Lost Hedgehog Tales
CHAPTER 1: THE RETURN
White. That was all Sonic could see. It was everywhere all around him. There was no escaping it. He couldn't look away. No matter what he did he could see nothing but that empty whiteness. And to top it off, it was also quiet. Too quiet. It was starting to creep Sonic was so not the kind of day Sonic had planned. In fact, things were going better than ever and it seemed like Sonic would return home with his friends. He looked around to see nothing but the white space.
"Hello? Anybody here?" Sonic called out. All this silence and empty space was starting to get to Sonic and it was really freaking him out. "HEELLLLOOOOO? ANYBODY HERE?" He called out louder. Silence. When he got no response, Sonic facepalmed himself and sighed in frustration. Who was he kidding, there was NOTHING here. Nobody was going to answer to him. "What am I even doing? There's nothing but just that stupid white space." Sonic sighed. "What is this place anyway? Looks really boring here. I'd hate to be stuck here forever" Sonic said. He decided to look for a way out so he started walking. Sonic looked everywhere but there was nothing. The whiteness was everywhere and there wasn't even a floor. As Sonic was walking, he started thinking if he would ever even find his way out. Suddenly it dawned to him what if there was no way out. Sonic froze when that thought entered his mind. What if he was stuck here forever with no food, water and couldn't die. Sonic shuddered at the thought and wraped his arms around himself. What if I never get out of here and have to live here for all eternity. Sonic's mind was racing with those horrible thoughts. The cobalt hedgehog rarely felt fear, as he was normally used to stopping bad guys and evil. But this... this never happened before and the speedster didn't know what to do. What if I'm already dead. For a second he thought he was in some kind of limbo, stuck between life and death. Or he might've also been in a coma. Sonic's eyes widened at that thought. I could be stuck here for chaos knows how long and my friends could be trying to wake me up. Sonic suddenly wondered what even happened in the first place to make him get stuck in such a situation.
"How did all of this happen?" Sonic closed his eyes and tried to recall what happened in his last adventure. It was a little hazy, but he could still remember it. He could remember him. MegaMan. Sonic had been running through Green Hill Zone, his home on South Island. His best friend Miles 'Tails' Prower, had mysteriously dissapeared. The two had planned to go exploring in the Mystic Ruins, but when Sonic got to Tails' workshop, the two-tailed fox had vanished. He had went and asked all the residents living near the ruins and in Station Square if they had seen Tails but no luck. Sonic then went up to Angel Island to ask his friendly rival Knuckles the Echidna, guardian of the Master Emerald if he had seen Tails. But the hot-headed guardian himself had dissapeared and the Master Emerald was left unguarded. Sonic knew Knuckles wasn't stupid enough to leave the most powerful jewel of the Chaos Emeralds left unguarded and free for people like a certain bat he knew to go and take the emerald freely. Sonic was starting to get worried since he knew it was no coincidence for two of his friends to go missing. So he had asked the Chaotix to go look for them. The Chaotix were a group of detectives which consisted of their leader Vector the Crocodile, the loud-mouthed boss who always had his trusty headphones and love for money. Espio the Chameleon, the ninja and spy of the group. Espio was the quiet and calm one who usually acted the most mature out of the others. Lastly, the youngest member, Charmy Bee, a hyper-active bee who was always positive and acted like a two year old alot. He had even gotten arrested a few times for flipping over and damaging ice cream trucks because of his passion for ice cream. Though despite their immature behavior (except for Espio who always acted mature) Sonic knew these guys well and what they were capable of. But shortly, Sonic had found out the Chaotix had even gone missing, along with his self-proclaimed girlfriend Amy Rose, he decided to investigate the matter himself. During an encounter with a strange human like robot who had zapped Silver the Hedgehog with a mysterious laser, Sonic had met MegaMan, a robot from another world, and they both had found out they had been duped by Copy Robot and Metal Sonic, a robotic version of Sonic. They both rescued a roboticized version of Tails later and along with MegaMan's brother ProtoMan, they went to Eggman and Wily's base: the Skull Egg Zone. The team soon had found out that all of Sonic's friends had been captured and turned into Roboticized Masters, combined with both Eggman and Wily's design. The evil doctors had also captured Doctor Light, who was being held captive. Sonic, along with the help of Tails and his new robotic friends MegaMan, ProtoMan and Rush helped rescue all of Sonic's friends and all of them soon teamed up to battle various robot masters that had been revived from MegaMan's world. While they did that, Sonic and MegaMan boarded the Wily Egg, a newer version of the Death Egg, except it was also modified with Wily's designs. They battle different fusions such as the Chaos Devil, a combination of Chaos and the Yellow Devil, the doctors' deadly enforcers Bass and Metal Sonic and soon faced the Wily Egg robot in their super forms. That had ended catastrophic as MegaMan was able to make it back home, but Eggman had intercepted Sonic's chaos control and both were sucked up into the blinding white light and after that Sonic had found himself here in this empty void. Sonic growled and slapped himself. This was all his fault. He should've been more careful.
