Hello! Welcome to the restarting of my fanfictions, the last one didn't go so well… Anyway, I have read a lot of other fanfictions recently. And one of my favourites uses roughly 4000 words per chapter, but kept all characters in-character so it was brilliant; I mean yes, it was a crossover which is something that I'm not going to do for a little while, but the execution was so fantastic that I feel that if I spend more time writing chapters like the author of that particular story did, then I could make fanfictions that could be considered decent! I probably won't write 4000 words per chapter, but I'll make sure to focus on quality over quantity.
Warning: Contains exposition.
So anyway, updates will be slow from now on, but quality over quality involves that (I presume); so just don't expect quick updates! Reviews are always appreciated, especially if they contain constructive criticism!
Disclaimer:
This is a work of fan-fiction using characters, locations, entities, items and events from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Sonic the Hedgehog is owned and trademarked by SEGA Japan and all other respective countries. I do not claim ownership of any characters, locations, entities, items or events in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. The story has been created by me and is not purported or believed to be a part of SEGA's story canon. The story is for entertainment purposes only. Any resemblance to any character, object, event, location or entity that is owned by anyone other than SEGA is purely coincidental. I am not profiting financially from the creation of and publication of this story. I am grateful to SEGA for their amazing video games about Sonic the Hedgehog, without them my story would not exist.
The planet Earth: A beautiful and underappreciated planet that's just taking its first baby-steps into what it would eventually become; but in its primitivism mankind wages war on itself, never tiring of violence and destruction yet never tiring of peace and love. It's the nature of humans, Earth's dominant species, but there is one who takes it beyond what is safe for the future of his own planet. This is his story, the story of his battle against a pure force of goodness. A force that has saved countless lives, cities and entire civilisations, some of which that isn't even of their world.
In a lifeless wasteland of what used to be a beautiful landscape, there is a factory; a factory that would produce nightmares, nightmares that were to soon be unleashed upon the citizens of the planet. This factory was owned by the genius madman known as Doctor Ivo 'Eggman' Robotnik; Eggman sat in the strategy room of his soon-to-be infamous factory questioning what diabolical methods he would use to gain his dream of world domination with his loyal (kind of) robotic assistants.
"Maybe if we lure him to the coast with a chilidog and kick him into the sea?" asked Cubot, Eggman's strange mechanical helper. "You underestimate his intelligence, which is ironic." replied Eggman.
The one that they spoke of was the known saviour of the planet: Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic was a blue part-human, part-hedgehog; he was a pure hero who was not afraid to risk his life for the planet. However, Sonic stood out from any other hybrid with his extraordinary speed; he could reach an average of the sound barrier, but no-one knew the limits of his ability, or if he even had a limit.
"What if we took one of his friends' captive and demand his imprisonment for their freedom?" suggested Orbot, Eggman's more intelligent mechanical helper. "That never works, he always either breaks them out or they do it themselves." said Eggman. Eggman had tried every single plan in the book of being evil, he even made up new books of being evil; but it seemed that Sonic stopped every single plan he concocted, every single one.
The closest that Eggman ever came to actually defeating Sonic was when he crafted the mechanical warrior codenamed 'Metal Sonic'. Metal Sonic was Eggman's attempt at creating a robot that was superior to Sonic in every way, and has yet to prove otherwise; the only issue with Metal Sonic was his rogue artificial intelligence causing him to turn on Eggman and attempt to enslave life on Earth himself. That was a slight issue for Eggman.
'Maybe if I reviewed some of my old plans and changed them?' thought Eggman. He had done this before, but he had always overlooked a detail or two that would give Sonic an advantage; this time however, he would look the plan that had been the closest to destroying the hedgehog forever: Metal Sonic. Eggman walked to his console and loaded the blueprints, programming and anything else he could find about Metal Sonic, and he happened to find a piece of forgotten data that begin Eggman's latest plan.
