Chapter 1: Truths Revealed
Alright this is the real chapter one of the story, don't worry about that. Also fair warning that I have other fics that I sort of need to work on but I'll try and manage to put time into this one. Also if anyone is willing to co-write this with me that be awesome. I'd also like to point out that my story may be similar to the fanfic called Sonic Freedom, but I am not copying it. I am still editing the story, with the help of silvioxp1300, he's the creator of Sonic Freedom, I'd suggest that you give his story a shot before mine. Oh and some of the location of in the story are pure fictional, I think.
(Robo-Island)
Sonic was running throughout the now metallic island, cutting down every SWATbot in his path, while spin-dashing, he finally cut down last SWATbot. He smiled as he watched them all explode, he then turned his attention to his target, Robotnik's SWATbot factory. He speed off towards the factory, moving faster than the speed of light, zipping past all the automated defense, and slipped into the factory's generator room. Without wasting anytime, he pulled out some of the home made explosives he made and spread them throughout the generator room, and then breaking the sound barrier he escaped the factory at a safe distance, he detonated the explosives and watched as the factory became nothing but ball of fire. The sight made Sonic smiled, for about seven years this is what he's been doing, fighting, fighting Buttnik's evil metallic reach, but he's been fighting alone. He had even made a name for himself, every Freedom Fighter across Mobious knew him as the Blue Blur. But he has never really been a people person so he tried to stay out of sight. Sure he's made some allies along the way, but he never stuck around, he had been fighting Buttnik ever since he could remember, plus he didn't like answering people questions about him.
He felt his stomach growl, he placed his hand over his stomach, and chuckled a little, and sped off in a blur of blue. He ran across the sea that surrounded Robo-Island. And within mere seconds Sonic was at his favorite pub, "Melody Pub", although Sonic was under-aged to drink, the pub had other things that intrigued him. For example the chili dogs and the fact that the place had an open mic/musical performance. He also had some of his stuff stashed there as well, so another reason to go to the place. He rushed into the pub, and grabbed a seat at the bar. The bartender was a grey dog, dressed like any other bartender, he was used to seeing Sonic coming up to the bar. "What'll you be having kid, the usual?" the dog asked. Sonic nodded, "Yep a chili dog with the works pal!" The bartender disappeared into the kitchen, and Sonic then rushed upstairs where his stuff was stashed, in other words his guitar and a bag with his other stuff. He return to where he original seat, and his chili dog was there when he returned. He ate it up within seconds.
"Hmm, now that hit the old spot," Sonic said, he looked to the bartender, "So anyone good play tonight, or am I going to have to bring the house down again?" The bartender rolled his eyes, "Sadly no one good has played tonight," he explained, "So be my guest, Dash." Sonic smiled, he never told anyone his real name, he had trust issues, sort of. Sonic pulled out his guitar and rushed to the stage. He turned on the mic on the stage, and strummed his guitar. He cleared his throat, "Here's a little song for the Freedom Fighters and their fight against Robotnik."
(The guitar parts are similar to the song Architects by Rise Against. Also Sonic is singing from his heart.)
"Hey! A wise man once said life is a precious gift,
And as a heartless fiend walks this world,
That gift will be stolen from everyone alive,
But we won't back down and never give up without a fight,
What is right has always been in sight,
We shall fight til the death,
Even then the fight goes on,
/
We have always been loyal to the cause,
Our faith is not fragile glass,
And our strength could move the mountains,
You can never put out the fire that drives us,
We fight to see our dreams come to life,
These mindless drones mean nothing to us,
We'll fight til we rip out his metallic black heart,
We have never been afraid and never will be,
/
We refuse to back down,
We'll bow down only to the honest of crowns,
Because this empire is run by a bunch of clowns,
We hide in the forest, and in the underground,
And it is us that will never be found,
Especially by the likes of you,
And we'll keep our cool,
While you freak out like a childish fool!"
(I wrote the lyrics myself.)
