LBernie Kezuka,ife at SEGA
This is my first Sonic fic.
Author's Note :I made a mistake Bernie Stolar was no longer the president of SEGA in 2001 the president of SEGA was Toshiro Kezuka. I made changes to fix the mistake. all mentioning's of Bernie Stolar have been changed to Toshiro Kezuka.
Beta by iammemyself
Disclaimer I don't own sonic the hedgehog.
Or any other SEGA employees, staff or representatives.
This Story is inspired buy a true event.
The names of actual people are only used for the
purpose of authenticity. The opinions expressed by the characters do not necessarily reflect the positions of actual SEGA employees, staff or representatives.
Thursday March 1 2001
San Francisco
Sega of America Inc.,
Sonic ran into the office of Toshiro Kezuka, the president of SEGA, sat in a chair and put his feet on Toshiro'sdesk. He then stretched out his right hand, the palm facing up as if he was holding something. Sonic sat with his eyes closed for almost a second, then opened his eyes and looked to his empty hand.
"Why is my hand empty?" Sonic asked.
"Oh, sorry Sonic," Toshiro said, and pushed a button on an intercom.
"Hey, someone get in here and give Sonic a chili dog."
Shortly after a dark voice could be heard outside the office.
"I am not an intern and I deserve my own game, I should not be the one…"
":::"
"Fine, I will do it"!
In a little bit the door opened and Shadow stepped in, holding a takeout bag in one hand and a chaos emerald in the other.
"Hey Shadow," Sonic said. "Long time no see".
Shadow rolled his eyes, "I saw you yesterday," he said.
He handed Sonic the chili dog.
"Try not to Choke on it."
"Now Mr. Kezuka I was wondering if…"
"Hey, you didn't get me a soda," Sonic interrupted.
"Shadow, go get Sonic a soda," Mr. Kezuka ordered.
Shadow glared. "Fine! chaos c…"
"Wait, Shadow" Mr. Kezuka said, "aren't you going to ask Sonic what he wants?"
"Oh, Shadow knows what I like," Sonic said, making a goofy face,"don't you Shadow?"
Shadow glared "Yes I know!"
"chaos control!"
Shadow vanished and shortly after reappeared, with a soda.
"Go ahead and Choke on it," said Shadow as he gave the soda to Sonic.
"Now as I was saying…"
"Sorry, Shadow, but I need to talk to Sonic," said Mr. Kezuka
" But-"
"Good bye, Shadow."
Shadow finally left, and slammed the door.
"Well, what did you need to see me for," Sonic asked, "a new game for the Dreamcast?"
Toshiro Kezuka looked downward. "Sonic, I am afraid I have some really bad news." Sonic's eyes went wide. And he actually nearly choked on the chili dog.
"What, you're firing me? You can't I'm…:"
"Calm down Sonic, we are not firing you!"
Sonic sighed. "Well thank goodness for that, but then what is it?"
"We have just decided to discontinue the Dreamcast," Toshiro said.
This time the chilly dog had slid out of the bun and went down his throat.
Sonic grabbed at his throat trying to force the dog down so he could breathe.
Sonic did not know if it was his imagination, but he could have sworn he heard the
drowning music, from his games.
Sonic recovered and gasped.
"What? Sonic yelled "Discontinue the Dreamcast, but I only got two good games on the Dreamcast, and now you're going to make a new console. After the SEGA Saturn was such a failure?"
"No, Sonic, we are withdrawing from the console hardware business altogether, and we will be restructuring Sega as a third party developer."
Sonic's eyes went wide again.
"A third party developer," Sonic said, "you mean like Tsunami and Crap com?"
"That's Konami and Capcom," Toshirocorrected. "And that's the idea. From now on your games will not be restricted to one console. You will have games on the PS2, the Xbox, the PC, and…" Toshirohesitated.
"The Nintendo Gamecube and Gameboy Advance."
"NINTENDO!" Sonic screamed, "I am going to be on NINTENDO? Have you lost your mind? This is SEGA, we do what nintendon't!"
"Not any more, Sonic," Toshirosaid. "Not any more. I am really sorry Sonic. I really am."
