Running Wild!
By T 'RockChick' Evans
I don't own anyone in this fic… actually, I don't even own the story! It's based on issues 80 - 82 of Egmont Fleetway's Sonic the Comic. (My favourite story, all hail Nigel Kitching…) So don't sue me… I'm not doing any harm…
This is in Sonic's point of view, by the way. It helps if you've read the comic, to see what the other characters are up to when Sonic/Super isn't there. A couple things to remember… Sonic doesn't have green eyes yet, and Porker is living on the Floating Island. Also, you may be wondering why Super Sonic's sections aren't in first- person like the rest. Think about it. Sonic never remembers anything about going Super, right? So I couldn't exactly have him telling the story. And have you ever seen Super Sonic with a thought balloon in STC? Ever? Thought not… so… doing it in third person is the fanfic equivalent… I think…
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~ Chapter 1 ~
"Hello? Is anyone there?"
My dark brown eyes scanned the Floating Island's Emerald Chamber. I turned to the bookish -looking pig behind me, and shrugged.
"I don't think Knuckles is here, Porker."
Again, I glanced around the room. Nope- no sign of Red anywhere. The place looked a lot worse than the last time I was in here. I mean, it's usually pretty gloomy in the Emerald Chamber, because the only decent light comes from the Chaos Emeralds- and even that has a strangeness about it. This time though there was rubble everywhere, as well as the usual dust and cobwebs. Some of the ancient pillars were broken; chunks of stone had been prized from the walls…
In short, it looked like there had been a fight.
"Boy, that Knuckles sure is a messy housekeeper!" I tutted, pretending to be shocked. My friend frowned and shook his head.
"No, you don't understand, Sonic!" he explained patiently. I was about to tell him I was kidding- after all, have you ever seen my place?! - but he was already continuing. "Knuckles had a battle with a robot head, and…"
"Robot head?" I butted in, vaguely interested. "What happened to the rest of it?"
"Well, it did have a body but that was when it was working for Doctor Zachary. Doctor Zachary, you see, was…"
I yawned. Not really listening, I let Porker ramble on. He has a tendency to get wordy, and when he does… argh. The boredom!
My mind wandered, and whatever he was going on about went in one ear and out the other. If there's something I hate, it's a boring lecture. One thing I learned in school was how to tune them out…
I found myself absently looking over at the Chaos Emeralds. As usual, I felt strangely drawn to the seven large gems, and the power they contained… yet repulsed at the same time. I knew what they could do to me.
The emeralds were contained in a shaft of light that exited through a hole in the ceiling and another in the floor; the well seemed to go a very long way down and was encircled by a low stone wall. The shaft, I'd been told in another of Porker's lectures, directed the power of the emeralds- their energy flowed from here into the core of the Island, keeping it aloft. The Chaos Emeralds had been free- floating the first time I had seen them, but Knuckles seemed to have restored them to their original place.
"…But Knuckles didn't know that at first, and then…" Porker droned, intruding on my thoughts.
He was starting to irritate me…
"Forget it, Porker!" I snapped, briefly turning my gaze away from the emeralds. "The last thing I want is to listen to one of your boring stories!"
I mentally kicked myself… there goes my temper again. I have a very short fuse, and people get on my nerves very quickly... It's probably because everyone else is so much slower than I am. I get impatient with them. But I'm Sonic the hedgehog- so it's only natural, right?
Problem was, I knew Porker gets upset almost as easily as I get worked up.
"Anyway, I didn't really come to the Floating Island to see Knuckles," I began, more calmly. "It was you I wanted to see."
"M…me?" Porker stammered. He looked nervously at me… but Porker was always nervous. He's my complete opposite- no confidence whatsoever, and not exactly the bravest guy around either. It grates on me sometimes, but we're still friends- I've known him for as long as I can remember.
Besides, he had every right to be nervous after everything he'd been through.
"Don't worry, old buddy…" I reassured him. "I'm not gonna ask you to join us in the fight against Robotnik again; I've just come to see how you are." A while ago, Porker had been trapped on the Miracle Planet for a month, with a whole army of Metallixes… when we found him, he was tied up with metal cables and was scared senseless. Goodness knows what the Metallixes hade done to him, but it left him a nervous wreck. He couldn't go on after that, and had left the Freedom Fighters soon afterwards.