The entire Pub erupted into a series of cheering, Sonic grinned as he finished the song. Call him crazy but when ever he was sing up on stage, he felt as though there were someone out there waiting for him. He never really understood why he had that feeling, but he didn't care he liked it. He tossed his guitar over his shoulder, and walked over to his seat. A red female fox around his age, took a seat next to him. "Wow I've never seen anyone play like that before," she said in a seductive voice, "I've also didn't know that someone could be this good-looking." Sonic chuckled a bit, he had been hit-on like a zillion times, but he never really got used to it.
"Well thank you," he said slyly, "You're not bad looking yourself." He was about walk away, when she stopped him by placing a hand on his chest. "How's about I buy you a drink," she fluttered her eyes, "The night is young and so are we." He chuckled, "Sorry but I only drink soda," he told her,"I can't drink liqueur." She giggled, "Neither can I," she said, "I'm only 18." He shrugged, and took a seat again. "By the way my name's Fiona," she proudly said, "What's your's?" He shrugged, "Names Dash Hedgehog," he answered, "Nice meeting you."
She motioned for the bartender to bring them two soda's, a grape for Sonic and a root bear for Fiona. She handle Sonic's drink for a second, then slid it down to him. "Cheers?" she asked. "Cheers!" he answered. They both took sips from their drinks, once they finished, Fiona did something unexpected, she kissed Sonic, which turned into a make-out. When they parted lips, Fiona smiled, "Wanna go outside Dash?" she asked seductively. "Hard to say no when you say it like that." Sonic answered.
They left the pub, Sonic still had all his stuff, and Fiona was wearing a black leather jacket. Sonic's head then started to feel funny. "Ugh my...my h-head," he said as he fell to his knees. "Oh good the drug starting to kick in," Fiona stated in a dark tone, whipping her lips, "Good I hate having to act like that." She pulled a communicator out of her jacket. "SWATbots converge on my location," she looked over at Sonic, "I've got the hedgehog." She then looked at Sonic evilly. Sonic was fighting to keep his head clear, which was easy considering his hyper chaos healing allowed him to only feel minimal effects of the drug.
Within minutes, a team of SWATbots arrived and four bots grabbed Sonic. Fiona laughed evilly, "Easy ten grand I ever made," she snickered, "Robotnik should've asked for the help of a woman's touch a long-time ago." Sonic weakly looked up at her, "You work for Buttnik! Why?" She shrugged, "Keeps me out of the Roboticizer and keeps me Its nothing personal though, to be honest your kind of cute. Heh oh well, you'd probably look better as a robot anyway." Sonic had heard enough, his feet were still on the ground so he would be able to get away, but he'd drag the SWATbots with him. He could easily take care of them though, so it was no biggie, as he would say. He gripped his stuff tighter.
"Sorry lady," he cockily proclaimed, "But I don't swing that way. And I guess you don't know about my hyper-healing, because all that drug, that you gave me, did was give me a little headache." His legs began moving at super-speed now resembling two red wheels. "Later!" With that he did what he did best, he ran.
(Knothole, The Lake)
Sally went over the lake and sighed, she had just escaped from Antoine, again. She was quite tired of the coyote trying to get her to date her. She was not into him, and she had told him ever so kindly that she wasn't, but he never gave up. She didn't like the fact that he always called her, "my princess", she hated being called princess; it wasn't that she was ashamed of being one, she just didn't want to be reminded of what she lost. She also wasn't really looking to be in a relationship anyway, but she if she was she wanted it to be with someone who was adventurous, free spirited, and above all brave. Someone like the mysterious Blue Blur.
Little did she know she was about to meet the man. Outside the forest, our favorite blue hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog, was fighting off a small group of Robotnik's SWATbots. They were ripped to pieces as Sonic spin-dashed through them. Sonic stood over the SWATbots he destroyed, panting, he was beyond tired, and he was cut up pretty bad. He was bleeding a little, and he was banged up. He picked up his guitar and bag, then gazed towards the forest he stood in front of. He could sense a power source deep inside the forest, normally Sonic would be able to heal himself, but he had just used up most of his energy fighting, so he need to recharge. He rushed towards the source of the power, not at his top speed, he didn't have enough energy to run at his top speed, as a matter of fact his vision was starting to blur. He started slowing down the closer he got, and was soon running at a regular Mobian's running speed.
