Shards in the Bone
(A/N: This is a reboot of the Sonic SatAM. It will incorporate elements from the Games, SatAM, and Underground. I've never read the comics but there will be a few things from the Archie comics, mainly characters. This is going to be a darker spin on the Sonic franchise. People will bleed, die, go insane, bones will break, and the heroes will not always win. Not only that but I'm going to have a dark explaination for how Sonic got his powers. He won't just be born with them, or get them from a special amulet.)
Disclaimer: I do not own Anything from the Sonic franchise. It belongs to SEGA.
Summary: Maurice H. Hedgehog. In time he will be known by another name, one that will be said in reverence by some and distaine by others. When he was but a boy of 10 he was just plain Maurice, a small brown sickly hedgehog child picked on by his peers for his weak bones, and scrawny frame. His only friends being the Princess herself Sally Acorn, and his siblings Sonia and Manic. But his difficult life will be made even more so by Julian Ivo Kintobor enacts his coup de ta.
One more thing, to get the basoc idea of what I plan to have them look like anatomy-wise, look up Evanstanley's Sonic fan art or Sonic Unbound by...Sonic Unbound on deviant art. They'll all be more proprtionate and have necks and cloths.
Also I appologise for any glareing literary errors. I've lost my copy of Word and have been writing on WordPad. Same thing just no spell or grammar check, or auto correct.
Chapter 1: Subject: Sound Barrier
*bum, bum*
Maurice felt his heart pounding on his tender sternum as he began to awake.
*bum, bum*
His breaths came in shallow and ragged as the morphine wore off and the pain in his bones resurfaced, his conciousness just barely hanging on.
*bum, bum*
He groaned and attemped to bring his frail hands to his face only to feel them stopped by the steel shackles that bound hims to the operating table.
*bum, bum*
He opened his once brown eyes and had to hold back the bile that rose in his throat at the bloody medical scrubs on his body.
*bum, bum, bum, bum*
His breathing became more rapid as he saw his fure and spine color had changed from chestnut brown to a deep, dark, oceanic blue in his sleep.
*bumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbum*
He was panicing, and his heart was trying to pound a hold through his chest. Not becuase of his fur and quills, not becuase of his unnaturally emerald green eyes that he could see in the bloody surgical tools.
But becuase of the glowing, bloody holes in his arms, chest and legs. Set in each hole was a shard of some kind of gem and it seemed to grow jagged tendrils into his flesh until the cracks radiated 4 inches from the shards. Each shard was the same deep blue as his fur, and he could feel them reach into his bones and snare into his very being.
[Subject Sound Barrier has awakened, Dr. Robotnik.] A cold matalic voice informed an excessively fat, cyborg man.
"Excelent." Robotnik smirked. "Let us run the tests then."
"NOOOOO!"
That was six years ago, and it happened one year after his capture in the chaos of the dictator's coup.
Now 17, Maurice has just recently escaped Robotnik's bio-weapon research lab and was now skulking around Robotropolis looking for an escape.
He groaned as the gems in his limbs and chest were still throbing, and blood was seeping threw the bandages as the experaments did not alow them to heal, and he was still wearing a bloody scrubs barefoot.
The entire bio-sector of Robotropolis was abuzz with SWATbots, Robians, and Badniks looking for Robotnik's precious Subject: Sound Barrier.
"You're not gonna find me anytime soon Eggman." The hegehog said using his favorite nickname to infuriate the bloated dictator. He was currently hidden in an abandoned toy store on the outskirts of Robotropolis. He was just waiting for a gap in the security so he could make a run for it to the Great Forest. There he'd be able to loose and spy drones that may have spotted him and 'Botnik would never be able to find him again.
Then there was an explosion.
Just a block away, Maurice saw smoke and fire rise from one of the SWATbot fabrication plants. He could also hear gunfire, laser and ballistic weapons both, and it sounded like the SWATbots were winning judging from the steadily dwindling sound of ballistic fire.
The robots gaurding the city parameter left their posts to aid their metalic brothers and Maurice was just about to make a run for the forest when another explosion shook the city.
Only 3 balistic weapons were fireing now.
Maurice looked to the flaming factory and then to the Great Forest just a scant few minutes away, for him, the looked down as he struggled to come to a dicision. It didn't help that he was getting light headed from blood lose.
Another explosion.
Only one ballistic weapon was fireing.
"...Shit..." the hedgehog cursed before he ran off toward the factory at a ludicrise pace.
