A/N - DragonKnight159 here (obviously)! So after getting a free copy of Assassin's Creed II (thank you Microsoft!) and watching Sonic Underground I got the craving to do this story. First I went to see what was on here and so far I haven't seen anything I liked (why the hell would you make a StH/AC crossover a comedy?). Next I will say that this is NOT a full-blown crossover. Like my 'Dragons of Mobius' storyline it contains many similar elements such as the inclusion of a secret society of Assassins whose uniform and primary weapon but it is not set in the world of Assassin's Creed nor does it share any overall similarity. Other than, of course, lots of people dying. So read on and let me know if you'd like to see more of this world. Until then, happy reading!

Sonic the Hedgehog and all associated characters are copyright SEGA and used for entertainment purposes only. Assassin's Creed is copyright Ubisoft and used for entertainment purposes only.

WARNING! THIS STORY CONTAINS HEAVY VIOLENCE, GORE, AND EXPLICIT LANGUAGE. RATED 'M' FOR MATURE AUDIENCES.

March 16, 3219
Mobotropolis Royal Palace

Queen Aleena Hedgehog screamed in agony as she lie in bed. The labor pains were getting worse and worse and her husband's soothing words fell on deaf ears. The midwife was positioned at the Queen's feet giving her directions. She told the Queen to push and was greeting by an ear piercing scream. Once the Queen's died down another crying filled the room. The midwife clipped the cord, washed the newborn off and wrapped him in a blanket. She gave the baby to one of her assistants and returned to the Queen. Over the next several hours the Queen gave birth to two more infants. In all she now had two sons and one daughter.

"It is nothing short of a miracle," the midwife told the King as she washed her hands. "Fraternal triplets are exceedingly rare but they also bestow good luck upon a house."

"Then we are more blessed than we are already. Thank you very much," King Frederic Acorn replied and then turned to his wife who held all three infants. "They are beautiful, dear."

"You say that as if you had nothing to do with it," Aleena laughed despite her exhaustion. "What should we name them?"

"The girl reminds me of your grandmother," Frederic pointed out brushing the wisps of pink hair from the fuchsia hedgehog's face.

"Sonia Amelia Hedgehog it is then," the Queen said. "What of the boys?" Almost on cue the green furred hedgehog began to swing his arms and legs about.

"He's going to be a handful before he can even walk," Frederic pointed out. "Manic Maximillian Hedgehog has a nice sound to it."

Not to be left out the oldest of the three, a blue furred hedgehog, began to kick his feet in a running motion. "And he looks like he'll be a little speed demon when he grows up," Aleena said as the blue one and Sonia began to feed. "Our little Sonic."

March 25, 3219
Mobotropolis Royal Palace

A loud crying filled the Palace, waking both King and Queen. Even with the torrential downpour outside Aleena could tell just by listening that the wailing was coming from Sonic's room.

"It's my turn tonight," Frederic said kissing his wife's forehead. "Go back to sleep, love."

"You always make him cry worse," Aleena pointed out as she pulled her husband closer for a more intimate embrace. "Why don't you check on the other two? It was probably just the storm that scared Sonic."

As she walked down the hallway in her nightgown Sonic's cries became more and more urgent. The guards nodded to her as she entered her oldest son's nursery. She gently picked him up and hushed him, placing him on her chest as she hummed to him. After several minutes his cries settled down even as a peal of thunder rattled the windows. She kissed her baby's head with a smile and was about to set him back in his crib when she heard a scuffle outside.

Metal met metal quickly followed by a gurgling cry. The doors flew open and a small figure wrapped in black began to walk in. Aleena was about to ask who she was when she saw the guards lying in pools of blood. The figure in front of her was nearly two-thirds her height with a small dagger in either hand, both of them covered in blood. With speed Aleena would have believed impossible the assassin darted towards her, scoring a deep cut on her side. The Queen moved Sonic to her left side just as the assassin's blade pierced her right breast. The assassin was about to go for the killing blow when something threw it forward with a sickening crack. Blood seeped from their back but the assassin was not dead. Aleena looked at her savior: a middle-aged coyote who wore the coat of their personal bodyguard wielding a heavy maul that he tossed to the side.

"We must go, my Queen," Jacques D'Coolette told her while extending a hand. "We must get you out of the Palace immediately."

"What about my children? And husband?" she asked him and the coyote hung his head.

"I was at the young lord Manic's nursery earlier," he told her. "I watched as men I have served with for years murder the King. I can only assumed the children..." He chose to end his sentence there. "We need to escape before that bâtard Julian discovers us." Aleena nodded as she limped behind him.

