Well I'm back with the next chapter far later than I intended. I had problems including losing part of this chapter as my laptop broke down, then getting it back again, then a complete loss of motivation, admittedly. But finally, here's the next installment.
Thank you to all who reviewed, in particular to marilynmanson1990 for the first to review the new remake and another thanks to Rylum for his helpful pointing out for room of improvements.
I should also mention, as Rylum pointed out, that this isn't going to be just a Romance/Friendship of all…but with only 2 genres to choose from, I can't put in Romance/Friendship/Angst/Hurt/Comfort/Action/General.
Most noticeable difference you may notice in this chapter that differs from my previous version of "Shadow's of a Silver Mind" would be how Silver acts and when he comes in.
Now, rather than waste the time anyone reading this is taking out of their possibly busy schedules, I'll shut up now and let the next chapter commence.
Chapter 1: Shadows of the Future
Gloved fingers clenched in fists, before quickly relaxing as worn muscles protested at the stress. The owner of said fingers groaned in discomfort, remembering even his own name beyond him. He focused on the discomfort, and clenched a hand again, analyzing, thinking over the pain that it draws, letting it ever so slowly bring his senses back. He finally lifted a hand to his furred face, absently running it over his aching forehead and over his eyes to darken the bright light that he could tell was there even through his eyelids.
"Finally managed to wake, did you?"
Eyes shot open as instinct took over, lifting his upper body and throwing an arm out, his mind bending that movement into a psychic kinetic shot to repel whoever was there… Or so was the subconscious idea. Instead stiff muscles cramped at the sudden movement, and a gasp was ripped from the hedgehog's throat as he fell off the mattress he was on onto the cold floor, shuddering and twitching as his entire body cramped, flooding his senses with more pain as he closed his eyes and tried to stretch as many muscles as he could.
"Huh, I was going to advise you not to move too suddenly, but a bit late for that, I see." The voice was almost mocking, and yet faintly familiar… "And my next suggestion was going to be not to try to use whatever powers you might have left, which I doubt is any from the fact that your attempt did nothing. Besides that, from your clothing it's safe to assume that you're probably bled dry of any psychokinetic energy, at least for now."
The hedgehog's eyes opened again, slower this time as the cramps died down, tenderly rolling onto his back and lifting a hand to his face. The lines running through his cuff and glove that were used to focus his powers, normally a glowing cyan color, were now a dark, lifeless gray. Not even looking up, and ignoring the mocking voice, the hedgehog pushed his own head lightly, as if with another, unseen limb. Feeling no force, he focused his mind inward, a way he hadn't had to do since he was a child, his powers normally coming to him as easily as moving an arm or a leg. He looked through himself, searching his nerves, his mind, focusing in a meditative state to find the powers that were…him, that were always there. Except they weren't.
His cuffs, his gloves, his boots, the lack of colour in their conduits betrayed it: He was empty.
"It's usually rude in the past to ignore another, especially one who probably saved your life, Silver."
Silver held back from making any exclamation from hearing his name, after so long, but raised his gaze-carefully this time-to properly bring the figure above him into focus. It seemed as if it was a year ago that he last saw that mustached face…It wasn't long before he connected a name.
"Eggman…you were there, against Solaris." Silver rasped before regretting his words as his dry throat throbbed in protest of the irritation his voice caused. He leant against the cold steel wall, tenderly adjusting his muscles to prepare to stand up before a hand was offered from above him. Gratefully, Silver took it.
"Doctor Robotnik, actually, whatever you've heard people call me. Still, good to see your body has been exposed to enough Chaos energies to resist the mind-altering affects of Solaris' defeat." Eggman said, his voice suddenly kinder as he pulled the lightweight hedgehog up. Silver staggered as his body was pulled upright, instinctively trying to catch his own weight through his own powers, and almost tripping when no force held him up. Eggman caught the hedgehog's arm again to steady the considerably shorter hero.
"Like I thought, you use your powers as you would another limb. I suggest you try to get over that.", Eggman pointed out as he let go of Silver, guessing quickly the reason for the stumble, "What's happened in the future to get you running back here, and so drained?"
Silver carefully averted his eyes, using an arm to steady himself on the nearby wall as his other arm holds a hand over his throbbing eyes and head. He forced himself to think, the exercise more difficult as he anticipated as concentration was made difficult by what seemed to be a very bright white light filling the room, the distant sound of machinery that made his ears twitch in irritation and that pain that refused to leave his head.
