Previously in Sonic The Hedgehog - Chaos on Mobius...
Mecha Sonic -Eggman's wayward creation- revealed that he is who he is today because he encountered a sample of the Source of All, which he corrupted simply by touching it! He boasted that he could even beat Sonic AND Robotnik with the power he wielded, but they didn't take that threat lightly... making Mecha Sonic target Eggman in his Egg Beater mech, and Sonic with the seven Chaos Emeralds! SUPER Sonic and Mecha Sonic had quite the intense battle, and Robotnik didn't stand a chance against either of them. So when Sonic unintentionally gave him the chance, he bolted! But when Mecha Sonic provoked him by threatening Sally, Super Sonic turned dark to give the robot some serious damage, before losing all of his power and plummetting down to Mobius after sending the Chaos Emeralds into seven different portals!
About the same time, Commander Tower said this to every GUN officer: "Commence Operation Humanity." This resulted in Rouge & Patrick being shackled, as well as Omega becoming a loyal GUN robot (due to being under Regina's control). But they weren't the only victims of this sudden rebellion... Tails & Amy were under heavy fire from GUN fighters before losing them in Mobius' atmosphere... the rest of the Freedom Fighters (along with Shadow & Knuckles) were spared from death, thanks to Shadow's Chaos Control... now countless Mobians have been captured by GUN. Including any sympathizers they see... King Elias... and even Sonic!
Still, not all hope is lost... in the two weeks since GUN's rebellion, the Freedom Fighters have resisted capture, and Sonic may just get help from a certain Goddess of Light... find out as Chaos on Mobius begins its 7th season!
TWO WEEKS AGO
Within a void of many wonderous colours -as well as many strange creatures that varied in appearance- sat what appeared to be a blue-haired woman wearing clothing that looked quite revealing... but she also looked depressed.
"*sigh* I know it's been half a century already, but I still can't believe that my own creation defeated me. Twice!" She complained, unaware that seven different lights had appeared above her. "And even though I've got my fabulous body back after SO long, I do wish an opportunity would just fall into my lap..." Suddenly, a dark gem landed in her lap! "Oh! And what's this?" Picking the gem up, she noticed a faint red aura was emitting from it, while six more gems rained down around her. All seven gems were emitting different-coloured auras, which was when she realized what the gems were... "Aww! And what happened to make these poor little Chaos Emeralds so dark? No matter. They've still got energy in them... and I think I'll use that energy to do some renovating..." As the woman waved her arms around while giggling, the Chaos Emeralds started circling her from all different angles. Thanks to the Emeralds, the scenery around the woman began to glow rainbow colours, making her happy. "Hmm... now I'm thinking the name 'Labyrinth of Deceit' won't suit this place anymore. How about... the SPECIAL ZONE? Yes. That sounds much better."
Meanwhile, within Eggman's secret laboratory, the mysterious echidna girl was tossing and turning within her capsule, as she was dreaming... ...an echidna that looked like her -although she wore jewelery and few robes- floated in space just above Mobius... except the planet looked like it was suffering from global earthquakes, and the echidna looked like she was using Chaos Energy to keep Mobius together!
"Sora, you alone are not enough to keep Mobius whole! Let me help you fulfill Madam Chaos' promise!" Said a voice that echidna knew all too well, making her shake her head.
"I cannot do that, my friend..." She replied, looking at what appeared to be a human woman with long green hair. "You must deal with the threat from the Underworld... and I must keep the Flames of Peace safe from the Dark Lord..." It was then that Sora had an idea, before building up more Chaos Energy. "That's it... if I cannot keep Mobius whole... then I shall make another world to keep Madam Iblis safe... in another dimension!" Using what Chaos Energy she had at her disposal, Sora let Mobius seperate into two whole planets, before opening a portal and throwing the seperate planet inside! After the portal closed, Sora felt quite weak, concerning her friend...
