So... for those of you saying WHAT ABOUT AWAITED? ...I'm sorry! I really want to update that!
Sonic: So why haven't you?
Me: It's been crazy! I have a new government class, and the homework is crazy!
Sonic: But you did this!
Me: I annoyed my parents at the same time!
Silver: I don't mind. I'm not in Awaited.
Blaze: I know. I'm the same.
Me: And I did say I would do this. So let's get this going. Silver, you do the disclaimer!
Silver: Dreamweaver doesn't own the characters, Sega does. But the theory is hers.
Sonic: Theory?
Me: Let's go!
A flash of white light, and Silver came again from two hundred years later.
He frowned as he flew across the landscape, trying to focus on the unusual energy. Something had changed the future again, and he had to fix the problem. It had taken him a while to trace the source of the change, but nothing would stop him now that he had it. He wouldn't let anything stop him.
The concentration of the energy felt stronger to his left. He turned in that direction, feeling the wind through his fur, and he found a cave. Silver walked in without question. This was where the change had began. It was time to put things right. The other-dimensional could not stay.
He tensed as he heard an angry, shrill scream. Had he heard that voice before…?
"Give me the Sol Emerald!" he heard her scream. Silver sighed. Of course. Another misplaced Sol Emerald… and of course that would bring a certain angry pyrokinetic feline back into the picture.
He turned into a chamber in the cave, and found Blaze flying at a robot. Quickly, he assessed the situation. This room in the cave had somewhat soft stone for the walls and softer rock for the ground. There was no ceiling, just an opening into the sky – and considering the heat Blaze was generating from her fire, that was a good thing, Silver realized as he dodged a fireball. Blaze blinked as she saw him. "Ah!" she cried, blushing. "Oh, sorry – hey!" She sprang off a wall at the robot again, and the robot sidestepped again. "Give it back!" she screamed.
"Haha," the robot said flatly. "I'd love you to set me on fire, Princess."
Silver frowned. What kind of a taunt was that, anyways?
"Then quit moving!" the cat yelled, flipping and launching another fireball.
The robot sidestepped again, this time directly in front of Silver. The hedgehog frowned and psychically lifted the robot. "Hey!" the robot protested, again in the monotone.
"Thanks, Silver," Blaze said, narrowing her amber eyes at the robot. "Last chance, robot. Give me the Emerald, and I won't turn you to a puddle."
"I'd love you to set me on fire, Princess." The robot beeped. Silver furrowed his brow and looked at the robot carefully. That emblem…
"Your funeral!" Blaze shouted, sending off a fireball again. Silver snapped back, knowing he had to act, and he slammed the robot into a wall and out of the fire's way. The wall crumbled a little bit at the point of impact, but the robot beeped, so he knew it was still functioning. "Silver!" Blaze looked shocked.
"Blaze, there's something wrong with this," Silver said, frowning again. Blaze furrowed her brow. "Hey, you, why would you love the princess to set you on fire?"
The robot beeped. "My destruction by fire means Eggman Nega's rule," it answered in a monotone voice.
Blaze crossed her arms. "What in the world are you talking about?" she asked, anger burning in her voice. Silver could tell she was interested too, so he pulled the robot out of the wall into the center of the room. He knew it was Nega. The same emblem of the now-tyrant… what had he done this time?
"My destruction by fire means many more destructions by fire. Explosives." The robot beeped. "Eggman Nega will rebuild the world he destroyed. All will obey. Hail Eggman Nega!"
Blaze's jaw dropped. "What…?"
"Your destruction by fire, huh?" a familiar voice said. "How about by foot?" A blue blur streaked downward into the room, soaring through the robot. The robot broke into several pieces, and Silver let go of the pieces. They flew around the room. A familiar blue hedgehog stood up. "Pretty dumb of him to make a robot that told you guys everything, huh?" Sonic commented, grinning and brushing dirt off his arms.
"Sonic." Blaze frowned, then gasped. "Wait, where's the Sol Emerald?' she asked, looking around with wild eyes.
Silver bit his lip and closed his eyes. The energy… the Sol Emerald's energy… he launched himself into the air and closed his hands on the warm gem. In the midst of the robot's destruction "by foot", the Emerald somehow was thrown upward. He flew back down and landed next to Blaze. "Here," Silver said simply, offering her the Emerald.
Blaze's eyes brightened. "Thank you." She took the Emerald, and in the process, she touched Silver's hand. She had a very warm hand. It felt good against Silver's currently icy one…
Silver looked at her, and he looked at her amber eyes. Little flecks of red, but mostly yellow, fire-like eyes. Blaze looked at his yellow eyes, with a hint of metallic glint in them, cold in color and warm in determination. Both of them were wondering the same thing. "I know this sounds weird," Silver said, blushing slightly, "but do you ever feel like…"
"…we used to know each other?" Blaze finished, tilting her head. Silver nodded, frowning. "Then, yeah."
Sonic laughed. "I guess you guys don't remember anything, huh?"
Silver and Blaze both turned to him. "Remember anything with what?" Silver asked, frowning.
"Do the names… let's see…" Sonic tapped his finger against his chin. "Soleanna? Does that mean anything to you?"
Blaze frowned. "That's a city of water in your world, right? I don't like water."
Sonic sighed. "Elise?" Silver shook his head. "Mephiles, maybe?" The white-gray hedgehog bit his lip and shook his head slowly, although that sounded a little familiar. "What was it… Ilbis?"
