Author's Note: It's a bit hard to say on whether we're nearing the end of the story or not, but there's still more for the two Sonics to go through. Speaking of which, we now begin Young(Classic) Sonic's side of how he got the Chaos Emerald.

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


Chapter 12: The Sight of Realities.

With Young Sonic: Before and During Sonic's battle against Perfect Chaos...

"Sorry, Sonic. But I need you to be here with the others just in case. Why don'tcha see if you can find another place to find the Emeralds 'til I get back, 'kay?" The sixteen year old said apologetically.

"Oh man!" The eleven year old grumbled, pouting as he folded his arms due to missing out on the action. Then again, maybe he wasn't to face Chaos. Not yet, at least. Plus, it was a water monster, and Sonic had more experience dealing with that thing than Young Sonic himself did.

Sonic just shrugged sheepishly and despite the others telling him to be careful and he himself mentally admitted that this was going to be tricky, the blue hedgehog nodded and after steeling himself, he leaped into the portal to begin another difficult battle.

As he and the others waited anxiously, Young Sonic sighed, still disappointed in missing out on the action, but at the same time felt that maybe he just needed a bit more experience before he could go through what his older, alternate-self had, and was experiencing again. Plus, Sonic did have a point.

"Well, while Big-me's dealing with a giant water monster, I'm gonna go look around to see if I can spot anymore of the other guys and more Chaos Emearlds." The eleven year old hero announced, deciding to take the sixteen year old's advice.

"Be careful, Sonic." Young Amy said, worriedly as she clasped her hands together.

"I'll be fine." Young Sonic said with a smirk and a wink, giving his self-proclaimed girlfriend a thumbs up. "Leave it to me!"

"I'll go with-" Shadow didn't get the chance to finish when his rival's counterpart dashed off up ahead. The black hedgehog grumbled with a soft growl. "Just like the faker, always running off before other people finish."

"You know what Sonic's like, Shadow. It's in his nature in both worlds." Tails chuckled knowingly, and Young Tails, still only knowing Young Sonic for a week, already understood and nodded in agreement.

"Excuse me, Mr. Shadow." Red spoke up, curiously which made the Ultimate Lifeform glance at the eight year old Moebian. "Why did you call Sonic a faker, and why do you look like him in the face but everything else is different about you two guys?"

"I was wondering about that myself." Silver admitted. "Why do your faces look almost identical?"

Shadow looked away, avoiding eye-contact. "That's a mystery even I don't know of. At least you two could tell a difference between me and him. Humans on the other hand thought I was Sonic."

"Yeah and you and Eggman got Sonic framed because of what that fat idiot tried to do in other to take over Mobius, as usual." Knuckles sighed, shrugging while shaking his head. "Can't blame you for what happened, though."

"Shut up." The black hedgehog muttered.

"He's not very well mannered, is he?" Young Amy whispered to her older counterpart who looked at Shadow with a frown.

"Shadow didn't have an easy life and he doesn't want to talk about it." Amy whispered back with sympathy. Even though Shadow was still a grump, her heart still ached for what he went through; from his creation via Professor Gerald Robotnik and Black Doom, his friendship with Maria, to the ARK incident that had the black hedgehog lose everything, spending almost 50 years in deep sleep and such.

The eight year old pink hedgehog gazed at her thirteen year old alternate-self and while she was still young, she couldn't help but guess in worry. "Did something awful happen?"

Amy didn't say anything, but she did hesitantly nod with a look that told her younger, alternate-self that it's not to be discussed with. Despite feeling like she wanted to know, Young Amy decided to just drop it.

If it was that awful that Shadow didn't want to talk about, then it was none of her business.


'Chaos Emerald, Chaos Emerald, Chaos Emerald...where could it be?' Young Sonic thought to himself as he ran. As he was thinking about where he could find it, having turned to his left expecting to see another unfamiliar place that was from Sonic's past, and he did notice something up ahead, he also spotted something else that caught his attention.

"Huh?" The young blue hedgehog muttered, skidding to a stop as he noticed that it seemed to be a ripple of images being distorted close by. He sweat-dropped as he asked himself. "What's this?"

Despite the little voice in the back of his head telling him to avoid it, something familiar in front of the strange ripple made him decide to carefully investigate. So Young Sonic approached and as luck would have it, a light-blue Chaos Emerald was sitting and waiting in front of an unusual portal that looked like unusual images of colours, mostly blue and like a reflection or mirror. Blinking in confusion, the eleven year old hedgehog stared at it.

"That's weird. Is this another portal? It looks different and strange." Young Sonic thought, folding his arms.

He then shrugged and decided to leave this alone, but as the hero of Alternate-Mobius was about to pick up the Chaos Emerald, an unfamiliar gloved hand snatched it quickly which made him gasp and when he looked up, Young Sonic's eyes widened when he saw a silhouette of tall echidna that was slightly orange in colour, a grey beard and tribe-like leader clothing with a staff glaring down at him.

"I believe this belongs to me, child." The echidna, who is none other than Pachacamac unknowingly to the young hedgehog, declared sternly and darkly.

"Hey! Give it back!" Young Sonic shouted, leaping up and grabbed hold of the Chaos Emerald, which soon turned into a tug-of-war with the large Mobian. "That's mine!"

"You do not know of it's power, hedgehog!" Pachacamac shouted.

"Who the heck are you!? What do you know about the Chaos Emeralds?" Young Sonic demanded, attempting to pry the Emerald out of the echidna's grasp.

"My people and I need these seven emeralds to give us total power. It's power for the people! That foul monster and my daughter kept us away from them and the Master Emerald, I will not let a little brat like you stop me!" The Echidna growled.

The young blue hedgehog's eyes widened in shock. Monster? Daughter? Master Emerald? Could this guy be...? Before he could finish his thoughts, he was roughly grabbed by the spikes of his quills and held up into the air, but struggled to keep his hold on the light-blue Chaos Emerald.

"L-Let go!" Young Sonic cried out.

