If the site said there was an update on this story earlier and nothing was here, that's because I uploaded a new chapter, saw that FF screwed up a part, deleted the chapter and then fixed it. Sorry for any confusion.

*With Tails, forty minutes later, at HQ*

The fox jogged outside to greet Sonic and the others as they arrived, but instead was astonished and dismayed when Blaze landed, extinguishing the fire she ignited while flying, followed by the Blue Blur and Knuckles floated in, willed by Silver in one hand, and in the other was a heap of scrap that was once the Tornado.

"That was one of my pride and joys!" The fox exclaimed, falling to his knees after the wreckage was placed down.

"Ah, you can fix it!" Knuckles said, slapping the young genius on the back as he picked up the Master Emerald that had clunked to the ground and brought it inside.

Tails' left eye began to twitch violently as the others walked inside. He maintained the same facial expression, and began to cough violently when a fly went into his gaping mouth.

"So what's this time travel thing?" The echidna called from inside the building.

The fox stood up and kicked the pile of metal. "If this works, I won't need to repair this anyway."

"WHAT?" Sonic shouted, not hearing his friend.

*With Sonic, inside the HQ*

The hedgehog sat up as the young genius walked in, grumbling something about his plane and time travel. After struggling with the Master Emerald, trying to get it hooked up to the machine, Knuckles stepped in and placed the giant gem wherever Tails needed it. The fox hooked up some cables and wires to the emerald and then typed some commands into the computer.

"So what's this gonna do?" Silver asked, sitting back in a chair.

"By studying the mechanics of time travel and the unlimited power of the Master Emerald, if you connect the power of the Chaos Emeralds to this machine, which is powered by…um…the entire Mobiocity power grid that I had to…borrow…as well as the Master Emerald, it will, in theory, create a wormhole back in time as far as three days. Mephiles was able to travel back in time at will and could be in the past for however long he wanted, and since he helped Silver and Blaze get back, they could stay in the past for however long they wanted to as well." Tails explained.

"I'm not going back to my dystopian wasteland," The telekinetic stated.

The fox nodded in acknowledgement of the hero's comment. "Since this machine is no Mephiles, thankfully, it can only go back so far. The events changed in Mobius will only affect Mobius. No other dimensions, say the Frostbite or Blaze's dimension, will be affected by the events in Mobius that are changed. The history and timeline of our home as well as the physical state and memories of the inhabitants here will be rewritten, but events outside of Mobius, whatever may have happened, will still remain. They will have happened."

"So, if I go back in time and stop Toxic and The Plague before they hurt Amy, then none of this will have happened in Mobius and we can go on with our lives?" Sonic asked.

"Well, not ours. Once you save Amy and basically change the course of Mobian history, our timeline, the one without Amy or Rouge—"

"Wait, what?" Blaze asked.

"—will have ceased to exist. This whole timeline will collapse in on itself; everyone and everything will be obliterated. You will have saved Amy and the past Mobius, making a better future for us all, but you, the Sonic from this timeline, as well as all of us, will fade to nothingness," The young genius explained. "We will be alive, but…us…won't be."

"Are you sure this works?" Knuckles asked.

"Never tested it yet!" Tails replied.

"So Sonic could go through that portal and…be torn to shreds? It could send him to the future? It could turn him into a cheeseburger?" Silver asked.

"I mean…theoretically…" The fox responded, looking down. "This thing was built pretty quickly. I've worked out as many bugs as I can, but I'm limited by today's technology to have gotten them all. Due to this, only one person can go through the portal when it's active, and they can't come back."

The blue hero looked over at the covered body of Amy and blinked a few times. If he was successful, none of this would have ever happened and he'd have her back, but no one was sure if this would even work. Was he really willing to risk his own life?

You know what you must do…

Sonic made his decision and nodded, summoning the emeralds around him, handing them over to Tails, who reluctantly received them and hooked them up to the different areas in the machine. The machine had a large base with steps leading up to a large arc shape, which had the emeralds inside of it. The Master Emerald sat behind the machine with cords and wires coming out of it and connecting to the machine itself and the computer next to it.

"Fire it up," The Fastest Thing Alive said hoarsely.

Tails typed some commands into the computer and a sharp, bright yellow light shot out from the floor, top and all angles of the arc, meeting at the middle to form a rift. Forking over three vials for the cure, just in case Sonic was too late once more in stopping Amy from being poisoned, Tails sighed and looked down.

