Sonic stands quietly, staring out of the helicopter as the South Isles grows smaller and smaller. "Going to be a hard transition." A voice behind Sonic says. Sonic turns around to see a brown, beat up wolf in a trench coat with a fedora on.
"Are you Cedric?" Sonic asks.
"No, he's back at HQ, I'm Lester, I was only assigned to come get you." Lester says reaching out his hand. "It truly is an honor to meet you, Mr. Hedgehog."
"Thanks, the honor is mine." Sonic says shaking his hand and sitting on the bench across from him.
"Got a lot of friends back home?" Lester asks as he lights a cigar.
"Yeah, you could say that." Sonic says still staring out at the night sky.
"Listen, kid. It's tough, I know. I can't imagine leaving behind so many loved ones, but this is for their own good. Once you see what you'll be doing, you'll know you're in the right place. If you don't think so, you can high tail it."
Sonic continues to stare Blankley out at the night sky, until he just looks down at the ground.
"May as well get some rest." Lester says. "Got quite a way until we get to Sarenea.
"Sarenea?" Sonic asks. "Where's that?"
"Ha, you'll see soon enough, kiddo."
Hours pass, and Sonic and Lester finally arrive. Sonic is awakened by the sun brightly shining into the cock pit of the helicopter. "Rise and shine, mornin' bird!" Lester yells over the helicopter landing. Sonic and Lester both step off the helicopter as it takes off, barely giving them enough time to step off. "Damn rude pilot!" Lester spits. Sonic drops his duffle bag in disbelief as he gawks as the huge fortress that is Omega. "Yep, welcome to Omega." Lester says as he pats Sonic on the shoulder. "Let's not keep Cedric waitin'."
"Is this place in the middle of no where?" Sonic asks.
"Yeah, can't risk anyone figurin' us out." Lester laughs. "Now hurry, I thought they called you the fastest thing alive."
Sonic catches up to Lester as they walk through the huge doors into the massive lobby. People are walking everywhere, doing business. Sonic moves in circles to take in the massively huge room, when suddenly, a blue, gentle wolf wearing glasses approaches Sonic. "Is this THE Sonic?" he asks.
"Yeah, in the flesh." Lester answers.
"Yeah, Sonic's the name!" Sonic answers.
"Excellent! I'm glad you received my letter!"
"So you're Cedric?" Sonic asks.
"In the flesh." Cedric laughs. "Welcome to your new home, Mr. Hedgehog."
"This place is so freaking huge!" Sonic cheers.
"Little country Hedgehog is fascinated!" Lester laughs.
"I do recall you too being fascinated, Lester." Cedric mocks.
"Whatever." Lester laughs playfully punching him in the arm.
"Thanks for assisting Sonic, you can return to work now."
"Understood." Lester says walking off.
"Lester is head of security here. Very, very important job." Cedric says.
"Hmm, I see." Sonic answers.
"If you'd follow me, I'll show you to your room." Cedric says as Sonic follows.
After a while, Sonic and Cedric end up at Sonic's room. Sonic walks in to a huge room with a king size bed, hot tub and plasma screen television with the finest furniture. "And all of this is just for me?" he asks.
"Yes sir, all for you, hero!" Cedric cheers.
"Hot damn!" Sonic yells as he jumps onto the bed. "I could easily get used to this!"
"Glad to hear! Now, there's a few people I would like to introduce you to."
"Oh?"
"Yes, you were the last hero to arrive, Sonic. The others are still here. Follow me, they must be training now."
Sonic follows Cedric into a huge training room, with a mountainous terrain. "First up is Nicole." Cedric says as he points to her standing atop a rock. She is a light blue colored Cat, and she wears a red hair bow and wields a staff.
"What's her deal?" Sonic asks just before a rock is flung at her, in which she reacts with a fire spell and incinerates the rock before her. "WOAH!" Sonic yells getting Nicole's attention.
"Well, the new guy's here!" Nicole cheers as she runs over. "Nicole's the name!"