As he studied the data, memories flowed back to the mad scientist and ideas formed in his twisted mind. These ideas would soon become a reality, and Eggman would become unstoppable. "Yes! This is it! This is exactly what I need!" screamed Eggman in victory, a massive, evil grin on his face. "What is it sir?" asked Orbot. Eggman turned to his companions and said, "Triumph."
Meanwhile…
Today is a very special day for the heroes of this story, today is November 21st: the birthday of Miles 'Tails' Prower. Tails was turning 12 today, and he was celebrating with all his friends; Tails was part-Human, part-Red Fox, but since his fox genes were more dominant he is referred to as a fox; and his friends are as well for their respective species. He had an IQ of 300, an IQ he calculated with an official IQ test designed for him; he and his friends had saved the Earth on several occasions and sometimes different planets, so he was allowed to call in a few favours to calculate his IQ.
He was also the adopted little brother of Sonic the Hedgehog, who was walking him to an unknown location. "Come on Sonic, where are we going?" asked Tails. "You'll see Tails, you'll see." replied Sonic. Tails was blindfolded, so he couldn't see where he was going; but it wasn't long before Sonic brought Tails to a stop and said, "Ok, we're here Tails." Sonic took off Tails' blindfold to reveal something Tails had not expected… a room with his friends sat in a circle.
The room was dark, dull and had a vibe of despair, their friends: Knuckles, Amy and Shadow (who was looking annoyed) sat in a circle in the centre of the room. "Tails, I'm afraid we have some bad news." said Sonic. "W-what?!" said Tails. Tails could not understand what was happening, he felt like he was at the start of a horror movie or something, he was expecting some kind of surprise party only to find himself in a dark room freaking out. "We didn't have enough rings to buy you a card… But on the plus side, we brought you a heck of a lot of presents!" said Sonic, his expression lighting up. Suddenly, Knuckles the lights of the room turned on, revealing many wrapped-up birthday presents scattered around the edges of the room that were previously hidden in the dark. Amy and Knuckles' expressions also lit up, Shadow's remained annoyed though. "I can't believe we actually had to do that." said Shadow.
Knuckles was 16 years old and the last part-Human part-Echidna on the planet, this meant that he was responsible with the task of guarding the master emerald, a jewel of infinite energy created by the god of chaos who gave it as a gift to the echidna race. The echidnas evolved incredible strength and two sharp spikes on their knuckles, allowing knuckles to break through objects that could be considered indestructible. Knuckles was gullible, often believing heavily in the goodness in people; however, he was easily angered and violent.
Amy was a 12 year old pink part-Human, part-Hedgehog. Amy was full of energy and had a massive crush on Sonic, but she was also extremely powerful when angry which made her an occasional nightmare of the speedy hero. She wielded the Piko-Piko Hammer, a large hammer that Amy was able to make appear at her will due to some kind of connection of chaos energy.
Shadow was at least 50 years old and a black and red artificial black and red part-Human part-Hedgehog. He was technically at least 50 years old because he was placed in suspended animation for that long; however he was created in a space station with the blood of an alien race which meant that he was ageless. He was created in the space colony ARK with the intention of providing genes to cure deadly diseases by Dr Gerald Robotnik, specifically to his grand-daughter Maria. Robotnik made a deal with an alien known as Black Doom who resided in a comet to provide blood for Shadow in exchange for his services; however Robotnik found out about Doom's plan to destroy the Earth with his comet and so created a laser on the space station to destroy the comet when it would return. But a corrupt group of GUN agents found out about this and killed everybody on board the ARK including Maria (Who had become Shadow's best friend), who had died sending Shadow to Earth while asking him to protect the people of Earth. But when Shadow landed on Earth he was placed in suspended animation because his alien blood combined with Gerald's exceptional scientific technology provided him with immortality so he couldn't be destroyed. And after he was awoken, he had a few epic adventures involving amnesia and became one of the Earth's greatest defences. Shadow rarely shares emotion, but he can manipulate both positive and negative chaos energy into powerful attacks.
