Okay, he told himself. Just breathe and explain. They deserve that much.
His eyes settled onto Blaze for a moment, considering how unfair he was being in concerns to her. How they met and under the circumstances, that denying help wasn't a fair play on his end of the deal. He began to feel the haze of what he saw in Crisis City washing over his mind, then seeing her fight in that place again in that nightmare. That she really wanted to...
Then he looked back to Shadow and, boy, how much he had changed. From the two of them wanting to do nothing but fight to being mutual friends. Real friends. Sure, they still got on each other's nerves and went at it from time to time, but he was trying. He really wanted to stay with him. That he really wanted to...
Protect him.
Sonic played with the idea of a smile, palm pressing to his forehead. "Man, when did it get to this? I'm supposed to be the hero around here..." Not that this resolution made saying what he was preparing himself to say any easier, but it certainly helped.
That sorted, Sonic's face fell away to something stern again, bracing himself for the honesty he was going to have to embrace.
"This is probably gonna all sound crazy, but when you're Sonic the Hedgehog, right?"
And so he began. He did his best to keep the events in chronological order, starting with the Time Eater fiasco that had landed him into the academy in the first place. Time had apparently failed to readjust itself, and, frankly, he had been worried about everyone back him, including their counterparts. Though he didn't need to really repeat it for Blaze, Sonic did for Shadow, elaborating on what entailed with the events surrounding Mephiles, Iblis, and the final entity known as Solaris.
And what it took to achieve that: His life.
"I was dead," Sonic finally confessed in more blatant terms. "And this is just a guess, but I'm bettin' with Eggman's monster tanglin' up time, I'm rememberin' something that I shouldn't be." He looked between the two of them.
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Okay, he told himself. Just breathe and explain. They deserve that much.
His eyes settled onto Blaze for a moment, considering how unfair he was being in concerns to her. How they met and under the circumstances, that denying help wasn't a fair play on his end of the deal. He began to feel the haze of what he saw in Crisis City washing over his mind, then seeing her fight in that place again in that nightmare. That she really wanted to...
Then he looked back to Shadow and, boy, how much he had changed. From the two of them wanting to do nothing but fight to being mutual friends. Real friends. Sure, they still got on each other's nerves and went at it from time to time, but he was trying. He really wanted to stay with him. That he really wanted to...
Protect him.
Sonic played with the idea of a smile, palm pressing to his forehead. "Man, when did it get to this? I'm supposed to be the hero around here..." Not that this resolution made saying what he was preparing himself to say any easier, but it certainly helped.
That sorted, Sonic's face fell away to something stern again, bracing himself for the honesty he was going to have to embrace.
"This is probably gonna all sound crazy, but when you're Sonic the Hedgehog, right?"
And so he began. He did his best to keep the events in chronological order, starting with the Time Eater fiasco that had landed him into the academy in the first place. Time had apparently failed to readjust itself, and, frankly, he had been worried about everyone back him, including their counterparts. Though he didn't need to really repeat it for Blaze, Sonic did for Shadow, elaborating on what entailed with the events surrounding Mephiles, Iblis, and the final entity known as Solaris.
And what it took to achieve that: His life.
"I was dead," Sonic finally confessed in more blatant terms. "And this is just a guess, but I'm bettin' with Eggman's monster tanglin' up time, I'm rememberin' something that I shouldn't be." He looked between the two of them.
"Y'follow me or what?"