Sonic X – Journey to a New World
Prologue
Mobius, an unnamed parallel world in another dimension similar to Earth, is home to Sonic the Hedgehog. Known for his extraordinary speed, Sonic is known across his Parallel Earth as one of the protectors of the legendary Chaos Emeralds and arch-nemesis to the notorious Doctor Eggman, who wishes to use the energy of the Chaos Emeralds to take over the planet and built his ever-going plot of creating a giant robotic themed park Egg Empire.
To protect the planet, Sonic commonly battles alongside his friends to accomplish this goal. Miles "Tails" Prower, a two-tailed fox with a gift for flight and harnessing a high intellect, is Sonic's best friend and loyal sidekick. Two others include Amy Rose, a pink anthropomorphic hedgehog who wields a giant hammer and a huge crush on Sonic, and Knuckles the Echidna, a red anthropomorphic dude with dreadlocks from Angel Island who harnesses intense strength in accordance to protecting the Master Emerald of Angel Island and its servers. Along with many others, Sonic uses his prowess and skills to protect the planet and its little critters from the foils of Doctor Eggman.
Among some of his closest allies and friends he depended on were a group of three newcomers. Joining up with his team of Freedom Fighters, they each quickly found a supportive role on the team. One of them was named Frieda Prower, who was the older sister of Miles, who Sonic knew formally as "Tails". Like her brother, she shared the unique trait of two tails, but flapping them like wings, she was truly like her brother - one of a kind. The other two faces that added to the trio were siblings Ash, a blue and white furred raccoon, and Locke, an older wolf pup that went by the nickname of "Blaze" and was adopted into Ash's raccoon family.
Nautical Bay, Seaside Mobius (3 years prior to the great Chaos Emerald incident that sent Sonic and friends to a whole new world and dimension …)
To Sonic, Nautical Bay was just another stop of his never-ending trek across the planet to protect it from the foils of his nemesis. Today, it was just another peaceful day on his calendar as he chose to answer a tip from his best buddy Tails to go there and get there fast. Although the bay was one of the last places Sonic would put himself so close to, he knew he didn't have a choice, not if he wanted to beat his old nemesis there first!
Meanwhile, near the far stretch of the beach, there stood a small little lighthouse split-level home with a good sizable dock big enough to house a small ship. It was home to Roxanne and Hark the Raccoon, who watched over the shores of Nautical Bay. With his ship The Wind Spark at the ready, Hark was a black-furred raccoon who was also a powerful and mysterious sea captain who knew how to navigate the oceans of Mobius even in the most treacherous of storms, especially since he had the uncanny ability to deflect lightning, thanks to his special ring-dubbed power gloves he always wore.
Roxanne, or Anne as her nickname was, was a soft blue furred raccoon with amethyst eyes who sported a soft blue-and-white striped tail, to which was a trait she had passed down to her daughter. Dressed always in easy-travel wear, she serves as a diligent wife and mother to her family. Unlike her husband, Anne had the subtle and uncanny ability to manipulate water, to an extent, and form it to her wish. However, due to becoming a wife and a mother, she held back her abilities only in the most extreme cases to protect her family or to do little things like working around their home or tending to her garden.
Speaking of being a mother … "Mom!"
Looking up from where she was sitting with her husband at the end of the pier, both parents nodded to each other as they watched their little bright blue darling come running down the path and out of the house. Wearing a pair of black knee-pants and a red tank top, her soft blue eyes sparkled as she waved at them. However, as she ran up to them, she didn't look down in time to see that she had tripped on one of the many sand dunes on the beach. Sending her flying, her parents only looked slightly worried before they saw their daughter simply float down into her father's waiting arms.
"Ashley!" she felt her mother scold her as she looked up at them with a guilty yet nervous smile. "How many times do we have to tell you to be careful?"
"Mom, I'm fine!" she said as Hark put her down and he crossed his arms thoughtfully.
