Yahoo! Howdy everyone. Yes, we're finally back writing Sonic FanFics, for the sole enjoyment of everyone out there.
This one will be exceptionally good, cuz it's about me! HA HA HA!
Whoa there Pyro. You don't show up til later.
Later? LATER?! YOU SHALL DIE FOR YOUR INSOLENCE!!
OK, I need to defuse the raging inferno known as Pyro the Hedgehog. Why don't you all enjoy the first chapter of The Rise of Pyro...
DISCLAIMER: I own none of the Sonic the Hedgehog characters, except Theos and Pyro. The rest all belong to SEGA!
Chapter 1: Enter Theos
The huge metal fist slammed into the ground, sending a shower of concrete, dust and trash into the air. The vibrations rattled the windows of the nearby skyscrapers, causing the people within the offices to dive under desks, wary of the six foot panes of glass coming lose and falling inwards. The fist extracted itself from the ground, leaving a shallow depression in the middle of the road, cracks appearing the tarmac as the metal limb rose up.
The 50-storey Eggbot, to whom the metallic mist belonged, seemed to bend over slightly as if looking at the depression it had created in more detail. Inside the head of the robot, sat at the master controls, sat Dr Eggman, world kingpin-wannabe and number one evil genius. His expression was one of excitement as he tilted the robot forward. When he saw the shallow crater was empty, the grin of glee changed to a scowl of frustration.
"Curse that blasted hedgehog!" he shouted as he righted the robot. Once again, the Doctor was attempting to take over Station Square. And once again, Sonic the Hedgehog and friends were causing his Eggyness to have a major migrane. Peering behind him, Eggman could see his army of Mech-Eggs being harassed and beaten back by Sonic's friends. The red and black robots, despite being armed to the circuitboards, were falling like a stack of cards.
SMASH!
Amy Rose's PikoPiko hammer turned one Mech-Egg's head into a pancake, severing it from the body.
CRUNCH!
Another Mech-Egg had its inner circuits punched clean through its back by Knuckles, leaving a gaping hole in the defunct robot.
BOOM!
As the X-Tornado flew past, Tails dropped bomb after bomb on the hoards of Mech-Eggs, turning Eggman's finest army into heaps of spare parts.
RAT-AT-AT-AT-AT!
Even Eggman's own creations were against him. E-123, otherwise known as Omega, was using his wrist mounted gattling guns to create metallic Swiss cheese. Alongside him was Rouge the Bat, her vicious kicks decapitating the soldier-droids with ease.
Eggman could feel his frustration rising. Curse the lot of them! He turned back to his controls, only to let out a loud sigh of irritation. Heading down the highway, straight for his Super Eggbot, came two familiar hedgehogs. One blue as the daytime sky, one black as night. Sonic and Shadow. Bearing down on the fight scene like hounds on a fox. Eggman knew that his time was limited, and that he'd have no chance against the pair of speedy hedgehogs. Despite this, a sinister grin spread across his face. His was not to fight the hedgehogs. For once, he was providing the distraction. And with 25,000 Mech-Eggs armed to the hilt invading Station Square, he was providing quite a distraction. Eggman's eyes narrowed behind his tinted glasses, as he gave his full concentration to the approaching hedgehogs.
"Time to dance, you little blue pest!" Eggman's thumb slammed down on the trigger.
The Super Eggbot unleashed hell.
Rockets launched from the pods on the robot's back, Machine guns sprang out of the metallic wrists and burst into life, peppering the bitumen of the road. But the two hedgehogs kept coming, dodging every rocket and every bullet as if they weren't real.
"Look guys!" yelled Tails from the X-Tornado. "It's Sonic!"
"And Shadow" added Knuckles, whilst removing his spiked fist from the steel plated face of a Mech-Egg. The two heroes rushed at the Super Eggbot, both curling up into Homing attacks to attack every moving part of the behemoth. Eggman swung both arms, trying to clip one of the spinning blurs. One arm caught Sonic. Instead of the hedgehog being swatted to the ground, his razor sharp spines tore through the metal limb like paper, the gigantic fist falling to the ground with a resounding crash.
