Author's Note: I had to cut Sonic's final showdown with Scourge into two-parts due to the last chapter being a bit too long, and sorry that it wasn't as good as I hoped. But as such, we're nearing the ending, so let's do it to it!

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


Chapter 25: Light and Dark Reunions.

Back with Sonic...

Archie-Sonic's New Reality-Shortly after the Shattered World Arc:

Emerging from another portal, both Sonic and Scourge were now on top of each other as they rolled and wrestled down the hill and into a huge forest that was so thick that one could easily get lost without knowing which way to go. Despite that they were both getting extremely tired, neither one was willing to give up the fight which was, to the cobalt teenager's dismay, beginning to become a fight to the death. That he didn't want. His opponent then ended up being on top of the blue hedgehog as they stopped rolling, with Sonic now stuck and somewhat pinned to the ground, struggling to break free.

"Ready to give up, Sonic?" Scourge sneered dangerously.

"NEVER!" Sonic shouted back, shoving his foot into his opponent's chest and kicked him off and over his head, standing up as the terror of Moebius rolled and tumbled before lying flat on his front. But to the younger teen's shock, the seventeen year old, struggling as he did, quickly got up and sped away, leaving him with no choice but to keep on following him and sped off after the evil green hedgehog.

As the two hedgehogs raced each other in a much more desperate struggle to defeat each other with Sonic having no intentions of ending Scourge's life, they were heading straight towards a huge fortress like airship, known as the Sky Patrol which had just landed, and the Archie versions of Sonic and his friends, Tails and others such as Sally Acorn, a Chipmunk Princess, and others that were still inside.

"Well, now that the world's back to normal, whaddya say we visit Knothole to see how things are going? I'm kinda worried it's been damaged by Eggman's latest plot with the whole Dark Gaia thing." Archie-Sonic suggested, stretching his arms upward, finally free from being a Werehog and the world, the new world he reminded himself, was back in one piece.

"Yeah, me too. It's been so crazy in the last weeks." Archie-Tails agreed, rubbing his head. "Though, I'm still kinda getting used to having dual memories after what we've been through."

Archie-Sonic lowered his gaze, his old memories were still coming and going along with his new permament memories, as Sally Acorn placed a comforting hand on his shoulder, making the blue hedgehog gaze at her as she said. "It will work out. You'll see."

Despite that they were no longer lovers, Archie-Sonic smiled at his friend and nodded. "Thanks, Sal'. Really glad that we're still friends at lea-Huh?"

He cut himself off when he noticed strange two blurs racing straight towards them, and at his friends' confusion, the Archie-Hero of Mobius pointed up ahead, only for all three of them to gasp in shock and confusion as Sonic and Scourge were racing by, getting closer and closer while the two battling hedgehogs fought against each other more brutally. Sonic, seeing another version of himself, this time with six quills but slightly lighter in blue, like Young Sonic, along with another Tails and an arburn Chipmunk girl he suddenly realized was the one he saw in one of the other places in the Reality Tunnel place, and thus saw that this must be the resetted Timeline universe because of Eggman's actions.

"Incoming!" Sonic shouted at the other group, punching and shoving at Scourge who returned the attacks, the two speeding by and slowing down a little before taking off again.

But that slow-down was enough for Archie-Sonic, Archie-Tails and Sally to get a good look at the fighting duo and in that instant upon seeing them, while they that Sonic was a cobalt blue, it was the green hedgehog that instantly brought back more of their original memories of the now long-gone timeline. Because the trio blurted out one name neither of them thought they would ever see again.

"SCOURGE!?" The trio exclaimed, and in that instant something else happened. As soon as Archie-Sonic, Archie-Tails and Sally said this, the whole world around them suddenly shifted a little in the similar way as Sonic and Young Sonic had been through, only this time the trio and everyone else present across the planet fuzzed out a little, frightening and confusing them before lights of blurs shot up into the sky and vanishing into two massive portals of light, then it stopped and everything was back to normal.

This Sonic and Scourge noticed as they wondered what was happening before they ended up stumbling and falling into another reality portal and away from this world, screaming.

A moment of pause.

"What the?" Archie-Sonic murmured blankly.

"What in the world was that?" Sally asked, blinking.

"I-I dunno. I have no idea what's going on." Archie-Tails muttered, just as lost as his older friends.

This was a mystery that would only confuse them for a very long time. Unaware that things have now changed drastically due to Scourge's actions.

Sonic Boom Reality:

Falling out of the portal as Sonic and Scourge screamed, finding themselves on a tropical yet inhabited island full of people like them, the two hedgehogs were about to crash when they both equally flipped and landed neatly on the ground, before racing each other yet again as they sped through the jungle, where they quickly then noticed yet another blue-armed Sonic wearing a brown scarf with styled bandages around his wrists, ankles and even shoes, with a bulker Knuckles, Amy in a different outfit, similiar with Tails, and an semi-feral badger girl facing against the more military-styled but more goofier version of Eggman.

'Hey, this is one of the other worlds I saw earlier! Man, the Time Eater's really messing up Space and Time now!' Sonic thought to himself as he instantly recognized this place and his counterpart along with the counterparts of his friends and Eggman.

While Sonic and Scourge were racing each other, Boom-Sonic and his friends were chasing after Boom-Eggman who was flying away in his Egg Mobile.

"Will you get away from me, you nasty little pincushion!?" Boom-Eggman bellowed in sheer annoyance. "Can't I just win for once without you ruining everything? You're just like a fly that's hard to get rid off, and I already have some swarming at my base since I ran out of bug spray!"

"Maybe you should consider getting some then, Egg-breath!" Boom-Sonic snickered in amusement, "But as luck would have it, I'm no fly! I'm a hedgehog!"

"Yeah, Tails can fly!" Boom-Knuckles added, before quickly becoming confused as he turned to Boom-Tails and asked cluelessly. "Wait, does that mean that you're a fly too, Tails?"

"I can fly, but I'm a flying fox, not a fly." Boom-Tails tried to explain as clearly as possible.

"Um...would that mean you're a Fly-Fox then?" The dimwitted echidna asked, only making the two-tailed fox cub sigh in exasperation, and both Boom-Amy and Sticks the Badger to grumble.

Suddenly just as Boom-Sonic was about to Spin Attack into Boom-Eggman's Mobile, both Sonic and Scourge came speeding past while accidentally knocking onto the hovercraft, with the hero of Mobius calling out. "Coming through!"

"Whoawhoawhoawhoawhoa! S-stop! Stop it! I hate fast merry-go-rounds! I wanna get off! Mombot, help me!" Boom-Eggman screamed out in a panic as he held on for dear life, before his Egg Mobile stopped spinning while the Boom-Team Sonic skid to a stop on confusion. The evil scientist then groaned and, lost in a daze, he drunkingly said. "But I wanna play with my dolly, Momma..."

"Huh? What was that?" Boom-Amy asked, bewildered.

"It must be the speed aliens! They have secretly stolen Sonic's speed to make imposters to trick everybody and turn us into bananas to make banana bread!" Sticks theorized in shock, coming up with a crazy conspiracy theory, much to the annoyance of most of her friends and the horror of the clueless Boom-Knuckles.

"But I don't wanna be banana bread!" The red echidna cried out, worriedly.

"You know what? I bet it's just Shadow causing trouble again. But I'll worry about him later." Boom-Sonic said nonchalantly. "At least he helped out in slowing Eggy down for us. I'll give him that much."

The Boom-Team Sonic gang decided to agree with him and instead focused on Boom-Eggman, fully unaware of what was really going on.

Meanwhile, Sonic and Scourge raced and bashed while drifting past trees to avoid in crashing or in the blue hedgehog's case, causing any more major damage as he was worried that their battle was really messing up with Space and Time. They had to end this soon, or else all realities will collapse.

"Scourge, we have to stop this now! If we keep this up, all realities are all gone before we know it!" Sonic screamed out pleadingly.

Even though Scourge wasn't willing to give up the fight, the more he fought against his enemy, the more the realization that not only he was losing, but the sheer damage that was going on as they kept on racing through one world to the next and unable to reach their own was starting to creep up. Even his stubborn side was starting to weaken, but he refused none the less.

"I won't stop until I've beaten you and get those Sol Emeralds, hedgehog! I can do this all day!" The evil green hedgehog stubbornly shouted back.

"Somehow, I doubt it." The blue hedgehog murmured, as they were both reaching their limits which was bad considering how they both virtually have the exact same skills. This could go on forever until they both drop.

The two hedgehogs raced each other with several more attacks while speeding through yet another portal that would lead them to yet another world in their final epic showdown, wondering who would be the victor of this fight.

OVA-Sonic's Reality:

In an icy cold land where it was holding up an entire continent above, another Sonic who resembled to Young Sonic but also a teenager, was battling Metal Sonic all across the land in an epic final showdown himself, and accidentally stepped onto the head of this world's version of Knuckles who was poking out of one of the holes in the ground, grunting.

Just then, as OVA-Sonic was battling his robotic counterpart, he was so busy fighting his enemy that OVA-Robotnik created that no one even noticed the dimensional portal opening and Sonic and Scourge came barging through, and like the blue hedgehog and the robot, they were now hoping and punching and kicking all at once to avoid in falling in...and with both of them stepping onto OVA-Knuckles' head as well.

