Back to the Future: Sonic Style

Chapter 1: Meet Silver

Location: Green Hill, Date: October 25th 1985

Tick Tock.

Tick Tock.

Tick Tock.

That was one of the only sounds that were coming from Dr. Miles "Tails" Prower's workshop made by the many clocks that were everywhere, from alarm clocks to cuckoo clocks, from grandfather clocks to digital clocks, they were all in synced on the same time, 7:53 am.

At the same time, a radio and a TV set were automatically switched on, the radio giving out heads up on news and music, while for the TV, at the moment, the news was currently on.

"The Senate is expected to vote on this today." An anchorwoman spoke as the she was finishing off one bit of news before going on to the latest one, "In other news, officials at The Pacific Nuclear Research Facility have denied the rumor that the case of missing plutonium was in fact stolen from their vault two weeks ago. A terrorist group had claimed responsibility for the alleged theft, however, the officials now infer the credence to a simple clerical error. The FBI..."

While the news was still going on, several house appliances were active, however, there were a few backfires, such as the coffee machine went ding as it poured hot water on the base, where a cup would be, and the toaster was still cooking some toast that had been in there for a while, as it had now became a black crisp of burnt bread.

Just then, the door suddenly opened, and then entered a young white adult-teen hedgehog, holding in his left arm being a skateboard, while in his right hand were some keys, which he then placed on the table next him.

His name was Silver the Hedgehog, a bright young lad who lived in the town of Green Hill, where his family lived also.

He was also a good friend to Dr. Prower, or as he called him "Doc", he had just come in to see if he was home.

"Hey, Doc? Doc?" Silver called out as he looked around, "Hello, anyone home? What's going on?"

Silver then whistled as he called out for Doc Prower's pet compainion, a Chao named Einstein, "Einstein, come here, boy."

The hedgehog then stopped as he then spotted a bit of a mess around the workshop, all around were empty pizza boxes, puddles of oil and grease, bits of rubbish and a few spill marks from coffee.

"Wha-aw man. Aw Jeez, that's disgusting." Silver cringed as he looked at the mess, before looking around once more as he placed his skateboard down on the floor.

"Where the heck is everyone?" he wondered aloud, as he slide the skateboard backwards, unaware that it softly bumped into a box under another table… containing plutonium.

Moments later, Silver had set himself up to test out the amplifiers on the stereo systems, setting the dials up to maximum.

With shades on him and his guitar plugged in, he positioned himself on the spot, lifted up his hand, which he was holding a guitar pick, then brought it down to play a tune.

As the tune was played, however, it instantly let out an explosion from speakers, as it blew while letting out the tune played at the same time, sending the white hedgehog flying onto a nearby sofa.

Though the sofa tipped a little as it nudged a book shelve, sending the papers and small boxes tumbling down on Silver, as he recovered while taking off his shades, he looked on see the damaged amplifiers from that single guitar note.

"Whoa…" Silver said in silent shock, before bringing up a surprised, yet interested smile, "…Rock and Roll!"

Just then, an old alarm bell rang out, startling Silver as he instantly scurried to the phone (since the phone was connected to the alarm bell as it's ringer, to let Doc Prower know that someone was calling him).

"Yeah, hello?" Silver asked, wanting to know who was calling him.

Then, a gruff voice came from the other end, "Silver, is that you?"

Recognizing the voice, Silver replied, "Hey, hey, Doc! Where are you?"

"Thank goodness I found you." Doc Prower said, not quite answering Silver's question, "Listen, can you meet me at Twin Pines Mall tonight at 1:15?" he asked, "I've made a major breakthrough and I'll need your assistance."

"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Silver said with a surprise, "1:15 in the morning?"

"Yes, that's right!" Doc Prower replied.

"What's going on?" Silver asked, "Where have you been all week?"

"Working." Replied the doctor.

"Where's Einstein, is he with you?" Silver asked, concerned of the Chao's position and situation.

"Yes, he's right here."

"You know, Doc," Silver then explained, "you left your equipment on all week."

"My equipment?" Doc Prower's voice asked, before giving a head's up for the young hedgehog.

"That reminds me, Silver," he said, "you'd better not hook up to the amplifier. There's a slight possibility of overload."

Silver, nervously, looked back to the wrecked amplifier, before saying "Yeah, I'll keep that in mind…" it was probably best not to mention what happened to the Doc.

"Good, I'll see you tonight." Doc Prower said, "Don't forget now, 1:15am, Twin Pines Mall."

"Got it!" Silver said happily.

BRIIING!

DONG!

DING-A-LING-A-LING!

CUKOO-CUKOO!

The sound of all the types of clocks going off startled the surprised Silver as he then looked around at the loud clocks making such a racket as they announced the same time: 8am.

"Are those my clocks I hear?" Doc Prower's voice asked.

"Yeah," Silver said, as he was trying to cover his ears with the telephone, "it's 8 o'clock."

"They're late. My experiment worked!" the voice said with excitement as the doctor explained, "They're all exactly 25 minutes slow!"

