Chapter 1: A New Beginning

"Thought you could get away with stealing from me did you?" Bounty Hunter Sleet heard as he was walking down an alley after hearing a scuffle. "Get back here street rat!"

A homeless child? Sleet wondered. Stealing to survive...He knew what that was like. Until his foster father rescued him and introduced him to the noble tradition of Bounty Hunting. Sadly his father was roboticized during the beginning of Robotnik's reign and destroyed soon after. He reached out and grabbed a human child as he ran passed in raggedy clothes clutching a loaf of bread.

"I'll pay for him sir." The wolf male said calmly as he reached for his wallet. "The price was twenty Mobiums right?" He handed the owner of the bakery he had just been to forty Mobiums. "Keep the change. And start a tab for me."

"Yes sir." The badger Mobian said eagerly as he left with dollar signs in his eyes.

"Your not bad kid. It probably took him at least five minutes to catch up to you." Sleet told the child as he bit into the bread hungrily. Then his eyes trailed down to the rather unique looking medallion hanging from his neck. It was guitar shaped.

"A Royal Hedgehog Medallion?" Sleet gasped in shock. "But there where only supposed to be triplets!" Then again...he did look a bit younger. Maybe a year or two younger than the Royal Triplets where supposed to be now. And Robotnik took over when they where two years old...could he be?

"Thank you Mister." The boy said as he tucked the bread away. "I havent eaten in three days."

"What makes you think you won't be eating anytime soon?" Sleet asked as the boy started to leave.

"You'll leave. The nice people always leave." He said as he left to enter the street.

"Wait kid." Sleet said as he got out the remote aircraft caller. "Come with me."

The boy was hesitant.

"My name is Sleet." the wolf introduced himself. "I'd like to take you in."

"Why would you want a street rat like me?"

Your no ordinary street rat kid...Sleet thought as he opened the door which came to the ground as it floated five feet in the air. "Let's just say you remind me of someone I used to know at your age." Sleet came forward and guided the young male to his ship. "I feel like I own him."

Five years Later...

Five Years. Sleet thought as he watched his son spar with his "Uncle Dingo." Five years ago he was nothing but a street rat. A Royal street rat but still.

It had been Five Years and his adoptive son, Harry, had been training to become a Bounty Hunter like his father and uncle. A few weeks ago, Sleet and Dingo where approached by Robotnik himself to be his personal Hunters for the Hedgehog Triplets. They had mixed feelings about this of course. For one, they where sure Harry was the missing sibling. For two, Robotnik did not know Harry's Status as he always kept his Medallion hidden in Robotnik's presence. Par his father's orders of course. Harry had not seen his siblings medallions in action so he did not know its true purpose. Therefore he was unaware of his status as one of Queen Aleena's children. As with his siblings, Harry also had a special talent. Accuracy and strength. Using special long needles called Senbon, he could disable an opponent in mere seconds. He also used a variety of other throwing weapons. His strength on the other hand, comes from focusing a special energy within his body to a certain part of his body. Be it a hand, foot or even his head as Dingo found out one day after Harry Headbutted him in the groin by accident. He says his right testicle hasn't been the same since.

And down he goes. Sleet thought after Harry blocked a arm thrust from Dingo and sucker punched him in the gut. The orange canine went down.

"When can I go on a mission with you Dad?" Harry asked his wolfish father as Sleet and Dingo where planning their next "Screw Up." They took their missions half heartedly and messed up on purpose.

"I've told you a hundred times already." Sleet wiped his face with his hand from his forehead downward. "We don't want Robotnik to believe any failures where your fault. As long as you stay out of his way, he won't go after you."

"Yes sir." Harry said with a small pout. "I'm going exploring."

"Stay away from the Resistance if you see them." Sleet called as the boy left the airship and wandered into the town. Not that they cared about the Resistance in general. They supported them morally, but they had to keep up their appearance as bad guys.

Harry loved his Dad and Uncle Dingo, he really did. But they could be a bit overprotective sometimes. He was walking toward the very same bakery he had stolen the loaf of bread from when he was five.

"Hey Max. How's business today?" Harry asked the Badger pastry chef.

"Slow my young friend. Always slow. I barely have customers after Robotnik came to town. Except for the Aristocrats of course. Their always safe as long as they keep throwing money at Robotnik."

That's what I hate about this planet. Harry told himself. The only people who are safe are the ones with plenty of Mobiums to throw away.

"The usual?" Max asked his best customer.

"With frosting please." Harry said with a grin as the Badger handed him his favorite sweet.

He then saw his Uncle pretending to be a chili dog cart. Rolling his eyes he decided to play along.

"One please." He said tossing some Mobiums on the cart. His Dad looked down and saw him with a raised eyebrow as if to say "Seriously?" He slipped Dingo the last puff pastry and the orange cart shaped canine slurped it out of his hand and smacked his lips. "Mmm. Buttercream." He purred.

"Now get out of here." Sleet said to his son as he handed him his chili dog and Harry moved on. Soon he saw a blue blur and a screeching halt.

Sonic. Harry thought. The blue hedgehog sibling was a chili dog addict. He always fell for the classic chili dog cart routine. But something odd happened. His medallion started to glow!

Sonic looked down at his own glowing meddallion. He looked and saw the kid he saw at this spot earlier He looked at Sonic with a confused face as his OWN MEDALLION was glowing as well!

What's going on here? The black haired child asked himself as Sonic got away from his uncles yet again. Sonic stopped briefly to look back at him curiously berfore revving up and running off.

To Be Continued

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