as projectiles to hit the Egg Chasers. He quickly told the group his idea, and they executed it quickly, taking down wave after wave of Egg Chasers, and were met by the Goal Ring sitting in a temple, and they immediately disappeared after hitting the Ring consecutively with massive force.

Current Music: White Space Medley (Sonic Generations)

When the group has returned to White Space, Richard took a few staggering steps, before falling down.

"180 straight down..." Richard groaned. "Plus goddamn speed... It sucks like hell... This really brings back my fear of heights..."

Modern Sonic noticed Richard sprawled on the ground, and helped Richard back up.

"Hey? You okay, Richard?" Modern Sonic asked.

Richard staggered for a while, before straightening up and replying, "I'm okay. Just no more goddamn falling 400km/h towards the ground... I think skydiving is out."

Toni just giggled at what Richard said, and Richard heard Toni and gave him a glare.

"What so freaking funny!?" Richard demanded. "You don't have problems falling, so don't go around thinking everyone's as fine as you, Mr Perfect."

Toni put a hand up to signify that he needs to calm down, and in a while, he stopped laughing all together.

"Sorry. My bad." Toni apologized. "It was funny, but now that you say it like that, I don't think I can laugh anymore."

"It's fine. But please don't laugh at my misfortunes. I have my strengths and you have your own." Richard replied.

Meanwhile, the sculpture returned back to full colour, with Younger Richard and Classic Sonic fist-bumping each other, and Vector also gets unfrozen, and after looking around, he sees everyone, and staggers back as he sees that there are multiple Sonics.

"Wha what whaaa!?" Vector blurted. "Where did all these Sonics come from?"

Richard just came up to him, and gave Vector a slap to the face.

"Vector! Get a hold of yourself!" Richard said. "You're fine. The other Sonics are just Sonics from different times."

Vector remained wide-eyed as his head tried to process the information, and he calmed down soon after.

"Well. Never thought you're a hero yourself, kiddo." Vector said. "I knew that when you helped me when I choked, that you were quite a nice guy."

"That's rich from a bounty hunter like you." Richard retorted. "I'm not all sweety-boy when it comes to the worst."

Vector heartily laughed at this, and pat Richard's back, which he appreciated.

"You really are hard in that outside of yours, but you're a big teddy inside like me." Vector admitted.

"Maybe." Richard said with a smirk. "Depends on what my mood is. At times, it may be a black hole of hatred, in right circumstances."

Toni shuddered at what Richard said, and came over to Richard's back, and tapped Richard's shoulder lightly from behind.

"I hate to break this macho chat, but we have another zone to go through, Richard." Toni reminded.

Richard turned towards Toni, and nodded before finishing up.

"Well Vector, looks like I got a job to do, and I have to do it now." Richard said.

"Well, be safe, or I'll pound your ghost if you die." Vector joked.

Richard chuckled at this, and turned away, and walked to the next zone with the group, including Younger Richard, who seems to looking at Richard.

'Is this really the future me?' Younger Richard thought. 'After all, I was once anti-social, and yet he is here being a nice guy to everyone.'

The group moved onto the sculpture of Planet Wisp, and they went in without a word, already not interested in a conversation before entering.

Planet Wisp Act 2 (Modern)

Current Music: Planet Wisp Modern (Sonic Generations)

The group started off on a bed of exotic flowers, and ran off into a set of rock platforms, with a endless abyss below them, and they navigated them without trouble, and even managed to use a Bumper Pad to reach a lonely platform that is held high in the sky, making it look like a tower, and the Sonics landed safely, but Toni overshot his landing, and slipped off the edge, about to fall to a untimely death, until Richard managed to dive quickly enough to grab Toni's hand. Toni looks at the ground, and gulped audibly, before Richard pulled him back up, and they fell down sitting and huffing in exhaustion.

"Damn. You're quite heavy for a fast guy." Richard huffed. "Was it the chilli dogs?"

"Damn right it is." Toni replied. "Like father, like son."

