Author's Note: Sorry that the last chapter wasn't as good as I had hoped. I will try and make it up for it.

To gregorian12: Thanks for your help with this chapter, by the way. Really appreciate it!

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


Chapter 7: Sonic Times Two.

Just when Young Sonic was getting closer to what he thought was his older, alternate self, he was blocked off by more of Robotnik's badniks, the Egg-Robos which annoyed him to no end despite that smashing the evil doctor's toys tended to be enjoyable most of the time. Because not only they keep getting in the way even though he did have fun in taking them out sometimes, but it was delaying him on reaching both Sonic and the Chaos Emerald, which would only give the evil doctor more of a chance to catch up with him.

"Hey! Not cool!" The young blue hedgehog yelled, before he Spin Dashed into the one that was currently blocking his path. He made an impressive damage that he teared right through it's torso and landed behind it while the robot exploded. But that distracted him to be whacked by another Egg-Bot when it smacked him to the side and he nearly fell off the ledge but thankfully skid to a stop, hitting the ground hard before leaping back up, glaring at the piece of automatic junk responsible.

When the Egg-Bot then fired a laser at him, the eleven year old speedster dodged at the last second to the right and then sped up forward before he Spin Dashed into it, causing to stumble backwards and then the young blue hedgehog jumped and stomped onto it's head with a good hard kick before leaping off and landed safely. Young Sonic then ran while the robot exploded into pieces.

"Don't mess with this hedgehog, pal!" Young Sonic taunted as he glanced at the remains of it and gave it a raspberry. Though this only caused a distraction because as he didn't look where he was going, the young blue hedgehog suddenly felt the ground disappear, and realized too late before he looked down to see that he literally ran off a cliff and was about to fall through the clouds below.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Young Sonic screamed in panic, flailing his arms and legs as his heart pounded furiously in his chest. "NOOOOOOOOOO!"

Just when he thought he was about to fall to his death, to his surprise, he found himself landing onto a cloud which actually sprung him up like a spring, only more cushioned and lighter, but still effective. He was bounced up and landed on another higher one, and higher, and higher he went towards the next platform and safer part. Standing on the clouds were also more robots, which the young blue hedgehog, having an idea, bounced even harder and jumped even higher before he Spin Dashed into the robot before jumped into it's head and bounced on another cloud, while his latest opponent, easily defeated, stumbled and fell towards it's demise.

"Heh! This is more fun than a trampoline! Who needs a spring?" The young blue hedgehog chuckled excitedly, his fear of falling mostly gone and eventually landed onto the other part of Sky Sanctuary. Wasting no more time, the eleven year old hero sped off while saying to himself. "Pity that this place is empty, 'cause whoever used to live here must've lived in paradise or something. It's like a perfect island for angels in heaven."

Unknowingly thinking correctly of this place's second name, Young Sonic smirked as an idea came into mind. "Hey, I like that. I'll call this place Angel Island 'til I learn it's real name. Ha! I come up with way better and cooler names than Ro-butt-nik does."

Racing his way through, he was then forced to a stop when up ahead there was a sudden flash of light that caught his eye. It was so bright that he yelped before shielding his eyes until it faded, then lowered his arm to see that the light was gone, all that was left were a fountain and...to his confusion, a wreck of another large robot.

"What the?" The young hero of Alternate-Mobius muttered, with an raised eyebrow and a sweat drop. Walking towards the remains of Robotnik's creation, Young Sonic found that it looked like it had been given a beating into next week. He whistled, half-guessing who did this. "I dunno what kind of upgraded skills the other me has, but this big guy sure had a real good beating."

He then realized that the mysterious flash of light might've been Sonic, who, unknowingly to the younger, alternate-hero, along with his new friend Red, had already found the Sol Emerald and vanished to return to Knuckles.

"But, if it was Sonic, where'd he go and how'd he disappear in that white light?" Young Sonic thought, crossing his arms in thought, before gasping in slight worry. He glanced around while muttering in dismay. "Oh no! Don't tell me he's already found the third Chaos Emerald! If he did, then how do I get outta here?"

No sooner had the words escaped his mouth, the eleven year old then felt the familiar warm radiance and pulse from the two other Chaos Emeralds he found earlier.

"Huh?" Puzzled, Young Sonic pulled out the green and red Emeralds from his quills and noticed that they were both glowing brightly, not as bright as when he would burrow some of their power, he recognized this vibe. Frowning in confusion, the young blue hedgehog glanced around while he was trying to figure out what was going on. As he turned into the direction that he was going, the Chaos Emeralds seemed to be getting stronger.

While he had no idea what was going on, Young Sonic decided to follow the same direction that he was going, and walked up slowly since he didn't want to lose the two he'd already found. He'd normally run since walking was pretty slow going, but he didn't want to miss what the Chaos Emeralds were reacting to, so he followed his instincts. Eventually the young blue hedgehog saw his Emeralds glow brighter which told him that he was so close, that it was...right around the corner between two pillars. Curious, Young Sonic approached carefully and to his surprise and relief, it was the third promised Chaos Emerald, a purple one.

"Well, that explains why these two reacted. But if so, then, what was that light and where'd the other Sonic go?" The young blue hedgehog murmured in confusion, putting the first two Emeralds into his quills and approached the purple third one before picking it up. But as he did, another sight caught his eye. When he looked up, his eyes widened and he gasped in bewilderment, dumbstruck as he saw a tall figure with an unmistakable mustache.

In a statue form, standing next to Chaos Emerald, and like Young Tails and Young Amy, this figure had lost all of his colour, as the hero of Alternate-Mobius saw that it was a human, and shockingly very familiar.

"What!? Robotnik!? But...how...what...how can this be?" Young Sonic exclaimed, still dumbstruck, before he noticed that this Robotnik looked a little different; rather than the red jacket, the Robotnik/Eggman look-alike was wearing a lab coat, with a shocked and seemingly dismayed look, and he looked...thinner, too, and nowhere near egg-shaped. He was unaware that this was actually Dr. Ovi Kintobor, who has suffered the same fate as almost everyone else.

Though he did come up with a spooky theory, which again made no sense. "Wait a minute...Could he be...Eggman? But, I thought the other guys said he was eaten. Unless this is Buttnik's twin brother or something. Another question is...what's he doing here?" The young blue hedgehog said thoughtfully, folding his arms in confusion, still unable to believe what he was seeing.

Before Young Sonic could pounder this any further, the Chaos Emerald reacted and like Sonic and Red earlier, a bright light shone which forced him to shield his eyes while he cried out. As it then faded, he looked around and found that he was back in the white place, except this time he was somehow behind the Mushroom Hill at another entrance, and the statue of Kintobor was somehow brought with him. Yet he wasn't returned to normal.

"Hmmm...Guess this guy's gonna need something else to turn back to normal. This is definitely weird." The young blue hedgehog stated, just before he heard his two friends call out his name. When Young Sonic looked, Young Tails and Young Amy approached, looking very relieved. Feeling just as relieved to see them as well, he waved casually with a smirk. "Hiya, guys. You doin' okay?"

"Yeah, we're fi-WHA!?" The four year old fox cut himself off when he saw the statue of Kintobor and exclaimed in shock. "R-Robotnik!? What happened to him!?"

"I thought you said you saw him, Sonic." The eight year old pink hedgehog muttered, just as shocked and confused.

"I did, and well, I have no idea who this guy is or why he looks like Ro-butt-nik. At first I thought it was this Eggman guy the other us know of, but that doesn't make any sense." Young Sonic shrugged cluelessly. "The next best guess I can come up with is that he's the good twin brother that none of us heard of."

"...Maybe. But there's something really odd about this. Unless..." Young Tails began thoughtfully, only to be interrupted when the three young Alternate-Mobians heard some sort machinery noise echo around the area. Glancing around to see what it was, they quickly turned their attention to what they saw was another portal like giant ring which the young blue hedgehog realized was just like the one that brought him out of the Casino Night.

And for a split second, they saw a cobalt blue blur run past them from the other side, and, feeling the sudden instincts to follow, Young Sonic softly gasped as he realized that he needed to investigate.

"Guess the mystery of the Robotnik-wanna-be is gonna have to wait! I'll be back!" He declared, tucking the third Chaos Emerald into his quills before dashing off, leaping into the portal and unknowingly following his older, alternate self.

"Wait, Sonic!" Young Tails cried out as he and Young Amy ran up a bit, but stopped as they realized that their friend had gotten too far...and they were in the sight of their older, alternate selves along with Silver, Red and the recently saved Knuckles, the latter two staring at the Alternate-Mobians in shock, the red echidna more so than the Moebian Hedgehog.