"The Ilbis Trigger?" Silver and Blaze said in unison, then exchanged glances.
"Yup. You called me that when you first showed up, Silver." Sonic grinned. "You thought I was going to release some sort of demon."
"Part of one," Silver answered, and then he frowned. What was he talking about? How did he know that?
"Maybe you can remember after all, with some prompting," Sonic said, grinning again. "You both showed up to stop something that would destroy your future. For some reason, you thought I had something to do with it."
"The Ilbis Trigger…" Blaze murmured, frowning. "I…"
"There was a guy who looked like Shadow with you guys." Sonic crossed his arms. "Remember him?"
"Vaguely," Silver answered. "Was that… Mephiles?" As soon as he said it, he knew it was right.
"Yup. He was from your future too." Sonic grinned as they processed this information.
"Wait. Blaze and I were from the same future?" Silver asked, eyes widening.
"What..." Blaze blinked. "Geez. That lava place in my dreams… that wasn't fake…"
"I don't know what your future was like," Sonic said with a shrug. "You two seemed pretty close when you showed up. You showed up, I got killed for a couple of minutes, sort of, and then I came back and me, Shadow, and you, Silver, all went Super and fought some sort of demon-god thing."
"Solaris," Silver muttered. "Elise… I remember her now. She had some sort of a crush on you or something, she kissed you to revive you."
Sonic blushed. "That wasn't it! It was just a channeling thing!"
Silver rolled his eyes. "Sure it was."
Blaze blinked. "Even when you say that, I don't remember it," she said with a frown, holding the Sol Emerald tighter.
Sonic frowned. "Yeah, I don't think you were there," he answered, tapping his foot. "And I'm not sure I ever knew why."
Silver gasped. "I remember now. We fought Ilbis." He turned to Blaze, his eyes wide. "We beat him, but for him to go, one of us had to seal him inside of us…"
"…and I took him." Blaze's eyes also widened with the memory. "You tried first, but it didn't work, so I took him to… another… dimension." The yellow-eyed animals stared at each other in disbelief.
"That explains a lot," Sonic said easily. "I was wondering how Blaze could be an other-dimensional princess and have come from your future at the same time." He grinned. "Well, not at the same time… ah, whatever."
"What does that explain?" Blaze frowned. "I've never heard of Ilbis in my dimension. I don't think he exists."
"He doesn't. Elise blew out the Flames before he was born. We time-travelled too." Sonic leaned against a wall.
"So… none of these we remember ever happened, in effect," Silver said, crossing his arms.
"Which is why you didn't remember anything initially." Sonic shrugged. "The memories got buried. Elise and I were there when the Flames blew out, so we remembered it. But no one else immediately remembered it."
"But if it didn't happen, why didn't I stay in the future with Silver?" Blaze asked, putting her hands on her hips.
"I wondered that too, at first," Sonic answered. "I talked it over with Tails and got him to remember stuff. And he thought maybe a dimensional shift was more permanent than existence."
Blaze blinked in confusion for a moment. "Explain… that… better," she said slowly. Silver nodded.
Sonic bit his lip. "I think… it's like… okay, like Solaris's existence could be undone, but you being in a different dimension couldn't be, so you just became a part of that dimension. You know?"
Blaze bit her lip. "That… makes a little more sense." She crossed her arms. "That explains why I never knew my parents. I was adopted into the royal family." She looked down.
Sonic shrugs. "Hopefully, you guys start to remember stuff. Sounds like Tails and I have our work cut out stopping Nega from blowing stuff up, so I'll catch ya later!" He bolted out of the cave, leaving the two alone with their slowly surfacing memories.
Silver looked at the cat again, at a loss of words. Blaze was regarding him similarly. "If that's the case, I wonder how I ended up with Nega," Blaze murmured. "He's usually in my world."
"I remember he was sealed to another dimension, when Espio and I and Sonic and Tails and – oh never mind," Silver said, "but, um, when we all stopped him from unleashing this thing called Ifrit. Maybe he figured out how to do it himself after that?"
"Could be," Blaze said. "He was saying something about Ifrit when he first showed up, apparently…"
Silver suddenly realized he had never let go of the Sol Emerald, and Blaze was still touching his hand. And he also realized he didn't want her to go. There was a faint, fond memory coming to the surface…
Blaze seemed to realize this at the same time, and she took the Sol Emerald completely. "I have to go," she said softly. "The Sol Emerald will only bring problems here." She looked at him with a little sadness. "Maybe we can try to catch up sometime?"
"Maybe," Silver whispered. He frowned. "I'll have to figure out how to travel between dimensions."
Blaze started to say something, but seemed to reconsider. She shook her head. "I'm sorry, Silver. I really am." She frowned and took a few steps back. "Thank you for your help. And…" She looked at him carefully. "I really do hope I can see you again."
Silver opened his mouth, not sure what he would say, but Blaze held up the Sol Emerald, and in a flash of fire she was gone.
Me: This is why this ended up being a twoshot, instead of the oneshot I wanted. It took too long to explain my theory for how both of Blaze's origins can be true.
Blaze: Interesting theory. Nice explaining Nega as well.
Me: Haha. I try.
Silver: Since this is supposed to be a Valentine's thing, are you going to finish this today?
Me: That's the goal. I have to work on an essay some first.
Silver: I hope you get it done. I don't like this separation.
Blaze: -frowns- Same.
Me: Yup. I'll try to update later today. In the meantime, feel free to review!