SONIC THE HEDGEHOG: SOLARIS
Disclaimer: I do not own the Sonic characters, just the OC's
Chapter One: Eggman's Assault
It's like they always say. You never know what you have until it's gone. This concept applies to everyone, even Sonic the Hedgehog. It has been over three months since Sonic, Shadow, and Mach (Who is really Amy, but Sonic doesn't know yet) raced Jet and his team, the Babylon Rogues, across the legendary Babylon Garden. This day also marks the sixth month since Sonic had last seen Amy Rose. Sonic had been searching the world endlessly for her with no luck of finding her. The only clue he had was Kumori's reassuring words and the Piko-Piko hammer Mach found during EX World Grand Prix. He was about to give up hope until he overheard Kumori talking on her communicator with, who sounded like, Amy. Kumori said she was headed for Soleanna and that is where the story begins.
Soleanna, the city of water. The citizens of Soleanna were currently celebrating a famous event know as the Soleanna Sun Festival. The sky was lit with colorful fireworks with a long white boat headed towards a giant alter in the middle of the town. Aboard that boat was Elise, the current ruler of Soleanna. Elise happily waved to the cheering people as the boat made a stop at the alter. Elise walked up the alter steps and came face-to-face with a figure wearing a black cloak holding a small torch in his hands. Elise found it strange when she thought she saw the figures hands were made of metal, but quickly shrugged the thought away. The figure handed the torch to Elise, who was greatly entranced by the flickering flames.
As Elise stared into the flames, a terrible vision entered her mind. The entire town was being burned down and the water was replaced by a river of lava. Elise could do nothing but watch as her proud home was slowly being consumed by the flames. The ground then started to rumble and the earth below her began to crack open. Elise looked up and saw a gigantic monster made from lava and rocks tearing out of the ground. Elise shook in fear until she noticed an lone figure standing up to the monster, ready to defend the burning town. After taking a closer look, Elise saw that the figure was actually a grey hedgehog that she knew. "Silver?" Elise silently questioned.
"Miss Elise." Elise escaped from her vision when one of the servants broke her out of the trance. "It's...it's all right." Elise said reassuringly. Elise gave the black cloaked figure a ceremonial bow before turning to the crowd. "We give thanks for the blessed flames. May we always continue to have he peace. Sun of Soleanna, guide and watch over us with your eternal light." Elise gave the traditional speech. Elise turned around and placed the flames on the alter, which created a mantle of flame, signaling the completion of the Soleanna Sun Festival. The crowd went wild as fireworks filled the sky with their colorful beauty.Everything was going perfectly until several explosions were created for unknown reasons.
Elise then looked up to see a large airship floating above them. The bottom of the airship opened up and several mechs dropped down to surround the Elise and her servants. The black cloaked figure jumped over the mechs and ran like the wind, literally. Just then, Eggman floated down to the princess in his new Eggmobile. "It's a pleasure to meet you, princess of Soleanna. I am Dr. Eggman. I've come here to obtain the secret of the flames of disaster from you. And to take the chaos emeralds that are the key to its secrets." Eggman explained his plot. Upon hearing this, Elise held the blue chaos emerald closely, not want to give it up because it was given to her by a special friend. "Now, princess, come this way." Eggman commanded. Elise slowly backed away, only to be stopped by the mechs.
All seemed hopeless until a strange gust of blue wind surrounded everyone. "No. It can't be." Eggman said, realizing what was causing this strange wind. "Well, that a pretty snazzy performance." Everyone looked up one of the pedestals to find none other then Sonic the Hedgehog. When Elise spotted the blue hedgehog, she momentarily received another vision that replaced Sonic with the grey hedgehog from the earlier vision. "You...it can't be! Silver!" Elise called to Sonic by mistake. "Silver? Who's Silver?" Sonic asked Elise. Sonic's mind was returned to the battle when the mechs quickly surrounded him. "All right! Time to Party!" Sonic shouted eagerly.
The mechs opened fire on the blue blur, but Sonic merely jumped off the pedestal to avoid the shots. Once in the air, Sonic curled up into his ball form and began to using his homing attack on the surrounding mechs. The mechs tried to counter by shooting the blue ball, but Sonic was just too fast for them. One by one, the mechs were destroyed by the speedy little hero. After finishing with the mechs, Sonic landed in front of the princess to correct her for her earlier mistake. "I'm Sonic. Sonic the hedgehog." He introduced himself to her.
"You won't ruin my plans this time, you irritating little rat! Attack!" Eggman commanded. Several mechs of different shapes and sizes dropped from the airship above and fired all their weapons at the blue hedgehog. "what do you say we go for a little ride?" Sonic said as he picked up Elise and ran off. Thanks to Sonic's super, both he and Elise were able to make it out safely. Unknown to them, they were being watched by two lone figures. The first one was none other the Silver the Hedgehog. "I finally found him. The Iblis Trigger." Silver said. The second figure watching was the black cloaked figure from that ran away earlier. "I finally found you, Sonic. This time, you will die, my loathsome copy." The figure said. Either from anger or to test his power the black cloaked destroyed the nearby wall with his metal hand.
Sonic was still running until he reached a safe part of town and thought the he lost Eggman. "Um...Why are you helping me?" Elise asked. "No special reason." Sonic said simply. Sonic instantly screech to a halt when the mechs dropped from the sky and blocked off his path. Sonic set Elise safely on the ground before charging at the mechs. Sonic ran head first into one of the mechs to crash through its chest plate. One of the mechs fired its gun at Sonic, but the blue blur quickly jumped to the side and allowed the bullet to destroy the mech behind him. Sonic jumped into the air and curled into his ball form to using his homing attack to destroy the rest of the remaining mechs. Sonic smirked at his easy victory, but then turned around to find Elise in the hands of Eggman's Eggmobile.
"I am afraid our little game will have to end now." Eggman said. After being able to squirm her arm free from the Eggmobile's grip, Elise quickly grabbed her precious chaos emerald. "Sonic, take this!" Elise shouted as she threw him the chaos emerald. Sonic caught the emerald and said "I got it! don't worry, I'll rescue you!" "I know." Elise said, having complete trust in him. "It's only a matter of time before it's mine. Until then, you can hold on to it for me." Eggman said. Sonic could only stand there as he watched Eggman fly up to his airship with Elise in hand. Eggman's airship then departed from the town of Soleanna, leaving Sonic completely helpless to do anything. All Sonic wanted to do is find Amy and know he has to stop Eggman's plan...again. "I never get a break." Sonic complained.
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