A/N: Here goes the Fifth shot. Hope you enjoy reading.

Brand New Life

General P.O.V:

"What the hell...Knuckles?!"

Rouge yelled to notice a certain red echidna when she was back to the ministry.

"I think that's my line!" Knuckles grumbled, "So that's why they were invited...to guard some princess by risking their own lives? If Tails and Amy get to know this...!"

"You were eavesdropping us?!"

"Of course, because I heard Scourge having doubts at the waiting room. And it's about my friends, Rouge!"

"So you're telling to send them back..." Rouge coldly crossed her arms, "Did you know where did I just return from? She had been attacked by her enemies! And guess what I got to know, the liminal princess have the real phantom ruby sealed in her! It originally belonged to her father."

"What the fuck are you saying?!" Amethyst eyes widened in disbelief. "Phantom Ruby is-..."

"Not so loud...!" Rouge shushed him, "Besides, is everyone still here?"

"No, they all left to Mobius. I made an excuse to stay."

"Okay then follow me. I'll talk to our commander so that he arranges for your stay and lets you observe the little princess and the four hedgehogs. Because, none of us is allowed to stay with them." With that, both of them went to meet the GUNs.

Sierra's P.O.V:

The house we had to stay was pretty simple, but I did not mind. Because, it was actually nice to stay away from royalty once in a while. I expected that we would be staying at some remote area. But surprisingly, it was quite the opposite. Our living place was at a middle-class residential zone in the city. Right, remote or wasteland areas are not always safe to hide, specially after dealing with a group of insect liminals at a forest. Regina's base must be at somewhere out of metropolitan zone.

Nothing much notable happened. Five of us were settled in our own bedroom. I had the most luggage so I took longer for unpacking and keeping things in order. I did not notice that it went past dinner time.

"Whoa! Is this what you've been doing?!"

I turned my head around to see the emerald green furred hedgehog.

"Oh, hi."

"Earth girls are even more annoying I see... Their wardrobes are like entire boutique." He came forward and crouched down to help unpack my remaining things. "I don't know what you do with this all."

"If you're an intelligent being then you must wear clothes, Scourge. You need plenty in your entire life."

"I don't think we necessarily need that...since we have fur to cover ourselves."

"Of course you do have." I rolled my eyes, "After all you're a hedgehog."

"And you are...?"

I stopped as I turned to him, only to see his sky blue orbs that seemed to bring the answer out of me.

"...Well?"

"Uh...we're not same, are we?" I looked away.

"If you mean by appearance, then yes."

"But..." I don't know why I was feeling uncomfortable. So, I decided to divert, "Why do you say that when you're wearing a jacket yourself?"

"That's my style...to differ myself from Blue."

"Blue... You mean Sonic? You guys are nothing like each other."

"May be not anymore. But..." His expression changed into a serious form. "...my real name is...Sonic the hedgehog."

I raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean by that?"

"Do you believe in other dimension?"

"Like another earth, parallel universe...something like this?"

"Yeap, they're from planet Mobius, I'm from planet Moebius...the alternate dimension of Mobius."

I did not comment anything right then, because I was analyzing whether Scourge was out of his mind or not. "Which is...?"

"Look princess, there's no point explaining to you if you already have fixed your mind not to believe."

"Can you blame me? This is all unusual to me." I defended myself, "Well, you guys are something unusual too."

"So you are, babe."

Ugh, he has every answer.

"There you are!" I saw Sonic at the doorway, "Scourge, I told you to get her because the dinner was getting cold. What're you doing?!"

"Can't you see the pile of things? I was being nice by helping her." Scourge carelessly retorted before going to the door, "Besides...I got to know her bra size. Wanna hear it, Blue?"

I was just flabbergasted. Sonic looked embarrassed too, "Have some shame, Scourge!"

"Now playing dumb, huh? You're the one who was directly looking at her boobs..."

"I was not!" Sonic attempted to hit him, but he already left. "Uh, believe me Sierra, I didn't ask him to do anything like that!"

"But that doesn't change the truth...!" I crossed my arms furiously, "Furry or not...Men are born perverts!"

Sonic's expression changed suddenly, as his lips curled into a smile. "What's so funny now?!" I snarled.

"Funny is that...you're referring us furry hedgehogs as...men."

