Visit From The Future

Disclaimer: I don't own the Sonic Crew, but these other you've never heard of before are mine.

Wassup people! I'm starting make a comeback, in updates I mean, okay few notes:

What Knikatu did with Dominic will be revealed later.

I know there are some misspellings and few words missing in older works, usually I right in Quotes or speaking part how the word would sound but I'll try not to mess other things.

This first section of the story is at Angel Island, it has a serous tone, it is part Knikatu's memories of the distant future, this doesn't reflect my beliefs of what could be…well not most of them, and Japan is a random country I picked so don't get mad!

Chapter 7

Angel Island 8:30 am – After assault on Eggman's robotics' mech soldier factory; current time Knuckles is dead.

Knikatu surveyed his home; his mother was still up, she was still sobbing, he couldn't do anything for her, he couldn't comfort her at all, the only one who could do that was gone, their hero, and leader of the house hold was gone, it felt so unreal to him.

He walked outside to clear his mind, the cold snow in the summer time was a reminder of the endless war they lived with; Eggman had control of Japan and waging war with most of the world. The cold winter and air was a result of the destruction of Eggman's nuclear core mech war suits he sent to destroy Japan's navy and national military. Although allied forces had similar technology and were able to defend against and assault Eggman's army, he could do the same, sometimes with double the power.

Knikatu look to his left and saw his new duty. It was now his job to protect it, the Master Emerald…he heard a humming sound and saw Sonic come up with Amy they stepped off a large hovering disc that let them come up, Knikatu had kept to himself since the news came, but now spoke up for the first time in six days "Sonic…can I talk to you?" He said, Sonic looked at Amy and kissed her and told her to go inside and see what she could help with.

They walked in the cold snow and made their way to the shrine. The energy from the emerald had always kept the shrine warm, Sonic sat down with Knikatu, "You okay man? I'm sorry about all this." He said in a sad voice, Knikatu did not want to ask, but he had to know, "Sonic, how did he…" Sonic sighed, the memories haunted him since the very moment he saw him die, "Knikatu, I don't know if I should, I don't think you can handle it…"

"Yes, I can, now please tell me! I want to know, you and Shadow are the only ones who know! You can't keep this for me!" Sonic hesitated, and look at Knikatu, His face was like his father, straight and yet so emotional, "(Sigh) Okay, but have to warn you right now, don't speak of this ever again, and tell me if should stop…"

Sonic's Flashback

"The intention was simple, plant a few bombs in the armories, simple, get in and get out…we didn't think we'd get caught, me and Shadow have speed, and you dad was good at stealth…"

The three met up in the mech hanger, "Did you get your spots?" Shadow asked, both Knuckles and Sonic nodded, "Come on lets ge—" Sonic was cut off by a loud warning sign "Warning! Intruders on level three, sector one!" They all peaked around a giant robotic mech leg, they saw one on patrol, it turn on a spot light, it look all round scanning for any enemies.

It left and continued on its patrol, its footsteps shook the ground as it left, "Let's go now!" Knuckles shouted softly, the three ran all in one direction, the ground shook again, causing Sonic to slip, and fall. They all look the side and were caught in a different mech's spotlight, this one had no visible guns. "Damn! The caught us, common this way!" Shadow said point towards the hanger doors. The doors were closing and they each ducked out one by one, the doors almost closed on Sonic's foot, they were now out in the open, they saw a huge battlefield of immobile and war torn mechs, there were two active mechs, both of them equipped with flamethrowers, burning the battlefield to the ground.

"Think we can make it?" Shadow asked, "Hey it was your idea, 'let's go this way!'" Sonic said mocking him. "Well I didn't see you come up with any idea ass—" "THIS IS NOT THE TIME NOR THE PLACE, BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP!" Knuckles yelled cutting off Shadow. The yell attracted the attention of the two active mechs "Great job, dumass." Shadow said pointing towards the oncoming mechs. They jump from the snowy ledge that they were on, they landed on the ground and saw the mechs; they were closer than they thought.

Just as thing's couldn't get much worse, the mech that spotted them earlier had come out through a lower gate, it walked on two legs, but still had no visible weapons, but that's because it wasn't a shooter, it was an combat assault mech, two arms were folded and unrolled from it's back, two more unrolled from its shoulder like area.

