25 years in the future (Alternate Timeline)

A fat robot stands in a circle of light surrounded by darkness. His metal skin is blood red and a orange metal mustache is on his face. His red eyes dimmed as a man in a black robe walked into the from the darkness. He stood tall, but his face betrayed his advance age. He used a black metal cane with a blue gem on it as a walking stick. His gray skin seemed to absorb the light and his yellow eyes glowed. The fat bot's eyes glowed, "What is the point of this meeting? If you planned to surrender, then you could have just called."

"I didn't call you here to talk about our war." His voice was loud and dark, "Because of your time machine data. Our timeline is collapsing."

"What are you blathering about?"

"The storms that have been plaguing this world and mine. The past has been changed. I have managed to keep our worlds together. But my magic is fading. Soon our future will be overwritten by the true one."

"What can we do?"

"We can use The Dark Emerald! I know you have it."

The bot thought a moment, "What for?"

"Together! Your technology and my magic. We can send back a more suitable agent to insure that our future will survive. The Dark Emerald will insure he has the power to do the job. Then we can get back to killing each other."

"Done Luxor! But this had better work."

The man turned away, "If it doesn't, we won't be able to argue about it."

Robotropolis was the last city left on Mobius. With the crashing of Angel Island and the destruction of Station Square, it was all that remained of civilization. Its black skyscrapers reached the black clouded sky. The ground around was barren and rocky. Just like the rest of the planet. Sperk stood on top of a cliff that once was a huge waterfall. It had once been in the middle of The Great Forest. But the forest was gone and burnt wood was all that remained. Sperk had found himself back in his own time after the battle with Luxor in the past. But nothing had changed. The only thing different was the yellow storms that were springing up all over the place. He sighed, "What went wrong?" He had left Lara within the protective barrier of his father's wall of energy.

"Our world is falling apart?"

The reason he had came had finally woken up. He turned to her, "That is evident! Please tell me something new princess!" An elderly squirrel in a simple cloth dress walked up to him from a hidden hut. Sperk turned toward the city, "What does your visions tell you?"

Sally sighed and sat down on a rock. After Sonic's death she had tried to drown herself in the power ring pool. But instead she had absorbed the powers of the pool and began having visions. "Your efforts in the past were successful. But Luxor has managed to hold this world together with his magic. The storms are evidence that his magic is failing. Soon our world will be gone."

"Good! I will be glad to be free from this war torn world."

"You would prefer oblivion to this?"

"Yes!" Sperk walked to the edge of the cliff, "I will go spend the last of my life with Lara and my dad."

"It isn't that simple." Sally stood up, "I had a vision of Robotnik and Luxor. They plan to send someone back to stop the storms."

"They can't!" Sperk tightened his fist, "I won't let them." He leapt off the cliff and glided away.

Sally walked back to her hut, "I fear that even you won't be able to stop them this time. I saw a darkness that even surpasses Luxor's. Your only hope is to delay them until our world rips itself apart to make way for the new."

Robotnik sat in a metal chair. Wires connected his robotic body to the machines around the room. In the center of the room, a large black cylinder stood. A black fist size emerald floated in the chamber. A purple aura surrounded it and Luxor chanted spells to contain its power. While smaller than The Master Emerald, it held much more power. Robotnik's mind released a gray liquid into the chamber and it began to form around the emerald. As a shape could be seen, an alarm sounded and the room turned red. A floating screen appeared in front of Robotnik, "Its that damn hedgehog!"

"We can't stop him now!"

Robotnik mentally activated the city's defenses, "We won't have to stop him. Just delay him!"

Sperk jumped over the wall and into the city. Most of the buildings were rubble, but the towers in the center of the city still stood. Including the egg shaped command center. Around the city, the yellow storm clouds began to form. Black lighting filled the air, "Almost time!" As he started to run forward, a bot blasted out of the ground. Standing seven feet tall, it was armed with shoulder plasma cannons and battle pinchers for hands. The cannons fired red beams that ripped into Sperk. He cried out as the beams blasted through his left shoulder and the right side of his chest. He fell back and summoned his halberd. He lunged forward and sliced the bot's head off in one clean move. He landed on the ground and ripped his coat and armor off. He was now only dressed in black paints and boots. The holes in his body sparked with crimson energy and healed right up. He spun his halberd and exploded with crimson energy, "Can't hold back!"

