Author's Note: With Sonic Central having come and gone, with new announcements of the Sonic Colours: Ultimate remaster coming out, plus it's new animated two-part mini series Sonic Colours: Rise of the Wisps, new footage of next year's Sonic game, and re-confirming Sonic Prime, as we wait for what Sega will reveal this month at this year's E3 online event, here's a new chapter of Sonic's Space-Time Adventure, and I think we're finally getting close to the ending.

Let's do it to it!

I do not own Sonic The Hedgehog. All rights belong to Sega. I only own the OCs.


Chapter 19: Further Truths.

Half an hour, or what it seemed like half an hour since time didn't flow here, after Sonic, Young Sonic and Sun returned and reunited with their friends, they explained what happened in the past fragment of Spagonia including fighting Kaiser, the Sol Emeralds showing the three hedgehogs Scourge's memories, and even informed of how the Werehog-Beast had been feeding off from the evil green hedgehog's negative emotions and energy to the point of actually swallowing him up, with Sonic himself the giant monster to swallow him whole as well, the hero of Mobius using Chaos Control to save himself and the Terror of Moebius, and the defeat of the beast, and the seventeen year old's gratitude despite his warning.

All the while, everyone else were horrified on what has happened, that Tails, Amy, Cream and Cheese, Chris, and even Red huddled up around Sonic as though they didn't want him to do something like that again, and personally, he didn't want to do either. Young Sonic, Young Amy and Young Tails gathered around him as well.

"Sonic, you're the craziest guy I've ever met! I can't believe you let yourself to get eaten by the Werehog to save Scourge!" Knuckles scolded in a mixture of anger and panic. "Don't you remember how you were attempting to avoid it!?"

"Believe me, Knux, I didn't wanna do it, but what choice did I have? Besides, I promised Red, and I can't get through Scourge's head if he's eaten. It was luck that I had the Chaos Emeralds with me, and I won't go through that again if I can help it." Sonic quickly tried to reassure his friend.

"Yeah, but you shouldn't go and keep on doing that, Sonic! You could've died!" Tails pointed out, clinging onto his big brother's arm.

The sixteen year old hedgehog sighed, feeling guilty for making his friends fear they would never see him again, and really, he finally conquered his own fears but now ended up making everyone he loved paranoid. He hadn't meant to make them worried, and he only hoped that they can pull this through, talk sense into Scourge and put everything back to normal.

He sighed and pulled his friends that surrounded him closer while apologizing. "I'm sorry, guys. Didn't mean to make you worried this badly. Look, I know that saving Scourge is also a mistake, but I promised Red and I never break my promises. I know that we'll have to face him again, but I can't let him end up the Prison of Evil. He's not fully pure evil. Deep down, all he wants his to have his life back."

"That doesn't excuse him for doing all of the rotten stuff!" Vector grumbled.

"I never said it did!" Sonic pointed out, guilt growing over the mess he made. "Look, everything Scourge's doing now is not only making him even more dangerous for the sake of Fiona, but also that Cormain is using him, and I got a bad feeling that he'll do to Scourge what the Werehog tried to do to Sun and me. I'm sorry that I messed up, but I didn't have a choice."

"It would have been easier if you didn't let Scourge escape." Shadow said firmly and sharply, which made the younger hedgehog wince visibly before the teenager lowered his gaze. "But no, you had to let him go after saving his life, and even though he is a pawn to Cormain's plans, he's still a threat. He almost turned you and your younger self into robots! You have only kept up the threat of the most dangerous enemy we have ever faced!"

The sixteen year old closed his eyes in shame as his guilt now increased like a giant sword stabbing him straight through his entire body. The Ultimate Lifeform was right. Despite that Scourge didn't get the Sol Emeralds or the Chaos Emeralds, the realization of not bringing Scourge over to capture him and try and have him see Red made things worse and that Sonic had brought everyone right back to square one.

"Hate to say it, big blue, but they have a point." Rouge agreed, folding her arms in disappointment, which made things only worse.

"I'm sorry..." Sonic muttered, biting his lip while unable to bear in looking at everyone he loved, now unable to bear the new guilt he just cast. He couldn't look up, he couldn't stare at everyone's angry glares, knowing that he made things worse. He couldn't blame them for being furious, but...

What if this is where he would lose them forever? What would he do?

"On the other hand, you wouldn't have done that if we weren't stuck here in the first place." She continued, as, unbeknownst to the upset and guilt-ridden birthday boy, the white bat felt bad when she saw he was on the verge of being rendered back to five months ago in their world and time, which part of quivering and maybe even crying was started by Shadow, Vector and Knuckles.

But Sonic didn't listen, feeling horrible and his heart ached, not seeing that Tails, Amy, Chris, Cream and Cheese, Red, Sun, Charmy, Big who was very worried for the blue hedgehog, Young Sonic, Young Tails, Young Amy, and even Knuckles, who sighed as he realized his own mistake, Espio, Vector who rubbed the back of his head feeling guilty for upsetting the cobalt teenager, Silver, Blaze and especially the heavily guilt-ridden Kintobor who looked away in shame much worse than what Sonic was going through, gazing at their friend and family member with complete worries and began fearing that he was being rendered to how he blamed himself for the Dark Gaia incident, all of their hard work in helping him recover being reduced to nothing.

Amy, rendered into tears to see her boyfriend, who had finally started to show her how much he loved her, was beginning to go right back into feeling like he was about to lose everyone, on his birthday when it was supposed to be the happiest day of his life, then growled in anger over the blame-game when she knew that it wasn't his fault and they still had a chance. The thirteen year old pink hedgehog then turned to those who had the nerve to be angry with Sonic and stood up, glaring at Shadow, Rouge, Vector, Knuckles and even Espio who all flinched upon seeing her eyes flare up in a mixture of tears and fire.

"RRAAAAGGGHHH!" Amy growled, summoning her Piko Hammer and even before Shadow could dodge the attack, she raised her weapon as the five all flinched, sweat dropped and cried out in fear, and smacked them all to the ground to hard that they screamed in pain, their faces flat on the white floor.

Everybody else, even Sonic who, struggling not to cry again like a big baby and hearing his self-proclaimed girlfriend's scream of anger and had looked up flinching in fear and guilt, believing at first she was about to attack him, all stared at the livid pink hedgehog in fear over her rage, everyone sweat dropping with their eyes widened. Even Young Amy was shocked to see her older, alternate-self behave like this and wondered if she would end up the same way.

"Oh my..." Kintobor muttered, quivering in far at the young pink hedgehog.

"Uh...okay..." Blaze blinked, uneasy herself.

"She's scarier than I thought." Silver whispered, leaning back a little.

"You all have the nerve to blame Sonic for something that wasn't his fault, and scold him for being the hero despite the risks! Now you made him go back to how he was with the whole Dark Gaia thing! Everything he's been doing, risking his life for all of us ever since this started, and this is the thanks he gets from the five of you!? On his birthday of all days!? Especially you, Shadow! You should be thinking of how he almost died ever since we got here, and that he, the other Sonic and Sun found that that even Scourge was being used!" Amy shouted furiously.

"...Ugh...Hey, I just said that Sonic wouldn't have done all of this if we weren't stuck here, I didn't say that it was his fault and I feel bad for upsetting big blue." Rouge winced, standing up while gently covering the bump on her head. Knuckles, Vector, Shadow and Espio did the same, all groaning.

"You're forgiven for now, Rouge." Amy replied, before glaring at the other four Mobians who flinched in fear. "But you all! How dare you upset Sonic like this!?"

