Since I started this fic and now I can certainly say that my knowledge in the Fleetway (Sonic the Comic) series has… grown, to put it simply –and by that I mean, I actually read some issues–. Let's get on with it.

The Wachowski Sonic couldn't fall asleep, his mind was racing with curiosity, excitement, and wonder that it hasn't been satisfied so far, being stuck in the freezing pole and then accidentally working for Eggman didn't help the situation, his short time during the city was a non-stop fight before things finally calmed down and now that they had calmed down, he wanted to go back. He was more than used to being in a burrow and now he wanted to explore this new world before eventually having to return. He left the room he was in trying not to alert anyone, unsure if there was anyone to alert in the first place. The main lobby was with lights on but no people around, in fact, it looked like everyone was reunited in the lab looking important, another thing he was curious about, the technology in this world looked amazing.

Nevertheless, as he left the small base first thing that caught his attention was the big ship parked not far away, he had seen it back then but it wasn't a great moment to stop and smell the roses. And next to the ship, another version of him. It was X, staring into the cold, dark night like a statue.

"Um, hello?" Wachowski called out.

"Oh, hey," he replied without much else allowing for an awkward pause.

"So… what are you doing here?"

"Nothing," unlike the rest of the Sonics, X wasn't too bothered by this dimensional world hopping nor was he too thrilled, he was willing to help this version of Knuckles and he was worried about Chris who was fine and didn't look that he had gone through anything dangerous. Good. But Knuckles had left sometime in the middle of the night and that… well that hurt a bit more, because it meant that Knux had given up, either that or he would return soon but based on their last conversation it wasn't likely "What are you doing here?"

"Oh, me? I was going to the city".

"What city?" he thought "Cool, I'll… I'll sleep, don't wanna leave the little guy alone".

And that was the end of their conversation, if it weren't for X spotting a small object traversing the sky far in the distance, a small round object that couldn't be identified. Wachowski saw it as well with both of them squinting their eyes to get a better look.

"Is that-?" X asked,

"-Eggman," he finished the sentence with a stare that could kill if possible and without hesitation, zoomed straight into the direction the ship was going, leaving X behind only to be cut off by a bystander in the middle of the way. This someone is none other than a Sonic with a yellow body and red eyes in a spiral shape.

"Hm, I feel like I've seen you before," the golden Sonic said, his sharp teeth still showing but his tone being nothing like what they previously heard, this one being much more passive.

"You… you were-".

"Super? Really?" X caught up to the two hedgehogs who found the image funny "And- your eyes…" his expression quickly changed to disgust.

"Super… yeah, that sounds familiar. Excuse me, but I seem to have lost my memory of who I am, do you know?"

"Huh? Of course, I do!" Wachowski interrupted "You attacked that other Sonic! I recognize when a villain is trying to trick me. Uh-uh".

"Sonic… A villain," the large pauses he was making were him going through some heavy thought process, trying to recover from his apparent memory loss "I feel so weak- an attack, maybe-..."

X looked at his counterpart with a disapproving look for the way he was treating this clearly confused Super Sonic.

"Don't worry! I'm sure we can help you with your memories".

"Woah!" Wachowski said as he noticed a whole different problem "Your- your arm".

X looked at both his arms watching their fur get darker, going from dark blue to straight up black without a clue in the world as to what was happening, trying to shake it off as if it was some sort of substance and without warning, a pain in his head made him fall to his knees causing his fur to back to normal, gasping for air with Super rushing to his help that ultimately caused a bit more pain once he discovered –for a second time- that touching his counterpart would do no good. A small tap was all that took for Super to fall back blinking before locking a stare that went blank slowly, forming a devilish grin and looking at Wachowski that made the blue hedgehog take two steps back.

With a shake of the head, the Super Sonic went back to his naive, unknowing persona trying to help.

"I don't need-," X said with an uncharacteristic anger that turned into his normal, more relaxed self, finally getting up "I'm fine, it's okay let's go back".

Sure they should, everything that just happened left the Wachowski speechless and unsure as to what he should even worry about, he looked around him first looking for Eggman or his ship but they were nowhere to be seen… On to the base it was, hoping that X was right about Super Sonic and that fur darkening was just a weird phenomenon that he simply couldn't understand.

