Away From the Sun
Summary: AUish. Set after Sonic '06. Many years into the future, Shadow is freed from cyrostatus, only to discover that Sonic failed, and Iblis is free. Now, with the help of Silver and Blaze, Shadow will try to save the world. Without the Chaos Emeralds.
T.A.R.N.S.: Well, here I go again. This idea came to me while I was over on YouTube watching a Mephiles music video. Guess it's worth a shot, being as I'm back in a hole with my other stories. Here goes!
Disclaimer: If I owned any part of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, you can bet your boots I would not be wasting my time taking Algebra 2.
Chapter 1: Unexpected Discoveries
"Silver! We can't go in there."
"Why not?" Silver asked.
"It's a military base." Blaze replied.
The two of them had left the hovel they called home, and headed out through the fire-torn land, originally intending to see if they could obtain some food. But Silver's hand-drawn map that he copied from the map of another group of survivors a few days ago had been wrong, and somehow they had ended up at the old Guardian Unit of Nations base. Now the white hedgehog wanted to go explore the base.
"Yeah, but look, Iblis destroyed most of it. No one's been here in ages. You can tell from the dust on everything," Silver said. "Besides, maybe we'll find something useful. C'mon, let's go."
"I suppose," Blaze relented. She glanced around the scorched landscape, then followed Silver in through the hole in the wall.
Silver's psychokinetic glow gave off a little light, but the windows were covered with ash, and Silver's tiny bit of light wasn't enough.
Blaze formed a ball of fire in her hand, shedding more light into the room. It was empty, dusty, and everything was coated in ash. Scattered around the room were scorched skeletons.
"Iblis' work, no doubt." Blaze whispered to herself. There was something about the eerie emptiness of the place that made her want to whisper it, instead of simply speaking it.
The two of the walked through the empty rooms, seeing tales of battles fought- and lost- with Iblis.
Then they came across another door. It was different in the fact that unlike the other doors, which had been beaten or knocked down, this door was untouched.
"How odd," Blaze said as they stopped in front of it. "Why would Iblis destroy this place, but not enter this room?"
"Maybe, if we go in, we can find something to help us defeat Iblis!" Silver said excitedly.
"Silver," Blaze began. "We might find something just as bad as Iblis! Someone left this door alone for a reason."
"Come on!" Silver retorted. "It's worth a try."
The hedgehog held up his right hand. The pale blue outlines on his glove began to glow as he used his telekinesis to open the door.
Cautiously, the two of them entered the room. Unlike the other rooms in the base, it was untouched. The air, though musty-smelling and wit it's contents coated in dust, had no scent of ash in it, and no ash that they could see.
"Hey, it's lighter in here too." Silver noted. "Where's that light coming from?"
Blaze looked around the room, then let out a gasp when she saw it.
Against the far wall was a Cryo2 chamber, one of G.U.N's last great achievements before Iblis was freed. The chamber had an almost cross-like design, holding the captive's feet at the bottom, arms on either side, and so forth. And through the glowing, gate-like outer wall, she could see that someone had been frozen in this chamber.
Or rather, something.
It was a black and red Mobian hedgehog, although it took a moment for her to figure that out. The black had been easier to see, but the red stripes had been more difficult, the pinkish glow of the chamber making them hard to see.
"Silver," she whacked the white hedgehog's arm and pointed at the chamber. "Look!"
"Who is he?" Silver asked as he walked towards the chamber.
"I don't know." Blaze replied.
"Maybe he can help us defeat Iblis." Silver said.
"Silver, we don't even know what he was put in there for." Blaze pointed out.
"Well it can't be as bad as what Iblis is doing." Silver replied. "Besides, you're a pyrokinetic, and I'm a telekinetic. We can handle him."
With that, Silver lifted a hand again, and used his telekinesis to pull open the Cryostatus chamber. The front half of the chamber hit the floor, then the black hedgehog fell forward, out of the chamber.
Before he could hit the ground, Silver used his telekinesis to catch the other hedgehog.
"I wonder how long he's been in there," Blaze said.
"Me too. C'mon, let's get him back home." Silver said. He used his telekinesis to keep a hold of the hedgehog as they hurried back out the door. At the door, the white hedgehog paused and used his telekinesis to carefully replace the door.
The Mobians retraced their steps through the base, then hurried back to their home.
Twenty-five minutes after Silver and Blaze left, taking the black hedgehog with them, another hedgehog arrived at the deserted base. He walked through the building, not disturbed by the dark or the skeletons.
He walked without stopping until he reached the room Silver and Blaze had found the black hedgehog in. Without bothering to open the door, he melted into a puddle of dark slime and oozed underneath the door.
Once on the other side of the door, he reformed into his normal form, that of a crystalline hedgehog.
It gave him pleasure to come here, to know and see that his nemesis was sleeping in suspended animation, that the other hedgehog would never be able to stop him.
Suddenly he stopped. Rage growing inside of him, he looked at the destroyed Cryo2 chamber in front of him. The front of the chamber had been ripped off, and the other black hedgehog was nowhere to be seen.
Mephiles nearly let out a shriek of rage. Someone had freed Shadow, and that could only mean trouble.
He would not be defeated. Especially not by the Black Arms crossbreed. He would not allow a repeat of what happened at the Soleanna disaster.
Shadow would be stopped.
T.A.R.N.S.: Ah, drama. I love it. And so the story begins. Now, story notes. I was originally going to call this fic 'Someday' (after the song by Nickelback) but then I tried out 'Someday' on the search engine, and saw it had already been used in a title 993 times. Scratch that idea. So I named it this after the song by 3 Doors Down. So, there's the pointless story note for the day.
Also, why is it that they have a character filter for Marine the Racoon and not one for Mephiles the Dark? I didn't even know that racoon character existed until I saw that name there. But whatever.
Anyway, please leave a review and tell me what you thought.
