AUTHOR'S NOTES:
Since it's obvious that we'll never see what happens after the first Sonic Chronicles, fanfics are the closest thing we're going to get…
However, before you start, please keep in mind the following:
Cream the Rabbit and Big the Cat did NOT join Sonic's team against Imperator Ix. Big, because I'm not a huge fan of the guy (sorry…) and I didn't care for the fact he got to join your party and there was nothing you could do about it… So please disregard the fact he was "left behind".
As for Cream… Same. I LIKE the character, but canon-wise, she's not the type to come along to join the battle. She's always too scared and doesn't like to fight. And since in the game you DO have the option to_not_take her along, for this sequel, we're going to go with the fact that Sonic and crew rescued Cheese, returned him to Cream, and then told her to go home.
As for the many fan-characters that will appear… I promise that it will remain SONIC'S story, and not a farming ground for a butt-load of OCs… But in a "new world" it WOULD make sense Sonic and pals would meet "new people"...
Enjoy!
Prologue:
You are Sonic the Hedgehog.
And just as you think you've finished an intense adventure, another one pops right into your face...
It all started about a year ago, right after you thought you and your friends took down Dr. Eggman once and for all... There was no way he could've survived that explosion to his base, so you figured it was safe to go out and explore the world while there was peace around.
You ended up being gone for roughly a year before Tails managed to contact you and ask you return to Green Hill Zone. It turned out there was a new threat about in the form of the Mauraders, an inter-dimensional group of terrorists out to take over Angel Island. They had even taken out and kidnapped Knuckles, so they MUST be lethal!
Meeting up with Tails, Amy, and even Rouge (as ordered by the G.U.N commander), you had set out to find the location of the Mauraders and save Knuckles. Once you did, Knuckles has already managed to free himself, but needed help getting back to Angel Island.
Your group traveled to Blue Ridge Zone, where you came across Shadow out to find E-123 Omega. He had gone to confront the Mauraders but hasn't been heard from since, so Shadow joined the team in order to find Omega. You all then came across a team of Mauraders, with them Shade... who revealed herself to be an echidna, from the Nocturne Clan, rival to the Knuckles clan 4,000 years ago.
After a fierce fight, Shade blocked the way to Metropolis, Eggman's old city. While searching for another way through, you found who else but Dr. Eggman! He insisted he had reformed and was willing to help you get into Metropolis in order to build a weapon against the Mauraders.
Upon making it to Metropolis, everyone split up into 2 teams: One went with you and Knuckles to Angel Island to fight the Mauraders, the other stayed in Metropolis with Tails and Eggman to construct the weapon (this team found and repaired Omega, who then joined the team).
Your team confronted the head of the Mauraders, Imperator Ix, who at that moment chose to reveal his grand scheme: Use the Master Emerald to not only return to Earth after being banished to the Twilight Cage, but use its power to take over the entire world! Shade didn't realize this was his whole scheme and refused to go along with his plan, in which Ix dismissed her from the tribe... by trying to kill her, but Knuckles was there to save her.
Eggman fired the weapon at the Mauraders, leaving Ix and the rest of the Mauraders to escape in the Twilight Cage, along with the Chaos Emeralds AND the Master Emerald, leaving Angel Island to crash into Metropolis.
Shade asked to join the team to fight against Ix as a way to make amends, to which you were reluctant, but Knuckles managed to convince you to allow her. Meanwhile, Tails and Eggman created a ship called "The Cyclone" that would allow everyone to travel through dimensions following the coordinates Ix used and make their way into the Twilight Cage. Once it was finished, you and your team were off, trusting Eggman to be left behind to watch over the world in their absence, and so that he can open the portal for them once they were finished. He said he reformed, so nothing bad could happen while they were away, right...?
You and your crew made it to the Twilight Cage and confronted every other being banished there by the mysterious "Argus"... This included the Kron, the Zoahs, the N'rrgals, and the Voxai, all whose colonies were rules over by the Nocturne Tribe, led by Ix. You convinced all the colonies (most who disliked each other very much) to work together in order to overthrow Ix, give back the Chaos Emeralds the Nocturne had given them, and your team confronted Ix.
Ix used the power of the Master Emerald that was infused with the Nocturne colony to become a 'super state' of his own. But you had the Chaos Emeralds, went Super, and took him out with one strike... Seriously, the fight didn't even last a minute!
Down but not out, Ix teleported away, and without the Chaos Powers to keep the colony alive, Nocturne began falling apart, and you all rushed back to the Cyclone and escaped out of the Twilight Cage, where you headed back to Earth with the Chaos Emeralds and the Master Emerald in tow...
You all thought it was all over...
But you had forgotten a tiny little detail that you were told earlier...
Time passes in the Twilight Cage much slower than earth, hence why Imperator Ix and most other tribe members were still alive even after 4,000 years.
And during the whole escapade, it could be assumed a hefty amount of time had passed on Earth as well.
Because when you and your team returned, you saw the world in a mechanical state of slavery, and Metropolis up and fully running again...
Complete with an automatic message by Eggman, welcoming everyone back home, though, "It would have been better if you hadn't returned at all!"
So now it's time to deal with a new crisis, as the chronicles of Sonic continue...