A/N: Welcome back, readers. I caught a flu so could not update for a while. Hope you enjoy the new chapter.

Recap in previous chapter:

At midnight, Sierra finds a robot visitor in her balcony, who escorts Silver to her and introduces himself as Omega, Shadow's G.U.N teammate. Although, Sierra keeps Silver in her room for the night, she can not find him next morning. She informs and argues with Sonic and Shadow about it as they has not seen him. Finally, Silver appears out of his bathroom and Sierra becomes very relieved to see him. Later, a little jealous Sonic provokes Silver to go for Blaze, but Silver does the same as Sonic and Blaze also had 'previous complications' between themselves. Then shocking Silver, Sonic reveals the truth about his choice on human girls and the reasons for finding them more attractive over Mobian girls. But, having that conversation, both hedgehogs realize about their growing physical attraction for Sierra, as being a hog girl, she has human girl's body with average Mobian's size. However, all of them are oblivious that the mysterious robot who brought back Silver is not Omega, but is Metal Sonic. Meanwhile, Eggman introduces Infinite with a new hedgehog Seelkadoom, who is created from both Sonic and Shadow's DNA, and possesses their power combined.

Reminiscent

Sierra's P.O.V:

Fortunately, I managed to make the breakfast. At the dinning table, when we just started to eat, Shadow got up.

"Shads...?"

"I told you, Faker. I've an urgent meeting at G.U.N."

I frowned, "But at least eat some-..." I could not finish as he already chaos controlled to his room. I sighed and thought to leave it to be. But then I remembered about arguing with him earlier. I knew it was not Shadow's fault for not knowing about Silver coming back. I decided to apologize by doing something. I ran into the kitchen to bring something before he could leave.

"What's this, Star?" I could see the 'WTF' look on Shadow's face, as I brought the plastic container full of syrup layered pancakes to him when he was at the doorway to leave.

"You haven't eaten anything, and you're in hurry. Take this so that you can eat them in your free time."

"There is cafeteria at G.U.N." He coldly said.

"I know. But, here I've made breakfast for the first time and..." I hesitantly looked away. "I wanted to apologize for yelling at you."

I expected just a plain 'It's ok', instead I felt the black hedgehog closer as he took the container from me. "Don't worry about it." I turned to him as I heard his voice being gentle suddenly, his eyes also softened. "Because you were right, even though it still doesn't make sense. I'll ask Omega to explain himself."

I finally smiled. "Thanks...and share some cakes with Rouge." I waved bye at him.

"If you're done with Shads then can we have more pancakes, Princess?!" Sonic yelled from dinning table.

"Princess...you should give some attention to Blue too, like you did to Potleaf-head and Stripes." Scourge said mouthfully, "He has been suffering from jealousy."

"Shut the fuck up, Scourge!"

I rolled my eyes and brought some more pancakes from kitchen. Suddenly, I had a naughty idea before I went beside Sonic's chair,

"Aww...so here a little hedgehog was feeling lonely." I started to pet the indigo quills. I was not surprised as his green eyes went wide, "Sooo...adorable."

"Cu-cut that out!"

"You know, I have some pet hedgehogs...the small ones from the earth. Whenever I poke them, they curl into balls." I poked and and pinched his long black nose, "Could you do the same too? You're big so I can hug a fluffy furball!"

Sonic suddenly stopped squirming. But I was so into teasing him and also because of Scourge and Silver's loud laughter, I didn't imagine that things might get serious. "...Let go, Sierra."

"No, you're too cute to let go-..."

"ENOUGH!"

Next thing I knew, my waist was wrapped tightly by an arm. My face...no, my chin was harshly held by the palm of other arm making me looking up the unusually enraged jade eyes. The black nose I pinched just now...was almost touching my own. If I were not alarmed by the sudden turn of events, then I would have realized that one of my butt cheeks was grabbed by the large palm of the arm that wrapped around me.

"Looks like it's time I finally show you your place!" Sonic blurted, "Firstly, I'm not like your fucking pets. If you still can't see the difference, you need to consult a doc asap! Secondly, you're a princess...but it's only for your own kingdom, not for the rest of the world. Yet, we tried to respect you as a princess from the very beginning...but all you did were humiliating and causing troubles to us and showing your attitude!"

I gasped and tried hard to stop forming tears in my eyes. Then suddenly Sonic was shoved hard to the nearby wall out of nowhere. He was pinned on the wall with the familiar cyan glow around him.

"The fuck...Silver?!"

"You don't get to talk to her like that, Sonic!" My eyes shifted to the albino hedgehog. He was annoyed too. "You're the one who always makes fun of everyone, now you can't even take a little joke to yourself?! What a fucking moron!"

