The Galaxy King raced to Rhea Island, trailing behind Sonic, who reverted to normal form and was now running on land just as the Galaxy King was landing behind him.

"Okay…looks like they're all going to group together." Flux said from their hiding spot.

"Well, fire it at them." DaDan said.

"Not yet. I only have enough power for a single shot of massive size. I need them to get closer together before I can fire." Flux said.

"Sonic, slow down! I know you're in a hurry to bring Amy, Tails and Knuckles back, but you're running on empty! And with what Neo told us about through Torchwick's lips, I don't think pressing on like this is a good idea!" Hope said.

"Unless anybody's got a better idea to bring 'em back, I dunno what else is there to do." Sonic said. "Wait… what exactly do we do next?"

"The final lock has been revealed. Silence the six towers. Tear down the walls between dimensions." the voice called to Sonic.

"Oh good. I thought you were going to say there was a surprise Titan." Sonic said in exhaustion.

"Sonic, you gotta stop. This is…wait…doesn't this all seem…" Jexi said.

"Take this, villains!" Flux called out activating the Immobilizer as all of the heroes were hit and frozen in place.

"Flux? What…hey! I can't move!" Jexi said.

"Ha! Crisis averted!" Flux said triumphantly.

"Uh…not quite." Spinel said, turning Flux's head to see that Sonic was running ahead.

"I'll be back after I get our friends back!" Sonic called out.

"Damn that rodent." Flux growled.

"Flux, wait a second!" Hope said. "This was to stop us so we don't let the End out, right? Whatever it is, don't you think it's a better idea to work together to stop it?"

"Hopeless…I think you know me well enough by now. I don't work with heroes." Flux said. "Besides, things would have been different if Quickdraw McGraw over there didn't butt into our excavation!" he said pointing to Connor.

"Well excuse me for being curious about what you guys were up to over here!" Connor retorted.

"Curious? You took out armored sentries and shot at us without even a question." Spinel said.

"Really hate to take their side on this, Connor, but they have a point. They haven't even done anything yet." David said.

"Plus, thanks to my descendant's nagging, I even have a legal permit to excavate." Flux said, showing it. "It cost us five thousand dollars!"

"Wait, he actually convinced you to buy a permit?" Mark asked.

"He said 'just because we're villains doesn't mean we can't be civilized, especially when it makes things easier for us'." Flux explained. "And he was right. This was easier than doing it in the dead of night."

"Civilized? That's rich, considering some of them are killers." Simon said.

"Oh right, and the demons you summon are just big ol' fuzzy kittens underneath, huh?" Flux snarked.

"Again, he's got a point." David pointed out.

"Big difference, they're demons, it's their role." Simon said.

"All right, we need to calm down." Techno called out.

"Haaa…you're right. Perhaps it's best if we explained how things came to this." Flux said.


See, it all started after the 2nd PLT ended. We were thinking of new schemes to concoct along with a few projects we currently had in the works. Eggman suggested something. The Ancients data, which rested in the Starfall Islands. He was creating a new AI that could take and organize the data easily. However…there was a small dilemma.


"Ugh…can't make heads or tails of any of this data. Too advanced for me. No choice, we're going to need another scientist to head the excavation." Flux said.

"Arsen had told me that Photon, someone from my timeline, is an expert scientist. But…I haven't been able to locate him." Techno said.

"Well…the wait is over." Boba Fett said entering the lab and presenting a device.

"Huh…a distress signal from somewhere near the Future and Standard Universes. S.O.S…P.H.O.T.O.N." Flux translated.

"That has to be him!" Techno deduced.

We tracked the distress beacon's signal to the location's source… and wouldn't you know it, it was one of Pink Diamonds old settlements. A garden in space.

"Oh, Techno…how it pleases me to look upon you once again." Photon said as he took a bow before carefully looking. "My…there's two of you now?"

"Not quite. I'm the current day Amadeus Flux." Flux said.

"Ah, his ancestor. I see." Photon said. "Well, I'm glad you got my signal. Seems I got the calculations on the time-space jump wrong, we should've appeared altogether."

"Mistakes happen." Techno said. "Now then, we should be off. I'll catch you up on our current situation."

"Yes…cause this garden gnome here…it freaks me out." Flux said, looking to Spinel.

"Oh, I'm not a gnome thingy." she spoke as Flux let out a shriek in shock.

"It talked!" the villain said in shock. "What the heck is it?"

"Oh…I'm Spinel. Just a gem. Oh, but I shouldn't keep talking. I'm playing a game. Waiting for my friend to come back. It's been over 6,000 years already, but I gotta keep waiting." she said.

It was at that moment that Jasper walked out. "What's taking so long?! We have to…" she stopped when she saw Spinel. "A Spinel gem? What's one of those clowns doing out here?"

