CH.4 Disclaimer: Beginning of this story

Authors Note: Sorry it took so long. thanks to this story I was stumped for the longest time, I thought id never write again, but not anymore. I drank coffee. Hope you enjoy it ^.^ if you think it sucks. well. don't worry I have WAY BETTER stuff than this on the way. I have 3 stories that are half done after this.



Sonic and the gang were already heading towards the center of town. nothing in town was affected by his appearance.except that everyone had run away. and the town was now a ghost town. Shadow was walking still thinking about the things he did in his past. he felt bad. He noticed everyone else was feeling that way too. the expression on their faces explained it, suddenly Seth came up to Shadow and spoke to him. "Hey shadow. you feeling all right?" Seth asked, "You look troubled."

"Naa. Its just memories id rather not remember." Shadow answered, Seth then stepped closer to Shadow and began to speak.

"You know. when I was small. I killed a man, He was robbing our house, and I caught him off guard, I stabbed him in the chest, with one of my parents kitchen knives" Seth continued. "I remember his expression. he was scared. I could also tell he was crying." Seth continued walking in silence until Shadow spoke up.

"So. What happened?" Shadow asked

"What happened was. It was my father. I had killed my own father" Seth said. "He owed a lot of money. he was hoping that with our things and the insurance. he would have enough to pay the debts. but I caught him. and killed him. I didn't find out until the next morning." Both continued walking unaware that the whole group was listening to the conversation.

"I swore id kill all those who ever tried to hurt my family, Turns out, there was a letter, it was for my father from another man, saying that if he didn't pay. me and my family would die." Seth said. "I found him and killed him, I made him die slow. Ever since then. I still haven't forgiven myself for the pain that I caused." Seth Shadow and the team continued walking forward, then shadow began to speak.

"My true love was also taken from me a long time ago, but that's not the end of my story. I caused chaos, and I almost destroyed this planet, I lost a loved one as you have, In the worse way possible. Trust me, I know how you must feel." Shadow said. "I once heard that.. Being forgotten. is worse than death. I was forgotten a long time ago." Seth thought about this for a second and continued walking.

"You know. your not the only one with a closet full of skeletons." Rouge suddenly said. "I have killed a few people in my past. unfortunately I cant reveal any stories. except one. see. a few years ago. way before the ark incident. I was captured and tortured for god knows how long. I swore that I would escape one day. and I did. but not before burning the place to ashes, I kept them all inside just so they felt more pain, finally they had died, and I had killed them, I didn't shed a tear. but it showed me something strange about myself" Rouge continued. "I had no soul, I was no one and that's what I thought of myself. of course that all changed when I met Knuckles & Sonic." Suddenly Knuckles decided to join the conversation.

"You know. your right about something. to be forgotten. is worse than death, which means I died a long time ago" Knuckles said before going silent again. The only ones who didn't have anything to say was Amy, Sonic & Tails. Suddenly everyone stopped.

"I have a bad feeling about this guys. something doesn't feel right." Sonic said, everyone else seemed to notice this and lifted their guard. The team then continued uneasily through the empty streets of Station square, suddenly the black image appeared in front of everyone again, everyone then went into a fighting stance.

"So. you came her to fight me even after my warning?" the figure said "How brave, But still futile." Well I still feel you should know my name. the name is Alexander.

"WE WILL DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO STOP YOU!" Sonic yelled. Sonic then spin-dashed at Alexander, but he punched him, throwing him through a wall. The wall then collapsed & fell on top of him burying him in the rubble.

"SONIC, Ill get you, you monster!" Tails then launched himself at the figure. He began firing punch after punch at him, everyone else started attacking it as well, Alexander proved to have exceeding self-defense skills because no matter how many people were pummeling at him he blocked every punch, kick, and chop. Finally Tails and Seth had run out of breath, and stepped away, when suddenly, the dark figure pushed everyone away with his energy. They all landed a few feet away. Amy suddenly was taken by Alexander. He then mutilated her body and threw it aside.

"AMY!!" Everyone yelled. Rouge saw this and took a dagger out of her boot, and launched herself at it. "DIIIE YOU BASTARD!" Rouge yelled. "ROUGE NO!" Knuckles yelled but it was too late. She made direct contact and buried the dagger deep within the monster, but suddenly, Rouge started gagging as the thing took her from the neck. Suddenly her life ended as Alexander suddenly broke Rouges Neck, the snap was heard for what it seemed like Miles, as that was happening, Knuckles had launched a glide punch to the monster. The dead body of Rouge slumped like a rag doll on the pavement floor. The monster then punched at Knuckles making him land hard next to Tails.

