It's finally here. ;w; The sequel to Defender of the Blazing Flame. After almost two years it is here.

Metaru: About time.

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Metaru: This fanfic and its story belongs to Saiyakitsune. Everything else, including the characters in this chapter, do not.

Distortion of the Sol

Chapter 1: Déjà vu

"Are you sure this is a good idea?"

"For the 8 billionth time, yes, Tails."

Sonic the Hedgehog, hero of Mobius and fastest thing alive, rolls his eyes at his adopted brother, Miles "Tails" Prower. The young twin-tailed fox sighs as his ears droop, uneasiness filling his being. The two Mobians are currently on their way to their old friend, Blaze the Cat, for a visit. Their last visit was over 6 months ago when they "brought" over an assistant guardian. At first, the fiery feline was enraged at being "given" one of Sonic's greatest and most ruthless of enemies to guard her emeralds; but soon enough, she became used to Metal Sonic, now known as Metaru, and soon became friends with him. Rather quickly, I might add. Unbeknownst to Blaze and Metaru, Sonic and Tails had pulled an elaborate scheme to have the two become even more. It worked, with surprising, but pleasing, results. Neither the Princess or metallic guardian knew of the heroes plan, nor do they know now, but that did not help ease the Kitsune's worries.

"I still don't know about this," Tails exclaims, earning another eye roll from his older brother.

"Relax, little bro." Sonic tells him, placing his hands behind his head in a lazy manner.

"But-"

"But nothing. Do we really have to go through this again?"

Tails gives a sigh, once again of defeat. "No, sir."

"Then let's hurry up and catch up with our old friends." Sonic says with a grin, speeding off unexpectedly, but going slow enough for Tails to catch up. His two-tailed friend grins as well as he spins his tails, zooming off.

~DoS~

Metaru looks out at an opening of the castle walls, seemingly staring at nothing at all. Someone approaches him, confused and interested in what he was looking at.

"They're coming."

The metallic hedgehog receives a raised eyebrow from his companion.

"Are you sure?"

"Positive."

"How do you know?"

"They're already here."

Raising another eyebrow at this proclamation, Blaze the Cat, ruler of all Anima and guardian of the Sol Emeralds along with the Jeweled Scepter, walks over to an opening in the wall and scans the outside scenery, searching for the two heroes of Mobius that Metaru, her fellow guardian, told her had just arrived. True enough, Sonic T. Hedgehog and Miles "Tails" Prower are racing to the feline's doorstep. Confused, yet happy to see her old friends, Blaze wonders if something is wrong with Mobius or if they are merely coming over for a visit. The guardian can never tell when it concerns a certain blue hedgehog. Even so, Blaze has a small smile on her face as she begins to make her way to meet up with her friends, followed closely by Metaru whom is also eager to see some familiar faces. It does not take long for either guardian to open the gates for their two guests as both of them halt to a stop, waiting for the doors to fully open. Sonic has his ever present grin on his face as Tails has a soft and friendly smile.

"Blaze! Metaru! Long time no see." Sonic exclaims, waving at both of the Sol Guardians. He looks over at Metaru and almost does a double take. "Holy chili dogs! That you Meta?"

Metaru wishes he could express his annoyance with facial expressions, but made do with pinching his metal nose.

Blaze shakes her head in amusement. "Always the same Sonic."

"Metaru, what happened to you?" Tails asks, genuinely curious.

"What do you mean?" Now the metallic guardian was getting worried.

Tails inspects Metaru for quite some time, making the already nervous meta-hog even more worried. After less than a minute, though he moves back. "It's nothing; we'll talk about it later." Tails tells him, allowing Metaru to relax. The metal guardian decides to voice his own questions at this time.

"It is good to see you again Miles. How is Rotor?"

"Call me Tails, Meta." Tails says bashfully, rubbing the back of his head due to being called his true name. "And Rotor's doing great; he's even back in action!" Tails shouts with glee. This caught the metallic guardian's attention, but before he could inquire further Blaze speaks up.

"So, Sonic, Tails is there any reason for you two coming over?"

The Blue Blur shakes his head. "Nah, just came over for the heck of it. We even brought a few others to party."

"Oh?" Blaze says with interest.

"It took some convincing from some of the less social party goers but they'll all be here any minute." Sonic explains.

"And who did you invite?" Blaze questions.

Tails was about to open his mouth, but Sonic covered it with his hand. "It's a secret." He quickly says, giving Tails a mild death glare as the two-tailed fox sweat drops in embarrassment.

"Well, whoever they are, they just arrived." Metaru announces.

Tails has a perplexed look in his eye. "Already? That was fast."

"If you ask me, they're right on time." Sonic remarks.

Continuing on with their small talk, Metaru decides to take a back seat and listen in onto the conversation as he attempts to pinpoint the energy signatures that are the so called "guests" Sonic told them about earlier. He recognizes them all, just unable to pinpoint who they are exactly. One is blatantly obvious while most of the others are mysteries to him, like a puzzle. He has all the pieces, just not in the right order. He does not understand why this infuriates him, but for some reason it does and he just has to figure out who the rest are. One of the energy signatures felt close to Blaze's, yet he had no explanation why. That energy signature is also smaller than the others, confirming that it is younger than the rest. One has an energy signature somewhat resembling his and so he assumes it is a robot like himself. Try as he might though, he cannot decipher who the rest are. Blaze and the others notice that Metaru had silenced himself and are wondering just what was going on in his head.

Meanwhile, a small cream-colored rabbit begins to stare at Metaru as well with confusion and natural concern. "Is Mr. Metal going to be alright, Blaze?" the Mobian asks.

"He's fine, don't worry-" Blaze stops midway through her sentence and turns around, seeing an all too familiar face.

~To be Continued~

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