Sonic The Hedgehog: Chaos Vs. Order
A sonic fanfic
The world of the fanfic:
Earth and Mobius have fused together due to multiple Chaos-Control warps. The events featured are 2 ½ months after Sonic 360/Next Gen/ 2006 (whatever you call it.) Metal Sonic is rather renegade for a while, swaying back and forth between good and evil, but he will have a final decision. I have added several characters; Volt, Valerie, Fatal and Jesse are mine. I made use of the unused characters Ashura and Nazo. I have grafted Sonic X into this, but only because I don't know where to put Sonic and friends besides the ThorneDyke's mansion. Don't worry though; I replaced Chris with the uber-buff Jesse O'Crean as the human who goes adventuring with the mobians.
Episode 1: The Opening Number
In Station Square, nothing stays "normal". Ever since Eggman and the Mobians showed up, the world had changed to include them. Although, the way of things remained untouched, instead absorbing the new environment with ease. Unfortunate for those who became doomed to poverty and homelessness.
Volt, a 9-year old Mobian porcupine, was curled up in a ball in an alleyway downtown Station Square. He was an orphan who had to live on the streets, and his luck had finally run out.
There was no place he could go to get food and be welcome, no one around who knew or cared about him. His choices for survival had come to a halt. He cried as he lay there, wishing that he didn't have to die.
As he was sobbing his way to starvation, he heard a clank on the ground near him. It could have just been someone throwing a beer can down the alley, but he looked anyway.
Volt expected to see more litter, but was shocked to see a long, thin crystal lying atop the ground. It was about a foot long, 3 inches around, and shimmered like one of those chaos emeralds he had seen the hero Sonic holding on T.V.
Being curious by nature, Volt scurried over to the crystal and touched it. Instantly he felt as if someone was watching him, and that that someone knew exactly what he was thinking, and how he felt. Volt also could have sworn he felt that someone smiling at him.
"Child." A male voice said.
Volt removed his hand from the crystal as he looked around to see who had called him, and the presence of the other disappeared. Volt looked back to the crystal, an impossibility going through his head. Had the voice come from the crystal? No, he told himself, crystals can't talk. But still, it drew him to it. Volt reached out and touched the crystal again, and the feelings of being watched returned.
"Child." The voice said again. Volt picked the crystal up off the ground and stood to his feet. "Me?" he asked the crystal.
"Yes." Stunned that it had responded, Volt did not know what to say next. "Child, I can feel you are in agony, and that you are unaware of what is going on around you, but I need you to do something for me." Volt suddenly was filled with a new sense of purpose, and an alien energy filled him. "Yes? What do you want me to do?" he asked, now eager to do whatever the crystal wanted. "I am going to give you an image. I want you to close your eyes, and hold the picture in your mind." Volt, still as curious through this strange feeling, quickly asked "an image of what?" Volt heard in his head the sound of chuckling. "An island in the sky." Then the picture came. That island! He thought. He had seen pictures of it on the T.V. in a restaurant he used to sneak into. The voice pulled him out of his memories and back to the now. "Now, close your eyes and imagine yourself standing on that island, then say, 'chaos control'." Volt closed his eyes, imagined himself standing in front of the shrine of the Master Emerald, a place he had never seen but only heard about, and said; "Chaos…Control!" In a green flash of light, he and the crystal disappeared.
At the ThorneDyke mansion, Sonic the hedgehog was standing in the garage, watching his friends Tails and Chuck work on his biplane, the Xtornado. Tinkering was Tails' favorite pastime, and the Chuck wasn't too far behind.
Sonic may have been watching his two friends work, but his mind was elsewhere. He and those of his friends who were Mobian had very recently, about 7 months ago, been on their wildest adventure yet. They got to travel through time, they got to battle a creature of pure destruction, called Iblis, and an evil mastermind known as Mephiles The Dark, who had set up a grand scheme to re-join himself to Iblis, becoming the supposed god Solaris.
Sonic, Shadow, and a hedgehog named Silver had stopped Solaris, and then gone back in time to a place where Solaris was weak, where they destroyed him. All that had thrown them all back to the place in time and space where they belonged, and only he could remember any of it. And to top it all off, Metal Sonic was due for another turn at supervillain any day now.
