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Dark… It's so dark… How long has it been? A minute? An hour? A week? A month? Or has it only been a couple seconds… Well, it doesn't matter anymore; I let her die… I let my best friend die… I could have just sent her to another dimension like she told me to but I just… let her die… I have no idea where I am… It's just so dark and I can't feel… anything… Floating… just floating in complete darkness… But I deserve this… I deserve this…

"He… Hey… Hey! Wake up!"

What? Who is that? The darkness… it's different this time… It's brighter… I can feel my heart beating in my chest… and… I'm breathing… I thought this darkness was hell… and that I was dead… but I'm… alive, how? How is this possible?

"Tails, Tails come over here I found someone! He's not waking up and he's ice cold!"

That voice… it's so familiar… but why is that?

"Your right Sonic; we need to get him help and quick! With how cold he is I can't believe he's still alive!"

Sonic… that name… is so familiar too… but I'm so sleepy… so sleep..py… sle..eply…

Sunlight streamed through the window and hit the sleeping albino hedgehog directly in the face. His peaceful face turned to an irritated one as the light woke him, unwanted, from his slumber. Giving up his fight on more sleep the albino opened his eyelids, showing golden irises underneath. Where am I? The golden eyes flicked around the room taking in his surroundings; the warm bed he was in was pushed to the right side of the room and against the wall. The window that let the sunlight in was in the middle of the wall in front of him with a small television directly in front of his bed. The wall to the left of the room held a doorway that looked like it led to the closet and the door that led out of the room was on the wall behind him close to the corner. The room itself was very plain; it was painted a light blue and had white carpeting with no decorations whatsoever.

I wonder where I am and that name… Sonic… Wait Sonic! How could I forgotten!? Sonic, Shadow and I defeated Solaris. Then Blaze and I… Blaze. Tears started to leak from his eyes as the thought of his now lost friend. What happened after that? That darkness… what was that? I remember Blaze dying then… nothing… just that darkness and not being able to feel anything. Silver never got to elaborate any further because at that moment the door opened and revealed the blue blur himself.

"Sonic?"

"That's my mine don't wear it out buddy," the blue hedgehog said with his signature grin and came to sit on the side of the bed. "You gave us all a scare there buddy, when we found ya you were ice cold and barley breathing. Tails had to sit all night with ya to make sure you didn't kick the bucket in the middle of the night."

"Was I really that bad off?" Silver had no idea he was in such a bad condition let alone being close to death. "Do you know what happened?"

"Well…" he scratched his chin in thought, "No one is really sure what happened to you and all I know is that you were close to death not sure why though. Tails did tell me but I really didn't understand of word of what he was saying." The blue hedgehog managed to look sheepish and even sweat-dropped at the situation. That's when Sonic seemed to remember something important and face palmed while he, again, sweat-dropped. "Looks like I forgot to ask for your name buddy; since you already know who I am let's skip over my introduction and go straight to yours. So what's your name?"

The albino got an irritated look on his face, "Come on Sonic stop being an idiot, you know who I am."

"No, can't say I ever meet ya I would of remembered an albino hedgehog with a weed job for hair," peach figures grabbed the albino's top quill. "You don't see many hedgehogs like you around."

"You mean you don't remember me or Solaris or Iblis or or anything!?" Silver just couldn't believe it; Sonic didn't remember him? Everything couldn't be a dream because if it was he wouldn't know Sonic, Amy or Shadow… and he wouldn't be in the past in the first place!

"Solaris? You mean that festival in Soleanna with Princess Elise? Yeah, I was just there with my friends a few weeks ago… we might have meet there I don't remember much about it." The cobalt hedgehog then mumbles something out that Silver just manages to catch, "I can't believe I listened to Shadow and drank all that. 'You won't get that drunk' he says; yeah my ass."

"Ahhh, yeah that's it and my name is Silver by the way." He really doesn't remember and the way he's talking about it neither will anyone else. Oh god, what do I do?

Silver's thoughts were once again interrupted by the cobalt hedgehog, "Nice to meet you Silver and you can always stay with us for a while no one here would kick you out after what just happened to ya." The albino hedgehog is flashed with another one of Sonic's famous grins. The blue hedgehog gets up off the bed and motions for Silver to follow him. "Come on let's go meet my friends."

