Third Person

Nazo really wondered what he deserved for putting up with four idiots he constantly stayed with. Why was he thinking this? Exe and Scourge got into another fight about who was stronger. What exactly caused this you may wonder, well that's easy. Since following Neikan and Keeper around, Keeper was being very passive about everything and still showed a non interest to all that was being shown to him. That in turn made the two idiots try to determine who was possibly stronger. Nazo rolled his eyes then his attention was caught by the fire and vine beings watching both the pure green and murky grey hedgehogs. He walked over wondering what their involvement is in all this.

"We have to act fast, Dark."

"Would you relax already? We can trust Keeper. Look at him, he's not interested in this planet in one bit. Let's find Balance and finish what we started."

"But Dark, what if-"

"Sometimes Light, you just need to calm down."

"And you need to take the severity of the situation more seriously!"

Nazo could clearly see just how polar opposite those two could be, sort of similar to how they are now.

"Whatever." Dark walked away from his white fire counterpart. "Let's find Balance before he decides to make any trouble. We've been trying to find where he's been hidden for over a century now. This could be our chance to find him and end him."

Now that certainly got Nazo's attention. What importance is this Balance to those two? Why do they want to end him? Light huffed before following the black vine hedgehog.

"Fine. But if anything happens in regard to Keeper taking a liking to that mortal or this planet, I'm blaming you." Light glared at Dark to emphasize his point, which the latter of the two rolled his eyes and continued on his way. Light begrudgingly followed him.

"Nazo!" Said white hedgehog flinched from the sudden call, then looked to the side seeing the idiots he had to put up with come his way. "Would you tell that blue fucker I'm more powerful than him!?"

"No, tell that green bean I'm more powerful than him!!"

Nazo shook his head at Scourge and Exe's shenanigans. "Would you both shut up for once?"

Then of course, they didn't listen and started fighting once again anyway. Nazo looked at Mephiles who also seemed fed up about the situation, then Fleetway. But... The golden hedgehog wasn't looking at the two bickering fools. Rather... Something behind the white hedgehog. Said hedgehog quickly looked behind himself to see the faintest hint of something black and white running away. Nazo narrowed his eyes, something was there. Looking back at Fleetway, Nazo knew something was definitely up by the golden hedgehog. Ever since the five of them came to the past or even before then when Sonic showed his form with the Master Emerald, he's been spacing out, staring off at random things and being oddly quiet. The white hedgehog didn't like this one bit.

"Fleetway?" Nazo shook him, no response. "Fleetway?" Once again, no response but... The golden hedgehog started flying off in the direction where the black and white being went. Confused and a bit startled by the sudden action, Nazo looked over at Mephiles. "Watch over those two!"

"What?" Mephiles questioned, turning to look at the white hedgehog, only to see that very hedgehog was flying away after Fleetway. Mephiles then sighed and watched the two idiots obviously confused on the sudden command.

As Nazo flew through the air, trying to catch up with Fleetway, he wondered what exactly was going on here to make Fleetway act this way. His flying pattern also seemed erratic too; left, right, up down, no straight lines. Even loodeloops! But finally, Fleetway started slowly down allowing him to catch up.

"Fleetway!!!" Nazo yelled and finally, that got his attention as he stopped flying and looked at Nazo confused.

"Nazo?" Said hedgehog floating beside him. Fleetway then looked around confused. "Where are we? Where's the others?"

Nazo felt like the most confused hedgehog imaginable after hearing that. "You don't know? You flew in this direction and I followed you."

"I did?" Fleetway was still very much confused until something caught his eye and he looked at it. Nazo looked and saw the same black and white being. But when it saw them looking, it quickly hid behind a nearby - what looked like - tent. Nazo glanced at Fleetway then nodded his head in the direction of the little situation wondering what that was all about. They were the only ones in the past... Right? Fleetway obviously didn't know either and shrugged.

The two of them slowly flew over where they last saw the being, unsure if this was just some simple part of the past or something else unknown. What they saw surprised them both greatly. It was a black and white hedgehog that appeared no older than 10, but strangely enough, it looked like a ragged old doll - a puppet even from the barely visible pieces of string connecting to the hedgehog's wrists, ankles and neck. It was huddled up in a ball probably for protection as it shivered slightly. Even though it's head was hidden, this doll/puppet hedgehog had a theme that consisted of only black and white stripes similar to a zebra, it's ears - though looking totally perked up - seemed to sag slightly under its own weight and it's quills much like it's ears, sagged greatly with one quill each hanging down from either side of its shoulders. The one thing that was interesting though was the assortment of black and white ribbons on its back, all folded neatly, making the shape of a multi layered kusudama flower.

Fleetway nudged the doll hedgehog with his foot and earned a glare from Nazo telling him to back off. Nazo then kneeled down, quickly finding that this doll hedgehog was a male and touched his shoulder. The doll hedgehog gasped, looking at Nazo with wide black and white eyes and trying to scramble away.

"Hey, there's no need to run." Nazo said, not moving to scare him more. Fleetway stayed back to not intervene in this strange situation. "We won't harm you." The doll hedgehog stopped moving and seemed to study them.

"... You won't?" Nazo was a bit surprised at this strange hedgehog's voice. It sounded like a mix between Dark and Light's, yet also had that emotionless sort of tone to him.

"No. We won't." Nazo caught a glimpse of Fleetway giving him an odd look to which he waved him away with his hand. "What's a little kid like you doing here?

"Are you going to kill me?" The doll hedgehog asked, completely ignoring Nazo's question.

"Er... No? Why would-"

"You look like him." From the interruption, Nazo looked to the side watching the doll hedgehog gaze at Neikan and Keeper.

"I guess I do but-"

"Are you going to kill me?" Being interrupted once again, Nazo looked at the doll confused.

"Why would I-" Nazo was once again interrupted.

"My name is Balance."