Sik Lang

**Sik Lang**, previously known as "SK the Hedgehog" when he was younger, is a professional troublemaker and all-around nerdlord hailing from Universe CAV-4.

Known best for his unique brand of problem-solving (which involves a lot of disconnected trains of thought and gratuitous violence), Sik isn't exactly the regular definition of a "hero", but he does his best to be one anyway.

He's basically the mascot of Team Horizons after getting adopted as a little brother by both Tide and Kara. Sik's history as part of another hero team is something he avoids bringing up, although the friction between him and his cousin King is clear to everyone within five miles of the two of them.

Hilariously enough, he's also Sonic's cousin? He had no idea about this until Eggman's takeover, though, and he's still getting used to the idea.

His alternates include Sik the Hedgehog and Kirke the Hedgehog, who share his upbeat attitude (even if Kirke's methods of heroism are a bit more "beating the crap out of everything").

## Backstory

Born on South Island, Sik is blissfully unaware of most of his family. As a side result, he has absolutely no idea that he's cousin to the one and only Sonic the Hedgehog, and when he does finally find out he has trouble believing it.  After all, he's just some random nobody without any powers or skills to his name asides from being able to do cool tricks on his EX Gear board "Omnitempus", and all of his attempts at heroism so far have landed him in trouble or near-death situations.

When Sik was 11, he and his younger sibling were passed off to his aunt for her to look after for a few years. This had the side-effect of putting Sik in the sights of King, a mean-spirited bully who had plans to found the next big hero team along the lines of Team Sonic. Initially King wrote Sik off as nothing to care about, but soon discovered that the younger hedgehog trailed behind him like a shadow and pretty much idolized him. When he formed Team Advance with Seven and Cedric, Sik practically begged to be a part of it; while King wasn't a huge fan of the idea, and saw Sik as potential dead weight, he agreed under pressure from the other two members and Sik swore that he wouldn't regret his decision.

As a member of Team Advance, Sik (going by "SK" at the time) desperately tried to impress everyone around him, especially King. He was the first to throw himself face-first into dangerous situations, put himself at risk, and overtax himself if it meant it would finally be the One Big Thing he had to do for King to like him. Instead he only cemented his role as being "the annoying one", especially when he couldn't match up to the others in skill and power (despite literally being a preteen). King's high standards started to grate on everyone, as well as the trouble he-- or Sik, trying to impress him-- would get everyone into, and it reached a breaking point when the older hedgehog's meddling with the Ark of the Cosmos nearly got the entire team killed. While it did deliver a hard shock to King, and was the main event that got him to reconsider how he was behaving, it was way too little way too late. Distressed at what happened, and struggling with the beginnings of an identity overhaul, Sik did the one thing that made sense to him to do: he bailed.

Sik didn't have much of a plan, but he was able to track down a friend from before, Tide, and fled to Station Square in hopes of starting over. Tide let him stay with her and her new girlfriend, Kara, with zero hesitation. Or, well, some hesitation, but as soon as Sik started explaining what happened Kara's protective instincts flared up and Tide couldn't find it in herself to turn Sik away. He was later able to get in contact with his father and older sibling again, but by then Tide and Kara had practically been raising him as a younger brother and the three of them were inseparable. Forming a team was second-nature, and Sik owns a huge chunk of who he is today to the other two members of Team Horizons.

## War Against Eggman

After Eggman took over the world, Sik and the rest of Team Horizons joined up with the Resistance to try and fight back. Armed with a Cube Wispon and Omnitempus, Sik finally felt like he had the opportunity to actually *do* something and make a change in the world; despite the numerous dangers, he threw himself into missions with wild abandon. Plus he got to finally fight side-by-side by his world-famous cousin, although they still utterly failed to recognize each other until Sonic finally learned his last name. He... also had a bit of a rough reunion with King, who had trouble seeing him as more than the annoying tag-along kid he'd been a couple years ago.

When Double was unavailable, Sik took up the mission to check out the abandoned base in Mystic Jungle and found the Phantom Ruby Prototype, aka the "Valtron", that Infinite had previously been equipped with before Eggman outfitted him with the real deal. Despite not really knowing how to use it, Sik was still able to survive several close encounters with Infinite, including during his attack on Haliberd City, but even that and his natural resilience didn't save him from losing a leg from the knee-down during a particularly nasty fight with the jackal. Tails was able to make him a prosthetic, and despite the protests of everyone around him Sik rejoined the fight with renewed vigor. Infinite hadn't exactly made it personal, but Sik always felt from the start like he had something to prove.

His last-second attempt to rescue Sonic and Double only led to him getting dragged into Nullspace along with them, however. Feeling utterly devastated at his repeated failures, Sik nearly gave up and felt like there was no way to escape. Thankfully, Sonic was there to drag him out of his depression, and the three of them combined their powers-- Sonic's speed, Double's boost, and Sik's Valtron-- to punch through back into reality. Now back to feeling invincible (and ignoring all evidence to the contrary), Sik was able to use the Valtron to continue to counter Infinite and be a general pain in the ass to Eggman's army.

This peaked during the final day. With the Resistance forced to split up, Sik-- with the rest of Team Horizons supporting him for as far as they could-- raced up the tower, knowing that if he failed this time then it would literally be the end of the world. Pushing both himself and the Valtron far beyond their limits, Sik was able to cancel out the Phantom Ruby and completely erase the threat of both the illusion army and the sun, only to pass out and drop out of the sky as the Valtron was destroyed. Double was able to rescue him in the nick of time, but Sik ended up being completely unconscious for the entire final battle.

After the Resistance was disbanded, Sik returned back to Station Square with Tide and Kara. He promised to stay in contact with Tails, who he'd grown close to over the course of the adventure, and then they end up dating or something i dunno. He also helps reform Wayne after he's rescued! Even though Wayne feels intensely guilty over Sik's injury, Sik sees him and Infinite as two separate people and doesn't hold it against him.