Limited Edition

**Honesty is the Best Policy! {Limited Edition}**

Honesty is the Best Policy! {Limited Edition} (or just {Limited Edition} or even {LE}) is a story written with the intention of being "limited to just Honest and Shadow and things relating to them". However, eventually the meaning of "limited" shifted to being "limited to Honest's, Shadow's, and Scourge's perspectives" as the series' story changed over time. (ADD REFERENCES FOR EACH OF THOSE QUOTES)

This story was created on March 11th, 2017. However, after the first three chapters were published, Honest got distracted writing other stories, and the story was placed on hold, still being labeled as "on-going" on Wattpad. Four years later, in 2021, Honest finally resumed Limited Edition, publishing chapter 4 on Wattpad. She then continued to publish chapters pretty regularly, though not as regularly as she published Comic Edition. The story is still on-going to this day with chapter 24 being the latest chapter as of October 28th, 2023. Notable moments include:

* The Chaos emeralds are moved around
	+ In chapter 6, Honest steals the red Chaos emerald from Shadow and gives it to Finitevus.
	+ In chapter 10, Honest takes the red emerald from Finitevus and gives it to Tails in exchange for the fake emerald, which she then lets Finitevus borrow for an experiment involving the Master Emerald.
* The fake emerald becomes the dark Chaos emerald.
	+ In chapter 11, Finitevus draws dark, corrupted energy from the Master Emerald and uses it to cast a hex on the fake emerald, causing it to turn black and become, as he put it, "a vessel for [his] own brand of Chaos energy".
* Details surrounding the events of chapter 11 are revealed to Sonic, Knuckles, and Rouge.
	+ In chapter 17, Knuckles explains to Sonic that a Chaos emerald conveniently went missing the afternoon before the energy in the Master Emerald wavered. From this, they are able to determine that someone had deliberately lured them away temporarily so that they could do something to ME while they were gone.
	+ They guess that Finitevus was either attempting to bring back Enerjak, putting a hex on the Master Emerald itself, or sapping power from it to use for some other purpose.
	+ Also in chapter, 17, Rouge spies on Finitevus and finds out exactly what he was doing. However, Finitevus successfully bribes her to keep quiet.
* Honest and Metal Sonic meet for the first time.
* Finitevus proposes multiple theories regarding Super Scourge and the Chaos emeralds
	+ In chapter 21, Finitevus explains that Anarchy beryl contains only negative energy, so Super Scourge is actually Dark Scourge.
	+ He also explains that, if Scourge were able to use the positive power of the Chaos emeralds, the resulting Super form might either have no serious drawbacks or the "ultimate drawback", "instantaneous death of the user or the universe it is used in".(PUT REFERENCE HERE)
* Manic and Frank meet for the first time.

## Chapters:

Note: Chapters 1-3 are omitted from this story on Archive of Our Own due to the writing style being outdated(ADD REFERENCE HERE TO AO3 DESC.), so the chapter numbers are shifted down by 3.

* Chapter 1: Pancakes vs. Waffles
* Chapter 2: Wasting Eggs and Haunted Dolls
* Chapter 3: Fumphin' Converse
* Chapter 4: Reviving a Four Year-old Story
* Chapter 5: We're Detectives Now
* Chapter 6: Dinner and a Coup
* Chapter 7: Redefining Limited
* Chapter 8: Guilt and Self Doubt
* Chapter 9: Close Calls
* Chapter 10: An Emerald Exchange
* Chapter 11: Step Four
* Chapter 12: Infinite Embraces Finitude
* Chapter 13: Reading Minds and Eating Sandwiches
* Chapter 14: Late Night Ramblings
* Chapter 15: Late Night Nonsense
* Chapter 16: Greater Minds Think in Circles
* Chapter 17: Step Five...?
* Chapter 18: A Little White Lie
* Chapter 19: Metal, Frank, and a Promise of Cookies
* Chapter 20: Eating Cookies and Conversing with Aliens
* Chapter 21: A Far More Chaotic Substitute for Lunch
* Chapter 22: Jealousy, Suspicion, and a Lab Rat's Dilemma
* Chapter 23: Suspicions and Choices
* Chapter 24: A Scourge's Day Off