The characters of this story other than the G.U.N. commander and possible G.U.N. troop characters later on as well as Ghost are owned by Sega.

Righteous Outlaw

"So, they are down aren't they?" Robotnik asked a figure on his computer screen, "At least hindered?" "Yes," the man replied, "Queen Blaze is in surgery and Silver the Hedgehog is busy worrying about her. We hope that this will all pay off in the end." "Of course it will," Robotnik replied grinning as he slouched back in his hover chair, "You'll have everything you asked for, I just hope that my little new assistant is right about the legend of the Master Emerald and everything. I mean the Chaos Emeralds just went missing but at least the Sol Emeralds will be a good substitute." "We'll keep things up on this end as long as you get the deal right on yours." "Of course sir, Robotnik out!" the doctor replied laughing and switching off the monitor, "Now then, Ghost, are you absolutely positive about the Master Emerald?"

"Of course," the humanoid creature with a hedgehog nose replied with its arms folded over eachother, "The Master Emerald was burried long ago deep within the Hidden Palace that the ancient Echidnas created to keep it safe after Chaos was sealed away in it. Your ancestor eventually uncovered it after crashing the Death Egg onto Angel Island and tricking its guardian. Upon the final time of it being used it was then placed back in the Hidden Palace to keep it out of anyone's hands with only Sonic and his companions knowing what truly happened to it." "How do you know all this?" Robotnik asked astounded. "While I was being developed your ancestor fed my brain information from disks he recorded speeches and various other things to. He was the only one other than Sonic and his buddies to find out what happened to the Master Emerald." "You truly are a work of art," the mad scientist complimented as he got up and walked over to the artificially created lifeform's side, "But I'm not unwilling to destroy art if it doesn't prove useful."

"What do you mean I can't see Blaze?" Silver asked the guard outside of her room, "She always lets me in!" "Sorry Silver," the G.U.N. guard replied shrugging, "The doctors aren't letting anyone in while they work on her." "But it can't hurt could it?" "There's no way to tell," the guard said causing the hedgehog to begin pacing in front of him irritably, "But if you want to know where her attacker, Dr. Robotnik, is, the airships we sent out after his aircraft were able to land a tracer on it before they were destroyed." "Where's the tracking device?!" Silver exclaimed clutching the guard with wide eyes pressed up against the guard's. "Um...it's in the debating room that politicians meet at when they come here," he replied before Silver leapt off him and dashed down the hall, "The G.U.N. commander is using it!"

WHAM!!! The doors of the Debation Room were thrown open as Silver entered and looked at a computer terminal on the center table with a large hologram of earth above the table. "Excuse me," the G.U.N. commander said grabbing Silver's arm, "Just what do you think you are doing here?" "I'm going to hunt down Robotnik!" Immediately the room burst out in fits of laughter with only a few quieting down once they saw that it had been one of the heroes of the world that said it. The commander raised his hand causing the entire room to finally settle down before turning to Silver. "Listen," he said calmly, "you and the queen may have been able to overthrow Robotnik before, but do you really want to risk doing that again and possibly getting killed?" "Blaze is one of my only friends," Silver hissed pulling the commander close, "And my best one at that. I'm trying to bring Robotnik down not just for her, but so that the entire world is safe!"

"While I'm glad to hear that you're not doing this out of revenge I can not allow you to go on ahead with this," the commander replied standing up, "If we lose you the people will lose hope seeing that one of the ones that brought down Robotnik last time is dead." "The people that truly want to live without him ruling will not be hurt that I've died, if anything it will encourage the people that really wish to survive to not allow him come to power. Me and Blaze are not little displays to be put on stands after doing one great thing. What about guys like Sonic and Tails and Knuckles and all them? They always did what was right without thought of their own gain no matter what they were up against! They knew what prices they could pay and Knuckles was the only one to buy it out of all them!"

A bit speechless the commander opened his mouth then closed it again putting his hand to his mouth in thought. "Time have changed Silver," he said, "People are more reliant on heroes in times of war and depression, some practically can't live without them, they generate hope in times of darkness from viewing their past deeds. If you were to be lost it would send the world into even more panic." "Blaze would come after me I'm sure." "That'd be even worse if the queen was lost." "I am not going to be used as some icon by the government!" the hedgehog barked slamming his hand down on a table next to the door and began looking over the globe of the earth with a light where Robotnik's ship presumably was, "I'm going whether you want me to or not!"