"I'm fine, Sonic…" Porker smiled. "Life's much better since I moved to the Floating Island." He paused thoughtfully. I grinned back and walked over towards the emerald shaft.
A chill went through me as I approached the Chaos Emeralds, partly due to the low temperature needed to keep them stable. But it was the energy radiating from them that made my whole body tingle; the feeling was almost pleasant, and again I was aware of the energy calling me closer…
After a long silence, Porker guiltily spoke up.
"…But I still can't help thinking that I let everyone down."
I sighed. I had thought that too, when he first told me he was quitting. But I wasn't angry with him anymore, I couldn't blame Porker forever.
"Forget it, Porker. You've already done more than your fair share." That was true, the gadgets he'd invented had really helped out over the years.
"That's nice of you, Sonic. I miss you all, especially Amy."
I sat down suddenly on the wall around the emerald shaft, exasperated. Stupid of me, but I wasn't thinking…
"Don't mention her, buddy. Lately she's been driving me up the wall!" I scowled, remembering all the times during the last few weeks when I had been annoyed, embarrassed and generally hassled by the annoying pink hedgehog with her endless teasing and attempts to 'get me alone'. Yeah, Amy was a friend. And she was someone you'd want on your side in a fight… But why couldn't she just give me some breathing space??!
I'd told her a million times. I wasn't the romantic type, and I certainly wasn't interested.
At least, I don't think I was.
"Intruders- identify yourselves!" Barked a loud, metallic voice!
What? A badnik?!
My fighting instinct went into overdrive… I started back, ready to spring--
--and the movement caused the ancient stones to crumble beneath me…
"Sonic, look out!" Porker yelled, too late. I caught a glimpse of the robot head he had been talking about, on a shelf in the background. The owner of the voice.
Then I was pitched backwards… into the emerald shaft…
I fell- grabbed for the edge- missed. Panicking now, I realised what was about to happen… How could I have been stupid enough to go near those emeralds?
Too late now.
The energy from all seven Chaos Emeralds flowed down this shaft. Now it was flowing into me…
Already I could feel it starting…
I screamed in agony, feeling my body reacting and changing as the power was pumped into me. My thoughts began to cloud, spiralling out of control… I tried to fight it, but it was no use.
And then I didn't want to fight it anymore. I was invincible… I could do anything…
That was the last thing I remembered for some time…
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…He was falling through the emerald shaft.
There was no reason to be falling, his instincts urged. A tiny expenditure of energy, and the hedgehog simply stopped in mid air and reversed his course.
He flipped over the crumbling wall and landed on his feet on the Emerald Chamber floor.
Blazing golden-yellow quills dripped a continuous cascade of excess energy. The eyes glowed, burning red and pupil-less. They shone with pure rage and chaos; their expression mirrored in the decidedly evil, sharp toothed grin.
"Finally… I have returned!" The creature roared triumphantly. "Once again I am Super Sonic!"
He snarled, revelling in the power crackling through his body. He was stronger than ever before; he had never been in contact with so much pure Chaos energy. The power screamed to be put to use. But for what?
The fury in Super Sonic's eyes grew, his fists clenched at his sides. Untamed emotion was surging through him; all of Sonic's pent-up rage, frustration and hate had been released and was flowing freely through his mind.
He had to satisfy the rage, the all-consuming anger…
"My hatred consumes me… I must find something to destroy!"
His eyes flitted around the room. It would be easy to obliterate this place… the flimsy stone walls, the island itself… so fragile, so simple to pulverise.
Too easy. It would be nothing to him.
It wasn't enough.
No, it would take more than that to feed his inner furnace. Super Sonic needed to destroy something that would respond… something that would amuse him… something that would show terror before he ended its' existence.
Something… alive…
He didn't want to smash. He wanted to kill.
Something nagged at him… a memory… hadn't he been thinking of someone earlier, when he was weaker?
"A name…" the yellow hedgehog muttered. "Who was it? Who was I just thinking of before?"
It was hard to recall… something- someone- had been irritating him. He would make them pay for that.
Who had it been? It was her… the pink one… what was her name?
"Amy… Amy Rose!" he said haltingly, as the memory grudgingly surfaced. He remembered now- snatches of conversations, the endless teasing… annoyance and embarrassment all centred on her…
Grinning maliciously, Super Sonic lifted into the air and accelerated out of the room. He barely felt the impact as he ploughed through the opposite wall; it was like tissue paper to him, besides, he had other things to think about.