"This time," her father said as he caught her eye with one of his infamous grins. "I know 'floating' can be fun, but … Try to keep your feet on the ground, ok?"
"Alright," Ashley said, slightly frowning due to the fact that her mother scolded her by saying her full first name. She was so used to everyone calling her by her shortened pet name "Ash", because to her it sounded so much cooler! However, deciding to change the subject, she asked them instead, "Hey, is Frieda here yet?"
With her parents sharing a secret smile, Ashley heard a distinct voice behind her call out, "Ash!" as she looked behind her shoulder to see her gold-tanned two-tailed friend appear in the air as the edges of her two 'tails' lowered her to where she hovered just above Ashley. Slowly turning around, Ashley chose that moment to tackle her to the ground as she leaped into the air and pushed them both into the water with a splash.
Shaking her wet mop of black hair out of her eyes, Ashley laughed as they both got into a splash fight and just managed to get in a breath before she felt Frieda dunk her back under the water in revenge.
Her best friend was a two-tailed blonde fox that sported a bob of shoulder-length brown hair that she had inherited from her and Tails' mother and shared the same blue shade of eyes of her brother, Tails. Sporting a white dress top that was also paired with a soft blue skirt, Frieda also commonly wore a braided-harness belt across her middle to tie her outfit together. Unlike her brother who had the ability to skillfully propel himself into the air by twisting his tails, Frieda had sewn special 'pockets' into the folds of her skirt that allowed her to move about her 'tails' freely-enough in a wing-like motion that was both strong enough to lift her off the ground and to allow her to fly.
Taking her best friend's hands as she took off, Ashley just laughed as she and Frieda floated over the shimmering waves as her parents watched the two parade in the air. Sighing a bit, Anne noticed her husband giving her a certain look as he said, "I know something's on your mind. What is it?"
Thinking to herself for a moment, Roxanne only shook her head as she leaned in against her husband's shoulder, deciding not to say nothing. It was about a minute later as she looked up to see that both the girls were gone from sight.
"Ash, where are we going?" Frieda asked her friend as she climbed easily onto her back with little trouble and just enjoyed the feel of the wind in her face, stirring Frieda to the left of the house as they both headed for the soft grass to land. Thanks to her friend's telekinesis ability, Ash was almost considered weightless and was no trouble to carry as Frieda easily was able to fly with her on her back. However, there was a bit of a flaw that Ashley hadn't worked out completely yet.
"Land down there," Ash said as she hopped off and clumsily somersaulted back down to the ground, landing feet over head in embarrassment and misjudgment. Landing a bit more gracefully and taking a second to rest her tails, Frieda then rushed over to where her friend had rolled and helped to sit her to her feet.
"What happened?" Frieda asked her friend, hoping to get a direct answer this time but instead only got a confused little frown that left Ash looking down at her red finger-less gloves in question. Looking closer, Frieda saw that each of her gloves had a special little power strap attached around her wrist. "Those are new. What are they?"
"I thought I could just float down like last time. Dad just gave these to me," Ash said mysteriously as she held them palm-side up for Frieda to feel them as they strangely started to glow. "He said that they were supposed to help me channel my telekinesis and levitation abilities, but I don't know how they work or even if they do half the time. It's easier to go up than it is to come down!"
"I'm sure you'll figure it out," Frieda said, trying to be supportive as her ears picked up a distinct humming as both of the girls turned to see that Ash's older adoptive brother had dashed into his workshop without saying hello, the white tip of his orange tail shutting the door behind him. "Was that Blaze?"
"Yep! Come on," Ash said, sneaking up to the window as the two of them tried to look into the dark workshop. "I can't see anything. Can you?"
"No," Frieda said, puzzled as to why they were trying to look purposely in there without an invitation in the first place. "Why?"
"There's something we found, or at least Dad did, the other day that I want you to see, but it's in there," Ash said, emphasizing the workshop that was currently housing Blaze. Working on a project, they saw him use a couple of his tools to spark at something at his desk. "Mom had Dad shut it up in here because she said 'it made her nervous'. Whatever that means."
