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Chapter 8: Attack on Soleanna

It was a beautiful night at a place called Soleanna. Fireworks were shot into the sky as the townspeople cheered. A young orange hedgehog was waving to all of the residents as she rode on a long white boat through a long river, under some bridges. She had short hair, sea green eyes, wore a short white dress with matching heels, had on a couple of white feather hair clips to the side, and also had on a golden necklace. Once she reached to a circular platform, a couple of guards helped her off of the boat and she walked to a large statue. Then one of the guards handed her a torch. She closed her eyes.

"We give thanks for the blessed flames. May we continue to have peace. Sun of Soleanna, guide and watch us with your eternal light…" the female hedgehog said her speech outloud proudly. Once that was done, she opened her eyes and walked over to the overlarge statue. Then she let the tip of the torch touch the statue and the bright orange/yellow flames circled around it, creating a gigantic light of beauty. As the citizens cheered, the female hedgehog waved with a smile on her face.

(BGM plays "Crazy Gadget" from SA2B)

However, the celebration was interrupted when some small missiles blew up a few buildings, including those near the statue. The hedgehog caught herself from falling as the guards accidentally fell into the river. But then, she looked up and saw a strange man that was bold headed, wore a red long sleeved shirt with a couple of yellow stripes going down, long black pants that attached his shirt and boots, wore dark shades, and was sitting in a metal-like seat. She gasped in fear.

"You must be Princess Elise of Soleanna, are you?" the evil man asked. "I am Dr. Eggman. Sorry to interrupt this little gig, but I've come here for one reason, and that is the Chaos Emerald!" he pointed at the dark blue gem, which was hanging down from the Princess' necklace.

"What?!" Elise hid the emerald with her right hand frightfully.

"Now, Princess, let's not make this difficult", Eggman said and then snapped his fingers.

Out of nowhere, about 10 large gray robots landed around Elise. She gasped in fret as she looked for a way out. She was trapped. If she gave away the emerald, the unspeakable might happen. But if she kept it, she might lose her life. And yet, the whole kingdom would be lost without her. What could she do?

"Robots", Eggman commanded.

Orderly, the robots transformed their robotic arms into machine guns. Elise closed her eyes and prayed in her mind. Before the robots pulled their triggers, they suddenly stopped. All 10 of them were surrounded by some strange energy that was controlling them. Eggman growled as he observed the scene. Then the psychokinetic powers threw the robots into the water and they were electrocuted.

"Grr, who did that?!" the evil doctor asked loudly with fury.

As the Princess opened her eyes, a few creatures landed in front of her. One of them was a white hedgehog, the other was a purple cat, and the third one was a light green plant-like creature.

"Silver, Blaze, Cosmo", Elise said gladly.

"Oh?" Eggman said sarcastically. "Well, get a load of this!" he pressed a button on his keyboard. About 50 robots started falling down from the sky in order to land around everyone again.

"Cosmo. Get Elise and get out of here", Blaze ordered.

"Got it", Cosmo nodded.

Silver and Blaze went to attack the robots as Cosmo took Elise's hand and jumped all the way to an edge of a slope near the river. The white hedgehog used his psychokinetic powers in order to walk on water as Blaze just floated. Eggman pointed at them and the robots charged at them.

"Fire Blast!" Blaze launched some fire attacks and destroyed some of the robots.

"Earth Shaker!" Silver created a huge dark green orb and slammed it into the water. Then the orb rushed to a few robots that just landed and created a massive explosion beneath them.

"This isn't over yet!" Eggman threatened.

Blaze and Silver got prepared for the next battle. They stood back-to-back against each other as the rest of the robots gathered around them. Cosmo was watching them as she was guarding Elise. She had a kunai knife for protection.


Meanwhile, Tails was flying as fast as he could in order to get to Soleanna. Just then, his radar began to sound off. The next emerald was near by! On the other hand, some smoke was seen at a small section of the town. Looks like Eggman was already there. Hopefully he didn't have the emerald yet.