"OW! HEY! STOP THAT!" OVA-Knuckles grunted, before emerging once the two hedgehogs sped away. "What do I look like, a stepping stone or something!?"

Just as Sonic and Scourge were racing along, parts of the ice suddenly crumbled which the teenagers felt it before they saw and quickly jumped out to get out of the way. Yet this forced them to get as far back as possible. But when the blue hedgehog jumped and ran up along one of the ice pillars to reach for safety and passing by icicles sticking out like horizontal flag poles, the evil green hedgehog grinned wickedly and jumped behind the hero of Mobius in a sneak attack.

"Oh, Sonic!" Scourge called out in a sing-song tone, going for another Homing Attack which Sonic saw too late and hit him several times.

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Sonic screamed in agony before he fell straight back down and towards one of the dangerous icicles, hitting and crashing into it hard, grunting and unable to stop land safely.

Just as he was about to fall past one despite that the cold and hard ice wasn't helping things, the blue hedgehog grabbed hold of one with his left hand to save himself from falling towards a pile of icy stakes which were melting by the volcano's eruption that was threatening to melt the ice, dangling and hanging on for dear life.

"Whoa, that was close!" Sonic muttered to himself with a sweat drop when he saw just how dangerously close he had come in getting impaled. "I'd hate to be skewered like a hedgehog-kabab."

"Ha ha ha ha ha! Ah ha ha ha ha!" Scourge's laughter was heard, causing the sixteen year old to glare up and found his evil green counterpart standing on another icicle five feet up, while the terror of Moebius then declared. "End of the road, hedge-icicle!"

But just as Scourge leaped down and was about to punch the icicle where Sonic was, the cobalt speedster quickly had an idea and smirked. "Not yet!"

Being pretty good at acrobats, Sonic then swung himself around like an athlete, and to his enemy's shock and confusion, the hero of Mobius swung himself upward by letting go and Spin Jumped right into the seventeen year old who couldn't save himself and was hit so hard that he screamed in pain before beginning to fall. Luckily, the younger teen quickly found his balance and raced up along the giant ice pillar and grabbed hold of Scourge's arm before racing up immediately to the top.

Making it to a safer solid ground, Sonic dropped his evil self who immediately attempted to punch him in the chest, but the blue hedgehog, his green eyes widening over this response, jumped back slightly to avoid the attack just as Scourge then raced off which prompted the cobalt teenager to quickly follow, immediately catching up to him.

"You could've just let me fall! What's wrong with you? Aren't you supposed to be a hero?" Scourge growled.

"I don't fight to kill! I fight to protect! I'm not the kind of guy to end anybody's life!" Sonic boldly said, glaring at his evil counterpart.

"Then you're about to realize that is your biggest weakest." The green hedgehog grinned wickedly.

The blue hedgehog glared harder. "No! Violence is what makes things even worse!"

The two once again continued their race and battle as the teenage hero forced his opponent to leave behind this world which was facing a huge icy meltdown, and immediately raced into yet another portal.

Rider-Sonic's Reality-Shortly after the events of "Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity":

Rider-Sonic had been riding on his Extreme Gear racing through the tunnel against his rival Jet the Hawk, who was a green hawk with blue eyes and yellow beak, wearing goggles on his head and a jacket, known as the Master of the Winds. At first they had been bitter rivals, but the recent events involving the Ark of the Cosmos made them slowly start to go on a friendly terms to the point that they now enjoyed racing against each other.

Once the duo sped out of the tunnels and into the air, they both continued to race around with the blue hedgehog, wearing his own goggles with more futuristic kind of shoes, grinning at the green hawk who smirked back and flew towards other buildings as they landed safely on top of one at the exact same time.

"Glad to see you're okay, Jet." Rider-Sonic greeted as he and his rival held their gears in their arms.

"What, you were worried or something? That soft, coming from you." Jet scoffed, before chuckling. "But hey, I won that race fair and square, but it's still more fun racing you, Sonic."

Rider-Sonic just chuckled, and teasingly argued. "No way! I was faster than you! Still, it's a blast racing you too. Still up for competing in the Grand Prix."

"Oh, it's so on, hedgehog." The hawk grinned back.

But before Rider-Sonic could say anything more, suddenly the portal that neither one knew of suddenly appeared which confused the two riders as they turned to see what was going on now...only for both Scourge and Sonic to speed through and accidentally run past them in which the evil green hedgehog, seeing the hoverboards, grinned and snatched Jet's Extremegear before leaping off, landed onto it and with a bit of a wobble, flew away all over Future City.

"Hey, that's mine!" Jet shouted furiously over this, while Rider-Sonic blinked in shock and confusion...only to realize that his Extremegear was gone too! Looking up, the blue hedgehog gasped when he saw Sonic, who, seeing and realizing he had to follow him this way, had no choice but to snatch his alternate-self's hoverboard as well and followed the terror of Moebius' example.

"Sorry! But I need to burrow this and stop a crazy bad guy!" Sonic shouted apologetically as he jumped, tossing Rider-Sonic's Extremegear which repositioned itself and he landed on top of it. Wobbling a little, but having rode Manny's Extremegear before, the hero of Mobius had experience as he rode the board after his enemy.

"What the!?" Rider-Sonic gaped, bewildered. He shared a shocked and dumbfounded glance with Jet before they shrugged, completely clueless just as Rider-Tails called out to the blue hedgehog, causing the two to glance over their shoulders and found him along with Rider-Knuckles and Rider-Amy in the hover-car flying towards them, knowing what has to be done.

Meanwhile, Scourge grinned as he flew on Jet's Extremegear before he heard Sonic's voice shout echo in the air. "Get back here, Scourge!"

Looking over his shoulder, the seventeen year old growled darkly as he saw the sixteen year old quickly catching up to him and, much to his annoyance, more balanced and angled on the Extremegear that Sonic was actually doing acrobatic loops and acts like he was snowboarding as he flew closer and closer.

"You're such a show-off, Sonic...!" Scourge growled, before gazing at the road below at the Megalo Station and grinned, flying down as the race turned more entertaining. "See you at that road there, Sonic!"

"You're not going to get away!" Sonic gritted his teeth as he followed in pursuit and was in equal speed once he quickly caught up with Scourge before seeing that this was apparently a race track, yet the two bashed each other while trying to stay upright and avoid in falling off. The blue hedgehog had to duck to avoid in getting punched in the face, and managed to land one into the green hedgehog's chest.

Grunting in pain and forced back, Scourge nearly stumbled and lost his balance but was falling behind as Sonic went faster, speeding up towards a ramp to the frustration and anger of his opponent.

"See you at the finish line!" Sonic teasingly mocked a salute, as his enemy growled before speeding up to catch him. The hero of Mobius then flew right up the ramp and performed an amazing flip-stunt which, unbeknownst to him, was the same skill as Rider-Sonic. "YEAH! Yahoo!"

He half-landed on the road and continued onward, only to find that the terror of Moebius found a shortcut to the left and raced along there, speeding along the loops and flew straight towards him. Narrowing his eyes at Scourge's twisted grin, Sonic quickly tried to find an escape route before noticing the rails and immediately hopped with his burrowed board and grind his way like a skateboard, jumping from one rail to another while the green hedgehog nearly fell as he missed, but none the less quickly regained his balance and flew after him.

Sonic kept going until he noticed hover-buses in the way and sweat dropped, gulping. "Whoops!" So he quickly yanked the board from underneath him and leaped onto the side of bus to another, running along side them for a micro-second or two and a repeated the process three times, but looked up to see Scourge once again above him as the green hedgehog held onto Jet's board before using his Homing Attack.

Sonic then jumped onto the top of the last bus and used his Homing Attack as well, the two colliding into each other and then began to bounce and hit all over the place as well as one another to try and end this right, even though the cobalt speedster attempted to avoid in causing serious damage to the area.

When it was becoming apparent that it was getting too dangerous in this world, as soon as the two hedgehogs stopped their attacks despite the grunts and injuries that were getting worse, the sixteen year old and the seventeen year old landed kicks onto their legs, only for the former, seeing a hovercar now chasing after them with Rider-Sonic and his group following to get the two boards back, to snatch Jet's Extremegear out of Scourge's grasp and tossed it and Rider-Sonic's Gear straight towards the ground to the side and hoping it wouldn't cause too much damage.

"Come and get me, Scourge!" Sonic taunted once again as he landed on the road and ran once again, with his rival following him in anger after he did the same, the two returning to their foot race, while Rider-Sonic's group, seeing the gears fall out of the sky, drove closer as Rider-Sonic and Rider-Jet both shared a a glance and the former jumped before grabbing the gears on at the time and flipped before riding on his retrieved board and flew to the ground, pulling to a stop as Rider-Tails did the same.

"Here, Jet. Got your board back." Rider-Sonic handed the gear back to his rival, to which the green Hawk retrieved.

"Thanks." The Babylon Rouge Leader reluctantly replied.

"What in the world was that about?" Rider-Amy asked, bewildered.

