Pieces of Solaris

Anti-Climatic Curb Stomp

Turns out Silver was very good at scaring the living daylights out of mild mannered citizens. It didn't give him the same enjoyment that it was apparently giving Eggman, but at least things were going according to schedule. From the back of his vision as he helped Eggman's robots rampage the village, Silver made sure that no one was getting hurt and out of harm's way. Using his abilities for too long became taxing, it was an annoyance as much as it was a breather from the action.

Admittedly, it didn't take that long for Silver to notice the blue blur that Eggman had described as Sonic coming. But Silver saw someone with the blue hedgehog as he set them down at a safe point far enough away; Elise. For a moment, Silver was relieved to see that she was well, but the next he was furious. Silver had made Eggman agree that they wait for Sonic to come to the battlefield before doing anything drastic- but that was before Silver knew Sonic did have Elise.

Using his telekenetic powers, Silver forcefully made Sonic come down to the battlefield and slammed him into the ground next to him. Sonic groaned from the impact, but he got up relatively quickly.

"Nice to meet you too," Sonic retorted as he got up, "My name's Sonic by the way."

"I am Silver." Silver said curtly. "And you have Soleanna's reigning monarch, Princess Elise the Third."

"Wait, wait, wait- Elise is a princess?"

"And the only survivor of Soleanna's demise."

Sonic gave Silver a dumbfounded look and for a long time said nothing. Silver was not patient enough to wait for Sonic to process everything, so Silver started to attack without mercy. For a split second in between attack, Sonic caught his breath, aimed for an open spot, and spin dashed into Silver as hard as he could. Silver was knocked back for a moment while Sonic prepared to spin dash into him again. Silver had a quick mind and stopped Sonic just mere centimeters from spin dashing into Silver again.

"It's no use!" Silver declared with a laugh. Frozen in Silver's control, Sonic's eyes illustrated his fear and panic without being able to fully express it. Silver let out a rather nasty laugh as he tossed Sonic up in the air then slammed him into the ground.

"Now," Silver started to say as he marched close to the blue hedgehog in preparation to launch a final blow. "Let's see if you got the message yet."

"Wait!" someone declared before getting in between Sonic and Silver. "Don't hurt him!"

Upon seeing who it was, Silver let down his guard.

"Elise?"

"Silver?" she asked in return. Then a light bulb switched on in her mind and a big smile stretched across her face. "Silver!"

Before either Sonic or Silver had time to react, the human girl ran to give Silver a warm and welcoming hug- the force of which made Silver lose his balance and both of them ended up on the ground. Elise cuddled Silver like he was a big, oversized stuffed teddy bear- Silver, although surprised, gave Elise a hug back. His hug was of mutual affection, but not in desperation like hers seemed to be. Sonic looked at the two with the most confused look he could give.

"I'm glad you're safe Princess." Silver told her as they slowly started to separate from their hug. Elise gave Silver a rather confused look.

"I... I'm a princess?" she asked, sounding genuinely confused. Silver in turn gave her a rather hard look.

"Yes, Elise." Silver said to her, started to sound a bit angry. "You are the princess of Soleanna, a fallen kingdom taken by Mephiles the Dark. Tell me you're joking."

Elise shook her head slowly.

"Silver, I'm having a hard time remembering your name- I don't know where Soleanna is, I just remembered the name hours ago truthfully. I don't know who Mephiles is or what happened to Soleanna, I... I barely know you."

Silver backed away from Elise a bit to get a better look at her face, to make sure she wasn't lying to him. She wasn't, and in horror Silver turned around to give Sonic a horrifying stare that illustrated what he wanted to do to him.

"Oh no, don't look at me like that!" Sonic exclaimed, throwing his hands in the air to claim innocence. "I did not do anything to her!"

Silver did not seem to be listening, and was seething in so much anger that he was grinding his teeth.

"He's telling the truth." Elise agreed, looking at Silver cautiously. "Although I can't remember much, I know I can trust you. Sonic saved me, if he was the one that took away my memory, why would he go through the trouble of making sure I was fine after?"

Silver shot a look at Elise, then looked back at Sonic again.

"And you trust him completely?" Silver asked.

"Like a knight." Elise nodded. Silver let out a sigh as his anger diffused somewhat.

"Alright." he agreed. "Sonic is an ally. Now that I know you're safe Elise, it's time to end that deal with Eggman."

Within a single wave of his hand, Silver made all of Eggman's robots in the village float in the air then combust into a million different fragments that fell to the ground like snow. In another wave of the hand, the fragments gathered together and met their final ends into nearby recycle bins.

"What about ol' Egghead himself?" Sonic inquired with a smirk.

"He'll get the message." Silver decided. "If he can't figure it out, maybe he'd like to get whipped around a little. Speaking of which, sorry about that."

"I'd like to say no hard feelings," Sonic spat, "But you were my enemy for all of five minutes, and although I am a rather forgiving hedgehog, whatever you did hurt!"

Silver smirked.

"Well, it would teach you to never make me mad, now would it?"

Sonic looked at Silver for a moment, then let out a small chuckle.