One hundred and eighty six years into the future of the planet Mobius, a single figure clad in a purple coat lies on the grass.
Blaze the cat stares up at the sky longingly. She lets out a sigh that has a tone of boredom or worry as she idly weaves fire thru her fingers. Her train of thought is broken when she notices a crack in the sky.
"Silver!" she said as she jolted upwards.
The crack widens into a hole leading to a vortex of striped colors. Silver the hedgehog comes out of it. The hole closes as he descends down to Earth.
"Yo!" said Silver as he cheerfully gave Blaze a little wave.
"So," said Blaze, "did you do it?"
"Yup!" said Silver as he cheerfully noded. "Sonic and everyone else are working together to fix everything that Eggman broke! Are the robots gone?"
"Almost," Blaze said as she motioned toward a Death Egg robot, somehow spontaneously dismantling itself. "They're all just destroying themselves on their own."
"That's terrific!" Silver cheered. "Thanks for staying back to make sure everything is ok!"
Blaze was unimpressed. "How is the council going to react to this?"
"I…" Silver mumbled as his face fell. "I don't know… we never spoke a word about this to anyone, right?"
"How exactly can I tell anyone when you've been gone for only about two hours? Not to mention the fact I was busy protecting everyone else."
Silver's eyes widen in surprise. "I was only gone for two hours here?"
Despite Silver spending more than six months in the present with the Resistance, he returned to his own time only two hours after he had left.
Blaze rolls her eyes and shakes her head. "I hope they don't find out about our secret mission," she sighed.
"But aren't you the princess?" Silver asked hopefully. "Surely you can do something, right?"
"It's apparent you don't understand how a constitutional monarchy works,"
Silver's blank smile backed up Blaze's observation. "What?"
Blaze rolled her eyes at SIlver, then said "Anyways, let's go," She turns and starts walking towards the city.
"Let's go on a date!"
Silver's exclamation clearly caught Blaze's attention. She stopped in her tracks, then slowly turn her head to face him. "Excuse me?"
Without bothering to explain, Silver grabbed Blaze's hand and starts running forward. "C'mon, let's go!" he said with a purely innocent, joyful smile.
Blaze, however, only had a blank smile as she had no idea what had just transpired.
Silver dragged Blaze all the way to his post, the Room of Records. It is a dark room with only one door and one window. However, the room itself has a size big enough to compensate for the giant computer and it's even bigger translucent monitor. The bright light given off from the monitor gives the room a sort of ominous, desolate atmosphere. However, that is not the case at this given moment.
Blaze, clearly mad that Silver forcefully dragged her all the way here, pries her hand out of his grip. "If this is your idea of a 'romantic' date, and to which, I might add, I never agreed to, then you clearly need to develop a larger imagination."
Silver blushed profusely as he gave Blaze an embarrassed smile. "Yeah… uh…." he mumbled as he started looking away, blushing even more. "I've something to ask you…"
"Which is?" Blaze asked as she crossed her arms.
"Blaze…" Silver mumbled.
"Yes?"
"Will you…"
"Uh huh?"
"BLAZE!" Silver cried out. "WILL YOU MARRY ME?!"
Blaze looked hard at Silver. "...Excuse me?"
"Will you ma-"
"I heard you," Blaze interjected.
"Well...will you?" Silver pleaded. "I-in the future I mean."
Blaze's switch has clearly been flipped. Slowly, she threateningly stalks over to Silver in her graceful cat walk.
"I-I mean, I know I'm probably way too young for that, and we're just really great friends, but we can just take it a little higher now and start\ dating, right?" Silver stuttered as he backed away from Blaze and towards the computer.
The computer, sensing movement coming towards it, summons it translucent keyboard. It appears with a short, low whine as it slowly fades in. The monitor's display changes, and now it says "Welcome to Mobi-ware XL! Version 1.2.135" in big, egyptian blue Vivaldi letters against a gradient from morning blue to periwinkle.
"Come again?" growled Blaze.
"I…" Silver muttered. "I think I love you, Blaze…" Silver continues to move back until his back is against the keyboard. He accidentally presses something without knowing.
