Sonic Extended Generations
Chapter Five: Danger, Water Rising...
The battle begins under the Death Egg as Dr. Eggman attempts to punch the young Sonic with his Big Arm mech, but misses completely.
"You won't escape me this time, Sonic!" Eggman warned as he attempted to grab Sonic from the platform, but Sonic managed to Spin Jump out of the doctor's reach, and struck his cockpit. "Fine. If I can't throw you off of my battle station... I'll just shove you off instead!" Eggman thrusted one of his robot's arm forward with its palm open, as if he was shoving Sonic off of the platform... but the young hedgehog managed to Spin Dash away from the hand! Little did Sonic know that was doing the same with the other arm... and he managed to push Sonic to the edge, but he managed to grab hold of the edge of the platform! "HAAH HAHAHA! Farewell, Sonic the Hedgehog!" Just as Eggman lowered the mech's fist down towards Sonic, the hedgehog leapt up and performed a Spin Dash that plowed through the fist, disabling the whole mech altogether! "What?! NO! Not again!" Because Eggman's mech was hanging off the edge with its other hand, Sonic took this oppotunity to leap up into the air... then come diving down towards Eggman's cockpit with a Spin Dash, which sent both Sonic and Eggman plummeting down towards what remained of a launch base of some sort!
When Sonic woke up minutes later, he was in a crater with an unconscious Dr. Eggman, who had ripped-and-burnt clothes. But Sonic spotted something shining a purple colour in the wreckage of the Big Arm mech... and after digging, Sonic found another Chaos Emerald! Eggman coughed when he came to. And after shrugging, Sonic ran towards where Eggman's cockpit was, only the black beast from before to appear from a dark portal, and capture the doctor in a purple orb!
"What? No, no! Sonic, save me!" Eggman cried as the beast lifted itself and the doctor up to another dark portal. Seconds later, the dark portal disappeared as a light portal appeared behind Sonic, but the young hedgehog was left to wonder what was happening before he walked into the light portal...
Seconds later, the young blue hedgehog emerged from the portal into the white world, where his older self was waiting for him, as were his friends and their older selves...
"I can't believe there's two of me..." The older Sonic stated, making the younger Sonic nod in agreement while pointing at himself and the older blue hedgehog. But this was when the younger Tails stepped forward.
"I think I've figured it out." He pointed out.
"Yeah, me too." Added the older Tails.
"So, what's the scoop?" Asked the younger Amy, who was sitting on top of the older Amy's shoulders.
"And keep it simple..." Added the older Knuckles.
"Well, if there's doubles of all of us..." The younger Tails began.
"And we're all witnessing places and enemies from our past, the answer's pretty simple..." Said the older Tails, leaving both Knuckles' scratching their heads.
"We're travelling through time and space!" Both Tails' happily yelled, startling everyone else in the area.
"So how'd this happen?" Asked the older Amy, who held her younger self's legs so she wouldn't fall off of her shoulders. "I'm thinking it's got something to do with that big... thing that just kidnapped Eggman." The older Tails suspected, making the older Sonic think.
"It sounds like the same thing that kidnapped your friends." Added the younger Tails.
"Don't you mean OUR friends?" Asked the younger Knuckles, making the younger Tails panic slightly.
"Oh, you know what I mean..." He eventually said, making the older Tails and Amy aswell as the younger Amy giggle, while both Sonics and Knuckles' just looked around... before they all heard rumbling...
The black monster that attacked before appeared from above the entrance to Sky Sanctuary, swooped down towards our heroes and flew into another dark portal above what appeared to be a boardwalk across an ocean...
"Where'd it go?" Asked the younger Amy from her older self's shoulders.
"Looks to me like it's headed for that beach over there..." Suspected the older Tails, making both Sonics feel determined.
"We need to stop that thing, and fast!" Said the older Sonic, which the younger Sonic agreed with before they both ran towards the entrance to the beach, leaving the other six behind.