"I'm Sonic…" Sonic begins to say before he's interrupted.
"Of course, you are! You're THE Sonic the Hedgehog!"
"You're a little more well-known than you may have thought." Cedric laughs. "Is Vex here training as well?" Cedric asks just before Vex lands next to all of them with a spear in hand. Vex is a red hedgehog with his spikes pointing upward, kind of scared.
"Right you are!" Vex answers.
"Vex here is our next hero; Nicole's brother." Cedric explains to Sonic.
"Not biological, of course." Nicole laughs.
"Hah, very nice to meet you two." Sonic says.
"You too, man! You're a freaking legend!" Vex says.
"OH now." Sonic laughs.
"Quickly, Mr. Hedgehog, there's still three more I'd like you to meet!"
"Yes sir!"
"We'll catch you around, guys. Continue training in the meantime."
"Yes sir!" Vex and Nicole answer.
As Sonic followed Cedric to meet the other three heroes, they cross a room marked "Laboratory" with a lot of noise inside. "What's in there?" Sonic asks.
"Never go in there." Cedric says. "Nothing harmless, just our mechanic, Hugo Schwartz. Don't go to close to him, all of his years here have driven him to madness." Cedric says just before the noises stop.
"Duely noted." Sonic answers just before the door flies open and Hugo storms out.
"Watch where you're going, you bafoon!" Hugo screams as he stomps to the restroom.
"Geez, you weren't kidding…" Sonic says rubbing his head. "What's he building anyway?"
"Something for the organization, unfortunately, that's all we can share until its complete." Cedric says.
"Okay… I understand." Sonic says glaring into the room.
"This way; we're almost to the others!" Cedric says.
"Right behind you." Sonic answers.
Cedric and Sonic arrive at the green room, which is pretty much a huge green house with beautiful plants, and a huge tree in the middle. "This place is beautiful!" Sonic gawks.
"Yes; Samsara loves to spend all of her time in here." Cedric says.
"Samsara?" Sonic asks as Cedric points to a green, squirrel meditating under the tree. She looks at them and smiles.
"Hello, Mr. Winters." Samsara grins.
"Samsara, this is Sonic, the last of the world heroes." Cedric says.
"Hello there, Mr. Sonic. It's great to meet you." She says as she approaches Sonic.
"You too, but just call me Sonic." Sonic laughs as he shakes her hand.
"Where on earth are Jack and Jake? Weren't you watching them?" Cedric asks.
"They're exhausting!" Samsara says.
"So no?"
"Precisely." Samsara smiles as she turns in circles.
"Are you okay?" Sonic asks.
"She's out there." Cedric says as a branch falls down before them, scaring Sonic and Cedric, with two young chipmunks on the ground in pain.
"Way to go, Jack!" Jake yells.
"What?! It was your fat butt that broke the branch!" Jack screams.
"Shut up, no it wasn't!"
"Boys!" Cedric yells.
"Oh no, now we're in trouble. Way to go, poop for brains!" Jake yells.
"No one is in trouble, I just wanted to introduce you two to Sonic, our last hero." Cedric says.
"Hey there, Sonic!" Jack smiles.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Sonic smiles as he crouches down to them.
"We are cool twin super heroes, want to see?" Jake says.
"Watch!" Jack says as they fist bump, and swords appear in their hands as they both cut down the tree with one fell swoop.
"MY TREE!" Samara screams, interrupting her long spinning.
"We better go." Cedric says pulling Sonic aside.
Sonic and Cedric exit back to the lobby. "Well that's it." Cedric says.
"Their fun!" Sonic smiles. "But I did notice one thing; they all seem to have training rooms. Where's mine?" Sonic asks.
"Right there." Cedric says pointing at the front door.
"Pardon?" Sonic asks.
"Mr. Hedgehog, all of their training rooms fit their powers. Nicole is a master mage, Vex is a weapon master, Samara gets her power from the earth, and Jake and Jack get their powers from each other. You have speed, so we figured you're best off with a huge environment, the outside."