"It's them." Silver muttered in disbelief, which his voice was heard because the younger two Mobians turned around and blinked in surprise to find that they had company.

"What? What the?" Knuckles asked, dumbfounded and bewildered to see two of Tails and two of Amy.

"Uh...Are they your younger brother and sister?" Red asked curiously to Tails and Amy who both silently shook their heads in negative response.

Still bewildered even as the younger Tails and younger Amy approached, the red echidna turned to the nine year old fox and asked. "Tails, what is going on?"

"I...don't know yet. I'm still as lost as you are." Tails replied, once again rubbing the back of his head.

"If you like, maybe I can help you figure it out." Young Tails offered.

"Good idea! Thanks." The older Tails replied happily.

Silver groaned, facepalming himself as he grumbled in his mind. 'Great. Just when things couldn't get more complicated. Plus I really need to ask Sonic how he managed to save Scourge's little brother and yet I still remember Ovi telling me that the poor kid was supposed to be dead.'

"Excuse me, but um, are those three your friends?" Young Amy asked her older, alternate self, gesturing at the still dumbstruck Knuckles, exasperated Silver and curious Red who blinked.

"Yes, they are." Amy giggled, introducing her younger self, alternate self to the trio as Tails did the same with his alternate, younger self after remembering. "That's our friend, Knuckles the Echidna. He's a good, but sometimes he's, as Sonic would put it, a real knucklehead."

"Hey!" The aforementioned Guardian yelled, annoyed over the nickname, before growling to himself. "When Sonic gets back, I'm gonna get him for this."

Amy ignored him and continued to her younger, alternate self while gesturing at the two Moebians. "And our two new friends Silver, and Red."

After the two younger Mobians greeted the trio, with the red echidna still in shock, Young Tails, who had been stunned to actually met an actual echidna since he thought all echidna people were extinct, then asked Tails curiously, "Um, just curious. Do you know anything about Robotnik having a brother or something?"

"No, but I do know that Eggman used to have a cousin named Maria. Why?" Tails replied, blinking.

"Well...the Sonic we know found somebody and...You gotta come see." The younger fox replied awkwardly, gently pulling his older self to where Kintobor was, with Young Amy gesturing Amy to follow her, while Red and Silver shared a curious glance before following, and Knuckles, dumbfounded over the situation, shrugged and simply joined the others.

When Young Tails and Young Amy returned to where the frozen man was, to say that Tails, Amy and Knuckles were shocked was an understatement.

"HUH!? EGGMAN!?" The trio exclaimed in disbelief.

"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!? I THOUGHT SONIC SAID HE WAS EATEN!" Knuckles exclaimed, now just as lost and demanding to know.

It wasn't until Tails noticed something odd and different about the frozen figure, and, getting a closer look, realized something. "Um, Knuckles? I don't think this is Eggman at all. Something's different with this guy, and he's wearing a lab coat."

"Huh?" The seventeen year old echidna blinked, before looking more closely himself and raised an eyebrow. "...I can see why your youngerself asked if Eggman had a brother."

"Yeah, he does look a little bit different, but it still looks like Eggman." Amy remarked, confused.

While the Mobians were confused over this, it wasn't until they were all corrected when both Silver and Red got a better and closer look at the man, because both Moebian hedgehogs gasped in shock, disbelief and horror, exclaiming in unison. "Dr. Kintobor!"

Silver and Red ran over to the man they knew from their world, which surprised the two Tails, the two Amys and Knuckles who stumbled back as the latter was unceremoniously shoved aside by the future hedgehog before crashing onto the ground, grunting. "Ouch!"

"Dr. Kintobor! Ovi? Hello, Moebius to Ovi?" Red called out, waving his hand to his frozen best friend.

"Red...I think the only way to get him to talk is to return to normal." Silver muttered, the reality of the situation sinking in as his guilt grew stronger and strong, the sight of the kind doctor ached his heart. To see his friend like this...it was unforgivable. Worst part is, as much as he wanted to kill Scourge for this mess, he didn't want to upset Red now that the younger sibling of the evil green hedgehog was alive, thanks to Sonic's rescue.

"Dr...Kintobor?" Young Tails blinked, confused.

"Wait a second...you mean this is Dr. Kintobor you briefly told us about, Silver?" Tails asked in realization and shock. He and his younger self then shared another glance in deep thought.

"I think this calls for further investigation until both Sonics come back." The four year old kit suggested.

"Couldn't said it better myself." The nine year old kit agreed.

"Who's Dr. Kintobor?" Young Amy asked her older self as the two pink hedgehogs shared a glance as well.

Amy shrugged while pointing at Kintobor's statue-like state. "The Robotnik and Eggman look-alike, apparently."

Knuckles, still grumbling, stood up and groaned as he felt that his brain was about to explode. "Can somebody PLEASE tell me what the heck is going on?"

Everyone else shared another glance while Red gazed heart-brokenly and worriedly at Kintobor and hoped that Sonic would return soon to restore the good doctor back to normal. As Silver had said, things had just gotten more complicated.


While things had gotten more and more confusing with his friends outside, Sonic soon found himself in a black room that looked horribly familiar. He had no idea what he about to face in this place, but he was on his guard and kept an eye out for anything suspicious.

'This place...I think I'm in the Death Egg.' The sixteen year old hedgehog thought to himself as he walked, as the area was all dark and it seemed to be somewhat empty. 'Hmm...It's pretty dull and boring in here. There's not even a single robot buzzing around.'

As the blue hedgehog walked, he couldn't help but think back on how he nervously attempted to reveal what has happened to Knuckles, and the gut-wrenching feeling on how the red echidna was going to react. His heart ached in unbearable guilt over his own actions, and he knew for certain that the Guardian of the Master Emerald was going to be furious with him. Assuming Tails and Amy haven't broken the news already.

Though his friend can be forgiving, he was also too gulliable for his own good, and such a knucklehead. Plus, if nothing else, chances were the hero's self-proclaimed girlfriend will give the echidna a very good reason not to blame it all on Sonic...with a good hard clobbering with that hammer of hers to knock said reason into him.

"No rest for the hedgehog. I'll live." Sonic shrugged to himself, before something up ahead caught his attention. There was a door that seemed to be high up on a wall, with no stairs and the only way up was to jump up high. Not that it was a problem for the athletic teenager like himself.

But as he began approaching it, he noticed what appeared to be a mirror, all wrapped up like those in the mirror attractions in carnivals, but unknowingly to him it was just a see-through glass. Pausing next to it as it was on his right, Sonic saw what he thought was his reflection. But when he got a better look, he saw that something very strange about it.

"Hm?" He murmured, blinking at saw that his 'reflection' looked to be the same height as when he was eleven years old. Raising an eye, Sonic saw that his mirror-image lacked the emerald green eyes, the irisis were all black in a friendly way, his blue fur was a bit lighter, and his quills were either a tad longer or a tad shorter.

Puzzled, the cobalt hedgehog did a few number of things to make sure that he was seeing it right; he half turned to check his shoulders, ran a hand through his quills, blinked, bend sideways from left to right, rubbed and patted his stomach, tapped the tips of his shoes...all of this reflected just fine. Sonic then knocked the glass to make sure his eyes weren't playing tricks on him.

'Huh? Did that portal make me like this? What's going on?' The teenage hero thought, feeling very shocked, and utterly fully unaware that it wasn't a reflection at all.

It was Young Sonic who thought of the exact same thing, except he had another thought in his mind as, while thinking that the older hedgehog was also a reflection, felt that there was something extremely familiar about him.

All thoughts of the reflection were then interrupted and quickly forgotten when Sonic then heard, that awfully familiar voice he hasn't heard in three months, one that he half-expected and feared to hear again, given what Scourge has told him, his theories since coming to this place.

"Take a good look at yourself, Sonic!" The voice declared, making Sonic turn to the source of it, and unaware that Young Sonic mentally gasped when saw that he wasn't looking at his 'reflection' at all, but at his older, alternate self, up close unexpectedly.

'It's him! The other Sonic! Whoa, he's more cooler up close!' Young Sonic thought, beyond shocked to have unexpectedly finally see the cobalt hedgehog this close, with the glass being the only thing separating them. Then, remembering the voice as he knew it was Robotnik, the younger blue hedgehog turned his attention to the door and glared at it.

