SonicX The Cold War Saga
Episode 3: Misfortune on Marmolim
Location: Sianeste Galaxy, deep unknown space, Millennium Dawn
It had been six days since team Sonic's first fight was proudly won. Newspapers were published all across the colonies of the Democratic Order praising the massacre Sonic and the others prevented. Now that Evan's fireteam added a new team of heroes, he was left to ponder what will become of his fireteam of abnormally young people. Everybody was still relaxing in their rooms and adjusting to a new ship. Tails and Cosmo were sharing a room since Tails had nervously asked her if she wanted to do so. Sonic could be seen sleeping in his memory foam bed that came with all the living quarters. He was dreaming about his deceased father.
Dream:
"Sonic?… Sonic!…" An overly familiar voice came from the distance. The hearing of what sounded like his father caused Sonic's eyes to shoot open. He looked around and found that he wasn't in his room, but rather in a blank white room with only himself to see. He looked around hoping to find out who called his name.
"Sonic!" The voice echoed again. This time, Sonic was sure without a doubt that this was his father calling him. "DAD!?" He called, eager to at least catch a glimpse of him. No sign. Sonic started to lose hope when, suddenly, a blue hedgehog stood in front of him. He had light blue stubble and a brushed back hairstyle. Sonic immediately ran forward to hug his father, he felt so good to see his favorite family member again. "Oh Dad," Sobbed Sonic, "It's so great to see you again!" It took Sonic a while to figure out what he wanted to say after that. "H-how are you here right now?"
Sonic's father chuckled a little bit. "I'm only here in spirit, my son."
Sonic immediately frowned after hearing this. "Y-you mean you're not really h-here?"
"Oh yes, of course, I am here, but only in my spirit and only briefly.
Sonic was extremely grateful to see his dad once more, but he was also sad that he could only see him for a little while. "Dad, I know about what happened to you in Kororia." Sonic said sorrowly.
"Do not feel bad, Sonic." Said his dad. "Look at what you have done with your friends."
"Dad, everything I've done with my friends was to help avenge you. You are the main reason why I stepped out and became a hero in the first place."
Sonic's dad chuckled again. "No matter what your motivation is, keep fighting for the greater good." With that, Sonic's dad started to vanish into the whiteness. "Dad, Wait!"
End Dream
Sonic found himself sitting upright in his bed. He looked around, staring into the darkness and listening to the ship's engine run silently. His head drooped in sorrow and a tear formed in his left eye as he remembered the loss of his father to the USSR-lead Kororia. He meant what he said in his dream. He was going to avenge his father and he was going to do it with every chance he had.
Opening up his sliding door, he walked down a few hallways to the main control room. It was dark, almost as if it had been abandoned. However, he noticed a small light with a human silhouette blocking a part of it. It was Evan.
Sonic walked up to Evan slowly. "Hey." He said calmly.
Evan looked back and stared at Sonic with a concerned look. "What are you doing still up?" He said, speaking loud enough so Sonic could hear but not as loud as to wake everyone up.
"I think I should be asking you the same question." Defended Sonic. "So why are you still up?"
Evan, being 16, was a laid back leader. Normally a fireteam leader would be demanding an answer to a question no matter who asked first "I've been thinking about Tails and Cosmo lately," Said Evan, flatly.
"What about them?" Asked Sonic.
"Well, I was thinking about what would've happened if General Bomo hadn't located the Metarex heart in time." He looked down. "Not only would the Metarex crisis still had gone on, but… Tails would be left heartbroken."
"So you know already." Said Sonic.
"Yeah, I do. Vamix and I were talking earlier tonight about how the mission went. When I mentioned you and your friends, he started talking about how Tails reacted when he saw that Cosmo was actually okay." Said Evan.
"I know, man," Said Sonic. "Tails was sobbing his eyes out in pure joy when he realized he didn't really kill Cosmo."
