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"NO! Listen to me, not that Amy!" Prime!Shadow seems to be insane. "I knew what was happening... the second Super Genesis Wave... the day the Overclocked has rifted... the time when worlds collide again..."
"He's leaving you astray!" The voice interrupted. "Just go! My way! Here!"
"Two voices pulling us..." Sonic is disappointed. "Well, I'm listening to both. There's a way out, and we need to know everything while we get there."
"Agreed." Nicole flying alongside Sally. "Friend, let's keep going."
The three went on, and the Mobius became... the Cyber Space. Sonic was quick to recognize the place.
"Wait... Somebody merged the dream world with... Cyber Space." Sonic figured it out. "Amy, what's going on here?"
"Keep going, Sonic the freak!" The voice mocked Sonic, putting him off and disturbing the other two.
And soon enough, the three ended up on a recreation of the Prime Green Hills.
"Isn't that... the other Green Hills?" Sonic gets suspicious. "What in the ring is going on here, girls?"
"Princess Sally Acorn... NICOLE... protect the Sonic that brings salvation..." Prime!Shadow called the two. "I know everything... the next Hyper Genesis Wave will further damage the clothes of space-time... repeating like the Super that woke the eldritch bullshit up..."
"You mean the one I and Sage dealt with?" Sonic recalled.
"What!?" Sally heard it. "Cyber Space? Sage? Don't tell me-"
"This would be breaking your robian mind, Sally. The truth may be even more eldritch than that uber-monster I helped defeat in my timeline." Sonic responded. "Damn... I think I need a Sticks and Sage..."
"What about you, Sonic?" Nicole asked the Blue Blur.
"Yeah, I'm currently wearing a Speed Force glove, which is not present on the dream world. But my mind got the Force, so I can still use the gloves... to my mind." Sonic showed off. "But I don't have the Excalibur or the World Rings here, because these are in reality, sitting in waking world."
"What is Speed Force?" Nicole have no idea. "My database don't have any data about it."
"Speed Force! I know it from the files! It moves space-time on a figurative rail!" Prime!Shadow recalled. "Another power from another multiverse... suddenly splattered into different multiverses... It's the key to the end!"
"How do we deal with the voice of Amy? She brought us to a recreation of my homeworld now." Sonic asked. "What should we do to deal with her, and how do we escape?"
"No... no no no... you listened to her..." Prime!Shadow is horrified. "You shouldn't have in the first place!"
"There was no other way. We're still trying to escape. The voice might have made it easier..." Sonic shrugged.
"YOU FELL INTO HER TRAP!" Prime!Shadow panicked again. "SHE'S TO SWING HER AXE, TRYING TO KILL YOU ALL!"
"WHAT!?" Sonic is baffled. "And doesn't Amy use the Piko Piko Hammer?"
"No, Piko Piko Ax. The Cyber Dream is her personal cutting board, and she rules over the dreams and nightmare!" Prime!Shadow revealed. "She's evil, just like that fucking shatter-parts in one!"
"Did Amy just trick us!?" Nicole is shocked.
"Amy... betrayed... us?" Sally is terrified.
"Amy wouldn't betray! She loves her whole world, and she likes me, actually." Sonic facepalmed. "Are you sure the Amy rules over nightmares, over the Cyber Space..."
"A resounding 'yes' isn't enough." Prime!Shadow sounded cowardly. "She's not the Amy you know. She comes from... another timeline, and she... killed... the... old..."
"Killed who!? She's a murderer!?" Sonic is shocked.
"I'm the one guiding you to escape her wrath. Now that you've been led to her trap..." Prime!Shadow screamed horror. "HERE THERE BE... DRAGON... QUARTER!"
Prime!Shadow's voice vanished.
"Wait..." Sonic suddenly stopped.
"We're stuck! She's found us!" Tails' voice echoed. "My robotic arsenal won't... fix..."
"NOOOOO!" Chun-Li screamed.
"Guys!" Sonic is horrified.
"It's all midnight... MIDNIGHT!" Billy Hatcher cried.
"What have you done... to Wiseman..." Reala voiced depression, much to the three's horror.
"Reala... oh no, even the top-tier Nightmaren..." Sonic panicked.
"Hey! Some Amy! What are you doing!?" Sally called the Cyber Space.
"Oh... they couldn't handle it, after all." The voice of Amy giggled. "Nobody will help you three. I'm catching you all. I was able to spot you. In the storage. Sleeping-"
"What have you done to Wizeman and the Cyber Space!?" Sonic called the voice out.
"Fine. I killed Wizeman, and merged the dream worlds, including Nightopia and the Reverie, all with the Cyber Space. It's where I rule." The voice revealed. "The Cyber Space!"