"Stay, out, of, my, way, BOY!" Pachacamac growled darkly and with warning, pulling the Emerald out of Young Sonic's grip.

But the young hero refused to give up as despite having the emerald plucked out of his hands, the blue hedgehog narrowed his eyes and spun his legs until he spin out of the echidna's grip and Spin Dashed into him, causing the older male to cry out in pain but the two ended up falling right into the strange portal and while Pachacamac lost his grip on the Chaos Emerald, Young Sonic fell in with both and fell into the strange abyss, becoming separated while the cruel Mobian fell deeper into a strange vortex. The eleven year old screamed as he fell while the emerald ended up further up ahead.

Eventually he landed on the ground face-first with his legs sticking up in the air. Slumping in pain, Young Sonic then pulled his head out of the small crater with difficulty and wobbled and rubbed his sore noggin, wincing.

"Ow...Boy, for an old guy, he sure had a pretty tough grip." Young Sonic groaned. He then thought about what Pachacamac said and, given what he and his friends learned from their counterparts, it wasn't far'fected that the guy was Tikal's father. But how could that be?

"If that was Tikal's dad...why is he here? Was he brought into this place too? But why? It doesn't make any sense." The young blue hedgehog muttered. He then looked around and realized where he was and frowned worriedly. "Guess I'll have to figure that out later. Right now, I've more important things to worry about. Like finding the Chaos Emerald and more of Sonic's friends and get outta here."

With that thought in mind, Young Sonic dashed off down the path that was the only option. As he did, he fought of rogue robots like Badniks and Egg-pawns that appeared from distorted images, Spin Dashing into a couple while kicking and punching others along with his Homing Attack. As he continued along the way, the young blue hedgehog couldn't help but notice something quite off with these robots. They looked like Robotnik and Eggman's designs, but they were unfamiliar to him. Could they be robots from Sonic's world?

To make things more disturbing, he began to hear so many voices that sounded distant but like in a crowd speaking gibberish and as the young blue hedgehog got closer to a large platform, he saw the surroundings and sky in copper-gold shining and hundreds, if not thousands of images moving in a very slow rotate. Young Sonic skid to a stop and found himself in the middle in shock. The images he saw...

"What the!?" Young Sonic exclaimed, shocked. "That's...that's me? And there's Sonic! Tons of us!"

True to his word, he saw himself doing different things around the same age he was, to fifteen years old or sixteen like Sonic, who was also doing different things, yet in a couple of the moving images, his older, alternate-self was the same blue colour as the eleven year old was in two, which somehow connected to the same one merged in two different places...or different time-frames.

"Wait a sec...are these...the future?" He muttered, before a realization hit him and he softly gasped. "No way...Is this showing me tons of different timelines and alternate-universes?"

"That is right, Sonic of the Alternate World." A familiar dark voice spoke, startling Young Sonic who froze on the spot, while it continued. "This is a ripple that puts all realities in grave danger. Only you and Sonic can save all of Space and Time, along with your other two selves."

"It's that voice again...The...The Dino-Alien!" Young Sonic muttered, gulping nervously. He hugged himself as he realized he was trapped in a place that the same monster he and Sonic heard, that spoke to the latter and had sentenced Black Doom to death, could easily catch him.

"This world shows many realities of all things. You have entered one where many are connected to you and Sonic, which are not meant to connect. Same with other realities of different heroes of their own worlds. You two, Scourge and another who hails from a world where Humans and Mobians live in separate worlds where time runs differently." The voice of the Dino-Alien explained. "The four of you cannot be affected by the terrible transformation others have suffered or are close to suffering."

"Whaddya mean? Who are you?" The young blue hedgehog asked. "What do you want with me and Sonic?"

"It will frighten you, little one. But you must see in order to learn of the truth." The voice continued. "Look closely, Sonic, and there you will find two worlds merging from a Sonic who holds memories of both time-lines, along with some of his friends...and his evil enemy who broke the laws of dimensions."

Not sure what it meant, Young Sonic felt scared, but then he remembered the single Sonic merging with another and despite thinking this was some sort of trick, the eleven year old looked again, while noticing other Sonics who were completely oblivious to the whole thing and going through different adventures.

In one image, Young Sonic saw another version that looked just like him going through what he went through before being trapped in the White Space, but it stopped as though he wasn't meant to see. He then saw another Sonic that looked like his alternate-self, doing everything the teenage hero had been through...except he transformed into a Werehog and was later cured and to the young blue hedgehog's surprise, he saw him and another version of himself doing the same thing as he and Sonic were doing now, but strangely enough it wasn't an alternate universe sort of thing happening and there was no Young Amy.

He then saw different timelines that had Sonics that looked exactly like him; in one, there was a fifteen year old Sonic with a four-year old Tails who was brown in fur colour, both going on adventures to defeat a more creepier version of Robotnik, and Young Sonic couldn't help but laugh when he saw the big-toothed and black-eyed doctor burnt by a dragon after the Sonic in that world pulled out a thorn from it's foot. In another, he saw a Sonic and a slightly older Tails with a Chipmunk girl leading a resistance with the entire planet overrun by Robotnik and Young Sonic shivered at just how more evil and twisted this Robotnik seemed.

In another image, it was the similar thing, except the Sonic in that world was surprisingly a Prince, the eldest of triplets who were separated after birth and lived with different families by their mother who was forced into hiding, the trio growing up and Prince Sonic found his brother and sister and went on a quest to stop Robotnik, meeting Knuckles who looked similar to the one Young Sonic met, except with black pupils and seemed to have a crush on the darker pink hedgehog Princess who seemed to be snobby, while the green hedgehog, similar to Scourge but nicer, was a thief with a good heart.