"I don't care! Things will never be the same here," Sonic said as he got up and left the room.
Sonic made his way through the Sega building and came to his apartment. There was a plaque on the door with Sonic's face on it that said "Sonic the hedgehog, the face of SEGA".
Below was an original 'genesis does what nintendon't' poster.
Next to the door was a numbered key pad. Sonic keyed in a code and the door opened.
Then Sonic went in the room and closed the door.
Sonic's bed was on the left wall and the headboard was a giant blue SEGA logo.
On the wall next to the bed, were framed photographs of Sonic, Naoto Ohshima, Yuji Naka, and Hirokazu Yasuhara. There were several more posters and a SEGASonic the Hedgehog arcade cabinet.
On the far wall was a cabinet with a TV and several game consoles.
He went over to the cabinet and looked at the game consoles.
The SEGA Master System, not his best but there were some good ports of his game on it. The SEGA Game Gear, it had some good games but Nintendo's Gameboy had killed it. The Game Gear unfortunately ate batteries faster then Sonic ate chili dogs.
The Sega Genesis... that was when it happened. His first game, Sonic the Hedgehog 1. The game that made him who he was, as well as the sequels Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 and Knuckles.
Then there was the SEGA CD and Sonic CD. A good game, but a bad console. The SEGA CD never sold well, so not many people played Sonic CD. There was also Sonic Spinball, it was OK but it was just pinball with Sonic. Still cool, just not way past cool.
Then there was Sonic 3D Blast. It was awful.
And that was it for the SEGA Genesis.
There was Knuckles Chaotix for 32x, but Sonic was not in it.
Then came Sega Saturn, the failure. It had Sonic 3D Blast as well, but it was even more awful then the Sega Genesis version.
Sonic Jam, a compilation of his SEGA Genesis games. And then Sonic R.
And then the Sega Saturn was scrapped.
Why Sega did that sonic never understood. Sega Saturn had been expensive and he never got a good game on it.
Then there was the Sega Dreamcast, it was then that Sonic made his comeback with Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 .
Sonic was hoping to fully restore his popularity. Go back to being better known than Mickey Mouse.
But now that Dreamcast was over. Sega Saturn had been too much of a failure for the Dreamcast to overcome.
Sonic glared down at the Sega Saturn. "This is all your fault," Sonic said, and picked up the Sega Saturn, and went over to the door and opened it. He then threw the Sega Saturn at the far wall as hard as he could, and it smashed into a hundred pieces. Then Sonic slammed the door. He collapsed in the center of the room and started crying.
Not long after, Tails was walking down the hall. Toshiro Kezuka had just told him, Knuckles, and Amy Rose the bad news.
Knuckles and Amy had not reacted well.
Amy had smashed Toshiro Kezuka's desk with her Piko Piko Hammer.
Knuckles had stormed off after this and told Mr. Kezuka that when he ordered a new desk, he needed to order a new punching bag for the workout room, as he was most likely going to destroy the one that was there now.
Toshiro Toshiro then decided to inform the other characters over the phone.
Although Tails was sad, he was not taking it as bad as Sonic and the others.
Tails heard something crunch under his foot and looked down.
"This looks like it was a Sega Saturn," he said, examining the debris.
He looked up and saw he was in front of Sonic's apartment.
This was Sonic's Sega Saturn.
"Sonic must really be upset," he thought. Although Tails had never liked the Sega Saturn. It had had that Sonic R game with that Tails doll that gave him the creeps.
Tails put his ear to the door.
Sonic was apparently breathing hard. No... wait... it sounded more like crying. Yes, Sonic was crying. Tails went cold.
Sonic almost never cried, and he preferred that people thought he never did ever!
But Sonic was Tails' best friend, so he had to help him.
Although the door was locked, Tails knew Sonic's code, and keyed it in.
Tails slowly opened the door and walked in.
"Hey Sonic, are you okay?" Tails asked.
"Tails, what are you doing in here, GET OUT NOW!" Sonic said harshly.
Tails stepped back. "It's not you he is angry with," Tails told himself, "he does not want you to see him crying."
Tails came closer.