"Sora, are you all right?" She asked, before the echidna plummetted down towards the now-stable Mobius! "Sora!"
"(Promise me...)" Sora said to her friend, telepathically. "(...that the people learn of what I have done... to save them... promise me... Palutena...)" With a tear falling down her cheek, Palutena nodded.
"(I will, my friend.)" She responded via telepathy, as she watched the echidna vanish within the planet's atmosphere. "(Your legend shall live forever, Sora. I promise.)" The echidna was startled awake by someone that she couldn't make out cackling as he walked away.
"(Where... am I? Was everything I saw... just a dream?)" She asked herself as she tried looking around, before closing her eyes again. "Son of Chaos..."
Sonic The Hedgehog - Chaos on Mobius
7th Saga: Operation Humanity
Episode 136 - Act 1: Abandonment - Chapter One: Creators and Creations
ONE WEEK LATER
Amy, TodStar, Cosmo, Lily and Shadow were outside the wrecked remains of Freedom HQ, defending the entrance from an army of GUN robots and soldiers. Amy used her hammer to send a Beetle's laser back at it, while Cosmo raised some vines up from the ground to send a Hunter flying so Lily could ram into it with her Extreme Gear! TodStar kept punching through approaching GUN soldiers, while Shadow was shooting them with a machine gun he swiped from one of the soldiers!
"Tails, are you three in yet?" Amy asked while speaking into a device on her wrist.
"*bzz* Working on it, Amy." Tails replied, as Shadow was holding two of his fingers close his right ear, while TodStar covered him. "Just keep them out of Freedom HQ for a little while longer. *bzz*"
"You'd better pick up the pace, because Tower just sent a Heavy Dog mech our way!" Warned Shadow, before he Spin Dashed through another group of GUN soldiers, while TodStar threw a Chaos Spear at a Beetle that was shooting at Shadow.
"I sure hope they can find something in those bloody plans that Nicole swiped from Eggman!" TodStar said to himself, before dodging enemy fire.
At that moment, Tails and Nicole were standing at a console in the remains of the lab -with a flickering monitor- while Sally stood guard with her Ring-Blades active.
"How long is this gonna take?" Asked Sally, as she looked outside. "Cause it looks pretty bad out there..."
"You ask us that every time, Sally." Nicole told the chipmunk, as she plugged a wire from the console into her ear, and Tails started typing.
"Whoa. I think we've got something this time!" Stated Tails, as he and Nicole noticed some images appearing onscreen.
"And you've said that every time." Sally pointed out, but then she saw what Tails and Nicole were looking at. "Are those... grapes?"
"Sure look like it." Said Tails, before attempting to adjust the screen... by banging the monitor with his hand. Surprisingly, it improved the picture! Somewhat.
"I'll try to read out what I see..." Nicole pointed out, before reading something onscreen. "Hmm... 'Victims will be...' something-something '...Prison Island once a month. And I've been...' something '...that the King of...' something '...will be first on the list.'" Hearing what Nicole read out terrified Sally... so much so, that she ran out of Freedom HQ in fear.
"Sally? Sally, come back!" Shouted Tails, before hearing Amy via radio.
"*bzz* Time to bail, Tails!" She yelled. "We can't handle all of the GUN troops out here!" At that moment, Sally emerged from Freedom HQ, and lunged at the Heavy Dog mech approaching with anger and tears in her eyes. She landed on the window of the cockpit and stabbed through the window to strike the controls with her Ring-Blades, disabling the mech before she jumped off and ran into the Great Plains with tears in her eyes!
"Sally, what's wrong?" Asked TodStar, but Shadow stepped in front of him and fired the machine gun at the mech.
"Let her go. We need to get out of here!" He yelled. "Nicole, now!" It was then that Shadow & Nicole used their speed to gather the rest of the Freedom Fighters together -despite Nicole feeling uncomfortable- making the GUN soldiers think they had an easy target...
