AN: hiyo folks , sorry for taking so long updating, i was badly busy. however i have finished Streak adventure now and uploading it bit by bit. heres the first two chapters. enjoy and rate and review!

Disclamer: as ever, all stuff is disclamed on proluge chapter

Chapter 9: Penance

I stopped typing. Saved the file and turned off the computer and took the note… today, now around six months since entering this world, I was going to do something drastic… the note would tell the Professor to look at the log I have been writing. He will find out the truth as I face Robotnik himself… it was time to take the fight to the enemy… the feelings I had been having had been getting stronger all the time and it seemed to increase greatly after Joz's death… and they told me to do this to make up for my sins… I couldn't believe it had came to this as I left the note on the war room table… it was the middle of the night so no one was awake. Come morning everything would be over. And ether I or Robotnik would be dead. I gave one last look at the place before I left through the door.

"Sayonara… everyone." I whispered

XOXOX

Gerald had gotten up early to look over the plans… in fact he had hardly been able to sleep with the sorrowful news of Joz's passing. He now more than ever wanted this all to be over. He had gotten to the war room and was about to look at the maps to Berserker Blade's region until he found a Note on the table. He read it carefully

To everyone…

I'm sorry to do this but I can't deal with this anymore… these feelings I have been having are driving me to make up for my past sins… to seek penance. I know you don't know what I am talking about but you will if you look at the log I left on Sonic's computer… I can tell you that once I have finished ether Robotnik or I will be dead… I thank you for the hospitality you have shown me and the kindness I have received… thanks to you I know the best life can offer which is more than a monster like me deserves…

The note was signed by a "Streak" the Hedgehog… who he was or what he would be doing on Sonic's computer was a mystery to Gerald… until he realised the writing was Sonic's! He felt the colour drain from his face… this Streak was Sonic! But how could that be? When he snapped himself together he started to yell.

"S-shadow! Nite! ESPIO! AMY! SHADE!"

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"You're sure this is his hand writing?" asked Shade

"As Sure as I know Shadow's and Nite's" Said the professor.

"Well then what are we waiting for! Let's get after him!" yelled Shadow

He was about to leave when Amy stopped him "And how do we know this isn't some kind of trap made up by this "Streak" Shadow? For all we know he was a spy made from Sonic's DNA! Robotnik probably knows how to clone people!"

"He destroyed Gigacannon and helped destroy Dark Lance…how can you question his loyalty? Or is this just your hatred of him showing again?"

"I think it might be… however… we have right to be worried, he does claim to be someone else after all" Espio chipped in "I say we read the log he made, like the note suggests"

"He could have his computer booby trapped!" said Amy

"… There is a different way, the table can access any of your computers" said Gerald, he pressed a number off buttons and the log appeared in the holo display.

However they didn't need to read it as a voice recording also began playing

It said:

"If you are reading this then I assume you found my note… I'm sorry for deserving you all but… I am not Sonic… well at least partly not… my name is Streak… and I… am not of your world…"

"What he expects us to think he is an alien?" asked Amy, only to be shushed by everyone

"In truth, I am… well I expect I am from an "alternate reality"… in my world… there is hope, which is unfortunately born from suffering… I noticed this from the log you made professor; our worlds were the same… to a point…"

"What is he talking about?" Shadow wondered aloud

"The first difference is… in your world… President Black never returned to office, where as in mine he retained it. The next day he sent his security force… GUN up to the space colony. His intentions where to stop the project, kill everyone and cover it up under the premise of an accident"

Everyone gasped

"Maria and Shadow managed to make it to the lab where the escape pods where, however Maria was shot… with her dieing breath she asked Shadow to make sure everyone on the planet lived a happy life and then pressed the button to eject the capsule."

Gerald looked about sadly "sounds like… the type of thing she would do…"

"Later after hearing of the attack, you began to search for Maria… you eventually found her dead body… it drove you insane with anger… and want for revenge against the entire world, when you returned to the planet and from the get go you where wanted by the authorities."

Everyone was shocked this was one bombshell after another

"Shadow had been found and nursed to health by a young fox called Miles Prower… eventually he went to search for you, hearing you had escaped as well he went to find you, you both made for Angel island. Miles had found out GUN was now after the both of you and ended up in their base, where Joz was being hired to get you. They teamed up as Miles wanted to make sure Shadow didn't die. and after a series of events Shadow found out that you where going against Maria's whish… and so all three teamed up to defeat your attempts to attack the general populace many a time over five years. Eventually you where driven to Make that's worlds Sonic… which looked like me except with white cuffs rather than black… Shadow had to fight me, Miles had to fight an orb you created called Apocalypse, which absorbed all technology into it to make a giant robot, and Joz had to fight the leader of the Deadly gems and his future wife… Sapphire."

"Joz and Sapphire? Wow…" muttered Espio, Amy agreed, they knew of Joz's reputation and how all the deadly gems disliked his seemingly natural talent.

