Sonic was running around the trees. He wanted to find out where Rouge hid that scepter, and for that matter, what it was. He remembered seeing her flying towards some ruins, so he decided to check there first. He was running and running, until something caught his attention.

He turned, and saw a bright green glow from Angel Island, where the Master Emerald was recently fixed. "Wait, is that..."

AT ANGEL ISLAND

Storm was sitting next to the glow, waiting for whoever he and Knuckles were waiting for. "Seriously, what is going on?"

"Just wait." Knuckles said. "You'll see."

Storm sighed, until he saw the outline of someone walking out of the Master Emerald. He couldn't make out any facial features or anything like that.

"Hey guys!" a kid said.

"I'm assuming this is the friend you were talking about." Storm said.

Knuckles nodded, as the glow stopped. Storm saw that he had spiky orangish hair and blue eyes. Also, he was wearing clothes that were way too large for him.

"Hey, where's everyone else?" the kid asked.

"Some white hedgehog came from the future trying to kill Sonic, so he ran into the forest." Knuckles said. "I assume that Tails is revving up the X Tornado right now to bring everyone else."

"I don't know why, but I feel like I've seen you before." Storm said.

"Other than you being a red knockoff of Sonic, I don't recognize you at all." the kid said.

"Since you just got here, I'll give you a pass on that one." Storm said. "Just call me Storm."

"Nice to meet you, Storm." the kid said. "I'm Chris."

"CHRIS!" the sound of a very familiar two-tailed fox shouted.

"Oh god not him again." Storm said.

"What do you mean?" Chris asked.

"Those two didn't get off to the greatest start." Knuckles said.

Storm stayed silent.

"Oh..." Chris said, and he looked at Tails. "GUYS! OVER HERE!"

"You're not gonna make us talk, are you?" Storm asked.

"You two can talk whenever you want." Chris said. "I just wanna see my friends."

Storm looked down, and saw a blue line moving towards the island. "Speaking of your friends."

Chris looked down as well. "SONIC!"

"Alright, I don't really have much buisness being here, since this is more of a reunion." Storm said. "I'm gonna go look for wherever that fatass Eggman landed after I blew up his base."

"You blew up his base by yourself?" Chris asked.

"Yes. Why is that so surprising? I overloaded the engine. It only took a few seconds to wire everything up to it." Storm said. "A kindergartener could have done it easily."

Chris shrugged, as Storm jumped off, and he flew over to where he thought Eggman would have landed. Conveniently, and unfortunately it was just outside the ruins that Sonic tried to run to twice.

JUST OUTSIDE THE RUINS

"I could have sworn I saw him run this way." Silver said.

"Who are you looking for, my good friend?" someone asked. Silver turned to where the voice came from. He saw a very fat man in a long red coat with a moustache.

"Who are you?" Silver asked.

"Oh, appologies my friend." the fat man said. "My name is Doctor Eggman."

"Well, Doctor Eggman, I am hoping to kill the Iblis Trigger." Silver said.

"Iblis..." Eggman thought for a bit. "I know that word. I am very familiar with that field of mythology. So you're saying it's true?"

"Yes, and I'll need some help to get rid of him!" Silver said.

"Hmm..." Eggman thought for a bit. If I defeat this "Iblis Trigger", I won't be able to further my goal. But, some manipulation wouldn't do so bad.

"Well?" Silver asked.

"Alright, I'll help." Eggman said. "What's your name?"

"My name is Silver." Silver said. "Silver the Hedgehog."

"Well, mister Silver, could you possibly describe this 'Iblis Trigger' for me?" Eggman asked.

"He was described to me as a blue hedgehog." Silver said.

"A blue hedgehog you say?" Eggman asked. "Finally, an opportunity to get rid of that rat."

"You know him?" Silver asked.

"Of course I know him." Eggman said. "He's one of my worst enemies."

They shared a grin, and walked over to the pile of rubble, which, with the help of psychokinesis, Silver made into a base.

Storm watched the entire thing. But he wasn't focused on the white hedgehog and the fat man. What he was focused on was the black hedgehog from earlier walking outside using a different way than Silver and Eggman. "Where's he going?" Storm asked himself.

Instead of following Eggman and Silver, like he should have been doing, he went off to follow the black hedgehog. He tailed him for a while, until they came across a ruin of some sort. The same ruin that has been mentioned multiple times so far. On top of a destroyed stone plateau, lied the scepter.

The black hedgehog jumped up to grab it, and so did Storm. He wasn't sure what the scepter was, but he didn't think it was good if one of Eggman's guys got a hold of it.

"You again!" the black hedgehog shouted.

"You don't sound so happy to see me." Storm said. "I'm not letting you touch the scepter."

"Why? What does it do?" the black hedgehog asked.

"I don't know, it's just giving me a weird sense of déjà vu." Storm said. "In a bad way."

