Issue 4: Silver

**"Something feels very wrong..."**

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## Silver

* Cover A
* Cover B

## Publication Details

### Date Published

* October 6 2013 (Cover Release Date, Variant Cover Release Date)
* October 8 2013 (Release Date)
* January 18 2014 (Completion Date

## Production Staff

### Special Thanks

* Blazerona
* Gammy
* Kerry F.
* AceofHearts1

## First Appearances

### Characters

* Silver the Hedgehog
* Edmund
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Shadow the Hedgehog
* Zielo
* Soulless

**Silver** is the fourth issue within *The Murder of Me* comic series created by Gigi Dutreix. It was first published in October 6 2013, and reached completion January 18 2014. It proceeds **Issue #3: Shadow**and proceeding Issue #4 is **Issue #5: Encounters**.

### Plot:

Set 200 years into the future, **Silver the Hedgehog** encounters a dangerous mist that destroys his world and sends him back in time. Upon arriving back into the past, he joins **Shadow the Hedgehog** and **Sonic the Hedgehog** in their fight against the hostile creatures on **Angel Island.**

## Summary

The issue begins following a white hedgehog (Silver) around a destroyed future. He's questioning where all the black smoke is coming from as it attempts to grab his legs. He flies upwards and dodges the smoky tendrils that instead dissolve his piece of bread. Disappointed, he remarks that his food was hard to find before his attention is grabbed by Edmund. Silver asks if he knows what's causing all this smoke and Edmund isn't sure. Silver wonders if it's global warming to which Edmund scolds him. They don't have any more time to debate as the smog starts to surround Silver and dissolving Edmund's body. Silver tries to break free, but the smoke neutralizes his powers. Silver cries out that he's scared as a time portal opens in front of him. He looks back to find that his teacher has been dissolved into nothing. Silver is then forcefully dragged through time and space.

We return to the present day on Angel Island with Sonic and Shadow, who are still fighting waves of Soulless. As the two fight, they hear a time portal opening that teleports Silver to their location. He's dazed and confused as a Soulless grabs him and is about to devour him, but before it can, Shadow kicks it away. He assesses Silver, relieved that he's normal just like him and Sonic. He introduces himself and refers to Sonic as "the blue rat". Hearing this, Sonic retorts that it's 'Sonic the Hedgehog'' and is about to explain more, but is surprised by how thin Silver is. Silver says he just isn't as lucky to be as fat as him. Shadow chuckles at that, saying he likes this kid. Silver asks what year it is to which Shadow responds "3745" which makes him realize that he's in the past. Sonic says the future might not be so great by the looks of him, which Silver asks what it is they're even doing and what's going on.

Shadow explains that there's a chaos crisis going on and that *he* is on his way to fix things, which Sonic angrily replies saying that he thought it was *them* as in together. As they argue, the Soulless begin to realize that they've disobeyed their master's orders not to harm the Sons of Heephis and begin fleeing. Sonic and Shadow continue to argue, the pressure mounting as their insults get more and more personal. This causes Silver a great amount of stress until he finally snaps (eyes turning the same yellow as Sonic and Shadow's) using his telekinesis to freeze the two in place as he shouts that fighting won't solve anything, and the sooner they fix whatever this crisis is, then the sooner it is that they can go home. The realization starts to set in that Silver doesn't have any way to get back home and he begins to cry. Sonic apologizes for fighting with Shadow and says that he promises that everyone can go home as long as he sticks with him. Shadow thinks to himself that not all of them have homes to return to. Sonic also asks to be put back down, which Silver is surprised to even know that his powers were activated since he doesn't remember even using them.

Just as they're about to move on, Sonic becomes weak and falls against a tree, unable to walk. Silver and Shadow run to his aid, Silver saying he can help heal Sonic as back in his time, he used his telekinesis to pull muscle and skin together to promote healing. As the two take off Sonic's shoes, they discover that his feet have lifelong scars and bullet holes. He doesn't tell them where the wounds came from, instead we see it in a flashback sequence.
Sonic used to be so desperate for escape from the human government that he would risk his life trying to run away. In response, the laborers would shoot at his feet when he tried to escape-- their bullets were faster than he was. Every time he tried to escape, the humans would threaten to murder his friends and family if he didn't comply. This forced him to be their guinea pig and slave for five years. Being gone for so long, he feels that he made his friends and family hate him and believes that no amount of apologizing can make up for his absence.

Silver says that whatever must've happened to him must've been painful and traumatic, and despite him not being able to heal the wounds, he thinks the damaged nerves will go numb again so he can run around like he was before. Sonic starts to realize how similar Silver looks to the being he met when he was younger, someone who he "really, *really* hates". They're about to talk about the situation more, but a Soulless gets their head crushed into a tree next to them, which makes Shadow bring their attention back to the current chaos crisis happening. Sonic struggles to get up, waits for his nerves to go numb, then the two set off to see what's going on.
The boys peek through the shroud of bushes to see a massive group of Soulless begging and pleading for forgiveness around the Master Emerald. They're groveling and pleading to stay alive as their master steps out from behind the large Emerald. As the being steps out into the light, it shows that he has extracted the third and final energy controller. The figure makes Sonic piece something together...

This is the same being he saw that night his father was murdered.