"No...Dr. Eggman!?" Sonic shakily asked in a whisper, his heart stopping and dropping as his guilt rose up to it's peak, yet still fully unaware of what wasn't the Eggman he knew. 'He really is here...! What've I done!?'

"It's the last look you'll get before I close your eyes forever!" Robotnik/Eggman shouted, before laughing evilly. "Oh ho ho ho ho ho ho!"

Young Sonic clutched his fists, not sure what was going on, and whether it was Robotnik or Eggman since his mind whirled on how the latter could possibly still be alive considering what his older self had said, not seeing that Sonic was just as shocked and horrified on Eggman's survival either.

So instead, he decided to take the matters into his own hands and yelled out, "Oh yeah!? We'll see about that, Ro-butt-nik!"

"Huh!?" Sonic exclaimed, upon hearing the other voice and turned to the glass once more, gasping in shock and disbelief that it wasn't his reflection after all, because he saw his younger, alternate self for the very first time without even realizing it until now.

"Another Sonic?" The blue hedgehog muttered to himself, blinking. He then remembered what Tails had told him and now finally understood what his friend, along with Amy and Silver were trying to tell him. 'So they were telling the truth after all. How can this be?'

"STOP CALLING ME THAT, YOU LITTLE BRAT!" Robotnik yelled to the younger Sonic from the other side of the door.

The young blue hedgehog said nothing, and instead he leaped right into the opening, leaving the blue hedgehog, still dumbstruck, behind.

"What!?" Sonic exclaimed, before calling out to Young Sonic as he quickly followed to catch up and jumped as well. "Wait a second!"

Unfortunately, just seconds after the Alternate-Sonic leaped right through, the doors slammed shut before Sonic could reach them, causing the older hedgehog to be knocked back and land from where he jumped from. Quickly recovering and leaping to his feet, Sonic jumped and Spin Dashed to break through, but was knocked away again as his path was blocked.

"HEY! Let me through! Other Sonic! EGGMAN!" The teenage hero screamed out, frustrated and desperate. He had no idea what was going on, but now that he was positive that his enemy was alive, and now another version of the hedgehog was, strangely still calling him Ro-butt-nik, was about to face him.

Sonic couldn't just stand there or break the news to his friends, and while he was certain that his other self, being just like him except looking a bit different in appearance, and was about eleven years old, which everything he'd seen and heard started to make sense, he was worried that Eggman could kill Young Sonic given the years of experience. So instead, the cobalt hero of Mobius decided to keep trying and keep on attacking the door until he broke it down.


Young Sonic felt guilty for leaving Sonic behind again, and thought that maybe he should've waited, but after the last time in having his older, alternate self save his life from the dragon which he fought and obviously defeated, he didn't want to put the cobalt hedgehog's life on the line right now and while he was younger, the young blue hedgehog had more than enough experiences when it comes to fighting Robotnik.

The eleven year old ran and jumped from the underside of the Death Egg before landing onto the metal platform, looking around for any signs of the evil doctor.

'Ugh. Back here again already. That Buttnik really likes his Death Egg, doesn't he?' The young blue hedgehog grumbled in his mind while keeping his eyes peeled for the fat man.

His thoughts were interrupted yet again when something came crashing through the ceiling, causing Young Sonic to whirl around and saw a giant robot that, as usual, looked like an egg with rocket arms that had spikes, and the cockpit having spikes on top as well, and inside was the aforementioned evil scientist piloting it, grinning away madly. It was definitely the Robotnik he knew.

"You may have gotten ahead of me, Sonic, but this time you won't be getting out of this so easy!" Robotnik declared darkly.

"Oh, look. It's a giant talking egg." Young Sonic remarked sarcastically with a bored expression, his arms crossed while he tapped his foot.

"Laugh all you want, hedgehog!" The evil man growled, his grin quickly replaced by an angry scowl. "My Death-Egg-Robo will blow you up into pieces, and once I'm through with you, the Chaos Emeralds will be mine!"

The young blue hedgehog rolled his eyes, before saying with a smirk and a taunt. "Ya' know, with all of the names you come up with being mostly about eggs, including the Death Egg, I should add, maybe I should stop calling you Ro-butt-nik and start calling you Eggman instead."

"E-Eggman!? Why you little...!" Robotnik grunted, his face turning bright red in anger and humiliation once more. If Ro-butt-nik wasn't bad enough, now he had to deal with the latest taunting nickname of Eggman, which, as Scourge hasn't told him yet, was exactly the new, permanent name for his own alternate-self who was no longer around and wasn't even here. "I will destroy you right here and now!"

"Whatever you say...Eggman!" Young Sonic snickered, trying hard not to laugh. 'Ha ha! I really like that name! Gotta thank the other me for that idea, especially since the real Eggman was probably calling himself that after how many years. Guess Ro-butt-nik started to get old for him.'

"It's Ro-butt-nik!" Robotnik yelled, before realizing what he just said and quickly stuttered. "Uh, I-I mean, Eggman-no, no! Robotnik! OH! You get the idea!"

That set the eleven year old off as he then burst into laughter, continuing his tanunts. "Aw, is your memory starting to go, Buttnik? Or should I say, Eggman? I can't tell which suits you perfectly."

This only made Robotnik furious, pounding the dashboard as he threw a major tantrum. "Oh, SHUT UP! You won't escape me this time! Prepare to die!"

"Yeah, no thanks." Young Sonic replied, once his laughter ceased and he stood into a battle position, this time serious. "How about I smash your big toy instead?"

Robotnik growled even more, before he controlled the robot which had it's huge arm thrust down on the young blue hedgehog. However the hero of Alternate-Mobius easily dodged and ran around to keep on dodging, even as the evil scientist tried to grab hold of him. Young Sonic laughed before pulling his lower eye-lid and stuck his tongue out, which made the evil doctor even more irritated than he already was. He then had the robot jump to crush the eleven year old, but Young Sonic smirked before Spin Dashing right underneath and safely behind it when it landed in a huge thud that shook the platform, but he managed to keep his balance.

Young Sonic then used his Spin Jump right up to the back of the cockpit and smashed it hard, causing Robotnik to stumble forward in his seat which made the robot also stumble forward and almost losing it's balance. The young hedgehog attacked with a mid-air Spin Dash once which caused his opponent to fall flat forward before he landed safely. To his shock, the evil doctor, groaning after face-planting into the glass and rubbing his sore face, reposition himself and the machine, having it turn around to face the eleven year old hero.

"Tough ol' egg to crack, but that's nothing new." Young Sonic thought aloud, recovering from his shock as he knew that this shouldn't really surprise him while shaking his head.

"Hold still, you little hedgehog!" Robotnik shouted, pushing several buttons which had one of the arms aimed at the young Alternate-Mobian after stomping a step towards him, and fired a rocket missile. The eleven year old hedgehog quickly jumped back just as it hit the platform and exploded, before Young Sonic quickly Spin Dashed into the giant robot again, hitting it and causing it to stumble backwards a little.

"Me, hold still? Yeah right." The young blue hedgehog responded, before running out of the way again when the evil scientist attempted to grab him with his robot once more. "You gotta do better than that, slow poke!"

"I have a much better way to defeat you, Sonic!" The evil man cackled confidently, attempting to punch the eleven year old. Young Sonic quickly dodged and ducked just in time when Robotnik attempted to punch him again, before trying to crush him by having his robot to jump once more. The young blue hedgehog Spin Dashed underneath him once more and repeated the last strategy by Spin Jumping at the back again, making the evil man cry out in alarm before falling forward in his seat.

Young Sonic was about to Spin Dash into the robot again, but Robotnik recovered quickly and grinned, before having the machine to swipe it's left arm backwards and to the young hero's shock, smacked him hard where the young blue hedgehog was sent flying backwards and screamed before hitting the platform hard, rolling and skidding to a stop just at the edge. Hissing in pain at the unexpected surprise attack, the eleven year old glared hard when his enemy turned and stomped towards him. Ignoring his injuries and flipping back the right way up, he ran out of the way when evil man attempted to either punch or grab him, and when neither one worked, he fired several rockets which repeatedly missed as the young blue hedgehog kept on running around in circles.

While he was running faster and faster, his enemy was already becoming more and more frustrated, and more and more dizzy while trying to keep the young blue hedgehog in his target line and sight but was having trouble. In fact, Robotnik became so dizzy that his robot was stumbling due to this and he was seeing stars and miniture Young Sonics circle his head that he ended up dazed and the robot just standing there, all wobbling. It gave Young Sonic a chance to stop and Spin Dash into the machine again before he leaped as high as he could before running up the arm towards the cockpit. Wasting no time, he Spin Dashed into it, which brought Robotnik back to his senses, but by the time he did it was already too late.