"We don't know. She says she's waiting for her friend to come back." Techno said.

"Just curious…what's your friend's name? Maybe we could look into them." Flux said.

"Oh…Pink Diamond, of course." Spinel said.

Jasper was unable to keep the look of shock off her face. "You…were assigned to Pink Diamond?"

"Oh yeah! We played so many games here together! Then one day…she finally got her own colony on this planet called Earth. We could have had so much fun there. But before she left, she taught me a new game. To stand still here until she gets back." Spinel said.

Jasper's expression morphed into one the Universal Villain member hadn't seen before: pity. "...She's not coming back." the larger gem said.

"What? No, of course she is. She promised!" Spinel replied cheerfully.

"She can't." Jasper said. "She was shattered. She's gone."

Spinel's eyes twitched a bit. "Come again?"


We told Spinel the whole truth after that. How the one she served no longer existed and that her killer and their friends roamed around with no good heroes. Her whole world then turned upside down, literally. Her diamond, leaving her, and then being killed by Steven's mother? It broke her. She might have shattered herself if we didn't take her with us. Of course, now she's got a reason to be with us. To make your lives a living hell for what you heroes did to Pink Diamond.

After Spinel assumed a new fitting form, we started working on our Ancients Research Project. And the rest…well you all know that. That idiot cowboy busted in, ruined our excavation and trapped Eggman and Photon in cyberspace.

But while he was off with his new gal pals gathering you all up to come back here… there was an unexpected variable. It appears Sage had gained a physical form in the real world and all the most secure systems in every universe were weakened to a very low state, meaning secrets up for the taking. Anyway, we continued the research on the Ancients. We discovered something rather…surprising. The islands aren't just their data storehouse…it's a prison, to keep a foe locked up that destroyed their previous homeworld along with a number of others. A foe that was displaced from time and space…The End.


"After finding that out, we found the titans, established our rule over them and the islands and of course…prepared for you heroes to eventually make it here." Flux said.

"But despite everything we did to make sure you didn't make things worse, of course those glowing rocks had to come here too so Sonic could use 'em to scrap the titans!" Spinel said.

"And that leads us to where we are now. Us villains playing heroes and you heroes playing villains." Flux said.

"So what's the big play now, Flux? You stop Sonic however you can? Keep The End trapped in cyberspace, save the day?" Hope asked.

"Pretty much. Of course, I've given them permission to kill him if there's no other choice." Flux said.

"For all of our sakes… Let's hope it doesn't come to that." David said.

"Then maybe you should probably get on it, because while you guys have been monologuing, Sonic's probably halfway to the first tower by now." Hope said.

"Oh Hopeless…you give us too little credit." Flux said.

Techno then activated a communicator. "DaDan, is everything ready?"

"Yep! The guards are standing by, and Hawk Moth, Arsen and I are waiting for your mark!"

"Good." Techno said. "Let's get started. Give Photon the signal."

"(Hmm… so they came prepared…)" Zi-O thought while staring at the Flux siblings. "(Let's hope that's enough to stop Sonic from breaking the seal.)"


"It's time, Arsen!" DaDan said to the scientist.

"At last." Arsen said as he turned to a computer and activated a command system, a screen showing hundreds of robots booting up. "Techno has picked up some marvelous abilities here, I must say. Go ahead, DaDan."

"Oh, this is gonna be good!" DaDan said in glee, pulling out a familiar brooch and putting it on. "Good thing that book told us how to fix this. Alright…Duusu, Spread my Feathers!" he said before transforming into the Peacock Themed hero of the Peacock Miraculous. "Not really my style, but…eh, it's just one time. You ready, Hawk Moth?"

"As I'll ever be." the man said.

"Alright, here goes!" DaDan said, created an Amok and used it on Hawk Moth, turning his costume from purple to red. "Scarlet Moth is back, fellas!"

"Launching robots now." Arsen said, the roof of the room the robots were opening up.

"Fly forth, Scarlet butterflies!" Hawk Moth declared, creating a swarm of Scarlet Akumas that flew out of the room.


(Cue: Cutscene - Opening- Sonic Unleashed)

Meanwhile, Sonic was racing towards the first tower when he saw the swarm of Scarlet Akumas out of the corner of his eye.

"Huh…that's weird, there's nobody around here to use those on but…" Sonic started before he then saw multiple robots flying up from the earth and towards the swarm. "...Oh, that makes sense."

The robots flew through the swarm, each of them being Akumatized, turning their silver chassis into a deep, blood red color. Soon, a whole army of red robots were present, all of them turning towards Sonic.

"All units…. attack Sonic the Hedgehog! Don't let him near a single tower!" Techno ordered.

The Scarlet Sentries took their commands, flying towards Sonic and firing blood red lasers at him.

