Summary
The Next Generation: Sonic The Hedgehog is dead. His self sacrifice ends the war. Finally, it's all over. A massive baby boom hits as Tails, Rouge, Knuckles, and even Shadow, all have children. Ten years later, the sound barrier breaks. Who is it? But when all the parents are kidnapped, the House of Phronshentico proves that they are still the greatest family of them all.
Chapter Contents
Chapter One – Mystery
Chapter Two – Generations
Chapter Three – Unknown
Chapter Four – Family
Chapter Five – Hyperblast
Chapter Six – Brotherhood
Chapter Seven – Magic
Chapter Eight – Ambushed
Chapter Nine – Consequences
Chapter Ten – Confrontations
Chapter Eleven – Explosions
Chapter Twelve – Telepathy
Chapter Thirteen – Spiritual
Chapter Fourteen – Defiance
Chapter Fifteen – Sorcerer
Chapter Sixteen – Independence
Chapter One – Mystery
The death of Sonic the Hedgehog left a lot of unanswered questions. He was the Hero of Mobius. He did the right thing. His self-sacrifice saved the entire planet from Eggman. The Blue Blur taking the Human down with him and now, several months later, the clean up well under way. Finally, there was real peace. But the issues lay underneath, in the details. The tiny little tit-bits here and there, that his wife Amy kept finding after his death, that made her think that her precious Sonic was far more then he was letting on. That there was something going on. She frowned.
Cheating?
She growled, shaking her head. No way. He'd never do that to her. He loved her, or he did, eventually, in the end. But the Mobian Authorities had been at her doorstep, accusing her of fraud. It turns out that Sonic had lied during their wedding, and it had subsequently been annulled. They were no longer married and now, Amy wasn't his wife anymore. So she had asked Tails to help, but he gulped, unable to believe that Sonic would do such a thing.
He himself, had signed off the wedding as Sonic's family, which as adopted, he was, but to find out that it had been falsified in some way, gobsmacked him. Neither he or Amy had lied, so it must have been Sonic. The question was, why?
The only way for Tails to find the truth was to look up the Blue Blur himself. He was he? Research into Sonic's origins had showed up nothing. Any and all paperwork had all been destroyed. The Fox growled. They could thank Eggman for that. The Blue Blur himself had never spoken a word, as to where he came from, right up until his death. He took it to his grave. Why? Tails had no idea, but when he'd pushed Sonic on the subject, he'd get very defensive, like he was protecting someone.
But who?
There were some glimpses here and there that showed some possible hope. But what Tails finally found just blew out of the water, what he, and more importantly, Amy believed about the Blue Blur. About just how much Sonic was hiding about who he really was.
Tails gulped. The Fox had a unique mutation of two tails instead of one. He had mostly yellow-orange fur with white fur around his muzzle, front torso, and the tips of his tails. He had blue eyes. He wore white gloves and red shoes with white toes. Now he had grown and it really showed. An, almost adult, slender Fox, with long arms and legs, two long tails and big ears. He sniffed, in tears as he called Knuckles, who had been taking care of Amy, with the devastating news.
Knuckles was still taller in height but had bulked out sideways, heavily ribbed with muscle. He was an Echidna with red fur that covers most of his body, peach skin on his muzzle, a white crescent-shaped patch of fur on his chest, and purple eyes. He had seven deadlock-like spines around the sides and back of his head and a medium-sized, trio-crooked tail. Knuckles wore red and yellow shoes, each with green cuffs and a grey, sextuple-bolted plate on top. He wore large, white, mitten-like gloves with sock-like cuffs and two spiked knuckles on each hand.
He immediately came when he heard the news, collecting Amy on the way. Amy had grown. She still wore a red dress, but it was a lot more mature, her pink quills, which used to fall to her shoulders, were now down to her elbows. Her large green eyes were still bright and she still had a fringe on her head. She arrived in tears at Tails' House to an angry Echidna. He roared and hard at the Fox.
"You better be right about this." He hissed, storming right up to the Tails' computer, he was currently sat at. The Fox gulped.
