Hey guys it's me! Just an FYI for people reading and following this story, I don't know when I'm going to be able to get new chapters out now. Marching Band for me has started and I won't have a lot of time to type. Just a heads up. And before someone askes me AGAIN. There is going to be more Sonaze later. So, here's the newest chapter.

The "New" Sonic

The sky was a dark, boiling black. The wind was tearing around a city that was getting engulfed by infernos of flames, which was crumbling to the ground as I describe the setting here. The ground started cracking apart, down to the planet's core, leaving a red color emminating from the huge fissures.

In the middle of it all, Sonic the Hedgehog was thrown into one of the worst defeats in his lifetime, from someone who the hedgehog knew all too well.

"No... I... Won't... Back... Down..." Sonic was struggling to say, crumbling to his knees.

"You're really stubborn aren't you?" a dark, twisted, and sinister voice asked, chuckling out loud.

Sonic brought a small, weak smile to his face," I thought you knew that. After all, you are me,"

The figure, emerged from the flames, and Sonic knew exactly who it was.

The figure looked just like Sonic, only his fur was a dark bluish-black and his spines were tilted up at an angle a little more than Shadow's.

Dark Sonic.

" I will ask you one thing before I kill you," Dark Sonic said," Why? Why didn't you use me to help save your loved ones? If you did, you wouldn't be in this position now,"

Sonic snarled under his breath, and gritted his blood-stained teeth," Why? I thought that was obvious. With you in control of my body, even if you did save them from what happened, you would've still killed them and gotten rid of everything else I loved and it would've drove me insane, given in to you, and you bring the world down with all the death and destruction you'd have made!" Sonic yelled with such hostility, it would've made Shadow back down.

Dark Sonic rubbed his chin and said in thought," Huh. I never took you to be so smart, but then again. I came up with that plan so it doesn't suprise me you figure that out," he then turned and looked down to Sonic," But now. Let's finish what I've been trying to settle for your... or OUR lifetime," he said, raising his hand, becoming engulfed in a black flaming aura.

Sonic instinctively rolled off to the side, away from him.

Unfortunatly he forgot about the giant fissures that were around him.

"At... at least I didn't suffer a fate from him..." Sonic whispered as he slowly opened his eyes again.

What he saw next suprised him.

When he opened his eyes, he saw a normal Blue sky with clouds, a lush green cliff moving next to him, and...

'Wait,' he thought,' a green cliff MOVING?' then he realised what was happening. His defeat and battle was a dream, but his fall WASN'T.

"Holy...!" Sonic just managed to get out before he hit the water with a huge splash.

Sonic got his bearings back again and floated up to the surface, gasping for air when he resurfaced,' Man I hate water,' he thought to himself, as he pulled himself out of the water onto the nearby sand bar, while shaking the water out of his quills. He was glad what he saw was a dream, but he had a bad gut feeling about what that dream ment.

Sonic looked at himself and looked in shock again. He looked like he was 14 yesterday but now, he looked like and sounded like he was 16 again. He didn't know how he changed physically but he shoved it back and his mind and thought about other things, like going to reintroduce himself to the rest of his friens today.

Also, Sonic seemed to have changed a little bit in his personallity. Somthing from his dream triggered somthing in his mind. He realised what this evil was he had to face with 3 others. It was himself. The full realization of the situation hit him like a sack of bricks. He knew of what could happen to his friends and everything else if what happened in his dream came true. He didn't laugh at what happened to him, and didn't make any smart remaks either because he had fallen off the roof. Sonic knew what he had to do. He knew to prevent this all from happening he had to take Mario and Luigi with him and seperate from anyone he had loved... especially Blaze... because he knew if his emotions got the better of him, there would be no doubt that his dream would be inevitable. Sonic just looked to the ground, cringing and holding back tears as he ran quickly back up to Tails' Workshop to go get his things for the long road ahead...

Back on the Rooftop...

Blaze was still asleep and lightly purring in her sleep, laying curled up on the hard rooftop.

Suddenly a small splash could be heard in the feline cat's ears, which twitched ever so slightly due to the sound, causing the cat to wake up, but very slowly.

'Uggh...' she thought to herself, feeling uncomfortble from the hard tiles. With that, she jerked wide awake to see that Sonic was off the rooftop, and nowhere to be seen.

She thought to herself,' did he see me sleeping on him?' she blushed with her thought,' and if not, where did he go?' she then stood up, and for some reason, everything looked a little different.

