Sonic Chronicles: Battle for Freedom

Chapter One: Sonic

Author's Note: So while I'm bad at chapter titles, I am going to be labeling which character we'll be focusing on so if you're wondering why there might be some chapters labeled the same. Like for this chapter it's Sonic, then the next chapter is another character, etc, etc. It's also the first time I have a set amount of chapters, but it may fluctuate because the last few is...yeah I'm having some issues on how to end it, BUT I am confident that it's this amount at least

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Sonic the Hedgehog, hero not only to Earth but to several alien races due to his recent adventure into a dimension called the Twilight Cage. He made a new friend in the form of Shade the Echidna; they got the Master Emerald and the Chaos Emeralds back from the Nocturnus Clan and now everyone was on their way home. He should be celebrating, relaxing at the very least! So why was he feeling so uneasy? Even Tails was looking uneasy as he piloted the ship through the wormhole; then again, he was trying to not crash land like when they went through the first time, but he knew his little bro could do it!

His heart dropped as the first sight of home that he and his friends saw was that Metropolis was up and running again. There was no way, they were only gone for a few hours, a few days at most! How did Eggman build all of this up?! It was in ruins last time they saw the city!

"Welcome back team. You've been gone a long time..." Eggman's voice crackled as his face appeared on the screen. Sonic snarled as he could practically hear the mad scientist ooze with twisted delight in his voice; can't any of them catch a freaking break ?! "Might have been better if you hadn't returned. But I was hoping you would."

And that's when they felt the first blast from one of the many anti-aircraft missiles, everyone staggering to get their balance. "Tails!" he shouted as the fox snapped out of whatever he was in before grabbing the controls. This wasn't good; they were too high up and there wasn't a weapon attached to this ship to fight back. "Tails, I'd like some options before we're blown up skyhigh!!" he shouted again as they got hit with another blast.

Tails grimaced before looking at a large green button that was on the dash panel. "If there's one thing I'm glad I installed, it's this!" he announced, slamming his fist onto the button. Ten tubes surrounded the group including the fox. "I hate to lose this ship, but get ready to be ejected, team! We're taking the escape pods!"

"When did you install escape pods?!" Amy asked, startled by the sudden appearance of the device. Sonic peered out of the small window to see that almost everyone else was equally startled by the escape pods.

The red echidna was less than pleased as he was trying to bust out of his containment. "Hey! The Emeralds!" he shouted, the speedster looking around. Oh right, the Emeralds! They could use that to try and stop Eggman.

Or at least that would be the plan if Sonic hadn't used them to fight Ix in the last hour and drained them of their power. And of course the moment the gang has looked at the Chaos Emeralds and Master Emerald, the escape pods had ejected from the space ship, the speedster peering up to watch as their ride was engulfed in flames as it made its destructive descent to earth. He squinted, but he could've sworn he saw something else fall out of the ship as well. The Emeralds...?

The pod shook as there were two more explosions from outside that rocked the container. "Whoa!" he cried out, struggling to get his footing before the third one caused him to hit the back of his head against the hard metal surface behind him, sending his world into darkness.