"Yes, I am." He stammered. "I have finally found Sonic's birth certificate. Only an electronic version exists. Unfortunately it's a partial. It doesn't show his parents. All hardcopies have been destroyed. It took some finding because the name on his birth certificate doesn't match the name he gave for the marriage certificate." He stammered. Knuckles gasped, going very white.
"Er, but that's fraud. They legally have to match." He heaved. "Well, that's what nullified the wedding." He stuttered. But Tails nodded, looking at Amy.
"Yes, I know." He cried, the tears running. "It seems that Sonic The Hedgehog was a pseudonym, nothing more. The Hero of Mobius literally doesn't exist. His real name was..." He paused, frowning. "Hell, I can't even pronounce this, no wonder he shortened it to 'Sonic'. It's Sonikku Malvolio Phronshentico." He panted, and then frowning, looking up the meaning of the surname name on his computer. "Phronshentico is an ancient word for 'Hedgehog'. It heralds from South Island. The family have their origins from there, or at least the name suggests that." He heaved. There was utter silence, all of them looking at each other, No one had heard any of this before. Knuckles growled.
"Are you sure you've got the right documentation, Fox? It sounds dodgy to me." He hissed. Tails then scanned the document further. He nodded.
"Yeah, I sure. The date of birth matches as well as the description of the infant. How many Blue Hedgehogs do you know?" He heaved. Blue, especially royal Blue was a exceptionally rare fur coat colour in Hedgehogs. Tails frowned. "Listen." He hissed, as he read out the document aloud. "'Infant: Species: Hedgehog. Gender: Male. Weight: Four hundred and thirty grams. World Record." He gasped, blinking hard. "Wow, that's small. Er...Colour: Royal blue fur coat colouration, peach belly and muzzle, black nose, emerald green iris. Distinguishing features: Very large eyes, small notch in left ear, underneath the fur, very large Chaos Energy reading. Place of Birth: South Island." He blinked. "Well, that matches the surname." He heaved. "Date of birth: Born 23rd June 3219 at 8.03pm. Infant appears very healthy despite small size.'" He read. But then he outright gasped. "Wait, whoa. 8.03pm? Isn't the time only ever recorded in cases of multiple births?" He stammered.
He looked at Knuckles who outright gasped. Everything Tails read out was Sonic, even down to his tiny notch in his left ear, which he still processed right up until the day he died. But none of this made any sense to what they all knew about the Blue Blur. Different name, and now potential siblings. But Tails never found any other documentation to prove that. It could just have been a type error, but potentially not. They had no idea anymore, what was truth and what wasn't. That Sonic wasn't actually 'Sonic' at all. Amy just cried as Knuckles just outright exploded, right at her.
"Who the heck did you marry?" He hissed. Amy sniffed hard, back at him.
"I don't know." She wailed, but then she growled. But I'm not now, I'm I." She cried. With Sonic's deception, her marriage was now no longer legal. It was gone. Her temper exploded, wanting to get to the bottom of this. She growled. "But what about his parents?" She spat. But Tails shook his head. He heaved.
"Sorry, but the top half of the document, which would normally show the parents, has been corrupted. I can't read it. I can try and clean it up with some code but I can't guarantee anything." He sighed. Both Knuckles and Amy nodded. Tails growled and got to work, quickly writing the code and then running on the document. It did improve things but not much. It did single out the letters on the Sonic's parents names, instead of the mangled mess it was, but it still couldn't be read. Tails looked again. He hissed. "Well, I can deduce some things now. Sonic's father had fives letters in his first name and thirteen in his second." He hissed. Amy frowned.
"Thirteen?" She questioned. "That's 'Phronshentico'." She leered. Tails stared at the document again, and smiled.
"Hey, yeah, your right, and his mother had ten letters in her first name and eight in her second." He heaved. Knuckles shrugged but Amy just outright giggled at his cluelessness. She grinned.
"The eight letters is 'Hedgehog'." She beamed, stating the obvious. Tails looked back at the document, now getting rather excited, now filling in the surnames. Though looking at it, he wasn't convinced. He heaved.