Sally was still at the lake, soaking up the peace and quiet, for a change. She was about to leave when she heard the sound of someone running towards the lake. She turned a ready to attack whatever it was. In a second a male blue hedgehog arrived on the scene, at first it looked like he was drunk, he was dressed in dark slim jeans and a red vest. But upon a closer look, it was clear that the hedgehog was wounded, and looked like he was having trouble standing. She looked at him, and was captivated for a second, she thought that he was very good looking.
Sonic fell to his knees, his vision was starting to blur a bit more. He looked up a could make a squirrel girl with long red hair, he didn't think much of her at first, he was more concerned about getting to the power source. But he fell to his hands, the lack of energy, and that drug Fiona slipped him, were really taking it's toll on him, plus the loss of blood wasn't helping either. He looked over to the girl, and chuckled a bit. "You won't happen to have a good doctor nearby would ya?" He asked as he passed out. His guitar and bag laying next to him.
Sally rushed over to Sonic, "Hey! Hey, are you alright?" She shook him a little, but it did no good, Sonic was out cold. She tried splashing some water on him, but it didn't seem to work either, but she failed to notice that Sonic's cuts started to heal themselves. She kept trying to wake him up. She didn't notice Sir Charles show up.
"Princess, Sally?" he called out. "Now where did that darn girl go?" Thats when he saw Sally looking over the unconscious body of a familiar blue hedgehog. Thats when he realized that it was his nephew, Prince Sonic. He rushed over to her side, she was startled by his sudden appearance , but was glad he was there.
"Sir Charles. Please can you help him," she asked desperately. He moved towards Sonic, put the guitar on his back, gave the bag to Sally, and lifted up his legs. "Uh, give me a hand will ya?" She put the bag on her back as well, lifted Sonic up by his arms, and they carried him off to Knothole. "Thank you Charles." Sally spoke up. Charles shook his head, "I would've help him even if you hadn't asked." Sally was confused, "Why is that?"
"He's my nephew," Charles said, "He's grown but I'd recognize my nephew anywhere. His name is Sonic." Sally was at a lost of words. Charles rarely spoke of his family, but she remembers him mention something about Sonic being the fast Mobian alive, of course she believe he was exaggerating, as far as she was concern the Blue Blur was. Although after they received the news that the Hedgehog Kingdom had fallen, they had always assumed that there were no other hedgehogs left alive on Mobious. But now knowing that Sonic had survived, perhaps there were other hedgehogs left, Sally hoped that the royal family had somehow escaped. Little did she know, two members of the royal family were very close to her.
They arrived at Knothole shortly, and the entire village noticed the blue hedgehog that was being taken to Charles hut. Charles clear one of his work benches, and they laid Sonic on it. They place his belongings on a smaller table. Sally was getting worried that Sonic hadn't waken or showed any signs of awakening. "Now how do we wake him up," she asked. Charles thought for a minute, a finger to his lip. "Hm, Sonic is a Chaos Adept," he explained, "So I think if we give him so chaos energy he should be fine."
"Well that's great and all," Sally responded, "But where are we gonna find a source of chaos energy?" Charles smirked, signaled for her to wait, and went to his lab. He return shortly with gold glowing ring. "It may not be pure chaos energy but it should do the trick," he answered, he then placed the ring in Sonic's hand, "I designed these years ago, before Robotnik happened. Back in the Hedgehog Kingdom I was a researcher, before a diplomat. I head a project where we were supposed to find a alternative source of power than chaos power. It was sort of success, the only problem was we could never figure out how to get it up and running." A bright light washed over the room, and then over Sonic's body. The light then disappeared, and Sonic looked completely healed, Sally and Charles let out a sigh of relief. Sonic's eyes began to twitch, he opened them, revealing his green eyes; which were dazed and confused.
"Ugh where am I?" Sonic asked, getting up and rubbing his head. He looked around and notice he was in the presence of the squirrel girl and an elderly light blue hedgehog. Sonic didn't know either of them, yet the other hedgehog seemed familiar to him, but he couldn't figure out why. The older hedgehog smiled, "Your in Knothole, Sally here helped me get you to safety," he pointed to the squirrel girl, "My name is Sir Charles Hedgehog. But you can call me Chuck." Sonic looked at the Sally, "You brought me here?" he asked in disbelief, she nodded, "Well thanks, probably should tell you guys who I am. Name's Sonic." He normally didn't give out his real name, but it was obvious to him that they were Freedom Fighters, plus they saved his skin, so he decided to be honest with them. He got off the bench and dusted off his vest.