Sonic pressed forward and boosted to maximum speed. He avoided every single laser shot at him before leaping into the air and homing attacked one Scarlet Sentry after another, making them burst apart as their Scarlet Akumas were set free. Sonic ducked and dodged under a lot of them before boost-damming through a whole bunch, scrapping the armada sent to stop him into pieces.

"No way! Hundreds of those things manufactured and supercharged… and he just wrecked them like it was nothing!" DaDan exclaimed in shock.

"Production Line, keep supplying more troops!" Techno said over the comms. "The Security Team are at their posts. Spinel, Flux and I will get to our positions. We cannot lose here!"

"Understood. Sending out the next wave." Arsen confirmed.

"...I must admit, I've missed being a hero." Hawk Moth said to himself.


Sonic raced through the island, taking note of the next wave of robots catching the Scarlet Akumas.

"And here I thought this would be too easy…" Sonic said to himself as he approached the first tower, seeing a bounce pad on a rock. "Bingo."

The hedgehog jumped onto it, springing onto the platforms above and using them to run up the tower.

"Hold it right there!" a voice said as Sonic saw a man in a top hat, balancing on a unicycle. "You think you can scale these towers, huh? Well, now you gotta deal with me! Maybe you've heard of me? I'm chief of staff for the Buggy Pirates, Cabaji. And I'll be the one to bring your act to a halt!"

"No time to fight anybody they send my way…" Sonic said. "Sorry, I'm in a hurry!" He then blew past Cabaji before he could even draw his sword.

"What the…hey! Get back here!" Cabaji said indignantly, chasing after the hedgehog on his unicycle.

"He shot straight past Cabaji on Tower 1!" Arsen communicated.

"Dammit, he's not wasting time." Techno said. "All Security be advised, he won't stop to fight. You'll have to keep up with him."

Sonic ran up the tower, pursued by Cabaji as the pirate tried to attack him with razor sharp tops and fire breath.

"You will never reach the top!" Cabaji declared. "Don't think the Straw Hats are the only pirate crew that's gotten stronger!" he said as he gained speed, slowly closing the distance between him and Sonic.

"I really don't have time for this." Sonic said as he jumped off of the platform he was on, sending out wind kicks towards the pirate. Cabaji managed to use his sword to block a few of them, but was ultimately knocked off balance by the attacks, falling from the platform.

"I'm down!" Cabaji said over the comms, looking at the rapidly approaching ground. "Way…Way down!" he said, bracing himself before he landed hard. "...Oooowwww."

Sonic managed to reach the top of the first tower, finding a touch pad at the top. Knowing what was needed in order to shut the tower down, he touched it, turning it off as the tower stopped spinning.


At that moment when Sonic touched the tower, everyone suddenly got another vision of the Ancients' past. They saw one of the Chaos Emeralds inside a vault, with two Ancients observing it.

"The Chaos Engines are harnessing the emeralds' powers perfectly." one said.

"Finally, some good news. Hopefully their power will be enough to let us escape." the other said.


"The Chaos Emeralds… the Ancients brought them to Earth when they escaped their homeworld." Lysithea said. "Which means they didn't originate from Earth."

"I see. So the Ancients created the Chaos Emeralds. Seeing as how they are related to Chaos, it all makes sense now." David said.

"So that's how the Chaos Emeralds were created…" Starlight mused.

"Tower 1 is offline, repeat, tower 1 is offline!" DaDan called on the comm. "Sonic's not stopping either! He's going right for Tower 2!"

"The Scarlet Sentries aren't slowing him down one bit. Neither is the Cyber Corruption." Hawk Moth added.

"Right…Desparia, Sonic is inbound to your position." Techno said. "Are you and your spirits ready?"


"We are ready. Rise and take that rodent's soul!" Desparia called out as many ghostly entities rose up as they pursued the blue speedster.

"Gotta keep going, no matter what they throw at me!" Sonic said, scaling the next tower unfettered with Desparia's spirits right behind him. "I've outran death every day! Get new material, guys!" he called back to the ghosts.

"New approach then." Desparia said as the ghosts chased after Sonic as they started self destructing the moment they hit something near him. "My curse will chase him till he is vanquished!"

"Kamikaze ghost bombers? Not bad." Sonic said. "But I'm too fast for even that!"

Sonic accelerated up the tower even faster, avoiding the ghosts effortlessly before they could detonate on him.

"Impossible! He's outracing my curse!" Desparia exclaimed.

"Fastest thing alive, remember?" Sonic reminded her as he reached the top, before using a Spin Dash to knock the necromancer out. "Don't forget it."

Sonic promptly deactivated the second tower, showing everyone another vision.


A planet was seen before it darkened as ships were seen flying away from it just as a laser beamed across the planet, destroying it in the process as the Ancients watched in horrified sadness.


