(About 200 years in the future)

Tuesday, November 11; 1:05 p.m.

Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles are inside a ruined building, walking around. They've been searching for a Chaos Emerald for five hours and no luck!

"I can't take it anymore!" Knuckles screams out of the blue.

Sonic and Tails are startled by the echidna's yelling. "Dude," says Sonic. "Settle down. We'll find a Chaos Emerald soon."

"You've been saying that for the past five hours!" Knuckles complains. "I hate this place! Ruins everywhere, no sign of civilization, no food! I'm starving, damn it!"

"Knuckles, watch your language!" Sonic scolds his friend. "Did you forget that Tails is with us?"

"Guys, be quiet!" Tails tells them. "I hear people in a different room."

Sonic and Knuckles walk over to the seven-year-old fox, whose head is peered behind a doorway. The other room shows Silver and Blaze, talking to some black/dark gray hedgehog.

"If I eliminate that guy, will our world be saved?" Silver asks the hedgehog.

The hedgehog nods in response. "The Day of Disaster... Here are my records of this event." He turns on the computer above them, which shows images of Soleanna (as it was 200 years ago).

As that goes on, Tails whispers to Sonic, "What's Blaze doing here?"

"I don't know!" Sonic whispers back. "But do you see the white hedgehog?"

"Yeah," Tails and Knuckles respond.

"That guy tried to kill me earlier," says the blue hedgehog.

"No way!" Tails exclaims quietly.

"...And you have this person to blame," the no-mouthed hedgehog says, giving Silver a purple psychic orb.

After looking into the orb Silver asks, "Is the blue hedgehog the Iblis Trigger?"

The black hedgehog nods to Silver.

"So that's why that idiot tried to kill me!" Sonic whispers.

"Even worse," Knuckles begins. "Blaze believed that creepy guy!"

"Now..." the black hedgehog says. "Let's go back in time to when the Iblis Trigger was alive."

The three magically vanish from a sphere from the creepy guy's hands. After they leave, Team Sonic walk in the room, relieved to use their regular voices.

"There was something off about that guy," Knuckles says, scratching his chin.

"Was it because he didn't have a mouth?" asks Sonic.

"No... He looked a lot like Shadow," says the red echidna.

Sonic laughs. "Well I guess that guy could be Shadow's long-lost twin brother!" he says.

Tails types something on the computer, until he comes across something odd. "Um...guys," he says. "You might want to see this article."

The middle-schoolers run up to the computer to see what's up. "What is it, Tails?" Sonic asks.

"This article says that the princess died when she was kidnapped by Eggman," Tails explains. "Apparently Eggman's battleship crashed and exploded! It also says after she died, the Flames of Disaster was released, causing the world to be one big apocalypse!"

"That's insane!" cries Knuckles.

"When did this happen, anyways?" Sonic asks his young friend.

Tails types the question on the computer. The answer pops up. "Mobius!" he cries. "Elise died two days after the Sun Festival!"

"TWO DAYS?!" Sonic shrieks. "We need to save her!"

"I'll print out more information from the computer," says Tails.

"I wonder if Eggman is crazy enough to kill the princess or if this was an accident..." Knuckles says, scratching his chin.

Sonic smacks Knuckles in the face and screams, "Dude, this is serious! We need to find that Chaos Emerald fast!"

After Tails prints out some papers and staples them, the three boys run out of the room to find the Chaos Emerald.


As Team Sonic find a Chaos Emerald, Shadow and Rouge are on the other side of the city. Rouge is holding onto a green Chaos Emerald they've just found behind a dumpster.

"My precious Chaos Emerald," the albino bat says to it. "You're so beautiful. I wish I could keep you forever!"

"Rouge, stop flirting with inanimate objects!" Shadow orders her. "I'll go get us some food. You wait here."

Shadow walks into a destroyed In-n-Out Burger, while Rouge waits outside, still staring at the Chaos Emerald. Through the emerald, she sees something, or in this case, someone familiar. She sees E-123 Omega, sitting on the ground, dusty and destroyed.

Shadow walks out of the restaurant saying, "I just ordered our food. This may take a while."

"Shadow, you might want to look at this," says Rouge, pointing to Omega.

The black hedgehog sees Omega leaning against a building. "Omega?"

"Yeah!" Rouge wonders. "What do you think happened to our friend?"

Shadow takes a look at the robot's back display. "It looks like he's on standby mode," he says.

"Do you think Omega had anything to do with this future?" Rouge asks. She then hears a ring from her phone. She takes her phone out of her pocket and answers it. "Hello?"

"Hey Rouge," Sonic says on the other end. "What's up?"

"Hey Sonic," says Rouge. "Shadow and I are just getting some food. You?"

"We still can't find a Chaos Emerald!" Sonic says. "But we did find some other things."

"Like what?"

