Began story in: 26/12/2013

Former Title: Sonic Mobius - A New Ally

Chapter 1: A Frightful Discovery

It was in the afternoon.
There was a peacefull view all over the kingdom of Mobius, there were some adults talking to each other and the children were playing together without arguing, hitting or bullying anyone. And on the castle's main balcony, there were the king Maximillian Acorn, gathered with his queen and wife Alicia Acorn, his son Elias and his daughter Sally.
"Ah, what a wonderfull view." said Max to what he was looking at, with a deep breath and then with a smile.
"Indeed, father. So far, it has been a month and four days since we had an attack." responded Sally.
Suddenly, a fire ball was seen from everyone in the kingdom, it was falling from the skies and landed in the middle of the forest with an impact, the impact was small but enough to worry all the witnesses. The mobians began to panic, screaming and running to random directions.
"SILENCE!". King Max yelled with all of his might, causing the mobians to stop and listen to their majesty.
"Everyone, please don't panic! We will find out what is really happening." he continued.
"Father, allow me to call for Sonic and the freedom fighters. So we can go and find out what is really going on." Sally requested.
"Normally, I would tell you to stay, Sally. But after seeing you fighting alongside Sonic, I give you permission to do so." said Max.

Meanwhile, on the smoking crater where the fire ball had landed, rose a young caucasian human boy with short light brown hair and hazel eyes, he was dressed with a light grey t-shirt, a damaged dark brown trench coat, black pants, brown shoes and black leather gloves.
The boy, slowly and trembling, picks himself up and clears away from the smoke, revealing to be truly injured with some burns on his legs, some cuts and bruises on his arms and a cut on his face that would go from his lips to his right eye.
As the boy began look around, he said: "Where... am I?"
"Well, wherever I am, I can't stay here." he continued.
"I... must not... let them... find me, otherwise he will... hurt them... or worse!" he said with concern and still trembling, as he began to walk with his left arm on his torso, trying to ease the pain.
After taking a few steps forward, he looked behind him and noticed a blood trail in drops, that started from the crater, where he began to where he was now standing.
He took a quick glance to his body and noticed that he was bleeding from his cuts and burns, he could even feel that he was bleeding from the cut on his face.
"Shit! In this condition, they will find me." he cursed himself in his thoughts and began to move as quickly as he could.
"If... this is how... I am, on the outside. Then I don't... even want to... find out... how I am, on the inside." he said.

A short time later, after sending the distress call, Sonic and his freedom fighters have arrived, among them also came Cream the Rabbit with her pet chao, Cheese and her human friend, Chris Thorndyke.
"Okay, Sally. We're here. What's going on?" Sonic was the first to ask.
Sally began to explain: "We just witnessed a fire ball falling from the sky..." then, she pointed to the direction where smoke could be seen and continued.
"... and landed somewhere in that forest."
"Then, what are we waiting for? Let's go and investigate." said Chris.
"No. If we go out there just like that, we could be walking to a trap, it could be Naugus, Scourge, The Egg Legion, nobody knows." Sally immediately answered.
"But, what if there was someone who was caught in the blast, we can't leave them like that." said Cream, giving her opinion.
"She's right, aunt Sally. If someone got hurt, we need to help them." said Tails supporting Cream's opinion.
"And what if there's someone like Eggman, waiting for you to go there?" asked Sally still unconvinced.
"Then we'll be ready to fight back." replied Tails with bravery.
"Dad, why don't you decide what we should do?" asked Sally to her father, seeing that this argument was getting them nowhere.
"As you wish, Sally." her father answered.
After a short time of careful thinking, the king of Mobius finally gave his word: "Go, but be careful, my friends."
Thus the freedom fighters left the kingom, along with Sally and headed straight to the forest.

After some time of carefully searching through to woods.
"Hey everyone, I found the crater!" signalled Knuckles from a short distance.
The others immeadiately followed him and got to the crater's location. When they arrived, their went wide with shock as they looked at it's size.
"Oh dear god, it's size is almost half big as the whole kingdom of mobius!" said Sally scared.
"Do you think, it was an attempt of attack?" asked Tails with some concern.
"I'm not sure, buddy. But I still don't like it." Sonic replied.
"Let us try and search, maybe we can find some clues." Rotor suggested.
The rest agreed and began to search the place, but still kept their distance from the crater that was still smoking hot.
As Cream joined the search with the others, she decided to try searching the crater, she couldn't help but let her curiosity get the best of her.
She then, saw something on the burned grass that was very close to the crater.
"C-Chris...?" said Cream, her voice sounded as she was shaking in fear.
"What's the matter, Cream?" Chris quickly got to her side and witnessed what she saw.
"Guys, over here!" Chris signalled to the fighters as he looked again to the grass that was covered in a great amount of blood.
"It looks like someone got really hurt." Everyone took notice of it and then found out about the blood trail.
"And whoever it is, we must find them." said Sonic with determination.
Then, the freedom fighters started following the trail.

