In collab with Tashasaurous who help me a lot to create this chapter. This chapter is just a part 1, Part 2 will coming soon. I do not own Sonic The Hedgehog and Sonic X


Prime had no idea how long he has been taken through the wrap hole Dr. Nega created, and couldn't help but worry about his younger sister's safety and hoped that she and the others would be able to prevent their enemies from getting the Emeralds. All he knew was that he was falling, and he felt like it was forever, not like the times when he and the group began this new dangerous adventure. But wherever he was going to end up, he vowed to return to them no matter what.

Finally after what seemed like forever, the light at the end of the tunnel appeared and while he mentally breathed a sigh of relief, he braced himself for a hard landing.

(Meanwhile, in the Sonic X Universe)

It had been two days since the ultimate defeat of the most dangerous enemies Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Cream and Cheese, and Chris, and even the Chaotix, Rouge and more surprisingly Dr. Eggman and his robotic minions Decoe, Bocoe and Bokkun ever faced, the Metarex. But it came at a cost: Shadow the Hedgehog had sacrificed himself to save the Universe, as did the group's newest friend who gave up her life to save them all, one whom Tails had fallen in love with.

That girl was Cosmo, a special Seedrian girl, who had died in the final battle, and despite all of his efforts to find her, Sonic somberly failed and all he managed to find was a single white seed. Tails had been heartbroken, and even during their trip back home to their planet, Chris had taken over the controls to allow the depressed two-tailed fox to rest as much as possible. Now they were back home, with their planet's Planet Egg back where it belonged and already the world was recovering, and everything was almost back to normal.

Yet even as the group of heroes decided to throw a party, they first decided to perform a special funeral for both Cosmo and Shadow. It was a simple service among friends and even Sonic was completely and deeply saddened.

"Cosmo...Y-You gave everything for our sake, for our happiness, for everybody in the Universe...You will always be remembered. Thank you, Cosmo. We miss you so much." Tails tearfully sniffled, resting a set of beautiful flowers into the waters of the shores of the beach. He took a couple steps back to allow Chris to have his turn.

"Shadow...Ever though you couldn't remember us when all of this started, you still helped us out, and saved us in the end. I always knew that you were good at heart. You saved our lives, and we will always remember you. Thank you, Shadow. I hope you're finally resting easy." The de-aged Thorndyke's eyes leaked of tears, as he placed the flowers into the water as well.

Finally, Sonic set both sets of flowers, eyes closed as he remembered the fun times he and his friends had with Cosmo, and while he didn't have much of fond memories of Shadow, his rival had saved his life at the last ditch second, and he knew that the young alien girl meant so much for his best buddy and little brother.

"Thanks for everything, Cosmo, and Shadow. You will always be remembered, as a really great friend, and both of you as great allies. Rest in peace." The teenage blue hedgehog whispered, silently shedding a tear before he quickly wiped it away and stood up, and returned to the group as they all watched on in sadness with the sun beginning to set over the horizon. Amy and Cream couldn't stop crying, even Rouge shed a tear or two. Everyone lowered their heads in sadness.

After a moment or two, the group were about to leave with Tails being the last, and Sonic reluctantly placed a hand onto his younger brother's shoulder, half-fearing that the two-tailed kit wouldn't talk to him, yet felt a bit reassured yet heartbroken when the young cub looked at him tearfully and all the blue hedgehog could do was rub his back, when suddenly the winds began to pick and there was an unusual whooshing sound which got everyone's attentions.

"Huh?" Charmy asked, puzzled.

"What's this?" Espio questioned.

All of the sudden in front of them just at the shores, a strange warp hole appeared which quickly made everyone stand on their guard as they all gasped in shock.

"What's going on!?" Chris exclaimed.

"I-Is it a Metarex?" Cream asked, fearfully as she clutches Cheese tightly in her arms.

"But I thought we got rid of all of them!" Amy exclaimed.

"Everybody, get back! This could get ugly!" Sonic commanded, already standing in front of Tails and the girls while he, Knuckles and Espio stood their ground, and Chris, Charmy and Vector remained close to Amy, Cream and Cheese while Rouge narrowed her eyes.

"Don't we already have a bad week as it is?" The bat asked in annoyance.

While the heroes feared it was a Metarex while some of them thought it was another new enemy that wasn't Eggman who had been quiet since they got home, the unexpected company they got wasn't what they thought. Instead a tall blue hedgehog was spat out as he screamed before landing and hit the ground hard, grunting in pain and landed on his side, while the portal suddenly vanished without a trace. Sonic and his friends stared at the figure in shock, especially when this new hedgehog laid on his back, hissing in discomfort.

What they didn't know was that this was Sonic Prime.

"AAAH! What the?!" Sonic exclaimed, unable to believe his eyes. He thought that he was having a very weird nightmare.

"Another Sonic!?" Chris exclaimed, his eyes wide in disbelief as he and everyone else looked back and forth between Sonic and Prime.

"Am I dreaming, or is everybody else seeing a bigger Sonic lying on the beach?" Charmy asked, blankly.

"I'd be lyin' if I said this was just a dream, Charmy." Vector muttered, dumbfounded with a sweat drop.

"Sonic..." Amy began, nervously.

Sonic said nothing, still in shock. Then, being the brave hedgehog that he was, he decided to approach his double and stepped forward with Chris and Tails quickly following him while the others stayed back just in case. The trio knelt beside Sonic Prime who had his eyes closed and was recovering from his unexpected trip.

Well, Prime would be a slightly disoriented when he begins to hear voices of Sonic, Chris and Tails who would be speaking with Chris and not Sonic, before the older Sonic opens his eyes to see the trio.

"I can't believe there's another me!" A young Sonic's voice echoed somewhat.

'I-Is that...?' Sonic(Prime) thought groggily.

"There's something slightly different about this Sonic. Like he's approximately the same height as me, maybe a bit shorter. Plus those shoes are like the Hover Shoes I made." A young boy's voice said theoretically.

"You're right, Chris. There's something really strange here. I wonder where this Sonic came from." Tails responded, while seemingly ignoring Sonic.

"Hey, guys! He's waking up!" Sonic spoke up, seeing his taller double's eyes gaze at them, while Prime's vision began to focus and saw two familiar faces and a face of an unfamiliar boy, twelve years old maybe, hover over him with concern

'Tails, other me and who is this boy' Prime thought as he is looking at Chris

"Hey, are you alright?" Sonic asked, as he and his friends gazed at him in concern, while the others behind them slowly approached, unsure what to do or stay to this new Sonic that appeared out of nowhere.

"Yeah, I'm fine, i feel like i have a headache" Prime said, rubbing his head

"May you tell me that, are you really another Sonic or you are Metarex in disguise" Knuckles demanded, staring at him

"He doesn't look like a Metarex." Chris pointed out, as he and Sonic helped Prime sit up, and Tails gave the older hedgehog a quick look.

"He's right, Knuckles. Plus, I don't think the Metarex were known to disguise themselves to look like other species." Tails said thoughtfully, his fingers under his chin.

"Wasn't there a time when you guys thought Vector, Espio and Charmy were Metarex too?" Sonic asked, but to his despondent, Tails ignored him which made his heart sink, but he ignored it for the time being.

"Well May i know your name ?" Prime asked Chris

"Huh? You don't know me?" Chris asked, in surprise. "I'm Chris, from Earth."

"That guy's a fake! He's not Sonic from the future!" Charmy declared accusingly, flying over as he pointed out more differences. "This guy's got six spikes on his head instead of three like Sonic, and he doesn't know who Chris is! He's an imposter!"

"Let's get 'im!" Vector declared, before Sonic, sensing that something was different, quickly stood protectively in front of his older self.

"Hold up, guys! Let's not jump to conclusions just yet!" Sonic called up.

"calm down a little, guy. Let me explain, I'm Sonic but I'm from another dimension" Prime explained

"WHAAAAT!?" Everyone else exclaimed in shock after a moment of silence.

"You're actually me from another dimension?" Sonic asked, his eyes wide in shock.

"Yes, that's correct." The older Sonic confirmed.

Knuckles still looked skeptical as did the Chaotix while he asked, "And how do we know that you're not lying?"

