Hey guys! This story has been a pain to write thanks to that technical difficulty that met me halfway through completing this chapter and it even erased this chapter ten times. No cousin involved this time. Anyways I think I got it taken care of. I think it's gone forever! Now that I'm back in business, let me present my latest chapter of Family Matters! Hope you enjoy it!

Disclaimer: Dark-Illusion-Detective does not own any of the Sonic Characters nor does she own Sega. She does own her usual OCs like Angel the Butterfly, Sinister the Hedgehog, Spades the Cat, Rogue the Demon, and many others you can find in the previous chapters.

Lights, Laptop, and... TYPE!

Chapter Eleven: Future meets Past

The surrounds seemed surreal, almost imaginative when Angel and Rogue appeared in the middle of the dense forest. Rogue looked at the large trees that he recalled at one time never being there, and then his attention turned to Angel who was unconscious. The dark chameleon never figured that such a young girl could be responsible for time travel...

The flames were forced to be carved into his mind forever, it made his heart ache just thinking about what could've happened to Shira, to Fang. But no remorseful thoughts came to him when Soren appeared in his mind. He was still angry at him, and he would never forgive him.

His clawed hands held Angel gently and he smiled at Angel, something he hadn't been able to do whenever Soren was around.

"Thank you Angel," he whispered as he started to follow a dirt trail.

A light breeze brushed past Rogue and the chameleon stopped; something was watching them. He turned around swiftly to see nothing out of the ordinary, or at least that's what he believed anyways. He returned to his original position and he began walking.

"... How fortunate it is to see you."

Rogue stopped and he glanced around quickly, his visions that he was so used to having didn't come to him, and this sent his heart into a frantic frenzy. His hold on Angel tightened slightly, and he backed away from the fork in the trail that laid ahead of him. He stopped as soon as he felt something abnormal, something smooth... something that was holding a weapon.

A knife of some sort was carefully placed against his neck. A fine river of warmth flowed down his neck and when it fell onto Angel's pale face, his heart nearly stopped. Blood.

"Now lets be a good little boy and come with me without a struggle."

The chameleon was scared, his ruby red eyes showed it but he felt as though he had heard the voice before. It sounded familiar, but he knew he hadn't talked to anyone except for Soren, Shira, Fang and Angel.

"And if I don't?"

"Then don't count on staying alive for very long. Angel might've been able to escape but you have no where to run," the figure spoke calmly.

Rogue's mind went blank, a sudden burst of white blinded his previous, frantic thoughts and a single image appeared. It was of a small honey bee. A pair of honey colored eyes were wide as he screamed out a name, one he'd have to remember for future references.

The dark chameleon took a deep breath and replied, "very well."

The knife-like object was removed and it took a moment for Rogue to process that it was attached to something dark... something like a hand. He turned around and stared at the ruby eyes that were just like his, the only thing that ran through the small kid's mind was this:

"...That's me?"

The young Rogue felt every nerve in his body tingle, a warning the chameleon had learned to cope with for years. But now he realized that it wasn't a false alarm like the other times were, this was the real deal, and he had the perfect moment to run.

"Don't even think about it," the older version of him said in a threatening voice, "you run and you might never get to see the light of day again. Not that it matters. Time is dead."

"Dead?"

"Correct. The last ounce of energy spent on getting you out of the disaster back in your time, cost this girl something precious. Her life."

Rogue looked down at Angel and that's when he noticed that she wasn't breathing, wasn't moving. She was nothing but dead weight. He was touching something dead, something that he felt responsible for.

"You killed her."

"N-No! I would never kill my friend!"

"Friend? What kind of friend is she leaving you in a position like this?"

Rogue backed away from his older self and he quivered as he felt disgusted at touching a dead body, but at the same time... he actually felt like he really had killed her. But he didn't! He shook the guilt away and glared at his older self.

"You're me. And since I'm still young I can change! I'll change you and make sure you don't-"

Rogue squealed and his grip on Angel released as the older demon's clawed fingers wrapped around his neck. More crimson rivers ran down his neck and onto the rest of him. He cried in pain as he tried to pry the grip away from his neck, but nothing was working. He gave out one final scream of terror and pain, the older demon suddenly released Rogue.

The dark chameleon fell to the ground next to Angel. His eyes were wide as a purple chameleon and a crocodile appeared. They looked at the young Rogue as though he was infected, a diseased being.

