Sonic the Hedgehog (Cami)

Sonic the Hedgehog is the main protagonist of the Sonic the Hedgehog series and Sega's mascot. He is a 15-year-old (turned 16 in Sonic Generations), blue, anthropomorphic hedgehog, and is a laid-back and cool-headed character, meant to symbolize peace. Like his name and species would imply, Sonic can move at the speed of sound (and even exceed this), and has lightning fast reflexes to match (hence his name), and can as well curl up into a ball, primarily to attack enemies. These are the distinguishing traits that were used to make his character and world-famous video games.

Well-known for his legendary cocky attitude, easy-going demeanor and somewhat short temper, yet strong sense of justice and love for freedom and adventure, Sonic uses his abilities to protect the innocent and his world (as well as many others) from the forces of evil, especially his arch-nemesis Doctor Eggman who seeks world domination.

History

Early Life

Sonic was born in Lunatea. Dark Knights started to attack Lunatea, his mother, Queen Samantha, took him and his twin sister, Lou, away from them, but on of the dark knights stabs Samantha with a spear. She uses her powers to send her children to Mobius separated and tells Baby Sonic to be a brave little boy and save the world as she dies. He used to be the average 10 year old blue hedgehog on Mobius who gets bullied by the kids in his school, but he likes do draw, he does his school work and he loves to run. He has a friend/crush on a human name Piper, but she kills herslef because of the bullies and he rans away, crying. After running for a while, he exceeded to do a Sonic Boom and his classmates are impressed. Since then, he has had super sonic speed.

Let the Games Begin

Sonic's first recorded battle against his nemesis, Doctor Robotnik, was in the 1991 platform game Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. In this game, Sonic and Choro heard news about Robotnik attacking South Island after he had discovered that powerful relics, called the Chaos Emeralds, were hidden on the island and so he sought them to use their power to create weapons of mass destruction. Annoyed by Robotnik's perseverance, Sonic hurried to South Island to stop him after Kohaga warned him not to go.

Once Sonic and Choro arrived, they were met by Robotnik who revealed his new method to enslave the animal residents: by trapping them inside robotic shells, he could turn them into Badniks that would then follow his every command, a method that left Sonic greatly shocked.

After Sonic destroyed one of the Badniks, he accidently knocked Choro down to gooey stuff and turned into an ottsel.

Despite having the whole island as his enemy and his friend turning into an ottsel, Sonic resolved to save the animals, get Choro back to normal and get the Chaos Emeralds before Dr. Robotnik could get his hands on them. After traveling across the island while freeing the animal residents and gathering the Chaos Emeralds, Sonic entered the doctor's stronghold on the island, defeated the mad doctor, and managed to drive him off the island. With Robotnik defeated, Sonic released the Chaos Emeralds in Green Hill and their power ensured the island's prosperity, but failed to get Choro back to normal, but he decided to keep his new form. After this adventure, Sonic became a well-known hero throughout the world.

Back With a Sidekick

In the 1992 sequel Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Mega Drive, Sonic first performed his signature Spin Dash move. He also meets Miles "Tails" Prower for the first time.

Sometime before the game, Sonic and Choro were traveling the world in Sonic's old airplane, the Tornado, in search of adventure. As his plane was reaching its limit however, Sonic discovered West Side Island and decided to land there. With nothing else to do, Sonic chose to relax and explore this new region. After a few days of exploring however, Sonic began to notice someone was following him. He saw that it was a young two-tailed fox called Tails, who had seen how fast Sonic could run and had come to idolize him. At first, Sonic was not particularly interested in the fox and left him alone. The young Tails continued to follow Sonic however, and Sonic came to be impressed by the young fox's determination and ability to keep up with him. As such, Sonic decided to let Tails hang around for the time being, despite still not paying any real attention to him.

At the beginning of the game, Sonic was taking a nap under the Tornado, but he suddenly awoke to find something attacking West Side Island, and Sonic became enraged by this destruction. Believing that Dr. Robotnik was behind this, Sonic ran off to find the mad doctor.

It turned out that it was indeed Robotnik who was at his old schemes again. This time, he was turning the animal residents of West Side Island into his Badnik army to find the Chaos Emeralds, which were located on the island, to create his ultimate weapon, the Death Egg, so that he could conquer the world. Accepting the challenge, Sonic headed off to stop Robotnik, get the Chaos Emeralds first, and save the island, with Tails following him all the way.

When Sonic obtained all seven the Chaos Emeralds, he discovered their powers could turn him into Super Sonic. Tails was at his side in most of the adventure and proved to be great assist to him, such as repairing Sonic's plane, which proved to be a valuable assist later on. All the while, Sonic began to form a strong bond with Tails.

After chasing after Robotnik across West Side Island, Sonic and Tails followed the doctor into the sky onboard the Tornado, which had been fully repaired by Tails. With Tails piloting his airplane, Sonic managed to arrive in the Wing Fortress Zone. As soon as he stepped onboard, however, Sonic was forced to leave Tails behind, as Tails and the Tornado was shot down. Making his way through the massive fleet, Sonic found Dr. Robotnik and fought off his attempts to kill him, only to witness the doctor making his escape in his rocket ship. No sooner after that, however, Tails reappeared in the Tornado, now equipped with a rocket engine. Riding on the enhanced Tornado, Sonic and Tails managed to give chase to Robotnik's rocket ship, and succeeded in catching up with him. As Robotnik's ship was about to depart into space, Sonic grabbed onto it in time and hitched a ride with it onboard the Death Egg.

When on the Death Egg, Sonic fought Robotnik's secret weapon, Mecha Sonic, followed by a gigantic robot in the image of the scientist himself. After Robotnik was defeated once again, Sonic escaped the exploding Death Egg by jumping off into space.

As Sonic descended through the atmosphere, he was soon saved from his unfortunate fall by Tails, who caught him with the Tornado. At the end of this adventure, Sonic had not only come to respect Tails, but also see him as a true friend he could rely on, and the two of them became the best of friends.

Escape from Eggman Island

In the arcade game SegaSonic the Hedgehog, Sonic was captured by Dr. Robotnik, along with Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel. Sonic teamed up with the other two and they traveled to escape Eggman Island, which was covered with traps.

In the end, Robotnik self-destructed the island, but Sonic, Ray and Mighty escaped just in time. However, the doctor had escaped once again.

Time Traveling Hedgehog

Sonic was solo once again for Sonic CD (1993). In this game, he and Choro went to Little Planet while it was near Sonic's home world once a year in order to explore it. However, his goals changed once he saw that the entire planet had been transformed it into a mechanical wasteland and chained to a nearby mountain, thus preventing it from leaving. After avoiding falling debris created by the massive chain, Sonic climbed the mountain, and as he saw Dr. Robotnik's face carved into the mountain, he knew that his arch-nemesis was behind this and up to no good again. Climbing the large chain that held the planet down to Earth, Sonic traveled to the Little Planet with the intent of liberating it from the scientist's control. As he arrived, Sonic learned he could undo Robotnik's work by using Little Planet's time passages to change the planet's past and by collecting the mystical Time Stones, Robotnik's reason for attacking the planet.

Shortly after his arrival, Sonic met a female hedgehog named Amy Rose, Sonic's biggest fan and want-to-be girlfriend, who was on the planet in hopes of meeting him. Sonic however, was far from excited to meet her and found her overwhelming interest in him annoying. However, only moments after Sonic met her, as they arrived at Collision Chaos, she was captured by Metal Sonic, the newest creation of Dr. Robotnik, which was built to outmatch Sonic in every way and defeat him for good. As Metal Sonic successfully escaped with Amy, Sonic now had the task of saving Amy as well.

Using his unrivaled speed, Sonic managed to travel through time and ensure a good future for the Little Planet. As he neared end of his adventure, Sonic encountered Metal Sonic and the doctor once again, and had a race with his robotic counterpart on the Stardust Speedway and was victorious. In the ensuing victory of Sonic's, Robotnik accidentally damaged Metal Sonic severely which left him out of picture for the time being, and Sonic was able to save Amy from captivity.

Sonic went on and defeated the doctor in a final battle in the Metallic Madness. With his defeat however, the doctor's bases began exploding and were literally crumbling away, but Sonic managed to escape them and the Little Planet with Amy safely. After "seeing" to Amy's safety, Sonic stood in awe as the Little Planet went on to show Sonic's face in a shower of light as a sign of thanks to him before seemingly warping away from Sonic's planet, leaving many new flowers growing around the area it floated above.

Robotnik, on the other hand, seemingly managed to sneak a Time Stone off the Little Planet, but Sonic spotted him and managed to put an end to his current schemes by using his Spin Dash to shoot a rock in the direction of his flying machine, causing it to explode. It is not known what happened with the Time Stone in question. After that, Sonic went on his adventuring ways around the world.

South Island in Chaos

Robotnik comes up with a new plan for South Island in Sonic ChaosIn Sonic Chaos (also known as "Sonic & Tails" in Japan) for the Game Gear and Master System, Sonic and Tails were facing the threat of Dr. Robotnik sinking South Island by improperly using the Chaos Emeralds. Sonic and Tails had to collect the Emeralds before the doctor could (including the red one he already had in his possession) and liberated the island of his control once more.

The Floating Isle and the Legendary Master Emerald

Return of the Death Egg

In Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and its expansion Sonic & Knuckles, both released in 1994 for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Sonic meets Knuckles the Echidna for the first time, who would become one of his oldest rivals, as he sought to destroy the Death Egg once and for all.

The story starts with Sonic taking a nap on the beach, until he was awoken by Tails who had discovered a large reaction of Chaos Energy out on the sea. At the same time, Sonic found an ancient ring washed on shore, which made him recall a legend he had heard about a floating Island in the sky with a highly unique culture that was supported by a powerful stone. Now filled with excitement, Sonic decided it was time for another adventure, and headed out with Tails in the Tornado to check out the reaction at sea.

When Sonic and Tails arrived at the location of the Chaos Energy reaction, they found the legendary Angel Island, the same island Sonic had thought of beforehanded. The duo soon noticed however that the island was kept at the ocean's surface and not flying in the sky where it belonged. To Sonic's surprise this was due to the impact of Death Egg's crash landing, which Sonic thought was destroyed after his adventure in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, but had actually just crash landed on the floating island and now was being rebuilt. Not intending to let Dr. Robotnik salvage and rebuild the Death Egg so he could use it to conquer the world, Sonic headed out with Tails to stop Dr. Robotnik from relaunching the Death Egg.

As they neared the Island, Sonic used the Chaos Emeralds he had collected prior to the game to transform into his Super State and stormed the island. Shortly after arriving however, Sonic was ambushed by Knuckles the Echidna, the guardian of the floating island and its treasure, the powerful Master Emerald. The echidna, who had been tricked by Dr. Robotnik into believing that Sonic had come to steal the Master Emerald, somehow managed to force the Chaos Emeralds out of Sonic, and he returned to his normal form. After the loss of the emeralds, Sonic could only witness as Knuckles quickly snatched them and escaped to hide them, leaving Sonic and Tails forced to search the island for the emeralds.

Despite this setback, Sonic and Tails headed out to to liberate the island from the control of Dr. Robotnik's robots and destroy the Death Egg for good. After a long struggle, Sonic and Tails made it to the doctor's Launch Base, despite Knuckles' many attempts to stop them, and the duo managed to defeat Robotnik just before the doctor could relaunch the Death Egg, making it crash into the Lava Reef Zone.

Master Emerald Showdown

After escaping the launch base, Sonic landed safely with Tails' help in the Mushroom Hill. Annoyed that the Death Egg had survived yet another crash landing, Sonic knew it would not be long before the doctor tried to revive the Death Egg again and headed out with Tails once more to destroy it once and for all, while keeping Robotnik from using the Master Emerald as its power to relaunch the Death Egg again.

As the duo was about to make their way through Mushroom Hill however, Sonic and Tails spotted Knuckles passing through a hidden doorway. After making sure Knuckles was gone, Sonic and Tails took a look on the hidden doorway themselves and found a Warp Ring. After entering this ring, Sonic found himself with Tails at the Emerald Shrine in the Hidden Palace Zone where the Master Emerald rested. Here, Sonic discovered the Chaos Emeralds' connection to the Master Emerald by witnessing them turn into Super Emeralds after exposure to the Master Emerald. Sonic also learned that these empowered emeralds allowed him to become Hyper Sonic, an even stronger form of Super Sonic. [1]The fight between Sonic and Knuckles in Sonic 3 & Knuckles.After a long struggle, the heroic duo reached the Hidden Palace Zone on their own, where Sonic and Knuckles fought against each other for the first of many times to come. After his defeat at the hands of Sonic, the red echidna went to check on the status of the Master Emerald, which was kept here at the time.

After arriving too late, Knuckles realized he was being tricked by the mad scientist. As the doctor made his escape, Master Emerald in tow, Knuckles guided Sonic and Tails to a hidden teleportation device to the Sky Sanctuary, from which the trio could witness the successful relaunch of the Death Egg. However, the two had to leave Knuckles there as he was too exhausted from the previous two struggles. On their way through the Sanctuary, Sonic and Tails encountered two peculiar robots of the Eggman's; The Egg Robo, a robot in the image of Robotnik himself, and Mecha Sonic, the third robotic doppelganger of Sonic, which, during the first two encounters with the heroes, copied the behavior of the doctor as witnessed on two previous occasions. On their third encounter, however, the original managed to defeat the copy. The resulting explosion managed to make a tall pillar nearby crumble, but Sonic managed to get on the Death Egg by running along the pillar as it was crumbling to pieces just in time.

Onboard the Death Egg, Sonic encountered Dr. Robotnik for the final showdown. The doctor attacked him with the giant Kyodai Eggman Robo, loosely made in his own image, powered by the Master Emerald. Sonic managed to defeat the contraption which finally destroyed the Death Egg for good, but the doctor still had a trick up his sleeve, as he managed to steal the Master Emerald again using a large blue, spaceship-like mech. In order to pursuit him, Sonic transformed once again in his Super/Hyper form, chasing the evil genius' across an orbit around the planet. After a long battle, Sonic emerged victorious against the doctor's spaceship-like mech, and later the doctor jet-pack mounted escape mech, descending to Earth with the Master Emerald. In mid-flight, he powered down to his regular form but was rescued by Tails, piloting the Tornado. The two then brought the Master Emerald back to where it belonged, thus allowing Angel Island to float into the sky once more before leaving Knuckles for the time being.

Some time after this, Sonic, piloting the Tornado personally, rescued Knuckles after the latter's fight against the recently-reactivated Mecha Sonic from falling into the ocean. The two brought the Master Emerald back to Angel Island and the hedgehog and echidna parted ways once more.

Tough Trouble Times Three!

[2]Triple Trouble logoIn Sonic Triple Trouble (also known as "Sonic & Tails 2" in Japan), Dr. Robotnik, in a failed attempt to create the ultimate weapon, the Atomic Destroyer, with the Chaos Emeralds, accidentally scattered the emeralds across the planet. As such, Sonic and Tails had to gather the Chaos Emeralds once more, before Dr. Robotnik could get his hands on them.

After springing into action, Sonic and Tails began searching for information on the Chaos Emeralds. The heroic duo soon learned however, that their quest would get more difficult than usual, as they found themselves facing Knuckles the Echidna, who had been tricked by the doctor into helping him once more. As things got more confusing for Sonic and Tails, a dangerous treasure hunter by the name of Fang the Sniper also set his eyes on the mysterious gems, bent on stealing them for his own personal gain. Despite their many adversaries however, Sonic's resolve remained unshaken.

The heroes managed to race and battle their way through the world, getting the Emeralds before any of the others and confronted Fang in the mad scientist's base. However, the treasure hunter was scared away when the evil genius arrived with his newest contraption.

In the end, the machine was destroyed by the heroes, who then found Knuckles imprisoned by the doctor. They freed him and Sonic and Knuckles made up on good terms once more.

Slow Boots in the Labyrinth

[3]Box Art for Sonic LabyrinthIn the 1995 game Sonic Labyrinth, Sonic was taking a nap on South Island, until he woke up in the afternoon. While thinking to himself, Sonic tried to get up and make a jump, but suddenly found himself unable to, as his feet felt heavier than usual. Looking carefully at his shoes, Sonic found, to his shock, Dr. Robotnik's symbol imprinted on the soles.

After inspecting his shoes, Sonic looked up again, only to see Dr. Robotnik's face. Having snuck up on him while Sonic was unaware, Dr. Robotnik proclamined triumphantly to the blue hedgehog that he had collected all the Chaos Emeralds. It turned out that the doctor had switched Sonic's regular shoes with his Slow-Down Boots, unique shoes made from the Chaos Emeralds' power, while the hero was sleeping, which disabled Sonic from jumping or running at higher speeds.

Stripped of both his speed and agility, Sonic was captured by Robotnik and put into the doctor's newly constructed super labyrinth on South Island, where Robotnik had set up his new fortress. While trapped in the labyrinth, Sonic could hear Robotnik's fortress expanding on South Island, slowly taking over the island. Though he had lost his greatest strength, Sonic refused to give up and soon after realized that he could still use his Spin Dash move to around and resolved to brave this labyrinth, stop the doctor, reclaim the Chaos Emeralds and regain his speed.

Despite his new pair of Slow-Down shoes, Sonic made his way through the labyrinth, and, in the end defeating the mad scientist and making him flee from the island, while regaining the Chaos Emeralds and his regular shoes as well.

The Fighting Tournament

In the 1996 game Sonic the Fighters (also known as Sonic Championship), Doctor Robotnik went on to build a second Death Egg, known as the Death Egg 2 and again announced plans for world conquest. Luckily, Tails had recently built a rocket that could fly it's pilot directly to the new Death Egg, however, it was only a one-seater and it needed Chaos Emeralds to take off. Therefore, Sonic and Tails entered a battle tournament where the winner got to collect all the Chaos Emeralds, which was in the possession of all the participants.

In order to gather all of the Chaos Emeralds, Sonic had to fight many friends and foes, old and new: Knuckles, Amy, Bark the Polar Bear, future Team Chaotix member Espio the Chameleon, his friend Tails, Bean the Dynamite and the treasure hunter previously encountered known as Fang.

Before Sonic could be off to launch the rocket the doctor showed up once again in a peculiarly familiar-looking spaceship. An unusual ray hit Sonic that knocked him out for a few seconds. When he came back to his senses, the doctor was gone and before him stood a near-identical copy of himself, the only difference being that the copy was completely monochrome. The hedgehogs fought, but in the end, the original hedgehog was victorious over his copy. Afterwards, Sonic headed back to Tails' workshop to launch the rocket, heading straight for the new Death Egg.

