The wedding

Queen Aleena sat in the royal cab in a wedding dress staring out the window. The dreaded day had come, Robotnic had won. When her oldest son Sonic disappeared two years ago, everything fell apart. The rumor was that some had seen him, following a flying Robotnik, and some of his robots on the way to a place called the green hills. The robots carried a so-called Egg Capsule.

What happened next, no one knows. But Sonic was never seen again.

Sonia and Manic were waiting for him to come back but the days became weeks, weeks became months and months became years, it became painfully obvious.

Sonic was gone.

And once Robotnik had made that realization, he had acted. Crushing most of the resistance with a massive SWATbot army, he had captured Sonia and Manic. The two hedgehogs had expected to be roboticized.

But they weren't.

Robotnik had other plans for them. Holding them hostage, he managed to draw Queen Aleena out of hiding and capture her. Instead of roboticizing her, he made a clever move. With Sonia and Manic trapped in individual roboticizers before her eyes, Robotnik had given the queen a choice; Agree to marry him, thus making his reign legal, or see both of her remaining children roboticized.

And here she sat. On his way to get married. That could only mean one thin.

The Resistance was over. Robotnik had won.

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Sonia had been trapped in this metal cage for the Goddess knew how long. She was sitting in a dark room, with absolutely no opening save for an air vent high above. The walls were completely smooth, and solid. From the inside, there were no visible doors. Her brother, Manic, was trapped elsewhere in Robotnik's citadel in a similar situation.

She didn't know nearly as much about the situation outside as she would have liked. All she knew was that she and her brother had been used as pawns for Robotnik's schemes. She shivered at a frightening memory.

She had been trapped in a roboticizer, with Sleet and Dingo watching her. Manic had been in another roboticizer next to hers. Both their medallions had been confiscated to prevent escape. She remembered bracing herself, waiting for the end. But it had never came. Instead, to her surprise, both she and her brother had been released and thrown back into their prisons. It wasn't until later that she had learned from Dingo (whom she could get almost any information out of when he visited using a combination of his simple-mindedness and his infatuation with her) that their mother had been watching the scene. Sonia knew that she and Manic were being kept here in order to make sure that her mother, Queen Aleena, went through with the forced marriage.

What Sonia didn't know was how the Resistance was fairing. How many had escaped the huge SWATbot raids? How many were still fighting? How many had been roboticized? And how were those left doing in this seemingly never-ending fight? Not only in Mobotropolis but also in the there neighboring kingdom Acorn that robotnick had conquered shortly after theirs. They had played for them too. She knew that Sonic had feelings for Sally, the leader of the Knothole freedom fighters and Acorns princess.

They had only meets once after the sonic disappeared. She asked them is she could hang on to Sonic's medallion. Argument that when Sonic came back, he had an excuse to come and see her. Sonia and Manic went along with it and gave her Sonics Medallion.

She also thought about Sonic. She had not meant what she said two years ago. She was just tired of his arrogance. If only he came back, she would take back everything she said then. Was he dead? No, if he was dead Robotnik would not keep it a secret. He would come out with it, brag about it, Show the body. But if he was not dead, where is he? Has he abandoned his family?

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Queen Aleena arrived at the wedding chapel and went inside. At the altar was her groom robotic. As she slowly walked down the aisle, she took note of the faces of the various aristocrats that had come to watch. There wasn't pity, but there was a solemn acceptance, and a great respect that she knew that they all held for her, their queen.

And she knew that none of them hated her for doing this.

One of her first concerns when she had been forced to accept the wedding proposal was that she was abandoning her people, the ones that she had peacefully ruled for years before Robonik. But visits from various aristocrats and even a few disguised Resistance made it very plain. They all knew why she was going through with this. And they had all told her the same thing.

It was alright. They completely understood.

Aleena had been so touched then. And it had helped her so much through these nightmarish days.

She had also learned that Princess Sally had disappeared. The princess had gone to investergate the green hills where Sonic had disappeared to see what happened to him. But Just as sonic she too had disappeared.

The Oracle had appeared briefly once, but all he had told her was not to worry, and that help would come from an unexpected source. What kind of help, she had to wonder. She wondered if it was her son, Sonic.

She seemed to reach the altar all too quickly. She didn't even glance at her groom. Instead, she focused on the priest, who nodded at her solemnly. The priest opened his book to begin the ceremony.

That's when it happened.

The chapel door had blown open. A vicious and powerful wind like nothing else had blown in and began swirling about. Aleena braced herself against the gale. Around her, many also did the same, some looking about in confusion. She heard several explosions as the SWATbots standing guard were destroyed.

Then the wind stopped.

And a voice spoke,

"Nice wedding, Egghead. Too bad I had to crash it."

Aleena looked up, and quickly spotted who it was. And she could hardly believe it.

"Sonic!?"