As she continued to talk, she wasn't aware of the shine that reflected in Frieda's eyes as she suddenly realized what it was that Blaze was suddenly tinkering with. Distracted and a little annoyed, he looked up to notice Ash tapping on the glass at him. "Ash, don't do that!" Blaze suddenly cried as he didn't see that one of his electronic tools banged against the rock he was working with, when suddenly the room was engulfed in a big green shimmering light. Pulling her best friend down with her, Frieda shouted, "Get down!"
Kicking open the door but tripping over the short step, all Blaze could do was cover his head with his hands as Ash felt Frieda's concentration rise as she erected a magical force field over both of them as the entire workshop surged in one big chaotic burst.
Sensing it from the other side of the house, Hark's eyes suddenly narrowed in worry as he sensed something coming a few miles away over the ocean, too. However, Roxanne made a direct beeline towards the house to see what was going on. Fully knowing that whatever else had seen that light, Hark knew from the tense taste in the air that it wasn't friendly.
"What's going on over here?!" Roxanne demanded when she saw the damage done to the workshop interior, but her eyes were only on the children as Frieda and Ash shook off some dust as they looked over to see Blaze weakly pushing himself off of the entryway. Clenching his knuckles, he sighed as his gaze noticed the now stable Emerald on the workshop table where he had left it in his escape attempt.
"Blaze, what happened?" Roxanne asked instead very calmly as she gently lowered herself to help her older adoptive son off of the ground. Picking him up despite a groan, she brought him over to the girls, relieved that everyone was alright despite the destruction around all of them.
Blaze was different from his adoptive parents and his little sister because he was a wolf pup that donned a coat of burnt orange fur and a patch of blue hair that was styled into messy thin dreadlocks, which fell about into a small series of messy bangs across his eyes. Found alone in the woods one day, he was discovered and adopted into their family without a second thought. Not really giving any thoughts as to where he originally came from, he quickly found hobbies and interests that immediately and easily integrated him in as a true member of the pack. Unfortunately, he hated to admit that some of his tinkering experiments often led to explosive accidents at least once in a while. Finding out that his real name, Locke, was inscribed into the anklet he wore on his left foot since the day his adoptive parents found him, he decided to say nothing about it and always wore it just inside his brown socks to always remember. Becoming 'Blaze', he found that he had enough to worry about with helping to look after his ornery sister and his own experiments. And of course, he hated to be interrupted … just like then!
Testing his still shaky feet, Blaze stood up to only droop his pointed ears down at his mother's eye. Getting upset, he turned to stare in Ash's direction, to which she only frowned at. "Everything would've been fine if Ash didn't …"
"I don't care whose fault it was! I don't want to hear it … from either one of you!" Roxanne said, immediately halting the heated argument she knew that was fixing to happen between her kids. "You both heard what your father had to say about that Emerald being dangerous, and that he didn't want either one of you touching it in any way until he knew it was safe!"
"It's actually called a Chaos Emerald," Frieda said, surprising everyone as she came out with it nestled safely in her hands from the demolished shed. "I've really only heard of one of these, but they can be extremely dangerous … in the wrong hands."
"Not exactly," someone said as everyone tensed up to see a floating hovercraft floating over their heads and the entire house. Greedily, as one of his hands smoothed one side of his mustache, he then let out a joyous and haughty laugh that chided everyone's ears. "They can also be extremely powerful in the right hands. And now … I believe you have something that belongs to me."
"Back off!" the kids heard Hark yell, launching himself at Eggman from the roof of the workshop with the rings of his gloves surging, one curled back to ready a hard punch. However, he didn't get the chance as the Doctor only amusingly chortled, pressing a button on his console that directed his now emerging giant robot to thrust an arm forward that bunted him away with a hard knock to the head.
