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Chapter Contents
Chapter One – The Enigma
Chapter Two – Figment of Imagination
Chapter Three – Murals 'R' Us
Chapter Four – The Robotropolis Trebuchet Society
Chapter Five – The Restoration
Chapter Six – Best Friends
Chapter Seven – The Justice League
Chapter Eight – The Fabled Blue Flames
Chapter Nine – The Sorcerer Supreme
Chapter Ten – The Black Tie Scandal
Chapter Eleven – Double Trouble
Chapter Twelve – Shell Rot
Chapter Thirteen – The Cure
Chapter Fourteen – Wedding Bell Blues
Chapter Fifteen – Evil Returns
Chapter Sixteen – Inter-dimensional Portals
Chapter Seventeen – The Gateway
Chapter One – The Enigma
In his own dimension, Sukko The Hedgehog was the King of Stealth. Always and if his friends or even his own family didn't remember that fact, then so be it. Even if it was by design. During the early years when Sonikku, his identical twin the famous Blue Blur, permanently left the family home to fight Eggman, Sukko would get lonely and occasionally organise secret meetings between himself and the brother's friends. None of these would be remembered, including Sonikku, certainly in the beginning but the Sorcerer always recalled.
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Sukko had never planned to be a father at such a young age. He'd always wanted kids but just not when he had them. In fact, it was a incredible dangerous thing to do. He was the identical twin brother of the most famous person on Mobius. The Blue Blur, Sonic The Hedgehog or Sonikku to him. Unfortunately, as the hero's family, they were on Eggman's number one hit list. Anything to break to Sonikku and slaughtering his own kin would do it and having his relations breeding behind his back wasn't going to help matters. As a result, the family lived in deep hiding, including Sukko but being young and stupid that didn't seem to matter to the powerful Sorcerer.
Tails's birthday was coming and the Fox only wanted a very special person to attend. He was a young cub with a unique mutation of two tails instead of one. He had mostly yellow-orange fur with white fur around his muzzle, front torso, and the tips of his tails. He had blue eyes. He wore white gloves and red shoes with white toes.
Unfortunately, that wasn't guaranteed. He also wanted to go ice skating. A simple request and thankfully the rink was open on that day. However, two weeks before, there was a full meeting at his house. Everyone was there as he was finally asked by Sonikku what he wanted for his birthday. To the Blue Blur's complete and utter surprise and he just answered him back on the quiet.
“Is Uncle Sukko was going to be there?”
Sonikku stared. His long, beautifully manicured royal blue quills flowing down his head and back, shimmering in the electric light, his blue fur clean. His long legs stood strong, his cherry red shoes with the famous red stripe shining. His white gloved hands were by his side, as his clenched with anger, his bright green eyes sparkling. He'd told Tails of his twin brother years ago but hadn't really mentioned it since. The twins had initially raised Tails together but then Sukko qualified as a doctor and left Sonikku to it. Sukko had recently become a Emergency Room doctor in a hospital and his time was precious outside of work, whenever he got it. Sonikku himself hadn't seen his brother himself for a while. Several months, in fact.
Knuckles gasped. He didn't know that the Blue Blur had family but never actually met them. Stripes also stared. The Ultimate Lifeform's large sleek black body lengthened, as he outstretched his white gloved fingers, and twisting his wrists, his gold Inhibitors Rings upon them, shining. His long red stripes down both his arms and legs, glistened in the fake light from above, and his black upturned quills with their magnificent red stripes, on his head and flowing down his back behind him. His white chest fur looking somewhat rough. He gained a lot of weight over the recent years, in pure muscle, and even though Sonikku was taller then him now, the Stripes was still boarder.
The Black Hedgehog immediately knew the name. It was unusual and had been labeled to someone the Ultimate Lifeform had been after. He'd been chasing a so-called Sorcerer for years. A black cloaked figure which had been the thorn in G.U.N.'s side. He had Chaos Sorcery, Magic and G.U.N. very much wanted him gone. Sukko may have been a doctor, but off work, he was the King of Stealth and loved winding G.U.N. up.
Now, finally realising the potential truth, Stripes was unimpressed and very much wanted to meet Sukko for himself. Unfortunately, Chaos Sorcery was illegal so that was why Sonikku kept Sukko largely to himself. He knew his brother wouldn't want his friends pestering him while working as it would cost lives. Tails only wanted Sukko for his birthday, he didn't want anything else. Nothing more was said but Sonikku was struggling. Sukko's working rota was not allowing him the time off and Sonikku was left pleading with the hospital to release his brother. The Sorcerer sighed.
