Sonic Extended Generations - Ch4

Sonic Extended Generations

Chapter Four: Double the Sonics, Double the Fun! {1}

While the young Sonic races along the mossy road of Mushroom Hill, the young echidna was gliding down to the lower part, as he seemed to know his way around... {2}
"You think you can keep up with me when you don't know the way, Sonic?" The echidna taunted as Sonic spotted him on his way down. Seeming confident, Sonic jumped off of the path and bounced off of the echidna before landing on the path below! This made the echidna fall faster before he started gliding again. "Clever, but this is just one shortcut I know of..." As Sonic continued to race ahead, the echidna landed in front of a wall behind where Sonic landed, and he started to punch the wall, causing it to shatter, aswell as open an underground path that he quickly entered...
"There is no way that hedgehog is going to beat me today!" The echidna pointed out before smashing through another wall made of rocks, only to find Sonic standing at the finish line with a smirk on his face. "What?! How'd you get here so fast?" Sonic responded by pointing to himself, before running around in circles at a high speed. "All right, fine. Don't rub it in. Now, I have a question... how come you're back on Angel Island all of a sudden?" Before Sonic could respond, a blue blur sped in between Sonic and the young echidna! "What was THAT?" All Sonic responded with was a shrug, before a portal appeared that the two jumped through.

At that moment, the older Sonic raced through the dead leaves of Mushroom Hill, that also had blue mushrooms instead of red. And of course, had plenty of Badniks! {3}
"Sure are a lot of mushrooms around here..." Sonic muttered as he bounced across the fungi. "Kinda reminds me of that Frog Forest where I ran into Shadow..." When Sonic started running on the path again, he stepped on a Badnik who had a mushroom top on its head! "Sneaky little..." Sonic grabbed the mushroom top and threw it away before destorying the Badnik with a Homing Attack! "Yeah, I remember those bots... still, I'd like an answer to my question..."

Sonic then started grinding on vine a covered in leaves which lead into a cave. Once inside, Sonic spotted what appeared to be large flowers on the vine in the distance, which he managed to break through using his Boost. Soon however, the vine stopped at a dead end, but there appeared to be light that was sealed by rocks... "Yeah, right... like I'm getting tricked that easily..." Sonic broke through the rock wall using a Homing Attack, resulting in him travelling through a portal.

Meanwhile, the young hedgehog and echidna appeared back in the white world, where the young fox and pink hedgehog were waiting for them... {4}
"Knuckles!" Exclaimed the fox as he rushed to the echidna.
"Hey uh, Tails, right?" Knuckles asked, which Tails happily nodded to, before spotting the pink hedgehog. "And who are you?"
"I'm Amy, but I also go by Rosy." The pink hedgehog replied, making Knuckles look back at Sonic.
"That your girlfriend, Sonic?" He teased, which resulted in Sonic shaking his head and waving his index finger at Knuckles. But Sonic didn't expect Amy to embrace him in a very tight hug...
"Yes I am!" She happily replied, while Sonic struggled to break free. "In fact, when we both grow up, me & Sonic are gonna get married!" This made Sonic leap out of Amy's arms and run straight for what appeared to be floating ruins...
"Why'd he run off in such a hurry?" Asked Knuckles, making Tails grab his arm.
"All this lovey-dovey stuff Amy does to Sonic is a little much for him, so don't rub it in when he comes back, okay?" He said to the echidna, who nodded in agreement, while Amy was wondering where her hero went...
"Wait... that looks like..." Said Knuckles as he got a look at the next landmass in the area...

Later, the older Sonic emerged from Mushroom Hill, where the older Tails and Amy found him. {5}
"Find anything in there, Sonic?" Asked Tails, but the blue hedgehog shook his head.
"Nothin' out of the ordinary." He responded. "But the whole time I was in there, I couldn't shake the feeling that I'd been there before..."
"You've gotten me confused, Sonic." Said Amy. "I've never seen that place before. Although it does remind me of another place I've been to..."
"Well Sonic, there's another place you might recognize..." Tails stated as he pointed to what appeared to be floating ruins...
"You're right, that does look familiar..." Sonic replied before he started jogging towards it. "I'll go check it out."
"Aww-ooh! Why does Sonic get to have all the fun?" Amy asked Tails.
"I honestly thought you'd be used to it now..." Tails replied, before he and Amy walked towards the ruins' entrance...

