You know, I probably should've done this a while ago. All the copyright info is as follows, including a character that I am introducing in this chapter:

Vincent Wolf, Satyr Aron, Shift Light, Riftman and the mystery character are copyright Vincent Wolf Mike Allen, Jason Schultes and Mike "Wolf" Lewis are copyright Echoes of the Mind Link, Zelda and Ruto are copyright Nintendo Megaman, Dr. Light, Roll, Protoman, Bass, Rush, Treble and Dr. Wily are copyright Capcom Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Sally, Shadow, Bunnie, Antoine, Rotor, Mina, King Acorn, Queen Acorn, Uncle Chuck, Robotnik and Snively are copyright Sega

Now before my brain starts to hurt from trying to think of any other characters that I can be sued for using, here's the next chapter. Grab some popcorn and find a seat close to the bathroom, because you're going to be here for quite a while.

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DARKNESS SONATA

"Okay," Satyr says while flying behind Vince, who is also flying, "who's this Robotnik guy again?"
Vince says to her, "He is an evil dictator from a world called Mobius. He has the ability to turn an organic life form into a robot with only a touch. Our new friends here are also from Mobius.
You see, like the planet of Hylas, namely Hyrule, Mobius is also a world that exists only in fantasy in my reality."
"Technically, it ain't your reality," Shift says, who is flying beside Vince and Satyr with Bass, both of them riding on Treble. "Didn't you just find out you aren't from that world?"
Bass looks over to see a sad look on Vince's face and says, "Shift, you need to learn some people skills!"
Shift responds, "Why? I hate people, and I hate that I'm forced to work with people!"
"Shut up, tin-man!" Knuckles yells at Shift. "Aren't you guys supposed to be a team? I used to be a loner, too, but you should really wise-up and realize that these guys are all trying to work for a common cause. You seem to be against it. Destiny seems to have forced us Mobians to work with you guys, so that makes us a part of your team. I personally don't want to hear my teammates badmouthing me!"
Shift looks over at Knuckles and says, "I didn't ever say I was against you all. I just prefer to work alone. That aside, I'm outspoken, and I can't help that."
Satyr responds to this by saying, "You said hate. I heard you say you hated people."
"Okay, sorry! Maybe hate was too strong of a word. I may prefer to work alone, but I won't cause any problems when it comes to fighting."
"Good to hear," Knuckles says. "We're almost outside, and that Eggnaut thing is not going to be a fun thing to fight against."
"Eggnaut?" Vince says questioningly. "What the heck is an Eggnaut?" As they pass through the front doors of the building, his question is answered.
Satyr looks up at the mechanical giant, now in mech-mode, and says, "I'm guessing it's that!"
Link looks around and sees many swat-bots all over the place. He says, "Time to put a few bad guys to sleep! Who's with me?" as he draws his sword.
"Sounds like an idea, pal!" Sonic says as he goes into full Sonic Spin.
Mina pulls out a handgun and says, "I knew this would come in handy eventually!"
Ruto runs out the door, a little behind everyone else. She runs behind Vince and says, "Am I late?"
Vince turns around and says, "I thought you were staying with Light, Zelda, and Roll! Why are you here?!"
Ruto shoots back, "I wanted to help! I'm not going to let you get hurt, so I came to help you!"
"Fine, but you try not to get hurt, too," he says. Like his other battles, Vince once again plays a song on the Tek. This time it's 'Bodies' by Drowning Pool.
The Hero-bots all get off the robo-dogs and send them back into the laboratory. When they are inside, everybody separates and start fighting the army of swat-bots.
Sonic, who is already in Sonic Spin, slices right through a lineup of eight swat-bots. Right at the waist, each of them falls to the ground in two pieces. Sonic comes back to the ground and trips another swat-bot, making it land on one of the ones that he had just taken out. This bot explodes on impact, causing a chain reaction, which destroys around twenty others. After they explode, more begin to fall to the ground as well. Sonic looks around to see how this came about, and sees Mina firing away at the swat-bots, hitting many of them directly in the head. He looks a little impressed at her marksmanship, and goes back to fighting. Knuckles and Shadow are beating any swat-bots that come near them completely senseless. Knuckles, using his fists of seemingly steel, punches right through the enemy's defenses, while Shadow makes good use of his Chaos Control ability and takes several bots by surprise. Megaman and Protoman go back to back, charging up their Buster