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At the checkpoint of Glitched Hill, the Tailses found the Amys, Blaze, the Chaotixes, Big the Cat and Froggy, and looked around.
"Guys! You're OK!" Tails shouted.
"Tails! You're fine!" Amy hugged Tails. "What's wrong with this world?"
"We're in Glitched Hill." Classic Tails explained. "And someone who look and sound like Sonic is using the Phantom Ruby and the Paradox Prism."
"Oh no..." Classic Amy slumps down.
Vector and Classic Vector arguing confused together, while Charmy panicked.
"Well... Why there is a checkpoint in here?" Espio is confused. "Looks almost out of place, given how twisted this place is."
The rest of the team and co. arrived at the spot.
"Everyone!" Sonic called. "Merlina, Silver, Chip, Infinite, Sticks too! The Eggmen and the Resistance arrived! We have to tell you a lot!"
"What!?" The Chaotixes are shocked.
The party told about the overclocked Phantom Ruby and its usage on an alternative timeline, the Paradox Prism and how its initial shattering led to the Shatterspaces, the interaction of the two which led to the creation of the mysterious hedgehog, how both works, and so much more today."
"Oh, so illusion-reality meets space-time-shatter, huh?" Vector heard it. "OH NO!"
"Illusion, technology, flora, weather, transmute, everything." The hedgehog jumpscared everyone.
"You're going to use both to shatter the multiverse?!" Blaze gets supicious. "What would happen to you if you were to succeed?!"
"You who tormented me! Why did you make fun of my kingdom's fate?" Merlina prepped her spells.
Trip pointed her spear and growls.
"Wow, you arrived quite a bit earlier than I expected." The hedgehog appeared through the projection. "You're fast, Sonic. Not only by yourself, but with you friends."
"Technically, Eggman is my enemy, but you must be worse than him." Sonic called the mysterious hedgehog out. "I can work with him, but not you! You're just an unknown impostor!"
"I am better than ALL of you." The hedgehog smugly refuted. "Your bullshit is one of the roadblocks."
"Sonic, we've checked, and the Chaos Emeralds disappeared." Chip panicked. "What's going on!? Why would the hedgehog consificate them!?"
"If you grow too powerful, you will be my doom. I can't allow that." The hedgehog mocked them. "Oh, the lowlifes!"
"Why make fun of my kingdom? I don't need to save it." Merlina called the hedgehog out. "I am living in full. Why should I go do to the extreme to save it again?"
"Why does it have to be Phantom Ruby again!?" A member of the Resistance complained.
"Trip did nothing wrong." The Tailses defended Trip.
"Why do you want us to die like flies and fleas!" Eggman facepalmed.
"I told you, with the two, there's nothing I can't do." The hedgehog responded in disdain. "May I show you again?"
Cue a Phantom Ruby effect effecting the Glitched Hill, turning it into the Green Hill but partially reduced to white.
"What!?" The Classics are shocked. "Green Hill! But how!?"
"Time Eater?" Sonic recalled. "Wait... Sage?"
Sage shrugged, while the Eggmen are embarassed.
"What's going on? Did the Ruby change everything?" Shadow looked around.
"Is this... your world?" Merlina looked around. "It's so weird..."
"This is Green Hill, when the Time Eater did its rampage because the two eggies." The hedgehog explained. "Moments before, it was full of glitches. Just my wastes."
"Little guy, we're been that time before." Sonic clarified for his past counterpart, before telling the other: "And you, that scarf me, this has been Green Hill. We're in a time decayed because of the Time Eater."
"This is a ruined Green Hill." Prime!Rouge rejected the surroundings. "I hate this version of here."
"Look, everyone!" Tails noticed the checkpoint. "It's changed!"
Everyone saw the checkpoint but the hedgehog of unknown, and that one show a picture of the Time Eater.
"Nothing too unusual right now." They just stopped. "Fine. Guess we should unite, because we're still stranded."
"It's official." Blaze declared. "Team Superstars! Go!"
And Team Superstars reunited and extended, with the goal is to survive and save everything. This is capped by Sonic shaking hands with Eggman.
"Little girl, can you help us with the enviro-" Robotnik called Sage, but...
Six dark-hued robots landed down on top of the checkpoint, pushing everyone. These vaguely resemble the Zeti, the Deadly Six: Zavok, Master Zik, Zazz, Zomom, Zeena, and Zor.
"Woah!" Sonic lands down on a slope. "What's that?!"
The smoke clears out, revealing six robots with glowing visors.
