Sonic Extended Generations - Ch15

Sonic Extended Generations

Chapter Fifthteen: Going Hyper For The Win! {1}

While Classic Tails and Classic Knuckles were trying to find Classic Sonic, everyone else was looking around what they called the 'Metal Space.' {2}
"Is it just me that finds it strange that there are NO doors around here?" Asked Modern Tails.
"No, because we couldn't find any while the two of us were trapped back in what you called the White Space." Stated Classic Eggman.
"I sense that these storm clouds are trying to keep us from finding something..." Espio suspected.
"Are you suggesting we have to blow the clouds away?" Asked Vector, which made a light shine in Silver's mind.
"That's just it." He said, getting everyone's attention. "If we can create enough wind, we might be able to see what on the other side of these clouds!"
"No problem! If Sonic was here..." Modern Knuckles pointed out, making Rouge nod in agreement.
"Or even Shadow..." She added.
"Or Blaze..." Said Marine.
"Or Froggy..." Added Big, making everyone look at the big cat in confusion. Everyone except Modern Eggman, who spotted a dark portal at the top of the cliff where both Metal Sonics were standing earlier...

Meanwhile, Shadow rolled out of the dark portal he chased Modern Metal Sonic into, and found himself in a place that was all too familiar to him... {3}
"Space Colony ARK? But how did I get here?" He asked himself as he looked around. "I... I didn't want to remember this place... but it seems fate just likes to toy with me..." As Shadow looked up past the Artificial Chaos, he spotted a certain blue robot flying through the ARK... "Metal Sonic. If I'm going to get out of here, I'd better follow him..." Shadow then started skating after the robot Sonic.

Shadow then jumped onto a rail that he grinded down, before jumping off and bouncing off GUN Beetles with his Homing Attack! Once landing on solid ground, Shadow found some Artificial Chaos that extended its arms at the Ultimate Lifeform, but he jumped before he could be harmed, and struck its head with a Homing Attack, destroying it in the process! {4}
"Hmph." Muttered Shadow, staring at the GUN Hunters that had all aimed at him. But that was also when Shadow spotted a switch with an arrow pointing up above it. As Shadow approached the switch, the GUN Hunters began firing at him, but they all missed. Shadow then pulled the switch, causing the gravity in the area to flip as everything fell upside down! Shadow safely landed on his feet, but the GUN robots attacking him were destroyed, since they landed on their heads! "Worthless pieces of junk..."

Seconds later, after he changed the gravity back to normal, Shadow spotted Modern Metal Sonic hovering above him...
"Metal Sonic! Why have you brought me here?" He shouted.
"THIS WAS NOT MY DECISION, SHADOW..." Modern Metal Sonic replied. "BUT IF YOU DESIRE TO FIND SONIC THE HEDGEHOG, YOU WILL HAVE TO DEFEAT ME FIRST..." After saying this, Modern Metal Sonic flew away, making Shadow chase after him into the large digital space room, where the gravity affected the different-coloured floors, and there were GUN Beetles and Artificial Chaos all over the place!
"You won't escape from me, Metal Sonic..." Warned Shadow as he activated the gravity switch, and began his trek through the hazardous maze. Once Shadow started running on the red wall, he noticed that Modern Metal Sonic was standing behind a barrier of an energy Shadow recognized... "Hmph. It seems that Metal Sonic knows his way around this place... I'm going to have to deactivate that barrier before I can get to him..." Shadow then continued through the maze, taking out what robots and Artificial Chaos he could, before eventually making it to a small rocket. "This is it. Chaos..." Almost immedietly after pressing the button to fire the rocket at the barrier, Shadow vanished from Modern Metal Sonic's sight! "...CONTROL!!" Right after the barrier was destroyed, Shadow reappeared in front of Modern Metal Sonic.
"CHALLENGE ME IF YOU DARE, SHADOW..." Said Modern Metal Sonic as he opened a dark portal before flying into it.
"If you think betraying the Doctor is bad, double-crossing me is even worse..." Shadow pointed out before following Modern Metal Sonic through the portal, which closed just after he jumped through...

