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((New chapter new information! You people enjoy and I may even draw some stuff because I found my cringy old fanart. If you want to see some drawings they will be on my tumblr. ))

Crystal was walking with Sonic outside a shop and he was puzzled to why she didn't ask for him to hold her bags. Normally Cream or Amy would ask, but Crystal didn't. He tapped her on the shoulder while Crystal was deep in thought. Crystal couldn't understand why these people were being so nice to her. Others wouldn't help her so, why would they. Sonic tapped her shoulder again, now a bit worried.

"Hey, Crystal. You okay?" Crystal snapped out of her thoughts.

"Huh?"

"You were daydreaming and almost walked into a tree." Sonic stated as they moved away from the tree.

"Oh, I was just wondering something." She responded, looking down at her new dark teal boots.

Sonic noticed her scanning her bags of clothes. "You wondering if you have to pay for those?"

"No, not that." She said pulling out a mint blouse with a grey zipper in the middle. She unzipped the blouse, put it over her tattered shirt, then zipped it up. She then discarded the rugged clothing underneath her new blouse into the trash can. Sonic blinked in shock of what just happened. "Why are you being so nice?"

"Why not?"

Crystal turned to face him. "Why not? What happens when someone you are kind to stabs you in the back?"

"Then you keep moving forward. Eventually you'll find friends around you that won't do that." Sonic answered, noticing her expression change. "Let me guess. You've never had someone stand by you?"

Crystal nodded, "With what is on that drive you found." then sat down on a bench. "Everyone either leaves or tries to kill me."

Sonic sat down next to her. "Well, we won't do that to you because we know what it's like."

"You know what it is like?" She stood up and held out her hand. "Then come with me."

"Alright, do you want to get there fast?" Sonic asked while taking her hand.

"Sure, why not?" She was confused by the question as he picked her up, bridal-style, and began to run.

While the two went to the ruins Faust was reading over plans and noticed the cell behind her. She opened it and saw Snively in chains. He flinched, seeing the woman walk toward her. She grinned, leaving a note on the ground. Snively read in horror as the note informed him of her next plan. Eggman came up to her and she went to one of the monitors. Faust began typing in something then entered in the command. The monitor showed a male nyxe shackled to the wall with others around him. His white hair in a disarray and outfit ruined by the experiments.

"Should we begin phase one?" Faust asked, and Eggman nodded in agreement. "Splendid."

She pulled the lever beside her and the machines in each of the holding facilities turned on. Blood curdling screams were heard throughout the chambers. Flashing lights danced across the monitors as she observed the experiments falling one by one to the ground. "Now for phase two."

Sonic and Crystal made it to the old abandoned base. Sonic looked around and noticed a figure walking in the distance. it was one of the robots from the ruins.

"The robots are moving now." Sonic noticed while he put her down.

Crystal whistled for the robot and it walked up to them. This one was towering over 10 feet tall and was of similar structure to the others.

"The ruins and abandoned laboratories you find here were form the Original people who once lived here. Eggman could have used this base, but abandoned it. He probably didn't know how the machines worked around here. These robots are apart of what's left."

The robot kneeled down to meet her at eye-level. "These were the weapons used for that destruction, but they weren't meant for that."

Crystal took the diamond shaped gem off her lanyard and held it up to the robot. "They are meant to heal the lands..." She said an incantation as her the robot's eyes turned a calming lavender. "Go and help these lands grow and flourish."

The robot stood up, began walking away, while grass grew around its footsteps. Crystal put the gem to the ground beneath her and a tree sprouted up in between them as tall as the robot.

"So, the gems control the robots?" Sonic asked and she nodded.

"Yes. The robots respond to the host of the gem. This can be used for growth and destruction." Crystal explained as she held her hand to the tree and it decayed to ash. "That is what is mostly on the drive you found."

"Mostly on it?" Sonic said while watching her create a field of young trees beside her.

"The rest is something I don't even know." She said putting the gem back on her lanyard. "My brother never told me that part."

"You have a brother?"

"Had a brother...he went missing when Faust found out he was trying to erase his work for biotechnology." Sonic put his hand on her shoulder.

"I'm sorry. It must have been hard." He said and the two started walking. "I know what it feels like to lose your sibling...I lost mine when sonething bad happened..."

Crystal looked at him. "Sorry to hear that. He and my sister went missing when the multiverse reset itself"

Sonic stopped moving, "You know about the multiverse?" and she nodded.

"The Prime Zone is the name...I think. It looks like long intertwining roads. Each road leads to a different reality."

"Yeah, well you're talking to one who travled on it. My reality was reset after Eggman caused a super genesis wave." Sonic explained and Crystal stopped walking.

"He did what?" Crystal was shocked that a weapon could be built with such magnitude.

"He made a weapon so powerful it reset my world."

"Faust is working with Eggman. So, if he has the tools to do that then they have to be stopped."

Sonic was confused, "Why? What happens if it's reset again?" and she began to explain.

"Think of it like a video game except with only three lives. If you have already died two times and then die again. It's game over and there is nothing left." She explained further. "If the reality is reset too many times then it can collapse in on itself. It can lead to no realities resetting at all and a quantum abyss filling an endless void."

"Wait, WHAT!?" Sonic was cunfused and also slightly understanding what she explained.

Crystal sighed in frustration. "It is like this. Timelines or worlds with the multiverse is supposed to be natural. Whenever someone creates something that disrupts the multiverse it resets itself. The dimensions/realities are reset, but in a disarray of sorts because it wasn't the right time. So, it creates alternate realities so, the multiverse can be stabilized." Crystal Looked at him with saddened eyes. "That's why I lost my brother and everyone else. I'm sure you've lost more than family as well."

He put his hand on her shoulder and smiled. "Then let's not let it reset again."He looked at her with confidance. "We'll make sure of it."