His target was set. Like a living missile, the chaotic hedgehog thundered into the sky and disappeared. His mind was set on a single goal: the complete and total annihilation of Amy Rose…
* * * *
Super Sonic rocketed through the atmosphere, a few hundred feet above the clouds. His flight was effortless; he could travel a hundred miles in the blink of an eye…
Yet still his mind was fixed on destruction. Amy… she had angered him so much… she would die for that. He relished the thought of it. But the hedgehog's brain buzzed with the uncontrollable fury- his scowl deepened, fists working spasmodically.
There was so much power… so much rage…
He couldn't stand it anymore… this was taking too long! He had to find something to destroy, now!
There! A small glint of metal in the distance. Red eyes narrowed as Super Sonic identified it as an aircraft… a bulky machine, it's flight clumsy and ungainly compared to his own.
One of Robotnik's troop transports, some hazy memory told him.
"Now what have we here?" the hedgehog grinned maliciously, altering his course to intercept the craft. A deep- rooted hatred of Robotnik pushed his anger to new heights.
Within moments, the unsuspecting vehicle became an expanding fireball as Super Sonic tore through it's fuselage; and with an evil chuckle, he turned to inspect his work.
That was fun.
And there would be more where that came from, once he found Amy.
The amber hedgehog roared with laughter and followed the wreckage as it plummeted towards the ground.
Flying was so easy now… why had he been content with just running before?
Super Sonic burst through the cloud layer. The planet's surface was spread out before him, and he scanned the green landscape… smirking with pleasure as he imagined it all in flames.
Later. First he would deal with the girl.
Those weaklings should be around here somewhere…
Sure enough, there was a dot in the distance… he flew closer, recognising the old - fashioned gypsy caravan. Even at this distance, his vision was sharp enough to pick out the three figures outside- one grey, one orange…
--and one pink…
Super Sonic accelerated, descending until he nearly brushed the treetops. He was close now, and the three animals had spotted him. Grinning at their shocked expressions, the hedgehog rocketed towards his intended victim--
"Amy Rose, prepare to die!!"
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To be continued!!
By T 'RockChick' Evans
I don't own anyone in this fic… actually, I don't even own the story! It's based on issues 80 - 82 of Egmont Fleetway's Sonic the Comic. (My favourite story, all hail Nigel Kitching…) So don't sue me… I'm not doing any harm…
This is in Sonic's point of view, by the way. It helps if you've read the comic, to see what the other characters are up to when Sonic/Super isn't there. A couple things to remember… Sonic doesn't have green eyes yet, and Porker is living on the Floating Island. Also, you may be wondering why Super Sonic's sections aren't in first- person like the rest. Think about it. Sonic never remembers anything about going Super, right? So I couldn't exactly have him telling the story. And have you ever seen Super Sonic with a thought balloon in STC? Ever? Thought not… so… doing it in third person is the fanfic equivalent… I think…
* * * *
~ Chapter 1 ~
"Hello? Is anyone there?"
My dark brown eyes scanned the Floating Island's Emerald Chamber. I turned to the bookish -looking pig behind me, and shrugged.
"I don't think Knuckles is here, Porker."
Again, I glanced around the room. Nope- no sign of Red anywhere. The place looked a lot worse than the last time I was in here. I mean, it's usually pretty gloomy in the Emerald Chamber, because the only decent light comes from the Chaos Emeralds- and even that has a strangeness about it. This time though there was rubble everywhere, as well as the usual dust and cobwebs. Some of the ancient pillars were broken; chunks of stone had been prized from the walls…
In short, it looked like there had been a fight.
"Boy, that Knuckles sure is a messy housekeeper!" I tutted, pretending to be shocked. My friend frowned and shook his head.
"No, you don't understand, Sonic!" he explained patiently. I was about to tell him I was kidding- after all, have you ever seen my place?! - but he was already continuing. "Knuckles had a battle with a robot head, and…"
"Robot head?" I butted in, vaguely interested. "What happened to the rest of it?"
"Well, it did have a body but that was when it was working for Doctor Zachary. Doctor Zachary, you see, was…"
I yawned. Not really listening, I let Porker ramble on. He has a tendency to get wordy, and when he does… argh. The boredom!
