Holy Crap! Thanks for all the reviews! Here's chapter 4!
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Chapter 4: 5 years later
Sonic's POV
"Hey Sonic! I think we may be getting closer! Look what Shade found!" My lil bro called out to me from the X Tornado. I immediately ran up beside the plane, my hopes rising.
It's now been 5 whole years since the morning Shadow disappeared, and we haven't stopped searching ever since. It hasn't been easy, we're always on the go, and no time to relax and cool off. Everyday we seem to get closer, but yet farther away from finding him.
You know, all these years have taken a toll on us all, myself included. Tails is so flustered these days, while there's Amy, that rarely smiles any more. Searching all the time gets pretty rough and boring a lot of times, even Cream has just about lost her optimistic spirit.
"What is it?" I answered him.
"I think she's found a burnt mark in the sand that looks like his Chaos Spears!" Tails replied, lowering the small plane lower to let me hop on.
"Interesting..." I mumbled, my hopes falling back down once again. How is a stupid mark in the sand supposed to help us find him? It was probably scorched a long time ago.
"I know you're disappointed, Sonic, but anything we find leads us closer, even if it doesn't seem like it to you." The young fox sighed, turning back to the controls. "We're nearly there now."
I watched the ground move below us as we moved in to land, where Shade was standing, crouched in the dirt. Before it could even land, I bolted out and raced over to her.
"Take a look. It's right down there." Shade pointed lower in the small hole, where I saw a neat, mini lightning bolt shaped burn mark.
"I've already gotten a sample of it to take back to the workshop, whenever we drop by." My face fell as I remembered how long we had been away from home. We rarely saw any of the others while on our trips. In fact, I haven't seen Amy, Cream, Knuckles, or Rouge for about 5 months now, so I'm itching to go home, and just take it easy for one day.
"I say we-" but I was interruptedby Tails yelling, "Come here, quick! You have to see this!" We both made a mad dash to the Tornado, where we saw him, looking at the small screen he had built in. It showed Central City, almost completely destroyed by what looked like a hedgehog. From what I saw, the hedgehog was completely covered in back clothes, even his quills. The only things I could see where his eyes and gloves.
His eyes were a glowing dark silver that had no pupils. His gloves were pure white, with white rings snapped around them, by his ankles too, and they seemed to glow.
"Who...is that?" Shade beat me to the question.
"I don't have any idea. None of the military forces have been able to stop him. But they've all been saying the figure keeps growling odds statements, but they haven't told us what." Tails looked around at us. "You don't think this is Eggman's doing, do you?"
"No way. I haven't seen Robuttnik in years. Besides, this guy is too powerful to be of Eggy's creations."
"I agree. We better be getting back to Mystic Ruins, although it'll take some time to get back, at least over night. We'll check it out after we sleep." Shade suggested, and Tails and I nodded.
I was finally going to see my friends again...
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Okay, I'm really sorry for the shortness of this chapter. Next chapter: The mysterious figure's point of view. What happend during the destruction of Central City? Find out next time!
xAsh