Sorry Void Reader that while I love Sonally, once again I have to say that I have officially decided this will indeed be Sonic X Mina.
It had been a week since the celebration of the 10th Year of Peace, Sonic and Tails were in the living room of Topaz's house on the couch. Sonic had the news on while Tails was reading a satirical comic book that he had quickly become a fan of. It was called 'Crack Ups' and it was written by a cartoonist who went by the penname of 'Sketch Lampoon'.
On the News, Scarlett Garcia was talking about a report of Sonic and Tails:
"Now it has been made official that our extra terrestrial travellers have been made official legal citizens of the United Federation, there has been support for the heroes as well as protests..."
Sonic and Tails were caught off guard by that comment and listened more carefully:
"There has been a small vocal subset of citizens who have protested against Sonic the Hedgehog and Tails, calling them alien invaders. Most have flocked to anti-alien forums such as the 'Anti-Alien League'. Joining them are protestors who claim that Doctor Ivo Robotnik deserves to be let free..."
Sonic and Tails were slack jawed at that as they looked and saw footage of protestors wearing grey alien masks with signs. "I wouldn't worry about them too much guys, they are just a small band of idiots." Topaz told them coming into the room and taking the remote to turn off the TV.
"Now we have to go to HQ, We have representatives of the Allied Nations coming over remember?" Topaz told them and Sonic rolled his eyes with disinterest while Tails nodded, they had been asked to attend to help go over matters about them being there.
"I don't see why we have to go anyway; didn't the President guy give us full citizenship or something?" Sonic questioned as Topaz began motioning them to her car outside.
"President Hurst and most of the UF have accepted you boys mean no harm but there are still a lot of concerns coming from the other governments especially coming from some more hostile representatives. Please remember and understand you both are the first aliens this planet has seen since the end of the war with the Black Arms a decade ago. Don't worry about it, we will handle this." Topaz explained to them as they got in the car and Topaz drove off.
Sonic yawned and muttered about how slow the vehicles are until the car reached the GUN Headquarters building. There were AAL protestors but they were being held back by GUN personnel who motioned the parking lot nearby. They got out and Topaz led them to the entrance building as they heard the protestors yelling insults at them.
Sonic rolled his eyes and Tails grew worried but Topaz put a reassuring hand on his shoulder. Then came one of the protestors who managed to barge past the GUN personnel with a stolen gun and shouted "for the safety of the planet of Earth and to prevent another war, I will execute these alien freaks now..."
The guy did not get a chance to visit as he was easily disarmed and then arrested by the guards; the protestors then became scared that it would give GUN reason to be harsher with them.
"Idiots..." Topaz muttered as she then led them inside, they were agents and personnel giving waves to them that Tails returned. Topaz led them to a meeting room where there were several foreign representatives who batted an eye to them entering. Topaz showed them to their seats and they sat down.
They saw Commander Tower enter and led in a man with white streaks in his hair wearing a business suit. Then he was followed by a man in a military uniform and a brown moustache. The man in the suit was staring at Sonic and Tails but the man in the military uniform was openly glaring hatefully at the two Mobians.
"Those two are representatives of Britain, the man in the suit is the head of the British Secret Service; Geoffrey St. John." Topaz explained but Sonic chuckled a bit to stares from people in the room.
"Well if you know about it then it's not much of a secret service; plus he kind of looks like a skunk with his hair." Sonic whispered but Topaz asked him to be quiet about his remarks.
"The other guy is Colonel Nigel Granite, he is the head of Starwatch. The British Government set it up after the war to monitor evidence of anymore potential invasions." Topaz explained as soon the meeting started.
Sonic and Tails found the meeting rather boring as it concerned about what to do with what's left of Eggman Inc as the company had facilities throughout the world. Plus the facts that the remaining assets had been sold to the UF. Commander Tower had talked about sharing the assets with the other militaries of the world.
The debate of what to do with Robotnik had continued, there were those who said their governments wanted nothing less than a public execution while others suggested they lock him up for life and only let him out if they needed his genius for another invasion.
When there were calls for the next item to suggest Geoffrey spoke up saying "I think we should now discuss the elephant in the room or rather the hedgehog and the fox." Sonic and Tails' eyes widened when they realised that he meant them. Suddenly everyone turned them in their seats making Tails nervous.
"Both our young Mobians have been under watch and we have concluded that the two of them mean no harm; our country has given them citizenship and they are our responsibility." Tower replied facing everyone making Granite scoff. "Something to add Colonel Granite?" Tower asked.
"After the war with the Black Arms, you have a responsibility to your species to have these alien freaks locked up in cages and experimented on." Granite spoke up making Sonic and Topaz glare at him. Most were shocked at how blunt he was saying this.
"I apologise for the comments of my associate but we are concerned especially with an incident that happened at a Starwatch base earlier in the week." Geoffrey spoke up putting a device on the middle of the table.
