Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln

He held his hand out to them. Even if they had tried to kill him two or three times, even if they did try to destroy the earth, even if now the very wound he had running down the side of his face was caused by the very person he was now holding his hand out to, he didn't care. No matter how many times they would run through a scenario like this his offer would never expire.

"Friends?" the blue one offered.

The hand was promptly smacked away as red eyes glared at him. The dark one attempted to stand but collapsed as his legs gave way. The same hand as before entered the vision of the red eyes, still offering friendship as promised. With a low growl of swallowed pride the hand was accepted roughly.

"Fine. But don't think this means I'll follow you around like that fox or pink annoyance." The dark one muttered.

The blue one just smiled back.

Beginning is easy; continuing, hard.

His breathing was ragged now, he had been racing around all day and most of the night, but he couldn't stop now. Not until he reached the end, he couldn't stop.

He nearly stumbled over a rock, wind milling his arms to stop himself from going face first to meet the ground. Even then he didn't stop, go, go, go! His legs were sore and he was sure the dark spots appearing in his vision weren't a good sign. He still had to save his friends, protect those in danger, stop those trying to harm. He couldn't stop, he wouldn't stop.

Another day and another night would go by, but he would still have to run. And run, and run, and run...

Control your emotions or they will control you. ~ Chinese Proverb

How could he let Eggman get to him?! Oh that's right... he his friends. Where is Amy? Here, still, lifeless, clutched in arms of a lost being. Who? Who was he? Sonic? Or Super? Dark..? H-Hello...?

His quills were raised, a dark aura flickered around his form like vapour or mist. His fur was dark, a deep navy-black. His tan arms held a still pink form close to his chest two other indistinguishable forms lay beside the ominous being. Closed eyes shed but one tear before the body he had been holding was dropped.

White eyes, in the dark face seeming to glow, snapped up to a hovering object above. Lips pulled back to flash sharp fangs in a furious snarl. The dark one lunged.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~Robert Frost

Hands were clasping the sides of his head, his claws digging in hard enough to scratch the skin, nearing the point where they would draw blood. His knees were drawn in to his chest as he sat on the cold floor, shaking.

Inaudible echoes of screams, crashes, explosions and gunfire roared in his mind. Three voices over the inexistent noise scared him. One was the final cry of a young girl as she fell, there was an image too, her laughter he would never hear again, as she lay in her own blood. The next was harsh laughter of a cruel man, the one who caused all the damage. The last was his own. His own voice stressed in pain, through torture, and experiments, again his voice rang out but in a roar of anger, hate, spite, wanting revenge. Finally his voice cried as it was now...

Ragged, uneven breathing could be heard as soft drops of salt water hit the floor. He shouldn't have broken that wall in his mind preventing him from remembering. He shouldn't have. He shouldn't have...

Splash

He shouldn't have...

Every picture tells a story

Eggman had been staring at the screen for at least two hours by now. He always kept his security cameras on hoping to catch sight of the blue blur and his friends before they crashed in. But today he was rather...confused at what his contraptions had managed to catch a glimpse of.

Sonic and Shadow had managed to run it to each other, literally. That much was quite obvious, as the image on one of the screens depicted a fallen Shadow lying over Sonic, whom traveling at a slower speed when they had crashed, was under the darker Hedgehog. Both forms were still, as they had impacted at a high velocity, undoubtedly unconscious.

And so Eggman continued to stare just wondering how many stories would be created over the release of this image.

A smile formed under the large bushy moustache as the human hit 'send'.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.~ Thomas Jones

Eggman grasped the arms of his chair tighter as he viewed the newest recruit to Sonic's team. Although the black hedgehog had been a friend, before he recovered his memories, they had now become enemies upon having teamed up with the other side.

He was beginning to feel like he was no longer able to fight against them. They outnumbered him by far there would be no way for him to output enough robots to take them down. When he tried to make factories to build his robots for him, Sonic and co. destroyed them. When he built higher levelled mech they each took one on, the stronger of Sonics' friends could take on two or three at a time. There was no way he could make enough 'Metal Sonic' s as he didn't have enough of the right materials to do so.

How he hated being alone, how he feared it. He knew he could not stop it, because of what he does, his friends will always go.

