In the evening of the city Lost Angels, a city in the west of Mobius, all was peaceful. With the bright sun setting into noon, street lights flickering to protect the civilians from darkness and renowned singers holding concerts to bring joy onto the faces of their fans, this looked like it was going to be another peaceful summer evening in Mobius.
Until a fire broke out.
It's small for the large city but major for the district. Civilians watch the burning apartment from a distance that wouldn't harm them. They watch in fear while a few residents who got back from their trip to MobiMart were greeted with their apartment block on fire.
One of the distraught residents who is a brown deer kneels on the ground and cries a waterfall. "My boooooy!! My tiny little baby boooooy!! Somebody, save him!" The poor deer screamed out of her lungs.
Her husband, another brown deer pats her on her back, and tells her: "D-Don't worry, the firefighters have already been called, they will surely come just in time to save the day!", as he remains somewhat confident for the sake of his wife's sanity, but knows that the firefighters may not reach the apartment in time.
On the top of another apartment block that is next to the the burning one stands a blue 16-year old blue hedgehog who looks upon the frightened civilians and residents of the burning apartment block, as some had already fled.
"Hahaha! Dude, you seriously think they will come in time?! The people from this district were so scared fleeing from the burn that they didn't call the firemen right away! That hesitation's gonna kill your baby before they arrive in first place!" The teenaged blue hedgehog mocks making his presence known to the crowd. Who could tell if he was serious or not?
The lady now no longer cries a waterfall, she now cries an ocean. Her husband next to her looks furious but afraid as well and confronts the hedgehog. "How can y-you be so...heartless!?" He stammers. "We just don't want our child to die! Do you really want us to have our hopes for his safety shattered like this!?" he shouts, glaring at the hedgehog while rubbing his wife's back.
The blue hedgehog rolls his eyes, as if he seemingly didn't care. "What do you mean your hopes are crushed? There's something to believe in besides a lousy fire brigade...A miracle! And that miracle..."
Before he finishes his sentence, he dashes off at supersonic speed, so fast that the suprised residents can't see him. The young hedgehog exits said building just as fast as he entered it with a baby deer wrapped in his arms. He then finishes his sentence: "...is me, Sonic The Hedgehog, the fastest thing alive!"
At the sight of seeing the teenage blue hedgehog with green eyes that shine like an emerald, white gloves, red sneakers, brown shorts with white stripes and a ring attached to it, a red bandana loosely tied around his neck and an open jacket that is coloured red, blue, white and yellow like a spring pattern with the deer baby in his arms, the frightened and scared civilians who didn't flee have their fear fade into joy in seconds and the remaining crowd cheer for the heroic act of the blue hedgehog known as Sonic The Hedgehog. After he gives the mother her baby, she continues crying, but this time because of joy. The baby's father is happy and grateful, but he has a look of guilt on his face.
"I'm sorry, Sonic. Please forgive me for my bad behaviour earlier. I thought you didn't care!", he apologises, feeling ashamed of himself.
"It's okay man! I was being a dickhead for no good reason, so it's totally fine to shout at me. But all swell ends swell, am I right?"
They both laugh at that bad joke, but then Sonic's eyes suddenly get very wide as he realises something. "Oh crap...I think I'm gonna be late for dinner! Sorry dude, but I'm in a hurry!"
He blitzes off into the streets at high speed. Upon seeing a fire truck driving to the burning apartment that would've "saved the day", he purposely slows down to flip over the bonnet of the truck. He sticks his tongue out to the driver whilst showing him the middle finger and says: "You're too slow!" before jumping onto the truck. He then curls into a ball and starts rolling at the speed of sonic.
Once he built up enough speed, he uncurls to jump all the way high up to a building's terrace and grab its ledge. After he did that, he jumps up to the roof, then jumps from roof to roof, until spotting a chili dog stand. He jumps off the building to grab a dimly lit streetlamp and swings from it to land in front of the chilidog stand. The female seller working there who is a green lux looks very disappointed once seeing him.
"Heyyy, am I late?!" he asks.
"No, you're not." she replies as she begins to prepare a chilli dog. "Unsurprisingly, one with "super speed" privileges is still not too late after the 7th time."
"Privilege? Hmm..." Sonic reacts to her choice of words in an irritated way. But his mood quickly shifts back into happiness once the greasy treat of his beloved chili dog is handed to him. "Oh, thank you! It always makes me happy being given the best chili dogs from the best woman."
"That's the same line you make every other day. Your flirting is shallow."
"But I'm serious! I have a weak spot for tsun-"
The seller closes the stand to stop the conversation. Sonic looks slightly disappointed.
"Sheesh, what is her problem?" he asks with no self awareness.
He walks off and takes a huge bite from the chilli dog. It is warm and delicious, Sonic's favourite food. When walking back home, while eating said chilli dog and nearly finishing it, he hears an old man's scream from a nearby alleyway. He walks near that and sees from afar a mugger wearing a full disguise, looking ridiculous in all black and thinking a pitch black simple ski mask would "disguise" him. Sonic watches as the mugger in the crappy getup threatens a scared rich old owl with a sharp butcher knife.