I was taken aback now. The moment I saw them, I had my mind set that despite of all, they still were just furry hedgehogs like the real ones. But deep down inside of my mind, I was conscious that they were males...and I was a female, as well as a hedgehog. Fur, muzzle, or face were just the visual differences...Mobians are nowhere mindless beasts. Besides, now I figured about what Scourge said earlier, since Sonic sounded like him just now. The two hedgehogs did have some similarities between themselves...not only by looks, but also by fighting tactics that I saw when they rescued me from five Rebel Riders. So, is it really possible for existence of alternate dimension? I stopped thinking when I heard my stomach growl. Sonic was gone already. So, I finished my work before heading for dinner. When I reached the dinning room, the four hedgehogs were halfway finishing their meal.

"Sorry, I had a lot things to unpack." I thought I should apologize for being late.

"You should've asked us. We would've helped you." Silver said.

"Right, so that you could check out my 'unmentionables'?" I said coldly.

"...Sorry?"

"I mean, it's all done now." I said with a poker face, "By the way, who made the dinner?"

"Shadow and me."

"Thanks. That's so nice of you."

"No problem."

I was pretty irritated that the black hedgehog did not say a word as he just kept eating. But I made a conversation with others as I remembered something.

"Scourge was saying earlier about different dimensions. And he was originally another Sonic and came from another planet."

"He's right." Sonic said, "Moebius is like anti version of Mobius. Moebians are anti or evil version of Mobians. So, Scourge used to be known as Evil or Anti Sonic, and looked exactly like me."

I stared Scourge, "You had blue furs and green eyes like him? Then how did you...?"

"It was a birthday gift..." He said with mouthful of foods, "...from Rouge and one of Blue's friend's father. I mean, they lead me to the master emerald, by which I gained by own unique identity. Besides, not only me...Blue has a cop version in another dimension at the jail I went in. His name is Zonic. Speaking of that..." He stopped.

"What?"

"One of the elite cops was somewhat like you. I never saw her face because she always had her helmet on. But like you, she was overall like a redhead human with short height, hairstyle like yours, hedgehog ears and tail...at least I think so, because everyone there knows her as hedgehog. But you reminded me of her. Her name is Zierra."

"So does that mean there might be liminals in other planet...?" I was intrigued. "Oh, that makes me remember, you saw that wolf Rook with those liminals from Rebel Riders. Do you guys know him...because he seems to be from your planet."

"We don't know him personally, but...yes, he's a Mobian." Finally Shadow talked. "Which means...except for No Zone, some Mobians have been living here illegally and were contacted by some liminals." He looked at me, "This Regina seems to have her homework done well to get you. So, you can't be reckless anymore."

"...I'll try." I monotonously said, "But you know...habitual facts. So, can't promise about that."

"You're going to be a troublesome one..." I heard the black hedgehog murmuring before he finished dinner and got up.

I made a cartoon face, "You realized it just now?"

***This part contains the summary plot of 'Sonic And The Black Knight' along with my own idea

General P.O.V:

That night Sonic was dreaming something. In his dream, he found himself at Misty Lake of Camelot, where he was called by a witch named Merlina previously. And it looked like, everything was repeating itself again, as he had known about the ruthless king Arthur, received the sentient talking sword Caliburn, and had to fight Arthur's demon army. He asked Caliburn why he was there again.

"You missed something before, which you'll find out this time."

"What's it about?"

"The Deathcalibur was not entirely destroyed when you killed Arthur back then. Because, it found a new holder, a dark rebel knight who's known as Red Knight. We must destroy him or he might repeat what Arthur had done."

From Misty Lake, Caliburn lead Sonic to the castle of Camelot where found information about King Arthur. The blue hedgehog already knew all of that since he had been there once. But suddenly at the living room, he noticed something that he overlooked on his first time there. A painted portrait of a human woman on the wall. Looking closer, the hedgehog examined it. The woman on the picture faced around holding a rose, so just a glimpse of her face was seen. But then the hedgehog noticed her ears above her head. She was wearing a red Victorian Lolita gown. Her flowing long shiny hair was red just like her dress and the rose in her hand. Sonic wondered if it was just a picture or the person really existed...as the female looked pretty familiar from her side face. Caliburn informed that the lady in the portrait was Guinevere Gwendoleana, the daughter of the king of liminal or hybrid species and the number one beauty in Camelot. In his early life, King Arthur used to have romantic feelings for her. Ironically, his characteristics got corrupted by Excalibur prior his wedding with the redhead beauty and Guinevere mysteriously disappeared forever. Later everyone thought that Arthur himself killed his newly bride.

