Chapter 7: Help from the Sister World

On the beach of Green Hill Zone, almost directly near a flight tower, a small violet glow grew into a bright circle. A second later, two figure stepped out of it. One was a lilac cat with a curiously dark purple dress of sorts, white leggings, and red high-heeled shoes. The other little light-brown raccoon in a green jumper with black biker shorts, green sandals, and tan gloves.

The cat's name was Blaze, and the raccoon's name was Marine.

The moment the two friends passed through the rift, it quickly closed behind them.

The cat's honey-colored eyes surveyed the area and immediately recognized the location. The numerous hills of green grass, some ruins in the sides of the mountain to their right, little animals roaming around, and the small population of humans in the area could only mean that this was on particular place.

"Green Hill Zone." Blaze said. "Looks like the Sol Emeralds took us to Sonic's world again."

"Do you think we'll see Sonic and Tails again?" the little raccoon eagerly asked in a heavy accent.

"I'm sure we will, Marine," the cat replied calmly.

"This is going to be rippa', Blazey-mate!" Marine cheered with excitement. "I'm so ready for this adventure!"

"Settle down, Marine." Blaze gently scolded. "We're not here for a vacation, the Sol Emeralds obviously sent us here for a reason. We should start by…"

Just then, a dark shadow cast over the land. Blaze and Marine both sharply looked up to see a huge airship fleet coming over the mountain range. There were about twenty ships in total. Nineteen of them were relatively smaller than the one in the center of the armada, and all of them had the trademark Eggman logo on the side.

"Eggman." Blaze narrowed her eyes.

She didn't even need to second-guess if it was the Doctor's Sol Dimension counterpart; she knew it was the Eggman of this world. Even Marine could tell that it wasn't Dr. Eggman Nega.

At the sight of the airship armada, the peaceful hill erupted with screams of terror as the citizens ran for safety. A few even jumped into the river and swarm toward the opposite shore. Animals scrambled to the shelter of the trees and caves in the area.

However, Blaze and Marine stood their ground.

"Looks like we've got company." Marine scowled.

"Right." Blaze said in a calm tone.

At the same time, the cat's hands ignited with fire and she prepared herself to strike.

"Marine," she said, turning to her friend, "follow my lead. Remember, you're still new to your powers. Don't push yourself too hard."

Marine nodded. She took a deep breath reached out her arms. At the same time, water formed in her hands and she took the same position as Blaze, mimicking her elder.

At that moment, the nineteen smaller ships fired two missiles each. From where Blaze and Marine were standing, they would have to wait until those projectiles were in range before even attempting to strike.

Once the missiles were in range, Blaze threw a fireball at one of them, Marine responded by doing the same thing with a stream of water. The second their attacks made contact with the missiles, the projectiles exploded and debris fell down ground.

"Marine," Blaze said forcefully, "I'm going to get into a closer range! Stay here and stop any missiles that get by! Just remember to be careful, I'm counting on you!"

"I can handle it, Blaze!" Marine confidently saluted.

With that, Blaze ran off and began to nimbly scale up the side of the cliff to reach the airships and their barrage of exploding projectiles.


"Boss, we have another problem." Orbot casually pointed out as the he detected a problem with the two missiles. Also, the screens were flashing red and blinking "WARNING" over and over again.

Frustrated, Eggman pulled up the surveillance on his command post. When he saw who was interfering with is plans, he clench his fists and gritted his teeth so hard that a vein in his head visibly pop out.

"Blaze and Marine?!" he shouted. "What are they doing here?! They're supposed to be in the Sol Dimension!"

"Looks like you can't shake any of those little varmints no matter what you try." Cubot pointed out in an exaggerated cowboy voice.

Eggman clenched harder at the remark.

"Just get rid of them before I turn you both into scrap metal!" he commanded.

"Yes, boss!" Cubot quickly replied, getting the point of the threat.

The yellow robot immediately redirected the target of the missiles to attack the Sol Dimension denizens.


A near skull-crushing headache was the first thing Silver could feel as he started to come back around. When he became more awake, he felt as if he was thrown in a giant pinball machine and bashed around.

He slowly sat up, slowly shook his head, and groaned, "Ugh, what happened?"

