"Gini!" Silver called as he entered his home, soaking wet from the rain. "I need a favor!"

The robot sped into the room, "Yes sir! I- oh, my... let me guess, you need something to dry off with?"

"No. Well, actually yes, but I need you to run a name search for me."

"Absolutely. Be right back." Gini wheeled out of the room for a moment, and returned with a plush bath towel. Silver thanked him, and wrapped himself in it before sitting on the couch. "So what's the name?" the servant asked.

"Sonic. Sonic Hedgehog."

Gini's monitor went blank as he connected himself to the large television hanging on the living room wall. What seemed like an endless stream of files flew across the screen. "Alright, let's see here. Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog. Commonly known as "Sonic". Popular vigilante many decades ago... looks like he was pretty famous, actually. It is said that he was able to break the sound barrier with his incredible speed. He was often seen with Miles Prower, a fox who fought alongside him. Oh, dear... there's a lot of classified information here. I can go deeper if you want."

Silver nodded, and reached into his pocket to pull out his wallet. He removed a white card from it, and tossed it to Gini. Once the robot scanned it, a new digital folder was opened on the screen.

"It appears his arch rival was one Dr. Eggman." Gini chuckled at the man's photograph, "I wonder if he actually received a doctorate..." Several more minutes of sifting through information ensued, "There's thousands of accounts on here. Is there something in particular you wanted to find on him?"

"I wanna' know more about how he died." Silver said, approaching the screen to get a better look. "Surely it wasn't that Eggman guy or whatever, right?"

Gini hummed a happy tune while clicking through a few more articles, "Um... well, yes and no. It was one of Eggman's inventions; a robotic version of Sonic. Eggman tried using the power of a few chaos emeralds to strengthen it, and succeeded, but the bot went rogue and almost killed him. According to this, Eggman actually teamed up with Sonic to take it out. They all perished in a massive explosion that destroyed the robotic Sonic as well."

Silver scratched his chin, "Well, that's going out with a bang, I guess."

"Please don't, sir."

"Is that why they call it a sonic boom?" Silver chuckled.

"You really had to dig for that one, huh?"

"Tell me, Gini, was his speed really that explosive?"

The robot sighed, "Are you done?"

Silver nodded, and began walking towards the stairs. "Thanks, bud. I got everything I needed."

Several days passed without any significant encounters in the city. Silver was leaning over a table in his workroom upstairs, tinkering with a few wires inside of what looked like a chest piece. His eyes were directed at the television on the wall, however, which was broadcasting a scene from downtown. A dark-colored cat was inside the cockpit of a large, spider-like robot, supposedly putting forth some sort of ultimatum. Silver looked down at his work, grabbed a mallet, and began shaping up the front of the piece.

Of course, his watch began to vibrate. He answered the call with a smile, "Hey, Blaze! Just in time, I'm starting to work on a suit for you. Would you say you're an A-cup or a B-cup?"

There was a pause, "Are... are you serious? You don't just ask for a woman's-!" Blaze sighed, "Never mind. Have you turned on the news?"

"Yep. Watching it right now." Silver replied, leaning in to grasp the intricacies of his work.

"So you're heading out, then?"

"I mean, do we really need to?" Silver asked, glancing up at the screen. "What's that guy gonna' do in that thing? Looks like he got it from the junkyard..."

"There are hundreds of people in the building he's threatening to destroy. So yes. We need to."

"What does he even-?"

"I'll meet you there."

The hedgehog sighed. Once he slipped into his own preferred attire, he left as abruptly as he had been summoned, assuring Gini that he would return soon. Silver carried himself at a moderate pace above the city, still adjusting his eyes to the brightness of the day. His destination was easy enough to pick out - the villain's orange spider-bot took up half of the four-lane street.

However, just as Silver began lowering himself down, an unbearably high-pitched noise entered his ears. He grabbed his head to combat the pain, and in doing so lost all concentration, rendering his powers useless. He cursed as he felt gravity overcome him, and realized he couldn't catch himself as long as the horrid note was stinging his brain. He fell from the sky like a glorified rock for all below to see, his mind in a state of panic over the chaos and confusion.

A/N: Hey everyone! I'm sorry this one took so long to get out, but I've been working on a bit of a side project lately. A few of you may know this, but I've been playing guitar for several years now, so I decided that I would do some covers of songs and post them to youtube. And yep. Did it. Check that one off the list.

So, if you like guitar, or like the Sonic game soundtracks (I'll be playing a LOT of Crush 40), or if you're just curious and want to watch me play guitar, search me up! My channel name is Dark Shredz.

As always, thanks for your support! I'll get back to updating this one regularly now.