Grin and bear it

Another large chunk of scrap metal screamed past a crouching Sonic as the robot behind him collapsed. He stood and made a dash for another large bot leaping in to the air before running in to it. Curling up in to a deadly blue ball of sharp spines he shot forward with the curling rotation preparing to tear through the towering object. A large 'hand' of grey steel smacked the spiky warrior away causing him to hit the floor hard and skid farther along to smash in to a pile of scrap metal.

It hurt, to say the least.

Green eyes were hidden behind tightly closed eye lids and a sharp intake of breath could be heard as Sonic pulled away from jagged pieces. The eyes opened again and the blue blur shot forward this time skidding under the 'feet' of the robot and targeting the bottom with a hard kick.

The mech tumbled forward, crashing to the ground. Looking back at his quick handy work for a second then dashing ahead again a shadow came in beside him.

"Hey Tails!" Sonics' voice called out.

Tails waved, twin tails spinning behind to keep up with the blue speedster.

They smashed through the doors of a tall grey building with a large rusty moustache, and charged up the stairs.

His legs were aching now, He was quite sure he had at least two to three bullets in his right arm constantly stinging when he moved it, a large gash was on his chest going from his right shoulder to his left hip. His left arm was sporting four claw like gashes just above his elbow. And the latest wound was a large jagged cut on his back from hitting the scrap metal. He predicted he had about 15 minutes before passing out from blood loss, not to mention the searing pain. That meant 15 minutes to take down Eggman.

"Hey Sonic. You ok?" Tails called down.

"Yeah, I'm fine bud!" Sonic smiled back with a wave, ouch wrong arm...another pained intake of breath hissed through his clenched teeth.

15 Minutes to grin and bear it.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

For someone with 300 IQ points, Eggman was very stupid. Sonic had managed to foil almost all of his plans immediately, and eventually did stop all of his schemes. But, one thing that puzzled Shadow is how someone so smart could be so stupid?

Rouge, having dragged the dark hedgehog to 's attack to join in the battle, was currently leaning casually against a cold steel wall watching Sonic smash Eggman's robot to pieces. Shadow was probably leaving right about now as Eggman was giving a speech on how he would come back with bigger, and better robots. The group, minus Shadow, left the scene quite pleased with themselves and Rouge joined them leaving Shadow to whatever, or where ever he was.

Eggman, back at his base was glaring at some blue prints furiously as if they were the cause of his failure. He crumbled them up and turned around to throw them out when a certain hedgehog shaped silhouette was spotted with his back pressed against the wall and arms crossed.

"Shadow! ... What are you doing here?" the doctor asked suspiciously, "haven't you and your little friends done enough already?"

The dark hedgehog glared with his unnatural red eyes.

"They're not my friends." He mumbled in denial, almost to himself, then turned to Eggman. "You are the stupidest person I know, not counting that blue pest. I could have destroyed them ages ago in your position, hell, even GUN could!"

Eggman was taken aback by Shadow's behaviour. "What?"

"I thought you were smart enough to learn from your mistakes! With your knowledge even that annoying chao could take over the world." Shadow continued to rant, "Would you, no, can you learn? 'cause those 300 IQ points are going to waste on you"

"Why do you even care?" Shadow looked straight at the doctor as he was interrupted.

"Why?" Shadow replied turning his back.

"Because I don't want to be dragged to your attacks just to watch the faker defeat you." He reasoned before disappearing in a flash of chaos energy.

If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be part of someone else's.

When he was first 'born', he was part of a plan to cure the world.

When the government found out, he was to be a weapon of destruction.

When he to be kept a secret deep underground, he was a secret weapon.

When he was found, he became a tool.

When he was lost, when he lost, when lost, he was nothing.

When he awoke, he was a copy.

When he was remembered, he was part of a team.

When he fought, he was an alley, an enemy, and neutral.

When he was trying to remember, he was manipulated.

When he was trying to be himself, he was being someone's puppet.

When he saved them, when they saved him, he became their friend.

Not a tool, but simply part of plan for a new friendship.

Left to himself yet to them.

Not to be used, but to be loved.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do, doesn't mean it's useless. ~ Thomas Edison

Master computer, computing time wasted...Loading...Time wasted estimated at 79.895%

stared at the computer.

"WHAT?!?" he shrieked, in a rather high pitched voice.

