Author's Note: Sorry for the long wait, it had been a struggle to figure out how to continue this and whether or not use certain ideas to keep this story going and how to finish it. I mean, I know how it will end, but getting to it is the hard part.

But finally it's here, so the climax is almost at our reach!

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


Chapter 24: The Dark Twist.

Meanwhile, Knuckles, Amy, Young Amy, Sun, Star, Shadow, Rouge, Chris, Vector, Espio, Charmy, Cream and Cheese, Big and Froggy somehow ended up in a completely different area and separated from Sonic, Young Sonic, Tails, Young Tails, Red, Kintobor, Silver and Blaze. The group ended up wandering around on a path trying to locate their friends, but so far had zero success and it was starting to both frustrate and worry them so much.

Plus the Chaotix arguing again wasn't making things any better.

"I'm telling you, they went this way!" Charmy shouted at his two older co-workers and caretakers, getting more and more angry and annoyed by the second. Even though the feelings were mutual.

"No, we went down that path already." Espio calmly told him, even though he was already losing his patience quicker than he normally would. Being trapped in the White Space really has messed up with his cool, calm and collected demeanor that he wished he was back home right now he could do some more meditating.

"We haven't been down that path! It's all swirly and black!" Vector snapped impatiently, before pointing to the opposite direction of it. "But it's too dangerous to go that way. I'm tellin' ya's, Sonic and the others went down there!"

"That way's even darker than this way!" The young bee exclaimed.

"So? That's why we have a flash-light!" The green Crocodile pointed out, holding up said item from out of nowhere.

"That flash-light is broken, Vector." The purple Chameleon reminded. "It was struck when we almost failed our mission last week in Mobius."

"It is not! It's one of my lucky charms."

"I think it's more like a bad-lucky charm." The seven year old bee flatly said.

As the trio argued, the rest of the group just looked on in exasperation since they were wasting even more time as Chris murmured in dismay. "This just keeps getting worse."

"It's a miracle that they managed to get the job done without killing themselves and each other at the same time." Sun said with a dull expression, his arms folded to his chest. Again he was reminded just how embarrassing it was traveling with the Chaotix Detectives, and while the orange hedgehog owed them for helping him out four months ago, it was also a reminder that it had been an agonizing trip with these guys.

"We're definitely lost." Knuckles deadpanned with a sweat drop and hopeless expression. He wished he took the lead with this group instead of Vector volunteering when the 21 year old claimed to have an excellent sense of direction...

Which in retrospect, was almost as bad as the crocodile's terrible singing.

"I'll bet Sonic and the others are already fighting Scourge, Robotnik and that time-eating monster freak." Rouge facepalmed herself.

"Do they have to argue over everything like little kids?" Young Amy asked her older, alternate-self the two pink hedgehogs watched the silly argument.

"I wish they would just stop arguing, especially at a time where we have to stop Scourge and Robotnik." Amy responded in sheer annoyance, her hands on her hips.

Just then the thirteen year old hedgehog girl felt a strange jolt within her body as a sudden feeling that something terrible was happening. She gasped softly when Amy then somehow saw an image of Sonic fighting against Scourge, saving Young Sonic before falling off of a cliff and landing hard, the sixteen year old hero badly injured yet refusing to give up. Her heart pounded as she could actually felt her boyfriend's pain, could actually see the terrifying grin of the evil green hedgehog who was the mirror image of the Hero of Mobius, the Terror of Moebius. Fear, worry, anxiety, sorrow, and horror rose inside her, yet also sensing the blue hedgehog's courage and love accelerate which was regenerating his strength, Amy somehow could sense that he was in trouble.

The similar thing happened once or twice in the past, but she completely forgot about it, until now.

"Sonic...!" Amy softly gasped, her eyes shaking as they widened, turning towards the direction where she could actually sense her true love.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Young Amy asked as she saw her older self look paralyzed in worry and fear.

"Sonic and the others are in trouble! It's coming from that way!" The older pink hedgehog blurted out, mesmorized by what she could sense. This caught everyone else's attentions as they turned to gaze at Sonic's self-proclaimed girlfriend in confusion.

"What? How can you tell?" Shadow demanded, confused and skeptical.

"I can't really explain it, but...they're fighting. I can feel it." Amy replied.

"Then that mean we have to go that way!" Young Amy realized and said urgently, pulling at the older Amy's arm to get going. "C'mon! We have to help Sonic, Tails and the others!"

"If Amy's right, then we'd better follow her lead. I have a feeling that it's the direction we need to go." Star decided as she and soon almost everyone else began to think it was probably the best idea.

"I hope our friends are okay." Big muttered worriedly, as Froggy croaked.

"Me too. I'm worried about them." Cream murmured with Cheese in her arms.

"Then let's get moving. The sooner we reach Sonic and the others, the better." Sun declared as he, Knuckles and Shadow were about to take the lead and completely ignoring the Chaotix's protests(except for Espio who calmly followed the rest of the group), only to hear movement which made the two hedgehogs and red echidna stop in their tracks.

"Hey, what's wrong gu-"

"Shhh! Quiet." Shadow hissed at Chris as he, Sun and Knuckles, and soon Rouge and Espio sensed more movement...coming from one of the other paths.

"...We've got company." The seventeen year old echidna whispered, standing ready for an ambush. "Stay close."

Now worried and wondering what else could be there to stop them from reaching Sonic's group, everyone gathered close as Amy had Cream, Cheese and Young Amy close to her with Star and Chris standing by, Big looking around cluelessly, and the rest of the group already on edge as they braced for whatever was coming.

"Halt! None of you will pass any further." A loud voice that sounded horribly familiar to only two of the group declared darkly, one that had Knuckles and Amy's eyes widened in shock and disbelief, fear and horror filling their senses.

Just then a group of Tribe echidnas appeared from other paths except for the one that the heroes were about to enter, and surrounded the shocked Mobians and teenage human boy who gaped in shock and disbelief to see more of Knuckles' kind that even the Guardian of the Master Emerald couldn't believe it. The echidna tribe all had their spears out pointed threateningly at the heroes with death glares, frightening some of them as Young Amy, Cream and Cheese shivered in fear.

"Mobian Echidnas!?" Chris exclaimed, his eyes widening.

"Where'd they come from!?" Vector shouted, wondering if he really was dreaming. If so, then he would wake up soon and get ready to help set up Sonic's sixteenth birthday party. At least that's what he has been hoping since the younger Mobian freed him and his two best friends earlier.

"I'm guessing they're the tribe lead by Tikal's greedy father, from the looks of things. Their fashion is so overrated." Rouge remarked at the clothes the echidnas.

"I'm scared." Young Amy whimpered, wishing desperately for Young Sonic to be here right now.

"Me too." Cream added, looking ready to cry.

It wasn't until Sun narrowed his eyes as he realized. "The Prison of Evil. These guys are the ones that Chaos killed!"

"The ones that the younger Sonic told us earlier." Espio added in agreement.

"So, you know of the wrenched prison my people and I have been banished to. You are more clever than I anticipated." The same voice from moments ago spoke, causing the group to look and their eyes gaped in shock when they saw Pachacamac approach with a dark, angry expression on his face.

While Knuckles never met one of his ancestors in person as he, Sonic and the others had been shown visions of the past during the Chaos Crisis, he knew what this echidna was like and he felt pure hatred for the one who caused his own people to slowly die out to the point that the teenager was the last of his kind as a result.

"You...!" The seventeen year old growled lowly, a heated glare at the cruel and greedy tribe leader.

