This story was originally made for a contest on the Domain of Netraptor site so some of the credit to this story goes to her, as a small portion from the beginning of this was written by her.
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This story uses characters created and copyrighted by SEGA Co. and Archie Co. with the sole exception of Sydney. She is copyright © to myself and may NOT be used without my expressed written permission.
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Note: The supposed "real name" of Sonic was not something I plucked off the top of my head. Ken Penders was informed by Sonic Team that "Sonic" was not our hero's real name. So Ken made up his own... which I must say is more humiliating than anything I could have ever come up with.
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"W-where am I?" Sonic said with a distinct groan as he wearily opened his eyes.
"You'er in the Kingdom of Mercia." said a femanine voice.
Sonic's eyes darted wearily around the room, resting them to the side where the same female hedgehog that had helped him before sat on a wooden chair. The haze no longer over him he was now able to distinguish her features; She wore a hunter green short sleeved dress/robe that came down to her ankles. Her quills were the same shade of blue as Sonic's and her hair was a rich brown and was so fluffy that it completely covered one eye. She pushed her hair out of the way behind her ear and looked down at Sonic. Her beautiful brown eyes glistening like crystal orbs.
"You'er lucky," the female said wearily "The doctor said if you had gone much longer without rest or food you would have died due to overexhaustion." she said looking down at him, an obvious look of concern on her face. Sonic looked over his shoulder to see the IV tube attached to his arm.
"It may not be a chilidog, but it's better than nothing." Sonic managed to chuckle at his own joke. "Oh, my head," he groaned rubbing it "How long have I been out of it?"
"Three days." the girl answered simply.
"Thee days?!" Sonic yelped, he darted up in his bed attempting to remove his IV tube and hoist himself from the clean white blankets he laid in.
"Calm down!" the girl said sternly placing her hands on Sonic's shoulders pushing him back, Sonic reluctantly allowed himself to fall back into his pillow "You haven't regained your strength yet."
Sonic grumbled eyeing the hedgehog "Where did you say I am?"
"The Kingdom of Mercia." she repeated.
"That sounds familiar..." Sonic strayed off in thought for a moment "I know, I came here before while I was hunting down Ixis Naugus. Man, I must have really moved that first day and a half."
"Who?" the girl asked cocking her head in curiosity.
"Erm, no one." Sonic quickly answered, thinking of a way to quickly change the subject "Anyway, are you from this area? I noticed you don't have a brittish accent like everyone else does."
"It's because I'm not originally from here. I was born in Mobotropolis and raised the first few years of my life there, untill it was destroyed. I'm sure that unless you've been living under a rock you'd know why." she said sourly looking towards the ground with disgust.
"Really? Cool! I'm from Mobotropolis--or at least I was born there," Sonic perked slightly "I lived in Knothole untill about four days ago it was destroyed. Well, seven if you count the time I've been unconscious. I'd been on foot the time before ending up here." Sonic's face screwed into a mixture of anger and grief.
The hedgehog made eye contact with Sonic cocking her brow "That's impossible. No living creature could run that fast." she said skeptically.
"Not unless you'er me, they don't call me Sonic for nothing!" Sonic smirked as his chest swelled with obvious pride.
The girl looked at him strangely "So Sonic's your name huh? Cute. My brother, Olgilvie, called himself Sonic as well. He was faster then most of the kids on our block, but there's no way he couldn've run halfway across the planet in four days." She lowered her now glowering eyes toward the floor "He was killed during the cope in Mobotropolis." she said, a mournful tone to her voice.
A look of complete bewilderment spread across Sonic's features, he bolted upright into a seated position again as the blood drained from his face.
The girl blinked at the look of the horror-stikken expression on Sonic'a face "What's your problem?"
"I don't believe I ever caught your name..." Sonic said slowly trying to regain his composer, a muscle under his eye had begun to twitch.
"Sydney?" she asked with obvious confusion.
Sonic's face managed to turn paler still, looking as though he was about to pass out.
"Are you ok?" Sydney asked with alarm standing up
Sonic waved his hand motioning her to back off, rubbing his temples he collected his thoughts as things slowly fell into place "You didn't by any chance have an uncle named Sir Charles Hedgehog, or a dog named Muttski?"
Sydney set her jaw glaring at Sonic for a moment, "If I did, how would you know?"
Sonic took a deep breath "My real name is--" he cut himself off balling his fists, he just couldn't bring himself to say it.
"Wait, wait. Are you trying to tell me that your name--Olgilvie?" Sydney sputtered slightly, but still kept her composer and skeptical tone.
Sonic let out a groan at hearing the name twice in so few minutes closing his eyes.
"You can't be serious. I mean Ol--"
"Say that name again and I am going to hurt you." Sonic hissed rubbing his temple.
"So what exactly is that supposed top mean. You'er my dead brother?"
