"So, is this all I have to fight? Too easy," Sonic thought as a small, human looking figure moved out of the shadows. He was extremely small, and he was wearing green overalls. He also had goggles on his head and a metal backpack. When he'd stepped out of the shadows, Sonic almost burst out laughing when he saw his bald head. "Do you know some guy called Eggman? You look like his son or something!" Sonic shouted, almost falling over in his failed attempt to avoid an uncontrollable laughing fit.
"Oh, you think I look funny prickle head?" the "little Eggman" said, which seemed to calm Sonic down a little.
"At least I don't look like I have an egg for a head," Sonic said, wiping away a tear from laughing so much.
"Oh, I'll crack your little head like an egg," "little Eggman" said, four mechanical spider legs coming from his backpack. He now stood a good few inches above the blue hedgehog, looking down on him. He lashed out with a spider leg, missing as Sonic ran up onto a nearby building top.
"Come on, you've never heard of me?" Sonic asked down, getting the boy's attention by surprise. He was about to spin down towards the spider legged boy, but he looked behind him in time to dodge someone try to ambush him. "Whoa, not bad, but now see how a true speedster does it," Sonic said, spinning towards the newcomer. The newcomer opened his cape and as Sonic hit it, he seemed to go right through it, landing on his face. He looked up to see a large, muscle bound guy standing over him with a gold and black outfit and an "M" on his chest.
"Well, look what the cat dragged in," the muscle guy said, bringing his fist down to crush Sonic, only to miss as the blue blur disappeared, but then ended up trapped inside a bubble.
"Hey, what's going on?" the blue hedgehog shouted as a guy with an eye in the middle of a helmet walked out of the shadows, looking up at him.
"Well, well, looks like we just dealt with a minor annoyance. Let's get that rock and blow," the bald headed one said, moving towards the jewellery store they were robbing until they were interrupted. They were just about to take a large gem that was lying there when a bird like boomerang flew past them.
"Sorry Gizmo, but that gem's staying where it is!" Robin called out, his staff in hand. Sonic watched as a team of five kids, three boys and two girls, stood ready to face the jewel thieves. He then noticed someone try to sneak up behind the group. In an instant, he started spinning, bursting out of the bubble.
"Look out!" he called out, spinning into the guy behind the group. He hit the guy, who was in a red outfit with goggles over his eyes, in the chest, knocking him to the ground. Sonic landed next to the group, ready for a fight. "Finally, something interesting," he muttered to himself, a confident smirk on his face.
As the boy referred to as Gizmo raced towards the group, they all separated, attacking different H.I.V.E members. "I hope I'm used to fighting like this after coming back from Camelot," Sonic thought to himself as he ran towards the guy with the cloak. He started spinning again, narrowly missing his target. He landed on his feet, ready to strike again, when something flew past them both from nowhere. "Hey Silver, what did ya..." Sonic said, stopping when he saw one of the two girls, wearing a blue cloak and blue eyes, floating there. He only glanced, but one look into the girl's eyes made him see something that reminded him of...Shadow.
He listened as the girl said something he couldn't make out, and at that instant, some objects from the street flew towards the guy he had tried to spin into. He dodged most of them, getting knocked down when a street sign hit him. "Whoa, that was impressive," Sonic said, giving a thumbs up to the girl. The girl simply glanced at him, then flew down to help the others. Sonic shrugged, then leapt down to help.
"We better get outta here," the guy in the red outfit said, exhausted as his clones returned to him. After fighting both the Titans and Sonic, the H.I.V.E members were all exhausted.
"Retreat! Everyone back to base!" Gizmo shouted, a propeller coming out of his backpack. As he flew off, the rest of the H.I.V.E followed, leaving empty handed. Almost equally exhausted, the Titans regrouped.
"What's the matter, couldn't keep up?" Sonic joked, joining the Titans as they caught their breaths. He was met with four surprised looks, and one that couldn't care less.
"Who or what are you?" Robin asked, seeing Sonic fidget about.
"I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog, and I think I could ask the same to you," Sonic said with a grin.
"We're the Teen Titans. I'm Robin," Robin said, now with his breath back.
"The name's Cyborg, for obvious reason," Cyborg said. Sonic now got a good look at him, seeing his metallic half with light blue circuitry and a red eye, while the human parts of him had brown skin and a grey eye.