This sentence caused Evan to be taken aback. "Hmm?" He stared at Sonic.
"Yeah," Sonic said nodding his head. "Cosmo almost sacrificed herself for the greater good and she called for Tails to execute the sacrifice." This made Sonic think about his dad even more.
"Geez!" He said thinking how hard that must have been for Tails. "So what are you doing still up?" Evan asked again.
"Well," Sonic hesitated. "I… had a dream… about… my father."
Being in the same military that Seismo Flashton was in, he knew exactly what Sonic Flashton meant. "I know, Sonic." Evan tried to comfort him. "Your father was a real hero for what he did back in Kororia." He continued. "If it wasn't for him, Kororia would've been under full Communist control by now, and many more people would've suffered."
Sonic already knew the full story, but he decided not to say anything. "I think we better head back to bed." Suggested Sonic.
"I agree." Followed Evan. The two soldiers left the control room and headed back to their quarters.
Within six hours, the time to get up had arrived. Lights were switched on across the Millennium Dawn, and everybody got out of bed. They all had breakfast and soon hopped into their seats in the control room.
Evan opened up his radar. No insurgents. He turned to Sonic and the others. "We currently have no messages and no insurgents in sight. You can go back to your quarters if you want. Tails, Cosmo, Cream, and Cheese were the only ones to do so. Chris, Sonic, and Amy still sat at their control panels, waiting for something to happen.
Back in Tails' and Cosmo's room, they were reflecting on the day that Cosmo almost died.
"I can't believe that you're still here with me." Said Tails, crying a little bit.
"You're still sad you shot me aren't you." Cosmo said with concern.
"Y-yes." Tails sniffed with tears in his eyes. "I was so freaking devastated when I thought you died. *sniff sniff*"
Cosmo put a hand on the crying fox's shoulder. "But I'm still here, aren't I." She said. "And even if I did die right then, I would've just regenerated if you planted my white spring seed." This sentence perked Tails up a little bit. "S-so you can never die?" Tails said, a smile forming on his saddened face.
Cosmo looked down and frowned. "Well, not really," This caused Tails to lose his forming smile. "If a seedrian dies in his or her childhood, he or she can regenerate if their spring seed is planted. But you stop being able to do that by age 20." The seedrian started to smile again. "But don't worry, I'm only nine years old."
The fact that she wasn't about to leave him anytime soon was very refreshing and comforting to Tails, who had just sniffed up his last tear, suddenly gave Cosmo a light hug. Taken aback by this, she hugged him back. She knew that Tails cared very much about her and that he would do anything to protect her. She remembered how she used to think how Tails found her annoying and clumsy, but according to how much he was showing he cared for her right now, he seemed to find her quite the opposite.
Tails slightly pulled back from the hug and looked Cosmo in the eyes. He wanted to say 'I have a crush on you,' but instead, he said, "You're my best friend, Cosmo."
Cosmo thanked him and even blushed a tiny bit.
With Evan, Brayden, Maxwell, Sonic, Chris, and Amy in the control room, Amy looked at Sonic to her left. "Hey, Sonic."
"Yeah?"
"Do you think the Soviets are planning anything?"
Sonic pondered for a moment before responding. "Either they're fighting on a different front or our intel networks can't locate anything serious."
Maxwell overheard the conversation and decided to respond to Sonic. "Our intel networks are usually pretty good at detecting anything suspicious regardless of which colony the issue may be on. We just haven't gotten one in a few days.
Chris opened up a page on his monitor and read the info on the latest updates on known USSR activity. "Well, according to what I found on one of the intel networks info pages, the USSR is already caught in a pretty big fight in the colony of Johnaka right outside the Kororian belt.
Johnaka was one of the Democratic Order's main strongholds in the Oisian Galaxy, so Evan guessed that it would be a big battle over there.
Cream and Cheese walked out of their room and back into the control room. "Hi, what are you doing?" She asked, being slightly obvious.
