Spoilers from included and/or represented works abound. Please read this fiction carefully.
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." Elise repeated about her allegiance. "I worship-"
"Solaris!? You mean, the god's possessing you while being brainwashed by that mysterious hedgehog who look and sound like me!?" Sonic managed to scratch the fourth wall... by accident. "Wait, what?"
"You do not stand a chance against my lord." Elise flew away.
"Elise... She's gone bad." Sonic kneels down in fear.
"She's... turned evil." Shadow also realized he regained his memories of Solaris incident. "I remember now. Mephiles... the tears... evrything... oh, and even your human form, Eggman."
"Wow, I looked so different back then." Eggman, as well.
"You sacrificed for the future, then?" Silver recalled.
"Just what's going on?" Blaze is confused.
"Where's my Rouge and the Omega?" Shadow looked up.
"Cream..." Amy sighed.
"We're still stranded here." Tails is disappointed. "However, this is a version of the Green Hill. Therefore, my workshop still exists!"
"Sage, scan the surrounds. Tails, navigate." Sonic commanded. "We're going!"
The entire Team Superstars and the Wisps rushed to Tails' Lab, which in this world is an abandoned fortress.
"Wait... this place looks different. It's... a large fortress." Sonic is surprised. "Oh well..."
"A combination of your pesky workshop and my lair?" Eggman is confused.
Stepping into the land of the fortress, the team finds a lot of technological stuffs. The Resistance members except the Avatar is told to scavenge them for engineering uses. The rest commented...
"Well... who inhabit this?" Tails wondered. "Where do this come from?"
"Skulls and broken mechanical parts and electronics." Robotnik commented.
"Let's enter the place. A large entrance, I see." Sonic rushed.
The team went inside, and is amazed by the sheer size and scale.
"It's so advanced and so large! It's like a modern kingdom and a developed city in one package!" Knuckles commented.
"And yet... it's void of people and creatures... Only skeletons and rot." Amy felt bad. "What caused this to be desolated?"
-*sigh* "Well, over there looks like something throne that would belong to Eggman." Sonic pointed it out.
"It can't be far away. I'll record everything." Tails took up his tablet and hook up his camera. "Let's go!"
The team entered the throne room, which activated a really large holographic display spanning nearly half of the whole room.
"The screen? Holographic." Classic Tails squinted.
The screen showed a video with surround sounds and great picture quality: sharp yet natural, colorful yet accurate, great contrast and motion, and bright enough to illuminate the entire room, and sounds like an advanced good-quality cinematic theater.
The video shows a much older version of Tails, wearing a commander's outfit, that appears to show his place at the fortress or so.
-*clears throat* "Hello there, otherworlders. I am Miles Prower, a.k.a. Tails. But you can call me President Miles." This version of Tails introduced himself. "I'm the president of the world, a wingman, an engineer, an inventor, a commander and a fighter."
"Me?" Tails is confused. "Eggman, hold the camera!" -*throws the camera to Eggman*
"Fine!" Eggman catch the camera, and oriented it back.
"If you're seeing this... my rules has ended in a literal disaster, despite my benelovence and competence." Miles revealed. "And our secret doomsday resistance, the Project Shadic, has ended in a complete failure at all fronts."
"'Shadic'? Sounds like a mix of me and Sonic..." Shadow glared at Sonic.
"Our test, after numerous failed attempts, had finally been successful, and we were about to test everything on the table." Miles explained what happened to him. "And then suddenly, a hedgehog impersonating Sonic, my late buddy, nearly catching me off guard because my Sonic has died a hero many years ago to put Eggman down for good."
"That... the mysterious hedgehog?" Sonic gets supicious. "Impersonating a version of me?"
"He looks like my Sonic who I first met when he saved me from bullies. He even sounded like him. He was identical except for a leaf eyepatch and glowing magenta eye, or eyes, so. And a messy hide, akin to when I last saw him in person." Miles continued. "At first, he acted like the Sonic I know... but the real Sonic was never revived again. The moment I shown my concern... he revealed his true colors. He ravaged my glorious kingdom, and interfered with our multiversal affairs. Millions of lives quickly died, and... we've lost our successful candidates before we could properly test them."
