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             Log #1: We have landed, many are confused as to how we can make this our new home. I am not sure myself but I have faith in our leaders. The terrain is weird and bumpy. With make extrusions instead of a flat plain like back home, buy like back home there is much water. We have also landed on a series of floating islands, which is uncommon where we come from. But, I cannot complain as we are already making progress, building up our new lives. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I only can hope that this will work out, that none of this will be in vain, but we seem to be doing good so far. I only wish that the others could’ve made it.

             “I get why we can’t go back, but why here?”

             “This is the best place that matches what we need.”

              “Fine, but you shouldn’t expect others to be happy about it”

               “I don’t, but they will get used to it in due time, until then, we do the best we can.”

               They built homes, places of worship, what the modern day would consider businesses, and many other places of a society. Which took many years, but ended up becoming a thriving society. The ancients would live good lives within the community. For decades maybe even centuries, they thrived.

               “Entoend! Entoend!”

               “Give me a second Yuuuu! This is harder than it looks to carry!” Entoend yells down but eventually gets down to Yuuuu who is patiently waiting

               “We’re going to be late for the elder.”

               “Don’t care, all those guys end up being are smelly old people who spout nonsense, if you actually listen to what they’re say-“

                “Just c’mon, it’s still required.”

                The two make it over the way to their place of worship. Making it in time to hear the elder speak. The elder starts off with a prayer, then goes into a speech. Entoend rolls their eyes while Yuuuu watches with a smile.

               “We thank this planet for what it gives to us and how we can still take away from it after all this time. We thank our people who work so hard for what might be completely trivial in the long run. We thank our leaders for keeping a steady head in times of chaos. We thank our people in the afterlife for being here and we thank the people that are here, for continuing to be here.” The elder begins then pauses for a moment.

                 “What I want to talk about today is simple, non-believers.” 

                “I can’t believe that, The Elder can’t be serious! He must be targeting me, right?” Entoend asks Yuuuu, who sighs and shrugs. They take Entoend home while they complain to them, all the way. This would annoy Yuuuu if they weren’t already used to this.

               “I’m not even doing anything wrong!”

               “Well, did you say yourself that this was just a way to control people?”

               “Yeah well, I don’t want to die just to not be controlled!”

               “Well, looks like your going to have to, if that’s what you want.”

               “This is stupid” Entoend says and they go back into their house while Yuuuu sighs and goes back to theirs. They both live in the outskirts of town. Away from most but still are connected to the society. Some are thrown out and live below or around and about, avoiding everyone else. 

               “What happened?” Well most of the do, Entoend’s friend Carluahores or just Carl for short live with them after being kicked out.

                “They’re taking a harder stance on non-believers, so I’m at risk, other than that, not much”

               “Nobody knows about me still, right?”

               “Don’t worry, they don’t and if I have anything to say about it, they never will.” 

               “Thanks, your a good friend”

               “Thanks, you made anything while I was gone?” EntoEnd asks.

                “Not particularly, most batches are still in their sitting or stirring stages, so nothing yet, but some are coming soon, just wait!”

                “They better be” Entoend says with a laugh, Carluahores gives a happy look before going back behind their curtain, Entoend smiles and go onto the thing they consider a bed. Resting for a bit before hearing Yuuu come back. Entoend gets up and inspects what they’re doing, shopping, maybe they can asks her for some later, some spares for Carl, but other than that, not much.

                 The Elder has felt a pressure and presence for a while now and it only grows stronger and stronger every single day. They feel the non-believers are getting more powerful and it is not only paranoia, it is an obvious presence. The Elder can feel the above ones wanting a conclusion to this, they are trying the best they can to figure this out, yet the elder can’t. One reason for the message today. 

                  The other besides pressure was because of their advisors. They think they know everything, they don’t. They stumble upon the truth occasionally by being so vague that they have to get it. The Elder hates their advisors yet they’re required and still here. Maybe he should stop them after they stop these non-believers. After all of this stupid things. Again and again, new problems come and make things worse.

                  The elder senses something is off, making everything worse. Piling onto whatever else they already have. The elder sits down, to rest for a second. They have gotten a mild headache, which hurts, a decent amount. They rub their head yet the headache doesn’t go away. Maybe this is a sign from the abover ones, or maybe it’s a headache from all the stress.

                  “Interesting.” A Doctor from the future says. Looking back from ancients scans and what happened. Inspecting the documents to find out what happened to the ancients. Whatever was 

exhumed and how it happened. A fascinating tale, The Doctor has found this very interesting. His grandfather studies this but he didn’t have the materials and knowledge he had, he does thank his grandfather for all of this though, knowing who he was and what he provided.

                  “Very interesting.”

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            Log #2: Many are having a hard time adjusting, it is hard to be fair. Yet some cannot understand that. We attempted to settle it, but they will not listen. Some of them have suggested throwing ‘useless’ members off the islands and isolating them. I think that’s a horrible idea, yet the idea seems to be getting some spread. I can only this ideology will not get any bigger. 

             Other than that, the society is growing. At a good rate as well. Others are already settled. I myself have gotten settled. We have already established a monetary currency. The business’ here are settled and obeying the rules that we have put into place. We have derided to elect some leaders later this cycle. We have also established cycles. Four to be specific. We have only gone though two so far but we can expect we have one more good cycle before we have to settle in for the freezing cycle. Other than that, everything is well. I can only hope for more growth.

             “Mx. Elder, may I speak to you for a moment?”

             “What is it?”

             “Your approval ratings are down and many are starting to call into question what you are doing. Many do not believe in you.”

              “Make them believe then, I have many more important things to do.”

              The adviser becomes frustrated but doesn’t say anything only going back to their desk where it lists their name: Craryee Throgoff. Craryee sits at their desk and wonders how to convince the eleder to take the people into account. They are the direct tie to the people after all, being the elder's chief of civilians relations. They end with nothing, he is a brick wall, waiting to fall over. Craryee sighs, and does their job the best they can.

                The Elder goes into the room. Only they can enter. The day they realized none of this was real was when they came in here. This place does not need to exist. The above ones would never allow this perversion of their worship, but this is a special case for special people. So The Elder keeps on, praying, attempting to find the answer. Again, like usual, nothing. Guess they will have to improvise today. Again. They’re not going to pretend they aren’t angry but they understand, all of this must be leading to something.

                 Entoend wakes up, gets up and sees what Carluahores is doing. Nothing much, still working. Meaning more time to kill. Entoend decides to go to town. To kill time and to maybe collect some information. Everyone would be lying if they said that the place of worship was the most secret organization. So, gossip is always easy to hear. Entoend ends up being right.

                 “The Elder isn’t taking anything seriously! How are we supposed to do anything if they won’t do anything!”

                 “They say their waiting for a new message, saying that no new messages have come yet.”

                 “How can we be so sure? Maybe they’re telling us nothing to hide something. If that’s the case we could all be dead!”

                 “I think your overreacting, we should wait and see, I don’t think the Elder would do that without someone figuring out.”

                 Entoend hears all of this behind a wall, good information. They smile and get ready to head back to base.

                 “Hey! What are you doing!”

                 “Of course, a traitor, how couldn’t I’ve seen it sooner!” The elder laughs before going serious again and looking over Entoend.

                  “We found your friend. So I suggest you tell us everything before we find it.” Guards brings out Carl, Entoend scowls but decided to let it out at The Elder.

                  “We are here today to exacute a traitor and his dear friend. Entoend Arc-Hevegh along with Carluahores the Disowned. We are here to exacute one who should’ve died a long time ago and a new person who shows you who you should put your trust in.”

                  Out in the crowd Yuuuu gives a sad look. An advisor comes out and whispers something to the elder.

                  “The book is glowing! Shouldn’t we not do this?” The advisor asks.

                  “To the fire with the book! This is the best things that’s happened in years!” The elder shoots back then returns to their position.

                  “Let’s see these two get their just punishments!” The elder and most of the crowd cheers, the elder looks happy. Entoend and Carluahores look at each other. For one last moment before the blades drop.

                  Everyone cheers.

                  But the celebration is short lasted. Light come about. First small then big then bigger then bigger then bigger then bigger then bigger. The light consume. The elder looks in horror but before they can do anything. They are consumed. The Ancients world goes silent. They devolved in a matter of microseconds, all of them. 

                The civilization is left to rot, eventually it all faded, leaving no mark of the ancients being there. Chao take their place. The devolved version rule. With no competition, they win. They go to other islands. Like Angel island and end up almost everywhere. They’re unique creatures. Nobody knew where they came from until now. The timeline leads up to this. With the energy flash followed by silence followed by chao and more chao and more chao. There ends up being a lot of these little guys, everywhere.

                  Forest grows in the place along with other biomes in some places. A lot of plains. Some places trees didn’t want to grow. The ancients died that day followed by a new generation. The cause of the light flash and who or what did it is still unknown. But it doesn’t appear to ever happen again. Most assume it was a fluke by the universe and they would probably be right if there was evidence to back up that it wouldn’t happen again in the same circumstances. 

                   The same Doctor looks at these and smiles, answers to a lot of questions and no more questions to answer at least those impossible to answer by him. He chuckled to himself and smiled. Another success. If anything ruins it now, it’ll have to kill him to stop him.

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             Log #3: The Movement grows but slowly and faces opposition. I would say that’s good. But other than that we have developed. Many people grow and develop new ways. It’s feeling a lot more like the old life. Not exactly but close enough to where you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference all that much except for a few key details. Our society has gotten, not bigger but more communalized, not in a literal way. But together we stand strong. Many at least think so. I don’t see the harm in it. So I say why not?

              The old society was one to treasure however and I think we should try getting back to that as fast as possible. I think while not perfect, it was the closest we were going to get. Many have their other ideas and while I do listen, I do not think they compare. The old society… maybe I think on the past too much but I think was a great society, one that stood up and made everyone well and functioning. I could be wrong, but I doubt it. Others complain, which is to be expected by most but some still do not like it. I could see why but also I don’t get why.

               The environments here are unique with an abundance of trees which make good material for now, as soon as we can get on more solid and less floating ground we will mind. People were worried about doing anything to these islands as they seem unstable yet they aren’t. It’s weird nothing seems likely to cause this, at least what this world naturally provides. We might want to figure out what's causing this to happen before we can’t control it. But until then, we will stay peaceful towards the thought. The energy that must be causing this must be powerful. It could be terrible if it got into the wrong hands.

                We have not found any non floating land masses yet. We are starting to believe there might be none, at least none that are covered in water but we have not explored much, so this might only be an oversight. As for the water itself, it is dirty and needs to be cleaned before consumption, thankfully we tested for that. But anyone desperate enough might take the bait and be taken by the sea. Nobody has tried to drink the water raw yet but there are thoughts of attempting so and as much as actually going into the water to see what happens that could be more or less risky. Especially since we don’t know what exactly is in the water. As for what is on land. Many fruits are available but other than that, a few animals exist. But not many which contribute to our diet. 

                Many investigations are required into our new home. Especially for how stable or unstable it might be. To preserve our race is the most important factor. While I don’t believe in sacrificing no matter what, many are and I would sacrifice for many things but still, many could go too far I fear. But I doubt that will happen anytime soon. As for anything else to investages we still need food and water and any other possible resource to be investigated. As well as any energy sources here either for power reasons or holding up these islands. But other than that we are settling in, many houses and farms have been built. Some of us have even moved to the other nearby islands. The future's looking bright, despite some minor ideological differences. 

               Log #4: The ideology wars have gotten bad but not too bad. But that again seems to be the only thing to worry about. We attempted mining on one of the islands but didn’t get that far. Finding rocks and not much else. Most were too scared to get deeper and those who weren’t didn’t want to mine. As for future attempts, those might be a long time in the future. The others on other islands seem to be doing well, especially for what little resources they were given. But they made it, which is good. As for investigations, food is still mainly fruits and nothing else. But a few animals can be used for consumption. Many still prefer the fruits however, as I do myself. But going out to catch some animals has become more popular which is interesting. Some will even pay for the food. Instead of picking fruits like usual. Some are given payment for their work. We use our old currency but some have said of starting new. Which given the lack of money from our previous home, is seemingly a good idea. If you don’t remember all the inflation and allocation that has to be done to determine what values what and what we should keep and what we should even make the money out of.

               Money is fine though, only used by a few and taken by even fewer. I don’t particularly find a use for it. I take time to pick my own fruits for the week then eat them for the week. But that’s my own opinion. As for any actual updates, farming is well, the elections have gone smoothly. People seemed happy, as only one person ran as mainly a figurehead position. It is nice to have some sort of leadership even if it means little to nothing. A sign of society from our past world returning. I hope everyone we had to leave behind is happy with what we have and what we will accomplish, if they can see us or know what we’re doing. But I hope they are as we are doing quite well I think. At least with what we have. But other than that, no new updates. I can only hope we figure out more things soon and nothing comes out of the few bad things we do have. But that is wishful thinking, but hopefully wishful and right thinking. 

                I wish all our fallen a good night.

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            Log #5: Hopefully things get better as our two main problems: ideology and money. Seem to be the root cause of all our problems. Call me crazy but I do not like having to figure out the money situation. They attempted to make a new currency, but that ended up failing, as our rich decided that it looked “too poor” which I think is a bad reason. But they rule somewhat, so that's being changed. Many of the vendors have used that to get more favors from the rich. I don’t know why but the rich being puppets from companies is a bad idea. Their own money is getting warn anyways trading hands so much. I hear of someone taking a paper piece of money and immediately ripping it up, which the rich tried to piece together, unsuccessfully. The few people who did use the new money are now either criticized or called vagrants. The only people who use the money and aren’t immediately disrespected is the government.

             But they are still talking behind their backs. A lot. Many surprisingly do not like the new system or the new person in charge. Calling them several things, most rumors or general insults. Some plan to run against them. Which I doubt will actually do anything if they win. The ideology is ramping up due to people saying that some should be exiled and some should not. That has transferred to our politics with a nearly established people’s chamber for making laws being established. While the actual person in charge appears to be neutral, this might not be the case next election. But the ideology is still small, but also still there. Which concerns me, but I am a historian not an opinion piece writer. So I’ll leave it there.

               Politics is not something I particularly like to indulge in but it’s quite hard when everyone won’t stop talking about it and makes such a big deal out of it. I can’t help but feel a responsibility but enough of that already. As for anything else, farming is well, and most people seem to be happy. People are connecting, making ways that we can see people together. I can only hope for more of that and less of fighting over stupid nonsense when there is obviously a right answer in all of that. So much needless hate. Ironically I hate it myself. But I can hope, but I am but a historian. I would say humble, but I can no longer be so. Nothing else seems to be happening.

              Population: Year 1: 2,000 
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              Child Study: Two Children, who will remain nameless and will be referred to as Child A or A and Child B or B. These two are normal children who come from different parents. These are purely observations.

              Child A comes from a open home, who do not think that any people should be sacrificed for the society.

              Child B comes from a more closed off home, where both of their parents believe that some people should be sacrificed for the society.

             Child A is very popular and is nice. Child B is neither of those. Child A has had no issues. Child B has had several issues. Some of which will now be listed.

              Incident #1: Child B told another child to “Move It” off of a playground item, when the child refused Child B huffed away.

              Incident #2: Child B told another child that their parents did not love them. This made the other child cry.

              Incident #3: Child B told another child that “Your parents should be dead” this made the other child upset and immediately reported the incident to a teacher.

              All these Incidents were reported to the parents who said their child did nothing wrong. The school however issued a suspension for Child B. This angered the parents and they got many others to back them up. Fearful for the safety, Child B was unsuspended, not with consequence however. The Parents of Child B decided to make a board to quote “make sure this never happens again” The Administration did not protest this. Many of Child B’s Parents Friends began to send their own kids to this this school which ramped up the incidents by a considerable margin.

              These kids were attempted to be delt with but were stopped by the board, every single time. Some kids left but some kids stayed and ended up learning they ways of the other kids. Even if the parents did not agree with it. They were told to tolerate it and accept their opinions. Many of the parents stayed silent. Any kids who remained on the opposite side were bullied for not believing in sacrifices. Relentlessly bullied, especially if they fit into one of the categories that they should be sacrificed. 

               So in short: Bullying has ramped up. Attendance has stayed about the same. The School’s budget has increased. The Board is asking for more control and we need more meal options. 

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             Log #6: We have made advancements on architecture and hopefully making our society bigger. A school has been built and nothing seems to be bad about that yet. Rebellion is still there but hasn’t grown too much. We are working on food and any possible labor shortages. We have some engineers who think they can improve farming while could be nice to see. Nothing much has changed besides a few things and more exploring has been tried to be done. 

             Log #7: Many more have gone out to explore. Finding new islands and such. But they haven’t gone far. Still in the same region as most of us. The resources have been allocated properly and we have a surplus for the first time, which is good. We attempted to grow more types of food, which ended up being a success. But also it is worth mentioning that people still grow the same food too much which some warn can be bad for the health of the farm. But most seem to not care as due to more differences in food, some are getting more money. The government has attempted to limit most of it but can’t do that much with some saying there is too much interference from the government.

             Some say they won’t pay their taxes. Which grows by the day. Ideological conflicts besides that have still remained largely stagnant. Any talk is kept on the down low as far as I can tell. Most people in the scene are saying that they are going to run and hopefully win. Which I doubt due to so many candidates who all belive in almost the same thing. Centralization does not seem to be a factor in their thoughts. But still is a political open for the incumbent to watch out for. But other than that, there is not much to record. More exploring seems to be on its way however.

              Study: Sacrifices. We interviewed 125 people for this study. All from different backgrounds. All in their adult forms. We asked them their opinion on politics. Here are their answers.

              Question #1: Do You Support The Current Administration?

              Yes: 27 or 22%
              No: 24 or 19%
              Neutral: 68 or 54%
              No Answer/Unsure: 6 or 5%

             Question #2: Do You Think That Some Maybe Need to Be Sacrificed to Further our Society?

             Yes: 24 or 19%
             No: 85 or 68%
             Neutral: 7 or 6%
             No Answer/Unsure: 9 or 7%

             Question #3: Do You Dislike People who think that way as the last question?

             Yes: 26 or 21%
             No: 91 or 73%
             Neutral: 3 or 2%
             No Answer/Unsure: 5 or 4%

             Question #4/Final Question: Would you risk your life to save people harassed by those people?

             Yes: 2 or 2%
             No: 63 or 50%
             Neutral: 21 or 17%
             No Answer/Unsure: 39 or 31%

             These Results show that most people remain neutral yet are ideologically opposed to the new growing movement. Due to us being a democracy every vote counts and if these numbers are true, then this could be a problem at least for the next cycle for the incumbent.

             Young People seemed to agree more with the current administration while Older people tended to be more in favor of the opposition. These two are not mutually exclusive however. With some being the opposite of most of their peers. These Results could be subject to Change.

             Study: Sacrifices 2

             This is a continuation of our study on the ideological differences of our inhabitants. We have gathered 150 participants to tell us their feelings on current matters. All from different backgrounds. All in their adult forms. Here are their answers. This is a year after our last test.

             Question #1: Do You Support The Current Administration?

              Yes: 32 or 21%
              No: 31 or 21%
              Neutral: 78 or 52%
              No Answer/Unsure: 9 or 6%

             Question #2: Do You Think That Some Maybe Need to Be Sacrificed to Further our Society?

             Yes: 31 or 21%
             No: 91 or 61%
             Neutral: 35 or 23%
             No Answer/Unsure: 2 or 1%

             Question #3: Do You Dislike People who think that way as the last question?

             Yes: 31 or 21%
             No: 110 or 73%
             Neutral: 3 or 2%
             No Answer/Unsure: 6 or 4%

             Question #4/Final Question: Would you risk your life to save people harassed by those people?

             Yes: 1 or <1%
             No: 101 or 67%
             Neutral: 40 or 27%
             No Answer/Unsure: 8 or 5%

             These results are the same as last time. But closer in some aspects. With most people disagreeing with the ideology but willing to put up with it. Which I find very interesting. Some more interviews would be helpful here but that will be another study. This survey will be hopefully updated in 1 to 10 years.

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             Warning: Do not drink water without boiling beforehand. You may die if you fail to do so. Thank you for your attention.

             Official Documentation from the Current Settler Administration: It has come to my attention that many people have attempted to drink the water from bodies of water. I would not recommend this as it could prove and has been proven to be dangerous. I would recommend boiling the water and if you want it cool to store it in a cold place before drinking it. We all need water but we all also need to be safe drinking it. So please, boil your water or get someone else to boil it. Thank you for your attention.

             Official Statement from The Current Settler Administration: Do not drink straight boiling water. Thank You.

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            Log #8: Ideological Tensions rise yet remain largely stagnant. But crimes against people have gone up and while many blame these people for causing these nothing has been done against them. Many reports have been filed but nothing has been done. Our leader says their hands are tied. Causing less faith in some of their only supporters. While they do their job in many other ways. Such as releasing helpful information and warning. Fighting ideologies does not seem to be one of their strong suits. 

            We have had more exploration. None of these islands are inhabited by any other forms of intelligent life. But some new food has been found which might need to be studied before determined safe for consumption. As for investigating into the food we already have, some have been considered safe while others have proven not, due to some taste testers who didn’t know they were test tasters until it was too late, thankfully most of the foods were not deadly and some of the food has been tested safely. With the need for our own intervention to try them.

              Mining has gone nowhere ever since that day, but new strides in engineering have been made. Mainly in farming but also in more heavy industries thankfully. Many are glad but some are protesting the use of these robots. Saying that they do nothing except take their jobs and disconnect them from their labor. While the rich seem to disagree with that and some are happy to get more comfortable jobs while some complain that they can’t. It’s an interesting argument. But I am not here to give my opinion, only document you could listen to them or not with what they have to say about their arguments.

               As for their actual jobs, many have made their careers off of farming or something related. Such as selling or irrigation. But other than that, many people have taken either administrative roles or roles such as mine, more for historical or helping purposes. We also have our fair share of teachers, nurses and such. We didn’t have room for more fun aspects of life but this works and some say it’s better off to focus rather than be distracted by fun. I am inclined to agree in a way. But also suggest that the two could coexist. But again, opinions are my own and not official by the previous or current government. 

              Log #9: Some of the people have decided to separate themselves due to ideological differences. The main problem is the allocation of resources. They have taken a school and a hospital along with some building and most importantly, a lot of the farms. It seems the ideology had taken off in more rural areas. The government has attempted to negotiate. But nothing major has happened yet. I though everyone here could at least tolerate everything here, but I guess I was mistaken. At the very least, nothing particularly bad seems to have come at this, besides a minor food shortage. But other than that we are fine and normal. We will hopefully continue with no issue.

              However progress on exploration and any sorts of reforms or mining and most testing have stopped. I feel disheartened by many of these halts. As it seems we are gearing up on war. I can only hope they return back to normal soon and incorporate and learn from this divide rather than wage war or violence. Especially when it’s probably unnecessary. Even if in my humble opinion the ideology is a bad one that it places targets upon the weak instead of actually acknowledging any problems. But I assume that they have some sort of retort to that, so I will stay silent and give my humble opinion as one person on it. 

               No matter the foolishness, I hope this can be resolved peacefully. As there is no need or room for war. That would be terrible and unnecessary. I was never a fan of war as I assume most are. But I also doubt that anything will come out of this, maybe a bad taste in people’s mouths. Ending up with nothing besides a pointless thought war that won’t help anyone. But besides what I think, what I know is that currently there are no ideologically waged wars yet and more importantly there does not seem to be any direct reason for conflict and many do not seem to want any sort of war. So I say it’s impractical to think that anyone would start any major conflicts like this. Nobody has made any sort of threats or positions yet and I doubt that anyone will in the short term at least.

              Log #10: They are still separated yet everything seems to be normal. They have their own government now and there have been no conflicts yet. Nobody seems to have any issues. Everything has resumed, tests, exploration. Thankfully no conflicts have arisen so far and none seem to be on their way soon. Both sides seemingly want to avoid the conflict. Which I would say makes me happy. As for what we are actually doing, research seems to be the main thing. With no improvements to be made to anything else and nobody wanting to approach mining. Let me tell you there are a lot of polls. I’ve participated in at least three this week, if not more and I assume I will do even more in the future. They are simple yet obvious to crack what they’re really asking. I am too smart sometimes. 

                As for anything else. People are still unhappy about their jobs being taken. It seems that the new place is taking them in yet blames it on certain people… again opinions. So I will say nothing but I hope you will see what’s wrong with that and if not, I am sorry. As you can see not much has changed, only improving. Hopefully it can improve more and we can see real change in the coming years. As for anything else, hopefully everything can get back on track and the work can be accomplished. I hope we can get started on formally making a society with any other distractions or problems. 

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             Log #11: The first signs of conflict have not shown yet more people are getting paranoid. But I assume and there has been no reason to think that anything will happen. I hope people stop worrying about this. As for other things. Jobs have become commonplace. The people who like them really like them and the people who don’t really don’t. Politics on this side are a lot less complicated. We all agree with a lot of things and due to all of us having one singular enemy we have one thing to focus hate onto. I find it very convenient. This could prove troublesome in the future as we do blame them for a lot, but that is debatable. 

             As for anything else: we have improved our own farming, requiring even less to do than previously. We have mainly done a lot more now due to only a few needs to farm while the other struggles. They don’t struggle too much but they still do more than us. I would think it would be easy to take over but that isn’t worth the death. I wouldn’t want you to get myself or anyone else carried away. Hopefully nothing bad happens or they will realize the error of their ways, but that does not look likely.

