Neo Sonic Underground: Earth Saga

Season 2 Episode 1:

Escape the City

A/N I don't own Sonic characters or games

Sonic appears in a flash of blue light standing on a grassy green hill welcome by the dawning sunrise and morning fog covering the city. He covers his eyes for minute as they to adjust the bright sunlight. After a couple of seconds of drinking in the new scenery, Sonic glances to his left to see Nico floating next to him with the same amazed expression on his face. "We made it," Sonic states with a smile.

~Yeah, but we don't have time to the stand here and guck at the view. We need to get started before mom and them get here, ~ Nico replies with his arms folded with a now stern expression. The werehog glances to his right to see Sonic smirking back at him. Sonic continues his smirking expression at Nico until he cracks with, ~Alright you got me! I think its pretty cool to.~ Sonic nods his approval then goes back to looking at the majestic backdrop while listening to his brother says, ~So where do we start looking Sonic? The only clues we have is the coin that pointed us here, a dream image of some buildings and a bridge, then there is that girl…~

Sonic jumps in with, "Yeah, I have the feeling that she is somewhere close, but other than that I have no idea where we should start."

"Maybe you have thought about that before jumping head first into this trip!" Sonic lifts up his left wrist with to see Cortana.

"And what do you do mean by that Cortana?" Sonic questions with a slighted look on his face.

The blue AI folds her arms behind her head then says while walking around in the air, "Its simple, you should have had a plan long before we made this trip, but in your normal 'fly by the seat of your pants' fashion we took off without knowing what we are doing."

Sonic folds his arms while snickering as Cortana looks out at the fog covered city, "For your information, I do have a plan." Cortana glances back at Sonic with an unconvinced glare. Sonic points towards the city then says, "First, we head into the city and find maps of area. That way we can locate the places they keep records. Second, we head to the points that Nico and I saw in our dream. Hopefully that will lead to another clue about who the girl in our dream is and about dad's involvement in this world. From there, we will have to play it by ear and see what happens."

Cortana smirks while shaking her head, "Well its better than nothing, but one thing has been bugging me…"

"Ask me in a minute," Sonic states walking over to a lone tree on the hill. He takes off his backpack and pulls out his wallet and cellphone. "Nico mine giving a hand?"

The werehog nods yes and changes place with Sonic. Nico lets his hands grow into their large claw form, and he starts dig a hole about five feet deep. Once done, he tosses the backpack in the hole then refills the hole with dirt. Nico claps his claws knocking off the dirt, "There that should be do it."

"Nico just because you are related to K9's doesn't mean you have to bury your stuff like dog," Cortana comments.

Nico looks at the AI, "For you information, I'm half wolf not K9. As for my stuff, we need a secure place and if someone looking they'll think dog just buried a bone and leave it alone. Sonic you're up."

Nico switches out with Sonic; then the blue hedgehog does a couple of quick stretches. "Alright here we goooo!" Sonic exclaims taking off at his signature speed. The blue blur speeds along the early morning nearly empty highway.

As the landscape quickly passes by, Cortana sits crossed legit on the watch face platform. She sits there thinking then Cortana looks over to Sonic, "Hey Sonic, about my question…"

Sonic brings his arm in front of him, "Oh that's right, so what's on your mind?"

"Sonic, you mention seeing that girl we are looking for in your dreams right?" Sonic nods yes and Cortana continues with, "Well to make the search easier for us, why not describe what she looks like to me? I have software that will allow to me reconstruct her face." Sonic looks off in the distant while still at full speed. Cortana gets a nervous expression on her face, "Um… Sonic, maybe you should keep your eyes on the road? I know you that you can't use your full normal speed, but we are still moving over a fifty miles per hour." Cortana stands up looking at the blue hedgehog, "Sonic?!"

"I don't know what her face look like?"

"What?!"

"Or rather that, we can't remember."

Cortana gives a questioned expression, "How? No why can't you remember?"

"Every time we would dream about her or see her face in an awaking dream like when we went berserk during the Werehog Moon. Once we woke up, we couldn't recall a thing about her, but we know the fact that she exist."

Cortana gives a sad expression, "Damn! Well, that lead is a dead-end."

Sonic looks back forward with a smile, "Nah! It's not a dead-end; it's just another mystery that we going to solve."

After about twenty minutes, Cortana screams out, "SONIC STOP!"

Sonic slams on the breaks coming to smoking stop. He looks at Cortana with a confessed look, "What's the matter Cortana?"

She points at the sign, "Look!"

Sonic looks at the sign, "Welcome to Downtown San-Francisco. Ok, Cortana why did you want me to hit the brakes?"

"Well, if it's not obvious, Queen Aleena told you not to unnecessary show your powers or abilities," Cortana states.

"Meaning?" Sonic comments.

Cortana quickly fires back, "Meaning! You can't go tear ass-ing through the city like you do on Mobius."

"Oh please don't say it," Sonic starts to whine.

Cortana folds her arms with a smirk on her face, "Yeah, Sonic you're going have walk through the city."

Sonic's head falls down looking at the ground with at sweat drop on going the side of his head. After a minute, Sonic lift his head back up with a weak smile. "OK, I can do this." Sonic takes a weak step forward and starts to normally walk on the sidewalk into the city. It takes Sonic about forty minutes to reach the more inner part of the city. He looks around at all the cars and people moving about as they head to their offices and job sites.

Nico appears next Sonic looking up at the all the buildings, ~Ok we reached the city, so now what?~

Sonic sees the people standing around waiting for public transport or calling for taxis to come pick them up. ~As of right now, we need to get intel on this place. ~

~Ok, but we aren't getting anywhere fast at this pace,~ Nico keeps watching the people then says, ~Sonic hail a cab that will be much faster than you walking around.~

Sonic walks close to the street then holds out his hand calling for a car to stop pick them up. A minute later, a green and red car with the words in written in white 'Veteran Taxi Co'. Sonic opens the door and sits down in the cab. An elder African-American man with gray hair sits in the driver seat. "Good morning young man, where are you heading today?"

"Um I'm looking for a place where I can get information about the city and things around here," Sonic replies with smile.

The driver looks in rear view mirror at the smiling blue hedgehog. "Are you new to the area?"

"Yes sir in fact, I just got here this morning."

The man pulls into traffic then starts the digital meter. All the while, he glances back at Sonic looking out the window. "So youngster tell me, how get into the city? If you just arrived why are you not in an airport cab?"

Sonic gives a convincing smile then says, "I… when I got here, I just ran on foot for a while until I was told I couldn't do it anymore, so here I end up."

The man giggles coming to a stop at a red light. "Well, we all have some strange tales. Are you traveling by yourself? Let me guess you're here to look at the super big school a little ways from here?"

Sonic looks at the driver with a curious expression on his face, "No, my brother is here with me along with my older siblings. My mother, sister, and brother will get here tomorrow, but what school are you talking about?"

"Hesogaia Education Center the biggest school next to USF," the driver responses driving on after the light turns green.

"Well no, that wasn't a part of my trip, but I think we'll add it to the list of places that we will go to," Sonic replies looking at the passing buildings.

The veteran looks back Sonic looking outside then a lightbulb goes off in his head as he says, "Sorry for saying son, but you look familiar. Like I have seen you somewhere else before or someone who looks like you."

Nico quickly says, ~Sonic he's asking to many questions! ~

~Relax Nico, he must be talking about Shadow or Silver, ~ Sonic replies then says out loud, "Sorry, but I don't know who you are talking about?"

"Well, it was just a guess," the driver laughs pulling off to the road and parks the car. "Alright, San-Francisco Tourist Bureau they should have everything you are looking for."

"Sweet," Sonic replies while opening the door, "Will it be ok, if you wait here while grab some things?"

"Sure, but I have to keep the meter running while you're out" the man replies.

Sonic gives a thumbs up then heads towards the open air kiosks. The blue hedgehog makes his way around all the people crowding the area with maps in handle with their children, friends, and other personal contacts. Sonic got into line waiting for his turn. Nico floats around looking at all the humans and different animal anthropos that look similar to the people on Mobius. Cortana watches from the inside of her spacious high tech room. She keeps watch of everything from the jumbo size computer monitor. It takes ten minutes for Sonic to get to the window, and he is greeted by a young Middle Eastern woman with a colorful hijab wrapped around her head. "Good morning and welcome to San-Francisco. How may I help you?"

Sonic smiles back and says, "Yes, I need a map of the city, state, country, and if possible a world map. In a topographic, political, climate, roadway, and physical system formats."

She starts to pull together a city and state map then says a turn of regret, "Well, sir I have a state and city map in a roadway and topographic form, but for all the other forms, I would recommend that you visit the local library. They should be able give you access to other maps."

"Thank you," Sonic replies taking the maps from woman.

"Your welcome sir, and if you like we are accept donations to help fund the traveler's bureau," the kiosk runner states.

Sonic nods yes and ask, "Do you take debit cards?" She pulls out an iPad with a cube card reader. Sonic hands her the card; she swipes the card hands its back to Sonic then turns towards the pad screen to Sonic. There are four square on the screen with different values: $1, $5, $10, Enter Amount. Sonic taps last cube then type in the number pad 7000. He taps enter then signs his name. The woman is surprise by the amount the cobalt hedgehog typed in; she is farther shocked when Sonic hands her a hundred dollar bill. "This is for you to thank you for all the help," Sonic thanks before walking away. Once he is by himself, Sonic says, "Hey Cortana, scan these maps and see what you find out."

The blue AI comes out in her mini form then scans over the two maps. After she finishes scanning, she goes back into her workstation inside the watch. On her monitor, she uses a blank scene that is filled in with new pieces from the maps she scanned. Cortana looks at the map with a sour expression, "Sonic, I need more detailed maps than what we have here."

Sonic nods in agreement and starts walking back the taxi. The driver greets Sonic after he sits down in the rear passenger's side, and he questions, "So did you find what you were looking for?"

"Not fully sir."

"Ah I see, so where do you want go next?"

"The library," Sonic replies. "They should have more specialized maps and data."

"You got it," the driver replies pulling the car into traffic. "If don't mine me asking, what's your name?"

"Oh my name," Sonic responses with a sight tone of surprise. The blue hedgehog's mind races thinking of what to say in a flash Sonic answers, "Sora."

"Sora you say," the driver replies. "Sora the Japanese word for sky if my memory services me right."

Sonic looks at the name plate and asks, "Mr. Sisko, what kind of veteran are you?"

He glances in the rear mirror at Sonic then says, "I retired from the Navy some years ago. Afterwards, I worked as a software engineer. Now, with both my kids in their career jobs, my wife and I decided to retired, but I didn't want to sit around at home all the time. So, I convince Mary to let me take a part-time job driving a taxi. What do your parents do?"

"Well… you could say my dad was in the military, and my mom runs a government office," Sonic answers. They continue their small talk for another fifteen minute. Soon after, they arrive at the library. "I hate to ask, but please wait here while I run inside." The driver nods yes with a smile on his face patting the running meter.

Sonic rushes inside with the driver watching from behind the wheel, "His name is Sora, he's a hedgehog, and he looks like those I worked with in G.U.N. Come on Lewis, you're just imagining it."

Sonic enters the library with a lost expression on his face. Nico floats around looking up at the five story building with all the books, files, and other research materials. ~Wow this place is as big as the royal library back at home, ~ Nico comments looking in all around.

~And just like home, we are going to have to hell of a time finding everything we need, ~ Sonic comments looking around as well. He looks at his watch, "Hey Cortana scan the area and see if you can find…"

A man in casual outfit taps Sonic on shoulder making him freak out for a second as he asks, "Do you need help sir?"

"Um… yeah," Sonic replies.

He leads Sonic to the main desk then asks, "Now what can help you find sir?" Sonic tells him the different types of maps that he needs. "Ok, you can use our computers on the second floor to find the maps that are in our database. I just need to see your library card to allow you access."

Sonic gives a goofy expression then says, "Well um… I am new in town."

"Oh that's no problem, we can sign you up right away," the librarian states. He pulls out a several forms and walks Sonic through the process. Ten minutes later, the librarian tells Sonic stand to the right of the desk to take his photo. The librarian hands Sonic the printed card then says, "Ok, Sora you're all set. Just please keep your time on the computer limited to two hours."

Sonic thanks the working then heads upstairs to the computer room. He goes to computer in the corner and logs in. Once the computer is fully booted up he looks at Cortana, "Ok Cortana do your thing."

Cortana appears in the miniature form and walks over the computer. She holds her hand up the flat screen making the windows open up change at break neck speed all the while Cortana's eyes flash while downloading data of the maps and other sources of information. In five minutes, the willful AI finishes downloading everything they need. "All done. Sonic, I was also able to access Earth's satellite system along with their Wi-Fi signals, so I'll have access the internet from anywhere."

"Good job Cortana, now access the data we got from home and compare it what we have. Look for any connections or landmarks that would lead us to dad," Sonic orders.

Cortana pulls up a portable workstation, "It will take a minute, but Sonic I have so say that was pretty slick that you gave Mr. Sisko the name Sora as your own."

Sonic leans back in the chair, "Don't read too much into it Cortana, Nico and I still plan on knocking the hell out of the jerk when we see him. Besides, wasn't it your idea that we keep a low profile while we are here?"

Cortana smirks while shaking her head a second later the console beeps. She turn around to sees the display 'No Matches'. "Damn we don't have enough data."

"Great we hit wall," Sonic complains logging out the computer. "Got any ideas what we should look at next?"

Cortana goes back into her workstation and flops down in her chair looking the monitor. She thinks for a couple minutes until an idea jumps out at her, "Sonic, see if they have a directory with people's names and families."

"What are you thinking Cortana?"

"Well, I downloaded their historical archive, so if can find King Sora's name, I will be able to start a back trace and cross search."

Sonic agrees with Cortana then heads downstairs to the main desk. Another librarian comes the hedgehog's aid, "Good morning sir, how may I help you?"

"Do you have a database that holds the names of people and relation to historical events?"

"Yes sir, on the fifth floor is the hall of records."

Sonic nods then heads upstairs. Once there, he sees a room label of 'Hall of Records'. Sonic walks in and his jaw drops seeing the state of the room. "You have got to be kidding me! For a planet as technologically advance as this, why are their records like this?!" Cortana appears in full size form and gives a surprise whilst seeing all the files, stacks, books, and other things for holding records. "Cortana, can you just scan the room and copy all the data into your memory core?"

Cortana gives an annoyed expression and says, "Are you fucking kidding?! Sonic these files are all in hard physical form not digital. I would have to go through each file and scan them by hand if you want me to collect the data."

Sonic exhales hanging his head down; he looks towards Nico, "Any ideas Nico?"

~Well Sonic, you could race back and forth bringing the files to Cortana, so she can scan them,~ Nico answers.

"Forget it Nico; it still would take hours for me to get the files to her," Sonic replies. Nico folds his arms thinking about Sonic's statement; then he nods in agreement.

Cortana thinks for a second then says, "Sonic, I have an idea." She holds out her hands making a hand size spider-like blue machine appear in each hand.

Sonic and Nico look at the small robots with a surprise expression then he asks while trying to touch it, "What is it?"

The blue robot moves away from Sonic's touch while saying in high pitch kid's voice, "Hey! I have a name!"

"Huh!" Sonic replies.

Cortana giggles as the robot runs up and perches itself on her right shoulder. "They're called Tachikomas. Motoko, Cyrus, and I developed these this little guys and gals to help with data retrieval, espionage, and firewall security," Cortana explains. She nods her head up signaling to the other robot to climb on her shoulder. "Right you two get busy. I need you to scan all these documents and files. We need to create a database for this information."

"Yes ma`am!" they exclaims jumping off her shoulder creating an orb of light then thousands of the little robots come rushing out in all directions. Soon the room is covered with the same hand size blue robots. They quickly get to work scanning all the documents and downloading the data into the Cortana's core network.

"Wow look at them go! There must thousands of them!" Sonic exclaims.

"Well ten thousand to be precise," Cortana confirms watching everything unfold. "Hey, make sure that you don't leave a mess ok."

"Yes ma`am!" they all say in unison.

Thirty minutes later, all the Tachikomas return back to orb of light then the light fades as the original two Tachikomas land back on Cortana's shoulders. "Job you two. Now head back and start working on the data."

"Yes ma`am," they replies disappearing in a flash of light.

The blue Al looks at Sonic and says, "I'm heading back as well to help with converting the data. Where are we heading to next?"

Sonic and Nico think for minute; until Sonic looks at his brother nodding his approval, "We'll head to another place that we saw in our dream." The blue hedgehog thanks the librarians then gets back into the cab. "Thanks for waiting Mr. Sisko," Sonic says closing the door.

Lewis smirks, "No problem Sora, so where to next?"

"There is a building with a sharp point at the top that I have heard about would please take us there?"

"No problem," Lewis replies pulling off. He sees Sonic messing with his watch then says, "Sora do you mind if I ask you something?"

Sonic looks way from his watch, "Sure what's on your mind?"