Upon his arrival, he was "welcomed" by Metal Sonic. The two fought a tough battle, but Sonic could turn the tide in the middle of the fight by using the Emeralds' power to transform into Super Sonic once more, defeating his mechanical doppelganger again. He was then facing the mad scientist himself, who built a battle suit for himself in order to face Sonic. At the same time, it appeared that the station's self-destruct sequence had been initiated, leaving the two combatants under time-pressure. However, since Sonic was still in his Super State, the mad scientist proved no match for him.

After having defeated Eggman, Super Sonic left the station in Tails' rocket, moments before it self-destructed.

Save the Flickies

[4]Sonic 3D Blast Title ScreenIn Sonic 3D Blast: Flickies' Island, Sonic and Choro went on yet another adventure, this time traveling with Tails and Knuckles to Flickies' Island, the eponymous island of the game. Having heard legends about the island's Flicky birds' close connections to the Chaos Emeralds, the trio journeyed to the island to find these birds. Once they arrived, however, Sonic and the others found the island in a pandemonium. They discovered that Doctor Robotnik was at his evil schemes once more, as he had established a base on the island and was trapping the helpless Flickies resident so they power his robots and be used to find the Chaos Emeralds, which was located on the island.

Enraged by Robotnik's actions, Sonic decides to save the Flickies, return them to their home dimension and find the Chaos Emeralds before the doctor could get them. Sonic eventually managed to rescue all the Flickies on the island and, with the help of Tails and Knuckles, managed to gather all of the Chaos Emeralds before the doctor could do so himself.

With support from the rescued Flickies, Sonic managed to get to the secret lair of the mad scientist, where Sonic confronted him in a final, lengthy battle. Ultimately, Sonic emerged victorious and managed to escape the lair in time. With the island now liberated from the evil genius' control, the Flickies thanked Sonic for his help and peace reigned over the island once more.

Super Sonic Racing

Sonic R PC coverIn the prelude to the 1997 Sega Saturn and Windows game Sonic R, Sonic and Tails went on a relaxing vacation where they hoped to take a break from their adventures. As the two of them were strolling down the road however, they caught news about a racing competition. Despite Tails' urging, Sonic was not initially interested in a race as he knew he was the fastest. However, once he glimpsed at the list of registered participants, he saw Dr. Robotnik's name on the list as well. This caused a change of mind for Sonic, and he immediately ran off to register himself to the race. In the competition, Sonic had to face his friends Tails, Knuckles and Amy, as well as the scientist that was the reason for him joining in the first place. The evil genius planned to use Sonic to locate the Chaos Emeralds which were scattered around the race tracks and had brought with him robots to participate, both old and new: Metal Sonic and EggRobo, as well as Metal Knuckles and the ominous Tails Doll.

In the end, however, Sonic outraced them all and Dr. Robotnik did not get his hands on the Chaos Emeralds, proving himself once again as the fastest thing alive.

An Ancient Prophecy is Fulfilled

Sonic meets ChaosIn Sonic's first true 3D Adventure Sonic Adventure (1998) for the Dreamcast, Sonic was put up against an ancient water monster named Chaos who was under control of Dr. Ivo Robotnik (Now named Eggman from then on).

While enjoying himself, traveling through Station Square, Sonic and Choro saw the Station Square Police fighting Chaos. Sonic then stepped in to fight it, thinking he could get some amusement from this, and defeated Chaos, but it escaped through the drains, leaving Sonic without answers for what this was all about. The following day, while sleeping near a hotel's pool, Sonic awoke to see Tails' newest plane crash.

After finding Tails at Emerald Coast, he revealed to Sonic that his new plane was powered by a Chaos Emerald. Sonic then traveled with Tails to his workshop, as the fox kit wanted to show him one of his projects. Once they arrived, however, Eggman showed up. As Sonic insulted the doctor with some remarks, Dr. Eggman demanded the Chaos Emerald, but Sonic, Choro and Tails refused, leading to the doctor attacking them with the Egg Hornet. Though Sonic and Tails repeled the Egg Hornet, Eggman still snatched the Chaos Emerald and revealed Chaos, who he transformed into Chaos 1. As Sonic recognized the creature from the day before, Dr. Eggman revealed to him that he planned to make Chaos invincible with all the Chaos Emeralds, and then use it to build Robotnikland upon Station Square. As the doctor then escaped, Sonic was determined to stop Eggman's plans, and Tails told him that if they could get the Chaos Emeralds before Dr. Eggman could give them to Chaos, the doctor's plan would amount to nothing. The duo therefore began a new search for the Chaos Emeralds.

After a while, Sonic and Tails managed to locate and collect the first two emeralds in Windy Valley and Casinopolis respectively. After leaving Casinopolis, however, Dr. Eggman ambushed them, and disabled Sonic and Tails with a knock-out gas, before stealing one of their Chaos Emeralds. As they they came to, Sonic was annoyed at the lost of the emerald, but also relieved that the other one was safe. Since they could not do anything about it, Sonic and Tails went ahead to find the next Chaos Emerald. After finding one in the Ice Cap, however, they ran into Knuckles, who had been tricked into believing Sonic had stolen parts of the Master Emerald. As Knuckles attacked and demaned the emeralds, Sonic had no interest in reasoning with him, and the two of them began fighting. During the fight, Sonic dropped the two Chaos Emeralds, which were taken by Dr. Eggman who had appeared, revealing his plan to trick Knuckles. As Sonic berated Knuckles for being tricked again, Eggman gave the two Chaos Emeralds to Chaos 2, transforming it into Chaos 4. Despite the creature's increase in power, Sonic and the others still managed to beat it and Eggman escaped to his newly revealed Egg Carrier. After parting with Knuckles, Sonic and Tails tried to follow Dr. Eggman in the Tornado, but were shot down.

Sonic himself landed head-first on the beach near Station Square after being shot down, where he noticed Tails was nowhere to be seen. Concerned about his friend, Sonic hurried out to find him. He soon ran into Amy, however, much to his own dismay, who asked him to help her protect "Birdie", a Flickey she met earlier. Sonic, however, had no interest in that request, but Amy continued to follow him regardlessly. Soon after, however, Sonic and Amy came under attack by ZERO. As Sonic got ready face the robot, Amy escaped into Twinkle Park (as "cute couples" got in free), forcing Sonic to follow her. After passing through Twinkle Park, Sonic lost track of Amy. While wondering where she went off to, Sonic heard Amy yell, and saw her being kidnapped by ZERO. Sonic then began chasing after them, intending to cut ZERO off at the Mystic Ruins.

Once at the Mystic Ruins, Sonic managed to corner ZERO, only for the robot to escape with Amy to the Egg Carrier. Frustrated at losing Amy again, Sonic tried to pursue the Egg Carrier through Red Mountain. As Sonic's chase reached a dead end, Tails appeared in the Tornado 2, powered by another Chaos Emerald. Relieved to see that Tails was all right, the duo gave chase on the Tornado 2 and managed to land on the Egg Carrie. Once onboard the ship, Sonic was amazed by the size of it, only for Dr. Eggman to change its shape, thus halting Sonic's advances to the bridge. After the doctor insulted Sonic over the speakers, Sonic and Tails made it to the bridge through the Sky Deck. Shortly after, Sonic found Amy, only to see Eggman take a Chaos Emerald from Birdie. Dr. Eggman then unleashed E-102 Gamma on Sonic while he escaped. Before Sonic could destroy Gamma however, Amy stopped him, claiming it was her friend. Though confused, Sonic accepted her request, believing she had her reasons. As the Egg Carrier began to lose altitude, Sonic told Tails to take Amy to safety, while he chased after Eggman on his own. [5]Sonic meets BigAfter some difficulties, Sonic eventually found Eggman, but also saw to his shock that Chaos had arrived too and had become Chaos 6. Big the Cat then also arrived and pointed out that his friend Froggy was trapped inside Chaos, and Sonic promised that he would help save him. After helping Big save Froggy, Sonic managed to defeat Chaos 6, only for Knuckles to appear as Eggman tried to escape. Sonic then left Knuckles to finish Chaos, while he chased after Eggman. Following Eggman off the Egg Carrier, Sonic made a rough landing in the Mystic Ruins, where he found an ancient temple and a mysterious light that he though was trying to show him something. As he explored the temple, Sonic found a mural depicting a monster, and was taken back in time to when the Altar of the Emeralds lied ruins. Confused, Sonic looked around and found Tikal trying to stop the catastrophe occurring, before being returned to the present. Before he could understand what happened, Sonic spotted Eggman and followed him, determined to end it. Sonic eventually followed the doctor to his main base, the Final Egg, where he faced Eggman in his Egg Viper, and defeated him. As Eggman flew away in defeat, Sonic met up with Tails again, having seemingly saved the day.

After resting from all these ordeals, Sonic learned from Tails that Angel Island had fallen. As he arrived there, Sonic found both Knuckles and Eggman knocked down and learned from them that Chaos was still alive and had rebelled against Eggman, and now had six Chaos Emeralds. After Eggman left to get revenge, Sonic and Tails were about to head out to stop Chaos, but Sonic was then suddenly drawn into the past again. There, he saw the Knuckles Clan's attack on the Altar of the Emeralds, Tikal futile attempt to stop her clan and the event that drove Chaos to destroy the world to begin with. As Sonic came to Tikal's aid, he witnessed Tikal sealing herself and Chaos inside the Master Emerald.

Sonic was returned to the present, thinking he just snoozed for a second and headed out with Tails to find the last Chaos Emerald in the Tornado 2 before Chaos, but Chaos beat them to it and took the Chaos Emerald before their eyes. Sonic and Choro then returned to Station Square which was being attacked by Perfect Chaos. As Perfect Chaos destroyed the Egg Carrier 2, Tikal appeared before Sonic, and explained that the sadness and anger Chaos felt from her clan's attack was the reason for its current destructive behavior. [6]Sonic turns into Super Sonic to fight Perfect ChaosAs Perfect Chaos released the partially drained Chaos Emeralds, Tikal said they have to seal Chaos again, but Sonic said it would not work as Chaos' heart would still be full of rage and that it would not vanish if they just sealed it away again. Cici, Klonoa, Abby, Tabitha, Oliver, Charles, Lewbert, Spencer, Jur, Larry, Lilly, Odie, Carrie, Dana, Marta, Tails, Big, Amy and Knuckles then came to Sonic with all seven Chaos Emeralds, claiming that Sonic could still use their positive energies to stop Chaos. With everyone cheering him on, Sonic transformed into Super Sonic and defeated Perfect Chaos, while cleansing it of evil, thus returning it to a benevolent creature once more.

With Chaos and Tikal taking their leave, everything returning to normal and noticing Eggman making his escape, Sonic headed off himself once more, seeking out his next adventure.

Hedgehog of Dreams

In Sonic Shuffle (2000), Sonic was hanging out with Choro, Tails, Knuckles and Amy, until they were suddenly transported into Maginary World, a world created from the dreams of people in other dimensions. After a rough landing in the Temple of Light, the group began questioning where they were, while Sonic just called it a “very strange place”. Not long after they met a fairy-like being. Sonic asked who she was and she told him that she was Lumina Flowlight, the person responsible for transporting them to Maginary World.

After introducing herself and the world to Sonic and the gang, she explained that she had called them here to help her save the Precioustone, the object that sustained Maginary World, which had been shattered by a person called Void when he tried to steal it. Its pieces was then scattered to different part of Marginary World and had made their ruler and protector of the Precioustone, Illumina, vanish as well. Sonic listen on as Lumina explained that she needed him and the others’ help to recover the pieces of the Preciousstone, or Void’s darkness would spell the end of Marginary World. With everyone in agreement, Sonic willingly agreed to help Lumina save Maginary World.

The party began their journey by traveling to the different worlds inside Maginary World in order to recover the Precioustone pieces and restore the worlds affected by Void. Each time after collecting a Preciousstone piece, Sonic and the others had a vision where they saw and interacted with Void. While Sonic and the gang initially stood defiant against Void, they began to see that Void showed signs of depression and loneliness which touched their hearts and they began to think that there were more to Void than met the eye.

After Sonic and his friends had collected all the Precioustone pieces and returned them to the Temple of Light, they headed back to the temple as Lumina saw Void heading there to seek out the Precioustone again. As Sonic, Lumina and the rest arrived at the temple to stop Void, Void claimed he just want to become whole, but never could. As Sonic began to see Void’s true nature, Void’s loneliness and despair reached its peak and he transformed into a monster.

Sonic, Choro, Knuckles Tails and Amy eventually managed to defeat Void, but Lumina was lost in despair as the Precioustone was not recovering and began to lose faith. They others however tried to cheers up Lumina, and Sonic found Void in the form of a dark gem. The group now understood that Void and Lumina embodied the positive and negative aspects of dreams and were two halves of the same being. Sonic then explained to Lumina that she should not reject Void as the despair and emptiness that he embodied made it possible for people to have dreams.

With everyone’s help, Lumina came to understand that both positive and negative feelings were necessary for dreams to exist and Sonic handed Void over to Lumina, who now accepted Void. They then witnessed Lumina restoring the Precioustone, and Lumina and Void returning to their original form, Illumina. As Marginary World was restored to an even better place, Sonic and the gang heard Illumina explaining that her own despair caused her to split into Lumina and Void to begin with. After receiving Illumina's gratitude, Sonic and the others returned home to their own world.

You've Got the Wrong Hedgehog!

Sonic meets his arch-rival, Shadow.Dreamcast's Sonic Adventure 2 (2001), which celebrated the 10th anniversary of the series, introduced a new rival to Sonic, Shadow the Hedgehog. Shadow was released by Dr. Eggman to help in his plans of world domination, and in order to achieve that, Shadow began hunting down the Chaos Emeralds.

After Shadow robbed a federal reserve bank and stole a Chaos Emerald, everyone else mistook him for Sonic, and as a result, Sonic became wanted by the Guardian Units of Nations (G.U.N.). Sonic was eventually hunted down and captured by G.U.N. However, as they were transporting Sonic in a Military helicopter, he managed to escape. Just as he escaped, he also sarcastically referred to the transfer over to Prison Island as a "low budget flight."

After escaping G.U.N. finding Tabitha, Oliver, Charles, Lewbert, Spencer and Jur, and destroying a Bigfoot vehicle, Sonic and the others met Shadow and Lizzy, who had just arrived at the scene with a Chaos Emerald. Realizing that Shadow was the one behind the false accusations, Sonic demanded an explanation, but instead, Shadow demonstrated Chaos Control for Sonic and escaped his attack. Shadow then revealed his name and title to Sonic, before disappearing in flash. Suddenly, Sonic found himself surrounded by G.U.N. soldiers, and was arrested once more. Luckily, Tabitha has captured Lizzy and made her their prisoner.

Following his arrest, Sonic was brought to Prison Island, where he was locked up in a jail cell, more specifically the cell Gerald Robotnik himself was imprisoned inside. Being locked up proved to be specially frustrating for Sonic, due to him having such limited space to move around on. Luckily, the following day, Sonic was surprised to see Choro arriving at his jail cell, where he revealed that he, Tabitha, Oliver, Charles, Lewbert, Spencer, Klonoa, Abby, Jur and Tails had come to break him out. As Sonic explained it was Shadow's fault he was here, he heard from Choro that Amy had seen Shadow on the island. Sonic then tried to ask Choro about Shadow, but as he said that she would reveal more if he married Amy, Sonic changed his mind and refused. Nevertheless, Sonic was freed from his cell by Choro and he learned that Eggman was behind it all when she said that Shadow was seen with the doctor. No sooner, Sonic quickly took off to find his imposter. After a while, Sonic found Shadow, and the two hedgehogs had a brief battle, but were interrupted when they learned that the island was about to explode. Fortunately, Sonic managed to escape the island with Tails, Choro, Tabitha, Oliver, Charles, Lewbert, Spencer, Jur and Amy just before it exploded, but leaving Klonoa and Abby behind, but Shadow saved them.

Back on the mainland, Sonic and the others saw Eggman's broadcast, where he revealed the Space Colony ARK, displayed the Eclipse Cannon by blowing up half of the moon, and demanded total world control within 24 hours or he would fire the cannon at Earth. Seeing this display of power, Sonic realized that had to be the reason that Eggman had been collecting Chaos Emeralds lately. Tails began to plan how to track Eggman down, but the police arrived. Fortunately, Sonic managed to led them away to give Tails time to work. Sonic was later contacted by Tails, who said that he could use the President's limousine to trace Eggman's signal. The two of them met up inside the president's limo, where they discovered that Eggman was on board the ARK. As the duo prepared to leave the limo, Sonic told the president to leave it to them.

With Lizzy, Cici, Dana and Knuckles' help, Sonic, Choro, Tails, Tabitha, Oliver, Charles, Lewbert, Spencer, Jur and Amy found Eggman's base, hoping to find a space ship that could take them to the ARK. While they managed to enter the base, Eggman appeared and unleashed the Egg Golem. Sonic eventually managed to stop it and joined the others in a space ship just before liftoff. [7]Sonic, after having just disabled the Eclipse Cannon.After a crash landing on the ARK, Sonic planned to destroy the Eclipse Cannon. For this mission, Tails gave Sonic a fake Chaos Emerald that he could use to destroy the cannon from the inside out. Before Sonic could insert the fake emerald into the cannon, however, he was contacted by Dr. Eggman. He demanded that Sonic handed over the final Chaos Emerald or he would kill Amy. Sonic thought he could trick Eggman into taking the fake emerald, but Eggman saw through this, captured Sonic in a capsule, and ejected it into space. Before the capsule could explode, however, Sonic managed to use Chaos Control with the fake emerald and send himself back on board the ARK. Back onboard, Sonic found Knuckles and asked him find Tails and Amy while he headed to the cannon to destroy it with the fake emerald when it was going to fire. On his way, Sonic met Shadow again, and they fought one final time. After Sonic won, he managed to destroy the Eclipse Cannon just before it fired.

As Sonic returned to the ARK, however, he and all the others witnessed a recording of Gerald Robotnik that announced to the world that the ARK would crash into the planet, wiping out the human race as his revenge at the world for the death of his granddaughter, Maria. Banding together, the group came up with plan of using the Master Emerald to deactivate the cannon's core, which was powered by the seven Chaos Emeralds, to stop the Space Colony's crash course. With the plan set, Sonic told them to leave it to him.

