I have returned (and to think I started this the same day I posted my last chap). Okay time to thank the people who reviewed my last chap…what, only one…oh well, thanks to Rikki 'O' for her review. Oh and while we're on the subject of reviews I think I'll be thanking people for their reviews at the start of every chap and at the end. Oh and one last thing, I'd like to thank blessedbyangels (A.K.A my mom (something I learned recently)) for giving me a subject for my first poll. Last thing, this story takes place in the human world of sonic the hedgehog, but with an animal population

Chapter 3 the face of a murderer

In one day Axle had died, become a hedgehog, battled Eggman and gotten psychic powers, needless to say he was overwhelmed by it all. "Hey guy did you check the paper this morning?" Knuckles asked walking into Tails' workshop.

"No what's in it?" asked Tails. Knuckles tossed him the paper. "'New hedgehog on the block trips up Eggman'" he read from the paper.

"Me??" asked a surprised Axle

"Looks like someone's really getting into this" smirked Sonic

"But it was just a fluke; I didn't even know I was psychic at all" Axle answered

"Well it won't be a fluke next time"

"Yeah I guess…wait…'next time'"

Amy spoke up at this time and said "yeah we talked about it and we decided to let you join us to kick Eggman's butt"

"Of course it's all up to you" Knuckles butted in, but everyone knew this was just a formality since his answer was so obvious

"I'd love to!" Axle belted out in utter excitement

"Then it's official, welcome to the team Axle" Tails congratulated

Then came the awkward silence. "So what do we do now" Axle asked, but before anyone could answer Cream came running in

"Turn the news on" she commanded as she turned the TV on and changed the channel, and while everyone watched with curiosity Axle watched with fear. On the news a princes had just returned from a 14 year journey and was giving a speech which Axle didn't catch

"Seymour" both Axle and Titin said in unison

Tails was the first to register the importance of Axle knowing him, and that when he remembered flashback "Fine, someone named Seymour shot and killed my mom, dad, and I" Axle replied with tears in his eyes flashback ends "Axle…do you know him" this caught everybody's attention

Axle looked at the others and sighed "I never thought I would see him here" then he started to have a flashback and everybody near him started to feel strange flashback

"So you had one with that loser, but not with me" the man growled when he saw Axle

"Seymour leave Axle out of this, it's just between you and me" Axle's mom said



"Mom who is this" asked a scared Axle

This surprised Seymour and he replied by asking "you mean you don't know. Unbelievable your parents never told you who you really are did they?"

"Seymour don't do it." Axle's dad warned

"To late" Seymour said and he shot Axle's mom then his dad.

"No!" Axle yelled as he ran over to his parents

"Run…Axle" his mom said weakly

"Again, too late" Seymour said as he shot Axle

"No" Axel cried weakly. Death will overtake him now is what he kept thinking, but it didn't. Instead he felt like his body was being torn every which way. When he woke up he found he couldn't open his eyes, but he did hear voice.

Flashback ends "Whoa…what was that?" asked Sonic

"What was what?" repeated Axle

"You mean you saw it to?" asked Rouge

"I think we all saw it" answered Tails

"Saw what!?" Axle was getting impatient

At this time Shadow thought of something "maybe, just maybe" he thought to himself. "There were two names said in that vision we saw-"he started

"I didn't see it" Axle shot back

"Oh but you did. Can anyone tell me the two names mentioned?" he asked

This time Cream spoke up "was it 'Axle' and 'Seymour'?" she asked. Now everyone finally got it

"Are you saying we saw Axle's memories?" asked Amy

"It looks that way doesn't it?" Shadow replied

Sonic was about to say something but stopped when he saw that Axle was gone "hey guys, where did Axle go?"

"I'll check upstairs" his best friend replied

Later with Axle. All he knew was that he was a hedgehog, but he didn't know what he looked like. So he went to the bathroom upstairs to find out. When he got there he saw that his quills, unlike Sonic and Shadow, were pointing outward, there were also two quills on each side of his neck like a collar, and his fur was silver with golden highlights but both were a humble shade. "Man I look like a princes from some fan art, I wonder…did I think this body up?" he thought to himself as he searched his memories. He soon recalled a hedgehog with quills like him but couldn't make out the fur color



"That definitely looks familiar" piped Titin. Now to you or me this would make us jump, but Axle had lived with Titin's outburst his whole life and therefore was used to it

Tails had just walked in at this time "hey Axle, that Seymour guy we saw on TV…he killed you and your parents right?" Axle just nodded "is there anything we can do to help" at this point everyone was upstairs

In a hushed tone Axle responded "I don't even know who I am"

Amy who hated to see her friends like this spoke up "Axle don't talk like that"

A small smile showed on Axel's face as he responded "what I meant is I don't know what I am. My parents kept so many secrets from me. Heck I'm not sure if Marna is my real last name. But I do know this; someone from this world knew my parents and came to my world to kill them, then maybe just maybe the secrets of my past are here…in this world. And I won't rest until I find them" he finished

Sonic then unexpectedly spoke up "well Axle know this; you're not alone" this caught everyone's attention "and I'm pretty sure I speak for all of us when I say 'we'll help you search for your past"

Axle just looked at him and said "thanks Sonic"

So Axle's murderer is a princes, (in a high voice) plot twist (just the first of many). Anyway before I forget, the poll I'm goanna start is about if you have a parent who's done something extreme in your life. Now that's out of the way lets wrap this bad boy up, thanks one again Rikki 'O' (if you turn out to be one of my relatives then you die (hey my mom's on this site I think I've earned the right to be paranoid)) for your review. (Yea catchphrase time) read and review but remember if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all