Young Sonic then noticed another image where another Sonic, just like Sonic in appearance but with three quills, along with Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Cream and Cheese and Big, along with Eggman, the one from Sonic's world, and three robots that the young blue hedgehog didn't recognize, were transported to the human world via Chaos Control and went on many adventures to try and find the Chaos Emeralds with the aid of a young human boy and foiled many of Eggman's plans in order to get back home and eventually did...though the Sonic in that world was the last since the boy, that world's version of Sonic's friend Christopher Thorndyke, refused to let him go and shut down the machine out of fear but eventually realized his mistake and let him home.

That was the same world that had two different worlds.

'Is that the world that guy mentioned the Sonic there is like me, Sonic and Scourge?' Young Sonic thought, watching as he saw the Sonic in that dimension then travel to space with his friends to defeat evil aliens with the aid of a very pretty planet-alien girl, and gasped when he saw the Sonic there being swallowed alive but managed to survive since the stomach was actually a planet made out of water and the Amy there went to rescue him...but at the cost of the plant girl's life, which made the Tails there heart-broken.

"That is correct, Sonic." The voice startled him out of his thoughts and the young blue hedgehog gasped in fright. "In brief, his world was also slightly split and connected with the two worlds, but was spared because the time-pattern was protected by him using Chaos Control."

"Oh, great! This guy can read minds too." Young Sonic groaned, face-palming himself. He then asked. "What do you mean it was slightly split and connected with the two worlds?"

"Look there." Was the answer he got.

Still suspicious, Young Sonic turned and finally saw what he noticed earlier. It began with a seven year old Sonic, looking like him for starters, along with the same group of people he saw in the resistance world with the Chipmunk girl, clearly the Princess, in a hospital room where a baby Tails was born and the little Sonic asked if he could hold the crying infant after his mother cried herself to sleep, and when he did, the newborn stopped crying, looked at the young hedgehog before smiling and the two immediately hugged, laughed and bonded with each other, which made the little seven year old's friends and the Chipmunk's father the King smile.

"Well, isn't that really cute?" The eleven year old smiled, making him think of the day he first met Young Tails.

Unfortunately, that day of happiness was also the day of tragedy, which made Young Sonic gasp as he saw what happened next that would haunt him forever; The attack from Robotnik who sent the King to another dimension, using some sort of machine, that world's version of the Roboticizer, to transform almost everyone including that world's Sonic's parents and Uncle Chuck and Tails' parents into robots, forcing the children including baby Tails to a place in the forest, where the children would grow up to form the resistance just like in the other world, except somehow the apperance of them changed and each adventures were similiar to his own and Sonic's.

But there was on image that made Young Sonic cover his mouth in pure horror; The Sonic in that world was captured by Robotink who tossed him into the Roboticizer and right before the eleven year old's eyes, transformed into an obediant robot called Mecha Sonic who would be sent to kill everyone, yet somehow he was saved and with another machine similar to the horrible invention, was returned to normal as this reversed the effects. Adventure after adventure after that, the Robotnik of that world died, but his place was taken by another Robotnik who was victorious after turning himself into a robot yet was returned to normal by aliens who did the same to everyone else, except for that world Sonic's father who substained injuries that were life-threatening.

"This is awful...That must be the Roboticizer, just in Red and Scourge's world..." Young Sonic muttered, feeling sick to his stomach, and then gasped when he saw Shadow and Metal Sonic, they and the other Sonic's group in another Scourge's world, Chaos Control from that dimension to the slightly split away time-line from the Sonic of the Human world and Mobian World for a day before the two returned home...well, at least Shadow did.

Then came the time-changing events; first the Chipmunk Princess, who was romantically involved with that world's Sonic, sacrificing herself by becoming a robot to prevent their planet from being Robotized, and then as the Sonic there attempted to restore history, Eggman interfered with destroyed the timeline and most of the other dimensions and creating and linking new ones, the two merging with the ones that was similar but different; one where the Sonic and Resistance did not transform into robots at all, and the alternate Eggman merged with the original Robotnik, and the world splitting apart as a result of it before being fixed up by the Sonic and little dog-like pixie thing, Sonic's friend Chip/Light Gaia, with some of the Resistance including Amy gaining memories from the time-line that was destroyed.

Yet it was still there, and it somehow became dull and grey.

"I don't get it! Why am I seeing all of this?" The young blue hedgehog cried out, shaking his head as everything he saw in that world was the most horrible time-line he just witnessed.

"Because Scourge and Dr. Robotnik are plotting against you and Sonic, a plan that will fail, because the two of you, your evil counterpart and the Sonic that lived in two worlds that were once one, the one where he met the Sonic's ally Shadow the Hedgehog for a day and survived the time-altering event, cannot suffer the same fate because of the Superior Emerald...and the machine that will never exist, nor will it work against you or any of your worlds and two worlds." The voice explained.

"I don't wanna be a robot! I don't want anybody to be robots! It's horrible enough that Robotnik captures flickies and other animals to use as batteries for his robots, but what happened there and the other two universes is even worse!" Young Sonic exclaimed, frightened to the core.

"You will both know soon enough. For now, you must stop the Pachacamac, who has escaped the eternal prison along with his tribe to take the place of Scourge. They must be returned to whence they were imprisoned, as punishment for their crime. You must continue your quest; find the Chaos Emeralds, and help your other self, who will follow his heart to save many more who did not deserve to be trapped, save his friends and destroy the Time Eater, Sonic of the Alternate-World." The voice continued.

The young blue hedgehog gulped, still not trusting the Dino-Alien, but as the images began to float away, the pathway then lit up and he saw, to his relief, the Chaos Emerald floating there, he knew that he didn't have much of a choice. Narrowing his eyes with determination to save Sonic's friends who had become his friends as well, Young Sonic dashed forward and as he got closer, he noticed a statue of someone else unfamiliar; Rouge the Bat who was somehow stuck in this strange place.

"Another one of Sonic's friends. Wonder who this is? Guess I'll find out when I get back to the others." Young Sonic muttered, as he didn't hear anymore of the dark voice and while looking back and forth, he plucked the Chaos Emerald and held it in his hand, gazing at it. "What did that guy mean? What does he really want?"

"You again!"