             Log #12: I have new names for us: We are the north, they are the south. Simple names but they have catched on quickly. I don’t know why, however. But this probably only caused tensions to rise between us and them. Nobody from the other side interacts with us and we don’t interact with the other side. As for our side we have advanced rapidly. Farming is seemingly no longer an issue besides land purposes. But exploration seemingly rectifies that. With more usable land being found. Some farms have even been started in new areas by a few people in the farming business. We have found new places. Our population has increased, as it should and has done. No rising tensions besides the names and less interactions and negations to get them back. Many say they don’t want them back and I personally am inclined to agree with them.

             Study: Tensions, North Side

             We asked a group of 50 people from the north side about tensions and what they thought of the south side. Here is what they had to say. There are many different walks of life in this survey and many differing viewpoints that we have collected for this survey.

             Question #1: Do you support the separation?

             Yes: 7 or 14%
             No: 32 or 64%
             Neutral/Unsure: 11 or 22%

             Question #2: Do you see a reason for the separation?

             Yes: 36 or 72%
             No: 10 or 20%
             Neutral/Unsure: 4 or 8%

             Question #3: Do you feel any sort of resentment or dislike towards the members of the south side?

              Yes: 32 or 64%
              No: 10 or 20%
              Neutral/Unsure: 8 or 16%

              Question #4: Do you feel as if the south side is inferior to the north side?

               Yes: 29 or 58%
               No: 15 or 30%
               Neutral/Unsure: 6 or 12%

              Question #5/Final Question: Do you think we should take back the South side?

              Yes: 19 or 38%
              No: 25 or 50%
              Neutral/Unsure: 6 or 12%

             Many people feel as if they see the means for the separation and feel as if the south side is inferior; this could explain why less want to actively take the South side back. As the North side see them as more of a detriment rather than an active side of their territory.

              Study: Tensions, South Side

              We asked a group of 50 people from the south side about tensions and what they thought of the north side. Here is what they had to say. There are many different walks of life in this survey and many differing viewpoints that we have collected for this survey.

              Question #1: Do you support the separation?

              Yes: 49 or 98%
              No: 0 or 0%
              Neutral/Unsure: 1 or 2%

              Question #2: Do you see a reason for the separation?

              Yes: 49 or 98%
              No: 0 or 0%
              Neutral/Unsure: 1 or 2%

              Question #3: Do you feel any sort of resentment or dislike towards the members of the north side?

               Yes: 40 or 80%
               No: 7 or 14%
               Neutral/Unsure: 3 or 6%

               Question #4: Do you feel as if the north side is inferior to the south side?

                Yes: 38 or 76%
                No: 9 or 18%
                Neutral/Unsure: 3 or 6%

              Question #5/Final Question: Do you think you should take the north side?

              Yes: 22 or 44%
              No: 23 or 46%
              Neutral/Unsure: 5 or 10%

              Many people here have more strong opinions. Almost everyone understands the reason for the separation and most feel as if the North are the ones who are the problem. There are more people on this side who want to take the other side yet it isn’t a majority or tied. This could require more testing. 

             Log #1: Due to the other log keeper being in the north, we here in the south thought it necessary to keep track and more importantly give our side of the story. This will hopefully live generations for everyone to see. We are ready for any type of conflict. Which might end up to be proven necessary. The north is filled with tricky, no good people. Who could attack at any moment. Many have come here to escape them. Which I find obvious of the north’s continued pressure on people who think like us. It’s not our fault some are useless! As of course, we know how well we’re doing.

            Besides fighting, farming is our most important business. We have plenty of food, we have started to automate it. But we let people who want to farm still do their jobs. They might have to change in the future however. But no worries, they will have plenty of jobs for them. We are gearing up to fight. We don’t want to fight but we might have to, so we gear up and produce military goods in case the day comes. So, north, we are ready for you. You cannot defeat us, we will be ready for you no matter what.

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             Log #13: The South has been angry lately. They always seemingly are but they are extra so now. There is no reason for this but we have decided not to respond to their efforts to make this place even more unsafe than it already is. I hopefully suspect that no one actually wants violence and that this anger will be easily subdued and reversed. While I am much more content in the succession, I do not believe that it was or is the answer. If it is, I will need further proof. All separation can do is make us worse. But I still hope that this can come to a peaceful end no matter what happens. There is now however still political unrest. Mainly towards the south. Some say we should take it back already some say that there is no purpose.

              It is kept on the down low however. So that’s not why the south is angry but they could’ve figured it out but I doubt it. Their government is a lot smaller than ours and has less power. It mainly focuses on Military and Farming. Which is almost all they do but still little power especially compared to our. Which people are also mad at, if the government has too much power what about our individual liberties? I do not have an opinion on this that much, so I will leave it be, at least for now. Hopefully nothing will come of this. I would hate to have to split everything three ways and have two violitial nations besides us. They could only destroy each other, which would be nice. But that’s a small possibility.

              This new group doesn’t even really want another country to change. Which I will say is refreshing. Instead of running away, they actually fight. I respect it even if I don’t personally agree with it but again, I am one person. As for anything else we have attempted to advance, yet still haven’t gotten far but we are at least trying and we are destined to make a breakthrough soon, I can feel it! But I can only really hope. Even if nothing else, I can maybe hope. I hope that nothing comes out of the South’s or our own people’s anger but at the end of the day I can only hope. As for me, I am one person. With not much power.

              Log #14: More and more anger. I can’t say I’m much of a fan. But I respect personal expression. I can again only hope that nothing comes out of this. But as far as I can tell nothing will die down. We need more cooperation, less fighting amongst ourselves. It doesn’t help that the south side is constantly gearing up for war or at least a fight of some kind. I get defense but if that’s it they are going above and beyond for it, only for defense against us. Being worried is one thing, being so paranoid that it looks like your gearing up for war is another thing entirely. 

              Maybe I am paranoid myself. So I will stay focused on more important things such as improvements. Farming had already been secured but picking crops and fruits has become easier. Many people are still upset at the job situation but not too much to make any big fuss about. More than just talk between people and nothing else. As for exploration, nothing big has changed there and we have done nothing with mining. People are doing their jobs as am I. Hopefully this peaceful balance will not be interrupted. 

             Study: Tensions 2 , North Side

             We again asked a group of 50 people from the north side about tensions and what they thought of the south side. Here is what they had to say. There are many different walks of life in this survey and many differing viewpoints that we have collected for this survey.

             Question #1: Do you support the separation?

             Yes: 8 or 16%
             No: 31 or 62%
             Neutral/Unsure: 11 or 22%

             Question #2: Do you see a reason for the separation?

             Yes: 34 or 68%
             No: 13 or 26%
             Neutral/Unsure: 3 or 6%

             Question #3: Do you feel any sort of resentment or dislike towards the members of the south side?

              Yes: 36 or 72%
              No: 7 or 14%
              Neutral/Unsure: 7 or 14%

              Question #4: Do you feel as if the south side is inferior to the north side?

               Yes: 33 or 66%
               No: 12 or 25%
               Neutral/Unsure: 5 or 10%

              Question #5/Final Question: Do you think we should take back the South side?

              Yes: 18 or 36%
              No: 28 or 56%
              Neutral/Unsure: 4 or 8%

             This Study Shows not much has changed in the opinions of the north, as far as we can tell. None of these people are the same so only a few changed while having all new people in the test this time.

              Study: Tensions, South Side

              We again asked a group of 50 people from the south side about tensions and what they thought of the north side. Here is what they had to say. There are many different walks of life in this survey and many differing viewpoints that we have collected for this survey.

              Question #1: Do you support the separation?

              Yes: 50 or 100%
              No: 0 or 0%
              Neutral/Unsure: 0 or 0%

              Question #2: Do you see a reason for the separation?

              Yes: 50 or 100%
              No: 0 or 0%
              Neutral/Unsure: 0 or 0%

              Question #3: Do you feel any sort of resentment or dislike towards the members of the north side?

               Yes: 46 or 
               No: 2 or 
               Neutral/Unsure: 2 or 

               Question #4: Do you feel as if the north side is inferior to the south side?

                Yes: 42 or 92%
                No: 6 or 12%
                Neutral/Unsure: 2 or 4%

              Question #5/Final Question: Do you think you should take the north side?

              Yes: 38 or 76%
              No: 10 or or 20%
              Neutral/Unsure: 2 or 4%

             This Study Shows a more anger towards the South. A lot more want to attack and a lot more people feel the northern side is inferior to them. I’m surprised they let us ask these questions to them. This is obvious with rising tensions that could hypothetically break out soon. 

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             Log #15: War has broken out. The tensions and disagreements and differences were apparently too much to bear. The South attacked without warning. With prepared troops they easily broke our defenses. Many were called and they stopped the assault for the time being. But I doubt that it will hold. I will say that they are militarily stronger than us. But I hope on the off chance we do, we can still prevail. I hope that this message can make it out. Many have already stored important documents so that hopefully they won’t be found. I will too. This might be my final Log. This might be it for me and for this society as we’ve known it. I can only hope they will be merciful to me. But I doubt it. I will fight until I die, not so I don’t die a coward but that I don’t have to live in a world which they rule in. If I have to die I will do so.

               The growing separation between us didn’t help. Of course it wouldn’t, it made an opening. A weak spot. We stand divided so they come through the crack. I only wish that we stayed firm and prepared. But living in what we could’ve done can only go on for so long before we all begin to feel sad and hopeless. Which is what I am. If this is my final log, I can only hope that people will learn from this and from me. But I can only give so much and I still have yet to give so much. I fear that I will be forgotten. Only known as a casualty in a war. Never of what I tried to accomplish. Record keeping isn’t as bad as you think it is. So, thank you for listening to me and what I have to say. 

               Classified Documents: The War

               The South planned an attack. They were tired of the north. It was going to happen. It was only a matter of when. Calling out and getting a response back. A unified demand to end all of this. So they attacked. They geared up and marched. Led by a few commanders. They went. They didn’t even need to be told. The South went and never turned back. It was only a matter of time before they got into their first blockade. But that was easily defeated in a matter of minutes. Then they attacked the major hot spots. Leading into mass casualties for the north while the south remained. If you saw the people left from the north. You would be able to count them in your hands. Only a few were found after the war. Mainly children. Some people hid, but were found. Most were killed either immediately or if they were deemed more important, in a ceremony. 

                To see it was weird. After all the time. Nothing was addressed and with the enemy taken down, there was no one left to fight with. Everyone turned back home. Thinking that they would clean it up the next day. After a few days of fighting, the north has fallen. It was a sight to behold. It was in a sick twisted state. The south had won, and they had no idea what to do next. So they went back home and they did nothing. Letting themselves rot, like the bodies they left up in the north. They wouldn’t return until everything was covered in moss and grass. Nature had taken over. They destroyed it all and made it farmland, and by that time they were praising their Gods. Only bones were found and thrown out or mound into dust or collected for pride. It was a scene to behold and we must not mention it.

                Log #2: We have fought and gone to war and have won. In a landslide, even I didn’t think it would be this easy, but here we are. We pushed in and they never stood a chance. They were too weak. This is a day to be celebrated. We left the place, and we are making plans to clean it up eventually. In a week or two. Maybe a month if we ended up too distracted by celebration. We’ve mainly gone back to farming and our usual way of life, more perfect now without the north to try and deflect it. This is a perfect day that will go down in history. I can’t wait to see the fruits of our labor bloom into multitudes for ourselves and our children and for future generations. I couldn’t be happier.

               Diary Entry: Cold Season, Year 55

               I am still alone, as I have been. It is cold and there is no food. The few foods I had found beforehand were too little. I have attempted to steal from the south. But I couldn't find the right time. So I sit, in an abandoned store. With nothing to do but freeze. Thankfully I have a blanket and many leaves and sticks. If I was lucky enough to have food maybe I could sleep like some of the creatures due through this season. But I am not lucky, so I will have to stay awake like normal. I wait to sleep. It has been forever since I have washed myself. I am repulsive. But I cannot give myself away to the South, for they will surely kill me without hesitation. With no mercy. 

               I will hold onto myself and brace through this storm. I am a humble person who somehow made it through the war. I can do this, I know I can. I hate the south so much, they took so much away from me, and for what? I still have no idea or reasons. I hope that they will end up in agony or we can get revenge. But I am too weak and too tired and too dirty to do anything. But I will hold onto the thought that maybe one day something will happen, that can change anything and make sure no injustice happens again.

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              Shadow’s first memory was of Maria. Him waking up and immediately seeing her. She is the first person he remembers. That memory of her picking him up is burned into his brain. It hurts so much. He missed her so badly. It isn’t fair, it never was. He hates feeling emotions, he wants to never feel them again. Shadow can’t, he doesn’t want to hurt again. He can’t let that happen. Shadow knows he’s the ultimate Lifeform. Yet he still can feel the emotions creeping in.

              Maria didn’t know what to think, when she saw a black hedgehog come out of a tube that her grandfather made. He was cute. A tiny little baby that Maria had no idea what to do with. So she picked him up. That made him happy, so she would keep doing that. Even if she never knew where he came from or why he was here. A cute black baby hedgehog. Her brother. Her sibling. Her one and only friend. Forever and ever. Stuck together on a spaceship that drifts around the earth and one day she hopes to go back to home on earth. But that’s wishful thinking and for the time, she’s happy. 

              Shadow has no idea what he means to her. Absolutely none. Maria wishes he did, the two live on the ARK. With Gerald Robotnick, Maria and Shadow’s grandfather. In this floating ship they were taught and Shadow was tested on, to see if he was truly the Ultimate Lifeform. But Maria didn’t care, all she saw was her cute little hedgehog brother who was one of the only few people around her and one of the only few people who actually seemed to enjoy her company. Shadow did more than tolerate her, he was her little brother and they were close, extremely close. Brother and Sister, together forever.

               “Shadow?” Maria asks, The Hedgehog turns his head to face her. 

              “Do you know where we are right now?” Shadow looks out the window then shakes his head no.

              “We’re above my hometown, where I came from, directly above it.” Maria smiles and Shadow looks down to the patch of land. Green and that’s all he can see.

               “Oh c’mon! You know so much, just tell me, please?” Maria begs Shadow, the Hedgehog shakes his head.

               “Can you at least help?” Maria says, pointing to the homework they got for their homeschooling, Shadow sighs then begins to guide her through it. Maria happily follows and Shadow can’t help but smile back.

               “Shadow?” The Black Hedgehog raises an eyebrow and turns his head to her.

               “Why don’t you smile?”

               Shadow shrugs, Maria gets frustrated before getting a smirk on her face. 

               “Hey Shadow, did you know that you can’t smile while you look up?” Shadow looks puzzled for a second before trying it. Of course, he is able to smile while looking up.

               “Gotcha!” Maria says and laughs, Shadow smiles and Maria notices again.

               “You should smile more.” Maria says and Shadow turns his head away but continues to smile at the situation. 

                Shadow was constantly being tested on. He didn’t like it and neither did Maria but they couldn’t stop their grandfather. The tests were painful. But even Gerald stopped at some. But some of the other scientist’s didn’t. Sometimes Shadow would be in so much pain. Yet would still light up when he saw his sister. Maybe it was so she wouldn’t worry or maybe it was because he was actually excited to see her.

                Maria didn’t like the tests. But knew how necessary they were, so she kept her mouth shut and tried to make Shadow as happy as possible before his tests. She never watched any of the tests. Not being able to bear seeing her brother get hurt. It was too much sometimes, she could still here him. No matter how hard she tried he could hear his pain or the noises that happened with what they did with him. She hated every single second of it. Only to be relieved when Shadow came back in one piece. She knew that there was little risk with Shadow. But that still didn’t make his cries of pain any less painful.

                But one day Shadow came back. He was silent, more silent than usual. He barely interacted with Maria. They say in silence for a while only looking out the window. That was until Shadow began to cry. Maria looked over to see teardrops in his eyes which turned into streams. She quickly came over to him and hugged him. But all that did was make him cry more. He felt as if he wasn't strong enough for Maria. But yet he still cried. A lot, tears falling down and down. No noises came from him but Maria could see the pain in his eyes. It hurt, her and Shadow.

                She wished she could make it okay. But she couldn’t, as she would never get the chance to see Shadow after all the tests. But she still gave him comfort, whenever he needed it. She hurts for him. She knew him too well and he knew her too well to try and reject her help. He was stubborn yet opened wide with Maria. Shadow only though he could only trust Maria and at the time he was mostly right. So he cried into her arms until all the tears were gone or on the floor. Making it wet, too wet to stand. But they stayed there, till the tears dried up and Shadow needed some water.

                 Watching the Earth was one of the few things that Shadow and Maria did together. They watch the earth go around and around. Maria would always point out locations and tell Shadow what she knew about them. Shadow would absorb that information like a sponge. He still knows all the little facts she gave him. Shadow goes to some of those places to see how they are. They’ve changed but they were still important to Maria. So he goes there. He almost cries every single time yet stops himself before he does. Shadow keeps on going, saving the world. That’s what Maria wanted him to do. That’s what she would’ve wanted.

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             Maria had always been sick. Shadow didn’t worry but it was hard not to with constant reminders. Doctors talking, Gerald sitting in his room trying to find a cure and Maria’s own coughs and ailments. Shadow hated seeing her at her worst moments. It was too hard to bear. Then G.U.N. came. Shut the project down and took Maria. He doesn’t know what they did with her. But now he works for them, Ironic. Sometimes to do something you have to play by the rules. Even if you hate the people behind them. So Shadow works to make the world a better place. That’s what he wants and feels his need to do and accomplish.

            It doesn’t seem to matter however. As soon as G.U.N. Attacked. Shadow  never saw Maria again. He refuses to believe she’s dead even if the evidence points otherwise. It’s almost all he has left, the small hope that she is alive and well. He doesn’t know where she is but he is determined to find her. Even if that costs him everything else. Shadow will save his sister. Everyone who is around him knows that, and no matter what they tell him, he won’t stop till he finds her and cures the world of all problems. He’ll live forever as far as he knows, so he has all the time in the world to accomplish his tasks. 

            But that day will always live in infamy for him. He doesn’t even remember the exact day. He was too preoccupied with everything happening around him, he forgot the time. It’s probably better off this way, one less day to cry on. All the way through. So he doesn’t try to remember it, he avoids anything he can to think about it. Focus on the positive. Yet, it won’t. Every single day. Every single moment. He remembers. Sometimes it stops. But that means he’s enjoying himself too much. Of course he would stop that. He doesn’t want to feel. Shadows knows he shouldn’t be able to feel.

           The day she was taken away from him started like every other day followed by the worst assault of his life. Nothing could’ve prepared him for this. It hurt so much, more than any experiment ever did or ever could. It hurt him inside, something that hadn’t happened and something that hasn’t happened since. It hurt so much that he couldn’t feel anything besides that, and he still feels pain. It doesn’t matter who he stops or how fast he runs, he can’t escape it. Shadow hates it but still feels as if it is necessary. He can’t regret who he is now, that would cause too much pain, he feels that he could never recover from it. 

          He remembers looking at the stars as soon as he escaped G.U.N. and thinking of her and crying. He missed her, Shadow wanted his big sister back. Shadow wanted to hug her and make sure she was okay. But he couldn’t do that. So she cried, she wasn’t there to stop him. He cried his eyes out, nothing stopped him. Even when he couldn’t cry anymore he tried too. But eventually he stopped after what felt like moments but could be more accurately described as days. Then he was found again, then it went Black again. Of course it did, he could never be happy. Even when he woke up, he wasn’t happy. 

          To call into question G.U.N. would call into question his job, so he kept his mouth shut. No matter how much he wanted to ask why. But who cares what he felt? Nobody did, that’s what Shadow told himself. Again and again and again and again. Nobody cared and nobody will ever care. Why should they? Why would they? He doesn’t matter. He should focus on his job and deal with it. He wasn’t special. He needs to support the world, not the other way around. Of course he wouldn’t burden the world with his problems. Shadow was here to save, not make things worse. He couldn’t let that happen. Let Maria’s dream die out. 

         But that didn’t matter when he cried to himself alone in his room. Nobody cares. He misses her, all he does is want her back. He would trade the world for her. That’s all he ever wanted. But she would hate him for that. So, like always, he would keep silent. Keep moving forward and attempt to never look back. Even if he was terrible at that last part. Really bad. But he keep going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going.

         “Shadow?” Maria asks, as the two once again look out the window.

         “Yes, Maria?” Shadow turns and questions.

         “I wish I could see the world again.” Maria confides in him.

         “…” Shadow stays silent.

         “It would be nice to be on ground level again.” She says with a small laugh and a smile. Shadow can tell she’s sad however.

         “…”

         “I miss it, Shadow. I always do.”

         “…”

         “I don’t think I’m going to make it.” She says, a single tear goes off her face.

         “…Yes you will. I’ll make sure of it.” Shadow says determined, Maria smiles, the tears stop. Shadow smiles, thinking he did something. Maria is happy now, he thinks. Even if she puts on a smile just because of him.

         “Thanks, Shadow. That means a lot.” That’s the truth, Shadow and her go back to watching the window, watching the world turn.

         The earth turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns. With the dirt and the water. Green grass and Brown Trees and Blue Water and Skies. The world keeps on going, with almost everyone on it. Not many get to see it from the outside constantly. The earth moves and moves, turning and turning and turning and turning. It doesn’t stop, it keeps on going, changing positions and turning. All the earth does is it keeps on going.

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            Despite everything, Vector The Crocodile was not dead. You might find that odd or strange. Yet he not only had his life but enough money to start a business. A detective business. He only needed someone to hire. Someone to help and pull him out of sticky situations. Someone to count on. Not many adults would trust a Twelve year old to help them, so he tried finding someone younger than him, an admitly hard task for the Croc. But for the time being he attempted to make a name for himself. Doing jobs whenever he could. He wasn’t making too much money, yet he made enough to support himself. 

            One night however, he found something. Coming back from a job he found a chameleon. Younger than him, but only by a few years. He was out in the rain and obviously cold. Vector didn’t know what to do exactly. So he did one of the only things he knew how to do: Interrogate.

            “What are you doing out here?” He asked, The Chameleon didn’t answer.

            “Do you have any family close by?” Vector asked, The Chameleon didn’t answer.

            “Do you need help?” Vector asks, the Chameleon gave him a head nod.

            “Follow me then.” Vector said, The Chameleon got up and did as told. Vector let them back to his business/house and invited him in, The Chameleon graciously accepted.

            Vector goes back into his kitchen while the chameleon looks around. The house is nothing special but it's a shelter, which he is thankful for. So he continues to look around, there isn’t much back here. Vector takes out a meal and starts to cook, then looks around for his new friend. Who continues to look around his home. Vector smiles and goes over to him.

             “Looking for something to steal?”

             The chameleon quickly turns and shakes his head no extremely. Vector laughs.

             “I’m joking,” The Chameleon breathes a sigh of relief before looking back at Vector who is still chuckling to himself. Then he hears the pot boiling.

              “Oh CRAP!” Vector runs back to his kitchen while the Chameleon smiles and follows him. He arrives to see Vector attempting to cool it down before managing to cool it down again. Vector breathes a sigh of relief, and turns around to see the Chameleon smiling at him, attempting to hold in a laugh.

              “Yes, I know. Very funny. I hope you like Pasta because that’s what we’re having.” Vector walks past him to set the table.

             “Fine by me.” Vector stops in his tracks.

             “You can talk?” The Croc says, Espio realizes that he said something and keeps quiet, looking away. 

             “Oh, I ruined it, didn’t I?” Vector says, then the pot boils again and Vector runs past Espio to cool it down again. Espio feels bad and follows Vector while he tries to cool down. Once it goes down again, Vector turns to see a sad Espio in the doorway.

            “Do you have a name?”

            “…Espio.” The Chameleon says, and Vector smiles.

           “Alright Espio, mind watching the pot for me?” Espio nods yes and Vector goes to see up the table. 

            Eventually dinner is ready and the two sit down. At Vector’s probably horribly made but very cheap table. Espio doesn’t mind though, he digs in as fast as he can. He hasn’t had food in a while. Vector gives him a curious look. 

            “Sorry…” Espio mumbles out.

            “…When’s the last time you ate?” Vector asks, Espio looks away and refuses to answer. That’s all Vector needs to know what’s going on for Espio. 

            “You don’t have a family do ya?” Espio turns back eyes wide, with Vector looking back at him with the most serious expression the Crocodile can muster. Espio looks away, sad.

            “Hey, it’s okay!” Espio perks up. “You can stay with me if you want too!” Vector smiles, Espio blushes at his friendly demeanor.

            “Are you sure?” 

            “Of course I am!”

            Espio agreed, and started to live with Vector. At first only doing menial chores at Vector’s house. But soon enough, Vector wanted a partner and Espio fit that role surprisingly well. A one time thing turned into a partnership. They worked surprisingly well. Especially after Espio spoke up more and became less nervous around Vector. Vector always would carefully consider Espio’s opinion, even if he would usually reject it, even if it was better. But Espio kept suggesting and Vector would keep on listening. It was them for a while. Eventually the Detective agency became big enough to branch out more. 

             Which is coincidentally when they found Mighty and Ray. Vector and Espio found them out in the rain. It had passed a few years so at that point Espio was Eleven so that made Mighty Ten and Ray Nine while Vector only just turned Fifteen. Almost old enough to drive (even if he did it without being old enough anyways) so they did what Vector did for Espio, took them in, gave them a meal and then they started to work for them. But Mighty always wanted to adventure. So he did, making the newly called Chaotix (named by Ray) a more free roam organization on their part. Mighty couldn’t be kept in one place so he and Ray would go out to wherever and for whatever needed to be solved. Giving Vector and Espio a minor cut. Which helped (a lot sometimes). 