"Young echidna. Is this really what has come down to? Siding with the rest of these foolish creatures who can easily overpower the dominant species of the world? I am very disappointed in you and the rest of our people." Pachacamac grunted, glaring back at the younger echidna. "I take that you heard from me from that foolish meddling boy Sonic the Hedgehog, who has mind controlled you to side with him."

"Sonic didn't force me to side with him, you murderer! You're the one who has caused every single mess since from the very beginning!" Knuckles snapped, clutching his fists.

"Silence! You shall not speak to your elders and leader, child." The evil Tribe leader growled.

"You're no leader to me, Pachacamac! And before you ask, the only reason I know about you is because I've seen visions of the past, shown by the spirital of Tikal, your very own daughter!" The Guardian argued. "The crimes you committed and you didn't even listen to her when she tried to warn you of the disaster that lead you and your men to be destroyed and sent to a place fitting as your punishment!"

Pachacamac was admittedly shocked to hear this, and given how things have changed, it did make a bit of sense to him on how this young boy had even known in the first place. But the older echidna only narrowed his eyes and tapped his staff onto the floor.

"Hmph. That foolish girl. She refused to listen to reason. If she had obeyed, I would have ruled the world and all of the weaker creatures of other kinds would have obeyed the true powerful species of Mobius. But because she prevented me, she was mind-controlled by the beast who used the Chaos Emeralds to destroy us all!" Pachacamac scoffed.

"Chaos is not a monster! The only reason he became one is because of you!" Amy shouted, glaring at the evil echidna as tears began to form in her eyes. "You hurt your own daughter, you hurt all of those innocent Chao, all because you didn't care about anybody!"

"Stay out of this, hedgehog girl! You are not to speak in the echidna presence!"

"Leave my friends out of this, Pachacamac!" Knuckles snapped, quickly standing in front of Amy and the other girls as Sun and Shadow did the same.

This didn't impress the tribe leader at all. "Your friends? So, you desert your own people and abandon your post?"

"Kinda hard for our friend here to desert his people if he doesn't have any." Sun pointed out as he and most of the others glared at the evil echidnas.

"What do you mean?"

"Easy; it's because of what you did, almost all of the echidnas have died out slowly for the past 4,000 years." Knuckles replied, glaring angrily at the one who made it happen. "I'm the last of the Echidnas all together. My father and mother died before I could get the chance to know them."

"What?" Pachacamac's eyes widened in shock. Was it really true? Had it been 4,000 years since they were sent to the Prison of Evil? Was Knuckles...the last of his kind? He then hissed before offering a hand. "Then perhaps your place is with your own kind who have survived, young echidna. Leave these parasites, and come join me. Together we will dominate the world and rebuild our people."

That only disgusted Knuckles as he stood in a fighting stance. "Yeah, no thanks. You'll just use me so that everything will be even worse than when Eggman tried to take over the world, and I know that you're still after the Chaos Emeralds as well as the Master Emerald. Tikal even told us earlier how Robotnik tricked you!"

"So the girl's spirit lingers here? After all these years, she is still delusional, weak, child like, and disobedient. She does not understand that the Chaos Emeralds are the only way for survival." Pachacamac frowned.

"You're the one who's delusional! She knew the risks of the Chaos Emeralds, because Chaos told her himself! He was only a monster because you hurt her, and the Chaos who were all of his friends! It's because of you his mind was filled with anger, hate and grief! Tikal had to seal him and herself inside the Master Emerald until Eggman set them free to control Chaos and take over the world, which backfired on him! It took Sonic to use the Chaos Emeralds and their real power of positive feelings to stop him and free Chaos from all of the negative emotions he'd been stuck with, no thanks to you!" Knuckles shouted angrily, his chest feeling heavy over the memories that filled his mind.

How many times did he fall under Eggman's tricks, and now Pachacamac had been foolishly tricked by the evil doctor's alternate-Robotnik self in the same situation that was making things worse.

"He's right. Robotnik just wants to rule all by himself. Once he gets what he wants, he'll destroy you and everybody else." Chris spoke up pleadingly.

"You let anger, fear and greed for power overcome your mind, Pachacamac." Espio added, glaring at the evil echidna. "It's because of those feelings you have led yourself and your people to your own downfall. You have disowned your own daughter who was more wiser than you will ever be, and hurt her, having your men murder innocent Chao which is utterly unforgivable."

"Yeah, what you did was downright awful! It's no wonder you were stuck in the bad place where the worst bad guys go to!" Charmy shouted angrily.

"Not to mention that you let Robotnik make you go to his side when he's even worse." Vector added furiously.

"SILENCE! SILENCE!" Pachacamac shouted, holding up his staff. "I've had enough! Young echidna, join your true side! It is where you belong!"

"My place is with my friends! Seeing you now, I wish I wasn't an echidna! But I can't change that, but I'm not going to join you even in a million years!" Knuckles shouted, tears actually starting to form in his eyes. "I may be the last of our kind, but I'm still who I am! I'm Knuckles the Echidna, the Guardian of the Master Emerald!"

Pachacamac only frowned as he realized that nothing was going to change the young echidna's mind, and thus he will not change his either. "Very well, then. Then I will destroy you and your friends, and as such, it is Robotnik who will be lead to his doom. Only I can control the Chaos Emeralds. Prepare for your death, Knuckles the Echidna!"

He then barked orders to his soldiers. "Men! Kill these fools, not even the children shall live! There will be no witnesses or survivors!"

"Not if you can get through me!" Shadow shouted finally, forming power in his hands which shocked the ancient echidnas, while Sun, Knuckles, Rouge, Vector, Espio, even Charmy, and especially Amy stood ready while the pink hedgehog ordered Big and Chris to watch over Young Amy, Cream and Cheese.

"What is this!? Where did you get that power, hedgehog?" Pachacamac demanded. "Are you and the orange fool family to Sonic the Hedgehog?"

"I am, but not the Sonic you know." Sun spoke up, and just as one echidna charged with a spear, the tangerine hedgehog quickly grabbed it and yanked it to him before he delivered a powerful punch at the soldier's face and kicked him in the chest which sent the opponent flying and vanishing into the dark abyss close by.

"Chaos Spear!" The Ultimate Lifeform chanted, firing his attack at the tribe who, seeing this unique power, could only stumble back along with the shocked and now horrified Pachacamac who has never seen this before as he was reminded of Chaos' appearance.

Rouge in the meantime used her Drill Kick to knock back several others off-guard, causing the men to scream in agony and alarm as they were thrown back and crashed onto the floor. Espio in the meantime used his invisibility to attack unsuspected echidna clan who were easily knocked out by his attacks even as they tried to get to the others, while Vector punched more and snatched their spears out of their hands, wagging a finger at them.

"Uh uh uh. Don't even think about it, boys." The head detective smirked, which caused the echidnas to now become terrified and ran away screaming like girls, already having had enough of the situation as Knuckles' words gave them all terrible flash-backs that made them so afraid and ultimately deciding to abandon Pachacamac, realizing that their leader has indeed lead to their downfall and deaths in the first place.

"Take this, bad guys!" Charmy shouted, charging with his stinger ready as he dove-bombed at one of the soldiers who attempted to attack him, but the young bee was too fast and he stung him on the arm, causing the echidna soldier to grunt in pain before the youngest detective whacked him hard on the hard, knocking him out cold. The seven year old laughed. "That'll teach him a lesson."

Even though Chris and Big were facing problems of their own with the young girls, Cheese and Froggy at risk, the two decided to help out as the human boy picked up discarded spear and blocked the other echidna's attacks as hard as he could before tricking them as he smirked, before swiping the spear at their legs, knocking them onto the floor where two of them yelped and crashed. Cream and Cheese shared a glance, knowing what to do.