"Hi, Eggman!" Young Sonic taunted as he leaped away, waving at the evil fat man who screamed while trying to hold on as his robot began falling backwards.

But before the young blue hedgehog could even land, Robotnik grinned while, with some struggle before his robot collasped onto it's back, pushed a button which had it's arm swipe at the young hero who was hit and caught by surprise. He cried out in pain and alarm by the unsuspected attack and gasped as he was falling straight towards and over the edge. Thinking quickly, Young Sonic reached and grabbed hold of the edge of the platform which was pretty high as he realized now that the platform had gotten higher before stopping about a good height that could easily kill him if he fell.

"Okay, not cool. That slimy fathead of Ro-butt-nik!" The young blue hedgehog grunted as he began to quickly climb back up before his enemy could finish him off.


Meanwhile, Sonic was using his Homing Attack to break through the doors, smashing through by creating a hole in it as he did back near Mythical Ruins during the Chaos Crisis, and landed safely before glaring at the path where he knew 'Eggman' and Young Sonic were, probably already fighting by now. It peeved him that not only his enemy was seemingly indeed still alive, and furious with himself having caused this to happen, but he was also missing out on the action.

But that didn't mean he couldn't join in, especially now that he was in and he had this chance to battle his enemy once more after three months of absence.

"Eggman! You may be alive because of my stupidity from three months ago, but I'm gonna make up for that mistake! And I'm gonna beat you, Scourge and that giant monster, wherever you found it! Because you're not gonna be walking out of this one, not even on MY BIRTHDAY!" Sonic declared with pure determination, and without further ado, he sped forward to find his alternate, younger self and the evil scientist to settle the score with the latter.

The blue hedgehog ran in high speed and grunted when he saw the platform already really high up. He could hear the commotion of the battle from above before the sixteen year old used his boost ability to get to the higher part and immediately ran up the wall to catch up with Young Sonic and 'Eggman' as quickly as he could. As he was getting closer, he gasped in horror when he heard his younger, alternate self scream and saw the young blue hedgehog almost fall off the edge of the platform.

"NO!" Sonic cried out in alarm, but when he saw Young Sonic quickly grab hold of the edge and saving himself, glaring up at above him, the blue hedgehog sighed in relief and smiled softly at his younger self's reflexes, whispering. "He really is me when I was his age."

Deciding that now would be an excellent time to join in the battle, Sonic, unknowingly to the young blue hedgehog, neared the platform and narrowed his eyes to begin fighting 'Eggman' himself, thinking. 'Ya' did more than enough, Sonic. Now let me take over!'


"HAHAHAHAHAHA! AH HA HA HA HA HA! End of the line, Sonic! Finally, I'll be rid of you forever!" Robotnik laughed manically as he, while the robot had already began malfunctioning but attempted to ignore this, made it stand up and began to approach the edge of the platform, ready to finish off Young Sonic once and for all...

Unaware that Sonic had just leaped from the wall he'd been running on, jumping high into the air and glared down at the giant robot and, not getting a full good look at Robotnik, mistook him for his enemy from his world and glared down hard.

"EGGMAN!" The teenage hedgehog screamed in anger and determination, Homing Attacked towards the machine and Robotnik who, hearing his newest nickname from behind, looked over his shoulder and was shocked to see a ball of cobalt blue blur fly straight towards him in the same speed as the eleven year old hedgehog.

"HUH!?" Robotnik exclaimed, before screaming in alarm as he and his 'toy' were hit so hard that one of the arms almost broke off but it was enough to cause the robot to fall back onto it's back with a loud thud, while he hit the back of his head on his chair. "OW! What!?"

"Huh!?" Young Sonic, who was just about to leap up back onto the platform, heard the angry scream, exclaimed in disbelief and shock as he recognized the voice of his older, alternate self. "Could it be...?"

Sonic landed onto the platform and stood ready to continue the fight his alternate self had been up against, facing the robot as he waited for the evil doctor to rise up, while the younger Sonic finally leaped up and landed next to him, causing the older hedgehog to glance at him, and the two Sonics blinked in surprise, not having expected to be standing side-by-side.

"Whoa...!" The two hedgehogs murmured in awe, before the furious yell, and pained grunt from Robotnik caught their attention and turned back to the evil man who, with his robot breaking apart even more, sparks covering parts of it's body due to Young Sonic's attacks, stood up and glaring down at both of them.

Robotnik was about to yell at the newcomer, only to gasp, dumbstruck to see the teenage Sonic. "WHAT!? You're here!?"

Sonic was about to respond when he finally got a good front look of this Eggman, and, for the first time all day, now felt even more confused as this man did look a lot like Eggman, except like the blue hedgehog's younger self, Robotnik was five years younger, and wearing a different red coat with a yellow collar...and was a bit more fat too.

"Wait a sec...You're not the Eggman I know!" He finally realized. "You're just like him, but...WHAT'S GOING ON!?"

"So you're the one who gave that little pincushion the idea of this horrid 'Eggman' name, huh?" Robotnik grunted as he realized that Young Sonic had gotten it from Sonic. "First Ro-butt-nik and now this!"

While the teenage blue hedgehog still felt utterly mixed with feelings of pure confusion, shock, disbelief, everything related to bewilderment, his guilt rising and falling all over the place like waves during a storm at sea, the forced himself to calm down and rolled his eyes over this Eggman's complaints.

"Sheesh, you're acting just like that Eggster too, only from five years ago. Guess some things really aren't that much different." Sonic rolled his eyes, while his younger, alternate self snickered in laughter, though Young Sonic did mentally cringe at the fact that Robotnik had figured out where the name Eggman had come from.

"And you're just like Sonic, you teenage just as irritating hedgehog! I hate YOU already!" The alternate-Eggman snarled, his face once again turning bright red in the face.

"Well, that's because I'm also Sonic the Hedgehog! Plus, as far as we're concerned, Baldy Nosehair, you're still Eggman in my book!" Sonic responded.

That made Young Sonic laugh when he heard the newer nickname. "HAHAHA!Baldy Nosehair!? That's the best thing I've heard all day! I've gotta remember that one!"

Sonic smirked, chuckling as he gave the younger Sonic a wink. "That's exactly what I said when I first heard it, dude."

"AUGH! That's it! I'm CRUSHING YOU BOTH, SONIC!" Robotnik yelled, now really mad as he furiously and mindlessly bashed down several buttons to finish the two Sonics and the robot's arms then fired more rockets at the duo who stopped laughing and yelped before jumped out of the way on both sides.

But while Sonic was busy attempting to find a way to attack Robotnik, the evil man saw this chance to grab him by luring Young Sonic into a trap and had the robot's arm thrust out to grab him. The young blue hedgehog saw this and gasped before Spin Dashing quickly to get up to his older, alternate self.

"Sonic, look out!" Young Sonic cried out, and successfully pushed Sonic to the floor quickly while the latter yelped, and his eyes widened when his younger, alternate self then stood up and Spin Dashed right into the palm of the mechanical hand, tearing it off and it flew high before falling over the platform.

"NO! You horrid little hedgehog!" Robotnik cried out in dismay, placing his hands on his head.

While the younger Sonic landed beside the older hedgehog, Sonic was surprised by the unexpected save and, finally understanding how the kid he saved earlier before rescuing Red, realized that the blue kid from before is actually Young Sonic, which is one of the reasons why the voice was familiar, and how the younger hedgehog knew his name.

"Hey, thanks Sonic." Sonic thanked his younger self, though it felt very strange to be talking to another version of himself, but he'll worry about that later.

"Just returning the favor when you saved me." Young Sonic replied, looking over his shoulder, giving his older self a wink and a thumbs up, to which Sonic returned the gesture.

"Whaddya say we finish off Ro-butt-nik together, huh, pal?" The blue hedgehog suggested, and the younger blue hedgehog nodded in agreement, think of the exact same thing.

"What's what you two little pests think!" Robotnik growled, having his robot to attack again. But unfortunately for him, the two Sonics did a double Spin Dash by tearing off both the remains of the right arm and then while Young Sonic Spin Jumped at the other harm and chest, Sonic Homing Attacked at the cockpit and back, the two super fast heroes of the two Mobius attacking the robot which now stood no chance at all.

