When Things go Wrong

Now, as I suck at narrating, Code Geass' C.C (English Dub) will do it for me.

C.C: Really? Why should I?

Author: Really? You're dealing with me, little girl. And unlike anyone else you've dealt with, I can and will kill you painfully, again and again, against your will!

C.C: And why do you need me?

Author: You've got a good voice, and it's longwinded. I'm not a windbag, unlike you and Lelouch.

C.C: You're a cruel man, Ronald Pinkerton. Fine, I'll get started.

Four million years ago, as the last Xel'Naga left the Milky Way, they created the Thirdborn: the anthropomorphic Moebians. They were like the animal kingdom on Earth, and they had no knowledge of their creation by the Xel'Naga. 300 years ago, the Terran Confederacy exiled 500 people to the forbidden planet Mobius, and their descendants include the peoples of Soliana and Dr. Ivo 'Eggman' Robotnik. In the galaxy, or rather the Koprulu Sector, the most powerful forces include the Terran Dominion, headed by Emperor Arcturus Mengsk, the Kel-Morian Combine, the Umojian Protectorate and the rebel group, Raynor's Raiders. The Moebians have avoided detection by all but two of these groups, and they are the Dominion and the Raiders. The Raiders, on a mission for the Moebius Foundation, are heading their to recover a Xel'Naga artifact. The Dominion are on a mission of conquest. Moebius is close to Char, primary hive cluster for the Zerg Swarm, and the Dominion want a staging area for their forces in case the Zerg push toward the Inner Colonies. But there is another problem: the Tal'darim Protoss are there protecting the artifact. The Dominion want it, and so do the Raiders. But will the Moebians will help or hinder?

Raynor's Raiders Battlecruiser Hyperion

Jim Raynor looked at the planet below.

"Moebius. Kind of ironic that they'd send us here."

Tychus nodded.

"The Protoss and Dominion are after this one, partner. And we've got those damned Zerg to worry about."

After the incident on Bal'shir, the commander wasn't in the mood to deal with the Tal'darim again.

"Sir, we've got Vikings. We can send them in with a Wraith escort."

Jim shook his head.

"I'd rather have more firepower then that. We still have that ship we captured from Valhalla, right?"

Jim was talking about the Loki.

After crippling it, they captured it, and repaired it.

Swann was happy about the new ship, and so was Matt.

"We do, but she's not ready for combat."

Tychus chuckled.

"Held off those two dozen Wraiths we sent in to take it down."

"Fighters are one thing; ships are another. And the Dominion have a large number of battlecruisers in orbit."

Raynor chuckled.

"Not if the Protoss have any say about it. Those two idiots will fight, while we scoop up that Xel'Naga artifact."

"Great idea!"

Soliana

Sonic the Hedgehog ran throughout the city, and smirked.

"Sonic!"

Miles 'Tails' Prowler and Knuckles the Echidna ran over, panting.

"We've found something near the Mystic Ruins. You might want to see it!" Sonic chuckled. "Eggman again?"

"No. This time, it's something else! I think it's aliens!"

Sonic had a hard time with the Black Arms, and wasn't in the mood to ask for Shadow's help. Still, Tails would've said it was the Black Arms.

"Knuckles, can you get the Chaotix together? I'll pay them."

"Sure."

"Tails, get Amy, Cream and Big. We'll need them."

"Got it!"

"What about Shadow, Rouge and Omega?"

"If they want to come, let them."

Sonic ran off, heading for the Mystic Ruins.

"What's going on there?"

Guardian Units of Nations GHQ, Prison Island

"Shadow, we need you, Omega and Rouge to head to the Mystic Ruins, and investigate an alien presence there."

Shadow nodded.

"If they're hostile, we'll make sure that they won't do anything."

Rouge and Omega left after Shadow, and armed themselves with new laser rifles and cannons in Omega's case, while Shadow grabbed one of his Shadow Rifles.

"We might need Sonic's help."

"He'll be there. Tails flies over the Ruins every day, and he'll tell Knuckles, then Sonic. He's not stupid; he'll ask Knuckles to get the Chaotix ready, then get Tails to get Amy and her friends. Strength in numbers."

Near the Mystic Ruins

Jet, Wave and Storm were looking at the huge number of tall, pale aliens all around the ruins. (AN: You all know what the Protoss look like, so I'm not going to bother)

"This isn't good. We can't get past those guys and get the treasure!"

Jet's board gave the young Hawk an idea.

"If we go around, we can get to the treasure."

Then they heard a chuckle.

"Still stealing things? And from aliens, this time!"

Jet turned to see Sonic and his friends.

"Sonic, is there a reason you're here?"

"Just checking out the alien threat. Who are these guys?"

Wave looked at Tails.

"They're a race of psychic beings called the Protoss. They've been giving me a headache."

"Telepathes. Silver was a pain to deal with."

