A/N: Okay, I just want to get this out of the way; I'm still going to work on Piracy, but this was just too good an idea to pass up. Major props go out to SonicMovies on Youtube for compiling this game into a film, and BlackHawkOmega on for ideas on how to improve on it. So, I hope you people enjoy this little treat!

__________________________________________________

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2006 – REDUX

A Future in Ruins

The Psycho-Kinetic Hedgehog and the Pyro-Kinetic Cat

__________________________________________________

Crisis City. What had once in a distant past been a bustling metropolis was now nothing more but ruins, with the streets down below filled with nothing more than lava, with a few licks of flame shooting out from down below every so often, the skies were covered in dark clouds, covering the entire city in darkness, with only the lava below giving out any source of light. At this moment, someone was floating over these ruins, a teal-colored energy surrounding his body.

This world… it's been in ruins since long before I was born. the creature thought, as he stopped his flight to observe the ruins. The creature was a hedgehog, though not one you would expect to see in the wild. His fur was a light, silver color, and a white, furry mane bound itself around his neck, being most prominent by his chest. From the back of his head, two elongated quills were sticking out, along with five quills pointing upward placed prominently on his forehead. Two white gloves adorned his hands, along with golden cuffs around the wrists, and his navy blue/white, teal-tipped shoes were topped by golden collars. Interestingly, the gloves, cuffs and collars had strange, teal-colored symbols on them, which were glowing stronger than the rest of his body.

It is a harsh, bleak place, covered in eternal darkness. People live in fear, unwilling to see if the sun is still shining above us. the hedgehog thought, as he closed his eyes, seemingly not noticing a large tongue of flame creeping up behind him. Everyone I've questioned about how such a disaster could have happened won't answer me directly… but they always point… to the flames.

At that moment, when the flames had crept close enough to him, the symbols on his gloves shone a brilliant light, before the hedgehog spun around, delivering a powerful psychic blast to the flames, forcing them to disperse. These flames… burning away at my world, destroying everything in their path. They are spawned from an eternal life-form, said to be impossible to fully defeat… The Flames of Disaster, Iblis.

"Silver!" The sound of a female calling out for someone caused the hedgehog to turn around, only to see a lavender-colored cat leaping towards him across the ruined skyscrapers. Upon closer inspection, the cat was shown to have four tendrils resembling feathers as hair, which were held aloft by a red, glossy ring. She was wearing a violet-colored dress, along with a pair of quite form-fitting, white trousers, a pair of white gloves with dense, fur-lined cuffs. and a pair of magenta-colored, high-heeled shoes. A red gem was also embedded into her forehead. "There you are; I've been looking all over this place for you! Where have you been, anyway?" she said, just as she landed on the building closest to the hedgehog, which was still a fair distance away.

"Well…" the hedgehog began, but decided to shake it off, noting the urgency in the cat's voice. "Never mind that, Blaze. What's wrong?" he asked, as he floated closer to the cat.

"It's Iblis." Blaze said, as she pointed towards where she had come from. "He's been spotted by the center of the city. If we don't fend him off, his creatures will spread further through Crisis City!"

Silver looked towards where Blaze was pointing, before nodding. "We don't have time to deal with his offspring, then." he said, before grabbing hold of the cat's wrist. "Let's go!" Then, without warning, he suddenly flew towards where Blaze had pointed at an incredible speed, passing by the giant skyscrapers in no time.

As they flew over the city, they would occasionally spot other anthropomorphic creatures running in terror from strange, unearthly creatures, covered in molten rock and flames, some taking the shape of avian creatures, others taking the shape of serpentine ones. "How tragic…" Blaze uttered, as she looked up at Silver, who tried his best to focus on the road ahead, rather than look down at the civilians in danger. "Silver?"

"As long as we can fight off Iblis, then his spawns will disappear as well." Silver muttered, as his eyes narrowed themselves. "That's how it's always been…" he trailed off, before suddenly landing on an alcove, just as he nearly collapsed on his knees. "Guh… I'm still not used to do that at such high speed. We'll have to walk the rest of the way."

