"I'm sorry, could you tell me why we're going to Eggman's base?" Tails asked. He was flying the X Tornado through the air.

"Do you have any better ideas?" Sonic asked. "Storm's gonna need our help. Eggman probably has SOME sort of time travel machine that he'll use on us."

"But this is the direction you ran off in earlier." Tails said. "Odds are you're gonna see that white hedgehog again."

Sonic punched his palm. "Bring it on."

Tails just gave up, and kept flying towards the ruins where Eggman's base was.

100 YEARS LATER

Shadow was racing through the city. He didn't even feel like he had to fight, he just kept running and enemies died behind him.

"There's something the doctor hasn't told me." he said. "I have to get back, and find out what it is."

"Do you?" a voice asked. "Do you really?"

Shadow stopped running, and turned around. "SHOW YOURSELF!" he shouted.

The voice laughed, and the dark figure from before walked out from behind a building. "Hello, Shadow."

Shadow took a step back into a combat pose. "Who are you, and what do you want?"

"Do you not remember me?" the dark figure asked. "You don't remember sealing me away years ago?"

"What are you talking about?" Shadow asked.

The dark figure laughed. "You'll find out... In time."

"That doesn't answer my question." Shadow said. "You came out of my shadow and sent me to this awful future. Who are you?"

"Well, since you asked so nicely, I feel obliged." the dark figure said. "My name is Mephiles. Mephiles the Dark."

"Well, Mephiles, I am going to get out of this time, and if you're not going to help me, then stay out of my way." Shadow said.

"My my, you're as serious as I heard you were." Mephiles said. "But sincerity isn't what you'll need to stop me."

Shadow sighed. "Then I guess complete force will have to do." Shadow said.

IN THE VOLCANO

"Iblis... What's with that word?" Storm asked. "It's so familiar..."

"Of course it is... Sol." Iblis said.

"Stop calling me that!" Storm shouted, as he leaped off the platform, and punched Iblis into the lava.

Are we up to mistake 5? Yeah, I think we are.

The lava started glowing, as a giant magma worm, far far larger than the one Storm fought before, rose out of the lava.

"That's just great." Storm said. He looked at it for possible weak points, but it was too far away, and he couldn't see anything.

He looked around for anything he could use to lure it closer, as he figured flying was out of the question. He spotted three purple orbs. They looked out of place. He wondered what would happen if he struck them.

Storm crouched down, and jumped towards the orb, but before he could attack, a fireball came down from the ceiling, destroying the light and knocking Storm back.

I wouldn't list that as a mistake. No, mistake number 6 happened right afterwards.

Storm broke a few of the platforms and tried to block light from entering the Volcano. He failed miserably, and also lost all of the platforms that led up to the orbs.

Eventually, the magma worm jumped out of the lava to tackle him. That was his chance.

He looked, and saw a green eye. He balled his hand into a fist, and punched the eye directly in the middle. This made the worm double over, as Storm tossed it back to where it was earlier.

Uh... Minus one mistake? No, I'm keeping it at 6.

NEAR THE RUINS

Sonic and Tails were still flying towards Eggman's base. They couldn't see it. They weren't sure if that was because he kept it well hiden or what, but they didn't spot anything.

"Tails, give me a ring." Sonic said.

Tails pushed the dispenser button, and Sonic grabbed the ring that popped out the back, as he jumped off, and fell downwards, towards the ruins.

On the way down, he thought he saw a metal structure behind some branches. After falling down long enough, he saw that there was in fact a metal base.

Once his feet touched the ground, he looked up, and saw what appeared to be a crude replica of himself.

"Hey, Eggbutt!" Sonic said. "Does this thing actually work?"

The machine turned on. "HELLO THERE. I AM METAL SONIC." it said in the cliché monotone robot voice.

"Okay, it definitely works." Sonic said.

"PRIMARY THREAT: SONIC THE HEDGEHOG. LOCK ON." Metal Sonic said.

"Lock on?" Sonic asked. "What can this thing do?"

"Everything you can, Sonic." a familiar jackass said from above... No, not that jackass, I meant Eggman.

"Oh, can it now?" Sonic asked. "Let's see if that's true."

The two "hedgehogs" raced all around the place. Metal Sonic could keep up with Sonic's every move. Eggman clearly put a lot of work into this robot.

