Different Beginnings
A/n: This story is getting really fun to write. I have Sonic fighting for a reason he doesn't completely understand, I have Miles trying to stop his skills from harming others, and I have an evil genius whose motives are still completely unknown.
Asher Tye: Another rapid fire review, this time it took you 27 minutes. You are getting pretty good at that. And, don't worry; Miles will understand who Sonic is...eventually.
petite-dreamer: Hey. You're a new reviewer. I'm just saying hello and thanks for giving me a review. Those remind me to work and make the chapters come quicker (subtle hint)
Zachary W: You're absolutely right, that bet would be stupid...but you're probably going to be right. I'm glad that you're still reading the story and I hope you continue to like it.
Pokelad: Miles may be planning his escape, but this story is not over yet.
Awesome, I got four reviews in one chapter. I love it when I get reviews.
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Chapter 14 Starlight City
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In Sonic's opinion, Starlight city didn't completely suck. Sure, its roads were always curving in ways that made travel irritating. Heck, to him the city didn't even look any good to him. All that the city had was concrete and metal, nothing interesting, just clinical surfaces with little regard to colour or life. However, that didn't mean that he found the place to be completely crap. The city was well made, after all, and as soon as he entered he saw that a lot of people obviously worked to keep everything working correctly and efficiently, though he never actually got to see any of them doing said work. Still, he admired the amount of work put into keeping the place running; he just didn't really see the point of it all.
However, he had to admit, that while the roads did curve a bit too much, they were very smooth and much easier to run along when they were straight. And there was nothing he liked more than smooth roads that were easy to run on.
But that wasn't why he was in this large city, the real reason being something even he had yet to fully realise. It was late at night and Sonic was starting to get tired, or he would've been getting tired if it wasn't for the four emeralds he currently had hidden in his quills. Yes, that's right, four. He'd managed to find the third green emerald while travelling to the city, and he had found the fourth, this time pale orange, when he had first entered the city.
He still didn't know why they were so important. In actual fact, he had little idea why they mattered in any way, heck he had no idea what they were even called. All he knew was that the emeralds kept him alert and awake for a much longer period than he imagined, and that he needed to keep the ones he had found safe, while he followed the evil genius in his mission to rescue the kidnapped fox.
At this particular moment in time, Sonic was exploring the vast high tech city, wondering why the emeralds had led him here, of all places. However, he was soon going to find out.
It didn't take him long to see that the evil Doctor had beaten him to the city, there were heaps of strange robots everywhere. There were these strange metallic domed ones that blew up when ever he came close, one almost blew up underneath him, but his speed managed to get him out of the bomb blast. There were also more of those strange glowing orbiting things that he'd last seen in the underwater Labyrinth. However these ones seemed to be really lazy, rather than seek and attack him like their predecessors did, these newer ones just hung around certain parts of the city and didn't seem to be bothered to attack at all, almost as if they forgot to.
The next to useless attackers, and the next to pointless attacks, created a strange area for Sonic to explore. Unlike the other times he'd being after the Doctor, his current situation hadn't been anywhere near as dangerous and was, as strange as it seemed, rather relaxing.
Of course, as soon as he got into such a relaxed state, Sonic quickly found out that just because the robots were practically harmless, that didn't mean that their creator was anywhere near as benevolent.
He'd been inspecting some strange see-saw style metal ramps that had been apparently left around after some construction site when the attack happened.
The attack was completely unexpected, and completely over the top, a style that Sonic was quickly beginning to associate with the Doctor. He barely had time to jump out of the way, before a large bomb fell out of the air and landed where he'd just been standing. Luckily for Sonic, the bomb didn't explode immediately, so the hedgehog had a chance to get away before the bomb explodes, spraying nowhere near as much shrapnel as Sonic expected.
Of course, Sonic wasn't exactly safe where he was currently standing either. Barely a quarter of a second passed before the hedgehog was forced to again jump out of the way of another bomb before it also exploded. However, in his haste, Sonic had accidentally jumped onto one of the strange metal see-saws, and a third bomb landed on the other side of it. Sonic didn't move, unsure of where to dive to avoid the next bomb, his indecision further hampered by a fourth bomb dropped where he'd been planning to jump.
His millisecond hesitation allowed the bomb to explode, forcing its end of the seesaw down into the ground, the other end propelling Sonic into the air. Sonic, taking advantage of the situation flew through the air and curled up into what would soon be known as the Spin Dash.