"Thankfully, it's not too far from here." Blaze said, as she pointed to a pool of lava surrounded by a series of elevated platforms, where some armed anthropomorphic creatures already stood. "He was last seen around there." she said, as she helped Silver get on his feet, before the two of them started to leap across the buildings, not going as fast as before, but still at a moderately decent pace.

It didn't take them too long to get to the platforms, but instead of announcing their presence, both of them kept quiet, as they looked down into the massive pool of lava underneath them. The situation was incredibly tense, with not one of those present daring to make a sound. Iblis… come out…

Then, all of a sudden, a massive arm constructed out of magma and rock shot out of the lava, which startled most of the soldiers surrounding the pool, but Silver and Blaze remained stoic. Soon, another arm emerged from the lava, before a gigantic, four-armed creature made out of magma and rock shot out of it with a tremendous roar, its head covered in stone, and shoulder plates made out of stone also resided on the monster. "There it is! All units, fire!" one of the soldiers shouted, just as every one of them opened fire on the massive lava creature. "Don't let Iblis get away this time!"

However, even though they hit the monster with a massive amount of bullets, it wasn't even phased by this onslaught, but one thing they had gotten out of it was the monster's ire. With a roar, the monster raised one of its four arms, ready to slam it into the group of soldiers, who were still shooting at it.

"Yah!" Suddenly, just as Iblis swung its arm at the soldiers, the arm stopped moving, as Silver had moved in front of them, repelling the arm with some sort of psycho-kinesis, all whilst the teal symbols on his gloves were glowing brightly. "Leave Iblis to me and Blaze! We're not going to let him kill anyone else!" The soldiers looked from one another to Silver with a hint of confusion, just as they saw the arm slowly break free of the psycho-kinesis. "Go! I can't hold this forever!"

With that, the soldiers finally scurried away from the platform, just as Iblis broke the arm out of Silver's make-shift lock. With a roar, the monster attempted to crush Silver underneath its arm, when suddenly, a fireball slammed into the creature's skull, causing it to misjudge where it swung its arm, letting it crash into a ruined skyscraper, sending lots of rocks flying out of the structure. "Silver, don't try anything reckless!" Blaze called, as she ran up to the silver hedgehog. "There should be plenty of debris lying around. I'll keep him distracted while you find some to hurl at him, okay?" she said, before turning to the fire-monster, which was now crossing its arms.

"O-okay, Blaze." Silver nodded, before he ran towards the building Iblis had attacked, just as the monster uncrossed his arms, letting a rain of flaming rocks shoot out of his chest, which Blaze gracefully evaded, before hurling a series of fireballs aimed at the creature's head, all of which struck home. With a roar, the monster attempted to crush Blaze underneath its palm, but the cat was too quick for the monster to hit, as she leapt up on its arm, before running up it, blasting the monster's head with constant fire attacks.

Just then, a large piece of bedrock slammed head-first into the monster, causing an eruption by its left shoulder, sending the left shoulder plate flying off into the lava. Roaring in what seemed to be anger, Iblis attempted to crush Blaze once more, the cat now standing on the right shoulder plate. But before it could crush the cat, she leapt off it, landing on the platform surrounding the lava. "We got him now!" she said, before hurling yet another fireball at the monster.

"It ends now, Iblis!" Silver called, just as he telepathically lifted a piece of the building Iblis had smashed up in the air, before hurling it at the monster, hitting its head directly. Just then, it shot out a rain of flaming rocks at the two once more, but now, Silver was ready, grabbing most of the rocks in mid-air. "Take this!" Suddenly, he pushed all of the rocks he had grabbed back at Iblis, all of them detonating once they hit Iblis' armored head, which suddenly blew up, along with the right shoulder plate. "Is it over?"

