...As If It Never Happened...

Sonic woke with a start. He found he was on his living room couch, the TV was blaring at him and he felt really disorientated. Was all that just a dream? No. It couldn't have been. He thought as he sat up, an invite to the ice cube slid off him and he used his reflexes to catch it before it hit the ground. What's going on? He looked at the invite then looked at his watch, which displayed 8:06. "Shit!" He zoomed into his room and came back out again faster than you could say 'now' He was wearing a fairly 'formal yet cool' looking white shirt with light blue buttons all the way down the middle. The shirt also had very thin lines of the same blue running from top to bottom each one an inch apart. For trousers Sonic was wearing light blue 'smart' jeans that almost matched the colour of the buttons and were not faded. He was wearing completely white versions of his normal trainers.

He stood there blinking at himself for a full minute. The fact that he was wearing the exact thing of what he could remember was odd. I could only mean one of two things: It happened or it was a lousy premonition... He needed to stop watching those Final Destination films.

He rushed out of the house and made his way to the place where the club was located as fast as he could, he found himself there almost immediately. He made his way to the entrance and a Blue Echidna stepped in his way. Sonic frowned before poking him in the head, causing him to fall over backwards. Sonic gasped at his own actions before helping the rather irritated Echidna up. "If you're invited just get your ass inside." The Echidna grumbled as Sonic walked past. He entered the bar to hear the loud thumping music.

A pink hedgehog with breast length quills wearing and black tank top and deep blue jeans approached him as he entered and he waved. "Hey Amy! How're you doing?" Sonic bellowed over the music. Amy just gestured to a booth that made Sonic's stomach flip. Too many things were the same for it not to have been real. Sonic followed Amy into the booth and sat down. He looked at Tails and studied what he was wearing. A light yellow shirt that went well with his fur and still looked manly. With black trousers on his legs, his feet were not visible. Again, too precise.

"Hello Sonic." A loud but seductive tone came across Sonic turned slowly to see Rouge in beautiful black dress and mid length heals that were black with a heart on top. Sonic gulped and cleared his throat before talking.

"So who have you invited and where are they all?" Sonic asked, trying to be casual but a hint of worry was obvious in his voice.

"Well Knuxiie is at the bar drinking his merry heart away already. Big is in a booth by himself for some reason playing with his frog, Amy and Tails are in here with us as you can obviously see. Sally, Bunnie and Julie-Su are in another booth together. Though they do not want to be disturbed. Finally we have the Chaotix team, or most of them anyway, Vector, Espio, Charmy and Mighty in the final booth. We still have Cream and Shadow to get here!" Rouge exclaimed smiling completely happy with herself. "It's odd Cream isn't here. She's normally the type who's on time for things." Sonic's eyes popped out at this and his breathing became more erratic.

"Know when Shadow's coming? I need to speak to him immediately." Sonic asked in a fast voice. If anyone else would remember it'd be Shadow.

"No. Sonic, are you okay? You seem on edge." Rouge added with empathy. Sonic just blinked a couple of times before nodding meekly. "Okay, in a bit." Rouge announced as she left, the seductive tone dropped and one of concern replacing it. Sonic slid down in his chair just before a waiter came in.

"Hello welcome to the Ice Cube. Would anyone like to order drinks?" The waiter spoke in a friendly tone. Smiling at all the customers. Amy immediately reacted.

"I'll have a large red wine and another relentless for my two tailed fox friend here please!" Sounding very cheery like Amy always had done. The waiter looked at Sonic, whom shook his head and the waiter took his leave. "Sooo... Sonic. How have you been? It's been about 3 years since I saw you last! God you look different! Took up to wearing clothes I see." She winked playfully causing Sonic's mouth to hang open.

"Do you not remember any of it at all?" Sonic asked, Amy just looked at him and blinked with a clear 'WTF' look on her face. Sonic heard the front door open despite the music and rushed out of the booth to be greeted by a rather irritated looking black and red hedgehog. "Shadow! Thank god it's you!" Sonic exclaimed as Shadow frowned at him with a similar look. "Don't tell me, you too?..." Sonic trailed off as he backed into the wall.