A few minutes later, both Sonics arrived at beach close to a city, and looked around for the monster...
"Dang, we lost him." The older Sonic muttered, before turning his attention to his younger self. "Let's split up and meet at the end of the Emerald Coast, okay little buddy?" The younger Sonic nodded in agreement before the two of them raced along the sands of the Emerald Coast. Because his older self was faster, the younger Sonic was able to witness him zero in on a floating robot, and destroy it in the process. Seeing this trick his older self pulled off, the younger Sonic was intrigued as he continued his run. "Man, I haven't seen this place since Tails crash-landed here." The older Sonic said as he looked around while running along the boardwalk. But his attention soon turned towards his younger self, as he witnessed the young hedgehog being chased by an orca that was crashing through the boardwalk to get him! "Yikes! Now that's something I wish I could forget about this place..." The older Sonic then decided to help his younger self by jumping down to the danger zone. "Yo, whale-guy! Why don't you pick on someone from your own time?" The younger realized that the orca had started chasing after his older self as the older Sonic was running on another path, allowing the younger Sonic to continue his run.
Back with the older Sonic, he had started mocking the orca as it chased him across the boardwalk; running backwards with his arms folded while sticking his tongue out, fake-yawning, and grinding across the railings.
"Come on!" He teased. "After all these years, you STILL can't take a bite out of me?" Sonic then bounced off a spring at the end of the boardwalk that launched him into the air, but that's when an agressive orca leaped out of the ocean after Sonic! "Whoa!" The orca attempted to chomp at Sonic three times, but the hedgehog moved around too much for it to even rip off a glove! And while Sonic flew through the gap in the cliff above them, the orca slammed into it, causing it to crash back into the sea, while Sonic raced down the hill to find a certain big, purple cat fishing on the sands... "Hey, big guy! Long time no see!"
"Sonic!" Exclaimed the cat, who was so surprised, he nearly dropped his fishing pole! "Oops, I can't lose this..."
"Lose Froggy again?"
"Nope. I'm hungry."
"Well, I've got something to get your mind off your stomach... how about you come back with me, and we can find Amy?"
"Amy was with you?"
"Sure thing, Big. And I think she's been a little worried about you..."
"Uhh. Okay, Sonic. I'll go with you. I do like spending time with Amy." After Big said that, a light portal appeared next to him and Sonic, which the two of them eventually went through.
Seconds later, Big and the older Sonic spotted the older Amy squeezing the younger Sonic, who looked like he was begging for help. The older Sonic merely gave him the thumbs-up, aswell as a smirk.
"Amy!" Shouted Big as he ran to hug the pink hedgehog.
"Buh-Big?!" Amy exclaimed as she dropped the younger Sonic, before Big picked her up and started squeezing her tight! "Nnngh! Big! Too tight! Too tight!"
"Now you know how I feel..." The older Sonic pointed out before he and the younger Sonic walked away from the reunion. "Y'know, I've been thinking... it's gonna get confusing when anyone wants just one of us..." This made the younger Sonic nod in agreement. "So how 'bout this? Everyone from your time can add 'Classic' to their name for now, while everyone in my time'll add 'Modern' to their name. That cool with you?" 'Classic' Sonic responded with a thumbs-up at 'Modern' Sonic. "Cool. Now whaddya say we go after the creep that's caused all this?" Without even thinking, 'Classic' Sonic raced into the entrance of what looked like city with twisted roads... "Well, looks like someone wants to get into the action more than I do..." 'Modern' Sonic thought out loud before following his younger self.
