The blue furry in Dr. Howards office was starting to stir. Dr. Howards was a tall black panther who stood at about 4' 9". He had a doctors coat on along with some khaki pants and some newly polished black dress shoes. There was a small hole in the back of his pants to let his long slender tail flow from behind him. His jungle green and yellowish eyes were concentrated firmly on the rising and falling chest of the furry on his table. The furry began to toss and turn, moving with the heated blanket that he was tucked into like a burrito. His eyes began to slightly flicker open and he took a look around the room, examining everything his eyes met.
"Where am I?" He said. His voice a hoarse and dry like a summers day. He rubbed his throat and reached for a small paper cup on a night stand next to him and drank with two audible gulps. He was panting and suddenly threw off the blanket.
"Ah, you're awake. You shouldn't try to move. For now, lie down and we will help you as much as we can." Dr. Howards motioned for the furry to stay where he was. He walked over to his night stand took his paper cup and filled it back up in a near by sink. He handed it back to the furry who drank it again.
"Where am I?" The furry asked the doctor.
"Why, my good wolf, you are in Salem Hospital. I am Doctor Howards, your current care taker." He said with a small bow.
The furry nodded, "Hospital? What happened to me?" He said.
"Well, you were found unconscious and were brought here for medical care. You have been asleep until now." Dr. Howards said.
"Asleep?" The furry looked to the ground in thought. "I can't remember anything besides the present, Doctor..." He said.
"Mm? We have a case of amnesia on our hands!" Dr. Howards said. "Stay right there, i'll be right back." He rushed out of the room. The furry was left sitting on his bedside, alone and confused. He got to his feet and started to walk around the room. There wasn't much to see, a picture here, a desk there... A sink over there... Yea, it was plain as day. He decided he would walk out and explore this new place. Well, it was new to him anyway. He peeked his head outside the doorway and saw an empty hallway. He walked out and to his left to find steps leading down and an elevator next to them. He didn't know what the elevator was, so he walked down the steps. Carefully, one by one, hand on the rail, he went down the stares. Once reaching the bottom, he was in another hallway. He walked out and saw Michell busy typing in her computer. He walked up to the counter and rested his chin on his hands as he watched her.
"Hello, whats your name?" The furry asked the white cat. Michell jumped and stared at the blue wolf.
"You are Dr. Howards patient. Why are you out of bed?" She asked.
"Mm? Well, I just woke up and I can't remember anything right now. I wanted to go for a walk." He said as he raised his head off his chin.
"Well, you should be in bed. If Dr. Howards told you that you could go, then by all means." She said. She turned back to her computer and started to work again. The furry walked on past her counter and out the front door and onto the road. He looked up and around, staring at all the buildings. He walked along, staring at all the different people, buildings and other things there were to stare at. There was a market, a jewelry store, a cafe, a department store, and even a restaurant. Yes, there was a lot to look at, but the most important thing on the furries mind was who he was and what he was doing here.
"Excuse me, sir? Where might I find some information?" He asked a random person on the street.
"Huh? Well, I hear there is an really smart guy down the road and to the right. He tells peoples fortunes and answers any questions you may have about anything." The guy said.
The furry nodded, "Thanks!" He ran off and down the street. He turned right immediately and found what he was looking for. A mass of people had grouped into one place and it was rather noisy. There were men, women and children of all ages surrounding one person. He was a rather tall dog, a great dane if you will. He was about 4'5" and his slender face told everyone he was over forty. His shining blue eyes complimented his dirty blond coat. All he wore was dirty grey sweat pants, leaving his bare chest exposed. There was only one word to describe him, ripped. His chest was that of a body builder, muscular enough to woo any lady. The furry ran into the crowd of people and made his way to the center. He got stuck between two people and had to try and force his way in. This didn't end well, as he fell face forward on the ground.
"Hm?" The man said. He knelt down and picked the blue furry up by his shoulders. The furry got up and back onto his feet. The crowd was silent.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to be clumsy... Anyway, I was told I could find out information here." He said.
"Yes. I am Martin the Wise, he who knows ten-thousand things. What is it that you ask of me today, child?" Martin asked. He smiled with a warm, friendly glow.
"Well, you see, I just woke up in a hospital and I can't remember anything. Who I am, where I came from, why I'm here... Nothing. Could you tell?" The furry asked.
"Odd questions for an odd story. May I see your palm?" Martin asked. The furry did as requested, and placed his hand, palm up, in Martins. Martin placed his right index finger in the center of his palm and closed his eyes. A few moments later, he re opened his eyes in shock.