They took a moment to look around them, having a good vantage point, and saw that the world is filled with natural flora and life. Richard absorbed the view around him, before he saw that the Sonics using a line of Rings to do a Lightspeed Dash back onto the ground, and Richard and Toni soon followed after, and they moved onto a set of treetops linked with a few weathered wooden bridges, through a Jump Pad bouncing them back, and soon reached a swamp filled with poisonous purple muck, and they used the rails to stay above, and kept switching rails to avoid falling into the poison swamp, due to unfinished rails, and used a Boost Ring to jet towards a set of rails that is far away, which led to a cave that in turn took them to a platforming area, with rock platforms that are unstable and fall soon after a person lands on it, and at the top, they found Orange Rocket Wisps being trapped in capsules.

With a simple gesture, they activated the powers simultaneously to rocket upwards into a sector which looked like a construction site, which became a huge platforming area for the group, with all kinds of traps and the use of Orange Rocket Wisps was abused to the last Wisp. Eventually, after a few traps, and hitting through blockades with their bare bodies, they reached the top, where a futuristic teleporter lied, with the Goal Ring sitting in its centre. When they trudged through the Ring, they were sent back to White Space.

Current Music: White Space Medley (Sonic Generations)

When the Modern group returned from the last regular stage of the entire world, they were filled with bruises everywhere, due to Orange Rocket Wisps forcing them through blocks made out of hard stone, although it didn't nullify the pain, as the entire group was moaning in utter pain, and Classic Sonic and Younger Richard were shaking and mentally traumatized at what they become after being transformed by Pink Spike Wisps. The two groups looked at each other, especially Richard and his younger self, and when they looked at the condition they were each in, they broke their gazes, giving off signs that read "I think I better not ask about it.".

The entire team took a moment to recover from their physical and mental pain, and the zone slowly lit up in full color, and the Chaos Emerald was refilled with power and lifeforce, and Richard took it, examining it over.

"Huh, that's neat." Richard uttered. "Saves the trouble of finding the 7th Chaos Emerald after we done all Rivals and Bosses."

"Who are you talking to?" Adventures Sonic asked, curious at who Richard is talking to.

Richard sighs, and replies annoyed, "No-one."

And suddenly, Charmy the Bee slowly returns back to full colour, and he looked around.

"What happened around here?' Charmy asked to no-one.

Richard just simply noticed that he had a dilemma in his hands, and tapped Classic Sonic's shoulder while he was conversing with Younger Richard, and he turned to notice Richard asking if he could come to Charmy's side. Classic Sonic nodded his approval, and they went in front of Charmy, and got Charmy's attention with a simply "Hey!", which causing the child bee to look at the two of them.

"Oh! It's you Sonic! Your look is very different, but you make me safe." Charmy cheerfully greeted Classic Sonic. "But where's my team?"

"They're over there." Richard said, pointed to the left, where the rest of the characters were.

"Thanks, but who are you?" Charmy asked.

"The one who helped Vector back at the party." Richard simply stated with a sly grin.

"Oh... So you're the one who helped that big lug. Anyways, I have to find my teammates, so thanks!" Charmy said, before he flew off to where Richard pointed.

Classic Sonic was happy as he was praised by someone he doesn't know, but the other Sonics didn't have the same feelings. In fact, they're quite annoyed that they never greeted Charmy, especially Modern Sonic, who is the only Sonic who knows Charmy.

"Hey! What's the big idea not letting us meet Charmy!?" Sonic shouted to Richard.

"Yeah!" Toni and Adventures Sonic agreed.

"Well, would you prefer Charmy losing his head!?" Richard retorted in a harsh tone. "He's still a kid! I ought to scold you for that selfish thought!"

The other Sonics noticed that Richard made a point, and shut their mouths immediately. The entire group then went around the area, looking for the key to the Gate at the end and the 6th Chaos Emerald, and soon found Silver in a alcove.

"What!?" Silver cried, startled at what he was seeing. "Who are you!? Are you all Sonic impostors?"

"The answer's in my head. Trust me." Richard assured Silver.

"Very well, the mind cannot lie, so it's best to grab the information in your head." Silver said, who calmed immediately down, and his eyes glowed fully green as he was reading through Richard's mind. After a while, his eyes went back to normal, and he announced his findings.

"So that's why I sensed the timeline breaking. There are multiple Sonics trapped in this world, and only the Chaos Emeralds can save time itself. Guess I was wrong to call the Sonics of different times clones of the original Sonic." Silver said.

"Then may you give us the Chaos Emerald, please?" Richard replied.

