History

Been in my head for a while.

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Blaze leaned over, dangerously close to the lava which was hissing and spitting into her face. The hot tendrils of fire and ash were almost useless against her, and she simple looked into the smeared window.

"You think there's something interesting in there?" She asked Silver, who was studying the sideways building that had sunk into the lava and was surviving the intense heat.

"Of course. If I read that sign correctly, it has to be a comic book shop. Or used to be. Let's check it out."

Silver kicked in the window, leaping inside and Blaze sighed before falling him. Inside, the room was sort of dark, faintly lit by the lava outside, and lined with rows upon rows of fallen shelves. Rats scurried away from them, and dust coated every single surface. Ash too. Blaze bent down, picking up a tattered comic book, and turned it over to survey the ad on the back.

"Who's Britney Spears?" She asked in a bored tone.

"No one important, I'm sure." Silver chuckled in response, stepping carefully to keep his footing on the sideways flooring. Every few steps he would stop to pick up a different comic. Some were in good condition, others were unreadable.

Blaze followed him, her eyes moving from side to side.

"Imagine what we're looking at. This isn't just comics, Silver. This is history."

Silver smirked, dusting off a comic and showing her the cover. It depicted a blue hedgehog and Blaze could faintly make out "The Adventures Of" written in bold yellow lettering.

"I wonder what else could be in the buildings sunk in the lava." He mused, flipping through it.

Blaze wondered the same thing. This simple excursion into a comic book shop soon opened up a whole world of things for the friends to look at in their spare time; they even found an old computer, still working after they found it another power source. An old encyclopedia on things long past, back when the future seemed bright to the folk living in those brightly colored pictures…

Before fire and lava destroyed the world.