"Well, I understand you are on vacation, but you're not going to the normal spots that a tourist would go to. I fact I think that you looking for someone," Lewis speculates.

Sonic gives a smirk then says, "Hum… I have to give it to you. You're right, I'm looking for someone, but I have to first find the clues that where left behind in order to get on their trail."

"Wow, this one hell of game you and friends are playing," Lewis comments, "So are you going to do once you find them?"

"We are going to have it out," Sonic states with a serious tone of voice.

"A fight?!" Lewis replies.

Sonic remains quiet for a few minutes. Lewis glances back at Sonic to see him with a serious expression on his face. "No, a full out brawl," Sonic replies with the same tone.

Lewis sees the intense angry in his eyes as he looks outside the window as they ride in silent for the remainder of the trip. Ten minutes later, they pull in front the building, "Transamerica Pyramid," Lewis states. Sonic gets out and quickly heads inside, ~ That young man has some real anger in heart. ~

Sonic walks into building and heads into the front desk in his normal tone of voice Sonic asks the woman at the front desk, "Excuse me ma`am, but do you allow people to the top of the building?"

"Yes sir, just take the elevator marked sky watch it will take you up the roof," the woman replies.

Sonic thanks the woman; then heads to the elevator. The doors open, and he is the only one inside the car. Few minutes later, Sonic reaches the roof access area. He walks through the door and is hits with a cool breeze. He looks out at the city letting his mind wonder. ~Nico do you feel anything? ~

~No, ~ Nico states he looks behind him at higher platform, ~Sonic climb up to that platform.~

Sonic does as his brother says and stands on the higher platform. They are able to see everything around the area. "Nico, I'm not sensing… wait over there," Sonic points to the bridge. ~Nico, do you feel that? ~

~Yeah! Something about that bridge and the island over there, I don't know what it is but…~

~Yeah! That's where we are heading to next, ~ Sonic finishes jumping off the higher platform. ~Nico, do you think dad left these clues for us or mom to find him? ~

~Who cares! We're on his trail, and I personally can't wait to me him face to face,~ Nico replies as they ride down the elevator. He looks at Sonic to see a puzzled look on his face, ~Hey Sonic, what's with the look? Don't tell me you're having second thoughts. ~

~No, but…~ Sonic leans against the back wall with arms crossed. ~Maybe we should not focus on finding dad, but find the girl. ~

~Sonic, we don't have any leads on finding her, and we don't even know if she in the same city. ~

~I know, but just thinking about finding dad first then beating the hell out of him. It just doesn't feel right that we start a new adventure on a new planet by finding dad and fighting. ~

Sonic walks out the elevator and waves bye to the front desk attendant. Once they step outside, Nico proposals, ~How bout this Sonic, we keep on dad's trail, but if we any leads about her comes up, we drop everything and focus on her.~

Sonic stops in his tracks and exhales, "Deal." He gets back into cab and before Lewis can say anything Sonic tell him, "I'm sorry Mr. Sisko, I feel that I may have given the wrong impression about my intentions when I find the person we are searching for. We aren't just hunting a stranger, but we are trying to find our dad and bring him back home."

Lewis smiles then says, "Well, Sora if you keep true to yourself and your mission, I'm sure you'll find him. However, if I can say from a father's point of view, I had to leave my kids and wife for long periods of time while serving in the military."

Sonic looks up at the skyscraper thinking until he says in a soft tone, "Why?! Why would he, you, or anyone do something like this?" Sonic rises his voice with a mild angry tone and a tear in his eye, "Why would they leave their families behind to do something like that?!"

Lewis leans on the steering wheel looking up at blue sky, "My son asked the same question once. It took me some time to find the answer to his question, but I'll tell you what I told him. The reason people join is because they feel that they have a responsibility to protect the nation and more importantly our families. Sora, I can't sit here and tell you not hit your father for him being a part of the military, but I can ask you to look through his eyes and remember that he went out to full fill that duty. Who knows one day you might choice take up that duty yourself. Also, know that we need the people back at home to be with and support us. Sometimes, we might not agree with where we are sent, but we will go to honor our duty."

Sonic looks back at Lewis and smirks, "Yeah, I think you're right. Dad told us that he went off help and protect others. Let me guess after you gave that explanation, your son joined the military."

Lewis looks back with a big grin on his face, "He was promoted to Captain two years ago and was given command of a base."

"Thanks Mr. Sisko, you have given us a lot think about, and we will try to look at things through a different lens. Still, it won't change our mind; right when we see dad, 'POW' right in the kisser!" Sonic exclaims with a cheerful smile holding up his fist.

Lewis can't help but laugh at the happy and funny pose that the blue hedgehog teenager strikes, "Hehe! Well Sora, everyone has their own personal way to welcome back their family member. Might I suggest that after you slug your father, you go out do something fun together; I would suggest cooking. My son Ben can make a mean creole jambalaya."

"Well, dad will love Soaring Blue Chilidogs," Sonic replies back.

"So where to next?" Lewis questions as he starts the engine.

"There's a red bridge and an island, do you know where they are?" Sonic questions.

Lewis taps his chin for a moment then he snaps his fingers, "Ah you're talking about, the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island two of San-Francisco's top main tourist spots. If you want get to the island, you can take a ferry from Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Alright, here we go." The car pulls onto the street and takes off down the road.

Space Colony Ark sits in Earth's orbit circling the planet. The station acts as a protective guardian for the planet. Inside the space station, the crew members go about performing their duties while the civilian population run tests and experiments of different scientific, engineering, and biological focuses. Shadow Hedgehog now standing at 6'4'' with a mild size build with his quills going pass his shoulders. His lower quills are tied in a ponytail while his upper quills in a similar style to Sonic. The black hedgehog wears midnight black tactical uniform on his right collar there are two circle pins one gold and one black with a gold ring around the edge. On his left shoulder sleeve, there is a circle patch with the image of Ark and the words, 'Guardian Units of Nations: STAR' written in the lower a circle of the patch is 'Special Tactics Agent and Recon'. He holds a pad while riding the tubrolift to the opt center. Once he reaches OPS, the lift comes up from one of the corners on the floor. Shadow walks out of the lift greeting the people in the area and walks over the station commander's office and rings the door chime. Inside the office, a bald African-American male in a black jacket with gray over the top and a burgundy red shirt with four gold circle pins on his collar. He works on his silver laptop. When he hears the door chime, and he says, "Come in." He sees Shadow walk and greets, "Shadow good to see you. How are things going?"

Shadow replies while handing the pad to him, "Not too bad Captain Sisko."

The captain looks over the pad while asking, "So do you have everything you for the operation tonight?"

"Yes sir, but I have to ask why are we even doing this?" Shadow questions.

"What do mean Shadow?"

"Captain, why are getting involved with the manhunt for the Black Rose Ninja?"

Captain Sisko stands up and walks over to the window to look at view of the sun lite surface of the planet. "Sad to say Shadow its politics," Sisko states with a reluctant tone. Shadow walks over to stand next to Ben, and he continues saying, "But if you think about, the Black Rose Ninja has been able to outwit local, state, and federal law enforcement."

"Still captain, I don't see why we should involve. The only thing she has done is destroy mortgage records for low income families, so they wouldn't lose their homes. If it helps, the company she hits is corrupted as all hell. The board of directors and the CEO are more corrupt than anything else."

"I agree with you Shadow, but she is being backed by some class-A hackers. If we can catch her, we might be able to turn her and her backers to work for GUN. Also, I have been talking with the FBI director and Attorney General, and we have all agreed that once the Black Rose Ninja is out of the way, we will begin investigating Rose Corp."

Shadow folds his arms with an angry expression, "That's all well and good, but I still don't like the fact I have to put Sally Acorn as the lead field agent in this operation. Captain! She's the damn CEO's daughter for crying aloud! It plainly screams conflict of interest!"

"I clearly agree with you Shadow, so that is why doing during the brief I want you pass on the some direct orders from me to agent Acorn," Ben states with a serious tone. Shadow looks at the captain with a growing curiously. He looks at be the black with a serious expression, "I want the Black Rose Ninja taken in alive! The use of lethal force is strictly prohibited! Do you I make myself clear Lieutenant?!"

Shadow cracks a smiles hearing Ben's orders, "Crystal sir!"

Ben smiles then walks back over this his desk and sits back in his chair. Shadow nods his head then starts to head for the door. Before he exits, Ben asks, "Before I forget Shadow, have you talked with Queen Aleena about her visit to Earth?"

"Yes sir. Mom will use chaos control to the get here to Ark; then we will take a shuttle from here to San-Francisco," Shadow states with an exhausted tone.

Ben notices the change in Shadow's tone, and quickly jumps on the change, "What are you not telling me Shadow?"

Shadow exhales then turns around to look at Captain Sisko and tells, "Well, mom told me that my brothers left a day early."

"Which brothers left?"

"Sonic and Nico," Shadow replies.

Ben thinks for a minute then says, "Sonic and Nico… oh your brother with the split personally."

Shadow shakes his head, "Technically, they are two separate people, but they share a body."

"Ah I see," Ben comments, "do you know where they are? How they got here?"

Shadow folds his arms, "I guess you can hold me accountable. When we first went to Mobius, I used a foci crystal to increase my power of chaos control to warp my siblings and me there. Before we came back, I gave Sonic and Nico the crystal." The black hedgehog walks over the window once more, "To answer the first question, early this morning Midna sensed the energy from a powerful chaos control use. Without a doubt, they are in San-Francisco."

Ben turns in his chair to look at Shadow, "If you want, I can send a team to go pick them up."

Shadow shakes his head no and says, "We haven't gotten any reports of strange things involving a hedgehog, so they must be keeping a low profile."

Ben thinks for a minute then asks, "Any idea why they wanted come early?"

Shadow looks down at the planet, "They are looking for our father."

Captain Sisko is shocked to hear his brothers' motive, "That is shocking to hear in any form." Shadow's face grows sour when he hears, "So are you going to help Shadow? After all, you have been looking for leads about Sora's whereabouts for the past two years, and three more before you went to Mobius."

"And I haven't find anything at all, so if they have a lead then they are welcome to follow it," Shadow comments with a harsh tone.

Ben shakes his head, "Shadow, if you know they are looking for Sora, then you should work with your brothers. Together, you might…"

Shadow interjects with an angry tone, "No way! Sonic and Nico can run their investigation, and I will run mine!"

"Alright Shadow," Ben replies. "But that will mean you won't know what lean they have and like you said your search has hit a dead-end."

Shadow exhales lowering his head, "I know captain, but when I find our dad…" He lifts head back up with a tear rolling down his cheek, "I just want to hug him."

The taxi pulls into the park's parking lot; Sonic sees people walking, running, parents pushing baby strollers, and kids playing. "Wow, this place remains me of home," Sonic comments.

Lewis smiles, "That's good to hear Sora, so you have parks like this from where you are?"

"Kinda, my mom built a giant hanging garden, but in the cities we do have parks like this," Sonic replies. He looks at Lewis with a smile, "so I can take a ferry to Alcatraz Island."

"Yup, and the ferry will take you under the Golden Gate Bridge," Lewis reports, "Plus on a day like today with clear skies and sunshine, you will be able to see everything for miles."

"Awesome," Sonic replies; he then looks at his watch. Cortana displays a message and he nods his head; then he looks at Lewis, "Well, my mom and sister will be meeting me here, so I don't want to hold you up for the rest of the day."

Lewis nods and checks the meter, "Ok, that will be one hundred twenty-two dollars and eighty cents."

Sonic pulls out his debit card and hands it to Lewis. He swipes the card then gives the iPad and card back to the blue hedgehog. Sonic enters $10,000 tip then signs his name. While handling the pad back to Lewis, Sonic asks, "Mr. Sisko, you have been a great help while taking me around the city. Do you have a card with your contact information in case I need another ride?"

"Of course," Lewis answers. He pulls out his wallet and gives Sonic the card. "Well Sora, I hope your search for you dad goes well, and if you need advice or help just give me a call."

"Thank you Mr. Sisko," Sonic says holding out his hand.

Lewis shakes his while saying, "It was good to meet you Sora, and I hope to see you in the future." Sonic nods then gets out the car and heads to the docks. Lewis parks the car then taps the screen on the dashboard.

The icon opens up and a woman in a GUN uniform says, "Good morning Guardian Units of Nations communication center where may I… oh Director Sisko, how can I help you?"

"Good morning, I need to speak with my son at Space Colony Ark," Lewis requests.

"One moment please director," the operator says.

The image of GUN icon appears on the screen. After thirty seconds, Ben appears on the screen then says with a smile, "Dad! Good to see you, how you been doing?"

"Quite well Ben, how are things on ark? And what about Jake?"

"Jake is doing well; he growing up like a rocket. As for things here, its going great. Is everything ok?" Ben questions with worry.

"Everything is fine Ben, but I just had a very interesting customer," Lewis starts off; Ben interest is peeked hearing his father's words. Lewis continues with, "Son, do you remember a man by name Sora Speed-Hedgehog?"

Ben quickly replies, "Yeah, he's the King of Mobius and the father of Shadow and his siblings."

"Right on the nose son, and according the news Queen Aleena and her children will be coming to Earth for a visit," Lewis states.

Ben leans back in his chair and says, "Yeah, she will be here tomorrow morning, but what does this have to do with your latest costumer?"

Lewis smirks, "My costumer was a teenager, a hedgehog teenage. When we got to talking, he told me his was Sora."

Ben gives a big grin then says, "Let me guess, he was a blue hedgehog." Lewis nods yes, and Ben laughs, "Shadow told me that his brothers Sonic and Nico left ahead of schedule and landed this morning in San-Francisco."

Lewis follows up with, "Sonic told me that he looking for leads in order to find Sora."

"So where are they right now?" Ben questions.

"The Golden Gate Park," Lewis answers, "They are planning to take the ferry to Alcatraz, so are you planning to send a team to pick them up?"

Ben shakes his head no, "I asked the Shadow the same question, and he said no. From the looks of things, they are keeping a low profile, but I might send some agents to shadow him just as a safety measure."

"Well, that's your choice son, but I would be cautious. Sonic gives off the vibe that unless he wants to be tracked he won't be," Lewis warnings.

"Agreed, but I think it would be good training for some of our agents."

"Good, good," Lewis comments, "Well with that out of the way, what did you do to my gumbo recipe?"

"Ah come on dad," Ben whines.

"Don't you 'Ah come on' me Benjamin Sisko! You know the rules when it comes using recipes," Lewis fires back. The two men continue with their conversion for another hour.

Sonic walks through the park looking around at the open-air scenery. He breathes in the fresh air and feels the cool wind blowing in from the bay. Nico floats in a reclined position with his arms folded behind his head. From a quick bust of blue stars, Cortana appears in her full form wearing a white blouse with blue skinny jeans. She looks at the blue hedgehog, "Sonic, what are you doing?"

He looks at her, "Cortana just look around, its beautiful here."

Cortana does a quick look around then says, "It looks great Sonic, but we don't have time to sightseeing. We need to get the ferry and see what clues we can find."

Sonic exhales then replies, "You're right, let's get going." At a low speed jog they all make their way to the dock. Sonic walks up to the ticket booth says to the attendant, "One ticket to Alcatraz please."

The middle aged man gives a disappoint expression then says, "I'm sorry sir, but the ferry has broken down while at the island. We have sent a repair crew and called for another ferry, but we won't be able to continue service until after…*ring*," He stops in mid-sentence to pick up the work phone. "Go ahead! Uh huh, uh huh… What about the tour groups on the island? Yeah, yeah… Ok I got you." He hang up the phone then looks at Sonic, "I'm sorry sir, but we will not be able to provide anymore tours for today."

"May I ask what happened?" Sonic inquires.

"Well, the replacement ferry is undergoing heavy maintenance, and the ferry at the island is being towed to our dry dock," the worker reports.

Sonic nods his head and thanks the worker. He turns around and walks away; he sees Cortana leaning against a wall watching a family playing at the playground. "Cortana!" She turns to look at him, and Sonic explains the situation with the ferry.

"That does present a problem," Cortana states. "So what are you going to do?"

Sonic folds his arms then looks at the water, "Well, I have one idea, but you're going to have to lower the gravity weight on our shoes by 20%."

Cortana narrows her eyes then looks in the direction Sonic is looking. A second passes, and she is pieces together Sonic's plan. "Sonic are you sure about this? I taught you didn't perfect the water running technique."

"I figured that, if I can keep up my speed, I shouldn't have any problem. All we need is a level plain with the water," Sonic states. They start walking alongside the water front while Sonic says, "Cortana, how's your analysis of the data from the library going?"

"To be totally honest, slow. The Tachikomas are working as fast as possible, but there is much data to through. Plus, we don't have a way to catalog the data," Cortana explains.

"Well that sucks, we possibly have lots of answers but no questions," Sonic states. He continues to looking along the shore then spots a boat ramp. "There that ramp will work perfectly."