              Vector and Espio always missed Mighty and Ray. Thankfully Ray actually could get homesick. So the two would visit often. Which always made Vector and Ray happy. The two, only if they were a year in Espio’s case or Four Years in Vector’s case, they still felt kinda like parents. Only Espio noticed though and preferred to stay silent on the matter. Due to not wanting to out his growing crush on the Crocodile. Espio didn’t know what caused it, yet his and Vector's parental concern for Mighty and Ray only made it worse and more obvious. Espio was always worried on Vector’s behalf. Taking the more concerned side than Vector’s more brash nature.  

               Espio didn’t want to put himself out. That’s what got him kicked out of his old home anyways and he loves Vector too much to let him go. Way too much. He worries that he's too obvious. He hates that he worries about that, but he can’t help but be cautious.

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             After a while Espio and Vector kept going and found themselves at Fourteen and Seventeen respectively. They would end up finding a young bee named Charmy. This was different, Charmy was a lot younger than them. Only three at the time. Espio really felt like a parent now. Of course, Vector would latch onto the bee like nobody’s business. Them being actual parents however, ended up being a lot more complex. 

            “S-s-so I’m n-not the y-youngest s-sibling a-anymore?” Ray says he picked up an obvious stammer in his later years. At this point it was normal for all the chaotix and nobody acknowledged it.

            “Haha, very funny.” Espio says sarcastically.

            “Aw, don’t be so upset, Dad!” Mighty jokes, patting Espio on the back. Which hurts a lot with Mighty’s strength.

           “I-I T-think t-that Vector is m-more of a Dad F-figure t-than Espio.” Ray says

           “We could have two Dads.” Mighty jokes, and surprising Espio, Vector laughs. So does Ray, while Espio blushes, hard.

           “I have two Dads?” Charmy says innocently. That makes Vector stop laughing and goes red, Espio somehow even gets more red. While Mighty and Ray laugh.

           Vector and Espio look at each other for a split second before looking back to the conversation at hand.

           “Hey Esp?” Vector says later that Day, in the nighttime when the two go to bed after tucking Charmy in

           “Yeah?” Espio says nervously.

           “You’ve been avoiding me ever since Mighty and Ray said those… comments about our relationship.” Espio stays silent, Vector gives him a concerned look. 

            “Are you okay?” Vector asks, Espio looks away, attempting his best to avoid the situation. Vector gives him a sad look.

            “Espio, please don’t go silent on me. We obviously need to talk about this.”

            “…”

            “Es, please”

            “…I don’t want anything to go south, again.”

            “Again?”

            Espio turns to Vector, attempting not to cry. He gets up and faces Vector only to look away again. Vector is now even more confused.

            “Espio… did something happen?”

            “Yes… I don’t want it to happen again.”

            “Don’t worry, it won’t” Vector attempts to comfort him, which surprises Espio. 

            “Promise?” Espio turns away again.

            “Promise” Vector grabs his hands, which makes Espio blush, hard.

            “Um… Okay. I-… I think I’m in love with you.” Espio manages to say. 

            “…Yeah?” Vector says, confused

            “… Aren’t you surprised? Angry? I don’t know, anything?”

            “… I thought we established that?” Vector questions, this again catches Espio off guard, now he’s confused

            “What?”

            “I thought I was pretty clear when I asked you to be my partner, Esp”

            “I assumed that meant Detective Partner!”

            “We were already Detective Partners”

            “Not officially!”

            “…Huh”

            “So wait, if we were already… together? Then why were you worried about how I reacted?”

            “I thought you were concerned about getting married”

            “… YOU THOUGH-“

            “Shhh! Your gonna wake up Charmy!”

            “… you thought that we were partners for long enough to consider marriage?”

            “…yeah? I mean we had our first kiss”

            “That was accidental.”

            “We’ve gone on several dates”

            “Those were steakouts.”

            “…Wow I overshot it a bit”

            “You think? I didn’t even know we were in a relationship!”

            “Would you like to be?”

            “…um… I mean… yes?”

           “Okay, good!” Vector stands, proud of himself with a confused Espio.

           “…We should probably have an actual first kiss then…” Vector then realizes, both of them blush hard.

           “I mean… If you want-“ Espio gets cut off by Vector kissing him on the lips.

           The two stay like that for a moment before separating. Looking at each other and smiling, before noticing Charmy there.

            “What are you two doing?” The bee says innocently, Espio’s eyes go wide, while Vector smiles. Espio goes over, picks up the bee and takes them back to their room.

             After that little debacle, Espio goes back to Vector. To see the Croc smiling.

             “So what exactly are we?” Espio asks, Vector looks at him and thinks for a moment.

             “I guess Charmy has two Dads Espio.”

             “Are we going to tell Mighty and Ray?”

             “… I don’t see why not, they might actually have a room now… unless you didn’t want to sleep together?” Vector says, Espio, again, turns red at the proposition.

             “I… Don’t see why not.”

             So the two make plans to get a bed and to tell Ray and Mighty in the morning, both of them go to sleep, in Vectors room, where they sleep in the same bed for the first time.

             The two wake up late. Mainly because Vector had a death grip on Espio. The two go out to see Mighty already up.

             “Hey you two, how is it going?” Mighty asks, cooking breakfast.

             “Good.” Espio says, Vector hums in response, with a smile on his face.

              Soon enough Ray comes down, Espio decides to get Charmy. Taking Charmy out of their bed and putting them in their hair, even if Charmy is still very tired. The bee keep face platting on their table. Espio has to keep putting Charmy up. Mighty serves breakfast, then sits down himself. The five talk and get into conversation.

              “I had… the weirdest dream… buzzzz, last night” Charmy says, trying their absolute best to not fall asleep.

              “What was it, little buddy?”

              “I saw Espio and Vector kissing.” Charmy says before face platting again, everyone stops for a moment. Ray and Mighty look at Espio who is looking at Vector who is looking back at Espio. The four don’t say anything for a few moments.

              “… Now that I think of it, the dream was really clear, It almost felt completely real! But that wouldn’t happen!” Charmy says before face planting again. This makes everyone get even quieter.

               “Want to dispute those claims guys?” Mighty jokes. The two in question blush hard. Which catches the Armadillo off guard.

               “C-called it” Ray says, before Mighty hands him a dollar. 

               “Charmy, that wasn’t a dream.” Mighty says, the bee looks confused.

               “How can you be so sure?” The bee asks.

               “Call it a hunch.” Mighty says looking at Vector and Espio. Who only keep blushing more and more and attempt to distract themselves from the conversation at hand. 

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             “S-so w-we have t-two Dads?” Ray asks, more as a joke than anything. But still serious in a way. Espio sighs and then opens his mouth.

             “Your only two years younger than me, and Mighty is only one, so no.” Espio says. Mighty and Ray nods in agreement.

             “What about Charmy?” Mighty asks and Espio looks at Vector.

             “… I guess?” Vector says, shrugging a bit.

             “You two are weird.” Mighty says, joking and Ray laughs.

             “What are we not supposed to be Charmy’s Dads?” Vector says aggressively in a questioning sort of way.

             “…You took Espio in, you two took us and Charmy in, stop taking in kids before the house gets overcrowded.” Mighty states.

            “Fine, then, you're going back outside.” Vector picks up Mighty jokingly.

            “Don’t test me, Old man!” Mighty says and lightly taps Vector which pushes the Croc back a bit. But he regains his balance again and maintains his hold on the armadillo. Then he starts walking towards again, Mighty does it again. Then again. Then again. Then again. Until Vector gets tired enough and puts Mighty down and sits down himself.

            “Fine, you win this time” Vector says. Mighty rolls his eyes and Ray laughs and Espio smiles at the scene.

            After a while and all of that Mighty and Ray leave to go out adventuring again. Leaving Charmy and their new two Dads. Of course, Charmy has no idea what this means.

            “Is what Mighty said true?” Charmy asks, Espio looks at Vector, who shrugs.

            “Yes.” 

            “Really? So I have parents now?”

            “You always did! We’re just together now!” Vector says, Espio nods. Charmy smiles at the prospect. 

            Ever since that day, it was Vector, Espio and Charmy. While Charmy would stay home, eventually the bee would come with the other two to solve cases. Making them a trio. The Chaotix. Every once in a while Mighty and Ray would be there or be associated with them but for the most part it was the three of them. For better or for worse.

            One day, the three find themselves in a building. Attempting to get into another room with alerting anyone and being able to tell if there’s anyone in there. Of course, Charmy wants to go and bust right through. But also like normal, he is stopped. 

            “Charmy, Stop.” Espio commands. The bee rolls their eyes.

            “No” Charmy snaps back, Espio gives them a glare. Charmy gives a small huff and crosses their arms.

            “Charmy, don’t go in there.” Espio commands with more aggression this time. Charmy huffs again.

            “I’m gonna and you can’t stop me” Charmy sasses to him and starts to go the way

            “Oh no you don’t!” Vector comes out and grabs the bee, making Charmy unable to go into the room. No matter how hard the bee tries.

            “Why can’t we rush through it?” Charmy says when Vector puts Charmy down.

            “Because it requires being tactical and sneaky! You can’t just-“ Vector begins to say

            “Vector.” Espio says.

            “A second Esp, you can’t move in and expect to immediately nail the enemy! It takes practice it takes skill, it takes-“

             “Vector.” Espio says again.

            “What is it Es?”

            “Charmy went into the room.” Charmy has escaped as soon as Vector went on his little tangent.

            “Oh Crap!” Vector rushes after Charmy, only to find the bee completely safe, holding some documents.

            “Found em!” The bee cheers, Espio sighs and Vector gives a disappointed look at the bee, who doesn’t seem to notice

           “I don’t get why I’m being punished, I got what we needed” Charmy complains while sitting in a corner.

           “You can’t just go in like that, Charmy! You could’ve gotten hurt or something worse!” Vector says back

           “I can handle myself” 

           “Charmy your Five.” Espio reminds the bee.

           “And you're sixteen, and you’ve been doing it since you were nine! Why am I being restricted?” Charmy complains

           “Because we were young and we had to do it, you don’t have to, and we learned from our mistakes, such as rushing in.” Espio says back, which makes Charmy uncharacteristically quiet. Vector feels bad for his child.

           “It’s okay, we were just worried, we didn’t want you to be hurt… or worse.” Vector says, with a sad look in his eyes. Which Charmy immediately recognizes.

            “I’m sorry.”

           “It’s okay, Charms, just be more careful. Okay?” Vector says

           “Okay” Charmy says

           “Atta Kid!” Vector says, Espio smiles.

           Charmy learned their lesson. The three prepare and eat dinner. Then after a while of going about and doing paperwork and such, they all go to bed. Like usual, Vector and Espio tuck Charmy in. Then go to their own room.

           Espio and Vector were supposed to be asleep a while ago. Of course, neither of them are. Vector, too worried about what could’ve happened to Charmy and Espio, thinking about everything that has happened and how the three got here, and in this situation.

           “Do you think Charmy can handle being out there?” Espio asks Vector, not being able to sleep thinking about… everything.

           “They’re doing fine, the kid only needs to be less forceful and needing to learn not to blunt force their way through everything” Vector comments, this does not relieve Espio

           “…Are you sure, Charmy’s awfully young when we put them into this… are we sure that this is the right decision?”

           “Espio, if this is about…”

           “I’m sorry, I just… want us to be safe.”

           “…I wish we could be that too” Vector confides, he goes over and hugs Espio.

           “I really wish we could”

           Charmy always hears them talking. The bee usually sneaks out of their room at night and hears what the two have to say. They worry a lot. Sometimes about nothing. Sometimes about Charmy themself. Charmy knows they do a lot wrong. Of course they know, that’s all they can think about sometimes. So Charmy hears what they say and thinks on it. Espio is concerned about their safety, Vector is concerned about Charmy, a lot. Charmy doesn’t want to be babied but they know why Vector is like that. So Charmy keeps their mouth shut. No matter how many times they feel like absolute garbage after hearing everything they do wrong and how much their parents have to worry about them.

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             Destiny Olgilvie Maurice Hedgehog was born into the royal Hedgehog family. Then followed by Sonia Hedgehog then Manic Hedgehog. Born from Queen Aleena Hedgehog and Queen Bernadette Hedgehog. The three triplets ended up being very close. While living as royals wasn’t the best. It was a good life, mostly. The three children weren’t happy, but they weren’t exactly depressed. At least not from their lives. Destiny ended up being depressed for another reason. Manic also was depressed for the same reason and confided in each other and Sonia. The three came up with something. 

            They were trans, and soon enough Destiny would choose his new name, Sonic. Which despite being a ripoff of Sonia’s the pink hedgehog didn’t mind that much. Sonic felt a lot better identifying as a male. While Manic was Genderfulid, going from Male to Female to Nonbinary. The three were happy with their discoveries, yet couldn’t tell their Moms. They didn’t know if the two would hate it, but they weren’t exactly dying to figure out if they would hate them for this or not. So they kept it a secret. Not letting it out of themselves besides their siblings who they trusted. Even if their Moms and the rest of their Family didn’t care, they still had an entire world to worry about.

            Sonic didn’t want to be seen as Destiny. He intentionally ripped up his dresses until they gave up and allowed him to wear pants. It was assumed that he was just a tomboy, not wanting to be girly and such. Of course, that was only a part of his problem. He hated it when he was referred to as a she. It became enough of a problem that he would actively tell people to shut up if they called him a girl. It was too much for Sonic. He couldn’t be seen as a girl. Every single second he was dead named and misgendered. Being royalty sucked. Everyone knew who he was the moment he was born, so, they all thought that he was still a she. Sonic was hyper aware of that fact. 

             Especially when people came around and confessed their love to him or potential suitors came around. He wasn’t mad about the love confessions, they were usually a similar age. He didn’t like that they thought that he was a she. If only they knew. It was a shame, he found a lot of them attractive. But still, they probably wouldn’t like him if they knew he was a boy or that he even chose to identify as such. So Sonic didn’t like that one bit. So no potential suitors for her. Even if he would entertain that notion at least for the time being.

             Sonic eventually couldn’t take it anymore. He needed to do something about it. So he ended up telling one his Moms, Bernadette Hedgehog or as she preferred to be called ‘Bernie’ even if most called her Queen or in Sonic’s case ‘Mom’ because of course he did. Sonic asked her because they were more close than he was to his other mother. As she was usually more busy. 

             “Mom?” Sonic one day asked

             “What is it sweetie?” 

             “I think I’m a boy”

             “…Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Oh, I should probably tell your mother about this.” Bernadette got up and went to go get Aleena. Who while surprised at the news didn’t hate it. But was wary.

            “We’re going to have to keep this secret.” Aleena says to her son.

            “That’s what I was afraid of.” Bernie says.

            “Why?” Sonic asks. Even if he knows the answer. He doesn’t want to know why.

             “People are still on the fense about us, sweetie. You being trans would only make that worse. We’re sorry, but that’s how it is.” Aleena told her child, Sonic understood, not happy, but he understood. 

              At least he wouldn’t feel dysphoric anymore. They decided to make sure he got puberty blockers and testosterone. That he would also get surgery. All when he was old enough of course. Sonic was happy, but obviously not as happy as he could be. Everyone still dead named and misgendered him, unless in private. It still drived him crazy. All of it did. Manic told them too, and they also supported him too. While happy, Sonic couldn’t help but still feel as if something was missing. Even with all his family knowing and having a reason as to why he couldn’t tell the general public. Even with his gender stuff, in the few short moments he wasn’t thinking about how much he hated being a girl. Sonic craved something else, freedom. 

                It was small at first. Only wanting to see outside the castle walls. Everyone in their family did. But then he wanted to travel the whole world. He started reading books about adventuring. King Arthur was his favorite. He wanted to travel. Go on adventures. Have friends, that was a big one. Being royalty, he didn’t have friends outside of his siblings and cousins and other family. So having friends that weren’t family would be nice. So Sonic craved adventure. Maybe he was tired and sick of being cramped in a castle all the time. That was probably it. He was always preoccupied by something. Of course, he was diagnosed with ADHD early in his life. But this was more than being distracted or daydreaming. He wanted to do it. Eventually being so determined to do so. Too bad he couldn’t avoid being King eventually. That’s what he feared the most becoming King.

                Of course his Moms would have to die, which he absolutely didn’t want to happen. But also that would even mean less freedom. The last thing he wanted was to have even less places to go and even less and more complex things to do. That would be better fit for Sonia. She loved doing boring stuff, when she wasn’t too busy with music. Which was her hobby. Along with Manic. Sonic could play guitar but not much. He was nowhere on par with his siblings. Sonic didn’t really have a hobby come to think of it. All he did was either do whatever that had to do for the day, or sleep. Sometimes he would read. But other than that, he didn’t really have a hobby. 

                 Even more of a reason to him to start adventuring.

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              “Sonic, you can’t be serious!” Sonia says, Sonic still can’t get over how annoying her voice sounds sometimes.

              “You are way more fit out to be Queen than I am to be King. We both know that. Plus I want to get out there!” He points to the hills.

              “We all want to get out, Sonic.”

              “I want to explore, go on adventures! No going out, living out there!” Sonic says, going out their window to feel the wind of his face. Sonia rolls her eyes.

               “Again, you can’t be serious.”

               “As serious as a heart attack sister”

               “Where are you even going to go?”

               “I’ll figure it out”

               “This is a stupid idea, at least come back if you get hurt.” Sonia pleads.

               “Fine, if I do, I’ll come back, promise”

               “Okay… but this is still a stupid idea.”

               “Yeah, yeah… Just don’t tell Manic or Mom or Mom that I left, okay?”

               “Fine, but I swear to Gaia-“

               “I’ll be fine, see ya!” With that Sonic exits the Castle out the Window. Sonia rushes to said window and finds Sonic smiling in a bed of leafs, completely unharmed. He waved goodbye, and Sonia does back. Then he begins to run. A lot faster than Sonia thought he could. But maybe it’s just her imagination. She turns around just as soon as Sonic starts going even faster.

               Sonic had no idea he could run this fast. He was going so fast he could barely comprehend what was going on. Soon enough he was so far away, he had no idea where he was. He smiled, he was free for the first time. Now he actually needed to find a place to live or at least shelter. Which he found, a cave. So that’s what he did, run around and sleep in caves. Finding food either randomly or in garbage cans, which he probably enjoyed way too much. But he was happy.

               “Sonia, have you seen Sonic?” Bernie asked her daughter.

               “No, I haven’t.” Sonia was still betting on Sonic coming home.

               “Where could he be?” Bernie muttered under her breath. Eventually she called the guards, but they couldn’t find Sonic. Then she called everyone else, they couldn’t find Sonic. They called and called yet he didn’t come. Sonia couldn’t help but feel bad.

               “Dear, what’s wrong?” Aleena would ask Bernie, who was crying on the floor at the point she found her. 

               “He’s gone, we can’t find him.”

               “…Oh, this is bad, really bad.”

              They couldn’t find him, they knew he was too fast for them to catch up. They sent out a search party, Sonia regretted letting him go. A lot, nobody could find him. He was gone, he was always too adventurous. 

               Sonic kept going around. Unaware of his Moms concerns about him and his sudden disappearance. Sonic was too happy being free and such to care about who missed him. Plus if they really did Sonia would’ve told them by now, right? So he didn’t think much of it. So he continued to travel. Until one day he encountered something weird. A Robot that looked like a ladybug. So he did what any normal hedgehog would do. Jump on it, and out-proofed an animal from the rubble. A small little rabbit.

               That only made Sonic more confused. Why was an animal trapped in a robot? He inspected it a bit, but with no answers. But then an Armadillo came up to him. 

               “Oh Hey! Did you do this?”

               “Stop it? Yes, Create it? Nope”

               “Dang it, Ray, get over here!” 

               A flying squirrel comes over and waves to Sonic. While the armadillo inspects the remaining pieces of the robot.

               “Have you seen these before?” Sonic asks, Mighty looks up and gives Sonic a questioning look.

              “Is this your first time seeing one of these?”

              “Yes” Sonic confirms.

              “Well, we’ve been seeing these for a while… Where did you come from?”

              “Hedgehog Kingdom.” 

              “That is far… so you’ve never seen a badnik before?”

              “A what-now?”

              “That’s what we call them, we have no idea where they’re coming from.”

              “Do you need help with that?”

              “…What?”

              “Help with figuring out who did it?”

              “…I mean, I guess?”

              “Cool, I had nothing to do anyways”

              “…Alright, let’s go then.” 

              Mighty, Ray and Sonic all keep going, finding more robots. Which Sonic keeps jumping on. Surprisingly enough, Mighty and Ray can keep up with him. They’re both a bit slower however and can’t go as long as Sonic though.

              “How did you get so fast?” Mighty asks.

              “I dunno” Responds Sonic

              The three continue until finding more and more, soon enough they’re drowning in them. So many Badniks. Until they arrive where they’re all coming from, Robotnick industries.

              “Dr. Robotnick? This seems… off.” Mighty looks around at the shop.

              “Maybe he’s a robot himself” Sonic jokes but only ends up scaring Ray, then Sonic profusely apologizes before Mighty beats him up for scaring his little brother.

             The three enter the building, only to find more robots. With more animals inside. The three continue until finally they meet, Dr. Robotnick himself.

             “Well, well, well, look who finally made it!”

             “Who are you and why are you doing this?” Mighty interrogates and all Dr. Robotnick does is laugh at the question.

             “Doesn’t matter as you two… wait since when was there three?”

            “Had nothing better to do.”

            “Well, that kinda messed this up.” Dr. Robotnick presses a button which takes Mighty and Ray and puts them into molds for robots.

            “…Mighty! Ray! What’s your angle, Egg-Head?”

            “Well I’m glad you asked- wait what did you just call me?”

            “Egghead”

            “Do NOT call me that.”

            “Egghead, Egghead, Egghead, Egghead, Egghead.” Sonic says going around and around the Doctor.

            “Enough!” Robotnick says and slams where Sonic is standing but Sonic dodges and accidentally hits the stop button. Mighty and Ray are let go and Sonic immediately goes to help them up.

            “Oh so you thought you got away, did you?” Before Robotnick can do anything Mighty rails himself into the control panel, breaking it all. 

           “Yes, we did.” Mighty says.

           “Oh, okay… Bye-Bye.” Eggman presses another, secret button. That is conveniently labeled as ‘Self destruct button for this entire factory, incase I am cornered and need to kill people and escape myself’ which is exactly what it does. Immediately Eggman disappears into the wall and Sonic grabs Mighty and Ray and books it out of the factory. Only barely making it out. 

           “I-I have n-never b-been s-s-so s-s-scared I-in m-my life.” Ray spits out as soon as the three get out. Sonic smiles at the work he did, while Mighty and Ray are on the ground.

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             After his Adventure with Mighty and Ray. Sonic still needed a place to live. So he looked up a book and found a distant relative. Not distant as in isolated from the rest of the family. But distant enough to where he wouldn’t be noticed in having someone new at his house. Sonic’s Uncle Chuck. Why him specifically? He was far away and didn’t even really seem to know that he was technically close to the royal family. He was perfect.

           So Sonic made his way to the Kingdom of Acorn to find his Uncle Chuck. It took him a bit but eventually he found the town that he lived in: Knothole and his home. It was pretty easy all things considered, now all he needed to do was actually meet the guy. Who Sonic hoped would be cool with all of this.

          “You have got to be kidding me.”

          “Sorry?”

          “Look, Sonic, I’m sorry but the last thing I want to do is take care of one of Bernie’s kids.”

          “That’s fine, I can find someone else.”

         “That’s the problem, you can’t! Especially with your situation. Which, no offense but is foolish.”

         “Fine… so what?”

         “Look, I’ll let you stay if you can do some things for me and help around the house and-“ Uncle Chuck begins to say before something comes on the radio.

         “ATTENTION, ATTENTION EVERYONE. Go quickly into any bunkers nearby or shield yourself from any attacks. Dr. Robotnick is attacking, I repeat, Dr. Robotnick is attacking. Please seek shelter or safety.”

          “And that killed my plans for today… let’s go.”

         “Dr. Robotnick?”

         “He makes robots and such that attack us, all we have to do is hide for a few hours.”

         “The guy who makes the badniks?”

         “Badniks?”

         “Yeah like the little ladybug ones and such”

         “…You’ve encountered him before?”

         “And tricked him too, this’ll be easy!”

         “Easy? What are you-“ Before he can say anything Sonic runs away, leaving a concerned Uncle Chuck behind.

         “Bernie’s gonna kill me.”

 
         Rolling around at the speed of sound, Sonic the Hedgehog goes to Dr. Robotnick’s factory. On the ground. Rushing through it. This one is similar to the other one Sonic was in, but more expansive. With a lot more robots. More robots for Sonic to destroy. So that’s what he does, making his way to Eggman again.

         “What! You have got to be kidding me!”

         “Hey Egg-Head, what’s up?”

         “Oh you know, I was enjoying myself until YOU showed up.”

         “Well, someone has to stop ya”

         “The only way you could stop me is by how annoying you are.”

         “That would still be stopping you Eggy”

         “Shut up, your blue rodent and get out of my sight before I annihilate you.”

         “Oh, what does this button do?” Sonic presses a button that says ‘DO NOT press this button, every single robot will self destruct and die and free the animals. I don’t even know why I made this button, but do not press it. DO NOT.’ Which as soon as Sonic presses it, the robots do just that and Sonic smiles while Robotnick furrows his mustache at Sonic.

         “That’s it, I’m going to kill you.” Eggman presses another button called ‘Carrier’ which then Eggman’s seat turns into a carrier that raises him up and opens the ceiling. 

         “Eat Lead Hedgehog!”

         “Gladly” Sonic snarks and goes onto the roof. To once again fight Eggman.

        The blue Hedgehog hops on the roof. Eggman continues to fire and Sonic jumps and then hits Eggman’s carrier. Causing Damage. Eggman does it again, Sonic hits him again. Then Eggman brings out the big guns, literally. They are big guns. Which then Sonic hits him again and his carrier falls. The Doctor falls to the ground.