"Ready... aim..." Said one of the soldiers.
"Chaos CONTROL!" Shouted Shadow, TodStar & Nicole, making them and the rest of the Freedom Fighters warp out of harm's way!
PRESENT DAY
The sun had risen over the temple-filled clouds for a few hours at this point, only the green-haired goddess seemed to have been awake all night, watching GUN soldiers capturing as many Mobians as they could. Seeing so many living beings suffering was breaking her heart...
"All those poor Mobians... and the humans forced to make them suffer..." She said to herself, before changing the focus of the orb above her scepter. "There's only one angel I trust to help bring peace to Mobius once more..." Once the orb settled, it showed the goddess something that made her look disappointed; A teenage angel-boy snoring in a beanbag chair within a dark room, while holding a Nintendo 3DS with music blaring from it.
"Pika pika..." Said a voice in the game, sounding defeated as the angel moved slightly in his sleep, making the goddess sigh.
"And you people wonder why I'm 'cruel' to him..." The goddess muttered, before taking a deep breath... and having a smirk on her face. "Good morning, Pit!" This made the angel jump out of the beanbag chair.
"AHHH! Pikachu, use Volt Tackle!" He screamed, before realizing he was being watched, making him close his 3DS and stand to attention. "Uhh... ahem. Ready for- *yawn* -active duty, Lady Palutena!"
"I believe you... is what I would say if you didn't have bed hair..." The goddess called Palutena said telepathically to the angel she called Pit, making him blush out of embarressment.
"Ohh, man... busted!"
"From the beginning, Pit. Did you forget about my all-seeing eye again?"
"...maybe." This made Palutena giggle, as well as making Pit nervously chuckle, before he got curious. "If I may ask, Lady Palutena... why have you summoned me so early? The only other time was when the Aurum invaded..."
"Wash up first, Pit. That saliva on your face is disgusting..." Nodding before yawning, Pit left the dark room in order to get to a bathroom.
Mere minutes later, Pit bowed before Palutena in a large room leading to an altar filled with weaponry, a practice range, and a staircase leading up towards a pair of large doors.
"So, Lady Palutena... what's the problem?" He asked with sincerity, before his goddess gestured for him to rise to his feet.
"Pit... the humans of Mobius are rounding up and imprisoning Mobians." Palutena told Pit, shocking him.
"What? That's horrible!" He exclaimed. "Do you know why?"
"All I keep seeing and hearing is that they're doing this for ME." Said Palutena, making Pit shake his head in disgust.
"But that's ridiculous!" He pointed out. "You'd never support something like this! Right?" This made the goddess turn to her side in shame.
"Not willingly..." She said to herself, remembering the three horrible years when she was possessed. "But you're right, Pit. And because of this, I'm sending you back down there to assist the Knight of the Wind."
"Uhh... who's that? Sorry, I haven't been paying much attention to this fanfic..." Pit said while nervously chuckling, making Palutena shake her head.
"It's Sonic." She said as she showed Pit a picture of the blue hedgehog in the orb above her scepter. "Y'know, that hedgehog you fought alongside during The Subspace Emissary?"
"Oh, HIM! Well, you can count on me, Lady Palutena." Exclaimed Pit as he ran towards the altar of weapons and picked up one that appeared to be styled after Palutena. "I'll help the Knight of the Wind without breaking a sweat!"
"And I'll guide you in, just like I have in the past." Palutena pointed out as Pit ran up the staircase to the two doors. "Good luck down there, Pit." And with that, the doors opened, allowing Pit to jump out of Palutena's Temple and down towards the clouds. Once Pit spead his wings, they started emitting a blue aura and also started sparkling, allowing Pit to start gliding through the clouds.
"Yeah! Whoo-hoo!" Pit happily shouted as he flew through the air. "Ahh, it feels good to stretch my wings again! With your help of course, Lady Palutena."