"Well why dont you take a look at my scarf to see how the different here ?" Prime asked him back

"How can that thing be any different?" Vector asked, raising an eyebrow.

"You know what? I kinda noticed it earlier. It looks like it was hand-made pretty well. I like the design it's got." Sonic remarked.

"Hmm...It is hand-made. I don't know anybody who would make this, except for Mrs. Vanilla." Tails said, again ignoring what Sonic said.

"Sonic just said that it was hand-made, Tails." Cream pointed out.

Tails could only turn to look at her, then at his older brother, then looked back at Prime's scarf which was discouraging.

Prime also take a notice at Tails as the older hedgehog seeing Tails starting to ignore Sonic in this world

"Really? I didn't even notice." Tails said, which shocked the others the way he said it.

"Tails..." Chris began, worriedly.

"Um...about the sc-"

"So, about the scarf. Who made it for you?" Tails cut Sonic off and spoke to Sonic Prime instead, yet there was the look of betrayal that began to form in the fox's blue eyes, anger, sorrow and grief, which was steadily getting worse as though the presence of two of Sonic was just making things worse.

"Well its from my adoptive sister name Sakura Kinomoto who made it with the help of my adoptive father" Prime said looking at his scarf

"You were adopted?" Chris asked, blinking in surprise.

Sonic whistled. "The closest I got through adoption is adopting Tails here. Whoever your new sister and dad are sure sound like really nice people."

But the look Tails sent him with disdain made him mentally flinch. It was like just the blue hedgehog talking was enough to make the usually happy and cute fox be so angry with him.

"well i guess" Prime said, before take a notice att Tails

'Why did Tails act so strange' Prime thought

"Hey, guys. It's getting pretty late. We should all head off home and find a place for this Sonic to sleep in for the night." Tails announced, doing a quick bow to Prime and began to walk away, ignoring the rest of the group's protests to wait.

"Hey, Tails...Hold up, buddy." Sonic called up, hurrying over and grabbed his arm gently, but Tails narrowed his eyes and yanked it away.

"It's late, Sonic and we should be heading home!" The young fox hissed.

"Tails...!" Sonic muttered, feeling guilt rise. "Buddy, please. I'm-"

"JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!" Tails snapped and took off flying with his namesakes, tears flying.

"Wait, Tails!" Cream cried out.

"Tails, come back!" Amy exclaimed, but the heartbroken fox was already far away.

Everyone who had known about this lowered their heads, not sure what to do. But none more so than Sonic who lowered his gaze, clutching his fist before sighing, half-whispering. "Tails...I'm sorry."

"Uh, guy can you explain what happen to Tails" Prime asked, after seeing Tails snapped at Sonic

"It's...a very long story. Let's just say, we...well..." Chris trailed off, not sure what to say, nor did anybody else.

"We lost a special friend." Sonic murmured, his back turned to his friends and Prime, making everyone gaze at him worriedly. "I couldn't save her and...it's all my fault."

"Sonic, how could it be your fault? Cosmo made that decision and..." Amy trailed off, still saddened for the loss of their friend.

"I still failed to save her, Amy...!" The blue hedgehog pointed out, clutching his fist. "I failed, and...Tails has every right to blame me for it...!"

'Cosmo...' Prime thought

"Sonic, you did what you could. Tails is grieving, and he needs time." Espio wisely told him.

"Yeah, I guess..." Sonic sighed, gazing out to the horizon where they laid the flowers. "Just I kept on searching, and we already lost a lot during our battle against the Metarex."

Then, realizing that Prime, coming from another dimension, didn't have a clue about this, the younger blue hedgehog turned to the older Sonic and replied sheepishly. "Sorry, we've just gotten back home from an adventure up in space and, well...it's a very long story."

"It's alright, Sonic. I understand" Prime said, studying Sonic look, he look really sad for him

"Really? Like how?" Sonic asked, confused on what Prime just meant.

"I think we should be asking how he got here in the first place and what he's doing here." Knuckles pointed out, only for Rouge to smack him on the back of the head in annoyance. "Ow! Hey!"

"Tails is grieving for Cosmo, this version of Sonic's stuck here, and the first thing you're concerned about is the latter having gotten here?" Rouge asked angrily. She may be a thief, but even she had sympathy, given the loss of Shadow.

'this Knuckles, he is never change' Prime thought shaking his head

"Maybe I should go check on Tails to see if he's okay. The rest of you guys head back home. I'll be alright." Chris suggested.

"Thanks, Chris. I can only hope that he'll be alright with you." Sonic smiled gratefully at his human friend, before turning to Prime. "You can come stay over at my place for the night other me, or..."

He trailed off when he and the others realized that there was another problem and shared awkward looks. The young blue hedgehog shrugged. "Anybody got an idea what should we call him?"

"Just call me Sonic Prime or Prime, my friends in another dimensions call me by that name a lot" Prime said

"Sonic Prime?" The group asked, sharing a glance before deciding that what Prime's friends would do.

"Well then, Prime it is." Sonic declaring, turning to his friends. "See you later, guys. And Chris, I'll come over to Tails' place in the morning. Hopefully he'll be talkative again."

"I'll see what I can do." Chris promised, turning to Prime. "By the way, it's a pleasure to meet you, Prime."

"Likewise, Chris." Prime replied.

After the group bid farewell for the night and the group returned to their homes while Chris headed off to Tails' Workshop which was also his home, Sonic and Prime were the last to leave as they stood on the shores of the beach in silence.

"My place isn't too far from here. And...I guess I really owe you an explanation." Sonic gestured.

Prime only agreed to it, and he was really worried about this world's version of himself and Tails, before following the younger Sonic to the latter's house. Along the way, Sonic explained about Chris being here which their meeting started during a rescue mission gone wrong after Eggman kidnapped Cream and Cheese and stolen the Chaos Emeralds, the messed up Chaos Control that sent all of them and Big and Froggy to Chris' world called Earth, how Chris saved Sonic from drowning when he fell into the swimming pool, all of their adventures including fighting Chaos and Shadow, eventually being forced to return home when the two worlds' timelines were merging and would destroy time if it happened, even though Chris delayed Sonic's return by shutting down the portal to prevent him from leaving and the two ventured up to the Thorndyke vacation home where they talked, Chris feeling guilty for forcing Sonic to stay and Sonic telling that it was alright before he left after a final run together.

Sonic then explained the situation six months after he and his friends and Eggman came back home, including how the evil Metarex who were originally the males of an alien planet species called the Seedrians who lost their minds due to a war, the remaining species feeling and how Cosmo was born on a ship afterwards, the remaining Seedrians including Dark Oak, lost their minds to power and wanted to locate the Chaos Emeralds to destroy and rule the galaxy, destroying Cosmo's ship and killing her family and friends, leaving her as the only true survivor but Dark Oak had secretly turned her into his spy with her eyes and ears being his, watching their every move, and how the Metarex were stealing the Planet Eggs from every planet including this world, how Sonic fought with a Metarex as Super Sonic but was unable to defeat him and made the difficult choice to send the Emeralds across Space, then Cosmo arrived seeking his aid, their and everyone else's adventures to find the Planet Eggs and the Emeralds while fighting the Metarex and occasionally Eggman who followed and even joined the enemies at some point but was really to find out information in order to stop them.

Sonic also explained how during the journey Tails and Cosmo, who became everyone's friend, had fallen in love with each other, the return of Shadow who lost his memories and worked for Eggman and joined with Rouge, to the point where they learned to truth and the final battle against Dark Oak who transformed into a giant planet-like monster merging with the Water Planet, having swallowed Sonic himself whole alive but he managed to survive thanks to his friends including Amy diving him to save him, the world's planet Egg rescuing them, using the Master Emerald to weaken the evil leader which ended up shattering it, the final ditch in using the Blue Typhoon's Sonic Dive Cannon with Super Sonic and Super Shadow, Cosmo, having learning her fate and destiny, sacrificed herself to use her powers and told Tails to fire at her, but not before their emotional goodbyes, and Sonic tried to save her while intending to sacrifice himself, but Shadow punched him away and stopped the destruction of the planet that would've destroyed the Galaxy with Chaos Control and died himself as a result.

By the time Sonic neared the end of his story, he and Prime had arrived in his house and stepped inside before taking a seat as the younger hedgehog sighed, coming to the most dreaded part of it.