         “You have got to be kidding me.” Eggman says, disappointed in himself while he’s now on the ground.

         “Well would you look at that.” Sonic jokes and smiles at the Doctor on the ground.

         “Oh well, looks like you got me… Sike!” Eggman runs away and off the building, Sonic goes and looks down and the Doctor is nowhere to be seen.

         “Dang! He got away” Sonic taps his foot and follows the Doctor’s path, he’s still nowhere to be seen so Sonic goes back out to the front of the building, to find an army.

         “Uh oh”

         Surprisingly the army stops and looks at each other. This makes Sonic even more confused. He doesn’t know who these people are.

         “If you're looking for the Egg shaped guy, he escaped when I beat him.” Sonic relays, this shocks the group who looks at each other until a commander comes up. 

         “Who are you?” The commander asks.

         “Sonic… Sonic The Hedgehog” he says with confusion.

         “Dr. Robotnick’s robots have been disabled… is that your doing?”

         “Yes? I was supposed to do that?”

         “…Thank you! Thank you! Hear all we have a hero!” The army looks at each other before cheering.

         “Is there anything we can do to repay you for dealing with this menace?”

         “Thanks but no thanks, I’m good” Sonic says and begins to walk only to be cut off by the commander again.

         “Please, I can assure you we can give you anything your heart desires!”

         “I’m fine, honest”

         “We can even let you marry our princess. I know the King for certain will allow that!”

          “…Yeah no, I’ve heard how bad arranged marriages are, I should go…” Sonic then proceeds to run with an entire army in tow.

          Sonic runs all the way back to his Uncle Chucks’ house. Still with the army in tow, while they’re behind him, he keep picking up speed until abruptly stopping to go inside the house and lock it. Surprising his Uncle.

          “I’m surprised you aren’t dead.”

          “Yeah me too, anyways I have a question”

          “What’s your question?”

          “How do you refuse a gift from a very insistent commander of an army?” Sonic asks, Chuck gives him a questioning look. Before a knock on the door comes.

          “Is that knock related to the question you just asked?” Chuck says and Sonic cartoonishly shrugs. Of course, not wanting to hold them up, Chuck reaches and opens the door.

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            “Hello Sir! Would you happen to have a blue hedgehog eerily similar to yourself in your home at this moment?” Chuck sighs and looks at Sonic who is signaling him to not let them in.

            “Actually I do.” Chuck opens the door some more to reveal Sonic who is still gesturing until all eyes are on him.

            “Uh, hi?” Sonic says as everyone continues to look at him, the commander comes forward. The commander steps forward.

            “Please, sir, if there is anything we can do.” The commander asks.

            “Look, I don’t need anything” Sonic waves his hands defensively.

            “A million dollars would be nice.” Chuck coughs out, Sonic glares at him. Then turns back to the commander.

            “Look, I did it for the greater good, I didn’t even really do anything, he still got away” Sonic suggests. Kicking himself for not getting Eggman, and frowning at the thought.

            “If you insist, thank you, we will tell the royal palace immediately! You must accept if they do anything for you!” The commander says.

            “As long as they don’t force me to wear pants or marry any of their children, I’ll be fine” Sonic states simply.

            The commander and army take their leave. Sonic shuts the door from any civilians who would’ve seen the commotion. Uncle Chuck is still mad that Sonic didn’t ask for money. All Sonic can do is roll his eyes at that.

             “Just tell me what chores you need me to do.” Sonic says pitifully, and Chuck happily relays them to him. 

             “King Acorn! King Acorn!” A messenger comes through into the throne room. Where of course, the King is.

             “What is it?” The King questions.

             “Dr. Eggman has been defeated! Unfortunately he was not captured, however.” The messenger relays to him.

             “Well, tell the Commander I am happy with his work.” 

             “That’s the thing, King Acorn, he wasn’t the one to defeat the Doctor.” That peaks the intrest of the King.

             “Who was?”

             “A Hedgehog named Sonic.”

             “Well, you know the drill for any hero, ask him for the reward he wants.”

             “That’s the other thing, he didn’t ask for anything.” Again, more interest.

             “Well now, that’s interesting.” The King says, putting his hands together.

             “So now, what you want to do is clean the windows like this. Inside and Out.” Uncle Chuck explains to Sonic, who is only half paying attention to his Uncle. But glad that he isn’t being bugged about getting anything anymore.

             Then someone knocks on the door.

             “Oh you have got to be kidding me!” Sonic complains marching to the door. Raising his hands up to the air.

             “You would think after saying no so many times that they would leave me alone! I can’t believe it, I didn’t even get the guy. I swear if it’s the stupid commander with his stupid-“ Sonic opens the door to face King Acorn himself.

              Immediately Chuck bows. Sonic, not knowing the custom, doesn’t. But look at Chuck and then looks back concerned at King Acorn and his guards.

             “Can I help you?” Sonic asks as politely as he possibly can

             “It has been brought to my attention that you wouldn’t accept any sort of reward for your help in today’s battle.”

             “…You have got to be kidding me” Sonic breaks the act, he doesn’t have time for this. He has chores to do, which at this point might as well be more important than whatever this is.

             “Nobody has ever not asked for anything, usually there’s something that they want and they ask for it, but you didn’t.”

             “…No offense but what exactly do you want me to say?”

             “I want an answer, why didn’t you take anything?”

             “I didn’t want anything!”

             “Anything in the world?”

             “I highly doubt that you could do that, but no, nothing, now please if you would-“

             “Anything?”

             “…I don’t want anything, please if you would-“

             “Anything?”

             “I want you to leave me alone”

             “Anything?”

             Sonic slams the door. Surprising Uncle Chuck, who immediately rushes to and shakes Sonic. Who is surprised at the sudden shake and pushes Uncle Chuck away.

             “Have you any idea what you just did? That was the KING! HIS ROYAL MAJESTY!” Chuck screams in fear.

             “A rude one” Sonic snarks

             “SONIC I CANNOT BELIEVE-“ A knock on the door.

             Chuck is too busy being paralyzed in fear, so Sonic opens the door, only to find King Acorn again.

             “Can you maybe establish: keep your ground laws? That way I can tell you to leave?” Sonic sarcastically says, Chucks’ eyes somehow go even wider.

             “I have a proposition for you.”

             “I swear to-“

             “Help me defeat or at least keep Dr. Robotnick at bay, and nobody will ever bother you again.”

             “…Okay, I’m listening.”

             “Right what it says on the tin.”

             “Well, I guess you got yourself a deal!” Sonic says and reaches his hand out, which King Acorn shakes, gladly.

             “I’m looking forward to this partnership.”

             The door closes, more gently this time. Sonic turns around to a flabbergasted Uncle Chuck. All Sonic does is smile. At the proposition and at not being bothered anymore.

              “I guess those windows should be cleaned huh?” Is all that Sonic says before doing that, going over and grabbing the rag and beginning to clean Uncle Chuck shakes and rubs his head before sitting down on a chair. Already tired from the day, he knows that he’ll probably get used to it. He sighs, and continues to sit.

              “That rodent won’t know what hit him!” Eggman says creating a new robot that looks suspiciously like Sonic. Eggman continues to laugh maniacally as he welds the new machine together. To hopefully get rid of his new foe quickly and easily. While maybe even dragging his name through the mud a bit. But that is only the best that Dr. Robotnick can hope for. All he can do now is plan and laugh.

              Now all he needs is to get back to his factory and resume production on his product and unveil a new product to suit. Everyone must miss them, he laughs at his own irony. As he continues to work at a desk. Still laughing to himself over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

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             It was easy to get his factory back and then going back to mass producing, biding his time to release them all in the wild. As he waits, he makes a billboard to promote his products, smiling to himself as he works. Now, of course, he wants to establish Robotnick land. A place where all can have fun and all can jump in joy as they experience all the rides and attractions. The Kingdom of Acorn would be the perfect place, if they’re wasn’t anyone in his way. Which of course, there is. So now he has to fight them. He pities them, honestly. They will be no match for him eventually and then like nothing, they will disappear.

             Robotnick smiles to himself as he finishes his new product: Metal Sonic he affectionately dubs him or Metal for Short. Robotnick looks and is happy with his craftwork. Looking around, he laughs and starts it up, the first chance at life for his new creation. As Metal’s eyes glow, Eggman gives a wide smile. After pressing a button, all his Robots are off. While still being mass produced. He would like to see Sonic get through this. But in case, Metal will be waiting for him at the end. Robotnick laughs a hearty laugh before beginning to check his security cameras, which Metal watches over his shoulder.

            “Well I did expect the Doctor to come back already!” Sonic snarks as he rolls around at the speed of sound

            He continues to bust Badniks as he makes his way to Eggman’s factory. All going into dust and popping animals out. Sonic smiles at the newly freed animals as he keeps going till he eventually arrives at Eggman's lair. Until he bumps into someone new. Physically bumps into them by going too fast.

            “Hey, watch it!” He says

            “You watch it!” A squirrel says.

            “What are you even doing? You aren’t supposed to be around here!”

            “And you are?”

            “Well, maybe last time I wasn’t but now I have an agreement with the King himself!”

            “Oh you're that guy he said he hired.”

            “Yeah? What’s it to ya?”

            “Wouldn’t expect my father to hire someone with such snark.”

            “Well then you must not- wait father?”

            “Yeah, I’m the princess and now get out of my way to prove I’m much more than that.” The squirrel pushes Sonic out of the way. 

            “Hey wait! This is my job! You ain’t gonna take this away from me!” Sonic gets ahead of her and starts running and naturally she can’t catch up with him. Sonic runs to the Doctor who is waiting for him on his security cameras.

           “Hello there Hedgehog! Nice of you to join us!” Eggman says in a wide grin and covered in shadows.

            “Oh you think Egg- Wait, us?”

            “Oh ho ho ho, you didn’t think it would be the two of us once again did you?” Eggamn smiles and moves out of the way to reveal Metal, who immediately charges Sonic.

            “Well I thought, If you can’t beat them, make them!” Eggman laughs and presses a button that turns the floor that Sonic and Metal are standing on into a platform. That launches them up to the roof of the factory.

            “Have fun you two! Have a nice play date!” Eggman fake coos to the two as they are launched up. Eggman smiles to himself. Until he is met with a foot to the face, courtesy of a squirrel.

            “Oh great, there’s more of you pests.”

            “You're right about that, you traitor.”

            “Well, if it isn’t the princess! Haven’t seen you in a while. How’s your father managing without me?” Robotnick jokes, The Princess wears a scowl on her face.

            “Better actually. Better than when you tried to help.” Sally kicks again, but this time Eggman dodges.

            “I doubt that.” Eggman states before pressing a button that brings out another carrier. He smiles wide.

            “Sad that this is the last time we’ll see each other.” Eggman says and starts firing.

            Meanwhile Sonic and Metal are on the roof duking it out. Metal is similar to Eggman’s carrier, only needing a few hits to take out. But Metal proves to be a tougher challenge. Dodging more effectively and efficiently. While also getting more hits onto Sonic. All Sonic can think is that Metal’s a version of him who is well Metal and can fly. Sonic jumps out of the way when Metal hits the ground trying to hurt him again.

            “Wow, trying to Kamikaze me? Cheap tactic.” Metal doesn’t respond so Sonic keeps attempting to hit him. Metal fires and pounces. Sonic dodges most of his attacks. Sonic keeps hitting however, a bit more successfully than Metal. So Metal eventually falls. With that, Sonic smiles and goes to face Eggman again. Metal’s eyes keep flicking however as Sonic runs away to face his creator.

            Who is currently in a firefight with The Princess. Sonic gets a surprise hit and taunts the Doctor. Who looks furious at Sonic demolishing his creation and decides to take it out on him. Allowing Sally to get a hit before Sonic gets another hit and then Eggman falls less ceremoniously than the last time. But this time he hits a button, revealing a smaller carrier which Eggman flies away with up into the air until neither of them can see him he’s so high up. 

             “Wow, what a coward.” Sonic says

             “That’s all you can think about right now?”

             “What? Am I supposed to think of something else?” Sonic jokes and The Princess gives him a deadpan expression

             “Well thanks for the help princess?” He puts his hand forward and to his surprise, like her father, she shakes it.

             “Just call me Sally.” She says

             “Fair enough” Sonic says 

             “Young lady!” Sonic hears a familiar voice, which is of the King, who comes over to them and immediately confronts Sally.

             “Now what do you think your doing?” King Acorn demands.

             “Fighting.”

             “That’s what I got Sonic here to do!”

             “Yeah, well, he could barely handle himself.” Sally quips.

             “Well, at least you're okay… you’re going to be grounded for a while young lady.”

             “You can’t keep treating me like this!”

             “I’m trying to keep you safe!”

             “I don’t care!” Sally screams and runs away, only for her Father to stay there, shocked by his daughter’s reaction.

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             “King Acorn, if I could say something?”

             “Go ahead, nothing could make this worse.” The King has crouched down and looks like he’s about to cry.

             “She did manage to handle herself very well, if I may say”

             “I’m only trying to protect her.” Sonic sighs and sits down next to him.

             “Look, I don’t know what you two are like but I would say let her do it! If it’s really that bad she’ll realize it and stop doing it! Plus, I mean, I’m doing it and if I didn’t think I was fine to do it, I would’ve stopped a long time ago”

             “…I get that, but, maybe it’s because I’m a parent but I can’t let her go… her Mom…” He sighs and continues to hide himself.

             “Hey, look, I can’t do much myself but I can at least offer some advice… just, talk to her… Even if you do see eye to eye it could offer you some insight to her”

             “Fair enough, thank you Sonic.”

             “Just doing what’s right”

             Sonic then leaves back to his Uncle Chuck’s house. Busting through the door and thankfully not breaking it.

             “Ding Dong! I’m back!”

             “Welcome back, help me vacuum the carpet… After you clean yourself up.” Uncle Chuck says.

             “What are you talking about?” Sonic says, covered in motor oil.

             King Acorn finds his daughter not too far, wrapping herself in a ball. He sits besides her and stares out in the open field in front of them.

             “I just… I don't want you to end up like your mother.” He confides.

             “I won’t and you know that.”

             “Of course I know you're more than capable but I still worry.”

             “Thanks but I’m okay.”

             “… I know I can’t stop you, but the least can I say is be safe.”

             “Thank you father, I will make sure to-“

            “As long as you have someone accompanying you.”

            “You have got to be kidding me.”

            Sally ended up picking Sonic for ‘ ‘convenience’ they ended up making a pretty good team however, joined by others and eventually Nicole, Sally’s Ai. They fought Robotnick together. With no issues. The Doctor himself, Metal or something else entirely, they got him beat, they were unstoppable. Until One Day when everything changed.

             “Alright see ya Uncle, we got-“ Sonic said heading out of the house.

             “Sonic.” Chuck said plainly but with an obvious yet barely noticeable hint of fear in his voice that Sonic picked up immediately.

             “…Yeah?”

             “They know you're here.” That made Sonic do something that he usually wouldn’t do, be quiet and think.

             “…Crap” He said

             “They’re going to take you back or at least they’ll try.” Chuck says with now obvious panic in his voice yet obviously trying to stay calm with the situation.

             “Tell them to try as much as they can, I’m not going to budge” Sonic says, Uncle Chuck frowns and turns away.

             “Sonic, please, for Acorn, leave.”

             “…You’re kicking me out?”

             “You know I wouldn’t do that, I just… I’m sorry, I didn’t know what else to do… Sonic, please, you need to leave.” Chuck says, with a single tear in his eye.

              “Just let me say goodbye to everyone, okay?” Sonic asks.

              “Of course, just don’t take too long.” Uncle Chuck says and then Sonic runs out. As quick as ever. Hopefully fast enough however.

              Sonic had to say goodbye to everything he knew from his new life that day. His new life of freedom. Sonic said his goodbyes to everyone. He totally didn’t cry at all, all his friends wished him well. The king asked if he could do anything, which Sonic once again declined. He didn’t need anything, plus they had already given him so much for what he did. So he denied again, but this time the King accepted his decision.

               Then for one last time he defeated Robotnick and after that, Sonic got an idea. He started dismantling the building (with some help) and somehow (with some help) turned it into a plane, and scrap. The plane wasn’t a good one but well enough for it to work. He ended up deciding to call it the tornado to emphasize how fast it was and he painted it red. No reason, red seemed like a nice color at the time.

                He worked on it for a while and by the time he was done, everyone had left, all of them already said their goodbyes. Sonic wiped his forehead and then proceeded to look back at Knothole one more time. The place that helped his discover who he was and what he was good at and truly made for. Then Sonic started the engine of the plane and then took off into the clouds, to go on another adventure. This time though, farther away and away from everything he knew.

              Sonic escaped just in time. Shortly Afterwards Allena followed by Bernie they both, along with an army went into the Kingdom of Acorn looking for their son and then… left empty handed, disappointed that their prince wasn’t there. He had escaped their grasp once again. They both missed their son. They wanted him back. They needed him back. Royalty can only function when everyone participates. 

             “He can’t outrun us forever. We will get him back eventually.”

              “Guess I’m going to need a new headquarters… it was due for the time that I got one anyways.” Robotnick says to Metal and his other creations.

              The Doctor furrows his brow as his factory is destroyed and also rotting, and also burning. Picking up a piece of building and putting it back to the ground. Robotnick doesn’t like the sudden shift but sure enough he’s not complaining, already a plan in place. Robotnick convinced himself that he was due for a change after all and so he proceeded to go off in his flying carrier. Off to bigger and better things, this time, taking over the whole world. The best and only logical step. To get away from that Hedgehog once and for all. Making a world wide theme park. Why try to get customers when you can bring the theme park to the customers. A genius idea if he says so himself. 

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             Sonic is tired, uncharacteristically so. Flying a plane for hours after staying up late to build said plane (and escape his Moms) he was tired and decided to land safely. On a nice, bright, green hill. Nothing special but enough to where he could go to sleep. So he did and was almost immediately woken up by the sounds of construction. He hit his head and then walked around to find… badniks. His luck, he guesses. He busts them open and then sees everything else. A newly constructed stage of loop de loops and other fun things. Sonic rolls his eyes and runs his hand down his face. Guess he has to take care of this now.

           So he runs. Through the green hills. Then through the underground. Then through a building of some kind probably made by Robotnick. Then through another building. Then a building in the air. Then a pinball amusement park. Then a roller coaster. If that wasn’t enough, he would be thrown into places all Willy Nilly to roll in a ball and hit gems. He had no idea what to do and would fall out of them shortly after but eventually he got the hang of it and got a… emerald? It was weird but Sonic pocketed it and let it be. Deciding that it was probably important enough to have it.

           Eventually he gets to the end of it all only to find… Robotnick. Sonic could already tell and he is way too sleep deprived to care. Robotnick on the other hand.

           “YOU what are YOU doing here?” Robotnick points his fingers to Sonic in an accusatory tone, which Sonic does not respond to.

           “No matter! I will take care of you no problem!” Eggman presses a button on his carrier and a ball pops out. 

           “Take this!” Eggman says and the ball swings slowly at Sonic, who dodges it. 

           Sonic jumps on Eggman three times before he retreats, then he follows Eggman, to the Egg crusher. Guess Robotnick took his new nickname in stride. Pistons crush back and forth. Sonic is disoriented at first but gets the hang of it. Proceeding to defeat Eggman as easily as he always does. Leaving Robotnick to escape once again. Sonic still couldn’t catch him. Sonic then proceeds to go back to the tornado and sleep. Only for a bit before he realizes that he probably has to keep on moving. 

           For a while this is how it goes. Sonic alone defeats Eggman with his schemes. Still tired. After a while Sonic stops speaking entirely. As Eggman is the only person he interacts with and he talks a lot. So Sonic keeps quiet which Eggman doesn’t notice. Leading to more Egg puns due to Robotnick taking the name more in stride. Sonic doesn’t care, he’s too tired to care about anything any longer. So He and Eggman duke it out, he gets a couple hours of sleep then flies away and somehow encounters Eggman. They fall into a cycle. Sometime longer than others but still the same: Sonic flies until he sees Eggman, he defeats Eggman then he sleeps for a bit, then repeats the process. Neither him nor Robotnick notice the repeating process, so they keep continuing to do so.

            Unbeknownst to Sonic, he becomes a hero. To everyone now, instead of only for the Kingdom of Acorn. Of course he doesn’t realize the game until he goes to a town where he is immediately recognized as “The Hero” and “The Blue Blur” and then he immediately leaves realizing he is probably not safe there. So he goes, but now he realizes his newfound fame and how he can’t really interact with society anymore. At least not without a disguise, which he does for the next town to get supplies for himself. This along with his quickness starts the saga of him becoming some sort of mystery. Going quick for no one to catch up with him, so nobody ever gets a clear look at him. Leading to a mystery of his appearance. That allegedly only Robotnick knows. 

            Speaking of him, Eggman had become infamous in his time. Being the villain and all. A lot of more people recognize him and his face. Given that he plasters it everywhere but there is a lot more footage of him. Despite him being more self sustainable and being able to completely isolate himself from society. Robotnick also having an established base helps that fact as many can see (and also laugh) at him and how he goes about his day. Of course, he’s the villain, but he doesn’t care. He believes that history will prove himself as not only in the right but also the winner. Eventually Sonic has to slip up and Eggman will seize that opportunity with great pleasure.

            But for now, they battle and he loses. Again and again and again and again. You would believe that eventually the Doctor would get tired of it and sometimes he does. Taking longer breaks sometime but bringing back the same pain. Sonic’s old friends in knothole eventually recognize the two and print their faces everywhere and tell everyone. Bringing their grudges back from the past for all to see. The people do see and cheer Sonic on harder. But soon enough. The Hedgehog kingdom catches wind and goes to find him. Traversing islands and kingdoms for their Prince. They won’t rest until they find him. 

             Sonic still doesn't realize all of this. Only being in society to grab some gear then leave. He tries not to bring that much attention to himself. Robotnick uses his fame to capture more people and animals. Which nobody likes yet they keep buying tickets to explore his attraction to only get captured themselves. But Eggman’s escapades go on for long enough when Sonic breaks in and beats the Doctor and frees the people. Then like normal, it repeats again. But eventually it has to change. Sometimes different, something new. Well, more like someone. That someone being a pink Hedgehog who has a crush on Sonic and will seemingly chase him to the very end.

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             Amy herself couldn’t tell you why she was obsessed with Sonic. She would tell you there was too much to consider. In all likelihood she liked the concept of him more, the speed, the heroism, the adventure that is what drew her to Sonic. But it was a crush on a person that many would never meet. So she stayed in school, with her best friend Tekno. Doing normal schooling things.

             “Would it kill you to not obsess over him?”

             “Yes, it would, fatally and quickly”

             “Whatever.” Tekno says before mumbling under her breath. “I could do so much better than him.”

             “What was that?”

             “Nothing.”

             Amy went to school on Little Planet. A planet that floated out and about Mobius. Her and Tekno were childhood friends who stuck with each other. Then she became obsessed with Sonic. Wishing for a fateful meeting with the hero one day. Tekno, personally, didn’t care much for the guy. It was hard to hate, but he was only a hero. Not much if she was being honest. She could… She knows she could do as good if not better than him. No questions. All he did was run around and dismantle Robotnick’s inventions. He didn’t even stop the guy! Why did everyone see him as the hero when he couldn’t even stop his foe! Tekno had no idea why Amy was so obsessed with the guy.

            One night Amy took out her favorite deck of fortune cards and placed them on a table. Then shuffled and picked three. Amy then took them back out and read them to herself then smiled, it really was her destiny.

           “It said ‘you will have a fateful meeting with a purple protector.’ That has to mean him!”

           “How can you be so certain? It really could mean any purple like protector, Amy. Plus is he even that color?”

           “I won’t know unless I try!”

           “I swear those cards make you stupider” Tekno mutters under her breath.

           “What was that?” Amy innocently asks

           “Nothing.” 

           After School Amy looked around for Sonic. Eventually she had to run into him right? Tekno went along with her and eventually got fed up with her antics and went home. But Amy kept looking, only to find a shadow that looked like Sonic. With Amy’s bad eyesight, and due to the dark making him look purple, she thought it was Sonic. Then immediately latched onto him.

           “Sonic!” Too bad it was Metal Sonic. Who turned to her and picked her up and flew away. To take her to Eggman.

           “Why did you bring this pink rodent to me?”

           “Damsel in distress.” Metal processes out, Robotnick thinks for a moment and smiles.

           “You’re a genius, just like your father.” Robotnick laughs, referring to himself. 

           “Let’s get this show on the road.”

           Time travel was new to Sonic. He could say that at the least. When he saw that a pink hedgehog had been captured in his name he decided that he had to make it right. So with Metal constantly transporting between time with her, he followed. Arriving in a future with Eggman successful. Which makes Sonic’s skin crawl. So he presses forward. Until eventually he gets Amy free, only to have her get captured again. Sonic rolls his eyes and keeps going. Until he gets to Eggman after time traveling and traversing throughout the zones.

          “Ah, you’ve finally arrived hedgehog, say goodbye to your girlfriend!” The doctor taunts. That catches Sonic off guard.

          “…What”

          “You’re girlfriend of course! I've successfully captured her and now she’ll die unless you-“ The Doctor begins to say.

          “I don’t have a girlfriend”

          “…THEN WHAT IS THIS?” 

          “She’s not my girlfriend, I don’t have a girlfriend”

          “…YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME I HAD ALL-“ Robotnick continues to ramble and Sonic takes the chance to attack, stopping Eggman. Who once again escapes (all while rambling) and he makes it out of the base with Amy in tow in his hands. Carrying her away from the explosion of Eggman’s base. 