"What!? The mysterious hedgehog..." Merlina, Chip and Sage are shocked.
"And he destroyed the facility to prevent any further recruitment of candidates, making the project a sudden failure in full. Moments before that evil hedgehog arrived, it was going so well. I was so successful, and I was going to take the next step for my Sonic's sake. But it all fell down into dead end." Miles continued. "My people were all killed, and I'm about to get caught. And literally everything I worked for decades... came drained down to a fucking black hole. That hedgehog disrespected Sonic, killed all my remaining friends in all its gory glory in front of me, and he's about to get me like a motherfucker HE IS!"
"President Miles!" A member of the former Resistance from Miles' world came injured. "All of defense lines... they're destroyed! Annihilated by that imposter!"
"No... it's... over for us!" Miles panicked.
"He saw right through everything we have had! We're doomed!" That member despaired. "We've lost..."
"I suggested the Shatterspaces, is your new destinations, travellers." Miles told on the video. "It's over for us. But not you, not yet. You have to save the entire multiverse! Overcome hardships, unite with others, and do something to power everyone up against the imposter!"
"It's on us now?" Sonic asked the hologram.
"It's on you. It's your turn to succeed where we failed." Miles continued. "You can't even hope to expect the hedgehog to truly spare you! He's planning to kill you as you go!"
"But how do we get out?" Shadow questioned.
"My flagship, Cyclone Supreme, contains my AI, which synced with my real memories. It acts like me on free will, but it cannot leave the system. If you want to haul it, make sure your devices are connected and compatible." Miles explained how. "The AI is a backup in case I fell from grace. It and the system is this kingdom's only hope. You can take it, and you must, because if you don't... There'll be no one to save the multiverse."
"Everyone! We found a spaceship!" A member of the Resistance reported.
"Avenge my failure and this kingdom's fall..." Miles declared. "Good luck... those from other worlds."
"Well well well, we've found you! This time, no escape!" The hedgehog found Miles recording the video.
"Someone check the recording and then distance it from that imposter!" Miles commanded. "He found us, and he's going to-" *groans*
"The queen worships the god you so rejected." Elise, with her red with white in eyes, has choked Miles. "Tails... your ultimate friend is waiting. Do you yield, or do you die?"
The same ex-Resistance took up that camera, and ran away. "Well... what President said to you is but just a glimpse on how depraved that Sonic imposter are! We've just found out he brainwashed Solaris and made it possess a version of Elise the 3rd! Made her a slave!"
"The Princess... she's possessed as I suspected?!" Silver is shocked.
"Well... I'll end the recording. Because I don't have much time. I'm going to upload this to all of the backup mainframes." The member setup. "We count on you, wanderers. Now go save everything before that hedgehog do any further damage to the multiverse!"
Cue an explosion, before the video cuts off. The video ended with the explosion seemingly taking Miles' life, and the member beginning the setup.
"What's up? We've just watched and recorded the video." Sonic finally asked.
"You saw an entire video?" The member finally noticed.
"Sage, download the video by absorbing the mainframes." Sonic commanded. "Tails, end this recording, and wait for Sage. We'll check on the spaceship."
The team arrived before the spaceship, Cyclone Supreme. At the same time, the Resistance managed to retrieve a heap of tech for the Eggmen and Tailses to use.
"I'm still clever enough to think about creative way to scavenge as much as possible." Knuckles chuckled. "Alright, Neo Big... Wave...? No, that was becaused I acted so stupid I didn't think about the plan back then."
The members of the Resistance laughed at the Big Wave joke, noting it could've gone north if thought was taken to Operation: Big Wave.
"Well, apologies, but this spaceship is so large, we and all the scavenged can all fit easily, with a ton of room to spare!" Knuckles is amazed by the scale.
"Didn't even expect my future to eventually able to create this huge ship!" Classic Tails is amazed.
"Done with the upload. Let's scan this ship." Sage scanned the spaceship. "Affirmative. It's very easy for all of us and everything we picked to all fit in, with much room to spare. Despite its relatively compact size."