"We're doing everything we do when we're on duty," Brayden said flatly. "Checking for any Soviets that might attack us."
Evan decided to open up the radar to check for anything suspicious, doubting to find anything. He was wrong, as a green dot started flashing in the upper left region of the green radar.
Evan tapped on the green dot, which did an identity scan on the mysterious vessel. He stared closer at the screen. "Whoever's in that ship, they're from Marmolim." He said with a bit of calm shock in his voice.
Location: Sianeste Galaxy, deep unknown space, 5 astronomical units from Millennium Dawn, Marmolim escape ship
On a ship that looked like an asteroid with green lights circling it lived four Marmolims. One was named Ghana, a former fortune teller, and captain of the escape ship. The three others were named Lue, Lylem, and Momo. They had been trying to escape because of a Communist terror regime that had taken over their planet about 11 months ago.
Lue walked up to Ghana who was at the ship's control panel.
"Any sign of Moll Mott's goons?" Lue asked, Ghana turning his head to look at him.
"Not yet, Lue." Said Ghana. "But Moll Mott is not our only concern right now, our fuel supply is at 9%."
Lue began to think about all the torture that the Communists were imposing on their people. Although he had never seen any footage, he pictured it in his head as hellish and extreme. He walked over to Momo's control panel, where Lylem was talking to her about something.
"Hi, did you find anything?" Lue asked, not expecting a 'yes' of any kind.
"Yes, we did." Replied Momo. "Looks like a standard traveler's space vessel."
The Marmolims didn't have the technology to tell where the space ship was built, but Momo notified Ghana anyway.
"A traveler's vessel you say?" Asked Ghana.
"Yes," Said Lylem. "Maybe we could ask them for some fuel."
Ghana didn't feel comfortable asking random strangers for fuel, especially after the situation they were in 11 months ago. However, if they didn't find fuel soon, the ship would die and they would freeze to death. "Yes, since we are desperate for fuel, let's go ask them." He said.
The others cheered that they might be getting rescued, as well as getting fuel of course, when Ghana interrupted them.
"However," Ghana said in a serious tone making the others listen. "We should remain ready to activate our weaponry if should that ship ever attack us."
"Agreed." The others followed and sat down at their control panels. Ghana started programming the ship to go towards the mysterious spaceship. Their greatest hope was to eventually be rescued.
Location: Sianeste Galaxy, deep unknown space, 3 astronomical units from Marmolim escape ship, Millennium Dawn
By this moment, everyone knew about the Marmolim ship.
"What would a few Marmolims be doing outside of their 'magical' planet." Brayden said with two air quotes to make fun of the word 'magic.'
Amy just rolled her eyes. "Well, maybe they need our help." She suggested.
"Yeah," Followed Cream. "According to the radar information, their fuel supplies are very low."
"I think we should give some to them." Suggested Chris.
Evan nodded. "I'll try and break into the ship's communication system. Hopefully, we can find a method to contact them." He knew that Marmolims had very unadvanced technology, so there wasn't a good chance of communicating with them.
Evan and Maxwell tried about three times to hack into their ship but failed. "Damn, looks like their ship's communication system isn't compatible with our's." Said Maxwell, disappointed.
"Well, they're already moving towards us, so I think we should just wait for them." Said Cream. Sonic disagreed. It didn't seem like the Marmolims were very confident considering how slow they were moving. "They seem pretty hesitant, Cream. It might be a while before they reach our ship. How can we tell them we're harmless?"
Tails and Cosmo were out of their rooms and into the control room by now and they overheard Sonic talking. "Maybe we could flash some sort of light around?" Suggested Tails with less confidence than normal when coming up with ideas.
Brayden looked over at Tails. "A light? That gives me an idea." He turned the ship sideways so that the top was facing in the direction of the Marmolim ship.
