There's an echo in the area, "The Servers are the Seven Chaos." "The Servants are the Seven Chaos." It continues to echo throughout all time. "Chaos is power, enriched by the heart." "Chaos is power, Controlled by the will." There's no knowing where the echoes originated from, but, it's safe to say, it'd be a good idea not to find out where they came from. "The controller serves to unify the Chaos." "The Controller exists to enslave the Chaos." We see a single being making their way through this dark, mist enshrouded area. The creature looks as if it's a hedgehog, behind it, almost melding into its shadow, was a fox. "Tails, you sure that the info we got was right? I mean, Egg head might not be heading in this direction." Sonic asked.
"Sonic I'm sure; the communication we intercepted said he was heading this way for some reason." Tails said.
"Alright, I wonder when Knuckles is going to get here; we gave him a call when we found out that Eggman was heading out here." Sonic thought aloud. Out of the mist, a voice rang out to them.
"Sonic, Tails, over here!" Sonic and Tails looked towards the voice, the saw a form appear through the mists, it was Knuckles the Echidna heading over towards them.
"Rad Red, glad you could make it to the party." Sonic said.
"Alright True Blue, You said Eggman was on his way here to do something, This place is dangerous, Even we guardians don't want to come here." Knuckles explained.
"That's probably the reason why Eggman's coming to this place, it's probably got something really dangerous that could wipe out the entire planet if it doesn't fall under his rule." Tails said.
"You've got a point Tails, Knuckles you know anything about this place?" Sonic asked. They had been walking, Knuckles was about to say something when a set of Ruins started to appear out of the mists. The three of them stood in awe of the sight before them; this site of Ruins looked as if it was untouched by time. "Well, Knuckles, anything?" Knuckles looked at them both.
"The legends the guardians have are legends to live by, the only legends we have about this place serve as a warning to any and every one on the planet. In the guardians’ legends, this place was said to be the seal for an ancient curse, a curse of a creature known as the Dark Titan. The Dark Titan was a dangerous creature, even worse than Chaos itself. It was because of the Powers of Chaos, Both Negative and Positive attributes of it, Magic, and Spirit. That the guardians of all 3 were able to seal away the Dark Titans power. But, before the Dark Titan had been drained completely, he cast a curse on the entire planet, that if he went, the rest of the worlds powers would as well. The powers of Magic and the Spirit were almost completely diminished to nothingness, Chaos' powers were thrown into a greater flux than they were before, causing the Negative and Positive sides to become more violent to each other than before." Knuckles explained.
"Seriously Knuckles? You aren't suggesting that there's any real substantial evidence to any of that?" Tails said, skeptical of the Legend.
"There's actually more to it, The Dark Titan also said that if the seal were ever destroyed, a great evil would befall the entire planet, and only the thirteen sacred heroes, a group of legendary heroes each hailing from a different species, would be able to stop it." Knuckles said.
"But there's more you don't know you stupid echidna!" Yelled a voice that seemed to come from everywhere.
"There's only one person that voice could have come from, Eggman." Sonic said. And as if on cue, the mists seemed to part from the exhaust from Eggman’s hover vehicle.
"Through my research, I have found that the Dark Titan also promised that whoever removed the seal would be granted a great boon, access to his dark and forbidden powers. I plan to get that boon, even if I have to destroy this entire place to get it." Eggman said, with a twisted grin on his face.
"Eggman, you’re not going to destroy anything while we're here." Sonic said.
"Yeah, anything you could build I can disassemble faster than you could put it together again." Tails said.
"And if he can't take it apart the easy way." Knuckles cracked his knuckles. "I can always break your little toys."
Eggman just coughed and shrugged. "I don't think you three will be able to beat this 'little toy' I've made. Come to me my E-100,000, My Egg Titan!"
Through the mists came sounds of crashing footsteps, footsteps coming from a giant sized being. Crashing over the ruins came this ginormus egg shaped robotic monolith, It was a titan sized egg with arms and legs. "That’s your Egg Titan!" Sonic laughed as he continued to look on the egg shaped robot.
