Only one review?

I know I've been bad about updating, but I have SA2 now! My brain works again!

I hope more of you review this chappy then you guys did the last one. Then again, the plot's going to go a little funky after this point, so maybe you'll all hate it and leave.

Oh well. Only way to know is if you read on and find out!

I don't own Sonic, I own Cross, Vox, and stuff I've mentioned about a hundred times already

Here we go again!

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I don't know how I managed to get any sleep that night.

...Oh wait, yes I do.

I was actually halfway out the door before I realized that there was nothing really to worry about. Sure, having Vox on the loose with 'experimental scientific equipment' is a bad thing, but who said he was after me again/still?

The idiot was probably trying to grow his own Project Cross. Not only would that take years, the newly-hatched little bugger would easily finish Vox off.

Then I'd put it on some rocket and fire it into the sun. Problem solved.

Still, I did need to hold onto my Emerald before I could even begin to relax. Then I fell asleep.

Nice, quiet, dreamless sleep.....

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'...Foolz...'

I yawned and stretched myself out.

'They thought they could juzt get rid of me. I zhall enjoy hunting them down and making them zcream for mercy!'

This body was only a pathetic shadow of my original self, but it would do for now. I bared my fangs in amusement and held up the Emerald.

So, the fool human was still alive, was he? With his suspicious 'scientific equipment' and his 'files'. I could use things like that - after all, there _was_ the matter of that worthless worm to deal with. I'd have to get rid of it _eventually_.

Tossing the Emerald onto the bed, I went out the door and outside. There was a storm out tonight, but to my superior senses it was nothing. I already knew what I was looking for, and nothing was going to stop me while I was out on the hunt...

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...I felt the life flickering wildly underneath my claws.

Now, to crush it from this thing forever!

It would pay for what it had done, for what it had taken from me!

My former power was gone, scattered, but I would find it all again and then -

What?!

Attacked!

I had been attacked!

I screamed in my rage and leapt onto the THING that had dared to attack ME!

It fought back, but I could taste its blood even as it tried to hold me down.

...This thing tasted like me, somehow...

...It WAS me!

It was a part of me!

Relief!

Already, one of the pieces of my original self was here!

Once I had it back inside me where it belonged, I would destroy the one that had done this to me...and anything else that got in my way!

"Consume, must consume..." I hissed.

"Must absorb..."

And then...

"Must destroy!"

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I woke up so suddenly I nearly screamed from the shock of it. Then I groaned.

'Not another one of THOSE dreams...'

I thought that had been a one-time thing! This was getting disturbing. At least there was no one around at the crack of dawn to watch me having bizzarre nightmares about things I don't -

...Wait a second...

...Where am I?

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Put THAT up your fife and smoke it! Hmph!