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You people have been after me to post again, so here ya go. I apologize for any in-coherancy and so forth. i'm rushing to send this in (i have other things to do today :( which sucks) So i'm sending this in now, and i'll proofread it and re-submit later. Anyways, story and all that is there, so enjoy if not just for that.

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Retreat

The morning sun shined over the beauty of Station Square Park, the trees came to life and the flowers looked up as if to kiss the sun's light. Animals woke up and started their morning rituals, birds chirped and squirrels ran around gathering nuts. And off in a clearing, up in a tree, a blue hedgehog was seen waking up.

"Well… another beautiful day" Sonic yawned as he jumped down from his tree. "I guess I got to go… do something today." He said, walking out of the park and heading off towards Emerald Beach to kill some time.

As he walked through town, he saw the traffic of the city only grow as the sun rose ever-presently over the horizon. But Sonic couldn't take part in the beauty around him, for his mind was locked in remembering (and subsequently thinking) about what happened with Amy the night before.

"Do I tell anyone what we did? Do I even remain her friend after all that? I mean, I think… I think we are still friends? But…" Sonic said to himself, trying to make sense of what happened that night. The memories were still fresh in his head. The sense of her hand stroking his member, the taste of her lipstick as they kissed with passion, the warmth of her body as he held her close to him. All these memories and more kept rushing through his head, causing him to doubt his own morals and their friendship status.

"Do I even have anyone I can talk to about …. 'This' kind of thing?" he thought, looking at his reflection in a mail box. The realization of this unsettled him, for no one in his knit of friends had relationship advice or really any advice on this kind of topic… "Well… 'cept for Rouge. And I think I can do a little better" he joked, slowly walking back down the street towards Emerald Beach.

"You always have me" the voice said, as if it had been waiting all morning for Sonic to ask it a question.

"Technically, you'd be right. But I don't think you can help buddy. You keep giving me terrible advice" Sonic said back, trying to goad the voice into giving away its identity.

"Now Sonic, we both know that isn't true. I am the reason you have Amy so close to you right now. And even with all the confusion it adds to your life, you can't argue with me when I say that it's making your life happier" the voice said confidently.

"True… True. But I can argue for you to stay out of my life" Sonic said reactively "I mean, not that I'm thankful… I guess, for your help. I think? I don't even know anymore, ever since you've shown up I'm not even sure of what is real and what isn't anymore" Sonic sighed.

"You know what is wonderful for relieving stress? A girlfriend." The voice said calmly.

"… I can one up that" Sonic said, grinning like a fool.

"Sonic? … Sonic? Sonic don't you do what I think you're going to" the voice said worriedly, as Sonic started to run off towards the city exit.

"Not so high-and-mighty when you're not able to mess with my head, are ya?" Sonic laughed back, blurring out of the city at supersonic speed, heading off to one of the zones.

"Sonic, you'll regret this" the voice cursed, as it violently faded away in his head.

"Finally, some peace of mind… now where to go?" he thought aloud, thinking of zones nearby. Green Hill struck his fancy, but then he remembered that he was there not too long ago… albeit on Egg-Mobius's version, but close enough.

"Where haven't I been for awhile?" he thought aloud, racking his mind of his past. Then an idea struck him, and he ran off in the direction at supersonic speed, pulling trees along with him as he sped by. He had a feeling of doing some foolish running around the canyons and rock formations around him, so he leapt off of rocks and carefully avoided spikes and trees as he whizzed through nature, all while grinning like a mad man at the peace he had in his life. The entire time, remembering how much fun he had running around Never Lake, at least till he saw the chained up planet that he had to save.

"And, then there was the first time I met Amy…" he thought for a second, as he started leaping off of rocks to shift his thoughts elsewhere.

"All I needed was a good run, and I feel as good as new" he said to himself, as he leapt through the air to clear a canyon. "Still… Why am I still thinking about Amy…?" he thought as he landed on the opposite of the canyon and continued running, trying to distract his thoughts.

A giant spring factory appeared in front of him, and he grinned. The place seemed shut down, and had some clear signs of wear and tear. The walls were falling off and the badniks lay strewed across the ground, where Sonic put then years ago. He smiled as the memories flushed back into his head, remembering how peaceful his life was when it was just him and Robotnik fighting it off over the fate of animals. Heck, he didn't even mind having Tails as a sidekick back then.