The two blue hedgehogs then leaped into the air and held hands, performing the double Spin Dash they'd normally use with Tails and Young Tails, only this time it was double effective. Sonic and Young Sonic zoomed straight down and through the back of the robot and out of the chest, and since it was now standing at the edge of the platform, it lost it's balance before it fell, along with Robotnik who, seeing that he was defeated again by not one but TWO Sonics, the younger one having already done heavy damage, was horrified beyond belief.

"What!? NO! No, the controls won't respond!" Robotnik screamed out, hanging on for dear life. "I HATE THOSE HEDGEHOGS!"

While Sonic and Young Sonic were relieved to have finished this battle, they both realized that they hanging in mid-air before sharing a wide-eyed glance before they screamed as they too fell to the ground below, in what looked like the remains of a launch base.


He had no idea how long he was out cold, but when Sonic finally came to for the second time today, he groaned before pushing himself up, discovering that he'd just landed in a crater that was made from the impact of Robotnik's Death-Egg-Robo which was left in pieces. Rubbing his head which ached upon crashing onto the floor and mentally asking himself how he was still alive from a fall like that, the teenage hedgehog looked around and saw Young Sonic, sprawled onto the floor but also waking up and pushing himself to his knees.

"Ow...Talk about a splitting headache." The younger hedgehog groaned, rubbing his head as well.

Sonic couldn't help but sigh in huge relief despite that everything he saw was indeed real, and stood up before approaching Young Sonic and held out his hand to help him up. "Hey, are you alright?"

Looking up to see his older, alternate self offering to help him up, the young blue hedgehog nodded, taking the blue hedgehog's hand and stood up as the two stared at each other more calmly and fully for the very first time, still bewildered at this discovery, and that the older Sonic now knew that Tails, Amy and Silver really did see the younger Sonic. Well, at least the nine year old fox did.

"I can't believe there's two of me." Sonic couldn't help but state, placing a hand onto his head. "Today's just gotten more and more crazy."

"I know, right?" Young Sonic agreed, pointing at himself and his older, alternate self. "I can't believe Tikal knew about you and that there's both of us."

The blue hedgehog blinked in surprise as he asked. "Tikal approached you too?"

The young blue hedgehog nodded and then explained everything how he, Young Tails and Young Amy gotten into this place, about the giant monster, Tikal asking him to find the Chaos Emeralds, Young Sonic himself having seen Sonic and Tails and sheepishly been following the blue hedgehog, or at least trying too since then, right up to just before they saw each other fully for the first time outside of this room.

"Sorry. It's just that, I really wanna know what's going on, and I thought you'd have at least some of the answers." Young Sonic apologized after he finished explaining.

"Don't worry about it. It's no biggie. Besides, it explains quite a few things that I've seen today. Boy am I glad that Scourge didn't fight you." Sonic replied, totally forgiving.

"You fought that guy?" The younger hedgehog asked, shocked, and when the cobalt teenager nodded grimly. "Do you know who he really is?"

"Well, I have some info on him, based on what Silver and Red told me. Let me tell you, that creep's no pushover. He even has the same skills we both do." The sixteen year old answered, his arms crossed with an expression of concern. He then said, more to himself than to Young Sonic. "What I wanna know is how'd he managed to find that giant monster and then bring in the Robotnik you know here...and more importantly, where's Eggman?"

Before either one could continue their conversation, they both heard a groan from the aforementioned former and looked to see Robotnik, stuck inside his cockpit as he regained consciousness, frazzled from his latest embarrassing defeat. Sonic and his younger, alternate self shared a glance and a shrug before they were about to approach when the entire area then shook, causing the two hedgehogs to stumble and yelp. When they looked up as they heard a familiar roar, the two Sonics gasped in shock as a black vortex appeared, revealing the very same monster that sucked them both and all of their friends into the white, empty world.

Robotnik was looking over his shoulder to see what was happening, when suddenly he and the cockpit which was really his Egg Mobile were suddenly caged up in a purple orb, and began to lift him up towards the black beast.

"What? No, no!" The trapped evil doctor cried out in horror, before turning to the two Sonics, and screamed out to the youngest Sonic. "Sonic, save me!"

Too late, Robotnik was then sucked in straight into the vortex, much to the shock and disbelief of Young Sonic, and the horror of Sonic who stood there, frozen as memories of how the Eggman he knew was eaten by the Nega-Mother Wisp who did the similar thing, only without using her power and simply used her tentacle.

"Robotnik!" Young Sonic cried out, his heart pounding.

"No!" Sonic exclaimed, then placed his arm in front of his younger self as he didn't want the same thing that happened to the Alternate-Eggman happen to himself or the young blue hedgehog. However, the monster simply vanished as did the portal. "Eggma-Robotnik!"

"Chill out, blues. That old guy will be just fine." A taunting familiar voice said evilly and casually from their right, causing both Sonics to whirl around to see that Scourge was walking up towards them with an evil smirk on his muzzle from out of nowhere. "I see you two finally have met, and had taken out that fat loser. Pretty impressive for kiddies."

"You!" Sonic hissed angrily, quickly getting into a fighting stance. But as he did, he was hesitant. Yes he was still furious with the green-look-alike, especially since he now knew that he was tricked into following the wrong direction, but ever since rescuing Red and learning of the two's origins, now the blue hedgehog couldn't find it in his heart to tear this creep from limb to limb, especially since he promised his new to talk or knock sense into his twisted evil brother.

"Scourge!" Young Sonic grunted, glaring at the evil green hedgehog. "What happened to Robotnik? Where did that monster take him?"

"Oh, I dunno, but what I can say is that Robotnik guy is still alive. For now at least." Scourge shrugged carelessly. "But shouldn't you two be worrying about your own problems?"

"Enough of your games!" Sonic yelled, taking a step forward. "You lead me to the wrong Eggman! Where's the one that I know!? And this time it had better be the truth!"

Scourge just laughed insanely. "You wanna know the truth, Sonic? Well, since you made it this far, and finally met your competition who beat you to the race towards the doctor contest, I'll say it now, and it will shock you right to the core."

He paused dramatically, before saying with a grin. "Eggman was never here to begin with."

"...What!?" The hero of Mobius gasped, unable to believe what he was hearing. His heart stopped for a second, but for a different reason. He heard the hero of Alternate-Mobius gasp in shock and confusion.

"Yep. I was talking about the Robotnik your other self is enemies with, but since you didn't put the two and two together and thought that the guy you knew was still alive, I decided to play with you to bring out your emotions." The Terror of Moebius snickered, before grumbling with a dark frown. "Thought it would've been more fun if you hadn't beaten me in our fight, you irritating blue hedgehog."

Sonic felt another mixture of confusion, rage and disbelief, as full realization dawned onto him, especially when he remembered how Silver mentioned that Scrouge can be a trickster and a liar, how Tails came up with the idea that there was another Eggman. While he was relieved that he didn't accidentally save Eggman with Chaos Control at all, the fact that the evil green hedgehog made the blue hedgehog believe that this whole thing was his own fault made him so angry that he clenched his fists.

"Curse you, Scourge! You tricked me!" Sonic shouted in rage, which accidentally scared Young Sonic who jumped in fright over the blue hedgehog's reaction, before turning his attention back to the green hedgehog and glared at him, now angry himself for what's happened.

"Hey, not my fault you were too stupid to figure this out." Scrouge pointed out, smirking, before fake yawning. "Well, as much as I'd love to leave you two, I'm outta here. Got my own plans and all."

"Hey, hold it!" Young Sonic shouted as he and Sonic both ran straight towards their enemy who, already opening up his own dark portal, ran straight inside before it closed, leaving both Sonics to skid to a stop and stood there, frustrated and even more confused. "What a punk."

"I can't believe I haven't figured this out, and I let that guy use my emotions against me...! All this time, all of those robots...it was Robotnik from another world all along, and not Eggman." Sonic muttered to himself, placing his palm over his face. "And here was me thinking that I messed up and this whole thing was all my fault...when it wasn't. I should've listened to Tails, and Silver...Oh, Chaos, Scourge was messing with me!"

The younger blue hedgehog glanced up at the older blue hedgehog with worry and hesitation. He didn't know what to do, or what to think about all of this. This just left more questions and less answers. His heart sank to hear and see what has happened and felt guilty.

"...It's not fair. Who is Scourge, and why is he doing this?" Young Sonic muttered to himself, covering his face with both hands hopelessly. "What does he want?"

Sonic gazed at his younger, alternate self and found that the young blue hedgehog was just as lost as he felt, possibly even more disheartened. Poor kid, even if he was him, that he was another Sonic the Hedgehog, it really isn't fair. As weird as this was, the teenager gently wrapped his arms around the eleven year old and pulled him into a soft hug, which surprised Young Sonic who lowered his hands and looked up at him.

