Hello, everyone! So, on DeviantArt, grimlock1997 and I have been working on this big project where we bring Mina Mongoose (from the Archie comics) into the Sonic Boom universe, and she and Sonic form a short-lived romantic bond. He decided that we should release it on his 21st birthday, which is today, and while he posts it on DA, I will be posting it on here. We've been working on it for the past three months, and although we haven't finished it yet, we've made great progress on it. :)

Just so you know, much of this is written in grimlock's style, which is different from mine in some ways, so you'll be seeing more of his style than mine in here. The present day scenes will be set a few months after season 2 of Sonic Boom, while the flashbacks will be set one year before season 1.

So, without further ado, here's our prologue! We hope you enjoy!


SONIC BOOM: LOST LOVE


PROLOGUE

Sudden Vision


It was a beautiful summer's day on Bygone Island, and the tropical island was looking just as beautiful as ever, with perfect and clear blue skies, with hardly a cloud seen in sight above the island. The year was 2018, and the sandy beaches were almost looking like gold, as the waves silently crashed against the shores of the island. Seagulls flew across the island, making their traditional cawing sounds. The mountain in the background on the island was covered with snow, while the base was grey and black.

As we then transition into the jungle parts of the island, we could see green vegetation growing beautifully in the undergrowth of the trees. Fruits like apples, bananas and oranges could be seen in the leaves, shining brightly in the morning sun. Flowers were seen on the grass, with a range of red roses, yellow daffodils and lovely bluebells, along with a small range of smaller flowers seen in the mix too. Butterflies were also seen fluttering about in the jungle, flying around the flowers and staying above the grass.

One colorful butterfly then leads the way, as it flies out from the tall marsh grass, and we then come to an opening, where the town, Hedgehog Village, could then be seen from the outside of the jungle. The town was more like a tribal village, given that most of the buildings were looking like tribal huts from the past.

Though, there have been rumors that the town looked very similar to a past group of tribal ancestors that had a community with Mobians, who hunted for elks and there was once a struggle for power and peace. There was also a traditional 'ageing' ceremony that would be given to people to show their growth and ageing in the tribe.

The people in Hedgehog Village were looking as good as usual, with everyone looking around the town, talking to one another, and pretty much doing their own business with no care in the world or concern for anything bad going on.

Well, Doctor Eggman was not attacking the town today, since he was caught in his Island Fortress with a terrible cold, which prevented him from plotting any of his normal everyday evil schemes to try and take over the town. And every time he tried to take over the town, Team Sonic, led by Sonic the Hedgehog, would always step in and stop his plans before they could even succeed past the first stage. The only two people who could keep the doctor company were his robots, Orbot and Cubot, his only companions.

So, while Eggman was not going to attack the town for a while, at least the town and its people would be safe for quite some time. Although while the members of Team Sonic were sworn to keep the island and its town safe, not all of the townsfolk are really grateful to our heroes, especially to Sonic and Tails.

Anyways, moving on with the story, and changing the location, we could see Sonic the Hedgehog running across the desert parts of the island, with his feet moving fast and his blue aura flowing behind his body, as he ran fast and quick along the sandy terrains of the desert.

Sonic was on yet another one of his morning runs. He considered it to be his daily exercise after having breakfast every morning. He had his arms spread out behind his back, as he focused on the terrains ahead of him, feeling the wind breezing through his quills.

"Ah, yes! I feel like nothing can stop me today!" Sonic said to himself, as he sped into the Valley of Broken Glass.

Suddenly, his mind which would normally be focused on running, protecting the village and fighting Eggman's robots, had a brief flash, and he saw something ... or someone ... standing in front of him. It was a yellow female mongoose with big purple and light yellow flowing hair and grey earrings.

And Sonic knew this mongoose all too well, because he could recognize her appearance, even in transparent form.

"Hi, Sonic!" the mongoose said in an echoey voice as she appeared in front of him in transparent form.

"M-Mina?" Sonic gasped in shock, as he stared at the half-visible mongoose, not paying attention to where he was going.

Suddenly, drifting himself uncontrollably to the left in the Broken Glass, he felt himself being cut in various places, and pains grew all around his body, as glass shards scratched and scraped him.

"Gah! Ow! Ack!" he yelled as he stopped and fell to the ground, placing his hands on his bloodied legs, "Man, I really gotta watch where I'm going."

Then, as he slowly stood back up, he saw another strange vision in his head ...