Metal Sally was still in the same room Sonic had left her along with Sticks. Rotor had left a while ago stating that he would return in the morning. So now the two girls had the company of each other but it wasn't as if Sally was enjoying the companion, the fact that she couldn't speak was also getting annoying especially now that she couldn't have a proper conversation with the badger who was doing nothing but asking questions about the Freedom Fighters and who they were as if it was an interrogation –although they had to be yes or no questions- or rambling about how much she was against technology which just weirded out Sally.

At last, she had the brilliant idea to check out the machine for herself, she had robotic parts after all, surely there was something that she could use that could help in… something, maybe it was something as simple as fixing the little damage it sustained during the battle.

"Do you feel something if I poke- Ghost!" Sticks' scream startled Sally who turned around to see what was happening only to receive the greatest surprise at the moment in the form of her lynx friend… wait, well, it was her friend but this was a different version of her, the outfit gave it away. But she quickly judged by the expression that Nicole was more confused than her.

"You're not my-" Nicole said with Sally violently shaking her head guessing the remainder of the question. She noticed the handheld the lynx was carrying a handheld with a ring and seconds after, a second Nicole materialized startling Sticks even more… Now this was the Nicole she knew. Without a second thought, she jumped in for a hug, almost tackling the poor lynx.

"Sally?" Archie Nicole asked, taking several seconds to process what she was witnessing with her friend energetically nodding "But… how- what happened?!"

"It doesn't matter now, it worked! Somewhat… you can understand me, right?"

"Understand you?"

"You can understand me! Nicole…" she said now talking to Prime "It's Sally, your Sally, it's over… she's okay. Sonic took her away but there's no need to worry anymore".

And just like her counterpart, this piece of news was like a bomb that came out of nowhere that made her freeze in place not knowing how to respond, only staring ahead with millions of thoughts racing through her mind.

"What?"

"I feel like I'm being excluded" Sticks joined the conversation with Sally giving her a scolding look.

"Her body is still robotic but she's back… we just have to finish this thing" she pointed at the machine, and Prime Nicole could only process one thing at a time at the moment but still she decided to check the de-roboticizer all around with Sticks getting uncomfortably close acting as she was also investigating it. After some silence, Sally spoke up again.

"If there's anything I can do to help…" Both Nicoles looked at each other.

"Sally," Prime talked "The… other Sally, you said that Sonic-".

"Yes! He didn't say where he was going but I guess you should know better".

A place of comfort, peace, and security, surely that was the criteria Sonic had used, if Sally was back then a place where she could rest and breathe was the most logical choice, but there weren't clear options that would fit those qualifications at the moment, maybe it was a special place that only Sonic would know and- that was it! That place did exist despite everything that had recently happened.

"This machine isn't damaged," Archie Nicole interrupted "It just needs some… correction".

"Can you do that?" asked Sally.

"Well, I could try".

"That's great! I'm sure you, Sally, and… do you trust her?" she said referring to Sticks with Sally reluctantly nodding "Very well, I'll go find Sally".

Chris was wondering where his Sonic went, but after calling out his name for a while, he realized that he might be out of range for him to be heard, he decided he would check out outside but as he reached the lobby, there was someone already in the couch talking with someone that Chris couldn't spot –from behind the couch-.

"Um, excuse me, have you seen Sonic?" Chris asked.

"Oh, hey!" the man got up from the couch "Well, there are many Sonics around… Friend of his?"

"Yeah".

"I imagined," he said with a smile offering a handshake with his only operating arm "Name's Tom".

"Chris," he said accepting it.

"I don't assume this is the Sonic you're looking for" Right then, little Sonic popped up from behind the couch with his signature mohawk making a peace sign and greeting the kid with Chris' expression indicating that it was not his Sonic "My Sonic actually said he was going outside, something about wanting to visit a city".

Oh, right, the city, Chris hadn't thought of that for a while but he did have the great idea of searching outside instead of needlessly screaming.

"I was actually planning on joining him, but- uh, my arm needs some rest. That and this Sonic over here has a great sense of music".

"And it can be so much better!" Sonic replied jumping out of the couch carrying an odd-looking guitar "Us three are always playing together!".

"Us three?" Chris cut off.

"Yeah… Me, Manic, Sonia… you know who I'm talking about?" Chris and Tom looked at each other waiting for the other to chime in on their knowledge about this but it was obvious that they had no idea who he was talking about. It was a different universe, but the fact that none of the Sonics he had met so far had any indication of siblings was kind of bumming, nothing major, although ever since he realized that this was an alternate dimension with alternate versions of himself, he was looking forward to knowing the alternate versions of Manic and Sonia, but maybe there was no Manic and Sonia… Speaking of which, he was getting worried about the amount of time he was spending in this world considering his sudden disappearance, now wondering how his siblings were doing.