Sonic got bored sitting still and decided to go outside and see what was going on in the city. Just as he got to the big main hall though, the ThorneDykes' massive doorbell chimed. Mr. Tenaka, the ThorneDykes' butler, came rushing down the stairs and over to the door. "Hello?" he asked, looking outside. Sonic heard him gasp, then heard his own voice ask; "Is this where Sonic stays?"
Sonic knew right away there was only one other person in the universe who sounded just like him, and that person was supposed to be dead. Zipping over to the door, almost knocking Mr. Tenaka out of the way to get past, Sonic came face to face with an exact copy of himself, save only a few details.
Differing only in blue eyes, forest green fur, and three black quills pointing forward like a Mohawk, stood his long-lost brother, Ashura.
"Ashura? Is it….is it really you?" Sonic stuttered, tears beginning to well in his eyes. Ashura managed a weak smile.
"Hello, brother."
"You're alive?" Sonic asked, tears now freely falling from his face. Ashura looked down at his feet as he kicked a small rock off the porch. "Yeah. I'm still alive."
Rubbing the tears out of his eyes and sniffling to clear his nose, Sonic looked back to Mr. Tenaka, who asked; "Mr. Sonic, do you know this hedgehog?" Sonic grew a smile. "Of course I do!" After getting Ashura inside to the living room, Sonic paced back and forth across the room while asking questions of his brother, who sat on the couch.
"So if you're alive, then maybe Dad is, too!" Sonic exclaimed at some point.
Sonic and Ashura's father, Jules, had been against Eggman before either of them had been born. Even Eggman's attempt to 'roboticize' Jules hadn't worked. It is because of his father's example that Sonic so valiantly fights Eggman.
Ashura shook his head. "No. Dad is dead." Sonic stopped pacing in front of Ashura to look at him. "Well I thought you and he were dead, and I was wrong about you, so what if you're wrong about him?" Ashura took a deep breath before meeting Sonic's gaze.
"Because I buried Dad myself." Sonic blinked. "Oh." Sonic closed his eyes a minute, remembering his early years when he had seen his father fighting Eggman. Coming back to the present, Sonic continued asking questions of his brother.
"So how come you are just now showing up at the doorstep?"
Ashura looked away from Sonic, and he began fiddling his fingers as a distraction. "Well?" Sonic prodded. Sweat began to bead on Ashura's brow before he answered, and not even then did he meet his eyes to Sonic's. "Because for most of the time since you left, I hated you." Shocked, Sonic sat down in the chair next to him, his eyes wide, yearning to year the rest of his twin's story. "You left after Eggman put dad down for awhile, taking his place yourself. Dad died, and I thought you forgot about us, and now you were all caught up in being the glorious hero dad had been." Ashura paused, but since Sonic remained silent, he continued. "After the longest time, I realized what dad's last words meant." Now Sonic interrupted. "What were his last words?" he inquired, sounding like a child being told a story by an old man.
Ashura laughed a little to himself, and then looked Sonic square in the eyes and answered. "Go get 'em, Tiger." Sonic laughed a little to himself too, that was just like dad. "I had always thought he meant for me to go get you, to get back at you for leaving us. Then I remembered as I visited his grave about a week ago, I remembered everything he did against Eggman. Then it hit me. Eggman! Dad wanted me to go help you stop Eggman. I felt so stupid!" Ashura's eyes were filled with tears now, which, in turn, made Sonic start to cry. "Sonic?" Ashura asked. "Yeah bro?" Ashura stood. "Can you ever forgive me for hating you, and for not catching up with you sooner?" Sonic jumped over the side of the chair and put his hand on Ashura's shoulder. "Of course, why wouldn't I?" Ashura smiled, his blue eyes sparkling with relief.
And at the worst possible moment, Amy Rose came into the room. She looked, and then looked again. "!"
Okay, so here it is, the first piece of my massive fanfiction. Please review and critique as you please. Oh, and if you'd like to Beta-read for me, I really need some help with several parts later on in the story. Any and all assistance is appriciated.
P.S. for those of you who have never heard of "Ashura" before, it's Manic with a black mowhawk and a different name. That's all.