"Yeah, where did those guys come from?" Rider-Knuckles asked.

"I dunno. Whoever they were, they sure seem to be in a hurry." Rider-Sonic shrugged.

"Hmmm...They sure seem to be a lot like you and Jet, Sonic. I wonder if it's a coincidence." Rider-Tails muttered thoughtfully.

The five of them shared glances as they had no idea what was going on...and they never will.

Because as they thought about the mystery of the two that had briefly taken the Extremegear, Sonic and Scourge were now getting even more exhausted and injured, but kept going as they equally ran straight through yet another portal as their battle seemed to be reaching it's peak.

Underground Sonic's Reality:

In the newly restored city of Mobotropolis, following the permanent defeat of Julian Robotnik who had finally fallen by the Sonic Underground, who had at long last reunited with their mother before the former Queen and her triplet children formed the Council of Four to ultimately defeat the evil tyrant, everyone, including those who were, by miracle, restored from their roboticized states into their true forms which had Prince Sonic, Princess Sonia, and Prince Manic to reunite with their adoptive families.

Now the trio were just finishing up a great big performance to celebrate their victory, with Prince Sonic finishing up with the tug of his guitar. The crowd including his and his siblings' families, both their birth mother and their adoptive parents and caretakers, went wild as they were proud of the royal hedgehogs' for their heroic achievements as well as their musical performance.

"Thank you! Thank you, everybody!" Prince Sonic cheered as he held hands with his brother and sister who all waved happily at the audience.

As the triplets celebrated with fireworks of blue, pink and green going off with sparks flying behind them, no one paid attention to the portal opening up behind the trio as Sonic and Scourge raced through the stage and accidentally crashed through the sets in the backstage, before speeding past behind the royal siblings and only their blurs were shown, yet the audience who saw believed it was just an added effects to the stage's settings.

Thus they were oblivious to what really happened as Sonic and Scourge, Spin Dashing into each other, ran before speeding away and went through another portal, leaving behind this world which had finally had a happy ending that Prince Sonic and his family and friends had longed for after so many years of terror, despair and fear.

Modern Sonic's Reality-Set during the events of "Sonic Forces":

Racing through the portal, Sonic jumped out of the way as soon as he and Scourge emerged from it and onto the barren ground just near a huge battle that was just nearing it's end. But as they punched each other right in the faces with yells, they shouted in agony before sent flying backwards and crashed about ten feet away from each other. The two hedgehogs screamed and rolled and tumbled before landing on the ground hard, severely injured and beginning to really reach their limits.

Scourge winced, struggling to get up, slowly getting to one knee as he placed his hands on the other knee and ground, panting heavily as he glared up at Sonic, who managed to stand up painfully, panting hard as he grabbed his sore right arm while struggling to stay upright.

"I've gotta...end this...right now..." Sonic panted heavily, forcing himself to stay awake as he knew that he had to save some of his strength for defeating the Time Eater as well as Cormain, while hoping that Young Sonic would be alright and at least stop Robotnik.

The two heavily beaten hedgehogs, fully not paying attention to a war going on nearby and below them and taking a breather or two, then charged once more with full determination and met in a clash, sending in a bit of a shock-wave which was followed by a heavy shock wave from this world's version of Sonic facing off against his Eggman's giant robot powered by a powerful gem, joined by another Sonic that was exactly like Young Sonic, and a Mobian young rookie who had grapple hooks like both Star and Sun had. The two teenagers wrestled hard while trying to shove each other back with glares, still not willing to give up at all.

It was getting hard to keep their balance as the battle from nearby wasn't making things any easier, before they both looked in the same direction which they a sight that, from Scourge's left and Sonic's right, made the green hedgehog grin and the blue hedgehog gasp softly.

"Well, well...It looks like there is a world where you lost, Sonic." Scourge taunted evilly.

Sonic just stared while wrestling against his opponent, his eyes widened in sheer horror as the world where they were in now, the very reality where his parents and uncle are absent, and so were Chris and Star...the world where Sun the Hedgehog doesn't exist...it was the very world where he somehow knew, deep down, was his other self had fought against the Deadly Six which seemed like months ago from this world's perspective...because the planet was left in ruin, under the control of Modern-Eggman, who had captured Modern-Sonic, taking over almost the entire world. Because right now, Modern-Sonic, who had obviously been rescued and freed by his Modern-friends, all exactly the same as in Sonic's reality, with a Classic-Sonic having been brought here, because the two and the Rookie were facing Modern-Eggman in a final battle to free the world from his Egg Empire.

"No...This is...this is what I've always been so afraid of..." Sonic whispered, devastation and fear rising up within his chest, tears stinging his eyes before falling freely as he began to cry. "This is just like out of my worst nightmares!"

This was just too horrible. The blue hedgehog had thought, given what happened with Modern-Tails that he saw earlier, that Modern-Sonic would have at least learned his own lesson like Sonic did. But seeing this now, seeing how Modern-Eggman had become so strong that it came to this, it became clear to the hero of Mobius that it wasn't the case. Like he had been before the Dark Gaia crisis, this world's version of Sonic didn't seem to realize his own overconfidence and cockiness were part of the blame. Now this was an epic war for the fate of this reality's world.

"I have to admit, though, I'm surprised that this world's Eggman found the Phantom Ruby too and...well...I didn't think that it could be used as a weapon like this. Kinda sad, huh?" The evil green hedgehog admitted, as seeing this made him begin to feel guilty, but he quickly off those thoughts and glared hard with a grin at the distraught Sonic. "But you see what happens when you let being a hero go over your head? This is the result if you are not careful enough. Because one day in your world, the same thing that happened here could happen to you...!"

'Why? Why did it come to this? I don't understand...' Sonic thought to himself, feeling like he was responsible for this horrible event, feeling lost and defeated to see his home left in the hands of Eggman-

He then cut those thoughts as he suddenly remembered what Tails told him earlier, back in the ruins of future Moebius.

"Sonic. I don't think you should be worrying about what happens in other realities, but it is important to save them as well as ours and the other two worlds. There is a reason why dimensions never been interacted in the first place. I think it's to ensure that everybody keeps on making their own choices, whether they're good or bad." Tails stated after he and the blue hedgehog settled down. "The fact remains that our Eggman is gone, so we won't be going through what happened in the other worlds either... My point being is that our lives ended up different in every reality."

Softly gasping in realization, the hero of Mobius let the words of his best friend/little brother ring in his ears as he knew there and then that the nine year old cub was right. Ever traveling through space and time for so long and during his fight against Scourge which had him see other realities of himself going through different adventures and phases, Sonic finally understood the meaning of them. Plus it wasn't his place to change the timelines of other realities.

Those fates and futures were up to every single other Sonic in those worlds, and now it was his job to make sure none of them are destroyed, and make sure that none of them knew who he really is or where he came from.

Narrowing his eyes as he attempted to stop his tears from falling, once again his determination, courage and love for his family and friends was renewed, stronger than ever, and this was also increasing his strength, he glared at Scourge and declared. "NO! You're wrong, Scourge! What happened here in this world will never happen to me, or to my family and friends!"

"Huh!?" Scourge gaped in shock, wondering how Sonic could recover and be in denial of this so quickly.

"Every timeline in all realities are different! You've seen it yourself! I have seen it! Not just through our battles, but because of what I've seen earlier! Just because of what happened there doesn't mean it will be the same everywhere else. Our lives work differently, and what is happening to us is the main reason why we shouldn't mess up with other worlds, because we're not meant to intefere. The only reason why I have to now...is because of you, the Time Eater and Cormain!" Sonic explained, tossing Scourge over his head which caught the green hedgehog off guard as the latter cried out in alarm.

While he felt guilty for doing this the hard way, the hero of Mobius knew there was no other choice, as he then jumped and Homing Attacked the terror of Moebius several times which had the latter cry out in pain and agony before Sonic stopped and decided to wrap this up once and for all.

"But that doesn't mean I'm going to end you, Scourge! I'm gonna save you, and bring you back to the light!" With that, the cobalt teenager ran around and around in circles using his Whirlwind ability, catching the emerald teenager within it which, given the seventeen year old's weakened state, he was now completely helpless as their chase and battles had really exhausted them to the point where it was finally starting to become obvious that he has lost.

Sonic then stopped and leaped within the created Sonic-nado and Spin Jumped right at the screaming Scourge before using his Axe Kick to hit him so hard that it knocked the wind out of the latter. Scourge screamed as he flew out of the attack and fell straight towards the ground with a crash, creating a small crater upon impact, sending dust flying everywhere. The sixteen year old in the meantime spun right out of his own attack which dissipated and landed safely on the ground, but the fighting really has left him just as exhausted. Sonic fell onto his hands and knees, squeezing his eyes shut as he panted heavily.

Despite this, he had a feeling that he won this fight. The blue hedgehog took this few moments to catch his breath as this had been one of the toughest battles he had ever done in his entire life, and this was without the Chaos Emeralds, and without using the Sol Emeralds. After that, he looked up at where Scourge had landed and became worried when his evil alternate-self wasn't even getting up, but at the same time he was cautious that could be a trick.

