Chapter 6: ignition

Sonic's POV:

I stood atop a large building overlooking the district square, I had told Katniss and Gale that I would be up here if anything went wrong. After a long winded speech from a man I assumed to be the mayor, the reaping seamed to finally get going, a woman spoke into the microphone about selecting a boy and girl to be a part of the seventy-fourth annual Hunger Games, her cheery tone made me want to punch something, how could these people honestly celebrate this kind of sick sport? I wondered to myself as the woman walked over to one of the glass balls that held several slips of paper and returned to the mic.

"Primrose Everdeen." She said. The crowd went dead silent as a young girl, maybe twelve years old, slowly walked towards the stage. Suddenly a humming sound reached my ears and I scanned the sky to find a whole army of robots headed straight for the little girl, I dashed forward and jumped off of the roof of the building, there were several cries and shouts as the people saw me, but I ignored them. The robots landed all around the kid, and they all raised their weapons, I rushed in and used my Sonic Wind technique to shield the girl, then I launched myself into a homing attack and destroyed at least a third of the bots, as soon as I destroyed the last one of them though, a huge mech landed right in front of me and Prim. I got into a defensive stance and put myself between her and the giant metal monster. Eggman appeared at the top of the mech, and he was ticked.

"You insufferable little rat! Why must you always get in the way?" he seethed, I just smirked.

"If you'd played nice, I wouldn't have had to break all your toys!" Eggman screamed in anger.

"THAT'S IT! YOU'RE FINISHED SONIC!" eggman roared as a massive lazer began charging on his mech. Suddenly I had an Idea,

"Katniss!" I yelled, tossing my chaos emerald to her, she saw the laser cannon and suddenly it was like someone had killed her mother in front of her and then spit in her face, the emerald glowed brightly and when it dimmed, I knew right then and there that old egghead was about to get fried, literally. Katniss was surrounded by yellow fire, her eyes burned a bright gold, her dress, once sky blue, now roared with blue flames, making her look like an avenging angel. She flew at eggman's mech and burned straight through the outer armor, his face was priceless when he saw her burst through the floor of his cockpit.

"Nobody," Her voice seemed to be more powerful too, resonating all around us when she spoke. "Hurts my little sister and gets away with it!" eggman's entire robot blew up, and his damaged cockpit was launched into the sky, I could have sworn I saw a glint where Katniss launched him off. My friend landed and immediately turned to the stage.

"I volunteer as tribute!" she cried, flinging my emerald back to me as she spoke. The rest of the event was a blur, I remember Prim rushing up to Katniss, screaming for her not to go, Gale pulled her off though, and then before I knew it, the train was leaving, taking Katniss and some guy named Peeta Mellark with it, about an hour after the train was gone, I left a note for gale and the Everdeen's

Don't worry about Katniss, I'm going after them, if anyone asks about me, just tell them you know me from a long time ago. And Prim, if you ever feel like everything is falling apart, just hang on to this gem, it'll keep your spirits up, just like it has for me. Stay strong and don't worry, I'll make sure those two get home.

-sonic

After that I took off along the tracks, I'll admit I underestimated the train's speed at first, but it was still a cakewalk catching up, once I was parallel with the speeding bullet train, I jumped onto the roof and found a doorway to the inside, I pulled out my blue chaos emerald from hammerspace and used chaos control to slow time so I could slip in. the look on Katniss' face made me grin, the other three had looks of shock, disbelief, and even a bit of disgust.

"Who let the rat onto the train?" The women from the reaping asked. I glared at her.

"First of all, I'm not a rat, I'm a hedgehog, and second, if you call this train fast, you don't know what fast really is!" I smirked at the freakishly pale woman's expression as she collapsed.

"Did my sister send you after me?" Katniss asked, a slight smile on her face.

"You don't think that I wouldn't have come on my own anyway?" Peeta glanced my way, he seemed nervous. Suddenly I sensed another presence in the room with us, Katniss gasped, and I whirled around to face an old acquaintance.

"Long time no see, Faker."