A Timely Arrival! Part 1

Robotnik was hopping mad as Sonic the Hedgehog kept piling up all of the scrap robot parts that he had defeated that week right in front of Robotnik. "Sonic the Hedgehog is piling up all of my robots that he trashed!"

Sonic snickered. "How metallically ironic," He poured the last load and dumped it from his red wheelbarrow. "I'm into recycling!"

Robotnik started to pick up the pieces and grumble. "That blue-blooded do-gooder foils my evil schemes every time! Time after time…" He crushed a bot's remains in his hands. After TIME!" Then an idea came to him. "Hmmm…"

"Gotta Juice, Lord Lard!" Sonic mocked as he left. He turned his head only as he heard the maniacal tyrant start to laugh like a mad man.

"Gadzooks! What an idea! A Time Machine!" Robotnik laughed insanely as Sonic sped off towards the Great Forest.

"I bust up his 'bots, and he laughs! There's a fine line between comedy and tragedy!" Sonic zoomed through the forest to the secret entrance of a tree stump and jumped in, only to end up at the headquarters of the Freedom Fighters where Tails was waiting for him. "Hiya, Tails! Where's the rest of the Freedom Fighters?"

Tails started to fly, leading his friend down the cavernous halls. "Princess Sally wants to show us something on television, come on!"

"How does he do that tail thing?" Sonic wondered curiously as he followed.

When they came upon Princess Sally's room, they found Sally was crying as she watched the monitor while Collin was holding a tissue box. He was wearing his green cloak, but this one was made of stronger fabric than his usual one, and he didn't have the hood up for once, so one could see him rolling his eyes as the princess cried. "Oh, the gut-wrenching tragedy!" She sobbed as she took another tissue. "The mega-heartache!"

"Oh puh-lease!" Collin groaned.

Sonic looked a bit concerned. "Wow! Something horrible must be happening!"

"Nah…" Tails assured him. "She's watching her soap opera!"

"Look, will you calm down if I tell you that the two of them will likely get back together before the next big calamity? It's a show!" Collin grumbled while wiping away one of his own silent tears. It was a moving piece though, he had to admit. He secretly agreed with the princess, but he had to show his tougher side around the children, he felt.

"Are you sure, Collin? I… OH, hi, Sonic!" Sally blushed as she noticed Sonic and Tails snickering at the doorway. "I…er… was just about to turn on the news!" She hit a button and turned on Robotnik's news from Robotnik Belly-Vision studio.

"Suuuuuure you were!" Sonic smirked.

"Good day!" came the robot on the television. "Our lumpy leader, Ivo Robotnik, has just unveiled his latest invention…" A screen came up from behind. "The mobile monster chainsaw!"

Collin closed his eyes as he tried to calm himself down. Sonic placed a hand over Tails eyes as Robotnik demonstrated the horrible machine, and the princess gasped! "Watch how easily it mows down the Great Forest! It Wood clear fifty acres per minute!" The fat man snickered.

"OMIGOSH! Don't look, kid!" Sonic gulped as he saw a good portion of trees cut down so carelessly.

"And now… the weather…" The robot was back on the screen.

Sonic growled as he got into a spin dash. "I already know what the temperature is…" He jumped. "My boiling point!"

"Sonic…" Sally turned towards him. "WAIT!"

"Too late!" Tails cried out. "Big blue is bright red!"

Sally was startled as she looked up at the hole Sonic had just made. "Wow! Sonic's so hot, he burned a hole to the surface!"

"Robotnik pushed him over the edge!"

Collin finally opened his own eyes, which were darker than his usual sky blue, and glared. "Yeah, and ten to one says that's what the fat man wants." He sighed as his vision went back to normal.

"Hey, Collin?"

"Yes, Tails?"

"You call him Julian Kintobor, but he calls himself Ivo Robotnik…"

"So?"

"Who's right? What is his real name?"

Collin shrugged. "At this point? They both are."

Seconds later with Sonic and Robotnik…

"That's the last tree you cut, Blubberbutt!" Sonic yelled as he landed next to the machine as Robotnik drove it.