"Scourge?" Sonic whispered, straining himself to stand up and wobbled a little before regaining his balance, and slowly approached the crater where Scourge simply laid, his jacket in shreds on the sleeves, bruises all over his body...and his sunglasses...where in really bad shape that they were cracked and beyond repair, with one of the lenses almost completely gone.

None the less, the terror of Moebius was still alive, and he was still breathing. Just unconscious. Or so it seemed like it. Gulping nervously and not sure if this was simply a trick with the green hedgehog pretending to be knocked out, the hero of Mobius slowly reached over and shook him by the shoulder gently, yet not getting any response. He shook him harder, which made the seventeen year old groan, too weak to wake up, let alone open his eyes.

Yep. Definitely unconscious.

"...Sorry. Was kinda hopin' you'd still be awake." Sonic muttered apologetically, only to yelp in alarm as the ground shook again before nearly falling on top of his enemy as the sudden quakes then ceased. He then heard Modern-Eggman's loud scream which then faded, and when the teenage hero looked up, he noticed a strange portal suddenly appear with Modern-Sonic, Classic-Sonic, and the Rookie jumping out with no signs of the evil scientist at all.

Softly gasping as he found himself too curious about what was going on, the blue hedgehog carefully scooped up the unconscious green hedgehog, taking it nice and easy before hurrying over to the edge of the cliff to see for himself. As he did, Sonic saw all of Modern-Sonic's friends, with this world's versions of Knuckles, Amy, Tails, Rouge, Shadow, Omega, surprisingly even Silver, Vector, Espio and Charmy, all fighting surprisingly copies of themselves as well as enemies from Chaos in his zero form, to robots, a big red alien which the hero of Mobius half-guessed was Zavok, given what he'd seen earlier as well as Sun's discription of the guy, and even Shadow himself, apparently all of Modern-Eggman's army.

Then the army suddenly fuzzed out in red electrical energy like glitches which left the Resistance to realize what happened and all celebrated that the Eggman War was finally over. Surely enough, Modern-Sonic and his two companions rejoined his friends and casually grinned with the victory of the biggest battle of their lives.

"...Huh. I guess Scourge was right. It was the Phantom Ruby. Eggman in this world must've found it and...used it to make copies of the bad guys and tricked everyone into thinking that Shadow rejoined his side. With that and with so many that the other me in this world had fought all right there by that thing's power, it's no wonder he lost so easily." Sonic whispered to himself, realizing how this all came to be. Plus, from what he heard, the Phantom Ruby apparently could do so much more than make furniture. He shuddered at the thought of what would have happened if his Eggman had never gone to the Prison of Evil.

One more reason why he knew now that, as much as he would forever feel guilty over this, Sonic didn't save Eggman that day three months ago back at home. It was also luck that Scourge didn't get to use this idea either. At least he hoped the evil green hedgehog wouldn't. Seeing this now...would he really do that if he remained evil? Either way, the sixteen year old had just witnessed the end of an epic war, a victory gained after so much struggling in this world. He smiled softly at the Resistance's achievement, really glad that everything was going to be alright. Now it was a matter of rebuilding this world to it's beautiful former glory.

"I'm sure glad I don't have to go through this, but I know that everything here will be okay. Now I just gotta do my job." He nodded to himself, and as he gave one more gaze at Modern-Sonic and Classic-Sonic, wishing them and the Resistance, including the brave Rookie who Sonic had a really good feeling was the one who made it all possible and felt really proud of the kid, the teenage hero turned and race away, entering one last portal which he knew, upon seeing through it, would take him and Scourge right back to where Young Sonic and the others were.


Back in White Space-Gear of Time Area with Young Sonic:

While Sonic was still fighting against Scourge through portals leading into other worlds, Young Sonic, pretty injured himself but not willing to surrender to Robotnik or the Time Eater, sped out of the way with Tails, Young Tails and the others once again being forced back despite their deep grave concerns for the two Sonics and even Scourge despite the evil green hedgehog's disastrous actions.

But even as he fought bravely and hard, the eleven year old hedgehog could only do so much damage yet even with the Chaos Emeralds, the Time Eater wasn't giving up and Robotnik was taking a pleasure of it.

"Oh ho ho ho ho ho ho! Give it up, Sonic! You will never defeat me or the Time Eater!" The evil scientist declared with a nasty grin.

"That's what you think, Eggman! Ugh!" Young Sonic winced as he held placed his right hand onto his left arm that stung and hurt like he wouldn't belief, yet he attempted to ignore it as he knew that he had to at least slow the monster down.

"This is impossible! How can they be defeated?" Kintobor asked in dismay.

"There's gotta a way to at least weaken the until Sonic gets back with Scourge." Silver grunted, clutching his fist.

"There must be a weakness Robotnik has with that thing." Blaze stated, glaring at the giant monster before them. "If we don't stop it and Cormain, all existence will disappear as we know it."

"What if we hit that ball thingy that mean guy is inside in?" Red suggested, pointing at the cockpit at where Robotnik was in.

Hearing this made both Tails and Young Tails to look up and, seeing how each time Young Sonic hit it, it caused the evil scientist to lose control over the Time Eater and with the Chaos Emeralds repelling the monster, the two young fox cubs realized what this meant and shared a glance.

"Are you thinking...?" Tails began.

"That could be the weak spot?" Young Tails continued for his older, alternate-self who nodded with a smirk which the four year old mirrored. He then turned back to Young Sonic and called out along with Tails. "Sonic! You've got to hit the pod where Robotnik is!"

"That's what I've been doing!" Young Sonic called back, looking over his shoulder.

"No, we mean, that's the main area where he is controlling the Time Eater!" Young Tails repraised.

"If you continue to do that, it will cause Robotnik to lose all control of the monster!" Tails added urgently.

Realizing what his friends were saying and, having half-guessed it was true but didn't know if he was right or not despite that the young blue hedgehog had been doing a decent job, Young Sonic now felt even more confident as he had been right along and smirked, giving his little brother and the older fox a two-finger salute. "Gotcha! Thanks, li'l bros!"

He then turned back to his opponents who were about to attack again, when Young Sonic decided to play with them a little bit. "Yo, Buttnik and big-ugly! Blegh!" He stuck out his tongue with a raspberry while pulling at his lower eyelid to taunt them which made the two young foxes and Red laugh, though Kintobor, Silver and Blaze sweat dropped in disbelief at this childish manner at a time like this.

As Young Sonic predicted, both Robotnik and the Time Eater felt insulted as the evil scientist growled furiously and ordered the latter. "You blue brat! Get rid of him!"

The Time Eater roared before it used all of it's arms to trap the young blue hedgehog who stood ready, even though it was more difficult than he anticipated, but he wasn't giving up yet. As his friends behind him gasped in horror when they realized that Young Sonic needed help and as both Tails and Young Tails wanted to try and help with Silver and Blaze rushing in to aid him, all of the sudden a Homing Attack from a cobalt blue ball appeared out of nowhere and bashed at least two of the arms, forcing them to recoil and giving the eleven year old hedgehog, who stood in surprise, to quickly use this to his advantage and ran straight towards Robotnik who gasped in shock.

When the evil scientist and everyone else turned to see who helped Young Sonic, the ball revealed himself to be Sonic, who having seen what was happening and emerging from the portal which thankfully brought him back to the main level, held onto Scourge while using his attack, and the blue hedgehog landed safely on the ground with the unconscious green hedgehog still in his arms.

"Hey, sorry I'm late. Hope I didn't miss anything." Sonic greeted casually, despite that he really felt worn out, but ignored it.

"Sonic!" Tails exclaimed happily as he, his younger, alternate-self, Red, Kintobor, Silver, and Blaze were all relieved to see that he was alright despite his heavy injuries, but seemed to be in good spirits.

"Alright!" Young Sonic cheered as he noticed this as well, before he turned his attention back to the horrified Robotink and grinned, speeding up as he attempted to try his own boost, surprisingly briefly glowing as he did so, but it only lasted for a second or two, but despite the disappointment, he took it as a starting point and jumped just right in front of the cockpit.

This the evil scientist saw too late and gaped in horror.

"NO! Get away!" The mad doctor pleaded fearfully, leaning back in his seat as far as he could, but he knew in that moment that he was about to get hit yet again by his young archenemy.

The hero of Alternate-Mobius's smirk only grew as he then unleashed another Homing Attack several times, bashing into the cockpit which had Robotnik scream as he tried to hold on while the Time Eater attempted to grab him, but soon even at everyone else's warnings to look out, Young Sonic successfully smashed right through the glass and bashed into Robotnik who shouted in pain and the controls were hit, badly damaged that began to spark. Plus with the eleven year old this close and the Chaos Emeralds within his quills glowing more brightly, the Time Eater recoiled even further to the point of now falling back.

"SOOOOOOONIC!" Robotnik screamed as he held on despite knowing that he was about to fall to his doom as he and the surprisingly but seemingly defeated Time Eater fell into the abyss below, much to the shock of Young Sonic and his friends who saw what happened and gasped in horror.

