Bright lights illuminated the night sky's clouds as cries of terror and panic came from streets below. Ever since Dr. Robotnik had announced his new attack on the earth it had sent the entire world spiraling into a panic with the governments of the earth nearly unable to do anything to comfort people. All G.U.N. forces had immediately been dispatched to try and stop the mad scientist but no matter what they did they were annihilated wherever they attempted to place their attention on the hordes of robots in Robotnik's empire. Still, no one had found any sign of him after he had attacked the two humanoid animals that had previously stopped him and the world had begun to go into chaos upon hearing of his demise not happening.
"Um...Blaze?" Silver said knocking on the bathroom door in her room, "can I come in?" "Hold on a sec...alright, come on." With one eye closed Silver opened the door and stepped into the steamy large marble room with Blaze submerged except for her head in the bathtub. "Whoa..." Silver trailed off with his eyes wide as he looked around the king sized room before noticing his friend and blushing a bit, "Um...so, how're you doing?" "Well, my arm and side still hurt a bit but I'll manage," Blaze replied unable to see Silver's face that well through the mist, "Any word on Robotnik?" "Not yet there isn't. Everyone's been hysterical, even your staff, ever since he announced what he was going to do." Sighing, Blaze lowered herself deeper into the tub of water so that only her snout remained above the surface and closed her eyes.
Sitting in next to the bathtub for a few moments Silver looked at his thinking friend who suddenly opened an eye to stare at him. Blushing Silver looked away in a mixture of embarrassment and fear for what Blaze might do to him later on. Raising her mouth back above the water Blaze spoke again, "I've given some thought to your plan Silver. Yes, I think I might indeed be able to sense the Sol Emerald's power and will try to once we start on our little adventure to stop Robotnik. I just hope he hasn't been able to find too many as of right now. How's about you patrol some?" "Alright," Silver nodded and smiled before standing up and saluting, "You can count on me." "Silver." "Yeah Blaze?" "You look like an idiot doing that."
Embarrassed once more Silver walked as best he could out of the steaming setting and back into Blaze's cooled bedroom. He really did respect his friend a lot and would probably do just about anything Blaze asked him to do, especially if it was to hunt down Robotnik. As he looked through the drapes covering the windows of the room, Silver could just barely make out a ton of G.U.N. troops in the streets below hurrying citizens this way and that. He was astounded that one person could cause such panic and mayhem in one split second. Just how had Robotnik gotten all the equipment and robots and gadgets he had at his disposal? How did he, of all people on earth, acquire such an IQ? Why him?
"Are you patrolling yet?!" Blaze's yell from the room behind him interrupted Silver's thoughts causing the hedgehog to blush again and smack his forehead. Quietly tiptoeing out of the window, Silver lifted himself into the night air and launched himself over the rooftops of Soleanna to begin his search. Almost instantly an explosion happened off to his left and he dropped to a rooftop to check out what was happening below. There was something alright, a badnik gunning down G.U.N. soldiers left and right. "Looks like they could use some help," Silver said to himself sternly and lowered himself down behind a statue of an old spiky haired hero to avoid being spotted.
"Take it out men!" the commander of the platoon shouted before being shot by another badnik's laser from behind. The spider-like robots with laser guns on the tops of the bodies continued to fire a barrage of the deadly projectiles into the remaining members of the G.U.N. platoon with them practically helpless to do anything other than die. "Oh man!" one of the troops shouted before being shot in the arm and falling to the ground, "We're screwed!" Just then, one of the badnik's was sent hurtling into one of the others smashing them to pieces as Silver leapt onto the final remaining one's back and tore the laser off before firing the gun downwards through its body destroying it as well.
"You guys alright?" he asked turning to them and spotting the injured comrade, "Let me help." Lifting his hand into the air Silver levitated a strip of a bullet proof vest of a fallen troop around the hurt one's arm and wrapped it tightly beneath the shoulder cutting off the circulation of blood to the arm better than if any natural being had tried to do so. "Yeah..." one of the G.U.N. troops said bewildered at what he just witnessed, "I think we'll manage. If you're after Robotnik it looks like you'll do better than us Silver, we were able to find information on where he's making all these badniks but then we were ambushed and in pretty bad shape until you came. There's a factory where the old festival of Soleanna used to be held long ago where Robotnik's mass producing these creatures."
