I would've uploaded sooner, but school. It wouldn't stop giving me work. Speaking of school... wait a few chapters and you'll see.

My first Authors Note put in BEFORE uploading to Fanfiction. I shall now explain the music I am telling you to listen to. I'm trying to keep it strictly Sonic, and the different sides to the story have different games I want to draw from, but this chapter is almost all stuff that I don't think any Sonic song fits. I'm trying to find them now, but I don't think I'll be very successful. Carry on.

Song: The Other Promise-Kingdom Hearts II

Samuel woke up dazed. 'What happened?' As Samuel got to his feet, he saw three cloaked figures. He took a look around him and saw he was atop a cloud. The section he was on was fairly calm, but a blue-ish section behind one of the cloaked figures was rainy. And the green section behind another cloaked figure had lightning. He decided to walk over to the figure in front of the purple cloud.

The figure was just waking up itself. "What just happened?" He asked.

"You'll have to figure that one out yourself." Sam answered. The figure looked up at Samuel.

"Who are you? And what possible reason is there for you to have a red cloud behind you?" Sam turned around and indeed, there was a red cloud behind him. He turned back to the cloaked figure.

"I'm…" Sam took a moment to see that he was wearing his cloak. "I'm Blyxil. Now tell me who you are." The figure gasped. Then it removed it's cloak. Sam may as well have been looking in a mirror. He was shocked.

"I'm Samuel. Now tell me what's going on. Are those two clones of me as well?"

"Who the hell you calling a clone!? Weirdo!" Sam turned around and saw the figure in front of the green clouds had gotten up. The other figure was awake as well. But he wasn't as active.

"I'm merely making an assumption with what little information I have. You may call it… a hypothesis." The mirror image was talking down to the angry one. Sam noticed that he had an oddly colored left eye. It was purple, like the clouds behind him, as opposed to yellow, like the right.

"WHY I OUGHTA!"

Sam looked behind him at the, supposedly, blue eyed clone. "This fighting's pointless." Sam walked over to him and lifted his cloak. He was indeed another clone. With a blue left eye.

"What's wrong with you?" The clone looked up at him.

"I don't want to fight anymore. All it brings me is pain." Samuel looked back at the other two. The angry one's cloak fell off, and his appearance was as expected. He was getting ready to attack the other clone.

Sam's clone

The aggressive one punched the logical one in the face. Logical simply backed away and returned the favor. Aggressive attempted to kick Logical in the gut, but he dodged. They both rushed at each other and clashed to beat the other through brute strength, but neither one could beat the other. Logical shot lightning at Aggressive to get away without getting hurt. Aggressive recovered and jumped up into the air in an attempt to slam himself into Logical. He appeared to be doing nothing to avoid it.

Before Aggressive could hit, Logical was protected by the third clone, who Samuel didn't even notice leave his side, the passive one, who jumped into the fight and grabbed Aggressive's leg and drag him out of the air.

Boss battle interrupted

"Stop fighting, you two. It'll only result in both of you in serious pain!" The passive one shouted. Logical and Samuel walked up to him.

"Ya know… I've had that thought a few times. But sometimes, you just gotta fight. This was not one of those times." Samuel glanced at Logical.

"What? The nimrod started it."

"What'd you call me?" Aggressive was about to charge Logical again when Sam stood in his way.

"Hold up! Before we do anything… Who's the real Samuel? Every one of you is off. So it's gotta be me! So I'm the boss around here."

"You? The real Samuel? What a joke! Your left eye isn't even right! None of you have yellow left eyes! It's gotta be me!"

"Yours isn't yellow either. Your left eyes green."

"What!? You're lying!" Aggressive was ready for another fight.

"I think none of us is the real Sam." Passive stated. Logical nodded.

"We're all figments of his personality. You, nimrod, are his aggression."

"HEY!"

"You…" He pointed at the first Samuel to wake up, "are his reason."

"Me? Reason?" Logical ignored this, and pointed to the next clone.

"You are his deeper emotions. And I am his logical side."

