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Mystic Monkey wrote:

Luma.dash wrote:

Mystic Monkey wrote:

Luma.dash wrote:

Mystic Monkey wrote:

Luma.dash wrote: According to Mephiles, Shadow was hunt down by a re-programmed E-123 Omega after the humans feared that Shadow would be an enemy for them after Iblis' crisis. Whether Mephiles was lieing at that time to gain Shadow's trust or not, is unknown. But you can see the cutscene just before Mephiles phase 1 boss, and the cutscene after Shadow's Wave Ocean for more details.

However, even if this is true. The whole timeline rebooted after Solaris' destruction. So, this is no longer canon. It could be possible Shadow was accused as the murderer of Sonic due to his physical similarities with Mephiles. Well, as I can draw from official materials, Sonic was killed at the time Iblis got released after the Egg Carrier's crushing accident, which killed Princess Elise and Eggman in the progress. How Sonic is killed, is unknown. All of this, lead to Silver's future (2006). Iblis got released after Mephiles killed Sonic himself.

Since Mephiles has the apperance of Shadow, it could be a factor to Shadows accusations.

Well, Mephiles has just made a paradox actually. Meaning that everything he has done to release Iblis, did not happen in the time before Silver is born. In other words, Iblis got released by other way in a time Mephiles did not appear in (Silver's future). Mephiles just changed the destiny to create Solaris. Changed the bad future to worse, or non-existence. It could be possible... there were two paradox Mephiles working together which would explain why some contradictions in the games story.

For example Mephiles was present in Silvers burned future where fans often wonder why Mephiles can't simply fuse with Iblis then. There can be two logical reasons for that:
 * Iblis has mutated beyond that of just a flame and grew sentient by itself thus no longer compatable with Mephiles to unite as Solaris.
 * Mephiles at the time only had the purple Chaos Emerald. He needed all seven to successfully fuse with Iblis. And even if he had all seven by Silver's future, Iblis may refuse him.

The first time Dr. Eggman sent Sonic, Tails and Knuckles into the future, Tails checked the history record to discover that Elise died when the Egg Carrier crashed and it is pressumed Iblis was released when its vessel died. Because Mephile at the time was not prepared at the time to fuse with Iblis, he had to bide his time for the oppotunity to manipulate the past and make events more favourable for him back then. This succeeded when he murders Sonic.

Two Mephiles working together is a reasonable answer, that or regardless of age Mephiles existance is constant regardless of his past or future. Well, it is an interesting theory. However, I don't think it is true. See, In Shadow's story, Mephiles used his time travel sphere, to collate himself, and Shadow and Rouge to the future. At the same time when Shadow met Sonic and his friends in the future, Mephiles had the time to lure Silver and Blaze to believe him that Sonic is the "Iblis Trigger" in the computer room, where Sonic and his friends at that point had also been there and saw them. Later, Shadow fought Mephiles and used the hole in time that Mephiles created to go back to the present too.

This lead to Radical Train (and notice how the level number for all characters is 6). As at the same time Shadow head to the station to find Eggman, Mephiles tried to keep tricking Silver to go and pursuit Sonic in Radical Train. And Sonic went to rescue the princess just before the two hedgehogs head to Radical Train.

I think that the developers just intended it be like this.