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// Cracking Down Together 
// Story: Life as a Sonic OC Redux 
// by Kitsulestia 
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*Manic’s POV*


I teleported with Sonia, Adagio and Sonata right to Maurice, Sonic and Nine as I saw the Chaos Council ahead.

Mr. Eggman spoke "Destroy them!"

Eggbots came at us as Sonic, Maurice and I sent the bots flying towards the Chaos Council before the four of them dodged it while Nine hacked into the door system.

Maurice spoke "Thanks for stopping by."

The doors then closed.

Nine spoke "I’ve locked the Chaos Council out of the system, but it won’t last long."

Maurice asks "Don’t tell me we’re trapped in here?"

Nine spoke "Are you kidding? This is all going according to my plan."

Sonata spoke "Even with four hedgehogs, two sirens and a fox... we're sitting ducks!"

But then we heard a thud and babbling as we saw Dr. Babbles in his mech before he shot his rattle club at us as we dodged it.

Maurice asks "Did you plan for that?

Nine spoke "That? No.

The mech then started shooting at us as we pushed the crates with Nine on them into another room before going down a staircase a bit.

Nine spoke "Stop! The Council thinks we’re going down… *Brings out a tech similar to the ones on Maurice* but we’re taking a different path."

Nine then dropped the tech straight down the staircase gaps.

Maurice spoke "Oh, things are finally coming together. We’ve got the Shards. We can finally fix everything!"

Nine spoke "It’s going to be perfect!"

The rest of us couldn’t help but smile at that.

Adagio spoke "And it's bad enough I dragged a pregnant hedgehog into this mess!"

What Adagio had said catches Nine off guard.

Nine spoke "All the more important we get out unnoticed. Come on, into the vents. And don't worry, there's plenty of room."

Adagio and Sonata take hedgehog forms since their siren forms were much too big to fit in the vents.

Sonic carefully unscrews the grating off with his magic, setting it down.

Sonic spoke "Manic, you got first, then Sonata, then Sonia, then Adagio, then myself, then Maurice and lastly Nine. I don't want some hedgehog sneezing if their nose was tickled."

We were in the vents with the crates before Sonic carefully screwed the grating back on as the eggbots soon flew down the staircases when Maurice realized something.

Maurice spoke "Why aren't they powering down? We have the Shards."

Nine spoke "Residual prism energy stored in the Mothership. They're not powering down any time soon."

Sonia spoke "Not now...."

But before Sonia could make a sound, Adagio covered Sonia's mouth, muffling her.

Sonic whispers "Adagio, what happened?"

Adagio whispers "Bad timing."

Nine's ears twitched before bringing out a small device before pushing a button on it, turning it into a heater before looking in the other direction.

Nine spoke "I normally use that heater on cold days, but I think it's needed elsewhere, and I have to make sure no one notices the vents."

Sonic spoke "I've put up a soundproof barrier around the seven of us so that they don't hear us."

Manic spoke "I'll keep watch up front here."

Sonata spoke "Adagio and I will handle the delivery."

Sonic spoke "I'll keep the barrier going so sound isn't heard."

Adagio asks "Nine, could you keep watch from behind us?"

Nine asks "*Deadpan* Isn't that what I'm doing right now?"


*Shortly after the birth,*


Sonia whispers "Traversing the vents with a newborn will be hard since I can't fight back."

Adagio whispers "Just stay behind us and in front of Nine."

Sonia whispers "I know Dagi, but I trust you to take my place in battle."

Sonia hands her medallion to Adagio.

Manic whispers "Hold the line folks, I smell something..."

Nine got impatient and went ahead of us on his seven robot tails and silently opened the grating ahead before getting out of the vent as we silently followed him with the crate and while the silence bubble was still around us as we saw Nine silently jump onto a ship behind two eggbots before he used two of robo-tails to shock the two eggbot guards, shutting them down as we exited the vent.

Maurice spoke "Nine, you are full of surprises."

