Authors Notes: Hi its Dante 40K and I'm rewritting my first fanfiction. I know I've been redoing all my work and havn't really made any new stories or new ch. to current projects but I have my reason's. I was very dissatisfied with how I wrote this story and wanted more drama. Also I said that all my stories fell into one timeline but there were differences and breaks from one story to another.
Another reason I wanted to reprint Without You is because I think a new "Generation"( very cheezy) of Sonic fiction writers and readers are here. and you guys don't get to read some of the stories that were written when I started to go here I have a list of some of my favorites in my profile so please check them out.
This story deals with Sally's emptiness after Sonic must sacrifice himself to save the planet. It goes all the way from the lowest feeling's you can feel all the way to self redemption. I hope the new readers will enjoy my story and the people who have already read the wtered down predecessor will think this new edition is much better. Without further babble on with the show.
Without You
Episode 1: Longing
'It's not fair.'
'Why did he have to die?'
'I can't believe I'll never see my sonic again. And it's all my fault.'
These were the questions that pounded through Princess Sally's head as she sat alone by the ring pool.
Sniff She could hardly believe it had already been two weeks since her love had been ripped away from her,
and already people were going on with their normal lives. Hadn't anyone ever heard of mourning?
The events of that faithful day were still fresh in the princess' mind as she went over them for what seemed like the thousandth time.
…
2 weeks ago
It had been a very happy morning. Sonic and Sally were lounging by the ring pool just talking. Sonic was gloating about his victory over Robotnik at the doomsday sit not more than three months earlier and Sally was happily listening (correcting him when he over exaderated the details). Times had been good for the residents of Knothole since Robotnik's disappearance and Sally was sure that she and Sonic would finally be able to peruse a real relationship now that they had won their war.
Just as Sonic was about to finish his story a large black shadow rolled across the landscape and the sky grew darker. Sally looked up and was shocked to see a ship so massive that it was almost blocking out the sky. It wasn't that far up so Sally got a good look at its purplish exterior. The hull was shaped like no other aircraft, like solid ooze that roughly formed a ship. It was daunting to look at in all its complexity and mystery. Before long the freedom fighters had gathered at Castle Acorn which was still being erected. Now that the king was back he needed a palace to rule in. The castle was still only a shell in most places but it had a working War Room to replace the old hut that had outlived its use. The new one was twice the size and full of electronics of every kind, while most of Knothole preferred not to use machinery they came in handy in the castle. Alerts from all over Mobius said similar ships had popped up near every major region; Mercrecia, Downwanda, Knothole, and the largest ship was positioned over the great frozen lands of the north.
Of the people who had come to the meeting which consisted of the core freedom fighters, the royal family, Knuckles Guardian of the Master Emerald, his father Locke, and a few high up members of the royal guard King Max was the first to try and maintain order in the noisy room.
"People, people please settle down. We mustn't lose our heads. We have no idea what those ships are for or who sent them."
"Isn't it obvious!" shouted Sonic.
"Butnik is back and he's on the war path. If the reports are true than he's taken a world tour of destruction. We have to act now and take the fight to him." He added
"Now Sonic please remain calm," said Locke who was by far the wisest of the group. "It is most likely that Julian is responsible for these ships but we mustn't jump to conclusions. The craft look nothing like something he would have had a hand in building. In addition he would have needed a base of operations to plan, build, and launch them. Mobotropolis and every other big city have been searched high and low, some of them by you personally, and nothing turned up. Until he makes demands and takes credit for this invasion we can't assume it's him."
"Well put Locke, but that still leaves us in the dark about who it could be that perpetrated this world wide assault on Mobius," agreed the King
"Technically your majesty it isn't an assault yet. They haven't attacked," said Rotor
The banter didn't make much more progress as everyone had their input to add and nothing seemed like a real solid plan until a sudden hush fell over the room as if no one could find their voice all at the same time. Everyone just stared at each other and gasped at their inability to speak. As the silence continued to drone on a low humming was beginning to surface. The weird thing was that it wasn't the Mobian's ears that picked up the dull sound but their thoughts. The humming continued to grow louder and louder until it was unmistakable that something important was happening.
