Hehe, heya guys! Chapter four here! Thanks for the comments. XD Apollo is the guy I use whenever I need some filler character. He's been everything once. Don't be surprised if he shows up a monkey tamer some time later or something.

Well here it is.

Silver the Hedgehog and related characters © Sega and the Sonic Team/Archie

Diego and other characters, and the weapon the Scythel Blade © Me, Kona (Konafox) Do not take with out my permission.

-ENJOY-

"…" Silver's breath came in shallow gasps. Shocked as if he had just been plunged into icy water. All at once, he began to tremble, clench his fist, and shrink away. Part of him wanted to turn and summon the power to rip this guy apart. The other half remembered, though not in detail, what this jackal had done to him.

"To afraid to move?" Asked the voice, making Silver skim the train car for the reaction of the other passengers. Only did he realize by seeing their dazed confused faces, did he realize he was the only one afraid, and that the jackal was speaking to him through telekinesis…

"W-what are you doing?" Silver demanded, clenching his fist. "What makes you hunt me, and hurt these people?!"

"Simple. You survived, and therefore, I have yet to win… As for these people… They're in the way."

Clenching his teeth, Silver stood up, the fear draining from him, being forcibly replaced with fury. "Where are you?" He demanded, looking out the window, then going to the other side, and looking there.

"You're going to have to get on the train's roof to see me, Fool. I suggest you hurry up." Chuckled the voice maliciously. With out hesitation, the hedgehog began to run towards the nearest emergency hatch. Holding out his hand awkwardly, he concentrated his powers until a cyan-turquoise glow covered it, and then engulfed the hatch. With out much warning, the hatch flicked open and the latter slid out, hitting Silver directly in the forehead. With a few audible curses, he began to gingerly climb up it.

The top of the train was rounded, but sleek and silvery gray. Silver cautiously distributed his weight, his leg and arms spread evenly. A soft wind blew against his face, keeping his spikes well out of the way. For which, Silver was grateful for; he turned to the sky and scanned.

"What, did you expect me to fly?" Demanded a voice behind him.

Silver spun around, nearly making himself slide off the train. "You, jackal…" He grunted, gritting his teeth with frustration. "You… You're the one who's done this to me…"

"No. I, Diego, killed you. You're the one who got the limbs and decided to survive. That's you're mistake. Now I have to make sure I'll kill you." Diego replied smirking. Beneath his cloak, which was billowing in the breeze, Silver caught a glimpse of a bright shiny weapon. He prepared himself for the worse.

"You've given no clear purpose as to why I specifically must die." Silver replied, finding himself avoiding his enemy's eyes as best as he could.

"You still don't understand? You're pathetic." In a swift fluid moment, Diego's arm stretched back and found the hilt of a sword like weapon. But it wasn't a sword. The weapon was claymore sized. Rather then ending in a rigid point like most swords, this one slowly curved like the blade of a scythe, the point indenting slightly towards the user. "I promise I'll make this painless however."

Frowning, Silver concentrated his powers again, as he started to do so, there was a loud snap, and the train shifted dangerously on the bridge.

"Mmm, hmm. Careful. Move to much here, and it's bye-bye bridge, and hello fried hedgehog." Diego smirked, his spiked lupine teeth gleaming dangerously.

Memory of the dream flooded Silver, and the realistic imaginings of the electrocutions ghosted a tingle through his skin. "Erghh…" Glaring at his foe, he started to force himself to relax. "What do you want? Why do you kill me, and at the same time everyone on this train."

Diego smirked, "You're mind tricks are amusing. These people will be regarded, as heroes for dying to destroy someone like you. You're going to die! You monstrous metallic freak!" Driven by an invisible fury, Diego poised his blade over his head running at Silver, who in turn was confused.

"Heroes? Monstrous? What the hell?!" Just barely on time, Silver jumped back, using his new powerful limbs to vault himself a distance near the back of the train. "I don't want to fight you!" Yelling that phrase was a pure impulse.

"Shut up!" Screamed the jackal who had kept his course at Silver. Shut up! Shut up! The sky echoed.

Backed into the corner took careful but quick consideration of what to do next. Concentrating his powers to his left arm and his feet, the hedgehog found himself hovering in the air. Below him, a wooden beam creaked, and once again the train began to waver along with the tracks. Wails of fear rose from frightened passengers. Shit. Shit. Shit. I can't fight him and save the train at the same ti- "Whoa!" Silver hadn't been paying nearly enough attention, and found the curved blade's point digging into his fleshy unguarded side. "Ergh!"

"I've got you now, you metallic demon!" Howled Diego, the cape on his back flowing along with the train's movements. As Silver grunted and trembled, he dug his blade further into the cyborg's body.