"Oh my god… The End destroyed the Ancients' Homeworld. There was nothing they could do." Sakura said.

"The End…" Hibiki whispered. "The one responsible for the destruction of the Symphogear world of the Color-Verse…"

"Our counterparts in this dimension… they were powerless to stop it…?" Tsubasa added.

"And that's gonna be for the rest of the Color-Verse if we don't stop Sonic." Techno said, growing more and more worried before using his comm. "Frieza, Tower 2 down. Sonic's coming your way."

"You're lucky I'm willing to put up with these trivial tasks for now, human." Frieza said on the other side. "The rodent won't be much of a challenge."

"...I hope so." Techno said, before he made a decision. "I'm authorizing lethal force. If it comes to it…kill him. We'll deal with the fallout afterwards."

"Like I ever needed permission." the Frost Devil scoffed as he closed the line.


Back on the second tower, Sonic began to make his way to the next tower before he collapsed to his knees from the growing corruption as Sage appeared.

"Your cyber-corruption is accelerating. How can you smile when you can barely stand?" Sage asked. Sonic didn't give an answer as he just kept going, Sage shaking her head at Sonic's actions as her dress turned white for a moment before she disappeared.

"Almost halfway…" Sonic encouraged himself as he saw more Scarlet Sentries heading his way. "Time for the scenic route."

Sonic took a detour around the Scarlet Sentries by jumping off of the tower and onto the island, rushing to the 3rd Tower.

"Pitiful rodent." he heard a voice say before he narrowly avoided a laser to the face, spotting Frieza floating in midair. "You're not worth going into my Golden Form. I'm throwing my pride away as is, facing you in my fourth form."

"Just for me? I'm flattered." Sonic said as he spotted a dash panel leading to some rails, which he took, ending up near some rings that launched him towards the third tower.

"You can't escape me!" Frieza said, flying fast towards the hedgehog. The Frost Demon managed to catch Sonic in midair just before he reached the tower, holding him by the throat. "You're not even worth a Ki Blast. I'll use my bare hands."

Sonic felt the grip around his throat tighten as he struggled to breath. "(Got no choice…)" he thought, managing to pull out one of the Chaos Emeralds. "Chaos…"

"What? What are you-"

"Control!" Sonic declared, before he disappeared.

"How in the-?!" Frieza exclaimed, before he felt Sonic's energy…from the top of the third tower. "No…He couldn't have!" he said, flying towards the tower.

Sonic appeared at the top of the third tower, collapsing to one knee. He offhandedly noticed that the Chaos Emeralds were now gone once more.

"Ugh…yeah, not doing that again…" Sonic groaned as he got up and deactivated the third tower.


The armada of ships were seen as a glitchy effect began appearing over each of them as a Chaos Emerald glowed brightly, the glitchy effect appearing around it as well.

"What are the Chaos Emeralds reacting to?!" One of the Ancients asked.

"Some kind of power source is drawing them in! We've lost control of navigation!" the other Ancient said as the Master Emerald was then seen on Earth, emanating a faint glow.


"The Master Emerald…it brought the Chaos Emeralds here, and in turn the Ancients." Ace said.

"That would explain how they were drawn to Sonic's world." Robin said.

"Hey!' Geiz shouted to the Fluxs. "If I were you, I'd go and protect the remaining towers ASAP! Your generals won't be able to stop Sonic at this rate, despite the corruption!"

"Our thoughts exactly." Techno nodded. "Arsen, send us to the towers."

Techno, Flux, and Spinel then vanished in flashes of blue light.

"Don't move!" was the last thing the heroes heard Flux say before they teleported completely.

"...You do realize those two are the only ones that can get us out of this trap, right?" Chris pointed out to Geiz.

"We'll break out of this ourselves, one way or another." Geiz replied. "We just need to figure out how this trap works."

"A standard immobilization ray with aspects of Inertia fields, anti-magic and technological shutdown. It'll wear off in time, but doubt it'll be quick enough." Miu said.

"She's right. All we can do is just wait it out." Sachiko said. "It should only be for a few minutes."

"I just hope we can still make it once the effects wear off." Copen said.

"Damn it… First Bayonetta, and now Sonic's gonna die too?" Gunvolt muttered.

"Sonic…" Simon said as Bayonetta's Umbran watch gleamed in the sunlight.


"Phew…three down, three to go." Sonic said. He heard a roar of anger as he saw Frieza flying towards him, accompanied by Scarlet Sentries. "And that's my cue to leave!" he said, using a boost panel to take flight off the third tower, and soar to the fourth away from the despot emperor.

"What's taking the three of you so long?! That rodent is making his way towards Tower 4, and fast!" Frieza called in.