"Remember when Shadow mentioned a guy with no mouth?"

"Yeah..." Rouge awkwardly answers.

"We saw him talking to Blaze and a white hedgehog," Sonic explains. "and they're on a mission to kill me!"

"No way!" Rouge cries. "Where are they now?"

"They went into the past," says Sonic. "You know, in our time. We also found out that the princess of Soleanna dies, and the Flames of Disaster was the cause of this disatrous future!"

"My goodness..." Rouge mutters. She then speaks up, "We'll meet you three at the mountain."

She hangs up, and Shadow returns with two In-n-Out bags. "Who called?" Shadow asks her.

"Sonic," answers Rouge. "He and the others haven't found a Chaos Emerald yet, but they did find something else."

"Cool," says Shadow. The two teens leave the area.


3:00 p.m.

Shadow and Rouge are already at Flame Core, a tall mountain leading to a volcano. They are still eating their burgers and drinking their sodas. Finally, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles show up, with Tails holding onto some papers and some kind of small machine.

"What took you three so long?!" Rouge asks, relieved to see the three boys.

"Tails right here stopped at a store to buy this sensor machine," Sonic answers, pointing to the device Tails is holding onto.

Shadow hands Sonic the other In-n-Out bag. "We brought you guys some lunch," he says. "Warning: it might be cold."

"Thanks Shadz!" Sonic smiles, causing Shadow to frown due to 'that' nickname.

"Thanks, you guys!" says Tails.

Knuckles gets out a burger and hastily bites into it. "Yeah, thanks!" the echidna cries while talking with his mouth full. "I was starving!"

Rouge is disgusted seeing Knuckles talking with his mouth full. "Ew, Knuckles!" she whines. "Gross! Don't talk with food in your mouth!"

Knuckles sighs. "Hey Rouge," he says to her.

"What?" she asks with a bored tone.

"Shut up!" he screams, causing a piece of food to spit out of his mouth to Rouge's cheek.

Rouge feels the wet grub on her cheek and growls at the echidna, "I'M GONNA KILL YOU!"

Knuckles screams and runs away from the angry 14-year-old, who has her hands out to strangle him. The others watch the two teenagers run around. Shadow sighs and screams to them, "You guys are so immature!"

"Aw Shadow," Sonic says. "Let them have some fun!"

The black hedgehog sighs and asks them, "What's all that stuff you guys have?"

"These are some papers I printed from a lab," answers Tails, giving Shadow the papers.

Shadow looks through the papers, which have information on the princess' death, Solaris, and more information on Soleanna. "Interesting," he says as he gives the papers back to the fox.

"We also have this machine," Tails explains. "which can sense where the Chaos Emeralds are."

All of a sudden, the machine starts moving and plants a light behind the rock Shadow is sitting on. The machine levitiates a green Chaos Emerald and carries it over to Tails.

"Hey, we found a Chaos Emerald!" Sonic exclaims, happy to finally see one in the past seven or so hours!

"Rouge and I already found that one," says Shadow. "It was behind a dumpster."

"Lucky!" Tails whines.

Shadow then asks Sonic, "So you guys didn't see a single emerald in the past seven hours we've been here?"

"Nope," Sonic says, shaking his head. "I guess the only place we can find the other emerald is in that volcano."

Knuckles and Rouge immediately stop fighting and begin to listen. Knuckles then asks the 12-year-old, "Did you say the Chaos Emerald is in a volcano?!"

"Yeah," Sonic answers. "We actually have to go in the-"

"Oh hell no!" Rouge interrupts the blue hedgehog. "There is no way we're going into a volcano! Do you have any idea what that can do to my complexion?!"

Knuckles rolls his eyes and jokingly asks, "What complexion?"

Rouge growls and tries to attack the echidna, only for Shadow to grab her to prevent her from attacking him. "Let me go!" she screams, trying to get out of her partner's arms. "I need to strangle this boy!"

"No way!" Shadow argues. "Look; you are going in that volcano with us, and that is final!"

"And look on the bright side," Sonic adds. "At least you'll help us with your treasure hunting skills!"

Rouge sighs. "Fine," she says as Shadow lets go of her. "I guess I could help."

"Good," says Sonic. He then turns to Shadow saying, "Hey Shadz! Last one to the emerald is a rotten egg!"

The blue hedgehog speeds away as Shadow screams out, "Hey idiot! We're supposed to be working together!" and runs after him. Knuckles, Tails, and Rouge follow them.


About half an hour later...

After a long walk through the volcano, Sonic and the gang end up at a ledge near a pool of lava. Over the lava, a cyan blue Chaos Emerald is floating over it in the air.

Rouge, who hasn't complained about the trip once during their volcano journey, flies up to the Chaos Emerald and says, "Wow! This was so easy!"

