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Maurice was running as fast as his feet allowed him.

He was panting heavily, and he could barely feel his feet because of how much he's been running for the past hour or two, but he wasn't planning on stopping... He had to hide from the Egg Forcers first, because they were chasing the blue hedgehog as fast as they could.

The Egg Forcers were orange robots with green eyes, gray legs, gray shoulders, and shoulder-mounted laser cannons... And they just recently killed Maurice's parents.

They worked for Emperor Eggman, the ruler of Station Square, but they got stuck on a debt that they worked day and night, so hardly to pay. Even Maurice himself started to work on extra hours and even got more jobs to help his parents out... Now, at his 22 years, they've been killed in front of him.

He moved across the empty streets of the giant futuristic city, hiding behind the alleys and still trying to loose the Egg Forcers from sight.

However, one of the Egg Forcers began to shoot at him, and Maurice could barely dodge all the attacks, but in a moment he turned his head aside in the left direction, one of the shoots hit his left eye, and he was sent backwards, as he then fell on a place with stairs and rolled downwards.

The Egg Forcers followed the end of the stairs as well, but they were surprised when they didn't saw Maurice anywhere, so they split up and began to look after him.

As for Maurice, he hid on a trash can, and once he made sure the Egg Forcers were gone, he got out of the trash can and rolled in the floor, then stood on his knees and hold his hand over his left eye, because that zone was bleeding a lot, and he was breathing heavily.

"20 Years ago... My parents were killed in front of me... And I lost my left eye..."

Several days later, Maurice was staying with the Tails of this universe.

"Tails decided to help me out and... Give me a home until I could afford my own apartment."

Now he wore an eyepatch because of what happened with the Egg Forcers, but the event of loosing his parents marked him forever. He remembered his mother's scared expression after they both witnessed his dad dying, but when she was killed in front of him... It was even worse.

"But loosing my parents made me feel... Useless... Uncomfortable with myself..."

Suddenly, Maurice saw outside of Tails' room's window that three Egg Forcers were messing with a group of kids, all of them being around 8 or 9 years old.

"However... Their deaths made something ignite inside of me... Something that was dormant..."

Soon, Maurice grabbed a bat that was near his bed and quickly went outside, just in time to smash an Egg Forcer's head with the bat and kill it, saving the kid that almost got killed by it. He did the same with the other two Egg Forcers, and he felt relieved when he saw that the kids were fine.

However, one of the Egg Forcers didn't got destroyed yet, and it managed to launch a laser that reached a kid... And the kid fell backwards with a thud.

Maurice let out a loud scream of agony and grabbed the kid on his arms, trying to also held the place they got shot over and stop the blood from coming out... But he only delayed the inevitable for a few seconds, because the kid died anyways on his arms, slowly closing their eyes.

"I saw my parents die... I couldn't do anything for them..."

Maurice was now at the funeral of the kid that died along Tails, and the blue hedgehog couldn't stop crying because he couldn't save that kid from getting shot.

"I stand up for innocent kids, and I still failed to save one..."

Tails ducked and gave Maurice a side hug, knowing that he needed it.

Back in Tails' apartment, Maurice stared at the ceiling, laying on his bed.

Seeing his parents dying was a horrible thing already, but seeing a kid die, and worse of all: That said kid died on his arms... Right after he saved him, just to fail all the same in the end.

"And yet... Despite my loses, I didn't gave up. I simply couldn't."

Maurice soon frowned, then got up from his bed and walked down to Tails' lab, located in the unused apartment right below his. There, he started to gather some bottles with chemicals, as well as some injectors, and equipment for monitoring vital signs.

"The crime and corruption in my city that was being caused by Emperor Eggman was something I couldn't allow to happen anymore. I lost my parents, and I couldn't save an innocent kid. I couldn't allow myself to let such a thing repeat, nor to me, nor to anyone else."

Soon, Maurice began to mix some of the ingredients he grabbed, and he tested the result out on small subjects, like cockroaches and flys.

Eventually, he finally reached his desired result when a fly started to fly around the room through speeds scientists have only dreamed to achieve. So he injected himself with the final result as well, and he could feel all his body working even faster thanks to this.

