Me: Oh my freaking gosh, sososososo sorry about the long wait. I didn't have any access to a computer or anything, and I only just now remembered that I had a story to write! PLEASE forgive me! Btw, changed the title because I accidently put the wrong C word in, lol.
Disclaimer: I do not own ANYTHING except the plot, my freaky interpretations, and a few OCs that might pop up here and there. Seriously, why would this story be on FanFiction if I owned this stuff?
Sonic's P.o.V.
I smirked as I destroyed Eggman's 'ultimate invention'. Again. I mean seriously, the guy needed to come up with a new name for those ridiculous things.
Eggman was standing up in his hovercraft thing, I always forgot its name, and screaming at the top of his lungs. "You wretched pincushion! You may have beat me this time, but I'll get you eventually!"
I laughed as I ran off. " Yea sure, keep telling yourself that!"
I boosted my speed and in less then five minutes I reached mine and Tails' house. I stopped briefly and smirked as I saw a familiar motorcycle parked out front.
"Let's see what faker's doing here..." I muttered as I walked, quickly of course, up to the steps and pushed the door open.
Only to find an empty living room. I quickly shot upstairs and saw my friends standing outside the door to our guest room. There was Tails, Amy, Rouge, Shadow, Omega, and Knuckles. I briefly wondered how the robot had gotten through the door.
'Dang it!' I thought, I had forgotten that Knuckles was coming over for movie night. I didn't even like it that much, Amy and Tails just made me do it because I 'needed to bond with my friends outside of life-threatening situations'. What did that even mean anyway?
"Hey guys! I just got back from beating one of Eggman's robots... again. What's going on?" When Amy saw me she squealed and hugged me.
"Hey Sonic! I missed you!" I rolled my eyes in amusement and smiled as I hugged my girlfriend. She just never seemed to get any LESS excited over our relationship.
"Yeah, missed you too Ames." Tails simply smiled and waved in greeting. I proceeded to detach the pink parasite from my chest. "So, what's going on?" I asked again.
"Well hun, it's kind of a long story." Rouge answered. "You see, G.U.N.'s recently been interested in a country not too far from here named Mobodeen."
My heart skipped a beat at her words, but lucky for me nobody noticed.
Rouge continued, oblivious. "Mobodeen was the first, and currently only, country to be taken over by Eggman, then known by Robotnik. In fact, it's been under lockdown for seventeen years. Eggman's got the place so secure that nobody's been able to get in or out." At that statement, I had to fight to keep my face under control.
Again she continued, but this time I noticed Knuckles give me a curious look and Shadow looking at me. "We were sent out to check over the border, to see if we could find a gap in the defense. At one point we heard sounds of a scuffle on the other side. When we arrived we saw someone fly over the wall. Literally, he had a jetpack on and was trying to fly over. The jetpack got hit with a laser and he crash landed before we got there. It's a good thing he wasn't that far off the ground." Rouge gave a look at Shadow that meant she was ticked off at him for something.
"Mister 'I'm not leaving my bike' wouldn't chaos control us back, and the guy was knocked out cold. You guys were closer then G.U.N. HQ, so we took him here." She finished with a small motion towards the room to indicate where he was now.
I was incredibly curious about who it might be. Was it someone I knew? Was it someone who knew me? That thought got me worried. It was probably a member of The Resistance, and every Resistance member there WAS knew about the Sonic Underground and it's members.
Tails saw my slightly worried expression and luckily misinterpreted it for something else. "He's alright, just a few bumps and bruises. In fact, he'd already woken up by the time they got here. Want to see him?"
"Sure!" I smiled, hiding my nervousness.
He opened the door and walked in, while I followed with the others coming in after me. Omega just stood in the doorway because he wouldn't fit through. Again, I wondered how he'd gotten in the house in the first place.
He was awake like Tails had said, and he was also sitting up looking out the window. He was a young lion, about my age.
Na, it couldn't be.
"Thank you for helping me out of that mess." He said, hearing the door open. His familiar voice rubbed against my conscience like an old wound.
That voice... It... It couldn't be!
He turned to face us and my body went rigid with shock.
"My name is Cyrus and-" His face turned from friendly and neutral to a mirror of my own shock as he saw me. We locked eyes and I just could just see the many questions swimming in them.
The others were confused, I knew they were probably wondering what was going on.
Out of all the people that could have gone over that wall, why did it have to be Cyrus?! The leader of The Resistance, and one of the best friends I had in Mobodeen.
His jaw worked on open air for a few seconds before he managed to form words. "S-Sonic?" His voice was desperate, begging for me to be real.
All the other people in the room stared at me, wondering how he knew my name.
I took a step backwards, shaking my head to try and shake off the memories his appearance brought. " I... I gotta... I just... can't... I have to get out of here!" I turned to run and Knuckles grabbed my arm.
"Sonic, how do you two know each other?!" His question was almost a shout as he tried to bring me out of my dazed state. My ears were pressed so close to my head it felt like they were fusing with my skull. My eyes were wide with shock and my heart was pounding faster then ever before.