'What has happened? Have I just been dreaming, asleep? Blaze…there was Blaze, who…she…she's gone. She helped me, helped our world. She helped those who would not help her…' The hedgehog's mind caught on the memories of Blaze, her body fading into mist as she drifts away from him… 'Blaze is…gone. She wished me luck… I beat…well, I helped beat Solaris.' The confused jumble of thoughts was not through lack of memory…or rather the same blurred judgment that you would often get from someone who has just woken up if you ask them what they thought, or dreamt, about while they slept, 'I must have- I guess I was asleep…dark, eternity, but over so soon…So quickly. How long?'
"How long?" Silver finally spoke his thought aloud, leaving Eggman's question unexplained. Eggman seemed to let out a small, indignant noise resembling 'hmph' at the lack of neither an explanation nor even thanks.
"How long?" Eggman mimicked, though without true malice, "How long since Solaris' defeat? By our time, it has been about two weeks. Considering I guess you must have moved backwards through the stream of time to get here, I don't know how long that is for you." Eggman looked at Silver expectantly, clearly hoping his observation about how long it was would allow any answers to be gleamed from the stricken hedgehog. Silver remained slow to respond, opening his mouth once, before closing it seconds after as he realized he didn't know what to say. His mind didn't know what to focus on, and was a flurry of confusion.
Silver's eyes looked down. His body felt…heavy, yet hollow. His head, his mind, his body, his heart…it all ached. He felt the creeping sensation of tears readying to well up, and-putting a hand on the nearby cold wall to stable himself-he turned himself around so his face would not be shown to Eggman. It's a strange feeling, knowing you're going to cry, even as you try and stop it. It is also a…vulnerable feeling, doing so in front of another.
"Two…weeks… Perhaps it has been seconds for me." Silver finally realized, saying aloud. Memories he'd rather not relive already causing the tears to drip over his eyelids, a single damp line already streaking down his face. He kept his voice steady, though, a deep, dulled feeling of pleasure at the realization that makes everything easier to comprehend, to make sense of. As he desperately pulled his mind away from one person, his newfound comprehension allowed him to recall something else as his brow knitted together in controlled thought.
"You…aren't normally a friend of Sonic's, are you? Shadow, Sonic, Amy…they spoke of you as more an enemy…" He realized, forcing back any remaining tears. His mind prepared to bend the air around his face, planning to dash away the liquid over his face psychokinetically, only to remember at the last second his mistake, and instead moved his wrists in what he hoped was a subtle movement over his face to take away any noticeable trace of his previous tears, before turning around accusingly to face Eggman, his body regaining some composure as his mind began to understand his surroundings.
A smirk was on Eggman's face, and he raised a hand to confidently stroke an end of his comically large moustache, teeth showing as the smirk turned to a grin. The grin disappeared, however, as a dulled siren sound erupted nearby.
"Warning. Unidentified intruder in Gamma Quadrant, thermal imaging confirms life-form as a therianthropic bat. Logic computations state likelihood of intruder being GUN agent identity, "Rouge the Bat", end identity, as 99.6% positive."
Long before the warning message had completed, Eggman had left the cell-like room where Silver was and was in the very next room, furiously typing onto a keyboard placed on a large panel filled with various dials, knobs and buttons. Various screens were projected above said panel, each showing thermal scans of areas around the base.
"Start a thermal sweep of all quadrants! Activate emergency patrolling robotic units, authorize lethal force, and activate all defense systems in Gamma Quadrant! Focus all units around the main power generators!" Eggman shouted commands into the panel underneath his fingertips, checking that the base generators-all conveniently situated in the Quadrant with said intruder-were all still running at full capacity. He spun around suddenly as he hears the sound of a boot hitting steel floor, seeing Silver, now clapping both hands over his ears at the siren, take a step towards the open door from the room he was still in. Eggman pointed a finger at the hedgehog, shouting yet more commands.
"And close the door to the Primary Cell, now!" The scientist continued to rave as the metallic sliding door, hidden in the frame beforehand, slammed shut before Silver could leave.
"Primary 'Cell'? Good to know that taking out Solaris means a lot to you." Silver almost drawled in sarcasm to nobody as he saw himself shut in. His head was aching, again, his arms and legs ached, he had none of the powers that defined him. He slumped back, sitting on the uncomfortable 'mattress' on the bed, thankful at least that the room at least mercifully dulled the sound from the sirens outside it.