Master computer, computing time wasted...Loading the computer repeated what it had previously stated at its master's command. Outputting the time he wasted on his current project, the bot happily, if it had any emotions, continued to explain how the time was wasted, what it was wasted on, why it was considered wasted time and how to put the time to better use.

The bald man stared at the contraption he had made not but half an hour ago. It was supposed to tell him tell him how to make his day more efficient, sort of like an agenda that would help him use his time more wisely.

Please halt all current projects and find a better use of time. Current project AC-663 will be useless until time of summer solstice...Loading main menu...

He sighed, he was tempted to scrap it as it was, in a way, rather bossy, though polite, he had to admit. 'I make them just to smart sometimes' he though shaking his head and getting up to eat.

Computing time wasted...Loading...Time wasted getting food... 99.45% time wasted, making sandwich 20 minutes, already ate 1.28 hours ago, no need for extra weight will slow master down, go exercise instead...

A loud crash echoed as a now furious "WHAT!?!?" was screech angrily from the kitchen.

Keep your eyes on the sun and you will not see the shadows.

She looked ahead, always. A sign of hope, without him she would be left to darkness.

He was an inspiration a path to follow, an idea. Someone he could help to fight away the darkness. Someone who saw him for himself not a freak.

He was someone he could depend on. A person who would always offer and take only when in need. He was a someone he could trust. He was someone who could control the chaos.

He was there. No matter what he would do wrong he would always hold out his hand and smile. He was there to help him remember and see what he could not.

He was, hope, life, trust, light and someone who could bring calm by controlling the chaos.

He was Sonic.

Let your words be purrs instead of hisses. ~ Fannie Roach Palmer

He snapped and thrashed, twisting and turning. He would do anything to get away from them. He wanted to be left alone. He tried to pull his arms close again but they were restrained by thick ropes.

"Shadow the hedgehog, you are here from the murder of an uncountable number of soldiers, you have gone unpunished twice, once 65 years ago, from now, and 15 years ago, from now. Today you will be judged and your punishment set."

He snarled letting it out loud in the dark room. He was furious yet he knew well before that this would happen.

"We are well aware that you are created to be immortal, as well that you can control chaos energy. This will not stop us from finding a way to find justice for what you have done."

He snarled again. This was justice?! The first time he had killed was because there was a raid on the ARK that they initiated. Where was their punishment for all the good people they killed?!

"Though we do not have exact data of what happened 65 years ago it has been reported you killed at least 42 soldiers, 2 captains and 1 lieutenant. We have decided that you punishment for this crime will be 150 years"

He snorted. They thought they could imprison him for 150 years, were they forgetting what they had previously said? He could chaos control out of there in to time.

"For your attack on GUN 15 years ago you killed, over hundreds of soldiers, and 1 captain. You punishment will be another 50 years"

He shook his head. He had lost his memory at that time and he had been manipulated by Black doom. He had saved the earth then how could they punish him from that?

"To make sure you spend these years of punishment without chance of escape we shall place you in stasis for your total of 200 years"

Thousands of eyes looked down on him, no one could help him here he had scared them all away by now.

"Any objections?"

No one spoke out.

Except for Shadow.

"Hell yeah! Get your facts straight then try and keep me locked up for 200 years! What about all the innocent people you killed on the ARK! Have you forgotten what I have done from you?! Ha-"

A gunshot rang out and the accused dropped, restraints falling with the dark form as blood pooled from his chest to the floor.

There was no remorse as the form was dragged in to a dark room already quite cold and was placed in a purple, an anti chaos material, coffin shaped restraint that allowed them to spread his arm's out. They closed the top, which was like netting, and promptly left the room in total darkness

It was his own fault that in being cold to others, he would be left to the cold himself.

Music has charms to soothe a savage beast. ~ William Congreve

Shadow looked out the window of the house he was currently staying in, one given to him by Sonic and friends. It was nice not too big and not too small. Along with the house they had each separately given him a gift. Cream gave him a sketch book and a set of pencil crayons. Amy had given him several books, she had filled his whole book shelf with many genres, most of which were romance. Tail gave him a set of 'how to' books all of which he found quite helpful so far. Rouge gave him a baby grand piano, on which bench he sat right now. And Sonic had given him many different styles of music.