Location: Sianeste Galaxy, deep unknown space, 4 astronomical units from Millennium Dawn, Marmolim escape ship
Lue was the first one to notice the ship turning sideways. "Uh… Ghana?" He asked with fear in his voice. "What's it doing?"
There was a long pause for the other three. Lylem looked at the ship and assumed the worst. "Everyone fi-"
"Wait!" Momo interrupted. "Don't shoot them!"
The others were confused, but luckily, Ghana was able to see what the young female Marmolim meant. What he saw was a small blue eagle emblem on the side of the ship. It turned out that they were part of the Democratic Order.
Lue was the most excited by far. He immediately got an idea that he didn't think was possible. "Wow, Ghana, I think we can forget about getting more fuel because we won't need any!"
Lylem, Ghana, and Momo stared at him with confusion.
"Because we can get them to try and overthrow the Communists." Said Lue, hoping that his companions would understand. They did. But they weren't sure that the Democratic Order would accept. After all, their nation was only one planet that wasn't even that developed yet, and they didn't see a reason why the Democratic Order would want to intervene in their troubles. Nonetheless, Ghana agreed it was worth a shot. He moved faster towards the Millennium Dawn with confidence that he wouldn't be destroyed but not as much confidence that he would ever return home.
Location: Sianeste Galaxy, deep unknown space, 13 miles from Marmolim escape ship, Millennium Dawn
The team was preparing the Millennium Dawn's vessel platform for the Marmolims. Since they knew that Marmolims were harmless, they chose not to bring their weapons as it would only scare them.
Once the ship touched down on the platform, the team walked to the back of the ship to greet the unknown Marmolims. Only they weren't so "unknown" to anyone except to Evan, Brayden, and Maxwell.
Sonic and his friends gasped when they saw the three same Marmolims they encountered when they were still after the chaos emeralds along with the grey, elderly fortune teller.
"Lue?" Sonic asked in shock.
"Lylem?" Tails followed right after.
"Momo?" Amy did the same.
"Wow! What a coincidence!" Cheered Chris.
"Hello again, Sonic." Said Lue. "This time we have come to ask you for a very complex favor."
Evan became somewhat confused. "Uh… Asking for fuel is not a complex favor at all. We have-" Evan was cut off by Brayden.
"You want us to oust Moll Mott, don't you." He assumed sternly.
"The four Marmolims were shocked. "How do you know about Moll Mott?" Asked Ghana.
"The Farsians were the first ones to know about the genocide." Said Brayden.
All the mammals gasped again. "There's a genocide!?" Cried, Amy. "Why haven't we done anything about it?"
Evan was a little uncomfortable about giving the true answer, but he decided it would be right for them to know. "The previous president, Tom Malkin, wasn't in power to protect the world from tyranny like both he and current president Harland promised. He just wanted to prevent colonies with vast natural resources from falling under Soviet hands. There are many individual planet nations under Communist rule, but since they had no use in his opinion, we never acted." Evan locked his fingers in shame.
Cream was angry. "I can't believe it! You might have had a mean president, but why couldn't you just try and stop Moll Mott yourselves?"
Maxwell thought that Cream was being unreasonable. "We need a fleet and an army to oust a leader, we can't just do it with one ship.
"Well, I don't care! Why didn't you talk to the president and try to convince him?" Cream was getting even more emotional. Sonic tried to comfort her by putting a hand on her back.
"We weren't the only ones who tried to talk to him," Evan said. "There were protesters and other representatives who tried to convince him, but he just wouldn't take anything."
Knuckles crossed his arms. "Well, if you ask me, I think we should help them." He said referring to the Marmolims.
"Yeah, I'll request a mission." Evan said.
The moment he said that Lue, Lylem, and Momo jumped for joy and chanted "We're saved!" and "We're going home!"
The team, along with the Marmolims walked back to the control room to contact the Military High Command.
Evan sat down at his seat and pressed a few buttons. A man with a short black beard and a black vest appeared on screen. "US Military High Command." The man said. "What is your request?"