When Shadow jumped out of the portal, he looked around to find himself and Modern Metal Sonic in a location unknown to him... {5}
"Where have you brought us this time, Metal Sonic?" He asked the robot.
"THIS IS THE DEATH EGG MKII, WHICH WAS CONSTRUCTED AROUND LITTLE PLANET." Modern Metal Sonic replied. "THIS IS WHERE THE TWO OF US SHALL BATTLE..."
"Hmph, fine." Said Shadow. "As long as I get to destroy you, I don't care where we fight... Let's go!" Without even thinking, Modern Metal Sonic just flew away from Shadow, making the Ultimate Lifeform chase after him! "Come back here, you coward!" It was then that Modern Metal Sonic Spin Dashed onto the ground, hoping to hit Shadow, but the black hedgehog jumped over the robot's attack! "Chaos SPEAR!!" While airborne, Shadow threw an arrow made from the Power of Chaos at Metal Sonic, which hit him, but allowed him to warp back in front of Shadow! Metal Sonic then allowed a large ball of electricity to appear above him, getting Shadow's attention... {6}
"TAKE THIS!!" Metal Sonic shouted, before he threw the ball at Shadow. Shadow managed to Boost underneath the attack however, and rammed into Metal Sonic without any trouble! Shadow's Boost knocked Metal Sonic a fair distance away, which was when he unleashed the dark power within him, while Shadow started glowing red... "SAYONARA, SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG!!"
"Chaos..." Shadow shouted as Metal Sonic charged at him with the same purple aura that he was emittting. Shadow then jumped up to avoid Metal Sonic's attack, causing the robot to stop in his tracks, and allowing Shadow to ram him into the ground with a Homing Attack. "...BLAST!!" A massive Chaos-powered explosion came from Shadow, and took out a fifth of the Death Egg, while Little Planet remained unscathed!

After the explosion faded away, Shadow's colour had returned to normal as he stared at what remained of Modern Metal Sonic. {7}
"Hmph... and you call yourself Sonic's ultimate rival..." He said to the broken robot as a light portal appeared in front of him. "How pathetic..." After the light portal disappeared, a dark portal opened up and started sucking in what remained of Modern Metal Sonic...

While Shadow was chasing Modern Metal Sonic, Blaze fell out of a portal and ended up in some sort of base with Eggman's logo all over it (not to mention all of the custom-built Egg Robos in the area), and also combined the elements of fire and ice... {8}
"Hmm, this looks like one of Eggman's bases... I can't say that I've been here before, but it certainly gives me that feeling..." She said to herself as she looked around. When Blaze turned her attention to a large fleet of ships in a cloudy sky, she spotted Modern Sonic jumping from ship-to-ship, which concerned her... "Sonic! ...Despite my fear, I have to help him!" Without saying another word, Blaze started running through the base, twirling through robots as fire surrounded her in order to take out the robots! {9}

As Blaze ran through the ice-cold half of the base, she managed to avoid running on the ice by bouncing off of Egg Robos with an attack that resembled Sonic and Shadow's Homing Attack. In fact, Blaze kept doing this until she reached the other side of the ice, where she started Boosting through the base, except her aura was more fire-like than wind. When Blaze Boosted past any Egg Robo that was shooting ice at her, the ice seemed to melt before it hit her, and the robots were severely burnt! But that was when she arrived deep within the firey-hot half of Eggman's base, which made her feel a little better. Even when another Egg Robo approached her with a flamethrower, she wasn't fazed at all.
"Go ahead. Burn me, if you can..." She challenged the Egg Robo, who pulled the trigger to start shooting, but no fire was being released. The Egg Robo took a look at the barrel of the flamethrower, making Blaze smirk. "My turn." Just as the Egg Robo's attention was turned towards Blaze, she released large amounts of flames from her hands at the robot, which also impacted the base's main generator, causing it to overheat!
"WARNING. WARNING. MAIN GENERATOR OVERHEATING. EXPLOSION IMMINENT." Said a computer voice after the Egg Robo exploded.
"I guess that means that I'd better get moving..." Blaze pointed out as she started running towards the exit of the base. Little did Blaze know that only seconds after she fled the scene, the generator exploded! And the explosion started following Blaze up to the exit! Once Blaze saw the light at the end of the tunnel, the explosion caught up with her, blasting her out of the exit, and high into the sky, terrifying her in the process. Until she flew up into a dark portal, which almost as quickly as it appeared...