I never thought someone like Silver could be cussing type. I should be impressed for him defending me. But I did not want to be the reason of ruining two hedgehogs's friendship.

"Stop that, Silver." I coldly said, "His problem is with me, so let me handle this."

"Are you sure, Sierra?"

"I am not that type of person who needs someone to back her up. So, as much as I wanna thank you...back off for now." I rasped before Silver finally let go of Sonic, who fell down on the floor by the impact. I stomped towards the blue imbecile before harshly pulling him up,

"Listen you hedgehog from Mobius or wherever the hell, If I were the mighty princess who lives by ordering around...then I wouldn't have ended up living with you! As for humiliation, yes you're WORTH to humiliate after what you just said! Everyone loves you as a hero because pretty sure they don't know what kind of selfish jerk you are...like I just knew!"

Now I saw the change of expression on his face, along with his ears being drooped. "Sierra...I-I just..."

"Get one thing to the dumb heads of you and your rodent pals. I thank you for saving our planet, but I don't give a damn shit how heroic you are! If you want my respect then you gotta earn by your attitude and personality. So, don't you expect me to kiss your feet just because you're here to protect me! And even if I weren't a princess, still I would've defied you. So, if you're here to stay, act civil like normal people do...or else, you can get the fuck out of MY planet. Because, when I'll be stronger and gain my full power...you can be sure as hell that I'll kick every single alien ass I find on the earth...no matter good or evil!"

I panted as I let those words out in one breath. I closed my eyes for a second to calm myself down. When I opened them again...I was 'rewarded' by teary green eyes.

Crap... I said too much.

"Wow...a girl made Blue cry...?!"

"I can make you cry as well, green rat!" I snarled at Scourge, "You and him are two sides of same coin...So whatever I said to him...goes to you too! Only you have my sympathy because you're the outcast here. So, you better not spoil it."

"Excuse me! What the fuck do you mean by sympathy?!" Of course, he didn't like the word.

"I mean what it means by, Scourge. People don't get along with the ones who're labeled as 'evil' by the 'heroes'. So, no one is bothered to hear their side of story. But no one is born as evil, neither you were. And as a princess, I've learnt to be fair with everyone, no matter good and bad. Because, that's the primary moral of a ruler. That's why, rulers and heroes are different."

Now, green ears also drooped just like the blues. I decided to return to my room because I would keep hurting them if I stayed there any longer.

General P.O.V:

"Well done, Sonic!" Silver stated, clearly pissed, "Just when she was starting to feel like home with us, you had to get on her bad side!"

In reply, the blue hedgehog just closed his eyes with a frustrated look. He knew why he misbehaved with Sierra...despite of Scourge's joke, Sonic was actually being jealous. He already had a bad mood from earlier after watching Sierra being tensed about and hugging Silver, later her being nice with Shadow inflamed it even more. Not to mention...his ego got him the best. But the blue hedgehog did not imagine to face one of the biggest humiliations in his life, which the redhead hog girl from planet earth stored for him. Although, Sierra was right whatever she said on his face...she was the only girl ever who refused to respect the most popular hedgehog's heroism, on top of that, directly judged him as selfish...she even admitted about her soft corner for Scourge, because he was the only evil among the four hedgehogs.

Looks like the Mobians were wrong after all...Sierra Star did not want to become a hero...at least not like Sonic the Hedgehog.

"Being fair with everyone is moral of a ruler, heh?" Scourge awfully chuckled. "The little princess needs to pay a visit to Moebius at least for once..." Then suddenly he went serious...as he felt something glowing inside the pocket of his jacket. He took out a green gemstone. He went awfully quiet looking at it. Now, the other two hedgehogs turned.

"Isn't that...Anarchy Beryl, Scourge?" Sonic asked.

"Yeah...I did an experiment before coming here when that knucklehead of yours was not around..." He thoughtfully answered, "But seems like...it's working."

"What did you do?" Silver suspiciously inquired.

"I went to the Angel Island...for the Master Emerald."

"What?!"

"Quiet Potleaf head..." The green irritably replied, "I didn't have plan to take it over. I took there with all my anarchy beryls...and then something happened. By the power of Master Emerald, the whole stash of my beryls were merged into...only seven beryls."

Both the blue and white hedgehogs listened carefully,

"You mean...Anarchy Beryls are now equal as Chaos Emeralds?!" Silver exclaimed as he figured.

"I was not sure back then...because I couldn't test them with anything. Until..." Scourge said with annoyance, "...that Target-eyed bastard showed up!"

"Who're you talking about?"

"Which hedgehog has those weird spiral eyes...? Of course, it's the other evil Blue...but in super form."

"Fleetway...?!" Now Sonic could realize. "How did he get free?!"