"Well, these guys are pure telepathic: no spoken language. But we've got enough to know these guys, the Tal'darim, are zealots. They'll protect any artifact with their lives. And they don't take kindly to intruders."

Storm pointed at a group of destroyed robots.

"Eggman was beaten by these guys?"

"Whooped. These Protoss have energy shielding, and bullets don't get through."

Then lasers and other weapons hit the Protoss buildings and troops. Stalkers and Immortals were destroyed by other huge fighters, tanks and dropships.

"This is General Abel Custer of the Terran Dominion! Surrender!"

"We guardians of the Xel'Naga's holy relics will never surrender to you Terrans!"

The battle was starting to heat up.

"Run!"

Battlecruiser Hyperion

Jim watched as the Protoss were forced to lose ground to a few siege tanks. "I hate it when someone pulls siege tanks out of their ass."

Tychus didn't want to go down there: something about the Protoss screwed with his head.

"Sir, our teams are on the surface."

"Stealth ops; I don't want the Tal'darim to know we're here."

"The Loki's reporting that he's got another ship coming up from the surface."

"Dominion? Protoss?"

"No, but it's hailing both the Dominion and the Protoss."

Jim looked at the ship.

It looked like an old Earth whale shark, but it was huge.

"Let's listen in, Matt."

Horner patched them in.

"This is Dr. Eggman to the fools trying to steal my Emeralds! You'll suffer the wrath of the Eggman Fleet if you do not leave this place!"

"Sir, those ships have some kind of weapons system on board. Looks like they've got something that could punch through Protoss shields."

Jim chuckled.

"But they don't have much armor. Looks like the good doc's going to get screwed."

The unique fleet fired at the Terran and Protoss.

Two Minotaurs went down, and a pair of carriers were crippled.

"Hot damn! That's one hell of a shot!"

In return, three of the maco sharks went down near the ruins.

"Sir, we can get those damaged Protoss and Dominion ships if Eggman keeps this up, plus if we can get our hands on those downed Eggman ships..."

"We can't fly Protoss birds, Matt. Get Swann on the horn and tell him to rip out those Protoss shields out of the carriers. Get two more teams to recover those battlecruisers."

Jim smirked.

He was distracting the Dominion and the Protoss with ease.

"And get those Eggman ships!"

On the surface

Shadow and his two comrades dodged cannon and laser fire and made it to one of the downed alien ships.

"This is insane! Those guys and Eggman are crazy!"

"Analysis of the alien transmissions confirms that they are after the Chaos Emeralds hidden at the temple."

Rouge growled.

Knuckles hid those Emeralds there for a reason: so no one could find them!

Still, there was nothing they could do.

Then a familiar face ran over.

"Shadow!"

"Not you again..."

Sonic and his friends were there, avoiding death by inches.

"They're after the Emeralds!"

Knuckles chuckled mirthlessly.

"Of course they are. Everyone's after the damned Emeralds."

Two more siege tanks dumped a hail of fire into the carrier, but the hull took the hits. "Run! Get to the Emeralds!"

They made it to the temple and two siege tank shells hit it.

"Shit! Get inside the temple, now!"

Then the group blacked out from another shelling.

Raiders Marine group Alpha 2

Alpha were the guys doing the stuff that didn't involve fighting, like recovering Xel'Naga artifacts.

Sure, they got their asses in boiling oil before on two planets, (giant stone monsters and Zerg did that to people) but that didn't mean they weren't good at their jobs.

And right now, one of them was getting two Minotaur-Class battlecruisers off the ground and securing the artifact.

That and Bravo was guarding Swann's ass.

"Minotaurs are ready for take off!"

"Good work, boys! Get that artifact!" "Aye, sir!"

Two Hellions drove over to the temple.

Then they saw the weirdest things in the damned Sector.

Battlecruiser Hyperion

"Good news: the Titan and the Zeus are ours, sir, and we've got one of Eggman's ships."

Jim nodded.

They hadn't suffered any losses yet.

Most of the battles they fought had wounded by the hundreds, and normally the medics would have a hard time getting the poor men back on their feet.

Thanks to stolen Dominion tech, the job was getting easier, but medevac dropships would help greatly.

"We've got the artifact! Or rather, artifacts. 8 jewels, all emeralds of some kind. And the marines are reporting that they've recovered something odd."

"Matt, this is the Koprulu Sector. Weird shit happens here all the time."

That was true enough.

From the Zerg to the UED to Kerrigan, it seemed that God loved screwing with the Koprulu Sector.

"Not what I meant, sir. We've got a group of guests coming aboard."

And that's my first story outside the THAB universe in a long ass time.

I've read the only other Sonic/StarCraft crossovers, and they were...lacking. So, why the hell not?

And this is a lot more believable.

Next Time, on When Things go Wrong: Raynor's Raiders and Sonic and his friends meet, and Eggman joins the Dominion.

Ja Ne!