After getting out of the castle, as expected the blue hedgehog fought and defeated all the knights of round table one by one - Lancelot, Gawain, Percival, Galahad and Lamorak or rather, the Arthurian counterparts of Shadow, Knuckles, Blaze, Silver and Jet respectively. Meanwhile, Merlina was awakened as Dark Queen and wanted to have Excalibur to become immortal. But, Sonic turned into Excalibur form and defeated her, and Arthur next. After they disappeared being killed, Sonic waited to see if this really was the end. Then he saw something, Arthur's Deathcalibur was being held by someone in blur. The person also looked like a hedgehog or similar as he was also wearing a metal armor with a red cape, just like Sonic's Excalibur form. He was slightly shorter and his armor was grey and red instead of Sonic's golden and silver, and had a red hedgehog tail. Undoubtedly, it was the Red Rebel Knight that Caliburn talked about earlier. When the view was clear, Sonic noticed that the chest plate on the person's armor was pretty hooked, unlike his own. And behind the head armor, long spikes were down.

Could it be a female...?

Before Sonic could go on any conclusion, Red Knight started a battle by attacking him. So, the blue hedgehog had no other choice but to fight back. And male or female, it was the toughest among all the opponents and Sonic had trouble because he did not meet this one on the first time he got here. But, eventually he managed to weaken his opponent. At one point, Sonic slashed the Excalibur just beside Red Knight's head and knocked their head armor, revealing long and spiky red hair. So, it was a female. but she still had her mask plate on so her face was not seen yet. It was bleeding from her side of neck, which she rubbed wincing in pain and knelt down. Deathcalibur in her hand was finally shattered and disappeared this time. Red Knight was clearly defeated. Meanwhile, all the five knights of round table and Nimue, or, Amy's Arthurian counterpart and former guardian of Excalibur, reached there.

"The Red Knight is...a woman?!" Lancelot could not help but was surprised. So were the others. That time, a little human boy came running. He had short blue spiky quill like hair and blue eyes but also had blue ears on his head and a blue tail behind. He was much smaller than the hedgehogs, and looked like a kid. He was a young liminal hog boy. He rushed to the wounded Red Knight.

"Mother! Are you okay...?!"

"I-I'm alright, don't worry." She finally managed to speak up, "But...why're you here, Gwydre?"

"I followed you because I was worried."

Meanwhile, Sonic was back in his real form again, so was Caliburn.

"Did you just say Gwydre?!" The sentient sword spoke up in an astonished tone.

"Yes, that's my name." The little boy answered, "But, please don't hurt my mother!" He protectively stood in front of Red Knight. Sonic remembered what Merlina informed before perishing, Arthur had a son named Gwydre, who was supposed to be the rightful inheritor of Excalibur.

"Is that...is that...?!" Now it was Nimue who exclaimed, "Is that you...Guinevere?!"

Now not only Sonic, but also all knights from round table let out shocking gasps and stared the redhead female knight with widened eyes the moment she was addressed by the pink hedgehog. Because, the Red Rebel Knight just had been revealed as the Beauty of Camelot and King Arthur's missing wife Guinevere Gwendoleana, who was thought to be dead. She managed to stand up with her son's help. She said nothing just turned back to leave.

"You are not getting away without any explanation, Gwen!" Nimue rushed to the female knight before grabbing her hand, as her long gone friend came back.

"It hardly matters, Misty Lady."

"Keep quiet for now. You need medical attention." She then healed her wound by magic power. Sonic went to them when they were done.

"Why did you fight me?"

"You do not remember anything..." Guinevere finally spoke to him, "Do you...Arthur?"

Sonic was shocked again, but he remembered when he defeated Arthur for first time, Caliburn referred that Sonic was the real Arthur himself.

"Um...I-I..."

"Nevermind. It might be a misunderstanding." She said, "But I wanted to kill him by myself thus I could not suppress my rage when you did that. So, I seek your pardon for battling you."

Meanwhile, the five other knights started to discuss on something between themselves. When Arthur was destroyed by Sonic, they decided to break the round table. But, now they changed their decision.

