Chapter 6: Thoughts on a Friend

by Cerulean Leader

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Blaze the Cat was used to defeating monsters and villains in her city, defending her people and helping out when something was wrong. But one thing she had never faced was a rip in the sky, and one as violent as this.

As she held her arms out, her face was scrunched in concentration as she tried to summon all of her power into this one attack, hoping to at last delay the lightning bolts striking the forest around her form. It wasn't even raining, and she was still straining to see.

Her eyes glowed, a red tint around them that soon surrounded her body in a smoky, transparent red aura and she let out an extremely loud battle cry as crimson flames streamed out of her hands in a flaming beam up towards the jagged hole in the clouds.

Another bolt of lightning decided to crash down at the instant, connecting with the flames which made her eyes widen once again. The lightning was powering up the fuse, creating it to become a large ball of fire, which soon exploded.

The force of the explosion sent Blaze flying away from the forest with a scream, scorching half of the forest along with her. Trees turned brown, the grass was turned to ashes and the ground cracked as the explosion grew.

Her body flew around helplessly as she was shot back, the impact from the sonic waves leaving horrible looking marks on her body. She soon landed with a horrible thud on the ground, leaving her unconscious with her arms tangled around her head. Her clothes were singed and ripped beyond repair, hardly covering her body. Her hair was now covered in soil, and the band that usually held it up was long gone. A large cut had formed across her left calf, blood now pooling at her feet and covering her shoes.


"Hmm... Where should I head to next?" Rouge asked herself as she glided through the clouds gracefully, her hands by her sides as her satchel hung around her neck. She glanced down at it briefly, a hand gripping the flap so it didn't go flying or let anything out in the process.

Her hand did a quick search from the outside of the bag, and a sigh of relief as her hand brushed against the jewel which she had hidden on purpose inside the satchel in case someone decided to have their grimy hands search into the brown bag of hers which held something valuable. Raising her gaze and looking behind her to where Sonic and the others resided, she couldn't but widen her eyes when she saw a flash of light appear and grow in the shape of a flaming sphere.

'What is that?' she thought, slightly worried about the others, but soon shook it off, not bothering to think on it any longer but instead decided to focus on her next destination. Little did she know, that's where she would be going again...


"Don't you think you should've gone after her?" Knuckles said in his usual gruff voice, his arms folded as he looked at the blue hedgehog before him who was just lounging about on the couch in the television room. Sonic glanced at him briefly before turning his gaze back onto the television, the sound coming from the speakers playing in the background while they conversed.

"Blaze is very stubborn, and prefers to do things her own way. As much as I want to help her, she won't let me. She'll come back to ask eventually."

"But aren't you worried about her?" asked Chris. The boy was seated across from Sonic on the other arm chair, his arms on either side of him as he glanced between Knuckles and Sonic.

Without taking his green eyes from the TV, Sonic bowed his head slightly. "Yeah, a little..."

Tails was leaning back against the couch which Sonic was seated at, running the situation over and over again in his mind, analyzing it in every possible angle he could think of. "I still don't understand why she was brought here, though. Sure, because of the portal that transported her here but she lives in a completely different universe to us." the twin-tailed fox said thoughtfully, rubbing his chin. "What would've caused the portal to suck her in like that? Maybe the Sol Emeralds were playing up in her world, again..."

"Let's hope not." Sonic replied, pressing a button on the remote. The show he was watching changed on the screen to one of the cartoons which Cream would've liked, before changing it again instantly to a sports show which he then sat up immediately and watched the show in interest.

"And look at the dive! Whoa, and then we've got Ilder from the Knights is ready to tackle Parker!"