I shook my head. "I... Knuckles..." I yanked my arm from his grasp and bolted from the room, breaking the sound barrier in a millisecond.
I ran away from the house as fast as I could, vaguely aware of Shadow attempting to follow me. I reached a speed that Shadow could never compete with, running anywhere.
I wasn't ready to face my past just yet, I needed to think. Alone.
Knuckles' P.o.V.
When Sonic had been listening to Rouge, I saw him twitch. Normally it would be fine, perfectly normal for Sonic. He did that all the time. The guy could barely sit down for more then ten seconds for crying out loud! But I happened to catch Sonic's eyes when he twitched. Instead of that warm, happy, hyperactive look that he normally had, the look that always made me want to punch him in the face and shove some Z-Quil down his throat, he was dead serious. Almost intimidating, not that I'd ever admit it, he was THAT serious. I didn't understand it, but I told myself that I'd ask him about it later.
And then we walked into the room. I had already met the lion and talked to him a bit, he was pretty polite for someone who had just gotten shot out of the sky.
Sonic had seemingly frozen solid as soon as he saw the guy, and the lion had reacted the same way. When it began to seem as if they knew each other I began to grow suspicious.
If there was no contact with Mobodeen for seventeen years, how did Sonic know this guy? Matter of fact, wasn't Sonic seventeen?
By the time Sonic ran off, I was completely confused. Shadow ran off after him to try and bring him back and the lion, Cyrus, I told myself, seemed to be just as shocked as the rest of us, if not more so.
We all just stood there for a minute before Amy voiced what we were all thinking: "What the spraint just happened?"
This seemed to bring Cyrus back, though he still seemed dazed. "We... We thought he had died..." He mumbled, half to himself.
He now had all of our attention. "Cyrus," Tails began slowly. "How do you Know Sonic?"
Cyrus looked up at us. "Sonic was one of my best friends growing up..." All our eyes widened and a few jaws fell open. His next sentence blew us away.
"And... Sonic is the crown prince of Mobodeen."
Shadow's P.o.V.
I soon realized that I wasn't going to catch Sonic if he didn't want me to. I scowled as I realized that in all the races we had had, Sonic had simply been toying with me. That yiffed me off.
I decided that going back and collecting more information from Cyrus would be more productive.
Once I got back it was clear that Cyrus had shared some crucial bit of information. Everyone was staring at the young lion with their mouths ready to catch flies. They didn't even notice me walk in. That yiffed me off too.
"What happened?" I demanded.
Silence. It really yiffed me off.
"What. Happened." I said through clenched teeth. When this was all over I was going to go find that idiot who said that silence was golden and toss him off a cliff. And I would laugh too. I really would.
More silence. This was getting old. I had to give Knuckles some credit, he was at least trying to say something. His mouth was opening and closing, but nothing was coming out. This was REALLY yiffing me off.
"Omega. What. The. Yiff. Happened." I was VERY aggravated and trying to calm myself down. At least the robot would answer a direct question.
"CYRUS HAS STATED NOT ONLY THAT HE GREW UP WITH SONIC THE HEDGEHOG, BUT THAT SONIC IS THE CROWN PRINCE OF MOBODEEN."
Now I understood why everyone was so shocked. I was too.
Omega's monotone voice seemed to bring everyone else out of it.
Amy immediately got this stupid dreamy eyed look on her face. "MY Sonic, is a Prince?"
Rouge got that same shiny eyed look on her face as when she sees a chaos emerald. Yiffing thief and her jewels.
Tails' eyes rolled up in his head and he fell to the floor.
Omega beeped. "PROCCESSING... PROCCESSING... COMPILING DATA..."
Knuckles' face was pure disbelief. "WHAT THE SPRAINT DO YOU MEAN SONIC'S A PRINCE?!"
I stood there watching the chaos around me as they shouted and yelled. My anger grew and grew along with it.
I was yiffed off.
"SHUT THE SPRAINT UP!" I yelled.
Everybody stared at me and the room was perfectly silent. Tails slowly sat up, confused and dazed.
"Now Cyrus." My voice was steady, and the raw anger I put in it would keep everyone in line. "Maybe you should tell us a few things."
"First, I'd like to know you're names and how you know Sonic." It was the first thing he had said once everyone was sitting and slightly calmed down.
Tails went first. "My name is Miles Prower, but everybody calls me Tails. Sonic kind of uh..." He gulped and smiled shyly. "Sonic adopted me as his brother."
Amy was quick to follow. "I'm Amy Rose! Sonic is my boyfriend!" Cyrus blinked at that.
"Knuckles, Guardian of the Master Emerald." Knuckles kept it quick. "He's a friend."
"I AM E-123 OMEGA. SONIC IS AN ALLY." Cyrus looked warily at the giant robot.
"The name's Rouge, Rouge the bat. Sonic's a friend of mine." Knuckles mumbled something involving 'thief'. She shot him a glare. Before I could introduce myself Rouge did so for me. "Mr. Grumpy over there is Shadow. At the moment, he's Sonic's main rival." Cyrus looked at me with respect in his eyes.