The two of them stopped in front of the scepter. "I'm sure I can handle it." the black hedgehog said.

"I don't think you can." Storm said. "I just have a bad idea about this."

Instead of listening, the black hedgehog kneeled down, and picked up the scepter. "See? Nothing bad happened."

However, right after he finished that thought, a weird dark colored blob shot out of the scepter, and landed in the black hedgehog's shadow.

Next thing they knew, another version of the black hedgehog began drifting out of the ground, except instead of red on his spines, they were grey.

"Hello there, Shadow." the figure said. "And to you as well... Sol."

"Sol?" Storm asked, as he looked at the black hedgehog. "Is that you?"

"No, my name was the first one he stated." Shadow said.

"That's weird." Storm said. "There isn't anybody else here, and my name isn't Sol."

The figure laughed. "Do you not know who I am? Do you know not of your origin?"

"No, and no." Storm said.

"Well, you shall find out in due time." the figure said. "As for you, Shadow, thank you for releasing me. I find it ironic that I was born upon your shadow."

"Ironic?" Shadow asked.

"As a reward, I shall send you into the distant future. 100 years later." the figure said.

Before anyone could argue or run, the figure surrounded them in a purple void.

The next thing the two of them knew, they were in a destroyed building.

"I think we can both agree no more fighting until we can find a way out of here." Storm said.

Shadow nodded, and they ran off together to try and find help.

AT ANGEL ISLAND

"So, what's been going on in the last few years, guys?" Chris asked.

"Months." Tails said. "Not much. Amy chased after Sonic, Eggman tried taking over the world, the usual."

"Well, as usual as it can get with a new fire-shooting hedgehog." Knuckles said.

"Don't bring him up, I'm mad at him!" Tails said.

"Should I ask?" Chris asked, but Knuckles just shook his head.

"What's taking Sonic so long?" Amy asked.

"I'll go get him." Cream, the 5 year old rabbit said, and she used her ears as wings to fly down to where Sonic was waiting.

"Hey Cream." Sonic said.

"Hello Sonic." Cream said, as she grabbed him under the arms and carried him up.

"Chris, long time no see." Sonic said.

"SONIC!" Chris shouted, as he ran over to him. Cream put him down, and she seemed tired.

"Cream, are you ok?" Amy asked, as she also ran over.

"Yeah... I'm fine..." Cream said.

Cheese, Cream's Chao friend, flew over to her. "Chao..." she said... Wait, is Cheese a boy or a girl? I'll have to look that up.

Yeah, it's a guy. Just thought I'd mention it. Also, I'm intentionally leaving that other part in.

"Cheese, really, I'm fine." Cream said in a really tired voice.

"Chao..." Cheese said. He was clearly scared for his friend.

"Am I really that heavy?" Sonic asked.

"I wonder what's going on at wherever Eggman is." Knuckles said.

"What do you mean?" Sonic asked.

"Storm went off to find him, and we don't know where he went." Knuckles said.

"I'm sure he knows what he's doing." Sonic said.

"Yeah right." Tails said. "The only thing he's good for is blowing things up."

"That sounds like a compliment to me." Sonic said. "What even happened to you two?"

"..." Tails stayed silent.

"Is this about Cosmo again?" Sonic asked. "Dude, I'm sure she's fine. But even if she survived, it would take years for her to make it here."

Sonic always reassured his old friend with this same phrase, and completely dodging the fact that Shadow froze her. Tails seemed to have forgotten that.

"If she survived, she'll make it. Somehow." Sonic said.

"You're right." Tails said, smiling. "Sorry to cut the reunion short, Chris, but we should probably look for Storm."

"Guys..." Chris said. "Something's going on with the Master Emerald."

Everyone looked, and it was glowing again.

100 YEARS LATER

"What's wrong with it?" Storm asked, as he walked up to the Master Emerald. It was completely black.

"Who cares?" Shadow asked.

Instead of answering, Storm walked up and put his hand on it.

What's going on? He heard a voice say. It sounded like Sonic.

It's not supposed to do that, is it? Another voice said. This time, it was Tails.

No, it definitely is not. Knuckles chimed in.

"Do you hear this, or is it just me?" Storm asked.

"I don't hear anything." Shadow said. "What do you hear?"

"Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, all of them." Storm said.

"I don't know who you're talking about." Shadow said.

"Well I do." Storm said. Can you hear me?

Did anyone else just hear that? Knuckles asked.

Yes. Everyone said simultaneously.

IN THE PAST... OR THE PRESENT... IN THE PAST OF A FUTURE THAT WAS EFFECTED BY A CHANGE IN THE PAST

"Where did that voice come from?" Chris asked.

"I don't know." Sonic said. "It sounded like Storm."

Look at the freaking giant emerald for a second and listen. the voice said.

"Yup, that's definitely Storm." Tails said.

The voice sighed. Look, me and some black hedgehog got sent to some random place that's covered in lava.