Once the younger Sonic started his journey through Sky Sanctuary, he spotted a large sphere with what appeared to be two eyes and a moustache on the side as it rose from the clouds. Not only that, but small robots that seemed to share clothes with the same fat man Sonic met earlier, but they were also armed with a laser cannon each. That didn't stop Sonic from stomping on whatever robots he could! Although he was curious about the sphere, as it continued to rise above the clouds... this lead to Sonic falling down to another part of the ruins, as he wasn't paying attention to where he was running. What Sonic spied ahead of him appeared to be a movable platform. Once he stepped on it however, it required a decent amount of speed to move, let alone turn, which made him remember an experience similar to this... {6}

While his younger self was travelling through a maze in the same floating ruins, the older Sonic started his journey through Sky Sanctuary by grinding down a rail, then smashing three robots with a Homing Attack. {7}
"Okay, these robots look a lot like Eggman. Or at least, when Eggman was a bit heavier..." He said to himself as he bounced off of a few clouds and into a darker part of the ruins. "Hey, I seen that before! If I jump onto it..." When Sonic landed on the red orb sitting atop a pedastal, the orb started shining before sending Sonic up to the roof of the ruins in a beam of light. "Yeah! It'll warp me up here so I can see the DEATH EGG?!" After looking around for a brief period, Sonic spotted the sphere his younger self had already seen. However, Sonic had no idea that someone he knew was approaching him... "Well, at least this Death Egg isn't wrapped around Little Planet..."
"Y'know, I still haven't heard all of that story..." Said a voice from behind Sonic that was deeper than his own. When the hedgehog turned around, he saw a red echidna around his size. {8}
"Knuckles!" Exclaimed Sonic. "Good to see you, man."
"Likewise, though I never thought I'd see this place again, let alone the Death Egg." Knuckles replied. "Anyway, you got a reason why you haven't told me about your adventure after meeting me?"
"Hey, I'll tell ya... if you spill what happened between you and Shade..."
"It... it's complicated, Sonic."
"Okay, maybe that was a touchy subject. But all I wanna know is what happened to ALL of those Nocturnus echidnas after we smashed their leader!"
"In all honesty Sonic, I'd like to know the whole story too..." Once Knuckles answered Sonic, a portal appeared that both the hedgehog and echidna walked through. "(Not to mention if Shade made it out okay...)"

When Sonic returned from Sky Sanctuary, he found Knuckles standing in front of what looked like a younger version of himself! {9}
"Uhh... Knuckles?" Asked Sonic.
"Yeah?" Both echidnas turned to Sonic, but they faced each other when they realized what the other had said.
"I don't know who you are big guy, but if you're threatening me, you'd better back down now!" Said the smaller Knuckles.
"Funny thing there, junior... I was about to say the same to you." The taller Knuckles replied as Sonic laid on the ground and started tapping his finger.
"(Maybe Amy wasn't dreamin' after all...)" He thought as he watched the echidnas taunt each other. "(I mean, if there's two knuckle-heads, I guess it'd make sense for there to be two of me and Amy...)"

Just before things got hectic, the older Tails showed up. {10}
"Sonic, there you ar- Knuckles?!" He said, before spotting two echidnas.
"Tails!" Exclaimed the older Knuckles. "Mind explaining what's going on here?"
"I... I don't know yet..." Tails replied as Sonic got to his feet.
"Well dude, while you figure it out, I'm gonna check out what's behind door number eight..." He said as he walked up to a door that resembled another door they had encountered previously.
"Sonic, are you sure that's the best-" Sonic jumped through the portal before Tails could finish, but two other figures showed themselves to Tails and Knuckles...
"So I wasn't dreaming when I first saw you!" Exclaimed the small, two-tailed fox, that made the taller two-tailed fox turn around to see him aswell as a small pink hedgehog.
"Again, care to explain what's going on, Tails?" Asked the older Knuckles.
"Well again, I still don't know..." The older Tails replied.
"Maybe I can help you figure it out..." Suggested the younger Tails, which the older Tails happily nodded to.

At that moment, Sonic was walking through a pure black room with what appeared to be warped glass on his right side. Just when Sonic looked at the glass, he spotted what looked to be a reflection of himself, but there was something strange about his reflection... {11}
"Hm?" He muttered once he saw his reflection. Just to make sure it was his reflection, Sonic did a number of things; adjust the quills on his head with his hands, get a look at his teeth, rub and pat his own stomach... everything reflected fine... even when he suspected something was up and knocked on the supposed mirror.
"Take a good look at yourself, Sonic!" Shouted a familiar voice that made Sonic look at a door ahead... but his 'reflection' was shocked to see that he wasn't staring at a reflection at all! {12}
"Dr. Eggman?" Asked the older Sonic, making the younger Sonic look at the door aswell.
"It's the last look you'll get before I close your eyes forever!" The voice known as Dr. Eggman shouted before cackling away. That was enough to make the younger Sonic sprint towards the door... and make his presance known to the older Sonic as he jumped into the doorway. {13}
"Another Sonic? What? Wait a second!" The older Sonic asked himself out loud before running after his younger self. Just as the older Sonic jumped for the door, it closed on him, blocking his path and knocking him back to where he jumped from. "(So Amy was right all along... there WAS another me... I'd better let them know about this...)"

While his older self travelled back through the portal, the younger Sonic was standing on a platform that was attached to what appeared to be the underside of the dreaded Death Egg. It was at this moment that the same fat man that this Sonic met earlier showed up. Only this time he was piloting a pod with spikes on its roof, and had arms attached to its sides, which also had spikes on them. {14}
"You may have defeated me last time Sonic, but this time you won't have it so easy!" The fat man warned, with the same voice that the older referred to as Dr. Eggman. "This time, I shall erase you from history, right here and now!" Hearing these words, the younger Sonic prepared himself for battle...

END OF CHAPTER {15}