3:15 p.m.
Silver is sitting on the harbor steps, still thinking of what happened between him and Amy earlier, and how heartbroken she was when she found out he tried to murder Sonic.
"So this is where you are," says a feminine voice.
Silver looks up and sees that the voice belongs to Blaze. "Blaze?" he questions.
"I've been looking for you," says the lavender purple.
"Yeah right," Silver disagrees. "You probably went to go get your nails done."
"Actually, I was at the beach yesterday," says Blaze, "then I went to the Sun Festival, only for someone to crash the party, and then I went to a hotel and stayed there."
Silver nods in response, head still turned to the shore.
"And then I went to go get my nails done," Blaze concludes. Silver sighs, with Blaze asking, "What's wrong? Did something happen today?"
Silver still ponders as he stares at the shore. Should he tell her what happened? He had suffered through so much in the past 15 or so hours! He was hugged by a nine-year-old girl, who dragged him to a desert of all places, wasted an hour and a half on a stupid ball puzzle, and when he finally, finally, finds the Iblis Trigger, he's stopped by the same girl! Then that annoying twit tells him that she would rather have the Iblis Trigger destroy the world than have him (Silver) kill the Iblis Trigger!
"Let's just say I've been through a lot," answers Silver. He then turns to Blaze and asks, "Um... Blaze. Can I ask you something?"
"Sure; you can ask me anything," says Blaze.
The hedgehog takes a deep breath and asks, "To kill someone to save the world... Is that really the right thing to do?"
Blaze sits down on the steps a puts her hand on her head. "You're so naive."
Silver turns to Blaze and yells, "I'm not naive! My friends think I'm cool!"
"Well they though wrong, moron!" says Blaze.
"Will you stop being so mean?" Silver pleads, "I just want to know if I'm doing the right thing!"
"Whether what you're doing is right or wrong, I can't really say..." Blaze explains, "But what I do know is... If we don't take this chance, the future will remain exactly as it is."
Silver is amazed at the 11-year-old princess. "How did you become so wise for your age?" Silver asks, smiling.
"Actually, I wasn't sure what I was saying myself," Blaze responds. "Anyways, where did you see this 'Iblis Trigger' last?"
"About 45 minutes ago," the hedgehog answers, keeping in mind that Blaze assumes he found Sonic. "He was with the Soleanna princess of all people, but then she got taken away by this giant flying vehicle with hands!"
Blaze is very familiar with the flying vehicle with hands. "You mean Dr. Eggman?" she questions.
"Who?" Silver asks, shocked at the name. "What kind of name is Dr. Eggman?!"
Blaze lowers her head. "No one knows," she says, "and I hear his base is somewhere in White Acropolis."
Silver suddenly has an idea in his head. Dr. Eggman kidnapped the princess, and he did see Sonic run after the two. "Actually, I saw the Iblis Trigger run after them," Silver explains. "I say we should go to White Acropolis to see if he's there!"
The two preteens stand up as Blaze says, "Great idea," followed by them leaving the harbor.
Meanwhile...
In a slightly different side of Soleanna, Sonic and Tails walk around the city. These two have just gotten a call from their friend, Knuckles, saying to meet him at a seaport. He also warned them to look out for some drunk guards. Well no wonder the guards are idiots!
"...then this white hedgehog randomly attacked me out of nowhere!" Sonic says to Tails, explaining how his day with Elise went. "He said I was the 'Iblis Trigger', and that I caused the destruction of his world!"
Tails is looking down on Sonic's phone (Tails isn't old enough to have one himself) as he listens to his older brother figure. "That's crazy!" he cries. "You wouldn't do anything like that! That guy is insane for thinking something like that!"
"That's not the crazy part," Sonic explains. "This dude has psychic powers, and he attacked me every chance he got! Luckily he got tired, so I beat him up."
Tails responds by looking at Sonic's phone, waiting for something to load. "Aw man! There's no Internet service in this area!" the fox cries.
Sonic turns around and says, "You're not even paying attention?!"
"I'm sorry Sonic," says Tails. "I know you're invested in your conversation, but I'm having trouble connecting to Google. I'm trying to find out what a seaport is."
Sonic rolls his eyes and suggests to his friend, "Why don't we just ask someone about the seaport instead of relying on the Internet?"