"Humans of Earth," said a strong commanding voice that seemed to replace the humming, "We the Zorda have returned to your pathetic planet after a melenia af traveling the stars in ignorant bliss that our purge of this system had failed. You'r species seem's quite capable of surviving under incalculable odds and for that we commend you. That said we must finish what we started a thousand of your years ago." Then the voice was gone as mysteriously as it had come taking the low humming sound with it.
"Oh my stars what was all that about?" panniced Bunny.
"It probably came from whatever is on those ships. They really are here to attack," said Sally
"Sonic looked around the room like everyone in it had missed a key point of the voice's message. "But they got the wrong planet, They are looking for a place called err-f not Mobius," he said.
"Now wait just a second young one," said Locke as he tried to chose his words very carefully. "What if they are not mistaken? What if Err-f and Mobius are one and the same only from different time periods?"
WHAT! Exclaimed just about everyone in the room
"Enchidnas have an anchient legend that tales of the dominant species on mobius before us known as humans. They were far more advanced to the point of interstellar space travel and were the ancestors of the overlanders. The tale goes that they suddenly disappeared over a thousand years ago and the first enchidna culture used their technology to advance into their utopian state. I know that your culture also has a similar fable about your immergance on this planet."
"Yes the days of furry depict a caticlismic event that layed the planet to waste. Then the planet saved itself by starting anew and we were the species chosen to lead its lesser beings. That was when the first mobian walked the face of our planet," said King Max "What if these aliens are right like Locke believes and they are the ones who wiped our fair Mobius clean a thousand years ago."
"It still means they are barkin up the worng tree. Even if this is all true the humans are long gone and someone needs to get that point across to those weird voices," said Sonic getting more and more impatient.
…
present
The sound of footsteps quietly approaching snapped her out of her cry. She knew who it was,
Bunny never could keep to quiet because the weight of her metal limbs was too much to really tiptoe around. Bunny had once had big lumbering limbs that would giver her away from a hundred paces away but now with her new sleek replacements she was able to move around with a little more stealth, but not enough to sneak up on someone. Wiping the tears from her eyes with the back of her paw Sally turned around and saw Bunny Rabbot walking up besides her princess. The half rabbit, half robot cyborg sat down next to Sally saying nothing.
Just looking into the clear blue water for a moment. By now the sun had begun to set behind the horizon; painting the skyline dark red
"Hey Hun, how you holden up?"
Holding back her pain Sally tried to answer the best she could "I'm Fine Bunny,"
"Now come on, we all miss him but I know you must e hurtin the hardest." Bunny always could keep a warm tone when speaking with someone who needed to be comforted. Sally knew it wasn't fair that she couldn't have children.
"No really, I'm fine,"
"Shugr-
"God Dam it Bunny! There had to be another way. I should have been with him when he needed me most. I condemned him without even trying to look for a better way," Sally screamed
…
2 weeks ago
After a few hours of study and tinkering around with many of Robotniks old gadgets that were stored in Rotor and Tails' workshop the pair of super geius' came up with a device capable of reversing the Zordas telepathy back at them. Sally had tried reasoning with them but they insisted that the Mobians' genetic material was too similar to the humans to be wrong. Soon the starships began to drop armies all over the planet as they prepared to destroy the inhabitants of Earth once and for all.
A plan was quickly put into motion to stop the invaders. Mobian armies were assembled wherever the Zorda's robotic shells dropped down. The largest of the fighting forces was sent to the frozen plains of the north to combat the army of the mother ship. All the freedom fighters from around Mobius reunited to fight together again in hopes that their efforts would stop the Zorda from leaving this frozen land and reaching their homes. Even those who were considered enemy's prepared to fight side by side.
