Alright double digits, sorry for the wait
the wedding was completely surrounded by soldiers many of the guests had been revealed to be spies including the groom, "you see, after the incident in Vale a year ago I created a special task force the Guardian Units of Nations, Their mission is to defend Remnant from extraterrestrial threats such as the blue menace" General Ironwood explained as he glared at Sonic and ordered his men to capture the mobiens
"wait you don't understand Robotnik's back" Tom shouted as he struggled against the G.U.N agents
"Dr Robotnik has been MIA since the last incident involving the blue hedgehog" Ironwood stated coldly he then turned to the woman who resembled Weiss "specialist Schnee, see to it that your sister stays out of our way"
"yes sir" Winter responded as she led Weiss away with much protest from the younger Schnee
"Winter let go!" Weiss yelled as Winter pulled her to another part of the hotel desperately trying to get out of her sister's grip as she watched her friends being thrown in cages and hauled away to another part of the hotel
"did those vermin hurt you?" Winter asked as made sure her sister was okay
"they saved me!" Weiss shouted
"they are a threat!" The older Sister answered with a stern look
"they're my friends!" Weiss yelled with tears in her eyes "The real threat is Robotnik if he gets what he wants he'll be unstoppable"
"why would you say something like that about Dr Robotnik" Winter asked only remembering him as the quirky scientist that would come around for dinner often
"he held me hostage to use against Sonic" Weiss answered wiping her tears
"What!" After hearing this something in the older sister snapped knew that Weiss was telling the truth and she knew that only one person could make Robotnik pay, Winter made her way towards the hotel that Sonic was being held in
Hotel
Winter and Weiss walked through the halls making their way towards where the aliens where being held when they turned a corner and saw two guards patrolling the Schnee sisters quickly took cover. "Hey you ever wonder why we're here" the guard in maroon armour asked his partner
"it's one of life's great mysteries isn't, it why are we here, i mean are we the product of some cosmic coincidence or is it really god watching everything you know for a plan for us and stuff, I don't know man but it keeps me up at night" the guard in orange armour answered
"what, no I meant what are we doing here in this hallway our break started three minutes ago" the maroon guard yelled at his partner as they left
this opportunity allowed the Schnee sisters to get to the room holding the mobiens "I will have a word with those two later about discipline" Winter mumbled to herself, causing Weiss to chuckle, Winter unlocked the door and the two wasted no time in freeing the captives, "I'm going against orders hedgehog don't make me regret it" the specialist glared, once they made sure the cost was clear they made their way out of the hotel
beach
Everyone was on the beach looking at the pillar of emerald green light coming from over the horizon "Hedgehog what is that" asked Winter in awe of the spectacle in front of her while attending to Ruby's injuries while Maddie did the same for tails
"a big problem, the compass led Robotnik to the emerald" Sonic said as he look at the light
"we need a plan" Weiss suggested
"there's no time for that I'm the only one who can get there fast enough, Ruby and Tails still haven't woken up and it's all my fault, i won't let anyone else get hurt because of me, I'm going to fix this while I can" Sonic said before speeding away in a flash
once Sonic was far enough away from the group he took a deep breath and looked ahead at the ocean that separated him and the pillar of light "why'd it have to be water" he whined but he quickly regained his composure he took a deep breath and took a racing stance "gotta go fast" his blue lightning charged and in a blink of an eye he was off pushing himself to run faster than ever before to break his limits, the sea was restless waves were as big as buildings, Sonic kept on running until eventually he could see the island that the light was emitting from, as the pain in his legs grew his composure broke for a second but that's all it took Sonic was swallowed up by the waves and lost consciousness
hidden labyrinth zone
when Sonic awoke he was on the shore of the island and could see the entrance to the temple, Sonic ran down the stairs and tripped onto a water way "woah!!" Sonic screamed as he tumbled down the passage and onto the cold hard stone floor of the underground labyrinth "if the world wasn't at stake this place would be really fun" Sonic joked before doing a spin dash round a corner setting off several traps as he ran through the maze l, he dodged arrows from the walls, swinging axe blades and spikes erupting from the ground
he continued rushing through the hallways going every possible direction, he eventually triggered a trap that released a massive boulder that was quickly making its way down the hallway crushing everything in its path, Sonic tried to out run the boulder but was met with a dead end, the boulder crashed into the wall and sonic breaking through the floor and landing in a large open room with waterfalls at each side and in the centre where steps that led up to large pedestal where large green emerald sat emanating a strange energy, Eggman and Knuckles where about halfway up the steps and where not amused by the blue blur's sudden arrival "sorry for dropping in fellas" the blue hedgehog laughed as he got back on his feet wiping the dirt off himself
