SONIC HEROES: THE SERIES

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Sonic characters, just the OC's

Note: Begins directly after Resurrection.

Chapter Fifteen: Time Twist

It was only weeks ago when the heroes of the future defeated the queen of demons, Lilith. But even with Eggman Nega carefully under watch, no one could predict the coming of his next evil plan. The scene opens up to a frozen mountain area in the north of Future City. Trudging through the deep forest was a tall black machine with a body structure similar to Metal. The machine had claws on his hand and feet, six spikes on its back, a long, flexible tail, and a dragon head similar to Metal Overlord's. It appeared to be looking for something as it dug into the ground and found a box. As it opened the box, it discovered it had found what it was looking for: The Time Stones.

"Nega was right, they are here." The creature said as he clutched the stones. "Metal was foolish enough to leave these behind. Now with the time stones, I will go back in time to correct those mistakes I made so long ago."

"Wow, two hundred years hasn't good to you." the creature looked to the trees and found Sonic sitting lazily on the branch. "How've you been, Mecha?"

"Sonic..." The creature known as Mecha Shadow growled. "If you think you will defeat me this time, you are sadly mistaken. I have grown more powerful after two hundred years then you ever could in an eternity."

"Let's find out." Sonic smirked.

Sonic jumped down from the tree and zipped forward the moment he touched ground. With a flick of his wrist, Sonic created two small wrist blade of blue chaos from his cuffs. Sonic swung his blade across Mecha's chest...only to phase through him.

"Wha...?" Sonic said in a confused manner.

Taking advantage of the confusion, Mecha reached to grab Sonic by his head. Mecha swung the blue hedgehog over his shoulder and hurled him to the nearest tree. Sonic tried to stand up, but came in fast and grabbed the hedgehog by the throat to pin him down.

"As you can see, my speed has greatly surpassed yours." Mecha stated. Mecha lifted Sonic into the air and punched him through the tree. "Now if you don't mind, I have a little business to attend to." Mecha reached behind him to pull out the yellow chaos emeralds. The time stones reacted to the emerald and floated above his head. "CHAOS TEMPUS!"

The chaos emerald then shot out seven beams of light that struck the time stones surrounding it. the stones began spinning at a wild pace. Within a matter of seconds, a white vortex appeared before them.

"I would hate to fight and run, but a have an engagement with an old friend and would hate to miss it." Mecha said before he jumped into the vortex.

"Oh man. Shadow will kill me if I let him get away." Sonic said while moving closer to the vortex. "Well, I always wanted a vacation." He said before jumping into the vortex.

---200 Years Before---

As the white vortex opened, Sonic jumped down from and scanned his new surroundings. To much of his surprise, the former mountain region had transformed into a beach before his very eyes. As he looked down the coast, he spotted a small trace of civilization up ahead. Sonic climbed a random palm tree to get a better look. It was a town filled with many rivers going through it and the whole place seemed to be an inspiration to water.

"I wonder what that is." Sonic said. Sonic scanned his memories that formally belong to the original Sonic and found his answer. "I remember. That's Soleanna. It was like that before they changed it to Future City. Maybe I'll find Mecha there."

Sonic jumped down the tree and ran at breakneck speed to the water town. Meanwhile, Amy was also in Soleanna doing some shopping and had Knuckles, Jet, and Espio carry her many purchases.

"Maybe we should stop by the shoe store and see if they have anything on sale." Amy said giddily.

"Why are we doing this again?" Knuckles whispered to Jet.

""Because if we don't, Amy will get mad. And you know what she's like when she's mad." Jet whispered back.

"She'd kill us." Espio whispered.

"Hey! Are you three coming or not?" Amy shouted.

"Yes!" The trio shouted quickly as they ran to catch up with Amy.

"Well, you better hurry up." Amy said. "I am not just stand around all day waiting for you three to..." Amy was cut off when something ran into her and knocked her to the ground. The three males panicked in fear of one of Amy's anger assaults. "Hey, watch where you're going, you..." She stopped in mid-sentence when she saw it was Sonic. "Sonic!"