He wasn't even sure he really cared about it all…about anything that was happening since he awoke to this mad, unfamiliar world.
'Blaze…'
...
Shadow pushed his back to a wall of the corridor he was in as soon as he heard the sirens. His ears flattened at the sudden noise, drowning out everything else in his ears as it echoed and magnified off the walls of said corridor. He remained like that for two heartbeats, until his ears dulled the high-pitched sound, losing their sensitivity. The "Ultimate-Life-Form" title was far from show, every nerve potentially able to block off any crippling pain shortly after registering it.
His ears perking up again as his senses dulled to cope with the noise, Shadow moved forward, standing in the center of the corridor and turning his head to look both ways. No robotics, cameras or other security measures in place that he hadn't already taken into account, so he hadn't set off the siren. The following message-it's piercing tone cutting through the sirens-confirmed his suspicions.
"Warning. Unidentified intruder in Gamma Quadrant, thermal imaging confirms life-form as a therianthropic bat. Logic computations state likelihood of intruder being GUN agent identity, "Rouge the Bat", end identity, as 99.6% positive."
Shadow suddenly began to skate in one direction, his 'boots' automatically recognizing as soon as he leant forward in such a motion and activating, allowing him to 'run' at a dangerous pace in the close-quarters, relying on both his reflexes and the map he had memorized to get himself through the base, heedless of any noise he made. Now that the siren was triggered, there was little point to stealth, though it was likely most of the security would be now directed at Gamma Quadrant, away from him.
He was already in the Beta Quadrant, close to where one of the main control centers are, as well as the cell where Silver was held, while Gamma Quadrant was where Rouge was indeed headed-looking to sever the primary power supplies from the generators there.
'Rouge, either you're losing your touch; setting off an alarm like that, or else you're growing soft; to divert many of the security robots for me.' Shadow contemplated to himself, skidding to a halt as he turned another corner in the maze of crossing corridors he was in. Several meters away was a high-security door, a camera mounted on a form of automated weapon on one side. The weapon quickly turned to Shadow, who quickly skated back around the corner from which he came as some form of high-powered shot ricocheted off the floor where he stood a second ago, a loud ringing noise accompanying it along with a gunshot.
Rather than drawing more attention trying to take out both the turret and getting through the door, Shadow instead took advantage of one of the many loopholes in Eggman's security measures, instead looking up to the thin metal roof.
A leap and an unnaturally strong, gloved fist later, and the hedgehog peeled away 'strips' of steel from the hole he had created until it was the size that he could easily leap out of, landing on top of the roof, outside in the chilly air. He paid no mind to the small metallic sounds his boots made on the roof he currently stood on, instead taking a quick glance around.
Besides the buildings that represented 'rooms' of importance, the entire base was nothing more than a complex of what Shadow knew to be corridors, though appeared as more square-shaped tunnels snaking between the various 'rooms'. The silhouette of the generators powering the base and the multitude of lights surrounding its outside were clear a short distance away, as he himself stood on top of one of the many branching 'tunnels'. Shadow turned his eyes to the small concrete building a few meters away, off another branching 'tunnel' where he had been inside seconds ago as he was shot at by the security measures Eggman had taken.
Pity for the scientist that, as always, he hadn't thought things through, leaving the outside of the base completely defenseless once inside the 'perimeter' enforced by 4-meter high concrete walls, complete with various other weaponry defenses that were easily breached by both Rouge and Shadow beforehand with explosives. From here he could see the small holes near the bottom of the high walls at the different points that he and Rouge had entered from, noting the lack of any true security to stop anyone who tries to get inside in any way besides the gates or over the top of the gunned wall.
Skimming over the remaining meters until he stepped off the 'tunnel' and onto the roof of the building-a mere couple of centimeters above the roof of the 'tunnel' that moved into it'-he now stood on, he took on a half-kneeling position, one boot flat on the roof, one knee flat along it. Raising his right fist, while using his left hand to steady himself further, he drove his raised hand into the roof, once again punching through the roof which-unlike the walls-were made with the same material that Eggman seems to use almost exclusively in any aspect of any of his bases-ordinary stainless steel. The resounding 'thud' shook through his arm and shoulder, as he peeled away strips of steel from the hole with the same ease as before when he left the corridor; until-after a quick look to confirm where he was landing-he dropped him through to land in a brightly-lit room.
