Author's Note: Some bit of late news-Sega will be at next month's E3 event! However, whether they'll showcase anything Sonic related or not is left to debate(though I doubt that'll happen, and if they do, they'll probably show off a master of one of the previous Sonic games or just show new footage of either the Sonic 2 Movie or Sonic Prime for next year).

Other than that, here's a new and long awaited chapter!

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


Chapter 18: "To Face My Fears."

Scourge tried everything he could think of to fight or escape this giant Werehog thing. He ran and managed to lose it a few times, but the beast was relentless and refused to give up on him. He tried fighting it by performing several attacks such as Homing Attacks, Spin Dash, Spin Jump, Karate-Kicks, Axe-Kicks, many Karate-Punches and such, but the green hedgehog was whacked away once more after one last attempt in the middle of bridge towards a large temple that looked pretty boring, but he paid no attention to that.

"AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!" The Terror of Moebius screamed in agony, before hitting the side of a building and winced in pain, then fell and despite being injured, he managed to land safely and crouched while trying to ignore his injuries. "W-what is this thing m-made of?"

Feeling the thunderous giant footsteps once more, Scourge looked up and gasped in terror as the Werehog-Beast began to approach him, before remembering quickly that this thing feeds off negative feelings, energy and darkness, and during his attempts to escape and fight, he forgot about it. Frightened beyond belief, the green hedgehog knew that he had to try and escape this thing. Wincing while the huge monster made to grab him again, he made a run for it once more with the monster giving chase.

"THERE IS NO ESCAPE, LITTLE HEDGEHOG! YOU'RE MINE!" The Werehog roared, chasing after the terrified Moebian, smashing through the buildings as it went to capture and devour it's prey.

"Why can't you go find something more substantial!? Like Sonic!? He's the one you're after, so stop trying to get to me!" Scourge shouted, hating the fact that he failed to hide the high-pitched squeak in his voice, combined with the shaking terror he was feeling.

"AH HA HA HA! HAVE YOU NOT BEEN LISTENING? ALL LIVING THINGS ARE NOTHING BUT FOOD! I AM THE GREATEST PREDATOR OF ALL OF MOBIUS! EVEN THE UNIVERSE!" The Werehog laughed while giving chase despite that it was slow, but it didn't give up.

"Right. And I'm the Terror of Moebius! They call me Scourge the Hedgehog! Everybody's got a bad taste for me!" The green hedgehog grunted, trying to save as much of his diginity as possible...and save himself from becoming this mutant monster's meal.

"WHICH ONLY MAKES YOU EVEN MORE DELICIOUS!" The giant monster declared, making Scourge blink in horrified confusion. "YOU ARE EVERYTHING SONIC SHOULD BE. A MONSTER WHO SHOWS NO REMORSE, HAVING CAUSED DESTRUCTION TO THE PLANET, AND GIVE INTO THE DARKNESS."

Scourge mentally gulped, wondering if this thing would figure that he is Sonic's evil counterpart and would actually favor him to the blue hero who was the complete opposite of the green hedgehog. If that was the case, he should get out of this memory lane that belonged to Sonic the Hedgehog and find Robotnik so that they could go back to trying to get the Sol Emeralds and Chaos Emeralds to complete their task. Besides which, if Scourge failed now, not only he would never see Fiona again, but he would end up in the Prison of Evil...

'If I die now, Cormain will get me! And then I'll end up being erased in that Prison of Evil! Then everything I've done would all be for nothing!' Scourge thought frantically to himself. For the Terror of Moebius, now he was the one being terrorized. He had to get out of here right now!

Unfortunately, his luck had run out as the giant Werehog stretched out one of it's arms to topple and grab a couple of buildings and despite his best effors to avoid them, Scourge was forced to leap from side to side until all exits in the middle of the city was blocked off, forming a giant make-shift bowl with him right in the middle, and the green hedgehog forced to stop, cornered between the buildings.

"Oh, for the love of...!" Scourge grunted in frustration and fear, then spun around and gasped in fear as the Werehog-Beast had him cornered, blocking his only exit and towered over him with a look of absolute hunger and pure evil to the point that it's mouth was watering.

Unable to help but gaze at those sharp fangs and teeth which was being slightly and disgustingly dribbled with saliva, Scourge backed away slowly until his back ended up watching the wall and he tried to lean back as much as possible, even more terrified than he ever had been. He didn't want to die like this. He didn't want to end up in the same situation as his late little brother did. The green hedgehog had been so close, and yet he just ended up causing his own upcoming gruesome demise.

"MMMMMMM...YES. SUCH DELICIOUS ANGER, HATE, SORROW AND SWEET FEAR." The giant Werehog moaned in pure delight, licking it's lips hungrily.

"No...No, please! D-don't eat me!" Scourge pleaded, the brick-hitting realization that he was helpless and unable to do anything overcoming him. "I can't taste that good!"

"OH, BUT YOU CAN AND YOU ARE. COME TO ME, MY TASTY LITTLE TREAT." The Werehog-Beast grinned, reached out to pick up the terrified green hedgehog, showing no mercy, only predatory.

"NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Scourge screamed, horrified. He screamed louder as he came to a desperate idea, despite knowing that he was on his own. "ROBOTNIK! HELP ME!"


"Scourge! Hey, Scourge! Where are you!?" Sonic called out as he and Young Sonic raced through the streets of Spagonia through the night, running up along the walls and raced across one building to another, while Sun kept up the pace with his gripping hooks, swinging from one pole to another and jumped and leapt from roof to roof.

"Scourge! Come out, wherever you are!" Young Sonic cried out.

The two blue hedgehogs and the orange hedgehog eventually found themselves on top of the Spagonia University and tried to look for any signs of the evil green hedgehog on any roof somewhere, or at the very least any sight of a giant Werehog terrorizing the city.

"Man, I coulda sworn we heard him from this way." The cobalt teenager grumbled, one hand on his hip. He was very annoyed, but worried half-to-death.

"No sign of that overgrown hairball around here." Sun sighed.

"And no Ro-butt-nik either." The eleven year old hedgehog added, folding his arms.

"So even though our Ro-butt-nik is gone, this kid still has to deal with his and we're stuck dealing with that fat idiot along with the evil version of you and two monsters that are behind all of this?" The tangerine hedgehog recalled, as Sonic and his younger-alternate self explained to him on what was happening, which in hindsight made sense.

"Yeah, pretty much. Everything in Moebius is in reverse to both of our Mobius and Mini-me's Mobius." Sonic confirmed, sighing as he lowered his gaze. "Except...Scourge would've become a hero if Finivetus didn't cause all of the trouble just to get to another version of me and Knuckles. I still can't believe that jerk crossed through space and time just to get revenge on all of us, and we didn't even meet the guy."

"But he still ruined our lives to some extent too." Young Sonic pointed out, causing his older, alternate-self and Sun to gaze at him. "He's the one responsible for Kaiser to cause all of trouble's he did, including sending your Uncle Chuck, fifty other people in your world, and my Mom and Dad to that Prison of Evil place."

"Good point. To tell the truth, I'm still freaked out about the Roboticizer thing and...and how close you and I've been to end up turning into robots ourselves." The sixteen year old admitted, folding his arms and shuddering over the memory of the machine. "Hate to admit, but it's worse than being eaten and at least then, being devoured still let's ya go to the afterlife. Not that I wanna be eaten, but still..."

"After what I've heard, I'm seriously glad none of you turned into robots. It's worse than turning into a Werehog." Sun said, shuddering himself as he'd been horrified when he heard that part, placing a comforting hand on his brother's shoulder. As much as he wanted to get revenge on Scourge for almost turning Sonic and Young Sonic into mindless machines, after hearing what else was going on, not even the former Werehog was heartless.

Sonic smiled gratefully at his former clone who had become his rival to friend to newest brother, and placed an arm around the orange hedgehog's shoulders. "Pity that you weren't at my birthday party. I gotta make it up to ya, man."

"Uhh...Actually...I was in Station Square before this mess started up." The orange hedgehog began before quickly saying. "But I didn't know it was your birthday today! I swear!"