Just as he heard that, Silver, with nervous, worried thought, spoke through the phone, "Waitaminute, waitaminute, Doc. Are you telling me that it's 8:25?"

"Precisely!" Doc Prower answered.

"DANG!" shouted Silver, as he then put the telephone back, shouting out to the Doc via phone before hanging up: "I'm late for school!"

With that, he hung up the phone, and whizzed out of the house, picking up his skateboard as he left.

As he left Doc Prower's workshop, he took off on his skateboard to try and get to school, before anyone (or basically, the principle) labels him tardy.

Silver, along with his family, Doc Prower and the many others live the nice town of Green Hill, where all that happens here is just stuff that usually happens everyday in any hometown.

The town was currently under the leadership of Mayor Mighty "Muscles" the Armadillo, who was currently preparing to be re-elected.

Back with Silver the Hedgehog, he speeded down his hometown, even managing to hitch rides from the back of cars or pickup trucks, to help save the energy he needed for something big, before long, he finally made it the school, everyone wasn't out, so that meant that everyone were at their classes.

As Silver approached the front entrance, he spotted someone approaching him; it was Blaze the Cat, the nice girl that Silver was into, as she was for him, having a nice growing relationship as they were.

"Hey, Blaze!" said Silver, as she hurried towards him, though Silver noticed that something was wrong as she had a worried look.

"Silver," she said as she grabbed his arm, "don't go this way, Strickland's looking for you!"

Silver understood and let Blaze lead the way to another entrance into the school as she pointed out, "If he finds you, it'll be 4 tardies in a row!"

Once inside, the couple had to see if the cost was clear: the hallways were empty, which meant the principle wasn't around.

"All right, c'mon, I think we're safe." Blaze said, carefully and quietly, as she and Blaze walked carefully to their classes.

"Y'know, this time it wasn't my fault." Silver said, placing his arm around Blaze as he explained what happened, "The Doc set all his clocks 25 minutes slow."

Suddenly, a gloved hand took hold of Silver by his right shoulder, and both he and Blaze froze in the same realization: They got caught.

The gloved hand belonged to Shadow Strickland, the principle of Green Hill School, who was shown to be quite stiff, uncompromising, pedantic and humorless, he had streak of being strict, yet stern, position as principle, and he had nasty dislike of slackers, especially those in his school.

"Doc?" he said, as Silver and Blaze turned to see him next to them, "Am I to understand that you're still hanging around with Dr. Miles Prower, Silver?"

He then got out to pink slips to hand to them, "Tardy slip for you, Miss Blaze." He said as he handed the first one to the cat girl.

"And one for you, Silver," Shadow said as he then hand Silver his tardy slip, "I believe that makes four in a row."

As the three began to walk to Silver and Blaze's classes, Shadow began to speak, "Now let me give you a nickel's worth of advice, young hedgehog, this so called Dr. Prower is dangerous, he's a real nutcase. You hang around with him, you're gonna end up in big trouble."

"Oh, yes, sir." Silver said, gloomily.

Shadow then turned Silver to face him as he sternly said, "You got a real attitude problem, Silver. You're a slacker. You remind me of your father when he was here, he was a slacker too."

"Can I go now, Mr. Strickland?" Silver asked, as he and Blaze got a little impatient.

"I noticed your band is on the roster for dance auditions after school today." Shadow said, as he brought Silver close to him, giving the young, white hedgehog a good cold stare.

"Why even bother, Silver?" Shadow said, "You haven't got a chance, you're too much like your old man. No Hedgehogs have ever amounted anything in the history of Green Hill."

"Yeah," Silver then said with a grin, "well history is gonna change."

"Next, please." One of the four judges said through the megaphone, calling up Silver's band, which was taking part of the School's Battle of the Band event that was soon to happen later on.

As his band got ready (with Blaze watching back stage), Silver went up to the microphone to introduce the group, "All right," he said, "We're The Pinheads."

After the band was in posistion, they began to play as Silver shouted out "One. Two. Three. Four."

Silver's band was rocking out very well, plaing Silver and Blaze's favourite song "Power of Love", with the lead Hedgehog rocking it out on his guitar.

Blaze watched as she enjoyed every moment of it, loving to see her boyfriend get it down, as the band continued to play.

The judge still watch, without making any action, while the head judge looked to his co-harts, before picking up the megaphone, "Ok, that's enough." He said.

"Stop the microphone, please." The judge said, as Silver and his group stopped instantly, with confused looks on their faces, for they hadn't even got to the lyrics.

"I'm sorry, fellas." The judge said through the megaphone, "I'm afraid you're just too darn loud."

Silver, Blaze and the rest of the Pinheads couldn't believe what they were hearing, they did great, and the only comment they got was that they were "Too Darn Loud", it was rock music, it had to be loud!

As the judges called out the next group to play, a very disappointed Silver walked back to an equally disappointed Blaze, both of them with a sad worried thought.

Maybe Shadow was right.

Any Hedgehog might never, ever accomplish anything in Green Hill.