Each hand had three; two joint fingers (Which just means it's like it has three thumbs). "Oh snap, guys we're in trouble." The mech charged at them, it leaned forward as it came closer and swung a hand trying to crush one of them. "Run for it!" Shadow yelled, the mechs hand hit the ground and left a huge and deep imprint in the ground. The mech chased Shadow, with his speed and chaos ability he was able to doge another attack.

The two mechs with flamethrowers waited on the side and waited their orders. The combat mech began to chase Knuckles, Sonic was trying to grab it's attention; he knew Knuckles would have a hard time trying to lose it, Shadow was trying to damage it with his chaos spear but that wasn't doing enough damage. "Knuckles! Try juking it!" Sonic yelled.

Knuckles began to run in one direction and slip-turn in the opposite right in between the mechs legs. Shadow continued his attacks but the mech seemed to be focused on Knuckles for some reason, Knuckles saw the two mechs on the side and began to come up with a plan, it was suicidal but it was the only chance they could have of getting away.

Knuckles charged at the mech on the left, he ran most of the way up the mechs leg, then start hop climbing, when he was at about the center of mech's body he maintained his position, he looked behind, and saw the combat mech cocked it's right lower hand back, just at the right timing Knuckles jumped off, landed and began to run as fast as he could.

"Are you crazy?" Sonic said, "No, look…" He said panting, they all looked at the mechs, the combat mech had driven its hand straight into the flamethrower mech's body, the hole the mech made was surrounded by electrical sparks and shock blasts, almost immediately the combat mech grabbed the damaged mech with it's other arms and threw it like a ball; right into the ocean; near the ports ahead of them, a few moments passed, then a humongous explosion launched a fountain of polluted water into the air; that wasn't part of the plan.

It went so high up it began to shower the three heroes' bodies in oil and other dirty fluids, "Great job Knux!" Sonic said sarcastically looking at his body, an alarm started, "Alert, infantry squads, delta and omega blue, to port docks!" The three looked at each other, the scrambled for the ship yard. The combat mech cut them off, they looked back and saw side gates open and 2 infantry groups poured in and pointed their weapons.

The flamethrower mech began to move, it stayed close by the combat mech, the three ran in different directions, the combat mech chased Knuckles down, one bad move by Knuckles, he tried to slip-slide under the mech, it grabbed him with it's powerful lower left hand, it crush his arms but he tried to forcefully open the hand but it was no use, it threw him against the wall. His body stayed in place for a few seconds, but fell to the ground, he tried to get up but in a few moments his body was set on fire by the other mech, the others heard him screaming. "Common we have to help him!" Sonic said racing off to help his friend.

Knuckles was still alive, he ran around on fire; his steps lit the flammable ground on fire all near him, Sonic couldn't reach him because of this…

Knuckles was fighting to the end, through out the pain, torture, he made his way to a group of soldiers who tried to shoot him down, taking many shots, he left a trail of blood behind him, he mange to set a small group of soldiers on fire, the ground kept them from being freed of the hellish pain, Knuckles, now would kill one more thing with his last piece of strength, the combat mech had been drench in the flammable fluid as well, he leaped at the mech, bloody drips of fire fell to the ground as he soared through the air letting out a growl, he grabbed the leg of the mech who was running away from him but he hung on, in a few moments the mech burst into flames.

The mech ran around setting the flamethrower mech on fire as well, in its panic it stepped on some of its smaller comrades. Knuckles had fallen off the mech's leg; he ran around trying to douse his flames, he fell to his knees, then flat on the floor…his body still flaming he was dead before Sonic could find any source of unpolluted water. Sonic, didn't know what to do, neither did Shadow, by the time they thought of it, it was too late…they ran around in a speed circle and put out his flames. They didn't even bother worry about the other soldiers, the grabbed their friend's body, and ran towards the ports…

End of Flashback

"By the time we put out the flames it was way to late. We weren't thinking straight, I panicked and thought only finding water…I'm sorry…" Sonic said disappointed.

Angel Island – Present day 9:00ish

Knikatu sat up on the couch sweating and panting. His mother was right there by him "Oh thank God! I was worried about you! Are you alright?" She asked with a panicked voice.

