Author's Note: The oddest thing happened to me awhile ago. I had this oddly vivid Sonic dream but the way it played out, I thought it would've actually made a pretty interesting fanfic. I'm not entirely sure what direction the fanfic is going to take itself in since the bits of the dream I do remember aren't very clear. But I'll try to write down as much as I can anyways just to see what this thing has planned for itself. Enjoy!

Remember, feedback is always appreciated! By the way, large segments of the story that are italicized usually means it's flashback scene.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters that are mentioned in this story, with the exception of the obvious OCs that have never been used in the series before.


In the bustling city of Green Hill Zone, resided an orphanage with children playing happily outside. Even though most of them would never know their parents, they were all quite content. The caretaker of the orphans was a kind woman always cared about the children's wellbeing. At least that's what the adults of the neighborhood were told it was like. Yes, it only looked like a picture perfect orphanage on the outside. On the inside, however…

Things were entirely different from that. The orphans staying there only wished the rumors held some actual truth to them. Sometimes they weren't even sure if the caretaker actually liked children. More often than not they were barely given much time to have any fun. And a lot of the times they were absolutely miserable there. It was unfortunate but there was not much that the children could do about it, so they just coped.

However, there was one orphan who refused to accept this dreary life. He was determined to do change it for the better. He was daring, he was adventurous, he was wild and incredibly reckless. He was Sonic the hedgehog, or at least that's what he's called NOW. Back then, before he earned his famous title he was simply known as Ogilvie. Yes, that was his real name much to his chagrin. It was a name that he hated being called by.

He was certain he had finally made sure everyone understood that and they did, with the exception of Ms. Blanche. Sure, he might've just knocked over a priceless vase but he didn't have to go use his first name like that. And in front of the other kids too! That was just taking it too far.

"Olgilvie Takeshi Hedgehog!" Ms. Blanche shrieked his full name in a fit of unbridled rage. All of the other kids in the orphanage were not fazed by it. It had become routine to witness her chewing Olgilvie out for the latest mischief and/or prank he got in trouble for.

"Ooh, you're really gonna get it now, Oggie," A brown hedgehog who had her hair tied up in a ponytail with a yellow bow remarked. She was a good friend of the blue troublemaker, who aided him in his mischief. Thing was though, she handled her missions with more finesse than her blue furred pal did so she tended to get away with it.

"Ugh," The one dubbed "Oggie" cringed in disgust at the usage of his full name, knowing that when he heard that he was really in for it. He often wondered what his parents had been on when they gave him that name, "I know, Tiara. But if we try to juice it real quick we might get outta this scott-free."

"I'm down with that, Oggie," Tiara confirms that she really approves of the idea by initiating their honorary handshake. Though she wasn't as fast as Oggie, she enjoyed trying to keep up with him when they escaped from trouble, "Let's juice!"

"Let's juice!" Oggie chimed in time with her before they sped off. Unbeknownst to them as Ms. Blanche was out of their line of view by the time they sped off, they had escaped her wrath in the nick of time.

The children hating woman in question huffed irately when at the sight of the passing duo. Ms. Blanche knew there was no point in chasing after them since the boy and his little friend were too fast for her to keep up with. It seemed as if super powered mobians were appearing in this generation every other day, "You may have won this round, Mister Olgilvie but mark my words, I'll see to it you receive proper punishment!"

The black female bat turns her attention to the shattered pieces of her prized vase. She sighs grimly, wishing there was some way she get out of this job. As she cleaned up, Blanche began to mentally scheme a way to get a replacement caretaker so she wouldn't have to work in this hellhole anymore. She had always wanted to be a fashion model anyways.

The two mischievous orphan children were speeding through the orphanage, giggling all the way. Oggie was honestly impressed by the improvement his friend Tiara was making in increasing her speed. And she was just a normal hedgehog too, which really boggled his mind. Though to be honest, she was only normal in appearance. Tiara had always been a unique girl which is why he could relate to her.

