Note: I had to edit a few things in the chapter (like lines, ect) so I apologize for the double upload.

So. It's been almost a year since I've updated this. Wow.

And by he way, life still sucks.

Anyway, here we go again.

Can you get us back yet?

"Now... if I was an agnsty, blind, echinda hedgehog thing, where would I be?" Mark asked as they ran.

Dia scowled, "Don't call him a thing."

"Oh," Mark taunted, "Do I detect a soft spot for our resident psychopath? He's crazy and you know it."

"Fuck off, Mark, you know it's not like that." Dia stated, keeping in step with the speed demon. "My signal is very weak."

"Nice topic changer, Diane." Mark replied.

"You're just jealous because you have no physic abilities." Dia growled. She hated being called by her full name. "I wouldn't be surprised," Dia continued in a nicer tone. "If Shaya was avoiding us on purpose. I mean, he still has to help us and come back with us, but seeing her cuts him deeper every time. I couldn't even begin to imagine his pain."

Mark was silent for a moment. "...I can," he mumbled to himself. Dia gave a look of curiosity, but didn't press.

"Hey, I think I got something; feels like Shaya." Dia said. "Due south; two creatures... both have strong wavelengths."

"Can't be our guy," Mark replied, but they changed course anyway. "He would never travel with a local, even if he could find somebody else with a wavelength that matches his."

"Either way," Dia said. "We have to check it out."

A toothy grin spred across Mark's face.

"Just lead the way.'

"How long will it take you to recharge?" Silver asked his 'traveling companion' Sonya, AKA, the source of all his current problems. Sonya's uncanny time traveling abilities were broadly uncontrolable, and sometimes it ended up sending them to some really strange places.

"Um... I'm not sure..." Sonya muttered. "It was a huge time skip. I don't even have the power to move to tomorow, let alone move back to the twenty-ninth."

"Uh-huh," Silver muttered. Move back... now that was an oxymoron. You can't move back to the future. You moved forward to the future. But in their minds, moving back was the same as moving forward, since it happened so often.

"Where are we anyway? Do you know?" Sonya asked as she looked about her surroundings. They stood in a clearing in the midst of some trees.

"Yeah, actually..." Silver replied, stopping. "I think I've been here before."

Sonya was oblivious, but Silver seemed to notice something in the distance. He jumped back as a blue streak exploded through; whoever, or whatever it was gave out an "Oh Holy Shit-!" before tumbling to the dirt and biting it- hard.

"Frick," it spoke. It was a blue hedgehog, and said hedgehod was now sprawled in the grass on his back with scrapes and a bleeding nose. "That was fun, but damn that hurt. If you hadn't tripped me-!"

"I didn't trip you," came an annoyed voice from a very annoyed looking cat. "You tripped over your two left feet, dumbass."

"Well excuse me princ-,"

"Who are you people?"

Mark looked up to the two. A grin spred across his face. "Found em! But.. not him, but we found them. Can we leave now?"

"Hi. Sorry about this, we're just looking for a friend." Dia apologized to Silver and Sonya. "And no, we can't!"

Mark frowned.

"Um... Sonic?" Silver asked. "I knew this place looked familiar."

Mark took a second to register the words but when he did, his body shook with laughter. "No, sorry, but I'm the next best thing."

"Yeah, you wish."

"I'm Dia," Dia greeted. "That... mess over there is my partner, Mark. We're looking for somebody. Sorry to have disturbed you."

"Mess?"

"Oh, get up, you drama queen."

"Wait, you said "Found them?"?" Sonya asked. "You obviously didn't come upon us by accident. You have a strong aura."

"You still call it aura? Whoops," Dia said, but them clamped a hand over her mouth. "Uh, yeah... I detected you guys."

Something lit up in Sonya's eyes. "I didn't know anybody in this century had that kind of ability!"

"Sonya," Silver hissed.

