Chapter 9: The Beginning.
A/N: Chapter 9! This one was interesting to write. For now, I'll be keeping fight scenes brief until I'm more comfortable writing them. Well enough of that, let's get into the chapter.
I don't own Sonic The Hedgehog. I only own the characters created for the story.
"These readings make no sense." Tails said running tests on his computer.
He had been up all night, checking, double checking, even triple checking his results.
Tails went back to the park and took scans of the area Sonic disappeared, every test showed nothing, no signs of energy or residue left, which was odd, there should at least be remnants of someone being in that spot.
Robert walked and saw Tails on his computer, he walked over and put his hand on Tails' shoulder.
"You alright?" Robert asked.
"I'm fine, I know it may not look like it, but I'm ok." Tails answered.
"Robert, can I get your opinion on something?" Tails asked.
"Sure anything, what is it?" Robert replied.
"Take a look at these readings and tell me what you think." Tails said moving away from the monitor.
Robert looked at the screen then typed in some commands and ran tests.
"They make no sense. How is that even possible?" Robert wondered.
"Exactly, nothing there, no energy, no DNA from Sonic or that other hedgehog, nothing!" Tails stated frustrated.
"Calm down Tails," Robert said putting his hand on the fox's shoulder.
"Why don't we run more tests this has got me intrigued," Robert said smiling.
In Tails' house.
Amy was tossing and turning and mumbling to herself.
"Why didn't I stop them, why didn't I try and save them." She mumbled.
Amy tossed and turned more, as the events replayed, through her sleeping mind, the part where Dax tried to push Sonic out of the way of something and the both of them disappearing started when Amy shot up her eyes wide open.
"NO!" She shouted.
She began to pant heavily. Seeing she was in Tails' living room gave her some relief.
"Amy, you ok?" Sally said from a chair in the corner of the room.
"Y-Yeah I'm..." Amy didn't finish.
"It's alright I wouldn't expect you to be after what happened," Sally replied.
She got up and walked over to the couch and sat down next to Amy.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Sally asked.
Amy simply nodded.
The two of them talked for an hour Amy beat herself up about the whole thing while Sally continued to calm her down.
"I just wish I did something to stop that fight between Sonic and Dax then maybe this wouldn't have happened," Amy said tears in her eyes.
"Dax?" Sally wondered confused.
"The red hedgehog in the park," Amy said with a sniffle.
"He was a friend of yours?" Sally asked.
"I only met him yesterday he works at a cafe my friend Lily owns, it's a long story but he was a nice guy, I thought maybe we could be friends. From the way Lily talked about him she trusted him, and believe it's not easy to gain her trust," Amy said smiling a little.
Sally nodded then smiled, she started thinking of something when suddenly a memory of recent events played through her head.
'Why does he seem familiar?...' Sally thought to herself.
"I'm still, really confused at what happened, Sally if its alright I need some time alone," Amy said.
"Okay, I'll go upstairs for now let me know if you need anything alright," Sally replied.
Sally walked upstairs deep in thought when she finally snapped back to reality she realized she was in Sonic's room.
She decided to look around. Sonic's room it didn't have much, a bed, a nightstand, a dresser, and a small desk and chair which were quite dusty due to lack of use.
The only spot that didn't, have dust was where a book was laying, Sally looked that the book, it was the journal she gave Sonic, for his birthday.
'Looks like he used it often, I'm glad I was useful.' Sally thought happy that Sonic used her gift.
'I wonder, what did he write about he probably didn't write much.' She wondered picking up the blue journal.
'I know I shouldn't read this.' Sally thought while fighting a losing moral battle in her mind.
She opened the journal and started reading, he wrote about his runs and the places he's been, as the entries continued he started writing about, more personal things.
One entry stood out it was dated a week ago she started reading parts out loud.
"I woke up after having a dream,-I remember seeing a woman and talking to her. I don't remember,-what we were talking about,-I'm writing down my thoughts before I forget, I just don't know something about it felt real." She read.
Sally read a few more and another stuck out it was longer than any of the other entries and it also mentioned Amy.
