Alright everybody, with the poll over it would seem you guys want this story! I enjoyed writing this first chapter and am looking forward to more!

Now as much as I want to, I can't take credit for this idea. The concept for this belongs to Auroblaze on Deviantart. The link to the collection can be found here!

www*deviantart*com/auroblaze/art/Sonic-Boom-The-Ancients-Ancestors-Theory-494845621

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Sonic Boom: The Ancients

Records and Opinions

"So, I guess I should start from the beginning. Why are we here? To find a cure for the crystal, and potentially, even to save the world. We call ourselves The Ancients, currently, there's four of us, maybe five if you want to count Root, but she never officially joined. About ten years ago, Lyric was infected by the Primal Crystal, it seems to be degrading his tissue, causing random mutations. We had to seal him away in stone to prevent him from going crazy, he thought we were withholding the cure from him. He tried to kill us…"

Blues leaned back in his chair, adjusting the brown cloak that was standard for the Ancients. He didn't know what else he wanted to record, Rose had suggested they start keeping records of themselves, but he just didn't know what to put down. He let his vision wander across the temple walls, zoning out slightly. After a while, he refocused and continued his entry.

"We're still working on it, the cure that is. But, in my opinion, he's beyond saving at this point. Ruby still says that it needs to be done, he's the boss."

Maia, the AI operating the small silver colored, circular drone interjected. "He's not anymore in charge than you."

Blues sat upright at the sentence, the silver orb he was recording his message on floating in front of him aimlessly. He continued his entry, "Anyways… As I was saying, Lyric went crazy, he was originally with us. That was until he got a little too obsessed with the Ancient Crystal, it mutated his body. I'm really scared that the same will happen to Bolt, he spends so much time researching that thing."

"Don't forget to cover the important part." Maia commented.

"I was just getting to that," He responded. "So about the Ancients, every hundred years or so the group of the five of us are reincarnated, another version of ourselves, at least, that's what we think. There's some evidence for it of course, when we arrived here there were cloaks laid out for us. Along with logs from our old ancestors. Of course, it's just a hunch, we're not completely certain. That settle it for you Maia?"

"Thank you, that will settle it. Is there anything else you'd like to add?"

"I don't think so, maybe later."

"Understood." Maia floated away out of the room. Blues stood up and stepped out of his private quarters. He was immediately pulled over by Rose. "You got everything recorded?" The pink hedgehog asked, her brown cloak pulled up over her head.

"Yep, everything you asked for."

"Perfect," She replied, turning back toward the main courtyard, causing the crystals attached to the side of her cloak to jingle slightly.

Rose was the scribe for the Ancients, she recording everything about them in digital inscriptions on the walls. She drew with the crystals to create them, along with using the small amount of magic she had been taught by Root. Because of their digital nature, it was possible to layer them atop one another, even without destroying the ones underneath. It allowed her and her past selves to record countless amounts of history and information.

She pulled out a crystal from her belt and began a inscription, the familiar blue glow began to form what, to the untrained eye, would look like random collections of lines and squiggles.

"Blues, can you go check on Ruby and Bolt?" Rose asked, not turning away from her work. "Hopefully they're done by now."

The azure hedgehog nodded and dashed off to another segment of the temple.

-X-

"Lyric and I were friends, we always had competitions as to who could invent better and faster. I guess you could say we're still doing it, but the circumstances are very different…"

The yellow fox sighed, "Well, I figure I should put Ruby's warnings in here, he keeps telling me that spending too much time with the Primal Crystal could cause mutations, like tumors and cause potential insanity. Its especially easy to cause in extremities on the body, well guess what?"

He pulled his singular large tail into the camera view, "I've still only got one! So jokes on him!" He dropped his tail to the floor and the cloak he wore draped back over it. He straightened the purple ribbon on the hem of his cloak and continued.

"Don't forget what your job is." Maia told him, the fox continued.

"My jobs pretty simple, making sure everybody's gear stays in pristine condition and performing any tests Ruby tells me to do in my workshop. It's not too hard of a task, so I get plenty of time for my own activities, especially working on the Tornado, me and Root have a test with the Crystal that should help us better learn how to help Lyric, the right's almost done, so it shouldn't be too long now. He was a great friend, I just want him back…"

Bolt sighed, closing the journal entry. He let his thoughts wander for a moment before rising back to his feet. Just as he did, Blues dashed into the room at full speed, nearly sweeping the fox off his feet.