Silver shook his head. "It's not that simple here. I can't just give it." Silver stated. "The Chaos Emerald is somehow stuck in my possession, and unless its ownership can be won off, it'll just reappear in my hands."

Richard put on a thinking pose, and then asked, "How real has the battle has to be? I can't fight you to death, and neither would you."

Silver just sighed at this, and responded, "It's not to death, but the fight has to be practically to the best of our abilities, otherwise the gem will not accept it as a transfer of ownership due to your victory."

Richard just smiled at this, and turned around towards Toni.

"Hey Toni! Looks like you get to have a real battle." Richard exclaimed. "You in for it?"

Toni came over and smiled while he said, "Sure! I'm game for anything to get that emerald!"

Silver just looked upon Toni, and to Silver, something is famillar about Toni to him.

'Wait...' Silver thought. 'That cocky attitude... That look... Could it be that this is Toni the Hedgehog, fully named as Antonio!? Then that means that I'm fighting a legend that protected this world many times before I came to birth! I better not let back my power, as both Richard and Toni will not either.'

Silver just nodded slowly, and then turned to the portal which would lead to the Rival Course.

"If you wish to fight, then pass through here, and your challenge will be accepted." He intoned, before entering the portal.

Richard and Toni glanced at each other, and then nodded together as a sign of confirmation, before entering the purple portal in front of them.

When they entered the portal, they ended up in Crisis City again, except there is not as much destruction as the other zone, and the sky is coloured by the orange sunset. However, Silver the Hedgehog was nowhere to be seen, which left Richard scratching his head, both metaphorically and literally.

"What the hell?" Richard growled in anger that Silver is not here. "I thought Silver would have a battle with us when we were through the portal."

"Beats me." Toni said. "I don't know where he is, but by his expression before, he wouldn't chicken out."

"But if he wasn't fleeing, then where is h-?" Richard asked, before they heard something whistling through the air, and they both turned around to see Silver holding a bunch of cars using telekinesis, and that very scene induced fear in both of them.

"SHIT! RUN!" Richard shouted to Tony.

"You don't need to repeat that!" Tony yelled back, before the two of them took off. "I'm not that stupid!"

Richard and Toni are running across the desolate city, trying to avoid trying to get squished by the objects that Silver's telekinesis is throwing at them.

"Impressive. It seems that you got the same prowess as Sonic, without his arrogance." Silver remarked.

"And you're quite handy with that telekinesis of yours." Richard responded. "However, I won't lose this battle."

"Yeah! I can't lose to you, Silver!" Toni shouted back to Silver. "I'm just like my father Sonic!"

"Such a reminder for a great hero at a young age..." Silver muttered. "I known Toni to be a great hero to society exactly 170 years ago, but I never thought that I would have to face off him..."

Silver kept on attacking them with thrown objects, and sometimes even teleported to the side of the highway, before lifting a few cars mid-air, and slamming them down wherever the heroes would be, and then teleport back in front of them and keep up the process of trying to hit them with all kinds of debris, including empty spherical gas tanks. Richard took the moment to analyse any weakness that Silver has, and then found it out, before stopping for a while, while tapping the ground behind with the toes of his right foot like a runner's starting position, before letting off his boost, becoming a streak of golden light, and slamming into a car that Silver just threw, sending the projectile back to its owner, knocking Silver down, while he bounced on the ground and his body was tossed around in the air, before he righted himself, before teleporting right back above them.

This time, he changed his attacks, by gathering objects in his vicinity, and meshing them together into a large metal blockade to stop them reaching him. However, the heroes simply jumped on the blockade, and used their boost to catch up to Silver, and Toni managed to homing-attack Silver, knocking him to the ground for the second time. By the time Silver recovered, it was evident to both heroes that Silver was livid with anger, and then watched him teleport behind them, and then his body flashed a bright green, as any debris in the city was clumped into a ball, and Silver was using telekinesis to hold it.

"This is the end!" Silver roared with determination. "TAKE THIS!"

Silver threw the ball of debris at them, and it began to pick up momentum and roll towards them, and both heroes had to use their boost to stay ahead of the ball, while dodging Silver's attacks, which intend to knock them into the ball. However, Richard managed to dash ahead of Silver, and turned around to administer a Homing Attack onto Silver's back, knocking him into the ball.

"Try to stop this with psychic!" Richard taunted with a grin, adding insult to injury.

