The 25 Years of Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) Part 1: Sonic's Story

Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (also known as Sonic 06) is the game that honors the day of Sonic's 15th birthday. People say that Sonic 06 is actually the worst game in the franchise due to the poorly made game design, and the terrible glitches.

The game has nine characters split into three teams. Team Sonic and Team Dark are back, and also with a new character in Sonic 06, Silver the Hedgehog. Silver's team consists of him, Blaze, and Amy.

In Sonic's story, the city of Soleanna was ruled by the beautiful Princess Elise, who was the keeper of a dark secret, the "Flames of Disaster", which involve the chaos emeralds. The game opens with the citizens of Soleanna celebrating the Festival of the Sun; while lighting the ceremonial torch, Elise apparently suffered a terrifying hallucination of the city in flames with a demonic creature composed of molten magma in the center. As fireworks were launched, multiple missiles hit the ground around her, and Dr. Eggman arrived with a small army of robots. He revealed his intentions to kidnap Elise in order to obtain the secrets of the Flames of Disaster, who is, of course, unwilling to comply. At that moment, Sonic arrived, destroys a small number of Eggman's robots and escapes with Elise, while Eggman orders his robots to fire on him.

As Sonic escapes, the scene switches to the sight of a white-furred hedgehog named Silver, who speaks of finally locating the "Iblis Trigger". While running through the city, a confused Elise asks Sonic why he is helping her, but he replies that he has "no special reason". Soon afterward, more of Eggman's robots attack them, and Eggman successfully captured Elise in the Egg Mobile while Sonic was distracted fighting them. As Eggman returns to the Egg Carrier, Elise throws Sonic her chaos emerald, which he catches and assures her that he will rescue her. Unconcerned, Eggman simply decided to let Sonic hold onto "his" emerald for the time being, and escapes on board the Egg Carrier as Sonic looks on.

The next morning, while attempting to gather information on Eggman's whereabouts, Sonic runs into Tails, who has apparently been helping to clean up the city after Eggman's attack. Tails revealed that he knows that Sonic had attempted to save Elise, and offered to help Sonic out however he can; while he doesn't know what Eggman's up to this time, he knows it isn't good.

Sonic and Tails chased the Egg Carrier to Wave Ocean, a nearby beach, but were unable to catch up to it before it escaped. Defeated for now, Sonic and Tails decided to return to the city.

Sonic and Tails made their way to the Dusty Desert, where Eggman had been seen, and landing right in the room where he was keeping Elise, who was quite glad to see them (or at least Sonic). At that moment, Eggman arrived and unleashed his Egg Cerberus robot on them, which Sonic defeated. Afterwards, Eggman sends a massive amount of robots after them, and Tails creates a diversion in order to allow Sonic and Elise to escape unnoticed.

After escaping the desert and entering the plains, Sonic comes to a stop. Elise thanked Sonic for his help, but then noticed a wound on his arm. Despite Sonic's insistence that he's fine, Elise bandaged his arm with a handkerchief. Blaming herself for Sonic getting hurt, Elise apologizes, but Sonic merely tells her to smile, stating that her smile is all he needs to keep him going. While walking through the plains, Elise fills Sonic in about the Flames of Disaster, Solaris (the sun god honored by Soleanna),  how they had nearly faced the full force of his anger ten years ago, and how she had lost her father in the incident, and fears what would happen if Eggman makes history repeat itself. Without warning, Sonic grabbed Elise's hand and ran through the plains with her. Afterwards, Elise lightened up, and Sonic gives her some useful advice. However, upon their return to the city, Sonic and Elise were attacked by Silver, who claimed that Sonic's actions will condemn the world, and they battled.

Sonic initially had the upper hand, but Silver caught him off-guard and psychokinetically throws him into a building, incapacitating him. Silver demanded to know how someone as weak as Sonic could destroy the world; Sonic asked what he meant, but Silver said that it didn't matter, as long as the "Iblis Trigger" was destroyed. However, Eggman capitalized on Sonic's distraction to kidnap Elise again, and Sonic attempted to run after them, but Silver wasn't about to let him run off. Silver knocked him down with his psychokinesis, and was about to deliver the coup de grace when Amy suddenly stepped in. Silver somehow knew Amy, and ordered her to move, but she wasn't about to let him hurt Sonic anymore. Sonic took the opportunity, thanking Amy, and pursued after Eggman.

After a brief encounter with a group of Soleannan soldiers, who accepted Sonic's help despite initial reluctance, Sonic entered the warehouse district of New City and meets up with Tails and Knuckles, the latter of whom gives him a holographic message that he received from Eggman. Eggman negotiated a deal; if Sonic comes to the White Acropolis and gives Eggman the chaos emerald that Elise had given him earlier, then Eggman will let Elise go without a fight. Though Tails and Knuckles were both positive that Eggman was setting up a trap, Sonic decided to go anyway, planning to "thank" Eggman for telling him Elise's whereabouts.

Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles fought through the White Acropolis and entered the room where Eggman and Elise were. Sonic obediently puts the chaos control onto a small pedestal, but, unsurprisingly, Eggman double-crossed the trio and activated a force field, trapping Team Sonic within. At that moment, Eggman activated his "Solaris prototype" (the name of which surprised Elise), and Sonic and co. vanished into thin air. The minute they vanished, Eggman assured Elise that Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles were still alive (for now), but have been transported to another time period; however, Eggman did not know where they ended up, as he needed a power that Elise apparently possesses and all seven chaos emeralds to fine-tune the machine.

Sonic, Tails and Knuckles encounter Shadow and Rouge, who were also trapped in this future. In order to return to the present, they needed to create a rift in time and space, which they figured can be created if Sonic and Shadow used chaos control together. While searching for chaos emeralds, Sonic, Tails and Knuckles encounter Silver, his friend Blaze, and Mephiles, a dark being who resembles Shadow, telling Silver that Sonic was the one responsible for the future's devastation, and taking them back in time to kill Sonic. Sonic learned from a computer file that Elise was killed when Eggman's battleship exploded two days after the Festival of the Sun. After retrieving a pair of chaos emeralds, Sonic and Shadow created the space-time rift, allowing them to return to the present.

Sonic returned for Elise, but was once again attacked by Silver, also allowing Eggman to kidnap Elise yet again. Fortunately, Shadow arrived to confront Silver, allowing Sonic to rescue Elise, and he returns her to her castle in Soleanna. Later, Eggman arrived in his battleship and threatened to destroy Soleanna, and Elise willingly surrendered herself to him to protect her people. Eggman explained to Elise that in order for his plan to take over the world to work, he requires the seven chaos emeralds and the dormant power of the Flames of Disaster within Elise to awaken Solaris, allowing him to harness the sun god's power over time.

On his way to rescue Elise, Sonic encounters Silver once more who, instead of attacking him, expresses concern for Elise as well. The two hedgehogs team up, but before they reached the battleship, it malfunctions, crashes and explodes, just as Sonic feared while back at the future. However, Sonic and Silver realized they can use chaos control to travel back in time to the previous day, before Eggman's battleship launched. Sonic traveled to the past alone and reunited with Elise. Defeating Eggman (who battled Sonic with the Egg Wyvern) one last time, Sonic escaped the exploding battleship with Elise and makes it back to solid ground.