While surprised, Sonic caught a hint of panic and lie in Sun's voice and smirked knowingly, not convinced as he suddenly had an idea on what was going on. "Uh-huh...So you decided to come back for a visit today of all days, just like my human buddy Chris. Yeah, I didn't see that one coming, bro."

That made Young Sonic laugh, which prompted the former Werehog to glare at the birthday boy. "Shut up."

"Ah, relax. I'm always happy to see you, even either Birthdays, Halloween, Easter, or Christmas." The blue hedgehog reassured, a hint of laughter in his voice.

'Ugh, I knew I should've arrived yesterday. That's the last time I'm letting Rouge or the Chaotix book my flight plans.' Sun groaned in his mind as he sighed.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" A sudden scream made the trio nearly jump out of their skin, before looking around as they tried to figure out where that familiar scream came from.

"It's Scourge!" Sonic cried out in realization.

"But where's that screaming coming from?" Young Sonic asked, alarmed.

"ROBOTNIK! HELP ME!" Scourge's shockingly terrified plea continued from the distance.

"There!" Sun pointed to the ahead of them, and from where he, Sonic and Young Sonic were, the three hedgehogs then noticed a hauntingly familiar giant figure that stood at least 85 feet tall, if not taller; it towered over most of the buildings which some were smashed and wrecked and even in the dark, the two older Mobians recognized it almost instantly.

"What is that!?" The youngest hedgehog exclaimed. "It's huge!"

Sonic, feeling the familiar fear rise inside his chest, but not as much as five months ago, or even three months ago since he had overcome that fear and had not only atoned for his mistakes, but also had found it within his heart to forgive himself, had admittedly hoped he had been wrong and that he wouldn't be facing the monster again, but now knew that he had been right all along.

"...It's the Werehog." Sonic whispered, narrowing his eyes slightly as he clutched his fist to fight down his fear and his own negative feelings. Just the mere sight of it was threatening to undo all of his hard work, but he refused to give into it. Plus it wasn't just his own life at stake anymore; it was also Sun, Young Sonic and especially Scourge's lives now and the whether the green hedgehog was evil or not, he was in danger and he needed to be saved.

"One of our worst realistic nightmares." Sun added grimly.

"That's the giant Werehog!? No way!" Young Sonic cried out, his eyes widening in horror. 'Whoa! He's scarier and bigger than I thought. That thing really is a monster!'

The sixteen year old hero knew that his younger counterpart hadn't been expecting to see this, and neither did he. Even though he could feel and see all of the memories of when the giant Werehog tried to eat him resurface, even squeezing his eyes shut while trying not to give into them, he felt his heart hammer.

'No...No, not again! I'm...so close! I'm...not gonna let that thing beat me!' Sonic thought to himself as hard as he could.

It was then he remembered what himself had said to the Werehog-Beast before Sun had destroyed it, and having conquered his fears within his heart and mind.


Flash-Back: During the events of "Sonic and the Werehog"...

"It all makes sense now. I feared you, because you're just another monster from Dark Gaia, one of that thing's lackies doing all of it's dirty work to try and cause fear, destruction and chaos all across Mobius. Not only that, you're my fears towards myself; the fear of hurting others, not caring for anybody, only for power and destruction, or in your case, a coursed meal. You're the darkness and negative thoughts I myself was so afraid of all along, for four years ever since I first started learning how to use the Chaos Emeralds, only for emergancies." The blue hedgehog explained, his fear and sorrow slowly ebbing away.

That shocked the giant monster who's eyes widened, making Sonic smirk a little. "Unlike my buddy and new brother Sun, who was given a soul, a heart and a mind of his own, learning to experience life and already having his own feelings, being his own person despite having been born from my quills like you, you don't have soul! You don't care about anybody but yourself! You're just a beast living on for instincts of hunger and darkness!"


End of Flash-Back:

He even remembered what he said to the manifestation of Chip, his forgiveness that took form of his dear friend.


Flash-Back: During the events of "Sonic and the Power of the Wisps"...

"You did it, Sonic. You finally found it within yourself to forgive yourself, and face your fears inside your heart." Chip said happily and warmly, hovering closer to the blue hedgehog.

"Thanks to you and everybody else, buddy." Sonic shrugged, turning to face him. "Well, not the real you, but you know what I mean. You're everything I've known all along, and while it doesn't always work, it's part of who I am. You just took form of Chip because he's someone very special to me, and while I'll never see him again in reality, I can always see him in my memories, and in my heart."

"You seem to be calm with some of your sins flowed back into you." The pixie remarked.

"Because it's also part of me. Like Light and Darkness, one can't have guilt or feel bad if they only cared about themselves. Unless your name's Eggman." The blue hedgehog explained. "It'll never fully go away, but what happened wasn't because I did it solely on my own. It's because I love life; I love Mobius and all of my friends so much, and if anything happened to them, like two months ago, I'd blame myself for not protecting them."

Sonic then looked up with determination as he declared. "But that doesn't mean I didn't have a chance to make things right, or fix up the mess. It's only when I die before I can is when I'll be consumed by guilt and sorrow. I'll make sure that it'll never happen. When I one day die, it'll be because I know that the world and everybody I love are safe and free."


End of Flash-Back:

Feeling himself calm down, Sonic inhaled before exhaling deeply, thinking to himself. 'That's right. The Werehog did come from me, just like Sun did, only that monster's just another pawn of Dark Gaia, whereas my brother...he is himself in spirit, heart and mind. Now he's a real Mobian, thanks to me and Chip. That thing isn't real, it never was.'

Snapping his eyes open with determination and narrowed them, Sonic then declared. "Let's go save Scourge!"

"Huh?" Young Sonic and Sun blinked in surprise, yet relief that the hero of Mobius really was suddenly ready.

"Sonic?" Sun asked. Even though their reunion back in Clocksworth Town and in the region of Soleanna did see his brother he originated from back to normal, he was still concerned about Sonic's well-being, especially now that they were going to face their worst nightmare once again.

"It's okay, Sun. That thing isn't real, unlike you." The blue hedgehog reassured.

"Whaddya mean it's not real?" The young blue hedgehog asked, confused.

Sonic sighed, before shrugging. "I told you before, that thing also comes from me, but it's not just from my negative emotions, tears, Dark Gaia and the Chaos Emeralds that helped it grow and then was unleashed from Sun's body by Eggman. The Werehog is everything I'm scared of being, everything that Scourge is dangerously close in becoming; a monster that hurts others and only caring about themselves. That's what monsters really are. Scary appearance or not. It all depends on the dark path that was chosen."

"I get it...So that would mean..." Young Sonic realized.

"Yep. That Werehog is my fear come to life, which the real me, the really cool, heroic and caring side, can handle along side the most awesome friends and family can I'd ever want!" Sonic smirked with a thumbs up.

"Not to mention that thing's sometimes me on a bad night with a pessimistic voice that won't shut up." Sun added. "Letting it out in the open was bad enough, but I'm glad that I got rid of it back in our world."

"And since we got five Chaos Emeralds and way more positive attitudes, that thing won't stop us!" Sonic declared, then turned to his eleven year old counterpart and said. "Keep on being yourself, Sonic, and remember that you can fix up your own mistakes by thinking about what's the most important to you."

Even though the hero of Alternate-Mobius was nervous, he remembered his previous adventures, how he saved the world for the first time, how he saved Young Amy and Little Planet, how he became close friends with Young Tails and helping him to find more confidence within himself, and this journey, and how he wanted to keep going to help out his friends, and despite feeling some doubt, one thing he knew was that Sonic was right.


"You know, in my last adventure, I learned a very important lesson. If you let guilt, fear and sorrow continue to stay in your heart, they'll eventually eat you alive and then you'll end up having an inner fight within yourself. Keep in mind that they're part of all of us, along with anger, happiness, and love." Sonic told him. "I know that you told your Tails this, but my Tails reminded me that everybody's feeling bad over things that they didn't mean to or when it's not their fault...Except Ro-butt-nik."