          Eventually he sets her down, away from any harm. He stands for a bit while she has her hands on her head. After that, he runs. Sonic doesn’t really care who she is as long as she’s safe. The last thing he wants now is a girlfriend, especially one that’s one sided. Could that even make any sense? Amy, however, of course, is starstruck and as soon as Tekno comes to see if she’s okay and asks where she's been (her parents didn't even look for her, only Tekno) all she can do is be happy for what happened to her. No matter how traumatized she probably is besides for all the Sonic stuff.

          “I met him! I actually met him!”

          “Amy, where were you?” Tekno asks, Amy looks at her and gives her a smile.

          “Oh well I got captured by a metal version of Sonic who went through time with me, then formally captured my Robotnick who kept me there until Sonic freed me!” Amy squeals, Tekno looks at her with concern.

          “Are you okay?” Tekno inspects her friends who are too busy freaking out to notice her friend’s concern and inspection.

          “Amy.” Tekno grabs her shoulders and gets Amy to finally notice her. “Are you alright?” Tekno asks and all Amy can be is starstruck.

          “I’m better than alright!”

          “Like physically are you in pain? Did you break, sprang or bruise anything?” Tekno says with concern.

          “He knows who I am! HE KNOWS WHO I AM!” Amy skips away as Tekno attempts to chase her again. 

         “HE CARRIED ME!” She cheers as her and Tekno go back home. Tekno trying to make sure she’s okay while all she can do is cheer and sweep at what happened.

          All the while Sonic runs all the way back to his plane, his only mode besides running for transportation. Which had been damaged before this entire adventure began and after all he still needs to repair after everything he’s been through, which, obviously, he isn’t happy about. He likes the plane, he doesn’t want to waste time or let that girl find him. After a while of running he arrives, only to find someone else there. A small fox who has two tails, who’s fixing his plane.

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            “Hey” 

            The Fox jumps in surprise, as the Hedgehog looks at him. 

            “Is this your plane?” The fox innocently asks

            “Yeah, what are you doing with it?”

            “Trying to fix it.” The Fox says.

            Sonic sits down next to the fox and inspects the fox’s work, finding nothing wrong. The fox actually did a good job. Sonic finds nothing messed up with it.

            “Wow”

            “Did I mess up?”

            “No! Actually you did great! Saved me a bit of time actually… you wouldn’t mind doing the rest of this for me would you?”

            Sonic didn’t exactly like exploiting the child for labor, but he was tired, okay? So he slept while the child worked until the fox eventually woke him up with a complete restored plane. Sonic got up, inspected it and then got ready to go. Only for the fox to stay.

            “Um, do you have a family coming for you?”

            “No.”

            “Friends?”

            “No.”

            “…Anyone?”

            “No.”

            Sonic didn’t really know how to react to that, deciding on looking at the fox until he had an idea. The fox looked away, Sonic realized that the fox hadn’t looked him in the eye the entire time, that made Sonic confused.

            “Do you have a name?” Sonic eventually settled on.

            “Not one that I like.”

            “Well, um, how about I give you one!”

            “…Really?” The fox looked at Sonic with great big eyes.

            “Sure! I’m great with names! I named myself!”

            “You can do that?” Sonic laughed at the Fox’s response.

            “Yeah! How about I call you… Tails”

            The fox looks at his new namesake. Then turns back to Sonic.

             “Are you sure? Not a lot of people seem to like my Tails…”

             “Well I like ‘em!”

              That gets the fox to smile.

              “Sure! Tails! That’s better than Miles…” Tails shuts up after that comment. Sonic gives a questioning look.

              “My… Old name? I don’t like it, at all. Thank you for helping me pick up my new name, um, what’s your name?”

              “Sonic! Sonic the hedgehog!” The fox looks starry eyed at the Hedgehog.

              “So, wait, you don’t have a home?”

              “I mean, I guess I do.”

              “…If it’s a box it doesn’t count”

              “No! I still have a house, it’s just… deteriorated… after my parents… left.”

              “Well, Tails, if you have no one left, I would happy if you tagged along!”

              “Really?”

              “Why not? You need it and you can help fix my plane and I assume other stuff?”

              “Yes! Absolutely!”

              “Then let’s get going little buddy!”

              The two hop into the plane and proceed to leave the clearing. Traveling the world now as two friends rather than alone. This is what Sonic needed, someone alone in adventures like him. Together they can kick Eggman’s butt twice as fast! Hypothetically at least. 

               They eventually run into Eggman again. Who then proceeds to capture Tails. Sonic, not wanting to already wanting his new friend to become whatever Eggman wants Tails to become. Sonic rushes and saves Tails. They then proceed to run to Eggman again and this time with the help of Tails, Sonic defeats the Doctor once again. The Doctor doesn’t seem to notice the change with Tails. 

               After a few more run ins with Eggman. Tails intellect has proved extremely helpful. Realizing the power of the chaos emeralds that Sonic never had noticed before yet Eggman did. So they gathered as many as they could. But they were one short of getting all of them. Eggman got that one. After that, Tails and Sonic was determined to keep them safe and contained. Yet, due to them always traveling, they had nowhere to put them. Sonic was convinced they would be fine. Tails wasn’t so certain and kept trying to find a safe place for the emeralds. 

               Of course, Sonic didn’t care all that much but seeing Tails worry, came up with a few ideas to where they could store them.

               “Sonic, how? You’re not supposed to be here!” Uncle Chuck attempts to say while Sonic attempts to calm him down.

               “Under normal circumstances I would keep away. But we have these… emeralds that need storing and we can’t find any place to store them! So we don’t know what to do!”

                “Sonic, I don’t even get- wait, we?”

                Tails come through the door we a bag full of emeralds and sets them down. Chuck looks surprised at a kid, who can’t be any more older than eight, carrying apparently world saving rocks.

                “Me and Tails” Tails waves and a confused Chuck waves back.

                “Can we please store them here? We want to make sure they’re safe”

                “Look, I don’t think I can-“

                “Mr. Hedgehog I heard a commotion… Sonic?”

                “Oh hey Sal! Um, look, Uncle Chuck, please, we really need this-“

                “What are these?” Sally looks through the bag, while Sonic looks on in horror.

                “Chaos Emeralds! They have untold power! Nobody knows what happens when you get all of them! You could turn more powerful! You could clone yourself! You could turn evil! You could be protected from any damage!” Tails excitably relays!

                “Well, thanks for telling me… Tails was it?” Sally asks and Tails excitedly nods.

                “Sonic, I couldn’t possibly takes these in, this is way to dangerous and if anyone finds out… I would be toast!”

                “Where else are we supposed to store them?” Sonic asks, Chuck shrugs.

                “Okay, fine we’ll find another place, see ya!” Sonic leaves and takes the bag and Tails with him and immediately leaves on his plane.

                “Bye!” Sonic says as Tails waves and then the plane takes off.

                “…After all this time, this is what you come back to me with?” 

                “…You were the only other person I could think of” 

                “Look, I can’t take this in-“

                “Amy who’s at the door?” A green bird appears, only to have a scowl as soon as she sees Sonic.

                “What are you doing here?”

                “…I need to store these powerful emeralds so that Egg-head doesn’t get his hands on it!”

               “So you decided it was best to endanger us instead of finding someone else?”

               “I swear on my life you are the last person I know” Sonic says

               Tekno inspects the bag finding the Emeralds while Sonic and Amy continue to argue. Tails come over to her.

               “You know, these could lead to anything, there’s so many possibilities!” Tails says to Tekno, who admires the Emeralds for a while.

               “Look, I’m sorry, but I have no other option!”

               “So after all this time, I don’t even get a date? What kind of boyfriend are you Sonic?”

               “I’m not your boyfriend, stop calling me that!” Sonic pinches the bridge of his nose. 

               “You don’t even remember my name!”

               “…What? Of course I do!”

               “Then what is it?”

               Sonic pauses for a minute a thinks.

               “Minnie?”

               Sonic and Tails are shut out of Amy’s house. Tails is allowed back in, Sonic is not, until he takes Amy out on a date and remembers her name. Sonic thinks the latter is fine he can’t stand the former, however. So Sonic and Tails take off to hopefully not run into Eggman again and lose all of their emeralds. 

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             When they arrive on Angel Island, with reports of Eggman. Their Emeralds are immediately stolen by one Echidna. Which Sonic and Tails thought were extinct. They were both wrong. The Echidna laughs and tell them to get off his islands then leaves. Sonic doesn't listen to that and Tails follows. Which then leads to the two being dropped down into a pit. After a while of exploring Angle island the two realize that the Echidna and Eggman are working together. Not that hard to figure out. 

             Eventually the meet and The Echidna tries to defeat Sonic and Tails. Only to fail and Eggman betrays him. Leaving him in the dust. Apparently he didn’t know what Eggman was actually doing. Taking the Master Emerald that he was guarding along with the Chaos Emeralds. The immediate problems with taking the Master Emerald is that Emerald Island falls when it is taken. So the newly formed trio go and chase after Eggman. Eventually catching him and getting back all the Emeralds. They put them into place. Knuckles sits down and then tells Sonic and Tails to leave.

             They aren’t gone for long as Eggman attacks Angel Island again. Sonic and Tails are on the scene and help Knuckles get the Master Emerald back and safe and sound. Then proceed to defeat Eggman once again. Leaving the Doctor to go and hopefully not come back. Even if he definitely will. 

             “Well then, guess he won’t be showing up anytime soon!” Sonic says.

             “Sonic, I’m sure that he will show up again sooner than we think.” Tails comments.

             “Let me be hopeful Tails” Sonic says back

             “Well now that he’s gone, the two of you should leave” Knuckles says 

             “Oh c’mon, we saved your butt twice! And we’ll probably save it more later, don’t you want to try to get to know us?”

             “No”

             “Aw what? You're no fun.” Sonic comments, Knuckles huffs and then he goes back to the base of the staircase of the Master Emerald. Sonic rolls his eyes and leaves with Tails. Leaving Knuckles alone.

             “Why doesn’t he want to even… talk with us?” Sonic questions to Tails

             “Not everyone wants to be friends, Sonic… maybe he prefers being isolated. After all that’s all his life has been.” Tails says back

             “Yeah, yeah” Sonic mocks back

             Fortunately Sonic didn’t have to wait long before he got to see Knuckles again. Once again, Eggman attacked and it was left to him and Tails and Knuckles to defeat Eggman. So that’s exactly what they did. The three beat him once again. As usual. Then, like usual, Knuckles told the two to leave. Tails went to leave but Sonic, on the other hand. 

             “Nope” 

             “What?”

             “I’m not going to leave”

             “Sonic…” Tails said, knowing exactly what he was doing.

             “Leave my island” Knuckles says sternly.

             “Nope, I’m staying put.” Sonic says

             “Sonic…” Tails complains again.

             “Leave”

             “Sonic…” Tails says with a more panicked tone. Knuckles looks ready to hit him. But then, Knuckles huffs then goes back to sit at the Master Emerald. Tails attempts after that to get Sonic to leave, but he doesn’t budge. Soon enough, Tails leaves. Stranding Sonic but that’s what he wants. He’s going to get to Knuckles whether he likes it or not. 

              After days of sitting in silence. Only interrupted by the occasional chao. Knuckles finally goes over to Sonic. 

              “Doesn’t seem like Robotnick’s coming back anytime soon” Knuckles says to break the ice between the two

              “Yup” Sonic responds

              “Why are you still here?”

              “Why not?”

              “I… you’re making this harder than it has to be” Knuckles confesses

              “What am I making harder?”

              “I’m stuck here, whether I like it or not. It’s my responsibility to protect the Master Emerald and that’s it. That’s all my life is supposed to be.”

              “Who says?”

              “Everything! I have no other purpose than this!” Knuckles says 

              “You’re way too focused on this… I get it. It’s obviously important but… haven’t you ever taken a break? Even for a day?”

              “No, I can’t afford to”

              “Even if that’s true, You can still have friends, I know I’m probably not a good choice, but you can have people around you”

              “…”

              “Just think about it, okay?”

              “…Fine”

              “Alright then, see you!”

              “What? You're going to leave now? After all I just told you?” But before Knuckles can realize it, Sonic’s gone. Knuckles huffs once again then takes his normal place once again.

             Sonic took a risk by going down on the falling streams of Angel Island. But he made it. After all he’s Sonic the Hedgehog. Then after that, he goes and finds Tails. Who had happened to finish some adventure.

              “Yeah! I helped people on Cocoa Island and stopped an Evil Witch!” Tails relays to an interested Hedgehog before the two go off again to find anyone else who needs help. 

              With Knuckles’ social shield being broken through, Sonic and Tails hang out a lot more around him. Especially after they save the day with him from Eggman. So that’s good. But along with that comes some new challenges.

              “Sonic!” 

              “M- I mean Amy! What brings you here?”

              “I came to help! I quit school to become a hero like you!”

              “…I guess I can’t really criticize you on that, that would be hypocritical. But still, we don’t really need another hero. Also don’t you have friends back home?”

              “Tekno will be fine without me!” Sonic proceeds to try and think of something to say to get rid of Amy

             “Hey Amy!” Tails says

             “Hi Tails, what are you doing?”

             “Beating Banicks!”

             “Sounds like fun!” Amy says and proceeds to wipe the floor with Baniks with her piko hammer. Sonic stops and thinks that at least she can handle herself now. 

             Eventually Amy and Knuckles meet and that gets the gang all together. Forming their unofficial little group. Others come and go. They even go on adventures with Mighty and Ray like Sonic did once. They go on defeating Eggman again and again. Foiling his plans at every turn and leaving him absolutely clueless on how they do it all the time. Of course, he knows that he’ll stop this eventually.

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            Shadow awakened once again. But this time not in the presence of G.U.N. But by someone else. Robotnick. Not the Robotnick he knew but another one nonetheless. The Evil Scientist looks at his restoration process with his trademark wide grin. 

             “Where. Am I?” Shadow asks, confused.

            “Relax my dear friend, I am Dr. Ivo Robotnick. Grandson of your creator, Gerald Robotnick.” Robotnick relays.

            “Dad?”

            “…I mean, I guess. By technical definition he is. But that’s not important, I have a job for you and I know you can accomplish it, no problems.” Eggman says, smiling.

            “What is it?” Shadow asks, wonder what he could possibly do.

            Sonic was enjoying a Chili Dog right after his victory against Eggman and stopping him from bringing back a God to defeat him. All Sonic can think of is how Eggman’s plans keep getting weirder and weirder. But he doesn’t care, hopefully this time he’ll stay down for longer. But Sonic will take any downtime he can get. At this point, he’s living well. On high successes, and an established team behind him. He knows that no matter what Eggman throws at them they’ll be ready for it. But sometimes he wishes the Doctor would quit. For his own sake, he must be going crazy at this point. Sonic laughs. 

              Until he hears gunshots. He goes to investigate only to find a Black Hedgehog with Red tips on top of a robot which immediately went away and somehow G.U.N. Confused the two. Sonic war arrested by G.U.N. For a crime he would never commit. Sonic was admittedly peeved at the very least. 

             “I already told you I’m innocent!”

             “Quiet, Hedgehog.”

             Sonic would end up staying in the cell for a bit before he was freed and came ahead to the other new Black Hedgehog. 

              “There you are faker!”

              “Who are you calling a faker? You’re not even good enough to be my fake!”

              “I’ll make you eat those words!”

              The two would fight but then have to escape the island. Well Shadow would teleport away, while Sonic would actually escape with his life barely intact. 

              Shadow would make it back to Robotnick. All while Rouge would attempt and fail to steal the Master Emerald. Shattering it into many pieces. So the two had to look for it. All while the two other teams attempt to look for the chaos emeralds. While Eggman gets three, Sonic and his friends get four. Doesn’t matter too much when Eggman pis- I mean destroys a part of the moon and threatens to do the same to the earth.

              Sonic and his friends invade Eggman’s base. Rouge ends up giving up her pieces of the Master Emerald allowing it to be restored and returned to Knuckles. While Sonic, Tails and Amy all try to stop Eggman, Tails and Amy get captured, Sonic attempts to recuse. Get exploded instead, Tails, thinking Sonic is dead. Attempts to get revenge on Eggman, succeeding. He attempts to use the Chaos Emeralds on the ARK, but that doesn’t work. As Gerald rigged the ARK to hit the earth if the Chaos Emeralds are used, in a revenge plot against the Government, specially G.U.N. For killing everyone he held dear. So I’m revenge, he would kill them. 

              Sonic and his friends attempt to stop it. Not being very successful. Shadow doesn’t help, but thankfully Amy is there to help.

              “Shadow, please!”

              “Why should I? All humans and mobians have caused pain! I want this place to burn and get destroyed.”

              “Please, Shadow, Please!”

              Somehow, nobody knows but Shadow remembers that Maria wanted him to save the world. So despite his digression, he goes and helps Sonic and the others. Getting the Chaos Emeralds, and then attempting to stop the ARK, together. 

              “Ready to go, faker?”

              “Let’s get this over with.”

              Too bad Shadow kills himself over it. Well, he falls to the earth. Then they can’t find the body, so they kinda assume he’s dead, burned up by the atmosphere and then, presumably, not alive. An educated guess technically. So Sonic says goodbye to a person he barley knew who hated him most of the time they had. Preparing to never see him again. 

              Sonic has no idea how wrong he is.

              As Rouge ends up finding Omega and Shadow (who’s been cloned but let’s ignore that for now). Obviously, Shadow has once again lost his memory. Even more so this time. Rouge ends up being the glue that keeps Omega and Shadow in check as they go off to defeat the Doctor. 

               Meanwhile Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles all get a letter and decide to check it out. Tails lands the tornado and totally doesn’t leave it up in the air for it to be destroyed when it inevitably crashed to the ground. The three go. Amy’s group decided to follow them. Well Amy does, Cream could care less and Big wants to look for Froggy and somehow Amy convinces him that Froggy is the same way that Sonic, Tails and Knuckles are going.

                All while also the Chaotix get a job to rescue someone and obviously given how much he’s giving, they take it no questions asked. Well Espio tries to ask some questions but is immediately stopped by Vector. The three go and try to recuse their contact. 

                Eventually after a few zones, and encounters. The four meet up and defeat Neo Metal Sonic, who was so consumed by jealousy that he decided to betray Eggman. All the teams decide to defeat him. Which they succeed in and then Eggman gets chased by the Vector and Espio for payment. Amy chases Sonic, who runs as fast he can. Tails goes back to his workshop and Knuckles leaves back to Master Island. Leaving Cream, Big and Charmy because Team Dark had also left.

               “So what do we do know?” Charmy asks the other two.

               “Go with your parents Charmy, I’m tired of this.” Cream says and leaves probably back to her house.

               “Froggy?” Big asks to no one in particular.

                Robotnick doesn’t pay the bill. It was probably the worst decision ever made as now, he will collide the dimensions becuase of course for no he will.

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             Blaze was the sole protector of the Sol Emeralds. Which made it even more embarrassing that not Only did Nega steal them but also collided dimensions, making her embarrassment dimension wide. Hopefully whoever is their emerald guardian must be as equally as embarrassed as her. At least she hope they are. Losing the Emeralds would be such a horrible thing to happen. They must truly be devasted as her.

             “Aw man, we lost the emeralds again?” Sonic complains, then sees an entire other dimension colliding with his own. “Aw man, is another dimension, closing with ours?” Sonic complains. Before turning to Tails, who wasn’t listening to Sonic’s complaints.

             “Tails…”

             “Give me a second Sonic, go find the Chaos Emeralds while I’m working.”

             “Tails, you're my sidekick, follow me”

             “No.”

             “I’m getting Charmy then” Sonic rushes out of Tails' workshop. Tails doesn’t care for a moment before what Sonic said registers.

             “Wait! Charmy?”

              “Hey can I borrow this?” Sonic rushes into the Chaotix’s house and grabs Charmy.

              “Sure, just don’t break ‘em” Vector says, while Espio looks up in concern.

              “Thanks!” Sonic runs out with Charmy behind cheering about Adventure

              “Vector, you just gave our child away.”

              “He wanted a sidekick, he got one, now, let’s have some peace and quiet.” Vector says and  Espio shrugs and lays back down. Grabbing Vector to cuddle.

              “Alright, Charmy, let’s go!”

              “Okay Bossman!”

              Sonic and Charmy go throughout some zones to get a bunch of the chaos emeralds back and hopefully stop Dr. Eggman and prevent the two dimensions.

               Cream found a new friend! Blaze happened upon her and the Rabbit latched onto the Cat like glue. Blaze, needing a sidekick and support but not wanting to admit it didn’t say no to the rabbit so the two went to collect the sol emeralds. It looked like a simple journey for Blaze until someone else came along.

               “Hey Miss Amy!” Blaze looked over to see a Pink Hedgehog, who looked, at least Blaze thought, cute but she didn’t think about it too much especially when the hedgehog started talking about someone else.

               “So have you two seen Sonic?” Amy asked the two with Blaze barely paying attention to what she was saying.

               “No, sorry Ms. Amy!”

               “Thanks, see you two later!” Then she was gone, so Blaze kept on moving. Until they encountered her again.

               “Still can’t find him Ms. Amy?”

               “Nope”

               “What’s so important about this Sonic anyways?” Blaze said, as dull as possible to not give her emotions away.

               “He’s my boyfriend!” Of course.

               “I thought he said you weren’t together?”

               “I’m working on it Cream” Amy said through gritted teeth, this made Blaze even more confused at Amy. 

               “Well maybe we'll bump into him soon, so why don’t you come with us?”

               “Fine”

               So Amy joined their team. Blaze for some reason, felt the need to perform well for Amy, and she had no idea why but she kept going. Getting all the sol emeralds and defeating one Nega Eggman. Successfully saving her world. Where she finally met Sonic, who was followed by a bee and a fox. She recognized none of them. 

               “Well then, thanks for defeating that guy, mysterious stranger!”

               “Princess Blaze, nice to meet you, I’ve heard so much about you.” She grabs a bit harder with the heard so much part but Sonic only thinks it’s because Amy wouldn’t stop talking about him, so all he does is say hi and goes away. Followed by Charmy and Tails.

               “Doesn’t seem like much conversation today, does he?” Blaze asked the other two.

               “And he’s already gone.” Amy slumps down to the ground, Blaze sits next to her.

               “So where are your friends?” Amy asks

              “Don’t have any, don’t need any.”

              “Everyone needs friends, silly!”

              Blaze blushes a bright red.

              “Maybe you’re right.”

              Charmy busts back into the Chaotix’s home and goes to Vector and Espio all tell them all about their adventures. How they bonded with Tails and Sonic and how they met this cool princess from another dimension. Running around from the excitement, their parents viewed them with a tired look, one that the bee didn’t notice.

              “Here I thought we would live the rest of our lives in silence” Vector says

              “Oh, shush, you enjoy it.” Espio says back to Vectors’ complaints. 

              “Yeah, yeah, whatever”

              After Blaze left back, she wished she could see Amy and Cream again. But she wouldn’t have to wait long to get a connection back to them again. As somehow Sonic and that fox friend of his ended up in her dimension. Meeting Marine, a carefree genius who lived in the middle of a bunch of islands. With her, Sonic and Tails, they managed to stop Doctor Eggman and Eggman Nega's plans. Blaze gains a newfound respect for Sonic and a new sidekick in the form of Marine. She’s a lot more brash but she filled that Cream shaped void in her heart. With Marine filling the role of a captain, Blaze had a friend to depend on. Like Amy suggested, a piece of Amy, yet no one like her.

               Blaze asked Sonic to say hi to Amy and Cream for her. Tails said the message would get to them for sure, which makes Blaze relieved, not like she doesn’t trust Sonic, but he’s a bit too haphazard for her. They fly back and Blaze waves them off with Marine, then returns to her duties as Princess. Wondering when she will be able to see her friends (besides Marine) again. Good thing she won’t have to wait for long before she sees them again and makes new friends as well. 

               All while Sonic and Tails get back home. Tails relays the message to a happy Cream and Amy. Then the two see that Eggman is doing something again. Because of course he is. The two gear up and go. Not knowing that everyone else will be there too. An entire reunion with a plot to change time at the center. At the end of the day, who doesn’t like messing with time?

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             The Princess of Soleanna, Elise, who Eggman was trying to capture. Sonic and friends decided to protect her, which went well at first, until it didn't. Robotnick managed to catch her. Eggman wants to control the Flames of Disaster. But not before releasing Mephiles because it would be Eggman if he didn’t release a horrible God upon the world for his plans. Mephiles hired Silver, a survivor of Iblis, to kill Sonic. Mephiles convinced Silver that Sonic somehow caused all the current construction. Silver is not the brightest. 

             So Silver tried to kill Sonic. Stalking him at first before Shadow kicked some sense into him (literally) that Sonic is not the cause of all of this, he had no way of doing it.

             “Sonic is way too stupid to purposely cause the end of the world and the destruction of most of it.” Shadow states.

             “Wow you don’t like the guy, do you?”

             “…What gave it away?”

             Shadow helpfully informed Silver that Mephiles was actually the bad guy. Which made a lot more sense. So Shadow and Silver go to find Sonic and stop Mephiles. All of them have already been traveling all throughout time to stop Doctor Eggman and Iblis, so all that makes is one more person for the group to defeat. So the group continues. All while someone else comes.

             “Blaze? Why are you here?”

             “The Sol emeralds felt a disturbance, I’m inclined to trust them. Has anything been off lately?” Blaze asks Amy

             “Sonic’s missing, more than usual. Him, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow and Rouge have all gone on a adventure of sorts, mainly to recuse this princess” Amy sighs

            “I think if we find them, then maybe I’ll get answers, let’s go.”

            “Right behind you!”

            This ended up being the first time the two got to meet Silver. They ended up bumping into him first, he told them all the details and decided to tag along with them to find the others. 

            “So you can control things with your mind?”

