Solean 8:55 AM
Sonic was amazed at the stadium for the show. It actually went down into the ground and surrounded the stage itself and there was a sort of pool surrounding the stage. Sonic had seen them back home but never any as big as this one!
"I better hurry if I to want get a good seat." Sonic told myself and hurried to get a seat up close.
Unseen by Sonic, Ash Ketchum was also coming down a set of stairs at the other end of the stadium.
"Check it out, Pikachu." Ash said.
"Pika." It replied.
"Way cool, this is gonna be so cool! C'mon, let's get a seat up front!"
" PIKA!"
Ash hurried to the front row, and quickly sat down, not noticing a blue hedgehog sitting down right next to them. However, Pikachu did.
"Pika?"
"Huh?"
Sonic looked to his right to see one of those small mouse things again, only this time it was sitting on the shoulder of a black hedgehog.
"Pika?" It asked again.
Sonic tilted his head at it.
"Pika, pikachu." It said, tugging slightly at the black hedgehog's head.
"What is it, Pikachu?" He asked and that was when he noticed Sonic.
"Oh, hi." Ash said.
"Hey." Sonic replied.
"My name's Ash and this is Pikachu, what's yours?"
"Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog."
"Pika, pikachu."
Sonic tilted his head at Pikachu again.
'What is that thing?' He thought.
"May I have your attention please?"
Sonic, Ash and Pikachu looked to the stage, to see a human standing there with a microphone.
"The show is about to begin, please enjoy the show! Now, give it up, for Elizabeth the Hedgehog! And her pokemon!"
There was a sudden blast from the pool of water. A dark figure flipped in the air and landed on her feet. It was Elizabeth! The crowd cheered wildly for the entrance.
"Thank you, thank you!" She said through the microphone. "What a wonderful crowd we have today! Now, give it up for the stars of our show: MY POKEMON!"
Seven more blasts came from the water and seven figures landed on their feet around the blue hedgehog. The first one was an Eevee, followed by Squirtel, and then a Bellossom, a Gyarados, a Beautifly, a Lucario, and a Dragonair!
"Whoa!" Sonic cried at the sight of them however the rest of the crowd was cheering for the amazing entrance.
"Now, my friends, let's begin!" Elizabeth cried.
The Eevee started. It jumped into the air and shot out a Shadow Ball, while the Squirtel fired an Ice Beam at it. Upon impact, it turned into a firework of rainbow colors, followed by several others.
The Bellossom then used Pedal Dance, sending thousands of flower pedals into the air. The Beautifly followed with Silver Wind. It broke the stream the pedals were flying on and sent them flying over the crowd.
Then the Lucario ran up the Gyarados, jump off its head, and went several hundred feet into the air. It placed its paws together and fired an Aura Sphere with its eyes closed. At first it seemed that it was going to hit the crowd, causing some to scream in fear. Sonic had gotten up ready to try and deflect the sphere when something else beat him to it. The Gyarados and Dragonair had fired two Hyper Beams at it, causing sparkles to fall over the crowd and Lucario landed at the front of the stage.
"Whoa." Sonic said in awe and looked at the trainer on the stage. She was moving her arms around in strange ways, her eyes closed. She was somehow conducting them.
The pokemon continued with the amazing show, from things such as Beautifly and Squirtel making a heart out of String Shot and Ice Beam, to Gyarados and Dragonair doing a sort of dance in the water, to Eevee and Lucario using the Swift and Aura Sphere to make the pedals of Bellossom's Pedal Dance fall into the shape of a perfect Cherry Blossom. And the whole time, their trainer had her eyes closed, moving her arms around, conducting in total silence.
Ash had been to Pokemon Contests before but this was unlike anything he had ever seen. They were working in total silence, it was clear it had taken a long time to get this just right. It had been nearly an hour before the crowd was free to cheer again.
"Thank you, thank you!" The hedgehog said. "Now, for the grand finale!"
The pokemon let out loud cries and used their attacks. Eevee used Swift, Squirtel used Water Gun, Bellossom used Pedal Dance, Beautifly used Silver Wind, Lucario fired Aura Sphere, Gyarados used Hyper Beam, and Dragonair used Dragon Rage. The seven attacks collided in the air, causing everyone to wonder: what now?
The attacks exploded, causing Sonic and Ash to tense up. The smoke lingered for only a few seconds before something shot from it! At first all that could be seen was a shadow but it was soon clear as to what it was.
"A Pikachu?" Ash asked.
It was indeed the same one from before, they could tell by its cheeks and the bow on its ear. It landed on the ground and cried out, causing a Thunder Bolt attack. The electricity flew into the air and started to make a shape: the outline of a heart!
The other pokemon ran at the pikachu and jumped into the water, headed for the heart. Most had practically grown wings because they were flying! They jumped through the heart unscratched. Once they had landed, they made a sharp turn and sent the same attacks from before at the heart. At first no one was sure what had happened but then the heart started spinning. The pokemon had made other outlines of hearts to make the first heart seem reel. It then burst, sending sparkles flying over the crowd.