Sonia's left ear twitches.

Sonia spoke "I think we should start running!"

Nine spoke  "If you like surprises, wait 'til you see what I've got going on in the Grim. *Opens a crate before heading into the Shattercraft*"

Maurice spoke "Grim? Cool, can't wait to hear more! But right now we gotta get to Ghost Hill."

Nine asks "*Putting shard into power source* Ghost Hill?

Maurice spoke "Yeah! It's just like the real deal, plus it's got a fourth Shard and this blueprint "thingy."

Nine spoke "Blueprint? *As the crates became attached to the Shattercraft* That's the key to putting the prism back together!"

Maurice spoke "Exactly!"

Nine asks "How do we get to this Ghost Hill?"

But then we heard thudding on doors.

Twilight and Danyelle soon pop up with the rest of the allied forces.

Danyelle spoke "Oi vey, you better not leave the rest of us behind!"

But then eggbots came through the doors.

Maurice spoke "We'll clear the path, you get the Shards out of here!"

Most of us started fighting the eggbots while protecting Nine, the Shattercraft, Sonia and the newborn.

Danyelle and the other firebenders let their flames fly at the robots, melting them all.

Nine hacked into the hangar doors, opening them before Dr. Babbles dropped by in his mech.

Maurice groans "Ugh! The baby again!"

Maurice spindashed, knocking the mech back as the Shattercraft started hovering.

Sonic spindashed in place before letting a blade of air fly, slicing the mech's legs clean off.

We then started making our escape with Maurice getting into the Shattercraft as Dr. Babbles cried while his mech flailed around.

Maurice spoke "Go, go, go!"

Twilight and the others immediately got aboard the hovercraft.

Nine spoke "Next stop, prism blueprint."

We then took off on the Shattercraft as we saw the green portal having a violet outline.

Nine spoke "The portal shouldn't have been left open this long. They're decaying."

Maurice asks "Do you think we can go through them?"

Nine spoke "I don't trust them, they look unstable."

But then we heard warning beeps as we saw eggbots flying after us as Nine did evasive maneuvers before shooting the eggbots, destroying them.

Maurice spoke "Ha-ha! Mess with my best bud, and you get blasted!"

Gild spoke "Does it look like we got a choice matey? FLOOR IT!"

Twilight spoke "We gotta get those robots off our collective tails!"

But then we noticed there wasn't anymore eggbots as Nine drove up, flipped, down, then forward.

Maurice spoke "Whoo-hoo! That was epic!"

Nine spoke "Yes, it was."

The Shattercraft fired before a portal opened.

Maurice spoke "Ha, ha, ha! Nothing's gonna stop us now!"

But then the Shattercraft was hit from the right, steering us away from the portal as we missed it before it closed.

Maurice spoke "Whoa!"

Nine groans "*Restabilizing the Shattercraft* Will you stop saying stuff like that?"

Using his right wing, Sonic wingslaps Maurice upside the head.

The Yolkomotive appeared behind us.

Dr. Deep spoke "No matter how fast you are, time always catches up. Time, and the Chaos Council-

Dr. Done-It shouts "Will you just blast them already?"

The Yolkomotive fired again, hitting the right rear wing of the Shattercraft as we started descending.

Nine spoke "Ugh. We're going down!"

The Yolkomotive shot the Shattercraft again, separating it from the crates.

Nine spoke "The Shards!"

We then crash-landed and spun a bit before stopping.

Maurice asks "You guys okay?"

Twilight spoke "Ash and the other Mewtwo are a little dizzy. I'm in a foul mood, same with Shadow and Inuyasha."

Much to Nine's surprise, a battle scarred siren with an eye miss grabs the crates with her mouth before bringing them back to the Shattercraft.

Gild spoke "Good timing Dagio! We nearly lost those shards!"

Dagio spoke "Celeste sent me ta help ya lot out."

But then the Yolkomotive shot Dagio, causing her to drop the crates before shooting the crates, sending them away from the Shattercraft.