"We've gotta help our friends, Cheese!" Cream declared bravely, despite that she was still a little bit scared.

"Chao, chao!" Cheese chirped in agreement.

"I'm gonna help too! There's no way these big bullies are gonna hurt anybody!" Young Amy added, then admitted. "Just wish I had a Hammer or something."

Then to her surprise, Amy, despite worried for her younger self's safety, summoned her Hammer and handed it over to the eight year old pink hedgehog. "Yeah, Amy. You're gonna need this."

"Huh? How did...but what about you?" Young Amy asked, stunned that her older self did this, only to blink in surprise when Amy summoned another Hammer and stood ready. The eight year old girl sweat dropped, before smiling nervously. "Um, n-never mind."

"Watch what I'm doing, Amy, and someday you'll be able to do it too!" Amy instructed, as five echidnas charged. But she was faster than they were as she swung her Piko Piko Hammer so hard and so swiftly with pure determination to protect her friends and try to get to Sonic to help him as much as she possibly could, that their spears were thrown out of their grip.

"HUH!?" The five echidnas gaped, before staring at the pink hedgehog who smirked evilly, a glint blinking in her eye which quickly made them sweat drop in fear. As Amy charged, they only had time to scream before she smacked them hard one by one, knocking them away and even sent them flying towards the dark abyss where they would never be seen again, and unbeknownst to everyone, portals leading into the Prison of Evil were reopened and the echidnas were all sent back there, with the silhouette presence of an Octosaur watching close by.

"Oh, wow!" Young Amy beamed in awe, shocked by her older, alternate-self's strength and incredible ability.

Amy beamed happily at her younger, alternate-self before gasping as she saw more echidnas coming their way. "Look out!"

The younger Amy spun around and gasped as another five echidnas charged yelling, only for Cream to come to her rescue and she spun Cheese who curled up into a ball, throwing him as hard as she could and like with most male hedgehogs such as the two Sonics, Sun and Shadow, the little Chao spin dashed into three of them, knocking them down and yelled a battle cry. Young Amy, even more stunned yet becoming inspired by this, breathing softly in awe at such courage, then narrowed her eyes in determination.

It was then that she had enough of being the useless damsel in distress, which doing this may also help her win Young Sonic's heart.

"That does it! I've had it with these big bullies! Nobody messes with my Sonic or my friends and gets away with it!" Young Amy shouted, and while she wasn't fast or strong like most of her friends were, she still charged and out of her anger, determination and love, the eight year old swung Amy's Hammer so hard that she bashed one echidna right into the other, the two having been caught off-guard that they freaked out and were send crashing into one of the gears and passed out, with comical swirls in their eyes.

Seeing this made Amy beam happily. "Wow! You've got the hang of it already!"

This made Young Amy happy as she jumped up and down, celebrating. "I did it, I did it! I can fight with a Hammer! Oh, I wish Sonic was here to see me right now!"

Just then more echidnas charged ready for an attack, only to skid to a stop with a loud screech as Big stood towering over them with an angry glare and his, erm, Umbrella in hand.

"I won't let you hurt any of my friends! It isn't nice hurting others." The big Mobian Cat declared, and while he didn't like fighting, he didn't want to see any of his friends hurt anymore either. He then swung his umbrella so hard that it knocked away the bewildered echidnas who attempted to jump out of the way and dodged, but thanks to his strength as well as the sudden aid from the two Amys who, seeing this, charged in to help while Chris was soon left to be with Cream and Cheese, thus their opponents were also defeated like their comrades.

"Where is your weapon, treacherous boy?" One of the echidna soldiers demanded to Knuckles, as he along with five others stood surrounding the teenager.

"I don't need a weapon. I can crush you with my own bare hands!" Knuckles declared with determination, readying his clutched fists. "Come and get me, you creeps!"

The echidna soldiers took the challenge and charged swiftly at the teenager, but Guardian of the Master Emerald, not as fast as Sonic or Shadow, or even Tails, was still fast enough for them to miss as Knuckles let out a battle cry as he swiftly punched away the spears with his powerful strength that the weapons actually shattered into pieces before going for the shocked soldiers themselves. Still they proved that they could fight without weapons and punched at Knuckles. But he managed to dodge and wrestled at them before punching them in the faces one by one, knocking them back as they cried out in pain before crashing and hit the ground hard where they were out cold.

By then, all of the echidna tribes were defeated and while Knuckles' group were a bit exhausted, this wasn't as bad as fighting Eggman's robots. All that was left was the now horrified and dismayed Pachacamac who was unable to believe that like with Young Sonic, his men were defeated by a group who had abilities, skills and powers beyond imagination. Even children were able to defeat grown men.

"This...This can't be!" Pachacamac muttered, bewildered beyond belief as he took several steps back. "How could you call defeat my men!?"

"We have more than enough experience, creep." Sun answered as he and his friends all glared at the tribe leader. "Especially with Ro-butt-nik's robots."

"Everything's changed in over 4,000 years, Pachachamac. It's time to let go and move on." Knuckles declared, knowing that now was the good time to try and get Tikal's father to understand the loss and hopefully get to the two Sonics before it was too late.

Despite the heavy defeat, however, the evil echidna growled furiously. "You fools have not seen the last of Pachacamac! You will all be destroyed, and the Chaos Emeralds will be mine! I shall retreat to General Robotnik and together we will crush you and your friend, Sonic the Hedgehog!"

"General!?" Everyone exclaimed in shock and disbelief, before they all groaned.

"That's the biggest fat lie I've ever heard of an Eggman to come up with." Rouge sighed, exasperated while placing a hand to her forehead.

"Robotnik has lied, Pachacamac! He's using you!" Knuckles shouted in frustration.

"He is all I have left! We will crush you and your friends, Knuckles the Echidna! Then you will understand that power is the only way to live!" Pachacamac declared, turning away and began to run to find Robotnik as well as help him to destroy Sonic and Scourge.

"Hey! Get back here, you creep!" The younger echidna demanded as he, Sun and Shadow were about to give chase when all of the sudden the entire area shook violently which made the trio and their friends and their enemy to nearly stumble and lose their balance.

"What's going on?" Cream asked, fearfully, as Cheese then looked up and squeaked in alarm, causing her to do the same and gasped in horror. "Look!"

Their friends, alarmed by the urgency in her voice, did so only to gasp in shock as a portal of darkness opened up and revealing another monster, one that Sun recognized from the vision he, Sonic and Young Sonic saw earlier; the very same terrible creature that had tricked Scourge and caused this mess to start up in the first place. It was Cormain, and now it was making it's ultimate move.

"What is that thing!?" Amy exclaimed fearfully, as Young Amy covered her mouth with her hand.

"...It's Cormain!" The former Werehog softly exclaimed, his eyes wide with his pupils shrinking back. What in the Space and Time was that thing doing here? Was it waiting for the right moment?

"THAT'S CORMAIN!?" Everyone else exclaimed in shock and disbelief. Even Shadow was horrified at this sudden revelation. It reminded the black hedgehog of not just himself which made him supress the urge to shudder, but also the Black Arms. This was the beast that destroyed the Octosaurs' world, forced the very first Wisp to escape, the giant beast being imprisoned into the Prison of Evil where the Dino-like-aliens were forced to stay there for all eternity, the one who had tricked Scourge the Hedgehog.

The one who was one of the true masterminds of this whole thing.

"Another monster!?" Pachacamac exclaimed, horrified and terrified beyond belief as he stepped back, almost speechless. He was paralyzed in fear as memories of when Chaos banished him and his men into that dreaded place. Where did this beast come from?

