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XV: Spoilers
Sonic's eyes slowly drifted open, only for him to quickly close them again as the bright light stung his eyes. He groaned and placed a hand on his head before opening his eyes again expecting to wake up at Tails' place back home, thinking that this whole thing had been a crazy dream.
As his vision cleared he remembered that he wasn't dreaming and was left even more confused when he saw he had woken up in the middle of Angel Island next to the shrine of the master emerald. He looked around and saw all his friends from the future waking up too, looking dazed and confused. The sun was shining down on them as if the shadow demons had never existed. The master emerald was gleaming brightly with the chaos emeralds scattered around next to it. The grass was green and soft and everywhere was covered in flowers and everything looked just as it normally would.
"What just happened?" Sky asked as she rubbed her dizzy head.
Sonic recognised most of the people there, his friends from over the years and also some unfamiliar faces of their future families.
"If you'd just let me explain!" Sonic heard his future self shriek and he turned around to see Knuckles chasing after future Sonic with a murderous expression.
"You surrendered to the enemy! How will you explain this one?" Knuckles barked as he continued to pursue future Sonic, trying to punch him.
"This is just all part of my plan." Future Sonic insisted and Knuckles froze. "Lose the battle to win the war."
"And you didn't think to tell us because…?" Knuckles pressed on before trying to punch him again which he managed to dodge.
"It was a need to know only plan, I couldn't have the King of the underworld suspect what was really going on because let's face it, you're a bad actor Knucklehead." Future Sonic chuckled.
"Kiko!" Everyone turned around at the shriek at Tails' voice.
There in flesh and blood, stood at the opposite end of the meadow was Kiko, alive and healthy like the King had promised.
Tails and Kiko ran over to each other and embraced each other tightly and Tails kissed every inch of her face.
"Mommy!" Ben yelled as he ran over to them too and the three of them collapsed onto the ground wrapped in each other's arms.
Everyone smiled at the happy reunion.
"I don't understand, I thought she was dead." Charmy whispered to Vector who elbowed him.
"Way to ruin the moment." Vector snapped at him and Charmy just shrugged.
"Dad!" Another boy shrieked and Sonic turned around to see two small male hedgehogs running towards his future self. Sonic gasped. The eldest one was the spitting image of him while the other was a lighter blue and had Amy's jade green eyes rather than his emerald ones. Cream came running out if the trees with a tiny purple hedgehog in her arms followed by her mother, Vanilla.
"Mr Sonic." Cream yelled and future Sonic turned and immediately reached out for the small purple hedgehog.
Amy and Sky came running over and they all hugged each other tightly.
Sonic's heart leaped at the sight and he managed to make himself breathe again. This was his…family?
"Gee Sky, why did you have to go and get sacrificed?" The eldest boy demanded looking at her accusingly.
Sky stuck her tongue out at him and he just rolled his eyes.
"D-Dadda." The small female purple hedgehog giggled. Sonic tried to remember her name…Jade was it?
"Of all places to say your first word?" Amy gasped out and future Sonic fist bumped the air.
"In your face Amy, you owe me a night out." Future Sonic laughed and Amy rolled her eyes.
"I can't believe you still remember the competition after everything that's happened." Amy muttered.
Sonic laughed at the scene. He knew he was competitive, but wow. He actually competed with Amy over their children's first words? The thought made him smile before he could stop himself. He felt his heart swell with an unknown emotion as he watched himself with his future family, happy to see each other again after a long separation. Sky looked visibly happier too and more relaxed now they were all together again.
Maybe there were parts to his future that he didn't want to change after all?
"So what's this plan of yours then?" Knuckles demanded, tapping his foot impatiently.
Future Sonic looked up and handed Jade over to Amy.
"You did this for me?" Tails gasped out as he approached future Sonic with tears in his eyes. "Now I see, you knew all along didn't you?" He asked as his eyes darted between past Sonic and future Sonic.
"This whole time travel makes sense now." Tails said as he hugged future Sonic tightly. "Thank you for everything."
"Don't cry or you'll set me off." Future Sonic chuckled and Tails pulled back.