'About a week Amy asked me a to train her to be faster, it caught me off guard, she usually would ask me for a date, or something but she wanted to get stronger and faster. At first, I was hesitant if I should say yes or not, I ultimately said I would, I made sure to tell her it was strictly training, she didn't pout or anything she was very calm, that surprised me.'
'But this last week she's gotten faster, another thing I need to note which I've noticed over the last week is shes not as clingy she hasn't tried once to pull anything, which I'm not complaining in fact, its refreshing it makes it easier to interact with her. Lily's cafe just opened, I should see about taking Amy there since she and Lily are good friends.'
"Lily, Amy mentioned her earlier that gives me an idea," Sally said snapping her fingers.
She made her way downstairs and walked up to Amy.
"How about we go out and get something to eat," Sally suggested causing Amy's to tilt.
All Amy could respond was "Huh?"
Back to Sonic and Cherry.
Cherry stared at him slightly wide-eyed and confused.
"Did you just say your name was Sonic the Hedgehog?" She asked not sure she heard him correctly.
"The one and only." He replied with a thumbs up and cocky grin.
"If that's true, this is great! But we need to be sure come with me." Cherry said grabbing Sonic wrist and pulling him with her.
"Woah where are we going!?" Sonic asked confused.
"Freedom Fighter HQ trust me." She answered smiling.
'With him, we'll have a chance, and I have a few questions I'm dying to ask.' Her thoughts spinning.
They finally arrived at the headquarters of the Freedom Fighters, before they could go in they were stopped by a brown rabbit guarding the door.
"Hey Whip, how's it going!" Cherry said greeting the rabbit.
"Hey Cher, you know no one is allowed in here unless there's a mission briefing," Whip replied.
"Whip you know I wouldn't try and get in here unless it's important." She replied.
"Like all the other times?" He asked in a deadpan tone.
"Okay! Fine but this time it's important, we, really need to talk to your mother it's urgent." She replied slightly annoyed.
Whip looked at her to see if she was lying, then he looked over at the blue hedgehog she had by the wrist. Sonic just gave him a smile and a bit of a chuckle.
"Fine but you owe me big time, alright I'll take the hit if you get caught, but I don't know if I can do anything else." He sighed opening the door and moving out of the way.
The duo walked into the building Sonic looked at the cat that was still pulling him by the wrist, somehow it felt familiar.
"The headquarters can only be accessed during a mission briefing who came up with that idea?" Sonic questioned.
"The head of the Freedom Fighters, live here and are very private, only a few people are allowed in here outside of briefing's, and Whip's mom is one of them." She answered.
Sonic nodded satisfied by the answer. They finally found who they were looking for after several minutes.
"Miss Rabbit! We need to talk to you!" Cherry stated as they got closer to the woman.
The female rabbit's back was turned to them when she heard Cherry she started to turn around.
"Oh, Cherry Blossom I thought I told you, you can just call me-" Her voice got caught in her throat at the sight of the blue hedgehog.
Sonic looked at her confused, trying to figure out why she was familiar when she said something that made him go wide-eyed.
"Mr. Sonic!?" Her hands placed over her mouth.
"Cream!?" Sonic replied shocked.
Sally and Amy made their way through Station Square.
"Sally, where are we going?" Amy asked.
"There's somewhere I want to try and now seems like a good time," Sally answered.
They arrived in front of The Vista Deck Cafe. Amy was hesitant to go in, but Sally pulled her by the wrist.
"Hi welcome to The Vista Deck Cafe, have a seat and ill be there shortly to take your order." Lily greeted not seeing Amy.
The duo sat down and looked over the menu Amy used her's to keep her face hidden.
"Alright what would you like to order?" Lily asked in a cheery tone.
"Two green tea's and... What do you want to eat Amy?" Sally wondered.
Lily looked at Amy who was still hiding her face in the menu. When she finally lowered it, she refused to make eye contact.
"A-A couple chilidogs for me," Amy answered sliding lower into her chair.
"Amy is everything ok?" Lily asked concerned.
"Y-Yeah I'm fine. Anyway, your still working tables?" Amy asked changing the subject.
Lily caught the change but decided to let it slide for the time being.