It was indeed a grand finale. The crowd went wild, even Sonic was clapping. The pokemon and their trainer bowed as the crowd's cheers went on.
"Thank you everyone!" Elizabeth said into the microphone. "You've been great today! Please come again soon!"
As the crowd began to leave, Sonic saw Ash at once.
"Yo, Ash!" He called, running to catch up.
"Oh, hi Sonic." He said.
"Hey, that was some show, huh?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah, I've never seen something like that before, even at Pokemon Contests." Ash said.
"Pokemon Contests?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah, you know, trainers using their pokemon use their attacks to create something amazingly beautiful or cool." Ash said.
"Not really." Sonic said.
"Huh, so you've never been to a Pokemon Contest then?" Ash asked.
"Nope."
"I see."
"Hm, hey look."
Ash looked to where Sonic was. There was Elizabeth getting her bike, her Pikachu on her shoulder.
"Hey!" Sonic called.
She looked up from her bike to see them.
"C'mon, Ash, I'll introduce ya." Sonic said, grabbing Ash's wrist.
"Ah, wait!"
Too late, Sonic was already pulling him.
"Yo Liz, what's up?" Sonic asked.
"Hi Sonic. Did you enjoy the show?" She asked.
"Did I ever! I've never seen anything like before!" Sonic said.
"I'm glad you liked it. Who's your friend?"
"I'm Ash, Ash Ketchum, we met earlier." Ash said.
"Oh yeah, you told me where my Pikachu went, thanks."
"No problem." Ash said.
"So I take it you've met Sonic?"
"Yeah, we just met before the show started." Ash said.
"Cool, so you guys wanna come with me to my place? I have a ton of Pokemon I you're gonna love meeting." Liz said, getting on her bike.
"Sounds great!" Ash said.
'I don't know.' Sonic thought. He wasn't sure if he wanted to meet more of those strange creatures, especially if they have more of those strange abilities.
"HOHOHOHOHOHOHO! What have we here?" A voice asked, and it was all too familiar to Sonic.
"Eggman!"
Liz and Ash simply looked up to see a fat human in a sort of ship.
"Who is that guy?" Ash asked.
"You've got me." Liz said.
"That's Doctor Eggman!" Sonic said. "He's been trying to take over the world for a long time now but I always stop him!!'
"With your Pokemon?" Liz asked.
"No, with my speed!" Sonic said.
"What do you mean?" Ash asked.
"Enough talking already!" Eggman yelled. "Your time is up, Sonic!"
He pressed a button on his ship, sending a missal right at them!
"Look out!" Sonic cried, before jumping into action.
"Sonic, get back here!" Liz yelled.
But she was silenced when she saw how high he could jump! He kicked the missal right back at the doctor's ship! It hit the ship head on, sending him flying.
"I WON'T FORGET THIS!" He yelled.
"Well, that was easy." Sonic said.
He looked at the others, who were staring at him.
"What?" He asked.
"How did you do that?" Liz asked.
"You mean get rid of Egg-head, the way I always do." Sonic shrugged.
"Well I've never heard of this guy." Liz said.
"Me neither." Ash said.
"Man, where have you guys been living for the past ten years? Under a rock?" Sonic asked.
"Solean!" Liz snapped.
"Pallet Town!" Ash said.
"Never heard of Pallet Town." Sonic said.
"It's in the Kanto Region!" Ash snapped.
"Never heard of that place." Sonic said.
"Kanto, one of the Regions for Pokemon Trainers to travel and collect Badges?" Ash asked.
"Never heard of that place and I've been just about everywhere on Mobius!" Sonic snapped.
"Mobius? What's that?" Liz asked.
"The name of this planet!" Sonic snapped.
"No, it's Earth!" Ash snapped.
"Your both wrong." Liz simply said.
Both boys stopped arguing and looked at her.
"The name of this planet is Kara." She said.
"Kara?" They both asked.
"Yeah, I think you guys might be a little lost." She said. "I've read about stuff like this and heard stories from my grandmother. I think you're no longer on your home planets."
"What? How's that possible?" Ash cried.
"Chaos Control!" Sonic said.
"Chaos what?" Ash asked.
"Chaos Control. It allows you to travel through time and space. It seems that Chaos Control somehow brought me here." Sonic said.
"Well, that's just the tip of the ice burg for me! I'm not even supposed to be like this!" Ash cried.
"What do you mean?" Liz asked.
"I was originally a human, not hedgehog." Ash said, looking at his hands.
"Ruff." Liz said.
"Yeah well it's harder for me too 'cause these poke-whatever aren't even on my planet!" Sonic snapped.
"You're world doesn't have any Pokemon?" Ash asked.
"No." Sonic said.
"Man, that place must be really boring." Ash said.
