Sonic the Hedgehog

Forced AU

Rating: R

Pairing: Undecided

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He cannot believe it.

Silver the Hedgehog had just travelled back to his own time. And guess what he saw?

Eggmanland.

Yes. Eggmanland - Doctor Eggman's greatest wish of a creation - had come true right before his very eyes. The entirety of Mobius was just a vast landscape of this theme-park Eggman city - from what he could see - built in the name of the deceased scientist.

Well, dead in his time, anyway.

And even though he died, his creations - robots, structures, weird buildings and giant statues of himself - still worked to this day, being powered by a seemingly unlimited - and unknown - power source from who-knows-where. There were robots which still controlled the mobians living in the main cities.

Who shall he visit to fix this again?

Oh right. Sonic the Hedgehog.

Although he was good friends with the blue hedgehog, he can't help but be frustrated at the other sometimes, due to Sonic's actions impact on the future, and with him just returning from the time-eater incident after having not much sleep - he was incredibly jumpy.

It was obvious, really - his world was directly affected by the other's time events.

Actually - he briefly wondered - did Sonic really lose to Eggman? Did Eggman finally win, this time?

The white hedgehog sighed. He hadn't even been back for a full minute before he had the need to travel through the fabric of time once more.

Honestly, he didn't feel like going time-travelling again; he was quite tired.

However, it was his mission; and therefore, it was time to make his way back to his secret lair. Hopefully, the hidden base was still there, and he could recover some useful information about the past's events.

Silver had kept a large collection of tablets and newspapers so he could keep a tab on events of the past. And, when the past changes, the newspaper contents change too. Sometimes, newspapers disappear, and sometimes, more newspapers appear.

It might be strange to other people, but to Silver; it was normal - all caused by the passage of time.

Time was extremely, extremely difficult to understand, but usually; it can be explained in the concepts of cause-and-effect. Of course, that was definitely not all there is to it, and there are hundreds and hundreds theories to understand; but Silver wasn't going to explain everything.

The white hedgehog had arrived at the entrance of his hideout after some time. He felt relieved that it still existed in this timeline; for there was one time when he came back to nothing, and he had to spend two days in a dystopian world hopelessly gathering information on historical events.

Such are the woes of a time-travelling hero, he guessed.

As he walked into the lair, his mood immediately became considerably worse.

There was only six stacks of newspaper that he saw - instead of the eight or more stacks that he was usually greeted with. He grimly dragged his feet over to the newspapers, and picked up the most recent one, expecting news that he didn't need to know.

'NEW EGGMAN STATUE IN EGG FORTRESS' - Nope. That was published in the year 37 AEE…?

A.E.E.? Well, if Silver had any sense of Doctor Eggman's antics - which he did, and had to unfortunately; experience several times - he figured that it meant 'After Eggman Empire' or something along those lines.

Putting the newspaper back on the pile, he lifted up publications stacked at the top so that he could see the titles of the older ones that were kept lower down the pile.

'DEATH OF THE GREAT DOCTOR EGGMAN, BUT EMPIRE LIVES ON' - Year 19 AEE.

Wow, Eggman sure knew how to keep his ego fueled even when he died. Silver would be impressed; if the guy didn't have evil intentions of conquering the world.

He went further down the stack.

'DOCTOR EGGMAN PUBLISHES SOCIAL MEDIA SITE' - Year 3 AEE.

He was getting closer to the year of the takeover.

'EGGMAN STRIKES - SONIC THE HEDGEHOG DEFEATED' - Year 1255.

There it was!

Now, all he had to do was to check the actual date of the publication of the newspaper! Silver the Hedgehog then pulled out the gazette with some enthusiasm, and spread it out right before his own eyes.

The part of the paper where the date would be printed was torn off.

He sighed deeply, and his body sagged. Of course; the universe hated him, and loved to make things difficult for him. With literally no other choice, he went for the second most relevant newspaper that was available right next to the one he just pulled out.

'END OF THE WORLD?' - Year 1255.

He looked at the new - well, old - piece of journal article he had pulled out. The date stated August 4th, 1255, and there were no other significant gazettes in the library from that specific year.

If he went back some time before that date, it would be fine. Silver decided to travel half a year before August 4th, 1255 - The destination in his mind was around February 1255, it would give him a little time-lag to catch up on events.

And thus, Silver the Hedgehog prepared to time travel, but something caught his attention: It was an old piece of yellow paper note pinned onto the notice board in the corner. He didn't remember seeing it before, so he walked over to it in order to read it.

'Silver,

When you read this note, I assume you already figured out what happened. Eggman won. Sonic lost. Our future is bleak, Silver. We need your help to change the past, to defeat Eggman and make the future a better place.