Nine spoke "Sonic, the Shatterdrive is down. Go get the Shards!"

Maurice ran towards the crates while dodging plasma blasts and started pushing them towards us while Nine picked up the blue Shard.

Maurice spoke "Nine! Get down!"

Nine spoke "*Dodging* Whoa!"

But then the Yolkomotive was suddenly shot as we saw something fly over us, shooting at the Yolkomotive. We then saw it was the Kraken.

Maurice spoke "All right, Rust and Black Rose!"

Rust laughs "Who is useless now?"

The Yolkomotive started flying away with the Kraken giving chase.

Maurice spoke "Ha-ha! *As Nine put the blue Shard back into an empty crate* I can get us to the Void. *As Eggbots were coming at us* But right now, we need to move. Come on!"

We then started running.

Nine asks How can you get us to the Void?"

Maurice spoke "Well, I don’t want to get all science-y, but basically, I run fast and boom… a portal opens."

Nine spoke "And you’ve done this lots of times? Turn right!"

We turned right, heading into an alley while taking out an Eggbot.

Maurice spoke "Not exactly lots of times…"

Nine spoke "How many? Make a left."

We turned left.

Maurice spoke "Once on purpose, and I wasn’t pushing a giant Shard case. But it was super cool!"

Nine spoke "Turn right!"

We turned back onto the street while dodging the eggbots.

Maurice spoke "Ugh, I’ll never get up to speed with all these Eggforcers on us! Sorry pal, but I think we’re gonna have to use one of those portals to escape."

Nine spoke "It’s not a good idea. They’re portals directly into another Shatterspace. They can’t be stable."

Maurice spoke "*Referring to the Kraken and the crew on it* Well, they came through and they’re okay."

Nine spoke "All right, fine."

Maurice spoke "Through the portals it is!"

We ran before Nine spun his two flesh and seven robo tails, lifting the case as we then took flight while the Eggbots crashed into each other, exploding as we got onto a ramp before running again. We soon ran off and went into the blue portal before falling out onto the ocean before landed as Maurice caught Nine with the crates while still running.

Maurice spoke "Gotcha!"

Nine spoke "Thanks."

Maurice spoke "Hey, don’t mention it, that’s what friends are for."

Sonic spoke "We’re back in No Place!"

Danyelle spoke "Yeah but Ash and the others are still back in New Yoke!"

Twilight groans "Oh come on!"

Maurice asks "*Notices up ahead* Buildings? Here?"

We looked ahead and indeed saw buildings coming out of the water.

Danyelle growls "Something's not right..."

But then another Yolkomotive with Dr. Babbles and Dr. Don't inside it came out of the portal before firing at us as we dodged before two eggbots came out, chasing us.

Nine asks "Two on your six. Can't you go any faster?"

Maurice spoke "Not on this water. I'll never build up enough speed like this."

Nine grabbed a lamppost, making him, the crates and Maurice turn right as the rest of us followed him while the eggbots crashed against a building, shattering themselves as we then saw a familiar ship.

Batten spoke "There be no wind in me sails! Curse these buildings."

Maurice spoke "Ahoy, guys!"

We soon stopped.

Batten spoke "Sonic! You be back! Ye got yer own boat!"

Nine spoke "This isn't a boat."

Sails spoke "Technically, anything that floats be a boat."

Sails and Nine then noticed each other, becoming confused of what's going on.

Danyelle asks "Hey Maurice, can you run on ice?"

Maurice asks "Not exactly. I won’t be able to get enough speed on them since they don’t have much friction. *To pirates* And actually, we’re just passing through. Any chance you could help us out?"

Batten asks "Helping you out only brings more trouble, but if you could sweeten the deal?"

We then noticed the Yolkomotive in the air.

Maurice asks "Wouldn’t you like another crack at these guys?"

Batten spoke "Argh! They really put the bog in me boots and I’ve been itching to use the cannons."

Catfish brought out and planted a cannon.