As they proceeded down the steps two guards charged them with weapons at the ready. Jacques wasted no time in deflecting their blades and snapping one's neck while simultaneously drawing his sword to impale the remaining one. He took the Queen and Prince to the garage where a hovercar was parked nearby. He helped her into the backseat and jumped behind the wheel.

"I need you to take me to the countryside," Aleena told him weakly. "And hurry."

"Forgive my impudence, my Queen, but you need immediate medical attention," Jacques countered.

"It is already too late for me," Aleena replied as she struggled to breathe. "That assassin's blade was poisoned. Even now I can feel it burning in my veins. Please, Jacques. I need you to take me to the countryside."

The coyote was silent. He knew exactly what she was asking of him and despite decades of training telling him to take her to a hospital he simply said, "As you wish, my Queen." Within minutes they were outside of Mobotropolis which slept peacefully despite the bloody carnage in the Palace. Jacques gripped the wheel tightly as he sped down side roads that eventually turned to dirt roads.

Several minutes passed until the car finally came to a stop outside a small shack. With the rain coming down as it was anyone else would have missed it but Jacques had been here more than once. He got out and helped a struggling Aleena out of the car until she ordered him back inside. He did as he was commanded as she knocked on the door. A pale blue hedgehog in his late thirties answered the door, shocked at Aleena's state.

"What happened?!" he asked as he looked over her wounds. "Where's Frederic and the other kids?"

"Julian..." she replied weakly. "Julian murdered my husband, Aurora knows what he's done to my children." She handed a sleeping Sonic to him and then removed a small hedgehog-shaped pendant from her wrist. "So that he will know his birthright." She then collapsed and Jacques came sprinting from the car.

"Your Majesty!" he yelled as knelt in the mud. He turned Aleena onto her back but it was too late: the Queen was dead. Tears flowed freely from the coyotes eyes even as the rain washed them away. "ALEENA!"

"Is what she said true? That this is Julian's doing?" the pale hedgehog asked and the coyote nodded. "What are you going to do now, Jacques?"

"I will go back to the Palace and attempt to rescue the other children if it is not already too late," he replied as rage replaced sorrow. "If it is...well, then I will make sure Julian pays for the blood he has spilled. That connard will die tonight." He gently closed Aleena's eyes before standing and looking to the pale hedgehog. "Sir Charles, if I might-"

"I will give her a proper burial," Sir Charles Hedgehog finished for him. "Be careful, Jacques."

"Good night, and au revoir, my friend."

March 26, 3219
Outskirts of Mobotropolis

Charles rocked his nephew back and forth as he boiled the water for his formula. Thankfully an old friend had been able to help in a pinch and brought him some. This was not the time for him to be taking the Crown Prince into the city, not with Julian's hounds searching for him high and low. A text caught his attention and he followed its instruction to turn the television on. There on a grandstand stood Julian Kintobor, known behind his back as 'the Eggman'. He was wearing his official white and silver uniform as he addressed the public. Next to him with a noose around his neck was a battered and bloody Jacques.

"My good people of Mobotropolis I come to you today bearing terrible news," the former War Minister began. "This man, the man that our good King and Queen trusted not only with their lives but the lives of their children, murdered them in cold blood this past night." The crowd began to jeer, several of them throwing stones at the bodyguard. "As if it wasn't enough," the human continued, "he mercilessly killed the young Crown Prince, Sonic Hedgehog, in addition to six other Palace staff members alongside four guards. Among the dead are: Maximillian Acorn, Vanilla Rabbit-Acorn, Ian St. John and his infant son Geoffrey, and not to forget our loving Queen Aleena Hedgehog, the fair King Frederic Acorn, and the infant Prince, Sonic Hedgehog." The jeers and taunts grew in volume and vulgarity until Julian called for quiet. "It is my solemn duty, as the highest ranking official left, to see that this traitor pay the price for betraying his nation. With that, Jacques D'Coolette, I find you guilty of murder and treason of the highest order." Julian's hand wandered to the lever that would drop the innocent coyote. "May Aurora have mercy on your soul."

Charles watched as Julian executed an innocent man, his blood boiling in his veins even as the gathered mob cheered at the false justice. He looked down to see that Sonic was awake and his eyes were fixed on the TV set.

"This isn't something you should see, little one," Charles told him but stopped when he saw Sonic's emerald eyes. He had lived long enough to see what true fury looked like and the fire that burned in the boy's eyes was nothing but. Charles couldn't help but smile as he pulled the pendant Aleena had left and placed around Sonic's wrist. "Keep that fury, boy," he said.

"You're going to need it one day."