Cannons. With a fully charged blast from each of them, they nearly level the area they were fighting in. All that is left of the swat-bots that were in the line of fire are robotic feet standing right where they were beforehand, with random assortments of transistors and other parts littering the battlefield. The battle rages on, with all the heroes taking on their fair share of fighting. Link is cutting down swat-bots with Spin Blade attacks from his sword, and Ruto blasts away some of the bots with pillars of water. Shift opens up a rift, and then using his own Buster Cannon, knocks a couple bots through it, sending them to a darkness from which they can never return. Bass fires rapidly at approaching swat-bots, but because his buster is unable to be charged, he only puts holes in the evil robots. Satyr draws her dagger and flies into one of these holes and cuts some wires inside of the bot. With lightning speed, she does this again and again, until each one of the bots with a hole in it shuts down. Even though all of the heroes are fighting valiantly, it seems like there is no possible end in sight. Vince is even getting a little run down. He activated his Fire Armor at the beginning of the fight, and has been slashing away with flaming swipes from his staff for quite a while. No matter how hard they all fight, the swat-bots just keep coming and coming. Everyone is tiring from battle when the enemy starts beating them back. There is just way too many of them. Even Sonic is slowing down, exhausted from speeding around so fast and losing stamina. Suddenly, another rift opens on the battlefield, sucking in all of the swat- bots. All the heroes look over to Shift, but he is completely oblivious to what happened. Realizing that the battle may be over, Vince looks over to Satyr and asks, "Is it soup yet?" Satyr laughs a little bit and says, "Yeah, it's soup." "But how did this happen?" Link asks. Jumping down from the Eggnaut is a bioroid that none of them had seen before. "Call me crazy, but I think that he might have had something to do with this," Mina says. "Uh, thanks for the assist, but who are you?" Megaman asks, looking puzzled. Protoman looks at the visitor and says, "He just came down from Wily and Robotnik's little toy. He's probably working for them!" "I am Riftman," he says. He holds his right arm in pain as he limps forward. "I was created by Dr. Wily to be his liaison between worlds. I need your help." Shift shouts at him, "If you're with Wily, why should we help you?!" Riftman closes his eyes, facing downward as he says, "Robotnik double- crossed us. When he thought that you could all easily be destroyed, he fired upon me and Dr. Wily. I escaped with my life, but I fear that my master may have not been so lucky." Ruto looks over to Vince and asks, "Do you believe him?" Vince steps in front of Riftman, looking directly into his eyes. He gazes for a few moments, staring deep into the confines of the bot's soul. When he is finished, he looks back at Ruto and says, "We can trust him." "I'll take him back to the doc to get him some help with his arm," Protoman says. He then leaves with Riftman limping beside him into the laboratory. When they are inside, Shift looks over to Vince with an angry look on his face. "Why did you just let him go?! He's with Wily! We can't trust him!" Shift yells at him. Vince looks back at Shift and says, "Destiny is a strange thing. It can pair up some of the most unlikely of friends. For example, no matter how rude and independent you are, we all still trust you as a friend. Yet, despite all that trust, you still don't trust us to fight beside you." Shift is stunned. He hadn't had it pointed out for him like that before. All this time these people had tried to be his friends, and he repaid the favor by pushing them away at any cost. He was a shrewd jerk, and it finally hit him. Shadow looks up at the Eggnaut and says, "We have company." Raining down, there is hundreds of swat-bots, accompanied by many other robots, each that are like larger versions of the swat-bots, with larger weapons to go along with them. Shift starts charging his Buster Cannon and says, "Okay team, let's tear them apart!" Megaman laughs as he readies his Buster Cannon and says, "Let's do it!" "Okay," Vince says, "Sonic, Mina, Ruto, Bass, and Link, come with me! Sonic, since you and Mina have been in that Eggnaut thing, so do you think you can lead us to Robotnik? If we find him, we can stop this swarm of bots." "No prob, dude!" Sonic winks and gives a thumbs up. "Great! Let's get up there, then!" Vince says. He activates his Earth Armor and makes a piece of land jut out from under them and raise them up to the opening in the side of the Eggnaut. While they ascend, the other fighters battle below them.