"Not really, you have to stay on your toes have to the time other wise Egg-belly would get'cha." Sonic said.
"Sounds interesting." Liz said. "Listen, how about we discuss this more back at my place?"
"Okay." Ash said.
"I hope your fast, 'cause it takes a while to get there, bike or no bike." She said.
"How long would it take?" Ash asked.
"An hour by foot, about ten minutes if I go full speed on my bike." Liz said.
"I can get us there in ten seconds flat." Sonic said.
"How, by Rabidash?" Liz asked.
"Whatever that is, no." Sonic said. "Fold up that bike and grab onto me, 'cause we're going mock two!"
Liz and Ash looked at each other. Was this hedgehog crazy or something? But either way, Liz folded up her bike, handed it to Sonic, and grabbed onto Sonic.
"Hold on tightly guys!" Sonic said and was off in a flash.
"WHOA! SLOW DOWN!" The younger hedgehogs cried.
"PIKACHU!"
As they raced through the city, passers by were shocked by a blue blur that filled their streets. However, it didn't seem to want any trouble, so did their best to just ignore it.
However, one person was watching them from the rooftops.
"Man oh man oh man." He chanted to himself.
He followed them over the rooftops, and having Air Sneakers sure helped with that.
"Oh man." He said again. "My sis is gonna kill me!"
"It's about time he called." The brunette said, picking up the walkie-talkie. "You better say what I think you're gonna say or else it's gonna be ugly."
"Well, uh…you see…Sonic and Ash sort of…uh…met. And they met the hedgehog girl who carries the third crystal, and the location of the other two is uh…unknown. The same for the clone." He stuttered.
He turned the volume on the walkie-talkie as low as he could but that didn't stop his sister's yelling.
"YOU HAVEN'T LOCATED THE CRYSTALS? AND THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY TO THE THIRD? AND WE HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THE CLONE IS?" She screamed. "HAVE YOU AT LEAST LOCATED ANY OF THE OTHERS?"
"Not yet, I don't think they're even going to be conscious yet. Oh, and Ash is now a hedgehog, is that gonna be a problem?" He asked.
"Not sure yet, I'll look into it further." She said.
"Are you sure? You haven't done homework since the second grade." Her brother said.
"I know, but who out of the two of us have actually had to do reports so major that our entire final semester grade relied on them and to do so we had to research for months on end? AND three years in a row." She asked.
"You did." Her brother groaned.
"Yep, me. So you leave it to me. You just better find that clone and those crystals or you'll get a lecture so long it'll make your head spin. Get it?" She growled.
"Got it."
"Good. Do you have the medallion?"
"Like you wouldn't stop bugging me about it?"
"Be serious! Do you have or don't you?"
"Yeah, I've got it."
"Good, 'cause I don't wanna come there just because you lost that medallion." She said sharply.
"Yeah, yeah. How's your remote coming along anyways?"
"I'm working on it. It's not easy to build something and look something up at the same time."
"Okay, okay, I get the idea." He said.
"Good, now you better find something, 'cause as a certain hawk would say: bring something back, or don't return at all."
"Okay, I get it. Don't worry."
"Whatever, just get your rear in gear or else I'll-"
"Oops. It seems my finger has slipped." Her brother said, turning off the walkie-talkie. "Phew. That was a close one."
Unknown area unknown time unknown planet
"HE HUNG UP ON ME!"
The two, cloaked teenagers covered their ears at the sudden roar. They knew very well what that meant: a four hour-long lecture foe the youngest of them and some ranting and raving from his sister.
"THAT LITTLE BRAT HUNG UP ON ME! WHY I'M GONNA-"
"Calm down already." The girl in purple said.
"Easy for you to say, you're brothers are already living on their own, I've still gotta watch mine." The brunette said her hair puffed up from the sudden outburst.
"Calm down, you'll get to him later." The girl in purple said.
"Yeah, yeah."
"So, what does he got?"
"Next to nothing on the clone and two of the three crystals."
"The heroes?"
"He's only found three of them, not counting Ash and Liz's Pokemon."
"Who's the third?" The boy in green asked.
"Sonic the Hedgehog." The brunette answered.
"What about Silver and Blaze?" The boy asked.
"Wrong series." The brunette said.
"Silver and Blaze?" The girl in purple asked.
"Don't ask, please!" The brunette said, holding the patch of skill between her eyes.
"Okay, I won't."
"I'm going to check the crystal ball." The brunette groaned.
Once they thought she was out of eat shot, the boy in green and the girl in purple started arguing again. The brunette sighed as they started playing the game console again. She walked over to the crystal ball and waved her hand over it. It showed Sonic dragging two hedgehogs, two pikachus, and a bike.
"Poor things. They don't even know that the fate of all worlds lays on their shoulders, I just hope Sonic can face the past in the eyes, otherwise…we're doomed." She said quietly. "May the ancestors watch over you…may they watch over us all…"