"...After that, I've looked everywhere for Cosmo, to save her and bring her back. But all I've found was a single white seed...I gave it to Tails and..." Sonic trailed off, tears beginning to form in his eyes, remembering how Tails blamed him for not being able to save Cosmo, the heartbroken meltdown, how the blue hedgehog himself silently grieved. "He blamed me for not saving her, and I can't blame him for being mad at me. We won the battle, but it came at a cost. We only got back home two days ago. The only thing that isn't the same is Tails' happiness...Worst part is...I can't help but feel like that it's all my fault..."

Sniffling, the teenage blue hedgehog wiped away his tears in frustration and guilt even though more threatened to form. "It isn't fair...Why did she have to die? She was so young, so full of life...and Tails and Cosmo loved each other...! It...It should've been me who died that day. Not her...!"

"Sonic, stop saying that. It's not your fault" Prime said looking at Sonic in disbelief

"But why, i couldn't save her" Sonic said, look up at him

"Because that her choice, you know that. She choose to sacrifice herself to save the universe" Prime said

Okay, by the time you get back, I'll still be awake before 10:30 PM.

Despite that he knew that Prime was right, Sonic still felt guilty. "Well, yeah, but...It still should've been me. Not her. I can't help but feel like that Tails will never speak to me again. I mean, Chris might be able to get across to him, but..Do you have any idea what it's like to lose someone? Tails lost Cosmo, and now...it's almost like I'm about to lose my little bro' because I couldn't save her. She was so kind, so caring and fun. She even wanted to give us a surprise party...It hurts so much that she's gone, and even Shadow..."

Sonic sighed shakily, wiping away more tears. "Sure, everybody would be sad if I had died in her place, but at least Tails would be happier without me and with her, not the other way around."

"That's not true." Prime told him firmly, gently making the younger blue hedgehog look at him again right in the eyes. "If you had died, it would have completely destroyed him. More than you know, and you should know that. I went through six months being imprisoned by Eggman one time when I failed to stop him, and he took over 99% of the world."

"What!?" Sonic exclaimed, horrified when he heard this. Eggman...or rather, Eggman Prime, took over Sonic Prime's world and imprisoned him for six months!? What's one of Sonic's worst nightmares.

"Almost everybody, including my friends, and especially Tails, all thought I was dead. Tails and Knuckles and everybody I knew formed a resistance, but without me, it was a losing battle until only one percent of the planet wasn't taken over. If they hadn't brought in a recruit they nicknamed the Rookie, all would've been lost. They saved me just when I was about to be executed. I managed to escape thanks to the Rookie." Prime explained.

"And when you came back, you joined the Resistance to stop Eggman once and for all, right?" Sonic guessed, before asking. "Was it some kind of force that got you sent here to our dimension in the first place?"

Prime shook his head, "No. The war ended a long time ago. The reason I'm here is...is because of Dr. Eggman Nega, who is one of the threats my sister, new friends and I are dealing with right now, and if he's not stopped, all of Omniverse is in danger."

"Omni-what?" The younger Sonic raised an eyebrow.

"It's the main vast of Space and Time where all universes, alternate universes, multiverses and realities exist in, especially yours. I'm the Prime of all of that, believe or not. That's actually why I'm called Sonic Prime." The older Sonic admitted.

"Whoa...! And I thought the Metarex were dangerous enough! If your world's version of Eggman is causing all of this to every single universe and dimension, he's gotta be stopped! But, what about your Tails and the Resistance? How come they're got left behind? Are they back in your world to keep things settled or something?" Sonic was becoming more and more horrified by the second the more he heard.

Prime sighed, lowering his gaze slightly. "Nega isn't my world's version of Eggman. He's a more dangerous version of Eggman, first being his descendant from the future, now he's from another dimension where another friend of mine lived in. The Eggman I've been fighting for years...and...all of my friends in my world...and my entire world itself...You asked me if I had any idea what it was like to lose someone."

It didn't take Sonic long to figure out what his alternate self meant, going all pale and almost completely white in horror and devastation.

"I do know what's like. Both from Tails' perspective and Cosmo's. My world's version of Shadow and I...we're the only survivors. Now we live in my adoptive sister's world, a world that only has humans." Prime nodded.

"No...No..." Sonic shook his head. Prime...lost everything in his home planet!? "How can that be!?"

"Because of the one robot Eggman built and rebuilt from time to time, even if one time that said robot betrayed him and tried to take over the world years ago, even imprisoning his creator. Mecha Sonic, back when he was known as Metal Sonic." Prime explained.

"Metal...Sonic?" Sonic blinked, a bit confused. "Since when did Eggman make a robot version of me? Or, er...you? Or whatever."

"Since when he started to build Little Planet in my world. Its the day i first met Amy" Prime said, feeling a bit of nostalgia

"Little Planet? I've never heard of that before. I met Amy when I moved here to the village and saved her from Eggman." Sonic blinked, wondering what kind of adventures Prime had, then flinched when he realized, again to his horror, that all of the older Sonic's friends were dead.

That included Amy Prime.

'Oh man...That's the worst thing to ever happen to anybody. It's horrible enough that we've lost our Shadow and lost Cosmo.' The young blue hedgehog thought, feeling nauseous in his stomach.

"Well, i kinda have a really big time back in my world" Prime said

"Sure sounds like it. Makes me wanna hear all about it." Sonic remarked.

Prime sighed, before he explained everything about Metal Sonic, how Eggman had built him on Little Planet and how it could copy all of Prime's moves, and despite being defeated with replacements made in the past, Metal Sonic had a strong will, which no matter how many times he had been defeated, it only fuled Metal's desire to defeat Sonic Prime until the time came when he killed not just Eggman Prime, but all of Sonic Prime's friends one by one, trailing off when it came to Tails Prime.

When Prime told him the rest of the story including how he lost all of his friends, Sonic's eyes widened in sheer horror, his heart sinking into his stomach, the burning grief and rage rising in his chest, which reminded him horribly of when Black Naccisses hurt Cosmo and Chris which made Sonic's anger surge with the fake Chaos Emeralds that almost turned him completely dark. If it hadn't been for Eggman, he didn't want to think about it.

"Prime...I-I...How...How could Mecha Sonic do such a thing?" Sonic whispered, fresh new tears forming in his eyes and he sniffled, lowing his head in guilt. "I'm so sorry...!"

"Its okay, he was destroyed one for all. I finally defeated him after what he had done" Prime said.

"But still...To think that everybody is dead..." Sonic lowered his gaze once more, shuddering. He thought about all of his friends and then suddenly found himself terrified of his Eggman, and while he hasn't fought a Metal Sonic before, that could change. Worst still, it changed his views of the horrible doctor back to before the creep secretly helped them escape from being ambushed by the Metarex.

Prime sighed thoughtfully and went to deep thinking.

Sonic in the meantime shook his head, and stood up, now knowing what he had to do. "I have go talk to him. I need to speak with Tails. He needs me. Everybody needs me. Now more than ever.

"Wait." Prime stood up quickly, grabbing hold of Sonic's arm to stop him from running off.

"What?" Sonic asked.

"I know that this is important to you, but right now, Tails' is grieving and I'm not sure if he's ready to talk to you yet." The older Sonic told him, firmly.

The younger Sonic grunted, a growl forming in his throat. "Well, what'm I supposed to do!? How can I make Tails understand that he's not alone?"

"If he's willing to give me a chance, then I'll talk to him. I should know, because one time my Tails and I had an argument about our trust, and I almost lost him that time. But we reconciled. I think I have an idea on how to make him understand, and tell him that it wasn't your fault, that you did the best you could." Prime explained.

Sonic couldn't help but sighed in sadness thinking that Prime is right

"Then...can I count on you to go easy on him, please?" Sonic requested, pleadingly.

"I promise" Prime said, give him a thumb up

Sonic smiled in relief, and copied his taller self, added with a wink. Suddenly he began to sense that this was what it was like when he himself cheered up his friends whenever they felt sad or scared.

"Thanks, Prime." He replied. "Whaddya say we head over to Tails' place? I know exactly where it is. Not too far from here for the two fastest hedgehogs in the world."