"You will be marked as a vigilante, you'll be going against our direct orders," the commander informed him with his hands behind his back, "We'll have to throw you in jail." "And that wouldn't be considered a hero falling?" Silver replied and darted out the door, "You'll have to catch me first!" "Sir?" one of the troops said from behind him as the commander spun around, "Orders?" "Make sure he doesn't leave the palace, he's too be thrown in a bolted cell with bolted down items in it once caught." he told them.

"I need to find a way out of here!" Silver said to himself urgently as he rounded a corner merely to be shot with a tranquilizer dart, "Ugh!" he moaned pulling it out of his back and running to the other side of the hall avoiding more dart, "Great, now I've just made one of my best allies I could possibly have enemies, good going Silver." A dart brushed by his cheek as the troops rounded the corner surrounding him ready to fire. "Come peacefully," one of them ordered. "Make me." Almost immediately all the guns fired darts right at his body only for them to freeze in midair and swivel around to be shot back at their users.

Without time to say anything Silver continued to run through the palace with G.U.N. troops pouring in from everywhere and firing various sorts of projectiles. "You're under arrest!" they continued to shout over and over rhythmically while the attack continued with G.U.N. robots now joining in on the fun and spewing lasers about. Screaming the hedgehog ran as fast as possible not noticing that he was coming to a door. WHAM! Slamming through the door Silver flipped over the balcony on the other side and began to fall to the ground far below. "AH!!! I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna...I can use telekinesis." Just feet away from slamming into the ground he spread out his arms and slowed to a stop landing lightly on the ground. With no time to stop and stare back up at the awed G.U.N. troops Silver continued to rush along the streets of Soleanna now a criminal by law.

"What are you doing?!" Blaze screamed at Robotnik as he laughed insanely standing above the cat, "Robotnik! Are you even paying attention to me?!" "HAHAHA!!! We're all screwed...we're all screwed!!!! AHAHAHA!!!!" he laughed obviously not able to be reasoned with anymore, "So, it's all come to this..." Sitting down in his chair Robotnik looked at the feline, "And you and your friend are trying to stop this? How can you? The earth is going to be destroyed!"

Just then Blaze was sucked backwards, not just through the room but through the wall as the buildings crumbled to the ground...well not crumbled, debuilt themselves with tons of humans and humanoid animals bustling about backwards while the sun and moon above switched spots over and over again at an insane speed. "AH!!!" Blaze screamed clutching her head and closing her eyes, "What is going on?!" As she reopened them cautiously she could see she was now floating in outer space with the earth far below and the sun and moon still. "What the..." she whispered quietly. Suddenly something caught her attention in the corner of her eye, a blazing streak of bright blue light swirling about with a darker more purplish streak heading straight at earth. Unable to do anything Blaze watched as the streaks separated and smashed into two different parts on earth.

Gasping for air Blaze awoke with a start in her darkened room connected by wires to various machines and her shoulder in a cast. "Wha...why am I here?...oh my aching arm!" Irritably she scratched at the cast in vain. Finally giving up after about two or three minutes she decided to look around the room. "Yep," she sighed, "It's my room all right, guess I was just dreaming. Hope Silver's alright..." Looking off to the left she spotted a communicator on the table next to her bed and decided she'd better use it to find out how Silver was and if he'd been found. "Hello?" she said into it, "This is miss Blaze speaking, does anyone know how Silver the Hedgehog is? Has anyone seen him?" "Hello miss Blaze," a robot replied back through the earpiece, "Silver the Hedgehog is currently an outlaw as of 2:03 AM today." "What?!" Blaze screeched. "Silver the-" SNAP! Breaking the communicator in two Blaze tried to calm herself and figure out what was going on. "Oh Silver," she sighed shaking her head, "What've you gotten yourself into now?"

Panting, Silver made his way into a metal crate in the back of an alley as it began to rain down on the city. "Ugh, why did I ever directly disobey them? I could have at least pretended to go along with them for some period of time. But no, I had to go and shout out my entire plan of what I was going to do, right in front of their commander!" banging his head against the wall of the crate he complained to himself, "why am I always so stupid?! Without Blaze I can never do anything right! And as I speak Robotnik's out there terrorizing the world, why he's already half way across-wait a minute...I know where he is! I completely forgot that I looked at the tracking device! I need to get moving!"