As soon as he voice the question, Silver looked up and saw his surroundings. He was in a dark metal cell with only one circular window in the back. The main source of light was the ceiling lights in the hallway at the front of the cell. The bars that barred the hedgehog's way were mostly vertical, but they were rather close together and had three long, thick metal bars running across to give extra stability.

Confused about how he ended up in the cell in the first place, Silver struggled to remember what happened at Blue Ridge. The last thing he could remember was stopping the armada's missiles, and then sudden blackout. The only thing he could figure was that one of Eggman's lackeys must've ambushed him from behind.

Silver frowned when he realized that he let his confidence get the best of him. He was just lucky that Eggman only decided to knock him out instead of eliminating him permanently.

Still, Silver would have to keep his confidence in check in the future. He might not get so lucky next time.

The ivory hedgehog then looked over at the metal bars that were supposedly designed to keep him in. He narrowed his eyes for a moment before getting to his feet. He swayed for a moment as dizziness swam around in his head and made him disoriented. After a few seconds, the wave of vertigo stopped and Silver slowly walked up to the bars.

When he reached them, he got down on one knee to analyze them. He smirked when he realized that they were poorly designed to keep someone like him imprisoned. All he did was hold up his hand, and with just a small amount of telekinesis, the bars began to bend, creating a hole large enough for him to crawl through.

However, instead of rushing out, he cautiously peeked out and saw that the hallway was filled with security cameras. He carefully studied their angles as well as their direction paths. They were pointed about at a forty-five degree angle downward and swung left and right at approximately four seconds intervals.

When he saw his chance, Silver quickly crawled out of the hole and flew up to the ceiling. Pressing himself flat against the roof, he flew down the maze of halls, looking for an exit.

As he passed down a corridor with windows that reveled the sky on his right, a stream of fire blasted threw the wall right underneath him, causing him to gasp in shock and jolt in surprise. When the stream of fire had vanished, it left a smoldering hole in the side of the ship.


Blaze rushed up the peak of the cliff and shot a blast of fire at the lead ship. She gracefully landed back on the top of the cliff and surrounded herself in fire as missiles quickly approached her. In a ballet-like spin, she sent out balls of fire that hit the missiles directly. She then focused hard and shot and stream of flames at another airship, striking it through the center and causing it to explode.

Seeing that the other airships were further away, she ran down the slope and over to the next hill closest to them.

Meanwhile, Marine was doing her best to guard the seashore. Each missile that came at her, she would either hit with a wave of water, or would create something like a whip, grab a projectile with it, and throw it into the ocean.

When more missiles headed her way, she leapt back into the ocean and used the water there to her advantage. As the barrage began to close in on her, she pivoted with her left foot, spun around and created a shield of water around herself. She grimaced, as the impact was a more than she was used to handling before, but still forced herself to not give in.

Blaze was counting on her to protect the shoreline, and she wasn't going to let her best friend down!

"There's no way I'm letting this drungo stop me!" she scowled. "C'mon and give my your best shot!"

As if granting her wish, more missiles headed directly toward her.


Silver looked out of the hole in the side of the airship to see what had struck it. He saw that there were two ships on the ground, shot down and ablaze, as well as missiles flying everywhere. Without a moment of hesitation, he flew out into the battle zone, grabbing as many missiles with his telekinesis as he could manage.

He flew up to the nearest airship and threw two missiles at it. They hit the ship, causing it to explode and shower broken pieces down to the land below. He moved on to the next one and took it out a similar fashion.

He was about to take out another one when he heard a fearful scream from the shoreline.


Blaze heard Marine scream and immediately looked over toward the ocean.

Exploding projectiles were now overwhelming the little raccoon. She was just struggling to keep her water shield up. If she didn't get help soon, her shield would give way and leave her open to attack.

Blaze was about to rush over to help her friend when a voice made her stop dead in her tracks.

"Hang on, kid! I'm coming!"

Blaze caught her breath and looked up at the streak of cyan raced overhead and down to Marine. Even from where she was standing, there was no mistaking that five-pointed quill-style, grey metallic fur coloring, and indigo boots with teal toes.

"Silver?!"

What was Silver doing here? The last time she saw him was when…

Blaze shook the horrible memory away and then focused on the task at hand. As much as she wanted to see her friend again, she would have to talk to him later. Right now, she had to stop these airships from destroying Green Hill Zone.


