Sonic turned almost violently towards his brother. The groups had both entered on either side of the room. He gave a nod, and Tails threw seemingly a collar of plastic. Like the previous translator it had a faint green light to mean it was working. Snapping it swiftly around his neck he gave a sigh of relief at the familiar feeling of it around his neck. Quickly his eyes scanned the room.

Silver, he really didn't have to be here, did he? They didn't know each other that well, but still he was concerned.

Knuckles was more understandable. They had been friends for what had seemed like forever. Though Knuckles didn't really seem like the caring type, he still cared.

Shadow stood with his usual stoicism. Though if you looked closely at his eyes you'd see a flicker of concern. Good, afterall Shadow had caused much stress in his life, why not a little in his?

Amy, she with all her obsessive fangirling even took the time with that brief meeting to not maul him with affection. That was different, but nice.

Scourge, that ugh, he was his own mirror. That selfish womanizer seemed to have been dragged along. There was a question in his eyes though.

And Tails, his little brother always having to deal with his problems. The only one out of the bunch who knew the whole story about his family.

Then there was Eggman. At a different time he was Robotnick. A killer. Things were different back then though. Stepping away from the egg shaped man he shook his head.

"No, I don't need your help Eggy." His eyes connected with his brothers. "I've already got all the help I need." A smirk landed on his face as he watched his friends all seem to gain a new hope of sorts. The doctor stood flabbergasted. Sonic turned away motioning for his friends to follow as he did. "By the way Eggy, next time a meet up with my past self, we'll make sure you stay in whitespace longer."

The blue blur took off through the hallway; seemingly daring his friends to match his speed. That was something about Sonic, he could hold a grudge for the longest time then forget it all in an instant. His green counterpart easily caught up with him.

"'Ey, Blue Boy, you've got your voice back for now. Care to use it?" He snarled with a smile. Sonic seemed to take this as a challenge and a smirk went up his mouth. Not using his voice at all he quickly started to run up on the metallic walls. Scourge followed, as seemingly Shadow was skating closer, "Do you all think this is some kind of joke?" He asked rolling his eyes at their antics. They could be brothers the two counterparts could. Knuckles caught up easily gliding up to them, then landing and running. "Soo, Sonic how are you feeling?"

The azure hedgehog had caught on quickly. Even though they had heard Sonic say those things to the Doctor, they still wanted to hear him talk. Hear what he would say to them. Silver surprisingly caught up to them using his psychokinesis. The pot head seemed to enjoy this immensely.

"Hey Mary Jane! Nice to see you caught up to the party!" Scourge called to him. Sonic swatted his anti, seeing how Silver had a mind so naive. "You can't have a party without a little light!" Silver replied glowing brighter than usual.

Amy too had caught up, "Hey Sonic! How are you!?" She asked with her usual excitement. The hero shrugged in response, seemingly to torture them all. Last but not least, Tails flew to them, causing Sonic to grin wildly. He leaped off the wall to have him brother grab his arm.

Finally seeming to have driven them crazy enough, Sonic looked up to his brother, "How was your time with Professor Pickle?"

"Oh it was nice, I was kind of glad this happened, simply do to the fact I was getting sick of his sandwiches."

"You can say that again bro!" The blue blur pulled his brother out of the air, leading Tails, who was still holding on to him to fly behind him. A Sonic Boom echoed around, as the two seemingly disappeared from the group.

"Oh damn him! That ba-" A growl from Knuckles occurred as he pointed to Silver, "d stupid anti of mine!" He said a little too cheerfully.

Arriving at the Mystic Ruins felt great. "How long do you think they'll be?"

"Oh probably not too long Sonic, after all Shadow's with them."

"And Scourge?"

"He'll just have to take a bus." His brother shrugged. This caused the blue blur to burst out laughing, as he went through The Workshop's door. His laughter roared even more when he saw Jet the Hawk having tea with Cream the Rabbit. Jet's face had a look of 'help me' on it as he pretended to drink tea.

"You think this is funny!?" Jet asked angrily.

"No, no Tails just made this wonderful remark outside. Laughing at that." The hawk rolled his eyes. "Mr. Sonic, are you okay?"

"Never been better Cream!" Sonic sent her one of his famous thumbs up. Shorlty after his meeting the rest of the group soon arrived. They all looked slightly annoyed, (ahem Shadow and Scourge) but other than that they were good.

"Oh you guys are here? Well feel free to stay as long as you want, I'm going out for a ru-" Shadow grabbed him by the ear and dragged him to the couch. Sonic saying 'ow, stop it' the entire time and Shadow grumbling about how he 'didn't just start caring for the faker to have his life wasted'.

"Okay, Shads, okay. You want the story?" All eyes looked to him expectedly. "Fine Fine. But it's going to be quick."

"So I had a brother and a sister. Manic and Sonia by the way, who well, we were looking for our mother, who probably was killed by Egghead at the time, but eh. So it was one of those times, when I was still unofficially a hero, but my sibs didn't exactly come with me to do it, they sorta just watched. And what happened is I got hit in the throat by one of Buttnick's rays, and they came out to help and they- kinda got hit with the ray, and died." He was looking at his lap, "So, I kinda screamed and promised vengeance, and revenge and stuff, so yeah. I didn't really to the whole revenge stuff though. There's more to this story, but I'm not telling it a thousand times, I'll tell the whole when I get a bigger audience." He was smiling a real smile.

"Now can I go running?" After a few nods, Sonic got up and went to the door, and just as he was about to turn the knob, he turned and said smiling,

"You know, I think I left Eggman Speechless, back there."

And the rest of the story? Well that could be for another Day.

And that's the end. Maybe, you never know, there may be a sequel, just not right now. So guys the thing that won the vote was Underground/Mainstream, and the first chapter or prologue is published and the story is called "Been Awhile Don't You Think?" I will also write a quick short Fem!Sonic Sonadow story, and perhaps a longer one too, but probably the alternate SA2. Thanks for the support on this story, I enjoyed this story, I hope you did too.

By the way, I was going to mention this when I uploaded the cover, is that from far away it just looks like Sonic's smiling, well if you zoom in on it, I think it looks like he's shrugging and smiling like 'Heh , I have no idea what you're talking about.' You know?

Wafflesbelike-NYANCAT: I also did that again in this chapter, I think. I hope to see your stories and you to be a reviewer on mine, Sir Batman.

karygarcia21: I tried to have action with the running sequence.

Once again, review. If you review now that it's finished, I might reply by PM, I dunno. Quantum27 Out!