"TRIBAL LEADER PACHACAMAC, YOU PITIFUL FOOL. YOU HAVE FAILED THE GAIN THE CHAOS EMERALDS ALL THOSE YEARS AGO, YOU HAVE ESCAPED ONLY TO FAIL BY THE HANDS OF THESE CHILDREN AND THEIR ALLIES. NOW YOU WILL FACE YOUR PERMANENT PUNISHMENT!" Cormain bellowed in anger, which shocked everyone even further.

"That voice...NO! It cannot be!" The elder echidna exclaimed in horror, as he knew who this voice was. One whom he heard long, long ago before confronting his daughter.

"Wait! You mean you actually know this guy!?" Knuckles demanded, bewildered. He wasn't expecting to hear that. He could understand Scourge, but Pachacamac?

"It was...around the time when my beloved wife has passed." Pachacamac admitted, taking further steps back. "As I mourned and left to bear with my child with her mother, a voice spoke to me years ago."


Pachacamac's Flash-Back: Fifteen years before the Tragedy...

Pachacamac stood before the grave of his late wife, tears in his eyes, his heart sank like a stone. It had been weeks since the birth of their daughter, whom was named Tikal, a child who would one day lead their people to righteous. Yet it left to him and his wife's mother to take care of the little echidna girl, but he had his duties as chief of the Knuckles clan. There were other clans that could and would destroy them all and dominate them, as neighbors will rage war.

"I could not think of anything other than what would the future bring. I could not care for my child alone, even with my wife's mother. I needed to do something before the other clans destroyed us all. Then...I heard the voice. The voice who taught me what I know of now."

"PACHACAMAC...CHIEF OF THE KNUCKLES CLAN..." A dark voice echoed in Pachacamac's mind, alarming the Chief Echidna who spun around, his staff in hand as he glared.

"Who goes there!?" He demanded as he mentally cursed his men for failing to keep invaders out. It was a dark voice he was unfamiliar with and could not find it within himself to trust it.

"YOU WISH FOR POWER, THE POWER TO DEFEAT YOUR ENEMIES. BUT YOUR STRENGTH ALONE WILL NOT BE ENOUGH. THEY HAVE MORE MEN THAN YOU DO, AND WILL ONLY GROW IN NUMBERS." The dark voice continued, echoing as the echidna failed to realize it was all in his mind.

"Reveal yourself, intruder! You are not welcome to this sacred land!" Pachacamac shouted, becoming more and more afraid by the second yet kept his steeled nerve in place as he attempted to locate the unknown intruder to defeat it.

The voice sounded amused, before continuing. "I AM BUT A VOICE FROM THE HEAVENS, PACHACAMAC, THE JUDGE OF ALL CREATURES. YOUR JUDGEMENT WILL SOON ARRIVE, AS YOU HAVE FAILED TO ACHIEVE EVOLUTION."

"What?" The echidna questioned, feeling frozen. Was just...the judgement from beyond this world? Were the legends all true? Could it be...the voice of Chaos? He has heard ridiculous stories of Chaos, the God of Destruction before, but he never believed in them like his wife and mother-in-law had for all these years.

Could they have been right? Fear and terror rose in his chest as he began to believe that judgement day was coming, and he and his clan, including his newbon daughter, were about to face their bitter end.

"HOWEVER, THERE IS ONE OTHER CHOICE YOU MUST DO. SHOULD YOU FAIL, YOU WILL BELONG TO ME FOR ALL ETERNITY." The voice suggested, which made Pachacamac freeze in his tracks as the unknown source continued. "SHOULD YOU SUCEED IN GANING THOSE POWERS, NO ONE WILL STOP YOU. YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DESTROY YOUR ENEMIES...AND ALL WHO OPPOSE YOU. THE WORLD IS FULL OF EVIL, CHIEF PACHACAMAC. YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO WILL SET THINGS RIGHT."

Falling for this trap, Pachacamac, in a moment of humiliation, fell to his knees and raised his hands into the air, pleadingly begging. "Please, spare me and tell me what I must do, Master of Judgement! How can I protect my clan and defeat our enemies?"

"FIND THE CHAOS EMERALDS, THE SOURCES OF ALL POWERS, AND THE MASTER EMERALD. WITH THOSE EMERALDS, THEY WILL GRANT YOU ALL THE POWER IN THE WORLD. BUT BE FOREWARNED, PACHACAMAC: IF YOU FAIL, YOU WILL FACE ETERNAL PUNISHMENT." The voice answered darkly in a stern warning.

The Chaos Emeralds? The legendary Miracle Gems like in the legends? Where they real? Could they be the answer to solve all of this? The more Pachacamac thought about this, the more he began to believe that it was the answer all along, to conquer his enemies, to ensure the future of the Knuckles Clan...and as dark thoughts began to enter his mind and seep into his heart, to rule the world.

"YOU HAVE FIFTEEN YEARS, PACHACAMAC. FIFTEEN YEARS..." The voice echoed for the last time before fading away, leaving Pachacamac on his own, left to his thoughts.

The words and terrifying experience echoed through his mind and body, almost as though he had just woken up from a bad dream. Yet deep down he knew, if he wanted to ensure that his clan would survive their enemies, the Chaos Emeralds were his only choice. He must not fail, he must find them. No matter what the cost is.

"I will find those Chaos Emeralds. It is our only hope." Pachacamac decided, narrowing his eyes as a deep frown appeared on his beard-muzzle. He stood up and held up his staff high, declaring boldly. "Hear me, enemy clans! I will destroy you! I will ensure the future of my people! Once I gain the Chaos Emeralds, we will be invincible!"

This was only just the beginning of his mad conquest to find the Chaos Emeralds...and the dark road which would only lead to his downfall...


End of Flash-Back:

"Ever since then, I have been seeking out the Chaos Emeralds. But my wife's mother, and even my own daughter would not listen to reason." Pachacamac continued, yet fear and crushing defeat began to fall upon him, as well as anger. "But it is because of Tikal, and her blindness to fail to see reason...it was the monster who used the Chaos Emeralds to destroy me and my people."

While Pachacamac believed in his own words, Knuckles and his friends could only stare in sheer horror as they, except for Big who as usual didn't know what to make of this, now fully understood the whole reason of the Chief Echidna's madness and blind conquest for power. Everything that has happened, even 4,000 years ago...once again it was another connection with Cormain's evil lies.

"I don't believe it...all this time...ever since my people began to decline which only left with only me surviving..." Knuckles felt shaken, horrified, and after hearing what Sonic told him about the Octosaurs as well as Singarina, and about Scourge...the teenage echidna now felt fully sick to the stomach. Crushed with heavy sorrow and mourning, he then screamed loudly. "IT WAS ALL CORMAIN'S DOING TOO!?"

"No way...All of things that happened with Chaos...Cormain was behind that too!?" Chris murmured in horror.

"I can't believe it...!" Amy whispered in horror, covering her mouth with her hands.

"You have GOT to be kidding me!" Sun exclaimed, unable to accept this.

Shadow's mind almost went blank, unable to believe what was happening. First the Octosaurs, then Scourge, and now Pachacamac? He almost began to think that Cormain was behind every single disaster everyone has been going through in regards to the Chaos Emeralds as well as the Sol Emeralds.

"I think this is the biggest plot twist in the whole story." Charmy muttered worriedly, completely shocked while accidentally breaking the fourth wall at the same time.

"And here I thought the whole situation with the Hybrians, Starline, the Deadly Three and the Twilight Cage was bad enough!" Vector exclaimed, bewildered with a sweat drop.

