SONIC THE HEDGEHOG: SOLARIS
Disclaimer: I do not own the Sonic characters, just the OC's
Chapter Nine: Catching the Train
In the central plaza of the town of Soleanna, a white vortex appears in midair with Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles jumping down from it. Knuckles scanned the surroundings to see that they were back in their own timeline. "It looks like we made it back in one piece." Knuckles said. "Where did Shadow and Rouge go? Did they appear somewhere else?" Tails questioned. "Those two can take care of themselves. Right now we need to figure out if we made it back before Elise and Amy died." Sonic said. Tails looks down and picks up a newspaper on the ground to check the date. "Good news. It's been only one day since the sun festival. That gives us one more day left." Tails said. "Great! Now all we have to do is find out where Amy and Elise are." Sonic said. "Uhh...Sonic." Tails said hesitantly as he handed him the paper. Sonic looked at the paper and the headline caught his attention. "Princess and hedgehog captured by evil scientist." "This is bad. We have to save them." Sonic said. "But, where are they?" Tails questioned. The question stumped the group as they had been gone before Amy and Elise were captured.
"Hey, why don't we check around town until we find something? That worked last time." Tails suggested. "That might work." Knuckles said. "Great idea, Tails. Let's go." Sonic said. The group was about to check the town until. "AAH, it's Sonic and Knuckles." A female scream came from behind. The group looked back to see a large group of girl wearing red and blue shirts and carrying sign with their faces on them. "Oh no." Sonic and Knuckles said as they knew it was their fanbase. "Get them!" One of the girls screamed. Sonic and Knuckles started running in circles while trying to talk to Tails, who was still depressed about not having any fans. "Tails..." Sonic said as he passed by. "...Go on ahead and..." Knuckles said as he passed by. "...Try to find out where..." Sonic said as he passed by again. "...Amy and the Princess are." Knuckles said finished. "Ok, good luck guys." Tails said as he took to the sky and headed towards the many shops in town.
Later, Tails met a server at a nearby café who gave him the information he was looking for. "Thank you." Tails called back to the server. Tails turned around and was about to walk away until he saw the most unusual and hilarious sight. Tails saw Sonic and Knuckles, only they weren't as he expected. Sonic and Knuckles were in frilly pink and yellow dresses and wearing women's make-up on their faces. Tails tried to suppress his laughter, but it was impossible and he laughed his head off. "All right, that's enough." Knuckles said in a bad mood. "I'm sorry, but it's just too funny. How..." Tails was cut off. "Don't ask. Did you find out anything?" Sonic asked. "Yeah, I heard that Amy and the princess were being held in the terminal station." Tails answered. "I'm on it!" Sonic exclaimed as he jumped out of the dress and ran outside of town.
Sonic traveled west to find himself in a large canyon filled with industrial sites and train track everywhere. Sonic used his super speed to run up one of the steel towers and scanned the entire area. "Ok, think. If I was Eggman and I wanted to unleash those Flames of Disaster things, where would I keep my prisoners?" Sonic asked himself. "Instead of wondering, why don't I just answer that for you?" Eggman's voice came from nowhere. Sonic turned around to face Eggman's flying television with Eggman on the screen. "What do you want Eggman?" Sonic asked. "Don't be that way, Sonic. I just thought you might be interested in knowing where your little girlfriend might be." Eggman said. Where are they?" Sonic questioned threateningly. "Look down." Eggman instructed.
Sonic looked down the cliff and say a sleek black train passing by. By sheer luck, Sonic managed to see Elise and Amy through the train's window. "Ok, I found them. But what's the catch?" Sonic asked suspiciously. "I believe the catch...is you, Sonic." Eggman said before his flying television flew away. Just as it left, several flying mechs flew towards the train. "Oh no!" Sonic exclaimed. Sonic was about to chase after them until he felt a searing pain in the back of his leg. Sonic looked back to see a small group of white fighter mechs with their guns aimed at him. "It's never easy, is it?" Sonic asked himself.
The mechs fired their guns, but Sonic quickly moved away with his super speed. Sonic then jumped into the air and curled into his ball form. Sonic used his homing attack on a few of the mechs before uncurling and landing back on the ground. Four mechs surround Sonic at on opposite directions and fired their guns, But Sonic merely jumped into the air and watched as the mechs destroyed each other. "That was too easy." Sonic said. Just as Sonic was about to chase the train, a red walker came from nowhere and landed in front of Sonic. "Give me a break!" Sonic complained.
The walker fired a red laser, but Sonic quickly jumped behind a rock to avoid it. The walker fired its laser again and shot straight through the rock. Sonic was lucky that it only missed his face by an inch. Sonic could tell that the mechs armor was too thick for his regular attacks, so he charged a large amount of blue chaos energy in the form of a sphere. "Let's see how you like this!" Sonic shouted as he jumped from behind the rock and charged at the walker. The walker tried to use its lasers as defense, but Sonic was too fast. Sonic jumped up and plowed his signature technique into the walker's core. "SONIC WIND!" Sonic shouted. The walker was destroyed in an instant and Sonic left in a hurry to try and catch up with the train.
Sonic had managed to catch up with the train in a few seconds and attempted to board it. But when he was close enough, the flying mechs came out of hiding and shot at the speedy hedgehog. Sonic knew that if he stopped to avoid them, he would lose the train. On the other hand, if sonic didn't avoid them, he would most likely be killed. This left Sonic with only one choice. Sonic pulled out the light-blue he recovered from the future and held it high above his head. "CHAOS CONTROL!" Sonic shouted. Sonic disappeared as the bullets nearly hit him. The flying mechs searched for the hedgehog, but quickly found him, only to be destroyed. After having finished off the mechs, Sonic quickly jumped into the air and used his homing attack on the door.