"What?" Robotnik pretended that he couldn't hear the enraged hedgehog.

"You heard me, 10-W-40 breath! Now come down here and take your punishment like a man!" As though the fat man ever did.

"Still can't hear you!" The fat man shouted over the sound of the chainsaw blade. "Come closer…" Sonic did just that. "A little bit more…" Robotnik smiled. "HAW!" He flipped a switch and suddenly, Sonic was being vaporized by a green energy that was pulling him back in time! "The chainsaw is only a decoy to lure you into the range of my time teleporter!"

"WHOA!" Sonic shouted as he was pulled in! "Yeow! I'm having one of those 'I've been here before' experiences!" Sonic landed in a desert like land with a PLUNK! "Oof! Where am I?" Sonic sat up and rubbed his head. A shadow had cast itself on him. "Who turned out the lights? What time is it?"

Before he could react, a pterodactyl had scooped him up! "To answer your questions: You're in prehistoric Mobius! I turned out the lights, and finally," The dinosaur licked its lips. "It's dinnertime!"

"Holey smokes! A Pterodon!"

In the present with Collin, we find him suddenly stop and frown. Sally looks at him with concern as they try to figure out how to get Sonic back. "What's wrong?"

"I have a funny feeling I should correct Sonic about dinosaurs of all things!" Collin grumbled as he double checked his tool kit before leaving. "It's probably nothing…"

"No way you're chowing on my pork chops, Leather-wings!" Sonic shouts as he does a Sonic Spin, managing to cut the claws a bit of the Pterodactyl. Then he notices that once again, he's acted without thinking as he finds himself falling into the mouth of a Tyrannosaurus Rex! "Uh-oh! This big lizard thinks I'm the remedy for his saur throat!"

"Nice of you to drop in!" The king of dinosaurs laughed.

Part 2

Sonic started to spin in the mouth of the dinosaur, having learned a few tricks since he had encountered the Universalamander, so teaching its ancestor a lesson wasn't going to be as hard. "Sonic the hedgehog is not about to go down in history as a DINO-SNACK!" He broke all of the T-rex's teeth with a ricochet of a spin attack, allowing him to escape. "I hope your medical insurance covers dental!"

Sonic zoomed away only to run into one of the strangest things he had ever seen! "Nice work, cuz!"

Sonic gasped. "HOLY EVOLUTION! Who are you?"

"Ice age out! I'm Sonugh the Boghog!" Sonic was looking at one of his ancestors after the days of fire that had supposedly created their world! It was another version of Sonic, but with no shoes, and a long white beard!

"Boghog? Don't you mean Hedgehog?!"

Sonugh shrugged. "Never heard of a hedge, kiddo! There ain't nothin' around here except volcanoes and BOGS!" Sonugh indicated for Sonic to follow. "C'mon!" He started running super fast, just like Sonic! "I'll show you… if you can keep up!" Same attitude also.

"WOW! He accelerated as fast as I did!... Relatively speaking!"

As the two were running and talking, they were unaware of the danger they were being watched! "What's this? Two Sonugh the Boghogs?" The shadow scratched his large orange beard. "Or maybe I need to invent bifocals!" It grumbled as it went behind a primitive catapult to reveal a large fat man with a recognizable mustache and large orange beard in a red skin toga. "It wouldn't matter if there were a hundred of them…" He got ready to pull the rope. "For I, the wicked and evil IVO ROBOGHNIK, will destroy all boghogs with my primitive machine!" … at least… he knows it's primitive? "Stand by to Fire on my command!" He ordered no one in particular as he held a hat with stars on his head. He then switched over to a hat with a private's mark on it. "Your spoken word is Law, oh Imperial Wide Load!" Roboghnik then groaned. "This will be more fun when I get to invent robot slaves in 40,000 centuries!" Does he think he'll live that long or…

With the sound of a twang, a large boulder was flying high and fast over towards the speeding Hedgehog and Boghog! The two were unaware of this. "No kidding? There's a power-crazed caveman named Robughnik?! Amazing!"