Saluting the soldiers as he did Blaze, Silver thanked them and began to run along the streets of the panicking city. Spotting various badniks along the way Silver made sure to destroy them until he was suddenly hit by some metal object that slammed into him from above. "Ugh!" Silver exclaimed tumbling head over heals through the street eventually skidding to a stop, "What the heck was that?" Coughing as he got up Silver looked around and clutched his bruised head. "The Marvelous Queen?" he murmured as he spotted the hover bike with a cyborg purple weasel wielding a what looked like a cork gun and cowboy clothes on top. "Looks like you're having a bit of fun aren't you?" Fang the Sniper laughed and swiveled the bike around aiming it at the hedgehog, "Well, I'm sorry but I can't allow you to continue this little destructive path of yours kiddo. You see, I've been hired to kill you if I spotted you, and let me tell you, what this guy's offering me is much more than your life is worth. Got nothing against ya kid but business is business." Clenching his fists together Silver collecting energy in them and prepared for a very unpleasant fight.
Sighing, Blaze finally walked out of the bathroom wrapped in a purple silk robe and sat laid down on the edge of her bed with her eyes closed. "Now let's see here..." she whispered to herself and began to concentrate trying to form a mental image of the figure of a Sol Emerald in her mind. Slowly she began to feel a bit of power flowing through it but it faded back to wherever it had come from. Once more, this time scrunching her snout a bit in frustration, Blaze tried again. The Sol Emerald began to fill with power and turn a light shade of some indescribable primitive color before fading once more. Angrily the cat leapt out of her bed and slammed her foot into the leg of it causing her to clutch it and jump around the room on her uninjured foot.
"Why can't I do it?!" she hissed painfully and tried to set her foot back down on the ground slowly so as to avoid putting too much pressure on it, "I was able to do it when I was right near them!...where's Silver? Oh right, I sent him out on patrol." As her foot recovered Blaze began to pace around the room in frustration as she tried again and again to form the emerald in her head getting closer each time but inevitably failing. "Maybe I need to get out of my room, haven't gone to the throne room in quite some time."
Deciding to run Blaze darted down the halls of the palace avoiding any humans, animals, or robots in her path making up her staff and residents. Smiling she began to remember a time when she had been on more adventures with the old hero, Sonic the Hedgehog. Even though she had been unable to figure out just how Eggman and their Dr. Robotnik had been able to warp the timestream or, as they called it, travel between dimensions, she had had a lot of fun stopping the duo of idiotic madmen with the blue hedgehog.
Without realizing it, Blaze had finally sped into the throne room and slammed into the large metal chair launching her through the air and into a wall. Not noticing she'd sent tremors up the wall, the cat got back to her feet and shook her head dizzily until she heard something hit the ground behind her. As she turned around Blaze's expression of dizziness and laziness turned to that of shock and horror as she saw what she had caused to fall, the Orb of Chaos! Hastily she picked up the glass sphere and checked it for any cracks or shatters. Finding none Blaze breathed a sigh of relief and set it back up on its indention in the wall. She didn't know what would happen if the orb had shattered, especially in a time such as this! It was one of the only remaining relics of the old adventures of Sonic and and his friends, even outliving the Chaos Emeralds it had seemed. Though no one ever knew why the orb was so important Blaze's ancestors knew that they had to keep it safe as Sonic himself delivered it to them and told them how important it was.
"Miss Blaze!" a human voice cried over the intercom, "Badniks are flooding the lower floor of the palace! All the G.U.N. troops are getting slaughtered, you need to evacua-AH!!!" With that the transmission was cut short and Blaze propelled herself down the steps of the steps of the enormous dwelling as fast as possible. "If Robotnik's here himself, he's dead." Blasting through a door with her pyrokinetic powers, she leapt onto a spider-like badnik and ripped its laser off its body piece before blasting away at the robotic monsters swarming her home.
Coughing, Silver spat out a bit of blood as he spotted Fang charging at him again and back flipped out of the way. "Kid, if you just stay still I promise to end it quickly," Fang snickered swerving the hover bike around and charging once more without loosing any speed. Dodging the vehicle once more Silver looked around for something to smash the charging maniac with, or at least divert him. "What's Robotnik offering you that's so precious?" "Oh nothing much, just immortality and a bunch of pretty lady servants!" Fang laughed and slammed the front of the Magnificent Queen into Silver's back hurtling him into the side of a car, "And a ton of money and a high position for when he's in power!"
Taking out his cork gun Fang pointed it into the smoke generate by the damaged car and fired incinerating the vehicle in an instant. "Where's his body?" Fang murmured scratching the back of his head in confusion, "I could have sworn that he hit that thing." "Don't you know it's not nice to swear?" Silver asked landing on the back of the Magnificent Queen and kicking Fang off. "Why you little brat! You're tougher than I gave you credit for!" the purple weasel barked and fired another cork just missing Silver's cheek. "And you're more deadly than I imagined," Silver complimented back and launched himself up above Fang to avoid another cork.