Blaze opens her mouth to say something to Silver, but the monitor flashes and diverts her attention. "What's that?"
Silver pushes away from the computer and bumps into Blaze. He turns to look at the monitor.
Displayed on the monitor are the records, however, three months after the Resistance wins against Eggman, there is a one year gap.
"That wasn't there before, was it?" asked Silver.
"I wouldn't think so," said Blaze. "Maybe you're doing just a little too much time travel,"
As the both converse, they do not notice the shadows creeping up on them.
"Look at this…" said Silver as he opened a record recorded directly after the one year gap.
The record he opened opens a black haze and deafening screeching noise mixed in noises from an old time fax machine. Through the dynn, Silver and Blaze could barely make out a few words.
"Help….No…..Stop….It's….Chaos…...No….Fears…..Black…..Plant…."
After that, the message is cut off by a high-pitched screeching noise. Silver and Blaze turn their heads away from the flashing lights on the monitor and cover their eyes.
"B-Blaze…" Silver mumbled as he noticed his shadow not acting normally.
Blaze lifts her head and sees the shadows creeping up on them. "Silver...What's…"
"I think it may have something to do with that corrupted record!"
As they stand up, they notice there is nothing but darkness as far as their can see. The door, the window, it's all gone and replaced with a black blacker than the blackest of black hearts. A sense of pure, unadulterated evil emanates from the shadows. Silver and Blaze step back away from the shadows that creep towards them slowly…. Menacingly…
"We have to fix this!" Silver exclaimed.
"Yeah!" Blazed agreed, "Let's go before whatever that is sucks us up into it!"
Silver looks around to find a way out. "It's no use!" he cried, "There's nowhere to go! And I can't open a time portal without the Chaos Emeralds!"
Blaze turns to face the shadows, fire in hand. "I'll hold them off! You try to get us out of here! Break the wall if you have to!"
Silver turns to the wall and uses his psychokinesis to pull out chunks of the wall, forming a hole for he and Blaze to escape. Blaze is busy shooting brilliant bursts of flames at the darkness, causing it to shy away farther from them. Eventually, a hole big enough for the two of them is successfully dig out. Silver grabs Blaze by the hand and they escape out of the room.
Outside, their precious world is in a state of ruining terror. The darkness keeps on creeping, engulfing anything and everything it touches. The anguished cries of women and children could be heard as the darkness latches on to them and sucks them in.
"This is bad…" said Silver, "Very bad…"
"Why is this happening?" said Blaze, on the verge of tears. "Why?"
"I… don't know," said Silver as he shook his disbelief. "I just don't know…"
Blaze starts crying into Silver's arms. Silver looks around him, waiting for the inevitable, as hot tears stream down his face. Everything he and Blaze worked to protect was being erased all in front of his eyes.
Silver's eyes stray to a point where the darkness has not yet plagued. There, at that point, was a crack in the sky.
It was a remnant of the Time Vortex Silver used to come back.
Maybe… Silver thought, Just maybe….
Silver grips Blaze's arm tightly, his eyes burning with determination. "C'mon!"
He leaps up and starts flying towards the crack, twisting and turning to avoid the expanding shadows.
I hope this works I hope this works I hope this works…
"Silver!" yelled Blaze, "What are you-?!"
"I have a plan!" I think… I hope… I hope this works I hope this works…
As Silver reaches the point, he let's go of Blaze.
"Hold that thing off! I'm gonna try and pry this thing open!" Silver cried.
"You're crazy!" said Blaze, even though she's already turned and shooting flames at the darkness. However, this only slows it down and not completely put its progress on stand still. "Silver, hurry! There's too much coming from all around us!"
"I'm….trying…." said Silver with a strained voice. The effort he is putting into prying open the Time Vortex is evident.
Slowly, but surely, the darkness creeps up on Silver and Blaze. Slowly and steadily, Silver pries open the Time Vortex all the way.
Silver quickly grabs Blaze's hand and says "Let's go," before jumping into the Time Vortex. It closes before the darkness could touch them.
Had they hesitated for a moment, they would've been sucked into the shadows and join the thousands of glowing red pairs of eyes in the dark…