Cortana inspects the ramp and the space leading to the ramp, "Sonic, are you sure you want to do this? If you mess up, we'll all drown."

Sonic checks the area then moves back about two hundred and gets into a runner's starting position. Cortana moves closer to Sonic while he does some quick leg stretches. "Sonic, can't we wait until tomorrow? That way we won't risk exposer."

"No chance," Sonic replies, "Mom will be here by then, and we both know she going to be pissed. We need something to show her to justify our decision to leave without permission."

Cortana folds her arms with an unconvinced expression, "I guess there is no changing your mind. Just be cautious, you're speed boost from running across the water will create a powerful wake."

Sonic smirks, "We know Cortana; we just need to stay away from any boats. Alright, we're wasting time." Cortana nods her head and transports herself back into Sonic's watch. "Cortana lower the gravity weight down by 25%." Before Cortana can reply, Sonic adds, "I whether be safe than sorry. Ok, let's get moving!" Sonic gives a quick count down then takes off at full speed and with the blue aura wrapped around him. Within two seconds, the blue hedgehog hits the water and without breaking the surface tension. "Alright! It worked!"

"Sonic! Don't lose focus, your speed dropped by 3%!" Cortana screams while monitoring Sonic's speed.

"Right! My bad!" Sonic says pushing himself to run faster. "Ok! Cortana keep tracking my speed rate." Sonic turns around with a pair of waves spreading from each side of him. They start making their way towards the Golden Gate Bridge when Sonic feels a strange pulse radiate from within him. ~What the hell was that?~

~You felt it to Sonic? ~ Nico comments.

~Yeah, it's feels as if my instincts are telling to head the bridge, ~ Sonic states looking up at the bridge. ~What do you think Nico, should we follow this feeling?~

Nico flies by Sonic while looking up at the bridge then he says, ~We have come this far! I think if we head up there, we'll find the answers to something. ~

"Ok, Cortana get ready to activate my anti-gravity shoes," Sonic orders heading one of the pillars. Cortana nods stands at the ready. Once Sonic is within feet of the pillar, Cortana activates Sonic's shoe allowing him to scale pillar at amazing speeds. "Almost there!" Sonic exclaims as clears the top and continues to rocket up. The blue aura disburses as Sonic seems to float in midair. When gravity starts to back hold of them, Sonic does several flips and easily lands on red tower. "Prefect touchdown," Sonic comments.

"Yeah nice landing, but why are we here?" Cortana questions.

Sonic walks along the red tower looking around one side while Nico looks on the other side. "Crazy enough, Nico and I got this weird feeling that screamed at us to look up here. For what, we don't have a clue." Sonic continues to walk around then something catches his eye. "What the…" The blue hedgehog sees two letters written on a plate. "Look at this?!"

Nico floats over to his brother and see the letters 'KS' in white on the red plate. ~KS? What does that mean?~

"KS… wait I've seen this before. Mom did this once when she wanted to leave a message for us, but she used 'QA' for Queen Aleena," Sonic states.

"So the letters 'KS' must mean King Sora," Cortana states.

"Right!" Sonic taps on the panel then hears it do a small snap and pop. The panel opens up revealing a small compartment. Sonic finds a plastic bag covered in moss with a small amount of water in the bag. He opens it up the bag and finds a thick computer disk. Sonic grabs hold of the blue disk turning it back and forth while looking over the somewhat moisten disk. "Hey, Cortana what do you think? Will you be able to scan this disk?"

The blue AI scans the disk then reports, "Sorry Sonic, but I won't be able to get any data from this thing."

Sonic puts the disk in his over shirt pocket then says, "We need to find a way to get data off that disk it might hold the key to finding a lead to dad."

Cortana says while scanning the internet, "Well Sonic, I think I might have a solution to our problem."

"We're listening," Sonic replies.

"We need a computer that can read the disk, and…" Cortana pauses as her search finds a place that will fits their need. "I got it, there is a place that will not too far from here called DEDSEC Electronics."

"What are we waiting for?!" Sonic exclaims jumping off the top tower while Cortana shouts for him to stop, but he lands on the large red cylinder cable then starts to grind down. Once he reaches the road, Sonic jumps off to sideway. "You say something Cortana?" Sonic questions a big grin on his face.

Cortana rolls her eyes then says, "Let's get going, but I'm turning your gravity shoe back to normal."

"Party pooper," Sonic comments, "well I better start jogging." The hedgehog takes off a low rate of speed heading back towards downtown. An hour passes by, and Sonic finally arrives at the computer store. He looks up at the unique green letters with the name DEDSEC and a grim reaper standing behind the word. "Now that is what I call a sign," Sonic comments while entering the store.

~Sonic, what their sign looks like doesn't matter, but what matters is their ability to get whatever is on dad's disk,~ Nico states while floating around the shop looking at the running old model computers.

Sonic walks up to the counter then rings the service bell. A teenage African-America man with glasses wearing a green shirt, black over-shirt, black jeans, and green shoes walks up the counter. "Good afternoon and welcome to the Ded-Sec, my name is Marcus what can I do for you?"

Sonic pulls out the disk while saying, "Yeah, I wanted to know if you can pull the data off this?"

Marcus takes hold of the disk looking it over with a surprise look on the face, "Wow! A zip drive data disk, you don't see many of these running around."

"Yeah, my dad left it for me to find. Will you able to find what's on it?" Sonic questions.

"Hum...,"Marcus states walking from behind the counter, "I think we have a computer that should be able to handle it. Please follow me." Marcus leads Sonic upstairs passing some other artwork and other pleasant graphically design materials. When they reached the second floor Marcus leads Sonic to the far right side of the building.

Before they reach the computer Sonic pauses and sees what looks to be a computer program running with the digital output face of a human. "Hey Marcus with this thing?"

He turns around, looks at the screen, and says, "Oh that's a VI system I've been working on, but I'm having some issues with it." Marcus continues his way towards the computer and then sits down in front of a desktop system with an old computer tower. He inserts the disk and then starts typing on the keyboard to access the data. "Okay I think I've got what you looking for. This disk has been here for a while. If I had to guess, I would say about 13 to 14 years."

Sonic says, "Fifteen years."

Marcus has surprise look on his face and repeats, "Fifteen years! Wow, color me impressed. Why would your dad want to hold on to this thing for so long?"

"Well he's been away for some time so I didn't know where he held the disk. I've just recently found it today. What is on the desk?"

Marcus continues to type in a computer and uses the mouse to pull up the files off of the desk. When he tries to open one of the files the computer shows a message of corrupted data. "That's no good. Hum… Let's see if I can open a different file." Marcus strolls the mouse cursor over to a file saying maps. The folder opens and reveals the image of the map with what looks to be coordinates listed down the side of a text document. "If I had to guess this must be coordinates for something that's corresponded with the map. This looks like parts of California. Any idea what this means?"

Sonic and Nico both look at the map with puzzle expressions on their faces. "I have no clue, but I think this could be a clue to us finding him. What about those other files can you see what else is on them?"

Marcus clicks on some other files but either the words 'corrupted data' or 'encrypted file'. "No good, I have to either recompile the data that's been corrupted or we need the key to break this encryption. Do you have anything that your dad left you to indicate a key to the encryption?"

Sonic shakes his head no then folds his arms thinking for a moment. "Tell me, can you recompile all that data?"

"That shouldn't be a problem, but until we get the encryption key there nothing we can do about those files that are locked down," Marcus states.

"How long do you think it would take for you to recompile all the data that's been corrupted?" Sonic questions as he looks at his watch and has Cortana get ready to copy the text file.

Marcus turns around his chair to look at the blue hedgehog and replies, "If I had to take a guess, I'll say maybe about a week or two to recompile everything. As for the encryptions, I have a special algorithm I can run it through that could break the encryption code, but I don't know what might happen afterwards. On the safe side, I recommend that you try to find your dad's key for the code that way we don't have to worry about a brute force entry into the system."

Sonic nods in agreement then says "How much would you charge for all your services?"

Marcus thinks for a moment then says, "For everything I would say about hundred and thirty dollars and an additional seventy-five dollars for services."

Sonic pulls out his debit card and asks, "Can I pay you now? Plus do you take tips?"

"Yes to both," Marcus replies as he walks away from the computer back to the stairs.

Sonic stops once again at the VI prototype and ask, "Hey Marcus, what's wrong with your VI here anyway?"

"To be completely honest, I don't fully know. From the last time I checked, it looks like there is an error in the VI is processing algorithm. We been doing our best to try to isolate the algorithm and get to work, but we've had no luck."

Sonic holds up his watch one more time then says, "Cortana download your input output, data processing, and problem solving algorithm." Cortana appears in her smaller form and holds her hand towards the computer doing a wireless transfer of the requested files. Once she is finished she acknowledges Sonic and then returns into her workspace. "That should help with your VI."

Marcus walks over to check on the VI with the curious expression on his face. He asked the computer, "Computer was the current status of current applications being ran in file D-control?"

The computer beeps then responses, "D-control is 59% completed."

Marcus's eyes widened with excitement and joy hearing the computer respond perfectly to his inquiry. He looks at Sonic and says, "Man you don't realize how must this helps. You have just saved me over four months of work. Your device call Cortana if she had an AI or VI?"

Sonic smirks and says, "She's an AI. Luckily, she doesn't mind helping other evolving VIs, but she's been working like crazy for the past couple hours so what you saw come out to the moment ago was one of her clones to handle that request."

"That is so awesome!" Marcus exclaims. He looks at Sonic giving the card back to him; then Marcus states "Consider us even. What you done this more than enough to pay for me reconstructing your data." A couple minutes later, Marcus and Sonic are back at the front desk as Marcus grabs up Sonic's cell phone number and contact information. "Okay I think I got everything I need, but I don't even know what your name is."

Sonic smirks then says, "Sorry I forget to give my name from the first part. My name is Sora."

Marcus extends his hand while saying, "It's a pleasure to meet you Sora."

Sonic shakes Marcus's hand then thanked him for all his work. He heads out of the store back to the main street. He shields his eyes from the sun for a second while his eyes readjust. Nico and Cortana appears in front of Sonic with pleased looks on their faces. Cortana says, "Good job Sonic, we have a strong lead could take us to the king."

Sonic starts walking toward the park while talking, "Thanks Cortana, what do you think the map will lead us to?"

"Well, the map itself is fifteen years outdated. Plus if you add the coordinates that were listed in the file three of them match up but the other seven their off the charts."

Sonic stops in his tracks then ask, "What you mean off the charts?"

Cortana holds her hand out making a miniature global appear then says, "The remaining seven coordinates there listed on different parts of the globe."

"Are you telling us that we are going to have to start globe hopping in order to find the rest of these points that are listed?!"

Cortana folds her arms taking a thinking stance and says, "I don't know something about it doesn't smell right. Why would three of these coordinate marks be located in California but the other seven are all over the place?"

Nico quickly takes over and answers," Are you saying that this is possibly a ruse or are we literally being misled?"

"I don't know, but I'm still dissecting the information. However, there must be something that we are not seeing; I just need some more time to go through the data that we collected from the hall records and the map. In the meantime, you and sonic are going to have to be on your own. If I devote all my attention to figuring this out, I might have some answers by this evening."

Sonic takes back control of their body with an annoyed look at Nico then says, "Okay, but give me access to one of the Tachikomas."

Cortana's nods her approval then is replaced by one of blue spider robots. The robot salutes while saying in a high pitch kid's voice, "At your service sir!"

"Thanks Tachikoma," Sonic replies.

~Now what Sonic? ~ Nico questions floating next to Sonic while he makes his way through the fully bloomed Golden Gate Park.

Sonic feels his stomach growl and replies, "Lunch!" Sonic sniffs the air picking up a familiar scent on the air. "Oh boy! I know that smell from anywhere. Hey Nico, what do you say to trying Earth's chilidogs?" Before the werehog can response, Sonic takes off racing through the park. A minute later, Sonic comes to a quick stop seeing a restaurant facing the body of water named Stow Lake. "Golden Gate Grill, sounds like a good place to eat," Sonic states. He walks into diner and finds it empty. ~I guess we just missed the lunch rush. ~

From the back, a female's voice calls out, "Please have a seat anywhere, and I'll be right with you."

Sonic looks a Nico and shrugs his shoulders then makes his way to a table facing the lake. He looks at the lake for minute taking in the beautiful background; then he looks at the mounted flat screen TV. The muted TV is turned onto MSNBC. The human reporter stands in front of the White House with title showing, 'Expected Arrival of Queen Aleena Hedgehog'. ~Looks like everyone here is ready for our arrival. ~

Nico nods; then a teenage pink hedgehog wearing jeans, a green shirt, with a waist apron, and a name tag with 'Amy' written on it. Her beautiful face, emerald green eyes, and smooth flowing quills mesmerize Sonic and Nico. They see her mouth moving, but no sound reaches their ears. She places a menu down in front of them, but they keep staring at her face then down her body. Only seconds past until Amy's voice gets through breaking them out of trance, "Can you hear me?"

Sonic shakes his head re-aligning his focus, "Oh sorry what did you say?"

Amy gives him a queer expression then repeats, "I said, welcome to Golden Gate Grill. My name is Amy, what would like to drink?"

"Water please."

Amy writes is down on her pad then asks, "Do you know what you want to eat or will you need a few minutes?"

"Not yet please give me a minute," Sonic replies.

She nods her head then walks away. Nico watches her walk away and stares at the pink little tail move left to right with each step. His eyes trails down her where her jeans hug small rounded butt. He makes a positive comment to Sonic about her figure, but as if right on cue Amy turns around looking right at Nico as if she was able to what he said. Nico can feel a threating presence coming from her. He panics and dive back towards Sonic. She shakes her head then goes through the kitchen door. ~What's the matter with you? ~

Nico comes back out and hovers next to Sonic looking to see if Amy was still looking at him, ~Nothing, but if I didn't know better, I think she was able to what I just said. ~

Sonic rises an eye then says, ~Nico, how could she hear you? The only people who can hear and see you while in spirit form is mom, dad, and Oracle. ~

~I don't know, but I could you feel her watching me. ~

"I think its just hunger messing with you bro," Sonic states while looking at menu. The teenaged hedgehog scan thru the five page two sided menu and on pages seven is the list of chilidogs. Sonic reads down the list of different chilidog with the details of about the chili.

Nico continues to plea his discomfort until he sees the pink hedgehog come up back with a glass of water. She sets the items on the table then looks at Sonic asking, "Do you know what you want?"

Sonic sets the menu down and replies, "Yeah, let me get three of each chilidog please."

Amy give the blue hedgehog a crazy look, "Are you serious?!"

Sonic closes the menu with a smile on his face, "Yup."

"You do realize that's twenty-one chilidogs. Right?!"

"Well, I didn't eat breakfast this morning, so I'm just making up for it with lunch," Sonic grins. Amy shakes her head in disbelief then writes down Sonic's order. She turns around and starts to walk towards the kitchen. Before she is too far away, Sonic calls out, "Miss would you please turn up the sound on the TV?!" She nods yes reaching behind the counter for the remote and turning up the volume.

Sonic focuses on the TV listening to the current news report. The woman reporter says, "According to White House and G.U.N sources, Queen Aleena Hedgehog along with members of her court and four of her children will arrive at Oakland International Airport tomorrow morning. The queen is schedule to meet with world leaders on Friday in New York at the United Nation's building."

The main anchor in the newsroom asks, "Now, is it true that Queen Aleena's three older children are already here on Earth?"

The picture shifts back to the reporter in front of the White House, "Yes, Prince Shadow, Silver, and Princess Midna Hedgehog are members of G.U.N."

The screen splits into two showing the anchor and reporter. The anchor poses another question, "By any chance, do you have any idea about the names or duties of her four younger children?"

"Unfortunately, we don't have any information about them yet."

Sonic sits back drinking some water, ~Well, that works out in our favor. ~

Nico gives a confused expression while asking, ~How? ~

~We know where mom and them will be in the morning, ~ Sonic replies drinking more water.

~Fair enough, but I think we should air on the safe side and be there before mom lands. ~

Amy walks into the kitchen still writing the order on the order pad with a weird expression on her face. "Weird. Completely weird," the pink hedgehog comments softly. She lowers the pad and looks at the purple female feline friend reading manga at back table. The teenage girl wears black sacs with a matching back shirt with a white apron. "Hey Blaze!"

She lowers the magna to show the bright ruby red jewel like fur in the center of her forehead. "What's up Amy?"

"I gotta order for you," Amy replies while grabbing a couple of pots.

Blaze points her index finger shooting a stream of fire into the grill lighting it. "What you got?"

"You're not going to like it," Amy smirks walking to the pantry.

Blaze pulls out her cooking tools while firing back, "Come on it can't be that bad."

Amy shakes her head in disbelief while giggling and grabbing the last things out of the pantry. "Ok, you have a chilidog."

Blaze's ears perk up while letting out a little hiss, but she quickly calms down and says, "Its cool! Its cool! I can handle one chilidog order."