"However, to do that, I needed to became another man... I wasn't fast enough to save that kid, so I made sure I became fast enough... The fastest thing alive, you could say."

Maurice began to run around all Station Square, and not only he discovered he was so fast like the speed of sound, but he also spotted some crimes that he was able to stop, and nobody died.

The only bad things were that he always had to improvise a weapon whenever it came to stop an Egg Forcer from killing or hurting someone, as well as the fact that his shoes couldn't resist all the friction of the speed he was going to, because they ended up burning and tearing apart.

"With this new power achieved, Maurice the Hedgehog was gone..."

Maurice was back home, but now he was a different man.

Thanks to the fact that he told everything to Tails about the serum he made, and about the kind of man he wanted to become now, Tails choose not only to support him, but also to straight up help.

So, Tails fabricated a pair of special bracelets that could have any kind of weapon and useful tool they would need to move around the city. He also made his own living AI as an assistant, a digital female lynx he named Nicole, in his dead mother's honor.

Finally, he made special boots that resisted Maurice's speed of running, as well as lots of gadgets for himself that they could need at anytime.

"Considering the speed I could travel... I couldn't be Maurice anymore. I had to be someone else..."

Maurice and Tails found two little girls shaking, crying and hugging each other in fear, because and Egg Forcer was about to kill them both.

"I had to become a symbol... For hope... For justice."

However, Maurice launched himself curled into a ball against the machine, and then he jumped in the air, created a pair of side-swords and teared apart one arm of the Egg Forcer, while Tails shoot a boomerang at its head, then a blast from a gun, and then got the boomerang back which hit the head again.

This made the Egg Forcer fall to the ground on its face, then Maurice traversed the head and ripped it apart to make sure it wouldn't stand up.

"Tails decided to remain with the same name as we made justice... But I didn't."

Once the job was done, the duo decided to leave the scene, but one of the girls they save them stopped Maurice by grabbing him from his hand.

"Wait!" The girl called out... the Amy Rose of this universe. "T-Thanks for the save."

Maurice limited to nod, while Tails straight up looked at her with a smile. "We just do our job!"

"Um... What are your names..." The other girl, the Blaze from this universe, asked as well.

"That question honestly caught me off guard... Because for the first time ever, I had no idea who I was... But then the answer came clear, and I smiled."

Maurice turned and saw Amy and Blaze with a smile. "Name's Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog!"

"That day... Maurice walked away so Sonic could run ahead."

"We spent the next 10 years fighting Eggman's machines, saving citizens, becoming the heroes the city needed. I even got a cool trench coat that Amy made for me...

But nothing lasts forever... It simply doesn't..."

Sonic was running desperate as he removed the ruble.

Tails and him just had a massive fight against Eggman that ended on an explosion that brought down an already evacuated building... But Tails got trapped down all that ruble.

Sonic removed it desperately, and both Amy and Blaze joined him to remove that ruble as well... But when they reached the end, it was too late... Tails was a goner, because his corpse lay immobile in the ground, which made Sonic's heart crush, and he started to tear up.

He cried out loudly, hugging Tails' corpse and burying his face on his dead friend's body, as he apologized a thousand times for not being fast enough to save him.

"When Tails died... the nicest part of me that was left died as well."

Now, we see Sonic heading towards the tallest building, located in the middle of Station Square.

There, Eggman was already waiting for the blue blur, using one of his best mech suits so he could fight on a 1v1 against the hedgehog... For the last time, because this was the battle to end all the battles... The battle against each other for the very last time...

A battle that Eggman lost when Sonic destroyed his mech suit and stabbed him on his chest several times without stopping, not even caring if he was crossing a line he swore to never cross.

"Y-You know you won't ever be the same after this, d-do you?!" Eggman from this universe told Sonic, who already accepted his current identity of Future Sonic.

"I stopped being the same the moment my parents died, Ivo," The blue hedgehog replied coldly.

And then, he proceed to cut Eggman's neck, killing him off for good... But even if he won, he still let out a painful warrior cry, where all his desperation finally left his body for good.