Shadow sighed explosively, not only in pain and seeing the pink hedgehog's wrath, but also seeing the ghostly past of Sonic's guilt-ridden self from five months ago begin to return, and realized that he should at least be grateful that while letting Scourge go without taking him sooner was a slip, it was just a minor slip on Sonic's part considering how they all had twelve emeralds with two more to find, and the evil hedgehog and Robotnik had none. It wasn't Sonic's fault that they were all stuck in this mess. He just had to take the burden of saving them all with the aid of Young Sonic, who had just began his first year as a hero, which was taking a toll on both of them.

"Amy..." Sonic began, now fearing that, while was shocked that his 'girlfriend' was standing up for him and felt some relief, that everyone was going to fight each other over his stupidity.

Knuckles, feeling horrible for unintentionally for reversing his own work in trying to cheer Sonic up only for it to be back-fired, gazed at his friend's tearful expression which made him feel incredibly guilty, sensing that the sixteen year old was now beginning to once again fear that he would be all alone due to a slight mistake that can be fixed, and his own fears of losing the blue hedgehog who over time had become one of his best friends.

"I can understand Knuckles, Vector and Shadow for their mistakes in blaming Sonic when we still have a chance, regards to Scourge's life in danger and unknowingly being Cormain's puppet, but what did I do?" Espio asked the pink hedgehog, only to flinch in fear.

"You still looked at him disapprovingly." Tails answered, glaring at the purple chameleon, folding his arms. "Sonic's doing his best, and even if he did bring Scourge with us, even with Red with us, I don't think now's the right time to talk sense into him. In order for Red to talk sense into his big brother, Sonic would have to defeat him first, because if he didn't and brought him here, Scourge would've taken us down or knock Sonic and Silver into losing the Sol Emeralds we still have, even the Chaos Emeralds. He could have easily thought ahead, and the Time Eater would come and get us."

Sonic softly gasped, not having thought of that either. His eyes widened at his little brother's explanation, realizing that he was right. In his self-blame for letting Scourge go, he didn't think that the Time Eater could still attack and make everyone lose the Emeralds to Scourge who would then have the chance to steal them and then they had less of an advantage. In fact, he pictured it in his mind and shuddered.

"Yeah, good point." Vector muttered guitily, rubbing his head as he felt bad for accidentally hurting Sonic's feelings. While he had been jealous over the teenager's herosim, he came to respect the blue hedgehog as an ally and a friend.

"I'm sorry." Espio muttered, closing his eyes as he didn't even realize his disappointed expression had hurt the hero of Mobius.

Shadow, realizing that Tails had an excellent point, lowered his gaze for berating Sonic when what the two-tailed fox cub had sense actually made a lot more sense and that letting Scourge go for now was surprisingly also a wise decision, admittedly feeling bad for snapping at him.

"That was very mean of you to hurt Mr. Sonic and blame him, Mr. Shadow!" Cream angrily added, tears forming in her eyes as well, surprising the black hedgehog who's eyes widened, never having seen the little girl yell like that before. "You should be ashamed!"

"It wasn't very nice at all. Sonic's our friend." Big agreed, sniffling while Froggy croaked.

"Big, girls, come on. Don't cry." Sonic muttered trying to get Amy and Cream to calm down, seeing his larger friend also rendered into tears. He felt bad enough for both girls trying hard not to cry as it is.

"You know Shadow, they have a really great point here." Sun folded his arms with a frown, more than a little angry despite his respect for the Ultimate Lifeform.

"That's right. How could you yell at him like that?" Chris added.

"I get your point...!" Shadow hissed, trying to keep his temper in check, placing his hand over his face, feeling bad for his overreaction. Despite being able to hold back the weakness of emotions for a long time, and being respected rivals with the younger hedgehog, the fact that Sonic didn't mess up after all made him feel worse.

Sighing, the black hedgehog approached the huddled up group and lowered his head, bowing to Sonic who blinked in shock at the sudden respect and remorse.

"Sonic, I deeply apologize for my anger towards your actions. Tails is correct over your decision and...I regrettably didn't think over that course should you have brought Scourge sooner which would have been a mistake." Shadow says, his eyes closed.

"I'm sorry, too." Knuckles added, approaching as he placed a hand onto Sonic's shoulder to comfort him. "I told you before three months ago, I wouldn't forgive myself if anything happened to you."

"Yeah, I'm sorry for yelling too." Vector said as he and Espio approached as well.

"As am I." Espio agreed.

"Don't blame yourself, big blue. None of us meant to have hurt your feelings." Rouge added, smiling softly. Then she gazed at the four male Mobians. "Then again, they're the ones who started it."

The next thing Knuckles, Shadow, Espio and Vector knew, the bat thief whacked them hard on the head as well, prompting all four of them to cry out in pain and once again fall onto the ground. They all groaned while almost everyone else sweat dropped once more.

"That's for me agreeing to your stupid points." The white bat informed them, as the four males that now had two bumps each on their heads glared up at her and Amy who smiled smugly.

"It's okay, Sonic. It wasn't your fault. Like I said, it would've been worse if you did bring Scourge with you guys, but you didn't." Tails informed his best friend/big brother who smiled softly at him. Young Tails, Young Sonic and Young Amy, who all looked at each other, nodded in agreement.

"Yes, Scourge is known for thinking ahead, and if I know him, he would have used the opportunity and with his strength, he wouldn't believe that Red is still alive." Blaze agreed.

"He isn't scientifically smart, but he is smart enough to think ahead." Silver added.

"I don't like the idea of you and my big brother fighting, Sonic, but I hate to admit it, beating him is the only way, right?" Red said, a little tearful himself and feeling just as worse for telling Scourge about the Sol Emeralds in the first place, feeling like the whole thing was his own fault for unknowingly helping Finitevus and Cormain for using the green hedgehog for their evil ways.

"Yeah..." The sixteen year old hedgehog nodded a little, still feeling a bit unsettled despite the comfort he was receiving. He was about to rub his right arm with his left hand when he felt his girlfriend gently take it, making the hero of Mobius look at her in surprise, then at Tails when he felt the two-tailed fox hug him warmly, joined by Cream and Cheese who cooed sympathetically, Chris, Red, even Charmy who was bawling his eyes out, Sun who rubbed the blue hedgehog's back, Young Sonic, Young Tails and Young Amy.

"Sonic, we all want to stay with you forever, no matter what happens." Amy reassured him, joining in on the embrace, along with Big who for once didn't pick them up to accidentally squish them.

"We're sorry that we couldn't help you, big bro. What you did now saved Scourge and stopped him and Robotnik from getting the Emeralds we still have. You didn't make any mistakes at all." Tails reassured his older brother.

Seeing and realizing that no one was going to abandon him or blame him, and that he didn't make things worse after all, all feelings of guilt began to ease and the truth that they want to stay by his side for the rest of their lives, and he made the right choice after all, it was almost like a dream. Sonic smiled emotionally then happily tried to bring them all closer, the now misplaced guilt vanishing and to everyone's relief, the ghost of his guilt-ridden self from the Dark Gaia incident disappeared, placed by the blue hedgehog they knew and loved, one who became happier after the previous adventures involving the Wisps, and others up until now.

"Aw, guys! Remind me to make our Christmas Party the best ever. Thank you!" Sonic exclaimed. "Having all of you as my friends and family is the best gift I could ever ask for. I love you."

"We love you too, Mr. Sonic." Cream said happily, and everyone hugging the hero of Mobius agreed.

It had been Sonic who made their lives much more better, and in turn, they had made his life much better too. He never asked much in return, just always happy to be with them despite liking his privacy from time to time. But they all did. They were all family.

"And Knuckles, Vector, Espio, Shadow..." Sonic began, making his other three friends and rival glance up at him as he smiled. "I'm not gonna hold a grudge on ya's."