Amy walks out of the pantry and up to Blaze carrying all the items from the pantry with a smile on her face. "Good, but this one order requires that you make twenty-one chilidogs three of each type of chilidog."

Flames roars in Blaze's eyes with her flame aura lite up around her. In a raged and disguise tone of voice, "What fucking freak of nature would make an order like that!"

Amy sets the food items down on the prep table then turns around, "He's sitting in the dining room."

Blaze rushes over looking out cook's window at Sonic sitting down watching the TV. Blaze starts to calm down while says, "What is with that guy? Does that guy really think he can eat that many chilidogs?!"

Amy folds her arms leading against the prep table with a somber look on her face. "I could care less if he can eat them all. Blaze looks at him again; he looks like that kid I had in my dream."

Blaze turns around, "Amy you can't ready that guy was the one you told us about."

Amy lowers her head, "I don't know but for some reason I felt someone from him. Crazy enough I think heard another voice come from him."

Blaze shakes her head then says, "Amy, I think you need to take some time off, because you are working too hard. I mean hearing voices… that screams that you need a break."

"Blaze we are on summer break…" Amy complains.

Blaze shakes her head then says while pointing at Amy, "I mean you need to take a break from your other activates. If you catch my meaning."

"Blaze that has nothing to do with it and you know it," Amy fires back. "Come on lets fix his order."

"Can I opt out?" Blaze inquires, but Amy gives an annoyed looked. "Ok… ok. At least get me nose plug."

Sonic drinks more water still watching the news. Nico also watches the news while floating. ~Hey Sonic what are we going to do next? ~

~Since Cortana thinks it will take until tonight to process the data, we might as well find a hotel and chill out until the morning.~

Nico nods in agreement then sees the pink hedgehog and purple cat coming to the table. ~Lunch time bro!~ The werehog exclaims before diving into the Sonic's body.

Sonic turns his head to see the women approaching the table. Sonic licks his lips smelling the flavorful chilidogs. They set the food down on the table along with napkins and eating utensils. "Thanks it looks and smells great," Sonic comments.

Amy smiles and nods her approval; she grabs Sonic's empty drinking glass and walks back to the kitchen. She hands fills the glass with water and starts to head back, but Blaze calls from the window. "Wait Amy!" The pink hedgehog turns to look back at Blaze. "Hey, we forget one nasty dog."

Amy grabs the plate with the chilidog, "Come on Blaze, they aren't that bad."

"Speak for yourself!" Blaze replies walking away.

Amy rolls her eyes then heads back to the table. Once reaches the table, Amy's eyes bug out seeing all the chilidogs gone. Sonic turns to looks at Amy holding the last chilidog then says, "Awesome! I knew I was missing one chilidog."

Sonic grabs the hold of the chilidog, and Amy questions, "What happened to them?"

Sonic gives a puzzled look after taking a bit and chewing while saying, "Huh… what's wrong?"

Amy looks at the blue hedgehog then says, "What happened to all the chilidogs? I was only had my back turned for five seconds!"

Sonic finishes the chilidog and replies, "I ate them, and each one was delicious. I have to give you props for the way you grilled the dogs!" Amy is 'ah' stuck seeing Sonic quickly finishing the last chilidog. He licks his lips then says, "That was an awesome lunch. May I have the check please?"

"Yeah… I'll get it ready," Amy slows says trying to still comprehend what she had seen.

Amy walks away heading back to the counter. Once she is far enough way, Sonic and Nico laugh at Amy's reaction. ~Well, I guess you can't really blame her for being shocked. Someone who hasn't seen you eat chilidogs before would be surprised to see all of them gone, ~ Nico exclaims with a smile.

~Yeah, but I hope I didn't disgust her with my eating habits,~ Sonic comments.

Amy reaches the counter with shock still painted on her face while she puts together the ticket. Blaze comes back to the cook's window and sees the look on Amy's face. "Hey what's the matter?"

She looks back where Sonic is sitting then says in a low tone, "He finished everything."

Blaze gives a confused the look, "What are you talking about?"

"He finished all the chilidogs!" Amy exclaims.

"NO!" Blaze shouts running from the back to Sonic's table. The blue hedgehog gives an innocent look towards the purple cat as her eyes bug out. "How the… what the… where the…"

"Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying," Sonic says with a caring expression.

Blaze looks like as she is ready to attack Sonic, but Amy walks up and places her hand on the feline's shoulder making her head flop down. "I have your bill sir. It will be fifty-three thirty-eight. Will it cash or card?" Sonic hands the pink hedgehog his debit card. She swipes the card while hearing Blaze mumble something with a little rain cloud over her head. Amy hands the iPad to Sonic for his signature. While Sonic is doing his thing, Amy whispers into Blaze's ear, "Go back the kitchen! You look like you're ready to kill someone."

Blaze whispers back, "I just might! A person who eats like that must be eliminated!"

Sonic get up from the table then hands the iPad to Amy. He looks at Blaze and asks, "Are you ok?"

Before Blaze can say a word, Amy answers for her, "Yeah! She's fine! She is just a little tired, you came in after the lunch rush. She just needs a little break and she will be back to normal. Now! Will you need a receipt?"

"Nah! I'm good; I put you tip on the card. Please split it between the two of you. The chilidogs were awesome! You and Blaze did a great job, so I'll be sure to come back," Sonic states as he makes is way to door. Before he can walk out, a big purple cat who looks similar to Blaze but with dark purple stripes across his arms walks in with a teenage rabbit and older middle age purple cat. Sonic sees them all carrying grocery bags and other items, so he jumps back from the door to allow them come through first.

The older gentlemen looks at Sonic then says, "Blaze please take these back to the kitchen." She walks over and grabs the bag. Once his hands are free, he walks over to the blue hedgehog and greets him, "Hello, I'm Leo Cat owner of the Golden Gate Grill. If you have a minute, I would like to talk with you."

Sonic and Nico give the man a wary look, but for some reason they feel that they can trust him. "Yeah I have a couple minutes."

Leo nods in approval then motions him to one of the nearby tables to sit down, "Blaze, please bring our guest anything he would like. Don't worry it's on the house."

Sonic gives a big grin then looks at the purple feline and says, "Let me get another round of chilidogs please."

"Good choice our chili is one of our signature items," Leo praises.

"Yeah, I had all seven types earlier, and each one more delicious than the next."

Blaze shakes her head in disapproval and complains, "Uncle Leo you know I hate making chili dogs!"

The restaurant owner looks at his niece and says, "Now Blaze, remember the customer is always right, and you don't have to eat the chilidogs; you just have to grill the meat for it." He looks at the bigger purple cat and rabbit and says, "Cream, Big please help Blaze and Amy with the cooking and be sure to put away all the groceries." The three of them nod and Big pulls Blaze to the kitchen while she screams out how much she hates chilidogs. Leo shakes his head with a smile on his face before turning to look at Sonic, "You must forgive my niece, for some reason I cannot fathom she just doesn't like chilidogs. Well if you think about it she just doesn't like the chili and I just can't figure out why."

"No problem my sisters can't stand it when I eat chilidogs as well," Sonic replies with a smirk on his face. "Now what did you want to talk to me about?"

Leo paints on a sinister grin then says, "It is good to see another royal hedgehog from Mobius."

Sonic and Nico faces are full of shock hearing the restaurant owner know about where they are from. Sonic says in a low tone of voice, "How do you know who I am? Better yet what all do you know about me and who are you?"

Leo smiles, "I'm sorry your majesty but I can't give you that information just yet, but I can tell you I know about you and your brother along with the rest of your family." Sonic and Nico's mind races trying to figure out who this person is and what his motivation might be. Before Sonic can make another statement, Leo jumps out by saying, "Before your mind starts racing towards the possibility that I am an enemy, let me reassure you your highness that I am nothing more than a friend and Queen Aleena knows about me and my ties to your family."

Sonic leans back in the booth chair thinking on the words that Leo has said to him then replies, "Okay, since you know about my mom and you obviously know about me and my brother, can we say that you also know about Shadow and them as well?" Leo nods yes and Sonic continues with, "Alright, what did you want to talk to me about?"

Leo leans forward interlacing his fingers looking at the blue hedgehog, "Nothing important yet your Majesty…"

Sonic interjects by holding up his hand and saying, "Please just call me Sonic. Now you were saying…"

"Well Sonic, I have nothing really pressing as of right now, but it's good to meet you for the first time," Leo states. At that moment Amy and Cream bring out another tray of twenty-one chilidogs from the kitchen and sets it on the table in front of them.

Once done, the two teenagers start to walk away with Sonic closely eyeing the pink hedgehog. Leo gives a secret smile, and Sonic quickly turns his head to look at Leo while questioning, "What's with the smile Leo? Is it something that you know that we don't know?" Leo gives an inquisitive look and as if Sonic is able to read his mind he says, "If you know about our family especially me, you should know that my brother Nico is here with me."

Leo gives a hearty laugh, "I didn't realize that you two were actually in the same body. I was under the impression that Nico was his own separate person."

Sonic grabs one of the chilidogs and twirls it in his hand before taking a bite, "Nico is his own separate person, but we share a body. I guess it wouldn't cause too much harm to inform you that when one of us is in physical form or as we like to call it physical control of our body the other is in spirit form and can see and hear everything going on around us."

Leo scratches the side of his face and comments, "Well that something good to know. Anyway, I wanted to take the chance to get to know you better. If I may ask, Sonic what is your major goal for coming to Earth?"

Sonic downs three more chilidogs then replies, "Sorry that's something I'm not willing to tell anyone just yet; however, I will tell you we are looking for our dad."

"King Sora?" Sonic nods yes, and Leo leans back in the booth turning his head to look outside at the clear blue skies as if he is reminiscing about something. "I still don't understand why Sora and Talon didn't want me to come along with them."

Sonic finishes the thirteenth chilidog before saying, "You know where our dad is?"

Leo looks back at Sonic and says, "No. I'm afraid they didn't tell me where they were heading, but I do know they left behind some clues to their whereabouts or something from what Sora told me before they left."

Sonic is on his last chilidog; he picks it up and stares at it for a minute, "We found a possible clue but it's going to take us some time to decipher it." Sonic tosses the chili dog in the air and catches it in his mouth then quickly chomps it down and swallows. He gets up from the table then says, "Thanks for the chilidogs. When we find some more information about dad, we will be sure to give you a heads up about it. We better get going; we got a lot of work to do. Later!" Sonic heads out the door and quickly disappears into the city.

Leo cleans up the table when Amy and Blaze come busting out from the back looking left and right for the blue hedgehog. They runs over to Leo and Amy says, "Uncle Leo do you know where that guy just went?!"

"No. Is everything okay Amy?"

"It was his payment!" Blaze exclaims.

"Did it not go through or something?"

"No, it went through. His tip can't be right," Amy comments.

"How much did he tip you and Blaze?"

The pink hedgehog looks at the iPad then turns it for Leo to see, "He put $10,000 for his tip!"

Leo laughs at Amy and her distress then says, "Well I guess you and Blaze gave some great service and great cooking."

Amy continues to look at the amount and remembers his last words for him to split the tip between the two of them. "Who was that guy? Do you know him Uncle Leo?"

"I know his parents, but I don't know much about him just yet." Leo turns to look at the TV and sees Silver captured in a photo with other G.U.N operatives at the completion of a recent mission. "If you want to know more about that guy, I would suggest you ask Blaze about that young man right there on the TV." Amy looks at Blaze waiting for her answer.

Sonic walks down the sidewalk in the downtown area enjoying the sights and sounds of the people moving about as they begin the afternoon rush. ~Hey Sonic, why are you taking so long to get a hotel and get back to the hill, ~Nico questions as Sonic strolls along the sidewalk.

~I don't really know Nico, but for some reason I feel I just need to take my time getting back to the hill,~ Sonic replies as he makes a turn down 17th Ave. The young hedgehog's ears perk up when he hears the sounds of what he could only described to be fighting. ~Sorry Nico but it might take is a little longer to get back to that hill.~

In the back alley behind one of the buildings, three boys: a human, a leopard, and a gorilla, surround a dark pink hedgehog boy wearing black cargo pants with a white T-shirt and a black and red jacket. The eleven-year-old boy 4'1" tall hedgehog faces the 5' tall gorilla wearing khaki pants with a khaki T-shirt. The gorilla smacks a torn off somewhat rusted piece of pipe into his left hand while looking down at the hedgehog. "Alright you little girl, what did me tell you about wearing boys clothes!"

The dark pink hedgehog replies back, "I told you I'm not a girl I'm a boy just like the three of you!"

The human shoves his right shoulder harshly while saying, "You know damn well that you are not a boy you fucking girl!" The leopard delivers a harsh to the hedgehog's left shoulder agreeing with the others.

The young hedgehog smirks and gives the snarky remark, "What is with you guys trying to get me to dress in girl clothing? What do you guys like boys so much but you're too scared to admit it so you're trying to make me look like a girl so you can try to get in my pants or something?!"

The leopard gives off a growl then punches the hedgehog in his left shoulder making him stagger into the human, but the human boy only pushes him away from him knocking him further off balance. The leopard delivers another punch to the victim's left shoulder saying, "Watch your fucking mouth you piece of shit!"

The hedgehog smirks rubbing his shoulder, "Hey the truth stings but it is the truth!"

The human this time around starts to swing getting ready to hit the young kid's shoulder, but he quickly spins around and delivers an upper cut to the human knocking him back a couple of feet. The leopard gets ready to attack, but the young hedgehog once again hits first by a throwing a straight punch at the leopard's testicle area. The young hedgehog's attack makes a solid connection making the attacker cripple over covering his genitals while cursing aloud. Seeing an opening, the young hedgehog gets ready to run away, but the third assailant with the pipe strikes him down. The young hedgehog hits the ground sliding feeling the pain emanating from his upper back. The young gorilla strikes again leading with the pipe, but the hedgehog roles to the side of evading the attack. The pipe strikes the ground ringing yet before the hedgehog is able to get on his feet and run away the gorilla brings the pipe down once more, and the hedgehog holds his right arm out shielding his face. His right arm takes the full brunt of the powerful swing resulting in a sickening crack come from his arm with a tragic wave of pain echoing throughout his body.

Without a second, the gorilla brings the pipe back up and swings down again aiming for the hedgehog's head. Before the pipe can connect, Nico's hand reaches out and grabs the pipe without any hesitation. The werehog growls out, "You boys don't know how too really fight fair do you?" The gorilla looks up at them fiercely tall, muscular, and powerful werehog with his face shadowed and only the green glare from his eyes piercing out the darkness. The gorilla tries to move the pipe out of Nico's iron grip, but the pipe doesn't move an inch and he calls his friends to help him. The other boys shiver in terror sensing the killer instinct coming from the werehog. The gorilla continues to struggle with the pipe until Nico gives a wide grin showing off all his pearly white fangs; then he squeezes the pipe making it bend a little bit then breaks into two pieces. In a deeper voice Nico growls out, "You have three seconds to get away before I kick all your asses!" The gorilla backs up while dropping the pipe to the ground with the other boys on either side of him. Nico can smell the fear coming from them as they each pee their pants. Nico shouts at the top of his lungs, "RUN!"

The three boys run screaming off crying and yelling monster at Nico. The werehog returns control of their body back to Sonic. The blue hedgehog praises Nico before turning around to look at other young hedgehog on the ground crying cradling his arm. Sonic holds up his watch and says, "Tachikoma, do a full body scan and give us a damage report!"

Tachikoma says, "Yes sir!" A blue beam opens into an upside down triangle then scans down over the boy then scans back up to finish the scan. Tachikoma appears back up and reports, "Sonic, I'm detecting a broken arm mainly the forearm femur bone is broken with some minor bruising in other areas. You need to get him to the hospital to get medical attention!"

Sonic nods then turns to look at the boy while kneeling down to be eye level with him, "Hey, I need to get you to the hospital, so they can fix your arm. May we take you to hospital?" The dark pink hedgehog looks at Sonic with a questioning expression, yet after looking into Sonic's eyes for a couple of seconds, he nods his head yes allowing Sonic to pick them up and put them on his back. "Tachikoma, find the nearest hospital," Sonic orders.

"Yes sir!" The little AI replies. After couple of seconds, he comes back with, "Sonic, the closest hospital is the University of California San Francisco Emergency Room."

"Awesome job Tachikoma! Okay hold on tight; we are going to be traveling pretty fast. By the way, my name is Sonic."

The young boy replies, "My name is Alex."

"Cool! Hang on cause we are you out go here!" Sonic exclaims taking off at fast run.

"Woooaaaahh!" Alex shouts feeling the wind rush pass him.

Sonic smirks then comments, "Pretty cool huh?"

"Yeah! I've never moved this fast in my life!"

"Well, we'll be there in three… two… one!" Sonic puts on the break stopping in front of the ER.

"WOW!" Alex exclaims.

Sonic smirks walking into the ER up to the registration desk. The nurse behind the desk looks up at Sonic with Alex still riding on his back and says, "Welcome what's your medical emergency?"