"So the attack on the Octosaurs was only just the beginning of what was yet to come, not just in space, but also in time as well." Espio realized, horrified.

"This is so horrible...Even Miss Tikal's father was tricked." Cream tearfully whispered, as she, Cheese and Young Amy began to cry.

"You can say that again, kiddo." Rouge agreed, hugging herself as she shuddered over the whole situation. "I'm getting pretty freaked out about this whole thing."

"Oh no...!" Star softly gasped, almost completely speechless.

Pachacamac, trapped between the heroes and the 'judge' against him, could only fall to his knees and stared blankly on the ground. "I have failed...all these years, and finding an escape route...could it have really come to this?"

"YOU ARE A FOOL, PACHACAMAC. I HAVE GIVEN YOU LIMITED TIME AND YOU HAVE FAILED. I HAVE GIVEN YOU A SECOND CHANCE THE MOMENT I HAD BEEN FREED...YET YOU AND ANOTHER HAVE DISAPPOINTED ME. NOW YOU WILL BE MINE AND NEVER TO SEE LIGHT AGAIN." Cormain continued, growling darkly.

Knuckles, tears beginning to really form before falling which worried his friends, as much like with Sonic, they had never seen him cry before, growled furiously before he shouted at the top of his lungs at the evil monster. "YOU MONSTER! You're the one that's behind everything! You tricked Pachacamac just so that you could get the Chaos Emeralds, much like how you tricked Scourge to get the Sol Emeralds!"

"What!?" Pachacamac exclaimed at this revelation. Did he hear right?

"Father! You must listen to Knuckles and his friends!" Tikal's voice suddenly filled the air, which startled not just the elder echidna, but also the group who all looked up to see, to their surprise, the echidna princess's red orb, floating down before the orb hovered between the heroes and the Chief Echidna and took shape in bright glowing light which forced them and even Cormain to shield their eyes.

"WHAT!?...THAT LIGHT...!" Cormain muttered in horrified awe as the light dimmed, revealing a familiar figure.

One that surprised everyone else on the ground.

"TIKAL!?" Everyone except for Young Amy, and Shadow exclaimed.

"Is she...?" Young Amy asked, surprised.

"It's Tikal!" Amy confirmed in disbelief, surprise and relief.

"Miss Tikal really is here!" Cream remarked in amazement.

"Chao chao!" Cheese chirped in agreement.

Even the eight year old pink hedgehog nodded in agreement. "You're right, Cream, and she looks beautiful."

"Tikal...You are here as well?" Pachacamac whispered in shock, his eyes widened upon seeing his daughter for the first time in 4,000 years.

"Father, please! You must not listen to this monster! He has been using you and Scourge from the very beginning, just as Dr. Robotnik has been using you for his own greed. You must stop this now, or everything will be lost, and you will cease to exist forever!" Tikal, finally unwilling to stand by even if she and Light Gaia could only help in spirit, pleaded tearfully. She felt her chest ache, her eyes forming with tears. The echidna princess didn't want to have to go through another tragedy, or see Sonic and his friends vanish.

"You have to listen to father! You let fear, anger, grief, sorrow, hate and greed control you! Cormain has done so many horrible things for so many years! You have to listen now!" She continued.

"What...? But...The voice and Robotnik have promised-"

"That's the thing! They both tricked you! They used your grief and fears and every other negative emotions against you!" Chris cut the older echidna off, shocking him. "They only want the Chaos Emeralds for themselves! It was never about helping you!"

"They were going to destroy you even if you succeeded. The same will happen to Scourge if Sonic doesn't stop him from turning to evil." Shadow warned sternly.

"It's what we've been trying to tell you!" Amy added in frustration.

"No...It cannot be...It cannot-" Pachacamac shook his head, looking up at Tikal as fear, and now growing guilt began to form inside his chest. "Tikal...Have you really been-"

Before he could finish his question, Cormain roared which shocked everyone as he then declared. "YOU MEDDLESOME FOOLS! NOTHING WILL STOP ME! NOTHING!"

The giant monster then blew air which forced everyone to try and shield themselves, yet it filled hauntingly cold before they began to realize what was going on. Knuckles, seeing a beam of icy wind head straight towards the two echidnas, gasped in horror before he and Sun, also seeing the same thing, hurried over despite their friends' protests.

"TIKAL!" Knuckles screamed out, not even thinking straight even though it was half-expected that Tikal wouldn't be solid. But surprisingly she was as the seventeen year old grabbed her and pulled her back while Sun and Shadow were about to reach out for Pachacamac, but the older echidna, his eyes widening as he realized now too late what was really going on and stunned to see the Guardian of the Master Emerald save his daughter, turned around and saw too late on what was about to happen.

"NO! NOOOO!" Pachacamac screamed out, right before he was completely frozen in ice, much to everyone's horror. Cormain smiled an evil sharp-toothed smile before it grabbed it's prey with it's massive hand and shattered the ice and the echidna's body which turned into glittering dust, and becoming absorbed into the monster's body. Knuckles and his friends watched on in horror at what they just saw. Pachacamac had been destroyed...and absorbed by Cormain!

"FATHER!" Tikal screamed in distraught, tears once more forming in her eyes.

"OH NO!" Amy, Young Amy, Star, and Cream all screamed out, before they and everyone else saw that Cormain laughed evilly.

"YOU FOOLS! YOU CANNOT STOP ME! I WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING YOU HOLD DEAR, AND SOON, ALL SHALL CEASE TO BE, AND THE NEW, DOMINANT SPECIES OF THE FUTURE WILL BE BORN, TO PROVE THEMSELVES MORE WORTHY THAN YOU WORTHLESS WEAKLINGS. NO ONE WILL STOP ME. I WILL GET BOTH EMERALDS, I WILL DESTROY THE TIME EATER, I WILL GET SCOURGE THE HEDGEHOG...AND ELIMINATE SONIC THE HEDGEHOG AND ALL OF YOU SOON ENOUGH!" With that Cormain flew away and retreated back into the portal.

"Get back here!" Sun and Shadow both shouted, but by then, the evil monster was gone. Everyone was left speechless at the sudden appearance of Cormain who had taken away Pachacamac, leaving them shocked by this new revelation.

"Are you okay?" Knuckles asked the echidna princess in his arms, as she began to cry.

"I'm sorry...I have failed again...I never should have gotten Sonic and his young self to try and save us..." Tikal wept, unknowingly crying in the Guardian's arms.

"Hey, it's not your fault. Cormain's the one who started all of this..." The seventeen year old pointed out, as comforting as he could allow himself, before lowering his gaze. "All this time...it had been him all along. He's the one who caused your father to lose his mind for the Chaos Emeralds..."

"So he just likes to randomly pick off those who he deems worthless?" Sun grunted, disgusted over this new information. "That guy's even worse than Dark Gaia! He's the cause for for the mess of almost everything!"

"Or perhaps he is the cause of everything that has happened." Shadow theorized, causing everybody else to look up at him in confusion as the black hedgehog continued. "If he is capable of traveling through space and time, then perhaps he could be..."

"The one truly responsible for Finitevus and even the Dr. Eggman who invaded the world which it's timeline was forever altered." Espio finished as he, Vector and Charmy quickly figured out where Shadow was coming from.

"So basically, Cormain was trapped but he could still call out like over a phone and probably convinced not just that Finitevus creep and that Scourge guy, but also the other Dr. Eggman to cause all of the problems?" Charmy questioned.

"So that he could gain the Chaos Emeralds and the Sol Emeralds, but each time it's been a failure. But because of what Scourge did, he thinks he can be more successful this time." Vector concluded in agreement. "This is serious stuff, people."

