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Chapter 13

*Sonic looked in the cell where Silver the hedgehog was being held. Tears were streaming down Silver's face as he looked down at the floor, sitting on the bare bench against the wall.

"You really think I spread chaos in your time zone?" Sonic said. Silver glared up at him with a terrible scowl.

"I saw you," he shouted. Sonic put his hand against one of the bars of the cell.

"I don't know what to say," he replied. Silver shivered again, and he looked up at the ceiling above him.

"As the good guy, the one who tries to keep the peace, haven't you ever thought that sometimes, in order to win the battle, you have to do things that are a little…questionable, in order to achieve your goals to set things right?" Silver asked. Sonic looked again at Silver, surprised at what he heard. Yes, he had to admit, he had felt compelled to do things that were a little out of the ordinary in order to make things right again.

"Think about that," Silver remarked, crossing his legs on the bench and, putting his head against the wall, he closed his eyes. Sonic couldn't tell if he was sleeping, or if he was meditating.

"My name is Sonic by the way, I don't like the name Iblis trigger," Sonic said. Silver didn't open his eyes, but he spoke.

"As you wish."**

*Sonic sat on his bed inside his private quarters on the Trident, still grieved about the loss of Deem, but something else was bothering him now too. Something that seemed to come straight from his forgotten past. It was a name, though it didn't really seem to mean anything to him at the moment, it still bothered him and plagued his mind. The name kept repeating itself in his thoughts, and, even though Sonic was wondering what his past was, he tried to shove the name aside. There was too much going on to think about it, but still, the name continued to repeat itself in his mind.

Sally.**

*Ivo Robotnik was staring at his electronic journal as he slowly walked down another corridor aboard The Shunned Dealer. He rarely ever got the time to add a new entry, but when he got to, it was mostly the same thing every time, and it made him weary. He wished he had something new to write. When the Heroes finally get wiped out and Sonic eliminated, then he would have something to write about. When he had all the pieces of the meteorite put together and he gets back to earth to get Amy, then he would have something to write about. The G.U.N. forces were doing an excellent job finding these pieces, which had been scattered across Mobius. This had been a job that the G.U.N. forces had been pursuing for him for a couple years now. But he would need Amy, the hedgehog, to get the last piece. He now regretted giving that piece of meteorite to Amy.

His mind still juggling many thoughts, he finally made it to the sliding door that belonged to his personal lab where three fresh roboticizers stood. Still holding his electronic journal in one hand, he used his other hand to be scanned on the security system next to the door. After the system clicked in approval, the door slid open, revealing Sonic the hedgehog sitting behind the control panel at the center of the room.

"Well hello there," he remarked, a terrible smile on his face. Ivo gasped, and almost dropped his electronic journal.

"What? What are you doing here?" He demanded, reaching for the plasma pistol clipped to his belt. Sonic shook his head, and rubbed his fingers together.

"Vengeance," he said. Then, before Ivo could react, a glass dome dropped over him. He gasped as he looked up to see that tubes were hooked to the top, and those tubes were connected to a roboticizer machine.

"Smooth move abducting Deem, your plan to provoke me worked, and now, you've reaped what you've sowed," Sonic said, although, it didn't seem to sound like him at all. Ivo put his hands up on the glass surrounding him, fear creeping up his chest, and his face exploded in a cold sweat. He could feel his glasses slipping down his nose because it was so wet with sweat. No, no! This was not what he was expecting! Though he hated Sonic, he knew this was not what Sonic would do. What made him so twisted?

"Look, hedgehog, we can talk this over! Don't do this!" Ivo begged through the glass. Sonic looked up from what he was doing.

"What? I'm sorry, I was too busy enjoying your awesome dinner," He said, jokingly.

"My chili dog!" Ivo screamed. Sonic's eyes widened.

"How could you enjoy this if you can't eat anyway?" He pointed out. Ivo gasped again.

"How did you know that?" He shrieked. Sonic leaned in over the control counter.

"I know everything," he said. Ivo was frozen where he was. This couldn't be the real Sonic. That just wasn't him. The real Sonic liked to have fun, but this was not Sonic's kind of humor. This was a different hedgehog.

"Oh, I'm almost sorry it's just about over, but for the record, you have been a worthy adversary," Sonic said, as he pressed a button combination and pulled down a lever to get the machine started, as if he had been doing this all his life. Ivo felt his face turn hot, and his thick hair felt damp. When he removed his hands from the glass, he saw wet stains where they were. He still held his electronic journal in one hand. Desperate, he went for his plasma pistol, but it was gone. He gasped yet again, when he saw his pistol sitting by Sonic's side.