Sonic says, "My little brother got beaten up by some bullies from his school. I did a quick scan on him and found that his arm is broken."

The nurse looks at the eleven year old and sees how roughed up he is along with the dark bruise on his right arm. "Let's get you triage," the nurse orders. She leads the two a room on the other side of the reg. desk. Sonic continues to carry Alex into the room; he sets Alex down allowing the nurse to look at Alex's arm. "What did they attack your brother with?"

"An old piece of pipe," Sonic replies.

She turns in her chair and starts to tape into her computer. "Was this pipe rusted?"

"Yes," Alex's replies.

"Can you move your hand any?" Alex tries to move his hand and fingers, but feels a super sharp pain rocket through his body making him cry out in pain. "I'll take that as a yes." She turns around looking close at his arm then asks, "Before I can give you anything, are you allergic to any drugs?"

Sonic answers surprising the dark pink hedgehog, "He allergic to surfer drugs."

"Ok good, I should have asked to this to start off, but what's your name?"

Alex waivers for a second, and Sonic jumps in once more, "His name is Alex Speed, and my name is Sonic Speed."

The nurse gets up and walks over the cabinet to grab a syringe and medical vile. "Alright Alex, I'm going to give you a shot to numb the pain." She finishes preparing the shot then brings the needle close to Alex's arm.

Sonic sees the little hedgehog tense up, so he places his hand on his left shoulder giving him a reinsuring smile. A couple seconds later, the nurse finishes then tells the brothers to follow her to a room. Once Alex is changed into hospital a grown, she motions for Sonic to follow her. "Mr. Speed, I have to inform you that by law I must contact the police about this incident."

"Good, I have a recording of the incident. On the way here, I contacted our parents to let them know about what happened. They are out of the country right now, so they have given me permission to handle everything," Sonic states. The triage nurse writes down several more things then heads back to the desk. Sonic walks back into Alex's room and sees him sitting on the bed. "Did the pain killer help?"

Alex rubs his arm then says, "Yeah, but Sonic how did you know much about right off the bat? And why did you call me your brother?"

Sonic snickers while walking over the chair in the room. He sits down then looks at Alex, "Sorry little buddy, but that is classified. As for your second question…" Sonic pauses and rubs his medallion summoning his tri-neck guitar in a blue bright light. He starts to strum a few lines, "I figured from your expression, you didn't want to come here because they would ask a lot of questions. Calling you my little brother, they won't bug you as much."

Alex lowers his head looking at his arm, "I don't know if we will enough money to handle this."

Sonic smirks while still playing, "Don't worry, I'll handle the bill, but I have to give it you. It takes a lot of guts for someone to do a three-on-one fight."

Alex hangs his head down then says, "My sister told me if I stood up to bullies they wouldn't try to fight me, but she was wrong."

"Yeah, some bullies won't get the message 'to not mess with you' until you kick their ass," Sonic comments looking at him.

"But they kicked my ass! If you didn't step in, they might have killed me," Alex cries.

Sonic sees the tears the draining down from his eyes. He comments with deep tone of voice, "Hey! Why were those jerk picking on you?!"

"Because of my fur color! They pick on me because they don't believe I'm a boy!"

"That's stupid, just by looking at you, anyone can tell that you are male," Sonic comments.

"Well, I wish someone would those fuckers that!" Alex cries out with even more tears draining down his face. "I JUST HATE THIS! WHY DID I HAVE TO HAVE PINK FUR COLOR?! IT MAKES ME SO POWERLESS! I HATE THIS!"

Sonic shots up from the chair with an angry expression on his face. The blue hedgehog says in a deep voice, "Don't you every say that again! Alex look at me!" He looks up at the blue hedgehog. "Listen when I was your age, I had go through some terrible and horrifying things. I never told my sister or brother that there were times I wished I wasn't born the way I was. I wished I didn't have to face the trails that were put in front of us because some jerk wanted everything. He hated us just for the mere fact of who we are. And yet, there were times I felt completely powerless and wanted to do nothing more than cry." Sonic leans down to get eye to eye with the crying hedgehog, "Alex, bullies and people who hate us just because of who we are, are out there, but what makes you a true hero and more powerful than anything else is what you do when you come face to face with them." Sonic hands Alex his guitar then sits on the bed. He wipes away the tears from his face then says, "You know before I jumped in, I watched how you faced off with those boys, and you handle yourself pretty well for being out-number. Hell you even got in a couple of good hits!"

Alex gives a weak but happy smile hearing Sonic's words then says, "Yeah, but when you jumped in you won the fight."

"Nah!" Sonic exclaims with a smirk, "You won the fight the moment you stood up against them. I just backed you up to even up the numbers. I guess they weren't ready to do a three on three match."

Alex starts to laugh while saying, "Yeah and you made them pissed on themselves!"

"Oh yeah! I forgot about that!" Sonic exclaims laughing alongside him. They hear a knock at the door, and Sonic answers, "Come in."

"Hello! Sounds like you two are having a good time," the ER doctor states walking into the room caring an X-ray print out with small kit her hand. A police officer follows her, and she states, "Well, I have some great news!" The doctor pulls out one of the print and holds it out for the boys to see; she points to where the break in Alex's arm, "Look here. The break in your forearm was not as bad as we originally believed. In fact," she sets the prints down and opens the little kit with five needles and a vile inside. "I will be able to the use this to seal the gap between the break and you will only be in case for a month to a month and a half at tops."

Sonic and Alex smile hearing the news and the police officer says, "I happy to hear about your news Alex, but if you don't mind I need to talk with your brother about the people who attacked you."

"Of course," Sonic says getting up and following the officer out the room.

The doctor fills the shot then rubs down Alex arm with a cleansing wipe, "Must be great to have a big brother that looks out for you like that?"

Alex smiles then winks at the pain of the needle, but he quickly over comes it then says, "Yeah it is."

Outside Sonic and the officer go to an empty room across the hall and the officer is the first to say, "Sonic, I need to see some ID before I allow the hospital to release him into your care." Sonic nods then reaching into his pocket for his wallet. The blue hedgehog then produces a military G.U.N ID with the name Sonic N. Speed. "Oh you're parents are in G.U.N?"

"Yes sir, they had to go on a mission, and before you ask I'm sixteen years old," Sonic states while putting his ID back into his wallet.

"Well, that knocks out five questions," the officer states pulling out his notepad and writes down some notes. "Ok, what can tell me about the boys who attacked your brother?"

"I can you one better," Sonic states. He holds up his watch, "Tachikoma, play recorded video." The little blue AI salutes projects the video through its eyes.

The officer watches the video of the attack from the three boys. At the end of the video, he finishes writing down some notes, "Well this will be an open-shut case. Is there a way to get this video email to me?"

"Yes sir, I just need your email address." The officer pulls out a card with his work email. Sonic takes hold of the card then says, "Tachikoma, please send the video to this email."

"Yes sir! All done Sonic!"

"Thank you Tachikoma," Sonic replies.

"Ok, I think I have everything I need. I will head to the station and start the paperwork. We will pick the juveniles in a bit. Now with that said, saying as another big brother to another, I have to say you did the right thing. I would have done the same thing."

"Yeah, but I don't want to run the risk of whooping their tails if they come after my brother again," Sonic states.

The officer snicker then says, "Yeah that would be the smart idea. Besides with all evidence we have against them, they won't be getting out anytime soon."

"Thank you," Sonic states while shaking the officer's hand. They say their goodbye to each other, and Sonic walks back into Alex's room.

The doctor finishes with the final shot. "Ok all done. Alex you're a brave young man!"

"Of course, he's my little brother! After he faced three bullies by himself, getting five shots is nothing. Right bro?"

Alex smiles, "Right Sonic!"

The doctor snickers then puts the used needles into the trash. "Well there's no arguing with that. The last thing we have to do is to get the meds, a cast, and you'll be all set."

"Thank you doctor," Sonic replies. He walks over and picks up his guitar then sits down strumming again.

"Hey Sonic," Alex calls out. Sonic looks up at him and Alex asks, "Sonic, do you know any songs or do you write songs?"

"Yeah, I'm writing two songs right now, but they aren't finished."

"May I hear them?" Alex questions.

"Sure." Sonic tunes the strings then starts to play.

Take off the at the speed of sound

Bright lights, colors all around

I'm running wild, living fast, and free

Got no regrets inside of me

Not looking back!

Not giving up!

Not letting go!

We'll on running!

I'm gonna reach for the stars

Although they look pretty far

I'm gonna find my own way

And take a chance on today

Sonic stops playing with a blank look on his face Alex then asks, "What's the matter Sonic? Why don't you keep going?"

Sonic rubs the back of his head with a redden expression, "Well… I don't know what comes next."

A sweat drop appears on Alex's forehead then says, "Do know any other songs?"

"Yeah you might like this one."

Rolling around at the speed of sound

Got places to go, gotta follow my rainbow

Can't stick around, have to keep movin' on

Guess what lies ahead, only one way to find out

Must keep on movin' ahead

No time for guessin', follow my plan instead

Trusting in what you can't see

Sonic freezes as solid as stone then his droops his head. "I don't know what the next line is!"

Alex flops back laughing; then Sonic and Nico start busting out laughing. The ER doctor and nurse walk into the room seeing the two hedgehog laughing like crazy. The doctor asks, "What's so funny?"

"My brother can't finish his latest songs!" Alex exclaims while still laughing.

"Well, I hate to break up the party, but lets get this cast on so you can get home," the doctor states with a smile then starts to work on his arm.

The clock strikes 9 pm and the bright crescent moon, stars, and city lights fill the night sky. Sonic and Alex exit the hospital with Alex sporting his new cast and the blue sling. Alex looks up at the starry night, "Oh man! Its so late! Sis is going to freak! I was supposed to be meet her at work hours ago!"

Sonic takes a knee then says, "Hop on Alex!" The dark pink hedgehog hops on Sonic's back, then Sonic stands up saying, "Ok tell me where to go."

"She works in the park!"

"Wait Golden Gate Park?"

"Yeah, have you been there?"

"Yup yup! Hold on! Cause we are out of here!" Sonic states talking off at high speed.

"Alex!" Amy shouts out.

"Alex!" Blaze calls out.

"Alex! Are you ok?!" Cream calls out flying in the air looking down at the park.

"Alex!" Big calls walking past the lake.

Few minutes later, the four of them meet back together at the grill. Amy says with a worried tone, "Any luck?" The other three shake their head no. "Where can he be?"

Blaze chimes in, "Amy are you sure he left your dorm apartment?"

"Yes, he called me before leaving. Dammit! Why did I buy him a cell phone when I had the chance?!" Amy shouts at herself.

"You can't blame yourself Amy," Cream says in a soft sweet tone.

"Maybe we should call the police," Big suggests.

Amy shakes her no, "If we do that, they might take Alex away from me, and give him to that asshole!"

Blaze quickly agrees by saying, "She's right and that's the last thing we need." The purple cat looks at Amy seeing the worried look on her face. She puts her hand on Amy's shoulder, "Don't worry Amy we'll find him!"

An idea pops into her head and she asks, "Rouge works for G.U.N! Do you think…"

Blaze shakes her head no, "If we get her involved it could make things more complicated. Let's look around again, I take…"

Blaze falls silent when Alex's voice ringing outload. The four of them turn around to see Sonic and Alex coming straight at them. At the last second, Sonic puts on the breaks coming to a loud stop. "Hi again!" Sonic greets everyone. Alex hops off his back and runs over to Amy. "Whoa! Amy you're his sister!" Sonic bonks himself on the head, "I'm surprised I didn't see that!"

Alex hugs his foot and a half taller sister. She hugs him back asking, "Alex where were you? And what happened to your arm?!" Anger starts to flame in her eyes looking at Sonic, "Did you do this to him you bastard?!"

Alex breaks away from his sister exclaiming, "It wasn't Sonic's fault Amy! George and his friends attacked me!"

Blaze's fire aura flares up as she tightens her fist while saying, "Wait until I get my hands on those bastards!"

Sonic quickly interjects with, "That won't possible."

Everyone looks at the blue hedgehog, and Blaze rebuts with, "And how can you say that?"

Sonic smirks looking at his watch, "By this time now, I would say those boys are in custody of the police." Sonic reaches into to his over shirt and pull out a plastic bag with three pill bottles and three prescription slips. He hands it over to Amy while saying, "As for Alex, he suffered a minor break on his right arm from their attack. The ER doctor said that he should be able to come out of the cast after a month to a month and a half. He needs to the take his painkiller before going to bed, once in morning, and as needed. As for his steroids and antibiotics, he needs to take them in the morning and night."

Amy looks at her brother's cast, "Oh no Alex!" Amy inhales then exhales, "I'll just have to pull some extra shifts to cover your medical bill."

"You don't have to worry about it. The bill is paid in full," Sonic explains handing her the receipt paper.

Everyone says in shock, "What?!"

Blaze follows up with, "You took care of the bill! How? Why?"

"I heard Alex fighting with those jerks and there was no way I would leave him to suffer. Besides, it's just not in my character to let that go by." Sonic feels his watch vibrate and looks at the message from Cortana. "Oh I need to head out."

Before Sonic could turn around, Alex rushes over and the 4'1" hedgehog hugs Sonic's legs saying, "Thank you Sonic for everything!"

Sonic kneels down and hugs Alex saying, "Your welcome little bro."

Sonic steps away and starts to leave when Alex calls out, "Hey Sonic you're the best big brother anyone could ask for!"

Sonic gives the thumbs up, but Amy quickly adds, "Sonic! Who are you really?!"

The blue hedgehog smirks then says, "You'll find out who we really are tomorrow! Until then, later!"

Sonic takes off leaving everyone wondering, and everyone's attention turns to Leo saying, "Ha! Ha! That Sonic is something else. Hey Alex! Is your arm feeling better?"

Alex runs over to Leo smiling, "Yeah Uncle Leo thanks to Sonic and doctor at the ER."

"I'll going to guess you are hungry," Leo states.

"Yeah, Sonic told me that he ate here for lunch," Alex starts.

Blaze's face turn fowl saying, "I have bad feeling about this."

Leo smirks hearing Blaze's statement then asks, "Yeah he had chilidogs. Do you know what you want for dinner?"

Full of pride and happiness, Alex says outload, "CHILIDOGS!"

Leo busts our laughing then says, "You got it. Blaze we have order for you!"

"AH COME ON UNCLE LEO REALLY MORE CHILIDOGS AHHHH!" Blaze whines following Big, Alex, and Leo inside.

Cream starts to head in, but she stops and turns around to look at Amy still looking in the direction Sonic ran off. "Amy? Are you coming in?"

Cream's words snaps her out of her thoughts saying, "Oh yes, I'll be there soon." Cream nods then head in leaving Amy alone. She turns back around then says to herself, "He said 'you will find out who we are…' What did he mean by we?" Suddenly the memory of when she serve Sonic flashes into her head, "Why did I feel that there was another present watching me? Who is that hedgehog?" Amy shakes her head clearing her mind. "I don't have time to worry about this." She grabs her cellphone dials a number and listens to the ringtone until someone picks up. The voice says somethings; then Amy says, "Is everything ready M? Good, we starts at 0000 hrs."

Sonic reclines on his back looking up at the starry sky feeling the cool breeze wash over the hill that they first arrived at. The blue hedgehog hears his brother digging in the ground not paying much attention to him, and Cortana working on her portable station in front of Sonic. He gives a wide yawn then says, "Hey Cortana, are you finished yet it is nearly 11:30."

The blue AI continues to type while scanning over the quickly passing data appearing on the screen. She typing while saying, "Sorry Sonic, but I had to get you out of there before you make yourself sound anymore suspicious. By the way, your little stunts at the hospital and with the police along with your ID kind-of put me behind, so I do not want to hear any complaining. Anyway, we are almost done with converting all the data we got from the hall records into something that we can use. As for the data we got from King Sora's disk, I was able to narrow the scope and get a more precise location of the coordinates that are located in the state of California, but the other seven points are still completely erroneous. Take a look at this." Sonic lifts his head and looks at the holographic 3-D map of the state and the three points that are located at the edge of the state borderline. "It looks like these three points are located in the heavily forest and mountainous region area."

Sonic sits up in a cross-legged position looking more closely at the map. "So here's the million-dollar question, what could dad have wanted us to find in that area? Cortana, can give me any ideas what is located there?"

"As of right now I can't really say, but I'm still processing the data from the hall records. Add to that, I think there might be more answers from the disk that King Sora left but…"

Sonic finishes the answer by saying, "Marcus is still recompiling the corrupted data."

Nico shouts out from his hole, "We can always go check it out and see what we can find."

Sonic looks towards the hole Nico is digging and says, "We don't know what out there, and I don't want to run the risk of us getting into something that we are not prepared for. Besides we… Hold up Nico what are you doing? Our bag wasn't buried that deep!"

Nico shouts out from the deep hole, "I find it relaxing if you must know!"