He pictured himself running across the island with the mongoose right beside him. To Sonic, this was a memory of something he had enjoyed so long ago.

Snapping out of his memory, Sonic brushed the glass shards off and looked up towards the path in front of him, only to see that yet another transparent image of the mongoose standing in front of him then appeared.

Was Sonic hallucinating? Or did he have a bit too much spicy chili in his morning Chili Dogs?

"Think you're faster than me?" the mongoose giggled, before she quickly turned the other way and ran off.

"Mina?" Sonic questioned, as he stared at the mongoose that only he could see, before chuckling and saying, "Come back here, you!"

The blue hedgehog then resumed running, despite his injured legs, and he shook his head to snap himself back into reality once more.

Before long, he was out of the canyon and brushed his way into the jungle. He dodged every fruit tree that could possibly get in his way as he ran at high speed, not wanting to stop. He was, however, starting to feel mystified by these strange visions he had been seeing over the past few minutes; visions of someone he thought he might never see again.

"I-I could've sworn... I thought I just saw Mina," he said to himself.

He blinked his eyes once more, and suddenly he saw Mina Mongoose again. She was running right next to him like they would in all the running races they had together in the past, except she was in transparent form, and nobody else could see her.

"Catch me if you can!" the mongoose laughed, and she began to pull away from Sonic.

The blue speedster couldn't help but giggle as warm memories of him and the mongoose came back to him.

"You won't escape this time, Mina!" he said as he gave chase to the transparent Mina.

Sonic ran through the forest, kicking up leaves and avoiding falling coconuts as he chased after the mongoose that kept appearing in his vision. Eventually, he caught up with her, and they chuckled at each other.

"Oh, I gotcha now, my love!" snickered Sonic as the green rush of leaves suddenly disappeared and it was replaced by many surrounding buildings and huts.

"No, you haven't!" said Mina, her voice reverbing in Sonic's head.

"Oh, yes, I-"

*CRASH!*

Everything was suddenly black as Sonic felt himself smashing into something so hard that he felt his entire body numbing as if he was dizzying and about to pass out. A fast and hard crash like this could almost kill someone if they were unlucky, though thankfully, this was Sonic the Hedgehog, So we don't have to worry too much about that subject.

He managed to stand up, but his movements were so clumsy, and his vision began to turn blurry. He walked aimlessly around, not knowing where he even was. His mind, however, was in a completely different place ...

"Mmmmm ... M-Mina?" he said in a clumsy voice, "I, uh, ... feel so ... daaaaazed. Uuugghhhh."

No longer able to stand on his numb legs, Sonic collapsed to the ground and closed his eyes. He came right on the verge of fainting when he suddenly heard another voice.

"Mina?" it said, and Sonic could tell it was female, "Sonic, ... are you thinking about your old girlfriend?"

The hedgehog opened his eyes, but his vision was still so blurry that he couldn't tell who was kneeling down to speak to him. All he could think about was ... Mina.

"Of course, Mina," he said awkwardly, "I think about you every day."

"Sonic, it's me, Amy," the voice said.

Sonic closed his eyes again for a moment, then he shook his head and managed to regain full consciousness. It was then that he opened his eyes and realized who he was really talking to ...

"Amy!?" He exclaimed.

It was, indeed, Amy Rose. She had heard the crash and had rushed to the scene immediately after it happened. Nobody else around them seemed to show any concern for Sonic.

"Yes, it's me, Amy," she said with a look of concern, "Are you alright, Sonic?"

Sonic then looked around and saw that it was a fruit stand he had crashed into, before he noticed that he was now covered in juice and squashed fruit.

"Oh," Sonic groaned, rubbing his fruit-stained head, "I guess... I was just thinking about Mina, and I guess I didn't see where my shoes were taking me."

Amy sighed and carefully helped Sonic back up to his feet, wrapping an arm around him to be sure that he didn't fall onto the ground again.

"Sonic, ... I think I should take you to Tails," she said, "Maybe he can fix you up from his nasty accident you had here."

"I thought you were the one most medically qualified," said a confused Sonic.

"Well, Zooey and I have been teaching Tails about medicine lately, and he's doing a good job with it," replied Amy, "Last I heard, Tails and Knuckles are playing around with his train set. And Sticks is hanging out with them in the basement of the workshop."

"Oh, I hope Knuckles isn't being so careless down there," sighed Sonic worryingly, "That train set means so much to Tails."

"I'm sure Knuckles is behaving himself well," chuckled Amy, "Now, let's go."

