In the evening of Lost Angels, all was peaceful. With the bright sun setting into noon, as street lights flickered on once there was a sign of darkness which brought the city back to life in an instant.
As said, all was peaceful, until it wasn't.
A small fire broke out, small for the large city but major for the district. Civilians watched the burning apartment from a distance that wouldn't harm them, some feeling helpless and a few poor residents who got back from their trip to MobiMart were greeted with their apartment block on fire.
The flames raged outside the building, as it looked like the inside of the building wasn't lethal to be in, but it could be a death sentence if the firefighters were unable to reach the district in time.
One of the distraught residents who was a hazelnut deer knelt on the ground and crying a waterfall, cried. "My boooooy!! My tiny little baby boooooy!! Somebody, save him!" The poor hazelnut coloured deer screamed out of her lungs.
Her husband, another hazelnut deer pats her on her back, and tells her, "D-Don't worry, the firefighters have already been called, they will surely come just in time to save the day!" As he remained somewhat confident for the sake of his wife's sanity, but knew that the firefighters may not reach the block of apartments in time.
On the top of another apartment block that was to the right of the burning one, was a blue 16-year old blue hedgehog, as he looked upon the frightened civilians and residents of the burning apartment block, as some had already fled.
"Hahaha! Dude, you seriously think they will come in time?! The people from this district were so scared fleeing from the burn, they didn't call the firemen right away! That hesitation's gonna kill your baby before they arrive in first place!" The teenaged blue hedgehog mocked, who could tell if he was serious or not?
The lady now no longer cried a waterfall, she now cries an ocean. Her husband, next to her, was completely livid and looked furious but afraid as well, and confronted the hedgehog, "How can y-you be so...heartless!?" He stammered, "We just don't want our child to die! Do you really want us to have our hopes for his safety shattered like this!?" He shouted, glaring at the hedgehog, as the deer consoled his wife once more, rubbing her back./p
The blue hedgehog rolls his eyes in frustration, as if he couldn't get more heartless, "What do you mean your hopes are crushed? There's something to believe in besides a lousy fire brigade..." He then paused, as if the poor deer child who was still in the building, could magically wait for another minute, "...A miracle! And that miracle..."
Before he finished his sentence, he dashed off at supersonic speed, so fast as if his speed was unbelievably faster than a bolt of lightning. With the young hedgehog entering the building quicker then you could blink, he exited said building just as fast as he entered it. A small hazelnut deer, no older then an infant, was wrapped in his arms. As he then finished his sentence, "...is me, Sonic The Hedgehog, the fastest thing alive!"
At the sight of seeing the teenage blue hedgehog with green eyes that shone like an emerald, white gloves, red sneakers, brown shorts with white stripes and a ring attached to it, an open jacket that was coloured red, blue, white and yellow like a spring pattern, and a red bandana loosely tied around his neck, but tight enough so it wouldn't fall off.
There was the deer baby in his arms, the frightened and scared civilians who didn't flee, had their fear fade into joy in seconds, as the remaining crowd cheered for the heroic act of the blue hedgehog known as Sonic. After he gave the mother her baby, she continues crying, but this time because of joy. The baby's father is happy and grateful, but had a look of guilt on his face.
"I'm sorry, Sonic. Please forgive me for my bad behaviour earlier." He said, feeling ashamed of himself.
"It's okay man! I was being a dickhead for no good reason, so it's totally fine to shout at me. But all swell ends swell, am I right?"
They both laugh at that bad joke, but once Sonic was about to set off, in a crouching stance as if he was an Olympic runner, he then stopped his stance, once realising, "Crap...I'm gonna be late! Sorry dude, but I'm in a hurry!"
Instead of continuing his professional runner stance, he blitzed off into the streets at high speed. Once seeing a fire truck driving to the burning apartment that would've "saved the day" he purposely slowed down to flip over the bonnet of the truck, he stuck his tongue out to the driver, whilst showing him the middle finger and said, "You're too slow!" He then jumped onto the truck, and curled up into a ball of electricity as the sight was dizzying to a common onlooker, as a whirr was made.
Once he built up his charging ball for long enough, he uncurled to jump all the way to a building's terrace and grab its ledge. After he did that, he jumps up to the roof, then jumps from roof to roof, until spotting a chili dog stand. He jumped off the building to grab a dimly lit streetlamp so that he wouldn't die, even the fastest of hedgehogs could die once falling from a distance, no one's immortal.
He then swinged from the streetlamp, to jump in front of the chili dog stand. The female seller looks very disappointed once seeing him.
"Heyyy, am I late?!" He said.
"No, you're not." She said as she began to prepare a chili dog. "Unsurprisingly, one with super speed privileges is still not too late after the 7th time."
"Privilege? Hmm." He said, irritated. With his mood quickly shifting back into happiness once the greasy treat of his beloved chili dog was handed to him. "Oh, thank you! It always makes me happy being given the best chili dogs from the best woman."
"That's the same line you make every other day. Your flirting is shallow."