Softly gasping, the young blue hedgehog spun to his right and saw, to his annoyance, Pachacamac approach with his staff in hand, this time joined by at least ten echidnas with spears and looked like taller versions of Knuckles, but just stern. The group stopped as Young Sonic glared back.

"What do you want, old man?" The eleven year old hedgehog demanded.

"Disrespectful, little welp!" The echidna leader grunted hatefully. "Did your mother not teach you to respect your leader and elders?"

"Like you had any manners!" The hero of Alternate-Mobius scoffed. "You tried to steal the Chaos Emerald away! And since you mentioned the Master Emerald and other stuff that I heard, you must be Tikal's dad who wouldn't listen to her!"

Pachacamac growled angrily. "Bah! So you are one of my disobediant daughter's filthy, commoner friends. She refused to listen to reason, and did not warn us of the monster that had destroyed our tribe, imprisoning us in a place only foul evil men and creatures cannot escape frim for 4,000 years!"

Young Sonic becam angrier himself at this. "Well, it was your fault! She tried to warn you, and stealing the Emeralds to make yourself stronger for your people wasn't the right answer! It's because of you that she had to seal herself away to stop Chaos, and because of that, all of the Echidnas in Mobius are gone! Well, except one, but at least he's not stupid like you are!"

"Silence, boy! Give me the Chaos Emerald, or you will die!" The power-hungry and greedy echidna demanded.

"No way!" Young Sonic snapped, placing the emerald into his quills as he stood ready to fight. He was hesitant to fight these guys, but he had to at least knock them out. "Normally, I wouldn't hurt other people and smash up robots, even though Ro-butt-ink is an exception for being horrible, but you guys are worse than him!"

"Foolish child. Do you think a little hedgehog like yourself can defeat us, the powerful forces of all the world?" The evil echidna scoffed.

The young blue hedgehog smirked. "I don't think I can, I know I can. I'm the hero of Mobius; they call me Sonic the Hedgehog!"

"Very well then, Sonic the Hedgehog. Death will be your punishment." Pachacamac grunted, before commanding his army. "Men! Kill this meddling child and bring me that Emerald!"

The Echidna Tribe charged at Young Sonic who stood there ready with a confident smirk, and the moment that closed in, spears ready and about to pounce on him, the eleven year old easily leaped away quickly and used his speed to race around them and knocked their weapons out of their grasps, causing the bewildered men to stumble and crash and pile on top of each other, inadvertently attacking one another thinking that had the young hero in their grasp, coming all tangled up in a pile.

"Hey, you big bullies!" Young Sonic's voice called out, causing all of the Echidnas, including the shocked Pachacamac who was stunned and dumbfounded by the boy's speed, looked up to see the eleven year old blue hedgehog stand in a small distance, safe and unharmed, carrying Rouge's still form over his shoulder in one arm, waving tauntingly at them with the other. "Over here!"

"How did you-where did you get that power!?" Pachacamac demanded.

"Ah, I was born with my speed, old-timer. Don't know where it came from, but it's definitely not related to the Chaos Emeralds, since I've only known of their existance for at least three months or so." Young Sonic shrugged nonchalantly. "I wouldn't call it power. I just like to run. It's good excercise. You should try it sometime."

"Well, running will not save you, child!" The echidna warned dangerously.

"Yeah, that's what you think." The young blue hedgehog said smugly.

"I want that Emerald as well as the others! Give it to me!"

Young Sonic responded by pulling a funny face and sticking his tongue out and then waved at the echidna group. "Later-taters!"

He then ran away with five of the Chaos Emeralds in his quills, and the statue-ized Rouge in his arms up the path in hopes in finding a way back to the others. Young Sonic left behind enraged echidnas who, under Pachacamac's furious command, charged and chased after the young blue hedgehog, who was already a mile ahead of them and had vanished from their sight.

To make things worse for the tribe that were left alive for 4,000 years, the pathway crumbled underneath them and the horrified echidnas, seeing this too late, fell and vanished into a dark and red portal where they found themselves trapped in a realm with moving gears. While the warriors groaned and attempted to recover, the now furious and greedy leader looked up with pure hatred over Young Sonic's escape with the Chaos Emeralds.

"You may have escaped from me now, Sonic the Hedgehog. But mark my words, I will get what I want. Those Emeralds will be mine, and soon my people and I will return to the world, and conquer all of Mobius and everyone will bow before the great echidnas once again and for all eternity...!" Pachacamac growled warningly.

It seems Scourge's actions did more than what he did.


Finding that he was slowing down due to Rouge being heavy and he didn't want to drop her, Young Sonic kept running up the path where he came from and despite that it was hard trying to find a way out, finally he noticed light up ahead and sensing that his was exit, the young hero sped up until he leaped out and skid to a stop, stumbling a bit before stopping...right in front of the rest of the group who, seeing another unusual portal open up all of the sudden, became startled at his sudden appearance.

"Sonic!?" Everyone else exclaimed in surprise and worry.

Panting at the heavy carrying and running and fighting, Young Sonic finally felt the weight of the frozen bat and ended up slowly collapsing with Rouge on top of him as he laid on his stomach.

"Found...one of your...friends..." The eleven year old panted, before complaining. "But boy, is she a heavy one? I felt like I was slower than usual carrying her."

"Here, let us help." Shadow volunteered, with Knuckles, who grumbled, joining him as the two older Mobians lifted Rouge's still form off of the hero of Alternate-Mobius who stood up and streched his back to get his spine back into shape, thanking the older two Mobians.

"You okay, Sonic?" Young Tails asked, with Young Amy quickly hugging her 'boyfriend' who winced and tried to push her away, which he eventually did after a moment.

"Yeah, I'm okay. Had seen a bunch of crazy things in that world place I was just in, fighting a bunch of crazy guys..." Young Sonic explained, gently pushing his self-proclaimed girlfriend away and pulled out the light-blue Chaos Emerald. "And I found another Chaos Emerald."