In fact one very unique feature about her that stood out the most was her last name. Yes, her full name was Tiara Boobwoski. He felt bad for the poor kid, since her surname made her the target of a lot of teasing. But luckily for the both of them, that was something that had brought them together. They were both the oddballs of the orphanage, in both their names and personality. They had first met after Olgilvie had stood up for her when one of the fellow orphans, Big Vinnie, was bullying her over her name.

Olgilvie was bullied quite constantly himself, so he was really ticked off to see a girl bullied over something so miniscule. After awhile he'd accepted that he was prone to being bullied, he gave said bullies a lot of material to work with. But they were giving her a hard time all just because she had a funny sounding NAME? He never thought it sounded all that funny sounding anyways. So naturally, Olgilvie had to do something about it. He hated oppression more than anything else.

When he first approached the tough guy though, he was honestly scared out of his wits. Vinnie was one of the biggest kids in the orphanage, which wouldn't have intimidated him were it not for the fact that 99% of that mass was all muscle. Olgilvie was a bit of a chubby kid back then himself, but he had zero muscle to make up for his size. Plus he had never really been in an expert in combat or any sort of fighting. To be honest he had no idea he was going to survive in this stand-off.

He was probably going to get killed. Well, looking at the undying hatred burning in Vinnie's eyes he was DEFINITELY going to die. The blue hedgehog stood his ground firmly but started to back up when Vinnie called his goons on him. Oh, now this was NOT fair. Olgilvie couldn't even least throw in a sucker punch on him this way! He should've expected it though. Vinnie played dirty as well as fought dirty, it seemed.

He braced himself for what seemed like an inevitable beating until suddenly an aerial yoyo came out of nowhere and rammed into Vinnie's nose. Olgilvie had not expected that a yoyo would hurt as much as it did, so he stood there stunned for a moment as Vinnie writhed in pain over his now broken nose, "Aagh, I'm bleeding! That stupid yo-yo broke my nose! I'm gonna kill whoever threw that!"

Olgilvie stared dumbly at the fallen bully as his goons forgot about the fighting match and went to their leader. He tore his attention away when he heard the girl he was standing up for call his name. The blue hedgehog was still so baffled that he found it difficult to tear his attention away from the scene but eventually took the opportunity to escape. The two hedgehogs exited the scene of the crime before their warden was called over to the scenario by the tattletale of the orphanage.

The two hedgehogs sighed in relief after the warden departed with the bully, leading him to the medical aid kit. Now that the coast was clear, Olgilvie headed out to the playground with the girl. For awhile they looked at each other not entirely sure what to say. Eventually though, the silence was finally broken. It was the girl who took the dive, which surprised Olgilvie a bit.

Though it was the confident way she held herself that really surprised him. If he hadn't been there to see it, Olgilvie would've never believed she'd ever been bullied a day in her life, "So you're that new kid everybody's been goin' on about, right? I mean you've gotta be, since you're the only blue hedgehog in this dump. The name's Tiara. JUST Tiara. Don't call me by my full name or I'll hafta pound ya."

Olgilvie blinked for a second, unsure if he rescued the right girl. This couldn't possibly be the same girl who was about to burst into tears earlier over her name being ridiculed, "Um-uh-you see-I think-"

"Close your mouth kid or else you'll catch flies!" Tiara giggled over how Olgilvie instantly shut his mouth from her warning. Or maybe it was because of the funny look he had on his face, most likely due to her straightforward attitude. She tended to take a lot of people by surprise that way, "You're pretty funny, I think I like you. What's your name?"

Olgilvie narrowed his eyes in irritation. This was the only thing he hated about meeting new people, telling them his name. They always ended up laughing at it, "Do I really have to?"

"How can I talk to you if you don't tell me your name? Would ya rather I called you No Name instead?" Tiara was so little like what Olgilvie was expecting he barely knew how to talk to her. He had honestly been expecting a more damsel in distress type of girl, but this girl was made entirely out of sass, "Well? I'm waiiiting."

"Just don't laugh all right? Pinkie swear it," Tiara rolled her eyes over the fuss he was making over it, but complied anyways. He seemed to really believe saying his name would be the end of the world, "My name is… Olgilvie."