"Wait... the ship's smaller than it looks!?" Classic Tails is shocked.
"So it's similarly sized to a temple of Gaia, then?" Sonic asked.
"Most likely." Sage confirmed. "To be specific, it's slightly smaller in both footprint and dimensions."
"All right, time to get in!" Chip flew to the interior.
"Well, fine!" Infinite followed.
The entire Team Superstars, along with the Wisps, entered the spaceship.
"Oh... quite spacious!" Big is distracted by the size. "I look almost small!"
"Pretty large. Over halfway as large in the inside as it's on the outside." Tails commented. "All packed with even higher tech than Eggman's. My possible future must be so good!"
"It's you using my technologies after all." Eggman chuckled.
Avatar offered handshake to Infinite, but Infinite just punched them in the face himself.
"All the scraps and mechanics will be used to help us with devices and weapons." Robotnik suggested.
An AI construct of Miles appeared.
"Hello there. It's President Miles. Miles 'Tails' Prower." The AI mimcked Miles. "My real deal have fallen, and it's unknown whether he even survives anymore. You're meeting an AI, or artifical intelligence. The body you see is a hologram."
Team Superstars introduced themselves to the AI Miles.
"Very well. So Sonic teams and Eggman Empire teamed up with a bunch of extras." Miles commented.
"Where's Mighty and Ray?" Classic Tails spoke up.
"Where's our Rouge? Omega? Orbot and Cubot?" Shadow spoke up.
"Where's our friends?" Boom!Sonic and Prime!Rouge.
"Wait... I recognize you. You're the prime version on Shatterspace!" Miles recognized Prime!Rouge. "You must have been Rebel Rouge, Prim, Batten, and so on."
"Me?" Prime!Rouge is dumbfounded.
"How do we ride?" Eggman wondered.
But Tails quickly got the spaceship to work. The controls is relatively simple. And the ship lifts off the ground.
"Well, feels like this ship's designed for me." Tails is suprised.
"You're my past self, and I created this spaceship." Miles clarified. "She's one of my opus magnuses. I even mass produced a smaller version of her across the multiverse, and it's one of my best-sellers."
The ship flew to a rift, surprisingly fast, as to skirt on the square-cube law which should've weighed the ship down.
"Nice." Sonic exclaimed. "Sage, navigate alongside our AI friend!"
"Hello Miles. I am Sage." Sage greeted the AI. "Oh, I can interact with you. I'm a cyber being, just like you."
"I used to be a real person, though. Now I'm just an AI." Miles chuckled.
The ship enters a rift, and passed into the new Shatterverse. Portals to other dimensions scattered across the timestream can be seen here. Rubbish from destroyed worlds lie and drift across.
"Wait... you used an AI to circumvent my victory?" The hedgehog is confused. "Whatever. I have Tails. Anyways..."
"Hey, you! You shattered my world!" Sonic called the hedgehog out.
"What? Oh no, the process was incomplete, which is why I sent the Grim Six to destroy you!" The hedgehog responded in disdain. "How did you survive?"
"Us Wisps came to rescue." Yacker revealed himself and the Wisps to the hedgehog.
"I thought the Wisps are extinct!" The hedgehog is frustrated. "Some stupid mistake from a supervisor! Unlike Elise..."
"You corrupted a royalty!" Merlina called the hedgehog out.
"Dark Queen, letting your kingdom fall because of a losing battle... what's wrong with you!?" The hedgehog is exasperated.
"What. Did. You. Just. Say. To. MISS WIZARD?" Chip defended Merlina.
"Mr. Light Gaia is right." The Resistance agreed.
"Also, we're going straight to Shatterspaces." Prime!Rouge declared. "You're off. We're in."
The ship reaches the Shatterspaces, ready to head to one.
"I think New Yoke is the place to start." Sonic pointed at a red gate. "Let's get to it!"
"None of it will save you from me." The hedgehog disappeared. "I am a god..." *fades*
"Rebel Rouge, here we comes!" Sonic yelled.
"Yes! Lock on!" Sage cheered up.
The ship go straight to a rift leading to New Yoke, with anticipation that Prism energy is required for the main gate.
To be continued...
