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"Yo! Stop sign!" A voice called.
"Huh? Where am I?" Silver thought. He was standing in the fiery ruins of someplace. "Where—" He paused as he looked ahead. There stood a white hedgehog, holding two gems, a fiery tornado flying around.
"Ahh! AH!" The hedgehog grunted. "No! Why won't it accept me as the vessel?" Silver had been here. That small hedgehog…was none other than Silver himself!
"Let me try. My soul is already alit with flames." A purple cat stepped up.
"Blaze!" Silver from the present yelled. The two in front of him did not respond. He could only watch in horror as the gut-wrenching scene happened before his eyes.
The Past-Silver had tears welling in his eyes.
"Come on! Make it quick! Use your Chaos Control to stop time. And seal us in another dimension!" Blaze called.
"…n-no. I can't do that to you!" Past-Silver cried.
"Didn't we go through this? We agreed to save the world at any price!" Blaze yelled.
Past-Silver clenched a fist, struggling to perform Chaos Control. He shook his head. "I…I CAN'T! I wouldn't know what to do…without you! You've fought alongside me to save the world…You're my friend……right?" Past-Silver's face was soaked with tears.
"You're still so naïve…" Blaze said, fighting back her own tears. "But…I……I've always liked that about you…" She began to vanish as she floated away.
"B—BLAZE!" Past-Silver cried harder than ever.
"Good luck, Silver…" Blaze finally disappeared, leaving Past-Silver to drown his sorrows.
Present-Silver was struggling not to look, but he was too depressed to move. His lip quivered as he asked the unknown force, "Why are you showing me this?" His only answer was a photograph in his tightly clenched fist. It was a blue hedgehog, whom he had never met. "The Iblis Trigger…"
REAL WORLD…
"And you say you've been having this vision due to something in your past?" The psychiatrist asked Present Day Silver.
"Yes…I'm standing there…I can only watch as this Blaze person disappears. I don't know why, but she seems so……familiar…And I know that blue, hedgehog…I can't remember ever meeting a blue hedgehog though…And that voice…so…familiar…It's like I've been sent back in time by a paradox or something…"
"And how long ago did you experience this for the first time?"
"A few days ago. In my vision, I'm fourteen again."
"How old are you presently?"
"I'm seventeen."
"Hmmmm……I will call you tomorrow. Get some rest."
"I'm afraid to…" He whispered, so that the doctor could not hear.
To be cont'd…