He was right, the younger Sonic realized. It was exactly what he'd told Young Tails as well. The older Sonic winked, "Don't worry. I told ya before, you helped to save Red, and you saved me. We're in this together, even if we have to split up once and while in finding the Chaos Emeralds and the Sol Emeralds. Besides, being around friends is way more fun."


Remembering that important lesson, Young Sonic nodded and smirked back, mirroring his older, alternate-self's pose.

"Okay! Let's go!" Sonic declared, and as his two friends cheered, he glared up ahead at the monster, adding to himself. "It's time to face my fears."

With that, the three heroic hedgehogs leaped and raced straight towards their large and dangerous opponent in order to save their greatest enemy and hoping to save him in time, while knowing that they would have to face him at some point now that they were two Chaos Emeralds and Sol Emerald away from saving all of Space and Time once and for all.


"HELP! Robotnik, please help me!" Scourge screamed, but even in his foolish desperation, he knew that his partner in crime and time wasn't going to save him. He then gasped in horror as the giant Werehog loomed over him with an insane, terrifying and starving look, it's stomach growled loudly, waiting for a living person to eat and store.

The beast's expression became even more so the longer it stared at the frightened teenage villain who had been mostly fearless up until this point and the green hedgehog had no idea why he was severely intimidated by this thing. It then reached down and grabbed it's newest prey who cried out, bringing him up towards it's face while Scourge tried to pull himself free, but the grip on him was too tight.

"Oh man! How could I sink so low!? I don't wanna die like this!" The green hedgehog exclaimed, his heart hammering furiously in his chest. Here he was, Scourge the Hedgehog, the Terror of Moebius, about to die in the most lame but horrifying way; being eaten by a giant monster, the same way his little brother Maurice Red Hedgehog had done.

The Werehog sniffed at Scourge who cringed, and it grinned a toothy smirk in evil delight. "MMMMMMMM...SUCH NUTRITION. DELICIOUS."

Scourge whimpered in fear and hopelessness, and the giant monster that held him in it's grasp opened it's mouth wide while he gasped at the sight of the chamber of sharp teeth, massive tongue and the only entrance into the throat where he knew he was in for a one-way trip into it's stomach and whether or not he was going to be chewed into pieces or swallowed whole, this was it.

This was the end of him.

'Fiona...! Mom! Dad!...Maurice!' Scourge thought in crushing defeat, squeezing his eyes shut which leaked of tears that slid and dropped free, screaming loudly while bracing himself for his bitter end. "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"

But it never came, because unbeknownst to them at the moment, a blue ball speed straight up to the giant Werehog's side, hitting it so hard with such positive feelings and energy that the monster actually felt it. The ball then bounced and spun before landed on another roof close by, uncurling itself to reveal Sonic who crouched before standing up, glaring at his enemy for the first time in five months-in reality at least. Not expecting it, the Werehog roared in agony which forced it to hold it's prey away from it's face, losing it's grip on him as he fell, and then was hit again by another blue ball on the other side, prompting it to roar in pain again.

This blue ball then copied Sonic's moves and stood on the opposite building, revealing to be Young Sonic who stood ready despite feeling very nervous in facing this giant monster.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Scourge screamed as he fell towards the ground, but was then grabbed and saved by the sudden orange blur who swung via use of the gripping hooks.

Realizing that he was still alive and an arm was wrapped around his waist, the green hedgehog blinked in confusion and wondered who actually saved him. The Moebian looked to see an unfamiliar orange hedgehog who shockingly looked just like him and Sonic, only, obviously, in tangerine fur colour, violet eyes and green and white shoes with silver buckles and white gloves similar to his own.

"Huh? What the?" The green hedgehog muttered, baffled.

"That was close!" Sun exclaimed, sighing even though he was very uncomfortable for rescuing a bad guy who was an exact copy of Sonic, only in green fur and different clothes.

"Who are you? Another Sonic but in orange fur?" Scourge asked, suspiciously.

That prompted the former Werehog to groan as he swung onto the roof and landed, just as they both landed on their feet and stood up.

"Get off me!" The seventeen year old demanded, roughly shoving Sonic's brother back.

"You're welcome." Sun responded sarcastically.

Scourge glared hard at his latest enemy and rival. "I don't need your help, you badly designed copy-hog! I was capable of handling it myself!"

"That didn't look like it to me, and my name is Sun the Hedgehog!" The orange hedgehog argued back, glaring at the evil green hedgehog while ignoring the fact that the evil version of Sonic was right about the copy part from the beginning. "Just be thankful that Sonic, his younger self and I just saved your butt from becoming the Werehog's dinner!"

"What?" The green hedgehog blinked, caught off-guard. Not only Sonic and Young Sonic were suddenly here as well, but what the orange hedgehog in front of him said was unexpected. "Wait a minute! You're that other hedgehog this thing just talked about? I thought you'd be dark-blue or something. But given your fur colour, no wonder you were given such a girly name."

"And you're pretty much the total opposite of my brother. I don't like you already, but let's worry about our differences later." Sun shook his head with a shrug.

"Hmph! Works for me, Sunny-boy." Scourge scoffed, only for both of them to hear the Werehog growl which prompted the two hedgehogs to gaze at the same direction.

The Werehog groaned before hearing Sonic whistle, causing it to gaze at it's right and saw, to it's shock and then delight, was it's original prey which the monster came from along with Sun the Hedgehog. The hero of Mobius stood bravely with a determined frown.

"So, Werehog. We meet again. Wasn't expecting it, but oh well." Sonic greeted firmly. This time he wasn't going to let this thing get to him, or his guilt, fear, sorrow and anger overcome his senses.

"HA HA HA HA HA HA! THERE YOU ARE, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG. MY LITTLE TASTY TREAT." The Werehog chuckled darkly, grinning. "I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD IN SEEING YOU AGAIN BEFORE I HAVE YOU AS MY SNACK."

"Yeah, yeah." The blue hedgehog shrugged, feeling a bit of fear but was admittedly surprised that it wasn't as bad as it had been back in his timeline. Maybe it was because this thing was just an illusion from his past and memories, and that Sun had defeated the real one while he helped and had forgiven himself. "You wanna eat me and my friends and the rest of the world's population. I've heard that before. Same old dinner theatre."

"Same with me, Werehog!" Sun called up, standing in front of Scourge who blinked in surprise, while the Werehog turned it's gaze to the orange hedgehog and when it did, it blinked in surprise to see him. It made the former Sonic clone smirk. "I'd say it's nice to see you again, but I'd be lying."

"WHAT? SUN THE HEDGEHOG? HOW ARE YOU A DIFFERENT-WAIT, THERE IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT WITH YOU...AND SONIC." The Werehog spluttered in shock, looking back and forth between Sonic and Sun who smirked at it's reaction.

"What?" The orange Mobian snorted in amusement. "Never seen an orange hedgehog before?"

"Hey, I'll bet big ol' hairball's colour blind!" Sonic teasingly added, snickering in laughter.

"And maybe he's got tunnel-vision too!" Young Sonic added, prompting the Werehog to spin around in bewilderment, and it's eyes widened to see the younger blue hedgehog who, mentally gulping but tried not to let it get to him, just waved and smirked. "Hi there, you big, ol' mutt."

"ANOTHER SONIC!? WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?" The Werehog demanded, gazing around at the four hedgehogs.

"Let's just say that most of us are from the future, and you and everything around here are from our past and memories. And not to give out any spoilers, but sadly for you, you're defeated and gone. My brother Sun and I made sure of it." The sixteen year old explained, folding his arms.

"And I'm cured from my curse and made a real Mobian. Thanks to my brother Sonic and our friend Chip. They saved me from you and Dark Gaia." Sun added firmly. "That's why I'm not a Werehog right now. You have no control over me or anyone else!"

'Okay, what's going on? What are these losers talking about and why did they save me, when they know that I'm gonna be killing them and changing history in my world?' Scourge thought to himself, dumbfounded with a sweat drop.