He was very grateful for their gifts he had been careful to put them all to good use. He had already filled in a third of the sketch book with pictures, he gave a still life drawing to cream to show her he had been using his gift, she had been delighted to see a toy chao in the picture and it was now framed on the wall of her room. He had read one or two of Amy's books when he was bored and gave her his opinions on the characters and plots. Tail's gift as previously said had been a great help to him as he had no clue how to play the piano at first, or read the music Sonic had given him.

He turned back to the piano now it was dark ebony like him with all eighty-eight keys, and it had a voice like his too, deep and rich, the low notes were dark but calming. He had easily mastered the piano, as Rouge had said after hearing him play when she had come over, he had given he a small rare smile.

Today he was looking at a piece that had Sonic had given him only two days before.

"You'll like this one." Was all he said before running off.

So now he turned to the piano lifting his hands above the keys after scanning the first line quickly. His hands came down softly on some high keys. He closed his eyes savouring the sounds as they resonated around the room. His eyes opened again reading the next set of chords his hand flowing over the keys lingering on held notes like a sweet taste fading on the tongue. The piece was so calming, his breathing ended with the dying notes of a phrase, and was brought back with a new line strong and soft at the same time.

A smile began to form on his lips as the music filled the silence with a feeling of awe. He turned to look once out the window at the dark half-moon sky, also catching a glimpse of something under one of the trees. It was ignored as the music was much to pleasing for him then to be worried about an unfamiliar shadow.

His hand reached out and turned another page notes ringing out clearly as if holding their own light in the dark. By now his smile had grown and he was in another world, absorbed in the music.

His hand finished softly on the higher keys letting them ring in the air for what seemed like hours yet only one second at the same time. He lifted his hand then placed them on his lap.

He looked out the window to where he had previously seen a shadow. It was still there, a large lump in the shade. Shadow saw its' jade green eyes open, for a moment he thought it was Sonic but when it stood in the faint moonlight he saw it was more of a monster than the sleek runner he knew, yet it smiled just like Sonic would.

He watched in awe as it left calmly, it had obviously heard what he had played. Music truly does warm the heart, he decided, picking up the piece of music. Debussy's 'Clair de Lune' would most definitely be one of his favourite pieces.

No power comes without responsibility but powers misused.

Sonic stood tall, and proud. He had a responsibility, it came naturally with his powers. He had protect those he put in danger, those in danger, those who are close to danger, and stop those who were a danger. That was simple one of his many responsibilities. He was responsible for the protection of the Chaos Emeralds, and those who came in contact with them. He was to use Chaos energy with care not to unbalance the negative or positive energies. He was not to let himself fall to negative emotions.

He knew that one best. Should he ever lose himself to hate, or wanting revenge he knew his dark side, his negative side would unleash destruction, death and so much more torture. So he knew it was best to be an optimist, hide all dark thoughts away behind his smiles and pride.

He was to treat all equally, he was forbidden to judge someone for what they have done. He could only lead them to the right path, even then he was not allowed to push them in to it unwillingly.

And no matter what damage is taken he had to remain strong, if only for his friends.

Knuckles had collapsed not only a few minutes ago, himself as guardian of the master emerald keeping to the same if not similar responsibilities. And here he was blood dripping down one side of his face one hand out in front of his friends protecting them from the looming figure that was ahead. He called on the powers he had used only when needed to and faced the figure before him.

It was his responsibility.

One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade.

They fought for freedom, they fought for those who would come after them hoping when they got old they would fight for them too. The fought to protect, they fought to hold their defence, they fought for a better future. They fought for.

He fought against them. But everyone knows, to fight for something rather is better than to fight against. And that's what they did.

Praise the young and they will blossom.

He had been young and nervous, they had teased him, beaten him, called him freak, mutant and so many other names. Yet here a blue hedgehog stood over him with a smile one hand out offering...?

A smaller hand timidly reached out grasping the hand weakly.

"C'mon, up we go"

He found himself pulled to his feet rather fast, losing his balance he bumped in to the figure, he let out a small squeak and backed up. He didn't want to get hit again. He was surprised when rather than being yelled at he was pulled closer, the voice spoke again.

"You're all wet, and I bet you're cold. Let's get you dry." The blue hedgehog gently swept him of his feet and in to peach arms.

