Amnesia

Prologue

What?

Shadow and Sonic were, once again, racing. But this time all the gang were there, even the Babylon Rogues. Silver was bored though. Even with all the chatter going on. He walked away a short distance and took a look at a newspaper. He brought it back to Team Chaotix, he'd taken a liking to Charmy.

"Hey Vector, look at this." Vector looked, so did Espio, and they immediately paled. "What's wrong?" Asked Knuckles. Vector shakily took the paper from Silver and handed it to Knuckles, who also paled. "What's going on?" Asked Silver, looking at all of them, Charmy hadn't noticed. "Wh... where did you get this?" "Over there." After they had thoroughly investigated the area they went back to the others, "Would you please explain what's going on?" Asked Silver, starting to get irritated. "Well... that armadillo...... that's Mighty." "Who's Mighty?"

"He was a member of Team Chaotix before." "Really?" Silver frowned, the article said that the armadillo's name was Smash. At least, that was how his fellow gang members had addressed him, he appeared to be the leader. "But..." "Mighty was kind, and nice, he wouldn't be in a gang unless something terrible happened." "A mystery then?" Vector brightened, "A mystery!" Espio sighed, "Couldn't we have just called it a..." "Shush Espio!" The Babylon Rogues had been eavesdropping, "If we see him or meet him we can try to arrange a meeting." Offered Jet.

Espio was surprised that Jet would offer something like that without payment. "Um... sure. Thanks." "Your welcome." "Sure, anything for a fellow..." Silver quickly elbowed him in the ribs, Jet stopped, rubbing the area and finishing with, ".... anything for a friend." Silver relaxed. His gloves were the same... but they went higher, to his elbows.

Blaze's too now that he thought of it. But he wasn't able to think of it much longer as Shadow and Sonic both finished, but to Sonic's rage, Shadow finished a second earlier. It had been going that way for awhile, Shadow would be there a second before Sonic, or Sonic would be there a second before Shadow. Vector stopped a fight by saying they had more important stuff to worry about. "Like what?"

"Like the fact that Mighty has re-appeared." Said Espio. Charmy was immediately in his face, "Mighty? Where is he?" "Not here. We saw his picture in the papers." Charmy's buzzing wasn't as loud as the other's voices as they asked questions. "WE DON'T KNOW!" Vector roared, they quieted. "We're going to do an investigation. Jet said they'd help us... in a way." Blaze and Silver exchanged glances that were not lost on Shadow and Sonic. But most peculiarly, Wave and Silver exchanged a glance too.

The police were glad to know someone else would be looking for "the criminal known as Smash". They eagerly told the Chaotix all they knew. Silver and Blaze went with the Rogues for a quick tour of the city, in the hopes they would see Mighty. While Vector and Espio ran around, Knuckles had to watch Charmy and the Master Emerald.

Silver and the Rogues ran into Mighty first. They were around a jewelry store when they heard a noise, they looked into an alley just in time to see the brick wall between the alley and the jewelry store get smashed, a hole was left. An armadillo stood there, the same one in the paper, he signaled to someone, or some people. A group of assorted species of Mobians ran forward and into the jewelry store with guns.

They peeked into the shop. The staff had their hands in the air and some other gang members raided the cases. Mighty stood in the middle of it all, impassive. He had two golden earrings piercing his right ear, he had a black jacket on with no sleeves, the effect made it look like they had been torn off. Mighty had on some black jeans too, his shoes were the same though, Silver only knew this from how Vector had described him. He chose that moment to step through the shop door, the illusion of his gloves being longer than they were melted away to reveal dark blue flames tattooed on his wrists, a sign of the Babylon Rogues, Blaze had a dark purple set.

Silver glanced up and had them all wrapped in his power, all except their heads. He left those free so they could talk. He sat down in one of the chairs casually as Storm and Jet came in too, Wave was calling Vector. Silver rested his knuckles against his temple as he watched them, the rest of the gang struggled but Mighty didn't. "So Mighty... why are you like this." Mighty blinked, "I don't know anyone named Mighty." Silver smiled, "Oh I forgot, your new name is Smash." There was a flicker of confusion in Mighty's eyes, "I have only ever been known as Smash." Silver shook his head. "No you haven't."

"Break us out Smash!" Called some of the other gang members, one was a flying squirrel. "Okay Laz." Mighty's muscles rippled, which was surprising in itself, and then Silver only had a hold on his arms and legs, he wasn't sitting casually anymore, he was standing, fists clenched, jaw tight, eyes closed, brown furrowed. Everything in his stance tense, everyone suddenly realized that Mighty and Silver were having a struggle of sorts, a struggle between two different strengths.

Blaze snapped her fingers and Silver and Mighty were hidden by a screen of flames. They heard a snap, "Silver!" She didn't hear a reply, just a series of noises that sounded like the two males were attacking each other. Suddenly Silver was thrown through the flame screen and into a wall. Slamming into the wall seemed to hurt him even more, Blaze looked, there was a dagger in Silver's back. Mighty walked through the flames.

His eyes actually showed sorrow, he knelt, "I'm sorry Silver the Hedgehog. Your friends will be here soon, you will survive." Then he stood and dodged Storm and Jet, then freed his comrades and they fled. They didn't have time to take their would-be-loot with them. When the police arrived the whole Sonic gang was there, the illusions were on Silver and Blaze's arms again, and the employees of the jewelry store were thanking Silver, Blaze, and the Rogues.

Silver's eyes were slightly glazed as they lifted him into the ambulance. "Don't thank me..." he mumbled, "... I let him get away before the Chaotix arrived..." He grimaced as they accidentally jolted him. "You'll have to stay on your side Mr. Hedgehog, until we reach the hospital, when we're there we'll remove the dagger and patch you up." "It would be more logical to remove it before hand!" Argued Sonic.

They glared at the hero, "Let us do our job Mr. Hedgehog, and we will let you do yours." Silver passed out around that time.

Mighty and Ray, who had watched that from a rooftop were both feeling strange as they looked at the two present Chaotix members. "Smash?" "Yes Laz?" "Why... why do the chameleon and the crocodile seem so familiar?" "I don't know, but I heard they are trying to find out about us, I don't think they'll mind if we find out about them too." Mighty and Ray, a.k.a. Smash and Laz, grinned at each other and headed off.

Authoress: This is my first story with Mighty in it, at the moment I'm crazy about Mighty and Silver..... no idea why. Oh well. Shadow is still my favorite. Maybe I'll make a list of my favorite male Sonic characters and one of my favorite female ones...?

Disclaimer: She's going to write a story to explain why Silver is a member of the Rogues, and it will also kind of explain the glance between Silver and Wave.

Authoress: Yup! I can't think of a good title though... the story involves them getting stranded somewhere.... won't say were or that will give away too much. ;)

Disclaimer: *points to above paragraphs* Don't you think you've already given away too much?

Authoress: Good point, but there isn't any need to reveal more.

Disclaimer: Mighty and Ray, the Chaotix, the Rogues, Silver and Blaze, Sonic and Shadow, and the rest of the Sonic gang belong to SEGA.