"FOOLISH MORTALS!" Alexander said. "You CAN'T DEFEAT ME WITH THESE FOOLISH ATTACKS!"

Suddenly, Alexander launched an attack that weakened everyone to the verge of death, everyone tried fighting it but it was useless.

"HE"S TOO POWERFULL!" Tails yelled.

Shadow launched himself at the monster and attacked him with an extremely powerful Chaos Control, but somehow, the monster wasn't even affected. He soon kicked Shadow over to what was left of the group

"You have met true power. and fell victim to it. You couldn't defeat me. and you knew it. foolish way to end your lives. what would you get if you defeated me anyway. Nothing. nothing meaningless at least." Alexander said. "Now two lives. or should I say.3 lives have been wasted. all because you didn't want to surrender. Well. I am afraid it is too late now. I can't allow you to live." Alexander suddenly went up to the now weak knuckles and crushed him, he then moved over to Tails and sliced at his stomach, Tails tried to get up. but only a pale blank stare came over his face Shadow tho was staggering up as the dark figure stabbed him in between the eyes and threw him aside, he then delivered a strong energy beam to Sonic's rock pile, when the beam cleared, there was nothing of the pile left. Seth was the last one. he was just watching, suddenly with a smirk he began to stand up as if nothing had happened.

"You are forgetting one thing you. " Seth said, "You forgot about me!"

"How could I forget!" Alexander said as he swung his sharp claws at Seth, making direct contact with his head, but nothing happened. He tried again and again, but Seth still remained undamaged. Suddenly Seth started glowing; he stood up and walked closer to the dark figure.

"I was sent here to stop you. I thought this could be resolved the mortal way. but apparently it couldn't" Seth said. "You're coming with me Alexander!!"

"Never!" Alexander said, "WHO ARE YOU!" suddenly a bright light engulfed the whole area, then the whole city, then the country, then the continent, until finally, the world. The Bright light faded as it had appeared. Alexander was kneeling on one leg.

"The power you stole from the planet has been returned. and you are now destined to either die or leave, never come back, if you do come back, your destruction will be imminent" Seth said as Alexander just vanished out of thin air. Seth then closed his eyes and disappeared with a bright light, when the light faded. everything was how it was before the monster showed up. Sonic Tails, Shadow Rouge, Knuckles and Amy were all in Amy's apartment, sprawled on the floor.

"W-wha---what happened?" Sonic asked as he got up, he saw everyone was getting up as well.

"Aww, man. I feel like a truck ran over my head" Rouge said while holding her head.

"Seth. Where's Seth!?" Shadow asked. Everyone looked around, but found nothing, when suddenly Seth appeared in the center of the room, Glowing a bright color. "I'm sorry Shadow. I was only sent here to stop that beast if you guys weren't able to stop it." Seth said. "I have to go back. but other than that it was my pleasure meeting you."

"Who are you?" Shadow asked

"You will know in due time. only in due time." Seth said. With that he faded away, everyone stared at each other, and stayed silent. no one moved as they kept staring at the center of the room.

"Knuckles. Mind explaining this?" Sonic asked. Knuckles just stayed silent.

A few months later.

Sonic and the gang were enjoying some sun at the beach; we find Sonic and Shadow sitting together.

"So, do you think all that was a dream?" Sonic asked as he stared into the horizon, Shadow was doing the same.

"No. it wasn't, I know." Shadow answered. "If it was a dream. I wouldn't be talking with you right now. he rescued me when I was injured remember?"

"I liked Seth. I wish I could have gotten to know him better" Sonic said.

"Yeah. well at least I know he is in some sort of paradise, so I know heel be fine" Shadow answered

"Yeah. hmm. I guess all we can do now is wait for our paradise huh?" Sonic said

"Well. I don't want to go" Shadow answered as he lay down. "Im fine right here and now"

"Heh. would you look at that." Sonic said. "Seems everyone has forgotten."

"No. they didn't forget. they just know their safe again." Shadow answered. "They know that there safe here with you and their friends"

Both then stood up and began walking towards their friends. Both went silent and stared at the horizon as the sun was setting, Tails could be seen swimming in the ocean, Rouge and Amy were also talking, but apparently not of the same thing because they were laughing and giggling, Knuckles was also swimming, but he was mostly keeping to himself, Tails could be seen trying to approach him.

"So long Seth" Shadow said as he ran to his friends, Sonic just stopped and looked on, he then revved up causing a small sand storm, & blasted forward.



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