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"This is... different," Mina says as they enter the interior of the Eggnaut. Satyr, hovering by Vince, asks, "How so?" "Well," Sonic answers, "there used to be a bunch of hallways in here. Now there's only one path. This is giving me the creeps. Way uncool." "Seeing as how it's the only path, it's probably the right way," Ruto says. Bass laughs a little as he says, "Thanks. I didn't think we would have been able to tackle this mystery without you, Captain Obvious!" "Shut up!" Vince yells as he whacks Bass in the back of the head, sending him flying forward into a wall. "Damn that hurt!" Bass screams in pain. "You still had your Earth Armor on, you stupid beatnik!" "I'm not a freakin' beatnik!" Vince yells as he hits Bass again, denting his helmet. Sonic sees this and says to Mina, "Remind me never to call that guy a beatnik." Mina nods and says, "Yeah, that would probably be the healthiest plan of action." "Vince, you gotta learn to control your temper," Link says. "I mean, sure he called you a beatnik and insulted your girlfriend..." "Could we go already?!" Satyr cuts the argument short. Sonic whispers to Link,"I'm sensing a little jealousy from the small chic. How about you?" "Maybe a little," the Hylian responds quietly. Vince looks down the hallway and says, "I guess we have wasted enough time here. You ready to go Bass?" Bass rubs his head and sneers at Vince, then nods and moves with them through the hall.