"Daddy!" Ash cried, seeing him land and noticed the swirl of the dust start to circle them from the ground as the Doctor came closer.
"I do believe I said ... 'Give me the Emerald!'"
"Not a chance! Who said it belongs to you?" Ash shouted back before she felt Frieda pull her back a couple of steps. As Frieda took a steady breath, she magically summoned her shield between Eggman and the Emerald. In shock, she asked, "Frieda, how are you even doing this?!"
"It's just a little trick my Uncle showed me a while ago," she muttered, feeling pressure from above as Eggman twittered his mustache, again, somewhat impressed and issued a command for his robot to 'crush that shield and get me that Emerald!'
"Yo, Eggman! Don't forget about me!" a familiar voice called out as a fast blue blur stopped in front of them, spines and all. Noticing the evident Emerald in Frieda's hands as she held it and her best friend behind her shield, Sonic called out, "Is everyone alright?"
"Yeah, Sonic, we're fine!" Frieda started to say before she felt two big robot hands try to push down on her shield for it to break with even more pressure. Holding the Gem tighter, Frieda didn't know that the stress from holding the shield up for so long was pulling on her last reserve until she panted. "Maybe not …"
Noticing this, Ash caught the Gem right as it fell out of her friend's hands as she collapsed on the ground, the shield disintegrating around them as Eggman saw his chance. Telling his robot to "Fire!", Sonic ran up to grab up both of them and sped away just in time before a small rocket blast left the ground where they were just standing a millisecond ago a bare patch of dirt and dust.
"Frieda! Ashley!" Ash heard her mother exclaim as she hesitated to move, seeing that Eggman's robot had turned to them now. Summoning pulsing water-orbs from her hands, she threw them up to slam against the robot and shouted upwards towards their foe as as she got his attention, "Shame on you! They are just kids! Why don't you pick on somebody your own size?!"
"Fortunately, I don't normally bring myself to picking 'fights with children' …" Eggman relented, making Sonic go, "Hey!"
"… But you folks have something I want … So … Hey, watch it!" Eggman chortled, stopping short with a big heavy rock hit the side of his hovercraft with a loud 'Thunk' that almost made him tip out at a very dangerous angle as it was hurling left. "AHHH-AHH!"
"That's for picking on my little sister," Blaze said, wiping the faint glittery stone dust off from his black striped gloves. Noticing there was a change in his muscles, he tested his hit against the trunk of a nearby tree. Clenching his fists a little harder, he became aware of something else in himself that made him feel great! Looking up, however, he saw the bewilderment cross his mother's face before he saw a big shadow standing over her. "Mom!"
Having nestled Frieda and Ash out of danger a few meters away, Sonic heard Blaze's shout as he turned to see Eggman's robot almost on top of her as it tilted precariously from the brunt hit from Eggman's collide with it. "Whoa!"
"Roxanne!" Hark's voice caught them all in surprise as they all watched as Sonic streaked forward just in time to pick her up and sped her away just as Eggman's robot came crushing down. Sighing a bit, Sonic gave her quiet form into her husband's hands. "Thank you … Sonic, was it?"
Meanwhile, Ash looked up in time to a pair of relieved blue eyes settle on her and Frieda as they both opened their eyes to see that Blaze was walking over to check on them, stopping when he saw the Emerald still in Ash's procession. Looking up, they all three heard a small little voice call out, "Sonic!" The whirl of two tails in the air silenced everything else as Sonic looked up to see what Tails had for him – one of his rings!
"Tails!" Sonic said, turning just in time to hear Eggman call out, "E-01 Beta, get up! We're not through yet!"
Connecting her eyes with Frieda, Ash could see clear exhaustion in her expression as she sighed, not knowing what to do. 'I wish there was something I could do to help … Wait, what?' "Ohhh!" Ash exclaimed, her thoughts becoming audible as she noticed that her fingers were reacting and glowing to the Emerald in possession. Dropping it, she felt an increasing voltage of power increase across her fur as it almost stood up on end, her shoulder-length mop of black hair sticking outward in every which direction as she slowly inwardly got an idea.
