… 4 months ago … (Also the present timeline)
Sonics POV
Everything has been pretty calm for the past years. Here and there some people tried harming or stealing from others but other than that, everything has been peaceful since Eggman's death… I shiver just thinking about it. Even though he was the bad guy in our story, no one deserves to have the same fate as he did.
You're now entering a flashback - 5 years ago
What a boring day, I thought while laying on the roof, relaxing. Everyone was downstairs at Tails's workshop, which became our HQ. Eggman's attacks became more frequent and more violent each time due to his insanity. Being that intelligent didn't do him good and he became obsessed with building his empire. Therefore, we decided that having a HQ would be beneficial for us and everyone moved into in. Together, we transformed it into a beautiful home for all of us. In there, everyone has everything he or she needs. A big kitchen where Cream would cook and bake amazing dishes for us, a training room in which everyone could train according to his abilities, from strength to telekinesis. We also have a pool which I absolutely avoid. I mean, sure I can swim, but what's the point if you cannot run? And we had a medical department in which Amy would treat our wounds. Her ability to control water is amazing, making her a strong fighter and healer at the same time. Her most frequent patient is obviously Knucklehead.
Suddenly, a shadow blocked the sun. I looked up, realizing that Amy is standing in front of me.
"There you are. I've been looking for you everywhere. Dinner is ready, we're all waiting for you", she said.
Adulthood did her good, I thought. I could not stop staring at her. She was standing in front of me wearing a black crop top and black cycling shorts. She probably finished her training. I smirked, thinking about how gorgeous she looked. She was still a bit sweaty from her training and you could definitely see that she's serious when it comes to fitness. Slim waist, toned stomach, arms, and legs. Her u-neck crop top displayed her perky breasts perfectly and don't let me start talking about her peachy ass. Damn she's always making me horny. I wonder what breast size she has, probably D?
"Earth to Sonic, stop starting at me you perv and get your ass in the kitchen", she said while placing her hands on her hips and frowning.
"I know where I'd put your ass right now". I winked.
"Hmpf", she walked away and tried hiding her face but I could clearly see her blush. It's been like that between us for years now. She matured so much. I mean, I've always liked her, I just never found the courage to tell her. If only she knew that she's the only thing on my mind. If only she knew that I'm thinking about her at nights and in the shower. Oh boy. I made my way downstairs before an "accident" happened in my pants.
No one's POV (Still in the 5 year flashback)
Sonic entered the kitchen, smiling at what he was seeing. All his friends, heck his family, gathered around. Tails was helping Cream with dinner. When are they finally going to admit they have feelings for each other, Sonic thought. Rouge and Shadow just entered the room, both blushing and with messy hair. I don't even wanna know what they were doing.
Shadow and Rouge have been dating for 3 years now. She really changed the crimson hedgehog, making him happier. Even if he doesn't show it often, he appreciates being part of the team and enjoys the time he spends with the others. Knuckles and Tikal are seen, arm in arm, laughing at Amy and Blaze's attempt to set the table, which was made impossible by Silver. "SILVER YOU ALREADY BROKE ALL OF OUR DISHES STOP THIS NON-SENSE", Blaze screamed at her fiancée while he is using his telekinesis power to take the plates out of the cupboard. You heard right, Blaze and Silver are engaged, he popped the big question last month after a mission.
On the battlefield
Everything around the Sonic Team was destroyed. Knuckles was slowly losing his strength after destroying the 100th robot. Shadow was throwing chaos spears around while Rouge used her special Screw Kick on a robot that sneaked up behind him. Blaze was throwing fire balls around and Silver elevated robots and smashed them either against each other or against objects. Tails, Cream and Tikal were in the X Tornado and shooting at robots from the air. Amy was thrown against trees which was to her advantage. She took the water out of them and threw it forcefully at her opponents,destroying them. And Sonic faced once again Eggman who looked pretty sick.
"You're not getting bored of this Egghead? It's getting kinda exhausting don't you think, especially in your state and at your age", Sonic said.
"Ho Ho Ho Sonic, this time you won't be able to beat me." Eggman had a coughing attack after saying that. "I specially designed those robots to defeat you once and for all, I only have to push this button and your friends will be no more."
"What do you mean?" Sonic had a strange feeling about this. What is this button going to do?
"See for yourself." Eggman pushed the button and the robots started exploding one by one.
"NOO. Now you went too far Eggman." Sonic spin dashed at him, making his floating robot chair fall to the ground.
Sonic ran towards his friends, fearing the worst. He never expected Eggman doing such a thing. Due to the smoke and fire, which resulted out of the explosion, he could hardly see anything. Until he heard.
"BLAZE, NO." Silver ran towards the purple cat that protected everyone from the explosion by creating a fire shield. However, she was caught in the explosion. Silver kneeled beside her lifeless body and tears streamed down his face.