"Robotnik!" Young Sonic shouted as he landed before reaching out for his enemy. However, to his relief yet slight annoyance, Robotnik ended up falling out of the cockpit and crash landed onto the path where both Sonic and Scourge had been battling on earlier, hitting his head and fell unconscious while the giant monster disappeared. Despite the sheer relief that he didn't end up killing his enemy since he didn't want to go down that path, the young blue hedgehog shook his head.

"That fat guy's one tough egg, and a lucky one at that." The eleven year old sighed, shrugging.

Deciding to worry about getting his enemy later as he was too exhausted right now, Young Sonic turned to Sonic who, also somewhat relieved yet a little bit sad after what he saw, smiled at him and gave him a thumbs up with a wink to which his younger, alternate-self returned happily, before hurrying over while the sixteen year old set the still unconscious Scourge onto the floor, with Tails, Young Tails, Red, Kintobor, Silver and Blaze doing the same.

"Scourge! Is he okay?" Red asked, worriedly upon seeing his older brother like this, and while he felt a little mad at Sonic, seeing the blue hedgehog also heavily injured made him hold back the urge to yell at his heroic friend.

"He'll be okay. Just knocked out cold. I think he'll wake up soon." Sonic reassured, feeling guilty for having to have done this, but he knew there was no other choice. "I'm sorry, Red. He was just too stubborn to listen."

"Tell us about it." Silver groaned, facepalming himself.

"Is everyone else alright?" The blue hedgehog asked immediately as he and the others knelt or sat around the green hedgehog. He was relieved that, despite they were hurt as well, they were okay all things considered.

"We're okay, Sonic. How about you?" Tails asked.

"Just a little winded, but I'm fine. Boy, that was some fightin', I even ended up racing through different worlds in other realities." The hero of Mobius shrugged, sighing as the memories of what he'd seen filled his mind, but he decided to worry about that later as now wasn't the time to be thinking about it.

"What about the Time Eater? Is it gone?" Red asked.

"I don't think so. Sure me and Sonic gave that thing a good beating, but I have a feeling it's still alive." Young Sonic shook his head firmly.

"Sorry I made you face that thing and Robotnik by yourself, pal. I wanted to when I saw that thing catch you, but Scourge caught me off-guard." Sonic apologized, feeling guilty despite that he was very relieved that his younger, alternate-self had been saved. "Glad that Silver and Tails saved ya'."

"Actually, Sonic, we didn't. He used Chaos Control to teleport out of the Time Eater's grasp to save himself." Tails corrected, which surprised his best friend/big brother who softly gasped.

"Say what!? You mean you actually did that with a Chaos Emerald?" The hero of Mobius gaped in disbelief.

The hero of Alternate-Mobius nodded. "It was the only thing I could think of in getting out of that thing. But it wasn't comfortable. Just was...the risk I had to take." He lowered his gaze in guilt. "I'm really sorry, Sonic. I know I wasn't ready, but-"

He was gently cut off when Sonic carefully ruffled him on the head comfortingly, making Young Sonic look up to his older, alternate-self who gave him a warm and supporting smile. "Why are you sorry for? I mean, yeah Chaos Control in teleporting isn't all as fun as it sounds, but you know as they say; desperate times calls for desperate measures. The fact that you managed to do that in order to escape and still manage to fight is way past cool. I'm real proud of ya', Sonic."

"Really?" Young Sonic blinked in surprise and when Sonic nodded, the young blue hedgehog smiled softly. "Thanks, dude. But I had help from our li'l bros, and Blaze and Silver."

"That's true. Everybody deserves credit." The sixteen year old agreed, turning to the aforementioned group. "We wouldn't have made it this far without each other, or the others or even Tikal. Thanks, guys."

"Hey, you both were the ones who saved us. You did all of the work." Young Tails pointed out.

"All we did was provide usual information." Tails added, shrugging.

"It still helped, though." Both Sonics chorushed, before they shared a surprised glance, before laughing as their friends joined in.

However, the laughing moment came to a halt as Scourge began to groan, which had the group to look and gasped softly to see that the evil green hedgehog was waking up. With Sonic telling everyone to stand back to give the terror of Moebius some room as well as being on guard in case he attacked again right away, Scourge blinked his emerald green eyes which were met by Sonic's matching eyes, along with Red and everyone else who kept their distance.

"You alright?" Sonic asked, worriedly, wondering if he overdid it.

At first the seventeen year old was a bit confused, before almost instantly the memories of what happened came back to him and, fury, humiliation and hate coming at him with full force, he jolted up right which startled his enemies and younger brother, snarling at the blue hedgehog. "YOU!"

But just as Scourge made to stand and attack Sonic who leaned back in shock, flinching while quickly going into defense, the green hedgehog then grunted in agony as his injuries still got the better of him and he collapsed onto his hands and knees, wincing as everything hurt like heck. He felt too sore and too weak to even more another muscle, panting as he felt light-headed.

"Take it easy. You and I both pretty much had it rough." Sonic wirly told him, and now that he thought of it, he felt pretty roughed up as well, and wondered if his will power was what caused him to remain awake and even still being able to fight.

"I don't need your garbage sympathy, Sonic...! You beat me...! What-what is it with you? What is it with you and your...your desire to be Mr. Perfect Hero?" Scourge hissed darkly, glaring at sheer hatred and defeat. It wasn't fair! He had been so close! So close in snatching the Sol Emeralds, but Sonic the Hedgehog managed to stay strong and determined to keep fighting to the point that not even the alternate world where Eggman had taken over the planet was enough to convince him to see just how cocky and overconfident he really was.

"Face it, Scourge. You lost. You lost to an alternate, good version of you who knows better than you ever did." Silver stated, glaring at his enemy. "He understands more than you will."

"Sonic knows what is right and what is wrong. He chose the path to become a hero because it is the right thing to do." Blaze added firmly. "You could have done that yourself, Scourge, if you weren't so selfish."

"SHUT UP! SHUT THE HECK UP! I HATE ALL OF YOU AND YOUR GOODY-GOODNESS!" Scourge screamed, finally letting out of all the years of pain, loss and agony. "You all just don't understand! You have no idea what it's like to lose everything! You don't have a darn clue what it's like in being betrayed, or being like a wanted prize! You don't even know that doctors only care about themselves and not people who need help! They don't save lives! They kill lives! You don't have...You don't have any idea what's like to be all alone!"

By then, tears of frustration and sorrow swelled up in his eyes that his broken sunglasses fell off and they slid free, dropping onto the ground. The badly defeated and angred hedgehog then sobbed, pounding the ground repeatedly while Sonic and his friends now felt even more sympathy, realizing that Cormain had messed with his life, as did Finitevus who did heaps worse due to what the alternate version of Eggman that now was in Archie-Sonic's world permanently as the sole Eggman since the original timeline was now gone.

"WHY!? Why can't I beat you, Sonic!? Why did you have everything that I don't!? WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE THE ONE WITH A HAPPY LIFE!?" Scourge screamed furiously.

At first the group remained silent, before Sonic, feeling guilty for even having had a decent kind of good life, approached Scourge and knelt before him with a sympathetic look and feelings. "I told you before, Scourge. Every life in all realities are different. Sure, some of them aren't even fair. I know that now. But that's just how the way life works. Not everyone has a happy beginning, or even a happy ending. Even I'm not perfect, despite with who and what I have. There had been losses in the past too, and I'm not the kind of guy to rant on about how happy I am and tell everyone who suffered tragic losses how good I am. That would only make me a jerk."

"You're still lucky...!" Scourge hissed, tears still falling as his throat felt sore from all of the screaming and yelling.

"Maybe so, but even I experienced losses, even for ten years without knowing that someone I loved was still alive. I might not fully understand now, all things considered, but I do know that osing family and friends and loved ones...will always be sad. I had to spent ten years without my uncle, believing that he died along with fifty other people, because of what Kaiser had done. Heck, I only found out five months ago that he'd been responisble for what he did, and I was so angry, I was furious. For that moment, I wanted vengeance, but then I remembered that revenge isn't going to bring back the dead, 'cause it never will. It would only make things worse." Sonic explained, his heart aching as tears started to form in eyes.

Sniffling as he paused, he then smiled in sadness. "You know, some of my friends went through way worse than I went through. My little bro lost his parents when he was just a little kid, and he'd been bullied for two years before I met him, and I brought home with me to give him what he really wanted the most; a family, and a friend. Amy lost her family at some point, and Knuckles, well, he has it way worse, 'cause he's the last of his kind, and every day I get scared knowing that once he's gone, echidnas will truly become extinct. Even Shadow had it pretty bad, 'cause he lost the only family he ever had, including his best friend Maria. Even now, he still thinks of her, and she's Eggman's really nice cousin, who was taken away way too soon because of a misunderstanding."

He then turned to Silver while continuing. "Let's not forget Silver, who lost everything and had to grow up in a world where everything has been lost. That's why he's traveled back in time to make sure it doesn't even happen."

"And that future is all my fault." Kintobor added in full guilt and remorse, kneeling down to Scourgeho looked up, a bit skeptical yet surprised. "Everything is my fault, Scourge, and I am truly deeply sorry. I never should have formed the Sol Project. I should have tried harder to help Red to find you, and I should have tried harder to stop him from going after you only to be eaten by the dreaded dragon."