"I know that there's no convincing you not to do this. I know we won't die and I don't want you to not do this. I want our team back. I just…" The fox mumbled. "For the first time in my life, I don't have any predictions on what to do next. No backup plan and no idea of what to expect next. It's…weird."

Sonic nodded and placed his hands on his friend's shoulder. "I'll fix this. All of this. Everything will be like it once was. We'll come out of this just fine."

"Ok. Uh, Sonic? One more thing. Don't allow Past Amy or your past self to see you. I'm not one-hundred percent sure this is true, but if they see you, it might create a paradox that'll cease both timelines to have ever existed, and we'd all be dead," The fox added.

"Thanks. No pressure," The blue hero muttered.

Turning around, he said his brief goodbyes to Silver, Blaze and Knuckles before jumping through the portal, hoping to fix the past.

*In the Mobiocity Park, two days earlier*

The Fastest Thing Alive tumbled out of the rift onto a nearby rooftop, overlooking the park below. Amy had just pushed Sonic down the hill, which sent him sprawling into a tree where she rushed to his aid. From the building, Sonic smiled at the scene, remembering the fond memory.

"I'm doing this for you, Amy. For all of us. You're the glue that holds us together. Without you…I guess everything falls apart. Never saw you in that way before," The Blue Blur said to himself, leaping down from the rooftop and making his way to the park.

He waited for his previous self to be thrown across the park before dropping down to an alley where he could strike when the time was right. Toxic formed next to The Plague, and the two began their assault. Waiting for Past Sonic to start engaging The Plague, the Blue Blur ran out of the shadows and rocketed into his former self, flinging the blue hero across the park and into some parked cars where he slumped to the ground in a daze. The rock beast looked down where the barely conscious hero was and then back to the Fastest Thing Alive, scratching its head.

"Two Sonic?" The Plague rumbled, then hardened its expression. "Smash both!"

Future Sonic leaped out of the way as the golem slammed its hand on the ground. However, when the hero dodged the attack, a sharp pain in his back made him cry out. He had injured his past self's back, and now that affected him.

You haven't re-written history yet, so you feel what you do to yourself.

The past Blue Blur was starting to come around. The Fastest Thing Alive glanced quickly at the hedgehog before rushing towards him, picking him up and launching him through some glass. Doing so, cuts and gashes appeared on the future hero's arms, legs and body.

You can't keep doing that.

Thanks for the notification! The hero thought.

Might I suggest taking the battle somewhere else so you don't have to juggle you or Amy while fighting these two, The pure being inside him responded.

Sonic looked over at Amy, who was just thrown across the park and slammed into the rock wall that encased the area. She appeared to be woozy and her vision didn't seem too great at the moment.

The hero took this opportunity and raced towards Toxic, grabbing it and running back towards the angered rock beast. Mustering all the strength he had left, Future Sonic wrapped his hand around The Plague's arm and pulled it along with him. Racing up buildings and across rooftops, the hero made a B-line for the woods, where no one would interfere. The Fastest Thing Alive allowed the two creations to be dragged along the buildings, having some of their arms and faces chip away, only to reform.

Leaping off the edge of the last structure, the Blue Blur flinged the two Eggman servants to the ground, creating a crater where the rock monster landed and a giant splatter mark where Toxic landed. The two soon formed again and faced the hero will malice in their eyes.

"You fight us?" The Plague rumbled.

"You're death will not be swift, hedgehog," Toxic added.

"Probably not, but yours will be," The blue hero exclaimed, picking out two of the three vials of the cure.

"Foolish hero! We can't die!" The slimy villain hissed.

"Ya know, I have a knack for proving people wrong and doing the impossible," Sonic replied, shaking one of the vials.

"We shall see," The goo being stated, narrowing its green eyes.

The Plague sunk into the ground at an alarming speed, leaving only the Blue Blur and Toxic. Thrusting its arms forward, green tentacles shot out from the slime beast's arms and hands, trying to wrap around Sonic, but to no avail. The hero swiftly dodged the attack, sliding under the legs of his foe. Before he could stand back up to his feet, a rock shell encased his whole torso. The Plague formed before him, smiling menacingly and slowly squeezing his hands. The stone casing began to squeeze Sonic, slowly crushing the life out of him. Sonic was losing his breath at a rapid rate; thinking fast, he began to vibrate at a high rate, making the rock around start to give way. The rock beast frowned and closed his hands more, but the more he tightened his grip on the hero, the more Sonic vibrated. This continued until the rock finally gave way, and the hero rushed into the woods, leaving the two in the dust. A large roar echoed throughout the forest. This made the hedgehog smile, doubling back and curling up into a tight ball. Spinning on the ground, he waited until his maximum speed was reached before launching himself throughout the woodland area, bouncing from tree to tree until he crashed through The Plague's chest, creating a gaping hole. Future Sonic pivoted on his heels and thrusted his hand which held a vial in the chest wound of his foe, breaking the glass that contained the cure. Pulling his hand out, the golem's wound sealed up, but before the villain could attack once more, a sickly green ooze began falling from his mouth before his eyes lost their light, and the rock monster crumbled into the earth for the last time.