With everyone working together, Sonic, Choro, Jur and Knuckles made it to the core, but were then intercepted by the Biolizard. Suddenly, Shadow showed up along with Lizzy and held off the Biolizard, while Sonic, Choro, Jur and Knuckles deactivated the Chaos Emeralds. Instead of the ARK halting, however, the Biolizard teleported outside the ARK and merged with it, thus becoming the Finalhazard and kept the ARK on its collision course. Determined to stop this catastrophe, Sonic and Shadow used the Chaos Emeralds to become Super Sonic and Super Shadow, and together they defeated the Finalhazard. The duo then stopped the ARK by sending it back into orbit with a massive Chaos Control, but Shadow ran out of energy from the effort, fell into the atmosphere, and was presumed dead, while Sonic survived. As Sonic came back on board, he only brought them Shadow's Inhibitor Ring that he had found, which he gave to Abby, and assured them that Shadow was a great hero that he would never forget. As the rest of the gang returned to the Earth, Sonic bid farewell to his worthy opponent.

In the game, Sonic has many unlockable costumes for multiplayer mode.

Back to Protecting the Emeralds

After the 1999 game Sonic Pocket Adventure, Sonic returned to the handheld games with Sonic Advance (2002) where Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy went back to their adventures fighting Dr. Eggman in 2D side-scrolling levels, as the doctor resumed his hunt for the Chaos Emeralds. In the end, Sonic and his friends collected the Chaos Emeralds first and Sonic used them to become Super Sonic to confront Dr. Eggman on the moon and defeated him. After the fight, Sonic seemly disappeared, but then reappeared a few days later (stil in his Super State) as he flew through the sky.

Sonic to the Rescue

[8]Sonic meets Cream and Cheese for the first timeIn Sonic Advance 2, Dr. Eggman kidnapped Tails and Knuckles as he attempted once more to build the Eggman Empire, but as soon as Sonic learned about his friends kidnappings, he immediately headed out to save them. Along the way, Sonic encountered Cream the Rabbit and Cheese the Chao for the first time, who were held hostage by Dr. Eggman. Sonic however, managed to save Cream and Cheese and was amazed by the young girl's manners when she thanked him. They would then join Sonic on his adventure as Eggman had kidnapped Cream's mother, Vanilla the Rabbit, too and they wanted to save her. Shortly after, Sonic rescued Tails from Eggman too and confronted Knuckles, who was tricked by Eggman again to fight Sonic and joined them on their adventure fighting Dr. Eggman. After seemingly beating Eggman, Cream found her mother, only to have her kidnapped by Eggman again, leaving Sonic frustrated for being too late. Seeing Cream cry at the loss of her mother, however, Sonic transformed into Super Sonic and pursued Eggman in his Egg Shooter. Eventually. Super Sonic defeated the Egg Shooter and escaped with the capsule containing Vanilla.

As they descended through the atmosphere, Super Sonic tried his best to break his and the capsule with Vanilla inside's fall, but the atmospheric reentry tore the capsule apart and Super Sonic powered down to normal. As Vanilla fell through the sky, however, Sonic managed to catch her and brought her safely down to earth. There, Sonic reunited Cream and her mother, and he thanked Tails and Knuckles for their help. Sonic did not stay for long however and soon ran off again, looking for new adventures.

An Old Friend, a New Enemy

The final Sonic Advance title was Sonic Advance 3 (2004). While hanging out with Tails, Sonic witnessed Dr. Eggman splitting the Earth apart with Chaos Control. Sonic then immediately headed out with Tails to stop Dr. Eggman, restore the world and collect the Chaos Emeralds before Eggman could use them to build his empire. Along the way Sonic also faced Dr. Eggmans newest creation, Gemerl, a rebuilt version of Sonic's old friend Emerl, on several occasions.

After beating Eggman and Gemerl at the Emerald Altar, Sonic and his friends used the Master Emerald to restore the world. Shortly after their defeat, however, Gemerl betrayed Eggman, took the seven Chaos Emeralds from Sonic and transformed into a robot-like orb named Ultimate Gemerl. Seeing what had to done, Sonic took the Chaos Emeralds which Ultimate Gemerl had discarded and transformed into Super Sonic. Putting aside their differences to fight a common enemy, Super Sonic and Eggman joined up, and together, the unlikely duo defeated Ultimate Gemerl in space, which resulted in a large explosion. Following the explosion Sonic passed out, but woke up back on Earth and found himself surrounded by his friends who had awaited his return. After seeing Eggman leaving, Sonic then headed out himself, searching for new adventures.

An Old Rival's Deadly Return

[9]Team Sonic in Sonic Heroes.A third 3D action game, Sonic Heroes (2003) was the first multi-platform release for Sonic. It featured four different teams with three characters in each, and marked the official return of Team Chaotix as the teams battled Eggman. The story for Sonic begins with him running around on his own, until Tails and Knuckles appear in the Tornado. After Sonic greeted his friends, Tails revealed that Dr. Eggman had sent them a letter, where he claimed to have created "the ultimate weapon" that would let him take on the world and that he challenged Sonic, Tails and Knuckles to stop him within three days time. Sonic, confident as ever, saw this as an invitation to a "party", and said to Tails and Knuckles that he would not miss this challenge for anything. He then headed out with Tails and Knuckles right behind him, officially forming Team Sonic.

Sonic and the gang began their quest by tracking down Dr. Eggman. They first met the doctor after Ocean Palace where he attacked them in the Egg Hawk, but the team managed to beat it, though Eggman escaped. The team then tracked Eggman to Grand Metropolis, but along the way, they came across Team Rose and Amy, who Sonic was surprised to see.

Sonic and his team were forced to briefly fight Team Rose, but it later turned out that Sonic used the fight as a distraction to escape Amy. As the team arrived in Casino Park after escaping Team Rose, Sonic casually proposed they took some time off, but was pressed on by Tails as they only had 24 hours left. After confronting Eggman's Robot Carnival, the team chased the doctor to Rail Canyon. Having only until sunset, Sonic was through playing games, and ordered his team to run full speed ahead. Just before their three-day time limit expired, the team found Eggman and fought him in the Egg Albatross. It was then revealed that the Eggman they had been chasing was a fake and that their challenge letter was merely a distraction, while Dr. Eggman prepared his Egg Fleet for launch. Enraged, Sonic ran off in hot pursuit of Dr. Eggman, with Tails and Knuckles following behind.

Along the way, the team had a brief confrontation with Team Dark, where Sonic learned that Shadow was still alive, as Team Dark wanted to get to Eggman themselves. After the battle, Sonic saw Eggman and Shadow head towards Hang Castle and decided to follow suit. As they passed through the haunted grounds, the team met Eggman and his Robot Storm, but Sonic mocked the doctor by calling him a joke for trying to stop them now. After the battle, Team Sonic made it to the Egg Fleet, where they traveled to the Final Fortress and fought Eggman in the Egg Emperor, winning the battle.

After heavily destroying the Egg Fleet, Knuckles mentioned it was a close one this time, but Sonic claimed otherwise. Knuckles then tried to tease Sonic with the fact that he would not have made this on his own, but to his amazement, Sonic agreed. As Sonic thanked Tails for his help as well, however, he saw Amy coming. Not intending to be the target of Amy's affection, Sonic left Knuckles and Tails behind as he tried to escape Amy.

Shortly after that, the heroes and the other teams witnessed the return of Metal Sonic (in his Neo Metal Sonic form), who had been staging each team's adventures and impersonating Eggman so he could follow them and copy their data into a master plan to achieve world domination himself. Neo Metal Sonic then underwent a massive transformation into Metal Madness to gain the power necessary for this task. After seeing that the teams had collected all the Chaos Emeralds, the real Dr. Eggman came up with the plan of using them against Metal Sonic. Though their chances of winning were slim, Sonic volunteered to go up against Metal Sonic alone, but Tails and Knuckles insisted on going with him. The other teams then volunteered to buy them some time, to which Sonic accepted. Team Rose, Team Chaotix and Team Dark then fought Metal Madness, giving Sonic time to charge the Chaos Emeralds.

When they were ready, Metal Madness assumed his ultimate form, Metal Overlord, and took off to the skies. Sonic then transformed into Super Sonic, whilst granting Tails and Knuckles Super Shields, and they chased after Metal Overlord. Together, they defeated Metal Overlord, causing him to revert back to his original form. As Metal Sonic questioned Sonic why he could never defeat him, Sonic told his metallic counterpart that he would be ready for a rematch anytime, before heading out with his team to search for his next adventure.

Black Invaders

In Shadow the Hedgehog (2005), Sonic worked with most of the cast from Sonic Heroes and G.U.N. forces to repel the Black Arms invasion of Earth. He often appeared during Shadow's pure Hero Missions where he helped Shadow in his fight against the Black Arms and their leader, Black Doom. During some of their missions, Sonic showed concern for Shadow's amnesia and tried to help Shadow recall the events from their adventures in Sonic Adventure 2. Depending on the player's choices, Sonic becomes either an ally or opponent in the game's pre-final boss; if Shadow completes the Hero Mission in Final Haunt, Sonic will assist Shadow in his fight against Black Doom, and if Shadow completes the Dark Mission in Black Comet, GUN Fortress or Final Haunt, Sonic will team up with Diablon to stop Shadow from assisting the Black Arms, but is defeated by Shadow as he takes the final Chaos Emerald.

In the last story, Sonic is with Choro, Klonoa, Abby, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Rouge, Jur, Tabitha, Oliver, Charles, Lewbert and Spencer when Shadow got all the Chaos Emeralds and Black Doom appeared and told to give him the Chaos Emeralds, but Lizzy, Natalie and Dr. Eggman came to stop Shadow from giving Black Doom the Chaos Emeralds and she told Shadow what Black Doom's plan is. Black Doom however, took the emeralds himself and used an enhanced Chaos Control to transport the Black Comet to the surface, something which Sonic instantly recognized. Sonic and the others then intended to stop Black Doom, but they all, except for Lizzy and Choro, who he jumped off of Sonic's shoulder and onto Lizzy's,  soon fell prey to a nerve gas, which left them paralyzed and Black Doom unleashed the Death leeches to prey on them. Shadow however, proved to be immune to the gas and he persued Black Doom. As he left with Lizzy and Choro, Tabitha claimed that Shadow that he was their only hope left and Jur claimed that they are doomed knowing that Shadow might fail.

Sonic and the others eventually managed to escape the Black Comet and cheered Super Shadow on as he fought and defeated Devil Doom. He then witnessed Super Shadow sending the Black Comet back into space and blowing it to pieces with the fully charged Eclipse Cannon. With Shadow having saved the world, Sonic was left rather impressed by the black hedgehog, claiming that Shadow's victory was "sweet", and joined the others for a laugh as an enraged Knuckles chased Eggman around.

Fighting, Friendship, and "Fatherhood"

In 2003, Sonic Battle came out for the Game Boy Advance. This time, Sonic and his friends work together to raise an ancient and all-powerful robot, and as well protect it from Dr. Eggman who wanted to use it for global domination. During the adventure, the robot, later named Emerl, would come to see Sonic as a father-figure.

While on a boring stroll, Sonic found a robot called the Gizoid lying on the beach. As Sonic examined it, it started to move. It told Sonic to show his power, and Sonic displayed some fighting moves, thus it formed a Link with him. Thinking that the robot was broken, Sonic decided to take it to Tails to get it examined, but he ran into Shadow who demanded that Sonic handed over the Gizoid, but he refused. After defeating Shadow, Shadow told Sonic to keep it from Eggman and left. As Sonic wondered about where Eggman fit in all this, Tails arrived and they took the robot to Tails’ Lab. On his way, Sonic met Rouge who wanted to team up with Sonic so that she could have the Gizoid, but Sonic made her leave after he beat her in a fight. When arriving at Tails’ Lab, Sonic encountered an E-121 Phi and defeated it. Worried that Tails could be hurt, Sonic hurried to the lab and luckily found Tails unharmed. Tails then revealed to Sonic that the Gizoid developed with each Chaos Emerald inserted into it and that it could copy fighting moves. Thrilled by these revelations, Sonic decided to train it. [10]Sonic naming "Emerl"After some training, Sonic and Tails decided to go see if Knuckles had a Chaos Emerald and Sonic decides to name the robot Emerl. On the way they were attacked by Chaos Gamma which Sonic mistook for Gamma, but they defeated it. When they arrived at Knuckles’, Knuckles mistook Emerl for a Phi and tried to attack him. Sonic tried to explain the situation to Knuckles, but to no avail. After Emerl defeated Knuckles, Sonic got his Chaos Emerald and they inserted it into Emerl, who thanked Sonic afterwards and called out for more battles, much to Sonic’s amazement.

Sonic continued training Emerl for a while, until Tails decided to take Emerl to Central City to fully examine him. When they return, Sonic learned from Tails and Rouge that Emerl was a weapon of mass destruction, which was the reason why Eggman wanted him, but Sonic refused to believe it. Sonic suggested they could reprogram him, and Rouge said that they could reset Emerl by inserting all seven Chaos Emeralds into him and give him an unknown keyword. Sonic questioned Rouge why she was helping them, and she answered that it was the best for the world (and herself) that Eggman did not get a hold of Emerl. Rouge then made Sonic introduce her to Emerl by making him form a Link with her, but then suddenly left.

Sonic continued Emerl's training, but it was cut short when he saw Amy coming and ran away. He later returned and learned that Rouge had stolen Emerl, due to the earlier Link he formed with her. Sonic soon after, however, found Emerl with Rouge and engaged her in battle, intending to protect Emerl and get him back. Rouge eventually surrendered Emerl to Sonic, as she thought Emerl was more trouble than he was worth.

Some time after, Sonic left Emerl for a while again, but when he returned he learned that Emerl had been training with Knuckles and that Knuckles had been tricked by Eggman again.

Later on, Sonic and Emerl was approached by Amy again, who viewed Emerl as hers and Sonic’s “baby”. As Sonic faced Amy’s wrath about how Sonic had been raising Emerl, Emerl made a bad choice of words and Sonic immediately ran off. He later returned to find Emerl with Amy, and she told Sonic that he had no excuse for marrying her now, since she had helped raising Emerl. Sonic then told Amy to close her eyes, but ran off again once she closed them.

Sonic and Tails later left Emerl in Amy's and Cream’s care, as the two of them checked out a lead on a Chaos Emerald, which later turned out to be fake. Sonic was then contacted by Eggman who said that he held Cream and Emerl hostage, but because the two of them had escaped, Sonic did not believe him. He soon after saw Eggman captured in his own trap by Emerl and Cream on-screen, and headed out to pick the pair up.

Sonic was later approached by Shadow again. Sonic thought that Shadow was here to capture Emerl, but it was not his intention. Shadow said that Emerl was close to awakening his full power, as he only needed one more Chaos Emerald and that he could bring the end of the world. Sonic, however, believed that Emerl would not do that, as Shadow was the ultimate top secret weapon of the government, and he had saved humanity at one point. As Shadow continued to brush off Sonic's arguments, however, Sonic gave up on trying to convince Shadow and let him have Emerl, who had just arrived, having been attracted by Shadow’s Chaos Emerald and Shadow restated his statement. Unshaken by this, Sonic let Emerl go with Shadow, believing he would learn who he really was with Shadow’s help.

With Shadow's help, Emerl was reset, and later came to fight Shadow. However, Sonic arrived soon after to fight Emerl along Shadow as well to test the robot's abilities to the fullest. After the fight, Emerl thanked Sonic and Shadow for all their help. Having seen that Emerl no longer needs him, Sonic told Emerl to live his life to fullest on his own, but not before he told him that his punches needed some work.

Later, Sonic witnessed Eggman revealing his newest Death Egg with its Final Egg Blaster. The heroes decided to stop him, but since only one of them could be sent to the Death Egg and stop Eggman at the time, Sonic suggested that Emerl should go, which he accepted.

Together with his friends, Sonic witnessed Emerl defeating Eggman, but then saw Eggman firing the Final Egg Blaster, destroying some stars. This great display of power caused Emerl to revert to his original programming and Eggman tried to assume control over Emerl, but he knocked Eggman away and prepared to fire the Final Egg Blaster on the Earth. In order to stop Emerl, Sonic traveled to the Death Egg with the Master Emerald, hoping to negate the Chaos Emeralds' energy inside of him, but Emerl smashed the Master Emerald upon seeing its light. Tails then told Sonic that he could reverse Emerl’s programming by inflicting enough damage on Emerl, but it would destroy him in the process. Seeing no other choice, Sonic, with a heavy heart, engaged Emerl in a high speed battle. Seeing the overwhelming strength of Ultimate Emerl, Sonic decided to fight at full strength and defeated the Gizoid.

As he began to break down, Emerl thanked Sonic and his friends for everything, but, in a rare chase of visual sadness and emotional distress, Sonic tried to assure Emerl that everything would be fine, promising the Gizoid lots of fun after this together, but to no avail and Emerl disappeared before Sonic’s eyes. Sonic then returned to the Earth and found Cream crying over Emerl’s death, but Sonic told Cream that Emerl was still with them in the Emerald Shards. As Tails wondered if they would ever see Emerl again, Sonic, after a moment of silence, assured them positively that they would.

New Worlds and New Adventures

Two Worlds Collide

Sonic appears in Sonic Rush (2005), the first Sonic game for the Nintendo DS. This time, Sonic had to face both Dr. Eggman and the new foe, Dr. Eggman Nega, as Sonic's world was brought into flux with another, because the Chaos Emeralds' counterparts in that world, the Sol Emeralds, had been stolen by Dr. Eggman, with the help from Nega.

The story began with Sonic coming across Dr. Eggman, during one of his casual runs, who claimed that he would soon possess “the ultimate power”, but Sonic assured him confidently that he would stop him. After defeating Eggman, Sonic saw that he dropped a Sol Emerald, but then suddenly he met Blaze the Cat, the guardian of the Sol Emeralds, who appeared in a burst of flames, took the emerald and left. Sonic later met up with Tails and explained about what he had just witnessed. While Tails was worried, Sonic was getting pumped up about this new challenge and the duo headed out to stop Eggman.

At the Water Palace, Sonic ran into who he believed was Dr. Eggman, but the villain revealed himself to be Dr. Eggman Nega. After defeating him, Sonic thought it was simply Dr. Eggman in a new disguise, but Tails was not so sure. The two of them then headed to Tails’ Workshop, where they learned that there was a rift in the space-time continuum that threatened reality itself. While Tails thought that Eggman Nega had something to do with, Sonic thought that Blaze might also be a part of this. As they searched for information and fought Nega, Sonic heard from Vanilla that Cream was together with Blaze and she told them where to find them. After thanking Vanilla for the info, Sonic ran off to find Blaze and get some answers.

