Here's my first fanfic, written a couple years ago. Set in the Sonic X Universe, Chris Thorndyke and his friend Danny settle things since their last match in the Chaos Emerald fighting tournament. This time around tough, it's a no holds barred boxing match to the finish! Sonic, Sonic X, and the characters of course belong to SEGA and not me. Rated T for fighting/boxing violence, just to be sure. I'll try to update the rest of the Chapters on a regular basis.
Chapter 1: The Gauntlet is Cast
Sonic and the others are relaxing after another hard fought battle against Eggman's forces, following the Chaos Emerald fighting tournament hosted by the president and the battle with Emerl.
"That battle tournament sure was wild!" Sonic remarks, recalling the craziness of the tournament and the ensuing battle.
"You can say that again Sonic! Everyone gave their all, although Emerl went crazy in the end…" Tails recalls the earlier tragedy.
"Yeah, too bad about him…" Sonic reflects on the events. He also considers how Emerl was yet another unfortunate victim in Eggman's schemes.
The somber moment is broken up by Knuckles' entrance, passing through the room.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Knuckles asks, noticing the pair to be a bit quiet.
"Oh nothing. We were just talking about the tournament. Remember? Emerl went crazy and totally thrashed you?" Sonic snaps to attention and asks Knuckles if he recalls his embarrassing defeat, for one who's supposedly an unbeatable martial artist.
"He did not thrash me! He just got a couple of lucky shots in that's all." Knuckles answers Sonic's dig at his earlier trouncing.
"That's not how I remember it." Tails chimes in, providing his own observation.
"Yeah. I seem to recall more than a couple 'lucky hits' Knuckles." Sonic raises an eyebrow at Knuckles' attempt to cast the events in a different light.
"Gah! Whatever! He just caught me off guard, that's all!" Knuckles growls, regarding it as unimportant.
During all of this back and forth teasing, Amy, comes in, wondering if anybody would like to accompany her for an outing.
"Hey guys! Me, Ella, and Cream and Cheese are going out shopping! Wanna come?" Amy asks the trio.
"No thanks!" Sonic replies, not wanting to get dragged along by Amy yet again.
"*Sigh!* Suit yourself! Come on ladies! Bye!" Amy shrugs, and joins the others waiting outside.
Following the girls' departure, Sonic , Tails, and Knuckles shake their heads at Amy's attempts to drag them along, though thankfully she didn't end up using her Piko Hammer in response. Soon Chris and his grandfather, Chuck, enter the room, apparently in the middle of a scientific lecture of sorts.
"So then that's how you do it." Chuck finishes explaining a concept to his grandson.
"Okay. Hm? Oh! Hey guys! What's up?" Chris nods in understanding before noticing Sonic and the others in the room.
"Nothing. We were just reminiscing over the Battle Tournament from a couple of days ago!" Tails replies.
"Ah yes! That was thrilling!" Chuck adds in, trying to make himself out to have been quite the impressive fighter.
"Didn't your back give out?" Sonic asks, not buying the act for a minute, along with everyone else.
"Well yes technically. But I would have shown you all how it's done! Back in my day I was quite the phenomenon!" Chuck tries to deflect the truth by recalling his supposed glory days.
"Oh brother." Knuckles rolls his eyes at the statement.
" Anyways, I'm working on an upgrade to the X-Tornado to boost its speed. Could you lend a hand, Chuck?" Tails changes the subject, remembering he would like Chuck's help on some technical details.
"Why of course! I'd be happy to oblige! Shall we?" Chuck agrees to go and help.
After the two leave the room for the workshop/laboratory, Sonic quickly becomes bored from sitting still for so long (relatively speaking of course).
"Well! I don't know about you guys, but I'm gonna take a look around town! Things have been a little too quiet lately." Sonic gets up , stretches, and announces he'll be going on another run.
