Chapter 6: A shocking Discovery

While Sonic was speeding through the forest, he noticed it was late out. So he decided he should call it a night but not before making sure he was in a far distance from warehouse he was captured in.

Slowing down, the hedgehog glanced up at a tree and decided it would be his bed for tonight. Faster than the blink of the naked eye, Sonic zoomed up the tree and jumped on a high branch.

Making a comfortable position, he placed his arms behind his head and yawned.

"Aw man, what a day." he said to himself. "Everything seemed like any other day, chatting with my friends and family, lasting on the bus with the Rebel gang, and going to school. But everything was fine until he showed up. It's that stupid Eggman guy's fault I'm even in this hedgehog body! Now I look like a freak!"

"But," he continued."at least it's not all that bad. I mean sure I look a little different now and I'm not even human anymore. But at least I can run faster than the speed of sound. I bet I can call that a Sonic Boom, heh."

Yawning and his eyelids slightly dropping, Sonic decided to finally give in and let sleep take over as the hedgehog drifted off into dreamland.

Amy was in her room crying, because what was on TV broke her heart. On the news that was apparently spreading all over America, and possibly the world, was the accident that happened earlier today at Emerald Hill high school.

It showed footage from Dr. Robotnik arriving until the light explosion.

Amy could still hear the previous news the reporter announced earlier that day.

"From what we can tell, the boy named Maurice Oliveder, AKA: 'Sonic,' was caught in a deadly explosion that could've wiped out an attire city and was no where to be found, not even one trace of the body. I'm sorry to say this folks, especially his friends and family, but Sonic, son of the Oliveders family and a fellow friend to a group of kids in Emerald Hill high school, is...dead."

That very speech sent chills down the preteen's spine as it haunted her for hours. One of her closest friends and her true love was dead and she couldn't ever see or hear him again as long as she lived.

She remember everything about the boy, like his trademark smile and his cockiness of how fast he was. Or his kindness for others and his chili dog addiction. But most of all, his gorgeous and dashing emerald green eyes.

Suddenly, something caught her eye, sitting on top of her rose pink night stand was a photo of her and Sonic. They were at the beach eating ice cream together, but, Amy was laughing while Sonic had Vanilla ice cream all over his face.

Glancing at the picture, Amy smiled just for a moment before she continued sobbing.

But Amy wasn't the only one who felt heart broken, apparently the whole Sonic gang and Sonic's family were suffering as well.

Tails was sobbing in his room, Knuckles wasn't paying any attention to his family, Cream was quietly sobbing along with her puppy, Cheese, who was whimpering, Rouge decided to quit stealing for the week, and everybody else suffered in any way possible.

But Sonic's family took quite the hit. His whole family were in the living room. Sonia was crying besides Manic. For once, Manic actually allowed his sister to hug him, he too had a few tears rolling down his cheek. Aleena(Sonic's mom) was leaning against her husband, Jules. Space(Yes, in this story, Sonic will have a young cousin and how is that possible? It's because she'll be the daughter of Uncle Chuck.) was in her father's arms sobbing while Uncle Chuck rubbed Muttski's back.(Sonic's dog will be in this story as well.)

"Oh Jules, why *sniff* did this have to happen to our son?" Aleena questioned sadly.

"Honestly honey, I don't know. Life's cruel that way." Jules answered.

"Well, Aleena, I'm sure Sonny boy will have a wonderful time in heaven." Uncle Chuck assured.

"Dad *sniff* please don't make jokes right now, not while Sonic's d-dead!" Space pointed out as she started to cry once again.

Uncle Chuck pulled Space into another hug while he spoke.

"Shh, there, there, darling. I wasn't kidding, Sonic will love heaven and we'll always have him in our hearts."

He glanced over towards his twin brother as Jules nodded in agreement.

The next morning, Sonic decided he would do a morning jog around the forest. Again, he was running so fast all you could see was a blue blur.

Screeching to a halt, Sonic sweat dropped at what was ahead of him. An ocean was in front of him and it was surrounding a city that he seemed to know all to well, San Francisco, his home city.

"Aw man, how am I gonna get across?" Sonic questioned himself.

After staring into the water that seemed like hours, but, in reality was only five minutes, an idea struck the hedgehog's mind, a frightening one at that.

He figured if he could run that fast then he could run across the water. "Okay, you got this, hedgehog. It'll be like a walk in the park. *Gulp* at least that's what I hope." he assured.

Getting into a running stance, he dashed off into the water covering his eyes. But he noticed something, he wasn't drowning, in fact he was still dry and running.

Uncovering his eyes with his hands, an unbelievable sight struck him. He was actually running ACROSS the water!

"Oh my god...I-I'm actually RUNNING ACROSS WATER! THIS IS AWESOME!" he cried out in joy.

And with that he zoomed across the water heading towards San Francisco.