"You'll find many things fascinating here, Cousin!"

The two just happened to stop under where the boulder was about to smash them. "Hmmm…" Sonic noticed how dark it suddenly was over them. "You mean like how early it gets Dark?"

"That's not NIGHT… it's… uh-oh!" Sonugh looked up and saw the boulder just as it was about to smash the duo!

With a large THUD, the blue speedsters were gone! "Tra-la-la-dee doo Dyeee…. The boghogs have gone goodbye!" Robughnik danced and sang while snapping his fingers. He was truly happy to believe he had been victorious!

At that moment, 400,000 years later…

Robotnik was doing the same thing! Unfortunately for the happy tyrant, a Crabmeat bot saw him. "Robotnik! Singing! Dancing! Smiling!"

Robotnik quickly spun around. "Ahem!" He cleared his throat. "Crabmeat… you will forget everything you just saw!"

"OH, how can I? You broke your own rules! It's forever etched in my memory!"

Robotnik shrugged and smashed the bot under his foot. "Very well… let's do it the easy way…" He then turned his attention to a swatbot that was nearing him. "Are we all set out there, Swatbot?"

"Affirmative, oh Oval Ogre!"

"I shall cut the ribbon and open the display of my time machine!" The tyrant proclaimed proudly as he held the ceremonial scissors in his hand in front of the machine that had gotten rid of the pesky hedgehog. "Where's the crowd?"

"They went for a keg of 10-W-40…HEY!" The swatbot heard something as he turned. "Did you hear something?" Coming up to face them was the Freedom Fighters, led by Princess Sally! Collin came skating forward with his Hedgehog like sports gear, Rotor had his tools, Antoine carried his father's sword, Bunnie came marching forward with her bionic half fully ready to break bots, Tails flying right behind the group, and Sally carrying the flag of her kingdom. "DANGER-Danger! A surprise attack by the Freedom Fighters!"

"CHARGE!" Sally cried out as the group came to capture the time machine.

"EGAD!" Robotnik shrieked as he realized something. "I can't escape…" He looked down at the scissors in hand. "Mother told me NEVER to run with scissors!" His mother was the only one he truly feared and or respected.

"Forward for SONIC… and our cause!" Tails called out as they went into the fray.

Back with Sonic in the B.C. eras…

"Must you *cough cough* always get yourself into *cough cough* trouble, Sonugh?" Sonic found himself looking at an ancient version of his cousin who was apparently younger than Sonugh, as he had no beard yet, just some light whiskers starting to grow, and his hair was even spikier than Collin's. He wore an outfit made out of banana leaves and his sharp nose was even sharper than Collin's as well! The poor fellow kept coughing horribly though. He had pulled the two speedsters down underground via a secret passage that they hadn't been aware of, barely managing to get them deep enough to avoid the boulder.

"Sonic, meet our medicine man, and all around worry wort optimist, Coughin! He's had that nasty cough since Robughnik tried to drown him in tar." Sonugh snickered as he picked himself up. "Since then, he's been helping us out."

"Whoa." Sonic didn't know what to think about that.

"You do know that optimist means you look on the bright side, right?" Coughin looked him over with a critical eye. "I'll go get the others." With that, he walked off.

"Don't mind him, he's usually pretty nice." Sonugh started running again. "Follow me, last one there is a rotten velociraptor egg!"

"YUK!" Sonic started after his ancestor. "HEY, Last one where?"

Soon…

"Won't you stay for dinner, Sonic?" Sonugh asked as he turned a large egg over a fire on a spit.

Sonic eyed it suspiciously, noting the rotten smell. "Unhhh…. What are you having?"

"I told you… Rotten velociraptor egg!" Sonic made a face. The sound of coughing brought the two's attention to the door. "Hey, look who dropped by! My friends the Freedom Fighters!"

"HI!" The gang shouted, save for Coughin. He just waived.

'Whoa! Déjà vu Deluxe!' Sonic found himself looking at versions of his friends in caveman attire. Sonic then had an idea. "Hey, why doesn't the whole group of us go outside and spin for some Take-out!" This caused all but Sonugh and Coughin to shriek and start clutching eachother as they trembled worse than Antoine!