Maurice spoke "Thanks, Batten!"

We then took off while the pirates shot fireworks at the Yolkomotive before Nine flew again as we went into the portal, getting back to New Yolk as we landed back on the Yoke.

Maurice spoke "Having friends in all the Shatterspaces comes in handy!"

Deep Lilac spoke "I agree!"

The alicorn-Cyniclon hybrid slashes a robot in half with her sword.

Maurice spoke "Just wait ‘til you meet Tails. You’re gonna love him!"

But then someone dropped in.

Maurice asks "Dread?"

Dread spoke "I want me beauty. I know ye have it."

Nine spoke "*Sarcastically* Yeah, sure is great having friends."

Maurice spoke "Come on, dude, I thought you and I were cool now."

Dread spoke "Ye thought wrong."

But then Rebel flew in as she spun and threw Renegade.

Renegade spoke "Hyah!"

Renegade pounded the ground, sending Dread flying back a bit as he held onto a ledge.

Renegade spoke "Get outta here, Sonic. *Pounds fists* I’ll handle this."

Dread got back up.

Maurice spoke "I get why you don’t like me, but you guys should be friends!"

Renegade spoke "Not gonna happen. I already have enough friends."

Dread spoke "The only friend I need is me beauty. Argh!"

The two echidnas started fighting.

Rebel spoke "The Council’s forces are converging on you. You brought the trouble. Now take it with you."

Nine spoke "We’ve got bigger problems."

Eggbots flew in.

Nine spoke "We need to go."

Rebel spoke "I’ll buy you some time."

Rebel flew and started fighting eggbots as we started running.

Dread spoke "No! Come back!"

Dread was then punched in the face by Renegade while we kept running as we were soon on another ramp with Eggbots coming after us. We jumped into the Boscage Maze Portal as we fell into the jungle while the trees tore the Eggbots apart.

Nine spoke "That was…"

Maurice spoke "Fun, right? *As the case stopped moving* Get used to it. Once we put the prism back together, things will be nonstop awesome all the time in Green Hill."

We started moving again.

Nine asks "Green Hill?"

Deep Lilac spoke "NOW ISN'T THE TIME MAURICE!!!"

Deep Lilac's shout had gotten the attention of the Boscage group.

Meanwhile, the Mothership appeared with Eggbots coming after us.

Maurice "Man... The Chaos Council’s not playing around."

Nine: They won’t stop coming until they have the Shards. We need to get to the Void. Now.

Maurice spoke "Agreed. I just need a runway."

We started moving forward through the jungle before moving past the Boscage Gang as Nine and Mangey noticed each other in confusion while the Eggbots were still shooting at us before we soon noticed buildings from New Yoke in the jungle.

Maurice spoke "This deforestation and commercial construction is really starting to tick me off."

A voice spoke "You’re not the only one…"

We heard a screech as Thorn showed up on Boscage Birdie while two spun with the female hedgehog hitting the eggbots with her hammer, wrecking them before following us.

Thorn spoke "…and your friend looks a lot like Mangey."

Nine asks "Who’s that?"

Thorn soon jumped off Boscage Birdie as the Virizion showed up with the green Shard.

Maurice spoke "Thorn Rose, meet Tails Nine."

Nine spoke "It’s just Nine."

Danyelle used her airbending to blow several eggbots away.

Danyelle growls "We don't have time to screw around Maurice! The fate of the multiverse is at stake here!"

Thorn asks "What have you done now?

Maurice spoke "Not me. *Points at the Mothership* Them!"

Thorn spoke "I won’t let them do more damage to my jungle."

But then the place started rumbling.

Maurice asks "An earthquake! Now? Can’t Mother Nature see I’m trying to save reality?"

Nine spoke "That was no earthquake. Look!"

We looked at the case and there was a crack with red light coming through it.

Maurice spoke "That’s not good.

Nine spoke "*Welds the crack with two of his robo tails, sealing it* Their powers are intensifying because of the close proximity. The case won’t hold them much longer.