"Get that Emerald now!" Eggman shouted, still agitated that all of this was wasting his time before his eyes went from Sonic to the brave little blue raccoon that started to strangely levitate in the air in front of her friends. Eyebrows raised, Sonic's gaze connected with Ash's fierce expression as he smiled and gave her a thumbs up in astonishment.
"Tell everyone to get back," Ash said, whispering to Sonic as she looked back to catch her father's eye as he stood stoic, nodding his head in encouragement.
"Ash, what are you doing?" Blaze asked his sister as his father held him back by an arm, who saw that he was starting to run to her as she moved herself a little closer to the robot that turned in front of Eggman. Meanwhile, Roxanne stirred just enough to see her daughter raise up her hands as Sonic and Tails, who was joined by Frieda, watched as Ash heard her Father's words echo in her mind,
"Ashley, you have a gift within yourself that connects you to the great Chaos Force. You just need to learn how to control it."
"But Dad … I don't understand. What is the 'Chaos Force'? I don't have the same power as you do!"
"Who says it'll be the same as mine? One day you will find your own strength that will set you apart. That's why we train!"
"What does my 'gift' have to do with any of this training? It's not like I can control when I float, Daddy!"
"One day, you will. And when that day comes, you'll know exactly what to do with it."
Trusting the words that her Father had instilled in her, Ash stood forward and held up her hands, the blue cuffs on her gloves pulsating as she said, "Doc, I wouldn't underestimate us if I were you!" With the robot not slowing down, the metal skeletal-like rhino roared and was mere inches from where Ash was before she said, "Don't say I didn't warn you!"
Launching herself in the air with easy awe, Ash only laughed as she levitated herself higher and found herself floating just above the confused robot's head as she called, "Hey, up here!" Surprising herself, she threw a hand impulsively down at the robot in a laugh and saw a blue aura-like field generate around it that made it start to levitate off the ground, too! Not knowing she could do that, her shock made the robot propel up faster until they were eye to eye until … She felt the grip of its vice-like jaws her as it caught her, knocking the wind out of her as they both started to fall.
"Ash!" Both Frieda and Blaze yelled, both seeing the fear that radiated off of Roxanne as Sonic took the ring that Tails had tossed to him and clenched it. In near seconds, a golden stream of ring energy flew into Sonic as he then launched himself and flew straight up at the robot, went straight through it, and once again caught a limp Ash in time as she was released from the robot's hold. A second later, E-01 Beta exploded as Sonic shielded Ash in the dust cloud and steadied himself out of his spin, all while in mid-air. Cradling Ash carefully, Sonic watched as the ring's energy subsided around them both until it moved and disappeared into the orbs on the back of her gloves.
Locking eyes with his enemy during the drop, time seemed to still between the two rivals as Sonic saw Eggman just hold up his hands haltingly and sheepishly chuckle. With a meaningful frown, Sonic held onto Ash a little more protectively as he shifted and sent a very hard kick at Eggman's hovercraft that sent him barreling towards the ocean a long ways away.
Later, Ash found herself waking up in her mother's arms as she looked up to see her Mother crying softly. Shifting her eyes, she saw that Blaze was talking with Tails and Frieda about Sonic's plane while Sonic stood a little over to the side just idly chatting with her Dad. Both turning to listen, they saw Ash look back at her Mother as she asked, "Mom, why are you crying?"
The soft blue raccoon only smiled sadly as she kissed her daughter on the forehead. In confusion, Ash sat up only to see Sonic as her Dad stood a little farther back and said, "Sonic has something to say, and I think you ought to hear it."
Suddenly a little shy, Ash waited a second before she felt her mother help her up to her feet as she turned to see Blaze and Frieda beaming with pride from the side. "Uh … Mister Sonic?"
"Just call me Sonic, alright?" He said loosely, beaming ever more as he watched her smile. "You did alright today, kid."