"I've got eyes on 'em!" Spinel said from the top of the tower, her eyes acting as binoculars.

"Oh, great…" Sonic said, seeing the crazed Gem as his next opponent as he made his way up, going past several Scarlet Sentries and Cyber Guardians.

"C'mon, little further…lil' more…" Spinel said, watching him climb higher and higher until he was on a platform halfway up. "Now!" she said, jumping down using her legs as springs and landing directly on top of the hedgehog before she constricted him using her whole body. "You ain't goin' nowhere, Speedy!"

Sonic looked around, before he noticed Frieza flying towards him, charging a beam. This gave the hedgehog an idea. "Hey, have you ever flown before?"

"...No?" Spinel said, confused.

"...Would you like to?" Sonic asked.

The Gem's eyes shot wide open and sparkled. "Boy, would I!" she said, excited at the prospect.

"Alright…here you go!" Sonic said as he began spinning in place, spinning the Gem along with him until her hold on the hedgehog began to loosen. With a quick throw, Sonic sent the rubber hose Gem flying like a comet towards her fellow Universal Villain.

"Whee!" Spinel cheered, before seeing Frieza and his Death Beam about to fire. "Look Frieza, I'm flying!"

"What-?!" the tyrannical alien balked before he realized her trajectory…right before she crashed into him, launching them both away from the fourth tower.

"Thanks for flying with Air Sonic!" Sonic allowed himself a bow before he made his way up the rest of the fourth tower, deactivating it.


The Elder Ancient was seen teaching a group of children Ancients in front of a Cyberspace portal.

"And although our home world was lost, our history was not, thanks to Cyber Space." The Elder Ancient said as his Koco body glowed brightly, causing the portal to light up as the children looked in awe. "All our hopes, our dreams, and memories can be uploaded to Cyber Space and accessed at any time." he continued as another Ancient came running in.

"Elder. You are needed." The Ancient said.

"Why? What's happened?" The Elder asked.

"It followed us. This world is in danger." The Ancient said as the Elder stepped back in shock, the vision soon ending.


"The Ancients tried to rebuild here on earth, and used Cyber Space to recreate their homeworld." Noel said. "But… then The End soon came after them."

"No wonder everything in Cyberspace looked like places from Sonic's world. All of the stages accessed through the portals were recreated through Sonic's memories." Entrapta surmised.

"Those Ancients… they're an interesting race." Laura mused. "Though it's a shame they're extinct, yet their history lives on throughout Cyber Space."


Sonic began making his way to the fifth tower before collapsing to his knees again from the corruption as Sage appeared once more.

"I believe I have come to understand you. Both of us will do anything to protect those who are precious to us. But your fate… It is what I calculated. Farewell, hero." Sage said as Sonic kept going.

"This ain't over yet, Sage! Flux and Techno will stop that guy for sure!" DaDan said.

"It's no use… Uncle Amadeus and Uncle Techno won't be able to stop Sonic." Sage said sadly. "I've run so many calculations…"

"Oh, ye of little faith." Techno said jokingly. "Rest assured…we will not back down. Flux, have you received your little present yet?"

"Yep…can't believe Eggman only used this once." Flux said. "This'll be fun."


"Almost…there…" Sonic panted before he shrugged off the corruption, heading straight towards the fifth tower, taking down any robots in his way.

"Not so fast, pin cushion!" Flux called out as he dropped down in a robotic mech. "I'm gonna enjoy this." he said, bridging the mech's arms to bear, unleashing a torrent of automatic fire from them.

"Hey, bringing back an underrated mech. That's cool." Sonic said offhandedly as he dodged the automatic fire before reaching a rail that sent him upwards.

"Oh no you don't!" Flux said, pushing some buttons in the mech as rocket boosters emerged from the sides, letting it fly up after the hedgehog. "You're not getting away that easily!" he laughed, continuing to fire at Sonic.

However, Sonic outran everything Flux shot at him. "You have the same problem as Eggman, Flux." Sonic said.

"Oh no. Don't you say it." Flux seethed. "Don't you dare, don't you flipping-"

"You're too slow!" the hedgehog said as he went faster upwards.

"You stupid…when I get my hands on you, I'm making you into a throw pillow!" Flux called out, launching missiles towards the hero.

But even those weren't enough to get Sonic as he out raced the missiles as they detonated all across the air as soon, he was out of range of Amadeus's weaponry. He soon reached the top of tower number 5 and deactivated it.


A light was shining from a vault into Giganto as the Elder approached the Ancient operating it.

"These Chaos Emerald-empowered Titans will be the keys to victory this time." The Ancient said.

"If not…it's been decided a small group will take the Emeralds to the larger one that drew us here." The Elder said.

"Hopefully it won't come to that." The Ancient said as the vision ended.


