Old Sonic claimed to have come from a dystopian future in which the Freedom Fighters had been killed and Robotnik's tyrannical rule over Mobius had become much worse. In fact, Old Sonic was a clone created by Doctor Ivo Robotnik from Sonic's DNA, as part of a scheme to defeat the Freedom Fighters. Old Sonic truly believed that he had time travelled from the future, but when he discovered the truth that he was not the real Sonic, he turned against Robotnik.