"Thanks, Amy," said Sonic with a grin, but he soon felt a sudden pain in his forehead, "Oh, what a headache."

It was then that a thought had flown into Amy's head. A thought that she knew Sonic had been wanting to keep secret from anyone he knew, except for Tails, Amy and himself. And Amy knew this secret all too very well, as it was something that she could remember very well, since she was around at that particular time in the past.

The pink hedgehog wondered if Sonic would finally talk about his story about his past girlfriend, Mina. She then decided to ask the blue hedgehog, since it couldn't hurt to ask him, just as long as she didn't offend him by accident.

"Sonic..." Amy began, "I was thinking that perhaps you could tell us more about Mina. Besides, I don't think Sticks knows about her yet."

Sonic wasn't very sure about this idea. It embarrassed him whenever someone asked him to tell stories about Mina, unless it was Tails. However, he knew that his friends had been trying to beg him for the last several years, and if he ever wanted that to stop, he had might as well tell them, after keeping it hidden away within himself.

"I'm sure Sticks would be interested, ... I think ..." said Sonic, knowing that Sticks wasn't really one about romance, "After all, she never got a chance to meet Mina before she ... left."

Sonic cringed as the memory of the last time he ever saw Mina flashed in his head for a very brief moment.

"What about Knuckles or Zooey?" asked Amy curiously.

Sonic quickly snapped out of his flashback and replied, "Knuckles only ever got a few glimpses of Mina, but they seldom interacted. And Zooey never met her, either. Well, not that I can remember at least. It's been a few years."

"Did the people of this town take you and Mina together well?" asked Amy.

"Of course, they did!" chuckled Sonic, "They thought we were like dreamy lovebirds."

But this was quite a contrast to what they heard next ...

"I didn't think of you two love losers like that! You guys stunk like bad eggs!" came Dave's voice as they passed by Meh Burger.

"Whatever!" Sonic shot back, trying to hide in the fact he felt insulted.

"I thought of you and Mina were so cute together, Sonic!" Perci the Bandicoot called out, waving to the hedgehogs.

"Gee, thank you..." chuckled Sonic.

"You and Mina were best suited together, Sonic!" Mike the Ox called out, giving a thumbs up, "I remember seeing you guys and I supported your relationship!"

"Thank you, Mike..." Sonic replied, nodding and smiling, "I remember you supported us."

Many others, however, were not very fond of the subject ...

"You two just kept running around and disturbing all of us!" shouted Child Monkey.

"If you ask me, romance is a truly revolting subject!" added T.W. Barker.

"Actually, it wasn't very interesting to me..." put in Fastidious Beaver.

Sonic could only cringe a bit, seeing that their insults were not really nice at all. Amy took notice of this, and she angrily turned to the negative crowd of bystanders.

"Oh, shut up!" Amy shouted, before she turned back to a clearly upset Sonic, "So, they didn't take it well, did they?"

"Fine! I admit it!" Sonic said, sighing in slight frustration, "Half of the town hated us being together because they found it to be just a nuisance! Only a few number of people supported our relationship, like Mike and Perci, but the rest of the people here just wanted to get autographs and pictures of Mina Mongoose, because some of those people were just greedy in the past!"

"Come on, Sonic, let's go see Tails and get you fixed up..." said Amy, calmly.

"Yeah, let's get away from these heartless critics!" growled Sonic as he and Amy finally left the town, leaving behind some groups of villagers who were laughing and glaring at them.

With each passing day, it was becoming more and more clear that the villagers weren't really as fond of Team Sonic as they had previously thought them to be.

While Sonic and Amy began their walk to the workshop, the village people continued to laugh and boo at them, with Sonic really upset over their heartless insults, and Amy, who was feeling somewhat uneasy on the inside, escorted the blue leader away from the heckling people, who tried throwing rubbish at them, but thankfully it misses them. Luckily, the only people who didn't do this negative thing to the two hedgehogs were both the villagers Mike the Ox and Perci the Bandicoot, as they were their close friends.


Meanwhile, on the other side of the village, the home to Miles 'Tails' Prower stood on a hill, with a fully working water mill seen outside of the building, while a two-tailed flag symbol fluttered gently in the cool spring breeze. As we venture inside the house, we could see a workshop from inside. At the moment, it was all tidy and clean, with not a single tool or robot part seen anywhere in sight. Tails certainly liked to be very well tidied and clean.

