SONIC THE HEDGEHOG: SOLARIS

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Chapter Seven: Unexpected Future

In a brilliant flash of red light, Sonic, tails, and Knuckles dropped from the ceiling into the new world. Sonic and Tails were able to land on their feet, but Knuckles was unfortunate enough to land on his head. "Ow." Knuckles said as he rubbed his aching head. "It's a good thing nothing's in there." Sonic chuckled. Knuckles was about to beat Sonic to a pulp until. "Oh, look who's here. I didn't expect to see you guys here." Rouge's voice came from above. Sonic and the others looked up to see Shadow and Rouge standing in a room just above them. "Rouge! Shadow!" Tails exclaimed. "Hi. Long time, no see. And I really mean long time." Rouge said.

Sonic, Shadow and the others met up later outside the Eggman's former base and looked out to the destroyed city that was once Soleanna. "This is the distant future, far removed from our own timeline." Shadow explained. "The future? Then that means Eggman's machine can control time!" Tails exclaimed. "Eggman's got some nerve dropping us here." Sonic said. "Now, how can we get back to our own time?" Knuckles asked. "You need and space-time rift, but this requires a lot of energy. More specifically, chaos energy." Shadow explained. "I get it. You mean by using your chaos control..." Sonic was cut off. "I do mean chaos control, but my power alone is insufficient." Shadow said. "Ok, Shadow. It looks like we're working together again. Just like old times." Sonic said. "We'll split up into two teams and each of us will recover one chaos emerald from this city." Shadow instructed. "Alright, then I get Knuckie." Rouge said as she latched on to Knuckles arm. "Fine with me." Knuckles said with a big smile on his face. "Come on." Shadow said as he began to drag Rouge away by her ears. "Let's go, Knuckie." Sonic said as he started to drag Knuckles by his dreadlocks.
"I said let go!" Knuckles yelled as he was finally able to break free of Sonic's grip on his dreadlock. "Just what was that all about?!" Knuckles shouted. "Sorry, Knuckles, but we have a mission. You can do whatever you want with your girlfriend after we're done." Sonic said. "Let get one thing straight! Rouge is not my girlfriend!" Knuckles exclaimed. "All right, all right, enough yelling. My ear's starting to hurt." Sonic rubbed his eardrums. "So, what do we do now?" Sonic asked. "I'll go back to Eggman's base and try to find any information that might help us get back to our own time." Tails said. "Then I guess that leaves us to find the chaos emerald." Knuckles said. "All right, let's get to work." Sonic said. The group broke apart with Tails head back to Eggman's former base and Sonic and Knuckles running towards the city.

Sonic ran ahead into the city and was currently snoozing on the top of a destroyed taxi cab. Sonic then received a rude awakening when felt a sharp pain in the side of his face. "Ow! What the?" Sonic questioned while trying to soothe the pain in his jaw. Sonic looked over and saw Knuckles, who was really angry (When is he not), holding his fist in Sonic's face. "What's the big idea?" Sonic asked. "You left me hanging back there." Knuckles said. "Hey, it's not fault your feet are slower then your head." Sonic said. "That does it!" Knuckles shouted before jumping at Sonic. Sonic was caught off guard by Knuckles sudden assault and allowed himself to be hit. Sonic and Knuckles were rolling around the ground, fighting for dominance of the battle. Knuckles finally had the advantage when he pinned Sonic to the ground below him. "Now to finish what I should have done years ago." Knuckles said as he raised his fist. Knuckles was about to beat the living daylights out of the blue blur, but stopped when he felt an unusual strong chaos energy from above.

"Do you feel that?" Knuckles asked as he got up off of Sonic and scanned the area for the source of the strong energy. "What? I don't feel anything." Sonic said as he got up to his feet. "There's a powerful source of chaos energy around here." Knuckles said. "Maybe it's just Shadow." Sonic guessed. "No. Wherever this energy is from, it's way more powerful then Shadow." Knuckles said. "More powerful then Shadow? No way." Sonic said in disbelief. "Yeah, and it's headed this way!" Knuckles shouted as he quickly looked to the sky. Sonic also looked up and saw Silver flying by with Blaze following close behind on the rooftops. "Hey! That's the guy who attacked me earlier! I have a bone to pick with him!" Sonic exclaimed before he chased after the grey hedgehog. "That idiot." Knuckles said before he chased after the impatient hedgehog.

Sonic and Knuckles were able to catch up to Silver and Blaze when they stopped in front of a tornado of flames that erupted from the earth. "Now there's something you don't see everyday." Knuckles commented about the tornado of flames. Silver and Blaze were fighting off a few tiger like creature made of lava and rock and a flock of birds made of fire. Sonic and Knuckles watched as the two used their special powers to destroy the monsters. "Wow." Knuckles said in amazement. Just when the battle seemed over, the large tornado of flames disappeared out of sight. Just then, a large humanoid monster made of lava and rocks with four long arms and an armored demon head appeared from the lava below and came face-to-face with Silver and Blaze. "Even though I don't really like that guy, we need to help him." Sonic said as he was about to jump in the fight. "I think we have our own problems." Knuckles said. Sonic looked back to see what Knuckles was talking about and found a small army of lava tigers. "Oh boy, here's trouble." Sonic said.

