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Edit 2.1.2017: Fixed few grammatical mistakes and edited the text a bit.

Hello there :-) This is my first time here. This story is something I had in my head for a while. It's based on Archie Sonic's universe, especially their series Sonic Universe (which I endlessly love), and my sequel for Dark Trilogy. The third character for this series is Eclipse the Darkling (who isn't in the character's list) and, of course, his small ones. The story is four (pretty long) chapters long (just like SU).

English isn't my mother language so please excuse my mistakes. If you like, please, read & review. Do you think this chapter can get 5+ reviews? I'll upload next chapter as soon as possible. And maybe I'll even have another idea for another SU saga ;-)

Enjoy ;-)

Full summary:

Silver the hedgehog is about to close another portal when he got an unusual guest. It's Eclipse and his Dark arms with Shadow the hedgehog on his tail. In the confusion and with a help of Silver's kind-hearted nature and naivety, the silver hedgehog saved Eclipse from Shadow and took him to ruined city.

There he listened to his (a little bit twisted) story about his conflict with Shadow. Shadow meanwhile arrives in the same city, which is disturbingly familiar to him. But that's not all. Eclipse will realize some shocking possibility. Silver will be running for his life and Shadow will have to face an even more powerfull enemy from his past. There are many questions but only sad answers. Nobody will like them.


Silver the Hedgehog was levitating, surrounded by light blue psychic aura above a desert, that already swallowed half of the city seen on the horizon. He looked at his glove, where he had his Genesis portal radar. It clearly indicated that one of such portals was about to show up. He deactivated the radar with his mind and frowned.

This was like 200th portal already, but it had seen they won't stop popping up anytime soon. But no one said he was stopping in closing them. Definitely not him. The silence was disrupted by a shvorn-like sound and the Genesis portal opened. The energy inside of it whirled like a whirlpool.

'Alright, time to close this up, before someone run thr-' he thought to himself, as he was raising his arms. Suddenly he was interrupted by a black and red creature, that jumped out of the portal and landed in a dust of sand.

"Hey! Not again!" said Silver and looked at the newcomer. He had never seen someone like that. At first, he reminded him Shadow the Hedgehog, he had met. But this guy wasn't a hedgehog, that was sure, although he had something like spikes on his head. Silver could tell he was about his height.

"Are you alright?" Silver asked, as he noticed, the creature was shivering and desperately hugging something or someone. The stranger's head turned to him. Silver yanked when he noticed black-colored sclerae, but his yellow eyes were filled with despair and begging for help.

"Eclipse!" Shouted voice behind them. Silver almost jumped out of his quills.

"S-Shadow?" he said, as the black hedgehog made his entrance.

Eclipse stood up on his weak legs and tried to escape.

"You won't run away! Not this time!" Shadow had reached out toward him when Silver grabbed his shoulder.

"Shadow, what's happening? What are you doing here?"

Shadow looked surprised at first, as he in his anger completely ignored the time-traveling hedgehog. "I'll explain everything, but not before I destroy him!"

The harsh words shocked him. He looked at running figure. 'What he did, to deserve it?' he thought.

Shadow leaped to the air with Chaos spear ready to be released. Eclipse had turned one more time with a terror in his eyes.

"Enough!" Silver shouted and caught both of them with his psychic ability.

"What you are doing, you jerk?!" Shadow struggled. "Release me at once! I have to destroy him before he gets any stronger!"

"But why?"

"Because he is part of Black Arms, the alien race that seeks nothing more than destruction!" Shadow's voice was getting louder as he was ventilating his anger.

Silver looked at the alien, which eyes now showed a mixture of sadness and hatred. He as well noticed, that he was all the time holding some small creatures, that had been hurt.

"Silver!"

Silver acted on instinct. "Sorry, Shadow, but what about you take a nice cool-down trip?" He engulfed him in his psychic aura even more and threw him toward a distant lake. Then he quickly closed the portal and took Eclipse with him.

They flew quite a distance before Silver arrived at the city on the horizon. Sadness filled him as he was finding too many similarities with his own timeline. What could have happened here, to leave everything in ruins with no life?

For landing, he had chosen the tallest building. It was a miracle, that it was still inhabitable. When Eclipse touched the ground, he immediately put small creatures behind him and prepared for an attack.

"I don't wish to fight you," said Silver. "I only want to know, why is Shadow after you and hopefully…" his spikes went down, "I can reason with him enough not to let myself turn into a pancake. So, what is with the destruction, he was talking about?"

Black and red alien felt confused. His behavior was if nothing else… strange.

"Oh, yeah, my name is Silver, Silver the Hedgehog." Silver slightly bowed. "Can you tell me your names?"

"I'm… I'm Eclipse the Darkling and these are my Dark Arms."

"Those kids?" Silver looked at them and noticed everyone of them were different. One reminded him a bird, named Cregal, another one had block-shape with four small legs, named Blurg, the third one appeared to be eel-like, named Cyzer and the last one had a shape of a simple music note, named Rhygenta.

"How can you call them weapons? They are living beings like you." Silver looked concerned. He rose his arm and picked up a torn up sheet and a bucket filled with water.

"But you look like you need a good shower first," he said with a smile.

Eclipse took it and started to clean them. Silver noticed he started to smile a little and he talked with them while they were answering with their specific language.

'Hmm, he doesn't treat them like items, maybe I just misheard him or something. Or the word 'arms' has the different meaning for him.'


[Shadow's location]


Meanwhile, our black hedgehog got out of the water. Just because he can swim, unlike certain blue blur, doesn't mean he enjoys to get wet.

"When I get my hands on that psycho hedgehog, he will be sorry, he has ever visited my time zone," he growled as he was looking around.

"Where am I anyway?" He saw only sand and one far away city.