Normally, such damage to one of his creations would have enraged the doctor. This time, Eggman remained calm. I know something you don't know , he mentally taunted the blue blur as Sonic landed on his feet. The second metal fist slammed into the ground, just missing the azure hero. I know what you will have to face after this . A missile blew up in mid air, due to a head on collision with a Chaos Spear. A power far greater than anything I can throw at you. Eggman's mind momentarily flashed back to six months previously…
[flashback]
Looking back to Earth, Eggman saw a small golden light appear at the centre of his headquarters. The light suddenly rushed outward and upward, creating a bubble of golden light which seemed to chase the escape pod. Just when it looked as it the bubble would catch up, it all seemed to rush back on itself, as if being sucked back into the abyss. The light bubble disappeared, and Eggman instantly knew what would happen next. As he covered his ears, the explosion erupted. A gigantic ball of flame erupted and spread out, engulfing his entire hideout in a matter of seconds. As the fireball lifted, Eggman saw nothing but rubble. Standing in the centre, a perfect circle of open ground surrounding him, stood a golden figure.
"I'll have my revenge for this" hissed Eggman as the capsule docked with the Death Egg. "I'll defeat you and that irritating blue hedgehog somehow". The capsule doors slid open, and Dr Eggman was greeted by a sinister voice and two glowing yellow and green eyes shining out from the dark of the space station.
"Dr Eggmannnn" hissed the voice, a flicker of flame bobbing up and down in time to the words. "Perhapssss we can be of ssssome assistance…"
[end flashback]
Another evil grin spread across Eggman's face. Oh yes, Sonic and friends will have their hands full when his new 'friends' make an appearance. This 'attack was simply to make sure they were all in one place at the same time. Mission achieved, I think. Time to make my escape… .
A reverberating smashing sound, brought Eggman back to the present, as Sonic and Shadow burst through the glass surrounding Eggman's cockpit.
"Ok, Eggman. Game's up!" yelled Sonic, the only evidence of just battling the gigantic robot being a small oil stain on his shoulder. Shadow stepped forward.
"If I were you, I'd return to my little space station and get a new hobby." The menacing grin flashed on Shadow's face. "'Cause 'taking over the world' just isn't working for you"
"Ha ha ha. Somehow, my spiny friends, I think you will soon have more to worry about than what I do in my spare time!". Eggman slammed his hand down on a big red button on the dashboard. A glass capsule closed around him, and before Sonic or Shadow could react, had blasted out of the robot into the sky. With its master controls disengaged, the Super Eggbot began to tumble over.
"We're outtta here, Shad!" exclaimed Sonic, before spindashing out through the smashed window. Shadow followed, using his Chaos-powered hover-shoes to slow his descent. As Shadow's feet touched solid ground, the Super Eggbot finally lost balance, crashing to the ground in a cloud of dust and metal. As if on key, every Mech-Egg that had, until now, survived, stopped moving. The arms went limp, and a number of them fell over.
"Did you get him?" asked Knuckles as Sonic and Shadow rejoined the group. Sonic shook his head.
"No. The egg turned into a chicken and flew off" he said as he looked skywards, searching for any sign of Eggman's escape pod. Eggman's word echoes through the hero's brain. What did he mean, "more to worry about"? Was this all just a ruse? His thoughts were interrupted as two hands grabbed his cheeks and a pair of warm lips pressed themselves against his. Rather than try to fight it, Sonic kissed back, his eyes closed whilst savouring the moment. Only when their lips had parted did Sonic gaze into the emerald eyes of his beloved Amy Rose.
"Oh please" gagged Knuckles, trying to ignore the besotted hedgehogs. "Will you two stop making kissy-faces until you get home?" Sonic just grinned and winked at the echidna.
"Don't tell me you're jealous, pal?" asked Sonic, playing the innocent party. Knuckles rolled his eyes, knocked a deactivated Mech-Egg over, before putting his hands firmly on his hips.
"Yeah, right. Jealous of you? Jealous of what?!" he scoffed. As he turned to another dead Mech-Egg, he stopped and slapped his hand over his face. "For the love of… Will you two give up?" His outburst was aimed at Shadow and Rouge, who were currently engaged in a bout of tonsil tennis. "You two are worse than Blue Boy and Pinkie over there!" Rouge just winked as Shadow let her out of his grasp.