"Why don't you come down here and fight me like a real hero?" Fang laughed with his robotic eye fixed on Silver while his normal one looked at his hover bike, "That's how Sonic the Hedgehog fought me!" Apparently agreeing to the terms Silver landed in back of Fang and slammed his foot into his opponent's back. "Ugh!" the weasel growled as he skidded along the ground and flipped back up, "Take this!" Leaping backwards Silver avoided yet another cork only this time it didn't explode, gas began to spray out from it blinding the hedgehog. "Ah!" Silver yelled flailing his arms around, "This isn't fair!" "Heroes are the only ones that play fair kid," the assassin laughed and slammed his fist into Silver's stomach knocking the wind out of him, "I just do whatever I can to get the job done!"
Helplessly Silver tried to punch and grab Fang but continued to just get beat up as his opponent antagonized him. "If you do anything to get the job done why haven't you finished me off yet?" "Good point," Fang snickered and loaded his gun with an electric cork while keeping his robotic eye on Silver. Click! Hearing the sound of the cork locking into place the hedgehog dropped to the ground and swirled his body around in a circle with his legs locking on Fang's knocking him off his feet. With a grunt Fang hit the ground and spotted the hedgehog with his robot eye. "How'd you do that?!" he exclaimed jumping back to his feet only to have Silver slam his fist into his nose and hurtle him out of the cloud of smoke bleeding. "Simple, I heard your gun load," Silver replied as the smoke finally dissipated.
"You really are better than I thought," Fang coughed and stood back up again, "But that won't stop me from killing you, I've had basically an entire century to hone my skills!" "How have you been able to survive for so long?" Silver asked crouching into a fighting stance, "It can't just be because you have a robot eye." "Oh no no no!" Fang laughed scratching the back of his head, "You see, upon Dr. Eggman Robotnik's, that's this Robotnik's father or grandfather or something, defeat he offered me something, a chance to be immortal! He was going to try and perfect the Immortality Research Project that his grandfather started with the legendary Shadow the Hedgehog! Well, before Eggman passed away, he decided to leave me in my little cryogenic sleeping tube! Gee, that sure was nice of him wasn't it? Cause guess what? This new Robotnik found me and made an even better deal with me! Tons of girls, eternal life, great position in the new world order! Only condition, I keep you and your girlfriend out of his way!"
"She's not my girlfriend!" Silver exclaimed blushing with a nervous face, "We're just real good friends!" "Sure you are," Fang jibed as he laughed, "And I'm a lowly little goody two shoes that tries to stop an insane madman from taking over the earth." Growling Silver's body was engulfed in a greenish hue as various cars, mailboxes, sewer lids, and other nonliving objects lifted off the ground and were aimed at the assassin. "How's about we see just how much of a success of that immortality expiriment you are?" Silver said darkly as Fang's organic eye widened to the size of a frisbee.
"Um..hehe...listen kid, maybe we can work something out. I take back everything I said about you and you're idiotic feline compadre...just cause I'm immortal doesn't mean I can't get hurt! Please please please don't skewer me!" he begged with a nervous look of fear on his face before his ears perked up hearing a buzzing sound in the distance, "Thank god, the calvary has arrived!" This time it was Silver's eyes that enlarged as he spotted the tons of jet and spider badniks charging towards him. In hesitation the hedgehog launched all his powers were holding at the hordes as Fang leapt back onto the Magnificent Queen and aimed towards Silver, "KILL HIM!"
Taking out the badniks in handfuls, Blaze turned the tide in the palace completely securing the second floor all on her own after they had already made it halfway through the floor. "Secure your positions!" the queen ordered as she sped along the marble floor of the palace ripping clean through 5 spider-like badniks in her way, "You're not to leave your assigned sections!" With practically all of the troops in the palace bewildered to see their leader doing much more damage than them, protecting them all, and progressing to the source of the problem they did as they were told with the sheer fear of what Blaze would do to them later if they didn't obey her.
Thousands of badniks turned their attention to the cat as she blew open the door to the stairway between the first and second floors. Before they even had a chance to fire at their new target Blaze was charging through them with the badniks shattering to pieces wherever she propelled herself. "So you think you can wreck my palace do you?" she screamed covering herself in a purple hue and thrusting her arms outward incinerating everything within a few yards of her as she expanded the firey energy that had moments before engulfed her figure, "Well I'm not letting that happen!" Suddenly she felt a laser tear through the side of his shoulder spraying blood everywhere.