"I didn't liked what I did that day... But I knew that if I didn't do it, then no one else will."

9 years passed after that, and now FS ruled Station Square.

"I became my world's watcher. Always making sure the innocents were fine... Even though I wasn't."

Nicole suddenly appeared as a regular sized lynx hologram, but Tails made her to be so advanced that she could actually touch physical objects, so she ducked down and hugged FS, while the blue hedgehog smiled weakly and placed a hand over hers, even rubbing it a bit.

Nicole was everything he had left... His parents and his best friend died, and even though he tried something with Amy, it didn't led anywhere... He was pretty much on his own now.

"That same day, I decided to leave and walk around for a while... To empty my mind.

The whole city was greeting me, thanking me for saving their lives 9 years ago, for doing what all of them wished to do for so many years... I only smiled as truly as I could, but deep inside... I wasn't in the mood to be happy. I don't remember what it feels like, anyways..."

FS soon arrived to the same alley where he lost his eye, where he started his journey to become the man he is today, even though he didn't knew it.

But then, he heard the people from above the underground screaming in panic, and even some cars crashing, which made his eyes widened in panic. So, he quickly moved around the roofs and over the cars of the underground, before spindashing through the ceiling and appear on the surface.

"When I heard that strange sound, I went to investigate... But I didn't found anyone in danger."

However, once he did, he felt confused when he saw everything back to normal... So he quickly went to his home, the tallest tower in Station Square, since he took over it after killing Eggman.

Once there, he checked the cameras, and his eyes widened when he saw a recording of a massive X-shaped portal opening in the sky, while at the other side could be seen a giant robot with Eggman's face, raising a multi-colored crystal that was opening the portal in the first place.

But then, the portal suddenly closed, even though FS saw everything.

"When I saw that machine, I made my investigation... And I discovered everything: The multiverse, the Canon and how our lives are connected by specific events... And what the anomalies could do."

Nicole started to work on the first prototype of the watch that could make him travel across the multiverse, while FS kept investigating more about the Canon and how it affected every reality. He finally could feel less guilty for his parents' and Tails' death...

"The Canon made me realize that my tragedies make me the man that I am today... That they had to happen. So, when I had the chance to travel to any reality I wanted, I took it.

No questions needed to be asked. I was ready for the job."

"Okay, so we're just gonna roll the dice on this?" Future Sonic asked, as he started to adjust the watch on his wrist.

"So what do you say, pal?" Nicole retorted with a mocking smirk, as she appeared right on Sonic's side. "Where do you wanna go first?"

"Let's go back to the very beginning: Universe 140484." Future Sonic replied with a confident smirk.

Universe 140484

A multi-colored portal opened in the middle of nowhere, as Sonic came out of it and landed in the grass.

Far behind could be seen a big light pink castle with several towers (each containing a blue cone shaped roof), lots of windows and a drawbridge.

Sonic looked at said castle with narrowed eyes, before hearing a gasp behind him, so he turned around and found a pink pegasus mare with a purplish blue mane, purple eyes, and two purplish blue lightning bolts as her Cutie Mark.

"Whoa! Where did you came from? Who are you?" The pegasus asked with a surprised tone.

"My name's Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog..." Future Sonic presented himself with a frown. "And I need to talk with you and your friends..."

"The Firefly from the very first pony dimension was just the beginning. I recruited more, and more, and more..."

In the present, we see FS looking down at the Society, while Twilight stood at his side.

"...And here we are today... Still looking after the multiverse, and hoping we soon catch Opaline before she makes her move to conquer every reality..." Future Sonic finished his narration.

"...Right..." Twilight muttered, not so convinced on why the whole Society was formed.

"We do what has to be done, Twilight... Even if we don't like it..." Future Sonic reminded. "Don't think I feel happy with what I do all the time, because I don't."

"And yet you're so stuck in the past that you still choose to release your anger over someone that did nothing personal to you..." Twilight said with no shame and straight up frowning.

Future Sonic's eye opened wide, and he looked at Twilight at his side with disbelief. "What?!"