“Sonikku, it's not up to me. You'll have to talk to Frank.”
Frank was the chief commissioner of the hospital and Sukko's boss and he wasn't budging on the issue. The Blue Hedgehog was his best doctor, he was desperately needed. Sonikku understood this but was very upset to let his buddy Tails down. Sukko rolled his eyes.
“Look, I'll work something out.”
On the day of his birthday itself at the ice rink, everyone was there but no Sukko. Sonikku apologised, saying they desperately tried but suddenly, a second Blue Hedgehog appears out of nowhere to an enormous hug from Tails.
He made it.
He stood there in his skates in his absolutely identical twin glory. A stunning royal Blue Hedgehog looking and smelling fantastic. He had large emerald-green eyes, peach muzzle and belly and a nice smile. Long Blue quills ran down his head and back. He wore knee high dark brown and beige patterned leather boots, with no socks and grey soles. He had a pair of white gloves with silver bracelets, over the thin cuffs on his hands. Falling off his shoulders was a long black coat, clearly showing tattoos underneath. He was broader and heavier then Sonikku, and his muscles could clearly be seen across his chest. He put the Blue Blur to serious shame.
Unfortunately, Sonikku wasn't convinced that Sukko had followed the rules and then wasn't surprised when he'd learned that he hadn't. He used his powerful Magic as Telepathy on the hospital, especially Frank, to get the time off he needed. Sonikku knew he'd pay for that later but seeing the huge smile on the Fox's face made it all worth while.
Then they had fun as the twins got super competitive. Sonikku wasn't a bad skater but Sukko was superb and Tails spent the whole day glued to the Hedgehog's side. Everyone was stunned but neither Tails or Sukko cared and soon, the Sorcerer was throwing Illusions all the around the ice rink. Bright blue images appeared everywhere. As the day wore one, suddenly there hear a baby cry.
Sonikku stopped.
“What the...?”
He was stunned as Sukko revealed his new baby son, Max, a beautiful deep purple Hedgehog with emerald-green eyes and his twin sister, Sapphire, a navy blue girl, next to him. His wife Martha was terminally ill even before he married her. She had three years left to live and choose Sukko to make them the best ever, which as a Sorcerer he could do. Then she said she wanted a baby, knowing she wouldn't survive the birth. She was too weak. However, knowing the risks, she did it anyway and Sukko who loved her, agreed. The pregnancy was hard work but the twins Max and Sapphire were born perfectly healthy but unfortunately Martha died.
That was only three months ago.
Sonikku immediately cooed over the babies. He went very gooey.
“Suki, you had kids? Why didn't you tell me.”
Sukko shrugged as he sighed. He was very good at hiding both the joy and huge grief in his eyes. He was utterly devoted himself to his children, despite being desperately young himself. Both Sonikku and Tails completely fell for the baby twins. In fact, everyone did. However, at that very moment, Stripes was left very conflicted. To tell G.U.N. about Sukko would rip Sonikku's family apart and seeing them being so generous with their time and powers just to save lives, he realised he just couldn't do it. Especially when Sukko personally apologised to Stripes for messing him about for years but becoming a father had changed him.
Unfortunately, Sonikku was sterile. Only Sukko could breed. However, they were identical twins with only a hundred D.N.A. markers telling them apart. No one would know the difference, which Sukko noticed could be a problem later. What if his kids get mistaken for his twin's? A paternity test wouldn't be able to tell the difference. It would say positive for both of them. That was when Sukko decided this was the last time he'd show off his children. They were going into hiding. If Eggman found them, he'd kill them.
The party was a success as Tails becomes an uncle but he doesn't remember as Sukko wiped everyone's memories of both himself and the his children's existence. He kept the Fox still knowing about him. That was vital for the scheme to work as Tails could control the information but remove his knowledge of his kids. On the front line against Eggman, he didn't need to know. The Sorcerer hated doing it but he didn't have a choice. Revealing intimate details about his life was possible but it couldn't stay. The Blue Blur's friends couldn't remember him or his children. He successfully pushed Sonikku into forget about the babies. They were none of his concern. It worked but unfortunately, it didn't stop the dangers.