"I know who you are Sonic," Chuck told him, he had decided that Sonic deserved to know that he was his uncle, but he won't reveal their family secret just yet. It was obvious that Sonic himself didn't know who he was, entirely. Sonic looked at him curiously.
"Wait how do you know who I am?" Sonic asked, "No one other than Buttnik knows that I'm alive and kicking."
Chuck moved a little closer to him. He looked at Sonic and smiled. "I'm your uncle Sonic." he said. Almost immediately, Sonic started to remember his uncle. Memories flooded his mind, his uncle making him chili dogs, his uncle taking him to his lab, getting his durable sneakers from him, stood there with an angry look in his eye.
"Where have you been all this time?" He demanded. Sonic stood there impatiently. Chuck sighed with sadness. Chuck looked very sad. "I understand that your angry Sonic, and you have every right to be. (sighs) But you have to understand that before Robotnik began his attack, I worked for the royal family of the Hedgehog Kingdom as a diplomat for the Acorn Kingdom. I was stuck in the Acorn Kingdom when Robotnik began his invasion, I was able to get as many people of the Acorn Kingdom to safety, including Sally the heir to the throne. I was able to warn our Kingdom, but by that time it was too late and I couldn't find a way to find you. Believe me when I say, that there hasn't been a day that I don't blame myself for not being able to find you or your family. I-" He would've continued but Sonic stop him, placing a caring hand on his shoulder. He saw there were some tears in Sonic's eyes.
"You shouldn't blame yourself," Sonic said, "You couldn't have prevented whatever happened to me, so don't beat yourself up. Besides even with the memory lost, I've had pretty decent life, minus Buttnik trying to kill me. Plus I've been able to help save people from Buttniks control. And I've made a few friends along the way. Heh even made a name for myself." He grinned during the last part. Sally looked at Sonic curiously.
"What do you mean 'You've made a name for yourself'?" she asked. She was truly confused by what Sonic was referring to. He grinned, showing her his pearly whites. "You ever heard of the Blue Blur?" he asked. Sally nodded. "Of course," she answered rolling her eyes, "Every Freedom Fighter on Mobious has heard of him. He's supposed to be the fastest thing alive and it's said he's been fighting Robotnik longer than anyone." Sonic's grin became even bigger.
"Well your looking at the Blue Blur," he boasted pointing his thumb at himself, "I've been a good looking thorn in Buttniks side all these years." Sally laughed loudly, Sonic looked confused. "I'm sorry but I seriously doubt that your the Blue Blur." she said still laughing. Sonic smirked, "Oh I get it you need some convincing is all," he chuckled, "Well, one solid piece of proof coming in a Sonic second." He then ran out of the hut, at sonic speed, and in a second returned with a glass full of water from the nearby lake. Sally's jaw dropped.
"Need anymore convincing?" Sonic joked. Sally shook her head, her jaw still dropped. He laughed that Sally was still awe struck. Uncle Chuck wasn't surprised at all, he knew that his nephew had incredible speed, and had already pieced together that, after learning Sonic was alive, he was the Blue Blur. An award silence fell over the room. Uncle Chuck then clear his throat then spoke up.
"Here's an idea," he stated, "Let's introduce Sonic, here, to everyone in Knothole?" Sally snapped herself out of her trance. "Yes that's a great idea," she eagerly said, "I'm sure they'd love to meet him!" Sonic shrugged, he wasn't entirely keen with the idea, but he figured it was time to break his old habits. "Sure why not," he simply shrugged, "Besides they'd probably like to meet the infamous Blue Blur." He joked. Uncle Chuck rolled his eyes, in a joking manner, Sally tried hard not to giggle.
Alright I've finally finished this chapter, hopefully you guys like the changes that I've made. I'd like to thank silvioxp1300 again for the advice for the direction I should take this story, thanks so much Silvio. I'd also like to say that although I will not be able to update as often as I'd like I will try and write more of the story as often as I can.