"Do you seriously don't see it, Sonic?" Twilight asked him with anger. "We did what had to be done at first, but the moment you saw some people braking their Canon and still living happily on a world unlike you, you started to capture them to make sure they're as miserable and pitiful as you!"

Future Sonic frowned in anger, and his eyes turned red. "Twilight, we've talked about this. The Canon cannot be broken––"

"But it can!" Twilight snapped, and that startled FS. "The Canon doesn't matter unless someone that's not from that universe brakes it! That's why the other you's universe raveled, that's why Firefly's universe raveled! You and 220822 Sonic broke someone else's Canon, but Sonic broke his and his world is intact, right?!"

FS was surprised that Twilight, his right hand, his pal, his... His lover... was snapping at him like this. He never liked it, and worse of all, he had no idea on what to tell her, nor how to prove that she's wrong... Perhaps because she isn't.

"All this bullshit about protecting the Canon made sense when Opaline moved monsters to the wrong worlds, but is time you face the truth, 'chief': You aren't protecting the Canon, and you are not capturing anomalies anymore. You're just capturing people that broke their canon and managed to have their happy ending unlike you!" Twilight said with anger.

After that, she turned around and started to walk away, and even though FS wanted to stop her and prove her wrong, nothing came out of his mouth again, so he limited himself to sigh and look ahead.

"Just for the record... I'll stay at your side because I know you need me... But when all of this is over... You must be prepared to never see me again..." Twilight said from her place, before keep walking away.

That was the straw that made FS groan and facepalm, because with those words, he confirmed that he screwed it really bad this time, and that he better think of a way to make it up for her, event though he has absolutely no idea on how he's gonna do that...

"Marital problems?" Nicole asked, as she suddenly appeared with a mocking smirk.

However, the fact that FS didn't replied nor felt annoyed by her presence clearly told her that he was actually feeling bad, so she let aside her cocky and sassy attitude to sigh and touch his hand, even though she was still a small hologram.

"Hey... I know that is hard to deal with Twilight when she's mad, but... Just give her some time, alright?" Nicole told him with a sweet smile. "After all, she has lost as much as you back in her universe..."

"...I know..." Future Sonic replied. "Doesn't really means she's wrong about me, though... Sonic did saved the multiverse last year... I guess I'm just mad he got the chance I wished I had..."

"Whoa! You? Admitting you were wrong?! Am I on an alternate reality or something?!" Nicole exclaimed out loudly in a mocking way, and that actually got a chuckle out of FS.

"...Thanks, Nicole..." Future Sonic told her with a smile. "You're everything I would have left if I'd ever lost everything else..."

Nicole smiled, then teleported and reappeared on a regular size, wrapping FS into a hug, which surprised him, but he still let himself get hugged.

"Anytime, Sonic..." Nicole replied.

Meanwhile, over the anomaly cages, MC was whistling a happy melody to distract himself.

At his side, Sonic was meditating and trying to keep his mind busy with random thoughts, just so he wouldn't think about all the crap he's been through over the past two days.

Well, he feels that it's been two days, at least. MC's been here for Chaos knows how long, and he lost count after three days, and he probably lost it like three hours ago. Still, he went back to meditate so he could forget all the bad things for a small and peaceful moment... Hopefully.

"How's the meditation going?" MC choose to ask.

"Horribly wrong..." Sonic replied with honesty. "I've never been good at staying still for so long, but since I literally can't touch my own cage, I guess I should try and relax until FS' emo face is over."

"You think he'll stop being out of his mind?" MC asked confused.

"Insanity has a cure. You just gotta dig in for it..." Sonic pointed out. "Besides, fake powers of not, if everything you told me about him is true, he's still a Sonic at the end of the day! I know he'll find the way back to the light! Is just as matter of time."

"I seriously wished everyone could be as optimistic as you, Sonic... I guess you and mine are the same in that aspect..." MC said with a nostalgic smile. "No matter the universe, you're always the one that has a heart of gold!"

Sonic was taken a bit off guard when MC said this, because Longclaw said something similar on the message she hid on the Blue Chaos Emerald a long time ago, but he still smiled with joy, then stood up on his cage and sighed, looking back at MC for a moment.