While the other three nodded, Shadow sighed, knowing that Sonic was always the forgiving type of guy, the black hedgehog still somewhat guilty for misplacing the blame on the young hero, then knew that despite the actions of Finitevus and Cormain used Scourge, it would still have been avoided if the green hedgehog didn't cause so much trouble...or the fact that the Sol Emeralds were involved in the first place.

"It's fine." He muttered, before turning around to now cast his glare at Kintobor who looked back looking somewhat relieved to see Sonic recovered, still looking guilty and flinched when the black hedgehog grunted. "But you...!"

When the kind human scientist gazed at the Ultimate Lifeform, while everyone else looked up to see him now looking livid at the good-alternate self of Eggman and Robotnik, no one expected Shadow to suddenly go up and punched Kintobor right into the stomach, causing the man to scream in agony and fall into the ground hard, making everyone else gasp in shock.

"Ovi!" Red cried out in horror.

"What are you doing, Shadow!?" Silver demanded, glaring at the black hedgehog as he and Blaze hurried over to see if their friend was alright, helping him to sit up as the man grunted in pain.

Shadow didn't reply to the silver hedgehog's demand, and instead glared at Kintobor who placed an arm around his waist, wincing while Sonic and everyone else stared in shock. "This is your fault as well, Dr. Kintobor. If you haven't been attempting to use the Sol Emeralds just to rid your world of evil, none of this would have happened. Also, you have failed to keep Maurice safe and prevent him from going after his brother, resulting in his near-death and imprisonment of the dragon's stomach."

"Wait, Shadow!" The hero of Mobius exclaimed, hurrying over to his rival and protested. "I already gave him tons of lectures before, and sure it was a mistake, he's nothing like Eggman!"

"Even so, he is the reason why we were all brought into this mess, and you having to go and finish what he should have done himself to stop Scourge." The Ultimate Lifeform reminded him.

Sonic sighed, and while he was still admittedly a little bit mad at Kintobor, he came to get to know him, to see that the man really is the kind alternate self of Eggman. "I know, but-"

"No, Sonic. He's right." Kintobor gently interrupted in heavy guilt, causing the cobalt speedster and everyone else to gaze at the human scientist in shock, seeing that he held the expression much worse than what Sonic had moments ago. "I wish I could do more to prevent all of this from happening. Or at the very least done better for both Red and Scourge. Perhaps it was my dream in using the Sol Emeralds to rid the world of evil that is what caused the apocalypse in Silver's world, and now this just made things worse."

"Dr. Kintobor..." Blaze muttered worriedly.

Kintobor glanced at the Moebian Princess and said regrettably. "Princess Blaze, I never should have requested your aid for the Sol Emeralds. I am deeply sorry. I have failed you, Red, Silver and everyone else in our world. It is because of me that Cormain used Scourge to his advantage for the Emeralds themselves."

"I hate to admit it, but you should have been more responsible. You may not be evil like Dr. Eggman, but you still desire to use them, both being scientists." Espio stated.

"But that doesn't mean we shouldn't give him a chance, does it?" Chris pointed out. "From what I can tell, Dr. Kintobor's nowhere near like Eggman. If anything, he's a lot like Sonic when it comes to caring for people."

"Yeah, Ovi helped me. It's my fault that I had the idea of telling Scourge about the Sol Emeralds." Red added, sniffling as he went over to his friend and legal guardian, hugging him. "I don't want you to go, Ovi. You and Scourge are the only family I got...!"

"Oh, my dear friend..." Kintobor replied, gently returning the embrace, and while Shadow and Espio were still angry, Sonic and Knuckles both held them back with stern expressions to back off.

"Guys, no one's to blame than that crazy non-existent echidna guy and that Cormain monster who ruined everything." Sun spoke up, deciding that they were wasting whatever time they had left in the blame-game. "We have twelve Emeralds with us and Scourge, the Time Eater, Cormain and Ro-butt-nik have none. So there's still a chance in fixing this up, right?"

"He's right. When we get the last Chaos Emerald and Sol Emerald, we'll be able to stop the bad guys, talk sense into Scourge and then everything will be back to normal. As long as we're together and not let them get the Emeralds, we should be okay." Young Sonic agreed, while feeling guilty for not being able to prevent both his older, alternate-self and Scourge from being swallowed up by the giant Werehog, but he had to stop himself from sinking into that guilt, knowing that everything's alright so far.

Plus the eleven year old really wanted to take up Sonic's advice and not drown into the negative emotions. He wanted to follow the sixteen year old's careful and positive footsteps. Because they are both Sonic the Hedgehog.

"It isn't going to be easy...but then...would that mean, I was misled?" Silver muttered, gazing at the ground in deep thought, making everyone else to gaze at the future hedgehog.

"What do you mean?" Sonic asked, now confused.

"You know what I told you about the future being in ruins, right?" The fourteen year old hedgehog asked, and when the others nodded, he continued. "The reason how I managed to travel back in time isn't because of just the Sol Emeralds. I was told that defeating Scourge was the only way to change the future."

"By who?" Young Amy asked, curiously.

Silver looked a bit hesitant, even as Blaze said to him. "Silver, you never did tell us how you learned about all of this. All you said was that it was someone who you deemed as a friend."

"I did, but he...he never told me anything about Cormain or his existence, but he did tell me about the Prison of Evil." The silver hedgehog sighed, shrugging. "He asked me to not tell anyone or else it would cause suspicions and it wouldn't matter because the future would change once the disaster is prevented. But...now I'm thinking that I may have been lead on a wild goose chase."

"Can you tell us who it is?" Young Tails asked.

At first Silver wasn't sure, but then he decided that maybe it was best and felt guilty for betraying someone. "Maybe it wouldn't matter if I did tell you or not. The man who told me...was, is, or will be Dr. Kintobor's descendant; Dr. Nega."

Everyone was in utter shock to hear this as most of them gasped while Shadow and Sun both blinked in surprise.

"What!?" Sonic exclaimed.

"Dr. Nega? My descendant?" Kintobor asked incredulously.

"Correct. He's a scientist like you, bearing your resemblance, only, well, his mustache is white and now that I think of it, perhaps also resembling to your evil selves Dr. Eggman and Dr. Robotnik, only his clothes were purple. He has machines and robots he uses to keep evil at bay, or so I was told." Silver explained.

"Dr. Nega..." Sonic muttered, feeling that something was wrong with Kintobor's descendant in the future. 'I have a bad feeling about this.'

"As I wondered all alone when I was younger, having just learned of my abilities, he approached me one day and took me in, like how you did with Red. doctor. He taught me how to control my powers, and told me how Scourge was evil, that he stole the Sol Emeralds, killed Blaze and wiping out almost all life in the world, you barely survived and out of guilt attempted to stop him while having a family, but by then it was already too late. We both did research together and came to a conclusion that defeating Scourge in the past and warn you about what would happen by using the Sol Emeralds' powers is the only way to change the future, so he built a time machine with emeralds and sent me back in time. He also warned me to be cautious, but not to tell anyone since he knew that we would...disappear." The future Moebian continued.

Silver then burrowed his brows and said, "But then I just remembered; when I was asked to look for reports, I stumbled upon photos of you and Red and Blaze, and even found a report that you died on the day that Scourge made to kill you. And behind Dr. Nega's back, I got too curious and searched for any family history between you and him, but I found nothing. Not even a lone photo, so I deduced that all have been lost through out 200 years of history."

"Or maybe there is no family history between Kintobor and Nega." Vector spoke up, placing his hand under his chin, making everyone gaze at him. "I dunno about you, but this sounds pretty too suspicious, and for this Nega guy to not tell his ancestor about him in the future? Plus the attack and all of that before you came? I bet there's a lie in there somewhere."