"Well, at least you finally admit it, Kinto-butt." Scourge scoffed, biting his lip as he lowered his gaze again, over the reminder. "It still doesn't change the fact that...that Maurice is gone. Fiona's gone. All that's left his past-self that you all brought to trick me...and that he...he betrayed me for you...!"

"That's not true, big bro. I'm really here, not from the past." Red tearfully protested, going up to his big brother who gazed at him. "I really was inside the dragon's tummy, and even though you made this mess, if you hadn't, I really would've been stuck in there and died. But it's thanks to you that Sonic saved me, which meant that you saved me, Scourge."

The teenage green hedgehog glared at him, rage and betrayal filling up in his eyes again. "You still went for Kintobor over me! Then you had the nerve to get me just so you could get attention! You were always like that, Maurice! ALWAYS!"

"No! I wanted to find you! I never wanted attention. I just wanted you! Ovi tried to help me find you, and to help me go home. I was lost when you ran away from the hospital, and that mean Finitevus just told me to leave. I didn't even get the chance to see Mommy and Daddy one more time." Red began to cry, sniffling. "I tried everything to bring you back, because you're the only family I have left. You promised you'd take care of me! I hated you for all the awful things you did, but I still loved you! You made me keep going, Scourge, even when I was told to not go after you to the Bamboo Jungle. I wasn't that scared."

The young red-brown hedgehog wept even though he tried not to, and all of his friends could only stare at the two hedgehog siblings with broken hearts as both Tails and Young Tails looked ready to cry themselves, even Young Sonic began to sniffle with sorrow and sympathy.

"Oh, Red..." Sonic whispered, becoming even more emotional himself.

"I'm really-really sorry about Fiona, big bro...But when I heard that you and her were going to get married someday, it made me so happy and proud of you. You both did awful things, but I actually kinda liked her too. Mom and Dad would've really liked her." Red croaked, looking up at his older brother. "If I really left you, Scourge, I never woulda come looking for you all the time. Sonic told me that how I saved you took great courage and strength, because I love you. I didn't want you to be eaten, and I kinda knew that you wouldn't rescue me, but it didn't matter. You're not alone anymore. We can still be family, if you wanted to. We both wanted to explore the whole world together. Remember?"

The more Scourge listened even though he tried to resist, the more he finally began to see that his own little brother was telling the truth, he had been telling the truth all along and for years he ignored him, out of grief and sorrow, which soon lead to misguided betrayal and hate. All of that, and seeing Red like this and hear his words, he began to remember all the times he spend with his sibling before the tragic day when they both lost their parents.


Scourge's Flash-Backs: Through out the first five years of Red's life...

The day of Red's birth...

A nine year old Scourge, cobalt blue, was at the hospital pacing quickly back and fourth through the corridor waiting anxiously with his father, who was also blue like him but with light blue-eyes, a dark blue vest and dark brown boots. This was the alternate-version of both Sonic's and Young Sonic's father, Jules, who was known here as James.

"Scourge, you'd better slow down before you wear a hole on the floor." James advised his son.

"It's takin' too long, Dad. The doctors are doing something to Mom. I just know it!" The nine year old Scourge grumbled, worriedly as he was scared of what would happen to his mother, and also to his soon to be new baby brother or sister. "What if Mom doesn't make it? What will happen to the baby? I wanna go in there and help! I've just gotta!"

His father sighed before kneeling before his frantic child, and told him firmly but gently. "Son, it's going to be alright. Your mother is in good hands. Things like this don't happen quickly. This is normal for every mothers. Because it is like when you were born. She was fine when you came into this world, and she's going to be fine now, and so will your baby brother or sister. I can promise you that."

Even though James' words were comforting and it did make him feel a bit better, Scourge began to tear up as he said. "I guess so..But I'm just so scared. I don't wanna lose her, and I wanna see my baby sib'. I promised Mom that I'd be there for the kid. How can I do that without both of them?"

"I know, Scourge. C'mere." The older hedgehog pulled his upset and worried son into a warm embrace, as Scourge was unable to help it. The young hedgehog child began to cry even though he tried not to. "Shhh...It's alright, champ. It's alright."

"Mr. James Hedgehog?" A man's voice called out, causing both adult and child hedgehogs to look up expectedly as the former stood up, revealing to be a Moebian parrot who held a warm smile. "Congratulations. Your wife and new son are in good health and are resting right now. They wish to see you and your son right there."

Relief and sheer happiness dawned onto both hedgehogs, but none so much as on Scourge who beamed at the news. Not only his mother was alright, but he had a brother...a baby brother! The nine year old eagerly and impatiently followed his father and doctor into the delivery room, where his mother, a red-brown hedgehog with beautiful red long quills that went down to her shoulders, in a hospital gown with a little bundle wrapped up in a blue blanket. Scourge immediately raced over along with his father who smiled happily as his mother, Aleena, smiled warmly, while James gazed down at their newborn second son who cried a little, but began to settle down with cute gurgles.

"Mom, you're okay! Is the baby okay too?" Scourge asked happily.

"Yes, sweetheart. He is alright. Would you like to come up and meet your little brother?" Aleena replied warmly at her nine year old son, who nodded and under his parents' advise to be careful, he slowly climbed up and peered over into the blanket.

His emerald green eyes widened as he breathed in awe, never having seen a newborn baby this close before. Resting was a baby red-brown hoglet who looked like their father, but with their mother's fur colouring, as the newborn opened his eyes to reveal his opal green, gazing at Scourge for the very first time.

"We have already decided that his name would be Maurice if he were a boy. You remember that, don't you?" James asked warmly, tears forming in his eyes.

"How could I forget? I've been remembering it every single day." Scourge replied happily, snuggling close to his mother and new brother to get a better look at the latter. He couldn't believe it. He was finally a big brother. All the years of wanting a brother or a sister, his wish has finally come true. "Hey, little guy. I'm your big bro, Scourge."

The newly named Maurice, gazing at his new big brother, smiled brightly and reached out for him, giggling and gurgling away. Scourge laughed softly and reached out his hand, and felt his heart melt when the baby grasped at his gloved finger, which made both parents smile happily as the two newly made brothers bonded already.

A year and a half later...

Scourge was playing around in the living room while being careful not to hurt his brother Maurice, who each day loved him, especially when the blue hedgehog played with him at any given chance. Today was also a special day when the little red-brown hoglet began to stand up from the baby chair he'd been sitting on. When the blue hedgehog went back, he froze in his tracks when he saw the one and a half year old wobbly stood up.

"M-Maurice?" The ten year old whispered, and softly gasped when Maurice, upon seeing him and beamed happily, shifted one foot forward, then to the baby's delight, moved the other, and slowly repeated the process...walking for the very first time. Scourge couldn't believe what he was seeing. His brother was actually walking!

"Bro,' you're...you're walking! You're really walking!" Scourge cheered happily, holding his hands out to encourage his younger sibling. "C'mon, little guy. You can do it. Just a little bit further."

Even though the young cobalt speedster prefered to move, he waited patiently as Maurice, encouraged by his older brother, kept going until moments later the two met and Scourge scooped him up just as their parents had seen the last moments and beamed in surprise and joy while the ten year old held the baby in his arms and spun around.

"You did it! You did it, Maurice! Way to go, little buddy!" Scourge happily celebrated with baby Maurice giggling away as the latter found this ride really fun. As the former hugged his brother, he finally noticed James and Aleena, and said excitedly. "Mom, Dad! Did ya' see? Maurice walked up to me!"

"We saw, and this is the first time Maurice has really walked." James replied, smiling proudly.

"It's clear that Maurice really does love you, if he went up to you first. I'm so happy." Aleena added, emotionally.

"Me too!" The younger hedgehog added, and hugged his baby brother who hugged him on the face, the two happily laughing and giggling away as their bond was only growing stronger each and every day.

Three years later...

Each day was almost like an adventure. While there had been ups and downs and arguments, there were also apologies and forgiveness, because while the world wasn't all that great, to Scourge, he didn't care. All that mattered to him was that he had a great family of a father, a mother, and a little brother who alongside him was growing up quickly. They played together, spent a lot of time with each other wherever they went. Scourge even carried Maurice, whom he nick-named red due to his colouring and the youngest hedgehog loved the nickname so much that he decided to be called Red from now on, which was fine with his older sibling.

Red loved being carried by his big brother, who ran with the youngster on his back, and four year old cheered on. "I wanna go faster, big bro'! Let's go faster!"

"Heh, you wanna go faster, huh?" Scourge teasingly smirked, grinning as he decided to fufil his brother's wishes. "Alright then, hang on tight, 'cause we're gonna go what I call supersonic fast!"

"WHEEEEEEE!" Red cheered as Scourge went into a super fast speed, going at least 200 miles per hour. "This so fast we could travel around the world in less than 80 days!"

"Ha! With my speed, we could travel around the world in about a day! Never mind 80!" Scourge half-joked. "Someday, I'm going to explore Moebius to see all of the places that are yet to be seen."

"Can I come with you, Scourge? I wanna see the world too!" The four year old hedgehog asked, hopefully.

The blue hedgehog smiled, liking the idea of having company during his travels, especially his loveable little brother. "Sure. We could be the best hedgehog-brother explorers."

