5.
One question: what is the only one thing that can keep people united and strong?
And the answer: a common enemy.
The tangible, physical presence of an opponent who would menace people's own freedom was the key to resolve (or better, to ignore) one society's problems.
It sounds hypocrite, isn't it? It sounds like the type of lies certain politicians would tell in order to achieve more control over the population they rule…
In this case, however, the menace happened to be real… As far as whatever…
Just like Void's original dimension… Maginary World was now under the attack of a new enemy who wanted to reduce everyone, Anti-Mobian or Anti-human alike, into slaves for his would be empire…
In other words, someone was threatening the very freedom they were living in… The same freedom that caused all those problems in the first place and, then again, a freedom they would fight for… Or at least, some of them.
If you see a logical paradox in it… That's just your problem.
There he was… This world's current enemy… Aboard his hovering vehicle… With his robotic army ready to attack the city of Anti-Station Square.
Since this dimension has evolved in its own way, nobody (especially not Void) could predict the coming of this particular individual…
No one knew from where he came from… Was he the result of Void's nightmares over a certain rotund dictator he used to know in his own dimension? Or did he just came from another world?
Whatever the answer may be… The only thing that mattered was that he was real, just like any other, and his robots were too.
He was an egg shaped human who wore a black, golden buttoned uniform, futuristic spectacles on his eyes and goggles on his clearly bald head… He also had a big, pointed nose and thick, long grey mustaches…
And his name was… Eggman-Nega.
How ironic things can be, isn't it?
Right in front of his smirking form… Stood his opponents… The only three obstacles between him and the creation of his empire.
The Anti-Freedom Fighters were ready for him.
"HA! You don't think you can stop me, do you?" He declared, not hinting his utter arrogance.
The two-tailed, black haired vulpine known as Miles Prower grinned.
"Actually… We kind of… Think that, Eggbutt!" He countered.
Anti-Sonic was on the fox's right side, showing an angry gaze.
"I'm going to so fucking fuck up your mondo uncool pathetic excuse of an army and eat your flesh in the process!!!" He yelled… And meant each and every word he said.
"My, my… Relax my main hedgehog… We're all civilized people after all." Anti-Knuckles added in a rather kind British accent.
"FUCK CIVILIZATION!! I WANT VIOLENCE!!!" The anti-hedgehog replied.
Both Anti-Knuckles and Miles just sighed…
Again… How ironic things can be. They definitely were their originals' counterparts.
Eggman-Nega, however…
"I WILL CRUSH YOU, INSOLENT PESTS!!!"
… Was just the same as the other fat idiot used to be… A comic book villain… Even worse, a rip-off of a comic book villain!
"YOU CAN'T WIN!!!" He kept yelling.
"YES WE CAN!!!" Their collective answer… The voice of an entire nation.
The robot attacked… And one by one, they were all crushed.
They fell under Miles's tails lashes and aerial kicks… They fell under Anti-Knuckles huge fists… They fell under Anti-Sonic's will to destroy…
How could they do that? How could they oppose an army of full armed, heavy armored, metallic soldiers like that? How could they possibly be that strong? It was impossible, logically speaking…
After a while of this senseless massacre of innocent mindless robotic slaves… Eggman-Nega was able to catch the drift and hastily retried from the battlefield with his own Egg Mobile, uttering threats of revenge towards his adversaries in the process…
The jerk.
"Well… It seems we won." The Anti-echidna politely stated.
"FUCK YEAH!!!" Battle cried the Anti-hedgehog.
"Ehi dudes… How about our reward, if ya know what I'm sayin'…" Said the heroic Anti-Kitsune while showing the others his personal self-made bong.
"KAWABONGA!!!" The other two yelled at unison.
On the distance, this world's God observed the three of them with a hint of amusement on his face.
Even though they were so different from his memories… They still were the heroes he thought of them to be… Certain things never change… No matter the timelines or spaces…
That was the further confirmation of what he already knew… He wasn't needed anymore. This world didn't need a God… This world was on its own… It had its problems but it also had its problem solvers…
Idealistically speaking, it was all in the hands of its chaotic balance… The endless possibilities of life.
The same Chaos he was part of… The same Chaos his being was made of… The unbalanced balance that made him a whole being who could feel and dream…
Just as anyone else.
It's been a while now, since he first had this idea… The idea of just leaving this dimension and coming back home…
Home… His own world… His own people… His own family.
Returning to his father… To his mother… Along with the light of his life… His daughter, Lumina.
He sighed.
He knew it would be hard for her to just abandon all of her friends… Not to mention her mother… But Void knew, in the very bottom of his would be filled emptiness that that was the right thing to do for her…
In order to protect her… From herself.
Void gave one last look at the three heroes not so distant from where he was at the moment… And smiled.
"It's all up to you now… Protect this world, oh Chosen by Chaos." And then he just disappeared.
And then… It started raining… Again.