"So the Titans were originally created to fight The End, and the Chaos Emeralds powered them?" Scorpia asked.

"That seems to be the case after seeing that vision." Bronya answered.

"Suddenly I think we're all regretting destroying those things…" Makoto said.

"Yeah… really regretting it now." Houki agreed.

"Guys? That was the fifth vision, wasn't it?" Regina asked. "Everytime a tower is deactivated, we get a vision. That means…!"

"Yeah… There's only one tower left for him to go through." David said.

"And once Sonic shuts down that last tower…. The End breaks loose!" Glimmer realized.

"At this rate… it'll break free from that seal." Zi-O stated. "We need to prepare ourselves for the fight of our lives. Our dimensions are at stake here."


Flux was growling as Sonic ran off. "Dammit! We're the good guys for once, so why the hell are we losing?!" he exclaimed in frustration. "Techno, he's coming to you!"

"I see him." Techno said, seeing Sonic race towards the tower. "Let's improve the security measures a bit."

The Color Fighter then placed a hand on the tower, overtaking it in a rainbow light before multiple turrets appeared all across the tower.

"Y'know, just this once, I'd like things to be easy!" Sonic said as he raced up the tower, dodging the turret fire as best he could.

Techno watched as he came closer and closer to the top, calmly pulling out a pistol and upgrading it before taking aim. "Steady now…" the scientist said before he fired just ahead of the hedgehog.

Sonic saw the laser shot heading right in front of him, before he boosted past. However, he felt the blast graze him in the leg, almost causing him to lose his balance. "Just…a little…more…" Sonic gritted as he pushed himself, finally using a Spin Dash to launch up to the tower's top, seeing a surprised Techno looking up at him. "Gotta…dash…for it…!"

"Wait!" Techno said as Sonic dashed straight for the panel…only to bounce off of a translucent bubble shield, landing in the middle of the tower in a heap. "Did you really think I wouldn't make a shield?"

Sonic lifted his head up as he tried to reach for the panel as Techno stood over him.

"You and I have similar problems, Sonic." Techno said, shaking his head. "We both put our hearts ahead of our brains. For me, it blinds me to the possibility of betrayal. For you…it leads you to risk the whole Multiverse for the sake of your friends. That's a weakness I feel neither of us will ever shrug off."

"Come…on…" Sonic groaned as he tried to reach in vain, as Techno reached down towards the hedgehog.

"If you won't listen to reason from your friends, then I'll just have to make you more…open to compliance." Techno said as he touched Sonic's back. "First, we patch out the bugs…"

The glitches around Sonic's body faded away, the hedgehog feeling his corruption disappearing.

"...and then…we make a new Metal Sonic." Techno said, as rainbow colored pixels began forming around Sonic. Just when it seemed as though they would overtake him completely…

A red laser beam fired out of nowhere, nearly hitting Techno's face before he threw himself back, breaking his grip on Sonic as the barrier was hit as well, shattering it.

"Who…?" Techno said, confused as Sonic staggered to his feet, as the future emperor looked up in the air to see… IN-Fn8t?! "Y-You?!"

"Game over." IN-Fn8t said as Sonic took one last burst of energy and dashed towards the tower.

"No…no, no, NO!" Techno said in desperation as Sonic slammed a hand onto the panel. "NO! Sonic, you fool, what have you done?!" he yelled in horror as they bore witness to a final vision.


"This isn't working! If we can't beat it, we'll seal it!" An Ancient said from within an unknown Titan. "I'll bind it to my Titan. Then you guys seal us in Cyber Space!" he added.

"No! We'll find another way!" the female Ancient pleaded from inside Giganto.

The Ancient piloting the unknown Titan then floated forward before a stream of red pixels engulfed him as the Titan soon fell motionless.

"They're…gone. It killed them." The Ancient piloting Wyvern said as the unknown Titan floated down towards Earth.

"We can't let their sacrifice be in vain! They had a plan! Let's do it!" The Ancient piloting the Knight said as the three each let out a battle cry, charging towards the attacker as the vision ended.


Despite Techno's brief interference, the Cyber Corruption came back to Sonic all at once, as he was finally out of strength. He convulsed in pain as he suffered hard from the corruption, before standing still as a statue as Amy, Knuckles, and Tails appeared fully in the real world.

"Yes!" a voice said as Eggman and Photon appeared out of Cyberspace. "Free at last!" Eggman cheered.

"But at what cost…?" Photon asked as the Hero Alliance soon arrived on the scene, free from immobilization, as the rest of the Universal Villains gathered as well.

"Oh… Sonic, no…" Amy said in sadness as she ran over.

"What happened to him?" Knuckles asked.

"He took on so much cyber-energy. It corrupted him." Tails said.

"Meaning?" Knuckles asked.

