Sonic: The Blue Blur
Chapter 1: The Legend Begins
Fireworks shot over the grand city of water, Soleanna. The princess Elise and her boat full of traditional city dancers and great silver torches were the greatest attraction at the festival. She smiled and waved at the thousands of people in the offshore crowds. Her boat stopped at the end of the pier. She got off the boat followed by others who were with her. The man in front of her handed her a torch. She grabbed it. But before she could continue the festival she saw everything suddenly disappeared in a wall of fire. A voice called out to her. "Elise?" She recognized the voice calling out. "Father?" A figure of the beast Iblis appeared in front of her. It spoke in her father's voice, making a grin of menace. "Don't cry. Whatever you do, don't cry."
"Elise?" The young Princess' Lady-in-waiting Tramaine broke her out of the trance. She regained consciousness." Everything's okay." She turned to the torch. "My dear citizens, it is my honor to begin this wonderful festival that has stood for a thousand years. Tonight, we honor our living and dead who have led this city into one of the greatest that there will ever be on the face of this planet!" She lit the fumes and the crowd cheered in celebration.
Suddenly, there were a series of explosions everywhere. People began to panic. A huge carrier ship hovered over the city. A legion of robots called Egg Pawns were dropped below, aiming their guns at every frightened citizen in sight. The bureaucrats started to get scared too. "What's happening?" Said Tramaine in a demanding tone. A hovercraft floated down towards the Princess, and inside was a large bald man with a mustache and glasses. He wore red with a yellow cape. He began to speak.
"Greetings, citizens of Soleanna. I wish to extent my greetings to you for they may be your only comfort. I am Doctor Robotnik, and I have decided to create my dream of creating the Eggman Empire by taking control of your world. Starting with the plan to take the sacred power of this city. I will find it and use it to rule the world. And until I do, I will take your city hostage." The message ended, and the ship fired laser canons at the city causing mayhem. The bureaucrats tried to escape by boat.
Tramaine called out. "My lady, you must leave now, while we still have a chance." Elise shook her head.
"I will not leave my people here alone. We must contact G.U.N."
"But that could take days. Who will help us?" Elise worriedly looks on, with no answer.
The next morning, Sebastian the Owl opened the chili dog stand at Blue Marble Park. He heard the recognizable sound of something faster than the speed of sound. A teenage spiky blue hedgehog came speeding down the trail. He got bored of the trail and jumped over pits, jumped across scenic cliff sides, and zig zagging between unmade paths prevented by boulders. He arrived at the Chili dog stand.
"What's up? Did I keep a sweat or did I keep a sweat?" The owl smiled. "Of course you would have a better time breaking these containers of chilies a lot more than practicing your speed."
"You know me, ready for rush hour." Sonic cracked the jars open and dumped them into the pot. "Sonic, I know you. And I know that no matter how cool you try to be or what speed record you break you can't hide the fact that something kept you up all night. Watching television, too much video games?" Sonic looked over. "Just got caught up on SNC. Watching the reports and saw a replay of some kind of threat."
"Oh yes." Said Sebastian. "I honestly don't know how something like that can happen in an instant but I know I feel useless not helping those poor people." Sonic led out a chuckle. "You'd think at his age the fat man would have had a mid-life crisis doing that."
"Well Sonic," Sebastian said "Let's pray for them. Oh, Sonic. The package trucks should be over at the visitor area in a few minutes. Could you head over there and wait for them?'' Sonic got up." No prob."
"Don't forget to pay the man. Here's the rings." Sonic grabbed the rings and took off.
He dashed along the path. Then he heard a scream. He looked around. "What was that?" Then he saw a young fox of about seven years of age run into him. They both stumbled. "Hey, watch where you're going, kid." The fox scrambled to his feet. "Sorry, can't stop. Gotta get away." "Get away from what?" Three Egg Pawns approached them. "LIFE FORM SPOTTED. ENGAGE THEFT REMOVAL." They charged at the two. "You see?" Said the fox. "We have to get out of here." Sonic wasn't hesitant. "Sounds good to me." But before they could run, one of the Egg Pawns grabbed the fox by the arm. "Hey, let him go!" He kept hitting the robot but it swatted Sonic aside, hitting his head on a tree. He got back up, and this time he charged at the robot, jumped over it and grabbed the fox out of his arms. He ran to safety.
When he was sure they were all safe, Sonic set the fox down. The fox was amazed how fast they went. "Wow, that was so cool, we went so fast! How did you do that!" Sonic shrugged.
"I don't really know. I was born with it. Oh duh, what am I doing? I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog. And who are you, lil' buddy? "Oh my name is Miles Prower. But my nickname is Tails."
"Why is that?" Tails showed Sonic his two tails. Sonic was amazed and pointed at them. "Okay that's just sick. I mean, that's pretty cool."
"These were something I was born with too."
"So, Tails, shouldn't you be in school or something instead of getting chased by robots?" Tails then got a little sweaty." Oh yeah, um..."
" 'Oh yeah, um' mm hm. I heard the robot say something about 'theft removal'. Care to tell me what it meant?"
"Okay, look, I didn't steal anything, I found it on my way to school." He pulled out a small purple scepter. Sonic's eyes widened. "Where'd you get that?"
"Why? Like I said I found it. Lying on the ground. What is it?"
"Tails, that's Soleanna's scepter of darkness. "It's the object used to contain a demon during-"
He was cut off by a voice. "The Solaris project." Sonic and Tails looked above them and saw Dr. Robotnik in a hover craft. "Named after their eternal sun god." Tails faced him. "No! No way. God would not accept that!" Sonic felt embarrassed by Tails. "Tails, back down." Tails obeyed him. "Sorry, Sonic."