"Oh damn, I knew she's evil." Sonic bluntly commented. "But wait... Reverie!?"
"I agree with both you and Shadow." Sally agreed. "About you, false Amy..."
"Who exactly are you?" Nicole called the voice out.
"I'm not just Amy Rose the Hedgehog." A girly hedgehog appeared. It was... Amy Rose?
She is wearing a black version of the familiar dress, and Wizeman's cloak which is now glitched and floating with her. She wields an axe version of Amy's hammer, with a blade in mirror finish seemingly treated by glitch itself. Her quill is tattoed with a small bar code showing 1/4.
"You look and sound like Amy, right. But you're evil!" Sonic mocked her appearance. "Is Wizeman's cloak a gag now?"
"The rules of Phantom Ruby: You die here, you die real too." The false Amy swung her axe, only for Sonic to dodge.
"Sonic. You have the gut to stand up to me." The false Amy teased the Blue Blur. "But no, you're not my Sonic. He is far better than you could've ever be."
Sonic simply Spin-Dashed the false Amy, knocking her down. She simply grabs her axe and stand up.
"Oh, how naive you are, odd Sonic!" The false Amy cringed.
"You're bullying a certified hero." Nicole felt disdain of the false Amy, to the point of briefly returning to monotony. "Do not recommend the Amy Rose with 1/4 on her back."
"Hmph. None of you even have D-Ratio or dream power." The false Amy looked down on the three.
"Who are you, false Amy?" Sonic cut to the chase. "And no chili dog for you, unlike my Amy!"
"It is I, Nightmare Rose, will bring your fur to Sonic!" The false Amy floated up. "Haven't you already-"
"What have you done to Ariem!?" Sonic anguished his question.
"Ariem? Who is Ariem?" Nicole have no idea. "No database of them."
"You mean that guardian of the Reverie? I disposed of her." Nightmare Rose smugly chided. "After all, how stupid of her to do her protocol. If she had not have the protocol, she'd have enough wishes to stop me. If only!"
"Dormancy Protocol!? You took advantage..." Sonic is enraged.
"Foolish guardian. Locking away most of her powers... What an idiot!" Nightmare Rose laughed.
Sonic struck Nightmare Rose again, forcing her to take the fight seriously, briefly scaring the other two in the process.
"Sonic! What are you doing!?" Sage arrived at the scene. "No... how can this be?"
"Hello, fellow AI." The holo-lynx greeted the child.
"You will die! I'LL KILL YOU!" Sonicis struck by a slash, but still continues to beat her down.
Nightmare Rose could no longer just one hack and done; Sonic was able to survive what would've been at least crippling in real life.
"How could you!" Nightmare Rose aggressively countered.
"Nicole. A fellow artificial intellegence became sentient." Sage examined Nicole. "Your code wasn't on my database. It's... alien... to me."
"You came from that sonic's time?" Sally gossips.
"Yes. I met him because I was keeping him away. To prevent something far worse. Something that we would-" Sage suddenly felt she's vibrating. "What's up? I'm vibrating. How does-"
"I'm vibrating too. Some noises sem to attract us." Nicole took the PDA. "Touch this, stranger. In case of diagnosis."
Sage touched the PDA, and it ele-shocked both. Meanwhile, Sonic was able to knock the axe out of the false Amy's hands.
"NOOO!" She screamed.
"DIE!" Sonic beat Nightmare Rose up with Cycloops and a bunch of Spin Dashes, capped off by a Boost.
"AHHHHH!" Both AIs screamed.
"Nicole!" Sally is shocked.
Cue a bright light covering the area. The resulting flash then flooded the nearby places.
"Sonic...?" NiGHTS 'woke' up in a prison, flared by the flash.
"NiGHTS! Wake up!" Prime!Shadow yelled, accidentally jumpscaring the odd Nightmaren.
"Gahhh!" NiGHTS is spooked.
"Please! Nightmare Rose is trying break us!" Prime!Shadow warned the Nightopian. "The Cyber Dream can shift at any time! There's no guarantee you'll survive!"
The flash subdued, and the light clears out. Sonic walks back, leaving the beaten Nightmare Rose behind.
"Sally? Nicole?" Sonic noticed. "Sage!? You finally-"
"Head... Priestess... Nikki..." Sage muttered.
"What?" Sonic is confused.
"You... got involved with that eldritch... You had the Ancient... You worked for them and..." Sage shudders.
"So another where we didn't exist..." Nicole then cried.
"Nicole!" Sally went to comfort the holo-lynx.
"Sage, what did you..." Sonic checked on Sage.