"I don't know, Amy. Hedgehog is the species name, not a family name. A family name is usually a variation on the species name. Occasionally, you get surnames or family names, that are not related to species but rather what the family was historically known for, such as 'Rose' as flower sellers and 'Prower' as tinkers or engineers." He smiled. Amy nodded. That was indeed the origins of 'Rose'. Tails nodded. "My mail is delivered by really nice Mobian, simply known as Issac The Hedgehog, but his family name is actually Draenog. A variation of 'Hedgehog' that heralds from the very far north of Mobius." He wondered, shrugging, but moved on anyway. But Knuckles frowned, looking over Tails' shoulder.
"But what about the the first names?" He asked. But Amy's heart just fell.
"They could be anything." He admitted, extremely disheartened. But Tails was just staring at the document again, but not at Sonic, but at his father, and the surname. He growled, deep in thought, he looked back at his two friends.
"Phronshentico." He hissed. "I've heard that family name before, when I was a very small child. Nothing to do with Sonic." He hissed, but then swore. "Oh, I can't remember where I heard it." He spat. But Knuckles heaved.
"That could have been from anywhere." He leered, but Tails shook his head.
"No, Phronshentico is a very rare surname. Track down the memory and I'll find the Phronshentico. Find him, and I'll find Sonic. The answer to this lies in this document. It's staring me in the face. I will find it and get to the bottom of this." He snarled, utterly determined, panting hard. But Knuckles just took a deep sigh, a tear ran down his face.
"Why?" He sniffed. "Why didn't he tell us?" He cried. Amy just shrugged, and Tails shook he head.
"I don't know." He admitted. But Knuckles just growled.
"You know what it sounds like to me, that he's protecting someone, by keeping his true origins hidden." He heaved, but Amy just whirled round at him, gulping hard.
"What? Like family?" She stammered. Suddenly, Tails exploded in pure excitement, rapidly typing on the computer. He grinned.
"Wait, with Eggman around, that would explain everything, especially if that time written on his birth certificate is indeed indicating a sibling. The Human would have done anything to track down and kill anyone related to the Blue Blur. To break the Hero of Mobius. To keep them safe, it would have meant Sonic keeping his true origins unknown, to make absolutely sure they weren't ever traced back to him." He hissed. "Even if it meant not telling his own friends." He added, disheartened. That must have been incredibly tough. But suddenly, Knuckles grabbed Tails' shoulder. He too also exploded in excitement. He grinned.
"Are there any survivors?" He wondered. "You said that Phronshentico was a very rare surname." He stammered. Suddenly, the three of them looked at each other. Sonic's deception was now completely forgiven, especially if he had family out there that survived the war, thanks to his sacrifice. Amy now understood. She'd been so angry at him for lying to her, but if telling the truth meant putting lives at risk, even she had to admit, it just wasn't worth it, especially with Eggman around.
Tails ran round back into the main Mobian Authority Database, and typed in the surname, looking for anyone 'active' still with that name (not married.) Knuckles was right. The rarity of Phronshentico was their only chance. Tails typed in that fateful name and clicked enter. A few seconds later, a list of names was immediately spat out. Suddenly, he squealed in pure delight. Knuckles grabbed him, gasping.
"Hey, you've found one?" He panted. Tails nodded, quite excited.
"Two, actually." He heaved. But Amy just squealed.
"Two? Where?" She giggled, but Tails just shrugged.
"I don't know. I can't open either of the documents and the first names had been blanked off. The two names seem really weird. It looks like there might be potentially more, but the list has been heavily hacked." He heaved. But Knuckles just whistled.
"But it does prove one thing. They really didn't want to be found by Eggman." He giggled, and then he beamed. "You know. I think they're out there, somewhere." He smiled. "It's too soon after Eggman's demise, for them to safely show themselves. They're scared, and they have just lost one of their own, potentially their greatest. But I have a feeling they will show." He heaved. "But it could take years, a decade even before they do." He sniffed. But Tails smiled.
"I'll wait." He nodded. Knuckles agreed. He nodded, but he was still very deeply upset, so much so that he completely vanished a short time afterwards.
As for the mysteries still remaining. Only the House of Phronshentico had the answers to those, but as Tails worked out, there was no point in trying to find them. The family were experts at hiding. If Eggman never found them, what chance did they have.