"Before you ask me the same question as last time: No, the door would not have been easier." Shadow remarked as he instantly saw a familiar, and clearly obese, figure turn to face him as the hedgehog stood up to his full height…of less than 4 feet. Hearing his own voice, Shadow noticed that his hearing senses were back to normal sensitivity, and the siren itself had been dulled, though was continuing-albeit at a low volume.
"Shadow, my boy!" Eggman grinned, throwing his arms wide happily as if expecting the dark hedgehog to simply run up and hug him, "It's good to see you, you came just in time for me to-"
"Save it, I'm here for Silver." Shadow cut the eccentric 'doctor' off, dismissing his ranting with a wave of a hand. Far from stopping, Eggman continued, his grin-if anything-only growing wider.
"Ah yes, Silver. Good to see him again, wasn't it? Didn't think I'd be seeing him for my lifetime, I guess 2 weeks isn't bad then, is it? I'll say 'hi' to him, for you, don't worry." The doctor continued to proclaim cockily, "Oh, and while you're here, would you mind testing out a new design for my robots? Thanks." Eggman answered for Shadow, causing a frown to appear on the face of the Ultimate-Life-Form.
Shadow took a quick step back as a metal panel he hadn't noticed beforehand on the 'floor' in front of him dropped out, a hunkered metal figure appearing in the 'hole' formed, being raised slowly on a new panel. As the new panel-with it's clearly robotic load-locked into the place of the previous panel, distinct 'whirrs' were heard as the robot 'unfolded', rising into a standing position of at least 5 feet. The design was the same humanoid design as the rest of Eggman's new basic guardian robots, though no loose wires were noticeable through a full-body covering of various metallic plates.
Shadow took in its look in a heartbeat. Clearly more effectively armored than normal units, its plating gleamed off in the light, its colour warping slightly as a tell-tale sign of Titanium, though the thickness of the metal seemed to be at least several centimeters thick on each plate. No wiring could be seen through the 'armor' covering, though the bulging of various plates signified shock absorbers, concealed weaponry, concealed hydraulics, or 'all of the above'. Painted in clashing dark blue and red colours, the Eggman 'insignia' of said doctor's face was present on the shoulders of the machine.
The robot was the first to strike, rushing at Shadow without warning, covering too many meters with each step to be using only its legs for movement. Shadow's own movements were too fast to see easily as he simply sidestepped, letting the robot rush past him, revealing its back to have several small jets placed on it. Rather than careening into a wall, the robot moved with a surprising agility, skidding to a halt on its side before turning to face the hedgehog again before a new explosion of sound occurred within the room-a gunshot.
At almost the same time, the robot stopped suddenly, looking down at a new dent in a part of its plating on its torso, before seemingly analyzing it and turning its head to the wall near it. A small black hole was visible in the wall, and the machine suddenly lifted a hand to the hole, before with a small 'clang', a small metal object shot out of the hole into the open hand of the robot, clearly through magnetic force.
Shadow lowered the handgun he had drawn from his quills as the robot rushed past him, quickly returning it to a place in his quills. If a bullet from the simple weapon ricocheted off the robot at such close range, then such a weapon was going to be useless. Eggman must have used some form of composite material, not simple titanium, mused the therianthropic hedgehog, watching as the robot dropped what remained of the crushed 10mm bullet, letting it clatter on the ground.
'Bulletproof.' Shadow thought, now drawing his hand out of his quills, this time holding something that raised Eggman's eyebrows.
"A Chaos Emerald, Shadow? Not a little overkill?" Eggman taunted from behind Shadow, his voice muffled from the thick plastic wall he was behind, having been lowered silently from the roof, judging by the wires from its pinnacle.
The machine took a step towards Shadow, and another, no notable speed in each as it appeared to gauge the hedgehog, waiting for Shadow to make a move.
And he was more than happy to.
"Chaos Spear!" Called Shadow, holding the crimson-red Chaos Emerald in his outstretched arm as countless yellow needles of light erupted from the gem's flat surface. The spark-like shots fired in an arc a meter, before dissipating in mid-air, the Chaos Emerald suddenly shaking in Shadow's hand before losing its luster, returning to a dull dark red. The robot took no notice of the spectacle, not appearing to even register the attempted attack. Shadow returned the gem to his quills without any sign of surprise, as mocking, high-pitched laughter broke out behind him.