There was an open door however, leading to another room down below into a cellar of the house. And soon the small sounds of clickety clacking could be heard, along with the sound of a joyful yet clueless echidna's laughter could be heard from down below.

"Look at that steam engine go, Tails!" Knuckles could be heard saying, sounding like an excited child.

"I know, Knuckles..." Tails was heard saying, "It's a fun thing to do, watching a train running around on a model railway."

Inside the basement, Tails, Sticks and Knuckles were in the downstairs room, where the fox's beloved train set could be seen, with model British trains running on it, with two steam engines and a few diesel locos running around it. Knuckles was watching Tails' prized possession, the 60163 'Tornado' steam locomotive model, running across the beautifully detailed train set, pulling a rake of eight British Pullman coaches behind it, which had little lights shining from inside the miniature tables it had in it. The 'Tornado' steam engine model ran past a British Railways Class 37 diesel locomotive, which was pulling a goods train with trucks and box vans on it, with a break van seen on the back of it.

"Did you actually build this entire train set yourself, Tails?" Sticks asked, curiously, without being paranoid, as she overlooked the big railway set.

"I sure did!" Tails replied, smiling, "I built this whole railway myself set after I built my 'Mail Express' system for my 'Flying Scotsman' model to run on. The railway museum in town gave me some tips and facts on how to run and build a model railway system. And once I learned the tips and facts, I built this entire railway set."

"Well, even if I'm not very trustworthy in technology..." Sticks said, before smiling, "You're very smart in building model railways, Tails."

"Hey, thanks Sticks..." Tails said, smiling and blushing a little pink.

While Knuckles and Sticks continued to watch the model trains running around the hugely detailed railway set, Tails was working on his 'Bubble Blaster', which was a little fun gadget that could fire bouncy bubbles at an object or at a person, and it then traps them in an invulnerable bubble, which meant that the bubbly soap substance couldn't be popped by normal everyday sharp objects. Only a special needle built into the blaster can pop the bubbles, and set the object or person free.

Tails was almost finished building the latest design for it, but he was still looking for a wrench that he needed to finish it off. And finding a wrench was pretty much a really frustrating thing to do. Though thankfully, Tails wasn't easy to frustrate, though he does have a dark and powerful form if anyone messed with him.

"Hmm..." Tails said to himself, as he was searching for his wrench, "Where is my bolt tightening wrench?"

As he was trying to look for his wrench, Tails, Sticks and Knuckles didn't see that a familiar and beautiful yellow female vixen in a red dress and slippers came walking own into the basement, wearing a bright smile and red bracelets on her wrists. She had one fox tail, and she had blue eyes, just like Tails' eyes.

This girl was better known as Zooey, who was Tails' crush at one point, before she became his official girlfriend.

Zooey saw Sticks and Knuckles watching the model British trains running around the train set, before she looked at Tails, who was looking for his wrench. Smiling cutely, Zooey walked down the last two steps into the basement, before she quietly went over to her boyfriend, who was by now struggling to find the wrench he was looking for.

"Oh, where could it be?" Tails questioned to himself.

As Tails kept on looking on his small work bench, Zooey then saw a wrench that looked like a bolt tightening wrench. This could be the wrench that Tails was looking for. Picking it up, Zooey then walked over to see the fox, who had by now stopped looking for the wrench he needed for the Bubble Blaster.

"Is this the wrench you're looking for, Tails?" Zooey then spoke up, making Tails jump a bit.

Sticks and Knuckles turned their attention from the model trains, and turned to see Zooey with Tails. The badger and echidna were supportive of Tails' relationship with Zooey, even if their help to get the two together never worked very well, and they, along with Sonic and Amy, were oblivious to the fact that it was Doctor Eggman himself who had helped Tails win Zooey's heart.

Tails looked at the wrench Zooey was holding, and he instantly brightened up in enthusiasm. It was the exact same wrench that he was looking for.

"Yes, that's the wrench I need!" Tails said, gently taking the wrench from Zooey's hand, "Thank you, Zooey!"

"Hehe, you're welcome, Tailsy..." Zooey responded, grinning happily.

Tails smiled back in return, before he then quickly kissed his girlfriend on the cheek, and turned back to his Bubble Blaster and used the wrench Zooey found for him to screw in the last bolt to the gadget. Zooey was left giggling at bit at her boyfriend's sweet little gesture. Then, she kissed him on the cheek in return, which made Tails blush and giggle happily, feeling his love for Zooey melt his heart like always.