Mere seconds later, Blaze was thrown out of the dark portal, and onto the deck of one of the ships in the fleet she spotted earlier. Realizing she was high above the clouds, Blaze crept up to the closest wall, which was actually a cannon! {10}
"Why... *gasp* Why couldn't this fleet be sailing across the sea?" She asked herself, feeling a little frightened. Just then, she spotted Modern Sonic landing on the ship. "Sonic!"
"Blaze, get off this ship! Now!" He yelled before jumping away, leaving Blaze alone.
"Wait! Sonic, don't leave-" Shouted Blaze, before a large hand sliced the ship in half! The one responsible for the ship's destruction was a large, blue, robot monster with robotic wings!
"YOU SHALL FALL ALONG WITH SONIC!!" It bellowed as it raised its hand above Blaze, which was when the cat developed enough courage to jump out of harm's way, and onto another ship, where Modern Sonic was waiting for her.
Once Blaze landed on the ship, she fell to knees as she began to rapidly breathe in and out. Concerned, Modern Sonic approached her. {11}
"You OK?" He asked, to which she responded by shaking her head with her eyes wide open as she panted repeatedly. "What's wrong?"
"Haven't you figured it out yet, Sonic?" She shouted, startling the blue hedgehog. "I'm scared of heights! That's why I was uncomfortable whenever you saw Cream carrying me while she was flying... and it's also why I didn't like being at Sky Babylon back in my world. You wouldn't understand. The only thing you fear is Amy." This made Sonic sigh deeply as he closed his eyes.
"I-" Sonic was grabbed by the large robot monster before he could finish saying something to Blaze! {12}
"PERHAPS WE SHOULD REUNITE YOU WITH YOUR GREATEST FEAR, SONIC..." It said as it had a firm grip on Sonic. Seeing her friend like this eventually filled Blaze with courage and determination.
"Let. Him. Go." She said with a brave voice that made the monster laugh.
"IMPOSSIBLE, AS I AM ABOUT TO FINISH OFF MY LOATHSOME COPY ONCE AND FOR ALL!" It said back, making Blaze clench her fists.
"Fine. I guess I'll just have to pry him out of your hands." She said as she assumed a fighter stance as flames surrounded her hands.

"BURN TO ASHES!!" Bellowed the monster as it lowered its massive claw to unleash a flamethrower at Blaze, only for Blaze to hold the flames back from reaching her. {13}
"Ha... I'll show you REAL firepower!" She teased before jumping up into the air, twirling around fast enough for her flames to surround her, before zeroing in on the monster's claw, giving it a serious dent aswell as a burn, making it roar in pain! "You may have copied data from everyone else you've met... but you don't know anything about me, Metal Sonic!"
"PERHAPS I SHOULD DESTROY YOU WITHOUT COPYING YOUR DATA..." The monster replied, as it launched what appeared to be crystal-like missiles from its back at Blaze. The firey feline managed to avoid Metal Sonic's attack by jumping all over the ship she was standing on. This resulted in Metal Sonic smashing his damaged claw into the ship, causing it to fall down, but Blaze jumped onto another ship before it fell too far! Focusing after a brief panic attack, Blaze then fired a fireball at the visible core in the center of Metal Sonic, giving the robot's monsterous transformation something more to roar in pain about!
"IMPRESSIVE... MAYBE I SHOULD COPY YOUR DATA, AFTER ALL!" He realized, before opening one of his fingers that held onto Sonic, in order to fire a thinner crystal missile at Blaze. When Blaze dodged this attack, she looked back where she was to see that it created a small crystal dome after impact!
"I shall burn alive before you copy my data!" She replied as she ran towards the bow of the ship, with both of her hands on fire. When Blaze leapt off the ship, she twirled into flames again, and dove straight for Metal Sonic's core. When she collided with the core, Metal Sonic roared once again as Blaze was bounced back onto the ship, but she also noticed that Sonic was still in the robot monster's massive hand. "Sonic!"
"Ngh. Don't worry about me, Blaze." Sonic replied, just before the seven Chaos Emeralds started circling him. "I just played a couple trump cards..."