Robotnik grew impatient. "Enough! I'm not in the mood for nonsense. It would take me much more than forever if I tore up Soleanna to find that scepter than if someone else found it for me. That Scepter contains half of the power I need to rule this planet. Now my dear friends, if you please."
He stretched his hand forward. Sonic got in front of Tails. "Do you really think..." A group of Egg Pawns surrounded them. Robotnik chuckled. "I could really care less about what happens to you both. Now hand it over like good little animals or I'll unleash the robots' rage." Sonic smiled. "Bring it on, Robuttnik." The robots fired, Sonic dodged them all. Tails tried to get away but Egg Pawns surrounded him. He jumped up and started to propel his tails making him fly. Sonic stared at him. "What the heck is he doing?" Tails turned to Sonic. "Sonic, catch!" He threw the scepter at Sonic. He caught it but got punched by an Egg Pawn. He fell and dropped the scepter.
The scepter started to shake. Robotnik started to worry. "No. What have you done?" Black mist emerged from the scepter. All the Egg Pawns aimed their guns at it. "It's no use. Fall back. Fall back! Fall back!" He took off. The robots became paralyzed instantly. The mist shot out, destroying the robots, and landed in Sonic's shadow. It took his form. Tails looked at the similar figure.
"Sonic. What...?" The figure laughed. "You know, fate can be a very ironic thing. I never ever thought I would be resurrected through your shade. I thank you, Sonic the Hedgehog."
"Who are you? And how do you know my name?" The figure does not respond at first. It hangs down and slowly walks towards him. "Poor Sonic. He doesn't remember me. Ten years and not the same person." Sonic looks at him confused. The figure is only inches away from him. Sonic begins to walk away, but then the figure shoots a lance from his hand through Sonic. "What you have given me, I now return to you. A life of being caged!" Sonic vanished.
He woke up, he felt sweltering heat in the air. He got up and saw a burnt city, lava rumbling below. Sonic looked around. "Centeropolis." He heard a groan next to him. Tails woke up. "Tails! How'd you get here?" Tails got up. "Same way you did I guess. Whoa! Is this what I think it is?" Sonic nodded. "Iblis' prized treasure. But why would we be sent here?" Just then the whole city had a force field around it.
"Obviously that guy was literal, he really does want us trapped in here." Something beeped. "Maybe not, Sonic." Tails pulled out a device. "I'm getting an energy reading." Sonic looked at Tails. "What are you talking about?" Tails showed Sonic his device. "This, I call it the Navitailer. Named it after myself. It picks up strong energy reading in local areas." "Where'd you get it?"
"I made it. That's strange. The pressure's..." Sonic turned to himself. "You made that?"
"Sonic, the pressure just keeps going up. It's over 500,000 charges and it keeps rising." "500,000? The only things I know with charges that high are...chaos emeralds.
Tails got excited. "Then we could set them on the force field and if we can activate that amount of charges against it then we might open a hole to escape." "Then let's go!"
Sonic ran across the ruins of the roof he was on. Then he came down a slide and kept going. He jumped over to the next building. As he and Tails got off it it started to crumble. They jumped up the steps of an old tower and then jumped up some falling stones to get to the next building. The building they landed on began to move and shake. It fell but not before they jumped across two more ruins next to them. They found the emerald.
"There it is!" Tails exclaimed. The shiny red emerald layed on the ground. Sonic picked it up. He was enchanted. He had never held a chaos emerald before in his life. "The power of mobius, in the palm of my hand."
"Sonic." Sonic broke out of the trance. "Go on, Sonic. Put it on the force field."
"Um, right." Sonic looked at the force field. "Gotta open it up." The emerald began to shine, then a huge hole opened a hole in the force field. "Wow Sonic." Said Tails. "You didn't even touch it."
"No, I guess I just had to think about it." "Well, let's go. Looks like we've got some problems to solve." Tails went through the hole. Sonic was about to follow but then he saw a black portal with the figure emerging from it. It extended one hand out to the hole, insisting he should leave. The other hand extended to the portal, insisting he should follow him. Sonic looked at the two choices he was given, to leave with Tails or to get answers from this unknown being. "I'll catch up, Tails." Sonic went after the figure. They both went through the portal.
Sonic found himself underground on a small island surrounded by lava. The figure stood in front of him. "I'm impressed by your actions. Using the chaos emerald to your advantage."
"And now it's just us two. Now first, who are you?"
"I'm not surprised that you don't know anything about me. But I'll arrange that another time. My name is Mephiles the Dark. And I wish to spare you death for a warning." He snapped his fingers and a pod filled with blood containing a dead Sonic appeared. "Yes, that's you." He continued. "When Iblis was free to ruin Centeropolis, who was there to blame? Someone involved with the project. Someone who survived. You sealed me inside the scepter ten years ago. Somehow you time traveled to the past. People knew this and began to suspect. They murdered you. They used this incident to hunt you down." Sonic looked away. Mephiles continued. "Come with me. Let us punish humanity for their actions. You know that you were doing what you feel is right. You deserve justice." Then Sonic raised his head. "That's crazy. People don't deserve to be murdered back. I don't know what you're up to, but I'll make sure to stop you."
"You forgive humanity this, then?"
"Yes, I do. Because I love this planet." Mephiles said nothing. He transformed himself into a crystallized form and shot out his spear at Sonic, sending him somewhere else.
Sonic woke up. "Tails? Tails." He looked ahead and saw he was somewhere recognizable. "Green Hill Zone. Good. That means Tails isn't too far away. Piece this puzzle together while saving the world, huh? Sounds like fun!"
To be continued...