"But what about the Time Eater?" Young Amy asked, worriedly.

"I guess we'll have to wait and find out. Right now, we've gotta get to Sonic and the others before it's too late!" Amy declared, as she and everyone else now knew that this was the only possible explanation. She then pointed up ahead and said. "I can sense them coming from there."

"She is right. Sonic and those with him are facing Scourge, Dr. Robotnik and the Time Eater as we speak. Amy Rose can sense that Sonic the Hedgehog is in danger, and they are in that direction." Tikal, still guilt ridden, agreed. "He and his other self are our only hope now. They must not surrender the Emeralds to Cormain, and focus on their light. The Light is the Time Eater's and Cormain's true weakness."

"Then let's go. We can only give our support to give Sonic and his younger self the strength they need." Knuckles declared.

The group nodded, and with that in mind, they hurried to follow Amy's new sense as while Cormain vowed to be the victor, not even he was aware of what was about to happen next.


Back with Sonic and his group...

No sooner had Scourge had screamed out in fury, he and Sonic stood ready for their final epic battle, one that would decide the fate of all realities and who should claim the Sol Emeralds first. Despite that both hedgehogs were weak, neither one of them were willing to give up. One was determined to save space and time and everyone in it, to restore everything back to normal and rescue the soul and heart of his counterpart. The other determined to make his dreams and goals a reality, to destroy his heroic self and rule Moebius.

The two then charged at the exact same time with supersonic speed. Sonic and Scourge both bashed each other with a Spin Dash each, sparks of blue and green and yellow flying everywhere before they knocked each other back. But even at their heavy injuries, the hero of Mobius and the terror of Moebius refused to give up.

"I can't let you do this, Scourge!" Sonic cried out, wincing as he nearly fell over again, but managed to regain his balance. He glared up at his evil counterpart. "You're only going to destroy yourself!"

"What part of shut up don't you understand!? I'm sick and tired of your big mouth, hedgehog! I'll rip out our vocal cords before I tear up into peaces!" Scourge snapped back furiously, going for a Homing Attack which Sonic quickly did the same.

The two hedgehogs bashed and spun all over the place where they were as they flew around up and down and dangerously close to the edge of the abyss of Space and Time itself. It was becoming more and more violent that Sonic wasn't sure how much longer he could keep up, but at the same time the sixteen year old knew that Scourge was starting to run out of energy as well. It was a matter of now who would be the victor and he knew that if he lost, then everything and everyone he knew and loved were gone. It was battle of life and death.

When the two teenagers uncurled themselves as they couldn't keep up with their Homing Attacks, Sonic battle cried as he punched and kicked at Scourge who blocked his attacks and made to do the same thing, yet the cobalt speedster managed to block them despite how exhausted both were feeling. But the evil green hedgehog did manage to land a kick into the blue hedgehog's gut.

"UGH!" Sonic grunted in pain as he fell backwards while screaming, descending towards the ground. But at the last second he flipped and used a sky-diving ability that he spread his arms and legs out to slow his descend, too tired to use his Spin Attack to quicken his landing. Landing on his feet, wincing and panting heavily, he didn't have time to fully recover as he looked up before gasping when Scourge descended with another Spin Dash.

"WHOA!" The sixteen year old yelped before leaping back, narrowly avoiding in getting smashed when the seventeen year old hedgehog crashed into the ground, sending dust flying everywhere. The moment Sonic landed safely and looked up, Scourge sped up to attack again, which forced the hero of Mobius to drift and run out of the way and causing his opponent to narrowly miss.

But as the two passed, Sonic had an idea and using his own equal speed, he grabbed hold of Scourge's arm to stop him from running past and held on tightly to stop him from dragging him with. He had to dig his heels into the ground to anchor himself, much to Scourge's sheer annoyance and shock. Not giving the green hedgehog enough time to recover, Sonic leaped and spun-kicked at his enemy's face, bashing him to the side.

"NGH!" Scourge cried out in pain, stumbling as his heroic-alternate self let go of his arm. The terror of Moebius fell onto the ground, but was stubborn enough to flip back up and screamed in fury and made to punch him rapidly, which Sonic quickly blocked with his own. "You think you can beat me, Sonic!? HUH!?"

"Ugh, I'm not one to give up!" Sonic exclaimed back, landing each equal blow against the evil green hedgehog, getting punched in the chest and face which hurt, but he counter attacked by giving some of his own to Scourge who wasn't faring any better.

While Sonic and Scourge were having their final battle, Young Sonic was doing his best to bash against the Time Eater's attacks under Robotnik's control as the eleven year old Spin Dashed into one of the hands that attempted to grab him. Tails and Young Tails both wanted to help, while Silver and Blaze blocked the de-attached arms that came their way occasionally to protect both young fox cubs as well as Kintobor and Red who could only watch on helplessly over the dire situation.

"You can't defeat me this time, Sonic! Your older self will soon be ripped by Scourge and you will soon be smashed!" Robotnik, having recovered earlier, declared evilly.

"That's what you think, Eggman!" Young Sonic snapped back, wincing at his injuries before leaping out the way to avoid in getting caught by one of the Time Eater's hands that made to grasp him. He then attempted another Homing Attack at the hand which writhered in pain the moment the hero of Alternate-Mobius hit it with his attack and it retreated back to the rest of it's body.

Yet as he did, Robotnik launched another attack by having the Time Eater grasp a large boulder and tossed it at Young Sonic, much to the horror of his friends who cried out in alarm.

"Sonic, look out!" Tails, Young Tails, and Red screamed out in warning.

"Huh!?" Too late, Young Sonic looked up and gasped in fear as the boulder came flying at him. Screaming, he leaped out of the way just as Silver, sensing this and focused hard on his powers to block it, only for the Time Eater to attack from another portal which aimed to grab the eleven year old.

"Sonic! In front of you!" Kintobor cried out fearfully.

"We're coming, Sonic!" Young Tails cried out as he and his older, alternate-self, after sharing a nod, flew over despite the others' protests as the four year old cub shouted. "You're not going to hurt my big brother!"

The two kits then Spin Dashed into the hand, bashing it so hard that again the Time Eater recoiled in pain, which allowed Young Sonic, stunned to see this yet fully relieved, nodded with a smile to his younger brother and the older two-tailed fox, to attack as quickly as possible at the giant time-eating monster, Spin Jumping up and running up along the arm towards the cockpit where Robotnik was, much to the evil scientist's horror.

"Whoa! I didn't know Tails could do what Sonic can!" Red exclaimed in awe.

"The two of them must have seen both of Sonic fight so much that they have learned how to do so themselves." Kintobor remarked, thoroughly surprised himself. The two young fox cubs really were extremely close to the two blue hedgehogs.

By then, Young Sonic leaped over to Robotnik and Homing Attacked as hard as he could, bashing and smashing at the cockpit's glass which was also the main part that controlled the Time Eater who roared in agony at the young hedgehog's attacks. The evil doctor screamed while holding on for dear life.

"Stop it, you little pincushion!" Robotnik screamed, panicking. "Cut it out!"

Eventually the eleven year old speedster did stop and leaped away, causing the Time Eater to lean back in agony. But as the young blue hedgehog landed, breathing heavily in exhaustion but not willing to give up and hoping that Sonic would be alright, the giant monster then roared so loudly that it nearly damaged everyone's hearing which forced them, and even Sonic and Scourge, who were in the middle of now speeding around each other for another attack, to cover their ears in agony, as well as rocking the whole area nearly made those standing lose their balance.