"Hedgehog. I feel like something massive just happened and I want to know what." Shadow growled as Amy made her way out of the booth to them. She beamed at Shadow whom smiled back before his face turned confused and then turned irritated. He was just about to speak when he clutched his head and collapsed to his knees, seconds later Amy was also on her knees. Sonic didn't know what to do as he looked between the two who seemed to be in a world of pain, Sonic looked over to Amy to see her quills visibly and rapidly growing, stopping at her hips and both of their bodies were becoming slightly leaner, a more notable change in Amy. Amy's eyes snapped open a split second before Shadow's. "Wh-what?" Shadow exclaimed looking round himself wildly.

"What the hell... Was that machine supposed to do that?" Amy asked as she looked round wildly with Shadow.

"So we're here. It's as if it never happened!" Shadow's voice once again chipped in. "We should find the others." He commented before making his way to the exit. Rouge appeared in front of him.

"Where do you think you're going exactly?" She demanded with annoyance filling up her eyes.

"I may be back later Rouge. This is very important." He announced as he pushed her aside gently, leaving her gawping at him. Amy was hot on his heels and Sonic was following not too much further behind. Sonic muttered a sorry to her before they went outside into the fresh air. "Do you know which way they might be Sonic?" Shadow asked. Sonic nodded before shooting off, leaving a sonic boom behind, Shadow and Amy already in pursuit.

As they approached an area inside the country they slowed down dramatically and looked nearby them before stopping. "Something feels weird." Shadow announced. The second the words had left his lips a bright flash appeared with an unconscious Rage hovering in front of them, he was still in his normal form but was rapidly transforming as the seven Chaos Emeralds were circling him. The clothing on his right arm ripped, and another Chaos Emerald appeared earning a mass of gasps from the three on lookers as eight Chaos Emeralds began to circle round him, his super form fully showing just before he started to flash in a sequence of colours. "Isn't that?..." Shadow started.

"That's a hyper form! Was the difference between the seven Chaos and seven Super really only one Chaos?" Sonic exclaimed. Shadow shook his head.

"A superform can be obtained with just six. The seventh is just good for stability." Shadow informed as another Emerald appeared out nowhere and joined the rest, making nine. "We've got to stop this!" Sonic shouted as he dashed forwards, but the power of the Emeralds threw him back ten feet onto his back. Another Emerald suddenly appeared as most of his jeans disintegrated and begun circling with the others. Making ten. His fur suddenly stopped on a pale yellow as a halo of yellow Chaos energy appeared above his head and pure white feathered wings sprouted out of his back. The three could only gasp in awe at the sight of the new Chaos form as yet another emerald just came from no where and joined the others while his entire clothing had vaporised. "Shadow!" Sonic shouted from the other side of Rage as he tried to find a way in. "We need to do something!" Suddenly a loud whooshing was heard as another Emerald from a few miles away, the one that Shadow would have collected the next day, appeared out of no where and joined in with the 11 already there, suddenly screaming was heard, Rage had regained consciousness.

"What's this power? It can't be possible! It burns so much, the power is just too much for my body to handle! Make it stop!" Rage screamed from amongst the Gems of power. Shadow looked over to Sonic whom had just pulled out a Chaos Emerald out his fur in order to try and help, but the Emerald immediately pulled out Sonic's hand and joined the rest. The effect was instant, the halo shattered and showered Rage in a radiance of light as his pelt turned back to pale blue with the wings remaining the same pure white. Suddenly screaming of unimaginable pain started to sound from inside the vortex of Emeralds. Shadow looked round at Amy wildly.

"Do you know where the last of this time lines Emerald is? He may die if I don't try this, but in turn it may kill him!" Shadow shouted to both Amy and Sonic at the same time. Amy immediately pulled the purple Emerald out of the quills near her neck and handed it to Shadow.

"I believe in you." Amy reassured as she laid her hand over Shadow's. Shadow's eyes flared with renewed determination as he dashed for Rage, his fur became lighter and lighter as Shadow approached with the Emerald, just as he came into contact with the force that Sonic was thrown back by, he activated his body's own super form as he dashed head on into the Emeralds area and begun to feel a push. Shadow pushed his way forward until he was close to Rage. His pelt started flashing colours from the backlash of Chaos radiation as he shouted his trademark words.

