Chapter Text
Prison Island, Tokyo Bay, Japan, May 2024 21:00
The stasis pod glowed softly with the red light blinking on and off giving an eerie glow to the darkened room, as monitors beeped softly with the various degrees of tracking all the vitals making sure that the black hedgehog within was still in stasis and not going to wake.
Warning lights flashed suddenly as the system was suddenly compromised and the pod began to become unstable, the two beginning to panic as the black hedgehog was waking up.
The reaction was swift, as more than a few elite guards entered the area, quickly surrounding the pod, weapons raised, prepared to shoot if needed.
Hearts hammered as breathing sped up, and then a sudden calm before the storm came.
The creature within suddenly opened his eyes, and glowing orange energy as a fist slammed through the glass, shattering it spraying ice cold water steaming as it came in contact with the air.
Then a series of blips filled the room, and men fell, one after the other without firing a shot as the creature was fast enough to warp between one elite guard to the next.
The movements then were quick, and the alarms sounded, and the black hedgehog took off over the water, as a hole was blasted through the side building. Eyes glowing with a subtle red/ orange hue as water was stirred under foot as small rockets glowed propelling the creature forwards...
Tokyo City Japan, May 2024, 22:00
The crowd walked past me as I walked among the humans, I ignored them entirely, as I kept on walking trying to figure out exactly where I was, looking for anything to help me figure out both where I was and what was going on. I came to an open square, stood in the rain, staring at the buildings that projected the date on a rather large screen, the realisation that I had been unconscious for fifty years slowly sinking in, as the water fell down my body making me feel slightly cold as I looked up.
Fifty years since I had seen before my very eyes the death of Maria, since the Professor had come in, panicked and told us that we had to run… and danger was brought before us, to bring harm to the one friend that was my only true friend… the only person that I cared about.
The memories haunted me as I stood in shock, staring at the numbers that began to blur, water dropping down from my quills, from my fur, soaking my skin, though I ignored it as the cold still remained to bite my body with its insidious grasp, the slowing of my body only prevented by sheer willpower at that point.
The sudden arrival of GUN and their yells of me being surrounded snapped me out of it and I turned to look at the people who held up their weapons at me.
“Why won’t you just leave me alone?!”
I closed my eyes, let my powers flow freely, leaping from one to the other, taking them out, sending them flying and creating an explosion. I saw a GUN helicopter seemingly appear out of nowhere and saw three figures leap out of it.
I glared at them, watching to see where they landed before kicking a tank out of my way, as it was too annoying to deal with at that moment, the fire warming my body a little as the rain had stopped, seemingly moving on from where I was, from where I stood now.
Then I began to walk up the upturned vehicle towards the scene I had left behind, the dull thump of my footsteps as I felt myself recalling the events that brought me to this point, the fact that I had seen Maria die before my eyes… that couldn’t be forgotten, that couldn’t be shaken away no matter how hard I tried.
It was all that I could think about in that moment as the fires burned. Then I regarded the group of brightly coloured creatures before me. One who looked like… me…
“Why do you like me?”
The blue hedgehog then said that they would be the one asking the questions, basically demanding an answer to some question that I’d just asked, like he was the one to arrogantly take charge of the conversation. The blue hedgehog seemed to still not want to fight, good for them, I supposed. They mentioned something about just wanting to talk, and I turned away,
“You came out of that G.U.N helicopter, we have nothing to talk about.”
One of them, the echidna however wanted to fight, coming forwards yelling that our fists could do the talking, though I didn’t want to fight, I warped forwards, my skill in fighting learned from observing how soldiers at the former base that I once called home.
Knocking him down was easy enough, and taking them all out was an easy enough task for me as I made short work of them.
I spotted a motorcycle and walked over to it, climbed aboard and kicked up the gun nearby, turned back to the idiots and said,
“Do not follow me, or you will get hurt.”