"Alright, lead the way" Prime said

"Great! Let's go!" Sonic winked, leading his new friend out of the house, even though he still found it a bit strange to call his alternate self a friend, but a friend was still a friend none the less. He then smirked as he and Prime stood on the path way leading up to the Mystic Ruins. "Let's say we have a race and you follow my lead. Sound good?"

"Ready?" Sonic asked as he and Prime readied themselves to run in high speed.

"GO !" Sonic yelled as he and Prime took off, they both start running at high speed, dodging some trees and obstacles in front of them with reflex

"Yeah!" Sonic shouted, racing away while easily dodged in a zig-zag pattern. When it came to heading over to the rocks, the blue hedgehog smirked as he prepared himself to jump.

But to his surprise, Prime did something that Sonic himself never did.

As Sonic made to attack the rocks with his usual Spin Attack, Prime did much more. The older blue hedgehog first used his Homing Attack, which resulted in the older Sonic swerve during a Spin Jump, automatically zeroing in and striking a nearby rock with a midair Spin Attack as he would with enemies. Next, Prime went even faster than Sonic had ever did, and while the younger blue hedgehog always been careful not to smash into things, Prime increased his speed while smashing into more objects that always stood in the way.

"Did he just...do that?" Sonic wondered aloud, leaping and jumping as he found that his counterpart was much faster than he was and that was saying something.

Then came Prime's slide which again amazed Sonic, the older blue hedgehog seeing bend over trees as they made it to the jungle in not time flat, and as he slid, the hero of the Omniverse left amazing and somewhat beautiful trail of a sparkling aura which was amazing.

When he noticed something up ahead like a huge rock and while Sonic new to run up along the wall, he found to his horror that Prime wasn't seeing this and screamed out. "Prime, look out!"

But he didn't need to worry, as Prime did see this and jumped up and while it looked like he was about to use his Homing Attack again, but instead Prime used Stomp which made him drop down in his curled up position and smashed the rock into pieces, and even as Sonic dodged the broken pieces easily to catch up, the older Sonic kept going.

Finally, as they reached more trees, while Sonic zig-zagged along the way, Prime did it so much easier and so much faster with his Quick Step, moving from side to side until finally they reached the clearing and kept going.

Seeing the unfamiliar abilities that Sonic didn't know were Prime's Homing Attack, Boost, Slide, Stomp and Quick Step while he just jumped and ran very fast leaving a trail of blue aura and blur similar to boost, Sonic's eyes nearly popped out, his mouth hanged wide open in utter shock, completely speechless. Sonic Prime was something else and not just him from a different reality.

Soon that shock changed to utter awe as he smiled widely, thoroughly amazed. "Whoa...that was just...WHOA! That's awesome and crazy! I wanna do that too!" Sonic exclaimed, increasing his speed to catch up to his taller, older self.

Prime jump up and homing attack into the branch before zip out of it, doing some of the flip trick, he stomp back to the ground then boost away

Again Sonic was amazed, even as he jumped up and leaped from tree branch to tree branch, watching Prime's every move while focusing on his own, completely stunned before landing back on the ground and once again raced along side his racing companion.

"Hey, Prime! Where'd you learn all of that cool stuff? It's amazing!" Sonic asked, eying Prime with a look of sheer awe.

"Well those are Boost, Quick Step, Stomp, Slide. I have learned them during my adventure around the world to restore the Chaos Emeralds in each of temple to re merge my planet back to normal and finally Homing Attack, one of my basic ability that i learned during the time i have to stop Eggman and Chaos" Prime explained

Sonic whistled, impressed. "Wow, I guess you and I both handled Chaos in the same way, or maybe even similar. Since you know Shadow, I guess went through the craziness with the Space Colony ARK too, but I'm gonna guess that how he came back is different to when we saw our Shadow again. Still, those skills are pretty cool."

"It's nothing by the way. But with your Shadow gone, i afraid if Black Doom is gonna invade this planet or not" Prime said, deep in thought

"Black Doom? Who's Black Doom?" Sonic asked, confused yet at the same time the name sounded haunting. He got the idea that this Black Doom guy was an alien given what Prime just said, he must sound very bad.

"In my world, Black doom was a leader of the group of demon called the Black Arm, he visited Earth in my dimension before. The thing is, he was the one who make a deal with Gerald Robotnik, give him his blood to create the ultimate lifeform, Shadow" Prime explained

"WHAT? You mean Shadow was created by an alien!?" Sonic exclaimed in horror.

"Technically, yes he was" Prime confirmed

Sonic began to pale up when he thought about how Shadow was created in Chris' dimension fifty years ago. Well, technically, fifty-six years ago now Earth time, but still.

"Oh, man. I'm not sure if they're gonna attack us in our world, but if our Shadow was created the same way your Shadow was, and now that he's gone...that Black Doom guy might end up attacking Earth if he's real here too." The younger blue hedgehog squeezed his eyes shut in guilt. Now he really wished he had been there to save both Cosmo and Shadow.

"I just hope Black Doom never exist here" Prime said with a deep in thought

"After hearing about that guy, I hope so too." Sonic agreed, shuddering. "Dark Oak was bad enough, and he wanted me to join him which I outright refused."

"Even though Metal Sonic doesn't exist here, at least I hope never and not 'not yet', maybe your Shadow is still out there somewhere. He is the Ultimate Lifeform." Prime informed him.

Sonic thought about it, before shrugging. "Maybe.". Prime closed his eyes and have a deep in thought

"Hey, we're here." Sonic suddenly announced, making the older Sonic look up and surely enough they were nearing the cliff-side Workshop that the Sonic of this world was familiar with.

As the two skid to a stop, Prime asked as he looked around. "This is where Tails lives? It's different to my old world's Mystic Ruins."

"Well, I guess both worlds really are different in any sort of ways. Seriously, you used to live in a world where humans and people like us lived on the same planet with the same history." Sonic shrugged, smiling a bit sheepishly. He then sighed and scratched the top of his head, his smile fading. "Just hope Tails is okay and Chris managed to calm him down a little bit."

"I hope so. Do you think you will come with me ?" Prime asked Sonic

"...I want to. Tails is my best buddy and li'l bro." The younger blue hedgehog replied, scratching the top of his head. "But...*Sigh* He might wanna kick me out or somethin'."

"It would be best if you were there." Prime pointed out.

Sighing as he knew that he was right, Sonic nodded hesitantly and that it would be best if he was there. So with that, the two blue hedgehogs walked towards the garage, where they could hear talking of both Tails and Chris, and there was a lingering sense of guilt in Sonic's chest as he and Prime got closer.

Inside the garage where several upgraded Tornadoes rested, Tails, still in grief, tried to distract himself with fixing up the X Tornado while Chris stood helping him by handing out the tools that he needed.

"Tails, I know this is really hard, but you really need to take a break." The de-aged boy murmured worriedly.

"I'm fine. I just need to get this done." The two-tailed fox responded, though he did feel tired as well as an emotional wreck. He couldn't stop thinking about Cosmo, the fact that he would never see her again, never see her beautiful face and smile, her wonderful personality and bravery.

Sonic really have a sign of nervous in him as he approach, Prime is standing there waiting for Sonic to go talk to Tails

"You know it wasn't Sonic's fault. He tried his best." Chris carefully tried once more.

"...I don't wanna talk about it." Tails managed to stay, struggling to keep his emotions in check. Deep down, though, he felt horrible for lashing out at Sonic earlier, especially when he tried to comfort him, especially for the last couple of days. He was in a mixed-bag emotional conflict. "I...I really miss her."

"We all do, buddy." Sonic spoke up, with hesitancy, startling his younger friends who looked up, to see him smile weakly and gave a small wave. "But you know, you really should take a break. Not sure how long you've been at the X Tornado, but when's the last time you slept?"

Even though there was a wave of relief upon seeing the blue hedgehog, the two-tailed fox looked away, swallowing the lump in his throat. "I'm not tired."

"I think your eyes beg to differ, Tails. You look like you've been given two black eyes." The teenage hedgehog half-jokingly pointed out, and Chris nodded in agreement.

"Sonic's right, Tails. You really should take it easy." The human boy added.

While he was still angry with Sonic, and more importantly, furious with himself for pulling the trigger, Tails sighed before asking, rather too bitterly. "What do you want, Sonic?"