My mind wandered, and whatever he was going on about went in one ear and out the other. If there's something I hate, it's a boring lecture. One thing I learned in school was how to tune them out…
I found myself absently looking over at the Chaos Emeralds. As usual, I felt strangely drawn to the seven large gems, and the power they contained… yet repulsed at the same time. I knew what they could do to me.
The emeralds were contained in a shaft of light that exited through a hole in the ceiling and another in the floor; the well seemed to go a very long way down and was encircled by a low stone wall. The shaft, I'd been told in another of Porker's lectures, directed the power of the emeralds- their energy flowed from here into the core of the Island, keeping it aloft. The Chaos Emeralds had been free- floating the first time I had seen them, but Knuckles seemed to have restored them to their original place.
"…But Knuckles didn't know that at first, and then…" Porker droned, intruding on my thoughts.
He was starting to irritate me…
"Forget it, Porker!" I snapped, briefly turning my gaze away from the emeralds. "The last thing I want is to listen to one of your boring stories!"
I mentally kicked myself… there goes my temper again. I have a very short fuse, and people get on my nerves very quickly... It's probably because everyone else is so much slower than I am. I get impatient with them. But I'm Sonic the hedgehog- so it's only natural, right?
Problem was, I knew Porker gets upset almost as easily as I get worked up.
"Anyway, I didn't really come to the Floating Island to see Knuckles," I began, more calmly. "It was you I wanted to see."
"M…me?" Porker stammered. He looked nervously at me… but Porker was always nervous. He's my complete opposite- no confidence whatsoever, and not exactly the bravest guy around either. It grates on me sometimes, but we're still friends- I've known him for as long as I can remember.
Besides, he had every right to be nervous after everything he'd been through.
"Don't worry, old buddy…" I reassured him. "I'm not gonna ask you to join us in the fight against Robotnik again; I've just come to see how you are." A while ago, Porker had been trapped on the Miracle Planet for a month, with a whole army of Metallixes… when we found him, he was tied up with metal cables and was scared senseless. Goodness knows what the Metallixes hade done to him, but it left him a nervous wreck. He couldn't go on after that, and had left the Freedom Fighters soon afterwards.
"I'm fine, Sonic…" Porker smiled. "Life's much better since I moved to the Floating Island." He paused thoughtfully. I grinned back and walked over towards the emerald shaft.
A chill went through me as I approached the Chaos Emeralds, partly due to the low temperature needed to keep them stable. But it was the energy radiating from them that made my whole body tingle; the feeling was almost pleasant, and again I was aware of the energy calling me closer…
After a long silence, Porker guiltily spoke up.
"…But I still can't help thinking that I let everyone down."
I sighed. I had thought that too, when he first told me he was quitting. But I wasn't angry with him anymore, I couldn't blame Porker forever.
"Forget it, Porker. You've already done more than your fair share." That was true, the gadgets he'd invented had really helped out over the years.
"That's nice of you, Sonic. I miss you all, especially Amy."
I sat down suddenly on the wall around the emerald shaft, exasperated. Stupid of me, but I wasn't thinking…
"Don't mention her, buddy. Lately she's been driving me up the wall!" I scowled, remembering all the times during the last few weeks when I had been annoyed, embarrassed and generally hassled by the annoying pink hedgehog with her endless teasing and attempts to 'get me alone'. Yeah, Amy was a friend. And she was someone you'd want on your side in a fight… But why couldn't she just give me some breathing space??!
I'd told her a million times. I wasn't the romantic type, and I certainly wasn't interested.
At least, I don't think I was.
"Intruders- identify yourselves!" Barked a loud, metallic voice!
What? A badnik?!
My fighting instinct went into overdrive… I started back, ready to spring--
--and the movement caused the ancient stones to crumble beneath me…
"Sonic, look out!" Porker yelled, too late. I caught a glimpse of the robot head he had been talking about, on a shelf in the background. The owner of the voice.
Then I was pitched backwards… into the emerald shaft…
I fell- grabbed for the edge- missed. Panicking now, I realised what was about to happen… How could I have been stupid enough to go near those emeralds?
Too late now.
The energy from all seven Chaos Emeralds flowed down this shaft. Now it was flowing into me…
Already I could feel it starting…
I screamed in agony, feeling my body reacting and changing as the power was pumped into me. My thoughts began to cloud, spiralling out of control… I tried to fight it, but it was no use.