"Well, I am the current leader of The Resistance movement in Mobodeen against Robotnik." It was my turn to look at him with respect, he was pretty young for something that big.
"Maybe I should explain a little of Mobodeen's history. The Royal Hedgehog family has ruled for countless years. Seventeen years ago, Robotnik was the advisor to our beloved Queen Aleena. A mere few days after he betrayed her, taking over her throne and casting her out in the process, she gave birth to three triplets. The girl was named Sonia, and the two boys were named Manic and Sonic."
"Wait," Tails interrupted. "So, technically I have another brother and a sister?"
Cyrus laughed. "Yeah, technically you do." The idea of this seemed to make the young fox very happy. "Anyway, the ancient Oracle of Delphius told Aleena of a prophesy. He told her she must separate with her children, and when the time came they would meet again to form the council of four and overthrow Robotnik. So she left them in the care of different adoptive parents. Sonia grew up under the watch of a noble, and learned the ways of the court and nobility." Amy seemed interested in that. "I'm not sure that it was meant to be this way, but somehow Manic grew up under the care of a master thief. He grew up learning his way around the streets and the skills of that particular... trade. Trust me, he's GOOD at it too." Rouge looked fascinated by this Manic guy. "Sonic was raised by the brother of the deceased king, his uncle Sir Charles. Sonic grew up learning about The Resistance and rebellion in general." Cyrus smiled sadly. "Chuck was also one of the best members The Resistance had."
"Had?" I said, raising my eyebrow. I had realized in the past few minutes that while Sonic and everyone else had known practically everything about my past, his was completely shrouded in mystery. I thought I was supposed to be doing the whole 'dark and secretive' thing.
Cyrus' face grew sad. "Chuck was... caught and roboticized four years ago. Sonic had only just met Manic and Sonia for the first time when Chuck was captured. I believe that he also did the same to Manic and Sonia's adoptive parents, though they've never really talked about it." He quickly changed the subject.
"Once those three got together you could hardly keep them apart." The lion said with a smile. "They grew really close over the short course of a year. Heck, they even formed a band, Sonic Underground. Even after all these years, Manic and Sonia still call themselves that."
"So, how did Sonic ever get over here?" Knuckles seemed to be having trouble taking it all in.
"Three years ago, before he came here I presume, Sonic got in an... argument with his siblings. I don't know what it was about, but I know that it made Sonic really mad. He went off to challenge Robotnik, alone." Cyrus was obviously upset about this, and I could see the other practically leaning out of their seats in anticipation.
"He didn't come back. We heard reports that Robotnik had left the country and... We reasoned that he must have no longer seen any threat from the Resistance so... We thought he had died." Cyrus shook his head as if to get rid of the memory.
"I have only one more question." At the sound of my voice everyone turned to me, already knowing what it was. "Why did you decide to fly over the wall?"
Cyrus hung his head and sighed. "When Robotnik left he put his nephew, Snively, in charge of the country. Snively increased the amount of SWAT-bots by the thousands. Sonic, Manic, and Sonia were the main team in charge of locating and destroying SWAT-bot factories. While Sonia and Manic did their best, they couldn't take as many risks as before. And without Sonic to run in, drop a bomb, and run out, there were a lot more times when they were forced to abort the mission. Needless to say, The Resistance has dwindled over the years. We made the decision to attempt breaching the wall, I was the best choice since I knew the most about our situation and, quite frankly, I wanted to make sure the job got done myself. My mission is to find allies also against Robotnik, and somehow get back to continue the fight."
"Well, Cyrus," Amy stood up and smiled. "I think you just found some allies."
Cyrus smiled right back. "Thank you very much. Now, maybe you can tell me what Sonic's been up to over here."
Amy plopped right back down with a sigh. "It's a really long story..."
Me: Like I said up top, PLEASE FORGIVE ME! I hope you don't mind me not adding her telling the whole Sonic story... You can probably fill in the gaps. I don't know enough about Sonic to do all that, because I've never played the games. I won't annoy you with whatever weird version it would turn out as, because I hate having to read through FOUR TO SIX FRICKIN' CHAPTERS just reading about things that have pretty much nothing to do with the story.
Manic: You DO know you're insane, right?
Me: Yup. My motto; Crazy, Loud, and Proud. Why do you ask?
Sonic: BECAUSE YOU HOGTIED ME AND HUNG ME OVER A FIRE FOR TRYING TO LOOK IN YOUR SKETCHBOOK! YOU. ARE. INSANE!
Me: Heh heh, HOGtied. And thank you, I take that as a compliment.
Sonic: AAAAAAAAAAAAHH!
Me: Read and Review please!
Manic: And stay away from her sketchbook if you want to live!
Me: o.0 One O'clock in the morning, with school tomorrow, I'm very unstable right now! *eye twitches* Stay away! *holds sketchbook to chest and hisses* MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!