Chapter 1:

Josh Stein finished watching one of his favorite episodes of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog with a big smile. Some might consider him too old for such cartoons, since he was a junior in college, but if questioned he'd tell those people to stop ragging on cartoons and go back to their crude sitcoms where they belong. Then Josh wondered what to do next. Since it was summer vacation and there weren't that many things to do, he decided to check his email for fan fiction alerts in hopes to find a fun story to read.

Strangely, there was an email titled, "Adventures of Sonic the Hedgeog OC contest." Josh opened it and saw it had a rather detailed design page for creating a character. It was almost like a character creation menu you'd get in an RPG where you choose a race and spend skill points on different skills. After choosing "mobian fox " as his character's species, Josh scrolled through the list of special skills, sure enough, some had been copied straight out of the series, like super running speed and flight. However one original ability caught his eye. It read, "Shape shifting: Characters with shape shifting can take the form of other characters. While shape shifted, they may use the skills and physical abilities of that form. In their true form shape shifters may be distinguished by the metallic silver sheen of their fur/hair/quills." Getting Shape Shifting used up almost all of the available skill points. Josh put the remaining points into wits. Since the "Wits" stat's description said the higher it was, the more one could think quickly on their feet, Josh figured that it was a good combo. He named his character, "Mirror the Fox", but when he clicked submit, a while light came out of his computer and everything was engulfed in it. The light was too much for him and Josh passed out.

Josh woke slowly, until he opened his eyes and saw the sky above him. Then he finished waking up with a start. As he got up, he noticed that he didn't feel like himself. He looked down at himself and saw shiny silver fur where his clothes should be. "What's going on?" he asked aloud, and got a shock when he realized that his voice sounded younger, more like a teenager 's then a college student's. He looked to one side and saw a large gold tower . After studying his reflection in the metal he realized that he looked just like the preview image for his "Mirror the Fox" character. He turned and saw that he also had a tail, which after reaching back and touching it, he realized it was real when he could feel his gloved hand on it. His next shock came when he looked up to see the top of the gold tower he was standing next to, and did a double take. He stepped back and looked again to be sure, but the gold "tower" was actually a giant stature of Dr. Robotnick and behind it was robotnick's fortress. "This can't be real..." Josh added aloud, "but it feels too real to be a dream" he finished silently. Then another thought hit him, "If I'm where I think I am I'd better get out of here before Robotnick catches me." Josh started to sneak away, however he didn't get far before he two familiar voices, Josh took cover behind a boulder. He peered out and saw two familiar robots. Scratch and Grounder were walking/rolling away from the fortress and auguring over how to execute robotnick's plan like usual. "He said he wanted a prisoner, so why should we go after the fox brat?" Scratch said, sounding annoyed. Grounder replied, "Because that'll get Sonic's attention more?" Scratch replied, "Of course it will you dunce-bot, but robotnick said we don't need Sonic here yet, so we don't need to capture that two tailed twerp. Josh had been listening from his hiding place behind the two robots and said, "Tails has a name too you know!" before he could stop himself. Scratch and Grounder turned and looked at him like he had 3 heads for about a second, then Scratch said, "Forget that fox, we've got one right here!" Josh tried to run but as he turned to do so he suddenly felt like he was electrocuted. He turned to see Grounder had changed out one of his arms for some kind of weapon. Josh tried to run again but his body was too weak so he fell to his knees. Grounder swapped his other arm for a large net and Scratch picked Josh up and threw him into it. So much for getting away.