Prologue

"What's happening to me?"

My words merely stayed a thought, and my body couldn't manage to do anything with it. It was this small detail that I couldn't quite understand. I was lost in my own head… both literally and mentally. But I had a good reason to be lost in my own head… considering every piece of it was beginning to fall apart.

"Sonic, keep going." The elderly voice pleaded. "You've almost done it."

My legs crumbled beneath me, and my hands fell before me as the sandy winds rushed past me. I could feel my entire being just splitting apart. All of my memories… they were becoming hazy. I was losing my own life. I was losing myself.

But it wasn't just me in jeopardy.

"Which Sonic…" I coughed up, "… are you talking to?"

And soon, I felt it; a tremor rumbled within my heart, and I started to lose any sort of control. I started spitting and screaming, involuntarily as my own life started to flash before my eyes. And somehow, I saw something that I had never seen before.

I could see me… sitting in darkness. It seemed so different to see me in such a place. I never considered myself a dark person. I mean… maybe Shadow… but never someone like me. But even if that was the case, that didn't stop from seeing me in the black and believing that it was truly me.

I could see my head rise up, and I saw his eyes glow green. I had black eyes… completely black eyes. The only thought I was capable of putting together was, why would my eyes be green?

Crack! Another quake seemed to break my bones, yet still leave me alive and well. It almost seemed like something in my body just… up and left. And soon, the pain was too great, and I relaxed my arms, falling into the sandy hills running beneath me.

"What was… what did I just do?" I mumbled as black consumed my eyes and shut them up for good.

"You lost yourself. And you can't get yourself back."

"But… but I'm… still here. Sonic's… still here."

"I wasn't talking about you, Sonic… I was talking about the other you."

I felt a rush of anger before finally dozing off in the desert plains once again.

"…Maurice."

Welcome to Broken Dreams 2.