Elise and Amy were patiently sitting inside the train, waiting to see what Eggman might have planned for them. "What do we do now, Amy?" Elise asked. "We wait for Sonic." Amy said. "But how can you be sure that he is coming?" Elise asked. "Because I know my Sonic would never let anything happen to me. Any moment now, Sonic will crash through that door to rescue us." Amy said confidently. Just as she said that, the door blew open and Sonic jumped in. "Amy, you were right! I can't believe it!" Elise exclaimed. "Me neither." Amy said in surprise. "Come on, let's get out of here." Sonic said. Sonic picked up Elise and jumped out of the train with Amy following behind.
Sonic was running with Elise in his arms and Amy running next to them. "I knew it. I knew you would return. You had to." Elise said to Sonic. "Sonic! Look out!" Amy shouted as she pulled him away just in time to avoid a green blast of energy. Sonic looked ahead and saw Silver standing in front of them. "You again?" Sonic said. "This time there will be no more interruptions! The Iblis Trigger must die!" Silver exclaimed. Silver launch a wave of psychokinetic energy at Sonic, which Sonic dived to avoid. Just as Sonic was about to get back to his feet, Silver used his psychokinetic powers to hold Sonic in place. "Sonic!" Amy shouted. "Did you two enjoy your little walk?" Eggman's voice came from the sky. Elise and Amy looked back for a moment before being captured by Eggman's Eggmobile. "Sonic!" Amy shouted to her hero. "Amy! Elise!" Sonic shouted, desperately trying to break free from Silver's hold to save them, but it was useless.
"It's time to end this, once and for all!" Silver exclaimed. Silver then raised his hand to finish Sonic, but was interrupted again when Mephiles jumped between them. Silver jumped back in surprise of Mephiles appearance, which forced him to release Sonic from his hold. "Mephiles! Why are you getting in my way?" Silver asked, confused about his ally's actions. "I am Shadow. Shadow the Hedgehog." Shadow said to Silver. Shadow looked back to Sonic and said "Get going." "Thanks, Shadow." Sonic said before he ran off to chase after Amy and Elise. Shadow turned back to his new opponent with every intention of defeating him.
Elise and Amy were struggling to break free, but they couldn't. "Now stop it, you have nowhere to go." Eggman said. "I would rather die then be your prisoner again. "Amy said. "Suit yourself." Eggman said as he pressed a button that released Amy. "Amy!" Elise cried as she watched her friend fall to her death. Amy though she was going to die until she felt a pair of strong arms wrapped around her protectively. "Sonic!" Amy exclaimed as Sonic set her down on the ground safely. "You all right?" Sonic asked. "I'm fine, but What about Elise?" Amy asked. Sonic looked back and watched as Eggman was about to escape with Elise. "Looks like I win this time, hedgehog!" Eggman shouted in victory. Sonic merely smirk as he raise his chaos emerald above his head. "CHAOS CONTROL!" Sonic shouted. In a single second, Elise had somehow vanished and reappeared in Sonic's arms. "Let's go." Sonic said as the two hedgehogs ran away with Elise.
Sonic, Amy, and Elise were running through a nearby jungle, hoping to avoid Eggman's mechs. "It looks like we lost them." Elise said. "Then let's stop somewhere close by to catch our breath" Sonic said, exhausted from using chaos control twice in one day. "Man, how does Shadow do it?" Sonic asked in his mind. "After were done, I think it would be a good idea to take Elise back to the castle." Amy suggested. "Good idea, Amy." Sonic said. "Hey, Sonic, look" Amy said. Sonic stop and looked back to see Amy headed in another direction. "Amy, wait!" Sonic called as he chased after her. Amy suddenly stopped with Sonic and Elise close behind. In front of them was a small lake that held a tree of white flowers that blew in the wind. Amy and Elise thought it was the most beautiful thing they've ever seen, but Sonic didn't know why.
"It's so beautiful." Elise said as she walked closer to the lake. "I've never seen so many flowers before. Sonic, have you visited many wonderful places before?" Elise asked. "A few." Sonic answered. Elise looked happily as the wind carried the white flower petals across the air, but quickly became sad. "Once you defeat Eggman, you two will leave, won't you?" Elise asked. "We have to. Eggman will always cause trouble and have to be there to stop him." Amy answered, equally sad that she might have to leave her new friend behind. "It's ok. Though I have been frightened many times, I've enjoyed this adventure. It allowed me to be something other then a princess. I was able to be myself." Elise said as she turned back to the tree. "Being a princess isn't easy, but I love my home and all it's people. You would too, if this was your home, right?" Elise asked. No response.
Elise turned back to see why her friends weren't answering and smiled at the sight before her. Sonic and Amy were staring at each others eyes in a loving way before they shut them and moved closer toward each other. Sonic no idea what he was doing, he just felt an urge to do this and couldn't resist. Their faces were only an inch from each other and nothing was going to stop them. Well...almost nothing. A random flower petal flew past Elise's face, which caused her to sneeze, which broke Sonic out of his trance. Realizing what he was doing, Sonic quickly jumped back and turned away so that the girls wouldn't see the blush on his face. "Uhh...I'll see ya later. Bye." Sonic said uneasily before he ran off. "Oh, come on!!!" Amy shouted to the sky. "Sorry." Elise apologized.
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