When you wake up from sleep, it doesn't feel like two or three hundred years since you started sleeping in an antifreeze chamber. May feel like one or two, but never two hundred. I kinda felt weary as I woke up. I stretched my legs, and I'm ready for action.

Oh, pardon me, we haven't met, have we? My name's Kalika the Feline, but you can just call me Kalik for short. You see, a couple of years before now, the city of Soleanna was experimenting with the 'native' animal hybrid race. They captured a few, got some DNA samples, conducted experiments on them – wicked things. Then somehow, one scientist going by the name of 'Robotnik' somehow created me.

I was years ahead of my time, he said. But if I somehow got out of control, chaos would spread in the city streets. So he put me in an antifreeze generator so I could sleep eternally, and placed me within Mystic Cave, where nobody might look for me.

Guess it was time for me to wake up.

I couldn't help but notice these strange robots everywhere. They must have populated the forest during the few hundred years while I was asleep. Sure didn't have these in Soleanna, but it's been a few years.

I shift into speed mode, and a blue aura surrounds me. These robots are weaklings compared to the combat training I might've been given, but I needed a weapon. Surely enough, when I dash through them, I grab their blaster and they shatter into pieces.

"Any more left?" I fire the blaster and fire it rapidly behind me. I heard an explosion behind one of the rocks. "Ah, there's one."

I felt some sort of disturbance over to the end of the cave. As if evil energy was all collecting into one man – wait, that would just be stupid.

Some robots were blocking the edge of the cave. Obviously they didn't want me to escape.

"Sorry, boys," I called before slicing them open, "I'm in a hurry here."

Immediately when I escaped, I noticed a strange area of volcanoes. I would learn later that is was called Hilltop Madness, because the area was chok-full of grassy shield volcanoes. When I was put to sleep, I remember this being just a large section of hills.

What I first noticed was the robots everywhere. Instead of having ti fight through and delay myself furhter, I switched to power mode. "I don't have time for any of this…" The burst of energy I released nearly decimated the area, but I should have thought further before I acted. Soon after I released the energy, the volcanoes were erupting constantly.

My one choice was this – get out, or get blown to pieces. What I decided was obvious.

I immediately switched to speed mode, and dashed right out of there, intent on fleeing the scene before I got fried. Some bits scorched me, but nobody's perfect.

Suddenly, as I got out there, I couldn't stop in time before a trap caught me. A cage suddenly folded around me. Trapped like a rat. And then I heard a voice coming from outside. Sounded like my master's:

"Well, well, I thought it'd be hard to find the experiment 001856, but it looks like she came to us." I wanted to know why he sounded so familiar and how he knew my discarded experiment ID. Then I looked at his name tag.

Dr. Ivo 'Eggman' Robotnik, Evil Technological Genius. No wonder.