STH COM - Saga 3 Ep80

Sonic The Hedgehog - Chaos on Mobius
3rd Saga: The Black Armed Nocturnus

Episode 80 {1} - Chapter Thirty: The Lily of a Rose {2}

One morning, Sonic and Sally arrived at an island via Chaos Control. This particular part of the island they were on was filled with loops and grassy hills, overlooking the sunrise. {3}
"Well, here we are at Nostalgisland!" Sonic pointed out, confusing Sally.
"Sonic... are you sure we're not just on West Side Island?" She asked him before looking around. "I mean, this place looks a lot like the Emerald Hills..."
"Sal, trust me. These are the Splash Hills..." Sonic replied before seeing something familiar moving away from them... "...which still has Badniks roaming around it..." Sonic then destroyed the bug-like robot with one wheel using his Homing Attack. "I could've sworn I smashed all these..."
"Well, I guess we're gonna have to deal with these robots, too..." Said Sally as she revealed the Sword of Acorns. "Ready?"
"You know it!" Sonic replied as the two of them ran towards other Badniks on the island...

That same morning, Amy and Merlina had taken Lily to Merlin's cave in Mercia, where the two Mobian girls had a better chance to talk.
"I shall remain outside if you need me." Merlina told Amy, leaving the Mobians alone.
"So... how are we related, Lily?" She asked. "I mean, you do look a little familiar..."
"My real name... is Lily Rose." Lily replied, making Amy stare at the girl intently. "Maybe this will help you remember..." After she said that, Lily slowly changed her shape, into a small light-blue hedgehog with green eyes, wearing a yellowish-gold dress. This triggered something in Amy's mind...
"Lily... it is you!" She shouted with joy as she hugged the little hedgehog, before she changed back to her current form. "But... I thought you drowned in Never Lake, all those years ago."
"Well, I-"
"Hey, big sis!" Shouted a little pink hedgehog that resembled Amy, only she had her hair out, and she wore a green shirt, an orange skirt, and blue sneakers with orange laces. "Who's this?" {4}
"Rosy, this is our cousin, Lily." Amy told her while they hugged.
"Wow... so, how come I've never heard of you?" Rosy asked Lily.
"Well, it's a long story..." Lily replied as she stood in front of her cousins while Rosy got comfortable in Amy's lap. "So I guess I'd better get started..."

"Years ago, before you were born, Amy & I used to play together all the time." Lily said to Rosy. "In fact, we even thought of each other as BFFs." {5}
"That means: Best Friends Forever." Amy said, as Rosy looked confused. "Go on."
"Then one day, not long after you were born..." Lily continued. "The two of us were walking along Never Lake..."

"I can't believe I've got a little sister!" Amy happily said to Lily. Amy was wearing exactly what Rosy wore today, while Lily wore a yellowish-gold dress with no back and boots of the same colour with a white stripe down the middle.
"I know... and I've got another cousin!" Exclaimed Lily, before looking at the water, and getting an idea... "Hey, Amy... whaddya say we go swimming?"
"In Never Lake?" Amy asked. "But... it's forbidden!"
"So? C'mon!" As Lily said that, she grabbed Amy by the arm as she made them fall into the water. What neither hedgehog knew was that the water wasn't normal water, and it had started to affect them differently... Amy seemed to be split in two, with the other half of her rose up to the water's surface wearing a light-blue dress and arm-length gloves.
"And while I made it to the surface, I never saw Lily come up." Amy pointed out. "I waited for hours, but she never came up... I thought she was lost forever..."

