Academy Chronicles: Rise of the Skylanders
Prologue: Fiction's War
AN: This is a story to serve as a prequel to the Sonic Stadium Message Board Roleplays, SSMB Heroes Academy and SSMB Heroes Academy: Uprising. As such, characters and lore from the currently unreleased fanfiction, The Disciples and events from preceding Roleplays will be used and referenced with enough explanation to keep things relatively simple to follow as the story continues.
Sometimes, mistakes can lead to amazing things. I know I experienced such a fluke before that I can say, changed my life for the better.
My name is Sayaka Miki. I was once a simple girl from Mitakihara City. One day, I made the decision to unknowingly sell my soul to heal my injured crush… only for me to die of despair. This would've been the end of me, if it wasn't for my best friend Madoka becoming a goddess. Years into the afterlife, I was taken from my plane of existence to a completely new universe…
…There, I met Sonic the Hedgehog. He was VERY different than those Sonics from the videogames I played when I was younger. He looked like an M&M, from a race of ancient magical animals called the Sentinels and was a general of an army known as The Disciples.
He told me that I'm the next Golden One after him, a chosen hero meant to lead the Disciples. As such, I took the offer.
I live in the Golden Skylands, a realm distanced from every multiverse where the Golden Skylanders reside. They travel across multiverses and maintain order between worlds. We, the Disciples are the elite Golden Skylanders, consisting with many people cloned from other worlds. Me and Sonic's team were the only ones truly from our worlds. We fight a very important war against the Metarex, lead by Sonic's psychotic arch nemesis, Mephiles the Dark. The Metarex are evil Outlanders who have one goal in mind… to destroy you.
Yeah, you. Beyond the screen, reading this log. Golden Skylanders and Outlanders know that we're fictional characters, living in the Fictional Realm. Reality is split from us thanks to a barrier known as the Fourth Wall. Your thoughts and imagination is taken, converted to matter in this realm thanks to the six Golden Weapons of the Fictional Realm. Unlike their descendants, the four Golden Weapons of Spinjitzu, they have minds of their own and are hidden throughout the Fictional Realm.
The Metarex's goal is to kill all of you and be free from your control. The only way to do that is the break the Fourth Wall using two of the six weapons: The Staff of Creation, the Scythe of Quakes, the Nunchucks of Lightning, the Sword of Fire, the Shurikens of Ice and the Sais of Destruction.
It's our job, as the Disciples to make sure these weapons don't get found by them. Fiction can't live without reality. Creation will cease to thrive because there's nobody to write us.
It's… pretty shocking, I know. I couldn't believe it myself. I couldn't believe any of it. Not just the fact that I was fictional, but if I can even be able to lead a team after I died in such a… stupid way. I didn't think I could ever live up to Sonic's accomplishments.
…But that's a story for another time.
This is a different tale; about a very special multiverse I visited initially by accident. Yet it spiraled into a series of adventures, leading me to found a whole new team of Skylanders…
AN: This is one of the many stories planned to be told that predate or bridge the RP's seasons. Hence Sayaka's mentions of a series of adventures. Expect to see some of these adventures teased and mentions. If they are not fully expanded, it's because it will potentially become a new story in the series, being an adaptation of something told in a connected roleplay before the Heroes Academy series.