After a lengthy search, where they met Knuckles and got some unplanned help from him clearing a path, Sonic and Tails found Blaze and Cream, and Sonic asked Blaze if she knew anything about Eggman Nega. Blaze however, despite having been told by many to seek Sonic’s help, told him that she would deal with this crisis and Eggman Nega alone. Sonic, on the other hand, told Blaze that things did not work that way around here, but she firmly insistsed and left with Cream, but Sonic and Tails followed them.

While on their way tracking Blaze, Sonic regrettably ran into Amy who thought he was looking for her. Sonic tried to ask Amy if she had seen Blaze, but Amy initially thought Sonic was looking for Blaze because he liked her, and Sonic nervously asked Tails help. Amy eventually cooled down, however, and after providing directions for where Blaze went, Sonic immediately took off. [11]Sonic and Blaze clashSonic eventually tracked Blaze to the Dead Line where they faced both Eggmen. While Sonic insisted on participating, Blaze angrily refused his help and tried to force him to leave by fighting him. While battling, Sonic tried to make Blaze stop and said that she should not carry everything on her own shoulders, but to not avail. As their fight resulted in the two being exhausted, Sonic saw that Blaze was still willing to protect the Sol Emeralds even when completely worn down and understood that she must have had a rough past. He then told her not to handle too much on her own and be true to herself, and Blaze came to understand that she could rely on others. With their differences sat aside, they finally introduced themselves and became friends.

With Blaze on their side, Sonic learned that the space-time rift was due to the merging of her world and Sonic’s, and Eggman Nega was to blame. Sonic then headed out to confront Nega on behalf of Blaze to stop this, since she was not in shape to fight after their confrontation. Just before Sonic could leave, however, they noticed Cream was gone. The group learned from a letter left by Dr. Eggman, that the doctor held Cream hostage and demanded that Blaze came to Point W alone. As it was most certainly a trap, Sonic suggested that they got everyone together to help, but Blaze insisted on going alone because Cream was her friend. Sonic understood this and let Blaze go. While Tails questioned Sonic's choice, Sonic assured him by saying that believing in someone, is a part of friendship as well. Sonic himself then went to face Eggman Nega and managed to defeat him. In the aftermath of the fight, Sonic was welcomed back by his friends, but ran off when he saw Amy coming.

After collecting all seven Chaos Emeralds, Sonic came to Blaze’s aid as she was defeated by Dr. Eggman and Eggman Nega in the Egg Salamander and had all seven Sol Emeralds drained of their power, but the doctors left as he arrived to prepare for their coming fight. As Blaze despaired for failing her duty, Sonic told her that everything would be fine, and with him and his friends backing Blaze up, he assured her that with the friendships she had come to understand and embrace, the Sol Emeralds would never lose their power, and the Sol Emeralds recharged. Sonic and Blaze then used both sets of emeralds to become Super Sonic and Burning Blaze and together they defeated the Eggmans.

As the space-time continuum began to restore itself, Sonic and Blaze said their final goodbyes as they prepared to return to their respective worlds, but Sonic promised that they would meet again which Blaze hoped for. The two of them then shaked hands as a sign of friendship and respect as the space-time continuum pulled them apart and returned them to their own worlds. When Sonic returned home, he found Cream, who was sad over Blaze’s departure, but he cheered her up by telling her that Blaze would be back soon.

Setting Sails In New Worlds

Sonic Rush also had a sequel called Sonic Rush Adventure (2007). The story began as Sonic and Tails were out investigating an unknown energy reaction in a storm, but they got sucked into a hurricane. Having crashed, Sonic and Tails washed ashore on Southern Island where they met Marine the Raccoon, a rash girl who dreamed of adventure. As they found themselves on an unknown island, Sonic and Tails decided to explore the surrounding islands. The next day, Sonic and Tails found Marine working on her own boat, but she ended up destroying it. The duo then helped Marine constructing a new boat and the trio began exploring the surrounding islands.

On their journey across the islands, the group was attacked by several robotic enemies. Sonic also encountered Johnny, who became his rival in water bike racing. When arriving at Coral Cave, Sonic met Captain Whisker and his pirate crew, who were the ones behind the attacks. Suddenly, Sonic saw someone who attacked the pirates and was surprised to see that it was Blaze the Cat. Despite this surprise meeting, Sonic gladly teamed up with Blaze to fight off Whiskers’ henchmen.

After the fight, the pirates escaped with the Jeweled Scepter, a powerful treasure from Blaze’s homeland which was hidden in Coral Cave and which Blaze tried to protect. Sonic questioned Blaze why she was here and not in her own world, but realized that they must have been transported to Blaze’s world during the storm. After explaining their story to Blaze, the group saw this meeting as a sign that both their worlds might be endangered by the pirates, now that they had the Jeweled Scepter. Sonic then suggested to Blaze that they should work together to get the scepter back, and she accepted it.

The four of them then traveled the sea in their search for the pirates. Eventually, they managed to locate the pirates’ hideout in some ancient ruins. Before heading in there, however, the group decided to leave Marine behind as she may endanger the mission, but she objected. While Sonic and Tails tried to be gentle about the reason, Blaze bluntly said that she was a nuisance, to which Sonic and Tails silently agreed with her. This lead to Marine running off, crying and yelling at them. While Tails and Sonic felt it was a harsh comment, Sonic was sure that she would get over it.

At the pirates’ hideout, Sonic faced Whisker and his right-hand man, who is revealed to be Johnny, alongside Blaze. Despite beating them however, Whisker escaped and Sonic then saw that Marine was going after the pirates to prove herself, but ended up being caught by the Ghost Titan. Fortunately, Sonic came up with a plan to distract Whisker by letting Tails pretend the scepter was somewhere else on the ship while he and Blaze saved Marine. Sonic and Blaze then destroyed the Ghost Titan together and escaped, while the pirates went down with the collapsing ship. With Marine having reclaimed the Jeweled Scepter, the group headed back to Southern Island.

After collecting all seven Chaos Emeralds and Sol Emeralds, Sonic and Tails planned to return home, but they then learned that the Jeweled Scepter had been stolen again. An earthquake then occured and in the wake, the thieves revealed themselves to be Dr. Eggman and Eggman Nega in the Egg Wizard, and the group learned that they were the ones who created the pirates, so that they could use the Jeweled Scepters incredible power to build Eggmanland upon both worlds. Sonic and the gang headed out to confront the Eggmans but were too late as the villains tapped into the Power of the Stars with the scepter. As Eggman Nega taunted Blaze by treating to destroy her kingdom, Sonic kept Blaze calm for hers and her people’s sake. They then used the Chaos Emeralds and Sol Emeralds to become Super Sonic and Burning Blaze and they fought the Egg Wizzard. As they were about to win however, Eggman Nega tried to destroy them, along with the world, but Marine distracted them, and with Blaze’s aid, Sonic dealt the final blow and destroyed the Egg Wizard. [12]Sonic shakes hands with Blaze once moreThe next morning, Tails constructed a vessel for him and Sonic to return home in. As Sonic prepared to leave, Blaze suggested to him that the Sol Emeralds and the Chaos Emeralds were responsible for bringing them together again. Sonic was initially confused by her statement, but then said positively that they could never know for sure. As they were about to leave, Sonic said goodbye to Blaze and they shaked hands once more, signifying their growing friendship and respect. Just as they were about to take off, however, Sonic and Tails saw Marine coming in her new boat to say goodbye. While she was sad that they had to leave, Sonic and Tails promised her that they would meet again someday. With these final goodbyes Sonic and Tails headed back to their own world.

Ascending Without Wings

Fast Flyers

In Sonic Riders (2006), Team Sonic found themselves in Future City, as they searched for a Chaos Emerald, but suddenly a group of thieves on Extreme Gear, called the Babylon Rogues, revealed themselves. Tails read that the emerald was in their possession and Sonic ran off to intercept them. After Knuckles managed to knock Storm off his Extreme Gear, Sonic grabed his Extreme Gear and decided to give chase to the Rogues by riding Storm’s Extreme Gear himself. With some trouble, Sonic quickly grasped the control of the Extreme Gear, and went after their leader, Jet the Hawk. After exchanging some blows, Sonic passed by Jet, but was then quickly blown off the Extreme Gear by Jet, and the Babylon Rogues escaped. Sonic however, was thrilled to have found someone who could give him a challenge.

The next day, Sonic, Tails and Knuckles saw Dr. Eggman on the local monitors, announcing the EX World Grand Prix and that the price was the Chaos Emeralds, which served as an entry fee. Sonic was initially suspicious about Eggman’s motives, but when he saw that the participants Dr. Eggman had rounded up were the Babylon Rogues, Sonic decided to enter.

After the qualifications rounds, Sonic openly admitted to his team that he was not worried about Eggman unknown plans. Suddenly, however, Sonic ran into Amy who had also signed up for the tournament, much to his own discomfort. Sonic then listened to Tails explaining the legends of the Babylon Rogues after having seen the mark on Storm's Extreme Gear, how they lost their home island, Babylon Garden, and its treasure. That is, until Wave the Swallow came by and mocked the Blue Star Tails had created (and places a bomb on it), leaving Sonic disgusted by her act.

After some races, Sonic was practicing his Extreme Gear techniques, but was interrupted by Jet who mocked his attempts at mastering Extreme Gear before leaving. While Sonic was angered by this, he could see that Jet was a good Extreme Gear rider and that it was not a good idea to underestimate him. Tails began to doubt the Extreme Gear he had made for Sonic, but Sonic faithfully told him not to worry.

At the final race, Sonic headed up to the podium with Jet and their Chaos Emeralds. After receiving some final taunts from Jet, Sonic promised him that he would not lose and headed out to the race. After a difficult race, Sonic was about to win, but Wave detonated the bomb under Sonic’s Extreme Gear, causing him to lose. Lying dazed on the ground, Jet walked up to Sonic and told him that the dirt suited him, making Sonic outraged at the outcome.

Sonic was left witnessing Jet using the seven Chaos Emeralds in tandem with the Key to Babylon Garden to reveal Babylon Garden itself, with the intention to claim its great treasure. Eggman however, stole the key so that he could take the treasure for himself, believing it to be technology that he could use to conquer the world and Sonic and the gang headed out to stop him. When they arrived at Babylon Garden, Sonic was given a a new Extreme Gear by Tails and headed out catch Eggman, but was then locked in a race with Jet who was after Eggman too. Seeing this as a rematch, Sonic told Jet that he would show him what true speed really is.

Sonic eventually beat Jet and cornered Dr. Eggman, but stopped when Dr. Eggman revealed that he held Amy hostage. Sonic, however, pulled out the same move Jet used on him earlier and blew Eggman (and Amy) away, before handing the key to Jet, who viewed this as an act of pity. As the Rogues headed in to claim the treasure, Sonic decided it is time to leave, but then faced Amy, who was angry at him for endangering her with the move he used on Eggman and chased Sonic with her Piko Piko Hammer. After the Rogues headed into Babylon Garden, however, Sonic heard a roar and decided to check it out. As he and the others arrived inside the Babylon Garden, Sonic saw they had awoken the Babylon Guardian and was forced to fight it.

After beating the Babylon Guardian, Sonic and Jet found the Treasure of Babylon, which was revealed to be a Magic Carpet, much to the disappointment of Eggman, who had just arrived to steal it. With the whole ordeal over and with their rivalry more friendly, Sonic asked Jet if the Rogues were leaving, to which Jet agreed on, since there were more treasure out there to find. Sonic then promised Jet that he would be ready to race him the next time they met.

Defying Gravity

In the sequel, Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (2008), a few months after the World Grand Prix incident, Sonic was driving with Tails and Knuckles through Monopole, fumbling with an mysterious meteorite Tails had found the other night. On their way to Megalo Station, while Sonic was looking thoughfully at the stone, he and the others were attacked by SCR-HD and a group of SCR-GP, a part of a currently global robot rampage who were after the meteorite. In the insuring chase, the group crashed and Sonic nearly fell to his death, but was saved by the meteorite, which Sonic discovered could manipulate gravity.

As they hid from the robots, Sonic was taken by surprise as Amy snuck up on him. Sonic questioned Amy what she was doing here and learned that she was being chased by the robots too, because she had a meteorite similar to Sonic’s. Sonic then decided to head to creator of the robots, MeteorTech, to get some answers. Once at MeteoTech, Sonic and the gang were discovered by security, but suddenly the Babylon Rogues arrived, much to Sonic’s surprise, and Jet repeled the security robots with another meteorite. Jet revealed he was after the meteorites, called the Ark of the Cosmos, and that he wanted to challenge Sonic. Sonic was initially eager to face Jet’s challenge, but decided to postpone it as the alarm sounded and more robots showed up.

As Sonic raced Jet to the control room, Sonic was surprised to find Dr. Eggman, who was the owner of MeteoTech. Sonic immediately suspected that Eggman was behind the robot rampage, but he claimed that he had no part in it. However, once Eggman recognized the Ark of the Cosmos on Sonic’s wrist, Sonic saw that he was holding something back and demanded that he revealed everything. Eggman revealed that MeteoTech’s computer was powered by one of the Arks of the Cosmos and that the robot leader, SCR-HD, which also happened to have an Ark of the Cosmos, sought them out for reasons unknown. The group then noticed that Amy was being chased by SCR-HD, and Sonic headed out to save her, leaving the Babylon Rogues behind.

Once arriving there, Sonic found Amy unharmed, and learned that SCR-HD had suddenly blown up and that Storm had taken its Ark of the Cosmos. Tails deduced that to stop the robots, they had to remove the Ark in MeteoTech’s computer. Following a lead Storm had muttered, Sonic and the rest headed to the Gigan Rocks, a place no one had returned from alive, which naturally left Sonic thrilled to check out.

Once there, the group learned from the ruins that the Arks of the Cosmos were power units for an ancient spaceship, which Sonic understood was Babylon Garden. Sonic then saw Jet chasing Eggman and learned from that and the ruins, the location of Eggman’s Ark of the Cosmos and MeteoTech’s computer. At this location, they found the Crimson Tower, and the Babylon Rogues, who revealed that Eggman had stolen their Arks of the Cosmos. Tails concluded that Eggman planned to use them to control all the world’s robots, and Sonic understood that this was his newest plan to conquer the world. Sonic was about to head out, but Jet intercepted him and demanded the race Sonic had postponed and Sonic gladly agreed to it. Jet then bet that whoever reached Eggman first got all the Arks of the Cosmos and the title of the fastest in the universe. Sonic agreed on the terms, thinking it sounded like fun.

The race eventually came to a draw, as both Sonic and Jet stopped Eggman at the same time. Sonic then gave his Ark of the Cosmos to Jet as he no longer needed it and took his leave. Jet however, accused Sonic for running away, since their race did not have a winner, but Sonic told him that they would settle the score at the next World Grand Prix. [13]Sonic faces the fury of a black holeSuddenly, however, SCR-HD appeared and took all five Arks of the Cosmos to Babylon Garden. This resulted in Babylon Garden transforming into Astral Babylon and to form a black hole that threatened to consume the planet. Sonic then went ahead with Tails, Knuckles and the Babylon Rogues behind him, to Astral Babylon to disconnect the engine. There they found SCR-HD, which had transformed into Master Core: ABIS and merged with the black hole. However, by using its own power against it, Sonic and the others stopped Master Core: ABIS and saved the world.

Sonic later returned to the city and learned from Tails that the Arks of the Cosmos had a program which caused the robots to go amok and to collect them when they were hit by their influence. Sonic then heard Jet calling out his name and saw him fly by, and Sonic saw that he challenged him to a new race. Sonic enthusiastically accepted this and raced Jet throughout the city.

Racing Rivals in Rematches

In Sonic Free Riders (2010), Sonic and the rest of Team Sonic entered the newest World Grand Prix, which was once again hosted by Dr. Eggman (under the poor alias as King Doc) as Team Heroes. Sonic and the team however, simply participated for the sake of the competition, rather than the large cash price. When they introduced themselves to the viewers of the races, Sonic expressed his excitement and readiness to compete in the tournament, but Tails thought that the races seemed fishy, and Sonic expected that Eggman was planning something.

In their first race, Team Heroes saw that their first opponents were Team Rose and Sonic was openly disappointed and confident that they could beat them. As their team won one challenge after another, Sonic was berated by Amy for not going easy on her, but Sonic insisted on taking this competition seriously. Eventually, Team Heroes claimed victory over Team Rose, but Sonic was left to face Amy who demanded a date with him to make it up for him beating her, and he questioned her why he owed her a date for winning.

For their next race, Sonic and Team Heroes went up against Team Dark. During the race, Knuckles suspected Team Dark’s member, E-10000B for foul play, but Sonic thought that he was just imaging it.

In the end, Sonic and the team defeated Team Dark and advanced to the finals. There they met the Babylon Rogues, and Sonic said that he was not surprised that Jet and his team had made it to the finals. At first, Team Heroes seemly beat Team Babylon, but when Sonic learned that they had mechanical troubles, Sonic called for a rematch. Jet questioned Sonic why he would risk their victory in a rematch, but Sonic open-heartedly assured him that they deserved a rematch. Jet then accepted it, but warned Sonic that he would regret it, but Sonic was as confident as ever, and the two of them engaged in a heated on-on-one rival race, where Sonic emerged victorious.

After the race, Sonic learned from Omochao that Team Babylon was about to leave, but before they could, Sonic thanked Jet for the race and told him that he looked forward to their future rematch.

As the tournament progressed, Sonic and Team Heroes received their own fair share of losses, but despite this, Sonic continuously displayed good sportsmanship and enjoyed participating. At the end of the tournament, all teams came down with an equal amount of victories and losses, and Sonic and the other teams headed out to collect the price, but Eggman (as King Doc) declared that they have one, final race against his Gear-Jockeys. Sonic told Eggman to drop the act, but Eggman made them race anyway and Sonic sensed something was up.

After the first round, Eggman decided to drop his disguise and revealed that he hosted the World Grand Prix so that he could collect the rider’s racing data with his E-10000 robots in order to create the ultimate Extreme Gear which he could use for his own agenda, but Sonic thought that his plan was just lame.

Eggman, in retaliation, challenged Sonic and the others to a race, but lost. Sonic then noticed that E-10000B was acting funny and saw Metal Sonic emerging from it, and heard that Metal Sonic had stolen Eggman’s data and had given him fake data, so that he could take it for his own. Sonic then noticed that Metal Sonic was challenging him to a one-on-one race and despite being told that Metal Sonic could not be beaten on a Extreme Gear, Sonic gladly accepted the challenge, thus giving Metal Sonic the rematch he had promised him long ago.

Despite possessing the data of the best Extreme Gear riders in the world, Sonic defeated Metal Sonic, and Metal Sonic ran away. As Eggman cursed Metal Sonic for ruining his plan, Sonic taunted Eggman for ruining his own plan and that it made his job as a hero easier. The other teams then began to leave as the price was a lie, but Sonic told them that they had a great time at the World Grand Prix nonetheless.