"Really?" Ashley asked, not believing her ears. Looking first at Sonic and then at her mother who listened, she said, "I made a lot of mistakes today, though. You were right, Mom. I'm not ready. I'm sorry …"
"Oh no, honey. You are ready," Roxanne said, making her daughter look up at her for a second. "Let me tell you something, okay? You have nothing to be ashamed about. I've always been afraid of what I can do, but I never wanted you to have the same trepidation I did. I admit it, when your father told me he noticed the growth in your abilities … It scared me. As a mother, I didn't want anything to happen to my baby girl, but … I know I can't stop you in learning about your abilities. If I did anything to make you afraid of yourself, then I apologize."
"Mom" was all Ash tried to say before her Mother hugged her.
"No, I mean it, Ashley," her Mother said, releasing her daughter as Ash then shared a stable gaze with her older adopted brother before she turned back. "I want you and Blaze to fully learn what it is that makes each of you special, that way you'll always have the strength to do what is right. And, Sonic wants to give you that opportunity."
With that said, Roxanne left her daughter and her friends to talk to Sonic as she joined her husband. Embracing her slowly, they shared a simple kiss between them both before his eyes trailed over to the still quiet Chaos Emerald that laid by itself near the Tornado.
"Really? You want all three of us to come with you?" Ash excitedly asked Sonic as Tails smiled happily up at his sister, who beamed. Blaze just smirked as Ash shot him a look as she said, "What's so funny?"
"Of course I'm coming along," he said, dodging her tackle as she leapt at him and was held away by his two strong hands. "Someone's got to keep you out of trouble!"
"Hey!" Ash said, looking back to see that their new friends were laughing along with him as she just giggled, too.
"Well Tails, is the Tornado almost ready to go?" Sonic started to say before he saw everyone's face. "What's going on?"
"Ash, what's your Dad doing with the Chaos Emerald?" Tails said, as Ash and Blaze immediately connected the dots before all of them did. They both took off running as they heard their mother call out in dismay as he bolted up the gangplank, alone and in a hurry. Her husband's eye caught all of them all as he boarded his ship with the Chaos Emerald in hand.
"I'm sorry, I have to do this to protect this family. Take care of them, Roxanne," were her husband's last words to her before he lifted the Green Chaos Emerald to the sky, connecting his eyes one more time with his children's as he thought down to them with a loving smile, 'Grow strong, Blaze. And Ashley … my daughter … Stay grounded in what makes you strong. Please, forgive me!'
"Hark!" Roxanne tried to call out to him before he released the mast and pulled away from the pier of the dock to the other's dismay. "Don't, please!"
Whispering the words, Sonic was sure he heard him utter the words "Chaos Control" before a bright and green electric spark made everyone else shield their eyes in protection. Opening them, next to Roxanne's horror, Sonic and Tails' stunned silence, Blaze's hand on his sister's shoulder, and Ash's heartbreak, Hark and his ship were completely gone, all with the Emerald in tow!
Meanwhile, very far from the port of Seaside, Dr. Eggman shook himself awake to see the chromatic readings of another Emerald pop up on his screen as his devious eyes sparkled in delight. Inside though, he was equally stunned to find out that he had a mystery on his hands as to why Sonic's new friends had such new abilities he had never really seen before, but that only meant one thing … They didn't see the end of Dr. Eggman!
Alright guys, sorry about the late absence from my story updating. Hopefully this will help until I'm able to get more up and running! Introducing a new story that writergirl142 and I are very proud of ... Sonic X: Journey to a New World.
We hope you guys enjoy this new story. Frieda the Fox belongs to me in this story, Ashley Coon belongs to my best friend, and her big brother, Blaze (or Locke if you wondered by his real name), belongs to Burning Dolphin. Their mother and father also belong to us. Any mention of Sonic and his friends all belong to Sonic X creators. Let us know what you guys think, and happy reading!