Sonic gets up and walks over to the hole seeing it far deeper than he originally anticipated. The blue hedgehog is amazed seeing the depth then calls down, "Nico where is our backpack at? Don't tell me you buried it even further down!"

Nico shouts up, "If you want our backpack, then here you go!" Sonic is confused by Nico's statement, but a second later, the bag comes flying up out of the hole and hits Sonic straight on the head knocking the blue hedgehog off his feet.

Sonic shakes his head regaining his senses then shouts down into Nico's hole, "What the hell, watch where you're throwing shit!"

Nico fires back, "Maybe you should watch when stuff is coming up at you!"

Sonic reaches down and grabs his backpack brushing off the dirt then sitting back down facing Cortana, "Talking about your crazy canine instincts. He's acting more like a dog than anything else."

Nico shouts back, "I am not a dog or canine! I have wolf's blood!"

"Yeah yeah, but I don't know any wolves that find enjoyment in digging holes," Sonic replies. "Besides your acting more like a dog than anything else."

"Keep calling me a dog and I'll show you what happens when you keep irritating a WOLF!"

Cortana rolls her eyes listening to the two brothers argue back and forth until she says, "Sonic can you two knock it off for a little bit? Anyway, why can't we finish the rest of this stuff at a hotel? It's getting cold out here."

"Originally we came here just to pick up our backpack and hear the rest of your report. Plus, I want to get a good view of the starry night and the city lights," Sonic replies looking out on the horizon at the crescent moon in the sky with the sea of stars above and an ocean of mixed colored lights below.

Cortana looks at the backdrop then says, "Even though we are light years away, you could say that we are seeing another version of Mobotropolis."

"Yes you're right," Sonic agrees looking at everything in front of him. "I have a deep feeling that Nico and I will find what we're looking for here. Plus, we're on the precipice of a new adventure, but what it is, it is going to be one the greatest mysteries of our lifetime."

"You surprised me Sonic. I didn't realize you are such a forward thinking person," Cortana expresses. Sonic shrugs his shoulders making Cortana snicker for a couple of seconds. Suddenly a beeping sound comes from her console drawing the AI's attention. She starts typing opening up a radar screen with the outline of the city in the center. Cortana's face shows a growing concern when she says, "What the hell is that? This can't be possible these readings have got to be wrong!"

Sonic also shows a concern expression hearing Cortana's statement, "What is it Cortana?"

"I'm detecting over thirty signatures heading for the downtown area."

"What kind of signatures?"

Cortana frantically types over the keyboard trying to ID the signatures, and after three more minutes she finally says with a slight fearful tone, "Sonic, the energy signatures are that of SWAT bots!"

"SWAT bots!" Sonic exclaims jumping up then looks towards the city trying to spot the machines. Not catching any sight of them, Sonic turns around to look at the hole shouting out, "NICO GET UP HERE RIGHT NOW!"

Nico climbs up out of the hole while saying, "And another thing Sonic, wolves are far superior to your average dog, and…"

"Nico we don't have time to worry about that right now get up! Take a look at this!" Sonic orders. The werehog does as stated expressing a questioning look, and Sonic follows up with, "Cortana is picking up Robotnik's bots energy signatures heading towards the city."

The werehog gives a surprised expression looking towards the city and spot something moving through the air that seems to be transparent. Nico growls saying, "Dammit! I can see at least twelve maybe twenty stealth bots heading downtown right now!"

Cortana gives a grim expression, as she is able to start picking up even more signatures then says, "I'm afraid that's only just the tip of the iceberg. According to my readings, I'm picking up more than 100 no 200 no wait! You got to be fucking kidding me! Sonic! Nico! There are over 2000 signatures in the city!"

Nico growls out first, "That can't be possible two thousand SWAT bots!"

Sonic is the next to voice, "I knew it Robotnik is still alive!"

Nico counters with, "Sonic that's not possible. We all saw his ship get destroyed when we fought him at Robotropolis."

Sonic shakes his head no then says, "Did we really see him get destroyed?"

Cortana refocuses the situation by saying, "I don't think that the main issue right now. We need to figure out what to do."

"What are Silver and them doing? How can they not see what's going on here?" Sonic conveys.

Cortana quickly answers with, "It's possible that their sensors are not able to pick them up."

Nico jumps on with, "Regardless of the facts, we need to do something. If we don't, Robotnik could launch an attack that could cripple the city. Who knows this could be the prelude to a worldwide invasion."

Cortana rebuts with, "Nico, we were given specific orders by Queen Aleena not to interfere with the events that could happen on this planet."

Sonic fires back with, "You're right Cortana, but I think mom would understand the situation. Besides, I don't feel comfortable just leaving this up to chance." The blue hedgehog looks at his twin werehog brother and receives an approval nod in his direction. Sonic orders, "Cortana pack everything up we are going to investigate this. Before you say anything, we are going there just to check. If it looks like shit is getting ready to hit the fan, we will contact Silver and do what we can to shut down Robotnik's operation. Nico reburied our backpack, and don't put it that deep keep it at least 10 feet."

Nico goes about the task of repairing their backpack while Cortana starts to break down her mobile consul. She snaps her fingers in her whole system disappears in a flash of stars and light. "Sonic, I reduced the gravity weight on your shoes to 50%. I just hope we're not jumping the gun on anything."

"Same here Cortana. Where are the robots amassing at?" Sonic inquires.

Cortana holds up her left hand and a miniature 3-D map of the city appears. She points to a building saying, "It looks like they are all heading to a building called Rose Corp."

Sonic looks at the map studying the layout just as Nico finishes his task and joins his brother looking at the map. The blue hedgehog points to the building close to Rose Corp. and says, "It looks like this building is under construction. We can hide here and watch for anything suspicious."

Nico listens to Sonic's plan and says, "Sounds like a good plan."

Sonic does a quick hand gesture and Nico returns to normal floating next to his brother. Cortana is next returning to her miniature form on Sonic's watch giving a thumbs up showing that she is ready to go. "Alright let's see what's going on with the signals. Up over and gone!" Sonic exclaims taking off in a blue blur back into the city.

(A/N play Play-N-Go from Watchdogs 2 soundtrack)

On the top floor of the twenty-one story building, a shadowy figure dressed in skintight black one-piece outfit stealthy moves toward the hallways to far right corner office. The female intruder swiftly dodges the security cameras, and she spots a moving light heading her way. Quickly and silently, she dives into a close by cubicle tucking herself into the darkest pocket corner. The guard moves towards where she is hiding looking around with the light. Another guard joins the first with his light, and says something to the first guard making them both laugh. After chatting for another complete of minutes, the guards break away from each other handing their separate directions. The intruder watches the guard walk to the elevator door; then she get into the car to ride it down. The intruder waits for a few minute then leaves her hiding spot. She continues down the hallway passing other cubicles and offices. The intruder reaches an intersection and turns right, but before she can gets far down the hall, her earpiece sharks up with a voice saying, "B hold on!"

She stops looks left then right checking for any movement and cameras. Once she clears the area, she replies, "What do you have?"

"Look down the hallway heading to Acorn's office with your scope," the voice orders.

She reaches into left leg porch and pulls out a pair of green shade sunglasses. She puts on the glasses then taps the side seeing an array of lasers crisscrossing near the front of the door. "I knew Acorn was paranoid, but this is downright madness."

"Yeah and the light curtain is not only thing. He added pressure plating to the floor along with a security badge reader and a set of biometric readers," the voice adds.

A female voice says over the intruder's headset, "Geez, you think the guy got enough security?"

Another male's voice says, "What do you expect? B has hit the guy where it's hurts more than once."

A third male's voice that sounds filtered through an auto-tuner says with a joyful tone, "To bad it won't do him a lick of good! Hehe!"

A fourth male voice states, "I take it that you have a plan W?"

The auto-tuned voices says, "Yup! Yup H! J would you like to do the honors?"

J says in a monotone rushed voice, "Yes. Ok. B you are going to have to use the walls to get around plates then tag the light curtain. We will do the rest."

B backs up a ways then then pulls a small black rectangular cube from her porch. She crouches down into a runners starting stance, "Alright, I'm ready. Give the go whenever."

B can hear the hyperactive amount over typing over the headset; then J says, "Ok… go."

B pushes herself into motion. Once she is at full speed, she sees the signals showing the pressure plates. Less than half a step away, B jumps using all her momentum to stick to the wall, and without missing beat, she pushes herself at forward angle towards the opposite wall. Left, right, left, right. B works her way down the hallway. J says over the headset, "Throw the blocker now B." She does as ordered tagging the side of the light curtain. It sends a small but powerful charge through the gate killing the light curtain.

Still moving forward, B calls, "What's the word with you this door?!"

W says, "You have to say the magic word."

"W!" B cries flying only a few feet away from clashing into the door.

"Open Sesame!" W joyfully exclaims.

B sees the powered door start open and dives through mild opening gap, and just as quickly, the door closes back. "That was to close, but good job guys."

"All in a day's work," W replies.

The female voice is next to say, "B, we got you on the security cam." B looks at around the fully furnished office; then she looks up in right corner near the ceiling. She spots the camera a gives a modest wave before walking over the office desk in front the glass wall. "B plug us in."

B pulls out the chair then sits down while powering up the computer. "M, how much time do I have?"

"Security has no idea that you are even there," M replies.

"Good," B says. She plugs in a USB, "S, we're powered up and plugged in."

"Roger," S replies. B watches the computer goes pass the login screen. "You are good to go, and while you're attending to your needs, I'm going to leave a couple little gifts, so we have a backdoor into Rose Corp."

B start searching through the files looking for anything that would help incriminate or prove the criminal connections between the company's CEO and certain other personnel. She scans the files and sees one particular called 'Project Sunset'. She opens the file and finds a number of multiple program folders from Excel, word documents, and PowerPoint presentations. "Hey looks like I found something. It's called Project Sunset." B clicks on one of the word documents opening it up and reads the layout in the document. "This fucking bastard doesn't know when the stop!"

M inquires by saying, "What did you find?"

"He's planning on turning parts of Oakland mainly the low income areas into a shopping center. From the looks of this he's bribing the local officials to drive the price of the land down while pricing out anybody who lives in the area, and he's bought out on the mortgages from the banks of the people who live there, so he can foreclose on their homes."

"There's fucked up then there is fucked up and then there is beyond fucked up!" M comments with an angry tone in his voice. "This explains why Rose Corp. is buying up so much of the foreclose land in that area. I knew Acorn's statement about helping the area was nothing more than bullshit!"

The intruder adds more by saying, "Then you're going to love this, it looks like he was giving money to some of the drug runners in the area along with the local police to arrest anybody who was caught with the drugs."

H jumps in with, "That explains why the drug trade in that area has been growing so fast. Acorn is paying the dealers and police to lock up as many people as possible."

S is the next to state, "In turn, those people lose their jobs; the bank forecloses on their homes; Rose Corp. comes in buys at the property dirt cheap, and makes it all look legitimate by saying he's helping the community."

"I'm downloading this entire file and all the payments that he sent out. With this we can actually put a stop to his so-called community development plan, but this is only one of fifty projects that he is doing. We got to get the word out and we need to find a way how to get these so-called fair and honest politicians behind bars," B states while uploading the files onto the thumb drive.

J looks closely at the computer screen and notices some strange encoding lines appear up through the security network. He calls over the headset, "Are you having any trouble with anything there?"

B is too distracted to make any statements to reply, but H is the next to state with more energy, "B something is not right I'm reading alarms going off, but I'm not detecting any other movement. Are you sure you didn't hit anything to activate the alarm system?"

"Of course I did, I made sure not to touch any of the panels and I bypassed the guards what's the matter?" The intruder sees a file labeled 'Insurance Policy'. B opens the file, and her face goes pale seeing the context of the docket. "Charles Acorn! I knew you were a monster, but this is too much even for you!"

M shouts at the top of his lungs, "GET OUT OF THERE IT'S A TRAP!"

However, his warning falls on deaf ears the intruder is surprised by a spotlight that flashes on illuminating the entire room. She covers her eyes allowing her site to readjust to the bright light and here's a female voice say, "Well… Well… Well, look at what I caught the Black Rose Ninja! You are in my father's seat and you have no right to be there."

Another guard calls out, "Black Rose Ninja, you are hereby under arrest. Raise your hand in the air and do not attempt to grab any weapons!"

As the other guard orders his backup to get ready and move in, the female agent says, "Don't bother! Take aim and prepare to fire!"

The guard is shocked hearing her orders and says, "Agent Acorn, we were given explicit orders to take her in!"

"I know what my orders are and I am the one in charge," she rebuts. "Besides can tell that she's resisting! All robots standby to open fire!"

B sees the two agents arguing and subtly pulls the thumb drive from the computer placing it back in her left pouch. She softly says, "I could use some help here guys."

M frantically says over the headset, "We are trying our best, but these robots firewall system is some complicated shit I don't know if we can breach it!"

The intruder starts to go for her weapon when she hears Acorn shout out, "That's enough from you you're going to follow my orders or I will have you removed! Stand at the ready!" The robots and hover bots all point the weapons at the Black Rose Ninja preparing to fire. "I hope you said your last words! You will no longer plague my company!"

B says in a mocking tone, "Too bad I couldn't bring you down along with your so-called company! Even if you kill me here, all your dirty little secrets are out and will be going up on the net for everyone to see! So, I hope you have said your last words!"

Agent Acorn tightens her fists in anger and shouts, "Open Fire!"

The bullets ring out as they start traveling towards the Black Rose Ninja. Everyone over her headset shout for her to get down, but she just simply closes her eyes envisioning her family waiting for the inevitable hit. Suddenly the glass from behind her shatters, shards of glass go flying in all directions. Destroying the lights with a massive gust of wind coming from behind, she opens her eyes feeling the wind to her back but she sees a massive figures standing in front of her with his arms extended out and the bullets ricocheting off the purple shield in front of him. The figure in front of her is shroud in the smoke and dust, which also obscures the sight of Agent Acorn. The agent orders the robots to fire again, but the bullets continue to bounce and ricochet in all directions after hitting the shield. When they exhaust their current amounts of bullets the glowing green-eyed werehog shouts out, "Howling Blaster!" Nico spits out three powerful blast of white energy back-to-back destroying most of the robots in the room. In the same swift manner, he grabs the female intruder and jumps out the window back towards the construction site.

Acorn gets up off the floor shouting, "GO AFTER THEM YOU IDIOTS! GIVE ME AIR SUPPORT!"

Nico sets down the female Ninja then goes into his hedgehog form, "Are you all right?"

She steps back pulling her weapon saying, "What are you doing here?"

Nico growls at her and says, "I think I'm here saving your life!"

"No one asked you for your help! I had everything under control!"

"Not from where I was standing! You look like you're about to go ahead and let them fill you full of lead!" Nico argues back.

As she gets ready to continue the argument, Cortana and M say almost at the same exact time, "Get out of there they're coming straight for you!"

Before they can act of helicopters spotlight shines right down on them with the voice calling out over speaker, "Freeze you are under arrest!"

"I don't think so. Howling Blaster!" Nico fires another shot from his mouth destroying the spotlight he grows into his 8 ½-foot form grabbing the girl all in black and jumping down off the building.

She starts to freak as they go falling down but then shouts while pointing, "More G.U.N. robots!"

Without a second thought, Nico balls up his fist with a purple aura surrounding it then extends his fist downward destroying the several machines below in one punch. They land in the center of the rubble from the punch; Nico then says, "This is not good I can hear more SWAT bots heading this way! Sonic you need to take over!"

Nico and Sonic switches position and Cortana calls out, "Sonic, we need to get out of here! I detecting Robotnik's forces coming in all directions."

Sonic summons his guitar and fires his blue laser at the incoming machines. B pulls out her guns and opens fire. The two continues fighting the seeming endless waves of robots and hoverbots, but things turns bad with B sees three giant mech robots heading there way. "Sonic! We're trapped!"

The blue hedgehog turns to see the big robots heading their way. "I don't think so," he states grabbing B's hand "Out of here!" Then they takes off.

B holds on to the blue hedgehog as they go speeding through the streets when she hears over her headset, "B! Thank goodness, you are safe! Listen you need to get out of there! G.U.N. has the whole city on alert and they are heading for you in all directions!"

She looks to Sonic, "Hey, I hope you have plan because they are coming us in all directions!"

~Sonic! She right!~ Nico confirms.

Sonic comes to a fast stop in a four-way intersection with his guitar sling over his left shoulder. Cortana reports looking at her monitor with a panic tone, "Sonic what are you doing?! Those robots will be on top of us in three minutes!"

"I understand," Sonic replies in a calm tone; then he folds his arms thinking and closes his eyes as he and Nico start a conversion.

"SONIC! WE HAVE TWO MINUTES!" Cortana shouts out looking at the all the red dots approaching them for all directions.

"B! GET OUT OF THERE! HURRY!" everyone shouts over her headset.

The kunoichi draws her gun looking back at the blue hedgehog, "Hey what's the matter with you! If we don't something fast, we'll be killed!"