The hero did a mental fist pump before his legs were knocked out from under him.

You forgot one.

Thanks! I wondered what that was! Sonic thought sarcastically.

The hedgehog was pulled into the air, held by his feet by Toxic's tentacles, which sprouted out of his back. His foe slammed him into a tree, knocking the air out of him. Before Future Sonic could recover, he was repeatedly bashed into the ground and held back in front of his assailant, wheezing and gagging.

"What did you do to my comrade?" The slime monster hissed.

"Um…I sent him to a better place? Well, I mean, he was bad, so…maybe not a better place…but…" The Blue Blur sputtered.

"We're unkillable!"

"Like I said, I'm good at doing the impossible."

The ooze being's face drew back, creating a deformed, creepy face. Toxic's eyes had become slanted and curved and its mouth widened, showing a row of gooey, dripping, seemingly sharp slime teeth.

"I will kill you. Slowly. Painfully," The villain said, using more tentacles to wrap around the hero's body and then more to force his eyelids back. "I will rip out your spine and wrap it around your neck like a scarf."

"Ever consider going into fashion design?" Sonic remarked.

The green villain spat on the ground and sucker punched the hedgehog in the stomach.

"Guess not," The Fastest Thing Alive whispered painfully.

"You will submit to my toxin and die after much suffering," Toxic continued, opening its mouth wide. "And then I will destroy everything you ever cared about."

"You already have," The hero said quietly, unscrewing the cork on the second vial, taking a breath and plunging his arm down his assailant's throat so far that his head was buried in the Eggman creation's mouth.

His attacker coughed, gagged and struggled, but the hero held on until he was sure that every last drop was emptied out of the vial. Letting go of the glass tube, Sonic fell out of the villain's mouth, gasping for air and scooting backward. Toxic screeched loudly, thrashing about and lashing its tentacles everywhere. Slowly, the being began to seep into the ground, hissing and grabbing at anything near it.

"WE MAY HAVE FAILED, SONIC, BUT ONE DAY, YOU WILL MEET YOUR DOOM! YOU WILL DIE AT THE HANDS OF SOMETHING GREATER! ONE WILL BE LUCKYYYY OONNEEEE DDAYYYYY…!" Toxic screeched, and with that, it melted into the ground, leaving only drips of ooze on trees and bushes.

Suddenly, Future Sonic felt weird. He looked down at his left hand and saw that slowly but surely, it was turning into dust.

You've stopped the events in your timeline from happening. You no longer exist.

"I still have one more thing to do, though."

Then hurry.

The hero turned and sped through the forest, following a very familiar path.

"Let's see…Right and then left…hop over this log and duck under this tree…Jump here and roll here…Aaaaand bingo!"

Stopping at a cave, the hero rushed inside and grabbed a sleeping Doctor Eggman, and without much of a struggle, since he had the element of surprise, Sonic apprehended Robotnik and began racing through the woods. The Fastest Thing Alive made his way to a rooftop that overlooked the park in no time and tossed the mastermind downward, where authorities and the members of Team Sonic were already on sight. No one saw him.

Taking one last look at Amy, the hedgehog dropped down into an alley where no one would find him and sat down.

You did well. You overcame great odds to save someone you cared for.

"I had to. I'm nothing without her. I can see that now."

The hero looked over at the park again.

"I only hope I'll be able to see that at some point."

You've traveled so far and done so much. Now, rest.

Rest sounded nice. Very nice. By now, the hedgehog's arms and legs had fizzled away as well as half of his torso. It wouldn't be much longer. He wondered what was on the other side. Tails had always said there would just be nothingness, but Amy had always thought something beautiful would wait for people. Sonic decided to hope for Amy's outlook to come true. Closing his eyes, the Blue Blur took his final breaths before fading away into nothingness.

*Five minutes earlier, in the timeline where Mobius is without Amy and Rouge, with Shadow*

The hero had heard everything. He had followed Sonic back to HQ and had eavesdropped in on Tails' explanation of his plan to the heroes. It seemed risky, yes, and of course, very deadly and stupid. The Ultimate Life Form wasn't at all surprised when Sonic had accepted such a feat.