"Just call me Beast Boy," a boy with green skin, green hair and green eyes said. Sonic noticed Beast Boy had been staring at him when he'd said he was a hedgehog, but then ignored the feeling.
"My name is Starfire, and I am very glad to meet you," a girl with tanned skin, green eyes, red hair and boots and an outfit that looked like it was made from purple plastic, said, her voice sounding like she was always cheerful, and it made Sonic think a little of Cream with the innocence in the voice.
"Raven," said the girl with the blue cloak. Sonic looked at her with her hood down, seeing the blue hair and pale skin and the gem in the middle of her forehead.
"You seemed to know what you were doing, ya know, fighting the H.I.V.E. Do you do this kinda thing often?" Cyborg asked, looking down at the hedgehog.
"Yeah, ya know, just the usual. Bad guy comes up with a plan, use my speed to stop them, cause a lot of the bad guy's things to blow up, and save the day before the sun goes down. Sometimes I end up rewriting some famous tales like the Arabian Nights and King Arthur," Sonic said, getting wide eyed looks from everyone but Raven, who simply raised an eyebrow.
"So, do you wish to be our friend?" Starfire asked, taking the blue hero by surprise.
"Yeah, I guess," Sonic said before Starfire flew over and grabbed him in a crushing hug. "Okay, I thought Amy's hugs were back braking, but this girl will have me snapped in half at this rate," Sonic thought as he felt his breath being squeezed from him. "Okay, glad to see you want me as a friend," Sonic said as Starfire let go. He was breathing quickly, his eyes wide from not being able to breathe.
"Sonic, what happened here? We heard the report about the break-in, and we thought the thieves got away?" came a familiar voice. Sonic looked down the street to see Tails and Knuckles coming towards them. Tails was flying while Knuckles ran.
"Don't worry guys, the bad guys got away, but they didn't take a thing," Sonic said while the Titans watched Tails land beside the red echidna. "And I met the Teen Titans," Sonic added, turning to face the Titans. "This is Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy and Raven," he said, each Titan gesturing as their name was mentioned.
"Nice to meet you guys, I'm Miles Prower, but you can call me Tails," Tails said, giving a thumbs up as Beast Boy and Starfire went over to him.
"And you can call me Knuckles," Knuckles said with a grin as Robin and Cyborg watched him crack his spiked knuckles. Raven watched as everyone got to know each other, looking away to see Sonic standing in front of her.
"You seem like you don't really like meeting new people," he said, a slightly serious expression on his face.
"I'm not like anyone else. You probably wouldn't want to know about my past," she said, noticing the hedgehog smirk.
"Ya know, that sounds just like another hedgehog I know, and he's pretty powerful too," he said, looking the mysterious girl in the eye.
"Wait, did you say you entered the story of King Arthur?" she asked, remembering what Sonic had said.
"Yeah, kinda miss it a little, especially Caliburn and Merlina. You kinda look like Merlina a little," he said, taking Raven a little by surprise.
"Isn't Caliburn another name for Excalibur?" she asked, seeing the hedgehog shrug.
"I guess you could say it's the name of his super form. Man, the times we had, fighting Lancelot, Gawain, Percival and heck, even King Arthur," he said rejoining the others.
"So, do ya, I don't know, want to come back to the Tower with us?" Robin asked, seeing Tails and Knuckles smile a little.
"I bet I'll like it a lot better than staying at Amy's place again," Knuckles said, grinning his answer. Tails and Sonic also agreed, and followed Cyborg to the T-Car.
"If it's the same to you, I'll run there. After all, they don't call me Sonic for nothing," Sonic said, grinning as Robin, Cyborg and Beast Boy got in.
"I'll don't mind going with you guys," Tails said, getting into the back seat, with Knuckles following suit.
"I guess we'll fly," Raven said, levitating into the air with Starfire. As the T-Car drove off, Sonic ran alongside, while Raven and Starfire followed close behind.
"So, how fast can Sonic go?" Beast Boy asked Tails, watching the blue blur running.
"He can run faster than sound, and can only be beaten by Shadow or Metal Sonic," Tails said. Beast Boy didn't ask who Shadow and Metal Sonic were, so simply watched Sonic running.
"So, what bad guys do you fight?" he asked, this time it was Knuckles who answered.
"Dr Eggman, and that's gotten us into fights with Chaos, Dark Gaia and the Black Arms," the red echidna said, his arms folded as he started to drift off.