Even though he wasn't trying to think about it, he couldn't help but think about her and her situtation, but the more he thought about it, the more he began to worry. Was she alright? Has something happened to her? Did she-

"We interrupt this segment to bring you an update on the mysterious cat who had fought what appeared to be another one of Eggman's robots earlier. She was found lying on the ground, bruised and bloody from what appeared to be another fight in a forest east of the central part of the city. What appears to be a hole in the sky may have been to what has caused her the injuries as bolts of lightning have been shooting around the site while the medical team removed her and took her to safety." the reporter said as the camera soon focused on the crescet shaped rip in the sky, with a dark mixture of red, blue and black swirled inside it.

The four occupants of the room leaned forward to listen to the reporter as they mentioned Blaze, a look of concern each plastered on their faces, even Knuckles who wasn't exactly a fan of hers.


"Oh, this rain!" complained a pink hedgehog, as she held the white hood to her rain coat over her head. It had started to rain heavily earlier, and she was drenched pretty much head to toe, and her shoes had water in them from unitentionally stepping in puddles. "Why did it have to come now?"

Amy looked up at the sky with her blue eyes filled with detirmination. She started to run faster down the sidewalk from her home and towards the Thorndyke residence. She had tried contacting Sonic again, but it seemed like her telephone line had been cut because of the storm. Amy groaned and attempted to pull the hood over her head more, but if she did, the coat would also rise, leaving the back of her legs bare and ready to get wet. "I really should buy a new one."

Looking up at the sky reluctantly, she stopped and gasped at what she saw. Her gaze shocked her, for over the trees was none other than the swirling crescent above the forest tree-tops. She hadn't seen the update on it, nor the rest of it, as she had already been on her way out. "What is that?" she yelled as she continued to run, almost tripping over her own feet.


"Ah, so the cat is back, eh?" Eggman asked rhetorically as a sly yet large grin formed on his oddly shaped head. He was seated on his black leather seat within the control room of his base, his hands together without his robot servants around to annoy him. He had commanded that they go into the repair room to polish some of his best robots for later use.

As he looked at the screen as it focused on an injured Blaze, his smile grew bigger. "Now I can get my revenge. She's already destroyed one of my robots, I'm sure that if I build an even stronger one, she won't be able to take that down now that she is injured. Or that the one I'm working on is going to be powered with two of the Sol Emeralds." he said, a maniac laugh erupting from his lungs as he pressed a button to levitate a green and white Sol Emerald, each spinning as they were trapped inside a make-shift 'dungeon' so they wouldn't be able to be removed from the base of where Doctor Eggman worked.

"Blaze, my dear, get ready as this person is not one to just lay back and stay defeated!" he bellowed, arms out wide as he yelled at the ceiling, letting another maniac laugh before having a coughing fit.


"I hope Blaze is okay, Cheese." Cream the Rabbitt said as she sat in the waiting room of the hospital, the blue chao sitting in her lap, looking up at his young friend with concern also in his beady eyes.

"Chao chao!" he chirped in agreement. Cream sighed and swung her legs impatiently as she waited for her mother to return beside her. She had left to go get some coffee. After watching the news, Vanilla had gathered her daughter, quickly written a note for Vector if he came by looking for her and the two had rushed to the hospital in search for Blaze.

When the two had got there, they almost instantly went to the reception, asking about the cat and the receptionist had explained that they would have to wait whie the doctors treated her as best as they could, and had advised that they wait patiently in the waiting room as it could take a while, and she was right. So, here they were, waiting for some news, and hopefully good news.

She looked up as her mother sat back down beside her, holding out two juice boxes with a kind smile with a cup of coffee in the other hand.

"Thanks, mum." Cream said in response, pushing the straw into the hole and handing one of them to Cheese as Cream pushed the straw into her own and started to sip the juice.

"She'll be alright, Cream."

"If you say so..."


A/N: Sorry for taking so long for an update, I've been pretty busy and been updating what I can between MOY and this one. I take it in turns, 'see. Anyway, please review this one. I've been trying to make them longer as I add a chapter on to the story.

So, how do you like this one? Does it seem to be coming together more? :)

Word Count: 1,773

~CL