"Yeah... when I fell into Never Lake..." Said Lily, as Amy paid attention. "There was something keeping me down, causing me to change..." While she was within Never Lake, Lily's quills on the back of her head and her eyes turned red. Apart from that, Lily didn't notice any other change...
"I must've lost consciousness, because the next thing I knew, I was in a bed in the Downunda Orphanage, where an Overlander, a crocodile and a green echidna were looking down at me." {6}
"All you all right?" Asked the Overlander as she reawakened. "Strewth, you're lucky I was in the area, or you would've drowned!"
"Wh-where am I?" Lily asked as she sat up and looked around.
"The Downunda Orphanage." The Overlander replied, startling Lily.
"But... I was in Mercia's Never Lake!" She shouted. "How could I have come all the way to Downunda?"
"Maybe it was the will of Chaos." Suspected the green echidna, who seemed to look at Lily in awe. He wasn't alone, as Lily seemed to stare back at him. "I-I'm TodStar, by the way."
"L-Lily." She replied as the Overlander walked away from the bed.
"And I'm Vector." Said the crocodile.

"TodStar, Vector & I were fast friends." Lily told Amy & Rosy, as both girls were amazed by her story. "Mainly because the majority of the kids at the orphanage all picked on us, but we were so close the three of us were almost brothers and sister. Then one day, I discovered something new about me..." TodStar and Vector were playing with Lily in the orphanage's playground, when Lily started to turn purple once she ran into TodStar. Before any one of them knew it, Lily had transformed into a complete replica of TodStar! {7}
"What the?" Asked TodStar, before Lily got a look at herself in a nearby puddle of water, and nearly jumped out of her fur. "How come you look just like me?!"
"I don't know!" Lily replied with TodStar's voice. Vector was speechless, as was everyone else in the playground.
"Freak!" Shouted all but two of the other orphans while pointing at Lily, making her cry as she soon changed back.
"Leave her alone!" TodStar yelled, standing in front of the hedgehog.
"All right you lot, just knock it off now." The Overlander caretaker told them, but they wouldn't listen, making TodStar angry. Unknown to the echidna, his right hand was on fire, and his left hand had an orb of Chaos Energy surrounding it.
"Uhh, TodStar?" Asked Vector, as he witnessed what was happening with the echidna.
"Not now, Vector." TodStar replied as the other kids kept teasing Lily, making the echidna very angry. So much so, that his eyes turned red with rage. "RRRRRGH... SHUT UUUUUP!!!" As TodStar shouted that, he exploded in an enormous amount of Chaos Energy that blasted high up into the clouds, terrifying everyone in the orphanage, and getting the attention of a certain black hedgehog who was nearby... {8}

"So was that how TodStar became Shadow's apprentice?" Amy asked Lily, who nodded. {9}
"Everyone was so scared of TodStar since he did that." The morph-hog continued. "In fact, the only people who even talked to him -let alone still be friends with him- were me and Vector. And while he spent a lot of his time controlling his power with Shadow, he still hung out with us every chance he got. TodStar & I got even closer, because of our 'abnormalities'. Then came the day we all seperated..."
"Eggman." Said Amy, as she had heard from TodStar about that tragic day.

Dr. Eggman's Egg Carrier had just begun bombing the orphanage, causing a lot of destruction around them. {10}
"Chaos Spear!!" TodStar shouted as he threw an arrow of Chaos Energy at a bomb headed his way, causing it to explode before it got to him. Vector used his fists and tail to knock back whatever debris was falling on them. Lily tried to Spin Dash into a plank to knock it away from TodStar, but it was too much for her and she was knocked out. "Lily!" Before TodStar could run towards her, a bomb went off, allowing fire to seperate the boys from the hedgehog. "LILY!!"
"C'mon TodStar, we gotta get outta here!" Vector told the echidna. But when TodStar wouldn't listen, Vector grabbed his arms and attempted to pull him away.
"Are you crazy, Vector?!" He asked the crocodile. "We can't just leave her here!"
"TodStar, this place is comin' down, and we'll NEVER get her out in time! Now, c'mon!" Vector shouted, still pulling TodStar away.
"LILY!!!" Screamed TodStar as the orphanage exploded.