"I guess I just like to believe there's something good on everything bad... Unless we're talking about Opaline!" Sonic replied with a smirk.

MC snorted, and Sonic himself chuckled at his own joke.

"Well, if FS really has a good side, I really hope it starts to shine soon..." MC confessed. "This place is boring as heck!"

"Ugh! Don't mention it..." Sonic agreed with a smile.

Outside, not so far from the Society's HQ, a heptagon-shaped portal opened in the ceiling of a building.

Then, from said portal, Team Anomaly came out and landed in the ground, while Boom Sonic closed the portal behind by pressing a button on his watch.

Soon, the 6 members of 8 from Team Anomaly stood over the ceiling and stared at the Secret Society's HQ in the distance. Their mission? Infiltrate the HQ and cause enough chaos so they could free all the none-villain anomalies from their cages, including Sonic.

"Alright, Team. We're here!" Boom Sonic declared with a smile, as he also held Aurora on the kangaroo to make sure she wouldn't fell. "Everybody remembers the plan?"

"Get in and free'd some actual anomalies to cause chaos on the HQ!" Firefly said excited and determined, as she hoof bumped with Dr. Hooves, because this part of the plan had to be done by them both, together.

"Keep FS busy and make sure he won't try to stop any of this!" Tails X declared confidently, while Classic Sonic jumped over his mech's shoulder and raised his thumbs up to the young fox.

"And free the non anomalies from their cages..." Boom Sonic declared. "Ready to brake some rules, Buffon?!"

Buffon smirked and made sure his jacket was in place so it could make him look cool. "I thought you'd never ask!"

With this, the three sub-teams of the Team spread out, with Boom and Buffon moving across the street, while Firefly and Hooves went straight towards the HQ, leaving Tails X and Classic moving on the air.

Back in the HQ, FS was checking the state of the 'anomalies' from his office.

He was just making sure that Sonic wasn't attempting to escape, and he was actually surprised to see that he was still on his place. Sure, the first few tapes showed him actually trying to escape, but now it seems that he has accepted he can't go anywhere with the cage being built to avoid this.

FS nodded, satisfied with this result, but just when he was about to leave and do something else, all his digital screens sent off the alarms, which called his attention.

"Sonic? We have a problem!" Nicole informed, suddenly appearing and moving wildly across the screens.

"What kind of problem?!" Future Sonic asked with concern and a frown.

Instead of using words, Nicole showed FS footage of Firefly and Dr. Hooves in the panel control room that not only makes the 'Go Home Machine' work, but it also helps to control the cages of all the anomalies.

"What the heck?!" Future Sonic exclaimed with a wide eye. "These two's watches stopped working a month ago! How the heck are they back?!"

"No clue!" Nicole replied with concern. "Should I alert the HQ about this?!"

"No. I'll take care of this!" Future Sonic stated, as he started to run towards the control room.

However, he never noticed that Boom Sonic and Blue Buffon were waiting for him to leave, hiding on the ceiling of his office, and once he did, the two Sonics looked at each other and nodded, before Boom Sonic turned to his watch.

"Alright Tails, Classic. The boss is out of the box. You know what to do!" Boom Sonic instructed.

"Roger!" Both Tails X and Classic Sonic replied.

With this, Boom and Buffon approached FS' computer, as Boom began to look on the security cameras of the office in which sector was Sonic located, since there were several ones across the HQ where they contained anomalies.

"You better hurry up, Humble Hog, before Nicole realizes we're here at all..." Buffon pointed out with a concerned frown, as he watched over Boom's back.

"I'm searching as fast as I can, don't pressure me!" Boom Sonic replied a bit annoyed, but then, he finally found what he was looking for: The camera that pointed at Sonic's cage, being guarded in Sector 6. "He's on Sector 6, right in the middle of all the other encaged ones!"

"Let's go!" Buffon cheered loudly, as the two Sonics boosted out of there.

Meanwhile, Firefly and Dr. Hooves were messing with the anomalies' cages.

"Are we completely sure that freeing the anomalies is a good idea?" Hooves questioned. "I'm all for extreme solutions in extreme problems, but what if they manage to escape to other realities?!"