            “Yeah, um, look at this!” Silver focuses his mind on a rock and puts it up and tosses it around him

            “Wow, that’s so cool! How did you do that?” Amy asks him

            “I don’t know…”

            “Did you get it from one of your parents?”

            “I assume so, but I don’t know who they are… if I even have any.”

            “I’ll bet you find them, Blaze?” Amy says and turns to Blaze who is lost in thought

            “Huh? Yeah, what’s up?”

            “You have super cool powers too don’t you?”

            “…Yeah, but I don’t like to show them much.” Blaze states

           “Oh, well, I mean, fire is dangerous… especially in the woods. Plus whenever we get to see Eggman again, I bet we’ll get to see them in full force!” Amy cheers and Blaze blushes.

          “Wow the fire must be getting to you, Because you look really red” Silver points out and Blaze gives him a death glare

          All while Team Sonic and Shadow (unofficial name) attempts to save then lose then save again then lose again then save then lose then save then lose then save then lose Elise again and again. In a battle to get her from Eggman. Always seeming to lose her one way or another. So to break this cycle, Mephiles straight up kills Sonic. Breaking the heart of Elise in a totally platonic way which releases Iblis. Sonic is revived in a totally platonic way, so Shadow and Silver defeat Mephiles and Iblis’ fusion and Sonic and Elise travel back in time to kill Iblis once and for all. Killing the Monster and stopping all of this from happening. 

          Well most of it. In this new timeline, Eggman still captured Elise but now for the reason of her being royalty and therefore having power. Sonic and Eggman would end up doing the same cat and mouse game again and even Silver ended up being there to help save Elise. So some things still ended up happening but in a lot less time traveling way and without Mephiles and Iblis. Leading to Silver going back to the future and this whole ordeal being only another adventure in Sonic’s catalog. As nothing happened out of the ordinary, besides Eggman kidnapping royalty. 

          “I’m gonna be honest, I had no idea why I actually did it. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now? That was pretty stupid, even I admit it. Well maybe not stupid, just a bad idea.” Eggman would later admit. Which was, uncharacteristic for him to say the least.

          “Sonic!”

          “Oh hey you guys” Sonic says as Amy hugs him and Blaze stands in the background.

          “Back so soon Blaze?”

          “I got a signal for the Emeralds, I don’t know why, but maybe something is afoot.”

          “…Maybe you should stick around for a bit?” Sonic questions 

          “Maybe I should.” Blaze says, looking at Amy with a certain fondness.

          Blaze stays in Sonic’s dimension for a bit, living with Amy who was generous enough to give her a room. But after a while, Blaze left. Making sure to say goodbye to Cream and Amy before she left again. As much as she would’ve liked to stay, she still had duties to attend to. Even if something kept her not wanting to do it.

          “…Well, obviously you’re different from me, I wouldn’t do that type of work unless someone forced my hand” Sonic would joke when Blaze said her goodbyes to him.

         “Yeah…”

         “I mean you do like the work right?”

         “Someone has to do it.”

         “…I mean eventually you’ll find someone, I’ll bet on it” Sonic says with a smirk

         “Hopefully, maybe, but for right now… I’ll have to go to maybe find them.”

         “Fair enough, see you Blaze!” Sonic would wave as Blaze went to say goodbye to Cream and Amy.

         Her goodbyes with Cream and Amy while more emotional didn’t stay as much as Sonic’s did, find someone else? Maybe that could work out, she didn’t want to be too far from Sonic’s dimension… and she was only beginning to figure out why. Too bad it would take her more paperwork and time to figure out what she actually wanted to do.

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             Hoverboards or extreme gear as they had been called in Sonic’s world had always been some sort of fad or sport or whatever. Sonic wasn’t much into them, preferring to run. But eventually he would have to become the fastest as something else, racing in extreme gear. Due to the Babylon Rogues, a famous team who were all thieves, going with Eggman for unknown reasons. So Sonic, along with Knuckles and Tails (and also Amy kinda) went to beat them, despite not knowing anything about extreme gear or how they could actually use it.

             Thankfully with some practice and luck. The three (maybe four) defeated them. Only for Eggman to backstab the Rogues, which shouldn’t have been such a surprise and try to take their ancestors' treasure. Robotnick didn’t succeed and the treasure ended up being a flying carpet which Team Sonic allowed The Rogues to keep. All while their leader, Jet, said that Sonic should race him again. Sonic agreed, not knowing how that would set the precedent for their relationship. For better or for worse.

            “We should Race again!” Jet would say, probably a lot more excited then he should’ve been for the potential race.

            “Sure, why not, I always like a challenge” Sonic would say back and Jet would agree excitedly before the two would part ways.

            The two teams would part ways for a while. Not really needing to do anything with each other. Until they get another reason too, then another. Which establishes the two groups as connected. Whenever there seems to be something wrong with the extreme gear world, Sonic and friends are there to… be there. Also Sonic always makes time to race Jet.

            “Hey Shadow!”

            “What is it faker? Another race?”

            “Yes but not with you! With Jet!” Sonic says and before Shadow can question him, the blue hedgehog runs away.

            Shadow has never felt so ignored in his life yet refuses to acknowledge it, and decided to keep on doing what he was doing beforehand, sulking on a cliff. 

            He doesn’t end up having to sulk for long after Sonic. As the two along with some others get transported to another world. With a lot more humans than they are used too. It all occurred because Cream got captured and one of Eggman’s robots accidentally hit the chaos emeralds causing chaos control. Transporting them to another world and their worst place yet… California.

           Sonic, after not being able to find his friends, goes around and eventually to the fortunately named town of green hills. Sonic ends up finding an abandoned shack and lives there until he is caught by Tom. Who ends up taking him in, defending him from Eggman and his new partner agent Stone. Tom and Sonic end up running away from Eggman who catches up and finds them. With Tom and also his partner Maddie, the three defeat Eggman and leave him in the dust. Tom and Maddie decide to let Sonic live with them until he can find some of his friends.

            All while this is happening. Despite Sonic’s beliefs all of his friends are in California and have been taken in by one lonely Chris Thorndyke. Everyone besides Rouge ends up being there (she ended up taking a place with topaz). As for who is actually there it’s Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Cream and Shadow, who decided to stay not knowing where to find Eggman to defeat him and get all of them back home, and also he doesn’t know where Sonic is and doesn’t want to leave without him, even if he would never admit that.

            Tails and Knuckles leave to find Sonic, Tails finds him first and then Knuckles comes around. Thinking it was terrible living at Chris’ even if he was rich. The other two stay with the excuse of staying with Sonic. Shadow ends up going there too and staying there as well with the excuse that Chris was annoying. Which was true but also kinda not.

            “So I’m less annoying than him? I’ll like to meet the guy” Sonic jokes

            “Shut up Sonic.” Shadow would shot back

            Eventually they found out the only way they could get home was through space. As because of some people (Eggman) the chaos Emeralds got into space and ended up flying around. Robotnick attempted to claim them first but was not outdone by Sonic and the rest with the help of Chris, ended up being able to make and use a spaceship. But also with the help of a plant girl: Cosmo, who needed help to get home. Tails and Cosmo would end up sharing a special relationship.

            By that I mean that they were together, romantically. Cosmo however would end up dying. To sacrifice herself for the team. Which would make Tails fall into a depressive state and take the remaining parts of her (her seed) impulsively and taking them back when they got the chaos Emeralds back and transported them back to their world. Tails felt horrible and kept trying to bring Cosmo back. Until the Plant once again died in Winter. Which would send Tails in a proceed to trying to cope, healthily this time. But that happened afterwards. At the time, after Tails grabbed the seeds, the Chaos Emeralds would do their job. Transporting Sonic and his friends and Robotnick and Stone the way back to their home: Mobius. Sonic would say goodbye to Tom and Maddie and then everyone would all go home. Without any issues besides Eggman to worry about now, back home, at last.

            But Sonic would always remember Tom and Maddie and how they gave him a home and how they saved him from Eggman. Even if he probably could’ve handled it himself (he couldn’t) but it was still nice of them and he will never forget them and he wishes that he could see them again. But as Sonic went back to his world all he could think was that it was good to be home. Even if he was constantly chased or having to defeat Eggman or trying his absolute best to not to crack underneath all the pressure. He would go to sleep as soon as he could and stay there for as long as he needed to. 

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             Sonic had no idea where Sticks came from, all she would tell him and anyone else is that she came from a weird dimension where her, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy were all heroes on a small island protecting it from Eggman and his cartoonishly evil plans. Which is why it was so weird. It was cartoonish. Even Sticks realized it, and that (allegedly) broke out. When Sonic asked her if she missed them she would shrug then go back to babbling about a conspiracy theory or back to whatever she was doing. She would mellow out the more she was in Sonic’s dimension. Which she would credit to the lack of the audience, or at least that’s what she called them. Sonic ignored that and decided to leave it be.

             Sonic would end up having a weird time. Not only with the dimension hopping badger but also with his adventures. Some were weird. Sure there was meeting his past self, twice. But also how short that second adventure with his past self felt. He wasn’t used to feeling consistently horrible about his adventures. But besides the world falling all under Robotnick’s thumb for a bit then immediately going back to normal, felt off. Not helping was that time he defeated the deadly six and he felt like a rip-off of Mario, for some reason. Also randomly participants in the Olympics with the guy that he barely knew. Which kinda broke reality for a bit before everyone forgot until the next time that it happened. But besides all the weird stuff, Sonic didn’t do much besides the usual of stopping Eggman (and Stone now). But that was it, nothing much changed.

             For other people it did however. Blaze and Amy got closer. With Blaze taking more and more vacations to see her. All while Silver came a lot more too. For one time because Eggman Nega turned everyone into cards for some reason. Which made no sense, and also another time when Nega stole Chao. Like Eggman, Nega’s plans failed and only made the heroes closer together. As for Silver, he made a new friend in Espio and Tails hates him now for stealing the rings he had for Knuckles and Rouge. Silver of course, left without apologizing to Tails.

             Then came along Emerl. Who despite all odds, made an impact on all of them, besides Sonic. Who while he did get emotional, not as emotional as anyone else. Most importantly Shadow, who for whatever reason, the robot manage to crack the Black Hedgehog’s rough exterior even if only a bit. When Emerl died he left with a message that he told Sonic to tell the others. Which Sonic did, leaving all of them either depressed, sad, or in the rare case of Cream: Happy. But other than that, all that did was make everyone reevaluate their life. For some reason Tails the most. You would think it was Shadow but all he did was go back to where he lived and sulked like he usually did. Tails, with all the loss, didn’t feel well. Sonic ended up being really worried for his little “brother” but eventually, at least on the outsized Tails did better but wouldn’t talk about what happened there in his room. Keeping quiet about the whole ordeal. 

             After all of that Amy established the Restoration which hired many to stop Eggman in the future and anyone else that might cause any trouble. Even if it was mainly for Eggman. She would first hire her friends (minus everyone working for G.U.N. Even if there were talks to merge the two, but that would probably come for later) and while most of them accepted. The one who didn’t was of course, Sonic. Who helped but wasn’t tied by the Restoration. Even if he did become the face of it due to his close association. Sonic didn’t want to stop running. Ever. Which might have been a problem for his employment. Even if he would probably be a good fit. 

             All while Knuckles took up an administrative position and Tails took up a tech position. Everyone got involved one way or another. Amy would hire others, mainly a sheep named Lanolin who would eventually prove indispensable to the restoration, even if she was over qualified for the job especially to serve under a thirteen year old at the time, Amy. Sonic at the time was Seventeen, Knuckles was no teen and Tails was Ten. The four would continue to grow older as time went on. At the end of this time of their lives they would be the ages of:

             Sonic- 18
             Tails- 10
             Knuckles- 20
             Amy- 14
             Blaze- 15
             Silver- 16
             Espio- 19
             Mighty- 16
             Ray- 15
             Charmy- 7
             Vector- 21
             Vanilla- 26
             Cream- 8
             Marine- 8
             Lanolin- 17
             Sticks- 13

             Eggman- 52
             Stone- 49
             

              Sonic celebrated becoming an adult by the day with a celebration with his friends and at night, with staring off into the moonlight on a hill. He thought about how much had happened when he left his position. He didn’t catch up with royal politics, so he didn’t know how his family was doing. But he had a new family now, one that let him be who he wanted and was capable of being. A hero, an adventurer, and the only person consistently capable of stopping Eggman, at least for now. He hadn’t lost yet… besides that one time he was imprisoned for six months. But eventually he got out. Maybe he wasn’t so powerful as he thought.

              But Sonic was too excited about being an adult. Being free for the first time from being a child. Wait… does this mean he has to pay taxes now? Should he have been taxed all this time? He should probably ask Tails about all this. If he was supposed to be taxed wouldn’t he have been arrested yet? Oh the questions of being an adult. Did he even have an I.D.? He should probably ask Tails about that… he’ll do it tomorrow, no worries, he’ll figure it out.

               He always does.

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             Sonic met a couple of new people, most notably: Tangle The Lemur and Whisper The Wolf. Who themselves would form a bond with each other. Sonic always suspected something more was between them but he left that be. He had to deal with a new enemy: Dr. Starline. A fan turned apprentice of Eggman. Who helped with his new deeds. Of course, this didn’t come without controversy from Stone. Who while he didn’t like Starline, largely kept his mouth shut on the subject. Sonic would defeat them through a horrible Metal Virus and other deeds they both did. Along with their own plans. Mimic, a transforming Octopus, would occupy their lives. Sonic didn’t know him too we’ll but he was all too familiar to at first, Whisper but Tangle had a lot of problems with him as well. The two would eventually defeat him, twice.

              Once on their own adventure. The second with the rest of the newly formed diamond cutters. Which consisted of Tangle, Whisper, Landolin, Mimic’s Cat persona and honorary member, Sonic. He stopped being part of the group after a bit, not seeing the purpose. They would eventually change their name but after that, Sonic would hear that they went off on their own adventures. Well Tangle and Whisper would while occasionally Lanolin would tag along, she would largely stay at the restoration. Under, the new Head, Jewel. Who was a childhood friend of Tangle’s. Sonic missed Tangle and Whisper and when they hung around him. But he didn’t let that bug him too much. People go off in their own directions even if he knows that way too well.

             Dr. Starline was dead on arrival. Being buried by his own creations and their destruction: Surge and Kit. Who themselves ended up being a problem. Wanting to kill Sonic for all that he was. What he represented to them. He ended up dodging their attacks as they dodged capture. But after long enough and some convincing by Amy on Surge’s part (for some reason the tenrec liked her and trusted her even) they were subdued. Only for them to disappear again, for no particular reason. One day they were here, one day they weren’t and that was it. Nobody could find them or lure them out. Only wait for them to come back, which they never did. So they waited, then they stopped waiting.

           Sonic wanted to help, he really did. But in the end, he couldn’t. The one time he could’ve corrected his mistakes, he didn’t. He couldn’t, he felt horrible that he couldn’t save them. Even if they wanted to kill him. Even if they wanted him dead and buried. Gone and destroyed. Forever. He couldn’t help that, he felt bad. They would probably hate him for that. Feeling bad, giving his sympathy. They would kill him over that. Sonic knew they didn’t want sympathy. They wanted vengeance. Against Starline for messing with them and then Him and Eggman, for being the cycle that creates them. Sonic didn’t want it that way. He only wanted to help. He only wanted to be free. Yet that cost two others livelihoods for his own. They couldn’t be free unless he wasn’t. He hated being compared to Eggman, after all he did. But yet, here he was, with that happening. He was like Eggman no matter what. Compared to him no matter what.

            That was it, Eggman kept on attacking and nobody else showed minus a few exceptions. But that was it. For no reason and the Eggpire stopped growing. It was a nice break, which ended up only making the entire world more boring for Sonic. He wanted everything to stop, like when Eggman turned into Mr. Tinker and made Belle. That was nice, that was cool. Only for it to be ruined because of course it was. Then Sonic was blamed for it, maybe he should be, but after everything, he doesn’t care. Now it’s him (and his friends) and Eggman. Until he disappeared again. Sonic at first thought it was a new plan. While he would end up being right, it didn’t seem like that in the first place, with no movement from Eggman in a while after he first disappeared. Then with no buildup, Sonic, Tails and Amy left, not knowing half of what was waiting for them.

          Leaving from a single, Eggman was active. The trio left. In haste but not too much, making sure everything was secure before they left. It was a skeleton team. But they would call for reinforcements if they needed them. That’s what they told themselves. It might’ve been a mistake to not tell anyone that they were going to be gone. That they were leaving. For as far as they knew, they were gone. With no reason and while they knew they left, they wouldn’t know where. So the trio left, in the dead of night. Nothing was open and all you could hear was the faint murmur of the engine of an airplane before it took off. With two hedgehogs and a fox on it. Into the night, with no sounds to take their place.

           Knuckles had gotten up late at night. It was a last minute decision. Exploration wasn’t always his forte, but tonight he awoke. Following up to the ruins above Angel Island. Floating Islands on top of a floating island. He didn’t even know why. But he did it anyway. Up he went only to find nothing. One moment he was awake and climbing up the next he was nowhere. Knuckles had no idea what he did or how he did it. One moment he was conscious and moving, the next he wasn’t. Frozen in place, waiting for something to happen. He couldn’t even think. Only a faint dull was present. Knuckles couldn’t escape and he had no idea what was going on. So there he waited, and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited.

          The ancients were a race of super powerful beings whose eradication remains a mystery to this day. While they were plagued by many systems that we were plagued with. Their actual downfall is unknown as their records all cut off on the same day no matter where they were present at the time. This still remains a great mystery today. With no answers found.

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             Sonic somehow managed to escape. Besides Big, who was also here. Too wise for all of this, Sonic though. But specific people’s presence didn’t matter now. He was alone besides some others and now he had to save everyone. His friends, all while being told to leave by some white and red girl. He can’t leave now, the fun has only begun. So off he goes, collecting the chaos emeralds extremely quickly and rings. Which are now used to power the emeralds. Which while weird doesn’t really do anything except make Sonic a bit vulnerable. The Girl had made many things come after him. He doesn’t know who she is or what happened. But he thinks that this somehow relates to Eggman. He’s right, but not by much. Eggman has been a victim to Cyber Space. Which Sonic had escaped from.

             “He was trapped.”

             “Yeah, no crap” 

              He could’ve afforded to be a bit nicer. But he was too angry at everything to care. His friends were trapped and all he could do was run. Like he always did.

              “Tails, are you alright?”

              “Not really, I’m surprised I’m even out here.” Tails says.

              “Tails, you might want to look at how much you're here” Tails raises an eyebrow before seeing the fact that the glitch effect is still present.

              “Oh, great.”

               Saving his friends should’ve been easy. Yet it kept getting harder and harder. The red glitchy texture on him didn’t help. Yet for whatever reason he kept going.

               “Hey, Knux”

               “What’s the matter?”

               “Besides all this? Nothing much really”

               “Hey… I’m not usually the one to say this but… I hope that we can make it out of this one. I mean I know we can, it’s just… I don’t know, don’t give up… or something like that”

               “… Thanks Knuckles”

               “Amy?”

               “Oh hey, Sonic! Working hard?”

               “Sure… You alright?”

               “Never better! You?”

               “Sure, I’ll be fine”

                Sonic would continue on to truly free his friends. This place was volatile even without Sage’s (which he learned was the A.I.‘s name) controls over everything and all that did was make it worse for him. Especially with every single step he got closer, he got worse.

                “Whatever this is, it isn’t going to get better. Sonic? Sonic are you listening to me?”

                “Sorry, I was too deep in thought”

                “Are you sure you'll be okay?”

                “Like I told you before Amy, I’ll be fine”

                “I’ve never seen anything like this, it could be a problem.”

                “Well that’s obvious Tails, but I need to know if I can get rid of it”

                “Maybe if you would go off of the island or took a break for a bit…”

                “C’mon Tails, you know I can’t do that”

                “Sonic…”

                “I promise, I’ll be careful, see you!”

                “You look as red as I do”

                “Very funny Knuckles”

                “I’m serious dude, it’s gotten to be… a lot, you okay?”

                “Physically? Yes, Emotionally? No”

                “Well then, just… how do I say this without being cheesy?”

                 “Going soft on me Knuckles?”

                 “What? No!”

                 Everything became a problem. But eventually Sonic destroys the Titans and disables some towers. But then, the corruption destroys him. In sacrifice of his friends. But of course, not wanting to let him die, the three sacrifice themselves so he can finish what he started. Which he ends up doing with the help of Eggman (who is basically forced too) and Sage who help him get the chaos Emeralds and defeat an Entity. With Sage’s help, Sonic defeats it with ease. Freeing all his friends in the process. But Sage is gone.

                “Sorry about that, Egg-head”

                “Even when I’m at my lowest, you make it worse for me.”

                “What, it’s not like you have a name or anything” Sonic jokes

                “I do actually, Ivo.”

                “Well then, see ya later… I-vo” Sonic then speeds off to his friends while Ivo sits there, to attempt to restore Sage. 

                “You really didn’t tell me, but you told them?” Amy immediately complained

                “Look, I’m sorry, it kinda… came out around them. I didn’t want you to worry even more than you probably were about me”

                “Well excuse me for trying to help… whatever, I’m leaving, let’s go” Amy storms off in a huff while the three look back at her.

                “Sonic?”

                “It’s not like I tried to make her mad Tails”

                The four go back. First dropping off Knuckles on Angel Island. Then the three arrive back at Tails’ workshop. Amy huffs away and Tails stands there while Sonic unpacks. Seemingly not aware of what he created. 

                 “Maybe you should apologize to her.”

                 “Maybe”

                 Tails went to unpack with Sonic. Not wanting to start a conflict that maybe couldn’t have been fixed. The two unpack for the rest of the day and then Tails fixes the tornado. Once again, while Sonic sleeps besides the fox.

                  “Where have you been?” Stone asked Robotnick as soon as he got home.

                  “I’m sorry, I got caught up in a lot of stuff.” Robotnick replied.

                  “Well lucky you, Sonic and his Team were on break as well, so you didn’t lose or gain anything.”

                  “Yeah, yeah. I got caught up in some stuff because of them. That hedgehog can’t do anything good!”

                  “Well then, Welcome back. No matter what happened.”

                  “Yeah, yeah, I should’ve trusted your judgment. This might have been… a bad idea.”

                  “Well, don’t beat yourself up over it, I’ll make sure that everything is okay when you're gone, are you alright?” Stone noticed Eggman crying.

                  “Stone, if you ever create something sentient, do not get attached.”

                  “What happened?”

                  “I’ll be busy for a while and when I get out, I do not want a word of me getting attached to something again.”

                  “Do you want me to bring you food?”

                  “Of course I do! Now, I love you, and I’ll be in my workshop.”

                  “Love you too!” Stone cheers.

                  Robotnick slams the door to his workshop while Stone stands outside. Then he leaves to let the Doctor do his work. Stone knows best not to interfere unless requested. That’s a lesson that the stupid platypus never learned. Stone smiles and laughs at that. Before going back to his own work. 

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             “I mean she’s gone and she has been, for a while now, she left as soon as she told me, which was right after we got back”

             “And you didn’t think to tell anyone?”

             Sonic was worried. More than usual. He hadn’t seen Amy for an entire week and he was worried. For once in his life he thought that he messed up. Only to learn she had left for little planet for the sake of sharing her love. Truth be told Sonic wasn’t really listening when she said that to him. Which only made him worry more. Was he really that bad? Should’ve he made his feelings more clear to her?

             “If you're that worried, call her or get Tails to” Knuckles suggests, Sonic looks at him like he’s crazy

             “This can't be explained all over a phone call! I have to talk with her in person! I’ve really messed up here and it’s all my fault!”

             “You saved her from heartbreak, I mean, that’s something. All you need to do is calm down, That’s it”

             “Knuckles, I messed up big time. I hurt one of my closest friends”

             “Relax, I highly doubt she’s that upset”

             “Are you sure? Maybe I should find someone who knows her better” Knuckles raises an eyebrow as Amy’s basically brother but before he can say anything, Sonic leaves

             Sonic purposely runs into Lanolin. Who is the middle of doing her work, which in this case is stacking boxes.

              “Lanolin!”

              “Wh-H-Oh Hey.”

              “Yeah. Hey. Did Amy mention anything about leaving to you?”

               “A couple of days ago, but not much, why? Is she okay?”

               “Maybe? I’m probably the reason she left”

               “What did you do?”

               “Look, I can’t with this right now, I need to make sure she’s alright and won’t do anything dirastic because of me”

               “Can’t you text her?”

               “Yeah right, whatever, I’ll go make sure she’s okay, thanks, Lanolin!” With that Sonic runs off before Lanolin can get another word in. To the sheep’s annoyment.

               “Sonic, I think you’re overreacting.”

               “Nobody straight up leaves like that!”

               “Shadow.”

               “He’s the exception, plus when has Amy ever acted like Shadow?”

               “Sonic, she can leave. We can all leave. It’s okay.”

               “No it’s not!”

               “Sonic, I can’t help but feel like something else is at foot here.”

               “…There’s nothing wrong Tails, I want to make sure I didn’t absolutely destroy one of my closest friendships”

               “Is that all you feel towards her, is she only a friendship to you?”

               “She’s one of my closest friends Tails”

               “For Adventures and Battle outside of that you avoid her like the plague.”

               “We just have different hobbies”

               “More like you never got over when she was obsessed over you.” Sonic stops packing and turns to Tails 

               “We are friends now, the past is in the past, I got over it”

                “You didn’t and neither did she, Sonic, tell me what’s really the problem. You have no reason to go after Amy. You haven’t been close in forever and now you go after her after this one time you feel as if you made a mistake? What about every other time? She’s been chasing after you for forever even before me and you met. Don’t you think that this might be a problem with you not being able to let go?”

