Ebony and Ivory

*author note: This is Shadow x Silver, possibly some cannon pairings like Sonic x Amy but mainly ShadowSilver. I don’t really care for AU, so I’m going to fix what Elise broke at the end of the Sonic the hedgehog 360 game. A.k.a., when she blew the flame out and everything was undone.*

CHAPTER 3- Black and White

The three followers made there way toward the direction where the two speeding hedgehogs had gone only to come to a halt. Shadow and Sonic just stood there staring at a fallen rubble in confusion. It was the breathless Knuckles who spoke first.

"Jeez Sonic! Give warning next time you're gonna take off like that, I mean, none of us are as fast as...huh?"

He peered over his shoulder as did the other two. Rouge gasped in surprise and Tails exclaimed excitedly at what he spotted.

"Sonic! Who are they? Do you think they came from that light?"

Sonic just shook his head.

"I don't know Tails, but one thing's for sure; we should get them somewhere safe where they can recover."

Knuckles grunted in that response.

"Yeah, well how do we even know they are alive? I mean, they could be...hey!"

His attention was directed toward the spunky bat girl who was kicking around the rubble scattered amongst their feet.

"Don't disturb the Shrine!"

She continued as if she hadn't even heard him which caused him to get even more angry and stop his foot.

"What the hell are you doing?"

She turned to face him.

"Relax honey, I was only checking around for any remaining Emerald shards. You don't need to worry. I won't ruin your 'precious shrine'...even though there's nothing left of it..."

"You watch your mouth if you know what's good for you!"

Tails intervened before it became anymore violent.

"Anyway, Sonic's right, we should take them back to my workshop; they can recover there."

Sonic smiled at this.

"Yeah, and maybe when they wake up; they can tell us what happened."

Knuckles sighed and turned his attention away from the one dark character that frustrated him so and then to the other one that tended to irk him every now and then.

"Hey Shadow, you haven't said anything in a while..."

Sonic noticed this and turned his attention to the black hedgehog as well who's gaze was fallen to the newcomers.

"Knuckles is right, what's up Shadow?"

Shadow shook his head in response.

"Nothing..."

Knuckles was able to accept that answer, figuring the black hedgehog already had enough issues, it made complete sense for his behavior to be like so. Sonic knew better, but knew even more so better not to ask.

"Okay, whatever you say, just say something if something's bothering you okay? Anyways, we should get these guys back, right Tails?"

"Right!"
***
Silver awoke with a start. sitting up in a foreign bed in a foreign place was something he did not expect. He looked around the small room, although many interesting things sat in his presence, his eyes rested on the bed not too far from his own; which held his best friend's sleeping corpse.

"Blaze!"

He attempted to leave his bedside to join the feline's but hesitated as he felt pain shoot throughout his head.


"what happened?"

He remembered chatting with Blaze about his dreams then...

"The chaos emeralds! Where are they?"

just then a young fox boy a little younger than himself entered the room. He gaped at the boy, he normally wouldn't have been so surprised had the fox not had TWO tails.

"Oh, you're awake! I'd go get Sonic right now but he isn't here. He couldn't sit still and wait. Neither could Knuckles or Rouge, but I think that's cuz they want to go find the emeralds. Shadow's here though, I'll go let him know..."

"Wait! Emeralds...do you mean the Chaos emeralds?"

Tails spun around in surprise to face the Silver hedgehog.

"Yeah...you know about them?"

"Of course, they're the reason I'm..."

he paused in confusion. Where exactly was he? He had been so wound up on Blaze and the missing emeralds that he didn't get a chance to ask where he was. Before he could input another word, a familar voice spoke up.

"Where are we? Where is this?"

He turn to see Blaze sitting up and looking in the direction of the Two-tailed fox.

"This is my workshop. It's not the cleanest I know, but it..."

"That's not what I meant."

"What?"

Tails looked at her in confusion but they were all startled when a deeper voice emitted from behind the orange fox.

"She's asking about where in time is she."

