2010

*"I lost everything because of you. My tribe was on the verge of its greatest victory. The last of the owl warriors have been located, soon Longclaw's emerald secrets would be ours. But my father stopped me from joining the fight. He said my moment to honor our tribe would come, but it was not this moment. Those were the last words he spoke to me. I never saw him again."
"We both lost everything that day."*
―Knuckles the Echidna and Sonic the Hedgehog[src]
This is a timeline of events that occurred in **2010**.

## 2010

* Longclaw records a holographic message for Sonic regarding the Master Emerald and hides it in the Safe Worlds Map.

### February

#### 1st

* The Echidna Tribe figures out where Longclaw lives and starts to head out to retrieve her secrets about the Master Emerald's location. One of the tribe members oversees the move as a young echidna, Knuckles, runs out of the stone hut prepared to join the rest of the tribe. His father crouches down to him and stops him from joining. He tells the young echidna that his moment to honor the tribe will come, but that it was not this moment.
* Knuckles somberly looks on as his father goes to meet up with the rest of the tribe.
* During one of his runs across his home, Sonic the Hedgehog picks a flower for his caretaker Longclaw and starts to run home.
* Sonic runs through the island's terrain, with a part of the ground collapsing after he runs over it. Sonic runs around a "loop-de-loop" and uses vertical terrain to launch himself to the other side of a cliff on the island.
* Sonic continues to run and giggles before he curls up into a ball and performs a spin dash, accelerating his speed. Sonic poses in the air before landing back on the ground and curls back up into a ball again.
* Sonic arrives at his home village and spin-dashes all the way up into his caretaker's home. He bounces ontop of her and lands back on the floor laughing as Longclaw squints.
* Longclaw tells the young hedgehog that someone could've seen him use his powers, to which Sonic claims that no one has seen him because he was too fast. Longclaw smiles as Sonic shows her the flower he brought with him.
* Longclaw reaches for the flower until she notices Pachacamac and his tribe aiming at Sonic with their bows and arrows from a nearby tree.
* **Attack on Longclaw's Home**:
	+ Longclaw dashes over to Sonic and closes the door as the tribe opens fire on them. Multiple arrows hit the house as one of the arrows breaks a frame of the window and hits the flower.
	+ The Echidna Tribe closes in on the two and Longclaw attempts to escape with Sonic as she flies away. The tribe shoots her with arrows, with Longclaw dodging the majority of them until Pachacamac successfully hits her with an arrow, injuring her and causing her to fall to the ground.
	+ Recovering from the fall, Longclaw tells Sonic that the only way for him to stay safe is to stay hidden and uses a ring to open up a portal to Earth. Sonic pleads with her to come with him, but the former tells him that he must go without her and tells him to only use the rings if he's discovered.
	+ Longclaw notices the tribe closing in and tells Sonic to never stop running and to go into the portal. He follows her instructions and travels through it.
	+ As Sonic continues to run deeper into the forest, he looks back at the portal and notices the tribe closing in on her. He runs back and Longclaw says goodbye as the portal closes, leaving Sonic stranded on Earth.
* The Echidna Tribe is wiped out, leaving Longclaw to succumb to her wounds and eventually passes away.

#### 2nd

* A memorial is erected in Longclaw's home to honor her sacrifice, which will go untouched for over ten years.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 *Sonic the Hedgehog 2*
2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 The prologue portion of *Sonic the Hedgehog* takes place 10 years before the main events of the film, which ideally places it in 2010. The "TEN YEARS LATER" scene is placed on March 4, 2020 (see 2020 references), which can either mean an exact 10 years, or that it takes place between the start of the year, January 1, 2010, and March 4, 2010. This would place the Echidna Tribe's ambush on Longclaw and Sonic on February 1, 2010, with Knuckles being left alone on the same day.
3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 *Sonic the Hedgehog*
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 *Sonic the Hedgehog 2: The Official Movie Pre-Quill*
5. ↑ In *Two for the Road*, Tails describes Longclaw's home as "...sacred ground... The place where Longclaw fell." and that "They say no one has visited here for years out of respect." With Sonic being stranded on Earth on February 1, 2010 (see other references), it can be taken that the memorial was erected the following day, February 2, 2010.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Sometimes the *Sonic the Hedgehog Cinematic Universe* alludes to events which happened in our world. Thus, it is assumed they happened on the same dates in the universe, for timeline purposes.