The Reunion

Sonic, Sonia, and Manic were going with Uncle Chuck to Starlight City. They were on their way to the hedgehog family reunion. Sonic and Manic along with Charles were wearing suits while Sonia wore a dress.

"Now, Manic." Sonia said. "You're meeting up with your cousins, so you have to keep it in your pants."

"Don't you know, sis?" Manic replied. "We guys don't wear pants."

"You're completely missing the point." She answered. "You're not to be flirting around at the reunion."

"No flirting?" he said. "Got it."

"Have you been catching up on the rules of high society?" Sonia asked him.

"I'm sure it's not that difficult to follow." He replied. "How hard could it be?"

"It can be very difficult for one who isn't ready."

"She has a point, Manic." Uncle Chuck replied. "The rules of the upper class are many."

"I'll have no problems with it, trust me." Manic said, with a smirk on his face.

"We alright then." Charles answered with a sigh. "I sure hope you know what you are getting yourself into."

The four hedgehogs arrived in Starlight City. The city had a nighttime scene against the city skyline. They headed out to the palace; it was white citadel lined with silver. They went up to the door and they saw a Doberman at the door.

"Halt!" the Doberman stated. "Who's there?"

"Sir Charles." Chuck replied.

"Hello sir." He said. "Are the three children with you?"

"All three."

"Right this way." He opened the door to the citadel and there was quite the commotion going on. There were many hedgehogs in the area and the three dispersed amongst the area. Sonic had walked around and found amongst the diplomats was his mother, Queen Aleema. She was wearing her silver dress and her violet cape.

"Mom?" He asked.

"Sonic." The queen said. Sonic ran up to her and hugged her. He forgot how fast he ran almost knocking her over.

"I'm sorry."

"That's alright, my son." She stated hugging him back.

"I'm so glad I get to see you again."

"I'm so happy as well." Aleema replied. "And I know that you are a hero. If your father was here, he would be so proud of you."

"I know." Sonic replied. "Thanks mom. We have so much to catch up on."

"They will be reading his will soon, so get your siblings." She replied.

"I will." He said, Sonic went off into the crowd.

Sonia was with Manic. The green hedgehog was behind his sister while two other hedgehogs were laughing at him.

"What's the matter, you were born under a rock?" one of the hedgehog said.

"Oh wait, he probably was." The other one replied.

"HEY! That's my brother you're talking about." Sonia answered those two.

"And what kind of nobody are you?" the first asked.

"I'm Princess Sonia." She replied.

"And you are claiming this piece of filth, your brother?" the second asked.

"He is a son of Queen Aleema and you should treat him with a little more respect."

"I don't care if he was the king of the planet." The first added. "He still is a street rat who isn't worthy enough to clean my own shoes."

"If you don't such that mouth of yours…"

"What are you going to do? Punch my jaw?" the second asked. "You would lose your lady-like figure."

"I'm actually considering removing your stupid buckteeth from your mouth."

"Sonia, Manic…" Sonic said. "Let's just leave these jerks alone. They are about to read the will." Sonic, Sonia, and Manic left the two be.

Meanwhile at the entrance, the Doberman saw three figures walking to the entrance. He ran up to them.

"Hey, stop and turn around." The Doberman stated. The center one kept going as the other two stopped in their tracks. "I told you to stop and those with an invitation can…" Then, the figure near by him grabbed his throat.

"You want an invitation?" he said. "Here's my invitation." He slammed the dog's head into the wall knocking the guard out. Then, the three kept going.

The crowd of hedgehogs surrounded the stage. Queen Aleema and her three children had taken their seats on the stage. A shrew had stepped up to the podium and to the microphone.

"I would like to thank everyone of you for coming to the reunion. We're all glad to be in peace once again." The shrew stated. "But alas our great king is gone forever, may rest his soul. We are bringing forward Sir Charles Hedgehog, the brother of Queen Aleema, to read of the will to what would happen." She left the stage and Uncle Chuck came to the stage with a scroll and opened it up.

"Here is what my dear friend had wrote in his will which was written after he saw the oracle of Delphius and before he went off to war." Charles replied and cleared his throat. "To my dear Sonic, I have seen you to become both brave and kind. From what I heard, I saw that you will become a great leader even what I can surpass myself. Therefore, I shall grant my kingdom and throne to him. He can claim the throne when he is ready." He paused as he went to the next paragraph.

"To my daughter Sonia, from what I have heard you have become a talented young girl and I have seen that you will become an excellent manager. Therefore, I shall grant my wealth and riches to her." He continued to the next paragraph and Manic wasn't too happy.

"And I haven't forgotten my son Manic. All I have heard from you is that you have vanished, but I have seen that you will be around when my will is read. Despite growing in a not-so-pleasant environment, I have seen you become wise. Therefore, my entire library and my abilities I shall grant to you." He went down and read the last line. "May all three of you find these blessings beneficial to you, your family, your friends, and…" Chuck was interrupted by a rolling can on the stage.

"What in the world…" he stated; then the can exploded into a white smoke. Multiple cans had exploded covering the entire area with a white smokescreen causing confusion and panic.

"What's going on?" Sonic stated. Then, he heard a female scream. "MOM!"