"That's why we're just freeing the less dangerous anomalies we have!" Firefly replied with a smirk. "Zavok, Fang, Cozy Glow and Nightmare Moon should be a good distraction enough!"

"...Actually, that's pretty impressive and logical!" Hooves said with a smile. "Alright! Leave Zavok and Cozy glow to me!"

"Then I'll free Fang and Nightmare Moon!" Firefly declared with a smile.

And so they did: Hooves opened the cages of the Zavok and Cozy Glow's anomalies, while Firefly opened Fang and Nightmare Moon's cages. Once the four villains were free, they looked at each other confused, before grinning and then run away, ready to cause a lot of chaos around the HQ.

"Yes!" Hooves declared with a smile.

"Mission accomplished!" Firefly cheered loudly, and they both hoof bumped, before they both left the control room and head towards their exit, which is a hole in the ceiling, the exact same place they entered here in the first place.

The alarms started to sound all across the HQ after the anomalies were free'd.

FS was running across a corridor on sector 7, on his way to sector 5, since there's where the 'Go Home Machine' and the anomalies' cages panel control was located, but when the alarms sounded, he stopped and looked upwards confused.

"All stations: We have a Code 325! I repeat: We have a Code 325!" Nicole informed, and that made FS' eye widen.

He looked around, and he saw all the other members of the Society being just as concerned as him.

"Four anomalies have escaped from their cages! Forget anything you're doing and put them back on their rooms!" Nicole informed.

Once that was over, Future Sonic frowned and pressed a button on his watch. "All stations: You heard Nicole! Stop what you're doing and go capture those anomalies!"

"Yes, sir!" All the members around said.

However, FS decided to let the others take charge of that, because he had a feeling on why was this happening.

So, instead of taking the stairs to go towards sector 5 and help to capture the anomalies, FS instead took the path that goes towards Sector 6.

Once Future Sonic was running down the corridor that leads where the non-villain anomalies were located, he turned his watch again. "Twilight. I'm where the minor anomalies are located. Think you could give me a hoof here in case anyone tries to free them?"

"I'm a bit busy right now dealing with Cozy Glow over here!" Twilight replied. "Besides, I think you already know my position over those 'anomalies', Sonic."

FS was about to reply something to her, but before he could do so, he was suddenly hit by a blast that sent him flying away, as he crashed several floors down and ended up landing on his back against a wall in Sector 2, as he groaned in pain and then fell facewards.

He shook his head and then painfully began to stand up, but once he looked ahead, he frowned slightly: Tails X, on his mech, was the responsible one for shooting, as he landed on the floor in front of him.

"...You've gotta be kidding me..." Future Sonic said with anger, as he held an arm in pain.

"Sonic?!" Twilight's voice spoke through the watch. "I heard you groaning in pain, a-and I saw you flying to Sector 2! Are you okay?!"

"Define 'okay', Twilight..." Future Sonic replied. "If by okay you mean that I was punched by Tails from universe 060403, who's watch stopped sending any kind of sign just like Boom Sonic's, 180994 Sonic's, Hooves' and Firefly's, then no, I'm not okay!"

"What?!" Twilight exclaimed. "H-Hang on! I-I'm coming!"

Twilight cut communications, while FS glared daggers at Tails X.

"What? You really thought I was going to keep being part of this clubhouse?" Tails X asked. "I'm disappointed... On both myself and you, Sonic. If myself from this universe could see you right now? He'll definitely be disappointed on you!"

That made FS' eye go red, and then he launched himself against Tails X with his claws, but Tails X blocked the attack with one of his mech's arms.

"DON'T YOU DARE TO USE YOUR OWN NAME AGAINST ME!!!" Future Sonic shouted in rage.

"Is the truth!" Classic Sonic spoke next, as he arrived and punched FS right on the face, sending him backwards and crashing on his back against a wall.

Finally, to ensure that FS wouldn't recover so quickly, Tails X grabbed a massive piece of ruble and smashed FS with it. He didn't killed him, but he did won some time to make sure they could run away and get out of there with Sonic without FS' intervention.