Despite that he felt like he'd been stabbed in the chest, Sonic was a bit relieved that Tails was talking to him. "I...I just wanted to know how you are feeling, bud. I'd ask if you're okay, but that's a dumb question right now."

"I thought you said I look like I've been punched in the eyes twice." The young fox grunted, finally putting down his tools and wiped his hands clean with a cloth to wipe away the oil grease.

"Look, Tails. I know you don't wanna talk about it, but you can't let this keep on going inside your chest." Sonic sighed, shifting back and forth uncomfortably. "I wished I tried harder to save Cosmo. Believe me, I really do. But..."

He trailed off, biting his lip and feeling his eyes sting with tears he forced back.

"You could've tried harder..." Tails clutched his fists, having half the mind to yell and scream at his best friend, and even to that point reached to pick up a wrench and toss it at the blue hedgehog. "But you didn't...and she's gone...You know what's worse? I...I killed her...!"

"Tails. Don't say that." Sonic told him firmly now. "Don't say that you killed Cosmo. As much as it hurts to keep on remembering it, but she made that choice. I would've stopped her, but I couldn't. I know how much she meant to you, and I'm deeply sorry for not being able to find her. But don't you say that you killed her. You hear me?"

"It doesn't matter! She's gone! She's gone because I pulled the trigger, and you couldn't save her! We're both in the fault, Sonic, and now I'll never see her again! It hurts that I've someone really important to me!" Tails snapped.

"It's not your fault!" Sonic unintentionally snapped back, taking a deep breath as Chris said both their names to try and get them to calm down while feeling like he was stuck in the middle. "The only ones to blame for the whole thing were Dark Oak and the Metarex. They destroyed Cosmo's home before she was born, they destroyed her friends and family before coming to our planet. But that doesn't mean you're alone, Tails."

"How would you know? It's not like you're going through this." The young cub grunted.

Sonic shook his head, frowning as he held a severe guilt-ridden and apologetic look. "You're right, I don't. But if I had lost you, I'd be in your shoes if not worse. And I know that deep down, if it had been the other way around, I...I know that if I had died that day and Cosmo were still here, you'd still be feeling like this and I wish I could take your pain away."

Sniffling while wiping away tears that formed, which shocked both Tails and Chris to actually see their heroic and usually optimistic best friend actually somewhat cry, Sonic looked over his shoulder and added. "Just like I wish I could take his pain away."

Prime look at Sonic and Tails with sympathy look on his face, for the lost of Cosmo after her sacrifice. Prime sighed and thinking about something on his mind

When both Tails and Chris wondered what Sonic was talking about, they looked around him to see the sympathetic older Sonic stand there.

"Oh!" Tails blinked, realizing that it was the new taller Sonic from the beach earlier and, while it was still Sonic regardless, he realized that he left earlier in a tantrum and now felt guilty. He stood up and walked a couple steps forward, speaking to Prime. "Sorry about earlier, um...Sonic, or um..."

"Just call me Sonic Prime and Prime if you want, Tails" Prime said, give him a small smile

"Uh, okay...Prime." Tails nodded, nervously. "Anyway, I'm really sorry about my behavior earlier. It was really rude of me."

"Its okay, I don't mind about it" Prime assure him

"Right..." Tails lowered his gaze in guilt, realizing that Prime had heard everything and asked, hesitantly. "I guess Sonic must've told you what happened, huh?"

"Yes, Sonic told me" Prime said.

"Tails...As much as I wanna be around, I think Prime wants to talk to you in private for a little bit. If that's okay. Me and Chris won't be too far. I promise." Sonic hesitantly informed him, smiling softly.

While confused on what his friend meant, Tails nodded. "S-Sure. Okay."

"C'mon, Chris. Let's give these two some privacy." Sonic gestured his human friend out of the door.

"Uh, sure." Chris, just as confused, nodded with a shrug and waved at Tails. "See you later, Tails."

"'Kay." The two-tailed fox waved, as both Sonic and Chris began walking out, with the blue hedgehog sharing a hopeful and pleading look with Prime for a moment before the younger Sonic went outside with the human boy, leaving both the older Sonic and Tails alone.

The two then took a seat neat the X Tornado, staring at each other in silence as they both felt they were actually talking to their respective best friends instead of counterparts of them.

"So um, what is it that you wanted to talk to me about, Prime?" Tails asked, hesitantly.

"Tails, have you ever seen Dr. Eggman build a Metal Sonic?" Prime began.

"Metal Sonic? Is that supposed to be a robotic version of you and Sonic?" The two-tailed fox raised an eyebrow, puzzled.

"Yes. Metal Sonic was a special robotic copy version of me who can copy my moves or anything after dr eggman attempt to build many version of robot copy of me. Even though, I was able to defeat him, he had something the other Sonic Robots didn't. A strong will. He continued to rechallenge me, returning faster and more powerful than before across all of my adventures. But still, I prevailed. Which only fueled his desire of finally beating me. But, one night back at the Death Egg, everything took a turn for the worse. He somehow managed to sneak into Eggman's top secret facility. That's when he made his move and transformed into one Super Robot. Turbo Mecha Sonic!" Prime explained.

"Whoa! That's a very dangerous robot, and I've helped Sonic fight Eggman's robots that were really tough before, but none of them were ever like Metal or Mecha Sonic!" Tails exclaimed, becoming more and more scared of Mecha Sonic the more he listened to Prime's story.

"Nothing could prepare us for the day the Death Egg crashed into Mobius, Mecha Sonic somehow survived the explosion. Looking upon the carnage that his actions had inflicted. This sight triggered something within him, A lust for power and a thirst for destruction. But although his transformation made him stronger, he wasn't invincible. He needed the seven Chaos Emeralds in order to become complete. So he used the opportunity to search for them, as well as attack the helpless animals during the turmoil..." Prime explained.

"Oh no..." Tails gasped, covering his mouth with one hand, becoming horrified as he knew from experience that a robot with all seven of the Chaos Emeralds would make the machine indestructible. He should know, because Sonic almost got killed and was brutally beaten up by Eggman's Egg-terminator. If it hadn't been for Chris pulling them out despite getting injured in the process, the blue hedgehog would be dead by now.

"So...Eggman died that day. What else did Mecha Sonic do?" Tails asked, shakily.

"I was there at first, i tried to stop him but with his newfound power, he overpowered me and blast me away and continue to search for his Chaos Emeralds. Starting with my friends, my friend Cream and Cheese, was his first victim, followed by Amy... Not even Knuckles the Echidna was a match for him and Tails..." Prime said feeling sad again.

It didn't take the two-tailed fox long to realize what happened and, given what Sonic had said, Tails realized that Prime told him the very same story earlier and now fully understood what his best friend meant. If Tails had died, Sonic would be just as devastated as Sonic Prime.

"Few hour later, I'm running to find my friends, i was shocked that all of my friends are dead but Tails is barely alive, He was the last one who can hold Mecha Sonic off, but got overpowered, Tails when he was barely alive, he warned me about Mecha Sonic that he started to collect the Chaos Emeralds, if he collect them all he will transform into his ultimate form and destroy the every Universe then he took his last breath. I was trying to shake him awake but show no respond, I was devastated when i saw him died on my eyes. I was in rage that put me into my dark form and confront Mecha Sonic, at first i can deal him with amount of damage until he start to overpowered me and take all of my negative energy away and start beat me up. Despite my best efforts, I was flattened, rolled up and tossed aside by his overwhelming power... " Prime said fee

Flashback:

Mobius is now a sea of flame, a robotic hedgehog, Mecha Sonic stand there with menacing look, Prime is on kneel position, breathes heavilly, all his body covered with bruise, he is holding the yellow emeralds tightly

"You better give up that chaos emerald, Sonic the hedgehog" Mecha Sonic demanded

"Over my dead body, Mecha Sonic" Prime growled use all of his strength remaining to run toward, Mecha Sonic pulled out his machine gun, starting shooting at him, Prime barely dodge the bullets, closing the distance between him and the robotic hedgehog, Prime jump up and perform a Spin kick as Mecha Sonic easilly blocked it, the hedgehog continues use his other leg to do reverse roundhous kick but the robot caught his leg and slammed him onto the ground, he kicked Prime away, send him flying, he then fly after him, dealing the combo with punches and kicks, blast him upward with energy attack, teleport above Prime, curled up into a spike ball then make a really powerful strike against Prime back causing the hedgehog scream in pain, send him back to the ground covered with huge dust. The yellow emerald finally fallen out of Prime hand, Mecha Sonic pick it up, pulled out all of his chaos emeralds

"Finally at long last, all the seven chaos emeralds are mine. Now i will become a god and no one in this universe is going to stop me" Mecha sonic laughed in victory with all chaos emeralds on his hand and start transforming

End flashback

Tails was horrified upon what he was hearing, so much so that it sounded more horrific than what Cosmo's world had gone through and neither of them were there when the Metarex destroyed Greengate.