"Suspicious, suspicious... I can tell you your name and where you came from, but why you are here is a mystery, even to my touch." Martin leaned down and whispered something in the young furries ear.
"Thats and odd name... And you say-" He was cut off by Martin.
"Shush, don't say anything. This is what I can tell you, what you know now could make all the difference in your future. Now, off you go." Martin said. He shooed the furry off from the crowd. The noise was back and roaring again.
The furry walked up a deserted up-hill road, eagerly smiling to himself. As he trotted along he only thought of the information he had gained. "Alright, so I know my name and how I got here, which was interesting all on its own, now I just need to find out why I came here in the first place." He thought to himself. The road went on, seemingly forever. The furry stopped suddenly and looked up the road. From what he could see, there wasn't an end in sight! Just a trail that hiked up a mountain side that wasn't there before. Of course, he wasn't really paying that much attention to where he was going. He walked on for what seemed like days... At last, reaching what appeared to be the top, there was a house that oddly resembled a fox's head in the side of the mountain range. The furry didn't even take a second thought before running for the house. He knocked on the door and waited for a response. There came footsteps behind the door before someone answered the door.
"Hello?" A dark hedgehog said. He was dressed in a black t-shirt and blue jeans and stood at about 3'8". He also had on red and white striped shoes that looked like skates. He looked about sixteen.
"Hello, I was wondering if I might see a Miles "Tails" Prower?" The furry asked. The hedgehog looked at the furry for a moment, looking him over.
"Tails, someone's here for you." The dark hedgehog turned and went back inside. An orange yellow fox came to the door. He was also dressed in the same thing the hedgehog was, except his shoes looked like normal sneakers.
"May I help you?" He asked.
"Yes, I was told to come here and help you today. You received a phone call earlier this morning, am I correct?" The furry asked. He was holding a 4x11 note card.
"How did you know that? And who are you exactly?" Tails asked.
"I know this because I was told to ask it. And my name is Zephyr." He said. (A/N: FINALY, A NAME!!)
The fox looked a little confused, "You were told to ask me if I got a phone call today? That's a little weird. What do you want?" He said.
"Why to assist in your cause! I also herd that a Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends; Miles Prower, a.k.a. Tails, Knuckles the Echidna, Amy Rose, Shadow the Hedgehog, and Rouge the Bat were all going to help a Dr. Eggman. I would like to assist you." Zephyr said.
"Uh-huh. And why do you want to help us?" Tails said.
"I was told to?" Zephyr said sarcastically. Tails only nodded and went back inside his house.
"You can come in if you want." Tails said as he turned around. Zephyr walked inside the house to see three other people besides the two he had just met. Knuckles was sitting on the far end of a couch that was placed in the center of a large living room. On the other end of the couch was Sonic. They were both wearing the exact same thing, besides their shoes, a black t-shirt and jeans. Knuckles shoes were red and yellow, while Sonics were red and white. In the corner where Tails had walked back to was Winter. In front of Sonic and Knuckles was a clean wooden table and a Wii.
"So why exactly are we playing this game?" Knuckles asked.
"I herd I was in this game, so I wanted to check out if the roomers were true." Sonic said.
Tabuu held himself in mid air as he gathered power from the darkness of the subspace around him. The Rainbow Wings formed and he spread them with power. Suddenly, a blue streak slammed into the right wing, cutting a hole strait through it. It did a one eighty and came back to strike again, this time hitting the left wing with the same amount of damage as the first. Sonic the Hedgehog appeared on top of a small rock and he shook his finger at Tabuu.
"Ha, I knew it! That is so cool, I'm totally being myself." Sonic said as he shook the wii-mote around in excitement.
"It's no big deal... I wish I was in a video game..." Knuckles said.
Zephyr watched as they took on a glowing blue person. He leaned against the couch from behind and looked as Sonic jumped and hit the floating man. He exploded in a shock of energy and all the subspace went away.
"Yea, good job!" Zephyr exclaimed. Sonic and Knuckles jumped at the sound of his voice. They had not seen him come in.
"Uhh... When did you get here and who are you?" Sonic asked.
"Hm? My name is Zephyr and I'm here to help you today." He said. Sonic stared at him and then looked back to his game. Sonic and Knuckles watched the credits and then they went back and did a brawl match.
"Alright guys, were ready to head out." Tails said. Everyone nodded and stood from where they were. Everyone stood in a circle and Shadow pulled out his Chaos Emerald. Zephyrs eyes widened and glued themselves to the gem.
"Chaos Control!" Everyone was gone.