"What the-"

"We'll ask later. Vector, you know what to do."

Vector charged at the older demon and slammed a punch into his head, knocking the demon backwards and into a very large tree. Espio knelt beside Rogue and his gold eyes locked onto his ruby red ones.

"Are you okay?"

Rogue was speechless as pain ran through his neck and blocked out his voice. That freaking hurt and anyone who's reading... please don't let this happen to you! Nor try to attempt it, it's bad for your health.

CRACK!

Suddenly Espio was thrown backwards as Vector flew toward him. The duo were on the ground as the older Rogue was covered in shadows, obviously ticked by being punched.

"Any last words before I wipe you from existance?"

"Do... Y... ou... sh... ut.... u-up?" Rogue asked as he stood up and blood ran down his clawed hands, giving him a horrifying appearance. Before anyone could react, Rogue fell into a shroud of shadows that all took on forms of knives and daggers.

"W-What?! I don't learn that until-"

"It's too late."

Older Rogue turned around and saw Shadow standing on a tree branch. Shadow's eyes were stuck in a glare which aimed mental chaos spears at the demon.

"Get out."

"Weren't we partners?!"

"Were. Until I found out your motives. Now get."

"What about Sin-"

"She was controlled. Now get the hell out of here!" Shadow shouted as he launched chaos spears at Older Rogue.

The demon's eyes were wide as he vanished and the spears nearly hit Angel's body. Shadow chaos controlled next to Angel and looked at Rogue who had backed against a tree out of fear.

"Are you okay?"

Rogue shook his head.

"A...ng...el..." he struggled to say as he pointed at Angel's limp body.

"How did you know about Sinister?" Espio questioned as he and Vector walked over to Shadow and Rogue.

"Simple. Who better to learn the truth from than the victim? Sinister, Toxin... Spades, come out."

Spades appeared along side Sinister who both seemed freaked out by Angel's dead body, and Toxin jumped out of the tree and accidently landed on Shadow. The hedgehogs both glared at each other before they got back to their feet.

Sinister didn't move from her spot as she looked at Rogue then at Angel. The person she considered a sister was dead, and just because she brought Rogue out of the line of danger back in his time period. Sinister walked over and she actually looked like she would kill Rogue on the spot but instead of hitting him or coming close to killing him, she patted him on the head and got down so she was the same height as him.

Rogue gulped, and he tightly closed his eyes. The next thing he knew he was in an embrace, and he along with everyone else appeared freaked out as the person who was hugging him was Sinister.

"... It's okay. I deal with death all the time. I'm not about to get angry at you because of this."

"Sinister," Spades said quietly, "what are we going to do? We've got Espio and Vector, even Shadow. What do we do now? Where do we look?"

"Remember? I still have to go to the place I met the Angel of Death and see what I find there."

"Don't you mean we?" Rogue asked as he looked at Sinister with his large red eyes.

Sinister's eyes welled up with tears as she patted Rogue on the head and she started to walk away.

"Where are you going?!"

Sinister turned her head back and stared at Spades with tears running down her face.

"I'm going to find Angel of Death, I'm going to make sure Angel comes back to life and makes sure this doesn't freaking happen again, and I'm going to kick Ro... the older Rogue's ass!"

Sinister turned around and she darted away. Espio, Vector, Spades, Toxin and Rogue stared at each other with confused, stunned expressions. Spades clenched his hands and he ran after Sinister, there was no way he was going to let Sinister knock on the door to trouble, and neither was Rogue and Shadow as they ran after Spades in a flash.

That left Espio, Vector and Toxin left. The trio looked at each other with obvious dislike for each other.

"Three... perhaps we can be a team for a while. I believe we can find Mighty and the others if we travel together."

Toxin crossed her arms and she shot a glare at Espio.

"That's stupid! Pathetic even! I have a better idea. One that'll take care of the other demon."

"Cecelia?"

"If that's the demon then yes," Toxin stated as she took out a sniper rifle and smirked, "all that's with me, follow me and be ready to see the greatest display of fireworks you will ever see in your lives."

Espio and Vector glanced at each other before they followed Toxin toward a clearing.

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Oooh, Sinister just blew up... I think. Well for the tenth time of being erased, it has finally been complete! Sorry that there's not really any evidence of what happened to Sinister and the others between this time but it'll be answered next chapter. Anyways I hope you guys like it and please tell me what you think.