"What are you laughing at? This is one of my greatest creations; you will fail in defeating this one!" Yelled Eggman at Sonic. Tails and Knuckles were just snickering at that conversation between the two of them.
"This is always funny." Tails snickered.
"Yeah, this is always funny, especially when Sonic makes Eggman this angry. You think we should worry about that Egg Titan thing Eggman made Tails?" Knuckles asked.
"Maybe, I'm going to have to work on its joints for a few, but, it's still going to need distracting." Tails said.
"Easy enough, what should we do about them?" Knuckles said motioning over towards Sonic and Eggman, Sonic was still taunting Eggman making him even more angry at him.
"I don't know, I think that would be a good enough distraction, let's go take apart that titan." Tails said motioning towards the Titan. Both he and Knuckles were about to go and disassemble the Titan, then - The Egg titan's eyes flashed to life and it placed itself into a fighting stance.
"I guess we have to fight it now." Tails said.
"What do you mean 'now' Tails?" Sonic asked.
"He's just thinking out loud Sonic, let’s go bust Eggman's new toy." Knuckles replied.
"Yeah, let's go!" Yelled Sonic in a rallying cry as he, Tails, and Knuckles rushed forward racing to fight the Egg Titan. The fight was long, hard and downright ruthless, but, in the end, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles had won the fight with the Egg Titan staggering, barely able to stand. "Alright guys, let's finish this thing." Said Sonic as he tried to rally his friends. Before any of them could do anything, The Egg Titan fell backwards and landed sprawled across the ruins, with it square in the center of the ruins. "....Okay, I guess we don't need to finish it." Sonic said.
"Nice, And another of Eggman's 'little toys' bites the dust." Knuckles chuckled.
"Now I can get some more spare parts, maybe I could even improve Eggman's design." Tails said. Right as the three of them were about to celebrate their victory.
"Don't celebrate just yet you morons!" Yelled Eggman. The three of them turned to Eggman, "You think you've won, Oh you've won alright, you’ve won the battle, but I've won the war!"
"What are you talking about Egg for brains?" Sonic demanded.
"What I am talking about, you stupid blue furred freak, Is that I wanted you to beat my Egg Titan!"
"What?!" Sonic gasped.
"I expected you to defeat him, I also expected him to land in the exact spot that he is in now." Eggman said as his grin became wicked.
"Sonic, I think we should get moving." Tails panicked.
"Too slow!" Yelled Eggman as he pressed a button on his control console. With that press, The Egg Titan exploded in a gigantic fireball, sending debris flying all over the place. The loudest boom was heard, louder than the thunder of a lightning bolt striking right next to you, but, as the dust settled and the noise quieted down. There seemed to be an uneasy silence, then, a flash of dark light.
"AT LAST, A THIRD OF ME HAS BEEN RELEASED, YES!!!!" After the light faded, dark smog like clouds enveloped the planet; people were panicking, what was this, what happened, who was to blame? Before anyone could answer those questions, the cloud seemed to seep into the planet, for a few moments, the entire planet rumbled with tremendous force and then ended as quickly as it began.
"What's Happened?!" Tails asked.
"I don't know Tails, you tell m..." Sonic couldn't believe his eyes, where Tails should be standing was a blonde haired teenager wearing a yellow T-shirt with a tornado symbol on it, jean shorts, Tails' gloves and what looked like Tails' shoes along with large circular glasses. Right next to 'Tails', was a guy dressed in what appeared to be a white tank top, red striped shorts, Knuckles' gloves, his shoes looked like 'Knuckles', and he had red hair he was also well built, at least as far as he could tell. Sonic's jaw was on the ground, But then he saw himself, he was wearing a blue T-shirt with a hedgehog symbol, running shorts, with his shoes, and his gloves.
"Tails, Knuckles, I'm going to say this once, what the heck happened to us?!" Sonic screamed. Out of the mists, came a voice, a female voice.