To make things worse, the sky around them turned black and suddenly a familiar area that both Sonic and Young Sonic knew of began to appear with views and portals similar to the one Scourge used to appear to various places unfamiliar to everyone.

"Oh no! The Time Passage is merging with this area with the Time Eater summoning portals to other worlds and realities!" Tails exclaimed in horror.

"If we don't stop the Time Eater's new attack, it could destroy other versions of us as we know it!" Young Tails added fearfully.

"Not only it would damage the other worlds, it would cause history to be destroyed all of them if one of us does something terrible!" Kintobor added, fearing for the worst.

"WHAT!?" Young Sonic, Red, Silver and Blaze exclaimed in horror.

Now things were really taking a turn for the worst.

As Sonic and Scourge recovered once the Time Eater stopped roaring, the latter saw what was going on and grinned wickedly, sneering at the blue hedgehog. "Think you can catch me and stop me from making your other good-selves more miserable?"

"WHAT!?" Sonic exclaimed, horrified at what his evil alternate-self was saying, only for the green hedgehog to mock a salute and raced down the path to the nearest portal to another reality. "Hey, wait! You can't do that!"

Quickly giving chase inspite of his exhaustion, Sonic used his Boost to make himself go faster as he knew now that the battle has also turned into a race to save the other realities while hoping to avoid in being trapped in the other realities for the rest of his life. The moment Sonic followed Scourge inside, the reality-hop-battle-race was on.

Movie-Sonic's Reality-2020:

In the first world Scourge and Sonic both entered as the portal opened up due to the Time Eater's latest attack, they found themselves racing along what they didn't know was Paris in France on Planet Earth, and as the hero of Mobius was catching up to the terror of Moebius, glaring hard at the green hedgehog who grinned insanely back, the two teenagers bashed each other with shoves and punches, attempting to overpower one another in firm determination to win this fight.

"Just cut it out already, will ya!? You and the Time Eater are only now putting other realities in danger!" Sonic snapped, Spin Kicking at Scourge who grunted at this surprising attack, but managed to recover and ran along the wall of one building.

"Ha! That just makes things more exciting, Sonic! You ever thought of exploring other time-lines before?" Scourge laughed mockingly.

"No, and I don't plan to! I'm planning on stopping you and making you realize your biggest mistakes, and get back home to spend the rest of my birthday at my picnic party!" Sonic argued, before leaping out of the way when Scourge made to Spin Dash into him, and now the blue hedgehog was running along the walls on the other side of the street. But his counterpart soon following chasing after him ready for the kill.

It wasn't long before the two teenage hedgehogs leaped up to the roofs of the buildings and raced fast and true. They Axe Kicked at each other before going for more serious punches and leaps while doing some damages as well as dodging at the same time. At the same time on the street where they both briefly fought, this world's version of Sonic the Hedgehog, who's eyes were slightly different with blue in between them similar to Tails' face, and having blue arms instead of peach coloured. Chasing after this slightly younger teenage Sonic was this world's version of Robotnik, who had black short hair with a matching mustache, a suit different to Eggman and Young Sonic's Robotnik, thin like Kintobor and riding on an Egg Mobile that was surprisingly matching the speed of all three hedgehogs present.

By then, Sonic and Scourge leaped from the roof and back onto the road, still racing and fighting each other and were just behind their younger counterpart who was just doing his own final battle for the first time of his life, escaping from this more insane Robotnik.

"Hey, that squirt's got blue arms whereas we both got boring peach coloured!" Scourge complained about the younger Sonic's appearance.

"Yeah, well, I like my peach-coloured arms! Blue is cool, but on the arms, it kinda makes me look too dorky. No offense to that guy. It's this world's Eggman that creeps me out!" Sonic admittedly responded, wondering how in the world or in Space and Time did that Robotnik make an Egg Mobile this fast.

Completely oblivious to the whole Space-Time disaster, 2020-Sonic sped past a Mime-Artist while calling out apologetically. "Coming through!"

"Sacre bleu!" The poor human exclaimed in french as the blue hedgehog ran past, and ducked just in time to avoid 2020-Robotnik's Egg Mobile.

"Excusez-moi, monsieur!" 2020-Robotnik excused himself in french, flying past to catch his world's version of Sonic. Seconds later the two vanished when 2020-Sonic tossed a ring into the air which expanded and grew, which he and his enemy raced through before it disappeared.

Then another portal opened up seconds later to return to the White-Space realm, as Sonic and Scourge ran past the poor Mime-Artist who screamed as he was nearly run over for the third and fourth time in a row.

"Sorry!" Sonic apologetically called over his shoulder, just before he and Scourge disappeared into the portal and back to where their battle first began, yet as the two hedgehogs raced through along the path in the Gear of Time area, they raced along to try and defeat one another.

Yet Scourge entered another portal which forced Sonic to follow in hopes to try and stop the evil green hedgehog from causing too much damage.

Sonic X Reality-A month after the events of Season 3:

Now emerging in a Central City in another reality that was much like in Sonic's world, yet something was a little bit different about it at the same time, the teenage blue hedgehog sped after Scourge who was glaring at him angrily before attempting to Karate-Punch at the hero of Mobius. The sixteen year old ducked and slid down to kick at the terror of Moebius' legs which worked for a second before the green hedgehog grabbed his leg before he did.

"Huh!?" Sonic yelped, before he was shockingly tossed into the air by Scourge's equal strength while the cobalt speedster screamed in alarm, spinning around in a panic. "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!"

As he struggled to regain his position, Sonic managed to catch a glimpse of what appeared to be a giant cyborg worm that was causing havoc across the city, before Scourge spun up to attack, hitting the blue teenager hard in the chest and causing him to fall straight towards the roof of another building. Managing to save himself with another somersault, Sonic used his Homing Attack when Scourge made to punch him, only to be attacked several times while screaming in agony over the attack.

The evil green hedgehog descended before crashing, yet despite his injures as Sonic jumped after him, Scourge gritted his teeth before speeding off.

"Hey! Come back here, creep!" Sonic shouted angrily, giving chase once again as, while this was admittedly a fun and exciting battle and race, he was getting sick and tired of Scourge's games. Plus he couldn't let Red or their friends down now, especially with all realities now in much bigger steak.

Repeating their battle while speeding by shocked and confused citizens who had no idea what was going on and trying to escape from the giant worm that was causing chaos all over the city, Sonic and Scourge managed to both see this world's version of Sonic, this time exactly the same as the hero of Mobius himself, yet when they both looked hard enough, this Sonic only had three large quills on the back of his head instead of six like they both had, and maybe about fifteen years old, like the cobalt speedster was just yesterday in his world.

"Ugh! That guy's exactly like you, but it's a pity he's missing three quills." Scourge grumbled yet grinned at the same time.

"Hey! Leave him out of this! He's already got enough problems, especially with that big ugly giant robot!" Sonic growled, glaring at his opponent as they speed past, unaware of the X Tornado flying by and that Sonic-X was fighting another giant robot that looked like a large snake with Eggman-X on it, with Knuckles-X fighting alongside this world's Sonic.

As the two were getting dangerously close to the other battlefield with the giant robot slithering to cause more trouble, this world's version of Sonic used his Spin Attack with his Knuckles leaping and dodging out of the way from the robot's attack and attacked it severly before landing on the ground.

"I hope you have some insurance for that thing, Eggman! 'Cause it looks like it's out of date!" Sonic-X taunted grinning.

"This isn't over, Sonic! This battle is only just beginning!" Eggman-X growled furiously, before he commanded his robot to attack again.