"Shadow, Shadow, Shadow…Don't waste your energy, surely you've figured out that my anti-Chaos drives are in effect, or else you would have tried to use a Chaos Control to get in here in the first place. I'm pretty sure you haven't tried to teleport inside my base yet, since not only would my sensors have picked it up, but you would have burn marks all over you." The doctor behind him explained. Shadow turned his head to the right slightly, as if to reply to Eggman. As soon as he opened his mouth, however, the robot took its chance, rushing forward, propelled by its jets, ready to ram into the much small hedgehog.
What happened next was a blur of activity leaving the machine almost frozen in place, right arm in a position clearly ready to hit whatever it was going to ram into, with the black hedgehog, much shorter, seemingly hitting the machine in the abdominal area.
"Wh-what! No! Not even with your strength-…th-those alloys were strong enough to survive an impact the equivalent of a magnet train at full speed!" Eggman shouted in disbelief, expecting to hear the crunching of bone, not the puncturing of metal.
Holding the inactive robot up with his left hand, Shadow slowly took away his hand from the torso of the machine.
There gleamed the flat end of a large, dull-red gem, its sharp end having been shoved into the metal by Shadow, using both his own strength and the robot's inertia to puncture the armor plating. There was silence for a second, before a slow clapping from the other end of the room, the scientist providing them smiling dangerously.
"Ingenious; using an unbreakable gem as a makeshift spear. I hadn't considered such a weapon from you." Shadow looked at the 'doctor', surprised that he seemed, for once, to be making an attempt to learn from his mistakes. The hedgehog's lips twisted into a grimace.
A cold, crushing feeling enveloped his right wrist. Pulling against it, he struck out with his left arm, impulse taking over. Shadow found the grip to be resilient, his left arm striking metal with little-to-no effect before being gripped as well. Shadow looked back carefully to see both arms of the robot he previously thought destroyed now holding both of his wrists, Chaos Emerald still jammed into its chest.
"Good to know I'm still able to get your guard down sometimes, Shadow. By the way, you wouldn't believe how long it takes to put a proper backup system into a small robotic model, its almost as hard as putting a second respiratory system in a human-or hedgehog-body, really. Still, it seems to have paid off."
Shadow subdued his instincts that yelled at him to teleport out of the grasp, unwilling to risk the anti-Chaos drives interfering. He felt himself lifted off the ground by his arms, his wrists now being crushed slowly with incredible force as he was lifted until his head was level with the robots. The hedgehog swung his body weight, kicking both of his powerful legs into the chest of the machine in front of him. Despite a kicking force that would have put a horse to shame easily, barely a dent registered on the titanium cover, though Shadow nonetheless held both boots firmly on the machine, sending mental commands and adjusting what he could of his body until the jets on said boots erupted. Shadow held the intense heat onto the plating, the titanium rapidly changing colour at the heat, slowly melting through and-more importantly-conducting a lot of heat through the armor plating.
The machine suddenly brought Shadow's wrists together until it adjusted so it held both in its left hand, its own strength still somehow far exceeding the Ultimate-Life-Form's own. A slot opened in its now-free right arm, a pistol folding out and held threateningly to the hedgehog's chest as Shadow reluctantly de-activated his rocket 'skates', letting his feet drop until they hung in mid-air again. Shadow repressed a sigh at the state he'd gotten himself into. Suddenly his slack body swung slightly as a noticeable tremor ran through the building, closely followed by the unmistakable roar of an explosion.
"Warning, Warning. Efforts to neutralize intruder in Gamma Quadrant have been unsuccessful. Intruder has caused severe structural damage to Generators one, three and four. Base power levels have dropped from 99.2% to 5.6%. Structural damage was caused by an overload of Generator two, resulting in explosion. Base now running on backup generators and all non-essential equipment is shutting down as per protocol. Lighting, primary robotics and door systems are still functioning; all other security measures have been dropped to conserve power. Turrets are offline. Cameras are offline. Heating is offline. Anti-Chaos drives are offline. -"
"Silence, SILENCE! Cancel all warning messages, turn Anti-Chaos drives ON! On, now!" Eggman yelled out loud, though already far too late.