Sperk cut his way through the city's defense bots and laser cannons. Most of Robotnik's army had been obliterated by the storms. As he reached the inner part of the city, the command center exploded. The crimson hedgehog covered his eyes as the blast knocked down several buildings that were next to it. As the smoke cleared, a single figure walked from the smoke. An eight foot tall human like figure. He wore dark purple metal boots, black armor with purple gauntlets and matching shoulder armor. His face was masked with large burning red light for eyes. His hands were black metal talons. A purple orb shinned in the center of his dark purple chest armor. He stopped walking and looked at the hedgehog with his red eyes, "Biological, but different. Your seem twenty, but your body chemistry is younger. Your heart is only a year old, your arm is only about a month." His voice sounded like a low echo.

"I'm a regenerator! My heart was ripped out by a bot and I had my arm blasted off by one of Luxor's troops. What are you?"

"My designation is unknown! But my mission is clear! To eradicate all biological life! Purge! That is what I will be known as."

Sperk readied his halberd, "Your not eradicating anything today."

"You do not have the means to stop me!" He looked to the sky. The black clouds were being consumed by the yellow storm clouds, "The world is collapsing. Killing Luxor has sped up the destruction. Escape is the only option." Purge looked back toward Sperk, "You will die along with your world. There is no need to waste time on you."

"Don't ignore me!" Sperk swung his halberd.

Purge caught it with his left talon and snapped it in two, "How primitive!" His right talon sparked with violet energy. He held it out and a bolt of energy blasted Sperk to the outskirts of the city. He hit the ground hard and rolled to his feet. Purge simply walked out of the city. When he got to Sperk's landing spot, all that was their was a small hole, "Trying to surprise me." He jumped into the air and landed on the roof of a crumbling building, "You can't burst out of the ground up here."

"But I am up here!" Purge looked up and Sperk dropped from the sky and landed a crimson glowing punch into his face. Purge stumbled a bit. Sperk dropped to the roof and curled up into a ball. He spun around and slammed into Purge. The bot fell off the roof and hit the ground. Sperk bounced into the air and slammed into the fallen Purge. Both fell through the street and hit the old subway tunnel below. Sperk uncurled and snapped a small box from the back of his belt. He hit a button on it and jumped out of the hole. The box beeped and exploded. Sperk ran out of the city as the street collapsed in on itself. Sperk chuckled as he sat down, "Not as tough as I thought." A black talon like hand busted through the ground. Sperk jumped to his feet, "I'll let the storms have this one." He ran toward the ruins of Knothole.

As he reached the ruined village, the storms had doubled in intensity. The black lighting shot more frequently and the sound of thunder filled the air. He reached Sally's hut and walked in, "Princess!" He spotted an open trap door in the floor. He jumped into through and landed atop a stone staircase, "Princess!"

"Down here!" The voice came from a open doorway.

Sperk jumped down the stairs and walked what looked like a lab. Busted computers were everywhere. The old squirrel was standing in front of a red computer terminal. A large red arch was against the back wall. A green gem shined at the top of it, "What is this?"

"A time portal. Rotor was working on it before he died."

"I thought the past was fixed."

Sally shook her head, "I had a vision of that thing you fought going back in time. I was going to use this to send a message back, but I can't get any power to it."

The room shook as the world started to shake, "This plane as little time left." He held his right had out. A crimson beam shot from it and hit the gem. It glowed and a blue portal appeared within the arch, "Send the message!"

"I'll deliver the message for you." Purge appeared in the doorway. With speed that seemed imposable for a bot of his size. He dove at the portal and entered it.

"Damn it!" Sperk kept the power flowing, "GO!"

"You should go!"

Sperk shook his head, "I need to keep supplying this thing power. Go! Warn my father!" Sally nodded and walked to the arch. Sperk reached into his coat and pulled out a small crimson emerald, "Give this to my dad!" He tossed her the emerald and she entered the portal. Sperk dropped his arm, "Damn! This was all our fault." The room shook again and he sprinted out of it. He reached the surface and saw the ground begin to crumble, "This place is tearing itself apart." He took off running as the ground and storm clouds exploded behind him. He reached the crimson dome of energy and jumped in. He stopped running and looked behind him. The storm clouds had covered the ground and was coming closer. Sperk walked over to the sleeping Lara and the statue that was his father. The clouds had penetrated the dome and was coming closer. Sperk sighed and sat down, "Now it is all up to our past." The clouds enveloped him and the timeline collapsed.