"But I'm serious! I have a weak spot for tsun-"
The seller closes the stand to stop the conversation. Sonic looks slightly disappointed.
"Sheesh, what is her problem?"
He walks off. To switch the mood, he takes a huge bite from the chili dog. It was warm and delicious. When walking back home, while eating said chili dog and nearly finishing it, he heard an old man's scream from a nearby alleyway. He sees a mugger wearing a full disguise, looking ridiculous in all black and thinking a pitch black simple ski mask would "disguise" him. Sonic watched as the mugger in the crappy getup, threatened a scared rich old owl with a sharp butcher knife.
"Ey, ol' owl, see 'tis cuttah? 'F ya wanna liff, gimmeh all 'o cash!" The mugger said in a accent that made Sonic nearly laugh. What a ridiculous accent! Sonic thought that maybe that guy's from some rough part of the city.
pSonic charged into action, as the mugger screamed like a little girl. Sonic wasn't expecting that, as he chuckled./p
"Ow, oww, yo eyhool...y'noh how mush yo punch hurts?!"
pSonic smirked, time to imitate him, "If yoo 'aff moneh pwoblums, buh kind and don rushulff to viulunsh." Sonic mocks, as he then swallows the last bit of his chili dog. "This old man didn't do anything bad to you." He continued.
"Butt ah neet cash!" The mugger stammered, with the butcher knife being put down.
"You don't have to resort to violence because of that! Let me show you how to do it." Sonic then looked at the owl and said with a smile, "Good evening sir! Can you please lend me money? With that low pocket money of mine, that chili dog I've eaten just now might be the last one for this month."
"Oh, sure, good young man! I think this bit here is enough for 3 chili dogs." The owl replied, as he handed the young hero a few golden and shiny rings.
p"Ah, thank you, good sir! Now you try, mister mugger man!"
The mugger looks genuinely shocked, then tries it himself with little confidence./p
"Um, 'ello, ol' wan-" Sonic then slapped the mugger slightly on the neck, not that he was able to harm him, with the mugger still wearing the ski mask, "I mean, 'ello good sir, can I pleesh 'ave cash? Haven't aten a niss meal foh days."
"Oh, sure, why didn't you say that immediately? Here, have this lot." The nice and forgiving old owl said with a smile as he handed the mugger a stack of the golden shiny rings that he gave Sonic./p
"WAT?! 'Tis much, 'tis easy?! Thank you mister, thank you...umm, wut's yo name, boi?" The mugger said, turning to the blue hero./p
"I am Sonic, Sonic The Hedgehog!" Sonic proclaimed. Within a few seconds, he walked off, letting his chili dog digest itself. He felt a bit bad for lying about his money issues, he wasn't rich, but he certainly wasn't in the position of the mugger.
He then runs back home, to his apartment. His rooms weren't tidy, and was full of useless crap everywhere, some even had dust on them. Truth be told, he was a bit lazy and would've hired someone to upkeep his apartment if he was rich. One of the few things Sonic wasn't lazy for was personal hygiene. He took a shower, and hated it for taking so long, being so used to things going fast, meant he was easily bored. Once stepping out of the shower, he went to the balcony to watch the final moments of the sunset while waiting to dry. He didn't want to shake off himself, as he didn't really want to get the bars of his balcony wet.
"Man, I love Mobius. So many nice and different places to run to. I want to see every single place this planet has to offer!" He thought. Thanks to his super speed, he has been to many places of Mobius, but still hasn't seen everything. His hunger for adventure was still not satisfied.
After he got dry and the sun was gone, Sonic decides to sit on his dirty and crappy couch, as the smell of cheap, shitty and probably stale popcorn rests around it as he watches a game of baseball while drinking from a water bottle. When the game got interesting, he gargled water in his mouth for no reason, but then the TV suddenly went off! Sonic spits the water on the ground and shouted
"What the fuck was that?!"
pBut then a thought occurred to him. He goes out in the balcony to confirm his thoughts, and he really can't believe what's happening.
There is a blackout! The entire city slowly loses power! Sonic was bewildered. In his 3 months of living in Lost Angels, there has never been a power outage.. Never ever.
He looked down from his balcony, and watched his fellow apartment residents and civilians on the street, being surprised and bewildered. One old elephant man was actually happy without electricity, like the good ol' days and all the crap.
He watched civilians on the streets turn pitch black. No electricity means no street lights. How are the residents supposed to get back to their homes? He guessed he'll have to make light the old fashioned way, or maybe he can start eating a fuckton of carrots and gain night vision, as he was once told as a small child.
Something rumbled underneath a road, as hooded silhouette emerged, he didn't give any fucks about a car or truck, or any kind of transport coming his way. The figure was wearing a black-red jacket that looked close to crimson but wasn't, pitch black jeans, white spiky gloves and black-brown slip-ons. His jacket is open and his red fur with a bit of white resembling a half-moon is visible, but his face is hidden except for his red quills.
His purple eyes gleamed in the moonlight, and was filled with determination. Who was he? Were they hellbent on destruction or was this a misunderstanding? There was one thing for sure, how would he fix the road that he demolished?