Silver got up from his warm bed and immediately fell, luckily for him Sonic had anticipated this; the blue hedgehog may be slow upstairs sometimes but he did know a lot about what happens when you recover from major injuries; probably because he had so many before with his fights with Eggman and other villains. Not to mention he had brushed more times with death himself then he would ever care to admit to any of his many friends.

"Whoa! Steady there chief don't get too excited," Sonic said to his 'new' friend as he helped him back to his feet.

Once Silver was steady enough to stand he thanked his blue savior, "Thanks for catching me I got a little dizzy there for a second. How did you know I was going to fall?"

"Experience," was the cobalt hedgehog's simple reply. Sonic then walked out the door leading to the hallway and motioned again for the albino to follow. Silver complied taking small but steady steps until he was comfortable walking normally. Sonic noticed this and for once slowed down his pace so the other hedgehog could keep up. It seemed that the blue blur lived in a large mansion with all of his friends and Silver was amazed at the sight of the large place since he mostly lived underground in the dried up sewers in the future. Sonic's house looked like a five star resort to him and the albino hedgehog would probably think the five star resort as heaven on Earth. The mansion was like a maze and Silver had long ago given up on navigating this place, but the cobalt leading him seemed like a pro as to where he was going. The two of them soon came to a winding staircase and descended it and walked over to the large glass doors to the left on the bottom. Loud voices from behind the door were heard and Sonic opened the door and motioned Silver to go in.

"Hey! You're okay," squealed a female voice and then Silver was suddenly caught in a death hug from none other than Amy Rose. "We were all so worried about you! We're so happy that you're okay," the pink hedgehog continued.

"Ahhh thanks ummm..." Silver asked after remembering he wasn't supposed to know any of the Mobians in the room.

"Oh, how silly of me," with slight flush on her face Amy let go of the albino hedgehog and said, "My name is Amy, Amy Rose."

"Nice to meet you Amy, my name is Silver."

The pink hedgehog looked confused, "Your name is Silver? But aren't you an albino?"

Silver sweat-dropped, "Yeah I know I'm an albino but I didn't pick my name my parents did."

"Were your parents high or something when they had you?" A red echidna snickered before being whacked in the back of the head by an albino bat.

That was when Sonic decided to take charge of the situation, "Alright so everyone this is Silver." He gestured to the albino hedgehog and Silver got some hellos and waves in reply. "You obviously know Amy and I so that's Knuckles and Rouge over there," he pointed to the two sitting on the couch. "And over there is Tails and Cream," Sonic this time pointed to the floor in front of the couch and the two mobians sitting beneath it. "The Mr Grump over there is Shadow," he gestured to the hedgehog leaning on the wall with his arms crossed across his chest.

This room was far more decretive then the one Silver woke up in; upon entry a light tan couch was in front of you pointed in front of a large fire place with a plasma screen television on top of it. To the right of the room were two large windows with a small ledge under it; to the left was a sunroom with large lawn chairs and pillows to sit in the sun with. The walls were painted a light green and held many small designs that looked like brown vines twirling around the room. All in all it was a beautiful room and Silver had to wonder who designed the place.

Amy looked to her watch and gasped slightly, "Cream, Rouge we're late it's already five o'clock and we haven't even started with dinner yet!" The pink hedgehog scurried out the room with Cream happily skipping behind her and Rouge strutted after with a 'whatever' look on her face.

"Knuckles I just remembered I need your help in the workshop," Tails said to the red echidna above him. He just shrugged and followed after the excited two tailed fox to his workshop leaving the three male hedgehogs alone in the now vacant room.

"Sooo what do we do now?" Sonic asks to no one in particular.

"Why not give the kid a tour faker." The black and red hedgehog suggests still leaning against the wall.

"Great idea Shads!" Shadow slightly growls at the nickname the cobalt hedgehog gave him. "Come on Silver, Shadow and I'll give you a tour of the place."

"Who said anything about me coming hedgehog?" The ebony hedgehog growls getting up from his leaning position on the wall.

"Do you have anything better to do?" Sonic says with a more sly form of his famous grin.

"…No…"

"Then it's settled than; let's go!" The cobalt hedgehog shouts the last part and pulls the albino behind him; Shadow, reluctantly, follows after them.