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It is a relatively short trip before the reach a large chamber filled with machines mass-producing the swat-bots. At the far end of the chamber sits an empty control console. With Robotnik nowhere in sight, the heroes move forward.
"Okay," Vince says, "all we have to do is turn this thing off and the bots stop coming."
Satyr lands on the console next to the controls labeled 'SWAT-BOT PRODUCTION' and presses a large button labeled 'OFF'. Several machines screech to a halt. Flashing the anime sign for victory, Satyr smiles and says, "Mission accomplished! I'll be taking my award now, bartender!"
"Later. Right now we have to find Robotnik and Wily," Vince responds.
Suddenly, the lights begin to dim around them. A booming voice calls to them from the darkness surrounding them, "Look no further, you fools!"
Mina shudders. "I'd recognize that voice anywhere..."
"Buttnik," Sonic says in a low tone.
The lights turn back on, and standing where they had entered, is Dr. Robotnik in a mechanical suit. He takes a few steps in and the door slams down behind him. "I've been waiting for this day for a long time. Snively!"
A cage surrounds the heroes in an instant. From the shadows emerges the evil Doctor's diminutive nephew holding a small remote device.
Satyr whispers in Vince's ear, "I can get through these bars no problem. I'll just open the cage with that big nose guy's thingamajig over there."
With that, she flies in Snively's direction. Before Sonic can warn her, she gets thrown back at Vince's feet by an invisible force.
Robotnik laughs maniacally, "There is no escape from me! You fools will all die here!"
Vince picks up Satyr, who is a bit shaken, and says, "I should have known there would be a force field. Okay Fatso, what do you want?"
This takes Robotnik aback, but then laughs again, "Now aren't a brave lad. I must know the name of this winged boy who dares to insult the great Dr. Ivo Robotnik."
"The name is Vincent Wolf, and I want to know what you've done with Wily."
"Simple enough," the villain says. "He has been disposed of. Rather than share this world with him, I'm taking it for myself."
In a scared tone, Princess Ruto says, "You murdered your own partner... why?"
"Oh, he's still alive, in a matter of speaking," Robotnik says.
"So what you're saying is, that you used that 'Midas Touch' of yours to turn Dr. Wily into a robot?" Vince says knowingly.
"I'm done answering questions!" Robotnik yells. "I've won, and you will all be destroyed rather than given immortal robot bodies. I believe I'll start with a rather annoying blue thorn in my side."
The right arm of Robotnik's mech suit raises to point at Sonic's head. Mina screams as a ball of energy erupts from the mounted blaster and goes straight through the cage at Sonic. A loud impact is heard, and the area fills with dust.
"I'VE DONE IT!" Robotnik squeals in delight, "I've finally defeated Sonic the Hedge..."
His words are cut short as the dust settles, revealing an unharmed Sonic. It immediately becomes apparent how when Robotnik sees a rocky formation extending from Vince's arm in front of the blue Mobian.
The visor hiding Robotnik's face lifts revealing a very enraged madman. "You... the insolence! How dare you interfere with my vengeance against that meddlesome rodent!?" Robotnik yells.
Vince deactivates his Earth Armor and looks at Robotnik, "What do you expect me to do, say I'm sorry? Don't plan on it, lard-ass."
"I don't expect you to say anything anymore, Mr. Wolf," Robotnik says as he gets an evil grin on his face, "I expect you to stand there and die like a good little boy."
Again the right arm of the mechanical suit lurches toward a new target, this time being Vince. With an ear-shattering crack, the gun blasts towards the winged hero.
"NO!" Ruto yells as she pushes Vince across the cage and out of the way. In a blinding flash, the ball of energy hits the Zora princess.
Time seems to stand still. All the heroes look on in horror as Ruto falls. For what seems like an eternity, Vince gets to his feet and runs over to her. He drops to his knees next to Link, who is already at her side.
"Ruto," Satyr cries as she sees her friend's body lying on the floor, "Please, don't be dead. DON'T BE DEAD!"
Tears start streaming from Link's eye's as he says, "Ruto, wake up... oh, Goddess, please let her be alright."
Mina and Sonic rush over, and immediately embrace after seeing Ruto on the floor lifeless. Bass looks, but then looks away and hangs his head in despair.
Ruto's eyes slowly open, and she turns her head to Vince. She reaches up with her right arm and lets her hand rest on the side of his face. He puts his hand over hers and begins to shed tears as she uses her final breaths to say something, "Vincent Wolf, Savior of Worlds," she coughs as she pauses, then continues, "I... I love you..."