"They're shaped like..." Sonic recognized them. "THE DEADLY SIX!?"
Cue the shock from everyone, especially Tails, Eggman, Sage and Shadow.
"My Eggman's robots? Not the shape I've seen!" Boom!Sonic gets suspicious.
Elise floats down, with a twisted smile on her face. "Grim Zeti, you did dynamic entry."
"Elise...?" Sonic recognized the voice.
"Oh no!" Silver panicked.
"Damnit!" Shadow urged.
"What the?!" Eggman saw the girl.
Elise lands down, in center with the Grim Zeti.
"No... your eyes!" Sonic noticed her eyes. "It's... full of red with white point in each middle!"
Elise's eyes, instead of blue irises and normal white sclera, has white irises and red sclera, evoking something that has been erased from existence.
"In the name of Solaris, I serve the lord hedgehog." Elise revealed her forced heel turn. "All who defy the lord shall be-"
"Elise! You can't do like this!" Sonic cried out in horror.
"She's out of her mind!" Silver realized something's wrong with Elise. "Princess! No!"
"I'm not a princess anymore. I'm the queen." Elise dismissed. "And I serve the lord, who is MY god."
"The hedgehog has turned the Princess- huh? I now remember everything back?" Silver realized he's regained all his memories of The Solaris Incident. "What the-"
"Solaris runs in my veins. I can destroy time itself, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and OVER again!" Elise let out a crazy laughter.
"Solaris!?" Sonic and Shadow finally recalled.
Merlina casted against the Solaris girl, but no good, the latter shrugs off.
"No! It doesn't even affect this woman!" Merlina is shocked.
"Elise! You can't be on that hedgehog's side! He's evil!" Sonic begged for Elise.
"Grim Zeti, attack!" Elise commanded the Grim Zeti.
"Uh oh." Tails is displeased.
The Grim Zeti attacked the team. Grim Zazz ambushed the Tailses with two Moon Mechs in his extending hands, throwing both to crush them. Unlike the real deal, these are homing bouncing systems with jet propulsion, and causes quake upon each impact, to make the Tailses trip off and fall. The tried to circumvent it by flying, but the star-shaped homing projectiles explode to knock the two down. Each Moon Mech is even heavier and larger, nearly twice the height of the Grim Zazz who's already a bit taller than even the original Moon Mech.
Grim Zomom, while even more bulbous than the original, possesses an even greater strength, ranging a few orders of magnitudes greater than that of the original while also being fast enough to keep up with any Sonic; the Knuckles two and Boom!Sonic had to deal with quakes and chunks dealt by the monstrous robotic copy of Zomom, and unsuprisingly, the terrace easily cracks and crumbles.
Grim Zik simply gestured using his in-built staff for psychokinesis, throwing palm tree to bombard the Resistance. He also commanded a horde of corrupted Eggforcers to attack Prime!Rouge and Chip, and his ig electricified energy balls homing to all his targets, so all have to dodge and go.
Silver lifted and threw rocks to the Grim zeti, but Grim Zeena used her energy cords to pull those rocks, before leaping up with extreme precision yet unpredictable and then kick the rocks down to him and Blaze. Then fly to disorientate the two alters, and rinse and repeat. Blaze realizes she's easily tired with this, so she targeted a few rings just in case... only for Grim Zeena to rig them on the fly so they explode like a bomb.
Grim Zor manifested flocks of black bats with red cyclop each, made of shadow now glitched by the Prism, and used these bats to construct several shadowy clones of Shadow, and used them to attack both the real deal and the Eggmen. Then, the robot fly to evade the flying cockpits both had, and punched them down to the ground. Shadow is quickly and easily overwhelmed by the pragmatic constructs, and had to be saved by Sage.
"Let more handle them." Sage then whistled, bringing Trip, the Amys and the Chaotixes to aid Shadow and the Eggmen.
"Thank goodness! Our machines are down, and you... help us!" Robotnik chuckled.
"Eat this!" Classic Vector tripped a construct.
"Merlina, do your spells and aid everyone! And stop that robotic duplicate of Zavok!" Sonic told the wizard to do her thing, while deal with Grim Zavok. "You may not know the six, but I do. I've fought them a few times."
Classic Sonic and the Avatar came to the modern side, ready to go up against Grim Zavok.
"We've been looking for you... the real you, actually." Sonic called Grim Zavok. "And this version of you isn't the real you, Zavok!"
Grim Zavok briefly scoffs, before walking to the three.