"What did I tell you about doing that?" Bolt chastised, "Slow down before coming in!"

"Right, sorry, my bad." Blues chuckled, "Rose wanted me to check if your entry is done."

"Yep, at least, I think I've got enough info, you never know with her though."

Blues nodded before turning to the large mass of metal in the room. "This thing ready?"

"Just about! A few last touches, the Crystal is already hooked up."

After another glance, Blues noticed the bright Cyan colors gemstone, it was still as large as he remembered it being, and he had no idea how Bolt had even managed to move it, it was larger than him!

"Sometimes, you scare me with these kind of things bud."

"I've told you, it's perfectly safe, there's measures to stop the experiment if anything goes wrong, and you know Root, she can handle herself."

"I guess you have a point there… Plus, she'll make sure you don't do anything too crazy!" Blues playfully punched the fox on the shoulder. Resulting in a chuckle from him. However, Blues was still deeply concerned, even with all the safety precautions in place. But he still trusted his surrogate brother that it would all be alright.

-X-

Rose's arrival was heralded by a soft jingle as the crystals on her belt bumped into one another, she found her own personal quarters and flopped down on her bed. She was relieved by not having to keep checking on Bolt and Ruby, it allowed her a short break from the constant pressure that her job applied to her. Not that she hated it or anything, in fact, she rather enjoyed cataloging the group's adventures group's daily life.

She heard the computerized voice of Maia from a small device on her desk. "You know, you still haven't done an entry for yourself. I know there's the inscriptions, but I still figure that it would be a good idea."

She couldn't argue with that, she walked over to her desk and slid a few papers she had been meaning to copy down aside, most of them were old stories, from before her writing crystals had been created, but a few of them were more recent things, like blueprints from Bolt's plentiful inventions.

"So, I guess let's start from the top," she began, removing the cloak from atop her head and revealing a headband with several feathers in it. "My name's Rose, and I'm the scribe from our little group! I'm responsible for getting each of our lives and stories recorded, along with any major events in the world that we witness. It's a fun job, there's so much history to discover!"

She adjusted her headband and straightened her cloak before continuing. "Well, I guess there's one thing I should probably bring up, I'm a Chaos Adept, or that's what Root says anyways, the truth is, the best I can conjure is a basic healing spell."

As if on command, her right palm began to glow a soft yellow. "Root's a expert on this sort of stuff, she's a full on sorceress! As for me, I'm just I'm not even sure if I'm supposed to be Chaos Adept, I can barely cast a proper heal spell. I guess I always have my hammer, which helps a lot. As for the others, Blues is a really nice guy, he's always nice to have around, I'd be lying to say we don't have a… Relationship... Bolt's always there for me, and I don't know what any of us would do without Ruby. Probably all just argue with one another until we broke up I guess, some of us really don't get along, especially Bolt and Ruby. I swear, they're going to really hurt each other one day, I mean Ruby's going to hurt Bolt, there's no way he'd even stand a chance, no offence."

Rose sighed and ended her entry there, she might continue that later but now, she was going to relax.

-X-

Ruby crossed his arms as much as he didn't want to do this, he had to help out Rose. So he reluctantly began. "Name's Ruby, I'm the one in charge here. Every year or so Rose has us do these entries and catalog ourselves so I guess I should give some back story. There were five of us originally, Blues, Rose, Bolt, Lyric, and me. Lyric, during a experiment with the Primal Crystal, lost his mind and turned on us. We recruited Root to help us out and she's been a part of the family ever since. We sealed Lyric away, turned him onto a statue to be exact, but it's not perfect, he'll be free again one day, and we need to be ready…

He thought for a moment, but then continued. "That's why I've told Bolt to not mess with that Crystal, we don't need another crazy scientist on our hands, Lyric and Bolt were good friends back before the former went insane. As for Rose and Blues, they say they're not together but we all know they're just denying it, they were made for one another! I'm just hoping it doesn't get in the way of our work. Roots always been a curious case, she works with us, but doesn't want to join, she doesn't really like constraints too much."

"I think the others say I'm hard to work with, but I would just hate to see any of them get hurt. Bolt however, always gets on my nerves! He just thinks he's above everything! That he's immune to everything, he's more stubborn than Root sometimes!"

He thought about the badger for a moment, she was always rather cooperative, maybe it was time he extend the invitation again. He finished his entry and stood back up to report to Rose that he was done, she thanked him for his time and Ruby returned to his quarters, practicing through what he could say to Root to finally get her to officially join their little family.

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