The words that Sonic and his friends have said shocked the Werehog beyond belief, it gazed at it's hands before snarling and glared at the cobalt teenager. "I AM THE TRUE LIVING LIFE-FORM! YOU AND ALL OTHER PATHETIC LITTLE CREATURES ARE NOTHING BUT FOOD! YOU ARE THE REASON FOR MY CREATION, SONIC, AND WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE WORLD!"

Sonic just faked a yawn. "Sorry, what'd you say? I think I dozed off when you mentioned the food part."

"YOU FOOL!" The Werehog roared, reaching to grab Sonic who, realizing his slight mistake and softly gasped, yelped in fright and leaped back just in time before he could be captured, leaping back a couple of paces as Young Sonic and Sun cried out to him and he glared up at the giant monster who continued. "YOU DARE TO MOCK ME!?"

"Alright, so maybe I went too far with all the jokes. Gotta be more careful from now on." The blue hedgehog muttered to himself, narrowing his emerald green eyes. "No more playing around."

The giant Werehog growled. "YOU SIMPLY CANNOT DEFEAT ME, NOT WITH YOUR GUILT WITHIN YOU! YOU AND ALL AROUND YOU BELONG TO ME, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!"

"Your threats aren't gonna scare me anymore, Fuzzy!" Sonic declared, all jokes and cockiness now gone, replaced by his determination and bravery, all the lessons he learned coming back to full force. "Just because you're unstoppable due to negative emotions and darkness, that doesn't mean you're invicible! Positive thoughts and feelings, and light will always defeat you!"

"OH, IS THAT SO? YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT WHAT YOU HAVE DONE? YOU ARE THE SOURCE WHAT HAS HAPPENED AND EVEN IF WHAT YOU SAY IS TRUE, CAN YOU TRULY MOVE ON, KNOWING MILLIONS COULD HAVE DIED BY YOUR ACTIONS?" The Werehog grinned wickedly.

"Only if the world truly was destroyed and I failed to save everybody. Sure that kind of still gets to me, but you know what? It didn't happen and the only people that died was Kaiser because you had eaten him up. Or at least the real you did." Sonic admitted, but stayed true to what he learned. "But no one has blamed me, because I was only trying to stop Eggman who was the real reason for happened. Sure I...I struggled to move on for two whole months because I wasn't forgiving myself. I was scared of being all alone, scared of what could have happened, scared that...that maybe I really was a monster."

The blue hedgehog paused, closing his eyes as he continued. "But my friends have always been there for me. Both around me, and deep within my heart. Even those that I know I'll never see again, but I would never forget them. They all taught me and reminded me that all of what could have happened didn't happen, and I managed to atone for my mistakes. I just...needed to do one more thing in order to move on."

Placing a hand to his chest before forming curling it up into a fist, Sonic glared up with pure bravery and determination. "In order to move on, I had to forgive myself, just as everybody else has forgiven me! And that's exactly what I did three months ago! So, I won't be giving into my anger, fears, guilt and sorrow this time! You're going down, Werehog and my friends and I are gonna prove it!"

"And I've learned to adapt in Mobius, and that my home is with my friends and family." Sun added, also with determination as his own lessons resurfaced. "Mobius is my home, just as it is to everyone else!"

"And I may be still be new back in my world, I made a promise to my friends and family!" Young Sonic added, also determined and while he was scared, he wanted to try and help as much as possible. "Sonic and Sun are my friends, and I'm gonna help them!"

That seemed to horrify the Werehog, because it flinched and winced at too much positive energy and feelings from Sonic, Young Sonic and Sun, plus with the Chaos Emeralds they currently had, it began to realize that it's other 'food' were seemingly not as delicate or delicious as it remembered, while Scourge couldn't help but feel shocked just how his enemies were speaking. Though with everything Sonic's been through, that only made the green hedgehog even more jealous and angry, hating his blue counterpart even further.

"CURSE YOU, HEDGEHOGS! YOU THREE, THE CHAOS EMERALDS AND THE LIGHT FROM LIGHT GAIA WILL NOT DEFEAT ME! I WILL DESTROY YOU! I WILL DEVOUR YOU ALL AS WELL AS SCOURGE THE HEDGEHOG!" The giant Werehog roared in anger, thrusting out it's arms to whack the heroic trio who leaped back along with Scourge who, flinching, doing the same.

Sonic hissed before he leaped onto the stretched out arm of the Werehog who tried to grab him again, and then ran up along it very quickly while Sun distracted it by using his gripping hook onto it's other shoulder and pulled himself up towards it's face, and Young Sonic ran all around to face it up front and used his Homing Attack on it's chest. The two teenage hedgehogs used the same attack and while the hero of Mobius performed his Axe-kick, Sun punched it, both attacks right in the eyes.

"ARRRRAAAAGGGGGHHHH!" The Werehog howled in pain as Sonic and his two friends leaped away to safety to avoid in being accidentally thrown off while it covered it's eyes with both clawed hands.

"Yeah! Alright!" Young Sonic cheered.

"It looks like we have enough positive strength than the last time." Sun remarked, surprised himself. "And I don't even need to be a giant Werehog myself."

"Good! But let's not get side-tracked and focus on beating this thing." Sonic advised, and feeling that maybe they have a chance this time but he didn't want to end up jinxing them or this fight suddenly end up like his mental fight against the Werehog. Okay, so maybe it won't be like how the hallucination of the monster transformed into the Dark-Spine-Werehog, but still...

"Hey, how come you guys manage to injure that thing when I ended up being bounced back!?" Scourge shouted, finding this to be completely unfair.

But at the sound of the green hedgehog's voice and the darkness and negativity from the seventeen year old's heart and soul, the Werehog's ear twitched before it lowered his hands slowly and seemed to have calmed down, much the shock of Sonic, Young Sonic and Sun who all gasped along with Scourge who blinked, confused and getting rather worried. The giant monster moaned before looking up and grinned.

"What!?" Sonic exclaimed, his eyes widening in disbelief.

"What the!? It's okay?" Young Sonic cried out.

"Okay...guess I spoke too soon already." Sun murmured worriedly, taking back on the positive outcome he just said.

The Werehog-Beast took the pleasure of it's enemies' shock and made to attack again by stretching out it's arms to attack them. At Sonic's warning, the three heroes and even Scourge jumped back even further, before the teenage blue hedgehog tried another idea and raced across the buildings while avoiding it's attacks. His younger, alternate-self ran between it's legs while the former Werehog swung his way and ran as fast as he could while still lacking the supersonic speed that Sonic, Shadow, Young Sonic and Scourge all have. As they did, they avoided the attacks, but to the trio's dismay the giant monster was damaging buildings of Spagonia, far worse than when the Dark Gaia minions and even Eggman's robots would cause.

"I'm not all for being a hero, but I'm not a coward!" Scourge grunted, deciding to try and fight this thing again, even if it meant helping his enemies in this fight. Still, he much prefered that than being eaten.

The hero of Mobius in the meantime cartwheeled out of the way and in mid-air, glaring hard at the giant monster who made to grab him. But was caught off-guard when the hero of Alternate-Mobius and Sun used several Spin Dashes and Homing Attacks before leaping to safety, causing the Werehog to recoil in pain and giving Sonic a chance to land on the building and used another Homing Attack, combined with his boost ability to attack it back the side and making it topple to the ground, thankfully in a more opened part of the city. The Werehog growled in pain, before catching the three heroes off-guards time by thrusting it's arm out the moment they landed and they were all sent flying and screaming and hit the ground hard about five feet away.

When Scourge then tried using the same attacks while rather pleased that his opponents were down to count for the moment, unfortunately for him his presence caused the beast to look up and grinned before smaking him away once again as he screamed and hit another building hard, then slumped hard onto the floor.

"Oh, come on! That was a direct hit I used!" Scourge exclaimed in frustration, then hissed in pain as he grabbed his side which throbbed in agony.

"A-Are you guys okay?" Sonic asked, pushing himself up while wincing in pain. 'Ow...I'm gonna be feeling that when everything's back to normal.'

"Ow..." Young Sonic groaned as he sat up slowly, and rubbed his head in agony. "You know what? Giant Werehogs are a pain in the butt."