"Agh!" she cried and clutched her new wound, "do you know how badly I've been hurt already by your boss?!" Spinning around she slammed her fire engulfed foot into the spider-badnik's body module crushing it in on itself and proceeded to spin around the room with her leg extended tearing through the rest of the badniks. However, there was no end to the badniks, they just kept pouring in through the doors and windows of the first floor. Suddenly she spotted the doors of the elevators off to the side open as various badniks clambered into the vessels. "Attention all troops on the upper floors!" Blaze shouted as she made her way to the intercom, "backup requested on the first floor! As many as possible! Those remaining shut down the elevators somehow! The badniks are using them to get to the higher floors!"
As the badniks gathered around her Blaze could hardly hold them off. Thankfully help almost immediately arrived in the form of hundreds of G.U.N. troops stationed around the palace as they clambered down the steps and began picking the badniks off taking a few hits themselves. As the forces of the badniks dwindled around her, Blaze leapt over to the G.U.N. troops shooting as many fireballs as she could out of her uninjured arm. "Will someone take care of those elevators already?" Blaze hissed spotting more badniks pile into them. "Miss Blaze!" someone said over the intercom, "They're piling up in the throne room! Reinforcements are needed right now! AH!!!"
"Stand your grounds," Blaze ordered the troops on the first floor, "I'll get some soldiers from the other floors to accompany me to the throne room." "But miss Blaze!" the commander of the troops exclaimed as he blasted another badnik to pieces, "We can't risk you getting hurt!" "I've been doing way better than most you soldiers," she replied and leapt up the staircase. As she walked through the second and third floors she signaled for various G.U.N. soldiers to gather around her on her way to the throne room ordering some troops to weld elevator doors shut whenever they passed them. "Ten of you go up there and we'll follow once you scout out the area," the cat ordered pointing up the staircase to the throne room. Nodding, ten of them did as they were told and screams and yells followed as well as one of the troops being thrown completely down the stairwell bleeding.
Shaking her head, Blaze headed up the steps with the troops following nervously behind her. Instantly they were bombarded with laser fire from the hundreds of badniks swarming the room. "Miss Blaze!" a soldier cried tackling her out of the way only to be shot through the heart from the attacking spider-like badnik. The soldiers kept firing as constantly and best they could into the hordes slowly being taken down with them cornering Blaze and the soldiers.
Panting Silver rushed along the road towards where the ruins of the old Soleanna palace should have been as the badniks' fire constantly rained down around him. "Give up already!" Fang laughed riding up alongside the hedgehog, "this is amusing but I have things I need to get done!" Hastily Silver darted into an alley with the flying badniks slamming into the sides of buildings in the process leaving only the spider-like ones. "Alright, this is just stupid," Fang sighed as he watched Silver emerge from the alley with only the spiders following him, "time to finish this brat off!" Stepping on the gas, Fang sped forward at top speed and pointed his gun at Silver's right temple, "Sayonara!"
"Bubye," Silver replied and tosses held Fang in place with his psychic abilities while the Magnificent Queen spun out of control and flipped onto its side. "You little brat!" Fang screamed as he dropped to the ground, "DIE!!!" This time the cork hit Silver dead in the back and blasted him off of his feet and through a window of the factory. "Wait a minute...NO!!!! He's made it!" Shaking his head Silver got back to his feet and looked around at the various lifeless badniks being worked on on conveyor belts and hooks. "Holy crap..." he said with his eyes wide, "these things are endless..." "And they'll remain endless," Fang hissed angrily as he stepped forward on the catwalk Silver was on, "I do admit you are far far far better than what I expected but now, I must cut your life short if you don't mind. No hard feelings of course."
Snickering, Fang aimed his gun right at Silver's forehead as the Magnificent Queen approached from the other side of the catwalk. "Nice to have battled you kiddo," Fang laughed and fired the cork only for Silver to duck and leap upwards avoiding both the cork and the charging Magnificent Queen which proceeded to slam into its owner and topple them both into the chasm below the catwalk. "Whoa..." Silver commented looking over the edge and listening to Fang's scream, "that looks like a long way down...now, then! About this place!"
Hurriedly Silver rushed along the catwalk until he got to a computer terminal on a metal platform at the end where he began to fiddle around with the controls. "Ignition sequence starting up," said a robotic voice, "Badnik production powering down." "What?!" Silver exclaimed punching the terminal, "Ignition sequence?!" "Well well well," came a voice from behind him, "Looky what we have here, a young silver hedgehog with psychic powers, how scary. Honestly, how did you survive your journey here? The badniks should have been able to cut you to ribbons."