"She used to be two versions of the same AI. Two different sources." Sage exposed Nicole. "One, the Head Priestess. Two... a lynx named Nikki. Daughter of Doctor Ellidy."
"Two AIs?" Sonic is confused. "I thought Nicole is one. Just one!"
"Both must have fused together. I have datas of both histories and some extension. The reason why the Head Priestess version is dominant personality and Nikki the dominant body... because the latter was dead. Lost." Sage continued. "After the reboot, Head Priestess was forcibly reincarnated as Nikki after the initial Super Genesis Wave which caused the reboot and shift of reality. At some point after all that and Nikki's end... the eldritch god directly tampered, and two timelines were crushed into a single Genesis... traces of the older timeline scattered and buried, while the newer one melted into the latest. All occupying the same space. Hogging multiple timelines."
"Initial? Super Genesis Wave?" Sonic got the point. "I think the 'Prime' world's Shadow mentioned a second Super Genesis Wave..."
"Sorry, Nicole, but not all the world have you in existence. The multiverse has different possibilities co-existing with one another. Don't worry about it, we will help you sort this out." Sonic tried to comfort the holo-lynx. "In the meantime, how do we-"
"Enough! Without us, you're not part of us Freedom!" Nicole lashed out at sonic, much to Sally's shock.
"We are on the SAME side!" Sonic stepped back.
"Everyone. Watch out!" Sage warned everyone nearby.
"Grrr..." Nightmare Rose got up, and seems to have manifested a bunch of glowing lines on her body. "Heh..."
"Sonic!" Nicole attempted to whack Sonic with her digital pitchfork. "You helped ruining everything!"
"It might not be that simple!" Sally blocked Nicole, and whipped her ring blade. "We can't-"
"Fight each other as hostile girls." Sage dismissed. "Sonic is trying to save both realities and all three timeline, alongside the rest. I stand by him."
"All the Sonics beside our own... Now that I know how horrible this situation is, I can't trust any other Sonics!" Nicole then put aside her emotion and boots her logic. "New threat: Sonic the alien hedgehog."
"Absolutely not!" Sage intercepted the holo-lynx. "I trust him as much as I love father. Father Ivo. Doctor Eggman. My father. For my timeline at least, but you get the idea."
"Stop arguing. We're wasting time!" Sally tried to stop them.
"Sally and Sage are right. I'm a friendly version of your friend, Sonic! I'd be glad helping you! Also, we need all the help we could!" Sonic agreed. "If we can work together and unite, we will save not only this multiverse, but also many other multiverses too! Think about the mysterious hedgehog impersonating me! And Nightmare Rose too. They're trying to kill us all!"
"Argh!" Nicole went through a crisis.
"Also, look out!" Sonic noticed Nightmare Rose.
The false Amy's left hand became a draconic claw adorned with the same kind of the lines. "Heh heh heh... This is my Flicky. See? Flicky is now a D-Construct. And my beloved D-Construct... ah, so I thought I'd cut you down..."
Her eyes turned red.
"I've learned about the D-Ratio, and then some. I will sum it up..." Sage, having already researched on Ryu-5 yesterday. "The original dragons from Ryu's fifth world are 1/1. The D-Construct, genetically forged from those dragons, are 1/2. Successful linkers with any of those D-Constructs are 1/4. And so on... The higher the D-Ratio, the more chance of a successful link will be made. This false Amy Rose is 1/4, and those with D-Ratio of 1/4 are known as Dragon Quarters."
"Now I know what the D-Ratio is, as well as the term 'Dragon Quarter'." Sonic got it. "Hey, one-quarter-dragon clone of Amy! What do you want!?"
"Ugh!" Nicole with her pitchfork.
"Dragons in your dream. I just needed a little boost." Nightmare Rose revealed her now-corrupted face, showing off the awakening of her Dragon Quarter, in tandem with her inner Nightmaren.
"Sonic!" Sally screamed. "DODGE!"
Cue a D-Dash... version of Spin Dash. The resulting D-Spin blitzed towards the Blue Blur. Cue the vibration.
-*glitched sonic boom*
"Sonic!" Nicole got phased. "Oh my god..."
"Ugh... So fast, I have to use the Speed Force." Sonic got up.
"Did she just... D-Dashed?" Sage gasped.
Nightmare Rose threw her axe to Sonic, who got tripped by its handle, only to land back.
"False Amy... you're so fast." Sonic commented.
Nightmare Rose blitzed to Sonic, and clashed with him. "What'd it like to combine D-tricks with dreams and cyber corruption? Miracles."
The two blowed the blows with each other, a high speed brawl overwhelming the other three girls.
To be continued...