Shadow stood in the doorway, although attentive to the topic at hand, his eyes were locked onto the silver hedgehog across the room, who met his gaze in shock. He was so startled he sat up in full.

"You! I know you!"

Tails turned around and looked back and forth between the two, as did Blaze.

"You've met Shadow?"

Shadow shook his head and broke the gaze, turning now in response to Tails.

"Impossible, I've never seen his face before."

Silver got defensive at this, feeling himself on the spot ridiculed.

"Liar! I know I've seen you before!"

"Silver are you sure?"

Blaze rested her gaze on the lighter colored hedgehog in concern who in response sat back down in defeat. It was true, he had never met him, not in real life anyway. He had only dreamed about him, but he knew that would sound ridiculous outloud so he kept it to himself after that.

"I'm sorry...Blaze, everyone, I don't know what I was thinking..."

Before another word was carried, the door burst open and in walked the blue blur himself.

"Hey Tails, they awake already? What did I miss?"

"Sonic! I couldn't find you. Nothing so far. They just woke up."

Knuckles peeked in behind Sonic.

"Has that bat girl stopped by here? More importantly, did she have any of the emeralds."

"Emeralds?"

Blaze snapped her head up in the direction of the red enchidna who blushed in response by the intent gaze.

"You know about the chaos emeralds?"

He followed her gaze and stared it down equally.

"I'd ask you the same thing."

Tails butted in at this.

"I have a great idea, why don't we start with introductions and then maybe talk about where we'll go from there.

Sonic smiled a second time that day at his intelligent brother.

"That's a great idea Tails! I'll go first, I'm Sonic! Sonic the hedgehog!"

"I'm Mile Tails Prower, but everyone calls me Tails."

"I'm Knuckles the Enchidna, you can call me Knuckles."

"You can call me Blaze, Blaze the cat."

Silver looked up after his partner responded.

"And my name's Silver, Silver the hedgehog."

Shadow shortly followed after the white hedgehog's introduction.

"My name's Shadow, Shadow the hedgehog."

Shadow raised his head catching Silver's gaze once more causing almost a friction of emotion, Silver felt as if his heart had sped up to where he could feel the blood pumping in his ears. The black hedgehog was so intimidating, he felt as if he wanted to at that moment get swallowed up into one of his dreams again where he would do nothing but touch the younger hedgehog in ways that made him want to moan in pleasure. His thoughts were broken when the orange fox spoke again.

"Anyways, now that we know eachother's names; where did you guys come from?"

Blaze cleared her throat.

"where I can say, it's when I'm not so sure of."

Knuckles raised a brow.

"What makes you say that, Miss?"

"Because using the chaos emeralds for something can usually cause a time warp."

Shadow nodded.

"I wouldn't be able to pull off chaos control if that weren't the case."

Sonic turned to Shadow at this.

"Oh yeah, that's right. Your chaos control is kinda like a mini time warp isn't it?"

"Precisely."

Tails looked over in the purple cat's direction.

"Um, where did you guys say you were from again?"

"Soleanna. Where is this?"

Sonic wrinkled his brow in confusion.

"I've never heard of that place, and I've been pretty much everywhere."

Knuckles nodded.

"So have I, but yet somehow it sounds familar..."

"yeah..."
Tails waved his hands in the air as an attempt to get the others attention.

"I've heard of it. It's a big city a little ways outside of Station Square. Don't you remember the girl we saw in the news?"

Sonic snapped his fingers.

"Oh yeah, Elise was her name, right?"

"Yeah, she's the queen there. It's not like Station square at all. They have more of a set monarchy."

Blaze stood up.

"The Elise you spoke of...the one of the royal family? Is she currently alive?"

Sonic nodded with a nervous smirk.

"Why wouldn't she be?"

Blaze turned to Silver who nodded in response and stood up along with her. She turned her gaze back to them.

"In our time, she's been dead for 200 years."

*author's note: Sorry for the short chapter, I've been at a writer's block lately and probably will be for some time, so expect it to go slow...not that I won't keep continuing though, that's a promise. Until next chapter, reviews please.*