Suddenly, Sonic's quills turned gold as he broke free from Metal Sonic's grasp! {14}
"SO... YOU WISH TO CHALLENGE ME WITHOUT YOUR SUPER-POWERED FRIENDS..." Metal Sonic asked Super Sonic as the monsterous robot flew higher into the air with his robotic wings.
"If I may ask Sonic... why didn't you use those earlier?!" Blaze asked, making Super Sonic shrug.
"Believe me, I was trying... but for some reason, I couldn't..." Super Sonic responded before flying after Metal Sonic. "Let's see just how powerful you really are!"

Once Super Sonic flew above the dark clouds, he found the monsterous Metal Sonic staring him down. {15}
"SO IT BEGINS..." Metal Sonic stated before launching a number of hexagonal crystals towards Sonic, who managed to charge through them with his Boost.
"I hope that's not all you've got after getting the Blaze-Burn..." Mocked Super Sonic.
"OF COURSE NOT!" Metal Sonic replied, as he launched crystal missiles from his back, which Super Sonic managed to block with his Homing Attack! "IF THAT WON'T WORK... I'LL CRUSH YOU!!" As he said that, Metal Sonic grabbed one of the fleet's ships from below the clouds, and threw it at Super Sonic, who managed to smash through the ship by Boosting!
"Okay, you've attacked three times. Surely it's my turn now!" Super Sonic said out loud.
"NEVER!!" Shouted Metal Sonic, as he launched more of the thinner crystal missiles at Super Sonic... and while the super-powered hedgehog swerved through most of them, he was hit by one, which encased him within a small crystal dome! "NOW I SHALL MAKE YOUR DEATH AS PAINFUL AS POSSIBLE! CHAOS CONTROL!!"
"Chaos..." Shouted Super Sonic, just before everything except Metal Sonic slowed down! Metal Sonic began firing the thicker crystal missiles at Sonic, as the formerly blue hedgehog was slowly saying something... Just as the flow of time returned to normal- "-TROL!!" - Super Sonic slowed it down again, except for his benefit, allowing him to pummel Metal Sonic with Boost ramming and Homing Attacks! Once the time-flow was once again restored, Super Sonic Boosted through Metal Sonic's monsterous body, causing it to explode as it began its descent from the sky! {16}

Once Sonic landed on the same ship Blaze was standing on, he lost his Super form as a light portal appeared near them. {17}
"Feelin' any better?" He asked as he approached the cat.
"I will be, once we travel through that..." Blaze replied whilst pointing at the light portal.
"What're you waiting for, let's get movin' before they start worrying about us!" Said Sonic, but Blaze grabbed his arm, making him look back at her, and she looked worried...
"Sonic, promise me you won't tell anyone about my fear." She said to him. "Promise me..."
"Sure. I promise." Sonic replied. "Your secret's safe with me, Blaze." After the light portal disappeared from the sight of the fleet, a dark portal appeared within a land filled with weaponized cannons. The portal began sucking up what remained of Metal Sonic's monsterous body, but nothing else before it left with what it came for... {18}

Back in the Metal Space, four seperate light portals appeared, startling everyone in the area. But that was when Classic Tails jumped out of one, while Classic Sonic and Classic Knuckles jumped out of another. Arriving from the third portal was Shadow, while Blaze and Modern Sonic jumped out of the forth. {19}
"SONIC!!" Screamed Classic Amy before squeezing Classic Sonic with a hug, that left both Classic Tails and Classic Knuckles cringing at the sight. When Cream, Cheese & Marine got a good look at Blaze, they all noticed that she looked a little pale...
"Mr. Sonic?" Asked Cream, getting Modern Sonic's attention, making him lean down. "Was Blaze airborne again?" This made Modern Sonic nod in response, as Marine was trying to massage Blaze's shoulders. Suddenly, all of Metal Space turned dark, which scared some of the younger animals, while everyone else looked around with anger in their eyes. Just then, a smaller version of the Time Eater appeared at the top of the cliff, and what remaining parts of the Sonic-like robots were left amongst the clouds started attaching themselves to the Time Eater! Once most of the parts were attached, the Time Eater resembled a horrific mix of Mecha Sonic, and Metal Sonic's monsterous form... until a dark portal appeared around the Time Eater, along with a clock barrier in front of it. {20}
"Shadow, what is that?!" Asked a frightened Rouge, while Shadow looked at the transformation in anger. Silver and Blaze were covering Cream and Marine's eyes, while Modern Amy and Modern Tails did the same with Classic Tails and Classic Amy, and Charmy was shivering in terror. Big shielded his own eyes, and Cheese did the same.