"Lady Guinevere, We are the knights of round table, which was formed by king Arthur." They came forward before introducing themselves individually, except for Lancelot and Gawain who she knew before she was gone. "Since the king is no more, we were about to disband our team. But, after knowing about you and your son being alive, we decided to dismiss the decision. We want to continue as round table as your subordinates. Also, we would like you to become the new ruler of Camelot."

The redhead knight said after a pause, "I am not sure if I deserve this honor, but if you consider me worthy for it, I shall accept your proposal."

"They're my rightful owner now." Caliburn said to Sonic. "Hand me over to them."

Sonic stood right in front of the mother and the son to follow the sword's instruction. "Gwydre is the heir of it." The redhead knight and newly queen said, "But, after what happened with Arthur, I do not have faith on keeping this sword right now. So, Nimue shall guard it, like she did before. When my son will grow up and prove himself to be worthy, only then he can have Excalibur." So, Caliburn was returned to Nimue again.

"Before I leave..." The blue hedgehog suddenly got closer to Guinevere. "I want to see something." He whispered...before lifting his hand to remove the metal cover from her face. When Sonic finally removed it, he blinked once before seeing her face.

But just as he blinked, the blue hedgehog found himself in his new bedroom, lying. The dream ended. He sat up and thought something for a while, before rushing out his room. He stared another bedroom of a certain being, before slowly pulling the doorknob. Surprisingly, it was open, looked like the princess would need some time to adjust with her new life with new companions. Sonic entered soundlessly as much as possible, before finally reaching her bed. Her face had a relaxed and calm expression while sleeping. But, Sonic got what he had to be sure about...

He remembered Scourge mentioning about 'Zierra', who the green hedgehog referred as an elite zone cop, and possibly resembled the liminal hedgehog princess Sierra Star. Sonic's mind started to race now, Zonic was himself at No Zone, his all friends, even Eggman had counterparts there too. And all of their names start with 'Z' rhyming with their own prime version's names. And Zierra goes rhythmic with...Sierra.

There is a high possibility that...Zierra is not an original being, and is derived from a prime.

That Guinevere's hair...was just as same as Sierra's...long, crimson red, full of spiky layers.

That means...if both Guinevere and Zierra belong to a prime counterpart...

Then it could be no one else...other than Sierra Star the hog girl.

But was that ever possible for an earth creature to have other dimension's forms? Well, there was exception case such as Eggman Robotnik and his former assistant and distant relative Snively Robotnik. Then it might be possible for a hybrid or liminal creature, too. The princess just got informed about counterparts or other dimensions, on which she was yet to put a complete belief. So, it was predictable what her reaction was going to be when she would be told about...having her own counterparts in other dimensions. However, that was not the fact that made Sonic worry, the mission or task he and his hedgehog fellows had been given now, was way more difficult than their any previous adventure. Because, this time, it's not exactly about taking down Eggman or any demon groups, it's about protecting someone from creatures like her own and preventing the evil within her...on top of that, without using a single chaos emerald. And if Sierra fails to handle the phantom ruby, there will be no option other than killing her. Being tensed and unsure about his success on a mission...was something new that the blue furred hero was going through now.

Meanwhile:

Eggman and his two robots just reached their 'Egghome' or rather Death Egg 2.0 which was now orbiting around the earth. But when they landed, something was off. It was dark inside...and his other robots seemed to be inactive for some reason. Then the man noticed red and magenta lights coming from a certain room from an upper floor, where he kept the theory papers and some materials that were used to develop...'Phantom Ruby Prototype."

"What the...?!" Horrified, he flew with his egg-mobile there. "Who's there?!" He got off with his two bots and looked around, but found nothing at first...until,

"Surprise...!" A male voice chuckled. The voice was manly and sober...but it just pierced through the head of not only the human scientist, but also his two robots. As they all violently flinched recognizing who it might be.

"Orbot...Cubot..." Eggman shakily whispered, "Please, tell me you two are not predicting the same as me."

"Boss..." Cubot's jaws trembled, "I think it's a very spooky ghost...!"

Orbot facepalmed, "I won't be any happier if it's a ghost...because, that person seems like..." He cautiously moved his head behind, so did Eggman and Cubot. With that,

"AAAAHHH!" Three of them screamed together as if they really saw a ghost. They could not be blamed though. After all...

The sudden return of a certain anthropomorphic jackal...was not any less frightening than seeing a ghost.

You know who that jackal is...don't you? XD

N/B: Guinevere Gwendoleana was the wife of king Arthur in the real plot of Arthurian legends.