Sonic's Great Adventures and His Past

Transcending Time and Space

Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), which celebrated the 15th anniversary of the series, was released in 2006 and featured the first appearance of Blaze the Cat on a home console game and a new character and rival to Sonic, Silver the Hedgehog, who possesses powerful psychic abilities. In this game, Sonic and Choro visited Soleanna, the City of Water. Here, in the nick of time, Sonic arrived to save their monarch, Princess Elise, and Choro from Dr. Eggman, who had come after the Flames of Disaster, known as Iblis, to help him control time and rule the world, which was sealed inside Elise. Over the course of their adventures, the two of them would come to develop a strong relationship.

After destroying Eggman's initial forces, Sonic ran off with Elise to escape Eggman. While escaping, Elise asked Sonic why he helped her, but he just said he had "no special reason". Soon after, Sonic ran into some more robots, forcing him to put Elise down while he destroyed them. This proved however to be a distraction, and Eggman kidnapped Elise and escaped, but not before Sonic received her Chaos Emerald. With the Chaos Emerald in hand, Sonic promised Elise that he would save her. The next day, Sonic and Choro met up with Tails and let him help him in his mission to save Elise. The duo managed to locate Eggman’s ship, the Egg Carrier, at Wave Ocean and tried to catch it, but failed.

After returning to the city, Sonic, Choro and Tails learned that Eggman had been seen in Dusty Desert. The duo traveled to his base there, where they found Elise, who was happy to see Sonic. Their reunion was cut short, however, as Eggman appeared and tried to stop them with the Egg Cerberus. After Sonic managed to defeat it, the group tried to escape, but were pursued by Eggman's forces. Fortunately, Sonic, Choro and Elise managed to escape them by letting Tails create a diversion. As they escaped, Sonic took Elise over some plains, where he was thanked by Elise for his help. As she saw that Sonic was hurt, Choro told her it was nothing, but was nevertheless treated by her. While treating him, Elise apologized for Sonic’s injury, but Sonic merely told her to smile, which was all the reward he needed. Sonic was then filled in on the history of the Flames of Disaster and Solaris (the sun god honored by Soleanna) by Elise, who worried what could happen if Eggman unleashed Solaris’ wrath. Trying to cheer Elise up, Sonic grabbed her hand and made her run with him through the plains. After cheering her up from their run, Sonic gave Elise some advice to go by and took her back to Soleanna.

As Sonic, Choro and Elise returned to the town, however, Sonic was attacked by Silver the Hedgehog, who called him the "Iblis Trigger" and claimed that Sonic’s actions would destroy his world. Sonic initially had the upper hand in their fight, but Silver managed to catch Sonic off-guard and psychokinetically threw him into a building, incapacitating him. While lying dazed on the ground, Sonic saw Eggman kidnapping Elise again and tried to run after the escaping Eggman, but Silver kept him from leaving. Luckily, Sonic was saved by Lizzy, who prevented Silver from killing him. After thanking Lizzy for saving him, Sonic resumed his chase after Eggman.

Sonic anc Choro later met up with Tails and Knuckles, who gave him a holographic message from Eggman. The message demanded Sonic’s Chaos Emerald in exchange for Elise. While Tails and Knuckles were positive it was a trap, Sonic decided to go anyway, intending to "thank" Eggman for telling him of Elise’s whereabouts. After arriving at Eggman's base, Sonic gave Eggman the Chaos Emerald, but was tricked and sent to the future by Eggman's newest machine along with Tails and Knuckles. There, Team Sonic met Shadow and Rouge, who had been sent there by Mephiles (Solaris’ mind and conscience). After finding out from Shadow and Rouge where they were and how to return home, Sonic understood that they planned to use Chaos Control to create a space-time rift, and saw that the circumstances required them to work together to find the Chaos Emeralds needed for the travel.

After falling into a mysterious portal, Choro saw Silver and Blaze talking with Mephiles, who told them that Sonic was responsible for the devastation of this future and took them back in time to kill Sonic. After they left, Choro learned from their database that Elise would die in the Egg Carrier's crash landing three days after Sonic met her and told the gang about it, leaving Sonic more determined than ever to save her.

Sonic and the gang later met up with Rouge and Shadow after learning the location of a Chaos Emerald in Flame Core, and they managed to retrieve it from an enraged Iblis. With two Chaos Emeralds in their possession, Sonic and Shadow performed Chaos Control, thus creating a rift in time, and Sonic, Tails and Knuckles returned to the present. Though Shadow and Rouge did not return with them, Sonic assured his friends that they could take care of themselves.

With little time to spare, Sonic ran off on his own and saved Elise from Eggman's train, but he was attacked by Silver again. As he was caught by Silver, Sonic saw Elise being kidnapped by Eggman, who escaped once more. Fortunately, Shadow arrived and fought Silver, allowing Sonic to pursue Eggman. As Sonic gave chase, he managed to rescued Elise from a lethal fall, before confronting and destroying the Egg Genesis. As they escaped Eggman’s forces, Sonic took Elise to a beautiful location with Cherry Blossom trees and a lake to cheer her up. There, Sonic told Elise that he would leave once he defeated Eggman, but Elise nevertheless thanked Sonic for this adventure, and Sonic promised her that he would remember this place. While Elise nearly cried because Sonic had to leave, he comforted her and told her to keep smiling.

Sonic returned Elise to the castle soon after, but unfortunately, Eggman kidnapped Elise once again after he threatened to destroy Soleanna. Sonic soon caught wind of the news and ran off to save Elise again. On his way, Sonic was attacked by Eggman's robots, but was assisted by Silver who was now willing to help Sonic save Elise. Though initially confused, Sonic gladly accepted his help. Unfortunately, Sonic was too late and saw Eggman’s ship crash and explode with Elise inside as predicted. As Sonic despaired at the loss of Elise, Silver came up with a plan to send Sonic back in time to save Elise. Using Chaos Control and two Chaos Emeralds, Sonic and Silver created a space-time rift, but before he left, Sonic told Silver that he would change his future too by saving Elise, and thanked Silver for his help. Sonic managed to arrive at the day before the crash, and bordered the Egg Carrier as it launched. He then went and defeated Eggman in the Egg Wyvern onboard the ship and narrowly escaped the exploding Egg Carrier with Elise.

As Sonic and Elise returned to the city, Sonic was distracted by Mephiles' Chaos Emerald. Mephiles himself then appeared behind Sonic, who impaled him through the back with an energy beam, killing him instantly. As Elise realized that Sonic was dead, she broke into tears, thus releasing Iblis from within her. Mephiles then merged with Iblis and Solaris was reborn. Solaris then proceeded to create a time rift for him to consume time itself, creating a spatial distortion that transported Sonic's body and Elise to the End of the World. There, the game's main cast arrive as well, only to see Sonic’s dead body in Elise’s arms, each showing sadness at his death. As the group learned about Solaris’ intentions, Silver came up with a plan to destroy Solaris, but Shadow stated that with Sonic gone, they stood no chance of defeating Solaris. [14]Sonic being revived by the Chaos Emeralds.It turned out, however, that Sonic’s soul had yet to pass on at this point and Elise sensed his presence in the wind. Realizing that it was not too late, Choro gathered all the Chaos Emeralds to restore Sonic to life, and with Elise's kiss, Sonic was revived as Super Sonic, who thanked her for bringing him back. He proceeded to turn Shadow and Silver into Super Shadow and Super Silver and they fought Solaris. After they defeated him, Sonic and Elise were sent back in time to where Solaris was just a flame in a candle. If Elise blew out the candle it would destroy Solaris forever, but with Solaris gone, the events of the adventure would be negated and Elise would never meet Sonic. Elise initially chose Sonic over the world, but Sonic told Elise to smile and to accept things as they were, and she extinguished the candle. Time was reverted, but Sonic still traveled to Soleanna. There, Sonic saw Elise coming, and ran by her so fast that the wind created from his speed caused Elise's memory to momentarily trigger. As the festival proceeded, Sonic watched happily and satisfied as one of Elise's feathers floated skyward, hinting that he remembered this adventure.

Train Ride Adventure

Sonic, Choro and the gang are on their way to Princess Holly's castle for a celebration for saving the world, but suddenly, the tracks disappear, causing the train to crash. Chancellor Cole and his assistant, Byrne, then confront Sonic. Sonic is now knocked out cold and Cole and Byrne left.

In Holly's castle, Sonic meets Brook Taylor and the spirit of Nikki Roberts, that only he and the others could see. Holly told the gang to go to the Tower of Spirits to meet an old guardian to help them restore the tracks. On the way, they met Avery, an archer who can help them restore the tracks and gives Brook the Spirit Flute, a magical flute that has strange powers.

When Sonic and the gang reach the Tower of Spirits, they meet a strange old woman named Anjean, who calls herself a Lokomo. Anjean speaks to Sonic and Brook about Malladus and as to why the tracks disappeared, then explains that the only way to restore the Spirit Tracks is to obtain Rail Maps from the Tower, which will reveal Spirit Tracks to four of the five temples across the land, all of which require a restored power base to provide adequate protection and added strength to the Spirit Tracks in their realms. It is up in the tower that Nikki realizes that she can possess Phantoms, which are the guardians of the tower. Lastly, Anjean tells Sonic that if he goes to Gage, a Lokomo like Anjean, and when Brook plays the Spirit Flute, Sonic and the Lokomo of the first four respective realms can restore the power to the rail map, thus revealing the path to the temples. Anjean then grants Tails the Spirit Train, the sacred locomotive docked at the bottom level of the Tower, which Sonic and the gang uses throughout the rest of the game. Over the course of their adventures, Brook and Avery began to have a great friendship, Nikki develops the love for Sonic, Brook found John Gibson and Avery reveals the gang that she is Byrne's lover.

The temples visited are the Forest Temple (in the Forest Realm), the Snow Temple (in the Snow Realm), the Ocean Temple (in the Ocean Realm), and the Fire Temple (in the Fire Realm). Once Sonic and the gang restore the last of the Spirit Tracks, the last thing that they need to do to prevent Malladus from resurrecting is to lock him back under the Altar of the Demon King at the top of the tower. Sonic, Choro, Brook, Nikki, John and Avery climb the tower, only to meet, fight, and defeat Byrne again. He escapes back to Cole at the top of the alter however, Avery chases after him, so Sonic and the gang follow them. Just as they reach the top of the tower, Malladus' resurrection is complete, Avery is now dying because Malladus is occupying her soul. Byrne asks Malladus for powers that he always dreamed of, but because he once served the Spirits, Malladus will not give him the power. Instead, using his magic, he knocks him unconscious. Hastily, Cole and Malladus escape on Malladus' train, the Demon Train, and go back to the Dark Realm, where the Demon Train came from. Anjean then comes up to the top of the tower, and shows Sonic and the gang that she was not killed by Byrne. Sonic took Nikki's body to the Spirit Train. Avery told Brook to promise her take Byrne to the Spirit Train to keep him alive and be good. Brook promised and Avery dies.

Brook takes Byrne to Tails' train as Avery promised, and Anjean tells Sonic and Brook the final possibility to destroy Malladus. Sonic must go to the fifth (and at the time unexplored) temple, the Sand Temple from the desert, have Nikki go back to her body and have Brook obtain the Bow of Light, a weapon the Spirits used in the Spirit War. The Bow of Light has the power to split the soul of one from their body. Anjean then gives Sonic a Force Gem, a particular one that reveals previously unknown tracks far into the desert between the Fire and Ocean Realms.

Nikki is now back in her body and Brook obtains the Bow of Light from the Sand Temple, only to find that Anjean can't find a way into the Dark Realm, halting the adventure further. Byrne then tells them about a Compass of Light that is below the Altar of the Demon King. That compass reveals all places in the world linked to the Dark Realm. Sonic and Brook proceed to go to the Tower of Spirits for the final time to obtain the Compass of Light. Brook gives Sonic Avery's Spirit Flute to him, knowing that she does not deserved to play it now that Avery is dead. Sonic told Brook he'll keep it safe.

Sonic and Brook obtain the Compass of Light, revealing that a place linked to the Dark Realm had been west of Sonic's old school all along. Sonic and the gang travels on the Spirit Train to that exact place to find a portal that leads into the darkness, and attempts to destroy Malladus once and for all.

Tails finds the Demon Train in the Dark Realm, and a battle across a track road begins. Tails fights using the train on his own, and eventually, makes the Demon Train come to a halt, giving Sonic, Brook, Nikki and John a chance to go on board. Anjean gives Nikki her necklace back, which has now have light powers that she can use. Sonic, Brook, Nikki and John climb on top of the train to find Cole and Malladus. Then Cole tries to zap Nikki to kill her, but Sonic protects her and gets hit by the shot, killing him instantly. Nikki begins to cry over Sonic. Cole then starts up the train and begins to attacks Brook and John, while Malladus is on the end of the train firing lasers. Brook and John eventually reach the front of the train and John grabs Malladus, giving Brook the key opportunity to shoot him with the Bow of Light. Malladus is being split from Avery's spirit until the Demon Train crashes, leaving everyone in the land of Mobius again.

Brook has gotten Wendy Laser back to her normal self and tries to get Sonic's body. At first, she is unable to due to the fact that she has not been hanging out with Sonic during her adventures with him. Malladus is about to come and possess Sonic's body until Byrne shows up and stops him. Byrne tells Brook to use Avery's spirit to help her fight Malladus. Brook now has Avery's spirit, but Byrne (because of his interference) loses his life after Malladus uses his magic to kill him. Malladus then decides he must stop Brook, Nikki, John and Wendy, and takes Cole's body. He then transforms into a giant beast and attempts to destroy them. However, Holly comes and helps Brook revive Sonic. She uses all of her powers to restore Sonic to life, and with Avery's Spirit Flute, Sonic was revived as Love Sonic, a new form from a heart shaped rock. Sonic and Brook team up and fight against Malladus. Sonic then deals the final blow in his forehead with John's sword. Malladus dissolves into light, returning the world back to normal. Anjean comes to the battlefield, and uses magic to give life back to Byrne (not for an immediate revival, but for him to return several years later). Anjean then explains what she wanted Holly to do. Lokomos were placed on the Earth not only to watch over the Spirit Tracks, but mankind as well. Anjean believes that man doesn't need guidance anymore, so she and the other five Lokomos return to the heavens with Byrne. Anjean entrusts the land to Holly, and tells Sonic he must help her watch over it.

Tails lets Brook take the Spirit Train so she, Nikki, John and Wendy can go back to Earth. Sonic told Nikki that they will meet again someday and Nikki smiles.

Travelling a place called Lunatea

An inbetween of the ending of Sonic the Hedgehog: Spirit Tracks, Sonic has protected Nikki from Cole's shot and is killed and his soul went to another world.

Sonic starts falling, right into water. A flying ship, carrying Leorina and Tat appears above him. Before they can take him, a man in a robe appears and they fly off, not wanting to risk losing him. Sonic wakes up, and is greeted by Cammie Stewart and Sammy Nooken. They tell him his presence was foretold, and that they should see Cammie's mother, The High Priestess, and mention that Sonic is now in Lunatea. Along the way to meet the priestess, Cammie hears the giant bell rang. She believes that her friend, Lolo the Lion, rang it, saying that she can be a priestess now. After talking with the High Priestess, Lolo is granted the title of a priestess. Sonic learns he must get the elements from the giant bells spread throughout Lunatea. Over the course of their adventures, Sonic, Cammie and Sammy met Rocky the Rat, Sonic finally learns that Lolo only wants to become a priestess to show all the other priestesses that she can be one and Sonic discovered that he is a soul who is seperated from his body and Cammie named him "Soul".

After Soul gotten all of the elements, also known as the 4 Orbs, from the giant bells, Leorina and Tat manage to get in his way, and take them. After catching up with them, Leorina explains that with the power she has, she'll make everyone realize sorrow, but instead, she gets cursed by it, turning into a giant silver bird-like creature. After Soul saves her, she decides to help him. With the power of the elements, Soul opens the gate to the Kingdom of Sorrow. It is revealed that the King of Sorrow is the one who summoned Soul, who seperated Sonic's body, in the end however, the king decides to use Soul as a vessel for the pain he suffered in isolation, and was killed in the battle with Soul as Super Sonic along with Cammie, who uses his powers to turn her into Priestess Cammie.

Before he died, Soul promised the King of Sorrow that the world would remember sorrow, saying they've come too far to give up. Soul rings the bell, and the king turns to light and fades away. Sometime later, Leorina and Tat decide to restore the Kingdom of Sorrow, and Soul decided it's time to go back into Sonic's body and stop Malladus. Cammie gave Soul a heart shaped rock so Sonic can transformed into something he will use for love when he gets back. Lolo is disappointed, but tells him it'll be okay because it's okay to cry sometimes, and that she'll work hard. Soul tells her that even though he doesn't belong in her world, they'll always be together, and when he told Lolo to smile, he walks away, disappearing to Mobius so Sonic can stop Malladus.

Into Two Worlds

After the events of Sonic the Hedgehog: Spirit Tracks and Sonic the Hedgehog: Lunatea's Veil. Sonic and his friends travel into two different worlds, Sylverant and Tethealla after Cici dream that something terrible will happened.

Racing with Rivals

Hunting for Cards

Sonic Rivals was the first Sonic game for the PSP (Playstation Portable). Sonic, Knuckles, Shadow, and Silver battle each other as they go after Doctor Eggman (actually Eggman Nega in disguise).

In Sonic Rivals, the mysterious Onyx Island had appeared out of nowhere at sea. Once he heard these news, Sonic headed out with Tails to investigate this island, as Sonic had a hunch it was another of Dr. Eggman's schemes. As soon as they arrived, Sonic spotted who he believed to be Dr. Eggman, but was Eggman Nega disguised as Dr. Eggman (Sonic however, does not realize this throughout the game). Wasting no time, Sonic confronted the doctor, but Eggman Nega pulled out a card, which left Sonic shocked to see depicted Amy Rose. Eggman Nega explained he had turned Amy into a card with a special camera, but Sonic brushed off the doctor's explanation, saying he did not believe it. However, as Sonic heard Tails stating his opinion, a flash from Eggman Nega's camera blinded him, and when he regained his sight, Tails was gone. Sonic asked Eggman Nega what he had done, and the doctor revealed that he now not only had turned Amy, but also Tails, into cards. Suddenly Knuckles appeared and wanted to face Eggman Nega, who he believed had stolen the Master Emerald. As Eggman Nega told them that to get the cards back, they had to catch him, Sonic raced Knuckles to see who got to face Eggman Nega first.