Once the dark portal and the clock barrier vanished, the Time Eater's new look was a particular form that almost everyone had seen before; His design look more superior than Classic Metal Sonic and Modern Metal Sonic combined, having five quills instead of three, and they had white stripes on them, similar to Shadow. The yellow in his ears was now red, his nose was now black, and his eyes resembled Metal Sonic's aswell as the Time Eater's. He now had black, curved shoulder plates, larger hands/claws, leg armor and elf-like shoes. He also had a spiked belt, along with a black cape that went from the waist down. {21}
"THANK YOU ALL, FOR HELPING MY PLAN TO ITS COMPLETION, AT LAST..." Said the Time Eater, through Metal Sonic.
"You didn't tell me that thing was intelligent!" Classic Eggman yelled at Modern Eggman.
"I-I didn't know!" Modern Eggman replied, seeming just as shocked as his younger counterpart. "I thought it was just a mindless monster when I found it! But now that I know Metal Sonic's been linked to it since the beginning, I don't know what to think anymore!"
"THE TIME EATER AND METAL SONIC ARE ONE AND THE SAME." Said the time-eating monster, through Metal Sonic. "METAL SONIC'S PERSONALITY AWAKENED THE INSTANT HE ABSORBED MY EGG. ONCE I AM REMOVED, HE WILL BE THE MINDLESS ROBOT THAT HELPED TO DEFEAT THE IFRIT IN ANOTHER DIMENSION. BUT THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN!"
"We'll see about that, you robotic paradox!" Shouted Modern Sonic as he ran towards Metal Sonic, only for the Time Eater to fire purple orbs at him, which Sonic jumped to avoid before landing a Homing Attack on Metal Sonic's head! However, Modern Sonic's attack did no damage whatsoever! "What?!" Metal Sonic then grabbed Modern Sonic with both hands before throwing him into a dark portal, which reappeared high above the ground! As Modern Sonic fell, the Time Eater appeared behind him and used Metal Sonic's eye laser to send Modern Sonic crashing into the ground! {22}

"Sonic!!" Cried Modern Tails, Modern Amy, Cream, Blaze, Marine and Silver, before Classic Sonic raced towards Metal Sonic. Classic Sonic tried Spin Dashing into Metal Sonic's legs, but the Time Eater vanished before he could get hit. When Metal Sonic reappeared, he rammed his knee into Classic Sonic's chin, sending him sky high before he reappeared above Classic Sonic, and stomped on his stomach, causing the young blue hedgehog to come crashing down into the ground, just like Modern Sonic! While Classic Sonic was still conscious, Metal Sonic was keeping him face down by placing his foot on the back of the poor boy's head.
"That's enough!" Yelled Modern Knuckles as he, Classic Knuckles, Vector, Shadow, Blaze and Jet ran towards Metal Sonic, only for the Time Eater bounce them all back with a clock barrier!
"I'm not going to let you hurt my friend anymore!" Modern Tails shouted as he was about to run after Metal Sonic.
"It's no use..." Silver pointed out as he looked down at the ground, and his feet had disappeared! When Tails tried to run, he tripped. When he sat up, he noticed his feet were gone too!
"What? What happened to my feet?!" He asked in horror as Modern Amy gasped.
"Because Classic Sonic's getting beaten up, we're all disappearing from his life!" She cried in fear.
"Wait... why isn't Metal Sonic affected?" Asked Shadow as he sat up, making the Time Eater laugh through Metal Sonic.
"BECAUSE I AM THE TIME EATER!" He replied as he continued to stomp on Classic Sonic's head. "MY EXSISTANCE HAS ALWAYS BEEN, AND WILL ALWAYS BE." As Metal Sonic laughed maniacally, everyone that Modern Sonic had met -except for Metal Sonic and Classic Sonic- was slowly vanishing before his very eyes... including himself!
"S... Sonic..." He said as he tried to reach out to his younger self. "It... it doesn't matter... how strong he is... never give up... the fight..." Modern Sonic couldn't keep himself up any longer as his legs had completely disappeared, which was when seven different coloured lights appeared around Classic Sonic and Metal Sonic. {23}