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A few years later and recalling nothing, Tails was minding his own business in his house. Then out of nowhere, he was startled by something small, prickly, bright purple and very fast. When his friends eventually arrived, Stripes, Rouge, Amy, and Knuckles, the hunt was on to find the creature. It is extremely nimble as it runs rings around all of them. Rouge frowned.
“What is that?”
It was cornered under the sofa and looking in, a pair of deep emerald-green eyes are looking back. Working together, it took an intense burst of speed from Stripes to catch the creature. To everyone's surprise, it's a toddler Hedgehog. A baby.
A boy about two years old, just out of diapers. Super-hyperactive and extremely giggly. Stripes holds him at arms length as the boy starts licking him to death. He was very cute. Rouge goes gooey over him but Amy goes nuts. Stripes immediately works out why. He can smell Sonikku on the boy. They all can. It meant only one thing. The Blue Blur was the father. They are all stunned. Stripes frowned.
“When did that happen? Sonic gave no indication that he'd met a girl and had a child. The boy definitely isn't Amy's so who was the mother and what was the Blue Blur doing with her?”
Amy felt so betrayed. It was so out-of-character for Sonikku that Tails wasn't convinced, still not making the connection to the truth. So he pulled a quill from the baby boy and runs a D.N.A. test. He gasped at the results.
“It's comes back as positive for Sonic as the father.”
There was utter silence. Stripes frowned.
“What?”
At this point, the Ultimate Lifeform didn't know about Sukko and hadn't made any moves towards the Sorcerer yet. However, deep in the back of his mind, he just a strong feeling something was indeed going on but he didn't have any proof. Then Tails saw the really truth in the results as he read more. He blinked.
“There's also positive result for I.T.M.s (Identical Twin Markers) on the father's D.N.A..”
What? Twins? Identical?
Then finally, he worked out the truth. His Uncle Sukko was the father. He swore but before he could do anything, the Blue Blur himself burst into the room, looking extremely pale. He gratefully grabbed the baby Hedgehog from Stripes, whom he calls Max and promptly vanished. Tails was temporally forgetting about Sukko's existence with the constant memory wipes and therefore finding out every time was always a minor revelation for him. He knew the truth but it was never his first thought. The Blue Blur didn't really care. If his friends found out about his brother then so be it, however, they never seemed to remember afterwards and this repeated, constantly. That was the way of things and he just shrugged it off. He trusted Sukko completely. Doing whatever was needed to protect the family, so long as his friends didn't get hurt. Doing a little memory wiping rarely did that.
However, Sonikku was now seriously worried that something had happened. Soon his friends are chasing after him as he ran from the house. When they finally caught up with him, Knuckles challenged him. The Blue Blur himself, however was in an absolute mess. The Echidna growled, grabbing him.
“What's going on?”
Panting hard, he nodded. He knew the truth was only way now he was going to get any help.
“They're my brother's kids.”
Unfortunately, Amy exploded.
“Kids? But the D.N.A. test said you were the boy's father.”
Sonikku growled.
“Wait, you did a paternity test without permission?” He then rounded on his best friend as his temper exploded. “Tails?”
The Fox whimpered.
“Yes, I'm sorry, I forgot about Sukko. Please forgive me.”
Knuckles then frowned.
“Who?”
Then Sonikku sighed as he calmed down.
“He's my brother. We're twins, identical. A paternity test can't tell the difference. But I swear the kids are his.” There was silence as he continued with the story. “I'd been watching my nephew while his brother was working, along with his twin sister. I regularly do it as the mother had died in childbirth. Today had started fine, nothing unusual. I went to my brother's place to pick the twins up before my brother headed to work. Fighting Eggman didn't pay the bills so Sukko works as a doctor to pay for the family. I'm so extremely grateful. Then Eggman attacked and caught both of us off guard. Sukko was kidnapped and Max was let loose, running off. I was able to keep ahold of the girl, Sapphire but I just panicked. I've left her in a safe place but I unable to save both my brother and my nephew at the same time so I choose the boy. After hours of searching, I finally tracked the boy to Tails' House. Relieved but not that surprised. My scent was strong there and familiar to Max even if the house isn't. However, I am impressed that Shadow even had caught him. Desperate, I grabbed the boy and got out. I have a brother to save. He can take care of himself but I'm worried. I can't find him anywhere.”
Sonikku was looking around. Then suddenly Rouge grabbed him.
“Hey, calm down. One step at a time. Where's the girl?”
With her brother was still on his arms. Sonikku blinked and then nodded.
“Stay here.”