                 “The last time I let go, I LOST MY UNCLE, I LOST WHAT I HAD LEFT OF A FAMILY AND I AM NOT GOING TO KET THAT GO WHEN I FINALLY GOT IT AGAIN!” Sonic screams, Tails flinches and backs away.

                 “Sorry”

                 “Sonic.”

                 “Yeah I know, I need therapy”

                 “No, you need to let go.”

                 “Amy?”

                 “Sonic?”

                 “Yeah, sorry, I thought I would give you a call, to make sure everything is okay”

                 “Everything’s fine Sonic, if that’s all-“

                 “Between us”

                 “…Sonic, I mean…”

                 “I’m sorry, I didn’t know what I was doing” Sonic says, Amy stays silent for a bit as does Sonic

                 “… Sonic, it’s fine, I was-“

                “Well obviously I did something, you left without saying goodbye”

                “Last minute, so I mean-“

                “You said goodbye to everyone except for me, everyone got something, besides me”

                “I though you were too busy”

                “Not for a quick goodbye!”

                “Yeah right”

                “What?”

                “Sonic, you’re always too busy for me, I get it, but I wish you wouldn’t pretend”

                “Amy, your one of my closest friends, of course I have time for you”

                “Obviously not and if so, you haven’t proved it, all you do is run. Never waiting for anyone to catch up… besides others, but never for me”

                “I’m sorry, it was just-“

                “You can’t use that excuse with me, I stopped being like that a long time ago, if you were so scared of that part of me, you should’ve told me, I’m so tired of this”

                 “I wasn’t scared of that”

                “You’re a horrible liar you know that, but I’m also a good pretender, but after a while, that stopped working and now, it’s completely gone… I hope you can find someone you love back, goodbye” Amy hung up the phone

               Of course Sonic didn’t love her back, what did she expect? Sonic hated how it made him feel bad, what did she expect? It’s not like he kept stringing her along, right?

               “At least you realize it.”

               “Tails, I didn’t even know I was doing it until know, please tell me how I did it and why I did it” Sonic pleads with Tails

               “Maybe you were right, you need a therapist.” Tails says back.

               Sonic spent days after that running. Only coming home every night to a Tails deep in the workshop and to hop in bed. Sonic would wake up, Tails still in the workshop. Sonic would run again. No determined destination. Only running. Fast as he could. That’s what made him who he was, that’s all he could do. Maybe he would break the sound barrier again and cause another power outage. Maybe that would get something to happen. Who was he if he wasn’t the person who saved everyone?

               “I think she had something going on with that idea, something good.” Knuckles says to a visiting Sonic

               “What, specifically?”

               “Traveling”

               “Don’t you have the Master Emerald to look over?”

               “I could get someone else to do it”

               “… I mean if that’s what you want… even I could look over it”

               “Like I would ever do that!” Knuckles pushes Sonic who laughs

                “If that’s what you want Tails”

                “I’ll find the Emeralds and then we’ll be powered up!”

               “Alright, maybe I can finally do the weirdest glowy yellow thing, like Shadow did that one time!”

               “Maybe…”

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             “Tangle, are you listening?”

             “Yeah, sure, absolutely”

             “Tangle, please take this more seriously.”

             “Jewel, we always work on paperwork, you can’t blame me for being bored as ever, It’s not my fault I can’t focus”

              “Tangle all you need to do is hand me the paperwork when I need it, speaking of which, please do so.”

              “Alright, here you go” Tangle hands Jewel another stock and takes her previous stock and runs it over to a empty space in Jewel’s office, before slumping down. While Jewel files more paperwork.

              For whatever reason, Tangle’s mind goes to Whisper. Her best friend and her crush. All she has now while thinking of her is a dumbstruck look of love on her face. Which as soon as Jewel is done with another load of paperwork she notices the look instantly. Jewel sighs and gets prepared to scream so that she can get Tangle’s attention, only for someone to come in.

              “Whisper?” Jewel questions

              “Whisper?” Tangle echos in a much more excited tone than Jewel’s, she turns around and is face to face with the Wolf.

               *Hey.* The wolf greets, Tangle smiles and bounces up and down on her tail in restraint to hugging Whisper 

               “What brings you here?” Jewel asks

               “Who cares? Whisper! How are you doing?” Tangle asks excited and ends up annoying Jewel in the process

               *Fine, how about you?*

               “Fantastic now that you're here!”

               “Tangle, Paperwork. Then you can talk with Whisper.” Jewel reminds Tangle

               “Oh yeah!” Tangle scoops up some papers with her tail and flings them at Jewel then picks the signed papers and puts them on the ground. Under the flying papers is a unamused Jewel.

               “Tangle, how about you go with Whisper?”

               “Really don’t you need help?”

               “I insist.”

               “Welp, you hear her Whisp! Let’s go!” Tangle runs out of Jewels’ office while Whisper waves back to her before Jewel sees a love struck look on the Wolf’s face. All the beetle can care about is actually getting the paperwork done now that Tangle’s gone.

               “Good for them, they like each other.”

              “Did Amy tell you where she was going? All Lanolin told me is that she was leaving for a bit” Tangle says while licking the ice cream that she got for her and Whisper.

              *No, Lanolin told me the same thing*

              “Huh, weird, so no offense, why the visit?”

              *I… Missed You.”

              “Aw, Wispy! You’re too nice!”

              *Thanks.*

              The two continue to chat over Ice Cream for a while.

               “So did you want to do anything today?”

              *Not much, didn’t you want to show me something anyways?*

              “…Oh, right! I found a new place wh-“

              “Um, excuse me miss?” A little white squirrel came up to the two.

              “Hi! Did you need something?”

              “Yeah… I can’t find my Mom, are you two heroes? I think I’ve seen you before.” The squirrel says to the two.

              “Yes we are, and we will find your Mom! Where’s the last place you saw her?”

              “In the shopping Plaza, then I lost her.”

              “Alright, let’s see if we can’t find her, come on Whisper, let’s go!” Tangle goes with the child while Whisper quietly follows behind.

             “So which store?”

             “Hmmmm, that one!”

             “Alright, let’s go!” Tangle and the child walk into the store.

             “Oh hi, Ms. Tangle! What can I do for you today?” A store clerk asks her.

             “This child said she lost her Mother in here” Tangle then proceeds to lift the child up into view with her tail.

             “Alright, I’ll make an announcement.”

             As the stock clerk makes the announcement, Tangle and the girl sit in some chairs next to the clerk table, Whisper sits besides them. They wait for a while before the Stork Clerk does it again, then again, then again. After a while the three wait.

             “Ms. Tangle?” The little girl asks.

             “Yeah?”

             “Is my Mom coming back?”

             “Don’t worry, I’ll bet she’ll be back soon”

             “Okay…”

             So they waited for a while longer. Nothing came of it. So for a little longer. After a while they decide that the girl’s mother isn’t coming so they decide to look elsewhere. First going out of the store and checking the Plaza. Nobody’s there and so they look in the stores, ask around, yet nobody has seen the girl’s mother.

             “What if she doesn’t come back for me?”

             “I’m sure she will! Don’t worry!”

             So Tangle, Whisper and the little girl keep going around asking anyone if they’ve seen her mother. Nobody has, so at the end of the day. They wonder what they can do with her. She grabs onto Tangle, not wanting to let her go. So the three check one more time. Waiting in the plaza until it closes down.

             “Mom!” Suddenly the girl calls out, Tangle turns to see an older squirrel, with her arms wide open and the younger squirrel goes into her arms. The two embrace before looking at Tangle and Whisper.

             The squirrel starts to sign. Tangle has no idea what she's saying, thankfully Whisper knows what she's trying to communicate. So when the squirrel finishes signing, Whisper knows what to say to her.

              *You’re Welcome.* Tangle turns to her in surprise, looking at her to please give her the translation.

              *She said ‘Thank You’* 

              “Oh! You’re Welcome!” Whisper smiles at the Lemur’s positivity.

              The older squirrel signs to the younger one. She nods in agreement.

              “Thank you Ms. Tangle!”

              “You’re Welcome.”

              “Thank you too Ms. Wolf!”

              Whisper Smiles and signs back a ‘You’re Welcome’ which the older squirrel smiles at before her and the younger squirrel leave. Whisper and Tangle stand in the center of the plaza before Tangle turns to Whisper.

              “You know sign language?”

              Whisper explains how she knows sign language. Her tendency to sometimes shut down gave her a reason too. Tangle listens to her the entire time. Tangle even asks her if she can learn it from her. Whisper agrees if they can find the time if Eggman doesn’t attack again. The two also decide to get food after the long day.

             “Man, That was crazy right? We walked around so much and that ended up being more draining than fighting baniks! It’s weird how it works like that! I could go for days beating baniks but an hour more of that and I would’ve had all my energy taken out of me! That was so weird! Why do our bodies work like that? Has someone done a study on that-“ Tangle continues on Rambling while Whisper smiles and looks at her while she eats her food.

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             “Whisper, are you listening?”

             *Yeah.*

             “Alright, good, so I was thinking about something…”

             Tangle had met Whisper in a new, exciting part of her life. A time that Whisper only made better, and more complicated. From being friends to teammates to in a group together. They had their ups and downs, but that didn’t matter. What did matter is that Tangle always had a crush on Whisper. Don’t get her wrong, she loved being friends with Whisper. But even before they were friends, she found the wolf mysterious and cute. She was attractive, and Tangle knew she had it bad for her, so bad. But all that realization did was make it worse. But she loved Whisper and she knew that she had to tell her eventually.

               “Whisper” Tangle suddenly got serious, Whisper noticed this and immediately paid more attention. Tangle sighed to herself and gained some courage before continuing. 

               “I love being your friend. You’ve made me better and I’ve been nothing but in debt to how nicely you treated me and even if I haven’t been the best friend, I hope that you can still call me your best friend… what I’m trying to say is, that for the longest time, I have been… for so long, that I want to tell you… I am… in love with you”

               Tangle turns to Whisper, who looks at her wide eyed. Surprised, Tangle sees she’s silent, Tangle chokes on a tear before she does something that she knows she’ll probably regret but she doesn’t care.

               She runs.

               For the first time in her life. Tangle runs away. She probably ruined her friendship and she probably made everything worse with Whisper. So she runs. As fast as she can, until Whisper can’t find her. She knows she messed up and she knows that she shouldn’t have run away. But she couldn’t take Whisper’s rejection. She loved her too much, she couldn’t bear for Whisper to hate her and not to love her. Why would she even like her anyways? She was clumsy, stupid, thoughtless, impulsive and annoying. So all Tangle did was cry, as much as she could.

              Whisper found a friend in Tangle. At first, it was barely anything. Then it grew, stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger. Whisper eventually couldn’t do it anymore, so she left. She got too close. Only for Tangle to find her again. Tangle wouldn’t let go, that only made Whisper fall in love with her more. She was perfect, to Whisper and probably only Whisper. She made mistakes, but who didn’t? All Tangle was capable of was being a big goofball. A silly, cute, goofball. Whisper loved her.

               Only to see her love run away. Whisper was in shock. She wasn’t expecting Tangle to confess, let alone that specific night. All Whisper could do was stand still then Tangle ran. Whisper was still paralyzed until she finally gave chase. Running after Tangle as fast as possible. Only to lose her, again. But Whisper kept looking, all the way until she would give out. She found Tangle, in a clearing, not too soon after. Tangle was looking over a cliff. Misreading the situation, Whisper jumped and grabbed her.

               “NO! YOU ARE NOT DOING THAT!”

               “WHISPER?”

               “YOU ARE NOT DOING THIS!”

               “Doing what?”

               *I love you too, please don’t do that, I can’t live without you.* Whisper cries while Tangle’s teary eyes soak down until she hugs Whisper back. Tangle understands now.

               “I wasn’t going to do that, but thanks”

               Whisper pauses and looks up. Then for the first time in forever, laughs. Well she snickers but still. Tangle smiles and laughs a bit too. Then after all the time. Tangle puts her hand under Whisper’s face, and goes in. Whisper goes in as well. Then the two meet… and kiss. Then after a few seconds they seperate.

               “Wowzers” Tangle says after the kiss. Whisper is taken aback. Only to recognize what Tangle said and snicker again. 

               “That wasn’t that funny”

               *It was cute.*

               “…You think I’m cute?”

               After a while of recovering the two return to the restaurant and return to their meal. It’s shut down for the night at that point. But it’s all okay. The night sky illuminates the two. 

               “Sorry, that I ran away”

               *It’s okay. As long as you are.*

               “Thanks, and I’m probably not”

               *What’s wrong?*

               “I’m not good enough for you…” Tangle turns away and looks down. Whisper then moves over and takes her head up. 

               *Don’t ever say that about yourself. You’re terrific, okay?*

               “Really?”

               *Yes.”

               “…Thanks, Whisper”

               *You’re Welcome.*

               Tangle and Whisper already had a home together. Only seperate rooms. Whisper was excited to combine rooms. Tangle thought her’s was too messy and to be fair, it was. But Whisper managed to clean it up and then took Tangle’s belongings into her room and made Tangle's room the guest room. The two immediately agreed to share a bed. Even before they told anyone.

               “Yeah I was waiting for it to happen.”

               “Well that’s… Cool?”

               *Thanks for the support Jewel.*

               “You’re Welcome, now, Tangle please hand me that paper, gently this time.”

               Then they went on dates. Told Lanolin (who already thought they were dating). Then told everyone else they could (Tangle did with Whisper’s permission) Tangle was too excited to keep it to herself.

               “Hello?”

               “Who is this?”

               “Tangle. Who are you?”

               “You called m- Shadow.”

               “Oh hello there Shadow! How are you this fine morning?”

               “What do you want?”

               “Well, maybe you will be excited to know that me and Whisper are now girlfriends!”

               “This concerns me how?”

               “It doesn’t! I just love my girlfriend!”

               “…I’m going to hang up now.”

               “Okay! Bye!” Shadow hangs up.

               “Who was it?” Rouge asks.

               “The lemur, her and the wolf are dating.”

               “What? She told you before me?”

               “If you want to know so bad answer the phone next time!” Shadow huffs away from Rouge who rolls her eyes. Omega walks past an angry Shadow before standing next to Rouge.

               “What is he so mad about?” Omega processes out.

               “Me being too good to answer the phone. Also Tangle and Whisper are together now.”

               “[Processing] Weren’t they already together?” Omega inquires.

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             “The Babysitter said something weird when she was babysitting me last night” Charmy says to his parents

             “That would be?” Espio asks.

             “She said that Vector has an obvious crush on Ms. Vanilla and you have a crush on Silver. But that obviously isn’t true, you two love each other! Really weird, huh?”

            Vector and Espio look at each other before avoiding the obvious and going back to what they were doing. Only to ignore each other the rest of the day. Then for the two having to confront it when they go to bed that night.

            “I was going to tell you-“ They both start to say before realizing the other is also saying it. Then they pause and look at each other.

            “…Um… You want to go first or-“ Espio begins to say before Vector shakes his head and Espio sighs.

            “Look, I have been… friends with Silver for a while and while I still love you, I also love him… and maybe I was going to eventually tell you and eventually confess to him.”

            “It’s kinda the same for me… I really like her and I still love you but I also want to be with her…. Then I was also going to tell you and then her, eventually”

            The two remain silent for a while.

            “I guess we both have the same thoughts”

            “Yes.”

           “Well, good night”

           “Agreed” 

           The two immediately go to sleep, knowing they will have to talk about all of this tomorrow. But for now, they sleep. Hoping the anxiety will pass before tomorrow.

           It does not. Of course it doesn’t. It carries over into breakfast. Charmy, thankfully, doesn’t notice. But the two adults are hyper aware. Charmy decided that day that they are going to play with some neighborhood kids. Which gives Vector and Espio and time to talk. Which they will absolutely do after breakfast. Which takes suspiciously more time than normal. But eventually the two get it done and sit on the couch in their living room. The only one they could afford.

            “At least we get each other?” Vector is the first one who speaks, but it doesn’t help much. All Epsio does is sigh.

            “What can we even do, we know it now, it’s not like we can do much about it.”

            “Well, I don’t know about you but I’m going to shoot my shot, with your permission of course, so I mean-“

             “You can’t be serious.”

             “I mean we’re both okay with it and I mean the worst she can do is say no”

             “She could say a lot worse, you shouldn’t do it.”

             “You never know if you don’t try”

             “…Well, I guess I can’t stop you”

             “You can, I’m asking for your premission.”

             “Then go… I’ll just… sit around.”

             “Okay Esp! And if you change your mind you get my permission too!”

             “Thanks.” 

             Vector leaves and Epsio stays put. He tries to meditate, yet that doesn’t help too much and soon enough all he can do is sit there. Only for a sound to be hear. Soft and polite. A knock on the door and Epsio immediately knows who it is and despite his better knowledge he immediately opens it to find Silver.

             “Hey Espio”

             “He-Hey.” The Two stand awkwardly for a while before Silver finally speaks up.

              “Can I come in?”

              “Sur-Sure.” Epsio says and lets Silver in.

              Vector is a Romantic. To his heart. Any type of love, for his family, for his partner, and now for someone he loves. That he has a crush on. Picking up flowers on the way there. A nice bouquet. Vector walks the distant to The Rabbit household. Cream’s playing out in the front. Vector waves to her and she waves back. 

              “Hi Mr. Vector!”

              “Hey Cream, is your mother home?”

              “Yup right inside! But she’s a bit sad today.” Cream relays.

              “You wouldn’t know why, would you?” Vector asks, Cream shakes her head.

              “Alright, thanks.” Vector says and Cream goes back to playing.

              Vector stands at the door. Breathing in and out. Until finally he knocks. He hears a muffled come in. So he gains strength and then enters. The room is dark and in the middle of it is Vanilla, crying. She looks at him for a second before realizing it’s Vector. Which shocks her and immediately starts to attempt to clean up. Vector is confused.

              “Are you okay?” Vector asks, Vanilla immediately breaks down and sits back on the couch. Vector sits down next to her. 

              “I’m…Sorry…It’s been hard today.” Vanilla says, wiping tears out of her eyes.

              “What’s Wrong?”

              “…Today… Is the Day… He died… Cream’s Father.”

              “Oh I’m sorry, should I leave?”

              “NO! Please stay. It’s… I could use some company right now.”

              “Oh, okay”

              The two sit in silence for a couple moments. In complete empty utter silence. The two sit. As the air grows colder on a lukewarm day and Vanilla sniffles every few moments. Eventually she looks up again. To a concerned Vector, which then she turns away from.

              “You must be here for something.”

              “Right, sorry, you probably don’t want to hear it today”

              “Tell me it, it’s not like any news could be worse than what has already happened.”

              “I would prefer not to put you on the spot for this, it might be better if I ask you another time now, I’m sorry, I had no idea this was happening” Vector says.

              “I am reminded by the passing of time every single moment of my life, tell me and get it over with.”

              “Alright, okay… give me a second… this is hard… I’m… in love with you.” Vector says awkwardly, Vanilla’s eyes pop out of her head, Vector turns away. 

              “Oh…”

              “Yeah, sorry, I’ll just le-“ Vector says quickly getting up, until Vanilla pulls him back down to the couch.

              “Stay.”

              “Okay”

              The two sit down, then sit in silence. Vanilla tries to think of what to say while Vector sits awkwardly.

              “Sorry, this is a lot.”

              “Look, I’m sorry, w-“

              “Be quiet.”

              “Sorry” Vector squeaks out

              “Sorry, it’s um…”

              “You can just reject me”

              “No! I love you… you stupid Gator!”

              “…Actually I’m A Crocodile” Vector says, Vanilla stares blankly at him before laughing with tears falling out of her face.

              “Shut up, you Croc.” Vanilla says before kissing him and making Vector blush bright red, Vanilla laughs again.

              “…Wait, what about Espio?” Vanilla asks, and Vector remembers about his other partner and what he did.

              Unsurprisingly Vector in his dumb luck found Silver and asked him to keep Espio company. So of course, Silver did. Found the place and he and Espio encountered each other. Then they started to talk.

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            “How are you, Epsio? We haven’t talked in a while” Silver starts off.
 
             “Yeah, well, I’ve been busy and you’ve been… in the future.”

             “Ha, yeah…”

             The two sit in silence for a bit.

             “So what brings you here specifically?”

             “You”

             “…Okay, how did you come about to this place?”

             “Like my birth or…”

             “Birth?”

             “Well you see Espio, when a-“

             “No no, I met like why did you come here, specifically today?”

             “…I ran into Vector and he told me to come here and keep you company”

             “Of Course he did.”

             “You don’t want company?”

             “No, it’s fine, it’s just something else.”

             “And that would be?”

             Espio stops. He let it slip. He sits paralyzed for a while. Looking down to the floor for an escape. He does not find one. So he looks back to Silver. Who gives him a calm yet concerned smile. Espio turns red for a split second before turning himself back.

             “I should probably tell you something.”

             “Yeah?” Silver asks with a smile on his face

             “Uh… Yeah.”

             Silence again. 

             “That would be?” Silver asks

             “There’s a reason why Vector wanted you here… Specifically you.”

             “…Yeah?”

             “It’s that… I like you.”

             “Aw, Thank you”

             “…Romantically Silver.”

             “Yeah, thank- oh… that’s, um, okay.”

             “…Yeah, sorry?”

             “No, I like you too! It’s just a lot! Plus aren’t you dating Vector?”

              “Yes.”

              “So you’re dating both of us?”

              “Yes.”

              “Oh, okay!”

              Espio breathes a sigh of relief. Looking happily at the ceiling before turning back to Silver, who is still looking at him. He gives a smile to the Hedgehog who still has a mildly goofy smile on his face. Espio hugs him. Which Silver accepts. Only for Espio to go backwards. Landing back on the couch.

              “Espio?”

              “Be quiet, I want to go to sleep.” Espio grabs Silver and brings him to his chest. Silver blushes hard. But soon enough Epsio falls asleep as does Silver. Sleeping until it’s the evening. Then they hear a knocking on the door.

              “I’ll get it.” Espio says and gets up to see Vector at the door.

              “Hey Esp!” Vector looks around to see a Sleepy Silver along with a disheveled Espio on the couch

              “Oh… Wow… Okay”

              “Vector, it’s not like that.”

              “I mean, good for you two”

              “We cuddled.”

              “Eh, whatever, hey Silver!”

              “Hi Vector!”

              Vector goes into the Kitchen for something to drink, and Epsio sits on the counter.

              “So how did it go with Vanilla?”

              “Great! She likes me back! Guess we both came out ahead, huh?” Vector jokes and Epsio blushes a bright red.

              “Yeah.”

              Vector smiles and gives Espio a kiss on the cheek, which makes the Chameleon blush. Before going back to whatever he was doing beforehand. Espio smiles before going back to Silver. Hugging him again and cuddling him on the couch. While Vector smiles and then heads upstairs.

              Eventually Charmy comes home to the confusing scene of Silver. The weird future Hedgehog that can time travel from said future and Epsio, one of his basically Dad’s. He also thought that getting with Silver was weird. So Charmy, like any normal kid, gets on the ground and stares at Silver until he wakes up. 

              “Oh hey, Charmy.”

              “Are you also my Dad, Silver?”

              That wakes Silver up and also Espio. Who explains that he and Silver have only begun dating and they are nowhere near that part yet. Charmy keeps asking questions. Espio answers some before saying it’s too late and saying he’ll answer the questions tomorrow. Espio tucks him in. Silver stands outside and then after Charmy is tucked in Espio comes out and hugs Silver. Then the two go back downstairs.

             “Hey, Silver.”

             “Yeah?”

             “I Love You.”

             “… I love you too”

             Espio goes to bed. Next to Vector, like he always does. He still loves him even after all this time. The few years that they have been together have been great. Epsio wouldn’t trade it for the world. Especially since he has another boyfriend to worry about now. He smiles at the resting Crocodile and then he goes asleep. 

             Waking up to him not being there. He gets up. Charmy is out playing again and Vector is doing something somewhere. Epsio thinks how better if he could call Silver so that he could come over instead of Espio hoping he comes around again. Only for the door to knock again. Espio smiles and gets up. Only once he opens the door he sees Vanilla instead.

              “Oh hello Epsio, is Vector home?”

              “No, he’s out. Sorry.”

              “That’s alright, may I come in?”

              “Sure.”

              Vanilla enters the Chaotix’s home. Taking the time while Espio sits down to look at the place. Then she sits down next to Espio. Waiting for Vector.

              “How are you?”

              “Well.”

              “Well that’s good.”

              The two sit in silence for a bit longer. Awkward for Vanilla but it doesn’t bother Espio. So the only reasonable solution is to make it awkward, at least in Vanilla’s case. 

             “You’re not mad at me for being together with Vector, are you?” 

              “No, of course not. Why would I?”

              “Well, I don’t know. A new partner.”

              “I’m dating Silver. I also just started dating him.” Espio relays.

              “Oh… sorry, I just wanted to make sure that everything was okay. Between us.”

              “Everything is fine. Don’t worry.”

              “Well that’s good!”

              Espio nods then the two sit in silence again. Which is normal to Epsio while Vanilla it feels like forever and she hates how awkward it is for her. She is really tempted to say something again.

              Vector found Silver randomly while he was out. Instructing him to help him. The two ended up being a good team. Especially since most of the time it was cats stuck in a tree. Which since Silver can fly made it a lot easier. Especially since he is average sized and not like Charmy who is very small.

              “Good job Silver!”

              “Thanks boss!”

              “Don’t call me that”

              “Alright, if you say so”

              The two go around and then back to the Chaotix headquarters. Of course both Vector and Silver are really excited to see Espio again. So they go inside to see Espio and Vector is also surprised to see Vanilla. He immediately takes the two and hugs them as Silver flies up a bit to hug Espio who is crushed in Vector’s arms. Charmy comes in after that, done playing outside.