Sitting behind a colasped pillar was a young Mobian woman of 17 reloading her Model 500 with grenade rounds as bright blue beams of lights whzzed over her head and chipping away chunks of her cover before snaping the giant revolver shut. She had a FAMAS assault rifle but the damn thing jammed!
She was a squirrel/chipmonk hybrid with light chestnut fur and beautiful shor auburn hair that dipped down just enough to half-way cover her left eye. She had a short fluffy tail and a gorgeous figure.
She was also wearing a sky blue sleevless ballistic vest unzipped over a white tank top, over that was a combat harness littered with grenades, ammo clips and quick reloaders,and around her neck was a pair of combat goggles that allowed her Augmented Reality vision if needed. She also wore a pair of black shorts with sky blue trips down the thighs and blue combat boots with a knee long segmented ceramic shin gaurds with urban camo paint. She also had on black and blue fingerless gloves and similar ceramic armor on her forearms and a tick, loose fitting belt on her hips the held a small medical kit, more ammo, and MORE grenades.
This was Queen Sally Alicia Acorn, and her op has gone strait to hell!
(A/N: Yes, Queen, her fathers gone, maybe dead I don't know yet, her older brother was abroad when the coup happened and hasn't returned yet, her mother IS dead, and I'm not going to call her Princess just becuase it sounds cute! Weather or not she'ss remain a queen when the war is over has yet to be decided.)
She came here with a squad of ten to destroy one of Robotnik's robot factories, and everything was going fine until half-way through the op the intire city was suddenly on high alert! The rookie of the squad, Mortimer Ferret, thought they were spotted and panicked, shooting at the SWAT-bots and spy drones with reckless abandon and drew the intire sectors robot population to them.
And it was all down hill from there.
They were forced to detenate the charges prematurely, knocking out the power at most, and one by one Gremlin Squad 10 was reduced to only her and her Big Ass Hand Cannon.
"If I die, I swear I'll find Mortimer's furry ass in Hell and kill him again before I haunt Robotnik's nightmares." Sally grumbled before popping out of cover and firing a round into the chest of a SWATbot heavy trooper, it left a fist sized dent in it's armor before the round detenated and tore the robot apart.
But there were dozens more still firing at her and she only had 2 clips left on reserve, counting that one she just got even if she got a kill shot on every bot she aimed at she would only get 15 of them at most before she ran out of useable ammo and the other 25 robots swarmed her and either killed her or took her to Robotnik and roboticized her.
While she'll be damed if she let him touch her Sally was hoping fir the latter becuase she has a "little" surprise for him in her packback.
She was about to pop out and shoot another bot when the lasers stop shooting at her and she heard the sound of metal buckling, and survos breaking.
Hesitantly she leaned out of cover and saw an awe inspiring sight.
A blue and sea faom green blue was weaving around the confused SWATbots at the speed of a bullet, trashing them with bursts of strange energy on every impact some of them accidently fired on eachother.
It wasn't long before 39 SWATbots and Badniks were reduced to scrap metal and the Robians were disabled.
That was when she saw him.
Huched over an panting was a young hedgehog roughly her age, he was tall and lean and his fur and quills were the oddest shade of blue. He was wearing bloody scrubs and bandages. He looked about ready to pass out.
That was when she noticed the blood slung around the battlefield, it was all over the ground, buildings and the partly burned corpes of her squad. She also noticed that his bandages were bled almost completely red, and revilets were running down his limbs and torso adding to the small shallow pool colleted at his bare feet.
"How did you...?" Sally began but was cut off when his stunning green eyes met hers. They were tired, but full of determination and spirit, an indominal will that could move mountains. She knew saw those eyes before.
The blue hedgehog was about to make a reply when he suddenly went into a fit of coughs and colapsed in a pool of his own blood.
As quickly as she could Sally ran over to the hedgehod. The alarms were still blaring so she couldn't treat him here. She put her 500 in her right thigh mounted holster and took out a small device from a pouch on her right boot. It resemboled a large phone mixed with a PDA and it was yellow.
She flipped it open and spoke to it. "NICOLE, show me the nearest sewer entrance that leads to the Great Forest." She commanded.
The screen lit up, and a calm synthetic female voice came out. [Searching Sally.] it replied before displaying a small hologram a moment later. [Entrance found 50 meters south by south-west, Lake Avenue, near Shugong's Chinese Resturant.]
"Activate ARV mode." She commanded before place NICOLE back into her pouch. She then placed her goggles over her eyes. Now she could see a trail of light leading her to the sewer entrance, in the right top corner of her vision she had a mini-map that showed her a mile of the area round her. No SWATbots yet but they could be here any minute. She picked up the hedgehog as best she could and began dragging him toward the manhole.
