**Translation made by Windii (Line 1687) — Original**
Coral Cave is an underwater cave of coral and crystal, where tranquil, clear light shines down.
The silence was torn apart by the sound of terrifying explosions echoing throughout the cavity.
As the reverberations of the explosions echoed in the air, the remains of many robots can be seen lying around the cave, sparking and burning...
She stepped forward, sweeping away the rising smoke with one arm, and pushed back the army of pirate robots with her might, a nobility clad in red flames... Blaze the Cat.
"What's the matter? Are you done now?"
The pirate robots slowly surrounded her as if she were a demon-god, and tried to attack her at once.
Blaze took a solid stance to intercept them, and strengthened the power of the fire at her back, but...
"Hey, hey, hey! What're you looking at, you clunky robots?!"
Suddenly, a hedgehog with a blue breeze in tow appears, sending the pirate robots flying one by one with blinding speed.
He finished off the last of the pirate robots with a tackle of his spiky body, then landed next to Blaze in a recoil-fueled jump.
"Hey, Blaze! Long time no see." "Sonic...?"
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"...So the imperial princess of this nation goes pirate-busting too?"
Sonic asks teasingly as he stands alongside Blaze, who is trying to keep up with the remnants of the pirate robots that have fled into the depths of the cave with a serious expression on her face.
"The Sol Emeralds made a lot of noise in the night. I followed their lead, and when I got here, I found myself in this situation... The rest is history."
Blaze replied nonchalantly, unconcerned about Sonic's slight.
Blaze is the princess of the Sol Empire, which dwells in a different world from Sonic and his friends. With the power of fire in her body, she is the guardian of the peace of the empire and the secret precious stones, the "Sol Emeralds."
"I've seen the bad guys and I can't overlook them, even if it's by accident. That's why I'm cleaning up the mess. ...What about you?"
Sonic replied with a look of remembrance on his face.
Sonic had gone to check on the seventh Chaos Emerald that he had left at Twinkle Park, since he now had six of the mysterious secret stones.