"Mom, what are you talking about?" He asked her, she looked at him with weird look "Honey, do you remember yesterday, after our argument, you left and went to sleep? I came later to talk to you; your body was on the floor, I touch your skin it was so cold, I tried to wake you up but you wouldn't respond and you started…oh forget it, I'm just so glad your okay." She said hugging him, Rouge had grown so much closer to the kids than Knuckles had, he kept to himself and was gone most of the time.

"Mom, where's dad?" He asked, his mom sighed, "He's outside somewhere, I don't how I could ever fall in love with him, are you sure he's your real father?" She asked, Knikatu chuckled lightly "Yes, yes I am." He tried to get up but his mom sat him down again, "Oh no you don't! Your gonna sit right here till I'm sure that your ok!" She said getting up. "But I have to go do something!" He pleaded, "I don't care, I going to treat this like a fever, I'll wait a little while to see if it comes back, and if not then you can go do what you want, it's the weekend anyway; you got time." She said walking into the bathroom. "Man, this sucks, she's still the same…" He said to himself quietly, "I heard that!" She yelled from the bathroom.

"Her hearing still just as good…" He whispered; he saw her come back into the room, "What is it with you and the smart mouthing right now?" She asked him, she had her arms crossed, and her foot was tapping the ground. "Nothing, I was just talking to myself." "Yeah about me." She responded quickly, "Oh I get it, your mad at me!" She said in a laughing voice, "No, I'm not, now please just leave it alone." He groaned as he turned over and laid sideways on the couch.

She continued to tease him in a playful way, "Oh common whats wrong? I don't know you that much, but I can tell when your mad." She got closer and started moving her hands near his ribs, "Mom don't start that, please!" He started laughing lightly, it tickled him, "If you don't start talking to me, I'll start tickling you more, so you better start now." She said laughing.

Knikatu only let out a light laugh/groan "Mom, stop, I don't wanna talk about it." She sighed and stopped, "Okay fine, but I'll be here for now in case you change your mind…" She kissed his head and walked into another room.

He couldn't lay down anymore, he left for outside to look for his dad.

With Shadow, Shadow II (That means Shadow the second, not Shadow 2 idiots, know your royal names!) and Cindy

"Oh you've got to be kidding me, I'm not going in there, look I agreed to take care of this kid, and I did agree to hang around with you for the time being but under no conditions am I ever gonna go in there!" Shadow firmly stated.

30 seconds later

"I can't believe I'm in here…" Shadow said depressed as he followed Cindy around the women's undergarments store. "Stop whining Shadow, we'll be outta here in a few minutes, my promise ok?" Cindy said sweetly, both Shadows groaned as they kept following her around.

"Alright let's go!" Cindy said smiling, "Finally, what takes women so long to pick things?" Shadow complained walking out of the store. Shadow II was amazingly quiet through out the whole time. "Are you feeling ok Shadow? You've been quiet through out this whole time." Cindy asked him, "I like him this way more, it's peaceful (Smack) Ow! Mother(Smack)" Shadow grabbed the back of his head in pain, "Cindy! That hurts, like hell!" Cindy only crossed her arms in anger, she turned her head so she wasn't looking at him "What? I didn't do anything, why are you mad?"

Cindy looked forward with a serious face, "Shadow all this time all you do is whine and complain, he is your son whether you like it or not! I'm could just leave right now and you wouldn't be able to find me, and you'd be lost trying to figure out how to take care of him! But I am still here do you know why?" Shadow saw her expression, "Because I'm such good company?" He said laughing, she stopped and stared at him with an unmoved face, "Alright, I get your point, now can you please just stop staring at me like that?"

Cindy's expression lifted a little but she was still mad, "Shadow, how do you see our situation? I mean with our son being here?" She asked him with a softer expression, Shadow didn't understand what she meant. "What do you mean?" He asked her, this little argument went deeper than he thought…

Shadow II just stood there and watched cars pass by, he wasn't even paying attention to his mom and dad. "What mean is, our son is here, that means something happened between us, don't you wonder what it is or when?" She stepped closer to him, Shadow realized what she was getting at, "Oh…Oh snap…I-I-well I don—" She got closer and planted her lips on his, shutting him up.