"I've no idea either. He wanted to take away the Master Emerald. For some reason, I didn't feel like to let him, so I transformed into Super form to fight him. I don't know why...I felt much stronger this time than that I fought with you guys. But, we couldn't continue as Knuckles came back. So, I couldn't be sure whether the power of anarchy beryls have really got equal to chaos emeralds. But now I'm sure it has...because," He paused.

"This beryl is detecting another beryl on the Earth. Just like your emeralds...and my two buddies Sanctum and Steel are the only ones to know what I did."

"Steel...the king of Moebius from my time." Silver irritably murmured, "Well, I had a reason to come to the past. But what his was?"

"That's simple, zone cops obviously. I bet your version in No Zone was nagging him. So, he decided to escape to the past."

"Can't argue with that."

"Well then...let's check, where it's location might be. Because, both Sanctum and Steel are locked up in No Zone. So, it's not them who brought the other beryl here." Scourge held the beryl in his fist.

Sonic was not paying attention to it at all, his heart was already heavy from earlier. He was about retreat before he heard the green hedgehog say,

"Do you guys happen to know any place named Soleanna?"

Meanwhile:

"So...this is Soleanna, huh?"

Bliss pulled down her sunglasses on the bridge of her nose to get a clear view. Unlike her usual outfit, she is wearing a white sundress with lavender floral design over it and white wedge heels. An ivory hat is on her head to protect from the hot sun. Her two Mobian companions had nothing special, except for the sunglasses over their heads.

The black one, Mephiles, who is now in Sanctum form, was looking around while trying to remember things. After the trio roamed here and there a while, they were in front of the castle.

"We...need to go inside." Mephiles announced.

"And why's that?" Venice glared him.

"The altar is there...for Solaris."

"But the entry is not free though." The hog girl said, "There must be some ruler over here."

"It's...her." The black hedgehog pointed, "She'll lead us there."

Bliss and Venice turned to see a human girl at the patio of the castle with people around her. She must be the owner of this castle.

"Not so fast." Bliss warned, "We ain't gonna make any violent move. At least, not in public." She put a finger on her chin to figure out silently...that girl over there might be the daughter of the man who was the chief scientist of 'Solaris Project'.

"Follow me, you two." She demanded. "And play along with whatever I do and say, or it'll be a mess up."

The trio finally went to the yard where the human princess was. She had short brown hair and blue eyes. Bliss observed her and pondered how she would approach her. But she did not have to worry for long.

"Hello,"

"Eh?"

The three smaller creatures were startled by the taller human girl's sudden appearance right before them. At least, Bliss did not expect her to be greeted from other end. But she instantly noticed one thing, the human had a blue emerald pendant on her necklace.

"You're a liminal, right?" The brunette curiously asked, "Are you new here?"

Bliss nodded, "Yes, me and my friends here are to visit-..."

"Princess Elise...!"

The blonde hog girl was cut off by the dark hedgehog.

"Yes, that's me." The human girl noticed him and Venice, "Aren't you guys...Shadow and Silver?"

Three pairs of hog ears twitched. Bliss quickly said, "Yes, they are. They have talked about this place to me, so I wanted to explore this area. Could you please show us around the insides of your castle?" The shorter girl did not want to give the taller girl any scope to think over so. "Pretty please?"

Of course, Elise could not refuse the puppy eyes look. Besides, she did not overthink about them. So, she took them inside.

"Slow down, Blue!" Scourge yelled while running, "At least tell me what the fuck is on!"

Sonic was running ahead with Scourge following him, Silver was flying above them.

"Let's just say, we got a history in Soleanna." Sonic replied, "And there is already a chaos emerald, so being an anarchy beryl there means a sign of new mess."

"Yes but we didn't need to leave Sierra alone at home."

That made Sonic annoyed, "The little princess can take care of herself. Didn't you hear her?!"

"Don't worry, Scourge." Silver said from above, "She said she wouldn't get out. Also, Shadow will be back when his meeting is over."

"Wow...the ballroom is soo huge." Bliss pretended to be overwhelmed. "I never saw this large."

"Hehe thanks. And are you guys by any chance taking part to the 'Inter-species Cultural Exchange Program'?"

"What do you mean by that?" Venice asked before Bliss did that.

"Oh I just thought since Miss Blackhole is a liminal. That program is like a peace offering from the queen of the liminal creatures here, Lilith Lily."

"Lilith Lily...?!"

Crimson's wife Lilith...

Bliss's azure eyes widened. Didn't she just get a trail of her prime?

"And could you show us the research room for Solaris Project?" Mephiles impatiently asked.

"Uh...sure, why not?"