Hesitantly Silver stepped out of the crate and into the raining alleyway checking around for any G.U.N. troops or robots that could be after him. "Looks like the coast's clear..." he said to himself and spotted a brown cloak which he picked up and wrapped around himself before continuing on through the alley, "I'll need some sort of disguise if I'm against the law now, they'll be sure to have my face plastered on every screen in the city, if not the world." And sure enough, as he stepped out of the alley he saw a hover bus drive by with a holographic image of his face on the side along with specifics about his features as well as a reward displayed at the bottom.

"I just have to make my way to the airport and I can probably find something to hunt down Robotnik with. The nearest one is just a few blocks from here," Silver murmured passing through hordes of people and humanoid animals only stopping to stare at passing G.U.N. officers for a few split seconds. "So far so good..." he said quietly as he saw the airport in the distance growing bigger as he walked towards it, "I just have to find a one man vessel and I'm on my way." Now then, by this point and time in the future the common cars hover upon the ground beneath them and do not require oil as a fuel source thus preventing pollution. Likewise, planes of Silver's day are known as space jets which rocket across the sky much much faster and more efficiently than our ways of traversing the skies.

Finally making it to the entrance of the large structure, the cloaked figure walked silently away from the busy crowds and made his way to the side of building. Quickly now, with no one to see him, Silver began to run along the wall which eventually turned into a fence keeping intruders out of the landing strips and space jets' perimeters. "Just gotta find a way in..." he said as he passed a luggage cart, "Aha!" As gracefully as possible the hedgehog slid in between the boxes and cases if the cart and rode the rest of the way along the fence ultimately having it turn into an opening in the fence with a laser in place not allowing anything on carts into the area.

Just as the cart finished entering Silver somersaulted out of the mobile platform and pressed his back up against the back end of one of the many platforms on which space jets rested while dormant to hide himself from any of the employees. "I knew my hide and seek training with Blaze would pay off sooner or later," he said smiling then frowned, "Maybe I shouldn't have left, G.U.N. might harm her...no, she'd want me to do this, she'd know that I should do what I see is right." Startled by a sudden space jet zip past him into the noon sky Silver jumped and looked around with his eyes landing on a one man space jet just a few yards above on a platform.

"Man, this is way easier than I thought it'd be...now how do I get up there without getting spotted?" Panicking a bit now, the hedgehog peeked his head out from behind the platform and saw tons of employees and robots bustling about on the ground floor he was on. "Damn it...hm?" just then a cart full of explosives pulled into sight stopping just beneath a large space jet, "Oh lord...well, it is a heavily armored one, shouldn't be too damaged..." Closing his eyes Silver began to concentrate his energy into a nearby pole holding one of the space jet platforms and pried it loose from the ground levitating it into the air beside him. Opening just one eye to focus on the explosive contents in the cart Silver thrust his hand foreward causing the pole to hurtle right into a pack of dynamite at breakneck speed. Even by this point dynamite was still a highly unstable item to use and as such it immediately exploded upon impact with the pole setting fire and explosions along the underside of the armored passenger space jet.

Instantly the entire staff on the ground floor began screaming and rushing over to try and stop the fires and mayhem. "Sorry," Silver said quietly as he floated up to the now unnoticed one man space jet, "But you all will thank me later." Having piloted a space jet from his previous adventure with Blaze the controls came almost naturally to Silver (especially after that encounter with a few of Robotnik's jet mechs, he'd never forget how to maneuver a space jet after that no matter how bad he might be) and in no time at all the vehicle hummed to life under his control. Everyone turned to stare at the fleeing space jet as it took off unauthorized into the sky with the hedgehog in it saluting everyone below humorously.

Yawning, Blaze the cat walked into the throne room of the palace of Soleanna and sat on the metal chair putting a hand to her chin in thought as she rested. "Silver...god I hope you're alright, out there, all on your own. You'd better not die or I'm really going to have to kill Robotnik, not to mention those idiots that are trying to arrest you..." she sighed looking up at the Orb of Chaos, "If only you could do something without me." After a few minutes of resting Blaze stood back up and stretched looking at the orb once more before going over and taking it off its indention in the wall, "Maybe you could be of some use sometime instead of just sitting here."