"Ey, ol' owl, see 'tis cuttah? 'F ya wanna liff, gimmeh all 'o cash!" The mugger said in an accent that made Sonic nearly laugh. What a ridiculous accent! Sonic thinks that maybe that guy's from some rough part of the city.
Sonic charges with his super speed into action and hits the mugger with a swift dash punch to the stomach, making theugger scream like a little girl. Sonic wasn't expecting that noise and chuckles.
"Ow, oww, yo eyhool...y'noh how mush yo punch hurts?!"
Sonic smirkes: Time to imitate him! "If yoo 'aff moneh pwoblums, buh kind and don rushulff to viulunsh." Sonic mocks with his mouth full before swallowing the last bit of his chili dog. "This old man didn't do anything bad to you.".
"Butt ah neet cash!", the mugger stammers with the butcher knife being put down.
"You don't have to resort to violence because of that! Let me show you how to do it." Sonic then looks at the owl with an innocent smile. "Good evening sir! Can you please lend me money? With that low pocket money of mine, that chili dog I've eaten just now might be the last one for this month."
"Oh, sure, good young man! I think this bit here is enough for 3 chili dogs." The owl replies, as he hands the young hero a few shiny golden rings.
"Ah, thank you, good sir! Now you try, mister mugger man!" Sonic says while pointing his finger at the mugger.
The mugger looks genuinely shocked that it actually worked, then tries it himself with little confidence.
"Um, 'ello, ol' wan-" Sonic slaps the mugger slightly on the neck to make him change his choice of words. "I mean, 'ello good sir, can I pleesh 'ave cash? Haven't aten a niss meal foh days."
"Oh, sure, why didn't you say that immediately? Here, have this lot." The nice and forgiving old owl says with a smile as he hands the mugger a stack of the golden shiny rings.
"WAT?! 'Tis much, 'tis easy?! Thank you mister, thank you...umm, wut's yo name, boi?" The mugger asks, turning to the blue hero.
"I am Sonic, Sonic The Hedgehog!" Sonic proclaims. Within a few seconds, he walks off. He felt a bit bad for lying about his money issues, he wasn't rich but he certainly wasn't in the position of the mugger, but lying is not always evil, you know?.
He then runs back home, to his apartment. His rooms aren't tidy and is full of useless crap everywhere. Some even have dust on them. Truth be told, he is a bit lazy and would've hired someone to upkeep his apartment if he was rich. One of the few things however that Sonic isn't lazy for was personal hygiene. He takes a shower, and hates doing it for taking so long. He is so used to his sonic speed that he is easily bored by things that aren't fast or fun. Once stepping out of the shower, he goes to the balcony to watch the final moments of the sunset while waiting to dry. He doesn't want to shake off himself, as he really wants to avoid getting the bars of his balcony wet.
"Man, I love Mobius. So many nice and different places to run to. I want to see every single place this planet has to offer!" he thinks. Thanks to his super speed, he has been to many places of Mobius, but still hasn't seen everything. His hunger for adventure is still not satisfied.
After he got dry and the sun was gone, Sonic decides to sit on his dirty and crappy couch, as the smell of cheap, shitty and probably stale popcorn rests around it as he watches a game of baseball while drinking from a water bottle. When the game gets interesting, he gargles water in his mouth for no reason. But then suddenly, the TV suddenly went off! Sonic spits the water on the ground, points at his TV and shouts : "What the fuck was that?!"
Since the TV was off now, he tries to activate his room lights, but...they don't work. Then a terrible thought occurs to Sonic which he goes out in the balcony to confirm what he thought, and he really can't believe what's happening.
There is a blackout! The entire city slowly loses power! Sonic is bewildered. In his 3 months of living in Lost Angels, there has never been a power outage. Never ever.
He looks down from his balcony, and watches his fellow apartment residents and other civilians on the street be scared and bewildered, except one old elephant man is actually happy without electricity, like the good ol' days and all the crap. Sonic watches the streets turn pitch black. No electricity means no street lights. How are the residents supposed to get back to their homes? He guesses he'll have to make light in the old fashioned way, or maybe he can start eating a fuckton of carrots and gain night vision as he was once told as a small child.
Something rumbles underneath a road many meters away from Sonic's. A hooded silhouette emerged who didn't give any attention to any car or truck, or any kind of transport coming his way. The figure was wearing a black-red jacket that looked close to crimson but wasn't, pitch black jeans, white spiky gloves and black-brown slip-ons. His jacket is open and his red fur with a bit of white resembling a half-moon is visible, but his face is hidden except for his red quills.
His purple eyes gleamed in the moonlight, and was filled with determination. Who was he? What is his objective? Is he connected to the current power outage? Is he good or evil?
To be continued...