"Magic and Spirit have been renewed, somewhat, to the world." The three of them looked towards the voice, out of the mists walked what looked like a rainbow haired human girl wearing a royal like outfit, the only thing about her was her forehead, her forehead held some kind of marking on it that was Rainbow.
"Who are you, and what's up with your forehead?" Sonic asked the woman.
"She, Is Aura Shinomata, Mana trailblazer, my friend and colleague. I am Craft Elliot, Material Guardian of Spirit." Said a male voice coming out of the mist, coming from the side of the Mana, looked to be a normal boy, whose hair was darker at the end, his eyes however seemed lifeless.
"Aura Shinomata and Craft Elliot, right, I'm Tails Prower." Tails said.
"I'm Knuckles Emerald, guardian of the Chaos Emeralds and the Master Emerald." Knuckles said.
"And I'm Sonic Turbine, the fastest Hedgehog on the planet. Well, I used to be a hedgehog, now I don't know what I am." Sonic said. Again, another voice echoes through the dispersing mists. Sonic and friends could see a lot more people coming.
"Your age of existence is a trying one, I don't see how some one of your own family line, such as yourself, could not have seen this coming." Said a male voice, this human wearing a vest, pants, and he looked like he had bluish skin.
"Um, Aura, Who's this, and who else is showing up?" Asked Tails to the elf.
"He is one of the many that have returned. His name is Charge Excelion. He is a Morpheus." A human with silvery orange hair showed up wearing regular traveling clothing as well as a cloak, She stepped beside Charge. She looked like a pleasant person.
"I'm Infra Psi, Chakran Ranger." She said this while bowing to Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles.
"There's one question I have, where are you all coming from?" Asked Knuckles to the people showing up.
"We come from where we were, at the nexus of powers. Mainly, the nexus of Magic and the nexus of Spirit." Said Craft
"'The nexus of powers? I don't remember ever reading about any sort of nexus', either for Magic or Spirit." Said Tails
"They were never written about; the nexus' were kept by word of mouth and memory alone." Infra said.
"The chances of anyone who knew about the nexus's and not writing it down are almost infinitesimal." Aura said.
"Chances are only mathematical equations that have only one outcome. The nexus's are something that not even chance can invade." Said Charge putting in his two cents.
Tails looked at Charge "So you’re saying that the nexus's are out of the reach of the topic of 'chance'?"
"No, they are out of the reach of Chaos, Chance, is one part of Chaos." Charge said.
"Oh, so, the nexus' are out of reach of Chaos, but, if I'm understanding this right. Shouldn't Chaos have a nexus as well?" Tails asked.
Aura spoke "Chaos does have a nexus, but it is here on this plane of existence. I believe, the guardian of Chaos called it the Master Emerald."
"I've guarded the Master Emerald all my life, I've never heard of it being a nexus of Chaos. I mean, the God Chaos is inside of the Master Emerald along with a single spirit of an ancient echidna. But, I've never heard anything from anyone about it being a nexus." Knuckles said.
"I don't believe this area to be safe any longer, the others are coming though. I can sense them." Said Infra to the rest of their group.
"What do you mean, others are coming, and do you mean more like you 4?" Sonic asked.
"No, the others are, different, more like you but, different. We must leave this place at once, not only for our safety, but, encase the Dark Titan returns." Charge said.
With that, Aura, Craft, Charge, and Infra headed past Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles. Taking the hint, our three heroes followed them. After following them for a while, they had seeming lost those 4 beings in the mists. Sonic raced ahead of Tails and Knuckles to see if he could try and find those 4, but to no success.
"Well, I can't find them; they must have better skills than Espio." Said Sonic, he then noticed that he had blue hair. "At least I still have blue fur."
"It's called hair Sonic. We now have hair instead of fur, we don't have fur anymore, and we wear clothing in place of fur." Tails said.
"Alright, so, we wear clothing, we have hair on our heads, but, how come we look like this?" Sonic asked.
"That's something we should have asked Aura, Craft, Charge, and Infra. They probably could have explained it to us." Knuckles said.