What came next was exhilarating. To say traveling at the speed of sound was startling was an understatement. Tree's rushed by them at such great speeds he couldn't tell where they were going.

When they finally stopped and he was placed softly on the ground next to a plane. He reached out and touched the side there was a tear along one side revealing tome gears and motor. He made note that the blue hedgehog was inside the cockpit digging something out from the compartments. He could make the plane so much better, he was already adjusting some of the gears, the motor could use more oil...

He felt a hand fall on his shoulder, before he could move, thinking he would get hit for touching someone else's property, he found his head covered with a soft towel.

"You should get dried off before tinkering with machinery, you wouldn't want to get hurt now would you?" the blue hedgehog asked.

He turned to see the blue stranger wrapping himself with a towel to get warm.

"So you're pretty good with mechanic's, hm?" The hedgehog asked.

"Y-Yeah..."

"Think you can fix it?" Another question.

"Yeah" he nodded becoming more confident.

"Wow you've got' a be a genius, I haven't been able to fix it for awhile, I bet you can get this up and running in no time!" he commented.

He smiled "Really?" a real smile, maybe this stranger wasn't so bad after all. "Thanks!"

Quitters' never win, winners never quit

"That's it! I quit!" A loud voice echoed in a detective room. An alligator stood and stomped out of the room noisily.

The purple chameleon on the couch smiled. "That's got to be a new record, two hours straight of monopoly"

Rome wasn't built in a day. ~ John Heywood

Amy knew Eggman couldn't build a base in a day, she knew he couldn't build an army of robot's in one day, and she knew he couldn't lose a single pound in one day. And that's why she knew that she could not get Sonic to like her in one day. It would take patience, persuasion and...

"Sonic! Come back!"

...Just a little persistence.

Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease. ~ Francis Bacon

Shadow stared at his hand. He was original created to cure the disease of one of his closest friends, he was the medicine, the cure, the remedy. But when GUN had found out about his power he was made to change objectives. He became a tool of war, no longer the cure or remedy, but the cause of suffering and pain. He was seen as an object, and he hated it.

Tap even a stone bridge before crossing it.

"So hedgehog you've gotten this far, but don't think you can go any farther" A spiky red echidna called out across a large chasm.

The blue hedgehog on the other side smiled. "You keep telling yourself that, I'm going to go and stop Eggman" he shrugged his shoulder, stepping on the bridge.

"As if!" the other male replied. Slamming his foot down a red button causing the bridge to collapse rapidly.

"Nyaaaaaahhh!" was all the other bothered to announce in his displeasure.

United we stand; divided we fall.

"And we will fight this terrorist, !"

A roar of cheers erupted from the crowd as the commander ended his speech. They had already dealt with the animals, though some people fought for their rights since they were rather... intelligent, they still made sure they were locked away. Though they had put up a fight, they surrendered when they could no longer fight without killing someone. Now they only had to get that doctor, this would be a piece of cake!

That was two day ago, before they found out what kind of attacks the doctor used.

"Get out of the way!" another set of robots marched in to the city, smashing through the blockade. Already GUN had lost over hundreds of soldiers, and the robot had taken over small parts of the world.

"Back up! We need more ba—" a bullet ended another life and the commander growled at the screen showing the current events of the down town area.

Bshhhhhh- 'Sir the blue hedgehog has attempted escape' -Bshhhhhh- 'We have caught him, he seems to know something about Robotnik' -Bshhhhhhhh- 'Orders sir?' -Bshhhhk

The commander wasn't surprised that the male Mobian, as they were called, had attempted escape. He was one of the stronger of the group. They had caught nine in total. Two were like rabbits, both were very docile, from gathered information they were related and the blue thing, not counted, was a pet to the younger of the two. They rabbits were placed in room and were allowed to wander some of the passages. In separate, though comfortable, rooms was placed a young bee, a purple chameleon, and a green alligator. This group was self classified as 'The Chaotix'. Although the bee had been classified as annoying the chameleon tended to disappear, and was put under extra surveillance. Another was a female pink hedgehog, who would tend to ask to be let free, had the strange ability to make a large hammer appear, upon previous experience with the young female it was well known she could use the weapon if threatened. So far these 'Mobians' had caused no trouble.