It then showed a hologram of a red Mobian echidna punching his way through a base. There were much shock especially from Sonic and Tails. "This creature managed to steal a classified item from the base." Geoffrey explained.
"Well I don't know, I don't think I ever met a Mobian like this before. We must not be the only ones who were sent here." Tails stated making Granite glare at him.
"Likely story, you expect us to believe you never saw this creature before? He must have come from your world!" Granite shouted angrily pointing a finger accusingly at Tails.
Topaz put Tails into a protective hug while glaring at Granite and Sonic spoke up standing on his seat while staring at Granite. "Pal, we have told the truth about coming here by accident and we don't know this guy any more than you do. Just because we're the same species doesn't mean we know him, by that logic if we took a random guy into this office then you must know who that person is!" Sonic snapped at Granite.
"How dare you foul freaks speak to me like that..." Granite snapped angrily getting up before being forcibly put back into his seat by Geoffrey.
"I believe this meeting is concluded. We will contact you if we get any information about the Mobian that invaded your base." Commander Tower said sternly looking like he was not happy with Granite. Granite looked like he was about to argue that but Geoffrey stopped him as he took back the device.
"I apologise for my associate's behaviour and I assure you he will have his behaviour sorted out." Geoffrey said curtly as he left with a fuming Granite.
Tower went to Topaz, Sonic and Tails to apologise for what happened. "I must warn you Commander, if anyone else decides to call my sons freaks again then I don't think I can be held responsible for my actions." Topaz warned them but Towers understood.
"But what could have those Starwatch guys have had at their base that the Mobian wanted to steal?" Tails asked and they knew it was a good question.
Back on Mobius, there was a lab filled with corpses of mutated corpses, studying his computer was a grey furred platypus Mobian wearing dark golden glasses, a red shirt, a purple jacket, a black right hand glove and a brown left hand glove with a topaz stone in the centre of it.
This individual was Dr Starline, a controversial scientist who thanks to his experiments had been blacklisted from every scientific organisation he had been a part of and had a warrant for his arrest in several places across Mobius. He was looking unpleased as he was studying several flashes of Chaos Energy that had occurred and he had the signature pinpointed to West Side Island.
"So Westside Island, hopefully there I can track any signature left behind by the Emeralds so I can retrieve them. That weasel was one big gamble after all..." Starline muttered to himself while shaking his head.
In his youth he had been fascinated by the legend of the fabled king of all of Mobius, Mogul and he had managed to acquire some really old tomes which told of a feared tyrant that sounded like the legend and the drawings of him was surrounded by several glowing beams of light.
Plus doing research into the fabled Chaos Emeralds (they had to be hidden away as at least several civilisations fell because of their misuse) made him come to the realisation that if Mogul did exist then the Chaos Emeralds must be the glowing beams of light from the drawings.
He then decided to look into where the Chaos Emeralds could be thinking that if all 7 were reunited then there could be hopes of bringing Mogul back from wherever he had disappeared to. He had researched all the legends and information about where they were most likely hidden at.
In his research he had managed to acquire the mythical Warp Topaz that he wore on his glove, it was capable of creating portals to pretty much everywhere but mostly worked if the person was familiar with the place.
It was a gruelling task getting it from its hiding place and he had almost died, he decided that he did not want to risk his life getting the Emeralds himself.
He had hired a mercenary and treasure hunting group led by an arrogant sniper called Nack the Weasel. It had a reputation of being hard to put up with but he gotten results. He had given him all information he had on where the Emeralds would be and tasked his group with retrieval all 7.
Starline had inherited quite a bit of wealth for himself from deceased relatives (he had come from old money) and was able to pay any price Nack was charging him.
Nack was able to find and retrieve the Emeralds but would not give them to him, he had insisted on keeping them all with him until he got them all and would be given the payment in full.
Starline was not happy with him or his reasoning but decided to play along; Starline relaxed as he had gotten word from Nack everytime he retrieved another Emerald. He thought he would soon have them all.
Or so he had thought...
Apparently something went wrong getting the 7th Chaos Emerald and to his horror Starline saw on the sensors of his computer there was a large blast of Chaos Energy. he realised it must be Chaos Control, apparently from the tomes of the Chaos Emeralds when one had more than 1 the Emeralds were capable of large transport.
He had been furious when he realised this means he had lost all 7, when Nack had 6 he should have just used the Topaz to forcibly take the Emeralds from him. Then he could have taken his chances of getting the final Emerald himself.
Since that time he had finally managed to find where the blast originated (sensing the Chaos Control, overloaded his computer so it needed a long while to reboot). He then used his Warp Topaz to create a portal to start his journey.
It was as the saying went: if you wanted something done right then you must do it yourself...
Yeah I turned Geoffrey into a human for this story. Colonel Granite comes from the Fleetway Sonic comics and Dr Starline comes from the current IDW Sonic comics. I strongly recommend the IDW comics, the current storyline they are doing feels like an unsettling horror film.