A few more minutes passed as the cat stared hypnotically into the sphere of clean blue liquid unable to think of anything for some reason. The sound of the throne room door opening is what startled her back to life causing her to spin around and hide the orb behind her back. "Hello?" the G.U.N. commander called into the dark room, "Miss Blaze?" "I'm right here commander," she replied putting the orb back into its place on the wall with the man unable to see through the darkness, "What do you want? I am allowed to walk in my own palace." "Oh," he said smiling, "I just thought you might want to rest or take a bath or something is all, more relaxation helps heal faster." "I've had enough resting thank you very much," Blaze told him sternly as she folded her arms, "What is this I hear about Silver going to be put in jail?"

"Oh," the G.U.N. commander mumbled standing up straight and crossing his arms behind his back, "It was this morning when you were having you cast put on miss Blaze, he burst into the Debation Room and told us he'd be going to take on Dr. Robotnik alone against our direct orders for him not to." "And why isn't he allowed to?" Blaze asked raising an eyebrow, "he's more capable than most of the soldiers in taking out badniks. He just doesn't fully understand things is all." "Well," he replied with a half hearted smile, "if he dies during his assault or is lost somehow the world will be deva-" "Save it," she ordered putting a hand up, "I've heard this little song and dance before from you when you were telling about the "dangers" of taking responsibility into my own hands on our first attack against Robotnik."

The G.U.N. commander could simply lower his head in as the queen walked by with her eyes never leaving the direction she was going in. "If you're after Silver for that don't expect that you're going to do that to keep me here once I am better," she warned with a hiss in her voice, "I'm going off to help him attack Robotnik and whatever he has waiting also."

With clouds accumulating in the sky Silver's space jet sped through the darkening setting towards the direction he though Robotnik and his massive airship to be at. It had been hours since he'd taken off from the airport after which he had to evade various different kind of combat space jets owned by G.U.N. in order to survive. Ever since then he'd past over cities, lakes, and finally made it to the ocean. Bored, the hedgehog leaned his face into his arms resting on the control panel of the aircraft keeping a look out for any intruders into his line of sight. "I wonder how Blaze is holding up," he sighed and closed his eyes imagining how badly she might be hurt from her encounter with the mad scientist, "I hope she's alright, I really do...I need to be more independent for this! If I always rely on Blaze I'm not going to get anywhere myself!"

Just then he heard an explosion from the back of his ship and smelled smoke beginning to fill the cockpit. "Great," he said looking back and using his powers to seal up the hole the badnik's laser had made in the rockets of the ship, "Looks like I finally got some company." Steadily the aircraft turned about to face its enemies and began blasting through the jet badniks which looked all too familiar to Silver. "Looks like I've entered Robotnik airspace," he told himself glaring through the front window at the thousands more badniks there to greet him.

Slowly but surely he made his way through the fleet of deadly robots and as the clouds began to part in the now night sky he could make out the enormous battleship which he'd been inside of for a few minutes last night when it was disguised as a warehouse. "Looks big enough," Silver laughed nervously, "I am so going to die." All of a sudden however, G.U.N. ships darted past his and towards Robotnik's firing lasers at the badniks surrounding the ship only to start getting shot down once they got within acceptable firing distance. "Glad they're not after me...hey, maybe I can use their diversion to get on board!"

Pushing the space jet as much as it could possibly go he blasted through the air towards Robotnik's ship firing chaotically into the defending badniks all the while. He may it past the first fleet of jet badniks and a few cannons before he finally started get hammered upon by the endless amounts of laser fire and missiles. Eventually the jets were incinerated and he began falling through the sky towards the outside deck of Robotnik's battleship. Falling and falling Silver began to think about how badly he might get hurt in the wreck. CLANG! Crying out Silver was surprised to find himself not dead and still falling, he had bounced off the battleship! "What? NO!!! Stop falling stop falling! I need to be back up there you stupid piece of machinery!" he yelled to his vehicle as he gathered up all the energy he could and cloaked the ship in a green aurora slowing its decent but not stopping it, "Stop...please...stop..." With as much effort as he could give Silver tried in vain to stop the space jet eventually passing into unconsciousness from energy loss.