"You KNOW you're jealous of Shadow" she teased. Knuckles, whose face was beginning to turn the same colour as his fur, muttered something obscene and turned away.
Shadow, grinning like a Cheshire Cat, started to walk ahead of the group.
"I think Red is right. We should…UGH!" His sentence was cut off as something slammed into him, sending the ebony hedgehog careering into the Super Eggbot's carcass. He bounced off the metal wreckage, collapsing to the ground in a crumpled heap. The rest of the team span round, all looking for the hidden attacker. Rouge ran over to her fallen beau. As she knelt down, the invisible attacker caught the side of her head, knocking her sideways. The white bat fell, unconscious, to the ground.
"There's something…someone here…" said Knuckles, his Chaos-tuned body quivering like awalking radar. Before he could say anything else, a fist appeared from nowhere, slamming into the echidna's jaw. Knuckles staggered backwards a couple of steps, before collapsing backwards, knocked out.
Having landed the X-Tornado, Tails was just about to leap from the cockpit when he felt something grab him by the scruff of the neck.
"Hey! What the…" The young fox was hurled from the X-Tornado cockpit to the ground, the rough concrete drawing blood from the young fox's grazed chin, before he was thrown against the plane itself. His body left a depression in the lightweight shell, clearly visible as the lifeless fox tumbled to the ground.
"INTRUDER DETECTED. TARGET LOCKED. MISSILE FIRE" bellowed Omega, before two black missiles erupted from his back. The missiles hurtled skywards, only to veer off in opposite directions. Both then turned back towards the ground, heading straight at Omega.
"Omega! Get Down!" yelled Amy. Eggman's former robot didn't have time to react, the two missiles slamming into his body, exploding in a flash of white light. Sonic and Amy both covered their eyes, shielding them from the searing light. When they looked up again, Omega had been obliterated. Parts of his metal body were spread across the highway, like some sort of horrible robotic jigsaw gone wrong.
Amy was about to say something, before she felt a hand clamp around her throat. Time slowed, as she felt her feet leave the air, her momentum set to take her head first into a nearby skyscraper reception. A familiar voice rang out.
"Get your filthy hands off my girl, biatch!" A well-known red and white sneaker shot past her line of vision, seemingly crashing into something rather solid in front of her. The grip on her throat slackened, and Amy found herself on the ground, panting for breath on all fours. Stood in front of her was Sonic, his fists up, his eyes focused on something beyond the Super Eggbot carapace.
With a grunt of pain, and perhaps irritation, a dark form pulled itself on top of the Eggbot. Amy's eyes widened, as she got a good look at the creature. It looked remarkably like Shadow. It was certainly a hedgehog, but its spines were much longer than any hedgehog's she'd seen. Its fur was a dark blue, similar to a dusk sky, while each quill on its head was streaked with silver. Its fearsome scarlet eyes seemed to glow in comparison to its dark body, which seemed to suck all the light around it, giving the hedgehog-creature a demonic look.
"Ok pal" started Sonic, the anger in his voice coursing through every word. "You've got 5 seconds to explain yourself before I paint the town with ya!" His fists clenched tighter. "No-one threatens my girlfriend while I'm here." The dark creature seemed to study Sonic for a second, before a deep rumbling noise erupted from its mouth. It was laughing! Sonic couldn't believe it. This creep was laughing at him!
"My, Sonic." The rumbling laughter died down, replaced by a deep throaty growling voice, so deep that Amy had to strain her ears to hear every word. "You're a lot stronger than the doctor gives you credit for. Hmm-mm. That's good. I like surprises. They make things…interesting" The creature jumped down to the ground, landing just out of reach of Shadow's outstretched hands. "Perhaps I should introduce myself properly" The hedgehog creature bowed in mock courtesy.
"My name is Theos the Hedgehog, and I'm here to kill you all."
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you make an entrance!
There's no me. Why is there no me? WHY, GODDAM IT, WHY?
Apologies for Ego the Hedgehog over here. While I go slap him down to earth, look out for Chapter 2 of The Rise of Pyro. Now come here you mortal fool...
-Theos & Pyro