Silver slammed right into the ball, unconscious from the back blow, and miraculously, the impact caused the ball to rumble to a stop, and Richard and Toni went through the portal back to White Space.

Current Music: White Space Medley (Sonic Generations)

When Richard and Toni were back from the battle, they saw that Modern Sonic and Adventures Sonic were doing a set of the game paper-scissors-rock, and Younger Richard was looking at the white Chaos Emerald above their head, while slowly went down into Richard's open palm, and he then pocketed it with the other Chaos Emeralds.

"That's 6." Richard stated. "All we have to do is get the Boss Gate open, and we can finally get the 7 Emeralds we need to fight Time Eater."

"We took care of that. You all took a while to beat Silver, so the rest of us went through the zones again, and found the Boss Keys to open the gate." Younger Richard answered, handing over the purple keys to Richard.

"I owe you great thanks, young me." Richard said, thanking Younger Richard. "We can now fight the last enemy in our way to Time Eater."

The group went to the Boss Gate, and the keys slotted into the keyholes and the gate opened.

"Wish you all luck, friends." Richard said.

And with those words, they entered the gate to fight the next boss.

The moment that they entered the portal, the Modern Team (Modern, Adventures, Toni and Richard) appeared in a technological tunnel, with lava below the tunnel, showing by occasional glass panels. Suddenly, the Egg Dragoon flew right in front of them, before letting forward a mechanical roar. And the cockpit on top opened to show Eggman.

"You meddled for the final time, Sonics! I'll end your pitiful lives here. And you!" Eggman shouted through the speakers of the mech, before pointing to Richard. "I'll kill you especially for what you did to my Death Egg Robot!"

Richard just simply put up a evil smirk, and then gave Eggman the "double bird", waving it around, while having a face with his lips pulled back.

"Fuck you Eggie!" Richard retorted. "You can't kill me, but I'll mutilate you! And if you even touched a single hair of my younger self, I'll show you the depths of hell!"

Eggman suddenly began to fume and slam his fists on the control panels.

"You dare mock me!?" Eggman roared. "I'm a genius! I'll crush you under my latest invention!"

"You can try-" Richard tried to say, before he felt something snap inside him, before he fell on his knees, and he clutched his head tightly, as intense searing pain burnt through his head.

"AAGGGGAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHH!" Richard cried out in pain, before convulsing violently.

The entire group rushed over to Richard, trying to comfort him, and even Eggman watched the entire scene with wide eyes, worried that something very terrible was going to happen.

"Richard! Are you alright?" Toni asked, worried at how Richard is shaking.

"What do you think!?" Richard hissed through gritted teeth, trying to resist the pain that is flowing around his whole head. "It hurts. IT FUCKING HURTS LIKE HELL!"

Suddenly, sparks of red lightning appeared on Richard's body, flashing on and off like broken lights. They soon became arcs of lightning in the same colour, zapping across Richard's body, but the only pain Richard has was from the unbearable pain in his head, and the arcs of lightning soon split into more arcs, and soon, Richard's body was surrounded by arcs of red lightning, and he then let out his pain through a ear-shattering roar of pain towards the heaven, as a red pillar of light engulfed him. The pillar stood untouched for a while, before it split into two, and the two pillars subsided to show Richard on his fours, looking down at the ground, and panting from exhaustion, and Ares in his full armour.

"What are you doing here, Ares?" Richard croaked, exhausted from what happened before. "Don't tell me that you caused the pain…"

Ares just simply turned around, and saw the condition that Richard was in, and then gave him a pitiful look.

"I'm sorry I had to do this. We can also get out of your mindscape to summon ourselves, but it would cause a lot of pain to the person." Ares apologized.

"Then why…?" Richard groaned. "Why did you want to come out….?"

"Because I just sensed that the Darkness have found something to infect, and I'm afraid that the Time Eater has been powered up by it, considering both are made from darkness, which sums up this- NOT A GOOD THING. Although I didn't want to get involved in this world, the timeline here is tearing itself FUCKING apart, and we have to move faster, or this world is going to shit, so I'll help you for this moment." Ares said, speaking a bit louder as he shows his desperation.

Both Adventures Sonic and Toni were surprised at how Ares and Richard have the same look, and they were about to open their mouths to complain, but Ares stopped them.

