Sonic opened his eyes, but it made no difference. All around him was completely pitch black. In fact, if it wasn't for him testing out what he thought felt like his eyes being opened by touching his them, he would have guessed he lost control of his eyelids. However, soon he got further confirmation that he was, in fact, seeing the world around him. After he touched his eyes, he realized he was able to see the rest of his body perfectly clear. It was unusual because, usually in darkness, you're unable to see yourself, but he was having no problem as if his body was self-illuminated, but not so much that it was giving off a glare of escaping light.
Sonic looked around him. It was quite an interesting sight. He saw all of his friends: Tails, Knuckles, Cream, Cheese, Amy and Shadow. One by one, as he looked at them, they began to start moving as if they are interacting with random objects. Perhaps it is how they look like in the real world. However, when he looked at Shadow, rather than animating, Shadow just faded away. Sonic immediately felt rush of sadness. He lost him. He doesn't know how or why, but now Shadow is no longer trying to be anything like a hero. He's just doing his own thing. Sure hope he won't do anything stupid this time.
"Shh! You might wake him!" said a voice that seemed to be coming from the darkness itself. Sonic knew the voice sounded familiar, but he couldn't quite make out who it was.
"What!? I'm just happy he's okay! He must've taken a beating!"
"Ya, knowing Sonic, he probably did."
At this point, Sonic was completely confused at what he was hearing. It's not making sense. Then somebody gasped.
"He's moving!"
Suddenly, Sonic felt pulled upwards quickly. He wasn't quite sure how this was happening, but he was moving. He then blinked, but when he opened his eyes, he was invited into a new world. He was unable to make out what was around him. There was far too much glare. Slowly his eyes adjusted, and then he panicked when he realized there were 5 people around, but settled down as soon as he identified them. It was Tails, Knuckles, Cream, Cheese and Amy.
"Hey guys," he said weakly. His body, clearly, was not up to the task of moving at all.
"Hey Sonic," Tails immediately replied.
"Hold up," Sonic said bewilderedly, as he put the pieces together. "You woke up."
"Ya," Tails replied. "I'm not 100% sure, but I think Spurino or Suprion held my mind captive somehow, putting me in a coma."
Wait a minute, I forgot those two.
"Where are they!?" Sonic said with more urgency in his voice. He tried to sit up, but his body plainly didn't respond with enough strength.
"Relax Sonic," Amy urged. "You took care of those two."
"Chyea!" Knuckles scoffed, "And left a beautiful landmark for all the planes to see!"
The Chaos Blast. He wasn't sure how he learned how to do that. He remembered Shadow showing it to him once, but Sonic deemed it as overly destructive, and not to his taste. It sure came in handy though, that he can't deny. Sonic sighed as he looked around him for the first time. He didn't realize his location at first, but at the first real glance, he noticed where he was. He was sitting in the hospital, but it seemed like a very ordinary room; nothing that spelt ICU.
"Sonic, you saved the world again," Cheese spoke in her high pitched voice.
Tails chuckled.
"Hey you guys, you know I wouldn't let you guys down. I can't." Sonic looked at Knuckles. "Where were YOU? I sure could have used some help not too long ago."
Knuckles looked down to the floor and then replied.
"After the Master Emerald was shattered, it teleported me and itself to that other weird place that you, Shadow, and the other two decided to crash. I was transported back to Earth along with you guys, but seeing the power all 4 of you had, I decided to sit this one out."
"Smart," Sonic smiled. "Those punches they were throwing were not light at all. Tails," Sonic started as he looked at Tails, leaning against his bed like the others. "I really missed ya buddy. Don't get mind-captured again! I don't care who it is, if it's an alien or what! They do that again, both of you will be answering to me!"
Everybody chuckled and then fell silent as Sonic looked out the window. Through the curtains and way in the distance, he could see what looked like a black hedgehog standing on a tree limb. The black hedgehog nodded, and headed off the tree at max speed.
"Alright you guys," Sonic began. "Don't mean to crash the party, but…I gotta get…some-." He closed his eyes, and immediately went back into deep breathing.
Note to reader: Thank you all for reading this so, oh so long story. It's been a pleasure over the last 6.5 years to write this. I also apologize for the length of time it took to complete this story, but somewhere along the way, I became exceedingly distracted (lol). Anyway, seeing that we've reached the end of the story, it would be greatly appreciated that I got a few reviews highlighting the strengths and weakness of this story as I plan on starting another novel, this time focusing on a new take of Spider-man. I'd wish to improve my writing in any way I can. However, please ignore the absolute terrible grammatical errors that are likely to be event prior to Chapter 32, I was much younger that time, and I hope it had improved from Chapter 32 onwards. Once again, thank you for reading! If you're interested in the Spider-man story, please be patient. I've finished the plot lines, I'm just working out the kinks. I don't have a title yet, but it's most certainly NOT going to be named Spider-man. I plan on doing something relatively big, and there's no guarantee it will be published on this site first. If there's any changes, I'll try and find a way to let you guys know. Until then, feel free to read this story over as many times as you like and pray never closes down.