Chaos Uncontrolled Continued

Is That How You Greet Everyone?

"Sonic! Something's happened!" Silver burst into Tails' workshop. He felt a bit bad about coming in unannounced but this was an emergency. "I know it's going to sound like it's not true but I promise it is. There's something going around that looks like you in your super form but more wild! It's completely unhinged! I need to know if you know anything about it." It was then that Silver took in the room fully. Tails was there, that made sense, but there was also... "Gah!" He nabbed the golden hedgehog with his psychokinesis. "Tails stay away from it!"

Both the other occupants of the room gave him confused looks. The golden hedgehog's look quickly morphed into something distinctly unimpressed. "Well hello to you too. Is this how you normally greet new people or am I just special?" Silver frowned as the other hedgehog's eyes went unfocused for a moment. "Really? Huh." He said seemingly to himself. "Guess it's not just me then." The hedgehog turned their attention back to Silver.

Ok, he was officially lost. He looked to Tails for some kind of help. The fox sighed. "Put him down Silver. He's not going to hurt anyone." Tails eyed the golden hedgehog. "Probably."

"Probably..!?" Silver was surprised that Tails was asking him to release the other hedgehog. This had to be the same one that was currently wreaking havoc in his future... right? He glanced at the hedgehog again. Well he certainly looked like the same hedgehog but based on the fact that he had clearly been hanging out with Tails before Silver had interrupted could it really be the same person? He looked more annoyed than wanting to murder Silver at the moment, and Silver could get why he'd be annoyed. Slowly he released his hold on the other hedgehog, eyeing him wearily. "I feel obligated to ask at this point what's going on..." Silver looked back at Tails. "And where's Sonic?"

Tails gestured to an open chair. "It's a bit of a long story. I can try and catch you up while I finish up Super's check in alright?"

Still unsure as to what was going on, Silver just took the seat. He watched quietly as Tails hooked... Super up to one of the several machines on the worktable. "Alright now sit still for a bit." Tails pat Super on the arm and the hedgehog groaned but otherwise didn't complain. "Alright so, short version is that somehow the chaos emeralds created a being from pure negative chaos energy and that being attached itself to Sonic." The fox gestured to Super. Silver opened his mouth to ask questions, but Tails held up a hand. "Ask after I'm done." The fox sighed. "Anyway Sonic came to me for help and when he touched an emerald when I was first helping him he started feeling weird, I couldn't do anything so we went to get Knuckles' help. After a bit of trying to figure it out Sonic ran off and when we found him again Super had taken over." Tails once more gestured to Super, who gave a quick wave. "We lost to him that time but eventually we managed to trap him and get Sonic back." He folded one ear down as he frowned. "Then Eggman decided it was a good time to cause trouble, we go and try to stop him only for him to try and use Super against us. That didn't work. Super ends up scaring off Eggman so we all decide to regroup. Sonic gets the crazy idea to get Super to help us take down Eggman and actually gets him to agree. From there we manage to stop Eggman and we're still working with Super." The fox took a deep breath. "Questions?"

"... several." Silver looked between the other two in the room. This had not been what he was expecting when he came here today. "But my most pressing one is why does he look like the same thing that's been causing trouble in the future?"

Tails tapped his chin in thought. "I don't know, but if it makes you feel better we do have systems in place in case he gets out of control again. We're being careful about all this." The fox frowned. "Plus as unlikely as it might seem it's possible that Super's unrelated to whatever's going on?" Even to Silver it didn't seem like Tails was convinced.

"Maybe..." Silver admitted, though he wasn't sure.

"Could be one of those situations where your future isn't quite synced up with your past? Er, our present?" Tails suggested, tilting his head.