Shadow teleported out of the machine's grasp, appearing only centimeters lower, feet now on the floor as the hedgehog tore out the now-glowing Chaos Emerald from the robot, quickly teleporting a few meters backwards before the robot could react, lining up the Chaos Emerald carefully as the robot stood there, waiting again for Shadow to make a move.
'It's a pity for it that I suspect that its 'strategy' against me is based on the assumption that Anti-Chaos drives are in effect.' Shadow briefly guessed before shouting again,
"Chaos Spear!"
Needles of energy once against rushed from the gem, arcing without fail towards the existing tear in the machine's armor from the Chaos Emerald previously, the sparks hitting the vulnerable wiring still visible past the crumpled armor, exploding on impact.
The robot stood for a second-the armor around its previous 'wound' charred, the countless wires having been melted, torn apart or fused together from the explosion-before seemingly overbalancing and collapsing to the floor, completely lifeless.
Eggman, however, was rapidly jabbing a button repetitively on the panel in front of him, furiously shouting out.
"Run diagnostic, run diagnostic! Divert all robotic patrols towards this console! Repeat my order! What is wrong with you?" Eggman raved as once-flashing lights on the panel in front of him began to fail, the entire room's lights dimming as power dropped. Shadow noticed the familiar noise of metal sliding across metal as all the doors around the room opened suddenly on their own accord, opening for safety purposes as power is lost so to prevent entrapment.
But it was a form stumbling weakly out of one of the doors that caught his attention. The pale hedgehog took a few steps outside the small room as the door opened; his body slumped, as he looked around in poorly-concealed amazement before his eyes came to rest on Shadow.
"Shadow." The figure stated, his voice a quiet rasp as he took a few more steps towards Shadow, his back straightening as he appeared unwilling to show weakness. Shadow noted the lack of colour in the designs upon his clothing as he did before, as well as the clear unbalanced nature of his stride, as if he expected someone to be holding him up rather than stepping alone.
"Silver." Shadow replied in acknowledgement, skating over slowly to prevent the silver hedgehog too much more discomfort, Eggman temporarily forgotten. As they both stopped in front of each other, Shadow took the opportunity to look Silver over, noting without feeling the dried tear-marked face, blurred eyes and unkempt fur. Silver was the first to make an actual move, somewhat uncertainly holding out a hand to shake.
"Well…didn't think I'd be seeing you again. For a guy that took out a god two weeks ago, you're looking a damn sight better than me." Silver remarked, a slight lopsided smile evident on his face, though not much else. Shadow opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by a call from across the room.
"Well look who it is again! It's been awhile, Silver." A female voice called, as the hedgehogs turned to see Rouge standing in another doorway to the base, grinning at the two, "Well, looks like you handled yourself well enough, with my help of course." The bat said to Shadow with a wink. The black hedgehog made no attempt to ask how she knew of his previous fight, assuming that she had gotten a hold of camera records of the room, and instead turned his attention to the up-to-now ignored Doctor, who was now slinking out of the room towards the nearest exit.
Shadow shrugged contemptuously at the surprisingly feeble escape attempt, completely ignoring him as Rouge walked over to the two hedgehogs, boots clicking loudly on the cold floor. Silver suddenly stood up slightly straighter, privately regretting it as his head swam in dizziness at the slight yet sudden movement. Seeing Rouge open her mouth to speak to Silver, Shadow suddenly lifted the Chaos Emerald he still clutched from his battle with Eggman's robot, calling out two words as both hedgehog and bat turned to face him.
"Chaos Control!"
The three disappeared in a sudden flash of red light.
Yes…sorry if the end was a little sudden. I've looked over it several times and haven't really written one I like much for this chapter. I know, Rouge's entrance seems rushed, indeed, Silver's does too, but I'll have to make it up next chapter.
In other news, I have decided that I have a love-hate relationship with 'fight scenes' in my writing. I like to think that I'm a good 'choreographer' of fights as such, but though I can visualize them in my head well enough, I can never seem to write them down in the exact way I like. I can't really write them, in short.
Though, I have made Shadow's personality a slight bit lighter than I normally would in this case, to represent the utter contempt he has for Eggman. Silver is now less childish and dependant than he was in my previous version of this story, and Rouge? Well….she's Rouge, as always.
Well, I guess that's it. Next chapter will come at some point or another, but reviews will certainly speed the process. I noticed some Alerts and Favourites, which I am truly grateful for, but overall very few reviews for my prologue.
Well, thanks for reading!