He scored a direct hit on the side of the craft, his body spinning too slowly to actually cut like he had done so previously. However the attack did manage to force the metal panel to buckle, slightly hampering the bomb deployment. However, when the hedgehog landed back down onto the ground, he quickly realised that whatever damage he'd caused, it hadn't been enough to stop the attacks.
Thinking quickly, Sonic jumped onto the ramp see-saw devices again. The lucky hedgehog was fortunate enough to have another bomb land on the other side, and soon found himself flying through the air, this time managing to use the jump to give himself a reasonable spin. Luckily, his spin was fast enough that on contact with the craft, his quills actually dug in deep.
He felt the metal of the Doctor's flying Craft tear as his sharpened quills dug into the weak underbelly of the craft again, however, instead on falling back to earth like he had every other time, Sonic grabbed a hold of one of the stumpy wings of the craft, using his own momentum to land behind the Doctor.
"Get off my craft right now, you stupid hedgehog" The Doctor exclaimed loudly, trying to push the hedgehog off, and managing to not succeed.
"How about, no?" Sonic answered smugly "I don't know why you're here, or heck, even what you are trying to do. But I do know two things. One, you kidnapped a fox, and two; you are becoming majorly dangerous to everyone. And I think it's time I stopped you before you manage to cause any more problems"
Reaching past the large bumbling fool, the speedy hedgehog twisted the controls and quickly pulled the craft into a descent, not a controlled descent, but a descent all the same. The duo hit the concrete hard and a large split formed in the bodywork of the craft.
"You're going to pay for that" Doctor Robotnik complained as he surveyed the damage, paying absolutely no attention to the hedgehog behind him "Do you have any idea how hard it is to repair custom panels like that"
Sonic couldn't resist rolling his eyes at the idiotic comment "Look, can we just try and sort this out once and for all?"
"No" The evil genius answered simply before the craft suddenly took to the sky, the sudden movement knocking Sonic onto the pavement below, leaving him to just watch as the Doctor made his getaway. Sighing loudly, Sonic slowly sat up and was surprised when he found a fellow Mobian holding out their hand to help him stand. Smiling, Sonic took the hand and was soon on his feet.
"Thank you" The female Mobian cat thanked him "You managed to protect our homes from that evil man. He put robots everywhere and they were starting to attack people, but when you showed up they became rather weak and as soon as that man left, all the robots stopped working." The cat pulled him into a hug and kissed his cheek in thankfulness "Thank you for freeing us"
Sonic, surprised that they were thanking him for something he would've done anyway, just shrugged "It's all in a hero's work" He told her. "Now, I'd better go and try to keep the Doctor from causing any more harm"
As he turned to go, the Mobian cat spotted one of the emeralds sitting in his quills. "What are they?" She asked carefully, hoping that she wasn't offending her hero by asking.
Sonic, surprised at the conversation, but all to eager to entertain his grateful friend, turned and pulled out the light yellow one "You want to know what these are?" Sonic told her as he reached into his quills to grab one of the emeralds.
The emerald glowed slightly as Sonic pulled it out, but neither the hedgehog nor the cat, paid the unnatural any attention. "Well they appear to be these really powerful emeralds with large amounts of power, and I've been tasked with finding them all and keeping them safe from Doctor Robotnik" Right at that second, a flash of light surrounded them and Sonic felt something shoot through the air and land in his outstretched palm, next to the yellow emerald. The light disappeared and they were both surprised to see a faintly glowing grey emerald sitting in Sonic's hand beside the pale yellow emerald.
"That, that's my emerald" the cat muttered, her eyes looking at the large hole in her pocket. "Look, you just keep that strange emerald. I found it a week ago in the trash and...well just take it as a gift for saving the city"
"Sure" Sonic frowned slightly "Well, I've got to leave now and try to get rid of this evil idiot before he does something really stupid. I've gotta run" And with that parting sentiment, Sonic disappeared from the cat's sight in a flash of blue.
"Goodbye" The cat whispered to herself, as the blue trail slowly faded to nothing.
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a/n: That ending was really hard to write. This chapter was actually a lot harder to write than previous ones. Certain parts flowed well (the fight, the intro, etc.) while other parts just screwed up on their second rewrite (the exploration bit). I don't even think I properly explained that Miles had been the one to leave the see-saw ramp things for Sonic to use. Oh well, the next chapter is sure to flow well, I have a clear plan for that chapter, unlike the hazy concept I had for this one.
Oh, and can I get some more reviews. That would be great. They don't even have to be on anything relevant.