"And don't you forget it." Palutena replied with a cheeky grin on her face, as she used the Power of Flight to guide Pit down to where she needed him to be...
Meanwhile in the forest of the Mystic Ruins, Shadow and what was left of the Freedom Fighters were awakened by the sun shining in their faces.
"Wow, that was the most comfortable night's sleep I've had in a long time..." Amy pointed out as she jumped out from a hammock of leaves and vines... only for Lily to jump out after her. Lily also seemed to like that Amy was wearing a purple-and-pink bodysuit with matching gloves, boots, a white belt, and a pink heart-shaped belt-buckle.
"Yeah, me too." Added the bluebird as she held Amy's hand, while Shadow suddenly picked up a transmission in his radio earpiece.
"*bzz* HQ calling Spider Troupe. *bzz*" Said a voice that Shadow recognized as Commander Tower, making the black hedgehog bear his teeth in anger. "*bzz* Repeat: HQ calling Spider Troupe. *bzz* Andrews, come in! It's time for your morning report! *bzz*"
"I sure hope we can find Sally soon..." Tails said as he and Cosmo emerged from a nearby hut. "It's bad enough that Sonic and the King have been captured. I'd hate for that to happen to Sally, too!" Suddenly, the five Mobians heard a scream not too far away.
"That sounded like Nicole..." Stated Cosmo, making Tails a little worried.
"Let's go!" Said Shadow, as he made the Freedom Fighters follow him into the forest... just before a group of GUN soldiers jumped down around the perimeter.
As they followed the source of the scream, Shadow and the Freedom Fighters found a terrified TodStar watching over Nicole in a cave. And Nicole looked like she was writhing in pain.
"Nicole? What's wrong?" Asked Tails, but she couldn't respond.
"I-I woke up to see her like this." Said TodStar, who was terrified for Nicole. "She hasn't been able to get a single word in." Lily tried to get a look at the back of Nicole's head. But just before she touched the panel, Nicole screamed in agony once again. This time, green-glowing text was being projected from her eyes.
"SYSTEM ERROR. JEWEL OF ZEUS SHATTERED." The text read as the colour switched back-and-forth between green and purple. "SENDING SECONDARY PERSONALITY TO EGGNET." As the text stopped switching and became purple, the nanites that gave Nicole her Mobian form were being absorbed into her Gizoid body, startling Shadow, Cosmo & Lily, but horrifying TodStar, Amy & Tails.
"Nicole?! Wake up. C'mon Nicole, answer me!" TodStar begged as he tried shaking her with tears in his eyes, while Tails and Amy were almost as upset as he was. But once the nanites were all absorbed, the Gizoid started sparkling with electricity, forcing everyone to step back. Suddenly, more text projected from its eyes.
"FILE SPACE UNAVAILABLE. SECONDARY PERSONALITY SENT TO EGGNET FOR STORAGE. REBOOTING PRIMARY PERSONALITY." The text read, before nanites covered the Gizoid once more. However, the nanites did not form the shape of Nicole... instead, they assumed the form of a male grey fox wearing blue jeans, brown finger-less gloves and green-and-white shoes. When the fox slowly opened his eyes, they were black where there should be white, and while one eye was blue, the other was yellow!
"*yawn* Uhh... hello?" He nervously asked the confused Freedom Fighters. Well, the green echidna was more angry than confused.
At that moment, a child-like blonde goddess was watching GUN soldiers attacking Mobians and setting fire to the trees of Knothole from a small pool of water. Seeing all of this made the goddess punch her fist into the pool, making water splash out of the pool.
"Oooh! Those inconsiderate humans..." She hissed. "Is there NO end to their rampaging?! Well, if no one else is going to do anything about it, then I guess I will." The goddess then turned to an army of strange plantlife. "Rise and shine, children. It's finally time to wipe out humanity!" As the plantlife either dug down into the ground or flew away, they left a dark angel behind, that looked familiar... "You too, my newest recruit." Before the goddess could say anymore, the dark angel raised an index finger.
