Preface: Hi, everyone! Sorry for not uploading last night; it genuinely slipped my mind! But either way, I should still have Chapter 2 up tomorrow!

This prologue will be about the same length of Chapter 1, and will provide a small recap of what you might of missed in Chaos Haven and the first two Spacehog from Mobius stories. So go on ahead!

SPACEHOG FROM MOBIUS III:
CHAOS HAVEN II

Prologue:
Falter's Guilt

[Character Selected: Sonic]
[Current World: Mobius]
[Current Location: Hedgehogtropolis, Tails' House]

[Current Time: July 8, 199X, 12:54 PM]

[BGM: SEGA SOUND TEAM, Jun Senoue - Welcome to Station Square]

Hedeghogtropolis was a small, beautiful kingdom along the southern part of South Island. A nice walk from the Green Hill Zone, the kingdom was very lively and modern, with shops, houses, a Lake of Rings for a fountain, and several entertainment areas.

The castle at the end of the kingdom served as a home base of sorts for Sonic the Hedgehog, when he wasn't out jogging around the planet, hanging with his friends, or being the Hero of Mobius. Despite his royal status, which he was rather secretive about, he mostly would just lounge around, watching TV or playing video games, or perhaps playing on his guitar or reading his large comic book collection.

Today, Sonic's mother, Queen Aleena, was in an important meeting. She was a member of the Council of Mobius, a group of Mobius' many leaders, including the president of the SEGA Union, the president of the United Federation, King Maximillion Acorn of the Kingdom of Acorn, and Princess Elise III of Solenna. Because of how important the meeting was, Sonic was hanging around at the small house near the castle. The house was the current residence of Sonic's brotherly friend, Miles "Tails" Prower, and his family.

Sonic was lying on the couch in the living room alongside Tails' parents Amadeus and Rosemary. "It's crazy how time flies, Mrs. Prower," he said, tossing a pillow into the air. "It has already been over a month since the crazy Whisker Haven adventure."

Indeed, it was about a month ago when he and Tails first encountered the odd world of Whisker Haven and saved it from an invasion by Metal Sonic, his robotic counterpart created by Dr. Eggman.

"And about two weeks ago was the adventure where Mobius and that other world fused," added Rosemary.

"Sure, but that's never gonna be expanded upon. But I still can't believe Eggman's not back already." Sonic stretched and smiled nostalgically. "Actually, now that I think about it, it's been over a year since Tails and I used Unc's time machine."

The time machine Sonic was referring to was created by Sonic's Uncle Chuck, a well-renowned scientist, and was a modified DeLorean DMC-12. The adventures the two had in it involved helping Tails' parents meet and trying to avert an alternate timeline where Chuck was in charge of a totalitarian version of the Kingdom of Acorn.

"Y'know, I think I've seen Tails create a small model version of that time machine," commented Amadeus.

"Where is that little guy, anyway?" asked Sonic, sitting up.

As if he had heard him, Tails began snoring loudly. Normally, he would be in the workshop basement, tinkering away with his contraptions. His parents and Sonic were sure to take him out every so often so that he didn't forget the outside world. Currently, however, he was sleeping on the floor, basking in the sunlight coming through the window.

Sonic got a mischievous smile on his face. He crept up to Tails, crouched down, and gave the fox a big, fat raspberry on his chest. Tails woke up and began laughing like crazy. When he calmed down, he was mad. "Attacking me while I was asleep," he said. "That's a sly move there, Sonic."

"Well whaddya gonna do about it?" asked Sonic, rubbing his nose.

[BGM: Tee Lopes - The Blur (Speed Shoes)]

"This!" Tails reached into a drawer nearby and pulled out a water gun. He pointed it at Sonic and began squirting him with water. Sonic began running away from the water, through the open door.

Tails followed him through and continued squirting him as they ran towards the castle courtyard. "Stay still so I can get you!" he called.

"Where's the fun in that?" Sonic called back. They had reached the front door of the castle.

Sonic skidded to a halt. Tails seemed to have vanished. "Hey, Tails! Where are you?" he called.

Little did Sonic realize that Tails had hid in the nearby tree. Fiddling with the water gun, Tails activated an add-on he had put on it: an overdrive switch. He popped out from the tree and fired, sending a huge amount of water at Sonic. It was so unrealistically big, the door opened when Sonic collided against it. The hedgehog entered the meeting room of the castle and sprawled out across the table, to the ire of the important figures.

[BGM: End]

"My word!" cried the SEGA Union president. "What is this nonsense?"

"I thought you sent Sonic to Tails' house, Aleena," said Max, disapprovingly.

"Sonic, what do you have to say for yourself?" said Aleena, sternly, to her son.

Before Sonic could answer, Tails stepped through the door. "It was my fault," said Tails. "I squirted him with that water."

Sonic sat up. "But I gave him a raspberry," he said, guiltily.

Aleena shook her head. "I am so disappointed in you."

Sonic looked down in shame as he got off the table. "You have a lot to be disappointed about, mom," he said. "Remember when I was trapped in another dimension recently?"

Aleena didn't understand. "The one with that war?"

"Yeah, I caused it," Sonic said. "So yeah, you have a lot more to be disappointed in me about." After that, he trudged away, but not before giving Elise an "You-and-Me-Can-Never-Happen" look.

Days passed, and Sonic was still upset. He didn't even feel like going out, even with Eggman not attacking. He obviously felt guilty about causing the deaths of several innocents and striking fear into others' hearts.

"I simply don't know what to do," Aleena told Tails eventually. "I can't believe he kept this a secret from me." When Sonic was a toddler, he and his mom were forced to separate as a result of a takeover by Dr. Eggman's brother, Julian. They eventually reunited and defeated Julian, but even then, she still didn't know her son very well. She turned towards the fox. "You know him a little better than me. What do you think we should do?"

Tails took out a small switch-like contraption he was working on. "They say to help them feel better, you should take their mind off what's bothering them." He then took out the model DeLorean Time Machine his father mentioned. "And I think I know how to do just that."

Postface: There, sets up one of the driving forces of the story pretty well, wouldn't you say? Sorry if Sonic seems a little OOC here; I wanted to try something a little different here.

Trivia time! As promised in Chaos Haven, this story will have a bit of focus on the events of Sonic Forces; particularly the idea that it was Classic Sonic's fault it happened. Remember, this Sonic is Classic. I originally had him be bothered by this fanfiction I once read where he overreacts to Tails swearing, but I changed it because the idea of guilt tied it into the main canon a bit better and was a whole lot less cringey in my opinion. As for Hedgehogtroplis, the concept is inspired by the version of Mobotropolis in Sonic Underground, down to Queen Aleena ruling it. The concept of the Council of Mobius, on the other hand, is taken from the fancomic Sonic Legacy. Since the fancomic is still starting out, I decided to have it be made up of different leader-type characters from the franchise - King Acorn from the Archie comics, Elise from Sonic '06, the President of the United Federation, and my own interpretation of the president from Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie - I interpret him here as the leader of the SEGA Union - an alliance of the different islands where the Genesis games are set. P.S.: Tails' model DeLorean popped up before...!

That should be it! Chapter 1's up and running!

-Alfred

~Sonic the Hedgehog and everything related to him are properties of Sega Corp. All idea from Back to the Future are properties of Universal City Studios, LLC. No copyright infringement with any of these companies nor financial gain was intended in the making of this story. Any resemblance to real-world people or events are either coincidental or done fictitiously.~