"Chaos Control!"

One of each colour of the Emeralds disappeared in a flash of green light, taking Shadow's and Rage's Chaos forms with them before the six Emeralds not being held rocketed off in different directions round the globe. Shadow collapsed to the floor face first as Rage fell to the ground right next to him, Shadow heard a slight muttering just before he and Rage passed out. "Thank you."

Deep in the cold steel lab of Dr. Robotnik things were going exactly to plan. He was still semi immortal, and still remembered everything all thanks to the glowing Black Emerald that he held in his hand. A wicked laugh was heard as he twiddled some dials and changed a few things while sitting on his old throne. He held it up and admired his work before smirking. He had successfully made a small part for his machine that would allow him to do the same experiments with clones as he had done before. He gave it a satisfied look as there was a loud crash causing alarms to suddenly go off. Robotnik ran out into the corridor to be greeted by a familiar black hedgehog. "Hello Sonic... How the mighty have fallen." Robotnik commented as he was grabbed round the collar.

"I would far rather kill you for everything that you did, that you were going to do. But that wouldn't allow you to suffer enough. I hope you're looking forward to hell on earth. Without your machines you're nothing." Sonic sneered and he spat in Robotnik's face. "I don't know how you remembered what happened. But I bet it has something to do with that in your hand." Sonic swiped the Black Emerald from Robotnik's hand and looked into his eyes with malicious intent. "Your days are through Robotnik." Sonic taunted as he teleported them both outside using Chaos control, Sonic floated above the base and threw the Black Emerald up into the air. "Chaos Grenade." Muttered Sonic as he shot a bolt of energy at Robotnik's base. Robotnik screamed in protest causing Sonic to smirk from finally getting a reaction out of the mad scientist as the base exploded, causing many areas of it to collapse. The Emerald came down and he caught it before he used Chaos control once again to remove himself from the area, leaving the rubble behind.

A few seconds after he had left a small robot moved, he was sparking from the damage he had received yet it looked round the debris to find something. After a while it picked something up and pushed what was left of the throne out of the way, making its way down it dropped a great distance while the throne resealed itself, it made its way down a hall and into a large, seemingly never ending room. The small robot crawled to a machine and slotted a piece in, the same thing that Robotnik was working on mere moments ago, and it pressed a button on a console, causing the sound of a cave in they way it came from. A weak mechanical voice was heard as the robot powered down in the dark hallway.

"The Doctors legacy shall live on."

I hope that you enjoyed Book one: Doomsday of the books of truth as much as I have done writing it. My writing skills have improved over the time that it's took me to write this that the earlier chapters have been redone more times than I can remember! This epilogue was actually wrote before most of the story. About the 7th chapter in fact!

Well I left some none obvious (And some obvious, the ending soooo isn't one...) hints towards a couple sequels throughout the entire book that I shall start on ASAP! So everyone who enjoyed this be sure to look out for 'Book 3: Origins'! Also look out for 'Book 1.5: Slash' which is a side story that will detail just what happened to Slayde during his blackout to the other universe as I'm sure some people would love to know what happened to him. And if you haven't already, go read some of my other stories, I'll be working on completing some of them before I start releasing Origins! (Like Darkside. Which I can now reveal has been a story within the Books of Truth, occurring after Doomsday itself! (No but seriously. I've even dropped hints in Darkside.))

Slayde: And where, may I ask, am I in this Chapter?

Me: ...

Shadow: Do you ever shut up? This whole journey you've just gone on and on and on.

Amy: Shadow are you being mean to Slayde again?

Shadow: No I'm not Amy, honestly.

Amy: You know I know when you're lying Shadow.

Shadow: How?

Amy: because you call me by my first name!

Me: Say bye for now guys!

Shadow: Are you telling me what to do? *Growls*

Amy: Shadow!

Shadow, Slayde, Sonic, Amy and Rage: Bye for now guys!