Amy wasted no time wrapping Sonic in her signature bone breaking hug. Since he did not experience such things in the future, Sonic came un prepared and was choking to death.

"Can't...breath." Sonic gasped out.

"Sonic, what are you doing here?" Amy asked as she let go. "Did you come to help shop with me?"

"Amy, I seriously doubt that's what he came here for." Espio said.

"Amy? This is Sonic's wife." Sonic thought.

"You don't know what you're talking about, Espio." Amy said. "Obviously Sonic came because he has feelings for me. Right, Sonic?"

"Amy? You're my wife, right?" Sonic asked.

Jet, Knuckles, and Espio instantly dropped all the stuff they were carrying and their jaws (beak, in Jet's case) literally fall to the ground. Amy reaction was different. The sparks in Amy's eyes grew so bright, it actually blinded Sonic.

"Oh, Sonic! Of course I'll be your wife!" Amy cheered as she hugged him again.

"Wait, they're not married yet Guess this isn't that time period." Sonic thought. Sonic felt someone tapping on his shoulder and looked back. It was Recter, who completely out of nowhere and cracked his knuckles. "If I remember correctly, that is Recter. Sonic was afraid of him because..."

Sonic stopped in mid-thought and nervously turned to Recter. Recter grabbed Sonic by the neck and pulled the blue hedgehog towards him. Amy and the guys covered their eyes as the sound of Fists flying and Sonic painful yelps could be heard. When the fighting had stopped, Recter had gone back home and Sonic was left with eight bumps on his head, six bruises, and one black eye.

"This isn't as easy I thought it would be." Sonic thought.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the town. The scene takes place at a nearby jewelry store. Mecha, wearing a black clock, was standing in the center of the store. Of all the priceless jewels there, only one caught his attention.

"The white chaos emerald. Exactly as I remember it would be." Mecha said.

right in front of him, on a tall pedestal and covered by a glass case, stood the white chaos emerald. Mecha's eyes stood solely on the white jewel. Mecha reached out to grab it until.

"I see you are interested in only the finest crafted pieces."

Mecha looked over his shoulder to see the owner of the store.

"Yes, I am particularly interested in the chaos emerald." Mecha said.

"a chaos emerald? Why, I did not know." The owner said. "If I knew what it was, I would have placed a higher price."

"Has anyone bought it already?" Mecha asked.

"No."

"Then I'll take it." Mecha stated.

"Good. How will you be paying?" the owner asked.

"Who said anything about paying?" Mecha chuckled as his red eyes glowed brighter.

Back with the heroes, Amy was bandaging Sonic's injuries while the guys gathered around him with confused looks.

"What in the world were you thinking, Sonic? Do you have a death wish or something?" Knuckles asked. "You know how overprotective Recter is of Amy.

"How was I supposed to know he was here?" Sonic asked.

"You know, I can't put my wing on it, but there's something different about you Sonic." Jet said. Sonic was starting to lose his cool now. If they found out that he was a clone from the future, they would tear him to pieces and the future could be ruined. Jet moved in closer to examine him and suddenly said. "I know. You got a new haircut, didn't you?"

Sonic facefaulted to the ground.

"Yeah...let's go with that." Sonic said.

"No, I don't think it's a haircut. Besides, he doesn't have hair." Espio stated.

"Espio is right." Amy said sternly. "You're hiding something, Sonic. And I want to know what."

Great, now what do I do?" Sonic mentally asked himself. As the other back him into a corner, a sudden explosion from the other side of town redirected their attention. "Saved by the explosion."

Taking this opportunity, Sonic used his super speed to escape from the others and make his way to the wreckage.

"Sonic, get back here!" Amy yelled.

Amy used here own super speed to chase after Sonic. The guys looked at each other and shrugged. They gladly dropped all of Amy's stuff and race after the speedy hedgehogs. When the heroes arrived, they ducked down behind a pile of rubble and looked over their target. They found that Mecha had discarded his clock and held the chaos emerald in his hand.