And then I didn't want to fight it anymore. I was invincible… I could do anything…
That was the last thing I remembered for some time…
* * * *
…He was falling through the emerald shaft.
There was no reason to be falling, his instincts urged. A tiny expenditure of energy, and the hedgehog simply stopped in mid air and reversed his course.
He flipped over the crumbling wall and landed on his feet on the Emerald Chamber floor.
Blazing golden-yellow quills dripped a continuous cascade of excess energy. The eyes glowed, burning red and pupil-less. They shone with pure rage and chaos; their expression mirrored in the decidedly evil, sharp toothed grin.
"Finally… I have returned!" The creature roared triumphantly. "Once again I am Super Sonic!"
He snarled, revelling in the power crackling through his body. He was stronger than ever before; he had never been in contact with so much pure Chaos energy. The power screamed to be put to use. But for what?
The fury in Super Sonic's eyes grew, his fists clenched at his sides. Untamed emotion was surging through him; all of Sonic's pent-up rage, frustration and hate had been released and was flowing freely through his mind.
He had to satisfy the rage, the all-consuming anger…
"My hatred consumes me… I must find something to destroy!"
His eyes flitted around the room. It would be easy to obliterate this place… the flimsy stone walls, the island itself… so fragile, so simple to pulverise.
Too easy. It would be nothing to him.
It wasn't enough.
No, it would take more than that to feed his inner furnace. Super Sonic needed to destroy something that would respond… something that would amuse him… something that would show terror before he ended its' existence.
Something… alive…
He didn't want to smash. He wanted to kill.
Something nagged at him… a memory… hadn't he been thinking of someone earlier, when he was weaker?
"A name…" the yellow hedgehog muttered. "Who was it? Who was I just thinking of before?"
It was hard to recall… something- someone- had been irritating him. He would make them pay for that.
Who had it been? It was her… the pink one… what was her name?
"Amy… Amy Rose!" he said haltingly, as the memory grudgingly surfaced. He remembered now- snatches of conversations, the endless teasing… annoyance and embarrassment all centred on her…
Grinning maliciously, Super Sonic lifted into the air and accelerated out of the room. He barely felt the impact as he ploughed through the opposite wall; it was like tissue paper to him, besides, he had other things to think about.
His target was set. Like a living missile, the chaotic hedgehog thundered into the sky and disappeared. His mind was set on a single goal: the complete and total annihilation of Amy Rose…
* * * *
Super Sonic rocketed through the atmosphere, a few hundred feet above the clouds. His flight was effortless; he could travel a hundred miles in the blink of an eye…
Yet still his mind was fixed on destruction. Amy… she had angered him so much… she would die for that. He relished the thought of it. But the hedgehog's brain buzzed with the uncontrollable fury- his scowl deepened, fists working spasmodically.
There was so much power… so much rage…
He couldn't stand it anymore… this was taking too long! He had to find something to destroy, now!
There! A small glint of metal in the distance. Red eyes narrowed as Super Sonic identified it as an aircraft… a bulky machine, it's flight clumsy and ungainly compared to his own.
One of Robotnik's troop transports, some hazy memory told him.
"Now what have we here?" the hedgehog grinned maliciously, altering his course to intercept the craft. A deep- rooted hatred of Robotnik pushed his anger to new heights.
Within moments, the unsuspecting vehicle became an expanding fireball as Super Sonic tore through it's fuselage; and with an evil chuckle, he turned to inspect his work.
That was fun.
And there would be more where that came from, once he found Amy.
The amber hedgehog roared with laughter and followed the wreckage as it plummeted towards the ground.
Flying was so easy now… why had he been content with just running before?
Super Sonic burst through the cloud layer. The planet's surface was spread out before him, and he scanned the green landscape… smirking with pleasure as he imagined it all in flames.
Later. First he would deal with the girl.
Those weaklings should be around here somewhere…
Sure enough, there was a dot in the distance… he flew closer, recognising the old - fashioned gypsy caravan. Even at this distance, his vision was sharp enough to pick out the three figures outside- one grey, one orange…
--and one pink…
Super Sonic accelerated, descending until he nearly brushed the treetops. He was close now, and the three animals had spotted him. Grinning at their shocked expressions, the hedgehog rocketed towards his intended victim--
"Amy Rose, prepare to die!!"
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To be continued!!