"Stupid Eggman, that rotten fat ass. I'm gonna freaking scramble that stupid egg shaped bitch" Sonic cursed to himself. If only he hadn't turned his back around he could've saw Egg-head attack him and stop it. Now what would he do... Sonic's thoughts trailed off when suddenly his remembered something. He saw something-no someone standing. Their eyes were piercing blue and to Sonic they looked like robot eyes. He looked around and saw there was fire everywhere and maniacal laughing. The robot took a step closer and saw the robot. It was Sonic's height and it looked like it appeared to be a roboticized Mobian chipmunk, a female one. It had red hair that now looked like an iron helmet on top of the chipmunk. Her blue boots were now metal as was the rest of the body. Her vest that was also blue now looked like a bullet-proof torso. And her eyes were lightning blue, as she looked Sonic right in the eyes. Sonic then heard the laughing turn to talking. That person-Eggman! The mad scientist was nowhere to be seen, but his voice could be heard as if he was right next to Sonic.
"Wha-what the he-heck?" Sonic exclaimed with wide eyes. Eggman's voice continued to taunt him. It was really loud and it was starting to hurt. "HOOOHOHOHO! RISE MECHA SALLY, MY NEW MINION AND DESTROY THIS BLUE PEST!" Eggman yelled. Sonic froze at the sound of the name. Mecha Sally? Why does that seem so... familiar? Sonic wondered. Mecha Sally took a step closer and her arm reached out to grab his neck. Sonic's eyes shot open and he realized he was sweating. What. The Fuck. Who was this Mecha Sally and why did this person seem to haunt Sonic. Suddenly his hands shot up to clutch his head as pain shot up his brain. "AAAAGGHHHH!" Sonic screamed as the pain became more agonizing. The hedgehog was down on his knees now. It felt like someone was slowly drilling into his skull and he couldn't do anything about it.
"GAAAHHH, WHAT THE HE-HELL IS TH-THIS? MY HEAD IS GONNA EXPLODE!" Sonic screamed. The pain was making feel weak as he was slowly slumping to the ground. Memories were shooting up in his head. One of them had a three hedgehogs and a dog smiling at him. Two hedgehogs were male and one of them appeared to be a robot. The female hedgehog smiled as the dog barked happily. "Welcome home Sonic, my son" she said. Sonic's eyes went wide at that memory. Another one showed a skunk smiling evily at him as he said "For King Naugus" he shouted before zapping Sonic with a laser. Sonic yelped in pain as he was electrocuted. It felt so real and that didn't make sense to Sonic. The last memory showed a female chipmunk smiling at him. She was the same one from the first memory except she wasn't roboticized. Her smile turned to a look of horror as she was suddenly zapped by some light as she screamed "SSOOONNNIICCC!" Sonic gasped at that memory. Was that... Mecha Sally before she was roboticized? What is going on? Sonic wondered. Suddenly the pain sparked and Sonic howled as his head hurt even more. "AAAHHHHHH NNNNNNNOOOOOOO! STTOOOPPP!" He begged but that made it worse. The hedgehog was on his stomach on as he felt much weak. His head felt like it was going to split apart and Sonic just wanted that to happen so badly to be released from this torture. All the memories suddenly swirled in his head and they turned into realization that these weren't just some random visions, but they were incidents of what actually happened in Sonic's life. Suddenly the pain reached its limit before Sonic started to see black spots in his vision. As he saw more black, the pain started ceasing, as Sonic soon felt as ease as he gasped and sighed.
"pant-pant, *gasp*" Sonic tried to regain his breath, but soon found himself slumping down as he was starting to feel dizzy. "Ah...gahh...wha...wh.." Sonic saw the blackness was spreading and soon started to black out. All the white space was gone and was replacd by one thing. Darkness...
"Guys, I think he's moving!"