"Hahaha! Finally! Only six more and I shall have my revenge against Metal." Mecha stated.

"Revenge? Do you think Eggman created this thing to destroy Metal for betraying him?" Espio asked.

"I don't know and frankly, I don't care." Jet said. "I saw we sneak up, catch him in a surprise attack, and take that emerald. What do you say, Sonic." No response. "Sonic?" The others looked over to see that Sonic was gone. "Where'd he go?"

"Yo, Mecha!" Mecha turned to see Sonic standing only a few feet from him. "How about you stop playing around and start getting serious."

"So much for a surprise attack." Espio said.

The other four jumped out of their hiding spot and decided to join Sonic on the battle field.

"I remember this day." Mecha thought. Mecha's eyes shifted to a nearby building. Standing at the top of the building was himself, two hundred years ago. "Even if I fail, I will succeed." "Now, time for all of you to die."

Sonic and Jet jumped forward at Mecha. Sonic throw a kick and Jet used his fans, but Mecha blocked with his steel enforced tail. Mecha whipped his tail to knock them back and slung it around to block Amy's hammer from behind.

"Attacking for behind? How pathetic." Mecha said.

Mecha wrapped his tail around Amy and started to tighten it to squeeze the life out of Amy. Mecha smiled evilly until Espio threw a set of kunai at him. They didn't do anything, but they did distract him long enough to allow Amy to escape. Once Amy was in the clear, Espio began forming a series of hand signs. Espio inhaled a might breath of air and shouts

"Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!"

Espio exhaled a large fireball from his mouth and completely covered Mecha within the flames. Espio smiled confident over his victory until Mecha's tail shot out of the flames and whipped Espio away. Mecha knew that he had won until he realized that Knuckles was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly, Knuckles popped out of the ground and landed a mighty blow that dented Mecha's chest.

"Hah!" Knuckles boasted.

"Hahaha! You are even more pathetic then I remember." Mecha laughed.

Mecha raised his claw and whacked Knuckles into the air. Mecha turned his back for a moment before jumping backwards into the air. Mecha stretches the spikes on his back and cages Knuckles inside.

"METAL THUNDER!" Mecha yells.

Mecha released a surge of electricity through his spikes and shocks Knuckles in the process. Mecha turned to throw Knuckles to the ground. But before he did, he strangely pulled on Knuckles quill before letting him go. When Mecha touched ground again, he glanced to his past self, who was still watching.

"Even if I win, I must make sure nothing is altered." Mecha thought.

When, the heroes tried to stand up, Mecha charged forward to attack. Mecha threw his claws at Amy, Jet, and Espio to grab them and throw them into the air before tossing them away with his tail. Strangely enough, he had completely passed Sonic when he had the chance. Mecha looked into his claw and smiled with evil satisfaction. But while he was distracted, he did not notice Sonic as he curled into his ball form.

"Hey, don't forget me!" Sonic shouted.

The second Mecha looked over; he was nailed to the forehead by Sonic's spin dash attack. The blow wasn't strong enough to actually knock Mecha off his feet, but for some reason, he purposely threw himself. Mecha was thrown over the nearby store and was headed in the direction of his past self. The past Mecha moved out of his future self's way, but not before his future self slipped something into his claw. Taking a moment to recollect himself, Mecha used his speed to run back to the battle with Sonic.

"So, this is what it has come down to. The final battle for the fate of the future." Mecha said.

"The future? What's he talking about?" Jet asked.

"They might cause some trouble if the find out." Mecha thought.

Before anyone could realize it, Mecha swiftly turned around and emitted a bright flash from his eyes. The flash became strong enough to literally blinded Amy and the guys.

"What did you do?" Sonic asked.

"I temporarily blinded them." Mecha answered. "We have five minutes until the effects wear off. Time to end this." Mecha places his claws forward and pulls out a mass amount of black chaos to form a black sphere of electricity between them. "Take this! ELECTRIC HELL SPHERE!"