Sixty-seven of Mobius' greatest fighters stared across the tundra at the legion of protective exoskeletons that encased the soft sqishy aliens bent on eradicating them.
"Sally," sonic said to his princess in between shivers. "It's reallllly cold out here."
A smile faintly appeared across the land squirell's face in marvel at how even in the face of such adversity Sonic was so confident of victory that he could complain about the cold. He had always impressed her and she had fallen for him a long time ago. She always had to keep on a cool and confident demeanor to show leadership but secretly she wished she could be like the blue hedgehog. He had never once doubted that Robotnik would be one day defeated, and now he was ready to do anything to push pack the Zorda. He truly was fearless.
"Sonic, There is something I want you to know. If we don't make it I would be crushed if I never told you that…"
"Sally its okay, whatever it is you can tell me after this little fight. We're not goin anywhere. Look they're starting to move," Sonic said with a fading smile.
The two sides clashed head on, everyone getting their share of alien ass to kick. Bunny was in prime fighting form and Antoine was there for her whenever she was about to be ambushed. Sally had never seen him fight without hesitation before and realized that love could do that to an animal. She looked over the battle field when she had a chance to take a breather and saw Sonic racing and fighting more than anyone else. Everyone around him seemed to be inspired to greater feats of heroism and skill just by catching a glimpse of him in action. Just by seeing him fight she even felt the fight was theirs.
The tides were defiantly in the Mobian's favor. Carcasses of broken robots littered the ground and the morale was good. Then as Sally was about to land one of her most powerful spinning kicks onto the dome cap of her enemies shell it just collapsed. Sally tumbled down since she had no more target to strike and fell face first into the snow.
"What was that?" she wondered as she gazed upon the robot that had been standing over six feet tall just a minuet ago. She realized that she was not alone in her disbelief as all the other droids just seemed to collapse as well.
"Did they pull back? have we won?" someone shouted
Then the low humming began to surface again and just like last time a deep voice that could only be heard in their minds was picked up by every mobian on the planet.
"You still persist. Have you no idea of the trouble your people will cause. We had no desire to destroy this once beautiful planet but it is obvious now that you are like a parasite feeding off of it. As long as this section of the galaxy still functions you will most likely resurface and we are not ready to tolerate that."
Then an enormous structure seemed to fall from the sky and tough down about two miles away from the tired mobians without so much a vibration under the furries feet. The structure was massive to say the least. It made the largest building in Robotropolis pale in comparison. Its triangular shape and golden exterior made it quite a sight to behold by those who were still conscious after the battle in the north.
"We have sent our most powerful weapon the deal with you. The Quantum Dial will obliterate this planet along with every other one in this solar system once it's countdown is compleate. You have fought well but this is goodbye." Said the voice; and just like that the ships were gone.
"Rotor! Where are you!" Sally shouted in search of her tech genious.
"I'm right over here!" he replied. He had retreated to his computer terminal as soon as the robots began to drop. He had already begun to scan the dial for information on how it works. Sally rushed over as fast as she could but was quickly picked up by Sonic who carried her over to Rotor in a heartbeat.
"What have you got for me?" she asked.
"Not much Sal, but I do know that there are some big gears in there and they seem to be winding down. I say by the rate of their movement we have about four minuits until the last one begins to power up the machine. Then who knows what will happen."
"Is there anything we can do to stop it. Can we send out a distress beacon to Staiton Square, request some missles or something?"
"No, our comm. Link with them was destroyed in the battle and even if I had the time to fix it the missles would take atleast three minuits to get here. I don't see a way of stopping this thing." Said Rotor dejectedly.
"What about a frontal assult?"
"The wall are about thirty feet thick"
Durring their conversation Sonic had been in quiet contemplation while staring at the Quantum Dial. Trying to figure out what something important about what Rotor had said.
"Rote. You say the gears are winding down?"
"Yhea."
"All in the same direction?"
"Again, yes. Wait your not thinking of… but that is suicide!" gasped Rotor
"It's the only way. I have to do this."