"Can it Flip, we're not in the mood for any of your jokes right now"
"No, I'm serious his arm just moved!"
"What? Let me see"
"Is he okay, Tails? Is everything alright?"
"Hold on Amy,wait a sec let's make sure first... his hand just twitched!"
"*gasp* ohmigosh!"
"Flip, go get Erma and Augustus!"
"You got it Guntiver!"
Sonic groaned as he slowly came to and moved his legs on the soft bed. It felt really good to be eased of the headache. Sonic slowly opened his eyes and saw he was lying on his back on a bed. He looked around to find his friends Tails, Amy, Guntiver and Sealia. Flip the Penguin came running in along with three other figures: Erma, Augustus and Silver the Hedgehog. Erma knelt down beside Sonic and checked his temperature. She sighed in relief.
"Nothing serious, he's good". Sonic slowly got up and rubbed his eyes.
"Huh, wh-where am I?" He suddenly found himself crushed in a death hug by Amy. She was crying with tears streaming down her face, as were Sealia and Erma. Tails wiped a tear from his face and smiled. "Good morning, big bro" Tails said happily. Guntiver walked up to him and grinned. "Welcome back, blue. You were out for a while. Man, you had us worried to death!" he exclaimed. Amy let go of Sonic and sobbed.
"Yeah, you were out for days! We were so worried for you! You had me thinking that you might not come back to us Sonic!" she exclaimed. Sonic had never been so confused in his life. What were his friends talking about? He looked at Guntiver in surprise. "Dude, what are you guys doing he-WAIT A SECOND WHERE ARE WE?" Sonic shouted. Flip held both his hands up in defense. "Whoa bro, calm down! Do you not no how lucky we were to survive in there? Man I thought for sure Akhlut was gonna eat me!" Flip exclaimed. Sonic looked at him in utter shock. "What are you talking about? You fought Akhlut and-wait WHY are we even here?" he said pointing at himself, Tails, and Amy. Tails looked at him in confusion. "Wait, you don't remember what happened?" Augustus chimed in. "You mean you forgot about that near death experience with Akhlut and Mecha Sally?" Sonic looked at him with surprise. Mecha Sally? "When did we fight Sal?" Erma looked at Tails in shock. Did Sonic really not remember their battle on the Death Egg? How they nearly got eaten and drowned by Akhlut and shot to death by Mecha Sally? Sealia decided to take a shot.
"Mon ami, do you not remember ze conflict zat had occured a few days ago?" Sonic was really begginning to lose it. He didn't know what the heck his friends were talking about and they weren't even straight-up telling him. Instead they were bombarding him with these stupid questions and it was getting on his nerves.
"ENOUGH WITH THE GOD DAMN QUESTIONS! JUST TELL ME WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED ON THE DEATH EGG OR WHY WERE WE EVEN THERE INSTEAD ASKING ME ALL THE FUCKING QUESTIONS!" Sonic shouted. Everyone shut up at once. Their eyes were filled with shock. Sonic had NEVER flipped out like this and he rarely swore. Doing this was quite a shock for his friends. It was then that Silver decided to speak. He had stayed quiet the whole time, not sure whether he would want to confront Sonic right now. He cleared his throat. Sonic turned to glare at him, shooting daggers at the other hedgehog. "What fern-head? Can't you see I'm mad enough with all this commotion and to top it off, your here as well! Find your traitor yet silverfish?" he said. Sonic exaggerated the word "traitor" with deep hatred. He still couldn't believe that Silver thought one of the freedom fighters were traitors. He had tried to guess who was it multiple times, but failed. The last time Sonic and Silver met, it ended up in a rumble between the two when Silver had accused Antoine D'Coolette, who was in a coma at that time of being the traitor. Silver looked glum and he feared what Sonic would do now if he explained that Princess Sally was the traitor. Tails saw this and he knew what was going to happen, so he walked up to Sonic and put a hand on his shoulder. "Easy there, Sonic. Silver is going to give you all the details of what happened, but you have to promise to stay calm, okay?" Sonic gave a disbelieving look at Tails, but the fox just frowned and gave Sonic 'that look'. Sonic sighed, knowing there was no arguing with his brother now. He took a deep breath and sighed. "Fine, but you better not leave out a single detail" he said before glaring at Silver,"and this better not be another traitor, or else I won't spare you and you'll regret it" he said. Silver gulped and looked at Tails and everyone else, who nodded. He sighed. "Fine, here goes..."
TO BE CONTINUED