Shadow wasn't going to stop him. Why would he? He wanted everything to be fixed. He wanted the past to be set right. And if the world lost Sonic, then the others would step in and do their best to fight until the end, where they too would eventually join the Blue Blur in death.

But now? Everything was chaos. Sonic had succeeded. The evidence was right in front of him. The world of Mobius began to collapse on itself. Buildings that once stood tall started to crumble down to the ground and were sucked into the swirling black vortex at the center of the dimension. Sonic had done it. He changed the past. Now, because of that, none of this existed anymore. Tails had been right.

Shadow sat on a hill and watched as the chaos and destruction unfolded before him. Lifting up his hands, he frowned as they slowly began to disintegrate into dust. As more and more of his arms were wiped away as ash and tiny particles, the Ultimate Life Form shook his head.

So this is it, Sonic? This is how far you'd go to save her? I'm surprised. Quite surprised…

The dark hero shut his eyes and leaned back in the grass, waiting for the rest of him to fade and the world of Mobius to be sucked in.

He was happy. He'd be with his friends once more and finally be able to see Maria again. For the first time in decades, Shadow felt at peace.

*With Sonic, real time, in Mobius, ten minutes earlier*

"What the heck were those things?" The blue hero grunted after Knuckles helped him to his feet and the two walked out of the shop.

The Blue Blur shook shards of glass off of his back and touched the cut marks gingerly, cringing every time he did.

"Don't touch those, stupid!" The echidna barked, batting the hedgehog's hands away from his back. "We'll get ya fixed up. No one really knows what those things were, but if I had to guess, the good doctor is back."

"Robuttnick?"

Knuckles nodded. "Seems like something he'd do. He always has a backup plan."

"You guys got here in good time."

"Yeah. Silver and Blaze are over there, trying to clean up some of the wreckage. We'll have to keep an eye out for those things in the future. No telling when they'll pop up again," The Guardian of the Master Emerald replied.

"How's Amy?" The Fastest Thing Alive questioned.

"Why don't you check up on her yourself?"

Sonic looked over at his pink friend and a wave of relief washed over him. Amy sat on a bench with army medics all around her, treating the minor wounds she received in the battle. She was doing her best to tell them to butt off, but they kept circling around her like vultures.

"Alright, guys, back up," Sonic stated, pushing through the soldiers. "She said she's fine. If there're any issues we'll let you know."

"We just have a few more questions and we'll leave," A soldier stated.

"And who're you?" Amy asked.

"My name is Gideon. We just have a couple questions for you," The trooper replied.

*Fifteen minutes later*

Eggman falling from the sky was a new one. Out of nowhere, the villain came falling from the top of a moderately sized building. After looking up at an empty rooftop and cursing Sonic's existence, the heroes gave each other confused looks, decided that he had gone loopy while in seclusion, and helped the army put him in the back of an armored truck, shutting the doors.

"That was unexpected. Guess we don't have to worry about him anymore," Silver stated.

After being told that crowd control and clean up could be handled by the army and that Sonic and Amy were free to go, the six heroes began their trek back home. Along the way, Amy and Sonic fell behind the group a little.

"Sorry that our walk didn't turn out the way you wanted," The blue hero muttered, looking down.

"Whaddya mean? I got to smash something! I haven't done that in while!" Amy exclaimed. "I just enjoyed our time out. I never thought you'd wanna go somewhere with me…just the two of us that is."

"I'm trying to put some advice I heard a while back into effect," The Blue Blur admitted sheepishly.

"From who?"

"Blizzard."

"The only good advice he'll ever give."

"I thought you got along with him!"

"I do!" Amy defended. "He's just known to have horrible ideas!"

"Well, nevertheless, I had a nice time out," Sonic finished, nodding.

"Awwwww!" His pink friend exclaimed, giving him a big hug.

Sonic looked around to make sure no one was watching before putting his arm around her and lightly patting her back.

Up ahead, Silver smiled a little at the two before turning back around.

*With Eggman*

The doctor sat in the back of the truck in silence, drumming his fingers on the seat. His legs and arms were cuffed, and the door to the outside world was locked. No getting out of here. Eggman knew that he had failed once more. His indestructible creations were somehow killed. He had a gut feeling. It was looking like he was going to be in prison for the rest of his life for his countless evil deeds.

That is, until a small rift opened up on the opposite side of Eggman.

A cat in full military gear stepped out, carrying a slight smile and holding a revolver.