"No, no, it's quite alright." Dia replied. Off to the side, Mark got up and dusted himself off. "You guys aren't fro..." Dia trailed off as she inspected Silver. She looked him up and down and even walked around him once. "Oh... oh my God... Mark..."

"Calm down Dia," Mark said.

"I, just, I- OH MY GOD!" Dia cried. "You're Silver! The physic prodigy! Oh my Lord I never thought I'd ever get to meet you!"

"Aye ya..." Mark mumbled.

Silver just looked confused out of his mind. "Are you two from the twenty-ninth century too?" He asked hesitantly.

"Ah- no, sadly." Mark replied. He didn't like doing damage control. "But um.. yeah... have to go. Sorry about this." He then turned to Dia and whispered in her ear, "Let's go."

"But Mark-,"

"It doesn't matter! Let's go!" Mark said again, more urgently this time.

"No, Mark, I was going to say that he's blocked. He's blocked me out." Dia said, giving Mark a good clean shove. "I can't find him."

"You need to find somebody?" Sonya asked.

Both Silver and Mark rolled their eyes simultaneously.

"Yes," Dia replied. "His name is Shaya and he's somewhere in the Metropolis. He has a strong signal, but my inner eye is blinded. If I was able to sense your wavel- aura over his, your power might be strong enough to break the block."

"Well, my power isn't strong enough to get into other's minds just yet." Sonya said. In the background, Silver mumbled something. "But I might able to track him for you. I feel several strong auras already."

"Great!"

"I don't believe this..." Mark mumbled. They're best friends already. This is ridiculous. He then looked sideways to Silver who was rubbing his forehead in annoyance. Fynn is going to flip out; maybe even have a heart attack. She's on edge enough already...

Stick to the shadows.

That's all he had to do- stick to the shadows, and nobody would be the wiser. No locals would see him and certainly none of the other seven would find him. Why was he hiding? Well, he didn't really know. He just felt like he didn't want to join up with them.

Damnit,Shaya Onyx, the black echinda cross breed thought as he traveled. All this ability and I can't even move through time. Argh. He cursed himself. He only came on this mission because the boss wanted him to; he hated time travel, and he sure as hell didn't want to come back to this specific date. Unmarked records? Not to mention... Him, and well, that was the reason, wasn't it? But they wouldn't be here if it wasn't going to cause time distortion.

Shaya tipped his head towards the sky, and gravity caused his hood to slip a bit. It's approaching twilight.He thought. Within moments, the sky had begun drizzling as some baby storm clouds filled the sky.

With a light smile and a sigh, Shaya reached up and pulled the blindfold from his face, bearing his closed eyes. He opened them with a smile.

His eyes were inhuman. While the scelra was painted a white colour, the iris' of his eyes were dark purple- blue and the pupil was a black cross. Those were not natural eyes.

Shaya held up the dark square shaped jewel and smiled at it. There were two things in this world that could calm him: rain, and chaos energy. He didn't know why, but the engery gave him such a high; perhaps it was a drug to him. He didn't really know, but he did know his father was very gifted with channeling chaos every, so maybe it was genetic. But he was dead now, and even if he was alive, he wouldn't be with them. That would cause more harm than they were already doing.

"That witch..." He mumbled. A hateful gaze painted Shaya's expression as he dipped his head to look down; his mother, he's sweet, harmless, hateful cruel woman of a mother made him what he was. A cross breeded disgrace. An orphan. Shaya could only wish that the bitch was dead.

Shaya shook his head. He replaced his blindfold and continued to walk in the shadows.

That woman was long gone.

Yes. Open ended ending. I don't really want to write much more without getting seriously into backgrounds, and that's not for right now, heh...

Anyway, I recently got Sonic and Knuckles 3 back on my computer. I've been playing it constatly in the last few days... I FRICKEN LOVE THAT GAME!

Anyway. I hope this chapter was satisfactory. I promise to update more often from now on.