"If you're asking who I am, I'm Ares, one of Richard's godly guardians. The reason we bear the same appearance is because our true form has no shape, and we only bear the shape of our vessel, except for a few changes." Ares explained to them.

They closed their mouths, and Toni just looked at Ares for a while.

'Looks like Richard is more of a vessel for some otherworldly gods, but at least he proved he's a capable teammate.' Toni thought.

Eggman was watching the whole thing, so frightened of Ares, as he just heard that Ares himself was a god, that he was literally shaking in the cockpit, and he pointed a shivering finger at Ares inside the cockpit.

"W-Ww-hho are you-u?" Eggman whimpered.

Ares turned around, and then frowned, before giving Eggman a wrathful glare, as the irises of his eyes glowed very brightly, before fading back to normal.

"Your executioner." Ares replied with dripping disgust, before drawing his weapon.

Are's weapon was a large grim scythe whose pole is red with orange flame decals on it, and on the end of the pole lied a human skull, being the pole's cap, and the blade was gleaming in the sun, being made of silver metal, and sharpened to a point where the point of the blade was literally as thick as a needle, and suddenly, the blade burst into hell-fire, which decorated the metal with a red tint, and markings of the words "WRATH", "WAR", "HATRED", all in bold black letters, decorating every empty place of the scythe.

"You should consider yourself lucky, that you have an ice cannon, and that I'm using my weapon to kill you. Many people have died so easily, that all it took was a mild choke to end their pitiful lives. It only took me a notch of my pressure to kill them, and any strong mortal or immortal who survived my chokes at full power, would then have the honour to cool my scythe off with their blood, and it was all too easy again to defeat or mutilate them with a single swipe. However, since your mech is considerably well-defended and large, it will take me 5 more seconds to end this fight, and since you did a good act in the past, I'll reward by promising to destroy your mech first, and then take the cockpit and execute you personally." Ares coldly said.

Eggman was frightened by the very feats that Ares could accomplish. If any immortal would die easily in the hands of this very god before him, what chance would he have? However, he decided to face his fears.

"Y-you w-won't d-dd-defeat m-mee!" Eggman stuttered, still paralysed with fear. "I-I'm-m a gg-genius-s-s."

Ares just laughed cruelly at Eggman's words.

"You don't seem so confident." Ares smirked, before his mouth twisted into a sadistic smile. "Allow me to shatter your dreams… confidence… bones…. AND YOUR LIFE!"

Ares then flew off the ground, and hurled himself at high speeds towards the Egg Dragoon, and then disappeared, only for a flurry of slashes to appear around the body of the mech, before he reappeared back where he was standing, back towards the mech. He then brought the blade of the scythe in front of his face, and then blew the flames on it out. At the same moment, the Egg Dragoon began to split into many parts, and each of the parts were sliding apart from each other from the gravity, and they fell into a pile of scrap metal with a dust cloud on impact.

The cockpit however withstood the instantaneous assault, and out came a battered Eggman, who crawled out of the cockpit due to the impact, and his trademark mustache was ruined, as the hairs were all spread out in a dirty manner.

"Why can't I win...?" Eggman moaned. "I was supposed to win this battle..."

"Silence." Ares ordered, his pitch now being so low that it sound like a loud growl that boomed across the whole room. This frightened Eggman further, as he crawled back a little.

"And why would you win?" Richard asked smugly. "After all, we heroes always beat you villains, because you bear many flaws. We heroes too have flaws, but we can expose your flaws to defeat you first."

Suddenly, a purple portal appeared beside the group, and out came Classic Sonic, Classic Tails and Younger Richard.

Classic Tails saw Eggman, and then asked, "Why is Eggman here? I thought he was taken by the Time Eater before when Classic Sonic and Younger Richard defeated his Death Egg Robot?"

Suddenly, a large purple portal appeared, sucking the pile of metal, and Eggman who was on it, before disappearing after finishing its job.

"...And he gets kidnapped again. This is getting stranger by the second. Let's head back." Classic Tails continued.

Ares then came in front of Richard, and then put his right hand on Richard's right shoulder.

"Well, guess I'm done here. The rest is up to you, kiddo." Ares said.

"But why? Why did you just come out to defeat Egg Dragoon, and then leave me again? I need your help if I'm going to fight Time Eater." Richard asked.

