After many reassurances from his little brother Tails, Sonic had the courage to go out of his bedroom and face his friends who deserved to know the truth and also an apology for the way he reacted from the last time he had seen them. Stepping into his living room from the hallway had the others go silent and Sonic grew nervous.
"Hey guys...how ya been? I- I need to apologize to all of you, I'm sorry for before." Sonic struggled to keep his voice loud enough for his friends to hear when he wanted to speak quietly or even not speak at all, his ears folded back and he tried to look every friend in the eye. There were Shadow's dark ruby red, Rouge's bright teal, Knuckles deep violet purple, and the two pairs of glowing golden eyes of Silver and Blaze.
"We've been...well. How are you. Er- Now?" Silver cleared his throat and spoke through the silence, "It's understandable Sonic, I speak for the rest of us when I say it's okay." He and Blaze sat beside each other on the first sofa, across from them was Shadow and Rouge on the second sofa. Sonic's home is a more modern home, though large and in a secluded area away from the city.
"No. No it's not okay." Sonic shook his head, "What R-Eggman said to me brought back painful memories and I took my anger out on you guys. I'm so sorry, you guys didn't deserve that and I shouldn't have done that." He tore his gaze away from them and looked backwards to Tails, Tails gave a thumbs up and a confident supportive smile. 'Go ahead.' Tails mouthed to Sonic. Sonic clenched his fists, taking a deep breath to settle his nerves.
"Sonic? If I may interject?" Blaze asked, the azure hedgehog blinked but nodded, he was feeling anxious and ready to speak while he had the motivation and confidence to before it dissolved and he wouldn't be able to.
"Yeah, uh go ahead Blaze."
"You're going to be telling us some private things from your life, correct?" Blaze questioned softly. Sonic wasn't too confused or concerned by how spot on his cat friend was. No, Blaze is very intelligent and logical so he was used to her making smart accurate statements. Nodding Sonic waited for her to continue. "If it hurts you even now still, you do not have to feel obligated to tell us if you are not up to it. We support you as friends either way."
"T-thank you Blaze, this really means a lot to me." Sonic felt deeply moved by the nods and humming of agreement each of his friends made. "I still need to give you an explanation of well...my past and my history. Things I haven't told any of you before because I at first didn't want pity. I didn't want that, so I pretended and hid my past. It hurt, and it still does but you need to hear this." Sonic sighed, and turned to Amy, Knuckles and Tails hovering behind him. "We should all sit down, this will take awhile."
The four each became situated with Knuckles, Tails, Silver and Blaze all sitting together cozily on the sofa. Rouge sat next to Shadow on her left with Amy on her right. Sonic had taken a seat next to Amy who gave him a gentle sweet smile that Sonic had tried to return. Then averted his gaze from everybody keeping his emerald eyes down to stare at the guitar medallion in his hands once again just like he's had so many times in the past.
"It's cool if you guys got questions, I'll answer them. It's pretty long and complicated." Sonic tightened his grip on the medallion, "Eggman used to be known by his real name Robotnik. Believe it or not, but in the past he was worst than he is now. Years ago before I was born, there was Mobotropolis, it was the original capital of Mobius ruled by the royals. It has been long forgotten seeing as everybody who inhabited it is dead or gone." Everybody felt disturbed by how nonchalantly Sonic had said that, as if it didn't bother him at all but it was easy to tell that it did hurt him greatly.
"Robotnik hated the royals and he wanted to rule over Mobotropolis and essentially rule over the rest of the world too. He did everything he could to overthrow the ruling Queen Aleena. The queen was doing her best and stressed on defending her people and for a while it worked but Robotnik...he struck one day with an enormous armada of robots he made that captured and enslaved everybody. There was nothing she could do, the queen could only flee for her safety and her children's safety as well. Aleena was pregnant with triplets and she gave birth to them before she fled." The cobalt blue hedgehog paused, "The second child was her daughter Sonia, the third and youngest was her son Manic..."
"And the first child?" Asked Rouge.
"The first- first child and oldest is me." The speedy hero had divulged nervously, he had no clue how his friends would react to this new information. Hesitantly he looked up, looking into each of their eyes once again. Everybody had different reactions of shock or surprise.
"Your mother was the queen?" Amy had questioned, Sonic let out a shaky breath he didn't even know he was holding in.
"Yeah. She was my mom." His voice grew soft, but in the silence it was loud. "Robotnik took everything away from me, my life, my friends, my family..." Sonic's voice grew cold again, just like that day when his anger got the best of him.
"He attacked one night in the village I lived in at the time, it was ruthless. There were bombs, bullets, missiles, and explosions. Everything was on fire, I ran past the burning buildings of friends and people I knew. People-" He began to shake in his spot, body trembling as he tried his best not to cry. "-Were screaming...I couldn't see anybody though, just hear them. I was scared...so terrified and confused...I went looking for my family, I was almost at my house, but the second I moved a missile struck it. For a moment I could see my mother, brother, and sister huddled together in the window looking at me."
"...Chaos..." Somebody whispered, he wasn't sure who but he continued speaking his horrible recurring memories.
"It happened so fast, I was sure I could've saved them until I had to make a choice. I found my uncle lying on the ground dying close by my house. Save him or check to see- see if they were still alive somehow."
Sonic knew this wasn't going to be easy revealing, he knew it would hurt, but keeping it all bottled up to plague his mind wasn't healthy nor safe. He just wished- that it didn't have to hurt so much.
"My uncle...he kept telling me to run, to leave him and save myself. There was a growing fire with black smoke moving fast towards us. I couldn't move, until he pushed me away and told me to run. To chase after Robotnik and not ever let him win in his wish to rule over kingdoms and worlds. So that's what I did. I ran, and I almost didn't make it out of this forest nearby. I ran until it was all behind me, I didn't stop until I was in this rural forest with no sign of anybody. Then I collapsed."