The more he listened, the more he felt horrible for lashing out on Sonic, and to think that Sonic Prime had lost all of his friends...and had to watch Tails Prime die right before his eyes...

*Flash-Back*

"But if I had lost you, I'd be in your shoes if not worse."

*End of Flash-Back*

The very thought of losing Cosmo was horrible enough. But to lose Sonic, or Sonic losing Tails himself and everybody else...he teared up, realizing in sheer guilt just how selfish and childish he had been, pushing away what he still had, having known Sonic and everybody else longer than he had known Cosmo, he would be crushed in losing Sonic if Cosmo would have been alive.

"I..I'm so sorry, Prime. I didn't even realize." Tails whispered, tearfully.

"You dont need to apology, Tails. What more important is leave the past behind and keep looking foward" Prime said give him a small smile. "At least i defeated Mecha Sonic once for all and never return back again"

Tails just sniffled, unable to help but smile a little. That is something that Sonic would say. That smile faded however, feeling awful once more.

"I've been so mean to Sonic. I shouldn't. Especially when...when how Dark Oak swallowed him up before we used the Master Emerald to weaken the monster, Amy dove into the water planet to save him, and the Planet Egg freed them both and brought them back to us." The young fox cub muttered, memories of those times racing into his head.

How Sonic pushed Amy aside before Dark Oak used a water jet to push the blue hedgehog right into his mouth and swallowed him whole alive, trapping him within the water planet that acted as the transformed giant evil alien's stomach. Amy had screamed and cried, and Tails had felt horrified, wanting to scream and cry himself, feeling like he just lost his big brother. It had been a huge relief to see him alive and a miracle that the Planet Egg saved him and Amy, freeing them and brought them to safety.

Yet Tails had forgotten that due to how Cosmo sacrificed herself, that Sonic, in the most calm but also guilt ridden apology, had searched hard to find her, only able to find the white seed. The young two-tailed kit almost lost his brother, yet he blamed him unfairly for the loss of the girl of his life.

"I feel terrible, Prime. I...I blamed Sonic just after we almost lost him...I...I'm an awful friend. Everybody got hurt a few times because of me..." Tails tried hard not to break down into tears, but it was a losing battle. He then began to cry. "Some friend, brother and captain I make...!"

"Tails, You shouldn't blame yourself, I have done my own mistakes in the past. I let Eggman created Metal Sonic, the virus outbreak also happpened in my world because i left Eggman be after the war happened" Prime said

Tails said nothing, and while it scared him that Sonic Prime did do that even though he shouldn't have known that there were other evil people or what would happen.

And having seen the guilt-ridden look on Sonic's face before he and Chris left, the blue hedgehog had been just as horrified of what had transpired.

"Even though we've never fought a Metal Sonic before, and I'm not sure if there is a Dr. Starline either yet he sounds worse than Eggman, I guess it goes to show you that Eggman only helps out because it's for his own liking, and as much as it makes him feel, well, uneasy, he knows that Sonic's the only one to do the right thing." Tails sighed, shivering at the thought of the Metal Virus.

ails said nothing, and while it scared him that Sonic Prime did do that even though he shouldn't have known that there were other evil people or what would happen.

And having seen the guilt-ridden look on Sonic's face before he and Chris left, the blue hedgehog had been just as horrified of what had transpired.

"Even though we've never fought a Metal Sonic before, and I'm not sure if there is a Dr. Starline either yet he sounds worse than Eggman, I guess it goes to show you that Eggman only helps out because it's for his own liking, and as much as it makes him feel, well, uneasy, he knows that Sonic's the only one to do the right thing." Tails sighed, shivering at the thought of the Metal Virus.

"I guess we have to move on, leave the past behind us" Prime said, having a deep in thought

"Yeah. Like Sonic would say, and I bet you do too. 'Keep moving forward and don't ever look back'." The two-tailed fox nodded in agreement, sniffling, lowering his gaze. "...I owe him a really big apology."

Prime look at Tails with sympathy before give his counterpart version of his best friend a hug

With that, Tails hugged him back and sobbed, his tears making the blue hedgehog's chest wet. It felt like he was in his best friend's arms instead of the counterpart of Sonic, but even the young cub knew that he still had to apologize to the younger blue hedgehog.

Not far from the workshop, as Sonic had quietly explained the situation to Chris who had been horrified with what Prime had gone through, even to the point of both of them now even questioning Eggman's real sanity despite that their nemesis did help them out with the Metarex, they did secretly return and listened in on the conversation while giving Tails and Prime privacy. It hurt them knowing what Tails was feeling, and what Sonic Prime had lost and gained.

"Poor Tails...and poor Prime. It really isn't fair." Chris whispered, as he and Sonic made sure that they weren't heard by the other two.

"I know what you mean, pal. I wish there was something I could do to help them." Sonic whispered in agreement, his heart breaking into two even as he tried not to show it.

"The way a robot called Mecha Sonic did such a bad thing to Prime friends. I have no words from it" Chris said

"Sonic...do you think...Our world's Eggman will do what the Eggman in Sonic Prime's world did?" The human boy asked, more than a little uneasy.

"I dunno. I hope not." The teenage blue hedgehog lowered his gaze for a moment, but then gazed at his human friend with determination and said. "If he does, and if he ever makes that kind of robot, I'll just keep smashing it and make sure it'll be permanently sent to the trash can for good."

Chris couldn't help but still has a worried look on his face

"I know what you're thinking." Sonic spoke up, noticing the boy's expression, shrugging a little uneasily. "To tell the truth, after what I heard, the Metarex were a piece a cake compared to that metal monster. Plus all the other bad guys Prime's faced, I might end up having nightmares for a while."

"Yeah...You know, when Shadow sacrificed himself, we all thought he died. The first time I mean, when both of you stopped the ARK from crashing into Earth." Chris muttered.

*Flash-Back*

"CHAOS..." Shadow began, blasting a beam of golden energy.

"CONTROL!" Sonic finished, also unleashing the powerful energy.

Both attacks of the two super-powered hedgehogs sent the ARK back into orbit while destroying the Prototype monster. Yet afterwards, Sonic entered the room all by himself, and when Chris asked where Shadow was, the blue hedgehog just closed his eyes and somberly shook his head, giving him the inferior ring. As they and their friends including Mr. Tanaka began to leave, Sonic gazed into the room which viewed the human planet outside, thinking about how he and Shadow had been enemies to short-time partners to save the world. How the black hedgehog had nobly sacrificed himself. Something that the blue hedgehog wanted to remember him by.

"Sayonara, Shadow the Hedgehog." Sonic whispered in deep respect and inner guilt, before hurrying away to catch up to his friends to head back home.

*End of Flash-back*

"But then Eggman secretly found him and Shadow was with him, even though he couldn't remember any of us. Then he sacrificed himself again using Chaos Control." Chris continued.

"Right...when that guy punched me just as I was about to use Chaos Control." Sonic nodded in agreement.

*Flash-Back*

"Chaos Con-UGH!" Sonic grunted in pain and gasped for air as Shadow unexpectedly punched him right into the stomach, pushing him back to where everybody else was, making the blue hedgehog realize, to his horror, what his rival was about to do as he felt deja vu hit him just as hard. "H-Hold on, Shadow!"

"Sorry, friend. We wouldn't want you to get hurt." Shadow whispered, sending Sonic away as the latter tumbled backwards while being send back flying, screaming with a horrified and distraught look. Once the Ultimate Lifeform knew that the younger hedgehog would be safe, he turned back and chanted loudly. "CHAOS CONTROL!"