"Hate to say it Silver, but I think Vector's onto something." The blue hedgehog agreed uneasily, scratching the top of his head. "An explosion similar to what Scourge did to try and merge our worlds, and everything? I don't think Kintobor died, not physically anyway."

"What? How can you say that?" Silver asked, his eyes widening. "That doesn't make any sense!"

"Men of science make mistakes." Shadow spoke up, folding his arms, making the younger hedgehog to gaze at him once more. "Dr. Eggman's grandfather Professor Gerald Robotnik made the mistake in making a deal with Black Doom to use his blood to partially create me, in exchange for the Chaos Emeralds in order to cure Maria. Her death had lead the Professor to lose his mind and get revenge on humanity before he was, well, put to rest by force."

"And the Sol Emeralds can grant wishes, right?" Sonic continued. "Silver, not to make any assumptions or anything, and a long time ago, I used to think of jokes of how Eggman ended up all being rotten and being who he was before he ended up in the Prison of Evil, like an experiment gone wrong. But now...I'm beginning to think that it's not a joke anymore, not in your world."

While Silver still didn't get it and Blaze narrowed her eyes, everyone else shared on easy glances while Red, Cream, Young Amy and Big were all confused, Kintobor realized what this meant and he went pale in horror.

"Oh...oh no!" Kintobor exclaimed, terrified of this realization. "This could mean that by absorbing all evil into the Sol Emeralds, Scourge's attack in the earlier timeline before Silver traveled into the present unleashed it, killing Princess Blaze and affecting me...to transform into Dr. Nega who would ask for immortality, as the Emeralds also grant that kind of power as well!"

"WHAT!? They can make people live forever too!?" Sonic exclaimed in horror, while everyone else all held horrified expressions.

"What? But...i-it can't be!" Silver shook his head in denial. "Dr. Nega really is...Dr. Kintobor's evil transformed future-self?"

"If that's true, then..." Young Sonic gazed at Kintobor who looked just as horrified and really ill. "You could've transformed into Dr. Eggman Nega!"

"No! That's not true! Ovi can't turn bad! He can't!" Red protested, shaking his head quickly.

"I can't believe it...all of my research really did render into making things worse...But what is the connection with Cormain, perhaps it's best not known, or maybe my evil future self got involved with all of this." Kintobor lowered his gaze, his guilt now increasing even further. "I don't feel so well..."

"Well, either way, your research as spelled doom to your world, and now your future-self has lost the last of his sanity to trick Silver to destroy all reality, and, in his hope, perhaps attempt to imprison us all in the Prison of Evil as the only place left for civilization." Shadow muttered, closing his eyes.

Kintobor felt even worse now, knowing that unlike Sonic, he had caused too many mistakes and both time-lines have indeed would spell destruction of Moebius. "All these years, and Sonic is now right. Using the Sol Emeralds is my biggest mistake. It was not just Cormain, Finitevus or Scourge that have caused all of this. It was me. I have doomed us all! We are all doomed!"

"Not if I can help it." Sonic declared, making everyone look at the hero of Mobius who held a look of determination. "We still have time. If we can figure out how to turn everything back to normal by talking sense into Scourge after beating him, and then beat Ro-butt-nik, the Time Eater and Cormain, then when everything's back to normal, the best thing to do is keep the Sol Emeralds away and stop using them for good."

"Hey, that's right! If the Sol Emeralds aren't used anymore and Scourge is talked into not being evil anymore, Kintobor won't transform into Dr. Nega." Young Sonic agreed.

"That's a good idea." Big agreed.

"If you stop researching the Sol Emeralds, and Scourge is redeemed, then the changes of you becoming Eggman Nega is slim." Knuckles agreed.

Despite that his had his doubts that this plan would work and that maybe Scourge had some right idea of erasing him which would unfortunately leave Red orphaned, Kintobor felt that it was the best course of action. "You're right. It's our only hope, and I refuse to turn evil after all of my hard work in trying to erase evil itself from the world. But now I understand that the Sol Emeralds or using any kind of power beyond a man's control is utterly foolish."

"Yeah, and then you won't have to be mean or bad, Ovi. You can still be yourself." Red agreed, feeling hope continue to rise.

"Sounds good to me. I've had enough of crazy mad scientists anyway, and I wouldn't want Kintobor to end up turning into a Moebius version of Ro-butt-nik." Sun nodded.

Everyone else agreed to Sonic's logic and plan, as the hero of Mobius smirked, declaring. "Great! Then it's settled! We're going to finish what we started and put an end to Cormain and the Time Eater and stop Scourge and Ro-butt-nik once and for all!"

"Yeah!" Everyone except for Shadow and Rouge all cheered, while the two members of Team Dark, the former still uncertain, felt that this was the best course of action.

"You know, I just thought of something." Tails realized after a moment, turning to both of Sonic. "I thought Robotnik was kidnapped by that weird thing, the Time Eater, that brought us here. So why was he with Scourge?"

Realizing this, Sonic frowned as he folded his arms. "Now that you mention it, looks like those two really are teamed up with the Time Eater who pretended to kidnap him. I'm surprised that Buttnik didn't attack you guys while we rescued Scourge."

"Maybe Buttnik was building some kind of new giant robot to try and use the Time Eater or something." Young Sonic guessed.

"I'm afraid Robotnik is going to betray Scourge and kill him." A familiar female voice echoed gravely, catching everyone off-guard as they looked around, only to see the same orange light of, one that both of Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, Amy, Cream and Cheese, and even Chris recognized.

"Tikal!" Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, and Young Sonic exclaimed.

"It's Tikal!" Amy added in surprise.

"Chao, Chao." Cheese squeaked.

"This is Tikal?" Sun asked, blinking in surprise.

Knuckles, stunned to see at least the orb form of one of his ancestors, talked up closer to the light. "Tikal...it's...it's been a while."

"It is nice to see you again, Knuckles, and all of you as well. But there is no time for a hello. Dr. Robotnik is going to betray Scourge who does not realize his new mistake." The Echidna Princess responded.

"Did something happen before we rescued him?" Sonic asked immediately.

"During your search for the sixth crystal similar to the Chaos Emerald, the one you call the Sol Emeralds, Scourge, in his anger and loss of those he loved, sent Dr. Robotnik away, where he has appeared in a gateway linked to the portals that reveals many other realities, the heart of Space and Time itself...where my father and his men had become trapped after Sonic of the other world found the Chaos Emerald and your friend Rouge. They have formed an alliance to destroy Scourge and all of you to gain all of the Emeralds, to use the Time Eater to merge a new machine, to become unstoppable if they get the Chaos and Sol Emeralds." Tikal gravely explained.

Everyone else gasped in horror as Sonic, Knuckles, Young Sonic and Silver all exclaimed. "WHAT!?"

"If they gain the Emeralds, they will escape this place and take control of all realities and rule over them for all eternity." The Echidna Princess Spirit continued.

"Oh man! I forgot that those guys already got away from the Prison of Evil but still can't get here without the Chaos Emeralds!" Young Sonic exclaimed, facepalming himself.

"Dang!" The older Sonic cursed, kicking the ground. He then declared as now time was running. "We'd better get the last two Emeralds before they and Scourge do!"

The group all nodded, while Kintobor gazed at the little light, still feeling guilty for what has been happening and, now realizing that he may be no different than Eggman, Robotnik and Pachacamac, said. "Princess Tikal. Forgive me. It is all my fault that it has come to this. I only wished to use the Sol Emeralds to rid Moebius of all evil, I did not intend for the world's or time's destruction."