Coughin merely shrugged. "I could go for a trip to Bedrock. *cough cough* I hear they got some good *cough cough* Brontosaurus Ribs there."

Sonugh on the other hand took his descendent aside to explain things. "Easy on the 'Outside', Sonic! We don't go 'there' save for when Coughin needs his herbs. In fact, we're planning on burrowing further underground!"

"WHAT?" Sonic was shocked as he thought about this. "You can't do that! You are my ancestor! You've gotta live on the surface…" He started waiving his hands crazily to try and explain. "In the sunshine and fresh air…" He took a deep breath as his last panicked thought came in. "Otherwise, I'll evolve into Sonic the Mole!"

This caused Coughin to sputter between a cough and a laugh. Sonugh on the other hand tried to reason with his descendent. "But it's dangerous up there! Dinosaurs! Robughnik!"

"You'll adapt! Use your brains! Hide in the Hedges!" Sonic countered.

"The what?!" Sal-ugh asked curiously as she had no clue what the hedgehog was talking about.

"Oh, that's right…" Sonic scowled. "You don't have hedges yet!" Then he had an idea. He grabbed Sal-ugh and pulled her along. "Allow me to show you, Sal-ugh!"

"WAIT!" Sonugh called as he and the others followed.

"Where are you going?" Tails' ancestor asked as they followed.

On the surface, Coughin was helping Sonic with a bush as they showed Sal-ugh. "See, you dig up these bushes and replant them in a row…" Sonic explained while Coughin dug around his dinosaur skin sack and pulled out some prehistoric scissors. "Trim'em up and add the two level effect!"

"Land sakes!" Sal-ugh gasped.

"Don't you mean Land-scape?" Sonugh chuckled.

After a few minutes, the other Freedom Fighters were playing around the area as they planted more shrubs and bushes. Sonugh looked at them as Coughin was sitting on the edge of where the others were playing, and gave a small smirk. "Gee, they do seem happier and more free out here!"

Sonic nodded. "Sure! Some day you'll thank me for this, Great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandpa!"

"Here, Sonic." Coughin came up to the duo and handed the hedgehog something. "If you find a descendent of mine, give them that. Hopefully, it'll help them." It was the longest he had gone without coughing in a while.

"Um, thanks, Coughin." Sonic smirked as he took the little bag in hand.

"We'll do it!" Sonugh suddenly said. "Like you said, adapt! Use our Grains!"

Coughin gives a roll of his eyes and glares slightly. "That's Brains, Sonugh!"

Suddenly, Sonic started to fade again. "WHOA!" He found himself going back through the timestream! "Yee-ha! I'm white-water rafting down the timestream!" Sonic landed flat on his face. "WHOOF! I gotta get a new agent, these flights are killing me." He groggily sat up, with the help of a hand on his quills. "Sally! Tails! Rotor! Antoine!" Then he looked up to his cousin with a smirk. "Collin…heh…" He looked back to them. "How did I get back here?"

"The Freedom Fighters raided Robotnik's headquarters!" Tails exclaimed.

Sally smiled. "We swiped his time machine, and brought you home!"

"Collin and I managed to lock onto you and pull you back, but the machine's core parts melted now, so we got lucky." Rotor explain.

Back in the stone age…

Sonugh was groaning as he and the other Freedom Fighters of the Stone Age started to set up the bushes just as Sal-ugh asked.

In the present, later that night…

Collin was looking at the item that his ancestor had given Sonic for him. He smirked as he planted the seeds in a couple of pots in his room after identifying them. "Shame I didn't get to meet this Coughin fellow. He just saved an entire two species of flowers by giving us the seeds for them." One of the plants was labeled "Acceleratia Flower: Fast growing flower, supposedly source of Sonugh's speed and all around natural healing flower for pains" and "Duecendium Flower: Stubborn flower that is known for helping drain one of poison/ antidote flower for most poisons" These two plants were going to be very useful, or at least an interesting addition to Collin's underground greenhouse.