Prologue (Sonic): Disappeared
Be careful, Sonic. Those were the lasts words I heard, before I left to find out what happened to Shadow and Silver.
About a week ago, Silver arrived in our time, informing us about a strange time anomaly that was detected in the future. He left with Team Dark (Shadow, Rouge and Omega) to find out what was going on.
During the mission, they were attacked and knocked out. When they woke, they found that Shadow and Silver had disappeared.
But that wasn't the strange part, though. The strange part was that Rouge didn't remember the attack, the mission, or even Shadow and Silver. In fact, none of my friends remembered Shadow and Silver. Except for Omega, and of course, me.
While the memory files of the attack have somehow been deleted, Omega had managed to save back-up memory files of the mission, as well as my missing friends, by saving them on a hidden memory drive before the mission. Someone had apparently tried to reprogram new memory files into him, but the first thing Omega did when he woke up was access the hidden memory files, so he had both the memories of this new fake like, and his old real life.
Since I was the only other than him who remembered Shadow and Silver, he asked me personally find them while he tried to figure out what was going on. Of course, I was going to do that even if Omega didn't ask me to it.
My other friends didn't believe me when I said that I was search for Shadow and Silver, of course. They didn't remember a Shadow or a Silver. But the wished me luck anyway. Be careful, Sonic. That's what Amy had said.
Those words kept ringing in my mind. For some reason I felt like I should turn back, hide from whatever this was. But I couldn't. I dealt with this kind of thing just about every day (well not really, of course, and this memory loss thing was definitely a new one). Besides, whether they admitted it or not (well, Shadow more like), they were my friends, and I was going to find them.
With some help form the Chaotix, I was able to find a clue to where Shadow and Silver's whereabouts might be. And that clue was where the attacker might be.
I stood in front of dark alley. It was dark and stormy, rain heavily pounding on the ground.
"Well, the Chaotix went to a lot of trouble to get this meeting to happen for me," I told myself, "I can't let it go to, waste."
I walked into the alley, unaware of what was going to happen.
Of course the alley led straight to a dead end. Just perfect.
Then again...
"Hello, is anyone here?" I called out.
No one answered.
"I guess not." I started to walk back.
Then a voice from the shadows called out, "Are you here for the meeting with Chaotix?"
I quickly stopped and turned out when he spoke. I was startled, but I did my best to hide it.
I couldn't see what he looked like because it was too dark, but I could see that he was standing on one of the fire escapes, leaning against the wall.
I gave a smirk. "There is no meeting with the Chaotix. It was a trick, so I could find you!"
He chuckled. "Of course, as I expected. Still, I'll have to punish them for lying to me."
That stunned me. "W-wait, you knew I was coming?"
"Of course, Sonic the Hedgehog. I knew you would come looking for your friends. What were their names? Shadow... and Silver, right."
"Where are they? What did you do to them?"
"Oh, you'll see them soon. You will be joining them in their new, quiet, little life, out of the way my conquest."
I was getting angry. "Nobody messes with my friends. Tails, Amy, Shadow, Silver, the Chaotix... all of them. Got that?"
"Yes, but, you see... sometimes things change. And now... things will change... forever."
At this point, I was done this guy's words.
"Oh, are you mad now? Are you going to attack me...? Just try it."
Yeah, I will, I thought.
As quickly as I could (which was faster than sound, of course), I ran up the wall away from him, jumped off, and in midair, kicked him off the fire escape. I landed where he was standing and turned around to see where he landed. He hit the ground face down, but the fall barely did any damage... and he was already getting up.
"Oh, no you don't!" I yelled, and jumped off, planning to stomp attack him. But before I could hit him (much less land on the ground), he spun around on the ground and swept kicked me, knocking me to the side. And before I could hit the ground, he spun around again and kicked me in the chest, sending me tumbling away from him.
I quickly got up, glaring at him. Now standing, he made a "come at me" gesture with hand, with a smug expression on his face. Without a second thought, I dashed towards him, attempting to punch him in the face. But before it could connect, he dodged out of the way, but it like he disappeared.
I was stunned from what just happened, but it didn't help when the strange guy spoke. "So you're the Faster Thing Alive. Well, it's true... enough, but you weren't fast enough to hit me."
I spun around. He was standing twenty feet away from.
"Like I said, things are changing," he said.
Was he as fast as I was? Was it possible there are others like me?
"Now, let's see..." he continued.
It was still too dark to see him completely, but even from where I was, I could see that his eyes started glowing crimson red, and that a strange glowing blue symbol that appeared above his right hand like a hologram, though he was too far away from me to make out what it looked like.
"I heard you can't swim so..."
He raised the hand with the symbol above his head. Sudden, water shot out of any nearby drainage grates (somehow being completely clean), and even the rain stopped in midair. Then all that water started to gather around me, lifting me off the ground until I was submerged in a sphere of water hovering off the ground.
I felt like I was going to drown, but then the water pushed me out the top of the sphere, though it was only my head. My body was still stuck in the water sphere. The rain started to fall again like normal.
"The Fastest Thing Alive," he taunted, "and water is your weakness. Pathetic, especially since water is my strength."
"Wh-who... are you...?"
"They call me... Mirror," he replied.
I tried to get free, but it was like the water was a giant hand, and I was in its strong grip. And this grip was getting tighter as Mirror slowly clasped his right hand into a fist.
"Try all you want, but you are not getting out of that water lock."
"You won't get away with this!" I screamed.
"Oh, I already have. Now, it's time for step two." He looked to the sky. "You can come out now."
Two more figures landed side-by-side to Mirror. Again, it was too dark to make out what they looked like.
"Lunar, Crystal," Mirror told them, looking at them as he spoke their names, meaning the one on the left of him was Lunar, and the one on the right was Crystal. "Finish our business here."
"But of course, Master," said the one who I assumed was Lunar. The voice was female, probably in her twenties, but that didn't matter much to me if I couldn't make out what she looked like.
Her eyes started glowing like Mirror's, but they were a silvery white instead, like the moon (fitting, considering her name). She raised her hands and tendrils of light the same glowing color of her eyes shot out and connected to my entire body.
As soon as they touched me, I was suddenly in incredible pain. My bones started cracking and shifting. It was like my whole body what changing.
"You up next, Crystal," she said, which meant I was right about who was who.
"Fine," Crystal replied. His voice had an amused tone in it.
He jumped onto the water sphere right in front of me (it was still too dark to see his face), standing (well kneeling) on it like it was some king of floor. The light tendrils didn't affect him, they simply moved around him.
"Enjoy your new life, Sonic," he said. I couldn't see it, but he was probably smirking.
His eyes started glowing crimson red like Mirror's and he raised his hand above my forehead. Then it started glowing crimson red.
The rain started to fall harder. Something fell in front of my left eye. It looked like blue hair.
"Good bye, Sonic," Mirror said, "forever."
My last thoughts were of Amy. Be careful, Sonic. Here I was, unable to do anything, not even apologize to her.
Crystal's hand started to glow brighter, and then waves of red energy shot around me, and I drifted into slumber.