XxXxX
Amy and Rouge were laying on white table like beds in a bleach white room. There was a large window on one side and a door next to it. Dr. Robotnik was looking through the window, writing on a clip board. The girls' chest wear rising and falling as they rested in their beds. Eggman sighed and walked down the hallway and into a fairly large hangar room.
"I can't even remember the last time I thought about using these..." He said. He pulled out a small black box with a single red button on it. He placed his thumb on the button and pressed it. The walls in the hangar opened and there was quite a sight to see. There, inside Robotnik's hangar was thousands of Mecha Sonic MKII. (A/N: If you don't know what these are, go see Sonic X CC Trailer on Newgrounds)
"Good. Now, Lead him to me." Someone said from behind Eggman.
XxXxX
A large green light shined in front of Robotnik's old base. Sonic, Shadow, Tails, Knuckles, Winter and Zephyr were all standing in front of Robotnik's old base. They walked inside the large automatic sliding door and into a large hallway. Inside, Eggman was in plain sight.
"Yo Robotnik, whats up? Whats did you need help with?" Sonic asked as he ran over to him. Everyone else walked.
"Ah, Sonic, what good timing. I don't know why anyone else was brought here, I only really needed you." Robotnik said.
"Hm? Well, what did you need?" Sonic asked.
"I will explain in due time. But first..." Robotnik pushed the button on his little black box again and a large cage fell on everyone but Sonic, as he was right next to Robotnik.
"What!?" Sonic looked back at everyone in the cage. Eggman pressed the button again and a claw came out from the ceiling and grabbed the Chaos Emerald from Shadow.
"Thank you very much Shadow, you were most helpful to me once again." Robotnik said with a small smirk.
"What is the meaning of this Robotnik?" Shadow said.
"Yea, whats going on?" Sonic said.
"I said I would explain in due time. And so I will. But for now-" Robotnik pushed the button once again and the floor underneath the cage dissipated, letting the cage and everyone in it fall in the new hole in the ground. Sonics eyes widened and he ran over to the hole.
"Tails!" Sonic said. He whirled around to see Robotnik standing in front of him. "Why Robotnik?" Sonic yelled.
"Sonic, you have to understand. I had no choice." Robotnik said.
"What do you mean you had no choice?" Sonic yelled again.
"For the third time, I will explain later. For now, come with me." Robotnik said and turned to start walking away.
"I'm not going anywhere until you tell me what the hell is going on! So you had better sta-"
"METAL SONIC IS BACK!! I don't know how, but he's back. Do you honestly think I would willfully betray you Sonic?" Robotnik yelled. His glasses slid down his large nose. Sonic looked as surprised as he would when he went to Tails house to find him and- Oh wait, thats later in the story...
"Metal Sonic? But he was destroyed years ago, he made sure of that himself." Sonic said. (A/N: For those of you who have not seen the Sonic OVA, go watch it on You Tube right now.)
"That may very well be, but he's back now." Robotnik said. "If you would follow me." He motioned for Sonic to follow. Sonic complied. He led him to the far wall from the entrance and felt along the wall. At one point in the wall, it pressed in, forming a sort of small square cave. The whole wall moved away from itself and the rest of the hallway was there. It was the hangar!
"Robotnik, why bring me to the hangar? Are you going to take me somewhere?" Sonic said.
"Oh, your going somewhere, but Robotnik here isn't the one to take you there." A sinister voice echoed in the hangar.
"Metal? Where are you?" Sonic asked.
"Hm? You already know who is pulling the strings? Doctor, how could you betray me so easily?" Metal asked.
"Betray you? Your the one who asked me to bring Sonic here. Your the one who hurt Amy and Rouge before you stopped to ask me any questions. You are the one who killed himself all those years ago. Who are you to call me a traitor?" Robotnik said. He was sent flying to the wall by one of the Mechas.
"Shut your filthy mouth before I have one of your creations rip out your throat." Metal said.
"Metal, get your ass in here so I can kick it!" Sonic said.
"Such a mouth. Fine, as you wish." The voice faded. Metal came up from a small platform in the ground in front of Sonic. "Your friends make such wonderful hostages." He taunted. Sonic growled at him.
"Let them go right now!" Sonic yelled.
"No." Metal said.
"Let them go NOW!" Sonic yelled as he looked at their condition.
"Why should I?" Metal asked.
"Because if you don't, I'm going to do this." Sonic spin dashed at Metal who didn't have time to react and took the hit head on. He continued the spin dash down the shaft the platform had come up from.