"I thought you hated tears?" Tails laughed.
Sonic smiled. "Yes Tails, I knew all along." Future Sonic replied. "And I know exactly what happens next and what we need to do."
Sonic wasn't too sure what his future self was going on about, but he continued to listen intently.
"The reason I let him out was so that Kiko could come back and all of you guys would be safe from harm in this protection bubble he's placed us in. As Amy said, the King keeps his word." Future Sonic explained. "He's first target will obviously be the tribe because they're the ones who imprisoned him there in the first place, so that's where we'll cut him off. Shadow and my past self and I will go there and push him back into the underworld."
"How exactly are you going to do that?" Knuckles asked.
"Chaos control. The chaos emeralds are what caused him to be sealed there in the first place and that's how we'll send him back." Future Sonic answered. "Are you with me?" He asked, turning to his past self and Shadow.
They both nodded and future Sonic grinned at them.
"One guess what comes next." Sky whispered excitedly as she watched them head over to the chaos emeralds.
The powerful gems rose up into the air as they sensed their need for their power. They spun around the three hedgehogs and Sonic closed his eyes as he felt the familiar warm power entering his body as his fur changed from its usual blue to a bright gold. He opened his eyes which were now a crimson red and his quills stuck up.
"CHAOS CONTROL!" The three hedgehogs yelled as all their friends and family cheered them on. They flew up and blasted their way out of the protective bubble made for them.
They broke out into the real Angel Island where the rift was. Everywhere now was dark and dead and Sonic looked down at the world in worry. Had people already been killed? He hoped not and trusted his future self's judgement that the King would head straight for this tribe everyone kept going on about.
Sonic followed his future self and Shadow who seemed to know where they were going.
"What is this tribe anyway?" Sonic asked, but they didn't reply which frustrated Sonic. "Can I not even have a little spoiler?"
"I really don't think you want one." Future Sonic replied in a sinister voice and Sonic frowned.
"Has your curse been cured then?" He asked hopefully.
This made future Sonic stop mid- flight and he turned around to glare at his past self.
"What do you know of my curse?" He demanded in a harsh voice and Sonic glared in reply.
"Nothing because nobody tells me anything."
Shadow growled menacingly. "Can we save the spoilers for later and sort this thing out."
They continued flying across the planet until they flew over a very dense looking forest. Sonic looked down in wonder, he felt like he'd been here before but he didn't entirely recognise it.
"To answer your question." Future Sonic finally replied. "No it hasn't. The King doesn't know of any cures because curses this severe are harder to cure. He promised he'd find one, not that he would give it to me and I'm going to use his curse against him."
Sonic tried to think of any hint as to what his future self's curse might be. How did he get it anyway? However he got it, it appeared to haunt him. Didn't the King also say Amy had been cursed too? Sonic thought back to when they were at Tails' house, how Amy suddenly went all stiff and began saying strange things. What she had described sounded exactly like the limbo they were in. Then it clicked.
"Seeing the future…that's Amy's curse isn't it?" Sonic demanded.
Future Sonic's eyes widened before narrowing again as he continued to look straight ahead. "More like seeing all the bad things that happen in the future." He mumbled in reply.
Sonic gasped. Was that the reason Amy was so different and no longer her bubbly self as much? If all he saw were bad things then Sonic knew that he'd go mad.
"That's why she's so different?" Sonic pressed on hoping to get more information.
Future Sonic looked like he had a tear in his eye, but blinked it away before Sonic could be sure he wasn't seeing things.
"Not exactly." Future Sonic whispered.
Sonic was about to keep questioning when he was silenced by lights in the distance and what looked like a stone pyramid. Then he could hear screams and Shadow and future Sonic dived down followed by Sonic.
Sonic gasped at what he saw. There were different coloured fabric tents being burnt to the ground and many hedgehogs were running around screaming. Some were chanting as they gripped pieces of jewellery, but whatever they were trying to do seemed to have no effect.
"It's good to be home!" Sonic heard the King yell as he stood amongst the flames, glaring at the three hedgehogs in their super forms.
Bring it on, Sonic smirked.
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