Shadow stood motionless; let it all happen, she kept the kiss going for him to step in, at this point she was doing all the kissing, he finally kissed back after she dropped her bags; she put her arms around his neck; and he put his around her waist, Shadow II wasn't even aware that this was happening until a guy in a passing car yelled out "Whoo!" Then he saw his parents, still lip locking, he could laugh but didn't, he had more of a shocked expression.

They broke off the kiss to breathe, they just stared at each other, still hugging, panting lightly and smiling "Yea, I got about another 50 years to live and I don't wanna spend them all here watching both of you lock lips all day long…" Shadow II said sarcastically, "Shut up…" Shadow said chuckling; Cindy smacked him playfully "Shadow! Don't talk to him like that, you should try being a better dad." She let go him to pick up her bags, "What a day…" Shadow II sighed as he walked toward their home.

With Sonic

Sonic didn't sleep the night Amy left, could she be right? "Why don't you go apologize?" Someone said, scaring him out of bed.

He was spooked right on to floor, "Jesus! Man don do that!" Sonic yelled, he rubbed his head and looked up and saw Knuckles standing over him with his arms crossed, "Oh it's jus you…" Sonic yelled, Knuckles look at Sonic with a serious face, "Common Sonic how many time are we gonna do this? You know why I'm here don't you? Yes, I here every time you make your future wife upset…I'm here tell you to go say your sorry." Knuckles said.

Sonic growled when he made the wife comment, "Oh just like you, and umm what's her name…oh yea, Rouge, your future wife." He said sarcastically, Knuckles wasn't offend, "Least she looks better then yours and not pink…" He said with a chuckle, "Man shut up—Oh so you do like her! Aww wait till this gets out ha-ha." Sonic said with an evil grin, "Back to the real reason I'm here, remember Mr. short attention span?" Sonic lost his grin when he said that.

"What do you want me to do? She completely hates me now, and I'm not talkin' about that 'won't talk to me for two hours' thing either, she meant it this time…" Sonic looked at the floor he was sitting on, "Have you tried talkin to her?" Knuckles said getting him up, "Well kinda, didn't go too well…" Knuckles shook his head, "No, I know about that one, I'm talking about after the fight…" They began walking downstairs.

"(Sigh) Fine, I'll try again but can you with me? As first thing decoy?" Knuckles looked at him strangely, "First thing decoy?" "Yea, like you talk to her first and try to get her to talk to me, but no kisses! May God help you; if you talk to her, and end up telling her that I love her!" He said poking Knuckles in the chest. "Don't worry, I'm not you, oh and about the comment about me liking Rouge—" Knuckles quickly punched Sonic in the back of the head, "That's for when you do tell someone, I know you will, you always open that big mouth of yours…" Sonic was face first on the floor, "Owww!" He said grabbing his head. He picked Sonic up and they left for Amy's house.

Amy's House – Front Door

Amy had clamed down a lot since the harsh argument they had, when a her door bell rang for the first time in her life she looked through the little glass hole to make sure it wasn't Sonic. She saw Knuckles?

"What are you doing here?" Amy asked opening the door, "Amy, look I know you don't want to but just hear me out." Knuckles said, Amy raised an eyebrow, "What? What are you talking about? You better not say what I think you're going say." She said closing the door slightly, "What? No, I'm talking about him over there." He pointed behind him with his thumb, Sonic waved his hand slightly, "No, it's always the same drill, 'I'm sorry' then you end up doing the same thing, well forget it, you lost your chance this time!" Amy slammed the door in their faces.

"Wow, she really mad now." Knuckles said knocking on the door a few more times, "Okay, we tried doing this our way, maybe we need a woman's touch…." Sonic said, yet he had a slight grin, like he was up to something. "What are you getting at Sonic?" Knuckles asked with a scared look. "Are you gonna help me though?" "That depends, what are we getting into, I need specifics." Knuckles said crossing his arms, "No, can't do that, just follow me."

Later at Mainland, just by Angel Island; Knuckles's Car Garage

"Either you do what I ask, no questions asked or she gets it." Sonic knew Knuckles wouldn't do this unless he had some motivation, Sonic currently had a sledge hammer on top of Knuckles prized possession, a metallic sliver 1993 Toyota Supra, twin turbo engine, modified by him for the past 3 years; it took him a long time and a lot of money to find one.