"We're here", the fox spoke.

"Don't tell me Eggman's here already", Knuckles locked his fists together.

"He is", Tails replied with a sigh. "However, he doesn't have the emerald yet."

"Well, let's get down there and get the emerald", Rouge suggested bravely.

Quickly, Tails flew to the area where the battle was taken place. Silver and Blaze looked up curiously. Because they got distracted, the robots charged up their guns. Luckily, Silver noticed and created a shield around him and his comrade. Then the robots began to fire at them, causing Blaze to jump by surprise. Tails pressed a button and let the window shed open.

"Go on without me. I'm gonna find a place to land the plane", he spoke briefly.

"No problem!" Sonic unbuckled himself and then jumped out of the plane. But he didn't realize that he was about to fall into the river. "Crap!" he gasped in dread.

"I'll go save him", Rouge sighed with bore as she got out of the X-Tornado and flew down. Luckily, she caught Sonic by grabbing one of his hands.

"Thanks", the hedgehog said with relief.

"Grr, not them again!" Eggman said with disgrace once he looked up in the sky.


Soon enough, Rouge and Sonic landed on the opposite side to where Elise and Cosmo were located. Shadow and Knuckles jumped down from the X-Tornado too. As Tails went to find a place to land his plane, Knuckles went to check on Rouge as Shadow used his air shoes. Then he skated across the river. Speedily, he turned into a spin ball and knocked all of the robots away from Silver and Blaze. He then began to use his air shoes to float over the river a little.

"Thanks", Silver said, but then recognized Shadow. Everything from the past was rushing to him. From the time when they defeated Iblis, through the time that they defeated Sin. "Shadow?" he asked outloud.

"Hm?" the other hedgehog turned to him curiously. "Silver?"

"Enough of this madness!" Eggman broke the conversation intensely. "ROBOTS! GET THEM!" he pressed a few more buttons.

Again, more robots came out of nowhere. This time, they were pure white with some gray spots on them, and they were a few more inches taller than the last group that Eggman sent on Silver and the others. In time, Shadow, Silver, and Blaze vanished as the robots began to fire. They reappeared outside of the circle and began to knock them down. Silver continued using his psychokinetic powers, Blaze did her flame attacks, and Shadow only did some kick ass martial arts moves.

"We gotta help them", Rouge pointed out.

"Knuckles, let's go", Sonic turned to the echidna.

"Stand back, Rouge", Knuckles said. As his girlfriend moved out of the way, Sonic turned into a spin ball. The red echidna picked him up and aimed at the remaining robots. Then he threw Sonic at them like a dodge ball.

Before Shadow and the others could've continued taking down more robots, a blue spin ball came out of nowhere and knocked them down like the targets that they were. After all of the robots were gone, the blue spin ball landed on the platform where the lit up statue was located at. It was Sonic.

"Grr…" Eggman growled with rage.

"Eggman", Shadow pointed at him demandingly. "Where's Amy?"

"Oh…Her, huh? What's wrong? Do you miss her?" the evil scientist asked mockingly.

"Don't piss me off!" Shadow hollered out angrily. "Just tell me where she is, so the way you'll live", his body glowed crimson red.

"Whoa", Blaze examined him shockingly.

"Wait", Shadow thought to himself as his body stopped glowing. "I can't overdo myself. Heck, I think I might've used a lot of my strength to get rid of those robots. If I go too far, I'll lose my strength, just like Kia said."

"Oh, well", Eggman pressed another button. This time, a laser gun came out form under his seat and aimed at the three.

"Move!" Silver yelled out. Luckily, he, Blaze, and Shadow got out of the way before Eggman could've killed them with his laser gun.

"You're next!" the scientist pointed his laser gun at Sonic, Knuckles, and Rouge. He tried to fire at them, but they zipped out of the way in time. "Dammit!" he pulled his mustache a little.