"Didn't you hear me, you stupid mutant FOX, get out of my Room!"
Tails glared at Sonic. "Hey! Look here, I not stupid, in fact I am a lot smarter than you, but even when you insult me, I am still your best friend and I am not going to leave the room!"
Tails walked right up to Sonic and put his hands on his shoulders.
"Look at me, Sonic!" Tails said, "I do not care if you're crying. I know what happened, I know you're upset."
Sonic finally looked up at Tails, his eyes red from crying.
"Oh Tails, Sega is dead, it's all over now, it's all over," Sonic sobbed, burying his head in Tails's chest.
Tails held Sonic. This was a switch Tails thought, normally Sonic would be comforting Tails when he was upset, but now Tails was comforting Sonic.
"Sonic, it's going to be ok, so Sega is not making hardware any more. They are still going to make games," Tails said.
"But NINTENDO, we are going to be on NINTENDO, along with that stupid plumber Mario."
"What's wrong with Mario?" Tails asked.
Sonic looked at Tails as if he had just told him that chilidogs were not healthy.
However he managed not to explode.
"Tails, little buddy, didn't you know?"
Tails looked up at Sonic. "Know what?"
"Tails, I was originally created to destroy Mario so that SEGA could destroy NINTENDO, now that will never happen."
"Oh," Tails said. "I think I understand, no one ever told me that though. I only know that I was intended as something called a Luigi."
Sonic smirked. "That would be Mario's brother."
"Oh," said Tails. "But at least you will still be around."
"Yeah, I guess so but I don't suppose I will ever be better known than Mickey Mouse again?"
Tails looked up. "Who's Mickey Mouse?" he asked.
Sonic smiled. "Thanks Tails. Thanks."
Sonic got up off the floor. He was feeling better, but still not his normal self.
"Look, Sonic, you need to get your mind off this, why not go out for a run?" Tails suggested.
"That's a great idea," said Sonic, "I'll…"
There then came the sound of heavy raining.
"Now that's just great," Sonic said sarcastically, and collapsed on his couch.
Tails was not discouraged.
He turned on Sonic's TV, picked up Sonic 2 off the shelf, and put it in Sonic's Genesis.
He then handed controller 1 to Sonic and turned on the Genesis.
Tails sat down beside Sonic with controller 2.
"SEGA!" both Sonic and Tails said, along with the TV.
"Okay Sonic, let's see how fast we can get all the chaos emeralds, and finish the game."
"All right, Tails," Sonic replied. "Just try not to lose all my rings in the special stage."
Tails glared at Sonic. "Hey, point one I am better than I was when the game was programmed. Point two, the AI on this game is old. And point three, you're not playing the game with an old AI with my old skills. You have me here now as I am, and I am really good at this game!"
"All right, I was only joking," Sonic said.
Almost before they had started Emerald Hill Zone, they were done and on to Chemical Plant Zone.
Sonic ran down the ramp and then started moonwalking.
"Oh yeah," Sonic said, and started singing "Amy Rose Is Not My Lover She's Just A Girl Who Claims That I Am The One".
Upon hearing this Tails burst out laughing.
"You better not let Amy hear you sing that," he said. |And you do not want a call from Michael Jackson either."
"Hey, "Sonic said, "I know Michael Jackson, I was the one that taught him how to moonwalk."
Tails smirked at Sonic.
"Okay," Sonic said, "he taught me how to moonwalk. Actually he did a lot for me, he inspired my shoes and did the music for Sonic 3. And he also inspired me to get a nose job."
Not long after Sonic and Tails finished the game, beating their own record for time and high score.
"There are only two things I do not like about this game," Tails said. "I can't fly in this game and I can't fight the final boss alongside you."
"But if you play alone you can fight the final boss all by yourself," Sonic said.
"Yes," Tails said, "but it would still be fun if we could do it together."
Sonic got up and turned off the Genesis and put Sonic 2 back in its box.
He then got out Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles, and put the 2 games together.
"Lock on technology," Sonic said. "Man I miss cartridges. No loading time to wait for."
Sonic then switched on the Genesis.
"SEGA..."
More to come when I get it dun.