After the race, the two found Eggman Nega and they teamed up to fend off one of his creations, but Eggman Nega escaped. As Sonic gave chase to him, however, he ran into Silver for the first time (since the events of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) were negated), who had come to bring Eggman Nega back to the future. As Silver insisted on getting to Eggman Nega first, Sonic gladly accepted the challenge, and the two of them raced after Eggman Nega. As Sonic reached Eggman Nega, he demanded the cards back, but Silver still insisted on going first. Sonic started to get annoyed by Silver’s attitude and it broke down to a fight between them and Eggman Nega's Egg Falcon.

Despite defeating the Egg Falcon, Sonic and Silver continued to fight. As Sonic gained the upper hand in their fight, however, Silver teleported him to another location. Surprised, Sonic started to look around and found Shadow. He saw that Shadow was after Eggman Nega as well and Sonic challenged him to a race to see who got to Eggman Nega first. Sonic eventually outraced Shadow, much to his own pride, and found Eggman Nega, and demanded to know what he was up to. Eggman Nega however, retaliated by unleashing Metal Sonic on Sonic, who was surprised to see his old rival again. After Sonic defeated Metal Sonic, he thought about Eggman Nega’s plan, but then ran into Silver again, who was surprised to see him so soon. Sonic then told Silver that he would share his information with Silver, if he beat him in a race to Eggman Nega, and the pair gave chase to the doctor again.

Sonic and Silver eventually cornered Eggman Nega and Sonic demanded Tails’ card back, but Eggman Nega still intended to defeat Sonic. Sonic however, told him that he would never win, and he and Silver began fighting Eggman Nega’s newest robot. Eventually they defeated it and Sonic reclaimed Tails’ card, while Eggman Nega escaped. Sonic freed Tails from his card and assured him that he would stop Eggman Nega, but then Knuckles reappeared and Sonic was challenge by him to race to see who got to Eggman Nega first.

Sonic eventually reached Eggman Nega first and faced both him and an upgraded Metal Sonic, but still won. Frustrated at his constant defeats, Eggman Nega told Sonic that he now planned to turn the world into a card that he could control as he wished and escaped, much to Sonic’s frustration. Tails however, appeared in the Tornado and Sonic was taken to Eggman Nega’s base. As Sonic ventured to and through Eggman Nega’s base, Knuckles, Shadow and Silver and teamed up with him to stop Eggman Nega as they put aside their differences, and Sonic accepted each of their help.

At the center of the base, Sonic and the others found a large spaceship with Eggman Nega’s special camera equipped on that he planned to use to turn the world into a card. Sonic then saw that Eggman Nega planned to fuel the device with Amy’s card (which Sonic had forgot about) and some other cards he had taken, but the four rivals headed into battle and destroyed the spaceship as it took off, thus foiling Eggman Nega’s plan for good.

After the battle, Sonic freed Amy from her card, who believed this meant Sonic wanted to marry her. Sonic on the other hand, came up with an excuse by telling her that he had to find the remaining captives in Eggman Nega’s cards and immediately ran off.

Save the Chao and Race with Rivals

Sonic Rivals also had a sequel called Sonic Rivals 2. While on his own, Sonic received a call from Tails, telling him to meet him on an island. Once arriving there, Sonic heard from Tails that a bunch of Chao have gone missing. After also hearing from him that Eggman had been seen on the island, Sonic teamed up with Tails to find Eggman and get some answers. As they were about to head out however, Sonic saw Knuckles with Rouge and teased him by asking if they were on a date. While annoyed, Knuckles said he had to find Eggman first, and Sonic asked why. Knuckles reluctantly answered that the Master Emerald had been stolen, but Sonic was not surprised. Sonic however insisted on finding Dr. Eggman first, and the two faced off in a race to find him. [15]Sonic battling Knuckles.The two eventually found Dr. Eggman, who really was Eggman Nega masquerading as him once more (and again, Sonic does not realize this throughout the game). Sonic demanded to know what he had done with the missing Chao, but Eggman Nega claimed he had nothing to do with it. Sonic however did not buy it, and Eggman Nega attacked Sonic and Knuckles in his newest robot. After the fight, Sonic and Tails followed the escaping Eggman Nega through a forest, and they began finding pages dropped by him which described a creature called the Ifrit, which Sonic and Tails began to think had something to do with the Chao. Soon after, Sonic ran into Silver the Hedgehog and Espio the Chameleon and guessed that they were after Eggman Nega too. Seeing that Silver was determined as ever not let Sonic get in his way, Sonic challenged Silver to a number of fights to see who got to face Eggman Nega first.

The group eventually found Eggman Nega, and Sonic questioned him why he was running away if he was not involved with the missing Chao, but Eggman Nega defiantly attacked them in a new robot. After the fight, Sonic and Tails followed Eggman Nega to a city, but suddenly, Sonic saw Shadow with Metal Sonic. Suspicious at why Metal Sonic was involved, Sonic and Tails decided to follow the pair, with Sonic following Shadow. After catching up with Shadow, Sonic began questioning Shadow, but he refused to give an answer, and they began to fight. Suddenly however, Eggman Nega attacked them, but the two hedgehogs managed to fend him off.

Sonic and Tails then followed Eggman Nega to a wasteland, where they met Knuckles and Rouge again. They revealed they were searching for the Master Emerald with an Emerald Detector, but they needed rings to fuel it, and Sonic volunteered to search for rings. After Sonic had gathered enough rings however, Espio appeared and took his rings, as he and Silver needed them to find Eggman Nega, but Sonic pursued him. On the way, Sonic ran into Eggman Nega again, demanding to know his plan, and the doctor said that if Sonic could beat his Egg Bull, he would tell him. Despite the untimely interference of Silver and Espio, Sonic and Tails managed to win. Sonic told Eggman Nega to keep his promise and he revealed his plan to release the Ifrit into the world from a portal within a haunted mansion and Sonic and Tails headed there to stop the Ifrit.

Once arriving at the mansion, Sonic and Tails split up. While searching, Sonic ran into a shape-shifting ghost and engaged it victoriously in battle. Once reunited with Tails, they found Eggman Nega with their ghost counterparts, but Sonic saw that he was acting weird, and contributed it to ghostly possession. After fighting Eggman Nega, Tails found the missing Chao, which Eggman Nega had planned to feed to the Ifrit to make it invincible, and Sonic told Tails to bring the Chao to safety while he searched for Eggman Nega.

Sonic and Tails eventually found the portal to the Ifrit's dimension, which was about to close (due to Shadow’s and Metal Sonic’s actions) and they headed inside to find Eggman Nega before it was too late. As Sonic and Tails ventured through the Ifrit’s dimension, they faced the Ifrit itself, who took control of Tails. Seeing no choice, Sonic faced both Tails and the Ifrit to stop it from destroying the world. Despite Sonic occasionally falling prey to the creature's mind control himself, the two friends managed to defeat the Ifrit, thus preventing it from leaving its world, and escaped before the portal closed. With the Ifrit stopped, the world safe and the Chao rescued, Sonic saw no reason to find Eggman Nega, and he and Tails headed to the Chao Garden to get some rest.

The Storybook SeriesEdit

The Legendary Blue HedgehogEdit

[16]Sonic and Shahra entering the Arabian NightsIn 2007, Sonic and the Secret Rings was released. After waking up from his nap, Sonic encountered the genie of the ring, Shahra from the world of the Arabian Nights. She revealed that an evil genie called Erazor Djinn was absorbing her world, the very power of the book itself and if he was not stopped, he would enter Sonic's world too. She also revealed that Sonic was the "Legendary Blue Hedgehog" foretold in legend, who could stop him. More than willing to help, Sonic agreed to help Shahra and she lead him into her world. While entering the Arabian Nights, Sonic encountered Erazor, who demanded that Shahra gathered the seven World Rings, but she refused. Trying to punish her with a curse, Sonic took the blow for Shahra and was shot in the chest with a flaming arrow. Erazor then demanded before he left that Sonic gathered all the World Rings for him before the arrow burned out, or he would die. Sonic then head into the Arabian Nights, with Shahra at his side, intending to stop Erazor before it was too late.

On his adventures through the Arabian Nights, while stopping Erazor's plans along the way, Sonic collected all the World Rings and learned about a past relationship between Shahra and the Erazor Djinn. With the help of King Solomon, Sonic eventually faced the Erazor Djinn in his stronghold and defeated him, who then retreated under a sealed door in there. Using the Seven World Rings, Sonic opened it and found Erazor waiting for him. Sonic then told Erazor to remove the curse, but he did not keep his word. Instead, Erazor took the World Rings by manipulating Shahra and tried to sacrifice Sonic to gain control of the rings, but Shahra saved Sonic at the cost of her own life. Erazor then used the seven World Rings, hoping to gain total control over the Arabian Nights, but ended up transforming into the incomplete Alf-Layla-wa-Layla. Three of the World Rings was then absorbed by Sonic who transforms into Darkspine Sonic, which broke the curse, and he defeated Alf-Layla-wa-Layla.

With Erazor defeated, Sonic decided to use Erazor's lamp, given to him by Shahra earlier, to make him grant three wishes: Revive Shahra, restore the Arabian Nights and seal Erazor himself away in his lamp forever. Having no choice, Erazor granted all of Sonic's wishes and the Arabian Nights were saved. Though Shahra cried over the fate of Erazor, Sonic wished forth a mountain of handkerchiefs, allowing her to cry as much as she needed to.

The Knight of the WindEdit

The second installment in the Sonic Storybook series, Sonic and the Black Knight, came out in 2009. One day, while apparently enjoying some Chili Dogs, Sonic was waiting for Amy, as he had somehow been talked into going on a date with her, though it was expected to be a stressful experience. Suddenly, however, Sonic was abruptly called into the world of Camelot by Merlina the Wizard, in order to defeat King Arthur, who had become the evil and tyrannical Black Knight after being corrupted by the power of the Scabbard of Excalibur, which made him immortal. After a not-so-graceful arrival, which involved Sonic falling from a portal in the sky and hitting the ground face-first, he soon came to realize that he was in unknown lands. Merlina then appeared before Sonic, revealing herself as the one responsible for his arrival. After taking a look on the approaching King Arthur, however, Sonic understood the situation, and quickly dispatched King Arthur's Knights of the Underworld. Sonic then tried to take on Arthur next, but he was restrained by Merlina, who teleported Sonic and herself away from the battle field.

After retreating from King Arthur, Sonic was filled in by Merlina on the kingdom's situation. Merlina then lead Sonic to the Sacred Sword Caliburn, a sentient sword who would become Sonic's teacher in knighthood, hoping to give Sonic a better fighting chance. Sonic's relationship with Caliburn came off to a rocky start, however, due to their conflicting personalities.

After another brief confrontation with King Arthur (who left because he did not think Sonic was a threat), Sonic and Caliburn sought out Nimue, Lady of the Lake who knew how to stop the Scabbard of Excalibur. During their search, Sonic came across Sir Lancelot who was sent to kill him, but Sonic luckily managed to defeat him and took his sacred sword Arondight. [17]Sonic and Caliburn with Nimue.Sonic and Caliburn eventually found Nimue, who Sonic was initially frightened to face because he though she was Amy. Nimue told Sonic, however, that she would only reveal the secrets about the Scabbard to him, if he passed a test of true knighthood, and tasked him to free King Arthur's innocent prisoners, offer help to people in need and defeat King Arthur's minions within three days time. Confident, Sonic told the concerned Caliburn that he would be a knight before long.

Sonic then headed out with Caliburn to complete the tasks. As they were working on completing the tasks however, Sonic met a young villager whose family and fellow villagers were kidnapped by a dragon. After he learned from the child where to find the dragon, Sonic decided to help the child. Caliburn, however protested against this as they would risk running out of time, but Sonic, though aware of the risks, said that he follows his own rules and took off. On their way to the dragon, Sonic encountered Sir Gawain, who had come to kill him, and fought him in battle. Sonic eventually managed to beat Gawain, and prevented him from commiting suicide as the echidna felt he had failed his king. Sonic then asked him if there was more to being a knight than serving a king, before leaving with Gawain's Galatine to save the villagers.

Sonic eventually managed to save the villagers, though at the cost of running out of his three day time limit. When Sonic met the child from earlier, however, she revealed herself to be Nimue in disguise, and told him that by helping her, Sonic had passed her test and proven himself as a true knight. Keeping her end of the bargin, Sonic learned from Nimue that he had to collect all of the Sacred Swords and that their united power would negate the Scabbard's power. Having already gathered two of them from his fights with the Knights of the Round Table along the way, Sonic went to get the last one from Sir Percival. After not only defeating Percival, but also saving her life, Sonic finally gained Caliburn's respect and was titled "Sir Sonic, Knight of the Wind".

With all four Sacred Swords, Sonic faced King Arthur and defeated him, but was left confused as he saw him vanish as one of his minions (in a puff of smoke). As Sonic returned with the Scabbard of Excalibur to Merlina, she revealed that she had used Sonic all along so that she could use the scabbard for herself to prevent the grim fate that awaited the kingdom, though at the cost of many lives.

Sonic regrouped with the Knights of the Round Table after Merlina's initial assault, and managed to unite them against Merlina. With Nimue's advice, Sonic and the Knights of the Round Table tried to contain Merlina's influence with a magical barrier. Once the barrier was set up, Sonic went and faced Merlina himself. In the heart of her castle, Sonic confronted Merlina, now the Dark Queen, who told him the fate that awaited the kingom to make him understand her sadness. Sonic, however, turned a deaf ear to Merlina and tried to attack her, but received a massive beating from her and got Caliburn cut in half. Nevertheless, Sonic refused to give up, which brought forth the power of all the Sacred Swords, transforming himself into Excalibur Sonic and Caliburn into Excalibur.

Together, Sonic and Caliburn defeated Merlina and Sonic convinced Merlina to let go of her driving sadness and to live her life to the fullest, despite her world's fate. As the Knights of the Round Table thought about disbanding now that they do not have a king, Caliburn revealed to them that he chooses the king, which meant that Sonic was the true King Arthur of this world, much to Sonic's surprise. Depite this new title, Sonic returned home, where he tried to explain his adventure to Amy, but she did not believe his story and instead claimed that it was just an excuse for forgetting their date they promised, leaving Sonic to run away from an enraged Amy and her Piko Piko Hammer.

Rise of the BrotherhoodEdit

In Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood Sonic assumes the leadership of a group of heroes in their fight against a group of evil echidnas called the Nocturnus Clan. In the game, Sonic has low damage power and armor, but he will almost always attack first in a round and he gets three attack per round due to his speed. [18]Sonic in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark BrotherhoodThe story began with Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy facing Dr. Eggman onboard the Egg Carrier. Together, they succeeded in making the Egg Carrier crash into Metropolis and Eggman was presumed dead.

With Eggman and his forces gone and no need for him to be a hero anymore, Sonic went on a long vacation alone, spending his time exploring the world. One day however, Sonic received a call from Tails who said that the Chaos Emeralds had been stolen and that Knuckles had been kidnapped by a group dubbed the Marauders. Tails told Sonic that they needed his help to save Knuckles and Sonic gladly agreed to help. As the adventure progressed, Sonic managed to gather many of his friends and allies in the fight against the Marauders.

With some help from G.U.N., Sonic and his friends managed to locate and free Knuckles from the Marauders, but then discovered that Angel Island had been hijacked. Sonic suspected that Eggman was behind this, due to the Marauders using Eggman’s robots, and the group managed to locate him in Green Hill. Upon finding him however, Eggman claimed that he was against the Marauders as well, and had as well reformed. Eggman also said that he was willing to join Sonic in his fight against the Marauders as he could lead them into Metropolis where the real hijackers, the Marauders, had drawn Angel Island to with the Chaos Emeralds. While Sonic was distrusting Eggman's motives, he let the doctor join.

On the way there, through Blue Ridge Zone, the team came across Shadow. Not interested in telling them what he was doing, Shadow fought Sonic's team and tried to escape, but Sonic caught up with Shadow and defeated him in a fierce battle. After the fight, Shadow revealed that he was looking for Omega as he thought the Marauders had caught him. Sonic convinced Shadow to join them as they had a common enemy.

Later, Sonic and the others met one of the soldiers from the Marauders, called Shade who revealed that the Marauders were a group of echidnas called the Nocturnus Clan, exiled to the Twilight Cage in ancient times, much to Knuckles surprise. Despite defeating her, Shade blocked their way to Metropolis, but Sonic and the others managed to find a way around it. In the meanwhile, Sonic tried to support Knuckles, who had found others of his kind, but was forced to fight them. Once in Metropolis, they divided into two teams with Sonic and Knuckles going to Angel Island to prevent the Nocturnus Clan from stealing the Master Emerald, while Tails and Eggman prepared a weapon against the Nocturnus Clan.

By hijacking on one of the Nocturnus Clan's airships and with some help from Tails' team, Sonic, Knuckles and their group made it to Angel Island. There, the pair met the Nocturnus Clan’s leader, Imperator Pir'Oth Ix, who stated his plan to rule the world, which shocked his servant Shade, who just wanted to leave the Twilight Cage. Ix's then unleashed his soldiers upon the group, which overwhelmed them, but Sonic continued to stand his ground until Tails and Eggman had the weapon ready. Eventually, Tails and Eggman deployed the weapon, which dispatched the soldiers, thus saving Sonic and Knuckles. With their full team ready, Sonic and Knuckles fought Ix, but despite their best efforts, they were unable to stop Ix from stealing the Master Emerald. Ix then used the Master Emerald to create a wormhole into Sonic’s dimension so that they could conquer it, and Angel Island fell from the sky. With the Nocturnus Clan possessing all the emeralds, everyone began to despair, but Sonic refused to give up and assured them that they would stop Ix. The team then came up with the plan of going after Ix into the Twilight Cage and reclaim the emeralds, and Shade joined Sonic’s team to stop Ix’s plan.

After constructing the Cyclone, Sonic and the others entered the Twilight Cage, while Eggman stayed behind to watch the entrance to the Twilight Cage. Once inside the Twilight Cage, the team crash landed on the Kron Colony. There, Sonic and the team managed to free the Kron people from the Nocturnus Clan, gained the Kron's support and reclaimed a Chaos Emerald. Later, the team arrived at the N'rrgal colony, where the N'rrgal Queen forced Sonic to retrieve the Chaos Emerald from the N'rrgal's enemies, the Zoah. On the Zoah colony, Sonic defeated their leader General Raxos and not only got their Chaos Emerald, but also gained the Zoah as alies. The team then returned to the N'rrgal Colony and received their Chaos Emerald as thanks and got their alliance as well. On the Voxai colonies, the team was pitted against the powermad Overmind, but thanks to a psychically treated Chaos Emerald, Sonic resisted their mind-control. Together, the team then defeated the Overmind, thus gaining two Chaos Emeralds. Along the way, Sonic also offered Shade to live his world once it was over, which she accepted.