"Let's get one thing straight, here: I'm only here to help you bring down Pit. Nothing more." He told the goddess, making her mad.
"How DARE you talk to the Goddess of Nature like that! ESPECIALLY when she decides whether to give you the Power of Flight or not!" She angrily yelled, making the dark angel growl in response as he bowed before her, putting her in a better mood. "Hmph. And don't you worry about Pit... knowing Palutena, she'll probably send her precious 'Captain of the Guard' to defend the humans from our wrath."
"Then I'm in." Said the dark angel, before hearing the goddess clear her throat, making him growl again as he picked up a pair of sharp -and possibly venomous- claws wrapped in red leaves and a purple flower. "Then I'm in... Mistress Viridi." It was then that the angel's wings began glowing a faint orange, before he took flight out of the goddess' lair.
"And I know you won't let me down... Pittoo..." The goddess called Viridi said to herself as she watched the dark angel fly in her pool.
"I REALLY wish you would stop calling me that!" The dark angel yelled that Viridi heard via telepathy, before muttering to himself as Viridi controlled his flight. "Little brat..."
"I HEARD THAT!"
Meanwhile, a capsule opened within a chamber with foggy glass. Inside the capsule was what appeared to be a young human boy with brown hair & blue eyes, a blue t-shirt with white sleeves, black shorts, and big blue boots. When the boy opened his eyes, he looked around before stepping out to attend to the other two capsules.
"Roll! We're in the right time period!" He said as he knocked on a capsule with a girl that looked around the same age as him inside, before knocking on a capsule with what appeared to be a dog inside. "Rush! Come on out, boy!" The girl also had blue eyes, but she also had blonde hair in a ponytail tied by a large green bow, and wore a sleeveless red dress with what looked like red sandles. The dog was basically just a robot with red and pink colours all over it.
"Ugh, five more seconds, Rock..." Muttered the girl called Roll as she rubbed her eyes, only to realize what she heard. "Wait. We're really in the time before Light Labs?"
"I think so." Rock pointed out as he and Roll appeared to stare at the glass wall for a few seconds. "Yep, we're here. Now we just have to remember our mission..." With a wave of electricity, Rock's attire changed from casual clothes to blue-and-cyan armor that matched his boots, as well as a helmet. "Rescue Sir Sonic the Hedgehog from Prison Island!"
Roll took Rock's change as a sign for a wave of electricity to change her outfit, as well; The dress remained, but Roll gained navy-blue sleeves, and her sandles were replaced with red boots.
"I'm still not sure about this, Rock..." Roll said to Rock, who had his hand hovering over a large button. "I don't want us to be known as the robot siblings who ruined their father's career by violating The Three Laws..." Rock then placed his hands on Roll's shoulders.
"Roll, we won't be violating The Three Laws." He told his twin sister, confusing her. "Think about it; With the military keeping Sir Sonic locked up, they're sealing the fate of their own race. But if we... bring harm to those same humans, like Dad told us to do, if neccessary... that would change the fate of the rest of the humans. Right?"
"That DOES make sense..." Roll replied, before they both traded one of their hands for cannons; Rock's was blue, and Roll's was red. "But you lead the way... Mega Man."
"OK, but stay close, Roll." Rock said to his sister, making her nod before he looked down at the dog. "Rush, stay right on my tail, OK boy?" The dog responded by happily barking. Rock then pressed down on the button his hand was hovering over earlier, causing the glass wall to lower. This startled a number of GUN soldiers nearby, but as they aimed at the robot siblings, Rock and Roll fired small pellets from their arm cannons at the soldiers! As Rock, Roll and Rush pressed forward, they left a plaque behind in the chamber they were sealed in...
"MAY MY LOVE FOR ROCK AND ROLL LIVE FOR ALL TIME... - DR THOMAS LIGHT" The plaque read.
END OF CHAPTER