Chapter 1
DARKNESS INCARNATE
It began in two days that never were, two days where times collided, societies collapsed and a hero fell, a story of past, present and future, this is the story of the return of time demon Mephiles the dark.
He had finally done it, Solaris had finally wiped out reality past, present and future despite the interruption from the three chaos powered rodents, Sonic, the persistent glory hog who never took a situation seriously until it was too late and yet still had to be taught death twice, Silver, his former enemy as iblis and lackey as Mephiles who's naive attitude undid him when he was put in his place, and Shadow, the self-proclaimed ultimate life form stumbling around in the dark trying to stop the inevitable outcome of the battle which he can only blame himself for losing.
Solaris could feel the remnants of his former adversaries scattering across time to die, he could be feel the foolish scientist gasping in terror and confusion, he could feel shadow cry out in realisation of his failure, he could also feel…no…it couldn't be…sonic had found his way to the alter…but how…the girl…the bearer…she told him…he's blowing it out…
"NOOOOO!" screamed Mephiles as he was torn from his brethren and sent into a temporal hell where all paradoxes go…whitespace.
It felt like years that he was dammed to that empty void despite for all Mephiles knew it could have it could have been seconds due to time having little to no meaning there both metaphorically and literally but then…it happened, whitespace started to tear open like wet paper as a creature that seemed to be of both spiritual and mechanical origin started to send different time zones into the void, upon closer inspection this seemed to be a creation of the fat man in the pod, Mephiles also noticed life forms falling into the void including the three rodents who foiled his grand plan but then he realised he wanted their suffering to come from him alone, so Mephiles placed a barrier around each of them to stop them from diminishing like the rest after finding the chaos emeralds and selectively placing them throughout the void, if they found the emeralds then they would defeat the foolish scientist and return to their time where he would follow them and if not…well…he would make the most out of the opportunity.
Mephiles stood over the unconscious Shadow
"Enjoy this child's play while it lasts Shadow, your time will come soon enough" he said to the paralysed hedgehog who had caused him so much grief, Mephiles then began to wait...
Mephiles knew when his plan worked as the timelines began to disappear he then started to move to the nearest exit before he spotted 3 all too familiar figures nearby his own erased timeline "Time for retribution…" Mephiles chuckled evilly as moved in to face his first and most obvious target.