Maurice asks "*Sigh* Can you clear a runway?"

Thorn nodded as she went onto Boscage Birdie. “For Boscage Maze!"

The two then flew off towards the enemies as Boscage Birdie screeched a caw with Thorn letting out a warrior scream while the Kraken was still chasing the Yolkomotive, firing at the Eggbots before Rust and Black Rose noticed Boscage Birdie and Thorn wrecking the Eggbots.

Rust and Black Rose asks "Who is that?"

Meanwhile, we were picking up speed.

Maurice spoke "Gotta go fast!

A barrier was forming around us as we kept going faster before we suddenly found ourselves in the Void, leaving the green Gateway as Maurice panted in exhaustion.

Nine spoke "Sonic!"

Danyelle immediately used Heal Pulse on Maurice, bringing his stamina back to full power.

Shatterverse Shadow showed up before pushing the case, stopping it. "It's about time."

Maurice spoke "*Smiles while jumping across crystals* Nine, meet Shadow. Shadow, meet Nine."

Shatterverse Shadow started pushing the case.

Nine spoke "You're not another version of Sonic. But you could be twins!"

Shatterverse Shadow spoke "Hardly, I am the ultimate life form."

Maurice spoke "Don't listen to him. Come on!"

We arrived at the yellow Gateway before entering it, falling into Ghost Hill as we landed.

Ghost Hill Tails spoke "As long as I'm around, you'll always have a wingman."

We turned around, noticing the Ghost Hill versions.

Shatterverse Shadow growls "Sycophantic wish fulfillment."

Deep Lilac spoke "*looking at Shatterverse Shadow* Jeeze dude, you're just as moody as the Shadow I know."

Nine seemed to be thinking to himself before noticing Ghost Hill Tails.

Nine spoke "This is the friend Sonic thought was like me? *Scoff* We're nothing alike."

Shatterverse Shadow nodded at that before another quake happened, causing the ghosts to glitch in and out. "What just happened?"

Nine spoke "Another reality quake. We don't have much time. We need to hurry."

Shatterverse Shadow spoke "Follow me."

We soon went into the mountain cave as we opened the crates, revealing the blue and red Shards as the Virizion brought out the green Shard.

Maurice spoke "It's finally over. Now we just have to rebuild the prism!"

Nine spoke "Stop! It's not that simple. The alignment must be perfect. the slightest variation could have massive repercussions. People, places, and things could be ripped from existence. One small mistake, and poof! Reality is changed forever."

Maurice spoke "Tiny details are not my thing."

Nine spoke "I can do it. I just have to make some calculations."

Maurice asks "How can we help?"

Nine spoke "I need to be left alone to work. No distractions. Too many in a tight space. I don't want anything to go wrong."

Shatterverse Shadow spoke "I'll take Sonic and the others outside. Best to keep him away."

Maurice spoke "Thanks for putting it together, buddy. This is why we're a great team."

Maurice and Nine high-fived before we all went outside, leaving Nine to do his work.

Shatterverse Shadow asks "How do you know you can trust him?"

Maurice spoke "Trust is an issue for you, Shadow. That's why you don't have any friends."

Danyelle spoke "Just like my universe's Shadow but it took a bit of my adopted dad's magic to give her a second chance at life. *looking at Shatterverse Shadow* Plus I can sense you lost someone special to you. But I have a bad feeling that Nine will turn on us."

Shatterverse Shadow "Agreed. Sonic, I don't think your friend wants the same thing we do."

Maurice spoke "Hey, you two cheer up! We're so close to this all being over! Once Nine rebuilds the Paradox Prism, and Green Hill reforms, everything will finally be back to normal. We did it!"

But then we heard crackling as we saw a portal open in the air, followed by the Mothership appearing out of it.

Maurice spoke "I may have spoken too soon."

Danyelle snaps "YOU THINK?!"

Deep Lilac's sword was glowing purple due to the shard that was embedded in it.


End