And with that, her arm falls lifeless. Vince slowly lets her arm drop to her side, and then shuts her eyelids with two fingers. Satyr flies down to Ruto's body and just curls up on the floor crying. Mina holds Sonic by the shoulders and looks into his eyes, "Sonic I..."
"Not now, Mina," Sonic looks over at Vince, "Not now."
The winged hero weeps as he looks down at her corpse. Bass comes behind him and puts a hand on his shoulder and says, "I'm sorry, Vince," he closes his eyes in remorse, "I know how you..."
"Shut up," Vince says as he stops crying, "how could you possibly know how I feel you emotionless hunk of metal!" A dark aura begins to form around him.
"Vince," Link says, "I know you're upset, but that..." Vince looks down and begins to laugh as the dark aura begins to spread. Link gets up and backs away, as does everyone else.
Wiping tears from her eyes, Satyr says in a worried tone, "Vince, what's going on? I can't hear your thoughts or anything..."
He ignores her and gets to his feet and raises his arms. In an angry flick of his arms, he tosses the Elemental Staff on the ground with one arm and throws off the Cuirass with the other. With the two items laying at the edge of the cage, he extends his right arm and points at them. Channeling the dark energy around him, he smirks as it concentrates at the end of his finger. His eyes go wide as he fires the darkness at them and yells, "SHADOW BOLT!" As the ray expels from his body, so does what looks to be another person! The other being falls to the ground behind him. In a flash, the Elemental Staff and Cuirass shatter to pieces.
Link looks down at the man that fell out of Vince and says, "Am I... seeing double or something?"
Sure enough, on the ground is Vincent Wolf, or, at least what looks like him. His wings are a dead giveaway. Sonic looks at this and says, "Something tells me... ah, who am I fooling, I don't know what the hell's going on!"
The standing Vince's dark aura subsides, revealing something even more frightening to behold. For on his back, where once there were beautiful angelic wings, stand two dark and foreboding bat-like demon wings.
"This is even starting to freak ME out," Bass says in a troubled tone.
Immediately after these words, the darker Vince turns to face Robotnik, who is rendered speechless by the events that have just transpired before him. He can't believe what just happened. Did that Vincent boy just split in two?
"Well," Vince finally speaks, "now that I've taken care of those damn pieces of junk shackling my power," he gestures towards the pile of staff and cuirass shards, "I guess the next thing standing in my way would be an overweight no talent hack of a scientist."
"What does he mean, 'shackling his power'?" Link asks himself.
Sonic points over at Vince and says, "Guys, check it out!"
Vince is now standing about a foot away from the bars of the cage surrounding them. With both hands, he reaches out to grab the bars. As soon as he grabs hold, though, the force field shocks him, yet still, he holds on. More dark energy flows to his hands as he stares at Robotnik with a menacing grin. All of a sudden, the dark power rushes through the bars, incinerating most of the cage. Stepping through, Vince advances towards Robotnik. Robotnik lowers his visor and begins firing volley after volley of blasts from his arm cannon. As the blasts near him, Vince slashes arm in front of him with lightning speed, deflecting each blast back at Robotnik. With a shrill scream of pain, the evil Doctor Robotnik is bombarded with blasts from his own mechanical suit. Both of the arms and the right leg are blown right off, and there is extensive damage to the main part of the suit as well.
"I think we should get out of here," Mina says as she looks on in horror.
Link nods and says, "Agreed. Satyr, fly ahead and tell everyone what's happened. You two," he looks over to Sonic and Mina, "see if you can capture that short guy who put us in this cage. Bass, you..."
"I'll help you carry Vince out of here," Bass stops him, "but I don't think anything can be done for Ruto."
Sonic and Mina rush off to find Snively, while Satyr flies over to the door operating mechanism and opens the exit. She then escapes while Link and Bass grab the Vince that's still on the floor. In a minute, they are both out the door.
"So," the dark Vince says as he steps up and leans in to peer at Robotnik's terrified face, "let me ask you something."
In a scared, quiet voice, Robotnik responds, "What do you want from me?"
Vince gets an evil grin on his face, "Why are you evil? Is it the power? Or is it possibly the need for a rival in that blue hedgehog? Or is it just that your daddy didn't hug you as a child?"
"Power... I suppose. What... what do you want with me?"
"I'll tell you what I expect of you, Julian Kintobor." Vince says as he gets back up to his feet, pointing a finger with darkness at the tip at Robotnik. "I expect you to lay there and die like a good little boy."
In one final scream, Robotnik and the Eggnaut are engulfed in the darkness.