'Classic' Sonic was already running through looped roads as fast as he could, bouncing off of floating Badniks, aswell. But then he spotted another floating Badnik, which got him thinking... Sonic jumped straight up into the air, then he attempted to dive down at the robot, but it cut him with one of its razor blades. Disappointed that his technique didn't work, 'Classic' Sonic destroyed the Badnik from underneath and kept moving. As he raced through the city, he spotted many billboards and posters; one advertising a movie called Chao in Space - The Search for Tikal. The advertisement was a Chao in front of a large planet with one of Eggman's massive mechs overseeing it. Another advertised something called Chaos on Mobius - Sonic The Rookie. It showed Sonic and an older blue hedgehog with grey eyebrows and a moustache, while the location they were appeared to be Green Hill. Shrugging off what he'd seen, 'Classic' Sonic bounced off of three Badniks posing as police hovercars before reaching the end of his path...
Around that time, 'Modern' Sonic blasted away from the entrance and leapt onto a grind rail as a helicopter flew past him, before the hedgehog jumped onto another grindable rail.
"Speed Highway..." He said to himself as he ran across the road, charging through whatever Badnik he could. "Man, this place sure looks more high-tech than I remember... I don't remember as many ads either... 'Jet Set Radio?' Cool I guess... wait, 'Chaos on Mobius - Birth of a Hero?!'" 'Modern' Sonic had spotted a poster of what looked like him and 'Modern' Tails racing through a castle-like land with a familiar-looking robot following them... 'Modern' Sonic shrugged it off. Until he managed to hitch a ride on a helicopter's rungs... "I don't remember giving a report to anyone about the return of the Death Egg... and even if I did, I wouldn't have written that Gizoid into the mix. Chasing after me & Tails was Metal Sonic's job!" Landing on top of a building, 'Modern' Sonic blasted through glass walls before reaching a glass floor that started cracking the instant he stepped on it... "That doesn't sound good..."
Suddenly, the glass beneath him shattered, but Sonic managed to start running down the building! However, a large number of Badniks started chasing him, with their sirens blaring...
"Okay, I remember running down a building like this, but I don't remember those Cop Speeders following me..." 'Modern' Sonic pointed out, before spotting a few columms in front of him that made him smirk. "Well, if it isn't the Egg-Fuzz! Think you can catch me?" 'Modern' Sonic then started Boosting in order to break the glass roof so the Cop Speeders could continue chasing him. Fortunately for Sonic, the columms were tight enough for him to weave through using his Quick Step. The Badniks attempted to chase Sonic through the columms, but whatever robot tried was destroyed, since they were too wide to fit through. When Sonic was low enough, he jumped off of the wall and dove down to the floor with his feet aimed right at the floor. When Sonic landed, he noticed there were still a few Badniks left chasing him, so he waved them off before running away from the opening in the ceiling, resulting in the robots exploding as they crashed into the floor!
"That was easy." 'Modern' Sonic thought as he arrived at the edge of the city, where he spotted a portal with a familar face inside it... "Seriously, I've gotta deal with him NOW?!"
"Mr. Sonic! Mr. Sonic!" Shouted a happy and young voice. When Sonic turned around, he spotted a young rabbit approaching him with her Chao friend.
"Cream, Cheese! Hey, you two!" He exclaimed before they both hugged him. And it was at this moment that 'Classic' Sonic appeared from a light portal opposite from the dark portal.
"I'm so glad I found you, Mr. Sonic!" Cream told the older hedgehog. "It was pretty scary with all of those mean robots in the city, but I tried to be brave!"
"Attagirl." 'Modern' Sonic said back to her with a thumbs-up and a wink, before he got serious. "Listen, I need you and Cheese to follow that hedgehog. You'll find Amy and Big where you guys are going."
"But... isn't that just you, Mr. Sonic, only smaller?" She asked.
"Long story. But I'm sure Tails can explain if Amy can't..."
"Okay. Come with me, Cheese!" "Chao, Chao!" Exclaimed the Chao as he followed Cream and 'Classic' Sonic through the light portal, leaving 'Modern' Sonic to walk into the dark portal...
Seconds later, 'Modern' Sonic landed in the flooded ruins of a city, where he spotted a familiar monster rising up from the water... "Perfect Chaos..." He exclaimed as he got ready to fight while the beast roared.
END OF CHAPTER