"Can't argue with that! I'm going to go for a quick run!"
"Real fast, take this." Cedric says as he hands a small PDA to Sonic. "With this, we'll be able to contact you no matter where you are. In about an hour, we're going to be calling all of you together for your first mission."
"Sounds awesome! See you soon, Cedric!" Sonic grins as he runs out of the building.
"We really struck gold with that one." Cedric says to himself as he smiles and gets back to work.
Sometime later, Sonic is running around in the vast, beautiful land. He finds himself on a beach, with no one on it. He lays down and watches the rolling tides crash onto the shore. "Well, this seems to be a good taste of home." Sonic smiles as he closes his eyes. "I had my doubts, but I have a feeling this is going to do better than anything." Sonic says to himself. "I just really hope Amy can forgive me…"
Suddenly, Sonic's PDA goes off. He answers it to a video message from Cedric.
"Sonic…" he says. "Please return to Omega, we are having a meeting in the conference room. Thanks."
"Well, back to work." Sonic says as he speeds off.
Later, he returns to HQ, and gets to the Conference room to find everyone waiting on him. "Pretty slow for the fastest thing alive." Vex laughs.
"Sorry, I got lost. This place if huge." Sonic says.
"All is forgiven. I have a lot of information, so please have a seat so we can begin."
"understood." Sonic says as he sits next to Samara.
"I miss my tree." She whispers to him.
"I'm sorry?" Sonic questions.
"Everyone, as you all know, the main reason you are here is to provide safety against an uprising evil." Cedric says. "My boss has instructed me to gather all of you here, the world's greatest heroes.
"Wait, your boss? I thought you were the head CEO?" Nicole asks.
"Of this department, which is hero supervision. I'll be your instructor, and keep an eye on all of you. Orders, however, come straight from the boss."
"Who is our boss then?" Sonic asks.
"Wish I knew. He calls himself Cloud. He hasn't met with anyone, really likes to keep his identity unknown." Cedric says.
"That's kind of weird…" Nicole says.
"I bet it's cause he's fat." Jack laughs.
"I bet!" Jake agrees.
"Anyway, our instructions are simple. There is an evil arising, the one I mentioned in my letter. Our archeologists discovered ancient artifact that predicted a prophecy that an ancient evil called the "Eupherion Dark" will rise soon. When we conducted further studies on the Eupherion culture, we discovered that a race here, on this land is trying to play a role in their revival. Their called the "Arian Nights."
"Arian Nights?" Sonic asks.
"Eupherion Dark?" Samara asks.
"A lot of information to process." Nicole says.
"So why don't we just stop this revival?" Vex asks.
"We don't know enough yet, the sightings of the Eupherion Dark are way too unpredictable, best we can do is stop suspicious activity by the Arian Nights." Cedric says.
"Okay, I guess that makes sense." Vex says.
"Speaking of suspicious activity, they are having a gathering tonight, in a city called Halsburg. We will take all of you there to investigate." Cedric says.
"Sounds solid." Sonic smiles.
"Great, I trust that all of you will do excellent."
"We need a cool team name!" Samara screams.
"Yeah, I like that!" Nicole grins.
"Let me pick… hmm… How about the Avengers?" Vex asks.
"No, I hate it!" Jake says. "That's so lame!"
"The Justice League!" Sonic cheers.
"What are you all, stupid?! These names are so generic!" Jack screams.
"What would you all call it then?!" Vex yells.
"The X Team!" They both yell.
"I actually kind of like that…" Sonic grins.
"It's final, I guess. X team, you all depart in exactly three hours. Just enough time to eat." Cedric says.
"Can't wait!" Sonic cheers.
"I think that this is going to be great!" Nicole cheers as Samara storms out.
"Where's she going?" Vex asks.
"To water her tree!" Jack and Jake laugh.
***TO BE CONTINUED***