Sonic didn't answer, he didn't know what to say. So much had already happened, this was too much.
"Well?"
"I could say the same about my dead sister." Sonic spoke after a long moment of silence "Concidering the circumstances and the fact I -am- halfway across the globe from where we lived, this all seems just too phony to me. What I want to know, is if you -are- my sister, how is it your still alive? I -know- I saw you get burried under the rubble from an explosion."
Blinking Sydney tried not to well up as the old memories involuntarily flooded back to her "I hadn't been killed miraculously, only knocked out and with minor wounds. I think as the SWOTbots were clearing away the rubble they had found me underneath. Thinking I was dead and therefor no use to them, discarded me. And what of you? You weren't far from the explosion yourself."
"I--we--er--Rosie was leading me, Sally and the other children from the castle away toward a sealed passageway toward Knothole. I watched you coming toward us just as one of the towers came crumbling down. It had missed us, but it did manage to block our path. Rosie had to take us to another area of the castle that lead to a secret bogus passageway that lead into an area of the Great Forest. We ended up having to walk several miles before we reached Knothole's entrance." Sonic said, eyes fixed toward the ground as he reached into some of his inner-most and tried-forgotten memories "What happened to you after you got away?"
"Well--I didn't know anything about Knothole. As you might remember by the King's orders it was kept as a storeground and a haven for knights who where wounded in battle, therefor he kept it's location secluded to all except his knights and a few of his servants. Because of that, I didn't know where it was or how to get there," she paused biting her lip "I was so scared. I had absolutely no one to go to." she sobbed lightly, whiping her face with her sleeve.
"So, what happened next? How did you get here?"
"I attempted to live in the Great Forest by myself. It worked for a short while. I slept where ever I could, and I knew which fruits were safe to eat and soforth. Homesickness and even worse fear set it as the days went by.
It was later I had overcome a tribe of echidnas passing through the area. They had been locking fresh wounds from an attack of Robotnik's and were trying to leave the area as quickly as they were capable of. Well, curiosity overcame me and I approached them.
It was then I met Athair, mitre of the tribe. Even thought I wasn't one of their kind, seeing that I was so young with no one to care for me, Athair personally took me in under his wing and raised me, partially to make up for having just lost his wife to Robotnik I would suppose, but he never admitted. It was years I spent with them. The tribe was nomadic; constantly moving around in search of better land to call home.
It was just before the tribe found their goal that they had searched for for centuries--ever since the Floating Island, a floating landmass from their own legends was raised to the sky according to what Athair had told me of. Athair gave the title of mitre to his great-grandson, whom was supposedly the guardian of this Floating Island. I watched sadly as the tribe--my family--finally found their gowl in finding Albion--supposedly the land that bore the echidna race.
I knew I could not go, so I was taken in by Rob O' the Hedge and Mari-An; the only member of the tribe who did not go with the others. And that's pretty much where me story ends. I've been here since." Sydney snuffled whiping another tear from her face.
Sonic sat in silent awe at the story that was just unfolded before him, couple with the shock of recent events and Sydney's presence.
"So," Sydney perked whiping her face again "Why exactly are you here? And why such desparate looking conditions? I mean, what happened to Knothole?"
Sonic looked into Sydney's brown eyes, the curiosity sparked behind them had suddenly began to flood away her saddened thoughts. He looked up in thought, lowering his eyelids slightly as fear filled his eyes.
"It was horrible. I mean, sheesh. It was thought that Robotnik was dead--that I'd killed him. But that wasn't the case," Sonic breathed heavily, bowing his head "He was hiding, waiting for the right time to strike--when we'd be the most off guard; and he did. You see, we had rescued King Acorn from the Zone of Silence--A manmade vortex zone much different from any Chaos Emerald created one--and the free will of the robians--robotizied mobians--was restoed, including our parents as I discovered.
We thought we could just try to live in peace as best we could and try to clean up the mess Robotnik's polution had caused. Everyone had moved back t the again renamed Mobotropolis, while the robians took Knothole as their haven to avoid racial issues. The it happened--Me and the freedom fighters were discussing some strange events that had been happening that we assumed were connected to eight satillites. Seven of them had been activated, with each came a strange event. The eight was activated that night--directly over Knotle. I raced down to the village as fast as I could, only to find it completely deserted. No trace of anyone, not even Uncle Chuck, Mom or Dad.
During the time I was scoping out Knothole, there was chaos back in Mobotropolis. Robotnik had appeared in Sally's bedroom where our meeting had taken place through teleportation with several COMbots. Before the initial shock wore off and reinforcements could be called, Robotnik had seized everyone in the room. He then put the king in a robotizier that was special build for me, but seeing as how I wasn't there for him to test it on, he used the king as his test subject. This robotizier as I found out later was attached to a Chaos Emerald, which would enhance the abilities of it's victims far times greater then a normal one would. This made the robot king unstopable against his own knights--as if they would try to hurt him anyway.