              “So how many parents do I have?”

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             “Wow, Faker, you live like this?”

             “Not usually, been out mostly as of late, So didn’t have anytime to clean”

             Shadow, after going on a Race with Sonic, followed him home. Only to find his house was a mess and in desperate need of cleaning.

             “Tails did most of the cleaning so I mean, that’s why the place looks so… terrible”

             “It looks decrepit.”

             Shadow scowls at the mess. Cobwebs everywhere. Everything looks like it’s rotting. Everything looks like it’s been aged by 20 years at the very least. Dust is everywhere and smells reek from every single poor. Shadow does not like this. It’s horrible. He would absolutely call the cops if he could.

              “Who cares? Usually nobody sees it”

              “You live here, it must be horrible, I can’t believe you live in this disgusting place.”

              “I can”

              Shadow scowls.

              “Faker, get up, we're cleaning this house.”

              “…Fine”

              Sonic gets up, grabs a broom, starts mindlessly sweeping before falling back onto a couch. Shadow gives him an unamused look. Sonic rolls his eyes and then gets up and cleans again. Shadow sighs and puts his hand to his forehead then he himself gets to cleaning. He mimics Sonic and grabs a broom.

               “You’re going too slow, Sonic.”

               Sonic pauses and slowly turns to Shadow. A look of anger and rage as he slowly turns. Around to face Shadow. Turning the absolute slowest possible. He wears a frown and his face is unmoving. He doesn’t blink. Only turns around until he is face to face with Shadow. Who doesn’t appreciate his antics.

               “I’m too slow?”

               “…You have got-“

              Sonic then proceeds to go super speed. Brushing around the entire room. Picking up a lot of dust in the process. Which ends up covering everything except him in dust. Until Sonic speeds up again and disposes of it.

              “How’s that for too slow?”

              “…Well all you have to do is do that a bunch of more times and you will successfully do all of your chores.”

              “Ugh!” Sonic sits down again and covers his face and has a tantrum like a toddler. Shadow, again, is unamused at his antics.

              “If I pay you 20$, will you do it?”

              “You can’t be serious.”

              Sonic raised an eyebrow

              “I’m not Rouge, Sonic. You can’t bribe me with money, even Rouge wouldn’t take that little for this.”

              “Fine, how much does she want?”

              “Just clean your house Sonic.”

              “Well, I don’t want too”

              “Just do it, for the sake of everyone who actually thinks you're dignified!”

             “…People think I’m dignified?”

            “Get up.” Shadow attempts to take Sonic from the couch, but Sonic holds on like a Cat until Shadow rips him off along with some of the fabric of the couch.

             “…You wouldn’t happen to know how to sew?” Sonic asks while Shadow gives him an unimpressed look.

             The two continue to clean up as Shadow isn’t going to leave until it’s done. Leaving Sonic forced to actually clean alongside Shadow. Who helps, a lot. Helping Sonic do the things he can’t do. Even if Shadow hides it under “I don’t want you living in a slop.” Sonic appreciates the help and thinks it’s nice of the other. The two continue to clean up. Soon enough Sonic’s house looks better than it did.

             Sonic and Shadow continue to clean up the house. Making it look from being over a hundred years old to only about a few years outdated. Which Sonic is happy with. Shadow thinks he would’ve been paid more for being a hero. But Shadow doesn’t ask that, he isn’t that concerned for the Hedgehog anyways. So he and Sonic keep on cleaning. 

            Living room, kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms, everything they eventually make clean. Everything looks a lot better now. It takes them a while. A couple hours that go into the evening. As the two finish cleaning. The sun has already set. Down the horizon, making the specific place the two are at dark. Turning on some lights helps and they continue to finish up. Leaving no dust or maldue or anything else left. At the end Sonic and Shadow are exhausted, while Sonic shows it pretty obviously, Shadow doesn’t, preferring to keep it in. Sonic, however, isn't fooled by his facade.

            “So you aren’t exhausted?”

            “I am, I just don’t need to show it.”

            “…Okay, if that’s what you say”

           Sonic and Shadow end up on the couch. 

           “Thanks Shadow”

           “No need to thank me, it was a charity case.”

           “Haha, very funny, But still, thanks”

           “…Fine. You’re Welcome… Faker.”

           “So close to not being insulted!”

           “Yeah, yeah… whatever.” Sonic doesn’t comment on how that wasn’t an insult. The two continue to sit around.

           “So… did you want to stay over or something?” Sonic asks nonchalantly

           “…Why?”

           “I mean… It's dark. Unless you want to walk home in the dark… or use Chaos Control, but I know you don’t like to do that unless necessary” Sonic attempts to explain

           “Yeah… I guess, that’s an idea.”

           “…I can get out a sleeping bag if you want… or a blanket.”

           “I’ll take the blanket.”

           Shadow decides to stay. Sleeping on Sonic’s couch. He has no idea what that means to the other Hedgehog as Sonic appreciates the company more than he thinks. After so long (for him) being alone. Actually having company is so nice, even if it’s his rival sleeping on his couch. Sonic smiles as he checks on Shadow before he himself goes to bed.

           After Sonic wakes up the next morning, Shadow says goodbyes. This surprises Sonic as he thought that Shadow would’ve left. But Shadow waited for him. Sonic says goodbye then Shadow leaves. Sonic looks around at his freshly cleaned house. He notices a speck of dust and picks it up and throws it away. He smiles. Then he goes back to making his breakfast.

          Shadow leaves back for his home which is also Team Dark’s base. He goes slower than usual. Maybe to avoid Rouge who is probably going to ask him where he was. But he doesn’t care, only staring off the side of the area he runs across. Not stopping or changing course. Going home yet a different way. Slower than normal, which is out of character for him but he doesn’t care. Only looking out to the sea or the trees or the buildings. He finally gets home and opens the door.

           “Where have you been?”

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            Amy went away. Back to her home: little planet. Where else was she supposed to go? Well she had a lot of places to go but she didn’t. After all, what else was she supposed to do? This was the only place where she was known as Amy Rose rather than the girl who hangs around Sonic the Hedgehog. Little Planet was her home and there were people who she could depend on. That was sad that this is it. But at least now she’ll have a way to try.

            “It said an encounter not love, so even if you believe in them, it would still be right. Plus, is he even purple?”

            “I can’t see, any color looks like purple to me Tekno”

            “Maybe you should get glasses.”

            “Maybe I should”

            “Well, not to open up wounds, but I’m glad you realized he was such a buffoon.”

            “Yeah… I still miss him.”

            “Well miss someone else, you have other friends now.”

            “Fine… I miss… Blaze.”

            “Blaze?”

            “Yeah, she’s this princess from another dimension who has fire powers. We met when the universes were colliding, I made her believe in having friends and that was nice… I miss her a lot actually”

            “Hey! That’s the spirit!”

            “Yeah! I’ll find a way to her dimension!”

            “Yeah! Wait, what?”

            “Tekno! With your tech, we can do anything! With that I can see Blaze again!”

            “Amy.”

            “Please! She’s awesome, you could meet her too! You would love her!”

            “…Fine.”

            So the two and by that I mean Tekno gets to work. Attempting to figure out how to transport through dimensions. Which is a lot harder than you would think. Until they are interrupted by a thunder strike. Which interrupts their work outside and they retreat to Tekno’s workshop. Where Amy relizes something.

            “Wait, how exactly is it raining?” Amy asks, Tekno thinks. Obviously the two have spent time off of the planet so going inside isn’t that weird for them. So they did it instinctively. As for all the other town residents. While some have gone inside, it appears that some don’t know what to do.

            “You have got to be kidding me” Amy says and puts on a coat and Tekno follows her with her coat on. The two go out and decide to help the people to go inside. So that’s exactly what they do. Get the remaining confused people inside. As soon as they’re done with that they go back inside. Only to be faced with other issues.

             “Flooding.” Tekno states.

             “What are you… Oh…” The two try to see how heavily it’s raining. It’s pouring hard. In a couple of hours any possible cracks will be filled and the damage might be catastrophic and very large. As much damage that can happen on a small planet. Which is still a lot.

             “Tekno, how is this happening?”

             “I have no idea, we need to find the cause.”

             “I’ll go outside and see if I can find anything” Amy says and rushes out the door, only after putting on a coat.

             “Be careful!” Tekno calls, only to see Amy has already left. 

             Tekno sighs and gets back to her work on trying to figure out this weather. All while Amy attempts to find the cause of all of this her own way. Which she ends up doing. Noticing a singular cloud. That’s static that’s pouring rain. Which might be the obvious culprit. The only problem is there’s no way for her to get up there. She rushes through the rain back to Tekno.

             “Tekno!” Amy shouts as she slams the door open, Tekno jumps then turns back in concern to the Hedgehog.

             “Would you happen to have a way to get up high?” Amy asks

             “…Yeah, I think so, how high?”

             “As high as the clouds”

             After explaining everything to Tekno, the bird attempts to find any way to fly up that high quickly. She ends up finding an old plane in an abandoned place in her shop. Which takes a while to repair but eventually starts to work, to Tekno’s surprise. She starts it up and clears the way. Her and Amy hop up into the plane and fly away. But as soon as they get up to the cloud, the plane begins to falter.

             “Tekno?”

             “The plane’s a bit old, I’m surprised it even started, we might need to bail… either on the mission or on the plane.”

             “Okay, let’s bail on the plane, tell me when!” Amy yells.

             “Alright, it has a bit more left in it I think… no it doesn’t! Bail! Now!” Amy and Tekno jump out of the plane and the plane bursts and explodes… 

             But out of the explosion flies a green bird who holds onto a pink hedgehog. The two make it up to the top of the cloud. Which is solid. But they don’t notice that, being so tired. The two catch their breath a bit, before seeing that the plane is a robot. With conveniently a switch to turn it off and on. Which surprises Amy and Tekno. The former goes near it and pulls the lever. The rain stops for a moment before an alarm goes off. 

              “Unauthorized change! Unauthorized change! Robots will be deployed in 1 minute if you do not provide authorization!”

              “Oh Crap”

              The two panic and get ready, only for the minute to pass and the buzzer to stop and some gates to open to reveal… absolutely nothing. Some spare parts but it looks more like a storage locker than anything else. The two after awhile eventually lower their guard.

              “Guess there was nothing to worry about anyw-“ Amy starts to say before the cloud starts to fall out of the sky. The two girls scream but Tekno remembers she can fly and pulls her and Amy up at the last second before they fall.

               The cloud plummets down to the ground where it lands in the middle of a bunch of buildings. Leaving destruction and hopefully no casualties in its way. Which is asking for a lot but not much. Tekno flies down with Amy onto the ground. The two looks around and slowly people come out of their buildings, then start to cheer.

                “The rain is gone! The rain is gone!” The townsfolk cheer. Tekno and Amy smile, their job is done. Too bad they didn’t figure out who did it.

               “THAT CLOUD IDEA WAS NOT STUPID, WE JUST DIDN’T GIVE IT ENOUGH FUNDING!” Eggman rants as his thing was destroyed, not even a new thing. They left it abandoned years ago. He sulks.

                “They just didn’t give it a fair chance.” He complains and sulks a bit more.

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             Knuckles was a guardian, but today he is an adventurer. To what? He doesn’t know but that makes it all the more exciting. What’s the fun of adventuring if you know what you're going to find? That’s no fun. Maybe. Knuckles decided to explore one of the far off islands of Angel Island. Which he hasn’t explored before. Which is surprising and perfect because that way he wasn’t too far while still exploring. A happy medium. He should’ve done this before he thinks to himself. Right now he is outside of a cave. He smiles and enters the cave, ready for adventure. Knuckles goes into the dark to hopefully find something.

             He should’ve brought a light. It’s pitch black and he can see anything. Knuckles has to feel his way around. What does he feel? Nothing. Rocks, rocks, more rocks. Nothing interesting. Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea. Until he feels something else. It feels like wood like a torch. He smiles and take it and attempts to light it, scraping it against the wall, which somehow works and it lights a fire. With a light source he adventures onwards. This place is a lot bigger than he thought. He looks around and keeps going forward. Illuminating only part of the cave.

              The cave is big, really big. Knuckles' makeshift torch only lights up a part of the place. A very small part. He can’t see much even when holding it up. Knuckles walks around the cave, lighting it around. Seeing various symbols, none of which mean all that much to Knuckles. But he keeps looking. Until he finds something. A memorial. He looks around and accidentally hits a switch, which illuminates the area. Which sulfides Knuckles. He looks at the memorial until the floor starts to creek and he falls. Down, down, down, down, down.

              Thankfully Knuckles can glide. While the cave is now bigger and he has lost his light, this part is way more illuminated. The place is huge filled with crystals, and the spot where Knuckles fell is wide open. But he can’t get up. Too tall to climb. So he looks around. Finding a couple smaller rooms to hopefully find a way out. He goes through one. Only to find light on the other side, a fake light. He walks into the place. Everything looks painted. He looks at the symbols on the wall. There are many things. He notices a small blue figure and a small red figure and a bunch of other figures. He shakes his head.

             “What… Is This?” He places his gloved hands onto the tapastry only for him to hear a shake and quickly exit the room for it to flood. He goes into another room to enter more cautiously. Another light, he’s outside. He smiles, only to notice something off… really off. He walks out, and he’s trapped in an invisible bubble. He attempts to break out unsuccessfully. With nothing of interest, he walks out. Not noticing the small red figure below him before he exits and the room caves. A small tiny echidna. Looking out to the horizon. Not knowing who he is and what his life is supposed to entail. Besides chao and the Master Emerald. Which as far as he know is only a big Emerald that exists where he lives.

             Another room, this time it looks like Eggman’s ship. The sky is red, there is something red all over the place. Which Knuckles recognizes, but again he is trapped in a bubble, then he leaves and the room caved in. The fourth room is weird… he notices nothing at first only for a bright light to pierce his eyes. It’s bright and he doesn’t look at it, he exits the room as it gets too bright, only to miss a universe and a world forming. He walks back out and a new door is there in the middle in all of the crystals, he thinks he probably had missed it. So he shrugs and walks in. Not knowing what’s waiting for him on the other side.

             Again outside, again in a bubble. He looks around. To find… Sonic surprisingly. Then a red echidna. He looks happy but he looks older and different than Knuckles. His quills in a ponytail and wearing more traditional garb. He sits next to Sonic and then… kisses him? Knuckles flushes red and exits the scene. He missed Echidna putting down his hair and looking exactly like him with clothes on. As well as a certain Bat walking to the other two as well and then kissing them as well. Knuckles misconstrued the situation not realizing it was his future instead seeing it as a weird alternate dimension. But for now all he can feel is jealousy. Against that other Echidna. Which he doesn’t know why he’s feeling? It weirds him out.

            With all the rooms caved in, the hole caves in. It rises up and Knuckles attempts and succeeds to get on top of it. He smiles, then looks back at the mural. It shows an echidna. 

             “Must’ve been an important figure” Knuckles suggests. He walks away not knowing how right he is. Back to the outside once again. Into the fresh Mobian air.

              Knuckles walks back outside into the real air with no bubbles. With a red face and ready to go back home. Which he does, gliding down to the island. Walking for a bit. Putting his things where they belong and then sitting in front of the Master Emerald and shutting his eyes. Falling deep into sleep. Tired from adventuring.

              “Hey Knuckles!” Sonic says and Knuckles immediately wakes up looking at Sonic and then proceeds to blush and scream then run away as fast as he can. Into the forest until Sonic can’t see him and then some.

               “Man, what’s his problem?” Sonic then runs away himself back to his house. While Knuckles runs away screaming and blushing, not knowing what to do with his feelings. He eventually returns to the Master Emerald frazzled at dark and immediately falls asleep.

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             A small island. That would usually mean nothing but for Tails. It was a problem. Usually. Tails went on adventures by himself before. Slow, small adventures. Which Tails enjoyed, but other than that, Tails was inexperienced. A few under Tails’ belt and many more as a sidekick. So when Tails set off on the plane Tails felt free from the confides of being a sidekick for the first time in a long time. A very long time.

            Only to crash the plane on a small island. One similar to Tails’ old adventures. Tails would attempt to repair the plane. Not making any way onto it. Ready to almost give up entirely, call Sonic and go back home and maybe try again after making sure this time that the plane was good and ready for the journey. But then Tails encountered something, a problem. An actual problem, which was not that big, was something that needed to be solved.

           Kindly enough, Tails was informed by some villagers about an old powerful wizard who rained terror onto the people every single year and the only way to defeat him was with the powerful weapon that rested on top of a mountain in a small opening. Tails smiled, an adventure. They even offered to repair the plane, which Tails happily agreed to. Who was Tails to say no? This was a terrific deal. Where could the fox even think of getting a better deal from?

           So off Tails went to defeat the Wizard. Who resides in a tower. First Tails went to the cave, grabbed the sword easily, it was like it was brand new. Freshly sharpened. Tails smiled and then went up to defeat the wizard. Who had a castle that was big and thunder constantly surrounding it. Tails snuck in a side door. With the wizard unaware of what was happening. Tails sneaks in and then gets to the room where the wizard is, waiting on his throne that he made himself with the magic that he has. Tails busts through the door.

           “Stop right there you nasty wizard!”

           “Like you could ever stop me adventurer! Unless you have… wait you got it?” The wizard states.

           “Yeah and now there’s no way to stop me from defeating you!” Tails exclaims.

           “No worries! I will make quick and easy work of you!” The wizard says.

            The wizard casts a spell which Tails dodges easily. Then another spell, which Tails dodges again. Then another spell, then another spell. Tails realizes the attack pattern and gets closer and then figures out that you can block the wizard’s power with the sword and then Tails proceeds to walk at him deflecting all of his spells and then slashes him three times with the sword before he falls onto the floor.

             “Ack! You defeated me!”

             “Yeah it wasn’t really hard… I mean all I had to do was deflect-“

             “I can’t believe it!”

             “I can.” Tails states.

             “Truly you are the maiden of legend!”

             “I mean I guess… Wait, Maiden?”

             “Yes, as it states ‘only the fairest stronger of Maidens can wield the sword and defeat the wizard’ truly you are the-“

              “I’m not a girl?”

              “…Wait, wait wait wait… give me a second.” The wizard gets up, painfully and screaming with agony, then he goes to another room and grabs a page. Then slowly goes back to Tails and stands in front of the fox.

              “Yeah, right here it says ‘only the fairest stronger of Maidens can wield the sword and defeat the wizard’ like I quoted.” The wizard confirmed to a confused Tails.

              “Then how exactly-“

              “Look, you obviously have a lot of self discovery to do. So I mean, let’s get this over with and you can do that.” The wizard says.

              “Yeah, I definitely have a lot to think about.” Tails says back.

              Tails takes the sword and deals one final blow and the room then the castle fades, Tails is lowered down to the ground. Where the fox holds the sword and the paper. Tails walks back down to the village. Where everyone cheers for the celebration of the wizard being dead. Tails walks past all of them and the celebration to the head person of the village.

              “Thank you, if there anything we can do-“

              “Yeah, I have one thing.” Tails pulls out the paper and hands it to the head person… who looks at it, then at Tails. Then he realizes.

              “Give me a second.” The head person gives it to someone else, probably a historian who takes the page and looks through some documents while Tails watches. She ends up finding a book and then goes to Tails with the information.

              “Yeah, all sources point to yes, come with me, in case.” The historian says and leads Tails outside.

              “Attention all!” The historian says “We, um, want to demonstrate the power of our hero! So, bring the strongest person around!” The people scatter and end up finding Mr. StrongMan Jones, who is a noble man as well. Who tries and then isn’t able to pick up the sword. Now with evidence everything wears on Tails.

               “Wow you are the most noble strong!” The crowd mechanically cheers. All while Tails looks at the sword and the paper. Realizing what this mean and who she truly is.

              “Are you sure you don’t want to stay?” The head person asks Tails as soon as the fox’s plane is finished.

              “I have… other things to do, but that you, this was… eye opening.” Tails says.

              Tails takes off in the plane, with a lot of emeralds to find and now a lot on her mind and a lot more to think about.. 

              Stopping in a town, Tails goes to a clothing shop. Tries on some and picks out a couple dresses, skirts, jackets, shoes and socks and anything else. She smiles as soon as she checks out and goes back to her plane, puts it on and then looks at herself. Tails smiles. Then goes to her plane and takes off to find the rest of the emeralds, which was a lot easier than trying to discover herself after all this time. She flies away into the sky, a new person. All thanks to a stupid wizard and an even stupider prophecy.

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           “Shame that Amy couldn’t have made it” Sticks says while she and Cream sit on the beach looking over a giant ocean that stretches farther than the eyes can see.

             “Yeah…” Cream says back. She continues to stare in silence with Sticks and then looks at her phone. Her wallpaper is her and Marine, she smiles at it.

             “Ohhhhhhhhh” Sticks says, looking the phone which Cream quickly puts away. Sticks laughs while Cream pouts for a bit.

             “You miss her, huh?” Sticks asks, this time with a more sincere tone.

             “…A Lot, and I only met her a couple times! What kind of person had their best friend in another dimension?”

             Sticks gives her a look.

             “Ok fine, but we’re the exceptions plus your best friend still exists here in some capacity, mine doesn’t.” Cream says and puts her face into her legs. Sticks shrugs and goes back to watching the ocean again. 
            

              That’s until a large creature comes behind them and picks them up. Surprising the two of them.

              “Mr. Big!” Cream cheers and hugs the big blue cat back, all while Stick tries to get free. The cat smiles with a frog hopping joyfully on the top of his head. 

              “Hey guys, where’s Amy?” The cat asks in his trademark slow and dopey voice.

             “Couldn’t make it” Sticks, who has given up trying to be free, flatly says. The cat puts the two down and thinks to himself.

             “Isn’t she the one who organized this trip?”

             “Yup, but she’s too busy hanging out with her girlfriend” Sticks says, sticking her tounge out when she says girlfriend

             “Oh… Huh, so what do we do?” Big asks

             “Yeah, she came up with a plan, so I dunno what to do…” Sticks says and puts her hand on her chin to think.

             “I’ll text her with my ph-“ Sticks slaps Cream’s phone out of her hand and into the water, hard. As soon as Sticks hears the work text.

             “…And there that goes.” Cream says while Sticks rants about how texting are the devil or government devices or something else. While Big stares dumbly at the scene.

             The three end of finding a spot to camp at. Big makes a fire while Sticks sets up the tents and Cream does anything else but mostly stays by the fire while Big gets it ready. Night falls and big lights up the fire to the excitement of Sticks who immediately takes Cream to get more of her namesake to keep the fire hot.

              “Are you still on that thing?”

              “I just got it working again, you lucky I’m not forcing you to pay for another one.” 

              “You need to find something else to do, the government puts trackers on those you know”

              “Yeah, I know.” Cream says and that gets Sticks to be quiet, for a bit.

               The two collect some sticks, some big, some small, and some medium. Sticks is really excited while Cream just holds as many as she can. Sticks and her go all around the forest collecting as many as they can. Sticks gets way too many Sticks, and the two go back. Only to see the fire has gone out and Big is asleep in a tent that is way too small for him. 

               “Amy probably should’ve gotten dimensions on that” Sticks says before going into her tent and immediately falling asleep. Cream goes to hers and looks back at her phone wallpaper one last time before going to sleep.

               She wakes up the next morning to a huge pile of sticks and Big, who is sitting with Froggy with the logs they made as benches. Cream sits down, Big is distracted by nothing and then notices her. 

               “Hey Cream”

               “Hey Mr. Big.” 

               “…So Sticks told me-” Big starts to say and Cream’s eyes go wide.

               “Oh yoU HAVE GOT-“

               After Big calms her down to listen. After she’s done screaming about that and then attempting to kill Sticks.

               “Cream, friends are like fishing” Big starts

               “Everything is like fishing with you.”

               “Friends are like fishing, you sometimes get difficult decision and difficult fish, but the ones you manage to pull in you should keep, no matter what”

               “Big, that’s not the problem, the problem is she’s in another dimension.”

               “…” Big pauses for a second to think

               “Dimensions are like fishing-“ Big starts to say and Cream pulls her ears over to her eyes to avoid another round of this.

               Cream ends up sitting on the shore again. Not wanting to listen to Big. She looks out to the sea, Marine’s favorite. Another thing to remind her of Marine. Dimensions aren’t the only thing in Cream’s way. Along with that Cream can’t stop thinking about her. Every single day, every single moment. Cream wishes Amy was here, she’s good with this kind of stuff. Friends and Friendship. Cream ends up spending most of the day on the shore, thinking.

               A dimension away Marine keeps on sneezing, again and again.

               Cream goes to sleep, no closer to the answer. But her dreams help her out. She’s in the water, she finds Marine. She smiles and cheers and gets closer. They dance around and play. Then they get closer. Then closer. Then closer. Then closer. Then closer. Until the distance is closed. They kiss. 

               Cream wakes up in a cold sweat.

               The final day of their three day trip, the three members of Team Rose actually go and do something. Dragging Cream, who doesn’t want to do anything besides think again. But she goes, the three go around the island. Most of it is beach or camping sites. Most of the time is filled with Big and Sticks talking and Cream thinking. The two become worried about how quiet the rabbit is.

                “Cream?” Sticks asks, surprisingly catching Cream’s attention immediately.

                “Yeah?” Cream replies.

                “Are you okay?”

                “Yeah, I’m fine Mrs. Sticks.”

                Sticks turns back to Big and shrugs her shoulders while Cream goes back to thought. The three keep on walking until they get back. Then they start a fire, then go to sleep. Cream has the same dream again but somehow this time is more vivid. More apparent. Cream, again. wakes up in a cold sweat. The three leave the next day. Cream goes home, confused and thinking.