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Description
You find a notebook laying on the ground.
Spiked with curiosity you pick it up.
It seems to have been dropped mid-sentence.
The last pages are barely readable due to moisture and dirt.
You flip through the pages till you're at the beginning and start to read.

I guess you want to know who I am.
Well. I am obviously the person that wrote this journal. I don't know where you found this since I didn't decide yet where I will hide it.

If we should ever meet you can call me "Buddy". Almost everyone I know calls me by that name. People used to call me "Rookie" but that time is behind me. Behind us all.
I don't know if you are someone that had to take part in that horrible war but I did.
The resistance was glad about everyone who was able to help.
And somehow I ended up at the top. Fighting alongside Knuckles and the others.
And eventually Sonic.

It's still a miracle to me that I got through all of this without any major injuries.
And that I was able to keep up with Sonics speed for such long amounts of time.
And that he chose to take me to fights at all.

I guess I can be proud of myself.
But I didn't join the resistance for that or any similar reason.
I just ended up there because I wanted to get close to him.
When I first saw him again I barely recognized him. I couldn't attack him although it probably wouldn't have affected him at all.
I regretted later that I ran away. I just needed to get close enough to talk to him.
But every time I met him afterwards I had to choose between "die here" or "try to defeat him and live to try another day".

He vanished after Eggman was defeated. The man that turned him into this thing that called itself "Infinite".

So I left. Telling Knuckles and everyone else that someone else needed my help.
I wasn't lying. I just had to find him.

Later I heard that Shadow ran into him but by the time I was back he was already gone again.

You want to know why I am going after a person like Infinite?
Do I have a death wish or need to avenge someone?
Well. Maybe it's the latter.

Eggman didn't create Infinite, at least not entirely.
He found a powerful weapon and needed someone who was able to control it. Someone who wanted to be powerful. But I doubt that he wanted to be a monster...
You're probably wondering why this journal was hidden away if I'm just writing about things most people know anyway. There was nothing new or secret so far.

That's going to change.

While I was trying to track down Infinite I stumbled upon a more or less well-known book. Parts of my equipment were broken and I needed to wait till they were repaired. So I bought the book and read it while I was waiting.
The story in this book was based on an old journal, similar to this one.
A story about an explorer and his strange findings. And one of these findings sounded familiar.
Energy. Illusions. Stones.

The explorer found an entrance to, what he called, another dimension.
I just couldn't help but think that this energy was the same that Eggman used for the Phantomrubys.

I wanted to know more.
I wanted to talk to this explorer but at the end of the book the author revealed that the journal was found buried deep inside a cave. Not far from an almost ancient skeleton.
The journal entries were dated almost 200 years ago.
Regardless. I needed to know more.
So my mission slightly changed.

I'm searching for the entrance the explorer found do long ago. If I can find the source of this energy... Maybe everything can go back to normal

Description
You find a notebook laying on the ground.
Spiked with curiosity you pick it up.
It seems to have been dropped mid-sentence.
The last pages are barely readable due to moisture and dirt.
You flip through the pages till you're at the beginning and start to read.

I guess you want to know who I am.
Well. I am obviously the person that wrote this journal. I don't know where you found this since I didn't decide yet where I will hide it.

If we should ever meet you can call me "Buddy". Almost everyone I know calls me by that name. People used to call me "Rookie" but that time is behind me. Behind us all.
I don't know if you are someone that had to take part in that horrible war but I did.
The resistance was glad about everyone who was able to help.
And somehow I ended up at the top. Fighting alongside Knuckles and the others.
And eventually Sonic.

It's still a miracle to me that I got through all of this without any major injuries.
And that I was able to keep up with Sonics speed for such long amounts of time.
And that he chose to take me to fights at all.

I guess I can be proud of myself.
But I didn't join the resistance for that or any similar reason.
I just ended up there because I wanted to get close to him.
When I first saw him again I barely recognized him. I couldn't attack him although it probably wouldn't have affected him at all.
I regretted later that I ran away. I just needed to get close enough to talk to him.
But every time I met him afterwards I had to choose between "die here" or "try to defeat him and live to try another day".

He vanished after Eggman was defeated. The man that turned him into this thing that called itself "Infinite".

So I left. Telling Knuckles and everyone else that someone else needed my help.
I wasn't lying. I just had to find him.

Later I heard that Shadow ran into him but by the time I was back he was already gone again.

You want to know why I am going after a person like Infinite?
Do I have a death wish or need to avenge someone?
Well. Maybe it's the latter.

Eggman didn't create Infinite, at least not entirely.
He found a powerful weapon and needed someone who was able to control it. Someone who wanted to be powerful. But I doubt that he wanted to be a monster...
You're probably wondering why this journal was hidden away if I'm just writing about things most people know anyway. There was nothing new or secret so far.

That's going to change.

While I was trying to track down Infinite I stumbled upon a more or less well-known book. Parts of my equipment were broken and I needed to wait till they were repaired. So I bought the book and read it while I was waiting.
The story in this book was based on an old journal, similar to this one.
A story about an explorer and his strange findings. And one of these findings sounded familiar.
Energy. Illusions. Stones.

The explorer found an entrance to, what he called, another dimension.
I just couldn't help but think that this energy was the same that Eggman used for the Phantomrubys.

I wanted to know more.
I wanted to talk to this explorer but at the end of the book the author revealed that the journal was found buried deep inside a cave. Not far from an almost ancient skeleton.
The journal entries were dated almost 200 years ago.
Regardless. I needed to know more.
So my mission slightly changed.

I'm searching for the entrance the explorer found do long ago. If I can find the source of this energy... Maybe everything can go back to normal