"Ugh, you mean a pain all over the place?" Sun grumbled sarcastically, wincing as he too sat up.

"That too." The eleven year old responded, while aware of the sarcasm.

Despite their injuries, the three hedgehogs looked up and found that the giant Werehog stood up and cranked it's neck and began approaching the evil green hedgehog who looked up and gasped before quickly making a run for it to avoid in getting captured again. The sound of him crying out in alarm made Sonic, Young Sonic and Sun gasp before the sixteen year old narrowed his eyes, the throbbing injuries fading as he ignored it and ran straight towards the giant beast. His younger self and brother shared a glance and nodded, then followed his lead to try and save Scourge and defeat the monster somehow.

Sonic side jumped from building to building and leaped very high up in the air before using another Homing Attack right on the back of the head and avoiding it's giant sharp quills. It roared in agony and stopped in it's tracks briefly, causing Scourge to stare up and his eyes widened in disbelief. The birthday boy in the meantime landed on the head and, having another risky idea, grabbed hold of some of the quill strains and pulled hard.

"AUGH!" The giant Werehog yelped in pain, black tears leaking out with a comical expression as it tried to toss Sonic off, and it didn't help that Young Sonic and Sun both jumped onto it's arms and attacked with full force while hodling on.

"Watch out for it's attacks from it's arms!" Sonic warned, remembering the previous times he fought against this thing, the first time with his back-then-Werehog-brother, and within his heart and mind.

"Got it!" Young Sonic responded, then had an idea when Sun pulled a couple of fur strains from the beast's right arm, and the younger hedgehog called up. "Hey, you giant throw rug!"

This made the Werehog to furiously glare at the young blue hero while wincing in pain due to what both Sonic and the orange hedgehog were doing.

"Come and get it!" The eleven year old taunted, and gave the monster a raspberry.

"Way to go, buddy." Sonic whispered with a smirk, proud that his younger, alternate-self came up with the very same idea he did in his mental battle three months ago.

The giant Werehog, unfortunately for it, fell for the trick and reached out with it's mouth again to take a bite. This was exactly what Young Sonic waited for, because he leaped off quickly while made the mistake in missing and bit it's own arm so hard that it's teeth sank into the skin, causing it to rear it's head back while roaring in pain, and Sonic held on tightly and Sun continued to attack it with Young Sonic going for Spin Dashes on the chest and legs.

"WOOOO! Yeah! Ride-'em cowboy!" Sonic cheered, riding on the giant Werehog like he was in a Werehog-Rodeo. "YAAA-HOOOOO!"

"Hey, that looks like fun! Wish I could do that." Young Sonic remarked as he landed onto another roof.

"Show-off." Sun shook his head, sometimes wondering if he will understand his best friend's idea of fun, as he landed safely as well and tried to come up with an idea on how to save the blue hedgehog since the orange Mobian felt something bad was going to happen.

When Scourge, seeing how he wasn't being chased, and curiosity getting the better of him, turned back to see what was going on, the green hedgehog saw his heroic-alternate self actually ride the monster who tried to pry him off. The evil Moebian still didn't understand why Sonic and his companions were going out of their way to fight the giant beast and had saved his life, that they were protecting him.

"GET OFF OF MY HEAD, HEDGEHOG!" The Werehog roared in anger, about to reach up to grab and eat the hero of Mobius who sensed this and decided that now was the time to get off.

"Okay! Ride's over!" Sonic said as he let go of the quils, leaping off and narrowly avoiding the giant claws that almost clasped him. The blue hedgehog then landed right onto it's nuzzle just in front of it's nose and looked at it between the blood red eyes which glared back at him, about his size.

"WHAT?" The Werehog grunted, wondering what it's prey had in mind.

The hero of Mobius just stared with determination, then he curled up tightly and spin dashed right between the eyes before hitting both red eyes with super powerful and super fast strike, then kicked it quickly while the giant monster roared in pure agony as Sonic used as much strength as he could to push it back before he leaped away and the beast stumbled before landing on it's back with an tremor-like thud.

Sonic, Young Sonic and Sun regrouped as they and Scrouge, who had to admit what his enemy just did was a pretty smart move, stood there anxiously.

"Did we beat 'im?" The youngest hedgehog asked.

"Hmm...You know what? I don't think so." The sixteen year old admitted, still on his guard which confused his eleven year old friend who gazed at him.

"He's right." The orange hedgehog muttered, narrowing his eyes as the bad feeling grew worse. "He's not beaten yet."

True to Sonic and Sun's words, the giant Werehog growled before flipping upright and landed on it's spiked-shoed feet and howled loudly. The four hedgehogs all gasped in disbelief and complete shock.

"No way! Even with all of those attacks, that mutant-mutt is still standing!?" Scrouge exclaimed, bewildered.

The giant Werehog then glared down at it's opponents and meals who stood there as Sonic and his friends knew that things were about to become much more dangerous now.

"Boy, is he mad now?" Young Sonic muttered nervously with a sweat drop, trying not to be scared but sadly was terrified. He then wondered if the Werehog was feeding off of his fears which made him even more scared, and it was only making things worse.

"I don't think mad is the right for that hairball." Sun pointed out, wondering he is causing all of this due to no longer being Sonic's clone or a Werehog himself, which didn't make any sense since he hasn't had a nightmare of the monster for months, especially after his adventure involving the Hybrians.(1)

"I don't get it! What's making this thing keep going?" Sonic exclaimed, then wondered with growing fear he tried to keep in check. 'Is it because of me? Am I still not fully ready? But I've forgiven myself! Maybe it's my hate and anger towards Scourge?'

The second he thought of his evil self, the blue hedgehog softly gasped and glanced over his shoulder to see the green hedgehog stand there a few feet away, and while the Terror of Moebius tried not to show it, the hero of Mobius could see it in those eyes; anger, hate, fear, and sorrow all mixed in, as well as jealousy which faded a little, but it was still there. Sonic's eyes widened as realization kicked in.

'It's not drawing any negative emotions or energy from me, Sonic or Sun. I've already forgiven myself, Sun's accepted who he is, and mini-me's still too young to experience what I went through. But Scourge...he's everything that I don't wanna be, everything that the Werehog has formed...he's drawing everything from him!' The blue hedgehog thought.

The Werehog roared once more, before grabbing hold of a fallen building and held it up above it's head and gave it a toss towards the heroes and evil villain who gasped before they all dashed and jumped out of the way just in time while it crashed onto the ground, crumbling and sending out a cloud of dust all over the place. But the monster wasn't done yet. To Sonic and Sun's dismay and Young Sonic and Scourge's bewilderment, the Werehog grew spikes on it's arms before they shot out right at the four of them.

"Watch out!" Sonic warned, leaping away as did his friends. They all avoided most of the spikes before the three of them and even Scourge who knew that it was getting more dangerous, kicked and punched the other attacks away. "Careful! It's going to re-absorb those things! It can't get hurt by it's own attack!"

"What!?" Young Sonic and Scourge exclaimed in horror.

As Sonic had said, the thorns returned to their owner and sank back into it's skin, and the Werehog bellowed in laughter.

Now knowing what needs to be done, Sonic turned his attention to Scourge and shouted. "Scourge! Get outta here! Get out now!"

"Hey, don't you give me any orders, blue-boy! I'm not a coward!" Scourge argued, glaring at the blue hedgehog he hated so much with a passion.

"Shut up and listen, okay!? That thing is feeding off of all of the negative emotions and energy from you! That's what keeps it going! It's mainly after you!" The blue hedgehog snapped.

"Me!? You're the one who it's mainly after!" The green hedgehog pointed out accusingly.

LOOK OUT!" Young Sonic screamed out suddenly, causing both arguing teenagers to glance up along with Sun as the Werehog stomped the ground and rock pillars began forming and trailing rapidly towards them.

"RUN!" The sixteen year old screamed, and as he scooped up his younger, alternate-self who ran and nearly tripped and grabbed hold of Sun by the arm, and raced away, Scourge, deciding not to argue anymore, followed him. The four hedgehogs sped away as fast as they could with both Sonic and his evil counterpart relying on their speed to get to safety, the hero of Mobius holding onto Young Sonic and the orange hedgehog who held on as hard as they could.