This made the red-brown hedgehog smile happily as he hugged Scourge as best as he could, earning a cheerful laugh from the older hedgehog as they made a promise to one day travel together as a family, to explore the world and always come up to their loving parents, believing that they had the best life ever.

Never knowing that in a year from now, everything was going to change for the worst forever...


End of Flash-Backs:

The more Scourge remembered those days, the more he realized just how foolish he had been. Finally after all this time, it took a defeat by Sonic the Hedgehog to make the green hedgehog realize that it was because of the loss of his and Red's parents that everything changed, his misguided belief that all doctors were bad when he realized that if they were, then his mother Aleena wouldn't have given birth to the hedgehog brothers, nor would they even exist or even be a happy family.

All of the mess started with Finitevus, then Snively, then...then Scourge himself who had given into the dark side because he had fallen into depression and grief, which soon turned to hatred, breaking his promise to his own family...several promises. He ignored those good times to just heal himself, but even with Fiona coming into his life, having fallen in love with her to begin anew and get revenge on the world when he realized, given Sonic's own words, it wasn't right. It hadn't been right.

He had been a fool all along.

For the first time in his life, Scourge the Hedgehog, the terror of Moebius, he finally began to see the true error of his ways, all of the horrible things he did just to make himself feel better, all of those innocent people he hurt, becoming the world's enemy even though Snively wanted him for his speed. Guilt began to form inside his dark heart which was slowly and finally coming back to the light.

"All I ever wanted was for everything to go back to the way they were...I missed you, big bro..." Red continued, still silently crying. "I'm sorry, Scourge. I never should've told you about-about the Sol Emeralds...It's all my fault!"

That had done it. The final piece of the truth rang inside of him, and now he knew that nobody had tricked him here. Not Kintobor, not Silver, not Blaze, not Red, and not even Sonic. Scourge could not fight it anymore. He had lost, all because of his own selfish and grieving actions. Scared and uncertain, he gently reached out and touched his little brother's face, rubbing his hands onto the youngster's cheeks which made the eight year old giggle.

"T-that tickles!" Red cried out.

"...You really are here...You're alive..." Scourge whispered, tears still falling.

"Thanks to you and Sonic, big bro...Sometimes good things happen during bad times." The younger hedgehog explained.

That was another truth in there, as Scourge now just wanted nothing more than to just cry. "Oh, Maurice...Red...What have I done?" Wailing in desperation and heavy guilt, the green hedgehog pulled his brother into his arms and sobbed had as Red hugged him back, crying even harder. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! Oh man...! I messed everything up! I-I broke all of my promises! I hurt you! I-Oh, Aurora! I'm a monster!"

"No you're not...You're not a monster...It was Finitevus who was the really big bully. He hurt other people, even in other worlds. But not all doctors are bad...I knew that you weren't that bad either...I wish I...I wish I tried harder to help you..." Red wept himself, hugging his older brother, burying his face into the green hedgehog's chest, his tears soaking the former evil Moebian's chest, but Scourge didn't care.

"I should've known...But I totally forgot...Ever since-Ever since Mom and Dad died, ever since those creeps Finitevus and Snively killed them, it's been a nightmare I just couldn't wake up from..." Scourge shook his head, swaying his brother from side to side. "I had you almost killed...I HAD you killed...I-I had Fiona killed, because fast enough...Some fastest thing alive I am..."

Crying so hard that the green hedgehog almost didn't feel a warm gloved hand gently rest on his left shoulder, as Scourge then looked up to see that Sonic, tearful over this with Tails, Young Sonic, and Young Tails standing by him, gave him a sad knowing frown and expression, and Kintobor, who was just as guilt-ridden, and both Silver and Blaze who, while they still couldn't fully forgive Scourge for what he has done, now knew his full history and couldn't help but feel their hearts break, standing behind the two blue hedgehogs and the two young fox cubs.

"Even fastest things alive make mistakes, Scourge. I know that from experience. Nobody's perfect. Especially not me. I'm sorry for what you and Red had to go through. It isn't fair." Sonic whispered, silent tears falling freely as he and his friends/brothers tried hard not to cry themselves. "Fear, lonieness, anger, hate, and sorrow can drive anybody crazy."

"If I had been your shoes, Scourge...I'd probably to something completely crazy too." Silver confessed, lowering his gaze in guilt.

"Even I know what it's like to be alone. My family have been lost because of Snively, and my powers made me fear myself, and I couldn't allow myself to open my heart to anyone. I had to fufil my duties as the Princess and Guardian of the Sol Emeralds." Blaze added, sighing as she rubbed her arms. "It was Silver and Dr. Kintobor who made me open my eyes to the world, and begin to open myself, and control my powers."

Kintobor approached the young Mobians and Moebians by the other side and gazed solely into the green hedgehog's eyes. "Scourge, I am sorry for the misunderstanding. I had intended to not only take care of Red, but after hearing what happened to your mother and father, I intended on taking good care of you as well, to raise you both and to look after you, to have you grow up with happy lives."

Even though Scourge still didn't like doctors, it was the reminder of the day of his brother's birth that made him finally open his eyes, and now that he thought of it, the kindly human scientist did do a good job in taking care of Red who remained the same as he always did. He sighed as he now didn't want to kill Kintobor anymore. He lost all desire to rule Moebius because of the heavy defeat, yet at the same time it came with a consulasion prize; being reunited with his little brother, because while he did mess up Space and Time, it came for bringing a more heroic version of himself who risked his own life to save Red, who by all means reunited the two siblings.

"Never thought I'd say this, but..." Scourge paused, before finally giving his long-time enemy a watery smile. "Thanks, Kintobor, for looking after Red for a long time. Sorry I've been a jerk to you and calling you Kinto-butt. You're not so bad after all. I was just self-absorbed and suspicious to see that."

Kintobor only smiled warmly, as he and the green hedgehog slowly shook hands, which made Red, Sonic and everyone else all smile happily over this exchange. At long last, Scourge had finally seen the error of his ways. He had been saved from the path of evil, because his little brother brought him back through the bond that deep down they still shared despite that it had been severed due to a tragedy and misunderstanding. Not only that, it was because of Scourge's love for Fiona, and for Red that he had still been safe from becoming trapped in the Prison of Evil. Seeing this also made Sonic feel grately relieved, as he and Tails shared their own brotherly hug despite not being related or of the same species, same with Young Sonic and Young Tails who did the same, the two Alternate-Mobians giggling away as they hugged.

Because unlike with Eggman who failed to see the truth of the error of his ways, which Sonic realized he'd forgotten that the evil scientist had his own tragic life, both in what happened to his grandfather and his cousin, the Robotnik name had been stained because of a misunderstanding and corrupted government and GUN, and his own brother being jealous before murdering their father, Scourge, despite the family tragedy, had seen the light once again and was now on a slow recovery of becoming who he used to be once more, and if things went well, the green hedgehog can do forward on a path of redemption.

"Hey, Sonic?" Scourge spoke up to his blue counterpart who blinked at him, and to his surprise, the green hedgehog smiled warmly at him. "Thanks for saving my li'l bro, and me."

Surprised at first, Sonic then smiled back and winked with a thumbs up. "You're welcome, Scourge. Always happy to help."

The green hedgehog nodded back, only for this moment to be interrupted when an annoyed voice called out from the cliff below. "Excuse me!? I could use a little help over here!"

Turning to where they were hearing the voice, it didn't take the heroes and Scourge long to realize who was speaking as the voice continued. "Help me up here!"

"It's Robotnik. Of course." Sonic, Young Sonic, Tails, Young Tails, Red, Silver, Blaze, Kintobor and even Scourge all chorused in exasperation with sweat drops, the two blue hedgehogs shrugging. They then all stood up before approaching and lo behold, the aforementioned evil scientist had woken up, and was stuck on the platform below.

"Scourge, there you are! Help me up, so we can go find the Time Eater and finish off those annoying enemies once and for all!" Robotnik shouted, still going for his plan to secretly betray the terror of Moebius and claim Space and Time all for himself.

Sonic and the others gazed at Scourge who groaned, folding his arms as he stared dully at the man whom he now wished he never should have trusted, fully regretting what he has done to get this far.

"What are you waiting for, hedgehog? The two Sonics are right at your reach! You've got to get the Sol and Chaos Emeralds now while you still can!" The mad doctor cried out impatiently.

"Let me think for a second, Ro-butt-nik..." The green hedgehog pretended to think, then declared while shaking his head. "Nah, I'm gonna pass. It's too much of a hassle, especially with Sonic beating me like a punching bag. It was kinda fun fighting and racing him, though."

He then grinned a little. "Not every day I get to race with a guy who could keep up with me. That's a cool once in a lifetime opportunity."

"You fool! I told you before that your emotions would get the better of you!" Robotnik shouted furiously, as this was precisely what he had predicted. "What about our world domination goals? Our partnership!"

"Yeah, well, I change my mind. I don't wanna rule Moebius anymore. I might not get Fiona back and as much as I hate to give up, I have to accept that she's gone and won't be coming back. Through out this whole thing, at least I got my little brother back thanks to me messing up and Sonic saving him." Scourge said, placing his hands on his hips. "You can whine all you want, fat-head, but our partnership is done, through, gone, zip, adiós, bye-byes. I wanna go home now. This place is making me sick."

