"This is it?" asked Shadow looking down at seven stones. They were shaped sort of like rectangular prisms. Shadow had never seen these because he wasn't in Sonic rush or Sonic Rush Adventure. They were the Sol Emeralds. Because he didn't know what they were, he wasn't sure what to think. Would these gems really help them?

"Alright Shadow, I'd like for you to get acquainted with the Sol Emeralds. They are the chaos emeralds of Blaze's dimension. If we use these, we should be able to go back in time to the point where you saw these... Um... Drayans," Silver explained.

"What do I say? Sol Control?" asked Shadow picking one up.

"Ha ha. Very funny. Only Blaze can use them. Rouge, don't even think about stealing these. If you do, you'll be forever stuck with us," Silver told the bat when he caught her trying to snatch one.

"What?! They're just as pretty as my chaos emeralds!"

"Your chaos emeralds?" Shadow asked giving her a swift glare. She sighed and crossed her arms.

Blaze grabbed onto the Sol Emeralds They made her fur change color to red and she could now fly. As she focussed the energy, holes in the universe began to rip apart. Everything began to fall through the universe and everything began to collapse. Time in the past was being messed up. If the past was falling apart then the future would never exist. Silver looked at Blaze with frantic eyes.

"I know what you're going to say! Just give me a second!" Blaze snapped.

"We don't have a second!" Silver yelled as the ground gave out from under them.

A portal opened right above Blaze's head. Silver grabbed onto everybody and threw them into the portal. He began to fly after them.

Six inches away.

"Huh?! What?!" demanded Silver as something latched onto his leg. It pulled him away. Silver fought trying not to waste time. There was only seconds before everything disappeared.

"I won't let go...," the mysterious thing growled to the flying hedgehog.

Debris flew past them and everything was being reduced to dust. The life form that was on Silver's leg continued to drag him down. The portal grew smaller.

"If you're going to kill me, at least tell me what you are!" Silver said to it.

"The Drayans called us time bugs. We are who they call when time goes wrong. We eat away at time for a living. This time will be replaced by another time because of that black hedgehog...," the time bug explained.

"No! Don't stop there! Tell me more!" Silver pleaded.

"I'm sorry. In a few seconds, you won't exist. So, I don't think it really matters," the time bug answered.

With that, everything was gone. Silver was erased with the time and everything. Silver no longer exists.

In the past, nobody could remember Silver. Well, the only one who could remember was Shadow. He was the only one who stood outside of time. None of them knew what happened in Silver's time.

"Okay! We're in the past! Where do you think we'll find these Drayans?" asked Blaze with her hands on her hips.

"Wait. Where's Silver?" asked Shadow looking around.

"You mean we'll find Drayans in a mine? A silver mine?" asked Rouge.

"NO! Silver! The hedgehog that was with us a few seconds ago!" Shadow retorted. He suddenly realized what happened. Silver couldn't get to the portal and was erased in the time he was in. Therefore, nobody could remember him. Almost like how nobody could remember the Drayans...

Rouge and Blaze looked to each other. Blaze stepped closer. "We don't have all day. Just tell us where these Drayans are."

"They're not going to be here. They're not going to be anywhere... They were erased in their time... Just like Silver. That's why you can't remember Silver or them. For some reason, I stand outside of time. Sort of like how I'm not supposed to exist. I think... I was with the Drayan in the same time when that time was being erased... I must've been able to escape it somehow."

Rouge was confused. She thought back to when Shadow first reappearance. Time was being erased within the room. Everywhere he went, time got messed up there. The Shadow in her world died and failed to be recreated. The Shadow from another time that was the same time as that was still alive only fled from the time that was being erased and somehow ended up in that time. She was still a little fuzzy on everything else, but the logic made sense.

"I still don't see how figuring out what happened to you will help us figure out what is happening now. The date is 7/14/09. Was it all for nothing?" asked Blaze.

Shadow looked around. The time was familiar. He saw a blue blur running around off in the distance. Shadow thought that maybe he could get help from Sonic. It was unlikely that he would know anything useful, though.

"I think I know what you were talking about earlier Shadow. However, If the Drayan you were with in that time got erased, where would that Drayan have gone? The same place as Silver probably. Suppose there was a way to somehow pull the Drayan and Silver out of the void?" asked Rouge.

Shadow thought. Would that even be possible? Matter couldn't be created or destroyed which meant that the Drayan couldn't have been just gone. Neither could Silver. They were probably just drifting around in the void with a lot of other things that were sucked up that he couldn't remember.

"That's actually not a bad idea. We could try. However, we don't know how many people or things would be in that void," Shadow told them.

"What do you mean? The messed up time stuff only just started," Blaze said.

"How do you know? How do you know if this has or hasn't been going on for decades, centuries, millenniums?! For all we know, it could have been going on since the beginning of time. Time being erased to be replaced with a different time. Nobody would know about the change. Until now," Shadow explained.

The more Blaze and Rouge thought about it, the more that they understood how hard it would be. The only species that could save them was lost in a void with who knows what.

"We still have to try. If we don't, Shadow causes for lots of other times to vanish. Lots more people will be sucked into the void! We need to rescue this Drayan!" Blaze announced.

Rouge's ears pricked. She had an idea! "Shadow, suppose we were to ask Tails to build us a tracking device so we can find this Drayan?"

"That's what I need! Come on! We have to get that tracker before I ruin this time too. I'm a virus spreading into times where I'm not supposed to be. That's why all the times I'm in are being erased."

"Great. I'm hanging out with a time virus," Blaze stated. She seemed a lot different from her normal self. Probably because Silver never taught her how to be nice.

Future or no future... I'm going to bring that Drayan back. It's the only way...

But what if it's not the only way... What if there ISN'T a way?!

"Shadow, are you alright?" asked Rouge.

Shadow thought. Voices. They sounded too familiar. He knew that he wasn't fine anymore. "No. I'm not."