However, for Sonic and Sun, deja vu surged as the rocks were shaking the ground and making the blue hedgehog and the green hedgehog lose their balance before all four of them were thrown off-course and sent flying. The hedgehogs screamed while being sent forward. Sonic, Young Sonic and Sun were sent further away and they and Scourge hit the ground hard, tumbling and rolling a few times before skidding to a rough and painful stop. The three Mobians and the Moebian all grunted in pain, struggling to get up in time as while the giant Werehog called off it's attack, grinning like mad and believing that it has won the battle, it stretched out it's arm and once again reached out for the green hedgehog, deciding to eat him first.

Young Sonic noticed and gasped, screaming out to the seventeen year old. "Scourge, run!"

But it was too late, as Scourge only managed to get onto his hands and knees before seeing this and gasped in horror, screaming out in terror before he was grasped tightly and being lifted off the ground. Sonic and Sun, seeing this while struggling to get up, gasped in horror.

"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! YOU'RE MINE, SCOURGE THE HEDGEHOG! AND SOON, SONIC, SUN AND THEIR LITTLE FRIEND WILL BE NEXT!" The Werehog declared, grinning with an insane, monstrous look as it's mouth began to drool in hunger as it was looking forward for the taste of the helpless evil hedgehog who tried to break free.

"Let go of me!" Scourge struggled, terrified as he was becoming more and more certain that he was about to be eaten for real this time.

"Let him go, Werehog!" Sonic demanded with a hint of pleading in his voice. "It's me you want, not him!"

The Werehog refused to listen as it had it's attention to Scourge who whimpered, pleading. "NO! Please, no! Don't eat me!"

"FAREWELL, SCOURGE THE HEDGEHOG. MY LITTLE TREAT." The giant beast said, before opening it's mouth wide to place it's prey inside.

"SCOURGE!" Young Sonic screamed out in horror.

"STOP IT!" Sun exclaimed, horrified.

Sonic was horrified beyond belief, frozen stiff. Even though it was a different within space and time, he saw himself within Scourge, given how the green hedgehog is him from an alternate reality, who used to be cobalt blue, just like him. How helpless the teenager was a few times, how he needed to be saved and managed to avoid in being eaten by the Werehog in reality. It was then he knew, he had to save Scourge before it was too late, and suddenly remembering that he had two Chaos Emeralds as well as a couple of the Sol Emeralds he still had with him, despite this being a bad idea, he remembered how he faced that fear to face Perfect Chaos, how he saved the hallucination of Chip within that mental fight, and how he saved Red from within the belly of the dragon in Bamboo Jungle.

The blue hedgehog knew then, the time has come for him to fully face his fear, which he never thought would happen and it didn't matter if this Werehog just from his past or his memories. Narrowing his eyes and keeping to his promise to his enemy's younger brother, he winced sharply in pain while ignoring his injuries and raced straight towards the monster and the green hedgehog who was helpless and needed to be saved, much to the shock of Young Sonic and Sun who both wondered what Sonic was doing.

"Sonic!?" Young Sonic cried out.

"Sonic, what are you doing!?" Sun demanded, thinking that the cobalt teenager was crazy.

The Werehog in the meantime drew Scourge towards it's wide opened jaws where the terrified green hedgehog's eyes were wide in horror, before screaming as he squeezed them shut. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Sonic shouted, speeding up faster as he went into his turbo mode, Spin Attacking it on the chest which made the monster roar in pain, but it unfortunately let go of Scourge yet dropped him into it's mouth whole.

Horrified, Sonic then Spin Jumped upward and without a second thought or even hesitation, he jumped right into the mouth himself where his enemy was sliding down towards the throat and the blue hedgehog ended up slipping before being slid down himself while screaming in alarm...just as the Werehog, who felt both of them on it's massive tongue, mentally smirked before slamming it's mouth shut with the two hedgehogs trapped inside and then easily swallowed them both whole.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Both Young Sonic and Sun screamed in devastation, tears forming in their eyes. "SOOOONNNNIIIIICCC!"

The giant Werehog moaned in delight, and licked it's fingers for the after-taste of Scourge while having enjoyed the deliciousness of both the green hedgehog and Sonic, satisfied that it finally had eaten the cobalt teenager who was now trapped within it's stomach along with the Terror of Moebius. Or, so it and the devastated other two hedgehogs(who began to cry and scream in anguish loss) thought.


"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Sonic and Scourge both screamed as they were falling straight down the throat and towards the giant Werehog's stomach.

Yet despite this, and the sheer terror of actually being eaten by the terrible monster, Sonic forced himself to remain calm and spun around before reaching out for Scourge, calling out. "Scourge! Take my hand!"

"What!? Are you insane!?" Scourge exclaimed, wondering if his good self had lost his mind.

"Just do it, or else we'll be digested!" The blue hedgehog demanded.

"And how do you propose we get outta here, huh!?" The green hedgehog snapped, tearing up even as he tried to mask how defeated and devasated he felt. "We're both gonna die in here!"

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

"Huh?" The Terror of Moebius blinked, not understanding his rival's reason. He then looked behind him and saw that the entrance to the stomach was getting closer and closer and the sight of it's pool of digestive liquids coming into view. He gasped in horror before looking back up to Sonic who strained to grab hold of him.

"C'mon, hurry!" Sonic cried out, seeing the same thing.

While still not understanding, Scourge, in humiliation, decided to push back his pride and prayed that whatever Sonic's plan was would get them both out and reached up for his other self. After a couple tries, the two grasped hands with each other in a firm grip, before Sonic pulled out the yellow Chaos Emerald and held it tightly.

"This is gonna feel weird and painful, so just hold on!" Sonic instructed, and Scourge, without further choice, nodded and squeezed his eyes shut just as the duo fell through the stomach's entrance and paralling straight towards the pool while their only way in sealed itself tight and trapping them inside the stomach.

"Here we go!" Sonic declared, and chanted loudly. "CHAOS CONTROL!"

The Emerald glowed brightly under his command and it's light engulfed both of the hedgehogs before they vanished and narrowly escaped from even touching the stomach's liquids.


Young Sonic was on his knees, his hands curled up and on his lap as he cried, his tears landing on his gloves and soaking them as well as his face. Sun in the meantime, pounded his fist hard on the ground, crying in anguish himself as his own tears dropped onto the ground like rain drops. The Werehog in the meantime laughed in victory for finally having swallowed up Sonic as well as Scourge.

"AT LAST. SONIC AND SCOURGE ARE MINE!" The Werehog declared, yet it felt confused as it didn't feel Sonic and Scourge land in it's stomach or even feel it grumble to let it know that it's food were inside. It then shrugged it off and gazed down at the two remaining hedgehogs who believed they had lost their friend and brother and grinned. "NOW IT'S YOUR TURN, SUN THE HEDGEHOG, AND THE LITTLE BOY THERE WILL BE A NICE, TASTY AND SWEET DESSERT."

Both Young Sonic and Sun heard what the horrible monster had said and gazed up at it, while the Werehog began to approach them to grab them next.

While the young blue hedgehog gasped in horror, the former Werehog narrowed his eyes and stood up slowly, preparing himself to fight the monster and finish it off despite that he couldn't transform into a giant Werehog himself and he wished he did just for this moment.

"Alright, kid. You'd better get yourself outta here. I'll handle this thing." Sun ordered.

"NO! I can't lose you too!" The eleven year old protested, standing up quickly. It didn't matter to him if he only just met his older, alternate-self's brother today, as far as Young Sonic was concerned, Sun was his brother as well.

Just as the orange hedgehog was about to argue, suddenly something bright formed in front of them, between the two hedgehogs and the Werehog who stared, baffled. The light grew until two figures formed and appeared out of nowhere and almost instantly the hero of Alternate-Mobius and the former Sonic clone recognized them; it was Sonic and Scourge who appeared and landed on the ground in a gentle drop, but they winced due the uncomfortable teleportation, but the blue hedgehog wasn't as disorientated as the green hedgehog who groaned and laid on the ground.