But as Sonic-X and his friends were just about to continue fighting as Tails-X made to fire from the X Tornado, both Sonic and Scourge ran past the battlefield and accidentally ran along the giant robot's body, shocking the duo's counterpart, friends and enemy yet neither of the two hedgehogs paid much attention. The hero of Mobius and the terror of Moebius clashed against each other in their own epic final showdown while unknowingly damaging more of Eggman-X's robot.

"What the!?" Sonic-X exclaimed as he, Knuckles-X and Tails-X all sweat dropped.

In the meantime, Sonic and Scourge reached to the top with a series of attacks and bashing into Eggman-X's Egg Mobile which was causing it to lose control.

"Egad! What's going on!?" Eggman-X screamed out, nearly losing his balance when Sonic and Scourge bumped into him and he nearly fell out.

"Don't have time to deal with you today!" Sonic shouted at this world's Eggman before using his Homing Attack to bash Scourge off and quickly followed. The two landed on the ground in a heavy crash even though the sixteen year old caught a quick glimpse at his other counterpart who stared on in shock.

"What in...who?" The fifteen year old Sonic murmured, wondering if he was dreaming.

"Don't mind me, bud! Just pretend you guys didn't see me and this guy here!" The sixteen year old mocked a salute before tricking Scourge into following him, much to the evil green hedgehog's frustration.

"I'm gonna kill you for this!" The terror of Moebius screamed, giving chase and leaving the bewildered group of this world behind.

"What's going on? How are there two of Sonic?" Tails-X asked, gaping in disbelief.

"Who were those guys and why did one of them look exactly like you?" Knuckles-X asked, dumbfounded.

"Maybe they were my fans or something?" Sonic-X shrugged, cluelessly. He then decided to forget about it and turned his focus to the main problem. "Oh well. Let's finish this!"

With that, the blue hedgehog, his friends and even Eggman-X decided to take Sonic's advice and continued their own battle, which resulted in the evil scientist losing as usual. By then, another portal leading back into where they came from appeared and the two hedgehogs raced through at the exact same time while it closed, leaving behind this world which was facing it's own space and time crisis.

White Space-Gear of Time Area:

Racing back through their main battlefield, Sonic and Scourge now ran along the dark pathway below where Young Sonic was still fighting against the Time Eater, with the monster only making things twice as bad. But the two Sonics were determined to defeat their opponents and win this battle once and for all.

"Come here, hedgehog!" Robotnik declared, as he controlled the Time Eater to punch Young Sonic through another portal, but the eleven year old sped out of the way and Spin Dashed quickly when more de-attached arms attempted to catch him off-guard. Even though both Tails and Young Tails tried to help with Silver and Blaze struggling themselves with Kintobor and Red unable to do anything, the situation wasn't going into the heroes' favor.

But as the young blue hedgehog managed to avoid several more attacks while making to hit the cockpit again, there was an unexpected attack from above and at his friends' warnings, Young Sonic leaped out of the way when he saw at the last second. By then, the young hero of Alternate-Mobius panted, kneeling on one knee with his hand on the other, beginning to feel uncertain on how much longer he could keep up with this.

"Man...I'm running out of steam...I can't...give up now..." Young Sonic breathed heavily.

"Gotcha!" Robotnik declared, seeing Young Sonic open and the Time Eater reached out through another portal from above.

"SONIC!" Tails and Young Tails both screamed out in dismay, reaching out to help, only for another hand to block them both and they were sent flying into Red, and the still trapped trio who screamed and crashed onto the ground.

Young Sonic saw too late as he cried out to them in horror, only to be grabbed by the Time Eater's hand. He screamed in alarm as the eleven year old was pulled into the portal and back out with the arm re-attaching itself, the giant monster and the evil scientist leering down at him. The young blue hedgehog struggled to pull himself free, his heart racing quickly, terrified while trapped within the horrible beast's grasp yet trying to hold back his fear.

Sonic, hearing the cries from where he was as he continued his battle against Scourge, looked up and gasped in horror, his eyes widening when he saw his younger, alternate-self now trapped and held tightly in the giant monster's grip.

"Sonic, no!" The hero of Mobius screamed out, making the decision to hurry back and save his friend, only for Scourge to use this distraction to bash into him in high-speed, causing Sonic to grunt in agony as they both lost their balance quickly and fell into yet another reality portal, forcing the cobalt teenager to delay his rescue attempts.

In the meantime, Young Sonic continued to try in a futile attempt to free himself, and ignore Robotnik's evil laughter of victory. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! You're mine now, Sonic! You'll never get away!"

"Oh yeah!? Just watch me, Ro-butt-nik!" The hero of Alternate-Mobius grunted, while desperately trying to figure out of a way to get out of this, frightened as this would be a complete failure. If he didn't do something now, he wouldn't be able to help Sonic to save Space and Time. He just had to remember how Sonic got out safely, before an idea formed in his head. It was a risky move, but at this point, there was no other choice. Sonic used the Chaos Emeralds to get out of the Werehog's stomach before the teenager along with Scourge would end up digested.

Maybe he could do the same.

'I hate to do this, but I can't let Robotnik and the Time Eater win! Oh, please, let this work!' Young Sonic thought to himself, quickly reaching out in his quills and randomly pulled out a red Chaos Emerald, clutching it tightly and while his friends down below were shocked while wondering what he was doing, as did Robotnik, the eleven year old held up the Emerald and shouted. "Here goes! CHAOS CONTROL!"

Focusing hard on actually wanting to teleport out of the Time Eater's grasp, and at the mere sight of it, the giant monster winced in agony at it's powerful light while losing it's grip on Young Sonic, the young blue hedgehog suddenly disappeared much to the shock of Robotnik who exclaimed. "WHAT!?"

As Young Tails wondered where his big brother went, suddenly a small ball of light which expanded appeared not too far from him, his older, alternate-self and the others as they were slowly recovering, and suddenly the eleven year old blue hedgehog reappeared in a pained curled up position before the light vanished and he gently dropped. He grunted and gasped in exhaustion and heavy injuries, panting and too tired to even move right now.

"Sonic!" Tails, Young Tails and Red exclaimed, the three of them, Kintobor, Silver and Blaze hurrying over to the young blue hedgehog.

"Are you okay!?" Young Tails asked, frantically as Young Sonic slowly pushed himself up, his grip on the Chaos Emerald loosened a little, but still held firmly.

"Y-Yeah...I'm fine, li'l bro. Now I know why Sonic hardly ever uses the Emeralds for teleporting. Kinda feels like I'm gettin' seasick." Young Sonic replied, wheezing a little. He then smiled in relief with a sigh. "At least it worked."

"You should take it easy. You've done your best, Sonic." Tails advised with grave worry, not just for Young Sonic, but also worrying about Sonic as well and wondering how his own big brother was faring against Scourge.

But the eleven year old hedgehog shook his head, as strangely the Chaos Emerald's power was healing him even without using it's healing energy, or perhaps it was his undying resolve to keep going. Either way, Young Sonic knew he couldn't give up now. Not when the fate of Space and Time rested in his and his older, alternate-self's hands.

"No. I'm not calling it quits." Young Sonic declared, determination and his love for his friends and family rose inside his chest, standing up with a struggle and ignoring the others' advises to rest. "A hedgehog's gotta do what a hedgehog's gotta do. That thing and Ro-butt-nik are going down!"

While he knew that he couldn't beat the Time Eater by himself as it was too strong for him, Young Sonic could at least slow it down and giving another huge beating on Robotnik.

This was only just the beginning.


A/N: Sorry that I couldn't fit the rest of this battle into this chapter. It was starting to get too long. So it will continue in the next chapter before we reach the epic finale.

See you later!