"Joz and Miles won, but in the case of Shadow, he was beaten, but being weakened from the fight Sonic was to tiered to resist Joz and Miles forcing him back into the capsule he was born in… then they where wondering what to do you came back and knocked out both Joz and Miles with a gas canister and kidnapped Shadow. You changed Shadow's memory to make him think Maria wanted revenge… you where caught but they couldn't realise Shadow without him wanting to kill the world… you where later executed and Miles spent years on the captured Sonic, turning him into good using your notes… and it worked, Sonic's eye colour even changed from red to green! He however lost a great deal of his life to his research because it consumed most of his time, he even lost his family to a car accident and Joz to a murder, so after wiping Sonic's memory he disappeared. Life however was not all roses, your grandson tried soon after to take over the world, taking on the Alias "Dr.Eggman" Sonic thwarted him at every turn, and he ended up making many friends. He found Miles's grandson in Eggman's fist base, orphaned but surviving the car crash. Because of an inherent mutation given by you to Miles, this new friend had two tails, named after his grandfather as Miles 'Tails' Prower. There was also the guardian of the Angel Island, and Echidna called Knuckles. Tails' friend from the orphanage Amy, who in that world was infatuated with Sonic."

"SAY WHAT?" yelled Amy only to be shushed again

"Her friends, the grand daughter of the Deadly Gems Diamond, Cream the Rabbit, and a large cat called Big"

"Oh now that's original" said Shade

"A group of private detectives called the Chaotix, lead by a Crocodile called Vector which also had Espio and a bee named Charmy"

"A detective huh?" Said Espio

"Shadow was eventually awakened, and after being helped to regain his memory by Amy, he saved the world, we thought him dead but, he apparently survived and cloned by Robotnik, he joined up with Joz and Sapphire's granddaughter Rouge the bat, and a rogue Eggman robot called E-123 Omega, there was also Chaotix's rivals the Dynamic Dynamites who where lead by Bark the Bear"

"Bark? He's the leader of our central city group!" Gerald commented

"And his associates Ray the Squirrel and Bean the "Dynamite" duck. There was that world Version of Meta Shadow, Metal Sonic, who went rouge and had teamed up with Miles, who had reappeared and Mighty the Armadillo and ex-Chaotix member"

"Two rogue robots?" asked Amy

"And Finaly that world's version of Nite's team… a group of bounty hunters lead by an ex gem hunter Nack the weasel, and a porcupine called Spike."

"That's one big group."

"They saved the world many times… first from Eggman's scrap brain project, then from his attempts to use the Time Crystals of the tiny planet, from his Orbiting Satellites the Death Egg, Egg rocket and Egg utopia, also to use the Guardian Chaos of the Master Emerald to destroy Station Square to make a new base, to use the Eclipse Cannon to ransom the world, using apocalypse and the Gizoid (called Emerl there now) to his means. They also where helped by him in order to stop the out of control Chaos, stopping the Biolizard ramming ARK into earth and Metal Sonic's one attempt to take over the world as a being called Metal Overlord and the Alien invasion of the Group called the Black Arms, lead by Black Doom which later became a creature called Devil Doom."

To Gerald this last name was familiar; it was an accidental stab at him. He had expected Black Doom to attack after 50 years had gone by, but the Alien probably decided against it after seeing what his grandson had done, not enough life left to enslave…

To everyone else however, it was just another name on the list

"That's a lot of work" gawked Shadow

"However the last battle they had was the worst… Eggman found one more machine you made referring to Sonic. He had no idea what it was for or what it did, but he used it…"

The recording paused

"That was… my birth… the machine separated the evil Sonic once was when he fought Shadow and put it into a new life form… me…"

"No way!" Shadow retorted "He isn't like that!"

"After injuring Eggman and renaming myself Streak, I went for Tails, out for revenge against Miles who had turned me good. I had hurt Knuckles on my warpath and hit Amy so hard she went into unconsciousness. I then went for Tails, only to be stopped by Sonic… he also blacked out, from the strain of the procedure… and Chaotix and Dynamic Dynamites fought me off as everyone ran. Later Sonic and I fought head on and he beat me… I tried to destroy everything after that using a special power called 'Chaos Implosion', Sonic however Chaos controlled us to ARK for his last noble act. After the implosion began he disappeared… I don't… know what happened to him… the implosion sent me here. You know the rest of the story yourselves…"

The person in the recording sighed

"I had originally wanted to destroy this world and get back home… but… after everything that's happened, everything I have seen, and mainly, meeting what my creator was like before he went insane… I have begun to feel things I never did before… including and most importantly guilt… that's why I am doing this… I am going to get penance for my sins by defeating Robotnik or die trying; I just want you all to know I'm sorry for deceiving you all. You have been good to me…"

The recording ended and there was silence for a long while. And then…

"Well?" Said Shadow "What are we waiting for! We can't let so… Streak do this on his own!"

"I agree" said Nite to everyone's surprise "He has more than made up already I say, and he is our battle buddy"

"I'm coming too!" exclaimed Shade

"Let's show him why we are his friends!" Espio included

Gerald Smiled

"You guys are all nuts!" said Amy

"That mean your not coming?" asked Espio

"No it means your all nuts; I'm not missing this for the world!"

"Then it's unanimous!" said Gerald "Lets go!"

"What, you are coming too dad?" asked Shadow

"You bet! I will not stand by and let him die; he has proven himself to me already numerous times. Let's get to work!"