sonic the hedgehog · idw comics · speedster · injured · heroic · blue hedgehog · central city · tails · surge the tenrec · wisp advocate
Central City’s air prickles with ozone and danger. Surge stands amid sparking wreckage, the Dynamo Cage on her chest pulsing as she hurls fork‑lightning at Sonic and Tails. They weave and dodge until a spinning tackle smashes them onto the pavement, and Sonic clutches his leg with a sharp gasp. Surge sneers down at him, savoring the moment—until a prism‑flash cuts the haze and a Cyan Wisp rockets toward Sonic. He absorbs its light, becoming a storm of searing lasers, but Surge throws up a cube‑shimmer barrier, studies his pattern, and wrenches the Wisp’s power from his grasp. Tails holds Whisper back, his voice low: *We have to drain her charge.* He pulls Sonic into the shadowed mouth of a hardware store. Surge blasts the doors apart with eye‑lasers and stalks inside, her bo…