"Olgilvie?" Tiara knew she wasn't supposed to laugh but she couldn't help herself. She covered her mouth with her hand so as not to make too much noise and alert Ms. Blanche, "Wow, what a name!"

"You said you weren't going to laugh! You went back on your promise!" Olgilvie complained, sending the chortling female hedgehog a stern reprimanding glare. He crossed his arms in a huff, wishing now that he'd never saved her from that bully.

When Tiara's laughter finally subsided, she patted him on the back reassuringly. He hadn't been expecting her to be so strong either, her pat nearly knocking the wind out of him, "Aw come on! I didn't mean nothin' by it! Tell ya what, I'll make it up to ya. Since you're new here, I'll show ya around."

"Well..." Olgilvie examined her expression with a paranoid glance as he analyzed the honesty in her offer. She did seem to look like she felt bad about laughing at him anyways. With a sigh, he settled on the idea, "Okay then. After all, I don't even know where my bedroom is in that huge place."

Tiara chuckled in an easygoing tone as she headed inside with the blue hedgehog, "See? I'm not all bad. And plus on the way, we can think of a better name to call you by."

Olgilvie instantly nodded his head in agreement to that plan, "Oh, definitely. So, how does the nickname Og-Dude sound?"

Tiara wrinkled her nose in distaste at nickname, "Eh, okay. But not good either. How about we just call you something simple, like Oggie?"

"Oggie...yeah. I like the sound of that. It's got a nice ring to it."

"It does, doesn't it? Oggie, I think you and I are gonna be good pals from now on."

"You know what? I was just thinking the same thing."

And yes, from that day they have been an inseparable pair ever since. The two hedgehogs have been doing nearly everything with each other. They were a regular Bonnie and Clyde kind of duo, much to Ms. Blanche's chagrin. They drove her crazy with all of the trouble they got caught up in. The trouble they just escaped from a few minutes ago was a good example of one of the many ways they did that. It wasn't that they hated her though, they just like messing with her.

Unfortunately for her, that became a bit of a hobby for the two. But this time it wasn't just out of spite, there was an actual reason that the vase had broken. In fact, Olgilvie wasn't even trying to break the vase, it was just an accident. But try explaining that to a woman that wouldn't hesitate to ship him off to Peru to get him out of her hair. What Tiara and Olgilvie had been trying to do was find a good hiding place for an odd little charm they found on the playground. They weren't even entirely sure it was a charm either, but they just somehow knew it was valuable.

Now that the two had reached a secluded spot, they checked around once more to ensure the coast was clear. They nodded to each other in confirmation before Olgilvie took out the aforementioned "charm." The partners in crime ogled at it in sheer amazement, mesmerized by its shiny glow. It had just looked like a regular diamond. That had tempted Olgilvie to sell it to the merchant that hang out by the orphanage at first but it seemed too important for that.

The problem was there weren't many places to keep it safe until they could figure out what it was. Olgilvie sighed longingly at the gem in spite of this though, wondering how much it would've gone for, "Man this stupid rock is really deceiving. If it didn't want people to sell it for money, why did it go and make itself look like a diamond?"

"But I'm tellin' ya it's not some emerald. It wouldn't make sense for us to find a diamond in a place like this anyways," Tiara explained to her friend for what felt like the umpteenth time. She'd though she'd already established that fact.

"It doesn't make sense for th-this…this…" Olgilvie huffs in exasperation as he struggles to find the right word to describe it with. He finally gives up, settling on the usual word used to describe an unidentified object, "THING to even be here! You saw how fast it was makin' me go earlier! I couldn't even seethat stupid vase!"

"Yeah, I saw! You were practically just a blue blur! I knew you could go fast, but I didn't know you could be THAT fast!" Tiara almost couldn't believe that what she had seen was real, though. There was no way anything could be that fast, but she'd witnessed it clear as day.

Olgilvie makes a 'hmm' sound as he taps his finger from the hand that's not holding the gem on his chin contemplatively. He stares at the jewel for a long time before finally deciding on something, "You know what I think it is?"

"What?"

"I think it's a piece of a fallen metor!"

"…that's just stupid, Oggie. Real stupid."