"Well... About that, I think you already have sufficient power to defeat it." Ares responded, while shrugging. "And Mimir predicted the near future, although it took him a lot of time and concentration, and we found you something you'll like, but I won't spoil that now. After all, we wouldn't want to spoil something exciting, would we?"

Ares then did a one-barrel finger gun with his right hand, making the thumb and second finger perpendicular to each other, and then winked while clicking his tongue twice. Richard understood what the expression meant, and smiled.

"I see... Looks like Sonic's not the only one who will be powered up in the battle." Richard smirked. "Oh, and Ares?"

"Yes?"

Richard then threw a hard right hook into Are's face, which knocked him to the right, and that made him hold his cheek which was red where the fist connected with the flesh, and the look of Are's face proved that it hurt him.

"That's for not asking me to summon you. Now we're even for what you did." Richard said.

Ares smiled, and then stood back straight up.

"Guess I had to get that some time soon, after what I did. I did hurt you when I shouldn't." Ares replied.

"Good. Now back to being friends again?" Richard asked.

"You got it."

Richard then concentrated on Ares, which was then engulfed in a red pillar of light, which shrunk into the size of a pencil, and then flew right into the centre of Richard's forehead, which sucked the light in, indicating that Ares is returning to Richard's mindscape.

By the time the light was absorbed into Richard, a purple portal appeared beside the heroes, and they went back to White Space.

Current Music: White Space Medley (Sonic Generations)

After the heroes went back through the Boss Gate, the Teal Chaos Emerald fell into Richard's hand, and he pocketed it.

"That's all 7 Chaos Emeralds." Richard stated. "Now I can show you why we needed all 7 of them to progress."

Richard moved forward, and they were soon met by a set of charcoal-black and ancient platforms, with 7 giant gears made out of gold, each being shattered into many pieces, which were all floating, and having a circular slot in the middle of each one. To the right was a portal so large that it could fit a entire battleship. Unfortunately, it is inactivated and dormant.

"That's the way to the Time Eater's lair." Richard said. "All we need to do is get the portal to work, and we can fight the Time Eater and save the world."

"Then what are we waiting for?" Toni asked with a grin. "We don't have any fun waiting."

Toni was about to run, but Richard grabbed one of his back quills, stopping him.

"Woah there, hotshot." Richard goaded. "You can't just rush in. If you ran, you would just hit the stone wall. You see, those broken gears are used to power up the portal to his lair, but unfortunately, he was smart enough to break them up, and only great amounts of energy would be able to make them whole again. That's what the Emeralds are for."

"But wouldn't we lose the Emeralds? We need them for the battle." Modern Tails asked, confused at what Richard is planning to do.

"No it won't. Watch." Richard simply said.

He then pulled out the 7 Chaos Emeralds that they collected, and they suddenly left Richard's hand, as if a invisible force is attracting them to the gears, and they each slotted into each gear, and clanking noises were heard as the pieces were pulled back together, and they whirred to life as soon as all the gears are repaired, and they turned to rotate the crystal powering up the portal, and the rotation became faster and faster, until the purple and dark portal came to life with a loud roar. The Chaos Emeralds then detached from the gears, and flew back into Richard's hand.

"The doors are open. It's time for the final battle for this world." Richard intoned, as if speaking a sacred passage.

The group stood up to the platform that was on the center of the portal's base, and before they went in, Richard turned to them.

"Once we are in here, we can no longer return to here, unless we either win or lose this battle." Richard said. "Are you sure you all are prepared for this?"

The entire group nodded.

"Then it's time. We're going to defeat the Time Eater, once and for all!" Richard said.

The group then jumped into the portal as one, and they disappeared in the purple and murky darkness.

Current Music: Time Eater Battle (Sonic Generations)

When the heroes landed on the other side of the portal, they were in a area where there was only a cliff, and the entire sky was purple, with clcok symbols everywhere in the air, and the sound of clocks ticking and tocking rand through the area.

They then saw the Time Eater, who is in a different form, having its ghastly face, and a core right in the centre of its body, and having four hands made of darkness with crystals acting as the fingers of each hand. It wiggled the fingers of its hands, as the heroes approached it.

"Alright, whoever you are, give up now, or you're in it for a beating!" Sonic boasted.

Suddenly, the top of Time Eater's head opened to show Eggman shaking his fist.