"I'm sorry. I'm still as lost as you are." Sonic whispered in a new guilt, now that the guilt he felt over what he had believed was his own fatal mistake was actually an overreaction and false theory. Well, it was partially true, but at the same time it wasn't because of what he thought it was. His younger, alternate self felt more upset and sorry for him, before hugging him back and while he tried to hold it back, he began crying again.

"I'm sorry, too. I really am." Young Sonic sobbed, burying his face into Sonic's chest, and while he was the one that normally cheered others up, the young blue hedgehog now felt the need of being comforted himself, like when he was a lot more younger.

"Shhhh...Hey, c'mon, it's not your fault." Sonic whispered reassuringly, rubbing the younger hero's back carefully. "This whole mess has really gotten to us."

The younger blue hedgehog sniffled, and while this felt so weird to be comforted by another version of himself, it felt so...right, like he was in the arms of his uncle who would always cheer him up everytime he was upset, only this was more like he had an older brother who was exactly like him.

"Would it make you mad if I said that I'm scared?" Young Sonic asked, forcing himself to try and calm down, and found that was slowly feeling better.

"Nah, not one bit. To be honest, I'm scared, too." Sonic lightly chuckled, knowing all too well why his younger self felt hesitant. He felt the exact same way for years and occasionally still does, but calmed down a lot since his last adventure. "Let me tell ya a little secret. Even heroes get scared. Anybody who says that they aren't scared of anything except their phobias would be fooling themselves."

"Well, I'm scared of water since I can't swim, so that's no secret." The younger blue hedgehog laughed softly, which made the older blue hedgehog laugh nervously.

"Yeeeeaaaah, we're definitely the two Sonic the Hedgehogs, since we're actally the same. Except that we both look slightly different, and you're the same age as when I first started out." Sonic sheepishly said, scratching his head. "Just curious, apart from today, when's the last time you beaten o'l Buttnik?"

"Me and Tails just defeated him on our first adventure on Death Egg last week. I haven't even seen that Mushroom forest or that floating island I call Angel Island." Young Sonic answered.

"Fair enough." The blue hedgehog nodded, before adding apologetically, "And while you sure come up with way better names than Eggman/Ro-butt-nik, I hate to say it but, that floating island is called Angel Island, or Sky Sanctuary because of an ancient civilization. I dunno if you seen my friend Knuckles yet, but he's the descendent of those people."

"Really?" The young blue hedgehog asked, before groaning. "Oh, man! And here's me thinking I came up with a new name. Dang. I even called Buttnik Eggman after hearing you say the Robotnik you knew that."

"Hey, don't worry. You'll get the hang of your future adventures." Sonic told him, carefully ruffling Young Sonic's quills which made the latter laugh, and the former joined in before they stopped. "So, since I heard that the Tails and Amy you know met up with the ones that I know, why don't you and me head back? Got a full mystery to solve, and more Sol and Chaos Emeralds to find."

"Sol Emeralds?"

"I'll explain when we get there."

Nodding in agreement, the two Sonics were about to run together when Young Sonic spoke up, "Hey, Sonic?"

"Yeah?" Sonic replied.

"Thanks for cheering me up. I'm...not used to feeling so down. Can we keep this a secret? I don't wanna worry Tails or Amy." He replied, sheepishly.

The older Sonic smiled warmly, and placed a comforting hand onto the younger Sonic's shoulder, bending on one knee to meet his eye level. "Sure, but let me tell ya' something very important. Somebody once told me this. "Always believe in your friends, just as they believe in you. Continue to do what you know is right. There will be times when you will need your friends to help you even when you go on adventures on your own. True friends always worry for each other, and while you may not be aware, your friends worry about you even when they know that you will be alright". "

Young Sonic stared at Sonic for such wisdom words that he heard from somebody, maybe somebody wise and very kind at some point during the latter's previous adventures that the former did not experience at all. Plus while he was fully aware of that, to hear it said to him, it felt more comforting and reassuring than what he'd tell himself.

"Right. Thanks, dude. I'll do my best to remember that." The young blue hedgehog nodded, smiling and feeling much better now.

The blue hedgehog nodded in return before standing up, and while it was still very strange to be talking to another version of himself, this was a once in a lifetime experience and kind of fun too. More than anything, as he and his younger, alternate self, who had become another new friend, began running together to rejoin the others, Sonic realized that he was feeling much more better himself, and while he was still angry with Scourge for leading him on a wild goose chase, the same words he'd spoken from a certain Elder, or at least similar, renewed his determination, courage and hopes.

'I'd oughta pay Mnyambo a visit when I get the chance.' Sonic thought to himself, wanting to once again thank the kind human leader of Mazuri for his wisdom.


It wasn't long before the Sonic duo finally emerged and rejoined Tails, the two Amys, Knuckles, Silver and Red, who were all stunned to see both Sonic and Young Sonic together.

"Hey, guys. Sorry for the wait." Sonic greeted with a wave, before adding more sheepishly and apologetic to Tails, Amy and Silver. "And I'm sorry for not believing you guys about what you said earlier."

"It's okay. I'm glad that you believe us now." Amy said, somewhat teasingly, while both Young Amy and Young Sonic looked a bit confused.

"Whoa! There are two of Sonics! This is so weird but so cool too!" Red exclaimed, upon seeing the younger blue hedgehog who blinked, surprised.

"Uh, thanks." Young Sonic muttered, not recognizing this kid or the silver hedgehog and, given the colourings of both of them, awkwardly said. "I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that you're Red and he's Silver that, um, Big Sonic mentioned about?"

"Aw, c'mon, I'm not that big!" Sonic teasingly pouted, then said. "But yeah, you guessed right."

He then went to say something else when he noticed that they weren't alone; with them was a statue of a strikingly familiar figure but noticed two things that were different, but that didn't stop him from being shocked.

"AAH! What the!? Eggman!?" The blue hedgehog exclaimed, upon seeing Kintobor but mistook him as Eggman, before seeing that this guy was thinner and was wearing a lab coat. "Huh? Wait a sec..."

"This isn't Eggman, Sonic." Silver told him firmly, clearly more than a little annoyed by the constant misunderstanding. "This is Dr. Ovi Kintobor, a friend of Red and I."

"THIS is Kintobor?" Sonic asked in disbelief, his emerald eyes widening in disbelief. "Why does he look like Eggman?"

"Same way as Scourge looks like you, I guess." Red rubbed the back of his head.

"So you know this guy, and Scourge? What's the story?" Young Sonic asked, folding his arms, confused.

"Well, see, Dr. Kintobor is my best friend and, um...I'm sorry. It's all my fault. He's the one who told me about the Sol Emeralds, and I told Scourge who's...my older brother." The red-brown hedgehog guiltily replied.

That sent shock-waves in not just Young Sonic, but also Young Amy and Knuckles who had both yet to be told the full story themselves.

"What!?" The young pink hedgehog exclaimed.

"WHAT!?" The red echidna exclaimed, once again dumbstruck.

"Say what!?" The young blue hedgehog exclaimed, jumping a little. "You mean...!? Uh...I...! Oh man! Now this just got even more complicated!"

"You got that right, junior." Knuckles grunted, shaking his head in disbelief.

Hearing that new nickname he was given, Young Sonic glared up at the guy who he realized is the one he'd seen earlier, only un-statue-like now and grumbled. "Hey, who're you callin' junior, buddy? I'm Sonic the Hedgehog!"

"Hmph. Nice to meet you...Sonic Jr. the Hedgehog." The red echidna smirked teasingly, only for Sonic to go up to him and bonked him hard on the head in sheer annoyance, causing the older teenager to glare at him. "OW! What was that for!?"

"Cut it out, knucklehead! It's not funny!" Sonic snapped, not liking the joke that was aimed at his younger, alternate self either. "Besides, how would you like it if there was another, younger you around here, huh?"

"Well, one, I wouldn't have a clue, and two, it was meant as a joke since he could pass on as your real blood-related brother!" Knuckles said defensively.

"Yeah, well, the Jr part isn't a laughing matter! Give the guy a break here, man!" The blue hedgehog argued, before he and his friend had a glaring contest, with sparks flying.

While he watched them go, and felt torn between feeling relieved and a bit guilty for his older, alternate self for defending him, Young Sonic gazed over to the others and asked with a raised eyebrow, "Who is this knucklehead?"