"Blaze please wake up, don't leave me. I need you, please." He took her in his arms and couldn't let her go.
"EGGMAN", Shadow screamed. Him and Knuckles charged at him, but he had a trick up his sleeve. He pushed another button, creating a smoke cloud around him. He disappeared once again.
Everyone was standing around Blaze and Silver. Tikal held a crying Cream in her arms while suppressing her own tears. No one dared to say a thing or to look away.
"Silver let me heal her." Amy pushed everyone out of her way. She took out her necklace filled with water and bended the water out. It cloaked her hands and after placing her palms on Blaze, the water started glowing. She moved it to different places on Blaze's body. "She'll be fine, but we need to move immediately to the HQ and place her in the water basin for me to heal her properly."
"I'll chaos control us there, hold on to me." Everyone held on to Shadow. "CHAOS CONTROL".
The whole team was back in the HQ. Silver carried Blaze in the medical section and placed her in the basin. Amy started the healing process. The water glowed again and moved according to Amy's arm movements. "She needs to rest. She has to stay in the water, I'll stay by her side." "I'll stay with her as well", said a determined Silver. "We're all going to stay until she wakes up." Everyone looked at Cream and nodded. For the past 2 hours, Amy has been treating Blaze's wounds. Everyone was still, waiting for their friend to wake up.
"Ugh, w-what happened?"
"BLAZE! Finally, you're awake. Please, never do this again." Silver jumped into the basin and took his lover in his arms. "I can't bear losing you."
"You saved us Blaze, thank you. Thank God, Amy treated your wounds and you're okay now", Tikal said with her palms pressed onto each other.
"Thank you, Amy, and everyone that waited for me to wake up." Blaze gave everyone a weak smile.
"I know it might not be the ideal moment, but after this I realized that life can always get in your way and that there is no perfect moment." Silver took Blaze's hand. "I love you Blaze, I always have. Since the day I met you, I knew I couldn't live without you anymore." Silver took out a small box. "Life is too short and I want to spend the rest of my life with you." He opened the box, revealing a beautiful engagement ring. "Blaze, will you marry me?"
Everyone around them gasped and smiled, feeling happy for the couple. The girls squeaked while admiring the ring.
"I… you're making me the happiest woman alive. Yes Silver, 1000 time yes." She threw herself on him and they shared a passionate kiss. Everyone cheered and celebrated. This day turned out to be good.
As for Tikal, she suddenly came out of the Master Emerald one night 4 years ago while Knuckles was guarding it. Neither of them knows how that suddenly happened, since Tikal was trapped in the Master Emerald for nearly 3 millenniums after sacrificing her life to protect the world from Chaos. However, both think that Chaos brought her back. Knuckles took great care of her and the whole team is happy about this addition. Eventually, Knuckles fell in love with Tikal and vise versa. Life was pretty good if you don't count Eggman's attacks.
Everyone was ready for dinner, until an alarm went off, signaling to the team that something is happening somewhere. Tails build some kind of machine that could detect any danger from outside. He took out his device that resembled a phone to see the source of the danger. "Something is happening at Eggman's base."
"He's been pretty calm since his last attack," Rouge said, looking suspicious.
"Aww man, I'm pretty hungry. Let's eat and not worry about that Egghead for once," Knuckles said. He was about to put food in his plate when Sonic said. "We can eat later, let's check out what Eggman is up to before he strikes again."
Annoyed and hungry, the team went towards the X Tornado and made its way towards Eggman's base which was on a deserted island, not far from Tails' workshop. Before heading out, Knuckles stuffed his face with the potato gratin Cream made for everyone. "I'm not gonna fight with an empty stomach."
"KNUCKLES get your ass here and stop eating everyones food, we're hungry as well," screamed an annoyed Tikal. "Let's move."
After upgrading the X Tornado, each member had a seat in it. As usual, Sonic and Knuckles were on the wings. Sonic would have preferred to run but due to the circumstances, Eggman's base being on an island, it was preferable to go by plane. The others were seated, awaiting the situation at Eggmans base. Everything was quiet on the island… too quiet.
They decided to split in smaller teams to cover more space. While Knuckles, Tikal, Tails and Cream explored outside the base, Sonic, Silver, Amy, Blaze, Rouge and Shadow entered the base and split into smaller teams.
Amys POV
"Something feels off. It feels like someone is watching us." I couldn't ignore this feeling. My training with Shadow taught me to trust your senses and mine are telling me that we're being followed. We decided to split the team again. Blaze and I formed a group and we decided to check out the last floor of the building while Shadow and Rouge covered the first one and Sonic and Silver the second one.
"It's strange that we still haven't encountered any robots at all", said Blaze.
"I know right. Eggman has typically a dozen walking around the halls." Because it is not the first time we infiltrated Eggman's base, we pretty much knew what would await us. Or we thought so. Blaze's watch, a creation of Tails enabling us to communicate with each other, started vibrating.