"Not yet." Blaze said, as she held her right arm before her, flames beginning to build up around it. "Don't let your guard down." Just as she said this, the monster blew a massive stream of flames at the two, which Silver had the incentive to leap away from, but Blaze stood her ground, just as a shield of flames enveloped around her, preventing Iblis' attack from reaching her.

"Blaze!" Silver yelled, as he saw that Iblis wasn't going to end the attack any time soon, and even with her own flames protecting her, Blaze wouldn't last forever. "Damn… I've got to do something!" he uttered, just before he looked behind him, to see the ruined structure Iblis had attacked, which gave him an idea. "That could…" he uttered, just as he pointed his hands towards it.

Then, slowly, his gloves began glowing even brighter than before, as the foundations of the building began glowing as well, almost as if Silver was focusing all his energy at the weak spot from where Iblis had attacked it. "Come on…" he muttered, as the building began giving in to pressure. "It's working!" Then, suddenly pulling his hands backwards, the building slowly began to topple, threatening to crush anything in front of it, which was Silver's clue to get out of the way. "Blaze, let's get out of here!" he shouted, which led to the cat noticing what he had planned.

"Just give me a second!" Blaze called, before the flames around her began intensifying in heat, scorching the very ground she stood on. Then, slamming her palm into the ground, the shield around her blew away, taking out Iblis' flame breath at the same time, letting her leap after Silver once she was in the clear. "Now it's over…"

As she said this, Iblis just noticed the building that threatened to crash into it, but it had no chance to move away from the skyscraper, as it slammed into the monster at full force, sending both it and Iblis sinking into the lava, the monster roaring in pain, before it vanished beneath the molten rock. The soldiers that watched this could not help but suddenly cheer, due to their enemy being handed such a thorough defeat.

On a building overlooking where Iblis had once found himself, Silver and Blaze now stood, both of them resting against some ruined walls. "That should keep the populace safe for now." Blaze said, as she sat down, rubbing her temples.

"For now…" Silver repeated, as he slowly clenched his fists. "It's always 'for now'. Every time we destroy him, he always returns, sometimes without any delay!" In frustration, he slammed his fist against the wall, his eyes glaring into the ground. "It's a never-ending cycle! What's the point in all of this?!"

Blaze sighed as she looked at Silver, before she stood up, placing a hand on his shoulder. "You shouldn't worry too much, Silver…" she uttered, but Silver meekly pushed the hand away.

"Then… tell me what I should do." he responded, before looking away from Blaze. "Just how are we going to defeat Iblis?" Blaze opened her mouth to respond, but no reply came, as she instead looked away from Silver. The truth was, no one had any idea how to fully defeat the terror known as Iblis, Blaze least of all, as she hadn't even been born in Crisis City.

Just then, a different voice chuckled. "Why, by knowing the truth, of course." it said, which caught both Silver's and Blaze's attention, as they looked towards the source of the voice, which was another hedgehog; his fur was a grayish-black, with different highlights of pale powder blue on his quills, arms, legs and by his eyes, and a white tuft of fur on his chest. What was most peculiar about this hedgehog was the fact that he had no mouth, as his muzzle was moving in correspondence to his speech. "Just as a flower comes from a seed… or a chicken comes from an egg…" the hedgehog muttered, as he looked down at Silver and Blaze. "…everything has an origin."

Blaze blinked skeptically, as she crossed her arms. "Who are you?" she said in a demanding tone; she didn't like the look of this hedgehog at all.

The hedgehog, however, merely chuckled. "How inconsiderate of me. You may call me Mephiles." he said, before he looked up at the clouded sky. "In order to vanquish the monster, you need to find the source of what caused this catastrophe."

Silver's eyes widened, as he stepped forward, looking up at this Mephiles-character. "So… that's the answer to our problem?" he said curiously, which made Blaze throw a glance at him, which he didn't notice. "Tell me, Mephiles… do you know who caused it?" he asked, just as the hedgehog looked down at them again, his emotionless gaze making Blaze a little nervous.

