Project: Evolution
The Origins of Grant the Hedgehog
Disclaimer/character info: Grant the Hedgehog and his squad are my own characters the only similarity to Sonic the Hedgehog (Copyright SEGA) is that they are very similar in their body design. That is the only similarity between them. Grant wears a US Military issue officers cap and US Military issue boots. I am following the SEGA tradition where the females wear clothes while the males only have gloves and boots (and for Grant a miltary officers hat). His team of 5 (Grant included) are all issued the same boots, the females on the team (2) both wear US Military issue shirts and pants. The Character Bios will also be uploaded as soon as I'm done writing them. Finally if I happen to mention anything that needs to be credited it will be credited here not in the particular chapter. So credit goes to their respective owners.
What the Characters look like:
Grant: A dark green Hedgehog
Shannon: A blue Fox
Rob: A black Grizzly bear
Jeff: A brown Eagle
Jenny: A red Cheetah
Deep within the Arizona Desert lay a bunker that housed a top secret Government project, Project: Evolution.
Inside, the walls held countless secrets mainly of which tell how to transform an ordinary hedgehog and other "normal animals" into finely trained and obedient killing machines.
Back in the 1970s the project had grown significantly.
Of course the "Test Subjects" were treated fairly and with basic human rights, after all since the subjects were also intelligent treating them fairly had significant benefits.
Since the process changed all the subjects back into infants and when they grew up the subjects learn like humans do when in infancy.
Unlike the experiments of Project: Shadow aboard the Space Colony ARK these experiments were much more successful.
Hundreds of thousands of test subjects inhabited the bunker ready for action against the Soviet Union
The US Army and Navy contributed to this Project as the US Air Force Base, Area 51, was used to bring in supplies and more test subjects in an underground rail line connected the two.
Since the public was so fascinated with Area 51 nobody took notice to what was really going on, Area 51 was just the tip of the iceberg and nobody was ever aware of Project: Evolutions existence.
The only ones who knew were the head Generals of the Army and Air Force and the head Admiral of the Navy all of which were based in the Pentagon.
Of course the workers and scientists were also aware but the price they paid for this project was well worth it living inside the bunker with their families never to see the Earth's surface ever again (similar to Fallouts Vaults but much much better).
Everyone who had signed up knew the risks and the pay was well worth it.
The majority were mostly young with nothing to lose especially since everything was provided for them and all their basic needs were met.
Life inside the bunker was relatively easy aside from the rigorous daily training the test subjects had to endure, the evolution experiment, the usual evacuation drills, and of course side projects were also in development.
Eventually friendships were forged between the humans and the creatures.
Some lasted so long and became so strong that the top brass were quite impressed when given this information.
Once their training was complete along with their education the test subjects were thrown a Graduation Ceremony, given their own living quarters, and the option to choose their roommates.
One of the strange side-effects of the experiments were that even though the test subjects did age normally when infants. When they began their teenage years the aging process slowed significantly to the point where teenage years were doubled or even tripled the normal length, even quadrupled in some cases.
The whole purpose of the project was that if the US was ever invaded by a foreign power, especially the Soviet Union, these experiments would break out of the bunker and re-take all of the lost land that the invaders had taken.
Fortunately, the call never came and after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall, life continued as it had for many years inside Project: Evolution.
The peace would not last though, for nobody could have predicted the events that were to take place that would literally take Project: Evolution and everyone in it to a whole other world.
During a security blackout inside the Pentagon rogue agents took advantage and stole hundreds of classified information.
Most of the information was recovered but a few managed to slip out and sold the information for their own benefit.
Among the information stolen was the site location of Project: Evolution.
Naturally the Pentagon was confident that the trained soldiers and security could deter any threat that would dare attack the bunker.
Even worse the top brass (the two Generals and Admiral) knew they had no funding to move the project and after its many successes decided not to cancel the project.
Instead the Top Brass decided to invest in teleportation technology developed earlier in the 1990s but never was perfected.
The fate of everyone within Project: Evolution would take a dramatic turn when a corrupt Commander named Crenshaw got wind of this he decided to take the facility by force.
Crenshaw and his privately funded army would launch a surprise attack on the bunker after tunneling for months undetected, and since Crenshaw was incredibly wealthy (to the point of rediculousness) he had the resources to do just that.
A storm was gathering on the horizon...