"A bunch of crazy guys? You mean, it wasn't just Scourge or Dr. Robotnik?" Red asked, which made the others look at him in concern just as Knuckles and Shadow gently placed Rouge in a standing position.

Just as Young Sonic nodded and was about to explain even though he noticed Sonic wasn't back yet, as if on cue, Sonic emerged with Blaze from the dark portal where the cobalt teenager spotted Rouge and the Chaos Emerald in surprise.

"SONIC!" Amy exclaimed, racing over and hugged her 'boyfriend' and began crying. "I was so worried!"

"A-Amy, I'm fine. You know me." Sonic replied, slightly pushing his self-proclaimed girlfriend back.

Seeing his older, alternate-self made Young Sonic feeling just as relieved.


After Sonic's return and Young Sonic explaining what happened...

When Young Sonic told Sonic and the others about the crazy story and what he meant about their worlds not being the only ones in trouble, he explained what he had seen, and to the original Mobians' shock and horror, the sudden return of Pachacamac and his men, the images of hundreds of more realities of Sonic, seeing the Roboticizer in one world that was merged and replaced with another, and right up to just arriving moments before Sonic and Blaze did.

"...Seeing what the Roboticizer can do was the most horrible thing I've ever seen, and you guys were right; Tikal's dad is crazy and he still wants to Chaos and Master Emeralds." Young Sonic concluded his story, still haunted by the images of other realities he witnessed.

"No way! And you're saying that there's one version of us in a reality that got erased that was turned into a robot!?" Sonic exclaimed, horrified by what he and the others were hearing, and Tails, Amy, Cream and Cheese went up close to him and gently leaned against the blue hedgehog in fear and worry.

"But at least they had a machine that reversed it, and a bunch of aliens turned everybody back to normal." The younger Sonic quickly said, before lowering his gaze as he admitted. "Well, except for his dad...even that world's Uncle Chuck was turned into a robot too, before he returned to normal."

"No..." The sixteen year old whispered, lowering his gaze as memories of losing his own uncle filled his mind, and how just months ago he found out that it had been Kaiser who had murdered Sir Charles and fifty other people.

"And you said that they came from a place of punishment they have been imprisoned in for 4,000 years?" Knuckles asked, still in complete shock to hear his people's ancestors, the ones that had caused the slow extinction to the point of him being the last one, were somehow still alive while Tikal wasn't.

Young Sonic nodded. "I even said that you're not stupid like they are. They've been in a place that's full of evil people and monsters too."

"I'm not sure what's going on with this, but even I heard of what that tribe did." Rouge muttered, rubbing her arms uneasily. "Especially how I've been hearind they knocked down the Echidna princess and all of those cute little Chao. That's just cruelty above anything else."

"I dunno, Rouge." Sonic muttered uneasily, scratching the top of his head. "Kaiser was bad enough, but what Eggman did in that universe that turned the other me into a robot makes him even more insane than both our Eggman and Ro-butt-nik in Sonic's world combined. Even they wouldn't go that far...except...Eggman did near worse with Yacker and all of the Wisps."

"Huh? Did you just say Lisps?" Young Sonic asked, confused.

"No, Wisps, with a W. It took me a while to get that right too, so I just called them aliens, and unlike Black Doom and his army, those little guys and their mom are very friendly and cute." The blue hedgehog smiled sheepishly.

"Who's Yacker?" Red asked, confused.

"One of the aliens I saved in Eggman's Interstellar Amusement Park." Sonic answered.

"Oh! So that's what you were talking about earlier." The young blue hedgehog remembered.

"Are these little aliens really friendly and cute?" Young Amy asked, curiously.

Amy nodded, smiling. "They're the sweetest and cutest little aliens in the whole universe. They even had cool powers too."

"I remember you telling me about those aliens in Station Square. The ones that had cool super powers and stuff like that." Young Sonic stated to his older, alternate-self who nodded.

"Yeah, except..." Sonic began, frowning again as he explained. "Well, like I said, Eggman tried to use their powers for the Mind-Control weapon and as he drained them, they transformed into Nega-Wisps and to turn them back, I had to free their stored energy. But with Yacker's mom, it took the Chaos Emeralds to save her...after she..."

"She what?" Kintobor asked gently, concerned.

Sonic paused, before sighing as Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Shadow, Rouge, and even Cream and Cheese gazed at him worriedly but knew that it was his choice on whether he should explain or not. "She...she wrecked the whole park and swallowed him. That was the last time anybody ever saw him...at least I did."

"...So that's how he got eaten?" Young Sonic asked, horrified as the others paled in shock and disbelief. His older, alternate-self nodded.

"Hmm..." Shadow thought deeply, his arms folded after a moment as he connected the dots with the situation.

"Uh-oh. I know that look. You're figuring something out, aren't you, Shadow?" Rouge muttered, knowingly.

"If what Sonic's younger self says is true, then the place Knuckles' ancestors have been could be the same place Silver told us, and if the situation that Scourge caused has released Black Doom, as well as the monster that may or may not be the Time Eater..." Shadow trailed off, as everyone else looked up at him, before opening his eyes that narrowed grimly. "Then no doubt those echidnas were sent to the very same place due to their crime against Princess Tikal, the Chao, the Emeralds and Chaos."

"So what you're saying is that since Tikal's Dad was so horrible that he and his men were sent to...the Prison of Evil?" Sonic muttered, his emerald green eyes widening in realization. He turned to Silver and exclaimed. "That means that place is real!"

"Yeah...and we're right, then Dr. Eggman in your world is there too due to the horrible things he did." Silver nodded in agreement.

"Which means if Black Doom and Tikal's father managed to get out to here, then Eggman will too!" Tails realized in horror as everyone else shared the same feeling.

"Oh my...!" Kintobor muttered in dismay, realizing that Scourge had caused this to happen...but then he had been researching the Sol Emeralds for years with Blaze's help, and had made the wrong decision to tell Red who thought it was a good idea to tell his brother, not realizing that the green hedgehog had turned to evil.