"DO NOT EVEN TRY IT, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG." Metal Sonic said.

Sonic tightened his grip around the ring, and started spinning.

"Oh, you're trying that old trick again." Eggman said. He pushed a button, and a ring of his own popped out of the bottom of his hover car. Metal Sonic grabbed it, and started spinning just before Sonic made impact. They pushed against each other with equal force.

"This is a nice machine you got here, Eggman." Sonic said.

"Don't give me credit." Eggman said. "I got it off of E-bay."

"No you didn't!" Tails shouted.

"You're right, I didn't." Eggman said. "I did make it myself. I did, however, have a little help."

"From who?" Sonic asked.

"That shall remain my secret." Eggman said.

Sonic just grunted, jumped up, causing Metal Sonic to crash into the tree that he was facing. Sonic then spun dashed towards him, attempting to break him.

Metal Sonic merely stood up, and dashed out of the way.

"You see, as I've stated before, Metal Sonic is a perfect copy of you in every way." Eggman said. "You don't stand a chance."

Sonic grinned. "That's what you think, but no, that's not true."

"Oh? And what do you mean by that?" Eggman asked.

"That'll remain MY secret." Sonic said.

Metal Sonic ran towards Sonic again, who jumped out of the way repetedly.

"You see, there's one thing my robot DOES best you at." Eggman said. "It doesn't have fatigue."

Sonic slowed down and realized something. For the first time in years, he was getting tired. He was once able to run for days without a break, and now he couldn't even run for 5 minutes.

"You see, Metal Sonic has been absorbing your energy, and turning it into fuel." Eggman said.

I don't think Metal Sonic can actually do that, but for the purposes of this story... Why the hell not?

Sonic huffed and puffed.

"This is looking bad." Tails said. He looked at the compartment for the shoes that Chris made, and realized none of them would help. He saw hover boots, grind shoes, and some other useful only for travel.

"Silver, why don't you take it from here?" Eggman asked.

"Don't mind if I do." a familiar white hedgehog said, as Silver walked out of the building.

100 YEARS LATER

"Shadow, Shadow, Shadow. Are you really going to fight me?" Mephiles asked.

"Yes." Shadow said.

Mephiles sighed. He crossed his arms to make an X, and quickly straightened them, causing a blast of darkness to knock Shadow back.

He then put one foot in front of the other, held his hands out to his sides, and closed his eyes, as he became surrounded by some sort of purple flame.

Shadow looked at him, after he landed straight. When he saw Mephiles, he saw that he looked like stone.

"Why would you do this to yourself? You must have known that you had no hope of possibly winning." Mephiles said.

Shadow grunted. He looked around him, and saw that he wasn't in the city anymore. He was instead on what looked to be a stone plateau that was almost completely covered in lava. If you looked at the side, there was about a 5 inch difference between the top of the lava and the top of the plateau. Also, Mephiles wasn't there.

"Down here, Shadow." Shadow heard Mephiles say. He looked on the ground, and there he was.

Mephiles was in Shadow's shadow. No, let me re-phrase that. Mephiles WAS Shadow's shadow.

"Attack, my minions." Mephiles said.

Shadow looked up to see a bunch of purple bug creature things.

"Well, this is going to be more difficult than imagined." Shadow said.

IN THE VOLCANO

Storm had to find a way to get the worm over near him. All 3 lights were destroyed, and it wasn't coming near him.

He tried to use fire to rope the roof to get closer to the worm, but he got easily knocked back. He tried to fly closer to it, but he got just as easily knocked back.

He needed to darken the room. The worm was too far to hit with long distance fire, so he needed some darkness.

He ran upwards on the walls, using heat to give him a slight sense of gravity another direction. "Come on, Storm. Think." he said to himself.

He had to look for a way to block the Volcano's top. That was where all the light was coming from. He couldn't plug the top with a boulder, because he wouldn't be able to get out if he did. After a while of running in circles, he realized that the lava on the ground would still produce light if the top was blocked.

He needed another way to attack... Actually, maybe he wouldn't.

The worn swam to the middle where all the platforms where, destroying a few on the way. That was his chance.

He leapt off the wall, balled up some fire in his fist, and aimed straight for the eye.