Meanwhile, over at Dr. Eggman's base, it seems the not so good doctor has come down with a cold. And somebody's also mentioned his name…
"Sniff! Achoo! Drat! I can't beat this accursed Achoo! Cold! How am I supposed to conquer the world when I'm bedridden like this?! Achoo!" Eggman sneezes and coughs amidst the throes of a particularly nasty cold.
"You need to stay in bed!" Bokkun reminds the Doctor to take it easy in his current state.
"Indeed." Decoe nods in agreement.
"Yes. You can't conquer anything in your current state. You must recover your strength first. So bedrest and plenty of fluids!" Bocoe adds.
"Bah! Achoo! Oh alright. But mark my achoo! Words! I'll come up with the most deviant achoo! Plan! When I'm better! Achoo! Sniff! Honk!" Eggman retorts, attempting to sound threatening in his ill state.
Back at the Thorndyke estate, Sonic finally takes off on his run, and comes across one of Chris' friends, Danny.
"See ya!" Sonic waves before running off.
DASH!
"Whoa! Hey Sonic!" Danny reacts to the familiar blue blur zipping past him.
"Hi Danny! Bye Danny!" Sonic quickly says, barely enough time for anybody to register his greeting.
"He's always in a hurry." Danny wonders at the perpetually hyperactive hedgehog.
After shaking his head, Danny walks up to the front door and knocks, to see if his friend is available.
KNOCK! KNOCK!
" Yes? Ah! Master Daniel!" The ever present Mr. Tanaka answers the door.
"Hi Mr. Tanka. Is Chris home?" Danny inquires.
"Indeed he is. This way please." Mr. Tanaka beckons Danny to proceed.
"Hm? Hi Danny!" Chris notices Danny's arrival as he comes down the main staircase.
"Hey Chris! What's up?" Danny greets his friend.
"Nothing really. Me and the guys were just talking about the tournament and all." Chris tells Danny of the events they were talking about before.
"Yeah. The tournament. I've been meaning to talk to you about that Chris." Danny remembers he'd also like to have a few words with Chris about said tournament…
" Y-you have?!" Chris asks, taken aback by the turn of the conversation.
"Yeah! You know it's funny how you pretended you didn't wanna fight, that you were afraid you'd get hurt and all, then you pretended to cry." Danny cuts to the chase, and brings up the fakeout he fell for in their match.
"Well yeah I er um…" Chris fidgets a bit in response.
"And then when I told you I wouldn't lay a finger on you, you wait until my back is turned and then you tackle me to the ground. Pinning me and winning the match! Sure is funny how you played me huh?! How after our "fight," if you even want to call it that, you had no problem attacking your other opponents. You even tried to get Knuckles to fight you for crying out loud!" Danny continues his rant toward Chris.
"Well you see I was… I didn't want um…" Chris fumbles for an explanation.
" What?! You didn't want to what!? Fight me?! You fought dirty dude! That's not cool! You're cool with trying to get Knuckles to duke it out with you, but not me! He can break boulders dude. Boulders! I can't do that, and yet you refused to fight me! We didn't even have a real fight! You should have at least given me that much, man! What the heck!?" Danny asks, clearly annoyed.
" Listen, I faked you out because I was tired of being a goody two shoes all the time! I wanted to be a bad boy for once!" Chris explains he wanted to have a 'bad boy' image for once.
"You?! A bad boy?! Ha ha ha! No, seriously. That's your excuse? Dude, you know cheating's wrong. That's exactly what you did! You didn't give me a fair shot. Were you afraid to fight me? That if we did have a real fight, that you'd lose to me?" Danny laughs a bit at the comment, and gets back to his questions.
" No! I wasn't afraid of you! I said I was sorry, okay! I shouldn't have done it! I'm sorry I cheated and I really wish I hadn't. And to tell you the truth, I've been thinking about it too!" Chris reveals he's been reconsidering his actions too.
" You have?" Danny replies, calming down as he listens to Chris.
" Yeah. I regret not giving you a fair fight too. If we would have gone at if for real, we wouldn't have any regrets. A-and I guess we'd know once and for all who's tougher, me or you." Chris finally admits.