The kind human scientist thought back to what Sonic had warned him earlier, and how all of this mess started; unable to stop Red from after Scourge that resulted in him being eaten, the failures of saving the two boys' parents without even knowing, the failure to stop Snively, everything that led up to this right from the beginning and all Kintobor wanted was to erase all evil from Moebius.

Instead, he just brought it upon the world and now all Space and Time were on the verge of collapse.


"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.


'They're right...This is all my fault.' Kintobor thought, lowering his gaze in absolute guilt and shame. "...Sonic...You were right."

"Huh?" Sonic blinked, as he and Young Sonic looked up at him in confusion, as did everyone else.

"I never should have learned or studied the Sol Emeralds. All I wanted was to erase all evil from the world, and now this happened. None of the horrible things would have happened in the first place. Perhaps it wasn't Scourge who wrecked Moebius in the future Silver hails from...maybe-no, it was me and I didn't even realize it." The kind doctor muttered. "Now all realities are about to be doomed to be under Scourge's evil rule."

"Ovi...!" Red, Silver and Blaze all murmured in shock and worry.

"I am deeply sorry, Red, Silver, and Princess Blaze. I am no better than my evil selves." Kintobor shook, falling onto his knees and held his head in his hands. "What have I done!? If anyone deserves to be sent to that horrible place of evil, it's me! I have doomed us!"

"Dr. Kintobor...!" Both Tails and Young Tails muttered worriedly, while both Knuckles and Shadow shared glances, as did Amy and her younger, alternate-self and Rouge.

Young Sonic sighed, remembering what else he saw, and whispered to Sonic who looked shocked to see Eggman's alternate-good self break down like this. "He is the good side of Robotnik, you know."

"Huh?" Sonic muttered, looking at his younger, alternate-self.

"That world I saw? There was a Scourge that hopped dimensions without being allowed to, and in his world, there was a Kintobor that was also good and helped out the Sonic that turned into a robot for a little while before turning back." The eleven year old hero explained, gazing up at his older, alternate-self. "Sonic...He really didn't mean to cause all of this. He was just trying to stop evil. Especially Scourge."

Realizing that Young Sonic was right, Sonic now felt horrible for ever lashing out on Kintobor, and not trusting him due to the guy being an alternate-self of Eggman, not having accepted that in Moebius, everything was in reverse to both Mobius and Alternate-Mobius; In both versions of Mobius, Sonic was the hero while Robotnik/Eggman was the villain, and always will be, even if in the original Mobius, Eggman was gone...and could potentially attack in this place seeking ways to return to life.(That thought made Sonic shudder in fear)

In Moebius, Scourge, the other alternate version of Sonic, he was evil, and had turned evil due to losses and decided that the world was unfair and deemed unworthy for freedom, while Kintobor, the other alternate-version of Eggman, was the good guy trying to do to the right thing and in a way, due to taking Red in and looking after him and trying to help Silver to change the future and prevent the world's destruction with the help of Blaze and the Sol Emeralds, wanted to free the world from evil, not realizing that using the Sol Emeralds only made things worse.

Because Kintobor didn't fight and rely on robots in battle. He tried to do what he could...because he was only human. A scientist who was also a freelance doctor, just like Sonic was the freelance hero.

Sighing, knowing that he had to apologize and set things right, Sonic approached the distraught doctor and as the man had given him support and comfort, he now wanted to do the same.

"Hey, doctor?" Sonic began softly, making Kintobor look at him in guilt which made the teenage hedgehog's heart ache, seeing the actual true guilt that was alien on Eggman's expression. "I'm really sorry for yelling at you like that earlier, and not trusting you. I was angry, because of what happened to Red, and to Moebius and not thinking straight. Even now, I still can't believe that Scourge is the evil version of me and Mini-me. But that's no excuse of how I treated you, when all you've been trying to do was help and I deeply and gratefully appreciate it. I was a total jerk."

"Sonic, you had every right to be furious with me. It's because of me that you, your friends, and your other good alternate-selves were brought into this mess, when you all should be in your own worlds living in peace." Kintobor shook his head. He lowered his gaze once more. "Perhaps Scourge is right about me. Perhaps I should just disappear, then none of this would have happened."

"No, that would only just make things go in his favor and if not you, then Snively might've done a lot worse even if Scourge killed him. You saved Red from the terrible life out on the streets after his brother dumped him and their parents died because of a horrible incident." The teenage hero pointed out firmly. "It hasn't happened yet, but I can already see it in my mind and I hate it."

"But it's because of me he was swallowed alive by that dragon!" The good scientist pointed out.

"But I managed to save him, didn't I? He's still here, and I promise you guys are gonna go back home and Scourge will be defeated and I'll try to make him see that being evil is a very bad decision. The reason Scourge is the way he is because he lost two people he cared about, Fiona was killed by that Snively jerk and Red saved his life out of love and bravery!" Sonic told him, sighing as he shrugged sadly. "Sometimes losing the people you love tend to make you do all sort of crazy things."

The blue hedgehog turned apologetically to Shadow and continued, "I know one guy who lost everything, including the man who took care of him and tried to cure his sick granddaughter, who became the same guy's best friend, an innocent little girl who like me loved life, but she never got the chance to even stand on Mobius' soil ground. The jerks at the Government thought they were threats and killed her, and she died saving her best friend's life and her grandfather lost all sanity that he wanted revenge against the rest of humanity. That same grandfather was Eggman's grandfather, and not even he knew about that."

While Shadow for once didn't hold any grudge of his past being mentioned without his permission as he understood what his rival was doing, and looked away when everyone else that didn't know(except Young Sonic who sniffled and wiped away his tears, still finding Shadow's past unfair) to gaze at him in shock, horror and sympathy.

Sonic then turned back to Kintobor, adding as his heart ached, having to explain about his late uncle's death again since five months ago. "As I said before, 'bout how my Unc' died, and, well, I used to live in huge guilt for two months. It all started five months ago...Eggman split Mobius apart, by luring me into a trap when I used the Chaos Emeralds to transform into Super Sonic to stop him and try to save the world, and also to escape the clutches of the giant robot he controlled to catch me."