Luckily the journey went by quickly without any problems and now the two were inside the Robotropolis sewer system. Sally was kneeling over the hedgehog who saved her and began to field treat him.
First thing she did after placing her med-kit down was remove the dirty and blood soaked scrubs tp avoid infection. Nexted she carefully removed the bandages on his chest, she stopped halfway when she felt something hard through the fabric, at first she thought it was a bone fabric but when she finished removing them.
Sally gasped and brought a hand to her mouth. In the center of his chest, right over his hear was a blue Chaos Drive core, shards of artificial Chaos Emeralds that are normally used as a scource of power. The flesh around it was stained a cyan blue from Chaotic Residue, viens of energy radiating from the core like spiderweb, it was also bleeding and looked irritated from years of poking and prodding, never alowed to completely heal. Quickly but carefully the unwrapped the bandages on his arms and legs as well, finding the same bleeding cores, and the same Chaotic Stains.
Carefully Sally examined the cores and found they were all in a similar state of irratation as the one in the hedgehog's chest. First she took a rag soaked in alchohol and gently cleaned the wounds, making sure the blood was cleaned and the area was fully sterilized.
The hedgehog groaned in his sleep at the burn of the alchohol on his surgical wounds but didn't wake.
Once that was finished Sally took a small spray bottle and spritzed it over the wounds, this was a special formula designed to speed blood clothing and quickly form a scab to seal the wound. She then took new bandages and rewrapped the cores.
Sally examined the bloody scrubs and contemplated weither or not to redress the man in them but decided against it, as there could be several infection deseases on it now. That left the blue hedgehog in nothing but pair of scrub pants.
She then gengerly proped him up and began to long trek to the Great Forest.
Sitting in a mechanical swivle chair inside a dark room filled with computers was a large, fat man. He was bald, not one hair was on his head, instead it seemed all his hair migrated to his face as it was adorned with the biggest, longest, orage mustache one would ever see. His eyes were hidden behind a pair of round rimed blue sunglasses but if he removed them one would find two black mechanical eyes with glowing red irises. He had no ears as they were replaced long ago with a pair of mechnical audio recievers, and his right arm was replaced with a robotic one, having lost his original ears and arm during his coup. The ears damnaged by an explosion, his arm blown off by a sniper, the eyes damaged by chemical fumes.
His outfit consisted of a red and yellow labcoat, one white leather glove on his left hand, a dark grey button up shirt, a pair of black slacks, and a pair of black and silver boots.
(A/N: Think SatAM Robotnik mixed with Sonic 06 Eggman with a new outfit.)
His name was Dr. Julious Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik, and he was tapping his robotic fingers on his arm rest in impatience and anger. "Tell me Snively..." the mad professor began lowly. "How is it that Subject: Sound Barrier was able to not only escape captivity, but was also able to evade every single SWATbot in the science sector, destroy my bio-wing, and escape the city in ONE. SINGLE. NIGHT!?"
A short, balding dwarf of a man with a long nose that can only be described as siveling appeared in front of Robotnik's chair, sweating and shaking in fear of his uncle. "W-w-well you see, s-sir. Around the same time S3 escaped the laboritory, a squad of Freedom Fighters led by the queen were sabotaging one of your robot factories. Our survialance orbs report that they panicked when we sounded the alarm for S3's capture and detenated early, causing only minor damnage and attracting most of the SWATbots in the sector. They also reported that all but the princess were killed and S3 raced to her aid by destroying 39 bots in second, they were last reported entering the sewer system."
Robotnik stopped rapping his fingers and went quite, it was errie, as if he suddenly died but one could still see his chest rise and fall in silent breathing.
"Sh-should I send a patrol in after them, sir?" Snively asked hesitantly.
There was a moment of pregnant silence before the dictator spoke. "No...the old Mobotropolis sewers are like a labirynth and by now the queen is so deep within them that will never find them in it anyway. No...we'll bide our time, wait for the hedgehog to resurface on his own."
The human stood up and walked over to a window that over saw the Auristocratic District. "And when he does." He continued. "I'll rip the bones out of his screaming, agonized corpse." He finished maliciously, the glow of his red eyes turning his glasses an eerie purple.
Well that was chapter 1! And I must say I'm excited about this particular story!
I've been wanting to start a Sonic fic for year now, since I first found FF and now I finally have! And I think this one will be fairly unique. There have been plenty of SatAM reboot fics that take bits from the games, comics and other cartoons, bit none that go in a direction as dark as mine will or in the way I'm gonna do it.
I hope you all enjoyed it, and expect to see more soon!