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BACK IN THE LAB:

"We couldn't find Snively," Sonic says. "Somehow that little snake always finds a place to hide."
"It's alright," Dr. Light responds. "What matters is that you are all safe."
Zelda, who is sitting in a chair a few feet away, says sadly, "But what about Ruto... and Vince? What about them?"
"Yes, well I think it's clear that the one that is unconscious in the other room is most definitely our Vincent Wolf. But that other one... even my years of scientific experience can't explain what has happened. As for Princess Ruto... I only wish I could have been there to help."
"You wouldn't have been able to do anything, Dr. Light," Mina says, "but I think we all feel bad about what happened."
"I hope angel-boy wakes up soon," Megaman says.
Shift, who's standing in the corner with his eyes closed and arms crossed, says, "He probably just needs some rest."
"The battle took its toll on everyone," Shadow says, who is just walking in. "Even Knuckles is still asleep, and Protoman is recharging."
"Satyr hasn't left Vince's side since we put him in there," Link says. "But she'll fall asleep when she needs to. The rest of us should probably turn in as well."
Zelda, who is still mourning the loss of Ruto, says, "I... don't think I'll be able to get to sleep."
"I know. Me either."

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It is several weeks later, and it has been anything but peaceful. Zelda has returned to Hyrule to take care of the kingdom, with the help of Shift, and the Mobians have also returned home. All that was left of the battle was twisted scrap metal from the swat-bot army and the strange destruction of the Eggnaut. Vince has still not woken up from his coma, and no more is heard from the dark Vincent Wolf that appeared that day. At least, until one night...
In the room where Vincent is being monitored by machines, the place is littered with several bottles of alcohol. Satyr is still sitting in her usual spot that she has taken for the past several weeks, on Vince's chest, keeping up her vigil. She has slept very little, and has eaten only when she desperately needed to. In her mind, she thinks about how long it has been.
"5 weeks, 6 days, and 5 hours," she thinks, "that's how long he's been asleep. I wonder what he's thinking." She flies over to the windowsill and looks out at the stars. "That other Vince. I wonder what happened to him. He gave me the shivers. I know he wasn't our Vince. He was way too scary to be. He didn't even show any sign of caring about Ruto's death or anything..."
In the next room over, a scream is heard that nearly makes Satyr lose her balance. As she flies out the door to see what's going on, she thinks, "That came from Riftman's room! What did he do?! Did he attack someone? I should have known we couldn't trust..."
As she exits the room and looks toward Riftman's, she realizes the situation is even grimmer than what she thought. At the end of the hallway, a dark figure is standing before a man-sized rift. In his right hand, he is holding what looks to be an arm. The man steps through the rift, followed by what looks like a pair of grisly, bat-like wings.
"You!" Satyr yells as she speeds towards the man, but she is already too late. She flies through nothing as the rift closes behind the stranger. Running from another hallway are the hero bots, Link, Roll, and Doctor light, also looking for the source of the scream it would seem.
Link is the first to speak. "What happened? We all heard a scream. Is Vince okay?"
"Yeah, he's still sleeping. But Riftman..."
The entire group rushes to the door to his room. Laying on the ground in a mangled mess is Riftman, minus his left arm. Light kneels down beside him. After a moment of looking at the metal man's body, he looks up at everyone and says, "He's gone. Even I can't save him."
Roll looks down and shakes her head, "Who could have done such a thing..."
"One thing is for sure," Megaman says, "it couldn't have been anybody here."
"It was Vince!" Satyr yells. "Or, should I say, it was that other Vince. He stole the arm and escaped through a rift!"
"If what you're saying is true," Light says, "then we might still be able to catch him. Shift, go and trace the remnants of the energy signature of the rift he left through."
Without saying a word, the bioroid heads for the door. When he gets there, a familiar face stops him.
"Hey everybody. I miss anything?" "Vince!" Satyr screams in happiness as she flies at him and hits in the chest, knocking him to the floor. Sitting up on his chest, she starts tearing up as she says, "I missed you so much!" As he struggles to compose himself, he says, "I missed you too... but where have I been? And why are all these hospital suction cup thingies on me?" "I've monitoring your condition for weeks now," Dr. Light explains with a smile on his face as Link and Bass help Vince to his feet. "You've been in a coma for..." "5 weeks, 6 days, 5 hours, and 27 minutes. Roughly," Satyr says in the air as she flies up to land on Vince's shoulder once he is standing. "She hasn't left your side," Links says as he wipes a small tear from his eye, "Or lost track of time, it would seem." Vince looks at the fairy on his shoulder and says "Really? You stayed by me that whole time... wait a second, I know I'm a little groggy from just waking up, but what do you guys mean? I was in a coma!?" "Yeah," Megaman says. "We were all pretty worried that you wouldn't wake up. Except for Satyr. She never lost faith that you would get better." "I see..." Vince says as he looks around and finally notices Riftman's disconfigured body on the floor. "What the hell happened here?" Light looks down at the body and says, "It seems that after Robotnik killed Ruto, you split into two halves: you, and another man who looks exactly like you." "With exception of the big scary demon wings!" Bass adds excitedly, remembering the dark Vince. "Right. Well, it seems that your doppelganger attacked and murdered our friend here and made off with his arm." "Wow," Vince says. "There's another me running around out there in Neo- Chicago somewhere?" "He could be anywhere by now," Protoman says. "Satyr tells us she saw him escape through a rift he made with Riftman's portal opening device." "This is so weird..." Vince says, "as if being in another world with video game characters, finding out I'm not human, and spending time with a drunken fairy wasn't strange enough..." "Hey!" Satyr says back as she punches him in the cheekbone. "Ouch! I'm sorry! But anyway, as if all of that wasn't enough, now there is an evil visage of me stealing body parts from dead bioroids and then jumping into other dimensions!? I have questions, and I'll bet that the other me has got the answers. Let's follow him!" "We were just getting ready to do so," Shift explains, "but then you woke up." "Well," Vince says as he cracks his knuckles, "what are we waiting for? Let's go!"

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A/N

Well, here I thought I could end this first book with this chapter, and I wrote myself into a bunch more stuff. Now I doubt I'll finish it for a couple if not a few more chapters. At least I finally finished this one.

It has been well over a year now since Mike Allen died, and nearly 2 years since I updated last. He had a chance to read the first couple of pages of this chapter before he died, and I think he's probably looking down on me happy that I finally finished it. This one was for you, man. I miss you everyday. Every single one of us writers that knew you, miss you, but me especially. They only got to know you through the net and such, but I knew you outside of that. I saw you nearly every day for more than a year. Then, you were taken away from all of us October fourth of 2002, just 4 days before my nineteenth birthday. I heard you were planning a surprise party for me in your last days. That just proves how selfless you actually were, always putting others before yourself, even on your deathbed. Thanks for being the closest thing to a brother I ever knew.

In memory of Michael Quentin Allen, Echoes Of The Mind February 22, 1984-October 4, 2002

Rest in peace my friend...