"I understand, Dr. Kintobor. But it was a mistake my father made with the Chaos Emeralds; it let power overcome his mind, losing all compassion and allowing fear to consume his heart. Using power for the impossible is too dangerous. Sonic knows this, because he and his younger self from the other world have used their power for good and do not wish to use them every time." Tikal replied. "If you wish to make a difference, then the Sol Emeralds are not the answer. It takes strength, compassion, love, helping others, and believing in doing the right thing to make the world a better place."

"She's right, you know." Sonic agreed, smiling warmly. "Helping out others comes from the heart, not in using magic and stuff like that most of the time. It can be useful, but if you let those go over your head and not do what you used do, then in the end when you lose that kind of power, well, you'd end up wanting more power until you stop caring about others and only care about yourself. At least, that's what I figured."

"Me too, and Uncle Chuck always told me to wisely use my speed, and running is the best I'd want with it. But there are times when you have to slow down." Young Sonic added, and his older self nodded.

"You're right. When this is all over, I will stop the Sol Emerald project and never use them or any kind of super natural forces to help in making a difference again. I will use my inventions only for minor helpings and continue to do before I began my research, and continue to help others in hospitals, and come up with a new, non-power-sourceful ways to make the world a better place. But I know I cannot do this alone. I know that now." Kintobor, after realizing that the Mobians were right, ultimately agreed and decided, which made everyone, especially Sonic and Red, beam happily at him while Shadow and Sun were both impressed with the human doctor's new atonement.

"And I'm gonna help you, Ovi! I wanna help other people and do the right thing, just like you and Sonic, without being a super hero." Red added excitedly. "First, I'm gonna try and get my brother Scourge to be like how he used to be before Mama and Papa died."

"That's my lad." Kintobor praised, gently ruffling the eight year old red-brown hedgehog's head, making the boy giggle.

"Atta boy, Red. That's the spirit." Sonic said feeling proud, patting his friend on the back.

"Be careful. The battles ahead will be dangerous. The fate of all worlds and time lies in your hands." Tikal cautioned.

"We made it this far, Tikal. There's no way me and Sonic are gonna give up now." Young Sonic reassured with a wink and a thumbs up. Like Sonic, the eleven year old blue hedgehog felt his confidence come back with full force, especially since now they were almost there and despite that the battles were going to be more difficult, especially the upcoming final battles, the hero of Alternate-Mobius felt that they can do this.

"This is our only chance, and in the meantime, we will search for a way to find them and confront the enemies." Blaze declared.

"I don't know if Nega lied to me or not, but I still intend on changing the future and prevent it's disaster." Silver added with determination.

"Let's do this!" The hero of Mobius announced, and everyone agreed.

Once Tikal thanked them and promised to join them soon, Sonic and his friends all hurried to their next destination to locate the final Sol Emerald and Chaos Emerald, knowing that this time they should all go together to at least at the entrance of the next past world. Though Sonic felt that there was still one more friend to save given what he saw in the Prison of Evil.

As they approached the next entrance, one that made Sonic and Tails gasp in shock when they recognized it almost instantly, the entrance that it had a field and forest that looked alien, and a construction site that had Eggman's symbolic face paint on it, again having lost it's colour, the statue that was in front of it made most of the group gasp in horror and dismay.

But none more so than Sun who froze on the spot, his eyes widened and his irisis shaking, briefly forgetting how to breathe. It can't be...it just can't!

The frozen statue was a female hedgehog, now fifteen years of age in the familiar outfit the group knew of, one who they met five months ago.

"Oh no!" Cream exclaimed in horror while Amy gasped, covering her mouth in dismay.

"Who's she?" Young Tails asked, worriedly.

"...No...NO!" Sun screamed in dismay, racing over to the statue of Staria "Star" Amantha, his dearest friend and lover. "Star! STAR!"

Tears in his eyes, feeling hurt and guilty for having failed to save the female hedgehog he fell in love with, after all of the trouble of saving her four months ago, the orange hedgehog hugged Star's lifeless form and sobbed, while the hearts of Sonic, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, virtually everyone else all ached in guilt, sorrow and worry. But none more so than Sonic, since he'd seen Star's lifeless form earlier, and lowered his gaze before he nodded and approached his distraught brother, placing a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"We'll save her, bro." Sonic whispered, making Sun tearfully and slowly look up, gazing at the blue hedgehog who held an expression of determination. "I promise. Star will be back to normal soon."

Despite still feeling heartbroken, the former Werehog knew that his friend was right, and nodded, forcing himself to calm down and wiped away his tears, knowing that once they get the last Sol and Chaos Emeralds, Star will be restored to her normal self.

"Be back soon, Sonic, and be careful." Sun muttered, hopefully.

"I will." Sonic vowed.

"Is she a friend of Sun?" Blaze asked, puzzled.

"Who is she?" Young Amy asked.

Amy gazed at the two and explained. "Her name's Staria Amantha, but everybody calls her Star. She's helped us out five months ago and is a really great friend. Her dad's a famous scientist of stargazing and he's really nice."

"Star's also a fan of Amy and like with Cream, they're best friends too." Tails added, which made the thirteen year old pink hedgehog blush a little, giggling.

"She's also Sun's girlfriend." Charmy added happily, giggling while Vector laughed and Rouge and Knuckles scoffed in amusement, while Shadow rolled his eyes, Espio shook his head in exasperation and everyone else who knew Star tried not to laugh, much to Sun's embarrassment.

"Charmy...! I'm gonna rip your wings off if you don't shut up!" Sun threatened, blushing heavily on the muzzle, before turning his glare to Sonic who tried and failed miserably to hide his laughter when he covered his mouth with his hand. "Don't you say a word, Sonic, or you can kiss your vocal cords goodbye."

"Whatever you say, Sun." The blue hedgehog snickered.

'Poor Star. Even she couldn't get to the party before this happened. That mean Finitevus and those monsters really ruined Sonic's birthday. I hope everything will be back to normal soon.' Amy thought to herself, having also secretly invited Star to Sonic's birthday party as well.

"This place looks kind of weird. Almost like it's alien somehow." Young Sonic, while feeling sorry for Sonic's friend Star, commented over the entrance of this place.

"It does look pretty funny." Red agreed, but curious at the same time.

"I know where this is, except it's not in Mobius. This is a new world from space." Tails answered, surprising the Alternate-Mobians, the human scientist and the Moebians.

"You have been to another planet?" Kintobor asked.

"Not just one, but plenty of them. Though that time three months ago was also Eggman's fault. This is one of the places he managed to kidnap with a tractor beam for his Interstellar Amusement Park." Sonic explained. "The other ones were an entire planet literally made out of sugar, a starlight carnival, an ocean planet with a giant friendly whale, and..."

The blue hedgehog trailed off at the thought of Asteroid Coaster, lowering his gaze as he remembered that it was once the home of Soloman and his people. "...And the world of Soloman and the Octosaurs that used to be called Dinopolis, but since Cormain attacked, the world was left deserted, and Eggman caught it, used it as a base for absorbing the aliens' energy and renamed the world Asteroid Coaster."

"Wait...so, the skeletons we saw, including the giant robot ones..." Tails trailed off in horrified realization.

Sonic grimly nodded. "The Dino-Skulls were actually called the Colossal-Rex, who eat grass and other vegetation."

"So Eggman used the skeletons to make robots to crush intruders as part of Asteroid Coaster's theme." The nine year old cub correctly theorized.

"Soloman showed me the vision of his past and that world looked beautiful and peaceful before it all ended terribly." The hero of Mobius said, sighing, before shaking his head. "But let's worry about that later. Right now, we need to find the Emeralds fast."

"Sonic, maybe I should go with you, in case we'll need my translator." The two-tailed fox suggested.

"I should go with you too, 'cause you guys might need help this time in figure out more clues in how to beat the bad guys and the weird giant monsters." Young Tails added.