"He's stuck between realities." Tails said.

Eggman laughed at the situation. "My only regret is you denied me the pleasure of finishing you off, rodent!"

Simon turned to him with a glare as he aimed Hypnos at him. "Give me one good reason not to drop you here."

"Simon, enough!" David called out.

"Everyone, shut up!" Techno said, surprising everyone. "We have much bigger problems at the moment!"

"Techno is right. We have to get you, Photon, and every member of the Universal Villains into Cyber Space, now." Sage said, fear evident in her voice.

"Are you kidding? We just got out of there!" Eggman said.

"But you were to be kept there in safety for when it got out." Sage said.

"When what got out?" Eggman asked as the sky darkened.

"It's finally time." IN-Fn8t declared as he rose up into the sky. "I thank you all for doing all the hard work for me, despite the Universal Villains' attempts to stop you."

"No way, he was using us to…?" Leonie asked before they all heard the voice laugh. It was then they knew. The voice? It truly was The End.

"Since time immemorial, I have languished here. The locks are broken. Now I shall tear down the walls between dimensions and consume all." it said.

"Oh no, you don't! I'll mobilize the Egg Fleet and blow you both out of the sky!" Eggman said.

"It won't be enough! It triumphed over the Ancients' technology! My simulations show a success rate of zero percent!" Sage said.

"That's right. And now together, we'll destroy both reality and digitality as one. If either of you groups dare… come and face us on Ouranos Island. Your demise awaits, whether you run, fight… or hide." IN-Fn8t said as he flew away.

"Oh we'll see you there, In-Fn8t. You and The End." Zi-O swore.

Techno then looked at the heroes, Connor especially, with a look of absolute fury. "This is your fault! If it wasn't for you meddling in perfectly legal business, none of this would be happening! Now because of you, Sonic is gone, The End is free, IN-Fn8t has everything he wants, and two entire realities are on the verge of destruction! We…We weren't doing anything wrong…" the doctor sank to his knees, his expression shifting into one of pure fear and dread. "We're all going to die…over a damn misunderstanding…Over a mistake…"

"No… Stand up, Techno. It's way too soon to give up." David said.

"That's right." Tails said with determination. "We worked too hard to give up now."

"Although the idea irks me… The best way we can put an end to this is by putting our grievances aside and combining our strength." David said.

"What? Absolutely not! You heroes always ruin everything! You, you…" Flux said.

"Uncle…" Sage begged. "I never considered a simulation where we all worked together, since no one ever authorized it. Please!"

"Grrr…Ha. Okay…fine. The Hero Alliance and their new sidekicks are now subordinates of both the Eggman Empire and the Universal Villains. This is NOT a team up!" Flux said.

"Okay, first of all, we're Xross Drive Rebellion, a team from another multiverse! And I, Geiz and Cure Starlight happened to be the founders of the team!" Zi-O corrected. "And second, since when did we become your subordinates?!" He then sighed and shook his head. "But you know what… I'll let that second one slide for now, just so we can work together to fix this. And you were right about one thing, Amadeus Flux, this is only a temporary alliance."

"Now hold on! I refuse to do anything with them! Especially those thrice damned monkeys!" Freiza said. "There's nothing you could say that will change my stance!"

"Aw, really? That's a shame. I guess your brother was right about you." David said.

"..." Frieza was deathly silent as he slowly turned towards David. "Choose your next words…Very. Carefully. Boy." he seethed.

"Oh yeah. I guess you got the memo, huh?" David asked. "Yeah, I may have entered a partnership of sorts with Cooler and his Armored Squadron. He's got a Golden Form of his own, and he was hell to keep up with too."

"...I hope you realize what you're implying could get you killed." Frieza said, looking moments away from attacking David then and there.

"Frieza…you can kill him after. Right now, we need these heroes to do the work of eliminating that virus and The End." Flux said.

"I mean…you are as capable as Cooler, right?" Techno said.

Frieza stopped cold, wrestling internally with multiple emotions before he reached a decision. "First The End and IN-Fn8t…then you." he promised.

"Clear as crystal." David said.

"(One day Frieza, that kind of stupid ego is gonna get you killed. Again.)" Geiz thought.

"But, to even stand a chance against both of them, the Chaos Emeralds will be needed. But without Sonic to use them…" Techno said.

"Oh, he'll use 'em alright." Connor said, stepping up. "Let me take a crack at uncorrupting him. I can get him unstuck."

"Haven't you done enough? You've already-" Techno started.

"Techno, please!" Hibiki interjected. "Sure he made a huge mistake, but please, let him fix this mess."

"Actually, I think I may be of help with this too." Sachiko said. "It's a bit advanced, though… I don't think I can crack this on my own."

"If we do it together, I'm sure we can do this." Connor said. "Sage, you're gonna help too."