"Seems like you're at least as strong and powerful and skilled as the real Zavok." Sonic quipped. "But we won't go down so easily!"
The three then engaged against draconic Grim Zavok, starting with a boost!
Of course, being robotic version of the Deadly Siz, the Grim Zeti have insanely large amount of endurance and durability, even more so than the real original Zavok with armor on, so the entire team altogether are forced to target the weak points, which isn't so easy to find at first. Also, it's clear that the robots are much stronger and more powerful than the real deal... exactly what Elise intended.
"Good thing I supervised the creation of these." Elise recalled. "The mistake the original Zeti did... we're completely avoided it."
"Good, just as it should be." The hedgehog is pleased. "Good job. The originals made too many mistakes throughout their tenures."
"I'm so tired of this already!" Sonic is frustrated, as he and co. holds off from being beaten down by Grim Zavok. "There's got to be some weak points in them..."
Grim Zavok tried to punch Sonic down, but the past saved him and took the hit. The robot then proceed to beat up Classic Sonic down, knocking away rings by rings one by one, inflicting an increasing injury to the little hedgehog.
"NOOO!" Sonic screamed on sight.
Classic Sonic, on verge of dying, continues to be pummeled by Grim Zavok, and loses all the rings. Just as the little hedgehog is about to be destroyed...
"STOP!" Yacker the White Wisp can speak the normal way now.
Dozens of flocks of Wisps attacked the Grim Zeti, distracting them and gave an opening each. Cue a brief rise by the team, which led to the robot cornered by the Team Superstars. Classic Sonic is saved, and Merlina got her time to recover just as she runs out of mana.
"YOU!" Sonic boosted spin on Grim Zavor on the head, cracking his visor.
"Sonic!" Classic Tails went to his friend. "No!"
"The Wisps saved us..." Amy hugged a few Wisps. "Thank you... I love all."
"My god, I'm so tired..." Shadow slumps down.
"What are these creatures?" Merlina have no idea what the Wisps are.
"Hyper-go-ons. Colorful Wisps, coming from their eponymous planet." Yacker explained. "I'm one such Wisp. Specfically, I'm a White Wisp."
"So many colors..." Merlina wanted to have a share. "Can I have them? How do I have-"
"You got to earn their trust first." Sonic explained. "Thanks to me saving the Wisps, they're ready to help me and my friends, such as teams and so, and the Resistance. Eggman however... bruh..."
The Wisps are suspicious of Eggman because of what he and his creations did to them.
"The reason I decided to also help Eggman, is so that we can survive and help you, Sonic, save all worlds from that mysterious hedgehog." Yacker explained why the Wisps saved the Eggmen. "Oh, and... that cyber girl..."
"Sage. The name's Sage." Sage revealed herself.
"Well, welcome to Team Superstars. We still lost the Chaos Emeralds." Sonic looked around. "But the little guy?"
"Oh no... those robots actually nearly killed him..." Yacker sighed.
"Just Zavok. The robotic duplicate, that is." Sonic clarified. "Thought to be fair, we're losing the little guy. If he dies... do I even exist anymore?"
Merlina recovered, and used her healing on Classic Sonic, fully saving the little hedgehog. He got up, and hugged Merlina.
"That was tiring. Those foreign robots... I'm not used to it." Boom!Sonic groaned.
"Phew, he's back!" Classic Knuckles responded.
Classic Tails and Classic Amy hugged Classic Sonic.
"I and my empire are the only ones allowed to defeat that hedgehog!" Robotnik commented.
"Scratch, doctor. You used us to attempt to screw with Sonic and his world." Yacker warned Eggman. "We saved you, because we have to survive. And end that mysterious hedgehog who look and sound like Sonic himself."
"Let's just say..." Robotnik teased his future counterpart.
"Well, look!" Sonic called. "The space's... glitching."
Cue another Phantom Ruby effecting, this time reverting back to Glitched Hill. The Grim Zeti also disappeared.
"What the!?" Team Superstars looked around.
"The sky... It's ripping apart!" Yacker noticed.
The Glitched Hill is decaying. Rifts appeared all over the red sky.
"You've defeated the Grim Zeti only because your Wisps interfered!" Elise is frustrated.
"Elise! You tried to kill us!" Sonic called out the possessed. "What's wrong with you!?"
"Solaris powers me. I now eat dimensions as snacks." Elise showed off she's possessed by a brainwashed Solaris.
"Solaris on steroids?!" Silver finally figured it out. "Inside the Princess!?"
"I serve my lord. He's way beyond even your comprehension."
To be continued...