The other Mobians were considered dangerous and were kept in less hospitable rooms. There was a two tailed fox, although not truly dangerous he had hacked the lock on his previous door and all technology and tools were to be kept away from him. His room was similar to the others but with manual locks instead. The one actually considered the most dangerous was a red echidna. It had two sharp spikes on each fist and was known to have a fierce temper, this was still a problem as the dent of his metal door grew bigger every day. It had also been recorded that he had a form of energy, anyone who had tried to take it were beaten unconscious, the blue hedgehog made sure nothing more happened. The echidna had several guards around his door and they were given orders to shoot if attacked. The last of the Mobians was a blue hedgehog, assumed to be in his late teens, he was known to be very fast, they weren't sure how fast yet but they predicted his top speed was close to 70mph, fast. He was also known to carry a form of energy, the wavelengths were calculated to have irregular patterns and was said to be more like a pulse. Both headstrong males were kept under strict containment.

"Send him to the interrogation chamber, make sure he can't escape, I don't want him to slip from our fingers." The commander replied. He turned to leave but not before saying "If he refuses feel free to give him some...Motivation"

As ordered the hedgehog was taken to the interrogation room, it was heavily coated with steel walls and a one way mirror was on the right hand wall, in the center of the room the was a single chair and a table. Chained to said table, by wrists, was the blue Mobian, looking rather pissed.

The commander, behind the one way mirror, picked up the file of gathered information on the blue being.

"Sonic the hedgehog..." He begain, said being looked up sharply, at the speaker where the voice came from, then at the mirror where he knew the man was hiding.

"Blue Mobian hedgehog, late teens, fast, carries energy source" he read the summary the dropped the page, who ever gathered information did a very poor job, the rest of the page was blank.

"Tell me everything you know" he demanded.

He saw the hedgehog cock an eyebrow, then smirk.

"That could take awhile..." Sonic replied gazing steadily through the mirror. It was almost as if he could see the man through it.

"Quit fooling around and tell me the information I want to know!" the commander yelled hiding his surprise at how something so animalistic could act so human.

"I can't, not until I know what information you want to know, and even then I won't tell you." The hedgehog said stubbornly.

"I'll have you know, I hav—"

"Yeah, yeah. You have my friends, the Chaos's emeralds, potentially the Master, if Knux didn't try to rip people's arm off they're within 5 feet of him," the last part was mumbled more than spoken, "You're starting to sound more and more like Eggman every second." He stated, looking blankly at the cuffs on his wrists.

"Who? What?" The commander asked confused, he was just going to say that he had other Mobians in his custody that he could question. Ah, whatever this was working just as well.

The hedgehog was resting his head on one hand and looked up while the other hand tugged at the restraints.

"Ya'know, Eggman, Doctor Robotnik, person who controls an army of robots built by himself, master plan is to take over the world..." He listed a few things.

"Yes! Him! ! Tell me everything you know about him" the commander demanded excitedly, the hedgehog could have information on how to defeat the evil man.

"Oooh, you sound desperate. Is he getting on your nerves? Ya'know If you let me and my friends go, along with the emerald", Which he had been 'relived' of before interrogation, "We could beat him down for you."

The commander snorted.

"A three foot tall, blue hedgehog, against and army of robots? With all your friends, even with that red beast I doubt you could make a dent. I've already lost hundreds of good men to that villain!"

Green eyes shot up at the news.

"WHAT!?! You let him get that far!? You have gotten all the citizens away from there haven't you?! How stupid can you be?! Let. Me. Out. NOW!"

The commander was more startled by the reaction of the hedgehog. He decided to try something different hopping the hedgehog would calm down.

"Listen we'll let you go if you answer a few more questions, What are the Chaos Emeralds?" he asked calmly.

Sonic closed his eyes, he needed to get out of here as soon as possible, if Eggman had gone as far as the man had said he need to get this over with as fast as possible at take action immediately.

"The Chaos Emeralds hold the energy of Chaos, the Master Emerald is used to keep the Emeralds controlled, the Guardian is in charge of protecting and communicating with the master emerald. Some Mobians, like me, can use chaos energy. Now if were done let me out now. I will need all the emeralds and take me to where Knucklehead is," This was all spilled out rapidly, a gloved finger tapping on the table begain increasing in speed as he continued. "You will need to let Tails go to, he's the two tailed fox, Amy and the others would be good to. I would leave Cream, Vanilla, and Charmy here though. Got all that?"