"TodStar told me about that." Amy said. "So, how'd you survive?"
"Amy, I've been asking myself the same question for years." Lily replied. "But when I came to, everyone was long gone. Even TodStar and Vector. I ran all over Mobius looking for them, but I couldn't find them anywhere. About a month or so later, I swore vengance on the people who left me for dead, and renamed myself Lily the Morph-hog. And four years later, I ran into you and TodStar."
"But, you never went through with it..." Said Amy, before Lily shook her head. {11}
"I've made peace with TodStar since then." Lily pointed out. "And while I'm a little angry that he's got that Gizoid for a girlfriend, I'm happy that he's happy." This made Amy realize something... "Now I just have to find Vector..."
"He's on Angel Island, with the Chaotix." Amy told Lily.
"Well, that's good to hear." Lily replied. "I'm gonna head over there now!"

After she hugged both Amy and Rosy, Lily raced out of the cave, allowing Merlina to walk back in.
"Are you ready to continue your training, Amy?" She asked, but Amy shook her head.
"Sorry Merlina, but I've gotta get back to Knothole." She said after hugging Rosy. {12}
"Have you decided to tell Sonic that you don't mind him being with Princess Sally?" Asked Merlina as Rosy ran out of the cave.
"...how did you know?"
"I couldn't help but overhear what Lily said, and I noticed the look on your face. If you leave now, I don't mind."
"Oh... well, thanks for understanding." After Merlina bowed to her, Amy raised her wand up to the sky, and she vanished in a flash of green light.

Late that afternoon on Nostalgisland, Sonic and Sally raced out of the Lost Labyrinth ruins, before Sonic shook his whole body in disgust.
"Ugh. Man, I hate water." He said, making Sally giggle as she wrung out her jacket, while looking at a factory of some sort... {13}
"What's that over there, Sonic?" She asked, getting the hedgehog's attention.
"Huh? Oh, that's Eggman's abandoned Mad Gear base." He told her, before they both noticed that some lights were on.
"For an abandoned base, it sure looks like it's in business..." Suspected Sally. Before they could walk towards it, a beeping came from Sonic's belt. What he picked up was a communicator Mario gave him.
"Mario! What's up, dude?" Asked Sonic as he held the communicator up to his face.
"Sonic, Spagonia is under attack by Bowser and his minions!" Mario shouted, startling Sonic.
"Can't you handle it like always?"
"Not this time. Luigi and Yoshi have been knocked out. Help, please!"
"Okay, we're on our way!" Sonic then connected the communicator back onto his belt before revealing his Chaos Emerald and grabbing Sally's hand. "Chaos Control!!"

What neither Sonic nor Sally knew was that not only a number of Egg Fighters were being constructed, but so was a third of a large spherical object hidden deep within the base... {14}
"How goes your third of the project, Cubot?" Eggman asked via a monitor.
"We're running ahead of schedule at the moment." Cubot replied. "Y'all should be ready to install it by... next week." Hearing this, Eggman clasped his hands together.
"Excellent!" He exclaimed before turning his attention to a screen with Orbot standing by. "What about you, Orbot? How is your third of the project in Metropolis?"
"Current status is at 23%, boss." Orbot replied. "For some reason, the Badniks here seem frightened." This made Eggman think...
"Hmph. It must be because of that blasted Nocturnus Clan..." He suspected.

"What about you, boss?" Asked Cubot. "What're y'all doing within your Scrap Brain base?"
"Heh heh. My third of the project is already complete, boys..." Eggman replied, before looking at the fruits of his labor: a large, half-spherical object that appeared to have eyes, a pointy nose and a moustache on one of its sides. "By the end of this year, ALL of Mobius shall tremble before my latest and greatest invention! HAAAH HA!! AHH HAHAHAHA!!"

END OF CHAPTER {15}

Emerald Count:
Metal Sonic - Red Chaos Emerald
Sonic the Hedgehog - Blue Chaos Emerald