"Good idea, it would come in handy." Sonic agreed, and Young Sonic nodded in agreement.

"Are you sure you will all be alright in there?" Silver asked, wirily.

The hero of Mobius winked, "Not to worry, Silver. Besides the robots, and probably the reality shift thing, this place is very peaceful. The four of us will be back before you know it."

"Here we go!" Young Sonic declared, now excited to explore the new unfamiliar place(at least to him and Young Tails) that sounded really fun.

After being wished to be careful while telling everyone to do the same, Sonic, Tails, Young Sonic and Young Tails all sped inside the world, preparing to find the final Sol Emerald and Chaos Emerald, attempting to prepare themselves for the dangers up ahead. Sun the meantime gazed at the frozen form of Star once more and in sadness yet hope, he gently caressed her face.

'You're going to be alright, Star. Sonic will be soon.' The former Werehog thought, before flinching when he heard Charmy and Vector snicker and glared at the duo, snapping. "Don't you two guys have anything better to do?"

"Nope, not really." The green crocodile and the young bee said in unison.

Everyone else attempted to figure out the next clue and plan while relaxing a little, as Amy asked both Cream, and Young Amy, gesturing at her legs and boots. "Do these boots make my legs too skinny?"

"They look just fine, Amy." Cream replied honestly.

"I think they look very pretty. It matches your beautiful, cool dress." Young Amy added.

"Chao chao, chao chao." Cheese muttered, blushing as the young Chao looked very embarrassed by this display.

Silver stared up ahead, lost in thought. Everything he has heard, everything he's been through, both in his entire life in the grim future of Moebius, to Dr. Nega helping him to figure out how to change history, traveling back in time and meeting Kintobor and Blaze, becoming friends with them while fighting Scourge, all leading up to this. Yet, he had been unable to do much and given what he has heard, while still in denial that he had been used as well, the silver hedgehog couldn't help but feel like that Sonic, Shadow and Kintobor were right about Nega.

'Everything Dr. Nega told me...was it really all a lie?' Silver thought to himself, to think that Kintobor, in the current time era, would have transformed into Nega and tricked him for something much more sinister.

He hoped that it wasn't true, yet deep within his heart, he felt that...that it made a terrible sense.


Having left Sonic, Young Sonic and Sun in whatever place that was, and berating himself for not attacking them and stealing the Sol Emeralds and the Chaos Emeralds despite the trauma of being swallowed alive and almost digested by a giant mutant hedgehog had also feeds on negativity, Scourge found himself in a Metal Shoreline that looked more like a cargo dock, again from his world, with the sky all dark and cloudy, the water lapping against the concrete wall beneath him.

"Real smooth, Scourge. You let those losers get away with the Emeralds again!" The evil green hedgehog grunted furiously, clutching his fist. How could he really sink so low? This was all Sonic's fault!

Ever since this mess started, that blue hedgehog has been such a pain in the butt, getting in the way along with his miniture self, and just when Scourge and Robotnik got them where they wanted the two heroes, they, like the Terror of Moebius, are immune to the roboticizer, and had managed to escape with the aid of not only their two mutant-freak fox friends, but also Silver and Blaze who had managed to reunite with each other, which meant that Kintobor was here as well.

"I just want Fiona back...I want everything to be mine!" Scourge hissed, shaking his head in frustration. "Curse you, Sonic...! You made a mistake in saving me!"

Yet, despite his bitter hate for his alternate good self, the evil Moebian couldn't help but still feel grateful and...maybe a little bit guilty. The hero of Mobius had risked his life to save him, allowed himself to dive right into the Werehog-Beast's mouth that slammed shut and the monster swallowed them both up, before the blue hedgehog used the Chaos Emerald to teleport them out to escape after being very briefly trapped within it's stomach. Not like Maurice, who is dead already.

Scourge would have suffered the same horrible fate, again due to his own actions, if it hadn't been for Sonic. Sure the blue boy cheated, but it was the only way out from their untimely demise, and even the sixteen year old looked scared.

The seventeen year old had seen it in his eyes, but had managed to hold it back for the bravery he had within himself. He also thought of what the cobalt speedster had told him as they descended down the enormous throat.


"Look! I have an idea! But I can't do it if I don't take you with me! I'd get outta here myself, but I'm not leaving you!" Sonic argued, pleadingly as they were rapidly getting closer and closer to the stomach's entrance. "I failed to save Eggman from suffering the same fate, I won't let the same thing happen to you! I know I'm going to regret this, especially since you and I will be fighting again soon, but I have my reasons in doing this!"


What was Sonic's reasons in keeping Scourge alive? Was it so that the latter would face his punishment against his enemies? For reason while it was logical, he somehow doubt it, especially with how the green hedgehog was so...glad that he had been rescued, and while the blue hedgehog was too nice for his own good, he was...worried about him despite the bitter hate. But why?


"But don't think this is the end of it, Sonic the Hedgehog. I will get those Sol Emeralds, and I will finish you and your friends off!" Scourge warned firmly.

"Didn't think it was. But I won't let you get away with it, Scourge. It's not too late to stop what you're doing now." Sonic replied just as firmly.


"Why should I stop? He gets all the friends and family he has and a girlfriend, and I have nothing." Scourge scoffed, yet deep down what scared him was...Fiona possibly being trapped in the Prison of Evil, tortured and executed by the Executioner. If he remained evil, then when he dies he will suffer the same fate. Maybe he should've asked the Sol Emeralds to make himself immortal instead.

But that still wouldn't bring his lover back. The only way to conquer the world and bring Fiona back to life is to change history by erasing Kintobor. By doing so, it would make things better for him. Yet now that the green hedgehog thought of it, maybe getting rid of Kinto-butt wasn't enough. Sure the downside was...was that Maurice would still be alive and not betraying him, but Scourge would maybe find him...before Snively did. He would have to get rid of that pointy-nosed scientist as well, erase him too.

He sighed, his anger fading into sadness and heartbreak. Why did life have to be so cruel to him? When he was a child, he didn't do a single darn thing wrong, yet fate decided to take away his parents, then his little brother into betraying him, and just when he got himself back by having met Fiona, it came crushing back down on him. It wasn't fair! Why did Sonic get all the happiness while Scourge had to suffer? He sat on the ground and hugged his knees, thoughts of his late girlfriend coming back into his mind, thinking about all the times they spent together, growing from friends into lovers. He remembered of them and to him, they felt so wonderful.


Scourge's Flash-Backs:

One year ago-six months after meeting and becoming friends, and seven months after attempting to steal the Superior Emerald...

Being on the run as a criminal had it's ups and downs and for most villains, it was difficult. But for Scourge the Hedgehog, it wasn't much of a problem since he is the fastest thing alive. He can outrun the law and authorities any day of the week. It did tend to get very lonely though, but all that changed when he first met his new partner in crime and best friend; Fiona Fox, the most cunning, clever, caring and admittedly beautiful girl of Moebius.

Right now, they were out stealing for a very priceless artifact in a forbidden secret tomb within the library that held many secrets. It would keep them going for another long while in the old apartment they lived in together.

"Geez, can you believe the state of this place? All of this old stuff are just pieces of junk, and the books look like dead animal skin." Scourge grumbled as he scanned and set aside old items helping his best friend look for clues of the ancient treasure out of boredom.

"I guess that's why they've hidden the treasure. Cover up the secrets with all of this and thieves would just think all of this is nothing but rubbish." Fiona shrugged as she pulled each old book from the shelves, then smirked. "But unlike us, they never had the clue of actually looking behind all of this."

"Not without your intelligence, anyway." The green hedgehog grinned wickedly in agreement. "That Gold and Ruby Grail is as good as ours."