It was a direct hit. Straight in the pupil. This sent the worm back to where it was before, and it went under the lava. Nothing leapt out, but nothing else changed either, which confused Storm. He looked around for anything.

Finally, he came across a red glow in the middle of one of the platforms. He hopped from one to the other until he arrived at his destination. It looked like a red gem of some sort, and it was floating in midair.

"I hope this is one of the chaos emeralds." Storm said, grabbing it.

Still, nothing changed about the room. He continued to look around for an exit of some sort, as he really didn't have the energy to run back up the wall. After a little more time searching, he did manage to find something. He wasn't sure what it was, but something compelled him to check it out, for some reason. He didn't even see it until he got closer.

It looked like a circular red stone, but a different shade of red than the one on the emerald he found. Also, this one was lying on the ground.

He bent down, and picked it up. Despite being in a volcano for who knows how long, it was rather cold.

He put it in his poc- wait... Where the hell do they keep their stuff? What, do they pull it out of their ass? They have literally no clothes on. Whatever.

Storm put the newer emerald in his tail spike (I don't know), and looked at the other one. The others said they could use 2 to travel through time. He wondered if 1 could travel through space.

Only problem was that he didn't know how to.

But, the instant that thought popped into his head, a voice went into his head. It sounded... Extraterrestrial. Not really like an animal.

"Chaos... Control..." the voice whispered.

Storm wanted to wonder who that was and how they spoke to him, but he didn't care as much as he cared about getting out of the volcano.

He tightened his grip on the emerald, and pictured the place he wanted to go. "Chaos Control!"

IN THE CITY

Shadow was fighting off the bug creatures. He had no idea how to attack Mephiles, as that was his shadow, and you can't attack a shadow. He was, however, getting a weird kind of energy from killing all of the bugs. Something he never felt before. Maybe if he tried releasing that.

"CHAOS BOOST!" Shadow shouted. The spines on his body became even redder, and Mephiles was forced out of the ground.

"GAH!" Mephiles screamed. "What is this?"

The bug creatures backed off, as Shadow went to attack Mephiles.

Like this thing needed to be like Dragonball Z even more, and now Shadow has a kaioken. Jeez, it's so easy people don't even have to try sometimes. It makes you wonder why the number 9000 doesn't come up in the games or shows. Ever. Unless another way of saying "faster than the speed of sound" is "over 9000 k/ph".

Mephiles tried using his shadow blast attack, but Shadow was moving too quickly for him, and he got hit every time he tried.

After a few hits, Mephiles clearly didn't have the energy to go in the ground again, but he did have enough to fight. Shadow, on the other hand, lost his Chaos Boost.

"Well well, it seems that I've won here." Mephiles said. "When you see Gerald, tell him... Thank you for releasing me."

Mephiles got ready to attack Shadow, when suddenly something stopped him.

"Hey, it worked." Storm said. He then looked at Mephiles, and saw him about to attack Shadow. "Oh, that's just swell."

Mephiles looked at Storm, then back at Shadow. "I'll deal with you in a little bit, but right now I have to take care of something."

"You know, I already beat your magma hedgehog friend person thing... Whatever it was. Don't think that you'll be a challenge." Storm said.

Mephiles laughed. "You think you can defeat me? I am Mephiles the Dark. And no one, not even the great Sol, can defeat me."

That was mistake number 1 for Mephiles.

"Stop... Callint... Me... SOL!" Storm shouted, as he rushed up to the dark stone hedgehog of darkness... Thing... And tackled it into the lava. "Well, that'll be the last we see of him for a while."

"For a while?" Shadow asked.

"The dude sent us to the future with no emeralds, we need two to get back." Storm said. "I don't know about you, but I think we're gonna be seeing that again."

Shadow shrugged, as he walked over to Mephiles's body. Sure enough, he had a purple emerald. Shadow snatched the emerald, and walked back over to Storm.

Storm grabbed his own emerald, and the two crossed arms, and simultaneously shouted "Chaos Control!"

A portal opened in midair. Storm looked at Shadow, and the two of them nodded before jumping through the portal.

IN THE PAST OF A FUTURE THAT WAS EFFECTED BY SOMETHING THAT CHANGED IN THE PAST. THERE, I HAVE A NAME FOR IT NOW

"Time to end this!" Silver shouted, as he pulled his arm back for a punch.