Soon there was a huge light and explosion which stopped the dangerous explosion, causing it to disappear and billions of Planet Eggs to be sent flying, all of them returning back to all of the planets where they belong...and Shadow and Cosmo were nowhere to be found.

*End of Flash-Back*

"For a guy who's really rough and edgy, I gotta admit, there is some good inside of him." Sonic sighed, folding his arms. He then recalled what Prime told him and, given how Shadow Prime was still alive, the young blue hedgehog couldn't help but mutter. "Maybe...Shadow really isn't dead after all. Our dimension's Shadow, I mean, 'cause it's perfectly obvious that the other Shadow in Sonic Prime's world is way too stubborn to kick the bucket."

"I hope so, i alway know that Shadow alway good in the inside" Chris said

"Yeah. If it weren't for you convincing him, we'd all would've been dead by now." Sonic smiled softly. "I'd say that Shadow really has as soft spot for ya', buddy."

"I guess." Chris rubbed the back of his head, sheepishly. "I just couldn't help but notice that there was some kind of sadness within him."

"Hmmm...Hard to say." The blue hedgehog sighed, turning his gaze back to his two-tailed fox best friend and his counterpart who were still hugging each other, and while Sonic knew that Tails needed to vent and Sonic Prime had lost Tails Prime forever, it still hurt him how things turned out. In both cases. "I think it's time for me to talk to Tails again now. Whaddya say?"

"Tails will forgive you. I know he will." The human boy reassured, making Sonic smile once more.

"Thanks, Chris." He replied.

Back inside the workshop, Tails's sobs were reduced to tearful sniffles, while Prime continued to comfort and hug him, rubbing his back to calm him down even though he knew it was more of Sonic's place due to being in a different reality.

'I hope that Eggman never create Metal Sonic here or more villains appear here' Prime thought while comforting Tails

Eventually, Tails forced himself to calm down, and moved away slightly, wiping away his tears, and smiling softly at the taller blue blur. "Sorry about that, Prime. Didn't meant to cry on ya'."

"Its okay. No need for apology" Prime said, rubbed his head

"Even so...I...I still need to apologize to Sonic. I treated him really badly for the last few days." Tails muttered, sighing.

"You want to go talk to him?" Prime asked, gently.

Even though the young fox was uncertain if he should, deep down he knew that he really should, and the more he thought about it, the more he realized he wanted to. After hearing everything Sonic Prime went through and losing Tails Prime, Tails didn't want to lose Sonic like how he lost Cosmo.

"Y-Yeah. I...I should go talk to Sonic now. To tell him how sorry I am." The two-tailed fox nodded.

"Did I hear my name spoken just now?" Sonic's more lighter, younger voice half-teasingly spoke up behind the duo, causing the older Sonic and Tails to look at the entrance of the Workshop, seeing the teenage blue hedgehog stand there with a soft smile, and Chris standing being him. Sonic then approached as he waved gently. "Hey, buddy. How are you feelin'?"

The sight of Sonic, his Sonic, right there now and approaching like he just materialized, made Tails hesitated before Prime moved away while gently encouraging the fox to go right head. Guilt, fear and sorrow aching his very kind and young heart, the fox cub stood up and approached his big brother, the two stopping the middle just about ten inches away from each other. For a long moment, they said nothing, but only stared at one another, wondering who would approach one another first. Eventually, though, Tails, unable to take it any longer, teared up again and at Sonic's forgiving and sad smile and opening up his arms in offering, made a beeline for him and threw himself into the blue hedgehog's chest, nearly knocking him over, hugging him tightly and cried once more, while Sonic returned the embrace, holding him in his arms, the deep connection they shared renewed as they both wanted nothing more than to be in each other's arms.

"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry, Sonic! I-I didn't mean t-to blame you f-for what happened to...to Cosmo!" Tails wailed, now his tears soaking Sonic's chest. "I shouldn't have been mad at you for not saving her, when you tried your best, like you always do! *Sniffle* I've always believed in you...! I still do...Please, Sonic...Don't go...! Don't leave me...!"

"Shhhhh...Tails, it's okay. I'm not mad at ya'. I never was. More than anything, I was angry at myself, and at the Metarex for what they did to Cosmo, and to all of us." Sonic whispered soothingly, rubbing his little brother's back. "I'm not goin' anywhere. I'm staying, and I'll stay by your side for as long as you need."

While nobody seemed to notice, tiny traces of tears formed in the corners of Sonic's eyes, the lingering fear of losing all of his friends creeping up inside his chest, and after almost losing them to the Metarex, only to lose Cosmo who had sacrificed herself to save the Galaxy. "I'm gonna be honest with ya', little buddy. I...I don't wanna lose you, either. Or anybody else. If anything happened to you, I would never forgive myself."

"When Dark Oak swallowed you up...We all thought you were gonna be gone, but we couldn't give up...! I wanted to go in to save you, and so did Amy..." Tails tearfully replied, nuzzling his head into Sonic's chest. "To think that we almost lost you and then we lost Cosmo and Shadow...the Metarex were just too awful."

"I know, li'l bro. I was pretty scared when Dark Oak sucked me down his giant monster's throat. But I'd rather that happen to me than happen to you, or Amy, or Chris, or anybody else." The blue hedgehog admitted, resisting the urge to shudder over the memory of going down that throat and almost drowning. He smiled sadly, gently resting his head on top of the fox's head. "Knowing that you guys are safe, happy and free, that's more than enough to make me happy if and when my time comes. But even in spirit, I'll always be with you, and I know that Cosmo is with us in spirit too. You're not alone, Tails. We're all still here and it's going to remain this way. I promise."

Even though he was still upset with the lost of Cosmo, Tails knew that Sonic was right. Sniffling once more, he gazed up at his older brother with a tearful but warm smile, while the blue hedgehog gently wiped away the fox cub's tears.

"No more tears, tonight. Okay?" Sonic whispered, smiling warmly back.

"Right...Thanks, Sonic." Tails replied.

"Any time, Tails. Any time." Sonic nodded, as the two shared another brotherly hug, while Prime stood, seeing himself and his Tails in their counterparts' place even though they were exactly the same. The only difference was that Prime's counterpart only had three quills on his head, but besides that, they were the still both Sonic the Hedgehog.

Chris in the meantime, seeing the emotional reconciling embrace between Sonic and Tails, felt incredibly guilty as seeing them like this made him realize just how selfish he had been six years ago Earth time. How he had intended on keeping Sonic on Earth forever as he wasn't ready to say goodbye, and didn't want the blue hedgehog to leave since the teenage hero was his best friend. How later that night when he lead Sonic to the vacation house, he realized how selfish he had been back then and realized that by doing so would cause the worlds to merge and time to be destroyed, and Sonic had been forgiving, yet he had given the choice to Chris on whether he should stay or go.

Now this only renewed his guilt, but for a very different reason. His selfishness back then had not only risked both worlds and timelines, but also separated Sonic and Tails who had known each other far longer. If he had forced Sonic to stay, Tails(and Amy, of course) would have been heart broken to never see him again. Knowing now that he owed Tails an apology, he somberly approached his two close friends as they, and Prime, who saw this and wondered what was on the boy's mind, saw him do so.

"Chris?" Sonic asked, as he and Tails both held confused and concerned expressions.

"Are you okay?" Tails asked, worriedly.

"Tails, I...I'm really sorry." Chris lowered his head in guilt, a lump forming in his throat.

"Sorry for what?" Tails asked, puzzled. Sonic though, his eyes widening, realized what the human boy was talking about.

"I-I'm not sure if Sonic ever told you when he got back after the delay, but...the reason he didn't step through the porthole was...was because I didn't want any of you guys to leave. I wasn't ready to say goodbye." Chris confessed, lowering his eyes even further. "I shut down the machine to stop Sonic from leaving, and took him with me...I wanted him to stay, but eventually, I came to realize that it was selfish of me and it wasn't right, especially with our worlds merging."

Both Sonic and Tails, the former having did admit the reason of his delayed return and why he had been Super Sonic when he finally came back home to save the latter from another one of Eggman's attacks, realized instantly why Chris was apologizing and gazed low in sadness, sympathy and guilt.

