CHAPTER ONE: ESCAPE FROM THE CITY
Space Colony ARK was destroyed. Gerald Robotnik's plans died with it.
Or did they?
"Do you have any last words?" Barked the police officer, ready to execute Gerald with a shotgun in his hands and a vicious look in his cold, empty eyes. There sat Gerald. Defeated, worn down. Dressed in a pale white coat with his hands bound. His head forced downward out of defeat and shame. It's a video that was seen before, an iconic film. It was a film that was shown when the world almost ended. When Sonic thought he won.
"This is a death sentence for every human being on earth. If my calculations are correct, the space colony ARK will impact the earth in 27 minutes, and 53 seconds. All of you will be destroyed, along with your beloved planet earth. I plan to give you a taste of my revenge, once all the chaos emeralds have been collected. Once I initiate this program, it cannot be disabled. All of you ungrateful humans who took everything away from me will feel my loss and despair." Gerald's voice crackled in defeat in the film.
Those words that stopped time were being played on loop in Sonic's beachside mansion on his LCD Television.
Sonic sat there, in an ivory robe playing the old film over and over again. He eyed that recording that was put up when the ARK was planned to crash in to the earth. The ark that he and his friends foiled, but something in that message Gerald Sent haunted him. He watched the same combination of film and plastic that has been keeping him up for the last ten years. Praying to it, asking, desperately for it to reveal its secrets.
"Sonic, please, go to bed. It's 4:30 in the morning, what are you doing?" Amy pleaded in a worn tone. She was wearing a bright pink robe and had bags drenched under her eyes.
"God Damn it Amy will you get off my back?" Sonic said with tears rolling down his tired, stained eyes.
"Sonic I can't see you like this. He's dead. You hear the gunshots at the end of the video, they shot hi-"
"NO NO YOU ONLY HEAR THEM," Sonic shouted. "You don't know who shot who. Gerald could have killed the guards."
"Sonic the world needs saving from Eggman, you have to stop worrying about his old coot, and put some food on our table for our child, Shade."
"It would be easier to feed Shade if you weren't snorting half of Bolivia up your nose every night." Sonic interjected, his voice shaking with rage.
Amy ran upstairs loudly crying, "I hate you! I hate you!"
Sonic put his hands in his head "Come on Gerald. Are you dead or what?" He said to himself.
"I would say the latter." Sonic looked at his screen door that had silently been kicked down. It was the ghost that was haunting him all these years. It was Gerald Robotnik.
End of chapter one.