A new chapter. POVs will be for Sonic, Shadow, Metal Sonic and Ashura. If you want to know what Ashura and Honey look like, then go to YouTube and type in "Ashura Character theme Phenomenon" and "Honey the Cat Real Emotion" for themes.

Sonic's POV

Where...where am I? I feel so...numb, like I can't feel any part of my body. "What...Where am I?" I called out to probably no-one, not expecting an answer. There was just black shadows and absolute nothingness. Man, and I thought that I'd seen complete emptiness when I fought Eraser Djinn and Merlina. Still, could be worse I guess. "Yes, the world could have ended or you could have died," came a voice. At first, I thought it might have been my old friend Caliburn since I was thinking of him a little, but then I recognised the dark tone of voice that could only belong to one hedgehog.

"So, any idea on where we are, or how we can escape whatever we've gotten into?" I asked, getting a sigh.

"If I knew that, then we'd be out of here by now," Shadow said back.

"Well gee, here's a brilliant idea, try using Chaos Control to get us outta here," I called out, getting another sigh.

"What do you think I tried when I woke up? I'm completely powerless here," he said. Well I never thought I'd live to see the day, Shadow the Hedgehog, the ultimate life form, completely powerless.

It feels like days since I actually remember what I was doing when I was put...wherever I am. Last thing I remember is running to meet up with Silver, and then I feel this burning pain in my back, and then I'm leaving a mile long skid mark in the ground with my face. Actually, the burning pain's gone, so that's one consolation. Another is that I've, kinda, met one of the bird kids Silver told me about. Her name's Max, and she seems like the sort of girl who dices with danger almost every day. Even Shadow's impressed at how she and five other kids, some as young as Tails and even Cream and Charmy, could take down a pack of Erasers. She's told us a plan on how to escape, but I'm just hoping it actually works. The only way to get out of this blackness, and then escape, is to play dead, literally. It's worth a shot I guess. We start to shut our bodies down, slowing our heartbeats to almost a standstill, and before I know it, we're being lifted out like a sack of junk. Though feeling like I'm half dead, I start spinning into anything I can hit. Walls, tables, heck, even the odd person, and then I smash headlong into Shadow and Max. Though groggy, we start running to a window, leaping out with Max behind us. She falls a few feet, almost crashing into the hard concrete ground, but her wings snap open, and she keeps up with me and Shadow as we jump from tree to tree, leaving the compound in the dust and speeding towards where Silver told me to meet him.

Shadow's POV

I feel like I've just woken up for the first time in millennia, and Sonic spinballing into me doesn't help how I feel. In fact, that isolation tank feels like heaven after I get a taste of the pain even before Sonic hit me, and now I feel like every part of my body is being tortured. I have no idea where we're running to, but Sonic and Max seem to know, so, unfortunately, I'm following their lead. Though I didn't say it out loud, Max looks a lot like that girl who attacked me. Amazing how much she and her "evil twin" look like Maria, it almost brings a tear to my eye. Man, am I starting to get sentimental now of all moments. Still, I guess it's better than feeling groggy. After running, and secretly checking to see if my legs look as bad as the piercing pain is making them feel, we walk into a motel, following Max to one of the rooms. When I say follow, I mean Sonic and I wait until she flies up and looks through the window. No sign of the other bird kids and, according to Sonic, Silver and Blaze. Max looks off into the distance away from the place we escaped, looking at Sonic and the two of them nodding. Why is it that the bad feeling I get when I have to let Sonic lead, is now ten times worse now that I have no clue at what these two are planning? Oh wait! Because they ran off before I could ask!

We arrived at a large compound belonging to the Itex Corporation. That sounds like a name Omega found when he hacked some of the School's files. We followed Max to some air vents, moving through them silently. We stopped when a duct looked into a room full of chaos. There were all sorts of creatures like rats, spiders and in general, what people fear. There were also five bird kids and the Max and Eraser that had attacked me. My hands clenched into fists, and I could see Max looked more ticked at seeing her clone. But then I looked at Sonic, seeing a surprisingly anger filled face, and I could see why. In the room was another Sonic, and believe it or not, another Shadow! I thought me and Omega destroyed all the Shadow androids. Before I knew what even I was doing, all three of us fell through the duct, landing on our feet in fighting stances. I looked to the Shadow, my eyes widening when I saw the red stripes change colour to grey, and the eyes change to bright green. I simply muttered one thing under my breath, but not a curse word, but it might as well have been. "Mephiles."

All the memories that never happened filled my head. Soleanna, the Sceptre of Darkness, the black hedgehog created in my image from shadows, the fight between us and Solaris, it all came back to me just from seeing Mephiles. My eyes went from wide to narrow in anger as I lunged at him, fuelled by anger. However he returned, I'll make sure he wishes he never did. I quickly glace at Max and Sonic, seeing that the Sonic copy was a hologram hiding the true form of Metal Sonic.

"Oh how pathetic you are since last time Shadow," came Mephiles' familiar chilling voice as he landed a kick in my back. I turn round and catch him by surprise, landing a powerful punch in his stomach. And here I thought he didn't need to breathe. I smirk as he tries to catch back some breath, but turn round as I hear something, or someone smash into a wall. It's Sonic, looking badly beaten with Metal Sonic preparing to land the killer blow. At least he was, until the wall beside him crumbles and a familiar shadow enters.