"WHAT IS THIS?" Asked Metal Sonic, before he was tossed aside by some unknown force. It was then that the lights revealed themselves as the seven Super Emeralds! As the Super Emeralds raised Classic Sonic above ground, Modern Sonic heard a familiar voice...
"The servers are the seven Chaos..." Said the female voice, as she recited the words that Modern Sonic had heard before. "Chaos is power... power is enriched by the heart... the controller is the one who unifies the Chaos..."
"...Tikal?" He asked, still unable to move, even though his legs were being restored. Once Classic Sonic regained consciousness, he was floating in front of a female echidna wearing bandages aswell as tribal clothes.
"Sonic the Hedgehog..." Tikal said to Classic Sonic as the seven Super Emeralds continued to circle him. "You, and only you can bring an end to this Time Eater..." Tikal then picked up Modern Sonic, and had him in the same circle as Classic Sonic. "The both of you are needed for this final battle... I only wish I could do more..."
"Tikal, wait!" Modern Sonic called out to Tikal, making the echidna turn around with a smile on her face.
"Good luck, Sonic..." She said to both blue hedgehogs. "The fate of all time and space depends on you..." After saying that, Tikal disappeared into thousands of little lights that were absorbed by the Super Emeralds.
"Super Emeralds, huh?" Exclaimed Modern Sonic, while Classic Sonic was very excited to use their power again. "Man, I haven't used these since... well, not since the last time you used them!" {24}
"YOU DARE TO CHALLENGE THE INVINCIBLE MIGHT OF METAL SONIC, THE TIME EATER?!" Mocked Metal Sonic as the Super Emeralds started circling the blue hedgehogs at a faster pace.
"You bet we do!" Modern Sonic replied as both he and Classic Sonic began absorbing the power of the Super Emeralds as they started spinning around both hedgehogs so fast, it seemed like they were surrounded by a rainbow ring. After a roar from Modern Sonic, both he and Classic Sonic now resembled their Super forms, except the colour of their quills -aswell as the colour of their auras- constantly changed every second to resemble the Emeralds. That, and Modern Sonic's eyes were green instead of red. "Get ready to feel the power of TWO Hyper Sonics!!"

Without even thinking about, Metal Sonic instantly teleports him, Classic Hyper Sonic and Modern Hyper Sonic into a time hole, where they find themselves in outer space, near a familiar-looking place to Modern Sonic; The multi-elevator shaft between Sonic's world and Eggman's amusement park... {25}
"Why bring us here?" Asked Modern Hyper Sonic with voice that echoed, making Metal Sonic laugh.
"I'M JUST TAKING YOU BACK IN TIME TO SEE YOUR ULTIMATE DEMISE!!" The Time Eater replied, making both Hyper-powered hedgehogs angry.
"That's not gonna happen, buddy!" Modern Hyper Sonic replied as he and Classic Hyper Sonic flew towards Metal Sonic.
"TRY THIS ON FOR SIZE!!" Yelled Metal Sonic as he fired purple orbs AND crystal missiles at the hedgehogs. Modern Hyper Sonic used what appeared to be a rapid-fire Homing Attack on every missile that was fired, allowing Classic Hyper Sonic to charge towards Metal Sonic. "YOU THINK YOU CAN FIGHT ME? I DOUBT IT!!" As Metal Sonic shouted, he unleashed a massive bolt of lightning from his hands!
"Oh, no you don't... Chaos CONTROL!!" Shouted Modern Hyper Sonic just before Metal Sonic's lightning hit Classic Hyper Sonic, allowing Modern Hyper Sonic to push his younger self out of harm's way, and land a Homing Attack on Metal Sonic! When the time flow was restored, Classic Hyper Sonic hit Metal Sonic with a Homing Attack of his own, giving the Time Eater's body some serious damage!
"HAHAHA... THIS VICTORY SHALL SOON TURN INTO DESPAIR!!" Yelled Metal Sonic as he created another flash, blinding both hedgehogs...