"Wait…wait…don't!" Ivo begged. He had spurred Sonic on to hate him, and now this was what he got for pushing it. He saw a yellow glow gather above him, and finally, before he could scream, he felt the beam fire down upon him.**

*When Ivo woke up, the bright light above him immediately blinded him. He saw Koopa and the Commander looking down at him in surprise and shock.

"Sir," the Commander said, leaning in closer by his face. Ivo growled, and quickly sat up. Koopa and the Commander backed away in fear.

"Sir, just stay right where you are," Koopa demanded. Ivo felt a terrible aching in his head that pounded away.

"Where…is…that hedgehog?" Ivo cried out. The Commander took a deep breath.

"He…he got away, we were able to chase him out and stop the roboticizer before it could fully finish its job," he reported. Ivo's eyes shot up open in shock.

"Fully finish?" He asked, his voice thick with fear. Koopa gravely nodded to Ivo's side. Slowly, Ivo looked down at his side, and instead of seeing an arm of flesh and blood, he saw one completely made of shining metal and wires. He moved the arm up, his cyborg fingers moved when he wanted them to move. Looking down, he saw his right leg was also metal flesh, it whirred as he moved it. His other arm, which was still normal flesh and blood, shot up to his chest to feel his heart. It felt like one half was the whirring sounds of a machine, while the other half did the normal beat of a human's heart. Lifting his soaked shirt, he looked down at his right side to see that the metal had extended from his metal arm and down his right side, which met the metal of his right leg. He began to breath heavily now, some of his breathing sounded metallic, not human. His eyes tried desperately to hold back tears, but they came anyway. The Commander began to cautiously walk toward him, keeping his hands raised.

"Sir, please, we could…" But Ivo screamed, and got up onto his feet. The metal leg was so new to him that he wasn't used to it, causing him to fall on one knee. Forcing himself to stagger back up, he looked up at the ceiling and said just four words. Four words that brought about a thought that had started when he first saw Sonic, and had built up since then. This time, it was the last straw.

"I hate that hedgehog!" He screamed. He took another step forward with his mixed legs and clenched both his human hand, and his new metal hand into fists. Deep within his metal arm, somehow, he began to feel a whisper of pain in it, as if it was still human flesh.**

*"And you're certain that this Shadow reminded you of someone?" Tyr asked. Niloc kept his gaze out the window at the cloudy afternoon. In the distance a group of dark, green clouds heralded a coming storm.

"Yes, it hasn't been that long since the last time I saw him, that blue hedgehog. He's still out there, and I think it's time to set a plan into action."

"A plan, Niloc?"

"I will have revenge. Revenge on Sonic the hedgehog."**

*Luigi was as nervous as ever, standing in front of a transmission screen that had a blue image of someone that he had been in contact with ever since Mario had been abducted. One day, he would tell Mario what he had been doing.

"I don't know, it has been so hectic here, and me and my brother believe that for the time being, our place is here until things calm down," Luigi admitted to his contact.

"We need you, I feel like things are going to get real bad real soon," his contact admitted.

"I'll do what I can," Luigi promised. He froze when he heard the double doors across from the room began to open.

"I have to go, I'll try to get to you later," he said quickly, and he desperately cut the transmission, just as W.L and what looked like a completely recovered W came in.

"W? How did you recover?" Luigi asked. But W only shook his head, and walked in front of W.L.

"You're going to help us Luigi. We're done with the Heroes. We're going to find out what Project 60 is," W said. His voice, which was normally charming and calm, sounded deadly and very, very serious.**

NOTES: This story takes twists and turns that I had originally not planned in the beginning. Sally was a character taken from 1993's SATAM series. I had recently come across it while writing these stories and felt it would make a great addition for a loose end in the future, and Sonic's motivation to discover who he was in the past.

George Lucas says that 'Star Wars' can be like a chorus. Events repeat themselves with a couple differences. For instance, in The Phantom Menace, Anakin Skywalker blows up a battleship by firing several torpedoes into the main reactor. Years later, his son Luke would destroy the Death Star using a very similar technique. Here, Nick's arm is roboticized, like Julian's arm was roboticized years earlier. Whether or not that was really Sonic that roboticized Nick's arm remains to be seen.