Prologue
Sonic lied down in the grass and smiled. He yawned as he looked up at the evening sky. Tonight, life was great. No worries, no tragedies, no Eggman. Suddenly, Sonic remembered something. Something from five years ago. Something unpleasant.
When Sonic was ten, a mysterious being had appeared out of nowhere. He called himself Doctor Robotnik, but the villagers had called him Eggman, for his looks. At first, they didn't think of him as much, passing him off as harmless. Then, one day, robots, created by the mad scientist, arrived, kidnapping the Christmas Island villagers. Sonic had been one of them. He winced as he remembered the terrifying experience of that day. Then, he thought of The Shoes. He found them while trying to escape the Egg Fort, where he and the villagers where being held captive. Since putting them on, he'd managed to control his speed, which he never had done before. He defeated Eggman, but had wound up on South Island. He never returned to Christmas Island, and had made new friends in his new home. Sonic had also explored other islands, and had met up with Eggman far too many times to count. His thoughts were interrupted as he heard a squeal from behind. The next thing Sonic knew, he was being hugged.
"Sonic!" the voice from behind exclaimed. "We found you!"
"Amy?" Sonic asked with a confused tone.
"Yes, silly," Amy answered. "Of course it's me! Guess what? We found the last one!"
Behind Amy, four more friendly faces joined her. Sonic beamed with joy as Tails, Cream, Cheese, and Knuckles caught up to the pink hedgehog.
"All we have to do," Knuckles, a red echidna, stated. "Is keep this one safe, and Eggman won't find it. That'll be easy." As the friends rejoiced in their discovery, a robotic claw slowly came out of nowhere. Within seconds, the purple Chaos Emerald was snatched out of Knuckle's hand and into the claw's. The claw was connected to a traveling EggPod, with its creator sinisterly grinning.
"I'll take that." Eggman grinned. He snickered to himself as the other six Chaos Emeralds rose out of a can-shaped machine. Eggman put the purple emerald in the machine, and pressed a red button on a remote he was holding.
"With this machine," Eggman began. "I can cause Chaos Control. Then, I shall rule time and space." He waited for the machine to do the action. Nothing happened. Eggman pressed the button again. Still, nothing happened. After pressing the button numerous times, he felt himself getting angry.
"WHY WON'T THIS INFERNAL CONTRAPTION WORK?" Eggman yelled in frustration. Just then, the machine exploded with a loud BOOM. Down on the ground, the alien children began giggling over the mad scientists failure. Among them was Sonic, a blue hedgehog. How Eggman despised that thing. Then, he noticed that one of the children, a rabbit, had stopped laughing. She was staring at Sonic, with curiosity, and a worried expression.
"Mr. Sonic," Cream asked. "What's happening to your nose? It looks funny." Sonic seemed confused for a moment. Suddenly, a shocked expression came over him as he realized his nose was completely see-through. He looked down at his arms and legs, also see-through. Then Sonic watched as his friends, and Eggman, began to disappear. Suddenly, a bright light began to cover the area the friends were in. Soon, all Sonic could see was whiteness everywhere.
The last thing Sonic remembered was a sudden darkness. Soon, he was asleep. Little did he know that Chaos Control had occurred.