The commander was stunned on how he received answers so quickly yet got orders on what do to so seriously, it was almost as if he had done all this before. Maybe he had been telling the truth before...

"Let Sonic out and take him to the red Echidna, let the fox, pink hedgehog, alligator, and chameleon out too. Have them wait in the main hall, bring the Emeralds. I will see you in five minutes." He ordered through the intercom. He turned to the Hedgehog again. "Is that correct?" the nod was all he needed.

A soldier came in and let sonic out and led him to Knuckles' chamber where the guards were happily relived of their duties as the metal door now had a slight crack in it.

"Hey Knux, let's go!" The red guardian nodded, and followed his alley with the Master Emerald, Downsized at his will, to the main hall. Tails, Amy, Vector, and Espio were all there when Sonic and Knuckles dashed in, the commander was waiting there too an assistant by his side holding seven shining emeralds.

"I don't know if I should wish you luck and let you face this on your own like you so proudly state you can or doubt your abilities and lock you away again" The commander said expressing his thoughts, he shook his head.

"Too late for second guessing, come with us and trust us, or stay here like cowards and doubt our abilities, either way we won't be an enemy" Sonic snatched the Emeralds out of the assistants arms before they could blink.

This sparked another thought from the commander.

"We'll come, I want to see if what my researches say is true. Can you at a top speed of 70mph?" he asked.

The blue hedgehog scowled looking insulted, the echidna laughed.

"Gain too much weight when sitting in your little cell Sonic?" the red one laughed, the blue one shot him a glare.

"let's go" was all he said dropping the subject already racing out the doors, just below 70mph wanting to surprise the commander later, besides they had work to do.

"Were the hell is back up?!" A soldier was screaming in to his communicator as another of his fellow men dropped. He looked up to see a rocket heading straight for him, 'this is it, were all gona' die' he thought.

A red arm shot out angling the projectile away in to debris where it exploded causing little damage.

"Quit cowering like a bug, stand and fight!" A voice snarled.

The soldier looked up. Strait in to violet eyes of a red, three foot, Echidna. He fainted.

"Wimp." And the Echidna dove in to battle.

Already the group had smashed through a fair amount of robots, from what the commander could see they were certainly the team. The pink hedgehog was making scrap metal of any robot in her way with her hammer. She would swing it and they would fly. At times she threw the weapon making it smash through several mechanical warriors an make it appear in her hand again.

The Alligator and chameleon work as a brilliant team. The Green beast would charge the biggest enemy and the chameleon would skilfully take the smaller ones out one by one like an assassin using Ninja skills. The team had already beaten down a large force and a sector of gun troops were working with the chameleon to take out the small fry, although not as fast or successfully.

The red and blue spiked Mobians started off together charging the enemy. The red one would strike low with fists the blue one would go high with legs. The two were strong to say the least. Then they separated calling out to one another at if it were a game until the young fox joined in. Then they simply dominated. The fox flew with his twin tails in a helicopter motion and would pick up one of the two Mobians. The one on the ground would round up a group of enemies and the other being carried in the sky would dive. When the fox tired out from flying he would land and team up with the blue one while the red echidna left to join the others or fight solo.

The status now was a huge amount of progress they had advanced and surviving soldiers were being taken to the main base where, according to his assistant, the other Mobians were helping with first-Aid.

Sonic called out to Tails again and they pinpointed a certain group of robots. Flooring one tails ripped in to the mechanics and doing as he pleased, while Sonic defended the fox, Created a universal remote.

In a rather casual tone Tails lifted the remote, "Now should I have the fight each other, find Eggman, self destruct or just plain old shut them down?" He asked Sonic.

"Hmmm.." Sonic tapped his chin as really thinking it over, "As fun as it would be to see them explode without having to touch them, it's a bit too much if you ask me, having them shut down Eggman could start them up again and that wouldn't be any fun. Oh!" He smacked his fist in to his open palm, "Can you make half fight each other and the other half find and fight Eggman?" He asked.

"No Problem." Tails tinkered with his remote for a few more minutes then flew over to the commander.