Tails nods his head in response as the two boys walk over to what looks like an apartment or hotel building. Over there, stands an overweight human man playing the accordion. They walk over to the guy and Tails says, "That's a really nice song you were playing. What's the occasion?"
The man puts his accordion away in his case and answers, "There's no occasion. I wrote this song for the princess. What do you boys want, anyways?" The man speaks with an Italian accent, which is fitting since Soleanna is located in Italy.
Sonic puts his arm around Tails and says, "We're supposed to meet our friend at a seaport. And this little guy was wondering where it is."
"Ah, the seaport," the accordion guy says. "You two need to take a left turn from here, and the seaport will be located behind a giant gray wall. Let me warn you though: I heard most of the Soleanna guards went to the bar to binge-drink after last night's catastrophe. So you two be careful over there."
Right... Eggman attacked the city last night. "We will," says Sonic.
"And keep playing that song on the accordion," says Tails. "It's a beautiful song."
"Oh I will," the man says as he starts playing his accordion, while Sonic and Tails run across the city.
About five minutes later...
Sonic and Tails are now at the seaport, or at the wall of the seaport at least. The two are in awe at the sight of the wall.
"That is a big wall," says Tails.
"I know," says Sonic. "Why would they block off the seaport?"
"Hey!" a masculine voice is heard from a distance.
Sonic and Tails turn around and see some guards running towards them. The blue preteen turns to his friend freaking out. "Tails, what do we do?!" he cries. "I can't fly like you! And the guards are coming over!"
"Oh well," Tails uncaringly responds as he gives Sonic his phone back and flies over the wall with his two tails.
Sonic is shocked that his friend left him behind. "Oh come on!"
The guards finally meet up with the blue hedgehog. One of them says to him, "Hey kid! You can't go over the wall!" The guards words are slurred, and his breath smells horrible! Who knew drinking could make your breath smell like vomit?
And speaking of vomit, one of the guards bends down and throws up. Yep; right there on the concrete sidewalk. Another guard throws up as well, possibly due to the smell of the other guy's vomit.
Sonic notices a text message on his phone. The text is from Knuckles, saying that Tails will be getting Sonic over the wall. Thank goodness! Sonic thought he was gonna throw up himself!
And in the nick of time, Tails flies over and picks up Sonic with his hands, carrying him over the wall. Tails gently drops Sonic to the ground, only for Knuckles Shard the Echidna to wait for them.
"Hey Knuckles," Sonic greets the 13-year-old.
Knuckles waves hello and says, "Eggman came by the hotel earlier. He gave me this holographic Charizard card!"
"Yeah right," Sonic says, rolling his eyes. "That's one of the rarest Pokèmon cards in existance."
"See for yourself!" Knuckles boasts as he puts the card on the hedgehog's hand.
As Sonic touches the card, Eggman in a hologram suddenly appears. "Sonic Mc'Newman," Eggman begins. "If you want me to return the princess, you must give me your Chaos Emerald. Meet me at my base in White Acropolis."
The recorded message ends, and Sonic drops the card to the ground. "Knuckles," he starts. "That wasn't a holographic Charizard card. That was a recorded message from Eggman."
"You think I didn't know that?" Knuckles questions his intelligence.
Tails changes the subject by saying, "Enough about the card! What if this is a trap; because I don't think Eggman will honor his agreement."
Sonic takes the blue Chaos Emerald out of his jean pocket and says, "I'm going."
Tails and Knuckles are shocked: he's really going to White Acropolis?!
"Are you crazy?!" Knuckles shrieks. "You only want the princess 'cause she's hot!"
"She's not that hot," Sonic smirks at the red echidna. "And besides, since Egghead actually told me where Elise is, I think I should thank him personally."
And that was Chapter 8! Once again, we have some hilarious moments and met some more stupid Soleanna guards. We also met Knuckles and the accordion player.
Now a couple things to say:
1. I had Soleanna take place in Italy because Soleanna is based off of Venice: a well-known city in Italy.
2. In the actual game, I wasn't really sure why Silver and Blaze were going to Eggman's base or why they were going after him at all. That's why I came up with what this chapter offers them. Be on the lookout for plot-holes I will later cover in this story.
Make sure you review this story/chapter and I'll see you in Chapter 9! Next chapter will focus on the journey in White Acropolis.