Immediately, he disappeared. Within minutes, the Blue Blur was back with a small navy blue sleeping toddler in his arm. Max was in the other. The twins were fine. He looked at Rouge as she nodded, approving. The kids were actually beautiful. Knuckles's eyes switched between the kids and his uncle. The Echidna had red fur that covered most of his body, peach skin on his muzzle, a white crescent-shaped patch of fur on his chest, and purple eyes. He had seven dreadlock-like spines around the sides and back of his head and a medium-sized, tri-crooked tail. He wore red and yellow shoes, each with green cuffs and a grey, sextuple-bolted plate on top. He wore large, white, mitten-like gloves with sock-like cuffs and two spiked knuckles on each hand. Then he just pushed all of his confusion out of the window and get down to business. He sighed.
“Now where's your brother?”
Sonikku nodded.
“Sukko has had been working a lot in Westopolis recently. I was joining him on route this morning. However, as we passed close to Eggman's territory, we got jumped.”
The city was close to both the Human's home and Tails' House. Sonikku on purposely avoided the reason why they were attacked.
The truth.
The Human had just invented means of corrupting a Sorcerer and if he successfully turned Sukko, it would mean the end of them all.
On the edge of Eggman's territory, soon it was agreed. The girls, Amy and Rouge will stay behind with Max and Sapphire and the boys, Sonikku, Tails, Stripes and Knuckles all go in and get Sukko out. Deep inside the one of the base's, the Sorcerer was in a mess. Chained to a wall and heavily drugged. Barely conscious, he couldn't activate any of his Magic, his brain was just mush. Eggman was laughing. His Corruption Machine complete and Sukko was heading straight for it. Unable to break free, he was done for.
Then Sonikku friends found him. Knuckles swore as he turned to the Blue Blur.
“Whoa, you really are identical. I though you were just messing with me.”
The Blue Blur nodded but he whimpered. Stripes grabbed his shoulder as he nodded.
“No, none of that.” He hissed. “Follow me.”
Then the high-speed antics of incredible speedsters caught Eggman completely off guard as Sonikku and Stripes completely destroyed the Corruption Machine. The Ultimate Lifeform doesn't ask questions but he had suspicions. However, this was family and therefore, he decided to drop it. Tails and Knuckles successfully break Sukko from his chains. Unable to walk, Knuckles carried Sukko and they all fled. Unfortunately, Eggman was after them and fast. Soon they are cornered. They fight back but are unable to break through. Sukko now waking up from the drugs and felt his Magic bubbling. Then he used it to completely disintegrate all of Eggman's robots and then punches a hole through wall behind them to get out. This high-level casting promptly but thankfully, only temporally knocked Sukko out as they all return to Tails' House. Soon and several days later, father and his children are reunited. Sukko just cuddled them. He sighed. That was far too close. He looked up at everyone.
“Thank you so much.”
He then stayed for a few days but as Sukko left, he casted an enormous memory cast. Nobody in Tails' House remembered, not even the Magic casting. He was still able to block that but Sukko knew it wouldn't last. Unfortunately, the Sorcerer was very angry at Eggman. How did he find out about him? He growled. Then he dived for the Human's mind and unable to wipe telepathically, due to it's high-level complexity, he physically burned all the memories of himself out of him. It worked but Sukko knew he'd only be able to do it once. If Eggman learned about him again, there was nothing he could do about it. If he repeated the process, he'd risk killing the Human and that was never on the cards. Sonikku wasn't a killer and neither was the Sorcerer.
However, with this memory wipe cast, the Blue Blur doesn't remember either. Sukko physically can't wipe is twin brother's memory, the Psychic Link prevents it but he used powerful Magic on his the Blue Blur and implanted false memories causing Sonikku to 'forget' about his twin being a father. Considering that the Blue Blur constantly lives for the moment so it was relatively straightforwards to do. Sukko sighed. His brother wasn't ready to know yet. He was just far too bouncy, immature and talkative to keep the knowledge of the children to himself but the Sorcerer knew he'd have to tell him someday.
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Every year, Tails loved to surprise Sonikku with a party on his birthday. However, keeping said party secret from the Blue Blur was always impossible. He knew but was always humble about it. So one year, Tails was determined to keep it a total secret, with a lot of back handed wheeling and dealings. Nothing illegal. Fortunately, it worked. Sonikku had no idea. Unfortunately, it worked a bit too well because the Blue Blur was a no show on his own birthday.