A little less than half the population had been killed, the rest were robotizied. I had managed to zoom my way back to the kingdom in time to see the distruction going on. I then noticed the main invasion was coming from the castle. Remembering Sally and the rest of the gang were in there I ran in in an effort to save them--but I was too late. Everyone inside the castle was either dead or robotic. I was confronted by Rotor, Antoine and Amy Rose before I had managed to reach the room they had all been in--there I had found Sally taking cover not far away and grabbed her. We bearly managed to get out because of the fact I wouldn't dare attack anyone for fear of hurting them. After I had made it to the Great Forest I realized we were being tailed. Sally ended up being captured, by the time I arrived to save her she had been robotizied. She the one who gave me--this" Sonic sighed motioning to the cut across his chest trying hard, trying had not to tear up.
Sydney sat utterly dumbstruck. To think, all this time the kingdom of Mobotropolis--her homeland-- had been thriving and all this time Robotnik was supposedly no more. Now all of a sudden Robotnik returns and leaves nothing but smoldering ashes.
"I never thought I'd see the day that Robotnik won the war," Sonic huffed trying his hardest to choke back tears "It's all over."
"That's not true..." Sydney whispered softly.
"It is so. I've failed everyone. I've no one to help me--I'm alone against an army of former friends and family. What could I possibly do except get myself killed--or worse?"
Sydney's eyes narrowed to slits, "Sonic, you've changed alot since I knew you. You'er not like I used to know you at all," she said gruffly "Sure, when I knew you we were both spoiled brats who couldn't give a hoot about anything except play, but the Sonic I knew would never give up no matter what the situation was if he had his mind set on it."
Sonic looked up at her, "You're right. I'm not the Sonic you used to know. Because now I realize all I've ever fought for was in vain. All it did was prolong fate." he muttered trying his hardest to choke back his tears and keep his composer, but it was obvious he was on the verge of a breakdown.
"That's not true!" Sydney hissed "If there's one thing I learned from the Tribe of Arakkis, it's no matter how hard or impossible a situation may be; NEVER give up! There has to be a way. There HAS to be!"
"Perhaps you should try telling that to someone who actually cared. I'm telling you, my situation is hopeless." Sonic muttered looking downward, his eyes turning redder by the second, the corners dampening.
"When we were kids you wanted more than anything to be the best. The unbeatable. The one absolutely no one could touch. So you worked hard running for miles each day improving your running skills. It made me so mad how persistent you were! But look at you! Look at how much you've obviously achomplished! For one, who else could have run halfway across the planet on foot within a short period of four days? Four days!" Sydney bellowed "And you know what? I admired you for that." the female growled narrowing her eyes.
"You what?" Sonic looked up a bit baffled.
"You heard me. I admired you. I admired your determination, I admired your courage. I don't even think your friends knew I even existed. I hid and played by myself, kept my own company with my dolls and didn't like being around other people. I was a coward!"
"Yeah, well you always told me of how much you hated me."
"I hated your attitude! Your attitude stunk! But everything else I admired. Although now I can see what you really are. A crybaby! What's the matter? Stakes get a little too high? Odds get a little onesided?"
Sonic's eyes shot open as a rage suddenly filled them, a slight snarl creeping across his features "Shut up." he hissed, venom coursing through each word.
"Aw, is the baby gonna cry now? Is the baby gonna run home to mommy?"
"Shut up!" Sonic screeched bearing his canines at the female in a full snarl.
"You make me sick," Sydney snarled "And you know what? I don't have to sit here and listen to you whine or threaten me either. If anyone asks I will be in my hut. Goodbye--Olgilvie." She made sure to emphasize the last word staring coldly into Sonic's eyes with her own teeth bared. With that turned heel and walked towards the foot. Stepping out with a swift slam she was gone.
Sonic sneered, canines still widely bared, down towards the floor clenching his fists tightly "The nerve of her!" he bellowed ramming his fists between his legs into the soft white matress he laid on. Calming down slightly he leaned against his pillows thinking of the conversation the two had just had "The absolute nerve of her!" he repeated "No one could tick me off that bad except St. John. Scratch that, she blows Stinkboy out of the water."
He then considered the last few statements Sydney had made before her outburst "So, I was an actual inspireation to her--I guess what I said must have been a real let down. Although after what she said she deserves a major let-down." Sonic wrinkled his nose in disgust "Although maybe--just maybe there is a way I can stop Robotnik." Sonic rolled the idea around in his mind for a few seconds thinking long and hard over the odds of it working--something he didn't do very often.
"Well, it's better than nothing. It's a chance at least." He said removing his IV tube, hoisting himself from his bed and making his way towards the door.
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Ooo, self insertion. I'm sure someone's gonna club me now.