Here's the second instalment into the series! Hope you like!
The Memory of the Robotnik Name
~Prologue~
(Current Year: 2004)
Metal walked around the surface of the Earth, angry. He had been kicked out of the Death Egg by his creator, Doctor Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik. All this time Metal knew him as Ivo, but now he preferred to call him Eggman due to what he had done.
Right now Metal was in a jungle. He found a waterfall, deciding to sit on a rock near it. He was still upset over Callie's sudden, unfortunate death. It was all because of that stupid, corrupted hedgehog, Mephiles the Dark.
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Silver had arrived in the year 2004. He looked around, unsure if this was the timeline he was supposed to be in. Now he was fourteen years old. Silver was in the same jungle as Metal.
'This place sure is beautiful…' Silver thought. That was when he saw Metal sitting on the rock. Quickly, Silver hid behind the tree, until remembering something. Metal was Eggman's robot, which meant that he was Emmi's friend. So Silver decided to walk over to Metal.
Metal detected Silver approaching, his irises brightening as he turned quickly, grabbing Silver by the throat.
"Why are you here?" Metal asked in a threatening tone of voice.
Silver choked a little. "I've… from… future…" he gagged. "Stop… Iblis… Save… Emmi…"
Before Silver's face turned purple and before he fell unconscious, Metal dropped him.
"Saving her is impossible," he stated.
"But I can travel through time," Silver corrected, rubbing his throat as he got back on his feet.
"Only Emmi could do that with her watch," Metal countered.
Silver held up his wrist, showing Metal the watch. "She wanted me to come back and stop Iblis, the one who destroyed my world, also mentioning that I might encounter you," he explained. "I also realised that I could use this to save her."
"You can't save a time-traveller," Metal confirmed. "It can cause a paradox." As he said that, he whirred, holding his head.
"Are you okay?" Silver asked.
Metal let go of his head slowly, standing straight. "…Just don't make me think of what I just mentioned," he replied. "Otherwise I'll malfunction. Trust me, you don't want to see me with a malfunction."
"I think I've heard about them," Silver recalled.
"I'm not even going to ask what you've heard," Metal responded. "Anyway, I should help you find that Iblis… thing."
"Since I'm not sure of when it rises, I'll stick with you until it does," Silver assured.
"Great…" Metal grunted, not sounding too pleased.
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Nearby was a girl. She had black hair tied back in two ponytails, looking to be about eight years old. She was wearing a black dress with a white collar and long black sleeves, being white on the end. She wore a large belt which was black and shiny, and she was wearing rolled-up white socks with strap-on black shoes. Her eyes were green – a rather familiar green.
The girl was jumping along some stepping stones in a creak quite happily. She was unaware of the time-travelling hedgehog and the killer robot, also unaware about the attack Metal lead last year.
Whilst hopping along the stepping stones, the girl noticed an injured bird beside the creak, its wing broken. It was only a great tit, nothing like an owl or anything.
"Oh, you poor thing!" the girl exclaimed, horrified. She hopped to the side of the creak, picking the small bird up in her hands gently.
The bird tried to flap its wings, but it tweeted, which sounded like the tone of pain.
"Don't worry, I'll help you," the girl assured, carrying the bird to a large tree, sitting down. "I'll be right back." The girl then began climbing the tree, not very high, and onto one of the branches. She shuffled along it, pulling a first aid kid from the end of the branch where the leaves were. She climbed back down cared, making sure not to land on the great tit when jumping down from the smaller height she reached.
The girl began to bandage the bird's wing.
"There you go," she said after she was finished, after about two or three minutes.
The bird simply chirped, in what sounded like thanks.
"You're welcome," the girl smiled. "Soon you'll be better. But I'll let you rest in my tree for now." The girl held the bird carefully in one of her hands, struggling to climb up the tree one-handed. She placed the bird in a hole in the tree trunk, usually where you'd see owls nesting in the children's books. The girl then went back down and brought the first aid kit back up, putting it back in its rightful place.
The girl looked at the bird. "I'll go find some worms for you to eat," she said, heading back down and searching for some worms.
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So we've seen the main characters. Some weren't mentioned, I know, but they'll be in the story, like Mephiles, Cynthia and Metal Sniper. We'll also find out who the girl is very soon and we'll find out about her etc. Also, like the front cover? Yup, that's right, I have a front cover on the same time as I release the first chapter! The third instalment will be the same. What do you think? As a challenge, who is in Mephiles' eye?