"WHAT ARE YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT?" screamed Sally "First its hopeless now you guys are formulating a plan without even including me. I hate being out of the loop. Shat is suicide?"
"Sonic thinks that he could reverse the blast direction to cause an implosion instead of and explosion. The blast radius would most likely be cut down from the solor system to about one hundred yards. But to achive this affect he would have to be much closer to the Dial. He would be lost."
"Well no then. You cant. We still have three more minuits at the least. We can get that air strike. Sonic you can't," pleaded Sally as tears began to well up in her eyes.
"No, even if they got here in time they might not even stop it. This is the only way."
"But you'll die,"
"If I don't do this then everyone will. Its Okay, I've been training all my life for this run I'm ready." said Sonic.
"But I need you here. I still haven't told you that I…"
Sonic cut her off with a soft kiss. Sally's pleading and worring just melted away. Being held by the one person she thought she could ever love in this perfect moment. Why did he have to go. Sally would have given anything to switch roles with him at this moment. But Sonic was always going to be the hero. That was one of the reasons Sally loved him so much
"It's Okay" said Sonic when he broke the kiss.
The cobalt blue hedgehog then turned around and drew in a big breath. He dashed off as fast as he could toward the Dial and never looked back. He ran faster and faster until he reached the wepon and then he ran faster still. He circled it over and over again creating a swirling vortex. His heart was beating hard and his muscles ached all over. He had been fighting his whole life, saving those in need and this time it was no different. Every time he left knothole he had been prepared to never comeback and now he really wasn't. With only three seconds to go he reached a level of power and speed he had never gotten to before without the help of the chaos emeralds. His blue color melted away and was replaced by a glowing gold aura. He shut his eyes in anticipation of the blast.
Then he opened his eyes and the green jewels they had been were replaced by firey red orbs. Super Sonic was creating a tornado coloumn like no one on the planet Mobius had ever seen before. It was so large you could have seen it from space. A bright light engulfed the hero. There was no loud boom; no earth shattering explosion. The only trace that there had ever been a Quantum Dial was the perfect crater cut into the crust of Mobius and of course the memories of those who were there and had lost someone dear to them.
…
present
"Now you know that's not true." Bunny protested as she looked into the chestnut eyes of her princess.
"You did all you could. I know your goin a beat yourself up and down about this, but sooner or later ya'll realize that his decision was the only way that everyone else could go on living. Sonic knew that and so do you, and even though he's gone he'll always live on in the memory of the many people he saved."
Despite bunny's attempts a look of despair was still etched on Sally's face. "I miss him so much that I feel like this pain will never go away-"
"And it won't you can only dull the pain by moving on…you know, the funeral is coming up in a couple a days. It's only right that you be there and says something. I don't know, maybe you could find some closure"
Sally just continued to stare blankly at the water. She wasn't really paying attention now.
"Well its late, why don't you head on off to bed. I don't think you've left this spot all day," said Bunny realizing that she wasn't making any progress anymore.
"Do you know where we are?"
"Of course I do. This is where you and shuger hog spent most of your time, waiting for power rings and planin missions to kick ol' butnicks rear."
A smile spread across Sally's face for the first time in days as she remembered all the times she had shared with all her friends here before. "You're right Bunny; I'll head back in a minuet. You should go as well,"
Bunny got up and headed for home as Sally just continued to stare into the deep blue water of the pool. Sally didn't really have any intention of moving but she knew Bunny would believe her if she told her she was.
Bunny had walked back to her hut and looked out her window at the ring pool and saw Sally still just sitting there. Bunny didn't know what to do, Sally was obviously still traped deep in her own thoughts and Bunny just wasn't good at helping people with this kind of thing. Who really was? All she could do was to pry that her princess would return to her old self soon. She missed Sally and with Sonic gone she was afraid everything they had achieved would unravel quickly.
"Good night Sally, and come home soon"
AN: Well thee you go, the first chapter in my story. please let me know what you think because I always like to recieve constructive criticizm.