"You're in no position to demand anything from me, you nasty little pincushion!" Eggman retorted back.

When the entire group was surprised that Eggman was the one piloting Time Eater, Modern Sonic facepalmmed himself for not figuring it out earlier.

"Eggman? But how?" Sonic asked.

Suddenly, another spot on the Time Eater's head opened, to reveal a second cockpit, showing the Classic Eggman.

"He had a little help, from his past self, isn't that right, Mr Eggman of the Future." Classic Eggman sneered.

"Certainly, Mr Eggman of the Past. You see, after I was defeated by you, the annoying hedgehog, I met the most primidorial form of this being, and learnt from research that this machine is capable of erasing time and space, something I cannot master. If I could use it, then all the past defeats will be nothing as I change the past where I win all the time! But in order to perfect, I needed someone to possess the same genius intelligence as me, and that is me from the past! I was the one who flung your friend across time and space, and I was surprised that I sucked up more people than I anticipated, but at least I would have something to bait you all to me!" Modern Eggman explained to the heroes.

"You've gone utterly insane from all the defeats, Eggman!" Richard exclaimed in anger. "Not even you would have such a heart to destroy time and space with this abomination! If you keep trying to change time and space, this universe will collapse from itself, and there won't be a universe for you to even rule!"

"Ho ho ho... Isn't that stupid..." Modern Eggman giggled. "I would've never have done this, but I've grown tired of all of this. If I can't have the universe, THEN I'LL DESTROY IT SO THAT NO-ONE HAS IT, AND SONIC IS ALL DEAD AND GONE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

At that moment, Richard saw that Modern Eggman was radiating a dark purple aura, and Classic Eggman soon laughed alongside him, and the aura also radiated around him.

"And now, it's time to crush the hedgehogs, and since there's 4 of them, I'm going have QUADRUPLE times the fun annihilating you all one by one! And you, puny boy, when I'm done with the hedgehogs, I'll beat you dead, and throw your body to float in the timeless void forever! Now DIE!"

The cockpits on Time Eater's head closed, and balls of dark energy began to appear in each of its hand, and it throw ball after ball of dark energy balls at the heroes, forcing them to seperate. The group were targeted by the Time Eaters, and the situation was getting more hopeless by the second, but then, Richard grabbed the Chaos Emerald, and threw them at Toni and the three Sonics

"Catch!" Richard yelled, and both Sonics did just that.

When they touched the Emeralds, they suddenly began to form a circle around the two heroes, and they began to spin around the two Sonics, spinning faster and faster, until a flash of light engulfed everything within the circle, and the light vanished to show them in their golden Super Forms, with Toni now having the Golden Kinght Armour, and having Excalibur in his back sheath, and the Emeralds then flew right back into Richard's hands.

"Now go and get them, Sonics and Toni! Finish the Eggmans once and for all!" Richard cried out joyously.

Modern Eggman saw what happened, and he then thumped the panel.

"Damn that boy! But not even Super Sonic will defeat us, now that we have space and time in our hands!" He fumed.

The Time Eater then entered a purple portal, and the Super Sonics and Toni followed.

Richard and Younger Richard could only look at the open portal.

"Guess it's all up to them. We can;t fight midair." Richard said.

"I'm scared..." Younger Richard said, beginning to shake in fear. "This world is scary... I really don't like this place at all... And that machine looks so strong that those Sonics could lose..."

Richard then crouched down, and surprised Younger Richard with a hug.

"No... They'll win. That's what happens everytime Sonic fights Eggman. We may not be able to fight him with Sonic, but the Sonics are strong enough. Be strong, young me. After all, we''re braver than this." Richard comforted.

Current Music: Time Eater Battle (Sonic Generations)

When the heroes landed on the other side of the portal, they were in a area where there was only a cliff, and the entire sky was purple, with clock symbols everywhere in the air, and the sound of clocks ticking and tocking rand through the area.

"Alright, whoever you are, give up now, or you're in it for a beating!" Sonic boasted.

Suddenly, the top of Time Eater's head opened to show Eggman shaking his fist.

"You're in no position to demand anything from me, you nasty little pincushion!" Eggman retorted back.

When the entire group was surprised that Eggman was the one piloting Time Eater, Modern Sonic facepalmed himself for not figuring it out earlier.