The female fox giggled cheekily, "Wise guy."

"Thank you, Mistress of Evil." The Terror of Moebius teased, prompting another snort of laughter from his friend, as he held out his hand offering to continue to help setting the old stuff aside...

Only to accidentally touch the back of Fiona's hand just as she was handing him another scroll, the smooth and softness of her skin and fur felt even through his gloved hands. The two teenagers froze when they felt each other's touch and looked up to share a glance, staring into their eyes as a heavy blush formed on their muzzles, stunned at first before realizing what just happened. Scourge and his partner yelped and leaned away in embarrassment.

"W-what?" Fiona blinked, puzzled yet feeling her heart leap all of the sudden.

Scourge felt the same, wondering why he was feeling so weird towards her. Sure she was amazing and beautiful and...the closest thing to a friend he ever had, yet his heart and stomach felt like they were fluttering with gross butterflies.

"Uh, sorry. Wasn't looking." Scourge sheepishly responded, scratching the top of his head with an awkward grin.

"Oh, um...D-don't worry about it." His friend replied, smiling a little in return.

The two stared at each other for a moment longer before clearing their heads and went back to their search. Two minutes later Fiona discovered some kind of cylinder like box and opened it up, revealing to be some sort of item with an odd symbol of sorts that was a little bigger than their hands. Scourge and Fiona rised eyebrows and wondering if there was a connection with this.

Another fifteen minutes later while Fiona scanned through the books and scrolls, Scourge was playing with the odd stick thing with the symbol by flipping it, twirling it and tossing and catching it, whistling tunelessly to himself while still tired and impatient. It wasn't until he noticed something on the table where his friend was working.

"Hm? Hello...What do we have here?" Scourge muttered to himself, peering closer to it.

To his surprise, it looked like the same symbol as on the item and, thinking of an idea, he held the item just over it and found that they were the same design and size. Plush the symbol on the table looked like it was made to be poked in. He smirked as a realization came in.

"Hey, Fi. This baby's a key and I think our treasure's right in here." The green hedgehog spoke up, making the female red-haired fox glance up at him in surprise, before she saw what he was talking about and realized that he was right.

Scourge poked the item into the symbol which made a key-shaped hole and as he experimentally turned it back to front, to the duo's amazement, a secret compartment opened up from the middle of the table as light shone slightly, and emerging from it was the most beautiful trophy-like grail they had ever seen. The bottom half and handles that were shaped like arms of a mysterious creature were made out of pure gold, while the top of it, a dragon-head-shaped top and linings around the middle with several palm-sized gems were made out of pure, shiny rubies. It also had ancient writing neither Moebian could understand yet.

"The Dragon Grail..." Fiona whispered in awe.

"And it's all ours for the taking." Scourge snickered in victory.

The Moebian fox nodded in agreement. "It's more beautiful than I thought."

"Sure is." The green hedgehog said, then blurted out without thinking. "But not as beautiful as you."

"Huh?" Fiona blinked in shock while blushing once more, which Scourge flinched a second later, realizing what he just said and blushed again himself.

"Wait, wait! Th-that didn't come out right, I-I mean...! Uh..." Scourge stuttered, waving his hands quickly while trying to fix up his mistake.

"Scourge..." The fifteen year old fox began, and as the sixteen year old hedgehog winced, expecting to be yelled at, to his surprise, she smiled warmly which was a bit out of character of her, but to him, it was...sincere. "You're such a cool bad boy, but I'm beginning to think that you're a sweetheart for bad girls like me. Plus the most handsome man in Moebius."

That caught Scourge off-guard. He wasn't expecting to hear this and, as much as he buried his past, the only other person in the world to call him a sweetheart was his late mother when he was younger, before her death. But Fiona...she admired him in such a way, seeing a little bit of his old self, and that she thought of him of being handsome.

"Um...Thanks." The green hedgehog replied, and blinked in surprise when Fiona, somewhat shyly, approached him and the two stared at each other for a long time.

All they could do was stare directly in their eyes, feeling a pressuring burst of feelings neither couldn't understand, but felt that they just...wanted to go for it. They had been through so much together, having gotten closer, much closer than either of them had ever thought. They had gotten to know each other, desiring to with one another without realizing each other's feelings...until now. They then shared each other's smiles, as their eyes confirmed how they felt.

Then, the duo's lips met in a soft kiss, which quickly became more wanting as Scourge and Fiona enjoying the softness of each other and embraced, their hearts melting as the first step of confessing their love to each other.

Two months before Fiona's death...

A year has passed on as Scourge and Fiona had become lovers, still living out their lives of crime, and rather than be disgusted by the news when he found out, Maurice "Red" Hedgehog, despite the disappointment of his older brother's thieving and bad ways as well as Fiona's, actually congratulated them and hoped that they can change for the better and be as happy as they were now. While he didn't admit it as he wanted his bratty sibling to keep his nose out of it, the evil green hedgehog had to admit, it made him feel a bit relaxed and rather proud over his gullible brother's approval.

Right now, the two partners stood before an old castle that had seen better days, with a special kind of stone that was crimson red and black, held in Scourge's hand as he adjusted his sunglasses in front of his eyes.

"Now this is what I call a good hiding spot." Scourge snickered with a nasty grin. "Needs a bit of work, but hey, better than our old place."

"And with the Phantom Ruby's power if the legend is true, who needs to hire or steal renovating?" Fiona agreed, cackling away.

The Terror of Moebius laughed. "Oh yeah! Moebius will be quivering and not even that slimy Snot-head Snively is gonna stop us!"

"Remember, Scourge. It will take a while to get to what you want, and Snively already has more than enough reasons to frame us." His girlfriend cautioned.

The green hedgehog smirked. "I know. But once that guy's finally out of the picture, we don't have a single thing to worry about from him and besides, while I'm no hero, at least with him gone, the whole world won't have to deal with him either."

"I'm looking forward to that day." Fiona grinned, and she and her boyfriend shared a laugh. "So, 'King Scourge', what is the first order?"

"Well, we gotta make a start on getting a good piece of furniture and try out this baby to see if it works." Scourge grinned, holding up the stone. "The Phantom Ruby is what will change not just our new home, but maybe help out us 'cause I am kind of curious on how the Sol Emeralds work."

"You'll have to get past Princess Blaze and Kintobor first, though." Fiona reminded.

Scourge just scoffed. "Please. That royal pain in the tail and Kinto-butt can't beat me. I'm the fastest thing alive!"

"True." She smirked.

As he chuckled evilly at the ideas that are going to be fun, Scourge then said, somewhat nervously. "But you know, we're in this together and we have each other's backs. Being with you, well, really made me so happy. We've been through a lot since the day we met, and you're the best girl a guy could ever ask for to be with, and I try to be there for you too, Fi."

"What are you saying?" Fiona asked, curiously.

"Well, sure it's fun to be the King of Moebius, but it'd be boring if I ruled by myself. I'd like to have somebody to keep me company and keep me on my toes. So, I, Scourge the Hedgehog, ask you this question." The green hedgehog explained.

While Fiona was surprised to her this, her eyes widened when her boyfriend bend down on one knee and gently took her left hand into both of his own, gazing up at her with his emerald green eyes.

"Fiona Fox, I love you so much, I want to be with you forever. So, will you be my Queen?" Scourge requested.

"Scourge..." Fiona trailed off, before smiling happily and while they were both still too young to get married, she nodded. "Yes! Yes of course I will! I love you too!"

"Sweet!" The green hedgehog grinned, standing up as the two hugged each other, with him having her in his arms as he spun around, the two lovers laughing before he stopped and gently set her down. They then smiled and shared a passionate kiss, believing that their loves would forever be intertwined...