Tails

August 23rd,1255

P.S: Don't ask me how I found your lair - it took me a very long time; and the date you need to travel to is February 5th, 1255. Find us in Sunset Heights Square.'

Well.

That was everything that Silver the Hedgehog needed to know. Smiling at the new information presented to him, he prepared his Time Vortex Manipulator for travel; keying in the appropriate time; exactly one day before the event.

Hello; February 4th, 1255...

Then he disappeared in a flash.

… But where was Sunset Heights?

It was early morning, and Silver had no idea where he was headed.

He did not belong to this time period, and the places of Mobius were - most, if not all - renamed in the future. There was only one person in one place that he knew of, and Silver was certain that the person would be there.

After all, that was all that person does - with the role of guarding a precious gemstone:

Knuckles the Echidna.

Now, he just had to find that damn floating island that floated wherever it felt like. It wasn't easy to find a place that you cannot be sure where it was.

It seemed it was going to be a long search.

Their trip to the deep depths of the Mystic Jungle nearly a week ago was a complete waste. Eggman had tricked them; the raid at the identified Eggman hideout located in the Mystic Jungle yielded not a single useful result.

It seemed like the fat scientist had finally learned some tactics.

"And I thought I'd finally get a hold of some Chaos Emeralds." complained Rouge the Bat as they walked to where they needed to be in the Guardian Units of Nations (G.U.N.) Headquarters - the Commander's office.

"Rouge…" Shadow deadpanned and gave his partner a brief, unamused side glance. "We're supposed to investigate Eggman's disappearance, not talk about your obsession for Chaos Emeralds."

"But I've been doing some treasure hunting recently, Shadow." she responded. "And I can't find any Chaos Emeralds. Other than yours, of course."

"What did you do to my Emerald?" the hedgehog stared at her, unamused.

"So," Rouge ignored the question. "I suspect that Eggman has been collecting some Chaos Emeralds in secret. Now; I'm tempted to steal the Master Emerald..."

"You-"

"Well, we're here, Shadow." smirked the bat as they approached the meeting room. "Let's not make the Commander wait any longer, shall we?"

With a deep sigh, the black hedgehog opened the door and walked in, with a pompous Rouge following right behind him.

"Ah, Agent Rouge, Agent Shadow." the G.U.N. Commander, Abraham Tower, acknowledged their arrival. He then gestured to the chairs opposite his side of the desk. "Take a seat."

The G.U.N. officer then put aside the collection of papers he was looking at, and took out a file labelled 'Operation: Mystic Jungle, 1255'.

"I have read your reports, Team Dark." stated Tower as he flipped open the folder and looked for a specific document inside the thick, black file. "There were no articles of interest?"

"None at all." Shadow replied with a slight frown.

"And Shadow here had practically turned the whole place upside-down." Rouge added.

"Strange. Before I sent you on that mission, I was told that there were four jackals guarding that area for quite some time, and-" the commander explained. "There were some sort of casino being developed by Eggman in that area…"

"Perhaps it might have been a decoy?" suggested Shadow, as he stared at the face of the man with his crimson ruby eyes. The look would have definitely - but unintentionally - intimidated the human a year ago.

"... that might be a huge possibility, Agent Shadow." Tower responded, as he took out the stack of documents he had put away before. "I have just received reports regarding some unusual activity at Sand Hill - the day after your trip to Mystic Jungle."

"Unusual?" repeated Rouge, as she folded her arms on her chest.

"Yes." confirmed the Commander as he took another look at the report summary. "Occasional explosions, sudden large mass of objects, and geographical changes."

"Geographical?" Shadow questioned.

"Our scientists have detected mountains and dunes appearing - and also disappearing - in that area." Tower elaborated. "Which is impossible; under natural circumstances."

"Sounds like someone we know?" Rouge smirked as she leaned back in her seat, looking in the direction of her partner.

"Indeed, it does sound like one of Doctor Eggman's operations." the hedgehog agreed, however, he was still in thought. "However, it doesn't sound like anything he have ever done before."

"And." Commander Tower continued. "All of a sudden, a large pyramid had appeared in the area just a few hours ago."

Shadow and Rouge frowned.

The door to the office suddenly burst open with a loud bang, interrupting their meeting and also surprising everyone that was in the room.

Everyone was alerted.

"Commander! It's an emergency - Code Red!" shouted the G.U.N. Soldier.

"What is it, soldier?" demanded the Commander as he stood up, alert, with his hands slammed firmly on the desk.

"Eggman's forces have broke into City!"

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