"You don't have the guts…" He said wide eyed, Sonic hit the side denting it "You think so?" Knuckles growled and charged at him, Sonic jumped over the car to dodge him "Stop right there or I go for the rims, now are you gonna do what I asked?" He said like he had complete control over him, Knuckles clenched his fist and growled "No!" Upon hearing that, Sonic took two hard swings at the front left rim and the paint. "Okay! Okay! I'll do it! Just don't hurt my baby!" Knuckles whimpered rubbing his car as if it was an injured living thing, Knuckles ran for Angel Island, "What a baby…" Sonic said following him.

Angel Island – Forest Knuckles, Sonic; Looking for Rouge.

"I'ma get you for this…you're lucky you're faster than me." Knuckles growled, Sonic only held up the hammer, making him clam down a bit, could this echidna really be that attached to his car?

Rouge was looking a lake, she was at peace, "Where have you've been?" She asked quietly, "Wait how'd you know we were coming?" Sonic asked, "Duh…" She wiggled one of her ears. "Rouge…we need a favor…" Knuckles asked in shame, Rouge let out an 'hmm sound "Why should I do anything for you? All you ever did was deserted me and not even think about helping!" Her tone grew hard, "Arrgh look I'm sorry about that but this is important you have to help us!"

She only crossed her arms and said 'no', "Fine, what you want from me?" Knuckles asked with the worst possible outcome playing in his head. "Hmmm, anything I want huh? Fine I want you to listen to me, and ten dates!" Knuckles's jaw dropped, "What the? Ten dates?" He didn't even listen to what else she said, all he heard was ten dates. "You've got to be kidding me!" He continued, Sonic began to laugh in the background quietly though, Rouge didn't respond to anything he said, "One date that's it!" He said firmly "Twelve then!" She said, "What! No!" Knuckles looked at Sonic with a death kill, but he only held up the hammer and taunted him.

"I'm not backing down so you better settle for it." She said, "Why do you even wanna go out? I thought you hated me?" He asked, "Well not everyone is as stubborn and as much of a liar like you. Some people may actually be open to possibilities." She said turning her back to him. He couldn't believe what he was hearing…Once again Sonic taunted him again, he kept it in his mind 'for the car, it's for the car' "Four…" He said dully, she responded quickly "thirteen!", "Arrgh fine! How about four and a down payment?" She turned around "What the hell you mean a down payment?" Knuckles walked up to her and held her face with his hand, and brought his face to hers.

Sonic fell over laughing, he couldn't believe his eyes! "Oh my god (Ahahahaha) I didn't think you would go that far Knux! (Ahahahaha) It's just a car man!" Sonic said laughing. Knuckles pull away from the kiss as fast he could. "Oh man, I wish I had a camera!" Knuckles only growled at him; Rouge had a bit of trouble coming back to reality. "Now are you gonna help us?" He asked angered "Oh…Oh yeah, what do you need?" She said, still a little dazed out, "Common let's go!" Sonic said still laughing, he let his guard down now, and Knuckles took advantage.

"Give me that!" Knuckles yelled taking the hammer from him by surprise "This for making me do that!" Knuckles swept the wooden handle under Sonic's legs causing him to fall on his back, "You're lucky it's illegal to kill someone other wise I'd shove this hammer down you throat, till the sqwirming stopped!" He said putting the head of the hammer on his chest and pushing on it slightly, causing him to lose air. "Alright! I got it, I won't do it again! Now just lift that stupid thing!" Sonic said in a wheezy voice. Knuckles lifted the hammer from his chest and took a hard swing at his shin with the wooden handle, "Owww! Mother------! What was that for?" Sonic yelled while grabbing his shin, "That for when you open you're fat mouth about that kiss!" Knuckles growled knowingSonic would say something, "Oh common, you know you enjoyed that 'down payment' " Sonic said laughing, but a growl from Knuckles shut him up.

"Umm, can we go now?" Rouge said watching the two idiots fight; she didn't pay much attention to the conversation. "Sonic, would you like to tell her, what we're about to do?" Knuckles said walking towards the edge of Angel Island.

"Okay, here's what we're gonna do…" He began

End Chapter 7

Yes, I know I left out most of the kids but this chapter was mostly about the older people and Knikatu's dream/memory.

What Knikatu did with Dominic, is going to be revealed in a later chapter, probably next one. Till chapter 8 peace!