'Why do I feel so... short?' she then jumped off the rooftop, onto the deck and walked inside.

She then stopped dead in her tracks when she passed by a mirror, and continued to stare at herself for at least the next 5 minutes.

She was standing in her 14 year old body again, with her old voice from back then.

"Ahh... so you've been affected by Sonic too huh?" a voice asked that she hadn't heard in a long time.

" T...Tails..?" Blaze studdered, still confused on what happened to her.

"Let me explain; It happened to me as well," the fox started as he stepped forward in his 12 year old body," I think that a side affect from the energy that turned Sonic back to 14 years old was spread to us during us being in close contact with him within the past 24 hours, and you being a lot of those 24 hours" he continued, chuckling.

Blaze's face went bright red,"...How...did you...you ...know?" she said, caught severely off guard by Tails' remark.

He smiled," I have ears you know. I heard a purring sound comming outside my window on the second floor last night and I decided to check it out. Well, what I found was you purring, laying on Sonic's chest last night. I decided to let you be and get some sleep. Especially Sonic, he had a long day yesterday." he finished.

Blaze relaxed a little, but she was still thouroughly embaressed, but still asked," By the way, where is Sonic?"

Tails looked at her, a little confused," I was going to ask you that," he asked, a little worried.

A note on the inside of the door to Sonic's room caught the attention of Blaze's eye and she took it off the wall and read it. She looked dumbfounded as she read what the note had to say, which caught Tails' attention," What is it?"

"It's a note from Sonic... saying that he's gone to find this other pyrokinetic it this world that Maria was talking about and he won't be back...,"

" For how long?" Tails asked," That doesn't sound like somthing he would do... but maybe it's because of his death or near death experiance of his of him acting like this..." he trailed off in thought.

That's exactly what Blaze thought. It isn't somthing he would do, because as long as she could remeber, he was always a hyper-active, happy hedgehog who wouldn't sit still. Also, as the further the note went on, she began to cry and finished reading the note to Tails.

"... he... he won't... be back... forever...,"

"WHAT?" Tails nearly shouted, waking Shadow up so he walked into the room.

"why are you shouting so loud this early?!" he complained. He then noticed the tears streaming down Blaze's cheek," Blaze, what's wrong?"

"...he...he's gone..." she said, finally breaking down into several sobs.

"Who?"

"Sonic," Tails answered, holding the note, also looking hurt," It says here he's leaving for reasons he can't explain and he doesn't want to see us again... especially Blaze..."

" WHAT DID SONIC SAY ABOUT BLAZE?" Shadow asked, now wide awake and VERY pissed off.

"... that he especially didn't want to see her again..."

"WHY?" Shadow now was filled with rage and a red aura was surrounding him now.

Tails was cowering in fear now, because he knew what happened when he got this mad, because sometimes he will go out and kill others. Once, he had jammed up his week with funerals to go to because of Shadow getting pissed at by Sonic because he beat his ass into the ground.

"He... He said that it's for reasons he can't explain to us..." Tails finished.

Somthing inside Shadow snapped. He lunged forward and grabbed Tails by the throat and held him up in the air," Don't give me that. Now tell me... WHY did Sonic leave?!"

Tails managed to choke somthing out in the form of English,"... he... he didn't... tell me why... can...you...please...put...me...down...?"

Shadow droped him to the floor a little puzzled," He... didn't tell you?"

"N-no..." Tails said, while gasping for air, struggling to stay on his knees.

Shadow thought to himself,' this is really weird of Sonic acting like this, all closed up and only works with whose nessisary... he acts like how... I used to be and same with Blaze... but we were only like that because somthing that threatened all existance was and I didn't think anyone else was nessisary was needed...' he trailed off in thought.

" So... what do we do?" Tails asked, fully recovered from Shadow's outburst.

"Well... I don't know what you're going to do, but I'm going to look for Sonic and get some answers," Shadow replied.

"Same here," Blaze said.

"In that case, I suggest we all split up,"

"Agreed,"

"Good, let's go," Tails said, running to the Tornado 4.

Shadow ran off to the East to the Mystic Ruins, Blaze ran to White Acropolis to check there, and Tails flew the Tornado to Emerald Coast.

" I don't know why, but I have a bad feeling about Sonic right now..." Shadow mumbled under his breath.

And thaat's it for now, see you all next chapter!