"If you please, press the red button" he said offering the remote to older man. Giving the fox a curious look he did as asked to find the robots take actions that Sonic had requested not too long ago.

"This is brilliant! Will it work for the other robots?" The commander asked.

"Not yet, I just need a few more pieces..." and Tail flew off to gather the wanted parts when he was done all the robots were bashing each other or marching steadily to Eggman. Highly impressed the commander smiled.

"Oh,ho,ho,ho,ho!" laughter rang out from the sky as a large craft came down from the sky. "So you've finally come, hm, Sonic?"

The hedgehog shot a look at the doctor. "Of course Eggman, I wouldn't let you take over any city mone or yours." He shot back.

"Alright then Sonic... Take This!"

Thousands of DNA tracking missiles were launched at Sonic.

The commander watched Sonic stand there before the weapons were only a meter away before simply, vanishing.

-*BOOM!*-

The air cracked as the sound barrier was broken the missiles turned a 180' and some crashed in to one another, some crashed in to Eggman's ship. None touched the blue streak moving at over 700mph.

"Holly %$%" was all the commander could say before becoming speechless.

Sonic released a 'Sonic Wind' attack slicing the machine in half, Knuckles yelled something at him along the lines of overkill, or show off. But Sonic couldn't hear it, he was going too fast.

Eggman frowned as he fell with his craft and hit the ground hard.

"See I told you we could take him down." Came Sonics' voice from beside the commander.

Victory in war comes at a price.

Amy held the still figure in her arms he was more red than blue now, as blood ran through his fur. How could the sun still shine? How could that man laugh? How could she not take revenge?

Because he was dead too.

"Damn it Sonic, why didn't you just run? Run like you always do? Sonic...war is the worst time to make a sacrifice."

When surrounded by chaos, find peace within.

That is what he told his friends when they asked how he could control the power off all the chaos.

That is what he said when in troubled times.

That is what he said when trying to explain the feel of the chaos within himself.

It was the control of chaos, which was the peace.

They were the same yet opposite, different but alike, one could not be without the other.

Forever flowing cycle of chaos, so carful channelled by peace.

X marks the spot.

Yeah right, he laughed more like moustache marks the spot.

You can only die once.

Sonic had told him that. Yet he was still alive, he couldn't die, he was immortal. So he asked. And got a logical reply. There are many ways to die, he had said, you are thinking of the physical one only, physical? He had asked. Yes, the body dies, well yours doesn't but mine does, even now, but you see you can also die in the way of your spirit. What? He had asked again confused. Some people lose themselves, who they are, they still live physically and mentally but they react with no emotion, they are dead, an empty shell. He explained. Yes... that made sense. You can die mentally when you no longer process thoughts, sounds, sight...all those and more, they usually are left in a shocked state or constantly leap from one emotion to another. He sighed, wouldn't it suck to die all three at once? You can't he replied. Once you die one way you can't return, you have no hope, kindness, or care, you are lost and gone. Sonic? Hm. He replied, do you think I can die at all? He looked at me with a small smile.

Yeah Shadow, you can.

Z.

"Hey...Do you think she's still alive?"

"She's still breathing, hedgehog, of course she is."

"Huh, She's a deep sleeper then."

"Maybe she should stop writing for awhile..."

"But then we can't go on any cool adventures any time soon!"

"Sure we can... we just have to wait."

"I hate waiting."

Hey! I'm back! I know this one is really choppy but I promise the next one I will write will be (hopefully) longer and smoother (possible Sonic/Amy). As you can tell I couldn't find any quotes or wise sayings that started with z so the last one really sucks. This should make up for the really long time I haven't posted a story. Feel free to expand on any of my short pieces. Some more up coming plans are:

Shadow story character variations.

Sonic story character variations.

Some Sonic Amy mush. (with some blood).

I might (very small chance) write an actual full story with complete plot and everything.

And whatever you may suggest or randomly pops in to my mind.

Any questions ask away! Anyways Thanks to the reviewers!

If you want to listen to Clare de Lune check out Debussy's "Claire de Lune" piano by Donny on youtube it was the one I was listening to at the time.

Shadow1371 –Thank you I'm glad you like my writing style. I hope to continue to please you let me know if you have any 'Challenges' for me!

LilyRosetheDreamer-Thank you for you support!