"Cream here, we found some footsteps in the sand outside. Did you find anything inside?"
"Silver here, Sonic and I found a bunch of robots smashed down here, how about you guys?"
"Same on the first floor, Shadow and I haven't found anything intact. How about the last floor?"
"Strangely we haven't found anything yet." Blaze answered while I was walking towards a door that was halfway open. If I remember correctly, it should be the studies. If I would have known what awaited me, I wouldn't have entered. I was facing the back of the chair, obviously someone was sitting on it. "Eggman?" No response. I carefully approached the chair. What I saw made my blood freeze and I didn't even realize that I screamed. Eggman, sitting in his chair, with his throat slit open. I was not the only thing slit open. One of his eyeballs was hanging out of his eye, the other one was missing. In addition to that, his mouth winkles were cut into the shape of a smile, displaying that his teeth were missing. I was completely distracted by his face, not realizing that someone cut open his stomach and wrapped his intestines on a steel bar. I gaged. No one deserves to die this way, not even him. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder. Shockingly, I bended water out of the air and shot it at that mysterious person, throwing him on the nearby shelfs. That's when I realized it was Sonic. Blaze was also in the room, shocked at what she was seeing. She stormed out of the room, not being able to watch this scene any longer. "I'm so sorry Sonic." My voice was trembling, I still couldn't realize what I saw.
"I was worried something might have happened to you, I ran as soon as I heard your scream." He indeed looked worried. I looked at Eggman again, tears streaming down my face. He took me in his arms. He gently stroked my back and hugged me tighter. "Poor Eggman," I said, "I know he was evil but not even he deserved that!"
"I know Ames. We'll find the person who did it, I promise."
I felt safe in his arms, snuggling my head deeper in his chest. I hope he can't see me blushing. My heart was beating faster. I also felt his heartbeat. Am I making him as nervous as he is making me? No, I'm probably imagining things. Nevertheless, we stayed in this embrace. I could stay like that forever. His smell is driving me crazy. What if… I was thrown out of my fantasy when the others entered the room, making me realize where I was standing and what happened. We were both blushing madly.
"What the hell happened in here?" Shadow was shocked seeing Eggman in this state.
"Now I wish I wouldn't have eaten anything," Knuckles murmured, clenching his stomach.
Silver was outside trying to calm down a shaken Blaze. Tails was making sure that the other girls didn't enter the room, wanting to protect them from such a sight. I wish I would have never seen this.
"Looks like he was tortured." Shadow said.
Knuckles looked at him. "But why? What did he have in his possession that was so important?"
"I don't know Knuckles, I really dont." Sonic turned to everyone. "Lets get out of here before I start vomiting."
"We cant leave Eggman like that." The boys turned their attention to me. "I know he was our enemy, but no one deserves to die this way and be left like this."
"Amy's right." Blaze entered the room, accompanied by the others and still shaken. "We can't leave him like this."
Sonic took a nearby blanked and covered Eggman's body. "Fine. We'll burry him outside. Come on guys, help me transport his body."
No one said a thing. The boys carried his body outside and dug a grave. Meanwhile, us girls looked around the base, searching for clues on the person who did that.
"Its like no one entered this building."
"I agree with Tikal. If it wouldn't have been for the footsteps outside and the… the damage inside, you could imagine that no one has been around." Rouge glanced around again. "This place gives me the creeps. Do you think we should burn it down?"
"That would be a bad idea at the moment. We should keep this place intact until we know what those persons were looking for. Also, Eggman's lab could be useful for us." Cream said with a determined look on her face.
"I have to agree with Cream. It is more beneficial for us to keep this base for now. However, we have to put a protecting shield and cameras around it in case they come back." Blazed thought for a moment. "Girls! There is no way Eggman has no cameras here. We didn't even check those out, come on."
We searched until we found the security room. Unfortunately, the cameras were shut and destroyed without leaving any footage. "It's no use girls, lets go to the boys outside and give Eggman a proper burial. We can come back later." I started walking towards the main entrance, the girls following me. The boys were standing outside, in front of Eggman's grave. We approached them, I decided to stay next to Sonic. Instead of a gravestone, there was a big chunk of metal. "Farewell Eggman. Rest in peace," Sonic said while lowering his eyes. We held a minute of silence for Eggman and decided to head back. I watched Tails and Cream install some kind of machine that would mask the whole base. I always wondered how Tails managed to create all those inventions and having the right one with him whenever we needed it.
The ride home was silent. Even though he was our enemy, we were mourning him. I know he was bad. But at the end he was just a miserable old person that was alone all the time. We were probably the closest persons he had. I hope he can find peace. I looked outside at Sonic who was sunk in thoughts. I wonder how he feels about this. I closed my eyes, wanting to forget this day. Now we'll never have to worry about Eggman again. But I feel like were going to face a new enemy, more dangerous than everything we faced.