The three hedgehogs were halfway done with their tour when a loud explosion happened outside. "Oh no! Tails!" With a large gust of wind and a blue flash Sonic was gone leaving a confused Silver and an annoyed Shadow to finish up the tour.

"What was that about Shadow?" Silver questioned the other hedgehog as he turned to talk to him.

"Shut up."

"Huh?"

"Shut up about that stupid fox and tell me that you remember what really happened at the Solaris 'Festival'." The ebony hedgehog used his fingers to put the word festival in air quotes.

"Shadow… you remember?" The albino hedgehog was stunned could Shadow really remember the events that really happened with Solaris?

"Yes, I woke up the day after the so called Solaris Festival with a whole different recollection of the events then everyone else. I thought it was a dream until Sonic brought you home unconscious; there so no way it was a dream if you're real," the ebony hedgehog explained.

"You do remember!" Silver was thrilled, someone else remembered him! "It's so weird knowing everyone when they don't remember you."

"Suck it up and this will be between us for now." Shadow demanded glaring at the albino.

"Alright it's between us!" Silver exclaimed raising his hands up in the universal way to say 'calm down I'll do what you say.'

"Good," and with a slight flash of light the ebony hedgehog disappeared.

"Hey! Wait! I don't know my way around here yet!" Silver shouted to the now vacant spot that the ultimate life form was just standing before he Chao Controlled away. "Great… what do I do now?" Silver muttered to himself. He tried to remember where he had come from with Sonic and Shadow and was at a complete loss. "Maybe… this way…" he said taking the only way that wouldn't lead him to the kitchen and the other mobians.

Half an hour later Silver was even more lost then he was before, luckily for him Amy had a sixth sense on finding people, mostly Sonic, and found Silver wondering in the bowling area. "Silver? What are you doing here? I thought Sonic and Shadow were giving you a tour."

The albino sighed with relief when he saw the pink hedgehog, "They were but they… ahhh… ditched me?"

"What!? They ditched you!? I'll give them a talking to and introduce them to my little friend." The female hedgehog said taking out her piko piko hammer. "Come on follow me I'll take you to the kitchen and I reckon you got lost that's why you were in here right?"

"Yeah, this place is huge… you're not going to ditch me too are you?" Silver asked.

Amy giggled not knowing that she did just that with the whole Solaris episode, "Of course not silly, I wouldn't do that."

"Ahhh, okay and why were you here in the first place Amy?"

"My room is over here and I had to grab something." The female explained.

"Oh, okay."

Both of them made it to the kitchen minutes later with Amy chattering all the way there. Silver mostly tuned her out and nodded when he needed to to keep her happy. Entering the large dining room Silver noticed his two use-to-be chaperones arguing over something.

"Oh Sonic oh Shadow," Amy said in a sickly sweet tone to the other two hedgehogs. The two of them immediately stopped whatever argument they were having and looked to the pink female hedgehog. "It looks like I need to reteach you your manners," the pink female continued pulling out her famous hammer.

Sonic took one look at the gigantic hammer, eeped and bolted out of the room. Shadow looked as well and in a flash of light Chaos Controlled away.

"Well it looks like my job is done," Amy snickered and put away her hammer. "Remember everyone those two get no dinner tonight and if anyone feeds them they get my hammer for real."

Everyone nodded and took their seats at the table to start dinner and Silver took a seat far away from the pink hedgehog. When the bread basket was passed around Silver took two extra large pieces of bread and hid it under the table for the two missing hedgehogs. They might have ditched him but he didn't want them to go without food that night.

When everyone had finished with their meal Silver snuck outside to search for the two hedgehogs. He decided to start with the large forest out back and found a path leading inside. The sun was setting showing large shadows throughout the forest and it was already night when he decided to turn back. When he had stopped walking that's when he heard it; the sounds of muffled voices coming from his left a few meters over. That must be them, but what are they doing all the way out here? He snuck up and hid behind a tree when he got close enough wondering if the two of them would be enraged about not getting dinner because of him. He sucked up his slight fear and took a step from behind the tree and froze. There in the middle of a small clearing were Sonic and Shadow making out with each other and looked like they would go even further soon.