"How are you talking to us?" Knuckles asked.

I'm still trying to piece that together. Storm said. Listen, I think this is the future that the white hedgehog was talking about.

"How did you end up there?" Knuckles asked.

Some black blob went into the aforementioned black hedgehog's shadow and became an almost exact duplicate of him. Storm said. Then I was surrounded by a weird void and ended up here. After a while, I found the Master Emerald, but it was black.

"That doesn't sound right." Knuckles said. "I'd catch up, but I need to protect the Master Emerald in this time."

"Tails and I will come." Sonic said.

How? Storm asked.

"We'll use the Chaos Emeralds." Tails said.

Let me guess; there's 7. Storm said.

"How'd you know?" Tails asked.

It's always 7. It's always freaking 7. Storm said.

"Although you may want to look for some yourself." Sonic said.

Fine. Shouldn't take too long. Storm said. Kinda wish there were some dark spots, though.

100 YEARS LATER

"Alright, so we're gonna need to collect some Chaos Emeralds to get back." Storm said, taking his hand off the giant emerald.

"I think we'll only need 1 or 2." Shadow said.

"Oh good." Storm said. "That shouldn't take very long."

"Have you ever tried looking for them before?" Shadow asked. "Looking for one takes an entire week."

"Crap." Storm said. "Well, we have a lot of work to do."

"That's an understatement." Shadow said.

Storm laughed. "I guess we should get started." he said. "Should we split up?"

Shadow nodded, and they each took off in opposite directions. Shadow went into the city, while Storm went to the volcano.

Storm jumped from wall to wall through the rest of the city he had to go through until he reached a giant patch of lava. At this point, he just flew over to the volcano he saw in the distance, and jumped through the top.

Once inside, he noticed a few rocks floating in the lava. He landed on one of them, and it shook a bit. He looked forward, and saw some weird lava worm things coming out of the walls and the few bits of ground attached to the walls. He also noticed some weird magma chameleons and charcoal magma throwers.

Piece of cake.

He jumped off the platform, and landed on the ground. He ran up to one of the worms, and punched it, using fire to help boost his arm forwards. He knocked the worm out of the ground, and it hit the other worms as well. He ran over to the giant pile they made on the other side of the section, and punched them until they were only liquid.

That was mistake number 1.

The liquid that the worms made began to shift and merge together, creating a giant worm.

"Shit." Storm said. He looked at the giant worm he made, and tried to find out how to stop it. He decided to go for the mouth. It looked like it's weak point. He waited until the mouth opened, and then went in to attack.

That was mistake number 2.

The worm opened it's mouth in order to shoot a ball of magma, and since Storm was right in front of the mouth while it was coming out, he didn't have any hope of dodging it. It sent him across that section of the volcano.

"OW!" he shouted. The magma ball was spiky, and it dug into his flesh. It was hot. He put his hand on it, and it started growing smaller.

That was mistake number 3.

Because it was already in his chest, and the spikes didn't move location on the ball, it dragged across through the poor red hedgehog's flesh.

He winced in pain, as the spiky ball of magma absorbed into his hand and burned his chest bit by bit. As it shrank to the size of a dime, he decided to pull it out.

"Alright. I absorbed enough heat from your little spike ball trick." Storm said. "I also recognize your attack patterns. I now have information on you to destroy you and make a million tiny clones."

The giant worm went underground. Instead of cursing, Storm waited to see where it would come up.

Believe it or not, that wasn't mistake number 4.

Once he saw it was coming up below him, he jumped out of the way, and punched it onto the ground as it shot up.

"WHO'S NEXT BITCHES!?" he shouted.

The other magma creatures were about to jump him, but something stopped them.

"I believe it's my turn now." someone said. Then, a red hedgehog floated downwards from the top of the volcano.

"Great, a hedgehog that looks like Silver." Storm said, and he jumped over to hit the hedgehog.

THAT was mistake number 4.

The new hedgehog waited until Storm was right in his face, and he then punched him through about 5 walls. He also aimed his punch perfectly, so Storm got hit right where he was burnt. He landed in a giant area of lava with a few platforms to stand on, and three purple spheres.

"OW!" Storm shouted as he landed. "Who are you?"

The new hedgehog grinned, as he floated in the room. "Call me Iblis."

Oh my god, total plot twist. Also, I'm a goddamn unicorn.

Sorry, I had to. Anyways, hope you liked this chapter. If you didn't... I don't know, go eat a pizza or something and charge it to Bill Gates or something. And if you did like this chapter, like, follow and review, and leave some ideas in a message or a review. And check out some other stuff I wrote.

And one more thing. Since this story is based mostly around improving the Sonic '06 storyline (or making fun of it, depends on how you look at it), and near the end all points in time and space are brought together, that will be an opportunity to bring in some other Sonic characters, like team Chaotix (the full team, not the modern version).

See you next time.