The lava tigers jumped at the two, but they quickly jumped to the side. Another tiger tried to close its mouth on Knuckles' head, but Knuckles quickly reacted by grabbing the tiger by its jaws. Knuckles then gained a tighter grip on the lava tigers jaws ripped it in half. Two more jumped at knuckles, but Knuckles grabbed them by their stomachs and charged forward to crush them against a nearby wall. Knuckles turned back around to find that there were still twenty more lava tigers left to go. "Well, I was hoping of saving this for Sonic, but it looks like I don't have a choice." Knuckles said to himself. Knuckles bashed his fist together, which caught fire in an instant. Knuckles then jumped into the air and dived towards the center of the group. "Let's see how you like my...FIRE DUNK!" Knuckles shouted. Knuckles slammed his fist into the ground, which sent out a shockwave of fire that eliminated all the lava tigers surrounding him. That one attack exhausted him a bit and he didn't think he had the strength to fight anymore.

"Whoa! Go, Knuckles!" Sonic said impressed after watching Knuckles use his new technique. Knuckles collapsed towards the ground, but luckily, Sonic was there to catch him. "Thanks." Knuckles said. "Hey, no problem." Sonic said as he placed Knuckles arm on his shoulder to support the exhausted echidna. Sonic dragged Knuckles back to the site where Silver and Blaze were facing of against the lava monster. They couldn't see Blaze anywhere, but they did see Silver somehow blocking the monsters fire breath with his hands. Just then, a large fireball came out of nowhere and collided with the monsters forehead. They watched as the lava monster fell back into the lava pit, defeated. Jut then, Blaze showed up and it looked like she was talking to Silver about something, so Sonic and Knuckles decided to move in closer to listen.

"It looks like you stopped him for now." Blaze said to Silver. "But he'll just rise up again from the ashes like it always does." Silver said as he banged his fist into a nearby pole. "What's the point of all this? It'll never end." Silver said hopelessly. "Calm down, Silver." Blaze said calmly to her companion. "Then tell me what we should do. How can we completely destroy Iblis?" Silver questioned. "By knowing the truth, of course." A shadowy voice came from behind. Silver and Blaze turned around and looked up the rubble to find the mysterious newcomer. The newcomer appeared to be exactly like Shadow, only his fur was lighter, his highlights were grey and he had no mouth. "Just as a flower comes from a seed or a chicken from an egg, everything has an origin." The Shadow copy said. "You need to find the being originally responsible for this catastrophe." The Shadow copy continued. "Is that really the answer to our problem? Tell me, do you know who it is?" Silver asked. The Shadow copy stared at Silver for a moment before jumping down in front of him.

"To fix this current timeline, you need to change the past first." The Shadow copy said. "But, that's impossible." Silver stated. "With my help, you can. You see, I hold the power to travel through time itself." The Shadow copy said. "No way!" Silver said in disbelief. "To change the past, you must first eliminate the individual responsible for freeing Iblis in the first place. The Iblis Trigger." The Shadow copy said. "If I eliminate that guy, will our world be saved?" Silver asked. The Shadow copy nodded his head and says "The Day of Disaster. It was that day, 200 years ago, that Iblis was freed from his seal. And you have this person to thank for that." The Shadow copy then handed the purple chaos emerald to Silver.

Silver grabbed the chaos emerald and soon saw an image of Sonic standing in the middle of a field of flames appeared in his mind. "I see it! So, that blue hedgehog is the Iblis Trigger?" Silver questioned. "Blue hedgehog..." Blaze said. The blue hedgehog sounded familiar to Blaze, but she didn't know where she heard it. "I will send us back in time. To the point where the Iblis Trigger was alive." The Shadow copy said as he created a ball of purple energy in his hands. The purple energy soon expanded to cover all three of them before they disappeared. Sonic and Knuckles jumped out of their hiding place and inspected the place where Silver, Blaze, and the shadow copy were once standing. "Who was that guy? He looked just like Shadow." Knuckles said. "Sonic...can you here me?" Tails said through the communicator he gave to Sonic. "Yeah, I'm here. What is it Tails?" Sonic asked. "Get back to Eggman's base as fast as you can! There's something you need to see!" Tails said excitingly. Not bothering to ask questions, Sonic and Knuckles quickly ran back to the former base where they started.

Sonic and Knuckles scoured the entire base for any signs of Tails until they were finally found him in the computer room in the upper level. "So, what is it that wanted to show us so badly?" Knuckles questioned the little fox. "Did you find a chaos emerald?" Sonic asked. "Well, yeah." Tails replied. "So, where is it?" Sonic asked. "I was able to track the emeralds signal to a nearby volcano, but that's not what I called you for." Tails said. "That what?" Knuckles asked. "I was able to access this computers old file and you won't believe what I found." Tails said as he accessed the computer file. "According to this, the princess died when she was kidnapped by Eggman. Apparently, Eggman's airship exploded! The data says that this incident took place two days after the Soleanna Sun Festival!" Tails exclaimed. "You mean, if we don't hurry back in time, Elise will die on Eggman's airship?" Sonic asked. "Yeah, but she won't die alone." Tails said sadly. "What do you mean?" Sonic asked. "The data also says Amy died along with the princess when Eggman's airship exploded.." Tails said. "Amy...no." Sonic said sorrowfully.
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