"Ivo Robotnik?"

"Yes?"

"Good. I have a proposition for you. If you come with me and agree to work on a specific project that will help my father get his daughter, that is, my sister, back, we will give you everything you need, as much as you want as well as complete freedom after you're done," The mysterious feline stated, getting straight down to business.

"If I refuse?"

The cat motioned around to the jail truck. "Then rot in here."

It seemed like a simple choice, but Eggman didn't know who this was or what he wanted him to build. He also had a feeling that there was something he wasn't being told.

"Deal," The villain said cautiously.

The stranger smiled. "Follow me."

With that, the cat stood the doctor up and pulled him through the portal, closing it behind them after they went through.

*With Sonic and the others*

"So Shadow and Rouge are on a G.U.N. mission?" Amy asked as the group approached their HQ.

Tails nodded.

"Good news for me!" Sonic chuckled, walking through the door and widening his eyes. "OUR HQ!"

The place was a mess. A gray male hedgehog sat on the couch, flipping through TV channels with a bored expression. Amy's stereo was shattered on the ground with bullet holes in different parts and pieces. An orange and black echidna sat at the far end of the room with his finger in a light socket, vibrating slightly.

"This feels amazing!" He exclaimed, and then looked over at them and nodded.

"MY STEREO!" Amy cried, rushing over to it, grabbing the broken pieces and sobbing. "My Justin Beaver CD is ruined!"

"Tragic," Blaze murmured, rolling her eyes.

The hedgehog on the couch sat up. "Oh! You're home."

"Mute?" Knuckles asked.

"Sorry for barging in. Jessica thought something was dying in Amy's stereo, so she…broke it. She's in the shooting range if you wanna say hi," The sniper stated, and then thumbed over to the echidna. "That's Shock Charge. He's the cousin of Tikal. He's also with us."

"What're you doing here?" Sonic asked.

"Our dimension got taken over by some psychotic hedgehog and we lost control. We would like to know if we could stay here for a little bit until we can find another means of living. We got here through a teleporter."

"I mean, sure, but you gotta clean all this up. What happened anyway? It's like a tornado went through here," Tails said.

"GUYS?" A voice called from upstairs.

"More like a Blizzard," Mute muttered.

A blue and white cat emerged from a room and began walking down the stairs with his arms open. "Wazzup my brothers...and sisters? Miss me?"

There it is! That's the end! Sonic succeeded in saving Amy, Eggman got pulled in by someone to be revealed in the next story (same one that was in Blaze's kingdom) and Blizzard and the others are now living with Sonic and the others!

Ending explanation (Didn't understand something? Read this!): Basically, Sonic went back in time and stopped Toxic and The Plague from ever harming Amy. By doing so, he as well as the timeline he was from, which was without Amy, ceased to exist. Wanting to turn Eggman in before he faded away, Sonic followed the same path he did when he arrested Eggman in his own timeline, grabbed him and turned him in to the authorities without being spotted. He then faded away. Why were Blaze and Silver there? Because their conflict in Blaze's dimension was solved, and the time machine doesn't affect dimension timelines other than Mobius', the conflict still remained solved, not needing Blaze and Silver to come over again. They could stay behind. Shadow and Rouge's mission was in Mobius, and because the timeline was reset, so was their mission. Everything played out the same as it did the first time for them (Deathwatch, Backlash and the retreat). Why were Blizzard, Mute, Jessica and Shock Charge there at the end when they weren't in the beginning? Same explination as Silver and Blaze's. They're timeline in the Frostbite Dimension was not affected, and they weren't in Mobius before at any point, so they took a portal to Mobius at the end.

Mmany thanks to everyone who read the story. Ii really wass working on this for a while and I'mm veery sorry it took so long. Pplease forgive my slugishhness and lazy attiitude. Llet mee make it up to you with a three part finale, hm? Hope you all undersstand.

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More to come…

A foe will fall when the mind benders meet

And scorched earth will crackle under heroes' feet.

Tall or small, all heroes will fall

And a heart will be broken by the white out's call.

Two heroes will join the two teams of eight

And attempt to change the Mobian fate.

Only when the task seems dire

Will the opposite wielder seize the Throne of Fire.

The one who bears the fiery ring

Will be joined by brothers to slaughter the king,

And only when the shadow of death stands tall

Will an unlikely hero risk it all.

The clan will return and the spire will rise

But the decision of one will determine who dies.

No matter the origin of the last dying breath,

A friend will harbor the Demon of Death.

Sonic Legends Finale (Part 1 of 3): Inferno