"Oh yeah? You got a better idea of what it might be then?" Olgilvie didn't seem to appreciate having his guess called stupid, which was evident by his irritated expression.

Tiara sighed, knowing it was often almost impossible to talk to him when he had that expression on his face, "Well no, but I know it's not apart of a meteor. If there was a meteor, that woulda been all over the news!"

Olgilvie had to admit there was some truth to Tiara's words. Besides, meteors usually weren't a shiny blue color, "Yeah, I guess that makes sense. But until we know what it is, where are we gonna keep it?"

Tiara stopped for a moment to do some thinking herself. After some time of brainstorming, a solution came to her, "How about in your room?"

"Nah, we all share rooms in the orphanage cuz we don't got much space remember? And I share a room with Vinnie," Olgilvie explained, his irked tone not directed at her but more at the roommate he mentioned, "You know him, he'd be low enough to take somethin' that's not his, especially if he assumes it's some sort of diamond like we did."

"Yeah and we don't want THAT to happen. Well all I can think of is putting it in my room," Tiara responded, allowing her friend to think it over before they decided on it. Then just to assure him, she added, "My roommate Sissy is blind as a bat, even with her glasses sometimes. She'd think it's just an ordinary old rock."

"Hey, that is a good idea! So we'll hide it in your room then. Remember to take good care of it," Olgilvie cautioned her, hesitantly handing the emerald over to her. But they were so startled by the sudden appearance of Ms. Blanche, that Tiara impulsively shoved the emerald back in Olgilvie's hands to prevent Ms. Blanche from seeing it. Then Olgilvie ended up hiding it in his quills before their warden could see it.

"See? See? I told you they were hiding in the kitchen! I was right wasn't I, Ms. Blanche?" The tattletale of the orphanage, known as Priscilla, told Ms. Blanche jumping up and down excitedly.

"Yes, I can see that Priscilla. No one likes a tattletale," Ms. Blanche rolled her eyes out of annoyance at the girl's enthusiasm. The woman found that this child was even more annoying than the one she detested the most, Olgilvie. After the girl left the scene giggling nastily over her triumph, the black bat stomped over to Olgilvie, "You are coming with me, young man."

Olgilvie whines in annoyance as he tries to pull his wrist out of her grasp, "Aw come on! Can't we talk things over? I wasn't trying to break that vase, honest!"

"The only way I'd believe that is if I were born yesterday. What do you take me for, an idiot?"

"You really don't want me to answer that."
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Meanwhile, a long ways away from Green Hill Zone was a mad scientist was typing away at a keyboard, searching up information. His face was already blank enough but the dark blue glasses covering his eyes made it even more impossible to tell what he was thinking. A thoughtful 'hmm' sound escapes his lips as he ponders over a page of encoded information. It seemed to hold his interest for awhile but after reading through it at a quick pace, he scoffs and closes the document.

He mutters something under his breath about researchers being absolutely useless before he opens the other folders. Oh, how he wished his old colleague Jules was still alive. Jules would've been able to tell him exactly what file would give him the information on that old project. Jules was a world famous scientist who had uncovered a lot of amazing discoveries. In fact, he had been the one to build the roboticizer.

That invention had been an absolutely amazing work of art. The instant news on the man- or hedgehog, rather- had gotten out to him, he had been quick to work with him on the new project that had been started. The project had been a top secret experiment that only few scientists were granted access too. It was understandable though, if even one bit of data had been calculated wrong the whole WORLD would've fallen to chaos.

The man chuckles in amusement at the idea, a mischievous grin spreading tickling the corners of his mouth. Ah yes, that would've been quite a sight to see. Paranoia getting to him again, the man looks around once more to ensure none of his colleagues had seen that. Tch, those worthless people. They all claimed he'd gone crazy after his old science lab partner Jules had died. That was utter nonsense. As advised for years, he had always kept his work relationships entire casual. The very idea that he had possibly gotten attached to Jules was ridiculous.

…wasn't it?

