Joe97: Hello Everyone. This is the improved version of my story The Evil Chaos Emeralds. There are two reasons I decided to do this: one, as a tribute to my original story and two, to serve as a comparison to show how much I have improved as a writer. This was the first fan fiction story I have ever written and I was quite the amateur writer back then. I feel my story deserved an improvement, a modern interpretation. So thank you for taking the time to read this and without further a due, here is The Evil Chaos Emeralds, improved for your liking.
Prologue: Eggman's New Plan
Following the events of Sonic Advance 2, Eggman's plans had been crippled yet again. His beat up egg-o-matic barely landed in one piece and he cursed to himself as he stormed off into his workshop. There were various piles of scrap metal and half completed robots standing along the walls and lying on tables. He stomped over to his desk with multiple blueprints already laid out and he shoved them away angrily.
"Damn him!" he bellowed "Not a single machine has stood up to that meddling hedgehog; how can one animal be so powerful!"
He laid an elbow on the table to lean his head against his hand.
"Sure he has speed but he always has the chaos emeralds there as a trump card. Even when I stole the master emerald he was able to overcome me. What is it he knows that I don't?"
Eggman looked up at a blueprint he had pinned to the wall, showing a study of one of the chaos emeralds he had done when he had it in his possession.
"The only thing I know is that there are two forces that stabilize the energy within the emeralds: a positive and a negative force."
Eggman pondered deeper and recalled when he performed this experiment on the emerald. A few days after discovering said forces, he noticed that while he held the emerald in his hand, the color of the emerald became duller, showing signs of a small amount of gray within the emerald. This detail was so trivial to him that he nearly forgot it completely.
"Is it possible" he thought aloud "That the behavior of the wielder can influence the forces within the emerald?"
He recalled that when Sonic would hold all seven of the chaos emerald, they would glow very brightly and release so much energy that they would circle around him before giving him a large increase in power. So much so that he could even fly.
"Sonic's belief in the world he protects must influence the positive charge in the emerald to such an extreme that he can harness a deep power from within the emerald. The same doesn't appear to work for me, but if I could manipulate a negative energy that was influenced by my intentions, I could rival if not surpass Sonic's super power."
This breakthrough made Eggman very excited, like the first time he ever assembled a robot; at age seven mind you. He hurriedly whipped out a blank blueprint and began scribbling many calculations. In his feverish joy he continued to laugh to himself as the entire world seemed oblivious to the next insidious plot of Dr. Ivo Robotnik.