(Sorry for the extreme exposition.)
Tails sighed in relief, glad that he actually got a surprise party. "Yeah, sorry but we couldn't think of anything else to do as a surprise." said Knuckles. Tails looked at the presents in awe; yes it was true that it's the thought that counts rather than the presents, but the presents were pretty important. There were presents wrapped in bright coloured paper, music was blaring from speakers hidden in a corner; Tails wanted to save opening the presents until the end of the party to see if the experience was better, so him and his friends danced to the loud music with the exception of Shadow who just looked like he really didn't want to be there. It turned out that all of their other friends were busy with Halloween-related stuff, but Tails and his friends were still on cloud nine, but it was now time for them to be brought back down to Earth.
The song was closing and suddenly the wall of the room was broken down by a giant drill machine that the heroes recognised as the property of a certain evil scientist, "Can't we get any occasions without some kind of Eggman threat?!" yelled Amy. "Apparently not!" said Sonic. Eggman flew in his Egg-mobile with dual explosive rockets in case of hostility. "Sorry to crash the party like this! Oh, who am I kidding? I'm not." said Eggman. Tails felt a mix between nervousness and anger, nervousness because he and his friends were in the same room with a lunatic who had access to explosives, but anger because Eggman had violently interrupted a great birthday party to probably threaten him and his friends; it was true that he was fearful of many things, especially lightning, but his many adventures with Sonic had helped him get past that… slightly.
"Ok Egghead, what do you want? We don't have any chaos emeralds if that was what you wanted." said Sonic. "I'm not here for the emeralds; well I was, but only partly. But I'm mainly here to personally invite you all to see my plans unfold, because I'm just so kind like that." said Eggman. "As proven by the fact that you broke down the wall to get in, yes you're very polite." replied Shadow. "Since when did you get a sense of humour?" asked Sonic. "Since I started to adapt to Earth social-" replied Shadow before being interrupted.
"Hey! Pay attention to me you rodents!" screamed Eggman, gaining the heroes' attention. Eggman continued, "Now, if you want to witness the beginning of my plans, meet me in Dusty Desert near Soleanna at 12:30 tomorrow. You can't miss me." Eggman flew off in his Egg-mobile with his weapons still aimed at the group as he escaped.
The chaos emeralds that they spoke of were a collection of 7 jewels that contain an infinite amount of energy, and when all 7 are together then they allow a user to gain power far beyond what they were capable of before.
"It's strange that he gave us a location where his plans will take place, that's very unlike him." said Tails. "You don't think that he's just given up with trying to do these schemes properly do you?" asked Sonic. "That's highly unlikely, the doctor has either gained a lot of arrogance since we last met, or he's plotting something else." said Shadow. Eggman had a tendency to create plans of both natures; sometimes he creates unthinkably complicated plans that could end with Eggman in very favourable positions, or he would rely on a force that would destroy Sonic and his friends to allow Eggman to build an empire on Earth. But what force could he rely on?
"Ok, here's the plan: I'll monitor largely populated cities in case of reverse psychology. Sonic, you go to Dusty Desert on the designated day just in case he's telling the truth. We'll wait at my workshop, ready to travel with the Tornado-1 to travel to wherever the threat of Eggman's plan is. I think we can take on whatever Eggman's plan is with this plan." explained Tails.
"Oh, why can't I go with Sonic?!" asked Amy. "Because uh- you may uh- distract Sonic with your love!" lied Tails nervously. Amy saw through his lie, but before she could get angry, Shadow said, "Look, just listen to him alright? It's his birthday." said Shadow. "Grrrr… fine!" said Amy.
With the plan set, what is Eggman planning?
Thank you for reading the first chapter of my fanfiction! All reviews are appreciated! I really hope that this fanfiction goes better than the last one; and I'll see you next time!