"Who are you?" Silver asked turning around and spotting the floating humanoid animal figure, "Oh, how rude of me, I didn't introduce myself did I? Well then, my name is Ghost, I'm the end result of the Immortality Research Project continued by Dr. Eggman Robotnik and revived by his descendant. Robotnik designed me to carry out his final wishes and thus I shall. However, you're standing in my way at the moment. Guess this would be the perfect time to test out my skills on a trained flesh and blood combatant."
Getting into a fighting stance once more Silver readied himself to fight his opponent as it lowered itself down in front of him. There in front of him stood a humanoid creature with a hedgehog-like nose and three fingered claws for hands. However, he had hair like a human and the face of a humans with rings where his ears should be. Below his neck his body turned red with rings white stripes and the red of the body meeting up right above the stomach where it dipped down in a line forming a red belt right above the pelvis. Between the red body and belt was black as well as the legs with straps below the knees. Finally, below all that were grey soles and below the elbows the arms turned white.
"Try your hardest to fight me please, I was designed to be superior to Shadow the Hedgehog and am very eager to test out my abilities on an actual living opponent as well as see how superior my intellect is compared to theirs in battle." A bit nervous Silver put his hand up and broke away a badnik from its conveyor belt smashing it into Ghost. As the smoke cleared Ghost remained there unharmed in any physical way. "May I go now?" it asked politely smiling with no sense of anger while it's hands began to fill with vast amounts of energy. Just then the entire building shook and wobbled beginning to down around them and Silver sped towards the window he'd been thrown through by Fang.
Finally Blaze and a few soldiers had beaten back the badniks in the throne room and the elevators had been stopped. Agonizingly Blaze threw open the doors to the actual throne chamber to see Dr. Robotnik in a huge snake-like mech waiting for her with the Chaos Orb in his hand. "Hello Blaze," he hissed with a grin plastered on his face, "I honestly didn't think even you would be able to get through all that, but no matter, I have what I came for. Now to kill you!" As he said those words Robotnik's cockpit sealed shut and the snake mouth of the mech slammed forth at the cat spewing balls of energy at her.
Leaping out of the way Blaze just barely missed getting hit as the soldiers on the ground were nearly incinerated. CLAMP! "You weren't running away were you?" Robotnik laughed raising the mech's mouth over its tail which had caught her in it, "I always imagined you ending as a trapped rat!" Just as the mech's fangs touched Blaze's skin a loud rumbling shook the city and everyone, including Robotnik, looked out a nearby window to see a warehouse in the distance shatter to splinters with a large aircraft rising out of the debris. "Ah, my ride has come, let me just what the?!" as everyone had been watching the aircraft Blaze had sucked as much energy as possible to her body and unleashed it in a rather chaotic ball expanding from her and destroying the mech's tail as well as tossing the Chaos Orb into her hands from his cockpit.
"No!" Robotnik screamed scratching his head wildly and reaching for it, "Give it back!" "No way!" Blaze screamed and kicked the mech as hard as she could with her leg on fire sending Robotnik hurtling out of the palace, "Don't you dare come back here again!" As he faded into the distance Blaze wobbled upon lowering back to the ground and fell flat on her face unconcious. Immediately the remaining soldiers rushed over to her and carried her towards her room.
"UGH!!" Robotnik screamed angrily and slammed his fist down upon the bridge of the ship's computer terminal, "I was so close to getting that stupid orb! Everything had worked out!" "You don't need it sir," Ghost said floating up behind him, "at least not right now, there's still the Master Emerald, I can show you where it is." "This thing had better be worth it," Robotnik hissed to his ancestor's creation, "Cause if it isn't I'll have you annihilated." "It's the thing that controlled the Chaos Emeralds when they were around. It unified them when they were together and sent their power coursing into the user that possessed them at that time," the humanoid creature informed him with Robotnik suddenly taking vast interest in it while ghost walked towards a window in the bridge, "If you have it you have the power to harness the power of the Emeralds once they're brought together and then nothing can stop you." Laughing a bit at first and then more and chaotically after a few seconds Dr. Robotnik's spirits were lifted as he walked over to Ghost and stared out the window as well, "You know, this is the start of a very beautiful and beneficial partnership." "Indeed it is," Ghost replied as he smiled slyly with his hands behind his back.
Finally! A longer chapter! And all typed in one day ) I love making stories Well then, now you've seen one cameo and a new character. Hope this story isn't too dark for Sonic fans' tastes and hope I'm not boring anyone to death. Also hope it's not too complicated for people to follow, if anyone has problems please feel free to criticize me. This is perhaps the first Sonic fanfic I've ever done (mostly deal with Ed, Edd, n Eddy things), even though I've been a fan of Sonic since his second game came out and find it odd that I'm making one about the future of the series rather than Sonic himself. Well then, I guess stayed for more and review if you like it and stuff