On the last impact of the missiles, Marine's shield splashed apart and she collapsed into the shallow water. She shut her eyes and gritted her teeth as she waited for the oncoming missiles to blow her up. But instead, she heard a splash and a humming sound. Fearful but curious, she slightly opened one eye and saw a white hedgehog standing protectively in front of her in a cyan energy. With his power, he stopped the missiles with not trouble. With just one swing of his hand, he sent them flying back at another row of rockets, causing them to explode on impact.

Worried about the kid behind him, Silver looked over his shoulder. "You okay, kid?"

Marine just nodded, amazed by the person standing in front of her, as well as relief from being rescued from those missiles. She then looked past him to see another set of missiles coming their way.

"LOOK OUT!" she screamed, pointing at the oncoming attack.

Silver immediately notice the attack and began to glowed cyan again. He expanded the field out and created a bubble around him and the little raccoon girl. The missiles stopped a few inches away from the shield. Silver then began to float in the air for a moment, as if in a meditated state. He curled up into a ball for a few seconds. Then in a massive shockwave, he shot the missiles right back at the Egg Fleet at an incredible velocity.

At the same time, Blaze unleashed a massive barrage of fire spheres. With the two attacks merged together, the rest of the battle airships were blasted right out of the sky.


Eggman was on the verge of having a conniption. Blaze and Marine had arrived JUST as he planned to take Green Hill Zone, Silver managed to escape his prison with no warning whatsoever, and now the trio took out his Egg Fleet!

"AUGH!" He slammed his fists on the control panel." WHY DIDN'T SONIC TAKE THOSE LITTLE MEDDELERS WITH HIM WHEN HE LEFT FOR THAT OTHER WORLD?!"

"C-Calm down, boss." Orbot cautiously advised. "This is just a minor setback. You still have New Metropolis. We can use the time we have now to regroup. Besides, there are only three of them and they just got lucky this time. We'll be ready for them next time."

Eggman tensed up for a moment. Then he took a deep breath and regained his composure. He then straightened himself up and cleared his throat.

"For once, you're absolutely right," he said. "Set coordinates back to New Metropolis. We'll regroup and strike back, next time with an even stronger force."


Silver panted heavily as he watched the lead airship turn around and fly back to the Blue Ridge Mountains. He then let out a huff and loosened up his shoulders. He could let Eggman get away for now. Given the damage that was done to the fleet, he wasn't going to be causing any more trouble, at least for now.

Besides, there were matters that he had to tend to right now. He turned around to the little raccoon girl he had just saved and leaned down towards her.

"Are you alright, kid?" he asked.

Suddenly, the little raccoon she leapt up out of the water, making Silver take a step back as her sudden burst of energy startled him.

"That was AWESOME!" she gleefully shouted.

"Uh…" Silver stammered, "I'll take that as a "yes"?"

"How'd you do that, mate?!" She asked enthusiastically, as if she didn't even hear what Silver said.. "I mean, you all like…"

The girl posed in an exaggerated fighting position, "WHAA! And all like…" she shifted position. "YEYAW! And all like…"

"Okay, okay," Silver raised his hands slightly, feeling just a little uncomfortable about the raccoon's over-the-top energy, "I think I get the picture."

"Seriously, how'd you do that?!" The girl continued to ramble. "That was absolutely rippa', mate!"

"Whoa, slow down, okay?" Silver modestly replied. "First off, I don't think I got your name."

"My name's Marine the Raccoon," she proudly answered. "What's yours?"

"I'm Silver," the hedgehog said.

The moment he said his name, Marine's expression changed from really excited to extremely ecstatic in a less than a split second.

"What?" Silver stepped back a little, unsure of what that meant.

"Did you say your name was…?!"

Before Marine could finish her sentence, a very familiar voice from behind exclaimed:

"Silver! It's really you, isn't it?!"

Silver froze. That voice was TOO familiar. It couldn't be…

The ivory hedgehog whipped around to see who had spoken to him. What he saw made his eyes widened and his heart leap into his throat.

Standing on the edge of the beach, as plain as day, and as real as ever, was the best friend that disappeared right before his eyes in that alternate past. She was indeed very surprised to see him, but nowhere near as shell-shocked as he was to see her.

The only thing he could manage to whisper was, "Blaze?!"

For a moment, there was just dead silence as the two friends stared at each other. All that could be heard was the waves rushing to shore and the wind gently blowing across the plain.