Disclaimer: I don't own Archie's Sonic the hedgehog comics, this series are respectively owned by copyright and this story is only fictional. Refer to this series for the character descriptions.

Pairing: OC x Sally

Sonic the Hedgehog: A Keyblade Master's Tale

Chapter 1: A Missing Hero Returns

It has been 2 years since the end of the second Keyblade War. Sora and his friends returned home to their home worlds. But, there was such a Keyblade Master that fought alongside them. He wasn't human like Sora. No, he was actually a Mobian named Alex. He's a Mobian squirrel who was presumed missing for the past 12 years of his life. He is wearing a dark blue jacket with a hood on it, along with blue shoes with the same design as Sonics except the color blue in place of the red color. Shiny, Ocean Blue eyes had shown followed by his orange-blond hair which had a few bangs hanging on the sides of his face just above his eyebrows. His hair reached to the bottom of his neck on the back of his head. His hair was set to a spiky hair fashion like Ventus's Hair.

Alex was currently traveling on his Keyblade glider, finally knowing that his friend, King Mickey, found his home world at last. Since he was 6 years old, he went to search for a way to return to his home on planet Mobius. Since then, he went to train under Master Yen Sid when he obtained his Kingdom Keyblade.

"Finally, home at last." Alex said as he was happy, seeing Mobius in his sight.

"I wonder if King Acorn still remembers me, along with Queen Alicia and Prince Elias." Alex said as he took out his yellow Wayfinder, which he mysteriously received when he was five years old.

"Sally, I hope that you remember the promise you made with me when we were children. I look forward to seeing you again." Alex spoke with a smile on his face as he continued on his way.

(Planet Mobius ½ mile away from Knothole)

A sudden bright light shown in the forest as a mysterious portal opened up. A Mobian figure with armor on stepped out of the portal. It wore a smaller duplicate version of Ventus's armor. The armor vanished in a bright light, revealing Alex as he wore a gauntlet on his left shoulder. He stopped and looked around to see where he was.

'Well, I'm home again. Now, I need to see where civilization is.' Alex thought to himself. He suddenly heard cheering from a distance. He turned and ran on a dirt trail, leading to where the cheering was coming from.

'Oh well, so much for that.' Alex thought as he continued running.

(Knothole)

Alex came upon a small village and saw everyone cheering for something. He walked up to a Mobian bear and got his attention as the bear turned towards Alex.

"Excuse me sir, but what's going on here?" Alex asked.

"I'll tell you what's going on! King Max has returned home!" The bear cheered in happiness. Alex had a clueless look on his face, not knowing what went on during his absence. He asked what happened since he went missing for 12 years. The bear told him that first of all, Robotnik took over Mobotropolis, the king and queen went missing, along with Elias, the left over refugees fled to this village, and finally the Freedom Fighters forming to fight against Robotnik's evil rule. Alex found himself shocked and then saddened that all of this happened after he mysteriously vanished. He knew that they would need his help in the war.

"Thanks for telling me. One more thing before I go. Do you know where the freedom fighters went to?" Alex asked.

"Yeah, I heard that they went to Robotropolis on a rescue mission. Why do you ask?" the bear asked.

"No particular reason at all. Thanks for telling me all of this." Alex said with a small, polite bow.

"You're welcome." The bear said as he turned to cheer on their king. Alex turned to be on his way to Robotropolis. As he left, the prince, Elias, glanced and saw a familiar figure quietly open a portal to make his way out of Knothole.

'That person looks familiar. Could that be…?' Elias said as the figure vanished in the portal.

(Robotropolis)

Alex appeared out of the portal with his armor on to look around the roboticized city.

'So much has changed since I was last here.' Alex thought to himself. He was then out of his thoughts when he saw a yellow, Mobian Mongoose running up a set of stairs.

'What's she doing here? She needs to go back to Knothole before she gets caught.' Alex thought to himself as he decided to intercept her. He was able to stop her by blocking her way.

"Hey, what are you doing?! You need to escape with the others." Alex said.

"I should say the same thing to you." The female mongoose spoke.

"Out of the way, I've got to get inside Robotnik's headquarters! Now!" she pleaded as she tried to rush past him, but failed as Alex stepped in front of her once more.

"Sorry, I can't! It's too dangerous for you to go in there!" Alex yelled.

"Please, I -! Oh, what's the use? You won't listen anyway!" the mongoose exclaimed as she gave up and sat down on the step, sobbing to herself with her gloved hands covering her face.

"Hey, I'll definitely listen. But, I don't understand. What would be in Robotnik's headquarters that you would go as far as to infiltrate inside it and get what you need in there?" Alex asked as he sat down with her and removed his helmet to look at the sobbing mongoose. She looked up to look at him with tears still running down her soft, blue eyes.

"Someone that I love was captured and taken away by those awful swat-bots. What'll I do?" she sobbed as she tried to wipe the tears away from her eyes.

"I don't know. They're probably roboticized by now. If you were to go in there, the same thing would happen to you." Alex said as he settled a hand on the mongoose's shoulder and soothed her to have her stop crying.

"You just don't understand how difficult it is…" she trailed off.

"That's where you're wrong." Alex said, drawing her attention.

"You see, when I was four years old, my parents died, fighting during the end of the Great War against the Overlanders. You should be happy that your special person was roboticized instead of killed. Being roboticized and dying are two different things. You still have a way to change them back to normal from robotization. Those who are dead, you can't get them back, no matter how much you wish for them to come back home to you." Alex stated as he lowered his head, remembering the day when he was told that his parents were killed.

"Oh no. That's terrible! I'm sorry." The mongoose said as her sobbing died down. Alex heard footsteps coming their way. The Freedom Fighters saw the two as they stopped and came up to them.

"Excuse me? Who are you two?" Sally asked them.

'I see, so she doesn't remember me at all. Also, she's most likely forgot the promise she made with me.' Alex thought with an unnoticeable frown on his face.

"My name's Alex, Alexander Thorndyke. It's nice to meet you." Alex introduced himself in a cheery tone.

"Mina." Mina the Mongoose sobbed as she started to calm down. The rest of them introduced themselves. Except Tails, Antoine, and Bunnie were escorting Sonic's parents out of here.

"I must be going… and I suggest you get back to Knothole Village if you know what's good for you! So long!" Snively waved as he walked away from the group.

"Sheesh! I can't believe we just teamed up with one of our worst enemies! What's next? The Sonic and Snively Comedy Hour?" Sonic asked everyone.

(Inside Robotnik's Headquarters)

"Joke all you want, Hedgehog. But you won't be safe in your wooded hideaway…" Robotnik said as he observed the monitors.

"Wait a minute, that mobian squirrel. He looks familiar somehow. Haven't I seen him before?" Robotnik asked himself as he saw Alex on the monitor.

"Oh well, now's not the time to go through memory lane. Now it's time to bio-mechanically interface with the software in my master computer." Robotnik said as he used his arm and morphed it into wires and went to work on the master computer. He suddenly lost concentration as he began to receive a headache.

"Ohh…suddenly…feel…weak…and…woozy! Not well…at all!" Robotnik spoke as he held his head with his other hand and dissipated the wires into his left arm.

"Help me…lay down…at once, you dolts!" Robotnik called out as two swat-bots carried him off to a place to sit down for a bit.

(End of Chapter 1)