So, once they made sure that FS wouldn't wake up, Classic Sonic and Tails X looked at each other and nodded with smiles, before they left the scene as well, with Classic riding over Tails X's mech's shoulder.

As soon as they did, Twilight arrived and saw all the destroyed zone completely horrified, because it meant they would spent some time fixing it... But when she saw one of FS' arms under the piece of ruble Tails X smashed him with, her eyes widened in panic and she started to tear up in panic.

"SONIC!!!" Twilight screamed in horror, and she immediately began to retire some of the rubble with her magic, in a desperate attempt to get him out of the rubble.

On the other hand, the non-villain anomalies were confused on Nicole's warning.

"Someone released anomalies?" Sonic questioned confused. "But we've been all here for the past 15 minutes!"

"I don't think they're talking about us, Sonic..." MC pointed out. "I think Nicole is talking about the anomalies they capture before sending them back to their respective universes."

"Wait... The anomalies in Sector 5? That's odd..." Sonic pointed out confused.

And then, two blue blurs passed by the cages and released some small balls in the ground, that rolled and then stopped, as they attached to all the cages where the non-villain anomalies were trapped into.

"What the hell?!" Both MC and Sonic said, but they couldn't question anything further, because the cages suddenly stopped working and free'd them all.

All the other anomalies looked around confused, and nobody knew if it was a trick or not... But then MC decided to be the first one to test it out... He got down of the platform he was over, and when he touched the ground and nothing happened, he knew that this was legit: He was free.

"Guys... Is not a trap!" MC said happily. "We're actually free!"

This made all the other anomalies around feel happy and exit their places as well... Except for the Sonic variant that kept giving his back and let out another strange laugh.

"That guy still sounds like a weirdo..." Sonic commented, and MC once again nodded in agreement.

But then, everyone heard someone whistling, and they turned their heads to see Buffon standing right in the entrance of the Sector. "If you guys stopped wondering around, is time to go!"

"Buffon!" Sonic exclaimed with a smile, as he immediately boosted towards her and gave him his right hand in a 'bro' salute way. "My man, I'm so glad to see you again!" He said happily, before suddenly gasping with sparkling eyes. "Did you free'd us all?!"

"Kinda. This wasn't my plan. It was Bacon-head's and Humble Sonic's," Buffon replied, turning around and running away to an exit, while Sonic, MC and the other anomalies decided to follow... Except for the other Sonic, he stood on his place.

"Bacon-head and Humble––" Sonic tried to question confused, but then his eyes widened when he realized who he was talking about. "Wait a second... Sunset and Boom planned this out?!"

However, before he got a reply, his shoes started to act on their own again, and that's because the Prismatic Energy of his arm and feet was out of control again... The cage has been containing it this whole time.

He still managed to regain control of it, though, just before Buffon stopped over a door and opened it, indicating with his head to everyone that they had to enter, and enter they did. Then, Buffon used his guitar to sent a sound wave that blocked the path so they wouldn't be followed.

Buffon himself entered into the place right before the exit got blocked, and then he found Boom Sonic opening a portal for every anomaly to go home.

"I apologize for everything the Society made you all go through. Now you're free to go!" Boom stated.

All the other anomalies thanked him, as each one of them crossed the respective portal that Boom was opening so each one of them could go back home.

The last one remaining was MC, but before crossing the portal, he turned to see Sonic and smiled. "Well, these two last days were very interesting... I'm kind of going to miss being encaged and have someone to talk to."

"Dude, if that's your way to say you're gonna miss me, you've got a lot of work to do," Sonic said with his arms crossed and a mocking smirk.

MC rolled his eyes with a smile, then made a salute, and then crossed the portal back home.

Once every anomaly was sent home, Sonic looked over at Boom Sonic with a deadpan and his arms crossed. "So... Sunset and you planned this out?"

"I know, I know. We screw it big time with the whole 'Canon' thing..." Boom Sonic confessed. "We realized our mistake of joining the Society, and... We wanna make it up to you and Sunny."

