Chapter 1:
Josh Stein [No Relation to "Josh Stein" in any other story] was having a normal day. It was summer break, so he was on his laptop surfing the internet as usual. He had just finished putting the finishing touches on a 3-d model of Tails, or rather a powered up fan made version he called "Fire Tails". Josh was considering modding one of his favorite games to make Fire Tails a playable character. Though those games had nothing to do with the Sonic the Hedgehog series at all, he wanted to do it anyway. Little did he realize that something big was about to happen.
From his laptop came a voice, it sounded female, cool, and flowing, "The Servers are the seven chaos. Chaos is power, power enriched by the heart". Josh kept surfing, figuring that one of the tabs he had open on his internet browser must be playing an ad for a new Sonic game or something. The voice continued, "The chosen's mind has the power to shape the chaos" Josh frowned, he'd never heard that in the 'master emerald chant' before. The voice continued "The chaos of the madman must be stopped by the chosen's mind" Josh started to wonder what program was playing the weird chant, he tried to move the mouse, only to find that the computer wasn't responding to anything he tried. The voice finished more dramatically "Your journey begins, Sky the Fox!" and a white light came out of the computer. Josh was too surprised to move so the light enveloped him and he passed out.
Josh found himself floating in the middle of an endless sky. It seemed to be mid day, but there was no sign of a sun anywhere. The situation he was in had a dream like quality to it, so floating in the air didn't bother him. Something about his body didn't feel right, so he looked down at himself and was surprised to see sky blue fur along with white fur where his clothes should be and that his store brand sneakers had been replaced with the kind of shoes Sonic and Tails normally wear. He looked at his hands and saw white gloves over them. Josh felt the prescence of another part of his body and looked behind him to see a fluffy tail. He reasoned that he must look a lot like Tails, but with blue fur where the orange fur would be and only 1 tail. Then he saw his laptop in front of him. He reached for it, but before he could touch it, it changed into a futuristic looking wrist watch like device, which floated over and attached itself to his wrist. Josh flipped the top of it open and a hologram keyboard and screen projected from it. Josh smiled at his new gadget, and then everything faded.
The feeling of moist air met Josh's senses as he opened his eyes. The sky overhead looked dark, like it was about to rain. "What a weird dream" he said out loud, but his voice didn't sound right. He could feel it in his throat, but it sounded almost like Tails's voice, not at all like his. He sat up and saw that several things where very wrong. Not only was he lying in the middle of a grassy field, he had the blue and white fur, shoes, tail, and wrist comp from before. That wasn't even all, in front of him was a loop made out of rock, it looked just like the one in the green hill zone stage of super smash bros brawl. "That's weird" Josh said to himself, "The only place where you'd see something like that is Mobius" the strangest thing was that this situation felt very real: not dream like at all. He was about to pinch himself when his sensitive fox ears heard a cry of "Help! Sonic! Help me!" Josh got to his feet and ran towards the sound of the voice, had he not been so concerned at the moment he'd have marveled at the speed he was achieving. As he got closer, he realized that the voice sounded very familiar. He confirmed his suspicions as to whose it was as he came to the top of a hill. Josh saw Tails running, but from the way he was moving it looked as if he was very tired. In the distance Josh could see some vague metallic shapes. Josh turned his gaze back to Tails as Tails tripped, but didn't try to get up. A wave of pure concern swept over Josh, he ran down to where Tails was and turned him over. Tails looked like he'd been beaten up recently and had just run a marathon afterwards. His eyes were open, but he looked like he couldn't possibly be processing what he was seeing. Josh vaguely noticed that he was around the same height as Tails which was another oddity but he had no time to dwell on it since his ears picked up mechanical noises in the distance. After seeing how Tails was running he knew he had to find a place to hide. He saw a small grove of trees, picking up Tails bridal style, Josh ran for the trees. Just as he reached them, it started to rain. Once he was safely hidden, Josh looked at Tails again, Tails had seemingly fallen asleep in his arms. Josh was wondering how things could have possibly ended up like this for his favorite Sonic character. Reflecting on how Sonic was nowhere to be found even when Tails cried out for his help, Josh thought to himself "Something is very wrong here".