"We would like to launch an attack on Communist Marmolim, sir. Our goal is to take out Moll Mott and restore their democratic government." Evan said.
"I will send your request to the president. He will be with you shortly." With that, the man disappeared off screen.
They waited and waited, eager to hear the president's response and eager for a 'yes'. The screen lit up again to see president William Harland on it this time. He started speaking.
"My fellow Americans, our Democratic Order has known about the Marmolim genocide for 11 months now. Sadly, my predecessor decided to do nothing about it. The Democratic Order is an alliance that is supposed to protect the universe from evil and spread the light of freedom across its galaxies. I believe it's time we live up to that promise. Today we start our war against the evils of Moll Mott's regime and free Marmolim from the hands of Communism."
The screen went black. "I guess that means that's a yes!" Sonic said. "Is everyone ready for our second fight?"
The others looked at Sonic boldy. "LET'S DO IT!"
"Ok, Prepare for the jump to hyperspace." Said Evan as he pushed some controls on his panel.
"Uh what's hyper-" Asked Lylem, nervously." But before he could finish, he noticed the stars outside the ship began to stretch and soon they turned into a tunnel of blue light.
The Millennium Dawn could be seen zooming off into deep space."
Location: Faun Braun City, Marmolim, Sianeste Galaxy Moll Mott's base.
Moll Mott's minions were nothing like ordinary Marmolims. Their eyes were glowing red, their skin was red, and their hair was black.
Moll Mott himself was sitting on his throne, laughing as he watched tapes of ordinary Marmolims getting tortured. They had their eyes gouged out with blood spewing from their sockets. Giant drills were being drilled into the hearts of children. Worse still, and even more desirable for Moll Mott, they were in extreme pain. He loved to hear the screams of helpless children begging for their mommies. Just as the sociopathic communist leader was enjoying himself, he was alerted by one of his main captains.
"Supreme leader!" The captain cried. "We have detected a Democratic fleet on its way through space.
"GRRR!" Moll Mott growled. "I'LL SHOW THEM HOW TO RUIN A PERFECT DAY! SEND A FLEET OF 55 CARRIERS AND 70 DESTROYERS!" Just then, Moll Mott remembered the deal that he had made with the Soviets and he snickered with an evil grin. "If necessary, use the SSR-Mercury Class destroyer!" He said with pride.
Location: Sianeste Galaxy, 9 astronomical units from Marmolim, Millennium Dawn
The Millennium Dawn slowed down out of hyperspace and into space once again.
Evan pushed some controls on his panel to zoom into the battle scene. They were already greeted with a fleet sent by the president of 72 US carriers and 89 US destroyers.
Evan stood up to speak to Sonic and his friends to speak about something he forgot to during Brayden's introduction. "Look at your control panels."
They did so and saw a diagram of the battle scene. "So, we can control the battle or something?" Asked Tails.
"Exactly," Said Evan. "You can communicate to whoever is in charge of that carrier by sending them a diagram of what you want them to do. The ships that you will be controlling are highlighted on your monitors. Your ghosts have already transmitted the skills you need to use them." Lylem heard the word 'ghosts' and became both scared and confused. "Uh… what do you mean by 'ghosts'"
Chris looked over at them and pulled out his red ghost. "Hello, I am a ghost." The tiny chao-sized robot said. Before Lylem could respond, Moll Mott's fleet made itself aware by firing into one of Chris's carriers. The words, "Carrier under attack" could be seen on Chris's monitor.
"I'm hit!" Chris cried. Evan noticed and quickly sprung into action.
"All carriers deploy fighters and open fire on the enemy!" Evan yelled into his communicator. Hybrid energy lasers on both the carriers and destroyers started shooting back at the enemy. "Everyone, use your destroyers to target the enemy destroyers closest to them. Make sure you time when the destroyer is about to fire."