"So you're just giving up...after all the trouble you went through?" The evil scientist growled darkly.

The now former terror of Moebius shrugged. "It's not worth it. It's a complete waste of space and time. You were right; I was doing this because I wanted my life back, and I've completely ignored my own little brother because I was blind with all of the negative nancy episodes I was stuck in like a sad soap opera. Plus after fighting against Sonic who's stronger at will than me, no wonder you always lose to his mini-self."

"That, and Buttnik always uses his robots to do all the fighting." Young Sonic added.

"Just like Eggman before he died." Sonic agreed, placing his hand onto his head.

"What about the Time Eater? Are you going to betray him as well?" Robotnik questioned, ignoring the blue hedgehogs' comments.

"...As much as I appreciate him for saving me and being really nice to me, and I guess he has been the only friend I ever had, I can't help the big guy. Not anymore." Scourge shook his head, feeling guilty breaking another promise, but he knew now that the Time Eater was far too dangerous to be set free. The green hedgehog knew that the monster was going to be furious at him and try to destroy him, but with Sonic and Young Sonic having the power to destroy the beast, he had to survive long enough to reverse all of this.

"Then I suppose I should tell you that I broke off our deal behind your back, Scourge the Hedgehog." The evil scientist grunted.

While Scourge was shocked to hear this, Sonic and his friends glared down at him as the Young Sonic growled. "Yeah, we know. A nice ghost lady told us that you made a deal with that echidna creep to get rid of Scourge and take all of the Emeralds with the Time Eater!"

"What!?" The green hedgehog shouted, now even more shocked. A ghost lady? What was the eleven year old hedgehog talking about?

"It's a long story, but she's a friend of mine. She's the one who told me and Sonic here about our friends and how to save them. She had to go through a terrible event 4,000 years ago when her own father, that echidna guy which Ro-butt-nik made a deal with, wanted to use the Chaos Emeralds for himself only to end up destroyed along with his army by Chaos and sent into the Prison of Evil. Somehow they ended up getting free and wind up in this kind of place." Sonic explained as briefly as possible.

"Well, that explains why you guys called her a ghost lady." Scourge sweat dropped a little, before growling in anger as he glared down at his former partner. "I never should've trusted you, you fat jerk! I hope that you end up stuck in the Prison of Evil the rest of eternity when you die one day, just like your Eggman self!"

"It's not my fault that you're too emotional! Besides which, you betrayed me by punching me through the speed of light!" Robotnik shouted.

"I was angry, and not in the mood for you! You're the one who rants on and whine like a crybaby! I at least try to hold back my emotions!" The green hedgehog shouted back.

"How dare you!?" The evil scientist exclaimed.

When Scourge had mentioned his wish for the evil scientist to be trapped in the Prison of Evil, Young Sonic uncomfortable as he had hoped that Robotnik would change one day too, lowering his gaze in worry only too look up at Sonic who placed a comforting arm around his shoulders with a sad expression as the evil scientist and former evil green hedgehog argued.

"I hate to this, pal, but I don't think Robotnik's gonna change either. It's best to at least put him in jail for the rest of his life." Sonic whispered, his ears drooping as he remembered the horrible take-over of the world in the Modern-Sonic's reality, which to him while it would never happen in his world and hoped that it wouldn't happen in his younger, alternate-self's world either, it was a nightmare come true.

"Guess you're right, dude." Young Sonic reluctantly agreed.

"And this is why both Eggman and Robotnik don't have any friends." Tails sighed, shaking his head. "I feel sorry for both of them."

"This is really sad." Young Tails sighed in agreement.

"Oh dear..." Kintobor sighed, a little uneasy, while Red just watched on and both Silver and Blaze shared exasperated expressions.

But before anyone could do much else or the argument could even continue, all of the sudden the entire area rumbled with everything shaking which ceased the fighting as Sonic, his friends, Scourge and Robotnik glanced around when they heard two huge roars and grunts and punches fill the air, becoming more and more alarmed as they wondered what was happening.

"W-what now?" Robotnik asked, nervously.

Then out of the dark abyss, the Time Eater emerged, roaring as it towered over the group who gaped in shock and disbelief to see it back and possibly at full strength.

"T-E!?" Scourge exclaimed, shocked. Then he as the Time Eater turned to the group, the green hedgehog realized that it was gazing solely at him...and he could hear what it was saying, because it strangely sounded weak. Weaker than before.

"Cormain...The Beast of Space...is in fury..."

"What!?" The seventeen year old gasped. "Beast of Space? You don't mean...!?"

"Beast of Space? What are you talking about?" Sonic asked frantically as he and his friends realized, given what Scourge had told him before, that the Time Eater was speaking to him within his mind.

But before anyone could get any answers, they all heard a dark evil chuckle which sent chills down their spines as suddenly Cormain emerged from the abyss, which horrified Sonic, Young Sonic and Scourge who were terrified to see the horrible beast again as it grasped at the Time Eater's head, with the two monsters struggling to overpower each other, yet it was clear that the horrible monster that caused so much more damage even towards the Octosaurs was already winning. So much so that Cormain bit into the Time Eater's chest, causing it to roar in sudden dying agony as it was now being absorbed and forced to fuse with it.

"NO! T-E!" The green hedgehog screamed out in horror, reaching out for the Time Eater, while Sonic and his friends were horrified beyond belief to see what was happening.

To make things worse, at the same time, Cormain turned it's attention to the horrified Robotnik who, frozen in fear and realizing this was the monster he had been warned about earlier, muttered. "Oh no...Perhaps I should...go..."

Unfortunately, even as Sonic, Young Sonic and Silver attempted to reach to save Robotnik, Cormain blew ice once more which froze the screaming evil scientist before grabbing him and, unbeknownst to Sonic's group, absorbed him like it did with Pachacamac.

"ROBOTNIK!" Young Sonic screamed out in dismay inspite of hating his evil enemy.

"No...NO! No, not again! NOT AGAIN!" Sonic shook his head in despair and denial, memories of when he failed to save Eggman returning at full force. He couldn't believe that he failed again.

"It got Robotnik!" Tails and Young Tails screamed out in dismay.

Scourge was filled with terror, fear at the monster who he recognized as the one he made a deal with, realizing that his time was up, and now not only was it here to get him, it was also absorbing the Time Eater and causing all sorts of destructions, now fully understanding that he had been tricked and brainwashed. Now his guilt was only getting worse.

As Cormain roared an evil laughter, it began to morph and change with the Time Eater fusing it which was becoming too dangerous for the group to stand by the cliff any longer. Soon enough, the fusion has been completed, with Cormain now being a mixture of both itself as well as the Time Eater with extra arms and sharper teeth, looking like a demon of nightmares and just as big as they had ever seen. While it was only half the size of Dark Gaia, Sonic couldn't help but think that it was the same size as the Darkspine-Werehog in his mental fight three months earlier, only much more terrifying.

"This is terrible! The Time Eater and Cormain have transformed into a new horrible beast!" Kintobor exclaimed in horror.

"I think it's coming straight at us!" Silver cried out.

"It's too dangerous to be this close! RUN!" Sonic shouted, as he lead Tails, Young Sonic, and Young Tails away, with Scourge and Kintobor both doing the same with Red, and Blaze and Silver quickly following after them, narrowly avoiding in the transformed beasts smashing them when it crushed slightly against the cliff, rocks falling into the darkness below.

Managing to reach to safety from the cliff despite knowing that there wasn't any form of escape, Sonic and the others turned around and gazed in horrified awe at the sight of the nearly transformed Cormain before them, as the transformed monster leered down before them. Red shivered as he huddled close to both Scourge and Kintobor who, despite the green hedgehog utterly terrified himself, stood protectively around the eight year old Moebian hedgehog, while both Sonic and Young Sonic stood protectively in front of Tails and Young Tails, and Silver did the same with Blaze.

Cormain then spoke deeply. "YOU HAVE DISAPPOINTED ME, SCOURGE THE HEDGEHOG. YOU KNEW THAT YOUR TIME IS UP, AND NOW YOU ARE ABOUT TO MEET YOUR FATE."

Most of the group could only gaze worriedly with glares or fearful expressions, Sonic and Young Sonic both just glared at the terrible monster who had just merged with the Time Eater as well as capturing Robotnik.

At this moment, things had become much more dangerous than he anticipated. But Sonic knew, if Cormain and the Time Eater weren't stopped now, then everything would be lost.


A/N: Whoa! This chapter really is long! The fight lasted longer than I thought. I'll try to make the last few chapters shorter as we're almost at the ending of the story.

The rest of the dark revelation will be revealed before we reach the final battle, and I think said battle will only take one chapter unfortunately, since the battle against the Time Eater in the original Sonic Generations game was admittedly easy-looking, but the music of the second phase was cool, though.

Now, I probably won't be writing again until at least in the middle or after next week since tomorrow I'll be getting my booster shot. Until then, I'll be back as soon as possible as we're finally almost at the ending of this story!

See you later!