"No way..." Silver whispered in horror and shock.

"No one was killed, but it did bring out the giant monster, Dark Gaia, who wasn't supposed to wake up for another 20,000 years. It also made his counterpart, Light Gaia, who I called Chip when I first met him, to lose his memories and..." Sonic shrugged as he realized that he might as well tell Young Sonic about Sun's origins and gazed at his younger, alternate-self. "That's also when Sun was born."

"Wait...you mean...the guy you were talking about back at the Black Comet?" Young Sonic muttered, shocked.

"Yup. Before Chip and I saved him from being absorbed by Dark Gaia and my love for him as well as Chip's light made Sun a real Mobian hedgehog, he...he was my clone, created from my tears and negative feelings of sorrow, hate and anger I felt when I saw the planet split apart, also creating the Werehog-Beast's spirit that was born from the giant monster, while Sun's heart, mind and soul were born on their own, choosing him to be real like everybody else and he was somehow given knowledge of everyday life to be like everybody my age. None of us knew 'til Eggman found out, and I kept on blaming myself for what happened to Mobius." The teenage hedgehog explained.

Sonic, with the help of his friends who were with him during that adventure, explained everything in every detail, how to fix up both Mobius and the Chaos Emeralds, Sun's transformation into a hedgehog during the day, and a Werehog during the night, the Werehog-Beast trying to eat him, the Gaia Temples, trying to help Chip get his memories back, and despite learning of the truth, Sonic, despite he and Sun not getting on so well at first, became close friends and soon along with Tails and Chip, brothers, refused to treat his brother as a clone because they were spiritually different, the Werehog-Beast's release before defeat, Dark Gaia absorbing the darkness from Sun, the orange hedgehog's survival due to Sonic's ultimate brotherly love for him and Light Gaia's powers that transformed him into a real hedgehog, and finally the defeat of Dark Gaia before Chip's return to sleep.

"I've spent two months living in guilt despite trying to get over it, and seeing Eggman again made me hallucinate both Chip and the Werehog, 'till just before I freed the Astroid-Coster Park I realized that in order to have everybody forgive me, I had to forgive myself and I did. I beat the Werehog mentally within me to save Chip and I haven't hallucinated since then. The guilt still gets to me from time to time, but not as bad as it used to, because I was still alive to fix up that mess." Sonic explained.

He sighed, and turned to Kintobor again. "That's why it's not too late for you to do the same, Kintobor. You're still here, and we need your help. Sure, Tails and his mini-self are a million times smarter than Eggman, but know that you want to help out and do the same."

"Except I'm useless. I wish I never researched on the Sol Emeralds. What I did is much, much worse than Dr. Eggman has down to your world, Sonic, and it's not your fault that it happened." Kintobor muttered.

"No, you, Blaze and Silver were only trying to stop Scourge. You were trying to erase evil from the world. You can't give up on that now." Sonic pointed out to him, adding. "As I have told my friends and remembered, you can't let your guilt, fear, anger and sorrow overcome you, or else you're just letting them swallow you whole. You can't ignore them, but you can fight them, and if you let those emotions win, they'll always let you lose focus on what's really important. It happened with Chaos, because of what Tikal's dad did, because he was angry that Tikal and the Chao were hurt since they were his friends."

"Sonic..." The good scientist muttered, as he and everyone from his world were stunned by the sixteen year old hedgehog's wisdom and kindness, while Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Cream and Cheese, Big, Rouge and even Shadow all smiled, while Young Sonic, Young Tails and Young Amy felt inspired by the young blue hedgehog's older self's words.

"You're a good scientist, right? So, no wallowing in guilt and use that head of yours to help solve this problem." Sonic informed the doctor, and playfully but gently knocked him on the head.

Kintobor couldn't help but chuckle, not minding in getting knocked on the head. He placed his hand on his forehead while saying. "You're right. Sitting around doing nothing won't stop Scourge, Dr. Robotnik and that horrible monster, now will it?"

"There ya' go. That's the spirit." The blue hedgehog smiled, before sighing and said. "Again, I'm really sorry for being mad at you."

"It's alright, young man. I'm deeply sorry too." The kind human replied.

"So, we're cool?"

"Yes, we are."

Sonic smiled emotionally, now knowing he can trust Kintobor and, deciding that they were friends and finally understood why Red, Blaze and Silver really liked him, the blue hedgehog and the others then turned to Young Sonic who approached and, remembering he yelled at Kintobor as well and felt guilty for it, sniffled.

"I'm sorry for yelling at you too, doctor. I...I haven't had enough experience like Big-me had, and I feel awful about it." The eleven year old hedgehog muttered.

"I am sorry to you too, little one. Like your older self, you had every right to be angry with me." Kintobor reassured. "You're still young. Both of you are, in fact."

"Yeah..." Young Sonic muttered, smiling tearfully, which made Sonic start to tear up as well.

Both hedgehogs then, to everyone else's surprise, even Kintobor's, hugged the kindly man who jumped slightly, before sighing and gently hugged them back. Tails and the others, except for Knuckles, Shadow and Rouge, approached and joined in the group hug, even as Big tried to pick up all of them as he exclaimed, 'Group hug!' which slightly made his friends uncomfortable, but they ignored it and instead focused on the embrace, the younger ones in tears.

The trio that didn't join in just stood there, with both the red echidna(who didn't know what to think about the added situation) and albino bat smiled warmly at the sight, while the black hedgehog looked away. But the moment came to a halt as a monstrous roar shook the area which alarmed them and Sonic's group who all ended the hug and looked up to see the same monster coming through the dark portal and everyone gasped in shock.

"What in-!?" Blaze exclaimed.