" Wow. Well, we both know that I'm tougher and I would have totally kicked your butt." Danny answers by stating he's the tougher of them.
" I guess as a friend, on some level I owe you a real fight. And… Wait, what?! You think that you'd have beaten me?!" Chris asks, getting annoyed Danny told him he's not tough.
" Dang straight! I could take you anytime! You're not exactly a tough customer!" Danny continues.
" Oh yeah?! Neither are you!" Chris angrily answers back.
"Yeah, you don't even know how to fight!" Danny points out a fact (this is before Chris started training in martial arts with Mr. Tanaka).
"Hey! I'm with Sonic all the time battling Eggman!" Chris points out he gets caught up in facing Eggman's schemes.
" Yeah right. Have you ever done any of the fighting?! I mean really?!" Danny once again asks Chris a pointed question.
" Well, I… No, I haven't. Okay! Maybe I don't know how to fight, but neither do you! You're a wimp too! I mean, whose the gullible one who let himself get tackled and pinned by me, huh?!" Chris smirks, pointing out Danny fell for his fake-out in the first place, and doesn't know how to fight much better than he does.
" Take that back!" Danny shouts, getting more annoyed by the second.
" Make me!" Chris angrily replies.
"Bring it on!" Danny says back, very much ready to throw down there and then.
During the quickly escalating argument between the two, Knuckles comes across them, and sees a fight is very likely to break out soon.
"Whoa! Whoa! Hold up you two! What's going on here?!" Knuckles runs over and tries to settle things down a bit.
"He says I don't know how to fight!" Chris says to Knuckles.
"I think he's right." Knuckles reminds him there's truth to the statement.
" Well, whatever! He says he can kick my butt!" Chris goes on, glaring at Danny.
" That's because it's true! Everybody knows it! And he says that I'm a gullible wimp!" Danny exclaims, returning the glare.
" Um okay…" Knuckles says thinking things over a bit.
"Let me at him!" Chris says, trying to get at Danny.
" Just try it and see what happens!" Danny shouts, ready to go.
"Enough! Stop this right now! You guys are friends for crying out loud!" Knuckles holds the two back from each other.
"He still needs a good pounding!" Chris still insists on going at it.
"As if!" Danny answers back.
"Now's the part when you tell us we shouldn't fight, right?" Chris calms down a bit and looks to Knuckles.
"Hm. I have another idea. I think you two should fight after all." Knuckles says after thinking for a moment.
"Y-you do?!" Chris asks, shocked at Knuckles encouraging a fight like this.
"What?!" Danny also asks, equally surprised at Knuckles.
"Yeah. You should totally be allowed to go at it. I mean you were supposed to at the Tournament, right? However, I have another idea in mind. How would you guys like to settle the matter once and for all in the ring?" Knuckles asks the two after explaining things a bit more.
"I-in the ring?!" Chris asks, even more surprised.
" Y-you mean?!" Danny asks, almost stunned speechless like Chris.
"Yup! A full on no holds barred boxing match! You two can duke it out to your hearts' content in the ring in a real fight to the finish! How about it?" Knuckles asks finally asks Chris and Danny.
" B-boxing?! M-me?! A-and Danny?! I don't know how to box, let alone fight…" Chris says, it dawning on him he doesn't know how.
" M-me neither…." Danny also admits he's not exactly a fighter.
" That's okay. It wouldn't be a real boxing match anyway. Think of it as a brawl with a boxing theme." Knuckles states.
"Really? Well I really do wanna fight and all… Okay! I'll do it! I'll fight Danny in a boxing match!" Chris finally decides he wants to fight and agrees.
"Um y-yeah! I want to fight too! S-so I'm in as well! I'll fight Chris!" Danny exclaims, confirming he's up for the fight too.
"Then it's agreed?" Knuckles asks one more time.
"Yup!" Chris grins, and gives Danny a 'you're going down!' look.
" Yeah!" Danny smiles and returns the look to Chris.
TO BE CONTINUED...