Pain flooded Silver bringing forth a taboo memory of the fight just a night ago. His blood, his pain…

"Hey, what's going on?" Silver stood watching this strange jackal that had been towering over two whimpering mink boys, tossing a second stone up and down with his cyan telekinetics.

"…" The jackal had bore no reply. Instead, he lifted a heavily bloodied scythel blade and pointed it at the flawless hedgehog and spoke one word. "Monster." With no given warning, the jackal attacked Silver, but not with his blade. Instead he had grabbed a smoldering branch from a dying campfire. With a quick wave of oxygen it roared to fiery life, flying at its gray and white target. Immediately his lengthily fur and spikes were set ablaze.

Before he could make a proper reaction, the blade that the jackal wielded was in his blazing side. Knocking him back a heavy distance, where his head hit a rather large bucket filled with water that flipped over onto him, extinguishing most of his flames, leaving the rest to seethe as tiny embers on his flesh. He tried to lift his arms, but found himself incapable to doing so. "Errgh…" He mumbled, lifting his head slightly, just long enough to see the two minks run off, and the jackal take his last steps in range to deliver the most devastating blow. Silver felt himself fly at least a dozen feet before resting before the dead tree and on the prickly dead grass. He closed his eyes, half expecting more pain to rip him, but it never came.

"… That was too easy."

"Gaargh!" As if mimicking the memory, the jackal thrusted his blade to the left, throwing Silver off the train, just as the one last SNAP filled the air. As he fell, his own blood streaming after him, Silver could see the train trail in his wake. "No…" Though their screams were deaf to him, he knew they were afraid. Just as he was.

"I've failed these people." His words were lost on the wind to all but him. "I've killed them because he wanted to kill me."

As if this thought wasn't torment enough, memories of his friends, of Blaze, of his home, of hunting the Iblis Trigger and meeting all of his new friends flashed through his mind. The slide show caused tears to drip from his eyes, which then closed. "… This is it!"

"Hold on!"

Somehow Silver felt ground on his back. No water, no blazing electrocutions. Not yet ready to open his eyes, he felt the ground tilt to the left, then the right.

"Silver! You okay?" Inquired a familiar friendly voice, which finally persuaded Silver's eyes to open.

He was on a red bi-plane, on which, his blood blended. Below him was a certain twin-tailed fox, guiding the plane, yet still managing to look up at Silver every few seconds. "My… Side… Bleeding… New jacket ruined."

Tails looked somewhat bewildered at the concern displayed about the jacket. But he didn't know yet, what it was covering. However his own concern for Silver's bloody side pushed that thought out. "The blood is dripping on me."

"I-I'm fine." Silver replied, afraid that Tails might insist on looking later.

"Okay Silver. Okay. But… That's a lot of blood." He replied, his blue eyes appearing as serious as if he were considering a life, which in fact, he was.

"It's not that bad…" Silver put a hand over it to stem the bleeding, smiling slightly, trying to show no traces of pain, only to frown. "The train!"

"It's okay Silver!" Said Tails pointing down, to the water. Cautiously Silver looked over as well. "No way…"

"I thought you were the only one who could do that now Silver." Tails added, nodding his head. Below them, covered in a thick forest green glow, the train was hovering high in the air, along with the jackal, who was looking drained right next to it. With out thinking Silver focused his own energy on the train, making a deeper ocean blue-green surround it. Blood spurted heavily from his wounded side, but Silver ignored it, along with Tails's protests. Slowly, he began to guide the large vehicle to the cliff just by the tracks. For the first time, Silver realized that they were just by their destination, and that the people were in no real danger.

A rush of pain cut into him, and he collapsed, again. For a second, he thought that this Diego person attacked him again, but then realized that it was his own limbs. They were damaged. "Tails… I can't move…"

"Alright, Silver." Tails's voice was surprising steady. "I have a place you can spend at my work shop."

Tails's words went on unnoticed, as Silver was listening to another voice. Diego was talking to him in his head once again. "You saved those people with me, when you were injured… Why?"

"Because they're innocent. I don't know what you issue is with me, but don't risk people, okay?"

"… You're unusual. I don't understand you."

"I could say the same about you, pal."

"There's got to be a misunderstanding. Listen, meet me three days from now at- ARGH!"

Almost simultaneously with the scream, Silver felt his own mesh of pain. Fresh. Tails gave an audible cry of fear, and "HOLD ON SILVER!"

Before Silver could take the advice they had hit the ground, and once again, Silver was forced into unconsciousness.

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Eheheh, sorry for the late update and crappy chapter. I had to finish this up quick because it was already late, and I didn't have the weekend to work on it.

Hey, can you guys see the reference I made here. I'll give you a hint. Two. Yawns and goes to bed