Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4383275-20150414221305/@comment-1031724-20161017214609

SuperSonic08 wrote: For me the Time Eater is so strong it can go into alternate, deleted, or revised timelines so he was able to get Sonic 06 but in the main series Sonic 06 isn't canon I guess that works too.

Then whether it's this, or what I said, is a matter of headcanon.