It was the skeleton of Spring Yard Zone. He walked inside, took a spring and was shot up to the third floor. "Whoa! I forgot how much of a punch these things had" he laughed as he landed on the third floor. He started to walk around, bouncing his memories off of his current thoughts.

"Gugh! Why can't I just reminisce in the past, and not about Ames?" he cried out, still smiling for some dumb reason.

Clang!

A loud sound was heard down the corridor and Sonic's ears pivoted right to the source as he turned to look. He saw the silhouette of something scurrying down adjacent corridor and grinned at the fact that he wasn't alone anymore. Sonic rushed down the hallway, turned right and chased the figure. He entered a large factory room, and unlike the rest of the facility, the room was fully functional. As was made obvious as the cranes were carrying crates and badniks were being summoned to deal with the intruder.

"Now this is the distraction I wanted!" Sonic laughed as he smirked and readied himself for a badnik bashing spree. Motobugs, Buzzbombers and Mantis badniks spotted their target and rushed to engage. Sonic spin dashed off of one, kicked another and homing attacked a third. Explosions were happening all over; robots hit the ground in an explosive pile and Sonic only grin at the experience he was re-living.

After he cleared the room, he ran to the next floor to see what is happening, because if the factory is alive then it has to be for some reason. "Eggman!" Sonic said, hoping that he was right. He realized that all the time he spent back in Central City had made him miss the chaos of his life with Eggman. "I… need my adventures. I guess… this won't work between me and Ames. Considering it has been about a week and I'm already leaving Central City for an abandoned factory full of badniks" he thought, as he kicked off the wall to reach the girder that was angled just right to let him to the next floor.

There was a door labeled 'Reasearch and Development'. "Weird, why is 'research' misspelled?" Sonic vaguely thought as he walked through the door. Inside the room, there were sparks shooting off from all over and badniks were walking right off of an assembly line. As if on cue, when Sonic closed the door, every badnik panned its face over to him and stared at him with their cold metal eyes.

"Oh Sonic? Glad you could show up. I thought that the pink hedgehog was keeping you far too busy" said the familiar voice of Metal Sonic from up above.

Sonic looked up and saw Metal Sonic standing up on the third floor of the room, looking down at our hero.

"Metal! Why are you weaponizing a factory!" Sonic asked demandingly as he viewed the room so he could react to any attack.

"Shouldn't it be perfectly clear Sonic? Eggman used this strategy to help him find the chaos emeralds, and YES I know about your little team of emerald finders. They've found two so far. And I have three. That makes five, and the sixth one has already been spotted by my sensors. I was about to leave but now that I have company…." Metal Sonic said, as he looked down at his army "I fear I have to 'entertain you' now." He laughed.

"Nice try Metal, but you know I'll break every badnik into scrap metal!" Sonic replied, a cocky tone to his voice.

"I sure hope so. I wouldn't want this to be boring." Metal Sonic replied as he pressed a button near him. All the walls slammed shut and were re-enforced with a steel plate. The windows were locked up in a similar fashion and the sky light started to slowly begin to close. "Sonic, I hope you understand, but I have more important things to attend. But have fun with these new models, they have a few tricks up their sleeve." The robot said, cackling as he flew up to the sky light.

"Metal Sonic!" Sonic cursed, running forward and jumping off a Motobug to spring himself up towards where Metal Sonic was flying. In mid flight, a Buzzer fired some pulse beam that threw Sonic back to the ground, where he recovered and looked at the army of badniks and realized that he couldn't destroy them all and get to Metal Sonic in time. "Damn my metal copy, he always has everything so well planned" he cursed in his head as he sized up his opponents.

Metal Sonic was safely on the other side of the sky light, and as it was closing he said "Oh and Sonic, to add some incentive for our game of 'cat-and-mouse'" he cackled as he pressed some button on a remote and dropped the remote into the facility.

Self Destruct Activated. Spring Yard Zone will detonate in two minutes. All personal evacuate the area. This is not a drill.

"Damn him" Sonic cursed in his head again, knowing now that time was a factor. He quickly leaped into combat, destroying Motobugs and Buzzers at every chance he got, dodging all their gun fire and melee attacks. The Mantis would throw their claws at him, and scratched at his clothes every now-and-then, but he managed to avoid any serious damage.

