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Chapter 1: The Day Everything Changed

Location: Earth, USA, New York City, Random Apratment Building

"RIIIINNNGGGGG!"

"Uggghhhh," Alex complained. "Five more minutes."

"RIIIINNNGGGGG!"

Alex covered his ears with a pillow.

"RIIIINNNGGGGG!"

"SHUT UP!" Alex eventually punched the alarm clock across his bedroom. He woke up to see what he had done. "Not again."

Alex looked at the newly broken alarm clock. He placed said clock in a pile labeled 'Destroyed Alarm Clocks.' He then took a pen and added a tally to a whiteboard. "And this makes 10."

Living in New York City was difficult for many reasons. One of these reasons was his job as an engineer that worked in the field. Another could be because of how early he had to wake up.

The most likely reason was probably because Alex was the only anthropomorphic hedgehog on the planet.

Being a completely different species than a majority of the world was difficult. Every now and then, Alex had to put up with racism against him. He hadn't minded at all though. Alex was used to that by now. Another thing about him was that people said he looked like that super fast hedgehog from the stories. What was that character's name again?

Alex headed to the bathroom to get ready for the day. One look in the mirror told him how unready he was. His quills were all over the place. "Nothing a shower can't fix."

After a 10 minute shower, Alex dried himself off. He pulled out his hair gel from his cabinet and straighted his quills. "Much better."

The hedgehog headed to his dresser and put on his red T-Shirt, blue jeans, and a pair of Nike shoes. As he headed out, he almost forgot one piece of clothing. Alex looked at his shelf and saw his green sunglasses. He put on his lucky sunglasses and headed out of his apartment.

Location: Times Square

Today was Saturday, meaning that Alex didn't have to work today. What better of a way to spend a Saturday than at Times Square.

All around him were so many signs, constantly changing, each having something different on them. People were everywhere, some gave him a weird look. While Alex had lived there in the city for quite some time now, there were some that still weren't used to seeing a hedgehog just causally walking through a city.

Suddenly, Alex heard a rumble. He looked down at his stomach. (Must have forgotten about breakfast.) Alex let out a sigh. (Guess I'll have to buy some food, again.) As he headed towards the nearest restaurant, Alex happened to walk by two men talking about something very interesting.

"So you're sure about this?" the first guy asked.

"Hell yeah!" the second replied.

"What if it's a trap or something? This find sounds way too good to be true."

"What's so bad about looking for priceless treasure?"

Alex stopped in his tracks. (Priceless treasure?) He started listening in on the conversation. (Keep talking.)

"I don't know man. What if something happens to you?"

"Relax, would you! If I can scale a majority of Mount Everst, I think something like this is definetly not risky."

"For you, that is. I know how skilled you are at adventuring, but I'm not risking my life over something that might not exist." The man then walked away.

"Dammit!" the lone man cursed to himself. "How the hell am I supposed to find this treasure without help?"

(Now or never.) Alex thought to himself. "Ahem!"

The man turned around to see the hedgehog standing there with his hands in his pockets. "Hey, aren't you that hedgehog dude?"

"Yep."

"Has anyone ever said you look like that hedgehog from those stories?"

"Yep."

"Nice to meet you!" The man stuck out his hand. "Name's Joe."

"I'm Alex." He stuck out his hand. Thw two shook hands. "I heard you say something about legendary treasure."

"Oh, that," Joe replied. "I found out about some ruins in Egypt."

Alex let out a chuckle. "Isn't that country already filled with them?"

"This one's different. It definetly wasn't made by Ancient Egyptians at all."

"What's so special about this one set of ruins?"

"Rumors have been going around saying that in those ruins lies a legendary treasure. Being the awesome and adventurous guy I am, I got permission to be able to explore it first!"

"Congrats!"

"The only problem is that I need at least one person to go with me."

Alex thought to himself. The thought of legendary treasure sounded amazing. He could quit his job and never work again. "I want in."

"You don't look like you know much about adventuring at all."

"That may be true, but I do have some useful equpiment that might help."

"What are you, some kind of engineer?"

"Actually I am."

Joe was a bit shocked at Alex's responce. "If it isn't my lucky day! Pack your stuff! We head for Egypt in three days! Meet me at the entrance of the airport!"

"Got it!" Alex replied. "See you then!" As the hedgehog headed back home to pack his things, he felt like the luckiest person alive.

Three days later...

Location: Egypt, Entrance to Ancient Ruins

"Well, here we are!" Joe said as he parked the Jeep.

"Finally!" Alex said as he preped the gear.

After a brutally long flight, Alex and Joe had to walk about five miles just be able to rent a Jeep. After that, it took about an hour and a half to find the ruins.

Alex let out a lawn. "Good thing we woke up early for this!"

"You were fifteen minutes late at the airport!" Joe said, "We almost missed our flight!"

"But we didn't!"

"Whatever. What kind of gear did you bring anyway?"

"I thought you'd never ask." Alex opened the back of the Jeep to take out a bag (which was next to lone cardboard box for some reason). He then unzipped the bag to reveal what he had brought. "Since this treasure could quite litteraly be anywhere, I've taken the liberty of packing one metal detector."

"And it didn't occur to you to pack two because?"

"I only have one. And these things are expensive."

Joe let out a sigh. "What else?"

"I also brought a pair of walkie talkies if we get sepperated and night vision goggles for when we might need them."

"Good enough. Should we wait or head in now?"