"OOOOHOHOHOHO!" a familiar voice laughed. Then, a big bi-pedal mech showed up smashing the back of the stage.

"EGGMAN!?" Sonic shouted.

"What did you do with mom?" Sonia shouted. Eggman pushed a button pushing some of the smoke to the side and revealed their mom trapped in a cage.

"As you can see, she's fine." He stated.

"LET OUR MOM GO!" Manic said.

"You make a demand to me but you don't ask me how I got out?" Eggman asked.

"Fine… how did you escape, Eggman?" Sonic asked.

"I was simple. I had help from the inside." He stated. "One who knows your family well." Charles looked around nervous once he heard that.

"Oh, hello Charles…" a voice said. "I'm back…" Then out of the white smoke, came a hedgehog whose fur was black as obsidian with blood red stripes on his head quills. His eyes matching the stripes.

"Shadow…" Charles stated.

"It's pleasing to see that you still remember me." Shadow answered Charles as he was looking and heading over to Sonic. "I'm surprised you even remembered me."

"Shadow, I'm over her." Charles said. The black hedgehog looked towards the voice.

"Oh… when did you get a dye job?" Shadow asked.

"Never mind that. Last time, I heard you were trapped in crystal with Rouge." Charles answered.

"In four words, we escaped with Eggman." Shadow replied. While he was talking with Charles, Sonia tried to sneak by and free their mom. Then, a bat surprised her, knocking her back. The white bat had a black cat suit with white go-gos. She had a heart on both toes and on her chest.

"You really don't want to touch those bars, sister." The bat said.

"And you are?" Sonia asked.

"They call me, Rouge." The bat answered.

"Since you remember me, I believe you know why I am here." Shadow answered. He stuck his hand out to him. "Just hand the throne over and I'll be on my way."

"I'm not handing it over, Shadow." Charles rebuked him. "I don't have it anymore."

"If you don't have it anymore, who'd you give it to?" Shadow answered. "This little blue punk?"

"Leave Sonic out of this." Charles rebuked Shadow. "This is a fight between us."

"Very well, then." Shadow stated. He charged at the gold hedgehog. "You're just an obstacle then." He threw Charles away and he slammed into a tree knocking him out. Then, the black hedgehog turned to Sonic as he picked up the will and read it. "So, you are Sonic. And according to this you have the throne. Hand it over to me and leave; I don't want this visit a waste of my time."

"To someone like you? No thanks, you faker." Sonic stated.

"Faker? Ha. You don't even deserve to be my fake." Shadow replied.

"I'll make you eat those words." Sonic said rushing forward at Shadow. And the black hedgehog rushed up and began to fight the blue blur.

"The hedgehog princess and the bat are gonna fight." A hedgehog said.

"Let's record it." Another replied. They brought up a camcorder to get it on film. Then, Rouge flew to them.

"Get that camera off me." Rouge said taking the device from them. Sonia just tackled Rouge and the two started to wrestle each other.

"That is certainly unlady like of them." The first hedgehog said.

"But you can't help that it looks hot." The other answered. Rouge was able to kick Sonia off of her and into the concessions table. The bat walked up to her and had some snacks on the way there. Sonia got a cup of punch before she rushed at Rouge.

"Haven't you gotten in a fight before?" Rouge asked.

"Why do you want to know?" Sonia replied.

"I was wondering why it was so easy to beat you senseless."

"I'm going to give up that easily."

Meanwhile, Manic was facing off against Eggman's machine. Eggman shot lazers out at Manic and he had dodge out of the way. He picked up a pipe on the ground and started beating up on the mech. Eggman pushed a button on his panel and a claw came up. It went towards Manic but the green hedgehog dodged.

"You can't catch me, Lame-o." Manic replied.

"We'll see whose lame-o here." Eggman stated when he finally was able to grab Manic by the leg. The pipe was still in Manic's hand as the bot lifted him up. The green hedgehog threw a pipe at Eggman hitting him in the noggin. He flinched backwards in pain.

"Nya nya." Manic answered. "Did I crack your shell?"

"You are going to regret saying that." The scientist said in frustration as he rubbed his head. "Now where did I put an ice pack?" Eggman looked through his mech and eventually found an ice pack. Placing it on his head, he found out Manic escaped and picked the lock his mom was in. "Crap."

Shadow seeing this happen rushed to Rouge and got with Eggman Manic fed with his mom as Sonia was getting back up. Sonic revved up a spin dash to strike Shadow. Then, the black hedgehog pulled out a green chaos emerald.

"CHAOS…" Shadow said as Sonic released his dash. "CONTROL!" Eggman, Shadow, and Roge teleported away before Sonic could reach them. He continued spinning until he hit the wall.

"Oof." Sonic said falling over.

"Are you okay?" his sister asked running over to help him up.

"I'm fine what about mom and Uncle Chuck?" Sonic answered.

"Mom's okay." Manic stated. "But Uncle Chuck has to be sent to the medic."

"Oh no." Sonic stated in sadness and he slammed it into the wall. His fit broke through the wall. "That's it, no more Mister Nicehog." He stated. "If Shadow wants a fight, he's going to get one."