Panicking, his friends searched. He wasn't at Tails House, in his room or on the roof. Nothing from Eggman's territory or from the tracker in his shoes. Even Stripes found nothing looking from the Ark. Sonikku had just vanished into thin air. Several days went by and so a world wide search was launched and still nothing. Everyone cried. However, Sonikku had some friends down in Robotropolis, on the other side of the planet and they had offered to throw him a party there. So he took them up on the offer and the week long party was epic with rather a lot of Tequila and loud music.
He also had family in Robotropolis with his identical twin brother Sukko and younger brother Manic living there. The twin's younger brother was a green-furred Hedgehog whose quills are a lot shaggier than Sonikku's, in stiff dreadlocks. He wore a brown vest, red and white shoes, black spiked wristbands and an orange small hip bag, which the Blue Blur knew full well he fitted anything and everything in. From his drumsticks to his lock picks and to whatever he'd stolen. He had big blue eyes, and his left ear was pierced with two small gold loop earrings in a 'punk' style. There was also something else about this Hedgehog that Sonic really noticed. His size. He'd grown, yet again a lot, becoming even more muscular. For a Hedgehog, he was huge and was now showing his seriously powerful physical strength on his body.
The brothers weren't born in Robotropolis but they all grew up there and to the three of them, it was home. So when word got out that there was no party for Sonikku from Tails and company, Sonikku knew immediately he wanted to go home and celebrate with his twin. Sonikku was away from home for months, sometimes, years on end, and couldn't remember the last time he and Sukko actually celebrated their birthday together. So he doubled checked there was no party at Tails House for him which he was told, there wasn't and so he went home. However, Stripes did further research on the Ark and finally found him.
He was stunned to see him in Robotropolis, the city at the bottom of the planet but that didn't matter. So everyone went there to find him. It took three full days and when they arrived, there was a very loud and noisy, party happening across the entire city and it was still in full swing. As to finding the Blue Blur, that wasn't a problem. Robotropolis was a walled city and stood atop the outer edge was not one Blue Hedgehog but two. Both absolutely identical. Though one was in cherry red shoes with white stripes and the other was in tall, brown leather boots and a long black coat. Around them were huge banners that were swung high across the skyscrapers reading:
'Happy Birthday, Sonic and Sukko'.
Both the twins were dancing, the Blue Blur extremely drunk, atop the outer wall, when out of nowhere an almighty Green Hedgehog climbed up and hugged both the twins to death, within an inch of their lives to massive cheering from the enormous crowd. Tails and his friends just stood at the edge of the city and stared.
Surprise!
Sonikku had family and had said nothing to no one. Tails swore. He knew about the family but he didn't make a connection and he'd never been to the family home. He had his own house in Westopolis and the Hedgehogs had always come to him and was very curious. He'd never been to Robotropolis before. Unfortunately, Amy wanted to bring Sonikku home.
However, he had family and as Stripes correctly pointed out, they no longer had any right to take the Blue Blur anywhere. They been legally challenged for it. From the way Sonikku and his family interacted in and around the city it was obvious that Robotropolis was home. Reluctantly, the friends all left, leaving Sonikku in peace. He would come back to them when he was ready. It took a solid week later, when Sonikku finally came back, still somewhat tipsy and rather giggly, he was wondered into Tails house as if nothing was wrong. He was non the wiser of the fact that his friends had found tracked him down.
He got immediately hugged and rounded upon. When grilled as to where he had been, Sonikku growled.
“Hey, don't have a go at me. It was because there wasn't a party planned here at Tails house, which I thought was weird but it did rather upset me.”
Rouge sighed.
“But Big Blue, a party was planned. A surprise party.”
Sonikku was horrified. He'd misunderstood the circumstances. Tails cried. He didn't blame Sonikku for what he did and apologised for keeping him in the dark and promised not to do it again.
Then Sonikku was asked who 'Sukko' was. He went white but Tails then finally spilled that they had tracked him to Robotropolis and had seen his family. The Fox felt very guilty keeping Sonikku away from them. The Blue Blur however, smiled.
“My job is here fighting Eggman and theirs, back home helping out. Sukko as a doctor and Manic, the city defender against Eggman. We do what we can to survive.”
Everyone agreed but it didn't stop Sonikku from telling his twin down the Psychic Link that he's been outed....again. Sukko however, came and secretly wiped everyone's mind of that fact, except the Fox's. He was needed as they just moved on.