"Such a waste of valuable materials, but still," Robotnik sighed stroking his mustache and staring out the bridge's main window, "as long as it keeps the act going." "Robotnik," a voice came from the screen of his computer, "We found out a few hours ago that Silver commandeered a space jet and took of to try and stop-" "It's alright my kind sir," he laughed darkly, "We just now took care of your little assignment. As we speak that annoying hedgehog is hurtling through the air at breakneck speed. You only need to worry about keeping Blaze out of our way now." "Yes sir..." the voice replied and clicked off.

"Well," Fang laughed as he stretched and walked towards the window to accompany Robotnik, "Looks like you're having a fun time. Why have those idiots handle the humanoid animals when you can simply kill them yourself?" "It's just a precaution Fang," Robotnik replied and walked over to his computer clicking a few things and bringing up images of Silver, "Something my ancestor never took interest in." "At least he was humorous to be around," the weasel sighed closing his eyes, "You're way too dedicated to what you're trying to do." Huffing, the scientist simply looked over the hologram of the rodent he'd just had shot down. "I'm just saying it's going to hurt worse when you fail," Fang laughed and walked out of the room.

"Silver did what?" Blaze asked herself shocked as she watched the latest news flash across her television screen, "He really attacked an airport? Impossible, he isn't hateful at all but still, who else could have done it?" Looking over the news video again, this time in slow motion, she could clearly make out Silver's figure as it launched the pole into the explosives and fled in a space jet. "Oh Silver," she sighed shaking her head, "damn you're so idiotic sometimes but I would have probably done something similar to make sure I wasn't spotted at that point and time." Swiveling her arm around Blaze saw how well her shoulder had healed. Noticing no cracks, pops, or pain she began to undo the futuristic cast and stood up. "Now to get out of here," she said smiling and pulling on her clothes off to the side of her bed, "Don't worry Silver, I'm coming for you."

"We recommend you lie back down in your bed miss Blaze," the G.U.N. commander commented as he opened the large doors of the room and entered with a platoon of soldiers while Blaze strapped on her final shoe, "We can't have another hero dying." "What do you mean another hero?" the cat asked gathering energy into her hands with a glare on her face, "I told you I was going after Silver." The commander merely pointed to the television set on which the news was being reported. "This just in," the reporter said being handed a piece of paper, "the latest eyewitness reports of the remaining troops of G.U.N. that had launched an attack on Dr. Robotnik's battleship which was seen rising from Soleanna last night are notifying us of seeing with their own eyes the commandeered space jet from the National Soleanna Airport was shot down as its pilot attempted to infiltrate the battleship alongside them."

In shock and horror Blaze lost her balance a bit with her mouth wide open at what she had just heard. "You really are low," she hissed at the commander, "setting this all up to keep me here!" "We have footage if you want to know if we're lying or not," he replied, "You're not leaving, the citizens of earth can not loose another hero." Before anyone could stop her Blaze filled her hand with more energy than she had ever done before and slammed it into the commander's face. With the soldier's attention drawn to their harmed leader Blaze ran through the palace annihilating anything, from humans to robots to furniture, in the way of her escape with tears streaming from her eyes in fury. "Stop!" a soldier ordered only to get his leg blown off as Blaze propelled herself forward in a ball of fire, "Ah!!!!" Finally she erupted from the enormous front doors of the palace flinging them off their hinges and speeding into the city, "Silver isn't dead!"

"Great," Shadow sighed watching the news from the Ark's control room, "So, a Robotnik is causing trouble again, that's never any good. If it gets too out of hand I might have to intervene even though I'm tasked with protecting the Ark unable to die. If the Earth's thrown into chaos though the Ark's purpose will be lost...I'm thinking too much. Robotnik's always fail, it's their nature, even my creator failed at seeing through his original goals so there shouldn't be anything to worry about. Still, I better leave the communication lines open just in case." Calmly the immortal hedgehog typed a few things into the computer terminal of the control room and activated the Ark's defense systems before walking off into one of the halls in thought.

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And thus ends another chapter of Through Time and Time Again. Hope everyone's liking this story and I haven't checked the reviews yet but I will after posting this chapter and make changes in later chapters where necessary from any critisms. Well...I dunno what all else to say except um...enjoy this chapter and review if ya like it? Happy New Years everyone!