In the middle of this, the trio heard some muffled commotion coming from upstairs.

"Is that the fox?" the Sonic asked with Chris shrugging, Tom just went ahead to figure out what was it with the other two following behind him, as they got closer, the muffling got clearer and Tom was met with a whole lot of Sonics engaging in some argument with the sudden scenery of blue hedgehogs definitely made the only yellow one stand out.

"Are you sure he doesn't know who he is?" Prime Tails asked

X scratched his ear and shrugged it off with a smile showing that he was trusting the newcomer without inspiring much confidence.

"Someone could watch over him" Archie Sonic suggested also being one of those who had not met this version of Super Sonic.

"Woah, woah, woah," little Sonic interrupted the conversation coming from between the two humans who were trying to follow what was going on with this new golden Sonic "You guys do remember who this guy is?! He swooped me into the sky and… and…" he began to drift off once he noticed the Super Sonic staring at him with those red spiral eyes of his for an unsettling amount of time that everyone saw waiting for someone to say something and it was Super Sonic who broke it in the form of a quick headache and rapid blinking that put everyone on guard.

"Sonic," he said as if he was trying to recall something "Sonic…"

"Yeah, we're all Sonic, what else?" said Prime trying to get him out of his trance.

"No… you're all different" he replied calmly his hand still holding his head.

"So you do remember!" little Sonic pointed out again closing in on the Super Sonic but he was met with silence which didn't alleviate the situation by a bit.

"If he's as dangerous as you say, then shouldn't we keep an eye on him?" Archie Tails suggested.

"I could watch him" Tom entered the conversation once he had a fair grasp of the conversation instantly getting the center of attention from everyone primarily from his own Sonic who was shaking his head and making 'no' signs "I mean, me, Amy, and- if you all want to of course, he's just a yellow Sonic, right? You are Sonic?" he asked with the reply being a silent stare.

"Sorry, who are you?" Prime interrupted.

"He's helped us to fight against Mecha Sally," Prime Tails explained with Tom's mind going back to what exactly counted as 'helping' but appreciated the compliment "What about your arm?"

Tom opened his mouth to explain himself but was cut off by Chris.

"I want to help too!" he said and just like Tom, all eyes fell on him, especially from X giving him an approving smile and Wachowski who let out a light sigh with the rest of them finding this reaction somewhat cute coming from a child they'd never seen before. This time it was Tails who was confused and Prime who gave his answer.

"He's been here," the hedgehog said without much interest. During this wacky exchange, the Super Sonic was completely calm, weird spirally eyes and all but there was nothing malicious coming from those eyes just hopping from person to person as they spoke listening carefully to everything they said about him, it appeared as if nobody liked him or as if they wanted to keep their distance… from a very powerful being.

"We can leave him here and then come back after we finish," said Boom Tails which piqued the intrigue of the group.

"Finish? Are you guys going somewhere?" Tom asked was everyone was thinking the fox took a deep sigh with excitement.

"I have this formula that will finally get us back home and avoid our bodies painfully crumble but I first need to build a machine and I need every Sonic with me for very technical stuff, I just need to get to my workshop and-... you do have a workshop, right?"

"Kind of?" his counterpart said with uncertainty.

"Sweet!"

Listening to that info, Prime Sonic pulled out the Warp Ring still thinking about his last conversation with Knuckles and everything surrounding it, brushing it off, he made a light throw opening a portal leading into Tails' 'workshop'.

"And there's our ride," he said with a smile to quickly convince everyone. Looking at each other they silently agreed to it and it was Archie Tails who went in first followed by the same Sonic, X walking backward into the portal and winking at Chris, just Sonic was next with the thought that Tangle was also staying behind. Little Sonic just went into the portal without taking his eyes off Super. Tom looked at his Sonic with the hedgehog giving him a look warning him to be careful and both Prime alternates went in with Boom Tails being the last one.

"Have this" he said, handing a small device to Tom.

"What's this?"

"I don't trust any Sonic with red eyes," the fox whispered "Just click this button and say the first thing that comes to your mind" and with that, he was the last person to go through the ring closing it and leaving the room with two humans and a yellow hedgehog in silence.

"Hi," said the kid offering a handshake "My name is Chris!"

End of the chapter, getting real excited as well as dreading the upcoming scenes… See you soon!