Cortana starts to freak out more shouting, "SONIC! NICO! DO SOMETHING! WE ONLY HAVE A MINUTE! TIME IS RUNNING OUT!"

Sonic and Nico finish their conversion, and Sonic opens his eyes with a grin on his face. "Relax Cortana. We have plenty of time besides we have face worst odds in Robotropolis when Buttnik was running things." Sonic turns to face the ninja and holds out his hand. With a serious expression and tone in his voice, Sonic asks her, "Will you trust us?"

"WHAT!" she exclaims looking at him. "Are you serious right now? We don't have time for this! They will be on top us in forty-five seconds!"

Sonic steps closer to her while saying, "We are dead serious! For some reason that we can't explain, we feel that we can fully trust you with our lives."

Cortana shouts, "THIRTY SECONDS!"

"We have the power to get you and us out of the city," Sonic continues looking into her eye-covered sunglasses.

She looks back at him, yet his eyes seem to glare pass her glasses and make full eye-to-eye contact. Deep down, she starts to hear a small voice that sounds like her saying for her to trust him.

Over her headset she hears, "B! ONLY TWENTY SECONDS!"

Sonic follows up with, "But we need you in order to do it."

"TEN SECONDS!" Cortana shouts.

Sonic steps closer to her, but she takes hesitated half step back looking at the burning passion and care in his eyes.

*NINE!*

Suddenly, her eyes widen seeing the lite transparent form of Nico. The small voice within her says, ~Amy trust them. ~

*SEVEN!*

Sonic and Nico both extend their hands to her.

*FIVE!*

Her hand trembles looking at them with her heart beating harder in her chest.

*TWO!*

"Will you trust us?" she hears Sonic and Nico say in unison.

*ONE!*

She pushes away her fear and grabbing his hand. He pulls her into his embrace and hears her say, "Yes. I trust you!"

Sonic and Nico deeply breathe in her scent and says into her ear, "We will always protect you."

The robots, hoverbots, and mech walkers fill each street around them with helicopters' spotlights shining down on them. Over the loudspeaker someone says, "You are under arrest! Surrender at once!"

Sonic lets her go smiling at everything going on around at them. "You ready?" Nico and B nod yes and Sonic start playing his guitar filling the air with music.

(A/N Play Sonic Generations Escape from the City- Classic Remix)

Whoa!

Sonic sings while playing his guitar making everyone watch with curiously.

Oh Yeah!

The Black Rose Ninja takes the chance to open fire shooting several G.U.N bots destroying them.

Rolling around at the speed of sound
Got places to go, gotta follow my rainbow!

Sonic fires his blue laser from his guitar destroying some more bots and hover bots. Everyone snaps at the attack then opens fire while charging in. Sonic and B easily destroy the front line chargers. They open a path to escape. Sonic grabs B's hand taking off down the opened path.

Can't stick around, have to keep movin' on!

Guess what lies ahead, only one way to find out!

Sonic carries B on his back as they dash race north on Mission Street dodging laser shots, bullet rounds, and melee attack.

Must keep on movin' ahead!
No time for guessin', follow my plan instead!

Sonic uses his awesome speed to run alongside of the building dodging any roadblocks and get away from the robot controlled vehicles.

Trusting in what you can't see!
Take our lead, we'll set you free!

Sonic increases his speed taking off into the air with B screaming in amazement and joy. They get high enough to see the tops all buildings along with the blacken water in the port. They pass through a cloudbank, and B is surprised to see both Sonic and Nico flying through the air with her.

Follow me –

Sonic plays while giving a thumb up and wink.

Set me free –

Nico flies behind Sonic spreading his arms wide open.

Trust me and we will escape from the city!

Sonic float higher and jumps off Nico's head twisting head overhead with a big smile

I'll make it through, follow -
Follow me –

Nico grabs hold of B as they start to the fall back to the ground.

Set me free –

Sonic spins in the air with is legs wide open as if he is skydiving.

Trust me and we will escape from the city

They pass through another cloudbank, and Sonic is gone with only Nico playing his guitar.

I'll make it through, prove it to you
Follow me

Helicopters fly up shining lights on them. Nico push his guitar to behind him; then make sure B is secure on his back. Nico does a twist then goes into a full power dive. A second later, Nico lands with a powerful boom in front of city hall; then the 8 ½ foot tall werehog starts running on all four away from the building. He turns down alley allowing B to get off his back. They walk slowly down the alley while Nico sings.

Danger is lurking around every turn
Trust your feelings, gotta live and learn!

Suddenly he starts slashing the air to B's surprise, three cloaked robots are easily destroy. Nico turns holding out his giant claw to her. She smiles grabbing his hand; then pulls her into his embrace. Nico fires his left arm out extending a great length grabbing something off in the distance. Like a bungie cord, the arm retracts launching them at full speed.

I know with some luck that I'll make it through

While flying, they see massive blockade ahead.

Got no other options, only one thing to doooooo!

Nico opens his mouth wide firing off a Howling Blaster shot fully destroying all the machines along with two mechsuits. The speed from the launch wears off, and Nico tosses B into the air catching her on his back. He runs on all four again followed by more G.U.N bots.

I don't care what lies ahead!
No time for guessin', follow our plan instead!

All the persuaders open fire making the werehog dodge left, right, up and down. B takes the chance and uses her guns to fire back destroying some the chasing robots. They power down Van Ness Ave with the remaining forces, but their forces quickly replenish as they pass Broadway, Vallejo St, and Green St.

Find that next stage no matter what that may be
Take our lead, we'll set you free!

Nico senses the growing danger and uses his claws scaling a three-story apartment building. Once they reach the roof, Nico jumps on flying G.U.N bot, then hops to a hoverbot, finally he rockets into the air jumping off the top of one flying mechsuit. Both robots spiral down, clash, and then explode while the mechsuit spirals for a minute.

They blast through another cloudbank, and Sonic reappears playing his guitar while twirling in air. B's flies off Nico's back allowing him to play his guitar.

Follow me – (Nico)

Nico sings while doing an aerial backflips.

Set me free – (Sonic)

The blue hedgehog spins upside down playing his guitar.

Trust us and we will escape from the city!
We'll make it through, follow –(Nico)

Nico's monstrous claws eclipses B's smaller hands while looking into her eyes with a kind and gentle expression on their face.

Follow me – (Sonic)

Sonic flies in between them forcing Nico to fall back while he winks at the kunoichi.

Set me free – (Nico)

Nico pushes Sonic down and out of the way between B and him.

Trust us and we will escape from the city! (Sonic)

Nico starts to lose himself in her eyes when Sonic comes flying in kicking at the werehog.

We'll make it through, prove it to you
Follow me! (Nico)

Nico dodges the attack and quickly retaliates by punching at his reentering brother. B's can only laugh and smile with tears in her eyes seeing the two brothers start fighting in midair. They display the strong martial arts skills from training by attacking, defecting, blocking, and evading. Spotlights shine on the three quickly breaking up the fight. Sonic and Nico nod, and Sonic flies over to B.

Follow me!
We'll make it through (Sonic)(Music plays)

He secures on her his back then power dives through the clouds. After they break out the clouds, Nico is gone, and Sonic uses his speed force aura to guide to land. Sonic hits Lombard St running, and without missing a beat, the blue hedgehog pushes it up to full speed. B's holds her head close to Sonic's back with Sonic's famous blue tail stream. Sonic swifts left and right. At times clashing into the blocking robots, sending the stun bots falling and exploding. Sonic puts the hammer down and goes even faster losing all persuaders as the cross the Golden Gate Bridge while Sonic exclaims with a following echo.

Ohhhhhhhhh, yeahhhhhhh!

In the command, Shadow hears over the com channels, "Suspects are lost! They are moving too fast! Units ten through fifteen wiped out! We need chopper and unit back up!"

Shadow grits his teeth and tightens his fist, and orders the com operator, "Enough! Tell all units to break off pursuit. Connect all surrounding divisions; I want a 500-mile containment zone setup NOW! Units are ordered to detain and use only non-lethal force!"

Agent Acorn says, "Why only non-lethal? They destroyed…"

Shadow cuts her off with, "Sally, I don't want to hear it! You are the one who caused all this, and you disobeyed orders from Captain Sisko! So I don't want hear anything from you right now!"

Rouge comments, "Shadow, its 500 miles a bit much?"

The black hedgehog rebuts, "No in fact, I should increase that zone size."

A purple yellow horn chameleon adds, "I agree with Shadow. I mean look at fast that thing was moving. It might be faster than Shadow."

"No way Espio!" Rouge exclaims. "There is no one or thing faster than Shadow!"

Black hedgehog gets ready to comment when another command worker says, "Sir something wrong!"

Shadow walks over to the worker, "Report!"

"Sir, I don't get it, but all the data and recorded video from the operation is being deleted!"

"WHAT! LOCKDOWN ALL SYSTEM CUT EXTERNAL CONNECTIONS NOW!"

"We tried that sir, but not good we're out!" the operator exclaims. "Damn!" the operator shouts while hitting his desk. "All the data is gone!"

Shadow bits his lip hearing the news, but things get worse, when the com operator says, "Sir Capt. Sisko wants an update."

Shadow rolls his eyes then says, "Tell the captain, I be there soon. In the meantime, wake Silver and Midna up. Rouge, you and Midna coordinate the search, and have Silver head the cleanup effort. Sally you are on frontline cleanup."

"WHAT!" Sally bucks.

"If you have problems with those orders, you can go to the brig!" Shadow fires back.

"No sir."

"Good, Espio take charge here and coordinate unit recall. Chaos control!" Shadow finishes disappearing in a flash of black light.

Sonic and B arrive back at their hill overlooking the downtown area. Sonic lets B off his back then starts stretching while laughing, "OH YEAH! WHATA RUSH!"

B bend over with her hands on her knees while breathing heavily. "Wow! Do you always move that fast?"

Sonic turns around smiling, "Yeah, but that was half of my top speed."

"Half!" B exclaims.

"Yup," Sonic replies stretching. "Man, we needed that. It felt great to get out there and stretch our legs."

Cortana appears in here mini-form and says, "Speak for yourself Sonic! I spent that whole time blocking their transmitting signal, so Robotnik would not know it was you. But one thing was bothering me, those bots didn't look like the regular SWAT bots we fought in the past."

Sonic comments, "Buttnik must have upgraded them."

"I'll worried about that later. For now, I'm calling it a night. You three are on your own," Cortana states then disappears.

"SWAT bot?" B softly questions, but she quickly drops the subject then follows up with, "Sonic, why did you save me?"

Sonic looks at B then says, "I don't know. Nico and I just got this feeling to jump in and save you."

"Wow that is just crazy," B replies.

"Yeah, while we were escaping, I was wondering if you are a freedom fighter," Sonic inquires.

B folds her arms thinking then replies with her head down, "In a certain way, I am."

Sonic steps closer and asks, "May I see your face looks like?" B's head shoots up looking at the close standing hedgehog. She does a quick hop back taking a defensive posture. "I'll take that as a no. Then would you at least tell me your name?"

Holding her stance, she questions, "Why?"

Sonic quickly replies with, "Because we kept hearing from headset the people call you B. I going to take a wild shot in the dark, but your name isn't B. Plus, Nico and I would like to know the name of the woman we saved from a close call."

B lowers her guard and replies while reaching behind her back, "I can't thank you enough Sonic, but…" She pulls her gun pointing at Sonic. "I can't give you that information." Sonic is surprised seeing the gun pointing at him, but the blue hedgehog keeps his cool while listening, "Don't get me wrong I am grateful, but you can't know who I am. I have a mission to complete, and I will not risk anyone getting in my way."

"Ok, so what happens next?" Sonic questions. "Will you shot us?"

"Not unless, you give me a reason. Now listen up, put up your hands up and turn around," she orders.

Sonic smirks looking at B, "You have seen our power, and you know good and well what we can do." Sonic looks at Nico laughing; Nico motions for Sonic to go along with orders. Sonic shrugs his shoulders; then he looks back at B.

"Yes, I know, but…" she points the gun at her head with her finger on the trigger. "You worked so hard to save me, and would be a shame for all of it go to waste."

Sonic snickers and says, "Ok you win." He rises his hands then turns around. "We won't risk your safety."

B steps forward with the gun now pointed to Sonic's back. She gets closer and somewhat sees Nico smirking at her. "Sonic, you seem to be a nice guy, so please don't get involved any more with me."

Sonic looks out at the city while saying, "I can't promise you that because something about you is driving us."

"Then, I won't be held responsible for what happens to you," B states.

"You don't have to uhhh….." Sonic cries as B cracks the butt of her gun knocking both Sonic and Nico out.

B breathes a sigh of relief seeing both of them knocked out. "Wow for being so powerful they can be knocked out real easily."

"B please come in," M calls out over the headset.

B takes off her sweaty head cover revealing her damp pink quills. Amy exhales then says, "I'm here M. Please have someone pick me up."

"You got it B. Where are you?"

"San Bruno Mountain Park, I'll be near Guadalupe Canyon Parkway," Amy says.

"You got it! BC is on her way," M explains.

Shadow appears in the command center for Space Colony Ark. The black hedgehog is greet by a 7' well build black man with a long braided hair wearing a similar uniform to Capt. Sisko, but he only has three gold pips on his collar symbolizing his rank. He looks up from his consul at Shadow and says, "Welcome back Lieut. Hedgehog, the Capt. is waiting to see you along with Cmdr. Kira."

"Thank you Commander Dax," Shadow replies walking up the stairs to Capt. Sisko's office. He presses the button to activate the chime, and the door opens allowing him to walk through. Once inside, Shadow snaps to attention and salutes then says, "Reporting as ordered sir."

Benjamin is talking with a short brown haired white woman in the same type of uniform with the same number of pips as commander Dorn. She turns around her chair acknowledging the young prince with a nod. Capt. Sisko says, "At ease Shadow." Shadow relaxes and walk closer to the desk seeing the displeased an angry look on his face as he asked in a scolding tone, "What the hell happened down there?! This mission was supposed to be routine, quiet, and no major activities next thing I know I am dealing with a complete and utter disaster. I am getting calls from the secretary defense, the governor, and the mayor wanting to know what is going on in the downtown area. Shadow, you better have a damn good explanation for what happened!"

Shadow walks closer to the desk and replies with, "Sir the operation took a unexpected turn because of agent Acorn's actions."

Cmdr. Kira questions, "What do you mean because of her actions? Did she has something to do with the situation?"

Without hesitation Shadow replies, "Capt. I warned you that having agent Acorn on this mission would possibly jeopardize it based on her own personal history with the Black Rose Ninja. To simply put it, agent Acorn disobeyed orders and try to kill the target. She ordered the forces in her father's office open fire with lethal intent, and she tried to cover up her disobedience by saying that the target try to open fire on them!"

Capt. Sisko rubs his left temple with his left hand saying, "Let me guess, agent Acorn fired first."

Shadow nods yes and Cmdr. Kira follows up with, "Okay, that explains why she opened fired, but how is the target not killed in the attack? Or the better question is, what stop the bullets from reaching the Black Rose Ninja?"

Shadow folds his arms and exhales before saying, "It wasn't a what that stopped the attack but who."

Capt. Sisko follows up with, "And you know who that 'who' is right?"

"Unfortunately sir I do," shadow answers walking over to the window to look out at the slowly rotating surface of the planet. "Before we lost all the data and surveillance video, I was able to get a glimpse at what was standing in front of the target when the robots opened fired. The bullets were bouncing off a very well-known shield and is only one person I know who has a purple like shield to defend himself. Add to that, when the suspects were escaping the city, the pilots for the mechsuits reported hearing singing throughout the chase."

Benjamin then adds, "Put that with the fact that the targets were moving at such a high velocity the social networks are calling them the Blue Blur."

Kira jumps in with, "Wait, that doesn't explain who the Black Rose Ninja."

"Would you like the honors Capt." Benjamin shakes his head and motions for Shadow to explain, "The only two people I know who are capable of moving that fast and putting up a shield that strong are my brothers Sonic and Nico."

Cmdr. Kira shakes her head, "Wait a minute, your brothers how… Why?"

"Sonic and Nico came a day early so that they could find out clues or information about what happened to our dad after he left us in your care."

Capt. Sisko says, "But that doesn't explain why they helped her escape."

"They must have had some interaction with the target that is only explanation." Shadow states; then he rubs his fore head while saying, "Mom is going to flip her shit the moment she finds out about this."

Cmdr. Kira leans back in her chair and says, "Well it doesn't matter, we won't be able to do anything because of diplomatic immunity."

Shadow shakes his head no and explains, "Mother ordered that my brothers and sister not be given diplomatic immunity while here on Earth."

Capt. Sisko follows up with, "In other words, they will be held accountable for their actions, but we do owe them a debt of gratitude."

"I agree. Thanks to those two, our target wasn't murdered and we can still continue on with our other operational portion of dealing with the Acorn family. Capt. might I suggest that we start revoking certain privileges that agent Acorn has as we begin to phase her out."