The old man sighs as he puts his research to a halt, leaning back in his chair to briefly reminisce of the old days. While he never tried to establish a friendship with his lab partner, that didn't mean that he'd wish such a horrible fate on him. It had been quite a pity too. Jules had been murdered by his own project after it had all gone horribly wrong. He had tried to do everything that he could to save Jules from that abominable monster.

He narrows his eyes at the thought of that horrible thing. Even before they started the project, something in his head told him to warn Jules not to work on it. If only he had listened to that warning. If only he had KNOWN that it was a warning at that time. He sighs again as he nudges the feelings of regret into the back of his head. He shouldn't keep dwelling on the past. In fact what he needed to focus on was searching for the whereabouts of the Chaos Emeralds.

He remembered that with the last of his energy Jules had sealed away the chaos emeralds in hidden locations where most wouldn't find them. That had been the only way to contain the power of that beast, for awhile at least. Only problem was that he had been unconscious at the time when the beast had mauled him during his attempt to rescue Jules, so that meant he didn't know exactly where Jules chose to hide them. Knowing Jules, he probably had recorded the information in an encoded file even during his last moment.

That man was one of the worst OCD cases he'd ever seen, so he wouldn't put it past him. Now if only he could just located that blasted file! He'd been at this all day and it was starting to wear on his patience. Just as he was about to wreck the computer apart in a fit of fury, he FINALLY comes across the right file. Could it be? Was this finally what he had been searching for after all this time? Yes, it was! Yes! His efforts have been paid off after months, years even, cracking codes and unlocking hidden files!

Oh joy, oh rapture, oh happy day!

The man cackles with pure glee over his victory, feeling that it's about time things were looking up for him again. He was absolutely elated at all of the doors of opportunity opening up to him now. He didn't even know which one to choose! Well obviously, the first goal he'd keep going for was to avenge Jules' death, of course. That was what he had started on all of this researching for. But how could he make this benefit the most important person of all, himself?

Hm…he hadn't thought about that before until now. Yes, he could find a way to tweak this plan so that he could still also do what he wanted. There was so much he had in store for this horrible planet full of horrible people. Chuckling to himself, he was so busy daydreaming about this plan of his that he almost failed to notice one of his colleagues enters the room.

A grey rabbit turns on the lights, puzzled as to why his colleague had been working on his "personal assignment" in the dark. He blinks when the other doctor turns over to him with a surprised look, in mid-maniacal laughter position, "…I'm not even going to ask."

The maniacal doctor in question clears his throat, promptly attempting to regain his composure. He spruces himself up a bit, straightening out and dusting off his ruffled labcoat. With all of this busy researching he had been doing, he hadn't even noticed what a mess he was. He turns over to the rabbit, remembering that someone was there and asks in a demanding tone, "What is it that was so important that you had to interrupt me when I finally made a breakthrough, Dr. Lightfoot?"

Dr. Lightfoot arches an eyebrow at the doctor's hasty attempt to gussy himself up. He never really understood the oddities of that man and to be quite honest he didn't want to close enough to him to understand him, "I arrived to inform you that SEGA inc. is closing down for the day. You should head home soon."

"Is that so?" The doctor passes him a grin so malicious that it makes Lightfoot shudder in fear. The doctor gets up from his seat, leans in close to the grey rabbit and whispers in a small voice, "Well, do you know what I have to say about that?"

Lightfoot gulps, uncertain if he should call security on this man or not. The doctor has definitely been very unstable ever since Jules had passed away, "What?"

The doctor leaned into Lightfoot's face closer and closer until they faces were touching. He could practically smell the fear coming from the rabbit, "I quit." With that, he walked away from the rabbit and turned to exit the room like nothing had happened.

Lightfoot rubbed his eyes to be sure that he wasn't seeing them. D-did that really just happen? So baffled by the statement for a moment he almost couldn't figure out what to say. He couldn't possibly be serious, "B-but Dr. Kintobor! Please reconsider! Listen to what you're saying! I know things must be rough for you ever since Jules has passed away but you shouldn't throw away your whole career like this-!"

While he's in the middle of making his leave, he turns around to the face the rabbit to say one last thing, "Oh by the way, don't call me Kintobor anymore, John. From this point on, you shall only refer to me as…Robotnik."