After the flash, Modern Hyper Sonic instantly recognized where they were; Just outside Space Colony ARK, where the Biolizard had replaced the Eclipse Cannon, and was forcing the ARK down towards the planet! {26}
"Yeah, reeeal clever, Metal Sonic..." Modern Hyper Sonic pointed out, before he and Classic Hyper Sonic spotted two more figures in front of Metal Sonic; one was a robot replica of Knuckles, while the other was a small doll version of Tails with an antennae on its head. "What's the matter, can't take us on by yourself?"
"YOU MAY ONLY FACE ME ONCE YOU HAVE BEATEN MY COMRADES, METAL KNUCKLES AND THE TAILS DOLL..." Metal Sonic replied, prompting Metal Knuckles to extend one of his fists at Modern Hyper Sonic, but this made the hedgehog slap the fist with both his hands, destroying the robot's hand in the process. While Metal Knuckles was attempting to recover from his attack, Classic Hyper Sonic Spin Dashed into him, causing Metal Knuckles to explode! When Classic Hyper Sonic got a close-up look at the Tails Doll, he couldn't help but laugh at how pathetic it looked... until the Tails Doll started emitting a dark purple aura. As Modern Hyper Sonic approached his younger self, the Tails Doll started projecting images of different ghosts that Sonic has come across over the years; One kind of ghost was more cloak-like and had horns, as it floated around Classic Sonic. The second kind of ghost just pounced at the young hedgehog, startling him like nobody's business with its red-and-yellow eyes and black teeth! The third kind just appeared out of nowhere, but was basically just a jack 'o lantern with a cloak. This left Classic Hyper Sonic completely immobilized until Modern Hyper Sonic Spin Dashed through the Tails Doll, tearing it to shreds as the ghostly holograms faded from Classic Sonic's view.
"Sure, that was a nice spook you gave us, but that's not gonna beat us!" Modern Hyper Sonic pointed out as Classic Hyper Sonic was focused once again.
"I AM WELL AWARE OF THIS..." Metal Sonic replied without showing himself, as another flash made both hedgehogs shield their eyes again...

After the second flash, neither hedgehog knew where they were, but they both heard rumbling from above... when they both looked up, they saw a massive red robot that was falling at an incredible speed. When it passed them, both Classic Hyper Sonic and Modern Hyper Sonic instantly recognized where they were; Above Green Hill! {27}
"BUT I KNOW THIS WILL WORK!! MWAHAHAHAHAH!!!" Yelled Metal Sonic's voice from the large red robot that resembed Sonic, prompting both Hyper-powered hedgehogs to chase after him!
"If I know when we are, Metal Sonic's trying to stop our first adventure before it even begins!" Explained Modern Hyper Sonic, shocking Classic Hyper Sonic. "We're not lettin' him get away with this, are we?" Classic Hyper Sonic angrily shook his head, before both hedgehogs dove down to fight the massive Sonic-like robot.
"YOU CAN NOT STOP ME NOW!! I AM TITAN METAL SONIC... AND I SHALL EXIST FOR ALL ETERNITY!!" The large robot bellowed in Metal Sonic's voice, before releasing thousands of different Badniks from his mouth! While Classic Hyper Sonic Spin Dashed through whatever robots were in his way, Modern Hyper Sonic Boosted through the robot much faster.
"Take this!" Shouted Modern Hyper Sonic before Boosting through one of Titan Metal Sonic's arms, destroying it in the process! While Titan Metal Sonic attempted to attack Modern Hyper Sonic, this gave Classic Hyper Sonic a chance to Spin Dash through Titan Metal Sonic's other arm, destroying that one, too!
"NO!! YOU CANNOT DENY ME MY VICTORY AGAIN!!" The massive robot bellowed as he turned around and activated the jet engines on its feet, allowing it to fall down to Green Hill faster! Classic Hyper Sonic landed on the ground underneath Titan Metal Sonic, and started charging up a Spin Dash, which the massive robot collided with, causing them to leave a large crater in Green Hill as the young hedgehog continued to block the robot from reaching his goal.
"Well Mini-Me, you've done your job... Chaos CONTROL!!" Said Modern Hyper Sonic before stopping time again. Except this time he Boosted through Titan Metal Sonic's body several times, which would cause severe damage once the time flow is restored... once Modern Hyper Sonic restored the time flow, Titan Metal Sonic just started flying away from Green Hill in serious pain.
"NOOOO!! THIS CAN'T BE!!" Metal Sonic shrieked as his robot body was restored to its normal Modern state, while Classic Metal Sonic appeared beside him before falling to the ground. "I AM THE ULTIMATE OVERLORD, METAL SONIC!! I AM THE ULTIMATE POWER!! I AM TIME AND SPACE!! NOOOO..." As the Time Eater screamed all of this, he was slowly being extracted from Modern Metal Sonic's body. Once he was completely out, the Time Eater exploded in a purple cloud, causing everything to go all white...