"WHAT!?" The Werehog exclaimed in shock and disbelief. How in the world did Sonic and Scourge manage to escape like that!?

Sonic panted in exhaustion, trauma which began to ease off due to the miracle of still being alive, and having used Chaos Control to save himself and his enemy who panted just as heavily, flat on his stomach before blinking his eyes open and found that they were back outside.

"W-We're alive...?" The seventeen year old weakly muttered, before groaning as he was traumatized from the experience and unable to believe that he was still alive. "What a nightmare."

"That...I totally agree with." The sixteen year old replied. "I never wanna go through that ever again."

"Sonic!?" Young Sonic and Sun exclaimed, bewildered before huge relief formed with tears of happiness formed.

Sonic noticed his two friends and was so happy to see them, utterly relieved that he managed to pull that off. He nodded to his friends and said. "Heya, guys. Sorry to scare you like that."

"You're okay!" The young blue hedgehog cried out, wiping away his tears and wanted nothing more than to run up to his older, alternate-self and hug him.

Sun, noticing the Chaos Emerald in Sonic's hand, realized what happened as his eyes widened. "You used Chaos Control...! That's how you and Scourge managed to get out."

The blue hedgehog nodded, before the giant Werehog roared in anger which made him and the others look up to find that it was beyond furious as it demanded. "YOU! YOU HAVE THE CHAOS EMERALD! NO MATTER! I WILL TAKE IT FROM YOU AND SWALLOW YOU WHOLE AGAIN SO YOU WILL NEVER ESCAPE! YOU ARE TO BE MY FOOD AND MINE FOR ALL ETERNITY!"

"I don't think so, Fuzzy! This time, you're goin' back to where you came from and never trouble me, or my friends, or enemies, or anybody else ever again!" Sonic declared, forcing himself to recover from the experience and stood up, the yellow Chaos Emerald clutched tightly in his hand.

Scourge blinked, shivering in fear before crawling away slightly as he was terrified that the giant Werehog could eat him up again.

"Guys, get back. It's time to end this." Sonic instructed his brothers and the evil green hedgehog, calmly reaching into his quills and pulled out the other Chaos Emerald he had.

"What are you doing?" Young Sonic asked, confused.

"Sonic, you can't transform into Super Sonic with just two Chaos Emeralds!" Sun protested, thinking that the blue hedgehog was going to try and transform.

The hero of Mobius smirked confidently and glanced over his shoulder, reassuring the others with a wink. "I don't need to. I'm only going to do what I did to Egghead's stupid robot that used two Emeralds, which not even that was enough to stop me."

Turning back to face the Werehog who glared at him and made to reach out to grab the four of them, Sonic clutched the Emeralds tightly, held them above his head and focused on their power once more, this time they glowed and flowed their energy into him, much like how he defeated Eggman's giant robot the E-18 Guerra Hard almost two years ago.

"HUH!? WHAT ARE YOU-!?" The Werehog demanded, now starting to feel rather worried itself.

"I know this is considered cheating, but sometimes rules have to be broken! There's one thing that will never be broken, though! It's my love for my friends and family, and my desire to save other people! Sometimes even my worst enemies!" Sonic declared, hovering from the ground before flying straight towards the giant monster who attempted to grab him but it missed.

"Whoa! Look at him go!" Young Sonic exclaimed in awe. "I didn't know using two Chaos Emeralds could do that!"

"It's all the positive feelings and energy he's using." Sun remarked. "Still pretty cool, though."

'Whoa...! So that's the power of the Chaos Emeralds...no wonder Robotnik wanted them so badly. Still doesn't beat the Sol Emeralds' powers, though.' Scourge thought, admittedly and thoroughly very impressed.

Sonic let out a battle yell as he thrust himself right at the giant Werehog who roared and screamed in pain, the light from the Chaos Emeralds' as well as Sonic's powerful love and compassion, combined with that of his friends was more than enough to block out it's senses in feeding off all of the negative emotion and energy from Scourge and the darkness of night. So much so that saw what it's real self had gone-through within it's mind while the blue hedgehog continued to attack it with his power.

How the real Werehog was defeated by the light coming from not just Sonic, but also from Sun, how it was destroyed and even as it was absorbed back into Dark Gaia, it would never be seen again, and now the Werehog here and then was about suffer the similar fate. The light from Sonic the Hedgehog and the Chaos Emeralds spread until it completely covered it's body and it felt the pure agony of the compassion, and began to vanish into dark mists and disappearing completely.

"NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" The Werehog-Beast roared the last time, before it was vanquished and disappeared in the power of the light which faded.

"YES! I did it!" Sonic cheered happily, gently descending to the ground and landed while the power of the Chaos Emeralds flowed back into them and he stopped glowing. He did feel a little bit guilty for using their power, but he knew then and there, it was due to his desire to protect his loved once and keep to his promises that helped him use them in the first place, not because he wanted to.

'I remember now. It doesn't matter whether I use the Chaos Emeralds or not, or any kind of power. My love for all of my friends and family is what gives me the real strength. The strength to protect the world, and everybody in them. It's not just me who has this wonderful gift of life. It's the gift that many people have once they're born. That and our world should never be taken for granted.' The blue hedgehog thought to himself as he gazed at the Chaos Emeralds that helped him and saved his life, as well as the life of someone who he knew he had to fight, but was also going to save from the path of pure evil.

"Sonic!" Young Sonic exclaimed as he and Sun ran up to the blue hedgehog who, glancing up before placing the Chaos Emeralds back into his quills, smiled happily and held out his arms just as his friends hugged him which he returned longingly.

The three of them laughed and cried, with Sonic feeling like he ultimately accomplished his goal which he thought he did three months ago, but now knew that even the mental fight was nothing compared to facing his past and his fears.

"For a moment there, I thought we wouldn't see you again...!" The eleven year old blue hedgehog whispered, nuzzling his face into his friend's chest, tears silently sliding free.

"Don't do that again, please...! This isn't supposed to be your last birthday..." Sun pleaded, his tears also falling.

"Shhhhh...shhhh...It's okay, guys. I'm here. It's gonna be alright." Sonic whispered in a soothing voice, even though tears began to form in his eyes as well. "I hate to admit it, but I was really scared myself. Thanks for being there for me. I couldn't have done it without either of you."

"You're welcome, bro." Young Sonic sniffled.

"Happy birthday, Sonic." The orange hedgehog nodded.

While the three reunited friends continued their group hug, Scourge stared at them in disbelief, unable to comprehend that Sonic had actually saved his life and managed to survive. Even though he still wanted to conquer Moebius, he sighed before standing up, not sure how to feel about this. It stung his pride, but at the same time, he was...rather grateful.

"Hey." The green hedgehog spoke up, causing Sonic, Young Sonic and Sun to gaze at him and, remembering that they had their enemy who they risked their lives for and gave him slight glares, stood on guard. "Not to sound all mushy and stuff, I uh...I just wanna say...Thanks for saving me."

Surprised by Scourge's gratitude, the trio shared glances before turning back to the green hedgehog and Sonic, suddenly seeing a glimmer of some good within his evil self, nodded and replied. "No problem. It's what we do."

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

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

The Terror of Moebius just smirked, before waving him off. "I'll see you bozos later. Got somewhere else to be."

With that, Scourge ran off in high-speed to try and find Robotnik and continue his goal, leaving Sonic, Young Sonic and Sun behind.

"That guy will has an attitude problem." Young Sonic grumbled, before sighing with a shrug. "But at least he was grateful that we saved him."

"Yeah, but...it is alright to let him go like this?" Sun asked, concerned.

"There's still time." Sonic said, making his friends glance at him in confusion. "There's still some good within him. I've seen it. He's not completely evil, but Cormain is leading him down that path. Our only hope for him to come around is if he sees Red again, and show him that he isn't really alone."