As the pile of corpses grew, the timer was nearing the 'one-minute' mark, and Sonic still had a fair number of badniks to destroy. So Sonic started pulling out all the stops, and he used his light-speed attack to clear the room of badniks in a matter of seconds.

"Glad that's done" he panted, as he looked around the room for a way out of his steel prison. A loud grinding sound was heard and the badnik corpses were dragged to the center of the room by some unseen force. The bodies quickly assembled into a giant metal scorpion looked at Sonic and roared fiercely.

"Damn it all! I don't have time for this!" Sonic swore at the scorpion and rushed at it with a spin dash to tear threw it. The scorpion slapped the spin ball away and released a salvo of missiles at Sonic.

"Well… that is just fan-flipping fantastic!" Sonic exclaimed, as he ran around the room to avoid being a mattered blob of hedgehog. The missiles crashed and detonated against the wall, shaking the foundation with each explosion and the countdown had reached the thirty second mark.

"I need a plan, and quickly…." Sonic thought, thinking as fast as he could while still avoiding missiles and lasers. The latest salvo crashed behind him and the wall crumbled into the force of the explosions. "Well, there we go" Sonic grinned, teasing the scorpion to fire at him again.

Enraged, the scorpion fired everything it could in one giant salvo and then rushed behind the launch to tackle Sonic.

"I sure hope this works" Sonic thought as he waited for the missiles to get close enough so he could jump last-second and cause the wall to go down. The missiles closed the gap, almost got to Sonic and he leaped into the air and kicked off the wall to shoot off onto the back of the scorpion.

The explosion tore the wall down and the scorpion crashed into the wall, and the force threw Sonic off its back and outside of the building just as the entire structure detonated under the self-destruct.

As Sonic hit the ground, he ran as fast as he could to get outside of the blast radius and the light of the explosion engulfed him.

As the light faded, Sonic was running through Angel Island and heading right to the shrine. "Again?" he thought, thankful that the transportation saved him from an explosion.

He climbed up the stairs and looked at the inversely crafted crystal that mimicked the master emerald. The image of a clock with no hands could be seen carved in the plaque right in front of him, to which Sonic thought that he had seen such a symbol before.

"Greetings hero of Mobius, how fare thee?" the rustic voice said in his head.

"I fare well. And yourself?" Sonic asked back, trying to hide his annoyance.

"I've fared better, I'll admit. But enough of pleasantries… Sonic. Are you trying to kill the royal hedgehog line or are you just naturally stupid?" the voice asked, in a serious and worried tone.

"Wha? Me? Look, I don't know what is going on but I was there trying to stop Metal Sonic" Sonic said defensively.

"Sonic, I told you to use Logic. What do you do? You rush into an abandoned facility, without contacting anyone of your whereabouts. Then you see an enemy, so you chase it down. Then you destroy and entire room of them just to be lead right into a trap. A trap, that was completely obvious. Why would Eggman misspell a door?" the voice asked, hoping Sonic could figure it out.

"…uhm … because… Metal Sonic knew I'd fall for the trap" Sonic said, not sure if the answer was right.

"Well, your half right. Metal Sonic would have wanted to label the door so that his trap would be completely obvious to any machine. A glaring spelling-error would stand out like nothing else to him, or any badnik. But yes, it was a trap for you. He hoped that you'd be caught up in your past that you'd forget about the future and follow his minions blindly into a death trap for you while he gets a head start on hunting down the chaos emeralds. Sonic, please, use Logic." The voice said, trying to stress the importance of his request.

"Look, I'm sorry. Your right. I wasn't thinking. A lot has happened to me recently and I just wanted to have a nice run and forget all about it. Next thing I know, I'm in a 'death trap' as you put it, desperately trying to figure a way out. All while… "Sonic said, realizing something "All while Metal Sonic planned that. He wants me to live, doesn't he?"

"Sonic, I can safely tell you 'yes'. Your life still has meaning to your metal duplicate. He needs something you can do and he can't, because he is your copy in all but a few aspects. Namely, of spirit. Anything else I can't tell you, for the future must play itself out. I hope you understand my position" the voice said remorsefully.

"I would say yes, but no. No I don't know your position. I don't even know your name. You keep mentioning something of a 'royal hedgehog bloodline'. I have an annoying voice that follows my thoughts! And I barely know what is going on here. Why are you and Tikal and… heck, even Chaos keeping me in the dark?" Sonic asked, desperate for an answer.