"Our friend Knuckles the Echidna. He means well...he just, has trouble socalizing and can be pretty gullible most of the times." Tails replied sheepishly, scratching the back of his head.

"I heard that!" Knuckles grunted in annoyance after he and Sonic broke away from their glaring contest and looked away from each other, their arms folded to their chests.

"Um, do they always fight like this?" Red whispered to Amy who sighed in exasperation, while Young Amy gazed at Silver who shrugged.

"Unfortunately, yes. They haven't started out as friends when they first met, and it's like Tails said, Knuckles can be pretty gullible most of times. Actually, he was tricked by Eggman into thinking that Sonic was a bad guy and that's how they first met." The pink hedgehog replied.

"They kinda act more like rivals to me than friends." Young Sonic deadpanned, even as both Sonic and Knuckles calmed down, which is when Young Tails then flew in and landed next to his older counterpart, and the young blue hedgehog greeted the four year old cub who greeted him back, relieved that his adoptive big brother was alright.

"I think I've figured it out." Young Tails said to the nine year old fox.

"Yeah, me too." Tails replied. When everyone else looked at the two young kits, he began, "There's two of me, two of Sonic and two of Amy..."

"We've seen different places from each of our pasts, and the warp thing that Red mentioned that he heard from Sonic." Young Tails added, which had Young Sonic glance at Sonic after realizing that his best friend/little brother was talking about the older hedgehog.

"And two of those places come from the world of Moebius that Silver, Red, Scourge and even Dr. Kintobor come from, the answer is pretty simple." The older Tails continued.

The two Sonics, two Amys, Knuckles, Silver and Red waited for both Tails' to continue, to which the two young kids said in unison happily. "We're travelling through Space and Time!"

"And if that's true, then Moebius is an alternate version of both of Mobius, and Scourge is the evil version of you, Sonic." Tails added, this time nervously, making everybody gasp, including both Sonics.

"Say what!? Scourge is the evil version of me? Uh, us?" Sonic exclaimed in horror, before shuddering. "No wonder he has the same skills and looks. He's everything I'm scared of turning into."

"And Dr. Kintobor is the good version of Robotnik." Young Tails nodded, making everyone's eyes rise in shock.

"That explains why he looks like a nicer version of Ro-butt-ink." Young Sonic said with a sweat drop. "It's like Moebius is like a mirror of what if's or whatever."

"Yeah, precisely." Tails nodded in agreement.

"Okay, so that explains something. But that means, from what Tikal mentioned earlier, that means there's two of Mobius and a Moebius...and I just figured out that they're merging somehow." Sonic replied, uneasily, scratching his head. "I was about to tell ya's when Ro-butt-nik lured me and well, the other me in."

"Eggman?" Knuckles gaped in disbelief, almost instantly getting what his friend was saying. "But I thought you said he was eaten!"

"I did, and he's still dead! I'm talking about the Eggman from the other Mobius that got dragged into this, and if I'm gonna guess, that clown has teamed up with Scourge and that huge monster that brought us here in the first place." The cobalt speedster quickly explained.

"Sonic..." Amy began, blinking as some sort of odd sense of hope began to loom, but at the same time dreaded on what her 'boyfriend' is about to say next.

Sonic sighed, running a hand through his quills, admitting. "Turns out that the Eggman that, well, Red's big bro mentioned was the one that's still alive in the other Mobius and according to Sonic and Tails from their world, was only just beaten just a week before they and their Amy got kidnapped by that thing. Scourge used my emotions against me, making me think that my theory in the huge mistake of using Chaos Control that accidentally saved the Eggman we knew to be proved true."

"Sonic..." Red muttered worriedly, lowering his gaze to the ground, disheartened that his older brother had made his blue savior and new friend feel like this whole thing really was his fault, when in reality it wasn't.

"I feel like an idiot for being tricked like that, and thinking that the whole thing is my fault." The hero of Mobius muttered, turning to Tails and smiled a little. "I'm sorry, Tails. You were right. It wasn't Chaos Control that caused all of this. I'm so glad that I was wrong about my theory."

"Well, it wouldn't be for the first time." Tails replied, smiling back as he felt very relieved that his older brother was feeling the heavy weight of guilt being lifted from his shoulders. "Remember when the first night of no Eggman to worry about, you had that nightmare about him having built a robot replica which you thought you fought and gotten eaten by the Mother Wisp when we found out the next day that it never happened in reality?"

Sonic chuckled sheepishly over the memory. "Yeah, I remember. Guess even with the Eggster gone, he still haunts me like a bad rotten egg smell."

"Let me guess; before figuring all of this out, you thought that when you used Chaos Control to save yourself, it somehow accidentally must've spread into the giant alien's stomach and sent Eggman to wherever that monster who attacked us was." Knuckles thought, skeptically.

"Pretty much..." Sonic confirmed, shrugging. He and the others then heard another irritated growl, and turned their attention to the source of it, which belonged to Silver, who looked to be in a mixture of anger and guilt, causing the blue hedgehog to ask, concerned. "Yo, Silver. You alright?"

"...I can't believe this has happened!" The fourteen year old hedgehog grunted. "If it wasn't for the fact that Red has been alive all this time, I woulda killed Scourge by now! On top of that, not only he used the Sol Emeralds into this, but it's also my fault that this happened!"

"Silver, calm down!" The sixteen year old hedgehog cried out, approaching the younger hedgehog and shook him by the shoulders. "Whaddya' mean it's your fault?"

Even though his friend did calm down a little, Sonic also realized that he and the others still haven't heard his side of the story. "Come to think of it, you haven't told us much about yourself. I mean, I don't wanna invade your privacy, but now I know that you came from Moebius too."

"And the Sol Emeralds are the counterparts of the Chaos Emeralds, which also explains another thing." Tails added in realization.

"It's...best if Ovi is involved in this as well. He knows more about Space and Time than I do. Some of it, at least." Silver hesitantly replied.

"You sure we can trust him? I mean, I know that he's your and Red's friend, but...I kinda have my doubts." The blue hedgehog questioned.

"Ovi knows a lot about the Sol Emeralds, Sonic." Red pointed out. "He's an expert along with Blaze."

Even though the Mobians were still hesitant, they had to admit that Red had a very good point. Sighing, Sonic agreed and asked Silver to give him the red Sol Emerald since he already used the green and purple ones to revive Tails, Amy and Knuckles. The silver hedgehog did so, and the hero of Mobius approached the tall human statue and held out the Emerald. As he and the others had expected, colour and life sparkled and returned to Dr. Ovi Kintobor who, once returned to normal, stumbled forward and held a hand to his head, groaning.

"Oooh...my head, and my back. I'm getting old." Kintobor grumbled, before noticing that there was a shockingly familiar blue hedgehog who was holding a Sol Emerald with a bit of a skeptical expression on his face, but then he noticed that, while Sonic looked exactly like Scourge, he didn't wear sunglasses or a jacket, his fur was blue, and he seemed to be more...kind.

"Huh? What?" The human doctor muttered, before looking around to see that he was in an unusual place, asking. "Good heavens, where am I?"

"Ovi, are you alright?" Silver asked, worriedly as he and Red approached their human friend.

"Silver?" Kintobor asked, then he noticed another familiar face, one that he hadn't expected to see and gaped in shock.

"Hi, Dr. Kintobor!" The youngest hedgehog greeted happily. "Welcome back!"

"R-R-R-R-R-Red!? How can...this be!?" The kind scientist exclaimed in disbelief, then noticed the Mobians, two of Sonic, two of Tails, two of Amy, and Knuckles who looked skeptical. Then, overwhelming bewilderment and realization dawned onto him, as he felt incredibly dizzy over this discovery. "...Oh my!"

Then...

THUD!

He fell onto his back and fainted.

"Ovi?" Red asked, worriedly as he saw his friend faint, while Silver groaned and placed a hand to his face, while Sonic and everybody else shared glances with mixed up expressions, and Knuckles sighed in frustration and exasperation.

"...Not the kind of greeting I had in mind." Sonic awkwardly stated.

"I'll say." Young Sonic replied, "Now what do we do?"

"You think we should wake him up?" Young Amy suggested.

"Just leave that to me. I'll wake this guy up." Knuckles declared, only to be held back by Sonic and Tails who held him by both arms.

"Whoa, not so fast there, Knux!" Sonic cried out, holding his friend's arm tightly despite that the red echidna was struggling against him and the two-tailed fox.

"Uh, I don't think that's such a good idea, Knuckles!" Tails added, nervously.