"Well I wouldn't usually, but we're down a man, Dax was supposed to waiting tables today, but he never showed," Lily explained.
Both Sally and Amy became stiff and looked at each other then back at Lily.
"Yeah about that-"
"Lily, turn on the television!" Lily's father burst through the kitchen door shouting.
Without a second thought, she turned on the television they were greeted by a horrible mustached figure.
"OH HO HO. Hello, World Doctor Eggman here! I'm here tell you all, that annoying rodent Sonic is finally gone, now no one can stand in my way! Don't believe me? Just watch this footage of your great hero getting fried." Eggman said playing the scene in the park.
Everyone in the cafe watched in horror, except Amy instead she was irritated.
"Now. Let the invasion begin!" He declared pressing a button, after that the screen went blank.
Amy got up anger showing on her face.
"Lily I'll explain later, but right now Eggman's gone too far!" Amy stated clenching her fists.
Amy walked out without saying another word, Sally apologized to Lily then followed Amy.
Meanwhile in Eggman's base in the sky.
"That went perfectly, Orbot prepare to launch the invasion!" Eggman ordered.
Orbot moved over to the console and typed in some commands then turned back to the Doctor.
"All set, all you need now is to press the launch button," Orbot stated.
"Then let the invasion of the Eggman Empire... BEGIN!" He declared as he pressed the button.
Army's of robots came falling from Eggman's fortress in the sky, most were the usual badniks, but some new, more human-shaped badniks were in the ranks, they were sleeker, faster, and their move set seemed more physical based then weaponry based.
"Mwahaha, soon the world will be mine, my new humadroids will make sure of that," Eggman said with a sinister smile.
A/N: To help everyone understand what I was going for Eggman's new robots are pronounced, (hue ma droid).
Back in Freedom Fighter HQ.
"Is that, really you Cream?" Sonic asked confused.
"Yes it is, but Mr. Sonic, how are you here? You died over 20 years ago." Cream stated, scratching her head.
"Well I'm not sure- Wait did you say, I died 20 years ago!?" Sonic questioned confused.
"From what my mom told me Eggman started his invasion almost immediately." Cherry Chimed into the conversation.
Sonic looked confused.
"You were out of the picture, so Eggman wasted no time, the next day he started his invasion." Cherry recited from memory.
A door opened in the hall and a twin-tailed fox with a large scar on his stomach walked out, he saw Cream and Cherry noted it and started walking down the hall.
"Where have you been all this time Mr. Sonic? And how do you not know any of this?" Cream wondered.
Tails' ears twitched the only thing he heard was Sonic, but that was enough to stop him in his tracks and head toward them.
Sonic's stomach growled.
"Hold that thought," Sonic said speeding out of the building.
Cream and Cherry looked at each other.
"Cream did I hear you mention Sonic, a minute ago?" Tails asked walking up to the duo.
"She was asking him a question, but he just ran off..." Cherry stated with a deadpanned look.
Tails just looked at the two as if they lost their minds he opened his mouth to say something when Sonic dashed back to his original spot chilidogs in hand.
Sonic handed Cherry one of the chilidogs.
"Here, wasn't sure what you wanted so I just got you the same as me, hope you don't mind. Sonic said taking a bite out of his chilidog.
"No, it's fine..." Cherry replied bewildered.
Tails just stared at Sonic wondering if he lost his mind as well.
"Sonic is that you?" Tails asked.
Sonic looked over at Tails.
"Oh hey, buddy." Sonic greeted then turned back to answer cream.
Sonic had gotten over the shock quickly due to his nature.
"Sorry about that I had eaten in awhile I was going to grab a bite with Amy but then that whole thing with mister red quills then the next thing I-"
"Wait, Amy Mister red quills? Your not making any sense." Tails stated cutting Sonic off.
"It might make more sense if you let me finish," Sonic responded deadpan.
"As I was saying. I got into a fight I won, of course, I heard someone shout got pushed, next thing I know there was a bright light, and I'm waking up in the middle of a destroyed Station Square..." Sonic finished.
Tails went deep into thought deeper then he's been in a long time.
Station Square was, overrun the citizens had taken shelter while Sally and Amy fought Eggman's forces head-on.