"Sonic…" the voice said, almost sounding like it was holding back its saddening emotions "try to understand. There is an unwritten fabric in the universe. Certain events must come to pass, and the players in the event can't know their roles. For if they knew before hand how to influence the future, and then the future wouldn't happen. But trust me, if I was capable of telling you more, I would. I gave you a helping hand two nights ago…" the voice said apologetically, as the light started to fade into the amphitheatre.

"Wait… two nights ago?" Sonic asked, his thoughts flying back to Amy's tarot reading. "Wait! Does that mean Amy's predictions are true!" he asked, remembering that one of his friends were predicted to die.

"Farewell Sonic, till we meet again. May the wind be at your back" the voice said, as the light erupted all around Sonic and he was thrown through time and space.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Sonic yelled as he was thrown into the snow. Sonic crawled up, and stayed on his arms and knees fighting back tears. "Why does life have to be so hard?" he asked himself as he punched the snow with a balled up fist, thinking about the fact that one of his friends were guaranteed to die, according to some voice in a crystal, that he wasn't questioning.

He looked around to figure out where he was, and all he saw was snow, and lots of it. He saw a snowboard next to him and on the board was the word 'Logic'. "Great, well at least it has a sense of humor" he said angrily as he grabbed the board and leaped down the hill to board down. He spent most of the trip just thinking about what just happened, back at the lab and with the crystal. "Seems like I have a fun adventure ahead" he said dryly, as he finally finished his thoughts and focused on doing snowboard tricks to get his mind off of the past.

While he was doing a series of tricks, he finally realized where he was. "I'm in Ice Cap Zone!" he said, smiling because he loved this place. "Wait… that means I'm on Angel Island…" he figured, "which would mean… I got transported from… wow. That is a lengthy distance" as he thought about the gap between Spring Yard Zone and Ice Cap Zone.

He landed his trick and looked up to see a faint shine in the hill side. It was bright orange, and seemed to be glowing brighter as Sonic looked at it. "A chaos emerald, seriously?" he said to himself, psyched at the possibility. He hit the wall with his board, leapt straight up into the air, leapt off the board and jumped up to the ledge where he saw the orange glow.

There, on a pedestal, was the orange chaos emerald. It just sat there, seemingly unattended by even the snow. Sonic started to walk forward and then the thought shot him "Logic!" he thought, as he jumped back.

As he leapt back, the surrounding tiles around the emerald fell down and a beam of lasers fired out tearing apart the tiles and the clouds in the sky. "Wow! I just missed that" he thought, thankful that he actually listened to the crystal for once. The laser subsided and all seemed at peace. Sonic leapt across the gap and grabbed the emerald. The weighty feel of it in his hands made him smile, and he felt its power leak over into his being.

Feeling self conscious about what just happened; he decided it would be best if he went back to town. "Guess I'm calling this run over… unfortunate to, I was just getting warmed up" he laughed as he used chaos control.

The power surged through him as he felt his body being yanked through time and space and the speed he felt was unlike any feeling that could be described. In a blink of a second, he was back in Station Square Park, standing where we did that morning, looking out at the lake. He looked at his phone to see that it was roughly noon. "So… I've been gone for most of the day… and I have an emerald to boot. Seems like I'm one step ahead of Metal Sonic now" he said, laughing as he pocketed the emerald.

Feeling hungry, he jogged into town and ordered some chili dogs, and took them on the go as he jogged down to Emerald Beach to visit Tails. He arrived in a short period, finishing up his last chili dog as he walked into the garage to see Tails typing on his computer. Miles was flying around the garage with a wrench, tightening up any bolt that got dumb enough to be in its way.

"Heya Tails. I got a riddle for you." Sonic said, as the fox spun around in his chair to look at Sonic.

"Hey Sonic, ok, what?" Tails replied, curious of what riddle it could be.

"What is orange and capable of power great machines?" Sonic asked, realizing that it was a pretty weak riddle.

"Well… I'd have to say a fuel rod of some sort…." Tails begun to say, as he saw Sonic start to laugh at Tail's guess. "Oh, well in that case it'd be a chaos emerald?" the fox laughed back.

Sonic took the emerald out and said "looks more like a fuel rod to me" he laughed as Tails got up from his chair to admire it. "So Tails, I know you can have some use for this, at least for some time. And I always seem to lose these things… So can you hold onto it for me?" Sonic asked.