Mecha launched the sphere forward towards Sonic. Along the way, the sphere of electricity gathered as much electrically energy from nearby objects and grew larger at a rapid pace. But despite all that, Sonic seemed to be calm. Instead, he raised his hand to the air to summon his signature Sonic Wind. But he didn't use it. As he stood there, the wind sphere grew larger and larger until it was the same size as him.

"Is that all you got?" Sonic taunted. "Here, try this. SONIC GALE!"

Sonic threw the ball and sent it directly for Mecha. Even though the Sonic Gale was smaller was three times smaller, the Electric Hell Sphere stood no chance against it and pushed it back to its creator. Mecha stood frozen at the sight of his greatest attack being subdued and did not move when the Hell Sphere hit. Mecha was literally blown to pieces on contact and not a single trace was seen to prove he actually existed. When it was over, only the time stones and the two chaos emerald remained. Sonic picked up the yellow chaos emeralds and the time stones floated above him.

"Well, guess it's time to head back." Sonic said. Sonic looked to his past friends and smiled. "It was nice to see them at least once. And Amy, she may be a pain, but she's not that bad." Sonic raised the yellow emerald and shouted. "CHAOS TEMPUS!"

A few moments later, the heroes received the eye sight back and looked around to what had happened. The surrounding machines and other electrical objects were damaged and a huge crater stood only a few feet from them. To their disappointment, neither Sonic nor Mecha could be found. But they did see the white chaos emerald. Espio picked it up.

"What happened to Sonic and that other thing?" Amy asked.

"What ever it was, it seemed to know Sonic and the rest of us quite well." Espio examined.

"Yeah, and did you here what they said?" Jet asked. "They said something about 'the fate of the future'. What's that about?"

"I don't know, but something strange is going on and I don't like it." Knuckles said.

The four were left with questions with absolutely no answers. All they could do was stare into the sky and ponder.

"Hey, what happened to all the stuff I bought?" Amy suddenly asked.

I am so glad I am not those three.

Meanwhile, over the Caribbean Sea, the Egg-Carrier III was flying high above the waters. Metal was meditating as usual with the yellow chaos emerald, Violet was sleeping on the floor, and Bokkun and Eggman was playing checkers.

"King me!" Bokkun exclaimed.

Eggman threw a temper tantrum and shove the board off the table. The board landed on Violet's head, which did not bother her because she was still asleep for some odd reason. Just then, Mecha walked through the automatic door.

"Hi, Mecha!" Bokkun yelled, which surprisingly still did not wake up Violet.

"Mecha restrained himself from killing the little machine and walked over to Metal.

"Did you bring what I requested?" Metal asked.

Mecha opened his claw to reveal the contents that was inside it. In his claw were a pink hair, a red quill, a green feather, and a purple scale. What surprised Mecha was that these items were given to him by his future self, which he needed to complete his mission.

"Excellent. You have done well." Metal praised his black counterpart. Metal took the items from Mecha's claw and examined them with pride. "Yes, these are exactly what we need."

"What now?" Eggman asked.

"Thanks to Mecha here, our plans for reconstructing our mechs will move faster the originally planned." Metal explained. Metal made his way to the door and opened it. "Soon, our vengeance will be at hand." Metal said before the door closed.

Eggman and Bokkun started dancing and singing, badly, with joy. This, surprisingly, still did not wake Violet up. But Mecha seemed isolated from the celebration as he had many thoughts on his mind.

"I saw it. that hedgehog used the time technique. Then that means he was from the future. If that's true, then was that monster...me?" Mecha mentally questioned as he remembered the mechanical monster's words. "If that is true, then why do I seek revenge against the one who created me? Metal knows something about me and I want to find out what."

Mecha was stern about getting some answers. But before he could even chase after Metal, Eggman and Bokkun dragged him into the party. With all the dancing and singing, Mecha felt like a complete fool. Suddenly, a random fly flew past Bokkun and caused him to sneeze. This finally broke Violet from her slumbering coma.

"Huh? What happened?" Violet asked.

The future can be unpredictable. What does Metal know about Mecha? What does he intend to do with the items? Find out in the next chapter of Sonic Heroes.

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