"Amy I don't think this is a good idea." Sally expressed her concern.
Amy wasn't listening, Eggman took it to far playing Sonic's death for the world to see, that sent Amy into a rage.
Amy hammered badnik after badnik smashing them into pieces, Sally cut through badniks with her ring blades and keeping a close eye on Amy.
Three badniks snuck up behind Amy, they charged their weapons and fired, Amy jumped and did a backflip dodging their fire, she brought her hammer down on the center kicked one to its left then raised her hammer spinning it around and hitting one to the right.
Amy's expression was blank like pure instinct took over.
Sally sliced more badniks she looked over at Amy when one of the humadroids lunged at her.
Before Sally could react she was grabbed and thrown into a wall Amy turned her attention to the humadroid and swung her hammer at it, the humadroid dodged.
It then analyzed her fight patterns in an instant and transformed its arm into a hammer to mimic her fighting style.
Amy started swinging her hammer, but the humadroid countered it, she then unleashed a fury of swings, each swing, getting faster and faster, but every single one was countered perfectly by the humadroids hammer.
Amy didn't let up on her assault, slowly tiring herself out but it didn't stop her, Sally decided to take the chance and sneak up behind the badnik, limping because of her collision with the wall, but she didn't let it slow her down.
She got behind the humadroid and stabbed it through the back with her ring blades then moving them in opposite direction's cutting it in two.
Both the girls were panting Amy was about to run off when Sally grabbed her arm and stopped her.
"Amy stop we need to retreat, for now, we're both worn out already we can't keep this up," Sally stated.
"But-"
"No buts Amy we can't help the world if we're too tired to do anything," Sally said cutting Amy off.
Amy was reluctant but agreed, and the duo snuck back to the cafe.
"Lily is everyone alright?" Amy asked.
"Yeah everyone's fine, this is insane I've never seen anything like this!" Lily replied.
"This is a lot different from all of Eggman's other plans," Sally stated.
"How so?" Lily wondered.
"It's hard to explain it's like he's been building up this army for longer then he's been in hiding, the number of badniks out there is more than I've seen him create in a single month, he's been planning this for a long time," Sally answered.
"Is there anything we can do?" Rory asked.
"Sadly no, Amy and I are exhausted from battling badniks, we just need to stay hidden for now hopefully someone will come to help," Sally stated.
Meanwhile in Tails' workshop.
"This isn't good with Sonic gone Eggman has a higher chance of winning we can't let that happen." Tails stated.
"Eggman sounds like an insane loon, how could someone be so evil!?" Robert asked.
Tails chuckled, at the irony of Robert's words, he was calling himself insane, Tails wondered how someone so kind could become so crazy.
"So what are we doing to help?" Robert asked.
"Right now we need to fix the tornado and prepare." Tails answered.
'I wish Sonic was here.' Tails thought.
Out in the Mystic ruins, Dax was still on the move.
"Great I'm lost... What happened Sonic? He was the one leading the way." He said to himself.
Dax had been walking for about an hour using the bo staff from the guard as a walking stick. His stomach growled which added to the list of things that made this worse.
In the distance he spotted a building, he picked up his pace and got arrived within a few minutes, the building looked to be a medium sized hanger.
He decided to take shelter inside. He looked around and saw a plane that looked untouched for decades and some worn technology.
There was a set of shelves on one of the shelves were two picture frames, he wiped both of them off, the first one was of a twin-tailed fox and Sonic.
The other was a group picture of a twin-tailed fox, Sonic, Amy, a red echidna, a light brown chipmunk, a cream-colored rabbit and light blue chao, and a few others.
Dax walked deeper into the hanger, deciding to stay for the night since it was the only safe place around for miles Dax felt something stretch and snap at his shin before he could react something wrapped around his ankle pulled him off his feet and upside down.
"A booby trap!" He said before something hit the back of his head knocking him out.
I experimented with trying to keep everyone's points in the story, but I think I should focus more on one thing a chapter or keep the jumps in perspective at a minimum. The next chapter's focus will be on the Eggman invasion. I need to say my favorite things to write this chapter were Eggman's dialogue and Amy's battle with the humadroid.
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