"SONIC!" someone shouted. Sonic looked over to where it came from and saw the second X Tornado that Tails put together. But it wasn't his two tailed friend flying it.

A glowing light shot from the ship at his feet. Suddenly, they glowed. Once they stopped glowing, he saw that he was wearing what looked to be red shoes without a white line on them, different from his normal attire.

He looked at Silver, and his punch was very slow. Sonic grinned, and rolled out of the way.

"He isn't usually this fast." Tails said over radio to the other X Tornado.

"I made those shoes." Chris answered. "They can slow down time."

"Wha- HOW!?" Tails exclaimed. "Wouldn't you need a Chaos Emerald to do that?"

"It took a lot of work to put together." Chris said. "From the instant I got home to when I got back here, I'd been working non-stop on some new shoes for Sonic. There are others, such as ones that make him smaller and let him fly, ones that make him smaller, ones that teleport him, and some other cool ones. I call them gems."

"Do you have any other ideas for these 'gems'?" Tails asked.

"Well, I had an idea, but we'll need the 7 chaos emeralds to make it." Chris said.

"Of course we well." Tails said.

Silver held his hand out towards Sonic, who suddenly stopped dead in his tracks. "Do you really think going fast is going to stop you from me? Honestly, that's stupid if I ever saw it."

"Could... Use... A little help..." Sonic croaked out, as Silver started crushing his ribcage.

Suddenly, pineapples! No, I'm just kidding. Shadow suddenly appeared, and spin-attacked Silver's side.

"ARGH!" Silver exclaimed, as he got launched. He looked at him, and took a step back. "Mephiles! Why are you getting in my way!?"

Shadow shook his head. "I'm Shadow. Shadow the Hedgehog!"

"Shadow? What are you doing?" Eggman asked.

"I won't let you do this, doctor." Shadow said. He turned to Sonic, and nodded, signaling for him to run.

"Metal Sonic, after him!" Eggman shouted.

Metal Sonic ran in the direction that Sonic went, but was stopped by the red hedgehog, Storm.

"YOU AGAIN!" Eggman shouted. He grabbed a white emerald, and threw it at Silver. "Take this, you might need it."

Silver caught it with psychokinesis. "I don't see why I might need a white rock, but whatever!"

"Do what you must." Eggman said. "I'll go after the blue rat myself if I have to."

His ship flew in the direction Sonic went.

"Who are you, and why are you here?" Shadow asked.

"Sometimes I forget how little you know." Storm said.

"I'm Silver." Silver said. "Silver the Hedgehog."

"Great. Now that we're all acquainted, can we continue to beat the snot out of each other?" Storm asked.

Nobody said anything.

"Wow. You two are all buisness." Storm said. "So, who's ready for round 2?"

"The white one is mine." Shadow said.

"Did anyone else hear it?" Storm asked. "Whatever. I got the hunk of metal."

OVER TO THE BLUE BLUR

Sonic was running for about 5 minutes using the red gems he got from Chris. They worked pretty well.

Until a giant mechanical dog with a glowing red unicorn horn on it dropped from the sky, that is.

Sonic stopped dead in his tracks. "Eggman, of all your robot ideas, this is by far the weirdest one you've ever thought of!" Sonic shouted.

"Well, this is another one of my latest inventions." Eggman said, as he caught up with Sonic. "The Egg-Cerberus."

"Oh come on, that's not even clever." Sonic said. "You can do better than that!"

"I'll name my robots as I see fit!" Eggman shouted.

"So is he as weak as an egg or strong enough to break an egg?" Sonic asked.

Egman stayed silent for about 5 seconds. "Egg-Cerberus, get rid of him for me." he finally said.

The giant mechanical hound barked, and ran at Sonic.

This is more of a question for SEGA. I know the game this is based off of was extremely rushed, but what was going through your minds when you made the story for it?

Anyways, hope you liked this chapter. If you didn't, charge a pizza to Apple. If you did, like, follow, review, give ideas, etc. Also, for those in America, happy Thanksgiving, Merry Early Christmas, and Happy Early Birthday to me. And if not Merry Christmas, then Happy Holidays. And if not Happy Holidays, then... I don't know, Happy Sandwich eating? Anyways, bye.