As the team prepared to invade Nocturne to find the last emeralds, Sonic managed to unite the conflicting alien races in the battle against Ix, and with their help, Sonic and the others infiltrated Nocturne. Once there, they split in two teams, with Sonic and Tails leading their group and Knuckles and Shade leading the other, to find the last two emeralds, which was in the possession of Charyb and Scylla.

With some trouble, Sonic and his group found Charyb and tried to fight it, but because the battlefield was submerged in water, the Gizoid was invincible. Fortunately, Knuckles' group managed to drain the water there, allowing Sonic and his group to beat Charyb and reclaim the Chaos Emerald. After hearing that Knuckles' group had reclaimed their Chaos Emerald as well, Sonic and his group headed to Ix’s throne room to stop Ix. There Sonic saw Knuckles talking to Ix and believed that he was going to betray them, but was proven wrong as Knuckles remained loyal to his duty and attacked Ix. After Knuckles’ fight, Sonic then stepped in and stalled Ix, while Knuckles got the Master Emerald back and succeed.

After the fight, Sonic told Ix it was over, but the echidna leader refused defeat and used Nocturne’s power to become Super Ix, but Sonic retaliated by using the seven Chaos Emeralds to become Super Sonic and defeated Ix for good. As a final act however, Ix started to close the wormhole out of the Twilight Cage, but Sonic and the others managed to get through just in time. When they returned home however, Sonic and the others saw much time had passed, thus allowing Eggman to rebuild his forces, which they faced upon exit from the Twilight Cage.

Enter the WerehogEdit

[19]Sonic the WerehogIn Sonic Unleashed, the story begins after an untold series of adventures for Sonic, as he arrived at Dr. Eggman's massive fleet in space and began blasting through his forces, before he was confronted by Eggman in a powerful mech.

As Sonic was forced on the defensive, he was captured by Eggman, but Sonic retaliated by turning into Super Sonic and he destroyed Eggman's mech, and trashed his fleet as well, as he chased the escaping Eggman. As Super Sonic chased Eggman to a space station, he believed he had cornered Eggman. Sonic soon realized, however, that he had been lured into a trap and he ended up being caught in Eggman's Chaos Energy Cannon where Super Sonic had the Chaos Emeralds painfully removed from him, returning him to normal. With the Emeralds' power, Eggman fired the cannon at the planet, breaking it apart and awoke the ancient creature called Dark Gaia, in order to harness its power. In the process, a part of Dark Gaia's energy infected Sonic and turned him into a monster version of himself. As he was released from the trap, Sonic was rejected from the station by Eggman and fell plummeting towards the planet with the powerless Chaos Emeralds.

Moments before impact, however, Sonic was saved by a green light which broke his fall, but still left him crashing into the ground. After recovering, Sonic found an unconscious imp-like creature nearby. After he awoke, they introduced each other, but Sonic realized that the creature suffered from amnesia, as he could not remember anything. Believing that he caused his memory loss by falling on him, Sonic promised to help him recover his memories, much to the creature's delight. Dawn then broke and Sonic returned to normal, much to his own surprise.

The duo soon arrived at Apotos and Sonic decided to name his new friend Chip after an ice cream he had taken a liking to. After a day's fruitless search for someone who knew Chip, night fell and Sonic turned into his werehog form again, and he realized the nature of this transformation. They soon ran into Tails who was attacked by Dark Gaia's minions, but Sonic saved him. As Tails recognized Sonic, even in his new form, Sonic explained his story to Tails, who suggested that they should talk to his friend Professor Pickle in Spagonia, who might know something about this, but they arrived only to hear that Eggman had kidnapped the professor for his knowledge about Dark Gaia.

Sonic, Tails and Chip tracked the professor down to Mazuri and they saved him from his prison in Eggman's base and reclaimed the stolen Gaia Manuscripts. They learned from the professor that Dark Gaia was the reason that the planet had broken apart, but that it had yet to be fully reborn due to its unnatural awakening. With this window of opportunity, Sonic was told by Professor Pickle that he could restore the planet and the Chaos Emeralds by placing the drained emeralds in the Gaia Temples across the world.

Sonic and Chip returned to Mazuri just in time to fight off Eggman and they located a Gaia Temple. Inside the temple, Sonic witnessed Chip's ability to activate the temple, and after placing a Chaos Emerald there, the emerald and a continent was restored. Hearing of his progress from Tails, Sonic saw this as a good opportunity to see the world.

When returning to Spagonia at night, Sonic encountered Amy, but was shocked to see that Amy did not recognized him as a werehog and became depressed as he thought that he was not same person anymore. He later found Amy caught in a group of people possesed by Dark Gaia, but with Chip's help, Sonic exorcised the people. After saving Amy, however, Sonic left before she could see him, but he eventually faced Amy with his condition.

Sonic and Chip continue their adventure across the world, healing it one piece at a time. At the time they reached the sixth temple, however, Sonic started to notice that Chip was acting scared. As the two of them restored the sixth continent, Sonic withnessed Chip regaining his memories inside the sixth temple. With his memory restored, Sonic learned that Chip's real name was Light Gaia and that he had been fighting Dark Gaia in a continuous cycle of destruction and restoration of the planet since the dawn of time. Sonic came to the conclusion that Chip was the reason he remained the same person, even when in werehog form, but Chip revealed that it was Sonic's own will and strong heart that prevented him from succumbing to the darkness inside him. After thanking Sonic for showing him the world and his help, Chip tried to leave to stop Dark Gaia on his own, but Sonic stopped him and said that he would help his friend despite these revelations, which Chip accepted.

Sonic and Chip then arrived in Eggmanland in order to find the last temple, which was located beneath it. As they placed the final emerald in the temple and the last continent moved back into place, Sonic (in his werehog form) and Chip believed it was now over, but were then suddenly attacked by Eggman in his Egg Dragoon, in order to finish Sonic for good. After Sonic defeated Eggman at the planet's core, Dark Gaia itself appeared and knocked Eggman into the distance, before engaging Sonic and Chip. As Sonic avoided Dark Gaia's attacks and stood eye to eye with the great beast, Sonic fell faint to the ground as Dark Gaia painfully sucked the last missing fragment of its power out of him, thus curing him of his werehog condition. All weak from the energy drain, Sonic told Chip to run, but Chip called upon the Gaia Temples to form the Gaia Colossus. Sonic soon after recovered from his exhaustion and together with Chip in the Gaia Colossus, they fought Dark Gaia.

During the fight however, Dark Gaia fully matured and became Perfect Dark Gaia and prepared to cast the world into darkness. Sonic was however determined not to let Perfect Dark Gaia succeed, and harnessed the Chaos Emeralds' full power and became Super Sonic once again. Together with Chip, the heroes slayed the terrifying monster, but Super Sonic was given a tough fight and he fell unconscious in his normal form after defeating the beast. He was then returned to the surface by Chip, as he got sealed inside the planet and returned to dormancy. After landing on the surface, Sonic found himself back where he met Chip and found his necklace, which he kept as a bracelet. As he heard Chip's final goodbye, Sonic paid his respect to his friend and ran off to look for new adventures, accompanied by Tails.

Back To His 2D RootsEdit

Episode IEdit

[20]Sonic The Hedgehog in Sonic The Hedgehog 4Sonic returns in an episodic downloadable title called Sonic the Hedgehog 4 as the sole playable character; this game takes place after the events of Sonic & Knuckles and takes place before the events of Sonic Adventure. Unlike its chronological predecessor, Sonic still retains his green eyes and Homing Attack in it.

In Episode I, Sonic had just finished his adventure in Sonic & Knuckles and had managed to finally destroy the Death Egg. With this whole ordeal over, Sonic decided to take a much deserved break from his adventures. Sonic then parted with Tails and Knuckles for the time being, and ventured out on his own to explore new parts of the world. Sonic's break was cut short however, as Dr. Eggman revealed himself to be alive after their last encounter, and had returned to defeat Sonic for good with a new army of Badniks.

Sonic then began chasing and fighting Dr. Eggman while collecting Chaos Emeralds through the four main zones Splash Hill Zone, Lost Labyrinth Zone, Casino Street Zone, and Mad Gear Zone (not necessarily in that order). [21]Super Sonic EndingAt the end of this, Sonic gave a final chase to Dr. Eggman, but the doctor ascended to the sky and retreated to the E.G.G. Station Zone, a hover base built by Eggman. Sonic however jumped onto a rising rocket provided by Tails and chased after the doctor in hot pursuit. Onboard the E.G.G. Station, Sonic faced all of the past boss battle machines constructed by Eggman in past zones. After the fourth machine was destroyed, Eggman ran away to a slight depression in the floor; the mad genius then rised to reveal his new creation, a rebuild Death Egg Robot. Despite its improvements, Sonic managed to defeat it, and he escaped the now exploding base, and landed in Splash Hill where the ending played and the adventure ended for now.

Episode IIEdit

In Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II, Sonic teams up with Tails, as Dr. Eggman joins a formidable alliance with Metal Sonic.

After having defeated Dr. Eggman onboard the E.G.G Station, Sonic spent the next few months relaxing from his adventures. This relaxing period was cut short however when Sonic heard that Dr. Eggman had returned and was up to no good on the neighboring continent. Sonic then sought out Tails and two of them headed out together in the Tornado to investigate the continent and Dr. Eggman's newest scheme.

With everything said and done, Sonic and Tails soon arrived in Sylvania Castle Zone, and after a rough landing, the heroic duo began investigating the surrounding area. Along the way, Sonic and Tails saw in the sky that the Little Planet had made its annual return to Earth, but now was covered in machinery. After some time of searching, the heroic duo found Dr. Eggman, and learned that the mad doctor had planned to turn the Little Planet into a power source for his newest Death Egg: the Death Egg Mark II. After defeating Dr. Eggman's Egg Serpentleaf, Sonic and Tails began a mad chase after the doctor to stop him.

As the two of them continued to chase Dr. Eggman, the duo passed through White Park Zone, where Sonic found himself and Tails attacked by Metal Sonic, whose return from Little Planet was set up by Dr. Eggman during Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I. Despite finding his old rival more powerful than ever and determined to settle the score, Sonic and Tails managed to defeat Metal Sonic, and they continued chasing Dr. Eggman.

Sonic's and Tails' chase after Dr. Eggman eventually took them to the skies, where they followed the doctor in the Tornado. As they were about catch him however, Sonic and Tails were attacked by Dr. Eggman's Sky Fortress and pursuited by Metal Sonic in his Metal Carrier. After narrowly avoiding a barrage of missiles, Sonic and Tails made their way through the Sky Fortress with the Tornado, but were then attacked by Metal Sonic and his Metal Carrier. Sonic and Tails eventually managed to destroy the Metal Carrier however, after a tough aerial battle.

As the Sky Fortress was about to blow up, Sonic and Tails chased after Dr. Eggman though its interior, but the duo were then held back by Metal Sonic long enough for the doctor to escape in an rocket-powered escape pod. Seeing they did not have much time before the Sky Fortress exploded, Sonic and Tails searched for a way to escape. They soon found another escape pod, and used it to not only escape the Sky Fortress, but also chase after Dr. Eggman and Metal Sonic to the Death Egg MK.II.

Once onboard the Death Egg MK.II, Sonic and Tails began looking for Dr. Eggman and Metal Sonic. As they found them, the two pairs had a brief battle, which came to an end when Eggman and Metal Sonic escaped. As Sonic and Tails began chasing after them, Sonic found himself confronted by the lone Metal Sonic, who wanted a rematch with him after their last race on Stardust Speedway. Never the one to back down from a challenge, Sonic, alongside Tails, faced Metal Sonic in a clean race through the Death Egg MK.II. With Tails by his side however, Sonic once again triumphed over his metallic doppelganger, and watched as he smashed into a wall near the finish line once more.

With Metal Sonic out of the way, Sonic and Tails went to face Dr. Eggman himself. They soon found the doctor, who confronted them in the Egg Heart, but Sonic's and Tails' teamwork managed to prevail over the contraption and destroyed it. As the duo saw that the Death Egg MK.II was now beginning to crash, they managed to escape it through two escape pods. As Sonic and Tails returned home, they watched on as the Death Egg MK.II shut down and was pulled away from the Earth by the Little Planet's orbit, thus marking the end of their adventure.

A Colorful AdventureEdit

[22]Sonic and Tails alongside the WispsSonic returned as the only playable character in Sonic Colors. In this game, Dr. Eggman claimed to have developed a sense of remorse for his past misdeeds and had constructed Dr. Eggman's Incredible Interstellar Amusement Park, an amusement park made of several planets, to apologize for his actions. Sonic, however, did not believe that Eggman had turned over a new leaf, but that it was just another evil plot. So, on the day before the opening, Sonic went to the amusement park with Tails to stop what Eggman was planning.

Once there, Sonic was impressed by the scenic views, and Tails actually thought that Eggman had a change of heart. Sonic, however, assured him that Eggman was definitely up to something. While he was checking out the park, Sonic found Orbot and Cubot trying to capture two aliens with nets. Though Sonic was not sure on what was going on, he knew that he had to save those two. When he did, the cyan alien went inside Sonic and turned Sonic into a laser that zipped away. He later reached Tails, who was with the white alien he saved and was trying to build a translator so they could understand them. Sonic told Tails what happened, but Tails found it hard to believe. The white alien tried to tell them that Sonic was telling the truth, but the two could not understand him. Sonic then decided to find Eggman and figure out what he planned to do with the aliens.

While Tails was busy building the translator, Sonic went out to explore the Tropical Resort and found Eggman, who was gathering aliens. Sonic then revealed himself to the doctor and taunted him for thinking nothing could stop him, but Eggman unleashed Rotatatron to kill him. Sonic destroyed it and (unintentionally) sent a piece of it into one of the towers in the process, which was a part of a cannon. He returned to Tails, who had the translator ready (albeit with a few bugs left to work out), and Sonic asked the alien what was going on. They learned that the alien's name was Yacker and that he came from an alien race called Wisps, whom Eggman had captured. He asked Sonic to save them and Sonic accepted the request.

Sonic headed to the nearby planet to investigate and found a mysterious generator, but was then met by the giant robot guarding it. After destroying it and shutting the generator down, Sonic met Tails and Yacker and asked if Yacker had given any more information. Tails told him that Yacker said that the power Sonic was possessing from the Wisps was called Hyper-go-on power, and that Eggman, whom the Wisps called "Baldy Nosehair" (which Sonic finds hilarious), was draining them of it for an evil purpose. Sonic thanked them for the information and headed off to the next planet. As he and Tails looked for Eggman, Eggman took them by surprise and tried to brainwash them with his Mind Control Ray that ran on Hyper-go-on energy, but Sonic was saved by Tails. Unfortunately, Tails ended up brainwashed, and Eggman tried to make the two of them fight, but Sonic refused to fight his friend. Luckily, Eggman ran out of Hyper-go-on energy and Tails was freed. He warned Sonic that he would soon brainwash the entire universe and sent the local giant robot to defeat them before leaving. Sonic then boasted to Tails that he was right about Eggman and fought the robot (though half-hearted as he did not bet with Tails about Eggman).

After the battle and shutting down another generator, Sonic now knew Eggman's plan, but not how to stop it. He learned from Tails and Yacker that Eggman captured the Wisp's planets with tractor beams that held them above Sonic's world, so if Sonic could destroy their generators, the planets would be free and Eggman would be cut off from his Hyper-go-on energy source. Having already broken two of without knowing, Sonic headed out to destroy the remaining three.

When arriving at Planet Wisp, Sonic was disgusted to see how Eggman transformed the beautiful planet and how he used the Wisps as fuel and promised the inhabitants to free them. He soon found the planet's generator and the robot protecting it. After a difficult battle Sonic defeated it, but was caught talking to its remains by Tails and was left pretty embarrassed.

Sonic and Tails continued to Aquarium Park where Sonic fought Admiral Jelly and destroyed it, thus freeing another planet. The two then went to the Asteroid Coaster where they worked their way into the main center where all of the Wisps were made evil by turning them into "Nega Wisps". Upon this sight, Sonic got surprisingly serious and asked Tails to excuse him while he looked for the next generator. Sonic then fought the Frigate Skullian and broke the last generator and the factory, thus freeing all of the planets and Wisps. They all then celebrated at Tropical Resort with Sonic break-dancing, thinking it was all over.

Unfortunately for Sonic, Eggman was ready to launch his mind-control weapon on the world, but the broken robot piece from Rotatatron that was unintentionally struck there by Sonic, caused the whole cannon to explode. As the park began to collapse, Sonic and Tails headed to Eggman's space elevator to get back home. When they arrived there, Eggman showed up in the Egg Nega Wisp, determined to kill Sonic, but Sonic merely taunted Eggman for his attempt to be threatening. Tails told Sonic that that he did not think they could beat Eggman's mech, so Sonic decided to fight Eggman alone and he pushed Tails into the elevator for his safety and launched him back home. After an intense fight, Sonic managed to defeat Eggman with the help of the Wisps and their special Final Color Blaster. Unfortunately, the destruction of the cannon created a black hole, one that even Sonic was unable to outrun. As he was caught in the explosion, Sonic fell unconscious, but woke up to find the Wisps gathered around him and they carried him back to his planet, and as well stopping the black hole. As Sonic got up, he noticed that he was back home and was met by Tails. Yacker then appeared and thanked them. but told them that he had to go home. Sonic and Tails exchanged some high-fives with Yacker, who went back to Planet Wisp, and sent the other planets back to their original place in the universe.

Déjà Blue: Having a Blast with His Past!Edit

[23]Modern Sonic and Classic SonicIn Sonic Generations, which marked the 20th anniversary of the series, the Sonic of the present, named Modern Sonic, teamed up with his younger self from the past, named Classic Sonic, as a new foe called the Time Eater appeared and began interfering with Sonic's history.

In the past of Green Hill, Classic Sonic was exploring when he heard a noise. Suddenly, the Time Eater appeared in the sky and Classic Sonic noticed it as everything turned white. In the present day, a while after Sonic's battle with Dr. Eggman in Dr. Eggman's Incredible Interstellar Amusement Park, Modern Sonic arrived at a picnic with Tails and all his friends, and wondered what was going on. Then suddenly, they yelled "surprise" and revealed that they had made a surprise birthday party for Modern Sonic, who was delighted by the gesture and happily joined. After talking with Tails, Tails gave him a birthday Chili Dog, which Modern Sonic found delicious.