Shadow watches Rouge attempts to grab the gem in horror. "Don't touch it!" he screams to her.

"Why shouldn't I?!" the albino bat sasses as she turns to her male companions. "We found the emerald fair and square!"

"He's serious, Rouge!" Tails tells her. "This could be a trap for all we know!"

However, Rouge ignores their advice and grabs the emerald, only for it to fly out of her hand and for a giant magma serpent-like creature to pop up out of nowhere! The bat screams as she ducks behind Shadow, shivering in fear.

"Way to go Rouge!" Shadow yells. "You made a monster come out of nowhere!"

"How was I supposed to know there'd be a monster here?" Rouge yells back.

Everyone else is in awe of the monster. Heck, Knuckles even asks, "Is that a new Pokèmon?"

"No," Tails answers as he looks at his papers. "That's Iblis: also known as the Flames of Disaster!"

"Flames of Disaster?!" Sonic gasps in shock. "So that's what Eggman wants for his evil plans: a giant fiery snake-thing!"

"Who cares?" Knuckles says nonchalantly. "This thing looks awesome! I want one as a pet!"

"You are not keeping that beast as a pet!" Shadow screams to the red idiot.

Knuckles groans in complaint as Sonic says, "Beast or not, I'm gonna fight that thing! Tails, what should I do?"

"Hold on Sonic," says Tails. "This form of Iblis doesn't just fight. This one likes to dance!"

Sonic, Knuckles, and Rouge burst out laughing. They seriously can't imagine Iblis, the Flames of Disaster, dancing. Sonic catches his breath and says to Tails, "Sorry buddy, but the thought of that thing dancing is hard to imagine!"

Iblis roars at the blue hedgehog, who turns around and hollers, "It really is!"

The fiery monster begins swaying left and right, proving that he indeed can dance.

"Alright Knuckles," Sonic begins. "See if you can put some music on! Iblis and I are having a dance-off!"

Knuckles turns on some music from his phone. The music starts with a hip-hop type beat, along with a husky male rapper's voice saying, "Alright, you kids! Y'all ready to break out in the club?!"

Shadow sighs. "One: kids can't go to the club," he mutters under his breath. "and two: we're in a volcano."

"Alright now," the rapper begins. "We're going to do a little jig called 'Keep Yo Arms Up'! Raise your arms as high as you can and sway them around!"

Sonic raises his arms up and sways them around. Iblis watches, worried if the blue hedgehog is a better dancer than him.

"Your turn, Iblis!" Sonic yells to him.

Iblis looks around, realizing he doesn't have any arms! The Flames of Disaster screams in terror and explodes. Everyone else runs away from the flames and ashes from Iblis' explosion, and the Chaos Emerald flies back to Rouge.

The female bat grabs the gem, only for Sonic to take it from her. "Hey!" she demands him. "Give that back!"

"Why should I?" Sonic asks, knowing Rouge is referring to the Chaos Emerald.

"Because I found it first!" she snaps at him. "Plus it matches my eyes."

"You've held onto enough emeralds, Rouge," says Shadow. "We need to get back to our own time anyways."

"Fine..." Rouge sighs as she and the others watch Sonic and Shadow hold the Chaos Emeralds.

The two hedgehogs hold the emeralds high and close to each other and shout out, "Chaos Control!"

A portal breaks open as Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles hop into it and leave. Rouge follows along, but Shadow stays behind.

"Dude, what are you doing?" Rouge questions. "The portal's about to close!"

Shadow sees Mephiles appearing behind him, standing with his head tilted like a creepy doll. "You go ahead," Shadow says to Rouge. "I need to deal with this pest."

Rouge shrugs as she enters the portal as it closes behind her. Who knows when Shadow will return back home...?


(200 years ago, in present time)

Monday, November 13; 11:45 a.m.

A portal opens somewhere in the middle of Soleanna, and Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles jump out of it. The three boys look around, happy to be back in their own timeline.

"So good to be back," Knuckles says, relieved.

"But where's Shadow and Rouge?" Tails wonders.

"Those guys have their own sets of problems," Sonic answers his fox friend. "You guys want to go back to the hotel?"

"Yeah," says Knuckles. "I need a nap."

The boys walk back to their hotel, hoping to get some rest.


And that was Chapter 11: my longest chapter yet! This chapter is over 2,500 words long! Anyways, back to the chapter itself.

I really enjoyed writing this chapter. From Knuckles commenting on Mephiles, Shadow and Rouge at In-n-Out, and the dance-off between Sonic and Iblis; this chapter turned out pretty awesome in my opinion.

Next chapter will be all about Team Dark (that means more of Omega!) and more of Mephiles. The chapter after that will be about Sonic and the gang taking time off from their adventure until they find out Elise has been kidnapped for the third time in this story so far!

Make sure you review this story/chapter and I'll see you in Chapter 12!