Yet not realizing that this moment of pure happiness was only going to get crushed...


End of Flash-Backs:

The time of what should have been the happiest days of his life turned into the nightmare worse than what he experienced in losing his mother and father three years ago, and it got worse when his little brother sacrificed himself, leaving Scourge the Hedgehog, the would be kind of Moebius, truly all alone in the world. Now because of what was happening, the mess he created in his desire to try and rewrite history only to end up dragging Sonic the Hedgehog, the hero of Mobius who's world has finally been freed from Dr. Eggman's evil terrors after almost five years.

'If I hadn't wished for three worlds to merge and that guy ended up being dragged, me and Robotnik would've gotten what we wanted already...then again, would it make much of a difference with the Prison of Evil?' Scourge thought miserably to himself, hugging his knees.

Tears forming in his eyes at the true loneliness, wanting to be loved again, wanting his dear Fiona, and even his family, to come back to him, the green hedgehog then buried his face into his arms and sobbed.

"SCOURGE...SCOURGE..." A dark, eerie and shockingly familiar voice echoed through the air, startling the Terror of Moebius out of his crying and looked up sharply with a gasp.

"What!? Who's there?" Scourge demanded, standing up quickly only to notice a dark portal open up just above him. His eyes widened in shock as his heart stopped for a moment as he saw the head of a beast, one that he saw in his dreams, the one who told him to get the Sol Emeralds in an exchange for Fiona's resurrection.

"SCOURGE THE HEDGEHOG, WE MEET AT LAST." The voice continued.

"No way!" The green hedgehog gasped, feeling his heart stop for a moment and felt terror enter his heart for the second time today, this time from a beast he knew, not like the Werehog that had almost digested him. "C-Cormain!? What are you doing here!? You're-you're real!"

The beast, Cormain, hissed deeply. "YOU MADE THE MISTAKE OF MERGING THREE WORLDS. YOUR TIME IS UP, CHILD. YOU DO NOT HAVE THE EMERALDS."

Scourge gasped in horror, terrified as he backed away slowly, protesting pleadingly. "Wait, wait! I can still get the Sol Emeralds! You gotta give me a little bit more time! Besides, Time doesn't run here in this place! Give me a chance, and I'll get the Emeralds and take over Moebius! I want to save Fiona!"

"YOU HAVE ALMOST DIED TWO TIMES, SCOURGE. YOU WERE SAVED BY YOUR SIBLING, AS WELL AS SONIC THE HEDGEHOG. THE SOL EMERALDS ARE ALMOST FOUND, AND YET SHOULD EVERYTHING RETURN TO THEIR ORIGINAL STATE, ONLY PUNISHMENT BY MY HAND OR THE PRISON OF EVIL SHALL BE YOUR DEATH. YOU BELONG TO ME NOW." Cormain growled, beginning to emerge from the portal, much to the green hedgehog's terror.

"No...No!" Scourge exclaimed, terrified as he continued to back away only for another portal to appear behind him and he spun around to see that a large dark hand was emerging from there, and the beast he made a deal with began to reach out for him as well. He was trapped, doomed to be held as Cormain's prisoner or perish in the Prison of Evil.

Frightened, the evil hedgehog fell onto the ground as he whimpered while Cormain reached out to grab him. He didn't want to die! He didn't want to go to the Prison of Evil!

"NOOOOOOO!" Scourge screamed, shielding himself with his arms and squeezed his eyes shut, bracing for his bitter end, thinking about those he loved, who he would never see again.

However, the portal behind Scourge actually belonged to the Time Eater who came out and blocked Cormain's attack, clawing and gripping at the other monster's claws, much to the beast's shock. When the Terror of Moebius realized that he was safe, the green hedgehog hesitantly looked up to see and gasped in shock that the Time Eater arrived and had just saved his life. Why it couldn't save him from the Werehog that came from Sonic's world, he had no idea.

The two dark entities wrestled until the Time Eater, somewhat straining due to being weakened by, unbeknownst to Scourge, Sonic's actions in not just him and Young Sonic gaining the Sol Emeralds and the Chaos Emeralds, but also in freeing everyone innocent in Mobodoon from the Prison of Evil, managed to shove Cormain back and forcing the other monster back into the portal.

Grunting, Cormain then realized what happened and growled, gazing his gaze at the bewildered Scourge. "SO, YOU HAVE MADE A PACT WITH THE DESTROYER OF TIME AND BOTH OF YOU HAVE BECOME ALLIES. VERY CLEVER. NO ONE HAS BECOME CLOSE TO THE BEAST OF TIME. BUT SHOULD YOU FAIL TO GAIN THE SOL EMERALDS, YOU ARE MINE."

With that, Cormain retreated back into the portal and left both the Time Eater and the stunned Scourge behind, before the other beast turned around to face the green hedgehog.

"Y-You saved me..." Scourge muttered, amazed beyond belief that the Time Eater actually rescued him, like Red and Sonic had done. "For a Time Eater, you sure were on time, big guy."

The giant black monster just stared, before reaching out and carefully scooped up the green hedgehog in it's hand where he sat in the middle of it's palm and brought him up to it's face, gazing at the teenage Moebian as though it was curious and wondering why he wasn't acting like his normal self. Even though he had the experience that almost killed him and was traumatized of not just being eaten by the Werehog-Beast, but also almost being taken by the devil he made a deal with and he knew that he was running out of time. He thought he could do it, he thought he had enough time and had actually won...then his wish to merge the worlds and realities messed it up.

"Wow...I...I guess I've been pretty low since Sonic the Hedgehog showed up. Thank you for saving my life." The green hedgehog said, and when it spoke in grunts and soft growls only he can understand, he blinked in surprise. "Say what? You're saying that Cormain was imprisoned just like you and he's just as powerful as you are?"

The Time Eater grunted, confirming his question.

'That explains why he struggled against him.' Scourge felt uneasy, despite that at this moment he felt very safe in the palm of the Time Eater's hand, listening to what else his ally had to say, and what he heard made him grumble.

"Yeah, okay. Punching Robotnik wasn't a smart move. I was just frustrated that things aren't going so well, no thanks to stupid Sonic and his little brat pipsqueak alternate self." The green hedgehog grumbled, shuddering. "Then he had the nerve to save me when that giant mutant Werehog swallowed us up and let me tell you, that was the worst experience I've ever experienced. The only thing he did right was saving me, which is his biggest mistake, since I'm still going to get those Sol Emeralds and get rid of him and all of his friends."

He paused for a moment, before sighing and gazed somewhat pleadingly. "But I need your help, big guy. I need to catch Sonic and those guys off-guard. Will you help me do that? Once that's done, then you'll be able to be free yourself. No more prisons holding you back."

The Time Eater seemed to be reluctant by the teenager's request, before it grunted in agreement which made Scourge sigh, and then it carefully clutched him in a firm grasp before beginning to re-enter it's own portal to find and reunited with Robotnik and green hedgehog just let it hold onto him, knowing that he really was running out of time and if he wanted to achieve his goal, he had to hurry.

'I'll get those Sol Emeralds and this time, no one is going to stop me!' Scourge thought to himself, replacing his sunglasses over his eyes which he narrowed. 'You'd better prepare yourself, Sonic, because once I'm through with you, you're gonna wish you'd never been born.'

But what Scourge didn't know was that he was only putting himself right into much bigger danger which is putting all of realities on the brink of destruction and only Sonic and Young Sonic can settle this once and for all.


A/N: Okay, so not so great of a chapter and I wasn't able to actually begin Planet Wisp here, but in the next chapter Sonic, Young Sonic, Tails, and Young Tails will be there and as we creep closer to the ending, we'll being enter another battle or two before the final battle begins.

See you later!