"WATCH OUT!" Sonic shouted, realizing it was about to swoop down at them again and everyone ducked, narrowly avoiding in being captured. Though Young Sonic tripped and to his dismay, all five of the Chaos Emeralds he collected came flying out of his quills and scattered on the ground, much to his horror.

When the monster saw this, it swooped down again and when the Sonics saw this, they gasped and got up quickly to retrieve them, but Time Eater was about to scoop them up as well. The two blue hedgehogs cried out in alarm as the two Amys and two of Tails cried out their names.

"Look out!" Kintobor exclaimed in horror.

Sonic and Young Sonic screamed while bracing themselves, only for the Chaos Emeralds to suddenly glow and then float before surrounding the two heroes who noticed this and to their and everyone else's surprise, the Emeralds created a powerful barrier which caused the Time Eater to stop in it's tracks, the light coming from them was too much for it. It roared while wincing before fleeing, ignoring the bewildered group who watched it fly away and vanish into another dark portal. The Chaos Emeralds then returned to their current forms and as though deciding that the younger Sonic was worthy to keep them safe, returned to being hidden within his quills, much to his and the older Sonic's confusion.

"Sonic!" Amy screamed out as she and her younger, alternate-self hurried over and hugged their 'boyfriends' worriedly.

"Sonic, are you okay?" Tails asked his older brother.

"You're not hurt, are ya'?" Young Tails added.

"We're okay. Not even a tiny scratch." Sonic replied, shrugging as best as he could while he and Young Sonic tried to pry their self-proclaimed girlfriends off of them.

"Wow. I guess that monster doesn't like the Chaos Emeralds." Red remarked as he and the others approached the two blue hedgehogs.

"Chao, Chao." Cheese murmured in agreement.

"Well, they did come in handy a lot of times before." The blue hedgehog pointed out.

"Especially all seven of them, even if I only used them once, and that was when I beaten Ro-butt-nik on the Death Egg." Young Sonic added.

"The Chaos Emeralds must be effective to that monster, just like how the Sol Emeralds can save us." Young Tails theorized.

"And since they're both counterparts in the two worlds, maybe one might be able to reverse the damage." Tails suggested.

"True, but we need to look more into this, and the only way to do that is to collect the four remaining emeralds." Kintobor pointed out.

Sonic and Young Sonic both smirked, knowing that they were one step closer in finally solving all of this and saving everyone.

"Looks like you've got your work cut out." Young Tails said to the two Sonics.

The older Sonic chuckled, "Don't worry, we'll be careful. Besides, an adventure's no fun if it's too easy!"

He and the younger Sonic then shared a bro-fist, before racing off towards the next part where the younger hedgehog spotted the white area that he didn't recognize, but Sonic did, while the others shared glances after wishing their two heroes good luck.


"Hey, Sonic." Young Sonic spoke up as he and Sonic raced towards their next destination.

"Yeah?" Sonic replied.

"I was just thinking, about that guy Sun." The younger blue hedgehog muttered, shrugging slightly. "Do you think I might have a chance to actually meet him? He sounds really cool."

"Well, maybe. Though I'm not sure, but seeing that Shadow somehow ended up here, it might be possible." The older blue hedgehog answered. "Four months ago, he actually saved the world from a bunch of Hybrid creeps transformed by a crazy Platypus named Dr. Starline who was sadly Eggman's number one fan."

That made the eleven year old flinch in fright, before groaning in disgust. "Ugh! Why would anybody be a fan of Buttnik? Let alone turn people into Hybrid monsters?"

Sonic shuddered while shrugging. "Like I said, that guy was crazy. In fact, he even transformed a gorilla guy named Gaiver into a giant, using the same or similar mutant stuff a Mobian-hater scientist named Narasu wanted to use on me, but instead used on my friend Vector and it took Aspirin to shrink him back to normal size."

"Who's Vector?"

"That guy." The blue hedgehog replied as he and his friend skid to a stop, right at the entrance of a seaside surrounded by hills and ruins, and right next to it was the frozen figures of Vector himself, as well as Espio and Charmy. Sonic sighed, feeling bad that even the Chaotix were frozen in this state, but at least they were the last of his friends needing to be saved, which was surprising considering. "And these two are Espio and Charmy."

"Whoa...they look like a pretty tight trio." The young blue hedgehog remarked.

"Yep. They're a team of detectives called the Chaotix. They usually do cases for charity. Great guys, but, well...Vector can be pretty bossy and is a terrible singer, but he's a big o'l softy. He's the leader of the group. Espio's a ninja, and serious to boot. He likes to meditate a lot. Charmy, well...he's an excited kid but a valuable member of the team. Together, they're really good, especially when solving cases." Sonic explained.

He then chuckled, "And no push-overs. One time, when Metal Sonic took Eggman's place, that fat-head assigned them secretly to help stop that robot while pretending to pay them handsomely."

"I guess they didn't like it when they found out it was him, right?" Young Sonic shrugged with a smirk.

"First when they found him locked up, they attacked him when he offered them to join his usual attempts to take over the world, and after me, Tails and Knuckles smashed Metal Sonic in his Overload Metal form, he tried to sneak away but was chased and attacked by the Chaotix." The older hedgehog said with a smirk, making his younger, alternate-self burst out laugh.

"That's the funniest thing that's happened to him I've ever heard! Serves Baldy McNosehair right!" Young Sonic laughed, placing a hand on his head.

"Yeah, the Eggster really has it out on him. He even tried to sneak away not long after Shadow saved the world, and Knuckles chased him." Sonic laughed, which made them both laugh harder. After a little while, the duo settled down before the older hedgehog said. "Let's go, partner. Got four more emeralds to find."

"Lead the way!" Young Sonic mocked a salute, to which his older self returned, before the two hedgehogs sped into the portal to find the next Sol Emerald and Chaos Emerald.

Unaware of the danger they were about to put themselves into.


A/N: It seems that Scourge did more than what he bargained for and the situation is about to slowly go into a twist, but not what you're expecting, I think. Only way to find out is to wait until the next chapter arrives.

See you later!