Suddenly, the Time Eater appeared at the party and blew everything away, including Modern Sonic's Chili Dog, much to his dismay. It then proceeded to suck all of Sonic's friends through time holes, back into different periods in Sonic's history. Modern Sonic tried to attack, but was easily knocked back and passed out. He later woke up in a White Space and wondered what's going on, but saw some white figures in the distance and decided to check it out.

Once there, Modern Sonic found Tails and Green Hill in a colorless, frozen state, but after passing through Green Hill, Modern Sonic restored Tails and the area to life. Modern Sonic wondered how Green Hill looked so familiar, but while Tails was curious about this phenomenon, Modern Sonic was more interested in finding their friends. Modern Sonic then quickly set off to check the colorless Chemical Plant out, but a few seconds later, Classic Sonic appeared and Tails mistook him for Modern Sonic, but simply passed through.

As Modern Sonic (with the unknown help of Classic Sonic) restores Chemical Plant, he saw Tails coming, who told Modern Sonic how Chemical Plant felt familiar. Modern Sonic agreed to that and told Tails that he felt that he was experiencing déjà-vu. Both Sonics then proceeded through the White Space and restored more areas, along with more of their friends, each unaware of the other's presence.

Both Sonics later proceeded through a Boss Gate at the same time and found a glass with their counterpart at the other side of it. Both Sonics however, mistook it for a mirror, along with his younger/older form as his reflection. While looking at themself, the Sonics noticed how their reflection's belly was different and got suspicious. The two then heard Dr. Eggman's voice through a door with Modern Sonic shouting his name. Classic Sonic looked at his older self through the glass and realized that it was not his reflection. While Modern Sonic was unimpressed by Dr. Eggman's threats, Classic Sonic ran towards Eggman's voice while Modern Sonic was surprised to see that his "reflection" was actually another "Sonic". Modern Sonic tried to follow Classic Sonic, but was locked out of the battle.

After Classic Sonic destroyed the Death Egg Robot, he saw the same monster that appeared at Green Hill, which kidnapped that time's Dr. Eggman. Modern Sonic later saw Classic Sonic exit the battle and wondered why there was two of him. Tails, who had also met his younger self, realized the answer and told the Sonics that they were traveling through time and space. Modern Sonic asked what could do this and the two Tails' thought the Time Eater was responsible. The two Sonics then decided to team up and stop the Time Eater.

The two Sonics continued through the White Space, restoring the areas and their friends, one by one. After a while, the Sonics learned from the Tails' that the Time Eater's actions ripped space and time apart, and damaged the world, by sending damaged areas from different times to the White Space. The Sonics also realized that their speed was the key to restoring the space and the timeline.

After Modern Sonic defeated Perfect Chaos, they witnessed the Time Eater being repelled by a Chaos Emerald and they decided to collect all seven emeralds by restoring more space. Despite the tasks lying ahead of them, both Sonics were thrilled by the adventure. As they finished restoring the areas and their friends, one of the Chaos Emeralds appeared, and both Sonics race after it. Modern Sonic however, due to being more experienced, got the emerald first by using a Sonic Boost, and Classic Sonic was amazed by that move. After Modern Sonic beat the Egg Dragoon with Eggman inside, Modern Sonic taunted Eggman, who was sure to win this time, and told his past self how he always defeated him. However, the Time Eater strangely came by again and kidnapped Dr. Eggman once more, leaving the group more confused.

The Sonics eventually obtained all seven Chaos Emeralds and confronted the Time Eater in the Center of Time. As Modern Sonic told it to give up, Dr. Eggman revealed himself as the one controling the Time Eater, much to Modern Sonic's disappointment. Suddenly Dr. Eggman past self, Classic Eggman, revealed himself as being in league with Modern Eggman, and Modern Eggman explained that he planned to use the Time Eater to erase Sonic from the timeline so that he would be victorious in the present. Modern Sonic however, remained unconcerned as he always beat Eggman and now had another of himself to support him. The two Sonics then tried to fight them, but they got knocked out by the Time Eater. As the Sonics were passed out, they got support from all of their friends, allowing the Chaos Emeralds to activate. The two Sonics then awoke, determined to put the fight to an end and transformed into their Super States. The two then defeated the Eggmans, their robot and their plan, and returned back with their friends to where Modern Sonic's birthday party left off.

During the party, Modern Sonic thanked Classic Sonic for his help and hoped that he learned a few tricks, and Classic Sonic replied by demonstrating one of Modern Sonic's newer abilities, the Sonic Boost, but slightly failed to keep up. Sonic clapped for his younger self, saying that he would get better. As Classic Sonic and Classic Tails headed back to their time, they shared a few high fives and Modern Sonic told Classic Sonic that he had a great future ahead of him.

Other Game AppearancesEdit

Sonic has also been featured in games of many genres other than 2D and 3D platform games. The first of these was a pinball game, Sonic Spinball (1993), which expanded upon the pinball sequences in the first two platform games. Sonic has also appeared in "2.5D" isometric platformers (Sonic Labyrinth, Sonic Battle and Sonic 3D Blast), racing games (Sonic Drift, Sonic Drift 2, Sonic R, Sonic Riders, Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, Sonic Free Riders, and Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing.) and fighting games (Sonic the Fighters, Sonic Battle, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl). He also teamed up with his video game rival, Mario, for the first time in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. They would also get together again in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

CameosEdit

Main article: Sonic Cameos

Video games such as Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Tails Adventure, Knuckles Chaotix and Shadow the Hedgehog starred supporting characters of the Sonic series; in some of them Sonic had a cameo role. The hedgehog has also made cameo appearances in numerous other Sega games such as Daytona USA.

Personality

Sonic has been described as being "like the wind"; a drifter that is always on the move and is noted for being free-spirited and adventurous. He values freedom above all else, living his life according to his own rules, rather than the standards of those around him, and enjoys nothing more than traveling across the endless boundaries of the world while searching for new adventure. With a strong passion for enjoying life, Sonic is never dwelling in one place for too long and is always moving forward to look for new experiences, making his life a series of adventures and events, while enjoying his freedom.

He mainly prefers to simply be called by his name and not any fancy title; in his encounters with Luna the Hedgehog, Princess Elise and Cream the Rabbit (the three called him "Mr. Sonic"), Cammie Stewart (who called him "Stickers"), Shahra the Ring Genie (who called him "Master"), Caliburn (who called him "Knave", though Sonic was especially annoyed by this), and Erazor Djinn (who kept calling him "Filthy rat"), he insisted that they merely call him "Sonic".

Sonic is mostly laid-back, cool and enjoys relaxation, though he is often impatient with slower things, and firmly stands for freedom, but he is never one to rest in the face of injustice or oppression. He hates evil in all its forms and can easily be riled up about it; if he witnesses someone being opressed, are suffering from injustice or are simply depressed or despairs due to others' actions he will not show a moment of hesitation and will instantly step in to help those in need, even if it means that his actions will be met with contempt, as stated in Sonic and the Black Knight.

Voice Actors

The earliest voice of Sonic was Takeshi Kusao in the game SegaSonic the Hedgehog, a June 1993 arcade release starring Sonic the Hedgehog, Mighty the Armadillo, and Ray the Flying Squirrel.

In Sonic CD, Sonic actually had a few voice clips, who was voiced by Keiko Utoku at the time, in which he would say, among other things, "I'm outta here!" if the player stood still for 3 minutes, and "Yes!" if the player obtained a 1-up. This was also the first and only time Sonic had been voiced by a female actor.

The original American voice actor was Jaleel White, in Sonic the Hedgehog: The Animated Series (SatAM as known to fans). In Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie, Sonic's voice was played by Martin Burke.

Starting with the 1998 game Sonic Adventure, all of Sonic's video games feature voice acting. Sonic was played by Junichi Kanemaru, who later went on to play Sonic in the Japanese version of Sonic X. Ryan Drummond performed the role of Sonic in Sonic Adventure and continued to play the role for several games. Information taken from the credits of both Sonic Adventure games, the Sonic Advance series, and Sonic Heroes. 4Kids Entertainment decided not to use Drummond's voice in their US/UK dub of Sonic X, instead choosing their own Jason Griffith. Despite this, Drummond continued to provide the voice of Sonic in the series until 2005, when Sega replaced all their Sonic voice actors with their 4Kids counterparts, in order to keep his voice the same in all media forms. Effectively, this meant that beginning with Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic Rush, Jason Griffith became the official game voice actor for Sonic the Hedgehog, Klonoa the Hedgehog and Shadow the Hedgehog (and Jet the Hawk in Sonic Riders). This has been a controversial decision among fans of the Sonic Adventure voice cast.

As from 2010, SEGA  had announced that they have changed the whole cast of the active characters of the franchise (sans Eggman, Natalie, Choro, Spencer, Lilly, Larry, Odie, Brook, Nikki, Wendy, Lolo and Popka), replacing Griffith with Roger Craig Smith.

Abilities

Speed

Sonic is known best for his speed, with the ability to run at speeds greater than Mach 1, which is at the blistering speed of 768 miles per hour. This is evident in many games, where Sonic is recorded to run at speeds faster than 765 mph. In Sonic Unleashed, the checkpoint posts (Star Posts) also act as radars that clock Sonic's speed when he passes them. Due to the fact that his speed increases the longer he's boosting, it's possible for the checkpoint posts to show Sonic's max speed in-game, being able to clock him going at over 2,500 mph. It is also stated in the Sonic Adventure DX manual that "He's the world's fastest, hypersonic hedgehog" which is at a staggering speed ranging from 3,840 mph to 7,680 mph. He is occasionally referred to as "the fastest thing alive," and can run backwards at full speed just as well as forwards, as shown in the Team Sonic opening cut-scene of Sonic Heroes. Due to such speed, he is able to scale right up the walls of buildings, or similar structures, and can also run right over water.

Transformations

Super Sonic

By using all seven Chaos Emeralds, Sonic can enter a Super State, transforming him into Super Sonic. This is by far Sonic's most frequently used transformation. In this state he can fly, is faster, stronger and nearly invincible. He does, however, need rings to maintain this transformation or else he will revert to normal.

Hyper Sonic

In Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles, Sonic also possesses an extended and more powerful form of Super Sonic, called Hyper Sonic, which he can assume with the seven Super Emeralds. This form basically shares the same powers and traits as Super Sonic, but they are all upgraded and are more powerful than Super Sonic's. Hyper Sonic also makes a reappearance in Sonic Dimensions. While Sonic is tied up in chains, the seven chaos emeralds and Nimbus' powers transforms Sonic into Hyper Sonic so he can defeat Nazo.

Friends

• Lou the Hedgehog (Twin Sister)

• Klonoa the Hedgehog (Adopted Brother)

• Abby The Hedgehog (Adopted Sister)

• Cici The Hedgehog (Cousin)

• Sandy the Hedgehog (Little Sister)
• Choro the Ottsel (Childhood Friend, Partner)

• Miles "Tails" Prower (Best Friend, Close as Brothers)

• Amy Rose (Self-Proclaim Girlfriend)

• Knuckles the Echidna (Best Friend and Rival)
• Shadow the Hedgehog (Look-a-like and Arch-Rival)
• Blaze the Cat (Close Friend and Partner in Combat)
• Rouge the Bat
• Vector the Crocodile
• Espio the Chameleon
• Charmy Bee
• Silver the Hedgehog (Friendly Rival)

• Cream the Rabbit
• Cheese the Chao
• Vanilla the Rabbit
• Big the Cat
• E-123 Omega

• Lizzy the Hedgehog

• Cammie Stewart (Great Friend)

• Sammy Nooken (Great Friend)

• Rocky the Rat (Kinda like a Friend)

• Brook Taylor

• Nikki Roberts (Love Interesst)

• John Gibson

• Wendy Laser
• Harry Taylor
• Mia Flick

• Jur the Hedgehog (Childhood Friend)
• Tabitha the Cat (Childhood Friend and Ex-Girlfriend)
• Oliver the Fox
• Charles the Squirrel (Childhood Friend)
• Lewbert the Echidna (Childhood Friend)
• Spencer the Bird

• Odie the Hedgehog (Childhood Friend)

• Carrie the Rabbit (Childhood Friend)

• Macy the Hedgehog

• Scamper the Hedgehog

• Boomer the Cat

• Gail the Echidna

• Larry the Hedgehog

• Lilly the Hedgehog

• Eve the Fox

• Dana Solo

• Lolo the Lion (Great Friend)

• Popka the Dog (Great Friend)
• Emil Castagnier

• Marta Lualdi (Childhood Friend)
• Clark Woodwind

• Luna the Hedgehog (Cheers her up)

• Finn the Wolf

• Emily the Seedrian
• Courtney the Hedgehog
• Sue the Hedgehog
• King Erican the Hedgehog (Father)
• Queen Samantha the Hedgehog (Ghost Mother)
• April the Monkey
• Dean the Rabbit
• Fern the Mouse
• Barry the Cat
• Rachel Rose
• Julliane the Fox
• Kate the Fox
• Earl the Fox
• Princess Amelia
• Princess Elise
• Velma
• Werehog Ash Ketchum
• Marcos the Werehog
• Jill the Werehog
• Stu the Werehog
• Marvin the Werehog
• Daniel the Werehog
• Ariel the Werehog
• Maggie the Werehog
• Mimi Lovely
• Angie
• Veronica
• Byran
• Commander Brute Lualdi
• Elishia
• Christe
• Vivian
• Avery
• Princess Holly
• Sir Wendall
• Anjean
• Princess Nikotia
• Shade the Echidna
• Chip (Great Friend)
• Yacker
• Wisps

Rivals

• Tabitha the Cat (Friendly Rivalry and Ex-Girlfriend)

• Brook Taylor (Friendly Rivalry)

• Natalie the Hedgehog (Beacause of turning Half Good and Half Evil)

• Shadow the Hedgehog (Arch-rival)
• Knuckles the Echidna (Old Rival)
• Silver the Hedgehog (Initially)

• Jet the Hawk
• Metal Sonic
• Mario (Friendly Rival)
• Rouge the Bat (Friendly Rival)

Enemies

• Dr. Eggman (Arch-Enemy)
• Natalie the Hedgehog (Sometimes)
• Metal Sonic (Robotic Doppelganger)
• Eggman Nega
• Shadow the Hedgehog (Sometimes)
• Silver Sonic
• Mecha Sonic
• Pir'Oth Ix
• Shade the Echidna (Former)
• Chaos (Former)
• Arjar
• Dark Gaia
• King Arthur
• Dark Queen
• Erazor Djinn

• Bailey the Dark Wizard

• Richter Abend (Former)

Love Interests

• Piper (First Crush, deceased)
• Nikki Roberts (Love Interest, then Girlfriend, then Wife)
• Tabitha the Cat (Ex-Girlfriend)
• Amy Rose (Self-Proclaimed Girlfriend)
• Carrie the Rabbit (First Kissed)
• Lolo the Lion (Friends with Benefits)
• Princess Elise (Kissed)
• Luna the Hedgehog (Kissed)
• Fern the Mouse (Being flirted)

Alias

• The Blue Blur
• Speed Demon
• True Blue
• Hero
• The Iblis Trigger (By Silver)
• Big Blue
• Blue Hedgehog
• Blue Boy
• The Blue One
• The Fastest Thing Alive
• The World's Fastest Hedgehog
• The Legendary Blue Hedgehog
• Faker (By Shadow)
• Fake hedgehog (By Shadow)
• Mr. Sonic (By Elise, Luna and Cream)
• Knave the Hedgehog (By Caliburn and Lancelot)
• Knave (By Caliburn)
• Sir Knight (By the Blacksmith)
• Sir Sonic, Knight of the Wind
• Blue rat (By Erazor Djinn)
• Big Brother (By Abby)
• Idiot (By Tabitha)
• Dude (By Odie)
• Stickers (By Cammie)
• Mark (By Saranoia by mistake)
• Big Bro (By Klonoa)
• Glasses Boy (By April)
• Soul (By Cammie, Sammy, Rocky, The High Pristess, Lolo, Popka, Leorina and Tat)

Gallery

Super Sonic Form

Freeze Sonic Form

Love Sonic Form

Ratatosk Sonic Form

Darkspine Sonic Form

Excalibur Sonic Form

Dark Sonic Form

Dark Ratatosk Sonic Form

Sonic is in hurt and in pain

Sonic gives Nikki a rose

Sonic saves Luna

Sonic in his werehog form

Sonic gets handcuffed in werehog form

Sonic with Knuckles and Emily

Sonic is cheering up Nikki

Dark Ratatosk Sonic screaming in pain trying to get back to normal

Sonic with his glasses on only in Sonic X and Sonic X: New Adventure (Note: Sonic does not wear glasses, but in my version of Sonic X, he does, he was just 10 years old when he first wear glasses)

Sonic when he was 10 years old

Sonic and Elise

Sonic's Werehog transformation with a tear goes down his cheek

Sonic holding his mother's sword

Sonic and Tails did it

Sonic

Amy tackle hugs Sonic

Sonic is with Amy

Sonic jumping

Dark Ratatosk Sonic looking at Lou as tears begin to streak

Dark Sonic's first appearance

Sonic's tears coming to form

Sonic is confused

Sonic looking at the stars

Sonic, with tears, is being comfort by Shadow

Sonic not wearing anything from Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) through SONIC

Sonic wearing circus clothes in Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (2014)-present)

Sonic wearing a coat in Sonic the Hedgehog (2016)

Sonic when he was a baby

Sonic almost as Dark Ratatosk Sonic with tears streaking down his cheeks in Sonic the Hedgehog (2016)

Sonic in his school uniform when he was 10

Sonic in his Riders outfit

Sonic having his tears run down his face

Sonic's Marshall Ball outfit

Sonic in sprite

Sonic now Kind of Mobius in the future

Sonic is shocked

Sonic being hugged by Lou with tears streaking down his face

Sonic kissing Nikki

Sonic and Tails rescued Elise

Sonic carrying Elise

Modern and Classic Sonic

Sonic and Tails are lost

Sonic in the live action movie SONIC

Sonic and Dana

Young Sonic is scared and crying

Trivia

• Sonic has never appeared in Luna the Hedgehog, Cammie Unleashed and Lizzy and Jur Unleashed.
• Sonic the Hedgehog: Light through Darkness marks the second time Sonic is kissed, the first being Sonic 06.
• Sonic the Hedgehog: Light through Darkness is also the first game Sonic blushes in.
• Sonic the Hedgehog: Light through Darkness is also the first game Sonic cries since his childhood.