__________________________________________________

Some hours had passed. In an abandoned building, there was one computer that was still active. At that moment, Mephiles entered the room, followed shortly by Silver and Blaze, both of whom eyed Mephiles with some manner of curiosity. "In order to fix this present timeline, you will be required to change what has taken place in the past." Mephiles said, as he walked up to the computer, just as both Silver and Blaze stopped.

"Change the past?" Silver asked, before shaking his head. "That's impossible. No one has ever been able to travel in time before."

Mephiles chuckled, as he slowly turned back to face Silver and Blaze. "That was before you met me. I have the power to travel in time, so getting you into the past won't be a challenge for me at all." he said, as Silver widened his eyes in surprise, whereas Blaze merely raised an eyebrow. "In order for you to change the past, you will have to kill the individual who awakened Iblis; the Iblis Trigger."

Both Silver and Blaze blinked upon hearing this. Killing a lone individual would be something not to be taken lightly, but… "The Iblis Trigger… If I kill him, will that save our world?" Silver asked, as Mephiles merely nodded, before he started to press some buttons on the computer's console.

"The day Iblis was released, spreading his flames into this world… The Day of Disaster. These are my records of the event." Then, the computer screen suddenly flared up, showing Silver and Blaze a series of images, documents and articles about this day, the events that transpired, and various bits of information. "And the one to blame…" Mephiles then said, as he slowly pulled a purple gemstone from his person, handing it to Silver, who grabbed it.

As Silver looked into the purple gem, he suddenly found himself in a field surrounded by flames, but the flames weren't actually real, so they did nothing to harm him. Then, in the midst of the flames, he could make out a figure surrounded by fire. "I see something…" he uttered, just as he approached the figure, who suddenly looked towards him, revealing it to be a blue hedgehog. "I see it!" Silver suddenly exclaimed, just as he was brought back to reality. "The Iblis Trigger was that blue hedgehog, right?" he asked Mephiles, who merely nodded.

Blaze, on the other hand, looked curiously at Silver, her eyebrow raised once more. A hedgehog…? she thought, before looking over at Mephiles. "You wouldn't happen to know the name of the Iblis Trigger, then?" she asked, as Mephiles merely shrugged, before Silver handed him back the gem.

"I know only his form, not his name." he said, before hiding the gem on his person, just as he generated something between his hands; a small, spherical cloud, consisting of dark energy. "Regardless, I shall send us all back in time… to the point when the Iblis Trigger was still alive." Then, releasing the cloud, it suddenly expanded to cover him, Silver and Blaze, just as all three of them vanished into thin air, leaving the cloud to disperse.

__________________________________________________

In the middle of a valley connecting a forest to a large field, a purple cloud suddenly appeared out of nowhere, which suddenly dropped Silver off from it, just as it vanished. Silver blinked, as he looked all around him, only to see that he was alone; neither Blaze nor Mephiles were anywhere in sight. "Mephiles?" he called, as he looked all over the area, growing quite worried. "Blaze?"

When he didn't get any replies, Silver sighed, as he looked at the grassy field. "I guess we all got separated…" he muttered, just as he looked upwards, only to see the clear blue sky for the first time in what could be considered his entire life. "Wow… that's what it looks like…" he uttered, before looking down towards the valley, where a path was leading somewhere. "Iblis Trigger… If it means that my future can be fixed, I will do what I must!" With that, he rushed down the path.

As he did this, a great distance away, on a cliff housing some summer huts, Blaze found herself alone as well, though she kept her cool. "Hmm… so this is the past." she said, as she scanned the area around her. "I just hope Silver is okay. He's not exactly the type to be relaxed when he's alone." Then, after she spotted a town in the distance, she closed her eyes. "…somehow, I think Mephiles knew more than he told us about the Iblis Trigger than he wanted to tell..." she muttered, as she began her trek towards the town.

__________________________________________________

A/N: Okay, I hope you people enjoyed this! So, will this possibly make Sonic 06 any better at all? Somehow, I doubt it, but regardless, I hope it is an improvement! Until next time, everyone!

YolkaEd