"Uh, now?"

"Good point." Jow grabbed a walkie talkie and a pair of night vision goggles. Alex put on the same and also took the metal detector.

"Let's go find us some legendary treasure!" Alex said with enthusiasm.

Location: Inside the Ancient Ruins

The ruins were more complicated on the inside. They went underground and were somewhat maze like. The two were getting no where.

"Getting a signal from anything yet?" Joe asked.

"Nothing yet," Alex replied. "Something might be in here if we go deeper."

"Damn!"

"Hold up."

"What is it?"

"I just got something!"

The metal dectector was beeping faster. As they walked foward, they were met with a very unstable floor. The metal detector was now beeping like crazy.

"There's something right below us," Alex said.

"But we don't know what's down there!" Joe warned. "For all we know, there could be vicious animals that want to eat us alive!"

"You have a point," Alex said. "We should look for another way down the-"

Suddenly, the floor under Alex's feet became more unstable.

"Oh no."

The floor crumbled, taking Alex with it.

Location: ?

"Alex you there?"

No response.

"Alex, it's Joe. Please respond.

Still no responce.

"ALEX!"

"Huh? What?" Alex started to wake up. "Joe, is that you?"

"The hell happened to you? You've been down there for ten minutes! Anything down there?"

"I'm fine. There's nothing down here."

"Well that's something."

As Alex looked back at the somewhat damaged metal detector, he saw it beeping like crazy. "I found something."

"What is it?"

"You're not going to believe this."

"What did you find?"

Alex had landed in a secret area by sheer luck. "It's some kind of hidden room. The signal is definety coming from here."

"Look, I'm heading back to the Jeep, and there's a lot of interference. Tell me what you found when you get back."

"Got it. Alex out."

Alex walked around the room for a bit. There weren't any symbols or writings on the walls. The only thing on the wall was a weird symbol.

Wait a minute. That symbol was familiar. It was a circle with two intersecting lines that met near the bottom left corner. (Isn't that the symbol from the story of the people from different worlds who fought each other?) Having nothing else to do, Alex decided to push it. The ground starting shaking as a pedestal rose from the floor. The most noticeable feature of the pedestal was the silver gauntlet on top. A red gem like thing was on it that contained the same symbol.

(Could this be the treasure?) Alex thought. He looked at the gauntlet a bit more. On the pedestal read a message that said,

Only the chosen can be worthy of this gauntlet.

(Okay?) The message seemed fake in every way. How can someone be 'worthy' of a gauntlet? (Might as well.) Alex reached for the gauntlet.

And picked it up succesfully.

(I knew that message was a hoax.) Alex thought. He put the gauntlet on his right hand. A perfect fit.

(I guess I should head back up now.) As Alex headed back up, he failed to notice the portal that opened up behind him.

Location: Entrance of the Ruins

"Took you long enough!" Joe said.

"Yeah, I know," Alex said. "I found this though."

"So this legendary treasure was a gauntlet?"

"Might be. Let's just head back. I don't like being in this des-"

Just then, Alex felt someone punch him in the back with a lot of force. He landed about five feet away from the Jeep.

"The hell was that!?"

Alex started to sit up. He saw a tall figure coming out of the ruins. "Just get out of here. I'll distract him."

"ARE YOU INSANE!?"

"Just go!" Alex yelled. Joe turned the keys of the Jeep and drove off. (I am so screwed.)

The figure came into view. He was tall, had ginger like hair, black clothing, and greenish skin. "Give me the gauntlet."

"W-what?"

"The gauntlet. Give it to me."

"I-I don't know what you're talking about."

"Don't play dumb with me. I know you got that gauntlet from these ruins." He stepped closer. "I'll ask one more time. Give me the gauntlet, or suffer the consequences."

Alex though for a moment. "W-what if I don't want to?"

The person smiled. "Very well." He raised a fist. "Enjoy oblivion."

Just then someone kicked the figure away from Alex. The hedgehog looked away to see that his savior was...a humanoid fox.

"Not bad," another voice said. This one belonged to a jackal.

"I would've done it better," a angel with black wings said.

(Did I die? Is this the afterlife?) Alex thought to himself.

"Hey you," the fox said, lending a hand. "You okay?"

"I'm fine," Alex said as he stood up. "But, who are you guys?"

Just then, the guy that had attacked Alex started to slowly move. It looked like he was waking up.

"We have to leave now," the jackal said. "There isn't much time."

"Why don't we just fight?" the dark angel said as he raised his fists.

"That's a terrible idea!" the fox exclaimed. He used some kind of device to open a portal. "We're powerless and have nothing to fight with. Come on!" He then went through the portal. The dark angel let out a small grunt and then walked through the the portal as well.

"You still haven't answered my question!" Alex exclaimed. "Who are you people?!"

The jackal looked at the man. By now, he was getting up. He then faced Alex. "Do you want to live?"

"Of course I do!"

"Then go through the that portal!" The jackal then went through the the portal, which remained open.

Alex gulped. He had two choices. He could jump through a portal with a bunch of weird looking strangers, or get killed by a greenish man. Making his decision, Alex jumped through the portal that closed behind him. The hedgehog had absolutely no idea what he had gotten himself into.

NEWCOMER!

Alex joined your team!

TO BE CONTINUED...

Do you wish to save your game?

Yes

Creating new save file...

Location: ?

Party Members: Alex (lvl 0)