While back to the human boy, as he was limp walking down away from where he was, he could hear voices coming from behind him at two hundred feet away.
"Curses! I never expected them to arrive so soon." he thought.
"How I'm glad to have such good listening. Still, I better pick up the pace." he said to himself and tried to move faster.
Only to, after walking a few more feet away, to trip on a small rock that was on the grass.
He fell and began to roll down the path that he was going. Luckily, he quickly balanced himself. On the other hand, his injuries got a little bigger.
The young human began to notice that his injuries got worse and that he was feeling weaker, tired and a bit dizzy.
As he kept on walking, he saw a little farm that was abandoned and wrecked, he went to the house to know if it was, at least, stable to rest... no such luck, it looked like, it could fall into pieces at any moment.
After that, he went and checked the barn... it was a little dirty, but it was stable enough to spend the night if he wanted to.
He went inside the barn and rested, but still kept himself awake in case anyone would approach.

Meanwhile with Sonic and his group, they were following the blood trail until they, suddenly, heard someone or something hit hard on the ground. They kept on advancing, this time with caution. After taking a few more steps, they came across a small pool of blood and the continuation of the blood trail, but now it was darker.
"Whoever it is, either it's getting weaker or it's injuries must have got infected." said Tails, a little more worried than before.
"Don't worry, sugah. Ah'm sure we'll find them in time." replied Bunnie Rabbot, trying to keep the fox boy's spirits up.
As they kept on following the trail, it soon leaded them to the farm, where the human boy had stopped. They decided to split into two groups, one group would look around the house, while the other group would look around in the barn.

The boy that was resting inside the barn, immediately, took notice of people approaching and from the footsteps he heard, he knew there was a lot of them.
"There's so many of them, this is going to be harder than I expected." he thought.
He got up as quickly and silent as he could and went into hiding somewhere that was dark.
As soon as he hid himself, he saw someone getting in, it was a female anthro rabbit, she looked like she was 6 years old at least (in his point of view), she was wearing a vermilion dress with a light blue tie, a pair of white gloves and vermilion/yellow shoes.
While she began to search the place, he sneaked as quickly and silent as he could to another side for a better hiding place before the rabbit girl noticed him, as he got to the other side the boy thought while sweating a little: "Phew, for a moment I thought, I wasn't going to make it."
Then the boy noticed his blood trail by the entrance and murmured to himself: "So that's how they got here. Well, let's see if I can get out of here before any of them spot me."
He went to try to sneak away again and this time to the entrance.
But, unfortunately, as he took his first step, the wooden floor made a crack and broke, making the boy fall to an unexpected underground basement with a loud stomp, loud enough for anyone really close to the barn to hear it.

Cream got startled by the noise and quickly turned around to notice a big hole on the floor with a small cloud of dust coming out of it, she quickly went to see who or what had fallen down there... only to find a human boy with some serious wounds on his body and having problems on picking himself up.
She took immediate action and jumped into the hole to go, help the young human.
The boy noticed her presence and pleaded: "Please, leave me... leave me and pretend you never saw me."
Cream replied with some worry: "No, I can't leave you in that condition. I insist."
She grabbed hold of him and fled out of the basement to the surface, as they landed she helped him to sit and lean against a wall.
She decided to check him from his feet to his head and while she did it, she started to talk him.
"I am Cream the Rabbit, what's yours?" asked Cream, trying to help the boy ignore the pain.
"If you really must... know, my name is Marverick, Marverick Crudeman." he replied.
Cream raised an eyebrow, saying: "That's a strange and cruel name. No offense."
Marverick said: "None taken, Cream. To be honest, I find your name, cute, just like your personality."
Cream blushed a little and replied with a small, but visible smile: "Why I am flattered by your kind words, Marverick, thank you."
As Marverick began to get up, he said: "I thank you... for helping me, Cream. But I must... keep going."
Cream took a quick and complete glance over the rest of Marverick, she got a shock at his condition.
Suddenly, Marverick began to cough out some blood and to breath heavily. Cream knew that he was getting worse and alerted the rest: "Everybody, over here!"
Sonic and the rest went to the barn, to find Cream with a human boy that was seriously hurt, much to their shock.
Antoine said: "Mon dieu, how can he still be standing?"
Sally answered: "Your guess is as good as mine, Antoine."
Sonic got a bit closer to the human and said: "Boy, we may not know who you are, but we know, you need help."
Marverick tried to gently decline: "I appreciate... your concern, but I beg you... to let me go."
Knuckles took a step forward and replied: "Are you crazy? No way, we would do that."
"Please... I... beg... you..." Marverick tried to talk, until more coughing interrupted him. Again, he cough some blood out, this time, more intensely.
Marverick began to feel heavily dizzy and fell hard on the ground.
The mobians became quite worried, as Tails went to check on him.
"Tails, is he dead?" asked Sally.
"No, aunt Sally. But he's in critical state, he needs urgent medical attention." Tails replied.
"Let's get him to Tommy Turtle's Memorial Hospital, Dr. Quack will know what to do." Sonic suggested.
Then, the freedom fighters picked Marverick up and took him to the hospital of Mobius as fast as they could.

End of Chapter 1

Author's note: I decided to make a story of the Sonic Archie with Chris Thorndyke as a guest character, acting like Cream's big brother.
Marverick Crudeman is a character created by myself and he's not a Sonic OC. Although, at first, he was supposed to be an OC character for the game: "Amnesia the Dark Descent" in a custom story. Unfortunately, it was cancelled, because my computer couldn't run the program.
I called the custom story: "The Monster that I once was".
And in case, anyone asks: "Who is that character that Marverick was talking about, that would try to hurt our heroes in the story?"
My answer is this: "Not to worry, it will be revealed in the second chapter."
I am still working on the second chapter, once it's finished, I'll upload it.
So, until next time.