"I was just going to knock him away!" The guardian protested, only for Young Amy to storm up to him angrily.

"You big meanie!" The eight year old pink hedgehog yelled out, which made the trio stop and, knowing this was a good time to move away, Sonic and Tails stepped back after letting go of their friend who, now a bit scared of the girl's angry look, held up a hand in defense. "You can't just go knocking people on the head after they fainted!"

"But if you want some knocking..." Amy began as she walked up, her Hammer in hand, which Knuckles noticed and he screamed in fright with a sweat drop, while she gave him her best 'evil' smirk and her eye glinted. "Maybe I should knock some reason into you. It'd be a pleasure."

"H-hey, let's calm down." Knuckles stuttered nervously, backing away a bit, before he was then pounced on by the two Amys who tackled him, causing him to scream out to the blue hedgehog who simply watched. "Sonic, please! Help me!"

"I'd like to, but I don't get involved in fights I can't win." Sonic replied with a smirk, knowing that his friend kind of deserved it, and staying well out of Amy's anger, especially since now there was two of her while Young Sonic ended up laughing. The older hedgehog winked at the echidna. "You're on your own."

"Don't worry, guys. I know just the thing to wake Dr. Kintobor up." Red announced, while he was a bit scared of the two girls attacking Knuckles like that, before he approached the only human in their group and began tickling him on the side, teasing. "Tickle tickle tickle!"

This worked, as Kintobor then woke up instantly and began laughing. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha! S-stop! Stop! I'm ticklish!" He then sat up, coughing once his youngest friend did as he was told and, looking around before finally seeing him, couldn't believe his eyes. "R-Red? Is...is that really you?"

"Sure is, Doctor. Man, I really missed you!" The young hedgehog replied happily, and tearfully, immediately then hugging his old time friend who, shocked beyond belief, then was filled with great emotion and hugged him back in tears.

"Oh, Red. My dear, young friend. I thought I would never see you again. Your brother has told me that you were eaten by that dreaded dragon. Where in Moebius were you?" He replied, which, while most of the group(once Amy and her younger, alternate self stopped attacking Knuckles who sighed in relief) were still a bit hesitant and awkward, couldn't help but feel touched by the touching scene of the reunion.

"Well, um...I was eaten, because I saved him. I was stuck inside that dragon's tummy for a whole week and, with all the weird things that's happened, Sonic saved me." Red apologetically replied.

"Sonic?" The human scientist asked, puzzled over the unfamiliar name. When the youngest hedgehog pointed at Sonic who approached and waved, Kintobor was greatly surprised. "Oh? You're..."

"Uh, yeah, I know that I look alot like Scourge, but I'm Sonic the Hedgehog. Me and my friends come from another world called Mobius and, well, let's just say Scourge, a guy from another Mobius called Dr. Robotnik who, well, looks a lot like you only he's evil and has been causing problems, and this huge monster brought all of us here into this place where Space and Time are going all crazy." Sonic awkwardly explained.

"And I'm Sonic from the other Mobius." Young Sonic spoke up as he approached, "We both heroes in both worlds of Mobius, and how we found out about this, it's a long story and our friends Tails and the Tails from my world figured this out."

The two aforementioned foxes approached and waved shyly, sticking close to Sonic and his younger, alternate self.

"Ovi." Silver spoke up, and after Kintobor saw and acknowledged him relief, he continued. "I'm afraid Scourge's wish that you warned him not to even think of is solely responsible for this. But please, we need you to tell us more about what you mean and how all of this is happening."

It didn't take long for Kintobor to realize what this meant, and he cried out in dismay. "Oh no! That teenage hedgehog has used the Sol Emeralds to try and manipulate with Space and Time, and now all three realities, if I am correct, are beginning to merge and collapse!"

"COLLAPSE!?" Everyone else exclaimed in shock and horror.

"WHAT!?" Sonic shouted, his heart stopping for a moment. He then realized that this was what Tikal was telling him about before he groaned. "Okay, so Scourge is trying to mess with Space and Time to his own liking, right? And the Sol Emeralds are behind this?"

"Yes, I'm afraid so. We have tried to stop him, but Scourge is simply too powerful even for his age." The kind doctor replied.

"I'm sorry, Doctor. I never should've told Scourge about the Sol Emeralds. It's all my fault." Red sighed in guilt.

Kintobor sighed, gently patting his young saved friend on the head, wishing to thank Sonic for saving the child's life. "Now, now, my dear boy. Do not blame yourself."

"He's right, Red. It's not your fault." Sonic agreed in reassurance, still feeling sorry for his new friend for having such a tough life. He then turned his attention to the doctor with an angry scowl. "As much as I hate to hurt your feelings, kid, but the one who should be blamed is Dr. Kintobor."

"Excuse me?" Kintobor questioned, then flinched when he saw that all of the young Mobians were glaring angrily at him. "W-what?"

"Well, it's YOUR fault!" The blue hedgehog answered. "If you hadn't found the Sol Emeralds and tried to use them for whatever reason, they be good or evil, Red wouldn't have told Scourge who wouldn't have used them to caused this mess in the first place! You're no better than Robotnik or in our world before he died, Eggman who both tried to use our emeralds we called Chaos Emeralds for evil purposes and trying to take over world planets with robots!"

"You shouldn't be touching things that are beyond your control, Doctor. That's just a recipe for disaster!" Young Sonic agreed angrily.

"Guys, please! Ovi has his good reasons!" Silver cried out.

"Look, just because what you and Red said may be true, but there could be a chance that something will change. I know, because Eggman's grandpa turned from a caring grandparent who tried to find a cure for his granddaughter who happens to be Eggman's late cousin, into a monster after she died, wanting to kill humanity for revenge. Plus both Eggman and Robotnik still haven't learned their lessons when it comes to trying and take over our worlds. How can we trust this guy if he wants to use the Sol Emeralds, huh?" Sonic pointed out, and while he didn't want to upset Red, he wanted to make his point very clear.

He then sighed, and rubbed his eyes, adding. "Especially since the last time I saw Eggman, his evil plot backfired on him so hard that it finally destroyed him. For four years, I hoped he'd turn over a new leaf, but that was just a wishful thinking, and now he's gone. I don't want the same thing happen again anywhere else, and even now I still have no clue why he had the dream in ruling Mobius with his Egg Empire."

"Everything you said is the same with Robotnik." Young Sonic nodded, patting his older, alternate self on the arm comfortingly.

"Yeah, and they're both such tricksters. Or at least they were, before Dr. Eggman died." Amy agreed.

While Kintobor was horrified to hear of his evil counterparts having done such horrible things, he sighed before pleading to the young Mobians. "I know you don't trust me due to the horrible actions of the evil me. But I am nothing like this Robotnik fellow!"

"Well... He has a point..." Knuckle admitted, causing his friends and the three Alternate-Mobians to give a look, which made him shrug cluelessly. "What?"

"Well... you're not the best judge of character-" Tails began, but was cut off.

"Okay, I know I get tricked...more than the average Mobian... but there are several differences that we should take into account. Look at him, he's thin while Robotnik is round like a giant egg. Kintobor is soft spoken while Robotnik likes to brag, same with the Eggman we know..." Knuckles pointed out, annoyed before adding. "Also I never said anything about trusting him. I just think we should hear him out first."

Everyone still stared at him, and while Silver and Red looked pleading and hopeful, Sonic was still hesitant. But the look on the youngest hedgehog's face, the sad look, made his heart break and after another moment of silence, he sighed in defeat.

"Okay. I get the point. If we wanna try and save the Universe and Space and Time and go home, we're gonna need all the help we can get." Sonic finally agreed, gazing at Kintobor and said to him. "Alright, I'm willing to trust you to help us and tell us what you know so that we have a better idea on how to handle this."

He then quickly added with a hint of warning. "But if ya' try any funny business, I'm the hero of Mobius, the fastest thing alive, and I'm watching you."

"We both will." Young Sonic agreed. "We've taken out giant killer robots, so you'd better watch yourself."

Kintobor gulped nervously. "Y-yes, of course. I promise you, I do not wish for any destruction. Now, would everyone gather around and make themselves comfortable? I will do my best to explain clearly to all of you."

Despite that Sonic and everyone else apart from Silver and Red who sighed in relief, were still skeptical about this, they nodded and did as they were requested.

They were ready to hear out what Dr. Ovi Kintobor had to say.


A/N: Yay! The two Sonics have finally met! Now their double adventure is about to begin in the next chapter! But can they trust Dr. Ovi Kintobor? Only time will tell.

See you later!