"And you don't happen to have anything to do with the anomalies that escaped from Sector 5, do you?" Sonic questioned again.

"It was Firefly and Hooves who free'd them," Buffon replied instead, with his hands on his pockets. "Our mission was to take you and the rest out."

"And where's Sunset?" Sonic asked with a frown. "If she wants me to be free and apologize, she should be here."

"She's already apologizing, but with Sunny back in your universe..." Boom Sonic replied. "Look... We're sorry, okay? And we know words won't be enough, so we're taking action by helping you out!"

"He's still 'too cool' to say he was selfish by not telling you everything," Buffon said with a smirk, and Boom glared daggers at him, but then sighed.

"Yeah, he's right..." Boom Sonic confessed. "Sonic, if you're still mad with me, I won't blame you... But I know that you're not a man of having a grudge against anyone... Because none of us are..."

Sonic actually found himself surprised, because... Even after all that happened, Boom was right... He didn't had a grudge against them... Against none of them... Not even against FS.

"...You say you're trying to prove you have changed, right?" Sonic questioned, and Boom nodded. "Then you better prove it by helping me save Tails, Hitch and stop Opaline!"

Boom Sonic smiled and nodded. "Consider it done!" He stated, and Aurora on his chest babbled happily.

Twilight kept levitating ruble away, but then she finally managed to get it off entirely from FS.

"Oh, thank hoofness!" Twilight said with a smile, even wiping away her tears and slowly approaching a hoof to FS. "I-I was so worried that you wouldn't––"

However, right when she was about to caress his cheek, FS snatched her hoof away and quickly stood up... His eye was still red, meaning his power effect wasn't over. That concerned Twilight a lot.

"...The anomalies... Did you guys captured them?" Future Sonic asked.

Just then, Nicole appeared at his side. "U-Um... The Anomalies from Sector 5 have been already captured, sir..." She replied, and that made FS calm down a bit, as his eye went back to be green. "B-But... A-All the anomalies of Sector 6 have escaped... Sonic included..."

That woke up some primal instinct on FS, so he grabbed a piece of ruble near by and launched it against Nicole, who teleported away and then quickly appeared again with a panicked expression.

Soon, FS started to curse her and everyone in the Society in Japanese, but unfortunately for him, Nicole could understand everything and covered her mouth in horror, while Twilight looked at FS even more concerned now, but she was also frowning at him.

"I can't believe you can't do ONE SIMPLE JOB the way it HAS to be DONE!" Future Sonic shouted in rage. "We should had got rid of those anomalies, BUT YOU CONVINCED ME NOT TO!!!" He pointed at Twilight in anger. "You are as much of a liability as your pitiful student! I should had got rid of you along––"

However, he couldn't finish his sentence because he was slapped by Twilight, and that made him get back into his senses... His power got the best of him, and when he looked over at Twilight, she was crying, but still frowning at him.

"...T-Twi... I-I'm so––" Future Sonic tried to apologize.

But Twilight stepped back and shook her head, before pressing a button on her watch that opened a portal back to her universe, then she removed her watch and launched it in front of FS.

"You need help, Sonic... And I'm so, so sad that I cannot be the one to help you..." Twilight said, crossing the portal and disappearing from sight.

FS felt his heart braking, and he fell to his knees, soon starting to cry through his only working eye.

He hurt her, he yelled lies at her, he destroyed her little hope she had on him to stop doing all of this... And now she's gone because of him.

Author's Note

Sonic is now free, baby, WHOOOOOO!!!

I'm actually really happy on how these last three chapters (counting this one) have turned out so far! I honestly thought that they would be so hard to make, but I'm so glad I was wrong!

Now, in today's chapter: The Anomaly Zavok is from this story by MetalJrock, Fang the Sniper is from this story's universe created by Battwell, Cozy Glow comes from this story made by RainbowDoubleDash, and Nightmare moon is from this one-shot written by Undome Tinwe.

We're now officially half-way through Part 2, and through the whole story... That was fast...

Thank you guys so much for reading up to this point! Next time: We head back to the Mushroom Kingdom! Will Sonic see his friends again? Stay tuned and find out for yourselves!

Bye!