"Wow Sonic. You got me Miles and now a chaos emerald. I have no idea how to top you for your own birthday" the fox said, holding the emerald.

"Don't worry about it Tails, they are just gifts. I don't need anything; you on the other hand, needed Miles. This lab gets so lonely at times, I'd bet." Sonic said, grinning at Tails.

"Well… yes and no. I always have my machines and such… but Miles is such a wonderful addition to the lab. And you were right; he actually knows how to invent. He made that over there" Tails said, pointing at a hover board. "I guess the race we had and such left an impression on him… or something. I mean, he wasn't even hatched when we raced… so…" Tails said, his voice trailing off.

"That is great Tails, I'd love to stay and chat but I have to go make sure Cream hasn't destroyed my apartment" Sonic said, thinking about asking Tails about his cell phone "naw, I'll just do it another time" he thought as he said his goodbye and headed off to his apartment to make sure everything was still in one piece.

He arrived at his apartment building in a matter of a few minutes, going at a brisk jog to enjoy the scenery of such a beautiful day. As he jogged by the park, he thought about taking Amy out on a date, and then he had to remind himself that they weren't dating so there is no reason to do so, or at least that was how he justified it to himself. He used his spin ball launcher to reach the top floor and walked out expecting to be able to walk right into his apartment.

It wasn't so, a Piko Piko hammer was there wedging the door shut. "Damn it Ames, it was suppose to just be Cream!" Sonic thought, a smile on his face as he knocked on his own door. "Hello, Anyone. This is Sonic, and I'd like to see my apartment." He said in a playful tone.

"We don't want any" came the playful reply from Amy.

"Ames, come on. It's my apartment, and Cream was suppose to have fun with it. Why did you have to help her?" he asked.

"She needed some help. And besides, I want to make some …. Personal touches" she said with a giggle.

"Ames that giggle worries me. Come on, lemme in" he said.

"No can do Sonic, and if you wedge the hammer free then I'll have to hurt you again" she teased back, another cute giggle followed.

"Ugh! Fine, can I have my apartment back later tonight?" he asked, giving up trying to argue with her, for fear of what she'd resort to.

"You can just crash at my place tonight." She teased back.

"Ames…. Come on. Why would Cream need to stay at my place for another night?"

"Mr. Sonic, just trust us. We are working really hard to make you a great apartment." Cream replied.

"Yeah, Geez Sonic. Go run one some race course or something" came Knuckles voice.

"What the what? How many people are in my apartment without me?" Sonic questioned, stifling a laugh.

"Never you mind honey buns, I'll call you when you can have your place back." Amy said, and the sound of power tools drowned out any further attempt from Sonic to question her further.

"Great… well I guess I can… go visit Tails again. Assuming he didn't fly in through the window and help occupy 'Club Sonic'" he joked, as he hoped down the chute and walked out of the apartment complex.

"Sometimes, I just don't know about that girl" he thought as he made his way back to Tail's lab. He entered the garage and saw Tail's setting the emerald up in some generator. "What's that Tails?" Sonic asked.

"Oh, Sonic your back. I thought you went to your place… Anyways this is a generator. It's connected to the city grid. I thought about using the emerald for myself… but then I thought about how you've been just giving people things lately so I decided to do the same. So as soon as I flip this switch" Tails said, reaching for a switch with his hand "This chaos emerald will power the bulk of the city, which will help hundreds of people out" the fox said as he threw the switch.

"See Tails that is what makes us the good guys." Sonic laughed back "But yeah, I'm here cause it turns out Amy and Cream and heck, even Knuckles are in my apartment doing… well who-knows-what. It was suppose to just be a remodel or a paint job or something by Cream… and well… now I don't know." Sonic said, smirking as he talked "All I can say is that I've been kicked out of my own place." He laughed.

"Wow Sonic that is most certainly weird" Tails admitted as Miles handed him a screw driver "I just have some inventions to work on here… Feel free to make yourself at home. I guess" Tails said, a little saddened that he couldn't interact more with Sonic.

"Tails, I'd love to help, but we both know that I'd probably cause an explosion…. So I'll just go play some more of that awesome game you got" he said, walking off to the main room with a laugh.

He booted up Tail's Gamebox 3000 and started up 'Hyper Hedgehog 3: The Awakening', ready to defeat Mr. Omelet once and for all. And for once in a long while, Sonic was at peace and enjoying life.

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