Just as he was doing this, and just as Sticks and Knuckles watched the 'Tornado' steam engine run around the set again with the goods train, Sonic and Amy then arrived, with the blue leader feeling quite a bit sad.

"Hey, Sonic!" greeted Knuckles, not seeing right away that the hedgehog looked rather depressed, just as Tails and Zooey then turned to see the two hedgehogs.

"Hi, big bro!" said Tails as he walked up to Sonic and noticed the cuts and bruises on him, "Oh, my goodness, what happened to you, Sonic?"

"He had a run in with a fruit stand," sighed Amy, "Apparently, he was daydreaming."

"Daydreaming? About what?" asked Zooey curiously.

Sonic sighed despondently. He didn't want to just spill out his daydreams about Mina in front of everyone, but, seeing how curious they all were, it seemed he had no choice.

"I saw these strange visions of Mina Mongoose," the hedgehog said sadly, though the mention of the pop star made Zooey gasp in excitement.

"Mina Mongoose!?" said Zooey excitedly, "The world-famous pop star!?"

Tails grabbed his first aid kit and started rubbing a soaked rag over Sonic's wounds. Sonic cringed a little from the pain he was going through on his body, but Amy did keep a comforting hand on his shoulder to calm him.

"Why were you daydreaming about a pop star?" asked a confused Sticks, "Everyone knows who she is."

"And we LOVE her music!" added Knuckles.

"Well, ... let's just say that a few years ago, Mina used to live on this island, ... and ... we were very close," said Sonic slowly.

Several of his friends gasped in astonishment as they came to realize just what he meant with those words...

"You mean, ... you and Mina were friends!?" gasped Zooey.

"Wow! That's amazing!" shouted Knuckles eccentrically.

"Um, Knuckles, do you not remember Sonic and Mina being friends, or do you have serious short-term memory loss?" said Amy in annoyance of the echidna's failed memories, "You were there, too, you know?"

"Wait!? I was!?" gasped Knuckles.

Amy and Tails face-palmed in disgust.

"I didn't know Sonic and Mina were friends," said a surprised Sticks.

"We weren't just friends, though," sighed Sonic, and he paused for a moment as he tried to find the right words to say next.

Then, he blurted them out ...

"Mina and I were in love."

Knuckles, Sticks and Zooey gasped in amazement.

"Did you know this, Tails?" asked Zooey when she saw that Tails didn't react the same way they did.

"I was around to see so many moments of Sonic and Mina spending time together. She even cared for me at times when Sonic couldn't," explained Tails, "The three of us were starting to feel like a small, happy family, ... until ... she left."

"What happened?" asked Zooey.

Amy simply looked away. She didn't want to blurt anything out that she knew would get tons of backlash. And the reason being is because she had something to do with this backstory that she and Sonic could remember extremely well.

"I guess I might as well tell you guys about the time how I met Mina, and how we were so happy together, when we got together," said Sonic, giving a little bit of a sigh as he finished his speech, before adding, "During that time, it was long before we ever met Sticks or Zooey."

Knuckles, Sticks and Zooey simply looked at him like they couldn't wait for the story to begin, while Tails and Amy winked at Sonic to encourage him to tell the story. Everyone sat around the room, with Sonic sitting in the middle of the small circle.

"It all began about five years ago..." Sonic began to say, before...

"Oh wait! I remember now!" Knuckles exclaimed loudly, making everyone jump a bit, "I do remember that you and Mina were together!"

Everyone in the room just sighed irritably to themselves, as they knew that since they already established that little moment, it was pointless trying to tell Knuckles that he was in Sonic's backstory when Mina Mongoose was with Sonic. However, Sonic did just look bluntly to the red echidna and said...

"Yes Knuckles, I think we've just established that seconds ago..." Sonic said, before he cleared his throat, and said, "Anyways, as I was saying, it was about five years ago. I already had a little brother in Tails, and life was like the wind. But then, one day, something changed and filled an empty space in my heart..."

And that's when the backstory began, as we go back to five years into the past.


So yes, Sonic and Mina were once in love with each other, but that's only the beginning. What is to come is a love story filled with brightness and so much love, but also shadowed by dark, tragic circumstances. I hope this prologue has gotten you excited for the coming story!

COMING UP IN CHAPTER ONE: Sonic's story begins with the day he first set his eyes on Mina.

Sonic the Hedgehog and other characters (c) SEGA

Mina Mongoose (c) Archie