Passive looked at Logical and smiled. "I think we should all have nicknames to avoid confusion. Like… I could be Lenny. And you could be Max!" Lenny was not so passive anymore. He seemed happy. "And your Billy!" He pointed at the one with the red eye. The first to awaken.

"If all of you get nicknames, I still get to be called Samuel!" Billy glared at him.

"None of us get to be called Samuel." Samuel glared at Billy.

"Then who am I? If not the one who will kill Vincent and eviscerate him while his family watches!?" Billy just stared. Max gave Sam a look.

"That's just morbid. But I guess there are worse things you could've said." Lenny on the other hand, wasn't even listening.

"We'll call you Kyle!"

Kyle turned to Lenny. "What!? No! I'm Samuel!"

"Quit complaining Kyle." Max said.

Kyle was steaming, but decided he kind of liked the name.

"Alright… Now what?"

Max stared off into the distance. "Time to wake up."

Song: Sora's theme-Kingdom Hearts

Ray was sitting in the living room with Big. They looked a little down. Sam walked into the room and plopped down onto the couch. "Why are you two so down?"

Ray and Big gasped. "Your awake!"

Sam chuckled. "Well how long was I asleep?"

Ray looked down. "Four days. A lot has happened."

"Yeah… this doesn't look like our base." Sam noticed the room they were in was much more well kept and colorful than any room in their building.

Big looked sad. "We were driven out of the village. The people think you're a monster."

Sam thought about the idea for a second, then pushed it out of his mind. "I never liked those fools anyway. You two are the only reason I stayed. Where are we now?"

Ray showed Sam a map. "We're back in the United Federation. We should also inform you that Cosmo has been returned to her sister."

"Good. Is this a hotel?"

"Yes."

Sam had a weird look on his face. "Nope. Nu uh. We're not staying here. I'm getting us a house."

Ray and Big shared a glance. "But we don't have any money."

"Leave that to me. In the meantime, you two hang out around town. Bring your communicators. The ones that actually work." Without another word Sam took off.

'What was that all about Max? What did you take control for?' Billy asked.

'There's no privacy in a hotel. You can take it from here though. Our options are to get a job, gamble what small amount of gold rings we have, or steal.' Billy thought about it.

Lenny was thinking too. 'I don't think stealing is such a good idea. We just got here.'

'And getting a job will take to long.' Kyle complained.

Billy smiled. 'To Casinopolis it is then!'

"MOTHER FU…"

Song: Circus Park - Shadow The Hedgehog

With a lot, and I mean A LOT of persistence, Samuel managed to accumulate… 2,000 rings. Out of the 10,000 rings he needed. "That's it. I'm visiting a bank."

'We could go to Circus Park instead. I'm sure Ivo won't mind.' Lenny suggested. 'Besides, most of the rings he has were stolen. If you steal something from someone who stole it, are you really stealing?' Max mentally facepalmed.

'Yes. You are stealing. But that wasn't such a bad idea. To Circus Park.'

'No. No more pinball!' Kyle shouted from within.

'But Ivo doesn't have pinball machines.' Billy said.

'To Circus Park then!'

"DAMNIT!'

'Ok. He has giant pinball machines. But at least he has other mini-games to steal from.' Billy said.

Max once again facepalmed. 'Hey geniuses. If you take money from a mini-game by playing it well, then you're not stealing. You're playing a game.'

Sam just stood there for a moment. "That's right!" Then he went on a rampage. Making sure to grab an electric shield on the way.

Song: Disquieting Shadow - Sonic Heroes

Big and Ray were walking through town. Big was slightly uneasy. "Do you think there was anything strange about Samuel?" Ray looked up at his feline companion.

"Yeah… I expected him to go on a tirade about how untrustworthy humans are. Like when we asked him about his old home. Maybe something changed in him." Big was going to reply when his gaze met a pet store. One of the pet's on display was a frog. It reminded him of Froggy.

"I miss my pal." Ray took note of Big's expression.

"Don't worry Big. We'll find Froggy soon. I can feel it."