And where were his rivals? Sonic, Knuckles, and Rouge were hiding behind a small building just yards ahead of Eggman. Shadow, Blaze, and Silver were on the opposite side of the area as they hid behind a taller building.


Cosmo kept an eye on Eggman, just in case he might try to get Elise again. However, both of them had no idea what was coming up next. A sudden dark figure appeared further in front of them. Mephiles. Cosmo turned to him with confusion, anger, and fear as Elise hid her emerald again fearfully.

"Run!" Cosmo yelled for Elise as she charged at Mephiles. For a short amount of time, she tried to cut the dark hedgehog with her kunai, but he dodged every swing at a flash!

"I don't have time for this", the evil hedgehog said outloud impatiently. Before Cosmo could've swung at him again, he grabbed her left hand, punched her in the stomach and watched her cough out some blood. Then he threw her on the ground and kicked her to the side. Evilly, he began to walk to Elise as she backed away with a few frightened whimpers.

"Stay back", the female said as bravely as she could.

"Elise!" Silver called out as he ran to her rescue.

"Silver!" Blaze held out a hand for him.

"Him again", Shadow murmured to himself angrily. Then he went to follow Silver.

"Hey!" the purple cat yelled for him to stop as she followed him.

"Hmph", Mephiles stopped walking as Elise stopped and looked back. He focused on his dark powers as his eyes glowed dark green. After a while, Silver, Blaze and Shadow stopped charging at him, because of his powers. Then he held up his right pointer finger. By that movement, a black tornado spun around the trio, making them extremely dizzy. "Now since that job is done…" he stomped to Elise.

"Damn", Sonic hissed and speed off to stop him.

"Sonic, wait!" Knuckles called out for him.

"Gotcha!" Eggman went after the blue hedgehog.

"Uh-oh", Sonic looked back nervously. He began to run faster from Eggman as he fired his laser gun at him.

"Let's go", Knuckles whispered to Rouge. As they were on their way to save Shadow, a surviving robot came out of nowhere and landed in front of them.

"You have got to be kidding me…" Rouge clenched her fists madly.


"Anyway…" Mephiles came up to Elise.

"Huh?" the orange hedgehog turned to him fearfully.

"Give me the emerald", the dark hedgehog offered a hand.

At first, Elise wanted to give it up, but she couldn't. It was found sometime ago by her father who died a couple of years ago. So it was a gift to her, and she didn't let anyone touch it except for her. She shook her head as she took some more steps back.

"Very well then", Mephiles said as his right palm glowed light blue. Before Elsie could've made an attempt to run for it, he grabbed her by the chest, squeezed the emerald and tore it off of her necklace. Then he sucked her souls out of her body. He watched her collapse to the ground. "Pity", he said and then vanished.

"Excellent," Eggman looked back when he knew that the job was done. "Farewell", he stopped chasing Sonic and flew his way back to his hideout.

"Huh?" the blue hedgehog stopped and looked back. "What was that all about?"


Back with Cosmo, she woke up from her small coma and stood up on her feet. She looked to see if the Princess was ok. But instead, she was lying on the ground. The green female gasped and ran to check on her. She took one look at her. Then she knelt down and touched her neck with her fingertips. No pulse. Elise wasn't breathing. She was dead. To be exact, Cosmo missed a lot since she was defeated by Mephiles. But what did he do to her?

"She's dead…" Cosmo said to herself shamefully. "I let her down. I let everybody down…" she covered her face with tears.

Sonic and the others ran up to the Princess and noticed that she wasn't moving. All of them had sorrow looks on their faces. Not only she was dead, but Eggman and Mephiles stole another emerald.

"What happened to her?" Silver asked, breaking all of the silence.

"Better yet, what's going on here?" Blaze asked more seriously.

"…Boy", Sonic sighed lightly. "We got a lot of explaining to do…"


OH NO! That's bad! Sorry if the fighting scene sucked. Anyway, will Silver, Blaze and Cosmo join the gang? What are Eggman and Mephiles up to now? Tune in next time!