(A/N) I've tried out a different style of writing for SA-TE, more of an analysis than storytelling...be warned...you are about to see the world through my eyes...

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Sonic Adventure – The End

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THE END – a strange way to start a story don't you think? It signifies a finish, a conclusion, a resolution. But none of these things are to be found at the start of a tale such as this. So now we must think of the other meanings…perhaps a way to show a meaning, a cheap trick invented by brainless idiots to make the story more interesting…but since this meaning cannot be found easily, it shall be told. This is THE END of a story, and the start of an account…an "analysis" of the events that this story is depicting…this story starts at THE END and finishes at the start…and it is THE END of something old, and the start of something new altogether. No resolution shall be found, for, a resolution is not an end but a start.

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Prologue

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Robotnik shook his head, his mouth the image of smugness and confidence. Words were spoken loudly; there wasn't even an attempt for concealment of them.

'This could be the best plan ever.'

Simple words, so naïve, even dim-witted for a man of his supposed reputation.

'That Sonic won't know what hit him.'

Once again, the words were uneducated and blunt. Confidence and the promise of destruction overruled him.

'Chaos will not fail. I'm sure of it!'

As much as Robotnik was "sure of it", to use such a crude term, he was mistaken. Stupid one might say, or one might even go as far as to call him "cocky", a term usually reserved for the blue hedgehog that was the subject of all this chaos. But nevertheless, no matter how similar he was to the one he vowed to destroy or how interesting that conclusion is, the fact of the matter is that he was wrong. Chaos would fail in the goal that Robotnik originally set out to use him for. And as the speech of such a man continued, ranting and reassuring himself from the pit of doubt that was growing smaller with each statement, it is amazing that we can look back and see how terribly wrong he was.

But what if Chaos did not fail? Sadly, Chaos succeeding is not going to happen this time. Yet, what does one consider a success? A goal completed? As Robotnik would soon come to realise, success was not his goal completed.

Success was knowing that it could be.

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thus is the end of a chapter…the start of a beginning…