Sonic and his team started firing on the destroyers and they fired back with the same force.
"Geez, these guys are tough!" Said Sonic. Suddenly a group of fighters closed in on a USSR carrier and destroyed it.
"One down, many more to go." Said Sonic again.
Amy positioned one of her destroyers in front of a group of 3 carriers and fired on all three of them. She successfully destroyed two, but the third one evaded the laser.
As more and more vessels got destroyed, the Marmolims watched in amazement as they watched the ships that Moll Mott used to take over their planet being overpowered by weaponry that their kind was unable to manufacture.
Tails suddenly noticed another ship on his radar. It looked like a wedge-shaped destroyer with a massive laser in the middle of it. "Evan, an unidentified enemy carrier has joined the battle scene."
Maxwell immediately knew what Tails was talking about. The Soviets had lent a superdestroyer to Moll Mott. Superdestroyers had 25 times the power of a regular destroyer, however, they were really expensive to make, and the president decided only to use them during serious battles.
"A superdestroyer?!" Maxwell said baffled by Moll Mott's unexpected decision. "We have to retreat, our carriers won't be able to repel firepower of that intensity!"
Knuckles decided to step in. Being the determined echidna he was, he wasn't going down without a fight no matter what stood in his way.
"No, I have an idea." He said. Pulling out the master emerald from his backpack. It had rebuilt itself after the fight with the Metarex.
Sonic, Amy, the Marmolims, Cream, Cheese, Chris, Tails, and Cosmo looked at what Knuckles was holding and their faces went white in shock. Was Knuckles really willing to use his master emerald as to destroy the Communist fleet? Evan, Brayden, and Maxwell were the last ones to look at Knuckles' prize possession and became stunned at what they saw.
"That's the master emerald!" Said Brayden in total shock. "Where'd you get that?"
"It's my job to guard it on Angel Island." Knuckles said proudly. "It's what keeps it afloat."
Evan and Maxwell looked at each other in total shock. The master emerald was in American territory and no one had known up until now. No matter how many questions they had they were willing to execute Knuckles' plan.
"Ghost," Evan said, pulling out his ghost. "See if you can harness some of the energy from the master emerald and charge the main canon with it." The ghost floated over to the master emerald and a cone-shaped blue scanning ray shone onto it from the ghost's eye.
"Impressive." The ghost said. "This contains chaos energy. Rare but when combined with hybrid energy, its effect can be extremely powerful."
"Yeah we know," Said Knuckles. "Let's just blow up that destroyer."
"Tails, Sonic, Amy, position your destroyers to the side of the superdestroyer in order to distract it," Maxwell commanded. "Focus all firepower on it."
"Roger!" The three said as they positioned their carriers 90 degrees to the right of the Millennium Dawn, which prompted the superdestroyer to target in the direction of the destroyers instead of the direction of the fleet.
Amy, Cosmo, Cream, and Chris kept their destroyers targeted at other enemy vessels, with their own fleet ultimately winning. "Yes!" Amy pumped a fist as she destroyed 2 carriers in one shot.
"Main canon energy at full capacity." Said Evan's ghost. "Ready to fire."
"Tails, on my count fire directly at the superdestroyer." Commanded Evan.
"Yes, sir!" Tails followed and position the cannon right at the center of the massive ship. The canon started whirring as it began to activate the hybrid-chaos energy, preparing it for fire.
"In 3… 2… 1… NOW!"
Tails slammed his thumb on the trigger and a massive blue laser fired out from the top of the ship. The team watched as the superdestroyer, along with the rest of the enemy fleet, was demolished.
"We did it!" Chris cheered, and the others soon cheering with him.
Evan smiled at his noble team. "All battle groups, the area is secure. Deploy your troops on the sent location of the planet and patrol the area."
The Marmolims watched as the fleet advanced towards the planet. They couldn't believe they had the most powerful army in the universe on their side.