"But… there's no possible way that even if I help…" Sage said.

"C'mon, think a little. You've watched us this whole time, as we've battled lots of stuff coming from this mess I made. When you ran the numbers on the Ark, Lenegis, in New York, Elegia, Lyoko, and through the multiverse… did we lose and die according to any of your simulations where we did?" Connor said.

"No, you didn't… but why? I was sure that at any given moment, you'd surely perish." Sage said.

"C'mon. We've been through way worse than any of that." David said.

"You were designed to calculate odds and operate accordingly to the worst possible scenarios, judging things were lost when you concluded." Connor said. "But you were missing the one variable we've always had in every crisis we've been through."

"What's that?" Sage asked.

"Pretty simple. We never gave up. No matter how dire the situation was, as long as we're still breathing, we can change fate." Sachiko said. "Speaking of which… There's something I need to let you in on."

"...We'll speak of it later. After we set Sonic free." Sage nodded as she floated above Sonic and linked him to Connor and Sachiko.

"I'm gonna synchronize Sonic's cyber energy to you, Sachiko. Then you do your thing." Connor said.

"Got it." Sachiko said as she put on her visor as a digital screen appeared in front of her. Connor then raised his hand to Sonic's head.

"Can he really do it? Can that power of his… really disrupt the corruption?" Techno asked.

"It will. I know it." Hibiki assured. "Just believe in the song of his heart."

(Cue: Reflection- Hi-Fi Rush)

Connor focused up, taking a deep breath in and out as the only thing he heard at first was his heartbeat.

"Here we go… feel the beat." Connor said as his outstretched hand glowed red in his palm, washing over Sonic. He timed the breakthroughs just right, as he started to synchronize the unstable Cyber-Energy inside Sonic's body. All the while, he was thinking back to what transpired over the past couple adventures.

"You're the ones who've gotta save the world now." Max said in his head.

"You might not see it…" Connor said, continuing to work to sync the energy inside Sonic as it slowly turned from red to blue. "But we're in this together…"

"Whatever the case, either we win, or we lose, and I'd take a win over a loss any day!" he heard Alphen in his head next.

"I may have started this mess on my own… but together, we're gonna fix it." Connor continued as more of the corruption converted as the music around him intensified. He could even hear the Koco singing in some kind of choir.

"The Kocos… They're singing with Connor's relic in sync…" Serena noticed as Connor kept going.

"You know you can't win. Why do you keep fighting?!" he heard the Tinkerer in his mind next.

"Because… I'm… Spider-Man!" Miles Morales replied.

"People aren't as fragile as you think. And besides… a new age is dawning soon." Shanks said.

"The Truth is what I make it." Bayonetta said.

After Connor heard those words, the choir went into full blast as Blue energy spread all over Sonic's body, the Kocos choir erupting in stereo.

"It doesn't matter what people say about me, or what I've done to make wrong. No matter what…" Connor said as Sonic glowed completely blue. "I am, and always will be, a hero. Sachiko, now!"

"Right!" Sachiko said as she started typing rapidly on her screen as the Corruption slowly starts to fade. And in a matter of minutes, Sonic was back on the normal plane.

(end song)

"I don't believe it… he actually did it!" Techno said.

"Thanks, Connor. You too, Sachiko." Sonic thanked. "Alright, what'd I miss?"

"The End and IN-Fn8t are both waiting for us on Ouranos Island." Hope said.

"Also an uneasy alliance with the Universal Villains. Yeah, now that I think about it, we probably should have led with that." Sachiko said.

"We're villains. Would you people have really swung that way?" Flux said as most of the groups looked away in shame. "Yeah, keep looking away in shame."

"Wouldn't be the first time a lot of us were on the other side." David said.

"Anyways…short of it is, Sonic? We gotta head to Ouranos Island and find the Chaos Emeralds so you can use them to beat The End and IN-Fn8t." Hope said.

"Well, then what're we waiting for?" Sonic asked.

"Nothing. Let's do this thing already!" DW typed.

"By the way…" Kiana then approached Sonic and…

*SLAP*

…slapped the hedgehog across his face?! "That's for making us worry, you dumbass! You could've at least wait for us to arrive first!"

"Ow! Okay, somehow I think I deserved that." Sonic said.

"After dealing with me all this time, trust me, Sonic. You did." Eggman said.

"For once, I agree with the doctor." Copen nodded.

"Theresa, Ciel, get the Galaxy King over here and pick us up." Zi-O contacted using his Zikan Phone. "We're going to Ouranos Island to finish this story, once and for all."

"Understood. We're on our way now." Ciel replied.

"The End may be freed from her prison…" Zi-O began as the teams looked at where IN-Fn8t flew off. "...but this is not over. Not by a long shot…"