4 months after the Starfall Islands Incident…
Four carefree months followed, after the return of a primordial entity who calls themself
"The End", who tried to continue their conquest but were abruptly stopped by the combined efforts of
Team Sonic and Dr 'Ivo' Robotnik…
[STAR_LIGHT ZONE]
A city filled with many traders and notoriously known for the beautiful star-filled skies that were a constant.
It was a place where you could truly feel one with the culture spanning generations and generations ago. Mobians alike were roaming around the streets, making offers upon offers and even skating around.
On this specific day, a familiar group of heroes sped across the city, their signature colors lightning up the roads and obstacles that barely anybody could leap over.
Red, Blue, and Yellow.
One specific Mobian, with their spines styled into a shorthair style, pointed towards one of the skyscrapers, specifically at the top.. "Look! It's Sonic!" At that point, everyone's gaze shot back over to the top of the skyscraper.
Our familiar band of heroes could be seen on the very top, stretching. Particularly Sonic and Knuckles. After all, those two were like brothers. Actually, that could apply to all 3 of them.
"Oh man!" Sonic said cheerfully, stretching. "It never gets old runnin' through these zones! Always a thrill and gets the blood pumping!" Sonic was truly the definition of a free spirit. He looked up without a care in the world…most people would envy him. His quills flowed in the wind.
Knuckles was shadow-boxing the air, his new-found flames flowing on his gloves gracefully, like a serene flow of water. Meanwhile, Tails was looking over some schematics, probably for a new Tornado Model. Regardless, to any other average Mobian, it'd look like gibberish. Unintelligible gibberish. Knuckles paused his little training sesh, looking over to Tails and walking over. He put one of his big gloves on Tails's shoulder, provoking a small response out of the boy.
"Whatcha got there, Tails?" Knuckles said, squinting his eyes to look at… whatever Tails was conjuring or thinking of making.
Tails looked up at Knuckles, the tip of his tails forming into a small hand as he got back up.
"Oh! This is schematics for a new Tornado model! It uses language from the Ancients, so sorry if it looks like gibberish." Tails chuckled timidly a bit, putting his right hand behind his head as he scratched it a bit.
Knuckles soon responded. "Uh-huh… does anybody even know what happened to the Starfall Islands?" Tails continued. "No, but-"
"Alright guys! Let's get moving, eh?" Sonic said, already in a running stance as blue electricity surged through his quills. Knuckles and Tails looked over, grinning as both of them walked back over, getting into a running stance.
3… 2… 1… BOOM!
All of them blasted off, traversing across the city. Sonic leapt through loop-de-loops, narrow holes, and spun through heaps of trash.
Knuckles did the same, using his climbing prowess to dash across multiple buildings, while Tails flew through the obstacles around, he was akin to a tornado with the amount of wind being emitted from his tails and how fast they spin.
All of them eventually reached the same point, all of them using a nearby ramp to soar into the sky. At that moment, they were the purest form of teamwork…until they spotted something odd.
"Yo, team, does that look like a crack in the sky?" Sonic pondered, his expression slowly turning a bit intrigued.
"Yeah, it does." Knuckles and Tails responded, equally disturbed by it as Sonic.
The crack soon grew, more piece of the air shattering as if it was a glass wall. As they neared it, Tails tried to fly over to Sonic and Knuckles, because their momentum was driving them closer and closer to the crack until-
"That's not GOO-" CLANG! The crack fully shattered, a portal that, oddly enough, had ink surrounding it on the other side as our heroes got engulfed by it, the populace below unaware, that the cosmos were going to be shaken.