XxXxX
Tails was the first to wake from the earlier capture. He was right next to Winter and Zephyr. Over on his right were Knuckles and Shadow. They were lying on a cold stone floor in the middle of a small stone room. At least, thats sort of what it looks like. On all sides there were bars, but on one side behind the bars was a door. Up above them where the ceiling should be was a big black nothing of space.
"Ugh... What happened?" Tails asked as he slowly sat up right. His eyes widened and shot up when he remember what happened.
"But how? How far did we fall?" He said. He crawled on all fours over to Winter and started gently shaking her.
"Winter." He said. "Winter." No response. He tried with the others, but to no avail. He sat down indian style next to Winter and waited. He tried to meditate, which Knuckles had taught him a while back. He would do this until either the others woke up, or Sonic came to save them.
XxXxX
Sonic finally reached the bottom of the shaft. There was a medium sized room with only one way leading out, other than the shaft. There was a door on the other side of the room. The room it self was filled with computers, but no one was in there besides Sonic. For the moment. Sonic ran over to the door and it slid to the side. There, a large cage and his friends were sitting.
"Guys!" Sonic exclaimed.
"Sonic!" Tails was the only one awake at the moment to greet him.
"Are the others alright?" Sonic said, looking for a door to the cage.
"I think so, no one appears to be hurt Sonic." Tails said.
"Good. Now, help me find a door." Sonic said.
"Allow me." A round house kick ripped through the bars and created an opening to escape from.
"Shadow! But, how? I thought you guys were knocked out?" Tails said.
"I cannot sleep or become unconscious because of the Chaos Energy that flows through me. Basically, I've got never ending insomnia because I use my power." Shadow said.
"Thats really cool! Now, what about the others?" Sonic said.
"I could use Chaos Control, but i'm a little drained at the moment, so I would have to rest afterwards." Shadow said.
"Thats fine, but can you do it now? Metal Sonic is hot on my trail." Sonic said.
"Metal? But, how?" Tails said.
"Not now, little bro, i'll explain later. First, we have to get Robotnik and the others and get out of here." Sonic said.
"Right. Chaos Control!" There was a flash, and they were gone. Back on the base level of Robotniks base and home, they found him. Along with about a hundred Mecha MK II's.
"This isn't good. We need a plan and fast." Sonic said.
"I'm almost out of energy, but I can probably use Chaos Control to get him and get back to Tails' house. Is that good enough?" Shadow asked.
"What about Rouge and Amy?" Sonic asked.
"Not likely at this level of energy." Shadow said.
"Would this help?" Tails held out a blue Chaos Emerald.
"Tails, where did you get that?" Sonic asked.
"I started collecting them on my own. I didn't tell you because I thought you would disaprove." Tails handed Shadow the Emerald.
"Ahh, thats much better." Shadow said. With a flash, they had Robotnik, Rouge and Amy in there arms.
XxXxX
A green flash shone in Tails' living room and everyone was either on the ground or on the couch a love seats. Shadow handed Tails his emerald back and went to the bathroom.
"I think we did good right?" Tails asked Sonic.
"Yea, we did fine. But what bothers me is that Metal is really back. I fought him before I saved you guys... I thought he was lost in the volcano." Sonic said. Tails patted him on the shoulder.
"Go take a rest, Sonic, you deserve one. We will figure this out some time soon." Tails said. Sonic nodded and ran out the door before Tails could say anything else. Shadow came out of the bathroom.
"Thanks foxy." Shadow said. He was about to leave when Tails spoke.
"Hey, Shadow?" He said.
"Yea?" The dark hedgehog turned.
"Would you like to stay here for the night?" Tails asked. Shadow looked like he had just offered him gold, and he was a really greedy fat man.
"You would have me stay the night?" He said.
Tails nodded, "Mm-hm! Your welcome to stay here anytime!" Tails said.
"Alright then, I will." Shadow said.
"Ah, but first, we have to take these guys home." Tails said.
Shadow sighed, "I guess your right." He said. Tails handed Shadow the blue Emerald once more and with a flash, was gone with everyone but Winter. Tails walked over to her and picked her up bridal style a layed her down on her bed after walking to their bedroom. He took off the human wear and slipped into bed. He pulled his blanket over his shoulder and thought to himself, "What are we going to do?" Before falling to sleep.
XxXxX
"Rah! You let him get away!? How could you let them get away?" A shadowy figure yelled over video chat on one of the panels in the bottom floor of Eggmans base.
"It was chance. I let my guard down when I fought with Sonic. It will not happen again." Metal said.
"It had better not, or I will greatly regret rebuilding you." The person said.
"We shall see who regrets what in due time, Dr. Robotnik." Metal said.