Metal Sonic's POV

Well, well, well. My copy has decided to try and destroy the original. Talk about a cliché. I walk in through the dust and land a punch to my copy's face. It sends him smashing into the opposite wall, leaving a rather nice impression in it. "So, is that all Eggman programmed into you? How to get a punch in the face? I bet he's getting tired of pounding dents outta ya," I said, ignoring the surprised looks from everyone. I smirk; somehow I seem to have gained an actual mouth to smirk with, as I walk over to finish my copy, ignoring the fight between two bird kids and the two Shadows. I prepared to punch my copy in the chest, but guess what, he teleported away again. Typical, guess these copies and Sonic both have one thing in common, they're both good at running away. I turn to Shadow, but it seems his copy is also good at pulling a disappearing trick. The only one left is the bird kid, where one seems to be strangling the other. I'm guessing the original is winning, cause after all, who can top the original. Behind us, scientists walk in, and seem to cheer on the original, completely ignoring everyone else.

The original breaks off her attack, and gets up to face the scientists. She starts shouting at them, but I ignore it when I pick up something on my radar. As I get a stronger lock on it, my eyes widen when I realise that, somewhere, is a bomb! I look at one of the younger bird kids, a boy with blond hair, who seems to be trying to say something. Why do I get that bad feeling in the pit of my motherboard that this kid knows something about that bomb? All that seemed to be confirmed when the bird kid who I'd just seen shout her head off asked him what he wanted to say, and all I could hear, or all he actually said was simply "Duck." I could have sworn everyone froze for a second as a rumbling sounded, and then, out of nowhere I was greeted by a ton of brickwork punching me in the face and smashing me into computers and various other probably important junk. That's all I remember before I see nothing but a fireball smack me like the wall. Just my stinkin luck isn't it!?

Ashura's POV

Okay, right now, I swear I will kill someone if more of these stupid wolf faces attack us again! Okay, I know I'm probably killing someone now, but you know what I mean. I look to Honey, who seems to be a little better off than me, but not much. I probably have various claw marks, a cut in the chest and maybe a broken rib, and a small cut in my head. And yet these things are so dang hard to kill! I start spinning, ramming into a group of these pathetic wolves and leaving cuts that won't have a chance to heal. I ram into every wolf thing I can see, only stopping when most of them fly off weakly. I fall to my knees, my black fingerless gloves covered in blood. Honey weakly walks over to me, falling beside me. Her black and red top and yellow fur covered with patches of blood. My black and green fur probably isn't much better. "Any idea on what these things are?" she asked, still trying to regain her breath.

"Ugly wolf things that are probably mutant freaks if anything," I say, trying to sound my usual, slightly sarcastic self. "Maybe they're related to you," I muttered, getting a slap on the back of the head that stung like fire. The pain combined with the shock left me breathless and wide eyes as I looked up at Honey. "What in Chaos' name was that for woman!? I feel like I have a sun inside me and you slap me on the head!" I yell, ignoring her giggles. Man, how can she giggle with her injuries? I mean, her normally beautiful black hair and yellow fur are stained blood red. Okay, I said she's beautiful and I really like her, sue me. I slowly get to my feet, moaning as pain shoots through my body. I help Honey to her feet, then we start heading for a nearby town. I just hope that no-one likes to pry, cause I think that if anyone asks me about this, I will personally kill them.

As we walk into town, I get the feeling we're being watched. Call me paranoid, but still, I think there's someone following us. I glance back, seeing people going about their business, despite it being the middle of the night. There seems to be one person following us, a young teenage girl. I stop, knowing what this will probably be about. She catches up, a smile spreading across her face. "Are you...are you Sonic the Hedgehog?" she asks, probably ignoring me rolling my eyes.

"Listen, I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm green and black, and if I remember correctly, Sonic is blue. I'm Ashura, kid, and nothing like Sonic," I say, hoping she'll go away. Instead, her smile, surprisingly, grows bigger.

"Oh my gosh! You're Ashura the Hedgehog? I heard about you on the news! I think you're sooo cool! Can I have your autograph?" she practically squeals. If it wasn't for my blood stained fur, I think she'd be hugging the life out of me. As she hands me a notebook to sign, I try to ignore Honey trying not to burst out laughing.

"So, who do I make this out to?" I ask nervously. "Hayley," she says, trying to keep as calm as she possibly can. "Here ya go kid, now, any idea where my friend and I can go to get cleaned up?" I ask nervously. She tells us about a clinic where she saw someone like me go into carrying an echidna. Trying to stop my eyes widening, I watch as she squeals as I hand her the autograph and runs off, saying how she can't wait to tell her friends about this. How does Sonic put up with girls like her? Still, a question for another day I guess. We walk to the clinic, stepping nervously through the door. Handy they're still open. I look around the waiting room, and then spot who the girl said "looked like me". I sigh as first, this guy isn't black and green, second, he wears boots instead of my trademark shoes, and third, he's a hawk for Chaos' sake. Really, if she thinks he looks like me, I can't wait to see what this so called echidna looks like. As far as I know, Knuckles is the only echidna, and if there's another one here, I will slap myself on the head. The door opens, and the doctor, surprised how he has two more patients, gestures to Honey and I to come in. The hawk gets up and whispers to the doctor, gets a nod, then walks in. We walk in behind him, and I slap myself on the head when I see, right before me, another echidna lying in a bed. Honey gasps as she sits down, both from surprise and pain in her backside. I'm no better, and almost jump out of the seat. Then out of the blue, Tails gingerly opens the door, walking over to the hawk and echidna. What, no Sonic to complete this little scene?