Even though the young blue hedgehog and the former Werehog were still a bit uncertain about all of this, they knew that the cobalt teenager was right and so they agreed. Just then they noticed something shining from within the rubble close by and to everyone's confusion, the three Chaos Emeralds in Young Sonic's quills as well as the two that Sonic had glowed brightly. Alarmed and suddenly realizing what this meant, the two Sonics and Sun shared glances before hurrying over to the pile of debris and dug their way into it, tossing away rock and pieces of concrete until the blue light shone brighter and found what they've been looking for.

The blue Chaos Emerald.

Surprised, Sonic and his friends shared glanced before nodding, and Young Sonic reached out and pulled it from the rubble.

"Just one more of each Emerald to go." The young blue hedgehog announced.

"Yep." Sonic agreed, smiling.

"Then it's to fight the bad guys again, right?" Sun asked, knowing that this adventure was almost over.

"And then we'll be able to fix everything up and go home." Sonic confirmed, just as the blue Chaos Emerald glowed and the trio were forced to shield their eyes.

Once it faded, Sonic, Young Sonic and Sun found themselves back in the White Space and as expected, the area of Spagonia was returned to full colour. While the orange hedgehog was stunned by this, he then noticed where they were and blinked before looking very unimpressed.

"I can see why you called this the White Space. Talk about dull and boring." The tangerine hedgehog deadpanned.

Before Sonic or Young Sonic could respond to that, they heard Chris's voice call out from a short distance. "Sonic! There you guys are!"

Getting the hedgehogs' attention, the three of them saw the human boy as well as everybody else who had arrived earlier to meet up with the thirteen year old who, at first was surprised to see Young Tails, Young Amy, was a bit nervous about Kintobor at first but found that he was actually very nice, and got to meet Shadow in person, as well as Red, Silver and Blaze. Both of Amys then ran up to their Sonics who flinched and were then held into their self-proclaimed girlfriends' arms.

What surprised the group even more was the sudden appearance of Sun who, seeing unfamiliar people as well as two of Tails and two of Amy which shocked him beyond belief since he was still getting used to seeing two of Sonic, felt a bit uncomfortable upon seeing Kintobor who resembled to Eggman, but found that this guy was thinner than the evil scientist.

"Oh, Sonic! Thank goodness you're okay!" Amy exclaimed with feeling.

"Take it easy, Ames. I'm fine." Sonic reassured, surprised that he wasn't as uncomfortable as he used to be around the pink hedgehog, coming to realize that, with the gentle kiss he'd secretly given her earlier, realized that he did truly love her and returned the warm embrace, glad that he managed to survive and overcome his fear in reality at long last.

Poor Young Sonic on the other hand wasn't as ready as he was struggling to get out of Young Amy's arms as the eight year old pink hedgehog was trying to smooch him on the cheek.

"Amy, please! This isn't a kissing booth!" The eleven year old blue hedgehog protested, cringing over the great big kiss. "Cut it out, will ya!?"

"Some things never change in other realities, huh?" Sun remarked, blinking at his brother's younger-self's dilemma with a sweat drop.

"Guess it's like Sonic's always meant to be stuck with Amy." Chris remarked in agreement.

"Except for one exception." The orange hedgehog shrugged, before realizing who he was talking to and spun around, startled. "You're...Sonic's friend too?"

The human boy nodded, smiling. "You're Sun the Hedgehog, right? My name's Chris. I've lot a lot about you."

Realizing that this is the Chris kid he heard about, Sun felt comfortable and shook hands with the young Thorndyke. "Hi there."

"This is Sun?" Young Tails asked, surprised as he, Red, Blaze, Silver and Kintobor stared at the orange hedgehog for the first time.

"Yeah, he sure is." Tails replied, smiling happily to see his other brother again, and racing over to greet him, to which the orange hedgehog noticed and smiled happily and shared a high-five and hug with the nine year old fox cub.

"Wow! He looks so cool! I like that belt he's wearing!" Red exclaimed in awe.

Sun was then greeted by the rest of the group warmly as he felt relieved to see them again...except for the Chaotix who were still weird to him, and Rouge who tried to flirt with him which gave him the creeps. But he felt relaxed when Shadow scolded her and the two created hedgehogs greeted with smirks and a handshake of their own.

"It's been awhile, Sun." The black hedgehog greeted.

"Same to you, Shadow. Wasn't expecting to see you today." The orange hedgehog replied.

"Yeah, well, I got dragged into this mess, no thanks to the Time Eater, Scourge, Robotnik and Cormain." The Ultimate Life-form sighed.

"Which probably wouldn't make a difference if Mr. Ray-of-Sunshine came to the party or not." Rouge giggled, making both Shadow and Sun glare at her over the terrible joke.

"Ugh, thanks Rouge." Sun grumbled sarcastically.

"Hey, you guys really came to the party after all! And Vector said you both woul-mmph!" Charmy was cut off when Espio and Vector both attempted to keep his mouth shut before he blurted out anymore of the truth. Both Sun and Chris, who shared a surprised glance, sweat dropped nervously and hoped that Sonic wouldn't hear them.

Unfortunately for the group as Tails, Amy, Cream and Cheese, Rouge and Knuckles panicked, Sonic did hear and while he blinked in surprise, saw that everybody except for the Alternate-Mobians, the kind human scientist and the Moebians, all looked like they were trying to hide something, smirked knowingly as he gazed at his orange brother and human best friend.

"Ha! I knew it! You guys were gonna surprise me by coming to the party late. That's why you both came back to Station Square." Sonic snickered.

"Uh, well...uh..." Chris began, before rubbing the back of his head sheepishly in defeat. "Yeah, that's pretty much it. Sorry, Sonic."

"Okay, that's why I came back too. I just didn't want to be left out since I heard it was your birthday today. Rouge and the Chaotix were the ones who made me come today instead of yesterday." Sun shrugged.

"I did tell them, but they wouldn't listen." Espio defended himself, ignoring Charmy and Vector's protests while Rouge glared at the purple Chameleon.

"Next time, ask Tails for the flight plan." Knuckles suggested the former Werehog who nodded in agreement.

"It was kind of my idea and Tails suggested that they'd surprise you by coming late." Amy admitted apologetically.

Tails shrugged apologetically. "We just wanted to make your birthday really special."

"I'm not gonna hold a grudge against ya', guys." Sonic reassured, smiling happily. "I was still surprised to see them party, whether it was at my party or not. Besides this mess, it's still the best birthday I've ever had."

"Which we still must save if we want to return home." Shadow reminded.

"He's right. If you guys already got the Chaos Emerald from this place, we still have to find the last one as well as the last Sol Emerald." Silver agreed.

"And stop Scourge and our other enemies once and for all in order to restore our worlds, and space and time." Blaze added.

"Hey, that's reminds me." Sonic realized as he, Young Sonic and Sun suddenly remembered what they experienced. "We figured out how Scourge ended up coming up with this idea in his desperation to bring back Fiona."

"Huh?" Everyone else blinked in surprise.

"You have? What is it?" Kintobor asked, concerned.

"Not sure how, but the Sol Emeralds showed us Scourge's memories, from after Fiona died which confirmed what Red told us. But we figured out who gave Scourge the idea of getting the Sol Emeralds, which also puts him into much bigger danger." The blue hedgehog explained.

"Someone has told him?" Blaze asked, shocked.

"What? Who was it?" Silver demanded.

Sonic, Young Sonic and Sun shared concerned glances, before they turned back to their friends and the blue hedgehog answered. "It was Cormain. He spoke to Scourge in his sleep and threatened to end his life if he didn't gather the Sol Emeralds."

"WHAAAAAAT!?" Everyone exclaimed in horror and disbelief.

Sharing glances of realization, it quickly became apparent to them that Scourge isn't the real threat after all. Cormain had been using him for his own evil deeds.

They then knew that Sonic would explain what has happened.


A/N: The sixth Chaos Emerald is found! Now it's to find the last of it as well as the last Sol Emerald! But this will not be easy, as Sonic and his friends must still deal with the other threats before the final battle can even begin! I'll try to post the next chapter as soon as possible, though I won't be able to finish this story by the time Sonic's birthday next month. But I'm hoping to at least finish it afterwards and not take too long, but it depends on finding the right time for it.

See you later!