Four of them entered the sacred room, before finally coming to the empty fire chimney.

"Here it used to lite..." Elise said, "The fruit of Project Solaris- the flame of disaster."

"The flame of disaster, huh?" Bliss chuckled, "...Iblis?"

"Yes, although it's now erased from existence. Yet we never knew that a tiny flame would bring destruction to the world." Then her mind clicked, "Wait...how did you know that name?!"

"It doesn't matter, Miss Elise. And...I don't think Iblis has been erased completely." With that, golden rays started to spread around Bliss as her Specter Sapphire was powered on. She snapped her finger and by that, there was a fire showed up inside the chimney at the altar.

"Wha-what're you doing, Miss Blackhole?!" Elise stuttered in horror.

"Doing what I came to do. Now give me your chaos emerald." The little blonde beauty's friendly voice became stern as she ordered, "If you refuse to hand it by yourself, then my fluffy boy will get it for me!" Bliss turned to Mephiles while Venice used his psychokinesis on Elise, "And you dark jewel, give me the anarchy beryl."

"What're you going to do?" Mephiles reluctantly handed the gemstone to her.

"Knowing the secrets of Project Solaris." Bliss said collecting Elise's blue chaos emerald from Venice.

Since Mephiles had given away the anarchy beryl, the demon hedgehog was now in his true crystalline form. Elise's eyes widened to recognize,

"You-you're a-alive?!" She stammered in utter horror, "Tha-that means...So-solaris still exists!"

Bliss and Venice gave each other confused looks before they turned to Mephiles, who was surprised himself, "Have we met before?"

"Why...you...?"

"He lost his memories. So, here we're going to help with his reminiscent." With that, Bliss gripped both the gemstones, before releasing a power by her own sapphire. By that impact, the chaos emerald and the anarchy beryl started to spin around the flame.

"Now, let's visualize." The blonde hog girl emitted a large pile of yellow pixels above the altar, which spread everywhere. The pixels and the power destroyed the ceiling of the room, making the four figure standing under the sky now. Then a large rectangle of yellow pixels appeared in the sky, before a face showed in there.

"Fa-father?!" Elise mumbled. Yes, it was the duke of Soleanna, who was seen working and discussing with his coworkers about Solaris in the yellow pixel's monitor.

"Let's make it more intense!" Bliss snapped, before one trail of pixels hit on Elise's head, while the other Mephiles's. Both fell down senseless on the ground. The blonde hog girl and the albino hedgehog did not care much as they started to witness whatever happened regarding Solaris Project in the virtual monitor in the sky.

Death Egg Spacecraft was floating 5000 ft above the ground. Dr. Eggman was looking around through his telescope to check if it was working properly. He stopped at one point to notice something in the sky. When he increased the range of the telescope, his eyes widened and jaws dropped.

"Oh. My. God!"

Infinite was testing on power of his new phantom ruby prototype in one of the labs, while Seelkadoom was studying about Sonic, Shadow and their team's previous fights with Eggman. They both went off track as they heard the scream allover,

"Orbot! Cubot! Get my Egg Mobile ready within a minute! We're going to Soleanna!"

"Geez...that old man always screams!" Seelkadoom scoffed, "Annoying!"

"Why don't we follow him secretly?" Infinite proposed out of nowhere, "To know about this deal."

"But what's that for? Is there something important?"

"Let's just say..." The jackal said slyly, "...we might find some useful 'stuffs' to screw Sonic and his friends."

Sonic stood on a cliff, panting from the run. His two friends were doing the same.

"Damn dude! That was quite a sprint!" Scourge panted.

"But at least we reached." Sonic replied.

"What the hell...?!"

Hearing Silver, both Sonic and Scourge turned where he was pointing. A flaming pile of pixels glowing on the sky...showing all past events regarding Solaris. And its base was...

"The castle of the Duke...?! Elise is in danger!" With that Sonic ran there.

"Ugh...I was just catching the breath...!" Scourge frowned.

"You can do that later, Scourge. I'm not sure if Eggman is involved here" Silver assumed, "Although...I'm having a very strange feeling inside."

~Cliffhanger alert~

Sonic, Silver and Scourge are about to run into-

1. Eggman (Sonic and the others are still unaware that Eggman is on the earth and following Sierra)

2. Infinite and Seelkadoom (Old enemy and a new enemy)

3. Mephiles (Of course Sonic and Silver will not be ready to see him again)

4. Venice (Silver is about to see his long lost twin)

And finally Bliss (Sonic and his friends are not ready for the fully-powered evil Sierra either)

Will that be too much to take for our heroes?

P.S: Sonic characters from 'Sonic '06' are supposed to forget everything because of timeline reset. But in this story, they just can recognize each other.