When both Classic Sonic and Modern Sonic opened their eyes, they had lost their Hyper forms, but were back in the White Space, where everyone was there to see them, even Tikal! {28}
"SONIC!!" Screamed Classic Tails & Amy, aswell as Modern Tails and Amy, as all four of them raced over to hug both hedgehogs, while Modern Knuckles just placed his palm over his face.
"Sonic..." Tikal said as she approached the blue hedgehogs, making both foxes and pink hedgehogs let them go. "I cannot thank you enough for all you have done. However, I have something to say to the children of the past..." This was when Classic Tails, Classic Amy and Classic Knuckles gathered beside Classic Sonic, while Classic Eggman stood behind the four of them. "I'm afraid that once you all travel back to your time, it would be best if what you have seen of your future is forgotten..." This made the four young animals look back at their older selves.
"Wait a sec, Tikal!" Modern Sonic shouted, getting the echidna girl's attention. "I've seen what Classic Me can do... at least let him remember his Homing Attack. He's gonna need it pretty soon..." Tikal actually thought about Modern Sonic's request for a brief period.
"I'll see what I can do..." She replied, before she summoned two seperate light portals; One led back to the past, and the other led back to the present. "At last... the fight is over, harmony is restored, and life goes on..."

Classic Eggman and Modern Eggman shook hands before travelling through the seperate portals. Classic Knuckles and Modern Knuckles gave each other another fist-bump, while Classic Amy and Modern Amy hugged each other tightly as they cried. Both Classic Tails and Modern Tails high-fived each other before breaking the pink hedgehogs apart and travelling through the portals, leaving Classic Sonic and Modern Sonic alone in the White Space...
"Well... like I said before, enjoy your fut-" Modern Sonic was inturrupted when Classic Sonic raced into his older self in order to give him a hug as he had his eyes tightly shut. "Yeah, I know. Listen, you can always visit memory lane, but you just can't stay there, okay bud?" Looking at his older self in the eyes, Classic Sonic nodded before they stepped towards the seperate portals. {29}
"Hey, Sonic!" Shouted a young-yet-cocky voice that shocked Modern Sonic, because the only other person in the area was Classic Sonic, and he was giving Modern Sonic a thumbs-up. "Seeya 'round!" Modern Sonic responded with just a smirk as he waved his finger in front of him. After that, both Classic Sonic and Modern Sonic jumped through the seperate light portals, before everything went white once again...

In the past, Sonic was racing Tails, Amy and Knuckles around a hillside racetrack near the ocean, with Sonic even zeroing in on Knuckles from the air... {30}
...while the evil Dr. Eggman was looking at a map of an island that seemed familiar, yet different at the same time.

In the present, Dr. Eggman was busy restoring Metal Sonic within his base... {31}
...while Sonic was enjoying the fireworks ending his birthday celebration that night, along with his friends and rivals. Amy had fallen asleep on Sonic's lap, and for once, he didn't seem to mind. Tails had fallen asleep aswell, but he was lying next to Sonic, while Knuckles was trying to avoid Rouge's flirting. Big was lying on the grass asleep too, but he had Cream, Cheese and Marine asleep on his stomach. Omega was standing watch, while Shadow didn't seem to mind the fireworks, as Silver and Blaze were cuddled up close. Vector and Charmy had fallen asleep back-to-back, and Espio looked like he was meditating, and Jet was lying back on his airboard, admiring the fireworks.
"*zzz* Happy Birthday, Sonic..." Tails muttered in his sleep, which Sonic managed to hear. "...hope you like this... *zzz*" Sonic chuckled after hearing that.
"Like it? I love it." He quietly said as he enjoyed the fireworks in the night sky...

END OF STORY ...FOR REAL, THIS TIME {32}