Knuckles glared at Sonic "is everything a joke to you, why must you constantly interfere with my destiny"
Sonic took his racing stance "because my destiny is to protect my friends and family, and if you want that emerald you're gonna have to go through me!" Blue lightning surged across Sonic's body and he made a dash for the master emerald, Knuckles cut him off and sent him flying across the room with a punch, Sonic managed to land on the wall safely and immediately charged up a spin dash and went straight for knuckles was also heading straight towards the Hedgehog, they met in a massive clash between red and blue energy
as the two mobiens clashed back and forth Eggman quietly snuck his way up the side of the steps towards the emerald, with a mighty punch Knuckles knocked Sonic into one of the waterfalls "too easy" knuckles mumbled as he climbed the steps towards the emerald just as he was halfway up a spark of blue caught his eye and in a flash a blue blur rocketed past him destroying the steps in front of the Echidna, Sonic ran straight up the side of the wall until he was right above Knuckles then he repeatedly slammed into the Echidna with so much force it broke the ground beneath them
knuckles managed to hit sonic off him sending the hedgehog across the room he the picked up a large chunk of debris intending to end this fight, from his position Sonic could see that Eggman had reached the emerald "Knuckles wait Eggman is stealing the emerald!" He desperately called out
"do you take me for a fool" Knuckles glared at the defenceless hedgehog
"just look!" Sonic desperately called out as he pointed to Eggman who had reached the Master Emerald and had grabbed hold of the green gem, suddenly green energy surged across the room engulfing the mad doctor and when the light faded Robotnik was gone, the surge of energy had caused the temple to become unstable and water came crashing in from every direction, Sonic had managed to grab onto a piece of the wall that was just above the water line but Knuckles wasn't so lucky a massive pillar had landed right on top of the Echidna trapping him beneath the water, Sonic knew what he had to do he gave a big sigh and jumped straight into the water sinking to the bottom almost immediately, the blue hedgehog tried to push up on the pillar but it was no use noticing Knuckles was also pushing to free himself Sonic gestured to the Echidna to push together and once the two rivals combined their strength they managed to lift the pillar just enough for Knuckles to escape swimming to the surface, Sonic tried to swim but it was no use the last thing he saw before he lost consciousness was a red figure swimming towards him
Beach
When Sonic awoke he was lying on the beach next to Knuckles "you saved me" the hedgehog said in disbelief as he picked himself up off the ground
"don't talk to me I'm not in the mood" Knuckles sulked before suddenly being hit in the head by a ball of sand "how dare you attack me in my hour of sorrow!"
Sonic threw another ball of sand at the echidna "why did you save?" Before he got an answer a much bigger ball of sand hit him
"because you saved me first, witch clearly gave you a tactical advantage I do not understand" Knuckles stated
"it wasn't a tactic I couldn't just let you die" Sonic chuckled as he sat down on the sand next to Knuckles, as they sat on the shore they saw a plane come over the horizon, as the plane landed on the island they could see that it was piloted by Tails with Ruby sitting in the back who looked uncharacteristically furious
"Sonic what the hell were you thinking!" The red and black hedgehog shouted with tears in her eyes "how could you just run off like that, you could have gotten hurt!" Sonic had never seen Ruby like this before it sent a shiver down his spine
"Ruby I had to, you and tails got hurt, Weiss even got kidnapped and it was all my fault, I had to fix it on my own!" Sonic argued back
"no you didn't,I don't need you to protect me Sonic, we're a team that means your problems are my problems even if they're crazy Scientist trying to kill you, we're in this together got it" Ruby calmly but sternly finished before giving Sonic a hug
Sonic felt incredibly stupid for what he'd done "I'm sorry Rubes, I really am" the hedgehog said as he hugged his best friend "but Eggman got the emerald I have no clue where he could have gone"
"the energy signal of the emerald is massive, now that it's out of the temple I can track it fairly easily" Tails explained as he fiddled with his gadgets "he seams to be in a small village in Vale, why would he go there"
"that's Green Hills!" Sonic gasped as he looked at the map on tails' device, sonic and the others hoped on the plane and were ready to take flight but before they took off knuckles grabbed onto the side of the plane
"hedgehog you say you lost everything like me, but you seem so hopeful and free?" The echidna asked
sonic chuckled to himself "I didn't do it on my own I found a new family and my team they made me who I am today" sonic said as he reached out to knuckles for a hand shake "and I know you can find this freedom too" the two rivals shook hands as the plan took off towards Sonics home town
ok I'll try my best to wrap up this arc next chapter see you then
