Author's Note:

With credit to Misha Shteyman, my brother Matthew, my dad for introducing me to video games, and of course, to Sega and 4kids for this story

The first three chapters of this story aren't leading into one another, the all start at around the same time, so don't get too confused, just think about them as three separate starts to the same story.

There is a description of where this story starts in chapter two, so just skip to that chapter for the beginning if you do not know what Sonic X is about. But be sure to come back to this chapter!

I've also been told that the plot is confusing in this chapter, so I've improved it, and added guidelines in italics to clear up some viewpoint changes.

Chapter one- Cosmo

Cosmo in the future thinking back

It was all my fault really, if I had never bothered Sonic and his friends to help me fight the Metarex in the first place, then we never would have ended up in this mess. Tails tells me that I shouldn't blame myself, and that no one could have predicted this happening, but I can't help feeling that this is all on me.

This whole nightmare started when we had to head back to Sonic's planet with the Metarex on our tail. We needed some sort of shelter and we desperately required more supplies. The blue typhoon had taken a lot of damage, and if we got cornered by any enemy, the shields most likely wouldn't hold up. Tails needed to perform repairs; we needed to collect supplies; and Sonic, Knuckles, and Amy (our fighters) needed some well deserved rest. We thought; "What better shelter than our own home?" So we started to head back.

We knew the Metarex (an army of evil robots that had destroyed my home planet, and were ruled by Dark Oak and his three main commanders, Pale Bay Leaf, Black Narcissus, and Yellow Zelkova) had teamed up with Doctor Eggman, and they were working together to search the universe for us. We realised that we had to be discreet, but Eggman had been waiting for us to head back to Mobius. We tripped alarms he had set up in case we decided to return, and before we knew it, he and the Metarex were right on top of us.

Switches to present tense (flash-back)

I woke up when all our alarms went off. All of them. It was overpoweringly loud. I held my hands over my ears as I ran to the control room (still in my nightgown) to see what was going on.

When I got there I saw Sonic and our other friends in the middle of an argument with doctor Eggman, who was on the screens. There were two other Mobians with the doctor, one on each side. The first was an ebony hedgehog with red stripes on his quills, who looked rather bored and disinterested, but also terrifying at the same time. The other one was an ivory bat with black wings and a black one-piece bodysuit that had a heart-shaped chest plate, she looked like she was bursting with things to say and just barely holding herself back, she didn't look like the kind of person with very nice things to say though, and she rolled her eyes a lot. The alarms had been turned off on my way to the room.

The doctor said something about how we were doomed to lose this one. I was afraid, he sounded really confident.

"Oh yeah? You and what army?" Mister Sonic replied aggressively. He was an amazing leader, it was only because of his determination and fearlessness that we had made it this far in the fight against the Metarex.

The doctor was ready with an answer. "Well, I am actually glad that you asked that, Sonic. This army." He disappeared from the screen and his icon went up.

Everything was silent for a while, Sonic started impatiently tapping his foot. After almost eight minutes, the screens turned back to the live image of the doctor, who looked very happy about something.

"Sonic the hedgehog, behold your doom." He gloated

But nothing happened, at least not right away.

"I'm waiting, Eggman!" Sonic shouted impatiently in reply.

Eggman didn't seem to be worried, he just stayed where he was very contentedly waiting for whatever was coming. Then, something did come. Seconds after Sonic's reply, massive Metarex armada ships started to appear.

All of our alarms went off again, and the resulting cacophony was enough to shatter anyone's thoughts. Tails and Chris scrambled to shut them off, but one thing was clear; the alarms were warning us about the 'large mass of Metarex approaching'. The message was flashing on all of the screens.

The doctor said something else about letting us live if we surrendered, but I was paying no attention. I was staring in horror at the multiplying number of ships outside. There were so many, it reminded me of when my own species was attacked. There were more ships than this, there were so many of their ships, and only one of ours. Albeit an amazingly strong and powerful one. We were surrounded on all sides, then and now. This situation just felt too familiar, I was freaking out. Luckily, I was pulled out of my déjà vu nightmare by Sonic's voice.

"I will never surrender to you, Egg-Butt!" he yelled confidently. It made me feel better knowing that Sonic wasn't afraid.

All around me, my friends started to agree with Sonic and let him know that we all supported him.

"I'm here for you!" I reminded him in a quiet voice after Cream's pet chao had voiced its encouragement.

Even after all of us had pretty much told the fat doctor that we would all fight with Sonic to the end, he did not look the least bit intimidated, or even fazed.

"I was hoping you would say that." He told us joyfully. "Now this is going to be so much more fun! Watch out, because I'm not going to go easy on you! Now, Crimson Egg! Fire all weapons!" He finished triumphantly. We all braced ourselves for the attack when the screens all went back to normal, but none came. Tails had been busy during the conversation with Eggman, and the attack was blasted out of space. However, our defences were not prepared for the millions of shots fired from the Metarex warships that followed. Eggman's attack had acted as a signal. The ambush attack had begun.

Our shields held off the energy beams for about ten minutes before they failed.

Tails and Chris began typing away like mad, trying to get the shields back up and the weapons ready for the next wave of missiles. Sonic and Knuckles had run outside the ship and were doing their best to keep the Metarex soldiers that had arrived at bay. Amy was running out to the deck to help them. Cream was following instructions from Tails to get certain materials for him. I was just standing there, dumbfounded that we were caught. It didn't look good, to say the least.

"Cosmo! Our weapons won't be enough! I need you to go get the chaos emeralds from the X-Tornado and bring them to Sonic!" Tails yelled over the cacophony of weapons outside.

That jolted me out of my daze, Tails needed me. "Of course Tails! I'm on my way!"

"Hey! Can you also bring Knuckles in here for a moment? I need him to activate the Master Emerald!" Tails added.

"Sure thing!"

"Thanks, Cosmo."

And I left. I ran as fast as my feet would carry me to the X-Tornado. I arrived at the cargo bay where the plane was resting. It was a huge room full of electronics and weapons. In the centre of it all was Tails' amazing airplane that shined in the lights. In a corner of the room was a big machine with a giant green emerald called 'the master emerald', it too gleamed brightly, but not from the lights, it had a light all of its own.

"Oh, which panel are they in..." I mused worriedly to myself as i searched for the emeralds.

I found a panel on the X-tornado with the edges glowing faintly that gave off a warm feeling, so I opened it up. The emeralds were inside. I started to take them out, and just as I secured them all in my embrace, I heard a loud BOOM! coming from the front of the ship.

"That doesn't sound too good. I better hurry; I really hope nobody is hurt!" I worried while sprinting back to the front of the Blue Typhoon and trying not to drop the seven emeralds.

As I arrived at the front, I was relieved to find that nobody was truly hurt, if the people outside were a bit worse for wear. I ran outside, and saw Sonic spin dashing three Metarex at once, while Knuckles was doing his best to take out the Metarex with his fists, and Amy was right next to Sonic, smashing the Metarex left and right with her huge Piko-Piko hammer.

"Mister Knuckles! Tails needs you at the master emerald! And Sonic! Catch!" I yelled as I threw the seven emeralds with all my might at the blue hedgehog. And for the few milliseconds it took for the emeralds to fly from my arms to around Sonic, he was distracted, and failed to stop one single Metarex from hitting its target.

Author's note:

The next chapters are already out, because I have updated this chapter to fix capitalisation, details, and plot confusion, be sure to comment, follow, and read the rest of the story!