Benjamin shakes his head no and says, "It's too early Shadow. If we start phasing her out now, we run the risk of tipping her hand off to Charles Acorn. No we need to bide our time and wait for the opportune moment to bring them down eventually I know Acorn can mess up and that will be our chance. Now, I have to ask. Shadow how would Queen Aleena react to us taking your brothers into custody?"

"Mom gave them explicit instructions not to interfere with the affairs of this world. Without a doubt mom would have no problem for us doing what it takes to uphold the law and regulations here." Shadow turns around to look back at the two humans and sees the shock on commander Kira's face.

She says in with a mild sense of concern, "Shadow, are you suggesting what I think you are when the Queen arrives?"

"They have no choice! They know they violated mom's orders and they know to follow all the laws here, so I don't think they will fight us. Just in case…"

Capt. Sisko finishes up with, "Just in case, will take them into custody the moment Queen Aleena arrives that way we don't have to run that risk of them fighting us. That to the side, how long will it be before Queen Aleena arrives?" Shadow checks his watch and states 10:30. "That would be less than nine hours from now, Shadow will the city be back to normal before she arrives?"

"Silver should be able to have everything cleared out before then," shadow replies.

Benjamin leans back in his chair then says, "Alright that's one issue down let's continue on with the other issues." The three of them continue their meeting discussing the finer points of Aleena's arrival.

Sonic and Nico wake up seeing the city and surrounding area brightly lit by the sun, but when Sonic looks up he sees the brilliant starry sky and says, "Nico, I think were back in the dreamscape again."

The werehog does the same looking up and sees the multiple constellations and bright stars all around. "How do we end up here?"

A familiar voice says from behind them, "I gotta hand it to you boys really do know how to make an entrance into a whole new world."

They turn around to see standing there with a smile on his face looking at his sons. Before they can make any response, Sora disappears making the boys look left and right for the whereabouts of their father, but he reappears behind them floating in the air with the city as a backdrop. "Sonic! Nico! I must congratulate you boys for the progress you have made in such short time. You found the disk that I left behind and you were able to establish a good link up in order to have access to the entire world's information, but all that the information is going to help you unless you know how to understand and disseminate it." Sora opens up his hands and an orb appears in each one of his hands. In his right hand, a blue orb with what looks to be numbers, letters, and symbols float around in all directions inside. In his left hand, he holds a moon white light orb with the symbol of a wolf's head howling at a crescent moon.

"What are those dad?" Sonic inquires looking at the mysterious orbs.

Nico feels a strange pull towards the pale light. He reaches out his hand toward but quickly catches himself then says, "It better not be something that will break us up!"

Sora starts to snicker looking at his sons then replies, "Don't worry Nico I'm not going to ever do that again. Besides, I couldn't do that if I wanted to anyway because your pink friend she put a very interesting spell with the energy that she gave you to your limiters. These orbs will help you. The one I hold in my right hand contains specialized knowledge in order for you to understand clues that I left behind. Now let me be clear, the information stored within this orb will only help you understand some things that you see and other languages that might be associated with it. Now, the orb I hold in my left hand is something more specialized for you Nico."

"For me?" Nico comments, "What is it?"

Sora smirks then winks, "Well, it would be a shame to spoil the surprise in store for you."

Nico gives an annoyed look, "Believe it or not dad, I'm not into surprises so spill the beans."

Sora slightly shakes his head and replies, "Alright, you win. The orb contains a new form that you can transform into; I know that you can shape your body to look like Sonic, then there is your normal form; add to that your unleashed form for battle, final you will take when you go into full-uncontrolled moon heat. Which bring up the question if you and Sonic have been able to control your moon heat yet?" Sora looks at them and continues with, "Judging by the look on your faces, I'll take as that a no. Anyway getting back the on track, Nico this form will help you and Sonic when you meet my tribe. Know this, my tribe, at first, will see you as outsiders. It will be on you to prove your worth and place within the tribe."

Sonic calls out, "Wait! What tribe? Dad what do you mean?"

Sora allows the orbs float down to the two brothers, "I'm sorry Sonic, but I can't give you any more information. Not until you solve the mysteries that are in front of you. Don't worry son, you two are on the right track, and you are closer to solving one greater mystery."

"Dad! We have more mysteries than we can handle! We need more help, a clue, a lead, or something," Nico whines.

The brown hedgehog starts to fade away, and his voice echoes, "Look to the rose for your answer and help protect until the right time."

Sonic and Nico call out Sora's name, but their father vanishes. They look at their orbs floating in front of them wondering what to do next.

The morning Shadow, Silver, Midna, Captain Sisko, and his senior officers wait in hanger bay one with a prep and ready to fly shuttle. Midna looks at her watch and sees the time is 10:29. She makes a low comment, "Where are they?"

"Relax Midna, its not like mom got lost," Shadow comments.

The fully blossoming brown hedgehog with a hairstyle and figure similar to Aleena stands next to her 6' 4'' tall muscular silver fur color brother and says, "Just wait. In three… two… one…"

The clock hits 10:30 and a tiny purple light appears in the center of the hanger. A second later, the light grows brighter then explodes in a bright fight. Once the light fades, Aleena, Sonia, Manic, and nine others appear standing next to the hedgehog. "Hello everyone," Aleena greets with a smile. Midna is the first to rush over to the purple hedgehog. They wrap their arms around each other with tears in Midna eyes. "Oh my sweet babies, it so good to see you. Midna step back and let me get a good look at you." She does as requested, and Aleena looks up and down her older daughter. "Wow, you are becoming my younger twin, and you're taking my hairstyle."

Sonia walks up looking at her you older sister, "Midna you look amazing!"

Midna walks over to Sonia while Silver is the next one to hug Aleena; then he walks over the Manic to chat. Shadow is last one to step up, but when he looks at Aleena's smile he breakdown and gives her a tight loving hug. Once done, Shadow stands back and introduces, "Mom allow me to introduce, Captain Benjamin Sisko commanding officer of Space Colony Ark."

Captain Sisko follows up shaking Aleena's hand then motives behind him, "Your highness allow me to introduce my senior staff. My First Officer: Commander Nerys Kira, Chief of Operations: Master Chief Petty Officer Miles O'Brien, our Strategic Operations Officer and Chief Scientific Officer: Commander Worf and Jadzia Dax, next our Chief Medical officer: Lieutenant-Commander Julian Bashir, lastly Head of Station Security: Constable Odo Nerys." Each one nods their heads and greets Aleena after their names are call.

Aleena replies with, "Its pleasure to meet you all. Let me introduce my people. My Chief of Staff and Executive Secretary: Millie Ashford, leader of the Council of Elders: Grand Elder Lisa Prower, Speaker of the House: Representative Po Panda, President of the Senate: Senator Lorna Vance, Head of the Joint Chief: General Mizu Adair, Captain of the Royal Guard: Captain Kenna Adair, and Royal Mystic and close friend: Oracle. Oh and I forget my other children: Sonia and Manic." Captain Sisko and his crew greet them, and Aleena continues while pointing at her children, "Also let me introduce my other children, Sonia and Manic."

Shadow looks at his watch then says, "Captain, we need to head out if what to stay on schedule."

"Agreed your highness, if you and your company will follow me, we have ship ready to go planet-side," Captain Sisko states leading Aleena to the parked shuttle. Once everyone has a seat, he signals the pilot to takeoff.

The ship's engines goes to full power flying out of the hanger. Sonia and Manic look out the windows seeing the view of the shrinking space station and vast stars into the background. Millie hears her name from Aleena asking her go over her schedule. Millie pulls out a pad then says, "Your majesty after we land and get set up in the hotel, you will have dinner with Mayor Ed Lee and Governor Jerry Brown. Tomorrow, we head to Washington D.C to meet with President Elizabeth Warren and Congressional leadership at the White House. Finally, we will head to New York City for your address at the United Nations. Afterwards, we will return to San Francisco for you, personally, to handle high level meetings."

"Understood thank you Millie," Aleena starts; she then looks at Ben and asks, "Captain did Shadow inform you about my two sons who came earlier?"

Ben exhales and says, "Yes your highness, but a situation came up last night involving them."

Aleena gives a curious expression as Captain Sisko explains everything that happened last night. Kenna is in complete shock hearing the amount of damage they left in their wake. Manic and Sonia do their best no to bust out laughing hearing the tale. Once Ben finishes explaining everything, Aleena's right eyebrow twitches up and down with a blood vessel on her forehead while squeezing the armrest to the point of bending. "Tell me, do you know where they are?" Aleena asks in a calm angry tone.

"Sorry mother; we looked for them in the direction they ran off, but we have had no luck in finding them," Midna replies.

Aleena smirks replying, "I wouldn't worry too much about that. Knowing your brothers, they will meet up with us sooner or later."

Shadow is the next to say, "Mom, you should know that Sonic and Nico helped a wanted criminal escape, so…"

Aleena cuts him off, "They were told that they would be held responsible for their actions. Captain Sisko, Shadow do what your duties required."

"Sonic! Sonic! Sonic wake up!"

Sonic swipes his hand while covering his face, "It's too early let me go back to sleep. Wake me up later too early. If important tell Cortana; she'll handle it."

The blue AI's body glows red as she gets pissed off then starts to kicking, punching, and beating up on Sonic while yelling, "YOU LAZY, CHILIDOG EATING, NO GOOD, OVERSLEEPING HEDGEHOG! WAKE YOUR LAZY ASS UP!"

Sonic finally wakes up rubbing his eyes looking at Cortana with a confused look, "Hey Cortana what's going on?" Before Cortana replies, Sonic rubs the his hand on the back of his head and feels a sharp sting from where he was hit by the butt of the gun. "Ouch! What the hell? Wait a minute, it's all coming back to me that girl she hit me on the back of the head."

Nico motions for Sonic to let him come out; and a second later the werehog appears next to him. Nico rubs the back of his head, feels the same bump, and complains to Sonic, "Man this shit hurts! Sonic why didn't you put up our shield before she hit us?"

"I did put up a barrier but for some reason it didn't work… Hang on Nico, you have a bump to? That doesn't make any sense," Sonic states folding his arms looking down at the ground.

Nico stops rubbing the bump on the back of his head and looks at Sonic, "Yeah I do that's not possible because I was in spirit form when she hit us."

Cortana jumps in with, "That explains why you two were knocked out."

Sonic is the next to voice, "Who was that girl? Dammit! I wish we had some way to track her down." Nico smirks reaching into his pocket and pulls out a gold linked necklace with three charms on it. "Nico, when did you… How did you… Why did you?"

The werehog gives a big grin displaying his fangs and says, "When I was carrying her I kind of snagged one my claws on to her necklace and came on. I figured since we were a little busy getting out of the city I would just hold onto it. I was going to give it back to her once things that calm down, but I wasn't able to because of the little knock she give us on the back of the head." He looks at the two close bud rose charms, and the red and white hammer charm in the center of the necklace. He sniffs the necklace and tells Sonic, "Hey, I can get her scent off of this necklace, so we should be able to track her that way."

Sonic nods his approval then replies, "Awesome Nico with this will be able to find her!" Sonic looks closer at the two rose bud charms and adds, "Hey Nico these roses don't you look familiar?" Nico takes a close look at the charms and thinks about what Sonic is seeing. The blue hedgehog reaches into his pocket and pulls out two lost roses he had from Mobius. "Nico, they look the same. One said is in full bloom while the other is ready to blossom." Sonic looks up at Nico and says, "Bro they could be…"

Cortana shouts out looking at her many screen, "NICO! SONIC! IT'S PAST 1030! QUEEN ALEENA IS ON HER WAY HERE RIGHT NOW!"

The two-brother freak out and order in unison, "CORTANA TRACK THEM!"

"I'M ALREADY DOING THAT! SONIC THEY ARE LESS THAN TEN MINUTES OUT AT THE AIRPORT IN OAKLAND! NICO, THEY ARE INBOUND ON THE FINAL APPROACH! THEY'LL BE PASSING THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE AND LESS THAN TWO MINUTES!"

Sonic and Nico look at each other then back at Cortana. Sonic steps forward and says, "Nico go back to normal. Cortana go back mini form and I need you to lower the gravity weight on our shoes by 85%."

Cortana's face is full of shock hearing Sonic's order, "Sonic are you sure about that? Queen Aleena…"

Nico interjects, "If we do not get there when she arrives or at least been her there, mom is going to be even more pissed then she is now. We might as well go all out and beat her there or at least catch up. Sonic can you?"

Sonic gives Nico a*are you kidding*look, "Nico is that you really a question? Bro get our backpack; Cortana for the course so that we can intercept them. It's time to go!"

Meanwhile back on Aleena's ship, everyone is talking amongst themselves about something that interests them and the places that they would want to visit. One of the pilots walks back, gets Capt. Sisko's attention, and tells him about a concern that has just popped up. Once the pilot finishes telling the captain about the issue, Benjamin turns to Aleena and says, "Your Majesty, we have a situation that's has appeared up. It seems an unknown object of high-speed is heading towards us. According to the pilot and off-site viewers, it seems that the blue blur is heading straight for us."

"Sonic must be really pushing it to be moving that fast. If I didn't know better, I think he lowered his gravity weight below 70%. Capt. I had to defer to your judgment on what you wish to do, but I know he doesn't mean any harm."

Benjamin nods and tells the pilot, "Maintain your course."

Shadow looks out the portside window and sees Sonic moving across the water the blue trail following behind, "When did Sonic get that fast?"

Sonia answers, "Before we came to Earth, mother had us training with her. Who knows maybe we are stronger and faster than you guys."

Shadow gives his sister an unconvinced smirk and replies, "Only in your dreams little sister, but I'll admit Sonic could be faster than me."

Sonic races across the water and sees that he is getting closer to the ship. The right moment, Sonic seizes chance and jumps up with the speed or around him accelerating him in the air towards the ship. Once in range, he does a front flip, twist, and easily lands on the left wing of the plane. He crosses his arms letting the wind pass his face as the ship makes its final approach towards the landing runway.

Ten minutes later, the shuttle is on the ground and taxiing towards the secure disembarking zone. Once this ship is at a complete stop, they push the stairway up to the door. Aleena steps out and greeted by some of the airport workers and the flashes from the reporters allowed on the tarmac. She waves at them and the other greeters as he makes her way down the stairwell. Mayor Lee meets the purple hedgehog Queen at the bottom of the stairs with a quick bow and in a friendly handshake. They turn to take some more pictures with the photographers. Once they finish, the mayor escorts Aleena into terminal with others from her entourage following close behind. Sonic jumps down from the ring stretching himself out and the first person on him is Kenna with an angry look on her face. "Hey Kenna how the trip?"

"Don't you hey Kenna me! Do you know how much shit you just cost?"

Midna calls out to, "Kenna don't worry about it right now. Sonic, you to get changed and cleaned up quickly there's a bathroom on the ship."

"Okay Midna. Kenna, we know we fucked up, but I promise we will explain everything." Sonic walks back towards the ship in order to get changed in the bathroom.

Minutes later, everyone is inside the terminal with reporters asking questions about Aleena's visit. Some reporters ask questions about her children and most importantly, about how Sonic is the most trending topic as the Blue Blur. Aleena gives the question to Capt. Sisko, and he says, "Prince Sonic's involvement with the events that happened last night is still under investigation, but" he looks at Aleena and she gives an approval nod. Capt. Sisko motions towards two of the police officers.

The two police officers walk over to Sonic, and one of the officers removes his handcuffs saying, "Sonic hedgehog you are hereby under arrest for suspicion and aiding and abetting a want to criminal." Sonic's eyes bug out looking at his mom wondering why she is allowing them to do this to him, but Sonic and Nico can tell by her look that they know what they did was wrong. The officers tell him to put his hands behind his back, and he falls the officer's orders as they place the handcuffs on his wrist. The camera's flashes increase as the police officers leads Sonic out of the terminal into the back of the patrol car.

Will Sonic and Nico face criminal charges for helping the Black Rose Ninja escape? What connection does this pink hedgehog have to our heroes? And will they find out as they continue to trace the breadcrumbs left by King Sora?

Find out all this and more in the next episode of Neo Sonic Underground.

"EAN, YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO US! YOU CAN'T LEAVE NICO AND I IN THIS SITUATION! WE'RE INNOCENT I TELL YOU INNOCENT! GET OUR LAWYER! GET THE GOVERNOR! GET US OUT HERE! HELPPPP!" Sonic screams.

Hey everyone, I hope you enjoyed the first episode of season two of Neo Sonic Underground: Earth Saga. I have a few quick announcements and shout outs to make. First, I want everyone to know that I do not own Star Trek Deep Space 9, Ghost in the Shell, Watchdogs 2, and the song 'Escape from the City'. Next, we want to thank everyone who has supported us and given us great comment about how the show is going. We are excited for this new season.

At the request of my driving, me nuts brother Sonic, we decided that were going to go ahead and immediately start working on the next episode of the series, so stay tuned episode two.

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