"...I...I didn't even think of that I stole him away from you, Tails. Especially since you guys have known each other longer than I have. I...I took him away from you, not realizing how selfish I had been...Or the fact that I'd been really jealous without realizing it. You guys are my best friends and...I'm really sorry." Chris continued on, tears already sliding free, struggling not to cry, and not sure if he should stay around anymore. Feeling like he had been such a selfish and awful friend for wanting to see Sonic, not even realizing how he was unintentionally stealing the blue hedgehog away from the two-tailed fox who had also been his best friend even though Tails was a bit more closer to his grandfather due to both of them being inventors.

"Chris..." Tails whispered, more tears forming.

Unable to stay around until he calmed down, Chris made to leave, only for Sonic, who was shocked to see this, quickly grabbed hold of the boy's wrist to stop him.

"Wait, Chris! Don't go!" Sonic cried out almost desperately, making his human friend freeze in his tracks. "I don't know what's going on in your head, but you weren't selfish at all. Neither of you were, and I'm not gonna hold a grudge against any of ya's. I don't pick favorites when it comes to my friends. You're both my best buddies and brothers I've never had. I'd be sad to not see any of you again, but I want you guys to know, no matter where I am, I'm always with you. The fact that we're all together now, and always together in spirit, it's more than enough."

When neither of his two best friends said enough, Sonic swallowed the lump that formed in his throat. "Even though I'd be happy to run around whether I'm here or on Earth, I'd still miss you guys on either side. Guess I'm...I'm not that great when it comes to being mushy, or admitting my feelings. But after everything we've been through, maybe it's me who's been a total j*** and for that, I'm truly sorry. But I don't want you guys to be jealous over me. But I won't be mad at either of you, either. Everybody gets to choose what they want to do in life. Sure I love to run and have a bit of privacy, hanging out with both of ya's, Amy, Cream and Cheese, and even Knuckles, it makes me really happy. We're more than just friends. We're a family."

"Sonic..." Chris whispered.

"Chris..." Tails began, smiling tearfully. "I forgave ya since Sonic told us. We were worried, but knowing that he was okay with you, that he did come back home and you reasons were, while a bit silly, was totally understandable."

The human boy smiled emotionally, nodding. "Thanks, guys."

"Man, today's been a total tear-fest. I feel like we're in a really emotional movie." Sonic chuckled tearfully, making his two best friends share it, and they then all shared a group hug with Chris kneeling to their height of level, and the blue hedgehog hugging them both as the human boy and Tails hugged him back, silently shedding tears, that even Sonic couldn't stop this time. The trio didn't want to let go, they wanted to stay together, after everything they had been through, and everything they heard from Sonic Prime, it was more than enough to make them realize they were becoming closer than ever.

Prime look at them with smile on his face, he is hoping that no villains will invade both Sonic and Chris world as well as this world Eggman never create Metal virus and never create Seelkadoom the Hedgehog

Unfortunately, as Sonic and his two friends reluctantly let go and smiled more happily, their moment was sadly interrupted by a familiar high-pitched and annoying laughter which got their and the now confused Prime's attentions, making all four of them look at the entrance of the Workshop to see a small back robot with white gloves, red boots, a small jet to make it fly, with horns and yellow eyes, with a belt that had an M and carrying a green bag.

"Hi! I know it's kind of late, but I wasn't expecting a Slumber Party." The robot, Bokkun, greeted as he landed.

"What do you want, Bokkun? Or maybe I should ask what does Eggman want this time?" Sonic questioned angrily, placing his hands on his hips.

"If he's going to attack in the middle of the night again, he has another thing coming." Tails grunted, glaring at the puny robot while Chris stood where he was, nervously as he knew that whenever Bokkun was around, there was always either a bomb or a message TV, because either one was reliable to explode.

Prime look at Bokkun with a wierd expression

"Relax. Dr. Eggman learned his lesson the last time no thanks to Sonic's girlfriend making a kazillion hammers before he came back." Bokkun glared at the young fox and blue hedgehog who glared back.

"He disturbed everybody's beauty sleep!" Tails argued.

"Easy, pal." Sonic gently held him back, before glaring back at the small robot. "If Eggman's not coming to attack tonight, is this some sort of attack happening tomorrow or in a few days or whatever?"

"Why don't you see for...your...self?" The small robot trailed off when he noticed a taller blue blur behind the teenage hero and his two-tailed little brother, as Chris stood by Sonic's left, and approaching the trio was...another blue hedgehog same height as the human boy.

Upon realizing that he recognized this new figure, Bokkun jumped and screamed in disbelief and horror. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! Another and taller Sonic!?"

When Sonic, Tails and Chris looked to see Prime, flinching as they remembered he was still there and that now Bokkun was aware of his existence, yet judging by the older Sonic's confused expression, they all smiled sheepishly.

"I guess you've never met Bokkun back at home, huh?" Sonic asked, shrugging with a sheepish expression.

"Well yes the only robots I met are Orbot and Cubot, those two are eggman idiot robot" Prime said.

"Don't know any Orbot or Cubot, but they sound just like Eggman's other two dumbots Decoe and Bocoe." Sonic muttered, and both Tails and Chris nodded to confirm it.

"Heh i Guess those two are not different than Orbot and Cubot" Prime said

"Well, we do know that they like to complain a lot, but they did save my life one time after Eggman left them in the volcano." Chris chuckled.

"Even though Orbot and Cubot do sound like Decoe and Bocoe, how bad were they?" Tails asked, curiously.

"A lot of thing, i can't tell much but overall they are stupid as heck" Prime said scratch his head

"Looks like Eggman can make a lot of killer robots he can control by himself, but when it comes to robots that don't fight, boy they sure are pretty useless." Sonic smirked.

"Hey, I'm right here!" Bokkun protested childishly, causing the four of them to turn back to him. "What's going on here? Why is there another Sonic who's taller and wearing that kind of scarf?"

"It's a long story, but let's just say that his name is Prime." Tails hesitantly replied.

"Prime? What kind of name is that?" The small robot asked, folding his arms.

"Like Eggman gave you and the other robots he created better names?" Sonic responded sarcastically, folding his arms.

Bokkun glared at him back, before deciding to ignore the sarcasm and instead pulled out another TV message. "Fine, if you're gonna be like that, I'll just go ahead and give you another message from Dr. Eggman. Pay attention!"

Everyone tilt their head at Bokkun as he place the TV message.

Even though Sonic, Tails and Chris all almost instantly felt that Eggman was up to something again, so they immediately raised their guard, which the TV was turned on and revealed the evil scientist's face up close.

"Hello, my arch-annoyances. It's been a little while since our battle against Dark Oak and the Metarex, hasn't it?" Eggman in the message began. "It has been such a close call, I must admit and to which, I, a little reluctantly, send my condolences to you all about your little leafy friend Cosmo as her and Shadow's sacrifice have saved us all."

Sonic gritted his teeth at the mention of that, and while he and his friends were surprised by Eggman's rather reluctant sympathy, after hearing what Prime had told them, the blue hedgehog could no longer see any slight good in the evil man.

"But enough of that, because I have a special surprise for you and your friends, Sonic, and I am certain you will not enjoy it. My new plan will be set within the heart of City Center, which will begin tomorrow at midday. DO NOT INTERFERE OR YOU WILL BE DESTROYED! Here is a warning to prove it!" Eggman continued, grinning at first before growling darkly.

With that, the message ended as Bokkun backed away with a cheeky grin, and as Sonic and his friends predicted, the TV began to spark and smoke. The trio flinched in fright while Prime flinched in shock with a sweat drop.

"Brace yourselves!" Chris yelped.

"AAAH!" Sonic and Tails both screamed while the form took hold of Prime's wrist, but it was too late the Message TV exploded, and Bokkun flew away, laughing manically and cheekily while the smoke cleared, and all four of them were burnt and charred.

They stood there coughing as both Sonic and Prime puffed out smoke from their mouths, all of them having stunned and slightly blank expressions.


End part 1. Phew The covid 19 are definitely holding me down and I will have military training coming soon, and also check out the new extra story of mine in collab with Tashasaurous for What if situation that I will post not late after. Read and review