"Guess I'll check it there." He activated his hover shoes and headed for the city.


[Silver & Eclipse]


"So basically Shadow destroyed your whole race," said Silver, as he just finished listening to Eclipse's story. Alien looked at him delightedly. It seemed this strange hedgehog, bought his a little bit twisted version about his conflict with Shadow.

At this moment, he couldn't be too picky. He needed all the help, he could get. His Dark Arms may be recovered from the worst, but they were still far from being useful in the battle. His thinking was interrupted by a loud noise coming from his stomach with few others following. These came from the little ones.

"Sounds like a gong to the lunch," said Silver with a smile. "Come with me, I found a strange plant with a quite tasty fruit if I can say so."

They followed him to the ground, where Eclipse was shocked. That strange plant was…

"I've never seen anything like that." Silver touched the black and red roots-like plant. The main body was buried under the surface, with no visible mean how to harvest it. "But the most puzzling is the way, how you get the fruit." He touched it with his hand and used his psychic ability. "Somehow I can 'communicate' with it through my mind." Soon the round fruit appeared and Silver send it to them.

Before he could say 'Good appetite.', two creatures started to fight over one piece, while the box-like Blurg didn't even chew.

"Cregal! Cyzer! How many times do I need to tell you, not to fight over food! And you Blurg, you forgot to chew! Again! Take an example from Rhygenta, she is well mannered."

Silver observed their interaction and had a quiet chuckle. Now it was obvious, they weren't weapons or anything like that. They were family.


[Shadow's location]


Shadow had meanwhile arrived in the city and looked around. He found out that this place was strangely familiar to him. That disturbed him even more. As he walked through ruined places he saw cars, lamps, pieces of stones, buildings, and different metal objects like road signs. He picked one up.

'This is…!' He let it fell on the ground and a metallic sound echoed through empty space. It sounded like a sad cry. "This place…! Can it really possible be…!" He clenched his fist and started to run. If his suspicion was right, then this place is…

[Silver & Eclipse]

Eclipse looked at Silver. Is he also part of the Black Arms? If so, why is his fur color so messed up? Was he created like him? Black Death hadn't told him about anybody else. He alone was the ultimate answer to their ultimate problem.

"Silver, where actually are we?"

"Right, you came here by Genesis portal." Silver then explained him about it, his mission to close them and his radar.

"So we are in a completely different world?"

"That's right. Fortunately, I can tell which portal leads where, if I was before in the world they led to. In other words, if one appears, I can tell you if it leads to your home or not."

Eclipse had wanted to say something when nearby wall exploded and from the smoke emerged angry black hedgehog.

"Chaos spear!" He throws at him green energy.

Eclipse didn't have time to block his chaos ability or to use his own, as he was still too tired, neither to avoid the attack. He crossed his arms in a hope, it will make the pain more bearable. But to his big surprise, the spear took to the sky.

"Silver?!" both shouted at once. After all, it was his doing, that the spear missed his target completely.

"Wait, Shadow, we can talk this out."

"There is nothing to talk about, Silver!"

"Cregal!" The bird-wisp-like creature fused with Eclipse and turned his arms into wings. He immediately took the rest of his Dark Arms and flew away.

"Chaos spe-!" Shadow felt nothing. Eclipse blocked his ability, so he ran after him.

"Shadow, wait! Why did you erase his whole race? What did they do to you?" Silver flew after him.

"What they did?" Shadow shouted back at him. "They brainwashed me into attacking my team, they live by destroying whole races and they tried to destroy Mobius too! You get it now?!" Shadow didn't wait for his answer and resumed his pursuit.

"So what did I do then?" He stopped and looked at his palms. "Did I help a villain?"


[Eclipse]


Eclipse was forced to land, as Cregal ran out of energy.

'Darn it! Shadow will be here any second. I need a plan!' Around him were the ruins, that covered most of the surroundings. The shape of this place reminded an intersection. He got a plan.

Shadow slowed down, as he felt, that Eclipse was near. He pricked up his ears, in an attempt to catch every sound. And it paid off. There was movement on his left side. He attacked the spot with his spinning attack.

"What the?!" It wasn't Eclipse but the flying wisp.

"Too bad, brother!" shouted the alien and hit him from behind with sonic cannon.

Shadow flew few meters before he landed among the debris.

"Now you are gonna pay for your betrayal!" Eclipse released Rhygenta and jumped into the air. Shadow threw a big stone at him and hit his forehead, making him flinch. Hedgehog jumped to his feet and both of them started to wrestling.

Neither of them was willing to back down. They stayed like that for a couple of minutes, before Shadow rammed his head into Eclipse's forehead. That caused him to see stars and lose the balance. He felt on the back with Shadow on the top.

Hedgehog started to choke him. Eclipse struggled, but his strength was quickly leaving him. Blurg was hurrying to fuse with him, but he may not make it in time.

'Am I going to die here?'

Shadow reached out to hit him.

'Who will take care of the little ones?'

Shadow clenched his fist even more.

'Who will take revenge for my family?'

Eclipse was losing his grip on Shadow's arm, that was choking him.

"Watch out!" Silver shouted and lifted all of them from the ground.

"What are you-?!" Shadow didn't finish his sentence, when the spot, where they had been fighting, exploded.

"Incoming!" Silver stood before them, created a shield and blocked laser shots. "Who are those guys?"

Shadow and Eclipse, who stopped coughing, were in a shock.

"These are… Black Arms…"

The black and red creatures gathered around them, surrounding them in the air and on the land as well.

"Can we talk…?" Silver's try to talk with them met with the silence.

Among the flying raptors appeared one-eyed flying starfish.

"You! It can't be!? You are dead! I killed you, Shadow!"

"Black Doom," whispered the black hedgehog.