Note: This ARC takes place throughout the Sonic comics. And my Green the Hedgehog fanfiction series. And ends during Prelude to When Worlds Collide.
Green Universe ARC 8
Thrash's Vengeance! Part 1: The beginning
Long ago the echidnas of planet Mobius, all use to live on the island city paradise known as Albion. After the Mobosaurs and prehistoric Mobians had come and gone, the echidnas were the first true Mobian civilization. Their civilization would last for thousands of years, and was regarded as the best and greatest. Their morals, ethics, logic and religion had earned them greatness. But for all of their achievements and greatness, it easily makes people overlook the secret sins of Albion, which only a few in the world know about.
Approximately ten-thousand to nine-thousand years ago, the evil Mammoth Mogul had rounded up the Order of Ixis, a cult of magic users who worshiped the dark god known as Ixis. But in reality, they were all made into loyal servants of Mammoth Mogul. The initial members were all brainwashed into his order, while later magic users of the order would join on their free will, some knew of Ixis while others knew not of who he is. Mammoth Mogul planned on using his new order in order to rule the world, but the people of Albion saw the immoral and corrupted cult's plans and stood against the tide of evil magic.
The people of Albion used their most advanced of technologies, in order to create powerful weapons and armor that could stand against magic. However as the war went from a few years into over a century, the Templar Knights Aurora were losing ground. A division of scientists left for a continent known at the time as Downunda, they were charged with conducting experiments that would change the tide of the war. However the scientists were left in such secret to conduct experiments that they weren't monitored properly, and as a result the scientists became corrupted in their goal for finding new ways to fight the enemy. These experiments resulted in the local tribe of Mobians known as Tasmanian Devils, becoming feral and savage beasts, the experiments were meant to heighten all of their natural abilities, primarily their vocal and physical capabilities.
The experiments backfired and resulted in the Tasmanian Devil Mobians, de-evolving into primitive Mobini known as Tasmanian Devil Dogs. Frustrated that the scientists hadn't reported on their results at all, the people of Albion sent Templar Knights to investigate, and what they discovered was truly a grand sin that they felt all echidna kind would be responsible for. The scientists were arrested and sentenced to life of imprisonment for what they did, but the damage had already been done. The scientists experimented on the entire Tasmanian Devil population, which meant that as time would go on that fewer and fewer full-fledged Mobians of Tasmanian Devils would appear, and the Devil Dog Mobini variety were becoming the norm.
Some of the scientists offered to undo the damage, begging that if something wasn't done to make amends for their sins that it would come back and haunt Albion and all of echidna kind. However the echidnas were so heavily focused on the war that they didn't want to risk anymore rogue experiments. However one of the scientists escaped, and in his desperation to undo the damage he and his fellow scientists had done, he used Chaos Emeralds in an attempt to become a Chaos demi-god like Nazo of legends.
But in his haste to undo his wrongs, the echidna became the second Enerjak. He lost control over his free will, and the spirit of Enerjak completely took control of the new avatar body. With this action the Order of Ixis and the Templar Knights of Aurora had to call upon a temporary truce in order to stand a chance against the new Enerjak of the time. It was only when Nazo showed up that Enerjak was taken care of, and eventually he would face Mammoth Mogul and remove a lot of his powers so that the Knights of Aurora would stop the Order of Ixis using their might and their latest creations the Gizoids!
With the Gizoids at their disposal, the Knights of Aurora finally destroyed the Order of Ixis… Or so it seemed! Some members escaped and went into hiding, waiting for Mammoth Mogul to once again lead them. The early human colonies and primitive Overlanders and other cave dwelling Mobians lost a lot, the landscape of Mobius was so heavily devastated and so many archives of information were lost that the surviving people regarded the entire conflict as the Forgotten Wars.
Peace was restored, but at heavy costs. The echidnas withdrew from the world and would spend isolation for thousands of years, but would send out a few ships with colonies to simply expand their people across the world. Some colonies were also sent into the far reaches of space, almost none were ever heard from again. Until 4.000 and 600 hundred years ago, these colonies had done well. But all of this still overshadowed the secret sins of Albion.
The echidnas might've (and that is a very big might!) forgotten about the Tasmanian Devils and what the rogue scientists did to them. But the now primitive people of Downunda certainly did not! They remembered the horrors of how many of their people suffered in various ways because of the echidna scientists, and not understanding at the time that the action was the result of but a group of a normally peaceful race. The Tasmanian Devils told all of their descendants, no matter what their level of intelligent was at as a result of the effects of the experiments.
Location, Downunda years ago
Among a small pack of Tasmanian Devil dogs, there was one who stood out from the rest. He was purple, and had an unusual marking on his chest. He walked upright, and had learned to speak rather than bark. He was taken to his grandmother, the only other Tasmanian Devil who was like him. His parents snorted, as they brought him to his grandma. She was a very old woman, and was glad to see him. "Thrash. You're alright, you don't have to be afraid when with me!" She said as she rubbed the top of his head.
"Grandma….. Why do you look so different from ma and pa?" Thrash asked. It was one of the few sentences he made from words he heard his grandma use, he didn't understand why he and his grandma were different from the rest of their pack.
"The echidnas are the reason." She said, as he hands shook.
"The echidnas?" he asked.
"Yes. They are the reason your parents, and your pack are different from you and I." She said, she then proceeded to explain to him why the Tasmanian Devils were mostly savage Mobini.
Thrash would be told this story throughout his life, and each time he heard it his anger toward echidna kind grew. Thrash swore that one day he'd have vengeance against the echidnas for what they did, but he and his grandma don't know the full truth. As years rolled by, Thrash's grandma was his mentor. Though she'd need the pack to help her move in later years, she taught him many things and advice on how to channel his powers. In her youth she was strong, and knew firsthand the powers he had.
In Thrash's family every third generation was blessed with at least one Mobian Tasmanian Devil, Thrash was the only one of his generation and his grandma was the only one of her generation. Thrash grew stronger throughout his life, until one day. He decided to leave, "Grandma! I'm going to leave today." He said, on a calm day.
"Are you certain about this?" she said.
"Grandma, I've been over this for years now. I'll have my revenge on the echidnas for what they did to us. I don't know how exactly, or what. But they'll pay, I swear that for what they've done to us. They'll all pay, and we'll have vengeance!" Thrash said as he held a fist in the air.
With reluctance, Thrash's grandma let him go. He took along his two sisters, and left. He didn't know how long it would take, but he would have his revenge, and he was obsessed with getting it.
